the Romaniote shul of NYC

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The Romaniotes see themselves as neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi. According to their oral tradition, they descended from Jews who were put on a slave ship to Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE; a storm grounded the ship in Greece, and there they stayed for 2000 years.

Inside Kehila Kedosha Janina, the only Romaniote shul in the Western Hemisphere (and in NYC!)

This past Sunday, strings of Greek, Israeli and American flags danced in the breeze over a Lower East Side block. The air smelled of honey. Long lines of...

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