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October 22, 2025

An 1825 Synagogue Dedication and the Spirit of American Liberty

A sight inconceivable to Europeans.

While Zohran Mamdani has recently promised to tolerate Zionists, it’s worth remembering that George Washington told the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island that they he preferred not to speak of toleration, “as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.” Austin Reid Alabanese recounts a story that demonstrates how much America lived up to Washington’s ideals: 

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