Important Update: JLTV Bulletin 101

Network Helps to Answer Questions
About Gaza and Terrorism

This week JLTV will begin a series presenting vital, unbiased answers to questions about, not only the current situation in Gaza, but complex issues focusing on worldwide terrorism. How does one respond to family, friends and neighbors who are missing the background to better understand the reality of the situation at hand. How does one react to a slopping statement by a network newscaster. For example, what is the answer to the statement "Why is Israel over-acting?" The questions and the concise, well thought out answers, will appear on screen during JLTV's regular programming. Answers to the questions are being prepared by JLTV's astute Editorial Board. This original approach to disseminating information about these delicate and profound issues will begin airing this
Friday, January 9.

JLTV Establishes Special Relationship with the Library of Congress

America's full-time Jewish television channel will be providing its viewers programming developed by the Library of Congress. The Library's African and Middle Eastern Division is the center for the study of some 78 countries and regions from Southern Africa to the Maghreb and from the Middle East to Central Asia. Overseeing the relationship with JLTV and the Library of Congress is the division's Hebraic Section which is one of the world's foremost centers for the study of Hebrew and Yiddish materials. JLTV will present a series of these high-level programs during its "J-SPAN" time slots.

For example, The Song of Songs, is the Hebrew Bible's love song. But who sings this song? While the literal words tell of the passionate love of a man and a woman, the early rabbis
understood the verses as an allegory of the love between God and Israel. In her illuminated manuscript, "The Song of Songs: the Honeybee in the Garden," author and artist Debra Band
interprets and illustrates the biblical text. Her lecture will appear on JLTV.

Another example, one topic covered is simply "shoes" which are an integral part of Jewish material culture according to Edna Nahshon. She is the author of a new book titled Jews and Shoes (Berg Publishers, 2008). Nahshon discusses her book at the Library of Congress and on JLTV. Her presentation takes a fresh look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers and bare-footedness in Jewish experience. The book delineates how shoes convey theological, social and economic concepts, and as such are intriguing subjects for inquiry within a wide range of cultural, artistic and historic contexts. A graduate of Tel Aviv University and New York University, Nahshon is a professor of Hebrew at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and senior associate at the Center of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University.

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions and has a working relationship with the History Channel along with JLTV. The Library also plans to archive programs aired by by JLTV produced between 1997 and the present.