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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 […]
Alex Gordon – ‘Theodor Lessing: The Murder of The Prophet’
1. The Birth of Auto-antisemitism The psychology of a Jew hostile to his people was described in the early twentieth century by the psychologist […]
Julie Zuckerman – ‘Rites of Passage’
1939 A doorbell sounded in the distance, but Jeremiah’s brain was occupied with Roberta Steinbaum. He’d known her since third grade but had only recently […]
Larry Lefkowitz – ‘The Romanian Connection’
One doesn’t always know when one meets a genius. Then, I thought he was a slacker. He had been assigned with the rest of us […]
Kayla Schneider-Smith – Three Poems
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. […]
Lesléa Newman – ‘Disarmed’
“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 […]
Lena Solomon – ‘Sailing Through the Universe’
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 […]
Paul Rabinowitz – ‘Love Poem’
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 […]
Alex Gordon – ‘In The Abyss of The Gulag’
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. […]
[Review] ‘Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors’ by Grace Feuerverger
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 […]
Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘The Building’
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. […]
Hamutal Bar-Yosef – Three Poems (translated by Esther Cameron)
We Had “We had a house built of stone!“ In the confidential darkness my mother would whisper the standard legend, with eyes closed, in […]
Judith Suissa – ‘Memory and Mourning, from Vilnius to Marrakesh’
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 […]
Laura Hodes – ‘Counting Chickens’
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 […]
Anna Hirsh – ‘Kitchen Windows’
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 […]
Bob Findysz – Two Poems
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 […]
Chaim Wachsberger – ‘Bad Sleep in a Bad Country’
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; […]
Lynne Golodner – ‘Two Worlds’
North Shore, Oahu Winter waves thunder against a quiet landscape. Clash and combine, an angry swirl of blues lifting up and crashing down, and […]