Little Boy
This posthumously published story by Holocaust survivor and longtime YU professor Leo Taubes demonstrates the rarity and power of human connection amidst the destruction of war.
My Zeidy Gluck
Nechama Sternberg contemplates her relationship to her grandfather, and remarks on the person he was in life.
In the Footsteps of His Voice: an ode to the Rebbe’s soldiers, thirty-one years...
In this poem, Litvacitus honors the yahrzeit of the Rebbe and recounts his impact on the world.
Yom Yerushalayim: On Not Yet, Always Already, and the [Im]possibility of Crossing Over
Aton Holzer reflects on Jerusalem and Zionism.
I See Angels
Eric Suben considers various Jewish and non-Jewish representations of angels and their significance in his life.
All of This Is Yours
In this poem, David Karpel imagines the expansiveness of God's promise about the land of Israel
Nifrad MiKayin: A Story of Ancient Israel
Shira Eliaser reimagines the narrative of Yael from Yael's own perspective in this short story.
Notes of Defiance: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Diana Blumenfeld, and the Question of Cultural Genocide
Alia Saphier examines the concept of cultural genocide, how it relates to the Holocaust, and how both Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Diana Blumenfeld fought for the longevity of Jewish music.
The Shekhinah as a Tool for Political Critique: The Mystico-Political Thought of Rabbi Menachem...
Twelve years after the passing of R. Menachem Froman, his daughter-in-law, the scholar and activist Tchiya Froman, considers R. Froman’s literary critique of the Gush Emunim settlement enterprise and his determination that Judaism requires a feminine revolution.
The Jewish Governess
In the next finalist installment from our short story competition, Lior Zoë Perets’ period fiction explores the rabbinic instruction to “rise up and strike first.”