Public Walking & Zoom Tours/Events

Visit the largest congregation on the Lower East Side, America's most famous immigrant neighborhood, and learn why there is a lobster on the ceiling.

A walking tour that explores the origin story of a community contributing to the American story since the earliest days of colonial NYC.

Join David Kaufman for another deep dive on Zoom into the Jewish history of Brooklyn, at one time the largest Jewish community in history.

Join us as we explore former synagogue buildings on the Lower East Side that have been lost to time, all now having new identities.

Join Historian David E. Kaufman for a deep dive into the Jewish history of the Bronx on this new zoom presentation.

Explore the unique and culturally rich history of the Jewish community of the Upper West Side, an area boarded by Central Park to the East, and Riverside Park to the West. This neighborhood is a 'powerhouse' of shuls, schools, and Jewish culture. The architecture exemplifies Beaux Arts, Art Noveau, and Art Deco.

Learn about Harlem's legendary Jewish institutions - many of which transformed the Judaism of today's world since it was once the second largest Jewish community in the United States, at one time home to more than 175,000 Jews.

Once known as the “Frankfurt on the Hudson” this neighborhood now called “Little Dominican Republic” has been home to generations of immigrants. There were the New Yorkers who migrated “uptown” when the subway expanded, the German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, and then the Hispanics seeking a better way of life. Washington Heights has embraced them all

A NEW walking tour of the Two Bridges neighborhood (lies between the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge) exploring it's Jewish past

Join Olga on Zoom as she discusses Krakow's struggle for survival and the destruction of it's Jewish community, during the Holocaust.

Use your imagination to evoke what once existed, as we view sites that were associated with Jewish Gangsters whose stories began on the LES. Examine where these leaders of the Jewish underworld began their nefarious activities.

Join us on this NEW tour as we walk Crown Heights exploring the Hassid’s and Hipsters as well as the non Hassidic Jews in this diverse neighborhood.

Visit TWO grand synagogues remaining on the Lower East Side today with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy AND the Museum at Eldridge Street.

Join a new Zoom talk that looks at some sukkah structures and decorations that are used by Jews each Fall during the weeklong festival.of Sukkot, both an agricultural festival of thanksgiving and a commemoration of the forty-year period during which the children of Israel wandered in the desert.

Visit the largest congregation on the Lower East Side, America's most famous immigrant neighborhood, and learn why there is a lobster on the ceiling.

Join us on Zoom with Olga to virtually discover the atmosphere and the spirit of Jewish life in Krakow during it's Golden Age -before WWII

Let's talk about some of the funniest Jewish Men in cinema, covering the greatest up to the latest masters of the one-liners and more that make us laugh.

Visit the largest congregation on the LES, America's most famous immigrant neighborhood, and learn why there is a lobster on the ceiling.

Virtually explore the new exhibition "The Sassoons" at the Jewish Museum in NYC with Dr. Sharon Keller from The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy on Zoom.

A Zoom talk with film historians discussing a time from the late Sixties into the mid-Seventies when Jewish-American cultural visibility was making inroads into public consciousness and popular culture via literature, music and the cinema.

Spend a few hours on the Lower East Side with your family this Father’s day and visit the spectacularly colorful Bialystoker Synagogue, then walk down Historic East Broadway discussing significant sites along the way. Paul Weissman, the guide has spent his entire life on the LES, so hear a true “insiders’ perspective.

Learn about Harlem's legendary Jewish institutions - many of which transformed the Judaism of today's world since it was once the second largest Jewish community in the United States, at one time home to more than 175,000 Jews.