New Families, New Traditions

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Join the musical group Yellow Sneaker and their puppet pals for a free, drop-in program that nurtures family bonds and bridge connections to Jewish life and traditions. Families, musicians, and puppets sing and learn together. Ideal for ages 0-4. Everyone …

Lenore Skenazy Talk – Museum of Jewish Heritage

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Join Lenore Skenazy (“World’s Worst Mom”) for a talk laced with humor and wit about how your kids can be independent. As the author of the book and blog "Free-Range Kids," Lenore Skenazy launched the anti-helicopter parenting movement. Her TV …

Young Friends and MJE Yom Hashoah

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Join the Young Friends of the Museum of Jewish Heritage and MJE as we commemorate the 6 million lives lost during the Holocaust. Opening remarks by Rabbi Mark Wildes and a Member of the Young Friends will be followed by …

Film-Double Feature: Voices from the Attic/Echoes from the Attic

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Post-screening discussion with director Debbie Goodstein and Sally Frishberg. These companion films tell the small but epic story spanning 70 years of the shifting, sometimes tense, sometimes distant relationship between two families surviving the Nazi occupation, one Jewish and the other, their …

International Tour Celebrating the “500th Anniversary of the Venice Ghetto”

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Songs from Shylock's Venice with Ensemble Lucidarium Experience the sounds and sights of Shylock's world as one of Italy's premiere Early Music ensembles brings to life 16th-century Venice through this lively multimedia concert. $25 General Admission & $20 Members and …

THEATER: All Aboard!

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Pick up your passport and get your tickets at this hands-on workshop. Board the boat and watch a new original play based on the PJ Library story, When Jessie Came Across the Sea. $8, Free for children and grandchildren of …

The World Refugee Crisis

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Join Michael Abramowitz, Director of the USHMM Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, and Elisa Massimino, President and CEO of Human Rights First. Moderated by Nadine Strossen, Former President of the American Civil Liberties Union, leading scholars will discuss the current …

Film Screening: Hester Street

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Post-screening discussion with Carol Kane and director, Joan Micklin Silver and moderated by film historian, Eric Goldman.Hester Street, a 2011 National Film Registry selection, with Kane’s brilliant portrayal of Gitl, a wife caught between two cultures, won her an Oscar …

Theatre: Breaking Bread

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a hands-on challah baking workshop and world premiere of an original play inspired by PJ Library Stories, Rise & Shine: A Challah Day Tale and Bagels from Benny.  $8, Free for children and …

Café Royale

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

The Café Royale was the place to see and be seen during the Golden Age of the 2nd Avenue Theater. Following select Saturday night performances of Di Goldene Kale, mix and mingle while enjoying the music of Jewish folk singer …