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By 1905 the Jews of St. Louis numbered about 40,000 in a total population of about 575,000. Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish.
The congregation grew under him to the point where they moved twice to bigger buildings. He was Master of a Freemason lodge, a member of B'nai B'rith, president of the Free Sons of Israel, and vice-president of the United Jewish Charities and the Jewish Educational Alliance. [5] In 1872, Messing married Jennie May in Williamsport.
At the time, there were approximately 600 to 700 Jewish people living in St. Louis, of which about 150 to 200 were members of United Hebrew Congregation. [7] In 1880, United Hebrew Congregation's moved the dead bodies buried at its original burial ground at Jefferson Avenue and Gratiot Street to a new cemetery at Mount Olive near Clayton. [10]
[4] [5] They founded St. Louis School for Judaism in September 1953 and organized the synagogue in 1956, choosing the name "Temple Emanuel" on December 16, 1956. [6] [7] [4] [5] It was the first Reform congregation founded in St. Louis in 70 years. [5] The congregation initially had 48 families, and services were held at the Bible Presbyterian ...
B'nai Amoona and the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Day School [formerly the Solomon Schechter Day School] are housed on the same campus. B'nai Amoona is the only Conservative synagogue in St. Louis that maintains its own cemetery, located in University City, Missouri. The congregation has approximately 800 families including interfaith couples. [1]
It is the oldest Reform and largest congregation in the greater St. Louis area. In addition to religious services, the Shaare Emeth has a religious school, Shirlee Green Preschool, and two summer camps, Camp Micah and Camp Emeth. In 2016, the former Orthodox B’nai El and the Reform Shaare Emeth congregations merged.
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
Shaare Zedek Synagogue was a Conservative synagogue located in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. Founded in 1905, the synagogue merged with Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue in 2013 to become Kol Rinah. [1] [2] [3]