Tag Archives: Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah and the American Dream

By Robin Bates | Published: September 20, 2025

An Emma Lazarus Rosh Hashanah poem frames America as a promised land for Jews fleeing Russian prosecution.

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Rosh Hashanah: Running into a New Year

By Robin Bates | Published: October 1, 2024

Clifton’s “i am running into a new year” works as a Rosh Hashanah poem.

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Poems for Judaism’s High Holy Days

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2023

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The Light You Seek Hides in Your Belly

By Robin Bates | Published: September 22, 2022

Piercy’s Rosh Hashanah poem uses new moon symbolism to powerful effect.

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Who Has Begotten the Drops of Dew?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 19, 2020

To celebrate Rosh Hashanah, I share this Anthony Hecht poem about his son Adam, who needs the reassurance that God’s Adam once needed.

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Let My Words Turn into Sparks

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2019

In this Marge Piercy Rosh Hashanah poem, the poet asks how she has contributed to peace.

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Rosh Hashanah: How To Make It New

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2017

Spiritual Sunday – Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah begins on Tuesday, giving me an excuse to share this stimulating poem by Rachel Barenblat, keeper of the wonderfully named Velveteen Rabbi blog. The Jewish New Year, as you probably know, celebrates the day of creation, and people take the opportunity to examine their lives over the past year and repent. […]

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Rosh Hashanah – A Stirring of Wonder

By Robin Bates | Published: October 1, 2016

Two poems, by Muriel Rukeyser and Denise Levertov, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah by

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Theoretically, a Season for Everything

By Robin Bates | Published: September 12, 2015

The soul, says Amichai Yehuda in this Rosh Hashanah poem, knows that, for everything there is a season. The body, on the other hand, gets the seasons all muddled up.

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