adminThe building where my boyfriend lived was filled with Jews from Westchester County. When I say “filled” I don’t mean every apartment, on every floor. […]
Hamutal Bar-Yosef – Three Poems (translated by Esther Cameron)
We Had “We had a house built of stone!“ In the confidential darkness my mother would whisper the standard legend, with eyes closed, in […]
Judith Suissa – ‘Memory and Mourning, from Vilnius to Marrakesh’
Seven years ago, I stood in biting wind at the edge of an empty field in rural Lithuania, feeling defeated. The field was not actually […]
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. […]
Susan Michele Coronel – Four Poems
Kafka’s Sister’s Braid During the occupation Ottla divorced her non-Jewish husband to save him and their daughters. Her black eyes and black mouth twisted into […]
Jonathan Vidgop – ‘The Teacher’ (translated by Leo Shtutin)
When I am brought before the court of Heaven, no one will ask me, “Zusya, why were you not Abraham, Jacob or Moses?” They’ll […]
Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘Trouble with Charlotte’
More 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 […]