New book shows Miss America pageant troubled history nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Top 10 Dirty Tricks Pulled By US Politicians
The political climate in today’s United States is rife with political extremism and increasingly negative attack ads designed to prey on the fears of either party. However, the tricks used in earlier elections, even those involving the founding fathers, would cause the most hardened extremist to blush.
10Grover Cleveland And The Murchison Letter
Fresh off his first term as president, Grover Cleveland was once again embroiled in a hard-fought presidential election. As he tried to court the English-American vote, the incumbent president was a target of various farming groups thanks to his pledge to lower tariffs on foreign-grown crops. In order to ensure Cleveland’s defeat in the upcoming election, a man named George Osgoodby penned a phony letter under the pseudonym “Charles F. Murchison” and sent it to Lionel Sackville-West, the British ambassador in Washington.
Jewish Film Festival of Sarasota-Manatee returns with virtual event
The 12th annual festival features 21 movies spanning the globe, as well as filmmaker discussions.
Mort Skirboll Jewish Film Festival of Sarasota-Manatee: Monday-March 25; $15 individual tickets; $236 all films; jfedsrq.org/jff21
Sarasota-Manatee s annual cinematic celebration of Jewish culture returns with a selection of movies spanning the globe, with all screenings taking place virtually amid the pandemic.
The 12th annual Mort Skirboll Jewish Film Festival of Sarasota-Manatee takes place Monday-March 25. The festival features 21 dramatic and documentary films available online at 8 a.m. the day of each screening for 48 hours, with the option to buy individual tickets or access to all the movies.
Bat Yam presents scheduled events
By BAT YAM TEMPLE - | Feb 18, 2021
Bat Yam Temple of the Islands announced its upcoming programs and activities.
Jane Picker will present a Zoom talk on Feb. 24 at 11 a.m. on “The 1970’s When Litigation Changed Everything for Women.” A congregant and professor emerita at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, she successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that schoolteachers did not have to take unpaid mandatory leave of when they reached their fourth month of pregnancy. Her talk comes on the heels of a recording of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 2008 talk as part of the BIG ARTS Forum, which was Zoomed as part of Bat Yam’s Adult Education program on Feb. 10.