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Celebrate Israel’s Independence Day with DIY projects that are fun for all ages! Our experts will offer workshops on pickling, wood-whittling, challah-braiding, Israeli folk dancing, and much more!

This groundbreaking exhibition brings together more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs of Auschwitz, from over 20 institutions and museums around the world. Exhibition dedicated to the history of Auschwitz and its role in the Holocaust ever presented in North America, and an unparalleled opportunity to confront the singular face of human evil-one that arose […]

ress up and join us for Sarah Bernhardt’s Masquerade Ball and Auction Fundraiser to mount the production of LA FIN: The Last Hour of Sarah Bernhardt’s Life by Rebecca Karpovsky – COJECO BluePrint Fellowship Alumna. Set in Edwin Booths Mansion, The Players, enter this bell-époque immersive theatre experience.

We’re inviting COJECO Network organizations of  WWII Veterans and Holocaust survivors to attend a ceremony, reception and a concert of wartime songs composed by Jewish composers and performed by the Russian-speaking Jewish cantors. Please contact us at info@cojeco.org for more information. 

Russian American Cultural Center presents: A Bilingual Poetry Reading by Anna Halberstadt A Bilingual Poetry Reading by Anna Halberstadt from her new poetry collection in English (Green in a Landscape with Ashes, New Meridian Books, 2017) and Russian (Пасмурное Солнце, издательство Евгения Степанова, 2018).

Russian American Cultural Center  presents –  From Russia with Love: a Sly Bang book party presentation by Larissa Shmailo Featuring Anna Halberstadt, Elizabeth L. Hodges, Regina Khidekel, Irina Mashinski, Alexander Veytsman, Anton Yakovlev, and emcee Andrey Gritsman.

You are cordially invited to attend a Community and Legislative Breakfast  hosted by the Bukharian Jewish Community Center Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Bukharian Jewish Congress

Join us for this unique immersive studio-art event for children and parents, based on the works of Yehuda Pen and Marc Chagall. This will be our first big event in the BluePrint Project series presented by the Peace Art Project team.

This spring, artist Katya Stepanov, a Jewish immigrant from the former Soviet Union, opens an immersive installation that invites audiences to embark on an investigative journey into identity. A museum of memories greets visitors as they move from room to room, exploring her inheritance and learning to examine their own.

The evening will include a sneak peak of Anna Lublina’s piece Бабушка | BAb(oo)shka and performances by other Post-Soviet and/or Jewish artists! There will be Russian snacks and joyful conversation! All proceeds from the evening will support the production of Бабушка | BAb(oo)shka.

Join us as we explore this magical story, filled with hardship and triumph, despair and love. An evening featuring refreshments, music, and the magic of theater. All proceeds from the evening will be put forth to produce a full staged production of Letter to God in New York.

Join 2018-19 COJECO BluePrint Fellows Yafo Mardakhayeva and Lana Shalumov to taste the delectable cuisine and culture of their childhoods. The cousins are from a strand of Jewry in the former USSR known as the so-called Mountain Jews, who hail from a region along the Caucasus Mountains. Please register here

How do objects in the museum tell stories of immigration throughout history? What artworks or artifacts can be added to the museum’s collection to tell the story of the immigration wave from the Former Soviet Union to the United States? We investigate how Jewish people and their ideas came to America from the 1800’s until […]

During World War II, thousands of Jewish refugees were harbored by families in Albania, most of them practicing Muslims. Despite Nazi occupation, no Jews were taken to internment camps from Albania and it was the only country in Europe with more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning.

Mock Passover Seder led by Jewish Educator Zhenya Lopatnik. What to expect? Passover Story, music, delicious meal and many ideas that you would be able to use at home for your own Passover Seder!