Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Town of Fallsburg's building inspector, Allen Frishman witnessed the bulldozing of countless dilapidated hotels and ...

The second annual Borscht Belt Fest, featuring comedy, food, music and storytelling, will take place July 26-28 in the Catskills. Organized by the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York, this ...

HIGHMOUNT, N.Y. (AP) -- The mountainous region once known as the Borscht Belt now has a new slogan to market its year-round attractions: "The Catskills, Always in Season." The winner of the "Capture ...

The owners at the Brown's Hotel named their club after the comedian maestro Jerry Lewis (top inset), who performed there (main). The resorts were proving ground for legends such as Jackie Mason ...

From “The Ruins of the Borscht Belt” exhibit. Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld The once glorious summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in the parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster are now in ruins. Hotel ...

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 ...

(New York Jewish Week) — On a cold night last week, Barbara Hoff, the owner of an antique store in the Catskills, heard from a friend in the local fire department that the Nevele Grand Hotel was ...

If you've seen "Dirty Dancing," you already know something about the Borscht Belt. The name is a reference to the hearty red beet soup popular with Eastern European immigrants who arrived through New ...

As Grossinger's Catskill Resort moves toward redevelopment, new interest is reviving an old question: How much did it ...

For many Jewish New Yorkers, summer once meant fleeing city crowds and heading to the Catskill Mountains. Over the weekend, hundreds of people gathered in Ellenville for a festival celebrating the ...

Andrew Jacobs, the Co-president of the museum’s board of directors is seen through a hole in one of the rooms of the future Catskill’s Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, N.Y.The building was once the ...

NPR revisits the Borscht Belt, a place where Jewish families from New York escaped for the summer at a time when they weren't welcomed elsewhere. For many Jewish New Yorkers, summer once meant fleeing ...