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A Tantalizing Vagueness

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 21, 2022February 22, 2022

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is one of the most popular—if one can use that term when…

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  • Poetry

I Dwell with a Strangely Aching Heart

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on July 4, 2021July 6, 2021

When my sister and I were young children, my mother would often tell us a…

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  • Poetry

Versification, Lyricism, and Formal Poetry

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021

A sonnet (“little song”), a traditional poetic form hundreds of years old, intrigues me. I…

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  • Poetry

Silent, upon a Peak in Darien

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…

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  • Poetry

A Decoction of Lime-Flowers

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on August 1, 2020

Aaron Berkowitz is Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Literary Journal. The Journal publishes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, comics, art,…

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  • Literature

A Moment of Marriage

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on April 21, 2020April 23, 2020

In his book, A Tzaddik in Our Time: The Life of Rabbi Aryeh Levin, author Simcha…

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  • Literature

The Bitter and the Sweet

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020

On March 24, 1976, two policemen knocked on the door of my apartment in student…

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  • Literature

Weak Creatures of Clay

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Have you ever admired a person and then learned about something they said or did,…

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  • Bible

How to Count Family

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 30, 2019September 15, 2020

One summer, while vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada, I took a ferry from the mainland…

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