Psalm 114 – An Interpretive Translation

By Lavi Teitelbaum September 29, 2020

“The mountains, on the other hand, they weren’t afraid. They got up and did a little dance, like muscular rams hopping from rock to rock.”

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Erev Tu b’Av

By Miriam Saperstein August 4, 2020

New Voices Fellow Miriam Saperstein’s poem on the evening before Tu b’Av, the Jewish celebration of love.

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Parting of Seas

By Jordan Dalzell May 4, 2020

The water doesn’t part for you this time,
will not kill for you again.

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And The Sages Said Let Him Die

By Nesha Ruther May 15, 2019

the day i bit my fingers a biblical red i found an excerpt from the Talmud; a man becomes deathly ill with love for a woman i can count the number of men my body trusts on one hand the doctors say; he will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him…

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(Where) My Body Did Not End

By Nesha Ruther March 12, 2019

(Where) My Body Did Not End after Loose Strife by Quan Berry Draw a map with no beginning you were not born but plucked from tree vast and placeless mark the spot in your mother’s garden ( ) you broke water, took root Draw a timeline with the texture of your hair knot the habits…

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Shalem / שלם

By Gabriella Kamran March 6, 2019

This poem originally appeared in ZAMAN, an arts & media collective dedicated to the remembrance, preservation, and re-evaluation of Mizrahi cultural consciousness.  Three calendars hang in our kitchen: One begins in spring, one in fall One in winter. The start and halt Of a well-used car. A sundial Someone keeps moving. Summer begins In my Papa…

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In Which the Wall Spits Back My Prayers

By Nesha Ruther January 31, 2019

  In my hollowest moments I wish my mother named me after a breathing thing a name with a voice to choke it over I pray for RachelRebeccaLeah, nice Jewish girl names that never die bonded to a land we bulldozed to make our own, but a man calls me the new Josephus curses me…

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