Poetry
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.
Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory
Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
Grapevine, January 19 2024, Talking Turkey with a vengeance
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
'Sleeping as Fast as I Can': Jewish spiritual humor - review
Richard Michelson has a profound grasp of Jewish history, of antisemitism and pogroms, of moral teachings and midrash, of sinners and prophets.
Leonard Cohen miniseries to focus on 60-70s
So Long, Marianne will follow a young Cohen during his years-long relationship with Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, which spanned from the early 1960s through the ’70s.
Poetry can help people cope with loneliness, isolation, depression
A full 50% of respondents said poetry had helped with feelings of anxiety and depression.
Voices Israel's 49th Anthology: A symphony of contemporary poetry from around the world
Founded in 1971, the organization, though based in Israel, boasts members from all over the English-speaking world.
Photography, poetry, and nature in Israel
Living so close to the lake and also to the beautiful countryside all around us has enabled me to get a close-up view of the nature of Israel.
Russell Brand removed from Corbyn's poetry anthology amidst allegations
Despite Brand's removal, the book's contributors include many other celebrities with antisemitic pasts.
A poem in a test tube: Israeli ‘poetic pharmacy’ offers medicine for all
The power of the written word is indisputable, so Rambam Health Care Campus decided to mobilize it for the benefit of mass emotional therapy.
Jerusalem highlights August 25 – 31
What's new to do in Israel's capital?
Belarus declares anti-Russian poems by 19th-century poet 'extremist'
The targeted poems called for fighting against the Russian Empire and promoted Belarussian nationalism.
