People of the book,
The second annual Jewish Community Center Book Fair gets under way Sunday, as part of a nationwide initiative to promote Jewish literacy.
When readers and book lovers visit the Jewish Community Center's Book Fair next week, they will be following a tradition that began 75 years ago, when a Boston librarian single-handedly began the burgeoning industry now known as Jewish Book Month. That unnamed librarian, according to Jewish Book Council Director Carolyn Hessel, put a few books of Jewish interest on a table in the Boston Public Library."In a year or two it became a nationwide phenomenon,"...
5 WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
Suspect at large: The motive for the attack is not known LOS ANGELES (AP) - A gunman burst into a Jewish community center Tuesday and sprayed the lobby with 20 to 30 shots, wounding five people, including three boys attending day camp, and then evaded a manhunt into the night. Several SWAT teams converged on a hotel where authorities found a car that they believed might have been carjacked by the suspect, described as a balding white man in his 40s. At 9 p.m., after evacuating the hotel,...
Albert Hursh, Jewish community leader, dies at 90
Albert Hursh, lauded for making an indelible imprint on Harrisburg's Jewish community over six decades of service, died yesterday morning at the Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg. He was 90. "The Harrisburg Jewish community is Al Hursh," said longtime friend Ron Isaacman. "He's the reason the community is as strong as it is. He's the foundation." A man with deep roots in Harrisburg,...