Jewish NYC is one of the communities that defines New York City. We are the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel.
Jewish intellectuals played important roles in Christian and Islamic Spain, and the culture of NYC and the United States. Many New York Jewish traditions have become American traditions.
Jewish NYC News
2022
Jewish Film
The New York International Children’s Film Festival 2022 (NYICFF) screens Oscar-qualifying children’s films for a variety of ages at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan, Fri-Sun, Mar 4-19, 2022. From $17. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸🇺🇬🇺🇸
Jewish Theatre
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Prayer for the French Republic, David Cromer’s tale of a Jewish family trying to stay safe in World War II Paris, is on Stage I at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan on Feb 1-27. Extended to Mar 27. From $99. 🇫🇷✡️
Purim
Celebrate Purim and the courage of Jewish Persian Queen Esther on Wed-Thu, Mar 16-17. 🇮🇷✡️
Jewish New York City
NYC is the largest Jewish community outside of Israel.
- * 92nd Street Y is a Jewish community and cultural center that serves all communities in the Upper East Side.
- Bergdorf Goodman is a luxury department store in Midtown.
- * Center for Jewish History has the original handwritten copy of the Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor.”
- Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum in the Upper East Side.
- Jewish Museum exhibits Jewish culture in the Upper East Side.
- * Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan is a Jewish community center in the Upper West Side that produces the ReelAbilities Disability Film Festival.
- Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue became NYC’s first Jewish congregation in 1654.
- Temple Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish congregation in the Upper East Side.
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The Celebrate Israel Parade 2022 Brings Us Together Again!
Sunday, May 22, 2022
FIFTH AVENUE
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Celebrate Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival!
Friday, April 15-22, 2022 ✡️
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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year!
Sun-Tue, September 25-27, 2022
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On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Tov
Tue-Wed, October 4-5, 2022
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Celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish Harvest Festival!
Sunday, October 9-16, 2022
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On Giving Tuesday, Support the Arts
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights!
Sunday, December 18 – Monday, December 26, 2022
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Jewish NYC Calendar
January Jewish NYC
2023
Jewish Film Festival
The 31st New York Jewish Film Festival was hybrid at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center Wed, Jan 12-25, 2022. $15. ✡️
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Never forget Holocaust Remembrance Day, when Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated and the Shoah could no longer be denied, on Fri, Jan 27.
February Jewish NYC
2022
Jewish Contemporary Dance
Israeli contemporary dance company L-E-V performs “Chapter Three: The Brutal Journey of the Heart,” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Feb 22-27, 2022. From $26. 🇮🇱
March Jewish NYC
2022
Jewish Theatre
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Prayer for the French Republic, David Cromer’s tale of a Jewish family trying to stay safe in World War II Paris, is on Stage I at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan on Feb 1-27. Extended to Mar 27. From $99. 🇫🇷✡️
Purim
Celebrate Purim and the courage of Jewish Persian Queen Esther on Wed-Thu, Mar 16-17. 🇮🇷✡️
May Jewish NYC
2022
Celebrate Israel Parade
The Celebrate Israel Parade marches down Fifth Avenue on May 22. celebrateisraelny.org 🇮🇱
September Jewish NYC
2022
Rosh Hashanah
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish new year at sundown, Sun-Tue, Sep 25-27. ✡️
October Jewish NYC
2022
Yom Kippur
Celebrate Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement at sundown, Tue-Wed, Oct 4-5. ✡️
Sukkot
Celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival at sundown, Sun, Oct 9-16. ✡️
November Jewish NYC
2022
Kristallnacht
Remember Kristallnacht, so it doesn’t happen again, on Wed, Nov 9.
Giving Tuesday
On Giving Tuesday, support the arts, in the modern tradition started by NYC’s own 92nd Street Y, on Tue, Nov 29.
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Israeli contemporary dance company L-E-V performs “Chapter Three: The Brutal Journey of the Heart,” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Feb 22-27, 2022. From $26. 🇮🇱
The 31st New York Jewish Film Festival is hybrid at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center Wed, Jan 12-25. $15. ✡️
Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art is at the Jewish Museum in the Upper East Side to Jan 9, 2022. thejewishmuseum.org
Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is Sun, Nov 28 – Dec 6. 🕎
Remember Kristallnacht on Tue, Nov 9.
The E/AB Editions Artists’ Book Fair is virtual Oct 18-31. FREE eabfair.org 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽
NYC’s First Jewish Community was Sephardic
Sephardic basically means Spanish Jewish. We are not necessarily Latin, but Spain’s Sephardic community helped recover Europe’s Greek heritage from the great Islamic libraries until the Spanish Inquisition of 1478.
New York’s first Jewish community, Shearith Israel, arrived in Dutch New Amsterdam in 1654 fleeing the Inquisition in Brazil. The Community’s official request to remain, made New Amsterdam and then New York, an open city forever after.
Jewish Festivals NYC
After the faith celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Hanukkah, New York City’s biggest Jewish celebration is the Israel Parade.
Giving Tuesday has become a universal holiday tradition. It was started at the 92nd Street Y, the Jewish community and cultural center in the Upper East Side.
Celebrate Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival!
Friday, April 15-22, 2022 ✡️
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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year!
Sun-Tue, September 25-27, 2022
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On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Tov
Tue-Wed, October 4-5, 2022
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Celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish Harvest Festival!
Sunday, October 9-16, 2022
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Celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights!
Sunday, December 18 – Monday, December 26, 2022
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Jewish New York City
New York City is the largest Jewish community outside Israel. In 1654, the Jewish community that became Shearith Israel made New Amsterdam (New York) an open city for all who are willing to work and be governed.
The Hasidic community in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of New York’s iconic Jewish communities.
We tend not to think about it, but there are many Jewish businesses and cultural organizations in New York City.
Bergdorf Goodman
Daily
MIDTOWN, NYC
New York’s most luxurious department store sells Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, French, Italian, Spanish and Venezuelan designers
Shearith Israel is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
UPPER WEST SIDE, September 1654 ~ The first Jewish group arrived in New Amsterdam fleeing the Spanish Inquisition which had followed them to Recife in Dutch Brazil. They formed Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, America’s first Jewish congregation.
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Cornell Tech is New York City’s technology incubator
2 West Loop Rd
Roosevelt Island
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Temple Emanu-El
1 East 65th St at Fifth Avenue
Upper East Side, Manhattan
New York is the city with the world’s largest Jewish population. The first Jewish community to arrive in New Amsterdam in 1654 is still here. It’s the Sephardic community Shearith Israel. Sephardi are descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were expelled from Iberia in 1492.
The community’s struggle for acceptance is what made New York a city open to all who are willing to work and be governed. Probably more than anything else, this has been New York’s greatest blessing. New York is the city of work. We are the capital of the world because everyone is welcome here.
New York City’s notable Jewish institutions include the 92nd Street Y, JCC Manhattan, Center for Jewish History, Jewish Museum, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Museum at Eldridge Street.
The New York Jewish Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center with the Jewish Museum, is New York City’s first film festival of the year. There’s also the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival and the Reelabilities Film Festival.
Jewish New Yorkers
Chuck Schumer U.S. Senator from New York
Democrat Minority Leader
Elected 1998
Next election 2022
The Jewish World
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum
April 12 – September 8, 2019
Closed Wednesdays
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ One of the great poets of the 20th Century also knew exactly where the light enters you
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Jorge Drexler is the Philosopher King of Latin Pop Music
November 15, 2018
LAS VEGAS, Univision
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‘A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection’ at Hauser & Wirth
This Brazilian collection is a like a good museum of modern, post-war and contemporary art.
MUST SEE
Hauser & Wirth
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Saturday
April 26 – July 27, 2018
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‘Modigliani Unmasked’ explores questions of identity
The Jewish Museum
Upper East Side
Closed Wednesdays
OPENED September 15, 2017
CLOSING February 4, 2018
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
The Austrian-Jewish writer was one of the great international writers of the 1930s. When Europe self-destructed, he saved himself through exile in Brazil, but never stood up to Fascism. Opened May 12. Now playing at Lincoln Center Cinemas in the Upper West Side, Fri, May 19, 2017.
Conductor Saul Zaks embraces the ends of the world (Interview)
The Argentine conductor talks about conducting, Tango, the immigrant experience, and the ends of the world before conducting the world premiere of Martín Palmieri’s Tango Credo at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
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Jewish Culture
A lot of U.S. American culture began as Jewish culture in New York City.
Jarana Beat Does the Mexican Fandango at Terraza 7
Friday, May 13, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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“West Side Story” is one of the Great Love Stories
March 12, 2020
BROADWAY THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
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Who will write our history
GREENWICH VILLAGE through Thu, Jan 31, 2019 ~ This unprecedented screening of the award-winning documentary at 350 venues in 55 countries and Facebook Live marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Not Jewish? It’s even more important to watch. Jewish documentary movie.
Israel
The Jewish homeland is a sacred place for all the Abrahamic faiths whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
Jarana Beat Does the Mexican Fandango at Terraza 7
Friday, May 13, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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25th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2022 Screens Great Latin Films at SVA Theatre
Friday-Sunday, March 4-19, 2022
SVA THEATRE
Chelsea, Manhattan
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Playing for Peace Creates Champions Through Tolerance and Acceptance
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