Actually, it might be more appropriate for me to write in this blog, “my show made it to the Habimah Theater!”
Maya Norton graciously posted a summary of my Bronfman contest book proposal on her blog, The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy. The article on my proposal is part of her “Big Ideas Series” of articles, which showcases book proposals that were submitted as official contest entries. As of today, it appears that Maya has received six proposals; mine was the third to be posted on her blog. I certainly enjoyed reading the previous two proposals (from the Anti-Racist Blog and Shai Litt), and I (along with many other readers, to be sure) are looking forward to reading the next three.
My thanks to Maya, and my best wishes to the other contest participants; I hope that we will all get a chance to meet each other in Waltham, MA, sometime soon!
January 3, 2008 at 4:05 am
That’s funny, Gary.
I am so glad that we are all able to talk about, think about, compare these great ideas that are so important to us as a community. And what great quality each one is! I couldn’t be more impressed.
I am now working on garnering more publicity so the ideas can get as much exposure as possible. Do you have suggestions of people/bloggers/journalists who would be especially interested in this or do you have people you’ve already told (so I won’t overlap)?
Deep and grateful thanks for your participation and your example, Gary.
Maya
The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy
January 5, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Hi, Maya -
I only wrote one media outlet – the people at the Israeli Network, for their new “local affairs” show Mahadurat HaShevet. I think that it would be interesting if they covered this, since promoting their station is an important part of my proposal.
Other than them, I would think that the best people to contact would be the journalists who have already written articles about the competition: Saul Singer at the Jerusalem Post and Gary Rosenblatt come to mind. Rosenblatt’s comments were, of course, entirely dismissive of the contest idea; I wonder what he would think if he actually had an opportunity to read a few of the proposals. Of course, I saw that you have already contacted Andrew Silow-Carroll, who previously wrote about the contest in the New Jersey Jewish News (his comments were publicized on the Jerusalem Post, and now on your blog as well).
On a different tangent: have you thought about contacting Prof. Sarna again, to see if you could solicit more proposals directly from the other contest entrants (who may not be aware yet that your site exists)? Right now, your site comes as close as anything else to being the unofficial home page for the contest. In fact, although it’s unlikely, it would be nice if the contest organizers would offer to send you to Brandeis whenever the symposium for the finalists is held, so that we will actually get ongoing coverage in The New Jew regarding the way this competition unfolds.
Thanks for providing me with my “15 minutes of fame”!
Shavua Tov, GK