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"Dia L. Michels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
My brother sent me this Yiddish film clip... it is very funny!
http://www.vidlit.com/yidlit/yidlit.html
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My wife, Annette, whose first language was Yiddish, made the following
comments
Safranim:
Rivka Schiller recently posted a query about Middle East Insight.
I forwarded this query to my colleague, Professor Michael Rubner, who has
been very active this general area. He replied
I don't know what has happened to Middle East Insight
We urgently need to free up some shelf space. Could you use
FREE back issues of Tikkun FREE
I will ship by the cheapest method available and would appreciate it if you
could reimburse me for shipment. If you absolutely cannot, I will ship
anyway, provided that the charges are not excessi
Safranim:
I am trying to purchase one copy of ArtScroll Mishnah Ketubot. This is a
personal request, not for a Library. Unfortunately, ArtScroll is out of
stock and cannot tell us when this volume will be reprinted.
If you have a copy for sale, please write OFF-LINE to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
Irene Self posted this query.
A patron would like to know if there are Conservative Judaism writings
available that discuss the spectrum of opinions and thoughts on Torah
authorship, covering from Divine authorship to humanly inspired and sacred
wri
Consulate General of Spain in Washington D.C.
2375 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington D.C. 20037
Tef. (202) 728-2330
Fax: (202) 728-2302
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
TO THE HONORABLE COUNSEL GENERAL:
I would be profoundly grateful to you if you could confirm that Spain, in
fact, exists. Given that I have
Safranim:
Please always consider donations of YIDDISH books to National Yiddish Book
Center, http://yiddishbookcenter.org/. They do wonderful work. I just sent
them a dozen or so old Yiddish books which had been in the family.
Furthermore, as I understand their operation, they are distributing bo
Safranim:
Please read this story from the J'lem Post.
Jerusalem Post:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid
=1081998816187 You need the free sign-in to the site to read this article
directly.
I again caution everybody that two can play at this game. The sof
Almonit:
Let me restate my argument yet once more in response to your posting. GOOGLE
uses an algorithm to determine frequency of links to a site, nothing more,
nothing less.
Stop looking for the "ghost in the machine." There is no sentient creature
doing hand-editing of the GOOGLE algorithm. The
The search engine is neither philo-Semitic nor anti-Semitic. It is an
algorithm which reports the hits on sites, no more, no less.
Forgive my bluntness, but complaining about the GOOGLE search algorithm
makes as much sense as saying that God is unfair because people fall off
ladders due to gravity
Well, the Steinsaltz Talmud instantly comes to mind.
Sadly, the set is incomplete and likely to remain so.
However, you can try
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-5022299-1459349
Barnes & Nobel
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=steinsaltz+t
Safranim:
Yossi Galron was kind enough to post the PDF file of this Yiddish poem by
Binam Heller (1908 - 2000) and translated by Yoel Sheridan of our listserv.
Yoel distributed the translation on the Thursday, April 01, 2004.
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/HellerSheridan.pdf
As I said in
After Yoel Sheridan shared the translation of this poem some time ago
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01879.html
I asked him for the Yiddish text.
While the original document is in WORD, I am sending it as an Adobe PDF
file. This is because the formatting was quite tricky, and
Safranim:
We are very interested in following in Rivka's footsteps in cataloging our
own small congregational library using Access. We just purchased a new
computer which writes DVDs with this in mind.
Since one of my many virtues is indolence, I wonder if one of the Safranim
has found or created
COMMENTS:
1. GOOGLE uses an algorithm based on most frequently visited sites. There is
nothing anti-Semitic about the fact that they list the site, although I can
perhaps guess that some automated programs could be used by somebody outside
the GOOGLE organization to inflate the number of times thi
Safranim:
Our friend Harriet Elazar replied from Jerusalem with the phone number and
address of Vaad Adat haSefaradim in Jerusalem.
Yes. The phone number is 6254 371
Address: Rehov Harav Kook 8
Floor Five
Jerusalem 91000
She hopes this helps the person who pos
Please read, then cut below here indicated.
Do we want to discuss the Gibson movie on this forum? I am acutely sensitive
to listservs which lose focus and therefore audience. People get "turned
off" by topics not directly relevant to the mission of the listserv. IF but
ONLY IF you feel that the di
Give away: Mikraot Gadolot on Shmot
Perfect condition.
New York
See attached link:
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/scan.jpg
[I would appreciate it if you would pay the postage.]
_
Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng.
1520
I asked Cantor Pamela Schiffer of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
East Lansing, Michigan if she would comment on the request
for information about Sephardic and Ashkenazic Cantillation.
Here is her reply.
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Subject: Re: [ha-Safran]: Cantillation
I warmly recommend
Honest Reporting
http://www.honestreporting.com/
Their sympathies are very much with Israel, but they document
all statements and positions which they take.
_
Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & En
There was a recent posting by Dina Tanners about vegetarian cooking for
Passover. I forwarded the query a Jewish friend who is a vegetarian.
Here is her reply.
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Subject: RE: [ha-Safran]: Vegetarian Passover cookbook
Passover Seders ma
Thanks. I will look into this. A group of us from the shul got together at a
friend's house for dinner tonight, a wonderful way to mark the occasion on
our own terms. I described this "makhloket" for our Rabbi, and he instantly
mentioned the Kahana work as well. I will have to try to find a copy to
So far as I know, the text exists ONLY in Greek.
The standard Rabbinic gloss "In the days of Mattathias, son of Yohanan, the
heroic Hasmonean Kohen, and in the days of his sons, a cruel power arose..."
(See Reuven Hammer: OHR HADASH, Rabbinical Assembly and United Synagogue,
2003, p. 160) is just
There have been several queries and replies. I am posting this for a friend
who is not on our list but who works in this area. The included reply is
from one of her knowledgeable colleagues in this area.
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The acknowledged expert in the field is:
Nadia Gross
I have seen "Relentless," which is available from Honest Reporting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On the whole, I give this film high marks.
http://www.honestreporting.com/relentless/
It is impossible to have a film or a book which does not have SOME point of
view. The key issue is whether the editors/authors
Please look at
http://www.religioustolerance.org/isl_feast.htm.
This group, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, posts descriptions
of the world's religions in hope of promoting understanding and respect for
all religions. _
Dr. Don Weinshank
On the subject of secure passwords, you might want to consult the Web page
we created for CSE101 at Michigan State University, a CS course which
enrolls ~2000 students per semester.
http://aral.cse.msu.edu/CSE101US03/CSE101Student/CommonToAllTracks/FAQ/Passw
ord.html
This is a fairly exhaustive t
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