Notes from Around the Web (and Twitter)

There's some impressive new poetry posted on the New Vilna Review website.
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Happy Birthday to Herman Wouk (he turned 95 yesterday).
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This is a very informative article by The Jewish Week's Eric Herschthal on U.S. availability of Israeli fiction in translation. It's true that more than once, I've relied on my ability to read French to access Israeli writing when it was unavailable in English. And at the moment, I'm working on a review of a translated Israeli novel, so Herschthal's article seems especially timely and raises some particularly interesting issues for me.
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From the Religious Action Center (@theRAC): "We're hiring! Know of someone who might make the perfect RAC Press Secretary? Help us spread the word!http://rac.org/aboutrac/job/."
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On the Forward's "Sisterhood" blog, Renee Ghert-Zand writes about Katie Orenstein's Op-Ed Project.
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New Twin Cities Jewish arts resource: diaTribe.
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One of my forthcoming poems alludes to this sad piece of history, noted on the @HolocaustMuseum Twitter feed: "5/27/39: Jewish refugees on St. Louis ship are denied entry at Havana & are forced to return to Europe. C film footage: http://j.mp/dAwJSb." For that matter, a short story I wrote many years ago mentioned it, too. An unforgettable and tragic episode.