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

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

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.

Short Stories on the Edge

Down to the Complexities

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