Why synagogues started putting American flags in the sanctuary
“We are so familiar with this in America, it’s so common... it’s almost unnoticed, but when you travel the world you begin to realize, ‘Gee, this isn’t the way it is everywhere."
American, Canadian and Israeli flags are displayed in the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion(photo credit: ADY MANORY)ByJOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA
