adminEpisode I: Summer, 1999…… It is a hopeful time in the Middle East. A new Israeli Prime Minister has promised to make peace between longtime […]
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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 […]