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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.

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. 🇮🇷✡️

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Jewish NYC (Avraham Kushnirov/Dreamstime)
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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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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.

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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. 🇮🇱

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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. 🇮🇷✡️

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April Jewish NYC

2022

Passover

Celebrate Passover, the Jewish spring festival at sundown, Fri, Apr 15-22. ✡️

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May Jewish NYC

2022

Celebrate Israel Parade

The Celebrate Israel Parade marches down Fifth Avenue on May 22. celebrateisraelny.org 🇮🇱

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September Jewish NYC

2022

Rosh Hashanah

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Jewish new year at sundown, Sun-Tue, Sep 25-27. ✡️

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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. ✡️

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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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December Jewish NYC

2022

Hanukkah

Celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, at sundown, Sun Dec 18 – Mon, Dec 26. 🕎

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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 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽

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.

We tend not to think about it, but there are many Jewish businesses and cultural organizations in New York City.

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.

Israel

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

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