adminOne day, in the open-air, a poetry reading across Zhongnanhai—right in the Eye of China. You can’t recall a time, or a place, that […]
Pesach Rotem – ‘Passover Haiku’
All who are hungry have a place at my table. My pleasure to serve. ___________ Pesach Rotem was born and raised in New […]
Andrew Cohen – ‘That Jew’
Ironically, it was my eighty-four-year-old mother-in-law, who found it among the ever-growing Jewish-pride-paraphernalia that had cropped up on social media since the horrors of October […]
Bruce Black – ‘My Grandmother’s Hands’
My grandmother used her hands to tend the geraniums with their bright red blossoms that sat in terracotta pots on the windowsill of her […]
Elana Shira Segal – ‘Forward Go’
It is said that the death rate slightly increases every year around the Jewish New Year. Some speculate that it is part of the “Who […]
Deborah Bacharach – ‘A Holocaust Glossary’
—From the testimonies of Judy Abrams, Johnny Jablon, and Michael Kutz Adult Being ten and small, my task with […]
Roberta Tovey – ‘Anniversary’
I never heard my parents recite the Kaddish There were only the squat unlovely candles in plain glass jars set out on memorial holidays —the […]
[Review] ‘The Scrolls of Deborah’ – Esther Goldenberg
(reviewed by Monette Moradi) Esther Goldenberg, The Scrolls of Deborah: The Desert Songs Trilogy, Book 1, 100 Block by Row House Publishing, May 2024, 384 pgs. […]
Lior Maayan – Four Poems
My Brother has been dead for fifteen years My brother has been dead for fifteen years. Mom says he was blue-eyed and brilliant for […]
Deborah Bacharach – Three Poems
I am Called to the Torah Nothing in my home has ever hurt me, but I have heard the tic tic of the projector as […]
Ethan Greenwood – ‘The Last Time We Said Goodbye’
I heard through friends that Calev and his wife had a baby. Most people from Yeshiva were either married or engaged but it wasn’t on […]
Burt Rashbaum – ‘Candleflame’
It was a quiet night in the neighborhood. No moon; the sky black, streetlights illuminating only a small patch of sidewalk below their shining, the […]
Alex Gordon – ‘The Black Devil of Berlin’
Otto Klemperer, a German conductor and composer, was born into a Jewish family in the Silesian city of Breslau on May 14, 1885. He […]
Barbara Krasner – ‘Schuster’s Kosher Restaurant’
(This speculative nonfiction piece is based on a few minutes of recovered 8mm film from 1958, commemorating the author’s maternal grandparents’ wedding anniversary.) Schuster’s […]
Pearl Abraham – ‘Late to Spirit’ Crown
Is Anything too hard for the Lord? —Genesis, 18:14 Hineni Is that You, God, in the shaking leaves in the changed light […]
Lilian Cohen – ‘Passion’
Sitting at her dressing table mirror Vered Marcosa applies lipstick, covers it with a thin film of powder followed by another layer of lipstick. She […]
Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘Tarkhan and Me’
“A good name is more desirable than great wealth”. Proverbs 22:1 Tuesdays are slow at Emma’s Bagel Café, and that afternoon, Lenny, the former shoe […]
Ruth Schreiber – Two Poems
Brother What, you travelled for an hour and waited for another just to see your brother? We don’t know what it is […]
Shanti Ariker – ‘Late in the Fourth Quarter’
My mother, Tina, was barely more than a chassis now, pillows propped around her to serve as inferior replacements for the evaporated body fat she […]
Laurel Benjamin – Six Poems
Letter to the Angels, Poland, 1919 Psalm 74.14—Leviathan appears as multi-headed sea serpent My beard is scraggly clothes hanging on my skeleton but I […]