The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.

In 1930, the Bronx was 50% Jewish. It’s a statistic that always surprises me, partly because the intense Jewish nostalgia over the Lower East Side and Brooklyn overshadows the Bronx, ...

The Jewish rom-com is finally joining the Criterion Collection, and according to Irving, “Peter and I have thought of sequels.” ...

A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes ...

It’s official: The newest American Girl doll is 9-year-old Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish-American girl who lives with her family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA ...

At a mosque in the Bronx, African immigrants who had been regulars have stopped attending prayer services. At a church just ...

T he Upper West Side doesn’t always get the restaurant credit it deserves. But there’s never been a better time to eat in the ...

Immigration is central to America's identity — and for most of us, to our family histories. As we turn away from that legacy, ...

Sandwiches come in all different shapes and sizes across New York City, but which iconic ones are worth trying? Here is our ...

The quickest, most cunning and New Yorkiest of all street photographers, Weegee treated mundane horrors as a form of show business. It’s a truism by now that Instagram (or, before that, TV or the ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

Rupert’s shocking decision was the climax of a succession battle that had pitted James and Lachlan, born just 15 months apart ...