September 2001
Many people out there want to be the "main site for Jewish activity". Naturally, while this isn't probable or even desirable, there is something to be said for having a wealth of information at your fingertips. I had a lot of fun using the Jewish Globe database to find a Jewish library in Estonia and a Jewish Museum in Port Elizabeth. S.A. and even who to contact there.
http://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/postcards/cards/index.htmIn this day and age, sending postcards might seem a bit anachronistic but the people at The National Museum of American Jewish History have done a very nice job of putting up an on-line database of over 60 postcards from synagogues all over the U.S.A.
http://www.everythingjewish.com/RoshH/RH_origins.htm http://www.everythingjewish.com/RoshH/RH_Family_Fun.htmVacation is now over (or about to begin - if you are a parent) and the New Year is just around the corner. As is our tradition we try to find (out of the way) sites which you may appreciate especially for the holidays. While Everything Jewish.com doesn't have "everything" (no link for recipes etc.), they do provide a good basis for understanding the holiday and what's more, the family fun stuff is easy to follow.
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/RoshHashannah.aspWondering how you can involve your child in the Jewish New Year? Check out Akhlah, the Jewish children's learning network. This site has a series of fun and informative pages for Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year). It is an important resource created to provide Jewish children and their families access to the prayers, stories and rituals that have bound Jews together around the world and through the ages.
http://www.jtsa.edu/library/exhib/precious/exhibwindow.htmlI love libraries, leafing through books, viewing old manuscripts. So when I heard that the Exhibit at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary was on-line, I knew that I had to pay the site a visit. This virtual exhibit, describes the libraries modest beginnings in 1903 to its impressive collection of 370,000 volumes in the general collection, and its special collection that boasts eleven thousand Hebrew manuscripts, thirty thousand fragments from the Cairo Genizah and twenty thousand rare printed books.