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Historian Arthur Hertzberg estimated that in the two decades between 1945 and 1965 one out of every three American Jews left the big cities for the suburbs. This was a trend that occurred throughout the general population, but it was much more pronounced among Jews. Several factors contributed to the general migration: The post-war economic revival, the […]

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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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President George Washington was hardly a regular synagogue attendee, but he did visit the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI–the oldest synagogue in America–and he liked what he saw. In a 1790 letter to the synagogue, he thanks the congregation for the “cordial welcome I experienced in my visit.” Washington extends a promise of continued liberty and religious freedom to all religions, […]

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