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A Holocaust Guidebook

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The Mining Co., billed as a site that
There is also a message board,
mines the net so you don't," offers a
although it appears to be rarely used,
comprehensive look at the Holocaust.
and a chat room. The "site guide," the
holocaust.min-
person that runs each
ingco.com offers
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area of interest, can e-
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mail interested peo-
tion on a constantly
ple about discussions
updated Web site.
in the chat room.
To keep up to date
Jennifer Rosenberg,
op what gets added,
the Holocaust section
there is a newsletter
guide, is a graduate
ailable via e-mail
student studying the
t;At can be sub-
Holocaust at
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scribed to.
California State
There are features
University at
that change once to
Northridge.
twice per month. The Dec. 23 edition
"Through this site I hope to teach
was a quiz to test one's knowledge of the
the world about the Holocaust so that it
Holocaust. Still coming, according to
can never be forgotten, and hopefully,
the archived features, are the final two
never repeated," she said in the site's
parts of a four-part look at the Sobibor
`guide bio.' "I strive to create a safe envi-
death camp.
ronment for survivors and others inter-
On the site guide, as of Dec. 23,
ested in the Holocaust to communicate,
there is a piece on the origination of the
ask questions, and discover the truth
yellow Stars of David Jews had to wear,
about the Holocaust."
and a fact chart on the concentration
Overall, the site is a fantastic resource
and death camps.
for anyone looking to learn more about
The site offers 27 links to pages out-
the Holocaust. It's not necessary for par-
side of the Mining Co. network, to
ents to preview the site, because the
everything from Holocaust art to issues
content is not overly graphic and the
post-1945. The "netlinks" link on the
language is easy enough for kids to fol-
let*-hand side of the page tells derailed
low. Teachers also may find useful infor-
i.-iFormation about what can be found
mation here.
on these links.
— Lonny Goldsmith

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The annual event recognizes the spirit of
Chanukah and metro Detroit seniors who are
eighty years or older
for their contributions in the
Jewish and/or community at large.

To request a nomination form:

Call Sherry Veal at
(248) 661-0123, Ext. 1-233.
Completed nomination forms must be
postmarked by January 8, 1999.

Sponsored By:

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62 Detroit Jewish News

The World Wide Web offers incom-
prehensibly vast amounts of informa-
tion, but much of it brings to mind
former Federal Communications
Commission Director Newton
Minnow's assessment of television: a
vast wasteland.
But there are oases of culture that
offer something more than a few cute
graphics and intellectual fast food.
One example: the expanded Web site
of the Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture.
The home page for this New York-
based organization is sedate and
proper, but with enough graphical zip
to fir comfortably into the multime-
dia world of the Web.
But unlike a growing number of

Web sites, the content is what counts
here, not the electronic facade.
The site opens with a statement
that lets us know up front what these
guys think of themselves:
The National Foundation for
Jewish Culture (NFJC) is the central
cultural agency of the American
Jewish community," they inform us.
Obviously they're not talking about
strolling accordionists specializing in
Jewish-sounding renditions of "Moon
River."
To make their point, these culture
. vultures offer a tasty sampling of the
kind of Jewish culture they try to pre-
serve through grants and cooperative
programs with other institutions.
There are essays with titles only an