Nov

14 2021

Gershom Mendes Seixas: America’s First Native-Born Jewish Religious Leader

1:00PM - 2:30PM  

Congregation Am Haskalah 1190 W. Macada Road
Bethlehem, PA

Contact Liz Fear
amhaskalahdirector@gmail.com

Join Am Haskalah for a new year of Continuing Education classes!

Student Rabbi Armin Langer will present the development of Shearith Israel, New York’s first established Jewish community, before the Revolution and in its aftermath. The presentation will look into the biography and sermons of the community’s spiritual leader, Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745-1816) and show how Shearith Israel and Gershom Mendes Seixas adapted to American Republicanism.

Free and open to all. For more information, contact AmHaskalahDirector@gmail.com.

Registration via Zoom required: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-iqrT4vGtT5la-rJ5eugRWSd20_KjVd

Sponsor: Congregation Am Haskalah