I am currently a Dorot Fellow in Israel, where I study, volunteer, and write. I helped start Open Zion, a group blog curated by journalist Peter Beinart and based at The Daily Beast, and I still write for them occasionally. I’ve written for Tablet, TheAtlantic.com and The Jewish Daily Forward, inter alia. I tweet @RaffiMagarik.
I graduated Yale with BA in English in May 2010. I’ve studied rabbinics at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa and Yeshivat Hadar, and I interned at “Room for Debate,” the online opinion forum of The New York Times. I once lived in Uganda for three months. The last great book I read was Balzac’s Cousin Bette.
I like to write about:
- New Books and Movies
- All Things Jewish
- Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism
- Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
I’d like to write about:
- American Evangelical Christianity
- Food
- Things That Are Not Real (i.e., fiction)
- Politics
You can reach me at raphael.magarik@gmail.com.
Dear Raphael,
I’m writing to see if you might be interested in submitting your work to a new literary-cultural print quarterly called “The Bad Version.” We focus on nonfiction writing that, grounded in the personal experience of the writer, attempts to engage with the larger cultural, social, and political issues confronting our world today. We came across your writing in our search for new voices (both your fiction at Shibboleth and your nonfiction at The Atlantic and Zion Square), and you are exactly the kind of young, up-and-coming writer we would love to work with.
You can check out our website here: http://www.thebadversion.com. We recently put out our second issue, and you can read all of the content on the website. You can also see our submission guidelines here: http://thebadversion.com/submit-to-the-bad-version. We would love to hear from you if you have anything you’d be interested in writing, or any ideas that you would like to work towards making into a piece. We have a talented group of editors who are ready to work with writing at any stage of completion.
Do let us know if you’d be interested!
All the best,
Sanders I. Bernstein
Editor, The Bad Version
Sanders –
Thanks for the kind words — really very nice to hear. Would you shoot me an email at raphael.magarik@gmail.com? I’d love to follow up by email, but I don’t think I have yours.
Best,
Raffi