Kosher and Jewish Life in Newark

"White flight" from Newark to the suburbs, which started in the 1940s accelerated in the 1960s. The 1967 riots resulted in a significant population loss of the city's middle class, many of them Jewish, which continued from the 1970s through to the 1990s. The city lost about 130,000 residents between 1960 and 1990. Moorish Revival buildings include the Prince Street Synagogue, one of the oldest synagogue buildings in New Jersey. On December 9, 1007, the Jewish Museum of New Jersey, located at 145 Broadway in the Broadway neighborhood, held its grand opening. The museum is dedicated to the cultural heritage of New Jersey’s Jewish people. The museum is housed at Ahavas Sholom, the last continually operating synagogue in Newark. By the 1950s there were 50 synagogues in Newark serving a Jewish population of 70,000 to 80,000, once the sixth-largest Jewish community in the United States. Whereas a third of the state's Jewish population resided in Newark in 1937, by the late 1960s the overwhelming majority of the Jews in the north-eastern area (as was also true of the general population) lived in the suburban areas of Bergen, Essex, Hudson , Passaic, and Union Counties. There isn’t much in the way of kosher food in Newark either.