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 Amazon.com.  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.

To view the updates and corrections that have been made to the entries in the book, click on the topic of interest.

Academic Jewish Studies	Aliyah	Art
Books	Calendars	Computers
Directories	Divrei Torah	Electronic Journals
Games	Genealogy	Hebrew
History	Holocaust	Basic Facts About Israel
Israel and Students	Israeli Business	Israeli Culture
Israeli News	Israeli Politics	Israeli Tourism
Jewish Communities	Jewish Holidays	Jewish Texts
Judaism	K-12 Schools	Kashrut and Food
Libraries and Librarians	The Media	Medicine
Museums	Organizations	Performing Arts
Personals	Science	Social Action
Students	Traditional Jewish Studies	Yiddish

General Updates

1.  Jewish Gophers

• Jerusalem One (p. 2) has been renamed Virtual Jerusalem.  New material is being placed on the Virtual Jerusalem web page at http://www.virtual.co.il
• The Shamash Gopher (p. 3) is still available by gophering to shamash.org.  New information is being placed on the Shamash web page at http://shamash.org
• The Israel Information Service (p. 4) is still available by gophering to israel-info.gov.il.  New material is being place on the Foreign Ministry's web page at http://www.israel.org
• The Chabad Gopher (p. 5) is still available by gophering to lubavitch.chabad.org.  New material is being placed on the Chabad web page at http://www.chabad.org 

2.  Listservs (p. 7)

• Subscription to the listservs that are housed at Shamash should be addressed to listproc@shamash.org.  Subscription requests may also be sent through the Shamash web page at http://shamash.org/help/listoflists.html
• Subscriptions to the listservs that are housed at Jerusalem One should be addressed to listproc@jer1.co.il.  Subscription requests may also be sent through the Virtual Jerusalem web page at http://www.virtual.co.il/city_services/lists/

• Another list of Jewish listservs is located at http://www.jewishnet.net/services/lis.htm

3. Search Engines (p. 10)

• Jewish Communication Network is at http://www.jcn18.com
• HaReshima lists many Jewish and Israeli sites at http://www.HaReshima.com 
• Jewish Community Online is an outgrowth of the America Online site by that name and has a directory of site at http://www.Jewish.com/search  
• Zipple--http://www.zipple.com    
• If you're interested in religious topics, try Metzia at http://www.parsha.com/metzia  

4.  Searching Hebrew Language Sites

• Search Hebrew language sites with Tapuz--http://www.tapuz.co.il
• A search engine designed to sift through documents housed on Israeli servers is located at http://www.find.co.il
• Sababa specializes in "cool" Hebrew language sites--http://sababa.co.il
• Achla is a Hebrew search engine at http://www.achla.co.il     
• Click Net indexes Israeli sites--http://www.clicknet.co.il
• GoGo is an Israeli search engine--http://www.gogo.co.il  
• Madlik describes itself as an index for "cool" Israeli sites--http://www.madlik.co.il  
• Another Israeli search engine is Pagaz--http://pagaz.co.il    
• Zooloo also indexes Israeli sites--http://www.zooloo.co.il    
• Falafel--http://www.falafel.co.il  
• The IGuide is a collection of Israeli sites--http://www.iguide.co.il    
• Atraf emphasizes "fun" sites--http://www.atraf.co.il     NEW
• Gizmoo will allow you to input words in English and get the search results in Hebrew--http://www.gizmoo.co.il  NEW
• Nana is a search engine from Netvision, Israel's largest ISP--http://www.nana.co.il      NEW
• Start.Co.Il offers a number of Hebrew and English search engines--http://www.start.co.il including one called Sharks--http://www.sharks.co.il     NEW
• Kinneret--http://www.kinneret.co.il--lists a number of Hebrew portals including Indexnet--http://www.indexnet.co.il, Topnet--http://www.topnet.co.il, Isralink--http://www.isralink.co.il, Zehu Zeh--http://www.zehuze.co.il and Boom--http://www.boom.co.il     NEW

5.  Keeping Current (p. 19)

• Take a look at The Mining Company--http://www.miningco.com for their sites on Judaism and Israel     
• MSN has two community sites of interest:  The MSN Jewish Community at http://communities.msn.com/jewish/ and the MSN Israel Community at http://communities.msn.com/israel/    

Jewish Sites (p. 20)  

• Nadav Har'el's (p. 20) site is now located at http://math.technion.ac.il/~nyh/israel/
• Eyal Dunkel's Sabra Home Page (p. 21) is now located at http://www.sabra.net
• Check out a very comprehensive Canadian site that has over 300 Jewish links listed at http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ab522/jewish.html    
• Jewish Star houses a collection of Israeli and Jewish links--http://members.aol.com/JewishStr/index.html
• Heshy Englesberg's sites are a good start--http://gramery.ios.com/~heshye/jewish.htm    
• Ahavat Israel is an observant site--http://www.ahavat-israel.com   as is TorahNet--http://www.toranet.co.il 
• Jamie's Favorite Jewish Sites offers a nicely arranged set of links at http://www.mylink.net/~jme/P6Jewish.htm
• Jacob Richman has an excellent collection of sites, both Jewish and secular--http://www.jr.co.il  
• Mish Mash has a large collection of links--http://mishmash.virtualave.net      
• The Digital Genizah is a large and well organized collection of Jewish links--http://www.uscj.org/metny/middletown/GENIZAH.HTM   NEW
• Kosher Delight looks like a magazine, but it specializes in links to kosher restaurants worldwide and Jewish education--http://www.kosherdelight.com     NEW

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This page was last updated on October 10, 1999.

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