Poetry

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals.

Kaynar-Kissinger and his fellow actor brother, Doron, (L) put on a Holocaust-related stage production in Germany.
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

‘Poems as Invitations’ exhibition view.

‘Poems as Invitations’: An exhibition on English poetry in Jerusalem

Welcome poetry into your sukkah.

Rhyme & reason: The annual Ushpizin Festival returns to Jerusalem


Poems by the readers: The Vow

The following letters are poems submitted by poets who happen to be readers of and contributors to The Jerusalem Report.

 Esther Cameron protesting in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City

Why you should cherish and love your books

Books are someone’s dreams, and you live several lives while you read them.

 Bookshelf

U of Haifa English dep. hosts convicted terror supporter as guest lecturer

Dareen Tatour is a poet who writes about her opposition to Israel while inciting violence and supporting terror.

 Dareen Tatour

Yom Kippur poem Hineni examines the power of humility

We usually choose political leaders by how they look and how they speak and how they dress; we should really choose candidates by how they behave towards their staff and their peers.

 Moses was a leader with humility, which is what we should be looking for today.

Is writing poetry barbaric after the Holocaust? - book review

Menachem Rosensaft, a second-generation survivor leader and a political activist is also a poet, whose newest work reveals that although he left Bergen-Belsen, Bergen-Belsen has never left him.

 CURATORS LAY out a concentration camp uniform from 1944 Bergen-Belsen, a child’s doll and Jewish stars at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Piyyut: Sacred poetry in authentic Jewish music

Roni Ish-Ran, a paytanist and cantor of the tradition is the organizer of a festival of paytanim taking place in Jerusalem each year for the past eight years. 

 Roni Ish-Ran and his group performing at the Zionist Confederation House

Historian Clinton Bailey waxes poetic about Bedouin culture

Bailey: "I'd always have something to talk about with Bedouin I met because of the poetry."

 Clinton Bailey at his Jerusalem home.

When a poet and an artist take over an academic research center

A subversive and humorous exhibition by Agi Mishol and Yoav Weinfeld presents an unconventional collaboration in an unlikely location.

A PAINTING by Yoav Weinfeld, on view alongside Agi Mishol’s poems.

Jerusalem highlights July 9-15: What's new in Israel's capital?

Soviet war films, art exhibits, fitness classes and a panel including former-teenagers, now adults, from the 2005 Disengagement from Gush Katif.

'SPINOZA, EXCOMMUNICATED,' 1907. The prince of philosophers will be discussed at Holzer books this Thursday.

Celebrating USA's 245th birthday through Jewish-American literature

Happy 245th Birthday, USA: Jewish authors and poets have captured some of the most historic and touching moments and sentiments of the American project.

ON AUGUST 5, 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor.