Mekoros Research Center

Since 1998, Jewish Interactive Studies (JIS), www.jewishstudies.org, has offered seventeen text-based and audio online courses in machshavah (Jewish philosophy) to over 3,300 Jewish adults worldwide.

In 2004, Rabbi Moshe Zauderer, Director of JIS, founded the JIS' Mekoros Research Center for the purpose of producing source material to assist educators (rabbis, and school and outreach educators) in preparing lectures and short speeches, and in responding to inquiries about Judaism.

The Mekoros Research Center is built upon two growing databases:

• a mekoros (Torah sources) database containing over 1,300 topically arranged machshavah entries
• a correspondence database containing 1,350 entries from email correspondence between JIS educational staff and a worldwide adult student body on JIS' course-related and general Jewish topics.

Use these links on the left sidebar:

1. Information: for background information about the Mekoros Research Center and its plans to provide source material to educators
2. File Library: for a list of available and upcoming presentations of machshavah topics
3. Questionnaire: for a survey form that will help JIS produce useful presentations for educators

Also on the left sidebar is an email list subscription form for being notified when new presentations are available

Jewish Interactive Studies is endorsed by HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky (Rosh Yeshivah, Yeshivah of Philadelphia), and Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Weinreb (Executive Vice President, Orthodox Union).