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One of our kind Jewish Australia readers send us this page.

It is a list of websites by subject category,
which include practical educational resources and information.

Before you begin, do a tour of the Pedagogic Center website


Calendar
Please see Festivals

Curriculum & Resources

1. CAJE Curriculum Bank Online

2. Jewish Film Archive Online
    Great subject indexes and distribution information as well as concise
     reviews.

3. Ideanet
    Join the list as well to exchange ideas on work with young people.
 

Family, Life Cycle:

4. Jewish Family
  On the shamash webserver.
 
 

Festivals

See also:
Jewish Agency websites - Education Department, Hagshama Department; Judaism sites - Judaism 101, Maven Index etc.

5. Tiferes Yisrael Congregation’s Weblinks
    All-in-one comprehensive index of the top Festival websites, dateline 1997.

6. Torah Org’s YomTov Site
    Online classes from Global Learning (very thorough), with calendar

7. Virtual Jerusalem
    A varied festival website with interactive features, games, programming.
    See also VJHolidays

Hebrew - Major Sites

8. Israel on Line
      Hebrew site where it’s all happening; indexes, magazines, interactive...

9. Snunit
      Israel’s main educational server in Hebrew with Navigator, full text
      searches in Jewish sources, educational programming, teachers’ and
      students’ chat rooms, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

10. Tapuz - http://www.tapuz.co.il/
       New index in Hebrew

11. Walla
       Israel’s veteran index in Hebrew

History

12. Internet Jewish History Sourcebook -
      The Jewish History section is well prepared from comprehensive sources.

13. Jewish America’s Timeline  -
      A timeline according to the Talmud, continued through major periods of
      Jewish History, with online chart.

14. Virtual Time Travel
       Virtual Jerusalem’s Time Machine for Jewish history.
 

Indexes & Link Sites:

15. Jewishnet
       Major classifications; hosts many Jewish lists; hot also on Jewish
       Academic sites and CMC.

16.  Jewish Student Online Research Center - Bibliography of Websites
      A completely different looking set of categories with all the extensive
      indexes up front.

17.  Maven - the Ultimate Index
       Whatever it is, wherever it is, this is one of the best routes to find it!

Israel - Electronic Journals (English)

18. Jerusalem Post

19. Jerusalem Report

20. Ha’aretz Daily

Israel - Government

21. Israel Foreign Ministry
      Facts about Israel; Government & Laws; Peace Process; News service;
      Reference Documents. Also sections in French, Spanish & Russian.

22. Knesset Website
      English or Hebrew. Virtual tour; 14th Knesset; Committees; MKs past &
      present.

23. IDF website
      History; structure (including Home Command); principles; insignia.
      Hebrew/English.

Israel  - Hands-on

24. Neot Kedumim - Biblical Landscapes
      Take a virtual tour of the Reserve in the context of the Biblical sources.
       Hebrew, English, Russian

25. The Jerusalem Website
       The Capital, services, tourism, art & culture, links to museums.
 

Jewish Agency for Israel /WZO

26. Jewish Agency Website
      Keep updated with the Jewish Agency! Magazine, mission, projects,
      directories...

27. Hagshama Dept. Website
      See Israel, try some Hebrew! Aliyah database and FAQ

Judaism

28. Jewish Interactive Studies
      Classic areas of Jewish studies in online courses, with contemporary
      references.

29. Judaism 101
      Well thought out categories on almost anything with good internal links
      and background files: an FAQ that is narrative in style hosted on AOL.

30. Soc.Culture.Jewish
      An FAQ with some pretty good attention to conceptual aspects of
     Judaism, on the Shamash web server.

31. Yahoo FAQ on Judaism -
 

Libraries:

32. Brandeis University Library
      Search your bibliographies online using keyword and standard searches!

33. Melton Center Library - Aleph Database
       Hebrew University of Jerusalem
      Top Jewish Education Library with catalogues of articles, publications and
      helpdesk.

Museums:

34. Bet Hatefutsoth Diaspora Museum
      Visit the exhibits; try the online name/Jewish community searches for a
      fee; new genealogy software offer.

35. Israel Museum, Jerusalem
      Art, history, archeology, Ruth Youth Wing program & classes; online
      exhibitions, interactive events.
 

Shoah:

36. Bet Lohamei Haghettaot - Ghetto Fighters' House
      See the online archive search facility after looking around.

37. Nizkor
      The major Shoah Sources / Denial archive on the web.

38. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
      Look at the Educator sections as well as the Resources!

39. Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ Memorial

      The exhibition halls, programmes, educational resources & seminars.

Software

40.  JewishSoft
    One stop mail-order company marketing Judaic software from 17
    different manufacturers.

41.  Davka Corporation
  Bible, Talmud, Midrash, processors, programs to learn Hebrew language,
   kid's educational games, utilities, Hebrew fonts, clip art and much more...

Sources - Studies & Comentaries

42.  Cyber Torah
       Tradition, online study and resources, audio library, publications, e-lists

43.  Jewish Gates
       Self-explanatory webpages with Biblical texts, Talmud,
       Jewish Calendar and Practices, History...

44.  Webshas
       An expanding, online, thematic index of references to the Babylonian
       Talmud; see also HaMakor Responsa index.
 

Webservers - Major Jewish

45. Jewish Communication Network
     Jewish news & major website with its own Navigator and Hot Max links.
     Spanish & Portuguese sections.

46. ORT
       Ort projects worldwide, resources, communities, youth organizations

47. Shamash
      Veteran host of  major Jewish organizations with large subordinate
      websites, such as Jewish religious movements, educational institutions,
      Jewish lists, links.

48. Virtual Jerusalem
     Another major Jewish website. Interactive ideas for Festivals; hosts
      zillions of other top websites like the World Jewish Congress, Maven,
      various electronic newspapers, educational institutions and email lists .

World Jewry

49. European Council of Jewish Communities
      Activities, links, descriptions of communities

50. World Jewish Congress
      Data on and description of Jewish communities worldwide; research.


There are so many more!    Contact us on <pedagog@jajz-ed.org.il>