Moskovits' question
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At Shaarey Zedek, East Lansing, MI, we added these criteria:
1. No duplicates
2. Jewish topic, not merely Jewish author. For example, we kept
Heller's GOD KNOWS, but discarded GOOD AS GOLD.
3. Unless we anticipated high demand, we discarded volumes of
limited research interest IF they
A colleague who works in this area offers these comments:
It's hard to know what qualifies as a religious comic book in the
questioner's mind, but here are some thoughts.
The only ongoing comic book series in the traditional floppy
magazine format that I can think of is Mendy and the
Four years ago, I asked the same question of HaSafran colleagues. Here is
the pooled answer. Of course, the list is not current.
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Here are the aggregated responses from my posting on the HaSafran
(Association of Jewish Librarians) listserv. I sent the two personal
S'licha, but you are falling into the trap of the excluded middle.
Different technologies are appropriated in different venues.
1. I do not soon expect to take a Kindle out of the Ark, raise it up, and
say, va'yihi binsoah ha'aron, but it would be helpful to have Trope
Trainer on Kindle l'shem
This is not allowed under current copyright law.
This bears review:
1. Is the item owned by the person making the copy?
2. Is the original destroyed after the copy is made?
3. Is the copy the sole one made?
4. Is the copy solely for the user of the owner, i.e., not
Kosher by Design
Susie Fishbein
Everyday Cooking for the Jewish Home
Ethel Hofman
The Kosher Palette
Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
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I, too, have been inundated with phone requests to subscribe to JR. I have
the perfect response: I reply only to requests in writing from JR.
I get an immediate click.
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A good friend, whose first language is Arabic, asks for pointers to
Textbooks for teaching Hebrew to Arabic-speaking people, where the
language of instruction for the class is Arabic
An Arabic translation of the TaNaKh [Torah / Hebrew Bible]
Books to teach TaNaKh and other standard Hebrew
Dec. 22, 2009
Re posting by Sara Rofofsky Marcus on Jewish women in Orthodox
Judaism. An Orthodox friend in J'lem who is, herself, a very prolific
author, replied to the query:
There are many things out there. Tell her to look at the Artscroll,
Feldheim, or Targum Press websites.
See Jerusalem Report, December 7, 2009, p. 30 ff: When Chutzpa Wins for a
long and thoughtful review of STARTUP NATION.
It is not yet posted on the J.R. site, but I have university access via
Lexus/Nexus. I therefore cannot post the whole article, but here is the
abstract.
When Chutzpa Wins
Dunno. Just tried it with Firefox 3.5.3. No problem. Complete credits
follow:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824
Firefox/3.5.3 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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= NO: HEBREW song!
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Rough transliteration by ear:
Mi ayn achesh, mi ayn achesh
Bayt achakol shanah mi-kadesh
Intapu achidrash o-veged chadash
Z'rosh hashanah barakhot ha-vodash
Mi ayn achesh, mi ayn achesh
Mechaye atzchoch b'chutz neresresh
Mechaye ha-neirot may-y're-bacharon
O'v'baye kol chetz l'ro-kesed livon
1. Widely regarded as mark of respect that you visited the grave of a
distinguished scholar. Became generalized to show you visited any grave.
This was the answer I gave in Berlin as to why headstone for Moses
Mendelssohn shows these stones.
2. Tallit, although used TODAY to mean prayer shawl,
In reply to posting by Barbara Mende
Heaven's Witness by Joseph Telushkin and Allen Estrin (Hardcover -
Sep 2004) Buy new: $19.95
48 Used new from $0.21
A page-turner of a mystery that also deals, via the characters, with
varying Jewish views of the afterlife.
On behalf of
Annette B.
from your library?
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Israel Seminar
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The set is from an anonymous donation to a local synagogue. The donor simply
wishes to have them placed in a library where they can be of use.
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The Metsudah Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (c)
Perfect condition
Five volumes
Trans. Rabbi Avrohom Davis
Dist. Israel Book Shop
word processor
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In responding to Karen Kriegel's original posting -- looking for calendars
for 5768 -- I failed to note that she wanted PRINTED calendars.
I want to recommend the Conservative one, which we have been redistributing
to our local synagogues for many years.
The 5767 one carries this information:
There are several including
JCAL (Lester Penner)
http://www.lespenner.com/http://www.lespenner.com/
HebCal
http://www.hebcal.com/\http://www.hebcal.com/\
Hayom
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/hayom.htmlhttp://world.std.com/~reinhold/hayom.html
Kaluach
A colleague who has considerable expertise in this field offers these
comments.
As huge a fan of Will Eisner's work as I am, I have to say that I found The
Plot to be a disappointment. Unlike most of his work, this one is dense in
a way that I thought made it hard to read -- it is very text-heavy
Jewish books
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Safranim:
Our local bindery, which was family owned and here (Lansing, Michigan) for
generations, has just closed. I need a recommendation as to where I can have
a couple of Jewish books bound.
I would be grateful for suggestions.
DON
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OLD REFERENCE BOOK
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWISH KNOWLEDGE (in one volume)
ed. Jacob de Haas,
Behrman's Jewish Book House, New York, 1946
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= I will even pay the shipping
A colleague is downsizing her library and would be happy to send you this
book.
Saving Monticello by Marc Leepson
http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Monticello-Familys-Rescue-Jefferson/dp/08139221
94/sr=1-1/qid=1172021890/ref=sr_1_1/102-8587981-8551319?ie=UTF8s=books
Saving Monticello: The Levy
Reply from Cantor Pamela Schiffer of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, East
Lansing, MI
www.shaareyzedek.com
Joshua Jacobson's Cantillation of the Hebrew Bible has an excellent
historical review.
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Suggestions from Cantor Pamela Schiffer of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, East Lansing, Michigan
www.shaareyzedek.com
For Starters:
Transcontinental Music.
http://www.etranscon.com
1.
Gems of the High Holy Days
Miscellaneous
Language: H;E
A wonderful collection of High Holy Days music featuring
Chanukah trivial?
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This is the subsequent posting, for which I have not yet received a
copy. The issue is a complex one because of the way the Hebrew
calendar is adjusted so that certain holidays cannot occur on certain
dates and many other factors.
Andre Rapp pointed out that I had given the correct answer but
By all means go to
http://www.feldheim.com/
and put in Yaffa Ganz which will take you to
http://www.feldheim.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi
Wonderful writing!
Truth-in-advertising: she is a long time friend BUT is in any case highly
acclaimed.
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FREE
Tehilim
The Book of Psalms
Hebrew Text and English Translation
Translation Revised by Alexander Harkavy
Hebrew Publishing Company, New York (c) 1915
I will pay the postage.
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1520 Sherwood
Intelligent Design Creationism
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Our congregation is planning to have a program about the controversy
surrounding the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools.
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I am on the Board of Michigan Citizens for Science and would be happy to
discuss this
daughter of Caleb
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SB posted (in part)
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My English translation [Jerusalem Talmud] reads
The words of the Torah should be burnt rather than be taught to women.
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Before proceeding further, let me make four comments.
1. We are not Biblical literalists, nor
Roberta Schoen (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
One of the first questions that came up was how to keep the books from
being borrowed and never returned. No one is going to sit there making sure
people either don't take the books or sign them out. While we're not going
to lock
Chaverim:
I have seen several such attempts to rationalize the miracles. This
attempt worries me a great deal, theologically speaking. Even if one could
find some natural explanations of these stories, such explanations would
not account for the fact they occur in rapid sequence and upon the
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