Director of Operations, Lori Weissman, is quoted in the The New York Times, alongside a beautiful shot of Bialystoker Synagogue!
“At the turn of the last century, there were more than 500 synagogues in what Lori Weissman, the director of operations for the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, calls ‘America’s most famous immigrant neighborhood,’ which then stretched to 14th Street. Fewer than a dozen remain; the Conservancy offers tours (suspended for now) of some of them, Ms. Weissman said. A particularly beautiful one is the still-active Bialystoker Synagogue on Willett Street. The landmark 1826 building, converted to a synagogue in 1905, features a soaring interior with stained-glass windows, hand-painted murals and a ceiling adorned with signs of the zodiac.”