{"id":4512,"date":"2022-12-18T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:12:28","slug":"hanukkah-and-george-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/18\/hanukkah-and-george-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah and George Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Chanukah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Chanukah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Chanukah.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Chanukah-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah and with so many antisemitic attacks upon the Jewish people. I thought I would point to two sources to show that how they were involved with the creation of the United States at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/uncategorized\/99310\/a-story-of-a-jewish-soldier-fighting-in-george-washingtons-army-during-hanukkah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Story of a Jewish Soldier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nedhector.com\/hanukah-and-george-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanukah and George Washington<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both talk of a Jewish Soldier in the Continental Army.<\/p>\n<p>May those who celebrate this joyous celebration of the Maccabees over their <span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Greek-Syrian<\/span><\/span> invaders remember that victory has echoed through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>JumpinJersey Mike<\/p>\n<div class=\"eextz6a68093d758df\" ><script async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script>\n<a data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-board-width=\"150\" data-pin-scale-height=\"60\" data-pin-scale-width=\"800\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/mkendallpk\/stuff-for-sale\/\"><\/a>\n\n<\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n.eextz6a68093d758df {\r\nmargin: 5px; padding: 0px;\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.eextz6a68093d758df {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.eextz6a68093d758df {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.eextz6a68093d758df {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.eextz6a68093d758df {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.eextz6a68093d758df {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah and with so many antisemitic attacks upon the Jewish people. I thought I would point to two sources to show that how they were involved with the creation of the United States at birth. Here are the links: A Story of a Jewish Soldier Hanukah and George &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/18\/hanukkah-and-george-washington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hanukkah and George Washington<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-edition"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}