Proverbs – מִשְׁלֵי

I love to go to museums. Art, history, architecture, objets d’art, furniture, you name it. Certainly, I look at many things through the prism of the relations to Jews and Judaism. What’s better than to visit a place I was thinking about for a long time, but never got around to go?

I am talking about the museum/synagogue of Eldridge Street.

Everybody knows that at some point in history, New York’s Lower East Side was home to more Jews than any other place in the world. It was also the most crowded place in America to live with thousands of poor people, mainly Jews, and Italians cramped into the tenements – tiny apartments – “these humble, multiple family buildings were the first American homes for thousands of immigrants.”…