Outside Bnai Emet

Outside Bnai Emet

Judaism, St. Louis Park Eruv Neighborhood

Bnai Emet is a Conservative congregation founded in 1971. Its origins lie with B’nai Abraham, a congregation founded in 1889 in South Minneapolis by Romanian immigrants. It moved to St. Louis Park in 1958, and in 1971 it merged with another congregation, Mikro-Tifereth, to create Bnai Emet. The congregation is currently “exploring the possibility of merging with another Conservative synagogue,â€ù according to its website, and it is likely to abandon its current facility. It is led by Rabbi Charni Flame Selch, the congregation’s first female rabbi and the only female rabbi to head a Twin Cities Conservative congregation.

Jacob Cohn

Religion Department (Carleton College)

3/19/12

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Saint Louis Park, MN