Nifrad MiKayin: A Story of Ancient Israel

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

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.”

The Length of Our Days

A man who has left observance relives his old Gemara learning as he travels to return a sefer to his former Havruta.

A Good Deed

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

THE VAZ-2101 WAS ONLY CALLED A LADA WHEN IT WAS EXPORTED

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

The Healer of Midian

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

Lost and Found

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

The Widow Mandelbaum Dreams

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

Saturday Afternoon

Yeshiva University's 1954 Jerome Robbins winning short story by Leo Taubes, with an Introduction by Judy Taubes Sterman.

Ayalah Bat-Lapidot

In this Tu B'Av-themed short story, "Ayalah Bat-Lapidot" reckons with her status as a single woman while being the daughter of the famous Devorah in ancient Israel.