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Congregant's Article on TI Novelty Gains National Press.........posted Nov 30, 2008

Felicia Black got quite a surprise and a thrill recently when friends locally and farther removed sent her congratulatory messages that seemed to come out of nowhere for her personal accomplishment as a nationally published author.

Black, a Tikvat Israel member, wasn't aware that an article she'd written ostensibly for the synagogue's website and monthly Bulletin had been picked up for use in the latest issue of CJ: Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, the official quarterly magazine of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Her feature story described a newly introduced service at TI known as Kabbalat Shabbat With Instruments.

The article that appears on pages 42-43 in the magazine's Winter 2008-09 issue is a slightly shorter version of the piece that was carried on the synagogue's website earlier this fall.

Black, a professional copy editor with Rockville-based Elsevier, which claims to be the world's leading publisher of science and health information, doesn't ordinarily write bylined articles since her job involves improving the written work of others before the stories are set in type. She usually works in anonymity.

Black was unaware that a friend and fellow congregant, Jay P. Goldman, who edits news and feature content for the Congregation Tikvat Israel home page, had sent the article on to Joanne Palmer, editor of the USCJ magazine, for her consideration. Palmer hadn't let either Black or Goldman know in advance of her intention to use the submission but later told Goldman she was appreciative of receiving the unsolicited feature story.

Black's bylined article is expected to appear on the USCJ magazine's website: http://www.uscj.org/Publications5015.html.