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Today, CBS Corporation president and CEO Les Moonves turns 62. Moonves made headlines in our archive for his network’s 2003 miniseries about Hitler. Moonves’s great-uncle made headlines for being the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion. [[READMORE]] The LA Jewish Journal shared the family connection in 1998, when Moonves was feted at an American Jewish Committee dinner: […]

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Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, civil right movement leader, passed away today at the age of 89. JTA coverage of the civil rights movement includes one mention of the Rev. Shuttlesworth. [[READMORE]] Fifteen Rabbis Arrested in St. Augustine Pro-Negro Demonstration (Published: June 19, 1964) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jun. 18 (JTA) – Fifteen Reform rabbis were among 37 demonstrators arrested here […]

ARCHIVE BLOG NOTE: Find something interesting in the archive? E-mail a short write-up to archive@jta.org and you could be published in the JTA Archive Blog. You know your uncle, the one always telling you about Jewish Nobel Prize winners? Well he’s kvelling this week, what with four Jewish scientists winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry, physics […]

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