It was the most crucial question in the American election, yet it remained largely unspoken. It is the issue that will decide whether American values and institutions endure, yet Messrs Bush and Kerry did not see fit to debate it. Unfortunately, it’s a debate American Jews can put off no longer—although it’s too late for their European, British, and Canadian brethren. To speak plainly: a gathering danger threatens the Jews of America—to whom George Washington promised peace and goodwill in a 1790 address to a synagogue congregation in Newport, Rhode Island. American Jewry has "lived up to the standard asked of them by Washington," observes philosopher David Conway in his In Defence Of The Realm: the Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism. But "the stock of Abraham," which has flourished in the New World, producing uniquely...
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