(Author: Shulamit Kagan, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010)   A loud wailing filled the air and after that the loud weeping of his mother and the soft weeping of his sister. The doctor came out to the balcony and laid a hand on Yakov’s

(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010)   Brass candlesticks sparkle on the Shabbat table in our dining room.  I see my reflection in the rounded part at the bottom, and look up at the glowing light that bursts out like a

Azila, Suzanne Belling, Charlotte Cohen, Ben Krengel, John Yarbrough On a best friend’s aliyah You did not leave our world Forever But for good. Not our own, not our love, But the altruism of ascent. Climbing From the sandpit, Where we made castles on the

Israel Silberhaft, Peter Austin, Ben Krengel, Bev Moss-Riley                       Why we cry We cry for the lost moment The excruciating and the endless torment We hold the world in our hand But conventions we cannot bend We yield and bear and conform Dreading the

Di farlorene Di farlorene: a liste fun numern, dates, ortn, keyn nemen nit, gezemlekh nit-menshn, gezemlekh nit-blumen, hoyfens ash. Kovno iz itst Kaunas, Yaneshok iz itst Joniskis, Kupeshik Kopiskis, Kurshan Kurshenai. Rakishok iz Rokiskis, keyner zaynen nit geblibn aroyszogen di idishe nemen. Keyner zaynen nit

Charlotte Cohen, Hazel Frankel                     Likht Der tate hot aropgenumen dem opgehitn khanuke lomp, shvarts baflektn, kroyn un leyb, odler un toyb farigelt tsu zeyer palats, akht brunems leydike, oysgedreyte knoytn shtayf mit eyl fun far a yorn di naynstn brumen der shames,der oyfze’er,

(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) When Anne and her family had taken the cable car up Table Mountain in Cape Town for the first time, it had been an exciting adventure. “D’you think there are snakes at the top, Mom?” Jon

(Author: Gita Gordon, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012)   Pesach … the family sitting around the table …. on one side the boys Jack, David, Joseph, Samuel and Isaac. The girls sat opposite. Frieda, Bertha, Ethel and Rose. At the head of the table,

Charlotte Cohen, Judith Donner Hancock, Ben Krengel, John Yarbrough The Rabbi After the service I introduce myself. The Rabbi eyes my faded jeans (grief holds no truck with what to wear). I know who you are he says and walks away.                                      Judith Donner Hancock

Charlotte Cohen, Jeff Fine, Israel Silberhaft   10 WHOLE WEEKS! It would never happen to me! ‘Pa’ would live forever. Then the reality – cancer Panic, self-pity then denial, Hebrew – no go, Kaddish – never. This was me – what next? 10 whole weeks!