Our Events Log

“Separate Yourself Not from the Community”

[All times EST]

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

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)

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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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
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)

In this talk, Rutgers University professor emeritus Matthew Baigell discusses early Jewish immigrant artists and cartoonists. As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society. Around 1900 they established a Jewish art stream separate from mainstream American art that continues to the present day. To a greater or lesser degree over the decades, artists have continually emphasized community values, politics, and religious heritage.

The Restless Hungarian (2021) is a personal narrative set against the backdrop of the Hungarian Jewish diaspora, the rise of Modernism, and the Cold War. The film centers on Paul Weidlinger, one of the most important structural engineers of the twentieth century who created the strength behind iconic skyscrapers, churches, museums, embassies, and monumental sculptures by Picasso, Noguchi, and Dubuffet. Early in his career, he broke from mainstream modernism with his concept of the “Joy of Space” – Between June 17 and 25 you can view The Restless Hungarian on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

Raritan Valley Hadassah

May 13 (7:30 PM) Scam Landscape: Avoiding Fraud & Staying Vigilant Against Cybercrime – Congregation Ahavas Achim 216 S First Ave, Highland Park, NJ – Enter through the back door by the parking lot. The main entrance on S. 1st Avenue will be locked

Presented by Marty Siederer of AARP, this program helps empower individuals in the fight against fraud with proven resources and tools to help you spot and avoid identity theft and other fraud. In today’s fast-paced online environment, protecting your personal information is more crucial than ever. 

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 
  • SHARK: Off-Season 1:30 PM Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays – Summer 4 PM Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays

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

Metropolitan Museum of Art [1000 Fifth Avenue]

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.”

National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene                                

        *** Programs On Demand 

New York Historical Society – [170 Central Park West]

  • April 23 (3 – 4 PM) Gallery Tour: New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection
  • Until April 26 –  Creating Kosher Chop Suey
  • Carousel Horse
  • Until August 6 –  New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection
  • (September 2025 – August 6, 2026) 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 

  • 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

  • April 23 (4:30 – 6:30 PM) – Spaces of Treblinka: A Book Talk with Dr. Jacob Flaws – Zoom or In-Person 

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

  • April 26 (2 PM) Herzl Remembered — “If you will it, it is no dream!” – Theodor Herzl was a lawyer, journalist, playwright, and political activist. He witnessed the rise in antisemitism in the late 19th century and was inspired to build a safe haven for the Jewish community. The new documentary Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel explores Herzl’s legacy, the formation of the State of Israel, and past and ongoing political conflicts.
  • May 17 (2 PM) The Rescue of Sigmund Freud – The film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism, through his meteoric career, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London, where he spent the final months of his life.
  • May 31 (2 PM) “I Seek a Kind Person” — Advertising and the Kindertransport Rescue Operation – Julian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers.
  • June 14 (7 PM) Partisan Women Heroes – See the award-winning film Four Winters, about partisan heroes of World War II, and then tune into the discussion, which will focus on the stories of partisan women heroes such as Faye Schulman, Chaya Palevsky, and others.

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

  • April 23 (4 PM) Teaching the Holocaust Using the Humanities: Integrating Photographs, Literature, Art, and Poetry to Tell the Human Story

  • April 28 (12:30 PM) Varian Fry: The Audacious American Journalist Who Saved Europe’s Artists from the Nazis at Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College

In this presentation, novelist and professor Julie Orringer will take you on a virtual journey to wartime Marseille and show you how one daring American achieved the impossible: the saving of more than two thousand artists, including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, André Breton, Hannah Arendt, and many others.

  • May 4 (7 PM) But I Live Conversation with Editor Charlotte Schallié – Zoom 

But I Live shares the stories of three Holocaust survivors through illustrations. Co-sponsored with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Alabama Holocaust Education Center, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.

State Theater New Jersey – Broadway Series

    • 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)

  • April  30 (7 – 8:15 PM) Adeena Sussman and Mike Solomonov | ZARIZ Book Launch
  • May 13 (7 – 8:30 PM) Live at the Library of Congress: An Evening of Sephardic Music with Lily Henley
  • May 17 (noon) – The Philly Jewish Music Festival – 2300 Arena – 2300 S Swanson St. Philadelphia, PA – Schedule

** 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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Whitney Museum of American Art at whitney.org

The Vilna Shu

YIVO 

        * * Online Museum 

  • April 23 (7:30 PM) MUSICAL MEMOIR – Produced by the American Society for Jewish Music; co-sponsored by YIVO
  • April 27 (1 PM) THE AFTERLIFE OF YIDDISH IN GERMAN-JEWISH CULTURE, 1818–1938
  • April 28 (1 PM) THE FUTURE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORY: POLAND AND BEYOND
  • April 29 (1 PM) MENACHEM KIPNIS: YIDDISH FOLKLORE AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM INTERWAR POLAND
  • April 30 (7 PM) 100 OBJECTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH WITH STEFANIE HALPERN
  • May 5 (1 PM) YIDDISH THEATER, GEORGE GERSHWIN, AND THE BIRTH OF AN AMERICAN SOUND
  • May 6 (7:30 PM) ENSEMBLE CONNECT UP CLOSE

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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