Safranim-
I am trying to help a student who has some information saying that Yitzhak
Rabin stated on May 11, 1967 "Israel will march on Damascus." He is trying
to verify this. Any ideas? We have a book of Rabin's speeches during his
presidency but nothing with his speeches from the sixties wh
At 17:11 10/30/03, you wrote:
>Dear members:
>
>I volunteer in a Temple with a mid-size collection. Could
>anybody recommend a library cataloguing software? I would say we have
>around 5,000 volumes?
The number of volumes is not a factor in the purchase of software for a
small collection.
At 17:10 10/30/03, you wrote:
>Hello all -
>I have a donor who is interested in purchasing about $500 worth of DVDs and
>would prefer them to be newer Holocaust related. When I took over the
>collection we had so many heavy Holocaust movies that I've purposely
>ignored anything Holocaust related i
I am sorry to report that Michelean Amir sustained the loss of her mother,
Gertrude Munch Lowy, last Friday, October 24th.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to Michelean and her family.
May they experience blessings and good fortune from this day onward.
Ha-makom yenahem otam be-tokh she'ar av
Dear members:
I volunteer in a Temple with a mid-size collection. Could anybody
recommend a library cataloguing software? I would say we have around 5,000
volumes?
Thank you
Karen J. Tannenbaum
Temple Adath B'nai
Evansville, IN 47715
Hello all -
I have a donor who is interested in purchasing about $500 worth of DVDs and
would prefer them to be newer Holocaust related. When I took over the
collection we had so many heavy Holocaust movies that I've purposely
ignored anything Holocaust related in favor of lighter fare. So I h
The American Academy for Jewish Research, the Association For Jewish
Studies, and the National Association Of Professors Of Hebrew have issued
a statement expressing their concern over the restrictions imposed by
numerous American and Canadian universities on undergraduates who wish to
participate
Dear safranim,
I'm having trouble finding the following and am betting 50 of you will know
this in 5 minutes:
1) The source of the midrash that Florence Freedman based her book "Brothers
: a Hebrew Legend" on?
2) Midrashic references to parental favoritism, specifically relating to the
Joseph st
The Jewish Women's Archive is seeking a Research Fellow to conduct oral
interviews, research and write content for a web exhibit to document the
activities of women who have been nominated as Women Who Dared for the 2004
Boston program. Women Who Dared is a multi-faceted program that honors
Jewish
Thank you to everyone who helped me out with sources for keeping your feet
together for Kaddish and the source for "A Piece of Liver" article. Here are
the results for those who have asked. - Jeff
- Sources for standing with feet together for Kaddish:
During Kaddish as well, the feet should be ke
There is a book by the title: Lebensmut Im Vertesaal: Die Judischen DPs in
Nachtkriegs Deutchland (or some such title) published in Germany by Fischer.
We used this extensively when compiling information about all sorts activity
in DP camps, but mainly because their index of DP camps in Germany and
The date of one article is Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003 (headline: Solemn Bush
leads memorial for 'Columbia' crew. Hebrew tribute to Ramon opens event). .
Rabbi Harold Robinson and his use of Bialik is also noted in an article
from May 29, 2003 (headline: 'Columbia' memorial rabbi reflects on Bialik,
A teacher would like to borrow a copy of this film:
The Wordmaker
Israel, 1991, 90 minutes, color (16 mm/video)
directed by Eli Cohen,
in Hebrew, French, English and Russian, with
subtitles;
it is the story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who worked to
establish modern Hebrew.
It costs $200 to buy and is
The Chabad synagogue and day school in Scripps Ranch was destroyed by the
fire. Thankfully their new campus that was newly constructed survived with
very little damage. See http://www.chabadsd.org/ for more details.
I'm not aware of any other synagogues in San Diego that were damaged by the
f
Dear All:
The late R. Alter Shlomo Halpern, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Torat Emet
(London, England) wrote many pamphlets, a child's book ("Tales of faith"
under the name Salomon Alter Halpern) and sefarim on a wide range of
topics. One of these pamphlets, an analysis of certain critical passages
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Subject: [Ha-Safran] Bilingual reprint of Sukenik's Ancient Synagogue of
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In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Sukeniks demise, Gorgias
Press is plea
Dear Safranim
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"Yanshuf" is an easy-level Hebrew magazine.
Try it with our offer for 3 free separate trial issue program.
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If you decide you like Yanshuf, yo
SunflowerShalom! Our library has just been the very lucky and grateful
recipient of additional funds for our middle school non-fiction and
reference collections. I've had some suggestions, but still have plenty of
funds left. (When does this ever happen?) Please email me any suggestions
you hav
Reason #1,230,989 to make aliyah to Israel:
You do not have to worry about Hallowe'en and Shabbat.
In fact I did not even remember Hallowe'en until I saw
the question on the list. I just decided to do a little web research
and came up with some interesting reading:
http://theholidayspot.com/hallow
Dear all, Can anyone find for me the date of an article (probably last
February-March) in the Jerusalem Post about Navy chaplain Rabbi Harold
Robinson, who had participated in the Johnson space center's memorial
service for the Columbia astronauts? The story in the J. Post notes
Robinson's use
In my reply to Andrea I said that Christ through out the money lenders
instead of saying that overturned the tables of the money changers. Sorry
for the mistake.
Brendan
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Shalom,
Jeff Corbett asked about an article entitled "A Piece of Liver." From the
brief description, I was reminded of a series articles that appeared years ago
in the English edition of the Yated Ne'eman newspaper, by an English author
named Tuvia Cohen. The general format of the series was to u
It is very smoky, but everyone that I know of hereis okay.
Suzi
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Monty,
The story you refer to was written by Agnon under the Hebrew title
Ve-Haya he-Akov le-Mishor (words that appear in the haftarah of Shabbat
Nachamu). It was first published in Ha-Poel Ha-Zair in the first decade
of the 20th century, and later republished in 1912 by J. H. Brenner as
Agnon's
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