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June 10, 2015

The Western Hemisphere’s Only Romaniote Synagogue

Jews who view themselves as neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi.

Kehila Kedosha Janina, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, was founded by a community of Greek Jews who—unlike most of their Greek coreligionists—are not Sephardim but Romaniote. Marjorie Ingall writes:

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