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Abba Hillel Silver
In 1998 I started a page of links to web
pages about my
former rabbi, when a search on "Abba
Hillel Silver" found only 400 "hits" on a much smaller internet. (A similar
search today will find about 54,000 pages!) The only
website on the life and work of
Cleveland's most notable Jewish citizen, it has grown to 40
pages and has achieved #1 ranking on Google.
In 2006, to create a broader
platform, I moved these pages to start www.ClevelandJewishHistory.net |
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Cleveland Jewish History
In late 2006 my Abba Hillel Silver
pages became ClevelandJewishHistory.net which is now more than
440 pages and still growing. It features sections on Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver
(see above), Louis Rosenblum's memoir of his involvement in the Soviet Jewry
movement, and Rabbi Israel Porath.
It
also hosts Nate Arnold's tours of old Jewish Cleveland,
and more. More than 40 others have contributed pages to this
website.. |
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Jewish
Currents The web
version of a more than 60 year old Jewish magazine, from
2005-2008 the
magazine of the national Workmens Circle organization.
Created the site in January
2003 and was its webmaster for six years. |
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Knesseth
Israel Temple The
small website for the Reconstructionist congregation in Wooster
Ohio. 2002 - 2008
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Council
Gardens The
first
website for Council Gardens, located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Founded
almost 60 years ago
by the Council of Jewish Women, it is a non-profit Senior
Independent Living Community. Created site in 2009, maintained
it for four years. |
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Kol HaLev
In November 1998 I took over the
four page website of the Reconstructionist Havurah of Cleveland,
now Kol HaLev, steadily building the area's largest "shul" website,
rich in photos of past events, community information and
policies, plus pages in support of its programs. A private
section for members and a congregational email, now found in
many sites, were started in 1999 and 2000. In 2008 another member
took over the site. |
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Kol
Israel Foundation
In May 2011,
finding that Kol Israel's
Cleveland holocaust memorial was not on the web,
I created a
page on the memorial, This was soon followed by creating a
small website for them. Kol Israel's leaders took down my
website. As of June 2016 it has a one page website. |
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Remembering
Luboml Luboml
(Libivne) Poland, a shtetl lost in the Holocaust, was remembered
in an exhibit of photos and artifacts, said to be the most
traveled exhibit of its type. I created the website in 2001 as a
gift and have expanded it with the support of the Ziegelman
Foundation. |
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Jewish
Genealogy Society of Cleveland
In 2004 I redesigned and expanded
this website and a few months later turned it back to the
Society. As of June 2016, they still use this site. |
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Jewish
Reconstructionist Federation
In October 1999 the
Reconstructionist movement had only a small website hosted, like
many Jewish sites at the time, at Shamash, the Jewish web
consortium. In nearly four years I took the site from about 40 pages to nearly 400,
through two redesigns, and to its own
www.jrf.org domain and a new
web host.
In June 2003 the JRF took the
site back. They now run it internally, having converted it to a
Drupal-based content management system. |
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Modern Jewish Thinkers
In 2002 I created this website for
Professor Alan Levenson of the Siegal College of Judaic Studies.
It has been off-line since 2004. |
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Jewish
Scene radio broadcasts
For more than 21 years (1978-2000)
one-hour The Jewish Scene radio broadcasts were heard on
Sundays. They are now archived at the Western Reserve Historical
Society. Lois Katovsky (a co-producer of the show) and I started
a website in January 2011 to help preserve memories of those
award-winning broadcasts and to stimulate efforts to make some
of them available to a new generation of listeners.
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Aaron
Garber Library
In July 2013, with the closing of
Siegal College and the deletion of its website, the Aaron Garber
Library lost its web presence. These pages were created as a
gift to restore that presence.
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