Jewish Sites

Nu? The JAFI Portal
An index of Jewish Web sites
The InterfaithFamily.com Network
A membership association dedicated to advocating the process of making the Jewish community more welcoming and inclusive of interfaith families.
See the Life Cycle Ceremonies archive for lots of articles about naming, circumcision, b'nai mitvot, etc.
SMAL, the Shomer Mitzvot Adoption List
An e-mail discussion group for adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents and others who want to discuss issues related to adopting children into Orthodox Jewish families. It differs from other adoption discussion lists in placing a special emphasis on the issues faced by observant Jewish families.
JEWISH-ADOPTION-LIST list
An e-mail discussion group for Jewish people and interfaith families who have adopted children or are thinking about or working on adoption. Not restricted to any level of observance.
Cafe Ami~ Magazine
An online magazine that focuses on the experiences of individuals and families who are African-American, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Sephardic, or mixed race and Jewish, or who are white and raising their mixed race or adopted children of color as Jews. A component of the Institute of Jewish and Community Research (Yachad b'Shalom ~ Together In Peace)
Tefilat Chana/ Chanas Prayer
This site is designed as a refuge for Jewish women who are experiencing the challenges of infertility and/or pregnancy loss.
Jewish Adoption Ceremony
Simcha and Geela Rayzel Raphael are adoptive parents, and both work as rabbis and ritual co-officants. They are available to help other families in creating adoption or baby-naming rituals. Contact Simcha Raphael at: drsimcha@verizon.net
Ritualwell.org - Searchable database of Jewish rituals for a variety of passages of human life, stressing inclusive language. Includes rituals for adoption, babynaming, circumcisioni, infertility, parenting, pregnancy loss and other personal and communal milestones. Sponsored by Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studies and Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project.
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - An extensive, searchable archive of Jewish documentary films, part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The archive holds over 3,000 titles on film and video, including material shot in Israel before and after the establishment of the State in 1948, motion picture records of many Jewish communities in the Diaspora and two special collections relating to the Holocaust. The "Virtual Film Project" on the site allows PC users using Internet Explorer 6 (or higher) and Windows Media Player 6.5 (or higher) to view films contained in the archive. Currently 112 of the collection can be viewed online; 100 films are to be added annually through 2008, until 500 films are accessible on the Web.