Flowing Pens

14/03/2018

04/03/2018

I just completed a rewarding month-long project editing web content for Lotem, an amazing company in Israel doing amazing things (www.Lotem.co.il).

This is what my client at Lotem had to say (English translation to follow).

אני יכולה להגיד שהעבודה איתך היתה נהדרת ושאני ממליצה בחום. איכות גבוהה לא פשרות, זמינות ואדיבות בשפע, תוצרים מעולים

I can say that working with you was wonderful and I recommend you warmly. Uncompromisingly high quality, availability, boundless courtesy, and amazing results.

Thank you, Lotem! It has been a pleasure!

04/03/2018

23/02/2018

Have a great weekend - wherever you might find yourself!

23/02/2018

I love Facebook memories. These pictures recently surfaced of our incredible trip to New Orleans four years ago. I tried to put into words my impressions and thoughts (read below). Have you been to New Orleans? Which magical city have you visited that has left a profound and lasting impression?

Color, music, soul — three words I would use to describe New Orleans. The criteria for our three-day getaway was that it had to be a city where I could almost forget that I was in America. New Orleans didn't disappoint. Walking down the cobbled streets of the French Quarter, you don't need to enter one of the many art galleries to experience color and art. The entire area is
saturated with vividly colored Spanish-Colonial style buildings decorated with iron filigree balconies. It almost feels as if every night someone takes a paintbrush and paints the entire French Quarter with the most vibrant colors possible. As day turns into night, and the sun begins to set over the French Quarter, the streets reverberate with the sound of the marching
bands with their blaring trumpets and the staccato beat of a bass drum.

Then of course, there's jazz. Bourbon Street. Monique, the waitress at our boutique hotel, clucked her tongue disapprovingly each morning when we told her we had not yet made it to New Orleans’ most notorious street. On the last evening of our trip, we dutifully headed toward one of the more sedate jazz clubs on Bourbon Street. We may have brought the average age down to 60 but Monique was right; you can't travel to New Orleans without an obligatory stop on Bourbon Street. Jazz truly is the heart and soul of New Orleans, but the stomach of the city is a humble square of dough, deep-fried and covered with powdered sugar. You have to be pretty confident to only sell one item on your cafe menu. But once you take a bite into the other-worldly beignets at Cafe Du Monde, you realize that there is no other food that matters, and while you're in New Orleans, no other city in America matters.

16/02/2018

Have a great weekend.

15/02/2018

When you are an editor, you get to work with, and meet, professionals in the hospitality industry, cooks, translators, start-up staff, grammarians.. to name just a few. I love the diversity of my job - and appreciate getting to work with such outstanding clients!

04/02/2018

It is exciting and rewarding to begin 2018 with the development of my freelance editing business Flowing Pens.

In the month of January alone, I edited content for a website, three leaflets, a white paper, a thesis, a grammar workbook, and proofread legal translations.

Be among my February clients!

31/01/2018

I love the diversity of editing. One week I can be editing a short article about how to be a better manager and the next I am editing a book about meditation. I love working with writers who entrust their work to me.

Last week I had the pleasure of working with Marcelo Korn who hired me to edit his thesis on computer science.

This is what Marcelo had to say about my work.

"Sorelle is both professional and fast. Thanks to her, my project looks perfect. I am extremely impressed with the accuracy of her work, and so happy I chose her to help me."

Thank YOU, Marcelo!

28/01/2018

My website is currently being updated by my incredible designer (helps to be married to one) - but in the meantime here is a list of just SOME of the books I have had the fortune to edit...

Jewish Philosophy and Thought

Jacob's Family Dynamics by Gad Dishi
Accepting the Yoke of Heaven: Commentary on the Weekly Torah Portion by Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Traditions Lost in the Ashes of the Holocaust by Rabbi Schwarz
Jewish Identity in Modern Israel: Proceedings on Secular Judaism and Democracy published with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Judaism on Trial: An Unconventional Discussion about Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel by Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Thoughts to Ponder: Daring Observations About the Jewish Tradition by Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Small Acts of Kindness: Striving for Derech Eretz in Everyday Life by Shalom Freedman
I Didn´t Know That; Torah News U Can Use by Joe Bobker
And You Thought There Were Only Four: 400 Questions to Make Your Seder Enlightening, Educational And Enjoyable
by Joe Bobker

Siddur

Fourth Edition of The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, original translation by Rev. Simeon Singer, new translation and commentary by Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks

Women and Feminism

Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering by Lynne Meredith Schreiber
Torah of the Mothers: Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts by Susan Handelman and Ora Wiskind Elper

Spirituality and Meditation

Dimensions of Love: The Jewish Foundations of Love and Marriage by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
Moadim LeSimcha: Explorations into the Jewish Holidays
by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
Spiritual Awakenings: Illuminations On Shabbat and the Holidays by Yehoshua Rubin
Visions of a Compassionate World written by Menachem Ekstein, translated by Yehoshua Starret
The Godfile by Aryeh Ben David
Inward Bound: A Guide to Understanding Kabbalah by Nissan Dovid Dubov

Haggadah for Passover

Carlebach Haggadah: Seder Night with Reb Shlomo by Chaim Stefansky
Studies on the Haggadah: From the Teachings of Nechama Leibowitz by Yitshak Reiner
The Holistic Haggadah: How Will You Be Different This Passover Night by Michael L. Kagan

Eulogy

Memories of a Giant: Eulogies in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Michael Bierman

Memoirs

Strangers No More: One Family's Exceptional Journey from Christianity to Judaism by Shlomo Ben Avraham Brunell
To Play With Fire: One Woman's Remarkable Odyssey
by Tova Mordechai

Biography

Journey of Hope: The Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel's First Astronaut by Alan D. Abbey

Jewish History

The Inexhaustible Wellspring: Reaping the Rewards of Shtetl Life by Heszel Klepfisz

The Holocaust

Smoke In The Sand: The Jews Of Lvov In The War Years 1939-1944 by Eliyahu Yones
None of Them Were Heroes: Letters Between the Lines 1938-1942 by Chaim Rockman
Outrage 2000 by Levie Kanes

Fiction

Shores Never Reached by Ruth Borman, Joe Borman
Yahrzeit by Liat Taiber Ben-David

Short Stories

The Wrong Track: And Other Stories by Reyla Perl

Cookbooks

Esra's Soups and Salads by Meira Applebaum
From Lokshen to Lo Mein: The Jewish Love Affair with Chinese Food by Don Siegel
Cooking with Chocolate: More than 70 Entres, Drinks, and Decadent Desserts by Avner Laskin
Eggplant: More Than 75 Delicious Recipes by Avner Laskin
Olives by Avner Laskin
Nuts by Avner Laskin

Children's Books

Time Will Tell by M.C. Millman

Always Something Else
by M.C. Millman

Forthcoming Publications

A Dimly Burning Wick: Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima,
by Sudako Okuda, translated by Dr. Pamela Vergun
Practical Guide to Muktze by Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaLevi Halstuk
Return to the Warsaw Ghetto by Marion Apfelbaum

Brochures & Websites
"The Jewish People 2004: Between Thriving and Decline",
by the JPPI, established by the Jewish Agency for Israel
Misc
Jewish Interactive Studies' Lectures by Rabbi Moshe Zauderer
ICQ
Hatzalah
IsraelHomeowner
The In-House Counsel's Legaltech Buyer's Guide
The In-House Counsel's Guide to Change Management

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