Jewish - Themed Websites by Arnold Berger

 
  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

  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.

  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 features.

  Knesseth Israel Temple

The small website for the Reconstructionist congregation in Wooster Ohio.

  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.

  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.

  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.
 

  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.

  Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland

In 2004 I redesigned and expanded this website and a few months later turned it back to the Society.

  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.

  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.

  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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