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. 

My Jewish Learning is offering “a unique journey through High Holidays prep.” To sign up for the e-mail series that “will guide you through holiday rituals, prayers, foods, and more,” click here.

Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold the hybrid “First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-up Comedian” on Tuesday, November 26, from 10:30 am–noon . The cost to attend the lecture remotely is $10. It will discuss the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in stand-up comedy. For more information or to register, click here.

The Hebrew Union College will hold the hybrid program “Friends or Foes? Belonging in Biblical Narrative” on Thursday, November 7, at 12:30 pm. The lecture will examine the biblical portrayal of the ancient Israelites’ relationships with their neighbors through the stories of Rahab, Samson, and David. For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual event “The Village – Sites, Stories, and Synagogues Zoom Tour” on Wednesday, October 9, from 7-9 pm. Urban historian and educator Bradley Shaw will look at Jewish connections to Greenwich Village. The cost to attend is $15. For more information or to register, click here.

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History will hold the hybrid event “Echoes of 1929 in a Post-October 7th World | ‘Ghosts of a Holy War’ Book Release” on Sunday, October 20, at 1 pm. The cost to livestream is $15. Yardena Schwartz will discuss her new book, “Ghosts of a Holy War, with editor-in-chief of the Forward, Jodi Rudoren. For more information or to register, click here.

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will hold the hybrid event “Call Me Back Live” with Dan Senor featuring Amir Tibon on the launch of his new book “The Gates of Gaza” on Tuesday, September 24, at 7:30 pm. The cost to attend is $36. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual program “October 7th: A Year of War on the Battlefield and in the Media” on Monday, October 7, at 4 pm. Former IDF Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus will reflect on October 7, the future of Israel’s war in the region, and global public opinion. For more information or to register, click here.

Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold the virtual lecture “Woman in Gold” on Wednesday November 6, from 7-8:30 pm. Randy Schoenberg, the attorney who represented Maria Altmann, will talk about her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s famous painting “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.” For information or to register, click here. 

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual program “Being Jewish Today with Author Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove” on Tuesday, October 22, at 3 pm. Cosgrove will discuss his new book “For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today,” which explores questions of Jewish identity and resilience. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual three-part course “Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals” on Tuesday, October 15-29, from 2-3 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Ronnie Grinberg draws on her recent book that highlights the mid-century New Yorkers who shaped American intellectual life: Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin and more. For more information or to register, click here.

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will hold the virtual event “Women on the Move: Lisa Barr” on Tuesday, November 12, at 11:30 am. Barr will talk about her new novel “Goddess of Warsaw.” For more information or to register, click here.

Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold the hybrid lecture “‘I’ve Always Been a Jew’: Religion, Race, and Sammy Davis Jr.” on Thursday December 12, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $10. The lecture will explore Sammy Davis Jr’s “quest for spiritual belonging amid a transnational debate over race, religion, and identity.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum at Eldridge Street will hold a virtual talk “Meditative Spaces” with Tobi Kahn on Tuesday, October 1, from 6-7 pm. The cost is pay what you wish. Kahn will discuss places that offer “contemplation and commemoration.” To register for the event, click here.

Lilith Magazine will hold the virtual “Unlocking Your Memories: A Lilith Writing Workshop” on September 26, from 8-9:30 pm. Author Lesléa Newman will work the attendees on “using observation, memory and imagination to unlock those memories and explore the emotional truths of our lives. Open to all and appropriate for writers of any level of experience from beginning to advanced.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will hold the hybrid event “Judaism and Science: Schism or Synergy?” with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Rabbi David Wolpe, Dr. Brian Greene and Abigail Pogrebin on Tuesday, November 12, at 6:30 pm. They will discuss “the interplay between science and meaning, and the relationship between religion and science in our society.” For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual course “Ancestors & Ghosts, Reincarnating Souls & Spirit Guides: Jewish Afterlife Traditions Throughout the Ages” on Tuesdays, October 29, November 12, 19 and 26, from 8-9:30 pm. The cost to attend is $54. Dr. Simcha Raphael will explore Jewish afterlife texts spanning more than 3,000 years of Jewish history. For more information or to register, click here.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold several virtual events this fall: “Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Francine Klagsbrun, author of “Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream” on Monday, September 30, at 12:30 pm; “Israeli Women’s Midrashim after October 7th” on Monday, October 28, at 10:30 am; “Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series: ‘Songs for the Brokenhearted’ by Ayelet Tsabari” on Wednesday, November 13, at 12:30 pm; and “Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series: ‘Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns’ by Jay Prosser” on Wednesday, December 11, at 12:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Tablet has published an interactive version of a economic study set inside the gates of the Lodz Ghetto to mark the 80th anniversary of its liquidation. The timeline can be personalized and “is refracted through dozens of firsthand diary entries, speeches, photos, and letters.” For more information or to view the timeline, click here.

The Union of Reform Judaism will hold the virtual program “In Memory and in Hope – A Global Reform Movement Commemoration of October 7th” on Sunday, September 29, at 1 pm. The gathering will offer “a space for connection and solidarity, featuring content and texts that you may also use during the upcoming month of holidays and remembrance.” For more information or to register, click here.

Qesher will hold the following upcoming talks: “Names and Heritage: The origins of Ashkenazi Surnames” on Thursday, September 26, at 3 pm (available here); and “Jewish New York Through the Decades: A Photographic Journey” on Sunday, October 6, at 3 pm (available here). General admission to the lectures is $18.

The Tenement Museum will hold the virtual tour and concert “High Holidays in the Tenements” on Tuesday, September 24, from 6:30-8 pm on YouTube Live. There will be a discussion of “the way in which immigrant Jews used the marketplace to bring High Holidays into the tenement districts, attracting the attention of the entire city.” The discussion will be followed by a concert. For more information or to register, click here.

Tikvah will hold the online class “The Book of Job: Power, Justice, and Divine Ethics” with Dr. Micah Goodman. The class includes five online prerecorded classes. For more information or to register, click here.

Wisdom Without Walls will hold several 90-minute discussions this fall, including Mark Oppenheimer on “Six Years On: The Tree of Life Massacre, and Antisemitism Since,” on Tuesday, October 29, from 7-8:30 pm (available here); and Rabbi David Wolpe on “Faith Even in God’s Apparent Absence” on Wednesday, November 6, from 7-8:30 pm (available here).

Torat Imecha Halacha, a project of the OU Women’s Initiative, allows people to learn “two halachot every day in a manner that is simple, easy to read, understand and remember.” People may sign up to receive the material via e-mail or WhatsApp. For more information or to sign up, click here.

The Biblical Archaeology Society will hold the virtual lecture “Women of Prominence and Power in First Temple Period Hebrew Inscriptions” with Dr. Chris Rollston, George Washington University, on Sunday, December 8, from 3-4 pm. The cost to attend is $10. For more information or to register, click here.

Reconstructing Judaism will hold the virtual program “What Can Each of Us Do to Preserve Democracy?” on Tuesday, October 1, at 1 pm. Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Rabbi William Plevan will reflect on the recently published Evolve symposium, “Personal Practices to Defend Democracy.” For more information or to register, click here. 

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will hold the hybrid event Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove speaking “The New Reality of American Jewry” on Thursday, December 5, at 6:30 pm. Cosgrove will discuss his new book “For Such a Time As This,” which looks at “what it means to be Jewish today and the challenging questions embedded in the soul of contemporary Jewry.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual talk “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. Whitehead will explore what the siege “revealed about London’s Jewish East End and the remarkable strength of its Yiddish-speaking anarchist movement at the time.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Forward and Sixth & I will hold the hybrid book talk about “10/7: 100 Human Stories” by Lee Yaron on Monday, October 7, at 7 pm. Yaron will be in conversation with Jodi Rudoren about his book, which is an “account of the day Hamas launched an unprecedented terrorist assault on Israel, told through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.” Admission is free, but a donation of $18 is requested. For more information or to register, click here.

The Tenement Museum will hold the virtual talk “The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss” on Thursday, October 17, from 6:30-7:30 pm on YouTube Live. Author Margalit Fox will talk about her book “The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum” with Tenement President Annie Polland. For more information or to register, click here.

One Book, One Hadassah will hold a virtual discussion with Lihi Lapid about her novel “On Her Own” on Wednesday, October 30, at 12:30 pm. Lapid will also talk about her advocacy work, feminism in Israel and what it is like to publish a novel in the middle of a war. For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual “Love at the Center: App Launch” with Rabbi Shefa Gold on Monday, October 21, at 8 pm. The app was created to guide people on the Path of Love, offering “a weekly reading from the Song of Songs, commentary, practices that help unlock the power of the holy text, questions to contemplate, a bridge to the Torah portion of the week, and many resources that can help us put Love at the Center.” To register, click here.

Tikvah and the Lobel Center are offering a two-year podcast called “The Pillars,” which is an exploration of Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind. Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin will release two 40-minute episodes a week that examine many of the great thinkers, key texts, important leaders and crucial moments that define Western civilization. To sign up for episodes that will be delivered to inboxes, click here.

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History will hold the hybrid program “Zahav Home: Book Launch” with Mike Solomonov, Steve Cook and Howie Roseman on Thursday, September 26, at 7 pm. The cost to livestream the program is $15. For more information or to register, click here.

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