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 · 22 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
