The Gift
By Cynthia Barnard – Aunty Ann always wore lovely dresses with long sleeves, even on that sunny day in August when I sat next to her at the picnic table, soft yellow silk slid up her arm, and I glimpsed the numbers. What’s that, Aunty Ann? Oh, just something for grown-ups, Shayne meydele, she said, […]
Pilgrimage
By Maxim D. Shrayer – Old virile German men and women come to the Holy Land in early November, warm their bones at the edge of the Dead Sea, admire Jacques Offenbach at the Israeli Opera, and sigh with bravura over their long lost youth right at the entrance to Yad Vashem. Old sentimental Austrian men […]
Bad Timing for a Prophet
By David Allard – For seven years, he sat, squinting, by the whispering waves of the sea-lagoon, fingers playing with small hills and valleys of a million purple-tinged shells, stuttering at the fishermen’s questions waiting for a voice – a sign. Weary of the wet sand, the sickly fruit of the tall trees, he strode […]
Jerusalem Caesarean
By Geula Geurts – for Rachel Goldberg-Polin: In this city there are women who’ve had their bellies split open seven times to fulfill the mitzvah of multiplying fruit, the holiest seed in the pomegranate spills out red & wet, a commandment so fierce it can only be the hand of Fear Himself pounding down on […]
