A lost pluralism can be seen in the history of U.S. synagogues

In October 1882, the Jewish community of Charlottesville, Virginia, laid the cornerstone for the city’s first synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel. It was not a private event. The Freemasons presided, joined by “a multitude of citizens,” as one newspaper put it. Civic leader Richard T.W. Duke Jr. pra...

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