(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol 75, #2, Autumn, 2020)   Doornfontein – the suburb of meaningful beginnings that grew into big happenings in the bustling city of Johannesburg. Businesses both Jewish and non-Jewish were established in this suburb, especially along the main thoroughfare of Beit Street

(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn, 2020)   The slim twenty-eight-year old man had finished his day of teaching at the high school and was ambling along Main Street, on the way to his Liberty Street apartment. It was 3:45 on a typical spring

Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019   COMICS View the glass case, of doughnuts and baguettes. Behind the cigarettes, of my father’s front store, stood a newsstand, with two comic types. English slim ones Sunny Story booklets. American ones piled high. Captain America

(Author: Clarke Zlotchew, Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019)   Joey Clarke had it all. In high school he was an athlete; he was on the fencing team with me, and was a football star as well. In addition, he was an excellent

In the Auschwitz Infirmary A line of naked stick-men; he in front Eyes longingly a pair of chamber pots, When told to, on the one he’s told to, squats, In sixty seconds, though, can only grunt. By squirting out a dysenteric mess His aim (excuse

(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018)            The King was placed in a prostrate position: face-forward on to the chess-board. His grandfather stood up, shook hands with his friend and walked him to the gate. Martin stared at the King lying there

(Poetry, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2017)   BONNY BROOK In cold weather Summer or winter Day or night A residence of delight Layout, stylistic music, Short strolls to the beach Memories, reveries, Dimmed lights Once again hearing Those intermittent calls The dash and splash