Culture

The story of an accountant and one consequential receipt by Yitzchak Francus.

In this poem, Yehudit Sarah Waller describes the struggle to maintain routine amid upheaval.

Michael Blank explores themes from Emmanuel Levinas in Bob Dylan’s recent compositions.

In this short story, Reyzl Grace imagines a woman willing to drive to the end of the world to reach her dreams.

In this story, Joe Helmreich transports readers to the harsh deserts of the ancient world where two important men meet.

In this story, Devorah Talia Gordon writes about a young woman seeking to reclaim her inheritance after experiencing the loss of a loved one.

Mel Waldman’s poem reflects on the delicate balance between faith and doubt in a world filled with challenges.

In honor of his tenth yahrtzheit, art historian Jackie Frankel Yaakov explores the art of Jewish Israeli artist Edwin Salomon (1935-2014). She argues that he was able to embrace his own expressionistic, Surrealism-evoking style when these approaches were marginalized in the Israeli art, shedding light on the ways he processed his experiences in the Holocaust and as a new immigrant to Israel.

In this short story, Eric Rozenman imagines the life of a woman in an Eastern European shtetl guided by her late husband's ghost.

A review of Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light.