Hi Everyone!
On Tuesday morning, September 8, 2009, I was at Ben-Gurion
airport to greet the new olim that made aliyah from
North America to Israel.
There were 204 olim on the flight including 81 singles.
I took 307 photos of the exciting event and posted them online at:
Holocaust Biography
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Hi Everyone!
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Elul 5769 / Sept. 2009
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Two new episodes of the AJL Podcast are available, with recordings
from the Chicago convention.
A Few Good Books presented by Nancy Rivin, and including her
Powerpoint presentation - a discussion of recent Jewish fiction and
readable non-fiction for adults, at
I was trying to link to the JPS site for more than a week without
success. I didn't get an error, just a blank page. After a while I
decided maybe it wasn't the site, so tried a different browser and
there it was, same as always. I find it hard to believe that someone
would make a site that
Dear All,
I have a number of professionally produced and distributed VHS format
films/documentaries in my synagogue library which are no longer
available for purchase either in VHS format or DVD.
Under what circumstances (if any) am I legally allowed to copy these to
DVD?
If I do copy them to
Safranim shalom,
Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel by Prof. Jerold
Auerbach (Elazar Class # 837.182 )
Publisher: Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pub. Date: July 2009
ISBN-13: 9780742566156
224pp
Synopsis:
Hebron Jews explores the history of the Jews of Hebron, the
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FROM BIRTH TO DEATH
How Did Humanity's
Birth-Day
Become Its Day of
Judgment?
120-Minute Tele-Webinar
with
Rabbi IRVING (YITZ)
GREENBERG
legendary author and thought
leader
Professor REUVEN KIMELMAN
AJL colleagues,
Last March, I sent a note to HaSafran [appended below] describing my
latest exchanges with folks responsible for the Zionism article in
Gale's Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. My note was based largely on
a phone conversation I had with Helene Potter, Director of
Publishing,
PDF reports)
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Hello,
Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, will speak about
her New York Times bestseller, People of the Book, at Congregation
Beth Israel on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m.
If you are in the Hartford area, please come! Admission is $25.
Advance reservations are
I'm sure you are all as thrilled as I am that Kathy Bloomfield has
relaunched Forwords in a new online format! To celebrate this
momentous occasion, I interviewed her for The Book of Life podcast.
Please go to
http://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2009/09/forwords-is-back.html and
click the play
Hi Everyone!
Today, September 13, 2009, I participated in the International
Jewish Bloggers Convention in Jerusalem. It was great seeing
in person all the people I met on the Internet.
I posted 178 photos of the convention online at:
PRESS RELEASE
Toronto, September 13, 2009
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Volume 6, Number 2
We are delighted to announce the electronic publication of another new issue
of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. The journal can be
accessed at
Shana tova Safranim,
We are currently completing three of the Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.facsimile-editions.com/en/dswww.facsimile-editions.com/en/ds
together with three
(Jordanian) fragments in an edition of 25 copies for libraries. They
are hand sewn exactly replicating the stitches
visible
Hi all:
The correct email on this is
mailto:ajlseat...@gmail.comajlseat...@gmail.com
just to save you from getting a bounced email (*smile*)
Nancy
On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:49 AM, Toby Harris wrote:
Lashanah Tovah! It's almost a new year and time to think about our
next AJL conference!
Shalom Mr. Jaffe,
Thank you very much for your missive and your attempts to deal with
the publisher. I personally would favor the AJL issuing a strong,
official statement.
B'chavod rav.
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
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Messages and opinions
Eat less, count calories.
For reducing a library collection, two fairly recent, AJL guides may
be useful. They are Merrily Hart's CREATING A COLLECTION: A RESOURCE
BOOKLIST FOR A BEGINNING JUDAIC LIBRARY, 5th Edition and JEWISH
CLASSIC FOR KIDS by Linda R. Silver. Both are listed and are
I'm looking for statistics on the total number of Hebrew books that
have been published. This is a moving target, obviously, given the
dynamism of Israeli (and North American Haredi) publishing.
I'm familiar with the JNUL/NLI Legal Deposit website, which provides
Israeli publishing statistics
THE HIRSCH CHUMASH IN MASTERFUL
NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION
A Milestone in Jewish Publishing.
Subsidized Sets Made Available for Schools and Synagogues.
Written over 150 years ago, THE HIRSCH CHUMASH has earned the
reputation of being one of the most innovative and influential
Biblical
Here is the source for the previously quoted Elie Wiesel quote about libraries.
If the school is a temple, then the library is a sanctuary
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory : Reminiscences by Elie
Wiesel (NY : Summit Books, 1990) contains the essay Inside a
Library, which includes the above
Jewish publishing: Green Fences, Riva Pomerantz
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Dunno. Just tried it with Firefox 3.5.3. No problem. Complete credits
follow:
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Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci.
Help! We have several DVDs from Israel that are PAL format. Can
anyone recommend a good projector for us to purchase for the library
that will play PAL as well as NTSC format?
Etta D. Gold
Library Director
The Richard and Janet Yulman Campus
5950 N. Kendall Drive, Pinecrest, FL 33156
At 01:12 AM 09/15/2009, you wrote:
Under what circumstances (if any) am I legally allowed to copy these to DVD?
If you ask the copyright owners for permission, the rest of your
questions will not be needed.
Daniel Stuhlman
Chicago, IL
ddstuhlman at http://earthlink.netearthlink.net
Blog:
Bar Ilan is currently offering special rates in the effort to
upgrade old technology in old versions to the latest platforms.
If you have an old version of Bar Ilan it makes no difference
how old... now is the time to trade in your clunker for a ne
Bar Ilan version 17. For information contact
At 12:48 AM 09/15/2009, you wrote:
The library is getting rid of most of its collection. I have just
been asked to suggest what should be withdrawn and what should be kept snip
What do you mean most of its collection? What should be removed is
the idea that a library can exist without a
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