Writing
What Tisha B’Av can teach about the silencing, and creative defiance, of Jewish writers - opinion
Our writers and artists create out of the conviction that we must do justice to our suffering, to our losses. That we must create a future for which we have already sacrificed so much.
How writing can help some people with autism find their voice
Writing to heal: How putting trauma on paper can restore clarity
'Your story is too Jewish': Inside publishing's dirty open secret - from the editor
A writer's experience with cancel culture
While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.
Benjamin Netanyahu is working on his third book
Writing a memoir at the end of one's career is a highly lucrative practice in the political field, and American publishers tend to pay large sums for books written by major world leaders.
Expanding the keyhole of the future
Zion’s Fiction returns with a second anthology
Israeli children's author Shlomo Abas receives lifetime achievement award
Shlomo Abas, born in 1948, has published 170 books, including 32 children's books and 138 collections of legends, fairy tales, parables, riddles and jokes.
Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa
How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.
Three-day Poets' Festival in Metulla uses poetry as therapy
There are not a few poetic works which challenge the intellect, and invite us to delve as deeply as possible into some hidden meaning, lurking somewhere beneath the textual surface
Jerusalem storyteller: Dvora Waysman shares gems on her 90th birthday
“My mother never laughed at my dreams. She always helped me make them come true.”
Writers Festival: Safran Foer analyzes identify, art and influence
Safran Foer was something of a wunderkind, bursting onto the global literary stage in 2002, at the tender age of 25 with his well-received debut offering, Everything Is Illuminated.
Their writing helped make sense of COVID - their thoughts on year two
I asked those who wrote essays for JTA in March of 2020, just as the upsets were beginning in earnest, to share how their lives and thinking have changed since then.
Ethical will: How to tell your tale to convey your ethical values
Events that shape our lives are not always apparent to those around us.
