Lower East Side

At Streit’s 90-year-old Lower East Side factory, ‘the men’ turn out their last matzah batch

With the factory’s shutdown at the end of the Passover season, most of the 30 employees will be leaving the family-owned firm as it moves production across the river.

Streit’s closing Lower East Side matzah factory after 90 years

“The economics just finally caught up with us,” the company founder’s great-grandson told JTA.

Meet Mohandas Gandhi, The Yiddish-Speaking Puppet

Who was the Jon Stewart of the Lower East Side in the 1920s and 30s? It just may have been Modicut, a satirical, leftist Yiddish puppet theater troupe (the only one of its kind) created by Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler. While Yiddish theater on the LES was everywhere, puppet theater was something of a […]

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