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    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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    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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