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Earth Market Street, Kaifeng, 1910. The synagogue lay beyond the row of stores on the right. From the 17th century, further assimilation had begun to erode these traditions as the rate of intermarriage between Jews and other ethnic groups such as the Han Chinese increased. With some Kaifeng families, Muslim men did marry their Jewish women, but ...
Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El, abbreviated as Adereth El, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 133 East 29th Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1857, it claims to be the oldest synagogue in its original location with continuous services at the same location.
The Queens Jewish Center, also known as Queens Jewish Center and Talmud Torah or QJC, is an Orthodox synagogue in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was established by a dozen families in 1943 to serve the growing central Queens Jewish community. [2] The current spiritual leader is Rabbi Judah Kerbel.
Congregation Beth Israel, commonly referred to as the West Side Jewish Center or, in more recent years, the Hudson Yards Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 347 West 34th Street, in the Garment District of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, [1] [3] in the United States.
The Eldridge Street Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 12–16 Eldridge Street in the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. Built in 1887 for Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun , the synagogue is one of the first erected in the U.S. by Eastern European Jews .
The Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights is a historic Reform Jewish synagogue located at 551 Fort Washington Avenue, on the corner of 185th Street, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S.
The congregation, originally founded as an Orthodox synagogue, [1] acquired a synagogue building at 221 East 51st Street from Congregation Orach Chaim in 1906. [ 1 ] On January 24, 1965, Sutton Place Synagogue announced plans for the construction of a Jewish Center for the United Nations, complementing similar religious centers near the UN ...
The synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community (reportedly dating from 1163) was destroyed, and the Jews took refuge on the north side of the Yellow River. They took with them the Torah scrolls, which had been saved after having been thrown into the river, though they had grown moldy and illegible.