ewish English is what linguists sometimes call an "ethnolect", a distinct variety of English spoken by many New York Jews, with influence from Yiddish and Hebrew — other terms include Yinglish and Yeshivish. Speakers are typically in largely Jewish neighborhoods, today principally inhabited by observant and yeshiva-educated Jews, some of whom may be native Yiddish speakers and know English as a second language, such as Williamsburg, Borough Park, Flatbush, Riverdale, Far Rockaway and Kew Gardens Hills — or in areas like New Jersey (Passaic, Lakewood) and upstate New York's Rockland and Sullivan counties, once home to the Borscht Belt (where Jewish English was played for laughs) and home today to large Hasidic communities.

Litvishe Yiddish is also spoken or understood to a degree in the Bais Hatalmud community of Bensonhurst Jewish English is spoken wherever there are significant concentrations of yeshiva-educated Orthodox Jews. Additional communities in the NY area include Flatbush, Far Rockaway, Passaic and Lakewood