Dror Benshetrit Designing Soho Synagogue

When it comes to sacred spaces in Soho, we think of the Mercer Hotel and Deitch Projects, but a hip, young rabbi has other ideas. Dovi Scheiner recently signed a 12-year lease on a five-story Crosby Street building that he intends to transform into the home of his hipster house of worship, the Soho Synagogue. According to The New York Observer‘s Dana Rubinstein (in an article that appears in the paper’s October 12 issue but not online), the 32-year-old rabbi “employs a modern aesthetic to attract [Soho]’s hip, and often lapsed, Jewish set.”