Posts Tagged ‘ israel ’

Jessica Young

Jessica Young
Jessica Young currently teaches at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. She completed her undergraduate work at MIT, and her MFA in Creative Writing at UofM. Her first full length poetry collection, "Alice's Sister" is due out this summer from WordTech.

A Bus Accident in Israel, and Afterward

April 30, 2013
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half-life

“After living with a disability for 22-plus years and trying in vain to write about it for almost as many, I’ve finally gotten my thoughts down on paper.” So Joshua Prager introduces his new memoir Half-Life, which details the aftermath of a devastating bus accident that occurred on his visit to Israel at…

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Video: In Which the Lunacy of Israeli Bureaucracy Is Taken to a Whole New Level

February 11, 2013
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Tel Aviv Parking Trick

Imagine parking your car in a perfectly, blessedly legal spot in the middle of traffic-clogged…

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Jumping for Joy

June 27, 2012
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na nach

In Israel, the NaNach movement, a subset of Bratslav Hasidism, has attracted thousands of followers. The movement was…

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Jerusalem, in IMAX

June 26, 2012
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jerusalem-coast

You’ve never seen Israel like this. In the…

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Silver Jews Ride into the Sunset

June 21, 2012
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These days, writer and musician David Berman is…

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The Secrets of Arab Men

May 15, 2012
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Sayed Kashua has made a career out of…

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The Inspiration for ‘The Dictator’

May 11, 2012
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In his new film The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays “a…

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Biblical Straight Edge

May 3, 2012
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In contrast to the risky excesses that one…

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The Slam Poet Goes to Israel

March 19, 2012
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bob-holman

“In the beginning was the word,” says Bob Holman,…

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Putting the Book in Facebook

March 9, 2012
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Alex Epstein left the Soviet Union at the age of…

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Ten Lost Tribes

February 24, 2012
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In the Bible, the Land of Israel was divided into twelve…

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Faking Hebrew for Beginners

January 20, 2012
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One of the best ways to develop an…

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