Thanksgiving Sermons
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish HistoryOn April 30th, 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America. On October 3rd, he declared “Thursday the Twenty-sixth Day of November next” as a day of thanksgiving. On that day, the first Thanksgiving sermon was…
Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Science 100 years ago today. 1 2
The Leo Baeck Institute has an Albert Einstein Archival collection (http://search.cjh.org/beta:CJH_ALEPH00020218)
In honor of the centennial here is a small selection of the digitized material available.
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By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Jewish women have played an important role in improving the rights of women in both the secular and Jewish communities. Some Jewish feminists chose to work for the rights of all women and some chose to work exclusively for women’s rights within the Jewish religion. This created a divide between the broader feminist movement that…