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From the Place Where We are Right Flowers Will Never Grow: Tending the Relationship between North American Jews and Israel
The Place Where We are RightFrom the place where we are rightFlowers will never growIn the spring.The place where we are rightIs hard and trampledLike...
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Israeli Culture for Yom Ha'atzmaut
"On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put onmy dark holiday clothes and walked to the Old City of Jerusalem.For a long time...
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Party All Night With Prism at Mimouna
By Matt Millstein The Mimouna Festival is a rich and textured interfaith fusion of North African and Middle Eastern cultures and styles, creating a one...
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Reconstructing the Maggid- A Few Months Ahead of Schedule
It's the history year at Kesher Newton in our Judaics classes; all of our students are engaged in a year-long sweeping and dramatic examination...
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Directors of Howl discuss their "Poempic"
When Beat poet and philosopher Allen Ginsburg was 29 he wrote Howl, his first epic poem. He performed his work in what was arguably one...
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New Vilna Review Weekly Roundup, July 30, 2010
This has been an exciting week here at the New Vilna Review – we entered the world of insulated mug sales and published two new...
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New Poetry and Fiction at the New Vilna Review
This week we decided to update the New Vilna Review website a little sooner. Visitors to the site will find some great new poetry, including...
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Poets vs. Philosophers: Whose Side Are You On?
Six Sessions on Philosophy and Jewish Thought with Dr. Avi Bernstein Sunday mornings, 9:30 – 11:30 am Since 2007 the JP (Jewish Public)...
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Dreams of Zion, Literal and Otherwise
At the moment I am in the middle of reading a new biography of the 12th century Spanish Jewish poet Yehuda Halevi, by Hillel Halkin,...
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At The intersection of Poetry and Theology
The other day I started reading a new book called “Yehuda Halevi,” which is a biography of the 12th century Jewish poet, leader and physician,...
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