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Thomas Jefferson

Monticello exterior (Courtesy of PerlePress Productions)
February 17, 2022, 1:56 am
The lost story of how a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s famous home – twice
New documentary film ‘The Levys of Monticello’ shows how uncle and nephew fought antisemitism to rescue Monticello from ruin and preserve it for future generations to enjoy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A statue of Thomas Jefferson, right, stands in New York's City Hall Council Chamber, on July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
October 19, 2021, 8:04 pm
New York City to remove Jefferson statue commissioned by Jewish naval officer
Local lawmakers vote to move figure out of city hall, citing slave ownership; man who commissioned statue wanted to honor the US founding father’s promotion of religious freedom
By AFP
The two volume Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson that will be used in the swearing in ceremony of incoming Congress woman Rashida Tlaib, seen here in the ceremony of Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress, during his swearing in ceremony, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
January 3, 2019, 5:05 am
Rashida Tlaib to be sworn in to US Congress with Jefferson’s Quran
Democratic representative, whose parents are from a West Bank village, has also said she will wear a traditional Palestinian gown
By ToI Staff
Matt Wexler
August 22, 2017, 8:14 am
Matt Wexler
My decade in Charlottesville
Welcome to the South, where anti-Semitism is a tradition, but an unresponsive police force suggests a tipping point
Ruth Ebenstein
November 16, 2016, 1:44 pm
Ruth Ebenstein
No sore losers in this grade school
How a Michigan day school learns it’s OK to lose if you did your best from the bitter presidential election of…1800
upporters line up for a Donald Trump rally at Pier Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Florida on October 11, 2016 (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)
October 12, 2016, 11:01 pm
US presidential politics, sliding deeper into disrepute
American elections have often been tawdry. But no modern-era contest has been so consistently debasing as this year’s train wreck
By Michael Mathes
President Ronald Reagan walking with Secretary of State George Shultz outside of the Oval Office, December 4, 1986 (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
February 21, 2016, 10:48 am
George Shultz: In a world awash in change, follow the Reagan playbook
Visiting Israel at the wise and weathered age of 95, America’s 1980s secretary of state reaches into history to issue a call for decisive, clearheaded and credible leadership
By David Horovitz
April 24, 2013, 12:08 pm
$10m. gift for slave quarters at Jefferson estate
Philanthropist David Rubenstein has also made ‘transformational’ gifts to Mount Vernon, Washington Monument
The Cyrus Cylinder (photo credit: courtesy cyruscylinder2013.com)
March 8, 2013, 8:33 am
Ancient Persian artifact exhibit opens in US
The Cyrus Cylinder has been called the world’s first human rights declaration, and inspired the Founding Fathers of America
By Brett Zongker
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