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Shalom Everyone,
Hello from the East, it is Brenda who hasn't posted anything for a
long time, but I am reading the HaSafran everyday. Again, I would
like to solicit your professional advice and guidelines.
To some people my library is underused, so I need to organize some
projects to draw peo
The Arab-Israeli Military Balance in 2010
By Anthony H. Cordesman, Aram Nerguizian
Jun 29, 2010
Major changes are taking place in the Arab-Israeli military balance.
These changes are described in a new report on the balance
called "THE ARAB-ISRAELI MILITARY BALANCE: Conventional Realities
an
Dear all,
Thank you all for the submissions sent so far!
Please be reminded that the submission deadline for all contributions
for t= he next AJL Newsletter is August 15, 2010.
All contributions should be submitted electronically.
Please refer to the appropriate webpage on the AJL website for
fur
We are making space in our library and have weeded quite a number of
adult books that could be useful –particularly to university
libraries. The subjects include biographies, Anti-Semitism, women's
studies, relations between Jews and non-Jews throughout the world,
graphic arts, coins, music, pl
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TEL: 972-3-560-1626/5461
FAX: 972-3-566-0439
P.O.BOX 4308, TEL AVIV 61042 ISRAEL
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Dear Safranim,
The recordings of the 2010 Convention awards banquet have now been
podcasted. For easier listening, the evening was broken down into 2
podcasts, one for the RAS Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards and
another for the Sydney Taylor Book and Manuscript Awards. You can hear them at:
RAS: http
Shalom Safranim,
Paul Tillich once so well described what often goes wrong in pedagogy: "Our
tendency as teachers is to throw answers like rocks at the heads of those
who have not yet asked the questions."
I can't find the bibliographical data for this quote.
Can someone please help?
Thank you
The 2010 Quest for the Best from the Sydney Taylor Book Award
Committee is now available from Amazon for $18. Simply go to
www.amazon.com and type "2010 Quest for the Best" in the search
window and add it to your cart!
This 274 page soft-cover book includes the committee's reviews of
over 1
This article probably has a lot of parallels for the Synagogue
Librarians in our group:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/yc/2010/summer/churchlibraryrelevant.html
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Steven Jay Bernstein
Assistant Catalog Librarian
Elihu Burritt Library
In the final two volumes of the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series,
editors Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg bring together a diverse
group of Jews to answer some of today's toughest ethical issues.
War and National Security
Delve in as Noam Chomsky, Lieutenant Colonel Seth Milstein,
Kapach's organization is still publishing this. You can get it via
VirtualGeula:
http://www.virtualgeula.com/moshe/rambam.htm
http://www.virtualgeula.com/moshe/list1.jpg
It's the one called Chomesh Megilot. Ask them to check that this
commentary is available.
There is also an Arabic version pub
I agree with Lee that the portrait of Orthodox life in the film
"arranged is positive and that it is entertaining but I wish to
point a few issues.
I watched it in Charlotte NC's Jewish film festival. I assume that
the producers are Jewish. The attempt to be politically correct
bothered me.
I think someone should investigate this with ALA. Without the actual
email headers it is hard to tell who actually generated this
mail. After this morning's regular installment of mail from the FBI,
IRS, and several banks, I tend not to believe anyone is who they say
they are. The "Special De
Just published:
Passionate pioneers: The story of Yiddish secular education in North
America, 1910-1960,
By Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich. Holmes & Meier, 2010.
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Dear Safranim, A patron came into my library and asked for a book on
the origin of Antisemitism. Can you think of any books that are
written well and give rational theories? Thank you in
advance. Sylvia Firschein, Librarian, Sarasota, FL shfir...@aol.com
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I have been informed by one of our safranim (Sammy Alzofon) that she
received a reply from the editor of American Libraries when she
complained about the absurd email, which was seemingly promoting
Norman G. Finkelstein's work. She has permitted me to attach it here
so you can see the type of r
Forwarded from another library list.
Jeff Corbett
jeffcorb...@hotmail.com
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Hello,
A person claiming to be a Dr. Rossi from the African American
Society just called our library insisting that we preview their
encyclopedia set "African Americans in the 21st Centu
It's amazing what meager offerings there are on this.
Although for older kids rather than seminary students, and only 20
minutes, this is the best one I know of.
It's called What Is Judaism? We bought it from Library Video Company
Schlessinger Media, c2006.
1 DVD (20 minutes).
An introduction to
It's no news that Norman G. Finkelstein is an anti-Zionist crack
pot. But what does an ALA promotion of his book, plus another one
about "the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla" by the same
publisher, say about ALA? Could it be that the American Library
Association has never repudiated its w
Beth,
Hamesh Megillot, ed. by Yosef Kafah has been digitized and is available
online at Hebrewbooks.org at http://www.hebrewbooks.org/39855
Harvey Sukenic
Library Director
Hebrew College Library
hsuke...@hebrewcollege.edu
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