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News and Information Jewish Museum News and Information 215 The Jewish Museum has just opened the newly reinstalled fourth-floor galleries of its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, an opportunity to explore Jewish culture and history through art, archaeology, ceremonial objects, video, and interactive media. This exhibition examines the Jewish experience as it has evolved from antiquity to the present over 4,000 years. Visitors will see the reinstalled Ancient World galleries, featuring archaeological objects representing Jewish life in Israel and the Mediterranean region from 1200 BCE to 640 CE, and a new installation of selections from the Museum's collection of Hanukkah lamps. The exhibition will be accompanied by the first in a new series of thematic, random access audio guides. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10128; phone: 212-423-3271; fax 212-423-3232. Conference on Yemenite Jews The Yemenite Federation ofAmerica and the Queens College Center for Jewish Studies will hold a one-day conference on Sunday, August 27, 2000, on the Queens College campus in Flushing, New York. The topic of the conference is '''On Eagles' Wings': The Dynamic Culture ofYemenite Jews." The four broad subject areas will include: Jewish history and culture in Yemen, 120 years of aliyot, Yemenites in Israel, and contemporary Yemenite Jewish identities. For further information, please contactProfessor BennyKraut, bkrautCa)gc1.gc.edu. \ Web Sites oflnterest http://wv.rw.jewfag.org/: Judaism 101 is an online encyclopedia of Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices and customs. http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm: Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. http://www.jewishgen.org/info/.iles/SefardFonlln.htm:SefardForum.adiscussion group intended to increase Sephardic presence in discussions ofJewish genealogy. http://www.Sephardim.com: More than 2300 Sephardic names with references. http://www.ollelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Crypto-Jew: Focuses on the descendants of Crypto-Jews and their history, identity, questions, and concerns. http://www.gezernet.co.illmarrano: The Institute for Marrano-Anusim Studies. http://www.JStudies.org/bibliography-direct.html: More than 100 bibliographies in Jewish Studies. http://www.facstaff.bucknel1.eduirbeard/diction.html: Links to on-line dictionaries of interest: English-Hebrew and Hebrew-English glossaries; Hebrew Multilingual 216 SHOFAR Summer 2000 Vol. 18, No.4 Translator; Hebrew-English Basketball Dictionary; Strong's Hebrew Dictionary; Israeli Site for Unique Hebrew Words; and English-Hebrew Computer and Telecommunications Dictionaries. http://www.powerlink.it/vuval: The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music. http://www.doge.it/ghetto/index.htm: Website of the Ancient Ghetto of Venice. http://www.jewishworld.co.iIlmusic/index.htm: Renanot Society for Jewish Music, Jerusalem. Several of its Moroccan and Jerusalemite Sephardi songs can be heard here. Future website address: http://renanot.co.il. http://shum.cc.huji.ac.iIl-jmrc/jmrc.htm: Jewish Music Research Centre ofthe Hebrew University, Givat Ram Campus. http://www.rnideastline.com: Free Middle Eastern and Mediterranean zone, where anybody can write and express himself about anything concerning life in the Middle East and Mediterranean. http://libnet.ac.iIl-libnet/rmb: The Jewish National and University Library (JNUL)'s Index of Articles on Jewish Studies." Includes the database from RAMBI. http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur: The Jewish History Resource Center. http://www.ivrit.org/: National Center for the Hebrew Language. http://cbc.ca/news/indepth;mideast/links.html: CBC-Quest for Peace in the Middle East provides links and essays about the peace process, as well as reports on Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, Palestinian refugees, maps of the Middle East, and Israel-Palestinian negotiations. http://www.strategic-road.comlpays/morient/morien01.htm: Strategic Road site for Middle East, Proche et Moyen Orient (in French) has directories, listing, and specialized search engines and detailed information on many Middle Eastern countries. http://www.sis.gov.eg/oct-war/htmIlfront.htm: Official Egyptian site commemorating the October War with audio of Sadat's speech at the Knesset. http://impact.users.netlink.co.uk/namir/namirm.htrnl: National Movement of Iranian resistance (NAMIR) is a coalition ofIranians workings for the end ofthe theocratic regime an its replacement by a democratic government. http://www.isranet.org: The...