Many times, so it seems to me, we feel as if our generation was the…
Author: Gershon Ben-Avraham
Gershon Ben-Avraham is an American-Israeli writer. He lives in Beersheba, Israel, on the edge of the Negev Desert. He and his wife share their lives with a gentle blue-merle long-haired collie and a crazy wild rescued kitten. Ben-Avraham earned an MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Temple University. His short story “Yoineh Bodek” (Image) received “Special Mention” in the Pushcart Prize XLlV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Edition. Kelsay Books published his chapbook “God’s Memory” in 2021. ברסלב
From Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45: …
Some of my fondest memories as a child are of my mother’s singing to me.…
My father was a civil engineer. He worked in the design and construction of public…
This morning, I made myself French Toast. I followed a recipe for it that I…
In the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ta’anis, we find a story about a man named Abba…
In the third chapter of the biblical book of Genesis, we read an intriguing story…
When I was young, perhaps five or six years old, a religion teacher was once…
During the week, I recite the Morning Prayer at a small Chassidic shul near where…
When I first began dating my wife, she was reluctant to tell me that she…
