Our Events Log

“Separate Yourself Not from the Community”

[All times EST]

Anne Frank the Exhibition—15 West 16th Street, New York

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

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.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Visit their site for more information and to register (under Public Tours and Events)

American Museum of Natural History [200 Central Park West]

BZD Baltimore Zionist District 

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. 
  • “Identity, Art and Migration” investigates the experience of seven Jewish European artists who were forced to abandon their country of origin, or remain in hiding for years, in response to Nazi policies in effect from 1933 to 1945. These six artists- Anni Albers, Friedel Dzubas, Eva Hesse, Rudi Lesser, Lily Renée, and Arthur Szyk emigrated to the United States, while one, Fritz Ascher, stayed behind in Germany, hiding in a basement for three years. –  Runs from February 27, 2022, to February 27, 2027  – Free and available online
  • (Jan 2025 – May 2025) SURVIVAL AND INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY:
    The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana
    Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, Oregon
  • Fritz Asher Themes – This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970). Ascher’s career extended from prior to the First World War until the late 1960s. However, Ascher’s artistic trajectory was interrupted due to persecution under National Socialism, and he spent much of the Second World War in hiding, concealed in a family friend’s basement. Ascher’s work consequently encompasses both the vibrant artistic scene in early-20th-century Germany, as well as the trauma and aesthetic shifts consequent of Ascher’s persecution and deprivations during the twelve years of the Nazi regime.
Hadassah

Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Beginning on March 14, 2024  – The Rothschild Mahzor and The Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, Located in Gallery 503

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

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Museum at Hebrew Union College – Dr. Bernard Heller Museum (admission free), NYC – Open: Mondays through Thursdays, 9 am – 6:30 pm

  • Running until June 26 – The Mezuzah Message – 17 imaginative artists’ contemporary designs for the mezuzah
  • Running until June 26 – Nathan Brujis: Spirituality and the Subconscious

Programs on-demand – recorded  – Archived video recordings of faculty and guest experts illuminating the full scope of Jewish studies

New York Historical Society – [170 Central Park West]

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 (online programs)

  • June 27 (10  – 11 AM) Summer Book Series: The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr
  • August 15 (10 – 11 AM) One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter

On Demand:

  • 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. Topics include co-existence, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
  • 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. The documentary includes interviews, personal family photographs, and archival footage. The children of Holocaust survivors who are featured in the documentary are active members of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at RVCC.

Rutgers Bidner Center – Jewish Studies Online 

Free, non-credit online courses allow you to learn at your own pace and study with the Jewish Studies faculty at Rutgers.

Jewish Agriculture in the Garden State – Free, Virtual Digital

Rutgers Zimmerli Museum offers free admission

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

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. 

  • June 1 (2 PM) Aristides de Sousa Mendes — The Angel of Bordeaux – [May 30-June 2, watch the film The Consul of Bordeaux [A link will be provided to all who register]
  • June 8 (4 PM) THE JEWISH HISTORY OF COMIC BOOK HEROES – The film The Consul of Bordeaux is a semi-fictionalized feature film based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the families he saved. Do you know the secret Jewish history of Superman, Spider-Man, and other famous superhero characters? 
  • June 22 (2 PM) THE LAST NAZI HUNTER – The film The Last Nazi Hunter tells the dramatic true story of Dr. Efraim Zuroff and his decades long efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. See the film and then meet him in person. A rare opportunity! Zuroff will be in dialogue with Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, who will also speak about a few individuals who were both Nazi collaborators and rescuers of Jews, and how Yad Vashem handled such cases.

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

The Museum of Hunger virtual

The Tenement Museum

  • 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. 

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

  • RECORDING – Saints and Liars – Long before their country joined the war, American aid workers undertook rescue efforts abroad. Who were these women and men who sought to save lives? Saints and Liars tells their stories and, exploring their experiences, illuminates the moral questions they encountered, the devastating decisions they had to make, and the role of unpredictable and irrational factors on the ground, at a particular moment, in shaping individual fates

Whitney Museum of American Art whitney.org

YIVO 

  • May 28 –  June 5 – MUSIC, SOUND, AND ANTISEMITISM
    • May 28 (Day 1 – In Person Only)
      9:00 AM -6:00 PM
    • May 29 (Day 2 – In Person Only)
      9:00 AM -5:00 PM
    • June 4 (Day 3 – Online Only)
      10:15 AM -2:15 PM
    • June 5 (Day 4 – Online Only)
      10:30 AM -2:15 PM
  • June 5 (1 PM) THE NEW JEWISH SCHOOL IN MUSIC (1908-1938) AS PART OF THE JEWISH CULTURAL RENAISSANCE
  • June 5 (7:30 PM) THE RUDASHEVSKI DIARY: LIFE AND LOSS IN THE VILNA GHETTO
  • June 22 (7 PM – 9:30 PM) – 23 (10 AM – 9:30 PM) YIVO in America – Join us for a celebration of YIVO’s 100th anniversary with a conference focusing on how YIVO’s founding vision for Jewish social sciences has been realized in America since its headquarters shifted to New York City in 1940.

Online Museum 

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

Information You Can Use

Adult Clothing Gemach Chabad of Maplewood. For information, contact: Lenny Levy at 201-836-7376 or email umbrellapickup@aol.com

Bergen Volunteers Center’s Make-It-Home donations of gently used furniture for those in need. For more information 201-489-9454 info@bergenvolunteers.org or www.bergenvolunteers.org/making-it-home

Beth Aaron Centerpiece Gemach For information, contact Michele at 201-403-6409  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 services Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,  Hackensack University Medical Center, Holy Name Medical Center, The Valley Hospital, and Kessler Rehabilitation of Saddlebrook For information contact info@bikurcholimbergencounty.org or 201-579-3066

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 – 

  • Gemach for information email FairLawnGemach@gmail.com
  • Sophie’s Costume Gemach – simifleischer@gmail.com 845-548-1319

JEMA needs volunteers for a virtual free tutoring service to study with/support Yavneh students in grades K–8 in all subjects. (No formal teaching experience is needed. ) Contact Dr. Brecker-Blum at hr@thehrca.com yavnehedoffice@yavnehacademy.org

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 862-233-1598 or r.schochet@jfsclifton.org

Project Ezrah helps by finding employment opportunities for candidates seeking entry-level to senior leadership positions. 201.569.9047; Info@ezrah.org

Re-Pleat: Gemach of outfits for dressy occasions is new 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 to individuals and families in a respectful way that helps to ensure the recipients’ privacy and self-esteem. If you know of a family in need, are having an upcoming Simcha and would like us to pick up leftover food, or want more information about volunteering, Email: shpbcinc@gmail.com, Phone: 225-DON8-FUD or 225-366-8383
  • 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. http://www.teaneckbabygemach.org/contact-us.html
  • 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

Tomchei Shabbos provides Shabbos food and weekly groceries to families in need. Sites organized by location: LA, Dallas, Providence, Rhode Island [Jewish Collaborative Services], Toronto, Queens [Masbia], Rockland County, Bergen County, Passaic, Middlesex, Kansas City, Chicago, Florida, Montreal [The Family Store].,

Donation ONLY: Houston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Staten Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Lakewood,  St. Louis, Detroit, Florida, Denver,

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

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