The Eldridge Street Synagogue at 12 Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side feels exactly like a museum: built back in 1887, the beautiful building still retains the architectural details that propelled it to National Landmark fame, in clear contrast […]
A new retrospective at the Museum at Eldridge Street focuses on Jewish artist Tobi Kahn Read More »
In a true marriage of greats, Breads Bakery and Martha Stewart are releasing a limited-edition “Martha’s Good Thing Babka” tomorrow. The delicacy will look and feel like the bakery’s iconic, award-winning chocolate babka, albeit filled with poppy seeds, golden raisins
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Noir, a beloved kosher bakery that has been operating in Great Neck, Long Island, a 30 minute car ride from midtown Manhattan, since 2018, has just announced its imminent expansion into the Upper West Side with plans to debut a
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The Israel Film Center inside the JCC at 334 Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan will be showing the 2023 Italian historical drama Kidnapped tomorrow, May 15, at 7pm. The 134-minutes-long Italian-language production directed by Marco Bellocchio
If you’re looking to rub elbows with other New York young professionals, we’ve got just the event for you: on June 20, the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will be hosting an evening of cocktails, hors
Every year on April 19, a crowd of New Yorkers gathers at Riverside Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland.
First set up in New York in 2012 by Selfhelp Community Services, Witness Theater brings survivors and high school students together on a stage to dissect the happenings of the Holocaust, its repercussions and the importance of remembering. Next week
After a highly publicized showdown, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s upcoming novel, Long Island Compromise, scheduled for release on July 9, is set to be adapted into a television series by Apple. The news should come as no surprise considering the success of
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann is a new play by director and producer David Serero that’s scheduled to premiere Off-Broadway at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street by Fifth Avenue on May 21. The play, set
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Although New Yorkers now flock to the Hamptons after Memorial Day every year, there was a time (the early 1900s, to be precise) when the city’s Jews would pack up for the “mountains” as the weather turned warmer. As seen
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