with Rachel Korazim
Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
The calamity of October 7 and the war that followed had left Israel and the Jewish world in shock and despair. The unimaginable became our reality. As more details of the horror unfold, as we are facing the painful daily losses in battle and the plight of the hostages and their families. Not less troubling, are the terrible losses and devastation in Gaza. We find ourselves less and less able to talk about it. The expression most commonly used is אין מילים ein milim – No Words!
Yet – there are those who struggle and find words to express pain and anger, despair and abandonment.
In our session, we will read and discuss poetry written these very days.
Dr. Rachel Korazim is a Jewish education consultant in curriculum development for Israel and Holocaust education. Rachel opens for her audiences a window to Israeli society through literature; through stories, poems and songs of the best of Israel’s writers, she invites listeners to engage with Israel in an innovative way.
Since the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic – Rachel created a global community of hundreds of learners who meet to study Israeli poetry online regularly.
Recently, Rachel collected, edited and published a bilingual anthology of Israeli poetry written in the wake of October 7th – called Shiva שבעה.
Rachel teaches at Israel’s well known learning centers such as Pardes and the Shalom Hartman Institutes as well as numerous world Jewish communities.
In her free time, Rachel enjoys scuba diving in the cenotes of Playa del Carmen in Mexico and the amazing coral sites of the Red Sea.
Rachel is also a very active grandmother of eight grandchildren who all live in Israel.