May Celebrates Asian, Jewish Heritage
richards | May 6, 2012
Since high school, I've always known that May is a month- long tribute to many aspects of Asian America. But it wasn't until last week when I was compiling a list of D.C.-area events related to this month that I found out that May is also Jewish American Heritage Month. Here's a brief synopsis of what I know and learned about the origins of the two observations, as well as a few events: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month It first started out as a week after Congress passed a 1978 joint resolution proclaiming the first seven days of May to be Asian/Pacific Heritage Week
