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Brookline Beckons
The Jewish naveler
he trolley emerges
from below ground and
skims west along
Beacon Street. Passengers
who boarded in Boston ten
minutes ago are now in
another town.
It's a serene town of tree-
lined streets, Victorian
houses and New England
restraint. For example, only a
simple sign at the corner of
Beals Street points the way to
the house at #3, birthplace of
John F. Kennedy. And there's
nothing pretentious about the
plain Victorian duplex on
Perry Street where Michael
and Kitty Dukakis have lived
for the past twenty years.
Brookline is known for its
two famous political native
sons. But for the Jewish
traveler, it has another attrac-
tion. This town, a few miles
from downtown Boston, is the
real heart of Jewish life in the
Boston area.
Of its 55,000 residents,
almost half are Jewish. And
those who don't live here still
look to Brookline as the unof-
ficial capital of Jewish
Boston.
Within its 18 square miles
are synagogues of every
denomination. So, too, is
Hebrew College, which trains
Hebrew teachers and is a
center of adult Jewish
education.
On Brookline's shopping
streets are Jewish businesses
from bagel shops to
bookstores. All offer the
Jewish traveler the chance to
sample Jewish life, New
England style. Indeed,
Brookline offers this chance
more than Boston does. Even
though Boston is the nation's
sixth largest Jewish com-
munity, with an estimated
170,000 Jews living in the
greater Boston area, its
Jewish residents are dispers-
ed through the many suburbs
and separate towns of the
area. In fact, only one major
synagogue, Charles River
Park, and one kosher
restaurant still remain in all
of downtown Boston.
"Brookline now fills the
need for a true Jewish
neighborhood since Boston's
Jewish population is so
dispersed," says Allen Wein-
cour, a native Boston Jew who
serves as a tour guide for Un-
common Boston, an organiza-
tion offering specialized tours
to visitors.
On the trolley ride to
Brookline, Weincour sketches
in the early history of
Boston's Jews. Although the
city was founded in 1630,
Jewish history began much
later. "The Puritans had an
affinity for the Hebrew
language and the Old Testa-
ment," says Weincour, "but
they were intolerant of other
religions."
So Jews stayed away, except
for a handful of early settlers.
The first Jewish congregation
was not founded until 1842
when ten German Jewish set-
tlers decided to worship
together at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Spitz.
Later these ten families
joined with eight others to