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Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, discusses his new book When General Grant Expelled the Jews.

What was Ulysses Grant’s motivation for issuing General Order 11, and how ?long did it take for it to be rescinded??

Grant was deeply concerned about smuggling between the North and the South. In his ?correspondence, the word “Jew” and the word “smuggler” became almost synonymous. He blamed a ?widespread problem on a visible group, and felt that by expelling that group from his war zone, ?smuggling would be eradicated. We now know that the occasion for his order was the discovery that ?his own father, Jesse Grant, had conspired with Jewish clothing manufacturers to move cotton from ?South to North. This, for him, was the last straw, and he issued General Orders No. 11 as soon as he ?made this discovery. The order was issued on December 17, 1862 but took 11 days to reach ?Paducah. After that city’s Jews were expelled on December 28, it took but a week for one of them to ?reach Washington DC. On January 4th, upon learning of General Orders No. 11, Abraham Lincoln had it ?revoked.?

Were Jews really affected by the order, did they even know about it at the ?time??

Jews in the vicinity of Grant’s headquarters were expelled on account of the order, and we possess ?some stories of Jews who were mistreated in the process. As mentioned, Jews were also expelled from ?Paducah where some 30 Jewish families resided. The total number of Jews affected, however, ?probably did not exceed 100. Jewish newspapers carried news of the order, and one of those ?expelled, Cesar Kaskel of Paducah, spread the story to the Associated Press. Thanks to him, the story ?went around the country. Of course, the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, was ?much bigger news. Lots of people only learned about General Orders No. 11 years later, in 1868, ?when Grant ran for president and the order became an election issue.?

Isnt it true that General Grant ultimately became a president with a fairly ?favorable attitude to American Jewry? How did this change take place??

Grant apologized for General Order #11 following his election (“I do not pretend to sustain the order. . ??. I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.”) As ?President, he proved that apology genuine by appointing many Jews to public office and by displaying ?sensitivity to Jews when they were persecuted in Russia and Rumania. In many ways, he spent the rest ?of his life, from 1868 to his death in 1885, living down General Orders No. 11 and proving, by his ?actions, that he bore no anti-Jewish prejudices.?

You state at the end of your book that Ulysses S. Grant’s order expelling ?the Jews set the stage for their empowerment – how so??

Paradoxically, the order expelling Jews forced Jews into the political arena where they rapidly ?achieved success. Not only did they succeed in having Grant’s order revoked, they also managed ?during the Grant era to use government as an instrument for improving Jewish conditions at home and ?abroad. Government service taught Jews a great deal about political power, lessons that held them in ?good stead in later years.?

At some point you seem to suggest that Jews of the North share some ?of the blame for Grants suspicions, because they were ?questioning emancipation and expressed fear that free blacks might compete ?with Jews for jobs. Is this not a problematic blame-the-victim suggestion??

It is easy to understand why, in the wake of General Orders No. 11 – coming as it did so close to the ?Emancipation Proclamation – some Jewish leaders feared that Jews would replace Blacks as the ?nation’s stigmatized minority. It is also easy to understand why Jews, who as immigrants often looked ?and sounded different from the majority of their countrymen, faced persecution and prejudice. My ?goal is not to blame the victim, but to explain why it was that Jews were victimized. ?

In one of the many talks you gave on this book youve said that there are ?interesting parallels to be made from the current political climate to the 1868 ?election – namely, that Jews who might be hesitating to vote for President ?Obama might be able to learn something from Grants transformation. What ?exactly did you mean??

In 1868, Jews who had supported the Republican Party since Lincoln’s first term faced a difficult ?conundrum. Should they vote for the Democrats, a party they considered bad for the country, just to ?avoid voting for a man (Grant) who had been bad to the Jews? The Democrats sought to roll back ?Reconstruction and disenfranchise Black voters. Should Jews vote for them anyway, just to avoid ?voting for a candidate who had expelled Jews from his war zone? The question of loyalties – how ?much should “Jewish considerations” sway Jewish voters, and how much should they vote on the basis ?of what they see as good for the country as a whole – was hotly debated in 1868. It seems to me that in ?the 2012 election, Jews will face some of these same kinds of questions.?
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The ACT opposition says a formal investigation may be required into potential collusion between the Greens and the Human Rights Commission after hundreds of pages of correspondence between the minor party and the commission were made public.

But the Greens, Children and Young People Commissioner Alasdair Roy and Health Services Commissioner Mary Durkin say they have nothing to be embarrassed about in correspondence released to The Canberra Times under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents, which span a period from 2008 until January this year, show that the Greens sought advice from the commission on questions to ask during parliamentary hearings and invited Mr Roy to publicly support a bill being debated in the Assembly.

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS A motion has been filed by Sandestin homeowners seeking to intervene in Suzanne Harris public records lawsuit against the Walton County Commission.

It claims the owners have evidence that three commissioners violated a 2009 court order requiring that all commission email correspondence discussing public business be sent from county addresses.

At least three commissioners have hellip; used private emails when transacting official county business, the motion alleges.

The document offers exhibits the plaintiffs allege are emails sent by commissioners Sara Comander, Cecilia Jones and Scott Brannon from private accounts.

Neither Comander nor Jones, whose email communications have not been nearly so heavily scrutinized as Brannons, was available Friday for comment.

Harris and her attorney Matt Gaetz took the County Commission to court last week, alleging that members had violated a 2009 ruling in another public records lawsuit.

They are seeking a show-cause hearing in which the county must provide proof the court order had not been violated and the commissioners should not be held in contempt.

Shawn Heath, the attorney representing four trust funds and Alan Osborne, president of the Greater Driftwood Estates Homeowners Association, also appeared at last weeks hearing to make the motion to have his clients case for a court order violation be heard as well.

County Judge David Green scheduled the Harris show-cause hearing for June 12 and said he would review Heaths motion to intervene.

The evidence Harris will offer in her case consists almost entirely of emails sent from Brannons private email accounts. Gaetz said he did possess one Cecilia Jones email sent from a private computer.

Gaetz said he intended to turn all of the emails he had over to the state attorneys office and request a criminal investigation be conducted.

The landowners group email evidence could expand the scope of the show-cause hearing.

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Prince Charles consent correspondence with ministers revealed for the first time

Correspondence between the Prince of Wales and a Government minister has for
the first time shone a light on how he is able to veto legislation.

About one-third of Canadians are wary of filing their tax returns electronically, according to an annual survey by the Canada Revenue Agency.

In the report, released at the peak time of year for tax-filing, the agency said it is assessing ways to convince more people that filing online is the better option.

The main reasons one-third of people chose to avoid online filing were: discomfort in transmitting financial information over the Internet; the impression that people who filed their taxes by mail were less likely to be audited; and habit. People aged 70 and older were least likely to file their taxes online.

The report surveyed 1,900 consumers, 600 tax attorneys, mediator groups and small businesses by telephone interview and conducted 12 focus groups.

Statistics have held steady in recent years, with 33 per cent and 31 per cent of people surveyed filing by mail in 2008 and 2009, respectively.

With the majority of people surveyed having switched to online filing – either through an accountant, family member or themselves – participants suggest the CRA encourages online activity by increasing the level of communication readily available between individuals and tax agents while accessing their online profile account.

“The expansion of the `My Business Account function was found to be the most potentially effective, said the report. “This would allow for the CRA posting of correspondence as well as individual posting of receipts or other information that would help to reduce potential impediments to chance and potentially reduce the current level of reliance on paper.

Those surveyed said the CRAs letter correspondence was an area of concern, with the report reflecting that people “often do not understand some of the information expressed in the letters and the majority of letters use an “unduly severe tone of language.

“Participants were less enthusiastic about the paper correspondence they receive from the CRA, said the report. “Prevailing sentiment about this channel of communication tended to be more negative than positive.

With telephone correspondence receiving high praise, people surveyed said if the e-filing systems communication improved, more people would likely switch to online filing because of the negative effect the letters had on their experience.

The poll, conducted by Walker Consulting Group, represented an even distribution of demographic age categories of adults across the country. It is considered to be accurate within 2.2 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

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Alina Humenyuk, 16, is a native of Ukraine who is now attending Aberdeen Central. Her host parents are Al and Joye Ward.

Q. What city and country do you come from?

A. Im from an ancient and very beautiful city, Chernihiv, that is in Ukraine.

THE Government are refusing to release letters from one of the countrys biggest SNP donors because they say the pound;600 bill is too high.

It is the third different excuse for blocking the correspondence between Stagecoach tycoon Brian Souter and ministers.

Souter, who has given pound;1million to the SNP, was knighted last year.

Under freedom of information laws, Labour asked for details of the Scottish Governments communications with Souter.

But they insist it would cost more than the pound;600 limit for retrieving information to provide the correspondence.

This conflicts with previous reasons given that Buckingham Palace banned publishing details and that Labour had not clearly identified the information they were looking for.

Scottish Labours Paul Martin said: The SNP Government are now not even being consistent with their excuses.

At every stage throughout the Souter cash-for-honours controversy, Alex Salmond has tried to cover up the SNP Governments involvement.

The public rightly demand and deserve the highest level of openness and transparency from their elected members.

The longer Alex desperately tries to keep these documents secret, the more people will think he has something to hide.

The SNP refusal comes just weeks after information commissioner Kevin Dunion said the Scottish Government failed to comply with the law by blocking the request.

The Court of Session earlier ruled that, under freedom of information laws, there is a right of access to information, not copies of actual documents.

Now the Scottish Government have said it would cost more than the pound;600 limit to provide the information.

An official wrote: This is because to locate and retrieve the information you have requested, we would need to conduct a search of all the records of the Scottish Government.

We file our information according to the subject matter, not by reference to the names of individuals with whom we have corresponded.

Souter was knighted last year for services to transport and the voluntary sector.

Questions were raised because he announced that he would donate pound;500,000 to the SNP shortly after the knighthood shy; nomination was made.

But a report by Lord Fraser last November found that allegations that ministers directed Souters nomination were wrong and ill-founded.