Writing
Remembering Rochelle Furstenberg: A groundbreaking writer, editor, and literary critic
Rochelle grew up in Chicago, and later moved to New York to continue her studies. Her husband, Prof. Hillel Furstenberg, was born in Berlin and escaped with his family to New York in 1939.
Weekend festival brings top authors and musicians to the Western Negev
Wait until life touches you, and the poems appear like bruises - opinion
What Tisha B’Av can teach about the silencing, and creative defiance, of Jewish writers - opinion
Dorothy Parker: Witty, wise, wistful and wonderful
I wish I could have met her, just once, held her hand and whispered, “I understand.”
Plagiarists beware: Copyleaks is coming for you with $6m. in hand
The Israeli AI-driven platform can detect writers’ stylistic ‘voices,’ and detect misuse of their work in other texts.
Purim: A poem for the Jewish holiday
The poem reflects Paul Celan’s sense of an ultimatum and yet also a lightness that sometimes surprises, especially at the end of “The Meridian.”
A writer's experience with cancel culture
While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.
Benjamin Netanyahu is working on his third book
Writing a memoir at the end of one's career is a highly lucrative practice in the political field, and American publishers tend to pay large sums for books written by major world leaders.
Expanding the keyhole of the future
Zion’s Fiction returns with a second anthology
Israeli children's author Shlomo Abas receives lifetime achievement award
Shlomo Abas, born in 1948, has published 170 books, including 32 children's books and 138 collections of legends, fairy tales, parables, riddles and jokes.
Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa
How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.
Three-day Poets' Festival in Metulla uses poetry as therapy
There are not a few poetic works which challenge the intellect, and invite us to delve as deeply as possible into some hidden meaning, lurking somewhere beneath the textual surface
Jerusalem storyteller: Dvora Waysman shares gems on her 90th birthday
“My mother never laughed at my dreams. She always helped me make them come true.”
