Additional Websites
Archives and Libraries
Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive
https://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/collections/wise/home.php
A freely accessible comprehensive electronic edition of Rabbi Wise’s correspondence and extensive published writings. Consisting of approximately 3,300 items captured in nearly 20,000 digital images, the collection documents the life and work of the architect of Reform Judaism in America.
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/
Committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry. A searchable site featuring a wealth of material including a guide to the archives’ major papers and details about how to establish a synagogue archive. Of particular interest is its library catalog that can be searched online and the full text of First American Jewish Families 1644-1988 by Malcolm Stern whose genealogies and bibliography can be searched as well. The American Jewish Archives Journal is available in full text, as well as archives going back to volume 52.
Rachel : the on-line catalog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries (REBJH)
http://www.rachelnet.net/rachelnet/E/rechercher_ouvrage.htm
The collective catalog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries whose aim is to further the preservation and dissemination of Jewish heritage documents (written or recorded), an integral part of the European cultural heritage.
World Zionist Organization, the Central Zionist Archives
http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/Pages/Default.aspx
In English and Hebrew, the site describes the holdings of the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem devoted to the history of Zionism.
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Archives and Library Collections
https://yivo.org/Archives-Library
Access to and information about the world’s largest collection of Yiddish books. The YIVO Archives and Library represent the single largest and most comprehensive collection of materials on East European Jewish civilization in the world.
Art
American Jewish Portraits Database
Provides access to images of American Jews before 1865. The site can be searched by keyword, portrait name, artist name and artist date.
The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art
http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php
From the Center for Jewish Art of the Hebrew University comes this index of art works, manuscripts and ritual objects from every period of Jewish history. The database is searchable and browsable by subject, origin, location, artist, community and collection.
Wall Paintings in Central and East European Synagogues, the Center for Jewish Art
http://cja.huji.ac.il/wpc/browser.php?mode=treefriend&f=maker_name
Represents one of the modules comprising the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art. The Catalogue includes murals created within the framework of traditional Jewish folk culture. The database is browsable by subject, artist, origin, and collection.
HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library
https://www.jewishphotolibrary.com/synagogues
Created by Jono David, this searchable database contains more than 110,000 photographs of Jewish life in 116 countries on 6 continents. You can order copies of the photos from the photographer.
Jewish Clip Art Database
http://www.jewish-clipart.com/
Created by Jacob Richman, this is a database of free Jewish clip art that is searchable by topic and artist.
Jewish Comics
http://jewishcomics.blogspot.com/
A hypertext bibliography created by librarian Steve Bergson detailing the portrayal of Jews in comic books and comic strips.
Visual Midrash
https://www.talivirtualmidrash.org.il/en/
Created by Dr. Jo Milgrom, “offers you access to a digitized collection of artwork on biblical and Judaic subjects, lovingly gathered over decades. You can search by subject, period, artist, medium and textual location.”
Cantorial
Bella and Harry Wexner Libraries of Sound and Song
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/music/Pages/default.aspx
Part of the National Library of Israel, this site in English and Hebrew provides information about the sound archives and sample playlists and song collections as well as the House of Hebrew Songs, a searchable database of Hebrew music.
Cantorial Library Sheet Music Collection (*****this is not a website. It’s a file on our share drive ajr/library/cantorial library printed holdings.xls)
These spreadsheets identify cantorial collections, sheet music, songbooks, and books related to cantillation, that are not represented in AJR’s online catalog. Each relates directly to the title, cantor, and to all that the professional leader of prayer is responsible for. These materials range from the Ashkenaz, Sepharad, Mizrah, and Oriental traditions and can be used to study the rich history of Jewish music, nusah, prayer, and piyyut which are foundational to the cultural and religious practice of Judaism.
Cantors Assembly
Affiliated with the Conservative/Masorti movement, promotes the profession of the Cantorate, serving their members and congregations by supporting colleagues in their roles as vibrant, engaging, vital clergy and musical leaders.
Chabad Melodies
https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/140669/jewish/Chabad-Melodies.htm
A searchable collection of popular Chabad niggunim. Site also displays the sheet music.
Chazzanut Online
Comprehensive site on Jewish Liturgical Music (chazzanut), with a large collection of cantorial music scores, midi sound, annotated links and background information.
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
A rich array of recordings dating back as far as 1904. Includes a browsable and searchable database of sound files, graphics of record labels, and details of the recordings and their contents dating back to 1904. Material is available in 8 languages and can be searched by genre, language, theme, holiday, composer and title. Registration is free.
Early Klezmer, Yiddish Melodies, Hebrew Cantorials, Antique Recordings
http://www.mnemotrix.com/texis/aabhr/music/musicpic/search.html
Listen to these old recordings online.
Hebrew Songs
Includes the lyrics of popular Hebrew songs in the original text, in transliteration, and in translation. Provides information about the recordings along with details about singers, songwriters, composers, musicians, cantors, and choirmasters from both Israel and around the world involved in creating and performing Hebrew and Jewish music. The songs are arranged alphabetically by title and are also grouped by festivals. An excellent collection of annotated, relevant links is provided as well.
Institut Européen des Musiques Juives
https://www.iemj.org/en/?lang=en
Dedicated to the preservation and the dissemination of the Jewish musical heritage. Includes 83,000 music files, 220,000 pages of scores, thousands of photos, videos, and different archives.
Jewish Folk Songs
http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/
Created by Batya Fonda, this site provides access to her “series of lectures given in either English or Hebrew about the ways folk songs reflect different themes of Jewish heritage.” Lyrics and recordings of some of the songs are available.
Journal of Synagogue Music Archive
https://www.cantors.org/journal-of-synagogue-music/
A publication of the Cantor’s Assembly. The journal offers articles and music of broad interest to hazzanim and other Jewish professionals.
Ladino Song Project
http://www.sefaradrecords.com/lyrics.php
Created by Gerard Edery, the goal of this project is to “offer all original Ladino Lyrics and my own translations, absolutely free, in one place on the internet.” The database is browsable by alphabetical order.
The Maqam Project
A modern attempt to adapt the tradition of the Jews of the Arab world from Aleppo, Cairo, and Damascus who assigned musical modes called a maqam to each Torah portion. This site provides recordings of the work of the group arranged by the weekly parasha.
Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings
https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/millsspcoll/mayrentrec/
From the University of Wisconsin at Madison comes this collection of over 9,000 78rpm discs include Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music, poetry, drama, and event ballads and from locations as diverse as the United States, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Israel.
Milken Archive of Jewish Music
https://www.milkenarchive.org/
The Milken Archive was founded in 1990 to document, preserve, and disseminate the vast body of music that pertains to the American Jewish experience. Over time it has become the largest collection of American Jewish music ever assembled.
The National Library of Israel Music Collection and Sound Archive
https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/music/Pages/default.aspx
Containing the world’s largest collection of ethnographic and commercial recordings of Israeli and Jewish music, the National Sound Archives documents, preserves and makes available to the public all materials relating to the music of Eretz Israel, and to Israeli and Jewish music.
Piyut North America
A joint project of B’nai Jeshurun in New York and Invitation to Piyut in Israel, focused on revitalizing the global Jewish music of Piyut in the U.S. through spiritual practice, music and yoga.
Recorded Sound Archive
Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of Jewish music, the RSA has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.
Ruth Rubin Legacy : Archive of Yiddish Folksongs
https://exhibitions.yivo.org/exhibits/show/ruth-rubin-sound-archive/home
Collection of 1,500 Yiddish folksongs recorded by Ruth Rubin between 1946 and the 1970s browsable by song title, genre, performer, and more. Includes a variety of materials such as lectures, concerts, radio interviews, videos, and rare and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and more.
Scroll Scraper
https://scrollscraper.adatshalom.net/
An online tikkun, presenting the text of the Torah as it is written in the Torah scroll. You can also hear how the text is chanted.
Sidduraudio.com
Offers recordings of many of the standard prayers and zemirot for Shabbat in mp3 format. The text follows the Sim Shalom prayerbook of the Conservative movement.
Virtual Cantor
Designed to help people learn the appropriate nusach for various prayers. The liturgy for Shabbat, weekdays, and holidays are available for download.
Zemer Reshet
https://www.zemereshet.co.il/index.asp
This Hebrew language open source project is seeking to compile a database of early Hebrew songs. The songs are browsable by title, composer and performer and searchable by keyword. You can also find biographical information about the composers and performers. Includes recordings of and lyrics for the songs.
Zemirot Database
http://www.zemirotdatabase.org/
A user-editable online collection of browsable and searchable zemirot. Listen to recordings, read the lyrics in Hebrew and transliteration, as well as in translation, and upload your own recordings.
Classroom Material
Modern Philosophy Workbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Fgo9CKIp4RUlc0LVFLb1hIdmc/view?ts=5bfed5e9
Developed from a course taught by Rabbi Len Levin in Modern Jewish Philosophy. Provides historical background and perspective for a systematic exploration of current issues in Jewish theology.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
The Aramaic Language of the Zohar
https://aramaiczohar.wordpress.com/
Provides resources for people interested in reading the Zohar in its original language, or who are interested in the Aramaic language more generally. It is part of a larger project by Judy Barrett, who is working on a beginner’s textbook and a practical dictionary of the Aramaic of the Zohar, with the support of Justin Jaron Lewis.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
http://www.ericlevy.com/revel/bdb/bdb/main.htm
Based on the lexicon of William Gesenius, as translated by Edward Robinson, and edited with constant reference to the thesaurus of Gesenius as completed by E. Rödiger, and with authorized use of the German editions of Gesenius’ Handwöterbuch über das Alte Testament
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project
Allows you to search in either Aramaic or English. You can specify a dialect of Aramaic, so you can limit searches to the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud. You can also do a search in A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic by Michael Sokoloff.
Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature (Jastrow)
http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Jastrow//
by Marcus Jastrow (1926)
DNI Bible : Dictionary of Nature Imagery of the Bible
Targeted at biblical scholars and students of Bible. Gives professionals in the various fields of life & natural sciences and ecology in general access to the use of nature imagery in the literary texts of the Bible. The corpus for DNI Bible is mainly the Hebrew Bible, although Second Temple literature and the New Testament are also addressed.
E-daf.com
Your online source for Talmud Daf Yomi in Tzurat HaDaf
Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust
http://enc.wymaninstitute.org/
Full text searchable encyclopedia of articles about people and events related to how the United States responded to the Shoah.
Encyclopedia of Medical Halacha
http://www.daat.ac.il/he-il/refua/encyclopedia
Full text of the Hebrew language book by Professor Avraham Steinberg, browsable by subject.
Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel
http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/
19 volume encyclopedia was compiled and published by David Tidhar (1897-1970) over the 23 years from 1947 until his death. It is a Whos Who of the Jewish community of the Land of Israel.
Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre
https://yiddishstage.org/encyclopedia
Provides access to a number of volumes of the encyclopedia by Zalmen Zylbercweig entitled Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater.
Harkavy’s Yiddish-English (6th edition), English-Yiddish (11th edition) Dictionary (1910)
http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html
Contains the scanned text of the 6th edition of Harkavy’s Yiddish-English Dictionary, and the 11th edition of his English-Yiddish Dictionary, both from 1910.
Holocaust Encyclopedia
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/
Created by the US Holocaust and Memorial Museum, this extensive work is searchable by keyword and browsable by topic.
The Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
The complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. Now part of the public domain, the encyclopedia contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
Jewish English Lexicon
http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-english-lexicon/welcome
Created by Sarah Bunin Benor, the goal of the group is to collect data on the English of Jews in America and elsewhere and to make it available to the general public. You can browse the lexicon in alphabetical order or search by word. You can also add words to it.
Jewish Women’s Archive : Encyclopedia
Features over 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations on a wide range of Jewish women through the centuries.
Milon Kitzurim VeRashei Teyvot: A Dictionary of Hebrew Acronyms
http://www.kizur.co.il/home.php
Database of acronyms and abbreviations searchable by term and browsable by subject.
Morfix
Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew dictionary with audio pronunciation, inflections, synonyms, etc.
Passing Phrase
http://www.learnhebrew.org.il/
Provides an archived list of phrases available for browsing.
Digital Books
Babylonian Talmud translated by Michael L. Rodkinson
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t10/index.htm
Full text of the two volume work, written in 1903 by Michael Rodkinson, describing the history of the Talmud from 200 BCE to the early part of the twentieth century.
Chovot ha-Levavot = Duties of the Heart
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hovot/tohen-2.htm
Full text in Hebrew of this classical Jewish ethical text called “Duties of the Heart.”
Derekh HaShem
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/shaar-2.htm
Full text in Hebrew of this classical Jewish ethical text written by the Ramchal, Rabbi Moshe Chayim Luzzato.
Dictionary of Hebrew Philosophical Terms
https://ajrsem.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Klatzkin-Thesaurus-Volumes-1-4.pdf
(Otzar Ha-munahim ha-filosofiyim; Thesaurus Philosophicus Linguae Hebraicae; Eshkol, Berlin, 1928, 4 vols.). The most comprehensive dictionary of philosophical and scientific Hebrew terms culled from the medieval Jewish philosophical literature, with extensive textual examples. Definitions are given in Hebrew and German, unfortunately not in English. A must for scholars doing original research in medieval Jewish philosophy.
DigiBaeck
includes 3.5 million pages of material that ranges from personal papers and photographs of luminaries like Albert Einstein and Moses Mendelssohn to letters, diaries, recipes, and other ephemera chronicling the lives of everyday German-speaking Jews over five centuries.
Digital Yiddish Library
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/digital-yiddish-library
From the National Yiddish Book Center comes this online access to the full texts of over 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, free of charge.
Digitized book repository
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/digitallibrary/books/pages/default.aspx
Provides full text access to the books that have been digitized by the Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University.
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts (British Library)
https://data.bl.uk/hebrewmanuscripts/
Hebrew manuscripts from the British Library’s collection covering items manifesting Jewish cultural, religious and social lives between the 10th century CE and the beginning of the 20th century CE, from Europe and North Africa in the west, through the Middle East to China in the east.
Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/hs/HebrewManuscripts1.html
A highly diverse collection, dating from the 11th to early 20th centuries and drawn from Jewish communities throughout the world.
The Fountain of Life
https://ajrsem.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/6.3-Gabirol-Fons-Vitae-English-2006.pdf
The only complete English translation of this major work of medieval Jewish philosophy. Composed originally in Arabic, it was translated completely into Latin (12th-13th century) and partially into Hebrew; the original Arabic text was lost. The fascinating story of the recovery, translation, and editing of this work is told in the preface to this edition. By Solomon Ibn Gabirol (11th century), Translated by Alfred Jacob (1958), edited by Leonard Levin (2005).
Guide for the Perplexed
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp003.htm
Provides the full text of the work by the Rambam, divided into chapters.
HaMadrikh
https://opensiddur.org/compilations/madrikhim/hamadrikh-rabbis-guide-r-hyman-e-goldin-1939-rev-1956/
Orthodox Judaism’s manual to assist rabbis in their execution of ritual and ceremony by Rabbi Hyman E. Goldin
Hebrewbooks.org
A rich repository of traditional (mostly rabbinic) texts from the Talmudic age to the 20th century
The Holocaust Chronicle
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/
Provides an in-depth time table of the Holocaust. You can browse by year and read about significant events of that year. Contains every word and a generous selection of images from the companion book of the same title.
Index to Yiddish Periodicals
http://yiddish-sources.com/index-yiddish-periodicals#:~:text=%22The%20%E2%80%9CIndex%20to%20Yiddish%20Periodicals,published%20in%20the%20Yiddish%20press.
Bibliographical data base for the materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) until 1939(in the Soviet Union: until 1948). You can browse the data base by author, title, source, date, genre and subject. There is also a thematic index.
JBI International : the Jewish Braille Institue
http://www.jbilibrary.org/interior.php?sub=2&op=1
Along with information about the organization, its newsletter, and details about volunteering and donations to the group, this site has an online catalog of more than 10,000 books in its lending library for the blind. If you register, you can also request magazines in audio format, large print books, and talking books from browsable catalogs. A Hebrew Braille chart is also available.
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
A leading independent research institute specializing in public diplomacy and foreign policy. The site includes many free e-books on Israeli security, political history, diplomacy, and Israeli public figures.
The Koran in English
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html
Ktiv : the International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLIS/en/ManuScript/
A searchable portal to digitized Hebrew manuscripts worldwide.
The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg
https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/loj/index.htm
The entire text of the first four volumes of this classic, covering Bible legends from creation to Esther.
The Malbim Haggadah
https://ohr.edu/802#SIXTH
Full text of the commentary of the Malbim (Rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yechiel Michael of Bucharest) that was translated into English by Jonathan Taub and Yisroel Shaw and published by Targum Press.
Meiri on Kiddushin
From this site you can download the entire text of the book by Yecheskel Folger on the commentary of the Meiri on the tractate of Kiddushin in either Microsoft ebook reader format or Adobe Acrobat format.
Online Books in Jewish Studies
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?BM
Provides links to entire books or parts of books in Jewish studies that are available online.
The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts
https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts
This searchable collection of digitized Hebrew manuscripts from the British Library contains material arranged by theme, articles about Jewish culture and religion and videos from conferences on the digitization project.
Project Ben Yehuda
Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make accessible the classics of Hebrew to the reader of Hebrew.
Sefer Hasidim
http://etc.princeton.edu/sefer_hasidim/index.php
Contains all the versions of Sefer Hasidim, or Book of the Pious, the detailed account of the religious life of a devout movement that preached a selfless, even ascetic approach to living beyond the norms of Torah law.
Seforim Online
Dedicated to making old seforim of the Rishonim and Acharonim available over the internet. All of the seforim available on this web site are completely free. Most of them are out-of-print and are not readily available in stores. Some are not out-of-print, but due to their age do not have any copyright restrictions.”
Yiddish Book Center’s full text search
https://ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org/
Search the complete contents of nearly 11,000 Yiddish books in the Center’s digital library. This site is currently in beta.
Yizkor Books Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/yizkor-book-collection#/?tab=navigation
From the collection of The Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library. Their Digital Yizkor Book Viewer provides page-turner technology to read or consult crystal-clear digital images of complete Holocaust memorial books, exactly as issued.
Zohar Vol. 1-12, User-Friendly Aramaic
https://www.sup.org/zohar/?d=Aramaic%20Texts&f=index
A single searchable PDF of the Zohar in Aramaic (corresponding to Volumes 1-12 of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition), available on the Stanford University Press website. This reconstructed Aramaic text is based on numerous Zohar manuscripts and early printed editions. It was fashioned by Daniel Matt (for Volumes 1-9 of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition) and by Joel Hecker and Nathan Wolski (for Volumes 10-12).
Education
The Association of Reform Jewish Educators
Describes the programs and services for teachers and synagogue schools.
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/
A collection of resources on Jewish education, including e-books, videos, and webcases.
The Jewish Education Project
https://www.jewishedproject.org/
Empowers educators and communal leaders with the tools they need to help young people and their families thrive individually and collectively as Jews and global citizens. Provides information for synagogue schools, day schools, yeshivot and family education. Of particular note is its database of resources searchable by type and work environment
Jewish Educators Assembly
https://www.jewisheducators.org/
A professional membership association representing a broad range of educators and educational administrators who identify with the Conservative Movement. Includes a searchable home page providing news about the organization, membership benefits, conferences, publications, and resources along with a set of links to other Conservative web sites. You can read its JEA Newsletter online as well.
The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education
A virtual resource center for Jewish education. Offers a bulletin board of employment opportunities, calls for papers, conferences, and educational resources; lesson plans and webquests; a description of the centers programs; and access to the many interactive educators forums with searchable archives. Of particular note is the resource library which provides online access to materials.
Matan
Educates Jewish leaders, educators and communities, empowering them to create learning environments supportive of children with special needs, through training Institutes and consultations across North America Links to resources useful for teachers.
NewCAJE
This home page of the largest Jewish educators organization in North America. Provides access to a number of online newsletters. Of particular note are the curriculum bank that allows members to download curricula from a searchable database and a job bank posted for everyone.
Geneaology
Avotaynu
The leading publisher of material relating to Jewish genealogy and Jewish family history. Includes an index to the last 14 years of the journal Avotaynu, dating back to 1985. Offers the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI), a searchable gateway to information about more than 230,000 Jewish surnames that appear in more than 28 different databases. These databases, combined, include more than 1,000,000 entries.
JewishGen
The primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. Includes the JewishGen Family Finder (a database of over 150,000 surnames and towns), the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, and a variety of databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland.
General Resources
Academia.edu
With their mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia.edu operates as a platform for academics to share research papers, while monitoring deep analytics around the impact of their research and tracking the research of academics they follow.
Aish.com
The goal of Aish.com is to give every Jew the opportunity to discover his or her heritage in an atmosphere of open inquiry and mutual respect.
Berman Jewish Policy Archive
https://www.bjpa.org/bjpa/about.html
Offers a vast collection of policy-related research and analysis on Jewish life to the public, free of charge, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today.
Berman Jewish Databank
https://www.jewishdatabank.org/databank
National and regional/local demographic data and reports on the Jewish population of the US from the Mandell Berman Institute.
ELI Talks
Works with organizations and individuals to cultivate, raise up, and transmit inspired Jewish ideas. Through ELI’s digital media and conversations on and offline, ELI curates a canon of new Jewish thought. Serves to mirror, energize, and enrich the entire spectrum of Jewish observance, while acting as a beacon of discourse and civility in today’s world.
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, allowing searches across many disciplines and sources. From one place you can search theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Hebcal.com
A powerful custom Jewish calendar tool that lets you generate a list of Jewish holidays for any year (past, present or future). Also includes a Hebrew date converter, Shabbat candle lighting times and Torah readings (both full kriyah and triennial system), and a page to look up yahrzeits, birthdays and anniversaries.
Hechshers
A growing collection of more than 1,000 hechsher images together with some explanatory details
arranged for quick, easy reference according to their shape, a bilingual glossary, several indexes, a
bibliography, and relevant links. There is also a section on kashrut authorities worldwide arranged alphabetically by their name that displays the symbol of the hechsher associated with them.
Jewish Veg
Offers background information on Jewish vegetarianism, an FAQ, a set of relevant links, recipes, and an online course in the subject.
Kaddish & Mourning Yahrtzeit Calendar
http://international.aish.com/kaddish/yahrzeit_calendar.php
Enter the Jewish or civil date of departure and this page will return the Yahrzeit dates for the next 20 years. “
My Jewish Learning
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/
Empowers Jewish discovery for anyone interested in learning more. Offers thousands of articles, videos and other resources to help one navigate all aspects of Judaism and Jewish life — from food to history to beliefs and practices.
RAMBI
A selective bibliography of more than 400,000 articles (Hebrew, English and other) in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel, from the National Library of Israel. Updated daily.
Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, etc.
The Aramaic Language of the Zohar
https://aramaiczohar.wordpress.com/
Provides resources for people interested in reading the Zohar, the text at the heart of the Jewish mystical tradition, in its original language, or who are interested more generally in the Aramaic language.
Digital Yiddish Library
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/digital-yiddish-library
From the National Yiddish Book Center comes this online access to the full texts of over 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, free of charge.
Hebrew Abbreviations
https://www.abbreviations.com/acronyms/HEBREW
Each entry provides the full entry for the abbreviation and where it is generally used.
Hebrew Verb Tables
Quickly check a particular verb’s full conjugation and form, explore the site’s dictionary, or play around with binyans, roots and specific conjugation properties to improve or double-check your understanding of grammar.
The Mother Tongue
This site in English and Hebrew provides recordings of people speaking endangered Jewish languages worldwide.
Nakdan
http://www.nakdan.com/Nakdan.aspx
Adds vowels to Hebrew words.
History
American Jewish Committee Archives
http://ajcarchives.org/main.php
Filled with more than a million documents and hundreds of movies and radio shows, the New York based American Jewish Committee Archives houses an extraordinary range of resources on the past century of American Jewish history.
Center for German Jewish Studies
Since its establishment in 1994, the Centre based at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, has developed into a major institution for the study of the history, culture and thought of Jews in Central Europe and for the training of a new generation of teachers and researchers in this field.
Center for Jewish History
Illuminates history, culture, and heritage. The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Includes access to extensive online finding aids and other electronic resources.
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/jewish/jewishsbook.asp
Contains links to online sourcebooks in ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history augmented by additional text and web site indicators. Arranged by major theme.
ISJM : International Survey of Jewish Monuments
Dedicated to the documentation, study, care and conservation of historic Jewish sites throughout the world.
Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project
http://ubuwebser.cajs.upenn.edu/
The first of what is planned to be a continuing number of digital initiatives as part of the Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project, this site from the University of Pennsylvania provides access to the personal papers and publications of Isaac Leeser, widely regarded as the foremost American Jewish leader in antebellum America. You can also view issues of the Occident, the first American Jewish monthly, edited by Isaac Leeser.
Jewish Agency for Israel—a Timeline of Jewish History
http://www.jewishagency.org/jewish-history/content/24290
Provides a series of timelines in Jewish history.
Jewish American History Foundation
http://www.jewish-history.com/Default.htm
Provides materials about Jews in the Civil War, Jews in the Wild West, the history of Palestine in the 19th century and the full searchable text of The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, a periodical published from 1843-1868.
Jewish History Resource Center
http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/
Provides access to more than 6,000 sites in more than 30 categories arranged by periods and topics, resources, academic world and organizations.
Holocaust
Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust
http://enc.wymaninstitute.org/
full text searchable encyclopedia of articles about people and events related to how the United States responded to the Shoah.
The Holocaust Chronicle
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/
This full text book provides an in-depth time table of the Holocaust. You can browse by year and read about significant events of that year. Contains every word and a generous selection of images from the companion book of the same title
The Holocaust Collection
https://go.fold3.com/holocaust
This huge, searchable database of stories and information about looted materials and concentration camps is a collaboration between the National Archives and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Holocaust Encyclopedia
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/
Created by the US Holocaust and Memorial Museum, this extensive work is searchable by keyword and browsable by topic.
USC Shoah Foundation : the Institute for Visual History and Education
More than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Archive has expanded significantly to include survivor and witness testimony from four other genocidal events: the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), the Nanjing Massacre (1937), the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994) and the Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996).
Israel
Archives of the State of Israel
http://www.archives.gov.il/en/
Searchable database in English and Hebrew of materials related to the history of Israel. Many of the materials have been digitized and can be viewed online
Israel Antiquities Authority
http://www.antiquities.org.il/default.aspx
This Hebrew and English site describes the goals, events, publications, and projects of this official Israeli archaeological and preservation organization. Of particular note is the extensive database of archaeological sites and finds, along with an archaeological survey of Israel.
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
A leading independent research institute specializing in public diplomacy and foreign policy. The site includes many free e-books on Israeli security, political history, diplomacy, and Israeli public figures.
Jewish Agency for Israel
The Jewish Agency’s mission is to do all they can to ensure that every Jewish person feels an unbreakable bond to one another and to Israel no matter where they are in the world, so that they can continue to play their critical role in our ongoing Jewish story.
Keren Kayemet LeYisrael – Jewish National Fund
Known for its blue tzedakah boxes, since 1901, KKL-JNF has been developing the land of Israel, strengthening the bond between the Jewish people and its homeland. Its website in English, Hebrew and Russian describes its activities in the areas of the environment, water, forest and tourism.
Kol Zechut
https://www.kolzchut.org.il/en/Main_Page
A non-profit, collaborative project, built and maintained by a large group of Israeli experts building an encyclopedia for all information about Rights and Entitlements in Israel.
Librarians for Fairness
http://www.librariansforfairness.org/
An organization dedicated to bringing positive programs about Israel to libraries across the nation and to promoting democratic values. Works to ensure that information about Israel is represented fairly in libraries through books, periodicals, audiovisuals, online resources, and scheduled events. The site contains archived articles of interest, free materials for libraries and a set of relevant links.
Nefesh B’Nefesh
Helps North American Jews make aliyah by offering financial, professional, and logistical support to them. Their site provides extensive information about moving to Israel including their Aliyapedia and pilot trips.
Volunteering in Israel
http://www.ivolunteer.org.il/eng/
The National Council for Volunteering in Israel was founded in 1972 by the Israeli government. The organization was to act as an external body of the government and was responsible for reducing social gaps by encouraging volunteering.
World Zionist Organization
http://www.wzo.org.il/index.php?language=eng
Committed to promoting Zionism & the Zionist idea and the Zionist enterprise through Israel Education as vital and positive elements of contemporary Jewish life,
Journals, Newspapers, Media
Algemeiner
Originally published in Yiddish, the Algemeiner is a global news destination published online and in print, and serving as an independent media voice covering the Middle East, Israel and matters of Jewish interest around the world.
Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
Provides, in English, Hebrew, French, and Russian, current news from Israel in print, radio, and television formats. The news is from the perspective of the religiously observant community
Camera : Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
A media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East
Commentary Magazine
Monthly magazine of opinion
Conservative Judaism Journal
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/resources-ideas/cj-journal
This journal of articles by American Conservative rabbis has an index in pdf format.
Debkafile
This daily publication in English and Hebrew focuses on political analysis, espionage, terrorism, and security issues in the Middle East.
European Jewish Press
The sole online Jewish news agency in Europe. It aims to provide both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences around the world with balanced, up-to-date and reliable news reports about European Jewry and other issues of concern to the Jewish community.
Forward
Full text of the national American Jewish newspaper. Archives are searchable and browsable and date back to 1998.
Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/
The premier Hebrew language newspaper of Israel. You must be a subscriber to the newspaper to read many of the articles.
Haaretz Archive
https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.767350
Searchable archives of the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz dating back to 1994.
Hamodia : the Daily Newspaper of Torah Jewry
Founded nearly 100 years ago in Eastern Europe with the active support and guidance of the foremost Torah leaders, including Hagaon Harav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski, the Gerrer Rebbe, Harav Avrohom Mordechai Alter, and Hagaon Harav Chaim Brisker, and edited by Rabbi Eliyahu Akiva Rabinowitz, to assist in the critical battle against the strong winds of assimilation that threatened the very foundations of our nation. Provides access to full text articles
Historical Jewish Press
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/default.aspx
A collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. Digital versions of each paper are displayed, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout.
In Geveb : a Journal of Yiddish Studies
https://ingeveb.org/tags/Resources%20in%20Yiddish%20Studies
Provides links to a broad array of material for studies in Yiddish.
Israel Hayom
Founded on the belief that the Israeli public deserves better, more balanced and more accurate journalism. Journalism that speaks, not shouts. Journalism of a different kind.
JSIJ – Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal
http://jewish-faculty.biu.ac.il/en/JSIJ/
A peer-reviewed electronic journal dealing with all fields of Jewish studies, which is distributed free of charge via the Internet.
Jerusalem Online
https://www.jerusalemonline.com/
“With the full cooperation of Israel’s main news source, Channel 2 News Company, JOL has been providing its viewers with ongoing news updates from Israel and the Middle East. “
Jerusalem Post
The major English language newspaper in Israel.
Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project
http://ubuwebser.cajs.upenn.edu/
The first of what is planned to be a continuing number of digital initiatives as part of the Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project, this site from the University of Pennsylvania provides access to the personal papers and publications of Isaac Leeser, widely regarded as the foremost American Jewish leader in antebellum America. You can also view issues of the Occident, the first American Jewish monthly, edited by Isaac Leeser.
Jewish American History Foundation
http://www.jewish-history.com/Default.htm
Provides materials about Jews in the Civil War, Jews in the Wild West, the history of Palestine in the 19th century and the full searchable text of The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, a periodical published from 1843-1868.
Jewish Bible Quarterly
http://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/
This non-denominational journal is “the only Jewish-sponsored magazine in English devoted entirely to the Tanakh.” From this site you can access the 24 year index which is searchable by author, keyword, and book of the Bible. Some full text articles are available.
Jewish Broadcasting Service
A Jewish television channel featuring daily news from Israel, leading Jewish figures, issues and events of Jewish importance, call-in programs, Jewish studies, 92nd Street Y, Live Friday and holiday services for the home-bound, children’s programs, films, music, books and entertainment.
Jewish Currents
A secular, progressive bimonthly that provides some articles in full text. Archives are available back to 2003 and includes an index of full text articles.
Jewish Fiction.net
https://www.jewishfiction.net/index.php/current-issue/-2000
The only English-language journal devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction. You can read the current issue for free, but must register for free to read the archives.
Jewish Post
http://www.jewishpost.com/index.html
An independent newspaper reporting on news of Jewish interest in the United States, Israel, and throughout the world.
Jewish Review of Books
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/
A quarterly publication (in print and on the web) for serious readers with Jewish interests. The site is searchable and provides access to past issues dating back to 2010, when the journal began publication.
Jewish World Review
Compilation of articles from traditional sources on a wide variety of topics.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The definitive, trusted global source of news and analysis on issues of Jewish interest and concern. Reporting reflects the wide spectrum of religious, political and cultural identity that exists among Jews today.
Lilith
An independent feminist Jewish magazine that provides archives of its publication dating back to the 1970s.
Maariv
One of Israel’s daily newspapers. This Hebrew language site provides access to its articles.
Melilah : Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies
http://www.melilahjournal.org/
An interdisciplinary Open Access journal available in both electronic and book form concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras. Full text articles going back to 2004 are available
Moment Magazine
Founded by Elie Wiesel and Leonard Fein in 1975, this independent bimonthly journal covers the Jewish world with a focus on culture, religion, and politics. The searchable online version provides articles in these areas along with a message board and details about subscribing to the print version. Of particular note is the resources section which offers searchable directories for Jewish charities, retreats, camps, schools of higher learning, Israeli programs, and Jewish artists.
Mosaic
Takes a lively, serious, and committed approach to Jewish issues and ideas.
Palestine Post
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/Palestine-Post.aspx
A searchable database of the English language newspaper of pre-state Israel, The Palestine Post, the predecessor of the current Jerusalem Post. You can search by date, keyword, article, picture, or ad and see scanned images of the resulting pages.
Reform Judaism Magazine
https://reformjudaism.org/tags/rj-magazine
Reform Judaism magazine was the official voice of the Union for Reform Judaism. It cease pubication in 2014. Its magazine articles since 1995 are now available and also indexed by subject.
Segula
This online journal in Hebrew and English focuses on Jewish history. Selected articles are available in full text.
Streema
https://streema.com/radios/genre/Jewish
Access to radio stations worldwide.
Tablet
A daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture.
Theological Librarianship
https://serials.atla.com/theolib
An open access journal publishing peer reviewed articles, as well as essays and reviews, on subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological studies that potentially impact libraries.
Times of Israel
A Jerusalem-based online newspaper founded in 2012 to document developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world. In addition to its news from Israel, it is now the platform for a number of Jewish newspapers in the Diaspora, including the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Jewish Standard from New Jersey, the Jewish Week from New York, the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, and the Jewish News from the UK.
The Tower
Features real-time updates and analysis of geopolitical, security, economic, social and other events and trends affecting the Middle East and America’s interests in the region.
Tikkun
https://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/
Selected full text articles from this bimonthly Jewish critique of politics, culture and society.
Tradition
http://www.traditiononline.org/
Published by the Rabbinical Council of America, its articles reflect Orthodox approaches to Jewish thought. The online version of the periodical provides browsable tables of contents of current and past issues. Full text articles of the current issue and those in the archives are available to subscribers only.
Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals, and E-Journals
https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/Jewish-Press.htm
Women in Judaism : a Multidisciplinary e-Journal
https://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism
An academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism.
YNET : Yediot Acharanot
https://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html
One of the major Hebrew language newspapers in Israel presenting a centrist point of view.
The Yiddish Daily Forward
The Yiddish version of the Forward.
Kashrut
Kashrut.com
Provides up to date information on kosher products and the kosher food industry. The site has sections on Passover, consumer issues, commercial issues, travel, feature articles, recipes, and kashrut alerts.
Kosher Delight
http://kosherdelight.com/Restaurants.shtml
A worldwide kosher database providing browsable access to restaurants arranged by state and by country. The list has contact and basic information about each restaurant.
Marriage and Divorce
Judaic Connection.com
https://www.judaicconnection.com
This commercial site describes the history of the ketubah, discusses some of the variant texts, and provides a gallery of samples from which one can order a customized ketubah.
You Are Not Alone
This site from the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance provides sample copies of prenuptial agreements used in a variety of countries.
The Movements
Agudath Israel
The umbrella organization of traditional Orthodox communities.
The Association of Reform Jewish Educators
Describes the programs and services for teachers and synagogue schools.
Ameinu
A national, multi-generational community of progressive Jews in North America. Recognizing the unbreakable bond between the Jewish people and Israel, as well as the commitment to make our own society better, Ameinu mobilizes those Jews who seek opportunities to foster social and economic justice both in Israel and in North America.
Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA)
Provides educational materials about Israel and Zionism for Reform congregations, assists in bringing Reform Jews to Israel, and provides pre- and post-trip programming for congregations and individuals in order to enhance their Israel experience.
Camp Ramah
The camping arm of Conservative Judaism, the mission of the Ramah Camping Movement is to create and sustain excellent summer camps and Israel programs that inspire commitment to Jewish life, and develop the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Central Conference of American Rabbis
The Reform rabbinic leadership organization.
Mercaz
The Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement, Mercaz supports religious pluralism in Israel and strengthens the connection between Israel and the Diaspora.
NCSY : National Council of Synagogue Youth
Founded by the Orthodox Union in 1954, NCSY provides Jewish teens with an opportunity to build a strong connection to their Jewish roots through inspiration and leadership skills.
NFTY : The Reform Jewish Youth Movement
Describes NFTY’s activities and summer programs and provides access to its member groups. Includes a section for alumni.
Orthodox Union
Umbrella organization of American orthodox synagogues.
Rabbinical Assembly
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/
Website for the international association of conservative rabbis.
Rabbinical Council of America
Website for the professional organization of orthodox rabbis.
Reconstructing Judaism
https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/
The central organization of the Reconstructionist movement. Cultivates and supports Jewish living, learning and leadership for a changing world. Includes a section of the Metoo movement.
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
Website for the professional organization of reconstructionist rabbis.
ReformJudaism.org
Seeks to provide content that describes and demonstrates the traditions and innovations of Reform Jewish life.
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Website for the umbrella organization for conservative synagogues.
Union for Reform Judaism
Website of the organization for Reform Judaism in North America.
USY : USCJ’s Youth Movement
Teaching young Jews the values and skills they need to become exceptional leaders in their religious and secular communities.
Women’s League of Conservative Judaism
The network for all women who support our mission of enhancing Jewish knowledge, engaging in Jewish life, expanding communal involvement, and supporting klal Yisrael.
Museums
Museum of Jewish Heritage
This New York City museum is devoted to life before, during and after the Holocaust. Its website describes its programs and events and offers some online exhibits.
National Museum of American Jewish History
Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this museum’s home page provides information about the museum devoted to American Jewish history.
National Museum of American Jewish Military History
Chartered by an act of Congress in 1958, the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, under the auspices of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., documents and preserves the contributions of Jewish Americans to the peace and freedom of the United States, educates the public concerning the courage, heroism and sacrifices made by Jewish Americans who served in the armed forces, and works to combat anti-Semitism.
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation, commemoration and research.
Organizations
AIPAC
“The mission of AIPAC is to strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the United States and Israel.” In addition to information about the organization and its work, there is a list of resources and contact information for Congress.
AJS : Association for Jewish Studies
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/
AJS’s mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, and to foster greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public. Includes digital access to volumes of AJS Perspectives.
American Jewish Congress
Since its inception, the American Jewish Congress has been engaged in a continuous fight for equal rights for all Americans regardless of race, religion or national ancestry.
American Zionist Movement
Comprised of 29 national Jewish Zionist organizations working across a broad ideological, political and religious spectrum linking the American Jewish community together in support of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
American Society for Jewish Music
http://www.jewishmusic-asjm.org/
“The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) enables the performance, scholarship and dissemination of Jewish music and sustains these initiatives through a variety of activities, including concerts, publications seminars, conferences and other projects.“ The website provides access to the table of contents of their journal, Musica Judaica, and the St. Petersburg Score Collection.
Anti-Defamation League
Organization whose mission is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Includes information about the organization, background briefings and focus articles on a variety of hate groups and their leaders, the work of the legislative center and material about terrorism. Of particular note is its hate symbols database.
Association of Jewish Libraries
https://jewishlibraries.org/index.php
From the homepage of this international organization you can find information about membership, conventions, awards and scholarships, publications, and news. Of particular note are the bibliographies available to members, the book club reading lists, and the criteria for library accreditation. You can also sign up for the group’s listserv, Hasafran.
Chabad.org
An extensive site offering access to a wide range of topics, such as Jewish practice, learning and values, community and family, and inspiration and entertainment.
Hadar
A leader in the field of Jewish education and community building, Hadar offers a creative response to contemporary questions and challenges by engaging diverse populations in serious Jewish learning with curiosity, creativity and conviction.
Hillel
Describes Hillel International’s work, educational programs, travel and summer opportunities, conferences, and employment openings. Of particular note is the guide to Jewish life on campus which is searchable by name of school, country, and region.
Itim
Founded in 2002 by Rabbi Dr. Seth Farber, Itim contributes to positive and significant encounters with Jewish life, helping people navigate the depths of the religious authorities’ bureaucracy in Israel.
Jewish Educators Assembly
https://www.jewisheducators.org/
The professional membership association representing a broad range of educators and educational administrators who identify with the Conservative Movement. A searchable home page provides news about the organization, its membership benefits, conference, publications, and resources along with a set of links to other Conservative web sites. You can read its JEA Newsletter online as well.
J Street
The political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people. Its site provides information on the group’s programs and policies on various timely issues.
JewishJobs.com
Dedicated to advertising nonprofit Jewish communal job postings.
Jewish National Fund
Planting more than a quarter billion trees in what was once a barren desert, JNF’s single driving focus has been has been to ensure a strong, secure, and prosperous Israel for the Jewish people everywhere.
Jewish War Veterans
The home page of this American veterans group concentrates on information about its programs and activities.
Keren Kayemet LeYisrael – Jewish National Fund
Known for its blue tzedakah boxes, since 1901, KKL-JNF has been developing the land of Israel, strengthening the bond between the Jewish people and its homeland. Its website in English, Hebrew and Russian describes its activities in the areas of the environment, water, forest and tourism.
Keshet
A national organization that works for full LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Jewish life.
Library of Congress Hebraic Section
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/hs/hshome.html
The searchable homepage of the Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress lists its events, offers contacts for reference help, and features an online guide to its collection in this area.
National Association of Jewish Chaplains
The site for Jewish chaplaincy expertise, promoting the highest standards of training, certification and delivery of care.
National Havurah Committee
Founded in 1980 to facilitate the activities of fellowships known as havurot, NHC spreads havurah values and enthusiasm to the larger Jewish community, thereby serving as a model for revitalizing Jewish living and learning in North America.
Nefesh B’Nefesh
Helps North American Jews make aliyah by offering financial, professional, and logistical support to them. Their site provides extensive information about moving to Israel including their Aliyapedia and pilot trips.
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry
A non-profit organization whose mission is to help Ethiopian Jews survive in Ethiopia; to assist them in reaching Israel; to aid in the absorption of Ethiopian Jews into Israeli society; to preserve their unique and ancient culture.
Open Siddur
A community shared online workspace for those crafting and printing their own prayer books.
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
An open, co-ed and non-denominational Jewish learning community, based in Jerusalem and with programs worldwide.
Reclaiming Judaism
http://www.reclaimingjudaism.org/
Develops and provides programs, training, resources, research and consultation in the emerging field of Jewish spiritual education, i.e., guiding people to be able to thrive through the beauty and power of a Jewish lens on living.
Ritualwell.org
Provides resources for creating innovative, contemporary Jewish rituals.
Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
Fosters research, networking of people and ideas, and the exchange of information, among scholars and descendants of Conversos regarding the historical and contemporary developments involving crypto-Jews of Iberian origins and other hidden Jewish communities around the world.
TransTorah
http://transtorah.org/index.html
Helps people of all genders to fully access and transform Jewish tradition, and helps Jewish communities to be welcoming sanctuaries for people of all genders.
Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Offers a searchable bibliography of over 30,000 items housed in this library at the Hebrew University. Publications and research undertaken by the institute are also available along with a selected bibliography on Holocaust denial.
Workmen’s Circle
Fosters Jewish identity and participation in Jewish life among its members through Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice.
World Jewish Congress
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en
An international organization that represents Jewish communities and organizations in 100 countries around the world. It advocates on their behalf towards governments, parliaments, international organizations and other faiths.
Yiddish Book Center
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
Dedicated to rescuing unwanted and discarded Yiddish books and sharing the treasures they contain, with research libraries worldwide.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
The preeminent center for the study of East European Jewry and Yiddish language, literature, and folklore.” Its home page provides access to its digital exhibits and collections, libraries and research, and courses and publications.
Publishers
ArtScroll
Searchable and browsable site of this major Judaica publisher specializing in traditional Jewish texts.
Carta Jerusalem
Access to books, maps and atlases published by an international publishing house specializing in professional Bible maps, Bible books and related subjects such as biblical geography and biblical history.
EBook Shuk
Searchable and browsable publications from Varda Books that can be ordered online. The publisher focuses on Jewish history, rabbinics, Israel, Hebrew, and reference titles. The site also offers ebooks that may be purchased and downloaded.
Jewish Lights Publishing
Browsable catalog of this Vermont based publisher that emphasizes titles in Jewish spirituality.
Jewish Publication Society
The preeminent publisher of books at the heart of Jewish culture in the English reading world.
Koren Publishers
Koren brings people to the heart of the Hebrew sources as it makes those sources meaningful to an ever-expanding audience. It respects the rich body of Jewish thought as it offers wisdom from today’s leading Jewish thinkers.
Science
Doctors Against Racism and Antim-Semitism (DARA)
A grass roots organization of health care professionals whose activities are directed at opposing racism and anti-Semitism in the medical realm specifically and academic environments generally. The site includes calls to action, events, and articles of interest.
Encyclopedia of Medial Halacha
http://www.daat.ac.il/he-il/refua/encyclopedia
Full text of the Hebrew language book by Professor Avraham Steinberg, browsable by subject.
Jewish Genetic Disease Consortium
https://www.jewishgeneticdiseases.org/jewish-genetic-diseases/
A browsable and searchable database of Jewish genetic diseases arranged by those that affect Ashkenazim and those that affect Sephardim.
Jewish Women’s Health
http://www.jewishwomenshealth.org/
“This website designed for health professionals, is a community service of Nishmat: The Jeanie Schottensteing Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women. The purpose of the site is to elucidate issues in Women’s Health and Jewish law (halachah) to enable medical practitioners to provide optimal care to their patients who observe these rules.”
Social Service Organizations
Abraham Fund
Strives to fulfill the promise of full and equal citizenship and complete equality of social and political rights for Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens, as embodied in Israel’s Declaration of Independence
American Jewish Committee
AJC is the leading global Jewish advocacy organization, with unparalleled access to government officials, diplomats, and other world leaders. Through these relationships and our international presence, AJC is able to impact opinion and policy on the issues that matter most: combating rising anti-Semitism and extremism, defending Israel’s place in the world, and safeguarding the rights and freedoms of all people.
American Jewish World Service
A community of Jewish global citizens fighting for a better world.
American Joint Distribution Committee
JDC describes their world-wide rescue and relief programs, as well as their global and non-sectarian activities. Includes an archival collection of World War II documents and photographs detailing the AJC’s work in resucing and providing relief during after the Holocaust
The AVI CHAI Foundation
a private foundation endowed by Zalman C. Bernstein that is committed to the perpetuation of the Jewish people, Judaism, and the centrality of the State of Israel to the Jewish people.
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Devoted to environmental education, scholarship, advocacy, and action in the American Jewish community. In addition to information about the organization, there are resources about various timely topics.
HIAS – Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Standing for a world in which refugees find welcome, safety, and freedom, HIAS rescues people whose lives are in danger for being who they are, helping them build new lives and advocating for their protection.
Jewish Board of Children and Family Services
Strengthens families and communities throughout New York City by helping individuals of all backgrounds realize their potential and live as independently as possible.
Jewish Federations of North America
https://www.jewishfederations.org/
In addition to information about the events and activities of this umbrella organization of Jewish charitable groups, there is a section on the Jewish holidays.
Jewish Prisoner Services International
JPSI’s mission is to help families who have Jewish family members in prison, help Jewish prisoners to observe and grow while in prison, and help them as they return to society, and work to raise awareness of the issues of Jewish prisoners.
Mazon, a Jewish Response to Hunger
Describes the work of Mazon and their dedication to eradicating hunger in America and Israel.
National Council of Jewish Women
A grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms.
New Israel Fund
The New Israel Fund (NIF) helps Israel live up to its founders’ vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. Our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to fight the inequality, injustice and extremism that diminish Israel.
ORT
Web page for the world’s largest Jewish education and vocational training non-governmental organization.
The Shalom Center
The Shalom Center equips activists and spiritual leaders with awareness and skills needed to lead in shaping a transformed and transformative Judaism that can help create a world of peace, justice, healing for the earth, and respect for the interconnectedness of all life.
Tanakh and Rabbinics
Academic-bible.com
https://www.academic-bible.com/en/home/
The scholarly portal of the German Bible Society.
Alhatorah.org
A one-stop Tanakh study resource, providing the texts, tools, techniques, and technology to help scholars, educators, and laypersons make Torah come alive in the home, classroom, and synagogue. Enter the site to explore 2,500 years of Biblical interpretation and enjoy a rich, multi-dimensional, learning experience. Resources include Parshanut in Art.
AWOL—The Ancient World Online
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/01/online-soncino-babylonian-talmud.html
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world. Includes the Soncino translation of the Babylonian Talmud.
Babylonian Talmud translated by Michael L. Rodkinson
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t10/index.htm
Full text of the two volume work, written in 1903 by Michael Rodkinson, describing the history of the Talmud from 200 BCE to the early part of the twentieth century.
Berachot site
Brachos.org
A browsable list of the proper blessings to say on food and provides the blessing in Hebrew. The author uses two main sources, the book “VZot Haberacha” and “Halachos of Brochos” by Rabbi Bodner.
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible.
Din, Ask the Rabbi
This searchable collection of responsa literature comes from the Kollel Choshen Mishpat. You can ask a question or search the database of topics.
Elmad
The online learning library of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, with over a thousand podcasts, recorded lectures and words of Torah.
The Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) Hebrew and English Lexicon
Rabbi Eric Levy provides a link to an online version of BDB
http://www.ericlevy.com/revel/bdb/bdb/main.htm
Free Primary Jewish Sources and Resources on the Internet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZfHfZsLh2qYBM6Q6Qp18csQvYQMBUOvjfwPCRn9iyJk/pub
A massive collection of links to traditional primary Jewish sources online arranged by topic.
The Gemara.com
Part of Project TABS, this site provides articles that integrate the study of the Torah and other Jewish texts with the disciplines and findings of academic scholarship.
Haftorahman
https://www.reubenebrahimoff.com/haftorahs/
Contains short printable resource sheets for each Haftorah including its the storyline , the connection to the parasha, the biography of the prophet and a lesson of the week. The sheets also contain photos of archeological sites, maps and timelines. This is also a useful site for bar and bat mitzvah students.
Ha-Madrikh : the Rabbi’s Guide
https://opensiddur.org/compilations/madrikhim/hamadrikh-rabbis-guide-r-hyman-e-goldin-1939-rev-1956/
A digital version of the Orthodox movement’s rabbi’s manual
Hasofer.com
http://www.hasoferet.com/halakha-for-scribes/keset-ha-sofer/
Created by Jen Taylor Friedman, this site provides access to the laws about being a Torah scribe, particularly with regard to the question of whether women can engage in this activity.
Index to Commentaries on Aggadot of the Talmud
http://www.halachabrura.org/a-index.htm
Indexes the commentaries of the aggadic material of the Talmud found in 130 books of the Rishonim and Acharonim.
Index to Commentaries on Rambam’s Mishneh Torah
http://www.halachabrura.org/e-mavorambam.htm
For every halacha in the Mishneh Torah, this Hebrew language index offers references to sources that deal with that halacha. There are more than 320,000 references, taken from over 2300 books. The index includes also sources that deal with the topics raised by the Rambam and as such functions as a general index to halachic concerns.
Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash
Online courses on a variety of Torah topics. Includes an archive of over 10,000 classes
ITorah.com
Administered by members of the New York Sephardic Syrian community solely for the purpose of disseminating Torah via the internet.
Jewish law
Examines halacha, Jewish issues, and secular law through articles, case summaries, commentary, law review articles, and legal briefs. There are also sections on halachic forms, law and policy, statutes, and press releases as well as a law students question and answer line, a legal dictionary, and news announcements. You can also listen to lectures through the Jewish Law Audio link. The entire site is searchable.
Jonathan Sacks
Searchable database of teachings on the weekly Torah reading by the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain.
JTS Torah Online
http://www.jtsa.edu/jts-torah-online
Brings the depth and breadth of Jewish Theological Seminary learning, from weekly parashah commentaries to marquee lecture recordings.
Kavod V’Nichum, Jewish Funeral, Burial, and Mourning
https://www.jewish-funerals.org/
Created by the Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington, this searchable site provides information about the origins of and customs surrounding Jewish burial practices. There are sections on preparing the body, burial, mourning customs, medical ethics, the funeral industry, and links to relevant sites.
Mechon Mamre
Mechon Mamre is a small group of observant Jewish Torah scholars in Israel who live by the plain and simple meaning of the RaMBaM’s Mishneh Torah and actively encourage others to do so. Most of us belong to the mainstream “Baladi” Yemenite Jewish community, continuing the tradition of living by the Mishneh Torah since the very days when the RaMBaM lived, and are students of the Rav Yosef ben-Dawid QaafiH zS”l (the leading rabbinical expert in recent generations on the teachings of the RaMBaM in general and on his Mishneh Torah in particular).
Mikraot Gedolot ha-Keter
A browsable and searchable version of the traditional commentators on the Tanach, side by side with the text itself.
Mishna Portal
Recordings of the daily Mishna yomi study programs at Ohr Somayach Savoy in Johannesburg, South Africa. You can download the discussions and the Mishnah.
Nechama Leibowitz
http://www.jewishagency.org/nechama-leibowitz/content/24000
Weekly insights on the Parasha with commentaries by Nehama Leibovitz in English. Her gilyonot are also available here in Hebrew.
Neohasid.org
Dedicated to bringing the wellsprings of Chasidut as far as the internet can carry them – an open door to Chasidic songs and traditions.
Rabbinics
Online resources for the study of rabbinic literature.
Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/jewish-law/committee-jewish-law-and-standards
Sets halakhic policy for Rabbinical Assembly rabbis and for the Conservative movement as a whole. The Committee discusses all questions of Jewish law that are posed by members of the Rabbinical Assembly or arms of the Conservative movement.
Sefaria
A living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation. The scope is Torah in the broadest sense, from Tanakh to Talmud to Zohar to modern texts and all the volumes of commentary in between. Sefaria is created, edited, and annotated by an open community.
Shiva.com
Devoted to providing “comprehensive information about understanding the Shiva process, how to cope with loss, what to do during a shiva, and how to comfort family and friends.” While the site has some commercial aspects, it also provides information about the mourning process.
Sifria Virtualit
אוצר לעזי רש“י – תלמוד
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=22
Includes a listing of all of the medieval French phrases used by Rashi in his commentary on the Talmud. Entries are divided by tractate and page, and there are accompanying appendices with words listed in alphabetical order.
Tools for the Study of the Hebrew Bible
https://sites.google.com/site/toolsforstudyingthehebrewbible/home
Created by Marc Brettler of Duke University, this site provides access to “specialized tools for the study of the Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible.” The site includes links to scholarly editions of the Hebrew Bible, lexicons and glossaries, grammars, concordances and other research tools.
The Torah
Integrates the study of Torah and other Jewish texts with the disciplines and findings of academic scholarship.
TorahMusings
https://www.torahmusings.com/page/12/?s=freebies
A collection of free sources available online for traditional Jewish studies.
Tosfos in English
http://www.tosfosinenglish.com/
A searchable database of explanations of the Tosfot on a number of tractates of the Talmud.
Tsuvos.com
http://tshuvos.com/default.asp
Indexes contemporary halakchic responsa from more than 100 seforim and periodicals. You can browse by category and do keyword searching with adjacency capabilities as well.
Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies
https://www.instonebrewer.com/tyndalearchive/TABS/
Cambridge-based research institute housing one of the world’s most advanced libraries for biblical scholarship, whose aim is to make the very best of biblical scholarship available as widely as possible.
WebShas
Subject guide to the Talmud. You can access material by major categories, the alphabetical, browsable index or through the search engine.
Yad Maharsho
Provides access to the commentary of the Maharsho on several sections of the Talmud.
Zoo Torah
Founded by Rabbi Nathan Slifkin, sometimes called the Zoo Rabbi, Zoo Torah focuses on the identification and symbolism of animals in the Bible.
Theater and Film
Ergo Media Jewish Video Catalog
Founded in 1986 Ergo Media has focused its attention on making available quality film, video and DVD’s about the Jewish experience
Go2Films
Specializes in distribution, marketing and co-production of top Israeli documentaries, fiction films and TV series as well as international films with Jewish related content.
Israel Film Center
http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/
The Israel Film Center at JCC Manhattan is a leading resource for Israeli film, with the goal of expanding Israel’s emerging film industry and promoting Israeli culture in America.
The center serves as an exhibitor, promoter, educator, funder, distributor, producer, network organizer, advisor, and festival producer, as well as includes a viewing library and online database of Israeli cinema
Israel Video Network
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKlpgUx48sCFIPcxM8AAZUA
When the State of Israel is being slandered, Israel Video Network steps up to the plate to promote videos to help people understand the truth about what is really going on.
Menemsha Films
https://www.menemshafilms.com/
Dedicated to distributing the highest-quality art house films, hand-picked from around the globe. Menemsha Films set a record, discovering and representing five Academy Award nominees for five years in a row.
National Center for Jewish Film
Housed at Brandeis University, “NCJF exclusively owns the largest collection of Jewish content film in the world, outside of Israel.”
Ruth Films
As a boutique sales company, Ruth Films represents artistically excellent and compelling works that address human rights, Jewish content and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Stephen Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
The largest collection of Jewish documentary films in the world. The archive stores over 18,000 titles from different periods of history, from the time of the Ottoman Empire to this day.
Women
Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community (AWP)
Their mission is to advance Jewish women into leadership, stimulate new models of shared leadership, and promote policies that lead to healthy, effective workplaces.
B’Kavod
https://sites.google.com/kamfam.org/bekavod/bkavod
A partnership of the Good People Fund and the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York to help Jewish communal institutions and all who work, learn or worship at them develop cultures of safety, respect and fairness.
FaithTrust Institute
https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/
A national, multifaith, multicultural training and education organization with global reach working to end sexual and domestic violence.
Hadar.org.—Torah Online – Gender and Sexuality
https://www.hadar.org/torah-category/gender-and-sexuality
One of the founding principles of Mechon Hadar is gender egalitarianism in a Torah-driven halakhic framework. But this doesn’t mean that gender and sexuality has no impact on our lives. Explore this here.
Hadassah
Website for an organization whose focus is on connecting and empowering Jewish women to effect change.
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Provides access to the group’s publications about a variety of topics of interest to observant Jewish women and a research library with an extensive collection of material on these issues.
Jewish Women’s Archive
Documents Jewish women’s stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change. Includes the Jewish women’s Archive Encyclopedia which features over 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations on a wide range of Jewish women through the centuries. Also includes a section devoted to archiving “metoo” stories.
Lilith
An independent feminist Jewish magazine that provides archives of its publication dating back to the 1970s.
Reform Pay Equity Initiative
The leadership of the Reform Movement recognizes that full time working women in the United States are paid just 80% of what men in comparable positions are paid, and have creative the Reform Pay Equity Initiative to create change on this critical social issue.
Sacred Spaces
https://www.jewishsacredspaces.org/
Builds healthy Jewish communities by partnering with Jewish institutions to prevent and respond to sexual abuse and other abuses of power.
Safety, Respect, Equity
https://safetyrespectequity.org/
A Jewish coalition to address sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
WIZO: Women’s International Zionist Organization
Describes WIZO’s programs in support of women and children, new immigrants, and senior citizens in Israel.
Youth
Habonim Dror North America
An autonomous Progressive Labor Zionist youth movement whose members strive for the concrete expression of its values in their own lives and in society.
Jewish Camp
Devoted to promoting summer camps for Jewish youngsters.
NCSY : National Council of Synagogue Youth
Founded by the Orthodox Union in 1954, NCSY provides Jewish teens with an opportunity to build a strong connection to their Jewish roots through inspiration and leadership skills.
National Jewish Committee on Girl Scouting, Inc.
A non-profit organization which works in cooperation with Girl Scouts of the USA to promote the Jewish Girl Scout award programs and religious services in Girl Scout Councils, assist Girl Scout Councils in extending Girl Scouting in the Jewish Community, and encourage cultural exchanges with the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation.
National Jewish Committee on Scouting
https://www.jewishscouting.org/
Prepares young Jews to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of Judaism as expressed in the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
NFTY : The Reform Jewish Youth Movement
Describes its activities and summer programs and provides access to its member groups. Includes a section for alumni.
USY : USCJ’s Youth Movement
Teaching young Jews the values and skills they need to become exceptional leaders in their religious and secular communities.
Young Judea
America’s oldest Zionist youth movement, turning spirited Jewish youth of diverse backgrounds and orientations into engaged leaders and inspired activists with a life-long commitment to Israel, Jewish life and tikkun olam.
