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The following are various pieces of software or documents for the Palm that are in someway educational. They teach about the Jewish religion, history, thought, the Hebrew language, etc. Please see the descriptions for more information.
Ectaco - Commercial
Play FlashCards on your Palm and learn English and Hebrew. Now you can memorize new foreign words quickly and easily. Just play one of four learning games which are exquisitely fun and educational, and expand your vocabulary. FlashCards is a powerful learning tool which helps you memorize new words and spelling. FlashCards contains four learning games: Game No 1: Flash Cards: It is a traditional card game, you will get the hang of playing in a matter of minutes and realize that this is one of the most effective ways for mastering a foreign lexis. Game No 2: Pockets: A traditional European game, geared towards in depth memorization. Game No 3: Translation Test: This game is a translation test it has the goal of checking how well you know the words. This is a simple, yet very effective way of brushing up on the words that need more attention. Game No 4: Spell Check: This game teaches you to spell foreign words correctly. The FlashCards vocabulary base is comprised of 3000 basic lexis and about 4000 special terminology words. With the help of FlashCards you can also create your own vocabulary bases and use them for studying. Now, this FlashCards application supports Hebrew and Persian (Farsi)! LingvoSoft FlashCards Builder is the means for creating your own FlashCards word databases, from your personal text files as well as from clipboard bits. The LingvoSoft FlashCards Builder is accessible to all LingvoSoft guests, free of charge.
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Ectaco - Commercial
This clever dictionary translates both ways and provides immediate back translations, too. Searching is made easy with Quick Search, Vector Ultima spell-checker and our signature MorphoFinder functions. Each dictionary entry is complete with part of speech information and multiple translations for all polysemantic words.
Many parts of this application have been recently improved. They include added support for Tungsten T5 devices, the underlying linguistic database, improved spell-checker interface, fonts, documentation, and the installation wizard. To save some hassle for users of certain Palm devices, we have made the application to be executable from the Internal Card. Also, the database file can be placed on either the Internal or External Card.
| Requires: None |
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Ectaco - Commercial
This clever dictionary translates both ways plus it yields English speech synthesis. Once installed on your device it will allow your Palm to speak English word and phrases - not limited to dictionary entries!
Searching is made easy with Quick Search, Vector Ultima spell-checker and our signature MorphoFinder functions. Each dictionary entry is complete with part of speech information and multiple translations for all polysemantic words.
Many parts of this application have been recently improved. They include added support for Tungsten T5 devices, the underlying linguistic database, improved spell-checker interface, fonts, documentation, and the installation wizard. To save some hassle for users of certain Palm devices, we have made the application to be executable from the Internal Card. Also, the database file can be placed on either the Internal or External Card.
A new keyboard is now built-in to facilitate easier typing, and high resolution support makes for superior readability. Efficient and effective, this dictionary is enjoyable at the same time!
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Lewis Haney - Freeware
The Ten Commandments with OS5 Hi Resolution Support. A fun little app that displays the 10 Commandments with graphics.
| Requires: None |
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Daf Yomi Review - Freeware
This is an e-book with the 10 steps to Greatness by Rav Avigdor Miller, in PalmReader format.
| Requires: Palm eReader |
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Yeshiah Zalman - Shareware
Popup module for "Daily Popup" that gives you a Mitzvah a day. Listed according to Rambams by positive and negative commandments.
| Requires: Daily PopUp |
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GetSomeHat Software - Shareware
Acharonim is a program which contains the biographies of over 50 of the great and famous Rabbis of the past, from the 15th century until the 19th century. The program gives biographies of different Acharonim from different centuries, such as when they lived and passed away, their works, and a a little about their lives.
| Requires: None |
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LearningToGo - Shareware
This is an E-Book of Flavius Josephus' book entitled "Against Apion". Available in either DOC, iSilo, or Palm Reader formats.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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Aish HaTorah - Freeware
This is an AvantGo Channel for the Aish HaTorah.com web site. It is updated weekly and is a very good source for Jewish education and articles.
| Requires: AvantGo Reader |
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Copera, Inc - Shareware
Anki is a software product that helps you to learn languages faster. Anki allows you to quickly create flashcards using your Windows PC and then study them while you're on the go using your Palm Powered PDA. Anki includes flashcards in many languages, including Hebrew, to help you learn the language.
| Requires: None |
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Zondervan - Commercial
An electronic Palm-based vocabulary program to teach Hebrew vocabulary words derived from Basics of Biblical Hebrew (Pratico and Van Pelt). This program allows any Palm user to easily learn Biblical Hebrew words with the flash-card method.
| Requires: None |
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Beiks - Commercial
The comprehensive and carefully selected English to Hebrew Dictionary, is an excellent choice for English travelers visiting Israel and for students learning Hebrew. The full dictionary version provides Hebrew translations of over 27,000 unique English words. A Hebrew font is available within BEIKS Dictionary Reader itself, which can be set on its "Preferences" screen, so the dictionary does not require any Hebrew localization/support software.
English to Hebrew dictionary features: Over 44,000 Hebrew translations to about 27,000 English words. Excellent data compression. Expandable with the huge selection of other BEIKS Dictionary Reader compatible dictionaries.
| Requires: BDicty Dictionary |
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TurEl - Freeware
This is Volume 1 of a database of major Jewish people and events throughout Jewish history (both Jewish and secular dates).
| Requires: MobileDB Viewer |
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TurEl - Freeware
This is Volume 2 of a database of major Jewish people and events throughout Jewish history (both Jewish and secular dates).
| Requires: MobileDB Viewer |
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J.D. Smith - Freeware
This is a set of HTML pages that have the general rules for the blessings we say over food both before and after. They also include a large list of different foods and what blessings to say for them. To view these files on a Palm you will need AvantGo. There is a ReadMe file with instructions in the .zip file.
| Requires: Doc Viewer, AvantGo Reader |
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J.D. Smith - Freeware
This is a 'How-To' guide about the appropriate blessings to say before and after eating different foods. This was taken from the Orthodox Union's web site and converted to the DOC format.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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Town Compass LLC - Commercial
The Britannica World Religions Handheld Edition contains 3,450 authoritative entries that entail a variety of topics, including religious movements, concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, spiritual characters and important religious locations. You'll also find in-depth articles on the major religions of our time, such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. With the comprehensive coverage available in this application, you'll learn more about other religions as well, including Confucianism, Jainism, Native American religions, Sikhism and much more.
| Requires: None |
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Daf Yomi Review - Freeware
These are flashcards with questions and answers for each parsha (torah portion) in the Chumash (5 books of Moses) in either PalmReader or Learn! flashcard format. Compiled from the Ohr Somayach's Parsha Q&A.
| Requires: Palm eReader |
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Revelation Computing - Shareware
CopyWrite is an application designed to teach students how to write in various languages, including Hebrew.
| Requires: None |
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Daf Yomi Advancement Forum - Freeware
The Dafyomi Advancement Forum (D.A.F.) founded by Kollel Iyun Hadaf in 1996, provides the most complete resource center for Daf Yomi learners available online. D.A.F. produces many types of study material and makes them available to the public. their English publications are: (1) In-depth insights to the Daf, (2) Background to Daf concepts and word translations,(3) Review Questions on the Daf (4) Summary of the Daf (or answers to review questions), and (5) the Daf presented in outline form. Since the beginning of Maseches Menachos these resources have also been made available in downloadable Palm DOC format (.pdb) such that they can be easily viewed on a Palm. Download and usage instructions on site.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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Creative Palm - Freeware
This is a program that details the various customs and laws of the Jewish holiday of Purim. It also includes the entire Birchat HaMazon for Purim in Hebrew.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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Yeshiah Zalman - Shareware
This is a gematria calculator that allows you to type in any Hebrew phrase and it will give you the gematria numeric value of it.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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Rabbi David Etengoff - Shareware
In an effort to place our Geonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim in an historical context, Rabbi Etengoff has created a database which shows the name, complete name, dates, and place of over 180 Geonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. There is a trial version as well, you can get more information at the website.
| Requires: MobileDB Viewer |
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Gilly Rosenthol - Freeware
This is a guide to the Lulav and Etrog that Jews shake on Sukkot taken from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's website (www.uscj.org).
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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Top Technology - Commercial
Hebrew - Arabic - Hebrew BiDirection Dictionary: Hebrew-Arabic (30,000 entries) and Arabic-Hebrew (30,000) dictionary.
| Requires: None |
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Yeshiah Zalman - Shareware
Popup module for "Daily Popup" that gives you a Hebrew Word a day. Listed according to the Hebrew Alphabet.
| Requires: Hebrew Support, Daily PopUp |
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Richard Davidovici - Freeware
This is a DOC file with many sources for the laws of Bishul B'Shabbos (Cooking on the Sabbath) in Hebrew. It includes Gemara Shabbos with Rashi and Tossafot, Rambam, Tur, Shulchan Aruch, and the Mishna Berura. With bookmarks. The author wishes the user to daven for the refuoh sheleymo of "Ruhama Pessel Odel bas Gitel", Tehilim 119 is included in the zip file.
| Requires: Doc Viewer, Hebrew Support |
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Eliram Haklay - PostcardWare
These are maps of Israel and Tel Aviv for the Handmap PalmOS mapping software. These maps are Postcardware, which means that if you decide to use it, the author would like a Postcard in the mail.
| Requires: HandMap, Hebrew Support |
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Rabbi Dovid Bendory - Freeware
This is a collection of Rabbi Bendory's excellent guides to Jewish Law converted into Palm format. The guides cover various areas of Jewish law and include photos to help where needed.
| Requires: iSilo Reader |
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Ulrich Greve - Shareware
This app contains the meanings in German and English of almost 700 Jewish boys and girls names. See the web site for more info.
| Requires: None |
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Joseph Fishkin - Freeware
The Kavanah Improvement Project is a complete system that allows you to use your Palm-compatible PDA or cellphone to improve your kavanah. Through the use of directed kavanah exercises, self-evaluation, and customized feedback, the program will provide you with the proper guidance to improve your davening.
| Requires: None |
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Yeshiah Zalman - Freeware
This is a Jewish biblical game based on the popular Palm game Kyles Quest. Here is a description of the game from the author:The following adventure recreates the Story of Moshe and the Exodus from Egypt. It is meant as a fun way to refresh the story to someone estranged from Judaism. For the more educated Jew it may be some entertainment of a much needed area. I have seen many games but none Biblical. Also This game is not really meant to be difficult. Just informative and entertaining. You are MEANT to Win.
| Requires: None |
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Ken Shirriff - Freeware
This program drills you on foreign alphabets including Hebrew.
| Requires: None |
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Solutions In Hand - Freeware
This is a set of flashcards on your Palm to help you learn the Hebrew alphabet. Memorize Hebrew alphabet, then test yourself using other forms via menu commands.
| Requires: None |
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International Society for Sephardic Progress - Freeware
Talmudic scholar Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg, ZT"L devoted most of his life to assembling this massive collation of the Haggada--the traditions which have grown up surrounding the Biblical narrative. These stories have their roots from Talmud, Midrash, and other sources, including oral. Sources for these stories came from their original sources written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, and Old Slavic. Rabbi Ginzberg reproduced them completely, accurately, and vividly. To this day. "Legends of the Jews" remains a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Tanach. This is an English E-book in 4 volumes.
| Requires: Palm eReader |
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Top Technology - Commercial
Lexicon for Hebrew Speaker with enlarged number of terms. Just enter a term and get the Hebrew meaning.
| Requires: None |
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Penticon Technologies Ltd. - Freeware
This is an animated Lulav for your Palm. The Lulav is one of the four species used on the Jewish holiday of Succot.
| Requires: None |
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Mapa Israel - Commercial
Mapa2Go is mapping and GSP map software for Israel. More information is available on their site.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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Penticon Technologies Ltd. - Freeware
This is an animation of a matza.
| Requires: None |
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SouthPaw Solutions - Shareware
MiniFlash is a flash card program that will help you to learn while you are on the move. MiniFlash allows you to create electronic flash cards right on your Palm OS device. Once you have created a flash card database, you can take it with you anywhere that your Palm OS device can go. MiniFlash has built Hebrew Support, so you can create Hebrew flash cards, without any other Hebrew Support installed on the Palm. You can also download pre-made Hebrew flashcards from the MiniFlash website. Also, MiniFlash works together with the
Foundation Stone Hebrew software. MiniFlash requires Palm OS 3.3 and above to run.
| Requires: None |
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Rabbi David Etengoff - Charityware
This is a database of events in Modern Jewish History that Rabbi Etengoff created to help him teach his Modern Jewish History course.
| Requires: MobileDB Viewer |
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Astraware - Commercial
The Ark's built, and its just started raining, and there are still hundreds of animals to bring in! Can you fill the ark with pairs of animals in time? Simple to play - hard to put down! Tap to match pairs of animals in the confusion, to bring them to the Ark and save them from the rising flood water.
| Requires: None |
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Ohr Somayach - Freeware
This is an AvantGo channel of the great content and articles from Ohr Somayach's web site.
| Requires: AvantGo Reader |
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JewishContent.org - Freeware
A guide for Passover/Pesach containing hundreds of articles, including: Passover Dates / Schedule, Stories, Customs, The History of Passover, Children's Corner, Text of the Passover Haggadah (in english), and more...
| Requires: None |
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International Society for Sephardic Progress - Freeware
The Laws of Torah Study by the Rambam (Maimonides). Sefer HaMada of the Mishna Torah: Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah. This is an English E-book.
| Requires: Palm eReader |
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GetSomeHat Software - Shareware
Rishonim is a program which contains the biographies of over 50 of the great and famous Rabbis of the past, from the 9th century until the 15th century. The program gives biographies of different Rishonim from different centuries, such as when they lived and passed away, their works, and a a little about their lives.
| Requires: None |
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Jonathan Epstein - Freeware
ScrollScraper is a web-based "virtual tikkun" which lets a Torah reader extract a section of Torah which they're planning to study and read in a service. This extracted section can either be printed, saved on the computer for review, or transfered to a handheld device for future study. The output looks like it does in a Torah scroll and contains the trop (cantillation marks).
| Requires: Web-Enabled Palm |
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International Society for Sephardic Progress - Freeware
Sefer HaYuhasin (Book of Genealogy or Lineage) by Rav Abraham Zacuto. This author was a Spanish astronomer, mathematician, and historian; born at Salamanca about 1450; died in Turkey after 1510. An astronomer of wide-spread reputation, he was appointed professor at the university of Salamanca, and later Saragossa. In 1504, during his sojourn at Tunis, he wrote a chronological history of the Jews from the Creation to 1500, making constant reference to Jewish literature, and entitling his book "Sefer ha-Yuhasin." In this work Zacuto gives an account of the oral law as transmitted from Moses through the elders, prophets, sages, and the like and the like, and also records the acts and monuments of the kings of Israel. This is an English E-book in 7 volumes.
| Requires: Palm eReader |
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International Society for Sephardic Progress - Freeware
Written by Rav Yehuda HaLevi over a period of twenty years and completed in 1140, The Kuzari has enthralled generations of Jews with its clear-cut presentation on Judaism, and its polemics against heretical Greek philosophy, Christianity, Islam, and Karaitism. This is an English E-book.
| Requires: Palm eReader |
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Anshe Emes Synagogue - Freeware
This is a Shatnez primer in DOC format. The file discusses some of the Halachos of Shatnez which garments require checking tips for purchasing garments and a list of shatnez labs in the USA.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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Yeshiah Zalman - Shareware
This is a cute little educational app that lets you choose which of the different shofar sounds or sets of sounds you would like to hear and then plays them for you. Thanks to Josh Forman for the idea and to Yeshiah Zalman for creating it.
| Requires: None |
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Ilan Lev - Freeware
Shorashon is a lexicon containing nearly 4000 Hebraic roots and has an innovating method of classification. The lexicon is accompanied by instructions, which also act as gloss of morphology of the Hebraic language according to a particularly original approach. Shorashon© can be freely downloaded (Acrobat®Reader or Palm OS format). An online interactive version is freely available as well. Note: Shorashon's instructions and translation of Hebraic roots are available in French only.
| Requires: None |
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Paragon Software - Commercial
English-Hebrew-English Palm dictionary features: The possibility of adding new entries, changing and deleting the existing entries in the powerful built-in editor; the possibility to activate/deactivate all changes of entries and synchronize changes with desktop computer; the resident module that allows you to translate words from within the currently active application: just select the word and start the resident module; search history (list of words that you searched recently) and quick access to it; possibility of learning words using "Word of Day" and "Flash Cards Quiz" features; powerful compression technology that enables high data compression ratio (up to 100,000 words in 250 Kb) with high access rate; possibility to install to expansion cards (Memory Stick, Compact Flash, Secure Digital, MMC). Note, this software requires PiLoc Hebrew Support and at least PalmOS version 3.1, see the page for more info.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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Paragon Software - Commercial
Russian-Hebrew-Russian Palm dictionary features: The possibility of adding new entries, changing and deleting the existing entries in the powerful built-in editor; the possibility to activate/deactivate all changes of entries and synchronize changes with desktop computer; the resident module that allows you to translate words from within the currently active application: just select the word and start the resident module; search history (list of words that you searched recently) and quick access to it; possibility of learning words using "Word of Day" and "Flash Cards Quiz" features; powerful compression technology that enables high data compression ratio (up to 100,000 words in 250 Kb) with high access rate; possibility to install to expansion cards (Memory Stick, Compact Flash, Secure Digital, MMC). Note, this software requires PiLoc Hebrew Support and at least PalmOS version 3.1, see the page for more info.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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Daf Yomi Review - Freeware
These are flashcards for your Palm with 20-30 questions for each daf/page in the talmud. Compiled with permission from Kollel Iyun Hadaf's Q/A on each daf written by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler.
| Requires: None |
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Dezabin - Shareware
This is the text of the Gemara (Talmud) with embedded commentary, available in English and Hebrew. This is great for Daf Yomi as well.
| Requires: iSilo Reader |
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Tanach Study Center - Freeware
The Tanach Study Center has an AvantGo channel that you can use to get its weekly classes/shiurim on your Palm device.
| Requires: AvantGo Reader |
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LearningToGo - Shareware
This is an E-Book of Flavius Josephus' book entitled "The Antiquities of the Jews". Available in either DOC, iSilo, or Palm Reader formats.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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BooksInYourPalm - Shareware
This is a DOC version of Louis Ginzberg's 'The Legend of the Jews'.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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LearningToGo - Shareware
These are E-Books of Louis Ginzberg's 4 volumes, available in either DOC, iSilo, or Palm Reader formats. These are available either seperately or together. See the web page for more info about these books.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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LearningToGo - Shareware
This is an E-Book of "The Life of Flavius Josephus". Available in either DOC, iSilo, or Palm Reader formats.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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LearningToGo - Shareware
This is an E-Book of Flavius Josephus' book entitled "The Wars of the Jews". Available in either DOC, iSilo, or Palm Reader formats.
| Requires: Doc Viewer |
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JewishContent.org - Freeware
Providing a short summary of the Torah portion read in the Synagogue on Shabbat, in English, for all weeks.
| Requires: None |
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Top Technology - Commercial
This is an expansion card for PalmOS devices that contains Hebrew/English and Hebrew/Russian dictionaries as well as games to learn English for Hebrew speakers, and other assorted software.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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NogaSoft - Commercial
KaKuRo (also known as Kakro or Cross Sum) is a challenging logical puzzle that is becoming the new SuDoKu. There are versions in English and Hebrew here.
| Requires: None |
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Top Technology - Commercial
This ia a French to Hebrew to French dictionary.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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Top Technology - Commercial
This is a Russian to Hebrew to Russian dictionary.
| Requires: Hebrew Support |
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NogaSoft - Commercial
SuDoKu is an addictive logical puzzle game that has attracted millions of fans throughout the world. This is a good sudoku game, and they have versions in Hebrew and English.
| Requires: None |
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TorahWeb.org - Freeware
TorahWeb is a website with many classes and essays, etc. (divrei torah) on various Jewish topics from various rabbis. They have audio classes as well. They now provide a Palm version of their classes so you can download them and read them on your Palm.
| Requires: None |
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Ulrich Greve - Freeware
This is a dictionary that will translate many words from Yiddish to English and from English to Yiddish. Note, that this application will only work on Palm devices running at least PalmOS 5, and with a screen resolution of 320x320. If you are not sure if this will work on your device, either try it out or email the author for assistance.
| Requires: None |
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