Recommended Web Links
JEWISH LINKS
| AJC Archives | View TV and films, listen to radio, search archive for American Jewish history of the past century |
| Daf L'tarbut Yehudit (דף לתרבות יהודית) |
Articles on various topics of Jewish interest (searchable in Hebrew) |
| Hebrew Books | Full-text Hebrew books and journals; searchable by title, author, and subject. |
| Hebrew Literature | Full-text Hebrew poems and stories by well-known authors |
| Herzog Center | Primary documents on Israel history |
| Jewish Biographies | brief introductions to famous Jewish leaders |
| Jewish Calendar | (searchable) |
| Jewish War Veterans of the United States | |
| Knesset webpage | Statistics and documents pertaining to the Legislature of the State of Israel |
| Mechon Mamre | |
| Medical Ethics and Halacha | Articles from leading poskim |
| Melingo | Comprehensive Hebrew/English/Hebrew dictionary |
| Norman Lamm Archives | Searchable database of drashot of Rabbi Lamm |
| One Hundred Years of Zionism | Brief biographies of people connected with Zionism and the State of Israel |
| RAMBI | Searchable index of articles on Jewish Studies |
| Remember | Holocaust related site |
| Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research | Searchable articles covering the halachic issues that pertain to medical ethics. |
| Sharei Shechem |
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| Snunit | Searchable database of Tanakh, Mishnah, Gemara (Bavli and Yerushalmi), Mishna Torah L'haRambam, and Tosefta in full text |
| Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation | Download or stream videos about Holocaust |
| "The Meaning of Words: Marcus Jastrow and the Making of Rabbinic Dictionaries" | An exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Library |
| www.jbooks.com | Review journal of Jewish books |
| Yad Vashem | Extensive resources from the World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration (located in Jerusalem) |
OTHER USEFUL LINKS
| answers.com | Dictionary, encyclopedia, general research etc. |
| Google Books | Full text and index search capability for millions of books online. |
| Hathi Trust | Full text and index search capability for millions of books online. |
| homeworknyc.org | 24/7 one-on-one homework help and more. |
| Infomine | Scholarly Internet research in various subjects from University of California. |
| Life Magazine photo archive | Millions of searchable images |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Searchable art works |
| New York Public Library databases | Accessible from home with your NYC public library card. |
| Project Gutenberg | The first producer of free ebooks. Over 42,000 free ebooks, including ePub books and Kindle books. Download them or read them online. |
| The Full Universal Currency Converter | Calculates live currency and foreign exchange rates. |
| Turning the Pages | Digitized books from the British Library (uses theShockwave plug-in, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website) |
| Unit Converter | Converts units of Angle, Area, Bits & Bytes, Density, Electric Current, Energy, Force, Fuel Consumption, Length, Mass, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Time, and Volume. Converts to and from metric too! |
| U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder | Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic information. Search for various places by city, town, state, zip code. |
| World Atlas | Latitude and longitude, maps, demographic information, and much more |
| World Wind (from NASA) | Virtually visit any place in the world and see how it looks from space in 3D. |
WEB EVALUATION: RESOURCES
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources (resource from the University of New Mexico)
- Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation: A guide for library instruction (American Library Association)