While most of NYC’s Jews belong to the Ashkenazim (German) or the Sephardim (Spain-Portugal) there is a third faction, the Romaniotes, whose roots go back to Greece. This, the only Romaniote synagogue in the western hemisphere, was completed here at 280 Broome Street near Allen in 1927. See Comments section for a further explanation and correction […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2018/07/kehila-kedosha-janina-synagogue-lower-east-side/
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