Welcome new member: Dr. Albert Levy
Published on Jan 31, 2019
We are pleased to welcome our new member to our growing Shearith Israel family. We look forward to getting to know Dr. Levy.
We are pleased to welcome our new member to our growing Shearith Israel family. We look forward to getting to know Dr. Levy.
Shearith Israel’s “Omer Board” dates back to the Mill Street Synagogue of 1730, and may indeed go back to the early years of the Congregation’s history.
The oldest of our extant cemeteries is known as the Chatham Square Cemetery. It is located in Chinatown at 55 St. James Place. The land was originally purchased in 1682 by Joseph Bueno de Mesquita.