[ha-Safran] New Podcast Episode on The Book of Life!

The Book of Life's newest podcast episode is part of the "Through the Window" Diversity Exchange co-sponsored by The Book of Life and the Association of Jewish Libraries. It's a project designed to fight antisemitism and other forms of bias through education and allyship. In this episode, I

[ha-Safran] Thank you synagogue librarians!

To all,     WOW! What a tremendous response!     Thank you so much to all the synagogue librarians who responded to me with examples of how their libraries handle monetary donations and issues of donor privacy.  I learned there's no one way or right way, but I amassed a lot of information that

[ha-Safran] Invitation for auction No. 19 - Hundreds of Rare Items!

[ha-Safran] for Judy Petersen, on synagogue library budgets, past AJL Cleveland wisdom

Many years ago I used the attached which I found on the AJL website to persuade the senior rabbi that what he wanted was a synagogue library rather than a meeting room with books in it.  The space in question had been a meeting room for years. While it doesn't speak to the question of