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Resources on the Web

The Web contains an enormous amount of information about almost every aspect of Jewish life. Below are some links recommended by TBB members:

• The mother lode of Jewish mailing lists and online resources is www.shamash.org.

• Huge knowledge base of Torah learning: www.torah.org.

• For Boston area practical resources check out www.shalomboston.com.

• The main branches of American Judaism:

  • Reform: www.uahc.org (nice holiday calendar here)

  • Conservative: www.uscj.org

  • Reconstructionist: www.jrf.org

  • Orthodox: www.ou.org

• The best commentaries on the week's parshah are written by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. To subscribe, email the request to dlp@JTSA.edu.

• You can't be online very long before hitting Aish ha-Torah at www.aish.com. Lots of interesting reading there, but a very conservative slant.

• Torah and Haftarot online with English, Hebrew, and Hebrew audio: www.bible.ort.org

• Stuck trying to sound out shalshelet or merchah chefulah? Ellie's Torah Trope Tutor (www.ellietorah.com) is a good resource, even though her voice sounds kind of tinny.

• Audio versions of many of the prayers in the siddur may be heard at www.sidduraudio.com. (The same site has recordings of the sung parts of the Passover Haggadah, too.)

• Ritualwell is a source for contemporary Jewish rituals, many of them oriented toward women. It also includes information on developing your own rituals.

• Judaism 101: Try www.jewfaq.org or www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/

• Everything kosher: www.kashrut.org

• What does the Talmud say about spamming? For rabbinical guidance on this and other matters, check out this site on Jewish ethics: www.besr.org/ethicist.

• Myjewishlearning.com is an umbrella site run by Hebrew College that features hundreds of short articles on holidays, life cycle events, Jewish history, etc. You can subscribe to a weekly email  (community@myjewishlearning.com) for a number of commentaries ranging from Orthodox to non-denominational.

• For families, jewishfamily.com has great articles about the holidays. There are columns, recipes and more.

• Annoying but complete kids' pages: www.torahtots.org

• www.nextbook.org is a new web site about new and old Jewish books, with all kinds of links. It is run by Jonathan Rosen, who is a very bright and knowledgeable young man. They also send a weekly email: daily@nextbook.org

• Jewish History Sourcebook: www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html

• Some very good lists of links:

  • www.worldzone.net/religion/jewishhistory/

  • www.beliefnet.com/index/index_20421.html

• www.jewishworldreview.com has some very right-wing material politically, but they also feature some very nice religion pieces and commentary about holidays, etc.

• The Jewish Ethicist provides advice on everyday business and work dilemmas.

• For Israeli news, try www.haaretz.com and www.jpost.com. Closer to home, there's The Forward web site: www.forward.com.

• Some interesting things to see:
  Online exhibit from the YIVO institute for Jewish Research www.yivo.org/exhibits/exhibits_fr.htm

• My favorite Jewish music store (visit the Listening Station): www.jewishmusic.com

• www.klezmershack.com for everything to do with Jewish music.

• Insanely large collection of Jewish jokes (and some good links): www.haruth.com/jhumorlink.htm

• www.pilotyid.com All kinds of Jewish-related software for Palm Pilots!

• Selected weblogs:

  • An Unsealed room - Allison Kaplan Sommer is an American who now lives in Israel, married an Israeli and has two kids. She formerly wrote for the Jerusalem Post and now writes freelance. www.Allisonkaplansommer.blogmosis.com/

  • Not a Fish is authored by Imshin (a pen name), a woman whose parents moved to Israel from England. She lives in Tel Aviv. www.imshin.blogspot.com/

  • Kesher Talk is a far-ranging blog put together mostly by Judith Weiss, who lives in NYC. She has a great running feature of "Jews in Odd Places" and "a Pintele Yid." She has a great collection of links on the side of her blog. www.hfienberg.com/kesher/

  • Tal G in Jerusalem was the first Israeli blog I ever read. www.talg.blogspot.com

• For kids:

  • JTS Kids' Corner: www.learn.jtsa.edu/topics/kids/

  • Jewish Kids Online: www.jewishkidsonline.com/

  • Tsivos Hashem Home Page: www.tzivos-hashem.org/

  • Nurit Refesh Funland: www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/funland/funland.html

  • Books for Jewish Children: www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6174/jewish-children.htm

  • Jewish Children in Books: www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/muljewfict.htm

• For adults:

  • Navigating the Bible: www.bible.ort.org/

  • UAHC Lifelong Learning: www.uahc.org/educate/index.shtml

  • Distance Learning from JTS: www.learn.jtsa.edu/

• Miscellaneous sites:

  • The Source: Israel Info Access Magazine: www.israelinfoaccess.com/current/

  • Synagogue 2000: www.syn2000.org/

  • Maven Search Jewish Web Directory: www.maven.co.il/

  • Just Tzedakah - The Web Resource for Jewish Charities: www.just-tzedakah.org/

  • Jewish Resources in Boston: http://shamash.org/trb/jewish_boston.html

  • Hebrew Fonts: www.sil.org/computing/fonts/lang/Hebrew.html