Jewish Links on the Web

MERCAZ-CANADA is the Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement and is the voice of Conservative Jewry within the Canadian Zionist Federation http://www.mercaz.ca/

Masorti World http://www.masortiworld.org/

Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies http://www.schechter.edu/

Fuchsberg Center in Jerusalem www.uscj.org.il

United Synagogue Yeshiva website www.ConservativeYeshiva.org

Introduction to Conservative Judaism http://judaism.about.com/library/3_intro/level1/bl_denom_conserv.htm

The "Ideal" Conservative Jew: Eight Behavioral Expectations by Rabbi Jerome Epstein http://www.uscj.org/The_Ideal_Conservati5033.html

Conservative & Masorti Judaism FAQs - very good http://www.msnusers.com/judaismfaqs/theconservativemasortijudaismfaqs.msnw

Conservative Teshuvot (Responsa)

http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/law/teshuvot_public.html

Conservative Judaism - Jewish Virtual Library

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Judaism/conservatives.html

Conservative Judaism Journal http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/publications/cj_journal.html

Soc.Culture.Jewish Newsgroups Frequently Asked Questions and Answers http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/index.html

JTS Rabbinical School Suggested Reading List http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/reading/rabbi/

Resources for and from Jewish Congregations by Rabbi Sue Stone

b. History and Ideology

Conservative Judaism: Our Ancestors to Our Descendants By Elliott N Dorff

Revelation and Torah: Jewish views http://groups.msn.com/judaismfaqs/revelationandtorah.msnw

What Conservative Jews Believe

"Conservative Judaism: Covenant and Commitment" http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/docs/Conservative%20Judaism%20Covenant%20and%20Commitment.pdf

The Masorti Vision

The Sacred Cluster: The Core Values of Conservative Judaism by Ismar Schorsch , Chancellor JTS http://www.jtsa.edu/about/cj/sacredcluster.shtml

Consensus Statement of Policy Goals Regarding
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) Jews in the Conservative Movement
February 24, 2003 http://www.keshetjts.org/consensus/

c. Halakha (Norms and Law)

Conservative Judaism and Halakhah (Jewish Law) - a note By David Steinberg

Guide to Practical Halacha and Home Ritual For Conservative Jews By Yehuda Wiesen http://www.mahadash.com/docs/wiesen/halacha.htm

Ask the Rabbi http://www.schechter.edu/askrabbi/ask.htm

Conservative responsa From Wikipedia - This entry deals with the responsa literature of Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism.

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) the Source of Norms for the Movement http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/law/contemporary_halakhah.html

Excerpts from A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice
by Rabbi Isaac Klein http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/diduknow/jrpguide/

A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice: A Conservative guide to Jewish law http://groups.msn.com/judaismfaqs/aguidetojewishreligiouspractice.msnw

Current CJLS Responsa http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/diduknow/responsa/

English Summaries of the Responsa of the Va'ad Halakhah of The Rabbinical Assembly of Israel http://www.masorti.org.il/mason/have/responsa/responsa.html

May non-Jews participate in religious services? http://groups.msn.com/judaismfaqs/maynonjewsparticipateinreligiousservices.msnw

3. Other Jewish Movements

Branches of Judaism http://judaism.about.com/library/3_intro/level1/bl_denominations.htm

The Union for Traditional Judaism http://www.utj.org/

Jewish Reconstructionist Federation http://www.jrf.org/ and article Reconstructionist Judaism

National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) http://www.youngisrael.org/

Orthodox Union http://www.ou.org/

Union for Traditional Judaism http://www.utj.org/

Union of American Hebrew Congregations http://www.uahc.org/

ClickonJudaism is a project of the Reform Movement's
UAHC-CCAR Commission on Outreach and Synagogue Community. The purpose of clickonJudaism is to provide doorways into Judaism for Jews in their 20's and 30's, as well as those considering Judaism. Our hope is to enable young Jews to explore the possibilities offered by liberal Judaism through points of interest and concern to them. http://clickonjudaism.org/pages/core.html

Karaite Korner http://www.karaite-korner.org/

The Samaritan Community's web site - http://the-samaritans.com/

4. Jewish Site Directories

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs the "Our Bookmarks" section is a truly remarkable collection (English) - http://www.mfa.gov.il/

Maven Search Synagogues - A comprehensive list of Synagogues, Temples and Jewish Communities Worldwide - http://www.mavensearch.com/synagogues.asp

Jewish Virtual Library http://www.us-israel.org/

About.com Jewish Links - http://judaism.about.com/culture/judaism/mbody.htm

Jewishsites.org http://www.jewishsites.org/

www.Jewish.Com Jewish Space in Cyberspace - http://jewish.com/

MavenSearch a leading directory and search engine for Jewish content related websites. http://www.maven.co.il/

Judaica Collection (of links on Judaism, Israel etc.) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Judaica/README.html

Judaism 101 - An encyclopaedia of information about Judaism http://www.jewfaq.org/

Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

Jewish Links - (Temple Beth Am) http://www.tbala.org/links.html

Looksmart Judaism Links

Over Three Hundred Jewish Links

Shamash: Judaica Directory

Google Judaism

Yahoo! Judaism

looksmart Klezmer Guides & Directories

JewZ.com

JTA - Jewish news http://www.jta.org/

5a. Jewish Studies

JewishEncyclopedia.com

Jewish Studies – Rutgers University Virtual Religion Index

Dictionary - Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Yerushalmi, and Midrashic Literature by Marcus Jastrow. This is available free online at vol. 1, vol. 2. Do NOT use a Modern Hebrew/Israeli Hebrew dictionary for Biblical or Mishnaic Hebrew.

On-Line Bible concordance for many English versions

On-Line Bible concordance for Hebrew Tanakh

*Each of the verses of the Hebrew with notes and vowels are numbered. Next to each verse is a speaker icon. If you click this the sound will play. You will need to have RealPlayer installed. A free player is available from http://www.realplayer.com/ . Look for RealPlayer Basic. For further information see the FAQ

Jewish Learning - http://www.myjewishlearning.com/

DEVELOPMENT OF HALAKHAH

Biblical History Links

Jewish History Links

Ancient Jewish History

Perek Yomi - Conservative Jews throughout the world have committed themselves to reading a chapter of Tanakh each day.-

Mishnah Yomit - USCJ's second project devoted to daily Jewish learning? As in Perek Yomi, which focuses on one chapter of Tanakh per day, participants will learn one or two passages in the Mishnah each day with the goal of learning an entire "order" of Mishnah in the course of a year.

Mechon Mamre - This site currently provides you with five main online resources for learning Torah :

The Complete Hebrew Bible (Tanach) in editions in Hebrew (including one with cantillation marks), English (JPS 1917), and parallel Hebrew and English (voweled Hebrew and JPS English);
The RaMBaM's Mishneh Torah in editions in Hebrew and the beginning of it in English as well as in parallel Hebrew and English
Four major authoritative sources of the Oral Law (Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli)
An encyclopedia in English of Torah basics (Torah 101)
Search engines to find what you need in these resources in Hebrew and in English; you can easily enter Hebrew with vowels or even cantillation marks for searching either our site (or even the whole Web) with Google using our javascript "keyboards" and your mouse

Torah.org

JEWISH THEOLOGY SYSTEMATICALLY AND HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED by K. KOEHER

Jewish Virtual Library

Judaism Resources - Nexus.com

Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings

Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University. This Archive "holds over 3,000 titles on film and video, constituting the largest collection of Jewish documentary film footage in the world.

Guide to Resources on the Hebrew Language (English language site)

Biblical Archaeology Society

Jacob M. Lowy Collection - National Library of Canada

Unbound Bible is a collection of searchable Bibles consisting of:
- 10 English versions including the NASB
- Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original Bible languages)
- 4 ancient versions
- 42 versions in other languages
http://unbound.biola.edu/

Torah in the Original Mesha Script

Calendar of Major Jewish Holidays

5b. Jewish Studies-Related Resources Prepared by Adath Shalom Members

- From the Early Bronze Age to the End of Byzantine Rule (3150 BCE-639 CE) - Time/Events Chart

- History of the Hebrew Language By David Steinberg

- Ugaritic Literature as an Aid to Understanding the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)

- Israelite Religion to Judaism: the Evolution of the Religion of Israel

- Body Part Metaphors in Biblical Hebrew

- Flavius Josephus - His Importance as a Historian, Jew, Imperial Roman Client

- Temple Tablet Transcription and Translation By David Steinberg

- The Greek Influence on Judaism from the Hellenistic Period Through the Middle Ages c. 300 BCE- 1200 CE

- Arabs, Edomites and Jews - Getting on With Your Relatives

- The Origin and Nature of the Samaritans and their Relationship to Second Temple Jewish Sects

- Jewish Sects of the Second Temple Period

- Michael Davidson Early Hebrew Printing Homepage- A Virtual Guide to the Great Jewish Libraries and Rare Book Collections, Hebrew Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Written Antiquities

- Some Ecumenical Thoughts on Sin

- Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaisms - Contrasting Positions on Key Issues

- A Comparison of the New Conservative Humash, Etz Hayim, with those of Plaut and Hertz

- Kaufmann Kohler and the Rise of Reform Judaism in America

6. Holocaust and Anti-Semitism

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - Archives' online catalog provides a means for searching and retrieving information for collections in its current holdings. The system allows the user to search the catalog by keyword, personal name, Library of Congress Subject Heading, and geographic place name. Help information is provided for search strategies and printing of catalog information.
http://www.ushmm.org/

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

Holocaust - Google

Holocaust Museums - Looksmart

Holocaust - Looksmart

Holocaust - Yahoo!

jcrelations.net, which is devoted to fostering mutual respect and understanding between Christians and Jews around the world. Here you will find articles, reviews, reports, official statements, and study resources on Jewish-Christian relations, as well as links to many related organizations. http://www.jcrelations.net/

Palestinian Textbooks- Incitement, Antisemitism and Hatred of Israel in Palestinian School Textbooks http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Peace/patexttoc.html

The suppressed report on anti-semitism in Europe...

http://www.crif.org/index.php?menu=5&dossier=33

www.holocaustvideo.com

7. Jewish Spirituality and Environment

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal (includes links page) http://www.aleph.org/

COEJL (Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life) founded in 1993 to promote environmental education, scholarship, advocacy, and action in the American Jewish community. COEJL is sponsored by a broad coalition of national Jewish organizations and has organized regional affiliates in communities across North America. COEJL is the Jewish member of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. http://www.coejl.org/

JGEN (Jewish Global Environment Network) http://www.jgenisrael.org/

The Green Zionist Alliance http://www.greenzionism.org/

Canfei Nesharim is part of a broad movement to educate Orthodox Jews about the blessings of the natural world, and our obligations to protect it. It develops educational materials and publications about Jewish perspectives on the environment and how to protect it. http://www.canfeinesharim.org/

The Jewish Nature Centre of Canada http://www.torathateva.org/

Plants and Judaism http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/botany/judaism.htm

8. Judaism and Social Issues

Shma.com

B'nai B'rith http://www.bnaibrith.ca/

JACS (Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others) http://www.jacsweb.org/

SocialAction.com: An On-line Jewish Magazine Dedicated to Pursuing Justice, Building community and Repairing the World (links to sites dealing with many issues) http://WWW.socialaction.com/links.html

National Jewish Coalition for Literacy http://www.njcl.net/

New Israel Fund http://www.nif.org/

Tikkun - A BIMONTHLY JEWISH CRITIQUE OF POLITICS, CULTURE & SOCIETY http://WWW.tikkun.org/

Jewish Feminist Resources http://www.jew-feminist-resources.com/

The Jewish Women's Archive http://www.jwa.org/ community is for scholars. For activists. For mothers and daughters. For fathers and sons. For researchers, historians, and for all who believe that everyone with a stake in history is a keeper of it and a partner in its transmission.

Women in Judaism

MaTaN was created with the vision of providing all women with the opportunity to study the Jewish sources on the highest level. http://www.matan.org.il/

Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/carpenter/

Ritualwell http://www.ritualwell.org/ aims to:

provide you with quality resources for contemporary Jewish liturgy and ritual.
give you access to creative innovation in Judaism.
empower you to use Jewish ritual and liturgy to meet your needs.
use the Web to connect Jews to a living Judaism.

Jewish views of homosexuality From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_of_homosexuality see also http://www.keshetjts.org/consensus/

9. Jewish Genealogy

JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy http://www.jewishgen.org/

10. Jewish Films

Jewish Heritage Video Collection - The JHVC was created to explore Jewish heritage through the unique resources of film and television. The Collection, available at more than 150 sites nationwide, provides courses and a video library that address vital issues of Jewish history, identity, and culture

Ciner-Rhama Jewish Movies Index

50 Greatest Jewish Movies

JewishVideo.com

wWW.yiddishvIdeo.com

chILDREN'S VIDEO LISTING

wwW.ISRAELFILM.COM

www.holocaustvideo.com

Sifrutake

Ruth Disking Films

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