Jewish NYC is the world’s largest Jewish community outside of Israel. The Jewish community is one of the communities that defines New York City. Many New York Jewish traditions have become American traditions of the United States.
New York’s first Jewish community, Shearith Israel, arrived in Dutch New Amsterdam in 1654, before it was even New York. Their official request to remain made New York an open city forever after.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy
February 26, 2021 🇫🇷🎨📚 Photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler on their newest art book “Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire: Frédéric Zaavy”
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Jarana Beat’s New York Fandango is the Perfect Antidote for COVID Blues
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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 and Jewish Freedom from Slavery!
Saturday, March 27 – April 4, 2021 ✡️
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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year!
Monday, September 6-8, 2021 ✡️
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Tov
Wednesday-Thursday, September 15-16, 2021 ✡️
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Celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish Harvest Festival!
Monday, September 27, 2021 ✡️
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Celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights!
Sunday, November 28 – December 6, 2021 ✡️
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Celebrate Purim and the Courage of Jewish Persian Queen Esther!
Wednesday-Thursday, March 16-17, 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.
92nd Street Y
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
This legendary Jewish community center hosts talks, classical and jazz concerts, and the Harkness Dance Festival
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Bergdorf Goodman
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MIDTOWN, NYC
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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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Jewish Museum
Closed Wednesdays
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ A museum of Jewish art and culture is Free on Saturdays
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’s New York Fandango is the Perfect Antidote for COVID Blues
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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.
Javier Limón
LINCOLN SQUARE, Sat, Feb 11, 2017, WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE, Spanish flamenco live music ~ The leading flamenco producer explores the Sephardic, Arabic, and Romani origins of Flamenco
Israel
The Jewish homeland is a sacred place for all the Abrahamic faiths whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
Jarana Beat’s New York Fandango is the Perfect Antidote for COVID Blues
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