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  • Collection: St. Louis Park Eruv Jewish Neighborhood

http://people.carleton.edu/~cborn/omeka/St_Louis_Park_Eruv_Jewish_Neighborhood/SLP_WendyGoldberg02.mp3
Wendy Goldberg talks about religiosity in the eruv.

http://people.carleton.edu/~cborn/omeka/St_Louis_Park_Eruv_Jewish_Neighborhood/SLP_WendyGoldberg01.mp3
Wendy Goldberg gives an example of an activity involving the whole of the Jewish community.

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Torah Academy is a Jewish elementary school located in the Eruv of St. Louis Park. It is across the street from the Orthodox synagogue, Kenesseth Israel, and a block away from Darchei Noam and Bais Yisroel.

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Torah Academy is an Orthodox Jewish day school with about 260 pupils from grades K-8 in St. Louis Park. Founded in 1945 in North Minneapolis, the school moved several times before coming to St. Louis Park in 1971, and finally to its current location…

http://people.carleton.edu/~cborn/omeka/St_Louis_Park_Eruv_Jewish_Neighborhood/SLP_WaterTower.jpg
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,…

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A sign outside St. Louis Park's Kosher meat deli "Prime Deli" forbids customers from bringing any outside food or beverages into the space, as to maintain the deli's compliance with kosher law.

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Calhoun Plaza, a strip mall of Minnetonka Boulevard in the eruv, is home to a Jewish gift shop (Elijah's Cup), and a relatively new Kosher grocery store and restaurant. Both are popular shopping places for the Orthodox Jewish community.

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This sign outside Elijah's Cup advertises Shalom Sesame, a collaboration between Sesame Street and its Israeli counterpart Rechov Sumsum. The show aims to teach Jewish children in the diaspora about Jewish culture, Israel, and Hebrew as well as…

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Kennesseth Israel was the original orthodox Synagogue that relocated to St. Louis Park, from which Bais Yisroel and Darchei Noam broke off.