Your Jewish Neighborhood (podcasts)
A podcast from Temple Isaiah, a Reform synagogue in Lafayette, California

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www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org

This week's links:

Hebrew Project Wiki
Hebrew Language, resources from the University of Texas at Austin
Hebrew Blackboard, Hebrew teaching resources
What Happened to 'Hebrew' in Hebrew School?
Expriment in Congregational Education
The Jewish Education Project

Direct download: yjn-231.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:23 AM

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Direct download: yjn-230.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:45 AM

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This week's links:

Anti-Defamation League
What is Anti-Semitism?, from the ADL
Anti-Semitic violence doubled in 2009, from the Jerusalem Post
The shocking statistics ab out anti-Semitism in America, YouTube video
FBI's 2010 hate crime statistics from ACoordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism
Public education Campaign to End Campus Anti-Semitism, from the US Commission on Civil Rights
Simon Wiesenthal Center

Direct download: yjn-229.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:08 PM

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This week's links

Chanukah, from the Jewish Virtual Library
Rabbis shed light on Chanukah's importance, from the Palm Beach Daily News
The Meaning of Chanukah, from Being Jewish
Eight Days of Chanukah -- What's the Spiritual Significance, from aJudaica.com
Judaism 101: Chanukah
Chanukah, American Style, from the American Jewish Historical Society

Direct download: yjn-228.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:32 AM

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www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org

This week's links:

Who Reads Synagogue Newsletters?
Marketing the Shul: What's Working and What Needs to Work
U.S. Synagoges Lag in Use of Web and Social Media Technologies
Temple Isaiah's Facebook page
Rabbi Judy Shanks on Twitter

Direct download: yjn-226.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:30 PM

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www.yourjewishneighborhood.org

This week's links:

Questions and answers about Selichot from the Orthodox Union
Selichot: Prayers of Repetence, from MyJewishLearning.com
Selicot at the Western Wall, from YouTube
When do we begin saying Selichot and why?, from AskMoses.com
Music of Selichot and the High Holy Days from Sinai Temple, Springfield, MA
Selichot for iPhone and iPad, from The Jewish iPhone Magazine

Direct download: yjn-225.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:59 PM

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YourJewishNeighborhood.org 

This week's links:

The Castle on Hester Street on Amazon.com
Reviews and discussions of The Castle on Hester Street
Linda Heller's Website

Direct download: yjn-221.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:38 PM

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www.YourJewishNeighborhood.org

This week's links:

Satan from JewishEnyclopedia.com
Jews believe in The Satan, and not in the devil, from WhatJewsBelieve.org
Do Jews Believe in Satan? from About.com
Does Judaism Believe in Satan? from BeingJewish.com

Direct download: yjn-220.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:23 PM

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YourJewishNeighborhood

This week's links

How to Make Shabbat More Meaningful
Top Ten Ways to Make Shabbat a Fun Family Celebration
"Get Off the Internet, It's Shabbat!"
Is it considered Melacha to use the internet on Shabbat?
Shabbat in the Community
Reimagining Shabbat, by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffe

Direct download: yjn-219.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:43 PM

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This week's links:

Saving Israel, by Daniel Gordis (from the right)
Saving Israel on Amazon.com
Reviews of "Saving Israel
The Holocaust is Over, by Avraham Burg (from the left)
The Independent's feature story on "The Holocaust is Over"
The Holocaust is Over on Amazon.com

Direct download: yjn-215.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:38 AM