Over at the Open Siddur Project, we recently completed our transcription of the 1842 hymn-book of the reforming S&P congregation, Ḳ.Ḳ Beth Elohim of Charleston, South Carolina, containing the prayer-poems of Penina Moïse (1797-1880) and her fellow congregants. It is the oldest book of prayers compiled, for the most part, by a Jewish woman. Moïse's family hailed from the Jewish community on the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius in the Netherlands Antilles on her mother's side and from Alsace, France on her father's side. Her brother Abraham Moïse (1799-1869) was one of the leaders of the Reformed Society of Israelites (1825-1833), who together with Isaac Harby (1788-1828) and David Nunes Carvalho (1784-1860) formed the earliest reformed Jewish congregation in the Americas.