Fiction & Poetry

My son, the movie director, has flown over from LA to shoot a reboot of The Merchant of Venice, at locations in Golders Green and Kenwood. The title has been adjusted accordingly,…
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A series of new and unpublished poems by Britiain's senior Jewish poet Bernard Kops, on his 90th birthday: POEM ABOUT NOTHING AND EVERYTHING Early morning. I awake and…
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I hear voices. That's what you find in this kind of tunnel, a collision of tenors, bass baritones, counter-tenors and contraltos, like the echoes up and down the sewer in The Third…
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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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It is a kind of grace when life affords a poet the opportunity to give a final shape to his or her creative journey; that rare thing was accorded Dannie Abse, who was able to put…
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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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In those days Harvey Kaplan judged all Israel. He also judged most corned beef sandwiches                               to be inadequate and politicians          to be…
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February 11, 1946 I looked for you in the stars When as a child I questioned them. I asked the mountains for you But all they gave me were a few moments of solitude and…
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Sekschon 1: Inklantd (1938-1980) London [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yzv2ed8R7Y] Not zo mainy Dais zinz ve arrivink. Zis grey iss like Bearlin, zis same grey Day…
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