Durham Jewish & Kosher Guide 2025: Kosher Info in Durham, North Carolina

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About Durham

Durham is a city of 228,330 inhabitants in central North Carolina in the United States. It is known best for being home to Duke University, Research Triangle Park, and a thriving health care industry. Durham and the neighboring cities of Raleigh and Chapel Hill form the Triangle, sometimes referred to as a Family of Communities. Durham owes much of its wealth and history to tobacco. Through the second half of the 19th Century, Washington Duke and his family grew from a single farm into American Tobacco, which controlled 90% of all cigarette production for the United States. The Duke family donated money to Trinity College, which in 1924 was renamed Duke University. Durham has a liberal trendy arts culture. It is an eclectic blend of the high class with an unusual concentration of four star restaurants to trendy cafés on 9th Street, You'll find old hippies, bikers and families in generally happy co-existence. The area has a very active gay community which stages both a famed regional film festival and an annual pride march. Durham is classified as a humid subtropical climate with hot and humid summers, cool winters, and warm to mild spring and autumn.

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Jewish History, POI & Kosher Establishments in Durham

Like other North Carolina cities, Durham began attracting Jewish merchants in the 1870s. The Jewish community took its first organizational steps in 1884, when Samuel Lehman, Jacob Levy, August Mohsberg, and Myer Summerfield purchased a 500 square foot piece of the town cemetery on Moorehead Road. First referred to as the Hebrew Burial Association and later the Jewish Cemetery Society, the group paved the way for the creation of the Durham Hebrew Congregation, which was founded in 1886 or 1887. By 1900, Eastern European Jews and their families comprised over three percent of Durham’s population. In 1977, local Jews formed the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation and Community Council, an umbrella group that brings together the area’s increasingly diverse Jewish community and helps to manage relationships between Jews and the broader population. In 1998, Chabad-Lubavitch established itself in the area in Raleigh next to Durham.


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What Is *JOFY?

JOFY, or "Jewish Observant Friendly" Establishments are lodging establishments offering special services for Jewish Observant guests such as Shabbat meals, accommodation on lower floors and regular keys for the rooms. It can also be a NON KOSHER establishment located in walking distance from the local Shul, community or kosher restaurants area.

Please note - *JOFY does NOT mean that KOSHER food is served on the premises!

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