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For any Safranim in the Boston area...
A Freilichin March!
from the Gann Library of Hebrew College
Take part in programming for children, adults and teens!
Story Time Sunday
Sunday, March 11, 2 pm. Bring your family along for Jewish story
time and book crafts with a Hebrew College Librarian! Come to the
Youth Department of the Library. Best for ages 4-5.
See directions below.
Meet Jewish Childrens Authors
Sunday, March 11, 3 pm. Join award-winning local childrens authors
Laurie Jacobs and Sarah Lamstein along with Charlesbridge Publishing
book editor Judy OMalley for an overview of the craft of writing for
children and the nuts and bolts of getting your work published. 3pm
5:30pm in room 102. Jointly sponsored by Hebrew College and the
Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston. $5 admission. For
registration call 617-558-6486.
Upcoming this Spring and Summer
April is National Poetry Month! Look out for Poetry workshops and a
slam! for teens and adults. This summer, gear up for weekly story
times, a Singles Event, and a summer day camp! The Mystery of
History, a program to learn Oral History, interviewing, research and
writing skills for ages 8-12, August 6-16. To register or learn
more, call 617-559-8753.
What has the library been up to this winter?!
The Third International Book-a-thon!
Hebrew College staff and faculty, as well as Prozdor students,
participated this year in the Third International Book-a-thon, a New
York based program to encourage the reading of Jewish
books. Congratulations to Sapir Cora Nachman, NCSC student, who read
the most this year! Look out for the program next year to involve
your own family.
The inaugural issue of JLink!
JLink, short for Jewish Library Ink, is a new Jewish literary
library journal for teens! JLink publishes poems, short stories,
book reviews, art work and essays relating to a Jewish theme or
holiday season in each issue. Our first issue offers creative
writing by Prozdor students on the topic of Finding Light in the
Darkness, motivated by the Hanukkah season. Submit work for our
spring issue! Submissions requested by March 30, 2007, on the topic
of Freedom to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out our great stuff
Passover
Find much material for both children and adults in celebration of
Passover: Rabbinics, haggadot, craft ideas, and stories for the whole
family in preparation for the upcoming holiday, beginning April 2!
NEW TITLES!
Selected titles from our new acquisitions. (For a full list, please
inquire at the Library.)
Rockin CDs
50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest 1981-2005
Celebrate Hip Hop: Jewish Artists From Around the Globe
HaNeshama Shel Shlomo Carlebach
The Idan Raichel Project
Jewish Heritage Youth Chorus: A Singing of Angels
Matisyahu: Live at Stubbs and Youth
Miri Ben-Ari: The Hip Hop Violinist and The Temple of Beautiful: Live
at the Blue Note
Reva L'Sheva: Ahavat Chinam (One Love)
DVDs:
Campfire (Medurat Ha'Shevet)
Dialogues with Elie Wiesel
Golem: The Spirit of Exile
The Syrian Bride
There Was No War in '72 (B'Shivim U'shtayim Lo Hayta Milhama)
Jewish Humor
Catskills on Broadway
Jackie Mason: The World According to Me and Brand New
Kinky Friedman's Greatest Hits
Mickey Katz: Greatest Shticks and Borscht Riders in the Sky
AudioBooks
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (in Hebrew)
Science and Religion: Irreconcilable? (Great Courses Audiobooks)
Fiction
Mailer, Norman. The Castle in the Forest: a novel PS3525.A4152 C37 2007
Megged, Aharon. Sheloshah Me-hem PJ5054.M352 A14 2006
Sheinkin, Steve. The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: a Graphic Novel of
Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West PN6727.S495 A38 2006
Non-Fiction
Chazan, Robert. The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom BM590 .C497 2006
Davies, Louis Finkelstein. The Cambridge History of Judaism BM155.2 .C35
Nigal, Gedalyah. Sipurim Asidiyim Mi-Lemberg-Levov BM532 .N56 2006
Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle
East, 1776 to the Present DS63.2.U5 O54 2007
Rozena, Avinoam. Ha-Rav Avraham Yitsa ha-Kohen BM755.K66 R674 2006
Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov. Days of Deliverance: Essays on Purim and
Hanukkah BM695 .P8 S59 2007
TRIVIA OF THE MONTH:
THE MARCH QUESTION IS
. What book of the Tanach is read on Passover?
Call us with the correct answer and a free trial month of
membership! 617-559-8750
a) Kohelet
b) Job
c) Jeremiah
d) Song of Songs
e) Genesis
We hope to see you at the Library soon!
The Gann Library of Hebrew College
www.hebrewcollege.edu/library
160 Herrick Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Directions: http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/html/library/directions.htm
(617) 559-8750
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