The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/shaindy-rudoff-graduate-program-in-creative-writing-at-bar-ilan-university/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:01:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/shaindy-rudoff-graduate-program-in-creative-writing-at-bar-ilan-university/ 32 32 Short stories about Israelis in flux feel familiar in novelist’s latest collection https://www.timesofisrael.com/short-stories-about-israelis-in-flux-feel-familiar-in-novelists-latest-collection/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:39:57 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3299286 Joan Leegant's 'Displaced Persons' homes in on identity, character and the Jewish experience

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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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]]> On first visit in 48 years, author Scott Turow grapples with Israel ‘enigma’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-first-visit-in-48-years-author-scott-turow-grapples-with-israel-enigma/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:19:34 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1519644 The father of the ‘legal drama’ genre discusses crime, America's future, and his effort to get a 'sense of society' on his trip here

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]]> A writer’s life in translation https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-writers-life-in-translation/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:08:44 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=834988 'The Hilltop' author Assaf Gavron talks about writing, translating and just a little bit about Natalie Portman

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]]> Writing wrongs https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/responsibility-of-the-jewish-writer/ Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:27:40 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=146238 Which responsibility is more important to me: My responsibility to the Jewish community, or to myself, as a writer, and to my art?

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]]> Off the map? Israel’s English-language writers wonder where they fit in https://www.timesofisrael.com/finding-a-home-for-the-english-language-writer-in-israel/ Thu, 17 May 2012 04:40:37 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=102180 A season of literary events highlights the curious place of wordsmiths who sometimes feel abroad at home

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