Special Events and New Programs

Lower East Side Arts & Architecture Festival

Sunday, October 30, 2011 11:30 am - 4 pm

The Photography Show Continues in the Visitor Center
through December 30, 2011.

Kling & Niman Family Visitor's Center, 400 Grand Street, New York (between Clinton St. and Norfolk St).

Opening for Julian Voloj, Photographer;
Jewish Heritage Tours;
Jewelry + Vintage Tchotchkes Sale;
Meet the "Gals from the Hood"

Once upon a time, Manhattan's Lower East Side was not home-to-the-hip; it was where turn-of-the-century European immigrants settled, crowded into tenements, speaking a Babel of languages, bringing their food, culture, religion with them and spawning generations of successful Americans.

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy invites you to glimpse their world at its Art & Architecture Fest.

Schedule of Events:

11:30 - Meet the Gals from the Hood who will reminisce about life on the Lower East Side. The Galls from the Hood are Marilyn Guss Altman, daughter of the founding owner of Gus's Pickles; Carol Schneider Margolin, daughter of the "K'nish Man," whose many K'nish stands made this the original LES street food; Hesta Taube Fortgang, daughter of Ruth Taube, 40 year veteran professional at the Henry Street Settlement & LESJC layperson; and Carol Hordin, daughter of the founder of Hordin's Jewish Deli. Admission is free.

11:30 to 4 PM - Vintage tchotchke and fashion jewelry for sale. All proceeds go to benefit the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Admission is free.

11:30 - Insider walking tour of the Lower East Side. It includes the majestic Bialystoker Synagogue, an authentic, historic East Side "shtebel," sites along historic East Broadway plus surprise peeks at some places the public rarely sees. 75 minutes in length. $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students; children under 8 are free.

1:00 - Insider walking tour of the Lower East Side. (same as 11:30 tour)

1:30 - Meet photographer/writer Julian Voloj. Admission is free.

2:30 - Crossing Delancey walking tour. Learn about historic and religious sites north of Delancey Street and revisit the world of the Ellis Islander. $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students; children under 8 are free.

We look forward to seeing your there!

   
Photos by Julian Voloj

LESJC Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Centennial Events

SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2011 A Lower East Side Shul Remembers

Rabbi Yuter and the Stanton Street Shul invite the public to services the weekend of the centennial and offer these words:

“We are a rather poor tenement synagogue whose Galitzianer congregation started in 1894. We are in an old building that is located at the heart of the Lower East Side, near where most of the Fire’s immigrant victims lived. We would like to incorporate into the Shabbes (Sabbath) services a commemoration for the victims and also have El Molei Rachamim (another memorial prayer recited only on special dates) chanted. We know of no others commemorating this yurtzeit (anniversary of death) in the traditional language of prayer.”

Traditional food and drink will be served!

This event is free. Please note the historic building is not wheelchair accessible.

Time: 10:00 AM (2 hours)

Venue: Stanton Street Shul, 180 Stanton Street, between Clinton and Attorney Streets

SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011 Triangle Factory Fire: A Walking Tour Through Time

Join GVSHP and the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy in a walking tour that will highlight some of the sites associated with the disaster by exploring the various ways in which the Fire, and the lives it claimed, have been memorialized over the past 100 years. Sites will include Cooper Union, the NYU Brown Building, and an East Village synagogue.

This event is free. However, reservations are required. Call (212) 475-9585 ext. 35 for reservations.

Time: 10:30 AM (2 hours)

Venue: Walking tour meet-up location will be provided upon registration

SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011 The Jewish Response to Tragedy: An Interactive Study Session

Join us for a presentation & study session with Rabbi Zvi David Romm, spiritual leader of the Bialystoker Synagogue, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire.

Rabbi Romm, a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, will lead a study session (in English), to which all are welcome. Our program will explore how the horrendous loss of life in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire raised age-old questions about G-d's goodness and omnipotence. In this interactive workshop, Rabbi Romm will examine Jewish texts - both classic and modern - attempting to understand the spiritual strategies proposed by Jewish tradition for coping with disastrous loss.

This event is free. No reservations required.

Time: 2:00 PM (1 hour)

Venue: Kehila Kedosha Janina, 280 Broome Street

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