Jews and Judaism in Cleveland

Jews and Judaism in Cleveland is the Jewish community in the Ohio Metro Area, Greater Cleveland. As of 2012, the Jewish Population in Greater Cleveland was approximately 80,800.[1] In July 1839, the first Jewish immigrant came to Cleveland from Europe.[2] In the 21st Century, Ohio has a population of nearly 150,000 Jews and Greater Cleveland has over 50% of that.[1]

History

In 1839, the first Jewish immigrants came to Cleveland from Bavaria. The first Jewish Immigrant was a man named Simson Thorman. Within 25 years, the population of Jews grew to 1,200. Many Jews lived in Glenville. In 1920, the Jewish population grew up to 90,000. In 2016, there are about 80,800 people, who mostly live in the eastern suburbs of Solon, Beachwood, Pepper Pike, Shaker Heights, Cleveland Heights, and Orange.[3]

Community

In the Cleveland Jewish Community, there are 5 Jewish day schools, Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School, Gross Schecter Day School, Fuchs Mizrachi School, Mosdos Ohr Hatorah (recently renamed Yeshiva Derech HaTorah),[4] and Hebrew Academy of Cleveland. There are 50 synagogues.[5]

There is a chapter of The Jewish Learning Institute and Chabad.[6][7]

There is one main Jewish newspaper, the Cleveland Jewish News. The population of the Cleveland Jewish Community is over 80,000. There is an overnight Jewish Summer Camp, Camp Wise, a camp of the Mandel JCC of Cleveland. There are over 1,000 Holocaust Survivors in Greater Cleveland. Most live in Beachwood, Cleveland Heights, Orange, Pepper Pike, Shaker Heights, Solon, South Euclid, and University Heights.

Notable people

The following list includes notable people from, who live, or who have lived in Greater Cleveland and are Jewish. This list also includes people who are not from Greater Cleveland but have lived or live in Greater Cleveland.

David Blatt as head coach of Russia national basketball team in 2011
Ted Deutch, Congressman from Florida who formerly lived in Cleveland
Senator Howard Metzenbaum
Newman in 1987, Paul Newman is from the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights
Al Rosen, a Cleveland Indians Baseball Player

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cleveland Jewish population: 80,800". Cleveland Jewish News.
  2. ↑ "Merging Traditions". google.com.
  3. ↑ http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local/article_3dc25048-46d9-11e1-a00b-0019bb2963f4.html
  4. ↑ Wittenberg, Ed. "Mosdos Ohr HaTorah acquired, renamed Yeshiva Derech HaTorah". Cleveland Jewish News. Cleveland Jewish News. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  5. ↑ http://accessjewishcleveland.org/jewish-life/temples-synagogues.aspx
  6. ↑ "Life in the Balance". Chabad of Downtown Cleveland.
  7. ↑ "Journey of Soul begins Oct. 27". Beachwood, OH. Cleveland Jewish News. October 21, 2015.
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