New Jerseys Jewish population is one of the largest of any State in the country. and is exceeded only by New York in its proportion of Jewish residents. Yom Kippur is. therefore. an occasion of major significance in the State. The history of Jewish immigration to New Jersey is long. honorable. and noteworthy. Although Jews first settled in the Jersey colony in the 18th century and Benjamin Levy. a prominent Jew. served as a proprietor of West New Jersey. there were not enough Jewish residents on hand to found a temple until midway in the following century. Sixty Jewish families in Newark founded Congregation B Nai Jeshurun in 1848. and the next year a congregation by the same name was founded in Paterson.
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