Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745–1816), the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States.
The Tikvah Fund’s new online course, Jewish Ideas and the American Founders, is a must-view and a must-hear. Its star—I use the word advisedly—is Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, well-known to readers for his enlightening contributions to Mosaic as well as to Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, First Things, and other publications. Meir Soloveichik serves as the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York and director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.