Poetry
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.
Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory
Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
U2 releases EP featuring poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
Israel Prize winner Yehuda Amichai, who died in 2000, is considered by many to have been the greatest modern Israeli poet.
Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University
Murray, who is not Jewish, was appointed as the inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, a role the university billed as bringing “a leading public intellectual into the academic setting."
Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview
Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals.
Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied having an affair with former New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi.
‘Poems as Invitations’: An exhibition on English poetry in Jerusalem
The show features 20 meticulously crafted artistic prints by the two contemporary visual artists, in response to poems by three English-language poets.
Rhyme & reason: The annual Ushpizin Festival returns to Jerusalem
This year’s bash takes place, under the continued aegis of Confederation House and its long-serving head Effie Benaya, on October 8-10.
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Jerusalem highlights: August 29-September 4
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An unflinching look at a nation in verse
The Metula Poetry Festival will be held in Jerusalem next week.
National Library gets original lyrics of Naomi Shemer’s 'Al Kol Eleh'
For many years, the Shemer family’s attitude toward the song was very ambivalent as it reminded them of the loss of their father and uncle, and also because it had become politically charged.
