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2005, the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel opened at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, which is named in his honor. 2011 A statue of Uriah P. Levy by the Russian sculptor Gregory Pototsky was dedicated on December 16, 2011, outside Mikveh Israel Synagogue on Independence Mall in Philadelphia .
Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro (February 4, 1915 – July 27, 2000) was an American painter, poet and the mother of actor Robert De Niro. She studied painting under Hans Hofmann in New York, and her work was included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
The Commodore Levy Chapel is an unaffiliated Jewish synagogue and chapel, located at Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, in the United States. Established in 1942 and renamed in 1959 in honor of Uriah P. Levy, the synagogue and chapel are the oldest Jewish chapel in the United States Navy. The synagogue and chapel are part of a chapel ...
As of 2020, Virginia Military Institute alumni include two previous Governors of Virginia, the current Secretary of the Army, a Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, two Lieutenant Governors of Virginia, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize winners, 13 Rhodes Scholars, Medal of Honor recipients, an Academy Award winner, an Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner, a martyr recognized by ...
Robert Anthony De Niro [9] was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, 1943, [10] the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. [11] His father was of Irish and Italian descent, [12] while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. [13]
Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel is the Jewish chapel at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland.. The center is named in honor of Commodore Uriah P. Levy (1792–-1862), the first Jewish commodore in the United States Navy, who is famous for refusing to flog his sailors.
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Name Class year Notability References William Harwar Parker: 1848 Naval Academy Instructor and Professor of Mathematics, Navigation and Astronomy (1853–1857); served with the Virginia State Navy during the American Civil War, then the Confederacy and Confederate States Naval Academy by serving as its Superintendent from October 1863 on the school ship CSS Patrick Henry, located outside of ...