Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight
  

A Window into the Chareidi World

12 Sivan 5766 - June 8, 2006 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
NEWS

OPINION
& COMMENT

OBSERVATIONS

HOME
& FAMILY

IN-DEPTH
FEATURES

VAAD HORABBONIM HAOLAMI LEINYONEI GIYUR

TOPICS IN THE NEWS

POPULAR EDITORIALS

HOMEPAGE

 

Produced and housed by
Shema Yisrael Torah Network
Shema Yisrael Torah Network

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS
New Library in Ramat Shlomo

by Betzalel Kahn

A library with an extensive collection of Torah works and reading material is currently being built at the community center in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The construction of the library was made possible through the efforts of Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky, who allocated land, gave funding priority and arranged financing.

The library, which will be run by the Department for Torah Culture, will have separate sections for children, older children and adults. Advanced computer services and other services will be provided by municipal employees. Rabbi Gavriel Stauber, director of the Department for Torah Culture, said the library, working in cooperation with the local Community Administration, would also sponsor special activities to encourage reading and enrichment for children.

The library in Ramat Shlomo joins the libraries the Department for Torah Culture operates in Bayit Vegan, Romema, Sanhedria, the Jewish Quarter, Ezrat Torah, Neveh Yaakov, Ramot and the mobile library. The activities the municipality is sponsoring this year at existing libraries are based on directives from the mayor to substantially increase the Torah culture budget.

Torah Culture Commissioner Rabbi Avrohom Feiner said, "The expansion of services in Ramat Shlomo is part of the municipality's trend toward expanding cultural activities this year in all of the chareidi neighborhoods around the city."

 

All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is restricted.
Click here for conditions of use.