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In early 20th-century cities, Jewish immigrants transformed crowded apartment buildings into synagogues, adapting existing spaces to serve spiritual needs. These makeshift sanctuaries made religious practice possible without the resources to build dedicated structures.
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You climb narrow stairs in a Lower East Side tenement—narrow, dim, close with the smell of cooking and people. Inside a modest apartment, wooden benches face an ark; a man in a tallis leads prayers that echo off the walls where families sleep just hours later.
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Where do people in your neighborhood gather to practice faith or find community when they have limited resources?