News

• Our Library Dedication thanking our generous Capital Campaign donors and kicking off our first annual program during Cheshvan, Jewish Book Month, was held on 12 November 2006 / 21 Cheshvan 5767.  We hung the beautiful mezuzah, heard Shir Atid (the children’s choir), listened to Michael Wald and guest speaker Rabbi Max Ticktin, plus more.   Please see the copy of the Library Dedication program kept on the magazine rack in the Library.
  

• Looking for what’s new and exciting? To the right as you walk in is our New Books section.  Please see below for a list of our new titles.

• Children? Don’t forget to visit the children's collection housed in the Children's Alcove, which is a discrete wing of the Library to the left of the main room.
  
  
• The room will eventually house the new Beth El Archive Center and the Benson David Adams Jewish Music Center.

• In time, the collection will expand to include the new Jewish Music Center (with listening facilities) in memory of Past President Benson David Adams, Judaic reference materials on CD-ROM, limited video materials (including Beth El's own Megillah Madness of course). The music collection and computer materials will not be available on the Sabbath and holidays.

• Please do not bring your food and/or drink into our Library.

Further details about Library news and events will be posted in this space, on the listserv, in the Shabbat announcements, and in the Scroll when timing allows.
You can contact us at library@bethelmc.org

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New Books -- Check the Shelf!

-  We now have all 6 books published in the Jewish Encounters Book series being brought to us by the Nextbook Foundation and Schocken publishers.

   -  Maimonides

   -  Life of David

   -  Barney Ross

   -  Betraying Spinoza

   -  Emma Lazarus

   -  The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred ...

For more information on the series and the forthcoming titles please see:  

http://www.nextbook.org/publishingprogram/index.html  

 

Other New Circulating Titles:

- A Code of Jewish Ethics:  Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy

- The Lost:  A Search for Six of the Six Million

- The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

- The Book of Klezmer:  The History, The Music …

- The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt

- Bar Mitzvah:  A Guide to Spiritual Growth

- Every Mother is a Daughter:  the Neverending …

- The Great Escape:  Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler …

- The Jews of the United States, 1654 – 2004

- The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale

- Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports

- Awake in the Dark:  Stories

- Disobedience

- Water from the Well:  Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah

- Gonzo Judaism:  A Bold Path for Renewing …

- Scars of War, Wounds of Peace:  The Israel …

- Hanukkah at Valley Forge

- The Flying Camel: And Other Essays by Women …

- Mackerel at Midnight:  Growing up Jewish …

- Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World      

 

New Reference Titles (NOT circulating): 

-The Kestenbaum Edition Tikkun:  The Torah …