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Operation Understanding was an event co-sponsored by the Hopkins Jewish League and the Black Student Union. It was designed to increase dialogue between Jewish and Black students, who often were at odds over the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle with microphone in cap and pearls and striped sleeves. Clipping on reverse announces the first 1928 radio concert presented by the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle in black dress in front of NBC microphone. Typed notation "From General Motors Corporation, Broadway at 57th Street, New York City. A new and exclusive General Motors Concerts photograph of Rosa Ponselle, soprano of the…

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle with Grete Stueckgold, Nino Martini, and Andre Kostelanetz on terrace in NYC.

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle with Grete Stueckgold, Nino Martini, and Andre Kostelanetz in living room. Back with press release from Columbia Broadcasting System.

Abel Wolman ('13) during his professional career notes in his diary Rosh Hashanah (on an earlier page) and Yom Kippur, indicating his taking those days off. There is no mention of other holidays (except Passover in some years) or of taking Friday…

By 1943, there was clearly enough interest in Jewish services that the YMCA facilitated Friday night services for those service men who could not go on Saturday. This suggests that there was a moderate level of observance-- students who would go to…

The YMCA handbook listed these synagogues, as well as several others over the following years, as resources where Jewish students could turn. In many instances they did, with several meetings of the Menorah and Zionist Societies taking place in the…