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This week's links: Introducing Rabbi Alissa ForrestInformal Jewish EducationThe philosophy of informal Jewish educationDiversity and informal Jewish education

This week's links: Contra Costa Jewish Day SchoolA Jewish Education: The Right Choice For Many Jewish Families, from About.comPartnership for Excellence in Jewish EducationWikipedia listing for Jewish Day Schools2003-2004 Census of U.S. Jewish Day Schools (PDF file)"J" magazine article, "Day schools don’t isolate, they foster Jewish identity"

This week's links: Shabbat, from Judaism 101Shabbat, from the Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Ultimate Shabbat SiteShabbat ChallengesHow to Keep Shabbat

This week's links:   National Religious Campaign Against Torture Rabbis for Human Rights Rabbis for Human Rights: Stop Torture Now Rabbis for Human Rights: Campaign Against Torture Rabbis Against Torture, by Nat Hentoff for the Village Voice

This week's links Manchester Jewish MuseumManchester SynagoguesJewish Community of Greater ManchesterManchester Jewish Federation

This week's links: Manchester Reform Synagogue Reform Judaism UK  Reform Judaism in England, from the BBC

This week's links:   The Interfaith Marriage The Emotional Challenges of Interfaith Marriage from PsychCentral The Jewish Outreach Institute Sample Jewish–Christian Interfaith Ceremony Tips for Planning an Interfaith Wedding Challenges Facing Interfaith Couples Before & After Marriage from MyJewishLearning.com

This week's links: Wikipedia listing for Shemini Atzeret My Jewish Learning listing for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah Shemini Atzeret dates and Torah portions Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah from the Jewish Virtual Library

This week's links:   Alexander Skwortsow Phish Free downloadable Skworstow recordings Avinu Maleinu from HebrewSongs.com MyJewishLearning.com on Avinu Malkeinu Kol Nidre from JewishEncyclopedia.com Kol Nidre from HebrewSongs.com Cantor Leigh Korn discusses Kol Nidre in YJN episode #57 from about this time last year

This week's links: Arie Kaplan's websiteHeroes of the Comic Book Universe Revealed! at Amazon.comArie Kaplan in WikipediaA Brief History of Jews in Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan

This week's links:  Five Tzimmes recipes OneTwoThreeFourFive Kugel recipes Potato kugelNoodle kugelSpinach kugelFive-fruit kugelEggplant and green pepper kugel Jewish cooking sites Kosher CookingJewish CookingJewish RecipesCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide to Jewish Cooking

This week's links: Gershon's Monster at Amazon.com Books by Eric Kimmel Eric Kimmel's website Eric Kimmel on ChildrensLit.com Eric Kimmel Teacher Resource File Rosh Hashanah for Children, from The Jewish Children's Learning Network Rosh Hashanah Fun Pages on About.com

This week's link: Temple Isaiah's Camp Kefli

This week's links:   Rosh Hashanah from Judaism 101 Rosh Hashanah from WikipediaRosh Hashanah from Torah.orgHow Rosh Hashanah Works (from How Stuff Works)Rosh Hashanah recipesMore Rosh Hashanah recipesStill more Rosh Hashanah recipesRosh Hashanah glossary

This week's links: The Database of Jewish CommunitiesThe Old Synagogue of Dubrovnik, CoratiaThe Jewish Community of DubrovnikKahal Shalom Synagogue, Rhodes, GreeceVirtual Jewish History Tour of GreeceSynagogues without Jews: RhodesGreat Synagogue of Rome (Wikipedia listing The Jewish Community of RomeJewish Rome

This week's links: Temple Isaiah's Gan Ilan Jewish Preschools as Gateways to Jewish Life (PDF file)(A survey of Jewish preschool parents in three cities)URJ Early Childhood Education page Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education - Early Childhood PageJewish Early Childhood Education Initiative

This week's links: Israel's 60th Independence Day Festival The Conservative Movement Celebrates Israel's 60th Anniversary Bergen-Belsen Memorial Video presentation of Hatikvah sung at Bergen-Belsen

This week's links: Wikipedia entry on ShivaShiva resource from About.comHow to pay a Shiva callWikipedia entry on KaddishJudaism 101 on Mourner's KaddishTransliteration and translation of the Kaddish from Yahrzeit.org

This week's links: Berevaement in Judaism, from WikipediaLife, Death, and Mourning, from the Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Jewish Way of DeathJewish Death and Burial Rituals Jewish Funeral Customs

This week's links: Temple Isaiah's Anshei Isaiah Men's Club  Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs  North American Federation of Temple Brotherhoods    More Citrons, Please! article by Doug Barden, executive director of National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods