Havurah on the Hill: A Cappella Night
Join us for Havurah on the Hill (HoH), a Friday night Shabbat experience for young professionals, where we bring you good food and great company on the fourth Shabbat of each month.
Join us for Havurah on the Hill (HoH), a Friday night Shabbat experience for young professionals, where we bring you good food and great company on the fourth Shabbat of each month.
To commemorate America's 250th birthday, L'Chaim America! features professional actors performing sophisticated, heartfelt, and true stories that examine Jewish life in America today. Be inspired by a Black Jewish storyteller recounting how Ashkenazi activists helped elect LA's first Black mayor. Consider complex questions through a writer's Native American and Jewish heritages. Have a seat at...
There used to be a delicatessen on every corner. Now, you'll only find a couple hundred across the U.S. Join us for a summer sandwich dinner and a screening of Deli Man, the documentary that examines the state of the Jewish deli through Ziggy, deli-maven and third-generation deli owner in Texas. Featuring some of the...
Just as Queen Esther's story is one of beauty in Iran, so is the story of Younes Dardashti—a religious Jew who despite all odds, became an Iranian national celebrity in the 1950s. In the 1960s, his son Farid became a teen idol on TV. Beloved by all, it was a shock when at the height...
Did you know some early rabbinic authorities once declared turkey to be unkosher? Here at The Vilna, we're embracing Thanksgiving turkey and celebration as a core part of what it means to be Jewish American. It's the perfect expression of the Jewish value of hakarat hatov, gratitude, in the most Jewish way we know: a...
In 2025, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) Judaica and Art of the Americas departments collaborated to acquire a painting by renowned painter Nathaniel Jacobson called "Bread of Affliction." Nathaniel painted this in 1940 in response to the persecution of Jews in Europe—a rare subject for an American artist, especially before the United States...