* Congregation Shearith Israel, 1655, is the oldest congregation in the United States, its present building dates from 1897.

In New York City, Shearith Israel Congregation is the oldest continuous congregation started in 1687 having their first synagogue erected in 1728, and its current building still houses some of the original pieces of that first.

The Spanish and Portuguese Synagouge, Congregation Shearith Israel at Central Park West the oldest synagogue in the U. S. est.

* B ' nai Jeshurun – In 1825, Ashkenazi members left the city's first Jewish house of worship, the Sephardic Congregation Shearith Israel, beginning a trek up Manhattan that would land them on West 88th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway.

* Congregation Shearith Israel – oldest Jewish congregation in what is now the United States was launched in 1655.

Congregation Shearith Israel, ( founded 1655 ) in New York is the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States.

Both Cardozo's maternal grandparents, Sara Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, and his paternal grandparents, Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews of the Portuguese Jewish community affiliated with Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel ; their families emigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition.

The Jewish community, too small to maintain a synagogue, removed the Torah scrolls and sent them for safekeeping along with the deed to the building to Congregation Shearith Israel in New York.

The minutes of the Congregation Shearith Israel of New York begin in 1729, when it was located in Mill Street, and refer to records dating back as far as 1706.

For the first time, a Modern Orthodox Siyum HaShas was also held, on 6 August 2012, at Congregation Shearith Israel on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

* Congregation Shearith Israel — the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue ( New York, NY, USA )

Albert Cardozo served as vice president and trustee of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City.

His great-grandfather, Benjamin Seixas, brother of the famous rabbi and American revolutionary Gershom Mendes Seixas of Congregation Shearith Israel, was one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange.

The Third Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel | Shearith Israel ( 1829-1851 ) on 21st Street ( Manhattan ) | West 21st Street in Manhattan, New York City is now surrounded by tall buildings

On the reconquest of the Recife area by Portugal, many of these Jews ( it is not known what percentage ) left Brazil for new or existing communities in the Caribbean such as Curaçao, and to form a new community in New Amsterdam ( New York ): see Congregation Shearith Israel.

After Congregation Shearith Israel recalled the Rev.

Marc D. Angel ( born 1945 ) is Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City.

Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City, was a founder in 1912 of the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism, and was the first rabbi hired by the new ( Orthodox ) Jewish Center in Manhattan when it was founded in 1918.

Congregation Mikvé Israel built this synagogue in 1692 ; it was reconstructed in 1732.

Through the efforts of Rabbi Henry Cohen and Congregation B ' nai Israel, Galveston became the focus of an immigration plan called the Galveston Movement that, between 1907 and 1914, diverted roughly 10, 000 Eastern European, Jewish immigrants from the crowded cities of the Northeastern United States.

The Newport congregation, now referred to as Congregation Jeshuat Israel, is the second oldest Jewish congregation in the United States and meets in the oldest standing synagogue in the United States, Touro Synagogue.

Gadsden is home to Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue founded in 1908.

They built a synagogue, Congregation Knesseth Israel, that is still standing and in use by an active Modern Orthodox congregation today and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

* Congregation B ' nai Israel Synagogue

Cedarhurst is home to a number of shuls, including the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center, Congregation Tifereth Zvi, Kehilas Bais Yehuda Tzvi ( otherwise known as The Red Shul ), Agudath Israel of the Five Towns, Chabad of the Five Towns, and the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst.

* Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue

The village's houses of worship include Congregation Sons of Israel ( CSI ), Briarcliff Congregational Church, Scarborough Presbyterian, All Saints Episcopal, St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Holy Innocents Anglican, Faith Lutheran Brethren Church, and St Mary's Episcopal Church.

Just south of it, on Pottstown Pike, is Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County ( founded 1904 ), Upper Uwchlan's only synagogue.

The Jewish Beth Israel Congregation is also in the downtown area, adjacent to the Beaufort Arsenal and Museum.

There are two Reform Judaism synagogues in Florence Beth Israel Congregation.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

North Woodmere has a very large Jewish population and is home to several synagogues, including Congregation Ohr Torah, Young Israel of North Woodmere Beis Haknesses of North Woodmere and Temple Hillel.

Congregation Mikvé Israel ( now Mikvé Israel-Emanuel ) built this synagogue in 1692 ; it was reconstructed in 1732 and is the oldest surviving synagogue building in the western hemisphere.

* 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

* Rabbi Marc D. Angel-former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, rabbi of Shearith Israel ( a Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York ), and a co-founder of the IRF ( International Rabbinic Fellowship ).

* Temple Shearith Israel

A Jew, Franks in 1775 was president of the Shearith Israel congregation of Montreal, the oldest Jewish congregation in Canada, but then less than a decade old.

A similar school was organized in Charleston, South Carolina in the same year ; in the following year, one in Richmond, Virginia ; in 1845 this movement spread to New York, being taken up first by the Emanu-El Society, although the Shearith Israel congregation had started a Hebrew-school system as early as 1808.

* Colonial period Shearith Israel cemeteries in present-day Manhattan

Although Montreal's Jewish community was small, numbering only around 200, they built the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, Shearith Israel, the oldest synagogue in Canada in 1768.