[ha-Safran] PDCE: "Being Indispensable: A School Librarian’s Guide to Proving Your Value and Keeping Your Job" (ALA Editions eCourse)

2013-10-24 Thread Stephanie L Gross
Register today and save $70 off the original course price! Being Indispensable: A School Librarian’s Guide to Proving Your Value and Keeping Your Job (ALA Editions eCourse) Hilda K.

[ha-Safran] libraries in Palestine

2013-10-24 Thread Noreen Wachs
Dear Safranim, I belong to a library organization called the Hudson Valley Library Association (HVLA). Most of the Independent schools in the New York City area belong to this organization. They recently send out this blog post on their website about libraries in Palestine by Hannah Mermelstein

[ha-Safran] FREE: Author @ the Library: The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6, 000 Miles in the City : Author @ the Library: The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6, 000 Miles in the City

2013-10-24 Thread Stephanie L Gross
Who & What: Author @ the Library: The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City Where & When: Monday, October 28, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Program Locations: Mid-Manhattan Library (Map and directions) Fully accessible to wheelchairs Wi

Re: [ha-Safran] libraries in Palestine

2013-10-24 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
Noreen, These are very serious allegations. I know that the Israel Center for libraries offers literacy programs in Israeli Arabs villages. Please allow me some time to get more information. I would like to know more about the quality of theses books. I will be surprised if the quality is ind

Re: [ha-Safran] libraries in Palestine

2013-10-24 Thread Lee Jaffe
Thanks for pointing this out. When the original post went by, I didn't pay it much attention. I have two reactions/observations. First, as there is no legitimate entity known as "Palestine" currently, the term is suspect and provocative. It's the term given to the region after the Roman con

Re: [ha-Safran] libraries in Palestine

2013-10-24 Thread Donald Weinshank
Before belaboring this topic further, GOOGLE (arab map palestine) You will likely get to * https://www.google.com/search?q=arab+map+of+palestine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a * * * *Anything missing? * *___* *Dr.

Re: [ha-Safran] libraries in Palestine

2013-10-24 Thread A G
Lee, I think that Noreen is absolutely right to be upset, as every word in this missive is an expression of sick anti-Jewish and, as you correctly pointed, a libel. Arabs, be they residing in the Land of Israel or outside, read relatively very little to start with. When they do know how to read

[ha-Safran] AJL History

2013-10-24 Thread Weisman, Yaffa
Dear Safranim & Safraniyot, Once upon a time there existed a link from the AJL web site to "a brief history of AJL". This link, alas, is a dead end now. Does anyone have the original text of this article, or any other version of a brief history of AJL? If you do, please send it to me. Thanks yaf