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The Commandment Keepers are a non-mainstream sect of Jews, founded by Rabbi Arthur Wentworth Matthew, who believe that they are direct descendants of Jews from West Africa. The mother congregation of a movement founded in 1919 has since 1962 been located at 1 West 123rd Street in Harlem, New York City. It is a black congregation but has always had white visitors and occasionally white members. They use the De Sola Pool Spanish&Portuguese prayerbook, the Hertz Chumash, parchment Torah scrolls, and offer standard orthodox Sephardi style Sabbath and Jewish Holyday services.