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Some Web sites on Jewish lifecycle
Look for articles on specific topics at this site: it gives information on many different types of lifecycle events - Jewish family.com
On circumcision
http://www.act-now.org (a Jewish pro-circumcision site);
Bris Shalom - alternative to circumcision ceremony
http://www.circumcision.org/ (an anti-circumcision web site, with some articles on Jewish circumcision)
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2754 (general pro-circumcision site, from a medical point of view)
http://www.milah.net (a Jewish pro-circumcision site, from a mohel)
http://www.mohel-circumcision.co.uk (another Jewish pro-circumcision site, from a London mohel)
"Brit Milah: Beautiful or Barbaric?" -- a pro-brit milah article on the Aish ha-Torah web site:
some interesting rituals from Ritual Well (there are many more; search under "babynaming"):
For an overview and selected rituals, see: Simhat Bat
"Planning and Implementing Your Daughter's Brit Bat," by Debra Nussbaum Cohen
pros and cons
of changing/creating new rituals:
"Worshiping the Goddess and other myths: Creative Ritual in the Conservative Movement," by Johanna Ginsberg,
On Kashrut
http://www.kashrut.com/, “The Premier Kosher Information Source on the Internet”
http://www.kashrut.com/consumer/ -- information on kashrut for the consumer
Orthodox Union web site on kashrut: http://oukosher.org/index.php/kosher/what_is_kosher/
a definition of kashrut from a free web encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
Judaism 101: Kashrut: Jewish Dietary Laws: http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm
"The Spiritual Ecology of Kashrut" by Rabbi Samuel Weintraub on the web site for the Coalition for the Environment and Jewish life.
On marriage
Judaism 101: marriage
Orthodox views of marriage
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/torat/marriage.php
http://www.ohr.org.il/judaism/articles/wedding.htm
"My Ketubah (Jewish Marriage Contract)," by Anita Diamant
"Wedding Customs: Old, New, and Renovated," by Marlena Thompson
On gay and
lesbian Jews:
Twice Blessed: The Jewish GLBT Archives Online: Everything Jewish and Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgender
The World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews
GayJews.Org: The Online Home of Frum GLBT Jews Everywhere
Gay and Lesbian
Children of Holocaust Survivors
Death, mourning,
and the afterlife
Judaism 101: Life, Death and Mourning
Judaism
101: Olam Ha-Ba: The Afterlife
Jewish Funeral Customs (from the Conservative movement)
"The Jewish Way of Death," by Rabbi Maurice Lamm
Ask Rabbi Simmons: Afterlife in Judaism
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Last revised January 12, 2006