A rare medieval object on display at the Tower of London 🏰 This Mikveh stone on loan from Jewish Museum London is rare surviving evidence of the Medieval Jewish community in London. The Tower of London holds an important place in the complex story of England's Medieval Jewish community and was both a place of imprisonment and of refuge for hundreds of Jews. This stone is currently on display in the Medieval Palace at the fortress. Find out more about this history at the Tower 👉 https://bit.ly/

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Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, founded in 1740, is one of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States and a cornerstone of American Jewish history. Established by Sephardic Jews who had immigrated from the Caribbean and Europe, it became the spiritual center for Philadelphia’s early Jewish community and played a key role in shaping Jewish religious life in colonial America. Figures like Haym Salomon, a financier of the American Revolution, and Rebecca Gratz, a noted Jewish educator, wer