| New York is definitely the capital of the Jewish world. New York City preserves Jewish cultures that no longer exist in the world while also being a center for innovation and creativity of new Jewish movements as well. From Yiddish speaking Hasidim in Borough Park, the affluent Syrian-Jewish community in Queens, the Bukharan Jewish community in Forest Hills/Rego Park where the smells of Uzbek cuisine and the sound of Judeo-Persian fill the streets, from the Russian Jews in Brighton beach, the more than 100,000 Israelis in NYC who maintain their Israeli culture in the States (there are even psytrance parties in New York run by Israelis just like the parties they did in Goa or Tel-Aviv), the old Persian Jews who dominate the rug trade, Hassidic, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, and experimental, Yeshiva University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, a city where even non-Jews sprinkle their English with yiddishism like "shmear" ..... |
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