This Week in History

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April 29—May 5

1957

Reform Judaism leader Jane Evans argues for ordination of women rabbis

April 29

2001

Lifetime achievement award for cookbook author Joan Nathan

Joan Nathan

April 30

1916

Labor leaders announce their engagement at May Day Parade

Bessie, Sidney, Selma, and Philoine Hillman, 1922

May 1

1975

Publication of Gladys Rosen's Jewish bicentennial guidebook

May 2

2000

Longest-serving federal employee Lillie Steinhorn retires

Lillie Steinhorn

May 3

1930

Opera singer Roberta Peters is born

Roberta Peters Album

May 4

1900

Nacha Rivkin, founder of the first US girls' yeshiva, is born

May 5

2011

Barbara Dobkin receives honorary degree

Barbara Dobkin

May 5

1968

Death of writer Sarah Brandstein Smith, “Queen of the shundroman"

Sarah Brandstein Smith, 1945

April 29

1972

Jane Collective is raided by Chicago police

Heather Booth

May 3

1863

Birth of English author, journalist, editor, lecturer, magazine proprietor, and counselor Ada Ballin

Portrait of author and magazine publisher Ada Ballin

May 4

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