Climbing Sinai

So, um, the GA is coming up.  You know, the General Assembly… that annual event which is the largest gathering of the organized Jewish community of North America?  Where Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama will be address the attendees?  With forums and workshops that address issues dealing with themes like the future of Jewish philanthropy, global Jewish responsibility, and Jewish innovation and engagement?

Yeah, that one.  Well, I’m going!  Next week, November 8-10, I’ll be partaking of the amazing insanity that is the GA.  I’m really excited – and you should be, too, because I’m planning to blog all about it when I get back!  In the meantime, the Phillies are beating the tar out of the Yankees right now, so I have to go cheer them on...  Ciao!

(With the exception, of course, of this blog and the JPS Blog…)

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For the past few months, I’ve had the honor to be the Online Sales and Marketing Associate at the Jewish Publication Society.  One of the great parts of my job was to follow tons of Jewish blogs in order to keep in touch with what was happening in the Jewish book world.  During that time, I became borderline obsessed with Mixed Multitudes.  First of all, the name “Mixed Multitudes” is great – the phrase is biblical in origin, referring to a class of hangers-on that accompanied the Jews in their exodus from Egypt.  It’s also telling of the purposefully broad, diverse group of people who contribute to the blog: they’ve got everyone from a punk Orthodox Jew to Jewish atheist guest bloggers.  And they blog about everything from Woodstock to Torah to bad poetry to homophobia.  They all have fascinating perspectives and wicked writing skills.  In a word: rockin’.  Check ‘em out.