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Jewish Online Resources 10/8/2021

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 Jewish Theological Seminary will hold a virtual series of lectures called …

Jewish Baseball Players: King of Jewish baseball: “Fishball,” part I

By Bill Simons

“Uganda?!” I exclaimed. “That’s where Israeli commandos rescued the Jewish Entebbe hostages.” Nate Fish retorted that he had gone there to develop and recruit Ugandan baseball prospects, but didn’t find any. 


In addition to Uganda, baseball has taken the peripa…

Off the Shelf: Religion and sex

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Religion and sex: it can be difficult to separate the two because many people’s attitudes about appropriate sexual behavior were informed by their religious education. However, as Noam Sachs Zion notes in the impressive “Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jew…

Off the Shelf: Religion and sex

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Religion and sex: it can be difficult to separate the two because many people’s attitudes about appropriate sexual behavior were informed by their religious education. However, as Noam Sachs Zion notes in the impressive “Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Je…

Off the Shelf: Characters from real life

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Readers are often curious about whether characters in a novel are based on real life people. That’s why most novels’ reverse title page (the page that contains copyright information and details about the publisher) usually feature statements such as “this is a…