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Shortly before the outbreak of World War I a number of tourists arrived in Jaffa who, because travel was disrupted, could not return home...

23m read Translated from Hebrew by Zeva Shapiro

It was the last night of Hanukkah, and the Beykoz Quarter’s Jewish inhabitants used the occasion to enjoy this Shabbat...

9m read Translated from Ladino by Marina Mayorski

Zalman’s casquette pinched at his temples, too snug against his skull. He sat wedged between six other young men in the van...

19m read

The phone is not on silent as it usually is during the night. I wait for it to ring, hoping it won’t...

21m read

I have not always been this way, living alone in a small apartment at the top of an old building...

15m read

Jacky gets there first, before the rest of the matkot players. He combs the beach in front of the five-star Tel Aviv hotels...

24m read

On a mountaintop in Vermont, I stood in a circle with four other women...

12m read

When my mother died I inherited her bird. Rudy was a parrot, an African grey...

28m read

The sun had been up for hours, but it still burned like it was just getting started. August in Israel...

12m read

My younger sibling Seth stands up to say a few words at our father’s shiva. They’re still wearing the black dress and tights from the funeral...

27m read

He had seen and was to see things more frightening than the yeti...

20m read

My friend Liz has been living in Spain since she left New York two decades ago, and by now she’s acculturated herself to her new home...

20m read

Kettleman was at his best in a crisis. No level of human travail was too profound for his timely interventions...

23m read

Antonio’d give us twenty dollars a night toward “lodging,” but, even if me and Rachel combined it, good luck finding a motel...

26m read

When the Stranger came for her again, it was Thursday in the early afternoon and Mrs. Green was dreaming of roses...

22m read