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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 […]
Jacqueline Jules – ‘Forty-Four Perfect Candles’
This small blue box, four inches tall, holds forty-four candles. Exactly enough for eight nights provided one or more are not broken, misshapen, […]
Lisa Grunberger – An Excerpt from ‘The Happy Adoptee’
1. Orphan Long Island, 1998 During the summer of 1998, two major things happened that shaped my decision to find grandparents for Rachel: during that summer […]
Rachel Howe – ‘My JAP Journey’
Don’t be a JAP. That was the clear message I had been given my entire childhood. It seemed like the most important thing NOT to […]
Mark Russ – ‘The Ghost of Kyiv’
Pavel shot up from his knees, barely having time to make the sign of the cross, when he heard the cruise missile strike his […]
Emil Draitser – ‘Arrow Piercing Throat’
“I don’t understand why, why they meekly went to their deaths!” These words surfaced in my memory for the first time recently, five years […]
Danielle Fisher – “Tragedy”
Tragedy And the thing they don’t tell you about a national tragedy is that the personal tragedies don’t cease her son’s untimely passing, […]