Jewish Clipart CD Collection V

Expand your creative horizons with Jewish clipart DavkaGraphics CD Collection V! Packed with over 250 colorful images depicting Jewish holidays, Israel, people and places, it's the perfect addition to your Jewish clip art collection. Every image is available in full color as well as black-and-white. These images, supplied in the popular JPEG format, are ideal for websites as well as printed materials. Win/Mac CD #F226 DavkaGraphics CD Collection V is ideal for school projects, websites, flyers, newsletters, synagogue bulletins – for any print or web-based project. Themes and holidays include: Shabbat Rosh Hashanah Sukkot Simchat Torah Hanukkah Tu B'shevat Purim Passover Israel Independence Day Jerusalem Day Shavuot Tisha B'Av System Requirements: PC with CD-ROM drive or Any Mac with a CD-ROM drive.

Review

The Davka Graphics Collection V, a CD-ROM by the Davka Corporation in Chicago (www.davka.com; marketed in Israel by Alan Rosenbaum, tel. 02-993-3470), for Windows or Mac, for all ages, $29.95 or the shekel equivalent.

Rating: *****

Anyone looking for graphic images, even Jewish ones, can go to www.google.com's Images section and pick them up free. But they may be small or not exactly what you're looking for - and if you want to publish them, you may have copyright problems.

So those who want good-looking, colorful graphics on Jewish themes, with Hebrew or English subtitles for producing brochures, bulletins, newsletters, birth announcements, bar-mitzva invitations, book reports and many other uses should buy this inexpensive graphics collection on a disk. The images are meant for those who use the Davka word-processing program (just pull down the "Insert" tab and look for "Graphics"), but it can also be used with virtually any Windows or Mac applications that can accept graphics. All the images are presented in the universally acceptable and popular JPEG format.

The disk contains 250 images, including those of babies, bar and bat mitzva celebrations, the 12 Tribes of Israel, Shabbat and Jewish holiday themes, Israeli themes (the Western Wall, Masada, the Kinneret and the Israel Museum, to name a few) and Israeli holidays (such as Independence Day and Jerusalem Day). All of them come in full color, but there is a separate collection of the same images in striking black-on-white as well. The previous Davka Graphics collection came out several years ago, but this fifth one is not only better but less expensive.

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
Health and Science Reporter and Software Reviewer
The Jerusalem Post