Curriculum
& Resources
1. E-Chinuch
- http://www.echinuch.org/
Torah UMesorah website with downloadable lesson plans and worksheets for
Jewish Studies. Mainly for elementary school teachers.
2. Jewish Education Center Cleveland
- http://www.jecc.org/
Collections of online lesson plans, webquests, response curricula and
teacher resources.
3. Jewish Film Archive Online -
http://members.aol.com/jewfilm/index.html
Great subject indexes and distribution information as well as concise
reviews.
4. Jewish Programs - http://www.jewishprograms.org/
Program Bank from all over the world collected and presented via the Paris
office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
5. Lookstein Center Lesson
Plans- http://www.lookstein.org/lessonplans.htm
Lesson Plans for schools (elementary to advanced), modern Hebrew (advanced
- news, analysis, writing a CV); Tanach, Festivals, History
Festivals
See also: Jewish Agency Websites - Education Department, Hagshama Department;
Judaism sites - Judaism 101, Maven Index etc.
6. Aish HaTorah - http://www.aish.edu/
Articles and thoughts addressing issues and substance of each Festival.
7. Torah Org's Yom Tov Site -
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/index.html/
Online classes from Global Learning (very thorough), with calendar.
8. WUJS - http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/wujs/publications/festivals.shtml
Downloadable, three part booklet of programming for Jewish festivals,
for students and adult groups.
Hebrew
- Major Sites
9. Israel on Line - http://home.iol.co.il/
Hebrew site where it’s all happening; indexes, magazines, interactive...
10. Snunit - http://www.snunit.k12.il/
Israel’s main educational server in Hebrew with Navigator, full text searches
in Jewish sources, educational programming, teachers’ and students’ chat
rooms, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
11. Tapuz - http://www.tapuz.co.il/
Classic index in Hebrew
12. Walla - http://www.walla.co.il/
Israel’s veteran index in Hebrew
History
13. Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
-
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
The Jewish History section is well prepared from comprehensive sources.
14. Jewish America's Timeline -
http://www.jewishamerica.com/ja/timeline/index.cfm
A timeline according to the Talmud, continued through major periods of
Jewish History, with online chart.
Indexes
& Link Sites
15. Jewishcom - http://www.jewish.com/
Major classifications across the communities, primarily in N. America.
16. Jewish Student Online Research Center
- Bibliography of Websites -
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/bibliow.html
A completely different looking set of categories with all the extensive
indexes up front.
17. Maven - the Ultimate Index -
http://www.maven.co.il/
Whatever it is, wherever it is, this is one of the best routes to find
it!
Israel - Electronic Journals
(English)
18. Ha’aretz Daily - http://www.haaretzdaily.com
19. Jerusalem Report - http://www.jrep.com/
Israel - Government
20. Israel Foreign Ministry -
http://www.mfa.gov.il/
Facts about Israel; Government & Laws; Peace Process; News service;
Reference Documents. Also sections in French, Spanish & Russian.
21. Knesset Website - http://www.knesset.gov.il/
English or Hebrew. Virtual tour; 14th Knesset; Committees; MKs past
& present.
22. IDF website - http://www.idf.il/English/MAIN.HTM
History; structure (including Home Command); principles; insignia.
Hebrew/English.
Israel - Hands-on
23. The Jerusalem Archaeological Park -
http://www.archpark.org.il/
State-of-the-art website with interactive maps and information, virtual
reconstruction model of ancient Jerusalem, Jerusalem timeline.
24. The Jerusalem Website - http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/english/
25. Neot Kedumim - Biblical Landscapes
- http://www.neot-kedumim.org.il/
Take a virtual tour of the Reserve in the context of the Biblical sources.
Hebrew, English, Russian. The Capital, services, tourism, art & culture,
links to museums.
Jewish Agency for Israel /WZO
26. Jewish Agency Website - http://www.jafi.org.il/
Keep updated with the Jewish Agency! Magazine, mission, projects, directories...
27. Hagshama Dept. Website -
http://www.wzo.org.il/
See Israel, read articles; Aliyah database and FAQ
Judaism
28. Jewish Encyclopedia - http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
T he complete, unedited contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia
(as published in 1906), with over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
29. Jewish Interactive Studies
- http://www.jewishstudies.org/
Classic areas of Jewish studies in online courses, with contemporary references.
30. Judaism 101 - http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm
Well thought out categories on almost anything with good internal links
and background files: an FAQ that is narrative in style hosted on AOL.
31. Soc.Culture.Jewish -
http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/hl-index.html
An FAQ with some pretty good attention to conceptual aspects of Judaism,
on the Shamash web server.
32. Yahoo FAQ on Judaism -
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion/Faiths_and_Practices/Judaism/
Libraries
33. Brandeis University Library
- http://library.brandeis.edu/
Search your bibliographies online using keyword and standard searches!
34. Melton Center Library - Aleph Database
- Hebrew University - http://har2.huji.ac.il:80/ALEPH/ENG/JZF/JED/START/
Top Jewish Education Library with catalogues of articles, publications
and helpdesk.
Museums
35. Bet Hatefutsoth Diaspora Museum
- http://www.bh.org.il/
Visit the exhibits; try the online name/Jewish community searches for
a fee; new genealogy software offer.
36. Israel Museum, Jerusalem -
http://www.imj.org.il/
Art, history, archeology, Ruth Youth Wing program & classes; online
exhibitions, interactive events.
Shoah
37. Bet Lohamei Haghettaot - Ghetto Fighters'
House - http://www.gfh.org.il/
See the online archive search facility after looking around!
38. Nizkor - http://www.nizkor.org/
The major Shoah Sources / Denial archive on the web.
39. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- http://www.ushmm.org/
Look at the Educator sections as well as the Resources!
40. Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’
Memorial - http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/
The exhibition halls, programmes, educational resources & seminars.
Software
41. Davka Corporation - http://www.davka.com/
Bible, Talmud, Midrash, processors, programs to learn Hebrew language,
kid's educational games, utilities, Hebrew fonts, clip art and much more...
42. JewishSoft - http://www.members.aol.com/jewishsoft/
One stop mail-order company marketing Judaic software from 17 different
manufacturers.
43. TES Torah Education Software
- http://www.jewishsoftware.com/
Producer of Jewish software and online outlet for CD-ROMs by all the producers
in Jewish education.
Sources
- Studies and Commentaries
44. Cyber Torah - http://www.ou.org/torah/
Tradition, online study and resources, audio library, publications, e-lists.
45. Jewish Gates - http://www.jewishgates.org/
Self-explanatory webpages with Biblical texts, Talmud, Jewish Calendar
and Practices, History...
46. Webshas - http://www.aishdas.org/webshas/main.htm
An expanding, online, thematic index of references to the Babylonian Talmud;
see also HaMakor Responsa index.
Webservers
- Major Jewish
47. ORT - http://www.ort.org/
Ort projects worldwide, Bible, Torah reading online, communities, youth
organizations
48. Shamash - http://www.shamash.org/
Veteran host of major Jewish organizations with large subordinate websites,
such as Jewish religious movements, educational institutions, Jewish lists,
links.
World
Jewry
49. European Council of Jewish Communities
- http://www.ecjc.org/
Activities, links, descriptions of communities
50. World Jewish Congress - http://www.wjc.org.il/
Data on and description of Jewish communities worldwide; research reports.
There are so many more!
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