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(This poem, by Billy Collins, is magnificent; photo credit: Winn Fuqua) He used to frighten me in the nights of childhood, the wide adult face, enormous, stern, aloft. I could not imagine such loneliness, such coldness. But tonight as I drive home over these hilly roads I see him sinking behind stands of winter treesContinue reading “The Man in the Moon”

by Kimberly Herzog Cohen (inspired by a poem written by my teacher, Rabbi David Stern) It’s Blursday And cups of coffee pile in the sink. Shoulders crunched, my Omer counter chimes, A beckoning call to Close windows Extract ear pods Declare recess for Zoom school on the second floor. The door opens, All before andContinue reading “Ode on the Omer: In a Pandemic”