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.

Book Discussion Kit

Now featuring a current affairs bestseller—

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

If you would like to catalog and add The Case for Democracy to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept this book as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

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Show a Film on the Middle East

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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

As Israel's history fades away in cardboard boxes, gov't plans a museum 7/2/2008

As Israel's history fades away in cardboard boxes, gov't plans a national museum
by Haviv Rettig

Dr. Yehoshua Freundlich gently opens a heavy cardboard binder to run a practiced eye across the fading paper.
"See how Sadat and Begin signed in English alongside the Hebrew and the Arabic?" He sighs. "I wish I could show this to Israel's children."

"Here are the signatures," he points... Read the full story...

NY kids read Schalit's book on YouTube 6/23/2008

NY kids read Schalit's book on YouTube
by Jerusalem Post Staff

To mark two years since Cpl. Gilad Schalit was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, the Israeli Consulate in New York has posted a YouTube clip featuring five fifth-grade pupils reading an English translation of When the Shark and the Fish First Met, a story Schalit wrote when he was 11 that was published earlier this year.

The story describes an unlikely friendship that blossoms between a shark and a fish who meet one day in the ocean, and who have to overcome their mutual distrust, as well as that of their families, before they can swim together... Read the full story...

First Ethiopian Israeli Museum Gets Green Light 6/15/2008

First Ethiopian Israeli museum gets green light
by Ruth Eglash

Plans to establish the first-ever museum dedicated to Ethiopian Jewish culture and history have been approved by the Knesset, marking a serious effort by legislators to raise the profile and preserve the heritage of the 110,000-strong community.

"Thousands of new Ethiopian immigrants have arrived in Israel over the past 30 years and now is the time to immortalize their traditions in order to educate future generations about their history," read the legislation... Read the full story...

Double Standard Watch: Questions for Walt and Mearsheimer 6/12/2008

Double Standard Watch: Questions for Walt and Mearsheimer
by Prof. Alan Dershowitz

Professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer have been invited to speak at Hebrew University. They will continue to pedal their bigoted drivel about the iron grip, the Jewish lobby - which they call the "Israel Lobby," in capital letters - holds over American foreign policy. They will claim, as they did in their previous writings, that Israel's birth was an original sin and crime, that Israel holds the moral low ground, and that if the cause of Israel were in any way deserving of American support, it would not need a lobby... Read the full story...

Textbook Council Accuses Publisher of Being Politically Correct... 6/7/2008

Textbook Council Accuses Publisher of Being Politically Correct...
by Leah Fabel
Washington, D.C.

A new report issued by the American Textbook Council says books approved for use in local school districts for teaching middle and high school students about Islam caved in to political correctness and dumbed down the topic at a critical moment in its history.

"Textbook editors try to avoid any subject that could turn into a political grenade," wrote Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, who railed against five popular history texts for "adjust[ing] the definition of jihad or sharia or remov[ing] these words from lessons to avoid inconvenient truths."

Sewall complains the word jihad has gone through an "amazing cultural reorchestration" in textbooks, losing any connotation of violence... Read the full story...

Yad Vashem's Photographic Collection Uploaded to the Internet 6/5/2008

Yad Vashem's Photographic Collection Uploaded to the Internet
by Dr. Daniel Uziel, Yad Vashem

(IsraelNN.com) "Mendel pulls out his camera. No more flowers, clouds, nature, stills, landscapes. Amid the horror all around him, he has found his destiny: to photograph, and leave behind a testimony for all generations about the great tragedy unfolding before his eyes."

This is how Arieh Ben Menahem describes the work of Lodz ghetto photographer Mendel Grossman in his book, "With a Camera in the Ghetto" (Hebrew)... Read the full story...

An Excellent Book List 6/5/2008


ISRAEL, ZIONISM AND HISTORY

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NEW
The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy — by Neal Kozodoy (Editor), Mark Helprin (Afterword)

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With all Their Might — Chaim Applebaum (Elimelech)

They Came Up From Blood — Elimelech

Memoirs of an Assassin — "Avner"

The Revolt — Menachem Begin

White Nights — Menachem Begin

Terror Out of Zion — J... Read the full story...

Egypt Is Trying To Deny Our Existence 6/5/2008

Egypt Is Trying To Deny Our Existence
by Jenna Stark

The Egyptian government has refused to release archives connected to the Jewish community to the Historical Society of Jews from Egypt, prompting the society to on Wednesday ask the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to intervene.

The historical society's members consist of Jews worldwide whose families have been exiled from Egypt since the 1950s... Read the full story...