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Dear Susan
Susan Karlinsky Dear Susan:
We are really happy that CBS is open again for Shabbat morning services. I appreciate the live stream services for the past 18 months but being at CBS is so much more meaningful for me and my husband. We truly miss the Kiddush lunch after services and I’m hoping you can tell me when the Kiddush will return. We’re quite fond of CBS tuna and kugel and noshing with our friends!
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Signed: Happy and Hungry
Dear Happy and Hungry:
Soon! We’re being extra cautious at CBS about bringing back our traditional Shabbat Kiddush lunch. We need to be sure we can provide a safe way to feed a large group of people, and to best protect everyone from the contagious COVID-19 virus. We are considering our options now, and we hope to offer Kiddush lunches beginning again in 2022 on Shabbat mornings when we are celebrating a Bar/Bat mitzvah. If you are celebrating a special birthday, anniversary, aufruf, baby naming, or any other simcha, we welcome you to sponsor a Kiddush at CBS! Please call Brenda at 847.498.4100 x30 for more information!
Dear Susan:
I love the Marian Renee Saltzberg Learning Center at Congregation Beth Shalom! The library has such a great collection of fiction and non-fiction books that are of interest to me. I have a large collection of Jewish books. Can I donate these books to the CBS library? Also, I am curious how you identify which new books to add to your collection?
Signed: Book Collector
Donations must have been published in the last
TWO years. Donations must be in excellent physical condition. Donations must have either contemporary significance or permanent value and be consistent with our existing library collection (Jewish content and/or Jewish authors).
We cannot accept donations unless they meet all four criteria.
With financial support from the congregation and our members, we are able to purchase new books to add to our collection. We learn about new books from many sources. We are members of the Jewish Book Council, our staff and volunteers scour book reviews online, in newspapers and magazines, we hear from publishers and sometimes directly from authors! Let us know if you find something that you think would be a fit for our library! We are happy to welcome Caryn Blomquist to our library staff in mid-August, stop by and say hi!
* Dear Susan is written by CBS Executive Director, Susan Karlinsky.
Dear Book Collector:
I love our library too! It is truly a special place at CBS, and we’re so proud of receiving accreditation through the Association of Jewish Libraries. I’ll address your donation question first, since this is a very common question we get all year long. We have four criteria for donations: Donations must meet the same standards as purchased materials.
