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Worldwide Virtual Jewish Learning Resources

The wealth of Jewish learning opportunities offered daily throughout North America and internationally is growing every day. This curated list will help you meet some of Judaism's most dynamic scholars in all disciplines and expand your Jewish knowledge in new and exciting ways!

Enrich your summer with Jewish learning
Visit the websites below to access current and past course and special program schedules:

AJU Whizin Center for Open Learning: AJU online learning offers classes for adults seeking to build Jewish skills and knowledge and hosts lectures by internationally acclaimed scholars, artists, authors and geo-political experts. Something for everyone!
HUC Connect: HUC Connect invites you to join participants from 55 countries to discover something new about Judaism and about yourself through webinars, courses and podcasts.
Shalom Hartman Institute: Online courses, podcasts and programs that courageously address some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Orange County Community Scholars Program: A colorful array of podcasts and videos of current and past lectures spanning 2001-2025.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America | Podcast | Torah Commentary | Lifelong Learning
JTS offers online classes that create live, interactive opportunities for study with top-caliber scholars. Encounter compelling Jewish scholarship that brings the texts and wisdom of our tradition to bear on contemporary dilemmas. Courses delve deeply into specific areas of Jewish text, history, philosophy, religion, arts, and literature.

SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE PRESENTS

Click here to access recordings with premier scholars addressing curring issues related to Israel, America, War and Diplomacy

Torah Sparks Newsletter
Sign up for weekly, thought-provoking commentary from Fuchsberg faculty inspired by the weekly Torah portion. Open your inbox every Tuesday to commentaries, videos, poems, and more from Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center scholars. Explore the depths of Jewish text and tradition with us!

CURRENT FEATURED CONTENT:

D’var Torah
Original interpretations on the weekly Torah Portion by our Yeshiva’s Mid-Atlantic Faculty-in-Residence, Bex Stern Rosenblatt.

Exploring the Parashah
Video by our Yeshiva graduate and Senior Educator at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Jonathan Lipnick, who explores an often neglected aspect of the parashah: geography.

Midrash and the Parashah
Rabbi Joshua Kulp reflects on a single midrash on a specific verse or part of a verse from the parashah.

White Fire: Poetry on the Parashah
Ilana Kurshan, Faculty member and award-winning author of “If All the Seas Were Ink,” tries to illuminate the white fire of Torah – the midrashim, stories, and interpretations that carve out the negative space of the letters and give them shap

Learn more about Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center here.

The Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center is a home in the heart of Jerusalem where leaders and seekers can find an authentic place in Jewish tradition to call their own. Join us on our campus, where you can study, pray and explore in an open, egalitarian, and inclusive environment. Ignite your connection to Jewish life and community as you forge your own path to spiritual fulfillment with us. We provide opportunities for Jewish engagement through in-depth Torah study, innovative ritual and prayer, and experiential Israel education as well as hospitality services for more than 50,000 visitors each year.

ExploringJudaism.org is about embracing the beauty and complexity of Judaism and our personal search for meaning and learning. No matter who you are or your experience in Judaism there is something to learn and explore.

Judaism Unbound | Shabbat Unbound | Podcast | Holidays | Online Classes
A project of the Institute for the Next Jewish Future, catalyzes and supports grassroots efforts by “disaffected but hopeful” American Jews to re-imagine and re-design Jewish life in America for the 21st Century.

JewishLIVE is a new Facebook platform of Judaism Unbound that shares great music, stimulating classes and more. Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewishlivegroup/

Hadar.org | Learn with Hadar | Torah and Tefillah Library
Hadar empowers Jews to create and sustain vibrant, practicing, egalitarian communities. They offer a collection of online resources you can read, watch, or listen to about our current moment and to help you prepare for Passover.

VIDEOS & ARTICLES

Sinai and Synapses bridges the religious and scientific worlds, offering people a worldview that is scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting. Click here to access articles and videos, including their recent article on COVID-19 as understood through a Jewish lens.

Suggestions for additions to this list can be sent to Joy@JewishCollaborativeOC.org.