Topic Tags: Israel

“On Hanukkah, I light candles for them…”

” And when this holiday ends, another flame will rise and fall, and another, and another…”

This Hanukkah 2023 ritual acknowledges the incompleteness of joy while captives are being held.

“There is a war going on, / with battle aims that are different…”

“I cannot find the words / I seek…”

This new poem uses the imagery of water through a faucet to capture the feeling of waiting for the captives to be released.

“Try not to think / of the children who are not getting their baths, / who are not getting their parents.”

“There is a line / drawn by darkness, emboldened by Evil, itself…”

“We are looking for you. / We will not let you go.”

This new poem honors the complex feeling of Hanukkah this year, 2023/5784.