Culture

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.

Nechama Sternberg contemplates her relationship to her grandfather, and remarks on the person he was in life.

In this poem, Litvacitus honors the yahrzeit of the Rebbe and recounts his impact on the world.

Aton Holzer reflects on Jerusalem and Zionism.

Eric Suben considers various Jewish and non-Jewish representations of angels and their significance in his life.

In this poem, David Karpel imagines the expansiveness of God's promise about the land of Israel

Shira Eliaser reimagines the narrative of Yael from Yael's own perspective in this short story.

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.

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.

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.”