General Resources

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.

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.

National and regional/local demographic data and reports on the Jewish population of the US from the Mandell Berman Institute.

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.

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.

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.

Enter the Jewish or civil date of departure and this page will return the Yahrzeit dates for the next 20 years.

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.

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.