The first meeting of the U.N. General Assembly opened in London, the Nuremberg Trials concluded and the Philippines gained independence from the United States in the same year.
In that same year, 1946, four Jewish girls, each 8 years old and from different Cleveland area neighborhoods, first met in Sunday school at the former Euclid Avenue Temple.
Nancy Gilbert, Talu Glauber, Alice Jacobs and Loramae Simkoff arrived each Sunday morning at the temple and from there grew a collective friendship that has carried on through 15 presidential administrations…