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Please post the invitation below to any listserves to which you belong: Thanks, Liza Stabler You are invited, along with any guests, to the next event in The Library-Museum Lecture Series at Temple Emanu-El: THE DAILY MIRROR, INDEED! Writer/editor Alana Newhouse will discuss the long, complicated, thrilling, maddening and ultimately hopeful relationship of American Jews and journalism. MS. NEWHOUSE IS THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFTABLET MAGAZINE. SHE JOINED NEXTBOOK IN SEPTEMBER 2008 AND OVERSAW THE REDESIGN AND RELAUNCH OF ITS WEBSITE AS TABLET. BEFORE THAT, SHE SPENT FIVE YEARS AS CULTURE EDITOR OF THE FORWARD, WHERE SHE SUPERVISED COVERAGE OF BOOKS, FILMS, DANCE, MUSIC, ART AND IDEAS. SHE ALSO STARTED A LINE OF FORWARD-BRANDED BOOKS WITH W.W. NORTON AND EDITED ITS MAIDEN PUBLICATION, A LIVING LENS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF JEWISH LIFE FROM THE PAGES OF THE FORWARD. SHE IS A GRADUATE OF BARNARD COLLEGE AND COLUMBIA'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM. Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York 1 East 65th Street New York, NY Monday, April 4, 2011 6:30 PM For more information: 212 744-1400 ext. 259, Elka Deitsch No Admission Charge --- 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 for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
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Dear Colleagues, You are invited to the event described below. Please feel free to bring guests with you. The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanuel Invites you to The First Annual Charles Grossman Lecture in Jewish Intellectual History. Rabbi David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion will give a lecture entitled: Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and the Parameters of Modern Judaism 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Temple Emanu-El One East 65th Street, New York City (between Fifth and Madison Avenues) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC *For more information, please contact 212.507.9580 Elizabeth F Stabler Librarian Stettenheim Library Temple Emanu-El 1 East 65th Street New York, NY 10065 --- 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 for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
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You are cordially invited to attend an EMANU-EL READS event at Temple Emanu-El, New York. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011 6:30 pm Temple Emanu-El One East 65th Street, NYC For further information, call 212 744-1400 Admission is free ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS: PERSONAL INTERFAITH PERSPECTIVES The lives of Israelis and Palestinians, as A. B. Yehoshua's The Liberated Bride attests, constantly and inevitably intersect. The crosscurrents of religious and territorial demands have created a vexatious and seemingly insoluble problem. In this program we will explore the communal, political and religious dimensions of Israeli/Palestinian relations, through the first-hand accounts of an interfaith panel of seminary students and newly ordained clergy who have recently participated in an intensive program in Israel and Palestinian territory created by the Auburn Theological Seminary and the American Jewish Committee, (NY). PANELISTS: RABBI JUSTUS BAIRD, moderator, serves as Director of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Theological Seminary, NYC, where he oversees the seminary's multifaith programming. Ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he studied as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, he received a B.S. from Rice University and a certificate in Strategic Human Resource Management from Harvard Business School. He has taught, preached in and consulted with seminaries, churches, synagogues, mosques, and interfaith organizations. He teaches the Multifaith Seminar in the Multifaith Doctorof Ministry Program, a partnership between Auburn and New York Theological Seminary. JOSHUA FRANKEL, an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion and an IDF combat veteran, moved from Israel to New York three years ago to attend YCT rabbinical school. He received his BA in economics from Hebrew University, is a Wexner graduate fellow and a rabbinical intern at the New Israel Fund. He will receive his Orthodox rabbinical ordination this June. CHARLENE HAN POWELL was a participant in the Christian Jewish Seminarian Program. She received her BA from UCal. San Diego in the Study of Religion and Dance and her Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Currently the Interim Director of Christian Education at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, she is a Candidate for Ministry for the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America (PCUSA). Liza Stabler Elizabeth F. Stabler Librarian Ivan M. Stettenheim Library Temple Emanu-El 1 East 65th Street New York, NY 10065 --- 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 for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
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Please join us for the 7th Annual Helene Spring Library Event featuring award-winning author, Katharine Weber who will discuss her new novel, True Confections. A tale of humor and pathos, of love and betrayal, from a family in crisis we learn a great deal about the beginning of the American candy business, much of it driven by Jewish immigrants. Weber is the author of Triangle: A Novel, The Music Lesson: A Novel; The Little Women: A Novel; Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: A Novel. Place: East End Temple, 245 East 17th Street, New York, NY Date Time: Sunday, March 14 at 1:00 pm No Admission Charge Liza Stabler Librarian, Stettenheim Library Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York --- 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 for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
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IT'S NOT JUST KID STUFF: JEWS AND THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Wednesday, March 3, 2010 6:30 PM Temple Emanu-El, 1 East 65th Street, New York, NY Call 212 744-1400 ext. 362 for information No admission charge MARK SIEGEL, the brilliant author, editor and illustrator, will discuss the influence of Jews in the development of this important and developing literary genre. MARK SIEGEL was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., and grew up in France. He is known both as a book illustrator and as the editorial director of First Second Books, which publishes graphic novels for all ages. He has illustrated Seadogs, An Epic Ocean Operetta by Lisa Wheeler, Long Night Moon by Cynthia Rylant and To Dance, A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by his wife, Siena Cherson Siegel. Upcoming books include more children's stories as well as a graphic novel for adults. Under the banner of First Second Books, located in the Flatiron Building in New York City, Siegel is the editor of many world acclaimed comics authors and artists from around the world, such as Joann Sfar, Eddie Campbell, Paul Pope, Jessica Abel and Lewis Trondheim. He also has tapped notable talents for graphic-novel scripts from among leading playwrights and novelists, such as Jane Yolen and Adam Rapp. --- 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 for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
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Please feel free to post this to any other listserve Good Talk: Good Book Lecturer: David Plotz Wednesday, February 3 6:30 PM Temple Emanu-El 1 East 65th Street New York, NY 10065 No admittance charge Meet the author DAVID PLOTZ as he discusses his book, Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible. Good Book is based on Blogging the Bible, a series Plotz wrote for Slate magazine. Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz long assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, then attended a Christian high school where he studied the Old and New Testaments. Many of the highlights stuck with himAdam and Eve, Cain versus Abel, Jacob versus Esau, Jonah versus whale, forty days and nights, ten plagues and commandments, twelve tribes and apostles, Red Sea walked under, Galilee walked on, bush into fire, rock into water, water into wine. And, of course, he absorbed from all around him other bits of the Biblefrom stories he heard in churches and synagogues, in movies and on television, from his parents and teachers. But it wasn't until he picked up a Bible at a cousin's bat mitzvahand became engrossed and horrified by a lesser-known story in Genesisthat he couldn't put it down. At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible's literal truth, it has never been more important to get to know the Bible. Good Book is what happens when a regular guyan average Jobactually reads the book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with the most profound theological questions: How many commandments do we actually need? Does God prefer obedience or good deeds? And the most unexpected ones: Why are so many women in the Bible prostitutes? Why does God love bald men so much? Is Samson really that stupid? Good Book is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature. Before becoming Slate's editor in 2008, Plotz worked as a staff writer, political columnist, media columnist and Washington editor. He also is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, published in 2005. He edited The Best of Slate: A Tenth Anniversary Anthology andBackstabbers, Crazed Geniuses, and Animals We Hate, both published in 2006 by Atlas Books. Before coming to Slate in 1996, Plotz was a writer and editor at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s free weekly. He has freelanced for many magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's,Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Washington Post and GQ. He has won the National Press Club's Hume Award for Political Reporting, the Online Journalism Award and the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Writing. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a three-time Online Journalism Award finalist. Plotz graduated from Harvard College in 1992. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and now lives there with his wife, the journalist Hanna Rosin, and their three children. Many thanks, Liza Elizabeth F. Stabler Librarian Stettenheim Library Temple Emanu-El 1 East 65th Street New York, NY 10065 --- 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 for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
