User:Yoninah/DYK creations and expansions

2010

 * ... that the Israeli-invented Wonder Pot bakes cakes, casseroles and roasts on the stovetop rather than in the oven?
 * ... that the first English translations of the works of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov were published by Breslov Research Institute more than 170 years after the Rebbe's death?
 * ... that Jerusalem's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
 * ... that Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals" and "Street of the Consuls"?
 * ... that Angel Bakeries is the sole supplier of hamburger buns for McDonald's restaurants in Israel?
 * ... that Berman's Bakery, Israel's second-largest, got its start by peddling black bread and honey cakes to Christian pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
 * ... that Jerusalem's Beit Hadfus Street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the printing houses that were established there?
 * ... that an elaborate, three-storey tomb memorializing Sir George Shirley inside the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, was constructed 20 years before his death?
 * ... that the birth of Gabi (pictured with mother), the first elephant conceived in Israel through artificial insemination, was viewed live by over 350,000 people in 108 countries?

2011

 * ... that the Zoharei Chama (Sunrise) Synagogue (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, features a huge sundial built to help worshippers determine the exact moment of sunrise and sunset?
 * ... that, besides giving hundreds of benefit concerts for residents of OHEL children's homes, Hasidic singer Shloime Dachs frequently hosts OHEL residents at his own home?
 * ... that the beach at Kiryat Sanz in Netanya was the first in Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women?
 * ... that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank?
 * ... that Susie Fishbein, best-selling author of ArtScroll's Kosher By Design cookbook series, has been called "the Jewish Martha Stewart" and "the kosher diva"?
 * ... that the homemade Israeli mortar memorialized in Jerusalem Davidka Square was totally inaccurate, but it made such a huge noise that it sent the enemy fleeing in panic?
 * ... that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi?
 * ... that Italian leftist politician Emanuele Fiano was a Jewish youth leader in the Hashomer Hatzair Socialist–Zionist youth movement in Milan?
 * ... that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad by singing the Jewish prayer for the dead?
 * ... that Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, mashgiach (spiritual supervisor) of the Lakewood Yeshiva, was so removed from worldly concerns that he called his house an "inn" and his furniture "lumber"?
 * ... that Arizona State Jewish studies professor Norbert M. Samuelson, who lectures at university-level conferences around the world, gives a weekly class on Maimonides's Mishneh Torah to rabbis in Phoenix?
 * ... that University of Virginia professor Peter Ochs, who coined the term "scriptural reasoning", believes that this mode of interfaith dialog could achieve peace in the Middle East?
 * ... that theologian David F. Ford of the University of Cambridge once applied for jobs at British Steel and Rolls-Royce?
 * ... that as president of St. Petersburg College, Carl M. Kuttler, Jr. used to phone and send a card to each of the college's 1,000 full-time employees on their birthdays?
 * ... that Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education at Alabama State University, worked in over 200 libraries and archives to prepare his series Philosophy and the Liberal Arts in the Early Modern Period?
 * ... that a proud Massachusetts father commissioned award-winning composer Peter Child to compose a string quartet in honor of his son's birth?
 * ... that when yeshiva students learn with their chavrusas, they may wave their hands and shout at each other?
 * ... that Rami Levi introduced supermarket price wars to Israel?
 * ... that Thelma Pressman opened the first microwave cooking school in the United States?
 * ... that Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman was engaged when he was 10 years old?
 * ... that Yehuda Tzadka started learning at Porat Yosef Yeshiva after his bar mitzvah, and remained there for nearly 70 years?
 * ... that Rabbi Nachum Dov Brayer became the Rebbe of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty more than 13 years after the death of the previous Rebbe?
 * ... that Yad Sarah, the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder, Uri Lupolianski, former mayor of Jerusalem?
 * ... that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street, the Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
 * ... that the Rebbe of Ruzhin lived like a king, with a palatial home, many servants, a carriage drawn by four white horses, stylish clothing, and solid-gold boots studded with diamonds?

2012

 * ... that Tom Loftin Johnson won a 1941 prize for his American Pietà, which substitutes an African American mother for the Virgin Mary and the black victim of a lynching for Jesus?
 * ... that the third Sochatchover Rebbe supervised the education of several hundred yeshiva students in the Warsaw Ghetto?
 * ... that Chaim Walder first book for Haredi children became one of Israel's all-time bestsellers?
 * ... that Harriet Low (pictured) caused a diplomatic incident when she entered the banned port of Canton dressed as a boy?
 * ... that the fourth Rebbe of Radomsk, founder of a network of 36 Hasidic yeshivas in pre-war Poland, paid for the education of over 4,000 students out of his own pocket?
 * ... that the Israeli city of Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of Macy's department store?
 * ... that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the Maccabees, heroes of the Hanukkah story?
 * ... that the Schneller Orphanage in Jerusalem, which operated from 1860 to 1940, had its own printing press, bindery, flour mill, bakery, carpentry, pottery factory, and brick and tile plant?
 * ... that after escaping Nazi-occupied Europe, the Belzer Rebbe held his first tish in Jerusalem at the Zion Blumenthal Orphanage?
 * ... that apartments in Jerusalem's Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood, near the street of the same name, have triple-thick concrete walls, roofs with gunner positions, and courtyards for mass troop call-ups?
 * ... that Shlomo Moussaieff owns rare gemstones worth millions of dollars, including a flawless blue diamond and the world's largest known red diamond?
 * ... that before the establishment of the Jerusalem Foundation in 1966, there were hardly any parks or playgrounds in Jerusalem?
 * ... that Israel's Chamber of the Holocaust museum includes urns with the ashes of victims from 36 Nazi death camps?
 * ... that Yaakov Yosef Herman manufactured and sold kosher wine out of his home throughout the Prohibition era with the approval of a New York City judge?
 * ... that Limonana, a lemon and mint drink that is widely popular in the Middle East, was invented by an advertising agency?
 * ... that some of the most active parents in the Orthodox Jewish day school founded by Rabbi David Rebibo in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1965 were members of the local Reform temple?
 * ... that the hadran prayer recited after studying a tractate of the Talmud is an expression of love and friendship between the student and the tractate?
 * ... that Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman alerted world Jewry to the start of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camps in a coded message referring to "Mr. Amos"?
 * ... that an attempt to sell the aging Stanton Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a Jesuit priest led to its resurgence as a Jewish house of worship?
 * ... that when Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz cried, "even the State Department listened"?
 * ... that Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, a leading rosh yeshiva in prewar Poland, was forced to work in a Warsaw Ghetto factory making footwear for German soldiers?
 * ... that Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld, founder of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem, was the guest of honor at an official reception hosted by the President of Austria in Vienna's Hofburg Palace in 1995?
 * ... that some graves in the Sanhedria Cemetery of Jerusalem are five times closer to residential housing than the law allows?
 * ... that the Tombs of the Sanhedrin may have contained someone else?
 * ... that at Sheikh Badr Cemetery in central Jerusalem, bodies were placed in caskets and left above-ground?
 * ... that the collections of amateur natural historian Mary Elizabeth Barber may have influenced Charles Darwin's deliberations on the role of moths in orchid pollination?
 * ... that the second Dushinsky Rebbe had to pay a huge sum of money in order to be buried next to his father, the first Dushinsky Rebbe, in the nearly empty Shaare Zedek Cemetery of Jerusalem?
 * ... that Dr. Moshe Wallach, founder and director of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital for 45 years, lived in the hospital and was buried beside it?

DYK for Sharon H. Abrams
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 18 February 2016 (UTC)