The US Library of Congress in Washington, DC, has opened an exhibit on 350 years of Jewish life in America. "From Haven to Home" runs until December and features a letter in which George Washington told the Newport (R.I.) Hebrew Congregation that the new republic gave "to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Curator Michael Grunberger said Washington added a note saying religious liberty would not be just a matter of toleration, but a citizen's fundamental right. Jewish life in what became the United States began in September 1654, when 23 men, women and children landed at Dutch-ruled New Amsterdam after Portuguese conquerors had expelled them from a Dutch colony in Recife, Brazil. New Amsterdam began to flourish as New York when a British fleet took it over a decade later. The exhibit features photographs of Leonard Bernstein, one of the 20th century's most famous musicians and also records the American career of Albert Einstein, who warned President Franklin Roosevelt that the Germans might build an atomic bomb, and Emma Lazarus, who wrote the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.