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Israel Parade, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Giving Tuesday

La Celestina

Friday, March 20, 2020
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, NYC
Cuban playwright Leyma López renews the classic Spanish tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas (1499) whose critique of the moral rot of medieval Spanish society also reflects our times

West Side Story Broadway

IN PREVIEWS
Dark Mondays
OPENING NIGHT February 20, 2020
BROADWAY THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
One of the great love stories, one of the great New York stories, is our story too

Giving Tuesday

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
UNIVERSAL ~ Giving is the natural currency of the universe. The tradition was started by New York City’s 92nd Street Y. Check our list of NYC cultural organizations who deserve your support because they support you.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

UNITED NATIONS COMMEMORATION
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
AUSCHWITZ, Poland
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Soviet soldiers opened the gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentraiton camps and the Holocaust/Shoah became undeniable on January 27, 1945.
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This is what happens when good people look away. What kind of people are we
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Jewish NYC Archive

Jewish Festivals in NYC

Purim

Mon-Tue, March 9-10, 2020
SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn
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This Jewish feast commemorates how Queen Esther of Persia found the courage to break tradition, speak up, and thereby save her people.
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“Chag Purim Sameach!” (Happy Purim Holiday!)

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Sukkot

October 2-9, 2020
Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths, is a Jewish harvest festival celebrated in simple huts which remind us of how we lived and prayed in 40 years wandering the desert. “Chag Sameach” (Happy Holiday)

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Hanukkah

December 10-18, 2020
Miracles await those who fill their time with the light of faith, hope and work. Hanukkah Sameach! (Happy Hanukkah)

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Jewish New York City

New York City is the largest Jewish community outside Israel. In 1654, the Jewish community that became Shearith Israel made New Amsterdam (New York) an open city for all who are willing to work and be governed. The Hasidic community in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of New York’s iconic Jewish communities.

New York is the city with the world’s largest Jewish population. The first Jewish community to arrive in New Amsterdam in 1654 is still here. It’s the Sephardic community Shearith Israel. Sephardi are descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were expelled from Iberia in 1492.

The community’s struggle for acceptance is what made New York a city open to all who are willing to work and be governed. Probably more than anything else, this has been New York’s greatest blessing. New York is the city of work. We are the capital of the world because everyone is welcome here.

New York City’s notable Jewish institutions include the 92nd Street Y, JCC Manhattan, Center for Jewish History, Jewish Museum, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Museum at Eldridge Street.

The New York Jewish Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center with the Jewish Museum, is New York City’s first film festival of the year. There’s also the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival and the Reelabilities Film Festival.

Jewish New Yorkers

Jewish Leaders

Jewish Culture

A lot of U.S. American culture began as Jewish culture in New York City.

Javier Limón

LINCOLN SQUARE, Sat, Feb 11, 2017, WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE, Spanish flamenco live music ~ The leading flamenco producer explores the Sephardic, Arabic, and Romani origins of Flamenco

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Israel

The Jewish homeland is a sacred place for all the Abrahamic faiths whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim.

תודה
To da

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