This network, available electronically 24 hours a day, is a new electronic service started by members of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet. A variety of news and information services, and Jewish agencies and organizations are now available online with more being added every day. Each organization participating on the network is assigned its own conference area and has the opportunity to organize its area as it deems appropriate. A number have chosen to provide online discussion areas or bulletin boards on which the users of the network may dialog. Others provide data libraries, press releases, and news stories.
Temporary forums relating to timely issues also appear.
For those interested in news from the Mideast, the NJN carries several electronic news sources. The National Jewish Network is intended to serve as a central gathering place and clearinghouse for issues of Jewish concern, both in the United States and abroad. It hopes to establish a broad based electronic forum where many agencies and organizations involved in Jewish issues will have a presence and an inexpensive, readily available means to communicate with their members and others interested in their work. NJN also provides a means of gathering important information from diverse sources. By searching the databases of several organizations or the news archives which are available online, speakers and volunteers will have a readily available source of factual data on which to draw, whether to draft letters to the editor of their local newspaper, to promote Jewish activism within their community, or to establish policies, procedures and programming as part of their communal activities.