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

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.

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.

Alas, it only comes once every two years.

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".

Formerly known as "Spertus College of Judaica"; homepage of a Jewish college in Chicago.

At least not for Pesach. Yes, this has apparently been ruled on: marijuana is hametz - if you're Ashkenazic. Otherwise, I guess you can ... what ... light up in the middle of seder? Kashrut - a far more interesting subject than you know. Note: You might want to view this one in Firefox, as I just had difficulty back arrowing out of this page in Internet Explorer.

Small site about a vanishing culture.

This report comes from London, but the attitudes mentioned can easily be found in the United States as well. Wondering if, in the long run, the Diaspora has a future, at least anywhere in the West or the Middle East, outside of Israel.

So you're serving at a Jewish wedding and naturally, you go upstairs to play recorded chants from a pro-Hamas demonstration. What could possibly go wrong?