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 three virtual book talks this summer: Stories Survive: “Life Must Go On” on Wednesday, July 9, at 7 pm (see here); “The Teacher of Auschwitz” on Tuesday, July 15, at 7 pm (see here); and Stories Survive: “From Generation to Generation” on Tuesday, August 26, at 7 pm (see here). There is a suggested donation of $10 for each event.

My Jewish Learning will hold the five-part virtual class “Classic Yiddish Short Stories” with Prof. Josh Lambert on Wednesdays, July 2-30, at 6 pm. The cost to attend is $75. No Yiddish language knowledge is needed; all material will be in English. Among the writers to be discussed with be Isaac Bashevis Singer, I.L. Peretz, Blume Lempel and Yosef Opatoshu. For more information or to register, click here.

The Blue Dove Foundation is offering “Wellness Resources for the Situation in Israel,” which can be found here.

The Universal Yiddish Library is now available. It features more than 60,000 Yiddish book records from the Yiddish Book Center, the National Library of Israel, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the New York Public Library. There is no charge to use the site.

The Hey Alma website is accepting submissions for its second Jewish fiction contest. The winner will receive a $250 honorarium and a piece of Hey Alma merch. Submissions will be open until Friday, July 25. Stories should be 3,000 words or less, and must be previously unpublished. For complete information, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual talk “The Funniest Moments in Jewish History” on Wednesday, July 16, from 1-2 pm. The cost to attend is $44. Rob Kutner, Emmy-winning author of “The Jews: 5000 Years and Counting,” will offer a humorous tour of Jewish history and the Jewish uses of humor. For more information or to register, click here.

Yidstock 2025: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center is offering livestream concert passes. The concerts take place from Thursday-Sunday, July 10-13. For a list of the concerts, the cost or to purchase a pass, click here.

Ritualwell will hold several classes this summer: “Writing Jewish, Writing Funny” on Tuesdays, July 8, 15, 22 and 29, from noon-1:30 pm (see here); “Finding Shekhinah” on Wednesdays, July 9, 16, 23 and 30, from noon-1:30 pm (see here); and “Deep Body Poetry” on Thursdays, July 10, 17, 24 and 31, from noon-1:30 pm (see here). The cost to attend each class is $180. 

The Blue Dove Foundation is offering the new resource “Reimagining Traditions to Promote LGBTQ+ Inclusion,” which can be found here. 

Kveller will offer “Calm-ish,” a seven-part e-mail series written by clinical social worker and author Carla Naumburg, that will contain tips on how to ease anxiety. For more information or to register, visit www.kveller.com/get-calm-ish. 
Hey Alma will offer “Jewish Fiction Writing 101” with author Gabrielle Korn on Monday, July 14, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $18. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the two-part virtual class “Letters from the Diaspora: A Sephardic Family in the 20th Century” on Mondays, July 7-14, from 3-4 pm. The cost to attend is $88. The course will follow the Levy family “across the span of a century and the reach of the globe, as they strove to remain a family while time, distance, and geo-political conflicts pulled them apart.” For more information or to register, click here.

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