Ketubah (Bayonne)

Framed piece of paper with three columns of text: single letters in left column, numbers in middle column, and Hebrew text in right column.

Omer Board

Shearith Israel was the first Jewish congregation established in North America, and the only Jewish congregation in New York City from 1654 until 1825. Between 1654 and 1730, it met in rented quarters…

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Sefer ha-tsava’ah (Book of the Testament): Rituals on Dying and Mourning

My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…

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Drawing of a round seal with lion, lamb, child, snake, and Star of David which reads in English, "Israel's Mission is Peace."

Seal of the Jewish Publication Society of America

The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…

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Ketubah (Bayonne)

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