Job Alert: AJWS Seeks Part-Time Writer

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From the American Jewish World Service:

The communications department is seeking a part-time writer (20 hours per week) who will be responsible for drafting op-eds, blog posts and letters to the editor on behalf of Ruth Messinger and other AJWS leaders. These pieces must effectively and persuasively communicate the organization’s mission and advocacy positions while leveraging various “news hooks” such as world events, public policy debates, Jewish holidays, AJWS programs and events, and secular days of recognition/commemoration.

Full announcement on Idealist.org.

Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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  • This past week came the very excellent news that poet and professor Rick Chess has joined the blogging team over at “Good Letters,” the blog of Image Journal. Go read his first post, “Torah in My Mouth,” and look forward, as I am, to his future contributions.
  • Kenneth Sherman’s appreciation of Yuri Suhl’s One Foot in America (originally published in 1950), reminded me that Sherman’s own What the Furies Bring remains on my nightstand, still waiting to be read.
  • The New York Times reveals what’s interesting to Israeli author Etgar Keret.
  • I’ve been a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm for many seasons, in part because my dad and his parents and grandmother were neighbors of Larry David’s family in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, way back when. Also, my dad is occasionally mistaken for Larry David himself! The show always makes me laugh, and this season, which began Sunday night, is no exception. Check out this column from The Forward, focusing on the show’s particularly Jewish qualities. (Bonus: some down-home NYC footage.)
  • On a much more serious note: Adam Kirsch has yet again added a book to my tbr list: “There is a double meaning in the subtitle of René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life (Oxford, $29.95), the new biography by Judith Chazin-Bennahum. The life of René Blum was lost in the Holocaust: Like tens of thousands of French Jews, he was deported from Drancy, the internment camp in Paris, to Auschwitz, where he died in 1942. But it was the way he lived, not the way he died, that makes him such an elusive presence even in his own biography.”
  • Don’t forget that the next Jewish Book Council Twitter Book Club is scheduled for next Wednesday, July 20. Featured title: Deborah Lipstadt’s The Eichmann Trial. Lipstadt will participate in the chat.

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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  • I love this piece by Erica Lyons. May it be a call to action for programs and those who run them–including programs for Jewish journalism–to recognize the potential contributions of those of us Jews who–horrors!–have passed our fortieth birthdays.
  • How did one collection of Jewish-focused fiction get its title? Read all about it.
  • What I’m reading right now: an advance copy of The Little Bride, by Anna Solomon.
  • Ken Schoen, proprietor of Schoen Books, chronicles a return to his family’s homeland.
  • Thirty-five years after Entebbe, Yonatan Netanyahu is remembered as a Harvard student. Which makes this Harvard alum especially moved, proud, and astonished that she wasn’t aware of this particular history.

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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  • Through November 30: “The Jewish Writer: Portraits by Jill Krementz.” Exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in NYC.
  • Next week (also in NYC): The Greatest Yiddish Literature Party Ever.
  • Professor Gil Troy, on the new genre of  “Zionist captivity narratives.” (via JTA)
  • Mazel tov to the newest winners of the Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.
  • I dare you to watch this prize-winning, (very) short film without being moved.

    • Shabbat shalom!

    A Dream Job in Jewish Journalism

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    If I weren’t already happily employed (and, ahem, somewhat older than the typical “intern”), this paid internship at Tablet would be my dream job:

    Tablet Magazine is on the hunt for an intern for our New York City office. If you have experience in journalism and are familiar with the landscape of American Jewish life, we’d love to hear from you. The intern’s focus will be on aiding contributing editor Jeffrey Goldberg with his forthcoming (forth-joining?) blog, but other tasks may be required and other opportunities available as well.

    As of now, we are looking for someone to begin in mid-August, and are flexible about time.

    If you become the lucky intern, please let me know! I may ask you for a guest post here on My Machberet!