Poetry + Books

September 2026:I finished the book without feeling like I’d lost a friend.

September 2026:A poem by Yehuda Amichai

August 2026:A poem by John D. Kovac

August 2026:What happens when a painting stolen from a Jewish family during the Holocaust resurfaces eighty years later and a descendant discovers it?

August 2026:When I finished the novel, I realized that the mystery itself had become almost secondary. What stayed with me was not the explanation of the ring, but the image of the circus itself, a place usually associated with spectacle transformed, in Ron’s imagination, into a sanctuary.

August 2026:The name he heard was similar,Letters and sounds familiar,But Yusuf barely recognized himself. The looking glass reflection,Captures the present,Hints at the past. “Search for it יוֹסֵף”—Yusuf thought he heard the mirror whisper.“You have your grandfather’s eyes,”Staring right back at me. His grandfather’s name was Ibrahim,His grandmother adoringly called him “Abba.”“Father,” in Arabic, he mistakenly believed. […]

July 2026:On the morning of July 27, 1944,in a quiet courtyard in Lwów, a manhole cover… slowly lifted. A sewer worker called down into the darkness…“Come out… You’re free!” From beneath the earth,ten figures emerged. Starved.Broken.Barely recognizable as human. And the man who led them out, Leopold Socha, turned to the stunned crowd and declared:“This is […]

May 2026:A poem by Darren Glick

March 2026:A poem by Darren Glick

January 2026:A poem by Darren Glick

December 2025:A thousand years have passed since strangers came,Yet still my homeland bleeds from ancient wounds. The fire of our fathers dimmed,Our voice drowned beneath foreign storms. O Iran, rise again from sorrow—Your spirit is older than their swords.

October 2025:A poem by Darren Glick.

July 2025:A poem by Darren Glick

May 2025:A poem by Darren Glick

January 2025:A poem by Darren Glick

September 2024:I cannot but esteem it as a favor that God hath granted us, that it is still in our power to die bravely, and in a state of freedom…

September 2024:A poem by Jason D. Hill.

August 2024:A poem by Darren Glick

June 2024:A poem by Darren Glick

April 2024:The patch of grass in my heart gets caught on the rough edges of my soul, and a terrible, silent nothingness takes over. Even my eyes aren’t working properly. My eyes used to generate tears on command.

April 2024:A poem by Darren Glick

November 2023:Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man | His enemies say he's on their land | They got him outnumbered about a million to one | He got no place to escape to, no place to run | He's the neighborhood bully.

November 2023:This poem is an exposition of an ideology that is often accepted as an embodiment of “universal brotherhood” and “peace,” but if you dig deep into the history, you would find that most exponents of this ideology considered themselves warriors of Jihad, and the primary role it has played in history is to serve as a pretty mask for extremism, terrorism, and Jihad.

September 2023:Elixir of the masses Addicted, strung out Crave their fix A historical roundabout

September 2023:Vivek’s trilogy of books can be useful for understanding how wokeness has penetrated American businesses and allowed the victimhood mentality to spread. It can also serve as a warning: that being a political outsider and successful businessman doesn’t make a good conservative politician.

July 2023:A poem by Darren Glick

June 2023:Bitter and Sweet

Victorious and defeat
Time will marinate
To the Truth it will beat

May 2023:Parents looking to understand how far-left Neo-Marxism entered American public education should read James Lindsay’s and Luke Rosiak’s recent books for the whole sordid story.

May 2023:I passed by the school where I studied as a boyand said in my heart: here I learned certain thingsand didn’t learn others. All my life I have loved in vainthe things I didn’t learn. I am filled with knowledge,I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge,the shape of its leaves, the […]

March 2023:A poem by Darren Glick

March 2023:Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.

March 2023:This investigative work is crucial to understanding the background of the alliance between political Islam and the extreme left-wing.

January 2023:Review of Invited to Life: Finding Hope After the Holocaust, by B.A. Van Sise Any attempt to present the experiences of Holocaust survivors faces daunting challenges. There’s a delicacy that’s required, entrusted, as one is, with incomparably precious materials. The weight of responsibility, the transcendent standards are ever-present. The worldly, moral question—“What would you have […]

January 2023:You have been given a gift.It is woveninto the fabric of your being.Just as youare weaving your ownvibrant thread in the Jewish tapestry,a 4,000-year-old quiltthat blankets our people in its weightof justice and goodness. You are a branch in a treewhose roots reach the centerand the beginning of the earth,the tree of knowledgein Eden.For you […]

November 2022:Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews: David L. Bernstein Book Review: Michael Lumish David L. Bernstein’s, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews, enamored me as soon as I read the dedication: For all the “thought criminals” and courageous people, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, whose consciences will not allow them to go […]

September 2022:A man has found himself between Being alive and being free He looks his captor in the face Says “I’ll be buried in my grave. Before you put me in those chains, You can put me in the ground”

September 2022:...And the land will grow still Crimson skies dimming, misting Slowly paling again Over smoking frontiers As the nation stands up Torn at heart but existing To receive its first wonder In two thousand years

July 2022:When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till […]

July 2022:What if, We were given a giant canvas,And the freedom,To find our own space on it, Move on to whichever corner of the canvas we wished to,Splash the colors of our choice,Shape up the shapes that fascinate us,Create our own masterpiece,Every moment of our lives? But … What if,We were not alone in this? What […]

July 2022:The question of the good life, the tension between Athens (Reason) and Jerusalem (Revelation), the quarrel of the ancients, can be seen, today, as a form of Counter Enlightenment.

July 2022:Pitch Darkness.Instantly turned toA majestic sun-shine.I just had to,Open my eyes.

December 2021:Many, content within their cozy cells Of soft and safe familiarity, Will scorn or fear the daring that compels The youth to chase horizons, make them flee Until the understanding spans the whole Continuum of all humanity. To tread the planet’s breadth from pole to pole, To slumber under foreign stars, and share Warmth with […]

January 2022:I can feel my body weakening The weariness accompanying every step The stubbornness of my frozen joints My body is failing me

February 2022:I am from Poland From the town of Przemyśl Where my family has lived For generations

February 2022:One could exist, just breathe and live,Do what needs to be done.Or one could live a splendid life,That adds an awe, a stun. One could only do as much,That’s required to get through.Well, that is how I would be,But that is just not you. You never let anything be,A piece of trifling.You live life as […]

December 2021:As the title suggests, Shain believes that, in the current century, it is Israel that will define Jewish life. The Diaspora will continue to exist, he says, and this is not a bad thing; but the prevailing zeitgeist will be Israeli.

January 2022:Look quickly now the goal’s in sight,We need just dare and take the fight;Never weary of the weight,Don’t ever falter from the fate. Leave the world behind that can’t be borne,Not one more day of servant-thorn;The load of human-wretch has none,That could with force to have me done. And though alone am I to ease […]

May 2022:Thus Satan said: This besieged one – how can I overcome him? He has courage, talent And the implements of war and resourcefulness.

May 2022:This poem was written in tribute to the victims of the Kishinev pogrom. Arise and go now to the city of slaughter;Into its courtyard wind thy way;There with thine own hand touch, and with the eyes of thine head,Behold on tree, on stone, on fence, on mural clay,The spattered blood and dried brains of the […]

March 2022:I supposeThat most peopleHave nothing to doWith the death of their family membersThey die of natural causesOr things beyond the grasp or controlOf human beings I am not most people I have to liveEvery day with the factThat most of my family was murderedBecause I failed to save themBecause I couldn’t convince themTo flee PolandBefore […]

July 2021:Truth is the Foundation, the Bedrock The Seminal Seed It is the Pathway, the Direction Paved by footsteps of the Freed

August 2021:In many ways, The Unbroken Thread is a book of paradoxes, with the central paradox being that the traditions of structure and restraint are the very keys to freedom and growth for the human experience in both body and spirit.

May 2021:You are not a sum of arbitrary things Details to be checked off a list somewhere

August 2021:Nevergreen is an academic satire that examines campus cancel culture and the ideological excesses that generate it.

November 2021:Without the proper morality, political systems are doomed to fail. But without the proper epistemology, or proper ethical and moral system, values and virtues remain obscured from the realm of human cognition.

November 2021:Departing from the Garden, Adam spoke At length about the March of History, Of dialectic, and the world that woke Out of the fruit’s potentiality.

October 2021:Darkness swirls like a stormRapid and relentless, consuming Passage of time blurredBy monotony stretched endlessly It’s easy to lose one’s wayLike a boat with water far as the eye can see Every day a survivalOne after another Not unlike a weary stranded travelerSimply putting one foot before another Exhausted yet holding onAttempting not to fall […]

September 2021:No rack can torture me,My soul’s at libertyBehind this mortal boneThere knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,Nor rend with scymitar.Two bodies therefore be;Bind one, and one will flee. The eagle of his nestNo easier divestAnd gain the sky,Than mayest thou, Except thyself may beThine enemy;Captivity is consciousness,So’s liberty. The Poems of Emily […]

April 2021:We remember with sorrow / Blessed memories of souls taken too soon

March 2021:A quiet voice whisperedSo faint it might have been carried on an autumn breeze Even as the winter of tyrannyDrove life into dormancy Defiantly and resolutelyThe voice would not be silenced The threat was not to be mistakenEver present and clear as a summer day It was in the face of such great evilThat one […]