Your city's Jewish community

[Docere]

Where is the Jewish community concentrated in your city? Is it concentrated in a certain "favored quarter" or is it rather dispersed across the metro area?

A good example of the former is Cleveland, where virtually all live in a cluster of eastern suburbs. San Francisco seems to be an example of the latter - there's a large Jewish population in the Bay Area, but I can't think of a specifically "Jewish" suburb.

Shana Tova to all those who celebrate.

[JManc]

Houston: traditionally, they were concentrated in the Meyerland area but became more dispersed throughout the metro.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by JManc

Houston: traditionally, they were concentrated in the Meyerland area but became more dispersed throughout the metro.

The Third Ward was an early Jewish area. The mansions along MacGregor Way were built by wealthy Jewish families. And the Heinen Theatre on the HCC Central Campus was originally the Temple Beth Israel.

[Crawford]

Uh, NYC, where do I start...

There's a Jewish presence almost everywhere in the tri-state area, but largest concentration, by far, is Brooklyn.

Are we talking Secular or Orthodox here? In the NYC metro, makes a big difference.

On the one hand you have places like Manhattan, Syosset, Scarsdale, Livingston (the stereotypical secular, educated, upper middle class "Seinfeld", "Woody Allen" New York Jew), but the majority of Jewish neighborhoods in the region are highly religious and have nothing to do with the stereotype.

Biggest Jewish neighborhood is probably Borough Park, Brooklyn. Most Jewish suburbs are probably Kiryas Joel, Monsey, New Square, and Lakewood. Most upscale suburbs in the region have at least some (secular) Jewish presence; Orthodox neighborhoods are numerous throughout NY and NJ (but none in CT).

[dave8721]

South Florida (estimated Jewish population ~500,000):
-Miami Beach in general but especially the old Jewish community in Mid-Beach (centered around 41st ST). Miami Beach has had 16 Jewish mayors.
-Aventura
-Broward County in general. Home to almost half of South Florida's Jews.
-Boca Raton/Delray Beach in Palm Beach County.

[brickell]

Originally Posted by dave8721

South Florida (estimated Jewish population

Some other interesting facts...
http://jpupdates.com/2014/10/20/stud...orthodox-jews/

Miami-Dade: 123,000
Broward: 186,500
Palm Beach: 256,000
"Together, the three counties’ 550,000 or so Jews make up the third-largest Jewish metro area in the nation, behind New York and Los Angeles."

According to the study, Miami has a higher proportion of foreign-born Jewish adults than any other American Jewish community (33); 51% of all of Miami’s 2.6 million residents are foreign-born. Researchers also found a 57% increase over the last decade in Hispanic Jewish adults in Miami.

Of Miami’s foreign-born Jews, the largest group by far is Israelis. Some 5,180 Miami Jews were born in Israel, and approximately 9,000 adults consider themselves Israeli. Some 3,700 Miami Jews were born in Cuba; 2,854 in Argentina; 2,643 in Venezuela; 2,537 in Colombia; and 2,220 in Canada.

Super Jews

While the 2013 Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews found that just 46 percent of American Jews said that “being Jewish is very important” to them, 74 percent of respondents to the 2014 Greater Miami Jewish Federation Population Study reported feeling this way. Only 16 percent of couples in the Jewish community are intermarried. The 16 percent has not changed since 2004. It is one of the lowest intermarriage rates of all American Jewish communities, and compares with the 61 percent figure in the Pew Study.

[Steely Dan]

here the top 10 US metro areas by number of Jews. the first number indicates global rank.

2. NYC - 2,028,200
5. LA - 662,450
6. miami - 535,000
8. chicago - 291,800
9. philly - 285,950
11. DC/balt. - 276,445
12. boston - 261,100
13. bay area - 228,00
16. atlanta - 199,000
19. san diego - 89,000

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish...by_urban_areas

[scalziand]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Orthodox neighborhoods are numerous throughout NY and NJ (but none in CT).

There actually are some new jewish neighborhoods in Waterbury, CT now.

Orthodox Jews Come to a Well-Worn City, Pleased to Find a Piece of Paradise

choice quote from that article:

Rabbi Kaufman imagines the day when everyone considers Waterbury the nucleus of New England Jewish life.

A subdivision has been built explicitly for the jewish on the north side.
http://www.blueridgewaterbury.com/commynity/

And now a jewish high school has been proposed in neighboring Naugatuck.

Jewish school on radar
Developer hopes to build prep school
October 15, 2016
BY LARAINE WESCHLERREPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

NAUGATUCK – A Jewish University with locations across the country wants to build a private high school with a campus on the corner of May Street and Maple Hill Road.

http://www.rep-am.com/featured/2016/...hool-on-radar/

[brickell]

Del Boca Vista... Obvoiusly

[Steely Dan]

for the largest communities of jews in chicagoland, start in west rogers park, lincolnwood, and skokie, and from there go up the northshore burbs where wealthier jews moved to, particularly glencoe and highland park.

so it generally follows a "favored quarter" model, though there are other "outlier" jewish communties as well, such as down in hyde park on the south side.

[Docere]

In Toronto, the "old" Jewish neighborhood was located west of downtown, centered along College St., around Spadina Ave. and Bathurst St., which included Kensington Market and was near the garment industry on Spadina. In the postwar years, the Jewish community began moving en masse up Bathurst, into the wealthy district of Forest Hill and the suburb of North York. In the 80s and 90s, the new suburb of Thornhill took off which today has the highest concentration of Jews.

Basically, Bathurst St., from St. Clair Ave. to past Highway 7, has a very visible Jewish presence.

The vast majority of Jews live in the northern "favored quarter" (particularly the western edge of it near Bathurst) or in the heart of the city. Very few live in the eastern or western suburbs.

[Docere]

Going up Bathurst, I'd say it looks like:

Forest Hill (St. Clair/Eglinton): Long-established, affluent and generally more liberal Jews. Mansions, neo-Tudor homes, some apartments.

Lawrence/Wilson area: Orthodox Jews. Some apartments, modest postwar bungalows have been largely replaced by large custom-built homes.

Sheppard/Finch/Steeles area: Russian Jews, the elderly. A lot of big apartments.

Thornhill: Orthodox, Russians, Israelis. Few "liberal" Jews. Middle class to quite wealthy. Very new suburbia.

Outside of this core area there's also:

Bayview-York Mills: Wealthy large lot postwar suburbia, mix of ethnicities. Large non-Orthodox Jewish population as well as a growing number of Asian immigrants.

Annex and Yorkville: Affluent urban professionals and "creative class" types. Sizable secular Jewish population.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by Docere

In the 80s and 90s, the new suburb of Thornhill took off which today has the highest concentration of Jews.

Not surprised. My family lived in Thornhill almost 50 years ago. I knew quite a few Jewish kids at Thornlea Secondary School.

[Docere]

There's really two Thornhills - the older Bayview-centric Markham part that was pretty Jewish in the 1970s and 1980s, but has shifted to Vaughan around (naturally) Bathurst.

[Centropolis]

i live in an orthodox jewish neighborhood, between several temples, etc, so there is a lot of foot traffic in my area for being a 1930s-1950s era neighborhood (it's mostly 1930s). it's immediately adjacent to the central spine of the favored quarter, and adjacent to a very heavily chinese and southeast asian business district. heavily jewish neighborhoods in metro st. louis follow the north edge of the favored quarter straight west, kosher delis/etc concentrated in these inner and middle ring suburbs. things dispurse further west than that and you certainly wont find orthodox areas further out.

i've noticed that the heavier-than-average foot traffic (for an inner ring suburb) seems to extend to all week, not just saturday.

[Centropolis]

this map is sideways for some odd reason, but i live smack dab in the middle of this eruv, in university city. the bottom is skinker, which is the st. louis city limits on the eastern edge. below the I-170 line is mostly pre-war.

edit: fixed to east-west. skinker is to the right.


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[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Docere

Where is the Jewish community concentrated in your city? Is it concentrated in a certain "favored quarter" or is it rather dispersed across the metro area?

A good example of the former is Cleveland, where virtually all live in a cluster of eastern suburbs. San Francisco seems to be an example of the latter - there's a large Jewish population in the Bay Area, but I can't think of a specifically "Jewish" suburb.

Shana Tova to all those who celebrate.

i think cleveland and st. louis geographically share a lot of characteristics in the way they are spacially arranged, if not architecturally, and this is no exception.

[10023]

Historically in London (before WW2) it was Whitechapel in the East End, but that was a slum. Now it's north London (particularly Barnet), and the stands at White Hart Lane.

[austlar1]

Dallas-Fort Worth area now has about 60,000 Jewish residents. Around 50,000 live on the Dallas side of the metroplex. The original Jewish residential area was probably just south of downtown, but during the period between WW1 and WW2 Jews began to locate in the neighborhoods north/northeast of downtown. Post WW2 saw the Hillcrest neighborhood become heavily Jewish, while the wealthiest Jews lived in nearby University Park or even in Highland Park. Jewish residents continue to live in those closer-in parts of North Dallas, but lots of Jews also moved further north into newer subdivisions. Today there are fairly large numbers of Jews living in far-north Dallas, Addison, Richardson, and even up in Plano. Some of these enclaves are probably closely associated with certain congregations, but I lack information to provide specifics.

The much smaller Fort Worth Jewish community originally settled on the near south side of town. In Post WW2 Fort Worth, Jews tended to live in the southwest part of the city in areas like Park Hill, Colonial CC area, TCU, Westcliff, Tanglewood, Overton Park, etc. There is also a fairly small Jewish population in Arlington and the northeastern suburbs closer to DFW airport.

[Docere]

As a general rule, in the Northeast and Midwest (as well as Toronto and Montreal in Canada), there were large Jewish immigrant populations a century ago.

In the South and West - DC, Florida, California etc. - Jewish populations are not usually the product of direct immigration, and were greatly outnumbered by domestic migration. Hence only a small minority of Jews in L.A., say, can trace their roots to Boyle Heights, for example.

In Britain, meanwhile, the Jewish population is much more concentrated in London nowadays than it was in the early 20th century. Manchester, Leeds and to some extent Glasgow had good sized Jewish populations.