Dear Editor,
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you how much I
enjoy the Home and Family section for providing helpful and
thoughtful articles for religious women.
I am sure your readers will be interested in a project in my
community whose goal is to provide kosher Jewish reading for
women and their families.
The Telz Stone Library was started almost three years ago and
is run by many volunteers, both women and teenage girls, all
of whom give freely of their time. Shortly after the library
started, it was decided to go "mobile" once a week. On mobile
days, the library acts as a focal point at each of its stops
around the kirya. Women come with strollers and
toddlers in tow to find inspiring kosher reading for Shabbos
and the entire week and as a bonus, run into friends they
don't often see. The library is also open most days of the
year.
The library subscription is kept low in order to encourage
every English-speaking family to take advantage of the
library. Fund-raising events are held to cover the enormous
cost of purchasing newly published books and to provide
social activities for residents in the kirya.
Amongst the annual fund-raising ventures are "An Evening of
Entertainment" using the talents of women and children; a
summer fair for the children, a bake sale; the sale of
buttons from discarded clothing; white elephant items and --
plants. This year the Mobile Library ran an extremely
successful sunflower competition.
In the coming year, the Mobile Library is putting together a
book which it is hoped will generate much needed funds which
will be used solely to purchase books for the library. The
book will be a collection of articles by published and non-
published authors who are offering contributions that will
inspire and inform Jewish women and their families. If anyone
would like to contribute an article, please contact us at:
nberg@mail.com or fax: 03-725-5953. If anyone would like to
donate a book to the library or obtain sunflower seeds (for
growing), please phone 02-534- 5835.
