David B. Green

The seeds of the Inquisition are sown on this day in 1391 when a fiery preacher in Seville, Spain incited months of violence against the city's Jews.

On this day in 1972, a group of women demanded equality from the American Conservative movement. Just a decade later, many of their goals were achieved.

Walter Annenberg built an empire of newspapers, magazines and TV stations, amassed an impressive art collection and befriended Ronald Reagan.

A significant majority of Austrians enthusiastically welcomed the Anschluss, which spelled the doom of the country's Jewish population.

Ezra Jack Keats' landmark book 'The Snowy Day,' the first to feature a black child, changed the field of children's literature forever.

Though he'd never been to university, Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich was a natural to be tapped to build the Russian bomb.

Emanuel Heilbronner, a self-styled doctor, left Germany for the U.S. and created the Castile soaps that come with moral messages on the bottle.

The Jewish duo from New York was tried for passing military technology to the Soviets throughout the 1940s; they were put to death in 1953.

The movement aimed to infuse the largely secular political movement founded by Theodor Herzl with a Torah-based spirit.

Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter was a key figure in two criminal organizations, the National Crime Syndicate and Murder Incorporated.

Can a man sit next to, and in direct contact with, a woman on the subway? How about drinking milk produced on a Gentile American farm? Asked, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein would answer.

The first issue of Yiddishe Zeitung (Jewish Times) hit newsstands in New York City on this day in 1870.

Morris Lasker built an impressive business empire in early 20th century Texas and was generous with his wealth. His son, Albert, became a founder of modern advertising in America.

Bertha Pappenheim, who served as a psychoanalytic case study for Freud, went on to found and lead the 50,000-strong League of Jewish Women

Bavarian-born Jew Loeb Strauss moved to California in 1853 to set up a branch of his family's dry-goods business, and ended up revolutionizing fashion.

The painter, who barely had a formal art education yet made it into some of the world's greatest museums, committed suicide in 1970.

Julius Vogel rejected all setbacks, worked tirelessly to advance the Kiwi cause and had a vision of women running the world.

Be he descendent of King David or not, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki's light on sacred writings continues to guide Jewish scholars to this day.

Elisa-Rachel Felix, the daughter of French Jewish peddlers, defied society's expectations but won its love and respect regardless.

Rene Cassin believed that Jews can't be safe until general human rights for all are established. He got a Nobel prize for his efforts to achieve that very end.

Betty Friedan's groundbreaking book challenged the conventional wisdom that a woman's place was in the home.

Upon seeing his invention in action, the brilliant, and by all accounts insufferable, physicist felt: 'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' Truman was revolted by his remorse.

Florence Prag Kahn replaced her deceased husband and went on to make a mark of her own over the next decade.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is best known for his masterpiece 'Maus,' the graphic novel that depicts the Holocaust and its effect on survivors.

The Black Death, sweeping Europe in the 14th century, provided an excuse for the citizens of Strasbourg to unleash their anti-Semitism.