We are excited to welcome a new Senior Program Administrator to the team. The Senior Program Administrator will manage all day-to-day administrative operations for BJ’s Adult ...
Author: Emily Ferman
NYC Jewish Climate Summit
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- By Cheri Zeldis
You are invited to attend this Summit alongside other BJ members to learn how you can take action to tackle the climate crisis and help ...
Pesah Resources from Family Life & Learning
Passover begins the evening of April 5. Whether you’re having a seder with friends or on your own, are attending a community gathering, or just want ...
Ben Jablonski’s Story: Find Purpose
BJ’s Hevra Kadisha program offers one way in which BJ members can act upon their covenant. There are many ways to be part of the Hevra ...
Join the BJ Hazorim CSA 2023
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- By Kiana Davis
A CSA is partnership between local farms and individuals so residents of New York City can enjoy fresh produce straight from a local farm. When ...
Mishloah Manot Exchange for BJ Members
Share in the joy of Purim with our mishloah manot exchange! Sign up and we’ll match you with another BJ member; each of you will ...
BJ Theater Co Purim Spiel Auditions
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- By Emma Miller
BJ Theater Company's annual Purim Spiel is back for K-8th graders! Don't miss your chance to shine on stage in this spectacular, hilarious, sparkly Spiel. ...
We Need 200 Backpacks for Asylum Seekers
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- By Kiana Davis
Help us put together 200 welcome backpacks with necessary toiletries and meaningful supplies for newly arrived asylum seekers in NYC.
We Need 200 Backpacks for Asylum Seekers
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- By Kiana Davis
Help us put together 200 welcome backpacks with necessary toiletries and meaningful supplies for newly arrived asylum seekers in NYC.
Turkey Challenge 2022
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- By Kiana Davis
Each year, as part of our ongoing efforts to address food insecurity in New York City, BJ supports the West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH) ...
Turkey Challenge 2022
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- By Kiana Davis
Each year, as part of our ongoing efforts to address food insecurity in New York City, BJ supports the West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH) ...
With Gratitude to All Who Contributed this High Holy Days Season
We take a moment to pause and appreciate the hard work our many volunteers put into creating the High Holy Days at BJ.
With Gratitude to All Who Contributed this High Holy Days Season
We take a moment to pause and appreciate the hard work our many volunteers put into creating the High Holy Days at BJ.
Reflections on the BJ Teen Retreat
My friends and I made our way to the lake after we stocked up on apples, bananas, chickpeas, and corn at lunch. I threw in ...
Reflections on the BJ Teen Retreat
My friends and I made our way to the lake after we stocked up on apples, bananas, chickpeas, and corn at lunch. I threw in ...
My Summer at The Pardes Institute
This summer, I was lucky enough to learn in a program at The Pardes Institute. Pardes is an open, inclusive, diverse, and intellectually challenging Jewish ...
My Summer at The Pardes Institute
This summer, I was lucky enough to learn in a program at The Pardes Institute. Pardes is an open, inclusive, diverse, and intellectually challenging Jewish ...
My Summer at The Pardes Institute
This summer, I was lucky enough to learn in a program at The Pardes Institute. Pardes is an open, inclusive, diverse, and intellectually challenging Jewish ...
Social Action and Social Justice at BJ: Get Involved!
At a time when renewed voter attacks and efforts of voter suppression are sharply on the rise, it is our responsibility to make sure that ...
Social Action and Social Justice at BJ: Get Involved!
At a time when renewed voter attacks and efforts of voter suppression are sharply on the rise, it is our responsibility to make sure that ...
Sinai Bound: For Families
From Pesah to Shavuot, we invite our beloved families of BJ, to join the larger BJ community as we journey toward Sinai and create our ...
Purchase the Matzah You Need and Support the Fight Against Human Trafficking
We are proud to partner with Mitzvah Matzoh, a non-profit that harnesses the power of Pesah to expand freedom for those who need it most. ...
Purchase the Matzah You Need and Support the Fight Against Human Trafficking
We are proud to partner with Mitzvah Matzoh, a non-profit that harnesses the power of Pesah to expand freedom for those who need it most. ...
Purchase the Matzah You Need and Support the Fight Against Human Trafficking
We are proud to partner with Mitzvah Matzoh, a non-profit that harnesses the power of Pesah to expand freedom for those who need it most. ...
Purchase the Matzah You Need and Support the Fight Against Human Trafficking
We are proud to partner with Mitzvah Matzoh, a non-profit that harnesses the power of Pesah to expand freedom for those who need it most. ...
Purchase the Matzah You Need and Support the Fight Against Human Trafficking
We are proud to partner with Mitzvah Matzoh, a non-profit that harnesses the power of Pesah to expand freedom for those who need it most. ...
In the Era of Culture Wars: What We Can Learn From the Story of Joseph and His Brothers
Everyone and every group is involved in their own pain: in the righteousness, the misfortune, the suffering of their own group, in the victimhood of ...
D’var Torah: Parashat Lekh Lekha and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
I was a baby when Roe v. Wade was decided. I did not grow up wondering, should I ever need an abortion, whether I could ...
Looking Back: 20 Years Since 9/11
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we reflect on how it affected our community as well as those who volunteered from BJ ...
One Family’s Voyage on the St. Louis
When my parents, Freya and Ludwig Maier, returned from their honeymoon in early February 1933, Hitler had been chancellor of Germany for just a few ...
One Family’s Voyage on the St. Louis
When my parents, Freya and Ludwig Maier, returned from their honeymoon in early February 1933, Hitler had been chancellor of Germany for just a few ...
Surviving the Vilna Ghetto
The Dimentstein family resided in Florence for eight months while awaiting their U.S. visa. Chanka and Pinya were married in Venice in one of the ...
One Family’s Voyage on the St. Louis
When my parents, Freya and Ludwig Maier, returned from their honeymoon in early February 1933, Hitler had been chancellor of Germany for just a few ...
Perseverance, Strength, Hope, and Faith: The Survival of George & Julia Nelson and Ethel Greengold
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- By Les Nelson
My mother was able to fully appreciate and celebrate the many good things in her life: the birth of two sons; their marriages to exceptional ...
Eleh Ezkerah: My Father’s Escape From Warsaw
The few photos I have reveal a sharply dressed couple standing or sitting close together, my grandmother, Rosa, smiling warmly at the camera, and my ...
Frida’s Gift
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- By Madeline Cohen and Elizabeth Cohen
I am telling you about Frida on this Yom Kippur, a day primarily dedicated to seeking repentance and forgiveness. But it is also a day ...
Lost Worlds Found: Recovering Our Family History
I am overjoyed that for my sons, silence will be transcended by memory. Meeting these individuals was truly improbable and miraculous; the moments spent in ...
How an Artist and His Family Survived the Holocaust
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- By Anne Millman
These pieces of the puzzle enabled me to patch together a reasonable narrative. As the truth slowly emerged, I couldn’t help but wonder why it ...
What Does It Mean To Be a Child of Holocaust Survivors?
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- By Avi Ashman
Poland is a beautiful country, but I will go there only once more—to visit with my family the same places that I visited with my ...
Childhood Memories of Survival from Prague
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- By Tom Reiner
It is 1936; I am 5 years old. We live in Prague. I have just started collecting stamps and get great pleasure in knowing how ...
The Sun on Paneiru Street
We had just about the same amount of space in Jerusalem as I had had in the ghetto. We lived through another war. But this ...
My Family’s Story: Kovno, Lithuania 1941-1945
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- By Asya Berger
This is a story about me, my parents, and the family that rescued me, and the circumstances in Lithuania when I was a baby. It ...
Yom Kippur Memorial: A Prayer of Thanks to the Generation of the Holocaust
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- By Ron Taffel
Like snowflakes swirling past each other on a winter’s wind, my parents and my children never touched. Their descent into the Holocaust and their slow ...