Undergraduate Intern Wanted Fall 2009!

Internship available for Fall 2009 with a local Dallas newspaper. Candidate should have some knowledge of UNT Jewish student life. All candidates should forward resumes to sharonw@texasjewishpost.com. A stipend of $500 will be offered. Sponsored by the UNT Hillel and the UNT Jewish Studies Program.

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October 19, 2009
Etgar Keret, Bestselling Israeli Author & Filmmaker
Screening of his new film, $9.99
Q&A session and book signing following
7:00-10:00pm, Lyceum, University Union

Hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers, Etgar Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short stories. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967 to an extremely diverse family, his brother heads an Israeli group that lobbies for the legalization of marijuana, and his sister is an orthodox Jew and the mother of ten children. Keret regards his family as a microcosm of Israel. His book, The Nimrod Flip-Out, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006), is a collection of 32 short stories that captures the craziness of life in Israel today. Rarely extending beyond three or four pages, these stories fuse the banal with the surreal. Shot through with a dark, tragicomic sensibility and casual, comic-strip violence, he offers a window on a surreal world that is at once funny and sad.

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