The calamity of October 7th and the ongoing war have left Israel and the Jewish world in shock and despair. The unimaginable became our reality, yet we find ourselves less able to talk about it. The most common expression is ein milim/no words! And yet, some struggle and do find words in poetry.

Israeli poetry has always been in conversation with Torah, Midrash, prayer and other classical texts. It is not surprising that amazing new poems, all over the Israeli ideological spectrum, are challenging God, rewriting the Akedah, creating new prayer in the wake of October 7. 

Please join us to study powerful writing with Rachel Korazim, a world renowned teacher and editor of the recently published anthology Shiva: Poems of October 7.