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    The Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל, romanized: Kehilat She'arit Yisra'el, lit. 'Congregation Remnant of Israel'), often called...
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    by Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew, "Remnant of Israel"), which is itself the oldest Jewish congregation in North America. (The Congregation was...
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    Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל דבאלטימאר; nicknamed The Glen Avenue Shul) is a historic Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue...
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    threats of war loomed, the congregation entrusted the synagogue’s deed and Torah scrolls to New York's Congregation Shearith Israel for safekeeping. Over time...
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  • Montreal, a Sephardic-Orthodox synagogue, also known as Shearith Israel Congregation Shearith Israel, a Sephardic-Orthodox synagogue, often called The Spanish...
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    The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, also known as Shearith Israel, is an Orthodox synagogue, located at 4894 Avenue Saint-Kevin in Snowdon...
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  • Congregation Shearith Israel was a Jewish Texan community in Wharton, Texas. This rural Texan community held Jewish services for over 100 years (1899-2002)...
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    financed the war. Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745-1816) was minister of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan when the British occupied New York City during the...
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  • shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved November 10, 2018. "21st Street Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved...
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  • Music of Congregation Shearith Israel, Congregation Shearith Israel, 2003. Traditional Music of Congregation Shearith Israel (Shearith Israel League) 3...
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    entrusted to Congregation Shearith Israel. The building was reopened for the use of Ashkenazi Jews in 1883. Congregation Mickve Israel of Savannah, Georgia...
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    style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations: Congregation Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshurun...
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    of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York. Congregation Shearith Israel is a Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. It is the oldest Jewish congregation in...
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    religious leader in the United States. He served as the hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City's first Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, for...
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  • Abraham Lopes Cardozo (1914–February 21, 2006) was hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in New York City...
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    Times. "Congregational History | Congregation Shearith Israel- Manhattan Orthodox SynagogueCongregation Shearith Israel". May 19, 2022. Retrieved May 7...
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    who arrived via Portugal and via Brazil (Dutch Brazil) – see Congregation Shearith Israel – represented the bulk of America's then small Jewish population...
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    Retrieved January 6, 2016. "Beth Olam Cemetery". shearithisrael.org. Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved April 19, 2016. Chandler, Adam (August 26, 2011)....
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  • Hebrews, Ocala Congregation Beth Jacob, Atlanta Congregation Shearith Israel, Atlanta The Temple, Atlanta Congregation of B'nai Israel Synagogue, Augusta...
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    Seixas, son of Gershom Mendes Seixas and Hebrew school teacher at Congregation Shearith Israel, to teach Mormon leaders Hebrew. Smith himself attended some...
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    1945) is an Open Orthodox rabbi and author, Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City, a position...
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    June 8, 1984. Brockmann, pp. 342-343., p. 342, at Google Books Congregation Shearith Israel Archived February 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Building...
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  • Associate Rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, also in New York City. In May 2013, he became Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City...
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    He was a Jewish-American of Ashkenazi origin and a member of Congregation Shearith Israel, for whom be produced many works. Historians believe he was an...
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    building that was erected in 1859. In 1903, it was bought by the Shearith Israel congregation and converted to serve as a Jewish synagogue, which it was until...
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    States in particular, Congregation Shearith Israel, established in 1654, in what is now New York City, is the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States...
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  • 1970) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as the leader of Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1910 to 1970. Geffen is widely known...
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  • at synagogues in Manhattan, including service as a cantor at Congregation Shearith Israel on the Upper West Side of New York City from 1985 to 2019. Sherman...
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  • at New Amsterdam in September from Brazil. They established Congregation Shearith Israel, the first Jewish synagogue in what would become the United States...
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    Thirteen Colonies, two of which still exist: Congregation Shearith Israel in New York and Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia. However, by the end of...
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