This Day, September 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 21
19 BCE:
Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called
Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poems
also known as Bucolics or “Pastorals.. Written in 40 B.C., during the consulship
of Pollio, Virgil's benefactor a year or two previously, it hails the birth of
a baby boy who will usher in a golden age of peace and prosperity in which even
nature herself will participate. The golden age is the new era of peace for
which Augustus was responsible, and the child is thought to be the expected
offspring of Augustus and Scribonia (the infant turned out to be a girl). The
similarity of language in the poem to that of the Book of Isaiah gave rise to
the idea, in the early Christian period, that the fourth Eclogue was indeed a
prophecy of the birth of Christ. The similarity may be due to the fact that
Jewish ideas spread over Italy in the second half of the first century B.C.,
and Virgil may have used his acquaintance with them to express the Roman
equivalent of a Messianic expectation.
1104: The
first synagogue in Speyer was consecrated today, “eleven years after the pogrom
of 1096.
1177: Castile
conquered Cuenca, Spain.
1235: The
reign of Andrew II of Hungary whose employment of Jews and Muslims to
administer the royal revenues led him into conflict with the Holy See and the
Hungarian prelates” came to an end today.
1348: The Jews
of Switzerland were charged with perpetuation of the Black Death epidemic.
There were riots in Bern Chilon and Zurich. Jews held at Chilion were tortured
until they "confessed" to having poisoned wells in the area around
Venice, Italy. Many Swiss Jews were burned to death during the riots while
others were expelled from their respective cities after the violence had
subsided. The Black Death was supposed to have been caused by poisoned wells
and the Jews were the responsible for poisoning the wells. Of course, the Black
Death was really Bubonic Plague, but the ignorant found it convenient to blame
the Jews for any inexplicable ill that befell them.
1451: Jews of
Arnhem were ordered to wear the Jew-badge by the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, the
Cardinal for that part of Holland.
1451,
Cardinal Nicolaus de Cusa preached in Arnhem on absolution, and declared that
none should ever receive absolution who permitted a Jew practising usury to
dwell alongside of or below him. At the same time he ordered, under penalty of
expulsion, that all Jews should register at the burgomaster's office, and in
future wear a Jew-badge upon their outer garment. They were not allowed to
exact interest on pledges, nor henceforth to lend money to Christians at all;
every transgression of this regulation was punishable with a fine of 4 g. to be
paid by both Jew and Christian. Within the space of a year all existing
loan-offices must be closed without stringency upon borrowers; and Jews must
leave the city, unless they earn their bread by labor and honest commerce
without usury, and wear a badge for recognition by all ("Oir broet met
hoeren Arbeide verdienen of regtveerdige koomanschap sonder woekeren, doen
wolden, en mits zy dat Teyken boven heur Cleeden dragen, daer men se bi kennen
mach"). Meanwhile it was ordered that no one should do them any injury by
day or night, openly or secretly.
1486: Sixty-eight-year-old
Johannes Hinderbach, the Prince-Bishop of Trent who blamed the Jews for the
death of Simon of Trent which was his justification for murdering “several of
them” and working to canonize the boy in what was one of many of the blood
libels, passed away today.
1553: The
Talmud was confiscated and publicly burned in Rome under the auspices of
Cardinal Caraffa, later to be Pope Paul IV, a rabid counter-Reformationist. The
Cardinal chose this day specifically because it was Rosh Hashanah so the Jews
would feel the grief more strongly. Talmud burning would spread to other parts
of Italy.
1558: Charles
V, Holy Roman Emperor, passed. Charles wore two hats, or should we say two
crowns. While he was the Holy Roman Emperor he was also King of Spain. As the
Spanish monarch he continued to enforce the ban against Jews living in his
realm. But as Holy Roman Emperor, his rule over German Jewry was such that they
“regarded the emperor as their benefactor and protector against the
Protestants.”
1618(12th
of Tishrei, 5379): In Holland, Dona Ester, wife of Moses Peixotto passed away.
Her tombstone provides us with one of the earliest records of the Peixottos, a
prominent Sephardic family who came to the United States in the first decade of
the 19th century.
1645(1st of
Tishrei, 5406): In Mogilev, Russia, rioters attacked the Jews during Tashlikh
services.
1676: Innocent
XI begins his Papacy. “Innocent showed a degree of sensitivity in his dealings
with the Jews within the Italian States. He compelled the city of Venice to
release the Jewish prisoners taken by Francesco Morisini in 1685. He also
discouraged compulsory baptisms, which accordingly became less frequent under
his pontificate; but he could not abolish the old practice altogether. More
controversially he issued an edict by which all the money-lending activities
carried out by the Roman Jews were to cease. Such a move would incidentally
have financially benefitted his own brothers who played a dominant role in
European money-lending. However ultimately convinced that such a measure would
cause much misery in destroying livelihoods, the enforcement of the edict was twice
delayed.
1677:
Spanish born Dutch-Jewish printer Joseph b. Abraham Athias “succeeded, through a Jewish agent of the
Polish crown in Holland, Simon by name, in gaining still more favorable
protection from the Council of the Four Lands at their meeting today in
Jaroslaw which since 1591 had been the meeting site for the Council, alternating
with Lwow, for the honor.
1710(Elul,
5470): Hodel, daughter of Moshe Kikinish of Lemberg, died a martyr's death
after falsely confessing to blood-ritual charges in order to save the lives of
other Jews.
1723: Jamaica
native Grace Mears and Moses Raphael Levy gave birth to Hannah Levy.
1731: Jews
were granted the right to attend fairs in Smolensk provided that they limit
their transactions to wholesale business.
1734: Abraham
de Lyon, the Portuguese born son of Jacob de Leon and his wife Esther de Lyon
gave birth to Abraham de Leon.
1743(14th
of Tishrei, 5504): Erev Sukkoth
1743(14th
of Tishrei, 5504): Samuel Myers Cohen, the son of Emanuel Myers Cohen the
husband or Rachel Asher Levy and the father of Rebecca and Richea who “was elected constable in New York City
in 1730,passed away today after which he was buried in the Third Cemetery of
Congregation Shearith Israel, in Manhattan.
1755(16th
of Tishrei, 5516): Sukkot Second Day
1755: In
London, Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore, the Italian born daughter of Judah Montefiore,
and her husband Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore Medina gave birth to David
Montefiore.
1758: In
Paris, Abraham Silvestre who was “of Jewish origin” and his wife gave birth to
linguist and orientalist Silvestre de Sacy who prepared texts for the British
and Foreign Bible Society.
1759(29th of
Elul, 5519): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time with British now
holding Quebec City which is one step on the road to creation of the Jewish
community in Canada.
1765(6th
of Tishrei, 5526): Shabbat Shuva
1766: In Philadelphia,
Martha Lampley and Samson Levy gave birth to Daniel Levy.
1768(10th
of Tishrei, 5529): Yom Kippur observed as citizens of Massachusetts prepare to
express the opposition to British troops being sent to the colony in what was
one of the steps down the road to the American Revolution.
1770(2nd
of Tishrei, 5531): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1774(16th
of Tishrei, 5535): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time while the
Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia.
1776(8th
of Tishrei): Shabbat Shuvah
1776: During
the British occupation of New York, a fire broke out that destroyed
approximately 25% of the city – a fire that the British claimed was started to
disrupt their forces and that the Americans claimed the British started so that they could loot the city,
most of whose Jewish inhabitants had fled with the departure of American
forces.
1777: German
natives Johanna Ullman and Jacob Dreifus gave birth to Samuel Dreifus.
1778(29th of Elul, 5538): Erev Rosh
Hashanah observed for the last time while Henry Laurens was servings as 5th
President of the Continental Congress.
1779:
Birthdate of Count Wedel Jarlsberg, a Norwegian noble who supported banning
Jews from his country.
1784(6th
of Tishrei, 5545): Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo, the Amsterdam born son of
Daniel David Cohen d'Azevedo and Sara Cohen d'Azevedo and husband of Sara de
Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo and Sara de Abraham Cohen D'Azevedo passed away
today in London.
1787(9th
of Tishrei, 5548): Kol Nidre chanted four days after “members of the
Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution.”
1789(1st of
Tishrei, 5550): Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah for the first time under the
Presidency of George Washington.
1793(15th
of Tishrei, 5554): Sukkoth
1793: In
Georgetown, SC, “Solomon and Rebecca (Moses) Harby gave birth U.S. Navy officer
and War of
1797(1st
of Tishrei, 5558): Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time during the
President of John Adams.
1799(21st
of Elul, 5559): Liel Selichot observed on the same day that President John
Adams wrote to Secretary of State Timothy Pickering concerning negotiations
with Britain and France who were at war with each other.
1800(2nd
of Tishrei, 5561): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time
during the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(14th
of Tishrei, 5562): Erev Sukkoth
1802: Anti-Jewish
riots took place in Switzerland. Five centuries have passed since the black
plague but the Swiss behavior remained unchanged.
1802: In
Easton, PA, Sarah Hart and Isaac Nunez Cardozo gave birth to Abigail Nunez
Cardozo, the wife of Hayman Levy Seixas with whom she had nine children.
1804(16th
of Tishrei, 5565): Second Day of Sukkoth
1804: In
Virginia, L. Joseph & Company is scheduled to be closed today because of
“their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by Mosaic Law to be
holy.”
1805(27th
of Elul, 5566): Parashat Nitzavim read on the same day that several of the men,
traveling with Lewis and Clark were reported “growing weak for the want of
food” as the are camping on Lolo Creek in what is now Idaho
1806(9th
of Tishrei, 5567): Kol Nidre
1808(29th
of Elul, 5568): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1811(3rd
of Tishrei, 5572): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuvah
1812(15th of
Tishrei, 5573): First Day of Sukkoth
1812: Levi
Charles Meyers Harby, who served in the “Texas Navy” during its war for
independence and in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War while finding
time to marry “Leonora Rebecca De Lyon, a member of the prominent Jewish family
from Savanah with whom he had three children.
1815:
William I, whose father William V, the last Stadtholder was supported by the
Dutch Jews, was “inaugurated” as
of King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
1819(2nd
of Tishrei, 5580): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1820(13th
of Tishrei): Eighty-two-year-old Solomon Avigdor Moses passed away today after
which he was buried at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1822(6th
of Tishrei, 5583): Shabbat Shuvah
1823(16th
of Tishrei, 5584): Second Day of Sukkoth
1825(9th of
Tishrei, 5585): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the first time during the
Presidency of John Q. Adams.
1826:
“Professor Hyman Hurwitz and Myers Joseph composed odes” for today’s
consecration service for The Western Synagogue in London which had been
“arranged by Myer Solomon.
1827(29th
of Elul, 5587): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1830: Samuel
Wiggins and Dinah Elizabeth Leoi who lived to the age of 61, were married
today.
1831(14th
of Tishrei, 5592): Erev Sukkoth
1833(8th
of Tishrei, 5594): Shabbat Shuva
1836(10th
of Tishrei, 5597): Yom Kippur
1836: Joseph
Samuels led services in the newly dedicated synagogue in Cincinnati, Ohio – the
first such structure in the Queen City.
1838(2nd
of Tishrei, 5599): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1838:
Privileges granted the Jews of Sweden were revoked by the Swedish government.
1841: Hassocks
Gate Railway Station which was designed by Anglo-Jewish architect David Mocatta
opened today.
1842:
Henrietta Delgado and David Judah Alberga gave birth to Theresa Alberga.
1842:
Birthdate of Ottoman Sultan Murad V. During his reign, Jews migrated to Turkey
after the signing of the Berlin Treaty. Also, his Jewish subjects celebrated
the 400th anniversary of their arrival from Spain. It took three tries, but
Herzl finally got an audience with the Sultan in 1902 during which he makes his
case for a Jewish Homeland under the protection of the Sultan.
1842:
Birthdate of John B. Weber, Civil War veteran and New York Congressman who was
appointed the first Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York in 1890
which meant he had a major impact on the flood of Jewish immigrants from
eastern Europe – deciding in some cases who could stay and who had to be
returned. Weber joined Dr. Walter Kempster in visiting Russia and preparing an
official report on the conditions of the Jews living in that country and the
purposeful policy of deprivation and discrimination pursued by the Czar to
impoverish the Jews and force them to immigrate to the United States.
1843: In
Bromberg, Prussia, Moses Nathan Silberberg and Pauline Pulvermacher gave birth
to Max Silberberg the husband of Dora Feder who came to the United States in
1859, served in the Union Army and served for several years in the Ohio State
Legislature, representing a district from Cincinnati.
1845: Henry M. and Frances “Fanny” Francks
Hirschberg gave birth to Newburgh, NY resident Georgina Hirschberg the sister
of Isabella and Judge Michael Henry Hirschberg.
1846(1st
of Tishrei, 5607): In the first year of the Mexican-American War, Jews observe
Rosh Hashanah
1847:
Birthdate of Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz the “rabbi, Jewish historian, and
founder of the Agudath Israel organization” who was raised by his grandfather
Mordechai Eliezer Kovno, “after his father was killed by soldiers.”
1850(15th of
Tishrei, 5611): Sukkoth
1853: Rabbi
J.J. Lyons officiated at the wedding of T. Jefferson Tobias of Charleston, SC
to Adelaide Hendricks, the daughter of Uriah Hendricks of New York City.
1853(18th
of Elul, 5613): Elizabeth Gershon, the London born daughter of Zipporah and
Aaron Nathan Cohen and the wife of Samuel Gershon with whom she had seven
children passed away today.
1853: “Great
Britain: London Trade-American Sewing Machines” published today reported “if
the clothing firm of E. Moses and Son has not begun using the sewing machine in
its tailoring operation, it soon will, since the firm is always looking for
ways to be be more cost effective.” “London clothier Elias Moses was the first
to pioneer a retail model of massive advertising and deep discounts to create a
high-volume business in low-margin ready-to-wear clothing…The Moses &
Son store even looked different, fitted with” the “ then unheard-of plate-glass
display windows out front and fixed prices on clothing inside. But after the
father passed away, and the son retired, the store rather lost is heart. When
the son of Moses and Son died in 1884, the Times of London mourned, ‘The large
premises at Aldgate and Oxford Street know the name of E. Moses and Son no
more.’”
1855(9th
of Tishrei, 5616): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time during
the Crimean War which would end in March of 1856.
1857: In
Warsaw, OH, Nathan and Henrietta Becker gave birth to businessman Abraham
Becker, the husband of Katherine Becker with whom he had four children.
1857: Bertha
and Marcus Goldman gave birth to Henry Goldman who joined Goldman Sachs &
Co in 1885 where he “helped list retail companies like Sears and Woolworth” and
he refinanced Studebaker. He left the
company during World War I over his support for Germany an attitude that would
change when he visited the country when the Nazis came to power and became a
tireless worker to help German Jewish intellectuals and children escape to the
United States.
1857: Four
days after he had passed away, 89-year-old Moses Mocatta was buried at the
Balls Bond Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1858: In
Philadelphia, PA, Rebecca Baehr married Julius Israel of Camden, SC.
1859: Benjamin
Szold arrived in the United States and began serving as the Rabbi for Oheb
Shalom in Baltimore, Maryland. He would serve in that capacity until his death
in 1902. Szold moved the congregation from Minhag America (Reform) to Minchag
Ashekenaz (Traditional). For all of his own accomplishments, his greatest claim
to fame may be that he was the father of Henrietta Szold.
1860: Seventy-two-year-old
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer who called the Jews "The Great
Master of Lies" passed away today.
1863: At its
meeting today the Board of Alderman referred to the Committee on Donations and
Charities the Report of Committee on Finance, with resolution that the
Comptroller be directed to dispose of the following ground, belonging to the
Corporation, and located adjoining the Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Benevolent
Society, on Seventy-seventh-street, and extending from the westerly line or
side of said Orphan Asylum to the easterly line or side of Lexington-avenue.
being in extent one hundred and thirty-five feet front and rear, by one hundred
feet deep to the said- Hebrew Benevolent Society, to be held by the said
Society upon the same tenure or conditions as the twelve lots of ground
heretofore granted to the Bifid Society; the grant hereby made to said Society
to be sanctioned by the Legislature of the State at its next or any subsequent
session, in order to perfect the title thereto in the aforesaid Society, and to
obviate the prohibition contained in the forty-first section of the Amended
Charter of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in respect to disposing
of the property or franchises of the City.
1864: In
Baltimore, MD, “Dr. Aaron Friedenwald and Bertha Bamberger gave birth to Johns
Hopkins alum Dr. Harry Friedenwald, the College of Physicians and Surgeons
graduate and husband of Bertha Stein who was President of the American
Federation of Zionists and trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America.
1865(1st
of Tishrei, 5626): American Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah for the first time
during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson
1866: Emanuel
and Karolina Dreifuss gave birth to Nathan Dreifuss who died six months later.
1867:
Birthdate of American statesman, Henry Stimson. By the time he passed away in
1950, Stimson had amassed an incredible record of public service serving
Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Harry Truman. Stimson served as Secretary of
War from 1940 through 1945. This meant that he was the cabinet member who
oversaw the Army and Army Air Force in the successful defeat of the Axis
military. Towards the end of the war, there were some in the Roosevelt
administration who circulating a resolution opposing creation of a Jewish state
in Palestine. Stimson came out against this move which helped to smother it at
a time when American support for a Jewish state was a hotly debated issue in
the halls of government.
1869: In
Mayen, Prussia, Barbara and Benedict Loeb to Dr. Leo Loeb who “developed an
experimental approach to studying cancer and pioneered techniques for tissue
culture and in vitro tissue transplantation which impacted early-to-mid
twentieth century experimental embryology.”
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/leo-loeb-1869-1959
1870: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi J.H.M. Chumaceiro officiated at the wedding of S.C.
Peixtto of Columbia, SC and Hortense Levy, the “eldest daughter of Max Levy.”
1870: According to the Teachers’ Reading Room and Exchange in Manhattan there
are 7 Hebrew Schools below 59th Street with a total enrollment of 1,147 and 47
teachers.
1871(6th of
Tishrei, 5632): Sixty-four-year-old Rabbi Mendel Hess passed away. Born in
1807, at Lengsfeld (now Stadtlengsfeld), Saxe-Weimar he was a German rabbi.He
was one of the 1st Jewish theologians to combine a university education with
Talmudical training. From 1828 until his death he was chief rabbi of the grand
duchy of Weimar, residing first at Lengsfeld and later at Eisenach. Although
the measure had aroused great dissatisfaction among the Jews, he strictly
enforced the decree of the government (June 20, 1823) ordaining that Jewish
services should be conducted exclusively in the German language and that the
reading in Hebrew of sections of the Bible should be followed by their
translation into the vernacular. The position of rabbi as government official
became very unpleasant, as he was required to inform against those who failed
to attend the services, a requirement which even the progressive Jews, who
approved of the ordinance, condemned. Intermarriages between Jews and
Christians being allowed in the grand duchy, Hess officially consecrated such
nuptials, notwithstanding the proviso that the off-spring should be brought up
in the Christian faith. In the consecration of Jewish marriages he likewise
ignored time-honored traditional rabbinical regulations, and it is said that in
his disregard of Jewish sentiment he went so far as to attend a theater on the
eve of the Day of Atonement ("Allg. Zeit. des Jud." 1845, p. 62).
Hess was a member of the three rabbinical conferences which (1844-46) convened
at Brunswick, Frankfort-on-the-Main, and Breslau, and as such was an advocate
of uncompromising radicalism. After 1848 he felt the illiberality of enforced
reforms, and petitioned the government to repeal the law which made attendance
at the Reform services compulsory ("Allg. Zeit. des Jud." 1853, p.
474). He edited "Der Israelit des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts" from 1839
to 1847, and, with Samuel Holdheim as coeditor, in 1847 and 1848. Hess also
published two collections of sermons and addresses (Eisenach, 1839, 1843).
1873(29th of
Elul, 5633): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed as the New York Stock Exchange
remained closed for a second day in what would become the Panic of 73, a four
year long economic depression that presage later such events as the one under
President Hoover and President Bush
1874(10th of
Tishrei, 5635): Yom Kippur
1874: In
Baltimore, Herman Moses Cone and Helen Guggenheimer Cone gave birth to Johns
Hopkins graduate and Columbia Law School trained attorney Bernard M. Cone, the
husband of Elain Wolf Cone who owned several mills in North Carolina which in
1945 were “re-organized un Proximity Manufacauring” and the in 1948 merged with
Revlution cotton to form Cone Mills, Corp., “the largest producer of flannel in
the world” passed away todayin Greensboro, NC after which he was buried in Cone
Cemetery.”
1874:
Birthdate of Joe Levin, a founder of B'nai Abraham Synagogue in Brenham, Texas.
1875(17th
of Tishrei, 5546): Third Day of Sukkot
1875: Berta
Seligman and Abraham Weil gave birth to Theresia Weil who died before reaching
her 21st birthday.
1876(3rd of
Tishrei): Tzom Gedaliah
1876: In
Vladislavov, David and Marie Bernstein gave birth to Herman Bernstein, the
Russian born American author and diplomat who wrote “History of a Lie,” a book
which exposed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as an anti-Semitic forgery
and served as U.S. Ambassador to Albania.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E04E1DC103EE733A25753C2A9679C946797D6CF
1876:
Birthdate of Viennese actress Mathilde Sussin who died in 1943 at
Theresienstadt.
1878: As a
Yellow Fever Epidemic gripped the Deep South, the officers of Hebrew Hospital
Association in Memphis, Tennessee issued the following appeal: “Our funds
having been entirely exhausted, and sickness still continuing with unabated
fury in our midst, we appeal to our co-religionists through the United States
for pecuniary aid. There are orphans to be cared for, in addition to relieving
the wants of the sick and the distressed. And our good work must be
discontinued unless aid is given us. All remittances should be addressed to
David Eiseman, Treasurer of the Hebrew Hospital Association.”
1878: Raphael
D.C. Lewin delivered a lecture on the subject of “Life and Character of Moses
Mendelssohn, the German-Jew Philosopher of the Eighteenth Century.” The
proceeds of the lecture will go to aid those suffering from the Yellow Fever
Epidemic.
1878: The
Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee dispersed funds to various organizations
aiding victims of Yellow Fever including $1,000 to the Hebrew Benevolent
Association of New Orleans, $500 to the Association for the Relief of Jewish
Widows and Orphans of New Orleans and $500 to the Hebrew Benevolent Association
of Memphis, TN.
1878(9th of
Tishrei, 5548): Erev Yom Kippur
1879 (4th of
Tishrei, 5640): Tzom Gedaliah
1879: In
Columbus, Mississippi, founding of B’nai Israel, a congregation that holds
Friday night and Saturday morning services in the Odd Fellows Building,
provides a religious school that meets twice weekly and owns a cemetery “one
mile south of the courthouse.”
1879 (4th of
Tishrei, 5640): Rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yechiel Michel also known as the Malbin
passed away. Born in 1809, he ultimately became the Chief Rabbi of Bucharest.
He wrote a commentary on the Bible, showing the close relationship between the
Oral and the Written Law. He fought strongly against many reformist movements
which he likened to modern day Kararites. While not very popular with the
"enlighteners," he apparently was quite popular with the common
people of the various communities that he served.
1880(16th
of Tishrei, 5641): Second Day of Sukkot
1880:
Birthdate of photographer Marcia Mishkin, the wife of Modest Stein, the
Lithuanian born Jew whose birth name was Modest Aronstam who was known for his
failed attempt to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
1880: It was
reported today that the Jewish festival of Succoth or Feast of Booths commenced
on Sunday evening and will continue until next Monday night. The first and last days of the festival are
only regarded as holy days, the intermediate days being of no special
import. His is the harvest of feast of
the ancient Jews and is also commemorative of the Israelites dwelling in
Succoth of booths during their weary journey through the wilderness.”
1881: In
Rumania, Rebecca and Joseph Nusim gave birth to Columbia trained Mechanical
Engineer and husband of Lillian Montrose who worked did turbine research for
General Electric and Westinghouse and who was “connected with the development
and design of Turbo Blowers for Blast Furnaces.”
1882:
Birthdate of Russian native Harry Shulman, the merchant who in 1905 came to
Chicago after which he moved to Iowa City where both he and his wife Anna were
buried in the Agudas Achim Cemetery.
https://peoplelegacy.com/harry_shulman-6b5b6F
1883:
Birthdate of Robert Goldstein the producer of “The Spirit of ‘76” a film made
before the United States entered WW I which portrayed the cruel treatment of
Americans during the Revolution by British soldiers. Unfortunately for Goldstein and he was
prosecuted under Title XI of the Espionage Act, and received a ten-year
sentence plus a fine of $5000. The sentence was commuted on appeal to three
years.
1883:
Birthdate of New York City native and attorney Edwin Chester Vogel, a partner
in the firm of Elkus, Vogel, Gleason and Proskauer and prominent art collector.
1883: It was
reported today that while addressing a banquet being held in Grosswardein, the
Hungarian Prime Minister said “Jew-baiting affected the honor of the
Fatherland, and the Government was bound to protect the lives and property of
all citizens regardless of class prejudice.”
1884:
Birthdate of Clarence Cleveland Dill, the United States Senator from the state
of Washington who was so supportive of Herbert Hoover’s nomination of Benjamin
Cardozo to serve on the Supreme Court that, on a radio broadcast he called it
“the finest act of his career as President.”
1884: “The
English Peers” published today, using information that first appeared in the Fortnightly Review, described the
obstructionist role played by the House of the Lords in the past sixty years
including their repeated oppositions to bills passed by the House of Commons
that would have relived Jews of their “civil disabilities.”
1884: It was reported
today that in London, this week’s edition of the Jewish Chronicle contained a letter from Henry Rice, the
President of the United Hebrew Society of New York and I.S. Isaacs, the
society’s secretary, describing the opposition of Jews in the United States “to
the immigration of idle, weak people who expect to live on charity alone and
urging that care be taken that none be sent save those able to earn a
living.” The Jewish leaders warned that
the U.S. government would send back the former.
The Chronicle called “the
letter harsh and unsympathetic.”
1884: “Heine’s Memoirs”
published today provides a detailed review of The Memoirs of Heinrich Heine
which include “some newly discovered fragments of his writings” and “an
introductory essay by Thomas W. Evans”
1884: It was reported
today that unnamed Jewish peddler has been arrested in New Haven on charges
that he had split open the head of John Carroll after being teased by a group
of boys last night.
1884: The Society of
United Hebrew Charities met at Wheatly Hall in Philadelphia to discuss the
additional street being place on its limited resources to the huge influx of
Russian immigrants.
1884: “Honoring An Aged
Philanthropist” published today described the “extensive preparations” being
made by American Jews to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir Moses
Montefiore on October 24. At four
o’clock in the afternoon on that date synagogues throughout the United States
will hold services following the special liturgy first developed in the British
Empire.”
1886: Birthdate of
Polish native Esther Wachsmann who gained fame as America painter Esther
Hamerman, the great-grandmother of painter Nicole Eisenman.
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/3659/Hamerman/Esther
1886: Birthdate of
Lucian Leman Kahn, the native of Hamilton, Ohio, Virginia Military Institute
Class of 1906 who served as a Captain with the 8th Division of the
AEF during WW I and then went on to serve as officer with the State Stove
Company of Hamilton while raising a daughter with his wife Clara Kahn
https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters//search.php?VMIClass=Class%20of%201906
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/07/104327500.html?pageNumber=21
1889(25th of
Elul, 5649): Leil Selichot
1890: In Vienna, a
sub-Lieutenant who had been arrested for attacking an old Jew appeared before
the Police Commissioner today and explained his action by saying that “he
had…quarreled with a Jew and hated all the race so much that he had sworn he
would punish the first one he set eyes upon.”
1890: In New York
“Nathan and Lina (Gutherz) Straus” gave birth to Princeton graduate and
Quartermaster 1st Lt. Hugh Grant Straus, the husband of Flora
Stieglitz, whose career including working at R.H. Macy and Abraham & Straus
while serving as the Direct of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities.
1890: Rabbis Pereira
Mendes and M.H. Harris officiated at the funeral of Benjamin F. Peixotto at
Temple Israel of Harlem. Pall bearers include Julius Bien, Meyer S. Isaacs,
Adolph Sanger, Daniel T. Hays, Michael H. Cardozo, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, M.M.
Davis and Adolphus Solomons of Washington, D.C.
1890: Seventy-year-old Victor
Guérin a French explorer and archaeologist whose seven trips to the “holy land”
resulted in the seven volume Geographical, Historical, and Archaeological
Description of Palestine and who used such Jewish sources “as the Mishna and
Talmud, as well as Jewish travelers such as Benjamin of Tudela and Isaac Chelo”
passed away today
1890(5th
of Elul, 5650): Sixty-year-old Albert (Aaron) Siegfried Bettelheim, Hungarian
born American Rabbi died at sea while returning to the United States from a
visit to Europe. Born in 1830, he led a rather colorful life before
coming to the United States in 1867 where he had pulpits in Philadelphia,
Richmond, San Francisco and finally in Baltimore, MD. While in Richmond,
he studied medicine but accepted a position in San Francisco rather pursue a
medical career. According to one source he was buried at sea under the
supervision of two Catholic priests that Bettelheim had met on the
voyage. The clerics reportedly recited the Kaddish as the body was
consigned to the depths. (As reported by Isidore Singer, et al)
1890: “New
Publications” published today included a description of The Centurial: A Jewish
Calendar for One Hundred Years, a Jewish calendar and almanac compiled by E. M.
Myers.
1891(18th of
Elul, 5651): Henry Marks, a young Jew from Brooklyn who had served with Troop
E, Fifth Cavalry, US Army, shot himself “on the lake shore at Edgewater”
outside of Chicago.
1891: Seventy-year-old
Victor Guérin a French explorer and archaeologist whose seven trips to the
“holy land” resulted in the seven volume Geographical, Historical, and
Archaeological Description of Palestine and who used such Jewish sources
“as the Mishna and Talmud, as well as Jewish travelers such as Benjamin of
Tudela and Isaac Chelo” passed away today.
1892(29th of
Elul, 5652): Erev of Rosh Hashanah
1892: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native Abraham Max Rabiner, the 1916 graduate of Albany Medical
College, and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York
University.
1892: Polish Jews being
held in quarantine at Sandy Hook “have been sent kosher food from their friends
in New York so they can begin their celebration of Rosh Hashanah
1892: “The Jewish New
Year” published today provided a description of the upcoming holiday that
includes “a peculiar observance, the blowing of the shofar or cornet…”
1893: In Latvia, “Hirsch and Deborah (Lipkin) Bernhardt gave birth to
University of Rochester and Johns Hopkins University trained economist Joshua
Bernhardt whose area of expertise was sugar related issues as can be seen by
his preparation of “A Statistical Survey of the Sugar and Trade of the U.S” in
1920 and his preparation of a report for
President Coolidge on the relation of the tariff on sugar to the rise in prices
1893: Solomon Breyer is
at home with a scalp wound he suffered when the synagogue on Rivington Street
he was praying at Erev Yom Kippur caught fire and burned.
1893: According to
reports published today, a concert will be held “to defray” the legal expenses
of Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman.”
1894(20th of
Elul, 5654): Bernhard Goldberg, the Krakow born son of Rose and Abraham
Goldberg, the husband of Marie Goldberg and father of Betty Cohn passed away
today in Berline.
1894: In Vienna,
attorney Anton Paul Piëch and his wife gave birth to Anton Piëch, the attorney
and son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche, who was a Nazi party member, member of the
SS and a manufacturer of vehicles for the Germans.
1895: “Knows the Hebrew
Bible by Heart” published today described the intellectual attainments of
Professor Jacob Cooper, the Rutgers professor who claimed that he was so well
versed in the Old Testament that “if all the Hebrew Bibles in the world were destroyed,
he could reproduce the text from memory and who was awarded an honorary LL.D.
by Tulane for his work in ancient languages.
1895: Birthdate of New
York native Samuel Salzman who at the age of 3 moved to Cleveland where he
joined “the 37th Division” which fought in France in WW I, founded
the United Supply Company and was an active member of “the Temple on the
Heights.”
1896(14th of
Tishrei, 5657): Erev of Sukkoth
1896: “Santa Maria,” a
comic or light opera created by Oscar Hammerstein is scheduled to open at the
Olympia Theatre in New York.
1897: Today, at their
regular meeting The Trustees of the Normal College “accepted the Bernard Cohen
prize in English Composition to be offered to students of the Normal College”
which “was presented by David B. Cohen in memory of his father who was a school
trustee, and consists of the income of a one-thousand dollar West Shore
Railroad 4 per cent bond.
1898: Boatswain Eugene
M. Isaacs, a native of Pennsylvania who had joined the Navy in 1887 was
“assigned” to the U.S.S. Iowa today.
1899: In Algiers,
rioting that had been begun by Max Regis, the former mayor and notorious Jew
baiter yesterday continued today with the police making at least six arrests.
1900: A fire
in Constantinople, left 2000 Jews without shelter. One synagogue was destroyed.
1900: In n the
town of Potoki, near Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Hoda (Hadassah) and Yehuda Leib
Nissan Vilensky, a Zionist leader descended from a long line of rabbis gave
birth to Miriam Vilensky who gained fame as Israeli writer and poet Miriam
Yalan-Shteklis
1900: In New
York City, pharmacist Dr. J. Leon Lascoff and his wife gave birth to Dr.
Frederick Lascoff, the recipient of a pharmacy degree from Columbia where he
taught for 20 years and a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the Connecticut College of
Pharmacy who operated the “Yorkville pharmacy started by his father” and who
was the husband of Emmy Lascoff with whom he had one son.
1901: Herzl
was granted an interview with British Colonial Minister Joseph Chamberlain.
1901: “The Red
Kloof,” whose cast included Clara Lipman opened on Broadway today at the Savoy
Theatre.
1902: Kaspare
Cohn Hospital, which “was a visual representation of the Jewish community's
growing concern with meeting the health needs of a growing Los Angeles
Community” opened today on the east side of Los Angeles.
The Founding
of Kaspare Cohn Hospital, 1902-1920 · Founders Day Exhibit · Cedars-Sinai
Historical Conservancy Photographs (omeka.net)
https://cedarssinai.omeka.net/exhibits/show/founders-day-exhibit/foundersday/kaspare-cohn-hospital
1902: “Members
of the Romanian Education Society met tonight and arranged for a meeting to be
held in Washington Hall” on September 28 “at which they indorse Secretary Hay’s
note to the European powers regarding the condition of the Jews in Roumania”
which will be attended by Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf and
Recorder of Wills Jacob Singer.
1903(9th of
Tishrei, 5738): Erev Yom Kippur
1903:
Birthdate of Belarus native Arthur J. Katzman, the Brooklyn Law School graduate
and long-time member of the New York City Council.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/09/01/694993.html?pageNumber=20
1903: “The St.
Petersburg correspondent of The Daily Mail reported a cased which occurred at
Irkutsk of a Russian officer shooting a Jew who refused to give him a match to
light his cigarette because the officer asked him in an insulting tone.”
1903(9th
of Tishrei, 5738): Thirty-nine-year-old Dr. Richard Landau who combined the
study of history with the practice of medicine passed away today in Nuremberg,
Germany.
1903:
Birthdate of Victor Alphonse Sachse, Jr., the LSU trained attorney and husband
of Janice Rubenstein Sachse who was the father attorney and Korean War Veteran
Victor Alphonse Sachse III.
1904: “Czar’s
Concession To Jews” published today reported that “the recent modifications of
the legislations relating to the Jews” “provides that Jewish soldiers fighting
in the Far East have equal rights with those of retired privates who have
entered the service under the recruiting law, the only difference being that
the latter, upon retirement, have the right to live freely in any part of the
empire, while the former can only secure this right by distinguishing
themselves in battle or give proof of irreproachable conducting during the
course of the war” with Japan.
1905:
Twenty-four-year-old Phillip Maslansky, the Pinsk born son of Rabbi Zwi Hirsch
and Yetta Maslansky who in 1896 emigrated to the United States where he began
his business career with after having attended the Jewish Theological Seminary
married Hattie Hattenbach today in New York City,
1905(21st
of Elul, 5665): Berta Seligmann the wife of Abraham Weill passed away today in
Mannheim, Germany
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/09/21/101150542.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1906(2nd of
Tishrei, 5667): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1906: In Frankfurt,
Germany, Bertha Merzbach, the Offenbach born “daughter of Hermann Zwi Merzbach
and Josephine Merzbach and her husband Heinrich Gotthilf Henry Rothschild gave
birth to Stella Luise Rothschild the future resident of Topeka, KS and wife of Heinz
Moritz Graumann
1906:
Birthdate of Hungarian-American historian Ladislas Farago whose books provide a
better insight into his skills than anything that could appear in this blog.
(Start reading)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ladislas-Farago
https://www.amazon.com/Ladislas-Farago/e/B001HOY0EK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1907(13th
of Tishrei, 5668): Parashat Ha’Azinu
1907(13th
of Tishrei, 5668: Fifty-five-year-old Harris Lebus, the native of Hull, who
after learning the furniture making trade from his cabinet-maker father joined
with his brother Herman Andrew Harris to form Harris Lebus, “the largest
furniture factory in the world” passed away today.
1908: “Nathan
Straus received many congratulations” today “on the occasion of the sixteenth
anniversary of the starting his plan to save the babies of the poor by the
dispensation of pasteurized milk at minimum cost and when necessary, at no cost
whatever.”
1909:
Birthdate of Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana from 1958 until 1966. Nkrumah
was President of Ghana when it gained its independence from Britain. Under
Nkrumah, Ghana established strong economic and political ties with Israel. Like
many other newly independent African states, Ghana saw Israel as a source for
training in modern technology that would attempt to establish a pseudo-colonial
relationship. Israel saw these joint efforts as a way of off-setting the
petro-power of the Arab nations. Among other things, Ghana and Israel formed a
joint ocean cargo and shipping line called Black Star. Unfortunately, Nkrumah
lost his moral compass and was deposed in 1966l A year later, Israel’s African
friends would turn on her and succumb to threats of an Arab led shut off of
petroleum following the Six Days War.
1909:
Birthdate of Furth, Germany and University-trained radiologist Eugene
Feistemann Lutterback, who served on the faculty of Northwestern University.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/111.1.238?journalCode=radiology
1910: “Ezrah,”
the first Ashkenazi community organization is founded in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1911: This evening Joseph H. Hertz was formally installed
as Rabbi of Congregation Orach Chayim in Manhattan.
1911(28th
of Elul, 5671): Seventy-one-year-old CSA veteran Alexander Hart, the New
Orleans bon son of Isaac and Julia Cohen Hart, the husband of Leonora E. Levy
Hart and father of Amy, Albert and Horace Hart passed away today in Norfolk, VA
after which he was buried in the Jewish section of Forest Lawn Cemetery.
1912)10th
of Tishrei, 5673): Yom Kippur
1912: Houdini
performed “The Chinese Water Torture Cell” escape for the first time in public
today at the Circus Bush in Berlin.
1913:
Three days after he had passed away fifty-eight-year-old Czech born William W.
Pollak, the husband of Marie Lederer Pollak with whom he had eight children
passed is scheduled to buried in Mayfield Cemetery in Cleveland Heights.
1913:
Harry P. Fierst, the Kovno born son of Leba Yatskan and Reuben Fierst who in
1900 came to the United States where he was a member of the executive committee
of the United Palestine Appeal, married Miriam Cohen today.
1914(1st
of Tishrei, 5675): As Jews on all fronts of the Great War celebrate Rosh
Hashanah, on the Western Front, German and Allied Forces plan their next move
following the Battle of the Marne – the fight that saved France from crushing
defeat in the first month of conflict.
1914: In an
attempt to do away with “mushroom synagogues” – “temporary synagogues organized
for unattached Jews for the observance of New Year’s and the Day of Atonement –
the Kehillah in New York is hosting services at the Technical School for Girls,
the Young Women’s Hebrew Association building on 5th Avenue and
Educational Alliance with no charge for seats.
1915: It was
reported today that “Djemal Pasha is especially annoyed because of the Zion
Mule Corps which consists of volunteers from among the Jewish refugees from
Palestine who are engaged in transport work at Gallipoli.
1915: Newman
Erb, the German born American-Jewish railroad executive “was able to leave his
bed for a short time this afternoon which was taken to indicate that he had
about recovered from the bichloride of mercury that he took by mistake.”
1915: It was reported
today that “Djemal Pasha has announced he will extirpate Zionism root and
branch and that not a single Jew will be allowed to re-enter Palestine.”
1915: Today,
“the American warship Chester arrived at Alexandria from Jaffa” carrying
“nearly 400 British, French and Russian subjects.
1915: University
of Pittsburgh trained medical doctor Joseph Hayem Barach, the Lithuania born son
of Dora Oppenheim and Zorah Barach and member of Temple Rodef Shalo married Edna Levy today.
1915: The
American warship Des Moines is expected to arrive at Alexandria having left
Jaffa with a large contingent of refugees that included 200 Jews, many of whom
have been expelled by Djemal Pasha because he thinks they are Zionists.
1916: “The
rejection by ‘democratic’ Jewish organizations” in the United States “of the
peace plan for an American Jewish Congress to demand equal rights for Jews in
other countries was considered at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Conference of National Jewish Organizations” led by President Louis Marshall
which took place today at the Hotel Astor.
1916: U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis spoke at reception given in his honor
tonight by Zionist leaders during which he “pledged to give $6,000 to the
Zionist movement on the condition that Boston Jews succeed in raising the
remaining $18,000 of the $24,000 pledged at the Hebrew Congress in Philadelphia
last Spring.”
1916:
“Congressman Meyer London, the only Socialist in Congress spoke briefly on the
Mexican situation at a dinner and reception given in his honor” tonight during
which “he praised President Wilson for having avoided war with Mexico and
asserted that it was indeed a strange sensation to stand alone against all of
the other Congressman when the Mexican Expedition was under discussion.
1916:
Birthdate of Lea France Gourdji, the daughter of Turkish-Jewish parents who
gained fame as Françoise Giroud, whose accomplishments included co-founding
influential political weekly L’Express to advance the agenda of French-Jewish
politician Pierre Mendès France.
1917: It was
reported today that Djemal Pasha, the military governor of Syria has been
deposed the government.
1917: In
Russia, proclamations were circulated today “accusing the Jews of attempting to
assassinate Alexander Kerensky and overthrow the new regime.”
1917: In
Zhitomir, Russia, “peasants demanded a Tsar instead of a ‘Jewish ministry.’”
1918(15th of
Tishrei, 5679): First Day of Sukkoth
1918:
Birthdate of Connecticut native, director and producer Harold Loeb whose best-known
film maybe the comic war movie “Kelly’s Hero” who should not be confused with
author and publisher Harold Albert Loeb the son of Kun, Loeb investment banker
Albert Loeb and Rose Loeb a cousin of Peggy Guggenheim.
1918: During
WW I, British cavalrymen under the command of General Allenby captured the 3,000-man
Turkish garrison at Nazareth.
1918: During
WW I, as British forces fought to liberate Eretz Israel from Ottoman rule, the
RAF and RAAF conducted “the most devastating aerial attack of the war” in which
“fifty aircraft bombed and machine gunned the Turks” who were trying to escape
from Nablus and cross the Jordan River where they mistakenly thought they would
be safe from further attack.
1919: Based on
the study of Louis Marshall, Chairman of the sub-committee of the Fair Price
Committee which has been investigating cost of labor and materials used in the
baking of bread by a million Jews in New York City, it was reported today that
the full committee has “decided that the Jewish Master Bakers’ Federation of
Greater New York were not justified in increasing the price of their breach
which sells at nine cents a pound maximum.”
1920(9th
of Tishrei, 5681): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1920: Rabbi
Max Reichler is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “An Attuned Soul” this evening
at Sinai Temple.
1920: Rabbi
Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Slander” this evening at Temple
Israel on Lenox Avenue.
1920: Rabbi
Nathan Blichman is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Our Spiritual Reawakening” at
Congregation Montefiore.
1920: Rabbi
Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Arresting a Catastrophe” this
evening at West End Synagogue.
1920: Rabbi
Aaron Eiseman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “A New Jew’s Motto” this
evening at the Mt. Neboh Congregation on Broadway.
1921: Sir
Ernest Joseph Cassel, German-born, British merchant and banker passed away. It
was not until he died that most people discovered that Cassel had converted to
Roman Catholicism at the behest of his wife.
1921: Abraham
Calechman and his wife gave birth to Harold Ralph Calechman, “the brother of
Milton Calechman.”
1922: Today
“virtually the same day the Palestine Mandate was approved by the League of
Nations; “the US Congress passed a joint resolution stating its support for a
homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people but not at the expense of other
cultures present at the time,”
1922: U.S.
President Harding signed a joint resolution of congress expressing approval of
the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in Eretz Yisrael.
Passing resolutions was just about all of the support that the Jews would get
when it came to support for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Another element
that is often overlooked is the lack of strong support for a Jewish Homeland in
Palestine. Large segments of Orthodox Jews opposed the Zionists because the
movement ran contrary to waiting for the Messiah. And large numbers of Reform
Jews opposed it because it ran contrary to their assimilation goals.
1923: Chinka
Chana Zaid and Yosef Yechiel Zaid, HaKohen gave birth to Yehuda and Israel
Zaid.
1924: In
Brooklyn, “Benjamin Koslow, an electrician and the former Ruth Sachs” gave
birth to Howard Bertram Koslow, the painter and illustrator who gained fame as
the designer of stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. (As reported by William
Grimes)
1925(3rd
of Tishrei, 5686): Tzom Gedaliah
1925:
Patrolman Goldberg was among those who thwarted the attempted robber of the
restaurant on 7th Avenue owned by Jennie and Benjamin Weinberg/
1926: Herman
Bernstein, the Polish born American author and editor of The Jewish Tribune was
inundated with telegrams and letters congratulating him on the celebration of
his 50th birthday. The expression of best wishes came from a variety of Jewish
and non-Jewish leaders including David Belasco, Colonel Edward M. House, Louis
Marshall and Felix M. Warburg.
1926: In
Cleveland, Ohio, businessman William J. Glaser and his wife Lena gave birth to
Donald Arthur Glaser an American physicist and neurobiologist who won the 1960
Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of the bubble chamber."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/donald-glaser-nobel-winner-in-physics-dies-at-86.html?hpw
1926(13th
of Tishrei, 5687): Sixty-three-year-old Louis Grossman the Austrian born
American Reform Rabbi who served the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio for
thirty years passed away today.
1927: “Oh,
Kay!” a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin opened at
His Majesty’s Theatre in London.
1927: “The
Student Prince in Old Heidelberg” a silent film directed and produced by Ernst
Lubitsch starring Norma Shearer was released today in the United States today.
1928: Catcher
Ike Danning made his major league debut with the St. Louis Brown.
1928: Sam and
Annie Stein Lazarus gave birth to Irwin Milton “Bootsy” Lazarus their fourth
son, the others being Jacob Mendel Lazarus, Leon Albert Lazarus and Ralph
Lazarus.
1929: “The
Oxford students who defended the Jews in the Arab attack in Jerusalem arrived
in London from Palestine today in charge of the Rev. Graham Brown principal of
Wycliffe Hall. ..The father of one of the students who met them at the ship
said that the Jewish community of Tel Aviv presented each with a special
memento…The students are all young men studying for the ministry…They were
pleased at having enrolled in the police force and at having aided in restoring
order in Jerusalem.”
1929:
Birthdate of Elsa Rabinowitz, the native of Charleston, SC who gained fame as
actress Elsa Raven who played “Ida Straus” in the blockbuster “Titanic.”
1929:
“Illusion” an early “talkie” produced by B. P. Schulberg and featuring Lillian
Roth was released by Paramount Pictures today.
1929: Eighty-three-year-old
Nathaniel E. Harris who was the governor of Georgia when Leo Frank was lynched
passed away today.
1930(28th
of Elul, 5690): Forty-two-year-old Ukrainian born Mania Krimgold Lispector, the
wife of Pinkhas Lispector and the mother of author Clarice Lispector, passed
away today as a refugee in Brazil having had to live with the memories of rape
and the reality of paralysis.
1930(28th
of Elul, 5690) Fifty-five-year-old philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal,
the daughter of Harriet Newmark Meyer and Marc Eugene Meyer and the sister of
Eugene Meyer, Jr the owner and publisher who turned the Washington Post into
one of the nation’s leading newspapers in its day passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/blumenthal-florence-meyer
1931: “Graft”
a thriller produced by Samuel Bischoff was released in the United States today
by Universal Pictures.
1931(10th
of Tishrei, 5692) Yom Kippur
1931: “Advice
as to how to meet the business depression and the problems which it causes was
given by rabbis in New York City today in their sermons in celebration of Yom
Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which began at sundown Sunday and closed at
sundown today.
1932: It was
reported today that “Professor Albert Einstein and a number of other German
scientists have issued a protest against the dismissal of Jewish professor Emil
J. Gumble from the University of Heidelberg faculty “who was ousted as a result
of Nazi agitation.”
1933(1st of Tishrei,
5694): American Jews observe a New Year living for the first time under The New
Deal.
1933: In
Manhattan, at the Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver
a sermon on “Addicted to the Infinite.”
1933: On Long
Island, at the Rockaway Park Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi Robert Gordis is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “New Ideals for an Aging World.”
1934: In the
Westmount neighborhood of Montreal, Nathan Cohen and Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky,
the daughter of Rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline gave birth to singer/songwriter
Leonard Cohen
http://www.leonardcohen.com/us/home
1935:
“Jubilee” a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart at the Shubert Theatre in
Boston today for a three-week pre-Broadway run.
1935(23rd of
Elul, 5695): After a long illness Henry Samuel Morais passed away today at the
House of the Incurables in the Bronx, New York. Born in Philadelphia, PA in
1860, he was the son of Rabbi Sabato Morais, a well-known national Jewish
leader, Rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia, and founder of the
Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Morais attended different private and
public schools for his secular education, while he received a traditional
religious education from his father. After his schooling he taught for twelve
years in the schools of the Hebrew Education Society and in the Hebrew
Sabbath-Schools of Philadelphia. He was interested in a time in law but
abandoned it to pursue a literary career. He contributed art icles on various
subjects to secular and Jewish papers including current matters in Judaism,
Jewish literary topics, and other general questions. He wrote for journals all
over the United States, although, of course, most of his material was published
along the east coast, especially in Philadelphia. In 1887 he was the principal
founder of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, a weekly newspaper that
represented a traditional religious point-of-view, and served as managing
editor for its first two years. After leaving the Jewish Exponent he joined the
special staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and became its editor in 1894.
He was also the editor of two other journals in Philadelphia during this time:
the Musical and Dramatic Standard and the Hebrew Watchword and Instructor.
Along with his journalistic activities Morais took active part in the cultural
and intellectual life of Philadelphia. He was the founder and president of
Doreshe Da'ath Society, a Jewish literary and intellectual group, founder and
executive director of the Philadelphia Musical and the Philadelphia Concert
Company, and was also involved with the American Jewish Historical Society,
along with his father, during its formative years in the late 1890s and early
1900s. Besides his journalistic efforts and the works which he published (see
below for an annotated bibliography) Morais used his religious background and
education along with his former teaching experience to enter the Rabbinate
where he became known as an articulate speaker, as a Jewish educator to both
adults and children, and as a communal leader. He was asked quite often by
different synagogues to deliver guest sermons on special Sabbaths and the
holidays. As a Rabbi, Morais was respected by and appealed to an American-born,
English-speaking constituency committed to the ideals of traditional Judaism.
Morais himself held strong views against the Reform movement in America and
became embroiled in a number of controversies concerning statements which he
made against Reform Judaism. Morais was nevertheless unable to find security in
the Rabbinical profession and he held numerous pulpits. Morais' first position
was in Philadelphia, where he became acting minister in Congregation Mikveh
Israel, 1897-1898, upon his father's death. After a brief illness Morais left
Philadelphia to accept a position in Congregation Adath Jeshurun, Syracuse, New
York, where he served as Rabbi in 1899-1900, and 1902-1903. In 1900-1901 he
served as Rabbi to Congregation Jeshuath Israel, Newport, Rhode Island. After
leaving Syracuse he came to New York where he remained for the rest of his
life. He founded and became Rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel in New York
City. Successive pulpits for Morais included: Congregation Sons of Israel,
Brooklyn, New York; Congregation Derech Emunah, Arverne, Long Island;
Congregation Pincus Elijah, New York City, and the Congregation of Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn, New York. Morais never married; he kept in close contact with his
brother and sisters and maintained a large group of friends with whom he
corresponded -- indeed many of these people were major figures within the
American Jewish community and their correspondence appears in this collection.
1936: More
than seventy people including Benjamin Winter, chairman of the Federation of
Polish Jews in America, Sam Rosoff, Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Harry
Hershfield, Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld, the vice present of the Maccabee
Association and Egon Pollak, a former start of the Hakoah team of Vienna were
among those who attended a luncheon at Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant today in honor
of the visiting Maccabee Palestine soccer team.
1936: Having
spent the las four months in Europe and the Near East, half of which was spent
in Palestine, “B. Charney Valdeck, president of the American Ort Federation and
general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward arrived back in the United States
aboard the Queen Mary and declared that he was “more convinced than ever that
Zionism is a political mistake.”
1936: “Because
he had published a charge of ritual murder and other libels against the Jews,
Arnold Spence Leese, a 57 year-old veterinary surgeon and editor of the
violently anti-Semitic newspaper The Fascist, was sentenced to six month
imprisonment at Old Bailey today” and his printer Walter Whitehead was fined 20
pounds and ordered held in jail until the fine was paid.”
1936: In
address given tonight at Amsterdam, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the president of the
Jewish Agency “emphatically denied reports that he had consented to a temporary
halting of Jewish emigration to Palestine” saying that “neither British police
nor Arab terrorists can stop Jewish emigration to Palestine.”
1937(16th
of Tishrei, 5698): Second Day of Sukkoth)
1937: The Palestine Post reported that David
Ben-Gurion, Moshe Shertok (Sharett), and Nahum Goldman were present at the
opening meeting of the Sixth Committee of the League of Nations in Geneva. In
his opening address M. Lange of Norway compared the Palestinian situation to
'the squaring of a circle,' but added that 'humanity owes a debt of gratitude
to Jewry.' The Sixth Committee waited for the arrival of British Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden to start the Palestine debate.
1937: Catcher
Harry Chozen made his major league début with the Cincinnati Reds.
1937: Elias E.
Sugarman, the editor of Billboard, married “Yiddish torch singer Belle Baker,”
in what was her third trip to the altar.
1938: “Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in a message
received today sent by the United Palestine Appeal, called upon American Jews
to engage in "sacrificial, national self-taxation" to provide
$5,000,000 during the year for settlement and defense of the Jewish community
in Palestine.”
1938:
According to a cablegram received in New York by Hadassah, “eighty-two Jewish children
from 15 to 17 years of age left Germany and Austria the week for permanent
settlement in Palestine” and that children will join “2,400 0thers from
Germany, Austria and Poland” that have already been brought to Palestine by
Youth Aliyah.”
1938: “Room
Service,” a Marx Brothers comedy premiered today in New York.
1939: Sigmund
Freud, who is suffering acute pain from
cancer of the palate “asks his physician to administer enough morphine
to end the pain.
1939: “The
Soviets and the Germans signed a formal agreement coordinating military
movements in Poland including the ‘purging’ of saboteurs, after which “a joint
German-Soviet parade was held in Lvov and Brest-Litovsk. (Two years later Nazi
tanks would be rolling towards Moscow and Stalin’s folly would be obvious to
all except the most loyal Comrades who did not want a trip to Siberia or
worse.)
1939:
Heydrich, the Chief of the Reich Central Security Office, held a conference in
Berlin to discuss the long-term future of Polish Jewry. During the conference,
Heydrich stated that there was an ultimate plan for dealing with the Jews, the
first step of which called for the concentration. He orders chiefs of
Einsatzgruppen to establish, in cooperation with German civil and military
authorities, Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. He decrees that all
Jewish communities in Poland and Greater Germany with populations under 500 are
to be dissolved, so that deportations of Jews to urban ghettos and
concentration camps can be accelerated. Further, Heydrich orders the
establishment of ghetto Judenräte (Jewish councils). The main goals of the
ghettoization process are to isolate Jews, force them to manufacture items for
Germany, and provide easy Nazi access for murder and deportation.
1939: “The
first actual Judenräte were established in occupied Poland by Reinhard
Heydrich's orders on 21 September 1939, soon after the end of the German
assault on Poland.”
1940: “City of
Conquest” a film noir directed and produced by Antole Litvak with music by Max
Steiner and featuring George Tobias was released in the United States today.
1940: Today, Sir
Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer “was commissioned second lieutenant into
the Welsh Guards from Officer Cadet Training Unit’
1941(29th of
Elul, 5701): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1941:
Birthdate of Paul Cowan, the husband of Rabbi Rachel Cowan and “a journalist of
strong social passions whose book An Orphan in History influenced thousands of
assimilated Jews like himself to recover their Jewish heritage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/rabbi-rachel-cowan-dead.html
1942(10th of
Tishrei, 5703): Yom Kippur
1942(10th of
Tishrei, 5703): Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to
Belzec extermination camp.
1942: On Yom
Kippur the Germans ordered Konstantynów Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate
Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto - established in Biała Podlaska meant to
hold Jews from nearby 7 towns including Konstantynów, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz
andTerespol
1942(10th of
Tishrei, 5703): In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
1942: Open-pit
burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made
to dig up and burn those already buried (107,000 corpses) to prevent the
fouling of ground water and to hide evidence of atrocities.
1943: In
Greece, Rabbi Barzilai was commanded to establish a Jewish Council and to take
the necessary steps to carry out the deportation of all the Greek Jews.
1943: The
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced today that “Max S.
Perlman, the former New York City relief supervisor plans to depart soon to
engage in rehabilitation activities for Jews in North Africa,” including those
are natives to the area as well as refugees from Europe.
1943:
Birthdate of Jerry Bruckheimer, movie and television producer. The CSI
television series is one of his most famous “television franchises.”
1944: Today,
in what would prove to be an ill-fated mission, “Haviva Reik, a Jewish
paratrooper from pre-state Palestine and emissary of the Hagana… was dropped
near Banská Bystrica, which was then the center of the Slovakian Rebellion. Her
mission was to establish contact with Rabbi Weissmandel and Gisi Fleischmann,
the leaders of the “Working Group.”
1945: “Pope
Pius XII received WJC Secretary General Leon Kubowitzki in audience, who
recounted to the pope the "great losses" suffered by the Jews during
the war and expressed gratitude for what the church had done to help "our
persecuted people." Kubowitzki suggested a papal encyclical on the
Catholic Church’s attitude toward the Jews and a condemnation of anti-Semitism.
"We will consider it," Pius XII reportedly replied, adding:
"certainly, most favorably, with all our love." The WJC also urged
the Vatican to assist in the recovery of Jewish children saved by Catholics
during the Holocaust.”
1946(25th
of Elul, 5706): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1946: “General
Joseph T. McNarney, the United States commander in Europe, said today that the
movement of Jewish refugees from the American zone of Germany toward Palestine
had virtually ceased since the British blockaded Palestine.”
1947:
Birthdate of Bulgarian born Israeli actress Levana Finkelstein.
1948:
"Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV. Uncle
Miltie as he came to be called by his millions of fans was the son of Moses and
Sadie Berlinger.
1949(27th of
Elul, 5709): Fifty-seven-year-old Elinor Morgentahau, the wife of Treasury
Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr and close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt passed
away today.
1950(10th
of Tishrei, 5711): Yom Kippur
1950(10th
of Tishrei, 5711): Seventy-nine-year-old Dora Samson, the Frankfurt am Main
born daughter of Rabbi Moses Jesaias Cohn and Rosa Cohn and the wife of Abraham
Samson passed away today in Copenhagen.
1950: “
Tomorrow Is Too Late” directed by Leonide Moguy who at birth was Leonid
Mohylevskyi, the son of Odessa Jews, was released today in Italy.
1951: Reuben
Shiloah, special adviser to Israel on Arab affairs arrived in Paris this
morning bearing a copy of his government’s “offer to sign non-aggression pacts
with each of her four Arab neighbors- Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.”
1951: Maurice
Fischer, a minster with the Israeli government presented Israel’s offer to sign
a non-aggression pact with her four Arab neighbors to the United Nations
Palestine Conciliation Commission.
1951: “Five
Israel soldiers were wounded, three of them seriously, in ambush south of the
Dead Sea” that was believed to have been conducted by Arab infiltrators from
Jordan.
1952(2nd
of Tishrei, 5713): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1952(2nd
of Tishrei, 5713): Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Montague Maurice Burton, a refugee
from the Russian pogroms and founder of Burton on London which became one of
the UK’s largest clothing chain who married Sophie Marks and was knighted in
1931 passed away this evening “while speaking after a dinner in Leeds.”
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that
according to the East German Minister of Agriculture, his country had so far
done nothing about compensating Israel for the Nazi persecution, because Jews
had made no concrete application. East Germany had 'no basic objection' to
discuss an appropriate compensation. East Germany, the Communist side of
Germany never did go through a de-Nazification program. Their contention was
that by adopting Communism, they had atoned for any sins of the past. In
addition to which, they contended that the West German government had all of
the former Nazis and their regime was made up of those who had been anti-Nazis.
As any honest reading of history would question many of these claims especially
when you consider that it was a pact between Hitler and Stalin that gave Hitler
the green light for the attack on Poland and the subsequent attacks on the
nations of western Europe and England.
1952: Jordan
returned, two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in the Latrun area, after three months
of captivity.
1953: It was
reported today that the survivors of Abraham Panken include his sons Harold and
Morton; his daughters Sylvia and Clara; two brothers Louis and Novie; and a
sister, Mrs. Celia Lieberman.
1953: The
Fourth Maccabiah Games continue for a second day.
1954: In
Concord, MA, Marian (née Goodrich), a teacher, and Cass Richard Sunstein, a
builder, gave birth to Cass Robert Sunstein, “a US legal scholar, particularly
in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and
law and behavioural economics, who was the Administrator of the White House
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration”
1955: After
having been diagnosed with cancer of the jawbone while writing songs for “Pipe
Dream,” Richard underwent surgery today that “required removal of part of the
jawbone and tongue and some of the lymph nodes.”
1955:
“Killer’s Kiss,” “directed by Stanley Kubrick who wrote the script along with
Howard Sackler” premiered in New York today.
1955: As Egypt
continued to contest the settling of a stable border with Israel, the IDF
entered the dmz in the vicinity of Nitzana/Auja and “evicted the Egyptian
military personnel stationed there” and then withdrew when the Egyptians agreed
not to interfere with the setting of border markers.
1955:
Birthdate of Ashkelon native YIsrael Katz, the right wing MP who has served as
Minister of Transportation and Minister of Intelligence.
https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=69
1956(16th
of Tishrei, 5717): Second Day of Sukkoth
1956:
Birthdate of Marta Fran Kauffman, the graduate of Brandeis who helped create
the sitcom “Friends.”
1956: “The Law
Wagon,” a westerner co-starring Susan Kohner and featuring music by Lionel
Newman was released in the United States today.
1957:
Birthdate of writer and producer Marta Kauffman who co-created the popular
sitcom “Friends” and who is married to Michael Skloff who composed the show’s
theme song.
1957: In Tel
Aviv, athletes began another day of competition in the Maccabiah Games
1957:
Birthdate of film director Ethan Coen. He and his brother Joel are the film
making duo known as the Coen Brothers.
1957: In
Queensland, Albert ("Bert") and Margaret (née DeVere) Rudd gave birth
to “Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd who in 2008 told more than 1,000
people at a memorial service at the Yeshiva Center in New South Wales that
Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, had “devoted their lives to acts
of goodness and kindness and compassion for others ... but they lost their
lives in a senseless act of hatred
1959: CBS
broadcast of the first episode of The DuPont Show with June Allyson with music
by Herschel Burke Gilbert, the Milwaukee born son of Russian-Jewish refuges Samuel
Gilbert and Bertha Shevinsky, with some episodes directed by Arthur Hiller, produced
by Aaron Spelling and written by Richard Levinson.
1959:
Birthdate of Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin, a Russian-Israeli businessman
1959(18th
of Elul, 5719): Ninety-two-year-old Kentucky born son of Ester and Moritz
Flexner and Johns Hopkins graduate Abraham Flexner, the creator of the Flexner
Report which examined the state of American medical education passed away today
https://www.ias.edu/scholars/flexner
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003042.pdf
1960(29th of
Elul, 5720): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1961(11th
of Tishrei, 5721): Eleven days after her
68th birthday, Leola Brandeis, the daughter Zerlina Freedman and
Arthur D. Brandies, the President of the J. H. Brandeis Company of Omaha, Neb.,
the biggest department store west of Chicago, and First Vice President of Stern
Brothers passed away today in Santa Clara County, CA.
1961:
Birthdate of Queens native and Colgate educated multi-millionaire J.Darius
Bkoff the founder of Energy Brands.
http://www.boxnewsbox.com/the-20-worlds-richest-persian-entrepreneurs-2016/9/
1962: Eighty-year-old
Princess George of Greece and Denmark, a financial supporter of Sigmund Freud
who played a major role in his escape from the Nazis in Austria and settling in
England passed away today.
1963(3rd
of Tishrei, 5724): Shabbat Shuvah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of John Kennedy
1964(15th
of Tishrei, 5725): Sukkoth
1964: The
island of Malta gains its independence from Great Britain. The Jewish presence
in Malta probably dates back to when Israelites accompanied Phoenicians on
trips across the Mediterranean. There is archeological evidence of Jewish
presence dating from the Hellenistic period in the form of carvings of
seven-branch candelabrums and inscription written in catacombs. By the time
Malta gained its independence, the Jewish community was a shadow of its former
self. Today the small community continues to exist observing the Shabbat and
holding services led by lay people since there is no rabbi.
1964: Steve
Allen replaced Gary Moore as host of “I’ve Got a Secret” the popular game show
produced by Mark Goodson, Bill Todman and Allan Sherman
1966: “The instrumental of the first version of
the “Good Vibrations” was recorded today for the last time today by the Beach
Boys, whose drummer was Hal Blaine, the son of Meyer Belsky and the former Rose
Silverman.
1966:
Birthdate of Tuscaloosa, AL native John Cohen “the former head baseball coach
and current A.D. at Mississippi State.
1969(9th
of Tishrei): Erev Yom Kippur
1969: In
Camden, NJ, President Martin Odlen read Beth El’s Golden Jubilee Proclamation
which began, "In the Beginning G-d created Beth El as a dream in the
hearts of men".
1970: “After
pushing the idea for ten years with a succession of publishers, John Bertram
Oaks, initiated the first modern op-ed (so called because it appeared
"opposite the editorial page"; the belief that the phrase stands for
"opinion"-"editorial" is incorrect) page today, on which
the op-ed page of other American newspapers is modeled.”
1970:
Birthdate of Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein, who was the 28th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations and whom Mike Abramowitz,
Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for the Prevention of
Genocide described as part of “a small group of people that really care about
genocide prevention and prevention of mass atrocities” and who is “a real
champion for those issue at the highest levels of government.”
1970(20th
of Elul, 5730): Eliyahu Lopian, the native of Grajewo, Poland, known as Reb
Elyah, who was among the most prominent rabbis of the Mussar Movement passed
away today.
http://matzav.com/rav-elya-lopian-ztl-on-his-41st-yahrtzeit-today-20-elul-2/
1970: ABC
broadcast the first episode of “The Young Lawyer” the legal drama with scripts
by Harlan Ellison, starring Lee J. Cobb and Zalman King and music by Lalo
Schifrin.
1970: Monday
Night Football premieres. Monday night football redefined American viewing and
social habits for at least two decades. The surprising hit program featured
three voices in the broadcast booth, the most unique of which was Howard
Cossell. Once again, a Jew played a major role in creating a venue of American
pop culture. While everybody thinks of Cossell as the quintessential “New York
Jew” he actually was born in North Carolina.
1971(2nd
of Tishrei, 5732): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1971: Sixty-year-old
Max Merten who went from persecutor of the Jews of Salonika to a lawyer in
post-war West Berlin died today. (Justice?)
https://csus-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/182732/2016ArcherWilliam.pdf?sequence=1
1973(24th
of Elul, 5733): Eighty-five-year-old Oscar award winning composer and arranger
Charles Previn who was the great-uncle of Andre Previn and Steve Previn passed
away today.
1973(24th
of Elul, 5733): Seventy-seven-year-old Russian born Canadian politician John
Judah Glass who “represented St. Andrew in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
from 1934 to 1943 as a Liberal member” passed away today in Toronto.
1973: The U.S.
Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. Kissinger was the first
Jewish person to hold the position.
1974(5th
of Tishrei, 5735): Shabbat Shuva
1974(5th
of Tishrei, 5735): Seventy-six-year-old Minsk born University of Missouri
graduate Irving Fagan the journalist specializing in labor affairs who was an
“editor of the Labor Press Association.
1975(5th
of Tishrei, 5735): Fifty-tree year old best-selling novelist Jaqueline Susann
passed away today. (As reported by Laurie, Johnston)
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/04/home/susann-obit.html?mcubz=1
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/20/1921/birth-of-novelist-jacqueline-susanne
1975(16th
of Tishrei, 5736): Seventy-one-year-old Russian born Harvard trained attorney
Morris Ploscowe passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05EED61339E63BBC4A51DFBF66838E669EDE
1975: Warner
Brothers released “Dog Day Afternoon” directed by Sidney Lumet and co-produced
by Martin Bregman.
1975: “Soviet
authorities intervened in Succoth picnic held in the woods near Moscow by
Russian Jews and visiting Israeli athletes; tearing down Israeli flag.”
1976: ABC
broadcast the first episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man – Book II” which was a
sequel to “Rich Man, Poor Man” a television version of the novel by Irwin Shas.
1976: East
Berlin registered Rykestraße Synagogue as a monument, so public subsidies
flowed for the renovations in 1986/1987
1977(9th of
Tishrei, 5738): Erev Yom Kippur
1977: “Shock Waves,”
a horror film wit music by Richard Einhorn premiered in Los Angeles.
1977(9th of
Tishrei, 5738): Ben-Zion Halfon an Israeli politician who served as a member of
the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1977 passed away. “Born in
Tripoli in Libya in 1930, Halfon was a member of a Zionist youth movement. In
1947 he attempted to make aliyah to Mandate Palestine via Italy, aboard the
Aliyah Bet ship Medinat HeYehudit. However, he was detained by the British
authorities and sent to an internment camp in Cyprus. The following year he
reached Israel, and joined the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade, with whom he fought
in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was involved in helping other Libyan Jews who
had made aliyah, and in 1949 he was amongst the founders of moshav Hatzav. He
became involved in the Southern branch of the Moshavim Movement, and became the
movement's representative in the Labor Party. He served as national
co-ordinator of the movement's purchasing organization and on the board of the
Agricultural Bank. In 1969 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list
(an alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam), and was appointed Deputy Minister
of Agriculture on 22 December that year. He was re-elected in 1973 but lost his
portfolio. He lost his seat in the May 1977 elections and died in a traffic
collision near Gedera junction a few months later aged 47. In 2006, the
archaeological museum in Nitzana was named after him.
1981: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at the Park Avenue Synagogue for ninety-one-year-old real-estate
executive and dress manufacturer, Abraham Gevirtz, the husband of Dorothy
Gevirtz and the fathe of Harriet Weiner and Ruth Gevirtz “who was the president
of the 1400 Broadway Construction Corporation, which owns and operates the
36-story textile-apparel building at 38th Street” and who “was a founder
of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, where he established
the Gevirtz diagnostic wing.”
1981: Albert
Shanker, the President of the American Federation of Teachers “had dinner with
a personal friend who was also a member of the Federal Labor Relations
Authority” today which later led charges that his had been an improper “ex
parte contact.”
1982(4th
of Tishrei, 5743): Eighty-two- year-old New York City born C.P.A “Alfred R.
Bachrach, former president of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York and
a longtime leader in Jewish charitable and civic affairs” and the husband of
“the former Alice v. Rothschild” with whom he had three children – Robert, John
and Ellin – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/22/obituaries/alfred-r-bachrach-82-led-temple-emanu-el.html
1983(14th
of Tishrei, 5744): Erev Sukkoth
1984: “All of
Me” a Carl Reiner comedy featuring Selma Diamond was released today in the
United States.
1986: Jewish
golfer Corey Pavin won the Greater Milwaukee Open
1986:
“Webster” a television comedy series create by Jewish screen writer Stu Silver
and directed by Joel Zwick, the son of a cantor, was broadcast in syndication
for he first time today.
1987: Three
molecular biologists who have helped revolutionize understanding of one of the
body's main immune defense systems and a psychiatrist whose research has had
profound influence on the medical treatment of depression were named winners of
the 1987 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards yesterday. The winners are Dr.
Susumu Tonegawa, a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Dr. Philip Leder, chairman of the department of genetics at Harvard
Medical School and Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of the division of biology of
California Institute of Technology and Dr. Mogens Schou, director of
psychopharmacology research at Aarhus University Psychiatric Institute in
Denmark. The awards were funded by Albert Lasker, the successful Jewish
advertising executive.
1988(10th
of Tishrei, 5749): Yom Kippur
1988(10th
of Tishrei, 5749): Eighty-three-year-old movie director Harvey Koster passed
away today. (As reported by Andrew L.
Yarrow)
1989: “Spider's
Web” a German film with a script co-authored by Joseph Roth and directed by
Bernhard Wicki who “was imprisoned for many months in the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp.”
1990: “The
Tall Guy” starring Jeff Goldblum and featuring Jason Isaacs in his first movie
role was released today in the United States by Miramax.
1991:
Birthdate of actress Zoe Weisenbaum.
1991: Nadine
Brozan described the new role played by Evelyn Lauder in the fight against
breast cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/21/style/chronicle-657091.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1992(23rd
of Elul, 5752): Seventy-six-year-old Harry J. Sonneborn, the child of Hoosier
Jews who was “the first president and chief executive of McDonald’s
Corporation” passed away today.
1992(23rd
of Elul, 5752): Eighty-four-year-old Harvard graduate and philanthropist Felix
Warburg who pursued a career in the field of art instead of banking passed away
today.
1993: At the Toronto Film Festival, premiere
of “A Bronx Tale” produced by Jane Rosenthal.
1993: ABC
broadcast the first episode of “NYPD Blue,” which was co-created by David Milch
1994(16th
of Tishrei, 5755): Second Day of Sukkot
1994(16th
of Tishrei, 5755): Eighty-four-year-old Columbia Law School trained attorney
and WWII veteran Arthur Krim, the husband Mathilde Krim who combined a legal
career with motion picture production and Democratic Party politics.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss4/record2004.15.html
1995(26th
of Elul, 5755): Ninety-two year old Minnesota tackle Louis Gross whose
proficiency as an athlete and student during the 1920’s earned him Walter Camp
honors as well as the Western Conference’s Medal for athletic and academic
performance, passed away today.
1995: NBC
broadcasts the first show of the seventh season of “Seinfeld.”
1995: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “The Single Guy,” a sitcom starring Jonathan
Silverman, the son of a sabra and the grandson of Rabbi Morris Silverman and
Jessica Hecht.
1996(8th
of Tishrei, 5757): Shabbat Shuva
1996(8th
of Tishrei, 5757): Eighty-six-year-old New York native and NYU trained attorney
Leo Isacson who appeared to upset the political applecart when he was elected
to House of Representatives as a member of the American Labor Party in what
appeared to be a leg up for Henry Wallace’s bid to win the White House passed
away today.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000046
1997: The New York Times book section featured
reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including
Aryeh Lev Stollman's first novel, The Far Euphrates and the latest
collection of short stories by Deborah Eisenberg entitled All Around
Atlantis.
1997:
Broadcast of the first episode of Season Seven of “The Simpsons” developed by
James L. Brooks and Sam Simon and featuring the voice of Harry Shearer.
1998(1st of
Tishrei, 5759): Rosh Hashanah
1998:
Publication of Pulitzer Prize winning author A. Scott Berg’s biography of “the
Lone Eagle” simply titled Lindbergh.
1998: CBS
broadcast the first episode of “King of Queens” a sit-com co-starring Jerry
Stiller as “Arthur Spooner.”
1999: NBC
broadcast the first episode of the second season of “Will and Grace” the sitcom
created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick.
2000: Today, a
week before Rosh Hashanah, Zvi Dershowitz whose family fled his native
Czechoslovakia just before the Nazi invasion and who served as the rabbi for
Sinai Temple in Los Angeles led services at the Twin Towers Correctional
Facility and the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles/
2000: The
Appellate Court of Fars Province announced their decision on the appeal by the
imprisoned Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel. In the days leading up
to the announcement there were strong indications that the appeals court would
overturn the earlier decision or release a number of the defendants. Despite
these reports, the court only reduced the sentences of the 10 Jewish prisoners
but did not overturn the guilty verdicts or release any of the prisoners.
2001(4th
of Tishrei, 5762): Seventy-four year old NYU graduate and WW II veteran Lewis
Rudin the real estate mogul who founded NADAP with his brother Jack passed a
way today.
2001: Jewish
Women Watching published an advertisement in The New York Times asking Jewish women to
hold their community accountable for sexism.
2002(15th
of Tishrei, 5763): Sukkoth
2002:
Following two consecutive days of suicide bombings “the Israeli Army tightened
its choke hold on Yasir Arafat today, demolishing all but one building in his
compound and digging a trench around it, according to Palestinians inside.”
2002: It was
reported today that “Harvard University's president, Lawrence H. Summers, used
a quiet prayer meeting on the first day of classes here this week to condemn
what he termed growing anti-Semitism at Harvard and elsewhere.”
2003: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Who
Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Levy; translated by James X.
Mitchell, A Mighty Heart :The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny
Pearl by Mariane Pearl with Sarah Crichton, An Execution in the Family:
One Son's Journey by Robert Meeropol and Sixty-Six by Barry
Levinson.
2004: “Writer
Farideh Dayanim Goldin published her first memoir, Wedding Song.”
2004: In “A
Pro-Nazi President, a Family Feeling the Effects,” published today Michiko
Kakutani reviews The Plot Against America in which author Philip Roth
creates a world where Charles Lindbergh had defeated FDR in the 1940 election.
2005: Composer
Danny Elfman Scores First Emmy Award published today.
http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234561
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that Simon
Wiesenthal the famed Nazi hunter who died on Tuesday at the age of 96 will be
buried in Jerusalem on Friday. During the 1950’s the non-Jewish world (some in
the Jewish world as well) wanted to forget or ignore the Holocaust. Wiesenthal
would not let the world forget what had happened. At times it seemed as if he
were working almost single-handedly to bring those who had murdered six million
Jews to Justice. When the world was ready to remember, Wiesenthal was there
with the facts, figures and information.
2006: As the
case against Moshe Katsav expanded, the number of complaints filed against him
rose to a total of eight today.
2006: “Barbara
Epstein and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’” published today.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/sep/21/barbara-epstein-and-the-diary-of-anne-frank/
2006: Today,
“Alan Hevesi admitted that he used Nicholas Acquafredda as a state employee to
drive and aid his ailing wife.
2007: The top
ten billionaires on Forbes magazine’s list of the
400 richest Americans includes five Jews holding down four of these coveted
positions: at number 3, Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson; at number 4, Larry
Ellison CEO of Oracle Corp; tied for fifth Sergey Brin co-founder of Google;
tied for tenth, Oil barons Charles and David H. Koch.
2007(9th of
Tishrei, 5768): Erev Yom Kippur
2007: Kicker
Josh Miller, who had been released by the New England Patriots, was signed by
the Tennessee Titans.
2008: Israel’s
TV industry was a big winner, if only indirectly, when this year’s Emmy award
winners were announced today at the annual red carpet event in Los Angeles.
Dianne Wiest, already a two-time Oscar winner, added an additional statuette to
her collection by winning the best supporting actress award for “In Treatment,”
HBO’s largely faithful adaptation of the hit 2005 Israeli drama “BeTipul.” The
American version of the show features Wiest as Gina Toll, a therapist
originally named Gila Abulafia and played on Israeli TV by stage and film
veteran Gila Almagor. Wiest’s victory, over nominees from ABC-TV’s “Grey’s
Anatomy,” “Boston Legal” and “Brothers and Sisters,” marked the second Emmy for
the Israeli-inspired series. The win followed “In Treatment” performer Glynn
Turman’s victory in the guest actor category
2008: In
Washington, D.C., Darin Straus reads from his new novel, More Than It Hurts
You.
2008: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research presents “Nusakh Vilne Yizker and Memorial
Lecture,” a program marking the 55th anniversary of the founding of Nusakh
Vilne, and the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto.
2008: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Indignation
by Phillip Roth, Left In Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism
by Bernard-Henri Lévy; Translated by Benjamin Moser, Bumping Into Geniuses:
My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business by Danny Goldberg and Hitler’s
Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower.
2008: The Washington Post featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman and The Trouble Begins at
8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman.
2008: Internationally
known performer DJ AM is listed in critical condition, two days after he
reportedly saved his life by jumping from a burning plane while it was skidding
down a runway in South Carolina Friday.DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Michael
Goldstein, was airlifted from the scene suffering from serious burns.
2008: Bernard
Lewis came to Tulane University in New Orleans to speak about the dangers to
the world of the present regime in Iran. He claimed that the unpopular regime
there would use its nuclear arms because it does not fear “mutual assured
destruction,” believing that we are already at the end of days. The 91 and a
half year-old scholar amazed everyone with his analysis, wit, and erudition,
although his message was frightening for the Big Satan—the USA-- and for Little
Satan—Israel.
2008, In an
"epithet-laden" performance at Theater J of the Washington DC Jewish
Community Center, Sandra Bernhard warned Vice Presidential candidate Sarah
Palin that she would be gang-raped by Bernhard's "big black brothers"
if she visited Manhattan
2009 (3
Tishrei, 5770): Fast of Gedaliah
2009: Michael
“Bolton released his album ‘One World One Love’ in the United Kingdom” today.
2009: The
Center for Jewish History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance present a
lecture entitled "The Multi-Ethnic Music Cultures of Moldova" in
which Walter Zev Feldman discusses the cultural history of this area of ethnic
transformation and his recent expedition which discovered musicians of mixed
ancestry still performing traditional Jewish music in his father's hometown of
Edinets.
2009: The
DCJCC presents a screening of “Holy Land Hardball,” a film that tells “the
story of an unlikely group of players and executives who attempted to create
Israel’s first professional baseball league in the summer of 2007.
2009: Israel's
Davis Cup team returned home today with mixed emotions, but already focused on
next year’s competition. Despite the disappointment of losing 4-1 to Spain in
the semifinals of the competition, the players and captain felt they gave their
all in Murcia and were proud of reaching the last four of the prestigious
competition for the first time in Israeli history.
2009: The
Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial
System chaired by Joseph Stiglitz issued its final report today.
2009: Mark
Helprin “ wrote a long defense of his book in today’s edition of National Review, which concluded:
"Digital Barbarism is not as much a defense of copyright as it is an
attack upon a distortion of culture that has become a false savior in an age of
many false saviors.”
2010: The
Center for Jewish History and Jewish Women's Archive are scheduled to present
Remembering Grace Paley: A panel discussion, with excerpts from Lilly Rivlin's
new film,
“Grace Paley:
Collected Shorts”
2010: David
Grossman’s novel Isha Borachat Mi’bsora (A Women Flees a Message) was published
in English today under the name To the End of the Land.
2010: “Seven
Minutes In Heaven” is scheduled to be shown at the 14th Annual Jewish Film
Festival of Dallas (TX).
2010: Hundreds
gathered in the rain in Riga’s Old City today for a ceremony to mark the
partial opening of the Riga Ghetto Museum, which will commemorate the thriving
Jewish community that was wiped out in the Holocaust.
2010(13th
of Tishrei, 5771): Ninety-two-year-old Shabtai Rosenne, an eminent professor of
international law and Israeli diplomat passed away today in Jerusalem
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/12/shabtai-rosenne-obituary
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/sep/29/my-legal-hero-shabtai-rosenne
2011:
Elizabeth Flock reviews the first book in 30 years that has been written and
illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
2011: Former
President George W. Bush is scheduled to speak at Beth El Synagogue today.
2011: Thanks
to the efforts of Johnson Reynolds, who considered Michael Levin both an
Israeli and American hero, a flag which had been flown over the U.S. Capitol in
memory of young soldier, was flown over his grave today at Mr. Herzl.
2011(22nd
of Elul): Ninety-two-year-old Chicago native Marvin “Mickey” Rottner the
All-American basketball player at Loyola who played professional basketball
after serving in WW II passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?pid=153769163
2011: Jewish
News One (JN1), the world’s first Jewish global 24hr news channel "that
offers a new vision of current affairs," is scheduled to begin
broadcasting today via satellite and will be available in Europe, America and
the Middle East
2011(22nd of
Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin – if it weren't for him, in more ways than
one, none of this would exist proving that there is more than one way "to
be inscribed in the book of life."
2012: Team
Israel is scheduled to play either France or Spain in its second game at the
World Baseball Classic which “is considered to be the premier international
baseball tournament”
2012: Today
Israel called on the international community in a special gathering at the
United Nations to recognize the suffering of Jewish refugees from Arab
countries and their material claims the same way it acknowledges the plight of
displaced Palestinians
2012(5th of
Tishrei, 5773: A heavily armed terrorist cell from the Sinai Peninsula opened
fire on IDF soldiers on the Israeli - Egyptian border today, killing one
soldier and injuring a second, before the gunmen were killed in return fire.
The IDF announced the name the 20-year-old victim, Netanel Yahalomi, and
promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.
2012: Israeli
soldiers helped to save a Sudanese refugee today in the Sinai, near the site
where a soldier was killed in an ambush by three men at the Israeli-Egyptian
border.
2012: Iranian
military commanders today threatened the complete destruction of the State of
Israel as the country unveiled a domestically manufactured air defense system
as part of a military parade, various Iranian news agencies reported
2013(17th
of Tishrei, 5774): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2013:
In the evening the 92nd Street Y is scheduled to sponsor an Israeli
Folk Dance Marathon.
2013:
Residents of Tel Aviv and surrounding towns witnessed loud, low-flying
maneuvers by Israel Air Force jets this morning when the planes scrambled to
intercept what was initially believed to be an intrusion by enemy aircraft into
Israel’s airspace but turned out to be a flock of birds.
2013: Rain was
reported along Israel's coast from Haifa in the north down to the Center area,
including Tel Aviv today making it “first rain of the season.” (As reported by
Amishai Gottlieb)
2013: In Bat
Yam, “Tzachi Meats” remained closed this evening as an angry crowd gathered
around the restaurant that illegally employed Nidal Amar, the Arab who lured
Tomer Hazan, a sergeant in the IAF and co-worker to his death last night. Amar
had originally planned to trade the body for terrorists in Israeli custody but
changed his mind and threw the body into the well.
2014:
“Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theater” an exhibition that includes 300 of the
1,300 “gouache paintings created by “a 23 year old Jewish artist from Berlin
who fled to south of France where she painted for two years before being
transported to Auschwitz where she was murdered” is scheduled to come to an
end.
2014(26th
of Elul, 5774): Seventy-nine-year-old Sheldon Patinkin passed away today. (As
reported by Bruce Weber)
2014(26th
of Elul, 5774): Eight-seven-year-old Israeli intelligence officer Michael
Harari passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-legendary-mossad-commander-steps-from-the-shadows/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.617199
2014: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Black
Vodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want to Know on
Writing by Deborah Levy, Quest, written and illustrated by Aaron
Becker, Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer and Nest by Esther Ehrlich.
2014: The “I
Live. Send Help” exhibit which “walks through the century of JDC existence,
giving a glimpse into the many ways the organizations has helped Jews and
non-Jews around the world” will have its final showing at the New York
Historical Society today. (As reported by Rebecca Borison)
2014: The
Jewish Museum’s exhibit “Mel Bochner: Strong Language” which “explores the
meaning of words” is scheduled to have its final showing today. (As reported by
Cathryn J. Prince)
2014: “Arab
terrorists threw rocks at a bus carrying Jewish schoolchildren in the
neighborhood surrounding the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem this morning, in the
latest terror-related incident in the capital.” (As reported by Orly Harari and
Tova Dvorin)
2014: The
government of Israel “announced the establishment of a new cyber-dfense
authority to coordinate cyber-security efforts among government, industry and
civilian sectors” which be head by Dr. Eviatar Matania. (As reported by David
Shamah)
2014: “More
than 100 Jewish organizations participated in the People’s Climate March in New
York as part of the Jewish Climate Campaign.”
2014: “Murder”
written by Hanoch Levin and directed by Yadin Goldman is scheduled to have its
final performance at the American Theatre of Actors.
2015(8th
of Tishrei, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old orthopedic surgeon Dr. Leon Root passed
away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2015:
“Crossfire,” an Academy Award-nominated film noir that was one of the first
films to raise the subject of anti-Semitism in the postwar U.S.” is scheduled
to be shown at the Center for Jewish History.
2015: “English
National Theatre of Israel (ENTI), is scheduled to present AN ILIAD - a
modern-day retelling of Homer's classic poem, adapted by award-winning theatre
practitioners Lisa Peterson & Denis O'Hare.”
2015: Today,
Ben Shapiro co-founded “The Daily Wire” which he serves as “editor-in-chief.”
2015: In
Kennesaw, GA, Kennesaw State University is scheduled to “The Leo Case: 100
Years in the Media” a panel discussion which will examined “the role of the
Media in the Leo Frank Case, one hundred years ago and today.”
2015: Today,
Ben “Shapiro founded The Daily Wire
today.”
2015: A rocket
was fired from Gaza around 4:00 a.m., in the Hof Ashkelon region of southern
Israel, making it the third time in as many days that terrorists have launched
a missile from Gaza.
2016: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama are scheduled to meet in
New York today during the United Nations General Assembly.
2016: Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is scheduled to speak at the Temple Emanu-El Skirball[ML1] Center.
2016: At
Temple Emanu-El of Atlanta, Aaron Berger, the Executive Director of the Breman
Museum is scheduled to speak on the challenges and rewards of “leading an
award-winning museum that connects people to Jewish history, arts and culture”
2017: Today
“Valerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA agent and author,” whose paternal
grandfather was Jewish “came under fire after she tweeted a link to a piece
titled “America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.”
2017: Premiere
of the fourth season of “Transparent” starring Jeffry Tambor
2017: As
Israel begins the New Year, her population stands at 8.743 million “up some
156,000 people from the previous year with 6.5 million being Jewish, almost 1.8
million being Arab and another almost 400,000 being a mixture of other groups
include Druze and non-Arab Christians.
2017: As
America Jews observe the New Year, many of them may be wondering what their
“portion in the House of Israel” is following Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latest
defense of “Orthodoxy’s religious monopoly in Israel.”
2017(1st
of Tishrei, 5778): Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2018:
The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screening
of “Ôtez-moi d'un doute.”
2018: “The Couple Who Helped Decode Dyslexia” published today described
the work of Sally and Bennett Shaywitz, co-directors of the Yale Center for
Dyslexia and Creativity, have been conducting a study of people with dyslexia
since 1983. (As reported by Katie Hafner)
2018: The Bezalel Art Fair is scheduled to begin this morning in
Jerusalem.
2018: In a week punctuated by incendiary attacks from Gaza, the murder of
an Israeli, and the downing of Russian plane by Syrians which was they tried to
pin on Israel, Israelis contemplate the comparative of accuracy of reports
prepared by “the IDF top brass and signed by Chief of Staff Gadi Eisnkot” and
“IDF Ombudsman Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, a medal of courage recipient from the
Yom Kippur War.”
2019(21st of Elul, 5779): Parashat Ki Tavo;
2019: In Oakland, the Duvin wine bar is scheduled to host “The RebbeSoul
Power Percussion Trio Havdalah Concert.
2019: In Santa Rosa, CA, Congregation Shomrei Torah is scheduled to host
“Warm Up for the Holy Days” featuring “storyteller Joel ben Izzy sharing
traditional and modern Selichot and high-holiday themed tales.”
2019(21st of Elul, 5779): In the evening Leil Selichot
2020: Chochmat HaLev and Makor Or are scheduled to sponsor Rabbi Dorothy
Richman as she “looks at stories from the High Holidays prayerbook, examining
how we communicate our needs and desires at this time of year.”
2020: The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival is scheduled to
begin today.
2020: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to host Professor Doron
Calir who will examine the implications of the Torah portion for today's
community and the meaning of Emunah (faith) in the 21st century.”
2020: Israelis are scheduled to deal with another day of lockdown that
began erev Rosh Hashanah and has led to almost three thousand fines being hand
out for a variety of infractions including “a Tel Aviv cafe that opened in
contravention of restrictions and was catering to some 50 customers…”
2020: The battle of over the filling of Justice Ginsberg’s seat which
exploded less than hour after she died erev Rosh Hashanah will continue to
exacerbate the highly volatile political and social environment in the United
States.
2020(3rd of Tishrei, 5781): Tzom Gedaliah
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2316462/jewish/Tzom-Gedaliah-Fast-Day.htm
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tzom-gedaliah/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fast-of-gedaliah
2021(15th of
Tishrei, 5782): First Day of Sukkoth; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2022: Today, Prime
Minister Lapid is scheduled to sit down with new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss,
as well as local Jewish leaders in New York.
2022: In Palo Alto, CA,
the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host
Perla Batalla, who recorded and toured with the late Leonard Cohen for
10+ years, performing a tribute show for Cohen’s Sept. 21 birthday.
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host online a lecture by Professor Jacob Goldberg on
“Why is the Middle East So Unstable and Unpredictable.”
2022: In Berkely, CA Helen
Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley is scheduled
to present Yossi Shain, whose new book The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution Changed
History and Reinvented Judaism examines
Israel, its challenges and its burdens.
2023:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present the “season 4
premiere of AT LUNCH where Julie Salamon sits down with New York Times Critic,
A.O. Scott to discuss his return to reviewing books, his career in criticism,
and thoughts on our current culture.”
2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host the Centre’s
Director Professor Shirli Gilbert, as she speaks as part of the series “The
Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”.
2023:
JWA is scheduled to host a session of
“Book Talks” with Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika, “a dazzling
Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana,
and New York” and “explores
displacement, endurance, and family as home.”
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, at Temple Judah, Harding Middle School 8th grader Owen
Benjamin Copeland the son Martin Copeland and Tracy Bilstein whose favorite
subject is meth, who loves baseball and soccer and who plays violin in the
Metro Honor Orchestra is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.
2024:
In Brookline, MA, Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present “From Rock Bottom To
Return With Rabbi Carol Glass.”
2024(18th
of Elul, 5784): Parashat Ki Tavo (When you enter); for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
As September 21st 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 351 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)
