Shul Keeps Its Spirit
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Stanton Street Synagogue lives. A small band of worshipers last week secured the right to keep their Lower East Side shul months after their elderly rabbi tried to...
View ArticleShul Demolition May Go Through
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer A 150-year-old Brooklyn Orthodox synagogue, Congregation Tifereth Israel, could be demolished as early as next week in the midst of a nasty legal dispute between two...
View ArticleFlatbush Holy War
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Brian Burstin has been praying at Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush in Brooklyn since 1967, when he was 11. Before that, his parents were members at the stately...
View ArticleWEB EXCLUSIVE: Fracas In The East Village
by Sharon Udasin Staff Writer At 7:20 p.m. on Monday, only nine people had shown up for the 7:15 Mincha service at Anshei Meseritz synagogue, a crumbling relic from the turn of the last century that...
View ArticleShul Fracas In The East Village
Sharon Udasin Staff Writer An almost 100-year-old synagogue is being sold to developers, but some congregants claim the vote wasn’t legal.At 7:20 p.m. on a recent Monday, only nine people had shown up...
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