P'nei Adonai resources for walking in the presence of God

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Eugene

The Beth Shalom Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding is run by Lynn Jacobson. Weekly events include a prayer meeting (Mondays at noon), Biblical Hebrew classes (Thursdays at 11am), and a Torah study (Thursdays at noon). The building is at 1399 Highway 99 North, Eugene 97402. For more information call (541) 686-1611.

We participate in some events with Two Rivers Interfaith Ministires, most notably their monthly event of praying for peace and the From Heart to Heart newspaper column in the Register Guard.

Those looking for help from local Jewish charities should contact Kehillat Sar Shalom as well as the other synagogues in Eugene: Temple Beth Israel (Reconstructionist), Or HaGan (Conservative), and Ahavas Torah (Orthodox). Eugene also has a small Jewish Federation.

Some of our members participate in the Jewish Genealogy Society of Willamette Valley Oregon.

Our maggid has a blog.

Scripture

Chanted Torah is available at ORT. In some congregations liturgy that is directly from the Torah (for example, the V'ahavta) is chanted according to the Torah cantillation. (Please note that there are multiple "standard" ways to chant the Masoretic trop.)

The best free Bible software we know about is E-Sword, which includes modules for the Tenach in Hebrew and the Septuagint as well as many English translations. It also makes available a free abbrevated version of the BDB Lexicon that is actively linked to the superscript Strong's numbers in the Hebrew or English text.

An interlinear Bible is available at Search God's Word. It allows a quick check for which Greek word was used in a certain location by the translators of the Septuagint.

Some Psalms sung in Hebrew are available at Shma-Israel.

The Apostolic Writings are available in Hebrew here.

Hebrew

Our favorite CD-and-book program for learning Biblical Hebrew is Living Biblical Hebrew. Our favorite Hebrew word processor is Davka Writer.

The 500 Hebrew words most frequent in the Tenach are listed on this PDF.

Help in typing Hebrew in an English word processor is available here.

A webpage that attempts to translate from English to Hebrew is here. Enter an English word in the box in the upper right corner, and then click on the blue button beside it. An alternate address for this same site is here.

Hebrew songs are here.

Hebrew preschool materials are available at several websites. Akhlah has an alphabet page with other resources linked at the bottom of that page. ZigZag also has many activities. AlephPlace, Aish, JeMM, and HSL have flash movies. BabaGanews, Quia, and Jewish Funland have games. Torah Tots and Alef Land have coloring pages.

Liturgy, Music and Dance

Liturgy audio files are available at Temple San Jose and Congregation Neveh Shalom.

Websites with dance steps are maintained by Moriah Ministires (Margaret Keck), One in Three, and Israeli Dances dot Com.

Maps of Israel

Eye on Israel is a fun interactive map.

The University of Texas has an online collection of maps that includes nice maps of Israel.

A map of first century Israel with Roman roads is here.

A collection of satellite images of Israel is available at the Israel Science and Technology Homepage and the Earth Observatory.

Judaism

R.H. Charles is working on a compilation of early Jewish writings. Many he has not yet edited are available here.

The website Hebcal has useful Jewish calendar applications, and a Parashot section.

Aish.com provides coloring pages for the Parashot.

The UMJC has two Yahoo! groups of weekly parashot commentary, UMJC Weekly Torah and The Set Table.

Jacob Richman collects Jewish clip art.

Tracey Haider-Sprague has an interesting Jewish blog named Chai Time, in which a nice place to start is her video teaching how to braid a six-strand challah.

Chabad.org has many wonderful resources, including several different discussions of the weekly Parashot and a nice calendar. Here is another example of the kind of resource Chabad.org makes freely available: a website script for candlelighting times...