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 Yiddish Book Center is offering a variety of Yiddish courses for those with a variety of levels. For information about specific courses and costs, click here.

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series will hold several events: Kerry Wallach, author of “Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit,” will speak on Wednesday, January 22, at 7 pm; and Tova Mirvis, author of “We Would Never,” will speak on Wednesday, February 26, at 4 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold a virtual “Jewish Renewal New Year’s Eve” on Tuesday, December 31, at 8 pm. The cost to attend is “pay what you can.” To register for the event, click here.

The Shalom Hartman Institute has a YouTube channel that can be found here. The videos are part of its mission to “strengthen Jewish peoplehood, identity, and pluralism; to enhance the Jewish and democratic character of Israel; and to ensure that Judaism is a compelling force for good in the 21st century.”

UNPACKED Jr. is a website that offers children information about “Israel’s history, culture and its connection to the Jewish people in a balanced, fun way.” To view the material, click here.

Ayin Press will hold the virtual book launch of Levins Morales’s new book of poetry “Rimonim” on Wednesday, December 18, at 6 pm. A recording will be posted on Ayin’s YouTube channel after the event. To register for the event, click here.

The Jewish Grandparents Network will hold the virtual program “Filling the Empty Chair: Honoring and remembering grandparents and loved ones who have died” on Wednesday, January 15, from 7-8 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Literary Modiin’s January 2025 virtual author event will take place on Sunday, January 19, at 1 pm. The event will feature Benjamin Resnick (“Next Stop”), Galina Vromen (“Hill of Secrets”) and Judy Gruen (“Bylines and Blessings”). For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual talk “From Exile to Embrace: The Exodus of Jews from Arab Lands” on Tuesday, December 17, at 3 pm. It will offer a “personal exploration of the Arab Jewish exodus through the eyes of one of the 850,000 Arab Jewish refugees.” For more information or to register, click here.

The New York Jewish Week will offer a virtual showing of the film “’Kafka’s Last Trial’” on Tuesday, December 17, from 8:30-9:30 pm. The cost to attend is $18. For more information or to register, click here.

The 2025 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization will be held from January 7-24 and will delve into the literature, history and culture of East European Jewry. To learn more about the different classes, teachers and costs, click here. 

Unpacked is offering the eight-episode limited podcast series “Stars of David with Elon Gold,” which can be found here. In the podcast, Elon Gold and his sidekick Eli Leonard talk with guests to “explore the highs and heartfelt lows of being Jewish.”

Roundtable will hold a variety of courses: “From City to Kingdom: The Archaeology of Ancient Jerusalem” on Thursdays, January 16-February 6, from 10-11 am, $176 (available here); “Jewish Immigrant Life in Early Twentieth-Century New York” on Thursdays, January 23-February 6, from 1-2 pm (available here); “Gems of the Zohar” on Mondays, February 3-24, from 3-4pm, $132 (available here); “The Jews of Renaissance Florence: From Tuscany to Ghetto, 1400-1650” on Thursdays, February 6-20, from 11 am-noon, $132 (available here); and “Jewish GIs and the Post-War Cultural Boom: Battlefield to Broadway” on Wednesdays, February 26-March 12, from 7-8 pm, $132 (available here).

The Yiddish Book Center will hold two virtual programs: “The Art of Jewish Papercutting with Deborah Ugoretz” on Thursday, January 9, at 7 pm (available here); and “Translator Talk: A Conversation with Professor Samuel Kassow, translator of Rokhl Auerbach’s “Warsaw Testament” on Thursday, January 23, at 7 pm (available here).

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual talk “October 7: 100 Human Stories of Tragedy” on Wednesday, January 8, at 3 pm. Lee Yaron, Haaretz’s investigative journalist, discusses her new book, “10/7: One Hundred Human Stories.” For more information or to register, click here.

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