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Over the past few weeks, New Yorkers walking through Times Square may have noticed short videos featuring 12 Holocaust survivors in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The billboard campaign, running at the corner of West 43rd Street and Broadway through March 15, is … This Times Square billboard puts the faces of Holocaust survivors on display

Walking through a near-identical reproduction of the Amsterdam annex where Anne Frank and her family, along with four other Jews, hid to escape Nazi capture during the Holocaust is an incredibly emotional experience—and one that every New Yorker should endure. The much-anticipated “Anne Frank: The Exhibition” will officially open at the Center for Jewish History, … See inside the emotional new Anne Frank exhibit opening in NYC next week

It has been over a year since the first rumors regarding the opening of a kosher grocery store at the same Upper West Side address where Seasons Kosher used to operate started making the rounds online. This week, those rumors were finally put to rest: novel grocery shop Six60One just debuted at 661 Amsterdam Avenue … A new kosher supermarket just opened on the Upper West Side

Right by Times Square at 511 9th Avenue near 38th Street is Snooker NYC, the only sort of kosher pool hall of its kind currently open in New York. The relatively small space opened back in 2021 on the rooftop of the Cassa Hotel, offering a unique destination to kosher audiences: three pool tables and … Did you know there’s a kosher pool hall in NYC?

Perhaps in an effort to retain customers following the filing of Chapter 11 and the sudden closure of its Times Square location, Patis Bakery is offering a pretty awesome promotion all throughout the month of December: all challahs bought online or in-store on Fridays will be sold at half price when using the code BRCH50. … You can buy half-priced challah every Friday this month at Patis Bakery

The 14th Street Y, the community center in the East Village, is gearing up for its inaugural public menorah lighting scheduled for the second night of Hanukkah—Thursday, December 26—on the north side of Union Square. Between 6pm and 7:30pm, attendees of the free event will get to partake in a variety of festive activities (think … A giant menorah will light up Union Square for the first time next week

New York Jews looking to celebrate the holiday season with fellow Hanukkah devotees are in luck: Maccabee Bar, the Hanukkah-themed drinking den that first debuted in New York in 2022, is officially re-opening on December 23. The pop-up will take over Saint Tuesday at 77 Walker Street inside the Walker Hotel Tribeca through January 4, … This Hanukkah-themed pop-up bar is returning to NYC

The perfect lunch spot just opened at Turnstyle Underground Market, the subway station market filled with food and shopping vendors right below Columbus Circle. Falafel Plant, a vegetarian and kosher spot serving authentic Middle Eastern street food, is the brainchild of owner Karen Mashiach. “I felt there was a demand for tasty, kosher, vegan and … This new kosher falafel spot just opened in the subway station market under Columbus Circle

Every year, over 200 vendors set up shop inside Bryant Park as part of the Winter Village extravaganza that runs through the end of the season. Although non-culinary-related activities are certainly worth the trip to the midtown park (Channukah gift options run aplenty there), this year in particular kosher foodies will have the chance to … These colorful kosher babkas are available at Bryant Park’s super-fun Winter Village

Manhattan’s kosher dining scene will soon be home to a brand-new Persian/Mediterranean restaurant that promises to “surprise everyone” with delicious food, co-owner Rafael Yaghoubian exclusively tells Pretty Kosher. Although originally scheduled to open this week, the new eatery at 507 Columbus Avenue between 84th and 85th Streets will likely start serving diners closer to the … Eshel, a new kosher Persian restaurant, is set to open on the Upper West Side before the end of the year