page_title: Straus Street
section_title: Haredi institutions
hierarchical_section_title: Straus Street / Haredi institutions
caption_attribution_description: English: Kikar Zupnick (Zupnick Square), Jerusalem, headquarters of the Edah HaChareidis religious organization
context_page_description: Straus Street is a north-south road in north-central Jerusalem. It starts at Jaffa Road and extends to Kikar HaShabbat, which marks the intersection of five streets: Straus Street, Yeshayahu Street, Malkhei Yisrael Street, Yehezkel Street, and Mea Shearim Road. The street was named for Nathan Straus, a prominent American merchant and Jewish philanthropist in the early twentieth century.
context_section_description: At the northern end of Straus Street are the headquarters of two important organizations in the Israeli Haredi community. Kikar Zupnick (Zupnick Square) is the headquarters of the Edah HaChareidis religious organization. Constructed in the 1920s, this building includes the organization’s offices, a rabbinical court, a beis medrash, a Talmud Torah, a yeshiva, and a mikveh. In the days leading up to the Sukkot holiday, the large lot fronting the building is covered with a tent and lulav and etrog sellers set out their wares on dozens of tables.
  Kupat Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes–Kolel Polin, founded in 1796, is a charity aiding Israel’s poor.
caption: Kikar Zupnick
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