Guilt and Pleasure

Not having heard about it, it was very interesting to read about an international magazine that talks about what it is to be Jewish today called Guilt and Pleasure. Cynthia Brouse posts an item on her blog The Clothesline Saga about working temporarily as a copy editor on G & P and her pleasure at working on a magazine of ideas again.

She met the editor-in-chief Mireille Silcoff (now based in Montreal) while working on Saturday Night. "The quarterly is great fun; it's a literary magazine of ideas, with lots of historical and archival stuff on Jewish traditions of the past," says Brouse, "but the tone is often edgy, comical, and hip/serious, never politically correct, much like Mireille herself. She's the epitome of cool while being painfully bright, and what I thought was simply cleverness has turned out, as seen in this magazine, to be a keen intelligence and concern about community."