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Story By Judyth Har-Even

Leaving Babylon

A Walk Through the Jewish Divorce Ceremony

Issue 19

Story By Judyth Har-Even

Leaving Babylon: A Walk Through the Jewish Divorce Ceremony

Two years after Cyrus, King of Persia, conquered the Babylonian Empire, he allowed the Children of Israel to return to their land. The year was 537 BCE. Two thousand five hundred and thirty-six years later, I walk down his street in Jerusalem, on my way to get divorced at the district rabbinic court.

Issue 24/25

Story By Stephen Benz

The Grounds Crew

Two weeks into my freshman year at college, I came out of the financial-aid office carrying paperwork that approved me for an on-campus job.

Issue 17

Story By Amy Thigpen

The On-Ramp

The heat is always on in New Orleans

Issue 48

Story By Shara McCallum

Snapshots in Black and White

My father died when I was 9 years old, the same year my three sisters and my mother moved with our mother’s parents to America, to Miami. He was mixed: African, Indian, European (from Scotland and England), Jewish and we don’t know what else.

Issue 19

Story By Lee Gutkind

The Creative Nonfiction Police?

I am giving a reading at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. It is a Thursday evening after a day of classes and questions about essay writing, but now, in the auditorium, the audience is sparse, perhaps sixty or so in a space that seats nearly two hundred and fifty.

Issue 24/25