[ha-Safran] Three Paratroopers Photo

2008-02-12 Thread Frances Mendelsohn
The three Israeli paratroopers are Zion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri. You can see the famous 1967 picture and the paratroopers in 2007: http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/news_articles-three-soldiers.htm Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and ar

RE: [ha-Safran]: Strange request

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamin Richler
Here is what I found on Google B Richler http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/news_articles-three-soldiers.htm The Paratroopers... Zion Karasenti, 64, now a director and choreographer, living in Afula: "At Ammunition Hill, all we could see was a hill surrounded by trenches and barbed wire. When we started

[ha-Safran]: Strange request

2008-02-12 Thread Yossi Galron
Hi Bev, The three soldiers are: Yitzhak Yifat Hayyim Osheri and Tsiyon Karsanti See article in Hebrew: http://www.aish.com/hsociety/society/First_at_the_Wall.asp -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschl?ger Head, Hebraica & Jewish Studies Library The Ohio State University Libraries 6001 Ackerman

[ha-Safran]: Book donation for GA college students

2008-02-12 Thread books2gogh
(I'm passing on this request from Scott Elkan.--posted by Evi Reznick, Atlanta, GA) Hello All: I am the new director of Hillel at Georgia State and Kennesaw State Universities. I am looking to equip both universities with a reading library for students (both to read on their own and to learn wit

[ha-Safran]: Book fair author suggestion

2008-02-12 Thread Marcia Tatz Wollner
Hi! The Agency for Jewish Education works in collaboration with our Jewish Community Center during their Jewish Book Fair in order to assist in funding a promoting a speaker/author whose topic deals with parenting Jewish children. We would prefer to have a speaker who is very supportive of Jew

[ha-Safran]: New Online: Learn English with Pictures

2008-02-12 Thread Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone ! Today I launched a new website called: Learn English with Pictures http://www.my-english-dictionary.com/ Learn English with Pictures is a free, online, resource to learn English words in a fun way. The site has over 400 words and photographs ranging from animals to kitchen appliance

[ha-Safran]: WINNER of 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

2008-02-12 Thread Lisa Silverman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 12, 2008 Lucette Lagnado Wins the $100,000 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Press Contact: Adam Teeter, Publicist, 404-409-4103, [EMAIL PROTECTED] G

Re: [ha-Safran]: DVD/VHS shelf life

2008-02-12 Thread Liz Edelglass
Please respond on-line regarding use of the spray. I would like to learn more about this. Elizabeth Edelglass Library Director Department of Jewish Education of Greater New Haven 360 Amity Rd, Woodbridge, CT 06525 (203) 387-2424 x330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafr

[ha-Safran]: Strange request

2008-02-12 Thread Beverly Geller
A student is trying to find the names of the soldiers in the famous six day war photo of three soldiers at the liberation of the Kotel. Anyone have any ideas as to how I might go about finding their names? Thanks in advance. Bev Geller Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those

[ha-Safran]: Prayer and Piyyut in the Nuremberg Mahzor

2008-02-12 Thread elhanan
Last June we opened to the public a digitized version of the "Mahzor Nuremberg", from the collection of Dr. David and Jemima Jeselsohn at: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss-pr/mahzor-nuremberg/ This site has now been enhanced with a detailed Hebrew study of the texts of the mahzor by Jonah and Avraha