About The Library
The Feinberg Library
The Feinberg Library is an integral part of the Congregation Mishkan Tefila community. The Library’s mission is to serve our congregants. It is an important component of the curricula of the Hebrew, Sunday and Nursery Schools. Winners of the National Jewish Book Awards, and of the Sydney Taylor Awards for young people, are included in our collection.
The Library provides all congregants with access to a wide variety of Judaic library materials including Bible commentaries, European and American Jewish history, and works by Jewish scholars. For children and young adults we offer picture books, storybooks, chapter books, histories, and huge numbers of holiday books. Classes frequently visit the library for research and to borrow books.
The library affords our congregants the opportunity for research through our book collection and online. Use our Clara Weitz Research Center computer or bring a laptop and connect it to our public WiFi.
The Feinberg Library
The Feinberg Library offers:
- Nearly 7,000 volumes of Jewish books
- The Encyclopedia Judaica, both online and in print
- CD, audiobook, video and large print collections
- A self-check-out system
- A professional librarian
- A monthly adult book discussion group
- A cart of children’s books in the Sanctuary every Shabbat
- The Clara Weitz Research Center with a computer available for teachers, staff and congregants
Come And See Us
The Library is open whenever the synagogue is open. Feel free to come in and browse. Fill in a slip from the box on the desk if you take a book out, and return books in the book drop in the hall. Right inside the back door is a children’s corner where young members can make themselves at home.
Barbara is here on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons after 1 pm during the school year. If you want to see her at another time about a book you want or services you’d like to have the library work on for you, please call x3231 or email librarian@mishkantefila.org to make an appointment, and she’ll be happy to accommodate you.
Contact Myrna at myrna.cohen@comcast.net if you’d like to learn more about our library. Please consider becoming a volunteer. You’ll be needed and deeply appreciated.
Myrna Cohen, Library Chair
Barbara Mende, Librarian
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