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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.
This church was part of the Orthodox Church of America until 2011 when its parish voted in favor of joining the Bulgarian Orthodox Church; Holy Trinity Macedono-Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church East Danforth: 1972 [37] [note 16] 1973-1981 Father Vassil Mihailoff was the parish priest of Holy Trinity until his death in 1981. [38]
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 ...
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.
The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, also known as Shearith Israel, is an Orthodox synagogue, located at 4894 Avenue Saint-Kevin in Snowdon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The synagogue is the oldest Jewish congregation in Canada. The congregation traces its history from 1760 and was formally established in 1768. [1]
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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.