[ha-Safran]: The Facebook Haggadah on The Book of Life

2009-04-19 Thread Heidi Estrin
Literally in the nick of time for Passover, I have posted an interview with Carl Elkin, creator of Moses Is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah. There's a link to this hilarious spoof haggadah at http://www.bookoflifepodcast.comwww.bookoflifepodcast.com. If you haven't read it yet, do that

[ha-Safran]: Birkat Hachama

2009-04-19 Thread Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone! This morning, Nisan 14, 5769 - April 8, 2009, Jews around the world glanced at the sun and recited the blessing on the sun called Birkat HaChama. I took photos on top of the roof of the Nusach Achid shul in Ma'ale Adumim and then at the gathering in the S'deh Chemed school yard. I

[ha-Safran]: Possible Yom Ha Shoah Brief Reading

2009-04-19 Thread Jud Newborn
Dear Friends and Colleagues, I hope you've had a lovely, restorative first seder! Some of you have used excerpts from my work in the past for holidays - like Fingerprints-- After 9/11, or my combined tribute last year to the Warsaw Ghetto Freedom Fighters for Yom Ha Shoah/Pesach. I'd like

[ha-Safran]: Change of email address

2009-04-19 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
Hi, My new email address is mailto:amalia...@att.netamalia...@att.net . I hope to hear from you soon. Have a nice holiday, Amalia 2411 Hamilton Mill Rd. Charlotte N.C. 28270 704-365-3313 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not

[ha-Safran]: Assistance Sought

2009-04-19 Thread Silverburg, Sanford R
I am searching for memorial books or any related material from Baranovich (now in Belarus). Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sanford Silverburg Sanford R. Silverburg, Ph.D Professor Department of History and Politics Catawba College Salisbury, NC 28144 US

[ha-Safran]: Do I have a volume of Talmud Pesachim missing

2009-04-19 Thread Donald Weinshank
from your library? X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 3.10 (***) [Tag at 5.00] INVALID_MSGID,MISSING_SUBJECT X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www .

RE: Librarian's Lobby for April 2009

2009-04-19 Thread Daniel Stuhlman
Hi, Donnie, Thanks for your latest Librarian's Lobby. You did not explain how you actually reached the passage. Does the database have full text searching capabilities? I received the above question about how I found the Hebrew quote from Pesikta Zutrasa on the Hebrewbooks.org web site.

[ha-Safran]: Musical Treasures of the Bukharian Jewish Community

2009-04-19 Thread Zachary Baker
Mo'adim le-simhah! Last month the cantor Ezra Malakov gave a concert at Stanford. During his visit to this campus he donated a lavish boxed set, Musical Treasures of the Bukharian Jewish Community (Otsar ha-musikah shel kehilat Yehude Bukharah = Muzykal'naia sokrovishchnitsa bukharskikh

[ha-Safran]: Israeli causes of interest to children

2009-04-19 Thread Andrea Rapp
Our 4th grade readers raise money for Israel by reading books, and then choose an Israeli cause or two to support with their dollars. In addition to a project at our sister city in Israel, we'd like to find another one that they can contribute to. Besides JNF, are there any other

[ha-Safran]: Release form for oral histories

2009-04-19 Thread Andrea Rapp
Do any of you have a release form you use when interviewing congregants for oral histories, so that their interviews can go into your archives and perhaps be used later by students, researchers, etc? Andrea Rapp Wise Temple, Cincinnati --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those

[ha-Safran]: Nekudah in Engglish

2009-04-19 Thread Shmuel Ben-Gad
Shalom. A student, who is researching the effect of Gush Emunim, Amana, and the Yeshah Cuncil (Moetzet Yesha) on Israeli politics is wondering if there is an English version of the magazine Nekudah. I do not think there is, but if you happen to know, please tell me. B'chavod rav.

[ha-Safran]: Q re `We Remember with Reverence and Love

2009-04-19 Thread Arieh Lebowitz
Has anyone looked at this book? I'm looking for some quick sense of it. Thanks. Arieh Lebowitz We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 by Hasia Diner {Hardcover: 336 pages, NYU Press (April 1, 2009)} --- Messages and

[ha-Safran]: Israeli film on Jerusalem at the Library of Congress

2009-04-19 Thread Gail R Shirazi
Motion Picture, Broadcasting Recorded Sound Division, Hebrew Language Table at the Library of Congress in cooperation with The Embassy of Israel present: What: Film: Till We Have Built Jerusalem... by Eli Cohen, Yaakov Gross and Zvi Shefy Where: Library of Congress, Madison Building,

[ha-Safran]: Announcing the Release of Faces of Israel

2009-04-19 Thread Faces of Israel
Announcing the Release of Faces of Israel, a New and Thought-Provoking Documentary on Religion State Issues in Modern Day Israel Faces of Israel is a refreshing 75 minute film that poses a series of thought-provoking questions on hot topics in Israel: - the meaning of Israel as a Jewish and