Moment Magazine Seeks Student Bloggers

This just in from Moment magazine’s e-newsletter:

Moment Magazine is recruiting bright, inquisitive, and diverse student contributors for our blog “In the Moment.” Moment is the world’s largest independent Jewish magazine, and our blog gets upwards of 10,000 hits a month. As a student blogger, you will write one post a week on topics of Jewish politics, religion and culture. This is an incredible opportunity for young writers to develop their skills and benefit from the expertise of our team of experienced editors. At the end of each semester, the three bloggers who have generated the most web hits will receive a cash prize. To apply, please send an application consisting of the following to nelis(at)momentmag(dot)com by October 10, 2010:

  • Your name,age, university and major.
  • 1-2 short paragraphs on why you’re interested in Jewish issues and what unique perspective and background you bring to the blog.
  • 2 short writing samples.
  • 4 specific, original ideas for blog-posts you’d want to write.
  • Good luck!

    Notes from Around the Web

    Lots to share from the Jewish literary web!

    Shabbat shalom!

    Thursday’s Pre-Publication Post: Vistaprint to the Rescue!

    New book. New website. New primary email address. Also, as it happens, new cell phone coordinates (finally parted with my original Massachusetts number). What was missing?

    New business cards! And, while I was at it, new postcards for my blogs and the book.

    Vistaprint to the rescue.

    I spent quite a chunk of time last weekend on the Vistaprint site, selecting and editing designs for a new business card and postcards to promote both of my blogs: Practicing Writing and My Machberet (pictured). I’m still tweaking the postcard for Quiet Americans, but since I had already crossed the threshhold for free shipping, I went ahead and ordered the rest of the materials on Sunday. This way, they’ll arrive today (so the FedEx tracking system promises), and I can start putting them to use as soon as Sunday, when I’ll be attending the Jewish Authors’ Conference here in NYC.

    I heart Vistaprint (even though they inundate me with emails and offers).

    Next Week in NYC: Chaim Grade Symposium

    Just learned about this via a Center for Jewish History e-newsletter:

    YIVO Institute for Jewish research presents:
    Chaim Grade Memorial on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth
    4:30pm | Screening of the film The Quarrel
    6:30pm | Symposium
    On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chaim Grade, one of the great Yiddish poets and novelists of the 20th century, Ruth Wisse will discuss Grade’s works; Allan Nadler will discuss the milieu that Grade grew up in; Jonathan Brent will describe his recent experience examining Grade’s library and papers; and recorded remarks by Curt Leviant will be shown. The symposium will be preceded at 4:30 pm by a screening of the English-language film The Quarrel (Canada, 1991) based on Grade’s story “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner.” An exhibition of Grade’s books, manuscripts, and letters from the YIVO archives and library will be on display.
    Admission: Free, RSVP to www.yivo.org/reservations or 917-606-8290