Fiction

One day Millie felt just too angry. She felt angry with God. It was no one else’s fault. Health and life were God’s gift, and His ways were mysterious indeed, but that was no…
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Feet of Clay, by Beatrice Baltuck Garrard (pictured above), has won the first ever Amy Levy Prize - a new award given to a writer under the age of 30, addressing a Jewish theme. …
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Saadya son of Suwayd elbowed his way with a few polite excuse-me’s in Arabic through the crowd of hawkers at the corner of the Street of the Waxmakers in al-Fustat and kept on…
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Esther Kreitman’s influence on the oeuvres of her two younger brothers – Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua (captured above, with Esther between them, in a painting by Hazel Karr) -…
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What you read every year in that scroll? Not my version, which is too bad for you.The literary aftermath is a story in itself.
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London, 1934 — two of the great Zionist leaders, Ben Gurion and Jabotinsky — meet to discuss the character of the future Jewish State
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From a short story appearing here for the first time in English Translated by Jessica Cohen More than half a kilometer lies behind you and still you show no physical signs, your…
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Language sets borders. Language designates border crossings. Language marks a new homeland, like a flag planted on a foreign planet. People can always argue later whether or not…
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Since you ask: the girl who got mixed up in the demonstration today, the one who arrived late, is called Sandra, and she’s from Los Angeles. She came here as a civil rights…
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