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Soda Club, the vegan pasta and wine bar from Overthrow Hospitality that officially went kosher in 2024, has announced a one-night-only pasta tasting extravaganza—exactly the kind of indulgent meal to book before Passover has us giving up wheat for ten days. The experience is happening at the restaurant on March 24 and seats will be … This kosher restaurant in the East Village is hosting a one-night-only pasta tasting menu experience

On Monday, February 23, some of the biggest Jewish names in Hollywood will join forces on the Carnegie Hall stage to present “Letters, Light and Love,” a sweeping production centered on letters written about Israel across the centuries—from figures like Golda Meir and Julius Caesar—alongside other untold stories of ordinary people, according to an official … All-star Jewish cast brings “Letters, Light and Love” to Carnegie Hall to raise funds for rebuilding Kibbutz Be’eri

In honor of Cancer Prevention Month, jscreen, the national nonprofit dedicated to proactive genetic health screening, is bringing its mission directly to the New York Jewish community with two accessible, community-driven genetic testing events, in partnership with Manischewitz and author and health advocate Gila Pfeffer. The goal is simple but powerful: make genetic screening feel … You can get genetic testing done at two NYC events this month—and Manischewitz is bringing the food

Hanukkah shopping mode: activated. Tablet‘s annual Hanukkah Bazaar returns on December 6 (7–10pm) and December 7 (10am–6pm) on the Lower East Side at Canyon Essex, an experience space at 135 Delancey Street. Over 40 vendors will be purveying all the Judaica-adjacent delights you’d expect at any sort of Jewish holiday bazaar (menorahs! Kiddush cups! Mezuzahs!) … This annual Hanukkah Bazaar is back in NYC next month and you can already snag tickets for it

To celebrate 100 years of Jewish Book Month—the annual celebration of Jewish literature typically observed the month before Hanukkah, in November—the Jewish Book Council is transforming 81 Hester Street on the Lower East Side into a pop-up Jewish bookstore on Sunday, November 16, and Monday, November 17, from 9am to 6pm. The unique activation comes … A pop-up Jewish bookstore is taking over the LES for two days only

On Monday, October 27, two of America’s most celebrated Jewish authors will share the same stage to explore what the very concept of a “Jewish novel” means today. Jonathan Safran Foer—the author of the award-winning novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Here I Am—will appear alongside Sam Sussman, whose debut novel … Catch authors Jonathan Safran Foer and Sam Sussman discuss the “Jewish novel today” in NYC next week

Emily Nussbaum, critic and staff writer for The New Yorker, will moderate a lively conversation with cartoonists Liana Finck, David Ostow, Asher Perlman and Avi Steinberg in the Catskills this weekend. The panel will explore the influence of Jewish humor on American comedy and cartooning and how New Yorker cartoons go from concept to publication. … Hear The New Yorker’s Cartoonists Talk About Jewish Humor in the Catskills this Weekend

On Thursday, August 7, a massive open-air Orthodox Jewish music festival will take over the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in the Catskills—the iconic site of the original Woodstock festival in August 1969. Yamim Ba’im (“coming days”) will be a four-act concert kicking off at 8pm and headlined by Israeli singer Ishay Ribo with … Ishay Ribo will perform at a Woodstock-like Jewish music festival in the Catskills next month

This Monday, Central Park will once again host “New York Sings Yiddish,” a massive free outdoor Yiddish sing-along concert presented by Capital One City Park Foundation SummerStage and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. The celebration will take over Rumsey Playfield (enter at Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street) from 7pm to 10pm, with doors opening at … A free outdoor Yiddish sing-along concert is taking over Central Park next week

Today would have been Anne Frank’s 96th birthday. To honor the occasion, organizers of “Anne Frank: The Exhibition“—the widely discussed show currently on view at the Center for Jewish History—are distributing 10,000 free copies of her renowned book, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. The giveaway kicked off today at DREAM Charter School … Thousands of free copies of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ are being distributed across New York this summer