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Learn more about our community at Kehila Kedosha Janina (the Holy Community of Janina) and discover the nearly 2,300 year old history of the Romaniote Jews of Greece.
Meet our communal leadership and read our monthly newsletters. Explore our museum and join us at our unique Greek Jewish events. Explore our historic building erected in 1927 and restored to its original conditions. We are proud to be listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places and a designated New York City Landmark since 2004.
About Us
Kehila Kedosha Janina, at the same location on the Lower East Side for the past 98 years, is the last remaining Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. Our active community still conducts weekly services in the traditional Romaniote liturgy.
Join us for our weekly Shabbat and Jewish holiday services. Use our state-of-the-art facility to host a wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, family reunion, or other events.
Religious Services
Learn more about Greek Jewry and Jewish Life on the Lower East Side. Our museum is open to the public every Sunday from 11am-4pm as well as by appointment and offers free guided tours. Visitors are strongly encouraged to email museum@kkjsm.org to let us know if you plan to visit.
The museum serves as a repository for Greek Jewish history and culture. It also hosts a variety of events throughout the year including lectures, book signings, movie screenings, and concerts.
Museum and Tours
News & Announcements
Pesah Holiday Services
Spring 2025
Join us at KKJ as we celebrate Pesah in the Romaniote tradition. At the same location on the Lower East Side for the past 98 years, KKJ is the last remaining Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere conducting services in the Judeo-Greek Romaniote Minhag (tradition). View our full schedule Here. Please RSVP to Amarcus@kkjsm.org מועדים לשמחה Χρόνια Πολλά
Yom HaShoa Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony
Sunday April 27 at 1pm
We invite you to join us to remember all who perished in the Holocaust, especially our brethren from Greece and the Balkans. Following the ceremony there will be a screening of the acclaimed short film “The Monopol” about the experience of the Jews of North Macedonia during the Holocaust. Afterwards we will have a special Q&A with the Israeli filmmakers. Please RSVP to Amarcus@kkjsm.org
Greek Jewish Festival
May 11 from 12pm-6pm
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 Greek dancing and live Greek and Sephardic music, an outdoor marketplace full of vendors, arts and educational activities for kids, and much more! Learn more at www.GreekJewishFestival.com
To Say I Was Here: Greek, Ladino, Turkish, & Arabic Speaking Jewish Recording Musicians in NY circa 1916-66
March 30 at 1pm
Join us on Sunday March 30 for a special presentation and listening session led by music researcher Ian Nagoski, who will survey the immigrant performers who recorded in Lower Manhattan in the first half of the 20th century. Explore the lives and music of immigrants from Aleppo, Baghdad, Ioannina, Istanbul, Izmir, and Thessaloniki who settled in NYC. Experience this unique opportunity to hear and feel their music again. Please RSVP to Amarcus@kkjsm.org
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