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October 2018

October 01, 2018

A Conversation with Alicia Ostriker: Part 1

Image issue #98 includes poems by critic, activist, and biblical scholar Alicia Ostriker, winner of...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Poetry Friday: “are you my god”

It has been years since I read the Narnia books, but the phrase I remember...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

Dissolving the Borders Between Self and Other

The Buddhists have four stations of the heart: Metta (kindness), Mudita (compassion), Karuna (joy in...

January 2018

January 12, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Sabbath”

Sabbath as beloved bride and queen: familiar tropes in Jewish liturgy and thought. Now, thanks...

October 2017

October 09, 2017

To Be Born Again

The day after Yom Kippur 5778 When I finish being born for the fourth...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

How To Intuit a Book Title

How do poets and writers choose their book titles? I didn’t have a good answer...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

If you want to be submerged in the depths of Jewish spirituality, this is the...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Traveling Through These Days of Awe

I’m in a plane ascending to 37,000 feet. How restless have I been this year?...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Getting Close to You, God: A Meditation During the Month of Elul

“You are my light and my help / Whom should I fear?” Thus begins Norman...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The Dragon and the Yahrzeit Candle: On Forgetting and Remembering, Part 3

Continued from yesterday and Tuesday. In Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape,...

June 29, 2016

The Dragon and the Yahrzeit Candle: On Forgetting and Remembering, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. I dive into the pool. My body remembers water. My body remembers...

June 28, 2016

The Dragon and the Yahrzeit Candle: On Forgetting and Remembering, Part 1

I remember my social security number. I remember the combination to a lock—13 right, 27...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

My Prayer Is Not Prayer

My prayer is not prayer, not exactly. It includes words. It may even begin with...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

The Cave of My Imagination

By Jason K. Friedman Ma’arat Ha-machpelah, the alliterative name sounded as magical to me as...

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 2

Read Part 1 here. By Danielle Leshaw Judaism tells us how to leave. Leaving the...

March 30, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 1

By Danielle Leshaw Father Bill offered a set of instructions. “Walk beside me, never on...

March 03, 2016

My Sh’ma

By Judy Bolton-Fasman Sh’ma yisrael Adonai Elohanu Adonai echad—Hear O’ Israel the Lord is God,...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Everyone’s Waiting for the Victory Song

Everyone knows what happened. Everyone lifts a steaming spoon of cinnamon oatmeal to their lips....

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Sonia Sanchez Made Me a Jewish Poet; Rhonda Magee Helped Make Me Whole

Black. Muslim. American. Woman. Poet. The languages she spoke. The ground on which she stood,...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

My Days of Awe, 5776

Impatience. Anger. Wastefulness. Restlessness. Desire. Haughtiness. Greed. Judgement. Pride. § I’ve been paying...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

Morning Prayer and The New York Times

Summer morning routine: a cup of Awake tea, the Opinion page of The New York...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Self-Hating Jew: A Love Story, Part 1

In response to “Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché,” a recent post of mine on Good...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché

In the air, on the air, tunneling through cables, conquering newsrooms, occupying the mouths of...

February 2015

February 06, 2015

My God Is Better Than Yours

What a miracle! They had been freed, the Israelites, from Egypt, but moments after they...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Is My Truth Your Truth?

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Murder in the Synagogue

When I see him, I don’t see Israeli. I see Jew. Like the other men...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

The Self and the Shadow

Guest post by Holly LeCraw Lately, I am drawn more and more to the thought...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

A House Blessed

The doorbell rang around 11:00 a.m. My hubby George and I were both upstairs. “Can...

June 2014

June 06, 2014

A Jew Prays in Venice, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. On the pleasant train ride from Florence to Venice, my wife Laurie...