Which Western Metro has the Strongest Jewish Culture? (Excluding LA and SF)

[TheTimidBlueBars]

Originally Posted by Pavlov's Dog

Portland has a sizable and strong Jewish community of over 40,000 which grew quite a bit in the 90's and 00's thanks to Russian emigres.

Interesting, I've seen some signs in Russian fairly recently in certain areas of Portland (one was near Ed Benedict Park, Powell and 104th).

[garyjohnyang]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Great topic. And I am certainly not trying to commandeer it or change its direction, but (since this one hardly would be worth a thread of its own) I ask: which midwestern metro outside of Chicago has the strongest Jewish culture?

And, perhaps: outside of Miami, what southern city has the same?

That would probably be Cleveland. The 2018 Jewish DataBank Census gives it the second largest Jewish community in the Midwest by a significant margin - 81,000 in Cleveland MSA compared with 72,000 in Detroit. And this is for a metro that’s considerably smaller than Detroit. Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, is 90 percent Jewish and it’s the most Jewish town in America, outside of some ultra-Orthodox hamlets in New York. (Kiryas Joel is one.)

[kimumingyu]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Great topic. And I am certainly not trying to commandeer it or change its direction, but (since this one hardly would be worth a thread of its own) I ask: which midwestern metro outside of Chicago has the strongest Jewish culture?

East side of Cleveland.