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Jewish Culture in New York City

Jewish Culture in New York City is one of the cultures that defines New York. Our Jewish community made New York an open city in 1654. There are vibrant Jewish communities across Latin America and Europe, and a lot of New York Jewish culture has become American culture.

Passover matzo (Inna/Adobe)

Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival, Celebrates Freedom from Slavery

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Arturo O'Farrill (Jen Rosenstein/ Hostos Center)

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Play Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos”

CARNEGIE HALL “Nuestros sonidos,” Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇮🇱

92nd Street Y, New York (Cory Weaver Bright/92NY)

92nd Street Y, New York is a World-Class Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities

6th Ladies in the Shoe tap conference 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇯🇵

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan

Purim (Anton Vierietin/Dreamstime)

Purim Celebrates Deliverance as Told in the Book of Esther

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DOC NYC (Guruxox/Dreamstime)

DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival Screens Films That Make You Think About What’s Going On All Around Us Right Now

IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, VILLAGE EAST BY ANGELIKA, West Village, Chelsea, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩

New York City Wine and Food Festival NYCWFF (coffmancmu/Adobe)

New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) Fundraises for God’s Love We Deliver Out of Brooklyn This Year, Oy Vey

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South 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Africa 🇬🇭 🇪🇹 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
Asia 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇱🇧 🇯🇵 🇵🇭

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Sponsors

Thank you for sponsoring Jewish Culture in New York City:

  • 92nd Street Y, New York
  • Center for Jewish History
  • Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan

Jewish New York City

New York City is the world’s largest Jewish city, and our Jewish community is one that defines New York City.

It’s changing now, but Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Upper West Side, and Lower East Side; plus Brooklyn’s South Williamsburg, Crown Heights, and Borough Park have large Jewish communities.

There are vibrant Jewish communities across Latin America and Europe.

  • 92nd Street Y, New York
  • Center for Jewish History
  • Jewish Museum
  • Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
  • Museum of Jewish Heritage

Jewish Art in NYC

New York’s Jewish community is deeply involved in New York’s art scene.

The Center for Jewish History collection

Jewish Museum shows Jewish art and culture from around the world.

Jewish Cultural Centers in NYC

92nd Street Y, New York, in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is a Jewish cultural center that serves all peoples.

Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan is a Jewish community center in Manhattan’s Upper West Side that produces the Reelabilities Film Festival. mmjccm.org

Jewish Film in NYC

The New York Jewish Film Festival screens movies about the Jewish experience around the world.

The Reelabilities Film Festival, which screens movies about Disabled people around the world, was founded by the JCC.

The Sephardic Film Festival screens movies about the Sephardic experience around the world.

Jewish Theatre in NYC

Jewish theatre had a lot to do with the development of Broadway theatre.

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the world’s oldest continually-operating Yiddish theatre produces Jewish theatre at New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park City. nytf.org

Jewish Culture

Jewish Culture in New York City (Warczakoski/Dreamstime)
Jewish Culture in New York City (Warczakoski/Dreamstime)

The most interesting thing about Jewish culture is that it teaches you to think. Many religions teach you to follow religious leaders, or perhaps memorize holy books. But in Jewish culture, you have to read the Torah, the Jewish holy book (first five chapters of the Bible), and defend it. This teaches you to think and to speak.

Klezmer

Klezmer is Jewish folk music from Eastern Europe. It developed separately from jazz, but has the same vibe. Klezmer and jazz go together as if they were created by the same hand. It makes Jewish jazz spectacular.

Jewish Festivals

The High Holy Days have several parts:

  • Rosh Hashanah is Jewish New Year.
  • Ten Days of Repentance
  • Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement.
  • Sukkot is the Jewish fruit harvest festival.

Jewish Artists

Chuck Schumer is the U.S. Senator from New York

Jorge Drexler, Philosopher King of Latin Pop, Plays The Town Hall

Leonard Bernstein Led the NY Phil and Composed “West Side Story”

Leonard Cohen Saw A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum

Modigliani Unmasked Explores Questions of Identity at the Jewish Museum

Saul Zaks embraces the ends of the world (Interview)


Published April 30, 2025 ~ Updated April 30, 2025.

Filed Under: North American NYC

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