Portal:Jewish Studies

Welcome to the Wikiversity Division of Jewish Studies, part of the School of Theology and the Division of Religious Studies The Division of Jewish Studies offers academic study of the religion, history, literature, languages, and material culture of the Jews from ancient to modern times. It includes a forum for discussing Jewish topics.

See also: w:Portal:Judaism, Judaism (as a religion), Jews (as a people), Jewish history, and Jewish culture.

Branches

 * Orthodox
 * Conservative
 * Reform
 * Reconstructionist
 * Karaite
 * Samaritan
 * Humanistic
 * Socialist

Ethics

 * Buisness Practices
 * Santification of God's Names
 * Lashon Hara
 * Charity/Tzedakah
 * Hesed

Holidays

 * Shabbat
 * Yom Kippur
 * Rosh Hashannah
 * Passover/Pesach
 * Purim
 * Hannukah
 * Shavuot
 * Sukkot
 * Shemini Atzeret
 * Simchat Torah
 * Tu B'Shevat
 * Lag B'Omer
 * Tisha B'Av

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History

 * Biblical Period
 * Classical Period
 * Medieval
 * Sabbatean
 * American
 * Holocaust
 * Soviet

Textual Studies

 * Torah
 * Weekly Parshah
 * Midrash
 * Talmud
 * Daf Yomi
 * Mishnah
 * Tanya

General Observances

 * Kashrut
 * Santification of God's Names
 * Tefillin
 * Kippa/Yarmulke

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this Division, you can list your name here (this can help small Divisions grow and the participants communicate better; for large Divisions it is not needed).
 * w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism on Wikipedia for collaboration
 * AFriedman
 * Daniel Yehuda
 * Erin
 * Orin Dion (Oren Dayan)
 * Rebele

Division news

 * March 28, 2010 - Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv turns 100 around this time! To add comments and birthday wishes, write your message here.
 * August 18, 2006 - Division founded!

Departments
A Division has departments (in the Topic: namespace). The departments link to learning materials and learning projects. Simply make a link from department pages to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!


 * Introduction to Judaism
 * Department of Torah study
 * Jewish Law
 * Portal:Hebrew

Research projects

 * What is Judaism?

Resources
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!


 * Jewish Books Seforim,Sefer,Jewish Books,Kabbalah,Kabalah,Sforim - http://www.MySefer.com | The Largest Online Provider Of Hebrew Sifrei Kodesh
 * Sefaria: huge range of open source material in both English and Hebrew
 * MyJewishLearning.Com: A Trans-denominational Website Of Jewish Information and Education
 * Judaism FAQ: Online introduction to Judaism in book-form
 * Wikipedia main article on Judaism, branches into thousands of articles
 * Torah.org
 * Chabad Lubavitch
 * Learn @ JTS (Torah resources)
 * 120 Minutes with JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary): A wide variety of Jewish topics, many of general interest to students of world history.
 * United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
 * Aish HaTorah
 * Ohr Somayach
 * Mechon Mamre (online Hebrew texts, some English)
 * Sifrot Kodesh: Tanach, Misnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah (Hebrew)
 * http://www.hebrewbooks.org/ Over 40,000 books (mostly in Hebrew) available in pdf format for free download
 * The Jewish Encyclopedia is on line and is no longer under copyright.
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/

Full Google books

 * Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person's Guide to a More Peaceful Life
 * The Legends of the Jews
 * Judaism
 * A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediaeval Judaism
 * Making Our Wilderness Bloom: 350 Years of Extraordinary Jewish Women in America

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