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If language can incite, it can also heal. In Boston Sunday, hundreds gathered to speak loudly in support of the Jewish community a day after a gunman鈥檚 anti-Semitic rampage killed 11 worshipers at Pittsburgh鈥檚 Tree of Life synagogue. The effort was echoed around the United States and beyond 鈥� from a Vancouver hockey game鈥檚 moment of silence to Paris鈥檚 darkened Eiffel Tower to Pope Francis鈥檚 prayer "to 鈥� extinguish the flames of hatred.鈥�

It鈥檚 worth remembering that such vocal support started early in American history. In 1790, when George Washington visited Newport, R.I., the small Jewish community welcomed him with : "Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free Citizens, we now 鈥� behold 鈥� a Government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance鈥�.鈥�

Washington robustly: 鈥淢ay the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.鈥�

In Boston Sunday, political and faith leaders carried that language forward, vowing to love their neighbor, to not retreat in the face of anti-Semitic acts, which last year. In a final grace note, a rabbi led the gathering in a Hebrew prayer 鈥� the voices of hundreds carrying harmoniously across the historic Common.

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