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. 

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action will hold the virtual “Spiritual Adaptation Workshop for all ages on Thursday, March 28, from 7:30-9:30 pm. The workshop will help “people confront the reality of the climate crisis – naming what’s at stake, processing climate emotions, and moving into bold action.” To register for the event, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Policy Research offers the podcast “Jews Do Count” with Raymond Simonson, the CEO of JW3 London; and Dr Jonathan Boyd, executive director of the institute. For more information about the podcast, click here.

Tikvah offers the limited series podcast “Menachem Begin: His Life, Legacy, & Uniquely Jewish Statesmanship” with Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik. For more information, click here.

Qesher will hold the program “Jewish Languages Today: Endangered, Surviving, and Thriving” on Sunday, April 14, at 3 pm. Sarah Bunin Benor, professor of contemporary Jewish studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and adjunct professor in the University of Southern California Linguistics Department, will discuss Jewish languages across the world and what they have in common. For more information or to register, click here. 

Aleph will hold “A Tribute to Rabbi Marcia Prager and Hazzan Jack Kessler” on Sunday, April 7, at 4 pm. The cost to attend is pay what you can. To register, click here. 

Drew University will hold the virtual The George and Alicia Karpati Lectureship lecture “World War II and the Holocaust: What the Vatican Did – and Didn’t Do” with Pulitzer Prize winning author David Kertzer on Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 pm. Kertzer will discuss his latest book, “The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y will hold the virtual four-part class “Translating the Jewish Freud” on Thursdays, April 25-May 16, from 7-8 pm. The cost to attend is $176. The class will look at Hebrew and Yiddish translations of Freud’s work and explore “the place of Jewish languages in Freud’s thought and in the international reception of psychoanalysis during his lifetime.” For more information or to register, click here.

Qesher will hold the virtual program “Sefarad: Music of the Jews of Spain, Portugal and their diaspora” with Judith Cohen on Sunday, April 21, at 3 pm. The program will look at music from medieval Jewish life in Spain and Portugal through the diaspora in Morocco and the eastern Mediterranean, former Ottoman lands. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will offer the four-part course “All in the Family: Torah’s Take on Family Relationships” on Wednesdays, May 8-29, from 7-8:30 pm. There is a sliding scale cost to attend. Dr. Sandra Lilienthal “will explore significant family relationships in the Torah, using them as a mirror with which to examine our own relationships.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Orthodox Union offers the online video series “Meet the Mashgiach” at here. 

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has launched the virtual self-paced course “Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America.” The course looks at the history of Jewish comedy and its development in the United States. For more information or to register, click here.

Sunday with the Braid will hold “A Conversation with Emily Bowen Cohen” on Sunday, March 31, at 2 pm. Cohen will discuss her graphic novel, “Two Tribes,” about growing up Jewish and Native American. For more information or to register, click here.

The Biblical Archaeology Society will hold a hybrid version of its Summer Seminar 2024, which will be held from July 7-13, with lectures taking place from July 8-12. The cost to attend virtually is $199. Jennie Ebeling, associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville in Indiana, and Dr. Thomas Davis will lecture on a variety of subject. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the three-part course “The First Jews in the Americas” on Wednesdays, April 10-May 1, from 10-11 am. The cost to attend is $132. Wim Klooster, chairman in history and international relations at Clark University, will discuss these traders and planters, and the economic, legal and social dimensions of their lives. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Ladino League will present Dr. Gloria Ascher (professor emerita, Tufts University) in conversation with Dr. Bryan Kirschen (associate professor and chairman of romance languages, Binghamton University) on Monday, April 8,at 7 pm. Ascher will talk about “The Diario” (Albion Andalus, 2023), a bilingual Ladino-English version of her uncle’s journal. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the four-part class “Where Was God During the Holocaust?” on Mondays, June 3-24, at 3 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will hold the hybrid event “The Guiding Hand: The BARR Foundation Collection of Torah Pointers Exhibition Opening” on Thursday, April 11, from 5:30-8 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will hold the virtual event “All Things Large and Small: The Child and the (Children’s) Story in ‘The Kerchief’ and Other Stories for Children by S.Y. Agnon” on Tuesday, April 9, at 12:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Aleph will hold “Dancing the Omer: Collective Healing in the Forest of Re-Creation” with physical therapist Rachael R. Resch on Tuesdays, April 23-30, May 7-28 and June 4, from 7-8 pm. The cost to attend is $72. The class will explore the seven archetypes (or sephirot) of the Divine and “include gentle movement, guided meditation, journaling and group dialogue to organically grow the Forest of Creation Ongoing in our bodies and in our lives.” To register, click here.

Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life has made available “The Hillel College Guide” to help students “explore all (and we mean all!) of the options, narrow down your choices, and find the perfect match.” For more information, click here.

The Democracy Ballot “provides a menu of options to expand your civic engagement through service and education in support of free, fair, safe, and accessible elections in 2024 and beyond.” It is a project of Repair the World, which “mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world.”

The Jewish Book Council will hold the virtual “Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: ‘Holograms’” with Adam Schorin on Wednesday, April 3, from 12:30-1 pm. The group will discuss Adam Schorin’s “Holograms,” which follows Sammy, a young Jewish American expat in Berlin. For more information, including where to read the short story, and register, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold the virtual program “An Evening with IJS President & CEO, Rabbi Josh Feigelson, in conversation with Rabbi Shai Held” on Monday, April 15, from 8-9 pm. Held will talk about his new book “Judaism is About Love.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Women’s Archive will hold the virtual program “Let’s Talk: Gen-Z Jewish Feminism” on Tuesday, April 16, at 8 pm. Four alums of JWA’s teen Rising Voices Fellowship will talk about their feminist Jewish journeys and the issues that are important to them today. For more information or to register for the event, click here.

Sefaria has added Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz’s commentaries on the Tanach and Mishneh Torah to its digital library. This includes some translations in English and Hebrew. For more information or to access the commentaries, click here.

JewBelong has created a new haggadah, which is available for free download here.

The JBI Library offers free haggadot for visually impaired, blind or print disabled in various editions. Orders are due by Thursday, April 11. To order a book, visit their website or contact JBI at 800-999-6476 or haggadah@jbilibrary.org. 

The PJ Library's Passover Hub offers kid-friendly ways to tell the Passover story along with downloadable activities to help keep children engaged during their family’s seder. It also offers recipes, book lists and a step-by-step video playlist that teaches seder skills. 

Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual program “Education as a tactic to fight antisemitism in progressive spaces” on Wednesday, April 10, at noon. The cost to attend is $18. Eddie Chavez Calderon and Randy Fried will explore strategies to address Jewish hatred within progressive spaces, particularly from the perspective of Jews of color. For more information or to register, click herea.

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