Tikun Olam Nominated for Koufax Award

Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal)

Mahzor

New York Public Library

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

Torah as music

Ben Heine

ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

David Grossman

Ben Heine

Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

Dove

Ben Heine

Two birds

Hoda Jamal

Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

Jan 14th, 2004 by R. Silverstein | 0

Sandy Koufax in the stretch
I’m pleased to say that Jonathan Edelstein of The Head Heeb has nominated Tikun Olam for a Koufax Award as Best New Blog for 2003 (click here to read about all the nominees in this category). The Koufax Awards were founded by Dwight Meredith and his blog collaborators at Wampum to celebrate the best lefty blogs.

So where did they come up with the name? Well, Sandy was one of the great lefties so it seem only fitting and right to name the awards after him. I’ve asked Dwight to put up a graphic on his site with a Koufax photo. But Dwight’s a little intimidated by technology & hasn’t displayed the photo yet–too bad!

There are oodles of award categories and oodles of nominees. I’m just pleased just to be here (no, really I am).