Reading Hebrew on the WWW

• Hebrew Language Program at Yale
• Yale University Library Hebraica Team website - The Hebraica Team catalogs books written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, and any other language using the Hebrew alphabet. We catalog everything from medieval biblical commentaries to contemporary Israeli poetry. Contains useful documentation, tools, & links.
• Hebrew Windows How-To- This guide will help to set up a windows computer to be able to read and write in hebrew.
• How to read Hebrew documents on the Web (English)
• How to read Hebrew documents on the Web (Hebrew)

WWW Gateways

Israel

• SABRAnet- Israel WWW Gateway
• I Guide- Israeli Internet listings
• Walla (internet directory).

  Judaism

• Jewish Virtual Library (online encyclopedia)
• Yehud- Jewish WWW Gateway
• JewishNet- Global Jewish Information Network
• Maven- A Portal to the Jewish World

Archaeology

• Biblical Archaeology
• Near Eastern Archaeology
• Israel Antiquities Authority - English
• Israel Antiquities Authority - Hebrew
• Tel Hazor Excavation Project - contains excavation reports, picture gallery, bibliography, and volunteer information.
• Inscriptifact- high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds.

Associations & Organizations

• American Jewish Congress Online
• Anti-Defamation League
• Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
• The Jewish Community Centers of North America
• B’nai B’rith Interactive
• World Jewish Congress
• American Jewish Committee
• The Jewish Agency for Israel
• World Zionist Organization
• Foundations for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture
• National Council of Jewish Women
• Mazon- a Jewish Response to Hunger
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education

Basic Texts

• Online [Hebrew] Jewish Texts including the Tanach, Talmud, and Mishnah
• Online [English] text of Shulhan Aruch
• Navigating the Bible [English]- containing translations of the Torah and other basic texts
• The Passover Hagadah
• Mechon Mamre- with an online version of Tanach (with vowels) and Mishneh Torah
• King James Edition - features full-text searchability, content-based tables of contents and a quick verse finder.
• Revised Standard Version - search by keyword/phrase or browse by content.
• Full Hebrew text of the Tanach, Talmud Bavli, and Talmud Yerushalmi - requires Hebrew-enabled browser.
• Sacred texts- translated versions of texts including tanakh and talmud
• Pirke Avot- translated version of Pirke Avot
• E-daf- Images of every daf in the Talmud available for no charge
• Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts- Hebrew University in Jerusalem
• Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository- JNUL project to digitize rare and out-of-print monographs from its collection

Dead Sea Scrolls

• Exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Library
• The Dead Sea Scrolls Project
• West Semitic Research Project: Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Great Isaiah Scroll Directory- with full descriptions and translations of the Isaiah scrolls
• Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls - provides frequently updated bibliographies, arranged by date as well as by language. Other resources include annotated links, news articles, list of new publications, cave photographs and scroll images, and information on conferences and exhibits.
• Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship - an exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
• More Links

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Brittanica - full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, with selected Web sites, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
• Milon Morfix- Online Hebrew-English dictionary. Pop-up Hebrew keyboard available.
• Yiddish Dictionary - Online Yiddish-English dictionary

Exhibits

• Yale Judaica Collection Exhibits
• Jerusalem 3000
• The Jews in Libya
• PBS, America And the Holocaust
• A Life Apart. Hasidism in America
• An exhibit on a Haggadah from the Middle Ages in Germany. [Hebrew]
• NOVA: The Lost Tribes of Israe
• National Museum of American Jewish History
• The International Institute of Social History
• Exhibits from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives
• Franz Rosenzweig, His Life and Works
• Full Catalogue of the National Library of Canada's 1981 exhibition, "Five Centuries of Hebraica and Judaica, Rare Bibles, and Hebrew Incunables"
• Exhibits of the Jewish Women’s Archive
• Israel Bible Museum
• The Judaica Jewish Ethnography Wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem
• Beth Hatefutsoth, Musum of the Jewish Diaspora. Exhibits include “Jews of Afghanistan,” “Jews of Ethiopia,” and more.
• Tradition and Its Discontents: Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe

Funding Sources for Judaic Studies

• General Funding Sources for Judaic Studies- includes grants, fellowships, scholarships and awards (courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Library)

Genealogy

• JewishGen - resource for researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide.
• JewishGen ShtetLinks Directory - arranged by region.
• Genealogy information from the American Jewish Archives
• A research tool for Sephardic Genealogy
• Routes to Roots Foundation

History Resources

• Academic Guide to Jewish History- University of Toronto Libraries
• The Avalon Project : The Wye River Memorandum; October 23, 1998 - click on the "Palestine Page" link for more historic documents.
• Center for Jewish History
• The Jewish History Resource Center - contains links to numerous resources including online texts, bibliographies, archives, maps, and more
• Jewish Virtual Library (comprehensive online encyclopedia)
• Jewish Heritage Video Collection
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
• The Temple Mount in Jerusalem
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University- films that can be viewed online, archived by the following topic areas: Jewish communities, Holocaust, pre-state of Israel, State of Israel, and the Hebrew University.
• Leo Baeck Institute

  American Jewish History

• American Jewish Historical Society - provides "archival, published and artifactual sources depicting the religious, communal, cultural and political life of American Jewry."
• History of Jewish Women in America - contains annotated bibliographies and a guide to archival resources.
• The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History - offers a searchable Directory of American Jewish Historical Repositories.
• The American Jewish Archives
• Jewish-American History on the Web- an extensive website including information on Jews in the American Civil War and the Wild West
• Builders of America: The Jewish Heritage

Holocaust & Anti-Semitism

• A Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Resources for the Study of Antisemitism (many useful links)
• Jewish Virtual Library: Holocaust (online encyclopedia)
• An Annotated Bibliography of Archival Holdings at the Center for Jewish History
• Israeli Center for Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Antisemitism and Xenophobia in the World Today
• Antisemitism in the Former Soviet Union
• Chronology of Antisemitism (up to 1700 AD)
• The Development of Modern Antisemitism
• The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism
• The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
• Holocaust Denial on Trial: David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt.
• The Anne Frank Center
• The Ghetto Fighters’ House, Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum in Israel
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
• Online Interview Transcripts of Holocaust Survivors
• Survivors of the Shoah, Steven Spielberg’s Visual History Foundation
• The Nizkor Project
• Text of the Wannsee Protocol. [English, trans.]
• The Warsaw Ghetto. [Hebrew]
• Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, in recognition of righteous gentiles
• The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
• The Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
• The Avalon Project: The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
• Images for Reflection (photographs of the camps)
• The Holocaust Chronicle
• The Holocaust History Project document archive
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University- films that can be viewed online, archived by the following topic areas: Jewish communities, Holocaust, pre-state of Israel, State of Israel, and the Hebrew University.
• Yad Vashem- The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
• Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority

Israel:

Politics and Government

• The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Israel Defense Forces (Zahal)
• Israeli Political Resources (including major parties)
• Official Website of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament
• AIPAC- The American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
• CIA World Factbook Entry for Israel
• Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel)
• Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations
• The People's Voice- The Peoples' Voice is a new, broad-based civil initiative whose founders recognise that a way exists to bridge the intolerable impasse between Israelis and Palestinians.
• Middle East Peace Process (US Department of State)

  Society and Culture

• Kibbutzim
• IlMuseums- Listing and details on the hundreds of museums in Israel. http://www.ilmuseums.com/
• Jerusalem photos-historical guide

Jewish Culture

The National Federation for Jewish Culture.

Music

• Jewish Music Web Center
• Zamir, Jewish Music Resource
• Hebrew song lyrics and transliterations
• Zemerl- Interactive Database of Jewish Song
• Hatikvah Music- enormous selection of Jewish Music
• Hava Nashira-, guide for Jewish Songleaders
• Jewish Entertainment Resources

  Literature and Language

• Jewish Language Research Center- presents contacts, descriptions, and basic bibliographies for various jewish languages
• Shireshet: Hebrew Poetry and Poets
• The Academy of The Hebrew Language
• ITHL- Searchable directory of Hebrew authors
• National Center for the Hebrew Language
• Association of Jewish Book Publishers.

  Visual Arts

• Jewish Heritage Video Collection
• Jewish Video Catalog
• Jewish Film Archive
• National Center for Jewish Film
• Internet Movie Database- includes list of Israeli movies
• Israel Art Guide

  Holidays

• The Jewish Calendar - festivals
• Kaluach- Hebrew/ English calendar available for use on the internet or a downloadable program for your Palm or Windows PC.
• JCAL- Calender program and explanation of the hebrew calander
• HebCal - Interactive Hebrew calendar and English-Hebrew date converter

Resources For Jewish Students and Youth

• World Zionist Organization, links to Zionist Youth Movements
• North American Alliance for Jewish Youth
• Mosaic Jewish Outdoor Clubs of America
• Programs in Israel
• The Association of Jewish Sponsored Camps
• National Conference of Synagogue Youth
• United Synagogue Youth
• American Jewish Society for Service
• Young Judea

Jewish Studies

• Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
• The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora Help Desk
• Jewish Studies Network
• Judaism 101
• Famous Jews Interactive- selected biographies of famous jews
• Jewish Studies Reading Lists
• Sephardic Studies and Culture
• Latin American Jewish Studies Association
• Judaic Libraries and Archives on the Web
• Books On-line- a selection of judaica books available online courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania

Libraries

• Association of Jewish Libraries
• The Guide of Israeli Publishers (Hebrew)
• General Listing of Judaica Libraries and Collections on the Web
• Selected links to Web Pages of Libraries with Judaica Research Collections
• Hebrew University Library
• Jewish National & University Library
• Libraries related to Jewish History
• Judaic Libraries and Archives on the Web
• University of Pennsylvania Library- index of electronic resources for Judaic and Cognate studies
• Brandeis University Library- Judaic internet resources
• Princeton University Library- Jewish studies resources
• Stanford University Libraries- Hebraica and Judaica Collection
• Harvard Judaica Collection
• Bar Ilan University Library
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library
  

News Media

• Gateway to Jewish News Media Sources
• Member Directory of the American Jewish Press Association.
• Collection of Electronic German-Jewish Newspapers
• Kidon Media link- Additional links to Jewish News Media.
• KolIsrael.com- A comprehensive gateway to the majority of the Israeli news media, including online radio and newspapers.
• IMRA- the Independent Media Review Analysis.
• CAMERA- the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Ethnic NewsWatch - Baltimore Jewish Times, Chicago Jewish Star, Cleveland Jewish News, Israel Studies, Jewish Advocate, Jewish Bulletin, Jewish Exponent, Jewish Journal, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Jewish Press, Jewish Social Studies, Jewish Telegraphic, Jewish Week, New Jersey Jewish News. (Access by Yale IP recognition)
• World News Connection - offers the latest two years worth of full text and summaries of newspaper articles, speeches, reports and broadcasts collected and translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Generally, the information in WNC is available within 48-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast. Sources include Tel Aviv Hatzofe, Tel Aviv Ma'ariv, Jerusalem Voice of Israel, and more. (Access by Yale IP recognition)
• Arutz Sheva- Israel National News
• Canadian Jewish News
• Haaretz Daily Newspaper- in Hebrew and English.
• Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
• Ma'ariv- in Hebrew
• Forward - weekly publication with daily headlines and links to other news sources.
• The Jewish Week
• Jewish Press
• Jewish Chronicle (London)
• Debka- current news and news analysis relating to Israel and the Middle East

Magazines

• Ariga: Business, Pleasure, and Peace
• Bible Review- Back Issue Archives
• Commentary
• The Jerusalem Report
• Jewish Community Online
• Jewish Heritage Online
• Lilith- Jewish women's quarterly
• JSIJ-Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal
• Nesher [Hebrew]- Women online
• Moment- a conversation on Jewish culture, politics and religion
• Tikkun- a Jewish critique of politics, culture and society
• Historic Hebrew Newspapers- Digitized versions provided by JNUL
• see also Journals

Sephardic Studies

• Sephardi Studies Project

Universities in Israel

• Bar-Ilan University
• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Tel-Aviv University
• University of Haifa

Women in Judaism

• Jewish Women’s Archive
• Collection of links on Women's Judaic Studies-Sites, articles, and bibliographies on gender issues, Women and Judaism, Feminist studies, and links and suppor t for Lesbian members of the Jewish community NOTE: includes important links regarding domestic and spousal violence. courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania library
• Mayan. The Jewish Women’s Project
• Women in Judaism (full-text journal)
• Women in Daily Life: an Online Bibliography- Center for Jewish History
• Lilith- Independent Jewish Women’s Magazine
• Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America.
• Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women
• Drisha Institute for Jewish Education
• Jewish Women International
• Na’amat, the women’s labor Zionist organization
• National Council of Jewish Women
• Judaism 101: The Role of Women
• Torah Continuum – Women’s Study
• Women of Reform Judaism
• Women’s League for Conservative Judaism
• Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance

World Jewish Communities, Jewish Groups and Movements:

• Jewish Communities of the World
• Reform Judaism
• The Orthodox Union
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
• Union for Traditional Judaism
• International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews
• Society for Humanistic Judaism
• Chabad
• Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
• North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry
• Keshet Ga’avah- The World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews.
• Jewish India