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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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    Judah Touro (June 16, 1775 – January 18, 1854) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Touro's father Isaac Touro of Holland was chosen as the...
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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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    cemetery's Egyptian revival gate and fence were designed by architect Isaiah Rogers (1800–1869), who designed an identical gate for Newport's Touro Cemetery...
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    there in 1658 and prior to the 1677 purchase of a communal cemetery, now known as Touro Cemetery. See also List of the oldest synagogues in the United States...
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    notable in this strain is the poet's "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport", inspired by the Touro Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. Further, the influence...
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    Ground and Island Cemetery. List of cemeteries in Rhode Island Touro Cemetery, the old Jewish cemetery at Newport Coddington Cemetery, where six colonial...
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  • Meetinghouse, Parsonage and Cemetery, Portsmouth; NRHP-listed Touro Cemetery, Newport; NRHP-listed (also known as Jewish Cemetery at Newport) Carpenter, Lakeside...
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    Jews in 1658 and prior to the 1677 purchase of a communal cemetery, now known as Touro Cemetery. In much of the nineteenth century, no Jews lived in Newport...
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  • Jamestown Precious Blood Cemetery, Woonsocket Prince's Hill Cemetery, Barrington, Rhode Island Swan Point Cemetery, Providence Touro Cemetery, Newport – colonial...
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  • Jewish cemetery, Chambersburg West Ham Jewish Cemetery Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries Weißensee Cemetery Touro Cemetery Golden...
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    distant locations such as Touro Cemetery in Rhode Island. In 1996, the Temple Ohabei Shalom ceded the property to the Jewish Cemetery Association. It was added...
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  • Miami, Florida, in 1968 at the age of 63. He was buried at the Judah Touro Cemetery, in Cincinnati. Nathan was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll...
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    Customs House, New York City 1843 Egyptian Revival gate and fence for Touro Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island 1845 Kent-Valentine House, Richmond, Virginia...
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    Nathan Mileikowsky (category Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives)
    and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 186. חלון כתבה Harel Cohen (November 13, 1987). רבנים...
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    William Ellery Channing (category Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery)
    statue of Channing by William Clark Noble was erected in 1892 in Newport's Touro Park across from the Channing Memorial Church. A bronze statue of Channing...
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    The Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans, New Orleans, United States, are a group of forty-two cemeteries that are historically and culturally significant...
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    Orange, the Times-Herald Record, U.S. Postal Service, County of Orange, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Orange & Rockland Utilities, and the City...
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  • Iranian-American actor Isaac Touro (1738-1783), Touro College named in his honor. Touro Syn Father of Judah Touro. Judah Touro (1775-1854), American businessmen...
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    The Campo Pequeno Bullring (Portuguese: Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno) is the current Praça de Touros of the city of Lisbon, in Portugal. It is located...
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    Shmuel Dayan (category Burials at Nahalal Cemetery)
    and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. 3. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 1407. Gideon Levy, 'My hate crime against the Dayan...
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    full-time rabbi; instead, from 2005 to 2016 retired Rabbi David Goldstein from Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, leads services once a month. Starting September...
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    in Touro Park. It was designed by John Quincy Adams Ward, erected in 1869, and dedicated by his daughter. He was buried in Newport's Island Cemetery, near...
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    the second-oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. They meet in Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in America. The Colony of Rhode Island and...
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    2021. Retrieved May 18, 2017. College, Touro. "Touro Law Center Celebrates Building Dedication". www.touro.edu. Archived from the original on January...
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  • Virginia, in the United States. The synagogue was founded in 1914, and its cemetery was founded in 1933. In 1914, new Eastern European immigrants who were...
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    Congregation Adath Israel Brith Sholom (category Cemeteries established in the 1850s)
    on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974; and the associated cemetery was listed in 1982. The Adath Israel Congregation ("Congregation of Israel")...
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    hazanim include Gershom Mendes Seixas (1768–1776 and 1784–1816), Isaac Touro (1780), Jacques Judah Lyons (1839–1877), DanAbraham Lopes Cardozo (1946–1986)...
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    Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and CUNY School of Medicine, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of...
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    ambitious programme of relief in 1837. In 1854 his American friend Judah Touro, also a Sephardic Jew, died after having bequeathed money to fund Jewish...
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