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The first US Consul in Jerusalem was a convert to Judaism. The consulate is embarrassed about that.
Reader comment on item: A Consulate in Jerusalem
Submitted by Joshua Fox (Israel), Mar 7, 2013 at 03:17
The first US Consul General in Jerusalem was Warder Cresson, a convert to Judaism.
The history page in the Jerusalem consulate website used to include a description of their own founder as a "madman."
After I wrote several letters to the Sec. of State, they simply deleted any mention of him.
My blog post on the matter is here.
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Title | Commenter | Date | Thread |
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|  The first US Consul in Jerusalem was a convert to Judaism. The consulate is embarrassed about that. [59 words] | Joshua Fox | Mar 7, 2013 03:17 | 204085 | |
| 1 | President Obama could have changed this but he did not. [37 words] | Phil Greend | Mar 3, 2013 23:28 | 204014 | |
| 5 | American visiting US Jerusalem consulate: "I felt like an interloper, not an American citizen..." [152 words] | Aaron | Oct 3, 2008 13:38 | 139492 | |
| 1 |  But of course! [69 words] | Shishir | Oct 5, 2008 04:05 | 139492 | |
| how can we protest this? [78 words] | Oren Ben-Bassat | Mar 18, 2008 05:55 | 122916 | ||
| Further obnoxiousness [139 words] | Jonathan Goldberg | Jun 7, 2006 08:45 | 47229 | ||
| An explanation, Jonathan [177 words] | Tito Cohen | Jul 10, 2006 17:38 | 47229 | ||
| 1 | Add on to the story [153 words] | Jerusalem inhabitant | Jan 20, 2006 08:09 | 32049 | |
| 1 | Experience with the US consulate [191 words] | William Cantor, MD | Jan 19, 2006 13:20 | 32002 | |
| 1 | More Proof of American Politician's Lack of Will [92 words] | Stephen Hancock | Jan 19, 2006 07:28 | 31986 | |
| 1 | Two American embassies [77 words] | deegee | Dec 31, 2005 04:59 | 30834 | |
| 1 | The US Consulate In Jerusalem [127 words] | Adina Kutnicki | Dec 30, 2005 12:04 | 30789 | |
| US State Department Is Really the Anti-US State Department [59 words] | Tom Dundee | Mar 8, 2013 13:24 | 30789 | ||
| 2 | A prediction [52 words] | Robert Koslover | Dec 28, 2005 18:39 | 30712 |
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