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Around Jewish Cyberworld

Baruch HaBa l'tachana laInternet haYehudi....

The Internet offers a HUGE supply of information about things Jewish. It's pretty easy to find Orthodox and other traditional sources on the Web. Here, I've collected the links below to help you find your way to sites - especially Reconstructionist, Jewish Feminist, and Jewish Renewal - that I hope will help you find your off-line path to greater knowledge, spirtuality and joy. Spritual practice doesn't have to mean a black hat or a huge suburban synagogue.

• Elat Chayyim Center for Healing and Renewal in the Catskills. Find out that Judaism is spiritual, fun, serious, playful, learning
• Chochmat Lev - Jewish meditation, retreats, workshops, spirituality, Judaism.
• Tirzah Firestone wrote a powerful memoir about spirituality, Judaism, and faith.
• Aleph - the umbrella for Jewish Renewal organizations. Start down your cyber-path to Eco-Kashrut, Renewal, prayer, communities, and more!
• Jewish Reconstructionist Federation This is the organization of Reconstructionist congregations. This site can help answer the questions: What is Reconstructionism? Are YOU a Reconstructionist? Find out here. Includes listings of Reconstructionist congregations and havurot in the U.S. and Canada.
Yuu can also signup for a mailing list,such as RECON-J or Wellsprings, a list for feminist Reconstructionist women.

• Ma'yan The Jewish Women's Project sponsored by the JCC of Manhattan.
• Bridges - The Jewish Feminist Journal is on the Web. Take a look and subscribe to the online disucssion or the hard copy journal. .
• Jewish Women Watching!
Anonymous Jewish women's action.

• Center City Reconstructionist: Leyv Ha-Ir The only Reconstructionist congregation in Center City Philadelphia
• Mishkan Shalom A Reconstructionist congregation in the Philadelphia area.

Study

• Think Jewish History in America started in the 1880s with the mass immigration from Eastern Europe? Gomez House is the oldest Jewish extant residence in America. Built in 1714 by a Sephardic Jew, Luis Moses Gomez who was one of the first families in New York.
• The University of Judaism is a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California.
• Conversion is a process - if you are thinking about it or always wanted to know how one becomes a Jew or if you are adopting a child.
• Maqom Online Talmud study. Looking for a speaker on Talmud, Women in the Talmud? Check out this site. Maqom was founded by Rabbi Judith Abrams, PhD. She has written several books, including The Women of the Talmud
• Take a look at the Jewish Forward - the English version of the newspaper that many of our grandparents read in Yiddish

Israel

• Americans for Peace Now is the US arm of the Israeli group Shalom Achshav

Arts

• Who knew there are Jewish Woodcarvers? - Check out Coastal Carvings Judaica.

Blogs

• Jewish Blogs dot com - I couldn't resist putting this on the list.
• Kesher
• Israeli Guy