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March 15 (1:00-3:00 PM) Israel Fair Celebrates Israel’s 78th birthday- Enjoy “camel” races, music, Israeli dancing, bounce houses, a petting zoo, face painting, balloon animals, crafts, Israeli snacks, and more! Marlboro, New Jersey (location provided 2 weeks before the event) 

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

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 Join a Tour)

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American Museum of Natural History [200 Central Park West]

BZD Baltimore Zionist District. Become a BZD Virtual Travel Club Member for $78 get access to all 38+ programs this year 

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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. 
  • March 13, 20 & 27 (2 – 3 PM) online – Jewish Emigré Artists, from Albers to Hesse

    • March 13 – Immigration and Art from One Generation to Another

      We’ll begin with brief discussions of Ben Shahn and Raphael Soyer, then focus primarily on Fritz Ascher and Rudi Lesser, before concluding with Michael Iofin and David Stern. By examining immigration patterns from the beginning and end of the twentieth century, we will explore the unique circumstances of Jewish artist migration during the Holocaust era, considering how different contexts in Russia, Germany, and America shaped these artists’ experiences.

    • March 20 – Finding Artistic Success after Migration

This session explores four artists—Anni Albers, Arthur Szyk, Samson Schames, and Friedel Dzubas—who were forced to migrate from Germany to America following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. Each artist experienced migration, exile, and artistic transformation differently, and each found success through a unique creative trajectory.

    • March 27 – Eva Hesse and Lily Renee: Indomitable Talent

Lily Renee and Eva Hesse both fled Nazi persecution through the Kindertransport program—Renee from Vienna and Hesse from Hamburg. Lily arrived in New York City as a teenager and became a pioneering figure in the male-dominated comic book industry. Eva, shepherded by her five-year-old sister Helen on the last Kindertransport train to Holland at just two years old, was eventually reunited with her parents and came to New York City. As a teenager, Eva was recognized by Seventeen Magazine as an accomplished artist.

    • “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. –  February 27, 2022, to February 27, 2027  – Free and available online
    • Fritz Asher Themes – This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970). 

Metropolitan Museum of Art [1000 Fifth Avenue]

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

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

** Past programs recorded – Available On-Demand

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

** Recorded Programs – Available On Demand

Museum Exhibitions NYC: 

  • August 18 – June 26, 2026  – Proverbs, Adages, and Maxims. Fifty-five artists of diverse backgrounds offer visual interpretations of familiar sayings and worthy shorthand advice. Curator Phyllis Freedman notes, “Their works encourage us to deepen our understanding of the world and others, and to reflect on our own self-perception of our identities and values. From admonitions to consoling commentaries on the vagaries of life, they impart wisdom, empathy, hope, and healing.”
  • August 18 – December 18, 2025 – Children of Ruth: Artists Choosing Judaism. Group exhibition by artists who have found a spiritual home in Judaism through conversion. Their journeys evoke the message of The Book of Ruth, which tells the story of the first convert to Judaism, whose legacy is honored as the progenitor of King David.

National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene                                

*** Programs On Demand – Free

  • March 22 (2 PM) – Rising Stars – Celebrate the future of Yiddish culture with a new generation of breathtaking young performers. Congregation B’nai Torah, Boca Raton, Florida
  • (May – June 2026) Fiddler on the Roof – Elgin Theatre, Toronto

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 

  • Until April 2 – Anne Frank: A History for Today, an exhibition
  • March 27 (10 – 11 AM) – FROM THE FIRES: VOICES OF THE HOLOCAUST (Grades 6 & UP) Admission free, register by Email: Michelle.Edgar@raritanval.edu
    • This factually accurate play traces the life of Rachel Gold, a Berlin teenager, from 1937 to 1945. It follows her experiences from the inception of the Nuremberg Laws, through her deportation to Auschwitz, and finally to a death march to Mauthausen
  • April 10 – Nazi Germany: Fascism, Transitional Justice, and the Future of Democracy. Annual online Genocide Awareness Month series with Dr. Ellen Kennedy
  • April 14 (noon)  – International Yom HaShoah Webinar (Holocaust Remembrance) Mr. Jorg Domes & Mr. Ingo Sielaff will join us from Borken Germany. 

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  • Recorded Sessions –  
    • 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

  • March 23 (7 – 8:30 PM) – World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews – In the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies’ struggle against Nazism, while the Soviet Union’s crucial role in that fight is often elided, or simply forgotten. In his latest research, renowned Rutgers historian Jochen Hellbeck relocates the ideological core of the conflict; Nazi Germany viewed Communist Russia, not Western forces, as the greatest existential threat, believing that Jewish revolutionaries seized power in 1917 and were preparing the Soviet state to destroy Germany and the world. The German army’s 1941 attack on the Soviet Union was intended to eliminate Hitler’s cardinal obsession: “Judeo-Bolshevism.” While Europe’s Jews were initially expelled, exiled, and persecuted by the Nazis, Soviet Jews were immediately slated for elimination. Soviet lands thus became ground zero for systematic extermination, only later extended to all Jews, igniting the Holocaust.

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  • 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

Schusterman Center for Israel Studies – Brandeis University

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

  • March 15 (2 PM) KHALED — THE TUNISIAN SCHINDLER
  • March 29 (4 PM) RESISTING NAZISM – Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations.
  • April 12 (4 PM) – RAOUL WALLENBERG RECONSIDERED – Missing Inaction tells the heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. The big mystery of what happened to him following his arrest in 1945 by Soviet liberators is at the center of the film.

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

  • March 25 (9 PM) Virtual Guided Tour of the Former Death Camp in Sobibór. Sobibór was one of the Nazi death camps established under Operation Reinhardt, where more than 180,000 Jews were murdered before the uprising of October 14, 1943. The virtual program (40 minutes) 

State Theater New Jersey – Broadway Series

    • March 27 – 29 – Stereophonic
    • May 8 – 10 – The Music Man
    • June 27 – 28 – Spamalot

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. 

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

  • (March 7 – 22) – Israeli Film Festival | Celebrating 30

    • March 14 (8 PM) – Heaven and Earth – at The Weitzman
    • March 15 (4 PM) Lost in Territories – at The Weitzman
    • March 15 (7 PM) The Road Between Us – at The Weitzman
    • March 17 (7 PM) Always Together – at Har Zion Temple
    • March 19 (7 PM) An Evening of Short Films – at Narberth Theater
    • March 21 (8 PM) Pink Lady – at The Weitzman
    • March 22 (4 PM) Sapir – at The Weitzman
    • March 22 (7 PM) Love, Statistically Speaking -at The Weitzman

** 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

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WebYeshiva – Pre-Pesach program:

Whitney Museum of American Art at whitney.org

The Vilna Shu

  • March 15 (2 – 4 PM) Artist Talk: Bill Aron A free, in-person artist talk at Pucker Gallery with artist Bill Aron. Explore how Jewish artists shaped modern photography after WWII, from street photography and photojournalism to deeply personal documentary work. To register, email Pucker Gallery at contactus@puckergallery.com
  • March 19 (7 – 8:30 PM) Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir – A Conversation with Dr. Shulamit Reinharz – Hebrew College, 1860 Washington Street, Newton, MA 02466 [Dr. Shulamit Reinharz will speak on her award-winning book, Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir, based on papers she discovered that her father, Rabbi Max Rothschild, had kept. Together, Max and Shulamit tell the story of a Jewish man who saved his life repeatedly during the Holocaust, from growing up in Germany, becoming a Zionist, and being imprisoned in Buchenwald.
  • April 12 & 21, May 19 & 31, June 14 & 23, July 12 & 21, August 9 & 18 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) Walking Tour: Jewish Beacon Hill
  • April 6 (7:30 – 9:30 PM) – The Moth StorySLAM Our annual storytelling evening is back for Passover! The Moth features true stories, told live by regular people, with no notes. This year’s theme is questions.

YIVO  * * Online Museum 

  • March 16 (7:30 PM) SHE MADE THE EARTH MOVE: CAROLE KING AND JEWISH IDENTITY
  • March 19 (7 PM) INSIGHTALT: “TEVYE’S DAUGHTERS” – Concert
  • March 23 (7 PM) 100 OBJECTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
  • March 24 (1 PM) HOLOCAUST DISTORTION IN POLAND: A COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
  • March 26 (1 PM) NAZI GERMANY, SOVIET RUSSIA, AND THE FATE OF THE JEWS

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 – 

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 needed. ) Contact yavnehedoffice@yavnehacademy.org

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. 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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