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Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews

Letters to the Editor

A New Initiative: The Sh'ma Salon

Topic Discussion Guide

NiSh'ma

Sigi Ziering Sh'ma Ethics

Taube New Visions

The Balcony by Ruth Calderon

Torah Commentaries:
Erica Brown
Nechama Leibowitz
Mekor Chaim

Past Issues

Coming Up Pluralism in its broadest sense textual, educational, theological, expressive. At the core of our agenda is a commitment to understand and stretch pluralism: Susan Shevitz, Steven Copeland, Aaron Bisman, Bambi Sheleg and others Sponsorship opportunities available

End World Child Hunger!
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Sh'ma Fellows

For the past 2 years, Sh'ma has run a graduate-level Fellows Program -- a group of six students who meet monthly in Boston and serve as a sounding board for new ideas while learning about the inner workings of this publication and Jewish publishing. We invite prospective Fellows to send Sh'ma a one-page letter describing yourself and what contribution you could make to the sacred conversations of North American Jews entering the 21st Century.

For the past 31 years, Sh'ma has served as a gathering place for independent voices eager to be heard across the Jewish religious, social and political landscape. Through our diversity, intensity, frequency and constancy, we have served as a public diary of the North American Jewish experience. In the pages of Sh'ma, we discuss topics that cut to the very core of our Jewish sense of self. Our tactic is dialogue -- rich conversation of differing positions presented in an honest, respectful, and purposeful way. We cover topics as diverse as the politics of gender; trends in new Jewish social and political involvement; questions of culture and personal identity; ritual innovations; and new readings of ancient texts.

The Fellows program will run through the academic year, October - May. We'll meet one evening per month. Meetings will focus on learning, engagement with issues and text, and discussion facilitated by leading Jewish thinkers. We will also explore the nature of Jewish journalism, passionate, activist writing, and the ethical questions raised in writing and publishing. Sh'ma will have the opportunity to welcome youthful voices and new ideas into our community, while sharing the resources of a powerful and intellectually stimulating journal.

Applicants should be graduate-level students in fields of Jewish studies, or 20 -30 year-olds interested in Jewish community issues who reside in the Boston area, and are able to make at least a one-year commitment to the program. Send a one-page essay about yourself and what you could contribute to the most important ongoing conversations in the North American Jewish community today.

This program has been suspended until futher notice.