The Jewish side of Niagara Falls is booming again—thanks to the return of tourists
Tourists, and especially Orthodox tourists, are flocking back to Niagara Falls this summer after a long COVID hiatus. “Tourism is booming here. From our perspective, it’s basically back to pre-COVID levels,” said Rabbi Zalman Zaltzman in an email. Rabbi Zaltzman runs the Chabad house in Niagara Falls, along with his wife Perla—and summer is the […]
Niagara Falls’ Jewish community explores what its future looks like after selling its synagogue
A small white synagogue building, once the heart of the Niagara Falls Jewish community, sits forlorn and abandoned today. The families who once worshiped in the little structure decided to sell it last year, finally acknowledging that their dwindling numbers, and rising age, made it almost impossible to keep the structure operating. Now, the 25 […]
