President Donald J. Trump proclaimed May 2026 as Jewish American Heritage Month on Monday, honoring the contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States and calling for a “national Sabbath” as part of the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations. In the proclamation, Trump praised Jewish Americans for their role in shaping the nation’s history, values, and civic life, citing faith, family, and freedom as central themes of the observance. He also invoked President George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, in which Washington wrote that the United States “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no...