Nifrad MiKayin: A Story of Ancient Israel

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

A Good Deed

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Correlation Is Not Causation

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.

Legal Fictions: A Narrative Reflection on Yevamot 16:6

As part of his Legal Fictions creative project, Dovid Campbell reimagines the content of Mishna Yevamot 16:6 in an evocative narrative.

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.

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.