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We're dealing with a lot of insanity behind the scenes and need your support. We're not afraid or ashamed to ask for it. We urge you to support the privacy, safety, and security of Jews and Israel online. And to support Israel & the fight against antisemitism and terror: http://www.thejidf.org/1990/02/support-jidf.html - And if you cannot make a financial contribution, we understand. There's other ways to help, such as asking others to, and clicking the "Take Action!" link on our website. Thank you!

We need your support, and we're not afraid or ashamed to ask for it. We urge you to support the privacy, safety, and security of Jews and Israel online. And to support Israel & the fight against antisemitism and terror: - And if you cannot make a financial contribution, we understand. There's other ways to help, such as asking others to, and clicking the "Take Action!" link on our website. Thank you!

A Jewish Synagogue in the Tunisian city of Kabes was set on fire last night. The Jewish community spokesman said that the Torah books were completely burnt. The spokesman condemned the brutal action and stated that the purpose of the action was to increase the tensions between Jews and Muslims who have been living in peace for decades.

Small site about a vanishing culture.

Keeping alive the memory of old Jewish radio broadcasts, not all of which are in Yiddish so, no, you won't have to have bubbe there to translate.

Nothing inherently Republican about it; this is the homepage for an association of schuls that follow a middle path between Orthodoxy and Reform.

Group working with the Spertus museum to document the history of the Jewish community in Chicago.

This link is a reference, not a recommendation, showing a trend that bothers me immensely - that toward pushing G-d to the margins of Judaism. No, not everybody does that, but I see more people doing that than I can ever remember seeing doing so in the past. Yes, I understand - being Hebraic doesn't automatically make one religious any more than being French does - notice how I used the word "Hebraic" instead of "Jewish" - and I can understand an atheist wanting to hold onto his cultural roots. What I'm not so comfortable with is the idea of taking one of the parties in a covenant relationship, denying his existence, chasing him off to the far corners of our consciousness, and then acting as if the covenant relationship had not been breeched in the process. OK, yes, I know that the people we're talking about are Jewish, as a matter of Jewish law. I respect that, as I must, but I'm not sure that I really want to call what they're doing "Judaism".

Use your keyboard to type in Hebrew. If you know Hebrew, that is. No translator is available, this is just a keyboard conversion program that lets one use a different alphabet.

Alas, it only comes once every two years.