Jewish Online Resources 1/10/25

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. 

Roundtable will hold the four-part virtual course “The Streets of Tel Aviv” with Trudy Gold on Wednesday, January 29-February 19, from 10:30-11:45 am. The cost to attend is $140. Gold will discuss the Jewish individuals, well-known and lesser so, who helped establish Tel Aviv. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold several virtual events: “Political Football: Combating Anti-Israel Agendas in Global Sports” on Thursday, January 16, at 3 pm (available here); “Being Jewish and Proud” with Jonah Platt on Thursday, January 23, at 3 pm (available here); and “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” on Monday, January 27, at 3 pm (available here).

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold the virtual three-part course “Meeting Antisemitism with Mindfulness” with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl on Thursdays, January 16-30, from 3-4:15 pm. The full cost of tuition is $199. The course will “explore and practice some of the mindfulness tools that enable us to respond wisely to rising antisemitism.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum at Eldridge Street will hold a virtual seminar with historian and author Scott D. Seligman on his newest book, “The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Antisemitic Riot,” on Thursday, January 23, at 6 pm. Registration for the program is pay-what-you-wish. For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning is offering the web course “The Well of Dreams: Jewish Dream Wisdom Across Time” with Rabbi Jill Hammer. The cost to attend is $52. The six taped episodes can be watched any time. The course offers “a deep exploration of Jewish wisdom about dreams.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the three-part virtual course “Jewish Immigrant Life in Early Twentieth-Century New York” on Thursdays, January 23-February 6, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Historian Daniel Czitrom to explore how Jewish immigrants transformed the city, Jewish culture and American society. For more information or to register, click here.

Yetzirah will hold the virtual workshop with Hila Ratzabi called “Songs of the Grass: Exploring Jewish Ecopoetry” on Wednesdays, February 12-March 19, from 1-2:30 pm. The cost to attend is $266, although other options are available. For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Jewish History will hold the hybrid book talk “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” on Tuesday, January 28, at 7 pm. The cost on Zoom is pay what you will. Author Ruth Franklin will be in conversation with Jonathan Rosen. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum at Eldridge Street will hold a virtual talk “Art History Through a Jewish Lens: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec” on Thursday, February 27, at 6 pm. The cost is pay-what-you-wish. Art historian and lecturer Ellaine Rosen will explore Toulouse-Lautrec’s life and legacy through art. For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual talk “Yidish in ale lender: Yiddish around the World” with Christa P. Whitney on Thursday, February 6,at 7-8 pm. Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, will explore the local influences of Yiddish culture based on her work capturing oral histories over the past 15 years. For more information or to register, click here.

One Book, One Hadassah will hold the hybrid author talk with author and journalist Margalit Fox about her book “The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss” on Sunday, January 26 at 3:30 pm. There is no cost to attend on Zoom. For more information or to register, click here.

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual discussion “The Enduring Relevance of Anne Frank” Thursday, February 20, at 7 pm. Panelists will include Ruth Franklin, author of the upcoming biography “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” and Professor Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina and educational adviser to Anne Frank The Exhibition. For more information or to register, click here.

Yetzirah will hold a virtual reading by poets Josh Gottlieb-Miller, Diane Mehta and Hadara Bar Nadav on Sunday, February 9, from 5-6:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum at Eldridge Street will hold a virtual talk “Mordechai: Hero or Hothead?” on Thursday, March 6, at 6 pm. The cost to attend is pay-what-you-wish. Religion scholar Raymond Jasen will explore the Jewish leader of the Purim story and offer an alternative perspective on co-hero Mordechai in the Book of Esther. For more information or to register, click here.

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