This summer, the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project will add another chapter to its journey with the installation of five new markers at key locations in the Catskills. Each town or village on the ...

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. — The Borscht Belt Fest returned for a third year over the weekend, marking the region’s Jewish history and drawing crowds to the village. Organized by the village’s Borscht Belt ...

(New York Jewish Week) – The Borscht Belt, the Jewish vacationland in New York’s Catskill Mountains, has been in decline for nearly as long as it once thrived. Most of the resorts and hotels that drew ...

A talented and committed group of locals, artists, and historians are preserving the rich history of the Borscht Belt with a new series of historical markers and cultural programming. The broad goal ...

In the mid-20th century, New York’s Catskills were the place to be in the summer months. From the 1920s through the 1990s, those looking for a getaway retreated to one of the hundreds of resorts, ...

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. —The new Catskills Borscht Belt Museum seeks to tell the story of the many resorts that once dotted the Southwestern corner of Ulster County and across Sullivan County from the 1910s ...

Our culture reporter Irene Katz Connelly traveled to Mountain Dale, New York – once a thriving Borscht Belt hotspot – to see how a new trail of historical markers are paying tribute to a Jewish ...

LOW CLOUDS HUGGING THE MOUNTAINSIDES, MAKING A BEAUTIFUL BACKDROP ON OUR DRIVE TO BREAKFAST. IN THE BIBLICALLY INSPIRED TOWN OF PHOENICIA, NEW YORK. THERE TO DROP IN AT THE 60S INSPIRED PHOENICIA ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What’s a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic told by the famous Catskills entertainer Myron Cohen. A Jewish grandmother is taking her grandson on ...