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form that it has."
GaleS
• Talmud by Topic
While most of us will
and lots of Talmud!!!
• Calendar and Ritual
be able to experience
Practices
Zoo Torah only through
Click on one, and
essays, it also is a live
you'll get all the
program used in
details. Access holi-
Jerusalem and San
days, for example, and
Diego. This site has a
you'll be able to go to
number of fun photos
any holiday on the
that allow you to see live
Jewish calendar.
Zoo Torah in action at
Suppose you select
these places. ("Not quite
Pesach. It isn't just gener-
as exciting as the real
1 al information you can
thing, but it's almost as
get — you'll find:
educational," Rabbi
• Searching for
Slifkin promises.)
Chametz
• Mice, Leaven,
#8) Virtual
Children and a
ful, interactive and even allows you
Jerusalem: at
Weasel Pun
to select music to enjoy as you play
www.virtualjerusalem.com
• Matza and Maror: Are Bitter
along. Of course, you're offered
If you know how to use a comput-
Herbs Mandatory?
"Hiney Ma Tov," but there's also
: er, and have ever looked up any-
• Can Rice Be Eaten on
classical music and the Village Peo-
thing Jewish, chances are you've
Passover?
ple's famed "YMCA."
come across Virtual Jerusalem. The
• The Four Sons — and that's just
question is not "What can you find
the start.
#7) ZOO TORAH: at
here?" but "What
you find
The Web master of Gates to Jew-
www.zootorah.com
here?"
ish Heritage is Rabbi David E. Lip-
You've got to like a site that opens
Jewish families especially will be
; man of Temple Sinai in Cranston,
with a photo showing the Web
interested in the Parenting section.
R.I., who says he designed the
master shaking hands with a seal.
From the opening site, you can
pages because "he loves teaching"
The Web master is Rabbi Nosson
click on information on Genealogy
1 and wanted to "make Jewish her-
Slifkin, and the site is affiliated with
and a section on Healthy Living (a
I itage more accessible and mean-
Ohr Somayach, but Zoo Torah is
recent topic: genetic diseases).
ingful for all."
hardly the typical Orthodox
Overworked moms and dads may
As you enter Gates, don't feel
approach to learning Torah.
want to consult online family coun-
intimidated by all the topics. The
I Instead, Rabbi Slifkin uses "the won-
selors about how to manage every-
material is very reader friendly and, ' derful world of wildlife to teach
: thing, while newlyweds can speak
in general, does not advocate, but
inspirational Torah lessons."
directly with someone about setting
rather explains, each movement's
The reading material itself, which
up a Jewish home. Almost every
perspective on Jewish ritual prac-
is directed toward older children, is
Jewish family Web site offers
tice.
quite interesting. One essay, "The
recipes, of course, but you would

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Living Torah," for example, begins:
"Why do animals exist? Why are
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there so many types of them?
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I Couldn't God have created the
If you can manage to type in the
world without them? People don't
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tainly handle the fun challenges pro-
might be because we take the exis-
vided on this page.
tence of animals for granted. Or, it
A Canadian site, Jewish Funland
might be because we subconscious-
is everything its name says. Fun.
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There are many Jewish games for
these questions. But there is indeed
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be hard-pressed to find one more
clever than the Bible Cake, which
came to Virtual Jerusalem from the
Jewish Theological Seminary. You're
told a cup of this, a teaspoon of
that, but to find the "this" and "that"
you must open a sefer Torah (don't
worry — the recipe tells you exactly
where to look).
And don't miss Virtual
Jerusalem's wonderful Torah Cam,
where you can actually watch vis-
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