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• You spoke, we listened. The Library now has a copy of the much requested book Have A Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom. Like Albom's previous book, Tuesdays with Morrie, Have A Little Faith is an easy read that addresses some not-so-easy but essential life questions as Albom introduces the reader to an elderly Rabbi in a suburban New Jersey synagogue and to a  street-and-prison educated Pastor of an inner city Detroit church. Call number: 290/Alb.

• Ner Tamid Book Club meets on the fourth Thursday of the month. Next meeting: January 27th @ 10:15. For more information, please contact Marion Yurow.

• The Library is accessible during the week when Tina admits users, as well as after Shabbat morning services. Borrow, enjoy, bring back.

About the Library:

The Laura B. Friedman Memorial Library houses over 3,000 books and other media. Susan Burke, Managing Director of The Laura B. Friedman Memorial Library, is assisted in managing the library by Myla Stoke-Kelly. Library materials cover topics of Jewish interest for all ages and strives to serve the spiritual, intellectual, and recreational information needs of the Ner Tamid community.  The collection encompasses all aspect of Jewish topics: the Bible, holidays, Jewish philosophy, customs, Hebrew language, fiction, humor, cooking, history, biographies, the Holocaust, Jews in the Diaspora, and the Middle East. We also have a rich and growing children's book section.  Come take a look for yourself!

Susan Burke

Myla Stokes-Kelly

Linking the Library and Religious School:

Planned by Naomi Gabai-Fisher and Susan Burke, monthly library sessions have been initiated for the pupils in Grades K-5. The children listen to a story related to their grade's curriculum, after which they check out age-appropriate books. A few of the books read during these storytimes include: Honi and the Carob Tree, A Costume for Noah, The Wedding That Saved a Town, The Runaway Dreidle, A Mountain of Blintzes and The Hardest Word.

Kol ha-kavod to children and to their parents who have been mindful of returning borrowed library books!

The long awaited third novel in Maggie Anton's trilogy about "love and the Talmud in medieval France" has been donated to the Library by Diana Lerner.

Rashi's Daughters - Book 3, Rachel, follows the marriage and adventures of Rashi's youngest daughter, who works to build a successful textile business in Troyes, France in the 1090's while the First Crusade rages against the Jews in Germany. This novel sits next to the first two books in the series, and its call number is FIC/Ant/ras/bk.3.  Bet you can't read just one!  Thank you Diana.

Sarah Dennis, daughter of our Religious School's faculty member Morah Shoshanna Dennis, has donated a book to the Library in honor of her recent bat mitzvah.  The Thinking Jewish Teenager's Guide to Life by Akiva Tatz includes chapters on free will, happiness, sex, individuality, identity, drugs, faith, and intermarriage.  The book's call number is 397.23/Tat.  Thank you Sarah both for the book and for being a thinking Jewish teen.

Shoshana Dennis, Faculty member at our religious school, donated a number of books to the library in honor of a recent birthday. Included are three titles dealing with spirituality: Opening the doors of wonder, Reflections on Religious Rites of Passage by Arthur Magida (call number: 290.5/Mag); Jewish with Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice by Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi (call number: 170.01/Sch); and the Art of Amazement, Judaism's Forgotten Spirituality, by Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld (call number: 175.01/Sei). Many Thanks to Shoshana for remembering the Library when marking personal passages, and for teaching her pupils in Class 2/3 to love books and learning!

If Pesach is about freedom, Molly Cohen's recently donated book to the Laura B. Friedman Library is an especially good read  at this season. Enemies of the People, My Family's Journey to America by journalist Kati Marton (at one time married to Peter Jennings) is a memoir of how her parents, Hungarian Jews who had survived the Nazi terror of W.W. II, afterwards battled for their lives and sanity in the '50's during the Cold War 's Communist terror. Marton, as an adult pieced together from recently released secret police records in Hungary as well as from the F.B.I. file on her family in this country, an account of what her Hungarian journalist parents who worked for the west's Associated Press and United Press endured. Marton, at the time of this story was a child of 6, and she blends what she remembers with what she learned later. For those wanting a charming and readable glimpse of the complexity of post war Communist European life, this is a page turner that takes a reader into the Marton family and helps a born American feel in the gut a bit of what totalitarian terror can do to people. The book's call number is 762.1/MAR/Mar.

Ner Tamid's own Rae Harvey has obtained, for the Laura B. Friedman Library, a second copy of Kiss Every Step, by Doris Martin, the book which tells the true story of how Rae and her family, against all odds, survived the war years in Europe. They are the only Jewish family in Poland, to our knowledge, whose members lived to build new lives after the war. This second copy of the book is a revised edition with photographs not included in the earlier printing. The book is a page turner. The call number is 736.5/SZP/Mar/2009.