Ilya Kaminsky, a Jewish Ukrainian-American poet who became deaf at a young age due to complications from mumps, has his poem "Lullaby" featured on New York City subway trains as part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Poetry in Motion series.

The first-ever Yetzirah Poetry Conference brought together more than 50 Jewish poets with the aim of creating a community space and support network for Jewish poetry.

Ilya Kaminsky's poetry collection "Deaf Republic" is a sacred text of the Russian Jewish experience, exploring themes of war, humanity, and resistance in a small town under brutal occupation.