The rise and fall of the ‘I.M. Pei Synagogue’
An ode to a Brookline, Mass., chassidic house of worship and its “statement about how modernity and tradition could reinforce one another.”
The best illustration of which I’m aware of the Psalm 188 verse with Aesop echoes—“The rock which the builders rejected became the cornerstone”—was found at the Brookline, Mass., chassidic synagogue Congregation Bais Pinchas, which also answers to New England Chassidic Center.
Growing up, I visited the shul, still located at 1710 Beacon Street, thousands…