Aiming to Spread Judaism One Book at a Time

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Mark Oppenheimer

Todd Parr, at his home in Berkeley, Calif., was commissioned by the PJ Library to write a book.

MASSACHUSETTS - In 2004, Harold Grinspoon, a local real estate mogul, heard a story on National Public Radio about the Imagination Library, founded by the singer Dolly Parton to give free books to children in her native rural Tennessee. The PJ Library, a program of his Harold Grinspoon Foundation, made its debut in December 2005, sending 200 books with Jewish content to interested families, primarily those with young Jewish children. Initially, the books were sent to children in western Massachusetts. The program has grown every month since, and in July the PJ Library will mail 76,000 books to children in every state and across Canada. [link]