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Weekly Freebies: Internet Filters

May 12, 2012 3 Comments
Weekly Freebies: Internet Filters

Following up on this post on internet filters, here are links to some free internet filters for computers: OpenDNS K9 Microsoft Family Safety Norton Online Family Covenant Eyes We-Blocker Web Blocker Built-in settings For suggestions on filters for mobile devices, see this NY Times article: link Of course, you should not think that installing a filter is sufficient, as discussed in the earlier post. See prior freebies here: link
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Weekly Freebies: YU Journals

May 5, 2012 1 Comment
Weekly Freebies: YU Journals

Yeshiva University has published the full contents of many of its journals, Hebrew and English, online. The publications include: Beis Yitzchak Torah U-Madda Journal Kol Zvi Orthodox Forum Verapo Yerapeh Ohr Hamizrach more… The various journals are available online here: link See prior posts...
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Weekly Freebies: Written and Oral Torahs

April 28, 2012 55 Comments
Weekly Freebies: Written and Oral Torahs

A number of books have been composed attempting to connect the Written and Oral Torahs. R. Barukh Epstein’s Torah Temimah collects Talmudic and Midrashic comments on the Pentateuch, by verse and with his commentary to the rabbinic exegesis. R. Menachem Kasher created a much...
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Weekly Freebies: Tzohar

April 21, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Tzohar

Tzohar is a rabbinic organization in Israel that, among its other work, publishes a rabbinic journal, titled Tzohar. Past issues of the journal are available online here: link Not...
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Weekly Freebies: Haggados

March 31, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Haggados

HebrewBooks has a whole section of free haggados: link Here are a few interesting ones that caught my eye: Roedelheim State Bank IDF 1953 Otzar Peirushim – JD Eisenstein...
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Weekly Freebies: Chut Shani

March 24, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Chut Shani

R. Nissim Karelitz is one of the leading Lithuanian rabbis in Israel. He is the senior rabbinic judge in Bnei Brak and and a nephew of the Chazon Ish....
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Weekly Freebies: Pesach Guides

March 17, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Pesach Guides

Pesach is just around the corner and I am thinking back to the time when we used to have to pay a few bucks for a comprehensive Pesach guide....
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Weekly Freebies: IDF Guidebooks

March 10, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: IDF Guidebooks

The IDF Rabbinate publishes halakhah guidebooks for soldiers, providing detailed instructions on observance of Judaism in the Israeli army. Many of these books, such as for Purim, Pesach and...
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Weekly Freebies: Purim Books

March 3, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Purim Books

Some books on Purim from HebrewBooks.org: Yemei Ha-Purim by R. Tzvi Pesach Frank Gevuras Yitzchak by R. Yitzchak Sorotzkin Mekadesh Yisrael by R. Yisrael Harfenes Nitei Gavriel by R....
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Weekly Freebies: Gesher Ha-Chaim

February 25, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Gesher Ha-Chaim

R. Yechiel Mikhel Tukaczinsky‘s three-volume Gesher Ha-Chaim is a classic work on the laws of mourning. When a friend in yeshiva lost a parent, I asked him whether he...
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Weekly Freebies: Kitzur Yalkut Yosef

February 18, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: Kitzur Yalkut Yosef

The Kitzur Shulchan Arukh (link) by R. Shlomo Ganzfried is a classic condensation of practical Jewish law as it was practiced in mid-18th century greater Hungary. It has been...
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Weekly Freebies: A Life Apart

February 11, 2012
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Weekly Freebies: A Life Apart

The 1997 documentary about Chasidim, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is now available in full on YouTube: link. See prior posts here: link
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