Culture

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.

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.

Ezra Olman's short story debut at Lehrhaus

Aryeh Klapper recreating a patriarchal voice.

In this short story, Reyzl Grace imagines a woman willing to drive to the end of the world to reach her dreams.

A poetic offering from Yehoshua November in advance of parashat Toledot

In the next finalist installment from our short story competition, Lior Zoë Perets’ period fiction explores the rabbinic instruction to “rise up and strike first.”