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How do I obtain copies of the Reading Lists?

There are a number of different ways to obtain copies of the Reading Lists:

• WWW. If you are reading this on Usenet, and would like to see an online, hyperlinked version, go visit http://www.scjfaq.org/. This is the "web" version of the FAQ; the version posted to Usenet is generated from the web version. Note that the www.scjfaq.org version is a copy of the actual master version; if you want to access the master, visit http://master.scjfaq.org/.

  Alternatively, if you would like to see the posted version through the web, visit http://shamash.org/listarchives/scj-faq/. The FAQ is in the subdirectory "FAQ"; the reading lists are in the subdirectory "rl".

• Email. Scjfaq.org also provides an autoretriever that allows one to obtain a copy of the reading lists by return Email. To use the autoretriever, you send a retrieval request to archives@scjfaq.org with the request in the body of the message. A more reliable way to retrieve these files is through the FAQ autoretriever (http://www.mljewish.org/bin/autoresp.cgi). For the FAQ, the request has the form:

  send faq partname

  For the reading list, the request has the form:

  send rl partname

  "Partname" is replaced by the name of the part, as shown in the general index. The following is a short summary of the mapping of partnames for the Reading Lists:

  • general: Introduction and General. Includes book sources, starting points for beginners, starting points for non-Jewish readers, General Judaism, General Jewish Thought, General Jewish History, Contemporary Judaism, Noachide Laws, Torah and Torah Commentary, Talmud and Talmudic Commentary, Mishnah, Midrash, Halachic Codes, Becoming An Observant Jew, Women and Judaism, and Science and Judaism.

  • traditional: Traditional Liturgy, Practice, Lifestyle, Holidays. Includes Traditional Liturgy; Traditional Philosophy and Ethics; Prayer; Traditional Practice; The Household; Life, Death, and In-Between; and The Cycle Of Holidays.

  • mysticism: Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Messianism. Includes Academic and Religious treatments of Kabbalah, Sprituality, and the Jewish notion of the Messiah.

  • reform: Reform/Progressive Judaism

  • conservative: Conservative Judaism

  • reconstructionist: Reconstructionist Judaism

  • humanistic: Humanistic Judaism (Society for Humanistic Judaism)

  • chasidism: Chassidism. Includes general information on historical chassidism, as well as specific information on Lubavitch (Chabad), Satmar, Breslaw (Breslov), and other approaches.

  • zionism: Zionism. Includes Zionism and The Development Of Israel, The Founders, Zionistic Movements, and Judaism in Israel.

  • antisemitism: Antisemitism. Includes sections on Antisemitism, What Led to The Holocaust, Medieval Oppression, Antisemitism Today (Including Dealing with Hate Groups), Judaism and Christianity, and Judaism, Freemasonry and other rumors.

  • intermarriage: Intermarriage. Includes sections on "So You're Considering Intermarriage?", The Traditional Viewpoint, Conversion, and Coping With Life As An Intermarried.

  • childrens: Books for Jewish Children. Includes sections on Birth and Naming, Raising a Child, Family Guidebooks, Upsheren, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Confirmation, Holiday Books for Children, Liturgy for Children, Bible and Torah for Children, Jewish History for Children, Jewish Theology for Children, Israel, Learning Hebrew, and Jewish Stories.

  The following is a short summary of the mapping to partnames for the FAQ:

  • 01-FAQ-intro: Section 1: Network and Newsgroup Information.

  • 02-Who-We-Are: Section 2: Who We Are

  • 03-Torah-Halacha: Sections 3, 4: Torah; Halachic Authority

  • 04-Observance: Sections 5, 6, 7, 8: Jewish Holidays; Jewish Dietary Law and Kashrut; Sabbath and Holiday Observance; Woman and Marriage

  • 05-Worship: Sections 9, 10, 11: Jewish Worship; Conversion, Intermarriage, and "Who is a Jew?"; Miscellaneous Practice Questions

  • 06-Jewish-Thought: Section 12: Jewish Thought

  • 07-Jews-As-Nation: Section 13: Jews as a Nation

  • 08-Israel: Section 14: Jews and Israel

  • 09-Antisemitism: Sections 15, 16, 17: Churban Europa (The Holocaust); Antisemitism and Rumors about Jews; Countering Missionaries

  • 10-Reform: Section 18: Reform/Progressive Judaism

  • 11-Miscellaneous: Sections 19, 20: Miscellaneous; References and Getting Connected

  • 12-Kids: Section 21: Jewish Childrearing Related Questions

  • mail-order: Mail Order Judaica

  Alternatively, you may send a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message:

  send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname)

  Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say:

          send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general
  

• Anonymous FTP: All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on rtfm.mit.edu and are available for anonymous FTP from the pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/FAQ directory (URL ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/FAQ/). Similarly, the parts of the reading lists are stored in the pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists directory (URL: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists). Note that the archived versions of the FAQ and reading lists are the posted versions; that is, they are each one large ASCII file.

The FAQ is a collection of documents that is an attempt to answer questions that are continually asked on the soc.culture.jewish family of newsgroups. It was written by cooperating laypeople from the various Judaic movements. You should not make any assumption as to accuracy and/or authoritativeness of the answers provided herein. In all cases, it is always best to consult a competent authority--your local rabbi is a good place to start.

Hopefully, the FAQ will provide the answer to your questions. If it doesn't, please drop Email to questions@scjfaq.org. The FAQ maintainer will endeavor to direct your query to an appropriate individual that can answer it. If you would like to be part of the group to which the maintainer directs questions, please drop a note to the FAQ maintainer at maintainer@scjfaq.org.

© (c) 1993-2004 Daniel P. Faigin <maintainer@scjfaq.org>