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Home page for the Reform Movement Home page for the UAHC (the Union of American Hebrew Congregations) Self-guided tour of the Reform sites Visit this site to search for other UAHC Congregations The CCAR. The CCAR is the Central Conference of American Rabbis |
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To get in the mood, go to this site to hear Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem Color The Israel Government Web (www.israel.org) The Knesset. This site is all about the Israeli Parliament. Some real useful information here. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israeli Embassies abroad and Foreign Embassies in Israel. Virtual Jerusalem's Kotel Kam. A video camera showing the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem 24 hours a day brought to you by Virtual Jerusalem. Any time of day, look at the Wall and see what is going on. Remember the time difference (although there is something very peaceful about the Kotel Kam in the middle of the night when it is all yours). Virtual Jerusalem's Jerusalem department A light look at the many faces of Jerusalem, covering all angles from the political to the spiritual, and the historical to the comical. Culinaris. On-line guide to the restaurants of Israel. Israel Experience Center. Comprehensive list of all Israel Experience programs for youth, as well as informal educational activities & publications. Sabra Geography. Clickable map of Israel. Israel Pickies. Photos from various locations in Israel. Some really nice photos. CyberTrek to Israel. The Web's most comprehensive Travel site on Israel: Travel services, photos and hundreds of clickable maps. The Definitive place to start your trip to Israel. Israeli City Guide. Explore a city or Kibbutz. Virtual Jerusalem's Travel & Tourism department Keep up to date with the world of travel in Israel with Virtual Jerusalem's Travel & Tourism department, offering you a variety of interesting travel tips, bi-monthly photo galleries and focuses on different sites of interest in Israel. Weather reports for: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Do you want to go to a Kibbutz? Kibbutz Program Center has all the information you need. Kibbutz Lavi in the Galilee even has a web site! Information on the Golan Heights complete with pictures! Information on Hebron You can even find out about Likud and Labor parties! Jerusalem Temple Store. One stop shopping for Israeli gifts.
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The Jerusalem Post in English The Jewish Forward Jerusalem Report, an Israeli biweekly magazine. Jerusalem Magazine. Monthly magazine of opinion, literature, film & tv. The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, a weekly newspaper covering the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. It has interesting information for Jewish families and cooking. Tikkun Magazine, a Jewish, liberal, intellectual magazine. Vitual Beit Midrash Pesach Journal Articles relating to Pesach in Jewish Thought and Halakha Jerusalem on-line Observer. The Internet's first on-line magazine on Jerusalem. Perpectives. The magazine of the Columbia University Jewish community.
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The UAHC Education Department has inaugurated its new website which features an on-line Curriculum Bank, supplements from Compass Magazine and much more. Rabbi Judith Abrams' Maqom Talmud class JCN's Interactive Torah Study The ultimate Jewish/Isreal Link Launcher with over 4,600 links to the internet Stuff on Jewish Music can be found here Jewish Net provides Jewish Education Links JESNA, the Jewish Education Service of North America, was created in 1981 by the Jewish Federation movement to serve as its continental instrument of Jewish educational planning and services. JESNA's mission is to enhance the quality and increase the impact of Jewish education in North America by strengthening the motivation, knowledge, and skills of lay and professional leaders and by encouraging concerted community action to expand and improve Jewish education in all its forms and settings. And don't forget CAJE. By enhancing the dignity and professional development of the Jewish teacher, CAJE works to elevate the status of Jewish education on the Jewish communal agenda. By enhancing the dignity and professional development of the Jewish teacher, CAJE works to elevate the status of Jewish education on the Jewish communal agenda. Kolel: A Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning in Toronto has intersting information on education. But since we are in New York, Kolel: A Centre for Liberal Jewish Study has interesting courses you can take in NYC. They are located in the Village at HUC.
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Virtual Jerusalem's Torah & Tradition department Features on various aspects of Judaism and the Jewish calendar: an accessible guide for all. If you want to study torah on-line, meet Eric Simon. He keeps a list of Torah study opportunities on the net and Divrei Torah. The discussion is lively. Eric also provides a list on Jewish Holidays. Other places to find Divrei Torah Project Genesis at www.torah.org Search Divrei Torah Congregation Beth Elohim Day School. A Progressive Reform Jewish Day School in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. The Universal Kabbalah. Series of published essays by Dr. Sheldon Stoff relating to Kabbalah, Judaism, love and reincarnation. Bnei Baruch Kabbalah. Resources and information about the essence and wisdom of the Kabbalah.
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Passover: Uncle Eli's Haggadah is a Haggadah in rhyme by Prof. Eliezer Segal at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We used a verse or two for the Junior Congregation's Haggadah. A Growing Haddadah Designed for the WWW with a printed version for home use, the non-gender-linked text of the Haggadah follows the traditional order of the Seder and encourages families to expand on the telling of the story. For a modern version of a haggadah, try Mark Hurvitz's Haggadah The Jewish Communications Network asks users to contribute to their online Haggadah. The Red Sea Haggadah
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The Bat Kol Feminist Beit Midrash in Jerusalem has information about their program of study. Adina Levin at the World has a Web page with Jewish Feminist Resources.
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Reform Jewish Kids is part of the Temple in Kentucky. They have a lot of programs for kids and contests! Jewish Funland. Learning Hebrew and Jewish concepts through games. Play Jewish Hangman, Picture games, Wordmatch, scramble game and much more. Torah Tots. Parsha on parade - weekly coloring pages, games, puzzles to download every week. Also holiday pages and Torah Tots music. |
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The Jewish Museum right here in New York City Yad Vashem in Jerusalem The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles The Israel Museum in Jerusalem The Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora (Bet Hatefutsot) in Tel Aviv University The Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv The Israel National Museum of Science in Haifa Jerusalem Mosaic at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tour of Israel from the Weizmann Institute, in Rehovot The Chagall Windows at Haddasah Hospital, in Jerusalem The Genius of Marc Chagall at The Arta Gallery, in Jerusalem Franz Rosenzweig, His Life and Works at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee The Chavi Feldman Art Gallery in Jerusalem The Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa, in Haifa The Dead Sea Scrolls at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill Israeli Artists Gallery at ArtNet, in Palo Alto, California InterARTisrael in Jerusalem Jacob M. Lowy Collectionat the National Library of Canada, in Ottawa The Bloom Southwest Jewish Archivesat the University of Arizona, in Tuscon The American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, Massachusetts The Museum of Television and Radio right here in New York City Babylonian Jewery Museum in Or-Yehuda, Israel Chaim Goldberg Virtual Museum in Boca Raton, Florida |
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Jewish Organizations |
Reform (where you can find the Union, CCAR, HUC and other handy sites (including other Temple's web pages) as well as organizations including NCSY, and The American Jewish Committee has a Web site describing its organization and projects. The Zionist Organization of America has a Web site describing its organization and projects. The Council of Jewish Federations has a Web page with information about its member councils and federations in the USA and Canada. The National Jewish Committee on Scouting has a Web page at Shamash that describes Scouting opportunities for Jewish youth. The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations is dedicated to the study and preservation of Jewish history and culture. AIPAC, the powerful Pro-Israel lobby group in Washington Maccabi USA sponsors the USA team to the World Maccabiah Games. They also keep a list of Jewish Sports Web sites. The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame has a Web site with information about its organization and members. Israeli Olympic coverage from the Jerusalem Post and IBM Israel, in English and Hebrew. Israeli Olympic team coverage from Tfutza, in the UK. |
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Kolel: A Centre for Liberal Jewish Study has interesting courses you can take in NYC. They are located in the Village at Hebrew Union College (the Reform Movement's school). Kolel: A Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning in Toronto has intersting information on education. The University of California at Davis offers a course, Introduction to Judaism. Ethiopian Jewish Heritage Ethiopian Jewish religious tradition and culture |
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There are also Holocaust archives at Shamash and Jerusalem1 and several Holocaust FAQ files. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has information about its projects. The Nizkor Project is a collection of Holocaust memorial and anti-revisionist projects on the Internet, organized by Ken McVay, of British Columbia, Canada. The Cybrary of the Holocaust has many documents and pictures about the Holocaust. Plamen Bliznakov at Arizona State University has an archive of materials about the Rescue of Bulgarian Jews during WW II. California State University at Chico has a course on the Holocaust with a list of links to other Holocaust resources. Social Studies School Service has a Web site with materials designed for teaching about the Holocaust. The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah has the has the 1942 Wannsee Protocol outlining Germany's plans for the extermination of the Jewish people. The Web tour of Amsterdam stops at the Anne Frank House. Robert J. Bennett at the University of Baltimore has L'Chaim: a Holocaust Web Project. Steven Franzblow at Marianapolis College has a Web site describing the March of the Living. The Hatikvah Project in Stockholm, Sweden, has a Web site honoring Raoul Wallenberg and his work saving Hungarian Jews from the Germans during World War II. |
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Jewish Singles Connection has personal ads and other information for young Jewish singles. Jewish Quality Singles offers personal ads, classified ads, and matchmaking services for Jewish singles. Jewish Connections matches Jewish singles who live between New York and Washington, DC. Jewish Singles Vacations runs vacation tour packages for Jewish Singles. YENTA: The Jewish MatchMaker. An on-line Jewish singles match-maker, live chat, pictures. |
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Other Jewish Links |
Jewish Law Site examines the relationship of Halacha and Jewish issues to secular law Debbie Friedman's Home Page. Debbie is one of the leading song writers and performers in the Reform Movement. Andrew Tannenbaum's extensive list: http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html The Jewish Internet List compiled by Kollel in New York. Stewart Clamen at CMU keeps a list of Jewish Web links. Shai Israel Mandel at RPI has Jewish Web pages too. The Yahoo information service has Judaism and Israel Web pages. Matthew Album at ANJY has an extensive Alphabetical Index of Jewish Web links. Steve Ruttenberg at the University of Colorado maintains a large collection of Jewish Web links. Jerusalem One provides the Maven index of Jewish and Israeli Web links. The City University of New York has a Data Bank with demographic information on North American Jews. Information for Jews in Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Dependencies is available at Shamash. Jewish Feminist Website that provides resources and links of Jewish feminist interest (from Bible characters to battered women's shelters in Israel to feminist Haggadot). Eyal Dunkel has the Sabra home page of Israeli Web resources. There's a Jewish Genealogy Web page at Penn State University. The JewishGen mailing list has a separate Web site. Scott Buchanan has a Jewish Vocabulary Primer. Tzedakah Reports. How to get information on Jewish charities. For example, how they spend their money and what are the salaries of their employees. Jewish Weekly Planner. Weekly Torah Readings. Jewish Proverbs and Sayings Kosher Express. Kosher recipes and links to other Jewish resources. Priestly Genes. Here'[s the report someone is talking about. A new scientific study confirms that all 350,000 Koahnim are linked biologically. Finally, a use for DNA testing that you can use. Jews in Comics. Annotated bibliography showing where Jews have been portrayed in comic books. How to build a Sukkah. Steven Weintraub's Directions on building a Sukkah. Empire Kosher Homepage of Empire Kosher which carries Kosher meat products. Dreidel Design Hand-printed joyous Shabbat Table Linens, Challah and Matza Covers, Patchwork Dreidel Comforter for today's Jewish home. From original art. Judaism on the Web A printed guide to jewish websites Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group American Jews, Palestinians, and others in devoted face-to-face dialogue, transforming fear into trust, antagonists into partners, leading to concrete collaboration on projects to help the peace process, at home and in the Israel. Yiddish Expressions. If you ever forget what a Yiddish expression means or want to learn more Yiddish, here's the place to go! Spiral - Kabbalah for the twenty-first century Kabbalah for the twenty-first century. VBS RECOMMENDED !! |
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