American Revolution
“A Parcel of the Lowest People, chiefly Carpenters, Shoemakers, Blacksmiths, etc. with a Jew at their head.”
And the dangers to Jews of ignoring the biblical heritage.
A historian reflects on King George III, the “canceling” of historical figures, and situation of Anglo-Jewry.
As two new books show, the influence of the Hebrew Bible (and of biblical models) on the founding generations of Americans was as vast as the new country they were trying to create.
Today (on the Hebrew calendar) is the anniversary of the death of Haym Salomon, a Polish-born American Jew who single-handedly raised most of the funds. . .
In establishing a militia of all free and able-bodied men as the guarantor of liberty, the American founders sought to emulate the ways of ancient Israel.