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- JFL Media seeks
a new Development Director with an entrepreneurial spirit as well as
the experience and maturity to take the organization from its current success
to a professionally managed stage of planned growth and stability. Please
check "Work
for JFL" for details.
- The BabagaNewz value for Nisan/April is shalshelet hamesorah,
chain of tradition, an appropriate value for the weeks before Pesach. Readers
will meet archaeologist Eilat Mazar, who successfully uncovered King
David’s Palace in Jerusalem, a fascinating link to our past. This
month’s spotlight is on Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, a
program that helps people interview family and friends to record their stories
for future generations. In addition, there are some great Pesach resources
at BabagaNewz.com. Pesach Central is full of entertaining content for students
and families, including a new feature: The World's
Most Unusual Seder Customs. These bizarre Pesach
practices will be the talk of your family's seder! Visit the jPod to explore our collection of
Pesach tunes from great musicians, including Debbie Friedman and Craig Taubman.
- The March/April Hope Issue of JVibe is almost here, featuring a very
special double Shmoozin' with Bryan Greenberg AND Josh Peck. We've also got
the winners of the 3rd annual JVibe Music Awards, plus three great
features on college decision time, finding hope after a fatal car accident,
and in the Roundtable, teens tell us why they think it's OK to question faith
in God. This month, meet some very cool Jews on JVibe.com—everyone from bikers and musicians to writers and
teens involved in social action! Plus read
the latest from our three Young Judaea Year Coursers who are scattered
across Israel.
- This month, Sh'ma explores the Neoconservative current
in American political and intellectual life, one with significant implications
and one that is only understood if all its many, complex ramifications
are taken into account. At no time since the rise of the New York Jewish
Intellectuals in the 1940s and ‘50s have Jewish voices played as central
a role in American political and cultural life. Talk about Jews and
Neoconservatives is divisive, often explosive; their impact is often seen
as deleterious and dangerously influential especially with regard to the
onset of the Iraqi War. Sh'ma examines the issue; Benjamin Balint explores
the history of Conservatives, Peter Berkowitz asks “Is
NeoConservatism Jewish?”, Ruth Wisse & Seth Lipsky have
an open exchange on Jews, conservatism, and the future,
and a reflection by David Teutsch.
- The latest, just-published edition of JBooks is awesome; it's all
about short fiction. We have an essay by
Jonathan Safran Foer on Brunz Schulz's classic The Street of Crocodiles
and Other Stories, Sandy Pinsker's
punchy interview with Cynthia Ozick, a superlative review of
John Clayton's collected stories, and a very provocative interview with teacher/writer Binnie
Kirshenbaum (don't let the "Binnie" fool you: she's tough as
hell). Also, be sure to visit Secular Culture & Ideas for
an array of Passover content. SCI explores the meaning of Pesach for secular
Jews, what the themes of liberation and freedom mean in a modern context,
and, on a perhaps lighter note, the changing culinary traditions of the holiday.
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