If you are lucky
you will find your echo,
not the cartoon version,
perched on a canyon’s edge
with the empty yelling
& cheeks like apples,
but the space that extends you,
fills the void
& becomes you
the way twigs return to a tree,
nest-warm.
First published in “The Breath Before Birds Fly” (2013).
M.E. Silverman is poetry editor at Blue Lyra Review and review editor of Museum of Americana and author of the chapbook “The Breath Before Birds Fly” (ELJ Press, 2013).
When we teach our children, the lesson they glean should be sharp and clear enough, so they feel anchored by our tradition and confident in our values.
Was a single day’s attack, no matter how savage, too brief to qualify as genocide? It turns out that duration has never been the legal test.
The Israeli singer returns the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills on Oct. 11 with “One More Night,” bringing the mix of Ladino, flamenco and Middle Eastern music that has defined much of her work.
“NAZA: The Real Story” focuses on the IDF’s efforts to avoid civilian casualties while fighting Hamas, portraying an army that takes extensive precautions before carrying out strikes.
“Naza” is not successful on any level as a documentary, but if judged on awards, and getting people who were already angry angrier, it very well may be.
“I have no problem with freedom of speech, but don’t call me a baby killer” – Philip Krawitz
Kreiz will join the board and oversee day-to-day management and integration of the businesses.
After weeks of holiday feasting and heavy meals, the new Jewish year is a perfect time to reset, to nourish our bodies with food that is wholesome and still tastes delicious.
Dwight Stones, who was born in Los Angeles and is Jewish, has long been a strong supporter of Israel.
Even as we mourn everything we’ve lost, let us also remember the moments of hope and healing — moments that restore our faith in humanity’s promise.
October 7 is a day that already reverberates powerfully in the consciousness of every Jew. But the meaning of it has yet to be deciphered.
For Israel, and for everyone who believes that seemingly permanent conflicts need not remain permanent, what is unfolding in the South Caucasus deserves to be recognized, encouraged and protected.
Even on this singular day to honor the victims of Oct. 7, the mayor kept the poison coming.
I stood there in awe, my eyes blurring with tears, listening to the hush and experiencing the unnamed. I couldn’t tell which was stranger: feeling the rainforest in me, or me in the rainforest. And then my phone rang.
Following on the heels of his earlier presentations of the Passover Haggadah and the books of Esther and Jonah, Gorfinkel, known to his friends as “Gorf,” along with Israeli illustrator Yael Nathan and a team of specialized artists, have produced “The Koren Magerman Tanakh Graphic Novel: Bereshit Vol. 1,” which renders the first two Torah portions in Genesis, Bereshit and Noah, in dynamically engaging visual narrative form.
