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Article: Reconstructionist Judaism: two Jewish cultural centers reinvent themselves for the demographics of a changing city.(ARCHITECTURE)(Eldridge Street Synagogue, Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center)
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- January 14, 2008
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WHEN JEWS MIGRATE across New York, they sow their paths with institutions, and there's something at once invigorating and sad about what happens to these buildings after the need for them has passed. The Jewish Daily Forward Building has become condos. Half a block away, the Garden Cafeteria, where Isaac Bashevis Singer made his camp, is now a Chinese restaurant. The Jarmulowsky Bank, built in 1895 in the vain hope that fair banking practices and a rusticated limestone facade would reassure skittish immigrants, may soon get recycled into a luxury hotel. Physically, at least, the Eldridge Street Synagogue remains, encircled by Cantonese noodle shops and hipster boutiques, ...