Manhattan – Lower East Side Synagogues Experiencing A Rebirth

Some aspect of Lower Manhattan is now drawing young affluent Jews to stay. Like the Chasam Sofer synagogue, the area’s oldest functioning shul, is finally finishing a 30-year renovation process, it has hosted daily minions consistently over the past decades, even through periods when it had to pay people to show up at 7 a.m. Now The synagogue no longer has to struggle to muster the required quorum of 10 men, and a consistent showing of 20 to 30 worshipers now attend services.