adminMore 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 […]
Emily Alice Katz – ‘Awake and Light your Lamp with the Oil of Gladness’
She did find the address of the apartment near the Machane Yehuda Market, but her niece Libby wasn’t home. Or didn’t actually live there. It wasn’t […]
David Daniel – ‘Nighttime by the Blue Line’
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 […]
Nina Kossman – ‘Born Too Late to Remember’
In 1995 I visited my cousin Vera in a London hospital, which struck me as a pleasant and welcoming place, despite it being a hospital, […]
Karen Paley – ‘Reverse Assimilation’
Several children at the John D. Runkle Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts in the 1950s used to make fun of our classmate Claire. Her eyes […]
Annie Charlat – ‘Before the Banquet’
Vashti knew the navy couch. People call her difficult; they don’t know she waited all her life to say no. A dance with destiny […]