Thursday, July 24, 2014

Thank-You: Jewish Help to America

"Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles!" Psalm 25:22 NIV



Do you know when you are supposed to say thank you? It's when someone does something nice for you right? Well, there were some Jewish people who did something very nice for the United States of America. If you live in America, you can say thank you to these people.

Haym Salomon was a Jewish person from Poland who was living in America at the time of the American Revolution. This was the war the United States fought to become a free country. Mr. Salomon gave the U.S. army a lot of money so they could give the soldiers food and clothes and win the war that gave us our independence. He, and other Jewish people he gathered money from, gave millions of dollars to the army for the war. They said they could not have done it without him! He was never paid back this money either.

As a way of saying thank-you, George Washington instructed the people who were making the one-dollar bill to put something on the bill for the American people to remember the Jewish people's contribution to our independence. If you have a one-dollar bill, look on the front side and you'll see it has George Washington on it. Look at the back side and find the eagle in the circle to the right. Look above the eagle and you'll see 13 stars in the middle of a cloudburst. The thirteen stars are for the 13 colonies but they are shaped in the Star of David to honor the Jewish people. They are in a cloudburst to represent God's glory cloud in the temple in Jerusalem. 

Let's always remember what these Jewish people did for America!

See Stand With Israel: Friends of Zion by Mike Evans, by Time Worthy Books. Pages 97-102.


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