Police arrested a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday night in connection with the massive fire that burned down an historic synagogue on the Lower East Side. A police spokesman confirmed that the young man would be charged with arson. The spokesman said that he had no information on a suspected motive. A spokesperson for the New…
When a 167-year-old synagogue burned to cinders Sunday, lingering hopes of preserving the old Jewish Lower East Side burned with it. Beth Hamedrash Hagadol had survived a century and half as the most visible monument to a Jewish community that has its spiritual roots on the crowded blocks between the Bowery and the East River….
Surveillance video shows three young people running away from the area near Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue around the time that the historic Manhattan building caught fire on Sunday night. In the footage, “We see kids running from the area — we don’t know if they were inside, we don’t know if they were responsible for…
One hundred and twenty years of Jewish history on Manhattan’s Lower East Side came to a tragic ending on Sunday night, as fire destroyed Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, one of the oldest synagogues in New York. For hours, smoke billowed above the neighborhood, once the heart of Jewish life in the city, and residents gathered to…
The synagogue that wanted to demolish itself has had a change of heart. The leadership of Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, a historic 163-year-old synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, has suspended a request it had filed with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to reverse its landmark status, a move that could have paved the…
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