Some people call New York City "Jew York City." It’s supposed to be an insult, but we think it’s fantastic — after all, we think it’s a point of pride that New York City is the Jewish capital of the Western Hemisphere.

It was here in our busy streets where American icons like Batman and Spider Man were invented by Jewish artists, where the bagel became as all-American as a hamburger, where Emma Lazarus wrote the most American of all poems. From Leonard Bernstein to the Beastie Boys, from I.B. Singer to Jerry Seinfeld. New York is full of Jewish stories.

Did you know that Harlem — America’s African-American cultural capital, famed for the Harlem Renaissance, the Apollo Theater and much more — was once home of one of the largest Jewish communities in the United States with around 200,000 Jews living in it?

Did you know that the Williamsburg Bridge was once called 'Jews' Highway’ because after it opened so many Jews walked on Shabbat from Brooklyn to their congregations in the Lower East Side?

Did you know that the hotdog was invented by German Jews from Coney Island?

Like a DJ digging through a crate of dusty records, JWalks unearths New York’s rich Jewish past, blends it with the colorful present. The result is like a cholent that’s been simmering for decades, lovingly tweaked and seasoned along the way. If it sounds intriguing — well, we’d like to think it is. We invite you to join us on a tour to sample it yourself.