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New York’s Eldrige Street Synagogue will stage its annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival on Sunday. It’s a community celebration that nods to the fact the shul’s 1887 Lower East Side building now sits in the middle of Chinatown. Below, what we have to imagine are alternative names for the event, which synagogue leaders ...

Ordinarily, objects in the rear-view mirror get smaller as you leave them farther behind. But with every generation that passes, the Lower East Side seems to loom larger in the American Jewish imagination. It’s not just that prosperous hipsters are moving back into the streets that once overflowed with their great-grandparents. Even for Jews who ...

On a summer morning in 1958, up on 126th Street in Harlem, Art Kane took a photograph of a group of musicians that included some of the greatest jazz players of all time, such as Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker. The photograph, titled “A Great Day in Harlem,” is now legendary and ...