St. Louis, MO – University City, Mo., is one of the ten best Jewish neighborhoods in North America, according to Jewish Living magazine.
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The magazine names a list of the top 10 neighborhoods all presented alphabetically, not in order of preference, included are Boulder, Colo., North Dallas, Texas, and SoHo/TriBeCa in New York City.
The magazine identified neighborhoods “that are growing, rebuilding, reinventing themselves, unifying their disparate parts, and exploring (Jewish) traditions in unconventional ways.”
Example is University City, with 500 Jewish families within a few square miles, which is one of the most visible and highly concentrated Jewish areas.
The epicenter is the area around Washington University in St. Louis, a school popular amongst Jews thanks to its kosher kitchen and strong Hillel and Chabad programs, according to Jewish Living.
The article mentions dining options, such as Pumpernickel’s Deli and Simon Kohn’s, while also pointing out the abundance of Jewish learning centers like Aish HaTorah and Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute that the city offers.
St. Louis has 26 congregations and six Jewish day schools, according to the magazine.
and boro park & flatbush doesnt make it? get real
Oh yeah, lots of jews in Tribeca!
As a woman I guess anything is better than living in Boro Park!
“The epicenter is the area around Washington University in St. Louis, a school popular amongst Jews thanks to its kosher kitchen and strong Hillel and Chabad programs, according to Jewish Living.”
They are very incorrect! The area where most of the yidden live in St. Louis is a VERY far walk (10 minute drive at 30mph) from Wash U.
Tina,
There is no comparison. Most people HATE living like they do in BP & F’bush. Of course most Brooklynites would have it no other way. Granted, there are some disadvantages living in suburbia but overall most people love it!
Tina,
There is no comparison. Most people HATE living like they do in BP & F’bush. Of course most Brooklynites would have it no other way. Granted, there are some disadvantages living in suburbia but overall most people love it! BTW, since when is Pumpernickel’s Deli kosher?!?!
What gives with Tribeca?!? Me thinks some of these locations gave money for the story ’cause it make no sense!
Bointon Beach, Florida
The intermarriage rate is about 67% in St. Louis and rising, yet none of the Jewish organizations there seem to even be trying to turn things around. Sad, very sad.
add miami to the list its not boro park but u got yesgvias. late hemish minyan flishig stores open till 5 in the morning and yeh no alternet side parking and yeh great weather. and gevald they dont mention the best jerslem. parshat shelach all over again
Tribeca is a young growing neighborhood. They have some new shuls there. Some people want to live in an openminded eclectic neighborhood, not in a backwards ghetto like BP or Flatbush, where the people have no class, no education, narrow-mindedness, etc. Believe it or not, you can be frum and live in Manhattan.
TO 6:48 :
It’s all good .. till ….try to send your kids to yeshivas and be living in Tribeca.. you’ll be sweating bullets. Live is suddenly NOT so good anymore! L. dafka
With all due respect, Jewish Living Magazine is FAR from being in touch with the Religious community — did you see the content of the magazine? If you are frum, this article is meaningless
anyone for monsey?
Depends on what you call Jewish Living. If a kosher Hillel is the epicenter of Jewish living and the very vibrant yeshiva community in St. Louis doesn’t cut it, then I guess Jewish Living magazine is right. If the availability of every type of Orthodox shul in Boro Park, Flatbush, or the 5 towns areas means nothing to them either, then maybe we should just discount this article.
crown heights is #5
But if “Jewish Living” magazine would do a write-up about [all] the FORMER Jewish neighborhoods, in NYC alone we could have more than Two times ten! We can start with Harlem! Who?! woud’ve thought that there was once a vibrant Jewish community there. What about East New York. New Lots Avenue was once the Main Street in that neighborhood! Today, the surrounding streets look like London after the nazis bombed it out! With Three or four houses [standing] on a block! The rest is empty lots!
Tribeca is for frum people who don’t really care much about traffic. How can one feel the Shabbos spirit in the streets of Mnahattan where there’s both so much walking and driving traffic on the weekends? Less piece of mind there if you ask me.
My in-laws are from St. Louis. The town is scvach. Vibrant? You have to be kidding me. Washington Heights has more going on.
The only thing good about tirbeca is that its in walking distance of the lower east side. now im in the mood for some gus’s pickles yum!
i live in St. Louis and it really is a very nice place. People are very friendly and simple, and there is a lot going on for the Frum Jews. New boys yeshiva high school just opened, very active community kollel that is expanding, 2 neighborhoods. Lots of Kiruv going on as well- Aish operates here, and the kollel does a lot. STL is experiencing a huge rebirth!
kiruv? in st louis?? why dont you ask some secular friends about that? the only successful outreach is done by the yari’s, and they do it for out-of-town Russians, not the local populace.
ditto. i lived in stl for 15 years and now a resident of ny. boy do i miss the simple yet striving-for-growth lifestyle. And the nicest people! I’d move back in a flash….
Correction: 2 large jewish day schools(orthodox) and about 8 orthodox shuls
Obviously this was geared to the “cultural Jew” and not the Torah Jew.
The parallel listing, as it were, for the Torah Jew was at the OU conference before Pesach on emerging frum communities. There’s plenty of good Torah life outside of the NY metro area, w/ land, clean air, safety, etc.
Nothing like living in NYC.