Posts Tagged ‘Yehuda Amichai’
Yehuda Amichai: My One Poet
June 18, 2018
If I could have only one poet, I’d choose Yehuda Amichai. He’s the poet of the city where I came to life in my twenties: Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity…. Jerusalem is the Venice of God. Jerusalem stone is the only stone that can feel pain. It has a…
Read MoreOn the 50th Anniversary of the Six-Day War
June 5, 2017
What I didn’t know in June of 1967 was that this month and year for Jews around the world was the moment of great triumph, the moment of saying to Hitler and his legions, you lose, you lose, you lose. Pride moved like a fever throughout Kingston Estates Swim Club, from the Jewish mother with…
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