SUNDAY MAY 18, 2025
12PM - 6PM
280 BROOME ST
BETWEEN ALLEN ST AND ELDRIDGE ST
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC
DELICIOUS FOOD
LIVE MUSIC
KIDS ACTIVITIES
- 2024 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE -
12pm
1pm
2pm
3pm
4pm
5pm
Stavros Theodorou Orchestra
Hellenic Dancers of New Jersey
Noga Group featuring Avram Pengas
Hannah Dance Performance
Sounds of Cyprus
Habbina Habbina
OUR FESTIVAL
Join the Greek Jewish Festival as we celebrate the unique Romaniote and Sephardic heritage of the Jews of Greece. Experience a feast for the senses including authentic kosher Greek foods and homemade Greek pastries, traditional dance performances with live Greek and Sephardic music, an outdoor marketplace full of vendors, arts and educational activities for kids, and much more!
OUR COMMUNITY
Kehila Kedosha Janina (the Holy Community of Janina) is the only Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. Romaniote Jews are a unique community of Greek-speaking Jews whose history in Greece dates back over 2,300 years to the time of Alexander the Great. The Romaniotes are historically distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Greece after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
Kehila Kedosha Janina is a NYC designated landmark, and continues to hold services every Saturday morning as well as for all Jewish holidays. In addition, it houses a museum about Greek Jewry that is open to the public every Sunday, as well as by appointment. The museum serves as a repository for both Romaniote and Sephardic history, especially on the Lower East Side, and hosts many educational events including lectures, book signings, movie screenings, and concerts.
We are a small but tight-knit community, and we continually open our doors to visitors to provide both a spiritual home as well as a place to learn about Greek Jewish history. The Greek Jewish Festival is our latest effort to not only preserve our unique culture, but also to celebrate and develop new ways of expressing what it means to be a Romaniote or Sephardic Jew. We welcome all people to come celebrate and share in this journey with us.
SYNAGOGUE TOURS
GREEK DANCING
VENDORS & GIFTS
We are incredibly grateful for the generous support of the following organizations and individuals
- FESTIVAL SPONSORS -
Norris & Judith
Wolff
Maurice & Lena Russo Family Foundation
Julis Dalven Family
Joel & Laurel
Marcus
Ike, Molly, & Steven
Elias Foundation
Miller Manhattan Foundation
Amelia &
Richard A.
Bernstein
Sephardic
Temple of Cedarhurst
Sephardic
Jewish Center
of Forest Hills
Chesed
v'Emeth
Kastoryalis
Foundation for the
Advancement of
Sephardic Studies
& Culture
United Brotherhood
Good Hope
Society of Janina
Association of
Friends of
Greek Jewry
Sisterhood
of Janina
Sephardic
Jewish Center
of Canarsie
Delta Realty Group
Omega Realty Group
The Sterling Group
Sid
Ganis
Halegua
Family
Katherine
Fleming
Genee
Family
David & Gail
Baruch
Roz
Caplan
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