New York

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

Seeking out sites from the bygone Borscht Belt? New historical markers lay out a path.

“The Borscht Belt Historical Markers Project” is dedicating markers in South Fallsburg, Kiamesha Lake, Hurleyville, Bethel and Woodridge this summer.

Generations of immigrants to the Lower East Side are celebrated in a new picture book

Ellen Weinstein’s “Five Stories” traces the inhabitants of a Lower East Side building, from a Jewish family in the 1910s to a Chinese family in the present.

Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside of Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia protests: Israeli professor barred from campus and Congress members demand action to protect Jewish students

Columbia deactivates Shai Davidai’s campus entry card ahead of a planned sit-in at the protest encampment that has thrown the university into turmoil.