The Center for Leadership Initiatives was created with the goal of supporting current and emerging leaders in the Jewish community. While the debates over whether leadership can be learned will continue to thrive forever (thankfully), we at CLI do believe that leaders learn. That is part of the formula of Jewish leadership and part of the tradition we hope to support and celebrate.
The CLI online Library was designed to provide you with access to primary resources that could assist you in your work. This is tricky ground we tread here - as we do not see our Library as an organizational marketplace. And we know that the Web provides more opportunities for learning than ever before - though one cannot feel or smell the pages which is a huge loss.
CLI's effort here therefore is to provide succint links to resources we have learned that help. Visit these pages for Jewish and organizational resources. Send us links to primary sources you feel should be up here.
Cognizant of the many media that affect us and of the many ways modern Jews learn, this Library offers resources for reading (written) and will eventually add resources for watching (video), and hearing (audio). Come on in. Brukhim habaim.
What you will find on this page are links that we use regularly in our work.
Jewish Primary Texts
Other Jewish Resources
Jewish World and News
Jewish Statistical Data
News from Israel
Organizational Resources
Blogs
Jewish Primary Texts
MyJewishLearning.com - One of the richest sources of modern and traditional Jewish texts.
Snunit, an Israeli non-profit that deals with education and technology, offers great Judaic resources in Hebrew.
Sacred-Texts.com - Visit this website for Biblical, Mishnaic, Talmudic and other basics. It also includes the primary texts of most of the world's great religions.
Biblical and Other Texts in Hebrew and English - An easy to use resource for Tanakh.
Other Jewish Resources
Shabbat Candlelighting Time
Hebrew Date Converter
Jewish World and News
Jewish Virtual Library
The Jewish Week
Forward
Jewish Statistical Data
Visit www.jewishdatabank.org for a wealth of data about the Jewish community. In particular, see this FAQ on American Jews and Population Estimates - http://www.jewishdatabank.org/FAQs/FAQs_Tables1_And_1a.pdf
Israel News
Jerusalem Post
Ynet News
Haaretz
Organizational Resources
Board Cafe by Compasspoint is one of our favorite sources of concise organizational wisdom.
Robert Putnam's Better Together is his non-profit report that developed out of Bowling Alone.
Fund-Raising Forum Library is a resource for non-profit organizations looking for information on planning for fund-raising, organizing a campaign, and developing the development team.
In Office Technology: Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You (Wall Street Journal. July 30, 2007), Vauhini Vara, shares tips for getting around IT department restrictions as well as various other helpful tricks for interact with the online world.
Blogs
There are over 500 blogs on the Web which describe themselves as Jewish. To search for blogs around a specific topic, visit www.technorati.com. We offer here a few samples of blogs that we tend to visit.
www.jspot.org
www.jewschool.com
www.jewlicious.com
www.blogsofzion.com
