Bruce Black, at The Blogs

Oct 1, 2024, 6:20 PM

It won’t be long now until Jews around the world gather together to observe Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Ten Days of Awe, holy days that will be filled with prayers of repentance, prayers for the safe return...

Sep 24, 2024, 6:24 PM

Still praying

During the Shabbat morning prayer service this past weekend, I sat in our synagogue and found myself uttering prayers whose words seemed to have lost their meaning. I recited the words on the pages of my siddur, and my voice...

Sep 6, 2024, 5:06 PM

Keeping hope alive

“Hope is mandatory.” -- Rachel Goldberg-Polin In this moment of grief, as I mourn with the rest of the Jewish community, I still want to keep hope alive, to hold on to the hope that I found in my community...

Aug 19, 2024, 8:08 PM

For the sake of peace

Each time another another bomb falls or drone strikes in the Middle East, I cringe, worried over who will live and who will die, who will be injured in the explosion and who will be lucky enough to escape...

About Me

Bruce Black is editorial director of The Jewish Writing Project. His poetry and personal essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Write-Haus, Soul-Lit, The BeZine, Bearings, Super Poetry Highway, Poetica, Lehrhaus, Atherton Review, Elephant Journal, Tiferet, Hevria, Jewthink, The Jewish Literary Journal, The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Mindbodygreen, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.