Rabbi Marc Mandelâ??s voice filled Touro Synagogue one recent Saturday morning, drifting past the wooden columns that line the basilica and rising toward the womenâ??s gallery, just as the voices of baalei tefillah , or prayer leaders, did 250 years ago.
Tourists stream through this, the oldest synagogue in America, five days a week. But it is during services that this majestic colonial building comes to life.
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