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Tag: Thirteen States
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Washington’s Saving Shield
Stuart Halpern
in
Jewish Review of Books
· 15 Feb
In a prayer composed 240 years ago by Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen of New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel, he prayed for George Washington shortly after the Revolutionary War.