The My Machberet blog is proud to serve as this month’s host for the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly event where those who cover Jewish books online “can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts.” Organized by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), the Carnival travels around and is hosted on a different participant’s site on the 15th of each month.
New York City-based Congregation Ramath Orah “is seeking a part-time Newsletter Editor/Communications Associate to support our shul for about 3-4 hours/week. Duties may be completed 100% remotely.” Compensation: “$60/week ($20/hr).”
With kibbutzim in the news, there’s a timely, education-oriented Goodreads giveaway going on right now for Jessamyn Hope’s 2015 novel Safekeeping.
Timed to coincide with Jewish Book Month, this recent panel discussion featured Allegra Goodman, Dani Shapiro and Ruth Knafo Setton with Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein on the topic of what makes a book Jewish. (I’m hoping to watch the recording asap myself.)
And a reminder that I continue to update the document-in-progress titled “After October 7: Readings, Recordings, and More.” Among this week’s additions: “Reflections on October 7,” a collection of pieces by Israeli writers published over on Tablet magazine. (Hoping for the recording of an event featuring these writers to be made available soon—the event was excellent.)
Image of a wooden trunk, with text label that reads, “Finds for Writers” beside it
Most Fridays the Practicing Writing blog shares writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. But it’s been an excruciating week for so many of us. And frankly, I’ve paid next-to-no attention to garden-variety news from the writing and publishing spheres.
On Wednesday, however, I received an email from Facing History and Ourselves, a Boston-based global nonprofit organization that I’ve admired for many years. The email introduced a “mini-lesson” titled “Processing Attacks in Israel and the Outbreak of War in the Region.”
The resource isn’t perfect. (What resource is?) But one of its segments impressed me as something that, though intended for educators and students, could be clarifying for writers as well, in our work and in the rest of our lives. It’s a section titled “Avoiding Antisemitic and Islamophobic Tropes in Discussing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”