Israel is very well connected to the Internet, there are many companies
and organizations on the Web, in the public and private sector.
This page points to Israeli indexes to keep track of most Israeli
sites, rather than trying to duplicate their efforts.
The Shamash Project
Web server in New York includes texts of the tanach, divrei torah, kosher traveler's database, and mailing list newsletter archives.
Shamash provides the Web service that brings you this page.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
provides several Hebrew/English Web servers.
The Jewish Communication Network
in New York has a Web server with a wide variety of Jewish content.
They also have
Israel en Espanol, in Spanish.
The University of Minnesota develops and tracks the Gopher system.
They keep a database of all Gopher servers.
Information about the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin,
from the
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
and
Bar Ilan University. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Web server has information on Israeli life, government, news, and culture, including the encyclopedic
Facts about Israel, The Project Oren Kibbutz Institutes have a Web page for the
Kibbutz Program Center
in New York, with information on
work and ulpan programs during the school year or the summer.
Web site for the city of
Karmiel,
Gateway to the Galilee.
Web site for the
Golan Heights
with political information and pictures.
Kibbutz Lavi
in the Galilee has a Web page that describes their history and work.
The Guardian of Israel
has a Web page with its weekly Jerusalem Insider newsletter
and other information from the Friends of Likud.
IRIS: Information Regarding Israeli Security
is an organization concerned with Israel's security needs.
The Women in Green
have a Web site with information about their political organization.
The Betar/Tagar
Web site has information on their Zionist organization.
Peace Now has a Web sites describing their work supporting
the Israeli movement in
Israel
and the USA.
The Jerusalem Post
has a Web site with an extensive selection of stories from their
Israeli daily English newspaper.
You can even get the Yaakov Kirschen's popular
Dry Bones cartoons.
The Jewish Communication Network provides a
daily news roundup
of Jewish interest, dozens of stories from a wide variety of sources.
The Jewish Forward
has a Web site with sample stories from their American weekly newspaper.
The Israeli Consulate of New York provides the
ISRAEL LINE news service,
a daily summary of news from the Israeli press. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides the ISRA-MID news service, which gives more in-depth coverage of news from Israel and the Middle East. These are both available by
subscription
from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Latest audio news from Kol Yisrael Radio
in Hebrew (full reports) and English (headlines only) are available from Artificia in Tel Aviv.
Der Yiddisher Tam-Tam,
a bi-monthly newsletter for Yiddish students, published in Paris.
Tribune Juive,
L'hebdomadaire des Juifs de France, has a Web page with information about the French Jewish weekly.
Info on the monthly
New Middle East Magazine
is available from the Online Bookstore
Plotz, the Zine for the Vaclempt
is a Jewish zine published in New York.
The Yiddish Voice
of Brookline, MA, has a Web site with
information on its radio programming, and pointers to other Yiddish resources on the net.
The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, a weekly newspaper covering the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, has a Web site with content from their paper edition, both current and back issues.
The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix has a Web site with Phoenix resources and content from their weekly newspaper.
Jewish Family and Life is a Web magazine for Jewish parents that reflects the strong family traditions of Jewish culture in the language of the 90's.
News in Hebrew is available from the Snunit Web server at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The Web services at Shamash, Jerusalem1,
and
Chabad have large Jewish archives.
The Global Learning Network and Project Genesis at www.torah.org has a rich assortment of Divrei Torah online, including their
Hypertext Halacha
English translation of the Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Berurah.
The AishDas Society is committed to the promotion of more meaningful worship in the Orthodox Jewish community.
Search Divrei Torah
at Shamash.
Aish Hatorah Uncle Eli's Haggadah
is a commentary on the seder in rhyme, for children, by Prof. Eliezer Segal
at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Seuss after four glasses of wine.
Professor Segal also has a Web page with an image of a page of the
Babylonian Talmud
with hypertext links describing all the elements of page.
Jacob's Special Sukkah Guest
is a Sukkot story for children by Agnes Romer Segal.
Mark Hurvitz has assembled a modern version of the
Haggadah with questions and commentary.
The Jewish Communications Network asks users to contribute to their online
Haggadah. Laurance Wieder has posted the Red Sea Haggadah
and encourages readers to send him their own contributions for inclusion.
KOACH: Conservative Judaism's College Programming for the 90's, has a Web server at the Washington University in Saint Louis.
The Pedagogic Center of the Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education in Jerusalem has a Web site at Jerusalem1 with a large collection of resources for Jewish education.
The Breslov Chassidim
have a Web site with teachings, resources, and other information about their movement. The Friends of Breslov Library
has many texts from Rebbe Nachman, in English and Hebrew.
613.org in Los Angeles. provides more than 300 hours of audio divrei torah from over 50 rabbis, daf yomi, music, poetry, and other Jewish materials, in Real Audio format.
Lubavitch Audio Divrei Torah from think jewish.com in Florida, with classes in torah and chassidus.
The Bat Kol Feminist Beit Midrash
in Jerusalem has information about their program of study.
Ellie Wackerman has a Web site that teaches Torah cantillation (trope) with music text and WAV sound files.
Dr Lawrence Epstein has a Web site with information on conversion to Judaism.
These are links to schools, shuls, and other local organizations that serve our Jewish communities. I prefer to have a single link to a page listing all the links in a Jewish community than to keep track of all the links in that community here. If I find such a community index, I will point to it and delete my single local links to that community.
Entries are sorted alphabetically by state, and then by city with the state. Towns may be grouped with nearby metropolitan areas.
There are pointers to shuls in many communities, at the Web sites representing these movements: Conservative,Orthodox,Re-constructionist, and Reform. and
As the number of shuls on the Web has grown, a complete list of them is too large to include here. Please add your shuls to the lists maintained by these organizations. I will still add links to city-wide lists of Jewish resources that include links to a handful of separate Web sites in a community, like are included below for Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Seattle, et al.
Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix Jewish Resource Guide Los Angeles, California Jewish LA Hebrew Union College San Diego, California Jewish in San Diego
Jewish Entertainment Resources publishes a directory of performers and presenters of Jewish arts and culture.
The Project Judaica Foundation has a Web site with information on its projects involved with the rescue, rehabilitation, dissemination, and exhibition of Judaica.
Ari Davidow at the Well has a Web page devoted to Klezmer Music. Larry Yudelson at the Well has Radio Hazak, discussing Israeli music, and a page about Bob Dylan & the Jews. The Wholesale Klezmer Band has information about their music, including a guide to the entertainment at a traditional Jewish wedding. They have been performing a series of benefit concerts, entitled Tfile far a Tsebrokhene Velt, (Prayer for a Broken World) for aid to such war-torn areas as Bosnia and Rwanda.
The Jewish Music Midi Free Library has song files in midi format, and pointers to other Jewish music resources.
During the Gulf War, the IRC was an important source of communication on the Internet. Transcripts of discussions with victims of the Iraqi SCUD missile attacks are archived at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. from The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Academic Jewish Studies project offers several services including H-Judaic, Jewish Studies On-Line Directory, and the JSJ eJournal.
The IOUDAIOS Review is an on-line journal devoted to the study of early Judaism.
The Ethnologue Database at Imperial College in London, England has information on the languages of Israel. The Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon, Eugene, has a page on the Hebrew language. The Center for Israel & Jewish Studies at Columbia University has a Web page describing their programs.
The Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies at the University of Denver has a Web page describing their work.
The Stars of David is publishing a series of science fiction books with Jewish themes.
Professor David Donnini, of the Leonardo da Vinci Institute in Florence, Italy, has a done research into the history of early Christianity and the Christian bible and the roots of anti-semitism in that era.
The China Judaic Studies Association has a Web page with information on its work and programs, including study of the the history of Jews in China and Chinese research on Judaism.
The Jewish community at Brown University has been involved with the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda .
Kevin Brook's Khazaria Info Center discusses the medieval eastern European Jewish kingdom of Khazaria.
Steven Grimm shares Visions of Israel from his trip in 1992.
Shamash Kosher Restaurant Database and other kashrut information, and Orthodox Union and OU Kashruth Database. Kashrut Conscience Bulletin from the Kosher Information Bureau in Los Angeles.
Asian Kashrus Services provides kashrut supervision for manufacturing facilities throughout Asia. The Web page describes their company, and also has kosher Asian recipes and information on Jewish communities in Asia.
Jeffrey Freedman maintains the Web archives of the Jewish-food mailing list, with Jewish recipes from all over the world.
Scharf Associates kashrut.com provides a clearinghouse for up-to-date information on kashrut, including notices of food packages.with inaccurate kashrut certification.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has information about its projects.
Steven Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation is dedicated to archiving interviews of Holocaust Survivors all over the world.
The Nizkor Project is a collection of Holocaust memorial and anti-revisionist projects on the Internet, organized by Ken McVay, of British Columbia, Canada.
The Cybrary of the Holocaust has many documents and pictures about the Holocaust.
Plamen Bliznakov at Arizona State University has an archive of materials about the Rescue of Bulgarian Jews during WWW II. California State University at Chico has a course on the Holocaust with a list of links to other Holocaust resources. The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah has the has the 1942 Wannsee Protocol outlining Germany's plans for the extermination of the Jewish people.
The Web tour of Amsterdam stops at the Anne Frank House. TheAnne Frank Web site at the University of Washington is no longer available, but they have a list of related sites.
Jewish Singles Connection has personal ads and other information for young Jewish singles.
Rabbi Yeheskel and Pearl Lebovic's Likrat Shidduch offers match-making services.
Stewart Clamen at CMU keeps a list of Jewish Web links. The Yahoo information service has Judaism and Israel Web pages.
Virtual Jerusalem (formerly Jerusalem One) provides the Maven index of Jewish and Israeli Web links. Maven supersedes Matthew Album's A-Z Index, formerly at ORT in London.