Welcome to our Chanukah issue! Here you’ll find 12 superb stories, originally written in Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. We hope these stories enhance your celebration of the upcoming holiday, and especially in these challenging times we wish you and those you love a Chanukah filled with miracles and light. (more)
The gym is filling up with people in their finest, fanciest clothes. No, they have not come to work out in their suits and dresses. They’re here for Yom Kippur. (more...)
It doesn’t mean anything, that the reporter called. It’s just a story. Madman accuses violinist of crazy nonsense during (by the way) a brilliant performance (more...)
She was an older girl and not very pretty, her body middle-aged, a little shapeless, with a squat, short nose that didn’t match her long face. (more...)
My great-aunt Mara was the one who taught me what nominative determinism was. My grandfather made the joke once, when he heard me asking my grandmother (more...)
Richard Laxer, expectant father, slumps into a chair, weary from another restless night. The morning calm is broken by the squealing of a bus (more...)
My first time in the forest was before the child was born. I was freshly discharged from the army and had come to a picnic with two girlfriends from the service. (more...)
Viola had hated the apartment, though she would never tell her mother this. She disliked the musty smell, as though too many people had lived here before them. (more...)
At 120 kilometers an hour, one cigarette lasts for slightly more than three kilometers. I am on my second pack. That would amount to a carton and a half if I drive nonstop. (more...)