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. 

Hadassah Magazine will hold the virtual program “Chutzpah Girls” on Thursday, April 24, at 7 pm. Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will moderate a panel discussion with actor and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik, who is profiled, along with Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and dozens more women, in the new book “Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women,” whose co-authors, Julie Esther Silverstein and Tami Schlossberg Pruwer, will also be featured. For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual lecture “Musical Poetry of Three 19th c. Jewish Women: Emma Lazarus, Grace Aguilar, and Penina Moïse” on Sunday, April 27, from noon-2 pm. The cost to attend is $10. The lecture will look at the three women’s “musical projects to gain a better understanding of 19th century American and English Sephardic culture.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual three-part course “Three Jewish American Writers of the 1930s on the Big Apple” on Tuesdays, April 22-May 6, from 11 am-noon. The cost to attend is $132. Anna Katsnelson will explore three works of Jewish literature, centered on New York City, from the 1930s. The authors being looked at are Charles Reznikoff, Daniel Fuchs and Clifford Odets. For more information or to register, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold a virtual program featuring Rabbi Shira Stutman speaking about her new work, “The Jewish Way to a Good Life: Find Happiness, Build Community, and Embrace Lovingkindness,” on Tuesday, April 29, at 8 pm. For more information or to register, click here. 

The Jewish Grandparents Network will hold the virtual program “When Grandparents Get Canceled (And What to Do About It)” on Wednesday, May 14, from 7-8 pm. Licensed marriage and family therapist associate Rachel Haack will offer ways “to address the pain and take small steps toward reconciliation.” For more information or to register, visit click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual “Tour of the Historic Lazama Synagogue in the Mellah (Jewish Quarter) of Marrakech” on Sunday, May 4, from noon- 2 pm. The cost to attend is $10. It will offer a tour of the Lazama Synagogue, which was founded in 1492 by Sephardic Jews fleeing King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella’s Edict of Expulsion, and offer information about the community. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual course “FDR, America, and the Holocaust” on Mondays, April 28-May 19, at 3 pm. The cost to attend is $145. The course will “examine FDR’s response to the Holocaust, the debate over bombing Auschwitz, and America’s role in rescuing European Jewry.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Qesher Book Club will hold a virtual discussion of “Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo” with author Yoram Meital on Tuesday, May 6, at 3 pm. The book tells “the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo’s synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.” For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual talk “Etymology of Modern Hebrew: Hebrew Roots and History” on Thursday, May 1, at 2 pm. The talk will explore Hebrew’s deep Semitic roots and uncover how its ancient origins shaped the language spoken today. For more information or to register, click here.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will hold the virtual program “The YIVO Sound Archive and the Klezmer Revival” on Thursday, April 24, at 1 pm. “YIVO sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski will tell the story of the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings in relation to the revitalization of klezmer music since the mid-1970s.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Jewish History will hold the virtual program “Anne’s Ancestors” on Tuesday, April 29, at 2 pm. The program will offer a study of Anne Frank’s “annecestors” who lived throughout Germany in prior centuries. For more information or to register, click here.

The Shalom Center and ALEPH will hold the three-part virtual course “Renewing Judaism.” “Renewing Judaism: Past” will be held on Sunday, April 27, from 2-3:30 pm; “Renewing Judaism: Present” will be held on Sunday, May 4, from 2-3:30 pm; and “Renewing Judaism: Future” will be held on Wednesday, May 28, from 7-8:30 pm. There is a sliding scale cost to attend. For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual course “Approaching the Holy Mountain: Spiritual Preparations for Shavuot” led by Reb Simcha Raphael on Wednesdays, May 7, 14 and 21, at 8 pm. The cost to attend is $54. For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual program “In Their Parents’ Words: Children of Survivors Share Their Stories” on Thursday, April 24, at 3 pm. AJU and the Shoah Legacy Writers offer the stories of Holocaust survivors as told through their children’s voices. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold several virtual lectures. There is a sliding scale cost to attend: “Sketches and Stories: Voices from the Holocaust,” on Tuesday, April 22, from 5-6 pm (see here); “What We Choose to Remember: Holocaust Memory as Civic Education,” on Thursday, April 24, from 7-8 pm (see here); and “Facing West: One Family’s Journey from India to Israel (1945-1955),” on Monday, April 28, from 1-2 pm (see here).

Wisdom Without Wall will present several virtual programs: Donniel Hartman on “Who Are the Jews – And Who Can We Become? Reflections on a Post-October 7th World” on Sunday, April 27, from 2-3:30 pm (see here); “Can Jewish law help you solve today’s ethical quandaries and inspire your spirit?” on Wednesday, May 7, from 7-8:30 pm (see here); and Ariel Mayse on “Rethinking Jewish Ritual and Practice: A Hasidic Perspective,” on Wednesday, May 21, from 7-8:30 pm (see here).

Roundtable will hold the three-part virtual class “History of the Jewish Ghetto: Venice, Warsaw, New York” on Wednesdays, June 4-18, from 3-4 pm. The cost to attend is $132. The course will “explore the establishment of the first Jewish ghettos, their paradoxical roles as spaces of both confinement and community, and their transformation during the era of emancipation and assimilation.” For more information or to register, click here.

The American Jewish University will hold the virtual course “Lost Books of the Bible: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha” on Tuesdays, April 29-June 24, at 3 pm. The cost to attend is $320. The class will explore forgotten works – “mystical visions, dramatic origin stories, and cosmic battles between good and evil” – that were written during the Second Temple period and not included in the Bible. For more information or to register, click here.

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