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Publications

• Jewish World Review
• The Jewish Advocate - Boston area's Jewish newspaper
• Tikkun Magazine
• Jerusalem Post - Israel's leading English newspaper
• Jewish Telegraph - Britain's only regional Jewish newspaper
• Virtual Jerusalem - Worldwide news, information, and resources

Social Action Organizations

• ACLU-Massachusetts (Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts)
• American Civil Liberties Union (National Office)
• AFL-CIO
• Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
• Amnesty International
• Boston Student Labor Action Project
• Center for Policy Alternatives
• Citizens for Public Schools
• Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education
• Common Cause Massachusetts
• Community Servings - Provides free hot meals for individuals and families homebound with AIDS.
• Connect for Kids
• Freedom Forum
• Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
• Global Survival Network
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Campaign
• Idealist - An online directory of over 10,000 nonprofit and community organizations working in 120 countries.
• International Organization for Migration
• Jobs with Justice (Mass chapter)
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights - Provides pro bono legal representation to victims of discrimination based on race or national origin.
• League of Women Voters
• Mass NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) - Educates the public on issues affecting choice; trains and organizes pro-choice people across the state, and works to pass pro-choice legislation to secure a woman's right to choose.
• Mass NOW (National Organization for Women)
• Massachusetts Sierra Club
• MassCare - The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care
• MassPIRG
• NASW (National Association of Social Workers)
• National Labor Committee for Work on Sweatshops
• National Lawyers Guild - (Massachusetts office)
• People for the American Way
• UNITE
• Witness Project - Documents abuses and brings the evidence before courts, governments, the media and the world.

Gun Control

• Handgun Free America
• Million Mom March
• Join Together
• Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
• Center to Prevent Handgun Violence Sarah Brady, Chair
• Children Now
• National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions
• North Carolinians Against Gun Violence
• School Curiculum on Gun Control - from Tom Snyder's "Decisions, Decisions Online"

Government Sites (and Government information)

• Thomas Legislative Information
• US Government Publications
• The White House
• US Senate
• US Congress
• US Senate and Congress Email Addresses (Capweb)
• US Judicial Branch resources
• US Supreme Court information -  Center for Information Law and Policy
• US Supreme Court information (Cornell)
• US Code (Cornell)
• Massachusetts Government Information Site
• Connecticut Government Information Site
• Rhode Island Government Information Site
• Maine Government Information Site
• New Hampshire Government Information Site -
• Vermont Government Information Site
• City sites: Belmont - Boston - Brookline - Cambridge - Chelsea - Everett - Newton - Revere - Saugus - Somerville - others
• Lawyers Weekly

Jewish Organizations

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Voting Information

Background information on candidates for US House and Senate Seats is available on the internet from the following sources:

• Project Vote Smart Biographies, position papers and voting records. Available by zip code if you don’t know which congressional district you reside in.
• CapWeb Direct links to the Internet sites of candidates and elected officials.
• Democracy Network Center for Governmental Studies and League of Women Voters following races in at least 10 states.
• Center for Responsive Politics Campaign finance material
• All Politics (Congressional Quarterly)

Webmaster's Links

• Jewish Illustrated Encyclopedia For Children - An extensive easy-to-read Jewish Encyclopedia 
• news:rec.humor.jewish - Humor and discussion of humor, mostly Jewish
• news:rec.food.cuisine.jewish - Kosher cooking discussion and recipes
• news:soc.culture.jewish.moderated - All topics pertaining to Judaism
• The ACT-MA mailing list - Greater Boston events and activities for the broadly based "Peace and Justice" community

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