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February 7, 2024

One of the Last Synagogues on the Lower East Side May Soon Shut Its Doors

Shtibl Row once had 50 synagogues.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Manhattan’s Lower East Side was densely populated by immigrant Jews and their children. The stretch of East Broadway between Clinton and Montgomery Street at one point had over 50 small synagogues, known as shtiblekh. Now one of the few that survive on this erstwhile Shtibl Row is Agudath Israel Youth of Manhattan, which stands on the brink of dissolution with the anticipated loss of one of its members and, with him, its ability to get a quorum of adult males on Saturday morning. Jon Kalish reports:

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