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Ten days after her husband's death Ilana went to bed with Mahmid. When her husband Nahum lay dying Ilana saw a documentary
32m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
Aunt Masha was furious when Uncle Eli, a furniture seller by profession, spilled wine on the white tablecloth while praising the sturdiness of his table...
50m read
"Can you come for a visit this evening? Come over. We'll talk and you'll meet my friends."
15m read Translated from Yiddish by Frieda Johles Forman and Sylvia Segal Lustgarten
Instead of sprinkling the shiny "mazel tov!" shaped confetti across the white tablecloth, Dovie dumped them out of the package, into a heap on the table...
20m read
I am out with the stroller again. "Angel," I hear on Seventh Avenue. There’s a sanitation worker in a unit of four twenty feet down the block...
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Luiz bowed. "A final token of my esteem, Don Alfred." Alfred couldn’t help chuckling as he accepted the cigar. In truth, he rather enjoyed being the object of such a gesture...
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Except for a pat on the back and a muffled thank you, the haircuts my brother-in-law gave me were free...
18m read
"What you want and what you get are two different stories." Grandma's motto. That's what went through my mind when a call from Abba stopped me...
31m read Translated from Hebrew by Shira Atik
In his little Brooklyn synagogue, the retired dentist Howard Sherman had become a complainer: the chairs are uncomfortable, it takes forever to get a minyan, the cholent is tasteless...
