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 will hold the virtual talk about “The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral,” with Scott D. Seligman, on Thursday, March 27, at 7 pm. Seligman will talk about his book that discusses what became known as “the single largest antisemitic incident in American history.” For more information or to register, click here.

Birthright Israel Onward is offering two “Storytellers Fellowships” for those looking to share their stories about their trips to Israel. The Storytellers Impact Incubator will be “a first-of-its-kind 10-day journey through Israel,” while the Reichman Fellowship is a four-week fellowship. Applications will be accepted until Tuesday, April 1. For more information or to apply, click here. 

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual four-session class “Rabbinic Roots of the Passover Seder” on Tuesdays, March 11-April 1, at 3 pm. The cost to attend is $145. The class will “explore the rabbinic roots of the Passover seder through tradition and Jewish text.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “Reading Blanche Bendahan’s ‘Mazaltob’” on Wednesdays, March 5 and 12, from 10-11 am. The cost to attend is $88. Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino will discuss “Mazaltob,” which was published in 1930 and is considered a forerunner of modern Sephardi literature. For more information or to register, click here.

Siegal Lifelong Learning will offer several virtual lectures. The cost to attend each lecture is $10. They include “Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue: One Jew’s Wanderings as a Tribal Judge in Alaska” on Thursday March 27, from 7-8:30 pm (available here); “From Ruins to Glory: New Findings from the Old City of Jerusalem” on Monday May 5, from 1:30-3 pm (available here); “David, Goliath, and the Mystery of the Weaver’s Beam” on Monday, May 12, from 1:30-3 pm (available here); “The Tabernacle in the Desert, the Cult Place in Shiloh and Solomon’s Temple” on Monday May 19, from 10:30 am-noon (available here); and “Jewish Amsterdam: Then and Now” on Thursday, June 12, from 1:30-3 pm (available here).

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual talk “Abraham’s Legacy: Faith, Doubt, and the Birth of Judaism” on Tuesday, March 11, at 3 pm. Anthony Julius will discuss his new book “Abraham: The First Jew.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual class “Golda Meir and the State of Israel,” with Trudy Gold, on Thursdays, March 20 and 27, from 10:30-11:45 am. The cost to attend is $70. The class will look at Golda Meir, considered one of the 20th century’s most influential politicians. For more information or to register, click here. 

Keshet offers the free report “Threads of Identity: LGBTQ+ Jews of Color in the Fabric of Jewish Life” at here. It explores “the unique experiences, challenges, and resilience of LGBTQ+ Jews of Color in Jewish spaces.”

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual talk “Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Aleeza Ben Shalom’s Guide to Lasting Love” on Tuesday, March 18, at 3 pm. Aleeza Ben Shalom will discuss her new book “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” which offers a “paradigm-shifting approach to modern dating.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Academy of Jewish Religion is offering a free download titled “An Upside-Down World: Esther and Antisemitism” at https://ajr.edu/forms/an-upside-down-world-esther-and-antisemitism/. The supplement is said to “provide a forum for pursuing these questions [about antisemitism] whether in preparation for the holiday or during our celebrations.”
ALEPH will hold the virtual course “Diving Deeply into the Golem of Prague,” led by Maggid Jim Brulé, on Tuesdays, April 22 and 29, and May 6, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is $54. The course will explore the legend of the Golem of Prague and seek to “uncover lessons on creation, power, and responsibility, gaining insights that resonate with modern life.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual program “The Everyday Life of Jews in the Ancient World” on Thursdays, May 8-22, from noon-1 pm. The cost to attend is $132. The class will look at the life of Jews in the ancient world, who lived at the intersection of empires of Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece and Rome. For more information or to register, click here.

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual “Magazine Discussion: A Conversation With Dara Horn” on Thursday, March 20, at 7 pm. Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will interview three-time National Jewish Book Award Winner Dara Horn about her latest work, the Passover-set graphic novel “One Little Goat” and about the historical roots of antisemitism, the subject covered in Horn’s essay collection “People Love Dead Jews,” a 2021 New York Times Notable Book. For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold “Jewish Harlem: A New Virtual Tour” on Sunday, March 2, from 7-9 pm. Bradley Shaw will talk about this often forgotten segment of Jewish history. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold a virtual book discussion “Reviving a Yiddish Masterpiece: A Conversation on ‘Sons and Daughters’” on Thursday, March 27, at 3 pm. Rose Waldman and Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson will explore Chaim Grade’s “Sons and Daughters,” now available in its long-awaited English translation. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Women’s Archive will hold three virtual book talks in March: “I Made It Out of Clay” by Beth Kander on Thursday, March 13, at noon; “Songs for the Brokenhearted” by Ayelet Tsabari on Thursday, March 20, at noon; and “Kissing Girls on Shabbat” by Sara Glass on Thursday, March 27, at noon. For more information or to register, click here.

Hillel International will hold “Hillel’s Virtual College Prep Series: College Selection: Finding the Best Fit for Your Student” on Thursday, March 6, at noon. This is part of a series of courses “designed to help Jewish high school students and their families prepare for college and the changing campus environment.” To register for the event, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold the four-part virtual class “Mindfulness for the Climate Crisis: Resilience in a Changing World” with Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner on Wednesdays, March 12-April 2, from 3-4:15 pm. The cost to attend is $149. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual two-part class “Reading The Diary of Anne Frank with Ruth Franklin” on Tuesdays, April 15 and 22, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $132. The course will look at “Franklin’s recent scholarship and use the diary text to take a fresh look at how Anne Frank has been understood and misunderstood, both as a person and as an idea.” For more information or to register, click here.

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