the list of jewish communities in north america was designed to list yeshivot hebrew schools and synagogues i have no idea why that criteria was chosen in practice it seems that the entries have no criteria whatsoever a list like that doesn't belong in any encyclopedia as unworldly as it is now we can just imagine how it would look if it were to be factually comprehensive we need to break down jewish communities into lists with more specified criterias this list being something that technically doesn't belong in the list of jewish communities in north america because a kollel is not a yeshivot hebrew schools or a synagogue is a great start to more useable and specific list of jewish communities