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Diane Lederman – ‘Ida Schine’s Tsuris’
(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] ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia’ by Julie Brill
Julie Brill, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, Amsterdam Publishers, April 2025, 433 pgs. […]
Susan Michele Coronel – Four Poems
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 […]
Jonathan Vidgop – ‘The Teacher’ (translated by Leo Shtutin)
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 […]
Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘Trouble with Charlotte’
More than once, his three daughters had all told him that they couldn’t stand Charlotte, but Bernie didn’t mind her. After all, he didn’t […]
Bryan Schwartzman – ‘Far, Far Away’
Episode I: Summer, 1999…… It is a hopeful time in the Middle East. A new Israeli Prime Minister has promised to make peace between longtime […]
Lia – ‘Pick Any Summer’
Seven days of mourning; that’s the proscribed ritual. Elena could hardly heave herself up the stairs to the women’s gallery to attend the convocation […]
Ellis Shuman – ‘A Story in Which Two Yeshiva Students Come to a Shtetl’
Two yeshiva buchers went for a walk together and came to an unfamiliar village. It was Friday afternoon and Shabbos was swiftly approaching. As […]
Wendy Dickstein – Three Poems
Looking For Forests After the vet put Simba down he lent you a shovel dumped the limp body into your arms and told you to […]
Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems
The Melon like inhaling a part of memory I slice into the net-like rind of a perfect melon two halves separate and fall […]
Alex Gordon – ‘True Story’
(A Jewish Interpretation of Charles Perrault’s Puss in Boots) Bauschan is my daughter’s dog. I’ve been friends with him for six years now. He is […]
Shulim Vogelmann – Two Extracts from While the City Burned (Mentre la città bruciava), translated by Anna Denzel
Extract 1 (pp. 48-49) Jerusalem, 1997 A young woman dressed up as Charlie Chaplin dances, children all around her. There’s a cowboy, a superman, […]
Eli Ehrenpreis – ‘Interruptions’
I have a goal to improve myself. The meeting was my best chance to change my life. Deciding on something this important and carrying […]
Mitch Browne – ‘Eucalyptus Davenensis’
Outstretched limbs trail faded, crisp tefillin strips, ushering the rising tongues that seek a fresh bed of ash for every generation _______ […]
Carol Coven Grannick – Two Poems
Forever Shiva My mother’s mood was for talking and mine, for listening: stories of childhood on Chicago’s old West Side, reiterative: handsome adored […]
Alex Gordon – ‘The Honest Man’
Every non-French person has their own image of France, literary, historical, gastronomic, architectural. When I was learning French as a child, I often looked […]
Jen Rudin – ‘This is Sylvia. I Can Hear You’
(A companion piece to ‘This is Stu. Leave a Message’) This is the hospital they’ve taken me to? Sylvia thinks, looking up from a gurney […]
Barbara Schilling Hurwitz – ‘Fashion Statement’
Donning my IDF uniform of coarse green cloth I become one of them a shapeless fighter one of many, my individuality no longer identifiable […]
Lawrence Winkler – ‘Soap’
‘What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.’ Yiddish Proverb The new direction of the train woke me. Vertical. I looked out […]