July 4

What can the American experience teach us about being Jewish?

I was a firecracker baby, as American as apple pie and baseball.

Washington wrote to Robert Morris saying he would need $20,000 to finance the campaign. Morris responded that there was simply no money or even credit left. Washington simply wrote, “Send for Haym Salomon.”

What they didn't tell us that you're not necessarily entitled to happiness--your right is merely to pursue it...

"It is well to remember that the founders of this Nation considered Independence Day as 'a day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to G‑d Al-mighty'"

Jewish communities around the country are gearing up for their annual July 4th celebrations, noting the opportunity America has afforded Jewish life in allowing the unprecedented explosion in Torah study and observance of the past few decades.