by Jessica Keener

Short Stories on the Edge

Down to the Complexities

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In Moving Waters (Argo, $14), a stunning debut collection of 18 stories set in Los Angeles — Racelle Rosett slips into the minds and hearts of her characters with thrilling intimacy. Her stories are peopled with affluent Reform Jews whose seemingly orderly family façades and material wealth disguise murkier, messier emotional complexities.

Fall 2012

Consent and the single girl: 20- and 30-somethings talk about how to talk about it. New farming communities merge ecology and social justice. A think tank on remaking Jewish divorce.

Consent and the Single Girl

by Gabrielle Birkner

Raising Survivors

by Deb Levy

Man’s Absolute Right is Absolutely Wrong

by Blu Greenberg

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

Winter 2017-2018

A toddler daughter becomes a Jew. Golda Meir and losing elections. That intergenerational Jewish lesbian couple. Barbra Streisand, a Catholic girl’s rabbi. Holocaust games at Jewish summer camp. Lilith’s 2017 Short Fiction Contest winners.

Fall 2017

Powerhouse sisters rage over women’s suffrage. Defying the rules for widows. Mother, daughter and mental illness. A non-Jewish wife finds her place at the table. One woman’s divine body.

Summer 2017

How to cure our time-crunch epidemic. Forgotten Jewish feminist celebrations. A ritual for breast reduction. Jews and gender in the Jim Crow South. A daughter on her abused mother.

Short Stories on the Edge

Down to the Complexities

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