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What can lead to a divorce? I don’t know about other countries, but in Israel – a bus ride. At least in the case of Gimel...
9m 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 the middle of the night, Ella awoke with a start, frightened to death. Hailstones pounded on the shutters, threatening to smash them to pieces...
14m read Translated from Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy
I’m sure you’ve heard of the city of Leskovac and its inhabitants. We’re very hard-working people...
12m read Translated from Serbian by John K. Cox
Sweating like a squeezed knaidl, Abe sits on the patio and gazes across their patio and backyard...
6m read
When I was seven or eight and my grandfather was about the age I am now, he told me this story...
17m read
It is a special date for the Germans. After decades, Berlin is once again the capital of Germany, now reunited...
23m read Translated from Portuguese by Claudio Bethencourt
By the time Leona took a seat at the back of the cavernous, cathedral-ceilinged sanctuary, it had been the subject of congregational conflict for a number of years...
32m read
This is Rose's lonely time. Papa Joshel out at his pinochle game, the children asleep in bed, Irving working late at the candy store...
31m read
When I was a young girl, my brother came home one day with the news that he was going to study dance...
10m read Translated from Yiddish by Sonia Gollance
I was born Tamma Millerman. Tamma is a Hebrew name that means "without flaw". In 1935, I was almost ten years old...
23m read
Membership in the Free Society of Firefighter Hunters, our voluntary fire brigade, has always been a matter of honour, for all prominent citizens of Minsk...
11m read
