 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Fourth of July is a day on which Americans celebrate liberty, equality under heaven, and freedom from tyranny and foreign rule. Thus it is an appropriate day to read Torah. This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on the Fourth of July. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, were first adopted in 1791. They were closely modeled on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason in May 1776. This translation, by Judah David Eisenstein was published in 1891. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The text of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and its signatories in English, with a Yiddish translation published in 1954. . . . |