Sunday, July 12
11 a.m. Adam Brown, “Researching Sephardic DNA,” Sephardic World. Password: 248560
12 p.m. Paul Liptz, “South American Jews,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
1 p.m. Mark Hetfield, and Tyler Gilden, Discussion of the documentary The Starfish,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
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Monday, July 13
9 a.m., Bentzion Barami, “The Yemenite Torah,” American Sephardi Foundation.
10 a.m., David Fishman, “The Promise and Perils of Revolution: Jewish Life in the Soviet Union after 1917,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
10:30 a.m., Chemi Shalev, “Israeli Politics Explained,” American Jewish University.
11 .m. David Andrew Weinberg, “Antisemitism and Mideast Governments Today,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and Anti-Defamation League.
4 p.m. Josh Meyers and Ari Fertig, “The People’s Republic of Yiddish: Jewish Labor Movements through the Ages,” Vilna Shul.
4:30 p.m. Meir Soloveichik, “Love and Hate: The Formation of the Israelite Family,” The Tikvah Fund.
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Tuesday, July 14
6 a.m. Daphna Hacker, Fida Nara, Olya Weinstein, Fainy Sukenik, Steph Rodgers, Liron Peleg Hadomi, “How Israeli Women and Families are Overcoming Challenges During Covid-19,” National Council of Jewish Women.
9 a.m., Benjamin Sommer, “The Origins of Halakah as an Evolving System,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
10 a.m., Krewasky A. Salter, “Bravery and Grit: The Big Red One in World War Two,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
11 a.m. Thorsten Wagner and Eric Muller, “Rule of Law and the Ascension of the Third Reich,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
11 a.m. Lore Segal, “Her First American,” Leo Baeck Institute.
12 p.m. Beth Griech-Polelle, “People with Mental Illness and Disabilities During the Holocaust,” Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity.”
12:30 p.m. Jacqueline Nicholls, “Learn Talmud like an Artist,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
4 p.m. Samantha Frank, “Incredible Jewish Women,” 92nd Street Y.
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Wednesday, July 15
9 a.m. Jeremy Ben-Ami and Fania Oz-Salzberger, “On Zionism: Looking at History through Personal Narratives,” J Street.
11 a.m. Eli Rosen, Alexa Karolinski, and Michael Wex, “Inside Unorthodox,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. Jean Bloch Rosensaft, “Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950,” Hebrew Union College.
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Thursday, July 16
1:30 p.m. Tony Michels, “Chaim Zhitlovsky and His Philosophy of Yiddishism,” YIVO.
4 p.m. Kenneth Turan, “Jews in Hollywood,” Yiddish Book Center.
5 p.m. Marc Dollinger, “Jews and the Black Power Movement, 1960s and 1970s,” Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance and Agudath Jacob of Skokie.
7:30 p.m. Daniel Matt, “Gems of the Zohar,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com