BETH SHOLOM COMMUNITY LENDING LIBRARY

Hours: 

To be announced. 

The library will open on Saturday evening, September 8, 2012

Announcements:

Volunteers are needed to process books and to catalog the Bobrow Chapel collection.  Teens may earn community service hours.

Now through August 1: copies of The Heavens Are Empty by Avrom Bendavid-Val are for sale in the shul office.  The book tells the story of the life and death of one of the most unusual but unknown shtetls in Eastern Europe. An imagined Trochenbrod was the setting for Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel and movie, Everything is Illuminated.  Proceeds benefit the library’s fund

Saturday, September 8, 2012:  Open House and Literary Event for Selichot

8:15 p.m.      Library open for browsing and borrowing                     

9:15 p.m.      Author Avrom Bendavid-Val discusses his book, The Heavens Are Empty

10:15 p.m.    Meet the author, book signing, refreshments

                     Library open for browsing and borrowing

11:00 p.m.    Selichot Service

Sunday, October 14 at 3:00 p.m:  Library Fundraiser.  Beth Sholom has reserved a block of seats at Strathmore Music Center for an all-Beethoven program by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Israeli-born pianist Orli Shaham.  The program includes the Leonore Overture No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 3 and Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”.  Tickets are $55 discounted until June 30, $62 thereafter.  Children 7-17 $5 by advance arrangement. Our fundraiser tickets are for sale only in advance at the BSCTT office.

Contact The Library Committee:

For more information about the library, the Open House, the concert fundraiser, volunteering, community service hours, suggesting books for acquisition, donating books or money to support the library project, contact library@bethsholom.org.

Bob Kurlantzick and Tanya Lampert, co-chairs

A Sample From Our Library Donation Wish List:

Bamberger, R’ Moshe:  Great Jewish Letters : a collection of classic and inspirational

writings of Torah personalities

Ginsberg, Allan: Collected Poems 1947-1997

Goldstein, Rebecca: The Mind-Body Problem

Guttman, S Daniel & Ratner, Phillip:  The Passover Zoo Seder

Gutowski, Gene: With balls and chutzpah : a story of survival 

Haber, Gilda M: Cockney Girl 

Kurtz, Sidney: Marcel Singer,The Gentle Butcher of Hongkew

Langer, Ruth: Cursing the Christians?: A History Of The Birkat Haminim

Lieberman, Senator Joseph:  The gift of rest

Mendele Moykher Sforim: The Little Man,

Michael, Sami:  Viktoria

Orpaz, Yitshak :  The Death of Lysanda

Pearlman, Edith: Binocular Visions: New And Selected Stories

Peretz, I L:  Bontshe the Silent

Pruzansky, R’ Binyomin:  Stories that awaken the heart

Richler, Mordecai: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Shamir, Moshe :  The Bridal Veil

Singer, Isaac Bashevis:  The Family Moskat, The Slave, The Magician of Lublin,

Viener, R’ Yosef:  Contemporary questions in halachah and hashkafah : discussion

of common dilemmas in daily life

Waysman, Dvora: Pomegranate Pendant