{"id":1372,"date":"2016-06-27T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/?page_id=1372"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:14:39","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland&#8217;s Modern Orthodox Synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read about the early days of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh, Maine&#8217;s<br \/>\noldest continuously functioning synagogue, and see an exhibit at Maine<br \/>\nMemory Network. This project was sponsored by Maine Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld, Shaarey Tphiloh&#8217;s former rabbi; Candace Kanes,<br \/>\nhistorian and curator; and, Maine Jewish community preservationist, Susan<br \/>\nCummings-Lawrence, collaborated to create this look at our community&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainememory.net\/sitebuilder\/site\/2101\/page\/3466\/display?use_mmn=1&amp;popup=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.mainememory.net\/sitebuilder\/site\/2101\/page\/3466\/display?use_mmn=1<\/span>&amp;popup=1<\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>For a history of our synagogue, please visit our Wikipedia page, compiled by Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaarey_Tphiloh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaarey_Tphiloh<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about the early days of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh, Maine&#8217;s oldest continuously functioning synagogue, and see an exhibit at Maine Memory Network. This project was sponsored by Maine Historical Society. Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld, Shaarey Tphiloh&#8217;s former rabbi; Candace Kanes, historian and curator; and, Maine Jewish community preservationist, Susan Cummings-Lawrence, collaborated to create this look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1372","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainesynagogue.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}