[ha-Safran] re Baruch Dayan HaEmet - Jean Lettofsky's passing

2023-10-30 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
Thank you to Susan Pankowsky and Judy Greenblatt for your posting(s) about Jean Lettofsky, z"l. Although I did not know her, I appreciated hearing a little about her. With so much overwhelming grief in our world currently, it feels especially important to me to remember every individual who has

Re: [ha-Safran] [AJL-Council] Article about Sydney Taylor Awards in School Library Journal

2023-01-29 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
Excellent article. Kol hakavod to Heidi and Susan! Natalie Gorvine "Avocational" librarian - worked in a pediatric medical library for over two decades; also an active member of the library committee of my *shul* (Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia) for about the same length of time - and a chaplain

Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 555, Issue 5

2022-09-09 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
re ISO: online Jewish book library ? (Schnaidman, Esther) You might find the following Judaic Resources for High School Students helpful:

Re: [ha-Safran] a thought re: preschoolers

2020-07-21 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
כל הכבוד לך על הספר החדש!חבל שאין לי עוד בנים קטנים או אפילו נכדים (הנכדה הצעירה ביותר היא כבר בת חמש עשרה) אבל אשמור על האנפורמציה במקרה שארצה להמליץ על הספר לאחרים ד"ש נתניה לאה גורביין -- "He [Hillel] used to say: 'If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what

Re: [ha-Safran] Yehudah Amichai poem

2020-04-23 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
Thank you, Erika. It's great to have a digital copy of Amichai's "The Diameter of the Bob" poem to keep on file. I knew I had the text of it somewhere - I thought, for instance, that it had been included among supplementary readings in one of the various Siddurim published by the

Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 426, Issue 1

2020-03-17 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
Re: 2020 Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Recipient (Elizabeth Vernon) *Kol hakavod* to Zachary M. Baker! *B'shalom*, Natalie L.Gorvine ("Avocational" librarian - worked in a pediatric medical library for over two decades; also an active member of the library committee of my *shul* - Mishkan Shalom

Re: [ha-Safran] Is there a Jewish Norman Vincent Peale? (Andrea Rapp)

2019-03-12 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
Thanks for sharing more! I enjoy this listserv although I am not able to be a regular participant. *Kol tuv* (all the best) Natalie On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:21 PM Andrea Rapp wrote: > Thanks to all who wrote, and answers keep coming. > For those interested, suggestions included authors: >

[ha-Safran] Crypto-Jews (Amalia Warshenbrot)

2019-03-12 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
Hi Amalia. Found via Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) – *just one example*. The search term I used was "descendants (of) Marrano Jews." You might find others by substituting Crypto-Jews. Search engines can be very picky. : ) Human Genetics

[ha-Safran] Is there a Jewish Norman Vincent Peale? (Andrea Rapp)

2019-03-12 Thread Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran
You could check the website of Jewish Lights Publishing ( http://jewishlights.com/); they offer numerous titles that might be helpful. Also, try various publications by Aleph and the Jewish Renewal movement, Reb. David Seidenberg (NeoHasid.org ) and Reb. Arthur Waskow