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Links to web sites of interest will be placed here
Jewish Music on the web A delightful site selling CDs of all kinds of music, popular and classical. Using RealAudio, a free web-based utility available on-site, you can sample many of the selections.
The Suffolk Times on-line edition The weekly newspaper is available here in an on-line edition. Stay in touch with community goings on while you are away from the North Fork. Perfect for Snowbirds in winter! Note, the Suffolk Times now requires that you be a print subscriber before they will let you view the on-line edition.
Greenport.com A useful site devoted to the people and places of Greenport village From this site you can further link to local restaurants, hotels, shops and marinas
North Fork Magazine A beautiful site devoted to the region: What to do, where to stay, where to eat, the vineyards etc. It is illustrated by local artists and photographers who portray the North Fork of Long Island in a series of stunning images. Enjoy!
It is ironic, perhaps, that the Custer Institute in Southold is right across the street from the Indian Museum. The Custer institute, an astronomical observatory, is named for General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) who lost big time to Sitting Bull, the Sioux Indian Chief at the battle of Little Big Horn.
The website of the North fork Promotion council, Inc.
A Hebrew Glossary. Look up Hebrew words transliterated into Roman letters, alphabetically.
View the earth from the sun, the moon or any actual in-orbit satellite. You can view actual real-time weather satellite imagery of color composite views of any point on earth. You'll have the ability to pan and zoom the camera. You can't quite read the newspaper on your front stoop but there are a wealth of perspectives from 10 km up. The site is in Switzerland, but they have mirror sites in North America.
If you use Yahoo, the popular Internet search engine, you'll love Jewhoo. It sports the look and feel of Yahoo, but is limited to Jewish subjects. Find Jewish artists, poets, news items, science, musicians, sporting figures , web sites, etc. Published as a yahoo parody by "Fade to Black" a comedy magazine, it really works!
Translate from English to any number of languages or from another language to English. It isn't literature, but the translations are serviceable.
View the Western Wall. A live camera continuously updated
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