Shearith Israel, a Sephardic congregation that was established in ... control of the 250-year-old Touro. That decision also gave the Manhattan synagogue ownership of the historic rimonim that ...

Today, it stands as a testament to the perseverance of the Jewish residents of the Old City and the world ... This complex is made up of four Sephardic Synagogues, created in the late 1500s ...

Sung to classical Sephardic musical modes, bakashot were traditionally performed in synagogues during the pre-dawn hours before Sabbath morning services in the months between Sukkot and Passover.