Poetry: A Jew Walks into a Sandwich Bar
by Ruti Eastman You can have your ham on rye. I’ll take a wholegrain Jewish day sandwiched between a brit in the morning and a bar mitzvah at night. New soul snipped into the …Keep Reading!
Poetry
POETRY: The Harp
In memory of A. J. Heschel ….by Anna Banasiak Jerusalem I hear the yearning in your voice Rashi’s commentaries are hidden in the rustle of trees The stones are full of mystical light Music …Keep Reading!
POETRY: The Fear
This poem is dedicated to Nelly Sachs. Nelly Sachs is one of the most significant Holocaust poets, her poetry is highly surrealistic and dissolve into mystic, poetic metaphors. In my poem “The Fear” (below), I …Keep Reading!
The Song of Jerusalem
by Anna Banasiak Jerusalem, I hear the melody of Your heart the stones full of sacred prayers the walls free as birds the prophets sing a song of life the air is a breath of …Keep Reading!
MY HOLY WALL (HA KOTEL HAKODESH SHELI)
copyright 1980 – by Shifra Hoffman I am drawn to you , MY WALL Not by mere sense of duty Or truthfully, your beauty For should one gaze at you With only naked eye And …Keep Reading!
Jerusalem Haiku
by Anna Banasiak Streets as sacred books the city light as the sky the flight of the soul the wall of brightness in every drop of the past the sounds of the harp About Anna Banasiak: …Keep Reading!
POETRY: Love Letter to the Defense Soldier
Mayflor Landero is a caregiver currently working in an undisclosed Arab country. She loves Israel, and when inspired, she writes poems. Mayflor is not afraid to show her admiration for the IDF even though she …Keep Reading!
POETRY: “Never Too Old to Cry”
My name is Yossi Feldman. I grew up in Philadelphia. I was never much of a writer or poet. It was right before shloshim (30 days after his passing) for my father, when I got …Keep Reading!
Israel Poetry on Love
by Batia Macales A walk on the beach at sunset with the wind blowing in her hair The satiny and silky touch of her hand The reflection of the sea in her eyes The look of …Keep Reading!
POETRY: Longing for Israel
When I visited the Children’s Holocaust Memorial for the first time in 2005, I had no more entered into the museum, realized the magnitude of the children lost in the holocaust as represented by the …Keep Reading!