Judaica / Israel
Israel is the name of:
- The monotheistic people who have lived in the Levant for over 3,000 years,
- The descendants of that people worldwide, and
- A modern state in the land
The article, Jew, on Wikipedia is a good introduction
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Judaism |
Jewish Culture |
Israel |
Jews in America |
Jewish Politics |
Judaica Beyond Cyberspace
Judaica, generally
- Academic Jewish Studies Web Directory
- Aish.com - "Wisdom for living"
- HaReshima - "The Jewish Internet Portal"
- Jewish Community Online - Thousands of links (Jewish.com)
- Jewish Guide to the Internet [JewishInternetGuide.com]
- JewishNet
- Judaism (Internet Public Library)
- Machers - Extensive directory
- Maven
- My Jewish Learning - Excellent lessons on all aspects of Judaism
- Shamash - "The Jewish network"
- Soc.culture.Jewish Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Answers and Readings Lists
- Virtual Jerusalem - A portal with news and lots of links ("the place where Jews click")
- Web Sites for Jewish Studies (Princeton)
- American Jewish Yearbook, 1899-2008 - Update on Jewish life around the world; has population figures for Jews worldwide and in the U.S.
- Jewish Encyclopedia - Online version of a reference work published 1901-1906
- Jewish University in Cyberspace (JUICE)
- Jewish Virtual Library - A large collection of Judaica; also fosters connections between Israel and the U.S. (us-israel.org)
- Judaism 101 - Excellent summary of beliefs and practices for Jews and non-Jews [jewfaq.org]
- BIP Database - Index of book reviews in the Israeli press (in Hebrew)
- RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
- Swedish Jewish Bibliography (Judaica)
- Tel Aviv University databases - Bibliography of Zionism and full text of the Palestine Post (published 1932-1950)
- Index to Jewish Periodicals - Not available free online, but your library may offer it in print, on CD-ROM, or through its Web site
- Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals and e-Journals (The Ohio State University library)
- Internet Jewish History Sourcebook - Original documents (Paul Halsall)
- Jewish History Resource Center (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
- JewishGen - "The Home of Jewish Genealogy"
- Zachor: Faith During the Holocaust
- Israel news below
- The Algemeiner - Jewish and Israel news
- Forward - "News that matters to American Jews"
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) - "Global news service of the Jewish people"
- Jewschool - "Progressive Jews and views," a nice Jewish blog: pro-Israel, pro-peace, anti-anti-Semitic
- Martini Judaism - "For those who want to be shaken and stirred," column at Religion News
- Tablet - Daily Web magazine on Jewish life
- Historical Jewish Press - Jewish newspapers from all over the world (National Library of Israel)
Jewish Directories and Search Engines:
Jewish Reference Sources:
Jewish Indexes:
Union List:
Jewish History:
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Jewish News:
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Judaism
- Mi Yodeya - Forum for questions and answers about traditional Judaism. The title is Hebrew for "Who knows?" (StackExchange)
- Romemu: Judaism for Body, Mind, and Spirit - Web site of a synagogue in New York, but many of its services, sermons, lectures, etc. are available online
- Texts of Judaism - Tanakh (Bible), Talmud and Mishnah, Kabbalah, Midrash, Prayer Books (Siddur), modern texts
- Navigating the Bible - Study the weekly Torah and Haftarah portions; prepare for bar/bat mitzvah (includes Hebrew audio files)
- Temple Emanu-El Torah Commentary - From the big Reform synagogue in New York
- Torah.org - Commentary on the weekly Torah portion, current and upcoming holidays, and other aspects of Jewish life from an Orthodox perspective
- Mechon Mamre - Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) in Hebrew and English and Maimonides' Mishneh Torah in Hebrew only so far
- A Page of the Babylonian Talmud
- Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Archive (Israel Antiquities Authority)
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Jewish Holidays at Aish
- The Jewish Year (Virtual Jerusalem)
- Jewish Holidays and Festivals - Orthodox observance (Chabad)
- Shabbat Candle Lighting Times (HebCal)
- Haggadot - Web site for assembling your own custom haggadah
- Passover Through Archaeology and Rare Documents [passoversite.org]
- The Homer Calendar - Count the days of the Omer with Simpsons characters
- Hebcal.com: Jewish Calendar
Tools - Calculate dates, holidays, Shabbat candle lighting times,
Torah portions, yahrzeits — even export a calendar to popular
calendar programs! Available RSS
feed for today's Hebrew date
(What's this?) - Perpetual Jewish/Civil Calendar - Another program calculates the Torah portions for each week. (Alan Corré, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
- Jewish Birthday Calendar - Take a secular date in the past and find out when that Hebrew date will fall in the next few years. Works for yahrzeits as well as birthdays. (Akhlah.com)
- Kabbalah FAQ
- The Ten Sefirot of Kabbalah by Eliezer Segal. Also, notes from his class, Jewish Mysticism
- The Wisdom of Kabbalah - Loads of information and help for beginners. Takes the Orthodox view (e.g., that the Zohar is an ancient, rather than a medieval, book). (Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies) [kabbalah.info]
- Soc.culture.Jewish FAQ:
- What is Kabbalah and how can I learn about it?
- Who is allowed to study Kabbalah?
- Mysticism Reading List (Click "next subsection" at the bottom to go through the list)
- What is the Sefer Yetzirah?
- What is the Sefer ha-Bahir?
- What is the Zohar?
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) - Helping non-Jews as well as Jews around the world
- American Jewish World Service - Working for global change and fighting hunger, disease, and poverty in the developing world
- Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism - Working for social justice causes
Jewish Holy Books
Holidays:
Shabbat:
Passover (Pesach):
Omer:
Jewish Calendar:
Kabbalah:
Mitzvot:
Jewish good causes. "You might as well be a mensch" — Calvin Trillin's father
Jewish Culture
- DataJEM: Database of Jewish Educational Materials (Jewish Agency)
- Jewish Women's Archive
- Jewish Woman: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jewish Women's Archive)
- Jewtastic - News about famous Jews
- JewishFilm.com - The online Jewish film archive
- Jewish Heritage Video Collection - Films available to rent at locations around the U.S
- Library of Secular Humanistic Judaism Portal for Online Videos
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- Jewish Review of Books
- New Jewish ValuesFinder - Reviews of children's books teaching Jewish values (Association of Jewish Libraries)
- Sholom Aleichem Network
- Hebrew Songs.com
- Project Z'mirot - Songs from United Synagogue Youth
- Tot Shabbat - Audio files and lyrics of favorite songs
- Zemerl - Database of Jewish songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino
- The Global Jewish Kitchen
- Jewish Food Society
- Kosher.com - Recipes, etc.
- Tablet magazine's list of the 100 most Jewish foods - "It's not a list of the most popular Jewish foods, or the tastiest, or the most enduring. . . . The point, instead, was to think about which foods contain the deepest Jewish significance."
- National Yiddish Book Center
- Great Jewish Books - A list of the 100 best
- Virtual Shtetl
Jewish Film and Video:
Jewish Literature:
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Jewish Songs:
Jewish Food:
Ashkenazim, Yiddishkeit:
Israel
- Israel Government Gateway
- Israel Information Service, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Online version of an excellent book on the subject
- iGuide Israeli Internet Guide
- Holy Land Digital Image Collections (University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
- National Treasures (Israel Antiquities Authority)
- Ha'aretz - Liberal-leaning paper (English edition)
- Israel HaYom - Conservative-leaning paper
- Israel Insider - Updated daily
- Israel Resource Review: Behind the News in Israel
- Jerusalem Post
- Jerusalem Report
- Ynetnews (Yediot Ahronoth)
- Google News: Israel (English), Israel (Hebrew)
- Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
- Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva
- Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
- Tel Aviv Univeristy
- University of Haifa
- Weizmann Instititute of Science, Rehovot
- Museums in Israel
- Go Israel - Official Site of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism
- Israel Visit - Tourist info
- Jerusalem Mosaic, a virtual tour of our most holy city
- KotelCam - Live video from the Western Wall of the ancient Temple
Web Directory of Israeli Sites:
Israel History and Archeology:
Israel News:
Israel Education:
Israel Museums:
Israel Tourism:
Jerusalem:
Jews in America
- From Haven to Home - A Library of Congress exhibit celebrating 350 years of Jews living in America
- Jewish American Heritage Month - Historical materials from several government agencies
- Jews in America: Our Story - Timeline and artifacts (Center for Jewish History)
- Bay Jews - Events, organizations, classified ads
- Resource: A Guide to Jewish Life in the Bay Area
Jewish Movements in America
San Francisco Bay Area:
Jews Elsewhere in the World
- Jimena: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - In 1948 and the years following, virtually all Jews in Arab countries were forced to leave their homes. It's the forgotten exodus
Jewish Politics
- Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel
- Truah: The rabbinic call for human rights (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights-North America
- Tikkun magazine
- Workman's Circle/Arbeter Ring
Judaica Beyond Cyberspace
- Aronson
- Behrman House
- Bloch Publishing
- Feldheim Publishers
- Jewish Lights
- Jewish Publication Society
- Jossey-Bass Judaism titles
- Judaica Press
- Kar-Ben Publishing - Jewish children's books
- Keter Publishing House
- KTAV
- Mesorah Publications - Publishers of the Artscroll editions of holy texts
- Schocken
- Soncino Press
- SUNY Press Jewish studies books
- Weiser Books
- Web Directory of Jewish Publishers: Association of Jewish Book Publishers
- Libraries in Israel
- Advanced Study, below
- Seminaries of the major Jewish movements
- Hebrew and Other Jewish Languages
- Hebrew Literature
- American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati
- American Jewish Committee (AJC) Archives, New York
- Columbia University: Jewish Studies collections
- Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion libraries, Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem
- Jewish Public Library, Montreal
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America Library, New York
- New York Public Library: Dorot Jewish Division
- University of Pennsylvania:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica
- Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (formerly Dropsie College)
- University of Washington: Sephardic Studies Digital Collection
- Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London
- Yeshiva University Library, New York
- Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Mass.
- Center for Jewish History - A partnership of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO
- Ktiv: The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts - From collections all over the world (Israel National Library)
- Library of Congress: Hebraic Section
- The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts (British Library)
- Association of Jewish Libraries
- Jewish History Resource Center: Libraries (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
- Jewish Libraries and Catalogs (JewishNet)
- Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web (Bibliomaven)
- American Judaica Collections, parts 1-2, part 3, part 4 - A series of articles by librarian Daniel D. Stuhlman
- Elazar's Classification System for Libraries of Judaica - About the system; if you want to use it, you'll probably need to buy the book
- Henry Hollander Books - Specializing in Judaica, antiquarian, and scholarly books
- Web Directory of Judaica Booksellers: Hebraica and Judaica Booksellers in the United Kingdom, abroad, and on the Internet - Also includes links to sites on Jewish languages and literature
- Beth HaTefutsoth, Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv
- Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Jewish Museum London
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
- Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris - Museum of Jewish art and history
- National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia
- Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
- Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
- Centre d'Histoire de la Resistance et de la Deportation, Lyon, France - Museum devoted to the resistance and the deportation of Jews, housed in the Gestapo's former headquarters
- Mémorial de la Shoah: Musée et centre de documentation, Paris - Museum of the Holocaust in France
- Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
- Site Mémorial du Camp des Milles, Aix-en-Provence, France - Museum on the site of a transport camp used during World War II
- Global Directory of Jewish Museums
- Jewish Museums and Museum Resources Worldwide (National Museum of American Jewish History)
- Museums in Israel
- Seminaries of the major Jewish movements
- American Jewish University, Los Angeles
- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago
- Yeshiva University
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Jewish Publishers:
Jewish Libraries:
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Hebrew Book and Manuscript Collections:
Web Directories of Jewish Libraries
Classification for Jewish Libraries
Judaica Booksellers:
Jewish Museums:
Holocaust Museums:
Web Directories of Jewish Museums:
Advanced Study:
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