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Reflecting on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—
50 years ago today
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America, recited a prayer during the March on Washington in 1963. It included:
Thou [G-d] hast endowed all men equally with the rights to live, to liberty…
Struggling Against Tyranny: The Gertrude Goldhaber Collection
Struggling Against Tyranny: The Gertrude Goldhaber Collection
“The vicious cycle which was originally created by the overt exclusion of women from mathematics and science must be broken… [I]t is of the utmost importance to give a girl at a very early age the conviction that girls are capable of becoming scientists.”
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911-1998) was a German Jewish nuclear physicist who made…