[ha-Safran] Evaluation for 2015 Yovel/Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of AJL! Silver Spring, MD

2015-06-29 Thread Dina Herbert
Dear Colleagues, Thanks to so many of you for attending the Yovel/Jubilee Conference in Silver Spring, MD last week. Please take a few minutes to fill out the following evaluation. http://goo.gl/forms/lE7zPHNkSv Your thoughts and comments will help future AJL Conferences. Thanks, Dina

Re: [ha-Safran] Defeat of Resolution on Libraries and Schools Affected by the Conflict in Gaza and Israel in 2014

2015-06-29 Thread Joyce Levine
What a relief. Hope this issue doesn't raise its ugly head again anytime soon. Thanks for letting us know, Joyce Sent from my iPad On Jun 28, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Arlene Ratzabi wjclibrar...@gmail.com wrote: This is great news and makes this week end on a high note! Thanks for all your hard

[ha-Safran] Job Posting: Israel and Judaica Section, Library of Congress

2015-06-29 Thread Taub, Aaron
Dear Colleagues, Please find below and attached a posting for a job posting in the Israel and Judaica Section of the Asian and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Please note the closing date of the application period, July 14, 2015. If you have questions regarding the

[ha-Safran] Fw: Why is Hebrew so Fascinating?

2015-06-29 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
“Philologos the Jewish Daily Forward November 29, 2014A newly published book, Norman Berdichevsky's Modern Hebrew: The Past and Future of a Revitalized Language, is an excellent survey of its subject. In just 200 pages, Berdichevsky manages to touch succinctly but informatively on nearly

Re: [ha-Safran] Defeat of Resolution on Libraries and Schools Affected by the Conflict in Gaza and Israel in 2014

2015-06-29 Thread Elliot Gertel
As has often been said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Fanatics never give up, so we have to be ready again and again, unfortunately, to keep combating the spurious claims and monomaniacal rhetoric. I'm not sure SRRT will just lick their wounds and go away, having been finally and

[ha-Safran] Recommended Vendors

2015-06-29 Thread joanna katsune
A while back, I posted a similar question to Hasafran but now need to re-frame it. I'm Library Consultant / Librarian for Temple Beth El in Providence, Rhode Island. We are a Reform congregation with a general collection and browsing library of around 15 thousand volumes, mostly English. This

Re: [ha-Safran] Defeat of Resolution on Libraries and Schools Affected by the Conflict in Gaza and Israel in 2014

2015-06-29 Thread Chaya Wiesman
That's wonderful news, Elliot. Thanks for letting us know. Chaya Wiesman Librarian Ramaz Upper School From: Hasafran hasafran-boun...@lists.osu.edu on behalf of Beth Braunstein braunsteinb...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 8:14 PM To: Elliot Gertel