As the Brooklyn Bridge turns 125 years old, the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is bringing the next exciting thing out of the borough and into Manhattan. On Wednesday, June 11 join singer/songwriters Chana Rothman, Clare Burson, and Michelle Citrin as they take the stage in the Museum’s Edmond J. Safra Hall for The Best of Brooklyn.

In an announcement made yesterday at the annual meeting held in Denver, Colorado, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust and Noah's Ark were named as two of the four national honorees of the Excellence in Exhibition Competition organized by the American Association of Museums.

In the spirit of the first Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam from Brazil in 1694, the Museum invites the community to join the critically acclaimed master of Sephardic song, Gerard Edery and an accomplished ensemble of international musicians for the world premiere of The Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate, A 500Year Musical Journey.

On Thursday, June 12 join author Marion Kaplan for a discussion of her new book Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 19401945 (Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008), which serves as the companion volume to the groundbreaking, bilingual installation, Sosua: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic (Sosua: Un Refugio de Judios en la Republica Dominicana).

On Wednesday, May 28 at 6:30 P.M. join Rabbi Kushner at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust as he offers practical and inspiring advice on continuing to dream in the face of disappointment. The Jerusalem Report describes Overcoming Life's Disappointments as "an articulate, nononsense treatise… A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor."

Join the critically acclaimed ensemble Serendipity 4 for the New York debut of Bridge to Peace, an eclectic concert of music from around the world highlighting Sephardic, Yiddish, Bosnian, Hebrew, and Greek musical traditions. Bridge to Peace, a celebration of both the diversity and commonality of culture, will take place on Wednesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. in Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

After two years of soldout shows which the Downtown Express called "authentic, funny — and yes, subversive…" the Museum is seeking submissions by upandcoming local Jewish artists for possible inclusion in this year's event. The winners will be showcased in a dynamic evening of cuttingedge comedy, music, storytelling, and film at the Third Annual New York's Best Emerging Jewish Artists at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on Wednesday, July 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Join Drama Desk Awardwinning playwright David Wiltse for a reading and discussion of his gripping play, The Good German. Directed by the Long Wharf Theatre's Kim Rubinstein, the play will feature an ensemble of accomplished Broadway, film, and television actors. The story follows a sympathetic German woman who opens her home to a Jewish man during World War II, despite the protests of her antiSemitic husband.

In 1942, after receiving news about mass killings in Belzec and Treblinka, some young Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto decided to fight back. On April 19, 1943, in response to the Nazis' attempt to raze the remnants of the ghetto, the ghetto fighters took up arms against the Nazis in the first urban uprising in Nazioccupied Europe.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is pleased to announce the publication of Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua 19401945 by Professor Marion Kaplan of New York University.

Families of all backgrounds and ages are invited to attend a free handson Family Workshop — Exploring Identity, Immigration, and Memory through Art and Culture of the Dominican Republic at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. This program is presented in conjunction with the special bilingual exhibition opening February 17, Sosua: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic (Sosua: Un Refugio de Judios en la Republica Dominicana).

“It all started with a Slim Jim,” Shalom Auslander writes about the difficulties of keeping kosher and the temptations he faced in his youth, in the memoir that the New York Times Book Review calls “funny, fierce and subversively heartfelt.”