Presidential Firsts

George Washington was the first president to write to a synagogue. In 1790 he addressed separate letters to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI; to Mikveh Israel Congregation in Savannah, GA; and a joint letter to Congregation Beth Shalom, Richmond, VA; Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, P...

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