The New York Jewish Week

21/07/2025

The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Radio City Music Hall.

One thing these iconic New York buildings all have in common: They’re all built in the art deco style, which is characterized by geometric forms, bold colors and lavish ornamentation.

These famous buildings may be timeless, but as it happens, the art deco movement is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Meet the Jewish architects who designed NYC’s iconic art deco buildings.

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

19/07/2025

Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on Ottoman Turkish music, Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished musician and a respected academic who has taught at elite universities, Feldman was a key player in the 1970s klezmer revival — and, in fact, it was Feldman who popularized the term “klezmer” to describe the traditional instrumental music of East European Jews.

Feldman’s new book is both an ethnomusicological treatise and an account of his role in the klezmer revival, in which musicians from adjacent folk traditions played both traditional Jewish instrumental music and melded it with everything from rock to bluegrass.

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.

16/07/2025

An Orthodox Jewish music festival will take place in Bethel, New York in August — at the very same location where the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place in August of 1969.

Called Yamim Ba’im, or “The Coming Days,” the four-act, family-friendly outdoor concert will occur at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Thursday, August 7.

Yamim Ba’im, starring Orthodox Israeli superstar Ishay Ribo, will take place Aug. 7 at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — the same site as the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival.

15/07/2025

From babka flavored ice cream to tahini slushies, don’t miss these Israeli and Jewish-inspired desserts.

14/07/2025

Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, the iconic Borscht Belt hotel that inspired the film “Dirty Dancing,” will be the subject of a new scripted TV series.

The series, which is currently in pre-production, is being written by Alan Zwiebel, an early “Saturday Night Live” writer who spent his childhood summers at Grossinger’s, and Harris Salomon, whose producer credits include the “Dr. Ruth Show.”

“The Mountains,” which begins on the Fourth of July weekend in 1950, will join “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” in depicting the heyday of the Jewish Catskills on the small screen.

“The Mountains” is a scripted series about Jennie and Elaine Grossinger, the “formidable matriarchs” who transformed the kosher hotel into a celebrity hangout.

12/07/2025

Samantha Epstein-Rubenstein hopes her WhatsApp groups can unite Jewish voters around a pro-Israel mayoral candidate. Exactly who that candidate is remains to be seen.

11/07/2025

Some Jewish Democrats in Congress, including the prominent House member Debbie Wasserman Schultz, are coming out to condemn Zohran Mamdani for his record of anti-Israel stances just weeks after prominent Jewish Democrats in New York endorsed the upstart mayoral candidate.

While some Jewish Dems have raised alarm at the mayoral candidate, others have cautiously endorsed him.

10/07/2025

Shai Davidai, the Israeli business school professor who emerged as one of the sharpest antagonists against Columbia University over its response to antisemitism on campus, has resigned from his employment there.

A university investigation into Davidai's behavior has also been closed.

09/07/2025

Since she was little, Lindsay, who recently graduated from a Jewish day school in New York City, had her heart set on attending Columbia University.

And so, throughout her high school career, Lindsay focused on crafting an Ivy League school-approved resume. As a freshman, she spent hours in the library, studying hard to ensure good grades. When she was a sophomore, she joined clubs and gained leadership roles both in and out of school.

But as she completed her junior year in the aftermath of Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when it became time to develop her college list, Lindsay realized she no longer felt the same way about Columbia.

Concerns about antisemitism are prompting some NYC teens to rethink their “dream schools.”

08/07/2025

Yeshiva Dov Revel’s Class of 1975 held a memorable gathering in their former school’s building in Forest Hills.

Yeshiva Dov Revel's Class of 1975 held a memorable gathering in their former school's building in Forest Hills.