THE WHAT, HOW AND WHY OF THE
HIGH HOLIDAYS LITURGY
What do the Rosh Hashanah Amida,
the Shofar service and the
Netaneh Tokef prayer REALLY mean?
A 90-minute Interactive Teleseminar
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Brandeis Professor
Early in August the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece about
the decision of Random House to cancel publication of a novel about
Aisha, the favorite wife of Muhammad, on the grounds that it could be
offensive to some in the Muslim community. Radom House expressed
regret that it cannot
Thanks to Steve for bringing this to our attention.
I would like to know if the writer of this entry
provided bibliographical references.
At Library School we were taught that encyclopedias are compilation of facts,
not of opinions. One exception was the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and
its
Dear Steve,
Thank you for alerting us to this article. I will write a letter on
behalf of AJL when I get back. This kind of misinformation should not
be tolerated.
Susan Dubin
AJL President
Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author
and are not necessarily
Thank you fro alerting us to this, Mr. Bernstein. I like the way you
frame the question of professional ethics, ethical obligation is to
put all items out there for our users or to put
factual items out there for them. Given that it is an encyclopedia
which people can lreasonably expect to be
In case anyone would like to read this article for themselves, I have
scanned it and posted it to my web space
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/Bernstein/Zionism.pdf
Steven
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Steven Jay Bernstein
Assistant Catalog Librarian
Central Connecticut State
The offending article should not go without challenge.
Also, Amazon's website
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Race-Racism-Set/dp/002866020X states
-- Encyclopedia of Race And Racism (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) 3
Volume Set (Hardcover)
No customer reviews yet. Be the first.
May I
Formal letters to the publisher's corporate office with ccs to the
editor(s) would definitely be in order
Publishers often farm out work without realizing the extreme bias of
their writiers. Also, academics and quasi-academics with political
agendas approach respected publishers with
Shalom Chaverim,
Has anyone had Chris Nicola (Priest's Grotto) speak to teens?
I want very much to have him come, and it would all work out fine,
except that my director is nervous about hiring him without some
reference/s. Somewhat surprisingly, Johanna at KarBen couldn't
supply any. He (my
Shalom,
A few weeks ago a friend asked me about the origin Yarmulke. The
search has been fascinating. The August issue of the Librarian's
Lobby is double my usual length and is only part 1 of the article. I
examine the origin of the word. If you have any questions or
comments, don't
library/course
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