![Parshat Balak: Lip Service](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Lip-Service.jpg)
Parshat Balak: Lip Service
At the lip of a cliff, The cliff of a lip, Letters tumble one Over another, head- Long, trampoline Trampling, stumbling Stampeding from Inside out, over, in: Inside the self, out...
Jul 10, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
![Cast Away Vacation](https://www.ou.org/life/files/wooden-chairs.jpg)
Cast Away Vacation
My plans were ready. This year, as opposed to all previous years, I was going to get the most out of those two tantalizing summer months we wait for all year...
Jul 10, 2008
By Yaffa Ganz
![Stay With Me](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Everyones-Got-A-Story.jpg)
Stay With Me
As a child, I was enchanted by my grandmother’s loveliness, her black hair, sapphire eyes and milky white skin. No makeup for her. I remember her only vanity: dyed eyelashes and...
Jul 3, 2008
By Yael Zoldan
![Parshat Chukat: Black and White and Red all over](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Black-and-White-and-Red.jpg)
Parshat Chukat: Black and White and Red all over
In this unparalleled universe Many voices talk all at once: Master Mind talks deliberately, Enunciating every thought-out, Diamond-cut syllable with a rather Unsettling flare for the grammatic; Lady Heart...
Jul 3, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
![Dames of the Dance](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Dance-e1446131249283.jpg)
Dames of the Dance
She started taking tap dancing lessons this year. Any other woman who joins a dancing class would toss her shoes into the car, zip out to the class and zip back...
Jul 3, 2008
By Toby Klein Greewald (text) and Rebecca Kowalsky (photos)
![Parshat Korach: Lead Story](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Stormy-Seas.jpg)
Parshat Korach: Lead Story
On the maniacal seas of confused hysteria Winds howl like a worse-for-wear-wolf: Tidal wave-lengths of despair climb and Crash in the stand-up-comedy, fall-down- Tragedy routine that is the strung-out junkie: Up...
Jun 26, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
![Parshat Shlach: A Spy Thriller](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Spy.jpg)
Parshat Shlach: A Spy Thriller
A tale of cloak and dagger Mystery. Intrigue. Espionage. The working title: Life We are born for a reason (Most of us agree on that) But what reason? (Most...
Jun 19, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
![Parshat Beha’alotcha: Poetry By Candlelight](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Candles.jpg)
Parshat Beha’alotcha: Poetry By Candlelight
It isn’t restricted to nighttime in garbage-strewn Alleyways of graffiti-sprayed poetry when darkness Opens its foaming mouth and lets loose with a Howling curse fumes of rancid breath, morgue- Gray in...
Jun 11, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
![Parshat Naso: Moving Words](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Lighthouse.jpg)
Parshat Naso: Moving Words
The thing with Movement is that it isn’t still – If it were, it’d be called Stagnant. (WARNING: due to the reckless use of the blatant and obvious, The Scansion...
Jun 4, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
![Jerusalem Walking Tours](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Jerusalem-Old-City.jpg)
Jerusalem Walking Tours
On June 7th, 1967, East and West Jerusalem were reunited. When the Israeli flag was proudly raised above the Western Wall, some of the battle-weary paratroopers who had fought to regain...
May 29, 2008
By Lisa Alcalay Klug
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