As the Hebrews, formerly slaves in Egypt, are making their way to the land of…
Author: Gershon Ben-Avraham
Gershon Ben-Avraham holds an MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics). His writing has appeared in Big Muddy, Gravel, Image, Jewish Literary Journal, Poetica, The Rappahannock Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, and others. His short story “Yoineh Bodek,” (Image) earned “Special Mention” in the Pushcart Prize XLlV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Edition.
In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…
I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…
In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…
I wasn’t with my father when he died. No one was. In his music school’s…
Chapter 11 of the Bible book Numbers records a plague experienced by the Hebrews on…
The western boundary of the US State of Mississippi is defined, for the most part,…
One Friday evening, some years ago, I attended services at a synagogue in Lafayette Hill,…
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish poet. He was a friend and biographer of the…
My mother was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in the United States on November 14, 1930.…
