Article: A State of Flux: Delaware County is changing, and the young Jewish


Jewish Exponent
02-04-1999
A State of Flux: Delaware County is changing, and the young Jewish families moving there are `hungry for spiritual content'

Beth E. Yanofsky

Jewish Exponent Correspondent

Jewish life in Delaware County is sustained by its six synagogues and the Martins Run Life Care Community, according to the area's clergy.

Despite a 26 percent decline in the number of Jewish households since 1984, continued support from the Jewish community keeps the wheels turning at Delaware County's four Conservative, one Reform and one Reconstructionist synagogues -- and at Martins Run, where approximately 98 percent of the residents are Jewish, said Seth Bloom, director of Federation's ...

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