Our Events Log

“Separate Yourself Not from the Community”

[All times EST]

American Museum of Natural History [200 Central Park West]

Anne Frank the Exhibition—Opening in Chicago on May 1, 2026, at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. 

100+ original collection items from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, including several never-before-exhibited artifacts.

BZD Baltimore Zionist District

Each Tuesday, current BZD members will receive private access to a special program featuring Israel, Jewish history, heritage, culture, travel, and Jewish communities around the world.

  • November 15 (12 – 4 PM) Beth Tfiloh Congregation – SHUK TO THE CORE: Israeli Vendor Fair

Children’s Museum of Manhattan Tuesday – Sunday (10 AM – 5 PM) [212 West 83 St.]

Designed for children ages 0 – 6, our hands-on programs encourage creativity, learning, and play through art, music, science, and storytelling, all rooted in research-backed methods that support early brain development.

Schedule of daily programs for ages 0 – 4

    • 10:30 – 11 AM: Circle Time
    • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Mural Wall or Messy with Art
    • 1:45 – 2:30 PM: Special Daily Program or Mural Wall
    • 2:45 – 3:45 PM: Messy with Art
    • 4 PM: Alphie’s Goodbye Storytime

November Programs

  • November 12 – 15 (2:45 – 3:45 PM) & November 14 – 15 (11:15 – 12:15 PM) – Trackers and Gatherers Sensory Bin
    • Search for tracks in the soil. What animal made those tracks? Explore the sensory bin as you gather natural elements and use baskets to sort your findings!
  • November 14 (10:30 –11:30 AM) – The Ones Who Came Before!
    •  Join author Kevin Mallaird, the award-winning author of Fry Bread, to celebrate the release of his book, The Ones Who Came Before! This picture book follows a Native American “city kid” named Aabanya who encounters a bear while visiting her grandfather. Interwoven with indigenous concepts about land and the natural world, Kevin Maillard’s thought-provoking story and artist Sibu T. P.’s rich, vibrant illustrations come together in this contemplation of heritage, ancestry, sharing space, and belonging. Join us afterwards for book signings and activities with author Kevin Mallaird and illustrator Sibu T.P
  • November 17 – 20 (10:30 – 12:30 PM) & 17 – 22 (2 – 4:15 PM) – Playful Pinecone Sculptures
    • Create a fall critter friend out of pinecones, twigs, leaves, and other fun natural materials and gift it to someone you care about.
  • November 21 (10:30 – 12:30 PM) –Tilt! An ’80s Circus Thrill Ride
    • Special workshop and activities inspired by the performance Tilt! An ’80s Circus Thrill Ride
  • November 22 (10:30 –12:30 PM) – Whitney Museum Pop-Up Open Studio: Roy Lichtenstein
    • Hands-on artmaking, a pop art library, and learn about Lichtenstein, who grew up on the UWS
  • November 21 (4:00 PM) – Alphie’s Goodbye Storytime with Special Guests: Between the Balloons with Artist E.A. KAHANE and Tom Toro for Aperture Kids
    • Larger-than-life balloon characters, marching bands, and delightful surprises fill every page of this magical take on the famed Thanksgiving Day Parade. A playful blend of photography and illustration, Between the Balloons reveals that with imagination, anything you see can become something extraordinary. Let your imagination fly after the reading with an artmaking activity!
  • November 22 (4 PM) – Alphie’s Goodbye Storytime with Special Guest: Plátanos Are Love with Author Alyssa Reynoso-Morri
    • The book focuses on the ways plantains shape Latinx culture, community, and family, told through a young girl’s experiences in the kitchen with her abuela. With every pop of the tostones, mash of the mangú, and sizzle of the maduros, a little girl learns that plátanos are her history, they are her culture, and—most importantly—they are love.
  • November 27 (11 – 11:30 AM) & (12– 12:30 PM) – The Good Ms. Padgett and Friends!
    • The Good Ms. Padgett sings wise, wild, and wonderfully absurd songs for children, babies, and their grownups.  “Think of her as the Pied Piper, but with a guitar.
  • November 29 (11 – 11:25 AM) & (12 – 12:25 PM) – DIVI ROXX KIDS: A Celebration of Self-Love, Positivity & Hip-Hop
    • Get ready to dance with 2X GRAMMY-nominated bassist and songwriter Divinity Roxx, whose Divi Roxx Kids experience is an electrifying, family hip-hop concert that blends world-class musicianship with an empowering celebration of confidence and community. Known for her work with Beyoncé and Victor Wooten, Divinity blends heavy bass grooves, funk, and lyrical storytelling.
  • November 24 – 25 (10:30 – 12:30 PM) & 24 – 25 & 27 – 29 (2:00 – 4:15 PM) – Thankful Pie Patch Placemats
    • Create playful pretend pie placemats from felt, burlap, yarn, pom-poms, and soft materials while exploring favorite foods, family recipes, and holiday traditions.
  • November 24 – 25  & 27 – 29 (2:45 – 3:45 PM) & 27 – 29 (11:15– 12:15 PM) – The People We Are Thankful For
    • Draw on small paper people cutouts. Use a pipe cleaner to string the people together and make a banner that represents the people you are thankful for.

Cornell University – Memorial Room at Willard Straight Hall, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca, N.Y.

  • December 8 (7 to 8:30 PM), OCTOBER 7, the verbatim play drawn entirely from interviews with survivors of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel
Fritz Ascher Society – The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art (FAS) tells untold stories of artists marginalized and persecuted by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. 
  • November 18 (noon) Kafka’s last Unknown:  The Story and Character of his Drawings Presentation by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher, Zurich (Switzerland)
  • December 3 (9:30 – 11 AM) Private Tour by Curator Maria Castro. There Are No Words: Si Lewen’s Parade @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Registration closed on November 15
    • The Parade is an epic cycle of 63 charcoal, pencil, and ink drawings conceived by Si Lewen (1918–2016) in the aftermath of World War II. The work unfolds a visual narrative on war, memory, and the human condition that is informed by the artist’s extraordinary life. Born in Poland to Jewish parents and raised in Germany, Lewen fled Nazi persecution with his family in 1933 before immigrating to the United States. While serving in the U.S. Army as one of the Ritchie Boys, a specialized unit of German-speaking soldiers, Lewen arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation in 1945. The Parade is rooted in the artist’s experience of these events as well as his coming of age during the tumultuous years when, as he reflected later, the parades after World War I gave way to the death marches of World War II.

The Grey Art Museum in New York, NY – located at 18 Cooper Square (Free)

  • Self-Guided Walking Tour – New York City’s Village was an important place for radical politics, most notably Communism. In the decade that followed the Stock Market Crash in 1929, artists, writers, intellectuals, and radicals flooded the then-impoverished, unglamorous part of Manhattan mainly inhabited by immigrants, only to make it one of the nation’s most vibrant, energetic places. This tour highlights where these Village radicals lived and some places they met from 1929 to 1940.

Hadassah Southern New Jersey

  • November 22 (1 – 3 PM) Hadassah Evolve and our community partners for a meaningful afternoon of learning, giving, and hands-on service. Together, we’ll support the Community FoodBank of New Jersey (CFBNJ) by collecting and packing period products for distribution to individuals and families across New Jersey. [location in East Brunswick, NJ]
  • January 20, 2027 (3–5 PM) – More Than a Game: Jewish Women, Mah Jongg, and Winning Strategies – North Palm Beach
    • Learn from Donna Miller Kassman, co-owner of Modern Mah Jongg. Hear about the history, learn new strategies, and ask questions about the current card while supporting Hadassah.

JBI Library

  • December 3 (5 PM) Lori’s Book Club: The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker

JCC Mid-Westchester – 999 Wilmot Road, Scarsdale

  • TBA

JCC Bridgewater Shimon and Sara Birnbaum Jewish Community Center – 775 Talamini Road

  • TBA

Jewish Heritage Alliance – dedicated to restoring the legacy of Sefarad, strengthening Jewish identity, and ensuring its enduring contribution to Jewish education and future generations.

  • March 7 – March 14, 2027 –  Portugal Jewish Heritage Kosher Journey
    • Jewish Heritage Alliance brings you a specially designed Jewish Heritage & Kosher Journey through Portugal, introducing you to the heartland of Sefarad—the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula—and taking you on a fascinating journey through the history, heritage, and enduring legacy of Portuguese Jewry.

Jenkinsons Aquarium – 300 Ocean Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Daily (10 AM – 5 PM) – open daily except Christmas & Thanksgiving. Feeding schedule:

  • SEAL: Off-Season 10:30 AM, 1 & 4 PM – Summer 10:30 AM, 3 & 7 PM
  • PENGUIN: 11 AM & 3:30 PM – Summer 11 AM & 6 PM – watch live on Penguin Cam
  • SHARK: Off-Season 1:30 PM Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays – Summer 4 PM Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays

Holocaust Education and Resource Center & Human Rights Institute, Kean University

  • December 1 – 2026 Murray Pantirer Annual Scholars Lecture

LA Film Festival

Museum of the City of New York [1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St]

Metropolitan Museum of Art [1000 Fifth Avenue]

  • 81st Street Studio – A free, hands-on art and science discovery space geared for children ages 6 months–11 near the 81st Street entrance
    • Hours 10 AM – 5 PM (closed Wednesday)
  • Gallery 503, The Mishneh Torah, written by Moses Maimonides and illustrated ca. 1457

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 

** Past programs – Available On-Demand

Museum at Hebrew Union College – ** Recorded Programs – Available On Demand

National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene                              *** Programs On Demand 

  • February 13 – March 14, 2027 – Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish – Los Angeles Premiere

Passaic Torah Institute, a Baalei Tshuva Yeshiva, Young Professional Program

  • Thursday (8 PM) Contact Ben Rand at 201-280-8145 for more information

RVCC Institute of Holocaust and Genocide 

  • Until December 3, 2026 – Enduring Tension: (En)Countering Antisemitism in Every Age – This exhibition explores the long history of anti-Jewish bias in the United States within an international context. The exhibit asks a critical question: must we live with hate? And if we believe that hatred must be combated, what are the best ways to do so? Using historical panels and images from the founding of our nation to the present day, Enduring Tension demonstrates how antisemitism has influenced thinking over time and what everyday citizens can do to counter this hatred.

    • Video – Conversation with Survivors
    • Video – In 2015, the Holocaust Institute produced a documentary, Can Healing Occur: Building Bridges – Conversations with The Other? The film includes interviews and discussions with a Holocaust survivor, her adult daughter, her German nanny, and a man whose father was an SS officer. 
    • Video – The Second Generation…. Ripples From the Holocaust is a documentary that focuses on the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors, with commentary from a psychologist about how the effects of their parents’ trauma impact the second generation. 

Rutgers Bidner Center     * * Recording of past programs – Available on Demand

  • November 5–15     The 27th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
  • December 1 (noon) – Rethinking Liberalism, Libertas (Freedom), and Self-Cultivation
    • How do we begin to understand the unenlightened age in which we live? As liberalism evolved, what happened to ideals such as the cultivation of virtue that were central to the European Enlightenment and the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment)?

Professor Nancy Sinkoff will explore Enlightenment values and their relevance for our current moment with three distinguished scholars: Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum), Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY Graduate Center), and David Sorkin (Yale University).

Rutgers Zimmerli Museum – free admission

    • Wednesday – Friday 11 AM –6 PM
    • Saturday – Sunday noon–5  PM
    • Thursday 11 AM – 8 PM

San Diego Chinese Historical Museum

  • Through Jan 5 Shanghai, Homeland Once Upon a Time: Jewish Refugees and Shanghai

Schusterman Center for Israel Studies – Brandeis University

  • TBA

Sousa Mendes Foundation  – Founded in 2010, the Sousa Mendes Foundation is dedicated to honoring the memory of the Holocaust rescuer, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and educating the world about his good work

  • November 22 (4 PM) GIRL IN BLUE — THE NAZI LOOTING AND POST-WAR RECOVERY OF RENOIR’S PORTRAIT OF A JEWISH GIRL
    • This book talk tells the double story of the Cahen-d’Anvers family in France and a painting by Renoir, before, during, and after the Holocaust.
  • December 6 (2 PM) CLAUDE LANZMANN — THE MAN BEHIND THE FILM “SHOAH”
    • The Academy-Award nominated film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, by the British filmmaker and journalist Adam Benzine, explores the 12-year journey undertaken by Lanzmann to make his 1985 film Shoah. Meet Lanzmann’s colleague Corinna Coulmas, and go behind the scenes in the making of a masterpiece.

State Theater New Jersey

Stand With Us – 2026 – 2027 Missions (programs are shomer Kasher and Shabbat)

  • March 5 – 13, 2027 – Mission To Morocco
    • Explore centuries of Jewish life in Morocco on a nine-day journey through Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, and beyond. Visit historic synagogues, vibrant Mellahs, and the only Jewish museum in the Arab world while experiencing the enduring spirit of Jewish-Moroccan coexistence.
  • April 11 – 18, 2027 – Mission to Poland
    • Spend eight days exploring 1,000 years of Jews in Poland, including their arrival in the 10th century and thriving before the Holocaust.  Visit Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, and the Polin Museum. This experience includes accommodations, meals, and all admissions. Appropriate for ages 16 and up.

The Braid – To empower artists and audiences to feel pride in Jewish culture while building community and connection between people of all backgrounds.

  • November 15 (7:30 PM) True stories of Jewish-American life in a post-Oct 7 world @ Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston, Texas
    • Experience On Being Jewish, now the acclaimed anthology edited by Zibby Owens, as its powerful essays come to life onstage in an intimate ensemble performance. Created in response to the rise of global antisemitism after October 7, The Braid’s production invites audiences into deeply personal stories of identity, resilience, hope, joy, and belonging. Essays by actor Mark Feuerstein, spiritual leader Rabbi Sharon Brous, and journalist Keren Blankfeld are among those stories featured in this moving theatrical adaptation, which offers a timely and heartfelt exploration of Jewish life today. 
  • December 6 (2 PM) – Saved by a Story: A Conversation with Kathy Katims
    • Discover how storytelling can help us navigate hardship, build resilience, and connect more deeply with one another. Kathy Katims, founder of Saved by a Story, whose free writing workshops with LA wildfire survivors, at-risk youth, seniors, and parents raising neurodiverse children have inspired over 1,000 people to find their voices. 

https://www.youtube.com/thebraidstories (online on-demand stories)

The Museum of Natural History – Open daily (10 AM -5:30 PM) – 200 Central Park West

The New York Historical – [170 Central Park West]

  • Art of the Street: Selections from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection
    Until January 17 – Works by Karel Appel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Red Grooms, among others, tell the story of a movement that began as an act of defiance and grew into a powerful, global artistic force—one that continues to reshape how we experience art and public spaces.
  • November 17 (3-4 PM) Gallery Tour: The Weitzman Shoe Museum
    • Collection of footwear assembled by renowned shoe designer Stuart Weitzman and businesswoman and philanthropist Jane Gershon Weitzman with this docent-led tour of our new exhibition.
  • December 2 (6:30 – 7:30 PM) The Hour Strikes: Churchill, Roosevelt & Hitler at the Hinge of History, 1941 
    • In the course of just a few months between summer and December 1941, the tides turned for Britain’s fight against Germany and the Axis powers, with the previously neutral United States joining the Allies and Germany struggling to maintain supplies. In this conversation with David M. Rubenstein, historian Evan Thomas analyzes the decisions and missteps made by Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt in those crucial few months, which permanently changed the direction of the war. 

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy Visit their site to register (under Join a Tour)

Chalk – an annual public art project honoring the immigrant workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Each year since 2004, on the anniversary of the infamous blaze, volunteers fan out across the city to inscribe in chalk the names and ages of the Triangle dead in front of their former homes. 

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History – Established in 1976 and situated on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall (free admission)

  • November 12 – 21 – Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media Festival
  • November 19 (10:30 – 2:30 PM) Hanukkah Makers Market

The Museum of Hunger virtual

TOLI – The Olga Lengyel Institute is a recognized leader in Holocaust and human rights professional development education for teachers. Inspired by the legacy of Olga Lengyel, author of Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz

  • November 18 (5 PM) –The Last Witness: Mignon Langnas and the Destruction of Jewish Vienna
    • When Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Vienna’s once-vibrant Jewish community was systematically decimated. Thousands fled, while tens of thousands were deported and murdered. But one woman remained: Mignon Langnas, a Jewish nurse who stayed in Vienna throughout the Nazi years, caring for the sick, the vulnerable, and especially Jewish children, even as the world around her collapsed.

Whitney Museum of American Art at whitney.org

The Vilna Shul – 18 Phillips St. Boston, MA 02114

  • November 24 (11 AM – 1 PM) Walking Tour Beacon Hill 

    • Journey to Beacon Hill’s North Slope at the turn of the 20th century. Explore the lives of its Jewish residents during a period of cultural and architectural change. Uncover how Boston’s Jewish immigrants created an active community that blended customs from Eastern Europe and changes to the new world around them. Discover sites where Boston’s Jewish West End residents worked, lived, and worshiped, including the sites of three synagogues within a few blocks of each other.

  • The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt In partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

  • November 12 (5 – 9 PM) at the Gardner Museum
      • Celebrate Persian Jewish culture and Queen Esther with past CJP x Vilna Community Creative Fellows Tutti Druyan, Miriam Anzovin, and Sara Gardner as they share their unique culinary, musical, and contemporary cultural takes on Esther and the rich centuries-old Persian Jewish tradition.

YIVO                                                                  * * Online Museum 

  • November 16 (7 PM) WORLD OF OUR FATHERS AT 50
  • November 17 (1 PM) MODERN YIDDISH LITERATURE
  • November 18 (7:30 PM) FLEEING FOR SURVIVAL
  • November 22 (noon) ‘MAKING A SCENE’: RETURNING A JEWISH COMIC OPERA STAR TO THE STAGE
  • November 23 (7 PM) FANIA’S WORLD OF FLAVORS, SMELLS, AND COLORS
  • November 30 (7 PM) NEW FROM YIDDISH VOICES: MISSISSIPPI AND HASIDIC WARSAW
  • December 1 (1 PM) HISTORY OF YIDDISH
  • December 6 (3 PM) HANUKKAH CONCERT 2026
  • December 10 (1 PM) THROUGH THE EYES OF JEWISH CHILD SURVIVORS FROM POLAND

Online self-paced free courses

    • Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America
    • A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food
    • Oh, Mama, I’m in Love! The Story of the Yiddish Stage
    • Folksong, Demons, and the Evil Eye: Folklore of Ashkenaz
    • Discovering Ashkenaz: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe

Additional Information – Resources

  • Adult Clothing Gemach Chabad of Maplewood. For information, email umbrellapickup@aol.com
  • Bergen Volunteers Center’s Make-It-Home donations of gently used furniture.  info@bergenvolunteers.org or www.bergenvolunteers.org/making-it-home
  • Beth Aaron Centerpiece Gemach  – Contact Michele  www.bethaaron.org/gemach
  • Bikur Cholim Bergen County (BCBC) is a volunteer-run 501(c)3 organization that provides support, facilities, and services to ease the burden of families – Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,  Hackensack University Medical Center, Holy Name Medical Center, The Valley Hospital, and Kessler Rehabilitation of Saddlebrook. Contact info@bikurcholimbergencounty.org 
  • Center for Food Action  (CFA) provides emergency services to northern New Jersey’s poorest and most vulnerable residents. CFA provides food, housing, utility, and heating assistance and offers counseling and advocacy services to low-income individuals and families. CFA is headquartered in Englewood and has sites in Hackensack
  • Community Food Bank of New Jersey (CFB–NJ) volunteers, donors, and our many partners to fill the emptiness caused by hunger with Food, Help, and Hope.
  • Fair Lawn – 
  • JBI Library – Jewish texts and programs are entirely free of charge to people worldwide who are blind, have low vision, or have other print disabilities, including physical disabilities such as MS and Parkinson’s, and reading disabilities such as dyslexia.
    • JBI is offering free, accessible Haggadot for Passover 2026 in large print, braille, and audio – available worldwide
    • Expanded braille offerings include the family-friendly Gateways Haggadah
    • New customization options include larger font sizes and reverse contrast
    • All are designed to reduce isolation and ensure full participation at the Seder table
  • Jewish Family Services and Alzheimer’s Association – Virtual caregiver support group – 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month, 10:30 – 11:30 AM. Contact Rebecca Schochet at r.schochet@jfsclifton.org
  • Project Ezrah helps by finding employment opportunities for candidates seeking entry-level to senior leadership positions. Info@ezrah.org
  • Re-Pleat: Gemach of outfits for dressy occasions in Edison/Highland Park. Have something to donate? Have a special occasion and need something to wear?  Open by appointment only: text 732-267-3216
  • Teaneck  – 
    • SHPBC  Shearit Haplate of Bergen County collects, repackages, and distributes surplus food in a respectful way that helps to ensure the recipients’ privacy and self-esteem. For more information, Email: shpbcinc@gmail.com
    • Preemie Clothing Gemach Yad Yocheved, Teaneck, for information 201-836-2071
    • Baby Gemach assists Jewish families in Bergen County with baby equipment and clothing for babies & toddlers. 
    • Bike Gemach – For information, email Rebecca at rebeccadklar@gmail.com
    • Gown Gemach – Something Borrowed – somethingborrowedTCG@gmail.com
    • Simcha Gemach Chairs, tables, coat racks, vases, and bris table decor are available for loan. For information, email TeaneckSimcha@yahoo.com
  • United Hatzalah (a partnership group of mental health trauma professionals practicing in Israel) provides free & anonymous online 24/7 mental health counseling to US frontline healthcare providers.
  • Vintage Thrift Shop – Benefiting the United Jewish Council of the East Side – 286 3rd Avenue