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CyberCAJE's Best of the Web
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This page contains links to web sites and pages with
resources useful to Jewish educators. The information is divided into the following
categories:
- Study the Parsha
- Distance Learning
- Holidays
- Education - General
- Education - Jewish
- Education - Film/Video
- Hebrew
- Holocaust
- Israel, Zionism, Jewish National Identity
- Israel - Quick Lookup
- Israel - Advocacy, Media Analysis, Commentary
- Israel - Archaeology
- Israel - Arts
- Israel - Business & Economy
- Israel - General / People, Places, Things, Ideas
- Israel - Government
- Israel - History
- Israel - Institutions
- Israel - Leaders
- Israel - Lessons and Curricular Materials
- Israel - Maps
- Israel - News
- Israel - Organizations
- Israel - Politics
- Israel - Programs, Study, Volunteerism, Tourism, Travel
- Israel - Science & Technology
- Israel - Service Agencies, Medicine, Outreach
- Israel - Universities, Academic Institutions
- Israel - Yeshivot, Religious Study
- Israel - Zionism - Ingathering of Exiles
- Miscellaneous
- News & Magazines
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Like the CAJE membership, these websites represent a broad spectrum within K'lal Yisrael. CAJE does not endorse any single point of view or ideology, but we do endorse learning Torah together!
Aish HaTorah
American Jewish World Service Weekly Torah Commentary
Center for Jewish Healing - Weekly Torah Portion
Chabad
Gates to Jewish Heritage
Hebrew Calendar/Dates for sidrot for next few years
Hillel - Torah Portion Archives
Hineni.org
HUC-JIR Adult Study Resources for Tanakh
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation – Divrei Torah
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jewish Theological Seminary of America - Dr. Ismar Schorsch's Parasha Commentary
Judaism 101 - Torah Readings
Mazornet Torah Portions of the Week
MyJewishLearning.com
Navigating the Bible (English/Russian/Spanish tutor)
Orthodox Union - current week
Orthodox Union - archive
San Diego Jewish Academy - Parshat HaShavuah
SocialAction.com Torah Teachings
Temple Shalom Torah Resources
Torah from Dixie
TorahNet
Torah.org
Virtual Jerusalem
Union for Reform Judaism - weekly portions
Union for Reform Judaism - Family Shabbat Table Talk
World Union of Jewish Students
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Exciting opportunities for Jewish distance learning via the Web are growing.
While CAJE will check each site carefully before posting a link to our website, it's important to check the bona fides of any website or organization before signing up for a course or recommending one. Sadly, some groups whose real goal is proselytizing to Jews put up websites designed to ensnare those who are searching for learning.
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These sites contain educational resources, program materials, research materials, and other articles of interest to educators. Agency or organization websites which do not host such materials have not been listed.
Links to Jewish film and video libraries, archives, collections, and suppliers. Jewish film festival sites are also a great source for ideas on film programming. CAJE offers these links for informational purposes only and does not endorse any particular producer or vendor. Because these sites deal with newly published material about which little other than promotional material is available, CAJE urges educators to monitor new releases carefully for suitability for educational use.
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The number of Internet sites bearing witness to the Holocaust has grown exponentially in recent years, but so has the number of sites displaying lurid interest in the crimes and perverse fascination with the perpetrators and with the victims. The links below have been chosen because they meet CAJE's criteria:
- They offer information, primary historical documents, witness accounts, and images of value to educators confronting the Holocaust in a Jewish context;
- They offer curricular materials useful for Jewish educators;
- They raise questions which Jewish educators may need to confront;
- They contribute to an understanding of the context in which the Jewish catastrophe occurred;
- They are consonant with CAJE's mission.
For this reason, however worthy, sites that seek to understand the Holocaust in a non-Jewish religious context have not been included.
It need hardly be added these links also omit sites seeking to rationalize or even glorify the perpetrators, yimakh shmam v'zikhronam, and to perpetuate their myths — or to say that what happened never happened. Note that even the careful phrasing of these comments has deliberately avoided use of terms that might raise their profile on Internet search engines.
Because sites such as those described in the last paragraph tend to link to one another, much as books of a similar nature cite one another, the scholarly authority they project is a facade, employing classic Big Lie techniques to gain pseudo-respectability. An important caution: educators who contemplate sending students to the Internet (or to a lesser extent, to the public library) to do independent research should be aware that in preparing these links, on searches for topic after topic, we found prominent among the search engine results, well into the top 10, sites alleging that what happened did not happen.
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The purpose of these weblinks is to provide CAJE members with access to information about Israel, its historic role as the Jewish Homeland, and its flourishing modern society. CAJE does not endorse or advocate a particular ideological, religious, or political agenda or solution; CAJE members span the spectrum of modern Jewish thought.
Internet searches show only how widespread particular beliefs, facts, fictions, or outright lies are; search engines make no attempt to distinguish between truth and non-truth, let alone to discern motivation. In drawing up this list of weblinks, however, we are obliged to attempt to do so.
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We include sites representing mainstream points of view within the Jewish spectrum, knowing that some of these sites disagree with each other and with some CAJE members.
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We include sites that shed light on the development and evolution of modern Zionism.
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We include sites that illustrate the integral role of the Land of Israel in the life of the People of Israel over the course of more than 3,000 years, and on the leading role of the State of Israel in modern Jewish life.
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We include sites that advocate, from within the Jewish spectrum, on behalf of the continued flourishing of Israel as a Jewish state and a democracy.
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We have not included sites expressing a non-Jewish religious relationship with the Land of Israel or the State of Israel.
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We have not included sites that cast Israel as a actor in a non-Jewish religious world drama, even if such sites support some Israeli policies for their own reasons.
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We have not included sites inconsistent with CAJE's mission.
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