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V8, leather, automatic, sunroof, pwr. windows, locks, tilt, cruise, security system, memory seat, traction control, Bose sound syst. w/ CD alloys, home link, dual airbags, ABS. Monticello, strangely enough, marks a Jewish connection with the estate. Rachel was the mother of Com- modore Uriah Phillips Levy, a member of a distinguished Sephardic family and the first Jewish officer in the U.S. Navy. Born in 1792, during George Washington's first term as presi- dent, Levy was a student of Jef- ferson's ideas on religious freedom and on the separation of church and state. In 1777, Jefferson had declared, in his Statute of Virginia for Reli- gious Freedom, that such freedom of worship applied not only to Christian sects but for all beliefs, including "The Jew, the Ma- hometan and the Hindoo." Often the victim of anti-Semitism dur- ing a long naval career and fur- ther persecuted by his fellow officers because he opposed the punishment by flogging which then prevailed in the U.S. Navy — Levy was a student and ad- mirer of these principles of reli- gious freedom. "My veneration of Thomas Jefferson is wholeheart- ed," he wrote. That veneration took a practi- cal turn in 1836. Only 10 years af- ter Jefferson's death, Monticello had fallen into disrepair and was up for sale. Levy bought the prop- erty and, at considerable expense, undertook major repairs of the house and grounds, intending to preserve them for future genera- tions. It was at this time, also, that Rachel Levy died and was buried at Monticello. When her son died in 1862, however, the Civil War prevent- ed the execution of Levy's will. Lit- igation ensued for the next 17 years, and Monticello again dete- riorated. In 1879, Levy's nephew, New York Congressman Jeffer- son Monroe Levy, won legal recog- nition as the heir to Monticello. Like his uncle, Jefferson Monroe Levy again undertook its restora- tion and saw himself a protector of the Jefferson legacy. Members of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville have heard from their parents and grandparents about visits to Mon- ticello. Congressman Levy always welcomed them to the estate and to the 4th of July fireworks he sponsored every year. After more than 80 years of ownership and protection by the Levy family, Monticello was sold to its present owners, the non- profit Thomas Jefferson Memor- ial Foundation. Both the Levys, Uriah and Jef- ferson in turn, spent their sum- mers in Monticello but retained membership in Shearith Israel, the Spanish-Portuguese Syna- gogue in New York. Jefferson Levy, for his part, involved him- self in the cultural life of Char- lottesville. 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Today's members of Congrega- tion Beth Israel are far more like- ly to be doctors, lawyers and, especially, teachers at Jefferson's University of Virginia. There is widespread observance of the High Holy Days, but it is now lim- ited to the synagogue itself, a handsome building on E. Jeffer- son St. two blocks from the cour- thouse in which Jefferson and his successors, Presidents Madison and Monroe, had all pleaded their legal cases. Worship is helcralso at the Hil- lel Hodse, on the campus of the university. Friday night services there are accompanied by a kosher meal, open to the public, which is prepared by the students them- selves. For more than a century, the university had maintained a strictly "Christian" environment, over Jefferson's strongly worded objections. Except for a handful of Jews who were Virginia residents — the university has always been, nominally, a public state institu- tion — the administration man- aged to keep it substantially "Judenrein." This was the long period dur- ing which women also were de- nied admission. and the university was known more as a kind of gen- teel "finishing school" for men only. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the student population became much more heteroge- neous. The "Jews, Mahometans and Hindoos" of Jefferson's Statute of N Religious Freedom, as well as women, have been admitted freely. Jewish students constitute approximately 10 percent of the total student population, and there are now Jewish faculty members as well. Heterogeneity has wrought enormous changes. Virginia has won recognition recently as the No. 1 public university in the Unit- ed States. Finally, the ideals of the "Sage on Monticello" are being re- alized in the once-sacred groves of academe. Thomas Jefferson would be very pleased. 0