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Abba Hillel Silver
In 1999 I started a page of links to web
pages about my
former rabbi in 1999, when a search on "Abba
Hillel Silver" found only 400 "hits" on a much smaller internet. (A
similar
search today will find about 36,000 pages!) The only
website on the life and work of
Cleveland's most notable Jewish citizen, it has grown to 30
pages and has achieved #1 ranking on Google.
In 2006, as my interest in
Cleveland Jewish History grew. I moved these pages to start www.ClevelandJewishHistory.net |
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Cleveland Jewish History
Started in late 2006 and
already nearly 300 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 Herb Ascherman's portraits of
Cleveland area rabbis.
It
also hosts Nate Arnold's tours of old Jewish Cleveland,
Glenville memories, a line of Simpson Thorman descendants, and more. This site aims to be open and has always
invited the contributions of others. |
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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 Workmens Circle.
Created the site in January
2003. In January 2008 it had reached 100 pages and was taken over by
staff of Jewish Currents magazine. Happy to announce that I will
be taking this site back in April 2009 and adding some new
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Knesseth
Israel Temple The
small website for the Reconstructionist congregation in Wooster
Ohio.
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Council
Gardens The new
website for Council Gardens, located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Founded more than 40 years ago
by the Council of Jewish Women, it is a non-profit Senior
Independent Living Community. |
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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. Members can see budgets, a list of members, a long-term calendar and more. In 1999
I started a weekly congregational email. I left the congregation
in 2008. Another member has taken over the site,
preserving nearly all the old content. |
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Kol
Israel Foundation
The name Kol Israel ("All of
Israel") was adopted in 1959 when Cleveland holocaust survivors
organized to preserve the memory of the shoah. In May 2011,
finding that their
Cleveland holocaust memorial was not shown on the web,
I created a
page on the memorial, This was soon followed by creating a
small website for them.
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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. |
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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 but may again be online in a new
version. |
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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 geberation of listeners.
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