The Touro Synagogue or Congregation Jeshuat Israel (Hebrew: קהל קדוש ישועת ישראל) is a synagogue built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island. It is the oldest...
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congregation built the Touro Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in the United States. When the American Revolution broke out, Touro was a Loyalist, and...
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been in continuous use as synagogues, while others have been converted to other purposes, and a few, such as the Touro Synagogue, were shuttered for many...
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son of Isaac Touro, the namesake of the country's oldest synagogue, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. The New Orleans Touro Synagogue is one of the...
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Touro's father Isaac Touro of Holland was chosen as the hazzan at the Touro Synagogue in 1762, a Portuguese Sephardic congregation in Newport, Rhode Island...
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Bimah of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, US Cast-iron Bimah of the Old Synagogue in Kraków, Poland In Ashkenazi synagogues, the Torah was...
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Isaac Touro. Touro Synagogue, the oldest Synagogue in the United States, located in Newport, Rhode Island. Touro Synagogue (New Orleans), a synagogue in...
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Touro Synagogue Cemetery (also known as the Jewish Cemetery at Newport), dedicated in 1677, is located in the colonial historic district of Newport, Rhode...
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Belcourt Castle. Also there is the Touro Synagogue, dedicated on December 2, 1763, considered by locals to be the first synagogue within the United States (see...
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Jewish congregation in the United States. They meet in Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in America. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations...
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Synagogue, built in 1877, is the oldest purpose-built synagogue in Wales. The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is the oldest Jewish house of...
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United States President George Washington, writing in 1790 to the Touro Synagogue of Newport, Rhode Island, extended the metaphor to denote the equality...
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17th century Husiatyn Synagogue in Husiatyn, Ukraine The Touro Synagogue (1759) in Newport, Rhode Island is the oldest synagogue in the United States The...
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oldest synagogue, Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., on Sunday, 19 Aug. 2007 PAUR Staff (2014). "Paxson delivers keynote address at Touro Synagogue in Newport"...
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old synagogue buildings have been in continuous use as synagogues, while others have been converted to other purposes, and others, such as the Touro Synagogue...
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background. The oldest synagogue in the country, the Touro Synagogue, is named after one of these early Portuguese Jews, Isaac Touro. . Some of the earliest...
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Handler. Loeb financed the creation of the Loeb Visitors Center at the Touro Synagogue National Historic Site in Newport, Rhode Island. Pace, Eric (9 December...
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Orleans Touro Synagogue, New Orleans B'Nai Zion Temple, Shreveport Shangarai Chasset, New Orleans Congregation Beth Israel, Bangor Etz Chaim Synagogue, Portland...
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Hospital Newport Reading Room Old Colony House Oliver Perry Monument Touro Synagogue Washington Square White Horse Tavern Mansions Culture International...
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Times. BJC received the Judge George Alexander Teitz Award from the Touro Synagogue in 2018 for best exemplifying the commitment to the ideals of religious...
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Street, the oldest house of worship in Rhode Island, built in 1699, and Touro Synagogue, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. The Quakers settled heavily...
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Gaguine Judah Cassuto Aron Mendes Chumaceiro Abraham Lopes Cardozo Isaac Touro Henry Samuel Morais Abraham Cohen Pimentel Emanuel Nunes Carvalho Jessurun...
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wrote a letter in 1790 to the country's first Jewish congregation, the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island to state: Allowing rights and immunities of...
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London, is consecrated. 1763 – Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States. 1766...
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before the First Amendment was ratified. In 1790, in a letter to the Touro Synagogue, he expressed the government “gives to bigotry no sanction” and “to...
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Congregation Shearith Israel (redirect from The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue)
listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets Oldest synagogues in the United States Touro Synagogue Marcus, Jacob R. (1951). Early American Jewry: The...
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Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island is America's oldest surviving synagogue. The Islamic Center of America in Dearborn...
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buildings, both in active use, are the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue, in Charleston, South Carolina. The...
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Hospital Newport Reading Room Old Colony House Oliver Perry Monument Touro Synagogue Washington Square White Horse Tavern Mansions Culture International...
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Hospital Newport Reading Room Old Colony House Oliver Perry Monument Touro Synagogue Washington Square White Horse Tavern Mansions Culture International...
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