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This week Jewish congregations all over the nation held special services to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the landing at New Amsterdam. The ceremonies began a scheduled nine-month round of tercentenary observances with the theme: "Man's Opportunities and Responsibilities under Freedom."* At the Manhattan synagogue of Shearith Israel (Remnant of Israel), the congregation founded by the settlers of 1654, the Rev. Dr. Louis C. Gerstein intoned the tercentenary prayer: "Lord our God ... deep gratitude wells up in our hearts as we remember that 300 years ago Thou didst guide a little band of Israel's children...
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