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		<title>May 21: The Jew and the Red Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the small citizens group that launched the American Red Cross with Clara Barton on this date in 1881 was Adolphus Simeon Solomons, a Sephardic Jewish businessman who hosted many of the group&#8217;s meetings in Washington, DC and became vice-president of the new organization for its first eleven years. In 1884, Barton and Solomons were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People of the Book 101: Bernard Malamud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marek Breiger &#8220;All men are Jews, though few men know it.&#8221; —Bernard Malamud For those of us who came of age reading Bernard Malamud, it seems impossible to contemplate the present situation in which, only twenty-six years following his death, many American Jewish college students and indeed many American Jews under the age of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 20: Helen B. Taussig and Pediatric Cardiology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish doctors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Brooke Taussig, who led the development of pediatric cardiology as a medical specialty, died in an auto accident at the age of 88 on this date in 1986. Despite her lifelong dyslexia, Taussig graduated as a physician from the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1927 and maintained an association with the school for six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 19: The Spanish Armada</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 01:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crypto-Jews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jews of Spain had their revenge on the Inquisition and the Spanish monarch on this date in 1588 when the Spanish Armada arrived in Lisbon in preparation for an attack on England, and Hector Nuñez, a crypto-Jew who had fled the Portuguese Inquisition to settle in England in 1546, was able to provide the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 18: The Baum Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this date in 1942, a mostly Jewish anti-Nazi group headed by Herbert and Marianne Baum set fire to “The Soviet Paradise,” an anti-Communist, anti-Semitic display established by Joseph Goebbels in Berlin. Within days, hundreds of Jewish Berliners were rounded up and executed by the Gestapo, including the Baums. Herbert and Marianne had met as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 17: The First Chess Champion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilhelm Steinitz, the first undisputed world chess champion (from 1886 to 1894) and the inventor of the positional style of play, was born in the Jewish ghetto of Prague on this date in 1836. Steinitz went professional in the 1860s and defeated most of the world&#8217;s leading players at international tournaments held in London. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eden: Van Cortlandt Park, 1946</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alice Rosenthal &#160; I am standing on rising ground overlooking a large expanse of green that blankets this corner of the northwest Bronx. I’ve come back to revisit this distinct patch of time and place from almost a lifetime away and a distance of 3,000 miles. I’ve come to honor it — and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 16: Studs Terkel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 01:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis &#8220;Studs&#8221; Terkel, a journalist, historian and broadcaster who transformed &#8220;oral history&#8221; from a tool of scholarship into a literary technique while documenting the lives and thoughts of working people in America, was born in New York on this date in 1912. Terkel spent most of his life in Chicago, where his parents managed low-end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 15: People&#8217;s Park</title>
		<link>http://jewishcurrents.org/may-15-peoples-park-10137</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[People's Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gathering at the University of California Berkeley campus of 3,000 people to discuss the Israeli-Arab conflict turned into a march down Telegraph Avenue to People&#8217;s Park on this date in 1969, when student body President Dan Siegel shouted from the free speech platform, &#8220;Let&#8217;s take the park!&#8221; People&#8217;s Park was a 2.8-acre derelict lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 14: Morty Manford and His Mom</title>
		<link>http://jewishcurrents.org/may-14-morty-manford-and-his-mom-10134</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gay activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morty Manford, a gay activist and attorney whose harsh beating in 1972 by Michael Maye, the head of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, eventually led to passage of New York&#8217;s gay rights ordinance, died of AIDS-related complications on this date in 1992. In 1969, at age 18, Manford was a patron at the Stonewall Bar and [...]]]></description>
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