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Native Americans

In the Bible, the Land of Israel was divided into twelve areas, one for each tribe (except for the priestly tribe of Levi) . But 2,700 years ago, ten of the twelve tribes were lost, exiled by invading Assyrian armies–and nobody knows for sure where they went. According to one legend (Targum Jonathan Exodus 34:10), the land where the tribes settled was encircled […]

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In 1888, the Acoma Pueblo Indians–a Native American tribe living in New Mexico–appointed Solomon Bibo as chief of their tribe. The Acomas even asked the United States to recognize Bibo as their leader. Most remarkable of all is that Bibo was white man–and a Jew. Solomon Bibo was a trader. He was originally from Prussia, the sixth of eleven […]

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In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh needed an expert in metals to help him make sense of American geology on his first trip to the New World. So he brought along Joachim Gaunse, a Jewish engineer from Bohemia. Gaunse became the first Jew on record to set foot in America. Raleigh’s team was the first to discover copper in the […]

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