Nonliteral Illustration
By Visual Art Issue 114
Robert Katz assembles found materials into tableaux inspired by stories from the Torah.
Read MoreShabbas
By Essay Issue 114
I was trying to pray. How I yearned to pray! But I was both fascinated and repelled by this man’s presence.
Read MoreThe Wings
By Poetry Issue 114
On prayer, air travel, and finding place.
Read MoreThe Will
By Essay Issue 110
In my family, as in others, it was money that finally broke us apart. The brother who was out—my uncle—was now in; the brother who was in—my father—was now out. An old story, set now in southeast Georgia: Lear in the Low Country, the prodigal son come home to the provinces.
Read MoreLetters, Music, Flesh: Calligraphy as Sacred Art Among Christians and Jews
By Visual Art Issue 105
For the calligrapher, words are always flesh.
Read MoreThe Dead Class
By Essay Issue 102
The loneliness of the dead. How they are isolated by what they know about themselves and about us.
Read MoreVulnerable Targets
By Short Story Issue 102
While in years past, evacuation drills at the Kaiserman Jewish Community Center took place only every few months, now they occurred every other week.
Read MoreYoineh Bodek
By Short Story Issue 96
The Lord is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works. —Psalm 145:9 IN THE AUTUMN OF 1854, in the village of Grezhiv, in what was then known…
Read MoreLike Water on Stone
By Short Story Issue 95
Content warning: this story includes a depiction of sexual violence. SALIM PEERS THROUGH the peephole in the men’s room in Temple B’nai Moshe and sees two girls standing side by side at the row of sinks in the ladies’ bathroom. One is tall and slim with golden hair that cups her scalp like a swim…
Read MoreEvery One Such as I
By Poetry Issue 90
I came into the land as if into a kiln to add more fire to the fire burning. To add another body for the keen blade of the Hebrew destiny. And at a gloomy hour I feel myself in the land of Israel as if deep in the cut of the wound— and it is…
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