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. 

Roundtable will hold the virtual talk “How and Why the State of Israel was Formed” on Thursday, June 6, from 1-2 pm, with Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis University president emeritus, and Richard Koret, professor of modern Jewish history. The cost to attend is $25. For more information or to register, click here.

Jewish Women’s Archive will hold three virtual book talks on Thursdays at 8 pm: on June 6, Mimi Zieman’s “Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure”; on June 20, Rebecca Clarren’s “The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance”; and on June 27, Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, editors and translators, on “Mazaltob: A Novel,” by Blanche Bendahan. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold two free programs about Israel: “‘If Not Zionism, Then Nothing’: Henrietta Szold and Zionism in Her Own Words” on Tuesday, June 4, from 1-2 pm (available here); and “Life After Death: Posthumous Reproduction and the Legacy of Fallen Israeli Soldiers” on Wednesday, June 5, from 7-8 pm (available here).

Roundtable will hold a two-part course “The Book of Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale” on Thursdays. June 27 and July 11, from 10-11 am. The cost to attend is $88. Ilana Pardes, professor of comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will discuss her work on the Book of Ruth. For more information or to register, click here. 

Koren Publishers is offering a sign-up for a free download, “One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories,” that will be available this fall. The stories all take place on October 7, 2023. For more information or to request the download, click here.

Melton will hold the free class “Pillars of the Community: The Roles of Medieval Jewish Women” with Professor Elisheva Baumgarten on Thursday, June 6, from 1-2 pm. The class “will look at evidence from medieval Germany and France to get a sense of what role women played in their communities during that time.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual class “Antisemitism Then and Now: The Dreyfus Affair” on Monday, June 17, from 6-7:30 pm. The cost to attend is $44. The class will give “an overview of the Dreyfus Affair, focusing on the question of antisemitism, and its significance for our current moment.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Nosher will hold an “Online Jewish Food Festival” on Sunday, June 9, from noon-5 pm. The event will include cooking classes, demonstrations and discussions. The cost to attend is $54. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold a three session course on “Hasidism through Its Tales: The History and Literature of Hasidism” on Mondays, July 15-29, from 10-11 am. The cost to attend is $132. Yitzhak Lewis, assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University, will discuss the history and literature of Hasidism, and the role of storytelling in this modern Jewish movement. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the virtual class “What Is the Torah, Actually? Preparing for Shavuot” on Monday, June 3, from 1-2:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual tour “The Roaring Twenties, Zionism, and Pharaonism in Cairo” on Wednesday, June 5, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $15. The tour will look at “the Cairo of the 1920s, a place where Egyptian Jews defended Egyptian independence and identity,.... built strong Sephardic community centers.... and some even supported both Zionism and Egyptian Nationalism.” For more information or to register, click here. 

The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project will hold the virtual panel “Visual Art in Jewish and Native American Language Reclamation” on Sunday June 2, from 1-2:30 pm. The panel will explore “the connection between visual art and the revitalization of endangered languages.” For more information or to register, click here.

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will hold the virtual talk “A Pathway Towards Trust” on Monday, June 10, at 11 am. The talk will look at Hand in Hand, “a public school system in Israel founded in 1997... doing the essential work of building inclusion and equality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel through a growing network of bilingual, integrated schools and communities.” For more information or to register, click here.

Tikvah and Mosaic are offering the free e-book “The Campus Crisis: Essays”. The book explores “how and why this anti-Israel rhetoric has grown in popularity and power over time.” 

Melton will hold the three-part class “One Page at a Time: Study Talmud Like a Pro!” on Mondays, June 17-July 1, from 7-8 pm. There is a sliding scale cost to attend. The class will use an English translation to do a line-by-line discussion ofTractate Bava Metzia 21, which looks at the obligation to return lost objects. For more information or to register, click here.

The New York Jewish Week will hold the virtual program “Jews on Broadway: A Night of Song and Theater” with Ari Axelrod on Monday, June 10, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is $20. Axelrod will speak about parts of the American Jewish songbook, including works by Bernstein, Sondheim, Gershwin, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. He will also perform some of them. For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual class “Pursuing Justice Even When it’s Hard: Overcoming Racism and Antisemitism” with Rabbi Jonah Pesner on Monday, June 24, at noon. The cost to attend is $18. Pesner will reflect on the Reform Movement’s long-time racial justice commitments and the more recent challenges from rising bigotry and authoritarianism. For more information or to register, click here, 

Pardes will hold the virtual event “Shavuot Slam: Different Perspectives on Torah Mi’Sinai” on Tuesday, June 4, at 7 pm. It will feature teachings by Pardes faculty members Professor Deborah Barer, Rabbi Jessica Minnen and Rabbi Brent Chaim Spodek and will be followed by question-and-answer period. For more information or to register, click here. 

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