Click Here to Read: The History of the William Alanson White Institute Sixty Years After Thompson by Sue A. Shapiro on the Acadmia.edu website.
The Etrog: Fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Sukkot
Click Here to Read: The Etrog: Fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Sukkot in a new English translation by Jeffrey Saks BY S. Y. Agnon on the Tablet Website on September 25, 2015.
Jewish colonies and settlements. Richon le Zion. Avenue of date palms in Richon Image: Matson Collection. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commmons. 
People Love Dead Jews
WTC – a Dante’s glimpse of the Inferno: —Michael Gerard Connolly’s personal memoir
I got off the No. 1 southbound local subway train underneath the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan that bright September day about 8:48 a.m., a minute or so after all Hell slammed into the North Tower 90 or more stories above. At least that’s the time cited by the train’s driver interviewed in the New York Times a week later, though at that time we passengers on that last train to travel under the twin towers knew nothing of what had just happened above.
Pandemonium didn’t begin to break out among us until we were mounting the steps from the platform up to the WTC concourse one floor above. I was about four steps up when those at the top began turning around, some holding briefcases aloft, and pushing back down onto those climbing behind, shouting, “Shooting. Shooting. Go back. Go back.” I turned and jumped back down to the platform, and, after yelling out to the nonplussed Continue reading WTC – a Dante’s glimpse of the Inferno: —Michael Gerard Connolly’s personal memoir
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Stephen Fry with Caitlin McQue of Nottingham and other Stonewall marchers at London’s WorldPride on 7 July 2012. Image: Tablet eraser. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2021
Good morning, Everyone,
Happy Post-Labor Day!
I wish I could mandate that you must be vaccinated and masked to read this column, but since I can’t I can only hope that those of you who can will be if you plan to venture outside once again –and especially, inside.
In times like these, one of the best, most soul-healing things we can do is read poetry.
Our poet today is one I have wanted to introduce for some time. Here she is: 
Mihaela Moscaliuc
This lovely poet learned English in school in Romania, from a teacher who lent them books in English such as “Catch-22,” “Lord of the Flies” and “The Catcher in the Rye.”
Amazingly, he also had his students listen to records with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen – just like so many American teenagers.
Mihaela came to the U.S. when she was twenty-four to pursue graduate studies and since then has published a number of successful poetry collections. Among them are Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010). She was the translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2014) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014) and is the editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writings of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016). With her husband, the well-known poet Michael Waters, she co- Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2021
