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Bravo Kosher Pizza’s plans of expansion continue: the popular chain will be opening its second midtown Manhattan location on Monday, August 26, at 877 8th Avenue near West 52nd Street by Times Square. To be clear: the address was until now occupied by a non-kosher Bravo Pizza location, which will officially be converted into a Bravo Kosher Pizza is opening a new location in Times Square

Following a pretty successful run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last winter, the heartbreaking Off-Broadway production Our Class is gearing up for a premiere in Manhattan at Classic Stage Company’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater at 136 East 13th Street by Third Avenue in the East Village. The 2009 play by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek Off-Broadway hit ‘Our Class’ transfers to Manhattan next month

If you’re not yet familiar with Falafel Tanami, the tiny kosher Midwood shack that was named one of the 100 best restaurants in NYC by the New York Times two years in a row, it’s time you get acquainted with it: the family-owned eatery is opening a second location, this one in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood This famous kosher falafel joint in Brooklyn is opening in Tribeca this month

Bravo Kosher Pizza clearly knows how to lead a business: the company has been slinging out pies to hungry non-kosher-eating New Yorkers since 1985. A little over a decade ago, the owners expanded their reach and opened the first kosher outpost of their chain in midtown Manhattan. Fast-forward to today and Bravo operates six locations Bravo Kosher Pizza to open new Long Island location in October

In an odd casting choice that we are sure will lead to an initial boom in ticket sales, Nick Jonas has been tapped to take on the role of Jamie Wellerstein, a Jewish rising novelist, in the first-ever Broadway production of The Last Five Years, a musical written by Jason Robert Brown that first landed Nick Jonas to star in first-ever Broadway production of ‘The Last Five Years’

The Five Towns’ already crowded—and super appreciated—kosher restaurant roster will soon count Crave, a popular eatery in Jerusalem, among its ranks. According to Yeah That’s Kosher, Eric and Chaya Fiedler, the couple that operates Hunki’s Pizza Bar, also in Woodmere, contacted the Israeli restaurant last year and is now gearing up for an August 15 Popular Israeli street food restaurant Crave is opening on Long Island

Chloe Coscarelli, the celebrity chef that opened vegan destination By Chloe to much fanfare years ago, has just announced that she will be debuting am new all-day vegan cafe aptly named Chloe tomorrow, July 16. Just like By Chloe, Chloe is certified kosher. The move follows Coscarelli’s much talked about dramatic exit (read: forced departure) from Former By Chloe owner and chef is opening a new kosher vegan restaurant in NYC

Nomé opens in Union Square in Manhattan

When one door closes, another opens. Case in point: the debut of Nomé, a new Nikkei restaurant at 127 4th Avenue near Union Square, where the (let’s be honest!) overpriced Mocha Red used to be. The new eatery is the brainchild of Naftali Abenaim, the former owner of Mocha Red. Expect to be delighted by A new kosher Japanese-Peruvian restaurant just opened where Mocha Red used to be

When it comes to kosher restaurants, diners know not to get too attached: no matter how delicious and well-run, eateries tend to suddenly close. Case in point: Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, which debuted to much fanfare at 270 Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights back in 2010 but permanently closed last year.  Now, just a A new kosher pizzeria is opening where Basil used to be in Brooklyn

Perhaps the most well-known kosher food truck in New York, Moshe’s Falafel, first founded in 1981, is set to open a brick-and-mortar destination at 142 West 83rd Street near Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan “by the end of the month,” according to an official spokesperson. Although news regarding the debut broke EXCLUSIVE: Moshe’s Falafel to debut third food truck on the Upper West Side