Short Stories

In his latest for the Lehrhaus, Dan Ornstein creatively imagines the story of the Talmudic sage Rabbi Yohanan through his teachings on the Book of Job. The short story is followed by a reflection on the methodology and power of "contemporary midrash."

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.

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

Haim Watzman's short story, which previously appeared in Hebrew in the National Library of Israel's literary magazine, explores the grief and confusion of wartime in Jerusalem.

In this whimsical story, David Zvi Kalman takes an information theory perspective in tackling what it might have been like for Moses to receive the Law.

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

In this short story, Rachel Newton tells a story of intergenerational guilt and the lengths one will go to for the sake of atonement.

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

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

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