[ha-Safran] The Legal Status of the Mother in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

2017-07-03 Thread Celestina Levant
Hello, We would like to introduce a new publication by The Hebrew University Magnes press. The Legal Status of the Mother in the Ancient Near East and the Bible By Lea Jacobsen [http://www.magnes-press.com/NetisUtils/srvrut

[ha-Safran] Codex Conquest: Jewish Edition - live site!

2017-07-03 Thread Michelle Chesner
Dear Safranim, I'm pleased to announce the website for Codex Conquest: Jewish Edition: http://library.columbia.edu/locations/global/jewishstudies/ccje.html. All of the game components are currently downloadable from the site for use under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Note that the cards that are current

[ha-Safran] Brookly Jewish Historical Society--: Biegeleisen Books-Oral History

2017-07-03 Thread Shirazi, Gail
Dear Tina, That would be great. They would send out a professional trained to take interviews and they are in the "area". People would logically go there to research bookdealers in Brooklyn. Maybe they would even give copies to other institutions. GREAT idea. Thanks for following up with this.

[ha-Safran] Conference Evaluation form

2017-07-03 Thread Shirazi, Gail
Was an evaluation form sent for the NY conference? With the discussion on Hasafran about how and what we can do to keep libraries and our organization alive, the form will give an opportunity for people to put forward some new ideas for next year. One comment I have now---we should work very

Re: [ha-Safran] Conference Evaluation form

2017-07-03 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
To all the NYC attendees, Allow me to reply on behalf of the conference committee. Yes. An evaluation form will be sent shortly. I like getting the form as emails for this year's and next year's conference committees to share. Gail has already sent good suggestions. Thank you Gail. We welcome

[ha-Safran] book returns - after-hours/sacred books/non-return

2017-07-03 Thread Lee Jaffe
We're finally gotten our synagogue library collection cataloged and relabelled and will be bringing lending online in a matter of weeks. Having tackled the big issues, I'm now trying to sort out all of the "minor" issues and finding them far more troublesome. 1) We have a self-checkout station com

[ha-Safran] Looking for an article

2017-07-03 Thread Lee Paskind
Safranim I would appreciate it if someone would scan and send me the following article from Tarbitz 47: Author ‫ *פרידמן*, *שמא* *יהודה*,*1937-* ‬ Title ‫ לישנא אחרינא של הגאונים לסוגיית הבא לי גיטי. ‬ In ‫ תרביץ מז,א-ב (תשלח) 20-29 ‬ Note ‫ הופיע גם בתוך קבץ מאמריו "סוגיות בחקר התלמוד הב

Re: [ha-Safran] Conference Evaluation form

2017-07-03 Thread James Rosenbloom
An evaluation form will be sent out on Wednesday. Jim Rosenbloom On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Shirazi, Gail wrote: > Was an evaluation form sent for the NY conference? With the discussion > on Hasafran about how and what we can do to keep libraries and our > organization alive, the form wi

[ha-Safran] Tarbitz articles received

2017-07-03 Thread Lee Paskind
Safranim Thanks for the very quick responses. I already have the Tarbitz articles I requested. No need to send more. Thanks again. Lee Paskind -- Lee S. Paskind, Rabbi Consultant, Rabbinical Assembly Social Justice Commission lpask...@rabbinicalassembly.org 1180 E. Laurelton Pkway Teaneck,

[ha-Safran] [Shared Post] This 400-year-old Jewish library survived Hitler and the Inquisition

2017-07-03 Thread Evi Reznick
Evi Reznick (books2g...@gmail.com) thinks you may be interested in the following post: This 400-year-old Jewish library survived Hitler and the Inquisition http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org/?p=15702035 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not