Alwayswriteagain: ‘We’re Not in Kansas Any More’!

Alwayswriteagain: ‘We’re Not in Kansas Any More’!: This essay was supposed to examine why so many western immigrants to Israel return to their birth countries or move on elsewhere. But a sta...

Alwayswriteagain: Make Eating a Joy

Alwayswriteagain: Make Eating a Joy: Only in Naples is a fun book with a serious message. Author Katherine Wilson makes it clear that when families eat (and sometimes pray) t...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: It's Never, Ever, 'All Over'.

PerfectlyWritePoetry: It's Never, Ever, 'All Over'.: Bob Dylan 's song, It' s All Over Now, Baby Blue , prompted the theme of veteran US writer Joyce Carol Oates 's most noted s...

Alwayswriteagain: Still Sowing Wild 'Oates'!

Alwayswriteagain: Still Sowing Wild 'Oates'!: N ow aged 77, Joyce Carol Oates still writes with the terrific – and terrifying vigour of a young woman flowing in full spate. Mo...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetry with Punch

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetry with Punch: When I opened this blog in April last year, I mused on the nature of poetry, and suggested that a poem is more than its base material...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Then – and Now

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Then – and Now: (“ Generation after generation reads the same words and says: ‘Was that then or is that now’?” – Rabbi Lord Sacks)   Then and Now   An...

Alwayswriteagain: Rudolf Abel’s Anglo-Jewish Connection?

Alwayswriteagain: Rudolf Abel’s Anglo-Jewish Connection?: I’m beginning to wonder if Soviet Cold War spy, Colonel Rudolf Abel was acquainted with anyone in the Jewish community of  Newcastle upon...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Time for You and Time for Me’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Time for You and Time for Me’:   Cake   “Cake – let’s have cake”, you said. The same rotund vowels that robed us in a swish of velvet drapes drawn swiftly against ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The World Is Their Wedding

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The World Is Their Wedding: A young Israeli couple have issued an open invitation to their wedding in Jerusalem on Thursday. Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Biegel se...

Alwayswriteagain: Brave New World in Galilee!

Alwayswriteagain: Brave New World in Galilee!: The innovative English language ADG-TNT Theatre Company hopes to return to Israel next spring with a nationwide touring production of Shakes...

Alwayswriteagain: Coco the Swinger - Another Wandering Jew

Alwayswriteagain: Coco the Swinger - Another Wandering Jew: Events in Europe marking the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht were as bad as they were bizarre. Hanin Zoabi , the extremist Arab...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Where the Cage Bird Was Forced to Sing

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Where the Cage Bird Was Forced to Sing:   When the Basque composer,  Sebastian de Iradier composed La Paloma - his  universally loved habanera (Cuban dance melody) - little cou...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Most Beloved One of All

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Most Beloved One of All: (Prompted by a translation of a Greek poem inscribed on the wall of the burial cave at Beit Guvrin, south of Jerusalem). Betrothed to Me...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Art of Impalement’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘The Art of Impalement’: “The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all”  – George Orwell, 1984 . ---------------- “Good...

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PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Jewish Poet of Sri Lanka

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Jewish Poet of Sri Lanka: The huge swathes  of immigrants currently flooding Europe will soon learn that they’ll make and re-make their lives a dozen times over befor...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Days of Rage

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Days of Rage: Some traditions believe that when one dreams of the skies raining stones or blood, it foretells disaster; a punishment for sin. ( http://dr...

Alwayswriteagain: Living in Fear

Alwayswriteagain: Living in Fear: As the Mayor of Nazareth Ali Salem has condemned  fellow Arab politician,  Ayman Odeh for helping to encourage the current spate anti-Jew...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Herschel Silverman –‘Beat Poet Candy Man’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Herschel Silverman –‘Beat Poet Candy Man’: Below is a clip of a reading by US Beat poet Herschel Silverman who died last month aged 89. If you rub your chin and confide that his na...

Alwayswriteagain: Sorry, I Wrote!

Alwayswriteagain: Sorry, I Wrote!: It’s now uber chic to insult someone – and then apologise. It makes life so easy. But the damage has been done; the mud sticks and the s...