adminStrap on your stilts & raise a wreath to the monument. For Leonardo’s missing rib, a sundial in a sun extinct prepare a flood of […]
Eillene Leistner – Three Poems
Crossings – A fugue poem He escaped Siberia across the Urals, his nearly frozen nose still intact, his once blond hair turned jet coal black. […]
Janice Alper – Three Poems
Where the Train Tracks End I walk in silence along grass covered train tracks with teenagers, Holocaust survivors, chaperones. We are a sea of blue. […]
Jonathan Papernick – Excerpt from ‘The Oppressor Professor: A Novel of the Tentifada’
Even after teaching for more than twenty years on Weldon College’s bucolic campus, tucked away amid a mature hardwood forest of maple, beech, ash and […]
[REVIEW] – ‘The Color of Time and Other Stories’ by Barbara Krasner
(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 […]