Isaac Touro
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Isaac Touro
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Isaac Touro was a Dutch-born American rabbi. He was a Jewish leader in colonial America. Born in Amsterdam, in 1758 he left for Jamaica. In 1760, he arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, to serve as hazzan and spiritual leader of Jeshuath Israel, a Portuguese Sephardic congregation. Soon after his arrival, the congregation built the Touro Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in the United States. When the American Revolution broke out, Touro was a Loyalist, and when the British captured Newport
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American rabbi (1738–1783)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Touro
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2006-04-10T21:53:09Z
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2024-09-14T21:41:23Z
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