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 Center for Jewish History has now made its exhibit “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries” available as a virtual tour. To tour the exhibit, click here,

ALEPH will hold a virtual reading of the play “Desert Wind” by playwright/television writer Stephanie Liss, which tells the story of a Jewish Yemenite couple caught in the midst of the Houthi takeover, on Sunday, September 15, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is “pay what you can.” The play also features original music by RebbeSoul. For more information or to register, click here.

Pardes will hold the virtual course “Talmud Refresher Course” with Rav Daniel Reifman on Sundays, September 8-29, from 11 am-noon. The course is “designed for those with some prior experience learning Talmud, and the focus will be on gaining reading fluency and the ability to make sense of the flow of the Gemara.” For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual class “Reading and Writing the Mourner’s Kaddish” on Monday, September 9, from noon-1:30 pm. The program will look at “the structure of one of Judaism’s most powerful and enigmatic prayers, examining some of the context and history of this liturgy and then mapping and writing our own versions.” For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual program “Experiencing the Way of David and the Prophets: An Introduction,” led by Jeff “KD” Meyers on Sunday, September 8, at 7:30 pm. The cost to attend is “pay what you can.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Grandparents Network will hold the virtual event “How Play with Grandchildren Can Bring Out the Sweetness of the High Holidays” on Tuesday, September 17, from 7-8 pm. Sari Kopitnikoff, an experiential educator and Jewish game designer, will offer a variety of “creative, playful (and virtual-friendly!) activities appropriate for children of all ages.” For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual “Resilience Boost: Spiritual Tools for the Election Season” Wednesday, September 11, from noon-1 pm. The cost to attend is $18. The program is dedicated to the Jewish values connected to pursuing justice. It will include Jewish texts that reinforce the pursuit of justice. There will also be prompt to help those attending craft their own poem or prayer about the upcoming election season. For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual class “T’Shuva: A Return Through the Psalms” on Thursdays, September 12-26, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is $50. The class will “explore Psalm 27, traditionally prayed every day during the month of Elul, as well as other psalms and practices which will open our hearts, clear our minds, and ready us to journey through the transformative process of the High Holidays.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold several virtual/hybrid programs: “Finding Home (Hungary, 1945) – The Little-Known Postwar Jewish Experience” with Dean Cycon on Thursday, September 12, at 7 pm (available here); Anita Norich in conversation with Lisa Newman about her recently released translation of Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin’s “Desires” on Sunday, September 15, at 2 pm (available here); and “The Siege of Sidney Street: The East End of London’s Most Sensational Shootout” with Andrew Whitehead on Thursday, September 26, from 7-8 pm (available here). 

Ritualwell will hold the virtual class “Reading and Writing Mi Shebeirach Le’Cholim, the Jewish Prayer for Healing” on Monday, September 16, from noon-1:30 pm. The class will study the origin of the prayer and, in the second half of the class, allow participants to write and share their own version. For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual program “A Conversation with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg” on Thursday, September 5, at noon. The cost to attend is $18. Greenberg will discuss his latest book, “The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism.” For more information or to register, click here.

Yeshiva University is offering the nine-part podcast “Nine Days to Redemption” with Dr. Erica Brown about “the war in Israel, the Nine Days and better times to come.” For more information or to listen to the podcast, click here.

Ritualwell will hold a weekly virtual 15-minute online minyan called “Holding Each Other” on Mondays, September 23-August 25, 2025, from noon-12:15 pm. Participants will recite Mourners’ Kaddish and Mi Shebeirach, the prayer for healing, and engage with a brief creative meditation. For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Israel Education is offering online courses, including “How Did the Zionists Create the State of Israel?”; “How Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism”; “Israel’s Democratic Origins and Its Pluralistic Political System”; “Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Pre-State to 1973; “Arab-Israeli Conflict: Quest for Normalization, 1973-Present” and “Israeli Identity and Society Through Music and Pop Culture.” There is a cost to take the courses. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual Jewish Book Club-Fall 2024 led by Ilan Stavans on Wednesdays, September 11, October 9, November 6 and December 12, from 12:30-2 pm. The cost to attend is $180. The books under discussion will be “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” by Giorgio Bassani; “Simple Gimpl” by Isaac Bashevis Singer; “On Borrowed Words” by Ilan Stavans; and “The Street of Crocodiles” by Bruno Schulz. For more information or to register, click here.

The Maas Center will hold the virtual program “Rosh Hashanah 101” on Sunday, September 15, from 9-10:15 pm. The program calls itself a “crash course on the Jewish New Year.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will offer the virtual course “The Shofar Project: Awakening to Action for the New Year” on Wednesdays, September 4-25, from 8-9 pm. The course will offer an “ongoing Jewish spiritual practice to prepare our inner lives for the challenges and joys of the upcoming Jewish year, 5785.” For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning will hold the virtual class “An Intro to Yiddish” with Tel Aviv University’s Daniel Birnbaum, on Mondays, September 9-October 28, at 11 am. The class is designed to give attendees a taste of the language and its cultural significance. No background knowledge is necessary. For more information, or to register, click here.

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