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General Online Learning Sites · Online Jewish Learning via Video & Audio

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Jewish learning on your own schedule! Even when you can't come to classes, in just a few minutes you can learn something new. We've listed our favorite Conservative-style resources below:

General Online Learning Sites

My Jewish Learning -- www.myjewishlearning.com is a comprehensive and interactive online Jewish resource. Check it out!

 

Judaism 101 --  www.jewfaq.org Answering Frequently Asked Questions about Judaism
for more than a decade!

 

The Shengold Judaism Wiki -- http://www.JudaismWiki.com the free Jewish encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

 

Jewish Freeware -- http://www.jewishfreeware.org/ free materials for download, such as family-friendly Haggadot and other materials for Jewish holidays and life-cycle events.

 

ShefaNetwork -- http://shefanetwork.org/  provides a website and listserve for ongoing conversation and resource sharing for Conservative Jews. Click on the top links for learning resources.

Kolel --  The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning, Toronto, Ont. -- http://www.kolel.org/pages/elearning.html, use the links under "online learning."  Other useful resources are under "Weekly Parsha" and "Holidays" (includes clear explanation of the Jewish calendar).

Jewish Learning on Video & Audio

Rabbi Steve's Shorts -- Our own Rabbi Steve Glazer stars in short videos about subjects such as What's on the Bema, Seder Plate, Jews in Space and more. See all of Rabbi Steve's Shorts (videos, that is!)

 

JewU -- Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg, Conservative Rabbi in Skokie, IL, has prepared hundreds of informative videos on varied Jewish subjects from the philosophical to the practical. The videos are indexed by topic on Rabbi Ginsburg's Website.

Programs of the 6th & I Historic Synagogue -- View recorded lectures by first-rate speakers such as Rabbi David Wolpe on Why Faith Matters, Rabbi Reuven Firestone - An Introduction to Islam for Jews, and many speakers about current issues such as Tom Friedman, Tom Brokaw and Daniel Libeskind. Click here.

Siddur Audio -- http://sidduraudio.com/ Online resource to learn how to daven -- audio clips based on our own Siddur Sim Shalom. Also audio of Shabbat songs and the Pesach seder.

 

Additional audio: JTS (below) for podcasts of lectures.

 

Conservative Movement Sites

Emet Ve-Emunah, statement of principles of the Conservative Movement in the US (download from the USCJ Website - pdf**)

The Jewish Theological Seminary www.jtsa.edu Many resources, including podcasts of lectures  and weekly parsha commentary .

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) -- http://uscj.org Many resources, here is the Learning section.

 

Conservative Judaism.org -- http://conservativejudaism.org/  Source for the Conservative/Masorti movement.

 

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