The Jewish Agency for Israel

The Department for Jewish Zionist Education

The Pedagogic Center

June 2000

A Touch of Torah - Websites to Teach & Learn

A selection of websites indexed by category for specialized online resources

A. Courses with Resources

1. The Pedagogic Center http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/index1.html

Daily Mishnah

Weekly Parsha

Festivals - programming

JUICE - Online Talmud Course, others

DataJEM annotated dbase of educational resources

FAQ

2. Bar Ilan Virtual University http://www.bar-ilan.edu/

6 online Judaica courses for academic credit, with online demo.

Also see: The Lookstein Center for educational and teacher resources.

  1. Hebrew College - Center for Information Technology http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/online/

    2. Graduate and undergraduate courses for credit, by semester.

    Also Boston Meah non-credit courses online on url http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/meah/2.html

  2. Hebrew Union College - http://www.huc.edu/

Online courses are not linked on the website but advertised through Jewish Education lists such as InterJED (Shamash webserver). Write in through the Feedback form.

  1. JTSA - http://www.jtsa.edu

    2. Online Melton courses,

    Articles, Parsha,

    Mini-courses

    B. Focused Resources

  2. Chabad - http://www.chabad.org/

    3. There are numerous content websites for Chabad; this is the main webserver.

  3. Jewish Gates - http://www.jewishgates.org/main.asp

Jewish Practice;

Torah, Talmud commentaries online archived by week/topic, Ramban.

8. Halacha Brura Institute - http://www.halachabrura.org/

Rav Kook and his Talmudic works continued.

  1. Ohr Somayach Interactive - http://www.ohr.org.il/

    2. Articles, dafyomi, Jewish thought

  2. Orthodox Union - http://www.ou.org/

    3. Articles, Parsha

    Organizations

    Kashrut, Holidays

    Judaism 101- see JewFAQ

  3. Virtual Bet Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion -

http://www.vbm-torah.org/

Articles, Archives

Parsha Lists

C. Hebrew Source Texts & Dbases

  1. Ellie's Torah Trope Tutor - http://www.mat.net/~ewackerm/index.html

    2. Learn to read the ta'amim online with real audio.

  2. Gemara online with Rashi embedded

    3. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/5242/

    Site only partial.

  3. Online Mishnah - http://chaver.com/

    4. Structured Mishnah texts in html

  4. Navigating the Bible - http://bible.ort.org/

    5. Ort's online tutor for learning to chant the weekly Sedra [Parsha] and

    Haftarah. Available in English, Russian, Spanish.

  5. Rambam Resources - http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/rambam.html

    6. Texts and links to works and analysis online

  6. Snunit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - http://www1.snunit.k12.il/kodesh/

    7. Major Resource! Full, online, searchable database of Kodesh, need ActiveX Hebrew Web Fonts to input Hebrew searches

  7. Webshas - http://www.aishdas.org/webshas/main.htm

    8. Online Talmud learning and major searchable database, part of the Aishdas website. Helpful subject categories.

    D. Questions & FAQs

  8. Social-Cultural Judaism: Bibliography and FAQ

    9. http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/

  9. Basic Judaism FAQ

    10. JewFAQ http://www.jewfaq.org/

  10. Online Batei Din or Rabbinates

The Batei Din, Legal and Rabbinate websites are largely in the US:

http://www.beth-din.org/

http://www.jlaw.com/

http://www.orthodoxcaucus.org/

Jerusalem World Center for Halacha:

http://www.halacha.net/

The UK Chief Rabbinate has a website: http://www.chiefrabbi.org/

22. Ask a Rabbi : JewishCom http://www.jewish.com/askarabbi/

Use the index of links.

E. Parsha, Torah, Study Indexes & Links

  1. About Com - http://www.judaism.about.com/

    2. Original overview articles,

    well-categorized links on many topics

  2. Maven Index - Judaism & Jewish Learning

    3. http://www.maven.co.il/subjects.asp?S=111

  3. http://www.maven.co.il/subjects.asp?S=117

  4. Parshat Hashavua E-lists

    5. http://www.torah.org/programs/outsidelists.html

  5. Torah Study: Best Links to Sites

http://listen.to/torah/

http://torah.net/eng/links/index.htm