75 years ago
April 1, 1921
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association on Haight Street hosts a seder for 200 Jewish servicemen stationed in and around San Francisco.
50 years ago
March 22, 1946
The Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York releases a listing of 3,500,000 books and 5,000 rare manuscripts that the Nazis took from Jewish libraries.
25 years ago
April 2, 1971
The largest group of Soviet Jews, estimated at 150, arrives at Lydda Airport in Tel Aviv.
10 years ago
April 4, 1986
During a trip to Israel, San Francisco Supervisors Willie Kennedy and John Molinari visit a 15-year-old Kiryat Shmona boy in Haifa’s Rambam Hospital, who suffered head injury during a shelling attack in his schoolyard from across the Lebanon border.