Dovid Hirsch

Dovid Hirsch is a rabbi, political activist, and historian who holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from Queens College-CUNY and semicha from Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim. He is a member of the Society for Military History and has presented at international conferences.

The Apple in Honey: A Minhag with a Misconstrued Past

By Dovid Hirsch

One historian even dedicated part of a book to claim that the custom was brought to America in the second half of the nineteenth century by Eastern European immigrants because, in his limited research, he believed it was purely Ashkenazic.

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The Forgotten Fighters: Jewish Soldiers of the American Revolution

By Dovid Hirsch

It is estimated that at the time of the American Revolution, there were merely 2,500 Jews in the entire 13 colonies, most of them women and children. From that period, we have over 100 confirmed names of Jews who served the Patriot cause in uniform.