Bialystoker Street

Most people walk past this shul without realizing what it really represents. Let's see the good all around us! Over 100 years ago, Jewish immigrants from Bialystok came to the Lower East Side with almost nothing. They worked brutal jobs, lived in tiny apartments, and fought to build a Jewish future in America without losing their identity. So they built the Bialystoker Shul. Not because they were wealthy. Because they understood that if they didn’t sacrifice for Yiddishkeit, it could disappear. This Shavuos, we shouldn’t take our shuls and Torah communities for granted. The thriving Torah world we have today exists because simple Yidden gave everything they had to preserve it for the next generation. Thank You Hashem for the Jews who built the foundation of Jewish life in America and around the world.