On many occasions, I’ve written of my love and admiration for the poetry of the…
Category: Literature
In 2015, I retired and moved with my wife to the Land of Israel in…
In 2021, as the end of the year approached, I began to think in earnest…
I recently read Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence. The following statement is on the book’s copyright page:…
I recently completed reading Shūsaku Endō‘s novel Silence. I may reread it, but I’m not sure;…
When my children were young, they differed significantly in how they transitioned between being awake…
In his book, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, author Adam Nicolson makes,…
My mother was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in the United States on November 14, 1930.…
Heidi is a beloved children’s book. Like many books written for children, it also contains…
In his book, À rebours, the French author Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) describes how his protagonist…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 