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Parshat Balak: Lip Service
Parshat Balak: Lip Service
At the lip of a cliff, The cliff of a lip, Letters tumble one Over another, head- Long, trampoline Trampling, stumbling Stampeding from Inside out, over, in: Inside the self, out...
Jul 10, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Cast Away Vacation
Cast Away Vacation
My plans were ready. This year, as opposed to all previous years, I was going to get the most out of those two tantalizing summer months we wait for all year...
Jul 10, 2008
By Yaffa Ganz
Stay With Me
Stay With Me
As a child, I was enchanted by my grandmother’s loveliness, her black hair, sapphire eyes and milky white skin. No makeup for her. I remember her only vanity: dyed eyelashes and...
Jul 3, 2008
By Yael Zoldan
Parshat Chukat: Black and White and Red all over
Parshat Chukat: Black and White and Red all over
In this unparalleled universe Many voices talk all at once:   Master Mind talks deliberately, Enunciating every thought-out, Diamond-cut syllable with a rather Unsettling flare for the grammatic;   Lady Heart...
Jul 3, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Dames of the Dance
Dames of the Dance
She started taking tap dancing lessons this year. Any other woman who joins a dancing class would toss her shoes into the car, zip out to the class and zip back...
Jul 3, 2008
By Toby Klein Greewald (text) and Rebecca Kowalsky (photos)
Parshat Korach: Lead Story
Parshat Korach: Lead Story
On the maniacal seas of confused hysteria Winds howl like a worse-for-wear-wolf: Tidal wave-lengths of despair climb and Crash in the stand-up-comedy, fall-down- Tragedy routine that is the strung-out junkie: Up...
Jun 26, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Shlach: A Spy Thriller
Parshat Shlach: A Spy Thriller
A tale of cloak and dagger Mystery. Intrigue. Espionage.   The working title: Life   We are born for a reason (Most of us agree on that) But what reason? (Most...
Jun 19, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Beha’alotcha: Poetry By Candlelight
Parshat Beha’alotcha: Poetry By Candlelight
It isn’t restricted to nighttime in garbage-strewn Alleyways of graffiti-sprayed poetry when darkness Opens its foaming mouth and lets loose with a Howling curse fumes of rancid breath, morgue- Gray in...
Jun 11, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Naso: Moving Words
Parshat Naso: Moving Words
The thing with Movement is that it isn’t still – If it were, it’d be called Stagnant.   (WARNING: due to the reckless use of the blatant and obvious, The Scansion...
Jun 4, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Jerusalem Walking Tours
Jerusalem Walking Tours
On June 7th, 1967, East and West Jerusalem were reunited. When the Israeli flag was proudly raised above the Western Wall, some of the battle-weary paratroopers who had fought to regain...
May 29, 2008
By Lisa Alcalay Klug

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