{"id":26541,"date":"2026-05-08T19:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26541"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:39:52","slug":"trump-calls-for-national-shabbat-as-part-of-u-s-250th-birthday-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/trump-calls-for-national-shabbat-as-part-of-u-s-250th-birthday-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls for National Shabbat as Part of U.S. 250th Birthday Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is both fighting virulent antisemitism and honoring Jewish-Americans\u2019 250 years of achievements with a new announcement for Jewish Heritage Month and America\u2019s 250th celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>In a May 4\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/05\/jewish-american-heritage-month-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-pasted=\"true\">proclamation<\/a>, Trump wrote, \u201cThis Jewish American Heritage Month, we honor the countless contributions of Jewish Americans throughout our Nation\u2019s 250 glorious years of independence, and we celebrate their unwavering commitment to the values that make our country great \u2014 faith, family, and freedom.\u201d He harkened back to George Washington\u2019s praise for the Jewish community at the time of the Revolution and Founding of our nation, officially designated May as\u00a0Jewish Heritage Month, and called for a national Shabbat over May 15-16.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/catherinesalgado\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-calls-for-national-shabbat-as-part-of-us-250th-birthday-celebrations-n4952527\">pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is both fighting virulent antisemitism and honoring Jewish-Americans\u2019 250 years of achievements with a new announcement for Jewish Heritage Month and America\u2019s 250th celebrations. In a May 4\u00a0proclamation, Trump wrote, \u201cThis Jewish American Heritage Month, we honor the countless contributions of Jewish Americans throughout our Nation\u2019s 250 glorious years of independence, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/trump-calls-for-national-shabbat-as-part-of-u-s-250th-birthday-celebrations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump Calls for National Shabbat as Part of U.S. 250th Birthday Celebrations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6U5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26542,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541\/revisions\/26542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}