More than a century ago, police officers beat a crowd of Jewish mourners during a rabbi’s funeral procession—an event the Yiddish newspapers described as resembling a Russian pogrom
An ugly New York City extortion racket at the turn of the last century
A century ago, the Educational Alliance was educating a generation of Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side. Today, it’s serving a largely Hispanic and Chinese community—but holding on to its core Jewish values.
Second in a series on the anarchists and the Jews, civil war in the garment center
First in a series on the anarchists and the Jews: two uniquely Jewish contributions to American life and the global struggle for worker’s rights
Looking back 30 years later at the Lower East Side romance
A tour of the Lower East Side’s historic shuls brought me closer to my father
The proprietor of Zarin Fabrics and husband of Real Housewives star Jill Zarin has died at 71
The Tenement Museum’s new exhibit focuses on families who came to the Lower East Side relatively recently
Photographers Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum document what remains of the old Jewish neighborhood
There’ll never be a Moo Goo Gai Pan quite like Schmulka Bernstein’s
As the museum expands, so does its vision
It is not being investigated as a bias crime, according to a report
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, a 167-year-old Lower East Side landmark, has been destroyed
The artist and social worker on residing on the Lower East Side, making ‘death head masks,’ and being shielded from anti-Semitism as a kid in Chicago
A new exhibit at the Museum at Eldridge Street showcases ‘The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards’
Residents of a storied Jewish neighborhood in New York City are furious after a developer failed to inform the community of its plans to erase a historic mural
In an excerpt from ‘Meant To Be,’ the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance remembers growing up on the Lower East Side
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