San Diego Israel and Jewish

Ynet

This site is a terrific news site for Israel, they offer an English version and a Hebrew version. http://www.ynetnews.com/ and http://www.ynet.co.il/

Its great practice to read the Hebrew version, and then flip over to the English when you don’t understand something. The company has a great product too called the Megaphone run by Collactive at this address: http://my.ynet.co.il/collative/

The idea behind the Megaphone is that you get desktop delivery of hot news, and a way to proactively respond to legislators, etc. about the news. Its a really powerful community tool.

Learn Hebrew

This site has an interesting set of categories of words you can learn including some critical phrases for the adult who has some knowledge but needs to fill in some vocabulary. For example, there is a section on business terminology (like market size, revenue, etc.) and economics.

http://www.learn-hebrew.co.il/

The site is well done with a blox that lets you click on the word to hear its pronunciation and phoenetic as well as hebrew spellings are visible. The author has done a variety of other interesting sites for English and Spanish too. Its worth checking out in the About section.

Another one of his that is great is for Hebrew verbs: http://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il

What I love about the verb site is it conjugates the verb for you and also lets you hear the conjugated variations.

Steimatsky’s USA

This is the classic "Barnes & Noble" like bookstore in Israel. There is a branch in the US and you can order online from them. They seem to be generally higher priced than Sifrutake where I do most of my shopping. But, its another option for books, CDs, DVDs and the like.

http://www.stmus.com/prod/index.php?cPath=12&osCsid=0c54ee509c171994ea3fdc0eac927ae5

For most books they do provide the cover image and then a page that you can read to get a sense of the book. I really like that – as otherwise you’re really guessing if the book is age appropriate or fun.