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CUNY students and CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez tour the Museum of Jewish Heritage, March 15, 2024. (Luke Tress)

The Museum of Jewish Heritage seeks to educate more college-age visitors about the Holocaust, starting with a private tour for CUNY students

“This kind of program is really, really important, always, but I think particularly during these days,” said CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez.

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Martin Greenfield.

Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95

“Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,” Greenfield once recalled.

drinking Purim

Just in time for Purim, local businesses offer Jewish revelers pricey IV hangover ‘cures’

Though many medical professionals have criticized discretionary IV use, it has become popular in some Jewish and influencer circles.

The New York Public Library’s Jewish division digitized 800 years of Jewish history

Shawarma gets a fine dining touch at Spice Brothers in the East Village

Arsonist with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo sentenced to decades in prison for burning rabbi’s home

UWS residents clean up after Effy’s, a neighborhood kosher cafe, is hit with anti-Israel graffiti

Anti-Israel activists outside a Valentine's Day comedy show in midtown Manhattan, February 14, 2024. (Luke Tress)

To evade pro-Palestinian protests, some Jewish and Israeli events are keeping their locations low-profile

Purim parties in NYC: Here’s where to celebrate in 2024

Pharaoh play

A rabbi uses a traditional Indian dance form to retell the Passover story from Pharaoh’s perspective

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