Four original poems reflecting on the bedtime shema
The ironically “two-faced year,” when the Jews were expelled from Spain and Columbus discovered America
The stirring ode to the “New World” inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty
“It seems like every time I want to write / I can’t / I’m always holding a baby”
Poem by modern Israeli poet Zelda
A Yom Kippur prayer that mourns those lost in the Holocaust
“And then all that has divided us will merge/ And then compassion will be wedded to power/ And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind.”
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