50 years ago Sept. 6, 1946

Jewish men and women in the American armed forces in World War II receive 50,000 awards for valor.

25 years ago Sept. 10, 1971

American Jewish leaders are split over proposals in Congress to provide 30,000 non-quota refugee visas for Soviet Jews.

10 years ago Sept. 12, 1986

Hours before the fourth American gathering of the Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in New York, 21 Turkish Jews are slain by unidentified terrorists while praying in the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul.