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Lois Michal Unger

Aug 3, 2016, 4:30 PM

How country music helped me to make aliya

The winter of 76-77 we left Vermont on October 1st to travel to Bisbee, Arizona and arrived there six days later. The first night we slept at my sister’s in New Jersey. Somewhere between Vermont and New Jersey the...

Dec 28, 2015, 3:46 PM

And there are a king

This week’s Torah Parasha (portion of the Torah read on Shabbat) contains a momentous sentence. Well, the whole Torah is momentous but for me this sentence stands out: ‘And there rose up a new king over Egypt who knew...

Nov 15, 2015, 10:50 AM

Dancing with Parkinson’s

When Guy de Maupassant wrote "The Minuet" he wasn’t thinking of me. When I read it when I was a girl, I was touched most extremely. The image of the old couple dancing in the park and the young...

Mar 10, 2015, 12:14 PM

Sleeping in unusual places

One night in the fall of 1994, between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippor, my friend Chaya and I decided to visit Kever Rachel (Rachel’s Tomb). There was a 10 p.m. bus from Jerusalem that returned back to Jerusalem at midnight....

Feb 20, 2015, 3:51 PM

Tiyul to the South

Yesterday we went with the Moadon on a Tiyul to the South. First, we stopped for breakfast, then continued on to Kibbutz Nir Am located in the Negev a few kilometers from Gaza. From a hill on the kibbutz...

About Me

Born in the U.S., Lois Michal Unger made aliya in 1982. She is a well known poet in Israel and internationally. She is the author of 7 books including, White Rain in Jerusalem, The Glass Lies Shattered All Around and How Country Music Helped Me to Make Aliya, a novella. Her poems have been published in The Jerusalem Post as well as many literary magazines throughout the world. Her work and has been translated into Hebrew, Italian, Russian and Hungarian. Before making aliya she wrote a recipe column for the Chronicle newspaper in Vermont. Her latest book Back to Back: Two Poets Living Under One Roof is co-authored with her husband Elazar.