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Essay Amichai’s Jerusalem The best guide to this strange place called Jerusalem might be Yehuda Amichai, a poet whose work seems permanently suspended between the secular and sacred. Ari Hoffman December 18, 2017
Essay The So-Called Rules of Language, Literature, and Baseball Richard Michelson February 20, 2017
Nonfiction Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora Monique Rodrigues Balbuena
Essay Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish PoetsHoward Schwartz reflects on Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets, published in 1980. Voices in… Howard Schwartz April 28, 2016
Recommended Reading National Poetry Month 2016 In honor of National Poetry Month, the Jewish Book Council will be highlighting some of our favorite Jewish poems, both old and new, on our twitter account. Click below… JBC Staff April 1, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Wait Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner C. K. Williams succumbed to multiple melanoma yesterday at the age of 78. One of America’s greatest poets of the turn of… Nat Bernstein September 21, 2015
Essay Tackling the “Sticky” Torah Portions in Limerick Form Earlier this week, Joe Black wrote about how he came to write a book of limericks for every Torah portion. His newest book, There Once Was a Man From Canaan: The… Joe Black May 14, 2015
Essay “Torah Limericks?” “Really?” “Why?” Joe Black serves as Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Denver, CO. He also is an author of children’s books and a guitarist/singer-songwriter of original Jewish… Joe Black May 12, 2015
