Personal interviews – Gluyat Eynayim

Here you will find a collection of personal interviews I conducted with inspiring figures from the worlds of spirituality, culture, and society. These interviews were originally published in the ‘Gluyat Einayim’ section of ‘Gluya’ magazine, and they present deep and surprising layers in the lives and work of poets, rabbis, educators, therapists, and key figures in the fields of sexuality, wellness, couples counseling, and education.

The interviews offer an intimate look at worldviews, creative processes, professional challenges, and personal journeys that combine knowledge with life wisdom. Through these honest and profound conversations, the human stories behind the work are revealed, expanding our understanding of the connection between the personal and professional, between tradition and innovation.

The ‘Gluyat Einayim’ section also featured additional interviews conducted by colleagues and staff members of ‘Gluya’ magazine: Yotam Fogel, Rachel Raz, and Peleg Bar-On, alongside guest interviewers.

In a Gluyat Einayim interview, poet Yitzhak Gvilli reflects on writing as a vital need, on war memories shaping his art, and on moral responsibility, depth, and compassion.

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To mark the publication of her debut poetry collection, “What Determines Is the Gaze”, we spoke with poet and clinical psychologist Ora Barkan about language, creativity, migration, and belonging. An Israeli living in California, Barkan writes from a dual vantage point—between presence and distance, between the concrete and the poetic. She describes writing as an […]

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In a Gluyat Eynayim Interview, poet Adi Segal Weissberger explains how anger, sorrow, and fear are transmuted into poems, and speaks about #Shira_Gluya and her debut book Between Innocence and Abyss.

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“My poetry is deeply about memory, resisting the urge to forget” — an interview with Martin Herskovitz on using art to process trauma and shape living memory.

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She was the first woman to publish in Techumin and continues with halakhic writing — an interview with Rabbanit Chamutal Shoval

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She is a poet and therapist, publisher and editor. Kama Shir reflects on moments of her literary path and on poetry as an existential necessity in the present.

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Poet Mashi Peretz Dror discusses how a family experience led her to express the inexpressible, and how memory, forgetting, and language shape writing.

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Merav Livneh first began writing at 35. She speaks about her debut novel The Girls and how the tension between the personal and national drives her work.

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Kibbutz Alumim member Raya Ofner speaks about resilience, the loss of her son, and choosing good. The interview took place a month after October 7.

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Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center coordinator Yonina Flanberg on sexual trauma and communal responsibility: "Some times, major values enable the abuse."

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"Poetry was inside me, waiting for its moment to break free." Poet Adva Magal Cohen on poetry, writing, and her artistic journey.

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“Writing Is Simply Another Manifestation of Life” – An interview published in Gluya Magazine’s “Eyes Wide Open” section with poet Ouri Perez on writing, creativity, and inspiration. Perez discusses, ahead of publishing his first book “Ella, Sarah, Itay” his choice to write in the feminine voice: “I seek to accept my whole self, the man […]

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On the publication of her edited aging anthology "Winter of Spring," poet Hagit Zohar Mendrowski discusses the creative process, writing, and insights on aging.

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Rabbanit Shlomit Flint on seeking God's name and the evolving Halachic world. "The challenge is finding personal examples, not just larger-than-life figures."

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Rabbanit Shlomit Flint on seeking God's name and the evolving Halachic world. "The challenge is finding personal examples, not just larger-than-life figures."

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CEO of Beit Hillel organization Rabbanit Shlomit Piamenta on education, Torah study, and women's place in sacred spaces.

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Dr. Michal Prins on body, sexuality, their place in our lives, and the cultural guidance shaping the field. “It became clear we still lack another stage as a society.”

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“There’s No Such Thing as a Person Without a Voice – There Are People Whose Voice Isn’t Heard” – An interview published in Gluya Magazine’s “Eyes Wide Open” section with Hamutal Gouri on the power of stories in therapy and the inner voice within each of us. Gouri is a spiritual guide who facilitates workshops […]

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Hamutal Gouri is a spiritual guide. A conversation on the power of stories, inner voice, and spiritual guidance tools as engines for social change.

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Interview with Yaniv Rotem Torem, illustrator and designer – on questions that have accompanied him since youth, translating his inner world into his book "Helech," and the current stage in his dialogue between Israeliness and Judaism.

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On the publication of her book "Singles (Working Title)," poet and designer Noga Baums on the connection between poetics and taking action, and printing poetry.

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Naama Sadan connects Torah and beauty through bridal adornments and floral design, weaving Kabbalah, poetry, and aesthetics into a spiritual experience.

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Interview with poet Ahrale Admanit on influential figures in his life, his quest for honesty, slow infatuation with literature and poetry, and the experiences that inspired his own poems.

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Rabbi and spiritual caregiver, Mike Schultz explains the end-of-life accompaniment and his rabbinical role, and the lessons and insights from the process.

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Yaffa Zukerman on her work in healthy sexuality, her book "Uri Learns How Babies Come into the World," and the benefits for children and parents from dialogue.

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Interview with Tali Rosenbaum on holistic therapy, supporting couples, trauma, vulnerability, and the social messages shaping women.

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Dr. Yocheved Debow, researcher and parent educator in healthy sexuality, discusses the need for the right balance between openness and dialogue.

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Therapist Hananel Ross discusses masculinity, similarities between Halacha and therapy, and the need to confront wrongdoing as a path to truth and good.

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Rabbanit Rachel Reinfeld-Wachtfogel on her Halachic work and spiritual guidance tools: "I find in all the pathways of Torah an internal dialogue that speaks to me"

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An interview with poet Cheli Tal Shalem on creative balance, silencing the inner critic, and her poetic journey: "For as long as I can remember myself, I felt alone.

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Poet Ariella Nidam-Peretz discusses being labeled a "patient," writing as a lifeline, highlighting daily injustices against the vulnerable.

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Gluyat Eynayim: A Gluya Magazine column featuring personal interviews with poets, rabbis, therapists, and educators of healthy sexuality.

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Interview with Rabbanit Devorah Evron, halachic scholar and educator, reflecting on the role of Torah in her work and the balance between Halakha and feminism.

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