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 a variety of programs in October and November, including “Making Gay History: The Nazi Era” on Sunday, October 5, at 3 pm (available here); “An All-of-Society Approach: A Conversation with Yair Rosenberg and Amy Spitalnick on Uprooting Antisemitism” on Sunday
October 12, at 5 pm (available here); “The Birth of Jewish Art with Richard McBee” on Monday, October 27, at 7 pm (available here); “‘Women of War’ Book Talk” on Wednesday, November 12, at 7 pm (available here); “‘The Director’ Book Talk” on Wednesday, November 19, at 7 pm (available here); and “The Radical Camera with Richard McBee” on Monday, November 24, at 7 pm (available here). The museum requests a $10 donation to attend.

Lilith Magazine will hold the virtual “Sounding Like Yourself: A Lilith Memoir Writing Workshop” on Thursday, November 20, from 8-9:15 pm. Marcella White Campbell, Lilith writer and children’s book author, will facilitate the class. For more information or to register, click here.

Roundtable will hold the virtual course “Shanghai, the “Paris of the East” and its Jewish Diaspora” on Thursdays, October 23-30, from 6-7 pm. The cost to attend is $88. The course will explore the history of the Jewish diaspora in Shanghai and will feature excerpts from contemporary films, documentary footage and memoir. For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek will hold the virtual talk “Jewish Ethics of Interfaith Dialogue” Tuesday, October 21, at 4 pm with Rabbi Daniel Ross Goodman. The cost to attend is $18. For more information or to register, click here. 

Yetzirah will hold its November reading series featuring Daniela Naomi Molnar, Joanna Fuhrman and Sabrina Orah Mark on Sunday, November 9, from 5-6:30 pm. For more information, click here.

Ritualwell will hold several virtual programs in October: “The Torah in the Tarot” on Tuesday, October 21, from 12:30 1:30 pm, cost to attend $18 (available here); “Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas” on Thursdays, October 23 and 30 and November 6 and 13, from 12-1:30 pm, cost to attend $180 (available here); “Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting” on Wednesdays, October 29 and November 5, 12 and 19, from noon-1:30 pm, cost to attend $180 (available here); and “Discovering Jewish Joy: A Ritualwell Community Gathering” on Wednesday, October 29, from 8-9:30 pm, cost to attend $18 (available here).

Hadassah Magazine will present “Two Years on With Yossi Klein Halevi and Lee Yaron” on Wednesday, October 29, at 12:30 pm. Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will host Israeli writers Yossi Klein Halevi and Lee Yaron for a discussion “about what it means to be a Jew today, in a post-October 7 world; how Israeli survivors are coping; and what almost two years of war and rising global antisemitism mean for the future of the Jewish people.” For more information or to register, click here.

Wisdom Without Wall will hold the virtual program “An Evening with Alfred Uhry: Stories, Stage, and Southern Roots’” on Wednesday, October 22, from 7-8:30 pm. Uhry, author of “Driving Miss Daisy,” will explore the shaping of Southern Jewish identity. For more information or to register, click here.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual program “Spielberg! Zoom Talk” on Monday, September 29, from 7-8:30 pm. The cost to attend is $18. The program will “examine the life and career of the grand storyteller, with a particular focus on his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew and his later Jewish re-awakening.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Museum at Eldridge Street will hold the virtual program “Yom Kippur: A Day of Atonement, Repentance and Love” on Monday, September 29, at 6 pm. The cost is pay-what-you-wish. Raymond Jasen will talk about the evolution of Yom Kippur “from a biblical commandment, to a Temple and sacrificial service, to the holiday that we know today through a discussion of its origins, significance, laws, rituals and customs.” For more information or to register, click here.

The Jewish Grandparents Network will hold “How Your Jewish Life Stories Can Impact Your Grandchildren’s Jewish Identity” on Tuesday, October 21, from 1-2 pm. Dasee Berkowitz, author of “Becoming a Soulful Parent: A path to the wisdom within,” will show grandparents “how sharing family stories... can greatly impact grandchildren, especially when done in partnership with the parents.” For more information or to register, click here.

Uri L’Tzedek will feature two virtual talks by Rabbanit Sharona Margolin Halickman: “Shmita: A year devoted to social justice” on Thursday, October 16, at 1 pm (available here); and “Fulfilling the Goals of Israel’s Declaration of Independence” on Thursday, November 13, at noon (available here). The cost to attend is $18.

Roundtable will hold several virtual classes in October, November and December: “The Jewish American South: Charleston, New Orleans, Atlanta” on Wednesdays, October 8-22, from 7-8 pm, cost to attend $132 (available here); “Berlin Cabaret: Sex, Shopping, Politics, and Jewishness in the 1920s” on Thursdays, November 6-20, from 10-11 am, cost to attend $132 (available here); and “The Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Egypt, Syria, Italy, and Beyond” on Thursdays, December 4-18, from 10-11 am, cost to attend $132 (available here).

Jewish Women’s Archive will hold its virtual Fall 2025 Book Talks: Jane Eisner on “Carole King: She Made the Earth Move” on Thursday, October 30, at 8 pm; Esther Chehebar on “Sisters of Fortune” on Thursday, November 6, at 8 pm; Minna Bromberg on “Every Body Beloved: A Jewish Embrace of Fatness” on Thursday, November 13, at noon; and Sarah Hurwitz on “As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us” on Thursday, November 20, at 8 pm. For more information, click here. To register for the events, click here.

Yiddishland will offer the online course “News in mame-loshn: Reading der Forverts in Yiddish” on Tuesdays, October 21-November 25, from 4-5 pm. The cost to attend is $180. For more information or to register, click here.

Sapir will hold the virtual discussion “A Catholic Response to Jewish Chosenness” with Professor Robert P. George and SAPIR Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens on Wednesday, October 1, at noon. For more information or to register, click here.

ALEPH will hold the virtual class “Buried Treasure: Torah as Sacred Mythology” on Tuesdays, October 28, November 11 and 25, December 9 and 23, January 20, February 3 and 17, March 17 and 31, April 14 and 28, and May 12 and 26, at 7 pm. The cost to attend is pay what you can. The class will “look at Torah through the lenses of mythology, mindfulness and dreamwork, with a focus on diving into the wild and wonderous world of Midrash.”

Tikvah is offering the free e-book “A College Guide for the Perplexed” found here. The book examines “anti-Semitism and anti-Western ideology on campus – and explore how America’s universities might yet be renewed.”

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has launched a six-episode series for teens that “highlight choices relatable people faced during the Holocaust and the consequences of hatred and antisemitism.” To view the videos, click here.

For additional resources, see our Jewish Online Resources pages.