Culture

Zohar Atkins offers poetic reflections on Tisha be-Av on high.

Joshua Friedlander ponders the nature of the mikvah in this poem.

In honor of his tenth yahrtzheit, art historian Jackie Frankel Yaakov explores the art of Jewish Israeli artist Edwin Salomon (1935-2014). She argues that he was able to embrace his own expressionistic, Surrealism-evoking style when these approaches were marginalized in the Israeli art, shedding light on the ways he processed his experiences in the Holocaust and as a new immigrant to Israel.

In this poem, David Karpel imagines the expansiveness of God's promise about the land of Israel

In this short story, Eric Rozenman imagines the life of a woman in an Eastern European shtetl guided by her late husband's ghost.

In this poem, Yehudit Sarah Waller describes the struggle to maintain routine amid upheaval.

Poetry from Zohar Atkins.

Jeffrey Burghauser's three poems draw on the biblical and rabbinic imagination.

The poetry of the Mishkan: Abe Mezrich mines Parshat Terumah for its poetic potential.

Lawrence Kaplan responds to Eli Putterman's essay on Reish Laqish and sexuality.