In this powerful poem, Hilton Obenzinger uses dark humor to address our gun crisis. “So much to shoot and so little time/ Let’s shoot the small quiet wind . . .”
Poetry & Fiction
Things Made of Brass
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In this poem, Liz Marlow speaks to the fear of bullets killing our loved ones. “I know the unlikeliness / of a bullet / shot into the air / killing / my children . . . ”
Jewish Wisdom
Venery: a Prayer
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Richard Michelson reflects on the Pittsburgh massacre: “An anguish of mothers / A coward of congressmen / A plague of Martyrs / A martyr of angels.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Shiv’ah
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J. David Cummings’s poem calls for solidarity in grief: “he taught me that the grieving heart / speaks everywhere a single prayer.”
Poetry & Fiction
My Mourner’s Kaddish, Recited with a Minyan of Ancestral Ghosts
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In this poem, Jay Eddy responds to the massacre of Jews at a Pittsburgh Temple: “
Fiction
CAMP HAPPINESS
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They were going to separate—she wanted to and he was done fighting her—but before that there was Dylan’s bar mitzvah, and before that was now: this weekend in the rolling hills beyond Oakland with similarly bereaved Jewish strangers.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Roth’s Enduring Commitment
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Summing up the life of Philip Roth is not easy, but Evan Brier tries by beginning at the end.
Reviews
Review of Ariel Dorfman’s Book “Darwin’s Ghosts”
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Deena Metzger reviews the novel “Darwin’s Ghosts” by Ariel Dorfman, not quite a coming of age story or hero’s journey, but a journey where a young boy must learn who he is outside of the superficial life to which he presumed he was entitled
Poetry & Fiction
Coywolf
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Hebrew, Lizavetta claimed, was the holiest and most beautiful language in the world. Alexey trusted her in most things, but he knew for a fact this couldn’t be so, because Lermontov had written his poems in Russian.
Spirituality
My Mother Died on Simchat Torah
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Philip Terman confronts the heartbreaking, cyclical nature of life in his poem “My Mother Died on Simchat Torah.”
Uncategorized
Psalm 11:16
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In Joy Ladin’s poem “Psalm 11:16,” creation becomes an act of connection and love.
Spirituality
Gardener in the Wild
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Jennifer Michael Hecht’s poem “Gardener in the Wild” is an invigorating look into identity and the natural world.
Poetry
The Voyages of the Starship Enterprise
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Jennifer Michael Hecht’s poem asks us: how does it feel to be post-exilic, post-textilic,
and post-Cyrillic?
Spirituality
Blood Moon
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Delve into visions and religion on Easter eve in Patrick Donnelly’s poem “Blood Moon.”
Articles
The Scholar as Poet: Remembering Geoffrey Hartman (1929-2016)
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Morris Dickstein reflects on the life of Geoffrey Hartman, whose poems––not as well known as his scholarly work––reveal a more personal side of Hartman “wrestling with Judaism and the Bible in ways that surfaced only much later in his critical prose.”