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Librarians for Fairness

A librarians' association that advocates for academic balance in our libraries

Librarians for Fairness is an organization dedicated to bringing positive programs about Israel to libraries across the nation and to promoting democratic values. We work to ensure that Israel's viewpoint is represented fairly in our libraries through books, periodicals, audiovisuals, online resources, and scheduled events.

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The Case for Democracy: The Power to Overcome Tyranny & Terror

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Now offering Israel 4 Kids CD

American Children can now take a virtual tour of Israel with Srulik, a popular sandal-footed Israeli cartoon character. This fun and interactive tour will make Israel come alive as students experience the story of Israel that rarely gets told. Children and educators alike can learn about Israel’s cool Internet technologies (i.e. AOL instant messaging), watermelon picking robots, live-saving cancer drugs, and other joint U.S.-Israeli projects and become better informed about Israel’s unique history, national languages, climate, food, branches of government, and currency.

If you would like to catalog and add Israel 4 Kids to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept the CD as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

Israel in the World

This colorful volume takes an in-depth look at a remarkable achievement: how one small and very young country has successfully become one of the world's technological leaders.

From agriculture to medicine, Israel stands right at the forefront of technological development. Learn about the country's many achievements and breakthoughs, and how it's poised to remain on the industrial cutting edge in the foreseeable future. The countless accomplishments outlined here would be dazzling, even if they hadn't emerged from a nation that didn't even exist 60 years ago: Israel created the ICQ chat facility that is now used by hundreds of millions of internet surfers each day; the technology that allows you to leave voicemail messages on a mobile phone; the medical diagnostic equipment (including magnetic resonance imaging) found in most hospitals; and the surveillance equipment that alerts security officials to suspicious activities at airports. Find out about the people who made such progress possible; the educational system that allowed these citizens, many of them recent immigrants, to reach their full potential; and how Israel uses its knowledge for the well-being of the world.

If you would like to catalog and add Israel in the World to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept the CD as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

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In the News

Op-Ed: End The Illegal Occupation of Jerusalem 6/24/2009

End The Illegal Occupation Of Jerusalem
by Phyllis Chesler

Journalist Aaron Klein's important new book, The Late Great State of Israel: How Enemies Within and Without Threaten the Jewish Nation's Survival, illuminates, infuriates, saddens, and cries out to both heaven and humanity.

Klein - Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and a weekly Jewish Press columnist - says he chose his book's title "with a heavy heart," in order to "awaken people to this very real possibility," to "prod the world into pondering the unthinkable; and to shed light on the scope of the calamitous threats facing the Jewish state."

Klein indicts the world's governments and the global media, including the Israeli government and media, for having tried to cover up the fact that the late Yasir Arafat was a bloodthirsty terrorist; for continuing to present Fatah, under Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's right hand man, as "moderate"; for being so "entrenched in their accepted narratives that they will completely invert the truth or blindly repeat proven falsehoods (all in order to mask) the murderous ways of their Palestinian or Arab state partners."

I only wish those who helped President Obama craft his Cairo speech had read Klein's book before they led (or followed) our commander-in-chief down the proverbial garden path... Read the full story...

Book Review: Higher Ed and the Third Reich 6/17/2009

Higher Ed and the Third Reich
Reviewed by Elizabeth Redden

A new book examines American colleges’ ties to Nazi Germany in the 1930s -- and chronicles a record characterized by indifference, complicity and collaboration.

“In order to understand the whole course of development that leads us to the Holocaust, I think it’s very important to see what influential sectors in the United States were doing... Read the full story...

Ex Libras Sells $3 Million in Library Systems 6/10/2009

Ex Libris Sells $3 Million in Library Systems

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem-based Ex Libris recently completed sales of its library automation system to 14 academic, national, and research libraries around the world. The deals are worth a reported $3 million. "The fact that all Ex Libris solutions are completely multilingual and enable a library to manage and provide access to diverse and complex collections weighed heavily in our decision,” said Elena Tîrziman, general director of the National Library of Romania who purchased a system.

Other purchasing institutions include the Aleph and Voyager integrated library systems (ILS), the Library of Congress in Peru, the National University of Costa Rica, Iowa State University, Japan's Keio University, Université de Nice in France, University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic, Reformed Episcopal Seminary in the U.S., and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France... Read the full story...

Campaign Mounted To Put Pro-Israeli Book In Hands Of Lawmakers 6/10/2009

Campaign Mounted To Put Pro-Israel Book In Hands Of Lawmakers

A new initiative has been launched to flood U.S. lawmakers with a book outlining the urgent dangers faced by the Jewish state.

"One major concern is that it seems many lawmakers don't understand how America is contributing to the threats facing the Jewish state. For example, how U.S. funding, arming, and training of Fatah forces translates into Fatah terrorism against Jews," said WorldNetDaily Jerusalem bureau chief and Jewish Press columnist Aaron Klein.

Klein's new book, The Late Great State of Israel, details how U.S... Read the full story...

Thousands of New Books in 2008 6/7/2009

Thousands of New Books in 2008
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) In honor of National Book Week – actually 10 days, beginning on June 10 (see below) - the Jewish National and University Library has publicized statistics about Israel’s literary output.

In the year 2008, the library registered 7,414 new titles, including 6,384 new books and 380 new CDs and cassettes. A spokesperson for the library said that though new publications are required to be sent to the National Library, in practice only some 85-90% of books are sent and less than half of the new CDs and tapes.

The Library also received 15,806 periodicals, 1,070 MA theses, and 882 doctoral theses... Read the full story...

Note from Librarians for Fairness 6/6/2009

We have posted the entire study, under the heading:
2008 Update: Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance.

NEW STUDY SHOWS HOW SAUDI TEXTBOOKS TEACH CHILDREN TO HATE... 6/5/2009

NEW STUDY SHOWS HOW SAUDI TEXTBOOKS TEACH CHILDREN TO HATE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS

Washington, DC 06.03.09– With President Barack Obama in Saudi Arabia today, a new study shows how textbooks currently used in middle and high schools in the Kingdom are teaching children to hate Jews and Christians and to use violent means against them.

Representatives Anthony D. Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), Joseph Crowley (D – Queens and Bronx), and Shelley Berkley (D – Las Vegas) released the report of translated 2009 Saudi textbooks, documenting an on-going pattern of hate, anti-Semitism, and violence taught in Saudi Arabian schools.

In a letter to President Obama, Weiner condemned the hate-filled teachings and urged the President to address the issue during his meetings with Saudi officials this week.

Textbooks used in Saudi Arabian schools are not widely available to the West... Read the full story...

2008 Update: Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance 6/2/2009

2008 Update:
Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance
With Excerpts from Saudi Ministry of
Education Textbooks for Islamic Studies

Center for Religious Freedom
of the Hudson Institute
2008 WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR GULF AFFAIRS

2008 Update: Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of
Intolerance
Center for Religious Freedom of Hudson Institute
With the Institute for Gulf Affairs
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Copyright © 2008 by Center for Religious Freedom
Published by the Center for Religious Freedom
Printed in the United States of America... Read the full story...

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