PerfectlyWritePoetry: Ada’s Prize-Winning Testimony to Peace

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Ada’s Prize-Winning Testimony to Peace: Ada Aharoni , the respected Israeli writer and peace activist,  has won an international prize for her biography of a heroic Egyptian Jewish...

Alwayswriteagain: 70 Essays Over 70 Days for 70 Years

Alwayswriteagain: 70 Essays Over 70 Days for 70 Years: The figure ‘seventy’ has great resonance in Jewish tradition:       Psalm 90 suggests 70 year...

Alwayswriteagain: Tales of Burial and Resurrection

Alwayswriteagain: Tales of Burial and Resurrection: No wonder adults never used to remark on a child’s extensive vocabulary. Please look at the opening words of a book I was given to read aged...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Giving the Killing Fields New Life

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Giving the Killing Fields New Life: Elizabeth Rose Murray blogs as the ‘ Green-Fingered Writer , living for adventure and word’. A poet and short fiction writer, she is curre...

Alwayswriteagain: How Billings Fought Only Half Its Hate

Alwayswriteagain: How Billings Fought Only Half Its Hate: I had never heard of Billings, Montana until late December last year and had to search for its location on a map. My interest in the nort...

Alwayswriteagain: A Doggie Tale to Capture Your Heart!

Alwayswriteagain: A Doggie Tale to Capture Your Heart!: UK-born Mark Watson says that as a child he would amble to school through a park and daydream about being chased by a shark hiding under th...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Tea Ceremony

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Tea Ceremony: Grandpa once made tea in this – his stout silvered pot with chain. He’d rise at six; sit sideways on his bed; grunt, shuffle on well...

Alwayswriteagain: Naughty – but Nice!

Alwayswriteagain: Naughty – but Nice!: ‘Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast not made me a woman’. ( From the Jewish morning prayer service ) The...

Alwayswriteagain: A Right Rockin’ Read

Alwayswriteagain: A Right Rockin’ Read: I once worked for an accountancy firm whose male staff boasted they were Men Behaving Badly . No surprise then that Danny Honeywell,  prot...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Ha, Ha! All in a Funny Week’s Work’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Ha, Ha! All in a Funny Week’s Work’: At least  a dozen people died and five more were severely injured when the Paris offices of French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Keeping the Shabbat Bride on Trend

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Keeping the Shabbat Bride on Trend: Israel never ceases to surprise. I was once in Nahariya, a quiet and refined northern coastal resort near Karmiel, and was intrigued to see ...