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Ethnography Center of Acre and the GalileeTelephone972-4-9911004, Fax972-4-9911004 | ||
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Etz Hayyim Synagogue, HaniaWebsite: www.etz-hayyim-hania.org Telephone30.282.108.6286 | ||
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Etzel MuseumTelephone972-3-5284001 | ||
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First Aliya MuseumTelephone972-4-6294777 | ||
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Forest Hills Jewish CenterSet in a niche off the main thoroughfare of Queens Boulevard, the Forest Hills Jewish Center is an egalitarian Conservative congregation. The main feature of the center is an Ark designed by illustrat ... Website: www.fhjc.org Telephone718-263-7000 | ||
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Former Canal Street TheaterA silent movie palace of the 1920s, the Canal Street Theater was known for its beautifully detailed terracotta façade. Now an electronics store, the beauty of the building has been marred somewhat bu ... | ||
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Former Concourse Plaza HotelThis was once the grandest hotel in the Bronx, the place to be seen and the most desired location for a wedding or a bar mitzvah. Once graced by presidents from Truman to Kennedy, and the hotel where ... | ||
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Former East Side Hebrew InstituteEast of 1st Avenue in this section of the Lower East Side, the avenues are given letters; Avenue A, B, C and D. Because of this the area became known as “Alphabet City” and from the 1960s onwards ... | ||
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Former Eastern District High SchoolNow the High School for Legal Studies, the Eastern District High School was the secondary school of choice for the neighborhood’s teenagers from 1895 to 1994. Perhaps the most famous student was Bar ... | ||
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Former Home of Barbra StreisandDiane Streisand moved to this home as a single mother, her husband Manny dying suddenly 1 year after Barbara was born. Seven year old Barbara would live here until graduating from Erasmus Hall High Sc ... | ||
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Former Home of Joan RiversBorn Joan Molinsky and raised in Brooklyn, the comedian known as Joan Rivers has become the voice of Brooklyn. Her loud, brash and raspy Brooklyn accent has been a mainstay of comedy clubs, talk shows ... | ||
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Former Home of Red ButtonsBorn Aaron Chwatt and raised on the first floor of this apartment building, this Broadway star and entertainment personality of the war years got his name for his first job as a singing bellhop. His r ... | ||
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Former home of Rodney DangerfieldWorking as an aluminum siding salesman, legendary Jewish comedian Rodney Dangerfield lived in a cramped apartment with his wife and children above Austin Ale House, an often raucous tavern. At that po ... | ||
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Former home of Stanley KubrickThese modest brick apartments were the childhood home of Stanley Kubrick, one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Born to Jewish parents who traced their ancestry back to Romania and Polan ... | ||
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Former Home of Woody AllenBorn Allan Stewart Konigsberg, the young comedian began writing gags under the name Woody Allen while still attending Midwood High School and living in this apartment building on Avenue K. His on-stag ... | ||
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Former Jo Goldenberg’s RestaurantAn époque ended with the closing of the famous Jo Goldenberg’s Restaurant. Fleeing the pograms in Russia, Jo Goldenberg opened up his first shop on rue de Rosiers in 1920’s. Passed on through sev ... | ||
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Former Public BathsRecently converted into the Church of Grace to Fujianese, these were the public baths used by tenants of the crowded tenement buildings in the area. Prior to 1902, residential buildings were not requi ... | ||
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Former Thomas A Edison Movie StudiosNow a facility of the New York Sanitation Department, this was a major studio for the production of silent movies. Established in 1905, Biograph Studios moved to the Bronx in 1913. Among its productio ... | ||
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Former Yeshiva of Rabbi Jacob JosephKnown as the RJJ, this yeshiva was built in 1913 and was one of the most prominent learning centers in the city. Moved to Staten Island in 1976, the buildings were abandoned for many years before bei ... | ||
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Fort DouaumontThis massive fortress in the town of Douaumont was one of the many areas near Verdun that saw heavy combat during the First World War. Inside the fortress is a monument to Jews who died for France dur ... | ||
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