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For more than a century, a synagogue known as the ‘Carnegie Hall of Brooklyn’ has been home to the greatest cantors in the US
New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy ...
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'Planting it for my Children': Cobb's First Synagogue Celebrates 50 Years
The year was 1975. It had been 200 years since the nation's founding and more than a century since the end of the Civil War.
Elephant in the synagogue: Iconography in thriving post-Temple community raises questions
How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...
R.I. Supreme Court rules congregation can be evicted from Newport’s Touro Synagogue, the nation’s oldest synagogue
The court ruled a New York congregation can evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which has worshipped at Touro Synagogue for ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... that allowed Jews protection to worship as they chose. Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws ...
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Site of century-old synagogue to be torn down – and hundreds of historic NYC landmarks face same risk: advocates
This vintage house of worship doesn’t have a prayer. The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in the East Village is set to be torn down to make room for six trendy ...