How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home
'The Levys of Monticello' focuses on a Sephardic clan who, like the country's 3rd president, enslaved people
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American member of Congress, will be sworn into office this week. But unlike other incoming members of congress, she’ll take her oath on the Koran, Islam’s holiest book. And not just any Koran, either. The Washington Post examined how the Koran, and this specific Koran — a 1734 English translation…
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Fast Forward When Charlottesville Jewish Brothers Fought In The Civil War — On Opposing Sides
The Jews of Charlottesville, Virginia have sometimes found themselves divided — including when two brothers from a prominent local family found themselves on opposite lines of fire during the Civil War. Scions of a German immigrant family, Simon and Isaac Leterman were deeply involved in civic and commercial life in the Virginia town, which mirrored…
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Fast Forward Rabbi To Say Kaddish For Jews Who Saved Thomas Jefferson’s Estate
Meir Soloveichik, a prominent New York Orthodox rabbi, will recite the Jewish prayer for the dead at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, honoring the Jews who lived there and restored the property after the third president’s death. Uriah Levy, a Jewish patriot and Navy admiral, purchased the Virginia mansion from Jefferson’s debt-ridden heirs and set about refurbishing…
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Opinion Minority Inequality Falls, Income Inequality Rises
Some interesting new ideas today about inequality in America. First, Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson offers an important insight into the different kinds of inequality that exist and the differing responses. Over the past half-century, he writes, public pressure for black, women’s and gay rights has brought down barriers confronting those excluded because of their…
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The Schmooze Slideshow: The Pen That Satirized the Sword
To see the splendid new exhibit of caricatures and miniature drawings by Polish-born Jewish illustrator Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), on view until March 27 at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, you first have to walk through several galleries of religious paintings devoted to Christian saints, Madonnas with child, and Christ on the cross. Szyk’s pictures also…
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