admin(reviewed by Monette Moradi) Barbara Krasner, The Color of Time and Other Stories, BlazeVOX Books, August 2025, 138 pgs Jewish stories invariably tell the history […]
Amiel Schotz – ‘Shylock in Venice’
I could do no more, no less. The fate that brought my father here, ill-omened town, stinking of show, deceit and filth-filled waterways—so outwardly […]
Bryan Schwartzman – ‘Monument Park’
Almost 38 years, to the day, before my father stopped breathing in the intensive care unit of a South Carolina Hospital, he brought me to […]
David Saidoff – An Excerpt from ‘Israel: Black Swan or White Unicorn”
On October 7, my youngest twin who was then a reserve paratrooper in the IDF was called up to fly down to Gaza from his […]
Fran Levin – ’24 Hadley Court’
1969 Sunday Night The wine glasses are talking to each other again. I can hear their high, tinny voices coming from the glass-fronted cabinet in […]
Barbara Krasner – Four More Poems
The Ring Cycle 1. The Lure of Gold, 1991 The Dutch masters encourage me to lift the lid of their cigar box in the […]
Haya Pomrenze – Three Poems
Things That Are Frayed Yellow hostage ribbons, now dirty and dull. Vocal cords from protesters at Hostage Square, muffling the hoarseness of fruit vendors at […]
Rebecca G. Biber – ‘Fugue’
In the eighteenth century, laws were passed requiring Eastern European Jews to adopt non-Jewish names; but no record exists of the sale of these names […]
Barbara Krasner – Four Poems
Hatikvah: In Praise of Those Who Persevere Hatikvah. The song I learned during Friday night services at Camp Nah-Jee-Wah in the amphitheater overlooking the lake […]
Lena Solomon – ‘Berlin, October 7, 2025’
On October 7, I walked in Berlin between the walls, of the monument of death, a memory bound in the bond of life, with the […]
Alon Taïeb-Toper – ‘Hrymilivka’
“I just don’t understand why they have to dig up these ugly memories,” said Halyna, not taking her eyes off the carnation garland she was […]
Patty Seybourn – Six Poems
What Hath God Wrought! A girl thought these words should be the first dotted and dashed onto paper letters reduced to two gestures, […]
Jessie Atkin – ‘Supermarket Success Story’
“It’s like museum temperature in here. Cold just to keep people awake.” I looked at my cousin. “I think it has more to do with […]
Alisha Goldblatt – Three Poems
Woman of Valor Absolute bravery is the blood from the womb, red gemstone beating in the heart of her spouse. She soldiers on. Corseted […]
P. David Hornik – Three Poems
Morning Bus from Be’er Sheva to Jerusalem In deep predawn lull at the bus stop, you can’t see those you glance at. Dark is king. […]
Paul Rabinowitz – ‘Albuquerque’
windows down inhaling juniper and piñon pine Ray Bans resting comfortably on my face I pass road signs pointing to tribal reservation like Acoma Laguna […]
Susan Blumberg-Kason – ‘Golda in Milwaukee’
This chapter is an excerpt from an unpublished biography of Golda Meir’s childhood and teenage years in Milwaukee and Denver. Golda did not recognize […]
Vee Lind – ‘Dora Czaplewka’ and ‘Abe Hochman’
Dora Czaplewka When my grandma Dora was ninety she told me the story of her falling out with God back in the forests of Warsaw […]
Anne Whitehouse – Two Poems
In The Necropolis In the cemetery of Beit She’arim inside a tomb from the third century paved with mosaic and decorated with wildlife reliefs […]
Matthew Goldberg – ‘In the Beginning – בראשית’
This slick black Pontiac, which traversed Route 66, when that was still a thing. You twist your key in the ignition, but it won’t. […]