LibGuides: Judaic Studies: Mobile Apps and Mobile Sites

Mobile Apps

Chanukah Guide
One of the most popular Chanukah Apps on the market, the Chanukah Guide, has been a tremendous success. It has climbed through the charts in 52 countries and has been talked about in Forbes.com, Jewish App Review, Col Live, and Heavy Magazine.
Passover Assistant
The Passover Assistant is a very helpful app for the preparation of the Jewish High Holiday of Pessach. It provides checklists for Pessach preparation, recipes, blessing and Haggadah infos. Preparing Pessach can be complex and this app is the perfect help!
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Available on the Google and Apple App Stores
Purim Guide
The holiday of Purim is based on the account in the Book of Esther about the attempt by Haman, the counselor to King Ahasuerus, to annihilate the Jews in the Persian Empire and how they were saved by the intervention of Mordechai and his niece Esther, who was married to the king. To commemorate the event and the defeat of the wicked Haman, the fourteenth day of the Hebrew month of Adar, the day when the Jews rested after their victory, was enshrined as the feast of Purim; the next day was called Shushan Purim, because the fighting continued in the capital of Susa for another day. (To commemorate the fast and prayer by Esther, her handmaids, and all the Jews in Shushan before the queen went to the king to beg for his mercy, the thirteenth of Adar is observed as the Fast of Esther.)
Shabbat & Holiday Times
The Shabbat Times app makes it super easy to get candle lighting times for your city and any location worldwide.
The app includes many useful features, including:
* Automatically get times for your location for the upcoming Shabbat and major Jewish holiday and festival
* Look up times for upcoming weeks
* Add additional locations to keep track of Shabbat times for cities worldwide
* Get push notifications with times each week at a time most convenient for you

Aleph Beis Game
This app teaches children to learn the Jewish Alphabet in an effective and proper way.
Chitas App
This app is packed with resources for studying the daily Chitas program. The study program for Chumash, Tanya, Tehillim, Rambam, Hayom Yom, Sefer Hamitzvos, Chitas for Kids are all on the app. There is also a tracker to catch-up on missed days of the study-program. The Chitas App also contains a daily test on the Chumash and Rashi. The Chumash Quiz can also be taken online without the app.
Jewish Virtual Library
The Jewish Virtual Library (JVL) is your source for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and Judaism. The JVL currently has more than 25,000 articles and 10,000 images and is accessed by users in more than 230 countries and territories worldwide.
Nemo Hebrew
Nemo is a great app to learn Hebrew. It allows you to learn a pack of new words of every day according to the pace you want to learn at. Especially useful when you want to start learning your first words in the language of the Jewish people.
Tefillin Guide
This app has reached the #1 education app in Israel and the Top 100 in over 20 countries. The app has 10,000’s downloads and is expected to hit 100,000 downloads very soon.
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Among the features are a Jerusalem compass, Tefillin Mirror, Tefillin Tutorials, Videos, and Social Sharing integration.

Kaddish Assistant
If you clicked here, you may have recently suffered the unfortunate loss of a family member. Or you may be marking a Yahrtzeit, the anniversary of your loved one's passing. Either way, reciting Kaddish is one of the greatest gifts you can give your loved one. You may discover it also to be integral to your mourning and healing process.
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Free Available On: App Store and Google Play
Kosher Near Me
Kosher Near Me is the International Kosher App that lets you easily search a radius for local Kosher Establishments throughout the world. By default it automatically detects your location by GPS. You can also search within a location such as a postal code, a city or a place (like an airport or a landmark). Kosher Near Me operates in many countries with new ones being added all the time. Our current list includes: United States, Israel, United Kingdom, France, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Germany, Ecuador, Spain, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Thailand, China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Finland.
Kosher Recipes - Jewish dietary framework
The word “kosher” is derived from the Hebrew root “kashér,” which means to be pure, proper, or suitable for consumption. Kosher dietary laws are detailed and include a defined set of rules that say which foods are allowed or forbidden, but also mandate how allowed foods must be produced, processed, and prepared before consumption. Search our database of 1000s of kosher friendly diet recipes. View the ingredients, directions, vitamins & nutrients, as well as the macro breakdown for each recipe.
Mezuzah Guide
It started out as a tool for aligning the Mezuzah to the door and teaching people more about the special Mitzvah.
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The Mezuzah Guide Features
* A complete tutorial
* Authenticate your scroll directly with a scribe
* Measure the correct location to place the
Mezuzah
* Ask a question to the scribes
* The blessings to be said upon putting up the
Mezuzah

Aish.com: The Judaism Android App
Get easy access to Jewish wisdom for living from one of the web’s largest and must trusted Jewish sources.
• Daily updates of articles and videos on spirituality, dating, marriage, Israel, Jewish holidays and more.
• 24-hour live webcam from the Western Wall
• Inspiring, entertaining viral videos with millions of views.
• Thoughtful and beautiful Jewish and Israeli photos.
•Notifications of popular new articles and live events. Aish.com is a project of Aish International: "Connecting Jews to Judaism."
Chabad
This app is full of articles about Jewish practices, Mitzvot, Traditions, Jewish History, Parashot, Jewish Holidays, the Jewish Calendar and everything you want to know about Judaism. An excellent tool to start learning!
Krias Shema
Developed by the Saber Team for Chabad of Conejo Valley, the Krias Shema & Shema Yisroel App is designed to cater to those who want to connect with the Shema Yisroel prayers. Watch this space for the link.
Moshiach (the Jewish Messiah) Now
Moshiach (Messiah the anointed one) is teh long awaited Jewish leader who will usher in an era of world peace and G-dly awareness.

Daf Yomi & Shas by Real Clear Daf
An outstanding app allowing you to follow the Daf Yomi clearly! It is just beautifully presented and if you are having a hard time finding the right Shiur for you – just log in to Real Clear Daf for a really clear explanation of each page – each day!
Mishnayot Kehati
The complete Mishnayot Kehati in Hebrew & English with Bartenura and Mishna Sdura
Professional Audio reading of the Entire Mishna Sdura and of the Kehati
Tomer Devorah
An app that includes the entire text of the Tomer Devorah – the Palm Tree of Devorah written by the kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (the RaMaK). There are also a host of other wonderful utilities included in the app – so check it out!
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Written by Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, one of the major Kabbalists from Safed in the 16th century, Tomer Devorah is an ethical treatise which promotes Imitatio Dei, imitating the Divine. Sefer Tomer Devorah presents attributes of God and explains how to improve oneself by incorporating these attributes into one’s life. Sefer Tomer Devorah was written in Hebrew and was first published in Venice in 1588.
בן-איש-חי - Ben Ish Chai
This is the entire text of the Halachic work written by Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad – the Ben Ish Chai. It is great to be able to carry this around with one to read any time!
חוק לישראל - Hok Leisrael
Hok LeIsrael Application, allows you to learn every day: Torah, Mishna, Talmud, Kabala, Musar and Halacha
The application does not require an Internet connection.

History Of Judaism
Judaism is an ancient, monotheistic, Abrahamic religion with the Torah as its foundational text. It encompasses the religion, philosophy and culture of the Jewish people.Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant that God established with the Children of Israel. Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. The Torah is part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible, and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and t
HeDict - Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary
a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary (translating into Hebrew). For those whose Hebrew is good but who lack in studying a page of Talmud due to the Aramaic language, this is a great app to help!
OU Kosher
With the OU Kosher app you can find out what food is kosher. It provides a list of every kosher listing worldwide. Additionally, the app has a "Bracha guide" to help you find the right blessing for what you are eating. Very useful when you start to keep kosher!
Sefaria
Is surely the most outstanding site available for learning Torah texts in the original. With translations and typing done by all (it is really open source), one is able to either learn from what others have already added, or add things oneself. The volume of material on the site is phenomenal and it is being updated all the time! There’s so much to learn here, including the Steinsaltz Talmud with translation – so there really is a lot to keep one on the go!

Judaic Studies: Mobile Apps and Mobile Sites

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