Alwayswriteagain: 5777 כתיבה וחתימה טובה

Alwayswriteagain: 5777 כתיבה וחתימה טובה:   The first day of Rosh Hashana , the Jewish New Year, falls next week, Monday 03 October 2016. May everyone who is celebrating have a gr...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: On Rachel’s Birthday …

PerfectlyWritePoetry: On Rachel’s Birthday …: Israelis love their writers so much that many  are lauded as latter- day seers and saints. So it is with Rachel Bluwstein whose 126th birt...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Jewish Dadaist Without Borders

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Jewish Dadaist Without Borders: Jacob Glatstein   ( Yankev Glatshteyn ) was one of the great figures of mid-20th century American Yiddish literature. I mention him now bec...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Disinheritance and Continuation

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Disinheritance and Continuation: In less than a month this past summer American writer John Sibley William s has become the father of twins and produced a new collection of...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Black Poets Know By Heart

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Black Poets Know By Heart: A 20-year-old US black poet has won the prestigious ‘Most Promising Young Poet Award’ from the Academy of American Poets. Donte Collins sc...

Alwayswriteagain: Like Chalk – and Ashes?

Alwayswriteagain: Like Chalk – and Ashes?: An ageing, virginal spinster dies unexpectedly, leaving her dispirited suitor  to dine alone. An orphaned bull calf is reared on bottled mi...

Alwayswriteagain: From Monster to Mensch!

Alwayswriteagain: From Monster to Mensch!: Three days after his birth in July 1961,  American baby Howard Shulman developed a bacterial infection that devoured half his face.  But f...

Alwayswriteagain: Should Buyers Beware the Seven Pillars of Success?...

Alwayswriteagain: Should Buyers Beware the Seven Pillars of Success?...: “Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.” (Proverbs, Chapter 9) The Art of Success   suggests James Melouney , rests ...

Alwayswriteagain: Walking Back To Happiness …!

Alwayswriteagain: Walking Back To Happiness …!: I’ve just spent about a week reading a self-help manual for moderate depression ** . I was about two-thirds of the way through when I dropp...

Alwayswriteagain: Ageing Crocs In Denial!

Alwayswriteagain: Ageing Crocs In Denial!: This week, as we await the release of the film about US historian Deborah E. Lipstadt 's courtroom battle with Holocaust denier, David I...

Alwayswriteagain: For Rainy, He Reigneth Every Day ..!

Alwayswriteagain: For Rainy, He Reigneth Every Day ..!: Like all brilliant ideas it was simple. Knowledge is power. So, mused journalist Mark Ulyseas , share it via an online cultural journal th...

Alwayswriteagain: Honour Bright: Does Ben Suffer from Stockholm Synd...

Alwayswriteagain: Honour Bright: Does Ben Suffer from Stockholm Synd...:   The text berlow is a direct quote from that first published on Youtube yesterday, Sunday 07 Aug 2016: My view is that the benighted Mr...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower:   Almost 30 years after his death, the modernist poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade is still regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer of the 20th...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Sporting Chance for Brazil’s Finest Flower:   Almost 30 years after his death, the modernist poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade is still regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer of the 20th...

Alwayswriteagain: ‘They Tried to Kill Us. We Won. Let's Eat!’

Alwayswriteagain: ‘They Tried to Kill Us. We Won. Let's Eat!’: Remember how the Israeli secret agents in Steven Spielberg ’s Munich enjoy a huge nosh up before going out to catch their prey? In scene ...

Alwayswriteagain: From His Lips …!

Alwayswriteagain: From His Lips …!: Marsha Kolman introduces Yisrael Ne'eman at last night's packed ESRA Karmiel meeting. Mr Ne'eman, an Israel-based historian...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Yeats Saw This Coming

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Yeats Saw This Coming: Even former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Lord Sa cks says the present worldwide political storm is like nothing he’s seen in his lifetime. ...

Alwayswriteagain: Plagiarism? It’s Plain Theft!

Alwayswriteagain: Plagiarism? It’s Plain Theft!: The Atlantic magazine is a hugely respected literary journal whose influence spreads throughout the English speaking and reading world. So...

Alwayswriteagain: Terrorism –Then and Now

Alwayswriteagain: Terrorism –Then and Now: It was Wednesday last week and I’d barely assimilated details of a terrorist attack from the 1970s when I was assaulted by a barrage of fre...

Alwayswriteagain: What a Lot of Bottle!

Alwayswriteagain: What a Lot of Bottle!: Take one enchanted evening. Line with unreasonably pretty surroundings at the Baron’s Gardens, Rosh Pina, Galilee. Pour in hundreds of w...