<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_Shearith_Israel" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Congregation Shearith Israel">Shearith Israel</a>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue" id="mwUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Synagogue">synagogue</a> in continental North America, is dedicated.<sup about="#mwt47" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_8#cite_note-8" id="mwUg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUw">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt44" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSarna1995">Sarna, Jonathan D. (1995). "The Evolution of the American Synagogue". In Seltzer, Robert M.; Cohen, Norman J. (eds.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zjiUuHnkeOIC" id="mwB1o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB1s">The Americanization of the Jews</i></a>. New York: New York University Press. p.<span id="mwB1w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>217. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB10" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB14" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780814788806" id="mwB18" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780814788806"><bdi id="mwB2A">9780814788806</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt44" class="Z3988" id="mwB2E" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=The+Evolution+of+the+American+Synagogue&amp;rft.btitle=The+Americanization+of+the+Jews&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=217&amp;rft.pub=New+York+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1995&amp;rft.isbn=9780814788806&amp;rft.aulast=Sarna&amp;rft.aufirst=Jonathan+D.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzjiUuHnkeOIC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+8"></span></span>