Your Jewish Neighborhood

This week's links:JIMENAJustice for Jews from Arab CountriesWikipedia entry for Mizrahi Jews

This week's links:Zam'Ru: The Jewish Music Choral DatabaseJewish Choral Music on the InternetURJ: Training Opportunities for Synagogue MusiciansURJ: Synagogue Choirs as Instruments of Prayer

This week's linksURJ synagogue listingListing of UK Reform communitiesWikipedia listing on Kol NidreTransliteration, translation, and moreBackground on Max Bruch arrangement

This week's links:The month of Elul and Selichot, from Judaism 101Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish calendar listing)The Month for Repentence, from About.comThe Month of Elul: Customs, from Torah.org

This week's links:About.com entry on Jewish denominationsWikipedia's entry on Jewish denominationsJudaism 101

This week's links:How to choose a synagogue, from My Jewish LearningChoosing a synagogue is harder for intermarrieds, from J magazineHow is a synagogue operated? from old Usenet FAQs

This week's links:Rosie the Riveter TrustWomen in the Factories of World War IIRosie the Riveter: Wikipedia entryRosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National ParkCongregation Beth Ami, Santa Rosa, California

This week's links:Ways to support IsraelBrit Tzedek v'ShalomUnion for Reform JudaismARZA

This week's links:San Francisco Mayor Gavin NewsomeUS Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)About the Jewish Community Relations Council Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and South Africa Camp Newman and Camp Swig

This week's links:Environmental Working Group's "Skin Deep," news about the safety of popular health and beauty brandsThe Campaign for Safe CosmeticsFDA article on cosmetic ingredientsTen Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients to Avoid, from the Organic Consumers AssociationWomen of Reform Judaism

This week's links: Wikipedia's listing for the mikvah Mikvah Project Ideas for a deeply spiritual conversion ritual Reform conversion to Judaism

This week's links:The Center for Converstion to JudaismConversion to Judaism (from Chamash)Becoming JewishWho is a Jew? (from Judaism 101)How to Become a Jew (from the BBC)Inviting Conversion (URJ's Biennial Initiative)

This week's links:National Havurah CommitteeWikipedia entry on chavurah

This week's links: An Amazon.com list of books for the Jewish bride Wikipedia listing on the Jewish view of marriage Where to get a chuppah, from the Berkeley Parents Network Jewish Weddings, from All Things Jewish On the breaking of the glass, by Adventure Rabbi

This week's links: Wikipedia's listing on Havdalah Havdalah and Shabbat candle-lighting times Home Havdalah Service Havdalah candle-making

This week's links:The Peace Encyclopedia on anti-semitismThe U.S. State Department Report on Anti-SemitismWikipedia's listing on Anti-Semitism

This week's link:Temple Isaiah's Seventh Grade Fund

This week's links:The United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumSara Bloomfield

This week's links:LilithInformation on Susan Weidman Schneider

This week's links:Wikipedia listing for ShavuotShavuot on the NetShavuot at OU.orgShavuot from the Jewish Virtual LibraryAbout the Book of RuthShavuot: The Book of RuthSavuot Recipes