In 1887, JTS held its first class of ten students in the vestry of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, New York City’s oldest congregation.
Its mission was to preserve the knowledge and practice of historical Judaism. Pereira Mendes, along with a group of prominent lay leaders from Sephardic congregations in Philadelphia and New York. The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) was founded in 1886 through the efforts of two distinguished rabbis, Dr.
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