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poetry

Chaim Wachsberger – ‘Bad Sleep in a Bad Country’

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 admin 1 min read

  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; […]

non-fiction

Lynne Golodner – ‘Two Worlds’

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 admin 9 mins read

  North Shore, Oahu Winter waves thunder against a quiet landscape. Clash and combine, an angry swirl of blues lifting up and crashing down, and […]

poetry

Bruce Black – ‘Swimming at the J’

March 3, 2025 admin 2 mins read

  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 […]

fiction

Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘A Visit to the Doctor’

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  I went for a walk and then decided to visit an elderly relative staying at a hotel just off the beach. I stood by […]

fiction

Diane Lederman – ‘Ida Schine’s Tsuris’

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 admin 26 mins read

  (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

[Review] ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia’ by Julie Brill 

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  Julie Brill, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, Amsterdam Publishers, April 2025, 433 pgs.   […]

poetry

Susan Michele Coronel – Four Poems

February 10, 2025February 11, 2025 admin 4 mins read

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 […]

fiction, translation

Jonathan Vidgop – ‘The Teacher’ (translated by Leo Shtutin)

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 admin 13 mins read

  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 […]

fiction

Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘Trouble with Charlotte’

January 27, 2025 admin 22 mins read

  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 […]

non-fiction

Bryan Schwartzman – ‘Far, Far Away’

January 20, 2025January 20, 2025 admin 31 mins read

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 […]

fiction

Lia – ‘Pick Any Summer’

January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 admin 9 mins read

  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 […]

fiction

Ellis Shuman – ‘A Story in Which Two Yeshiva Students Come to a Shtetl’

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 admin 8 mins read

  Two yeshiva buchers went for a walk together and came to an unfamiliar village. It was Friday afternoon and Shabbos was swiftly approaching. As […]

poetry

Wendy Dickstein – Three Poems

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 admin 4 mins read

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 […]

poetry

Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems

December 23, 2024January 5, 2025 admin 4 mins read

The Melon   like inhaling a part of memory I slice into the net-like rind of a perfect melon   two halves separate and fall […]

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Alex Gordon – ‘True Story’

December 16, 2024December 17, 2024 admin 12 mins read

  (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 […]

fiction, translation

Shulim Vogelmann – Two Extracts from While the City Burned (Mentre la città bruciava), translated by Anna Denzel

December 9, 2024December 11, 2024 admin 16 mins read

  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, […]

fiction

Eli Ehrenpreis – ‘Interruptions’

December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 admin 5 mins read

  I have a goal to improve myself. The meeting was my best chance to change my life. Deciding on something this important and carrying […]

poetry

Mitch Browne – ‘Eucalyptus Davenensis’

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 admin 1 min read

  Outstretched limbs trail faded, crisp tefillin strips, ushering the rising tongues that seek a fresh bed of ash for every generation   _______   […]

poetry

Carol Coven Grannick – Two Poems

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 admin 2 mins read

  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 […]

fiction

Alex Gordon – ‘The Honest Man’

November 19, 2024November 19, 2024 admin 14 mins read

  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 […]

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