PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Katie Did First!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: What Katie Did First!: The year was 1988 and a 14-year-old London school girl named Kate Moss was on her first fashion shoot.  Photographer Owen Scarbiena advi...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Taking the Hump!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Taking the Hump!: Har Gamal , just outside Karmiel, Lower Galilee is a hill with a twin-humped camel-shaped top, formed by centuries of wind and rain erosion....

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Writing More for the Ear than the Eye

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Writing More for the Ear than the Eye: Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist best known for his stories about the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture,   a leader of...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: They Were Also at Entebbe

PerfectlyWritePoetry: They Were Also at Entebbe: In memory of the civilian hostages murdered at Entebbe, July 1976. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Operation Entebbe, the counter-...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Always with His Heart

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Always with His Heart: While cynics insist that Valentine’s Day is vastly overrated, newspapers like  Britain’s   The  Telegraph   have treated readers  to  a  sel...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Another Poet. But This One’s King!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Another Poet. But This One’s King!: I’ve been astounded to discover that modern Israeli high school students know little or nothing of their country’s major poets. This surel...

Alwayswriteagain: A Sky-High Family Saga

Alwayswriteagain: A Sky-High Family Saga: The death of a child may tear a family apart and it takes a strong one to weather the storms of  grief and recrimination that surely follow....

Alwayswriteagain: Renew This Town’s Life - As in Days of Old

Alwayswriteagain: Renew This Town’s Life - As in Days of Old: “Help us turn to You, and we shall return. Renew our lives as in days of old” הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ יְהֹוָה | אֵלֶיךָ וְנָשׁוּבָה (כתיב וְנָשׁוּבָ)חַ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Of Great Wisdom and Hot Wine!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Of Great Wisdom and Hot Wine!: A public reading of favourite poems invariably says as much about the participants as the authors and the works they choose. Certainly, the...

Alwayswriteagain: ‘Tempest’ Blows in Fair Winds of Arab-Israel Dialo...

Alwayswriteagain: ‘Tempest’ Blows in Fair Winds of Arab-Israel Dialo...: So, even British Prime Minister, David Cameron is a Shakespeare fan! An opinion piece penned by him and published in early January by Isr...

Alwayswriteagain: Giving Israel It’s Day in Court

Alwayswriteagain: Giving Israel It’s Day in Court: Almost exactly five years ago, former US President Jimmy Carter was sued for allegedly defamatory remarks he made about  Israel in his boo...

Alwayswriteagain: Nahariya's Three Thousand Year Old Citadel

Alwayswriteagain: Nahariya's Three Thousand Year Old Citadel: The remains of a 3,400-year-old Canaanite citadel unearthed in the beach resort of Nahariya, northern Israel will become part of a smart b...

Alwayswriteagain: Life and Death: It’s All Timing in the Feisty Stat...

Alwayswriteagain: Life and Death: It’s All Timing in the Feisty Stat...: It’s all down to timing.    Jewish Israelis Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Tel Aviv on ...

Alwayswriteagain: Saturday Night Irish Fever – In Haifa!

Alwayswriteagain: Saturday Night Irish Fever – In Haifa!: Plans for the opening night of the new branch of Patrick’s Irish Pub in Kiryat Biyalik, Haifa must still be under wraps. But whateve...

Alwayswriteagain: Mollie Kaplansky – ATribute

Alwayswriteagain: Mollie Kaplansky – ATribute: While one of my long-time US friends in Israel barely avoided being caught  in the New Year’s Day terrorist incident in Tel Aviv, it is my  ...

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...