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 Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the “Virtual Walking Tour: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” on Wednesday, April 30, at 11 am. The cost to attend is $25. The tour “will explore the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the context in which it took place.” For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual course “Mussar for This Moment” on Tuesdays, May 13-27 and June 10, from noon-1:30 pm. The cost to attend is $180. Rabbi Joshua Boettiger will explore the Mussar tradition – studying middot (precepts) and practices from the Mussar masters. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Women’s Archive will hold “Jewish Women Writing Our Lives,” a four-session online interactive writing and reflection course on Thursdays, May 1-22, from noon-1:15 pm. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “The Everyday Life of Jews in the Ancient World” on Thursdays, May 8-22, from noon-1 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Historian Karen B. Stern will explore the evidence and artifacts of ancient Jewish history to show how the life of Jews in the ancient world existed at the intersection of empires of Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece and Rome. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the hybrid event “The Missing Link in Holocaust Education: Maccabi Hatzair & Israel – The Dream of Terezín Ghetto Youth” on Wednesday, May 7, at 7 pm. “Holocaust researcher Pavel Batel will address the pivotal role of the Terezín Ghetto and Concentration camp during the Nazi occupation of World War II.” For more information or to register, click here.

Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold several virtual courses: “Creating Life after Loss: A Jewish Approach to Continuing the Legacy of Fallen Israeli Soldiers” on Thursday, May 1, 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); and “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). The cost to attend each lecture is $10. 

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “Teddy Roosevelt and the Jews” on Thursdays, June 12 and 26, from 2-3 pm. The cost to attend is $88. Professor Andrew Porwancher will discuss how Teddy Roosevelt developed a bond with Jewish immigrants to the U.S., how he shaped their lives and how they shaped his legacy. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the virtual program “Stories Survive: ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ Book Talk” on Monday, May 12, at 7 pm. A donation of $10 is requested. Julie Brill will discuss her quest to learn about her father’s experiences during the war. For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual course “Discover Your Torah: Preparing for Shavuot with Meditation and Poetry” on Wednesdays, May 7, 14 and 21, from 1-2:30 pm. The cost to attend is $150. The course will offer mindfulness meditation, poetry and generative writing practices to explore themes related to Shavuot. For more information or to register, click here. 

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the hybrid program “Louis Mayer and Irving Thalberg and the making of Jewish identity in Hollywood” with Kenneth Turan on Sunday, May 11, from 2-3 pm. Turan traces these men’s relationship and discuss the history of Jewish identity in Hollywood. For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the hybrid book talk about “A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said About the Holocaust” on Sunday, June 22, at 3 pm. A donation of $10 is requested. Richard Breitman discusses his book, which sheds new light on the relationship between World War II and the Holocaust. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold “Reading Amos Oz’s ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’” on Thursdays, May 8-June 5, from 4-5 pm. The cost to attend is $220. Shalom Goldman will discuss Oz’s autobiography and what it says about the founding of the state of Israel. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Theological Seminary will hold the virtual conversation “A Vision for Storytelling” on Sunday, May 4, from 2:30-3:30 pm. Jonathan Safran Foer will interview program director Etgar Keret about the new MFA in Creative Writing program at JTS. For more information or to register, click here. 

The Yiddish Book Center will hold the hybrid Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture “The Yiddish Book Center at 45” with Aaron Lansky on Sunday, June 8, at 2 pm. Lansky, president and founder of the Yiddish Book Center, will share reflections and predictions for the Center’s future ahead of his retirement. For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Book Council will hold the virtual program “Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust” on Wednesday, May 28, from noon-1:15 pm. Author Laura Hobson Faure will discuss her new book, which is the first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France and their subsequent escape to America. For more information or to register, click here.

Ritualwell will hold the virtual course “Being with Grief: Jewish Wisdom for Supporting Mourners” on Thursdays, May 29 and June 5 and 12, from noon-1:30 pm. The cost to attend is $154. The class will discuss “how grief tests the limits of language, explore models for understanding loss, and study Jewish practices that create meaningful containers for grief.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Jewish History will hold the hybrid symposium “The End of an Era? Jews and Elite Universities” on Sunday, May 18, at 10 am. “The panelists will explore the complex history of Jews and American universities, analyze the factors contributing to the current crisis, and venture solutions for the future.” For more information or to register, click here. 

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