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 PJ Library for Russian-speaking Families in New York presents:  Rosh Hashana at the Jewish Museum Thinking about the start of the Jewish new year and the objects we use to mark and celebrate important moments in our lives, we will explore the different ritual objects at the Jewish Мuseum with museum educator and arts guru Asya […]

Kibbutznik: JCH in Park Slope Presents: Marienbad: Theatrical play based on Sholom Aleichem novel In this play, every family story is a burlesque theater in itself, every scene is an explosion of laughter. Characters exchange letters between a resort in Marienbad and Jewish Warsaw. With every letter the story becomes more complicated and the geography […]

AEEJ Association of East-European Jewry Presents: A16th Annual Remembrance Day “No One is Forgotten” This event will honor the hundreds of thousands of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Lets get together to commemorate those who were tragically murdered in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and other various parts of the former Soviet Union.

Pavel Lembersky, a New York based Russian American author, will read in Russian and in English. Pavel Lembersky has published four collections of short stories, a novel, and, most recently, a collection of three novellas and two essays.

Mr. Militarev will present both the original verse and new Russian translations of poems by Emily Dickinson and Rudyard Kipling and sonnets by William Shakespeare. Alexander Militarev is a poet, translator, linguist and cultural anthropologist in Jewish, Biblical, Semitic, Near Eastern and African studies.

Celebrate Rosh HaShana with your family by making apple cider and exploring nature on this early fall hike while learning about the beautiful traditions of this holiday. Participants will use an apple press to help make cider and learn about the history of apple cultivation and cider making. Registration

In this new multidisciplinary performance, BluePrint Fellow Anna Lublina invites her Russian mother and grandmother (Babushka, who was once a Russian-English translator) onstage to recount their experiences of anti-semitism in the Soviet Union, in Russian. September 26 – Octobet 5, 7:30PM

Inviting our BluePrint graduating cohort and BluePrint alumni, to shmooze and enjoy great company at this staple Lower East Side establishment. More info and RSVP here

Directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky (US, 2019, 110 min). In this offbeat comedy, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get his relatives to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a headstrong young black woman in a wheelchair. August 27-29, various screening times

PJ Library for Russian-speaking Families in New York presents: Плывём в Гости An Original PJ Library Musical. Inspired by the PJ Library book, Welcome, this humorous and touching musical will be a joy for children and parents alike, inviting everyone to become full participants in the protagonists’ journey. The musical is performed in Russian. Ideal for ages […]

FolksbieneRU presents: Kompot: Still Friends? On Long Island Friendship is a precious commodity whose benefits are attained by hard work and compromise! Sasha and Masha are great friends – until a misunderstanding gets in the way. Aiy ya yai! How will they reconcile their differences?

PJ Library for Russian-speaking Families in New York  is excited to bring back a wonderful Bubbes & Babies weekly summer intergenerational program to Brighton Beach! Grandparents, parents, caregivers and young children are invited for bagels and bubbles and lots of sensory play as we explore various Jewish themes, inspired by PJ Library books.

Queens Jewish Community Council celebrates 50th anniversary and invites you to Bukharian Music Festival with musical band “Mazal Tov” led by Albert Narkolaev. Come over with your whole family, bring your chairs and blankets and enjoy the live  music under the stars in a park at the heart of Queens.

Stage reading of Slava Stepnov’s new play (in Russian). This play is dark comedy about the lives of immigrant actors in New York.

KashRoots, the multilingual coed vocal ensemble and brainchild of BluePrint Alumna Marina Gusel, will give its second annual summer performance at the JCC, with a full concert of songs performed both a cappella and with acoustic accompaniment, and written by Jews in languages including Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, Yiddish, and English.