The first synagogue on the island of Puerto Rico, Congregation Shaari Zedek in San Juan, will be opened soon the Rabbinical Council of America announced here today. The first rabbi of the new synagogue will be Rabbi Isadore Goodman a graduate of Yeshiva University, who will be installed by Rabbi David B Hollander, president of the Rabbinical Council.
The name of the congregation is derived from a congregation destroyed in Germany by the Nazis The Jewish community of Puerto Rico, which in 1952 was only 25 families now numbers more than 200 families.
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