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From The Insights Of Yesterday
- Learn Hebrew Verbs A free, on-line, educational resource containing 300 Hebrew verbs conjugated in all tenses (past, present, future, imperative). The site menu provides selection by one tense or all tenses; gender or both genders; singular and/or plural. For your convenience, you can choose a Hebrew or English menu to navigate the site. The site is unique because you do not need Hebrew fonts to display the Hebrew words. All words (including the nikud - vowels) are displayed using graphics. There are over 10,000 graphic images in the system.
- Hebrew Today Publishers of a variety of Hebrew instructional materials for beginners, including a very popular bi-weekly newspaper written in easy, voweled Hebrew, containing articles on current events in Israel and the world, crosswords, puzzles and activities. Have fun while learning about both biblical Hebrew and the modern day language.
- National Center For The Hebrew Language The National Center for the Hebrew Language (NCHL) has positioned itself as the American advocate for the Hebrew language. The NCHL publishes a newsletter, Ivrit Now, and a vocabulary-building supplement, "Today’s Word." It maintains a Web Site, www.ivrit.org and an online discussion group for professionals. The NCHL participates in major meetings of Jewish communal and educational organizations, presents and publishes position papers on Hebrew, and is the founder of the "friend-raising" National Society of Lovers of the Hebrew Language.
- Morim.com Written in French and English, the Morim website was created by a group of teachers to bring Hebrew language and culture to a wide audience. At morim.com, you'll find tools and books to study or teach Hebrew, links to Israeli websites, media sites, discs and cd-roms, as well as an on-line course with a database of printable files in PDF format, and for teachers : instructional material in French, Hebrew and English.
- My Hebrew Dictionary My Hebrew Dictionary is an on-line resource containing groups of English words translated into Hebrew.
- My Hebrew Picture Dictionary Online resource to learn Hebrew words in a fun way. Each word in the dictionary has an English and Hebrew translation and transliteration and a photograph of the item.
- Milon Morfix (Hebrew-English English-Hebrew) Very good and complete translating dictionary between English and Hebrew. (Note: All hebrew words are in Hebrew font because this is an Israeli site, there are no Roman alphabet transliterarions.)
- Lingvosoft online dictionaries Online dictionaries for 12 languages
- Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of the Hebrew Language The official Hebrew terms database of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
- KickKeys KickKeys is a software tool for linguists. It allows the user to write any language using the regular English computer keyboard without memorizing difficult key sequences. It allows transliteration (type-as-you-pronounce) and remapping of keyboards. Thus if the user is interested to write Ancient Greek or Hebrew in an English Windows, KickKeys is the only choice. Kickkeys allows the user to specify his/her own key mapping, change existing ones, use any font he/she likes and, to top it all, it allows the user to use these features on WordPad, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Outlook Express, Excel, Frontpage, Powerpoint, Eudora and other common Windows applications. It ships ready with key maps and fonts for several languages like Assamese, Bengali, Bulgarian, Belarusian, French, Farsi, German/Scandinavian, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil and Ukrainian. It also comes with graphical tools that allow the user to build keymaps for all other languages and fonts. It even supports typing right to left languages like Farsi in English Windows.
- ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup, a standardized series of 8 bit character sets for writing in Western alphabetic languages. ISO 8859 is a series of now 10 standardized 8 bit single-byte coded graphic character sets for writing in occidental alphabetic languages.
- Paratype Internet Font Fair Typeface support with Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Georgian and Hebrew fonts for Macintosh and Windows platforms. Free font catalog. Font utilities. Font magazine. Font sites list.
- ALUT - The Israeli Society for Autistic Children
- The Augean Stables: Unmasking Lies, Exposing Subterfuge, Fighting Hatred A scholarly effort to shed light on the operations of individuals, groups, and media sources which are actively promoting hatred in American society.