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I 1911: An immigrant family named

1 ern world the news of the geniza
(storage for sacred Jewish texts) in
Egypt, Schechter died in 1915.

Suchowljansky arrives at Ellis Island.
1 The family — Yetta and her two
young sons (father Max came earlier)
— has endured a long and difficult
1916: Louis D. Brandeis begins his
journey from their native Poland. They
career as an associate justice with the
settle in a small home which Max,
Supreme Court, a position he will
who works as a garment presser, has
hold until 1939. He is the first Jew to
I selected in Brownsville, a Brooklyn
sit on the court. A native of Kentucky,
suburb. The Suchowljansky's eldest
Brandeis is appointed by President
son, Meyer, and his brother, Jake,
I Woodrow Wilson.
1 begin attending Public School 84
I only weeks after they arrive in Ameri- 11926: This year begins a trial —
Ica. Meyer is an especially bright boy,
never finished — in which American
:who three years after coming to the
Jewish leaders sue Henry Ford for his
I United States already has skipped
antisemitic articles in the Dearborn
!three grades. He is especially profi-
Independent. Ford based much of his
t cient in math. One day while walking
writing on the notorious forgery, Proto-
:along Hester Street, Meyer meets up
cols of the Learned Elders of Zion,
with a rather tough
looking, but equal-
: ly intelligent, boy
!from Little Italy. His
I name is Salvatore,
I and he's got a
gang with him. But
Meyer isn't afraid.
I Salvatore is
:impressed. Later
I he will say of that
1 first meeting, "We
both•had a kind of
I instant understand- Henry Ford
.
ing. It was some-
! thing that never left
I us." In fact, the.iwo became lifelong
which claims to show Jewish plans to
:best friends — and partners in crime. 1 take over the world. Outraged, Jewish
Meyer Suchowljansky was later
leaders sue Ford and his newspaper
known as Meyer Lansky. Salvatore
for $1 million. Ford later apologized
Lucania became Lucky Luciano.
and promised to "make amends for
:Together, the two built a crime synch-
the wrong done to the Jews."
: cate unlike anything the world kid
1 ever known.
1935: The Central Conference of
•
American Rabbis, the national associ-
11913: Solomon Schechter establish-
ation of Reform rabbis, repeals its poli-
' es the United Synagogue of Ameri-•
cy of anti-Zionism.
Ica, today the national organization
I of Conservative rabbis, for the "pro-
1940: Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, a pro-
! motion of traditional Judaism in Amer-
fessor of homiletics at the Jewish Theo-
ica." Born in Romania in .1850,
logical Seminary, establishes the Jew-
:Schechter attended Cambridge Uni-
ish Reconstructionist Foundation.
versity in England. In 1902, he
According to Kaplan, Judaism is a civ-
came to the United States, where he
ilization based on a religion, with a
I served as president of the Jewish
language, culture and literature of its
I Theological Seminary in New York.
own. Reconstructionism is pro-Zionist,
Also famed for bringing to the West-
a frequent topic covered in its new

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1 national magazine, The Reconstruc-
tionist.

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1943: The ship Dorchester is torpe-

doed, taking the lives of the famous
"Four Chaplains," including Rabbi
Alexander Goode. Goode, along
with a Catholic priest and Iwo Protes-
tant ministers, was serving America's
men in uniform during World War II.
When the Dorchester was hit, the four
chaplains gave their life preservers to
others. The four then united in prayer
as the ship sank in the North Atlantic.

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1947: Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
appearing on behalf of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, becomes the
first Jewish spokesman recognized by
the United Nations. Dr. Silver came to
speak to the U.N. Political Commit-
tee, where he appeals for their sup-
port of a Jewish state.

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1949: Rabbi Stephen Wise dies.

Born in 1874, Rabbi Wise was a
founder of the American Jewish
Congress, and established the Free
Synagogue and the Jewish Institute
of Religion. He also helped found
the NAACP and the American Civil
Liberties Union.

1956: Hank Greenberg becomes
the first Jew elected to the Baseball
Hall of Fame. Greenberg began his

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