The Jewish Roots of Flag Day

Did you ever feel like the Jewish version of the father from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” gleefully relating how we invented the kimono?

Here’s a bit of Flag Day trivia…

Did you know that Flag Day is, in part, attributed to German-born Jew Benjamin Altheimer?

When a St. Louis minister complained about a foreign-born Jew coming up with a day to honor the flag, Altheimer is reported to have said, “I told that preacher that it wasn’t the first time a Jew had given a Christian an idea or something to think about.”