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Below are links to interesting sites you may want to visit. If you know of other useful sites, please send the link to our webmaster and we will publish them here.
Sites of General Interest
- JTS - Readings for an Introductory Lesson on Jews and Islam: From Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC - The "official" site of the museum, it contains information about the museum, about the holocaust and about special exhibits.
- A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - Prepared by the Education department of the University of South Florida, this site contains an overview of events and links to teacher resources and student activities on the subject. The material offered tends to be suitable at the middle and high school levels.
- MAZON - Founded in 1985, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national, nonprofit agency which allocates donations from the Jewish community to nonprofit organizations providing food, help and hope to hungry people of all faiths and backgrounds.
- Jerusalem Post - Israel news from this newspaper's internet edition.
- Reform Judaism Magazine - REFORM JUDAISM is the official voice of the Union for Reform Judaism. Received quarterly by 310,000 member households (members of more than 900+ Union congregations) as a benefit of their synagogue's Union affiliation, RJ strives to convey the creativity, diversity, and dynamism of Reform Judaism. RJ covers developments within our movement while interpreting world events and Jewish tradition from a Reform perspective.
- Shamash - The mission of Shamash: The Jewish Network is to provide a broad array of state-of-the-art education and community building resources to Jewish organizations and individuals for the benefit of the Jewish community.
- Jewish History Resource Center - Contains over 6000 links to websites in over 30 categories dealing with Jewish history.
- The J Site - Jewish Education and Entertainment - "It is my goal to create a Jewish oriented site that is educational, fun, simple to use and friendly. The site has something for everyone and there will be updates every month". - Jacob Richman
Learning Hebrew
- Learning Hebrew - FoundationStone is a FREE application and support materials designed to allow the most efficient learning of its Hebrew vocabulary. The "Online Hebrew Tutorial" is available as part of the download - a complete, condensed set of language lessons to learn Hebrew. It can also be browsed online.
Passover
- Passover @Jts: Extensive site from Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
- Afikomen Treasure Hunt: Add this game to your Seder!
Jewish Organizations
- Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) - Their home page has a wealth of links to Jewish sites around the net.
- The Anti-Defamation League - Among it's many functions, the ADL works to maintain religious freedom in the schools. The mission of ADL today is, as it has been in the past, to expose and combat the purveyors of hatred in our midst, responding to whatever new challenges may arise.
- NFTY - North American Federation of Temple Youth site.
- MERCAZ USA:
MERCAZ USA works to create the ideal Jewish Society within the State
of Israel, based on social justice, democracy and pluralism, as was
envisioned by our people's prophets, rabbis and scholars for the past
4,000 years.
Kids and their Families
- Family Shabbat Table Talk -
Need something to talk at the dinner table? This site, from UAHC, contains
a series of stories tied to each week's Torah portion that parents and
children explore together.
- The Jewish Parent Page - Also from UAHC, these pages contain discussions and activities for Jewish Holidays that allow parents to explore the holidays with their children.
- Jewish Family and Life - JewishFamily.com strives to help families apply Judaism and Jewish values to their everyday lives and to be a source of user-friendly, family-oriented information and entertainment.
- Torah Tots - Torah Tots has games, coloring pages, the story and even music (if you have a midi player) for younger kids. Specific Holidays? No problem: Chanukah, Purim, Pesach
