This Day, February 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 4
211: The reign
of Septimius Servus, the Roman emperor who outlawed conversions to both Judaism
and Christianity in an attempt to unify his crumbling empire, came to an end.
362: Roman
Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the
religions in the Roman Empire. Known as Julian the Apostate, Julian effectively
undid the edicts of Constantine that had made Christianity the religion of the
Roman Empire. He brought back the old religions of the Empire including those
that were tied to Hellenism, the spiritual path that he favored. Julian
was sympathetic to the Jewish people and was prepared to rebuild the Temple in
Jerusalem. Unfortunately, he was murdered by a Christian Arab soldier who
may have been angered by Julian’s decision to deny state support to
Christianity.
1194: Richard
The Lion Hearted bought his freedom by paying his ransom to Leopold, an
Austrian Duke. In collecting the ransom, the Jews were forced to pay
5,000 marks. They were taxed at three times the rate as that paid by
their Christian countrymen.
1428(17th of
Shevat): Purim of Sargosa
1594: Sussex’s
Men, an Elizabethan acting company performed Marlow’s “The Jew of Malta” today.
1616(16th
of Shevat 5376): Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jewish merchant passed away in The
Hague while serving as the diplomatic representative of the sultan Zidan Abu
Maali in negotiations with the Dutch Republic designed to establish an alliance
to fight their common enemy – Spain. Born in Fez in 1550, he was the son of a
rabbi from Cordoba whose family had fled Spain following the Reconquista.
1657: Oliver
Cromwell granted the right of residence in England to a Jew, Antonio Fernandez
Carvajal. According to some, this is the earliest official British act of
tolerance in favor of the Jews.
1657: Thomas
Burton, an MP who was a comrade of Cromwell and kept a diary on the proceedings
of Parliament wrote today that "The Jews, those able and general
intelligencers whose intercourse with the Continent Cromwell had before turned
to profitable account, he now conciliated by a seasonable benefaction to their
principal agent [Carvajal] resident in England."
1683:
Birthdate Judah Monis, the son of Portuguese conversos born in Algeria who
would become the first college Hebrew instructor in North America and the
author of the first Hebrew textbook published in North America. The price
of his position at Harvard would be conversion to Christianity; a price many
others, such as James Schlesinger, would pay for academic advancement.
1689(14th
of Shevat, 5449): Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Moses ben Jonathan Galante, the
grandson of Moses Galante and the grandfather of Moses Hagis passed away today.
https://upclosed.com/people/moses-ben-jonathan-galante/
http://ascentofsafed.com/Stories/Stories/5760/103-03.html
1738(14th
of Shevat, 5498): Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, a noted banker and court Jew was led
to the gallows. He had been falsely accused of a variety of crimes and only
“confessed” after being tortured. Even as he faced death by hanging, he refused
to convert to Christianity, a move that might have saved his life. “Hanging
inside a human-size cage, surrounded by a huge crowd of spectators, his last
words - while a rope was tied around his neck - were those of the central
prayer of Judaism, ‘Shema Yisrael.’"
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11740-oppenheimer-joseph-suss
1753: In
Bordeaux, France, Rachel and Abraham Benjamin Nones gave birth to Ester Nones.
1757: In New
York City, Moses Lopez and his wife gave birth to Aaron Lopez.
1758(26th
of Shevat, 5518): Parashat Mishpatim
1758(26th
of Shevat, 5518): English poet and dramatist Moses Mendes, the London born son
of stockbroker James Mendes and grandson of Fernando Menes whose “first effort
was the ballad opera ‘The Double Disappointment’” passed away today at Old
Buckenham, Norfolk.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10672-mendes-mendez-moses
1770: One day
after he had passed away, Abraham ben Uri Shraga “an upright and proper man…all
his days” was buried at the Alderney Road Cemetery today.
1782: Jewish
physicians in Galicia were granted permission to treat Christian patients.
1788(24th
of Tevet, 5548): Avrahom bar Baruch passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1789 (8th
of Shevat, 5489): George Washington was unanimously elected first President of
the United States. Washington was no stranger to Jews. He had employed a Jewish
doctor, Dr. John de Sequeyra, in an unsuccessful
attempt to save the life of his stepdaughter and Lt. Colonel David Franks
served on Washington’s staff during the Revolutionary War. But he is best
remembered for his letter to the Jews of Newport in which he offered assurances to
American Jews that they would enjoy full rights as citizens of the new republic
where every man will sit under his fig tree and “none shall make him afraid.”
Because he was the first President, Washington’s actions set the tone for the
new nation and for his successors.
1792:
George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of
the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. Washington’s treatment of the
Jews set a national tone that would help make the Jewish experience in America
a unique one.
1799:
Birthdate of Angelique Jacobine Vilhelmine Marie Petzhold, the wife of Ludwig
Lewin Jacobson, the Danish surgeon who refused to convert to Christianity to
further his career
1800: Lewis
Aarons married Abigail Barah at the Great Synagogue today.
1807: In
France, The Great Sanhedrin, a creation of Napoleon Bonaparte, met at the Hotel
de Ville in the City Hall of Paris.
1810(30th of Shevat):
Rabbi Reuben Horowitz author of Dudaim ba-Sadeh passed away
1810: The
Royal Navy seized Guadeloupe. At this time there were no Jews living on
the Island. Jews were first recorded living in Guadeloupe in the late 14th
century. In 1391, in a surge of anti-Jewish riots that began in Spain, most of
the Jews were murdered. The community, however, began to revive during the
mid-15th century. In 1485, the local inquisitor, Nuño de Arévalo, forbid all
Jews from living in Guadeloupe. Prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
and Portugal in 1492, the Jewish community sold the land of the old cemetery to
the local bishop. Many Jews were forced into converting to Christianity; the
Conversos in Guadeloupe lived together in a specified street in the former
Jewish quarter. In 1489, two monks Diego de Marchena and García Capata, were
burned at the stake for converting to Judaism. In 1654, three shiploads of
Jewish refugees from Brazil settled in Guadeloupe. During that time, the Jews
were welcomed by the French owner of the island. Even the capital of Guadalupe,
Pointe-a-Pitre was named after a Brazilian Jew, called Pietre who started a
fish processing plant in the city. The Jews established sugarcane plantations,
which ultimately became the country’s leading export. In 1685, however, King
Louis XIV issued “The Black Code” expelling all Jews from Guadeloupe.
During the latter part of the 20th century, many Jews began to arrive
from North Africa and France. In 1988, the Jewish community consecrated the
first synagogue in Guadeloupe, Or Sameah. Later the congregation added a Talmud
Torah, community center, kosher store, and Jewish cemetery. Today,
approximately 50 Jews live in Guadeloupe.
1815(24th
of Shevat, 5575): Seventy-one-year-old Italian poet Solomon Fiorentino, the
father of Angiolo Fiorentino passed away today at Florence.
1815: Copper manufacturer Harmon Hendricks, the son of Uriah
Henricks, one of the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel and his Frances
Isaacs, the daughter of Joshua and Brandy Isaacs gave birth to Emily Grace
Hendricks.
1816: In
Trieste Isacco Morpugro and Regina Parente gave birth to the banker Giuseppe
Morpurgo the husband of Elisa Morpurgo.
1822: In
London, Sarah and Eleazer Hart gave birth to Kate Hart the wife of Nathan
Benjamin whom she married in 1844 and the mother of Mark, Sarah and Benjamin
Nathan.
1823: In
Charleston, SC, Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby gave birth to Octavia Harby
Moses, the wife of Andrew Jackson Moses and the mother of Joshua, Rebecca,
Isaac, Perry, Horace, Andrew, Octavian Armida, Cecelia, Octavia, Henry, Walter,
Albert and Janes Moses.
1825: In
London, Frances Cohen and Joel Benjamin gave birth to Joseph Benjamin.
1827(7th
of Shevat, 5587): Sixty-seven Josiah Lunn, the Hilltown, PA born son of Alice
and Joseph Josiah Lunn who first married Rachel Lunn and then Mary Lunn passed
away today in New Britain, PA.
1829: Michael
Coleman married Harriet Phillips at the Great Synagogue today.
1835: In
Charleston, SC, Dr. B.A. Rodrigues married Cecilia Solomon this evening.
1836: Dade
County, Florida is formed. According to 2000 census data, Dade County, which
includes Miami, had a Jewish population in excess of 125,000 souls. The vibrant
Jewish community there has far too many institutions, organizations and
cultural events to list here.
1838: Together
with a dedicated group of Philadelphia Jewish women, Rebecca Gratz established
the first Jewish Sunday School.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/04/1838/rebecca-gratz
1842: In
Portsea, Julia Moss and Emanuel Emanuel gave birth to Barrow Emanuel.
1842: In New York,
Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto gave
birth to Miriam Maduro Davis, the wife of Michael Marks Davis and the mother of
Constance Miriam Mordecai; Eva L. Davis; Alice Gertrude Menken; Miriam Davis;
Estelle Goldsmith; Goodman Richard Davis and Michael Marks Davis, Jr.
1842:
Birthdate of George Morris Cohen Brandes, influential Danish literary critic
and historian. “Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets
compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes type.”
1844(14th
of Shevat, 5604): Seventy-six-year-old Judith Moses Myers, the New York born
daughter of Rachel and Moses Michael Hayes, the wife of Samuel Myers and the
mother of of Samuel Hays Myers; Gustavus
Adolphus Myers; Henry Myers, M.D.; Agnes Myers; Rebecca Hays Myers; Ella C.
Myers and Rachel Hays Myers passed away today in Richmond, VA.
1847:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native and University of Pennsylvania graduate
Charles Henry Hart, the lawyer turned art expert and author who married New
Orleans native Anita Beatriz Arabe in 1912 after the death of his first wife
Armine Nixon in 1897.
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/charles-henry-hart-papers-9656
1848(30th of
Shevat, 5608): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1850: In Mount
Washington, KY, Alsace native Agatha Schwab and Bavarian born Maier Ochs gave
birth Mathilda Ochs, the wife of Louis Tachau whom she married in Louisville,
KY.
1852: Over
eight hundred people attended the annual Ball of the Jew’s Hospital that was
held this with the proceeds of the event providing funds to maintain this
medical facility.
1854: It
was today reported that the population of Cape Town, South Africa, totaled
30,000 of which 3,000 were either Jews or Moslems.
1855: Nahum J.
Steiner, "a converted Jew who has been laboring for several years among
the Jews" of New York City was scheduled to give an address tonight
at the Stanton Street Baptist Church entitled "Israel's Return and
The Future Glory of the Messiah." [Early attempts to convert Jews in
America to Christianity were largely unsuccessful. For those who did not
want to remain Jewish, it was easy enough in America's fluid environment to
just being a Jew without taking any formal action.]
1855:
Soldiers shot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela.
1857: One day
after she had passed away, 69 year old Esther Cohen, the wife of Moshe Cohen,
was buried to at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1859: The
Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. The Codex was one of several ancient
texts or resources discovered starting at the end of the 18th
century and continuing into the 20th century including the Rosetta
Stone, the Cairo Genizah and the Dead Sea Scrolls that shed light on ancient
civilizations. They gave Jewish scholars a better understanding of the ancient
Israelites and the Biblical text which are the cornerstone of Jewish faith and
culture.
1863(15th
of Shevat, 5623): Tu B’Shevat
1863: During
the Civil War, three Jews went on trial before Judge Peabody in New Orleans,
LA. They had been seized by Union authorities while crossing Lake
Pontchatrain headed to Rebel held territory in a boat loaded with medicines and
letters from several leading citizens in New Orleans. The Judge delayed
passing sentence on the accused until the letter writers had been arrested per
the order of General Nathanial Banks.
1864:
Twenty-six-year-old Lyon Levy Emanuel, the native of Philadelphia and brother
of Dr. Louis Manly Emanuel, began serving as a Captain with Company of the 88th
Regiment.
1864: Union
General Benjamin Butler, one of those chosen for his political clout and not
his military acumen, replied to a complaint from N.S. Isaacs over the general’s
use of the term “Jews” when describing the capture five people trying to
smuggle supplies to the Rebels. The General said that he used the term
without thinking and was merely dictating from the dispatches submitted by his
subordinate. He used the term Jews as he would Germans, Italians or Irish men
i.e. a term of nationality not religion. While appearing to defend himself of a
charge of being an anti-Semite the General wrote, I “have always considered the
Jews a nationality, although possessing no country. The closeness with which
they cling together, the aid which they afford each other, on all proper, and
sometimes improper occasions, the fact that nearly all of them pursue
substantially the same employment, so far as I have, known them -- that of
traders, merchants, and bankers -- the very general obedience to the
prohibition against marriage with Gentiles, their faith, which looks forward to
the time when they are to be gathered together in the former land of their
nation, -- all serve to show a closer the of kindred and nation among the
Hebrews, and a greater homogeneity than belongs to any other nation, although
its people live in closer proximity. So that while I disclaim all indention of
any reflection upon, their national religion, which was the foundation and
typical of that of the Christian World, and, holding to the doctrines of Christianity
with reverence for the Savior, no one can stigmatize all Jews -- yet one may be
reasonably permitted in speaking of that nation, to suppose there may be in all
the Jaws of the South, two of whom certainly are in the Confederate Cabinet, at
least five, who might attempt to carry on a contraband trade. Because it may be
reverently remembered that when, the Savior, aided by Omniscience, undertook to
choose twelve confidential friends from among that nation, he got one that
"was a thief and had a devil."
1870: In
London, L.B. Abrahams, the Welsh born Head Master of the Jews’ Free School and
his wife gave birth to Bertram Abrahams the University College graduate,
Assistant Physician at Westminster Hospital and Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians wh wrote “The Principles of Pathology.”
1871(13th
of Shevat, 5631): Parashat Beshalach
1871(13th
of Shevat, 5631): Mary Pivany Morningstar, the Hungarian born daughter of Anna
Morgenstern Pivany and the wife of Charles Morningstar passed away today in
Brooklyn after which she was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.
1871:
Eighty-five-year-old Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau who met Rabbi Moses
Sachs in Tunis in 1835 and was so impressed with him and his plan to settle
Jews in Palestine that he arranged for him to meet with Baron Salomon Mayer von
Rothschild of Vienna passed away today.
1874(17th
of Shevat, 5634): Yakir Gueron, the sixth member of his family to serve as the
rabbi in Andrianpole who had resigned his position two years ago passed away
today in Jerusalem.
1874: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Young Ladies’ Charitable Union will sponsor a
dramatic performance at the Lyceum Theatre in New York in order to raise funds
for the Home of Aged Hebrews.
1875: The
Downtown Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society – Mothers of Israel – will sponsor
its first annual festival ball this evening at Turner Hall in New York City.
1876: In Kings
County, New York, the trial of P.N. Rubenstein who has been charged with
murdering his cousin Sara Alexander heard testimony from several witnesses
including the defendant’s brother, Louis.
1877: It was
reported today that the in New York, the Purim Association will celebrate the
festival this year with a Calico Masked Reception at Delmonico’s. The
event is a fund raiser and attendance will be limited by the number of tickets
available.
1877: It was
reported today that the Ladies’ Bikur Cholim Society of the School of Industry
will host an event on February 15th at Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms in
New York. [Editor’s Note – Bikur cholim refers to the mitzvah of visiting the
sick. Societies to further that goal have been a part of Jewish communal
life since the Middle Ages.]
1877:
“Compassionate Israel” published today described the manner in which the Jewish
community cares for the less unfortunate including the creation of the Hebrew
United Charities, the building of the Jew’s Hospital now known as Mt. Sinai and
the opening of the Aged and Infirm Hebrews on the grounds of what used to be
the Astor estate.
1877: Four
days after he had passed away, 85-year-old Samuel Isaacs, the husband of Ann
Isaacs with whom he had had ten children, was buried today at the “Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1879: William
Henry Waddington, who had expressed his support “large-scale Jewish settlement
in Palestine” in a letter to the Sultan began serving as French Prime Minister.
1879(11th
of Shevat, 5639): Henry Zvi Defries, the London born of Daniel (Gedalia)
Defries and Charlotte Defries and the husband of Elizabeth Defries and Mary
Miriam Defries passed away today.
1879: It was
reported today that among the private institutions caring for New York’s
impoverished orphans that are receiving public funds as proscribed by law is
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum which is scheduled to received $32,450 to help toward
the care of 295 youngsters.
1882(15th
of Shevat, 5642): Parashat Beshalach and Tu Bishevat
1883: Three
days after he had passed, Samuel Stiebel, the German-born son of Isaac Daniel
Stiebel and Vogel Heinemann and the husband of Jane Stiebel with whom he had
had six children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1884: Leaders
of the New York Jewish community met at the Nineteenth-Street Jewish Synagogue
to discuss plans for commemorating the upcoming 100th birthday of
Sir Moses Montefiore with a permanent monument. Projects under
consideration including building housing for poor Jews, a reformatory and a
mission designed to provide education for recent Russian immigrants.
1887:
Birthdate of Morris Pozen, the native of Elizabethgrad who came to the United
States where earned a BS and PhD from George Washington University after which
he pursued a career in the fields of “brewing and food-chemistry.”
1888:
Birthdate of New York native Nathan Peyser, the holder of a Ph.D. from NYU who
served as Principal of P.S. in Easter Harlem and P.S. 181 in Brooklyn who
championed having the public schools serve as “center of the community” in the
fight to prevent delinquency among the city’s youth.
1890: In
Omaha, Nebraska, Abraham and Betsy Monsky gave give birth to Creighton
University trained attorney whose active role in the Jewish community included
serving as vice president of the Jewish Community Center of Omaha and the
Jewish Welfare Federation of Omaha who married Sadie Lesser in San Francisco.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/monsky-henry
1890:
Birthdate of Chicago native Beatrice Josephi who became Mrs. Ely Jacques Kahn
when she married the architect Ely Jacques Kahn after the death of her first
husband Leo Sulzberger and who was present the 1933 B’nai B’rith award on
behalf of the work done by the National Council of Jewish Women.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/08/23/83513837.html?pageNumber=29
1890: The sale
of boxes for the 29th annual ball sponsored by the Purim Association
which will be held next month took place this evening at Temple Emanu-El in New
York City.
1891: In
Worcester, MA, “Franz Boas, regarded by many as the father of modern
anthropology” and the former Marie Krackowizer gave birth to Columbia trained
physician Dr. Ernst Phillip Boas who served as the Captain in Medical Corps of
the U.S. Army during WW II before becoming the Director of the Montefiore
Hospital for Chronic Diseases starting in 1921 while raising three children –
Barbara, Donald and Norman – with his wife “the former Helen Sisson” whom he
married in 1917.
1891: The
trustees of the fund which was created with money donated by Baron de Hirsch
met at the home of Jesse Seligman where they re-elected their old officers and
finalized the method for gaining access to the Baron’s largesse which help
Jewish immigrants to pursue occupations other than peddlers such as mechanics
or farmers.
1892: During
an address by American author and journalist Poultney Bigelow on the
persecution of “Christian Jews” in which he described the Czar as “a kindly
man” a Russian Jew named Copik rose from the audience and said, “that the Czar
was a savage and a tyrant” and went to provide several examples based on his
personal experience.
1892: The will
of the late Benjamin Russak was filed for probate in the Surrogate’s office in
New York City. “The estate is valued at about a million dollars.”
1892: The
Chamber of Commerce met today in New York City in an attempt to raise funds to
alleviate the Russians who are suffering through a famine. Jewish members
expressed their support for raising the money but expressed concern that
raising such funds would express approval for the government of the Czar which
was persecuting their Russian co-religionists.
1893: It was
reported today that the late Simon Davidson has bequeathed $500 to Mount Sinai
Hospital. He also “returned six buildings and the loan bonds for $1,000
which he held against” the Hebrew Benevolent Orphan Asylum to that institution.
1894(28th
of Shevat, 5654): Louis Lewandowski, the first Jew to be admitted to the Berlin
Academy of Arts passed away
1894: It was
reported today, that after police drove 250 unemployed Jews from the steps of
St. Paul’s Cathedral, they regrouped at Trafalgar Square, “where an impromptu
meeting was held.”
1895: Birthdate
of University of Missouri trained attorney Samuel Halpern Liberman.
1898: During
the Dreyfus Affair, the French Army High Command brings an action of criminal
libel against Emile Zola for his accusations of knowing collaboration on the
part of the French general staff in convicting Dreyfus based on false
information.
1899: Among
the 150,000 forces present to suppress the Insurrection that began today in the
Philippine’s is Joseph M Heller who was assigned as a surgeon to a battalion of
the 24th U.S. Infantry
1899:
Birthdate of Lower East Side native Harry Halpern, the holder of a BA from
CCNY, an MA from Columbia, two degrees from the Brooklyn Law School and a DHL
from Jewish Theological Seminary, who was a powerhouse in the Conservative
rabbinate as he served the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn for almost
half a century.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/12/obituaries/harry-halpern-82-jewish-leader-dies.html
1889:
Twenty-one-year-old Republican party leader and Washington University graduate
Louis P. Aloe, the St. Louis born son of Albert S. and Isabelle (Prince) Aloe
who would serve as acting mayor of St. Louis during World War and Vice
President of the Federation of Jewish charities married Edith Rosenblatt today.
1899: In New
York, the Shaaray Tefila Young People’s Association hosted an evening of
entertainment in the lecture room of the congregation located on West 82nd
Street.
1900: “The
Jewish Historical Society of England created an ‘Education and Publication
Committee’” today.
1900(5th of
Adar I, 5660): Rabbi Jacob Aron Mendes Chumaceiro of Amsterdam passes away at
the age of 67.
1900: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for Bavarian born Abraham Michelbacher,
“the last surviving charter member of Temple Emanu-El who in 1839 came to New
York where he went into the dry goods business and was “a patron of every
Jewish organization” In New York including the Zion Lodge of B’nai B’rith of
which he was a charter member.
1900(5th of
Adar I, 5660): Rabbi Israel Benamozegh at Leghorn passed away at the age of 76.
1901(15th
of Shevat, 5661): Tu Bishvat
1901(15th
of Shevat, 5661): Jacob Plautt of Hamburg who passed away today in Nice “left
20,000 francs for the benefit of police officers” injured in the line of duty,
10,000 francs each to the Jewish Refuge at Plessis Piquet, the Alliance
Israelite and the School Elisa Lemonnier and 5,000 francs to the Jewish
Philanthropic Union.
1902: In San Francisco,
Linda Esther Salz and Palatinate, Germany native David Hirschler gave birth to University
of California educated department store executive. Frederic Hirschler, the husband
of Marjorie Kahn Manheim and the father of Carol Hirschler.
1902:
Birthdate of Charles Lindbergh, the “Lone Eagle,” the first person to fly
across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. Unfortunately, Lindbergh’s
skill as an aviator surpassed his political aptitude. “As World War II began,
Lindbergh became a prominent speaker in favor of non-intervention, going so far
as to recommend that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Germany
during his January 23, 1941 testimony before Congress. At an America First
rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941, he made a speech titled
"Who Are the War Agitators?" in which he claimed that Americans had
solidly opposed entering the war when it began, and that three groups had been
"pressing this country toward war" -- the Roosevelt Administration,
the British, and the Jews, and complained about what he insisted was the
Jews' "large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press,
our radio and our government." He made clear however his opposition to
anti-Semitism, stating that "All good men of conscience must condemn the
treatment of the Jews in Germany", further advising "Instead of
agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in
every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences.
Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that
it cannot survive war and devastation."
1902:
Fifty-six-year-old Hermann Wolf passed away in Berlin.
http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Hermann_Wolff
1903:
Birthdate of famed mathematician Sir Alexander Oppenheimer. Interestingly
enough, even though Oppenheimer was born in Salford, Lancashire it is reported
that his first language was Yiddish. After graduating from Oxford in 1927, he
earned PhD from the University of Chicago in 1930. After a year of lecturing at
Edinburgh University, he accepted a professorship at the Raffles College,
Singapore. During the war he was a prisoner at the Changi camp. After the war
he returned to Raffles College, retiring in 1967. He then became a professor at
Reading University (1966-68) and head of the mathematics departments of the
University of Ghana (1968-73) and Benin, Nigeria (1973-77). He passed away in
1997.
1903:
Birthdate of Alexander Imich “a Polish born American chemist, parapsychologist,
and writer, who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in
New York City
http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/meeting-alexander-imich-111-years-old/2014/02/28/
1904: Three
days after he passed away funeral services are scheduled to held for
seventy-two-year-old Hungarian born and California Gold Rush participant Morris
Tuska who in 1857 “established himself in the wholesale upholstery business” in
New York where “he was instrumental in the founding of the United Charity
Organization” and the Hebrew Technical Institute while being an active member
for 45 years of Temple Emanu-El and raising one daughter and two sons with his
wife.
1905(29th
of Shevat, 5665): Parashat Mishpatim
1905: Harris
Elias, a well-to-do merchant and Trustee of Beth Israel” lies near death after
have been struck in head with a “stove lighter” wielded by John O. Grady.
1906:
Today, Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the founder and President of the National
Farm School said, "Happiness is never a product of external treasure. It
can only spring from within, from a clean heart, from a pure conscience."
1906: In
Manhattan, Isidore Rabinowitz, the Grodno born son of Shimon Simon Rabinowitz
and Libbie Robinowitz Rabinowitz and his wife Rebecca Rosen Rabinowitz gave
birth to Dr. Archie Robbins
1906: During
his lecture on “Liberty” at Cooper Union, Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer said “It is
a foolish thing for Russian Jews in America and England to be should for
freedom for their people at home when a rich Jew lends money to Russia for a
war loan.”
1907: “Solomon
Foster, the rabbi of Temple B’nai Jershurun of Newark, NJ, created much supries
at a meeting of the Newark Ministerial Association” today be expressing his
supported “strictly secular schools, “declaring that the Jews should have equal
rights with Chrisitians.”
1908:
Birthdate of trumpeter Emmanuel "Manny" Klein.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/manny-klein-mn0000539790/biography
1909(13th
of Shevat, 5669): Sixty year old Polish born Adolph M. Radin who served as the
rabbi of a congregation in Elmira, NY and Congregation Gates of Hope in NYC
before assuming the pulpit at the People’s Synagogue passed away today.
1909: In
Chicago, Alfred Samuel Alschuler, Sr. and his wife, the former Rose Haas, the
noted child education and Zionist, gave birth to Marian Frances Despres.
1910: A
decision handed down today by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
reversing the ruling of Columbia Law School graduate Justice Samuel Greenbaum,
the London born sone of Rachel Schlesinger and Louis Greenbuam and husband of
Selina Ullman, in dismissing the action brought by the city last year against
the Alhambra Theatre, in Harlem, has reopened the whole agitation regarding
Sunday theatrical performances, and dealt the Sunday theatres a severe blow.
1910: Dr.
Joseph P. Solomon, “a chiropodist” asked the State Board of Charities for
permission to start a “People’s Pedicure Clinic.”
1910: Isaac
Stern of the Jewish Communal Institutions told the State Board of Charities
“that when Mount Sinai’s two new stories and its additional $80,000
improvements were finished, it would be able to take care of all of the upper
east side poor who apply to it.”
1911: The
Sentinel, a weekly Yiddish paper co-founded by Abraham L. Weber and Louis S.
Berlin who was the “editor and longtime publisher” was published for the first
time today.
1912:
Birthdate of Norfolk, VA, native and Carnegie Ph.D. Julius Halpern, the
physicist who helped to develop radar on WW II and who was the husband of “the
former Phyllis E. Melnick” and father of Sydney Ann and Paul J. Melnick.
1912: In
Vienna Ludwig Julius and Charlotte Loebl Leinsdorf gave birth to conductor
Erich Leinsdorf.
1913: The
Executive Committee of New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction to
which Newark Rabbi, Solomon Foster had been re-elected to as a member came to a
close today at Plainfield, NJ.
1913: Former
Harvard football coach and U.S. Congressman Lucius Nathan Littauer “and his
brother William were convicted of smuggling and conspiracy to defraud after he
admitted to importing valuable jewels from Venice worth in excess of $40,000
without paying the necessary duty.”
1913: Nora
Funkenstein is scheduled to play a piano solo at today’s meeting of the Ladies
Society of B’nai Sholom Temple Israel.
1914(8th
of Shevat, 5674): Fifty-five-year-old Romanian born Yiddish comedian and actor
Sigmund Mogulesko passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE4D71F3BE633A25756C0A9649C946596D6CF
1915(20th
of Shevat, 5675): Fifty-year-old David Blutreich, the Secretary of the 50,000
member Federation of Galician Jews in America who came to the United States ten
years ago passed away from heart disease while at his office at 273 East
Houston Street.
1915:
Dr. Joseph Goldberger began his experiments on prison volunteers in Jackson,
Mississippi in order to find the cause of the deadly disease pellagra. He
proved that pellagra is caused by poor diet and launched the biological age of
nutrition research which linked diseases with a lack of essential vitamins.
1915:
Turkish troops attempt to cross the Suez Canal as part of plans to start an
anti-British uprising in Egypt and close the vital waterway connecting India
with the British Isles. The seriousness of the attack will lead to an
aggressive campaign that will ultimately end with the British in control of
Eretz Israel.
1915: “To Send
Food to Palestine” published today described the work of The Provisional
Executive Committee for General Affairs is doing to arrange for sending “a
shipload of food to Palestine” after receiving a cable from the American
Ambassador at Constantinople describing a report from the American Counsel at
Jerusalem “that it is impossible to obtain coffee, tea, sugar, rice or flour at
any price.”
1915: “Tells
of Russian’s Murder of Jews” published today, provides information first
appearing in The American Hebrew from “Dr. Arthur Levy, a rabbi serving with
the German in the campaign against Russia who sets for in great detail a list
of pogroms and murders, with many deeds of unmentionable outrage which, he
says, were committed by the Russians against the Jewish population in recent
weeks of war”
1916: Among
the contributions reported today by the American Jewish Relief Committee were
$100 from Congregation Beth Israel in Washington, DC; $100 from the Dubuque,
Iowa, Hebrew Relief Association, $100 from the American Jewish Relief Committee
in Chattanooga, TN and $240 from Hirsch Manischewitz of Cincinnati, Ohio.”
1916: Felix
Warburg the Treasurer of the American Jewish Relief Committee “received a check
for $835.50, the amount collected by Miss Esther Labold and Mrs. Shapiro of
Portsmouth, Ohio” which was “entirely collected” from “non-Jews.”
1916(30th
of Shevat, 5676): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1916: While
serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Hyman Lightstone of Montreal,
received he Military Cross today.
1916: The
People’s Relief Committee which “is raising funds for the relief of the
millions of Jews made destitute through the war in Europe” “announced today
that it would hold a bazaar and fair” next month.
1916: The
committee raising funds for the Jewish war suffers announced today that the
demand for seats at the upcoming mass meeting in Brooklyn has been so great
“that the music hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been engaged for an
overflow meeting.”
1917: It was
reported today that according to a report received from Abram I. Elkus, the
American Ambassador at Constantinople, the Jewish Orphanage at Chichli has
received £25 for shoes and clothing.
1917: The
campaign of the Brooklyn Jewish Volunteer Relief Committee which has a goal of
raising $200,000 for the relief of Jews in war-torn Europe is scheduled to come
to an end tonight.
1917: J.
Shreve Durham, the General Superintendent of the Home Visitation Committee
expressed his approval of the cooperation shown by Catholics, Protestants and
Jews who took part in today’s effort to compile figures for a religious census
in New York City.
1918: The
American Jewish Relief Committee announced today that it has received almost
$15,000 in additional contributions for its $10,000,000 fund.
1918: Today
the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith met for the final day of its annual
convention during which it passed resolutions supporting the government’s war
aims and calling upon all members to support the conservation measures that are
part of the war effort.
1918: A
Cincinnati firm that supplies about 65% per cent of the Jews in America with
Matzah, today asked Food Administrator Herbert Hoover “to permit bakers of
unleavened Passover bread to get sufficient flour to meet the requirements of
the Jews.”
1918: The
Palestine Restoration Fund announced that to date it has raised almost
$700,000, including a $25,000 contribution of $25,000 from Albert H. Loeb of
Chicago.
1919: While
the world waits for a final peace settlement ending the World War the Imperial
Ottoman Banks Bank of London is preparing to resume payments who are “not
enemies or who are not the allies of enemies” to “residents in those portions
of Palestine and Syria” that are under control of the British Imperial forces.
1919: It was
reported today that a $20,000 check from the Phelps-Dodge Corporation was “the
first contribution from a New York corporation” made to the Committee for
Relief in the Near East which is working to proving “immediate relief to the
sufferers in the Holy Land” i.e. Palestine.
1920(15th
of Shevat, 5680): Tu B’Shevat
1920(15th
of Shevat, 5680): Sixty-seven-year-old Hulda Levi Lasker, the husband of Samuel
Lasker whom she married in 1877 with whom she had six children – Meyer, Helen,
Isaac, Rose, Tillie and Selma – passed away today after which she was buried in
the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1920(15th
of Shevat, 5680): Fifty-nine-year-old William J. Berkowitz, the Kansas City, MO
businessman, founder of Berkowitz and Company Printers and a “delegate to the
National Conference of Jewish Charities and the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations” who married Emilie Block with whom he had three children –
Eugene, Estelle and Walter --, the grandchildren of Louis and Henrietta
Berkowitz, passed away today.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/americasmailingindustry/Tension-Corporation.html
1920: The
funeral of Louis Seide, a member of the Knights of Pythias is scheduled to take
place at the Rothschild’s Chapel on Lenox Avenue this morning.
1920: The
funeral of Mae Reichman, the wife of Samuel Reichman is scheduled to take place
this afternoon at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Goldberger on East 165th
Street.
1921: At a
conference in Salonica, Greek Zionists adopt a resolution stating that Jewish
education at the Alliance Israelite Universelle schools is not in tune with
their national views and aspirations.
1921: It was
reported today that “during the month of January, the papers on ‘Judaism and
Our Youth’ by Mrs. Max L. Margolis of Philadelphia and on ‘Social Effort in
America for Assimilation of the Immigrant’ by Mrs. W.D. Sporborg of New York
were read the regular meeting of the Baltimore and San Francisco sections” of
the Council of Jewish Women.
1921:
Birthdate of Betty Naomi Goldstein, the Jewess from Peoria, Illinois, who would
gain fame as Betty Friedan
author of The Feminine Mystique.
1922: In
Manhattan, Max and Bella (Portnoy) Kalb gave birth to award winning broadcast
journalist Bernard Kalb, the older brother of Marvin Kalb with whom he
co-authored a book on Henry Kissinger and who resigned as Assistant Secretary
of State for Public Affairs “to protest what he called "the reported
disinformation program" conducted by the Reagan Administration against the
Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi.
1922:
Birthdate of Jew’s College graduate Rabi Bernard Hooker, the husband of Eileen
Hooker and “the youngest Jewish Chaplain to serve the British Armed forces who
“moved to the non-Orthodox sec
tor which led
to him serving the Birmingham Liberal Jewish Synagogue and the North London
Progressive Synagogue.
1922: “Radio
Operators Hear a Good Concert” published today in the Bridgeport (CT) Telegram
described a recent radio broadcast that included songs sung by Eddie Cantor.
1923: Louis
“Gruenberg conducted the American premiere of Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold
Schoenberg as a member of the International Composers' Guild.”
1923(18th
of Shevat, 5683): Cantor Israel Litman passed away today in New York City.
1923: The
Turks “interrupted” the conference at Lausanne, Switzerland, where the Allies
and Ottomans were meeting to bring a formal end to World War I.
1924: In the
same year that he founded Sam Ash Music Corporation, 27-year-old Sam Ash
married 21 Rose Dinn
1925: In
Brooklyn, Harry and Henriette Koeppel Karnow gave birth to Stanley Karnow, “the
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist who produced acclaimed books
and television documentaries about Vietnam and the Philippines…” (As reported
by Robert D. McFadden)
1926: “A
delegation of well known Jews of New York, headed by Rabbi Stephen Wise,
appeared before the House Committee on Immigration today to urge favorable
action on the Wadsworth-Periman bill proposing amendments to the Immigration
law that would admit wives, husbands and other near relatives of American
citizens as non-quota immigrants.”
1927: In
Basel, Marcus Cohn, a leader of the Swiss Zionist movement and his wife gave
birth to Oscar award winning movie producer Arthur Cohn, the grandson of Arthur
Cohn, the chief rabbi of Basel.
1927: “The
Jazz Singer,” the first talking motion picture, starring Al Jolson, was
released.
1927: In
Manhattan Joseph Schultz, at attorney and Isabelle Schultz gave birth to
acclaimed television producer Barbara Ann Schultz, (By Katharine Q. Seelye)
1927:
Twenty-four-year-old bantam weight Charley Phil Rosenberg won his 15 round
championship bout today but lost the title because he was over the weight for
his class.
1928(13th
of Shevat, 5688): Parashat Beshalach
1928: It was
reported today that Yale University will undertake the excavation of part of
the ancient city of Jerash in Palestine in cooperation with the British School
of Archaeology.
1928: It was
reported today that in London in responses to the case of Michael Hirsch and
Samuel Cohen versus the Protestant School Board of Montreal, the Privy Council
“has affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that the Jews of
Montreal, as ‘protestants’ had no right to representation on the Protestant
School Board of that city” and has “amended the Supreme Court’s decision by
declaring that there was nothing in the act whereby Jewish children have the
right to attend Protestant schools to prevent a Jew from serving on the board
it appointed.
1929:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Stanley Drukcer, the long-time principal
clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/arts/music/stanley-drucker-dead.html
1929: “The Man
with the Frog” a silent film with much by Artur Guttman was released in Germany
today.
1930: “The
Yeshiva of Bensonhurst has secured the services of Charles A. Cowen, a noted
Jewish leader, as Executive Director, according to an announcement made today
by David Freiberger, President of the Yeshiva. Mr. Cowen who has been
associated with various Jewish communal affairs during the past twenty-five
years, has been a leader in the Zionist movement ever since 1914, when he was a
member of the Provisional Zionist Committee with Justice Louis D. Brandeis as
chairman. He has also been active in Jewish relief and cultural work.”
1930: “People
on Sunday,” a silent film “directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak with a
screenplay by Billy Wilder and Robert Siodmak which was produced by Edgar G.
Ulmer was released in Germany today.
1931: In
Philadelphia, PA, David and Rose Feinstein gave birth to Barry Feinstein, “a
photographer who chronicled the lives of seminal rock ’n’ roll stars of the
1960s, and who was perhaps best known for the stark portrait of Bob Dylan on
the cover of the 1964 album “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” (As reported by
Paul Vitello)
https://barryfeinsteinphotography.com/
1931: It was
reported today that a stock presentation of “An American Tragedy,” a
dramatization of the novel by the same names produced by Jules Leventhal is
scheduled to open at the Waldorf Theatre on February 16.
1932: The 1932
Winter Olympics, in which speed skater Irving Jaffee would win two gold medals,
opened today in Lake Placid.
1932(27th
of Shevat, 5692): Sixty-five-year-old Max Leopold Margolis passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13280.html
http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1933_1934_5_SpecialArticles.pdf
1933:
Eighty-seven-year-old Archibald Henry Sayce, the Professor of Assyriology at
Oxford whose works included The Chronology of the Bible Connected with
Contemporaneous Events in the History of Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians,
Introduction to the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther, The Life and
Times of Isaiah, Patriarchal Palestine, The Egypt of the Hebrews
and Herodotus, Early History of the Hebrews and Israel and the
Surrounding Nations, passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DE1D7173EEF33A25751C2A9629C94659ED7CF
1933: In Tel
Aviv, Eliyahu Golomb, one of the early leaders of the Haganah and his wife gave
birth to David Golomb, Israeli political leader and Knesset member.
1934: In New
York, at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Dr. Israel Goldstein is scheduled to
deliver a sermon “A Roosevelt Anniversary and a Hitler Anniversary – Is
Humanity Moving Forward or Backward?”
1934: “United
action to provide a refuge in Palestine for Jews of Germany was urged today at
an emergency conference of more than 1,000 delegates of Jewish organizations in
the Hotel Pennsylvania.”
1935(1st of
Adar I, 5695): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1935(1st
of Adar I, 5695): Fifty-five-year-old, Nathan Mileikowsky, the Lithuanian born
rabbi who made Aliyah in 1920 and was the patriarch of the Netanyahu clan that
included his son historian Benzion and grandsons Benjamin and Yonatan of
blessed memory, passed away today.
1936: In
Philadelphia, PA, vaudevillian Louis Brenner and his wife gave birth to
comedian David Brenner.
http://news.yahoo.com/comedian-david-brenner-tonight-favorite-dies-222814425.html
1936:
Bronislaw Humberman, a prominent Polish violinist announced this afternoon that
a symphony orchestra is being formed in Palestine that will be known as the
Palestine Orchestra Association. Many of those in the orchestra will be
residents or former residents of Germany who cannot work that Nazi
nation. Huberman reported $25,000 has already been contributed to help
the orchestra with its initial organizational activities.
1936:
David Frankfurter, a Jewish Yugoslav medical student, killed the Swiss Nazi
Gauleiter Wilhelm Gustoff. Though the German government demanded the death
penalty, he was sentenced to eighteen years. Some historians believe that his
action served as a model for Hershel Grynzpan whose assassination was used by
the Nazi party for an all-out attack on Jewish property and synagogues known as
Kristallnacht.
1937: “White
Cargo” directed by Robert Siodmak, produced by Seymour Nebenzal and with music
by Paul Dessau was released in France today.
1938: Two
months after premiering at the Cathay Circle Theatre, Walt Disney’s “Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs” which animator David Hilberman helped to create was
released today in the rest of the United States.
1938: Tonight,
in Vienna, Nazis youths smashed windows in shops owned by Jews and “threw a
burning gasoline container” into a synagogue while people were attending
services.
1938: New
income tax regulations issued by the German government today ended the income
tax reduction for Jewish children while keeping the reduction for Aryan
families.
1938: “The
Goldwyn Follies” produced by Samuel Goldwyn, written by Ben Hecht, co-starring
the Ritz Brothers, with music by George Gershwin was released in the United
States today.
1938:
“Everybody Sing” a musical comedy co-starring Fanny Brice, produced by Harry
Rapf and photographed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released today
in the United States.
1938: The
Palestine Post reported that Mordechai Nahman, a Jewish guard at the Shell
Bridge in Haifa, was stabbed and badly injured by two Arabs, who succeeded in
escaping.
1938: The
Palestine Post reported that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, upon his departure for
England, stressed the Yishuv's and world Jewry need for unity, and said that
some people "can only succeed in placing obstacles on our path, but they
will never stop our work."
1939: Abraham
Lewis, an African-American from Louisiana one of the last of the members of the
International Brigade, a large percentage of whom were Jewish, to leave Spain
after the Civil War returned to the United States on board the SS President
Harding today.
1939: Martha
and Waitstill Sharp set sail for Europe today in the first step of their plan
to help rescue Jews in Europe. The behavior of these two quintessential
WASPS (he was a Unitarian minister who traced his lineage back to the original
settlers of New England) defies logic and serve as a reminder of the good truly
religious people can in the world. They have been honored as Righteous
Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
1939(15th
of Shevat, 5699): Parashat Beshalach and Tu B’Shevat
1939: Rabbi
Nathan A. Peulman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “How Israel Can Survive
the World” at Temple Emanu-El.
1939: Rabbi
William F. Rosenblum is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Jewish Life” this
morning at Temple Israel.
1939: Rabbi
Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Hitler’s Speech and
Democracy’s Answer” this morning at Temple Rodeph Sholom.
1939: As part
of the “observance of the Jewish New Year of the Trees” that coincided with
Shabbat today, Rabbi Alexander Segel is scheduled to deliver a sermon on
“Blessed Be the Planters” at the Fort Washington Synagogue.
1939: Rabbi
Harold H. Maischioff is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “A Prelude to Freedom”
at the Temple of the Covenant.
1939: Rabbi
Jonah B. Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Tree and Its Maker” at
the Central Synagogue.
1939(15th of
Shevat, 5699): Fifty-five-year-old Edward Sapir, the son of a rabbi who gained
fame as an anthropological linguist while teaching at the University of Chicago
and Yale passed away today.
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/edward-sapir
1940(25th
of Shevat, 5700): Eighty-year-old “civic leader and philanthropist” Isaac Gans
who came to Washington, DC from Baltimore in 1882 and had earned the praise of
“Protestant, Episcopal and Catholics” leaders passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/02/06/94793337.pdf
https://www.jta.org/1940/02/06/archive/isaac-gans-friend-of-presidents-dead-in-washington-at-80
1940: It was
learned today that “the emigrant ship Sakarya with about 2,200 Jewish refugees
from Czecho-Slovakia, Austria and Rumania on board has left the Black Sea port
of Sulina, on the Danube delta” after the refugees have spent six weeks aboard
the ship where they have survived on donations from Jewish charities.
1940(25th
of Shevat, 5700): Seventy-year-old Newton, NJ born Columbia University graduate
Charles M. Myers the attorney and counsel for the New Board of Education who
was member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun and the husband of Bertha Simmons
Myers, passed away tonight in the Newark Memorial Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/02/06/94793345.html?pageNumber=27
1941: As they
made their way to Palestine, artist Marcel Janco who co-invented Dadaism and
his family arrived in Turkey having left Romania following the Bucharest Pogrom
of January, 1941.
1941: In
response to a request from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide morale
and recreation services to uniformed military personnel six civilian agencies
including the National Jewish Welfare Board formed the United Service
Organization popularly known as the USO.
1942: Reverend
Chait of the Army Jewish Chaplaincy visited Isidore Newman who was in the
hospital recovering from the effects of having broken a leg during SOE
parachute training in Scotland.
1943(29th of
Shevat, 5703): The Germans killed Eberson, Buber, Kimmelman, and Chigier four
of the remaining 12 members of the Jewish Council of Lvov. Six others were sent
to Janawska concentration camp.
1944: Today,
William Green, the President of the American Federation of Labor pledged his
organizations support “for the Wagner-Taft resolution asking the government to
aid in keeping Palestine open for the free entry of Jews” going forward from
today into the “post-war period.”
1945: This
afternoon, a British constable was seized by a shark while he was swimming in
the Mediterranean off the coast of Tel Aviv. “A passing RAF pilot saw the
commotion in the water beneath him and dipped down to investigate. The
roar of the motors frightened the shark away and the constable swam to shore
safely.”
1946: The
Anglo-American Palestine Inquiry Commission is scheduled to leave for Germany
today to begin a month’s study of the Jewish situation in Europe.
1946: Garson
Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” starring Judy Holliday premiered on Broadway at the
Lyceum Theatre.
1947(14th
of Shevat, 5707): Forty-five-year-old Manhattan native and NYU trained attorney
Herman M. Albert, the Democratic Party leader who served as an Assemblyman and
Bronx County Register passed away today in the Montefiore Hospital.
1947: “My
Brother Talks to Horses” directed by Fred Zinneman and produced by Samuel Marx
was released in the United States today.
1948: It was
learned today that “Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, will
throw the full weight of his influence behind the Palestine Commission’s demand
for an international armed force which is intended to enforce the Partition
Plan adopted by the United Nations.
1948: Today,
73-year-old Dr. Chaim Weizmann, “the former president of the World Zionist
Organization” said that “reports of Communist agents” being on board the “Pan
York and Pan Crescent are malicious nonsense.”
1949: After
premiering last month in Los Angeles, “Criss Cross,” the film version of the
book by the same title direct by Robert Siodmak was released today in the rest
of the United States.
1949: At a
public meeting David Ben-Gurion stressed the need for a ‘partnership’ between
the state of Israel and the Jews of the Diaspora.
1950: The
Andrews Sisters version of “I Can Dream, Can’t I?,” “a popular song written by
Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal completed its run as the “U.S. Billboard
Best Sellers in Stores number-one single.”
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that a train was derailed north of Kalkilya, as the
result of a carefully planned operation by Jordanian saboteurs who blew up a
section of track opposite Tulama village. The line was later repaired and
reopened, but only after military attaches of foreign embassies visited the
site. Israel submitted another complaint on Jordanian infiltration to the Mixed
Israeli-Jordanian Armistice Commission.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that a Farm Settlement Bill passed its first
reading in the Knesset.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that The High Court upheld the Interior Ministry's
order closing the Communist daily Kol Ha'am for 10 days for endangering the
public peace by publication of articles justifying the current Soviet
anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda, lies and fabrications.
1954(1st
of Adar I, 5714): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1954(1st
of Adar I, 5714): Eighty-five-year-old author and lecturer Chapman Cohen, the
Leicester, England born son “Enoch Cohen, a confectioner and Deborah Barnett and
the husband of Celia Cohen with whom he had two children – Raymond and Daisy –
passed away today in Brentwood, Essex, England.
https://heritage.humanists.uk/chapman-cohen/
1956:
Birthdate of Kati Marton “an American author and journalist. Her career has
included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public
Radio, where she started as a production assistant in 1971 in her 20s, as well
as print journalism and writing a number of books. She is the former chairwoman
of the International Women's Health Coalition, and a director (former
chairwoman) of the Committee to Protect Journalists and other bodies including
the International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch and the New America
Foundation. She has received several honors for her reporting, including the
2001 Rebekah Kohut Humanitarian Award by the National Council of Jewish Women,
the 2002 Matrix Award for Women Who Change the World, the George Foster Peabody
Award (presented to WCAU-TV, Philadelphia in 1973) and the Commander's Cross of
the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary—the country's highest civilian
honor. Marton is also a recipient of The International Center in New York's
Award of Excellence. Marton was born in Hungary, the daughter of UPI reporter
Ilona Marton and award-winning AP reporter Endre Marton. Her parents survived
the Holocaust of World War II but never spoke about it. Her parents served
nearly two years in prison on false charges of espionage for the U.S. and Kati
and her older sister were placed in the care of strangers. Raised a Roman
Catholic, she only learned late in life and by accident from a third party that
her grandparents were Jews who were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Among the many honors her parents received for their reporting on the Hungarian
Revolution of 1956 was the George Polk Award. The family ultimately fled
Hungary following the revolution and settled in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where
Marton attended Bethesda Chevy Chase High School.
1956(22nd
of Shevat, 5716): Parashat Yitro
1956:
Sixty-eight-year-old Savielly Tartakower the Polish and French chess
grandmaster whose parent were killed in a pogrom in Rostov-on-Dov despite
having converted t0 Christianity, passed away today.
1957: “Miss
Peach” a comic strip created by Mell Lazarus appeared in the New York Herald
Tribune for the first time today.
1957: Reinhold
Niebuhr expressed his views on the Jewish state in “Our Stake in the State of
Israel” which was published today.
http://www.newrepublic.com/book/review/our-stake-in-the-state-israel
1958: Record
executive Emanuel Sacks wrote “Broadway columnist” Louis Sobel at the Journal
American expressing his hope that he will soon be over his “illness” and able
to return to NBC “which is going to look like paradise.”
1959: For the
first times since ancient times, Israel began exporting copper ore from the
King Solomon mines.
1959: In
Camden, NJ, the Beth-El Men’s Club presented a musical program honoring Cantor
Louis J. Herman that included a performance by the Beth-El Choral group
accompanied by pianist Mrs. Herbert Solomon.
1959: “Black
Orchard” a love story directed by Martin Ritt was released in the United States
today.
1960:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native Jenette Elise Goldstein, the actress best known
for her role in the sci-fi thriller “Aliens.”
1962:
Birthdate of Ethan Berkowitz, a leader of the Democratic Party in Alaska.
1962:
Eighty-nine-year-old French historian Daniel Halévy, the son Ludovic Halevy who
had converted to Christianity and who went from being a supporter of Dreyfus to
a supporter of Petain’s pro-Nazi Vichy government passed away today.
1964(21st
of Shevat, 5724): Seventy-eight-year-old German born Arabist Alfred Wiener, the
holder of an Iron Cross 2nd class earned in WW I whose first wife
Margarete “died shortly after being released from Bergen-Belsen” and who was
“founder and long-time director of the Wiener Library” passed away today.
1966: In Tel
Aviv, the offices of Zim Shipping Company on Rothschild Boulevard “burned down
in of the biggest fires in Israeli history.”
1966: “The
Ugly Dachshund” starring Suzanne Pleshette premiered in the United States
today.
1966: Angélique et le Roy (Angelique and the
King) featuring Sami Frey was released at multiple locations in western Europe
today.
1966: Abba
Eban, Israel’s new Foreign Minister and Ambassador Michael Comay, Israel’s
permanent representative to the United Nations are scheduled to have lunch
today with United Nations Secreatry-General U-Thant.
1967(24th
of Shevat, 5727): Czech born Stephen Roth Jewish cartoonist passed away
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/stephenroth/biography
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Wit's_End
1968: At
sundown, Israeli forces ended their search for the INS Dakar.
1968: A month
before his seventieth birthday, “international lawyer and diplomat” Fritz E.
Oppenheimer, the Berlin born son of Ernst and Amalie Friedlander Oppenheimer
and husband of “the former Elsbeth Kaula with whom he had two children – Ernest
and Ellen – who had the unique distinction of being wounded and winning the
Iron Cross while fighting in the German Army during WWI and rising to the rank
of Lt. Colonel in the United States Army during WW II where “he was in charge
of reforming the German law and court system” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/06/77300128.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1968(5th
of Shevat, 5728): Eighty-nine-year-old Judge Jacob Panken passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=980CE6DF1138E134BC4D53DFB4668383679EDE
http://www.jta.org/1968/02/06/archive/judge-jacob-panken-pioneer-in-jewish-labor-movement-dead-at-89
1969:
Birthdate of Leah Gloldstein, the native of Vancouver who moved to Israel where
she spent 9 years in the Israeli commandos and secret police, won the 1989
World Bantamweight Kickboxing Championship, and was Israel's Duathlon champion.
1969: Yasser
Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat
was committed to a Palestinian state from the “River to the Sea.” Despite
all of the grins and handshakes associated with the Oslo Agreements, Arafat’s
behavior at and after the Camp David Peace Talks sponsored by President Clinton
proved that he really never deviated from this goal.
1970: “Start
the Revolution Without Me” a comedy set in the French Revolution directed and
produced by Bud York and starring Gene Wilder was released in the United States
today.
1971(9th
of Shevat, 5731): Ninety-year-old Rumanian native
Mois H. Avram, the NYU trained engineer who in 1899 came to the United Sates
where as President of Fox Brothers International Corporation “took part in
planning the reconstruction of the Port of Versailles” wrote several books
including Patenting and Promoting Inventions while raising a son and two
daughters with his wife Ernestine passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Launching-Enterprise-Avram-Mois-Herban/dp/1313273597
1971(9th
of Shevat, 5731): Seventy-six-year-old Tasmanian born American sculptor Betty
Lewis, the wife of Julius Lewis passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/05/archives/betty-l-saacs-sculptor-and-magistrates-wife-76.html
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/3426
1973(2nd
of Adar, 5733): Forty-three-year-old CCNY and Columbia alumnus Shmuel Lapin,
the son of Fanya and Beryl Lapin, “the Yiddish poet” and the husband of Khave
Lapin with whom he had had three children – Dov, Avrum and Hayim – passed away
today while serving as the “executive secretary of the YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research.”
https://www.jta.org/1973/02/06/archive/shmuel-lapin-yivo-official-dead-at-43
1973(2nd
of Adar, 5733): Eighty-two-year-old department store executive Robert Lazarus,
the son of Fred and Rose Lazarus, the husband of Hattie Weiler Lazarus and
father of Charlotte, Babette, Jean, Robert and Nancy Lazarus, passed away
today.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84523505/robert-lazarus
1973: Israel
unveiled the Reshef, its newest missile boat.
1975(23rd
of Shevat, 5735): Fifty-eight-year-old New Bedford, MA native Boris Young who
was an executive with the American Friends of Tel Aviv and active in the UJA
passed away today in San Francisco.
1975(23rd
of Shevat, 5735): Eighty-one-year-old Bessie Cushing Sachs, the New York born
daughter of Rebecca and Benjamin Cushing and the wife of Benjamin Sachs with
whom she had two children – Tikvah and Baruch – passed away today in Boston
after which she was buried in Beth El Cemetery at West Roxbury, MA
1976: U.S.
premiere of “Next Stop Greenwich Village,” a film about “a young Jewish boy
from Brooklyn who has dreams of stardom” written, directed and produced by Paul
Mazursky, co-starring Shelly Winters and Ellen Greene and featuring Jeff
Goldblum.
1984(1st
of Adar I, 5744): Parashat Terumah; Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1984(1st
of Adar I, 5744): Eighty-year-old New York City born banker, and chess master
Albert Pinkus who also took part in “series of ten expeditions to the jungles
of British Guiana and Venezuela to collect zoological and botanical specimens”
passed away today.
https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000390318
1985(13th
of Shevat, 5745): Seventy-two-year-old nuclear physicist, Frank Friedman
Oppenheimer, the New York born son of Julius Oppenheimer and Ella Friedman who
worked with his more famous brother J. Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan
Project passed away today.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/about/history/frank
1986: Israeli fighters intercepted a Libyan
passenger plane.
1971: In Los
Angeles, former D.A. Gil Garcetti and Sukey Roth, daughter of Harry Roth, a
Jewish immigrant from Russia who founded the clothing brand Louis Roth&
amp; Co gave birth to Eric Garcetti, the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles.
1979:
Birthdate of Topeka, Kansas native and MacArthur Fellow Benjamin “Ben” Lerner,
the poet and English professor at Brooklyn College.
1983: “The
Entity” a horror film starring Barbara Hershey was released today in the United
States.
1984(1st
of Adar I, 5744): Rosh Chodesh Adar I; Parashat Terumah
1984(1st
of Adar I, 5744): Eighty-year-old South African explorer, stockbroker and chess
champion Albert Sidney Pinkus passed away today in New York City.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/06/obituaries/albert-s-pinkus-80-40-s-chess-champion.html
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39243
1984(1st of Adar I, 5744): Sixty-five-year-old
Dr. Henry S. Kapan the Chicago native, U. of Chicago grad and Rush Medical
College trained physician and cancer specialist who raised two children – Ann
and Paul – with his wife Leah passed away today.
1987: Marcel
Marceau performed before a crowd of 2,074 fans in Iowa City, IA.
1988: Jozef
Gierowski, the scholar, who heads the Research Center of Jewish History at the
Jagiellonian University in Cracow, said at a dinner tonight that Poland will
soon acknowledge ''political error'' in 1967-68, when thousands of Jews were
purged from the Communist Party.
1988: A
four-day conference, sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for Research on
the History and Culture of Polish Jews attended by 300 scholars including more
than 80 Polish scholars came to an end. The 150 presentations given during the
conference encompassed the entire history of the Polish Jews, covering subjects
ranging from Jewish literature and philosophy to relations with the Roman
Catholic Church and Jewish political organizations. The main presentation was
about ethical problems concerning the Holocaust and Poland.
1989: After
644 performances, the curtain came down on the West End production of Stephen
Sondheim’s “Follies” at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
1989: France
won the doubles and took an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Israel today in Davis Cup
play. Guy Forget and Yannick Noah defeated Amos Mansdorf and Shahar Perkis,
6-3, 6-7, 3-6, 6-3, 13-11, in a match that lasted three and a half hours.
Forget and Noah staved off three match points in the fifth set, which lasted 1
hour 20 minutes.
1990: Ten
Israeli tourists were murdered near Cairo. Israeli military officials
speculated this evening that the attackers of an Israeli tourist bus near Cairo
were members of a guerrilla organization that sent assassins across the
Egyptian border into Israel in December.
1991: Mayor
David N. Dinkins is scheduled to return to New York today after having made “a
lightning visit to” Israel. Dinkins had said that the visit served “to reaffirm
our historic solidarity with the State of Israel, our concern for the safety of
the people of the Middle East who are caught up in this conflict, and of
course, our support for the men and women in uniform who are risking their
lives for freedom."
1992(30th of
Sh'vat, 5752): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
1992: Israel's
Ambassador, Zalman Shoval, returned to Washington today with what Israeli
officials described as pragmatic counterproposals to an American position
stated by Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d on January 24 concerning $10
billion in loan guarantees The Bush Administration had told Israel that it
would consider its request for $10 billion in loan guarantees that are to be
used for the construction of housing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
1994: “Romeo
Is Bleeding” a crime film directed by Hungarian-born British director Medak was
released in the United States today.
1994: “Death
Machine” featuring Rachel Weisz was released today.
1995: In the
following article David Gonzalez describes the growing involvement of Orthodox
Jewish women in advanced graduate level Jewish Studies which could be a
harbinger of further change in the role that Orthodox women play in communal
life.
1997: En route
to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in
mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997:
Secretary of State Madeline Albright announced she had just discovered that her
grandparents were Jewish.
2000: “A day
after fining Beth Israel Medical Center and ordering it to hire an outside
monitor to oversee its quality of care, the State Department of Health said
today that it was investigating another case in which a patient had been harmed
in the hospital.”
2000: It was
reported today that “Israeli and Palestinian leaders ended a summit meeting in
frustration, still bogged down in disagreement over interim issues and far from
bridging gaps on the thorny final issues that stand between them and a
permanent peace.”
2001: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The
Bible Unearthed Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of
Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World?
3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama and Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by Susan
Zuccotti
2002: Ann F. Lewis was appointed National Chair of
the Democratic Party's Women's Vote Center.
2003: Standing
up before television cameras tonight, Eliezer Wolferman, the father of Colonel
Ilan Ramon Israel's first astronaut opened his mouth as if to begin speaking”
but inside sighed saying that ''It is
very difficult for me to speak here under these circumstances,''
2004: Mark
Zuckerberg “launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.”
2005: It was
reported today that “Israel agreed to release 900 Palestinian prisoners and to
pull back troops gradually from West Bank cities in moves that improve the
overall climate in advance of next week's meeting between the Israeli and
Palestinian leaders.”
2006: “The
founder of the concierge service WhatShouldWeDo” and producer Arielle Tepper
the granddaughter of philanthropists Philip J. and Janice H. Levin married Ian
Madvoer which she was known as Arielle Tepper Madover.
2006 (6th of
Shevat, 5766): Betty Friedan passed away on her 85th birthday. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05friedan.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
2007: An
exhibition entitled “The ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt” closes at Amsterdam’s Jewish
Historical Museum. The ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt is part of the key programs
designed for the Rembrandt-400 celebrations, a national festival organized by
museums and public bodies to celebrate the 400th birthday of the Dutch painter
Rembrandt.
2007: A review
of Matters of Honor by Louis Begley entitled “A Jew at Harvard” appeared
in Sunday New York Times book section. In Begley’s seventh novel,
the author describes the attempts of Henry White, a/k/a Henryk Weiss from
Krakow, “to navigate in a culture where the term “Jew” is used “with
restraint,” where it’s “an embarrassing word to utter in polite company. ...
not unlike ‘homosexual.’ ”
2007(17 Shevat
5767): Kurt Schubert, the founder of Austria's first Jewish museum after 1945
passed away at the age of 83. Schubert died after a long illness, according to
a statement posted on the Web site of the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstaedt
that he founded in 1972.
2007: Roni
Bar-On withdrew his candidacy for the position of Justice Minister
2008: (28th
Shevat): On the 28th of Shevat, 134 BCE, Antiochus V abandoned his
siege of Jerusalem and his plans for the city's destruction. According to the
“Megilat Taanit,” this day was observed as a holiday in Hasmonean times.
2008: At the
Community Synagogue in New York, The New Yiddish Rep presents “The Essence,” an
overview of Yiddish Theater from Abraham Goldfaden to the present day created
by Allen Rickman, performed by Allen Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson and Steve
Sterner.
2008: “The
Knesset, including Arab MK Ahmed Tibi, agreed to consider the bill put forth by
MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union-National Religious Party) proposing the
evacuation of the Palestinian residents of Hebron in 2008.” (As reported by
Shahar Ilan)
2008 (28
Shevat 5768): A Palestinian suicide bomber killed one woman and wounded 11
other people when he blew himself up in a crowded mall in the southern Israeli
city of Dimona at 10:30 A.M. (8:30 A.M. GMT). A second suicide bomber was
killed by a policeman before he could detonate his explosives belt. The woman
killed in the attack was 74-year-old Razdolskya Lyobov, a Dimona resident from
the former Soviet Union. One of the wounded, a man, was in "critical
condition."
Hamas claims responsibility for Dimona suicide bombing (france24.com)
2009: The Yale
Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism presents a lecture
with Dr. Mordechai Kedar entitled "Islamism, Genocidal Anti-Semitism and
the Place of the Other."
2009: At
Columbia University, the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents a
lecture entitled, "Statecraft in the Middle East," with Ambassador
Dennis Ross
2009: Dutch
Police on Wednesday found two bullet holes from a shooting aimed at a mental
health clinic run by the Amsterdam Jewish community, in what may be a further
escalation in anti-Semitic attacks in the Netherlands since Israel launched an
operation in Gaza in December.
2009: The 9th
Annual Herzliya Conference comes to a close.
2010: A staged
concert version of Harold Rome’s musical “Fanny” opened at City Center.
2010: The 14th
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open in New York City.
2010: Maggie
Anton, author of the trilogy about Rashi’s Daughters is scheduled to speak at
Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2010: Heavy
snow was falling on Mount Hermon and on the higher areas in the Upper Galilee
and Golan Heights today, while rains, hailstorms and strong winds were felt
from Israel's North to the Negev
2011:
“Wandering Eyes” a documentary that tells the story of “Gabriel Belhassan …the
next big thing in the rock music world, former Orthodox Jew and recently
diagnosed manic depressive directed by Ofir Trainin is scheduled to be shown at
the “REELABITLITIES FILM FESTIVAL” in New York City.
2011: Hadassah
Attorneys Ladies Who Lunch! Gather at Eli’s, a kosher restaurant in Washington,
D.C.
2011(30th
of Shevat, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar I
2011: Mass
flash flooding triggered by Cyclone Yasi caused severe damage to Jewish
community buildings in Melbourne. Wild floods stormed through several suburbs
heavily populated by Melbourne’s 50,000-strong Jewish community this prompting
the closure of the Sephardi Synagogue on Shabbat. At least two Jewish schools
were also flooded, with Bialik College – one of the largest Jewish schools in
the country – reportedly closing for two days this week due to damage. The
offices of the Australian Jewish News were also partially flooded,
according to Yossi Aron, the newspaper’s religious affairs editor.
2011: Deborah
“Solomon stepped down from writing her weekly column” for the New York Times
Magazine “to write in house and continue her biography of Norman Rockwell.”
2011: “The
Other Woman,” a film version Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelete
Waldman, co-staring Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow and Scott Cohen was released
today in the United States after having premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
2011: Alan
Gross was charged by the government of Cuba today with "acts against the
independence and territorial integrity of the state," a charge that
carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. The U.S. State Department identified
Gross as a U.S. government contractor who was in Cuba to assist Cuban Jews in
learning how to communicate with other Jewish communities using the Internet.
(As reported by JTA)
2012:
Professor James Kugel is scheduled to deliver two lectures at Shearith Israel –
“Why Did Moses Do Wrong? The Mystery, and History, of Massah and Meribah” and
“How Our Ancient Interpreters Understood the Song at the Sea”
2012: In
Little Rock, the Jewish Federation of Arkansas is scheduled to present
President Bill Clinton with the Tikkun Olam Lifetime Achievement Award at an
event marking its 100th anniversary celebration dinner.
2012: Electile
Dysfunction: The Kinsey Sicks For President! (Because Sometimes It's Hard Being
a Republican) is scheduled to open at Theatre J in Washington, DC.
2012: In Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the Temple Judah Traditional Minyan takes on a triple header –
Super Bowl Shabbat, Shabbat Shirah and Four Chaplains Shabbat
2012: In Iowa
City, Defunct Books is advertising a first ever for that college town – a
poetry reading featuring Yiddish poetry. Well known Cedar Rapids poet and
playwright Murray Wolfe will be reading some of his own original works as well
as reciting from the works of Avrom Sutskever
2012: A shell
from the British Mandate era was discovered this morning during construction
work at Tel Aviv University.
2012: As
reports about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear
infrastructure continue to escalate, Iran's oil minister said the Islamic state
would not retreat from its nuclear program even if its crude oil exports grind
to a halt, the official IRNA news agency reported today.
2013: In
Rockville, MD, Magen David Congregation is scheduled to host a presentation by
Professor Anat Berko entitled “A Smarter Bomb; Women and Children as Suicide
Bombers.”
2013: The 16th
Annual Miami Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come a close.
2013: In
Florida, “Nicky’s Family,” a film that “pays tribute to” Sir Nicholas Winton
who has been dubbed “Britain’s Schindler” is scheduled to be shown at the 13th
annual Broward County Jewish Film Festival
2013: Funeral
services for Ed Koch, the former Mayor
of New York City are scheduled to be held at Temple Emanu-El in New York
City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Israeli consul general are among
those scheduled to speak at the funeral. Former President Bill Clinton is
scheduled to attend as the representative for President Barak Obama.
2013: New
research published today found that “school textbooks in both Israel and the
Palestinian Authority largely eliminate one another’s existence in maps,
although the Israeli curriculum is more balanced and self-critical than the
Palestinian.
2013: Israeli
threats to strike Iran's nuclear program and send shock waves throughout the
world are "unhelpful," and Jerusalem should lower its profile on the
issue, director of the Institute for National Security Studies, Maj.-Gen.
(res.) Amos Yadlin, said today.
2013:
The IDF has arrested a number of senior Hamas figures in the West Bank,
Palestinian sources said today.
2013: Mark
Dreyfus began serving as Attorney-General for Australia and Minister for
Emergency Management.
2014:
Graveside services for Jacob L. Horowitz, the son of Miriam Landsman and Steven
Horowitz are scheduled to take place this afternoon at Agudas Achim Cemetery in
Iowa City, IA.
2014: The JCC
of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host an evening of Israeli Dance with
instructor Ethan Halpern.
2014: Keren
Katz is scheduled to discuss Israeli cartoonists as part of the New York Comics
& Picture –story Symposium.
2014:
Professor Ezra Zohar, the 92-year-old physician who was one of the founders of
the School of Medicine at Tel University and who passed away yesterday is
scheduled to be laid to rest at Mt. of Olives Cemetery this afternoon.
2014: The
funeral for Captain Tl Nahman who was accidently killed yesterday in a
“friendly fire” episode is scheduled to be buried this afternoon at the
cemetery in Nes Ziona.
2014: “The
Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) revamped their Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls
Digital Library today.” (As reported by Tova Dvorin)
2015: “The
Encores! Staged a concert version of the George and Ira Gershwin musical ‘Lady,
Be Good’”.
2015: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Kathleen D. Roe speaking on
the importance of archives and “why ‘archives matters.’”
2015: Ari
Shavit is scheduled to discuss his latest work, My Promised Land at
Temple Emanu-el followed by a book signing.
2015(15th
of Shevat, 5775): Tu B’Shevat
2016: “The
Price of Sugar” is scheduled to be shown on the opening night of the 26th
San Diego Jewish Film Festival.
2016: In Nice,
a two-day celebration of the life of Angelo Donati who worked to save Italian
Jews living in France that “included the unveiling of a commemorative plaque on
the Promenade des Anglais” came to an end.
2016: All
decent people mourned as 19-year-old Hadar Cohen was laid to rest today after
having been murdered by terrorists in Jerusalem yesterday.
2016: The
Skirball Center is scheduled to host “An Evening With Frédéric Brenner” the
French photographer best known for his masterpiece Diaspora, a 25-year project
spanning 40 countries resulting in a stunning visual record of the Jewish
Diaspora.
2016: The
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled host an evening with Lawrence Douglas,
author of The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great War Crime
2017(8th
of Shevat, 5777): Parashat Bo
2017: “A
police officer removed swastika stickers from the front of the Loop Synagogue
in Chicago” where services went on as usual despite the vandalism which has
been labeled a hate crime.
2017: This
evening in Chicago, Dr. Daniel Greene, a curator from the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum is scheduled to lead a “conversation on Americans and the Holocaust” –
what did they know about it when it was happening?
2017: Shiva is
scheduled to come to an end this evening for Gloria Mound “who devoted almost
four decades of her life to researching the history, dispersion and fate of
Jews exiled from Spain in 1492.”
http://casa-shalom.com/content/view/5/26/
http://www.casa-shalom.com/Gloria%20Mound%20CV.pdf
2017: The
Batsheva Dance Company is scheduled to perform “Last Work” for the final time
at BAM.
2018: In
London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Menashe” which is a rarity
since it is a full-length feature film in Yiddish.
2018: Kerry
Kennedy, the daughter of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, is scheduled to deliver the
keynote address at the grand opening of “Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights
Defenders Who Are Changing Our World” at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center in Skokie, Illinois.
2018: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
by Paul Kix, L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
by David Lebovitz, Munich by Robert Harris and To Fight Against This
Age: On Fascism and Humanism by Rob Riemen
2018: The
exhibition “Codebreakers and Groundbreakers” that includes “documents and
photos showing how World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing sponsored two Jewish
refugee children from Austria and helped educate them in the UK have been put
on show in Cambridge” is scheduled to come to an today at King’s College,
Cambridge.
2018: “In
celebration of Black History Month, ACCESS, the young professional’s group of
the American Jewish Committee - Washington Regional Office, and Thursday
Network, the young professionals auxiliary of the Greater Washington Urban
League, are scheduled to host a February Black - Jewish Relations Panel -
Recounting the Past, Examining the Present and Envisioning the Future.”
2018: Betty
Moore and Helen Stone are scheduled to be installed today when the Greater New
Orleans Chapter of Hadassah holds its annual installation and brunch today. (As
reported by CCNJ, the source for Jewish news in Cajun Country)
2018: Led by
Gregory Locke and Jared Nied, a group of commuters spontaneously scrubbed
ant-Semitic graffiti from a New York subway train this evening.
2019: At the
Streicker-Center Henry Finder, the Editorial Director at the New Yorker is
scheduled to serve as the moderator of a presentation by his brother, Joseph
Finder, the author of fifteen “nail biting” novels.
2019(29th
of Shevat, 5779): Ninety-year-old Israel Goodman Young the Lower East Side born
son of Philip and Pola Young who gained famed as Greenwich Village folklorist
Izzy Young, the man responsible for Bob Dylan’s first New York concert passed
away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2019:
According to Miri Shalem, the split between Tzipi Lvni and Avi Gabbay “reveals
a profound process that Israeli politics is undergoing, the key being the fact
the Right has triumphed even before Israeli cast their ballot.
2019: It
remains to be seen today, if the international community will have a different
view of clashes on Israel’s northern border following yesterday’s tour by
“dozens of United Nations ambassadors at a site near Metula where the IDF
discovered a Hezbollah terror tunnel during Operation Northern Shield.”
2019(29th
of Shevat, 5779): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Rabbi Noson Tzvi Finkel.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Shevat_29.html
2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to
host a dinner and a discussion of “the different
elements of Jewish prayer and how these distinct characteristics shape a
spiritual practice for many Jewish people today” which is “free for student
participants” and requires “no previous Jewish prayer experience.
2020: In Roslyn Heights, NY, Temple Beth
Sholom is scheduled to host “Rosh Chodesh – Cultivating the Uniqueness of
Women’s Leadership.
2020: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Echo.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to
present “Calculating Risks” with Amb. Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
2020: In San Francisco, the Contemporary
Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a screening of the Gene Wilder comedy, “The
Frisco Kid.”
2020: “The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for
Jewish Culture” is scheduled to host a discussion on “Confronting Israel’s
Security Challenges in an Ange of Disruption and Instability.”
2020: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host
“scholar and musician Jeremiah Lockwood” and Cantor Yoel Kohn as they seek to
answer the question “What is the Cantorial ‘Golden Age’?”
2021: The San Francisco based Jewish
Community Federation’s annual one-day day is scheduled to go virtual with the
program “Using Humor and Levity to Repair Our Communities” featuring Jennifer
Aaker and Naomia Bagdonas, authors of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is a
Secret Weapon in Business and Life.
2021: In London, the Highgate United
Synagogue is scheduled to host online, a “Piano Concert with Yali Zaken, a
sixteen-year-old student at Hassanda playing Mozart: Fantasie in C Minor KV 475
Bach: English Suite no. 2 - Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande Brahms:
Piano Pieces op.118, nos. 1-3 and Mendelssohn: Serious Variations op. 54.
2021 The Breman Museum is scheduled to host
historians Mark Bauman, Leonard Rogoff and Diane Vecchio “as they discuss the
legacy of Jewish women’s activism in Atlanta and the region.”
2021: The Hadassah Brandeis Institute is
scheduled to present online “Israeli in the Spanish-Speaking Media” “with Leah
Soibel, Fuente Latina founder and CEO, and Susanne Althoff, journalist and
author of Launching While Female.”
2021: Berkeley Institute’s Program on Jewish
Law, Thought and Identity and Berkeley Center for Law and Tech are scheduled to
present online the first session of “Defining and Combating Antisemitism and
Hate Online.”
2021: The Breman is scheduled to present
“Jews and Jazz III” with vocalist Rita
Graham, pianist Kevin Bales and trumpet player Dr. Gordon Vernick telling
“stories about the significant roles Jews played in the Jazz world.”
2021: Contra Costa JCC, Congregation B’nai
Shalom and Jewish club at Rossmoor are scheduled to present online “An
Encirclement of Hate” which is” an examination of antisemitism in 21st century
led by Gloria Greenfield, director-producer of “The Case for Israel” and other
documentaries.
2022: Kerem Shalom of Concord, MA is
scheduled to host “a special Shabbat service in honor of Jewish Disability
Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month.”
2022: As part of Jewish Disability Awareness,
Acceptance and Inclusion Month,” The
Jewish Federations of North America are scheduled to co-host “A Culture of
Belonging: How the JCC Movement is Leading the Way on Equality and
Inclusiveness.”
2022: Based on previously published data, 755
people in Israel who were alive on January 1 are not able to observed Shabbat
this evening due to Covid
2022: In Columbus, OH, Congregation Tifereth
Israel the Book Group is scheduled to discuss via Zoom, Moses: A Human Life
by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
2023: HIAS observe its 5th annual
Refugee Shabbat
2023: Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife
Sara are scheduled to stay at the Hotel du Collectionneur in Paris during a
trip in which he is set to meet with “French business chiefs and leaders of the
French Jewish community and during which he can review yesterday’s warning from
JPMorgan “of a growing risk of investing in Israel due to the new government’s
far-reaching plans for overhauling the judicial system.” (As reported by Ash
Obel)
2023: In Columbus, OH, Dr. Michael Raucher is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Be Fruitful and Multiply: Reproduction in
Israel” as part of Terferith Israel’s scholar in residence weekend.
2023: Eden Tamir is scheduled to host a
special concert, “The Art of the Lied”
2023: Temple Judea is scheduled to host its
“Beach Havdalah with Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie.”
2023: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is
scheduled to host its New Member Welcome Shabbat” completed with a dairy lunch
after morning services.
2023(13th of Shevat, 5783):
Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of the Song; Beshalach (When he had sent away);
13:17-17:16 Shemot (Exodus)
2024: In Brookline, MA, Center Makor is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Lost Brothers,” a documentary film by
Haim Etgar in Hebrew with English subtitles that tells “a touching story about
two brothers who found each other 72 years after World War II.”
2024: In Brookline, MA, Temple Sinai is
scheduled to host its annual Jewish Poetry Festival.
2024: Agnon House is scheduled to a lecture by Dr. Yahil
Zaban on “Mysterious Tenants: Neighbors in Children’s Literature.”
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking
tour of the Lower East Side so participants can see “places that inspired
Sydney Taylor to write the beloved classic, All-of-a-Kind Family,
featuring Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie.”
2024: As part of its Annual Winter Jewish Film Festival,
the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host a screening of
“Where Life Begins.”
2024: Members of Temple Emanu-El are invited to join
together at performance of the new musical “Harmony,” with music by Barry
Manilow and lyrics by Bruce Sussman.
2024: As of February 4th, begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 121 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)
