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course, they mean the Reform view,
but the tone is generally straightfor-
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beating here.
The cute stuff keeps recurring; a
section of questions and answers
about God is called
"GodTalk." There's a certain
economy of communica-
tion, as well. One question
asking about the difference
between Jews and Christians
is taken care of in three
short paragraphs.
In a stab at being inter-
active, there's a visitors'
poll. This month the ques-
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thing to do."
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contemporary world through a
Jewish lens and on things like healing
and worship. Of particular interest in
this season is a nice essay on holidays.
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content for a brand-new site, and
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design that assumes you don't know
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In the "Ask" section, for exam-
ple, there are hundreds of "fre-
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range of subjects: the Jewish view
on abortion and homosexuality, on
the treatment of animals, on the
burial of tattooed people.

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On-Line Learning

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Starting this past Tuesday, the Jewish
Theological Seminary merged its new
Learn@JTS site with its old stalwart,
www.jtsa.edu
The new site, learn.jtsa.edu , will be
more devoted to education then its
predecessor, which is more of an infor-
mational site about the seminary, its
programs and faculty.
The new site, which had been run-
ning as a preview site for over a month,
has an area for children, audio inter-
views, lectures and live chats with faculty.

"Right now, the structure for the
site is being developed," said Michael
Starr, the JTS director of distance
learning. "We will be adding new fea-
tures all the time."
Eventually, the librarian and other
faculty will be offering suggestions on
books to read, and a page for
teenagers is another possibility down
the road.
The seminary's Web site, according
to Starr, was one of the first of Jewish
content on the Internet when it was