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Hey everyone I'm Longhornsg, and I've been a Wikipedian since 2006, albeit with a hiatus between 2007 and 2022.

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The Special Barnstar
Otto Hantke is a very good page. Well done! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 07:18, 1 February 2023 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
Matar judíos is a very good page. Well done! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 03:10, 10 March 2023 (UTC)


The Editor's Barnstar
Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain is another fine article. You're doing great!! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 02:55, 14 March 2023 (UTC)


You are recipient no. 2834 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for quality articles, beginning with Jasper High School (Plano, Texas) (2006), biographies such as Akim Anastopoulo, Miles Austin and Otto Hantke, and the recent Matar judíos, for "clean up, removing unsourced material, fixing sourcing", - Texas Longhorn, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

The Original Barnstar
Katharina von Schnurbein is a great article!!! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 02:46, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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  • Yehuda Benasouli
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    # Article Hook Date Featured Views
    1 Otto Hantke ... that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at age 67 for his acts during the Holocaust? 14 March 2023 9,640
    2 Jewish quarter (Barcelona) ... that the Ancient Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Barcelona is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe? 21 March 2023 2,334
    3 Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust (Madrid) ... that the Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust in Madrid was the first Holocaust memorial in Spain when it opened in 2007? 6 April 2023 3,604
    4 Dave Kufeld ... that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever to be selected in the NBA draft? 10 April 2023 8,021
    5 Arthur Dantchik ... that two Americans, Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik, are large funders of the Kohelet Policy Forum, an intellectual driving force of the controversial 2023 Israeli judicial reform package? 13 May 2023 2,504
    6 Katharina von Schnurbein ... that Katharina von Schnurbein is the European Commission's first coordinator on combatting antisemitism, having served in the role since 2015? 25 May 2023 4,636
    7 Fred Bild ... that as a teenager in a B'nai B'rith camp in Canada, Holocaust survivor and future Canadian ambassador Fred Bild learned English from his camp counselor, future actor William Shatner? 2 June 2023 8,192
    8 Walt Nauta ... that Walt Nauta would bring a Diet Coke to the Oval Office whenever President Donald Trump requested one via his call button? 27 June 2023 19,855
    9 Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ... that at the age of 82, Kuwaiti crown prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the oldest heir apparent in the world?? 30 June 2023 15,572
    10 Zinkiv ... that Zinkiv, Ukraine, was a center of Hasidic Judaism until almost the entirety of the city's 2,300-strong Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust? 3 July 2023 7,064
    11 Robin Hayes (businessman) ... that JetBlue's CEO, Robin Hayes, flew on an airplane for the first time aged 18? 5 July 2023 6,707
    12 Jerome Epstein (director) ... that Jerome Epstein was advised not to take credit for his production work on Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight due to accusations that Chaplin had communist sympathies? 15 July 2023 2,023
    13 Beth Yaacov Synagogue (Madrid) ... that when it opened in 1968, the Beth Yaacov Synagogue in Madrid was the first new synagogue built in Spain since Jews were expelled from the country by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492? 16 July 2023 2,770
    14 David B. McCall ... that just four days before his death in 2004, David B. McCall received a presidential pardon from George W. Bush for fraud charges dating from the 1990s? 19 July 2023 5,752
    15 Ángel Sagaz Zubelzu ... that Spanish diplomat Ángel Sagaz Zubelzu secured the release of more than 1,500 Jews from prison in Egypt by arguing they were descended from Jews expelled from Spain and entitled to Spanish citizenship? 20 July 2023 5,797
    16 Yehuda Benasouli ... that Chief Rabbi of Madrid Yehuda Benasouli's first language was Castilian Spanish, but he also knew Hebrew, French, Arabic, Ladino, Haketia, and some English? 24 July 2023 4,595
    17 Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah ... that former Kuwaiti foreign minister Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah interrupted his studies in France to volunteer during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? 3 August 2023 4,859

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