Soho Synagogue was an

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located at 43 Crosby Street, in the

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, United States. The congregation was founded in 2005 by

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-Lubavitch Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty. On September 15, 2009, the SoHo Synagogue signed a 7-year lease for the ground floor of 43 Crosby Street, located between Spring and Broome Streets. Previously a

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transformed the space into an oppulant synagogue to cater for the growing " hipster" Jewish community. By 2015, the congregation, which did not charge a membership fee, was losing money. An online spin off of the physical synagogue, called Synago, was established in 2015, yet ultimately failed. In late 2015, Scheiner was trying to establish a similar synagogue in

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