Light & Colour
It is often said that Am Yisrael are to be a light unto the nations, but what kind of light? Some say it is…
Throw Me a Rope
One day I was walking and stepped off the path, did something I thought would be only a laugh. It was just as enticing…
Living in the Seventh Year
For six years you shall work the land harvesting crops, spreading fruits to dry such a bounty the land has given you but she…
Highway 1
Seventy-six years in the car I travel and I look out at things that were and things that are and I know that we…
Never Forget
Never forget that the Creator’s eyes are always upon the land and her inhabitants to see they remember always they are living in his…
Spoiled Oils
We’ve been around them for too long Their academies Their stadia Their language It’s not our land they want nor even our bodies but…
A Tale of Three Brothers
It’s important to familiarize ourselves with the journey & struggles of the ancient Hebrews.
Fallen Sukkah
One minute dancing with the sefer Torah The next standing in shocked silence As our brothers race off to war One minute a festive…
A Jew in Judea
A Jew in Judea wakes up at dawn as the sun breaks over the rock-covered hills he goes to pasture his sheep on rocky…
Crossing the Jordan
I have been waiting to write this For so, so long Sitting at my desk and crying As my soul grasped for something out…
The Curse of Cowardice
Don’t speak up as they oust us from the theatres, the universities, the workplace flood their paper with rivers of rhetoric for perhaps they…
Between Purim & Pesaḥ
Some Jews look to the Exodus from Egypt saying, “We were slaves once, Strangers in a foreign land Bitterly oppressed and beaten without mercy…