Abraham

Published on June 12, 2013

I came late to sunrise. The hills were lit
with goats. Everything shimmered in
small steps. I closed my eyes.

Sravana

Published on June 6, 2013

Let the coffee pot and the crows,
let the car horns and the upstairs neighbors.

What I Married Into

Published on May 29, 2013

Salt into meat
browned briefly.

Visionary revisionary

Published on May 22, 2013

saw it all in the mirror

Here Today

Published on May 15, 2013

God is here today. She is a spectacular god...

You breathed it into me

Published on May 8, 2013

I fail. Every morning shade drawn,

The Mirror Psalm

Published on April 19, 2013

I had a dinner with a woman mad
for God.

The Way to Holiness - D’var Torah Acharei Mot/K’doshim – Leviticus 19

By Rabbi John Rosove
Published on April 18, 2013

Yiddish yesterday, today and tomorrow. Interview with Thomas Soxberger

By Klaudia Klimek
Published on April 18, 2013

Becky and Benny in far Rockaway

Published on April 10, 2013

Near the Atlantic Ocean, past the last subway station,

birth day, an album by Emily Stern

By Emily Stern
Published on April 4, 2013

Mad love

Published on April 3, 2013

This poem first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of BLIP Magazine (now New World Writing). It was reprinted in the collection “Pointed Sentences” (BlazeVOX, 2012).

Talmud Study

Published on March 28, 2013

How do you measure anything — count your deaths, who loves you, who loves you knot.

Seder Night

By Emily Stern
Published on March 21, 2013

Once imprisoned, now free

By Klaudia Klimek
Published on March 19, 2013

A Poem for the Month

By Beit T'shuvah
Published on March 4, 2013

sinking

By Emily Stern
Published on February 21, 2013

I Love You Shane Koyczan

By Ilana Angel
Published on February 21, 2013

Bells of Thanks

By Emily Stern
Published on February 13, 2013

Rest

By Emily Stern
Published on February 11, 2013

25 Rules For The Creative

By Peter Himmelman
Published on October 17, 2012

German poet Gunther Grass slams Israel in second poem

Published on October 1, 2012

Gunter Grass, Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author, has published another poem criticizing Israeli policy.

Sukkah #1

By Emily Stern
Published on September 28, 2012

With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox

Published on August 2, 2012

As a light drizzle tapered off over MetLife Stadium, more than 90,000 Jews packed into the home of the NFL's Jets and Giants for an event quite unlike any the popular sports and concert arena had ever seen.

Poet’s Haggadah story

Published on April 13, 2011

Every year at Passover, families around the world pull out their Haggadahs for their Seders, and whether they use a traditional text, a modern one, or even Maxwell House, the story and the words remain largely the same. But one man, Rick Lupert, saw an opportunity to do something more than produce just another slight tweaking of the classic text. And thus, the Poet's Haggadah was born.

In loving memory of our chazzan, Debbie Friedman

Published on January 20, 2011

When the New Reform Congregation [now Temple Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills] was established in 1984, Debbie was our chazzan for 3 years. She responded, and the congregation was thrilled, as truly “the old dreamed new dreams and the youth saw visions.” Our shul was “alive to the sound of music” to Debbie's presence and her music. Debbie gave voice to the voiceless through her voice and her passion for justice.

Poetic justice for controversial Israeli writer

Published on January 5, 2011

Best friends Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld argue occasionally. Most often their disputes involve commas, line breaks and word connotations.

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through Feb. 2009

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on December 10, 2008

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through November 2008

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on September 11, 2008

Spring Calendar

Published on March 13, 2008

Spring arts calender.

Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on March 7, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15

Books: Czech teen’s words and art put a face on the Holocaust for me

By Daniel A. Olivas
Published on June 7, 2007

Ginz was a Czech Jew, born in 1928, who died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz at the age of 16. His diary had been lost for 60 years but resurfaced in 2003.

Circuit: LAJFF, Nimoy, Smart

By Norma Zager
Published on May 10, 2007

Circuit.

Quarterly calendar

Published on March 15, 2007

Quarterly calendar.

Peter Cole receives MacArthur ‘genius award’ for poetry

By Sandee Brawarsky
Published on January 10, 2007

Poet, translator and publisher Peter Cole is among the 24 recipients of the 2007 MacArthur Foundation fellowships, or genius awards, as they are popularly known. The no-strings-attached award, honoring creativity, includes a $500,000 stipend that is paid quarterly over five years.

Arts in L.A Calendar

Published on September 14, 2006

"The California Modernist Portrait"; "Vaudeville Extravaganza!"; "Five Days of Freedom: Photographs From the 1956 Hungarian Revolution"; Lucinda Williams and Miller Williams; and other events to see during September

Spectator - A Poet’s Slam-Dunk

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on January 12, 2006

With a gift for diction, Kadosh explores the cultural absurdities and political hypocrisies of America, dedicating one spoken-word poem to SUVs, and another to the cheese at the heart of America.

Real Life Peter Pan

By Julie G Fax
Published on April 1, 2004

When the 4-year-olds at B'nai David-Judea congregation got cholent on their knees while crawling under the kiddush table searching for buried treasure one Shabbat morning, there was no doubt who was to blame: David Steinberg, whose wild yarns have become a Shabbat morning staple since Steinberg got recruited for the storytelling job when he was transitioning the first of his three sons into a group about five years ago.

For the Kids

By Abby Gilad
Published on September 4, 2003

Last week, we learned not to cut down the fruit trees of our enemies in times of war because, as the Torah says, the trees are "not our enemy."

Jerusalem: The center city

By Abby Gilad
Published on May 22, 2003

Kids Page

7 Days In Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on May 8, 2003

7 Days in Arts

Humanistic Judaism Trods Different Path

By Gaby Wenig
Published on January 16, 2003

Rabbi Sherwin Wine of Birmingham Temple in Detroit founded Humanistic Judaism in 1963. Today, there are over 30,000 Jews involved with Humanistic Judaism in North America, including 1,000 in the greater Los Angeles area.

7 Days In Arts

Published on January 2, 2003

7 Days in Arts

‘Light’ From Darkness

By Rita Berman Frischer
Published on January 2, 2003

The UPS man brought an envelope containing a beautiful ray of hope, an exceptional picture book by Jane Breskin Zalben titled "Let There Be Light: Poems and Prayers for Repairing the World" (Dutton Books, $15.99).

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on November 21, 2002

7 Days in the Arts

A Letter to Amichai

By Helen Schary Motro
Published on September 28, 2000

People around the world read your poems in 33 languages. You were not lost in translation.

Mourning Israel’s Poet

By Gil Sedan
Published on September 28, 2000

Yehuda Amichai, a world-renowned poet and one of Israel's most famous writers, has died of cancer at the age of 76.