If Haredim Want Privileges, They Must Take On Greater Responsibility
The tribe of Levi?
July 16, 2026
Jonas Phillips’s lost letter.
Jonas Phillips was a Philadelphia shopkeeper, a supporter of the revolutionary cause, and the founder of one of early America’s most prominent Jewish families. After the Continental Congress declared independence, writes Stuart Halpern, Phillips set about alerting his coreligionists in the Old World:
The tribe of Levi?
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Jonas Phillips’s lost letter.
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Jonas Phillips was a Philadelphia shopkeeper, a supporter of the revolutionary cause, and the founder of one of early America’s most prominent Jewish families. After the Continental Congress declared independence, writes Stuart Halpern, Phillips set about alerting his coreligionists in the Old World:
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