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		<title>February 24: Jewish Mathematicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fields Medal for achievement in mathematics was established on this date in 1931 by the Committee of the International Mathematical Congress, although the first of prizes (two to four medals are awarded every four years) would not be bestowed until 1936. Twenty-seven percent of the recipients have been Jewish or half-Jewish, including one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 23: Founding the House of Rothschild</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayer Amschel Rothschild (Bauer), whom Forbes magazine has called &#8220;a founding father of international finance,&#8221; was born in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, Germany on this date in 1744. His father had a business trading goods and currency; the family home, above his shop &#8220;at the sign of the red shield&#8221; (zum roten Schild, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 22: Gerald Stern</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald Stern, who has been described as &#8220;a post-nuclear, multicultural [Walt] Whitman for the millennium — the U.S.&#8217;s one and only truly global poet&#8221; (Kate Daniels), was born in Pittsburgh on this date in 1925. He was already 50 when his poetry first received critical acclaim, and his many awards since then include a 1998 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 21: Gershom Scholem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hebrew University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Scholem, the first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University, died in Jerusalem at age 84 on this date in 1982. Scholem pioneered the contemporary study of kabbalah and other sources and streams of Jewish mysticism while remaining a committed Jewish secularist throughout his life. He is best known for Major Trends in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 20: Jimi Hendrix in Shul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimi (John Allen) Hendrix, a 16-year-old high school student, played his first public gig with an unnamed band in the basement of Temple De Hirsch, a Reform synagogue in Seattle, Washington, on this date in 1959. Hendrix was actually auditioning for the band, and his wild playing and show-off style (dropping to his knees, sticking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 19: The Bird Man of Panama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Eisenmann, a Harvard-trained attorney who retired from law at 51 to become one of the world&#8217;s leading ornithologists, was born in Panama on this date in 1906. In 1957, Eisenmann became a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, a position he held until his death in 1981. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 18: Not Guilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Seven Trial ended on this date in 1970 with acquittals for Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner on charges of conspiracy. Five of them were convicted of crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot and were each fined $5,000 and sentenced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 17: Israeli Writers Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221;I&#8217;m for a Palestinian state, because that is the way to life. All other roads lead to death.&#8221; These words were spoken by Amos Oz to a gathering of 800, organized by the Israeli Playwrights Association at the Tsavta Theater in Tel Aviv on this date in 1988.  Twelve leading Israeli writers spoke or read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 16: For Sale to Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this date in 1943, the following 3/4-page ad appeared in the New York Times: FOR SALE TO HUMANITY 70,000 JEWS GUARANTEED HUMAN BEINGS AT $50 APIECE &#8220;Roumania is tired of killing Jews,&#8221; said the text, written and signed by Ben Hecht. &#8220;It has killed one hundred thousand of them in two years. Roumania will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 15: Richard Feynman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Feynman, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 and was one of the world&#8217;s great popularizers of science, died on this date in 1988. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, he did not speak until he was three but proved to be a math prodigy. He attended MIT as an undergraduate and [...]]]></description>
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