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December 2012

December 20, 2012

Jerusalem Risen and in Ruins

Israel surprised me. It met me in Boston where I had traveled to attend a...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Poetry and Restraint: Teaching as T’Shuvah

Restraint. A poet’s restraint. A teacher’s. The penultimate moment of Elizabeth Bishop’s “Filling Station”: ......

October 2012

October 30, 2012

To Live by the Light of Fiction

“In the end, a story is never going to make a damn bit of difference...

October 09, 2012

An Original, Revised Torah

The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, incised upon the tablets....

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part Two

(Continued from yesterday.) I’m not ready to leap from my son to your son, God....

September 17, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part One

Now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son. Genesis...

August 2012

August 22, 2012

I am Barack Obama/Mitt Romney/Adonai and I Approve This Message

Listen to me: America doesn’t need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. Listen to...

August 02, 2012

Finding Poetry and Meaning in Internet Clicks

Three minutes, maybe four. Six minutes, maybe seven. A little bit of time. This morning...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

A Psalm for Surgery

Seamless, my passage through a day and from day to day: from dawn to dusk,...

June 2012

June 13, 2012

What I’ve Been Given

Six dogs: Snoopy, Prince, Woody, Ramona, Leon, Bubby. All but Bubby now nothing more than...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

A Story More Durable Than Flesh and Stone

Yom Rishon (l’Shabbat): the first day toward the coming Shabbat: Sunday on the Gregorian calendar....