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poetry

Paul Rabinowitz – ‘Albuquerque’

October 27, 2025 admin 2 mins read

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   […]

non-fiction

Susan Blumberg-Kason – ‘Golda in Milwaukee’

October 20, 2025 admin 16 mins read

This chapter is an excerpt from an unpublished biography of Golda Meir’s childhood and teenage years in Milwaukee and Denver.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 […]

non-fiction, prose poetry

Vee Lind – ‘Dora Czaplewka’ and ‘Abe Hochman’

October 20, 2025 admin 5 mins read

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 […]

poetry

Anne Whitehouse – Two Poems

October 13, 2025 admin 2 mins read

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 […]

poetry

Matthew Goldberg – ‘In the Beginning – בראשית’

October 13, 2025October 13, 2025 admin 1 min read

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. […]

poetry

Adam Jon Miller – ‘A Poetry Reading’

October 6, 2025 admin 1 min read

  One 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 […]

poetry

Pesach Rotem – ‘Passover Haiku’

September 29, 2025 admin 1 min read

All who are hungry have a place at my table. My pleasure to serve.   ___________   Pesach Rotem was born and raised in New […]

non-fiction

Andrew Cohen – ‘That Jew’

September 29, 2025 admin 35 mins read

 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 […]

poetry

Bruce Black – ‘My Grandmother’s Hands’

September 29, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  My grandmother used her hands to tend the geraniums with their bright red blossoms that sat in terracotta pots on the windowsill of her […]

fiction

Elana Shira Segal – ‘Forward Go’

September 22, 2025 admin 8 mins read

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 […]

poetry

Deborah Bacharach – ‘A Holocaust Glossary’

September 15, 2025September 15, 2025 admin 5 mins read

—From the testimonies of Judy Abrams, Johnny Jablon, and Michael Kutz              Adult Being ten and small, my task with […]

poetry

Roberta Tovey – ‘Anniversary’

September 15, 2025 admin 1 min read

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

[Review] ‘The Scrolls of Deborah’ – Esther Goldenberg

September 10, 2025 admin 3 mins read

(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. […]

poetry

Lior Maayan – Four Poems

September 8, 2025 admin 3 mins read

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 […]

poetry

Deborah Bacharach – Three Poems

September 8, 2025 admin 3 mins read

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 […]

fiction

Ethan Greenwood – ‘The Last Time We Said Goodbye’

September 1, 2025 admin 17 mins read

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 […]

fiction

Burt Rashbaum – ‘Candleflame’

September 1, 2025 admin 24 mins read

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 […]

non-fiction

Alex Gordon – ‘The Black Devil of Berlin’

August 18, 2025 admin 6 mins read

      Otto Klemperer, a German conductor and composer, was born into a Jewish family in the Silesian city of Breslau on May 14, 1885. He […]

non-fiction

Barbara Krasner – ‘Schuster’s Kosher Restaurant’

August 11, 2025 admin 5 mins read

(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 […]

poetry

Pearl Abraham – ‘Late to Spirit’ Crown

August 4, 2025 admin 5 mins read

Is Anything too hard for the Lord?                                                             —Genesis, 18:14   Hineni Is that You, God, in the shaking leaves in the changed light […]

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