After Lighting
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by Bruce Black
1w ago
by Jane Schulman (New York, NY) Nana’s tale, Brooklyn, 1907  My brothers stood on Mama’s right.  I hung on her left, fistfuls of skirt   clenched in my hand.    Mama struck a match,   lit the candles, chanted the ..read more
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My Grandmother’s Hands
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by Bruce Black
2w ago
by Arlene Geller (East Petersburg, PA) Her hands, swollen with arthritis, don’t fail heras she plucks the chicken for the Sabbath mealkneads the dough for her must-be-dunked poppy seed cookies Her hands once supple worked her Singer machine      ..read more
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Sestina On Changing The Name                                         
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by Bruce Black
3w ago
by Roseanne Freed (Burbank, CA) for my Dad. Maishie.      When my Dad left Israel at nineteen he changed his name and I was his link to the past as I look like his mother. This is Dad’s story ..read more
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And Still
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by Bruce Black
1M ago
by Merri Ukraincik (Edison, NJ) I see the beauty, though of late, only by half. With one eye open, the other shut, I peer through the slats of the window blinds, my breath fogging up the glass. Obscured, but there ..read more
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Cover Photo
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by Bruce Black
1M ago
by Dennis Gura (Santa Monica, CA) My mother brought back from France, Sometime in the 1960’s, An oversized book, these often-termed Coffee table books, meant to be Casually perused while comfortably seated. She kept the tome prominently displayed,  Moving the ..read more
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Waiting for the cracks to fill
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by Bruce Black
1M ago
By Molly Ritvo (Burlington, VT) I’ve noticed so much pain in the past months since October 7–that terrible, terrible date. It was a date when hope was shattered. When my sense of safety in the world suddenly caved open. When ..read more
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The Big Ask
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by Bruce Black
1M ago
by Rich Orloff (New York, NY) To GodTo my ancestorsTo anyone who will listenI ask and pray for this: Bless me with a peaceThat’s deeper than happinessThat makes room for profound sorrowThat accepts pain and lossThat’s not dependent on good ..read more
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Unwelcome and Unwanted
The Jewish Writing Project
by Bruce Black
2M ago
by Esther Erman (Mountain View, CA) These days, now that most of them are gone, Holocaust survivors are honored and revered. But, from my experience, this was not always the case.  I remember hearing that the mother of a famous ..read more
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I am the wound
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by Bruce Black
2M ago
by Haviva Ner-david (Galilee, Israel) I am the wound. I am wounded. Forever.  I am the crying child, the one who wants to scream and scream and scream. Why is the world this way? Why so much destruction and hate ..read more
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What My Zayda Taught Me About Tikkun Olam
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by Bruce Black
2M ago
By Jessica Ursell (Campania, Italy) My beloved Zayda Nachman Libeskind’s life consisted of circumstances finding him in the unlikeliest of places, such as when he was escaping Poland on a rickety craft in the dead of night on the River Bug with ..read more
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