eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
3 July 2019
Mazal Tov to Attorney James Kaplan, President and Chair of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, who originated and spearheaded the successful initiative to co-name a New York City street to commemorate the founding of North America’s first temple, Congregation Shearith Israel’s Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue on Mill Street (today’s 26 South William Street), as well as to honor Shearith Israel’s leader and hazzan, Gershom Mendes Sexias. The new Mill Street Synagogue/Sexias Way is a tangible reminder of the significant contributions of Seixas to the Patriot’s cause and his congregation’s “to the rise of New York as that most cosmopolitan of American cities.”
