Walking Tour -Bialystoker the Beautiful, Including Historic East Broadway

7-11 Willett Street/Bialystoker Place,New York NY 10002

14 November, 2021

Description

Visit the spectacularly colorful Bialystoker Synagogue, and walk down Historic East Broadway discussing significant sites along the way. Spend some time with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy and see where immigrants went to shul, and how a new generation is carrying on these traditions. We will start our walking tour at the Bialystoker Synagogue a magnificently renovated former Methodist church believed to be a stop on the Underground Railroad. It is a rare treasure, and one of the few synagogues surviving worldwide that has hand-painted mazoles - signs of the zodiac – historically seen in Ashkenazic synagogues throughout the world. It is now the largest active congregation on the Lower East Side. Learn why there is a lobster painted on the ceiling. Discuss Beth Hamedrash Hagadol – once home to the first and largest Russian Jewish Orthodox congregation in the United States, as well as the only Chief Rabbi of America. Walk the streets of Historic East Broadway. Sites to be viewed and discussed include: The Educational Alliance, Henry Street Settlement, The Forward Building, Seward Park, Straus Square and more. Your guide has spent his entire life on the Lower East Side and will give you an insiders perspective. A portion of the proceeds of this tour are returned to the site. In order to enable you to hear the guide, we will be using an app for smart phones. Bring earphones for your cell. If you are not feeling well, DO NOT ATTEND. If you have been exposed to anyone with symptoms of the virus DO NOT ATTEND. Call our office and arrangements will be made to either have your money refunded, or you will be issued a credit with no expiration date. The price of this tour is $28 for Adults, $26 for Seniors, and $25 for students , and tickets are an additional $3 PP if purchased the day of the tour,-pending availability. The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy is an educational and cultural organization representing many Lower East Side synagogues, schools, and cultural institutions. The Conservancy was created with two initial goals: to support, enhance and activate the Lower East Side’s community of living synagogues and other historic structures, and to raise public awareness of the Lower East Side’s distinct cultural identity. The Conservancy offers customized private tours and innovative public walking tours of the Jewish Lower East Side. Customized private tours for schools and other educational organizations, synagogue and church groups, and corporate and family groups can be arranged.