The Anti-Defamation League plans to commemorate on Thursday a nearly 350-year-old edict that embraced religious tolerance. The 1657 edict, known as the Flushing Remonstrance, declared that an area that is now in the New York City borough of Queens would be a place where the “law of love, peace and liberty” would be extended to Jews, Turks, Egyptians, Protestants, Baptists and Quakers.
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