Crooked Timbers
The hedgehog cannot see beyond its nose and lives contented within crooked timbers
Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored "Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel." He can be reached at gershonhepner@gmail.com.
The hedgehog cannot see beyond its nose and lives contented within crooked timbers
The transformation of the Temple Herod had constructed in Jerusalem into the Roman Colosseum, motivated Jews to produce in exile a more precious gem which I will call the goluseum.
It’s said that when messiah comes, the fast will be transformed into a festival…
The means, which is of course the bris, is as important as the end…
David Wolpe plans to give away his books…
On June 30, Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) will return for the fifth entry in the franchise, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” He’ll be accompanied, as ever, by Williams’s indispensable music.
My optimism’s based upon a faith that’s called Judaism, Orthodox with a big Modern twist…
Punctuation marks are myriad…
Regardless of who’s at the helm, perhaps one God, perhaps a lot…
To err is human, and to disagree is Jewish, was the axiom with which David Wolpe ended his long sermon series labeled “Off the Pulpit.”