Danny Paller

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Feb 4, 2021, 1:18 PM

A new dawn: Amanda Gorman vs The Rabbis. Epic poetry battles of history

LEFT: American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
RIGHT: Rabban Gamliel. From the Haggadah for Passover (the 'Sister Haggadah').(via Wikimedia)

Millennia before America's brilliant youth poet laureate was wielding wise words, the Talmud’s sages could amaze with a turn of phrase

Nov 1, 2017, 11:50 PM

Tunes for an assassination

Portrait of then-Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. September 16, 1992. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Our musical drama about Rabin's murder revisits a time of passionate hope and equally passionate fear

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Danny Paller is a Jerusalem-based writer, composer, and educator.