On the heels of the Hamas attack, a new exhibit about the Holocaust—aimed at children—opens in New York. As parents grapple this week with how to talk to their kids about antisemitism, persecution, and heroism, the timing seems opportune.
Rokhl’s Golden City: In the off-days of Sukkot: not going to shul, going out with observant friends to hear an all-female klezmer band, and visiting Eichmann at a museum
VIPs and dignitaries recently read ‘Night,’ Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical Holocaust novel, in its entirety at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Nearby, an anti-Trump protest commenced.
The National Yiddish Theatre revival of ‘The Golden Bride’ is an energetic operetta now playing at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage
Indiana Jones kicks off Spielberg retrospective at Museum of Jewish Heritage
One week, three very different cultural events in New York City
Janna Gur and Gil Hovav head to New York for a series of food events
Observing biblical injunctions regarding the Israelites, a new evangelical group throws a festival in the world’s second Jewish capital
World War II hero Witold Pilecki infiltrated the death camp and reported to the Polish high command
The New York Post welcomes the Iranian president to town in style
Agenda: A month of Jewish film in New York, Shalom Auslander reads in Boston, Donna Karan shops, Susan Sontag is revived, and more
Agenda: An I.B. Singer story set to klezmer, Lou Reed reads in Brooklyn, the Steins in Paris, Chagall in Ontario, and more
Agenda: The Phantom Tollbooth turns 50, Shoah in Chicago, Art! in Jerusalem, the comedian Jewmongous, and more
Agenda: Sol Lewitt and Talmudic debate in New York, Jonathan Safran Foer reinterpreted in North Carolina, Chagall in Canada, and more
Agenda: A “Jew Wave” hits Lincoln Center, 3 Cohens play the Village Vanguard, Yiddishkeit in San Francisco, dance in Tel Aviv, and more
Agenda: Banksy in Berlin, Lebowski (and Walter Sobchak) in Los Angeles, The United States of Palestine Israel at the New Museum, and more
Agenda: Leni Riefenstahl screens in Manhattan, I.L. Peretz revived in L.A., caricatures by David Levine at the Met, and more
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