Yehuda Amichai, who was born a hundred years ago on May 3, was a rare literary phenomenon. A bestseller in his home country, Israel, he was also something of a sensation internationally, with ...

A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead and recite special prayers. It just so happens that today is a yahrzeit. I’m ...

Ten years ago, I sat on the rooftop of an apartment building watching fireworks explode in the Jerusalem night sky. In the streets below, thousands cheered, sang and danced until dawn in joyous ...

In the Bible, the Book of Ezekiel begins with the heavens opening to reveal a stunning vision of God. Above the angels, astride a throne, like a fire encased in a frame, the prophet sees a kind of ...

A.B. Yehoshua, like the late poet Yehuda Amichai, is a preeminent Israeli writer of the generation that came of age with the state. “When I was young, the whole country was young,” Amichai wrote. On ...

Agi Mishol is an Israeli poet. She has won various awards, including the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award and the Yehuda Amichai prize for literature, and published over a dozen poetry ...