Will New York City's Orthodox Jews Leave Too?

After a summer of chaos, wealthy and secular New Yorkers are fleeing in droves. Brooklyn’s Jews aren’t thrilled, but for them leaving isn’t so easy, or so desirable.

Members of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community on June 3, 2020. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images.

Members of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community on June 3, 2020. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images.
Observation
Tamara Berens
Sept. 15 2020
About the author

Tamara Berens, a former Krauthammer Fellow at Mosaic, is the director of young professional programming at the Tikvah Fund.

For Brooklyn’s diverse communities of Orthodox Jews, it was a summer like none other.

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