Sunday, February 5, 2017

history - Pre-1948, what flags were found in American synagogues?


Certainly throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it was not at all uncommon to see an American synagogue where the Aron Kodesh was flanked by American and Israeli flags.


Pre-1948, was there just an American flag at the average synagogue? Or no flag at all? Or something else?




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