Useful Links
Overview
These days, Jewish websites are as varied and versatile as the Jewish community! For basic knowledge and articles on just about everything, MyJewishLearning.com is a great first stop. For some of our other frequently-used resources, see below. This is by no means a comprehensive list. These are just a few of the ISJL's favorite sites – there are many, many more out there! Start building your Jewish-resources-on-the-web-library...
For Music
For Holidays and Hebrew Calendars
For Crafts & Memory Making
For Torah and Text Study
For a Whole Lotta Great Stuff
Other Jewish Links
These days, Jewish websites are as varied and versatile as the Jewish community! For basic knowledge and articles on just about everything, MyJewishLearning.com is a great first stop. For some of our other frequently-used resources, see below. This is by no means a comprehensive list. These are just a few of the ISJL's favorite sites – there are many, many more out there! Start building your Jewish-resources-on-the-web-library...
For Music
- Sounds Write Productions sells almost any Jewish CD you might want to buy from modern Jewish singers/songwriters.
- Hot Shabbat has some songs available for downloading – mass distribution is not legal, but downloading a song for your personal classroom use is encouraged!
- Many Jewish performers have their own websites, sometimes with free MP3s, lyrics, or even sheet music – spend time immersing yourself in the music of Rick Recht, Debbie Friedman, Mah Tovu, Saul Kaye...
- For audio recordings, historical resources, a virtual museum, and much more, visit The Lowell Milken Archive of Jewish Music. You can spend hours there, or grab what you need in a few easy clicks!
For Holidays and Hebrew Calendars
- There are many websites which provide dates and times online. For example, find candle lighting times for anywhere in the world at Candle Lighting Times; find a calendar with all the parashot (Torah portions) for the year
- A calendar with all the parashot (Torah portions) for the year, Hebrew/English date conversion, and most other Jewish-calendar related topics at the Hebrew Calendar website.
For Crafts & Memory Making
- Learn about scrapbooking and document preservation in this great article from the Scrapbook website.
- Visit our Oral History section for questions to ask your loved ones and great oral history resources.
For Torah and Text Study
- For younger students, Torah Tots provides some fun resources and activities – sort through to find what is appropriate for your group.
- Aish HaTorah has a parshah study for every level – family, youth, lively, young adult…! Shabbat weekly, holiday, on and on!
For a Whole Lotta Great Stuff
- Jewish.Com www.jewish.com
- Judaism101 www.jewishfaq.com
- Jewish Virtual Library www.JewishVirtualLibrary.org
- Jewish Women’s Archive www.jwa.org
- Jerusalem Post Online www.jpost.com
- Ha’artez Daily www.haaretz.com
- My Jewish Learning www.myjewishlearning.com
Other Jewish Links
- American Jewish Historical Society www.ajhs.org
- Center for Jewish History www.cjh.org
- Southern Jewish Historical Society www.jewishsouth.org
- Southern Jewish Life Magazine www.sjlmag.com
- Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston http://jhc.cofc.edu/
- Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina www.jhssc.org
- Jewish Women's Archive www.jwa.org
- The Jewish Community Federation of Greater Chattanooga www.jcfgc.com
- The National Center for Jewish Film www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org
- Judaism and Jewish Resources List) www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
- National Hillel www.hillel.org
- American Jewish Archives www.americanjewisharchives.org
- Tulane Jewish Studies Department www.tulane.edu/%7Elmiller/JewishStudiesIntro.html
- National Museum of American Jewish History www.nmajh.org/
- Union for Reform Judaism www.urj.org
- United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism www.uscj.org
- Orthodox Union www.ou.org
- List of Web Resources for American Jewish History www.temple.edu/feinsteinctr/fcrelated.html
- Jewish Reconstructionist Federation www.jrf.org
- Jewish American Society for Historical Preservation www.jashp.org
- National Jewish Outreach Program www.njop.org