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Proposed New East Village Synagogue Looks Suspiciously Like Apartment Building

The board of directors at Adas Le Israel Anshei Meseritz at 415 East Sixth St. (at First Ave.) voted last month to okay the demolition of the synagogue and replace it with a new one—one that, a few extras aside, looks suspiciously like an apartment building. The plan calls for a six-story residential building that would also contain a synagogue on the first two floors. The deal was struck with the Kushner Companies. But, per The Villager, "[One] prominent member of the dwindling congregation has questions about the transparency of the deal with the developer, and his lawyer has asked the state attorney general... to look into the matter." Hmmm. By the way, several members of the synagogue Anshe Meseritz were among the locals who objected to nearby fancy drink emporium Death & Co.'s name and appearance. —EV Grieve
· Rebuild Plan for Shul Fuels Debate in Congregation [The Villager]

South Williamsburg Getting a Little More Religion

The orthodox Jews of Williamsburg are certainly no strangers to big real estate undertakings, but even this photo passed on to us by a Curbed tipster gave us pause. Woo boy, that's some rendering. And so mysterious! Tippy McGee writes:

The building is in south williambsurg, on Clymer St, between Division and Berry. From the rendering it looks more like a community center than residential space, but then again I don't know hebrew. Anyway, ive never seen a rendering like this. If someone at curbed knows what's going on here id love to hear bout it.

That location doesn't make total sense—Berry ends at Division and Clymer is south of that—but luckily we do speak Hebrew, kinda. The top says something about the creator of the universe and blah blah blah (look, we said kinda), and the bottom says "Here is going to be built, with God's help, a school to teach the Torah and a love of Israel." South Williamsburg. So Will. SoWill. Soul. It's all starting to make sense to us.
· If You Prick Us, Do We Not FreshDirect? [Curbed]