Necessary Stories
Haim WatzmanShort fiction and essays from Jerusalem
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 38 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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"Locked Gaze"
A second before she enters Yair switches to the opposite seat. He hates sitting backward. He’s been taking the train from the Navon station for years but he still gets confused and never remembers which direction the train goes when it leav...
Correlation Is Not Causation
The shopping cart is heavier on days that soldiers die. It’s not just a feeling—Ruth Mutzafi knows the difference between feelings and facts. “Correlation is not causation,” says her granddaughter Ziv, who is studying sociology at Bar-Ila...
The Plagues from the Egyptian Perspective
This is an English translation of my annual dvar Torah for Pesach in memory of my son Niot z”l, whom we lost fifteen years ago during Pesach. The Hebrew original appears in this week’s online edition of Shabbat Shalom, the weekly Torah shee...
At the Spring
Ein Lavan has a shallow upper pool and a deep lower pool. I slipped on the scum on the floor of the upper pool and fell hard on my thigh. I jumped from a terrace wall and crashed into the lower pool.
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Please Help Us Remember Niot
We lost our younger son Niot, a happy and considerate soldier of high values, nearly fifteen years ago. It was clear to us that the proper way to perpetuate his memory was to use his story to assist and inspire secondary school students wit...
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Haim Watzman is the author of three books and more than 150 short stories, as well as works for the theater. He is also one of the leading translators of Hebrew works into English, with more than 50 books to his credit.
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