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Koch, Ed, 1924-2013

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Edward Irving Koch (December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013) was an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, film critic, and television personality. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. Koch was a lifelong Democrat who described himself as a "liberal with sanity". The author of an ambitious public housing renewal program in his later years as mayor, he began by cutting spending and taxes and cuttin...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

National Conference of Synagogue Youth

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The National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) was founded by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU) in 1954 in order to encourage passionate Judaism among Jewish youth, primarily ages 14-18, through innovative social, recreational and educational programming. By 1962, there were NCSY chapters in 150 synagogues across the United States, and today NCSY reaches thousands of teenagers each year throughout North America and several other countries. From the descrip...

Brooklyn College. Theatre Research Data Center

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Curator's Office was renamed Bursar's Office. From the description of Curator's reports, 1934-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451274 The Ditmas House was a Dutch style wooden frame house built in 1827 and occupied by the Ditmas family. A century later, Charles Ditmas, the founder of Kings County Historical Society, helped to make way for Brooklyn's Ditmas farmhouse to become the site for part of the Brooklyn College campus. In 1935, the Ditmas House passed into the c...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Bernstein, Louis, 1927-

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Louis Bernstein (1927-1995) was educated and received rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University, and served as a United States army chaplain stationed in Heidelberg, Germany during part of the Korean War. After his discharge, he became rabbi of the Young Israel of Windsor Park in Queens, New York, where he remained until his death. He held leadership roles in numerous Jewish institutions, serving multiple terms as President of both the Religious Zionists of America and the Rabbinical Council of ...

Synagogue Council of America

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Synagogue Council of America (1926-1994) The Synagogue Council of America was proposed at a meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) held in St. Louis at the Twenty-Ninth Council of the UAHC. The conference occurred from January 19-22, 1925. Presented by Dr. David Philipson and Dr. Abram Simon, the resolution called for an organization to promote religious fellowship and cooperation "among the national Jewish congregational organizations" which was "e...

Jacobs, Harold

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Harold Milton Jacobs (1912-1995) was an important Jewish lay leader and businessman. He studied economics at St. Johns University and Columbia University in New York and founded several successful businesses. Jacobs was also very active in Jewish and general communal affairs, and served as president of the Crown Heights Yeshiva (1953-1968), the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (1973-1978), and the National Council of Young Israel (1981-1992). He also was on the Board of Trustees of the Cit...

World Jewish Congress.

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According to their own constitution, the World Jewish Congress is a voluntary association of representative Jewish bodies, communities and organisations throughout the world, organised to assure the survival and to foster the unity of the Jewish people. Its origins lie in the immediate aftermath of World War I in the cooperative efforts by Jewish communities around the world in religious, legal, political and relief matters. In the aftermath of World War II the World Jewish Congress played a cen...

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

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In 1898 Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes of Shearith Israel and representatives of fifty Orthodox congregations founded the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA), also widely known as the Orthodox Union (OU). The organization’s founding mission was to perpetuate and preserve Modern Orthodox Judaism and to unify Jewish immigrant populations by connecting and strengthening Orthodox synagogue congregations across the United States, as well as Canada. The UOJCA steadily gr...

Lamm, Norman

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President of Yeshiva University. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1992. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 705904604 ...