A statue of Robert Morris, George Washington and Haym Salomon sits on East Wacker Drive in Chicago on Sept. 5, 2009. Staff Writer In many ways, Yom Kippur — the Jewish day of atonement that begins ...
In the pantheon of name-brand Founding Fathers, Haym Salomon stands well back of the pack. His picture is not on our currency, his statue is not in the Capitol Rotunda, and his character is not on ...
You won’t find the name Haym Salomon in text books in your local elementary school. U.S. History classes at the finest universities rarely utter his name. But without the dedication of this Polish ...
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The movement for erecting a monument to Haym Salomon, the first Jewish immigrant to America from Poland, in recognition of his services to the cause of American Independence (the date for the ceremony ...
Fighting a war with weapons and tactics is one matter; financing a war is a different business. Not only does an army travel on its stomach, but it also marches on shoe leather. Kings and dictators ...
Sitting in the audience this past Thursday at the Republican Jewish Coalition presidential candidate’s forum, I was joined by hundreds of other Jews, dozing in and out of consciousness as Dr. Ben ...
Was Haym Salomon, Jewish patriot and financier of the Revolutionary War period, merely “an estimable merchant” or was he a self-sacrificing leader in the financial arrangements which made it possible ...
Israel’s war by the numbers: From 40, 40, 40 to 12,000 bombs Iran's air defenses greatly reduced by repeated IDF ops.