We climb a long sloping road to the northern border, the so-called blue line where kamikaze drones fly, where daily volleys of rockets and […]
Category: fiction
Mark Russ – ‘The Ghost of Kyiv’
Pavel shot up from his knees, barely having time to make the sign of the cross, when he heard the cruise missile strike his […]
Basia Winograd – ‘Letter from a Zionist’
May 24, 1966, Tel Aviv My Dearest Feliks, Your silence after our last letter has not gone unremarked. Hanka and I not offended, […]
Freddie Levin – ‘Still Waters’
Enid sits in the center of the first row, a handkerchief folded gently in her hands. The dark polished wood of the coffin on […]
Zeeva Bukai – ‘Requiem for the Lost’
I It’s August 1977, your year abroad in Israel. You survive a khamsin, a hot desert wind that lasts three days. Lying on the […]
E.P. Lande – “Chagall in Sils Maria”
“You have to understand,” Irmgard explained to Jane and me the evening before our departure, “spending time like this with Chagall is a privilege. […]