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To: C19fan; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; rmlew; dennisw; pabianice; SunkenCiv; fieldmarshaldj; ...
...tour guide mentioned a Commodore Levy buying the [Jefferson] estate basically inspired by Jefferson's vision of religious tolerance.

Yes, that's the same Commodore Levy for whom the Chapel in Norfolk is named. He was among the most prominent Jewish Americans of the early nineteenth century and his story appears in just about all histories of Jews in the United States.

12 posted on 12/14/2009 7:56:16 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Ninety miles away from the Norfolk Chapel is the only Jewish military cemetary outside of Israel, in Richmond.


15 posted on 12/14/2009 4:06:51 PM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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17 posted on 12/14/2009 6:13:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: justiceseeker93

It surely does!


18 posted on 12/14/2009 7:46:58 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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