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 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the virtual book talk “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” on Thursday, May 30, at 1 pm. The program will talk about the new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists with Spencer Sunshine, author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege.” For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal will hold the virtual “Desert Wind, A Live Play Reading” on Sunday, June 2, at 7:30 pm. There is a pay-what-you-can cost to attend. The play, which is by Stephanie Liss, will “follow the journey of a Yemenite Jewish family shattered by tragedy and persecution as they brave the harsh desert in search of safety and freedom.” To register for the event, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual four-session class “Midrash Folklore: Legends and Fables Based on the Hebrew Bible” on Mondays, June 3-24, from 2-3 pm. The cost to attend is $176. The class will look at “how stories lifted the leading characters of the Hebrew Bible out of their original context and planted them firmly in the world in which the ancient commentators lived.” For more information or to register, click here.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the virtual book talk “Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages” on Thursday, June 6, at 1 pm. Naomi Seidman will talk about her book “Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish.” For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal will hold the virtual class “GPS for Your Inner Landscape: The Shore” on Monday, June 24, at 7:30 pm. There is a pay-what-you-can cost to attend. Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan will help those attending “to connect to your soul by connecting to the beauty of the natural world and Jewish wisdom about nature.” To register for the event, click here.

The virtual Literary Modiin June event will take place on Sunday, June 9, at 1 pm. The event will feature Dawn Promislow (“Wan”), Joan Leegant (“Displaced Persons”) and Don Futterman (“Adam Unrehearsed”). For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual class “Climate Emotions and the Wisdom Our Bodies Carry” on Tuesday, June 25, from 7-8:30 pm. Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner will help attendees “cast a gentle light on our climate emotions, and deepen our awareness of how they show up in our hearts and bodies.” For more information or to register, click here.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the virtual book talk “Homes of the Past” on Monday, June 24, at 1 pm. Jeffrey Shandler will discuss his book “Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum,” which explores how “in 1940s New York, immigrant Jewish scholars sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people.” For more information or to register, click here.

Reconstructing Judaism will hold an Evolve Web Conversation “Before All the World” on Tuesday, May 28, at 1 pm. Novelist Moriel Rothman-Zecher will read from and discuss his most recent novel, “Before All the World.” For more information or to register, visit www.reconstructingjudaism.org/event/evolve-web-conversation-before-all-the-world/.
Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual talk “Shamayim: The State of the Jewish Vegan Movement” with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz on Tuesday, June 18, at 3 pm. The cost to attend is $18. To register, click here. 

Roundtable will hold the virtual four-part class “Jewish American Women Writers in the Early Twentieth Century” on Mondays, June 3-24, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $176. The class will look at four Jewish-American women writers from first third of the 20th century: Mary Antin, Edna Ferber, Anzia Yezierska and Gertrude Stein. For more information or to register, click here.

The Middle East Forum and the American Jewish University will hold the virtual programs “Israel’s 7 Fronts – Gaza” on Monday, May 20, at 2 pm (https://open.aju.edu/event/mef-aju-present-israels-7-fronts-gaza/); and “Israel’s 7 Fronts – The West Bank” on Monday, June 3, at 2 pm (available here).

Tikvah will hold the virtual class “Theodor Herzl: The Birth of Political Zionism” with Daniel Polisar. In seven lectures, Polisar, who is considered one of the world’s leading experts on Theodor Herzl, will speak about “Herzl’s conversion to Zionism and inspires us with Herzl’s vision, strategy, leadership, and deep Jewish pride.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Blue Dove Foundation offers parents new resources in its program “HaDerech: A Guide to Mental Health Crises” (available here). The program seeks to “serve as a compass and point families struggling with a mental health crisis in the right direction and help them create a path forward.”

Roundtable will hold the five-part virtual class “Revealing Jewish Identity in the Films of Melville, Fuller and Kubrick” on Wednesdays, July 3-31, from 3-4 pm. The cost to attend is $220. The class “brings together three major 20th-century filmmakers – the French Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-73), and Americans Samuel Fuller (1912-97) and Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) – to uncover the veiled and intricate presence of Jewishness and Holocaust memories in their films.” For more information or to register, click here.

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