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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 The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 2 West 70th Street, at Central Park West, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.
Second Shearith Israel Cemetery: Manhattan: Greenwich Village: 1805 1830 – [5] [15] Silver Lake Cemetery: Staten Island: Sunnyside: 1892 No Yes [13] [16] Third Shearith Israel Cemetery: Manhattan: Chelsea: 1829 1851 – [5] [17] Union Field Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood: 1926 No Yes: United Hebrew Cemetery: Staten Island: Richmondtown: 1908 No ...
B'nai Jeshurun's original founders broke from the city's only synagogue, Shearith Israel, in 1825, in order to create an Ashkenazi congregation. Subsequently, B'nai Jeshurun members broke away to form new synagogues several times. In 1828, at a time of rapid growth in the New York Jewish community, a group left B'nai Jeshurun to found Ansche ...
Podhajcer Shul, Lower West Side, Manhattan; Soho Synagogue, Soho, Manhattan; Temple Beth-El (New York City), Upper East Side, Manhattan; Temple Emanu-El (New York, 1868), Upper East Side, Manhattan; Chevro Ahavath Zion Synagogue, Monticello; Temple Beith Israel, Niagara Falls; Temple B'Nai Israel, Olean; Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville ...
Marc D. Angel (born July 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 he has held since 1969. [1] [2]
Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan; St. John's Burying Ground [5] Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, West Village [6] Third Shearith Israel Cemetery, Chelsea [7] Trinity Church Cemetery, [8] Financial District; Potter's Field (now Washington Square Park) Potter's Field at Randalls and Wards Islands (one on each island)
It is a rural cemetery in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations: Congregation Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshurun on West 89th Street, and Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street.
Gershom Mendes Seixas (January 15, 1745 – July 2, 1816) was the first native-born Jewish 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 about five decades.