Discussing “George Washington and the Jews”in a radio talk over Station WBNX.under the auspices of the Young Peoples League of the United Synagogue of America,sidney H. Reiss declared that “there could not be lost on as mind so keen as Washington’s the realization of the similarity of experience and of purpose of the American people and thdeir Jewish borthers.
“During the couse of the revolution,” Reiss continued, “he was to observe further what the American Jew would do to defend the cause of liberty and religious freedom. No doubt,he was impressed with the example of such as chaim salomon,who gave his time,his energy and his entire fortune of $300,000 to preserve for his co-religionists that home where there was set up no state religion in derogation of all others and where all might worship asa they saw fit.”
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