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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 1d

#UntilTheLastHostage

from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. Reminder, on the birthday of Omer Neutra, that his remains are still in captivity in Gaza.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 1d

Including a mix of calls for submissions, grant opportunities, & jobs. #MondayMotivation

Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 1d

Another week, another set of opportunities that are open for submissions and applications. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/mark...

Markets and Jobs for Writers - Erika Dreifus

Weekly supplement to the monthly newsletter.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 1d

Another week, another set of opportunities that are open for submissions and applications. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/mark...

Markets and Jobs for Writers - Erika Dreifus

Weekly supplement to the monthly newsletter.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 1d

As the Hostages & Missing Families forum has explained elsewhere, the illuminated BRING THEM HOME sign at Habima Square has been replaced by one that says WELCOME BACK HOME instead. "But those words will carry true meaning only when all the hostages return home. All 48. We’re leaving no one behind."

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 2d

When the first group was back in Israel, I could feel a change in my breathing....

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 2d

Today.

tweet from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Welcome Home!

After 738 agonizing days in captivity, Ariel Cunio, David Cunio, Avinatan Or, Bar Kupershtein, Eitan Horn, Elkana Bohbot, Evyatar David, Maksym Harkin, Matan Zangauker, Nimrod Cohen, Rom Braslvaski, Segev Kalfon, and Yosef-Chaim Ohana, are returning to us to the embrace of their families who worked tirelessly for their release, to their friends, and to an entire nation that believed and fought for this day to come.

Our struggle is not over. It will not end until the last hostage is located and returned for proper burial. This is our moral obligation. Only then will the people of Israel be whole.

Until the last hostage 🎗️

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 2d

AKA “Literary News You Likely Won’t Find Covered/Aggregated by Literary Hub, Poets & Writers, AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, and Other Venues You Probably Rely On.”

Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the latest updates to my “After October 7” compilation. bit.ly/46QdMM1

list of articles/items regardig literary/literary-adjacent communities.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Among this week's finds for writers: new Nobel literature laureate; "what makes a great op-ed"; micro-memoirs. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/find...

Finds for Writers - Erika Dreifus

Writing and publishing tidbits.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the latest updates to my “After October 7” compilation. bit.ly/46QdMM1

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Re-upping this post/thread for weekend reference. Still more opportunities/updates coming first thing Monday morning (for paid subscribers; later that day, via the Practicing Writing blog, for everyone else who wants to check them out).

Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 14d

Welcome to the October newsletter, which went out to subscribers yesterday. It features 55+ fee-free, paying/funded #opportunities that are now (or will soon be) open for submissions. Please share! bit.ly/42fSw1V

announcement of the availability of the October issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 3d

"I think she was chosen because she had dark hair, and she is no more a convincing Jewish artist than Mrs. Maisel." This week's #SundaySentence comes from Tanya Gold's magisterial new essay for The Jewish Quarterly. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/sund...

#SundaySentence - Erika Dreifus

The best sentence I've read during the past week.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 3d

Day 737. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Update from the Times of Israel regarding hostage release.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 3d

Day 736.

Image: screenshot from my congregation's streaming services last evening.

photos of the hostages with message: "We Are Waiting for You."

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Re-upping this post/thread for weekend reference. Still more opportunities/updates coming first thing Monday morning (for paid subscribers; later that day, via the Practicing Writing blog, for everyone else who wants to check them out).

Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 14d

Welcome to the October newsletter, which went out to subscribers yesterday. It features 55+ fee-free, paying/funded #opportunities that are now (or will soon be) open for submissions. Please share! bit.ly/42fSw1V

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

W/thanks to @maorthofer.bsky.social, @insidehighered.com, @dintywmoore.bsky.social, @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social, et al.

Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Among this week's finds for writers: new Nobel literature laureate; "what makes a great op-ed"; micro-memoirs. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/find...

Finds for Writers - Erika Dreifus

Writing and publishing tidbits.

www.erikadreifus.com

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Among this week's finds for writers: new Nobel literature laureate; "what makes a great op-ed"; micro-memoirs. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/find...

Finds for Writers - Erika Dreifus

Writing and publishing tidbits.

www.erikadreifus.com

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Hoping, hoping, hoping that this will indeed be the LAST Shabbat of their captivity.

#LetThemAllGo
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow

Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum

735 days have passed since October 7th. 48 hostages are still being held captive by the terror organization Hamas.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Monday, October 6, 2025, 9:59 AM
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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d

Lots to check out wrt Jewish books & writing in the latest links on My Machberet. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/10/jewi...

Jewish Literary Links - Erika Dreifus

Items from Jewish books and writing.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 6d

As per usual, I'm relying on @maorthofer.bsky.social to round up useful info on the latest Nobel literature laureate.

M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d

Pleased to see the very worthy Krasznahorkai get the Nobel Prize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter... First batch of linkage up at the Literary Saloon www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

www.nobelprize.org

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 6d

Daring to believe that we will *soon* be able to stop counting.

#LetThemAllGoNow
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow

Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum

734 days have passed since October 7th. 48 hostages are still being held captive by the terror organization Hamas.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 6d

Daring to believe it will happen.
@timesofisrael.com

From Times of Israel: Trump announces Israel and Hamas have reached deal, says all the hostages will be freed 'very soon.'

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WCCO @wcconews.bsky.social · 6d

A south Minneapolis synagogue has once again been vandalized. Photos show a threatening message of "watch out Zionists" painted in red on the outside wall of Temple Israel, as well as a reference to the Oct. 7 attack led by Hamas two years ago in Israel.

Minneapolis police investigating vandalism at Temple Israel

A south Minneapolis synagogue has once again been vandalized with spray paint.

www.cbsnews.com

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 7d

If, like me, you aren't quite managing to keep up with (even half of) everything happening here in the USA in real time--timeline/facts included within.

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 7d

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Howard Lovy @howardlovy.bsky.social · 7d

This appeared in my backyard this morning. Thank you to whoever is in charge of this sort of thing. It injected me with optimism.

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