Jewish NYC is the world’s largest Jewish community outside of Israel. New York’s first Jewish community, Shearith Israel, arrived in Dutch New Amsterdam in 1654, before it was even New York.
The Jewish community is one of the communities that defines New York City. Many Jewish New Yorker traditions have become American traditions of the United States.
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 holiday tradition. It was started at the 92nd Street Y in the Upper East Side.
Support the Arts on Giving Tuesday
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Never Forget Holocaust Remembrance Day when Auschwitz-Birkenau was Liberated
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 – AUSCHWITZ, Poland January 27, 1945
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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year!
Monday, September 6-8, 2021 🇮🇱
“West Side Story” is one of the Great Love Stories
March 12, 2020 BROADWAY THEATRE Times Square Theater District, NYC
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Jewish Festivals in NYC
Celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights!
Thursday, December 10-18, 2020 🇮🇱
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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year!
Monday, September 6-8, 2021 🇮🇱
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Wednesday-Thu, September 15-16, 2021 🇮🇱
Celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish Harvest Festival!
Monday, September 27, 2021 🇮🇱
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Celebrate Purim and the Courage of Jewish Queen Esther of Persia
Thursday-Friday, February 25-26, 2021 – “Chag Purim Sameach!” (Happy Purim Holiday!)
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Celebrate Passover and Jewish Freedom from Slavery
Saturday, March 27 – Sunday, April 4, 2021 – The Jewish spring festival is the most sacred time in Judaism. It commemorates our release from slavery in Egypt and the Exodus. – “Chag Pesach samech” (Happy Passover)
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New York Jewish Film Festival 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, Daily, January 9-22, 2019 ~ Films from around the world that explore the diversity of Jewish experience # jewish film festival argentine french israeli spanish movies
Israel Day Parade 2018 celebrates Jewish culture. Sababa!
Fifth Avenue from 57th-74th St Midtown & Upper East Side, Manhattan Sunday, June 3, 2018
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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 ~ ¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
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. # jewish sanctuary fridays
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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
Remember Leonard Bernstein, Composer of “West Side Story”
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 – Lawrence, Massachussetts August 25, 1918
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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.
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.