Other Essential Websites

Summary

Beyond Sefaria, Chabad.org, MyJewishLearning, Aleph Beta, the OU, Hadar, and Pardes, a handful of additional websites belong on the New Jew's bookmarks: Sefaria's source sheets and educational resources; the JPS Tagged Tanakh (jps.org); Hebcal (hebcal.com, the indispensable Jewish calendar); the Jewish Theological Seminary (jtsa.edu); Yeshiva University's Torah To Go; Mechon Mamre (full Tanakh and Talmud in Hebrew); the Israel Bible Center; the Jewish Virtual Library.

Calendars and Tools

Hebcal.com—the standard Jewish calendar, with sunset/sunrise times for any location, parshah schedules, holiday dates, and calendar exports to Google Calendar or Outlook.

Halachic Times (myzmanim.com)—precise zmanim (halachic times: latest Shema, earliest Mincha, sunset) for any location.

Daf Yomi Calculators—Sefaria, OU's All Daf, and many specific Daf Yomi apps.

Reform and Conservative Resources

Union for Reform Judaism (urj.org)—central Reform site.

CCAR (ccarpress.com)—Reform rabbinic resources, the Mishkan T'filah.

Reform Judaism Magazine (reformjudaism.org).

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (uscj.org).

Rabbinical Assembly (rabbinicalassembly.org)—Conservative teshuvot via the CJLS.

JTS (jtsa.edu)—Jewish Theological Seminary.

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies—for Conservative West Coast.

About Sefaria—Sefaria.

Learning Schedules—Sefaria.

Links—Jewish Virtual Library.

Reconstructionist and Renewal

Reconstructing Judaism (reconstructingjudaism.org).

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal (aleph.org).

Tanakh and Text Tools

Mechon Mamre (mechon-mamre.org)—full Tanakh and Mishneh Torah in Hebrew, with parallel English.

JPS Tagged Tanakh (jps.org/tagged-tanakh)—searchable JPS English translation with grammatical tags.

BibleHub—useful for parallel Hebrew/English/Greek (use with awareness that it is a Christian-oriented site).

Bible Project—high-quality animated explanations of biblical books (Christian; treat the New Testament videos accordingly).

Israel and News

JTA (jta.org)—the Jewish news service.

Times of Israel (timesofisrael.com)—daily English-language Israeli news.

Haaretz (haaretz.com)—Israeli daily, English edition.

Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)—Israeli daily, English.

Tablet Magazine (tabletmag.com)—long-form Jewish journalism.

Mosaic Magazine (mosaicmagazine.com)—high-quality essays on Jewish thought and politics.

Where Denominations Diverge

Listed by denominational affiliation above. The Tanakh tools are denomination-neutral.

Sources

Each website's About page and editorial standards.

Further Reading

The Books chapter for the offline equivalents.