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Happy Hanukkah!

For Day 4 of Hanukkah, we'll be exploring Jewish contributions to the American Civil Rights movement for African American liberation!

#123 - Stanley Levison, friend of Martin Luther King Jr. who chiefly wrote his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech.

#124 - Joel Spingarn, civil rights activists who assisted in the formation of the NAACP.

#125 - Lillian Wald, an American nurse involved in the founding of the NAACP.

#126 - Jacob Billikopf, nationally known public service worker who was recruited by the NAACP in 1914.

#127 - Stephen Wise, a reform rabbi and Zionist recruited by the NAACP in 1914.

#128 - Julius Rosenwald, a businssman and philanthropist who gave to many funds for the liberation and success of African Americans.

#129 - Jacob Schiff, philantropist who assisted in funding for civil rights movements and the disadvantaged.


#130 - Henry Moskowitz, a Romanian-born civil rights activists who co-founded the NAACP.

#131 - Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, civil rights activists.

And finally, #122 - Joe Slovo, leader in the South African Communist Party who opposed the apartheid system.

Happy Hanukkah!

For Day 3 of Hanukkah, join us in exploring a dozen significant Jewish contributors to Socialist causes!

#112 - Vladimir Lenin, Soviet Revolutionary and politician.

#113 - Leon Trotsky, aka Lev Bronstein, another Soviet revolutionary and politician.

#114 - Lev Kamanev, another Soviet revolutionary and politician.

#115 - Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Marxist who was executed after conspiring with fellow socialists to overthrow the German government.

#116 - Genrikh Yakoda, Soviet secret police official and director of the NKVD.

#117 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American citizens who were executed upon being convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.

#118 - Benjamin Gitlow, founder of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA).

#119 - William Weinstone, American Communist politician and labor leader.

#120 - Jay Lovestone, member of the CPUSA who was expelled, and went on to provide information to the CIA.

#121 - Ernő Gerő, communist party leader in Hungary following World War 2.

Happy Hanukkah!

For Day 2 of Hanukkah, join us in exploring 6 significant Jewish contributors to the Adult Entertainment industry!
#106 - Greg Lansky, founder of Vixen Media. Creator of "BLACKED .com" and "Tushy".

#107 - Joe Francis, founder of "Girls Gone Wild".

#108 - Seth Warshavsky, the "Bill Gates of Porn".
Created and operated multiple adult websites in the early days of the World Wide Web, and fought in court to expand pornography rights and freedom on the Internet.

#109 - Nina Hartley, a prominent pornographic film director, sex positive feminist, and author.

#110 - Al Goldstein, another early pornography pioneer.
Published and edited the weekly "Screw Magazine".

#111 - Samuel Roth, an American publisher and writer who regularly used lewd themes.
Plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case "Roth v. United States", which overturned prior obscenity laws and is credited as having legalized pornography.

Happy Hanukkah!
#100 - Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook
#101 - Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
#102 - Larry Page, co-founder of Google
#103 - Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube
#104 - Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia
#105 - Arkady Volozh, the founder and the CEO of Yandex