KEHILA KEDOSHA JANINA NEW YORK'S GREEK JEWISH COMMUNITY Published in The National Herald, July 9-10 2016 Issue Authored by TNH Staff ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ The Greek Jews have a long history going back over 2,300 years to the time of Alexander the Great.  They arrived in Ioannina, according to folk belief, when a group swam ashore escaping a Roman slave ship in the year 70.  The Greek-speaking Romaniote Jewish community was well-established in Greece when the Jews of Spain, the Sephardim, were expelled in 1492, many moving to Greece to escape the Spanish Inquisition.  Kehila Kedosha Janina on Broome Street on the Lower East Side is the last remaining Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere and was named after Ioannina where t...