Jewish Literary Links
Toward the end of each week, the My Machberet blog presents a collection of links, drawn primarily from the world of Jewish books and writing.
(more…)Jewish Writing Opportunities
An occasional feature here on My Machberet.
Let’s begin with some items included in the latest edition of The Practicing Writer 2.0.
(For any newer readers here, that is my free monthly newsletter for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; every opportunity featured there must be fee-free [no reading/submission/application fees] and it must pay writers for winning/published work. Moreover, to maximize relevance, The Practicing Writer 2.0 excludes hyperlocal opportunities that may be limited to residents of a single city/state/province.)
(more…)Jewish Literary Links
Toward the end of each week, the My Machberet blog presents a collection of links, drawn primarily from the world of Jewish books and writing.
(more…)Words of the Week: Franklin Foer
Even if his father was right about anti-Semitism being an unshakable fact of Jewish existence, diagnosing that condition shouldn’t require acceding to it. Netanyahu has governed as if there were nothing he could do to prevent his country from becoming a pariah or to combat the rising hatred directed at the diaspora. He learned nothing from the example of Ukraine’s Volodmyr Zelensky, who supplied the playbook for how an invaded country cultivates international sympathy. Every gesture that might have plausibly improved Israel’s case—the dismissal of a minister, a plan for Gaza, a show of openness to Palestinian statehood—would have threatened his governing coalition and put him in legal jeopardy. He always chose himself.
Source: Franklin Foer, “How Netanyahu Lost America” (The Atlantic)