Jewish Resources on the Web
By
Mark Borison
SeniorNet Intro to the Internet Instructor
Costa Mesa Senior Center
mborison@yahoo.com
There is an incredible array of outstanding Jewish websites that have been developed through the years. One can do anything from shopping for Jewish books, Judaica gifts, & Jewish religious articles at TovBid.com, an exciting new shopping and auction site for the Jewish community to sites like www.kolel.org, offering free online classes in everything from Talmud to Jewish parenting. There are sites like Jewhoo.com, a site that celebrates the Jewish contribution to civilization and is well on its way to being a Jewish biographical encyclopedia and the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive where one can view for free many short films documenting the Jewish experience. Other sites like Mavensearch.com, Shamash.com, and Jewish.com are portals, sites that link like Yahoo, to thousands of Jewish resources on the web. I will be showing you some of these links and some local Orange County Jewish Resources initially in this article. In ensuing articles I will point out more specific Jewish Resources on the Web. I hope you enjoy visiting these sites as much as I enjoyed assembling them.
I will also be posting these sites to a webpage I am currently building and they will be in a form where you can just click on the various links and go to the websites which is much easier and more efficient. My webpage address or URL (Uniform Resource Locater) is http://www.oocities.org/mborison/ and I will be posting articles that I write for the West Coast Jewish News and also articles about Internet Resources in general that I write for Senior Citizens Reporter like how to buy and sell on eBay and subjects important to Seniors. On my webpage I also will have a collection of links that will lead to many Useful sites for Seniors. It will also be a webpage that links to the Costa Mesa Learning Center's, SeniorNet Website whose mission is to provide older adults education for and access to computer technologies to enhance their lives and enable them to share their knowledge and wisdom.
I am the Introduction to the Internet Instructor at the Costa Mesa Senior Center's
SeniorNet facility. We are currently offering 10 different classes, including
classes in Windows (98 or XP) 1 and 2, Word Processing, Printshop, Digital Photography
using Photoshop Elements 2, E-Mail, and the Introduction to the Internet. For
information please call (949) 545-2356 or stop by the Costa Mesa Senior Center
at 695 19th St. and inquire at the desk. Feel free to email me if you have any
questions or any ideas for future articles. I hope you enjoy these resources as much as I enjoyed finding them
and I wish you all a
Happy and Peaceful New Year.
Jewish Portals (A Collection of many links or resources)
http://www.mavensearch.com/
MavenSearch is the leading directory and search engine for Jewish content related
websites. Back in 1994, there were only 10 Jewish related websites on the Internet.
Since then, things have changed dramatically - MavenSearch currently lists over
15,000 websites with many new sites being added each week.
http://www.mavensearch.com/features/HighHolidays2003.htm
A wealth of High Holidays websites
http://shamash.org/
The Shamash Jewish Internet Consortium, a project of Hebrew College, includes
texts of the tanach, divrei torah, kosher traveler's database, and mailing list
newsletter archives. Shamash is a worldwide consortium of Jewish organizations
and enterprises which have come together to create an open Jewish network on
the Internet.
http://www.jewishsites.org/
Nu? The Jewish Portal
http://www.jewishnet.net/
Jewishnet Global Jewish Information Network offers a wide range of resources,
including links to, and information about, Israeli and Jewish electronic mailing
lists.
http://www.iguide.co.il/
iGuide is a highly acclaimed guide to WWW sites in Israel and a joint effort
by two of Israel's oldest guides formerly named "The (almost) Complete
Guide to WWW in Israel", and the technical guide "Israeli Internet".
Revised to its current form in April 98, iGuide is the oldest guide in Israel,
started in 1994. Then there were only a few dozen, mostly academic web sites
in Israel.
http://www.synagogues.com/
Synagogues on Line. A massive list of synagogues throughout the world.
http://judaism.about.com/
Excellent accumulation of links and Resources of the Jewish experience.
http://www.jewhoo.com/
Jewhoo is not quite like any other Jewish site on the web. It looks like Yahoo.
(The look is, in fact, a parody). But, Jewhoo is NOT a search engine of other
Jewish sites.Jewhoo is a site that celebrates the Jewish contribution to civilization
and is well on its way to being a Jewish biographical encyclopedia. Famous Jewish
or "part" Jewish persons, in a wide variety of fields, are organized
by category. You can search for a person by entering his/her name in the search
engine. Or you can simply click on a category and enjoy yourself by reading
the material on the people in the category.
Jewish History
http://worldzone.net/religion/jewishhistory/
Web Resources in Jewish History is A collection of quality sites is how they
state it, which is a real understatement. Check this site out, it is outstanding,
it loads fast, it is very simply laid out and easy to use.
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/
The Jewish History Resource Center is a project of the Dinur Center for Research
in Jewish History. Over 6000 links to websites in more than 30 categories dealing
with Jewish History are of value to those interested in Jewish History.
http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/
The History of the Jewish People online By Eli Birnbaum
http://www.jewish gen.org
The Jewish Genealogy Website was created to assist those researching their Jewish
ancestry and based on the concept of free sharing of information, JewishGen
Inc. is staffed primarily by volunteers.
http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
Andrew Tannenbaum's Judaism and Jewish Resources Web site is an impressive,
extensive, and annotated listing of resources on the Internet about Judaism
and Israel. It is well-organized index, carefully monitored to ensure that all
links are active. On the web since 1993.
Cultural
http://wiesenthal.com/
Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il/
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
http://www.jewishfilm.com/
Jewishfilm.com - Our purpose is to highlight notable films and videos of Jewish
interest.
Online Classes
http://www.kolel.org/
The Adult Center for Liberal Jewish Learning
Offers Torah tapes, free online courses, and classes in the Toronto Kolel.
http://jewishstudies.org/
Study Judaism via the Internet for FREE. Courses on Jewish Ethics, Jewish Holidays,
Judaism Foundations, and more.
Shopping
http://www.TovBid.com/
TovBid.com is an exciting new shopping and auction site for the Jewish community.
http://www.onestopjudaica.com/
One Stop Judaica's: OUR goal at One Stop Judaica LLC Is to provide you the consumer
all products that are Jewish related.
http://www.judaicadirect.com/
JudaicaDirect.com operates from Israel. Our goal is to provide Jews
across the world the leading Judaica brand names in Israel.
Orange County Jewish Links
http://www.jfsoc.org/
Jewish Family Service of Orange County
http://www.occsp.org/
Orange County Community Scholar Program
Brings world-renown scholars to live in Orange County
http://www.jewishorangecounty.org/ir_home.html
Jewish Federation of Orange County
http://www.jewishorangecounty.org/ir_category_listing.html?id=195
Orange County Synagogues
http://www.swrbbyo.org/
The SouthWestern B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO)
A youth led, worldwide organization which provides opportunities for Jewish
youth to develop their leadership potential, a positive Jewish identity, and
commitment to their personal development.
