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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 ...
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.
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 first rabbi was Mordecai Kaplan, who left in 1921 because his positions were too reform oriented and radical for the Orthodox congregation. [3] The congregation then hired Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, who later became involved in the founding and support of almost every major Orthodox organization in the United States and abroad, including the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Agudath Israel ...
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.
'Congregation Sons of Jacob, People of Brzezan' [3]), is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 180 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was constructed in 1913 by a landsmanshaft from the town of Brzeżany in southeast Galicia. The first Rabbi of the congregation, in ...