{"id":21622,"date":"2016-02-28T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=21622"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:50:42","slug":"pardee-students-visit-touro-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/02\/28\/pardee-students-visit-touro-synagogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Students Visit Touro Synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Students taking the Religion and American Foreign Policy class\u00a0with\u00a0James C. (Jim) Wallace,<\/a> Lecturer in International Relations at the <\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a>\u00a0took a recent trip to the Touro Synagogue<\/a> in Newport, Rhode Island, a site that holds significance for the history of both foreign policy and separation\u00a0of church and state in America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 28, 2016, nine students from Wallace’s class visited the Touro Synagogue to learn about the role it played at the intersection of foreign policy and separation of church and state in America.<\/p>\n

George Washington\u00a0visited the Touro Synagogue during his presidential campaign to secure support for the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Subsequent to his visit to Newport, Washington wrote his famous letter to the \u201cHebrew congregation in Newport,” in which he\u00a0famously pledged that the then-fledgling\u00a0nation would give \u201cto bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each year, Wallace takes his class to visit the Touro Synagogue to experience first-hand the site of Washington\u2019s famous letter and to learn the history of the Touro Synagogue and the Jewish community in early America.<\/p>\n

Students toured the Ambassador John Loeb Visitor\u2019s Center which displays historical artifacts and history of the Jewish community in Newport, the synagogue, and the famous visit of George Washington. The group\u00a0then received a guided tour and lecture of the synagogue itself, which has also been visited by several other U.S. Presidents.<\/p>\n

Wallace said the students\u00a0thoroughly enjoyed the trip, and that it helped put\u00a0lessons learned in the classroom into the context of America’s foreign policy history.<\/p>\n

“The unanimous opinion of the group was that it was a great experience and that it helped them put what they learned in class into the actual historical context,” Wallace said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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