No Rest for the Weary? Ambiguity in Yehudah Halevi’s “Yom Shabbaton”
Yaakov Jaffe analyzes the multiple meanings of a medieval Jewish poem and popular Shabbat table song.
Blackbirds
Zohar Atkins weighs in on contemporary anti-Semitism “culture wars” through the unique lens of poetry.
Poems for a World Built, Destroyed, and Rebuilt
Six new poems by Elhanan Nir—published here with English translation and annotation—capture the grief and discontinuity of this moment.
Passover 2020
Harris Bor meditates on the world of Passover in his new poem for the Lehrhaus.
Good Flies Out of its Prison
Abe Mezrich presents a poem on the Book of Ruth.
קינה לשלום המדינה
In an original Hebrew poem, Shoshanah Haberman addresses the crisis in Israel and Gaza, mourns the dead, and prays for the future.
Three Sonnets
Jeffrey Burghauser's three poems draw on the biblical and rabbinic imagination.
Bread of Life
Can food embody holiness? In this poem, DJ Grant uses challah as a metaphor to encapsulate the individual holiness of a person.
Conjoined Twins
A poetic offering from Yehoshua November in advance of parashat Toledot
Two Poems from Knock-knock
These poems present a reflection on mortality and memories.
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