adminOn 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This chapter is an excerpt from an unpublished biography of Golda Meir’s childhood and teenage years in Milwaukee and Denver.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. […]
Adam Jon Miller – ‘A Poetry Reading’
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 […]
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 […]