Hakafot
On the evening of Simhat Torah, a parallel hakafot ceremony for women is held in the Little Synagogue, accompanied by a choir of women congregants.
On the evening of Simhat Torah, a parallel hakafot ceremony for women is held in the Little Synagogue, accompanied by a choir of women congregants.
The little synagogue on Mill Street was the first structure designed and built to be a synagogue in continental North America.
In 1776, several British soldiers desecrated two of Shearith Israel’s Torah scrolls.