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Shearith Israel or Sherith Israel (
Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
: שארית ישראל "Remnant of Israel"), may refer to the following
Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
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Canada

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Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, also known as Shearith Israel, is a Montreal synagogue, located on St. Kevin Street in Snowdon, which is the oldest Jewish congregation in Canada. The Congregation traces its history back to 176 ...
, a Sephardic-Orthodox synagogue, also known as Shearith Israel


United States

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Congregation Shearith Israel The Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל ''Kehilat She'arit Yisra'el'' "Congregation Remnant of Israel") – often called The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue – is the oldest Jewish congregation in the Unit ...
, a Sephardic-Orthodox synagogue, often called The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, in New York City. *
Congregation Shearith Israel (Baltimore, Maryland) ''for the other United States congregations with the same name, see Shearith Israel (disambiguation); for the historic synagogue in New York, see Shearith Israel.'' Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל דבאל ...
, a historic (1851) congregation in Baltimore founded by
Abraham Rice Abraham Joseph Rice (born Abraham Reiss) (c. 18001862) was the first ordained rabbi to serve in a rabbinical position in the United States. Rice was born in 1800 or 1802 at Gochsheim, near Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia. An injury in infancy left ...
, the first ordained rabbi in the United States. * Congregation Shearith Israel (Wharton, Texas), a defunct synagogue *
Congregation Sherith Israel (Nashville, Tennessee) Founded circa 1900, Congregation Sherith Israel is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox synagogue located in Nashville, Tennessee. Currently led by Rabbi Saul Strosberg and Cantor George Lieberman, it welcomes Jews of all backgrounds and levels of observa ...
, an Orthodox synagogue *
Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, California) Congregation Sherith Israel ("loyal remnant of Israel") is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States. It was established during California’s Gold Rush period and reflects the ambitions of early Jewish settlers to San Francisco. Today it ...
, a Reform synagogue *
Sherith Israel Temple (Cincinnati, Ohio) The Sherith Israel Temple is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 624 Ruth Lyons Lane (originally Lodge Street), in the backstage entertainment district in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States. The forme ...
, an historic building previously used as a synagogue {{synagogue disambiguation