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SHEARITH ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF NEW YORK.

Literally, remnant of Israel. Organized in 1654 by the first Jewish pilgrims to come to Nieuw Amsterdam. Its founders had escaped from the Inquisition in South America. The first Jewish congregation in what is now the U.S., it has had continuous history of more than three centuries as a Sephardic synagogue.

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