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 Jewish Museum will hold virtual tours of two exhibits – “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston” and “Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective” – on Tuesday, December 3, from 6-7 pm. The cost to attend is $30. The exhibits are part of series on “Confronting Hate through Art.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Book Council will offer three virtual Jewish Book Month School Author Events: Wednesday, December 4, at 9:30 am, middle school event with Ruth Behar, author of “Across So Many Seas”; Wednesday, December 11, at 9:30 am, third-fifth grade event with Bonni Goldberg, author of “Doña Gracia Saved Worlds”; and Tuesday, December 17, at 10 am, pre-kindergarten to second grade event with Sarah Mlynowski, author of “A Dragon for Hanukkah.” For more information or to register, click here. 

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the virtual program “The History of Antisemitism: Mendel Beilis” on Monday, November 18, at 7pm. There is a suggested donation of $10. Robert Weinberg will discuss his book “Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis” and explore “the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual talk “They Called Me Mayer: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust” with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on Thursday, November 21, from 7-8 pm. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will discuss legacy of her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, and recent exhibitions of his work. For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual course “40 Centuries of History: A People on the Move” on Mondays, December 2, 9 and 16, at 7 pm. “The course will follow the travels of the Jewish people over 40 centuries of history, starting with Abraham’s father leaving Ur in the 20th century B.C.E. and ending in the 20th century C.E., when we find Jews spread across the world.” For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual program “On Being Jewish Now: Voices of Pride and Resilience” on Monday, December 9, at 2 pm. Author and podcaster Zibby Owens and Rabbi Sherre Hirsch will reflect on Owens’ newest release, “On Being Jewish Now” and what it means to be Jewish in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual two-part class “Gary Shteyngart on Humor in the Literature of the Outsider” on Wednesdays, December 11 and 18, from 6-7 pm. The cost to attend is $88. Shteyngart will discuss two classics of literary humor: Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pnin” and Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual four-part course “Froyen lider/Women Songs” on Tuesdays, February 4-25, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $125. Dr. Madeleine Cohen will explore issues of gender and women’s experience in Yiddish poetry in translation. For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Jewish History will hold the virtual class “Family History Today: How German Jews Got their Surnames” on Wednesday, November 20, at 5 pm. The cost is “pay what you wish.” Roger Lustig, a professional genealogist who specializes in Prussian Jewish records, “will discuss the many different ways and reasons German Jews chose, or were required to choose, surnames.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “Schlemiels and Schlimazels in Jewish Literature” on Tuesday-Thursday, December 17-19, from 3-4:15 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Anna Katsnelson will explore the lives of three of Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish protagonists and how they were reincarnated in the characters of Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow. For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual program “Curating Yiddish Culture with David Mazower” on Thursday, December 12, at 7 pm. David Mazower, the chief curator and writer of the Center’s permanent exhibition “Yiddish: A Global Culture,” will share his favorite objects and images from the exhibition, stories of the search for original artifacts and more. For more information or to register, click here.

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual discussion “Are Jews Being Written Out of the Book World?” on Thursday, November 21, at 7 pm. Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will speak with Zibby Owens, podcaster, author, founder and CEO of Zibby Media and publisher and editor of the new anthology “On Being Jewish Now”; Lisa Barr, The New York Times best-selling author of “The Goddess of Warsaw”; and Naomi Firestone-Teeter, CEO of the Jewish Book Council. For more information or to register, click here.

Yetzirah will hold the virtual workshop “Poetry of the Cosmic All” with Mónica Gomery on Thursdays, December 5, 12 and 19, from 6-7:30 pm. The cost to attend is $162. Gomery, who is a writer and rabbi, will explore a variety of poetry. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold a variety of virtual programs: “Unpacking Campus Antisemitism: Insights and Realities” on Wednesday, November 20, at 1 pm (available here); “The Art of Creating Engaging Jewish Communities” on Tuesday, December 3, at 3 pm (available here); “It Takes Two to Torah” on Thursday, December 5, at 3 pm (available here); and “Unbreakable Bonds: Reflections on Jewish Joy and Suffering” on Monday, December 9, at 2 pm (available here).

My Jewish Learning will hold a virtual beginners class called “Master Mah Jongg” on Sundays, November 17-December 8, at 8 pm. The cost to attend is $54. For more information or to register, click here. 

The HUC-JIR Library will hold the hybrid event “Literature as Politics: The Exodus Narrative” with Dr. Angela Roskop Erisman on Tuesday, December 3, at 12:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual class “The Hidden Light of Hanukkah: Preparing for the Holiday with Meditation and Poetry” on Thursdays, December 5, 12 and 19, from noon-1:30 pm. The cost to attend is $150. Attendees will engage “in mindfulness meditation, poetry and generative writing practices to explore themes related to the holiday, including hidden light, miracles, resilience and gratitude.” For more information or to register, click here.

Evolve will hold the virtual web conversation “When Race, Politics, & Jewish Studies Collide: Censorship and the Debate Over Black Power, Jewish Politics” with Professor Marc Dollinger on Thursday, December 5, at 2 pm. Dollinger will discuss his recent essay on Evolve (available here) and the re-publication of his book, “Black Power, Jewish Politics.” For more information or to register, click here.

18Doors and the Jewish Grandparents Network are co-hosting the virtual event “Navigating Hanukkah in Multifaith Families: A Grandparenting Conversation” on Tuesday, December 10, from 7-8:15 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Ladino League will hold the virtual “ALL Authors Series: Roz Kohen” on Monday, November 18, at 7 pm. Roz Kohen will be interviewed by Rachel Amado Bortnick, founder of the Ladinokomunita listserve and co-director of the ALL. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the hybrid event “‘Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America’ Book Talk” on Sunday, November 24, at 3 pm. A donation of $10 is suggested. Hasia R. Diner will talk about her book that explores the relationship between Jewish and Irish Americans, which she notes were “overwhelmingly cooperative.” For more information or to register, click here.

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