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The New York Jewish Week is the home of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s New York coverage.

11 fascinating facts about Emma Lazarus, the Jewish writer who gave voice to the Statue of Liberty

Yes, the poet and author penned “The New Colossus.” But she also did so much more.

Meet the Jewish architects who designed NYC’s iconic art deco buildings

The art deco movement is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Walter Zev Feldman sits in front of a bookcase

He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir.

A group of women (Nice Jewish Girls) at a self-defense class

Meet Nice Jewish Girls, an NYC social club for Jewish women in their 20s and 30s

Woodstock, but make it Orthodox: A Jewish music festival comes to the Catskills

Jewish ice creams and frozen treats to try in NYC this summer

Jennie Grossinger, proprietor of Grossinger's Catksills Resort, is flanked by Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, who are both kissing her on her cheeks

The Jewish women who made Grossinger’s Catskill Resort famous are the subjects of a new TV show

Jewish NYers have flooded WhatsApp groups to counter Zohran Mamdani. Now they just need a candidate.

Comedian Liz Glazer dishes on her ‘very Jewish’ comedy special

These Jewish New Yorkers are reconsidering attending college in the Northeast

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