It\u2019s 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 \u2014 from congestion pricing to a new mayor whose activism around Israel has alarmed many Jews and thrilled others.<\/p>\n
For the city\u2019s Jews, the changes have ranged from the lofty to the ludicrous. From a tacky menorah sketch that never aired on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d to multiple kosher institutions that failed to thrive in New York\u2019s competitive restaurant industry, here are 12 things that New York City lost \u2014 and in other ways, won \u2014 in 2025.<\/p>\n
The first-ever Solomon Schechter day school<\/strong><\/p>\n Last December, the first-ever Solomon Schechter day school \u2014 part of the network of once-thriving Conservative Jewish day schools \u2014 voted to rename itself<\/a> 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<\/a> in response to a decline in enrollment.<\/p>\n The post 12 things Jewish New York lost and gained in 2025<\/a> appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a whirlwind of a year for New York City, with major changes hurtling toward the Big…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,202215,128516,74359,79716,202213,31033,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,365,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-469892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ethnoreligious-groups","10":"tag-jewish-diaspora","11":"tag-jewish-groups","12":"tag-jews","13":"tag-jews-and-judaism","14":"tag-judaism","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-religion","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115777862798143082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}