Surviving through colonial times. As we learn more about this historic building. This and i got is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States of america. It has a wonderful story. First of all, it is most important for you to understand that above all the Touro Synagogue is a place of worship. This happening all year round. The story starts in 1492 in spain. Linking ferdinand and Queen Isabella ordered a degree. What they wanted at that particular time was to have a purely catholic country. They gave jewish people no choice. The first one was to convert to catholicism, the second was to leave. Those who converted were called conversos. Some chose to remain jewish in secret. If found out, they would havent tortured and put to death. To give you a sense of how the spaniards thought of jews at the time, their nickname was swine. What about the others . 90,000100,000 jews left spain. Awayhad to give everything to the spanish government. Several years after that, the king o
Times. Join us on American History television as we learn more about this historic building. This synagogue is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States of america. And it has a wonderful story. First of all, it is most important for you to understand that above all, the Touro Synagogue is a place of worship. We have this happening all year round, a fulltime rabbi, a congregation. There are about 120 members, and it is orthodox in its service. That is what we are doing today. The story starts in 1492 in spain. King ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued the alhambra decree. What they wanted at that particular time was to have a purely catholic country. They gave jewish people two choices. The first one was to convert to catholicism, the second was to leave. Those who converted were called conversos. Some, however, chose to remain jews in secret. They had all of their ritual objects. If they were to be found out, they would have been tortured and put to death. To give you
From spain and portugal, they fled to where they could worship, where they could work. Us 10 people left barb betos, but instead of going to new york or wanted to go they to rhode island. In 1636, a gentleman by the name of Roger Williams founded rhode island. He had come to the colonies from england seeking religious freedom, and 20 years after the founding of rhode island, those people in barbados said this is where they wanted to come. She was the most famous woman lighthouse keeper in the United States, but more importantly, she was the most famous lighthouse keeper in the United States. It is likely that she saved 35. Een 25 and she was a slip of a woman. She weighed 103 pounds and she was fearless. Welcome to newport, rhode island. Located on the south easternmost part of the state, newport is the home of the u. S. War college and the breakers, the vanderbilt summer home. We begin with the story of the slave trade in newport, which was once the most active slave port in north ame
Building in the United States of america. It has a wonderful 600 year story. First of all, it is most important for you to understand that above all, the synagogue is a house of worship. We have services here all year round, a fulltime rabbi, a congregation of about 120 members, and it is orthodox in its service. That is what we are doing today. The story starts in 1492 in spain, when eating of ferdinand and clean isabella issued and Queen Isabella issued a decree. It was they wanted a purely gavelic country, so they the jewish people two choices. Convert to catholicism or leave. Those who converted were called conversos. Others chose to remain jews in a secret. Objects. Their ritual if they have been found out, they would have been tortured and put to death. To get a sense of how spaniards of jews at the time, their nickname was morano, ort swine. They had four months to get there affairs in order, which meant you of everything away to the spanish government, such as their land or any
Washington today. Lets start with deferred action, the conversation in the white house about what going to happen with that program. What is being considered at this point . The white house is making a decision of whether to keep that program in place. The white house faces a deadline on tuesday of whether to continue this program for people who were brought into the country illegally as children. Attorneys general have threatened to sue the Trump Administration unless they discontinue this program next week. We think the president really doesnt want to. He has expressed publicly his tortured feelings about this program. He thinks a lot of people have grown to be good americans, essentially, and he doesnt want to rescind the protection isinst deportation, but he facing these lawsuits, so he has a tough decision to make. We are hearing it is probably not going to happen today. Going to talk to a democratic representative from arizona. How is Congress Reacting to this conversation . What