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July 19, 2024

The Rabbi Who Was the First Non-Christian to Pray at the Republican National Convention

From Samuel Sale to Harmeet Dhillon.

On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Harmeet Kaur Dhillon offered a traditional Sikh prayer, provoking criticism from some, mostly online, corners of the right. (Perhaps the most fervent attack came from the anti-Semitic social-media personality Nick Fuentes.) As Jack Jenkins points out, Dhillon did the same at the 2016 convention, as did another Sikh in 2012. Jenkins then turns to the first Jew to lead prayers at a party convention:

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