Safranim Shalom -- I sent versions of this note to two of my favorite Safranot but Yossi Galron said it was OK to send it to the list.
For the last three or four years I've run a listserv for opportunities in the Jewish community and beyond called Hizdamnuyot. It started in 2008 when things were quite grim and many good people I knew who interested in working at Jewish organizations were having a very hard time finding jobs. It's grown to about 1000 folks and to my surprise has become an important part of peoples' lives, as many have told me. It's not very sophisticated technologically but seems to get the job done. I amalgamate job postings folks send me and send them out in a simple consistent format that users have said is most useful to them. Some postings come from other lists and some from my 'network', which has grown as this has gone on. I regularly get letters from folks telling me they got jobs through the list which helped them not to only further their careers but also avoid real hardship. So I think of it as having a true 'pikuach nefesh' component. OK, so what? Well, it's grown to the point that I can't keep up with it, I fell behind recently and the consequences were . . . bad. So I signed up my cousin, of whom I'm exceedingly fond, as a volunteer helper, but I need a few more. It takes about 20 minutes to do and if there were a few more volunteers each would take a turn once a week or twice a month. That's a lot of nachas for relatively little effort. It's not hard to do (after all I can do it) -- just cutting and pasting -- and I've written out simple directions. I was thinking retired (or even current) Jewish librarians might be interested as you understand the importance of directing people to the right information in a timely way (I always thought I was a kind of librarian manque, and my dear dear aunt z"l was a librarian of heroic proportions). If anyone is interested in adding a "high impact" good deed to their probably already overloaded plate please let me know. The need is real. And if you or anyone else would like to sign up to receive the job listings go to hizdamnuyot.com Shavua Tov, Martin Kaminer [email protected] __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
