Miscellaneous Features

Jewish Online Resources 7/14/23

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. 

Maven will hold the virtual lecture “LGBTQ+ Poetic Voices in Israel” on Tuesd…

Jewish Baseball Players: Yentl at the bat pt I: Jewish women & baseball

By Bill Simons

Traditional Orthodox Judaism is patriarchal, evidenced by restricting the rabbinate, minyan and Torah study to men as well as gender separation in the synagogue. The 1983 Barbra Streisand movie “Yentl” dramatized these barriers. In America, Jews encountered a more open so…

On the Jewish food scene: Taste testing cookies

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman 

It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. That’s what I thought after asking for samples of Mightylicious Cookies. Taste testing cookies so readers will know if they are any good is an important part of my job. (If you’re wondering if I’m finding it hard…

Jewish Online Resources 6/30/23

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 Jewish Museum will hold the two part class “Art in Context: Sargent and the…

Addendum

The soccer exhibition mentioned in “Soccer memories of Zurich” by Arieh Ullmann, which appeared on page 1 in the June 2 issue of The Reporter, was housed in the museum of FC Zurich, a professional soccer club. FC Zurich and FC Hakoah have maintained a friendship that is decades-old, whi…