This Day, August 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 26
1071:
The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert. This
battle took place during the successful conquest of Palestine, or as what the
Christians called the Holy Land which lasted until 1080. This left the Muslim
Turks in possession of Jerusalem and the rest of what Christians called the
Holy Land and this is what triggered the Crusades which led to the Christians
conquest of the City of David and the slaughter of its Jewish inhabitants.
1171:
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known by nickname “Strongbow” who
defied King Henry II and began campaign to conquer Ireland which was financed
“by a Jewish moneylender – Josce Jew of Gloucester” married Aoife MacMurrough
today in Waterford.
1278:
Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeated Premysl Ottokar II of
Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia. All three
of these monarchs had dealings with their Jewish subjects. At the Synod of Buda
(1279), which was held during ithe reign
of King Ladislaus IV it was decreed, in the presence of the papal ambassador,
that every Jew appearing in public should wear on the left side of his upper
garment a piece of red cloth; that any Christian transacting business with a
Jew not so marked, or living in a house or on land together with any Jew,
should be refused admittance to the Church services; and that a Christian
entrusting any office to a Jew should be excommunicated. Rudolph had a rather
“uneven” record in dealing with his Jewish subjects. For example, he continued to enforce the
statute originally adopted by Frederick the Valiant, “which afforded protection
against persecution and murder” to the Jews of Austria. But then the next year he issued a decree to
the citizens of Austria declaring that Jews were ineligible to hold public
office in Vienna. In 1254 Premysl
Ottokar II issued his charter, an adaptation of one originally issued in 1244
by Duke Frederick II of Austria. Among other provisions it forbade forced
conversion and condemned the blood libel. In 1268 Premysl Ottokar II renewed
his charter; under which the Jews of Brno were expected to contribute a quarter
of the cost of strengthening the city wall. In an undated document, he exempted
the Brno Jews from all their dues for one year since they had become
impoverished. So, it would seem that the ruler most positively disposed towards
the Jews lost.
1280:
King James I of Aragon (Spain), under the influence of the Dominican Friar
Raymond Martini, ordered all disparaging statements regarding Jesus and Mary
erased from the Talmud. In addition, the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides was
condemned to be burned due to references to Jesus in the chapter on the laws of
kingship. There is really irony in the
decision to burn the works of Maimonides since he was one of the few Jewish
leaders of his time who could find a positive value in both Christianity and
Islam.
1310:
Henry II, the Crusaders whom the Christians recognized as the King of Jerusalem
returned to Cyprus and resumed his throne on that island with the aid of the
Hospitallers after which he dissolved the Templars and turned their wealth over
to Hospitallers. (Another example of the non-religious and some might say the
true reason for Christian nobles’ interest in Eretz Israel)
1346:
Charles IV who would be unable to keep the Jews of Frankfurt from being
slaughtered, began his reign as King of Bohemia.
1684:
In Padua, Jews were prepared to travel outside of the Ghetto six days after a
plunder mob had entered the “Jewish Jail” in an attack described by both Sema
Cuzzeri and Rabbi Isaac Hayyim Cantarini in “Pahad Yizak.”
1711:
Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor officially recognized the fact that the Jews
of Hungary had bestowed the title of “Landesrabbiner on Samson Wertheimer
1736:
Solomon Colman, who had been in London arrived in Savannah today where he
worked with Abraham Minis, who was part of the original group of Jews that
settled in Georgia.
1754:
Birthdate of rabbi and author Eleazar Ben David Fleckeless who served as Dayan
of Prague, his native city starting in 1780.
the
husband of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus whom he married in 1821 and with whom he had
six children.
1789: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of
the Citizen was approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles.
1795:
Bennet Cohen married Abigail Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.
1789(4th
of Elul, 5549): Rachel Lopez, the daughter of Aaron Lopez and the wife of David
Lopez passed away today in Newport, RI.
1799(25th
of Av, 5559): Koppel Theben, the leader of the Hungarian Jewish community who
challenged regulations promulgated by Joseph II and was presented with a gold
medal by Leopold II passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Theben_Koppel
1800(5th
of Elul, 5560): Rabbi Hirschel Ben Arye Löb Levin (Also known as Hart Lyon and
Hirshel Löbel) who served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Berlin,
and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim passed away. His son, Rabbi Solomon
Hirschell was also Chief Rabbi of the British German and Polish Jewish
community, and the first of the British Empire.
1801:
Hannah Aarons, the Philadelphia born daughter of Levi Aarons married Abraham
Alexander, Jr. today.
1805(1st
of Elul, 55650: Rosh Chodesh Elul
1806:
Abraham Abrahams married Rachel Lazarus today.
1807:
During the Bombardment of Copenhagen which would destroy the property belonging
to the family of poet Henrik Hertz, General Arthur Wellesley the future Duke of
Wellington, led a force that was trying to relieve the Danish capital>
1821:
Johann Emanuel Veith, the son of a Jewish family from Bohemia who converted in
1816 was ordained as minister today.
1823:
Abraham Defreece married Mary Isaacs today at the Great Synagogue.
1824:
Six-year-old Karl Marx is baptized. His
father Heinrich Marx had already converted, and his mother would convert after
her father passed away.
1825:
Nathaniel Isaacs, the son of Chatam merchant and Lenie Solomon, daughter of
Nathaniel Solomon of Margate and Phoebe Mitz who came from the Netherlands set
sail aboard The Mary from Cape Town with party serving for East India merchant
Francis Farewell and Dr. Francis Flynn.
1827:
In Russia, Emperor Nicholas issued an edict filled with onerous conditions
under which Jews were to perform military service including making Jews as
young as 12 and as old as 35 eligible for conscription, requiring the Jews to
provide “10 recruits per 1,000 inhabitants every year, while non-Jews were to
furnish 7 per 1,000 every alternate year” and requiring additional recruits to
be supplied to compensate for any unpaid taxes.
1827:
Emanuel Aguilar and Sarah Aguilar gave birth to Henry Aguilar, the younger
brother of Grace and Emanuel Aguilar. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1828:
In St. Gallen, Josef Anton Henne and his wife gave birth to Otto Henne am Rhyn
the author of Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites
in which he wrote that the Jews were the only people in the ancient world who
practiced monotheism. “Their synagogues were everywhere and they had proselytes
in every large city, especially Rome” which was the “first step in the
dissemination of monotheism.” However,
most people who were attracted to monotheism “took a like to the strictness of
the Mosaic religion and the God of the Jews was too spiritual a being to be
grasped.” Others were bothered by “the
indefinites of the Jewish notions of immortality and the strange rites…of the
Jewish people.”
1829:
Coleman Moses married Deborah Cohen married Hambro Synagogue today.
1835:
In Rotterdam, Sara Wolfe and Benjamin Spiers gave birth to Frederick Spiers.
1835:
Lewis and Augusta Feuchtwanger were wed today in Philadelphia, PA.
1840:
During the Damascus Affair, a British squadron sank Egyptian supply ships on
their way to Syria.
1840:
Aaron Jacobs married Maria Nathan at the New Synagogue today.
1841:
Norwegian Henrik Wergeland whose “long harbored prejudice against Jews” changed
after he traveled in Europe today published pamphlet Indlæg i Jødesagen, “arguing passionately for a repeal of the
clause in the constitution banning Jews from living in Norway.
1842:
Possible birthdate for Akiva Rolland “who entered Cuban history as General
Carlos Roloff” an wholed a group of
invaders in 1895 and became the first fiancé minister of the independent Cuban
Republic.
1843:
In New York Abigail and Asher Kursheedt gave birth to Alexander Kursheedt.
1846:
In Bohemia, Moses Bloch and his wife gave birth Rabbi Jacob Bloch, the holder
of an M.A. from the University of Prague and a LL.D from Oregon University who
served congregations in Pine Bluff, AR, Little Rock, AR and Sacramento, Ca and
Portland, OR before coming to Congregation Emanu-El at Spokane, WA in 1900.
1850:
In England, Phoebe Levy and Aaron Samuel gave birth to Louisa Samuel.
1851(28th
of Av, 5611): Elias Abrahams, the son of Emanuel and Judith Abrahams and the
husband of Catherine Abrahams with whom he had two children – Alexander and
Henriette – passed away today in Charleston, SC
1851(28th
of Av, 5611): Catherine Abrahams, the Hamburg born daughter of Cecile and
Gershon Cohn, the wife of Elias Abrahams and “mother of Alexander Abrams;
Cecilia Marks; Moses (Julian) Abrams; Henrietta Joseph; Anna Abrams; Esther
Abrams; Isaac Abrams; Isabel Abrams; Mordecai Abrams and Jacob Abrams” passed
away today in New Orleans.
1852:
As the question of altering the oath of office so that Jews can sit in
Parliament continues to embroil British Politics, “The Foreign Items” column
reported that the Dublin University Magazine has quoted the late Irish
Richard Lalor Sheil, an Irish MP, as having told the House of Commons that “I
cannot for the life of me see why the Jews should not have a voice in the
Legislature, as well as any other body of Christians." Sheil was a supporter of Lord John Russell
who was a supporter of attempts to seat Jews in Parliament.
1852:
Abraham Levy married Amelia Joel at the Great Synagogue today.
1853(22nd
of Av, 5613): Sixty-three-year-old Major Meno Berg who “was the first and for a
long time, the only Jew serving as a Prussian staff officer passed away today.
1854:
“Great Cry and Little Wool” published today described the failure of the
recently adjourned Parliament to fulfill the goals set out in "Speech from
the Throne." Among the failures
listed was the failure to abolish or amend the oaths that prevent Jews from
sitting in Parliament. The column spoke contemptuously of Lord John Russell
who, if he had really wanted to admit Jews to Parliament, could have done so
any time in the last twenty years, by support a measure that would have allowed
either House to change the wordings of the oath. This would have passed the House of Commons
with a simple majority.
1853(22nd
of Av, 5613): Sixty-two year old Major Meno Burg, “the first and for a long the
only Jew to serve as a Prussian staff officer passed away and was buried “with
full military honors at” the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee
1854:
Ralph Bernal a British MP and art collector who was the son of Sephardi Jews
who became an Anglican when he was baptized at St. Olave passed away today.
1856:
In the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn the Board of the Kane Street Synagogue
decided it would keep a ten dollar payment for a burial place made by a
non-congregant even though he had not made use of the burial plot because he
“had the use of the” congregation’s “funeral untensils.”
1856:
Today, the Cantonist policy was abolished by Tsar Alexander II's decree, in the
aftermath of the Russian defeat in the Crimean war, which made evident the dire
necessity for the modernization of the Russian military forces.” All
unconverted cantonists and recruits under the age of 20 were returned to their
families. The underage converted cantonists were given to their godparents.
However the implementation of the abolition took nearly 3 years. It is
estimated that between 30,000 to 70,000 Jewish boys served as cantonists, their
numbers were disproportionately high in relation to the total number of
cantonists. Jewish boys comprised about 20% of cantonists at the schools in
Riga and Vitebsk, and as much as 50% at Kazan and Kiev schools. A general estimate
for the years 1840–1850 seems to have been about 15%. In general Jews comprised
a disproportionate number of recruits (ten for every thousands of the male
population as opposed to seven out of every thousand,] the number was tripled
during the Crimean War (1853–1856). After the 25-year conscription term, former
cantonists were allowed to live and own land anywhere outside the Pale of
Settlement. The earliest Jewish communities in Finland were Jewish cantonists
who had completed their service…”One of the most famous cantonists was Captain
Herzl Yankelevich Tsam, who “appears to have been the only Jewish officer in
the Tsarist army in the nineteenth century.” Born in Ukraine in 1835, he was
drafted into the Russian army when he was 17 and served in Tomsk, Siberia.
“Tsam became an officer in 1873 (his fellow officers attested to his qualities
in the promotion petitions) and, after forty-one years of service, he was
retired with a rank and pension of colonel. The promotion was granted on the
day of his retirement, so he would have the pension, but wouldn't be able to
serve as a colonel. An able commander and administrator, he turned one of the
worst companies of his regiment into one of the best. In spite of pressures, he
never converted to the state religion of Russian Orthodox Christianity.” “After
he retired, he became treasurer of a synagogue in Tomsk. The building has been
gutted and converted into squalid apartments.”
1853(22nd
of Av, 5613: Sixty-two-year-old Major Meno Burg, “the first and for a long the
only Jew to serve as a Prussian staff officer passed away and was buried “with
full military honors at” the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee.
1855:
In Jebenhausen, Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Bavaria native Jette
Rosenthal and he husband Bernhard Loe Rosenthal gave birth to Herman Rosenthal,
the husband of Fanny Rosenthal.
1858:
In Dieppe, “Charles Lebon, founder
of the Société du Gaz Lebon” and his wife gave birth to Andre Lebon the
Minister of Colonies who intervened on behalf of Dreyfus while he was
imprisoned on Devil’s Island.
1863:
In Baltimore, MD, Jacob and Mina (Lauchenheimer) Bernstein gave birth to Johns
Hopkins University trained physician, Edward J. Bernstein, the professor of
laryngology at Woman’s Medical College in Baltimore and the ophthalmologist and
otologist at Grace Memorial Hospital in Detroit who was a member of Temple
Beth-El and the husband of Dr. Ida Pollock.
1864:
In Elgin, Illinois, Leopold and Rose Adler gave birth to Harriet Wile, the wife
of David Jacob Wile.
1867:
In Hungary, Eliyahu Menachem Goitein, the son of Zvi (Armin) Hirsch Goitein and
Szali (Sara) Sarolta Goitein and his wife Amalia Mahala Goitein gave birth to
Dr. Eduard Yehezkiel Goitein.
1867:
In a part of what was then Hungary, Henry and Josephine (Hoeflich) Hirshfield
gave birth to NYU trained attorney and New York jurist David Hirshfield who was
a member of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities and Oheb Zedek.
1870:
In Russia, German Jews Moses and Jenny
Dine gave birth to Jacob Diner who went on to become the “first president of
the New York Academy of Pharmacy” and “founder and first dean of the Fordham
University College of Pharmacy” and who was the husband of Hilda Davis with
whom he had two children – Milton and Irene.
1871:
Birthdate of Liverpool native “M. Kaizer,” who was “principal of the South
London Jewish Schools from 186 to 1902.
1873:
In Cincinnati, OH, Louis and Rebecca (Bloom) Bettman gave birth to Harvard
trained attorney Louis Bettman the husband of Lillian Wyler, who served as a
special assistant to the Attorney General during WW I and whose legal work made
him “one of the key founders of modern urban planning.”
1877:
Ralph Levy, the husband of the former Phoebe Abrahams with whom he had two sons
-- Henry and Moses – was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1878:
It was reported today that Dr. Abraham Benisch has passed away at the age of
67. Born in Bohemia in 1811, Benish
studied medicine at Vienna before moving to England in 1841 where he eventually
became the editor of the Jewish Chronicle. He was the author of Judaism
Surveyed as well as what may have been the first Jewish translation of the
TaNaCh into English. The bilingual
edition with both Hebrew and English texts was published in England in 1851.
1878:
Birthdate of Lina Stern the Latvian born Soviet biochemist who was the first
woman to be named as Professor at the University of Geneva and the first female
member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1880:
In New York City, Frederick and Rachel (Kate) Moeller gave birth to Columbia
and NYU educated playwright and director Phillip Moeller, “ a founder of the
Washington Square Players and founder and director the New York Theatre Guild.
1881(1st of Elul, 5641): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1881: “Against The Jews” published today
described events at the conference of Orthodox Evangelical which was addressed
by Herr Plath, the Inspector of Missions who said “the rights already accorded
to the Jews could be withdrawn” and that Christians “must free themselves from
the supremacy of the Jews.”
1881: Twenty-three-year-old Marc Klaw, the
Paducah, KY born son of Leopold and Caroline Klaw and the husband of Antoinette
M. Morris today gave up the practice of law began working as a theatrical
manager which led him to be a member of the firm of Klaw and Erlanger, the
leading theatrical booking agency.
1882: It was reported today there has been “a
renewal of outrages against Jews…Poland.
The assailants are encouraged in their attacks by the apathy of the
officials.”
1882: “Saratoga’s Hideous Women” published
today provides a sketch of the fashionable resort including the fact that three “great hotels” are populated in
the following manner: The United States is “the home of the millionaires,
Congress Hall as the camp of the Israelites and the Grand Union as the great
three-ringed side-show of fat woman. The
vast hotel…controlled by Judge Hilton cast out the Jews but keeps the Gentile
mammoths.”
1883:
“Herr Lasker on the German Jews” published today relies on information that
originally appeared in the American
Hebrew to paint a portrait of conditions among the Jews of Germany. On the one hand they “are foremost among the
best of Germany” who are “making great strides in the intellectual pursuits”
and have advanced “to the higher and more respectable” “grades of industry and
trade.” On the other hand there are those, in the universities for example, who
show “a great deal of feeling against the Jews.” And there are those who claim
that the Jews control the press, a claim that Dr. Lasker refuted as “very much
overrated.” (This mixed bag by a
contemporary German Jewish intellectual is an accurate picture of German Jewish
life that would last through WW I.)
1884:
Thanks to the generosity of Commissioner Jacob Hess, the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society will provide a cruise up the Hudson River on the SS Bellevue
for poor children on the living on the lower East Side.
1885:
An article published today entitled “Montefiore and Longevity” that had
previously appeared in The London World
described “the munificence, the philanthropy and the centenarianism of the
recently deceased Jewish leader.”
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/3917/Yasinovski-Pinkhes-Pinchos-Jassinowsky
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/pinchas-jassinowsky
1886:
In Triest, Italy. Adele Horn and Alessandro Levi gave birth to award winning
sculptor Arturo Levi, the husband of Ena Romito and winner of a scholarship
from the “Comunita Israelitica of Tirest (Fondizone Montefiore)” whose works
including “The Soul of the Book” and who was a member of the Sculptors and
Modelers of America.
1887: The body of a young woman which had been
found in the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia was identified today as Lizzie
Kauffman a German Jewish girl who had moved to American three years ago with
her two brothers.
1887:
It was reported today that Jews living in Taganrog and Rostoff have been
expelled and ordered to live elsewhere in Russia now that these areas have been
annexed to the Don Cossack District.
1888:
The
New York Times
reviewed Amelia Rives’ novel, Herod and Mariamne , “a tragedy” about “the Greek house that
ruled the Jews. Rives was a colorful American author whose life began during
the Civil War and ended with World War II.
1889: In New York, Barnet and Ida (Weaver) Cohen gave birth Hebrew Technical
Institute and Cooper Union trained engineer Jacob X. Cohen, the husband of
Sadie Alta Friedberg, who in 1915 settled in Syracuse, NY where e was the
President of the Syracuse Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Director of the Syracuse Hebrew School and a trustee of the Jewish Home for the
Aged of Central, NY and the Federation of Jewish Charities of Syracuse, NY.
1890:
“Immigration” published today provides a snapshot of the changing flow of
immigrants as compared with 1889 including the comment that “increase of
Russian arrivals by 3,280” is a reflection of the Czar’s cruelty especially
toward “his Jews” who flocked” to the United States “by the thousands” when
attacked them before.
1890:
“Charged With Conspiracy” published today described Dennis Collonge’s scheme to
extort money from Sampson and Isaac Heidenheimer two of Galveston’s wealthiest
Jewish citizens. He planned to recant
his testimony that two brothers had burned down the cottonseed mill belonging
to the Texas Standard Oil Company for a cash payment. The grand jury indicted Collonge and cleared
the brothers of all charges when it was determined that he had burned the
building down as part of his scheme.
1891:
“The North German Lloyd steamer Weimer arrived at Baltimore, MD” today” with
566 steerage passengers, including 150 Jews banished from Russia.”
1891:
Jesse Seligman “accompanied by Mr. Solomons of the Baron de Hirsch Fund” met
with the Assistant Superintendent of Immigration, General James O’Beirne to
intercede on behalf of 86 passengers whom he had barred from landing in the
United States.
1891:
Jesse Seligman left for Washington DC, this evening after General Jame
O’Beirne refused to reconsider his decision, barring 86 Jews from leaving SS Marsala and settling in the
United States.
1891:
Based on stories first published in the Pall
Mall Gazette, it was reported today that “whither the persecution of the
Jews was spontaneous or the result of government action, “there is no doubt of
its popularity.”
1891:
The SS Westerland which is scheduled
to set sail for Europe today includes among its passengers a number of Russian
Jews who were denied the right to land in the United States “on the ground that
they were liable to become public charges”
1891:
“The Russian Persecutions” published today described the indirect assistance
that the Prince of Wales has given to Anglo-Jewish committees dealing with the
problems of Russian Jews. His wife, “who is a sister-in-law of the Czar” is
working with the Prince “is rendering much valuable aid in his efforts to
ameliorate the condition of the poverty stricken” Jews.
1892:
The SS
Kehrweider
which arrived at Boston from Hamburg today with seventy steerage passengers
many of whom were Russian and Polish Jews, was placed in strict quarantine
because of fears about Cholera which had broken out in Europe.
1892: The French government “has ordered all Russian Jews arriving
at Marseilles be sent to the Lazaretto (quarantine station) and their clothes
burned.”
1892:
In Paris, “the Jewish committee” stated “that within a month” a thousand Jewish
refugees from Russia pass through the city, “most of whom were on their way to
the United States. The physical
condition of these Jews is such that should a cholera outbreak occur, they
would be “a fertile field for its spread.”
1893:
“Camden Merchants Organizing for Self-Protection” published today described the
plans of Jewish storekeepers in the New Jersey city to deal with the “thieves
and marauders who have made them the objects of the attacks…”
1894:
Two days after he had passed away, Solomon Harris, the husband of the former
Elizabeth Hart with whom he had eleven children, was buried today at the “West
Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1895:
Two days after she had passed away, 55-year-old Annette Davis, the wife of
“Joseph John Davis” with whom she had four children was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1897:
Birthdate of Jacob Raphael, a native of Posen, whose family would escape to
Sweden just before the Nazi invasion of Poland.
He passed away in 1971 at Ramat Gan.
1897: The two wills of David Blumenthal were
filed at the Surrogate’s office today.
1898: In New York City, Florette Seligman and
Benjamin Guggenheim “who died in the sinking of the Titanic” gave birth to patron
and art collector, Peggy Guggenheim known for “The Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.”
1898: Israel Zangwill, who sailed from England
a week ago, was expected to arrive in the United States today where he will
renew old acquaintance’s and “be heard as a lecturer.”
1899: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and CCNY
graduate Leon Doman, the NYU trained attorney.
1899: It was reported today that Macmillan and
company will be published a new novel by Israel Zangwill in November that
“belongs to the Series of Ghetto Tragedies which was begun with The Children
of the Ghetto “
1899:
When the court martial of Captain Dreyfus resumed today. Alphonse Bertillon,
Chief of the Anthropometric Department of the Paris Prefecture of Police
continued his testimony in which he continued to contend that Dreyfus was the
author of “the famous bordeau.” His responses on cross-examination provoked
repeated laughter from those attending the trial.
1900(1st
of Elul, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1900(1st
of Elul, 5660): Sixty-six-year-old Austrian publisher Chaim David Lippe who
edited “a bibliographical lexicon of modern Jewish literature” that was
published in Vienna in 1881 passed away today.
1900:
Two days after she had passed away, 75 years old Rebecca Jonas, the widow of
Samuel Adolph Jonas, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1901:
A dispatch from St. Petersburg received in London said that “the total losses
from the recent forest fires…are estimated at ten million pounds and that “the
fires, which have been mostly incendiary are attributed to the Jews.”
1902:
One day after she had passed away, Polly Kosloski, “the daughter of Jacob and
Sarah Kosloski” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1902(23rd
of Av, 5662): Eliezer Mordechai ben Tzvi Persky, a native of “Volozhin in the
Pale of Settlement and the husband of “Minnie, (Mindel), Disha bat Reb Eliyah”
with whom he and their four children “immigrated to the United States in 1883
through Castle Garden” and “then moved to Alliance, Salem County, NJ, to become
part of the original pioneering group in the Jewish agricultural settlement
there” passed away today.
1903:
The forged “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” were serialized in a Russian
publication. This document has been a favorite among anti-Semites since then.
1903: Forty-one year old Austrian dramatist
Arthur Schnitzler married Olga Gussmann “a 21-year-old aspiring actress and
singer who came from a Jewish middle-class family 1903: At the Zionist
Congress, during the debate on what was called the Uganda Plan, “the sealed an
signed document from the British government” was read into the record by L.J.
Greenberg which was followed by a two hour recess, which led to a resumption of
deliberations that would last until two o’clock in the next morning.
1903: Nineteen-year-old Louis Blankenstein, the
Polish born son of Norma Klein Blankenstein and her husband, who would go on to
a career as realtor while being a leader of the Brooklyn Jewish Federation and
a member of the directors of Choevy Torah in Brooklyn, married Hattie Tanz
today.
1904: Mortimer L. Schiff and Adele Neustatdt
gave birth to their only son John Mortimer Schiff who “was the father of
Dorothy Schiff, the owner and publisher of the New York Post. (As reported by
William Blair)
1905(25th of Av, 5665): Parashat Re’eh
1905: “Hebrew Prophets” published today provide
a review the latest volumes in The Temple Series of Bible Characters and
Scripture Handbooks edited by Oliphant Smeaton –The Pre-Exilic Prophets,
that “deals with the age and mission of the Hebrew Prophets before the exile”
and Samuel and the Schools of the Prophets.
1905: According to a reported that reached
Paris today, “for ten days the town of Girdj, in Bessarabia has been the scene
of a Jewish massacre…”
1906: Birthdate of Dr. Albert
Sabin, Jewish-American doctor who developed a vaccine for polio. Sabine was the second Jewish doctor to
develop a vaccine for this dread disease.
The first was Dr. Jonas Salk. It is contributions like these that should
cause Americans and not just Jewish Americans to celebrate the 350th
Anniversary of the Jewish Community in the United States. Born in Bialystok, Poland, Sabine and his
family immigrated to the United States in 1921 to escape persecution aimed at
Jews. An uncle who was a dentist offered to finance his education if he would
go to dental school. Sabin switched from
dentistry to medicine because he fell in love with medical research. He graduated from NYU Medical School in 1931,
the same year that New York was struck by a major Polio epidemic. This led him to care of research into the
causes of polio and other infectious diseases of the human nervous system. He
passed away in 1993.
1907:
Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
1908:
Rabbi J. Leonard Levy “closed a deal for 2,000 acres of ground near Richmond,
VA” which will be used start a colony for persecuted Russian Jews.
1909:
It was reported today that “at the opening of their theatrical season the three
actor managers of important east side Yiddish theatres – Jacob Adler, David
Kessler and Boris Tomascheffsky – are said to be threatened with a strike of
all their employees, including actors, musicians, prompters, costumers, stage
carpenters, chorus people, ushers and billposters.”
1910:
“A dispatch to the Tageblatt from St. Petersburg states that the Russian
Ministry of the Interior has publish an order giving Oscar S. Straus, the
American Ambassador to Turkey permission to visit St. Petersburg.
1911:
Jacob H. Schiff, the banker, returned today from his annual trip to Europe, on
the Hamburg-American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, accompanied by Mrs.
Schiff, and appeared to be in the best of health
1911:
In Brooklyn, founding of the Borough Park Civic Club.
1912:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Aaron Rosenberg who went from being an
All-American lineman at USC to a career in the movies that included an Academy
Award nomination for producing “Mutiny on the Bounty” in 1962.
1912(13th
of Elul, 5672: Sixty-six-year-old Michaelis Machol the German born reform rabbi
who served two Cleveland, Ohio congregations – Anshe Chesed and the Eagle
Street Synagogue – passed away today.
http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/machol-ccar.htm
1913:
Today, “the day after the guilty verdict was reached by the jury, Judge Roan
brought counsel into private chambers and sentenced Leo Frank to death by
hanging with the date set to October 10.”
1914:
The Germans and the Russians meet at the Battle of Tannenberg. At the urging of the French, the Russian Army
began advancing before it was fully mobilized and ready for battle. The Russian Army advanced into East Prussia
which caused panic in Berlin. The
Germans transferred troops from the Western Front to meet the Russian
advance. This shift of troops weakened
the forcing attacking the French, undermined the German grand strategic design
and enabled the French to finally halt the advance. This would lead to the four
year stalemate known as World War I. The
strengthened German forces in Prussia blocked the Russians and hurled them
back. The fighting in the East would be
a see-saw affair that would bleed Russia until the Revolutions of 1917 and
1918. The Jews living in the Pale of
Settlement which was in the path of this clash between the Kaiser and the Czar
suffered great privations. The irony was
that the Germans could probably have won the battle without the additional
troops and World War I might have been a rather brief affair where the troops
were home by Christmas and Europe (including the Jews) would have been the
upheavals that led to World War II and the Holocaust.
1915(14th
of Tammuz, 5675): Parashat Balak
1915(14th
of Tammuz, 5675): Fifty-three-year-old Chicago banker Edwin G. Foreman passed
away today in San Francisco, CA.
1915:
Many of the Jews who had been expelled from Brest-Litovsk by the Russians
returned after the “Austro-German Army occupied the city today” only to suffer
a second expulsion by the Kaiser’s forces.
1915:
In Albany, the Constitutional Convention voted to kill “the proposal requiring
a literacy test as a voting qualification” which if it had been approved Louis
Marshall had said the one million Jews in New York would look upon the work of
the “convention as a deliberate insult.”
1915:
“Russian Pale Wiped Out” published today described the decision of the Council
of the Empire to allow Jews to settle in areas outside of the Pale “ with the
exception of Moscow, Petrograd and places under the jurisdiction of the
Ministry of War and the Imperial Court” due to the German conquests.
1915:
One hundred and fifty Orthodox rabbis are scheduled to attend tonight’s meeting
at the Norfolk Street Synagogue where plans will be discussed “to aid Jews
suffering because of the war.”
1915:
Birthdate of Rolf Friedemann Pauls, the native of Eckarsberga who was the“first
ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Israel serving from 1965 to
1968” after which her served as Bonn’s ambassador to Washington.
1915:
A message received via wireless from Berlin today said that of the 30
councilors appointed by the Germans to govern Warsaw, six of them were Jews.
1916:
Birthdate of Charles Parmet, the native of Brooklyn who served as executive
director of the Hillcrest Jewish Community Center in Flushing, LI.
1917:
A review of Aristodemocracy by Sir Charles Waldstein, the Anglo-American
Jewish archaeologist that tried to “reconcile the lasting principles of Mosaic
ethics with Platonic reality was published today.
1918:
Local draft boards accepted the registration of newly eligible Jewish youths
today because the original registration date fell on the Jewish Sabbath.
1918:
“Hungary Expels Jews and Seizes Their Money” published today described the
barricading of streets so that Jews could be dragged to prison in Budapest and
police in Galicia taking “large sums money” from the Jews as “a special tax”
after which they were “escorted to the frontier.”
1919(30th
of Av, 5679): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1919(30th
of Av, 5679): Eighty-year-old German Professor Emeritus at CCNY Adolph Werner,
the Frankfort on the Main son of Edward and Rosalie Werner who in 1850 came to
the United States where he graduated “from the Free Academy, now the College of
the City of New York” and “Rutgers Female College conferred a Ph.D degree on
him in 1880 passed away today.
1919:
Following his arrival from Europe on the SS George Washington this morning, Samuel
Gompers attended a mass meeting of the actors at the Lexington Theatre. In an
address to members of the Actors' Equity Association Gompers, pledged the full
force of organized labor to that body in carrying on its present strike.
1920:
“The Head Janus” a silent horror film with a script by Hans Janowitz and filmed
by cinematographer Karl Freund was released today in the Weimar Republic.
1920:
The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the
right to vote. Numerous Jewish women
were active in the “suffragette movement” including Rose Schenidermann who was
the leader of New York City’s Women’s Suffragette Party and the untold numbers
of “Jewish women garment works who represented the very core of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association.
1921(22nd
of Av, 5681): In her 87th year, Rebecca Liefmans Cohen, the mother
of six – Michael, Levi, Cecilia, Sophia, Sarah and Rose – passed away today in
New York.
1921:
New York Mayor Hyland refused to removed Edwin J. O’Malley from the office of
Commissioner of Public Markets despite the disclosure of a number of corrupt
acts including O’Malley’s refusing “to issue a permit to Barney Cohen when Co
failed to pay graft.”
1922: Birthdate of Irving R. Levine. Levine’s
ever-present bow tie was his unique visual signature while he covered business
and the economy for NBC News. Unlike the
blowhards and blow dried talking heads who read this news beat today, Levine
understood the subject matter and conveyed it in a low keyed professional manner.
1923(14th
of Elul, 5683): Eighty-two-year-old Leopold Kahn, the husband of Louise Kahn
and the father of Baruch Kahn passed away today in Mulhouse.
1923:
Samuel "Sammy" Weiss, Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen and Samuel
Gepson were arraigned at the Essex market Courthouse on charges that they had
violated the Sullivan Law.
1924:
Birthdate of Dr. Gerson D. Cohen the chancellor emeritus of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, who in 1985 ordained the first female rabbi in
Conservative Judaism” and husband of Naomi Cohen with whom he had two children,
Jeremy and Judith, passed away today.
1925:
“The Merry Widow” a romantic comedy directed and produced by Erich von Stroheim
who also co-authored the script along with Benjamin Glazer was released today
in the United States by MGM.
1925:
Odessa native and NYU student Samuel Silverman “led the list made public” today
of those students who had earned university scholarships.
1926:
In Great Britain, sculptor Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman gave birth to painter
and model Kitty Garman whose first husband was Lucien Freud with she had two
daughters – Annie and Annabel Freud.
1926:
In the New York Times, P.W. Wilson
describes the work of University of Chicago archaeologists digging at Meggido
where the excavations “recall the splendor of Solomon, the monarch who was also
a poet and a philosopher.”
1927:
“The group of British merchants visiting this country to study modern American
department store methods was entertained at luncheon today at the R. H. Macy
Co. store” with Percy S. Straus, Vice
President of Macy's, describing methods in the store and outlined the salient
differences between the department stores of America and England.”
1927:
In Chicago, homemaker Sylvia Friedman and furrier Lester Deutsch gave birth to
Muriel Elaine Deutsch, the wife of attorney Sidney Lezak who gained game as Dr.
Muriel Lezak, “a neuropsychologist who wrote a landmark textbook in the early
days of her discipline that became an essential guide to the description and
evaluation of brain injuries and disorders…” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1928:
Birthdate of Günther Schwarz, a member of Edelweiss Pirates who was executed at
the age of 16 for his role in the anti-Nazi resistance group.
1928:
“Oh, Kay!” a silent film directed by Mervyn LeRoy was released in the United
States today by First National Pictures.
1929:
Birthdate of Aaron Moses Asher, the native of Memel who became a publisher
responsible for several works on the Shoah including “Perpetrators, Victims,
Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945” (1992), by Raul Hilberg;
“Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland”
(1992), by Christopher R. Browning; and “The Joke” (1992), a novel by Milan
Kundera
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/02/culture.obituaries
1929:
As a result of what the British report described as “Arab mobs” forty-five Jews
in Safed were either killed or wounded.
1930:
Unanimous disapproval of Great Britain’s’ Palestine policy by members of the
League of Nations Mandates Commission at the extraordinary Palestine session of
the Commission is recorded in the minutes of that session made public today.
1931:
“Street Scene” the movie version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Elmer Rice,
produced by Samuel Goldwyn and with music by Alfred Newman premiered in New
York City today.
1931:
Viscount Herbert Samuel began serving as Home Secretary in the government
headed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
1932:
“Moses J. Stroock, lawyer and chairman of the Board of Higher Education, who
died on Oct. 27 last, whose estate was
appraised today at $1,001,052 gross and $900,876 net” left public gifts of
$5,000 to City College, $20,000 to the Federation for the "Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies, and $2,000 to the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun.
1933:
In Montreal, Canada, The Montreal Star editorially attacks attempts to
organize swastika clubs in Canada.
1933:
Premier J. B. M. Hertzog issues an appeal to South African Jewry to refrain
from boycotting German goods on the ground that the boycott hurts the interests
of the country.
1933: Berl Locker, a member of the Zionist
Executive informed the Zionist Congress officially that the Executive did not
participate in the negotiations which resulted in the agreement between
Anglo-Palestine Bank and German government. The Congress adopted a resolution,
presented by the Actions Committee, to send a committee to Palestine to
investigate the alleged use of violence and terroristic methods by members of
the Zionist Organization. This committee is not to deal with the question of
the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff.
1933
The Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in its initial session,
although objecting to proposed plans to modify the constitution of the Agency
at this time, appoints a committee of five Zionists and five non-Zionists to
consider the issue.
1933(4th
of Elul, 5693): Parashat Shoftim
1933
(4th of Elul, 5693): Sir Maurice Levy, of Liberal MP Sir Maurice
Levy the second son of Joseph Levy of Leicester and elder brother of Arthur
Lever, husband of Elise Zossenheim, father of Ewart Maurice Levy and Managing
director of the family business, Hart and Levy who was a political confidant of
Prime Minister David Lloyd George and created 1st Baronet in 1913
passed away today.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw93769/Sir-Maurice-Levy
1934:
Birthdate of Danville, Illinois businessman and civic leader Louis Mervis who
with his wife Sybil “established the chair in Jewish Culture and the Arts in
the Robert and Sandra Borns Jewish Studies Program at his alma mater, Indiana
University.”
http://obituaries.commercial-news.com/obituary/louis-mervis-1934-2017-987722581
1934(15th
of Elul, 5694): Seventy-six-year-old Marcus M. Marks, president of several
clothing industry trade associations and the Manhattan Borough President from
1914 to 1917 who was the father of Johnny Marks, who ironically wrote “Rudolph
the Red-Nosed Reindeer “passed away today.
1935:
Birthdate of Aaron Albert “Al” Silvera who played the outfield for the
Cincinnati Reds during the 1950’s when there only 8 teams in each league and
the Reds were a solid third place team always chasing after the Dodgers.
1936:
In Jaffa, British troops kill 6 Arabs in a shoot-out with armed bomb-throwers
while two more Arabs died in a fire-fight in Tel Aviv.
1936:
“The world has created the Jewish problem and the world must help to solve it,
the Zionist Organization of America declared today in a review of the Jewish
affairs in Palestine issued in behalf of the organization by William M. Lewis
of Philadelphia, the acting President.”
1936:
“Appeals to Great Britain for the termination of Arab anti-Jewish disorders
were received in Washing today by the Zionist Organization of America from
Senator William H. King, Senator David I. Walsh, Senator Morris Sheppard,
Senator Arthur Capper, Representative John J. O’Connor of New York and
Representative Isaac Bacharach of New Jersey.”
1936:
Dr. Dresider Baltazar, Bish of the Trans-Tisiscan district of the Hungarian
Protestant Reformed Church who as a member of the Upper House in the Hungarian
Parliament advocated “liberalism and understanding among Jews and Christians”
passed away today.
1936:
“More than 1,500 mourners attended the funeral services this afternoon for
Moses S. Margolies, the death of the orthodox rabbis of American who had been
head of Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue for 30 years.”
1937: A new wave of anti-Jewish terror had broken
out in Bialystok district of Poland, resulting in more than 50 Jews being
injured, some of them seriously. In one instance Polish rioters gouged out the
eyes of Leib Koza, a Jewish carter. In understanding the Holocaust, one must
understand that anti-Semitism did not arrive in Eastern Europe only with the
coming of the Nazis.
1937: Arab villagers bringing fowls and eggs to sell
in Safad¹s Jewish Quarter were shot at and scared away by armed Arabs. They
were warned never to try to sell their produce to Jews again. This was part of the on-going violence
against the Jewish settlers and those who Arabs who wished to live peacefully
that had brought about the Peel Commission in the first place. Mixing peace talks with terror is not a
tactic that was invented by the PLO. It
has been part of along standing behavior pattern. The Arab terrorists of the 1930’s would be
rewarded with an effective end to the sale of land to Jews and Jewish
immigration just before the start of World War II.
1937: The British Consul in Athens refused to grant
visas to Palestine to members of a Jewish swimming team.
1937: The Council of People’s Commissars for Ukraine
approved plans to settle 1,525 Jewish families and 1,020 individuals in
Biro-Bidjan, and 350 Jewish families in Crimea.
This reflected a challenge that the Soviet Union faced in dealing with what
was the Nationalities Problem in general and Jews and Zionism in particular.
1938: This morning a Jewish owned bus traveling on
the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was fired on by attackers in an Arab
owned orange grove resulting in the wounding of seven Jewish passengers.
1938: An Arab gunman fired on a car driven by Isaac
Greenbaum, a member of the Jewish Executive Committee as he traveled on the
road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Neither
Greenbaum nor his traveling companion was harmed.
1938: Schumel Winer was stoned while riding through
Ramleh. The stoning would lead to his
death six days later.
1938(29th of Av, 5698) “Miss Charlotte Epstein,
chairman of the United States Olympic Women’s Swimming Committee and long a
leader in women’s swimming activities died today in her Manhattan
apartment.” She was fifty three years
old.
1938:
The Nazis passed a law requiring all Jews to take the names Israel and Sara.
Apparently, this was Goebbels way of mocking the Jews, since both names contain
the word SAR, a person of power.
1938:
“The Gladiator” a comedy produced by David Loew with a script by Arthur
Sheekman and music by
Arthur
Young was released in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1939(11th
of Elul, 5699): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1939(11th
of Elul, 5699): Sixty-five-year-old Warsaw native Joshua Zambrowsky, the father
of Reb Eliezer Elimielech and Reb Tzemach Zambrowsky of Cleveland, who was the
chief Rabbi of Syracuse and then Buffalo and the author of Sefer Ateret
Yehoshua passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/08/27/112715154.pdf
1939:
The family of Zeev (Heinz) Raphael left Zwickau on perilous trip that would end
with their arrival in Sweden three days before the start of World War II in
Europe.
1939:
Hitler did not invade Poland as planned today because Great Britain
unexpectedly signed a defense pact with Poland on August 25.
1940(22nd
of Av, 5700): In Rio de Jenerio, Clarice Lispector’s father, Pedro, died as a
result of a botched gall bladder operation.
1940:
The second annual convention Agudas Israel of America, Inc, which was organized
in 1921 “to act as an international religious organization for the assistance
and maintenance of the spiritual life of the Orthodox Jew the world over” is
scheduled to come to an end today in Cincinnati, OH
1941:
Germaine Ribière and Pastor Chaudier of Limoges provided hideouts during the
roundups in the Zone libre, in Haute-Vienne, Creuse and Indre that took place
today.
1941:
After hiding in Cauterets, France for the last “eight to ten months” 20 year
old Leo Bretholz took refuge the Pyrnees to escape deportation to the death
camps.
1942(13th of Elul, 5702): At 2.30 am in the morning
the German Schutzpolizei in Chortkiv in the western Ukraine starts driving Jews
out of houses, splits them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and
deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. Five hundred sick Jews and children
were murdered on the spot.
1942:
A large scale Aktion occurred in Wieliczka, Poland, during which some Jews were
selected for labor with the majority being sent to the Belzec death camp. (Yad
Vashem)
1942:
Seven thousand stateless Jews in the Vichy Free Zone of France were rounded
up. Many of these people were refugees
from Nazi conquests in Eastern Europe.
The Vichy Government was very prompt in turning Jews over to the Nazis.
1942:
During the roundup of Jews living in the Vichy Free Zone, Germaine Ribière and
Pastor Chaudier of Limoges provided refuge for children in the homes of
non-Jews/
1942:
Nazis closed all synagogues and schools in the Kovno ghetto.
1942: After being unloaded at the Treblinka
death camp, a Jew named Friedman uses a razor blade to cut the throat of a
Ukrainian guard. SS guards retaliate by immediately opening fire on the other
newly arrived deportees.
1942: Thousands of Jews from Miedzyrzec,
Poland, are deported to the Treblinka death camp.
1942: Nearly 1000 Belgian Jews, including 232
children, are deported to the East.
1942(13th of Elul, 5702): 518 Jewish children
deported from Paris are gassed at Auschwitz.
1943(13th
of Elul, 5702): Seventy-four year old Odessa native Jacob Magidoff who in 1886
came to the United States where he earned a law degree from NYU, co-founded the
United Hebrew Trades of New York in 1899 and 42 years of service as the city
editor of The Jewish Morning Journal and married Tinnie Magidoff with whom he
had three daughters – “Bella, Dorothy and Helen” – passed tonight at his home
in Brooklyn.
https://www.jta.org/1943/08/29/archive/jacob-magidoff-jewish-morning-journal-writer-dies-in-new-york
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/yankev-magidov-jacob-magidoff.html
1943: The Jewish community from Zawiercie,
Poland, is destroyed at Auschwitz.
1943: A young Jewish woman, one of 24 who was
an unwilling guest at an SS "party" at the Janówska, Ukraine, labor
camp the previous night, is shot during an escape attempt. The remaining 23
women are subsequently murdered
1943: Germany declared martial law in Denmark.
As the Nazi s prepared for the deportation the Danish Jews, Danes ferried over
6,000 Jews to safety in Sweden. This was
one of the most famous acts of courage when it came to saving Jews during the
Holocaust. Why, when so many others were
willing to sit idly by and watch the Jews go their death or to help the Nazis
in their work did the Danes behave so bravely and nobly? Some would say that the behavior of the
Danish people was a modern miracle. It
is a topic we can discuss some Monday night when we get to twentieth century
Europe.
1943:
King Boris returned to Bulgaria from Berlin after receiving a browbeating from
Hitler over his unwillingness to immediately ship Jews to the death
1943:
“The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in
America” which “is named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., a noted history
professor at Harvard during the 20th century; and his wife Elizabeth Bancroft
Schlesinger, a noted feminist” “was begun today when a Radcliffe College alumna
“donated her collection of books, papers and memorabilia on female reformers to
Radcliffe.”
1944:
As the Allies continued their invasion of southern France, the Germans
surrendered at the port of Toulon, a town whose Jewish presence dated back to
the 14th century and which “twin” with Herzilya, Israel.
1945(17th
of Elul, 5705): Fifty-four-year-old Franz Werfel, Austrian-Czech philosopher
and author who was a contemporary of such luminaries as Franz Kafka and Martin
Buber, passed away.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007049
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57432.Franz_Werfel
1946:
Birthdate of Romanian-born Israeli neuropsychologist Shlomo Bentin.
1946: Time features a cover story
“Jews Arabs Jerusalem”
1947: Birthdate of author Jonathan Nasaw
the younger brother of author David Nasaw.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3449200111.html
http://authors.simonandschuster.com.au/Jonathan-Nasaw/1829733/author_revealed
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n/jonathan-nasaw/
1948:
In Ontario, the Huntsville Forester described the performance of tenor Lou
Herman, the son of a Montreal cantor who served with the Canadian Army in
Europe at a recent Rotary Club luncheon.
1949:
As of today, “approximately $36,000,000 has been contributed by New Yorkers
toward the 1949 drive of the United Jewish Appeal.
1950(13th
of Elul, 5710): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1950:
Birthdate of Richard H. Jones who was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel
in September of 2005.
1950:
In Brooklyn, Max Gottfried who ran a hardware store with his brother Seymour in
Coney Island and “the former Lillian Zeimmerman” gave birth to Arlene
Gottfried, the photographer who took the images of the ordinary and captured
them as extraordinary on film. (As reported by William Grimes)
1951:
Birthdate of Roger Karoutchi, the Moroccan born scion of a Jewish-Armenian
family who became a prominent French political leader who has served as
Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister and the French Ambassador to
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
1952:
Stalin ordered the arrest of Jewish Artists and closed all Yiddish
institutions. They were accused of "Jewish Nationalism" and spying
for the West. Twenty-six of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
were immediately executed.
1952: The Knesset passed the bill increasing the
conscription for men by six months (to 30 months). As of June 1, 1953, the
maximum age for reserve duty was reduced from 49 to 44. The maximum
conscription age for doctors was set at 39 and for women physicians at 34.
1952: The new Oil Bill, passed in the Knesset by a
majority of 54 to 13, provided for leases to be given to prospectors for 30
years and offered them extensions for another 20 years. The royalties were set
at 12.5 percent and investors were to be subject to 50% income tax on
companies. Of course, the joke was that
Israel was the country in the Middle East that did not have oil. If only Moses had turned right instead of
left, as the comedians used to say.
1952(5th of Elul, 5712): An Israeli soldier was
killed by Jordanian snipers in the Wadi Ara area.
1954: In San Francisco, “Doris Feigenbaum Fisher and
Donald Fisher, the co-founders of Gap, Inc.” gave birth to Robert J. “Bob
Fisher the graduate of Princeton and Stanford who became a director of Gap in
1955(8th of Elul, 5715): Sixty-two-year-old
Dorothy Kahn the Seattle born daughter of Viola (Cohen) Kahn and Rabbi Julius
Kahn who was a leading social worker during the 1930’s and 1940’s passed away
today. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Kahn-Dorothy-C
1957(29th Av, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old
Mrs. Sadie Gold the widow of Rabbi Benjamin and the sister of Ann Goldberg and
Esther Lisner passed away today in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/30/102279550.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957: “The Abominable Snowman,” a British horror
film featuring Wolf Morris was released in the UK today by Warner Brothers.
1958: “The Hunters,” the film version of the novel
by James Salter was released today in the United States.
1960(3rd of Elul, 5720): Eighty-one-year
Russian born “British concert pianist Mark Hambourg” passed away today.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Hambourg-Mark.htm
http://www.hambourgconservatory.ca/bios/mark.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/28/99951894.pdf
1961: Birthdate of Daniel Levi, the native of
Algeria who gained fame as French singer and songwriter.
1962:
Seventy nine year old Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton “who head the British
delegation to the conference on refugees at Evian, France” and delivered a
speech in Parliament in 1938 calling on the Germans to cooperate in dealing
with the problem of “minorities forced to leave the country of their birth” and
praised “the moderation, good sense and common sense of the many
representatives of Jewish organizations with whom he had discussed the Refugee
Problem” passed away today.
1962: Eighty-two-year-old Canadian explorer
Vilhjalmur Stefansson one of the author Fannie Hurst’s lovers passed away
today.
1963: Diana Barnato Walker, the daughter of Woolf
Barnato and the granddaughter Barney Barnator flew an English Electric
Lightning T4 to Mach 1.6 (1,262 mph) becoming the first British woman to break
the sound barrier while establishing “by this flight a world air speed record
for women.”
1966(10th of Elul, 5726):
Seventy-nine-year-old Columbia grad and Phi Beta Kappa Member David Herman Joseph, the
Cincinnati, OH born son of Herman and Carolina (Sommer) Joseph who went from
teaching English in Secondary Schools to a career in journalism which led him
to serving as the City Editor of the New York Times for 21 years, while also
being a member of Temple Ansche Chesed passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/27/83546040.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1966: Birthdate of Avner Ben-Gal “an international
painter and artist, working mainly from Tel Aviv, Israel. His works depict
various intense, often neglected locations such as agricultural fields, prisons
and smoky interiors, whereby theatrical scenes play out.
1968: The Democratic National Convention which Bruce
Sundlun attended as a delegate opened in Chicago, Ill.
1968: “Rachel, Rachel” which marked the directorial
debut of Paul Newman who also served as producer and with music by Jerome
Moross was released in the United States today.
1970: Ten
thousand women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue to mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right
to vote. In New York, the speakers at the evening march included a battery of
Jewish women long active in the feminist movement. Congressional candidate
Bella Abzug, writer Gloria Steinem, and former Miss America Bess Myerson Grant,
then the city's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, joined Friedan on the
platform. Although Jewish women would later struggle with anti-Semitism and
anti-Zionism within the American feminist movement, the 1970 strike was
emblematic of the crucial role that Jewish women played in forming and
advancing that movement. Businesses and retail stores reported little effect from
the strike.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/26/1970/women-strike-for-equality
1970(24th
of Av, 5730): Sixty-six-year-old New
Bedford, MA native and St. Lawrence University Law School educated attorney
Daniel Trotzky, the husband of the former Rhoda Cohen and father of Howard and
Arthur Cohen who “was a founder and former president of Young Israel” and “who recently retired as president of
Roose velt School in Stamford, Conn., a preparatory board school” passed away
today.
1971: Gertrude Schimmel “was sworn in today as the
NYPD’s first female captain by Mayor John Linday.
1972: Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich,
Germany. Nobody had a clue that this
peaceful athletic venue would turn into a killing field for the Israelis and a
triumph for terrorism.
1974: Charles Lindbergh passes away at the age of
72. The Lone Eagle became a national
hero when he flew the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic landing in
Paris. However, he lost some of his
luster when he became one of the leaders of the isolationist movement dedicated
to keeping America out of World War II.
He had been to Nazi Germany and expressed his admiration for what was
being accomplished. He cautioned
Americans about the might of the fascists and described World War II as
European family fight that had nothing to do with the United States. After
Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh is reported to have sought a commission with the Army
Air Corps. His request was blocked by
those who held Lindbergh partially responsible for the lack of military
preparedness since the isolationists had done all they could to deny funding
for the Army and Navy prior to December 7.
1975: “Odessa activist Lev Roitburd received a two
year sentence of imprisonment “for resisting arrest” during the visit to USSR
of a US Senate delegation.”
1976: Robert G. Clegg, a British national who was
farmer in Uganda and had been accused of spying for the Israelis during the
raid on Entebbe was among those who were released by President Idi Amin.
1976: “The Last Tycoon” a film version of the novel
by the same name produced Sam Spiegel, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter,
starring Tony Curtis and featuring Peter Straus was released in the United
States today.
1977: The
National Assembly of Quebec adopted the Charter of the French Language. This would help trigger a mass migration of
Jews from Montreal to English speaking Toronto, making Toronto the center of
the Canadian Jewish Community.
1977(12th of Elul, 5737): H.A Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach) the
creator of Curious George, passed away. http://www.legacy.com/ns/news-story.aspx?t=the-curious-journey-of-ha-rey&id=101
1978: The thirty-three-day Papacy of John Paul I
began today. While he had no direct
impact on the Jewish people, his brief time in office paved the way for the
papacy of John Paul II who “often
devoted his energy to improving relations between Jews and Catholics.”
1979(3rd
of Elul, 5739): Seventy-two-year-old Alfred Wasserman passed today in Miami, FL
after which he was buried at Mount Nebo Kendall Memorial Gardens.
1980:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Los Angeles for Judith
Kadar, the widow of film maker Jan Kadar of blessed memory.
1980: Three generations of Seaman family women
marched with the New York Women's Strike for Equality
1983: “Strange Brew” a comedy co-directed by Rick
Moranis who also helped to write the script and in which he also played a
starring role and featuring the voice of Mel Blanc was released today in
Canada.
1983(17th of Elul, 5743): Sixty-one-year-old
Hartford, CT born actor and WW II Navy veteran Mike Kellin the son of Russian
Jewish immigrants and the older brother of Shirley Ann Kellin passed away
today.
http://archives.nypl.org/the/21407
1983: Canadian premiere of Producer Louis M.
Silverstein’s “Strange Brew” a co-starring Rick Moranis who also co-authored
the script and served as co-director.
1983: In “The Pride of Being Kurdish” published
today Greer Fay Cashman wrote “Few of the ethnic ingredients in Israel’s
sizzling melting pot have been as cruelly maligned as the Kurds. The deprecating image of a hot-tempered
illiterate primitive is so deep-seated that for many years Israelis of Kurdish
extraction denied their origins and identified with other national
backgrounds…The effort to distance themselves from their past had an
unfortunate effect. They began to forget
their customs and traditions. There was
an acute danger that the very existence of Kurdish Jewry would be erased from
the annals of history.”
1986(1st of Elul, 5747): Rosh Chodesh
Elul
1986: In Manhattan, Rabbi Lawrence Siegel officiated
at the wedding of Selma Ann Shapiro, president of Selma Shapiro Public
Relations and James H. Silberman,
president and editor in chief of Summit Books, a division of Simon &
Schuster.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/27/style/selma-shapiro-wed-to-james-silberman.html
1988: “The Jewish Center of the Hamptons,
abbreviated as JCOH, also called Shaarey Pardes” synagogue which had been
designed by Norman Jaffe was dedicated today.
1988(13th of Elul, 5748): Seventy-six-year-old
screenwriter and independent producer Milton Sperling passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/29/obituaries/milton-sperling-screenwriter-is-dead-at-76.html
1989(25th of Av, 5749): Parashat Re’eh
1989(25th of Av, 5749): Author Irving Stone who is
best known for the blockbuster novel and film epic, Lust For Life passed
away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Irving-Stone
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/28/obituaries/irving-stone-author-of-lust-for-life-dies-at-86.html
1992(27th of Av, 5752): Sixty-nine-year-old
American mathematician Daniel E.
Gorenstein, passed away. His groundbreaking work earned him the Steele Prize in
1989
1992: In France, premiere of “The Last of the
Mohicans” directed and co-produced by Michael Mann who also co-authored the
script, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
1993: “The Unspeakable Atrocity,” a documentary
examining the BBC’s ignoring of the Holocaust during WWII is scheduled to be
broadcast this evening on Radio 4.
1993: “The former chief of New York’s highest court”
Sol Wachtler “collected more than $805,000 as executor of the will and trust
funds left by the stepfather of his former lover, according to a pre-sentencing
letter released today.”
1994: “Police Academy: Mission to Moscow,” a comedy
co-starring Ron Perlman was released in the United States today.
1994(19th of Elul, 5754): Hamas claimed
responsibility for today’s murder of 18-year-old Ron Saval who lived at
Lehavim.
1995(30th of Av, 5755): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1995: The 13th and final episode of “The
Ben Stiller Show” created and written by Ben Stiller and Judd Apatow was
broadcast today
1996: Brooksley E. Born, the former wife of the late
Jack Landau began serving as chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
1997: Today, Mark Feuerstein, the Jewish son Audrey
and Harvey Feuerstein and Ilana Levine began appearing in “The Last Night of
Ballyhoo is a play by Alfred Uhry that premiered in 1996 in Atlanta.
2000:
“In an interview published today in Yediot Ahronot, Israel's most widely
circulated newspaper, Mr. Barak said he could not predict whether a peace pact
could be reached with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader. But he said
whatever chance there was of an agreement on Jerusalem and other contentious
issues was now up to Mr. Arafat showing ''flexibility and openness'' that was
not forthcoming at the Camp David talks that foundered last month.”
2001: The New
York Times book section featured a review of Babes in Paradise, a
collection of short stories by Jewish author Marisa Silver.
2001(7th of Elul, 5761): Fifty-eight-year-old
Dov Rosman was murdered today outside of Kibbutz Magal by Fatah terrorists.
2002:
Today, “Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Gov. George E. Pataki urged
Jews to be vigilant about security during the High Holy Days.”
2002:
“Only a week after Israel announced an agreement with the Palestinians to start
pulling back from Palestinian areas, the defense minister said today that there
would be no further withdrawals at least until the end of the Jewish holidays
in September.”
2003: The Columbia Investigation Board releases its
final report on the loss of the space shuttle Columbia. Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut was on
the Columbia as Payload Specialists.
2004:
Funeral services are scheduled to take place at Kol Ami Synagogue in White
Plains for Dr. Selig B. Neubardt, the husband of Saundra Neubardt.
2004:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held in Great Neck, NY for Esta Fuchsberg,
the wife of Seymour Fuchscberg with who she had three children – Jane, Paula
and Gil.
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that
undefeated Jewish boxing phenom Dmitriy "Star of David" Salita will
fight Shawn "The Educator" Gallegos for the vacant North American
Boxing Association junior welterweight championship belt today in New York
City. Salita, who is Orthodox, is also known as the "Hammerin'
Chabadnik." If he wins, Salita will be the first Jewish fighter to
win a boxing championship since 1978.
2005: Eve Ensler the author of “The Vagina
Monologues” appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” today
2006: Shabbat Shoftim – Anniversary of the Bar
Mitzvah of Sheldon Luber, of blessed memory
2007: The
Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of Bearing the Body
by Ehud Havazelet.
2007: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah
2007-2008 religious school year begins.
2007: Ryan Braun
hit his 25th home run in his 82nd game.
2007: In \ “Competition So Fierce That the Yarmulkes
Fly Off,” published today the New York Times reports on the fortieth
anniversary of the Orthodox Bungalow
Baseball League, a forty-team softball league whose Chasidic and Orthodox
Jewish players have romped across the diamonds of the Catskills for the past
forty years.
2007(12th of Elul, 5767): Rabbi Judah Nadich, a
leader of Conservative Judaism who served as General Eisenhower’s adviser on
Jewish affairs in 1945 when the U.S. Army discovered the aftermath of the
Holocaust, passed away at the age of 95.
2008: Opening night of the inaugural Gilboa Coexistence Festival taking place throughout the Gilboa
region.
2008: Israel Bar-On “won the final of Kokhav Nolad 6
contest with 56% of the votes.”
2008: In two
hours-long program on Israel Radio’s "Kol Hamusika", Dani Orstav
hosts Yeheskell Beinisch, Chairman of the Jerusalem International Chamber Music
Festival who will present the Festival’s rich, varied program and will
introduce the new artists who will be performing this year.
2008: The search for
oil in Israel got a big push forward tonight after The Nature and Parks
Authority general assembly approved plans for the drilling of an exploratory
hole to search for oil in the Judean nature reserve. Two Israeli companies,
Ginko Oil Exploration and Delek Energy Systems, believe there could be as much
as 6.5 million barrels below the reserve.
2009: In
Cedar Rapids, Charlene Wolf hosts a meeting of the Hadassah book club where
they discuss their latest selection, The Triumph of Deborah by Eva
Ezioni-Halevy
2009: As the fall semester starts at the University of Iowa, offers course
styled Biblical Hebrew I which “is the first in a sequence of classes designed
to give students the tools necessary to read the Hebrew Bible in its original
language.”
2009: If
Reform and Conservative Jews want more synagogues or mikvaot [ritual baths]
they should build them themselves with private money and not expect the state
to foot the bill, Religious Affairs Minister Ya'acov Margi (Shas) said today.
2009: Government
officials in Lithuania reached agreement today with Jewish organizations over
the future of an historic cemetery in the capital city Vilnius, putting an end
to a long-running dispute over the site.
2009(6th of Elul, 5769): Sixty-eight-year-old
song writer Eleanor Louise “Ellie” Greenwich passed away today.
http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/ellie-greenwich-chapel-of-love-co-writer-dies/
2009(6th of Elul, 5769): Ninety-six-year-old
iconoclastic painter Hyman Bloom passed away today (As reported by Holland
Cotter)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/arts/design/31bloom.html?pagewanted=print
2009(6th of Elul, 5769): Eighty-seven-year
William Korey, who was one of the leaders in the fight to protect the rights of
Jews living in the Soviet Union during the Cold War passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/world/04korey.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2010: The Michigan
Region of ORT, the world's largest Jewish education and vocational training
non-governmental organization, is scheduled to sponsor “Rub-a-Dub” which
includes both a silent and a live auction.
2010:
Dozens of Palestinian youths hurled Motolov
cocktails and stones at security forces this morning in the east Jerusalem
neighborhood of Silwan.\
2011:
Congregation Adat Reyim’s is scheduled to host
“Erev Shabbat on the Water” at the Fairfax Yacht Club in Fairfax, VA.
2011: Elisha Banai “played in the short film, ‘Tank full of
Petrol’, a futuristic spaghetti western with bikers.”
2011:
Cantor Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner are
scheduled to lead a Carlebach-inspired service at the Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a Triple Header Shabbat Eve Service
at Temple Judah: Start of the Fifth Musical Shabbat Season; Recognition of the
Accomplishments of Past Board Members; Installation of the new board
including co-Presidents Laurie Silber
and Ben Dillon.
2011: A Kassam rocket fired into southern Israel from the Gaza
Strip landed in open territory in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council area
tonight hours after a Grad rocket landed south of Ashkelon.
2011(26th of Av, 5771): Seventy-one-year-old novelist
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2011(26th of Av, 5771): Sixty-two yearold Nahum Itzkovich, Jerusalem district psychologist of the
Israel Employment Service and husband of The Jerusalem Post’s veteran health
and science reporter Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, passed away today. ]
2011: Hundreds of Egyptians gathered today outside the Israeli
embassy in Cairo in what was supposed to be a "million-man march"
calling on the government to expel Israel's ambassador.
2012:
“Going Beyond Memory: A Conference on Synagogue Archiving is scheduled to begin
in Cincinnati, Ohio
2012:
The Alexandria Kletzet is scheduled to perform at Riderwood Village in Silver
Spring, MD
2012:
The alumni reunion celebrating the 60th anniversary of Camp Massad,
“the only Hebrew immersion summer camp in Western Canada” is scheduled to come
to an end.
2012:
The Montreal Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2012:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Every Day by David Levithan
2012:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that her government was hard at work
trying to find a quick solution to the circumcision controversy raging in her
country.
2012:
A Kassam rocket from the Gaza Strip landed in the Eshkol Regional Council in
southern Israel shortly after 8 PM Israel time
2013:
An HBO documentary directed by James Freedman about Marty Glickman is scheduled
to be shown for the first time today. (As reported by Joe Winkler)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hbo-doc-recalls-life-of-legendary-jewish-broadcaster/
2013(20th
Elul): Yarhrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, a great husband, wonderful father and the
best uncle in the world.
2013:
A report of the investigation conducted by Sullivan and Cromwell released today
concluded “Incidents of physical and sexual abuse at Yeshiva University were
not limited to its high school for boys, an investigation has found.”
Investigators found of evidence of abuse “at other divisions of the
university.” (As reported by JTA)
2013:
“The head of Australia’s opposition said Monday that he will seek to improve
ties with Israel, as his conservative bloc geared up for a national election
next month.” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)
2013:
The International Cantor Concert is scheduled to take place this evening at the
Dohany Street Synagogue
2014(30th
of Av, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Elul I
2014:
“A Triumph of Life: Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Oregon Holocaust
Memorial” is scheduled to open in Portland, OR.
2014(30th
of Av, 5774): Fifty-five-year-old Ze’ev Etzion, the security chief for Kibbutz
Nirim and 43 year old Shahar Melamed a father of 3 living at Nirim were
murdered in a salvo of rockets fired just before the latest ceasefire went into
effect.
2014:
Nariman House, the six-story home of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai “which closed
after a terror attack six years ago” is scheduled to be rededicated today.
2014:
“Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Oscar Garcia has quit his job, with the club saying
today it was because of the “current security situation” in Israel.” (As
reported by Times of Israel and JTA)
2014:
Terrorists in Gaza launched salvo after salvo of rockets just before the
ceasefire went into effect at 7 pm local – a ceasefire which was greeted as a
victory by Hamas but which did not have the support of many cabinet members and
was seen as a disappointment by many Israelis especially those living in the
Eshkol Region.
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host a screening “It Happened One Night.”
2015:
Muammar Ata Mahmoud, 56 of Hebron who stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli
border policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City this evening is the convicted killer
of an Israel Prize winning professor of history Menahem Stern who was “stabbed
to death while walking to work at the Givat Ram campus in 1989.
2015:
Josh Rosen was named starting quarterback of the UCLA Bruins
2015:
“After a public outcry, a Tel Aviv market complex today revoked a NIS 3,500
($900) monthly fine imposed on a café owner who refused to open his business on
Shabbat.” (As reported by Josefin Dolsten)
2015:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host “Nosh and Chagall” its
first ever Adult Art Class and Potluck.
2015:
The American Jewish Archives is scheduled to host the latest in its Travels in
American Jewish History with a study mission in New Orleans, LA.
2016:
Despite objections from the religious parties allied with the Prime Minister
construction work began this afternoon, erev Shabbat, on the Shalom station
with the Netanyahu’s full approval.
2016:
“Is That You? The Road Not Taken” a film about a 60-year-old Israeli film
projectionist is scheduled to open at the Cinema Village.
2016:
Jewish actress/comedian Roseanne Barr who has slammed Hillary on Twitter saying
Clinton will be the absolute death of Israel today “tweeted and re-tweeted
several posts about Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin, whom Barr labeled “a
filthy nazi whore.”
2016:
“Hanna Goor, who was a contestant on the Israeli reality music show “Kochav
Nolad” (“A Star is Born”) in 2004, was performing at the Hagaugust (August
Festival), which was organized by the Culture and Sport Ministry” when she “was
asked to leave the stage because she was wearing a bikini top.
2016:
Israeli born cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to open “Bryant Park Presents
IN/TER\SECT's Breaking Boundaries, a free five-hour outdoor concert.”
2016:
“Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, said today that she saw a
stronger case for raising the Fed’s benchmark interest rate, suggesting the
central bank was likely to act in the coming months.”
2016:
Barbra Streisand’s latest album “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” is
scheduled to be released today.
2017(4th
of Elul, 5777): Parashat Shoftim;
2017(4th
of Elul, 5777): Seventy-six-year-old playwright Bernard Pomerance passed away
today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2017(4th
of Elul, 5777): Seventy-seven-year-old publisher Howard Kaminsky who authored The
Twelve, a novel with Susan Kaminsky passed away today. (As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
2017:
“Israelis flocked to Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua Park today for the city’s second
annual canine celebration, called “Kelaviv.” (As reported by Luke Tress)
2017:
Bat Yam is scheduled to host the final day of a festival featuring theatre and
“street theatre.”
2017:
In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host The Iowa
Early Keyboard Society concert
2017:
In Terre Haute, IN, the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center is
scheduled to host Peter Hayes, the author of Why?: Explaining the Holocaust.
2017:
In Corpus Christi, TX, Congregation Beth Israel has cancelled Shabbat services
because of Hurricane Harvey.
2018:
In another example of Jews as life-long learners, in Memphis, TN, Adult Hebrew
Classes are scheduled to start this morning at Temple Israel.
2018:
At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the Temple Emanuel Streicker
Center the photographic exhibition “The Ultra-Orthodox of Bnei Brak” is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2018:
In Atlanta, GA, Jeremy Katz, the Archives Director at the Bremen Museum is
scheduled to address the meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society
2019:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a “News In Review
Roundtable.”
2019:
In London, the JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Skin” Oscar winning
Israeli director Guy Nattiv.
2020:
Congressman Lee Zeldin, the son of Merrill Schwartz and David Zeldin, who is
facing a tough fight for re-election and who is a strong supporter of Israel is
scheduled to speak tonight at the Republican National Convention.
2020:
The New York Times featured a review of Hitler: Downfall, 1939-1945 by
Volker Ullrich.
2020:
Questions were raised today as to whether or not Secretary Pompeo’s address to
the Republican National Convention last night which was given while he was in
Jerusalem on an official visit violated the Hatch Act.
2021:
Naftali “Bennett's first official visit to Washington is set to take place” to
take place today. (YNET and Reuters)
2021:
In an act of optimism, in Cedar Rapids, The Temple Judah High Holiday is
scheduled to rehearse today despite the fact that because Linn County is
“currently in a high transmission area as defined by the CDB which has led to
the decision to cancel in-person High Holy Day Services which means that “only
members of the choir and their families will be allowed in the sanctuary.”
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL private funeral services are scheduled to be held for
Dr. Sam Leibowitz, beloved uncle of Rabbi Feivel Strauss.
2020:
The JCC Book Fest in Your Living Room at Oshman Family JCC and National JCC
Literary Consortium are scheduled to present online Jake Cohen as he discusses his new book and demonstrates how
to make his “Everything Bagel Galette” recipe.
2021: Based on decision made yesterday, as of
today children will not be required to present a negative COCID test at entrances
to school because the Attorney General said “there was no legal to prevent
children from entering schools.”
2021:
Docent Anne Burns Johnson is scheduled to discuss online the de Young Museum
exhibit on the boundary-pushing artist, Judy Chicago.
2022:
In Beachwood, OH, the weekend of installation ceremonies for Rabbi Yael Dadoun
is scheduled to begin this evening with Shabbat services followed by an Oneg at
The Temple-Tiftereth Israel.
2022:
“The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition” is scheduled to open
this week at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
2022:
In Atlanta, GA, the Margaret Mitchell House is scheduled to be the site for a
“Musical Shabbat: Spirit & Soul - featuring the ensemble Hello, Goodbye
& Peace which is a combination of Southern preaching and Judaism, side by
side, connected by great music.
2023:
The Agnon House Book Club is scheduled to host a discussion of “From Heaven,”
one of “the lesser-known store of S.Y. Agnon that follows the ladder of
achievement and success climbed by Rabbi Ovadia."
2023:
The 34th Annual Conference of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors and Descendants is scheduled to meet for a second day in Washington,
D.C.
2023:
The Community Action Lab at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington is
scheduled to be open for those making posters to use at today’s celebration of
the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington.
2023:
Chabad Center of Natick is scheduled to host a community Shabbat dinner during
Sharon Burtman will talk about her “story of having to choose between chess and
Judaism.
2023:
The exhibition “an instinct to change things” that includes the work Amira
Ziyan “an artist photographer and teachers who lives and works in Yarka,
Israel” is scheduled to close today at Trotter and Sholer in New York City.
2023(9th
of Elul, 5783): Parashat Ki Taytzay (When you will go out)
2024:
“The Oath,” “a Jewish play written and directed by Jewish writer Clara Grusq”
is scheduled to be performed at The Tank on W. 36th Street.
2024:
The Sixth and I Synagogue is schedule to
host a “What It Takes: Hosting Shabbat Dinner” during which Rabbi Aaron “will
cover why the practice of Shabbat can be a value-add to your week, walk you
through how to perform Friday night rituals, and share hosting tips—inspired by
Priya Parker’s book The Art of Gathering—so you’ll be ready to
channel your inner Ina Garten.”
2024:
Agnon House is scheduled to host another
lecture in the online lecture series "Bible Here and Now", together
with biblical scholar Prof. Ed Greenstein who will “return to the Bible and try
to present biblical poetry and fiction in a new light - not only as a sacred
text but also as real literature.”
2024:
As August 26th begins in
Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas
supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their
hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 325 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)
