Shalom Hasafran,
I have been reading the responses of many of you to the Erev Pessah
firebombing of the VSL United Talmud Torahs school library. As
co-President of the local chapter of the AJL, I have been trying to
coordinate efforts to help the librarian, Dan Holobow begin to rebuild.
The last
Dear Safranim, Safraniot,
I am the high school librarian at Herzliah in St Laurent Montreal. This is
the sister school to the elementary school United Talmud Torahs, and is in
the same building where the firebombing occurred.
I would like to apologise for being so slow in getting back to you
Yeshiva University Celebrates 350 years of American Jewish History
On Tuesday evening, April 20th, Yeshiva University celebrates the 350th
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Shalom safranim.
I hope everyone had a good Pesach.
Someone has asked me about this question. Apparently there is a group in
Israel concerned about animal overpopulation and some orthodox rabbis have
come out against the spaying or neutering of animals. Pray, would anyone
know about this in
Dear safranim,
Please forward the notice, below, to anyone who you think might be
interested.
Thank you.
Ann Abrams, Librarian
Temple Israel
477 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
617-566-3960
www.tisrael.org
LIBRARY INTERNSHIP AT TEMPLE ISRAEL, BOSTON
There has much discussion concerning the firebombing in Montreal. From all
indications it was a hate crime. It is very admirable that AJL is trying to
find ways to help the victims restore the library itself. Is this
organization missing the bigger picture? If in fact a library and place of
Jewish
If the AJL wants to make a statement I think it's
fine, but let's not kid ourselves that it makes much
difference.
It would be nice if other organizations - library
associations, free-speech groups, Canadian religious
groups, etc., made statements! If they all are being
silent, I think that's
Marcia Posner sent me this reply and asked that I
forward it to the list. It describes a more ambitious
project than I was envisioning, but here is her
response:
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The first thing to do is to obtain a directory of
schools, both public and private in your area or for
as wide a community as you
How do the new ISSN policies affect librarians cataloging Judaica? What
problems did they leave before?
Heather Lenson
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