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Apr 3, 2022, 10:16 PM

Saying ‘Thank You’ to Ehud Manor on His Yahrtzeit

I remember the evening clearly enough, though I had no idea that it would someday, years later, change my life. It was a damp, Jerusalem evening during the winter of 1998/1999 at the Merkaz Hamagshimim campus on Dor Dor Ve-Dorshav...

Feb 24, 2022, 3:57 PM

On Landscape and Poetry: Kalaniyot

Kalaniyot in Modiin
Photo by Keshet Sacks

As an Israeli nature enthusiast and a student of the Hebrew Bible, every February I experience a double-shock to my senses and thoughts. First, I cannot help being blown-away by the brazen proliferation of red flowers that so suddenly carpet...

About Me

Elli Sacks is a software product manager whose interests include writing musicals and translating poetry. A native New Yorker, he has lived in Modi'in with his family since 2000. In 2014, he began publishing his blog: "Poems of a Life Twice Planted: Hebrew Poetry in Lyrical Translation"