Quote:
Originally Posted by Docere
In what places are Jews over 50% of the population?
In the NYC area, the list is probably Great Neck and the Five Towns on LI, Lakewood NJ and the Hasidic communities in Rockland. (Plus the neighborhoods of Borough Park, Brighton Beach, Midwood in Brooklyn and Forest Hills/Rego Park, Queens).
Other places in the US could include Beachwood, Ohio, and maybe Beverly Hills and Miami Beach.
In Canada, there's the Montreal suburbs of Hampstead and Cote St. Luc. Toronto doesn't have any though a large contiguous area of Thornhill would be majority-Jewish.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrnyc
hmm, good question. amberly village or sycamore/blue ash suburbs in cincinnati and bexley in columbus are the more jewish areas in those cities, but they are not majority jewish.
|
Bexley (in Columbus) and University Heights (in Cleveland) used to have Jewish majorities (I think they were about 60% Jewish ca. the 1960s-1970s) but now they're down to just pluralities (I'd say around 40% Jewish probably). Those two areas in Ohio are very similar in other ways, including the quality of the housing, total population size, and the presence of a smaller university affiliated with a Christian movement (the Lutheran-run Capital University in Bexley, and the Catholic-run John Carroll University in University Heights). Beachwood, east and southeast of University Heights, has had a strong Jewish majority for a very long time, I believe since about the 1960s. I don't know nearly as well in that regard about the Cincinnati neighbourhoods mentioned here, such as Amberley or Blue Ash.
In Montreal, Cote St. Luc has had a Jewish majority all along (since at least ca. 1960), while Hampstead did not have one until 1971 or so, and many areas of Cote des Neiges/Snowdon used to have a Jewish majority back in the 1960s and 1970s but don't anymore.
In the Chicago area, Skokie used to have a Jewish majority, but I believe not anymore. And I can't think off the top of my head any area in Chicago that now or still has a Jewish majority.
Miami Beach, as mentioned, used to have a Jewish majority but not anymore. I believe, though, that further up the coast in Miami-Dade County, Aventura has a very strong Jewish majority (though I'm not sure since when), and I think next-door Hallandale might also.
Finally, in the Boston area, it's Sharon that's had a Jewish majority for a few decades. From what I've heard, it used to be something like 85% Jewish but now it's 60% Jewish. For their part, Newton and Brookline (with larger numbers of Jews and closer in to downtown Boston) merely have large Jewish minorities (35-40% Jewish).