If you were at Litquake Aug. 26 at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, we hope you stopped by j.’s blue-and-white booth, picked up that week’s paper, and maybe even contributed to our on-the-spot Jewish haiku contest. As promised, here are some outstanding selections from the scribbled papers dropped into our submissions box. Look for us at a future literary celebration!
“Go ahead, move to
California. Your father
and I will be fine.”
Ten hungry men,
nine potato knishes:
Jewish support group.
Lee Sanders/Palo Alto
The nectar of God’s
wine, complex bacchanal.
Not Manischewitz.
Steven Asch/Los Altos Hills
Make love on Shabbos.
I hear it’s a double mitzvah.
Someone tell my wife.
You served a Lenders
bagel? Even with a shmear,
You ain’t a real Jew.
Michael Ostacher/Stanford
Jewish holidays
all throughout the Jewish year.
Let’s all celebrate.
Talia Joffe, age 9/Mountain View
Jewish gathering.
Everyone all together.
A community.
Hanukkah candles
twinkling in the winter sky.
Beautiful light show.
Sam Joffe, age 11/Mountain View