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. 

Ritualwell will hold the four-session virtual course “Soul Vitamins: Expansive and Practical Strategies to Enrich Your Life” on Tuesdays, November 12, 19 and 26 and December 3, from noon-1:30 pm. The cost to attend is $180. The course will offer “the practice of four ‘soul vitamins,’ discover ways to strengthen your experience as a spiritual being, expand your consciousness and deepen your ability to be present.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary’s hybrid book talk “Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS” will feature “‘unalone’ by Jessica Jacobs: A Renowned Poet’s Invitation to the Book of Genesis” on Tuesday, November 12, from 7-8:30 pm. Jacobs will discuss her recent book of poetry, which has been called “an engagement with religious texts as an act of devotion to living fully in the world’s complexity.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Qesher Book Club will hold the virtual “Qesher Book Club: ‘Cave of Secrets’” with author Lynne Golodner on Tuesday, November 12, at 3 pm. The author will talk about how the story came to be, her on-the-ground research of the places and people behind the book and shed light into the actual history of Jewish Scotland. For more information or to register, click here.

HUC-JIR will hold the hybrid talk “Friends or Foes? Belonging in Biblical Narrative” on Thursday, November 7, at 12:30 pm. Steven Donnally, Ph.D., will examine the biblical portrayal of the ancient Israelites’ relationships with their neighbors through the stories of Rahab, Samson and David. For more information or to register, click here.

Jewish Grandparents Network will hold the virtual program “Grandparents, Tell Your Story to the Next Generation: How to Pass on Your Legacy” on Tuesday, November 12, from 7-8 pm. Justin Mertes, co-founder of legacy-storytelling startup Parable, will offer insights and guidance about passing on the intangible parts of life, including your wisdom, knowledge, values and missteps. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “The First Century: The Revolutionary Beginnings of Western History” on Wednesdays, November 6-20, from 2-3 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Harry Freedman will discuss the “political upheavals after the life of Jesus and the religious revolution that created Christianity and Judaism during the period of the Roman occupation.” For more information or to register, click here.

Literary Modiin will hold its virtual November 2024 Author Event on Sunday, November 10, at 1 pm. It will feature Helen Schary Motro (“The Right to Happiness”), Sarah Seltzer (“The Singer Sisters”) and Talia Carner (“The Boy with the Star Tattoo”). Click here for more information and to register.

Ritualwell will hold the six-part virtual course “Exploring Mitzvot through Poetry: A Deep Dive into Mikveh, Challah, and Candle-Lighting” on Wednesdays, November 13, 20 and 27 and December 4, 11 and 18, from noon-1:30 pm. The cost to attend is $250. The class will explore “three specific mitzvot that have traditionally been assigned to women: lighting Shabbat candles, baking challah, and observing mikveh for family purity laws.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the virtual course “Zionism: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond – Expanding the Conversation” on Mondays, November 11-December 16, from 1-2 pm. (The December 9 session will meet at 7:30-8:30 pm.) A donation is requested. The series will explore what means to be a Zionist in 21st-century North America and other questions. For more information or to register, click here.

Qesher will hold the virtual “Letters From Cuba: A Jewish Literary Journey with Ruth Behar” on Sunday, November 17, at 3 pm. Part one of the event will feature Behar talking about her book “Letters from Cuba.” Part two will feature Adolfo Nodal and Sage Lewis, leaders of “Project Por Amor,” who will share details about their upcoming trip inspired by Behar’s book, which Behar will co-lead. For more information or to register, click here.

HUC-JIR will hold the hybrid talk “Literature as Politics: The Exodus Narrative” on Tuesday, December 3, at 12:30 pm. Dr. Angela Rosko will discuss “a new idea about why ancient Israelite scribes turned to [an] ancient Mesopotamian work of political allegory as a model for the Moses story and explore the implications for how we understand the exodus, as well as the character of its hero.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “The Early History of Zionism” on Monday, November 11-25, from 4-5 pm. The cost to attend is $132. The course will study “the early history of Zionism, from the prehistory of Jewish nationalism in the 19th century to the interwar period.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Forward offers the podcast “Make Art, Not War,” which will feature 10 conversations with Jewish and Palestinian artists living in Israel. The podcast will look at “how Jewish and Palestinian artists in Israel have experienced this year of war, and how it has affected their creation.” For more information or where to listen to the podcast, click here. 

My Jewish Learning will offer the virtual class “Yiddish Level 2” with Tel Aviv University teacher Daniel Birnbaum on Mondays, November 4-December 16, at 11 am. The cost to attend is $140, which includes taped versions of the first Intro to Yiddish class for those who need to learn the basics. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Museum will hold the virtual talk on the exhibit “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston” on Monday, November 25, from 10:30 am-noon. The cost to attend is $30. Curator Rebecca Shaykin will highlight “both artists’ investigations of the entwined legacies of white supremacy, racism, and antisemitism in the United States.” For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual talk “Native American & Jewish Partnership for Democracy & Civic Engagement” on Thursday, November 7, at 7 pm. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz and Rosetta Walker will talk “about the state of democracy post-election and explore how Native American and Jewish communities can continue to support the vulnerable and advocate for marginalized groups.” For more information or to register, click here.

Project Zug will offer two courses this fall: “The Triumph of Life” with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg (availble here) and “The Mishnah in Context” with Dr. Jeremy Tabick. Each is a 10 session class that begins on Sunday, November 24. The cost to attend is a sliding rate of $36-$180. For more specific information, click here.

Applications and nominations for the 2025 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards are open. Each year, up to 15 Jewish teens from across the country are selected to receive an award of $36,000 to honor their leadership and efforts to repair the world. For more information or to nominate a teen, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold the virtual program “IJS President & CEO, Rabbi Josh Feigelson, in Conversation with Author Rabbi Adina Allen” Wednesday, November 13, at 8 pm. Allen will discuss her book “The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom.” For more information or to register, click here. 

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold several virtual books talk: “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” on Tuesday, November 12, at 7 pm (available here); “The History of Antisemitism: Mendel Beilis” on Monday, November 18, at 7 pm (available here); and “Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America” on Sunday, November 24, at 3 pm (available here). A donation of $10 is requested. 

The Tamid of Hebrew College has listed courses from its virtual Adult Learning Course Catalog at here. There are one-time and reoccurring classes.

ALEPH will hold the virtual five-part course “Kabbalah Wellness” on Wednesdays, November 13 and 20, and December 4, 11 and 18. The 75-minute classes will begin at 2 pm. The cost to attend is $50. The course will teach “how to integrate core kabbalistic teachings into your life for wellness, spiritual growth, and transformation.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual class “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls” on Monday, November 11, from 2-3 pm. The cost to attend is $44. Jodi Magness will offer a tour of Qumran, the place where the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Bible were written and then found 2,000 years later. For more information or to register, click here.

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