Once, a pocket was not attached to a woman’s clothing,
but tied around
her waist with a string or tape.
It would contain cellar keys, a paper of pins, a packet of seeds, a baby’s bib,
a hank of yarn or a Testament.
Or enough money to be buried,
so she would not burden her family.
Published in “5AM,” Spring 2006
Patty Seyburn has published four books of poems. Her most recent is “Perfecta” (What Books Press, 2014). She is an associate professor at CSU Long Beach.
There are four things to consider as we ponder the U.S.-declared transition to a “second phase” in Gaza.
Australia was warned in real time. Too many people chose to treat those warnings as exaggeration, or as an inconvenience to the national self-image.
Today, all three major parts of Kurdistan urgently need humane attention and international accountability.
His story is worth revisiting, touching as it does so many timely topics related to today’s discussions of Jews, Christians, America and Israel nearly two centuries after Cresson’s death.
I want to make the case that for life satisfaction there are few, if any, professions or callings that begin to match being a Rabbi.
This is a moment for the people of Iran to exercise their courage and their power. And it is a moment for the world to stand together in support.
The first two intifadas were confined to Israel and the territories it administers. But the Third Intifada has gone global.
Over the course of a 72-hour frenzy in mid-January, the Trump administration announced four different administrative bodies tasked with various responsibilities for the transition and reconstruction of post-war Gaza.
My family learned, the hard way, that when a theocratic regime consolidates power, it does not stop with one group.
I can’t think of a better way to honor his legacy than to remember how he tried to bring our country together through the shared ideals expressed at our founding.
The Jew is a mirror that reflects the state of the world – at times its openness, kindness and generosity of spirit, at other times its spasms of ferocious barbarism.
Black January did not save the Soviet Union. It shattered it. Rather than crushing Azerbaijan’s will, the massacre unified it.
Long-simmering antisemitism on the American Right has erupted into plain view.
Why is Iran not on anyone’s radar? Because calling for the end of an Islamic regime is not as satisfying as demanding the annihilation of the world’s one Jewish state.
Imagine the outcry if a group of Jewish public schoolteachers would announce a “Zionist teach-in” for MLK Day. Would Mayor Mamdani allow such a disruption of a national holiday?
The butchers of Tehran love their own freedom to be butchers. What they can’t seem to stomach is to give their people the same freedom to be human.
The rabbi’s goal is to make sure that Chai Lifeline is there to assist in any way possible.
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
