[ha-Safran]: Price corrections in our Catalogue 304/A
-- ROBINSON BOOKS E.MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEBSITE: WWW.ROBINSON.CO.IL TEL: 972-3-560-1626/5461 FAX: 972-3-566-0439 P.O.BOX 4308, TEL AVIV 61042 ISRAEL -- Dear friends, We wish to announce that in our Catalogue 304/A (recently published books in Israel), the prices of 2 items need correction: Item no. 56 - Hamasekhah - correct price is $33.70 (and not free of charge). Item no. 69 - Hitmodedut khakhmey Israel be-germania - correct price is $75.00 (and not free of charge). We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Edna Rabovsky Robinson Books Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Montreal firebombing
Dear Steve, Thank you for the links to the Canadian news articles. When I mentioned the firebombing to our menahel, he was unaware of it. It is my job to ake this known locally. I am hoping to have our students contribute to the rebuilding and will ask the person in charge our Yom haShoah programs to make the connection with our kids on Monday. The articles will be of help in explaining to the kids what our role is in the aftermath of this horrible event. Anne Jaron Heberw Academy of Nassau County Uniondale, NY 11553 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Google and Blogs
--- Message requiring your approval -- From: S B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Google and Blogs I just came across a news item that says that Google may be addressing the blog problem by indexing blogs separately from the rest of the WWW, perhaps giving blogs their own tab. A side effect of such a move would be that sites that have been google bombed up to the top of search results (as many believe the Jew Watch site was) will disappear from the top rankings. The problem would still exist for those searching blogs in Google, but this is a great start to addressing the issue. The article can be read online at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/09/google_to_fix_blog_noise/ I like the fact that they made two library references in the article : (1) To me the power of what Dave Winer and Ev Williams have done, and it's great, is that I can easily publish ResourceShelf in seconds, giving me time to do other things, says respected author and librarian Gary Price. Price doesn't regard his site as a weblog, even though he uses Blogger tools, now owned by Google. Price co-authored The Invisible Web, a guide to little-known about public resources on the Internet. (2) You have to realize there are other information sources, and that information costs money. This is why New York Public Libraries has a sign 'Here's where you find the stuff that isn't in Google.' and much of this is publicly accessible, Price points out. B'shalom, Steven M. Bergson, Librarian Jewish Public Library of Toronto __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25ยข http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations / France
Dear all, This book is a must for every library. A first volume of what will hopefully be a vast collection of information. This hard cover, 607 page volume details the individuals that risked their lives to save Jews in France in WWII. It includes pictures, when available, an index and a historical introduction. Originally published by Yad Vashem in 2003, the work is now available in English. Cat. no. 50833 $41.00 L'hitraot, Wendy Wendy Weiss Simon Jerusalem Books, ltd. POB 26190 Jerusalem, 91261 972-2-643-3580 (tel/fax) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: Montreal firebombing
I hope that librarians here will be able to get the ALA to condemn this fire-bombing. I know they are very concerned with Palestinian libraries and I hope they will show concern for Jewish ones as well. Stuart Schnee The Toby Press LLC Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Last call for advertisements
Don't forget to place your ads in the Convention Program Book!. It's a great way to sell your products and honor those valiant librians you know and love. The form is on the AJL convention web page www.jewishlibraries.org, click on Convention, then 39th Annual Convention, then scroll down. Deadline: April 24 with leeway to May 1. Best wishes, Liza Stabler Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Lecture by Jonathan Sarna
A Reminder: The Herbert Eileen Bernard Museum and the Ivan M. Stettenheim Library invite you to join us as we begin to celebrate this important anniversary. 350 Years of American Jewish History a lecture by JONATHAN D. SARNA one of America's foremost commentators on American Jewish history, religion and life. Dr. Sarna is the Joseph H. Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:30 p.m. Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York 1 East 65th Street New York, NY 10021 Free and open to the public Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: GOOGLE story in the Jerusalem Post
Safranim: Please read this story from the J'lem Post. Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullcid =1081998816187 You need the free sign-in to the site to read this article directly. I again caution everybody that two can play at this game. The software attack designed to reduce the prominence of the clearly anti-Semitic site will obviously be met by retaliation from the other side against Jewish sites. Our attempt to manipulate GOOGLE's ranking of links will, in the long run, prove counterproductive. [If you were so fortunate as not to get my previous E-mail on the GOOGLE issue, please write to me so that I can send you a copy.] The story follows below my .sig file. I believe that I am NOT violating U.S. or foreign copyright laws to send you this article since the issue here is currency/timeliness. djw _ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.2539 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan Anti-Semitic site bumped off Google's top spot Michael Mylrea Apr. 15, 2004 A world-wide effort has succeeded in bumping an anti-Semitic web site from its No. 1 rank on the popular search engine Google. Utilizing a cyber-petition and some clever HTML programming, a diverse group of Jewish activists, academics and even a US senator managed to replace the top spot with Wikipedia's encyclopedia, which two weeks ago held no rank. Google Inc. had come under fire for refusing to remove the site, Jew Watch, which appeared No. 1 out of 1.75 relevant entries when a search for Jew was conducted. Jew Watch's mandate is to keep a close watch on Jewish communities and organizations worldwide. I certainly am very offended by the site, said Sergey Brin, who launched Google with fellow Stanford University graduate student Larry Page in the late 1990s, but the objectivity of our rankings is one of our very important principles. Angered by Google's response, New York-based real estate investor Steven Wienstock launched an online petition on his site Remove Jew Watch. The petition attracted over 82,000 signatures in just two weeks. Many people signed the petition out of worry that any person looking to find out about Judaism would be offered choices such as the Jewish Mind Control, Jewish World Conspiracies, and Jewish Banking and Financial Manipulations. Under one of the categories, titled 'Revisionists - 6,000,000 Jews DID NOT DIE,' there are dozens of links to articles dedicated to Holocaust revisionism. However, the investor-cum-internet crusader has also received multiple threats, hate mail and unwanted damage by computer hackers. Instead of showing the petition, Remove Jew Watch temporarily displayed pornographic images and the message the lamest site ever. Google said it would not be swayed by Weinstock's petition, noting that a web site's ranking was automatically determined by computer algorithms. Sometimes subtleties of language cause anomalies to appear that cannot be predicted, said Brin. A search for Jew brings up one such unexpected result. The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate groups and anti-Semitic activity, backed Google's decision not to remove the hate site. The ranking of Jew Watch and other hate sites is in no way due to a conscious choice by Google, but solely is a result of this automated system of ranking, said the Anti-Defamation League in a March 30 letter on its website. But US Senator (NY-D) Charles Schumer sent Google a letter asking that it change its algorithm to lower Jew Watch's ranking in the search results. In the end, the anti-Semitic site was done in by those same content-blind algorithms, which were exploited by using a popular technique called Google bombing, said Daniel Sieradski, editor of Jew School, a Web site dedicated to Jewish fringe culture. I decided to issue a call to arms on my Web site, asking people to make a coordinated effort to link all Internet communications to Wikipedia using the word 'Jew,' said Sieradski. When done in a coordinated effort, such linking is known as a Google Bomb. Although not illegal, the technique exploits Google's technology by artificially boosting the popularity of the targeted site. I can understand Google's concern that this method can be abused, said Sieradski. I admit that we are abusing it; but frankly, I think it's for a good cause. Others agree and have joined the fight to replace the anti-Semitic site. University of Manchester political science professor Norman Geras has included a link to Wikipedia Jew on his home page. While Jew Watch is no longer the number one site that appears when a viewer conducts a Google search for Jew, many critics of the site said they will not be happy until its completely eliminated from search engine results. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not
[ha-Safran]: Two lectures at George Washington University
Shalom. Both are on April 19th: 1) Sephardi Jews in the Holocaust by Aron Rodrigue, Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Stanford University, 4:30-6pm. Marvin Center, room 301 (801 21st Street, NW) 2) From Hatred to Love by Walid Shoebat, formerly a Moslem member of the PLO, now a Christian Zionist at 7:30pm. Marvin Center, room 405. B'chavod rav. Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
