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 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold the hybrid program “Jewish Women’s Organizing in Support of Reproductive Rights: Past and Present” on Thursday, December 7, at 12:30 pm. A panel will explore the history of Jewish women’s activism for reproductive rights and the various forms that advocacy is taking in the present moment. For more information or to register, click here.
Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual program “If God Had Not Redeemed Us, We Would Still Be Slaves: What Is Slavery Today?” with Rabbi Shlomo Levin on Wednesday, March 27, at 1 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Levin will use “Jewish and secular sources to discuss what modern slavery is, what it looks like, and what we can do to stop it.” For more information or to register, click here.
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold the hybrid event of Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series featuring Julia Watts Belser, author of “Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole” on Wednesday, January 24, at 7 pm. The program will be ASL interpreted/Zoom captioned. Watts Belser will offer a portrait of what it means “to be disabled and one of God’s beloved.” For more information or to register, click here.
The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool Online from Sunday-Friday, January 14-19. The cost to attend is $450 for Yiddish Book Center members and $525 for nonmembers. There are two different sections available depending on previous knowledge of Yiddish. For more information or to register, click here.
The Roundtable at the 92nd St. Y will hold “War Brides: Creating Jewish Homes After the Holocaust” on Wednesday, January 17, from 5-6 pm. The cost to attend is $45. Historian and Jewish Studies scholar Robin Judd will discuss the lives of Jewish war brides following World War II. For more information or to register, click here.
The Yetzirah Reading Series will feature the virtual readings about “Trees/Nature” with poets Susan Aizenberg, Lauren Camp and Taije Silverman on Sunday, January 14, from 5-6:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.
The Center for Women’s Justice has launched “Voices of Women at Wartime” an Israeli podcast that examines how women affect war and how war affects women. For more information, click here.
Hadassah will hold “One Book, One Hadassah Live With Meryl Frank” on Thursday, December 21, at 7 pm. Meryl Frank will discuss her memoir “Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust.” For more information or to register, click here.
Literary Modiin will hold a virtual author event on Sunday, January 7, at 1 pm featuring Adam Mansbach, author of “The Golem of Brooklyn”; Annie Kantar, author of “Means to be Lucky”; and Nancy Ludmerer, author of “Sarra Copia: A Locked-in Life.” For more information or to register, click here.
The Center for Jewish History will hold “Fascism in America: Past and Present” live on YouTube on Tuesday, December 12, at 6:30 pm. The cost is “pay what you please.” Gavriel Rosenfeld and Janet Ward will lead a panel discussion with writers for the book they edited “Fascism in America: Past and Present.” For more information or to register, click here.
The Center for Jewish Life will hold the 10-part virtual course “All in the Mishpocheh: Intro to Jewish Genealogy at the CJH” on Fridays, January 12-March 15, from 1-2:15 pm. The cost to attend is $295 or $255 for CJH members. For more information or to register, click here.
The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual talk “Yiddish Theater as a Cultural Lifeline during the Holocaust” with Debra Caplan on Thursday, December 7, at 7 pm. Caplan will explore “how Yiddish theater offered a cultural lifeline and psychological escape hatch for Jews during the Holocaust and in the DP camps after the war. For more information or to register, click here.
The Blue Dove Foundation, which helps those with mental health issues and their families, has resources for Hanukkah, which can be found here.
Qesher will hold “The Jewish Community of Lebanon: Erasure and Memories” on Sunday, December 10, at 3 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Leslie Hakim-Dowek will discuss the Lebanese Jewish community and her family history. For more information or to register, click here.
Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold the virtual lecture “Jews and the American Labor Movement” on Friday, February 2, from 10-11:30 am. The cost for non-members is $5. The lecture will “survey the individuals and organizations involved in these historic movements and explain how Judaism itself inspired reforms in the secular world.” For more information or to register, click here.
For additional resources, see previous issues of The Reporter or our other Jewish Online Resources here.