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America Online Gets
A Bit Of Yiddishkeit
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
ewish cyberspace is grow-
ing by leaps and bounds,
but making the most of the
on-line world can be daunt-
ing for new users. There's so
much information in so many
places, and too often, it's all a
mystery to people who don't
know a "C-prompt" from a hole
in the ground.
If you want a window into the
world of Jewish on-line commu-
nications that's a bit more user
friendly, check out the brand-new
Jewish COMMunity Online fo-
rum at America Online.
In case you've been living in a
cave, AOL is the biggest of the
commercial on-line services, with
hundreds of forums, news and in-
formation services, shopping fa-
cilities and connections to the
broader world of the Internet.
AOL's strength is ease of use;
if you can click a mouse, you can
navigate through AOL's sophisti-
cated, well-designed interface.
The Jewish COMMunity On-
line forum preserves AOL's one-
stop shopping approach to
computer networking and its ease
of use.
The opening screen includes a
group of pictures that make
menus pretty much unnecessary.
Click on the guy holding an Israeli
flag, and you are pointed to a daz-
zling assortment of information
about Israel: Israeli food, travel to
Israel, programs for students, de-
tailed information about Israel's
political system.
Want to know how the Knes-
set works? Or are you confused
about Israel's many political par-
ties? Then the Jewish COMMu-
nity Online is the place to look.
You can touch base with pro-
Israel groups across the spectrum,
from Americans for Peace Now to
Likud USA. Click on an organi-
zation's name to get more infor-
mation.
In the past, commercial services
like AOL were criticized for being
little worlds unto themselves. No
more; now, AOL is fully integrat-
ed into the vast reaches of the In-
ternet. So when you select the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee in the section on pro-
Israel organizations, you are swift-
ly and painlessly connected to
AIPAC's "home page" on the
World Wide Web, without ever
seeing one of those incomprehen-
sible "hap" addresses. (If you don't -
know what that is, report for re-
medial Internet training in the
morning.)
Back at the main menu, the
food section offers meat and dairy
recipes, detailed information
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about keeping kosher and links to
kashrut sites on the Web.
And what would a Jewish com-
munity forum be without some-
thing -for folks in search of true
love, or at least a mate who knows
how to make chicken soup? On
the Jewish COMMunity Online,
users can participate in real-time
"chats" with prospective mates
around the world; the forum soon
will feature Jewish personal ads,
too. Hopefully, the publishers will
help decipher those baffling ab-
breviations: "DJFNRNS seeks
same...."
Another section focuses on hol-
idays and spirituality. The new
AOL service opened just in time
for a special section on Chanukah,
featuring historical facts about the
holiday, information on
Chanukah foods, stories and po-
ems to enrich the celebration,
games for children and links to
other sites with relevant infor-
mation.
Click on "spirituality," and you
can peruse basic statements of be-
lief from the Reform, Conserva-
tive and Reconstructionist
movements; so far, not a peep
from the Orthodox.
But Orthodox Jews are well
represented in the message
boards — electronic bulletin
boards for the kind of spirited, of-
ten overheated exchanges on is-
sues great and small that have
become a hallmark of cyberspace.
The Jewish COMMunity On-
line site is more than just words
on a video screen. The site cur-
rently features a "Jewish Tour of
Prague," an offering of the Project
Judaica Foundation, featuring
high-quality, powerful pho-
tographs of Jewish sites in the
Czech city by Mark Talisman, the
man responsible for the widely
praised Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit.
The Jewish COMMunity Online
also is a good source for news, with
dispatches from the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency and selections from
Hadassah or Lilith magazines. Se-
lections from several Anglo-Jew-
ish weeklies are available to
visitors, as well as the latest
Reuters stories on the Middle East.
And there's Jewish software
and educational materials avail-
able to download — files and pro-
grams that can be transferred
directly into your own computer.
The forum on AOL also in-
cludes weekly user surveys and
chats about the results. A recent
survey asked this question: Do re-
ligious symbols belong in public
places? The results: 53 percent
said no, 47 percent said yes, with
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