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For immediate release: March 14, 2006
For more information, contact:
Heidi Estrin
Podcast Host, The Book of Life
www.jewishbooks.blogspot.com
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A PURIM PODCAST
The Book of Life: A Show About Jewish People and the Books We Read
has posted its fourth episode online.
also in Boston, March 17
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Hi everybody. I have just uploaded the Purim episode of my podcast,
The Book of Life. This one includes:
- an interview with Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, co-author of The Big Book of
Jewish Humor (he even tells some jokes)
- an interview with Latifa Berry Kropf, author of It's Purim Time,
It's Challah
Dear colleagues,
Holy Blossom Temple (1950 Bathurst Street, Toronto) will host an
intriguing panel discussion on Tue. Mar. 21 at 7.30 p.m. Adam Sol,
award-winning poet, will moderate The Place of Jewish Values in the
World of Publishing. Well-known panelists are publishers Cynthia
Good,
hello friends, those who ordered Paperclips , please be advised they have
been shipped this week. Orders remain open for double disc set at 22.95. Now
available on DVD two diferent Live performances[including from Krakow jewish
music fest] ,the sensational black hazzan Joshua Nelson singing
Dear Judaica Librarians,
Schwartz Judaica has a 103-item collection of German-language
Judaica, all published before World War II, which is available for
sale to an institution as a unit. It includes books in a wide range
of topics, some published before WWI, some published between the two
There are now 1001 titles in the ValuesFinder database! Please view
them - or some of them - at
http://www.ajljewishvalues.orgwww.ajljewishvalues.org. Contact me
if you have suggestions for changes to the Search function, comments
about the ValuesFinder's use, and any other comments.
Hi Everyone!
On Tuesday, March 14, there was a Purim parade / carnival
in Ma'aleh Adumim. The festive event (called Adloyada)
started at 10:00am.
I posted 175 pictures of the parade at:
http://www.jr.co.il/ma/pic/ma086.htm
When the first page comes up, press the F11 key on the
top of your
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From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]D.J. Birnbaum
To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: Jewish Fundamentalism
Dear Colleagues
I entirely agree with Aaron Kuperman's view that the proposed heading
should be rejected,
Shalom David,
My sincere apologies for my memory lapse. I relied on what you had
included from my posting in your own message (you referred to it as
being so included further down) and of course that was only part of
what I had written, as you in fact said it was. I should have gone
back to my
Dear Librarians,
We accidentally posted book information about this title with the
wrong publication date. It is a new publication, which was issued in
January 2006, not January, 2005 as was previously posted on Hasafran.
Sorry about that.
By the way, this has been a very popular title. It is
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Subject: [ha-Safran]: New at Gefen (For Pesach 5766)
Dear Librarians,
Title: And You Thought There Were Only Four
Subtitle: 400 questions to make your Seder
First let me clarify that I writing about children books in general and not
specifically about Three Wishes
The following is in regard to Bernard Katz's statement:
Israel bears some (by no means all) of the direct and indirect
responsibility for their
suffering. This so patently obvious that I
BSD
Dear Eve Panzer,
What might be helpful is to review the descriptions on the following
websites -
http://www.artscroll.com/haggadahs.htmlhttp://www.artscroll.com/haggadahs.html
and
I'm interested in purchasing the Lieberman Talmud Databank that
Yisrael Dubitsky advertised on Hasafran last week. Is anyone else
interested, so we can get together and try to get a discounted price?
Debbie Stern, Library Director
Mordecai M. Kaplan Library
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
I thank David for continuing this discussion on a good level and now in
a general line for all children's books. It is very important to have
an exchange like this, only I would hope that it could become a
'round-table' discussion involving more of us. With that hope, I'll
respond to David's
Association of Jewish Libraries-New York Metropolitan Area Chapter (AJL-NYMA)
2006 Reference Workshop
*From Ancient Texts to Electronic Resources: Crossing Time Zones for
Rabbinic Reference - Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, Reference Librarian,
Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University
*Free and
Dear Hasafranim,
A patron has asked me about a book, but she cannot remember the
title. She thinks it was published within the last 3-4 years, and is
non-fiction. It is about two sisters who are being raised as
Catholics by their parents who have European accents, but the mother
has told
Primary Source Microfilm, in partnership with the Wiener Library in
London, has amassed an enormous collection of Nazi propaganda, eye
witness accounts from survivors, and other primary source materials
making a unique research tool for understanding Nazi Germany and
Jewish life in Germany
Please make note in your calendars of the following free
events. More information will follow within 4 weeks of the event.
Congregation Emanu-EL
of The City of New York
2006 Library-Museum Lecture Series
!
The Arts and [Jewish] Identity
Sponsored by the Ivan M. Stettenheim Library
and Herbert
Safranim ve-safraniyot,
The table of contents for the forthcoming volume 12 of Judaica
Librarianship has been posted on the AJL website. The issue is with
the printer, and while it will still take a little while to get it
all proofread, printed, and mailed I think that the official
Exciting opportunity for experienced librarian to help create a new
N-8 yeshiva library in New York.
Yeshivah Har Torah, a 16-year old coeducational yeshiva with a
child-centered approach to education, has moved into its new state of
the art facility in Bellerose, Queens. The school is
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Subject: ha-Safran]: EAJS06 - book exhibion advertising
Dear Joseph Galron,
The VIIIthe Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies
would be grateful if you put the
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