Events

More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered in Onithsa from Aug. 18-25 for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, activist and educator Danny...

Welcome the CIYCL Showcase of Contemporary Yiddish Culture 2019-20! Two Great Events - September 21 & 23, 2019 Toyola Marymount University Jewish Studies presents the ANNUAL FISCHMANN FAMILY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Tshatchkes: American Yiddish Material Culture After World War II װען...

Welcome the CIYCL Showcase of Contemporary Yiddish Culture 2019-20! Two Great Events - September 21 & 23, 2019 Sepember 21 8 PM Yiddish Music & Poetry with a Latin Beat One of the many ways Yiddish is unique is in...

Sunday, September 15, 2019 The "Ides" of September 3:00 p.m. Performed by The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City $40 $30 for groups of at...

A panel organized by the Israeli-American Council of New York brought four millennial leaders together in Manhattan to grapple with anti-Semitism on the mode they use most often: social media. The event, which took place...

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group with 53 member organizations, has selected William Daroff as its next CEO, JNS has learned. Currently senior vice president for public policy and...

The stage was set. The musicians played. The featured performer read Yiddish poems accompanied by klezmer music. The crowd was excited. I was, too. The whole experience gave off the vibe of being in...

HANNAH SENESH (a play with music and song) Previews July 24 – 28; Performances July 29 – August 18, 2019 An award-winning play. Written and Directed by David Schechter. Developed in collaboration with Lori Wilner. Based upon the diaries...

Reading Vilna in Jewish Writing and Urban History: A Collaborative Conference Every great city deserves a Baedecker, and Wilno-Vilna-Vilnius has had several, none more capacious than Zalmen Szyk’s 1000 yor Vilne (1000-year Vilnius), published in...

For two days, a group of 100 Orthodox Jewish women representing 56 communities across the United States and abroad gathered to learn together, network and gain leadership skills that will enable to them to...