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  2. History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Their numbers, added to by the later immigration of Ashkenazi Jews from eastern Europe to the Northeast and Midwest industrial cities, far surpassed the mostly Sephardic Jewish community in Charleston. South Carolina was the first place in America to elect a Jew to public office: Francis Salvador, elected in 1774 and 1775 to the Provincial ...

  3. Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim - Wikipedia

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    'Holy Congregation House of God', [3] also known as K. K. Beth Elohim, or more simply Congregation Beth Elohim) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located in Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States. Having founded the congregation in 1749, it was later claimed to be the first Reform synagogue located in the United States. [4]

  4. List of synagogues in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, Atlantic Beach; Jewish Center of the Hamptons, East Hampton; East Meadow Jewish Center, East Meadow; North Country Reform Temple, Glen Cove; Temple Beth-El, Great Neck; Congregation Tifereth Israel, Greenport; Jericho Jewish Center, Jericho; Temple Emanu-El, Long Beach; Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North ...

  5. List of Messianic Jewish organizations - Wikipedia

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    Jewish University of Colorado (JUC) [6] 1980 The only messianic jewish university which is fully accredited and tuition-free. It is funded by the Messianic Jewish Fellowship International, [7] a religious society under the law of the State of Colorado (CO Rev Stat § 7-50-101 [2020]). Consequently, JUC is a strictly ecclesiastical not-for ...

  6. History of the Jews in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    The first major Jewish community in the South was formed in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1700, there was a small Jewish community in Charles Town, as the colony was then called. [7] The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, the charter of the colony, guaranteed religious freedom and allowed Jews to own property.

  7. List of the oldest synagogues in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue, Charleston, South Carolina, was founded in the 1740s. [1] Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, Richmond, Virginia, was founded in 1789. In 1898, it merged with Congregation Beth Ahabah, which was founded in 1841. The St. Thomas Synagogue in the United States Virgin Islands was founded in 1796.

  8. A bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Argentina in ...

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    On July 18, 1994, an explosion destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association, a Jewish community center. The worst such attack in the history of Argentina ...

  9. History of the Jews in Texas - Wikipedia

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    B. Levinson, a Jewish Texan civic leader, arrived in 1861. [3] Today the vast majority of Jewish Texans are descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, those from central and eastern Europe whose families arrived in Texas after the Civil War or later. [1] Organized Judaism in Texas began in Galveston with the establishment of Texas' first Jewish cemetery in ...