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Gen. Grant’s uncivil war against the Jews
March 12, 2012 / Jonathan D. Sarna, N.Y. Jewish Week

(N.Y. Jewish Week) — The recent celebration of Purim offers an appropriate moment to recall a man known for a time as “America’s Haman.” That Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s story ended very differently than the story of Haman in the Book of Esther reminds us how America itself is… Read more »