Experience Jewish-American Hall of Fame Medals With Major Expansion of Website
www.amuseum.org made its first appearance on the internet in 1996. In 2002, it won the
Numismatic Literary Guild’s (NLG) award as the
Best Non-Commercial Website. In May 2021, the newly expanded website makes its debut, just in time to celebrate
Jewish American Heritage Month.
Mel Wacks, Founding Director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, has worked for over a year to make this possible, along with programmer Sumera Manzoor.
Over 60 pages have been added, featuring large photos of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame medals and texts that are easy to read on smartphones as well as computer screens. The new pages picture medals created by renowned medalists like
Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table: I’m not dispassionate when.
But the most striking Jew in the abolitionist movement was a Polish immigrant born Ernestine Louise Potowski and later known by her married name, Ernestine Rose who became a prominent advocate for abolition, as well as free thought (in her case, atheism) and women’s rights.
She once boasted, “I was a rebel at the age of five.” She sued in civil court to dissolve the marriage arranged for her by her rabbi father, and left home for Germany as a teenager, where the Prussian king granted her residency despite her Jewish origins. She supported herself selling her invention of perfumed paper for use as a room deodorizer.