History of the Jews in New York City

Approximately 12% of New York City’s population is Jewish, making New York City’s Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel. As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City, and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population. Nearly half of the city’s Jews live in Brooklyn.