Tools & Resources
Siddurim, prayers, drills, reading lists, and the best of the digital beit midrash
SiddurimPrayerbooks opened page by page, with Hebrew, translation, and transliteration.Open resource →PrayersLine-by-line guides to the words, roots, meaning, and practice of Jewish prayer.Open resource →GlossaryPlainspoken definitions for the language, people, texts, and ideas of Jewish life.Open resource →DrillsInteractive mastery of letters, vowels, Torah words, and the Hebrew calendar.Open resource →Rabbinic WorksA field guide to the classical rabbinic library, from codes to Hasidic works.Open resource →Reading ListsAnnotated books organized by subject, depth, and denominational lens.Open resource →WebsitesThe strongest digital doors into texts, learning, practice, and community.Open resource →AudioListen to narrated articles, prayers, and siddur pages in editorial playlists.Open resource →Congregation DirectoryFind synagogues and communities across the United States, by movement and place.Open resource →Essential Reading: A Starter LibraryA small shelf of well-chosen books gives a New Jew everything needed for the first year.EssentialRead article →How This List Was BuiltAn annotated walk through the most useful books for the New Jew, organized for cumulative learning.EssentialRead article →SefariaThe single most important digital tool in contemporary Jewish learning.EssentialRead article →MyJewishLearningThe pluralistic Jewish encyclopedia of the internet—covering every denomination, every topic, accessibly.EssentialRead article →Chabad.orgThe most comprehensive, accessible, Orthodox-perspective Jewish website on the internet.EssentialRead article →OU.org (Orthodox Union)The Orthodox Union's home—the standard kashrut certification, plus comprehensive Orthodox educational and pastoral resources.EssentialRead article →Aleph BetaRabbi David Fohrman's video-based parshah and Tanakh learning, with a distinctive textual-analytical approach.EssentialRead article →Other Essential WebsitesA brief tour of the other digital tools every New Jew should know about.EssentialRead article →HadarThe Hadar Institute—intensive Traditional Egalitarian learning, particularly strong on Talmud and liturgy.EssentialRead article →PardesThe Pardes Institute in Jerusalem—the great pluralistic North American yeshiva on the Israeli ground.EssentialRead article →A Going-Deeper LibraryTwelve books that take the New Jew from Essential to fluent.DeeperRead article →