Everything is evolving – JEWSLETTER as blog now

All attentive readers of our JEWSLETTER will have noticed that the regularity of our popular monthly communications has declined in recent months. Most of you know that this is due to staff shortages in the community. As there is a lot to do at the moment and we need all hands on deck for the work on site, we have decided to change the format of the JEWSLETTER slightly. Instead of maintaining an online blog with the most important articles and additionally publishing a PDF with an easy-to-read and hopefully beautifully designed JEWSLETTER once a month, we will be updating the blog more frequently with all articles in the foreseeable future and will send out a monthly email newsletter to notify you of the new texts. We are currently unable to produce an additional document on a monthly basis. Information and topics that are only of interest to community members will then be available in a special section of the website.

The content of the JEWSLETTER will not change as a result, because we are delighted that our texts reach and interest so many readers! Of course, we will continue to be happy to publish texts by our members or friends of the community and will occasionally ask external authors to contribute.

The JEWSLETTER archive

In addition to texts, pictures and notices, we have also used the JEWSLETTER to announce events and dates within and outside our community and to publish halachic times. This will of course continue and can already be found on our website. You can find everything together on our website under the menu item JEWSLETTER. For those who are impatient, here are the links:

• JEWSLETTER – Overview

• Blog – All public articles and texts

• Times – Halachic times for Dresden

• JKD events

• External events – Events with a Jewish connection in Saxony organised by other organisers

• Regional Association – Announcements from the LVJG (Regional Association of Jewish Communities and Institutions in Saxony)

At the next opportunity, we would also like to improve the findability of articles in the JEWSLETTER so that they can be easily searched for and found by author, topic and publication date.

We would also like to use this article to ask for your support. If you would like to help make our shared Jewish life in Dresden a success, you are welcome to contact us – this applies to the JEWSLETTER, but also to other areas of community life.

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If you would like to get involved, you are welcome to bring your own project ideas or tasks. At the same time, we also have a number of things that are needed right now. These include, among other things:

• maintaining the calendar of events

• online solution for printing individual blog posts in an appealing format (we work with wix.com)

• text review (correction, images, translation) and online publication for the JEWSLETTER

• writing texts.

• for example, it would be a very nice idea to build up an archive containing short descriptions and information about planned and past events in the community. This would be the task of a community writer, so to speak.

• ... and many other tasks

We hope that a higher frequency and more precise targeting of our JEWSLETTER content will inspire more people than those who are saddened to no longer find a designed PDF in their email inbox every month. Please let us know what you think of the changes at jewsletter@jk-dresden.de. We would love to hear your praise and criticism, along with suggestions for improvement.