adminI am Called to the Torah Nothing in my home has ever hurt me, but I have heard the tic tic of the projector as […]
Ethan Greenwood – ‘The Last Time We Said Goodbye’
I heard through friends that Calev and his wife had a baby. Most people from Yeshiva were either married or engaged but it wasn’t on […]
Burt Rashbaum – ‘Candleflame’
It was a quiet night in the neighborhood. No moon; the sky black, streetlights illuminating only a small patch of sidewalk below their shining, the […]
Alex Gordon – ‘The Black Devil of Berlin’
Otto Klemperer, a German conductor and composer, was born into a Jewish family in the Silesian city of Breslau on May 14, 1885. He […]
Barbara Krasner – ‘Schuster’s Kosher Restaurant’
(This speculative nonfiction piece is based on a few minutes of recovered 8mm film from 1958, commemorating the author’s maternal grandparents’ wedding anniversary.) Schuster’s […]
Pearl Abraham – ‘Late to Spirit’ Crown
Is Anything too hard for the Lord? —Genesis, 18:14 Hineni Is that You, God, in the shaking leaves in the changed light […]
Lilian Cohen – ‘Passion’
Sitting at her dressing table mirror Vered Marcosa applies lipstick, covers it with a thin film of powder followed by another layer of lipstick. She […]
Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘Tarkhan and Me’
“A good name is more desirable than great wealth”. Proverbs 22:1 Tuesdays are slow at Emma’s Bagel Café, and that afternoon, Lenny, the former shoe […]
Ruth Schreiber – Two Poems
Brother What, you travelled for an hour and waited for another just to see your brother? We don’t know what it is […]
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 […]