Unite Against Book Bans

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    🕮    Recently, libraries and schools have been facing an outrageous number of book challenges. Jewish tradition encourages debate and the exchange of ideas, and to me, the attempted repression we are seeing right now is diametrically opposed to Jewish values and American values. Books about marginalized communities, including the Jewish community, have been targeted. Librarians and educators are being vilified. It's time to speak out to protect the rights of all readers to have access to books that reflect their own experiences. That's why I asked Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, to come on the podcast and talk about censorship and ALA's Unite Against Book Bans campaign.

LEARN MORE:

• Unite Against Book Bans campaign
• TOOLKIT for Unite Against Book Bans
  
• Confidential Censorship Reporting Tool
  
• ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: 

• "How to Support Diverse Books During a Book Ban" - We Need Diverse Books
  
•  Kids' Right to Read Project - National Coalition Against Censorship
• #FReadom 
• "Utah Attorney General Provides Legal Framework to Fight Book Bans" - School Library Journel

CREDITS:

• Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
• Co-sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries
• Sister podcast: Nice Jewish Books
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