The first US Consul in Jerusalem was a convert to Judaism. The consulate is embarrassed about that.

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.

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
	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