Avital spoke in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, at an event presented by the Young Friends of the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Manhattan Jewish Experience. He explained how he survived six deaths camps, and a five-week death march.

“I wanted MJE members to meet the thriving Jewish community of the Upper West Side and at the same time I wanted the Orthodox community to see the great crowd we have, full of enthusiastic Jews seeking to grow spiritually,” said MJE West director Atara Neuer. “God is happy when his people are unified.”

“We have to show everyone that this is not what New York is about or believes in,” Rabbi Wildes said.

“We know that ‘charity begins at home,’ but it doesn’t end there,” Wildes said. “We’re sitting with a great hero whose brother gave his life for something that I believe is a Torah imperative.”

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Sex can be a difficult subject to talk about in any venue. In a synagogue, it can be especially awkward. But that wasn’t the case at the Manhattan Jewish Experience on West 86th Street, when Rachel Hercman — a psychotherapist specializing in sexual health, relationships and trauma — addressed a crowd of more than 100 Jewish professionals in their 20s and 30s.

“It’s a humble miracle, but what’s important is that the little bit of oil could not be exhausted and that reminds us anything can happen. God has no boundaries and isn’t limited by the physical,” explains Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, who ministers at the Manhattan Jewish Experience in New York.

At an event hosted by the Manhattan Jewish Experience, young adults learned how to make their apologies more meaningful.

Young, Jewish professionals filled up the Penthouse at the Attic Rooftop and Lounge for MJE’s second summer happy hour of the season

The Manhattan Jewish Experience, an organization for young Jewish professionals on the Upper West Side, offers slickly advertised social events, including a regular "Monday Night Lounge" that features music and a lecture on topics ranging from dating to kabbalah.

The most powerful way to keep the memory of the six million alive “is by living a Jewish life; by each and every one of us being engaged in something authentically and positively Jewish,” said Rabbi Wildes, “whether it’s celebrating Shabbat, coming to MJE to take a class on Judaism, getting involved with the Young Friends of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, learning how to read Hebrew or visiting Israel.”

Young Friends of the Jewish Heritage Museum and MJE co-hosted 'Stories of Survivors' for Holocaust Memorial Day at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

New York-based filmmaker Erez Cohen and Manhattan Jewish Experience, who previously teamed up for a Hannukah mash-up of One Direction songs, have again put their skills together for this very modern version of the Purim story.

New York—A rabbi, an imam and a pastor walk into bar… it’s not the start of a joke, but rather the tagline for a daring new lecture series hosted by Manhattan Jewish Experience this January, which sought to do just that—bring together clergy from the three Abrahamic religions to discuss similarities, differences and ways we can better understand each other’s communities.

The “nones” are on the rise in the U.S. with 33 million Americans identifying as having no religious affiliation. Atheists shouldn’t get too excited, though, because 68% of the unaffiliated indicate that they do believe in some sort of god. What kind of god do the nones believe in? This week’s guest, Rabbi Mark Wildes, wants it to be the God of Abraham.

A Chanukah-themed medley of One Direction hits has gone viral – and is set to brutally expose the generation gap in homes across North London

Musician Erez Cohen and the community organization Manhattan Jewish Experience took two beloved and often misunderstood cultural institutions — Hanukkah and One Direction — and mashed them up into the perfect holiday music parody.

New York City filmmaker Erez Cohen has produced a Hanukkah-themed parody of One Direction hits with Jewish a cappella groups Six13, Yeshiva University’s Y-Studs, and A.K.A. Pella as a promotion for the Manhattan Jewish Experience, a social organization for millennials.

Dr. Allison Stakofsky, a pediatric resident, said Jewish singles events pose the threat of being a difficult [read: awkward] experience. Yet she was grateful to be having “Cocktails on The Roof” along with nearly 250 other singles at the Manhattan Jewish Experience on West 86th Street, and there were indeed some prospects.

Helen Stechler knew that it could be a slow death or a quick death. Hiding from the Nazis in a barn, and covered in hay, the Holocaust survivor told a crowd of more than 320 young Jewish professionals on West 86th Street how she made a dangerous move.