The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/poems/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png poems | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/poems/ 32 32 Researchers find oldest English poem in a Roman library https://www.timesofisrael.com/researchers-find-oldest-english-poem-in-a-roman-library/ Sun, 17 May 2026 07:11:14 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3825018 Caedmon’s Hymn, composed in Old English by a Northumbrian agricultural worker in 7th century, attests to language's wide diffusion, long before what was previously understood

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]]> Poet brings biblical Noah into familiar territory of urban Israel, and climate change https://www.timesofisrael.com/poet-brings-biblical-noah-into-familiar-territory-of-urban-israel-and-climate-change/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:58:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3041561 'The Book of Noah' is Yoni Hammer-Kossoy's ode to the environment and his backyard, along with the high-tech industry he left behind

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]]> Nancy Pelosi quotes Israeli poem in first appearance since husband assaulted https://www.timesofisrael.com/nancy-pelosi-quotes-israeli-poem-in-first-appearance-since-husband-assaulted/ Sat, 05 Nov 2022 12:31:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2867409 As Paul Pelosi released from the hospital, US House speaker reads portion of Ehud Manor's 'I Have No Other Land,' which she has cited publicly on other occasions

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]]> At 80, rabbi rocks liturgical socks off https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-80-rabbi-rocks-liturgical-socks-off/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:23:40 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2631356 Moroccan-born Chaim Louk celebrates his 80th with singer Amir Benayoun and rocker Berry Sakharov

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]]> Librettist Gene Scheer is awed Biden cited his ‘American Anthem’ at inauguration https://www.timesofisrael.com/librettist-gene-scheer-is-awed-biden-cited-his-american-anthem-at-inauguration/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:05:54 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2477948 The songwriter speaks about the shocking moment he realized the president was quoting his work, and what it means to him as a Jewish American

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]]> Locked down? Open up to… 3 exceptional contemporary Israeli poets https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-exceptional-contemporary-israeli-poets/ Mon, 11 May 2020 13:17:16 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2298480 Two new collections have been released in recent months, and one slightly older poem serves as an anthem for these times

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]]> Under lockdown, Portland writer pivots to pandemic poetry — from her bathtub https://www.timesofisrael.com/under-lockdown-portland-writer-pivots-to-pandemic-poetry-from-her-bathtub/ Mon, 11 May 2020 01:01:47 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2298281 Oregon artist Alicia Jo Rabins' new project is topical poems steeped in Jewish culture, yearning, and... bath salts

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]]> The destitute UK Jew who became one of WWI’s greatest poets from the trenches https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-destitute-uk-jew-who-became-one-of-wwis-greatest-poets-from-the-trenches/ Sat, 12 May 2018 05:52:07 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1834541 On the centennial of his violent death comes the story of Isaac Rosenberg, the son of penniless Lithuanian immigrants whose anti-war poems lit up the battlefield

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]]> Leonard Cohen poems, finished in last days, to be published in final book https://www.timesofisrael.com/leonard-cohen-poems-to-be-published-in-final-book/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:23:29 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1706613 The 'singular focus' of the songwriter's final months, 'The Flame' will include texts completed just before his death last year

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]]> Tel Aviv mayor flaunts poetry skills https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-mayor-flaunts-poetry-skills/ Tue, 28 May 2013 15:58:56 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=526306 Ron Huldai responds in kind to resident's plea in verse for a parking ticket to be canceled

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]]> German pol quits race over poems seen as anti-Semitic https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-pol-quits-race-over-poems-seen-as-anti-semitic/ Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:51:00 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=330884 Green Party welcomes withdrawal of candidate over 'derogatory' attack on ritual circumcision

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