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 three-part virtual course “How Kabbalah Reimagines God” on Mondays, August 11-25, from 4-5 pm. The cost to attend is $132. Daniel Matt will explore how Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, reimagines God. For more information or to register, click here.

My Jewish Learning will offer a four-part virtual course “Master Mah Jongg,” a beginners guide to the game, on Wednesdays, July 16-August 6, from 7-8:15 pm. The cost to attend is $54. The fee includes a month of access to each class recording and extra resources from the teachers. For more information or to register, click here.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute will hold the hybrid program “Hiding in Holland, An Afternoon of Remembrance with Shulamit Reinharz” on Wednesday, September 10, from 4-5:30 pm. Reinharz will discuss her latest book, “Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir,” which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. For more information or to register, click here.

Melton will hold a variety of virtual classes this summer. The cost to attend is based on a sliding scale. The classes include “Ethics Under Fire: Jewish Law in Times of War” on Wednesdays, July 16-30, from 1-2:30 pm (available here); “Melton Meets the Moment: Intelligence Failures, Military Realities, and Political Consequences” on Tuesday, July 22, from 1-2 pm (available here); “The Age of the Influencer: Jewish Ethics on Display” on Tuesday, July 22, from 7-8 pm (available here); “Home-Grown Rabbis: The Birth of American Rabbinic Training” on Tuesday, July 29, from 7-8 pm (available here); and “In the Presence of Power: Jewish Law and Political Leadership” on Wednesday, July 30, from 1-2 pm (available here). 

Siegal Lifelong Learning will hold the virtual class “Judaism and the Environment: The Ethics of Care and Responsibility” on Monday, September 15, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $10. The class will “explore our obligation in response to the ongoing ecological crisis that threatens the future of human life, with a focus on Judaism’s perspective.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Orange Country California Jewish Community Scholarship Program will offer the three-part virtual class “The Jews of Rome” with Dr. Samuel Gruber on Thursdays July 15-29, from 1-2 pm. The class will trace the evolving identity of Jewish Rome. For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual program “Torah Ethics of Warfare: Must we Leave a Path for Escape?” on Wednesday, August 13, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is $18. Rabbi David Polsky will discuss “the prohibition of enclosing an enemy on all sides.” For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the three-part virtual class “Borscht Belt Culture, or Return to the Catskills” on Monday-Wednesday, August 25-27, from 11 am-noon. The cost to attend is $132. Professor Phil Brown will explore the Jewish experience in the Borscht Belt of the Catskills. For more information or to register, click here.

Literary Modiin will hold its hybrid July 2025 Author Event on Sunday, July 27, at 3:30 pm. The authors featured will be Oren Kessler (“Palestine 1936”), Tehila Hakimi with Joanna Chen (“Hunting in America”) and Yakir Ben Moshe (“Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited”). For more information or to register, click here.

The Qesher Book Club will hold a virtual book talk on “Songs for the Brokenhearted” by Ayelet Tsabari on Tuesday, August 5, at 3 pm. Tsabari’s book won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024. For more information or to register, click here.

The Center for Jewish History will hold the virtual program “The People’s Torah: Crowd-Sourcing Jewish Customs from An-ski to the Internet” on Tuesday, July 22, at 2 pm. Nathaniel Deutsch will discuss The Digital Minhag Project, “an interactive website built around a Yiddish-English version of An-ski’s ethnographic questionnaire that seeks to crowd-source contemporary Jewish customs or minhagim.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will hold the “Virtual Walking Tour: Tarnów, Poland” on Wednesday, July 30, at 11 am. The cost to attend is $25. For more information or to register, visit https://mjhnyc.org/events/virtual-travel-tarnow.
My Jewish Learning will offer the virtual class “Plant-Based Jewish Cooking” on Mondays, July 21-August 11 , from 7-8 pm. The cost to attend is $60. Chef Micah Siva will offer a variety of plant-based Jewish recipes. For more information or to register, click here.

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