This US President assured the Jewish community that the Government “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”
- George Washington
- James Madison
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
This US President assured the Jewish community that the Government “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”
George Washington. In 1790, Washington wrote a letter to a synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island which contained the phrase affirming American toleration of Jews.
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