First, can I do a bit of bibliographic verification here?
I frequently see the publisher of this text given as Gale in the
messages on this list. However, when I
followed the link to Amazon, the publisher is given as
Macmillan. The Macmillan edition on Amazon
is three volumes and has a
My thanks to Andrea for reminding me of Rabbi Michael Cook from HUC
and his NT scholarship. Rabbi Cook is indeed a respected NT scholar
who has views somewhat divergent from the scholars I had previously mentioned.
I plan to read Rabbi Cook's new book in the near future.
Mark
Messages and
I refer, of course, to Jay Flynn's response from Gale that didn't carry over
to my e-mail.
K
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kathy Bloch
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:08 PM
To: hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: RE:
I'll second that!
Dr. Yaffa Weisman
Library Director
The Frances-Henry Library
Hebrew Union College-JIR
3077 University Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90007
www.huc.edu/libraries/la
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Messages and opinions
This raises good issues for AJL and maybe for the public relations
committee specifically. There are a lot
of naive people who think that questions about Judaism or Israel are
simply matters of opinion and that
any objections we might raise are just different sides of the same
coin. We need
The part below is illuminating, as if an encyclopedia should be
written as to fully satisfy all readers, rather than be written to
present the information accurately. This seems to be where we are in
much of academia today.
Andrea
I am not sure that any encyclopedia article on the
Partisan politics does not belong on a professional listserve.
Some of us our red, and some of us are blue (and some are kachol and
lavan, but that's besides the point).
Aaron Wolfe Kuperman
LC Social Sciences Cataloging Division, Law Team
This is NOT an official communication from the Library
Maybe there is an object lesson here for us as librarians. I would
encourage a healthy
dose of skepticism to any friend of a friend messages. I try to
make a point of fact-
checking these sorts of items, especially when it is something I
agree with. I believe in
the old saw, when it looks too
but all of us are librarians...
Dr. Yaffa Weisman
Library Director
Frances-Henry Library
Los Angeles, CA
www.huc.edu/libraries/la
Phone: 213-765-2170
Fax: 213-749-1937
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Many of us are civil servants, who aren't supposed to be involved in
partisan politics on company time. Unless you have a patronage job
gained through connections rather than merit, a civil servant is required
to be willing to work whether the boss is red meat Republican or a
bi-coastal Democrat,
It's not clear from this post whether Yaffa received this email
personally from the writer and actually knows the writer (Anne
Kilkenny) or whether it is something being passed around the internet
without a known provenance, or something she received second or third hand.
Andrea
Messages
Why is this being posted on this list??
Stuart Schnee
Public Relations, Marketing Sales
US Tel: 973-796-2753
Israel Tel: +972-54-790-9120
Fax: +972-2-561-0943
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Dear Friends,
Thank you for all the feedback, private and public, for and against,
regarding my latest post.
My posting goes to the issue of politicians banning books, questioning
the judgement of professional librarians, and to librarians'
responsibility to allow uncensored access to collections
Here is the snopes.com page about the letter, which according to
snopes is legit.
Andrea Rapp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/kilkenny.asp
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I heartily concur with my colleague and friend Yaffa Weisman, and I
hasten to add this to her message
Phil
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Sent: Fri 9/5/2008 12:47 PM
To: Philip E Miller
Subject: While Mayor, Palin Tried to Ban Books From Public Library
While Mayor, Palin
I've been asked for a list of biographies of Golda Meir. Any
suggestions for the most readable and accurate? You can reply to me
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Paula Sandfelder
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From: Adas Israel Librarian
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:01 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Yaffa,
This is by now not new, but thank you for sending it in, regardless of
any non-political stance we supposedly have. Some things, whether or
not they are
Refunding your money is hardly the point, is it?!
What is it they don't get about racism and anti-semitism?
Madeleine
Madeleine Cohen Oakley
Director of Library Services
Adas Israel Congregation
Washington, DC
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and
Thanks to Dan Wyman of Dan Wyman Books, Park Avenue Synagogue will
soon have a well-preserved copy of Eisenhower and the Jews, complete
with dust jacket and signed by Rabbi Nadich. Thanks, Dan, and thanks
to everyone who wrote congratulating me on the new position.
Marga
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Librarians for Fairness is, indeed, sponsored by
StandWithUs. However, we have a substantial amount of
autonomy...we are the librarians (and archivists) and we know
library-related issues best. All of the librarians involved in it
volunteer their time and work. None of us receive any
Just an FYI, this encyclopedia was wrongfully named an Outstanding
Reference Source by ALA in January of 2008.
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/booklovers/awardwinningbooks/fulllist.cfm?ID=20
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Steven Jay Bernstein
Assistant Catalog Librarian
Anyone interested in Heichal Shlomo's Shanah ba-shanah for 5737 and 5738?
Beverly Geller
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Jeannine,
First of all, I applaud you and Mr. Flurry for taking this directly to Gale.
Mr. Flynn's response appears to me to be an attempt to dodge the
issues. I didn't believe there were questions to be asked. I
thought that the veracity and the opinionated tone of the article
were in
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