Jewish Online Resources 10/18/24

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. 

Biblical Archaeology Society will hold the virtual eight-part class “Egypt and the Bible” with Gary A. Rendsburg on Monday and Thursday evenings every week of February from 7:30-9 pm. Each class is an hour and a half. The first hour is a lecture and the last 30 minutes will be Q-and-A. The cost to attend is $219. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “How the Soviet Jew Was Made” on Tuesdays, November 12, 19 and 26, from 4-5:15 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Sasha Senderovich explore Russian and Yiddish literature and film between the 1917 Revolution and World War II to show how the Soviet Jews identity came into being. For more information or to register, click here.

The Hebrew Union College will hold the hybrid program “Literature as Politics: The Exodus Narrative” on Tuesday, December 3, at 12:30 pm. The talk will offer a new idea about why ancient Israelite scribes used a Mesopotamian work of political allegory as a model for the Moses story and explore the implications of that for the character of Moses and the exodus. For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold several virtual events this fall: “From Smoked Fish to Pickles – Getting Jewish Food Delivered to Your Door” with Lisa Newman on Thursday, November 21, at 7 pm (available here); “Curating Yiddish Culture” with David Mazower on Thursday, December 12, at 7 pm (available here); and “How the Holocaust Changed the Yiddish Language” with Hannah Pollin-Galay on Sunday, December 15, at 2 pm (available here).

Ritualwell will hold the virtual program “Spiritual Preparation for Election Day” on Wednesday, October 29, from noon-1:30 pm The cost to attend is $18. The class will “draw on spiritual and embodied practices for cultivating courage, resilience, and compassion to help find equanimity for the week ahead.” For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual program “Melton Meets the Moment – Voting: An American Jewish Cultural Experience” on Thursday, October 31, from 10-11:30 am. The cost to attend is $18. Dr. Steven Windmueller will explore the significance of the vote for American Jewish audiences. For more information or to register, click here.

The Braid has announced its 2025 season. The programs are available on Zoom: “Traveler’s Prayer” (February 2 and 6), “Two Faiths, One Love” (April 6 and 10) and “For the Love of Animals” (June 8 and 12 ). The cost for a subscription is $125 and offers additional benefits. For more information or to subscribe, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual program “Unpacking Campus Antisemitism: Insights and Realities” on Wednesday, November 20, at 1 pm. Sarah Hurwitz and Jon Falk will seek to “unpack campus antisemitism, examining the challenges faced by students and how to address them.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “Reading Blanche Bendahan’s ‘Mazaltob’” on Sundays, November 3 and 10, from 4-5 pm. The cost to attend is $88. Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino will discuss the novel “Mazaltob,” which was published in 1930 and has been called a “forerunner of modern Sephardi literature.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold the virtual program “Israeli Women’s Midrashim after October 7” with Tamar Biala on Monday, October 28, at 10:30 am. Midrashim written by women from Kibbutzim Kfar Azza and Nir Oz, and others will tell of their experiences from October 7 and afterward. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold the virtual course “Sacred Stones: The Journey of Jewish Nationhood through Israel’s Ancient Sites” on Wednesdays, October 30-November 20, from 1-2 pm. The course is offered on a sliding payment scale. The class will discuss “the formation of Jewish national and religious identity by exploring the creation of holy sites and the intricate relationship between faith, people, ritual, memory, and salvation.” For more 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, in conversation with his former classmate Rabbi Sherre Hirsch, will discuss his new book “For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold “The Betrayal of the Duchess: France’s Other Antisemitic Affair” on Monday, November 18, from 6:30-8 pm. The cost to attend is $44. Yale Professor of French Maurice Samuels explores “modern France’s first antisemitic ‘affair,’ a forgotten story of passion and political intrigue.” For information or to register, click here.

Jewish Women’s Archive will hold the virtual class “Jewish Women’s Protest in the U.S.” on Thursdays, November 14 and 21, and December 5 and 12, at 8 pm. Four scholars will discuss how Jewish women’s voices and actions reshaped America’s cultural and political landscape. For more or to register, click here.

BAS Scholars Series will hold the virtual lecture “Women of Prominence and Power in First Temple Period Hebrew Inscriptions” with Chris Rollston on Sunday, December 8, from 3-4 pm. The cost to attend is $10. The lecture will focus on Old Hebrew inscription that mention women in order to understand women’s lives and spheres of influence. For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Jewish History will hold a variety of events: “Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, its Golden Boy, and the Civil War” on Tuesday, October 29, at 6:30 pm (available here); “In Search of Greener Fields: Rurality, Nostalgia, and Ideology in Yiddish-American Folksong” on Wednesday, November 6, at 7:30 pm (available here); “The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen” on Thursday, November 7, at 7 pm (available here); Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe on Monday, November 11, at 1 pm (available here); and “Soviet Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” on Tuesday, November 12, at 4 pm (available here).

T’ruah is offering weekly e-mail called (M)oral Torah, which features “Torah commentaries about democracy, human rights, and how we can make the world we want to see.” For more information or to sign up for the e-mails, click here.

Museum at Eldridge Street will hold the virtual program will hold the virtual program “Feminist Shtetl Horror Tales: ‘The Sweet Fragrance of Life & Other Stories’” on Wednesday, October 30, at 6 pm. The cost is pay what you wish. Elizabeth Schwartz’ will discuss her work of fiction, which is “a meditation on historic European Jewish culture seen through the lens of a woman’s point of view.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “A History of the Jews in Modern France” on Mondays, November 4-18, from 11 am- noon. The cos to attend is $132. The course will cover the Jewish history of France from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual program “Compassionate Ink: Promoting Caregivers’ Wellbeing through Writing” on Thursday, November 7, from 12-1:30 pm. The focus will be on power of expressing personal stories. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary announced the completion of a comprehensive digitization project, which will make more 1,750 audio and video files from its archives available to the public for the first time. The newly revealed Jewish cultural and historical material is now publicly accessible through the JTS Library’s web portal at here.

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