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In 1654 − more than a century before the Declaration of Independence − 23 Jewish refugees fleeing the Inquisition in Brazil arrived on the docks of what is now Lower Manhattan. Trunks in hand, dreams ...

Major institutions of American Jewish life are mostly silent. But American Jews themselves can no longer afford to look away.