Yehuda Fogel

He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy. He who kisses each joy as it flies, lives in…

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.”  — T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets) How…

It is teshuva time for the world, as we approach ourselves in the mirror and blink twice at what we find there.…

In a song that is now a classic of Israeli music, the singer croons about a wall, (the Wall), singing that “There…

This week, we present a list of fiction books that we hope to read deeply this summer. We have suggestions from David…

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled,” 1991. Felix’s piece is a lamentation, after the death of his partner, and evokes the emptiness in life after…

Find the full July 4 reader with all materials attached here. What does it mean to be a stranger in a strange…

To have a dialogue  First: ask a question  Then: Listen  -Antonio Machado  What is the difference between a conversation and an interview?…

Can the present influence the past? Let’s take a jaunt through literary theory for a moment to answer this question, and eventually…

Why do we all love the things we aren’t supposed to love, so very much?  Why is looking into people’s illumined windows…

Picture a frustrated writer sitting at a desk. In the wastebasket next to the simple writing desk, there are scraps and scarps…