Rafael Chaiken
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Director, CCAR Press (@ReformRabbis). Previously @SUNYPress. @BrownUniversity and @UAlbany alum. (he)
New York
Joined November 2016
.@KirkusReviews calls TO YOU I CALL: PSALMS THROUHGOUT OUR LIVES "profound and refreshingly simple. A welcome reintroduction to the psalms for 21st-century Jews."
kirkusreviews.com
A rabbi offers commentary on ancient psalms for a contemporary audience.
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Today in CCAR Press authors doing cool things: Rabbi Zoë Klein (author of Candle, Feather, Wooden Spoon: New Jewish Stories) is writing a poem about every mammalian species, starting with 1000+ poems about bats.
digital.batcon.org
Rabbi Zoe Klein has written over 500 poems about bats, with over 900 more to go.
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A good explainer of rejection in publishing by @lportwoodstacer. "That alignment between project, audience, and press is the biggest factor that will lead to an editor wanting to find out more about your book or not."
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com
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From @BenYehudaPress: a translation of Genesis without using the letter "e"
benyehudapress.com
What would "Genesis" be without the letter 'E'?
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This is probably a lost battle, but am I the only one annoyed by people saying "spend" instead of "spending"?
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CCAR Press has been hard at work to get @AldenSolovy's ENTER THESE GATES: MEDITATIONS FOR THE DAYS OF AWE out in time for the chagim. I'm excited to share that the book trailer is here and books will ship in September. Now available for preorder!
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Mazel tov to @Malka_Simkovich and @JewishPub!
JPS Welcomes New Director and Editor-in-Chief Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich The Jewish Publication Society is pleased to welcome our new Director and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich, who will join JPS on September 1, 2024. Dr. Simkovich joins JPS after serving as the
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Mazel tov to artist Tobi Kahn on this award. I've been honored to collaborate with him on two books, Mishkan HaSeder: A Passover Haggadah (CCAR Press/@ReformRabbis) and Qorbanot: Offerings (@SUNYPress).
religionnews.com
(RNS) — The German-Jewish title with ancient roots is granted to those who exhibit significant spiritual and material leadership in their community.
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Some desperately needed good news for today
NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays https://t.co/v4uUpF9Glj
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Mazal tov Rabbi Lisa Grant, Ph.D., Dir. of the NY Rabbinical Program! Her book, The Year of Mourning, received bronze medal in the Aging/Death & Dying category at the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards and is a 2024 Next Generation @IndieBookAwards finalist. #indiebookaward
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In this podcast I got to talk with my teacher Rabbi Mark Washofsky about B'midbar. We managed to touch on the census in the desert, the Reform Jewish relationship with halakhah, patrilineal descent, issues of religious autonomy, and his new book - "Reading Reform Responsa."
In this week's podcast, @mstreiffer talks with Rabbi Mark Washofsky about B'midbar, the census in the desert, and about Reform Jewish halakhah. Rabbi Washofsky is the author of "Reading Reform Responsa, published by CCAR Press (@ReformRabbis) https://t.co/KPhQKYT9nM
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The latest on whether AI-generated works are eligible for copyright
wired.com
Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.
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