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Jewish NYC is one of the communities that defines New York City. We are the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel. Many New York Jewish traditions have become American traditions of the United States.

Jewish NYC News

The E/AB Editions Artists’ Book Fair is virtual Oct 18-31. FREE eabfair.org 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽

Ongoing

Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art is at the Jewish Museum in the Upper East Side to Jan 9, 2022. thejewishmuseum.org

Coming Soon

Remember Kristallnacht on Tue, Nov 9.

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is Sun, Nov 28 – Dec 6. 🕎

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. 🇮🇱

Jewish Archive

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.

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.

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

The Jewish World

Jewish Culture

A lot of U.S. American culture began as Jewish culture in New York City.

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

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Israel

The Jewish homeland is a sacred place for all the Abrahamic faiths whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim.

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