-----Jewish News & Research Links-----

 Mid-East News Sources:

• Debka.com
• Behind the headlines
•  Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
• Generally balanced reporting 
• The Jerusalem Post
• Generally balanced reporting / limited access

• Haaretz      
• Both balanced & center-right reporting
• International New York Times
• Generally objective reporting
• Christian Science Monitor
• Analysis sometimes better than The Economist

 

Movements:

American Zionist Movement
Humanistic Judaism
Reconstructionist Judaism
Union for Reform Judaism
Liberal Judaism
Conservative Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
Karaite Judaism or Karaism
Chabad-Lubavitch
Jewish Asia

New Media

J-Street:  "J Street is the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace" movement.

Heeb-Magazine:  "... a take-no-prisoners zine for the plugged-in and preached-out. Covering arts, culture and politics in a voice all its own, Heeb has become a multi-media magnet to the young, urban and influential."

Research:

Jewish Virtual Library                                                      
The Jewish Encyclopedia (1900)
       (Pre-1900 Zeight Geist)
Gates to Jewish Heritage
       (Sort of a contemporary mini-reference)
Bible Research
Bible Research Links
Multiple Online Bibles
Hebrew-English Bible
Alan Corré’s Home Page 
The 613 Mitzvot

 -----Links to Major Religions-----

World Religous Census Estimates:

(Stats from the now defunct religion.com in 2007.)

Christianity: 2.1 billion

Islam: 1.3 billion

Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion

Hinduism: 900 million

Chinese traditional religion: 394 million

Buddhism: 376 million

primal-indigenous: 300 million

African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million

Sikhism: 23 million

Juche: 19 million

Spiritism: 15 million

Judaism: 14 million

Baha'i: 7 million

Jainism: 4.2 million

Shinto: 4 million

Cao Dai: 4 million

Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million

Tenrikyo: 2 million

Neo-Paganism: 1 million

Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand

Rastafarianism: 600 thousand

Scientology: 500 thousand

Links to Religious Organziations:
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/page/0,,818217,00.html)

Anglicanism
Baha'i  Baha'i (UK)
Baptists
Buddhism
Charismatic Renewal
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Church of Scotland
Hinduism
Islam Islam-Wiki          
Jainism
Jehovah's Witnesses
Judaism (see above)
Latter Day Saints (Mormonism)
Methodism
Orthodoxy:
   o   Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
   o   Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain and Ireland
Paganism
Pentecostalism
Quakers & Quakers in the UK
Rastafarian
Roman Catholicism
Salvation Army
Scientology
Scottish Episcopal Church
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Sikhism
United Reformed Church
Unitarianism
Zoroastrians