Selection 6: Her Heart’s Desire // Hadassah Topperman

It was only a few minutes’ walk from Chaim and Adina’s ground-floor apartment to the childhood home she had left six years earlier. Ever since Sara had gotten married the previous year and settled...

Selection 5: Pizza Break // Racheli Lebovics

It’s really amazing that you can spend close to ten hours with someone and not notice how bushy his eyebrows are. Then you hit date number four and it’s boom—why did I never notice...

Selection 4: Dangling Earrings // Aviva Frenkel

Reenie slid the bracelet under her sleeve when they left for the sheva brachos and hoped that Nosson wouldn’t notice. But he did. “Why are you covering up your bracelet? Don’t you like it?” he...

Selection 3: Scars of War // Sara Wolf

soup. She sat beside him as he swallowed spoonful after spoonful, ignoring the two slices of bread she had placed on the plate. Surely that wasn’t enough. A grown man could hardly gain strength...

Selection 2: A House of His Own // Raizy Friedman

It was Cohen in mesivta who first let the cat out of the bag. “Hey, Spitz,” he said companionably as the group of 15-year-olds headed for the dining room after a long day of learning....

Selection 1: The Check // Reva Braun

"We’re talking peanuts here, Netanel. Drop the price by five million, and I’ll have the papers drawn up today.” David Rothkopf leaned back in his custom-made Pininfarina chair, with the ease of a man holding...

Selection 1: The Check // Riva Braun

"We’re talking peanuts here, Netanel. Drop the price by five million, and I’ll have the papers drawn up today.” David Rothkopf leaned back in his custom-made Pininfarina chair, with the ease of a man holding...

Selection 2: A House of His Own // Raizy Friedman

It was Cohen in mesivta who first let the cat out of the bag. “Hey, Spitz,” he said companionably as the group of 15-year-olds headed for the dining room after a long day of learning....

Selection 3: Scars of War // Sara Wolf

soup. She sat beside him as he swallowed spoonful after spoonful, ignoring the two slices of bread she had placed on the plate. Surely that wasn’t enough. A grown man could hardly gain strength...

Selection 4: Dangling Earrings // Aviva Frenkel

Reenie slid the bracelet under her sleeve when they left for the sheva brachos and hoped that Nosson wouldn’t notice. But he did. “Why are you covering up your bracelet? Don’t you like it?” he...