HCO's External Links Collection

Internet resources, dictionaries, etc..

Virtually Jewish
An Internet Tutorial from a Jewish Perspective

Net Tutor
net.TUTOR offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher. This project is funded by an Academic Enrichment Grant from The Ohio State University

LearnTheNet.com
About's Internet for Beginners resource

NetLingo
NetLingo is an online dictionary about the Internet. It contains hundreds of words and definitions that describe the technology and community world of the Web.

Smileys and Emoticons
A smiley is a sequence of characters on your computer keyboard. If you don't see it, try tilting your head to the left -- the colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose and the right parenthesis represents the mouth. Smileys usually follow after the punctuation (or in place of the punctuation) at the end of a sentence. A smiley tells someone what you really mean when you make an offhand remark. They are also called emoticons because they intend to convey emotion!

Acronyms & Shorthand
Acronyms have always been an integral part of computer culture and now they are popular on the Internet to represent common phrases that people say to one another. Part of the reason they are used so much is because it's quicker and easier to type out a few letters, rather than typing out the full expression.

F.O.L.D.O.C
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Viewing Hebrew on the Web

Snunit's Hebrew Page
Public domain applications, fonts, software and tips which help solve problems arising with the use of Hebrew on the Net.
Link Dapey Reshet Hebrew Fonts Page
Instructions and fonts for viewing Hebrew on the Web.

Jewish Communities & Denominations

The Orthodox Union (OU)
Orthodox Judaism

Chabad Lubavitch of Cyberspace
A great introduction to the Lubavitch Movement and Hasidic Judaism

Union of Reform Judaism (URJ)
Reform Judaism

Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF)
Reconstructionist Judaism

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
Conservative Judaism

The Society for Humanistic Judaism
Humanistic Judaism

Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Jewish Renewal Movement

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Israeli government's official website, and "Israel's virtual embassy in cyberspace, it is designed to provide basic information about Israel and its people, while offering comprehensive material on the Israeli government and its policies. "

Jewish Portals & Virtual Communities

Judaism and Jewish Resources
Andrew Tannenbaum explains that the Judaism and Jewish Resources page "takes you to the gates of the resources. It doesn't show you every corner of every room. I don't stick the leaves on the trees, I gather the trees into a forest. I try to impose some order on the tangle of the Jewish Web. (Enough already with the metaphors!) Because of this design choice, I can't list most Jewish Web sites. I list sites that are of broad interest, or sites that keep indexes of interesting Web sites devoted to part of the Jewish world."

The Shamash Jewish Internet Consortium
A Hebrew College Online project, Shamash is the oldest non-profit central address on the Jewish Internet that organizations and individuals rely on when seeking information and resources. Shamash also hosts over 500 online discussion forums (mailing lists) on a wide range of topics of Jewish interest, serving 125,000 worldwide subscriptions.

Maven
Perhaps the most comprehensive "portal" to the Jewish Internet, Maven's directory includes Business & Economics, Communities & Synagogues, Computers & Internet, Education, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Government & Politics, etc. & etc.,

Zipple
Mission: To connect the Jewish community, locally and globally, through technology, content, and commerce. "Our goal is to make Zipple.com a fun way to explore Judaism, Jewish culture, religion and people."

Jewish Studies

MyJewishLearning.com
MyJewishLearning.com is produced by Hebrew College and Jewish Family & Life! with lead funding by Edgar M. Bronfman and Lynn Schusterman. As the central Internet site for learning about Judaism, it is designed to be:

content rich and pedagogically sound--to invite and facilitate site visitors' engagement in ever-deeper levels of learning.
relevant to adult audiences of diverse backgrounds and learning objectives--from novice learners, who know little about Judaism, to experienced learners, who know a great deal but want to learn much more. (It is not designed for Judaic scholars.)
accurate, well written, and visually engaging.
representative of the wide and valid range of trans-denominational perspectives within Judaism.
compatible with a broad range of user experiences--from self-guided browsing and learning, to site-assisted browsing and learning. A key feature of this site will be content that is packaged to facilitate learning at graduated depths, at the learner's option.

JewishEncyclopedia.com
This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.

This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information that is remarkably relevant today.

JESNA - Jewish Education Service of North America
JESNA, the Jewish Education Service of North America, was created in 1981 as the Jewish Federation system's educational coordinating, planning and development agency. JESNA works to promote excellence in Jewish education by

initiating and facilitating the exchange of ideas, programs, and strategies for strengthening Jewish education among communities and institutions;
providing expert guidance on program design and evaluation, innovative educational resources, policy and planning to assist local education efforts; and
building coalitions with partners in North America and Israel to develop and implement high quality educational programs and to promote broad scale organizational and communal change

Jewish Studies Network (JSN)
An affiliate of Hebrew College and Shamash, The Jewish Studies Network is one of the oldest Internet projects in the humanities. "With over 2000 subscribers worldwide, JSN is the premier electronic source concerning Judaica and the academic study and discussion of Judaism ancient, mediaeval, and modern. All services of JSN are provided free of charge."

Internet Resources for the Academic Study of Religion
Religion Department, Muhlenberg College

Major Sites on Religion
Specific Religious Traditions
E-Text Collections

Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE)
A project of The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, JSOURCE descibes itself as, "your source for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism. This is not just a historical archive, it is also the place to find talking points on breaking news. When an issue comes to the fore - whether political or religious - and you need data fast, this is the first place you should look."

The Torahnet Page
Torah Study Opportunities on the 'Net

TORAT HAYIM - Living Torah Torah Study for Reform Jews

TORAT HAYIM Issue for the Week - Parashat Hashavua
TORAT HAYIM Web Archive
Family Shabbat Table Talk

Perek Yomi Tanakh Study Project
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

Tanach Study Center
The Orthodox Union

Parashat Hashavua Torah Study Center
Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Jewish Studies

Each week, the professors of Bar-Ilan University dip into their academic disciplines in order to find new meaning in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, which is read, chapter-by-chapter, in synagogue s around the world. Through the internet and e-mail, and by hard-copy distribution in hundreds of synagogues across Israel, analysis of the Parashat Hashavua (weekly Torah reading) by one or more of the university's scholars is delivered to tens of thousands of readers, weekly.

Jewish Women's Studies

Jewish Women's Studies at Hebrew College
As part of a major initiative launched in Fall 2000, the Adult Learning Collaborative-a program of Combined Jewish Philanthropies and Hebrew College-offers Boston's most comprehensive Jewish women's studies program for adult learners. Drawing on the talents of renowned women scholars and Jewish educators from around the world, the courses and lectures held throughout the academic year exemplifies the breadth and depth of contemporary Jewish feminist scholarship.

The Hebrew University Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History - Gender Studies Resource Page
Links to dozens of resources organized under the following headings:

General
Biblical Era
Second Temple and Talmudic Era
Medieval Era
Modern Era
Holocaust
Lilith and Jewish Mysticism
Research Institutes
Academic Programs
Electronic Forums and Journals
Archives
Bibliographies
On-Line Courses
Miscellaneous

Jewish Women's Archive
Jewish women have always been an integral part of the history and continuity of their communities. Their stories, however, are virtually unknown. The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world.

The Jewish Women's Archive pages are for scholars. For activists. For mothers and daughters. For fathers and sons. For researchers, historians, and community members. For people who believe that everyone with a stake in history is a keeper of it and a partner in its transmission.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
Established at Brandeis University in 1997, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute is the world's first university-based research institute devoted to the study of Jewish women. The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute supports interdisciplinary research on Jewish women's historical and contemporary experiences. The Institute works to increase knowledge about Jewish women around the world, carrying out activities in partnership with other universities and organizations. We aim to develop international networks of Jewish women scholars and community leaders.

Publications include,

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
Brandeis Series on Jewish Women

Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope

Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia

Leaving Leningrad

Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives

Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law

What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society

Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studies

Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to furthering our understanding of gender as a fundamental category of the social and cultural analysis of Judaism. Kolot offers new critical perspectives from which to appreciate the diversity of Jewish experience and analyze the Jewish past, present, and future. The introduction of this perspective into all fields of Jewish knowledge necessitates new research, critiques of the assumptions, methods, and conclusions of existing research, and the formulation of new paradigms and organizing concepts. Gender - the social meaning of the distinction between the sexes - is studied in its interaction with such aspects of Judaism as identity, ethnicity, law, and practice.

Kolot functions as both an academic center , furthering scholarship and training rabbis and other Jewish leaders, and an activist center, generating innovative projects and practices which affect the religious and spiritual lives of contemporary Jews. Kolot's primary national projects include Ritualwell.org , a web site of contemporary Jewish holidays and lifecycle ceremonies, created with Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project of the JCC in Manhattan, and Kolot's Rosh Hodesh: It's A Girl Thing! , a unique program that strengthens the self-esteem and Jewish identity of adolescent girls through monthly celebrations of the New Moon festival, currently being adopted by Jewish communities across North America.

Primary Texts

A Page from the Babylonian Talmud
On this Web site, created by Prof. Eliezer Segal, the Talmud page serves as a port of departure on a voyage through the history of Jewish religious literature.

Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to similar resources developed by Prof. Segal, including The Mishnah and The Mikra'ot Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible) and its commentaries.

NET Bible - Biblical Studies Press
The New English Translation, also known as the NET Bible, is a completely new translation of the Bible, not a revision or an update of a previous English version. It was completed by more than twenty biblical scholars who worked directly from the best currently available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.

For detailed information see "The NET Bible: Preface," http://www.bible.org/netbible/preface.htm

Navigating the Bible
World ORT Union
Atlas, Torah Portions, Pentateuch, Haftarot

Journey into the world of the Jewish Bible. Study the portions. Hear the melodies. Follow the themes and learn what the scholars say. Explore it as history -- literature -- religion: A multitude of paths awaits you.

CONTENTS

Sources

Pentateuch
Torah Portions
Haftarot
Blessings

Study

Atlas
Glossary
Genealogy
Performance

Background

Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Divrei Torah

JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY BIBLE (1917)
The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917

The Bible Browser
Brown University Scholarly Technology Group

Can't remember how Samson lost his strength? Why Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt? What it is about Onan that makes Grandma blush? Jog your memory, and learn a thing or two in the process, with the Bible Browser.

The Bible Browser is a simple but powerful interface designed to help you explore the Bible actively - in a way that's not possible with traditional printed books. Using the Bible Browser, you can retrieve passages by book chapter:verse reference (e.g., Exod 3:1-2). You can also retrieve passages by word (e.g., powerful), word-part (e.g., erful), or word-pattern (e.g., power(s|ful)). You can even do fancy things like perform logical ands, ors, and nots on groups of passages, jump from version to version, and restrict your retrievals to individual books or chapters.

World Wide Study Bible
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin College

The World Wide Study Bible was conceived as a means of organizing all of the Bible-related resources on the World Wide Web according to scripture reference. Because of the nature of the World Wide Web and the large number of potential contributors, it is possible to index an enormous number and wide variety of resources -- commentaries, meditations, sermons, pictures, word studies, musical settings, historical or archeologic notes -- anything that is relevant.

Snunit Bible & Talmudic Literature Database (HEBREW)
Snunit Educational Information System, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A database enabling easy browsing and full text searching and cross-referencing of the Tanach, Mishna, Babylonian & Jerusalem Talmuds, Tosefta, and Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

For detailed information see article,"The Bible and Talmudic Literature on the Web," http://www1.snunit.k12.il/lecture_kodesh.html

Hebrew on the Internet: See, http://www.snunit.k12.il/heb_new.html for public domain applications,software and tips which help solve problems arising with the use of Hebrew on the Net.

The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History - Biblical Studies Section
The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History (http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur) was established by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the State of Israel in July 1974, on the anniversary of the death of Professor Ben-Zion Dinur. The Center aims to promote research in Jewish History throughout the ages, from the biblical to contemporary eras in both Israel and the Diaspora. Its activities include a web-site highlighting the Center's agenda for the promotion of the study and research of Jewish History throughout the ages, as well as the compilation of information relating to the study of Jewish History throughout the world. a research library, serving its Fellows and the wider academic community.

The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Associated Literature
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

CONTENTS

Dead Sea Scrolls searchable bibliography
the Beginner's Guide to Scrolls
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) series
Virtual Cave Tour
an up-to-date list of Brill Academic Publishers publications on the Scrolls
links to sites related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
news Articles from the internet
notices of conferences, fellowships, positions and calls for papers

West Semitic Research Project: The Dead Sea Scrolls
University of Southern California School of Religion

CONTENTS:

Discovery - The finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Testimonia - An anthology of Bible verses concerning the Messiah.
Isaiah Pesher - An ancient commentary on the book of Isaiah.
The Rule of the Congregation - Rules for living in the Messianic age.
Copper Scroll - A list of buried treasure.
Qohelet - Fragments from the Book of Ecclesiastes.
The Words of Moses - A document using themes from the book of Deuteronomy.

The Ancient Near East

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: The Near East
University of Evansville

Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC) is an on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds. It features its own essays and primary texts. Over time it will include chapter-length histories for each of the eight "cultures" represented: The Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe. Chapters on Rome, Greece and Medieval Europe will be appearing soon.

In addition, to its own resources, EAWC also includes a substantial index of internet sites, divided into five sub-indices: a chronology, an essay index, an image index, an internet site index and an electronic text index. Each sub-index is divided into sections, including one for each of the cultures represented. We have included directions for using the internet index on the index's main page.

EAWC is an associate site of the Argos Project, an internet search engine that limits the range of its responses to ancient and medieval resources.

See http://eawc.evansville.edu/about.htm for more info.

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum today has achieved world class status. Within this relatively short time, it has amassed a number of significant collections and takes pride in its dynamic roster of exhibitions, publications, and educational activities. It is a leading cultural institution in Israel and is one of the largest museums in the world.

The Israel Museum campus encompasses several museums in one:
- Dead Sea Scrolls - Shrine of the Book
- Archaeological Museum
- udaica and Jewish Ethnography Wing
- Fine Art Wing
- rt Garden
- Youth Wing

ABZU Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

ABZU is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet. The following indexes are simply points of entry. The material included in each of them overlaps to a considerable degree, but they will allow the browser to view the material in a number of different ways.

For more information on the ABZU project, see http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU_COLOPHON.HTML

Okeanos: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Scott B. Noegel, University of Washington

LINKS to Academic Departments, Archaeology, Atlases and Geographical Resources, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Resources , Centers, Societies, and Organizations, Discussion Lists, General Topic Information Resources, Job Listings, Journals, Museums, Philological Resources, Publishers, Scholars' Contact Information, Useful Course Material

The West Semitic Research Project
University of Southern California School of Religion

The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 15 years WSRP has used advanced photographic and computer imaging techniques to document objects and texts from the ancient world. In doing this we have built a vast collection of images that we are now making available to scholars, students, educators and the general public through a variety of ways.

Educational Site:

Ancient Texts Relating to the Bible
Biblical Manuscripts
Dead Sea Scrolls
USC Archaeological Research Collection
Other Collections
Do It Yourself Epigraphy

Scholarly Site:

Dead Sea Scrolls
Ugaritic Tablets
Elephantine Papyri
Northwest Semitic Inscriptions
Assyriological Texts Leningrad Codex
Syrus Siniaticus
Other Papyri
Uninscribed Objects
Non-Semitic Inscriptions
USC Archaeological Research Collection

Hammurabi's Code of Laws - Translated by L. W. King
Exploring Ancient World Cultures, Readings from the Ancient Near East, University of Evansville

Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC) is an on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds. It features its own essays and primary texts.

Code of Hammurabi
Paul Halsall, editor: Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Fordham University

The Internet History Sourcebooks are collectionsof public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

See http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/fairuse.html for Copyright and Fair Use Clause, including Use of Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Maps

Ancient Near East Site Maps
Oriental Institute Map Series

Seven Site Maps covering the ancient Near East (Egypt, Sudan, The Levant, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran), locating primary archaeological sites, modern cities, and river courses set against a plain background. All Site Maps are Simple Conic projections at the same scale and orientation.

Time Lines

Time–Line for the History of Judaism
The Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE)

The Dawn of "History"
Context of Ancient Israelite religion
Judaism After the Babylonian Exile
Rule of Rome
Early Christian Period of Development
Rabbinic Jewish Period of Talmud Development
Byzantine Rule
Consolidation & Dominance of Classical Christianity
"Medieval" Period in the West
Reception & Classical Development of Muhammad's Islamic Message
Crusades
Further Transitions and Rebuilding of Political Islam
Mamluk Rule
Islamic Political Dominance as far East as India
Reformation and Post-Reformation Christian Period
Jewish Transitions Toward Modernity
Dominance of Ottoman Muslim Empire in Turkey
Jewish Modern and Contemporary Periods
Islamic Unrest and Realignment in the Middle East
British Rule
Modern Israel

Chronology: The Near East
Exploring Ancient World Cultures, EAWC Internet Index, maintained by Anthony F. Beavers, services provided by the University of Evansville.

Time line linked to information resources.

Chronological Space/Time Index enables entry to the EAWC Chronology at a date specified by the user and allows a quick and efficient transfer between segments of the chronology.