ISSUE # 12 (2003-2004)

The twelfth annual issue of Parchment is dedicated to Israel Harold “Izzy” Asper (1932-2003).

Fiction

• Eli Friedman – Tzachi and the Scruffy Tel-Avivi
• Avner Mandelman – Take-Down
• Rochelle Mass- Women I’ve Met
• Nadja Zajdman – Brotherly Love
• Bill Gladstone – The Shprintzeh
• Josh Lambert – The Brief Summer of Amir and Ariella – An Allegory
• Arthur Fish – Small Cruelties
• Bella Briansky Kalter – The Meeting in Bielsk Podlaski
• Yehuda Elberg – The Parchment Note: A Story of Hasidic Lore

Essay

• Harvey Grossman – Eulogy for Shulamis Yelin

Poetry

• George I. Bernstein – Ode to Jonathan of Entebbe
• Rochelle Mass – The Secret
• Rochelle Mass – Accounts
• Rochelle Mass – Other Plans
• Elana Wolff – Full Moon, March
• Elana Wolff – Dolmens
• Elana Wolff – Astronauts
• J. J. Steinfeld – Preparing Your Cellar and Your Attic
• J. J. Steinfeld – The Moments You Accumulate in Secret
• J. J. Steinfeld – Small Preposterous Planet, Wouldn’t You Say?
• Rafi Aaron – Leaping Continents
• Rafi Aaron – The Light
• Rafi Aaron – Walking with Mandelstam
• Jason Camlot – Yom Kippur (California, 1998)
• Lohra Carole Leckner – The Rebbe
• Lohra Carole Leckner – In the Heart of a Seer
• Carol Rose - reflecting pure light
• Carol Rose – drenched scarlet
• Merle Nudelman – Grocery Shopping
• Merle Nudelman – Dandelion Bouquets
• Merle Nudelman –Meditation on Imperatives – Ghazal Variations
• Susan Robertson – Learning Hebrew
• Susan Roberston – Yiddish 
• Jeremy Harman – Veronezh 1937
• Jeremy Harman – The White Night’s Burning
• Malca Litovitz – Beauty to Tears
• Malca Litovitz – Oneness
• Malca Litovitz – The Current
• Karen Shenfeld – They Praised Her to Pharoah and She was Taken Into His Palace
• Karen Shenfeld – Only Now Can I Tell You
• Karen Shenfled – Everything You Wanted to Know About Benjamin of Tudela
• Kenneth Sherman – Grandmother’s Poland
• Kenneth Sherman – Layton