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 class “Forgotten Holocaust Fiction” on Wednesdays, December 3-17, from 4-5 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Professor Anna Katsnelson will examine two works of Holocaust literature: “The Oppermans” by Lion Feuchtwanger (1933) and “A Scrap of Time” by Ida Fink (1987). For more information or to register, click here.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold two virtual Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations: Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, authors of “A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction” on Thursday, October 30, at 12:30 pm (available here); and Yehudis Fletcher, author of “Chutzpah! A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay” on Tuesday, November 18, at 11:30 am (available here).

Qesher will hold its virtual book talk about “Alive and Beating” by Rebecca Wolf on Tuesday, October 28, at 4 pm. “Inspired by a true story, [the novel] follows six people from diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods throughout Jerusalem, all desperately in need of organ transplants, on the day their lives will forever be changed.” For more information or to register, click here.

Sapir will hold the hybrid program “Does Zionism Have a Future on the American Left?” with Kathy E. Manning, Yehuda Kurtzer, Batya Ungar-Sargon and James Kirchick in conversation with Bret Stephens on Thursday, October 23, at 6 pm. The cost to attend is $18. For more information, visit https://sapirjournal.org/events. To register for the event, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual program “Returning the Feminine to the Stories of our People” on Sunday, October 26, at 8 pm. The cost to attend is pay what you wish. Maggidah Debra Gordon Zaslow, Rabbi Rivkah Coburn and Magiddah Cassandra Sagan from the Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective will talk about their new book “The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Repopulated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones, and Powerful Prophetesses.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the virtual series “You Say You Want a Revolution: Jewish Encounters with Radical Change” on Mondays, October 20-December 8, from 1-2 pm. There is a suggested donation depending on how many lectures a person attends. The same Zoom link will be used for all sessions. Lectures include “Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution”; “Revolutionizing Belonging: Disability Inclusion and the Future of Jewish Camp”; “Before the Print Revolution: Manuscripts and the World They Made”; “Peshat: The Reinvention of Reading During the Twelfth Century Renaissance”; “Progress, Regress, and Transformation: Hermann Cohen’s Ezekiel as a Revolutionary Prophet”; “Possibility and Peril: Jews and the Russian Revolution”; “A Scholarly Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of Talmud Study”; and “Hanukkah.” For information on individual sections or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual class “The Defiantly Jewish Voices of Sci Fi from Stanislaw Lem to Friedrich Gorenstein” on Sundays, October 26-November 9, from 7-8 pm. The cost to attend is $132. The class will explore how two post-World War II writers sought “to understand a view of the world through the prism of the Jewish canon even after the links to tradition have been wrecked.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Institute for Jewish Spirituality will hold the virtual class “The Four Worlds of Kabbalah: A Mindfulness-Based Introduction” on Wednesdays, October 22-November 26, from 3-4:15 pm. There are three levels of tuition available. The class offers “practical introduction to mindful Jewish living grounded in the model of the ‘Four Worlds’ – which locates the sacred in our bodies, emotions, thoughts, and spirit.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the virtual course “Why Yiddish Children’s Literature” on Wednesdays, October 29-November 19, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $100. The course “will explore how the stories and poems written for Yiddish-speaking children reflect and also help to create the contours of Ashkenazi modernity during an age of global Jewish Diaspora.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Grandparents Network will hold the virtual event “The Floor Is Yours! Listening Session with JGN’s New Executive Director Debra S. Weinberg” on Wednesday, November 12, from 1-1:45 pm. Weinberg will discuss her plans for JGN’s future. For more information or to regsiter, click here.

My Jewish Learning will hold the virtual class “Beyond the Pale: A History of the Pale of Settlement” on Wednesday, October 22-November 5, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is $60. Two-time National Jewish Book Award winner Elissa Bemporard “will trace the origin of the Pale of Settlement and the development of legislation against Jews in Tsarist Russia, from the late-18th century to the early decades of the 20th century.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual class “Jewish Literature and the Rise of Empires” on Mondays, November 3-24, from 10-11 am. The cost to attend is $176. The “course looks at the developments and innovations in Jewish literature that took place in the context of the rise of European empires and the encounter between Jewish authors, communities, and these new world powers.” For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold a variety of courses this fall. The cost to attend is a sliding scale. Classes included “Jewish Vienna: a City of Two Tales” on Mondays, October 20 and 27, and November 3, from 1-2:30 pm (available here); “Spiritually Fit: Jewish Wisdom on Personal Wellness” on Monday, October 20, from 7-8 pm (available here); “Inside the Shtetl: A Jewish Universe” on Tuesdays, October 21 and 28, from 1-2 pm (available here); “When Truth-Telling Gets Complicated: Torah and the Ethics of Lying” on Tuesday, October 28, from 7-8 pm (available here); and “CSI Babylonia: Investigating Talmudic Justice” on Wednesday, October 29, from 7-8 pm (available here).

For additional resources, see our Jewish Online Resources pages.