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. 

One Book, One Hadassah will hold a virtual discussion on “Displaced Persons’ by Joan Leegant on Thursday, August 22, at 7 pm. Leegant will discuss her award-winning collection of short stories, “Displaced Persons,” with Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa. For more information or to register, click here.

The Blue Dove has mental health resources for Tisha B’Av, which begins at sundown on Monday, August 12, and Tu B’Av, which begins at sundown on Sunday, August 18. They can be found here and here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold two virtual classes: “Yiddish Alphabet Course with Moishele Alfonso: Section 1,” on Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 3, 5, 10 and 12, from 11 am-12:30 pm (available here); and “Yiddish Alphabet Course with Moishele Alfonso: Section 2” on Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 3, 5, 10 and 12, from 6-7:30 pm (available here). The cost to attend is $100 for Yiddish Book Center members and $175 for non-members.

Melton will hold the course “Evolving Tradition: Deepening Our Understanding of Conservative Judaism” on Wednesdays, August 28-September 11, from 1:30-3 pm. There is sliding scale cost to attend. The class “will explore the history of Conservative Judaism, how the movement began, the key principles and ideals are that serve as its foundation, and where it is going.” For more information or to register, click here.

Reconstruction Judaism will hold the virtual program “Responding to Instability: Viewing our Democracy Through the Lens of 9 Av” on Tuesday, August 13, at 1 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

YIVO will hold the hybrid panel discussion “Yiddish on the Move: Yiddish Writing and Publishing after the Holocaust” on Thursday, September 19, at 7:30 pm. Rachelle Grossman, Matt Johnson, Harriet Murav and Christin Zühlke will discuss the dynamics of Yiddish writing and publishing across transnational literary networks after the Holocaust. For more information or to register, click here. 

Tikvah is holding the online course “The Biblical Legacy in Western Art,” a master class in art history, the Hebrew Bible and Western culture led by Dr. Jacob Wisse. For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold virtual class “Dispatches to the Divine: Soliloquys to Spirit” on Wednesday, September 18, from noon-1:30 pm. The cost to attend is $36. Ellen Blum Barish will discuss how to use direct prayer so participants can enhance their spiritual life and strengthen their bond with the Divine. For more information or to register, click here.

Qesher will present the virtual program “Desert Roots: Jewish Middle Eastern Music,” a concert and presentation by Dror Sinai, on Thursday, August 15, at 3 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Sinai will explore the music of Yemen, Spain and North Africa from the 10th century until today. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual course “Lives and Afterlives: Kabbalah and Reincarnation” on Wednesday, August 21, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $10. Dr. Hartley Lachter will explore ways that reincarnation has been described by Jewish thinkers and how kabbalists use this idea. For more information or to register, click here.

JIFA and Jewish Veg will hold the first “Aleph b’Elul: Jewish New Year for the Animals” virtual celebration on Wednesday, September 4, at 1:30 pm. In addition to the celebration, the event will include an update about the future of the organizations and showcase a sneak peek of their new “Clergy Statement” video. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Studio Project will hold the virtual program “Have You Made Art About It Yet? Tisha B’Av Edition” with Rabbi Adina Allen on Thursday, August 15, from noon-1:30 pm. The program will use a “methodology combining practices from the field of art therapy with a reimagined approach to Jewish learning and spirituality” to deal with sadness and grief. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the virtual program “A New Understanding of Betzelem Elohim: Biblical Text Through the Lens of Disability Studies” on Monday, August 12, from 1-2:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual class “The Poetry of Your Ancestors” on Wednesday, September 25, from noon-1:30 pm. Anna Goodman Herrick, author of “A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken Whole,” will help participants “investigate, conjure, and generate new poetry from our ancestral wisdom, and delve into our prophetic ancestors in our Jewish sacred texts.” For more information or to register, click here. 

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual class “Braiding in the Jewish New Year” with Rabbi Vanessa Harper on Tuesday, September 24, at 3 pm. The class will explore the themes of Rosh Hashanah and the High Holy Days through challah braiding. For more information or to register, click here.

The Qesher Book Club will offer several free virtual events: “The Loving Life: Memoirs of an Iranian-Jewish Woman” on Tuesday, August 20, at 3 pm (available here); “The Gallery of Beauties” on Tuesday, September 10, at 3 pm (available here); and “The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s” on Tuesday, September 24, at 3 pm (available here).

The Museum at Eldridge Street will hold the program “The Jewish J.P. Morgan: A Virtual Seminar on Banker, Philanthropist and Humanitarian Jacob Schiff” on Wednesday, August 21, from 6-7 pm. The cost is pay what you will. To register for the program, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual class “The Ketubah: What’s Love Got to Do with It?” on Monday, August 19, from 7-8 pm. Rabbi Mark Cohn will explore the origins and development of the time-honored Jewish wedding document. For more information or to attend, click here.

Hillel International is offering a free welcome gift for graduating high school seniors. For more information or to request the gift, click here. 

The America Jewish University will hold the virtual discussion “The Art of Diplomacy” with Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat on Thursday, September 19, at 3 pm. Eizenstat will discuss his book “The Art of Diplomacy,” which has been called “an indispensable guide to understanding American foreign policy and American diplomacy over the last 50 years.” For more information or to register, click here.

Jewish Women’s Archives will hold the following book talks, all of which take place on Thursdays at 8 pm: September 5: “Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman” by Zilka Joseph; September 12, “The Singer Sisters” by Sarah Seltzer; September 19, “The Hebrew Teacher” by Maya Arad; and September 26, “City of Laughter” by Temim Fruchter. For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning will hold the virtual class “Borscht Belt and Beyond: The Lasting Legacy of the Jewish Catskills” with New York Jewish Week Editor Andrew Silow-Carroll on Tuesdays, August 20-September 10, at 6 pm. The cost to attend is $54. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the six-part virtual course “Jewish Answers to Life’s Most Challenging Questions” on Tuesdays, August 20-September 24, from 1-2:30 pm. The cost to attend is $179. The course will explore “multiple understandings of timeless questions through the eyes of the rabbinic sages as well as those of modern thinkers. For more information or register, click here.

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