By Reporter staff

A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available. 

The Temple Emmanu-el Streicker Cultural Center will hold the hybrid program “Antisemitism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” on Thursday, February 29, at 6:30 pm. Mark Weitzman and Dr. Robert J. Williams, co-editors of “The Routledge History of Antisemitism,” and contributor Professor Magda Teter will discuss the book and antisemitism today. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. For more information or to register, click here.

The Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue will hold the hybrid program “Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen” on Monday, February 5, from 7-8:15 pm. Ori Z. Soltes will discuss his book, “Between Thought and Action.” The work “explores the life and the thought of Turkish Imam and scholar Fethullah Gülen.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y will hold the four-part virtual course “Kings and Jews in England” on Thursdays, February 1-22, from 10:30-11:30 am. The cost to attend is $140. “Jewish Historian Trudy Gold will examine and highlight the complex relationships between four subsequent monarchs and their Jewish subjects during the first Jewish settlement of England from 1066 to 1290.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the virtual author conversation “Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery” on Monday, February 5, from 1-2 pm. “Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery,” edited by Professor Halina Goldberg and Professor Nancy Sinkoff, explores “the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War (1899-1939).” For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning is holding the eight-part course “Journey Into Jewish Spirituality” that came be taken on one’s own pace. The course offers insights into the fundamentals of Jewish spirituality through video lessons, weekly exercises, guided meditations and more. For additional information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the six-part virtual course “Shared Scripture, Divided Faiths: Jews and Christians Encounter the Bible” with Dr. Robert Harris on Mondays: February 5-26 and March 4-18, from 7:30–8:45 pm. The cost to attend is $180. For more information or to register, click here.

The Tikvah Fund is offering the eight-part course “Explore Nationhood, Holiness, and the Founding of the Jewish People,” which will offer discussion between Dr. Leon Kass and Warren R. Stern Senior Fellow of Jewish Civilization Jonathan Silver about the book of Exodus. For more information or to register, visit https://exodus.tikvahfund.org/.
The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the four-part course “Deepening Your Personal Prayer” on Tuesdays: February 13-27 and March 5, from 7-8:15 pm. The cost to attend is $120. The course “explores a range of rabbinic, halakhic, mystical, and Hasidic texts that invite participants into that process of spiritual development.” For more information or to register, click here.

Hadassah Magazine’s One Book, One Hadassah will offer a hybrid program featuring Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of the novel “The Wolf Hunt,” in conversation with Hadassah Magazine Editor Lisa Hostein. The event will be available in a livestream on Thursday, February 22, at 10 pm. There is no charge for watching the event virtually. To register, click here. For problems registering or questions, e-mail magazineevents@hadassah.org. 

The Braid will offer performances of the play “I Loved Jew, I Loved Jew Not.” The play offers work from “over a dozen contemporary writers, both Jews and their allies, [who] offer true stories of antisemitism and the strength to stand against it.” Two performances – Thursday, February 1, at 7 pm; and Sunday, February 4, at 2 pm – will be on Zoom. The cost to attend is $45. For more information or to register for specific performances, visit here and click on “I Loved Jew, I Loved Jew Not.” 

Keeping It Sacred will hold its virtual Adar I Rosh Chodesh Racial Justice Book Review on Wednesday, February 8, from 12:30-1:30 pm. The group will explore the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans interim report. For more information or to register, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold a virtual conversation between IJS President/CEO Rabbi Josh Feigelson with Rabbi Toba Spitzer about her book “God is Here: Reimagining the Divine” on Tuesday, February 13, from 8-9 pm. To register for the event, visit https://ijs.regfox.com/josh-in-conversation-with-toba-spitzer.
The Jewish Book Council will hold a virtual “Community One Read with Mitch Albom on Tuesday, February 6, from 1-2 pm. Albom will talk about his World War II novel “The Little Liar.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y will hold the four-part virtual course “The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis” on Wednesdays, February 21-March 13, from noon-1 pm. The cost to attend is $176. “Musical historian and author Michael Haas will examine the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century.” For more information or to register, click here.

Jewish Women’s Archives will hold the virtual February 2024 Film Club. People will view the film on their own. The film discussions will be held on Thursdays, at 8 pm: February 1, “ET – Under G-d,” with Elly C; February 8, “The Women’s Balcony,” with Rachel Harris; and February 15, “Funny Girl,” with Barrie Gelles. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold will hold several “Melton Meets the Moment” talks in February: “Stories of Israeli Resilience” on Tuesday, February 6, from 1-2 pm (available here); and “The History of Antisemitism in the USA” on Monday, February 26, from 4-5:30 pm (available here). 

Melon and Jewish Sacred Aging will hold the virtual lecture “The Economics of Aging” with Rabbi Richard F. Address, founder and director of Jewish Sacred Aging, on Tuesday, February 13, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $18. For more information or to register, click here. 

The Jewish Theological Seminary has launched a website about the life and influence of Abraham Joshua Heschel, found here. It features “a collection of testimonials, audio-visual materials, and writings exploring Heschel’s work and his impact.” 

Uri L’Tzedek will hold two programs: “A Panel on the Mandate to love and protect the stranger” on Tuesday, February 6, at noon, with immigrant rights leaders discussing immigration issues (available here); and “Public Shaming” (The Deposing of Rabban Gamliel),” a text study session with Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe on Tuesday, March 5, at 11 am (available here). The cost to attend each program is $18.

The Jewish Grandparents Network will hold the virtual event “How to Communicate in Writing with Grandchildren” on Tuesday, March 5, from 7-8 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Literary Foundation in Britain will offer its annual Book Week March 2-10. Some events will be available virtually. To learn more and register for events, click here.

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