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‘A Promised Land’ Review: Jewish Roots of the Tree of Liberty. During the Revolutionary era, Jews sought and subsequently celebrated freedom in America—and worked to expand its blessings. By .
In 1770, amid the stirrings of what would become the American Revolution, a Jewish Pennsylvanian named Barnard Gratz wrote a letter to a friend. In it, he shared his unfiltered opinion of George ...
The “promised land” is commonly used as a metaphor for a perfect society. Let’s strive for that perfection by acknowledging that its foundation is the Jewish State of Israel.
Their Promised Land: My GrandParents in Love and war By Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 320 Pages, $27. Can one be both Jewish and British, or must one identity subsume the other?
It's not quite Moses' 40 years in the desert, but for a group of nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism their torturous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them ...
Like Moses, these Jews might glimpse the Promised Land, but they could not enter it. Some hurled sticks, cans, jars of preserves as the British moved them to barbed-wire pens aboard British ...
It's not quite Moses' 40 years in the desert, but for nine struggling Venezuelan converts to Judaism, their tortuous journey to a better life in the promised land finally brought them to Israel on ...
The concept of the Promised Land, a divine covenant bestowed upon the Jewish people, has been a cornerstone of Abrahamic faiths, intricately woven into the religious and historical narratives of ...
Trump promised to protect Jews and religious liberty. ... These Jews were among more than 13,000 applicants from other religious minorities in Iran ... which they view as the land of ...