250 Years of America and 372 Years of American Jews

JOHN PODHORETZ: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, your congregation, Shearith Israel, has been present in New York City continuously since what year?

MEIR Y. SOLOVEICHIK: Well, it’s been present since before there was a New York, since New Amsterdam, 1654. That would make us the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States.

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