Since others are posting links to their (far more substantial) Jewish-themed fanfiction, let me do the same. This is actually one continuous story, written for this year's purimgifts challenge. And by the way, if this challenge returns next Purim, be sure to participate. It was tremendous fun and we all got wonderful gifts!

Fandom: UGLY BETTY
Author: shayheyredTitle ( Read more... )

I was sent this really good review of The Dark Knight, from the Jewish perspective.

It's very interesting and it gives a different spin and interpretation on this already riveting and multi-layered film

Batman: The Dark Knight in Jewish thought

Edited to Add: The article contains spoilers to the film, read with caution!

ETA: Some shameless self-pimping: I just posted a list of all the stories I've written with Jewish content -- 14 stories in 8 fandoms. Figured I'd drop a link here in case people are interested.)

B'teavon / enjoy!

I imagine we have a number of fanfic authors in this community. I'd love to hear how folks deal with Jewish issues in writing fanfic, if at all and any related thoughts on the topic ( Read more... )

So I was reading Chris Moriarty's (very enjoyable) science fiction novel Spin State recently, and, somewhere around page 248, I sat bolt upright and shrieked words to the effect of "OMFG, Cohen's actually JewishOkay, I realize that the fact that it took me half the book to consider that a character named Cohen might be Jewish might seem to indicate ( Read more... )

For a variety of reasons, I will be stepping down as a co-moderator of stilljewish, effective now. A slightly longer post on the subject can be found here.

Hi! I'm not used to participating in communities that aren't solely of the fic-posting variety, so forgive me this awkward intro.

Said intro being done with, I just figured I could retroactively link here to a few posts I made in my journal that I would have linked to, had this community been around at the time I made them. (Yeah, so apparently ( Read more... )

The discussion last week about our policy on Israel resulted in me writing up my thoughts on my relationship to Israel. Right now, the post at my lj is open, but that might change. I don't allow anonymous comments, and I do track IPs, but thus far haven't needed to use them ( Read more... )

Some things seem to have got lost in my last post and rather than keep reiterating them in comments there, I thought I'd post here so everyone could potentially see ( Read more... )

Talking yesterday, one of the things that I joked about was that, if there's anyone on TV (past or present) who represents me, then Willow Rosenberg is as close as it gets. Except not so much ( Read more... )