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  • Interview with Shafer Hall [by Reb Livingston]

    July 22, 2008

    My most recent "dream Shafer" was underage. I was drinking along with a group of other poets in his apartment. His father (whom I have not met in real life) lived across the hall…

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  • “Dear Departed,” (by Amy Gerstler)

    July 22, 2008

    Dear Departed, Five ice-glazed trees keeled over today. Did that racket disturb your permanent faint? Sorry our pale ministrations failed. Does mud hold grudges? Don’t overthink your response, once upright, diffident citizen. May we…

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  • Interview with Laurel Snyder [by Reb Livingston]

    July 21, 2008

    Once I dreamed that I sent Laurel Snyder a package that contained a canvas bag (because hers was old and crappy) and a DVD player. For some reason the package was returned to me…

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  • The Kalashnikover Rebbe: “What is the shechinah?”

    July 21, 2008

    "What is the shechinah, anyway?" I’m often asked this question and it’s actually not so difficult to answer. Very simply put, the shechinah is the feminine energy of God. It is in this form…

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  • Postcard # 2 [from Rachel Barenblat]

    July 21, 2008

    Postcard #2 The best view of Jerusalemis from Tel Aviv, one hour(a million light years) away where in a day and a halfof ice cream and crafts fairand sunset services at the port I…

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  • Interview with Rebecca Loudon [by Reb Livingston]

    July 21, 2008

    I can’t recall ever having a dream about Rebecca Loudon. That’s because we’re both Rebeccas and there can be only one. If she appeared in my dreamscape, my entire psyche would likely collapse. It…

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