Re: [ha-Safran] Education board cuts Jewish holidays

2022-11-17 Thread Emily Bergman via Hasafran
Growing up in OK and TX, the Jewish holidays were unexcused absences, and I could only make up work if the teacher allowed me to do so (I don't remember ever not being able to make up work). I'd rather get rid of all religious holidays as public school holidays than choose which ones to

[ha-Safran] Fw: Please welcome Tali Winkler, Yale University Library’s new Hebraica Metadata Librarian.

2022-11-17 Thread Winkler, Tali via Hasafran
Thank you all for the warm welcome! I am excited to be joining the AJL community! Best, Tali From: Michelle Margolis Date: November 15, 2022 at 9:01:01 PM EST To: Haim A Gottschalk Cc: "hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Please

[ha-Safran] Jewish Book Month/Reading Challenge

2022-11-17 Thread Erika Dreifus via Hasafran
Shalom, Safranim, Just a quick note to mention that I've created a reading challenge to accompany this year's Jewish Book Month (which, as I'm sure most of you know, begins tomorrow). You can access and share the information at the following: -

[ha-Safran] Education board cuts Jewish holidays

2022-11-17 Thread Martha Simpson via Hasafran
This article was on the front page of the Hartford Courant. Basically, in Farmington, CT, the town's South Asian population asked the school board to make Diwali a day off, since Asians represent 23% of the population. Not only did the school board say no, they also decided to take away Rosh

Re: [ha-Safran] animal sound

2022-11-17 Thread books2gogh via Hasafran
Lizlol (short i sound, long o sound) means to gobble לזלול gobble, gorge, chow down Don't know if that will work for you, but here is a great Hebrew and many other languages resource.context.reverso.net Add it to your computer and cell phone and you can highlight text and it will