[ha-Safran] birthday book club suggestion: why not use Hebrew birthdays?

2019-06-01 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
easy conversion hebcal.com (though one has to know before or after sundown) Shavua Tov. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions

[ha-Safran] Talmud (and more, say rabbinic literature) topically

2019-10-20 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
While not quite what you asked for, both of these I use over and over in teaching and could be the basics for a monthly course on rabbinic literature, Talmud and more Try either of these two classics A Rabbinic Anthology, edited by Montefiore and Loewe which has been republished

[ha-Safran] question about popular adult book _A Woman is No Man_ (prompted by middle grade book postings)

2020-01-12 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
Has anyone done an analysis of the very popular 2019 novel _A Woman is No Man_- by Etaf Rum?  I am a professional book discussion facilitator (among other things) and for the first time declined to facilitate because I could not make myself read the book (and I have in fact read in order to

[ha-Safran] suggesting humous accessible novel for book discussion

2021-01-07 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
how about mona in the promised land by gish jen https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/87010/mona-in-the-promised-land-by-gish-jen/__;!!KGKeukY!jx1ylBzRNuNbV7IXyafL4DrMe-wTFaQQTpFPDqNqYqpXcZQaF5wMGLxSIpHzXNEFqZc$ asian-american girl wants to assimilate to the

[ha-Safran] "pro" Peony from experience facilitating in multiple venues

2021-05-13 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
I've facilitated Pearl Buck's book Peony in multiple venues, most recently in  my county-wide public library around three years ago.  The group has been  meeting monthly since August 2012; the discussion of Peony was one of the most successful.   This is from participants'  written comments even 

[ha-Safran] for Judy Petersen, on synagogue library budgets, past AJL Cleveland wisdom

2021-04-18 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
Many years ago I used the attached which I found on the AJL website to persuade the senior rabbi that what he wanted was a synagogue library rather than a meeting room with books in it.  The space in question had been a meeting room for years. While it doesn't speak to the question of

[ha-Safran] rachel adler article, if can't find it, her 1998 book covers it and more

2021-08-01 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
rachel adler wrote about how her thinking on ritual purity changed in significant ways that article covered in her 1998 book, engendering judaism and if recall thinking evolved past the article you are seeking if can't find article, will give patron more context if patron up for a book good 

[ha-Safran] Ukraine relief, verified organizations

2022-03-07 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
- Hatzalah in general, EMS volunteer services, around the world “Hatzalah Ukraine is a coalition of humanitarian, non-governmental, and medical  organizations from the Ukraine, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Israel.  Member organizations pool their resources and coordinate joint projects to 

Re: [ha-Safran] Ukraine relief, verified organizations

2022-03-08 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
please add Sheba Hospital, specializes in trauma taking the lead in setting up Israel’s field hospital in Ukraine https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/05032022-01__;!!KGKeukY!jwL3R8Z3YIIFnKBTyG73sMyqFH4KTb-PiAwh4AdTatf47_IJIxGwqQJRuENDNs7fVH7gnca6GHKSuMA$

[ha-Safran] response to request about 'brainstorming' where surplus ej sets might find a home

2023-03-21 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
rabbi payover's request [catching up on hasafran so a few days ago] many large jewish nursing homes , or 'senior residences' have libraries sometimes even with empty shelves or maybe even nursing homes run by christian denominations with an interest in understanding christianity's judaic