The Conscious Body: Notes on the Garment of the Buddha
In the National Museum of New Delhi there exists a life-sized statue of the Buddha, the Awakened One, draped in a clinging, transparent robe. With its fine radiance of curved, geometrically spaced folds, the...
Excerpt from My Bison by Robbi Nester
The following poem appears in our Spring/Summer 2019 issue and was the 2018 Tiferet Writing Contest Winner for Fiction. The entire issue is available in print or digital format. Or, you can purchase a...
inevitable intimacy
I woke up this morning and knew I am going to write about my time in the cabin.
I trust I will meet all manner of critics on my way to the end of this...
Church at the Mall on Sunday
We were in the mall last Sunday afternoon and took lunch in the food court.
Sounds of children playing on a nearby carousel competed against the din of the crowd socializing there. It was hard...
Transformed by Writing – by Diana Raab
I wish I had known how brave I actually was on the day my grandmother committed suicide. I was ten years old when she overdosed on sleeping pills in my childhood home. Like any...
Climate Change Requires Consciousness Change
To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about climate change but no one does anything about it. No one, particularly those in power, wants to make the necessary sacrifices. The latest round of international negotiations...
Review of Zichronot/Memories, A Journal by Dr. Jerome Lowenstein
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, humane,...
Faith – Road Tested by Amy Mitchell
Before that summer’s eve on a mountain road, my faith was conditional. God was a genie in a bottle, to be called upon in dire circumstances. “This is silly,” I thought, hesitating. “I have...
The True Light of God
Gurucharanam Saranam
The man with the power of clairvoyance slowly opened his eyes and said: ‘When I observe your life, I see a bright light, which is very rare. It is the true light of...