... fairly challenge all the Antiquity of the Heathens, to present us with an Ode of more beautiful sentiments, and greater Elegancy than the Lamentations over Saul and Jonathan." - GREAT JEWISH QUOATIONS: BY & ABOUT JEWS by ALFRED J. KOLATCH Here's another substantiated fact that proves Franklin had an openness to Jews: http://tinyurl.com/39o4ah (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY" ...