North Shore Hebrew Academy High School (NSHAHS),
Great Neck, New York

  An Example of Help in Action

Bulletin board at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School

     As part of her outreach to collect reading books
    Joyce Levine, North Shore's school librarian,
    set up a bulletin board displaying photos sent by
    Ulpenat Bnei Akiva "Neot Avraham," the flagship school
    of Arad, and North Shore's adopted Books for Israel
    community.  North Shore is a new school, now only in its
    second year. Mrs. Levine writes:
    "This year is the first that North Shore
    has its own library.  We know how vital a school library
    is to any school and that's why we felt this project was
    so important."


  A few months later, Joyce Levine and a core group of 
  volunteer students wrapped up their bookdrive.
  They carefully went through all the books collected.
  based on general criteria outlined in this Project
  (see "Guidelines" in the "You Can Help" section).
  They then sorted out those books suitable for mailing. 
  Books meeting the standards were then packed up
  into  4 M-bags which at the end contained several
  hundreds of books. The M-bags were mailed out
  just before Pessach. It took some three months 
  before they arrived in Israel, but everyone in the Arad
  flagship was excitedly looking forward to their arrival
  and were very grateful when the books finally were
  delivered.

    Many thanks to all who have made this bookdrive possible --
   and to all the students, parents, fellow teachers, and community people who helped in every way.
   
   Special thanks to Joyce Levine, the bookdrive organizer,
   and to the core group of volunteer students at NSHA  who took so much responsibility at many levels
   --  Rikki, Lauren, Atara S.,  Atara M., Jacob, and Jared !