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poetry

Kayla Schneider-Smith – Three Poems

June 1, 2025June 1, 2025 admin 3 mins read

Undercover The yoga studio on Chicago Ave has a Palestinian flag behind the reception, next to a keffiyeh, next to a cut-out of a watermelon. […]

poetry

Lesléa Newman – ‘Disarmed’

May 25, 2025 admin 2 mins read

  “When do I get my arms back?” asks the boy as if they were two toys his mother took from him because they didn’t […]

poetry

Lena Solomon – ‘Sailing Through the Universe’

May 18, 2025 admin 1 min read

Peacefully gliding, holding hands we engrave images of hope on black canopies of emptiness throughout the Universe You whisper in my ear: “We may soon […]

poetry

Paul Rabinowitz – ‘Love Poem’

May 11, 2025 admin 2 mins read

at the end of a cobblestoned street under a pale moon waning ocean air swirls under frayed awnings into a dimly lit cafe hum of […]

non-fiction

Alex Gordon – ‘In The Abyss of The Gulag’

May 4, 2025 admin 6 mins read

The abbreviation GULAG stands for Main Directorate of Correctional Labor Camps. The GULAG is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union.       […]

non-fiction, review

[Review] ‘Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors’ by Grace Feuerverger

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 admin 4 mins read

Grace Feuerverger, Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Amsterdam Publishers, September 2024, 452 pgs. (reviewed by Monette Moradi) Intergenerational trauma is […]

fiction

Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘The Building’

April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 admin 25 mins read

The building where my boyfriend lived was filled with Jews from Westchester County. When I say “filled” I don’t mean every apartment, on every floor. […]

poetry, translation

Hamutal Bar-Yosef – Three Poems (translated by Esther Cameron)

April 28, 2025 admin 7 mins read

  We Had “We had a house built of stone!“ In the confidential darkness my mother would whisper the standard legend, with eyes closed, in […]

non-fiction

Judith Suissa – ‘Memory and Mourning, from Vilnius to Marrakesh’

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 admin 14 mins read

Seven years ago, I stood in biting wind at the edge of an empty field in rural Lithuania, feeling defeated. The field was not actually […]

non-fiction

Laura Hodes – ‘Counting Chickens’

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 admin 22 mins read

  The decision has been made. We will make aliyah and join our children in Israel. It’s 1947; it’s time. Yes, it’s a pity that we are […]

fiction

Anna Hirsh – ‘Kitchen Windows’

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 admin 25 mins read

The new neighbors have a mezuzah on their door. I glimpsed it while walking Dodi around the neighborhood. The lights in the house were off, so I […]

poetry

Bob Findysz – Two Poems

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 admin 2 mins read

When the rain stops The western sky is a Carolina blue blotterwater-stained in cobalt, charcoal andegg shell, pierced with shafts ofochre and chrome awaitinggold pots […]

poetry

Chaim Wachsberger – ‘Bad Sleep in a Bad Country’

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 admin 1 min read

  Eucalypti stand in rowsof leg and bushy haunch,remains of fatted cattle ripped away. Next signs we’ll see are fires lining roads;or missiles spearing land; […]

non-fiction

Lynne Golodner – ‘Two Worlds’

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 admin 9 mins read

  North Shore, Oahu Winter waves thunder against a quiet landscape. Clash and combine, an angry swirl of blues lifting up and crashing down, and […]

poetry

Bruce Black – ‘Swimming at the J’

March 3, 2025 admin 2 mins read

  Look, it’s not the Kinneretbut the water is blue,and there’s an Israeli flag out frontby the concrete barriers put in placeto prevent a terroristfrom […]

fiction

Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘A Visit to the Doctor’

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  I went for a walk and then decided to visit an elderly relative staying at a hotel just off the beach. I stood by […]

fiction

Diane Lederman – ‘Ida Schine’s Tsuris’

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 admin 26 mins read

  (This is the ninth story in a collection called Saving Democracy about the impact of the Great War on the West End in Boston. )    “Shell shock […]

review

[Review] ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia’ by Julie Brill 

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  Julie Brill, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, Amsterdam Publishers, April 2025, 433 pgs.   […]

poetry

Susan Michele Coronel – Four Poems

February 10, 2025February 11, 2025 admin 4 mins read

Kafka’s Sister’s Braid During the occupation Ottla divorced her non-Jewish husband to save him and their daughters. Her black eyes and black mouth twisted into […]

fiction, translation

Jonathan Vidgop – ‘The Teacher’ (translated by Leo Shtutin)

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 admin 13 mins read

  When I am brought before the court of Heaven, no one will ask me, “Zusya, why were you not Abraham, Jacob or Moses?”  They’ll […]

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