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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...
Robbi Nester

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...
Diana Raab

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...

Home

I I am suffocating. The stairwell is heated by dozens of bodies, climbing up, like salmon, searching for the light. I emerge from the underworld, sucking stale air into my lungs. Beads of salt water scatter and evaporate, while others form rivulets from hairline to chin.   I have...

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...