Julia Knobloch

 I haven't posted here in a while, but on my first Shabbat in Jerusalem, here are s ome thoughts on Ekev .

This poem was inspired by a tour my friend Zwi gave me through the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, and other things I experienced over the past month. 

 I wrote a new poem last night, inspired by this semester's class on the Prophets. Read it here !

Building the Mishkan: The Existentialist Warm-and-Welcoming Dilemma .

 I forgot to post this last week!

 A few days late but here's a poem inspired by the Song at the Sea in Parashat Beshallach.

I was going to write a new dvar for Beshallach and/or 15 Shevat, but quarantine has gotten the lazier of me for now, and I have been reading lishma or watching movies. I am excited however to share that two blogs of writers and poets I admire have given the book some space and helped get the word out: Don Yorty Explorations and Erika Dreifus' MyMachberet . Thank you to Don and Erika. 

This week is parashat Bo, and I wrote a few thoughts about what redemption might mean -- for the Israelites in that night different from all other nights and in our (Jewish) American lives.