Re: [ha-Safran] FW: Books for Jewish assisted living & nursing home facility

2021-01-07 Thread Judy Petersen via Hasafran
Hi, When my mother lived in independent and assisted living, she attended the facilities' bookclubs.  She enjoyed biographies about movie stars, entertainers or politicians that were prominent in her youth and early adulthood.  She was already familiar with the people, they were fixed in her

[ha-Safran] reply to Marcia Goldstein--to be posted

2021-01-07 Thread Marsha Appel via Hasafran
For the Jewish assisted living/nursing home book club, I'd like to suggest "Nobody will tell you this but me " by Bess

[ha-Safran] suggesting humous accessible novel for book discussion

2021-01-07 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
how about mona in the promised land by gish jen https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/87010/mona-in-the-promised-land-by-gish-jen/__;!!KGKeukY!jx1ylBzRNuNbV7IXyafL4DrMe-wTFaQQTpFPDqNqYqpXcZQaF5wMGLxSIpHzXNEFqZc$ asian-american girl wants to assimilate to the

[ha-Safran] Fw: How Did Antisemitism become Anti-Zionism? New Event on 1/10

2021-01-07 Thread Margo Gutstein via Hasafran
Below please see information on a series of virtual events that may be of interest. From: Simon Wiesenthal Center Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 6:02 AM To: Margo Gutstein Subject: How Did Antisemitism become Anti-Zionism? New Event on 1/10

Re: [ha-Safran] Survivors Talmud Online

2021-01-07 Thread Fruma Mohrer via Hasafran
Jackie, I sent a query. More than one CJH partner has the Survivors Talmud but you are right, when you click on the one you see xml or html but no image. Fruma Mohrer On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 9:39 AM Jacqueline Benefraim via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Shalom, > > CJH has a digital

[ha-Safran] FW: Books for Jewish assisted living & nursing home facility

2021-01-07 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran
I forgot to add to my email below that you can do one story at a time. Amalia W. From: Amalia Warshenbrot Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2021 10:53 AM To: Beth Braunstein; Carol Coven Grannick Cc: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: RE: [ha-Safran] Books for Jewish assisted living &

Re: [ha-Safran] Books for Jewish assisted living & nursing home facility

2021-01-07 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran
Marcia, I’m volunteering with residents at Jewish assisted living & nursing home. (not now) I suggest a collection of short stories. Some elderlie’s memory is such that, by the time they get to the second chapter, they forget the first one. A book might frustrate them. How about Apples from

Re: [ha-Safran] Bar Ilan Responsa Project? (Wendie Sittenfield)

2021-01-07 Thread Alan Lapayover via Hasafran
Wendie, I believe CDI Systems in Israel handles the Bar Ilan Responsa database: C.D.I. Systems (1992) LTD 5 Kiryat Mada Street P.O.B. 45064 Jerusalem 91450 ISRAEL Tel. +972 2 5870112 Fax. +972 2 5870115 Alan Rabbi Alan LaPayover Director, Mordecai M. Kaplan Library Reconstructionist Rabbinical

[ha-Safran] Survivors Talmud Online

2021-01-07 Thread Jacqueline Benefraim via Hasafran
Shalom, CJH has a digital copy online

Re: [ha-Safran] To be posted, please

2021-01-07 Thread Beth Braunstein via Hasafran
How about “inheritance “ By Dani Shapiro Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 6, 2021, at 7:49 PM, Carol Coven Grannick via Hasafran > wrote: > >  > Marcia, it's an older book, but a wonderful book club book: The Jew Store by > Stella Suberman - a memoir of her observant (in part) family who moves

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2021-01-07 Thread Yaakov Aronson via Hasafran
The story in The Jew Store by Stella Suberman takes place in Concordia, Tennesse, not Memphis which is has and has had for a long time a very large Jewish population. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the

Re: [ha-Safran] To be posted, please

2021-01-07 Thread Rachel Kamin via Hasafran
I would recommend the following: Florence Adler Learns to Swim by Rachel Beanland The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas On Division by Goldie Goldbloom The Third Daughter by Talia Carner The Two-Family House by Lynda