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Oct 28, 2014, 10:00 PM

Sojourn in Canaan (Poem)

You are Abraham Your Upper West Side tent is open To the five boroughs of New York Waiting to share hospitality and the word of God I am a tired traveler Fatigued from trekking tent to tent To find them closed, closing The Tent is getting...

Sep 3, 2014, 9:12 AM

Home of fat sandal tans, fat fruit, but not too many fat people. Home of the marketplace—of produce and of ideas, where ranks don’t stop you from voicing your opinion. Home of homes, where everybody is family, so you...

Aug 27, 2014, 10:17 AM

Bliss, Loss, Under Fire, Peace? My Summer in Israel

The only way to really understand what happened in Israel this summer is to have been here. I arrived in Israel on May 27. It felt exactly the same since I was last here a little under a year ago....

Aug 8, 2014, 6:08 PM

My personal Kotel

Most people find Divine compassion in an event; being saved from the impact of a passing car, finding love late in life at the Senior’s Center long after the days of natural teeth, finally finding a job the day...

Jul 13, 2014, 10:56 PM

Protective Edge (A Poem)

Protective Edge Operation Protective Edge Literally "Sturdy Cliff" I can't say I feel quite sturdy But I do feel as if our country is falling Off a cliff No protection Simply on edge Rockets flying The world is silent Three boys missing Our world explodes Three boys dead The saga is over,...

Jul 8, 2014, 11:45 PM

The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Showering While Under Attack

The cost-benefit analysis of showering while under attack: Benefits: I smell pretty bad from running around finding alternate meaningful things to do with my time since I can't be in the South. And, running into bomb shelters. A shower...

May 6, 2014, 6:42 PM

My Israel isn’t a video, a list of platitudes strung together, or "my homeland". My Israel isn’t this foreign concept I pray to three times daily, another passport I carry around, the place where I spent my first year...

Apr 10, 2014, 12:30 AM

Banning the “H” Word

The “H” word is one that is commonly thrown around our circles. Heretic. Often the label is bestowed in jest, sometimes more seriously, but the use of the “H” word always comes about in the same way: someone brings...

Feb 18, 2014, 12:51 AM

The faces behind the epithets

After finishing my last final, as my friends boarded planes for sunny beaches, I took the 1 train to Riverdale, home of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (Chovevei) housed at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (HIR), affectionately known as “The Bayit”...

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Rebecca (Rivka) Hia is a New York-based freelance writer and editor.