adminOn this Tisha B’Av, I thought of my wife-in-law in Israel. My husband and his ex are both Americans, working together online to secure […]
Talya Jankovits – Two Poems
Lemon Trees Don’t Grow in Poland lemon trees don’t grow in Poland – she tells me,but they do grow outside her den window. Great bursts […]
Lois Villemaire – Two Poems
My Great Grandmother Fannie Living with an aunt, her parents dead, she departs from a dot on the map, the village of Horby […]
[Review] – A Visit to Moscow
A Visit to Moscow – adapted by Anna Olswanger from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg (Reviewed by Monette […]
Basia Winograd – ‘Letter from a Zionist’
May 24, 1966, Tel Aviv My Dearest Feliks, Your silence after our last letter has not gone unremarked. Hanka and I not offended, […]
Laurel Benjamin – Three Poems
In the Middle 1. Ghosts dreamed in the space between my parents. I read the reflection in their longing (though I didn’t […]
Freddie Levin – ‘Still Waters’
Enid sits in the center of the first row, a handkerchief folded gently in her hands. The dark polished wood of the coffin on […]
[Review] Places We Leave Behind – Jennifer Lang
Places We Leave Behind – Jennifer Lang (reviewed by Monette Moradi) With a memoir that borders on modern poetry in certain chapters, Jennifer Lang delivers […]
Mildred Faintly – ‘Brest-Litovsk’: A Translation from the Yiddish of Anna Margolin (Lider, 1917)
Brest-Litovsk 1. The old city, the little gray city astride the Mukhovets river, astride the borders of Russia and Poland both, its nationality […]
Anne Myles – Three Poems
Tribe I’m driving towards Santa Fe with my old friend. Around us a landscape as alien as the moon. Sandy ground with tumbleweed […]
Catherine Gonick – Two Poems
Newcomers The only Jews in town, my father’s family was respected. The churchgoers in Red Oak, Iowa considered them People of the Book […]
Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems
Diaspores A broken clothesline leans against its shadow nothing to hang memories on through the stillness of the desert landscape I […]
Lonnie Monka – Three Poems
אמא with an extended index-finger tracing circles in the air you said: “the end must be the beginning it’s all a big loop” lounging […]
Zeeva Bukai – ‘Requiem for the Lost’
I It’s August 1977, your year abroad in Israel. You survive a khamsin, a hot desert wind that lasts three days. Lying on the […]
Miles Whitney – An excerpt from ‘The Origin Story of Death’
The Origin Story of Death – Chapter 7 After my daughter died, people asked whether I had received any signs from her. I initially was […]
Gina Roitman – ‘Sisterhood’
For the past few years, I have been leading a memoir workshop via Zoom for 12 daughters of Holocaust survivors in the DC area […]
Sarah Terez Rosenblum – ‘Figures of Speech’
“I’m afraid to wear this,” I told my fiancé. We were emptying Christmas stockings, and Matt had given me a delicate Jewish star. “That’s fucked […]
Maxim D. Shrayer – Three Poems
Last Will and Testament Thomas Mann has returned to the city of Lübeck. The municipal elders have gathered to welcome him home. He‘s old. […]
Carol Dorf – Four Poems
On A Crowded Bus after Ryzard Krynicki A bus from El Paso is nothing like a train from Friedrichstraße station with its memorial to the children […]
Claire L. Frankel – ‘Reapers’
The seasons roll by first flowers and scent then tiny apples – Bigger and bigger – 25 years in the blink of an eye. […]