75 years ago
April 15, 1921
Ten thousand pounds of matzah are sent by the English Federation of Ukrainian Jews to the 3,000 Ukrainian Jewish refugees in Constantinople.
50 years ago
April 12, 1946
Thirty-five thousand displaced Jews in 17 Jewish camps throughout the American zone in Europe peacefully protest the police killing of a displaced Jew during a raid on a Jewish camp in Germany.
25 years ago
April 16, 1971
California Gov. Ronald Reagan’s administration drops its plan to fire the three full-time Jewish chaplains assigned to the state’s mental hospitals.
10 years ago
April 18, 1986
The Northern California Board of Rabbis presents a Yemenite shofar to the Rev. Cecil Williams, clergyman of Glide Memorial Church, at an interfaith Passover seder held at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco.