Jewish in New York

In a wonderfully enjoyable article, Lenore Skenazy asks if New York Jews are more Jewish:

"Oh, to use 'appetizing' as a noun! Oh, to remember sunny summers spent splashing on the beach at Coney Island. Oh, to have a knish do for me what a madeleine did for Proust — unleash a torrent of memories, except instead of tortured and French, mine are warm and borough based. A violin fiddles in the background; Mayor Ed Koch plays the role of Tevye. Oh, to have been born a New York Jew!"