Other Essential Websites

A brief tour of the other digital tools every New Jew should know about.

By The Editors

Websites · 2 minute read

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Summary. Beyond Sefaria, Chabad.org, MyJewishLearning, Aleph Beta, the OU, Hadar, and Pardes, a handful of additional websites belong on the New Jew's bookmarks: Sefaria's source sheets and educational resources; the JPS Tagged Tanakh (jps.org); Hebcal (hebcal.com — the indispensable Jewish calendar); the Jewish Theological Seminary (jtsa.edu); Yeshiva University's Torah To Go; Mechon Mamre (full Tanakh and Talmud in Hebrew); the Israel Bible Center; the Jewish Virtual Library.

Calendars and Tools

Hebcal.com — the standard Jewish calendar, with sunset/sunrise times for any location, parshah schedules, holiday dates, and calendar exports to Google Calendar or Outlook.

Halachic Times (myzmanim.com) — precise zmanim (halachic times: latest Shema, earliest Mincha, sunset) for any location.

Daf Yomi Calculators — Sefaria, OU's All Daf, and many specific Daf Yomi apps.

Reform and Conservative Resources

Union for Reform Judaism (urj.org) — central Reform site.

CCAR (ccarpress.com) — Reform rabbinic resources, the Mishkan T'filah.

Reform Judaism Magazine (reformjudaism.org).

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (uscj.org).

Rabbinical Assembly (rabbinicalassembly.org) — Conservative teshuvot via the CJLS.

JTS (jtsa.edu) — Jewish Theological Seminary.

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies — for Conservative West Coast.

Reconstructionist and Renewal

Reconstructing Judaism (reconstructingjudaism.org).

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal (aleph.org).

Tanakh and Text Tools

Mechon Mamre (mechon-mamre.org) — full Tanakh and Mishneh Torah in Hebrew, with parallel English.

JPS Tagged Tanakh (jps.org/tagged-tanakh) — searchable JPS English translation with grammatical tags.

BibleHub — useful for parallel Hebrew/English/Greek (use with awareness that it is a Christian-oriented site).

Bible Project — high-quality animated explanations of biblical books (Christian; treat the New Testament videos accordingly).

Israel and News

JTA (jta.org) — the Jewish news service.

Times of Israel (timesofisrael.com) — daily English-language Israeli news.

Haaretz (haaretz.com) — Israeli daily, English edition.

Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) — Israeli daily, English.

Tablet Magazine (tabletmag.com) — long-form Jewish journalism.

Mosaic Magazine (mosaicmagazine.com) — high-quality essays on Jewish thought and politics.

Where Denominations Diverge

Listed by denominational affiliation above. The Tanakh tools are denomination-neutral.

Sources

Each website's About page and editorial standards.