like any nut zipped up tight in its shell. like a clam’s clipped momser, the locked maw talked open by fire — by burly water waitressing flesh, flat as a tongue, to sterile plates. under fissures, a soft sloth, holy fruit, hare -lipped by cleavers, the devil’s hand. sweet meat of the tree. bone boy,…
It takes just 50 rupees and a 10-minute auto-rickshaw ride to reach Tel Aviv from Lhasa. At least, that is, ‘mini-Tel Aviv,’ otherwise known as Dharamkot and Bhagsu, an Israeli backpacking mecca in the Dhauladhar mountains of Northern India. In Dharamsala, the de-facto capital of Tibetans in exile, maroon-robed chanting monks perform their daily routines…
A few days after my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Harold the plumber came to fix my parents’ toilet. Mom told Harold about the cancer. Harold told Dad that surely it was Jesus who had sent him to fix the toilet, to help my father get right with him before he died. Dad didn’t…
On cold winter New York nights in the late 1990s, Erez Ziv could be seen driving a horse-driven carriage and smiling as big as the moon. A rare Israeli among the otherwise Irish population, he excelled at the act he performed for tourists seeking romantic turns in the park or through Times Square. Regaling them…
Forward contributor Micah Kelber and Forward intern Nadja Spiegelman recently attended a naturalization ceremony in New York City. Among the 150 people who took an oath of allegiance to America there was Israeli-born Shlomit Levav, who shared her feelings about emigrating from the Jewish State.
Itzik Gottesman, associate editor of the Yiddish Forward, reports on the first-ever Montreal International Yiddish Theater Festival, an event that brought together troupes from Poland, Romania, Israel, France and New York: To watch the video in Yiddish, click here. To watch a forward.com video about Yiddish theater in Israel, click here.
Filmmaker Mike Nedelman attends Colonel David “Mickey” Marcus’s memorial service and speaks to the veterans who fought alongside him in the war for Israel’s independence. Click play to watch these brave men recall the defining roles they played in Israel’s formation. This short video, the second in the series, is offered as a complement to…
An image is everything. It is what poet, essayist, and all around lauded writer, Katha Pollitt first draws on when crafting her poems. She has a new collection of poetry, “The Mind-Body Problem,” out this month. Pollitt may be a long time columnist for The Nation, but her new poems are hardly political. Instead, her…
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