Manhattan Workers Circle School - MWCS

06/23/2024

Mazel tov to our 2024 B’nei Mitzve students!

06/05/2024

Our students went on an incredible walking tour of the Lower East Side this past Sunday led by Eve Jochnowitz. Starting at the former home of Jewish Anarchist, Emma Goldman, then walking down 2nd ave stopping at the former Yiddish Art Theater building, the Hebrew Actor’s Union Building, the Yiddish Walk of Fame, and ending with some delicious nosh at Yonah Shimmel’s Knish Bakery...... jalapeño & potato knish highly recommend.

Photos by Lantz Arroyo & Evan Kleinman

P.S. - We are having our Spring Open House this Sunday 6/9 for any families who might be interested in learning more about our community and Sunday school program. https://www.circle.org/events/mwcsopenhouse

05/22/2024

Our students have been busy! The Manhattan Shule Band played at with Kids Klezmer NYC, led by shule parent and NYC musician, Aaron Alexander. Alef-Beys student, Esti Zannoni recited a poem in Yiddish at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial in Riverside Park.

We are having an open house on Sunday June 9th at 10:30am at the Manny Cantor Center (197 E.Bway). Join us and learn about our secular, Bundist-inspired Jewish Sunday school for ages 2 through B’nei Mitzve. More info at: circle.org/manhattan.

04/21/2024

We wish everyone a sweet and healthy Passover with justice for all!

Mir vintshn alemen aykh a zisn un koshern Peysakh mit gerekhtikeyt far ale!

מיר ווינטשן אַלעמען אַײַך אַ זיסן און כשרן פּסח מיט גערעכטיקייט פֿאַר אַלע!

03/25/2024

Live Klezmer music from students of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Shule led by Aaron Alexander on Purim.

03/25/2024

א פרייליכן פורים ! A freilichin Purim ! Happy Purim

03/25/2024

The Manhattan and Brooklyn Shule celebrated Purim together at the Manny Cantor Center with live Klezmer music, Yiddish singing, a clothing swap, Purim spiel, voting rights petitions, and lots of Hamentashen.

03/18/2024

Join the Manhattan and Brooklyn Workers Circle schools THIS SUNDAY 3/24 for a family Purim carnival from 11am-12:30pm at the Manny Cantor Center (197 E. Broadway). We’ll have live music from our intergenerational Klezmer family band with dancing, pastry- and puppet-making, games and activities, noshing, and a teen-led clothing swap for all ages. Come in costume! Open to the public! A Freilichen Purim!

Join the Manhattan and Brooklyn Workers Circle schools at this celebratory Purim event for families with children ages 12 and under.

03/07/2024

The Manhattan Worker’s Circle Intergenerational Klezmer band performed for a packed house this past Sunday just before our B’nei Mitzve class presented their family oral history projects. Led by musician and parent Aaron Alexander, they got the simkhe started.

03/05/2024

Our 2024 B’nei Mitzve class presented their family oral history projects. Each student interviewed an elder family member about their family history and we got to hear many incredible stories about immigration to America, life during the Great Depression, World War 2, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Era. Of course no MWCS celebration would be complete without a performance from our Intergenerational Klezmer band.

02/25/2024

Music and singing is a big part of our shule program for children ages 2-13. We meet every Sunday at 10:30am on the Lower East Side at the Manny Cantor Center and start the day singing in Yiddish “Gut Morgn Aykh” (good morning everyone). We also have an intergenerational klezmer band of students and parents who perform at our holiday celebrations.