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. 

Ritualwell will hold the class “Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah” on Tuesdays, May 7-28 and June 4, from noon-2 pm. The cost to attend is $250. The class “will delve into the multifaceted, dynamic Divine through the radical imagination of the Zohar.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold several hybrid programs: “Listening to History: Memory of the Holocaust and Competing Narratives of the Israel/Palestine Crisis” on Monday, May 6, from 12:30-2 pm; and “Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Shulamit Reinharz and Barbara Vinick, Editors, ‘100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World’” on Wednesday, May 22, at 7 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Shtetl, Haredi Free Press is a new website that seeks to off “unfiltered news” for the haredi community and to educate the larger Jewish community about live in ultra-Orthodox communities.

Ritualwell will hold the class “Judaism Through The Kaleidoscope: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook” on Wednesdays, May 1-29 and June 5, from 1-2:30 pm. The cost to attend is $250. Kook was “first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, a profound poet, and a giant of both mysticism and Jewish law.” For more information or to register, click here.

Tikvah is holding the online course “Zionism & Anti-Zionism: The history of two opposing ideas” with Dr. Einat Wilf, a former member of Israel’s parliament and a scholar of Zionist thought, and Zoé Tara Zeigherman, a filmmaker and former Tikvah Fellow. The five-part class will explore aspects of Zionism from its beginnings to contemporary times. For more information or to sigh up for the class, click here. 

Uri L’Tzedek will hold several programs in May, including “Faith vs. Truth’ in the Chassidic Tradition” with Rabbi Mel Gottlieb on Friday, May 24, at noon (available here); and “”Mind Your Own Business? Balancing Communal Responsibility and Personal Autonomy” with Avi Narrow-Tilonsky on Thursday, May 30, at noon (available here). The cost to attend each class Is $18.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the virtual walking tour “The Jewish Community of Paris” on Wednesday, May 8, at 11 am. The cost to attend is $25. It will look at the Jewish community there from the Middle Ages through today. For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning will hold the six-part on-demand course “Inside Jokes: Explore the Essence of Jewish Humor” with Andrew Silow-Carroll. The cost of the class is $100. It will look at “Jewish humor with the same analytical lens applied to other Jewish texts, such as the Torah as we aim to decipher the underlying messages embedded within jokes and, perhaps, gain insights into the purpose of Jewish existence.” For more information or to register, click here.

Americans for Ben-Gurion University will hold the virtual program “Remarkable Resilience: Leading the Way Forward” on Wednesday, May 8, at noon. Attendees will meet the BGU students and faculty who are helping rebuild the Negev after the October 11 attack. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the class “Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Women Labor Activists in New York” on Thursday, May 9, from 2-3:30 pm. The cost to attend is $44. Dartmouth College professor of history Annelise Orleck will discuss four Jewish labor activists who organized fellow working women in New York during the early 20th century. For more information or to register, click here.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the hybrid program “Yiddish and Hebrew Song in the Weimar Republic” on Tuesday May 7, at 7 pm. It will feature music by Aron M. Rothmüller, Israel Brandmann, Joel Engel, Joseph Achron, Michael Gnessin, Alexander Krein and Lazar Weiner. For more information or to register, click here.

The Qesher Book Club will hold three book discussions in May: “Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)” by Dean Cycon on Tuesday, May 7, at 3 pm (available here); “The Marriage Box” by Corie Adjmi on Tuesday, May 14, at 3 pm (available here); and “Caravan of Hope: A Bukharan Woman’s Journey to Freedom” by Dahlia Abraham-Klein on Tuesday, May 21, at 3 pm (available here).

The Jewish Book Council will hold the virtual discussion “The Heart of the Matter: Two Rabbis Discuss Love in the Jewish Tradition” on Thursday, May 16, from 6-7 pm. Rabbi Sharon Brous and Rabbi Shai Held will discuss their new books with Stephanie Butnick, host of Tablet’s Unorthodox podcast. For more information or to register, click here.

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, which will take place from July 11-14, will offer a virtual option this year. For more information, click here.

Tikvah will offer six-weeks of video classes about Pirkei Avot e-mailed directly to inboxes from Passover to Shavuot. Teachers will include Dr. Dara Horn, Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, Dr. Mijal Bitton, Rabbi Hershel Lutch, Dr. Erica Brown and Rabbi Mark Gottlieb. For more information and to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the book talk “Frume Halpern’s Blessed Hands” with translator Yermiyahu Ahron Taub on Thursday, May 23, from 7-8 pm. Taub, poet and translator, will discuss his newly released translation of Frume Halpern’s short story collection Blessed Hands (Frayed Edge Press). After his talk, there will be small-group discussions facilitated by Yiddish Book Center staff. For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning will hold the six-part virtual class “Learn Ladino: An Intro to the Judeo-Spanish Language” with Professor Bryan Kirschen on Wednesdays, May 1-June 5, at 8 pm. The cost to attend is $100. It will introduce participants to the basics of Ladino, and contextualize the language through Sephardic culture and history. For more information or to register, click here.

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