THE JEWISH GUIDE TO THE INTERNET

SECOND EDITION--AN UPDATE

This page is designed to update the entries in the printed book The Jewish Guide to the Internet, second edition, by Diane Romm.  The book is available from the Jason Aronson Company at 1-800-782-0015.  All references below are to the pages in the book.  Those sites marked "NEW" are additional material appearing here for the first time since the page's last update on August 12, 1999.

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Academic Jewish Studies (p.24)

• Contact the Jewish University in Cyberspace (JUICE) (p. 26) at http://www.wzo.org.il/juice/index.htm
• The First Century Judaism (p. 29) discussion list's address is now listserv@lehigh.edu. Send a message saying subscribe ioudaois-l your name. The web address for the archives is http://www.lehigh.edu/lists/Archives/ioudaios-l/
• Check Frank Unlandherm's Jewish Studies Guide at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Jewish/    
• There is a discussion group on Latin American Jewish Studies you can subscribe to by sending a message to listproc@mcfeeling.cc.utexas.edu saying subscribe lajsa-list your name.
• A very inclusive Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory is available at http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB1/JStudien/judaica.htm   
• The Association for Jewish Studies--http://www.brandeis.edu/ajs      
• JStudies.org contains an excellent collection of links and information--http://www.JStudies.org/  
• Take courses online from Bar Ilan University's Virtual Jewish University--http://www.bar-ilan.edu    

Aliyah (p. 30)

• Tehilla (p. 31) now has a web site at http://www.thejewishworld.com/tehilla
• Revivim, which offers insurance for shipments to Israel, has a home page at http://www.revivim-insurance.com  
• National Employment Database from AACI--http://www.jobnet.co.il     
• Kef International (p. 32) has a new and comprehensive site at http://www.feldcom.com/kef/     
• A list of aliyah resources is located at http://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/~comartin/aliyah/       
• English Speaking Residents Association in Israel--http://www.esra.org.il     
• Teen to Teen, a magazine for teens whose families have made aliyah is availalbe at http://www.ttt.org.il    
• If you're looking for an apartment in Jerusalem, try subscribing to a listserv called Flathunting.  Send a message to flathunting@bigfoot.com with the message "subscribe."  They also have a website at http://members.tripod.com/~flathunting  
• Keep in touch with family in Israel through Kesher Online at http://www.kesheronline.com  
• Parents of North American Israelis (PNAI)--http://www.pnai.org    
• Ministry of Immigration and Absorption--http://www.moia.gov.il    
• All of the Jewish Agency's programs (p. 30) may now be accessed at JAFI--http://www.jafi.org.il    
• If you're looking for ads for anything in Israel, check the listserv archives of IsraelAds at http://IsraelAds.listbot.com     
• Beit Shemesh--http://www.shemesh.co.il
• Rentals in Beit Shemesh are listed at http://members.tripod.com/ShemeshRentals    
• If you're interested in settling in Modi'in, you can subscribe to a listserv at modiin-request@winston.weizmann.ac.il or check their archives at http://winston.weizmann.ac.il/~bmw  
• If you're thinking of settling in Maale Adumim, take a look at Jacob Richman's site about the town--http://www.jr.co.il/ma/      
• If you're thinking of settling in Ramat Beit Shemesh, you can subscribe to a listserv at rbs-request@cs.huji.ac.il. Also, check their web site at http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~momo/rbs/    
• Prices of cars in Israel are listed at Netcar--http://www.netcar.co.il    
• Discover Aliyah Online from the British UJIA has a comprehensive aliyah site at http://www.ujia.org.il/discover/discoveronline.htm    
• Check the prices of electrical appliances at Shekem--http://www.shekem-electric.co.il  
• Akiva Marks provides a personal and practical look at aliyah in the Real Aliyah Information Pages--http://members.tripod.com/realaliyah/     NEW

Art (p. 36)

• Jewish Graphics (p. 31) may also be downloaded through the web at ftp://ftp.virtual.co.il/pub/graphics
• Jews in Comics, a hypertext bibliography created by Steve Bergson, is available at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5756/JWISHC.HTM  
• Israeli Association of Painters and Sculptors--http://www.gallery.co.il  
• Safrai Gallery--http://www.art-gallery-safrai.co.il    
• Engel Galleries--http://www.engel-art.co.il  
• The Jewish Artists Network--http://www.jewishartists.com    
• Jerusalem Anthologia is a virtual museum of contemporary Israeli artists--http://www.antho.net
• The World of Jewish Art Portraits--http://www.jewish-portraits.com    
• Archie Granot's papercuts--http://www.archiegranot.com  
• An encyclopedia of French Jewish artists--http://wwwartcult.com/listel.htm     NEW 
• Israel Images has a large selection of Israeli graphics--http://www.israelimages.com     NEW 
• Israel Art Guide--http://www.israelartguide.co.il   NEW 

Books (p. 42)  

• Rubin Mass (p. 45) now has a web site at http://www.age.co.il/mas/index.htm
• Art Scroll Books--http://www.artscroll.com
• Mount Zion/Sifrei Har Tzion Books, describing itself as "the largest Jewish bookstore on the Web," specializes in sifrei kodesh and ships worldwide.  Their site is http://www.jerusalembooks.com
• Broder's Rare and Used Judaica--http://members.aol.com/bookssss/judaica.html
• J. Levine Company--http://www.levine-judaica.com
• A.I. Weinberg Hebrew Books--http://www.aiweinberg.com
• Sephardic House--http://www.sephardim.org/Sephardic_House/index.html
• Jewish Publication Society--http://www.jewishpub.org
• Opus Books, an Israeli bookstore that specializes in Hebrew language materials about computers and the Internet, may be reached at http://www.reshet.com/opus/
• A list of Yizkor books published by Robinson Books in Tel Aviv is available at http://www.eagleman.com/robinson/
• A hypertext list of members of the Association of Jewish Publishers may be found at http://www.avotaynu.com/ajbp.html
• Behrman House--http://www.behrmanhouse.com    
• Books International exports from Israel--http://www.booksinternational.com  
• Jewish Book Maven, an independent used bookstore specializing in scholarly Judaica--http://www.abebooks.com/home/JEWISHBOOKMAVEN    
• Jerusalem Post Store--http://jpoststore.com  
• dbook Hebrew Bookstore--http://www.dbook.co.il    
• Frank Cass Books--http://www.frankcass.com  
• Soncino Press--http://www.soncino.com      
• Judaica Press--http://www.judaicapress.com      
• Steimatzky, the largest English language bookseller in Israel--http://www.Steimatzky.co.il     
• KTAV Publishing House--http://www.ktav.com    
• The Jewish Publication Society--http://www.jewishpub.org    
• Shemaria Judaica in the UK deals with rare and out of print titles--http://www.abebooks.com/home/SHEMARIABOOKS, as does Sifrantica--http://www.brijnet.org/sifrantica    
• Nunbet Books sells Judaica and Yizkor books--http://www.nunbetbooks.co.il    
• Feldheim Publishers--http://www.feldheim.com  
• Jewish Lights--http://jewishlights.com  
• My Jewish Bookstore--http://www.myjewishbooks.com     NEW
• Yodan Publishing features books for Torah readers--http://www.yodanco.com       NEW
• Modan Publishing--http://www.modan.co.il    NEW
• Virtual Judaica is a database of Hebrew book titles printed prior to 1800 with current auction prices--http://www.virtualjudaica.com      NEW
• Dfus-Graph is a Hebrew language guide to 8,000 companies and businesses in the publishing industry--http://www.index.co.il/dfus/    NEW

  Calendars (p. 52)

• Hebrew calendars for DOS environments (p. 39) may be downloaded from http://www.virtual.co.il/gate/ftp/doscal.html
• Kaluach displays an entire month of the screen with holidays, parshiot and halachic times--http://members.tripod.com/~kaluach  

Computers (p. 40)

1. Commercial Software (p. 40) TES Software, describing itself as "the world's largest supplier of Judaic educational software," can be found online at http://www.Torahscholar.com
2. Infomedia Judaica has software and a-v materials--http://www.imjl.com  
3. The Internet (p.55)  Captain Internet, a Hebrew language column about the Internet from the Israeli newspaper HaAretz, is available at http://www.iol.co.il/captain
4. Computers in Israel (p. 61)  Israel's Hi Tech Information Hub may be found at http://206.43.192.113  The Israel Executive Placement Service helps workers locate Hi Tech jobs at their web site http://www.israelep.com
5. Reviews of Jewish software by Ronnie Figdor--http://www.join.org.au/reviews/reviews.htm     
6. Ahavat Israel has a collection of free Jewish software--http://www.ahavat-israel.com/software.html
7. EMIL,an Israeli computer shop--http://www.emil-computer.co.il  
8. Information on joining a listserv discussing issues related to computing in Hebrew is available at http://HebrewComputing.listbot.com      
9. PilotYid is a collection of Jewish PalmPilot software--http://welcome.to/PilotYid/     
10. Jewish clip art--http://www.bitsela.com 
11. Hebrew Internet Guide for Webmasters--http://www.internet-guide.co.il    
12. Hebrew HTML and site building guide--http://www.sigall.co.il
13. Download Babylon and you can translate any word on any English web page and get its equivalent in Hebrew--http://www.babylon.com    
14. Israel Internet is an online magazine that follows business and computer stories in Israel--http://israel.internet.com  NEW

Directories (p. 63)

• Israeli Yellow Pages for New York and New Jersey (p. 65) has a new web site name at http://www.jewishyellow.com
• A Hebrew language Israeli Internet address directory arranged by subject is available at http://dapey.reshet.co.il  
• Bezeq's searchable database of Israeli telephone numbers is located at http://www.144.bezek.com  
• A listing of non-Orthodox synagogues in Israel can be found at http://pw1.netcom.com/~bonnieg/isrcong.html  
• Synagogues worldwide are noted at http://www.synagogues.com    
• Worldwide mikvah list--http://www.kosher.co.il/mikvaot/  
• Jewish American Yellowpages--http://ja-yellowpages.com  
• Global Jewish Directory--http://www.jewishdirectory.com    
• The Israeli Yellow Pages--http://www.yellowpages.co.il    
• A directory of synagogues in the United States is available at http://www.agoron.com/~luach/luach02/shul_states.html      
• A directory of cemeteries in New York is available at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/4900/JewishCemeteries.htm

Divrei Torah (p. 71)

• The respository of all the divrei Torah archived at Shamash is available as a searchable database at http://shamash.org/tanach/dvar.html.
• The listserv archives of divrei Torah stored on the Virtual Jerusalem (Jerusalem One) server may be accessed at http://www.virtual.co.il/city_services/lists/
• Divrei Torah from Yeshivat Ohr Someyach (p. 73) are now on the web at http://www.ohr.org.il
• Academic articles on the weekly Torah reading are available from Bar Ilan University at http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/
• Additional divrei Torah from Bar Ilan's Yaacov Silverstein are located at http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~hm16   
• Kehilas Prozdor has a dvar Torah site at http://www.vutrak.com/prozdor/   
• TorahWeb offers access to divrei Torah from the leading Torah scholars of Yeshiva University--http://www.torahweb.org
• Peninim on the Torah by British Rabbi A. Label Scheinbaum--http://trc.net/ggbh/peninim_on_the_torah.htm   NEW
• Parashat HaShavua in Hebrew--http://www.2000group.net/parasha.htm    NEW

Electronic Journals (p. 77)  

Newspapers

• The Jewish Chronicle from London is now online at http://www.jchron.co.uk
• Dry Bones, a collection of political cartoons from Israel, is available at http://drybones.org.il
• Tam Tam, a Yiddish newspaper published in Paris, is located at http://www.col.fr/tamtam/
• London Jewish News--http://www.ljn.co.uk/ljn     
• Chicago Jewish News--http://www.chijewishnews.com  
• The Boston Jewish Advocate--http://www.TheJewishAdvocate.com   
• The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle--http://www.sunpublications.com/jchron/jchron.html    
• International Jewish Gazette, a weekly Russian language newspaper--http://aha.ru/~tankred/    
• Jewishwest.com features happenings in the Western part of the United States--http://jewishwest.com    
• Jewish World Review offers a daily, non-denominational view of Jewish culture and politics--http://www.jewishworldreview.com  
• USAJewish.com appears daily and includes articles from many sources, Jewish and secular--http://www.usajewish.com    
• The Baltimore Jewish Times--http://www.jewishtimes.com     NEW
• The Jewish Review of Oregon and Southwest Washington--http://www.jewishreview.org       NEW

Magazines

• Jewish Family and Life Parenting--http://www.jewishfamily.com
• The Southern Shofar from Alabama--http://www.bham.net/shofar/
• Torah from Dixie--http://www.tfdixie.com
• Jewish World Review, an electronic magazine of culture and politics--http://www.jewishworldreview.com    
• Sparks!  is a magazine for Jewish children--http://www.sparksmag.com     
• Juedisch Rundschau from Switzerland--http://juedische.rundschau.ch/    
• Check out the whole range of Jewish magazines published by Jewish Life including Jewish Culture, JFood, Jewish Travel, Jewish Travel.Committee, Jewish Health, Jbooks, Jewish Blessings, Jewish Parenting, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Home, Simcha, Mitzvah, Shabbat Shalom, Jewish Sports, and Answer Aliza.     
• Douillet, a French language Jewish magazine--http://www.alliancefr.com    
• Lilith, the Jewish women's magazine--http://www.lilithmag.com
• The Scribe, the journal of Babylonian Jewry, is located at http://www.dangoor.com/scribe.html    
• Response, a contemporary Jewish review is located at http://www.responseweb.org    
• LeChaim, a monthly Jewish magazine in Russian--http://www.fjc.ru/lechaim/index.htm  
• Jewish Heritage Magazine--http://www.jewishheritage.com   
• The Jewish Magazine--http://www.jewishmag.co.il    
• Azure, a publication of the Shalem Center, presents articles on Jewish and Israeli thought--http://www.azure.org.il
• Pnai Plus covers the popular entertainment scene in Israel--http://www.pnaiplus.co.il
• Eretz, a magazine that highlights places of interest in Israel--http://www.eretz.com  
• Yiddishkeit, the World Torah Review--http://come.to/yiddishkeit
• GenerationJ focuses of issues of interest to Jews 25 to 45--http://www.generationj.com  
• The Jerusalem Report (p. 79) has a new address at http://www.jrep.com     NEW

Hebrew Language Publications

• Israel Shelanu, the largest North American Hebrew language newspaper, is located at http://www.israelshelanu.com
• Masa Aher, a travel magazine, is available at http://www.masa.co.il
• Monitor is a magazine that discusses cyberculture at http://www.monitor.site.co.il
• TAM, a Tel Aviv newspaper--http://www.tam.co.il
• Yedtichon, a site for young adults from Yediot Aharont--http://www.yedtichon.co.il    
• Teva Hadvarim, a nature magazine--http://www.tevahadvarim.co.il/index1.html     
• Yofi, Israel's online magazine for women--http://www.yofi.co.il     NEW

Games (p. 87)  

• Hapoel Haifa (p. 91) is now located at http://www.hapoel-haifa.org.il/indexurl.html
• Maccabi USA--http://www.maccabiusa.com
• Maccabi Haifa (p. 92) is now located at http://www.kinneret.co.il/rmanvich/  
• Lori Sheiman has an archive of Jewish humor at http://come.to/jewishjokes  
• For a Jewish crossword site try http://members.aol.com/jewxword/index.html  
• Maccabi Tel Aviv (p. 90) is now located at http://www.maccabi.org.il  
• American Israel Numismatic Association--http://amerisrael.com  
• Mendy's Comics--http://www.mendycomics.com    
• The Society of Israel Philatelists--http://www.israelstamps.com    

Genealogy (p. 93)

• Don't miss the major Jewish genealogy web page at http://www.jewishgen.org
• Jewish Sephardic Genealogy Sources--http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm 
• Hebrew National Orphan Home has many genealogical sources--http://www.scruz.net/~elias/hnoh/
• Jewish Genealogy Links--http://jewish.genealogy.org     
• Generations Press Books and Maps--http://www.generationspress.com    

Hebrew (p. 95)  

• Subscribe to the Doar discussion group by sending a message to listserver@atw.fullfeed.com with the message subscribe doar your name. Also check their web site at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9048/
• Hebrew Translator's Home Page--http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/1602/
• Hebrew Software Digest distributes Hebrew software from a variety of companies--http://www.gy.com/www/he.htm   
• An unusual collection of Hebrew words is available at http://www.gallery.co.il/hebrew/  
• Rachel Simon has compiled a list of Hebrew acronyms at http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/hebrew/open.html  
• Hebrew Tutoring Software--http://www.arch.apana.org.au/ben_s/RosettaStone.html   (It's free!!) 
• Hebrew Poetry on the Net--http://members.tripod.com/~rongill/hebpoems.html    
• The Poetry and Prose of Yehudah HaLevi--http://www.angelfire.com/ct/halevi/index.html     
• Hebrew Institute of Boston--http://www.hib.org    
• National Center for the Hebrew Language--http://www.ivrit.org    
• Hebrew for Me is an interactive way of learning the language online--http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewforme/  
• For a moderated e-mail discussion of translation from Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic, try the Hebrew Translating listserv at http://HebrewTranslating.listbot.com
• Jacob Richman's My Hebrew Dictionary has a lot to offer at http://www.dictionary.co.il   
• Guide for Editors and Translators of English Sefarim--http://binyomin.home.gs.net/   
• The Academy of the Hebrew Language is the official group charged with creating new words in Hebrew--http://sites.huji.ac.il/ivrit/english.html    
• The Mining Company's Hebrew page is a good starting point--http://hebrew.about.com  
• The Histadruth Ivrith of America--http://www.hist-ivrit.org     NEW

History (p. 98)

• Full text of Theodore Herzl's diary that he kept during his trip to Israel--http://www.cet.ac.il/~history/herzl/
• Jewish Life During the Italian Renaissance is described through material at the Medici Granducal Archives at http://www.medici.org/jewish/     NEW
• Jews in the Civil War--http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1867/jewish.htm
• 100 Years of Zionism, a great site for kids, is located at http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/zionism/zionism.html
• Jewish History Timeline--http://judaism.miningco.com/library/weekly/blhistory.htm  
• Primary sources on both sides of the Middle Eastern conflict--http://www.accessv.com/~yehuda     
• A history of Jewish in Russia--http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/    
• International Survey of Jewish Monuments--http://www.isjm.org      
• The American Jewish Historical Society (p.98) is now located at http://www.ajhs.org  
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook--http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewishsbook.html    
• Dinur Center for Jewish History--http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/  
• The National Photo Collection offers an extensive collection of Israeli photographs at http://194.90.92.50/topsrch/defaulte.htm  
• Portuguese Sephardic History--http://www.lusoamerican.com/saudades  
• Historical Society of Jews from Egypt--http://www.hsje.org    
• A starting page for Jewish American history is located at http://www.artists-in-residence.com/users/jewishistory/    
• A history of the Ottoman Sephardim--http://www.geocities.com/~turkimo/     
• The history of Belarussian Jewry--http://beljewhist.virtualave.net    
• The Southern Jewish Historical Society--http://www.jewishsouth.org    NEW
• The Commission for the Dissemination of Jewish History--http://www.dorledor.org     NEW

Holocaust (p. 103)  

• Steven Spielberg's archive of 13,000 stories by survivors is located in the Shoah Visual History Foundation at http://www.vhf.org
• A Holocaust memorial in Miami, Florida is described at http://wahoo.netrunner.net/~holomem/Art
• Jonathan Wallace's Auschwitz Alphabet is available at http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html
• Women and the Holocaust--http://www.interlog.com/~mighty
• Holocaust Global Registry--http://www.jewishgen.org/interactive/registry.html  
• The Einsatzgruppen Archives--http://www.netbistro.com/electriczen/    
• The Mazal Library is posting public domain documents about the Holocaust--http://www.mazal.org    
• The Anne Frank House (p.110) has a new address at http://www.annefrank.nl    
• The Holocaust History Project--http://www.holocaust-hsitory.org      `
• The Ghetto Fighters' House--http://www.gfh.org.il    
• The Anne Frank Internet Guide--http://www-th.phys.rug.nl/~ma/annefrank.html    
• The Kielce Jewish Community--http://come.to/kjc/    
• Italian Jewry during the Holocaust--http://www.italya.net/shoa/shoa.htm    
• Moreshet Memorial and Publishing House--http://www.inter.net.il/~givat_h/givat/moreshet/moreshet.htm    
• Descendants of the Shoah--http://www.descendants.org     
• Holocaust Names is a site designed to help people find survivors and relatives--http://www.holocaustnames.com
• Swiss Bank Claims--http://www.swissbankclaims.com     NEW    
• Jewish Life, an online zine, emphasizes the Holocaust and anti-semitism--http://www.50megs.com/zines/   NEW  

Revisionism

• Ken McVay's major project, Nizkor, to counter Holocaust deniers is described at http://www.nizkor.org
• Documentary resources on the denial of Nazi genocide--http://www.anti-rev.org         

Holocaust Education

• Information on the annual March of the Living by Jewish teenagers is located at http://www.justsurfit.com/motl
• A Hebrew language page about teaching the Holocaust using postage stamps can be found at http://mofetsrv.mofet.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo/111.htm.  An English version of the page is located at http://mofetsrv.mofet.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo/einvert.htm  

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