List of projects that need volunteers
Please add your thoughts of what needs to be done to this list. Discussion should be placed on the Discussion page.
Concept and Approach
- Eventually I envisioned a system where all dayanim could announce (after approval) whatever projects they were working on and invite comment, discussion and participation.
- I would like the site to at least have a balance of 50%-50% between halacha and politics (right now it is 90% politics).
- Rabbi Mantel says that the Sanhedrin and the Talmud are almost synonymous. We should make it so in the website. Need full intro to Oral Law, Talmudic tractates, etc.
- The Sanhedrin Initiative must be clearly communicated to the general public, however this cannot be done unless the people involved have a well developed, professional proposal. Serious, scholarly attention must be paid to planning the transition of an ancient institution to a modern legislature. In short much homework must be done first, and the F.O.S. websites are a part of that effort.
Urgent
English Website TheSanhedrin.NET
- [ ] Massive library being put online, thousands of pages of material, see http://www.thesanhedrin.net/en/index.php/History_and_Reference, need english translations of Rambam, Rav Bavaad's books and others.
- [ ] List of pages under construction
Hebrew Website TheSanhedrin.NET
- [ ] Massive library being put online, thousands of pages of material, see http://www.thesanhedrin.net/he/index.php/היסטוריה_ועיון
- [ ] Cavendish skin has problems with Hebrew
- Edit buttons do not appear in IE, only in Mozilla/Firefox
- Link icons are often not displayed
- Sidebar should be on right side
- [ ] Simplify URLs, use hebrew, not %XX notation (I am dropping this in priority, it doesn't seem to have an easy fix due to HTTP page forwarding protocol)
- [ ] Need to link to work of websites of some dayyanim who maintain websites:
- [ ] http://www.babad.org/ Rav Bavaad's website
- [ ] http://www.beni-noah.com/ Rav Schwartz's website
- [ ] http://www.templeinstitute.org/ Rabbi Ariel and Rabbi Richman.
- [ ] http://www.machonshilo.org/ Rabbi Bar Hayim
- [ ] others
- [ ] List of pages under construction
English Website TheSanhedrin.ORG
The following tasks need to be accomplished on the thesanhedrin.org/en:
- [ ] Finish translating all Hebrew pages to English. See complete list
- [ ] Add material to pages under contruction. See complete list
- [ ] 300 additional news articles need to be added to "Sanhedrin in the News", (see me for list).
- [ ] Add 35 links to YouTube and Arutz-7 videos (more to do)
- [ ] Digest material from Tzibur Bnei Yisrael to Committee for Civil Re-organization
- [ ] Need description for all courts and committees.
- [ ] Add wikipages for each of the known sanhedrin Rabbis
- [ ] Add wikipages for each of todays halachic scholars (and page for current halachic leadership)
- [X] Add text from Mavo LeTalmud where appropriate
- [X] Convert old html format legal rulings to wiki format.
- [ ] Need to rewrite Developing Sanhedrin so it isn't a copy of wikipedia
- [ ] Add more historical & halachic background on previous attempts to renew semicha and establish a sanhedrin.
- [ ] Add text from Rabbi Martel's works where appropriate
- [ ] Add summary of other attempts to make sanhedrin
- [ ] Add new background material sent to me from Rabbi Stein & Jonathan Hahn
- [ ] Order Osat mispat book
- [ ] Add Osat Mishpat.
- [ ] Set up "thesanhedrin.com" as an e-commerce site able to accept donations and sell manuscripts if needed.
- [ ] Donations page
- [ ] Purchase beith-din.com (not possible)
- [ ] Purchase korban-pesach.org (not possible)
- [ ] Rabbinic discussion on Korban Pesach
Hebrew Website TheSanhedrin.ORG
The following tasks need to be accomplished on the thesanhedrin.org/he:
- [ ] Finish translating all English to Hebrew. See complete list
- [ ] Add material to pages under contruction. See complete list
- [ ] A hebrew version of "Sanhedrin in the News" needs to be created.
- [ ] Need to convert Daat Emet from old html format to wiki format.
- [ ] Need to add expanded version of Daat Emet (see me for copy)
- [ ] Fix hebrew text of Begatz reply to Korban Pesach