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I’m at the age where I don’t personally remember searching for the afikoman – that middle piece of matzah broken like a ...
In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...
Harrison Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas ... I’m not sure that was enough, but that’s all I had for her in that fleeting moment.
In an Instagram post shared by Independent Jewish Voices and IfNotNow, a slice of watermelon could be seen illustrated next ...
A quiet song that I love, and a loud song that I love: I’m more of a quiet-song person myself, so I’ll give you three: ...
Human beings feel “belonging” when they are valued in some way. Actions, attitudes and presence offer many pathways to ...
Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...
The Mattapoisett Museum is housed in an 1821 church and a carriage house built to fit the period. The collection at the ...
I have been looking through my archive of Chronicle articles and divrei Torah for Pesach and it looks like I return to one of ...
“She was up all night, Sir, and just fell asleep,” the old lady in black, or Grandma, replies. “It’s you who’s dead,” the lady sneers, supported by a group laugh from two old men and a young man who ...