Re: [ha-Safran]: Articles
Chaya wrote: Does anyone have access to the articles? Jewish Affairs : July 92 vol. 47 iss. 2 pages 9-14. The Jews in Spain, an introduction Jewish Political Studies Review: Spring 2004 vol. 16 issues 1-2. Pages 35-49. Berdichevsky, Norman The Age-Old Iberian Rivalry and the Jews. Jewish Spectator: Spring 91 volume 55. issue 4. pages 26-30, Roth, Norman, 1992 and its mythology: a warning Shofar : Spring 92 . vol. 10 issue 3 pages 5-46 Faur, Jose Two Models of Jewish Spirituality And if you do have access to these articles, please, please, please send them to me, too. Besos de Valencia Alba Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) email: lajav...@lajavura.org tlf 963 802 129 móvil 658 721 769 UStream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/la-javura-on-line Webpage: http://www.lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javura --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Musings about mission statements, copyright
stuff, and library rules X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=XWD5/VRj2HUJOhsR8cgmvPBlhMACpZXxseY1Kn/ehQI= c=1 sm=0 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:17 a=QsKh13xQ:8 a=hPoJL0YC:8 a=7r5c9JmH:8 a=lSLD8YI1:8 a=Vt2AcnKq:8 a=pSZzf3RB:8 a=9mzJjOyrW1JOCBTv0OsA:9 a=G8lzovfJC7XyD8G2d5sA:7 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=V2i4PsHBsQoA:10 a=GED_LIiEBe0A:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 76.181.167.86 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 7.00] MISSING_SUBJECT,SPF(neutral,0) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.125; country=US; region=OH; city=Columbus; latitude=39.9968; longitude=-82.9882; metrocode=535; areacode=614; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.9968,-82.9882z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists (inherits from default) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.18 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Recently a few of the communications on Hasafran have collided into each other in my head and having done so, have become topics of my weekly discussiones on SKYPE with my mentor and best girl-friend, Heidi Estrin. Nowthat we are in the High Holiday Musing Season, I wish to take a moment to muse. If anyone else has fuzzy-logic librarianship musings to share, I would be interested in reading them on or off the list. First off, on the list there is always a lot of chatter about copyright laws, their traditions and their norms. Such chatter always makes me imagine freshly landed fishes flapping about in buckets on the Santa Monica Pier in L.A. Maybe I imagine this because the next AJL Convention will be in L.A. Maybe not. . Second off, JSTOR just opened up an Early Journal Content site which states that the Swartz/Maxwell controversy had nothing to do with the new site. This pricked up my bunny ears, having never heard of either Swartz or Maxwell or the related controversy. So. I went off into the internet and looked for the controversy. This is what I found:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/swartz-supporter-dumps-18592-jstor-docs-on-the-pirate-bay.ars http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110912/10132515906/jstor-freely-releases-public-domain-papers-that-greg-maxwell-already-freed.shtml Finally, just a short while ago someone brought up The Ten Year Rule, as being a curious rule related to the weeding of books. Though the Ten-year Rule didn't ring any bells, (nor am I sure I agree that books have little time bombs in them, i.e., if the book isnt worth anything now, it probably wasn't worth anything 10 years ago anyways...), Heidi did remember something called S. R. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. I'm going to cross-stitch it, frame it and hang it on the wall: 1.Books are for use. 2.Every reader his book. 3.Every book its reader. 4.Save the time of the reader. 5.The library is a growing organism. Shana tova u'metuka filled with health, health and health, the rest will take care of itself Besos de Valencia Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://www.lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá 96 380 2129 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Jewish Review of Books
Hey! Happy new year Moreover, you will be ostracized and placed under a herem, as hinted by the writer of this innocuous article. Heidi Estrin helped me analyze the article in our mentoring session. And. Yes. It really is an innocuous article. On the Ostracized Note, here in Spain there's an extremely powerful group called Opus Dei that focuses on getting the smartest kids into their schools and universities. I was offered a job teaching English at one of them. I went for the interview, handed in all my credentials and the final question after When-can-you-start was Are you a practising Catholic? The answer was no. I did not elaborate on the subject and suddenly there was no job. So. I went down the road and got a gig with a bunch of raving commie atheists and everybody was happy. Besos de Valencia Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá (57 individuals) calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://www.lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá http://bitacoralajavura.posterous.com/ 96 380 2129 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org mailto:lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: New Israeli books
Barbara I may have asked this before, but we need to select a few new books that represent Israeli culture The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. Donna Rosenthal. Free Press, SimonSchuster, N.Y., 2003, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-7035-5. Pp466. I really like this book. Besos de Valencia Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá 96 380 2129 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Machzorim Available]
Hey hey all! News from the USCJ Prez-list: If anyone out there just happens to be looking for Harlow Majzorim, here are two synagogues who are happily giving them away: FIRST ONE Temple Emanuel of Newton (MA) still has about 2000 of the Harlow Mahzorim available Contact: Executive Director, Michael Cantor at mcan...@templeemanuel.com. SECOND ONE Merging synagogues Adath Israel and Suburban Jewish Community Center - Bnai Aaron , Havertown (PA), have available: 100 Harlow machzorim (number approximate) available and absolutely FREE. All you have to do is come and pick them up. These machzorim would be a great find for: **small congregations that cannot afford to buy the new Lev Shalem machzor but want something more modern than the Silverman edition. **fans of Rabbi Jules Harlow **communities that need a about 100 additional machzorim and need them fast and free. **alternative HIHO minyan in your synagogue Contact: Michael Muderick on our Artifacts Committee mich...@muderick.com or President, Roe Miller roedeviv...@gmail.com Besos de Valencia Alba Besotes Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá http://newyorkbeitdinfebrero2011.posterous.com/ 96 380 2129 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Looking for Exile to Life
Francine and Marilena and ha-Safranim kids, Exile to Life (Jacqueline Goldberg) Exilio a la Vida isbn 9801216921 If any of you are ever looking for books from South America in Spanish, there is a very good bookstore in Madrid. They speak English. You can give them a buzz at (34) 91 360 1229. Remember that there is a 6 hour difference between NYC and Madrid. Or you can send them a note to: Miss Isabel Ballesteros libre...@iberoamericanolibros.com They have 3 (count 'em 3) copies of the 2-volume set Exilio a la Vida. It weighs about 10pounds (4kg) and costs 120 (about 171.50$$) plus the postage 30-35 (~47$$) for a grand total of about 218.50$$$ Besos Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá. calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: On-Line Catalog Access
Paula Fine wrote: restrict access to the catalog to synagogue members Access to the catalog and access to the physical book are two different kettles of fish. ...make it (the catalog) available to everyone. Yes. The entire universe if possible. Though Steven Hawkings says that we shouldn't be so trusting of extra-terrestriales with their beam-up technology thoughts about access to on-line synagogue catalogs. Are there any down-sides None , potential problems, None or other issues (including hacking) Hacking is a problem no matter what you do on the internet.. If we made the catalog available to members only, that would be an added perk A public library is an added perk to anyone who lives in a town but to take out a book you actually have to pick your butt up, go there, sign up for a card, prove you live in the town, ya di da di da. it would be good library public relations to make our historic collection available to the larger community. An on-line catalog is one thingy and letting the books walk out the door is another thingy. Even the public library doesn't let the reference books and special collections go off premises even to members. If your historic collection catalog is on-line everyone in the whole wide world will know it. Scholars would come from far and wide just to have a look which doesn't mean they will be allowed to walk off with any of it. The question of security (will we get the books back from a non-member?) Will you get the books back from a member? When people die and leave their libraries to the synagogue library, it is amazing the number of library books one finds amongst the junk How have you dealt with these issues In La Javurá (Valencia, Spain) no reference book leaves the library. Only quota-paid-up members can check out one book at a time. Anybody can come in and browse whatever and whenever they like by calling and giving me a heads-up. and what decisions have you made about your on-line catalogs? I keep looking for the gliztyest ways possible to get it into the public. Right now I'm working on LibraryThing. if you want to see the total mess of a catalog we have on-line at the moment, go to our web-page. It's embarrassing, but it's there. Once I get my head around it, I'll pass the catalog over to LibraryThing. Besos de Valencia Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª, bibliotª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html Blog de Bitacora de los Viajes con La Javurá 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Library in Paris
Emily Bergman wrote: Any suggestions for Jewish libraries to visit... Paris Feb. 4-19 I neither speak nor read French. Has anyone mentioned the Institut André et Rina Nehr, on 39 rue Broca, 75005 (Paris), yet? http://www.e-iarn.com/site/index.php?option=com_frontpageItemid=1 The library is here: http://www.e-iarn.com/site/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=50Itemid=28 The contacts at IAR all speak English. Yoam Slusarensky is the library contact tel +0142171093 (i think france is telephone code 33). To make contact with the natives, go here: http://www.e-iarn.com/site/index.php?option=com_contacttask=viewcontact_id=35Itemid=53 ...and fill out the little boxes Name (Entrez votre nom) e-mail address (Saisissez votre adress e-mail) Subject of message Objet du message) Your message/request (Saisissez votre msessage) and hit the blue button thingy Send (envoyer) Have a fun trip. Bundle up good. You are going to freeze the hair off your toes and the humidity is insoportable. Other than that Paris is always a good time especially if you stay at an international youth hostel. Don't miss the Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries at the Museum of Medieval History where you can also enjoy an intensely cool exhibit of medieval torture devices. Besos de Valencia Alba *** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: New York City, February 13-21st
From February 13 to February 21 a member of Sinagoga La Javura and I will be in New York City for a mix of mostly business with a pinch of pleasure thrown in for good measure. We would not only like but LOVE to visit synagogues/libraries and thank personally as many of you as we can who have sent good wishes, advice, books and calendars over these last 14 years. We'll be staying at the International Youth Hostel on 883 Amsterdam Ave. We would like to treat whomsoever wants to give us a gander/tour of their synagogue/library to a cup, glass, or pint of whatever strikes their fancy for the honour. Or maybe you might want to tell us about your experiences as librarians as you accompany us on a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, or freeze our butts off as we try to slither our way across Central Park. Or if there is something you think we must not miss (like spitting off the top of the Empire State for example), be sure to let us know. You should definitely contact me off-list. Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Anti-bullying: Hey Little Ant, to squish or
not to squish X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=UQuFHoD2CPQ248x8AXEbKhr4z9AaDqApxmEl3BhfZ64= c=1 sm=0 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:17 a=QsKh13xQ:8 a=TNGuFeqL:8 a=_6DbM0db:8 a=x32_y0jp:8 a=KFJD5v0y:8 a=lSLD8YI1:8 a=Vt2AcnKq:8 a=pSZzf3RB:8 a=x4tqml2N_kwpfLyBRRYA:9 a=wEqgh_Kpo84birfsJ0wA:7 a=n9rjVV-e26ugnUPbvmNJfzq6mpwA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=-GqM8WeqLigA:10 a=V2i4PsHBsQoA:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 76.181.167.86 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 7.00] MISSING_SUBJECT,SPF(neutral,0) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.124; country=US; region=OH; city=Columbus; latitude=39.9968; longitude=-82.9882; metrocode=535; areacode=614; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.9968,-82.9882z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists (inherits from default) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.21 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Hey Little Ant The Sinagoga La Javura library has this book in Hebrew but it also comes in English and Spanish Hoose, Philip and Hannah. Hey, Nemala (Original title: Hey, Little Ant, 1998) Illustration: Debbie Tilley.Urim Publications, Jerusalem, 91521 Israel, 2005. http://heylittleant.wordpress.com/ Teacher Guide available online ...in English at http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/teachers_guides/9781883672546.pdf ...or in Hebrew at http://www.urimpublications.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PRODStore_Code=UPProduct_Code=NemalaCategory_Code=bfc http://itu.cet.ac.il/DisplayBinaryFile.aspx?sContext=InlineFilesContentType=pdfnFileID=16 Jope everybody jad a jappy Januca Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, pres Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter
Hey, team, how's autumn treating everybody? Though fall has always been my favourite season hands down (I love the smell), I have to admit that I'm enjoying this one even more than usual. I wonder why that might be. Anyways, Madden,Emily A wrote: Will we be able to print-off copies of the entire newsletter and this sparked a thought in my head. How's this for an idea? (I'm not trying to be a smart-butt here so bear with and humour me a little...) Instead of a news-letter, why not a AJL, 3-times-a-year, news-paper? I really like getting the newsletters. I've saved every single one over these last 13 years, but even I have had to recognize that I rarely re-read 10-year old newsletters no matter what the organization might be (except for maybe Pomegranite Guild Jewish Needlework club which has some really cool patterns for tora scroll covers and petit point tallit bags...), especially if I can find the articles in the AJL web page. Rarely do I take the vintage issues out for some light after-supper pre-bedtime reading. On the other hand, I like buying newspapers, too. Mostly because they are multi-purpose items. I cut articles out of newspapers and keep them in folders. I read all the advertisements and do the sudoku puzzle. (an Atlantic Monthly-style, jewish library puzzle might be fun). I save newspapers for up to 2-3 months and then when there's enough I recycle them or turn them into papier mache puppets or other manual arts projects, re-line the canary's cage or use them for draining the oil from falafel and Januca sufganiot. The news-letter could be printed as a news-paper with book adverts, chapter news, blurry photos of smiling persons, an opinionated column or two, ya di ya di da And if you want to save them, you can do that, too. Happy autumn and Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Mendon Library Book Sale: looking for all your
weeded books X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=exbvkCqEOBXDkHq+8n3wanotOBQtbe7qbIajSD+JluU= c=1 sm=0 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:17 a=QsKh13xQ:8 a=Y6HyjnjW:8 a=ReCAhExP:8 a=lSLD8YI1:8 a=Vt2AcnKq:8 a=pSZzf3RB:8 a=DRPpgke8nCzfPSeQ9i8A:9 a=jA1YzbWJNuw2pOr6uY4A:7 a=EaMW8J1tUQepcIZ9EEh4tN29PhkA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=MDl9fS8WM5UA:10 a=XJbdyyWVoYIA:10 a=V2i4PsHBsQoA:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 76.181.167.86 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 7.00] MISSING_SUBJECT,SPF(neutral,0) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.125; country=US; region=OH; city=Reynoldsburg; latitude=39.9549; longitude=-82.7693; metrocode=535; areacode=614; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.9549,-82.7693z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists (inherits from default) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.127 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Hey, Team! My friend Lisa Hochgraf is being all civic-minded and working like a dirty puppy to build the new Mendon Town Library (15 Monroe Street, Honeoye Falls, near Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y. Telephone 585 624 6067) http://mendonlibrary.org/index.php?l=tpageStewardLink=6704 Librarians on the AJL list ask quite often ask about used-book sales as fund raisers which probably won't generate enough money to buy 6 pencil sharpeners and a couch but so what! The time, effort and good-will are all worth the effort to say nothing of the PR. A Used Book Sale is like the High School Cheerleaders at the Pep Rally before the Big Game. (The last three items I used to loathe because of the part where I got to freeze my butt off doing the half time show on a field that looked not unlike the aftermath of Spring Plowing on the Prairie.) For all of you that live within hailing distance, the Mendon Town Library volunteers will pick up gently used books, DVDs, audio books, music CDs. Please, no magazines, encyclopedias, textbooks or Condensed Reader's Digests (gee, no CRDs, personally I get a kick out of them...). The Mendon Library volunteers will pick up or... if you are in the mood, you can drop off books before November 6: Mondays 9-11 a.m. Wednesdays 4:30-6 p.m. Fridays 9-11 a.m. Or call beforehand and work something out. http://mendonlibrary.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/support-your-library-november-book-sale/ Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Cookbooks
Andrea Rapp wrote: A patron wants a recommendation for a Jewish cookbook for a young lady converting to Judaism. I love this book which you can get at all your finer book shoppes: (1) Olive Trees and Honey: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World. Gil Marks. John Wiley Sons Publishing, Inc., Hoboken (N.J, ee.uu.), 2005. ISBN 0-7645-4413-6. LCCCNº TX837.M34.2004. Pp 454. And this second book is my bible which in 1968 was the very first cookbook I ever bought. Unfortunately today you will most definitely have to go scrouging around mouldy old back-alley used book stores. It is so full of crumbs, oil splotches and what have you that if push came to shove and a member of the Donner Party, you could boil it up and have it for supper: (2) The Israeli Cookbook. Molly Lyons bar David. International Cookbook Series. General editor: Charlotte Adams, Crown Publishing, 1964. LCCCN 63-21117. Pp422. Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Lots and lots of Calendars 5771: Eden Memorial Park
Thank you so much to so many people for the calendars. We keep about half of each paquette of calendars and mail out the other half to groups and individuals spread out all over Spain. They light up my map with little points of light that weave between them connecting nets. They're also terrific P.R. For something so small jewish calendars are very highly prized, especially when they come from someone as a gift. Of course you can go to some URL and print out your own calendar which has all the sex appeal of a light bill sitting on the hall table. But all the calendars sent to me are then sent out to others with your and my fingerprints all over them are like beads of homeopathic medicine. Circle of Life! Hakuna matata! Calendars are little boats anchoring us in the unanchorable sea of seconds, minutes lapping against the gunnels (gunwales?). Monthly islands of fiestas marking the way as we sail off into the horizon to eventually become a part of the timelessness of it all. Time to live! Time to die! Always time to wash the dishes! Anyways, so much for the poetry. I've sent out hand-written thank-you postcards and notes to all but ONE on the list. Someone please raise their hand and tell me who sent me a great paquette of calendars from: Eden Memorial Park. 11500 Sepulveda Blvd Mission Hills, CA Anybody? Don't be shy. I have a great postcard of the Barcelona central market with your name on it (that or the goofy castle in Zamora), comes with a real spanish stamp. Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá (46 calendarized individuals) calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Weekday Prayer Book USCJ 1961
Jag sameaj l'Simjat Tora, kids! The Jericho Jewish Center (Jericho, New York) is looking for 100, in pretty good condition, USCJ weekday prayer books. Here's the description: Name:Weekday Prayer Book Publisher:The Rabbinical Assembly of America Copyright:1961 Pages:320 Color:Blue Size:8 x 5 1/2 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 61-9812 Any takers? Somebody must have some sitting in a box in the back of some closet that need a good home. Besos de Valencia Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Lots and lots of Calendars 5771: Eden Memorial Park
Thank you so much to so many people for the calendars. We keep about half of each paquette of calendars and mail out the other half to groups and individuals spread out all over Spain. They light up my map with little points of light that weave between them connecting nets. They're also terrific P.R. For something so small jewish calendars are very highly prized, especially when they come from someone as a gift. Of course you can go to some URL and print out your own calendar which has all the sex appeal of a light bill sitting on the hall table. But all the calendars sent to me are then sent out to others with your and my fingerprints all over them are like beads of homeopathic medicine. Circle of Life! Hakuna matata! Calendars are little boats anchoring us in the unanchorable sea of seconds, minutes lapping against the gunnels (gunwales?). Monthly islands of fiestas marking the way as we sail off into the horizon and become a part of the timelessness of it all. Time to live! Time to die! Always time to wash the dishes! Anyways, so much for the poetry. I've sent out hand-written thank-you postcards and notes to all but ONE on the list. Someone please raise their hand and tell me who sent me a great paquette of calendars from: Eden Memorial Park. 11500 Sepulveda Blvd Mission Hills, CA Anybody? Don't be shy. I have a great postcard of the Barcelona central market with your name on it (that or the goofy castle in Zamora), comes with a real spanish stamp. Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá (46 calendarized individuals) calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Yom Kippur video
The Rabbi has asked me for suggestions of a non-fiction video appropriate to show during Yom Kippur. Crimes and Misdemeanors by Wooy Allen I can't say much for what makes a person happy, but I wish everyone the best of health which is enough to make even the biggest sourpuss happy in his/her sourpussedness. Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Free-bee Calendar Beg-a-thon 5771
With the High Holidays bearing down upon us like Japanese Zeros on Pearl Harbor, it's time to gear up for the Free-bee Calendar Beg-a-thon at Sinagoga conservador La Javurá, Valencia (SPAIN)! If any of you happen to think on it when in your local super-duper grocery that gives away free-bee 5771 Jewish Calendars, pretty please grab 3-6 of them, toss them in an envelop and mail them to me. Calendars free or otherwise do not exist here in intensely sunny Spain (just the thought of going out there gives me cathartic sun stroke). At this juice bar, if we want calendars we have to hit the internet. What with the calendar and *s*h*i*p*p*i*n*g*, the price of each calendar is up there doing laps around our fair planet Earth. Calendars are the most glorious invention ever. We use the calendars like textbooks in Introduction to Judaism classes; the pictures make great scrapbooks and collages. Calendars make incredible PR gifts. And where there is no real Jewish ambiance in the streets, you can add a bit of Jewish spice to your kitchen and living room. They're nice. Calendars really are wholesome, wonderful things just like non-transo-genico peanut butter-o and organically-grown strawbery jam on whole-wheat, 7-grain sandwich bread. We certainly hope a bumble-bee gets in your bonnet to send along a couple or three. Good rest of summer to one and all Shana tova u'metuka Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: After the Convention: Home again.
The Seattle convention was mega-cool. I want to thank, again and again and again, theLittauer Foundation for the travel grant and all of the AJL members for the subsidy without either of which I could not have attended the convention. I really really really liked everything especially putting names to faces like Enid and Nancy and Heidi and the wonderful conversations that were to be had at all hours of the day. The Nature tour and the nature library were stupendous. Happily and most fortunately, Sinagoga La Javura and I became members of the AJL of Southern California chapter, so now the chapter might want to call itself unofficially the AJLSC International chapter (je je je). Just thinking out loud, here, but as a possible consideration AJL might in some star-trekky future-time play with the idea (...with a pinch or pound of salt...) of a floating convention where we could hold all of the sessions in the different towns along a part of the the Intracoastal Waterway of the eastern seaboard (e.g., Washington DC and the Dismal Swamp Canal, etc...). If a bunch of Paddleboat high rollers on the Columbia River can do it, there's no reason why a gallant band of librarians can't do the same (gambol, not gamble). The sleeping accomodations could be the cruise boat(s) or little hotels along the waterway. Librarian spouses could enjoy fishing and or casual boating. I can dream. Besos de Valencia Alba ** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador/masortí La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Pertinent article on moderation just in time
Thank you Sephanie Gross for this article: https://mail.google.com/mail/http://americanlibrariesmagazine.orghttp://americanlibrariesmagazine.org I read this twice. While reading I the first time, my stomach did little somersaults while remembering my embarrassment on two occasions when I crashed and burned oh, so, big time as a moderator. So I went back and read it again. See you all in a couple of weeks in Seattle. Though I really do like rain, Ihope it rains just a tad less there than it's been doing here. Shabat shalom Besos de Valencia Alba * Alba Toscano Sinagogo conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (España) 96 380 6970 96 380 2129 658 721 769 https://mail.google.com/mail/http://lajavura.orghttp://lajavura.org http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia Ustream: https://mail.google.com/mail/http://www.lajavura.org/ustream.htmlhttp://www.lajavura.org/ustream.html email: https://mail.google.com/mail/mailto:lajav...@lajavura.orglajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: VHS transfer to DVD
Sonia Kozlovsky wrote: Has anyone used Dazzle, made by Pinnacle for transferring VHS tapes to DVD? We would appreciate any feedback about your successes/difficulties or advice. Yes. Please share this info on the list. I have a short stack of VHS that need to be converted. Up to this moment I haven't taken them to video/DVD shop because the cost is so out-of-control. Besos Alba ** Alba Toscano Sinagogo conservador La Javur calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia 96 380 6970 96 380 2129 658 721 769 http://lajavura.org http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia Ustream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream.html email: lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Suggestions for Grade 5 graduation gifts
Susan Do any of you have ideas of a suitable book... as a Grade 5 Graduation gift? Oh! Bless me, but I suddenly feel a story coming on: When I was a kid, precisely at Shavuot time, my little sister gave me a little song book with 18 jewish holiday songs in it which she had hoisted from the shoe box where all the songbooks in her Sunday-school classroom were stored. I don't know if it was the thrill of her having stolen it just for me (afterall it's the thought that counts) or having risked capture and disgrace knowing I had wanted one so much (my classroom teacher was not half so trusting...), but the booklette was very precious to me. I remember taking the booklette and my song flute out only when I knew that my parents were off buying tomatoes and Rice Crispies. A short while ago Little Sister, now a junior high school librarian in her own right, while reorganizing the hallway cupboard at my mom's house, pulled the booklette out during our weekly SKYPE chit-chat. We sang all the songs, re-told stupid sunday school stories and commented on whether we should return the booklette or not. Sadly for our souls, we have it on good authority that no longer do the teachers, the sunday school nor the synagogue exist so that option got pretty much trashed. Anyways. We are always looking for appropriate children's novels with jewish content, which is nice of course no arguments there, but rarely do we suggest a bencher or songbook with perhaps a CD. Maybe a song flute to go along with it (...to drive his/her parents ever so slightly nuts). I remember that when I was a kid, how-to was very big. Jewish origami book? How-to Throw Your Own Jewish-theme Party book? or maybe Keeping Kosher Kamp Kookbook for your favourite GirlGuide/Boy Scout enthusiast? Happy Shavuot to one and all Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano, presª and all-round Big Kahuna Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: LP records
Andrea What have people been doing with wonderful music collections that are on 33 1/3 records? Depends. But a possible option is to contact: Alexander Hartov of Darmouth who is collecting and making an archive of these recordings. First you make yourself recordings of the records as you like then you contact Alex and tell him what you have and if he would like to take the vinyl records for his collection. His email is: alexander.hor...@dartmouth.edu He wrote me the following: If you live in New England, he might even make a day of it and drive down to you and pick the material up. If you and he decide that shipping would be the best route he suggests that you use USPS and label the boxe(s) Media Mail. as it is greatly discounted and usually ends up being the cheapest option. Packing LPs is not a problem as they are very resilient. On the other had, 78s are very fragile and break easilyand should be sandwiched between LPs and tied up in bundles, then packed in larger boxes with either styrofoam peanuts or crumpled newspaper making sure there are at least 10 LPs on each side of the 78s. Separate the 78s with LPs if they are not in albums themselves. Now, then, I promised him over a year ago (I'm so embarrassed) some LPs that I have already copied onto CDs. Seeing your email has put a fire under my butt to get a move on and send him what I have. Besos de Valencia Alba Alba Toscano, presª (Sulam 23) Sinagoga conservador/masortí La Javurá (re-upped 43 individuals calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Lecture on Latin American Jewry at Library of
Madden,Emily A wrote: Webcast would be great but if any printed versions are done, we will definitely be interested since we have both large Latin American and Jewish collections here at UF. Wow, yes. Second that motion. I'm all ears. Hope everybody gives a thumbs up to a webcast. Heidi Estrin, dear, could you do a podcast of this lecture, maybe? Besos de Valencia Alba *** Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masortí La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: List of High Schools in Israel
Aaron Huber wrote: I am looking for a centralized database that lists all high schools The Dror Experimental School http://www.kdror.co.il as its name states is an innovating public high school which uses the students as guinea pigs to find new ways to make the high school experience even more so. Their results for new teaching methods feed into all of the high schools in Israel. If anyone has a database, it is they. So contact those guys. They are beyond cool. Story time: Last year the public high school P.H.S. Juan de Garay, contracted me to give a year's weekly course on judaism, jewish culture, language, la di da di dah, about all thingys jewish-ish to the kids as well as the teachers who would be accompanying them on an intercultural exchange with Dror Experimental School just northeast of Tel Aviv. When the Israeli school came to Valencia, I volunteered as tour guide, translator and other stuff. It was a blast. The Israeli kids out-punked the Spanish kids (who pride themselves on their weirdness factor of dress, holes in the skin and other distinguishing marks of today's youth that doesn't even come close to the late 60s by half I am proud to say) by about 56billion to one. The two lady teachers who are my age (60-ish) were game for anything and we got on like a house a-fire. Their english was as perfect as my hebreo most definitely is not (how embarrassing). Exactly one year later, P.H.S. Juan de Garay (Valencia) went to the Dror Experimental School (Israel). Only a third of the students and teachers who took the course went on the exchange but those who did, came back in love with Israel. The left Spain with a very high consideration of their courage and bravery before the Great Unknown. When they got back one of them confessed to me that they all felt like total idiots for having felt so because they themselves connected the dots and realized (with no help from me) that we are molded by the xenophobia perpetrated by the media which in turn is molded by how it might benefit the organization that produces said media in the first place. If you read spanish you might enjoy their public declarations, and even so there are some photos: http://medias.levante-emv.com/documentos/2010-02-24_DOC_2010-02-17_23_57_54_aula.pdf Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masortí La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Value of Encyclopedia Britannica
Nechama Kutner wrote: We just received a donation of a 1993, 15th edition Encyclopedia Britannica Macropaedia Volumes 13-29 and Yearbook volumes 1993-2007, and a Propedia volume. The set is black leather with gold tooling on the binding and page edging. The E.B.15th comes in 3 parts. The Macropaedia is cool but it's not a quick reference like the Micropaedia is. I suppose you could live without the Micropaedia, but I'm curious to know what happened to it. Sounds like someone in the family made off with the 12-volume Micropaedia when nobody was paying attention. They have asked for a donation letter in order to take a tax deduction on this as well as other volumes donated What does your library Mission Statement say about donations in general? and donation letters in particular? Personally I would ask the donors to have the set (actually 2/3rds-set) looked at by a second-hand book dealer to get an idea of it's value, (if indeed it has any value at all without the Micropaedia!). Except for the utility-value of the book(s) in your collection, I don't think it is really your job to appraise the economic value of donated books which often have more sentimental value for the donor than for the donee. I hope everyone had a lovely Tu b'Shvat. Ours was a total hoot. Very much fun had by all. If anyone would like a copy of our little spanish-language Tu b'Shvat Hagadá, just say the word, drop me a line with your address and I'll send you a copy licketty-splicketty Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) http://lajavura.org SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream.html --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Children's Hebrew audio books
Emily wrote: A congregant who is trying to hone her Hebrew reading skills inquired if the library had any children's Hebrew audio books These two newspapers are a lot of fun. They both come with CDs. I got Yanshuf for a couple of years and really enjoyed it. Bereshit Newspaper, the easiest of the easy newspapers: http://www.hebrewtoday.com/nprodi.asp?cat=242 Yanshuf Newspaper: http://www.hebrewtoday.com/ntext.asp?psn=1000 You can see a sample copy of Yanshuf here: http://www.hebrewtoday.com/1.pdf There are children's books with audio tapes. Talya Pardo, Solomon Schechter Academy (Montreal, Quebec) sent me whole box full (I adore her). However, in today's more computer oriented world, you may want to check out the language products that Davka offers like My Israel Hebrew Adventure which is a total hoot. I had a terrific time with it (but then again, anything that makes me smile is OK in my book). http://www.davka.com/cgi-bin/product.cgi?product=435 Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javur calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) 34 96 380 2129 34 96 380 6970 658 721 769 URL: http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia and http://lajavura.org UStream http://www.lajavura.org/ustream.html emaillajav...@lajavura.org SKYPE albatoscanovalencia --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Five books
Andrea Five books every American Jew should read. Having not lived in the u.s.a. for 21 years, I'm not much of an authority but at the moment I can think of one that I'm bugging every english-speaking individual in Valencia, jewish or not, to read: Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javur Valencia (Spain) lajav...@lajavura.org SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia http://lajavura.org 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Improving on beginner's Hebrew
22 Dec. 2009 Nancy ...wants to improve her Hebrew... interested mostly in improving reading - but I figure speaking the language can't hurt Hadassah has a program which sounds rather cute: http://www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?page=ivrit%2Ehtmlsection=educationheader=Ivritsize=60 This is what the web page has to say: If there isn't an Ivrit la Hadassah group on your level in your community, you can be involved in starting one: Women with a strong Hebrew background are encouraged to become teachers. With the Ivrit la Hadassah method, you don't need professional teaching experience to give the gift of Hebrew literacy. For more information, contact heb...@hadassah.org Happy secular new year to one and all! Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia and http://lajavura.org SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream.html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Book donation policy statement
Ron Freeman of Temple Am David, Warwick (Rhode Island) wrote on the USCJ Prez-list the following comment. If anyone has a written statement about donations, please send it along to Ron at ronf...@cox.net Below is his request followed by I wrote to him We are beginning to receive book donations for our library. I believe we will need a written donation policy statement at some point. A well crafted, detailed written policy as to the acceptability of potential donations, agreed upon and signed off on by the entire library committee, goes a long way in assuaging people's feelings when books are not accepted for inclusion in the collection.Does anyone have such a policy or letter? The Association of Jewish Libraries recognizes the need for a Library Mission and Policy Statement as fundamental for all libraries so that your library doesn't turn into a Room Full of Dead Books. This statement should also include a clear policy about donated books. Donated books is a classic problem especially for synagogue libraries that might have a high percentage of such books. These books are often generated by the well-meaning (though mis-guided) desires of those who are moving house or of relatives who are loathe to part with, for sentimental reasons, the inheritance of books of a departed loved one. On the other hand, they are equally loathe to give up space on their own shelves in their own homes. Usually the relatives will keep anything of value (sentimental or otherwise) and leave the rest on the doorstep of your synagogue library. You are then stuck unable to get rid of what is unnecessary (except at midnight when no one's looking) and you can't keep it because it either doesnot suit the needs of your congregation and/or it eats up precious shelf space. This is the AJL/Hasafran e-list where I sent a copy of your email Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu And this is the page. If you have a librarian (and even if you don't) your synagogue should most definitely become members of AJL. The La Javurá library (blimey! La Javurá itself!) would be nothing today were it not for the heroic librarians of AJL. http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/index.htm Shabat shalom to one and all Join us for kabalat shabat every Friday at 8p.m. (Spain time) on UStream. If you let me know you're coming, I'll shout out the Sim Shalom (english edition) page numbers (unless you speak spanish of course then you'll fit right in!). Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) 34 96 380 2129 34 96 380 6970 658 721 769 URL: http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia and http://lajavura.org UStream http://www.lajavura.org/ustream.html emaillajav...@lajavura.org SKYPE albatoscanovalencia --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: The Band's visit
Sharon Barish wrote: Did anyone see the movie (Israeli) in a theatre or on dvd? Saw it in a Artsy-type movie house with a couple of Israelis who had this running commentary going on the whole time. I loved it. They loved it. Went out and had humus at a Lebanese place afterwards. Bought the DVD. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javura Valencia (SPAIN) X-Original-To: hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 X-Spam-Score: 0.00 () [Tag at 7.00] SPF(neutral,0) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.124; country=US; region=OH; city=Reynoldsburg; latitude=39.9549; longitude=-82.7693; metrocode=535; areacode=614; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.9549,-82.7693z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists (inherits from default) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.129 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.orghttp://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: In English: La Javura (Spain) in Germany via
SKYPE for kabalat shabat X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 5.00] MISSING_SUBJECT,SPF(neutral,0) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.125; country=US; region=OH; city=Reynoldsburg; latitude=39.9549; longitude=-82.7693; metrocode=535; areacode=614; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.9549,-82.7693z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists (inherits from default) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.129 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Some people use organs for music in schul or drive their cars to schul. We here in the Sinagoga La Javura use Skype to bring music and the world into our delightfully cozy, 45 square foot sinagoga. No matter how you slice it, books are the key; Skype is just another tool that in time will be replaced by something bigger and more electronically glitzy. But books don't run on electricity nor do they break down unless you use them for a marshmallow roast. I just came back from Paideia... www.paideia-eu.org ...which is the European Jewish Yeshiva in Stockholm (Sweden). You all must consider giving Paideia a try, especially their 10-day Incubator Program which helps you develop programs, write proposals and contact the foundation with the bucks that might be able to put some reality into the project. While I was in Sweden, I tried to talk about this kind of out-reach, but most people just don't get it. So! Given that a Blog and a couple of photos will probably speak louder than a thousand b'zillion words, here is an example of how La Javura and SKYPE work to bring people and kabalat shabat closer to each other. Alex, his mom Tanya Smolianitski were also in Sweden at Paideia. They joined La Javura for kabalat shabat on Friday, August 21. http://zusya.blogs.com/zusya/2009/08/schabbat-im-21-jahrhundert.html The week before, rabi Daniel Katz, an american who has lived and worked in Germany for a dozen years, joined us here in La Javurá and the experience was just as delightful as when the Smolianitski's participated with La Javura this last week. Alex and Tanya read the different sections of the service in hebrew, russian or german and had their turn at reading the parasha ha-shuva from their chumash in whatever language they felt the most comfortable in. If you look very closely at the picture on Alex's Apple computer you will see three girls, members of La Javura: Sol, Mónica and Elene. The other 5 that were present are out of videocam range as is also the one person calling from Barcelona on the speaker-telephone (obviously!). You can see a part of the La Javura library with the bulletin board next to it with all sorts of trash, announcements, book borrower cards, and sundry junk hanging on it. Towards the end of the service, which lasts about 3hours, Miriam Sugiyama, born in Brasil, who is married to a Valencian guy (and together run a shop that sells Japanese products) brought us the sushi that did not sell during the day. They only sell sushi that Miriam makes herself, fresh daily. They give all the rest away at the end of the work day. Not only that but Miriam came by La Javura on her way home to drop off the sushi and wave to everyone, including the Smolianitski family.We especially enjoyed the photo tour that Alex gave us of the new kindergarten, their shul, and the neighbourhood where they live while we sat there eating sushi. In the lovely Smolianitski studyroom you can see Mr Smolianitski sitting behind the computer screen. You can see Tanya's hand on the book (in this larger-sized photo)... http://www.flickr.com/photos/smolianitski/3847607149/sizes/l/ ...and Alex is obviously taking the picture. On Sunday, 23 august, Alex sent me the above link to his blog that high-lights the SKYPE experience. Though I hope all the Spanish didn't put them off too much, I recognize that the greatest barrier to success and full enjoyment with Skype is not the geographical distance barrier at all but the language barrier. If all the translating became a bit cumbersome, I do hope that Alex and Tanya might consider using Skype to do kabalat shabat with Russian/German speaking persons as well as come back soon to be with La Javura. Except for the fact that I still nd a media mixer, more electronically sohpisticated everything and fewer random wires in my life, aire conditioning would also come in handy. We were all using Spanish handheld-fans trying to keep the 39ºC heat circulating. In Sweden there may be Green-Winter and Grey-Winter but here in Valencia we only have Hot and Much Hotter. Compared to putting up with the heat, Skype is the easy part. I hope everyone's summer is rounding out nicely Besos de Valencia Remember the tour's on me Alba Toscano (Sulam 23) Sinagoga conservador La Javuva (56 individuals, count 'em) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia calle Uruguay
Re: [ha-Safran]: Article needed
Andrea Colleagues, I am in need of an article from Hadassah Magazine, June 1969, titled:The Ketubah in Jewish Art, Howdy do. In the web page of the Sinagoga conservador La Javura we put up the BJE Los Angeles 1978 filmstrip on Ketubot. Of course it's all translated into Spanish but whatever the language, it's fun to look at what you can do with filmstrips with today's technology. Besos de Valencia (Spain) Alba Toscano http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Skype: albatoscanovalencia --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Nomi Levy (San Diego Hebrew School)
Please forgive, campers, but I can't think of another way to get to Nomi Levy at the San Diego Hebrew Day School I send you emails and stuff and they all get bounced back at me with the note: Inappropriate Language used!!!. It is true that I have been known to make sailors blush while cruising certain bars down on the wharf, but in the case of what I hack out on the internet, my Bobbsey Twin sinagoga newsletters could win a Swiss Catholic Girl's Convent School seal of approval on any random day of the week. (Does anyone still read those books, by the bye? I had my mother's 1920's collection and they were real page turners. It took me forever to figure out what a velocipede was let alone pronounce it). Anywhosits, do you have another email address? Besos Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (SPAIN) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: For Nomi Levy - San Diego
Nomi Levy at the San Diego Hebrew Day School I send you emails and stuff and they all get bounced back at me with the note: Inappropriate Language used!!!. It is true that I have been known to make sailors blush while cruising certain bars down on the wharf, but in the case of what I hack out on the internet, my Bobbsey Twin sinagoga newsletters could win a Swiss Catholic Girl's Convent School seal of approval on any random day of the week. (Does anyone still read those books, by the bye? I had my mother's 1920's collection and they were real page turners. It took me forever to figure out what a velocipede was let alone pronounce it). Anywhosits, do you have another email address? Besos Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (SPAIN) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia lajav...@lajavura.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Recommendation for educators on Israel Seminar
Irene a 10-day seminar... funds to purchase one book for each participant to enhance their Israel experience. The Israelis by Donna Rosenthal. Current Events, Free Press, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2003. isbn 0-7432-7035-5 I really enjoyed this book. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano http://www.uscj.org/world/valenciahttp://www.uscj.org/world/valencia mailto:lajav...@lajavura.orglajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Jewish Literacy Quizzes
Bob materials advertising our library including literacy quizzes...10 questions - on all subjects related to JewsTry this for some ideas: 6400 Questions about Judaism and the Jewish People. Edmond Lipsitz. JESL, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1986. DS102.95.L57, 1986. ISBN 0-96-91264-4-1 The book comes with 14 questions and their answers per page. If you put a 10 question quiz out each week, you'll have enough for next 12 years or thereabouts. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masort? La Javur? Valencia (Spain) http//www.uscj.org/world/valencia lajav...@lajavura.org SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Re: Weeding of dedicated books
Weeded dedicated books can be offered to other libraries who might need them. They will still be dedicated, just in a different place. Besos de Valencia (Spain) Alba Toscano Sinagoga conervador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Weine Users email addresses needed
and La Javura in Valencia (Spain) does, too. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano http:/www.uscj.org/world/valencia Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) skype: albatoscanovalencia lajav...@lajavura.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Denominations
Amalia Hadassah Magazine March 1998 Special Issue Jewish diversity This is an excellant monographic issue that says quite a bit in 62 pages. Besos de Valencia (Spain) Alba Toscano http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia lajav...@lajavura.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Anyone know where to find Charlotte's Web in Hebrew?
We use children's books in hebrew in our hebrew classes. I buy the spanish version so they get the general idea and then they read the hebrew version. It works very nicely. I have Charlotte's Web by E.B.White in spanish. I am pretty sure that it has been translated into hebrew. Would anyone know where I might find a copy? Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Stained-glass Window
Hey all (Hey, Felipe) Hebrew letter in it as it does a stylized lotus blossom with the Tibetan letter BA in the middle. I think it's YA from the Sanskrit/Paali used in Theravada Buddhism. It's the first letter of giving peace. http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HKtinput=peacecountry_ID=trans=Translatedirection=ES I saw this symbol once in an ashram populated by an unusual number of jewish persons in Oregon in the 1980's Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga consevador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Skype: albatoscanovalencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Outwitting History: 21 minutes Read aloud live
from the Yiddish Book Center X-Original-To: hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 5.00] MISSING_SUBJECT X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.134 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/audio/Outwitting%20History.mp3 For those of you who have read Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky (and for those of you have not and should definitely do so), I think you'll like this very much. It's not long and it will make a good break from the workday while eating lunch. It made my day. Words, especially funny ones, are worth their weight in saffron when you're banging around on your bike doing mind-numbing chores. Besos de Valencia (Spain) Alba Toscano (Sulam 23) Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura (52 valient individuals) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] (new email, if emails bounce back at you, ignore it; there are still a few bugs in the system) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: New email address.
We have a new email address. If it bounces back at you every now and again with some stupid message about mailboxes being full, ignore it. There are still a few bugs in the system. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nueva direccion de correo. Nouveau courrier electronique. New email address. Saludos Salutations Regards Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia (34) 96 380 2129 (34) 96 380 6970 movil (cell) 658 721 769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: The Band's Visit
Hey all! Everybody have a good summer? The Bands Visit, super touching story about a small Egyptian marching band lost in a small Israeli town. This movie is great! I saw the subtitled version here in Valencia (absolutely everything is dubbed in Spain but for some reason this wasn't). They don't march much, mostly they just sit and play. The whole story hinges on a pronunciation mistake made by the youngest member of the band. In arabic there's no distinction between the P and B; they sound exactly the same. At the bus station the youngest member is sent off to buy the bus tickets to Petah Tikvah but instead he says Bet Hatikvah and the whole band ends up in the middle of nowhere in this totally dead town where the only form of entertainment is to stand in front of the one and only public phone in town waiting for your girlfriend to call. From what a reliable source told me, the movie didn't win the Oscar for best movie in a foreign language because it's almost entirely in English a fact which makes the movie all that more ironic. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Jauvra Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Make Way for the Ducklings Redux
This has absolutely nothing to do with jewish books but the inspiration-redux for one of my favourites: Make Way for the Ducklings. All of us remember Robert McCloskey's children's books. He was (and still is) probably one of my favourite children's authors. I have all of his children's picture books in the la Javura library. I translated Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine and Make Way for the Ducklings... I've played on the bronze statures of the ducks Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack in the Boston Common. It never occurred to me, though I figured OK it could have happened maybe once as a fluke, that the duck march through a city to take the ducklings down to the water could inspire the same happy event. http://www.spokane.net/stay_connected/HotTopics_DuckHero.aspx Good summer to all Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: The Hasafran mailing list
When books are written that take radical or unconventional stands it is important for us as an organization to discuss. I'll stop goofing around for a moment and be quite serious. The book Outwitting History by Lansky brings up some really delicate issues that superficially might not appear to be so. One of the underlying themes is the Diaspora v.s. Israel question. That may sound curious but I definitely suggest that everybody take a gander at this work. There are certain ideas that will most definitely shock more than a few especially if you are members of the conservative/masorti movement. Shabat shalom Besos de Valencia (Espana) Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: The Hasafran mailing list
On this lovely list, the Jewish Fed of Greater Philly in partnership with Jewish Outreach Partnership offered, for the outlandish price of only 6$$$, Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky. I sent in my 2 box tops and 6 one-dollar bills and it got to Spain 8 days later. I love this book. I have marked up this book. I have trashed the binding. I have marked it with pen, pencil and coloured markers and turned down the corners. While reading this book, I have had no less than 4 major revelations about life, the universe and an incredible amount of other stuff. And then, on page 294, I found this: The next day (after the bombing of AMIA in Buenos Aires), I (Lansky) wired the head of the Jewish community in Buenos Aires, offering to replace every volume that had been destroyed. Four months later, our bibliographer, Neil Zagorin, and ZACHARY BAKER, then head librarian of the YIVO, traveled south to make the necessary arrangements... And I thought: Bless my ears and whiskers, blimey blimey. I know that Zachary guy from AJL. Not like we're bosom buddies or anything or that I would ever come close to recognizing him in a dark alley. But it's nice to feel connected like that to people for whose opinions you have read, respected and considered commentating on on the AJL list. I like to see what lectures are being given (which give me ideas for what I can do around this here popsicle stand) and what jobs are being offered (which I shall never be able to apply for) and what projects people are involved in. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Egalitarian Siddur
Rachel (i.e., in the English, G-d is still referred to as He in some places.) Any ideas? But if He is changed to She, is the sidur now egailitarian or just chauvanist in the other direction? Besos Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Looking for a Jewish play and the little
books in Ladino X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.90 (*) [Tag at 5.00] J_CHICKENPOX_21,MISSING_SUBJECT X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.131 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN We've been little cataloging fools here at La Javura. I just love it because now I can say: Sure, let me help you out! I can actually find something now! Ann Abrams of Temple Israel Library, Boston, sent us this interesting book when she was weeding out the William S. Koster Bookshelf: Modern Israeli Drama, an Anthology. Edited with an introduction by Herbert S. Joseph. 1983 by Associated University Press. ISBN: 0-8386-3104-5. 'Library of Congress' cataloging numbers: PJ5043.M6 1983892.4'26'08L.C. 81-72034PJ5043 M6. English. Hard cover. Pp 267, cms 16 x 24. Contents: Moshe Shamir: He Walked through the Fields [translated by Audrey Hodes.]. Aharon Megged: The First Sin [translated from Hebrew by S. Eingad and M. Arad.]. Yosef Bar-Yosef: Difficult People [translated by H. Bernard, D. Oklans and Dennis Silk.]. Yehoshua Sobol: The Night of the Twentieth [translated by Michael Salkind.]. Dan Horowitz: Cherli Ka Cherli [translated by Karen Alkalay and Hannah Gut.]. Nola Chilton / A.B.Yehoshua : Na?m (adapted for the stage by Nola Chilton from the novel The Lover by A.B.Yehoshua; translated from Hebrew by John Auerbuch.). Bye the bye, for all of you 17 persons who wanted the little ladino books. I was torn. I wanted to send them to everybody. Alas and alack. I put all the names into a ceramic urn and pulled out a winner. However, I contacted the author and told him all about you all and he is quite willing to give me more copies. The catch (there's always a catch) is that I have to get them from the mini-publisher who is being very difficult to find (never answers his phone). If I ever do track that guy down, I shall send each of you whatever I can get out of him. Have a nice warm day (I'm freezing here in Spain, at least it is indeed sunny) Shabat shalom Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: A neutral text comparing the Jewish denominations?
Elizabeth Check out Hadassah Magazine. Special Issue: Jewish Diversity, March 1998 The whole issue is dedicated precisely to this question. On page 21 there's a great chart that compares Orthodox, Reconstruccionist, Conservative, Reform with respect to God, tora, halaja, women, cashrut, brit mila, divorce, conversion, intermarriage, Who is a Jew? Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Give away 3 little books in ladino/spanish
Hey there all I have 3 little books that together weigh a little under a pound that I would like to give to whomsoever wants them. I will even pay the postage as a way thanking all those billions of persons in AJL who have sent me calendars and how much more I can not count. Here they are. They come all three together. No great shakes, but they may be of curious interest to someone out there: Rosa, Jaime B. Reencuentro en Sefarad Al-Andalus 2000, Reencuentro tripartito del arco del mediterraneo. Edicion y proemio: Jaime B. Rosa. Colaboran: Taha Mohamed Alí, Pnina Amit, Naïn Araydi, Victor Carlos Condat, Yoav Hayek, Carlos Jacobo Levy, Monsef Louhaïbe, Margalit Matitiahu, Faud Rifka, Natan Yonatan. Poesía Hispanica no.17, Instituto de Estudios Modernistas, Valencia, 2000. ISBN 84-95356-25-2. Pp 91, bibliografía. Rustico. Poetry. Rosa, Jaime B. Reencuentro en Sefarad Al-Andalus: Primer encuentro de poetas del arco mediterraneo. Edicion y prefacio: Jaime B. Rosa. Prologo: Pedro J. De la Pena. Colaboran: Saud el Asadi, Naim Araide, Sandu David, Nazia Haer (Nazih Kheir), Salman Masalha, Margalit Matitiahu. La Torre de Papel, Poesía no. 50, Instituto de Estudios Modernistas, Valencia, 1999. ISBN 84-89278-94-6. Pp107. Rustico. Poetry. Edicion cuatri-lingue: hebreo/espanol/arabe/ladino. Rosa, Jaime B. Sepharad 2000: Antologia Judeo-espanola. Edicion y prefacio: Jaime B. Rosa. Prologo: Pedro J. De la Pena. Colaboran: David Fintz Altabe, Isahar Avzaradel, Sara Benveniste Benrey, Salamon Bicerano, Rita Gabbai Simantov, Matilda Koen-Sarano, Izan Konorti, Lina Koen Albukrek, Margalit Matitiahu, Avner Perez, Clariss Nicoidski Abinun, Sara Yohay. Libros Perseo no. 3, Editorial Instituto de Estudios Modernistas, c/Fco Moreno Usedo 37, 46018 Valencia, 2000. ISBN 84-95356-22-28. Pp178, bibliografía. Rustico. Poetry. Send me your name and address and I'll send them Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javurá Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Summary of Classification System.
Happy secular new year to one and all. This was a great great email. I read absolutely everything. Of course the only proceedings I don't have is that for La Jolla (figures). Could somebody photocopy me a copy of the article or does someone have an extra copy of the proceedings that I can buy off of you (and I'll pay the postage as well). Please see: Convention Proceedings, La Jolla, Dr. David B. Levy Ancient to Modern Jewish Classification Systems (2nd half of article after historical overview deals with practicalities of strengths and weaknesses of various systems including: Elazar, Weine, Leikind, Dewey, LC , Freidus, S Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Hanukkah podcast/present for you
Heidi and all you book-hounds out there. ...unedited talk recorded at the independent bookstore Books Books in Coral Gables, Florida with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief (first ever winner in the Teen Category of the Sydney Taylor Book Award). I frequent Casa del Libro, a book shop here in Valencia because not only does it have a good selection of all types of books but it has a terrific cafe on the second floor with a balcony that hangs over the first floor so you can spy on how everyone is messing up the orderly arrangements of books on the carrels. A couple of weeks ago, from over a cup of coffee while looking down at the customers below, the cover of La Ladrona de Libros caught my eye but I didn't pay it much mind. Just this morning though, I was listening to Heidi's podcast as I always do because it's so damned good and entertaining. The interview with Mr Zusak was cracker jack. Only towards the end of it did it dawn on me that The Book Thief had been translated into spanish. No sooner did I finish listening to the interview than I got on my bike and pedalled off to Casa del Libro and bought La ladrona de libros which I read, upstairs on the balcony, overlooking a cup of coffee. Both were very very good. Go to The Book of Life web page at www.bookoflifepodcast.com, look for the player in the right-hand sidebar, and click on the big button that says Play my show on your site to get the HTML code. Definitely do that. When I got home, I listened to Mr Zusak again. I laughed just as much the second as the first time. Besos a todos Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Cataloging bible/torah commentaries in Elazar
Hey all. Hope Thanksgiving was lovely and an the up-coming Januca equally so. We are doing some serious cataloging and organizing of material in the modest library of the Sinagoga La Javura. We're going to be using Weine. At the moment we're assigning general categories. We read bits of the book and the blurbs on the covers. Here's a question that's come up: What's your take on personal narrative, memoire, and autobiography or autobiography/biography in the guise of ficcion? And yesterday we all got into a dither over drama v.s. theatre. For example, every time we have to pay the phone bill or decide which kind of candles we should get or figure out where the intro to judaism class should meet, everyone starts talking like teacups and tempests spanish style (more like coffee cups, nobody drinks tea around this popsicle stand). The distinction between the two has to have more than just with how the words are gathered on the page. For instance, I can't imagine putting the dialogues of Plato on Broadway. Well, yes, actually, as someone who has suffered through Waiting for Godot, I can imagine it. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Cheironomy
Gentle Liza Madrich le Gabbai: A Gabbai's How-to Manual by Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs KTAV Publishing House, Inc.1996 ISBN 0-88125-562-9 On page 75 there are 7 drawings of hands shaping some of the tropes. Now that won't cover all the ground you're looking for obviously. Unfortunately the book doesn't come with a bibliography and the pictures aren't cited as belonging to anyone in particular. Rabbi Isaacs can probably be found and I would love to know where he got the pictures from myself. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Graphic novel bibliography
The following two are translated into spanish: Joann Safar (The Rabbis's Cat) 1971- El gato del rabino: nº1 La Bar-mitzva (isbn 84-8431-898-2) nº2 El Malka de los Leones nº3 El Éxodo (isbn 84-9814-188-5) nº4 El paraíso terrenal (isbn 84-9814-543-0) http://www.NormaEditorial.comwww.NormaEditorial.com www.dargaud.com Art Spiegelman (Maus) 1948- Maus 2007, Random House Mondadori, S.A., Travessera de Grácia nº 47-49, Barcelona 08021. Translation Cruz Rodriguez Juiz 2007. ISBN 978-84-397-2071-3. And this one is from Argentina: Book: Jorge Zentner. Drawing: Rubén Pellejero El Silencio de Malka: Emet (Estilo Comic). Colección Viñetas nº1, Ediciones Glénat España, Barcelona, 1995. ISBN 84-88574-75-1. Happy sucot. May everyone have a very happy healthy sane round new year Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Walking Tour of Valencia (Spain) June 2007
Rabbis Mark Hurvitz and Debby Prinz visited Valencia in June. Many of you have asked what I would show you if you were ever to come with me on a walking tour of Valencia. Well, then. This is it. The commentary is neither bigger nor smaller nor grander than things here really are. Mark captured La Javura and Valencia perfectly. The only complaint I have is that the 2 photos in which I figure, show ever single one of the 15 pounds I have gained over this last year. Very irritating but a grand incentive to loose them forthwith. I thank Mark and Debby from the bottom of my heart for their kind comments and for being excellant tourists. I hope you look up the page, that you enjoy it and that you come to Valencia as soon as possible so I give you the penny-tour: http://www.davka.org/where/travel/iberia+2007/spain/valencia.html Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Polish book
and is not set up to accept credit card payments, and they want us to send payment by wire transfer, which is a problem for us to pay by credit card or write a check in US dollars are a problem for this vendor.I am so glad someone on the U.S.A. side of the Atlantic has said this out loud. These last billion years, I have moaned and groaned about access to, searches for and payment of books especially as someone on the Europe side. It's not a problem with this or that vendor. It's a problem with all vendors/buyers over here when faced with the US$. It's all well and good if you are some international mega-monopoly paying out b'zillions in protection money to some mafioso from Marselles. However payment for goods and services on a grass roots level between the USA and Europe (and vice versa) is like sex between methane- and oxygen- breathing sentient beings: You really have to want it. Checkbook checks as a custom/concept just don't exist in Spain. It's cash on the cracker barrelhead. If you rummage about in a typical Spanish Mom's handbag there will be the usual tissue, gum wrappers, cell phone, hard herbal candy, bus pass, metro pass, tramway pass, grandma coin purse with the clicking not zipper fastening system, 89 keys 84 of which do not seem to have any purpose other than to serve as ballast, and a fan. But you'll never ever ever find a check book. Spainsh banks don't offer anything paper currency smaller than 20-$ bills which you have to pay for in advance. And it's against the law for a bank to accept the 100 or 50-$ bills (that my mother sends me every now and again) in trade for smaller denominations. There's no point my going into a long description of commissions on wires, transfers, bank money orders and foreign currency check cashing for anything less than a very large sum. When push comes to shove Europe is very comfortable with the good old-fahioned traditional pre-Berlin Airlift style Black Market which, for all I know, may even have a Black Market Stock Exchange building somewhere. I live in a country where nobody really trusts banks, savings and loans or cooperatives which can and do go under over night, breeds an interesting psycology. You'll have just as much success opening an anvil store as getting a spaniard to buy something on the internet with their VISA card; they just don't believe they'll get the goods. So, just as I have, everybody has worked out a whole repertoire of payment protocols that side-step as much as possible the banks. When jewish tourists come to Valencia, I feel like a panhandler in Golden Gate park: Heey, gots any 1-$, 5-$, 10-$ bills on youse guys? I can give you a good rate! I do a lot of favours for americans in and outside of the US, when they ask if they can give me a donation or some such truck, I usually ask that they pay $8.80 to someone I owe in the US with a US check with US dollars. Often I send $$ in a recycled greetings cards to pay up. Once I bought the Jewish Braille Institute a subscription to Raices the only Spain-spanish jewish magazine in existance. I was hoping they would send the price of the magazine to Sal Kluger for some books I really wanted. But the accounting dept at JBI is very strict and rightly so. So I asked them to send a check to my ex-husband (still my best friend) who tells me that he thinks he inadvertently tossed it into the paper recycle bin with the Save the Whales propaganda (each month he changes his improve-the-world cause list; that particular month neither large sea mammals nor the JBI figured on the list). Ufff! How I do waffle. By the bye! It's that time of year again for pilferred CALENDARS 5768 from Von's Fine Shopping Food Stores. I got 100 one-$ bills off a nice guy the other day and have plenty of recycled greetings cards to recycle, so I can offer postage. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia
Re: [Hasafran] Benjamin of Tudela
I believe that Benjamin of Tudela was a real person. At least the people of the town of Tudela which I have visited rather often think he was. It was the first book published by Riopiedras Ediciones (Barcelona). Even figures in one of the UAHC filmstrips. one. It reads like a Michelin Tour Guide so there's not much dialog. From what I gathered from reading it, Ben Tudela was a travelling salesman who dealt in semi-precious stones. I don't know how accesible you can make sales pitches to kids but since salesmen are salesmen no matter what where or when their doing the selling, Uri Shulevitz probably didn't have too much trouble with the dialog part. I've given a lot of tours to jewish travelling furniture, textiles and industrial hinge (all sizes from jewelry boxes to container ships) salesmen who come to the big trade show facilities that Valencia offers the discriminating vendor and they all talk exactly the same way. Shulevitz would just have to put a little medieval twist to it and there you go. Besos de Valencia (Spain) Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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]: Interviews with Sydney Taylor winners
Enid Sperber wrote: Thank you so much for the latest podcast installment of The Book Of Life. When Enid says something I listen. So I went to Heidi Estrin's podcast and listened. It was not good. It was GREAT. I loved it. I agree with whomever said that this is taking librarianship to the next level. Also, have you all checked out the web page of Heidi's sinagoga? It's light and airy with substance. I felt like I was floating on something that wasn't going to sink. I am suddenly smitten with the need to revamp the whole La Javura web page and start a little podcast blog in spanish. Besos de Valencia, chavalines Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: A Thank-you Letter to the USCJ-Prezlist
Rabi Chaim Weiner of the Conservative/Masort Olami Movement came to Valencia from Sept 8-11 for a visit. On the evening of the 8th, I charmed Chaim into visiting the center where La Javura and the Asociacion Valenciana de Diabetes offer exercise and nutrition classes free of charge to the general public as a part of our social action service to the community at large. Next stop (somewhere around midnight), Chaim came to visit the cheery green-painted room which houses La Javura. We showed him the library and the strawberry plants in the window and all the rest of it. Chaim invited us for shajarit shabat and havdala the following day with him and his group of 12 others from Edgeware (London, England) at the recently formed masorti-affiliated, predominantly south-american group Aviv also here in Valencia. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience as Chaim is a very good speaker. During shajarit shabat, I couldn't help but notice that Aviv lacked jumash, siddur and majzor in English for their occasional english-speaking visitors. After shajarit shabat (but before I accompanied the Edgeware group on a quickie-tour of the Valencian Post Office, train station and Central Market), I asked them if they could use some books and they accepted the offer. I went home for lunch and came back just before havdala with my red shopping cart and: 10 Hertz humash 7 RA/USA Sabbath and Festival Prayer books 10 Silverman majzor The truth of the matter is that it is the USCJ Presidents on the e-Prez-list and the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) that we must thank for their unswerving generosity these last 8 years in sending La Javura donations of books, calendars, humash, majzor, siddur and other material such as but not only filmstrips and children's hebrew books. Though we ourselves only speak Spanish (in the main), we have been able to share these books (and material) with the reform, masorti and modern orthodox synagogues that have English-speaking visitors (not only in Spain). Last week a member of La Javura drove to the english-speaking modern-orthodox british synagogue in Alicante/Benidorm, tourist towns two hours down the coast south of Valencia, to deliver a box of 25 Silverman majzor in time for the new year. We have sent tallit to both Bet-El (masorti) in Madrid as well as Atid (reform) in Barcelona. I want you all to know that everything the guys and gals of the USCJ Prez's and AJL send us gets used and is appreciated (more than fingers can type). None of it ends up in someone's closet or forgotten in some corner (which would be pretty hard to do since there are only 4 corners in the green room of La Javura, anyway). Recently some of you might have received a letter from Alan Silverstien outlining the activities of Masorti Olami and asking for financial support (sure, why not, everybody does this time of year, it's practically my middle name...). Chaim Weiner travels all over Europe visiting most conservative synagogues with almost equal attention (some need more attention than others; there are just so many hours in a day...). Chaim runs the beit din in London and coordinates communication amongst us little groups. La Javura isn't the only itty-bitty island out there living in a semi-vacuum. In this new year if you happen to be considering a vacation trip to Europe or Australia perhaps and start rummaging about for a synagogue to visit, keep in mind that without the books, materials and the occasional donation either to the Masorti Olami movement in general or to a specific synagogue, we would most likely be dead and you would have to scratch that activity off your things-to-see-and-do list. So! Give heartily to your synagogues because there is no place like home and may you all have a sweet, well-rounded new year. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano, presidenta y bibliotecaria Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura (28 individuals) calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Espana) +34 96 380 2129 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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]: RE: Cost of Conventions
I'm taking everybody's comments and making a shaken-not-stirred cocktail: Collegedale, 7th-day Adventist College, Tennessee, Vegetarian. How's that sound? Besos Alba T. Sinagoga La Javura Valencia (E-spain) 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]: Card Catalog
Believe it or not, I am still not automated and am filing cards. I'm out of room. Sure. Why not? I'm still living with shoe boxes. Note the plural: Shoe boxeS; we now use two thanks to the many ladies and gents on this list who have sent all sorts of invaluable material. The La Javura library is beginning to look a lot less like a swiss cheese and a lot more like a well-organized Red Cross Bake Sale. Some of you have asked (and not received a reply) about whether I was alive, dead or out of town. So to stop wagging tongues, on October 8, 2004, the guarentee on my pancreas went belly-up. Since then I've been dedicating my life to loosing weight and helping others face their diabetes head on as part of the Social Action program of La Javura. I have appeared on a couple of local t.v. programs and on one radio program to talk about how being a jewish vegetarian diabetic can turn you into a blythe jewish woodland nymph. The progress I have made has convinced many in the Asociacion Valenciana de Diabeticos nutrition class to come to my kosher ovo-lacto-fisho vegetarian kitchen to learn how to make tofu and gluten edible. I ask you: Is not Cooking the noblest art of them all? Food itself is the finest medicine there is. Cosher cooking by its very nature makes us think twice about the why we eat what we do which is fundamental for anyone who wishes to control their health (spiritual or physical). When push comes to shove what better way to underscore the adage: Choose life over death? Learning to love being diabetic is no small trick but then again learning to love being alive is no small trick either. Cosher Cooking helps you do both at the same time. Therefore, the La Javura library now offers 8 vegetarian cookbooks, 9 other cookbooks especially for diabetics and 14 cosher cookbooks (mostly israeli and mediterranean in spanish whenever possible). Plus Richard H. Schwartz's great classic Judaism and Vegetarianism, isbn 1-930051-24-7. Happy Purim to All. In other years we have tied-on some major sugar-alcohol highs with a triple bow knot. This year the rest of the gang will continue to get all knotted up on kosher wine Made in Spain and middle eastern sweets made by the finest Algerian baker that has his shop just down the block from my apartment building. I, on the other hand, shall very happily eat nuts, dried fruit and ...maybe... one Orecchi di Aman (without the honey but with a lot of anise seed). Shabat shalom Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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]: Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo
Monica but I remember it was redThe novel in question has some Jewish content (possibly Biblical) and tells a story of a girl and a prince. Yes. I think it's Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo by Lion Feuchtwanger. Originally published as Die Judin von Toledo, 1954. There are various editions with from 339-589 pages which I suppose depends on how teeny you can make the print without it's disappearing altogether. Yet another rendition of the megila of Esther but set in Spain. I tried to read it in the spanish edition as La judia de Toledo and I hated it. I used to use it to put me to sleep. I was so bored that I gave it away to someone I absolutely could not stand. They really really wanted it. How perfect, thought I. A thoroughly boring book for a thoroughly boring person; I'll be happy that it's out of the house and they'll be happy that it's in theirs. What more could a body ask for? And we both ended up very happy with the end result of the transaction. If any of you can come up with something wonderful to say about this book I am all ears and wiggling whiskers. Happy New Year 2005 Happy Chinese New Year (lord know what number) Happy Tu b'Shvat (founder's day for La Javura; I love Tu b'Shvat) It's nice to have many new years; always another chance to get everything back on track. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Spain 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]: Large Print Judaica collection
Joan The Jewish Braille Institute has a large selection of large-print religious books. If you get one copy of everything they offer that would a good jumping off point and give the patron a ball-park figure to work with. You could look at the JBI web page together... http://www.jbilibrary.org JBI INTERNATIONAL 110 East 30th Street New York, NY 10016 Telephone: 212-889-2525 Fax: 212-689-3692 Toll Free: 1-800-433-1531 Shana tova Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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]: Need help establishing new day school library
Shari What books in the areas of (1) Jewish history to the present, (2) Land ofIsrael/Zionism, and (3) Holocaust studies are must haves... Did anyone mention or do you already know about two AJL publications that might be what you're looking for? 1) Developing a Judaic Children's Collection: Recommended Books and Videos, by Linda Silver, november 2001. ISBN 0-929262-56-5 2) Creating a Collection: A Resourece Booklist for a Begining Judaic Library, 4th revised edition, compiled by Merrily F Hart (I love her name). ISBN 0-929262-56-5 Interesting how both of these have the same ISBN numbers; I've always wondered about that. I haven't lost much sleep over it granted, but it comes to mind from time to time We got these two publications in the An Introduction to Judaica Librarianship Session III: Collection Development at the AJL Denver Colorado Convention 2002. I have used these two publications to orient and re-orient my brain. They're great for me. They might be great for you. Having a Hot Hot summer Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Transferring audiotapes to CDs?
Have any of you had experience transferring old audiotapes to CDs for your library's archives? Year 2004 prices in the U.S.A. are a total mystery to me but if you project having a lot of stuff to copy now and in the future, you might consider buying the electronic bits and pieces necessary to make CD copies from tapes and/or records for yourself. You already have the computer. There are a lot of tapes and records out there that will never be re-released in CD format. Tapes and videos are utterly passe'; over time, tape stretches and gets all weirded-out. (Filmstrips on the other hand are making a come-back as curiosities from gentler, simpler, lowest-tech times when all you still need is a mega magnifying glass and a large light bulb out of Dodger Stadium.) In 2001 Norman Brickman, member of the AJL list, offered us 719 radio episodes on 8 CD's from the radio program Eternal Light. I bless Norm's name. I kiss his dirty shoe. Fabulous. I especially love the dialogs between Mark van Doren and Maurice Samuel The Words We Live By. Their words are like a head massage; better than aspirin. In Valencia (which is about as far from the centre of the galaxy that a body can get without actually falling out), there are two places called Playback (it's the same place just in two different places). They are open to the walk-in off-the-street public. They sell sodas, water, chocolates, ice cream and bread sticks to help you while away the hours you spend feeding the copying machine with coins. They even have a monitor with non-stop MTV (spanish style a.k.a. boring). I'll wager that places that do tape-to-CD copying in your town are listed in the Yellow Pages. Alas and Alack however, for what I paid those bold-as-brass high-school drop-outs I could have bought all the necessary electronic junk and set up my own studio to boot. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Oxfam
At least here in Spain, Intermon-Oxfam was brought into existance in 1956 by members of the the Compania de Jesus. During Franco, the Red Cross was an organization controlled by the government. Baden-Powell Scouts (the kind we are all grew up with in the u.s.a.) all but disappeared and the concept was taken over by the Church. This form of Scouts still exists as Scouts Junior. Happily Baden-Powell Scouts is enjoying a limited though definite revival. From 1992 for tax purposes and to qualify for government and other types of funding Manos Unidas, Intermon Oxfam, Caritas and other catholic run organizations came out from under the Catholic church umbrella and changed their tax status to NGO. The motive behind this was that the spanish population had basically stopped going to church and had stopped donating to church organizations. As soon as these organizations left the overt patronage of the Church, and converted themselves into NGO's, people started donating again thinking that the church was no longer involved (tsk, tsk). If you go here: http://www.intermonoxfam.org/page.asp?id=314 ...if I'm not mistaken, this is the Oxfam store-front in Valencia (could be somewhere else, but I was just down that way today and it certainly looks like Valencia). If it is Valencia (99.3% sure), this particular store was previously Manos Unidas and before that some other Help India thing and before that the last headquarters of the Seccion Feminina (Women's League) of the FET-JONS, better known as the (loosely translated), Franco Fascist Club: Falange Espanola Tradicionalista-Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Socialistas. (If it sounds a little nazi-ish, your spanish isn't as bad as you might think.) Several generations of women who for the most part had very little interest in politics, from 1939-1977 worked in hospitals, day-care, government kitchens... as un-sung volunteer, un-paid labor. They didn't get so much as a plaque or a street named after them. Their two-year training would have been equivalent to a junior college degree in Domestic Science. It also included catholic religious and Francist political indoctrination. All women had to go through the Seccion Feminina training/volunteer work program if they wanted to get any government document, e.g., driver's licence, passport, university student, etc. Only if you were married could you get out of it. When Franco went, so too did the Women's League; in fact but not in spirit. The essence of the Seccion Feminina today has been converted into the un-paid, un-sung, volunteer section of all these organizations that we conceive of as non-government, non-religious. In Spain however, they may not be government but they are most certianly Catholic. I can not and will not deny the good that Intermon-Oxfam has done and continues to do all over the world. However, it is the spanish Catholic church that publishes their literature and it was no mistake that Israel did not show up in the spain-spanish Intermon-Oxfam tour book. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia 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]: Web literacy
In other words, look, their scrambling for your attention in this way and that - it's not all necessarily a conspiracy - but you should understand it, respect it, and know how to read between the lines.. I always quote J.K.Rowling in the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when talking about web pages in the Introduccion al Judaismo class that Sinagoga conservador/masorti offers on Sunday morning, to wit: Ginny! said Mr Weasley, flabbergasted. Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. Why didn't you show the diary to me, or your mother? A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark magic! One of the exercises is to find some web pages on judaism (not hard there's only about 2,349,103 of them) and then do 3 basic chores: 1) Who wrote this thing 2) Who are their friends and affiliations 3) Does the contact us answer a garden-variety question with decent grammar in a timely fashion and sign with a real name. A good page starts with, for example: You have just landed in a web page that represents Synagogue Such and So, designed to promote a specific branch of judaism. This is our address. This is our telephone number and these are our office hours. Pop on by. Anything less is suspect. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain, pop on by any time for the penny tour) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia +34 96 380 2129 === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Slap Dash II: Correccion
Efraim is still having computer problems. So am I come to think of it. Is anyone else having a problem with AOL.COM? AOL bumps all my mail as spam, very bothersome. Ef would like to make a small correction. So here is Translation Slap-Dash II (original spanish follows): Zadoff wrote: Yo! Alba! I have to correct what I just wrote. The books upon which I based my answer appear to be wrong. I continued looking about and came across Zeev Vilnai's book with is the undisputed authority on the subject. The interpretation that I made on the name is correct, i.e., Shaar Hamugrabim does come from the neighborhood which was built in front of the Kotel and which was indeed flattened in June-July 1967. It was in this neighborhood that at one time arabs from the Maghreb, i.e., the North of Africa, lived. The correction has to do with the identification of the gate. Haaretz is quite right, the rampart, (a wall of which collapsed a couple days back), leads to (the Mograbi Gate) which is indeed the gate in the southwestern area of the Temple. It does NOT lead to the Shaar Ha-ashpot or Dung Gate. Ah. What a relief. Now I can get ready for shabat with peace of mind knowing that I've corrected that mistake. Thanks for passing this mail on to our friends at Hasafran... ooxx Efraim Hola Alba,Debo corregir lo que te escribi antes. Los libros en los que me base parece que estaban equivocados.Continue buscando y revise el libro de Zeev Vilnai, autoridad indiscutida en el tema. La descripcion que hice del nombre es correcta. Shaar Hamugrabim proviene del barrio que estaba construido frente al Kotel y que fue destruido en junio-julio de 1967. En ese barrio parece que en algun momento vivian arabes procedentes del Maghreb es decir norte de Africa. La correccion es sobre la identificacion de la puerta: en Haaretz tienen razon, es la puerta que esta en la zona sur occidental de la muralla del Templo, a la que se llega por una explanada de la que hace unos dias se derrumbo una pared. NO ES el Shaar Ha-ashpot - Dung Gate. Ahora puedo prepararme para shabat mas tranquilo, sabiendo que corregi el error.Te agradecere que lo pases a los companyeros de HASAFRAN ya que tu ingles es mas fluido que el mio.;-) Carinyos,Efraim. Shabat shalom y'all Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valenciahttp://www.uscj.org/world/valencia == HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
[ha-Safran]: Raices: the only jewish spanish-language magazine
Raices is only one real jewish spanish-language. The editors are offering year 2004(numbers 58, 59, 60 y 61) for 49euros (~60$u.s.), surface postage and handling included in the price, to anyone who lives in north, middle or south america, if you sign up before March 31. I have them all from the first. It's really quite good even if it is the only one. It is definitely tilted towards the sefardic/orthodox side of things but every now and again they say something nice about the 2 conservative synagogues in Spain, Bet-el and La Javura. The subscription form is in their web page http://www.revista-raices.com They only accept payment by credit card. And, no, I don't get any cut-backs on this. I like the editor Gabriel Kohan, she's very nice and quite funny. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia == HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
[ha-Safran]: Bookbinding in Detroit
My buddy Roger Leemis at Adat Shalom, Farmington Hills, Michigan has 5 Harlow majzorim in need of re-binding. I don't see the point in his sending them to Spain for a routine binding replacement if they can be fixed up close to home for the same price and bother (except that it's cool to have books fixed up in Spain with real spanish goat leather and matching cover slips). Detroit is the nearest large city. Anybody know of and/or can recommend a bindery that does maintenance binding in that area? Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia == HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
Re: [ha-Safran]: Women in the Bible
Rivka, Thank you so much for this information. I will pass it along to my patron. Tsk Tsk and pull my socks up. I plan on passing it along to every guy that walks through the door as an informative pamplet. Besos Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [Ha-Safran] more on evenhandedness
...equally as scrupulous to include religious views with which you disagree? Good question. . Even though the Sinagoga conservador/masorti LaJavura library could fit in your back pocket, instead of blowing the budget on 5 copies of the same jumash, I bought the Marcos Edery conservative movement jumash, the neutral Katznelson bible, the Daniel Karpuj mostly middle-of-the-road ashquenaci orthodox Pentateuco, the sefardic orthodox HaMercz jumash and the Plaut (in english unfortunately) reform jumash. I bought them so that we could compare translations and commentaries when we read and discussed the parasha ha-shavua. I realize that I am incredibly prejudiced in the selection of any book other than a jumash. In all other respects however, I find I am incredibly prejudiced in my selection of library material. I stay away from anything that depresses me. I will never willing buy a book on the Shoa. The library has 3 classics on the subject but other than those, the subject gives me the creeps and nightmares. Besides that, it seems to be the only subject that is translated into spanish and sold in the bookstores so I figure if anyone really feels the need to dig into it they should go to the local bookstore and have at it. I have copies of a modern orthodox (both ashequnaci and sefardic) sidur and majzor. I even bought the Shuljan Aruj on purpose, but I keep my distance from anything mesianic or kabalistic. The Church pushes these topics and there's not a catholic book store that does not have shelves full of kabala and mesianic tracts. My purpose in life is to promote conservative judaism so when push comes to shove, I will give a nod to the other branches never denying their right to exist and will not speak ill of them but will not promote them, either. I find that I focus on neutral stuff. Things you can not find in any book store around these parts. Music books. Israeli and sefardic cookbooks; I run and hide from any cookbook that has recipes for gefilte fisch or russian borscht. Israeli kiddie books in hebrew for ages 0-6 about new baby brothers and sisters, chicks and ducklings. Modern israeli fiction tanslated into spanish. If I have to choose a subject about Israel I will never pick the conflict part of palestinian-israeli relations. I prefer the Ostrich School of Thought and prefer information on Israeli archeology and agricultural exports. I can not say that it is right of me to be so prejudiced. I have tried to analyse its source. The television here is so lop-sided. I sat at the same study desk, learned spanish and drank tea for 5 years with muslims from all over the mediterranean. I live in a town with 3 mosques. The xenophobic part of the valencian population is prone to paint obscenities on the walls or throw lit torches in through the open doors of the mosques. I think my prejudices are conditioned by where I live. I've noticed that the prejudices that I had 15 years back when I lived in the u.s.a., are either comatose or dead. Sometimes the prejudices in the choice of literature for the synagogue library reflect the tone I consciously or unconsciously want to set from within probably to counter or equilibrate the influence of the attitudes of the weird world outside. A library may not be evenhanded but it does have a tone which reflects the attitudes of the micro-world in which it finds itself. The tone of a public library or a university library is wild and violent (quite pleasant, really) with all those conflicting opinions. The tone of a children's library is all fluffy and innocent and full of missing puzzle pieces. The tone of my library seems to be: Don't worry be happy, have something to eat. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia
Re: [Hasafran] Israeli/Palestian Conflict Videos
Does anybody know if any of these videos that are being mentioned on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict dubbed and available in Spanish? I could really use videos such as these in Spanish. Besos de Valencia AlbaToscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia == HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
[ha-Safran]: RE: Synagogue Photo and Nudnick Librarians
The cover illustrates Paper's LawWhen an unfamiliar language is photographed it is invariably backwards or upside down. I have a theory. When we write roman letters, we sit them plunk down on their butts on the line. Arabic seems to have all it's weight on the line as well. However, when we write hebrew block letters we hang up them like socks on a clotheline. To make hebrew look right, the photographer or whoever will turn the document or picture around or upside down to make the letters look like they're sitting down. One might suppose that it's a reaction produced by a feeling of vertigo. In the history museums here in spain I've never seen anything in arabic displayed upside down. But absolutely every in hebrew is sideways and inside-out. I feel the need to tell a story about upside down hebrew letters (so stop here if you're not in the mood...): There was an temporary exhibit in the Pio V Museum here in Valencia which featured a headstone (1205c.e.) and even though the explanatory card on the moveable stand was fine, it was behind the headstone so that one was forced to look at the letters upside down if you wanted to read the card at the same time. I mentioned it at the desk but I was told that it would take too much effort to turn the 2-ton headstone around (I speak truth). Two years ago the Israeli Embassey in colaboration with a few other Spanish organizations brought in from Israel the Bezalel Collection and toured it around the country at great cost and energy. Gala night, there were lots of museum types, political types, church types and jewish types who were invited to have a look-see, sip a little champagne, rub elbows and pat each other on the back for being so cultural and open-minded. Everybody who went told me it was a not-to-be-missed-must-go so a few days latter I did. Everything was right-side up and frontwards. Gorgeous-gorgeous, especially if you knew what you are looking at. However ...guess what? At least half of the explanatory cards were in the wrong display cases. And lord forbid that someone should pass out a pamphlet with an explanatory glossary. There I am looking at a pair of stunning shiny gold-silver rimonim and the card says: This lovely 3-piece javdala set I started to notice that lots of people came in to visit the Bezalel exhibit but the average stay was less than 5 minutes. While contemplating a seder plate with the legend ...a fine example of a 1930's modernist menora..., I heard someone looking at a tora keter say to his buddy: It's beautiful but what's a januquia? I approached them, introduced myself and offered them a 15-minute orientation tour which turned into a 30-minute tour as more people joined in. What museum would be so dumb as to leave a bunch of nice junk lying around with a sign that says in large friendly letters: Have at it. What exhibitors and museum curators would not work together to consider the background of the public that might visit the exhibit and not make the appropriate adjustments? Probably those museums that have no respect for the exhibit and probably those exhibitors who have no respect for the public they have to work with. Somewhere along the chain of command somebody has to give a dam or the exhibit will be a fiasco just like a library that nobody uses. Some librarian has to call up the guys of the magazine and ask them if they put in the picture of the synagogue backwards on the cover for a reason or if it was just a snafu to be fixed when the next printing comes up. We can't just tut-tut the tongue and shrug the shoulders. Someone has to do some Quality Control. Better a nudnick librarian so you can say: Oh, yes, and please do call whenever you might like a little assistance or advice on anything jewish. Always happy to help out where I can. Is summer over yet? Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
