[ha-Safran]: Official Election Results

2010-06-07 Thread Susan Dubin
Congratulations to our new Board members who will serve from 2010 to 2012! Installation of new officers will take place at the annual convention in Seattle on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. New Council members will also take office at that time. Election results: AJL Election, 2010 Voting period Ma

[ha-Safran]: Meaning

2010-06-07 Thread Linda Silver
Today's People of the Books ended with this statement: "Nonfiction Monday is a moving meme headquartered at Picture Book of the Day ( http://6traits.wordpress.com/nonfiction-monday/ ) and hosted this week at Charlotte's Library." (http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/ ) Does anyone have any

[ha-Safran]: Uploaded New Learn Hebrew Video - Outdoors

2010-06-07 Thread Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone! I uploaded a new Learn Hebrew video to the Internet. The topic of the new video is: Outdoors. The 25 words in the learn Hebrew video include: barbeque, bench, bridge, building, bus, bus stop, car, clouds, crosswalk, fence, grass, ground, parking lot, plam tree, path, playground, pond

[ha-Safran]: Last Call for new Yizkor book

2010-06-07 Thread sal kluger
Hello Friends forsale- Book is english translation of Skala yizkor book . thx Sal sal kluger simcha sales inc. cell 908-461-3619 office 732-566-7538 fax 732-566-6997 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Ass

[ha-Safran]: Questions for Synagogue librarians - DVD collectioins

2010-06-07 Thread Marga Hirsch
Fellow synagogue librarians, How do you manage your DVD collections? Do you leave DVD's in their cases, or keep them behind the desk? Do you assign them call numbers or categorize them another way? I'm thinking of changing the system I inherited here and am interested in what others are doing

[ha-Safran]: Secular Hebrew-language ebooks

2010-06-07 Thread Diane Romm
Read an interesting announcement recently about the development of secular Hebrew-language ebooks: http://www.teleread.com/2010/03/12/the-first-hebrew-epub-online-store-hebrew-e-books-at-mendele-he-books/ The blog mentions a site called "Mendele Mocher-Sfarim Bareshet" Anyone familiar with it?

[ha-Safran]: David Rogow Memorial Lecture on Yiddish Theater

2010-06-07 Thread Amanda_Seigel
Dear Safranim, I am forwarding the following announcement on behalf the Congress for Jewish Culture, CYCO, and the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club. Sincerely, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, MLIS Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111 The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fif

[ha-Safran]: Conference-"Making the Holocaust Relevant in 2010"

2010-06-07 Thread Rita Lifton
The New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of AJL (AJL-NYMA) will devote its Spring 2010 Conference to the topic, "Making the Holocaust Relevant in 2010." The presenters will be Dr. Arthur Flug, Director, The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Queensborough Commu