Yehuda Amichai

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Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walking past an Arab shopkeeper in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Gil Yaari/Flash90)

Seeing the ‘other’ on Yom Kippur, in Jerusalem

On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put on my dark holiday clothes and walked to the Old City of Jerusalem. For a long time I stood in front of an Arab’s hole-in-the-wall shop, not far from the Damascus Gate, a shop with buttons and zippers and spools of thread in every…

By Orly Noy October 11, 2016

Poem post: day by Goldberg, night by Amichai

Every once in a while I give in to temptation and publish a poem-post, sharing something of Hebrew cuture’s greatest assets. Today’s poem-post is a double. First, here’s a birthday gift. We are this week celebrating the centannial of poet, author, literary scholar and writer for children Leah Goldberg, who passed away in 1970 but…

By Yuval Ben-Ami May 28, 2011