More Than Two Centuries of Precedent Support Laws Protecting Israel from Boycotts
Conduct, not speech.
February 10, 2023
How Abraham Lincoln Was Convinced the U.S. Army Should Have Jewish Chaplains
The truth is stranger than the legend.
Historians have long known that in the midst of the Civil War, a Dutch-American cantor named Arnold Fischel successfully put forth the case to President Lincoln that the Union army should have Jewish, and not only Christian, chaplains. But the details of the story are quite different from the widely circulated version, concludes Adam D. Mendelsohn in his book Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War. Andrew Silow-Carroll writes:
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Antecedents both American and biblical.
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How Abraham Lincoln Was Convinced the U.S. Army Should Have Jewish Chaplains
The truth is stranger than the legend.