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Jewish version of ‘Downton Abbey’
Jewish Journal
February 12, 2013
After numerous complaints about the hit PBS show “Downton Abbey” not having any Jewish characters, Downton makers Carnival Films has confirmed it is developing a similar show with a Jewish family, U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reports.
PBS documents struggles and successes of U.S. Jewry
Tom Tugend
January 4, 2008
Jewish life in North America was nearly aborted before birth when the governor of New Amsterdam sought to expel 23 Brazilian Jews, who landed at the southern tip of Manhattan in 1654.\n\nIn a petition to his superiors at the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant urged \”that this deceitful race… be not allowed to further infest and trouble the new colony.\”
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