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 – Become a BZD Virtual Travel Club Member

  • Each Tuesday this summer, current BZD members will receive private access to a special program featuring Israel, Jewish history, heritage, culture, travel, and Jewish communities around the world. Our first release is brand new: The 2026 Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków

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 AM – 11:00 AM: Circle Time
    • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Mural Wall or Messy with Art
    • 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM: Special Daily Program or Mural Wall
    • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM: Messy with Art
    • 4:00 PM: Alphie’s Goodbye Storytime

August Programming

  • August 3 – 9 – Fun in the Sun Science – Explore sunlight like real scientists and dive into the science of light and sky
  • August 3 – 9 (2:45 – 3:45 PM), August 8 & 9 (11:15 – 12:15 PM) Catching Light Sensory Bin – Under 4
  • August 3 – 7  (10:30– 12:30 PM & 2 – 4:15 PM),  August 5 (morning only), August 6 (afternoon only) Miniature Lighthouse Scenes – Ages 5+
  • August 4 & 11 (10:30 – 11 AM) Nordic Summer Sing-alongs with Ida’s Tunes (performed in English, Finnish, and Swedish)
  • August 5 (2 – 3:30 pm) Simple Machines Exploration with Inspiring Machines Use a collection of small-hand friendly machines and tools to explore — to touch, poke, twist, prod, spin, push, squeeze, and pull — in the water!
  • August 6 (11 – 11:30 AM & 12 – 12:30 PM) Flor Bromley’s Pachamama’s Water Symphony, an immersive musical experience.
  • August 8 & 9 (2 – 4:15 PM) Blueprints of the Sun Cyanotype Prints – Ages 5+ 
  • August 8 & 9 (10:30 – 12:30 PM) Kites Taking Flight! Ages 5+
  • August 10 – 16 – Ready, Set, Glow! Discover how light sparkles and bounces through art that captures your dazzle.  
  • August 12 (2 – 3:30 PM) A DIVE IN! Adventure Activation with Artist Mélissa Smith, water-focused puppets, stories, songs, and interactive activities. 
  • August 10 – 15 (10:30 – 12:30 PM & 2 – 4:15 PM) August 12 (only morning), August 13 (only afternoon) Reflection Rainbow Remix Collage – Ages 5+
  • August 10 – 16 (2:45 – 3:45 PM) August 15 & 16 (11:15 – 12:15) Tying Rays of Sunshine – Under 4
  • August 16 (2 – 4:15 PM) Water Marbling Workshop – Ages 5+
  • August 17 – 23 – Paint a watercolor scene of a landscape. From Sunbeams to Daydreams
  • August 17 – 23 (10:30 – 12:30 PM & 2 – 4:15 PM) Sleepy Window Clings – Ages 5+
  • August 17 – 21 (2:45 – 3:45 PM), August 22 & 23 also (11:15 – 12:15 PM) Sunset Watercolor Painting – Under 4
  • August 24 – 31 – Sun Chasers and Shade Seekers
  • August 24 – 30 (10:30 – 12:30 PM & 2 – 4:15 PM) Visors & Shades, All Day! Ages 5+
  • August 24 – 30 (2:45 – 3:45 PM) & August 29 & 30 (11:15 – 12:15 PM) Tape and Take Suncatchers – Under 4

Free Shakespeare in the Park

  • July 25 through August 23 – The Winter’s Tale @ Delacorte Theater 
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. 

Fritz Asher Themes – This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970)

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.

JBI Library

  • September 3 (12:30–1:15 PM) The Magic of Tashlich (Casting Away)

Participants will explore the 600-year-old tradition of Tashlich, in which Jews symbolically cast away the previous year’s mistakes by tossing breadcrumbs into flowing water. The discussion will examine the origins of the custom, its evolution across Jewish communities, and the universal theme of beginning the new year with reflection and renewal.

  • September 24 (12:30–1:15 PM)  The Art of Ushpizim (Welcoming Holy Guests)

Held just before Sukkot, this session explores the mystical tradition of Ushpizim, the symbolic welcoming of honored spiritual guests into the sukkah. The conversation will use this centuries-old custom as a starting point for discussing hospitality, memory, and the people who continue to shape our lives.

  • October 1 (5 PM) virtual book club exploring author Dara Horn’s acclaimed novel Eternal Life, a thought-provoking exploration of faith, family, mortality, and what it means to live a meaningful life. 

JCC Mid-Westchester – 999 Wilmot Road, Scarsdale

  • September 28 (7 – 8:30 PM) Stories That Stay With Us – In Conversation: Breathing Under Water with Jacqueline Friedland

    • In this moving story of resilience, family, and unexpected connection, two women facing challenges find their lives intertwined through a teenage boy with autism. As each navigates impossible choices and personal struggles, they discover the strength that can emerge through compassion, community, and the willingness to accept help.

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

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

  • August 4 (12 – 2 PM) We Met At Grossinger’s
    • Step back into the golden age of the Catskills with We Met at Grossinger’s, an unforgettable afternoon of stories, laughter, and nostalgia. From summer romances and legendary comedians to family vacations and late-night cheesecake runs, we’ll celebrate the magic of the Borscht Belt era and the memories that shaped generations. Whether you spent summers in the Catskills or simply love hearing the stories, this special event is filled with humor, history, and heart.

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: Off-Season 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 of Kean University

  • December 1 – 2026 Murray Pantirer Annual Scholars Lecture

International March of the Living

  • August 9 (1 P) The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, z”l
    • Sent to Auschwitz as a teenager, Dr. Edith Eva Eger survived and went on to become a renowned psychologist. The Choice is her powerful memoir of trauma, resilience, and the freedom we can choose even after the unimaginable. We read her story in loving memory of Dr. Eger, z”l (1927–2026).

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

Metropolitan Museum of Art [1000 Fifth Avenue]

  • 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 – Dr. Bernard Heller Museum (admission free)  Open: Mondays through Thursdays, 9 am – 6:30 pm  ** Recorded Programs – Available On Demand

National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene                              *** Programs On Demand 

  • September 17 (7 – 9 PM) New York Sings Yiddish @ Rumsey Playfield, Central Park (enter at East 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue) Doors open at 6:00 PM – Free Event

The New York Historical – [170 Central Park West]

  • Carousel Horse
  • Until August 6 –  New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

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 

Follows two young Jewish women—social activist Zosia and aspiring artist Fanny—in 1938 Warsaw. As antisemitism rises, they unite to find their missing photography professor, bridging their different worlds while navigating personal crises and the vibrant, doomed culture of pre-war Poland.

    • 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

  • September 30 (7 PM) Ghosts of a Holy War: The Forgotten Massacre That Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    • Award-winning journalist Yardena Schwartz discusses her bestselling book, a nuanced exploration of the 1929 Hebron massacre and its enduring impact on the region’s history and present-day realities.

  • November 5–15     The 27th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival

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

Yoni Rechter has written and performed dozens of songs that are the backdrop to the Israeli experience, including “Hayalda Hachi Yafa Bagan.” He will be accompanied by Israeli jazz musicians from Berklee as he walks us through his career in song.

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

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State Theater New Jersey

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

  • November 8–15 – VIP Solidarity Mission to Israel
    • Experience an eight-day trip to Israel with high-level military and government briefings, sponsoring and enjoying a dinner/concert for IDF soldiers, visiting soldiers in rehab and released hostages, volunteering, and so much more. Five-star dining and accommodations are included. 
  • 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 Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Visit their site for more information and to register (under Join a Tour)

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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)

  • August 19 (6 PM) The Chosen Toys: How Jewish Immigrants Designed the American Dream | Author Discussion with Michael Kimmel
    • In his book, PLAYMAKERS: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America, Kimmel documents how first-generation Jewish immigrants—including the founders of Hasbro, Mattel, and Lionel Trains—created the idealized American childhood. From the invention of the Teddy Bear in a Brooklyn candy store to the creation of Barbie and G.I. Joe, Kimmel explores how the experience of being an outsider in 20th-century America shaped the toy industry and childhood as we know it today.
  • New Exhibit -“The First Salute: An Untold Story of the American Revolution”

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

  • August 3 – 8 – Rooted and Targeted: Teaching Jewish and Black Life, Antisemitism, Anti-Blackness, and the Cities We Inherit – California
  • August 4 – 8 – Honoring Resilience: Learning from the Holocaust, Dakota Exile, and Minnesota Tribal Nations – Plymouth, Minnesota
  • November 5 – 8 – Educating for Civic Responsibility: Pedagogical Approaches to the Holocaust and African American History – Seattle, Washington

Whitney Museum of American Art at whitney.org

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

  • through July – Interlaced, Interwoven by Community Creative Fellows Josh Kurtz and Mia Schon
    • Interlaced, Interwoven brings together mosaic artist Mia Schon and weaver Josh Kurtz in a meditation on repetition, brokenness, and wholeness. Their work reflects a quiet truth: beauty emerges piece by piece, stitch by stitch. Through these pieces, they explore intergenerational connection, mirrored light, the role of color in Jewish practice, and art as a form of ritual and repair

  • August 9 & 18, September 6 & 15, October 11 and 20, November 8 & 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.

  • September 30 (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM) American Kosher Pop Art by Steve Marcus

    • American Chutzpah is a journey into the cartoon world of American Kosher pop art by NYC artist Steve Marcus, with his new series of artworks inspired by Jewish contributions, moments, and folk tales in American history. Jewish Americans have profoundly influenced the United States since 1654 through critical advancements in medicine, science, civil rights activism, art, entertainment, law, and national service. Marcus’s hand-drawn works of art on paper are celebrations that comically illustrate some of these great Jewish American moments that shaped American culture, its democratic principles, and spirit.

      Marcus artistically salutes Jewish Americans in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with a series that weaves a national tapestry of Jewish American contributions that are more colorful than fireworks, juicier than a good burger, cooler than a domestic beer, and have more snap than a grilled kosher hot dog at any respectable 4th of July BBQ.

  • through – August 19 Echoes of Home by Inna Zhukovsky Zilber – Register for Gallery Hours
    • Created by Inna Zhukovsky Zilber, the exhibition follows the artist’s journey, born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and raised in Israel
  • August 13 (6 – 8 PM) A Rosh Hashanah Baking Deep Dive with Mamaleh’s
    • A demonstration and tasting with honey cake expert Rachel Sundet, Pastry Chef and Co-Owner of Mamaleh’s Delicatessen. Three distinct recipes side by side, uncovering how ingredients like spices, tea, citrus, and oil shape flavor, texture, and tradition. Walk away with a deeper understanding of Jewish baking, a mini honey cake to take home, and a very sweet tooth.

YIVO                                                                  * * Online Museum 

  • August 5 (6 PM) IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF YIDDISH WOMEN WRITERS: A WALKING TOUR
  • August 13 (7 PM) MUSIC OF THE THIRD SEDER: A YIDDISH PASSOVER CONCERT
  • September 10 (1 PM) RUTH RUBIN AND THE STUDY OF YIDDISH FOLKSONG TODAY
    • Ruth Rubin was a renowned folklorist and singer who spent decades preserving the rich musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews. Gathering over 2,000 folksongs between 1946 and 1970, she captured the voice and memory of generations who had grown up in a flourishing Yiddish-speaking environment that they had seen annihilated by Nazi destruction and Stalinist repression.
  • September 24 (1 PM) YIDDISH SCHOLARSHIP COMES TO AMERICA: THE YIVO INSTITUTE AT 100

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

Jewish Heritage Events Across Pro Baseball

  • August 4 – New Hampshire Fisher Cats @ Delta Dental Stadium, Manchester, NH
  • August 6 – Bradenton Marauders (FL) @ LECOM Park, Bradenton, FL
  • August 9 – Jersey Shore BlueClaws (NJ) @ ShoreTown Ballpark, Lakewood, NJ
  • August 9 – Arizona Diamondbacks @ Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
  • August 11 – Long Island Ducks (NY) @ Fairfield Properties Ballpark, Central Islip, NY
  • August 18 – Pittsburgh Pirates @ PNC Park, Pittsburgh, PA vs. Detroit Tigers
  • August 18 – Wilmington Blue Rocks (DE) @ Frawley Stadium, Wilmington, DE
  • August 23 – Miami Marlins @ Loan Depot Park, Miami, FL
  • August 23 – Chesapeake Baysox (MD) @ Prince George’s Stadium, Bowie, DE
  • August 23 – Hartford Yard Goats (CT) @ Dunkin’ Park, Hartford
  • August 25 – Seattle Mariners @ T-Mobile Park, Seattle, WA vs. Philadelphia Phillies
  • September 8 (6:40 CT) – Kansas City Royals @ Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, MO vs. Arizona Diamondbacks

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