Congregation Shearith Israel
Born into slavery, they rose to be elite New York Jews. A new book tells their story.
By Yonat Shimron — October 5, 2021
(RNS) — In her new book, ‘Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family,’ Laura Arnold Leibman shows that Jews were not only slave owners. They were also slaves.
Appeals court decides fate of nation’s oldest synagogue
By Yonat Shimron — August 3, 2017
BOSTON (AP) — Control of the nation's oldest synagogue building, Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., will no longer be in the hands of the local congregation but rather under the control of Shearith Israel in New York.
Top Conservative rabbi to resign over ‘sexual identity’ struggle
By Lauren Markoe — April 21, 2016
(RNS) A leader in the Conservative Jewish movement asks forgiveness from his Dallas congregation.
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