As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer

It was a Jew, Irving Berlin, who wrote those lines in his classic “God Bless America”, one of those iconic songs that define patriotism.

On December 5th, 1805 Rabbi Solomon Hirschell gave a sermon in the Great Synagogue, Duke’s Place for a “General Thanksgiving for the success of His Majesty’s fleet under Lord Nelson, Of Trafalgar”

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For hundreds of years Jews have been exceptional in their loyalty to the State in which they live; whenever they have been given a chance to be patriots they have done so. For example