The First Jewish Americans: Freedom and Culture in the New World
Jan 17, 2017
A new exhibit at the New York Historical society tells the brave story of how Jews helped create America before, during and after the American Revolution. A recent northjersey.com op-ed coauthored by Kean professor Christopher Bellitto, Ph.D., and Rabbi Brooks Susman discusses the exhibit, The First Jewish Americans: Freedom and Culture in the New World, and the founding father's legacy of tolerance. Read the whole story here.
Photo caption: Shearith Israel Torah Scroll vandalized by the British during the Revolutionary War.