[ha-Safran]: Thank you AJL

2005-01-12 Thread Ya'akov Aronson
At the end of last month I officially became (Formerly) University Librarian of Bar Ilan University. Since then I haven't been able to complete what has been planned for any day but I guess things will settle down. I want to thank all my friends/colleagues in AJL for the wonderful opportunity

[ha-Safran]: Book donations

2005-01-12 Thread Donna Hurwitz
We have been offered a donation of the collection the late Prof. Howard Adelson, formerly of CUNY. His collection includes books from the collection of another family member, Prof. Judah Adelson, formerly of SUNY. If anyone is interested in the collection or parts of it, approx. 14,000

[ha-Safran]: Valuesfinder Update

2005-01-12 Thread Linda Silver
Several new features have just been added to AJL's New Jewish Valuesfinder. Email has been added to the Book Bag. You can now create a list from the Valuesfinder data base and send it by email. Values and subjects may be searched using a check box that makes the search exact, as though the

[ha-Safran]: 8 Great Short Hebrew Novels

2005-01-12 Thread Yossi Galron
--- Message requiring your approval -- From: Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ha-Safran]: 8 Great Short Hebrew Novels The Toby Press is pleased to announce that we are publishing a new edition of 8 Great Short Hebrew Novels, edited by Alan

[ha-Safran]: We're onlilne

2005-01-12 Thread Andrea Rapp
Friends and colleagues, we at Isaac M. Wise Temple invite you to visit our new online catalog. We are very excited about it, especially our Visual Navigator feature, which we have customized for a Judaica library. Just go to our synagogue website: www.wisetemple.org Click on Library, then on

RE: [ha-Safran]: Ten plagues

2005-01-12 Thread Donald Weinshank
Chaverim: I have seen several such attempts to rationalize the miracles. This attempt worries me a great deal, theologically speaking. Even if one could find some natural explanations of these stories, such explanations would not account for the fact they occur in rapid sequence and upon the

[ha-Safran]: Re: Book suggestions for early childhood storytime

2005-01-12 Thread Barbara Karp
I have some favorites. The Bravest Fireman by Leah Zytman Donny and Deeny K'teeny Help the King by Ellla Adler I Go to School and I Go to the Doctor by Rikki Benenfeld The Mentchkins Make Shabbos (I don't recall the author; published by Feldheim, but might unfortunately be out of print) The

[ha-Safran]: Updated web page for Jewish Children's book author -

2005-01-12 Thread Sylvia Jeff Rouss
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[ha-Safran]: New book about Yiddish culture

2005-01-12 Thread Yossi Galron
--- Message requiring your approval -- From: Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ha-Safran]: New book about Yiddish culture Dear collegues, The Medem Library (Paris, France) has published a book books about Yiddish culture : La culture yiddish aujourd'hui :