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Jewish Currents Call for Submissions

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Received from Jewish Currents (“a progressive, secular voice”) via email: “The theme of the next ‘Concealed/Revealed’ column in Jewish Currents magazine is ‘God.’ Please share your personal, anecdotal essays (up to 300 words) on the subject — interpreted as broadly as you like — with our readers by sending them to lawrencebush(at) earthlink(dot)net by November 10th. ‘Concealed/Revealed’ features stories about experiences that have been transformative, provocative, or just plain unforgettable. The featured topic after ‘God’ is ‘Shpilkes (Jitters)’ — with a deadline in January.”

Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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  • Ruth Franklin, on “Élisabeth Gille’s Devastating Account of Her Mother, Irène Némirovsky.”
  • Commentary‘s archive is going to the University of Texas. Says The New York Times: “The archive, which spans 1945 to 1995, includes letters by and to Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, Amos Oz, Elie Wiesel and Isaac Bashevis Singer, as well as the revisions of essays written for the magazine by George Orwell, Pearl S. Buck and Jean-Paul Sartre.”
  • Just in time for Rosh Hashanah: a new issue of JewishFiction.net, featuring, in the editor’s words, “thirteen beautiful, moving, and thought-provoking stories (originally written in Yiddish, Hebrew, or English) that touch in various ways on the themes of faith, spiritual searching, and/or religious observance.”
  • Love this comprehensive discussion of André Aciman’s new book on Tablet.
  • Randy Susan Meyers, whose novel, The Murderer’s Daughters, I’m reading right now, is one of the fiction writers featured in the latest issue of 614, an ezine from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
  • Looking forward to reading through the latest (September-October) issues of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)”News” and “Reviews” publications.

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

    by Erika Dreifus on
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  • According to D.G. Myers, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1940-2011) “was probably not a great novelist, but she was and is the kind of writer upon whom a living literature depends — hard-working, indefatigable, utterly devoted to the life of words.”
  • Further reflections on Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), courtesy of Jewish Ideas Daily/David Curzon.
  • Four poets—Rachel Barenblat, Matthew Zapruder, Kathryn Hellerstein, and Yerra Sugarman—collaborate on a poem inspired by Genesis 22:13. (“So Avraham took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.”)
  • Author Wayne Hoffman wants straight Jewish readers to choose Jewish gay books. He provides a reading list to help.
  • For Jewish Woman, Sandee Brawarsky shares “A Quartet of Stores About Love and Loss,” new books by Katharine Weber, Lucette Lagnado, Ellen Feldman, and Alice Hoffman.
  • From New Jersey Jewish News: “the first in a ongoing series of columns on how best to communicate for Israel.”

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Paid Internship Opportunity with MyJewishLearning

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    MyJewishLearning, Inc. is seeking an editorial intern to work on its two largest projects MyJewishLearning.com (the leading transdenominational Jewish website) and Kveller.com (the largest website for parents of young Jewish children).

    The intern will help create innovative content, update existing material, and upload articles to the sites as well as support a number of upcoming editorial projects. The ideal candidate should be eager, able to work independently, and comfortable working on multiple projects at the same time. Experience writing for web publications, using a Content Management System, and knowledge of Photoshop are essential. Qualified candidates will also have an interest in Jewish culture and tradition.

    The intern will work out of MyJewishLearning’s Manhattan office. The internship is available immediately and would last at least through the end of 2011. The position is 10-15 hours a week and pays $10 per hour.

    For more information and to apply, see the announcement on JournalismJobs.com.

    Five Twitter Feeds to Follow So You’ll Know What’s Happening in Israel

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    You know, if the population of any American city were living under the barrage of rockets that continues to rain on southern Israel, we’d be hearing about it all the time, 24/7. But whenever I look at my Twitter timeline, I see almost everyone talking about almost everything/anything but the rocket attacks.

    If you want to stay informed–and I hope that you do–I recommend “following” these Twitter feeds for updates:

  • @IDFSpokesperson
  • @IsraelConsulate
  • @StandWithUs
  • @GPOIsrael
  • @NJJN (because, as they’ve done this week, my hometown Jewish newspaper covers our “sister community” in southern Israel–Ofakim–which I visited last fall)

    • I can’t sit around and worry about what’s happening in Israel all day, every day. But at least when I see updates from these feeds, I can say a quick, silent prayer. And I can stay informed.

    If you have additional feeds to recommend, please share them in comments. Thank you.