| Home |
|
||||||||
 |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Live/Recorded Broadcasts - Hebrew Language Stations |
 Arutz 7 |
| Israeli Audio News in Easy Hebrew |
| Reshest Bet - Kol Yisrael |
| Galei Tzahal |
| Jerusalem Radio 101 FM |
| Israel Radio 100 FM |
| Chabad - Radio Geula |
| Radio Kol Shofar |
| Hebrew University Mount Scopus Radio |
How-to
- Audio Siddur: an unbelievable collection of Davenning audio files by
Rabbi Mark H. Zimmerman. - Chanting the Bible Trop tutor
- Navigating the Bible II offers audio recordings of all Torah and Haftara readings, complete with vocalized Hebrew text, a copy of the text without vocalization, transliteration, and translation.
- How-to guides Interactives from My Jewish Learning
- Pesah Potpourri On the Origin and Development of Some Lesser-Known Pesah Customs
- Lead and Read Special High Holy Day trop, Megilla for Purim & Aicha for Tisha B'Av
- Torah/Haftarah Tutor (it's free as a website, but also sells a software program)
- VirtualCantor.com: The purpose of this site is to promote the proliferation of Nusach and to make a Nusach readily accessible to those who have a
desire to learn and a desire to deepen their Judaism. This site is a
volunteer work in progress.
General Jewish Learning
- AkibaWeb A Jewish School in Philadelphia
- Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School A Jewish School in the Greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
- CES/JDS Upper School Jewish Glossary Buddy site for students of CESJDS
- Daat (Hebrew)
- Essays from Rabbi Jerome Epstein, USCJ
- JESNA
- Jewish Agency Contact Center
- Jewish Encyclopedia Online version of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906
- The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
JTSA - Rare Book Room This is a rare treat.
- Limmud Toronto A day of learning with fifty different presenters
- My Jewish Learning.com The Personal Gateway to Jewish Exploration
- Nahat--Bible Contest Prep Site (Hebrew)
- Rab Lab Home Page Online Bet Midrash of the Rabbinics Lab at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston.
- Sacred Text Archive Main Index A collection of sacred texts from many different cultures.
- Text Imagemaps and Interactive Pages
For Parents & Teachers
- Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) Innovative resources for educating Jewishly
- BabagaNewz Lively, up-to-date, engaging games, stories, activities, etc. The best site available. Do this one with your kids
- The Jewish Family Family parenting site
- Raising Jewish Children by Rabbi Ron Isaacs
- Torah
- Torah
- What Parents “Owe” Children by Rabbi Ron Isaacs
- Yourpage Games, stories, activities with separate sections for kids, parents and teachers brought to you by JNF
Maps - Israel & Middle East
- Bibles maps
- Digital Map of Israel and Environs Maps of Israel. Requires a Java-enabled browser.
- East view cartographic
- Foundation for Middle East Peace Settlements maps
- JNF: Tour Map JNF tour map of Israel
- Middle East Maps
- Talking map of Israel Gems in Israel's Talking Maps allow you to hear the correct Hebrew pronunciation of various places in Israel.
- University of Texas - online maps The best online resource library for high quality maps of Israel and modern Mideast.
Jewish Canada
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in North America 1654-2004 1654 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Recife, Brazil, arrive in New Amsterdam. The 23 Recife Jews were to become the first Jewish community in North America, though individual Jews had been there possibly as early as the Spanish conquistadors in the west.
- CJC's List of Synagogues in Canada
- Canadian Jewish Directory (B'nai Brith's) (200+ urls)
- CJN: The Canadian Jewish News
- HaReshima: Jewish Resources in Canada (100+ urls)
- Jewish National Fund of Canada
- Yahoo! Canada:Judaism
- Board of Jewish Education of Toronto
- Israel's Judaica Bookstore Toronto
- Jewish Toronto: Organization List (800+ urls)
- Jewish Toronto Tomorrow
- Miles Nadal Bloor JCC
- UJA Federation of Jewish Toronto
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Service
- Maccabi Canada
Jewish Resources
- American Jewish Committee
- Entertainment Magazine On Line: Jewish Resources (190+ urls)
- JACS Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others
- Jewish Information & Referral Service
- Jewishnet - Global Jewish Information Network A collection of Jewish links.
JTSA - Rare Book Room This is a rare treat.
- Judaism 101 (90+ urls)
- JWIT Resources (cross-listed on the list of lists page)
- The Masorti Movement "The Masorti Movement is a pluralistic, religious movement in Israel, affiliated with Conservative Judaism. Its philosophy combines commitment to Jewish tradition and halachah (law) with an open and positive approach to the modern world, to democratic culture and to Zionism."
- STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal)
- Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora - Help Desk "We perform database searches and point to resources on the Internet or in libraries that may be of interest to Jewish educators... Our helpdesk staff can help! We respond to your questions within five business days with resources relevant to YOUR needs."
- AskMoses "AskMoses.com provides one-on-one personal spiritual guidance to people of all backgrounds in a real-time, confidential forum with no required registration or fee. With its over-100 scholars on staff spanning six continents." One-on-one, live, 24/6.
- Ask A Rabbi "Ask the rabbi anything you would like about Jewish theology, culture, or history. We have a committee of well-qualified rabbis on hand to answer these questions. The questions you ask are confidential." Organized by Hillel (The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life).
- The Electronic Torah Warehouse Josh Cypress' huge list of Torah resources.
More Great Jewish Sites
- Mark C. Bassell's The Digital Genizah (170+ urls)
- Google: Judaism (2315+ urls)
- HaReshima: The Jewish Internet Portal
- Haruth Table of Contents
- Jewish Resource Page by Flatbush Escapee (580+ urls)
- MavenSearch Jewish Web Directory
- Nu? - The JAFI Portal
- S.C.J. FAQ Section 20.5 (50+ urls)
- Shamash - The Jewish Network
- Yale Judaica Haggadah Exhibit
Jewish Sites for Kids
- Akhlah The Jewish Children's Learning Network
- Counting the Homer A website about counting the Omer, starring Homer Simpson!
- BabagaNewz Lively, up-to-date, engaging games, stories, activities, etc. The best site available.
- Hebrew for Me
- Dr. Nurit Reshef's Jewish Funland
- JVibe A Great website for kids and teens!
- Kids Corner at JTS
- Learning and Fun Jewish education and games
- Nurit Reshef A fun educational site for kids and adults (some parts work only with Internet Explorer).
- Uncle Eli’s Haggadah
- Uncle Eli Repents Mahzor for kids
- Yourpage Games, stories, activities with separate sections for kids, parents and teachers brought to you by JNF
Other Jewish Library Resources
- Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library of Toronto
JTSA - Rare Book Room This is a rare treat.
- Yale University Library Judaica Collection
Nosh
- Shopping for kosher food
- Buying and preparing kosher meat
- Find a Kosher Restaurant
- Interactive Kosher Kitchen
Jewish Music & Art
- Artcnet Fine Judaic Art Gallery
- Biblical Art--Ecole Initiative
- Biblical Image Library Concept Search Search tool to find Biblical Images.
- Bitsela Artz A collection of Jewish-themed clipart.
- Jewish Art (Hebrew) (on the Daat website)
- Jewish MIDI Music - Ahavat Israel
JTSA - Rare Book Room This is a rare treat.
Chai Tech
- Biblical Texts for Palm OS
- Hebrew Keyboard Tutor Practice typing in Hebrew on your computer keyboard.
- Custom Keyboard Products Hebrew labels for keyboards.
- Jewish Freeware
- Jewish Software for Your Palm Pilot
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency World News Clips on your PDA
- Microsoft Proofing Tools for Office XP A set of tools for Mircosoft Office XP.
- The Journal of Biblical Studies This page has Hebrew fonts.
- Word 2000 Fix: Font Repair Macro
-
http://www.mavensearch.com/subjects.asp?S=154 A collection of Jewish computer links.
Action
Daily/Weekly Jewish Newspapers - Canada
- Canadian Jewish News Internet edition
Daily Newspapers - Israeli
- Jerusalem Post
- Haaretz Daily Newspaper (English) ; Haaretz (Hebrew)
- Maariv (English) ; Maariv (Hebrew)
- Yediot Achronot
eAcademy Israel Studies (Jewish Agency)
Guided Learning Mini Courses (My Jewish Learning)
Halakhah Study Group (RA in Israel)
Hashkafah Study Group (RA in Israel)
Jewish University in Cyberspace (JUICE) (Jewish Agency)
Mishnah Yomit Study a Mishnah a day (Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem)
Perek Yomi Study a Bible passage a day (USCJ)
Rabin Mishnah Study Group (RA in Israel)
- Yad VaShem (Har Hazikaron, Jerusalem), the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, established in 1953, contains the world's largest repository of information on history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period.
- Avotaynu (Bergenfield, NJ)) is a leading publisher of books on Jewish genealogy and products of interest to persons who are researching their Jewish roots, family history or, Jewish surnames.
Their International Review of Jewish Genealogy focuses on the USA, Canada and Central and Eastern Europe. The Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI) database is sequenced phonetically rather than alphabetically, and contains more than 7.3 million records.
- JewishGen, Inc. (League City, Texas), not-for-profit organization, offers free online access to JewishGen Family Finder (a database of 375,000 surnames and towns), the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, and databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland.
JewishGen's online Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on more than three million people. The JewishGen Discussion Group is one of its most popular components.
Jewish Genealogical Research in Eastern Europe FAQs - records access instructions, bibliography of basic reference works, an excellent country-by-country description of resources, online maps, and a list of regions, former provinces and counties, and where they are today.
Rabbinic Genealogy(Rav-SIG) Online Discussion Group - features an Online Journal, a Bibliography of over 300 resources for rabbinic genealogical research, Infofiles for tutorials and reference information on many aspects of rabbinic genealogy, Research Groups, Links to web sites of significance to rabbinic genealogy researchers, and more.
Tools (JOS) section contains Soundex, Calendar Conversion, Jewish calendar, and Distance/Direction functions
- The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora (Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel)
The Beth Hatefutsoth's Museum of the Jewish People Online is functional since 1996 offering advice and guidance in all matters related to Jewish life and heritage.
Database of Family Names
-- Jewish Family Names - An Introduction
-
Project for the Study of Jewish Names (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
Prof. Aaron Demsky coordinates this multidisciplinary onomastics study that embraces history, anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and other disciplines.
- Medieval Names Archive: Jewish Names (Academy of Saint Gabriel and Joshua Mittleman)
Naming traditions of France, England, Italy, Spain and some Islamic countries are presented. Names of Rabbis in Pirkei Avot (2nd century), a list of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek names from a chapter of the Mishna, and the Database of Medieval Jewish Names, a collection organized by period and location, etymological origin with glossary of titles and bynames, are also accessible. See also Jewish Names in the World of Medieval Islam about Jews of Cairo compiled by Yehoshua ben Haim haYerushalmi and Jewish Women's Names in an Arab Context: Names from the Geniza of Cairo by Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith).
-
The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. (1994, NY and NJ).
Miriam Weiner, the founder of this not-for-profit organization, has worked in the archives of Poland and the former Soviet Union since 1989. Her site lists towns and repositories in Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Ukraine, historical changes in jurisdictions, key Russian genealogical terms, spelling advice and a list of useful links.
-
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) or, the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT) operates the Family History Library (FHL), the largest genealogical library in the world. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, their collection contains over 2.4 million reels of microfilm, 700,000 microfiche and 300,000 books.
The Church also operates over 4,000 Family History Centers™ (FHCs) in 88 countries worldwide. Records on microfilm can be lent from Salt Lake City to any Family History Center for a small fee. The Church has made a systematic effort to microfilm any records that have genealogical value from all over the world, including Jewish records. They have microfilmed an extensive collection of 19th-century Jewish records from Poland, Germany and Hungary.
Listings of these records (over 5,000 reels microfilmed as of 1985) were published in Avotaynu and The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy. New records are microfilmed and added to the collection every year. Five to six thousand reels of microfilm are added to the collection each month, so you should re-check their catalog each year. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, they have begun microfilming in the former republics (see details below), and these microfilms are now becoming available.
Search the Family History and Genealogy Records or, find the nearest Family History Center at the FamilySearch Database online.
Or, scroll down to the Family History section at the LDS Catalog Home page to select genealogical research products and order them via mail by sending your request to:
Salt Lake Distribution Center
1999 W 1700 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
1-800-537-5971
ldscatalog@ldschurch.org
-
"One-Step Search Tools for Jewish Genealogists," by Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco, CA)
The site allows access to databases of Ellis Island (1892-1924), Castle Garden (and earlier) (1820-1891), Ships, Ship pictures, Arrivals and NARA/FHL Roll Numbers for NY Ship Arrivals, records from Other Ports of Immigration (Baltimore, Boston, Galveston, Philadelphia, San Francisco), Holocaust and Eastern Europe (Bereza and Antopol, Belarus; Siberian Refugee Camps: Searching the Polish "Index of the Repressed"; Soviet Gulags: Searching for People Interned in Soviet Gulags in One Step (1935-1955) ), Births, Deaths, and other Vital Records, and tools such as Soundex, Census information, Calendar, Sunrise/Sunset, Maps or, how to deal with Hebrew and Russian characters in your research.
- "Jewish Research," by Gary Mokotoff (Ancestry Magazine, Provo, UT)
Gary Mokotoff, the first person to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, is an author, lecturer, and teacher of Jewish and Eastern European genealogy. He is also the co-author of the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System, the standard for all Jewish genealogical databases on the Internet.
- Getting Started: Thirteen Steps to Your Jewish Roots (Jewish Appleseed Foundation)
- Jewish Heraldry, by François Velde
- Family Tree DNA (Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd., Houston, TX)
A paid DNA testing service dedicated to helping genealogists find lost relatives when the paper trail ends and the brick wall takes its place.
- Jewish Genetic Diseases (Mazornet.com)
The genetic diseases described on Mazornet's Jewish Diseases are disorders which occur more frequently in individuals of Jewish ancestry. Most diseases are severely incapacitating and some are tragically debilitating, leading to death in infancy or early childhood. Tay-Sachs may be the most notorious of the lot, but other diseases, just as prevalent and just as devastating, shatter the lives of Jewish families.
- GeneDis - Human Genetic Disease Database (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
GeneDis is a human genetic disease database with a user graphical interface to a sequence search engine. Currently it includes 12 human genetic diseases.
- Alliance Israélite Universelle (Paris, France)
Créée en 1860, l’Alliance Israélite Universelle est aujourd’hui l’une des principales organisations internationales dans le domaine de l’enseignement et de la culture juive. Son objectif demeure la diffusion d’un judaïsme fidèle à la tradition, tolérant et ouvert sur le monde moderne.
- Jewish Web Index
Miscellaneous information about Jewish genealogical resources. - Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
An extensive list of Canadian Jewish genealogical resources.
Jewish vital records of Montreal/Quebec, 1841 - 1942 (The Drouin Microfilm Indexing Project of Jewish Vital Records of Quebec)
contains all available vital record registers of Quebec including the Jewish registers of Montreal, Quebec City and Sherbrooke, and Civil Records of Montreal, Lachine, Outremont and Westmount in which there are entries identified as Jewish. The database contains more than 75,000 entries, principally births and marriages as well as approximately 4,300 deaths. The database also includes entries from notebooks of Rabbi I. L. Colton and Cantor Nathan Mendelson.Canadian Naturalization Records - 1914-1932, an index of 200,000 Jewish and non-Jewish people as well as the Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery full index of burials will be available for online search soon. The full history of this JGS of Montreal led project, was published in Avotaynu's Fall 2002 edition.
On-site visits are required at most research venues in Montreal. However, the Quebec Family History Society (QFHS) will provide names of experienced researchers who can access the "open" items, newspaper announcements, etc.
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto, ON)
The Society was formally established in 1985. As one of seven Jewish genealogical societies in Canada, and a part of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS), it stimulates interest in the pursuit of Jewish genealogical research locally and globally.
Great sites yet to be annotated and organized into the categories:
- Ancient Near East Bibliography at Etana
- Fordham Internet Jewish History Sourcebook (cross-listed on the A/V page)
-
Religious Texts and Resources (University of Pennsylvania/CCAT)
-
Society of Biblical Literature
- Hebrew College
- The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- JSkyway
- Maqom School for Adult Talmud Study
- Michigan State University
- Union of American Hebrew Congregations
- Jewish Holidays 2002-2005 Want to know when any Jewish holiday begins during the next four years? Check here. Info/FAQs on holidays.
- Judaism 101 Website Basic, Intermediate and Advanced level descriptions of Jewish concepts and practices.
-
-
Navigating the Bible Study Torah, Haftarah, Divrei Torah. Bible text search. Learn to layn. Bar/Bat mitzvah date and parasha finder.
-
Project Genesis Torah, Haftarah, Divrei Torah, Jewish law, ethics--beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
-
Gilyonot Nechama Insights on the weekly torah reading by Nechama Leibowitz.
-
WebShas Find any concept or phrase in the Talmud in English or transliterated.
-
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews Full text of the ultimate scholarly compilation of classical midrash (Philologos).
-
Jewish Virtual Library Time Line for the History of Judaism History of Judaism from Ancient Israel to the present, with easily clickable links to periods, people and events.
-
Jewish History Resource Center Hebrew University Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History website.
-
The Josephus Desktop Web resource for information and scholarship about the life and times of the first century Jewish historian, including links to his works in full-text online.
-
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls History of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholarly papers.
-
American Jewish History Time Line Notable events in the history of Judaism in America, 1492-present.
-
Jewish Encyclopedia.com Online full-text 12 volume Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901-1906. Free access to over 15,000 articles and illustrations now in the public domain (does not include 20th century Jewish history).
-
NPR Yiddish Radio Project Henry Sapoznik's extraordinary collection of rare, almost-forgotten recordings of Yiddish-American radio shows, songs, and commercials, as aired on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" series.
-
Yiddish Expressions Extensive Yiddish glossary, plus the Gantseh Megillah monthly journal
-
National Center for the Hebrew Language Articles in and about Hebrew language, literature and letters. Includes news in easy Hebrew, "Daily Dictionary," weekly root, Parsha, Hebrew holiday cards and other Hebrew resources.
-
Learn Hebrew Online! Free online Hebrew language lessons and tutorial for adults. Also includes Hebrew program for kids.
-
Jewish Communities of the World From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, they're all here, courtesy of Harry Leichter.
-
Jewish News Sites Keep up with Jewish news in the Forward, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) and other online Jewish, international, national, and local newspapers.
-
Live Israeli Radio 15 Israeli broadcasting stations online-news, music, and other programming. Windows Media Player or RealPlayer required, downloadable on site.
-
JewishBroadcast.com 5 channels of 24-hr. a day Jewish music via streaming audio--Israeli, pop/rock, Chassidic, Klezmer and more! Windows Media Player required.
-
A-7 Jewish Jukebox Shabbat Zemirot, Holiday, Hassidic, Klezmer, Oriental, and Israeli popular and Dance music, wedding songs. RealPlayer or Windows Media Player required.
-
Hebrew Songs Lyrics, including transliteration and translation, of hundreds of Hebrew songs and psalms.
-
Zemerl Jewish Song Database Lyrics, including transliteration and translation, of Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino songs for all occasions.
-
Hebrew Calendar Science and Myths Everything there is to know about the Jewish calendar, explained by Remy Landau, except...
-
Zemanim calculator Calculate halachic sunrise and sunset times, any date and year, for major U.S. and Canadian cities or any set of latitude/longitude coordinates (Kashrut.com).
-
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive View 112 Jewish films online (requires Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 6.5+). Searchable Virtual Cinema Project catalog.
-
Jewish Film.com Archived list of notable films and videos of Jewish interest indexed alphabetically and by theme. Film festivals.
-
CLAL Encore Archive A treasure-trove of "good reads."
|
|
