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Sephardic Women: The Heroes of the S&P

March 8, 2018by shalommorris 2 Comments

In the 19th century five remarkable Sephardic women laboured to preserve Jewish life. They defended it from threats of conversion, assimilation and change, and they did so with the pen. […]

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Musings

Shofetim – Cutting Down Trees, People, and Monuments

September 6, 2017by shalommorris Leave a comment

Monuments mean something. They remind us of people and history. Sometimes they recall movements that are meaningful to some whilst not to others. Other times, they celebrate dictators or regimes. More […]

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Musings, Torah

Sephardic Jews and the American Revolution

June 29, 2017by shalommorris Leave a comment

The American Revolution pitted British subjects against one another. Patriots vs. Loyalists, Englishmen vs. Americans, brother vs. brother, and Jew vs. Jew. At that time there were only Sephardic congregations […]

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Musings, Torah

Vayhi – The S&P and Ashkenazim

January 16, 2017by shalommorris 2 Comments

Narratives are important. The same series of events can take on a completely different meaning depending on how they are told. A prime example of this is the story of Yosef and […]

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Musings, Torah

Hamburg, Germany – Gateway to the West

December 13, 2016by shalommorris 1 Comment

I recently discovered more significant Jewish history in Hamburg than I had ever expected to find there. It turns out that Hamburg played an instrumental role in both the early […]

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Travels

11th Street Cemetery – New York

November 29, 2016by shalommorris Leave a comment

Tiny and hidden away is the second cemetery of New York’s first Jewish congregation, Shearith Israel. Located in Greenwich Village on West 11th st., it was in use from 1805-1829. This […]

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Travels

The Touro Trial and the Legacy of Anglo-American Jewry

May 23, 2016by shalommorris 7 Comments

The Jewish trial of the century has just concluded. The trial pitted the oldest American Jewish community against the oldest American synagogue. At stake was the legacy of America’s Colonial era Jews. […]

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Musings

Shearith Israel – New York

October 23, 2015by shalommorris 9 Comments

Shearith Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in America, founded in 1654. It was there that I first encountered and then became inspired by and engrossed in the history and […]

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Travels

Colonial Jewish New York

August 9, 2015by shalommorris 14 Comments

I spent one of my last evenings in NY before moving to London at the location where it all began. In 1730 Congregation Shearith Israel constructed the first ever synagogue in […]

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Travels

Behar – Let Freedom Ring!

May 11, 2015by shalommorris Leave a comment

In 1751 a bell was cast. The work was carried out by the firm Lester and Pack, today named Whitechapel Bell Foundry, located just a few blocks away from London’s […]

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