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The first synagogue in what would become the 13 colonies may have been built in what was New Amsterdam, but it was the English taking over and renaming it New York before Jews were accepted. The Jews were tolerated, but not trusted by both the people already living there and the government. Had it not been for the shareholders of the Dutch West India Trading Company who had to intervene for even that small amount of acceptance, the Jews would have been forced out.