PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Right to Write in a Small, Still Voice

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Right to Write in a Small, Still Voice: Charles Adès Fishman is a Pulitzer Prize nominated Jewish poet who lives in the United States. Smita Sahay, young enough to be his daughter...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The DNA Election, 2016

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The DNA Election, 2016: With apologies to the Israeli poet, Zelda ( Shneurson Mishkowsky )       Everyone has a name for it. They imbibe it from their mum, ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Few Bees; Many Bonnets!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Few Bees; Many Bonnets!: Even as Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales was advising the world how to deliver Hamlet’s best known lines, I was reading an anthology of...

Alwayswriteagain: Yet Another Way to Leave Your Lover

Alwayswriteagain: Yet Another Way to Leave Your Lover: Fictional stories about domestic abuse always capture the public conscience. Why not? It happens so often in reality ,  imaginery versions s...

Alwayswriteagain: Being Adam MacDonald …

Alwayswriteagain: Being Adam MacDonald …: Adam MacDonald is a Canadian  actor turned film director probably best known to his countrymen as the villain, Josh MacIntosh in the  popul...

Alwayswriteagain: Deer Only Here for the Beer!

Alwayswriteagain: Deer Only Here for the Beer!: Israel’s Ayalim (‘Deer’) Ass ociation encourages young immigrants to live in the country’s less populated areas in the Galilee and the Ne...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Israel: Poetic Friends and Enemas

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Israel: Poetic Friends and Enemas: I have just spent a fruitless half-hour searching for an English translation of any poetry by the Israeli witer, Benny Ziffer . But it’s as...

Alwayswriteagain: A Betrayal Beyond Compare

Alwayswriteagain: A Betrayal Beyond Compare: Dr Harold Shipman was Britain’s most notorious and prolific serial killer. No wonder former High Court Judge Dame Janet Smith , who chair...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Give It a Rest - Bitch Face!’

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: ‘Give It a Rest - Bitch Face!’:   Scientists  now say that the emotion they term  ‘Resting Bitch Face’ is real. This is where “ subtle facial expressions like a slightly ...

Alwayswriteagain: Where – and Why! - the Shepherd Began His Journey

Alwayswriteagain: Where – and Why! - the Shepherd Began His Journey: Remember the Bedouin shepherd who made a solo odyssey to the west? Now’s your chance to see where his courageous journey began!  Join an E...

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...