A Dream Job in Jewish Journalism

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!

Jewish Newsweekly Seeks Editor

“J., the Jewish newsweekly of Northern California, is seeking a dynamic editor to lead its editorial staff. J. serves the San Francisco Bay Area, reaching approximately 45,000 members of the local Jewish community via its print edition, website, e-mail newsletter, and social media. J. is independently operated and has been publishing since 1895. Our current editor is retiring after 27 years.”

For the rest of the announcement and application information, please visit JewishJobs.com.

Notes from Around the Web: Literary Links for Shabbat

  • Get to know the next generation of Jewish children’s book reviewers by reading the winning entries in this year’s Moment magazine Publish-A-Kid contest.
  • UJA-Federation is looking for a part-time writer (New York).
  • This week, my short story, “The Quiet American, Or How to Be a Good Guest,” was featured on the Emerging Writers Network. This is the effective “title story” for my collection, Quiet Americans.
  • The aforementioned Emerging Writers Network is, like many other sites, celebrating Short Story Month. Which short-story collections on Jewish themes would you recommend to others? (Apart from Quiet Americans, of course!)
  • Welcome to the Web, Jewish News Archive!
  • Shabbat shalom!

    Job Alert: Media/Research Manager

    Based in New York, the Israel Action Network (IAN) seeks a Media & Research Manager. Details about the position are available here. Meantime, here’s some background on the IAN:

    “The Israel Action Network (IAN) is an unprecedented community driven effort by the North American Jewish community to counter the assault in Israel’s legitimacy. IAN is a partnership between the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) to provide resources, expertise and other support to combat the growing efforts to de-legitimize the State of Israel and the including calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS Movement), and other means to isolate Israel from the international community, to distort and blur Middle East reality and undermine the effort to achieve a viable two-state solution where both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and prosperity. The IAN will work with Federations and Jewish Community Relations Councils across the continent as well as with other local and global partners to develop a strong, unified Jewish communal as well as a civil society response to these dangerous efforts.”

    Notes from Around the Web: Literary Links for Shabbat

  • Mazel Tov to Austin Ratner, who has won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in fiction for his debut novel, The Jump Artist (Bellevue Literary Press), and to Joseph Skibell, who is the runner-up and recipient of of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Choice Award. His award-winning novel is A Curable Romantic (Algonquin). Two more books on my to-read list.
  • Make that three. After reading Sandee Brawarsky’s review, I’m putting Sharon Pomerantz’s Rich Boy atop the list.
  • “With new Jewish-themed television programs, critically acclaimed Jewish fiction, experimental electro-klezmer bands and Jewish-Muslim theater groups, British Jews are producing obviously Jewish-inflected artworks in increasingly vibrant and creative ways, which often become part of the mainstream culture,” writes Rebecca Schischa, for The Jewish Week.
  • Adam Kirsch reviews the newly-available translation (by Tim Wilkinson) of Imre Kertesz’s Fiasco.
  • For his part, Jonathan Kirsch reviews and recommends a new novel by Alan Cheuse, Song of Slaves in the Desert, which features a character “who stands in for the 3 to 5 percent of American slaveholders in the antebellum South who were Jewish.”
  • Job alert: “New Voices and JSPS [the Jewish Student Press Service] are seeking a full-time Editor in Chief/Executive Director. New Voices is the only national, independent magazine written for and by Jewish college students. Published by the Jewish Student Press Service (est. 1971), New Voices and newvoices.org cover Jewish issues from a student perspective. JSPS also runs the annual National Jewish Student Journalism conference, now in its 40th year.”
  • Another job alert, this time from the Jewish Federation of Broward County, Fla., which is seeking a part-time PJ Library Community Coordinator.