We Are Not Tenants in America

We are not tenants in America

George Washington pledged, for all time, that the Jews would be citizens with natural rights.

Religious Liberty Means More Than Mere Toleration – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

In 1790, the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island wrote to President George Washington with words that carried the weight of centuries of persecution: “Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of citizens, we now behold a government which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation is one of the most remarkable documents in American history, not for its e…