A full 50% of respondents said poetry had helped with feelings of anxiety and depression.
Founded in 1971, the organization, though based in Israel, boasts members from all over the English-speaking world.
Living so close to the lake and also to the beautiful countryside all around us has enabled me to get a close-up view of the nature of Israel.
Despite Brand's removal, the book's contributors include many other celebrities with antisemitic pasts.
The power of the written word is indisputable, so Rambam Health Care Campus decided to mobilize it for the benefit of mass emotional therapy.
The targeted poems called for fighting against the Russian Empire and promoted Belarussian nationalism.
By keeping alive these bitter memories of our exile, and teaching them to our children, we hope both to prevent their recurrence and to recognize the miraculous continuity of our existence.
As I read the poems, I found myself thinking about what Noah must have felt as the flood waters continued to rise.
This year the festival was dedicated to the memory of Hayim Nachman Bialik, whose birth took place 150 years ago near Zhytomyr, Russia.
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