[ha-Safran] AJL Conference Stipend - Deadline Extended until April 16th

2018-04-09 Thread Rina
**Deadline extended until Monday, April 16th** This year's AJL Convention will take place June 18‐20, 2016, in Boston, MA and all are encouraged to partake in what promises to be a thought provoking conference. AJL-NYMA will be offering limited stipends to help NYMA members defray the cost of

Re: [ha-Safran] adult ed topics/congregational history

2018-04-09 Thread Andrea Rapp
My congregation is large, and historic (Isaac M. Wise Temple) and we have our own archives; for smaller congregations, tackling the history of Jews in your community in general or geographic area/state strikes me as a good idea, and there is bound to be resource material even if you don't have a

[ha-Safran] topics for adult ed

2018-04-09 Thread Rayzel Raphael
One of the best topics for scholar in resident Jewish Views of the Afterlife I know because my husband speaks on this and he's gone almost very weekend and speaks to large crowds. Our aging communities are looking for answers and guidance: Heres his website: http://www.daatinstitute.net and u

[ha-Safran] Book for graduating 7th graders

2018-04-09 Thread Ann Abrams
Dear safranim, We're looking for a book to give as a gift to our graduating 7th graders, at the temple. If anyone has a suggestion, please send it my way - thank you! Ann Ann Abrams, Librarian Dr. Arnold L. Segel Library Center Temple Israel 477 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02215 [image: Inline i

Re: [ha-Safran] CFP: “Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule”

2018-04-09 Thread Bernstein, Steven (Library)
Sounds like this would be an ideal candidate for a Sokal Hoax. Steven +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Steven Jay Bernstein Associate Librarian for Cataloging and Metadata Elihu Burritt Library Central Connecticut State University 1615 Stanley Street New Britain, Connecticut 0605

Re: [ha-Safran] What is your synagogue’s most successful adult education program.

2018-04-09 Thread Brown, Joyce J.
Excellent idea!! I will keep this in mind, because we are always looking for new stuff, not necessarily Holocaust related. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. From: Rachel Kamin [mailto:rka...@nssbethel.org] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2018 11:27 AM To: Brown, Joyce J.; 'Amalia Warshenbrot'; Dan

Re: [ha-Safran] What is your synagogue’s most successful adult education program.

2018-04-09 Thread Rachel Kamin
We also host a well-attended “Afternoon @ the Movies” series on weekday afternoons at 3pm usually showing new films currently making the rounds at festivals and not yet available on DVD. The most successful ones tend to be about, and include, food: Sturgeon Queens

Re: [ha-Safran] What is your synagogue’s most successful adult education program.

2018-04-09 Thread Andrea Rapp
Programs having to do with the synagogue’s own history, its founders, early rabbis, prominent past members, its response to historic events, etc. Andrea Rapp, Wise Temple Sent from my iPad > On Apr 9, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Brown, Joyce J. wrote: > > We have a lecture series and a movie night. Both

Re: [ha-Safran] What is your synagogue’s most successful adult education program.

2018-04-09 Thread Samara Katz
I am starting a tech series for adults/seniors/retirees that will begin next fall. It is drumming up a lot of excitement and I think it will be really popular. The topics are below. I will be developing curriculum and hands out once the school year winds down and I am happy to share those resour

[ha-Safran] AJL-NYMA Workshop--please post

2018-04-09 Thread Bruchie Weinstein
AJL-NYMA SCHOOL LIBRARY WORKSHOP will be held on Monday, April 23, 2018 at the Ramaz Middle School , 114 East 85 Street (between Park and Lex), from 1:30- 4 PM. Would you, could you, should you CODE ? Guest speaker, Ana Canino Fluit, will present "Clueless about coding", a program which she p

[ha-Safran] What to do with Jewish Themed Kodak Carousel Slide Trays

2018-04-09 Thread Israel Mizrahi
Dear Safranim,We ended up with approx 500 different Jewish themed Kodak Carousel Slide Trays, the topics are various Jewish life-cycles, Zionism, Israel, Jewish Education etc. Are these worth preserving? Are there any institutions that would be interested in accepting them? If anyone has any su

[ha-Safran] BARRY: Mamaloshen in Dance!, Celebrates life and Yiddish culture through dance

2018-04-09 Thread Shirazi, Gail
Wonderful Yiddish cultural dance performance by the daughter of our own colleague Galina Teverovsky- Program at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage by Asya Zlatina. BARRY: Mamaloshen in Dance!, a contemporary dance performance choreographed by Asya Zlatina, celebrates life and the Yiddish cu

[ha-Safran] Post from NYPL

2018-04-09 Thread Irene Moulketis
Hello, I would like to post the following position on your site: The Dorot Jewish Division supports the Access and Creating Strategic priorities in ensuring that our researchers have access to our main Judaica collections, which are housed and serviced within it. The LTA II position in the Dorot

Re: [ha-Safran] What is your synagogue’s most successful adult education program.

2018-04-09 Thread Brown, Joyce J.
We have a lecture series and a movie night. Both events are consistently well attended. Topics of discussion are Judaism / Christianity History, Greek/Judaic topic, and other history related information. The movies vary from current to old, Jewish themes, Jewish writers/producers/directors. Fro