LINKS & RESOURCES Contact webteam@Kolshofar.org with suggestions for the Kol Shofar links page. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS Click to download a PDF with information about what's going on in the wider Jewish community. This attachment is updated on a weekly basis. ALL THINGS JEWISH Aish.com: www.aish.com JewishNet: http://www.jewishnet.net Judaism 101: http://www.jewfaq.org My Jewish Learning: http://www.myjewishlearning.com   Shamash: http://shamash.org/ United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://uscj.org/index1.html BLOGS The Jew and the Carrot:  http://jcarrot.org/local-free-range-organic-kosher-meat Hechsher tzedek:  http://rabbimorrisallen2.blogspot.com/ GENDER, EGALITARIANISM From the Progressive side of the Conservative movement:  http://www.shefanetwork.org/    Thoughtful perspectives on halakha from an orthodox feminist point of view: http://www.jofa.org/about.php/publications/jofajournal Jewish Women’s Archive:  http://www.jwa.org/feminism/ HALAKHA Halakha from a Conservative point of view: http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/diduknow/jrpguide/ Halakha.net:  http://www.halacha.com/    Thoughtful perspectives on halakha from an orthodox feminist point of view: http://www.jofa.org/about.php/publications/jofajournal Halakhic Organ Donor organization:  www.hods.org Magen Tzedek (Hechsher tzedek):  http://magentzedek.org/ ISRAEL AIPAC:  http://www.aipac.org/ Camera:  http://www.camera.org/ Daniel Gordis:  www.danielgordis.org Ha’aretz:  http://www.haaretz.com/ Hadassah:  http://www.hadassah.org/home.asp?flashEnabled=yes Honest Reporting:  www.honestreporting.com Interreligious Coordinating Council of Israel:  http://www.icci.co.il/ JCRC:  www.jcrc.org/israel  Jerusalem Post:  http://www.jpost.com/ Jewish Virtual Library:  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ Mercaz USA:  http://www.mercazusa.org/ New Israel Fund: http://www.nif.org/ Rabbis for Human Rights:  http://www.rhr.israel.net/ Stand With Us:  www.standwithus.com SF Voice for Israel:  www.sfvoiceforisrael.org  Ynet News:  http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html KIDS' LEARNING http://www.babaganewz.com/ http://www.akhlah.com/ www.embassyofisrael.org/kids MUSIC, BOOKS, AND CULTURE Berman House:  http://www.behrmanhouse.com/ Klezmer music: http://www.klezmershack.com/ Tara:  http://www.jewishmusic.com/ Jewish literature, culture and ideas:  http://www.nextbook.org/ Journal of Jewish culture and thought: http://www.zeek.net/ NEWS JTA:  http://www.jta.org/   Jewish Daily Forward:  http://www.forward.com/ Ha’aretz:  http://www.haaretz.com/ Honest Reporting:  www.honestreporting.com Jerusalem Post:  http://www.jpost.com/   SKILLS AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION Kashrut:  http://www.kosher.com/ Leyning tutor: http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp Online trope tutor: http://www.ellietorah.com/ Candlelighting times: http://www.ou.org/holidays/zmanim Holiday dates for future years: http://kaluach.net/ Links for each parsha to the part we read triennially: http://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/ Information about mikvah: http://www.mayyimhayyim.org/Education_Library.asp?page=Education Guide to Jewish potlucks: http://twoheadsoflettuce.blogspot.com/2006/08/at-last-twoheadsoflettuce-guide-to.html (if that URL breaks, try http://tinyurl.com/k7rlw ) Sukkah building: http://sukkot.com/; http://www.holidays.net/sukkot/sukkah.htm; http://www.amit.org.il/Learning/English/Sukkot/index.htm; http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday5.htm; http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Sukkot/Overview_sukkot Halakhic Organ Donor organization:  www.hods.org Sharsheret – national association of cancer survivors, dedicated to addressing concerns of young Jewish women facing breast cancer: http://www.sharsheret.org/programs.php Chevra Kadisha:  http://www.jewish-funerals.org/ TORAH COMMENTARY Aish:  http://www.aish.com/torahportion/ JTSA:  http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/ My Jewish Learning:  http://www.myjewishlearning.com   Reconstructionist website:  http://www3.jrf.org/1/recon-dt Torah.org:  http://www.torah.org/ Torah Tidbits: http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/ Jewish Celebrations: http://www.mazornet.com/jewishcl/Torah/Torahportions.htm TZEDAKAH AND GEMILUT CHESED Great tzedakah site including links to donate online:  http://www.just-tzedakah.org Wonderful guides (in Microsoft Word) about how to do bikkur cholim, visiting the sick:  http://www.ncjh.org/programs.html#bc Jewish Family and Children’s Services:  http://www.jfcs.org                 A wonderful site for “mitzvah heros”:  http://www.goodpeoplefund.org/    CaringBridge-a site that helps people who are ill communicate with their friends/community and helps the community take care of those people:  http://www.caringbridge.org/    BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JEWISH WEBSITES http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/bibliowf.html MORE JEWISH RESOURCES Lefferts Jewish Community Library http://www.bhds-marin.org