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After over 20 years in elected public life, Linda Lingle was elected as Hawaii's first female and first Jewish governor on November 5, 2002.

In her autobiography, Madeleine Kunin acknowledges that her background may not have predestined her to become governor of Vermont.

On November 8, 1988, Nita M. Lowey was elected to Congress.

Jessie Sampter was an influential Zionist educator, a poet, and a Zionist pioneer. She died at Kibbutz Givat Brenner on November 11, 1938.

Caroline Klein Simon, a pioneering attorney, communal worker, and state official, was born on November 12, 1900.

Dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow debuted on Broadway on November 14, 1937.

The National Council of Jewish Women held its first national convention at Tuxedo Hall in New York City between November 15 and

After over two decades of building a reputation as a passionate and generous member of the Jewish community through her activism and volunteer work, Baltimorean Shoshana Cardin was elected as the first woman president of the Council of Jewish Federations on November 15, 1984.

Alma Gluck first appeared on stage with the Metropolitan Opera on November 19, 1909 in the role of Sophie in Massenet's Werther.

Roberta Peters has achieved international fame for her soprano voice and performing success.

When Emma Lazarus died on November 19, 1887 at the age of 38, the obituary published in the New York Times referred to her as “an American Poet o

Gertrude Berg's popular radio program, The Goldbergs, about an upwardly mobile American Jewish family debuted on NBC radio on November 20,

U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Rabbi Stephen S.

“I am one of those who suffers from the abuses described here, and I move that we go on a general strike.” Thus, in Yiddish, 23-year-old Clara Lemlich addressed a crowd of thousands of restless laborers at New York City’s Cooper Union on November 22, 1909.

The October 17, 1988, announcement that chemist Gertrude Elion had won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine represented the culmination of an unlikely career.

Gertrude Berg made her television debut as Bronx housewife Molly Goldberg on NBC's Chevrolet on Broadway in 1948.

Ernestine Rose was born in Poland in 1810.

On October 21, 1944, Frances Y. Slanger, R.N. died in Elsenborn, Belgium, a victim of a German artillery attack.

Rabbi Sally J. Priesand offered the opening prayer in the United States House of Representatives, at the invitation of Congresswoman Bella Abzug.