St. Louis Park Water Tower

St. Louis Park Water Tower

Judaism, St. Louis Park Eruv Neighborhood

St. Louis Park, an inner-ring suburb which borders the west side of Minneapolis, has a disproportionately large population of observant Jews, and close-knit Orthodox and Conservative communities are based there. Several of the city’s congregations, such as the Orthodox Kenesseth Israel and the Conservative Bnai Emet, have long histories in Minneapolis and relocated to St. Louis Park in the 1950s and 1960s, along with many of their members. The heart of the Jewish population lies within the eruv, an area of around one square mile, symbolically bounded for Talmudic legal reasons but which has taken on a larger meaning for the community.

Jacob Cohn

Religion Department (Carleton College)

3/19/12

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Saint Louis Park, MN