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 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold the virtual program “Studio Israel: Singer Aveva Dese in conversation with Shula Mola” on Thursday, December 1, at noon. Aveva Dese, an Ethiopian-Israeli singer-songwriter, will be in conversation with Shula Mola, scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. For more information or to register, click here.

The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning will hold the class “Judith the Chanukah Heroine” on Monday, December 19, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Sivan Rotholz, a professor of feminist Torah and creative writing, will discuss the Book of Judith and its relationship to the holiday of Hanukkah. For more information or to register, click here. 

The Center for Jewish History will hold the virtual program “The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty,” featuring author Natalie Livingstone, on Tuesday, December 6, at 1 pm. Livingstone will discuss the role of women in shaping the legacy of the Rothschild dynasty from the beginning of the 19th century to the early years of the 21st. For more information or to register, click here.

The Mayerson JCC will hold a virtual talk in its Jewish Book Series, featuring “The Thread Collectors” by Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman, on Thursday, January 12, from 7-8:15 pm. Edwards and Richman will discuss their novel, which is set during the Civil War. For more information or to register, click here.

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual discussion “One Book, One Hadassah: ‘The Latecomer’” on Wednesday, December 7, at 7 pm. The event is free to all and captioning is available. Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will interview Jean Hanff Korelitz about her latest book, “The Latecomer.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual event “Tour Jewish Rome on Zoom with Native Italian Tour Guides” on Wednesday, November 30, from 7-8:30 pm. The tour will look at events that have characterized the history between the Eternal City, its Jewish community and ancient Israel. For more information or to register, click here.

Valley Beit Midrash will hold several virtual events, including “The World in which God Placed Humans” on Wednesday, November 23, from noon-1 pm; “Reading Vayikra with our Children: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities” on Thursday, December 1, from 3-4 pm; “Hammerman Family Lecture: A Journey of Discovery and Truth-telling” on Monday, December 5, from 9-11 pm; “Speaking Religious Truth to Political Power” on Wednesday, December 7, from 3-4 pm; and “‘The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief’: A Film Screening and Q&A” on Sunday, December 11, from 6-9 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold several virtual classes during the winter: “Jewish Child Partisans in the Holocaust on Tuesday January 24, from noon-1:30 pm (available here); “Black Power, Jewish Politics” on Sunday, January 29, from 7-8:30 pm (available here); “Animal Affinities: Word and Image in Medieval Hebrew Books” on Sunday, February 12, from 2-3:30 pm (available here); and “American Jews, Abortion, and the First Amendment” on Thursday, March 9, from 7-8:30 pm (available here). 

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will hold a variety of events, including “Women on the Move” with Susan Isaacs, author of “Takes One to Know One,” and Marilyn Simon Rothstein, author of “Crazy to Leave You,” speaking about their novels on Tuesday, November 22, at 11:30 am (there is no charge to attend); “Jerry Seinfeld in conversation with Jim Gaffigan” on Tuesday, November 22, at 7 pm (the $45 charge includes a copy of Seinfeld’s book); “Women on the Move” with Dani Shapiro discussing her book “Signal Fires” on Tuesday, November 29, at 11:30 am (there is no charge to attend); and “Everylasting Light,” a Hanukkah concert featuring Grammy winners Anthony Roth Costanzo and Angel Blue, The Knights and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, on Wednesday, December 14, at 6:30 pm (there is no charge to attend). For more information on these and other programs, click here.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the virtual program “Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France” on Wednesday, November 30, at noon. Nick Underwood will explore “how left-wing Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s in his new publication, ‘Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France.’” For more information or to register, ciick here.

The Bender JCC of Greater Washington will hold two virtual archeological lectures: “Strong Inscriptional Confirmations of People in the Hebrew Bible” on Wednesday, December 14, at 8 pm; and “Tomb of the Royal Steward (Jerusalem)” on Wednesday, January 18, at 7 pm. The cost for each lecture is $10. For more information, click here or e-mail BAF.JCCGW@gmail.com.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold a virtual program featuring Yossi Klein-Halevi, author of “Like Dreamers and “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” in conversation with IJS President and CEO Rabbi Josh Feigelson on Wednesday, November 30, from 8-9 pm. To register for the event, click here.

Maven will hold the virtual program “Masih Alinejad: The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran” on Thursday, December 15, from 3-3:45 pm. Alinejad, a human rights activist, will speak with Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, a first-generation Persian American whose family fled Iran in the 1970s. For more information or to register, click here.

The New York Jewish Week will hold the hybrid program “An Evening with One Hundred Saturdays” on Wednesday, November 30, from 7-8:30 pm. The event will feature Sephardic songs, artwork from Maira Kalman, and a conversation between author Michael Frank and award-winning journalist Sandee Brawarsky, with the participation of Stella Levi. For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual program “Jacob Schiff: A Most Honorable Jew,” with urban historian Justin Ferate, on Monday, December 5, from 7-8:30 pm. Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) is “noted for being the most generous benefactor of Jewish causes in the history of the United States. A titan in the world of international finance and the most prominent German-Jewish businessman of his era, he was a leader in the Jewish community and an outspoken voice against antisemitism.” For more information or to register, click here.

Maven will hold the virtual program “DIY Hanukkah Papercutting with Jeanette Kuvin Oren” on Wednesday, December 14, from 5-6 pm. The cost to attend is $21. Oren designed the 2022 Hanukkah stamp for the United States Postal Service. For more information or to register, click here.

Americans for Ben-Gurion University will hold a virtual “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA” on Wednesday, November 30, at noon. The program will include a tour of the new Ben-Gurion University archives. For more information or to register, click here. 

For additional resources, see previous issues of The Reporter or our other Jewish Online Resources here.