As the area became more gentrified and built up, many sites related to Jewish history on the Lower East Side began to disappear. Former site of Ridley’s Department Store. “I think one of the ...

The changes in the dynamic neighborhood were recently spotlighted in a Twitter thread curated by a Hasidic Jewish man known as “Hungry Chipmunk.” (New York Jewish Week) – For a large part of ...

A street festival celebrating the diverse cultures of the Lower East Side takes place next month. Hosted by the Museum at ...

The mural depicted the Jewish Lower East Side and Jewish religious life and tragedies like the Holocaust, and the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Roundsquare founder and ...

The result was “Breaking Home Ties,” a silent film about Russian Jewish immigrants in the Lower East Side that depicts Jews and Jewish practice in a sensitive light. “Breaking Home Ties ...

In 1902, a funeral procession for a prominent rabbi turned into a melee in which nearly 200 Jews were injured. You might be forgiven for never having heard of the worst anti-Jewish riot in ...

Walk down the right street, take the right staircase, and behind an unmarked door you might come across a shtiebel — an ...

Jason Guberman joins the Conservancy to realize the Herz Lower East Side Jewish AR/VR Heritage Trail , a project dedicated to NYC activist/advocate Roger Herz. Whenever Roger Herz set his mind on ...

In 1902, an anti-Jewish riot at a rabbi's funeral in NYC ... Mourners accompany a hearse bearing the body of Rabbi Jacob Joseph on the Lower East Side on July 30, 1902. (photo credit: Le Monde ...