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Jewish Online Resources 10/4/24

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 Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual tour “The Village …

Off the Shelf: Fantasy, Jewish-style

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Fantasy novels offer their authors a number of world-building possibilities that shape and inform their plots and characters. This allows them to include a variety of supernatural elements in their works since they are not restricted to the physical rules of our uni…

Jewish Online Resources 9/20/24

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.”…

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics: Jewish triumphs and tribulations

By Bill Simons

Pierre de Coubertin, the aristocratic French educator and writer who founded the modern Olympics, envisioned the revived games through a prism of idealism. The quadrennial ancient Olympics (776 B.C.E.-393 C.E.) originated in Greece as a religious festival featuring athletic a…

On the Jewish food scene: Fish heads and the New Year

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

In my chaplaincy, I’ve been introducing the individuals (and staff) to Jewish foods connected to our many holidays. We made latkes for Hanukkah last year, hamantashen (most of which didn’t hold their shapes) for Purim, a version of matzah brei for Passover (serv…