With the approach of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States on July 4, it’s important to reaffirm some basic truths.
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, summarized it well in his pithy remark: “Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America.”

This is true in terms of Jewish thought, blood and treasure.

Jewish merchants and shippers supplied the Continental Army with sorely needed goods and services on credit. Who can forget the outstanding efforts of Haym Salomon, one of the most prominent financiers of the Continental Congress and Gen. George Washington’s war effort?