Ganzeh Galus Guide: Jewish Revival in the Deep Diaspora
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A Few Jewish Web Resources:
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Utah Jewish Links
- click here for all (?) the Utah Jewish links.
Campus Organizations
- Ganzeh Galus Guide Home Page.
- Hillel - The Foundation for Campus Life International Headquarters Website.
- Koach, Conservative Judaism's College Outreach Program, and Koach's Western Regional Office .
- Kesher, the Reform Movement's college program. To join the national E-mail discussion group, send an email containing "Subscribe UAHCampus Your- Name" (with your real name) to listproc@shamash.org.
- Pardes on Campus, the Orthodox Union's college program.
- Lights in Action for Jewish College students.
- Israel-affiliated youth movements and parties:
- HaShomer HaTzair progressive Zionist youth movement
- HaBonim Dror progressive Labor Zionist youth movement
- HaShomer HaTzair and HaBonim Dror's joint Beit Shalom college student wing, affiliated with kibbutz movements
- Meretz USA: For Israeli Civil Rights and Peace
- Labor Zionist Alliance.
- Americans For Peace Now on Campus.
- National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexual, Queer, and Questioning Students (NUJLS). Email to nujls2000@hotmail.com.
- Coalition on the Enviroment and Jewish Life (COEJL): student activist branch, email to stef@coejl.org.
- To arrange campus visits by Israeli professors, diplomats, etc., contact Dr. Lauren Foster at the Department of Communications and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwestern United States.
Indices and Access Points
- Andrew Tannenbaum's Index of Jewish Resources on the Web. The best index around: start here for access to almost everything!
- nextbook: a gateway to Jewish literature, culture & ideas. Includes reviews, news, and extensive links to periodicals, reviews, bookstores, radio, cultural institutions, libraries, food, digests, theatre and more.
- Jewish ComUnity and its Index.
- Yiddish:
- Der Bay (The Golden Gate to the World-Wide Yiddish Community & the Voice of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs)
- the Virtual Shtetl--Yiddish Language and Culture (including sources for food, music, etc.)
- the National Center for Yiddish Books (with additional links)
- The Forward Newspaper
- Yiddish Voice Radio
- the Workmen's Circle-Arbeter Ring (secular Yiddish culture)
- Yidisha Primer of useful Yiddish words
- Jewish Agency's Department for Jewish Zionist Education -- index of website for Jewish youth.
- Virtual Jerusalem.
- Shamash.
- A Jewish Studies Index.
- Annotated Index to Jewish Culture and History on the Web; American Jewish Historical Society (with many further Jewish history and genealogy references).
- Maven. A more commercially oriented index than Andy Tannenbaum's.
- Jewishnet Global Jewish Information Network.
- The Digital Genizah, another index.
- Jewish/Hebrew software sites index: J-Soft.
- Jewish/Hebrew Palm - PDA software sites index: PilotYid.com
- Shamash's World Wide Kosher Restaurant Index.
Universities, Seminaries, Libraries and Jewish Education
- Ganzeh Galus Guide's Israel studies listings, including study abroad.
- Ganzeh Galus Guide's listing of Library Catalogues available by Telnet or the Web, especially those with significant Judaica collections.
- Hebrew University's Virtual Library of Jewish texts, Israeli periodicals, news, etc. (in Hebrew).
- Israel Science and Technology Homepage, including links to all the colleges and universities in Israel and their science departments, directories of hi-tech companies, lists of international conferences in Israel, and biographies of Jewish Nobel laureates.
- The Cairo Geniza exhibit at Cambridge's Taylor-Schecter Geniza Study Unit.
- All the N.A. Jewish colleges, universities and seminaries.
- JESNA (Jewish Education Service of N. America) with extensive online educational resources for kids and adults. Local Boards of Jewish Education in Chicago, NYC (includes JETNET: Jewish Education Telecommunications Network), D.C. and S.F.-Jewish Education Online. CAJE: Coalition for Jewish Education (the international Jewish educators conference) and The Observatory of Jewish Education on the Net; the Jewish Agency's Education Dept; the Hebrew University's Melton Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora; and JTS's Melton Research Center for Jewish Education.
- Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory--includes on-line libraries, etc.
Jewish Jokes
(warning: only some are funny, tasteless or offensive)- Jewish Joke websites:
- The Official Jewish American Princess Home Page
- Lori's Mishmah Jewish Humor Page
- Harry Leichter's Jewish Humor. Dozens of pages of Jewish jokes.
- Jewish Humor, Oy Vey from Deify.
- Jewish Humor E-mail List. To subscribe, send email to listserv@lgk.com with "subscribe jhumor yourname" in the body of the message.
- Tfilat Ha-Reshet: the blessing for surfing the internet.
- Chumrah of the Week Club
- How to prepare for Pesach: the mitzvah of purification.
- How to Interpret a Stop Sign: a guide to Jewish exigesis.
- The Mad Cow page.
Miscellaneous Cultural, Social Action and Political Resources
- Jewish Utah.
- American Jewish World Service, supporting grassroots service and emergency relief in the Third World and FSU.
- Union for Reform Judaism Disaster Relief Fund
- Synagogue 2000, a interdenominational project to bring "best practices" to synagogue spiritual and material life.
- Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps (volunteer work in NYC).
- Jewish Museums online.
- Beyond the Pale, a history of the Jews in Russia.
- Jewish Film.
- Jewish songs, klezmer, Israeli pop and Jewish music generally.
- Jewish food.
- The original Ghetto (Venice, Italy).
- Seeds of Peace, Empowering Children of War to Break the Cycle of Violence.
- Coalition on the Enviroment and Jewish Life (COEJL).
- Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, including supplemental holiday materials for High Holidays, Tu B'shvat and Passover.
- Jewish Feminist Resources web site. Write to the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.
- Jews For Racial and Economic Justice.
- New Israel Fund.
- Israeli peace and human rights groups.
- Epikorus: The Israeli Atheists Society and The Association For "Chozrim leShe'la" (those leaving Orthodoxy; literally "Returning to Question").
- Gay & Orthodox and a Rabbi writes about it in Tikkun.
Keshet Ga'ava: World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Jews also has links to the annual National Union of Jewish Lesbian/Gay Students conference. - KCRW's Jewish Short Stories read by Leonard Nimoy, Theodore Bikel, Ed Asner, etc.
- The Jewish Jugglers' Page.
Prayer, Holidays and Calendar
- Transliterated Siddur.
- Learn to daven (pray), lead services, write a dvar Torah or chant Torah trope.
- B'nai B'rith's concise multiyear Jewish calendar (holidays only).
- Haveinu's complete Jewish calendar -- generates a list or a monthly calendar with holidays, candle lighting times and parashot for anywhere, any date. (For SLC, use Latitude 40,47N, Longitude 111,58W, Time zone -7).
- Kaluach, a downloadable program for creating your own appointment calendar with Jewish and secular dates, candlelighting, parashot, prayer times, etc. After downloading, quickly generates calendar pages based on the Jewish or secular month, for Windows or Palm.
- Jewish calendars for PalmPilots and similar programs: PilotYid.com.
- The triennial Torah reading (Parasha) calendar used by most Conservative synagogues. (At Kol Ami and Utah Hillel's Minyan Netivot, 2004-05 is year 1). For an account of the original triennial cycle used in ancient Israel, see this Jewish Encyclopedia.com article.
- For information on particular holidays, see also Ganzeh Galus's Learn about Shabbat and Holidays and the general indices
- Jewish Renewal movement; Reform movement; Conservative movement; Reconstructionist movement; Chabad movement; Breslov Hassidim; Satmar Chassidim; and the Orthodox Union.
Israel and Hebrew
- Hebrew, Yiddish and Israel studies and programs, including study abroad and conferences.
- Guide to Israeli products for sale in Salt Lake City and on the web.
- Introduction to Biblical Hebrew grammar.
- The Hebrew Bible (no Hebrew fonts necessary; with translation, transliteration and RealAudio chanting) from ORT.
- Israeli Government's List of Israeli Sites, including official and non-official, tourist, politics, programs, culture, archaeology, museums, media, etc.
- The New Israel Fund (NIF) and the United Jewish Appeal.
- Israeli Peace and Human Rights Groups:
- Shalom Akhshav/Peace Now and American Friends of Peace Now. including APN on Campus's Peace Now Resource Guide
- Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
- Seeking Peace, Pursuing Justice, the US Reform Movement's campaign to mobilize US Jewry for peace efforts and social justice in Israel.
- B'tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
- Shomrei-Mishpat: Rabbis for Human Rights.
- Dor Shalom, founded after Rabin's murder.
- Oz V'Shalom (Religous Zionist peace movement).
- Brit Tzedek v'Shalom: Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace's Call to Bring the Settlers Home to Israel.
- More peace and human rights group links and all the basic documents from the Balfour Declaration to the Geneva Accords. From Ariga: Peace and Pleasure.
- Am Hofshi (Zionist disestablishmentarian movement) and the Israel Religious Action Center/Center for Jewish Pluralism of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (Reform movement).
- The Virtual Zionist Congress.
- Plant a tree in Israel: to order, call the Jewish National Fund (JNF)-Keren Keyemet L'Israel (KKL): 1-800-542-TREE (8733).
- Free Hebrew fonts for wordprocessors and Hebrew on the internet.
- Hebrew University-SNUNIT general page. For wordprocessing, download the "hebfont.exe" file.
- Hebrew University-Help page. Detailed instructions for reading Hebrew on the web.
- Zigzag World. Detailed instuctions for using Hebrew on all Windows and Mac programs.
- Dr Berlin's. 40 free Hebrew fonts for downloading.
- Israeli Yellow Pages (also the White pages in Hebrew only; press the Red Aleph to type in Hebrew).
- Add today's Hebrew date to your web page (requires frames).
- Cheapest phone calls to Israel we've found. Around 4¢ per minute to Israel land lines and 11¢ to Israel cell phones. Click for phone rate details.
Israeli and Jewish Media
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Israeli Media
- Kol Israel Radio News in English. The daily radio news report from Israel Broadcasting Authority (RealAudio).
- Israel TV news (channel 2) in RealVideo.
- IsraTV. Israeli TV on the net from Globes (in English and French).
- Kol Israel Reshet Bet. Live broadcast of Israel radio news programs in Hebrew. (RealAudio). (Also has schedule of Israeli shortwave broadcasts in various languages).
- Israradio: Israeli pop music Internet radio.
- NetKing Radio: Israeli pop music Internet radio.
- More Israeli and Jewish net radiolistings
- Jerusalem Report. The best English-language general news-magazine from Israel.
- HaAretz. Israel's daily newspaper of record (in English or Hebrew).
- Maariv. Israeli daily newspaper (in English or Hebrew).
- Yediot Achranot. Israel's best selling daily tabloid (in Hebrew only).
- Azure/Tchelet Israeli neo-cons.
- Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Service: Israel Line English language summaries of news stories from the Israeli and foreign press (also available by email subscription) and links to all major news media.
- Hebrew news summary.
- Hebrew University's Virtual Library News page (interface is in Hebrew).
- IsraelInfo (latest headlines and links to full stories from major Israeli and foreign press, CNN, etc.).
- Kol Israel Media Listings: more links to Israeli radio, TV, newspapers and magazines, including two private Israeli radio stations still available live on the web.
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Jewish Media
- nextbook "A gateway to jewish literature, culture & ideas."
- Commentary The leading voice of the neo-con Jewish intelligensia.
- Forward Formerly socialist, now conservative, formerly Yiddish, now English newspaper from NYC.
- Jerusalem Report. The best English-language general news-magazine from Israel.
- Heeb Magazine "The New Jew Review."
- Lilith "The independent Jewish women's magazine."
- The New York Review of Books The leading voice of the secular Jewish intelligensia.
- The Nation Oldest progressive (and mostly Jewish) commentary journal in US.
- The New Yorker. Politics and entertainment from the goldeneh-medinah.
- Social Action.Com "An on-Line Jewish Magazine Dedicated to Pursuing Justice, Building Community and Repairing the World."
- Tikkun Healing the world, wordily.
Jewish Bookstores
- Among the chain bookstores, Barnes and Noble seems to have the best Judaica collection.
- nextbook: a gateway to Jewish literature, culture & ideas. Includes reviews, news, and extensive links to periodicals, reviews, bookstores, radio, cultural institutions, libraries, food, digests, theatre and more.
- On line and mail order, beyond Amazon.com and B&N:
- Rosenblum's, Chicago (a well laid out site specializing in Judaica).
- Tara Publications - World of Jewish Music. Now has books and software, too.
- 1-800-JUDAISM.
- Behrman House.
- Soncino. The first Hebrew publisher (1484).
- Schocken.
- Jewish Publication Society (JPS).
- United Synagogue Book Service.
Jewish and Israeli Law
- Israeli Law index and information on lawyers (and legal study) in Israel; and a photo tour of the new Israel Supreme Court building.
- Jewish Law (sponsored by the OU).
- Hebrew University's Virtual Library of traditional Jewish texts, Israeli periodicals, news, etc. (in Hebrew).
- University of Miami Judaica and Jewish Law Library on line catalogue
- University of Miami Law Library "Guide to Jewish Law Research"
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