Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a " hipster " synagogue located in soho”. Today it says “orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue located at 43 crosby street”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
The congregation was founded in 2005 by Chabad -Lubavitch Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty. On September 15, 2009, the SoHo Synagogue signed a 7-year lease for the ground floor of 43 Crosby Street, located between Spring and Broome Streets. Previously a Gucci retail outlet, designer Dror Benshetrit transformed the space into an oppulant synagogue to cater for the growing " hipster " Jewish community. By 2015, the congregation, which did not charge a membership fee, was losing money. An online spin off of the physical synagogue, called Synago, was established in 2015, yet ultimately failed. In late 2015, Scheiner was trying to establish a similar synagogue in Los Angeles . The New York Observer ' .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Soho Synagogue is a " hipster " synagogue located in SoHo , a neighborhood in Manhattan , New York . It was founded in 2005 by Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty. On September 15, 2009, The SoHo Synagogue signed a 7 year lease for the ground floor of 43 Crosby Street, located between Spring and Broome Streets. Designer Dror Benshetrit will design the synagogue space. How the new SoHo Synagogue hopes to bring Orthodox Judaism to the velvet-rope set." , New York , May 21, 2005.
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Soho Synagogue is a " hipster " synagogue located in SoHo , a neighborhood in Manhattan , New York . On September 15, 2009, The SoHo Synagogue signed a 7-year lease for the ground floor of 43 Crosby Street, located between Spring and Broome Streets. Designer Dror Benshetrit designed the synagogue space.The SoHo Synagogue was founded in 2005 by Chabad -Lubavitch Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty.Rabbi Scheiner is the brother of Rabbi Pesach Scheiner, leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch of Boulder, Colorado, and Rabbi Moshe Scheiner of the Palm Beach Synagogue.
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Soho Synagogue was a " hipster " synagogue located in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan , New York . On September 15, 2009, The SoHo Synagogue signed a 7-year lease for the ground floor of 43 Crosby Street, located between Spring and Broome Streets. Designer Dror Benshetrit designed the synagogue space. The SoHo Synagogue was founded in 2005 by Chabad -Lubavitch Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Soho Synagogue was a " hipster " synagogue located in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan , New York . On September 15, 2009, The SoHo Synagogue signed a 7-year lease for the ground floor of 43 Crosby Street, located between Spring and Broome Streets. Designer Dror Benshetrit designed the synagogue space. The SoHo Synagogue was founded in 2005 by Chabad -Lubavitch Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty.
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a " hipster " synagogue located in soho
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orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue located at 43 crosby street
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