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Did you
know that Zeek also exists in a handsomely produced, 96-page print edition? Most
of our print content has never appeared online (or anywhere else for that
matter) and features some of today's most interesting and inspiring new voices
in Jewish culture, religion, and art -- people like Samuel Menashe and Darra
Goldstein, Sacha Baron Cohen and Kobi Oz, Kitra Cahana and Elinor
Carucci. |
Dear Zeek
Readers,
It’s that gift-giving time of year again. We’d like to propose a
little gift exchange: you give us 5 minutes of your time to fill out a survey
about Zeek, and in exchange we will send you a back copy of one of our print
issues—worth $8 on the newsstand (but priceless, we think).
Secular 2008
has been good for Zeek. We’ve published two well-received print issues, one on
Russian Jewish culture, the other on the new Jewish Social Justice Movement, and
we are now preparing a Spring issue on Sex, Gender and God. We are moving to a
quarterly schedule in 2009, a real leap forward to us. Subscribe, and you can
get all four issues for $24.95, a 30% discount from the cover
price.
Online, we have moved our web platform to Jewcy.com, as you are
probably aware, which has given us the luxury of web 2.0 tools in a friendly
setting. We have published 3-5 pieces a week, on topics ranging from the rectal
route to caffeine relief during fast days (Angetevka, by Angela Himsel) to an
interview with Beaufort director Joseph Cedar (by Joel Schalit). Go here (or
read to the end of this letter) to get links to the pieces we have published
this month.
As we move to increase our content, we want to check in with
you. Do you like what you are reading? Would you like a bit more of this, a bit
less of that? Pieces that are longer? shorter? We feel a bit like Goldilocks,
but we really want to know what is “just right.” So please, before the bears
come back home, take 5 minutes for the survey—and be sure to sign up for your
free gift at the end of it.
Take the survey here.
Happy Hanukkah from all of us at Zeek!
Jo Ellen |
this month with
Zeek
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| The Madoff scandal has
exposed the bare underbelly of the Jewish non-profit world: most of its money
comes from foundations or very significant private donors. It's a top-down world
that's now going belly-up. |
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| Author Gilad Meiri formed the collective Kvutzat Ktovet with a
like-minded group of young writers in Jerusalem in 2002. Despite an evolving
roster of participants, Kvutzat Ktovet has continued to adhere to its
social-communitarian mission of ... | |
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| Despite another year of falling sales, declining readerships,
and crashing stock markets, 2008 turned out to be one of the best years for
culture I can ever remember. Kevin Martin, AKA The Bug, finally scored it big
with his breathtaking London ... | |
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| We are a many-menorahed family. In addition to the menorahs
that our kids made in nursery school and kindergarten, and which we used for
years, we also possess a blue motorcycle menorah, a black bicycle menorah, a
heavy, ... | |
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| In the summer of 2008, four Bay Area Jewish organizations
allied to support the California Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling and to
defeat a ballot proposition, Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage. In
November 2008, ... | |
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| Heard out of context, the music collected on this intriguing
record might seem easy to place. Americans are among the world’s least worldly
people, slow to learn and fast to conclude that they already know what they need
to know. But even a NASCAR
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Zeek: A Journal of Jewish
Thought and Culture is a publication of Zeek Media Inc., a nonprofit
organization. In its print journal, online magazine, public events, and
multimedia content, Zeek Media builds community, identity, and culture for the
next generation of American Jews. By creating and promoting new Jewish culture
with the sophistication and breadth of the best of contemporary culture, Zeek
builds a bridge between religious and secular, connects Israeli creativity with
the diaspora, and helps to create a vital, inclusive Judaism for the 21st
century. |
