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Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Tiferet Poetry Reading Sunday, April 21 1 month ago

Here’s a nice article from The Alternative Press about our upcoming reading Sunday, April 21 from 2-4 pm in Summit, New Jersey. This reading is co-sponsored with The Writers Circle […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Announcing the release of THE TIFERET TALK INTERVIEWS book 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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You can enter to win a $50 Amazon gift certificate and a 1 year subscription to Tiferet Journal by sharing the Amazon link in your social media and then sending us an email at michelle […]

Donna Baier Stein commented on the post, Knitting as Zen Practice 3 months ago

I started at Bryn Mawr way back when but ended up going back to the midwest because, sadly enough, I experienced a lot of homesickness! Long story but I loved that campus…

Donna Baier Stein commented on the post, 2013 Writing Contest 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing our contest information!

Donna Baier Stein commented on the post, Webinar: Beyond Talent with Host Jeffrey Davis 3 months, 1 week ago

Hi Peggy. Was this resolved? Did you hear from our managing editor? If not, can you email me at [email protected]? Thank you

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Review of Zichronot/Memories, A Journal by Dr. Jerome Lowenstein 7 months ago

We admire some authors not only because of their writings but also because of the human being these writings reveal. It quickly becomes clear from reading the essays in Zichronot/Memories what an intelligent, […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, New Translations of Poems by Kabir 8 months, 1 week ago

In The Target is Behind the Sky (Fifty Poems of Kabir) Sunil Uniyal brings to life the poems or “utterances” of the Hindi mystic Kabir.The translations beautifully evoke Kabir’s imaginative yet down-to-earth […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Mary Jo Bang Translates Dante’s Poetry with Pop Culture Twist 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Poet Mary Jo Bang translates Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ and gives it an update

A great many college students give up on “The Divine Comedy,” usually after they’ve determined in which circle of hell they are […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Poetry Changed the World: Injury and the Ethics of Reading 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Interesting essay “Poetry Changed the World” by Elaine Scarry in Boston Review

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.4/elaine_scarry_poetry_literature_reading_empathy_ethics.php

What is the ethical power of […]

Donna Baier Stein commented on the post, Music under New York is Transcendent 9 months, 3 weeks ago

I agree, Starr. And just like poetry or prose, music can engage us on so many levels and elicit such a huge spectrum of emotions.

Donna Baier Stein commented on the post, The Mnemosyne Weekly: Poem Twenty-One (Lorca) 9 months, 3 weeks ago

I love the poem and also the way you wrote about it, Melissa! “… the first and last stanzas are the balcony doors swung open…” Lovely!

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Ram Dass on “Letting Go” 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Here’s an interesting 2010 interview with Ram Dass on the process of letting go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxB-4_MGbc

“Your soul witnesses your feelings, your desires, your fearlessness. Stay in the […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Interview with Poet Hal Sirowitz on “Being Human” 1 year ago

We’ve published Hal Sirowitz’s wonderful poetry in earlier issues of Tiferet. You’ll enjoy this recent interview with him on “Being Human.” Be sure to scroll down – there are two parts to the interview!

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Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, “My advice is not to make a problem of yourself…” 1 year, 2 months ago

http://minddeep.blogspot.com/2012/03/there-is-no-problem.html

Ajahn Sumedho:

My advice is not to make a problem of yourself. Give up making a problem about yourself, or how good or bad you are, or […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Thin Places – where Heaven and Earth Come Closer 1 year, 2 months ago

Here’s an article from today’s NY Times – sounds like they are talking about “tiferet” – places where the spiritual and material meet. Click here to read.

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Jacob Needleman on Consciousness & Our Future 1 year, 2 months ago

In his upcoming book An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth, Jacob Needleman discusses “an entirely new kind of relationship between consciousness and nature, between consciousness and the earth, […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Middle East Peace and Abraham 1 year, 2 months ago

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/06/opinion/djalal-peace-abraham/index.html

“For more than 60 years, a just solution to the Middle East conflict has eluded the greatest statesmen of our time. Perhaps it is time […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Words from the Publisher: 1 year, 5 months ago

I grew up with a Jewish dad and a Christian mom and have always straddled at least two worlds. I grew up wondering why my paternal and maternal grandparents were so angry when my parents decided to marry… and […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Tiferet Testimonial – Fred Lamotte 1 year, 5 months ago

Fred’s Profile

More about Fred:

Alfred K. LaMotte (Fred) is an interfaith chaplain at the Evergreen College in Olympia WA. I also teach World Religions and Philosophy as college credits to soldiers […]

Donna Baier Stein wrote a new post, Does Divine Energy behind Letters & Words Unify Different Faiths? 1 year, 5 months ago

It can be no accident that the Word holds such significance in many world religions and practices.

“In the beginning was the Word” proclaims John 1:1 in the New Testament. In Hinduism, Brahma the creator, first […]