With New Leaders and New Challenges, the U.S. and Israel Need to Renew Their Sense of Common Purpose
The Jewish state can defend American interests, even when America is unwilling or unable to do so.
September 9, 2021
How George Washington Helped America Replace Religious Toleration with Religious Liberty
And why he believed religion was a prerequisite for democracy.
In his famous letter to the Newport synagogue, the first chief executive of the United States expressed his aspiration that the newly founded republic would give “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” This missive was one of about two dozen he addressed to a variety of congregations, including three separate letters to America’s small but already fractured Jewish community, who had sent him congratulations on his inauguration. The correspondence—some of which was addressed to such groups as Quakers and Roman Catholics, who had recent experience with discrimination—outlines a doctrine of religious liberty that in Washington’s own words to the Jews of Newport, was more than “mere toleration.” Daniel Dreisbach explains:
September 9, 2021
In Gaza, Hamas Is Waging Terror Under the Guise of Protests
A controlled form of extortion.
Despite Their History of Conflict, Iran and the Taliban Might Work Together
Will the desire to recreate imperial Persia outweigh shared hostility to the U.S.?
How George Washington Helped America Replace Religious Toleration with Religious Liberty
And why he believed religion was a prerequisite for democracy.
Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Fraud in Biblical Israel
Precisely as prohibited in the Torah.