Touro Synagogue (New Orleans)

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Touro Synagogue is the name of a Reform synagogue in New Orleans, Louisiana, named after Judah Touro, Isaac Touro's son.

The New Orleans Touro Synagogue is the second oldest synagogue in the United States. The current synagogue was founded in 1828 from the merger of two older (originally Orthodox congregations: the German Jewish Shangarai Chasset congregation, and Portuguese Jewish (Sepharadic) Nefutzot Yehudah congregation.

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