New York City is home to the largest urban Jewish community in the world. As of 2020, the city is home to over 960,000 Jews across the five boroughs, representing approximately 12% of the city's total
Jewish shopkeeper in New York City, c. 1929
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, which has the largest Jewish population in the US with over 561,000, more than in Tel Aviv.
Asser Levy Recreation Center on East 23rd Street and Asser Levy Place, Manhattan. Built as a free public bath in 1904–1906 to relieve unsanitary slum conditions and named after Asser Levy, a prominent Jewish citizen of Dutch New Amsterdam and its English successor, New York City.
European Jewish immigrants arriving in New York in 1887
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American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by ethnicity, religion, or culture. According to a 2020 poll conducted by Pew Research, approximately two thirds of Amer
History of the Jews in New York City
…a citywide strike in September of that year, shutting down the public schools for a total of 36 days and increasing racial tensions between Black and Jewish Americans. Thousands of New York City teachers went on strike when the school board of the neighborhood, which is now two separate neighborhoods, fired nineteen…
The New York City metropolitan area is home to by far the largest Jewish American population.
Touro Synagogue (built in 1759), in Newport, Rhode Island, has the oldest still existing synagogue building in the United States.
Birkat Hachama of Conservative Jews, Encino, Los Angeles