Miranda Lapides is the Creative Marketing & Communications Manager at The Jewish Education Project. She is a licensed NYC tour guide and brand ambassador for the New York Adventure Club. When she is not talking people’s ears off about New York City history, she documents her Jewish journey in a weekly newsletter called The Shabbat Drop.
Unpacked’s got the recommendations for exploring Brooklyn’s thriving Jewish scene, from cultural tours you can’t find anywhere else in the city to its vibrant food scene and more.
After Oct. 7, Sharon Hershkowitz proudly decorated her Tribeca storefront with blue and white balloons and a chalk-scrawled sign declaring, “Never again.”
At the beginning of the 20th century, Harlem’s Jewish community was the third-largest in the world, just behind Warsaw, Poland, and the Lower East Side.
