Jewish tradition teaches us that "Life is with people."
The Internet also teaches us that "To be is to be connected."
The Internet also teaches us that "To be is to be connected."
Below, you'll find links to Jewish sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and some local Sonoma community sites for news, information, and events in our own backyard. Contact us if there's another online resource that should be listed.
Reform Movement
Sonoma County
Bay Area
Beyond
Eretz Yisrael
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Reform Movement
Sonoma County
- B'nai Israel Jewish Center is a cornerstone of the early 20th Century Petaluma Jewish community, and the first local congregation on the World Wide Web.
- Congregation Ner Shalom over the hill in Cotati, is a member of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation.
- Congregation Beth Ami in Santa Rosa, is a Conservative synagogue which planted roots in 1943.
- Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa, is a Reform temple founded in 1974.
- Joseph Weingarten Chabad Jewish Center in Santa Rosa is the latest addition to local Jewish religious life.
- Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County allied with the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund that oversees and coordinates local programs serving San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, and Solano counties .
Bay Area
- Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund oversees and coordinates local programs serving San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, and Solano counties .
- Jewish Family and Children's Services as the name implies, provides assistance to those in need within San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma counties.
- Jewish Community Relations Council envisions a more just society, a strong and vibrant Jewish community in the United States and in Israel, and seeks to enhance that strength through collaboration with other communities.
- Bureau of Jewish Education administers Bay Area adult and children's learning programs.
- J. The Jewish News of Northern California primarily covers Northern California, with a heavy Bay Area emphasis.
- Jewish Resource Guide is an online version of the J.'s excellent annual "Guide to Jewish Life in the Bay Area."
- Jewish.Com is a "virtual shtetl" with a local and global focus for all things Jewish!
- Shalom Bayit is Northern California's first and only Jewish agency dedicated solely to ending domestic violence in the Jewish community.
- Bay Area Jewish Healing Center is dedicated to providing Jewish spiritual care to those living with illness, to those caring for the ill, and to the bereaved, through direct service, education and training, and information and referral.
- Chochmat HaLev means Wisdom of the Heart. They are based in Berkeley and specialize in meditation and spirituality training/practice.
Beyond
- Shamash Hadash is the Internet's preeminent and seminal Judaica jumping-off place. Exhaustively invaluable, but easily navigated.
- Torah.org has been called "the best site for serious Jewish education on the Internet—period." Sounds right.
- MAQOM is the Talmudic counterpart to torah.org.
- A Page of Talmud is an essential first-stop for those wishing to know more about this most mysterious of Jewish texts. (One hitch: the site hosted by the University of Calgary can be a little slow, but it's worth it!)
- Conversion To Judaism is for people who want in.
- Outreach Judaism and Jews for Judaism are two important counter-missionary resources.
- Forward is the formidable weekly from the Greatest Jewish City In The World.
- Jewish Directory wants to list every synagogue, community center, congregation, rabbi, mikva, et al, on Earth, and is doing pretty well so far.
- Shalom Center founded by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, is for people who are serious about tikkun olam ("healing the world").
Eretz Yisrael
- Jerusalem Post is another longtime English-language Israeli daily with a centrist spin.
- MEMRI offers translations from the world Arab press, which often tells a different story in Arabic than in English.
- Honest Reporting counters anti-Israel media bias.
- Virtual Jerusalem is the World Wide Web's Israeli entranceway, featuring live Internet radio, news, free email, greeting cards, and more.
- Israel Religious Action Center is the Reform Movement's religious/social action organization working for religious pluralism and civil rights.
- New Israel Fund raises money for direct distribution to peace and civil-rights groups in Israel, and offers an email list for updates on the current Middle East situation.
- The Bronfman Fellowship annually sends a group of outstanding Jewish high-school seniors from the U.S. and Canada on five fulfilling weeks of study, dialogue, and travel in Israel.
- Daily Alert a newsletter of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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