Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An exchange between two great poets. "Perhaps I am one of the last who must live out to the end the destiny of the Jewish spirit in Europe." Why "must"? Writing from Paris in August 1948 to relatives ...

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At sundown on July 29, Jews around the world will observe Tisha B’av, the most somber of Jewish holidays. It commemorates the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians and ...

The discovery of a large number of Hebrew poems that were written several hundred years ago and which throw light on the religious life of the Jewish communities in different parts of the Byzantine ...

Eliaz Cohen is a poet and social worker who grew up in Elkana in the northern West Bank. He is a leading figure in the renaissance of religious poetry and arts in Israel and leads several creative ...

only the slash of the sword could undo. I turned my back on you. and you, turning inward, saw nothing. Until suddenly, you opened up wide like a field in the wind and your voice burst forth from my ...

Peter Cole is one of the foremost Jewish poets and translators in the English-speaking world. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Cole has ...

Chana Bloch, a major figure in American letters through her poetry, translations of Hebrew and Yiddish, and scholarship in English literature at Mills College, has died after a four-year battle with ...