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. 

Maven will hold the virtual lecture “LGBTQ+ Poetic Voices in Israel” on Tuesday, August 1, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Dr. Rachel Korazim will discuss three of Israel’s most prominent LGBTQ+ poets: Robert Friend, Dory Manor and Daniel Segal Weingarten. For more information or to register, click here. 

Melton will offer the lecture “Israeli Judicial Reform” on Thursday, August 10, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Avi Ben-Hur, an Israeli educator who specializes in Land of Israel studies, will share a historical perspective and identify what factors contributed to the current situation. For more information or to register, click here.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the virtual program “When Yiddish was Young in Israel” on Tuesday, July 25, at 2 pm. Shachar Pinsker will discuss the “Yung Yisroel” (Young Israel), the name of a group of Yiddish writers in 1950s-1960s Israel, and the history of Yiddish as it played out in cultural production. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual course “Soul Searching: Jewish Views on the Afterlife” on Mondays, August 7-28, from 1-2:30 pm. There is a sliding scale cost to attend. Rabbi Michele Faudem will explore Jewish views on a variety of topics related to the afterlife. For more information or to register, click here.

Maven will hold several virtual events: “The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope” on Wednesday, July 26, from 3-3:45 pm (available here); “AJU Presents: A Jewish Hollywood Memoir with Julian Schlossberg” on Wednesday, August 2, from 3-3:45 pm (available here) and “Israel 201: Your Next-Level Guide to Life in the Holy Land” on Tuesday, August 8, from 3-3:45 pm (available here).

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual discussion “TikTok’s Leading Jewish Women” on Wednesday, July 19. at 7 pm. The panel will feature two Jewish influencers on TikTok – Miriam Ezagui, an Orthodox labor and delivery room nurse, and Libby Walker, who portrays an archetypal Jewish mom  and re-enacts scenes from Jewish summer camp – and Brandeis Professor Sabine von Mering, co-editor of “Antisemitism on Social Media.” For more information or to register, click here. 

Melton will offer the virtual lecture “Shalom Berlin! Germany’s Most Jewish City” on Wednesday, August 16, from 2-3:15 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Dr. Rachel Seelig explore literature, art and food to uncover Berlin’s Jewish heritage in contemporary times. For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek, Orthodox Social Justice, will hold the virtual program “Water Access: A Halakhic Argument” with Rabbi David Polsky on Wednesday, August 9, at noon. The lecture will  analyze water issues from the perspective of the Talmud and other halakhic sources. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the virtual “‘The Island of Extraordinary Captives Book Talk with Simon Parkin” on Sunday July 23, at 2-3 pm. He will discuss his new book, which talks about the internment camp for German and Austrian refugees created in Great Britain after the start of World War II. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual course “Abraham on Trial” on Thursdays, August 17-September 7, from 1-2:30 pm. There is a sliding scale cost to attend. Melton teacher Lynne Lieberman speak about the impact the sacrifice of Isaac has had on western society throughout history to the present day. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y will offer the virtual course “Reading the Bible with Noam Scheindlin” on Sundays, September 10, October 15, November 12 and December 3, from 2-5 pm. The cost to attend is $480. The course offers “a secular approach to the sacred text, focusing on its sophisticated narrative style.” For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual lecture “Sacred Numbers” on Wednesday, August 23, from 8-9 pm. The class will focus on gematria, the study of how Hebrew letters correspond to numbers, and the meaning it adds to the text. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual course “Mean What You Pray: A Guide to High Holiday Prayers” on Tuesdays, August 29-September 12, from 8-9:30 pm. There is a sliding scale cost to attend. Rabbi Amy Wallk will examine some of the most important High Holiday prayers. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y will offer some virtual discussions of Jewish literary interest: “Adam Gopnik on the Marx Brothers” on Thursday, October 19, from 2:30-3:30 pm (available here); and “A Literary Life of Activism and Advocacy: Esther Schor on Emma Lazarus” on Friday, November 17, from 2-3 pm (available here).

The Women of Reform Judaism will hold two virtual programs this summer: a discussion of “Once We Were Home” with author Jennifer Rosner on Tuesday, July 18, at 8 pm (available here); and a tour “A Symbol of Jerusalem: The Tower of David” on Monday, August 21, at noon (available here).

Maven will hold the virtual program “Peggy Guggenheim: Bringing American Art to Tel Aviv” on Monday, July 31, from 3-4 pm. The cost to attend is $21. “The lecture will discuss Guggenheim’s immense influence on the art scene during the middle of the 20th century and her incredible donation that gifted to the [Tel Aviv Museum of Art] with some of its most prominent art works by Jackson Pollock, Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy.” For more information or to register, click here.

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual talk “ One Book, One Hadassah: “‘Künstlers in Paradise’” on Thursday, August 17, at 7 pm, as Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will interview best-selling author Cathleen Schine about her latest book, “Künstlers in Paradise.” For more information or to register, click here. 

RitualWell will hold “Weaving Water: Recreating Jewish Water-based Rituals” on Sundays, August 23 and 30, and September 6, 13, 20 and 27, from noon-1:15 pm. The cost to attend is $250. The course will “track the role of water throughout the Torah and how ancient Israelites’ relationship with rain evolved to influence modern Jewish rituals.” For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek, Orthodox Social Justice, will hold the virtual program “The People That Dwell Alone – Loneliness and Ethical Conduct” with Rabbi Menashe East on Monday, August 14, at noon. There is an $18 cost to attend. The class will view the issue through the eyes of Torah. For more information or to register, click here.

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