Our Members’ Recent Activities

What our members have been doing in the last half year (for what Voices Israel as a society has been doing, see Our Recent Activities).

November 2025: congratulations to:

Helen Bar-Lev, whose poem “Green to Heal” has won 2nd prize in the Italian-based Amilcare Solferini Poetry Contest 2025. It can be read in the Poet’s Corner section of the December Newsletter.

Wendy Blumfield, who has two articles in the ESRA Magazine: “Healing and Recovery Through Ecological Gardening” and her book review “Meet The Author – The Legacy of Hansen House – Review”.

Isaac Cohen for his many successes throughout the month.

Mark Levinson, whose poem about Judih Weinstein z”l has been published in the Fall 2025 issue of The New Croton Review, https://newcrotonreview.com/ along with his poem “The Used Book”. Both poems can be read in the Poet’s Corner section of the December Newsletter.

Pesach Rotem, whose poem “Independence Day Potluck” has been published in the ESRA Magazine. It is also in the Poet’s Corner section of the Decemberb Newsletter

Elana Wolff, whose poem “Juney, It’s You” has beenfeatured in the Anacapa Review.bb

October 2025: congratulations to:

Hayim Abramson, Julian Alper, Mindy Aber Barad, Eli Ben-Joseph, Esther Cameron, Roberta Chester, Larry Lefkowitz and Amos Neufeld, who have all had poems published in the latest issue of The Deronda Review – you can read the poems at: https://www.derondareview.org/vol11no1.pdf

Julian Alper whose article “A Topsy-Turvy Tale of Etrog Painting” has been published by The Lehrhaus here. Also four of his poems were selected for publication in “Published” in the journal All Your Poems – October 2025. Two of the poems, “Morning Coffee” and “Poppy Fields” are included in the Poet’s Corner section of our November Newsletter.

Miriam Arman, whose video/poem “Awakening” is now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJS-7TJiAc

Esther Cameron – whose article “How it has Been for Us since October 7” has been published by New English Review – you can read it here.

Esther Cameron and Mindy Aber Barad who have just published the latest issue of The Deronda Review – see https://www.derondareview.org/vol11no1.pdf.

Isaac Cohen for his many successes throughout the month.

Mara Lee Grayson, whose poem “My Father the Mixologist” has been published by STREETLIGHT Magazine – you can read Mara’s poem here.

Elana Wolff whose poem “Don’t We Look Marvellous” has been published in the fifteenth issue of Pinhole Poetry – you can read Elana’s poem here and the magazine’s an interview with her here.

September 2025: congratulations to:

Isaac Cohen for his many successes throughout the month.

Amiel Schotz whose Haiku poem “Towards the Future” has been published in Whispers of the Seasons – a contemporary haiku anthology by Fresh Words magazine; and whose poem “Butcombe Lake, Somerset” has been published in the Soul Poetry, Prose, and Arts Magazine, Summer 2025.

Esther Cameron who has had “Three Poems for Israel”£” published on the New English Review’s web site. You can read Esther’s poem’s here.

Helen Bar-Lev whose poem “Uprooted” has been accepted by Persimmon Tree for publication. It was previously published in our 2024 Voices Israel Anthology.

Pesach Rotem, whose “Passover Haiku” was published in Of The Book: you can read it here.

Wendy Blumfield who has had two articles published in the September Jerusalem Report and a poem, “FIFTY EIGHT STEPS – BOOM BOOM” in the ESRA magazine.

August 2025: congratulations to:

Miriam Jaskierowicz Arman whose poem “Tiberias” has been set to music with a video. More of Miriam’s poems can be seen/heard on her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MiriamJaskierowiczArman

Helen Bar-Lev, whose poem “A Hot Cup of Corn Soup” won first place in the ‘Do A Good Deed’ category of The Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest, Lincoln, California.

Stanley H. Barkan, who has had two poems  published in English & Korean translation in KEL29 (Korean Expatriate Literature), July 2025 and his poem “Under the Pillow” in Chinese translation published in the ACC International Online Poetry Journal, August 2025. In addition, his poem “Octogenarian” received an honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Contest, in PLP (Paterson Literary Review), Issue 53, 2025, and his book As Still as a Broom in Spanish translation (Tan quieto como una escoba) in Notebook Poiesie, June 2025.

Isaac Cohen for his many successes throughout the month.

Bob Findysz  who has had three poems published in the 2025 Prosopisia journal.

Pesach Rotem, whose haiku “Give Peace a Chance” was published in Dissident Voice at https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/give-peace-a-chance-2/

Ruth Schreiber who has had a poem published in the Jewish Literary Journal.

Elana Wolff who has had five poems published on the Blood+Honey web site; and her poem “Manu’s Sphere” published on the web site of the League of Canadian Poets.

July 2025: congratulations to:

Julian Alper who has had two poems selected for publication in All Your Poems Anthology, August 2025. You can read the poems in the Poet’s Corner section of our August Newsletter.

Miriam Jaskierowicz Arman, for receiving the Excellence Award from the Sorbonne University Grand Prix 2025 of Ambassadors.

Isaac Cohen for his many successes throughout the month.

Mark Elber who is featured in a Judith Magazine article, which includes some of his poems: ‘Introducing the poetry of Mark Elber’.

Ruth Schreiber whose watercolour ‘Old House in Moon Forest‘ has been chosen by Black Eyes Poetry to appear in their next issue. You can see Ruth’s painting in the “Our Member’s Art” section of our August Newsletter.

Gail Wasserman, whose poems ‘The Silver Star’ and ‘I Can Never Wash What I Saw Out of My Eyes’ have been published in Iron Words for Israel and ‘Lay That Gun Down’ is being published in Read or Green books American Graveyard Vol 2. You can read Gail’s poems in the Poet’s Corner section of our August Newsletter.

June 2025: congratulations to:

Isaac Cohen for his many successes throughout the month.

Miriam Green whose poem ‘Take Note of Today’ mourning Judih Weinstein z”l, has been published in Judith Magazine – you can read the whole issue including Miriam’s poem here.

Ruth Schreiber, who has had three poems: “Brother” “Thank You” and “Hot Little Butterfly” selected for publication by OfTheBook; and whose watercolour was chosen for the cover of the June 2025 issue of Radar Poetry – you can see it here.

Gail Wasserman, whose poem ‘THEY LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED’ has been selected by Moonstone to be published in its new anthology ” Betrayal” (about the betrayal of women). You can read Gail’s poem in the Poet’s Corner section of our July Newsletter.