[ha-Safran] January Jewish Book Carnival

Greetings, everyone: AJL's January Jewish Book Carnival went live yesterday. This month, I'm hosting on the My Machberet blog. Please visit http://bit.ly/2B2qY0r to see all of the excellent news/reviews/interviews from the world of Jewish literature that have been shared this round. Also, fyi: Th

[ha-Safran] Discarding weeded books

Dear Safranim, I am in the midst of a major weed of our day school library.  While I hate to throw books out, I don't find that doing that with outdated general studies books is that difficult.  However, it really bothers me to throw out (or put in shamot, as appropriate) older Judaic and Hebrew

[ha-Safran] Jewish holiday related adult contemporary fiction

Dear Hasafran, I received the following e-mail and I can’t think of a single adult contemporary novel with a Hanukkah theme that I would recommend to a public library. Can you? Please respond to Mr. Babischkin directly at hbabi...@gmail.com. Many thanks, Rachel Ka

[ha-Safran] Fwd:

Yossi -- Plese post the message. Ralph Abrams was the brother of Ann Abrams from Temple Israel in Boston. She was the chair of the Boston convention over a decade ago. Thanks Jim -- Forwarded message -- From: Ann Abrams Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:47 AM Subject: To: James Rosenblo