This Day, October 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 4
610: Heraclius attacks
Constantinople, overthrows the Byzantine Emperor Phocas Augustus and proclaims
himself Emperor. The Christian Emperor attacked his Persian neighbors to the
east with disastrous results. In 614, the advancing Persian Army under General
Roizanes seized Jerusalem and gave it to the Jews to govern. Three years later Roizanes would change his
mind but the 150,000 Jews of Palestine had enjoyed a brief taste of
self-government. In an irony of history, Heraclius entered into an alliance
with the Khazars, the people who would convert to Judaism two centuries later,
and finally defeated the Persians’ This defeat brought Byzantine rule back to
Jerusalem with the attendant negative consequences for the Jewish population.
1209: Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope
Innocent III who in 1205 announced: "God is not displeased, but, rather,
finds it acceptable that the Jewish dispersion shall live under Catholic kings
and Christian priests. He maintained that Jews were directly subject to
Christians and declared that Jews were guilty of “intolerable sin” i.e. the
killing of Christ "The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned
them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and
fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of
perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith." As to Otto IV the only connection with the
Jews appears to be artistic. In 1839, the German born Jewish painter Moritz
Daniel Oppenheim would be commissioned to paint a portrait of Otto IV. Innocent III was no friend of the
Jews.
1289: Birthdate Louis X, King of
France from 1314 to 1316. Louis’s
father, Phillip the Fair, had confiscated the property of his Jewish subjects
and banished them from the kingdom in 1306.
His son discovered that this was a bad business decision for the
government. The confiscated property had
less value than the taxes the Jews had been paying. Also, the Christians who had replaced the
Jews were charging higher rates of interest when lending money. So, reluctantly, the man known as Louis the
Stubborn permitted the Jews to return to the realm.
1379: Birthdate of Henry III of Castile who reduced the persecution of
the Jews during his reign.
1533(15th
of Tishrei, 5249): First Day of Sukkoth observed that thousands of Yaqui
warriors defeated a Spanish force under conquistador Nuno de Guzman that was
trying to seize the Yaqui homeland in northwestern Mexico.
1535: The
first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with
translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. Since the printing included “the Old
Testament” this maybe the earliest translation of some version of the TaNaCh
into English
1582: Pope Gregory XIII proclaims what is now
called the Gregorian calendar which goes into effect with a ten-day
adjustment. The, the day after October 4
was October 15. The new calendar would
slowly gain in popularity, but it was not until the twentieth century that such
places as Russia finally adopted the “new calendar.” The eleven-day wrinkle would present
challenges for Jews who would convert their calendar and holiday observances to
those of the calendars used in the societies in which they lived.
1669: The
great Dutch painter Rembrandt passed away today. For more about Rembrandt and
the Jewish people see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Bride
http://www.amazon.com/Rembrandts-Jews-Steven-Nadler/dp/0226567362#_
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/12047/what-s-the-scoop-on-rembrandt-and-the-jews/
1683(24th
of Tishrei, 5444): Benjamin Beuno De Mesquita passed away today after which he
was buried at the “Fist Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel” in
“Chinatown, Manhattan.”
1712:
Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1762(17th
of Tishrei, 5523): Third Day of Sukkoth
1765(19th
of Tishrei, 5526): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1768(23rd
of Tishrei, 5529): Simchat Torah celebrated on the same day the The Sultan
Mustafa III of the Ottoman Empire begins the Russo-Turkish War after the
Russians refuse to withdraw troops from Poland
1768: In
Spanishtown, Jamaica, Abraham Rodrigues De Leon and his wife gave birth to
Sarah De Leon, the wife of Aaron Correa and the mother of Rachel Correa.
1769:
Birthdate of Aaron Moses Schlesinger, the native of Silesia who gained fame as
Adolf Martin Schlesinger a leading music publisher whose sons Heinrich and
Maurice followed in his musical footsteps.
1770(15th
of Tishrei, 5531): Sukkoth observed on the same day that the Virginia Gazette
published “a proclamation for prolonging the” meeting of “the General Assembly.
1775(10th
of Tishrei, 5536): First Yom Kippur during the American Revolution.
1776(21st
of Tishrei, 5537): Hoshana Raba as the British continue their attempt to capture
and destroy Washington’s army/
1783(8th
of Tishrei, 5544) Shabbat Shuva
1784(19th
of Tishrei, 5545): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed my David Hays, a Bedford
merchant and the brother of Michael Hays.
1785(30th
of Tishrei, 5546): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1785: Today’s
issue of the London Chronical “reports how there had recently taken place a
meeting of the "principal Rulers, Elders, and Governors" of the
Congregation of the Great Synagogue for the purpose of making the elections for
the following year, and that the "conduct and management" of the two
during the past twelve months had elicited such approval that they were
unanimously reappointed
1785: In
Baltimore, MD, Esther Mordecai and Philip Moses Russel gave birth to Judith
Russell.
1787(22nd
of Tishrei, 5548): Shmini Atzeret observed as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and
James Madison began penning “The Federalist Papers,” a defense of the newly
created constitution which has been sent to Congress for ratification.
1788(3rd
of Tishrei, 5549): Shabbat Shuva
1789(14th
of Tishrei, 5550): Erev Sukkoth
1789: Twenty-five-year-old,
Jacob de Leon, the son of Abraham de Leon and veteran of the Revolutionary War
married Hanna Hendricks today.
1791: As a
sign of the support for the Dutch monarchy the Jews in the Netherlands joined
in celebrating the marriage of the Prince of Orange (the future King William I)
to his first cousin Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina.
1792(18th
of Tishrei, 5553): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1794(10th
of Tishrei, 5555): Yom Kippur
1795(21st
of Tishrei, 5556): Hoshana Rabah
1796(2ND
of Tishrei, 5557): Israel Baer Kursheedt observed the second day of the Jewish
New Year in religious solitude since he was the only Jew aboard the Simonhoff,
an American brig sailing across the Atlantic to Boston, MA.
1797: Eighty-year-old
Johann Christian Georg Boedenschatz the “German Protestant theologian” who
“devoted his life to Jewish antiquities” and wrote what are considered accurate
accounts of “Jewish ceremonials and customs.”
1799: In
South Carolina, Rebecca Moses and Solomon Harby gave birth Henry Jefferson
Harby, the husband of Leah Tobias with whom he had seven children.
1800(15th
of Tishrei, 5561): As Adams and Jefferson face off in the U.S. Presidential
election to be held next month, Jews observe the first Sukkoth of the 19th
century.
1803(18th
of Tishrei, 5664): Fourth Day of Sukkoth on the same day that James Madison
wrote to the Marquis of Cas Yrujo acknowledging receipt of his letter
expressing the “repugnance” felt by King of Spain over the “cession of
Louisiana made by the French Republic to the United States.
1804: In
Liverpool, UK, Hannah Woolf and Myer Tobias gave birth to Charles J. Tobias
1806: In
Warrenton, NC, Philadelphia native Jacob Mordecai and Norwalk, CT. native
Rebecca Mears Myers who had been married on March 21, 1798, gave birth to
Augustus Mordecai, the husband of Rosina Young.
1807(2nd
of Tishrei, 5568): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1807:
Birthdate of Denmark native Sara Meyer, the wife of Hartvig Meyer.
1809: (25 Tishrei 5570): On the secular calendar Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev - a great
Chasidic Rebbe, leader and scholar – passed away. Born in 1740, he studied under Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech, and
became one of his close friends. Levi
Yitzchak stressed the joy in serving God emphasizing the idea of connecting to
God through fervent prayer. He always accentuated the good and the positive
that was in people. Levi Yitzchak composed Chasidic music and is immortalized
by his vivaciously optimistic parables. One of his sayings was, “Whether a man
really loves God can be determined by his love for his fellow men.” Levi Yitzchak had his spiritual side, but he
also was very much of this world. When
he discovered the terrible working conditions of the young girls who were
working in the factories baking matzoth, he declared, “The enemies of the Jews
accuse us of baking matzoth with the blood of Christians. They are wrong. We are baking them with the blood of Jews.”
1811(16th
of Tishrei, 5572): Second Day of Sukkoth
1813(10th
of Tishrei, 5574): As Americans continue their fight with the British in the
War of 1812, Yom Kippur is observed.
1814(20th
of Tishrei, 5575): Sixth Day of Sukkot as British armada is sailing towards New
Orleans for what will be the climatic battle of war that will already be over
when it is fought.
1822: Birthdate of Rutherford B Hayes, 19th President of the
United States. To most Americans, Hayes
is the winner the 1876 Hayes-Tilden election; an election in which the Democrat
Tilden won the popular vote, but thanks to a twisted compromise was won by Hayes
in the electoral college. For Jews the
Hayes Presidency marked an even greater acceptance of the role of Jews in
politics and American society. As
evidence of this we find William Evarts, Secretary of State under Hayes, saying
in an 1879 speech, “this government has ever felt a deep interest in the
welfare of the Hebrew race in foreign counties” which was a green light for
American Jews to urge the American government to use its auspices with
governments of Eastern Europe on behalf of their oppressed Jewish citizens.
1819(15th
of Tishrei, 5580): Sukkot
1823: In
Essex, England, Catherine Phillips and Laurence Lazarus gave birth to Esther S.
Lazarus.
1825(22nd
of Tishrei, 5586): On the same day Jews observed Shemini Atzeret, William
Carroll wrote to Secretary of State Henry Clay saying that he did not think
that Andrew Jackson would run against President John Quincy Adams in the next
Presidential elections (boy was he wrong)
1826(3rd
of Tishrei, 5587): Tzom Gedaliah observed on the day that President John Quincy
Adams received the will of his recently deceased father President John Adams.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-03-02-4782
1827: In
Hamburg, Germany, Jette and Isaac Joseph Michael gave birth to Viktor Isaac Michael,
the husband of Therese Michael and the father of “of Leonie Eisner; Flora Cahn;
Hermine Molling; Iwan Michael; Ernst Michael; and Lea Bona Rosin.”
1838(15th
of Tishrei, 5599): First Day of Sukkoth
1843: In
Charleston, SC, Hyman N. Hart and Hetty Maria Hart gave birth to future New
Yorker Eudora M. Nathan, the wife of Gratz Nathan and mother of Constance
Nathan and Frank Henry Nathan
1846:
Birthdate of Camillo Roth, “a member of the Stoke Exchange” who was buried four
decades later in the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1830: Creation of the state of Belgium.
Jews are first reported to have lived in what is now Belgium in the
first century when they settled their as part of the Roman Empire. The first phase of the Jewish community ended
in the 14th century when the Jews were killed or forced to leave
because of their alleged role in the bringing of the Black Plague. Jews returned in the 16th century.
When the modern state of Belgium was created “Judaism was recognized
immediately. Brussels, with a more French influenced Jewish community, had a
higher rate of assimilation, while Antwerp, influenced by Yiddish and Flemish,
retained traditional forms of Jewish life.”
The independence of Belgium had been guaranteed by the Great Powers. In 1914, when German invaded Belgium as part
of its plan to conquer France, the British felt compelled to declare war on the
Germans. This was the final act that
guaranteed the war would be a World War.
Not only did the war bring suffering to the Jews of Europe (especially
in the East) but as we know it paved the way for the WWII and the Shoah. So much history flows from one minor event on
the calendar.
1832(10th of Tishrei, 5593): Yom Kippur
1834: Birthdate of Alsace, France native arrived in San Diego in 1881,
where he found commercial success in the retail and wholesale merchandise trade”
while bringing “a social awareness to
San Diego and a commitment to public service for the city in general and for
the Jewish community in particular”; “a
commitment to service shared by his wife Marie” who lost three children but
raised the other five- Lucien, Jeanne, Andree, Cora and Mina—in San Diego. (As
by reported by Ben Weinbaum)
https://cbisd.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/150th_book_chapter1.pdf
1836(22nd of Tishrei, 5597): Simchat Torah celebrated for the
last time during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1838(15th of Tishrei, 5599): Sukkoth
1839: (25 Tishrei 5600): Moshe (Moses)
Sofer of Pressburg passed away.
Born in 1762 in Germany, this famous Rabbi was also known as the Chatam
Sofer from a name given to a collection of his writings. His last name, Sofer, means scribe in
English, indicating that his family engaged in this time-honored important
profession. He was invited to lead the Pressburg (Hungary) community which he
did with such success that it its yeshiva became one of the leading places of
Jewish learning in Europe. One of the unique
characteristics of his yeshiva was its emphasis on physical fitness. His students were required to swim in the
Danube on a regular basis. He wrote a
voluminous collection of Responsa called Chidushai Teshuvot Moshe Sofer
(Novella and Responsa of Moses Sofer). It was divided into four parts
containing 1377 Responsa. He was a strong supporter of rigid orthodoxy,
especially pertaining to change in synagogue ritual. He stood in opposition to
the Reform, Chasidic and embryonic Zionist movements. He did believe in supporting the existing
community in Palestine and eventually, the Pressburg Yeshiva would relocate to
Jerusalem under the leadership of his great-grandson.
1841(19th
of Tishrei, 5602): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1843(10th
of Tishrei, 5604): Yom Kippur
1843: In
Charleston, SC, Hetty Maria Gomez and Hyman N. Hart who were married at New
York in 1841 gave birth to Eudora H. Hart, the wife of Gratz Nathan whom she
married in 1867 and with whom she had two children – Constance and Frank.
1845(3rd
of Tishrei, 5506): Shabbat Shuva observed as the “Potato Murrain” which would
bring on the Great Potato Famine gripped Ireland.
1847: The
Paris Opera began performing a revised version Fromental Halevy’s “Charles VI,”
a grand opera in five acts.
1849(15th
of Tishrei, 5610): As people from all over the world flock to California in
search of newly discovered gold, Jews observe Sukkoth
1849: In
Richmond, Samuel H. Myers “one of the brightest and most upright of Masons” was
buried today.
1849:Birthdate
of Rebecca Klein the wife of Isaac Alsbacher and mother of six children –
Moses, Harry, Sidney, David, Jessie and Rena.
1852(21st
of Tishrei, 5613): Hoshana Raba
1852: In
“Germany” published today reported that the outbreak of cholera in Pomerania
has struck the Jewish community with an even greater fury than the general
population. The Jews of Pomerania have
written to their co-religionists in Posen asking for assistance in dealing with
this crisis.
1852: In
“Sweden: Minutes and Disturbances” published today reported on violent attacks
on Jews living in Stockholm. The
violence lasted for three nights. They
were caused by an article in the Voice of the People that “excited the
populace against the Jews.” The editor of the paper was among those arrested by
the police.
1853(2nd
of Tishrei, 5614): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1853(2nd
of Tishrei, 5614): Hannah Lazarus, the Essex born daughter of Esther Davies and
Moses Lazarus, the wife of Hiam Hyam with whom she had eight children, passed
away today after which she was buried in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1854: In
"Foreign Items of Literary and Personal News" published today
reported that a religious book entitled Life from the Dead by Israel Pick, a
Jew from Bucharest who had converted to
Christianity has been translated from German into English. After leaving
Judaism and before becoming a Christian, Pick had spent time as Pantheist and
an Atheist.
1854:
Birthdate of Joseph Lazarus Kranson the husband of Caroline Kranson with whom
he had ten children before passing away in St. Louis, MO.
1854: In
Baltimore, MD, John H. Lopez of Charleston, SC married Maria Cohen, “the
daughter of the later Benjamin J. Cohen” of Baltimore.
1855(22nd
of Tishrei, 5616): Shmini Atzeret
1856(5th
of Tishrei, 5617): Shabbat Shuva
1856:
Birthdate of Russian born American journalist and anarchist Abraham Isaak.
1857(16th
of Tishrei, 5618): Second Day of Sukkoth
1857: In
Nashville, TN, Joseph Stein and Dorothea Wolf gave birth to their daughter
Fannie Stein, who grew up in Cincinnati and became Fannie S. Miller when she
married William M. Miller after which she engaged in several philanthropic and
socially useful activities including serving as President of the Philadelphia
Section of the Council of Jewish Women and of the Industrial Home for Jewish
Girls.
1858: In
“The President and the Jews” published today reported that President Buchanan
had made use of the phrase " all the nations of Christendom," in his
answer to Queen Victoria’s message transmitted by the Atlantic Telegraph. This
expression gave offence to Dr. Isidor Kalisch, rabbi of the Ben Jeshurun
Congregation in the city of Milwaukee, who wrote to the President demanding an
explanation. Isidor Kalisch was a German born Reform Rabbi who held a number of
pulpits in a wide variety of American Cities, wrote a prayer book tailored to
the needs of the American Jewish community and worked on behalf of women’s
rights before his death in 1886.
1859: Forty-one-year-old
Swedish businessman and patron of the arts August Abrahamson married 23 year
old opera singer Eufrosyne Abrahamson
1861:
Philadelphian, Solomon C. Miller began a three-year enlistment with Company A
of the 57th Regiment.
1862: The Jews of Baden were unconditionally emancipated. In spite
of the fact that much of Prussia had removed the anti-Jewish disabilities years
earlier, Baden had refused conditioning it on Jewish cession of outward
characteristics. The Jews did not yield on this point and the emancipation took
place.
1862(10th
of Tishrei, 5623): Yom Kippur
1862: In
Cleveland, Ohio, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, the Consul General at Lyons,
France and Hannah Straus gave birth to Mark Percy Da Maduro Peixotto, a
graduate of the the Lycée et l'École de Commerce,” the “United States Deputy
Consul General at Lyon,” the “director general of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company” and the husband of Katherine de Sadowski.
1862: In
Berlin, Immanuel H. Ritter and his wife gave birth to University of Berlin
trained medical doctor and author who served as the chief physician at the Institute for Invalid
Children and at the Bacteriological Laboratory in Berline and discovered a
bacillus that causes whooping-cough.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12775-ritter-julius
1862:
During the Civil War Union forces including Jewish soldiers from Indiana fight
the second and last day of the Battle of Corinth where they face Southern
forces that include Jewish soldiers from Mississippi.
1862: The
Charleston (South Carolina) Mercury reported that, “yesterday was
the commencement of Yom Kippur, or the Jewish Day of Atonement, one of the
three great holy days observed by the sons of the sons of Israel throughout the
world. These are the Passover, when the passage of the Israelites over the Red
Sea is celebrated in the feast of unleavened bread, typical of the Eucharistic
sacrifice of the Christian dispensation; the Feast of Tabernacles, to denote
that the sons of Jacob once dwelt in tents in the wilderness; and the Day of
the Atonement, when each Jew was enjoined to redeem his soul figuratively by
the presentation of a half shekel, and nothing less or more, whether the
presentee be rich or poor. The day is celebrated by the modern Jews by a strict
fast. Their places of business are all closed, and their synagogues are all
opened. On the eve of the great day the Holy Book of the Law is brought from
the Ark with great ceremony and read by the hazan, or minister. Prayers are
held in all the synagogues from that time till the next night — literally even
to even — by the faithful Israelites, who are expected to [cleanse] their souls
by abstaining from meat and drink. At the close of the day — that is the
evening — a good lookout is kept for the first star, when the previous fast of twenty-four
hours gives way to a very sensible feast, and happy is he or she who first
discovers that same first star.”
1863(21st
of Tishrei, 5624): Hoshana Raba
1863:
Birthdate of David Hayyim Bacharach the Russian born American Rabbi who served
Congregations in Trenton, NJ and Providence, RI.
1864: In
Brooklyn, Mr. Michael Jacobs brought charges against Patrolman George
W. Osward claiming that “the officer had arrested him without cause, manacled
him and been privy to the breaking of his furniture. It appeared that the
complainant had beaten one of his fellow Jews and that the officer had pursued
Mr. Jacobs into his house and had only handcuffed him after Jacobs had resisted
the officer. A witness was introduced to show that the officer had arrested
Jacobs for fighting, and it appeared that the combat rose from a dispute concerning
religious matters, one of the disputants having characterized the other as an
apostate Jew, and asserted that he had perjured himself three times in court.”
Charges against the officer were dismissed since it was “clear that the officer
had been guilty of no offence whatever.” In dismissing the complainant, the
presiding officer of the court advised Mr. Jacobs to appeal to Rabbi Morris
Raphall. Apparently the judge felt that
Mr. Jacobs’s case was really a religious dispute and apparently Rabbi Raphall
was well known in secular as well as Jewish circles.
1865(14th
of Tishrei, 5626): Erev Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Andrew Johnson.
1867: In
New York City, Henry and Katherine (Yasnigi) Grossman gave birth to NYU trained
attorney William Grossman, the husband of Carrie Basch and a member of West End
Synagogue.
1867(5th
of Tishrei, 5628): Seventy-eight-year-old Eduard Israel Kley an early leader of the Reform movement who
replaced Bar Mitzvah with Confirmation and led services on Sunday passed away
today in Hamburg, Germany.
1871: In
Prenzlau, Germany, David Mayer and Clara Devora Mayer (Gottschalk) gave birth
to Gustav Jaokoby Mayer.
1871: Sixty-five-year-old
Mary Lyon the wife of Lewis Lyon of Grays Inn Road Holborn was buried today at
the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1872(2nd
of Tishrei 5633): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1872: It
was reported today that the business places owned by Jews in Jersey City, New
Jersey, were closed yesterday because of Rosh Hashanah.
1874(23rd
of Tishrei, 5635): Simchat Torah
1875: In
Baltimore, MD, Dr. Phillip Moses Russell and Esther (Mordecai) Russell to
Judith Russell Nathans.
1875: It
was reported today that the Board of Education of Chicago has been dealing with
the issue of the Bible in public schools.
Catholics, Jews and non-sectarians are opposed to the reading. Baptist
and Methodist leaders have been quite outspoken in their opposition to the
removal of Bible readings from the opening class ceremonies. The issue has drawn national attention
including comments from Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler who thinks that Christianity
could benefit from the removal of Scripture from the public schools.
1875: It
was reported today that the Governor of Baghdad has sent a telegram to the
Porte (Ottoman Empire) denying a report that a Turks living in that city had
murder a Jew.
1876(16th
of Tishrei, 5637): Second Day of Sukkoth
1876: Texas
A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas,
becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas. By 1916,
there were enough Jews on campus to justify the formation of an organization
dedicated to their needs. It was called
the TAMC Menorah Club and it was organized by Dr. Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus, a
native of Safed who was chief of the plant pathology and physiology division of
the school from 1916 to 1937. In 1920,
the club became the TAMC Hillel Club technically making it the oldest Hillel
House in the United States; older even than the Hillel at the University of
Illinois which was not founded until 1923 and is usually credited with being
the first Hillel House.
1877: The
Budapest University of Jewish Studies (Landesrabbinerschule) opened today. Rabbi Wilhelm Bacher, a noted Orientalist who had been named to a
professorship at the school, delivered the inaugural address. The seminary was
funded by the government to promote “Neolog Judaism” a mildly reformist
movement. The school taught a mixture of
Judaism and Hungarian culture that would help the Jews be ardent Hungarian
nationalists.
1877: It
was reported today that in the last fortnight, 500 Jews who are fleeing from
“the cruelties and persecutions” of the Bulgarians have sought refuge in
Wallachia. The Bulgarians had stolen everything from the Jews who owed their
lives to detachments of The Russian Army who took them across the border where
they could be cared for by their Romanian co-religionists. The Romanian Jews have already shown their
generosity by providing funds for the purchase of field ambulances to be used
by the army. Their behavior put “to
shame the noisy but empty protestations” of “the Christian wearers of the
Geneva Cross.” [This is a reference to the Red Cross. The events described took place during the
Russo-Turkish War.]
1877: It
was reported today that the term Israelite “is being substituted for the
insulting expression” of Pharisee “long…in use to designate the chosen
people. According to one author “an
Israelite was only a Jew who had made a fortune.”
1878: Harry
Marks was named editor of “The Jewish Journal,” a weekly publication that had
first appeared in 1869.
1878:
Birthdate of Selmar Aschheim, the Berlin born gynecologist who developed a
pregnancy test that bears his name. He
fled Nazi Germany in 1933 but survived the war.
He passed away in 1965.
http://www.reproduction-online.org/content/11/2/165.full.pdf
1879:
Birthdate of German native Joseph Shinglman, who in 1904 came to the United
States where he practiced medicine in Cicero, Illinois while raising a son and
future doctor, Willard Edwin Shinglman with his wife Anna Behrman Shinglman.
1882(21st
of Tishrei, 5643): Hoshanah Rabah
1882:
Simeon Phillips, the “son of Solomon Phillips and Caroline Solomon” who was an
Australian legislator from New South Wales and his wife Rosetta Phillips gave
birth to Solomon David Phillips
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/marcus-minnie-lichtenstein
1884(15th
of Tishrei): Sukkoth
1884: As of
today, the Church Missionary Society has spent $600,000 since 1851 and the
London Jews’ Society has spent $150,000 since 1877 on “missions to the Jews of
Palestine and neither has a single convert to show for the money spent.
1884:
Birthdate of American writer Damon Runyon. Runyon was not Jewish. But he was
the writer who brought a certain slice of New York life to America; a slice of
life often connected with the Jewish subculture. Runyon was a native of Manhattan, Kansas that
is, but he was able to bring to life the ethnic existence of Manhattan, New
York, including Mindy’s cheesecake and Nathan Detroit who was modeled after
Arnold Rothstein. But Runyon could also
be a serious defender of Jews when attacked by anti-Semites. When Jews were vilified as cowards Runyon
used the heroics of Sergeant Sam Dreben to express his feelings in a now-famous
poem, "The Fighting Jew." In this poem, Runyon wrote that whenever he
read about prejudices against the Jews and of racial hatred, he was reminded of
the heroic fighting Jew, Sam Dreben. He was also reminded of the Distinguished
Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the Militare and other medals that were
awarded to Sergeant Dreben. Runyon ended his poem with: “THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE
WILL ALWAYS HAVE A FEW, LIKE DREBEN A JEW. The Broadway musical and movie,
“Guys and Dolls” was based on characters created by Runyon
1884:
Alexander Edelstein, an English born Jew who had come to the United States
about 15 months ago, was arrested on charges of having collected commission
from his employer on “bogus orders.”
1885: The
sanctuary at Temple Emanu-El in New York City was completely filled with
mourners who had come to attend this afternoon’s memorial service in honor of
the late Sir Moses Montefiore.
1885:
Birthdate of Jacob Rainovitz, a native of Mistislav, Russia.
1886(5th
of Tishrei, 5647): Sixty-seven-year-old Mary Anker Bendel, the Bavarian born
daughter of “Moses and Sprinz Schmitt Anker” and the wife of Henry Bendel with
whom she had nine children and lived for a while in Bethlehem, NY passed away
today after which she was “buried in the Jewish section of Lexington Cemetery
in Lexington, KY
1886:
Police Inspector Wood is to be arrested and arraigned on charges related to the
death of Max Aronson who was allegedly beaten by the police who then denied him
medical attention.
1887: In
Syracuse, NY, Meyer Winkelstein and Ida Marquisee gave birth to Moses
Winkelstein, the graduate of Syracuse University and husband of Martha M.
Holstein who was President of both the Community Chest and the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
1887:
Publication of “Jews in Shushan” by Rudyard Kipling
http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/lifes-handicap/7/
http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_jewshushan1.htm
1888(29th
of Tishrei, 5649): Sixty-two year old Elizabeth Meyers, the daughter Hester
Levy and Daniel Meyers passed away today after which she was buried in the
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1889(9th
of Tishrei, 5650): Erev Yom Kippur
1889:
Insomnia and fear of suffering major loss due to the crackdown on gambling
house was the reason given today for the death of Jewish businessman Joseph M.
Marchus who shot himself yesterday in front of the Orleans Parish Prison.
1889: “The
Fast of Yom Kippur” published today described the rituals of “the Day of
Atonement” during which the Orthodox practices a 24 hour fast that “allows
neither food nor drink to pays his lips;” an observance of which “has fallen
into disuse among the Reform Jews.”
1889:
“About five hundred members and guests of the Pioneers of Liberty, an
organization recently formed by the United Hebrew Trades” were turned away from
Clarendon Hall tonight where they had expected to hear a concert and dance at a
ball. The disappointed revelers claimed that the manager of the hall been
intimated into closing the venue by a group of Orthodox Jews.
1889:
“Gamblers Commit Suicide” published today described the impact of New Orleans
May Shakespeare’s closing of the gambling establishments in the Crescent
City. Among those who apparently died by
their own hand was a young Jew named Joseph Marcus who was “a silent partner”
in one such establishment and was driven to this by fear of great economic
loss.
1890:
Birthdate of Austrian native Morris
Jacobovits, who served as a rabbi in Cologne and Strasbourg as well as a
chaplain in the French Army and worked with “the French Underground and various
American relief organizations” to help adults and children regardless of
religion during the occupation before escaping to Switzerland with his family
and finally arriving in New York where he served “Congregation K’hall Adath
Jeshurun.”
1891(2nd
of Tishrei, 5652): On the day the American Association plays its last game of
the baseball season, Jews observe Rosh Hashanah
1891: In
Alpena, Michigan, Temple Beth El hosted Rosh Hashanah services as part of the
compromise between Orthodox and Reform members of the congregation.
1891:
“Russia’s Persecuted Jews” published today includes a summary of the sermon
given by Dr/ Max Landsberg, the Rochester rabbi who praised the articles
written by Harold Frederic and published by the New York Times that provided a first-hand of the wretched
conditions under which Russian Jews are living.”
1891:
Joseph Barondess, the former head of the Cloakmakers’ Union remained in jail
today after having been returned from Canada.
Barondess had been out on bail while he appealed his conviction on
charges of extorting money from the city’s cloak manufacturers for which he was
sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Barondess claimed that he had only gone to Quebec to seek work since
nobody would hire him in New York and that he had every intention of returning
once he had earned some money.
1891: A
list of courses to be offered by Cornell University published today included an
“Introduction to a History of the Jews” taught by Dr. W.F. Wilcox, “Hebrew
Poetry” taught by Dr. O.F. Emerson who will apply “sympathetic literary
criticism” to a study of Job and Psalms and “The Book of Samuel,” a course open
only to women. (Editor’s note – no reason is given for this)
1891:
Abraham Langer, a Jew who owns a poultry shop on Ridge Street was robbed while
driving his wagon tonight by two knife-wielding men while he was on his way to
buy animals to sell to his customers.
1892:
Captain Crémieu-Foa, the anti-Semitic French officer who had been transferred
to Tunis to avoid any further duels with Jewish officers was part of the French
force that attacked the rebels at Poguessa in Dahomey.
1892: In
Charleston, SC, Frannie Triest Goldsmith and Dr. Isaac Alexander Goldsmith ga
birth to Myrtle Goldsmith
1893:
Birthdate of St. Charles, MO native Fannie Frank Cook, the husband of Jerome
Cook and the winner of the George Washington Carver Memorial Award for her
novel, Mrs. Palmer’s Honey.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/fannie-cook/mrs-palmers-honey/
1893: In
Roswell, NM, Nathan Jaffa, the Hesse, German on son of Lea and Benjamin Jaffa
and his wife Esther Jaffa gave birth to Eleanor Jaffa the wife of Arthur
Goldsmith Jaffa who died one day before her 77th birthday in El Paso
TX.
1893: “Dr.
A. Stocker, Anti-Semite” published today described the arrival in New York of
Adolf Stocker, the former chaplain at the court of the Kaiser who “is known
throughout the civilized world as an ardent leader of the anti-Semitic
agitation in Germany.”
1894: Max
Moskowitz, the first witness to testify before the Lexow Committee, told about
a friend of his who was arrested for selling sandwiches on a Sunday but was
able to avoid jail time by paying “$2 to the doorman at the police station.”
1895(16th
of Tishrei, 5656): Second Day of Sukkoth
1895:
“Meeting of Rabbis in Cincinnati” published today described plans for the
upcoming meeting of the Executive Committee of the Central Conference of
Rabbis.
1895: John
Allen’s Modern Judaism, W.H. Rule’s History of the Karaite, Rabbi
Grossman’s Judaism and the Science of Religion and T.A. Davis’s Am I
a Jew or a Gentile were among the “many books of solid worth offered at the
sale of the William Berrian library today by Bangs & Co.
1896: In
Philadelphia, Joseph and Clara Zeidman gave birth to Benjamin “Bennie” Zeidman,
the Hollywood producer best known as B.F. Zeidman.
1896: “Pharmacist
and chemist” J. Leon Lascoff, the Vilna born son of Anna Rieser and Israel
David Lascoff who was a professor at the New Jersey State University College of
Pharmacy, a member of the New York State Board of Pharmacy and Chaiman of the
Retail Drug Trade Division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
married Clara Joachomson today.
1896: It
was reported today that Joseph L. Buttenweiser delivered a talk on “The
Influence of Machinery and Education on Labor” at the Assembly Hall of the
Hebrew Technical Institute in what was supposed to be “the first of a series of
lectures” sponsored by institute’s alumni association.
1897(8th
of Tishrei, 5658): In England, 20-year-old Vivian Ernest Kennard, “the second
son of Eva and the late Alred Kennard pass away today.
1897(8th
of Tishrei, 5658): In England, the infant Gerald Lindo, who had not reached
three months of age, passed away today.
1897(8th
of Tishrei, 5658): Fifty-four-year-old Polish born “master tailor” Louis
Harris, the husband of Mena Wingard and the father of Israel Harris passed away
today after which he was buried at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1898(18h of
Tishrei, 5659): Fourth Day of Sukkot (Chol Hamoed)
1898: Jacob and Bella Pesin gave birth to Samuel Pesin, “an
assistant corporation counsel” in Jersey City for the past 11 years, “a member
of the John Marshall Law College,” a former President of Congregation Mount
Sinai in Jersey City Heights and husband of Libby Pesin with whom he had two
children – Edward and Ada.
1898:
“Realizing that he was dying Charles Koransky had hotel keeper Abraham Solomon
summon his friend Jacob Janowitz to his bedside, who realizing how desperate
the situation was called for an ambulance to take him to Gouverneur Hospital.
1899(30th
of Tishrei, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1899(30th
of Tishrei, 5660): Seventy-eight-year-old Rebecca Hyams, the widow of Moses
Hyams passed away today after which she buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery
in London.
1900: On
the day after Yom Kippur, Bloomingdale’s which was found in 1861 by Joseph B,
and Lyman G, Bloomingdale, is selling, “for today only” “Women’s Silk Waists”
for $2.57
1901(21st
of Tishrei, 5662): Hoshanah Rabah observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt
1902(3rd
of Tishrei, 5663): Shabbat Shuva
1902: When
Secretary of State Hay returned to Washington today, “he found on his desk a
large number of letters from prominent Jews in every part of the” United States
thanking him “for his efforts on behalf of the Romanian Jews “as exhibited in
his note to the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin.”
1903: Dr.
Harry Friedenwald, “representative of the local Zionist at the last Zionist
Congress” is scheduled to speak at local theatre in Baltimore, MD.
1903: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of Levy Cohen and
Lena Berger.
1903 (13th of Tishrei, 5664): Erratic Austrian author Otto
Weininger passed away, apparently by his own hand.
https://daily.jstor.org/man-behind-new-man/
1904: In Newark, NJ, haberdasher Max Joachim and his wife Pauline
gave birth to Samuel Joachim, who gained fame as Jimmy Ritz, “the second Ritz
Brother.
1904: Twenty-five-year-old Indiana Law School trained attorney Lawrence
Bowen Davis, the Indianapolis, IN born son of Mark and Rebecca Davis who was a
member of the law firm of Newberger, Simon and Davis and a member of the
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation married Isabel Haas today.
1904: It was reported today that “a colony to be composed of Jews
from” New York’s East Side, “is soon to be established on the 150-acre Van
Norstrand farm in Nassau County, NY.”
1905: In New York, Jessie Myra de Beaulieu, the New York born “daughter
of Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen and Lucia Maness Solis-Cohen and he husband Joseph
Alphonse Litelier de St. Giusti Hudon de Beaulieu gave birth to Theodora
Benveneda Justine Earth
1905:
Birthdate of Chelsea,
MA native and Boston University Law School graduate Ada Feinberg York, “a
lawyer for the NLRB,” “Republican candidate of Secretary of State of
Massachusetts” and “former vice president of the Women’s Division of the
American Jewish Congress” who was the wife realtor and insurance broker
Benjamin H. York with who she raised a son and two daughters.
1906 (15th of Tishrei, 5667): Sukkoth
1906 (15th of Tishrei, 5667):
Alex Simon passed away. Simon was born in Konin, Poland, arrived in
Brenham when Texas was still the Republic of Texas. His arrival marked the
beginning of the influential Simon family's involvement in the Brenham Jewish
community. Alex Simon was one of the founders and builders of the B'nai Abraham
Synagogue. He was also one of the principal investors in the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad, "which brought Jewish immigrants up from Galveston
through the Brazos River valley to Bryan and out to San Angelo."
1907(26th of Tishrei, 5668): Forty-eight year Marianna
Kahn, the daughter of Juliane Leve and Isaac Kahn passed away today after which
she was buried in the Schweich Jewish Cemetery
1908(9th of Tishrei, 5669): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
chanted for the last time during the Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.
1908
(9th of Tishrei, 5669): In Houston Texas Adath Yshurun Kol Nidre Services begin
at 6:30 p.m. and include a sermon entitled “What’s the Use?” which is delivered
in English.
1909(19th
of Tishrei, 5670): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1909:
Birthdate of James B. Prichard the University of Pennsylvania archaeologist who
led six expeditions from 1956 to 1962 that excavated the remains of Gibeon
which played a prominent role in many of the Biblical stories found in the
first part of the second section of the TaNaCh – “Prophets.”
1909:
First Enrollment of students for Dropsie College takes place in
Philadelphia, Pa.
1909: Israel Effendi
was appointed Chief of Police in Turkey.
1909:
Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and California trained lawyer Murray Chotiner,
the original political mentor of Richard Nixon.
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKchotiner.htm
1909(19th
of Tishrei, 5670): Thirty-four-year-old Rena L. Phillips passed away today
after which she was buried in the Jewish Cemetery at Natchitoches, LA.
1910(1st
of Tishrei, 5671): As the world was racked with political upheaval in such
disparate places as China, Mexico and Portugal, Jews observed Rosh Hashanah
1910:
“Tolstoy Opposes the Pale” published today reports that the Count believes “the
regulations setting aside a restricted district” which is the only place where
Jews can reside legally, “are not only absurd and ineffectual but” violate “the
natural right of all beings to live and move upon the earth.”
1911: Much
to the relief of some Jewish merchants, Home Secretary Winston Churchill
expressed a willingness “to omit Sunday-closings from the Shop Hours Bill.”
1911: As
opposition to the admittance of Eastern European Jews into the United Kingdom,
the “Stepney Borough Council in London adopted a “resolution urging the
Government to pass further measures regulating alien immigration.
1912(23rd
of Tishrei, 5673): Simchat Torah celebrated for the last time during the
Presidency of William Howard Taft.
1912: In
New Castle, PA, Ina and Rabinowitz and Benjamin Otto Shulman gave birth to
Bernard Schulman who gained famed as University of Virginia graduate and community
party member turned savings and loan mogul Bart Lytton, the husband of the
former Beth Golden.
1913(3rd
of Tishrei, 5674): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
1913(3rd
of Tishrei, 5674): Nine-year-old Schlome Ruwen Munitz passed away today.
1914(14th
of Tishrei, 5675): Erev Sukkoth
1914: The
funeral for Rabbi Daniel Lowenthal is scheduled to take place today with
interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Cypress. Among the mourners are his widow,
the former Miss Theresa Lichtenstein and his four children – Justice of the
Peace Samson Lowenthal, Monroe Lowenthal, Leo B. Lowenthal and Mrs. Carl Levi.
1914:
“Three months after the outbreak of WW I,” in “response to urgent pleas for
help from Jews in in Eastern Europe and Palestine,” “the Central Committee for
the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War or Central Relief Committee (CRC)
was formed today
1915: “The Day, the Jewish daily, today
received a wireless message from its editor Herman Bernstein who is traveling
in the belligerent countries saying that “Russian outrages against the Jewish
population are continuing despite rumors circulated that their condition has
improved.”
1915: Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue was quoted today as favoring the creation
of a Jewish Congress to work for the rights of Jews living in the belligerent
countries contending that the opponents, however “admirable” they may be, are
acting as if their “personal domains were being invaded” by usurpers seeking to
intrude on their power in the American Jewish community.
1915: In
London, “W.A. Appleton, Secretary of the General Federation of Trade issued a
statement giving the results of representations made by him on behalf of the
Workers; League for Jewish Emancipation to the Russian Finance Minister in the
course of the latter’s recent visit to London” in which thousands of Jews
expressed their concerns for their co-religionists in Russia and looked for a
sign that “they would receive the rights of citizens.”
1915: It
was reported today that “Rabbi Nathan Krass of Temple Israel of Brooklyn has
written to the Board of Education to protest against the Writ system which is
being introduced in some of the Bronx schools as an experiment in which the
pupils are to go to different religious beliefs” saying he is “opposed to any
system which connect religious education with public schools” because “it will
break up the Democratic Sprit.
1916:
“Harmony among Jews in the United States was restored” tonight “by the adoption
of a new plan” approved “by representatives of the Conference of National
Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Congress Organization” that will lead to
the creation of the American Jewish Congress which will “demand equal rights
Jews in European countries.”
1916:
“Chief Rabbi Jaffee of 205 East Broadway has enlisted the services of former
Secretary of State Samuel S. Koenig to head a deputation of rabbis and
prominent east side Jews to call on Mayor Mitchell today and ask” that Health
Commissioner Haven Emerson’s ban “on the ancient custom followed by Orthodox
Jews of sacrificing a fowl in connection with the Day of Atonement “be removed
until the Jewish celebrations are over.”
1916:
Assemblyman A.J. Shiplacoff presided over a mass meeting tonight at Cooper
Union held under the auspices of the National Workmen’s Committee on Jewish
Rights where speakers including Representative Meyer London, Dr. Henry
Moskowitz and Morris Hillquit gave voice to the protest “against the proposed
plan of Great Britain to deport all Russian and Rumanian refuges unless they
immediately joined the British Army.”
1916:
Birthdate of Long Island City native director and producer George Sidney
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/arts/george-sidney-85-director-of-many-movie-musicals.html
1916: In
Zurich, Paul Gluck-Friedman and Henia Shipper gave birth to Rose Gluck who as
Rose Warfman survived Auschwitz and became “a heroine of the French Resistance.
1916:
Birthdate of Vitaly Ginzburg, the Jewish born Soviet Physicist and Nobel Prize
winner who was an avowed atheist.
1916: Birthdate of Murray Janofsky, the Bronx
native who gained fame as comedian Jan Murray.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/nyregion/03murray.html
1917: At a
meeting of the British Cabinet, Edwin Montagu, the one Jew in the Lloyd George
government, continued to express his opposition to what would become the
Balfour Declaration. Under pressure from
Montagu and his supporters Prime Minister Lloyd George and Lord Balfour watered
down the original draft, modifying, among other things the strong statement
“that Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish
People.”
1917:
Samuel Untermyer, the prominent Jewish lawyer and civic leader issued a
statement today “replying to an attack made on him by Mayor Mitchell” denying
the claim that he had met with Konstantin Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian
Ambassador to the United States who had been expelled on charges of espionage
and stating that he would have no further comment on other false charges for
the time being because he is leaving New York “on a two week’s speaking” at the
request of Secretary McAdoo “in aid of the Liberty Loan.”
1917: It
was reported today that Judge McIntyre in General Sessions said that “thousands
of Jews have enlisted all over the country” and that “to call a man a dirty
Jews might well lead to a breach of the peace.”
1918: During
World War I, in action that would earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor, U.S. Army Sergeant Benjamin Kaufman charged a
German machine gun in the Argonne Forest that had pinned down his unit and singlehandedly
captured the gun and the crew despite the fact that his right arm had been
shattered and by the time he reached his objective he was armed with a pistol
that had no more bullets.
1918: Max
Seltzer of New York was cited for bravery today which would lead to him
receiving the Distinguished Service Cross in October of 1920
1918: In
New York City, Rose Kantrowitz wife of general practitioner Bernard Abraham
gave birth to U.S. heart surgeon and medical investigator Adrian Kantrowitz who
was responsible for pioneering developments in circulatory assist devices,
artificial organs, medical electronics, heart transplantation, and research
motion pictures and “whose team performed the world's second heart transplant
attempt] at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn
1918(28th
of Tishrei, 5679): Twenty-eighty-year-old Abraham Kranson passed away after
which he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery at Natchitoches, LA.
1918: On
the edge of the Argonne Forest, after having been separated from his patrol and
having his right arm shattered by a machine gun bullet, Sergeant Benjamin
Kaufman of Company K, 308th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Regiment,
began tossing grenades with left arm, “charged the enemy position with an empty
pistol, scattered the crew and brought the gun and one prisoner back to a
dressing-station.
1918: The
165th Regiment, including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein hiked from
Mondrecourt to Jubecourt where it was reunited with “the old 12th
New York regiment.”
1918: “The
Vokstimme of Chemnitz of Germany, published a protest against the ill-treatment
of Jews in the occupied Russian territory, declaring that ‘unheard of
cruelties’ have been visited upon them”
1918: In
the wake of the successful Allied Offense on the Western Front, German
Chancellor Max von Baden whom he Kaiser had appointed three days before sent a
telegram to President Wilson asking for an Armistice.
1919(10th
of Tishrei, 5680): Yom Kippur
1919: Eighty-seven-year-old
Bavarian born David Weil, the husband of Rosina Simon Weil, passed away today
in Montgomery, Alabama.
1919:
Birthdate of Baruch Spiegel, the son of a Warsaw leather maker who, would
become one of the approximately 750 Jewish fighters who actually took part in
the armed resistance known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and who escaped
through the sewers to fight as partisan for the rest of WW II. (As reported by
Joseph Berger)
1920(22nd
of Tishrei, 5681): Shmini Atzeret
1920: In
Brooklyn Temple Beth Elohim held holiday services today.
1920: In
New York City, Jacob H. Schiff bequeathed $1,350,000 “to various charities and
philanthropic institutions.”
1921(2nd
of Tishrei, 5682): As President Harding enjoys his seventh month in the White
House, Jews observe a second day of Rosh Hashanah
1921: It
was reported today that during Rosh Hashanah rabbis “preached on the limitation
of armaments, criticism of the prohibition law, the Ku Klux Klan, the new
immigration law and the ‘movies.”
1922: In
Brooklyn, Adolph Auerbach, the owner of “an event hall used for weddings” and
Rebeca Ball gave birth to Leah Marion Auerbach who as Lee Kaufman joined her
husband to gain fame as spokesperson for Swiffer cleaning products.
1922: In
St. Paul, MN, an address was delivered today “at the 46th annual
convention of the American Humane Association on “The Jewish Method of Slaying
Animals.” (see page 52 for the text)
1923: In
Washington, “Frank and Phoebe Lazarus” who one time “ran a bicycle shop” gave
birth to Charles Phillip Lazarus, the founder of Toys R Us. (As reported by
Michael Corkery)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/charles-p-lazarus-toys-r-us-founder-dies-at-94.html/
1924:
Birthdate of Donald J. Sobol, the Bronx native who created “Encyclopedia Brown,
the clever boy detective.” (As reported
by Denise Grady)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/books/donald-j-sobol-creator-of-encyclopedia-brown-dies-at-87.html
1925(16th
of Tishrei, 5686): Second Day of Sukkoth
1925(16th
of Tishrei, 5686): Rose Flora Eisendrath, the German born daughter of Bertha
and Moses Eisendrath, and the “wife of Emanuel Raphael Weil with whom she had
three children – Leon, Florence and Mildred – passed away today in Chicago.
1925: Sir
Harry Gloster Armstrong, the British Consul General at New York, addressed a
meeting of the Palestine Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Pennsylvania. He “extolled the aspirations behind the
movement to develop the ancient hol land as national centre of the Jewish
race.” Sir Harry reviewed the improving
economic conditions in the country siting the “growth of industry and increase
in imports.”
1925:
Opening day of the Palestine-Near East Exhibition and Fair at Tel Aviv.
1926: “The
Queen of Moulin Rouge” directed by Robert Wiene was released today in Berlin.
1927:
Birthdate of Minneapolis native Daniel Dworsky, the four year starter at the
University Michigan under the legendary Fritz Crisler, including 1947 and 1948
when team went undefeated and won the National Championship twice and then
after playing pro-ball for a year returned to school, graduated with a degree
in architecture and then went on to a decades long career that included
designing everything from the Crisler Arena, to the Jerry Lewis Neuromuscular Research
Center to the Federal Reserve Bank building in Los Angeles.
1928(20th
of Tishrei, 5689): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1928: In
New York, Sam and Rose Toffler gave birth to Alvin Toffler, author of Future
Shock.
1928:
Birthdate of Michael Steinberg. According to his obituary, Steinberg was an
influential classical music critic, teacher, lecturer and author, and the
pre-eminent program annotator of his day. Born in Breslau, Germany, Steinberg’s
mother had him sent to safety in England through Kindertransport, the rescue
mission that saved nearly 10,000 refugee Jewish children in the months before
World War II. After the war, he, his mother and his elder brother lived in St.
Louis. After Princeton, while studying in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship, Mr.
Steinberg met his first wife, Jane Bonacker. They divorced in 1977, having had
two sons, Sebastian and Adam. Later he married, Jorja Fleezanis, the
concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1989. Trained as a musicologist,
with a degree from Princeton University, Mr. Steinberg spent his early career
teaching music history at the Manhattan School of Music. He came to wide
attention as the music critic for The Boston Globe for nearly 12 years, until
1976. While a critic he continued to teach at the New England Conservatory,
Brandeis University and other colleges.
His reviews were erudite and readable, his interests wide-ranging. He
stood up for intellectually formidable composers at a time when a postmodernist
backlash was taking root and also encouraged the early-music movement, which
thrived in Boston during this period. He was a regular critic of the conductor
Seiji Ozawa’s work at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra officials openly
expressed their dismay with Mr. Steinberg’s critiques. So the Boston musical
community was stunned when, in 1976, Mr. Steinberg accepted a position as
program annotator for the Boston Symphony. It seemed as if he had switched
camps. But according to Kathryn King, a public relations agent and friend, Mr.
Steinberg had grown tired of reviewing. “For years,” she added, “he harbored a
secret desire to write program notes for a major symphony and to serve as an
artistic adviser or administrator.” His work as an annotator was immediately popular.
Suddenly, reading Mr. Steinberg’s long, analytic program notes, rich with
anecdotal information and historical context, became an essential part of
attending a Boston Symphony concert. Yet it was not until 1979, when he became
the publications director and artistic adviser of the San Francisco Symphony, a
position he held for 10 years, that Mr. Steinberg had the opportunity to affect
repertory and artistic policy. Mr. Steinberg’s program notes, full of vivid
descriptions of pieces, were collected in a series of listeners’ guides: “The
Symphony,” “The Concerto” and “Choral Masterworks,” published by Oxford
University Press. His account of the “alien and terrifying” opening pages of
the finale of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is typical. “From the thud of a low C,”
Mr. Steinberg wrote, “there arises an encompassing swirl of strangely luminous
dust: harp glissandos, a woodwind chord, and chains of trills on muted
strings.” He died of colon cancer at the age of 80 at his home in Edina,
Minnesota, outside of Minneapolis.
1929 (29th
of Elul, 5689): Unbeknownst to the Jews as they gather on Erev Rosh Hashanah
the nation’s economy is on the verge of collapse.
1929: “Eight
hours before Jews held services this evening at the Wailing Wall, ushering in
the Jewish new year, 5690, the British authorities took extraordinary precautions
to prevent any recurrence of disturbances.”
1930(12th
of Tishrei, 5691): Parashat Ha’Azinu
1930:
Northwestern University led by Guard Hyman “Hy” Crizevsky defeated Tulane
University in its first game of the season.
1931(23rd
of Tishrei, 5692): Simchat Torah
1931(23rd
of Tishrei, 5692: Seventy-nine-year-old photoengraver Daniel Henry Cardozo, Sr
the New York born son of Sarah and Abraham Hart Cardozo and husband of Clara
Cardozo with whom he had three sons Dan, Benjamin and Clifford, passed away
today.
1932: Anti-Semite Julius Gombos forms new a
government in Hungary.
1932: “With
a goal of 10,000,000 members and the announced intention of "combating
legislation for prepayment of the bonus," an organization to be
incorporated as the National Committee Against Prepayment of the Bonus held its
first meeting at the Hotel Commodore this afternoon and elected S. Stanwood
Menken national chairman.”
1933: In a
bid to control the media and drive the Jews from German cultural life, the
newly empowered Nazi government promulgated the Newspaper Editors' Law. It made
Aryan origin a prerequisite for anyone editing a German newspaper.
1934: Twenty-four-year-old
Harry Blitman fought his seventy-fifth bout which turned out to be his last
pugilistic victory.
1934(25th
of Tishrei, 5695): Seventy-year-old Arnhem native Benjamin Prins, whose second
wife was Rosa Benari, the niece of painter Moritz Oppenheimer and whose
“brother-in-law Jacob Eisenman founded the Eisenmann Synagogue in Antwerp”
passed away today in Amsterdam.”
http://www.artnet.com/artists/benjamin-liepman-prins/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Prins#/media/File:Prins1.JPG
1935: “The gradual building up of an underground mass-movement
against the Hitler regime, which is gaining a momentum that may lead to its
overthrow in the not too distant future, was reported today by B. Charney
Vladeck, president of the American ORT and general manager of The Jewish Daily
Forward, who returned on the French liner Lafayette, after an extended tour of
European countries.”
1936(18th
of Tishrei, 5697): Fourth Day of Sukkoth – Chol Hamoed
1936(18th
of Tishrei, 5697): Sixty-four-year-old Jesse Isidor Straus, a member of the
Straus family best known for its ownership of R.H. Macy & Co passed
away. Born in 1872, he was the son of
Isidor Strauss who died on the Titanic and the nephew of Nathan Straus for whom
Netanya is named. He was an early
supporter of Franklin Roosevelt who appointed named him U.S. Ambassador to
France in 1933, a post he held until just before his death.
1936: In London, formation of Jewish People’s Council
1936: “The Battle of
Cable Street took place on Sunday in Cable Street in the East End of
London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police Service, overseeing a
legal march by the British Union of Fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, and
anti-fascists, including local Jewish, groups. The majority of both marchers
and counter-protesters travelled into the area for this purpose. Mosley planned
to send thousands of marchers dressed in uniforms styled on those of
Blackshirts through the East End of London, which had a large Jewish
population. “It was a
defining moment in British and Anglo-Judaic history, not least for making the
government bring in legislation that crippled right wing activity, including a
ban on political uniforms, pre-World War II.”
This watershed moment in Anglo-Jewish history would be the subject of a
film made seventy years after the event and has been memorialized by the Jews
of London’s East End.
1936: “More than 3,000 members of Greater New York
units of Junior Hadassah” gathered “in the grand ballroom of the Hotel
Astor...to open its fall program and membership drive. “Shulamith Schwartz who had served as head of
the organization and has been teaching in Tel Aviv for the last two years was
the principal speaker for the evening.
1936: “An attack on the persecution of Jews in the
world today an appeal for love and sympathy between Gentile and Jew, were
voiced by Reverend Francis K. Shepherd in his sermon this morning at the North
Baptist Church” in which he “declared that this was a ‘Jew-baiting age,’ and
that the persecution of Jews existed not only in Germany but in in Palestine
and even” in the United States of America.
1937: The Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service is
scheduled o begin a drive today designed to raise $250,000. John M. Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co and the
grandson of Jacob Schiff, is chairman of the fund-raising effort.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that the Mandatory Government applied emergency
regulations to appoint press censors. Editors were specifically ordered to
refrain from any comment on the recent banning of the Arab Higher Committee and
on the deportation of the top Arab leaders. The cruiser Sussex carried the Arab
deportees out to the sea, where they were transshipped to a British destroyer
and moved to an unknown destination.
1937(29th
of Tishrei, 5698): Seventy-eight-year-old “Miss Emily M. Opper, who for
thirty-five years was associated with the Hebrew Technical School for Girls
before her retirement several years ago” passed away today.
1937:
“Varsity Show,” the musical with a screenplay by Jerry Wald and Sig Herzig was
released today in the United States.
1938(9th
of Tishrei, 5699): Just two days after Arabs massacre Jews in Tiberias, the
mournful sounds of Kol Nidre are heard Erev Yom Kippur.
1938: In
his sermon this evening Rabbi David de
Sola Pool told congregants at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue that “the
Jewish people is today under attack by an envenomed international propaganda of
scurrility and obscene abuse cynically organized and emanating from the land of
the Fuehrer.”
1938: At
Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson delivered a sermon on “Torah and the
Jewish Way of Life” in which he “said the reason for the survival of the Jewish
people is to found in the difference between a moral contribution and a
contribution in any other field.”
1939: It
was reported today that the government of Hungary has issued an order which put
into effect anti-Jews laws that will result in the lost of jobs for tens of
thousands of Hungarian Jews “employed in factories and wholesale and retail
businesses.”
1939: An
analysis given in the House of Commons today by Colonial Secretary showed that
more than half of the illegal entrants Palestine were without passports and
claimed to be stateless” and of those with passports a majority were Czechs…”
1940(2nd
of Tishrei, 5701): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1940: It
was reported today that “concrete action in defense of our liberties and
warnings against greed, dependence on material comforts and fall optimism were
emphasized in Rosh Hashanah sermons yesterday morning.”
1940: Forty-nine-year-old
mortgage broker Herbert Moss Unger, the son of Judge Henry W. Unger and the
brother of former New York Country assistant district attorney Albert Boggs
Unger Imgpassed away today at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
1940: The
Hebrew Sheltering Immigrant Aid Society has arranged for Rosh Hashanah Services
at Ellis Island and its synagogue at 425 Lafayette Street.
1940: The
Jewish Community Centers, Y.M.H.A.’s and Y.W.H.A.’s affiliated with the
National Jewish Welfare Board are scheduled to host Rosh Hashanah services.
1940:
Hitler and Mussolini met at the Brenner Press, an opening in the Alps between
Austria and Italy to celebrate the success of the Axis powers.
1940: German
law gives Vichy France the power to imprison Jews even inside the Unoccupied
Zone.
1940: “Vichy answered
the prayers of the most zealous anti-Dreyfusards” today by adopting a measure
that “made the government of France
judenrein.”
1941: The
Bulgarians enforced an extraordinary measure that prohibited the Jews of
Macedonia from engaging in any type of industry or commerce. All existing
Jewish businesses had three months to transfer ownership to non-Jews or sell
their assets and close down.
1941(13th of Tishrei, 5702): Fifteen hundred Jews from Kovno,
Lithuania, are transported to the Ninth Fort and murdered. In Kovno proper,
Nazis lock the Jewish hospital and set it ablaze, incinerating all inside.
1941: Birthdate of
author Jackie Collins, sister of Joan Collins.
1942: Berlin
orders that all Jews in concentration camps within Germany be deported to
Auschwitz.
1943(5th of
Tishrei, 5704): Fifty-seven-year-old Sylvan Kronheim the Brooklyn born daughter
of Jacob Kronheim and Judith Bensinger, and the mother of Judith Kronheim
passed away today in Manhattan.
1943: At
Poznan; Himmler addressed his senior SS staff re-stating the goals of the Final
Solution. "I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the
Jewish race.” Within the year, as Soviet
troops advanced across Eastern Europe, the SS would work to destroy the
evidence of their evil deeds.
1943:
During World War II, a tanker christened the SS Oscar S. Straus, one of a fleet of “liberty ships” that helped
the US win the war of logistics was launched today.
1943:
Approximately 200 Danish Jews were not able to escape to Sweden were heading
toward Danzig after having been loaded into two cattle cars without food or
water by the Nazis.
1944(17th
of Tishrei, 5705): Third Day of Sukkoth – Choel Hamoed
1944(17th
of Tishrei, 5705): Sixty-one-year-old Berlin born screenwriter and actor Walter
Wassermann passed away today in Salzburg.
1944: All the women and children sent from Theresienstadt to Birkenau on
this day would eventually be killed.
1944: Rabbi Yehuda Amital was liberated from a Nazi labor camp by the
Soviet Army.
1944: Al Smith passed away. Smith
began life as a genuine reformer. In the
aftermath of the Triangle Shirt factory, he supported an array of measures
designed to improve the lot of the workers, many of whom were Jewish immigrants
from Eastern Europe. At least one of his
campaign managers during his successful bid for the governorship of New York
was Jewish. Smith was the first Catholic candidate Presidential candidate in
1928. His 1928 bid for the Presidency
presaged the collation that would lead to the election of Roosevelt in 1932.
Smith’s defeat and FDR’s victory seem to sour Smith politically and he swung to
the right, joining the Liberty League and becoming a staunch critic of the New
Deal and the Jews who helped to create it.
1944: Johnny Mercier recorded Harold Arlen’s “Ac-Cent-Tchuate the
Positive” with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston’s orchestra today.
1945: “Week-End At The Waldorf” based on Vicki Baum’s novel Grand
Hotel with a script co-written by Bella Spewack was released in the United
States by MGM.
1945:
Two months after being released in the United Kingdom “True Glory” -- “a documentary account of the allied
invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly
1400 cameramen” – directed by Garson Kanin with a script created by Paddy
Chayefsky and Eric Maschwitz among others which won the Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature was released today in the United States.
1945: The Ampal American Palestine Trading Corporation of New York, an
organization designed “to develop trade relations between the United States and
Palestine and to assist in the development of the economic resources of
Palestine” registered a stock offering with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The sale of the stock is
intended to provide working capital to Ampal American to meet its goals.
1946: Final plans were announced today for the construction of Givat
(Mount) Washington, settlement designed to provide a home and training for more
than 100 Jewish orphans who survived the Holocaust. Givat Washington will be located outside of
Tel Aviv near the ancient town of Yavneh.
The program has been spearheaded by Rabbi Zemach Green of Washington,
D.C. Givat Washington is named in honor
of the first President of the United States and fragments of stone from Mt.
Vernon, the U.S. Capitol building and the White House are to be set in the
foundation stone of the first edifice built on this site.
1946 (9th of Tishrei, 5707): Erev of Shabbat and Erev Yom Kippur
1946: In the United Kingdom, Harry Louis Nathan began serving as Minister
of Civil Aviation.
1946: On the eve of Yom Kippur, “President Truman issued the customary
presidential statement of greeting to American Jewry, but then went on to urge
that ‘substantial’ refugee immigration into Palestine commence immediately, for
the plight of the Displace Persons ‘cannot await a solution to the Palestine
problem.’”
1947: The University of Michigan Wolverines led by Fullback and
Linebacker Dan Dworsky defeated Stanford today in what was their second victory
in what would become a perfect season.
1947: In Collegeville,
PA, “attorney Raymond Pearlstine” and the former Gladys Cohen, “the chairman of
the Montgomery County Community College” gave birth University of Pennsylvania
trained lawyer Norman Pearlstine who turned to a career in journalism that
included serving in “senior positions at Time, Bloomberg and the Wall Street
Journal” before becoming “executive editor of the Los Angeles Times.”
1947: After
having opened at the National Theatre in 1946 and then transferred to the
Majestic Theatre , the curtain came down on “Call Me Mister,” a revue with
words and music by Harold Rome and a cast that included Jules Munshin but which
would continue its Broadway run at the Plymouth theatre,
1947:
German physicist Max Plank passed away.
Planck was not Jewish. He did try
and use his influence to save Jewish scientists from Hitler’s fury. His son was executed for taking part in the
1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
1948 (1st
of Tishrei, 5709): Rosh Hashanah
1948 (1st of Tishrei, 5709): If Jewish history were a soap opera
this episode would be called “Golda goes to the Synagogue”. Golda Meir was the newly
appointed Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union. Israel had just won its
independence in May of 1948 (and the fighting was still going on). The
Soviet Union was in the throes of anti-Semitism. Mrs. Meir went to the
Grand Synagogue in Moscow. At best, they expected the usual 2,000 Jews to
attend Rosh Hashanah services. Instead, she was greeted by a crowd of
50,000 who pressed in upon in Joyous disbelief. And this was at a time
when such behavior could get you to a trip to the Gulag. The fact that
the so many people were still Jewish and willing to risk so much to identify
was living proof that despite the adversity of the Holocaust and the Stalinists
Am Yisroel Chai - the Jewish people live.
1948(1st
of Tishrei, 5709): Seventy-four-year-old Austrian born David Alter, a partner
in “the Alter Notion House” and the husband of Ethel Alter with whom he had
five sons, and four daughters passed away today in Lakewood, NJ.
1949(11th
of Tishrei, 5710): Seventy-five-year-old Edmund Samuel Eysler the Austrian
composer who avoided the suffering of the Holocaust despite his “Jewish
origins” died today when he fell from a stage.
1950(23rd
of Tishrei, 5711): Simchat Torah
1950:
Birthdate of actor Alan Rosenberg, the native of Passaic, NJ, who was President
of the Screen Actors Guild from 2005 to 2009.
1950(23rd
of Tishrei, 5711): Seventy-one-year-old Harvard graduate Mortimer Adler, a vice
president and co-founder of Levy brother, a leading clothing manufacturer and a
present of Congregation B’rith Kodesh who was the husband of “the former Ida
Lichtenstein” and the father of Robert, Ruth and Frances Adler passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/10/05/89756369.html?pageNumber=31
1950:
After being broadcast by ABC and CBS, “You Bet Your Life” a comedy quiz show
starring Groucho Marx was broadcast on NBC for the first time today.
1950(23rd
of Tishrei, 5711): Seventy-eight-year-old Captain Stanford Elwood Moses, the
Georgia born son of William Moultrie Moses and Penina Septima Moses Robison and
the husband of Agnes Spencer Moses with whom he had two children passed away
today after which he was buried in Arlington Cemetery.
1950: In
Passaic, NJ, Martha Rosenberg Wald and her husband gave birth to American actor
Alan Rosenberg, the brother of Mark Rosenberg.
1951(4th
of Tishrei, 5712): Belarus native and “Jewish labor leader” Reuben Guskin, who
“escaped to the United States in 1904 after being sought by the Czarist police
for participating in Jewish self-defense in Bobroisk,” where he became
president of the United Hebrew Trade and served on “the management council of
the Forward” passed away today.
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/G/guskin-reuben.htm
1951: “The
Dybbuk,” an opera in three acts composed by David Tamkin in 1933 that uses an
English libretto by Alex Tamkin, the composer's brother, which is based on S.
Ansky’s Yiddish play of the same name premiered today with a performance by the
New York City Opera.
1952(15th
of Tishrei, 5713): Sukkoth.
1952: After
350 performances, the curtain came down the original Broadway production of
“Top Banana” a musical with a book by Hy Kraft and starring Tony Award winner
Phil Silvers.
1953: As of
today, the fate of ‘Kismet,” the lavish musical rests in the hands of Charles
Lederer, the son of George Washington Lederer.
1955:
Mitchell Levin is overjoyed as the Brooklyn Dodgers won game seven of the World
Series giving the Brooklyn team their first, and only World Series
championship.
1956: NBC
broadcast the episode of The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show written by Norman Lear
and directed by Bud Yorkin.
1956(29th
of Tishrei, 5717): Gabriel Benjamin Dahan (born 1931), Ephraim Waldman (born
1907), Arie Lahav (born 1921) and Jacob Lustig (born 1916), all of whom worked
for Solel Boneh, were murdered today when 10 Palestinian terrorists who
infiltrated from Jordan machine gunned their jeeps “on the Sodom-Beer Sheva
Road also known as Highway 25’.”
1956(29th
of Tishrei, 5717): Two Israelis laborers were killed by Palestinian terrorists
“in an orchard near Even Yehuda” following which Moshe Dayan expressed a desire
to mount a reprisal raids.
1957(9th
of Tishrei, 5718): Erev Shabbat and Erev Yom Kippur
1957: The
modern space age began today when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a
satellite whose launching changed the face of the educational and political
landscape of the United States.
1958: After
only five performances on Broadway the curtain came down on “Handful of Fire” a
two-act play by N. Richard Nash.
1958: Two
days after he passed away 64-year-old motion picture operator Nathan Schulman,
the Manhattan born son of Abraham and Molka Schulman was buried at the
Hollywood Cemetery in Houston, TX.
1959(2nd
of Tishrei, 5720): Second day of Rosh Hashanah but the first time that the
shofar is blown because the first of Tishrei fell on Shabbat
1959:
Birthdate of Shelley Levitan Adler, the native of Chicago and Harvard Law
School graduate who was the wife of former Congressman John Adler who converted
to Judaism when her married and who unsuccessfully ran to fill her husband’s
old seat in the House of Representatives from New Jersey’s Third Congressional
District.
1959: ABC
broadcast the first episode of episode of “The Rebel” an off-beat western television
series “developed and created by” Irvin Kershner which featured appearances by
Ned Glass and Soupy Sales.
1959: On
NBC Sunday Showcase, Larry Blyden starred as Sammy Glick in the second part of
the two-part television broadcast of “What Makes Sammy Run” based on the novel
by Budd Schulberg.
1961:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning at the Central Synagogue
in Manhattan “for St. Lawrence University trained attorney and C.P.A. Mrs.
Harriet Lowenstein, the wife of retired Justice Jonah Goldstein and the
daughter of Sigmund and Fanny Thalinger Lowenstein who helped organize the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and who in 1919 went abroad where she
worked to alleviate the suffering of the Jews of Eastern Europe in the
aftermath of WW I and the Russian Revolution.
1961: CBS broadcast
the first episode of “Mrs. Goes to College” which was “retitled The Berg Show.”
1962: “The
Longest Day” an epic about D-Day with a script co-authored by Romain Gary and
featuring George Segal was released in Canada today.
1963(16th
of Tishrei, 5724): Second Day of Sukkot
1963:
Tonight, the audience attending the opening night of the Lyric Opera of Chicago
season found a rose pinned to every theatre seat” because the performance “was
dedicated Rosa Risa” the city’s “great Jewish Soprano” who had died on
September 28.
1963: On
opening night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago performed Verdi’s “Nabucco” or
Nebuchadnezzar which is based on the story of the Babylonian destruction of
Jerusalem and the exile of its Jewish inhabitants.
1964(28th
of Tishrei, 5725): Sixty-nine-year-old Mrs. Ann Hoffman Hartman, the widow of
Louis Hartman, the vice president and management supervisor of Grey Advertising
passed away today in New York.
1965: Pope Paul VI arrived in New York City, making him the first pope in
history to visit the United States. While speaking at the UN, Paul published a
document exonerating the Jews of all blame in the death of Jesus Christ.
1965:
William McKenzie Wood completed his term as Canadian ambassador to Israel.
1965(8th of
Tishrei, 5726): Fifty-four-year-old former Congressman Ludwig Teller Passed
away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Lteller.html
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ludwig_teller/410700
1966(20th of
Tishrei, 5727): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1966(20th of
Tishrei, 5727): Seventy-five-year-old College of Charleston graduate and
University of South Carolina trained attorney Harry Simonhoff, the Lithuania orn
son of Jennie Shapiro and Rabbi Jacbo J. Simonhott and the husband of Ilse
Danziger, who settled in Miami where he practiced law, dabbled in real estate
and wrote a weekly column passed away today in Miami Beach
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0027/ms0027.html
1966:
“Crash,” the award-winning film directed and produced by David Croenberg who
also wrote the script, filmed by cinematographer Peter Suschitzky and with
music by Howard Shore was released today in Canada.
1967(29th
of Elul, 5727: Erev Rosh Hashanah
1967(29th
of Elul, 5727): Six years after his wife Margalit died in automobile accident
Ariel Sharon suffers another loss when his eleven-year-old son Gur is mortally
wounded while he and a friend are playing with an old shotgun
1967:
Birthdate of American actor Leiv Schreiber.
1969(22nd
of Tishrei, 5730) Shmini Atzeret falls on Shabbat
1969(22nd
of Tishrei, 5730): Seventy-eight-year-old Edwin Posner “a senior partner of
Andrews, Posner & Rothschild” and former chairman of the American Stock
Exchange (Amex) passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D04E6DA133BE73ABC4E53DFB6678382679EDE
1969:
“Hail, Hero!” a movie version of the novel by the same name co-starring Peter
Strauss with music by Jerome Moss was released in the United States today.
1970:
Birthdate of Abraham
Benrubi, the American actor playing on ER and in the movie Open Range.
1971(15th of
Tishrei, 5732): Sukkoth
1971(15th of
Tishrei, 5732): Seventy-three-year-old Kathryn Clifford Kallet, the wife Aaron
Harry Kallet , the All American End at Syracuse University, passed away today
after which she was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, NY.
https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides_sua/html/sua_kallet_ah.htm
1972(26th of
Tishrei, 5733): Fifty-eight-year-old Indian University alum “Mrs. Tirza Nelson
Kramer, widow of Rabbi Simon Gad Kramer, former head of the New York Board of
Rabbis, and mother of Jay Michael Kamer, a rabbi in Montreal “died today of a
heart condition at the Jewish Convalescent Hospital in New York
1973: Ashraf Marwan
telephoned Dubi, his Mossad contact, from Paris and told him about a Libyan
plan to shoot down an El Al plane in the French capital using a shoulder-held
missile.
1973: Israeli
newspapers reported that Colonel Kaddafi of Libya was sending terrorist squads
to stage acts of terrorism in both Israel and Jordan.
1973: The Israeli
cabinet met to discuss the Austrian government’s decision to close down the
refugee camp at Schoenau where many Soviet Jews were waiting to continue their
escape to Israel. The Austrian decision
was the result of an Arab terrorist attack on a train carrying Jewish refugees
from the Soviet Union to Austria.
1973: At lunch with
General Ze’evi Moshe Dayan said, “There’s not going to be a war. Not this summer and not this fall.” [Yom
Kippur was two days away.]
1974: “Jewish activist
Vitali Rubin, specialist in ancient Chinese philosophy, suffered a heart attack
when arrested by police for “parasitism”.
1976:
Barbara Walters became the first woman co-anchor of a major network evening
news program. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)
1976(10th
of Tishrei, 5737): Yom Kippur
1976(10th
of Tishrei, 5737): Ninety-five-year-old U.C. Berkley undergraduate Leo
Eloesser, the thoracic surgeon with a conscious who provided medical services
to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and the Chinese Army during WW II
passed away today.
http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/leo-eloesser
1976:
In San Francisco, Deirdre "Didi" (née Radford), a Scottish former Pan
Am flight attendant who converted to Judaism before her wedding and Monty
Silverstone, an English real estate agent, gave birth to award winning actress
Alicia Silverstone.
1977(22nd
of Tishrei, 5738): Shemini Atzeret
1977(22nd
of Tishei, 5738): Seventy-eight-year-old “Galician born, University of Vienna educated
Jewish historian Raphael Mahler a lecturer in YIVO's research student courses,
the Jewish National Labor Alliance's teachers seminary, and the Workmen's
Circle's teachers courses in the United States and a member of the
Tel Aviv University faculty, Mapam and a recipient of “the Israel Prize for his
contributions to Jewish scholarship” passed away today at Ramat Gan.
https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/562
1980(24th
of Tishrei, 5741): Parashat Bereshit
1980(24th
of Tishrei, 5741): Eight-nine-year-old Adolph Bolster Veit, the Adrian, MN born
son of Frank and Caroline Veit and the husband Clementine Veit passed away
today in St. Paul after which he was buried at Fort Snelling.
1982(17th of
Tishrei, 5743): Third Day of Sukkoth
1982: Birthdate of Omer
Goland, who “who plays as a striker for Maccabi Petah Tikva”
1982(17th of Tishrei,
5743): Lefty Rosenthal, the talented
professional gambler and gangster-when-necessary who had brought sports betting
to casinos in Las Vegas and illicitly run an empire of four hotel casinos, walked
out of Tony Roma’s on East Sahara Avenue with an order of takeout ribs. He had
just finished dinner with some fellow handicappers, and he was bringing the
food home for his two children. When he got into his car, it blew up. Mr.
Rosenthal survived the explosion — later he could not remember whether he had
turned the ignition key — but the attempt on his life, for which no one was
ever prosecuted, ended his career as one of the most powerful men in Las Vegas.
He left the city early the next year and on Monday, at home in Miami Beach, he
died. He was 79 and had lived in Florida since the late 1980s. Rosenthal was a
born to a Jewish family in Chicago.
1983: As the Israel
Bank Stock Crisis enters its third day went on television saying that the
behavior of the pubic “would not bring about a devaluation” of the currency “or
any change in policy.”
1983: Martin Fledman
was confirmed as a U.S. District Judge by the United States today.
1984(
8th of Tishrei, 5745): A month before his 82nd birthday,
Schwerte native Rabbi Werner van der Zyl the leader of the Neue Synagogue
Oranienburgerstrasse in Berlin from 1935 to 1939 who was imprisoned by the
Nazis in Hanover before being rescued with his family by Lily Montague and
brought to England where “he was Senior Rabbi of West London Synagogue from
1958 to 1968, when he retired” passed away today after which he was buried in
the Hoop Lane Cemetery.
1985(16th of
Tishrei, 5746): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1985: U.S. premiere of
“Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” with music by Philip Glass.
1986(1st of
Tishrei, 5747): Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat
1990(15th of
Tishrei, 5751): Sukkoth
1991: “Ricochet” a
crime movie produced by Joel Silver and co-starring Kevin Pollack was released
in the United States today.
1992(7th of
Tishrei, 5753): An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashed into 2 apartment buildings in
Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground.
1992: Yad
Vashem recognized Destan Balla and his wife, Lime Balla, as Righteous Among the
Nations.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/besa/balla.asp
1993: Hamas
was responsible for a car bombing near Beit El that injured 29 people.
1995(10th
of Tishrei, 5756): Yom Kippur
1995:
“Kicking and Screaming” directed by Noah Baumbach and co-starring Eliot Gould
premiered at the New York Film Festival.
1996: Five
weeks after premiering at the Venice Film Festival, “Bound” a crime thriller co-starring
Gina Gershon was released in the United States today.
1997:
“Public Housing,” a documentary directed by Frederick Wiseman, the Boston born
son of the son of Gertrude Leah (née Kotzen) and Jacob
Leo Wiseman and distributed by Zipporah Films was released today in the
United States.
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier and With Roots In Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey Into the Heart
of Her Faith by Tirzah Firestone. Six years ago, Tirzah
Firestone was ordained as a rabbi. With Roots in Heaven, her
relentlessly earnest autobiography, details her forays into Eastern, mystical
and New Age religions as she forges an identity as a Jew prepared to teach and
judge in matters of Jewish life and law. Beginning with the years of
permissiveness following her ''middle-class Jewish ghetto'' of an Orthodox
upbringing, Firestone recounts her spiritual and physical flirtations; they are
frequently intertwined. With Ron in Istanbul, she eschews bourgeois materialism
and explores ''The Autobiography of a Yogi.'' In Denver, Firestone falls for
the ''dark charisma and exotic religion'' of a Hindu known as Everlasting.
Firestone is soon primed for Fredrick, a gentle Christian minister with a
mystical bent, who slowly redirects her to Jewish mysticism. In 1985, the minister
marries the future rabbi. The two ''love warriors, holding high the standard of
our universal beliefs,'' mean to serve as an ecumenical example. A Jungian,
Firestone judges her every experience to hold not only symbolism for her, but
also a key to the spiritual destiny of mankind. Typical of her preachy efforts
to uncover this universality is her interpretation of dreams. While the lessons
Firestone draws from her life are heartfelt, she may misjudge the scope of her
experience. Meanwhile, Kaddish is
one of the best books written on this topic and the Theodore Bikel recording is
a classic that nobody should miss hearing.
1998(14th
of Tishrei, 5759): Erev Sukkot
1999:
“What’s Wrong With the SAT and Its Elite Progeny” published today provided a
review of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
by Nicholas Lemann
2000:
Following his rejection the Bill Clinton brokered peace plan, Yasser Arafat
arrived in Paris and went to meet with the President of France who is viewed as
pro-Palestinian.
2000:
Broadcast of the first show of season three of the drama series “Felicity”
created by J.J. Abrams and co-starring Greg Grunberg.
2001: As of
tonight, signatures were still being collected for a letter to be delivered to
President Bush tomorrow expressing support for the administration's war on
terrorism and policy efforts in the Middle East. Among those who had already
signed the letter are Marvin Lender, the former chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal; Jacob Stein, another former chairman of the Conference of Presidents;
Judith Stern Peck, former chairwoman of UJA-Federation of New York; and Joel
Tauber, the departing chairman of United Jewish Communities. A number of
corporate executives also signed the letter, including Stanley Gold, the
president of Shamrock Investments; and
2001:
Following the issuance of a report by the Comptroller, Ariel Sharon returned
1.5 million NIS to his donors.
2001(17th
of Tishrei, 5762): Third Day of Sukkoth
2001(17th
of Tishrei, 5762): Nineteen-year-old Tali Ben-Armon, 20 year old Sergei Freidin
and 76 year old Haim Ben-Ezra were murdered when Fatah terrorist “opened fire
on civilians at the central bus station”
in Afula.
2002(28th
of Tishrei, 5763): Seventy-eight year old Romanian born Holocaust survivor,
violinist and composer “Sandor (Shony) Alex Braun, the author of the Pulitzer
Prize nominated “Symphony on the Holocaust” passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/09/local/me-passings9.2
2002: In
“From Vengeance to Mercy: Tale of Jewish Brigade” published today, Ron Grossman
tells the tale of a Jews fighting in an all-Jewish unit in the British Army
during WW II.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-10-04-0210040122-story.html
2003 (8th
of Tishrei, 5764): Shabbat Shuvah
2003 (8th
of Tishrei, 5764): During the continuing wave of Arab terrorism there was a
suicide bombing at Maxim restaurant, a popular eatery for Israeli Jews and
Arabs. It was a symbol of the
multiculturalism of this seaside city.
A Palestinian suicide bomber,
exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. Among the dead were 21 Israeli,
Jews and Arabs. Another 51 were wounded
2003:
Islamic Jihad claimed credit for todays’ suicide bombing at the Maxim
Restaurant in Haifa that killed 21 and injured 51 including a two-month old
baby.
2004(19th
of Tishrei, 5765): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
2004:
“Should Anne Frank be granted Dutch citizenship? That was the issue at the
heart of a debate in and out of government in the Netherlands today after a
television channel listed her among 202 candidates in a popular vote to
determine history's greatest Dutch person…” (As reported by Lawrence Van
Gelder)
2005(1st of
Tishrei, 5766): First Day Rosh Hashanah
2005(1st
of Tishrei, 5766): Eighty-six-year-old
folk music producer Harold Leventhal passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E0D61130F935A35753C1A9639C8B63
2005: Haaretz reported that thousands of
Israelis had canceled trips to the Sinai in light of previous terrorist attacks
and threats of renewed violence.
2006(12th
of Tishrei, 5767): Selma Judith Levy Toback, the widow of Irwin Lionel Toback
and the daughter of Joseph Crawford Levy and Helen Yeamans Levy passed away
today.
2006:
Former Jewish Agency chairman Sallai Meridor was appointed as the next
ambassador to Washington, replacing Danny Ayalon who has completed four years
of service in the US capital.
2006: Yiftah Ron-Tal, the general in charge of the IDF Ground
Forces Command “said publicly that IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz should accept
responsibility for malfunctions in the Israel-Hezbollah War and accept the
consequences” while also hinting “that Israeli PM Ehud Olmert should do the
same.”
2006: Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz discharged
Major General Iftach Ron-Tal the head of the IDF's ground forces over remarks
he made calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007(22nd
of Tishrei, 5768): Shemini Atzeret,
2007: In
Budapest, the Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies
celebrated its 130th anniversary today.
2007:
Today, PVH, or Phillips-Van Huesen “a men’s clothing come that traces its
origins to 1881…Moses Phillips sold work shirts sewn by his wife Endel, to coal
miners in Pottsville, PA” “took over the naming rights to the Meadowlands
Sports Complex Arena in East Rutherford, NJ.” (As reported by William Grimes)
2008(5th of
Tishrei, 5769): Shabbat Shuvah,
2008: Ninety-year-old
Saul Laskin, the former mayor of Thunder Bay passed away today.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/saul-laskin-90/article1063405/
http://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Saul-Laskin-fonds.pdf
2008: The
musically gifted Eric Carson, son of Bill and Laura Carson, is called to the
Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,
2009: St. John's Church at Lafayette Square winds up its
three-part forum, "The Middle East: Moving Towards Peace?," with a
lecture by David Ignatius, an associate editor at The Washington Post.
2009(16th
of Tishrei, 5770): 2nd Day of Sukkoth
2009: The
Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Hardball by Sara Paretsky
2009: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including We’ll Be Here For The Rest of
Our Lives:
A Swingin’ Show-Biz Saga by Paul
Shaffer with David Ritz
2009: The
Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Notes on Sontag by Phillip
Lopate, and Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband,
Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
2009: The
Times of London features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Russia and the Arabs: Behind
the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present by Yevgeny
Primakov
2009: Vandals destroyed or damaged hundreds of archaeological
artifacts at Uvdat National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Negev to
night.
2010: YIVO Institute for Jewish research is scheduled to present
a program entitled Chaim Grade Memorial on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth”
that will include a screening of the film The Quarrel. The Quarrel is an
English Language film based on Grade's story "My Quarrel with Hersh
Rasseyner."
2010: Today, the state archives released hitherto unseen copies
of minutes of Prime Minister Golda Meir's meeting with her war cabinet on the
second day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
2010(26th
of Tishrei, 5771):
Eighty-seven-year-old Sidney J. Weinberg Jr.,” a
senior director of Goldman Sachs and a member of the family dynasty that had
played a central role at the investment banking firm since 1907” passed away
today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/06weinberg.html?dbk
2010: Dr.
Janet Yellen completed her terms as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco
2010: Dr.
Janet Yellen began serving as the Vice Chairperson of the Federal Reserve
System
2010:
Israel and the United States are holding behind-the-scenes talks geared at
resolving a recent deadlock in Mideast peace talks with the Palestinians, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today, adding that peace was Israel's vital
interest.
2011: Based
on vacate notices signed by Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, chairman of Agudas Chasidei
Chabad of the United States, and Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, chairman of Merkos
L’Inyonei Chinuch today is the deadline for a group of gabbaim who have been
promoting the idea that Menachem Mendel Schneerson (of blessed memory) is the
messiah to vacate the synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway. “A New York court ruled
in 2006 that the groups led by Krinsky and Shemtov are the synagogue’s rightful
owners.”
2011: John
Rybicki is scheduled to give the final lecture in a series styled “In Search of
Jewish Spirituality” co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of Northern
Virginia.
2011: Saul
Perlmutter and Adam Riess were two of the three U.S.-born scientists who won
the Nobel Prize in physics today.
2011: The Oakland Hebrew Day School in California has raised $1
million in 10 months to match a grant from an anonymous donor.
2011: Israel continued to maintain a silence today over a US
Congressional decision – despite US Administration opposition - to withhold
some $200 million in financial assistance to the PA..
2011: In an apparent effort to keep the most recent Quartet initiative
alive, the US embassy circulated a statement today giving the impression both
Israel and the Palestinians have equally accepted a Quartet framework for
returning to direct talks, though the Palestinians have not yet formally
endorsed the idea.
2011(6th
of Tishrei, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old actress Doris Belack passed away months
after the death of her husband, Philip Rose best known for producing “A Raisin
in the Sun.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2011(6th
of Tishrei, 5772): Ninety-five-year-old St. Louis businessman, artist and
philanthropist Ernest W. Stix, whose grandfather William Stix “founded the old
Rice-Stix Company…which by the time of the 1904 World’s Fair…was described as
the largest business in St. Louis, passed away today.
2011(6th
of Tishrei, 5772):
Sixty-seven-year-old Hanan Porat, leader of the “settler movement” in Judea and
Samaria, passed away today. (As reported by Ethan Bronner)
2012: In New York City, final scheduled screening at the Lincoln
Plaza of “Six Million and One” a documentary by David Fisher, the son of a
Holocaust survivor.
2012: The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to
open its Fall Speakers Series which is now in its tenth year with a lecture by
Michael O’Hanlon on “Scoring President Obama’s Foreign Policy: Successes and
Failures.”
2012: In the UK, The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust
and Genocide is scheduled to present “The Future of the Past - The Importance
of School History Teaching,” featuring Dr Nicholas Tate, Chairman of
International Education Systems
2012: Klezmer Clarinetist, Mandolinist, Composer and Baal Teshuva
Andy Statman performed with the other National Heritage Fellowship Recipients
today.
http://arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/andy-statman
2012:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has already made a
final decision to seek a February 12 election rather than try to pass the 2013
state budget, politicians who spoke to Netanyahu said today.
2012: An Israeli-Arab man, 26, was charged today with spying for
the Lebanon-based terror organization Hezbollah. The defendant was accused of
scouting IDF locations and tracking the movements of President Shimon Peres for
the Islamic militant group.
2013:
Marvin Bash who serves as the Rabbi at the Pentagon and his son Jeremy are
scheduled to talk about their perspectives on Jewish life in the military at
the Benefactor Luncheon hosted by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington
2013:
The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at Congregation Beth Tefillah in
Paramus, NJ.
2013:
At noon “Kol Israel” is scheduled to broadcast “Excellence – The Future
Generation” featuring a piano recital by Adi Neuhaus.
2013(30th
of Tishrei, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan I
2013: Over 100 women in prayer shawls and tefillin prayed in
“relative peace” at the Western Wall today on Rosh Chodesh “despite some
jeering and spitting from Orthodox female protesters” who apparently have their
own way of obeying the commandment about loving your neighbor.
2013: A haredi man was arrested at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
this morning for spitting and throwing items at members of the Women of the
Wall prayer activist group as ultra-Orthodox protesters shouted insults at the
WoW members, Israel Radio reported. Dozens of members of WoW gathered at the
wall this morning for their monthly prayer service marking the new month on the
Jewish calendar.
2014(10th
of Tishrei, 5775): Yom Kippur
G'mar Chasima
Tova Have an easy fast.
2014
All radio and television stations in Israel go off the air for the Day of
Atonement.
2014:
In “The Exotic History of British Fish and Chips” published today Paul Levy traces
the history of this English food that traces its origins to Joseph Malin, “a 13
year old Jewish boy living in the East End” who “had the idea of combining
fried fish with chips” which he “probably first sold from a tray hung around
his neck” before opening “a shop in Cleveland Street.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11140147/The-exotic-history-of-British-fish-and-chips.html
2014:
“As the fast of Yom Kippur ended this evening, Israelis were slowly returning
to their regular lives, with cars once again occupying the roads and public
transportation resuming service around 8:30 p.m.”
2014:
Tonight, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Swedish Priminster Stefan
Lofvens announcement that his government intends to recognize Palestine “was
unfortunate.”
2014:
Today Lewis Eisenberg “assumed the office” of United States Ambassador to Italy
and United States Ambassador to San Marino.
2014:
Tonight, Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Mirage in Las Vegas, NV.
2014(10th
of Tishrei, 5775): Ninety-one architect Judith Edelman passed away today. (As
reported by Douglas Martin)
2015:
The final performance of “Just Between Us – A Piano, a Mic and a Memory, that
portrays the “life long journey of a Jewish girl from Brooklyn is scheduled to
take place at the Source Theatre.
2015:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to co-sponsor the
“6th Annual Northern Virginia Cycle Fest” today.
2015:
The New York Times reviewed books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readings including Kissinger
Volume I 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson and Kissinger’s
Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman by Greg
Grandin and the recently released paperback edition of Honeydew: Stories
by Edith Pearlman
2015(21st
of Tishrei, 5776): Hoahanah Rabah
2015:
In the evening the chaplains of the Oxford University Jewish Society to a host
dinner after Mincha/Ma’ariv Shemini Atzeret Services.
2015:
Twenty-one-year-old Aharon Bennett who was stabbed death last night in
Jerusalem in an attack where the terrorists wounded his wife and daughter is
scheduled to be buried early this morning on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
2015:
On the Tuscan coast in Livorno.“fierce weather damaged the synagogue” which had
opened in 1962 “on the site of the city’s 17th century old synagogue
which was destroyed in a bombing raid” during WW II.
2015:
Forty-one-year-old Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, a father of seven, who was stabbed to
death when he went to the aid of a family being attacked in Jerusalem is
scheduled to be buried at noon today ”at the Har Hamenuchot Cemetery in
Jerusalem.”
2016:
“David Blatt, the Israeli American who was fired as head coach of the NBA
champion Cleveland Cavaliers during the season” said today that he “will accept
a championship ring from the team.”
2016:
Conditions in the Middle East continue to deteriorate as Americans suspend
talks with the Russians on Syria and the Russians effectively abrogate the
treaty on the disposal of weapons grade plutonium.
2016:
“A hit man who confessed to killing Jewish law professor Dan Markel implicated
Markel’s ex-wife” Wendi Adelson “in the crime” today during a please interview
in which he added “that she supervised his work a day before the killing.”
2016:
In a sign of true communal spirit Rabbi Jeff Portman of Congregation Agudas
Achim is scheduled to lead an afternoon Rosh Hashanah service at the Oaknoll
Retirement Community.
2016:
Eighty-eight-year-old Roslyn Litman, the civil liberties advocate who had to
overcome gross sexism to pursue her legal career passed away today. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
2016(2nd of Tishrei,
5777): Rosh Hashanah Second Day
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2016:
In “How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish?” published today Joseph Berger provides
a review of the new “826-page Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, with almost
50,000 entries and 33,000 subentries, which is the work of Gitl
Schaechter-Viswanath, a Yiddish editor and poet, and Paul Glasser, a former
dean at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the major repository of Yiddish
language, literature and folklore.:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/arts/how-do-you-say-email-in-yiddish.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
2016(2nd
of Tishrei, 5777): Eighty-six-year-old medical trainee advocate Dr. Bertrand M.
Bell passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2016(2nd
of Tishrei, 5777): Eight-nine-year-old graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen
passed away today. (As reported by Anita Gates)
2017(14th
of Tishrei, 5778): Erev Sukkoth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Pilichowski#/media/File:Leopold_Pilichowski_Sukkot.jpg
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “In Between” a film about
“three young Arab-Israeli women” sharing a flat in Tel Aviv.
2017: In
Budapest, the Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies is
scheduled to celebrate its 140th anniversary today.
2017: “The body of
Rueven Schmerling a Jewish man from Elkana was discovered with stab wounds”
today “in a storage space near…Kafr Quassem.”
2018:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to co-host “In Dialogue:
Polish Jewish Relations in the Pre-Modern Period” – a discussion led by Magda
Teter (Fordham University) and Brian Porter-Szűcs (University of Michigan).
2018:
Renan Koen is scheduled to perform at the American Sephardi Music Festival
2018:
“Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing” published today described
the role Vice President Joel Kaplan’s role in the hearings for Supreme Court
nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
2018:
The University of Haifa is scheduled to confer an honorary degree on German
Chancellor Angela Merkel “in recognition of her leadership grounded in the
principles of equality, freedom, and human rights; for serving as a model to
women around the world; in appreciation of her warm friendship and robust ties
between the Federal Republic of German and the State of Israel’ at the Israel
Museum in Jerusalem.
2018:
The Breman Museum, Beit Hatfutsot, JumpSpark, and the Jewish Grandparents
Network are scheduled to co-host a screening of “The Samuel Project,”
co-starring Hal Linden in the title role of a “Jewish grandfather and San Diego
dry cleaner” who had been save from capture by the Nazis.
2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening of “Prosecuting Evil: The
Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz” followed by a discussion with lawyer who as
a 25 year old prosecuted 22 member of the Einsatzgruppen and Barry Avrich who
directed and produced the film.
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Tower of Davis is scheduled to host an English language tour
of “both the Citadel moat and the Kishle, building which was built in 1834 by
Ibrahim Pasha, the Egyptian ruler, and continued to serve as a military
compound even after it was returned to Ottoman control in 1841.”
2019:
In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host a “Shabbat Shuvah Preneg,”
the first of these popular events to be held in 5780.
2019:
Netflix is scheduled to broadcast “Fish Gotta Swim,” the fifth episode in the
limited television series “The Spy,” a biopic based on the life of Eli Cohen
2019:
As the week comes to an end, Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to continue trying
to form a government under the cloud of a possible indictment “on multiple
corruption charges.”
2020(16th
of Tishrei, 5781): Second Day of Sukkoth
2020:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host a combined grounds clean-up
day and a Sukkah Decoration “party” which is its last “live in person event
with social distancing observed” for 2020.
2020: The New
York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
including the Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, El Jefe: The Stalking
of Chapo Guzman by Alan Feuer and the recently published paperback edition
of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman.
2021:
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County’s second annual online auction is
scheduled to begin today.
2021:
The final online screening of “Outside” by Etgar Keret and Inbal Pinto which is
supported by the Israel Office of Culture Affairs is scheduled to take place
this evening.
2022(9th
of Tishrei, 5783): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
2022:
Kanisse: A Modern
Sephardic and Mizrahi Community is scheduled to present a Multicultural High
Holiday Service at the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue.
2022:
Continue a tradition dating back to the founding of Beth Jacob in 1906, the
“Downstairs Minyan” at Temple Judah is scheduled to begin the observance of Yom
Kippur in “the traditional manner.”
2023:
The Soroka
Medical Center and Congregation Shearith Israel are schooled to host a
presentation A Future of Health: Sephardic Genetic Medical Discoveries.
2023:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to hos “Yascha Mounk in
Conversation with Pamel Paula on the Identity Trap.”
2023:
In New Orleans the Anti-Defamation is scheduled to host its Award Concert.
2023:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by
Professor Marla Brettschneider on “The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia.”
2023:
The Haifa International Film festival is scheduled to host a screening of
several movies including the Hebrew language documentary “The European Dream.”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host Jeremy Rosen as continues his study of
the book of Exodus.
2023:
In Metairie, LA, Beth Israel is scheduled to host its Sukkot Women’s Event.
2023(19th
of Tishrei, 5754): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
2024(2 of Tishrei, 5758):
Rosh Hashanah II
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah
Zachary
“Zach” Fournier is scheduled to replicate his successful shofar blowing skills
which were unveiled on the first of Tishrei.
2024:
All decent people mourn the death of Captain Ben Zion Falach the ninth soldier to fall since the ground
operation in Lebanon began as well as the deaths of Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster,
22, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Modi’in, Cpt. Harel
Etinger, 23, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Eli, Cpt. Itai
Ariel Giat, 23, of the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit, from Shoham,
Sgt.
First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kohav Yair,
Sgt.
First Class Or Mantzur, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Beit Aryeh,Sgt.
First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kiryat Ata,Staff
Sgt. Almken Terefe, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from
Jerusalem and Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance
unit, from Nes Tziona.
2024:
Based on previously published reports Fawzi Amin Sido, a Yazidi women who had
been kidnapped by ISIS when she was eleven and then sold to a man in Gaza was
rescued by the IDF and returned to her family in Iraq which would appear to
serve as a reminder that terrorism knows no boundaries.
2024:
Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope—is scheduled to host the second day of
High Holidays in the Wood which “includes active interaction with the natural
world, traditional and contemporary music, discussion, moments of quiet
reflection, and ways to personally embrace the messages of the High Holy Days.
2024:
As October 4th begins in the Middle East, Israel is confronted with fighting a
four-front-war following the attacks from Iran. (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)
2024:
As October 4th 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 364 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocket
attacks by Hezbollah (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)
