It’s been a whirlwind of a year for New York City, with major changes hurtling toward the Big Apple and altering Life As We Know It — from congestion pricing to a new mayor whose activism around Israel has alarmed many Jews and thrilled others.
For the city’s Jews, the changes have ranged from the lofty to the ludicrous. From a tacky menorah sketch that never aired on “Saturday Night Live” to multiple kosher institutions that failed to thrive in New York’s competitive restaurant industry, here are 12 things that New York City lost — and in other ways, won — in 2025.
The first-ever Solomon Schechter day school
Last December, the first-ever Solomon Schechter day school — part of the network of once-thriving Conservative Jewish day schools — voted to rename itself the Queens Hebrew Academy. That meant that for the first time in nearly 70 years, New York City did not have a Solomon Schechter school, following the closure of Schechter Manhattan in 2023 in response to a decline in enrollment.
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