Open the Door to extraordinary worlds at the Kol Shofar Library Kol Shofar’s Kaiser Library houses the largest collection of books about Jews and Judaism in Marin County . . . more than 1,000 books. Within our building, the library is known as the Beit Midrash, or small chapel. Our long-time, volunteer librarian Ellen Barr, along with volunteer assistants Jo Cohen and Glenda Smith, has helped to house a beautiful collection of old and new books accessible to all members. Librarian hours:         Mondays, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Library hours:            Monday – Thursday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday – Sunday, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Library is closed when used for classes and services. Scroll to bottom for our list of new arrivals in our library! Books may be checked out on Mondays by the library staff or may be self-checked out by following the directions on the check out table. It is free to check out books, however late fees will apply if books are not returned on time. JEWISH JOURNEYS FOR KIDS   The library houses a special collection of books for children. Come sit at the table or on the rug and enjoy stories about Jewish holidays, silly animals and family traditions. Herschel Simon Leibowitz loves to read and highly recommends you join us in the library! JEWISH LIT SERIES Opening the Door         to Extraordinary Worlds Discover the best minds and the brightest stars. From art to business to politics to science to Jewish interests, Kol Shofar is where tomorrow’s most important issues are revealed, and where the written word comes to life, creating a literary forum unlike any other.  Killing Me Softly: My life in Music Composer and Author Charles Fox Wednesday, Jan. 11, 7:30 PM Phenomenal event with Grammy Award winning songwriter Charles Fox. The most iconic theme song writer for TV with such themes as  Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat and Love American Style. Join him at the piano as he shares stories of growing up in the Bronx with an Israeli mother and Polish father, studying music in Paris and hear stories of his time working with Barry Manilow, Lena Horn, Fred Astaire, the San Francisco Ballet and Roberta Flack who sang “Killing Me Softly”. Book sales and signing to follow program. No host bar on-site. Free. To attend, please register with Hagar Ben-Eliezer: hben-eliezer@kolshofar.org or 415.388.1818 ext. 111. You can order books and support Kol Shofar! Use AMAZON.COM for your shopping needs and Kol Shofar receives a percentage of your purchases. Just do a search through this logo:   NEW LIBRARY BOOKS Biography Abramson, Lorraine     My Race – A Jewish Girl Growing Up in South Africa Berger, Marilyn     This is a Soul (The mission of Rick Hodes in Ethiopia) Coetze, Rachel     Pulani – Memoir of South Africa Siegel, Donna On the Doorposts of All Our Houses (Memoir-Biography of Immigrant Family) Culture/Tradition Agronin, Marc     How We Age (CT Lifecycles) Levison, David     Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins Portnoy, Jane A Jewish Calendar of Festive Foods (Easy recipes for holidays) (CT Cookbooks) Rips, Nancy     High Holiday Stories Zomore, Mary     The Sacred Table Fiction Aciman, Andre     Eight White Nights Altman, H.     In This House (Poetry) Baumel, Judith     The Kangaroo Girl (Poetry) Dubow Polins, Wendy     Face Forward Feldman, Ellen     Next to Love Furman, Laura     The Mother Who Stayed Grodstein, Lauren     A Friend of the Family Helgi, Ursula     Children & Fire (Novel with overtones of Holocaust) Hoffman, Wayne     Sweet Like Sugar Orringer, Julie     The Invisible Bridge (War-torn lovers, family survival) Rindsberg, Ashley     Tel-Aviv Stories Rosen, Leonard     All Cry, Chaos (Henri Poincaré mystery) Schwartz, Adam     A Stranger on the Planet Sein-Sandberg, Steve     The Emporor of Lies Unger, David     The Price of Escape Weber, Katherine     True Confections Wex, Michael Frumkin Family Business (Provocative black comedy from Poland in 1930’s to present-day Toronto) Wolf, Sharyn     Love Shrinks History Bergen, Peter     The Longest War (The enduring conflict between America & Al Quaeda) Jacoby, Russell     Bloodlust (On the roots of violence from Cain & Abel to the present) Neurath, A. Robert, Ph.D.     Bratislava, Pressburg, Pozsony Jewish Secular Endeavors (1867 – 1938) Rosenbaum, Ron     How the End Begins: Road to Nuclear WWIII Sohn, Joan     36 Letters – One Family’s Story until 1925 Holocaust Cohen, Felice     What Papa Told Me (Memoir of Holocaust Survivor) Dreifus, Erica     Quiet Americans (Reverberations of Holocaust) Kalechofsky, Roberta Four Women from Ravensbruck – 5 Stories from the Shoah (fiction taken from true stories) Karras, Steven     The Enemy I Knew (German Jews in Allied Military in WWII) Lamet, Eric     A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and his Mother in Mussolini’s Italy Lau, Rabbi Israel, Meir     Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last Steinacher, Gerald     Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s’ Henchmen Fled Justice Wick, Steve     The Long Night – William Shirer and the Rise & Fall of the Third Reich Israel Abuelaish, Izzeldim     I Shall Note Hate – Gaza doctor’s last sacrifice on the road to peace Bard, Mitchell     The Arab Lobby (Interest group that undermines US security interests) Cambanis, Thanassis     A Privilege to Die (Inside Hezbollah and their war against Israel) Gonen, Eitan     From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills (Memoir of a Palestinian Jew) Isaacs, Alick     A Prophetic Peace (Judaism, religion, politics) Myre, Greg & Griffin, Jennifer     This Burning Land (Lessons from front lines of transformed Israeli-Palestinian conflict) Pear, Ian     The Accidental Zionist Verlin, Jerome     Israel (The Jewish peoples’ 3000 year presence in Israel) Jews in America Stark, Douglas     The Sphas – The Life and Times of Basketballs’ Greatest Jewish Team Theology Shulevitz, Judith     The Sabbath World (Glimpses of a different order of time) Women’s Collection Myers, Andrea     The Choosing: A Rabbi’s Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days Tanenbaum, Leora     Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality The library welcomes donations of Jewish-related books in good condition. For more information, contact library coordinator Ellen Barr or call Sharon Brusman at 388.1818 ext. 106 with any questions.