Here are all of our past issues, enjoy reading!
Issue 77 (November 2019)
Dis-engagement (Fiction) – Gila Green
The Bird of the Soul (Poetry) – Jane Beal
The Chosen (Poetry) – Adam Kositsky
In the Bosom of Abraham (Creative Non-Fiction) – Geri Lipshultz
Issue 76 (October 2019)
Three Fires (Fiction) – Michael Serby
A New York Jewish Childhood (Poetry) – Anne Myles
Candles and Pomegranates (Creative Non-Fiction) – Ilyse Steiner
Issue 75 (September 2019)
Red Riding Hood Meets Mr. Wolf the Furrier (Fiction) – Marilyn Dale Berkman
Passover with the Marcus Family (Fiction) – Susan Phillips
My Jewish Grandmother (Poetry) – Jennie Mintz
Because I Could Mumble Some Words (Poetry) – Richard Epstein
Tzimmes (Creative Non-Fiction) – Mara Lathrop
Issue 74 (August 2019)
The Boarder (Fiction) – Julia Hirsch
Inheritance (Poetry) – Rebecca Clarren
Shiphrah (Poetry) – Dan MacIsaac
The Priestly Blessing (Poetry) – Judith J. Katz
Mommy and Daddy in Florida (Creative Non-Fiction) – Dobra Levitt
Issue 73 (July 2019)
The Last Night My Mother Felt Young (Fiction) – Irv Schenkler
Yizkor, 5779 (Poetry) – Danielle Resh
Klan Rags (Creative Non-Fiction) – Lawrence D. Weiss
Issue 72 (June 2019)
Camp Ritchie (Fiction) – Linda Kass
The Namer (Poetry) – Michale Schueler
Ben Avraham (Poetry) – Robert Libbey
Sweatshop Poems (Poetry) – Sally Michaelson
I Cry For You Jewish Deli (Creative Non-Fiction) – Daniel Wolfe
Issue 71 (May 2019)
The Substitution (Fiction) – Lois Barr
Rest in Peace (Fiction) – Randy Kraft
Krypton (Poetry) – Michael Sandler
Searching for the True Gesture (Poetry) – Joshua Boettiger
Passover Pilgrimage (Creative Non-Fiction) – Carol Solomon
Issue 70 (April 2019)
Grandpa’s Room (Fiction) – Sarit Gradwohl
Picnic at Belarus (Poetry) – Judith Robinson
2 Poems (Poetry) – Michal Mahgerefteh
My Brother’s Bar Mitzvah (Creative Non-Fiction) – Leanne Grabel
Issue 69 (March 2019)
Miri (Fiction) – Julie Rosenzweig
Archival Photo (Poetry) – Devon Balwit
Another Un-bounding: A Chanukah Memoir – Marion Deutsche Cohen
Issue 68 (February 2019)
The Prank (Fiction) – Jonathan Duker
Thoroughly December (Fiction) – Liz Drayer
Impression (Poetry) – Jonti Marks
The Symptom (Creative Non-Fiction) – David Koulack
Issue 67 (January 2019)
Devil’s Food (Fiction) – Irv Schenkler
Facades (Poetry) – Michael G. Casey
Klezmer Men (Poetry) – Rosalind Adam
Aunt Ida, Aunt Ida (Creative Non-Fiction) – Jerry Marsh
Issue 66 (December 2018)
The Kaddish (Fiction) – Shai Afsai
The Quarter (Poetry) – Jared Chipkin
Shabbes in Beckett (Poetry) – Henry Glazer
A Jewish King On The Hindu Throne (Creative Non-Fiction) – Paul Devassy
Issue 65 (November 2018)
Live A Little (Fiction) – Deborah S. Sherman
2 Poems (Poetry) – Alan Sugar
Memory Stones (Creative Non-Fiction)– Arlene Borsky
Issue 64 (October 2018)
What’s Mine Is Yours (Fiction) – Ami Sands Brodoff
Grave Site Visit (Poetry) – Nancy Levinson
Wandering the Desert in Search of You (Poetry) – Laurel Faye
The Good Patient (Creative Non-Fiction) – Marci Goodman
Issue 63 (September 2018)
Still Life With Young Girl And Sausage (Poetry) – Jay Jacoby
Mefalti (Poetry) – Kae Bucher
Tekiah Gedola (Fiction) – Judith Peck
The Sukkah (Creative Non-Fiction) – Julie Rosenzweig
Issue 62 (August 2018)
Alive and Well (Fiction) – David Lloyd
Darkness of My Room + Playing Ball by the Synagogue (Poetry) – Baruch November
Green Awning, Brooklyn, New York (Poetry) – Janine Jankovitz Pastor
Day Two (Creative Non-Fiction) – Laurie Shiers
Issue 61 (July 2018)
Daniel (Poetry) – Mordechai Karp
The Order (Fiction) – Eleanor Stern
Shaptzir (Fiction) – Aron Mesh
The Shiksa Jew (Creative Non-Fiction) – Heather McDonald
Issue 60 (June 2018)
Recalculating (Fiction) – Galina Vromen
Murder On Mt. Moriah (Fiction) – Heywood Gould
Elm (Poetry) – Richard Bernstein
The Jews of Ireland (Creative Non-Fiction) – Jason Feingold
Issue 59 (May 2018)
Holiday Meal Memories (Poetry) – Martin Schneider
Judah and Tamar (Poetry) – Kenneth Salzmann
Compassion (Fiction) – Susan Susser
Babylonia (Fiction) – Brandon Marlon
The Pile (Creative Non-Fiction) – E. S. Max Aronov
Issue 58 (April 2018)
2 Poems (Poetry) – Reizel Polak
At Green Lake (Poetry) – Diane Ray
Official Certificates Here (Fiction) – Wendy Ungar
Finding Emma Lazarus (Creative Non-Fiction) – Barbara Krasner
Issue 57 (March 2018)
Multiplication and Division (Poetry) – Sara O’Donnell Adler
Breendonk Generations (Poetry) – Don Krieger
No Argument From Joe Iserman (Fiction) – Norman Waksler
An American (Creative Non-Fiction) – James Marin
Issue 56 (February 2018)
Sitting Shiva (Poetry) – Abigail Warren
The Zernsville Lions (Fiction) – Jessica Lipnack
Family Portraits (Creative Non-Fiction) – Joy Manne
Struggling With My Judaism (Creative Non-Fiction) – Sigmund Tobias
Issue 55 (January 2018)
3 Poems (Poetry) – Ryan Harke
The Night That Was Different From All Other Nights (Fiction) – Sue Katz
You’re Not Even Jewish (Creative Non-Fiction) – Fred Owens
Issue 54 (December 2017)
Tzimtzum (Disassociation) (Poetry) – Emily McAvan
Beyond The Pail (Fiction) – James Gering
A Conditional Reservation (Creative Non-Fiction) – Clare Goldfarb
Issue 53 (November 2017)
Conversion Immersion (Poetry) – Dorothea Arin
And God Remembered Sarah (Poetry) – Miriam Green
Nos Disparus (Fiction) – Robert Friedland
The Rock From Masada (Creative Non-Fiction) – Bernard Freedman
Issue 52 (October 2017)
2 Poems (Poetry) – Robert Hirschfield
Your Call Is Important To Us (Fiction) – Fred Cohn
Throw, Pinch, Beat, Change Feet (Creative Non-Fiction) – Paula Chaiken
Issue 51 (September 2017)
2 Poems (Poetry) – Arturo Desimone
Al Chet (Poetry) – Ted Eisenberg
Linber (Fiction) – Galit Dahan Carlibach
A Jew In Germany (Creative Non-Fiction) – Carol Fixman
My Pen Name (Creative Non-Fiction) – Emil Draitser
Issue 50 (August 2017)
The Golems Of Manhattan (Poetry) – Jonathan Lewis
Teddy And His Mother (Fiction) – Stephen Shaiken
Bronx Boys, 1937 (Creative Non-Fiction) – David Wolfe
Issue 49 (July 2017)
Day of Atonement (Poetry) – James Gering
A Book Of Psalms (Fiction) – Pnina Moed Kass
I Come From Nah-Jee-Wah, So Pity Me (Creative Non-Fiction) – Barbara Krasner
Issue 48 (June 2017)
Ghost Tattoo (Poetry) – Florence Weinberger
The Ancient Gift From Jethro’s Daughter (Poetry) – Jaimie Gusman
The Ciriegia Pass (Fiction) – Jo Taylor-Rolfo
Farewell, Anne Frank (Creative Non-Fiction) – Dea Hadar
Issue 47 (May 2017)
Lot’s Daughters (Poetry) – Bruce J. Berger
The Gallery (Poetry) – David Goldberg
Rashbi Underground (Poetry) – Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli
Sarechal (Fiction) – Chuck Redman
Our America (Creative Non-Fiction) – Melissa Hunter
Issue 46 (April 2017)
Bagel Heaven (Poetry) – Bruce Black
Creation (Poetry) – Ruth Housman
A Wind From The South (Fiction) – Micah Streiffer
When They Lied (Creative Non-Fiction) – Jamie Wagman
Issue 45 (March 2017)
Harem + Megillah (Poetry) – Tamar Stern
His Head Pure Gold (Fiction) – Eliot Fintushel
So Why Did You Come To Poland? (Creative Non-Fiction) – Matthew Krasner
Descendant (Creative Non-Fiction) – Carly Berlin
Issue 44 (February 2017)
Three Nameless Voices By The River (Poetry) – Sister Lou Ella Hickman
Epitome of Mensch (Fiction) – Benjamin Sonnenberg
But One Mournful Chord (Creative Non-Fiction) – Myles Hopper
Issue 43 (January 2017)
Story Of A Wife + Tree Of Life (Poetry) – Benedette Palazzola
Eric Richard Solow, 1944-1966 (Poetry) – Beth Solow Mills
I Hate Being Jewish (Fiction) – Susan Hunnicutt
How To Get Exiled Without Really Trying (Creative Non-Fiction) – Emil Draitser
Issue 42 (December 2016)
Jerusalem (Poetry) – Eve Lyons
Seder (Poetry) – Mark Mann
Bialystok, 1939 – Fred Skolnik
The Visit – Reba Carmel
Issue 41 (November 2016)
Jew-ish (Poetry) – Alexis Drutchas
The Akedah (Poetry) – Steven Goldman
Conversations With My Aunt (Fiction) – Paul Beckman
Altalena (Creative Non-Fiction) – Louis Arthur Norton
Issue 40 (October 2016)
Tekiah (Poetry) – Tamar Stern
First Rain (Poetry) – Miriam Green
Matzo (Poetry) – Brian Broome
The Courtship (Fiction) – Toni Mehler
High Fall Risk (Creative Non-Fiction) – Paulette Fire
Issue 39 (September 2016)
Divorce (Poetry) – Alan Walowitz
Immersion (Fiction) – Daniella Levy
Mirrors Mock As Well As Make (Creative Non-Fiction) – Kelley A Pasmanick
Issue 38 (August 2016)
Passover Prayer (Poetry) – Ed Levin
Saul And The Man In White (Fiction) – Matthew Marcus
Home, Home On The Pampas (Creative Non-Fiction) – Roberto Loiederman
Issue 37 (July 2016)
Psalm for a July Shabbat (Poetry) – Janet Madden
At Night + Moshiach (Poetry) – Emily McAvan
For A Slice Of Bread (Fiction) – Melissa Hunter
Catalogue (Creative Non-Fiction) – Elizabeth Merriam
Issue 36 (June 2016)
Remembering Sr. Mary Holy Cart + Fiber Optic Search (Poetry) – Iris J. Arenson-Fuller
Specks of Gold (Fiction) – Gershon Ben-Avraham
When You Are Ready (Creative Non-Fiction) – John Eirinberg
Issue 35 (May 2016)
Egg Market (Poetry) – Nancy Scott
¡ Bienvenidos And Shalom To Our Dear Jewish Friends ! (Fiction) – Jennifer Arin
The Hands That Bind Us (Creative Non-Fiction) – Barbara Krasner
Issue 34 (April 2016)
Praying In Muir Woods (Poetry) – Dan Ornstein
Bar Mitzvah (Fiction) – Shana Attar
The Amshinover Rebbe – Jesse Cogan
Issue 33 (March 2016)
The Magnitude of God (Poetry) – Miriam Green
Undressing After Sinai (Fiction) – Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Painting X (Creative Non-Fiction) – Neal Hirschfeld
Issue 32 (February 2016)
Bread of Affliction (Poetry) – Ira Schaeffer
Aqua-Blue, 1974 (Poetry) – Chaz Mena
Homolka Hesitates (Fiction) – Joseph Rotenberg
A Visit To My Rebbe’s Grave (Creative Non-Fiction) – Benjamin Nadler
Issue 31 (January 2016)
Kaddish (Poetry) – Emily McAvan
The Tailor from the Trees – Kelly Easton Ruben
The Rabbi (Creative Non-Fiction) – Reyna Marder Gentin
Issue 30 (December 2015)
1 Isaiah 1-4 (Poetry) – Milt Montague
Yitzik the Shikor’s Passover Seder (Fiction) – Yishai Margulies
10085001 (Creative Non-Fiction) – Haitham Alsaraff
Issue 29 (November 2015)
Yom Kippur Before and After (Poetry) – Catherine Wald
Musaf: Additional Prayer (Poetry) – Kenneth Salzmann
Night Delivery (Fiction) – Judy Salz
Between Time-zones and Datelines (Creative Non-Fiction) – Shlomo Liberman
Issue 28 (October 2015)
Deluge, Redux (Poetry) — Dan Ornstein
My Granddaughter’s Prayer Shawl (Poetry) — Howard Richard Debs
Tree of Life (Fiction) — Mike Livingston
Keys To My Family’s Cemetery (Creative Non-Fiction) — Hannah Yerington
Rose Returns To Brooklyn (Creative Non-Fiction) — Harvey Blumenthal
Issue 27 (September 2015)
Rest (Poetry) — Susan Windle
There Are No New Psalms (Poetry) — M.E. Lerman
Casting Off (Poetry) — Karen Mandell
The Skinny Man in the Candy Store (Fiction) — Jean Ende
Jews Don’t Believe in Hell (Fiction) — Richard Squires
Addicts in the Wall (Creative Non-Fiction) — Jay Deitcher
From Moscow to Missouri (Creative Non-Fiction) — Svetlana Grobman
Issue 26 (August 2015)
Memories of the Future (Poetry) – Elie Lichtschein
At the Prado. (Poetry) – Rita Azar
Rosh Hodesh (Poetry) – Lyn Lifshin
That American Thing (Fiction) – Sandi Sonnenfeld
Visiting Day (Creative Non-Fiction) – Michael A. Livingston
Issue 25 (July 2015)
Kol Nidre (Poetry) – Edward Levin
While Fishing in the Shatt Al-Arab (Poetry) – Nick Romeo
Hashmal (Fiction) – Marc Jampole
My Standardized Home (Creative Non-Fiction) – Terry Barr
Issue 24 (June 2015)
Our Weeks + Shir (Poetry) – Tamar Stern
Speak Lo[e]w (Poetry) – Joseph McBirnie
God Unties Moses’ Tongue (Poetry) – Angela Saulsbery
A Very Small Slice Of Life (Fiction) – Bruce Katz
Melodies and the Finale of the Tin Soldier (Creative Non-Fiction) – Alex Gordon
Issue 23 (May 2015)
Ayin (Poetry) – Jeremy Marks
Dancing Kaddish (Poetry) – Gershon Ben-Avraham
Childhood Reminiscence (Poetry) – Arlene Corwin
Too Many Messiahs (Fiction) – Aryeh Pelcovits
A Letter From Lisbon (Creative Non-Fiction) – Joseph Rotenberg
Issue 22 (April 2015)
Fur Die Kinder + The Photo (Poetry) – Alan Walowitz
Knew Harts Matter (Poetry) – Matthew Krasner
No Man’s Land, 1939 (Fiction) – Barbara Krasner
Bud Wiser (Creative Non-Fiction) – Joanna Brichetto
Issue 21 (March 2015)
Purim Échappé (Poetry) – Tamar Stern
Doors (Poetry) – Richard Widerkehr
Samuel (Poetry) – M. E. Lerman
Repentance (Fiction) – Allyson Shames
Chopped Liver (Creative Non-Fiction) – Ray Scanlon
Family Plot (Creative Non-Fiction) – Herb Levine
Issue 20 (February 2015)
HaMakom (Poetry) – Simon Constam
Unthinkable (Poetry) – Alan Toltzis
One Seventy-Five (Fiction) – Iris Dorbian
Our Survivor (Creative Non-Fiction) – Tehila Wenger
Issue 19 (January 2015)
Love Me Like Eve (Poetry) – Catherine Wald
To Irena (Poetry) – Phil Kershner
Cherry Blossoms (Fiction) – Sam Oppenheim
A Thousand Men And A Ghost (Creative Non-Fiction) – Mel Waldman
Issue 18 (December 2014)
Etz HaDa’at Tov V’Rah (Poetry) – David Villaverde
Cain And Maples (Poetry) – Dan Ornstein
The Players (Poetry) – Warren M. Harris
Water (Fiction) – Gershon Ben-Avraham
Taiga (Creative Non-Fiction) – Dina Lyuber
Issue 17 (November 2014)
Picnic + Broken Glass (Poetry) – David Allard
Grandma’s Hands (Poetry) – Milton P. Ehrlich
Jew Bunny (Creative Non-Fiction)- Robert Freedman
Temple Dues (Fiction) – Cary Gitter
Patience + The Tattered Talis (Poetry) – Larry Oakner
Issue 16 (October 2014)
Keeping Time (Fiction) – Deborah Flusberg
Shivah At A Stranger’s House + Youth (I’ll Be An Old Man Here) (Poetry) – Josh Orol
Feathers gathered, feathers lost (Poetry) – Jude Neale
Blood In The Market (Creative Non-Fiction) – Shira Sebban
Issue 15 (September 2014)
Skyping With The Rabbi (Fiction) – Audrey Kalman
Joseph’s Brother’s + Giving Name To All Things (Poetry) – Steven Sher
Noach + Once Again Yom Kippur (Poetry) – Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
Trotsky (Poetry) – M.E. Lerman
First Picture (Creative Non-Fiction) – Milton Montague
Issue 14 (August 2014)
The Story Of Joel (Fiction) – Elsa Nad
The Last Best Day (Fiction)- Marlene Olin
Ravine 2 + Ravine 3 (Poetry) – Miriam C. Jacobs
Always The Wedding Dance + In Occupied France (Poetry) – Baruch November
Private Bernie And Eugenio The Philosopher (Poetry) – Richard Kind Perkins II
How To Become The Czar’s Son-in-Law And A Small Cheer For Corruption (Creative Non-Fiction) – Bryna Kranzler
Issue 13 (July 2014 – Anniversary Edition)
Rite of Passage (Fiction) – Donna K. Hollenberg
Mercy Of A Full Womb (Poetry) – Miriam Green
Chavah (Poetry) – Amy Schmidt
I Do Not Wish To Confront Hate With Hate (Creative Non-Fiction) – Renate G. Justin, M.D.
Issue 12 (June 2014)
Mrs. Etty Bloom’s Son (Fiction) – Talya Jankovits
Mrs. Parmenter’s Dress (Fiction) – Lois Barr
Honi Makes It Rain (Poetry) – Ayala Danzig
Mourner’s Kaddish + The Last Seder (Poetry) – Valerie Bacharach
Writing Is My Prayer (Poetry) – Mel Waldman
Anna’s Jewels – Bea Epstein
Issue 11 (May 2014)
Belzec (Fiction) – Colin Thornton
Golem (Poetry) – Barbara Braverman
Water, Water + Loaves and Fishes (Poetry) – Sue Russell
Make Sense Of This, Can You? or Jadem Das Seine (You Get What You Deserve) (Poetry) – Gil Gale
The Chandelier (Creative Non-Fiction) – Karen A. Frenkel
Issue 10 (April 2014)
Yitzhak Kugelkop’s Remarkable Pig (Fiction) – Art Bupkis
Before the Seder Plate (Creative Non-Fiction) – Rachel Belth
The Confessions of A Dying Man + Saturday Morning at Temple (Poetry) – Steven Pelcman
Prophecy of Dominance (Poetry) – Robert Manaster
Hebrew School (Poetry) – Mark Burgh
Issue 9 (March 2014)
Second (Fiction) – Michele Barker
Old Rivalry (Poetry) – Jean Nordhaus
My Aunts and Uncles in Heaven + Williamsburg (Poetry) – Arthur Heifitz
Yahrzeit Candle (Poetry) – Sharon Lask Munson
The Fortunes of Dover Street (Creative Non-Fiction) – Janet Neipris
Issue 8 (February 2014)
Revelations (Fiction) – Douglas Smith
Matters of Life and Death + Sunday School (Poetry) – Catherine Wald
What Love Is (Creative Non-Fiction) – Terry Barr
Issue 7 (January 2014)
Kotel + Dessert Folk (Poetry) – Jamie Wendt
Faith and Irv (Creative Non-Fiction) – EK Silver
Issue 6 (December 2013)
Deni-al (Fiction) – Jim Meirose
Chanukah Haiku (Poetry) – Ari Berg
Yellow (Creative Non-Fiction) – Candace Mittel
Issue 5 (November 2013)
Eldad and Medad (Poetry) – David Goldberg
Before Michelangelo’s Moses (Creative Non-Fiction) – Ivan Klein
Issue 4 (October 2013)
The Sixth Day (Fiction) – Naomi Bilmes
At The Wailing Wall + In a Circular Room (Poetry) – Rachel Gellman
Mostly, America’s Roads Are Pretty Decent (Creative Non-Fiction) – Alexander Remer
Issue 3 (September 2013)
Writers and Duncecaps (Fiction) – I. Batsheva
Love Letter Prayers (Poetry) – Alexander Remer
Amatzia (Creative Non-Fiction) – Steve Wenick
Issue 2 (August 2013)
Badlands (Fiction) – Alexa Bryn
The Seminarian (Poetry) – Zahava Stadler
The Hat (Creative Non-Fiction) – Ivan Klein
Issue 1 (July 2013)
The Skolover Queen (Fiction) – Margueya Novick
Holding (Poetry) – Tikva Hecht
The Barber (Creative Non-Fiction) – Lahav Harkov Levine