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marked the Exodus annually with the
Passover festival, and recommended
that Americans unite on the Fourth
of July to remember "our miraculous
deliverance from a second Egypt
— another house of bondage!'
That this metaphor was so widely
used may reflect the influence Adams
had among his compatriots; he refer-
enced the Exodus story more relent-
lessly than anyone among the first
rank of founding fathers.
The Bible was a commonly under-
stood frame of reference in revolu-
tionary times, and people on both
sides of the conflict used its stories
similarly to the way contemporary
Americans invoke television or movie
plots. It is remarkable that of all the
stories in both the Jewish Bible and
the Christian one, Exodus was the
one invoked so frequently by the
Americans to frame the Revolution.
And just as the Jewish love of free-
dom had a way of being contagious
during the days of the American
Revolution, it has ricocheted again

— back to this day. Sharansky noted
in his book on identity, "The Puritans
strongly identified with the Hebrew
scripture of the Old Testament. They
saw their journey to the New World
as going to a new promised land!'
The same book briefly makes the
case that the American Revolution
"was born out of American religious
tradition and identity no less than
out of political traditions of democ-
racy and Enlightenment."
So there you have it — a Soviet-
born Israeli Jew noting the way
American revolutionaries were
inspired by the Jewish story, and call-
ing for Israeli policies to spread free-
dom along those lines.
I wouldn't put it past Samuel
Adams to find a way, through history,
to remind even more of the Jews of
their own ideals. He would be repay-
ing a favor they once did for him.

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Ira Stoll is author of "Samuel Adams:
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Glatt Kosher Cruise
To Israel And Egypt

asko Kosher Cruises, which
recently merged with Suite
Life, a kosher cruise operator
for the past seven years, will add the
first glatt kosher cruise to Israel and
Egypt to its list of 2009 sailings. This
"Ancient Empires" cruise will include
13 days aboard Celebrity Cruises'
new Equinox leaving from Rome on
Aug. 18.
The Ancient Empires itinerary the
following ports of call: Rome and
Naples, Italy; Athens and Rhodes,
Greece; Ephesus, Turkey; Alexandria,
Egypt; and Haifa and Ashdod, Israel.
The Israel/Egypt cruise offers pre-
mium accommodations plus three
fresh, gourmet glatt kosher, cholov yis-
roel meals and snacks daily as well as
three minyanim a day in a dedicated
shul on board. All are complimentary
and reserved for Lasko Kosher Cruises
passengers exclusively.
Lasko brings onboard a full staff of
mashgichim to kasher a designated
portion of the galley in advance of the
sailing and maintain 24-hour presence
in the kitchen. A Lasko Kosher Cruise
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Lasko Kosher Cruises include a
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provided by Jewish musicians. Among
the other features of a Lasko Kosher
Cruise are ea rooms between meals
as well as personalized tours that visit
Jewish related points of interest.
In 2009, Lasko Kosher Cruises also
offers nine other first-class sailings
to the Eastern Caribbean Alaska, the
Baltic region and Russia, the Eastern
Mediterranean and Greek Isles, the
Norwegian Fjords and a combined
Northern Europe/Norwegian Fjords
cruise.
Lasko Kosher Cruises, an affili-
ate of Lasko Family Kosher Tours,
is based in south Florida. Lasko
Kosher Cruises uses independent
kosher supervision through Rabbi
Levi Teitlebaum, director of the
Ottowa Vaad HaKashrus (OVH), and
Rabbi Yossi Birnbaum, the Israeli field
representative of DSJ Global Kashrus
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