Why is Ben Shapiro so worried about Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’?
The conservative talking head went on a lengthy Twitter rant about John Milton's epic poem
The conservative talking head went on a lengthy Twitter rant about John Milton's epic poem
1997's 'Time Out of Mind,' with its nods to Solomon and Samson gets a redo courtesy of Columbia Records
In the transcendent work of 'genius' poet Peter Cole, sometimes male and female letters just want to hook up
Two new albums reimagine a centuries-old tradition of adapting poetry to music
Watching Russian missiles slam into Ukrainian cities, seeing that 40-mile long Russian army convoy snaking its way toward Kyiv — it’s frightening, frustrating and debilitating. As tragedy unfolds in slow motion, there’s so little, really, that any of us can do. It’s like watching a child drown, the Russian author Maxim Osipov wrote, when you…
Last year’s High Holidays followed a summer filled with racial justice protests, as many Jewish communities reckoned with their treatment of Jews of color and broader history on issues of race. Amidst this tumult, Aaron Levy Samuels, a co-founder of the media company Blavity, began to write a new poem, titled “Forgiveness.” The poem ties…
Read this article in Yiddish Qorbanot: Offerings Poems by Alisha Kaplan SUNY Press, 2021 Many people believe that sacrificing for a greater good is a virtue. In the Jewish tradition, even martyrdom in the right context is called “the sanctification of God’s holy name.” But what should you do when holiness is weakened — by…
(JTA) — The remains of a Jewish poet were reburied in Belarus under a crucifix in a ceremony that featured prayers by priests. The reburial of Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli, took place on Tuesday at a Christian cemetery in Minsk, promoting critics to complain that it erased the…