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The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, is a new model of community center designed to match the needs and spirit of the Jewish communities in Central and Northern Brooklyn.

02/23/2026

Visual artist and Asylum alum Raya Bruckenthal's solo exhibition "The Vessel Bearers" is now on view at Maya Gallery in Tel Aviv.

The exhibition constitutes another chapter in her ongoing investigation of the religious experience—specifically the material and aesthetic aspects of Orthodox Judaism—approached from a position of both curiosity and critique. In this exhibition, she returns to courageous questions regarding the connection between sanctity and spiritual practice and aesthetic pleasure and material wealth—questions that seem particularly relevant today. Her work involves the formal deconstruction of imagery from diverse sources, both religious and secular, and their reassembly on paper through intense, multi-layered pencil drawings.

Through April 11, 2026

Image: detail from "The Vessel Bearers". Photo credit: Einat Arif Galanti

11/14/2025

“What’s cool is what’s new and different, even when it’s rooted in the past.”

Galeet Dardashti explores family, music, and identity. Listen now on Jewish Culture Club.
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10/05/2025

This Monday, October 6, 2025, Sukkot in The Neighborhood (Asylum Arts' new home) is back for its third year - an eight-day celebration of arts, culture, and spirituality, taking place in an art installation Sukkah. This year, we’re presenting a Sukkah created by artist and Artist Working Group participant Susan Stainman. Stainman’s Structures of Welcoming is inspired by the holiday's tradition of welcoming ancestors, referencing radical, cultural, and mystical lineages within Jewish history.

The first night will be devoted to a ritual of welcoming/art activation. This communal practice will draw on Jewish ideas of welcoming ancestors, strangers, and one another, led by Susan Stainman. Together, we will meditate, sing, and share space with intentions of cultivating love and hospitality. This is your chance to explore the Sukkah alongside the artist.
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Swipe through to see all the activations and events for this year's Sukkot in The Neighborhood festival.

Click here for tix and more info: https://www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events-details/sukkot-in-the-neighborhood-2025

08/25/2025

New Year in The Neighborhood is our first ever Rosh Hashanah family service, presented in partnership with Fig Tree, B’nai Brooklyn, and Moxy Brooklyn Williamsburg.

Join us alongside meditation teacher Alison Laichter and our ritual team for a morning experience created especially to be experienced by families together. This program invites people of all ages to renew and reflect, while setting intentions for a year of sweetness ahead. Expect kid-friendly meditation, music, storytelling, and spiritual play. Together, we’ll dream toward a new year of peace, love, silliness, connection, and delight.

Early bird tickets are available now at the link in our bio ($18/child + $36/adults).

06/30/2025

💥 LAST CALL 💥 Matching gift ends tonight! Donate before midnight to have your donation matched dollar for dollar. Thank you to everyone who has given so far. Haven’t given yet? Now is the perfect time! Make your gift at the link in our bio.

06/23/2025

Every month, The Neighborhood offers inventive Jewish community and cultural programming at a highly subsidized cost. So become a monthly donor, and help us keep opening doors to all Brooklynites. Become a monthly donor at the link in our bio (just $5 a month makes a big difference!)

06/20/2025

We had the time of our lives at Catskills, BK: Dirtier Dancing! Thank you to everyone who came out to dance with us, and to our partners The Borscht Belt Museum, Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, FLAMINGGG, and Lillistar and Mesiba at Moxy Brooklyn Williamsburg. Shoutout to our musical performers Joco + Party Girl + Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentshn as well as our dancers AJ Blankenship + Sara Thoreson

Photo credit Santiago Felipe

There are just two programs left with The Neighborhood before we go on summer break- learn more and sign up at the link in our bio!

06/18/2025

We make magic! Doing Jewish arts, culture, and spirituality Brooklyn-style takes a lot of hard work, imagination, and support from the community. Give today and help us unlock our $10,000 match. (Monthly gifts count too!) Donate now at the link in our bio.

06/16/2025

Catskills, BK: Dirtier Dancing is tomorrow and we’re running low on tickets! Grab yours now at the link in our bio before they sell out.

This event will have live music, DJ sets, egg creams, nosh, and so much more. Come have the time of your life!

06/13/2025

Borscht Belt ephemera through the decades! Catskills, BK: Dirtier Dancing is inspired by the many aesthetics that Borscht Belt hotels used to attract guests through the years. Few tickets remain, so grab yours now at the link in our bio!

Ephemera images courtesy of The Borscht Belt Museum and the archive of the Catskills Institute.

1. Brochures for Hotel Levitt and “Peg Leg” Bates Country Club
2. Pamphlets for High Holidays at Homowack Lodge (1979) and Passover at The Nemerson Hotel (1969)
3. Image from Homowack Lodge brochures (1974, 1976) and “Be Nice” sticker (1976)
4. Business cards for Mendel’s Taxi (1950) and Mendel’s Employment Agency (1950)

06/12/2025

As our season comes to a close, we’re asking you, our community, to help us meet an important financial goal. Give any amount today, and double your impact. So be a good neighbor! Donate now at the link in our bio.

06/11/2025

At Catskills, BK: Dirtier Dancing we’re serving up free egg creams with our good friends from The Brooklyn Seltzer Museum. If you’re not familiar, the egg cream is one of the Jews’ many culinary gifts to New York City. Featuring neither eggs nor cream, this delicious beverage consists of the improbable combination of milk, chocolate syrup, and seltzer. Our egg creams will be made from the finest seltzer Brooklyn has to offer, siphoned fresh by the Brooklyn Seltzer Boys. Buy a ticket now at the link in our bio!

Photo 1 via Library of Congress. Photos 2,3,4,5 courtesy The Brooklyn Seltzer Museum!

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