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At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews.

NYC’s Temple Emanu-El celebrates its 180th birthday with an exhibit on Jews of the Gilded Age

“Emanu-El at 180” features an object recovered from the wreck of the Titanic, as well as photos, letters, Jewish books and more.

Performers onstage in a scene from "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," the opera.

Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage

The “epic of an opera” — which tells the story of two Jewish cousins who create a Nazi-fighting superhero — opens Sunday, Sept. 21.

New this school year in NYC: A curriculum to teach public school students about Jewish Americans

This is how New Yorkers celebrated the High Holidays at the turn of the 20th century

The cast of "The Matriarchs," which opens at Theaterlab on Sept. 10 and plays through Sept. 28. (Miranda Jackel)

Women of the Torah step into the spotlight as contemporary bat mitzvah girls in a new play

Russ & Daughters celebrates 111 years of Jewish New York history with a new cookbook

Tatte Café and Bakery, the popular Israeli-inspired chain, is opening in New York

A Sephardic Jewish day school grows on the Upper East Side

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