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New York's Jewish community contributes a lot to the culture of New York City and the United States. In fact, the Jewish community made New York an open city back in 1654 when it was still New Amsterdam.

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Playing for Peace Creates Champions Through Tolerance and Acceptance

The Kicking + Screening soccer film festival is screening "Playing for Peace" online at kickingandscreening.com on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7pm. Free with rsvp The film, by Arielle Thomas Sabol, is about the HaPoel Be'er Sheva soccer club in Be'er Sheva, Israel. The city has a roughly equal number of Jewish and Muslim residents. The team hasn't won a championship in 40 … [Read more...] about Playing for Peace Creates Champions Through Tolerance and Acceptance

PaleyFest 2021 Goes Behind-the-Scenes With the Biggest Stars on TV

PaleyFest 2021, the Paley Center for Media's television festival, offers free public access on yahoo.com/entertainment on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. PaleyFest is one of the leading television festivals in the United States. Since it is virtual this year, it is free and open to the general public. Get festival information at paleycenter.org It's great to see actors when … [Read more...] about PaleyFest 2021 Goes Behind-the-Scenes With the Biggest Stars on TV

You’ll Love this Virtual Valentine to Benefit LongHouse Reserve Sculpture Garden

Get an insider's view of LongHouse Reserve sculpture garden at their winter benefit "A Love Song to Jack." It's a tribute to international textile designer and LongHouse founder Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020), on Zoom, on Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 6pm. From $50 flywheelsites.com Share the Love This is the East Hamptons, but LongHouse and the region have a long … [Read more...] about You’ll Love this Virtual Valentine to Benefit LongHouse Reserve Sculpture Garden

The 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival Explores Jewish Life Around the World Virtually

The 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival, co-produced by the Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center presents scenes of Jewish life around the world, virtually this year at filmlinc.org from January 13-26, 2021. $12. All-Access $125 filmlinc.org 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival This is New York City's first film festival of the year. Jewish people live everywhere in … [Read more...] about The 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival Explores Jewish Life Around the World Virtually

NYC’s 2020 Celebrate Israel Parade thanks frontline workers. Todah!

New York City's Celebrate Israel Parade is the world's largest public celebration of Israel. Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, NYC's 2020 Celebrate Israel Parade goes virtual on celebrateisraelny.org on Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 1pm. FREE #CelebrateIsrael #TodahFrontlineHeroes #TogetherAtHome 2020 Celebrate Israel Parade Theme New York City has been through a … [Read more...] about NYC’s 2020 Celebrate Israel Parade thanks frontline workers. Todah!

“West Side Story” is one of the Great Love Stories

West Side Story comes to the Broadway Theatre in the Times Square Theater District with previews December 10, 2019 for an opening on February 20, 2020. [That's 02202020. Hope it's a lucky day.] From $39 West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet set in the neighborhood that was redeveloped into Lincoln Center. Tony, the leader of the Jets, a white gang, falls in love with Maria, … [Read more...] about “West Side Story” is one of the Great Love Stories

“La Celestina” Renews the Classic Spanish Tragicomedy

'La Celestina' or 'La Comedia de Calisto y Melibea' (1499) by Fernando de Rojas is one of the great works of Spanish literature. It was written during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella not long after the pivotal year 1492 which brought the discovery of the Americas, the conquest of Granada (Islamic Spain) and the expulsion of the Jews. This is the beginning of the … [Read more...] about “La Celestina” Renews the Classic Spanish Tragicomedy

Oscars 2020 Academy Awards

The 92nd Academy Awards are live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on Sunday, February 9 at 8pm ET. The movies as we know them today can be traced back to the Lumière brothers shorts screened in Paris in 1895. It's funny that "lumière" means "light" in French. From those French beginnings, today's movie industry is still more Latin than you … [Read more...] about Oscars 2020 Academy Awards

2020 Grammys: Alejandro Sanz, Rosalía, Mariachi Los Camperos Marc Anthony & Aymée Nuviola

The Recording Academy recognizes achievements in music. Nominations were announced on November 20, 2019. The awards will be broadcast live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 26, 2020. The Grammys have only a small focus on Latin artists and a couple of years back completely soiled themselves by not giving Despacito major awards -- even though it … [Read more...] about 2020 Grammys: Alejandro Sanz, Rosalía, Mariachi Los Camperos Marc Anthony & Aymée Nuviola

NYC Broadway Week Winter 2020

NYC Broadway Week is a 2-for-1 Broadway ticket promotion. It takes place in September and January. Tickets go on sale about two weeks ahead. NYC Broadway Week Winter 2020 NYC Broadway Week Winter 2020 is January 21 - February 9, 2020. To get 2-for-1 Broadway tickets use Special Offer Code BWAYWK for general tickets, or use BWAYUP for upgraded tickets (+$20) that … [Read more...] about NYC Broadway Week Winter 2020

Winter JazzFest 2020

Winter JazzFest is a jazz talent showcase for for New York City jazz lovers and booking agents in town for APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals). The core is a jazz marathon at founding night club Le Poisson Rouge and other Greenwich Village jazz clubs. All told, over 10,000 jazz lovers enjoy hundreds of artists playing in over one hundred groups. This sells … [Read more...] about Winter JazzFest 2020

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin's classic 1935 opera about Black life in America's old South, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for fourteen performances between September 23, 2019 and February 1, 2020. From $30 Get tickets from $30 at metopera.org The opera is set in the 1920s on the streets of a poor Black fishing community in Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy … [Read more...] about Porgy and Bess

ArtExpo 2019 contemporary art & photography fair at Pier 90

The ArtExpo commercial art and photography fair is Thursday-Sunday, April 4-7, 2019 at Pier 90 in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. ArtExpo The fair includes SOLO, a showcase of independent artists, and FOTO SOLO a fine art photography fair. The work is mostly commercial art and design. About 35,000 art enthusiasts visit every year. ArtExpo 2019 Thursday, April … [Read more...] about ArtExpo 2019 contemporary art & photography fair at Pier 90

Queens World Film Festival 2019

The Queens World Film Festival is at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios from March 21-31, 2019. From $11 Queens World Film Festival https://youtu.be/LjurTR6xXzQ Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world and if it were an independent city, it would be America's fourth largest. The Queens World Film Festival reflects … [Read more...] about Queens World Film Festival 2019

Who will write our history

This unprecedented screening of Roberta Grossman's award-winning documentary with the support of UNESCO at 350 venues in 55 countries and Facebook Live, marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, January 27, 2019. Not Jewish? It's even more important to watch. The great Colombian Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez wrote El coronel no tiene quien … [Read more...] about Who will write our history

New York Jewish Film Festival 2019

The New York Film Festival screens films from around the world that explore the diversity of Jewish experience. Produced with the Jewish Museum, the 28th edition is at Film Society of Lincoln Center daily from January 9-22, 2019. From $10 https://youtu.be/o2wab5H5iQY The Festival includes documentary, narrative and short films. There are new films and restored … [Read more...] about New York Jewish Film Festival 2019

Golden Globes 2019 Winners “Green Book,” “Roma,” “A Star is Born”

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards recognize excellence in U.S. and international film and television. 76th Golden Globe Latin Winners Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Motion Picture, Drama. Green Book won three awards. It must be said though, that Roma is not just the best foreign language film. It is the best movie of the year. Visuals, … [Read more...] about Golden Globes 2019 Winners “Green Book,” “Roma,” “A Star is Born”

DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival

DOC NYC is America's largest documentary film festival. DOC NYC 2018 DOC NYC 2018 is at IFC Center in the West Village and SVA Theatre and Cinepolis in Chelsea Manhattan from November 8 - 15, 2018 Opening Night John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm opens the festival with its NYC premiere on November 8. For over eight years, John and Molly Chester struggle to work with … [Read more...] about DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival

New York Film Festival 56 (2018)

The New York Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center is one of the big U.S. film festivals. It's also the second oldest film festival in the United States. 56th New York Film Festival 2018 The 56th New York Film Festival is at Alice Tully Hall and Film Society of Lincoln Center, September 28 - October 14, 2018. Highlights The New York Film Festival is a well-rounded … [Read more...] about New York Film Festival 56 (2018)

Samson et Dalila

Samson et Dalila is a Grand Opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns with a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. It is about the biblical characters Samson and Delilah. Samson was a military leader with incredible strength. He loved Delilah. She was bribed to find the source of his strength. On discovering it was his hair, she order a hair cut while he … [Read more...] about Samson et Dalila