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Robbi Nester: Delicious

For me, 
love has to rise like bread dough, worked until 
it has a tender crumb. It’s not simple, though maybe
simplicity might come, if I work hard enough.

December 22, 2025 · 19 Comments

Charles Reznikoff: The lamps are burning in the synagogue

Let us begin then humbly. Not by asking:
Who is This you pray to? Name Him;
define Him. For the answer is:
we do not name Him.
Once out of a savage fear, perhaps;
now out of knowledge—of our ignorance.

December 26, 2024 · 5 Comments

Yehoshua November: At the Request of the Organization for Jewish Prisoners

Three bearded rabbinical students in a rented car, trunk filled with menorah kits and grape-juice bottles, we pulled away from the all-male yeshiva in New Jersey and headed west, into … Continue reading

December 24, 2016 · 3 Comments

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