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Blanca had converted to Christianity and married hastily, to avoid watching her mother’s prolonged death from up close.

22m read Translated from Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

The car with the lovers inside it raced to the edge of the bridge, overturned, and plunged into the river.

72m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu

I was released from Fort Knox after serving eight months, which constituted the required minimum of one third of my sentence for desertion.

24m read

Once upon a time, but not so very long ago, a university campus held court in the ancient city of Jerusalem.

8m read

Justine-Malka came back from Paris after a year looking like a whore. The family had thought that under her Uncle Yehezkel's watchful eye...

37m read

When Menachem Mendel Weinfeld lost his faith, he also lost his job, his social standing, and several of the more irritating habits his wife Sheine-Sheindel had found so vexing.

46m read

She came in, looked around with her narrow, uneven black eyes, and said to me: “Don’t take this amiss, but could you open the curtains?

9m read Translated from Yiddish by Faith Jones

"Beat the egg whites until they are light and fluffy," I said, reading from Nigella Lawson’s cookbook. "Mom, do you think my egg whites are fluffy enough?"

34m read

Among American, Canadian, and British expatriates in Israel, it’s the custom to give the year of their immigration when introduced.

30m read

Rachel’s waters broke at around 10 on Sunday morning. She was not due for another week...

30m read

After nine years of marriage, Mary knows that the holidays are not a good time to ask her husband for a favor. Especially not this favor. And not this holiday.

9m read

The tunnel was dark with a suggestion of light entering from its distant end.

6m read

How Zohara Balaban managed to find the two security prisoners from the district jail to take the place of her husband at night, God only knows.

41m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu