[ha-Safran]: 148 Educational Websites about the Holocaust

[Jacob Richman]

Holocaust Remembrance Day is Monday, April 19, 2004.
I posted on my website 148 links to learn about the Holocaust.
Site languages include English, Hebrew, German, Italian,
Portugese, Russian and Spanish.
All 148 links have been reviewed / checked this week.

The web address is:

http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm";>

http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm



If you do not see April 2004 on the top of the web page,
hold the control key and press the F5 key to refresh your browser.

Please forward this message to relatives and friends,
so they can also benefit from these educational resources.

We must not forget.

Jacob



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RE: [ha-Safran]: GOOGLE and anti-Semitism

[Dr. Donald J. Weinshank]

Almonit:

Let me restate my argument yet once more in response to your posting. GOOGLE
uses an algorithm to determine frequency of links to a site, nothing more,
nothing less.

Stop looking for the "ghost in the machine." There is no sentient creature
doing hand-editing of the GOOGLE algorithm. Therefore, you are completely
off base to say that GOOGLE either does or does not endorse anything.

It does NOT have to pull any site -- even hate sites. It simply reports the
connections between sites, much as the telephone book lists name of
subscribers. Every subscriber is listed if s/he has a telephone number. The
telephone company does NOT decide which names to list and which not to list.
[The converse is that PEOPLE can request they be unlisted. This is where the
analogy breaks down. Anybody who puts up a site will find it listed by
GOOGLE or any other search engine.]

Finally, you can create any site you wish to attack the anti-Semitic one.
HOWEVER, GIVEN THE GOOGLE ALGORITHM, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY INCREASE THE
LINKS TO THE ANTI-SEMITIC SITE AMD THEREFORE ITS PROMINENCE/RATING.

Forgive my bluntness, but perhaps you ought to get some sleep and reread my
previous positing including the link to the article that GOOGLE absolutely
refuses to pull any site based on its content, no matter how objectionable.
To do otherwise, would be to undercut the validity of their search engine
and would lead all users to begin to wonder what had and what had not been
suppressed.

Don
_
Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng.
1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885
Ph. 517.337.1545   FAX 517.337.2539
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RE: [ha-Safran]: Montreal bombing

[Ann Abrams]

I agree with Fred.  And/or maybe a way for folks who have books to donate in
such situations to post them to a central website so libraries in need could
easily find things they need? Could the AJL website accommodate this? Or is
emailing directly to the libraries the most streamlined way?

Ann Abrams, Librarian
Temple Israel
477 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
617-566-3960
www.tisrael.org






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[ha-Safran]: Marcia Goldberg

[Yelena Luckert]

Dear all,

Some of you may already know that Marcia is in the hospital, recovering 
from a surgery.  The prognosis for her recovery is very good, although it 
might take some time.  She already started physical therapy.  She will be 
moved to a rehabilitation center at some point, we are not sure when.

She very much would like to receive cards.  She also said that she would 
like to have some humor there, so I think humor cards would be 
wonderful.  If you wish to send her a card, please address it to:

Washington Hospital Center
110 Irving St. NW
Washington, DC 20010

For those of you who are in the Washington DC area, Marcia is allowed to 
have visitors every day between 11AM and 9 PM. She is still as friendly and 
chatty as ever, so she will enjoy company. Her room number is 2E15A.

Thank you to those of you who called or e-mailed to express your concerns 
and who kept Marcia in your thoughts and prayers.
-- 

Yelena Luckert
Humanities Team
University of Maryland Libraries
College Park, MD 20742
Voice:  301-405-9365
Fax:301-314-2795
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Re: [ha-Safran]: GOOGLE and anti-Semitism

[Almonit]

Didn't someone tell us that Google does not endorse or list hate sites?
  Does someone have evidence for this claim?  If so, then all of Dr.
Weinshank's arguments below are irrelevant.  If Google says it does not
list hate sites, then it needs to pull this site from the rankings in
order to be true to itself.   If it does not make this claim, then the
reference librarian argument has weight.  But we have every right and
reason to make another site related to Jews more popular than the hate
site through any legitimate means available to us.  Just how do you
think the hate site got to be so popular?  You don't think any
ignoramuses had anything to do with that?  Or are they all intelligent
and we're all stupid?

And I have not seen one person say that Google's algorhithm or Google
itself is anti-Semitic.  The argument is that the hate site is, and the
idea is to steer people away from that site.  It's idiotic to do that?

Or maybe we should just sit back and let anti-Semitism take its course?

Just wondering.




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[ha-Safran]: booksale april 18, nyc

[Salkluger]

To my friends in manhattan area, there will be a Judaica booksale on April 18
from 10-4 at Workmencircle  45 east 33st. NYC. thx sal



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Re: [ha-Safran]: Google and "the barricades"

[Bernard Katz]

I agree completely with Andrea Rapp. If the effort required results in
publicity to the extent this has, one of the outcomes (especially con-
sidering Google was also playing political games with us) is a level of
publicity that could not otherwise be obtained for the proverbial 'love
nor money'!
B'shalom,
Bernard Katz, former head, Special Collections and Library Development
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph
author, descriptive bibliog. of L.M. Montgomery's books (in progress)
treasurer, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
and chair, Ontario Library Association Copyright Task Force





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[ha-Safran]: GOOGLE and anti-Semitism

[Yossi Galron]

--- Message requiring your approval --
From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ha-Safran]: GOOGLE and  anti-Semitism
Stop the nonsense: GOOGLE is not anti-Semitic and this petition is actually 
helping the anti-Semites.
Friends:

I have received dozens of E-mail in the last few days. These E-mails make 
two points.

1. The most popular search for "Jew" on GOOGLE turns up an anti-Semitic site.
2. We should petition GOOGLE to suppress this site.
Both of these statements contain inherent falsehoods.

Please read the following long message very carefully. Please use it to 
reply to any further messages on this subject that you receive. Let me take 
this point-by-point.

1. The most popular search for "Jew" on GOOGLE turns up an anti-Semitic site.

The search engine is neither philo-Semitic nor anti-Semitic. It is an 
algorithm which reports the links to sites, no more, no less.

Forgive my bluntness, but complaining about the GOOGLE search algorithm 
makes as much sense as saying that God is unfair because people fall off 
ladders due to gravity. We will just look like fools.

Google itself tells you:

http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

Content Linked to by Google

The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Google Services are 
developed by people over whom Google exercises no control. The search 
results that appear from Google's indices are indexed by Google's automated 
machinery and computers, and Google cannot and does not screen the sites 
before including them in the indices from which such automated search 
results are gathered. A search using Google Services may produce search 
results and links to sites that some people find objectionable, 
inappropriate, or offensive. We cannot guarantee that a Google search will 
not locate unintended or objectionable content ...

Also see
http://www.google.com/technology/index.html
 PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its 
vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In 
essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page 
A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or 
links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes 
cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help 
to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google 
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean 
nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank 
with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both 
important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of 
times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's 
content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a 
good match for your query.


The bottom line is that algorithms such as the GOOGLE one simply count 
links. There is no person sitting somewhere hand-editing the links to 
advance any political agenda.

 ©2004 Google - Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages  as of 4/13/04 at 1431 
EST Yup. That is more than four BILLION pages. Claiming that GOOGLE's 
algorithm is anti-Semitism makes us look like technological ignoramuses.

The really ironic thing is that one of the founders, Larry Page, is the son 
of my late colleague Karl Page.  I spoke at Karl's funeral. The very 
thought of being anti-any-group would have been an anathema to Karl and 
remains so to his family.

***

2. We should petition GOOGLE to suppress this site.

If we actually succeed in pressuring Google to override its own algorithm 
to suppress sites not to our liking, we will live to regret it. Others can 
play that game equally well, and there are many more of "them" than of "us."
Next, do not go to any site which asks for petitions to oppose an 
anti-Semitic site. This  has the counter-intuitive effect of making those 
anti-Semitic site sites more important in the GOOGLE ranking.

SB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) just posted a message on HaSafran, the listserv 
of the Association of Jewish Librarians. Commenting on an earlier posting 
by AR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), SB correctly observes:



Ironically, many of the websites (including the "Remove Jew Watch" petition 
site which are trying to push down the ranking for "Jew Watch" are probably 
having the reverse effect. You see, Google will count the number of links 
to a website, as well as the number of times a particular phrase (in or 
near the hyperlink phrase) is used at the website that it's 
"spidering."



So, for example, if 100 websites added the following



Google has ranked the anti-Semitic website Jew Watch 
 #1 when searching with just the word JEW. 

[ha-Safran]: GOOGLE and anti-Semitism

[Yossi Galron]

--- Message requiring your approval --
From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ha-Safran]: GOOGLE and  anti-Semitism
Stop the nonsense: GOOGLE is not ant-Semitic and this petition is actually 
helping the anti-Semites.
Friends:

I have received dozens of E-mail in the last few days. These E-mails make 
two points.

1. The most popular search for "Jew" on GOOGLE turns up an anti-Semitic site.
2. We should petition GOOGLE to suppress this site.
Both of these statements contain inherent falsehoods.

Please read the following long message very carefully. Please use it to 
reply to any further messages on this subject that you receive. Let me take 
this point-by-point.

1. The most popular search for "Jew" on GOOGLE turns up an anti-Semitic site.

The search engine is neither philo-Semitic nor anti-Semitic. It is an 
algorithm which reports the links to sites, no more, no less.

Forgive my bluntness, but complaining about the GOOGLE search algorithm 
makes as much sense as saying that God is unfair because people fall off 
ladders due to gravity. We will just look like fools.

Google itself tells you:

http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

Content Linked to by Google

The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Google Services are 
developed by people over whom Google exercises no control. The search 
results that appear from Google's indices are indexed by Google's automated 
machinery and computers, and Google cannot and does not screen the sites 
before including them in the indices from which such automated search 
results are gathered. A search using Google Services may produce search 
results and links to sites that some people find objectionable, 
inappropriate, or offensive. We cannot guarantee that a Google search will 
not locate unintended or objectionable content ...

Also see
http://www.google.com/technology/index.html
 PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its 
vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In 
essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page 
A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or 
links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes 
cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help 
to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google 
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean 
nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank 
with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both 
important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of 
times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's 
content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a 
good match for your query.


The bottom line is that algorithms such as the GOOGLE one simply count 
links. There is no person sitting somewhere hand-editing the links to 
advance any political agenda.

 ©2004 Google - Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages  as of 4/13/04 at 1431 
EST Yup. That is more than four BILLION pages. Claiming that GOOGLE's 
algorithm is anti-Semitism makes us look like technological ignoramuses.

The really ironic thing is that one of the founders, Larry Page, is the son 
of my late colleague Karl Page.  I spoke at Karl's funeral. The very 
thought of being anti-any-group would have been an anathema to Karl and 
remains so to his family.



2. We should petition GOOGLE to suppress this site.

If we actually succeed in pressuring Google to override its own algorithm 
to suppress sites not to our liking, we will live to regret it. Others can 
play that game equally well, and there are many more of "them" than of "us."
Next, do not go to any site which asks for petitions to oppose an 
anti-Semitic site. This  has the counter-intuitive effect of making those 
anti-Semitic site sites more important in the GOOGLE ranking.

SB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) just posted a message on HaSafran, the listserv 
of the Association of Jewish Librarians. Commenting on an earlier posting 
by AR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), SB correctly observes:



Ironically, many of the websites (including the "Remove Jew Watch" petition 
site which are trying to push down the ranking for "Jew Watch" are probably 
having the reverse effect. You see, Google will count the number of links 
to a website, as well as the number of times a particular phrase (in or 
near the hyperlink phrase) is used at the website that it's 
"spidering."



So, for example, if 10

Re: [ha-Safran]: NYT: "Google Says It Doesn't Plan to Change Search

[S B]

--- Andrea Rapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > Some battles are not worth going to the barricades
 > for. Now signators to the petition have succeeded in
 > giving a windfall of publicity to the antisemitic
 > website.
 > Andrea

Ironically, many of the websites (including the
"Remove Jew Watch" petition site which are trying to
push down the ranking for "Jew Watch" are probably
having the reverse effect. You see, Google will count
the number of links to a website, as well as the
number of times a particular phrase (in or near the
hyperlink phrase) is used at the website that it's
"spidering".

So, for example, if 100 websites added the following


Google has ranked the anti-semitic website Jew Watch
 #1 when searching with just
the word JEW. We should all sign a petition asking
Google to do something about it.


to their websites, Google would calculate that 100
more websites are associating "Jew" with the website
http://www.jewwatch.com.



Aside from that, not only do I agree with Andrea that
we must carefully choose our battles, we also have to
consider what a Google ranking really means.

By making Jew Watch the #1 ranking for "Jew", Google
is saying that Jew Watch is the most popular website
that has the term "Jew" in it. However Google
calculates "popularity", it is a fact that Jew Watch
is the nost popular "Jew" site at the moment.

Think of Google as a "reference librarian" for the
Internet, whose sole reference tool is the Internet.
If asked the question, "What is the most popular /
most referenced / most linked website on the Internet
that contains the word "Jew" in it, the answer would
be (at the moment) Jew Watch. Not the AJL, not the
JDL, not the American Jewish Historical Society.

A reference librarian might not like the answer s/he
is providing, but won't change the answer just to make
him/herself or the patron feel better. We don't change
answers. We teach critical evaluation of research and
also how to effectively search for all of the facts,
using a variety of resources.

I don't know much about alghorithms, but I don't think
it would be so easy to alter the algorithm just to
change the ranking for one site. To use a crude
analogy, suppose a Christian fundamentalist started a
lobbying campaign to reprogram new calculators so
that, e.g. the calculation "665+1" no longer equals
666 and "70-1" no longer equals 69. Though technically
it is possible to program a calculator that way, noone
would ever trust a calculator that gives the result
"68" for 70-1. I imagine the Google programmers are
similarly puzzled as to how to reprogram the Google
site's computers so that it excludes "Jew Watch"
without compromising the integrity of the algorithms
and without making Google lose its reputation.

I don't even know if Google can remove the website
from its database. I do know that they have a filter
for filtering out "adult sites", but I'm not sure if
they can filter other types of sites.

All I know is Google's algorithms can be manipulated
if there is enough of a group effort. This is its
strength and may ultimately be its downfall, as well.

B'shalom,

Steve












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Re: [ha-Safran]: NYT: "Google Says It Doesn't Plan to Change Search

[Andrea Rapp]

Some battles are not worth going to the barricades
for. Now signators to the petition have succeeded in
giving a windfall of publicity to the antisemitic
website.
Andrea











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[ha-Safran]: NYT: "Google Says It Doesn't Plan to Change Search

[Lori Amchin]

Results"
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I imagine some of us have signed an on-line "petition" which indicated that 
with 25,000 signatures, Google would remove the anti-semitic 
link.  However, this article indicates that Google has no intention of 
removing it.

  
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/technology/13google.html?ex=1082858656&ei=1&en=437dbd4974c1d110

Lori Amchin
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Re: [ha-Safran]: Montreal bombing

[Ted Koppel]

In addition to a special fund, I think that the following 'concrete' steps 
might be taken:

- that the booksellers who so frequently advertise on Hasafran themselves 
create some sort of a "collection replacement" apparatus so that, when the 
damaged library reopens, it can be (at least somewhat) restocked with new 
and relevant material.

- that the libraries who often announce that they are weeding titles "x, y, 
and z" perhaps save the titles and present them as gifts (if desired) to 
rebuild the collections of those libraries that have been destroyed.

Just my 2 cents.

Ted








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[ha-Safran]: CAJE Conference

[Rachel Kamin]

Dear Colleagues,



I will be attending the CAJE Conference August 15-19, 2004 at Hofstra 
University and would love to room with a fellow AJL member.  Please let me 
know if you are planning to attend as well and would like a roommate.



Thanks!



Rachel Kamin, Director

Temple Israel Libraries & Media Center

5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323

248/661-5700 (phone), 248/661-1302 (fax)



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RE: [ha-Safran]: Marcia Goldberg

[sdubin]

So sorry to hear about Marcia's accident. Here's wishing her a refuah
shleimah.
Sincerely,
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RE: [ha-Safran]: Firebombing of Jewish library in Montreal

[sdubin]

Dear United Talmud Torahs St. Laurent Library,
I was horrified and saddened to hear about the firebombing of your library.
Please know that you have our very best wishes and support in your rebuilding.
If I can help you in any way, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Susan Dubin
School Synagogue Center Division President
Association of Jewish Libraries






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[ha-Safran]: Montreal bombing

[Fredisaac]

I am sorry to hear about the bombing. It is yet another sign of the times.

I do wonder if the Association should consider setting up a special fund 
for this and similar incidents around the world. It might be on the 
Executive Board and Council agenda this year, as well as the General 
meeting for discussion.

While I think it would be wonderful to establish such a group or program, I 
do recognize the difficulties. It is certainly worth discussing.

Fred Isaac






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[ha-Safran]: Jewish communities book offers List no. 10 - Austria

[Robinson Books]

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Dear friends,

We have just published our Jewish communities book offers List no. 10 -
Austria.
Those who are interested are welcome to contact us and we will e.mail the
list, thank you.

Sincerely,
Edna Rabovsky
Robinson Books






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