Sephardic Center of Mill Basin
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The Sephardic Center of Mill Basin, is a Syrian Jewish
Orthodox
Sephardi
synagogue
located at 6208 Strickland Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. It is primarily used by Jews residing in the Mill Basin
, Georgetown
and Bergen Beach
neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
Syrian Jews
Syrian Jews are Jews who inhabit the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria. Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups: from the Jews who inhabited the region of today's Syria from ancient times Syrian Jews are Jews who inhabit the region of the modern...
Orthodox
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...
Sephardi
Sephardic Judaism
Sephardic law and customs means the practice of Judaism as observed by the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, so far as it is peculiar to themselves and not shared with other Jewish groups such as the Ashkenazim...
synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
located at 6208 Strickland Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. It is primarily used by Jews residing in the Mill Basin
Mill Basin, Brooklyn
Mill Basin is a neighborhood in New York City in the southern portion of the borough of Brooklyn lying along Jamaica Bay and bounded to the north by Avenue U, and to the east, south, and west by the Mill Basin/Mill Island Inlet...
, Georgetown
Georgetown, Brooklyn
Georgetown is a small neighborhood east of Ralph Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 18....
and Bergen Beach
Bergen Beach, Brooklyn
Bergen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 18.What is now Bergen Beach was an island off the coast of Canarsie that was connected to the mainland in the early 1900s using landfill....
neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
See also
- Syrian Jewish communities of the United StatesSyrian Jewish communities of the United StatesThe Syrian Jewish communities of the United States are a collection of communities of Syrian Jews, mostly founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The largest are in Brooklyn, New York, Deal, New Jersey and Miami, Florida...