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Jewish Resources 7/11/25

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 the Jewish food scene: No way would I eat that!

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

I was going to call this column “Weird foods,” but that title didn’t completely fit. I also thought about using “Bizarre foods,” but that’s already been taken and also didn’t seem accurate. What provoked this column was seeing two articles on a Jewish …

Goodman to speak on basketball and Judaism

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Tamir Goodman will be the featured speaker at the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton’s pre-Campaign dessert reception on Sunday, August 17, at 7 pm. For more information about the event, see Federation’s pre-Campaign event on Aug. 17 to feature Tamir Goodma…

Off the Shelf: The Jewish problem in tzarist Russia

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

When the Russian Empire completed its annexation of Poland in 1795, it added more than one million Jews to its population. This led to a government call for ways to limit the ever growing Jewish community and/or find ways to turn those who were seen as primitive int…

Off the Shelf: Different paths to happily ever after

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Rom-coms generally offer two basic plot variations: two people who immediately fall in love, but are kept apart because of circumstance, or two people who hate each other at first sight, but later find themselves passionately in love. To readers of the genre, this m…