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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.
The Orthodox congregation is also known as the Greenwich Village Synagogue and had a weekly Shabbat minyan at 53 Charles Street, New York, NY until 2020. [48] [49] Temple Society of Concord, founded 1839, Syracuse, New York. Angel Orensanz Center, 1849–50, Lower East Side, Manhattan, is the oldest synagogue building still standing in New York ...
Front door. Founded in 1825, Bnai Jeshurun was the second synagogue founded in New York and the third-oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in the United States.[2] [3]The synagogue was founded by a coalition of young members of Congregation Shearith Israel, immigrants, and the descendants of immigrants from the German and Polish lands.
Congregation Shearith Israel, a Sephardic-Orthodox synagogue, often called The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, in New York City.; Congregation Shearith Israel (Baltimore, Maryland), a historic (1851) congregation in Baltimore founded by Abraham Rice, the first ordained rabbi in the United States.
First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown [2] New York Marble Cemetery, [3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City; New York City Marble Cemetery, [4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City. Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan
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 ...
Meir Yaakov Soloveichik (born July 29, 1977) [1] is an American Orthodox rabbi and writer. He is the son of Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveichik, grandson of Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, and a great nephew of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the leader of American Jewry who identified with what became known as Modern Orthodoxy.
Ash died in 1887, [26] and the United Hebrew Orthodox Congregations (now called The Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations) began a search for a successor, to serve as rabbi of Beth Hamedrash Hagodol and as Chief Rabbi of New York City. [15] [65] This search was opposed by Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes, of Congregation Shearith Israel.