Short Stories

In this short fiction narrative, David Zvi Kalman imagines a world in which figures such as Maimonides can be summoned through artificial intelligence, causing people and programs alike to contend with new and age-old questions.

What would Jewish life in outer space look like? In this short story, Joseph Helmreich imagines the Jewish community transplanted into a new life among the stars

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

The death of Nadav and Avihu is difficult to explain, perhaps even impossible to approach through the medium of language. In a composition crossing the boundaries of original drashah, Breslov thought, poetry, visual art, and historical fiction, Akiva Weisinger renders the tragedy of Nadav and Avihu as a reflection of the Vacated Space beyond human language.

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 the next finalist installment from our short story competition, Lior Zoë Perets’ period fiction explores the rabbinic instruction to “rise up and strike first.”

Infertility figures as a tragic theme not only on Rosh Hashanah but also in biblical narrative and modern life. This morning, Yael Leibowitz writes lyrically on The Birthplace of Infertility.

At what point in Jewish thought does artificial intelligence go too far? In this short story, Olga Lempert writes about a world where humanity itself might be replaced by the machines they create

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