Below are links of Jewish interest in the following areas:
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- Ezines, Literature & Music
- Children, Teens & College Kids
- Online Study & Research
- History & Geneology
- Holocaust Studies
- Jewish Organizations
- Israel
- Travel & More
- Shop in Israel
eZines, Literature, and Music
1. Jewish Heritage Online MagazineAn innovative web monthly devoted to the study of classic and modern Jewish texts, culture and heritage. Published by MAXIMA Multimedia, and originally sponsored by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (NY), JHOM.com is a non-denominational webzine, without religious or political platform.
2.Jewish Family & Life!
Original Jewish content online, by a fast-growing pluralistic entrepreneurial non-profit organization devoted to helping the Jewish world flourish by creatively blending technology and informal Jewish education.
3. Tikkun Online
The online version of Tikkun magazine, which regards itself as the liberal alternative to the voices of Jewish conservatism and spiritual deadness in the Jewish world and as the spiritual alternative to the voices of materialism and selfishness in Western society.
4. Commentary Online
The online version of COMMENTARY, a monthly journal of opinion (from the more conservative end of the continuum) on politics, history, foreign affairs, science, movies, religion, books, music and the arts.
5. Jewish Publication Society
Information and online ordering from the oldest publisher of Jewish literature published in the English language
6. JEWISH SHORT STORIES
Listen to “Jewish Short Stories From Eastern Europe and Beyond," from the 1995 National Public Radio production featuring stories of modern Jewish writers read by leading actors of stage and screen.
7. Israel Gimel - Free Midi Library
Download music files from the Israeli Jewish Yiddish Hebrew Folk Cultural Music Midi Free Library
8. United Synagogue's Israel Commission - Today's Israel
The magazine gives us a wonderful opportunity to publicize some of what our movement does in Israel and to show many of the wonderful aspects of life in Israel, the kinds of stories that mainstream media often omit. Back to Top
Children, Teens and College Kids
1. Navigating the Bible IIAn online Bar and Bat Mitzvah tutor (with audio) developed by World ORT
2.Hillel The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
The largest Jewish campus organization in the world, with a global network of over 500 regional centers, campus Foundations and Hillel student organizations 3.KOACH - College Outreach Project - United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
The home page of Conservative Judaism's College Outreach Program, providing an online community among Jewish college students
4.Hagshama Department - World Zionist Org
Provides information on Birthright Israel and encouraging a closer connection to the state of Israel among young people.
5.United Synagogue Youth
The national USY home page, with links to other regions
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On-line study & Research
1.MyJewishLearning.comA joint production of Hebrew College and Jewish Family & Life! Media, this new website is a multi-denominational Jewish learning website with deep information on Jewish History and Community, Daily Life & Practice, Holidays, Lifecycle Events, Ideas & Beliefs, and Culture.
2.The Jewish Virtual Library
Presented by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise's for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism
3. Jewishnet - Global Jewish Information Network
An extensive network of links, claiming to have more than 100,000 documents indexed. 4.Hebrew College
In addition to classes at its Boston and Florida campuses, Hebrew College offers numerous courses via the Web and e-mail for credit or non-credit
5.Jewish University in Cyberspace
Conducted by the Department for Jewish Zionist Education of the Jewish Agency for Israel 6.JTS Online
The distance learning arm of the Jewish Theological Seminary
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Jewish History & Geneology
1. American Jewish Historical SocietyAJHS is a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history.
2.Center for Jewish History
The Center is a partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art, with combined holdings of 100 million archival documents, a half million books, and thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings and textiles - the largest repository documenting the Jewish experience outside of Israel.
3.JewishGen - The Home of Jewish Genealogy
Created to assist those researching their Jewish ancestry. JewishGen's online Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on over two million people.
4.Southern Jewish Historical Society
A learning resource for Jewish history in the American South from the Civil War to the present day
5.The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
The Center is an academic unit of the Department of History in Temple's College of Arts and Sciences. It’s mission is to be a resource center and a clearing house for information concerning American Jewish history and to promote a systematic approach to the study of American Jewish history.
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Holocaust Studies
1.United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAmerica's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust
2.Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs'and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Established by act of the Israeli Knesset in 1953, Yad Vashem’s mission is to commemorate the six million murdered Jews and to perpetuate the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations.
3.Simon Wiesenthal Center
SWC is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action.
4.Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Established in 1994 by Steven Spielberg after filming Schindler's List, the Shoah Foundation has collected more than 50,000 eyewitness testimonies in 57 countries and 32 languages, and is committed to ensuring the broad and effective educational use of its archive worldwide.
5.March of the Living International 2002
The March of the Living is an international, educational program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoach, Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Jewish Organizations
1.United Synagogue of Conservative JudaismThe organized voice of the Conservative movement
2.Jewish Theological Seminary
A Jewish university granting undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, and providing the rabbinical training of many Conservative rabbis
3.The Rabbinical Assembly
Founded in 1901 as the international association of Conservative rabbis
4.World ORT. A world-wide Jewish education and training charity.
One of the largest non-governmental education and training organizations in the world, with past and present activities in over 100 countries
5.Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
The official voice of the Reconstructionist movement
6.Orthodox Union
The official voice of the Orthodox movement
7.Union of American Hebrew Congregations
The official voice of the Reform movement
JSSA (The Jewish Social Service Agency of Metropolitan Washington)
Provides child evaluation and treatment, counseling and therapy, hospice care, older adult services, special needs services, career services, adoption services and newcomer resettlement services.
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Israel
1. Jerusalem Post Internet Edition2.The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
3.The Knesset - the Parliament of Israel
4.Masorti Movement in Israel
The official voice of the Conservative movement in Israel
5.Israel21c
The single most authoritative source of information about the Israel that exists beyond the conflict
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Travel & More
1.Shamash's Kosher Restaurant DatabaseDatabase of kosher restaurants around the world, with listings of over 1800 restaurants in over 40 countries
2.The Jewish Outreach Institute
Online support and resources for the intermarried and their families
3.Yahoodi.com
Home of the 'Peace Encyclopedia' searchable collection of essays and commentary on Jewish-Arab relations, and ' Famous Jews Interactive' searchable listing of who’s who
4.Healing Psalms
Focuses on newly written meditative poetry in the spirit of the Book of Psalms. 5.Kosher Restaurants in NYC - a dedicated website
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Buy Israeli Products
The Israeli economy has plummeted over the past several years of ongoing violence. Israel relies heavily on tourism, which has slowed to merely a small percentage of those who visited before the violence began. You can make a huge difference by buying Israeli products that are sold in American stores, and by buying directly from the sites listed below.- www.shopinisrael.com - complete guide to shopping for Israeli products
- www.israelexport.org - links to Israeli companies and developed by the Israeli embassy in Washington
- www.jewishsites.org.il/Shopping/index.htm
- www.israelshop1.com - all things Jewish and Israeli
- www.allforisrael.com - jewelry to cosmetics, focuses on Judaica
- www.israeldirect.co.il - CD’s and gift packages of Israeli foods
- www.artofisrael.com - focusing on fine arts, Judaica and crafts
- www.whiteplainsforisrael.org - highlights manufacturers as well as their products
- www.ahava.com - Dead Sea mineral products
- www.1800flowers.com - this American company has increased its use of Israeli flowers. Click on their “Flowers from Israel” link.
- www.finefoodsisrael.com - allows people to find Israeli products being sold in their local communities
- www.judaicadirect.com - a wide variety of Judaica
- www.keilu.com - started to help Israeli manufacturers, merchants and artists sell their products in America. 100% of the items are made in Israel.
- www.buyblueandwhite.com - a comprehensive list of Israeli products and websites.
