ISSUE # 7 (1998-1999)

The seventh annual issue of Parchment is dedicated to the State of Israel in honour of its 50th birthday.

Fiction

• J. J. Steinfeld – Should the Word Hell be Capitalized?
• Malca Litovitz – The Doll in her Pocket
• Jack Kuper – Fishke the Waiter
• Sonia Zylberberg – Filling in the Gaps: Additions to Genesis 12-2
• Robin McGrath – Bifocal
• Chava Rosenfarb – The Greenhorn
• Gary M. Levine – Mr. Berkowitz at Home
• Nadja Zajdman – A Wedding in Heidelberg
• Emil Sher – Lost in Translation

Images

• Rachel Feldhay Brenner – Always Out of Place: Exile as a State of Mind

Poetry

• Lazar Sarna – Herzl’s Beard
• Stephen Schecter – How the Exodus Began
• Stephen Schecter – Shimon in Prison
• Kenneth Sherman – My Friend is Dying
• Kenneth Sherman – Our Home
• Carol Rose – woken from their sleep
• Carol Rose – chevra kadisha
• Carol Rose – (alternative) yom kippur chant
• Dan Goorevitch – 18
• Dan Goorevitch – Midas’ Song
• Wislawa Szymborska – A Can in an Empty Dwelling
• Wislawa Szymborska – Still
• Wislawa Szymborska – Some Love Poetry
• Rochelle Mass – I might
• Rochelle Mass – And Then We’ll Know If
• Rochelle Mass – Muchmed, Achmend or Hassam
• Rochelle Mass – An Arab Friend’s Intentions
• Rochelle Mass – Baptism doesn’t happen when you’re afraid
• Rochelle Mass – Miracles in the Valley
• Rudi Haskell – Rider
• Ruth Panofsky – Sisters
• Ruth Panofsky – Maternal Grandfather
• Lorraine Finkle – For My Daughter Esther in Israel
• Lorraine Finkle - davening 1
• Lorraine Finkle – neighbours (who does she think i am anyway)
• Jay Brodbar – The Alchemist
• Jay Brodbar – The Wedding Canopy
• Lila Julius – Clementinas on the Table
• Lila Julius – Parsley and Coriander
• Lila Julius – Indian Summer
• Lila Julius – Waiting Three Stars, Yom Kippur, ’97
• Robin McGrath – The Festival of Tilts
• Ruth Mandel – Excavating the Holocaust
• Ruth Mandel – Back to You
• Sylvia Maultash Warsh – The Caves at Mahal Me’arot
• Sylvia Maultash Warsh – History Belongs to the Revisionists