adminSeven years ago, I stood in biting wind at the edge of an empty field in rural Lithuania, feeling defeated. The field was not actually […]
literary journal
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 […]
Bruce Black – ‘Swimming at the J’
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 […]
Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘A Visit to the Doctor’
I went for a walk and then decided to visit an elderly relative staying at a hotel just off the beach. I stood by […]
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. […]