This Day, October 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
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415: Emperors Honorius and Thedosius II issued an edict deposing
Rabin Gamliel IV as the Nasi “because he had disregarded an earlier decree by
Honorius, which had curtailed his privileges and the ban on the building of new
synagogues and had adjudicated disputes between Jews and Christians.”
912: Abd
al-Rahman III “the political and the religious leader of all the Muslims in
al-Andalus, as well as the protector of his Christian and Jewish subjects” took
the “Bay’ah” or “oath of allegiance.
1448: Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led
by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. Murad is
remembered favorably by the Jews since he allowed German Jews who were fleeing
persecution and death to settle in Salonica.
He also employed Jews as his court physicians. On the other hand, John
Hunyadi enjoyed the support of the Italian Monk Jean de Capistrano who had
previously convinced King Ludwig of Bavaria to expel his Jewish subjects. These
two leaders would meet again a decade later during the siege of Belgrade with a
different outcome. [Editor’s note – As you can see, conflicts between Moslems
and Christians is not an invention of the 21st century]
1469: Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella of Castile. Their
marriage led to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country,
Spain. This rapacious duo would expel
the Jews in 1492. While cloaking
themselves in the Cross, they filled their pockets with stolen Jewish wealth.
1483: Pope Sixtus IV launched the Spanish Inquisition, placing it
under joint direction of the Church and state. Despite his previous protest,
Pope Sixtus III gave into
Ferdinand's pressure and extended the authority of the Inquisition to Aragon,
Catalonia, and Valencia. This consolidated the Inquisition under one central
body under Torquemada. Tomas de Torquemada, 63, was the Grand Inquisitor in
charge of removing Jews and Muslims from Spain. For those who are studying
history in Cedar Rapids you will find out that one of the oddities of all this
is that all of the major players – Ferdinand, Isabella and Torquemada –
descended from Conversos which means that those who led the Spanish Inquisition
had Jewish ancestors.
1532: Pope Clement VII
issued an apostolical brief halting the Portuguese Inquisition “until further
notice.
1552: Fifty-three-year-old Andreas Osiander, the Lutheran
theologian and “one of the few Porestant Reformers who sympathetic to Jewish
communities” passed away today.
https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-histoire-et-de-philosophie-religieuses-2021-1-101e-annee-n-1-varia-andreas-osiander-and-the-jews.html
1700(4th of Cheshvan, 5461): Judah he-Hasid, an
Ashkenazi rabbi who had made good on his call for Aliyah by leading 1,500 of
his followers from Europe to Jerusalem passed away three days after they
arrived at their destination.
1756: Birthdate of Isaac Abraham Euchel, the native of Copenhagen
and nephew of Rabbi Masos Rintel who was one of the founders of the Haskalah
movement.
1762(30th of Tishrei, 5523): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1762(30th of Tishrei, 5523): Sixty-three year old Samson Gideon,
"one of the outstanding members of the London Jewish Community” and
"a leader in the Parliamentary struggle to pass the Jews' Naturalization
Act of 1753" passed away today after having contracted dropsy leaving £1000 of his £350,000 fortune to the Spanish
and Portuguese Jewish congregation in London on condition he was buried with
honor as a married man in their cemetery in Mile End.
1768: Birthdate of Israel Jacobson, the native of Halberstadt
Germany who was a successful businessman, philanthropist and one of the
founders of the Reform Movement
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09920.html
1769(16th of Tishrei, 5530): Second Day of Sukkoth
1769: Birthdate of Curacao native Joshua Naar whose wife Sarah
gave birth to Abraham, David and Benjamin Naar.
1775(23rd of Tishrei, 5536): Simchat Torah is
celebrated for the first time since the Americans rebelled against the British.
1779: In Philadelphia, Rachel Franks and Haym Salomon, the
merchant who bankrupted himself helping to finance the American Revolution gave
birth to Sallie Salomon, the wife Joseph Andrews with whom she had twelve
children.
1780(18th of Tishrei, 5541): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1781: The Americans, with a lot of help from the French, defeated
Cornwallis at Yorktown. This victory
ensured the creation of the United States.
For the most part, the small Jewish population supported the patriot
cause. Of course the victory meant that
the “last best hope of man” would become a haven for the Jews of Europe.
1781: Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son of Eva Jacob
Cohen and Benjamin Jonas Cohen, and Elisabeth Gompertz gave birth to Anne Jean
Philippe Louis Cohen.
1783: Abram Forrintine a resident of New York and the owner of a
“dry goods store in New Jersey” who was a Loyalist who moved to Nova Scotia
“arrived in Digby, Annapolis” today.
1787: In New York City, Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave
birth to Ella Hart, who with her husband Hyam Moses Salomon had ten children.
1788(16th of Tishrei, 5549): Second Day of Sukkoth
1793: Birthdate of Isaac Noah Mannheimer, the Copenhagen Talmudist
and Rabbi who held a variety of posts in Denmark, Germany and Austria. A leader in the Reform Movement, he served as
a representative in the Austrian Reichstag.
1794(23rd of Tishrei, 5555): Simchat Torah
1796(15th of Tishrei, 5557): Sukkoth observed for the
last time during the Presidency of George Washington.
1801: In Paris Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and his wife gave
birth to French journalist Samuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy.
1803(1st of Cheshvan, 5564): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1807(15th of Tishrei, 5568) :
First Day of Sukkoth and Shabbat.
1808: With Napoleon's arrival at the Duchy of Warsaw, the new State
parliament called for equal rights. Unfortunately this did not include the Jews
whose rights “would be postponed for 10 years in the hope of eradicating all
their distinctions which set them apart."
1809: Birthdate of German native and future Illinois resident
Jacob Felsenthal who married Getrude Hert Felsenthal after the death of his
first wife Theresia Hertz.
1810: On the day after his death, Reb Nachman of Bratslav was
buried at Uman making it the destination for an annual pilgrimage for thousands
of Chassidim.
1812(11th of Cheshvan, 5573): Parshat Lech Lecha
1812(11th of Cheshvan, 5573): Eighty year old
storekeeper and veteran of the French and Indian War David Barrack Hays, the
son of Hetty Adolphus and Jacob Hays and the husband of Esther Etting with whom
he had eight children after which he was
buried at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Westchester, NY.
1812: In the Netherlands, Branca and Hirschel Eliazer Kann gave
birth to Jacob Kahn
1813(23rd of
Tishrei, 5574): Simchat Torah observed on the same day that during the War of
1812, American forces under General Wilkinson including “an American Jew,
Newport, RI native Captain Mordecai were ordered to march to Sacketts Harbor.
1814(3rd of Cheshvan,
5575): Fifty-seven-year-old Mantua native Samuel Romanelli who combined the skills of a
Hebrew poet with that of a traveler able to provide readable descriptions of
his visits to a variety of Jewish communities passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/romanelli-samuel-aaron
https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780817351359
1816: In Amsterdam, Rebecca and Abraham Juda Delmonte gave birth
to Abigail Levy Montezinos the wife of David Levy Montezinos.
1817(7th of Cheshvan, 5578): Thirty-one-year-old Simha
Phillips, the daughter of Solomon da Silva Solis and Benvenida de Isaac Solis
was “murdered” today in Murney, France.
1819: One day after he had passed away, Joseph Wolfe was buried
today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1830: In Furth, Bavaria, Jacob Hirsch Ellinger and Jochabed
Fegersheim gave Mortiz Ellinger, who emigrated to the United States from
Bavaria in 1854 where he held several city government jobs while being active
in the B’nai B’rith and editing The
Menorah and The Jewish Times.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5696-ellinger-moritz
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ellinger-moritz
1831: Birthdate of Bernhardine Wetzlar.
1831: Birthdate of German native and Philadelphian Morris Stern
who with his Matilda Bamberger in 1878 gave 1878: In Philadelphia, PA,
Morris and Matilda (Bamberger) Stern gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
Law graduate Horace Stern, the lecturer at his alma mater, a major in the U.S.
Army during WW I and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania who was
the husband of Henrietta Pfaelzer and active leader of the Jewish community as
can be seen by his service as a Director of the Y.M. and Y.W. H.A, director and
vice president of Dropsie College and a member of executive committee of the
American Jewish Committee.
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/obituaries/20070725_Horace_Stern__active_in_Jewish_affairs.html
1832(23rd of Tishrei, 5593): Simchat Torah
1832: In Philadelphia, Sarah Mocatta and Frederick Samuel gave
birth to Lionel Jacob Samuel
1832(23rd of Tishrei, 5593): Forty-six-year-old Moses
Lemans, the Dutch born Jewish educator and author whose works including The
Spirit of the Talmudic Lord and a biography of Maimonides, passed away
today.
1834(14th of Tishrei, 5595): Erev Sukkoth
1835: Birthdate of Abraham Harkavy (Avraham Eliyahu ben Yaakov
Harkavy), the Russian born Jewish historian and author who was one of the first
to write in Hebrew in modern times.
1835: In “Canterbury, Kent, “Mary Lazarus and David Nathan gave
birth to Rosa Nathan, the wife of Henry Hart with whom she had ten children.
1838: Birthdate of German born American businessman and
philanthropist Albert Lippman who was President of Temple Rodeph Shalom and the
United Hebrew Relief Society in Pittsburgh, PA.
https://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/lippman-family/
1838: Birthdate of Pinsk native Abraham Chaim Rosenberg, chief
rabbi of the district of Pinsk and the chief rabbi inin the district of
Nikolaief who emigrated to the United States where he owned and operated a
printing establishment which published, among other thing, his seminal work Otsar Ha-Shemot Asher Be-Khitve Ha-Kodesh “monumental lexicon of
biblical words, which contained definitions, grammatical analyses, and biblical
references…”
https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/building-jewish-life-united-states/item/14744
1841: In Charleston, SC, Mr. S. Frankford married Harriet Cohen,
“the second daughter of A.N. Cohen.”
1843(23rd of Tishrei, 5604): Simchat Torah
1843: In Halberstadt, Prussia, Sara and Abraham Hildesheimer gave
birth to Albert HIldesheimer, the resident of Manchester, England whose wife
Emilie bore him three children –Abraham, Alice and Henry.
1843: Birthdate of Hebrew teacher, author and commentator Abraham
Baer Dobsewitch, the native of Pinks who moved to the United States in 1891
where he continued his work until his death in 1900.
1844: Birthdate of Alsace native and award-winning historian and
numismatist Leon Gustave Schlumberger, an “ultra-conservative “supporter of the
anti-Dreyfusard movement.”’
1845(16th of Tishrei, 5606): Second Day of Sukkot
1846(27th of Tishrei, 5607): Parashat Bereshit
1846:
On Sabbath Bereshit a Beth-din was established,
composed of the following gentlemen: Chief Rabbi Lilienthal, Moreno [Isaac M.]
Wise, Rabbi of Albany and Syracuse; Moreno Doctor Felsenheldt, and Moreno
Doctor Kohlmayer. Dr. Lilienthal, elected Rosh Beth Din, presented the Dayanim
to his congregations, and in a sermon, delivered on that occasion, declared, on
behalf of the Beth-din, that their services were ready to be given to every
Jewish congregation in America, without claiming any clerical rights or dues.
1847(7th of Cheshvan, 5608): Samuel Solomon passed away
today after which he was buried in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1850: Anti-Christian
rioters pillage Christian neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria. Several Christians die during the riot. This serves as a reminder that sectarian
violence in the Middle East was a fact of life before the birth of the Zionist
movement and that this long-standing pattern of violence had nothing to do with
the Jews.
1851(21st of Tishrei, 5612): Hoshanah Rabah
1851: A letter was sent to Samuel J. Rubinstein thanking him for
his two years of “excellent service” as the treasurer of the synagogue in
Dublin, Ireland.
1852: Today, in St. Louis, “a document was ratified that created
B’nai El which resulted from a merger of B’nai B’rith, Emanu-El and United
Hebrew” after Rabbi Lesser had convinced the Jewish population of the absurdity
of such a small community trying to support three congregations.
1853(15th of Tishrei, 5614): Sukkoth
1854(25th of Tishrei, 5615): Rachel Hort, the daughter
of Jane Waley and Nahum Hort, and the wife of Solomon Jacob Waley passed away
today after which she was married in the Brompton Jewish Cemetery
1854: Ernestine
Rose, a leading early American advocate for women's rights, presided over the
Fifth National Woman's Rights Convention in Philadelphia which opened on this
date. At the Philadelphia meeting, Rose declared, "[I]s woman not
included in that phrase, 'all men are created … equal'? ... Tell us, ye men of
the nation … whether woman is not included in that great Declaration of
Independence?"
1857(29th of Tishrei, 5618): Parashat Bereshit
1857: In Louisville, KY, Isaac Sale and Henrietta Dinkelspiel gave
birth to Moses N. Sale, the husband of Florence D. Rider, who became a Circuit
Court Judge in St. Louis, MO.
https://www.jta.org/1930/02/02/archive/judge-moses-sale-of-st-louis-dead-at-72
1858: Birthdate of David Samuel Margoliouth, The son of Ezekiel
Margoliouth and the nephew Moses Margoliouth, both of whom were Anglican
converts, he was a noted Orientalist and Oxford Don. Among other accomplishments,
“He identified a business letter written in the Judeo-Persian language, found
in Danfan Uiliq, northwest China, in 1901, as dating from 718 C.E. (the
earliest evidence showing the presence of Jews in China).” He passed away in
1940.
1859(19th of Tishrei, 5620): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
observed on the same that “John Brown and his men captured prominent citizens
and seized the federal armory and arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
1861: In Bohemia, Markus and Anna Saphir gave birth to Josef
Saphir, the husband of Mathilde Saphir.
1862(23rd of Tishrei, 5623): Simchat Torah
1862: As the Jewish “holiday season” comes to an end with the
celebration of Simchat Torah, General U.S. Grant returns to active field
service as he takes command of the Department of Tennessee. In that capacity he will issue the infamous
General Order Number Eleven that expelled Jews, “as a class” from the district
under his command. This regrettable
episode would be used by some to unfairly brand Grant as an anti-Semite.
1863(21st of Tishrei, 5764): Hoshana Rabah
1863: In Breslau Abraham Berliner, the Berlin born of Baruch
Benjamin Berliner and Franziska Berliner and his wife Henriette Berliner gave
birth to Paul Berliner
1864(17th of Tishrei, 5625): Third day of Sukkoth
1864(17th of Tishrei, 5625): As the Jewish soldiers serving with
the Army of Northern Virginia observe Sukkoth Chol Hamoed, General James “Pete”
Longstreet, Lee’s good right arm resumes command of troops after having been
seriously wounded during the Battle of Wilderness.
1865: In Detroit, Michigan, Fanny Butzel and Emil S. Heineman gave
birth to University of Michigan trained attorney David Emil Heineman the
husband of Tessa Demmon and state
legislator whose accomplishments included designing the official flag of the
city of Detroit.
https://www.jhsmichigan.org/gallery/2017/05/david-heineman.html
https://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Heineman%2C%20David%20Emil
https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/flag-detroit
1864(17th of Tishrei, 5625): Birthdate of Lancaster, PA
native and University of Pennsylvania trained civil engineer Harry Bernheim
Hirsh, an officer of the National Farm School and the father of Minnie F.
Hirsch with whom he had three children.
1866(8th of Cheshvan, 5627): Hungarian journalist
Sigmund Saphir, who “edited several German papers including the Pesther Tageblatt and who was the nephew
of “humorist Mortiz G. Saphir” passed away today.
1867(18th of Tishrei, 5628): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1872(15th of Tishrei, 5633):First Day of Sukkoth
1872: In Groningen, Netherlands, Mathilde Jacobs the daughter of
Ravel Beer Jacobs and Eva Israel de Jongh and her husband Alexander Frijda gave
birth to Charlotte Frijda, the wife of Leonard Jacobs.
1873: In Vienna, “Henriette and Josef Polak, a
piano school owner,” gave birth to
“essayist, theatric critic, writer and translator” Alfred Polgar, the
husband of Elise Loewy (aka Lisl Polgar)
who was saved from the Nazis by
the Emergency Rescue Committee and came to the United States where he
first became a screenwriter for MGM.
1875(18th of Tishrei, 5636): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1875: It was reported today The Hebrew Charity Fair is to take
placed in December at New York’s 22nd Regiment Armory. All proceeds from the event will go to
support Mount Sinai Hospital. Women from
all of the city’s synagogues are actively working to prepare for the event.
1875: According to an article entitled “The Wandering Jew”
published today, the first document mentioning this mythic figure are about 650
years old, dating back to the reign of Henry III. The next references to him do
not appear until the 16th century when he supposedly revealed
himself to a weaver in Bohemia. Contrary
to the name, the Wandering Jew has nothing to do with Judaism. Rather he is a Christological Character tied
to one of the stories relating to the Crucifixion.
1875: “The Bible in the Public Schools” published today described
the conflict going on at the Board of Education of Union Hill, NJ concerning
mandatory Bible readings at the start of each school day.
1876(29th of Tishrei, 5637): Levi Coleman, the son
Esther Abraham and Isaac Levi and the husband of Josephine Levy Lewis passed
away today after which he was interred at the Gloucester Burial Ground.
1877: Herman C. Bush wrote a letter from Cincinnati today
addressed to his friend Christopher J. Bush of New York confessing that he had
stolen seven pieces of cashmere from his employer in New York City. He claimed
that he had sold five of the pieces to a Jew on the corner of Baxter and
Leonard Streets. Further investigation
would establish that this was the address of a second-hand clothing store owned
by Louis Lazarus, who had been arrested previously on charges of receiving
stolen goods. Lazarus claimed the items in question had been bought by his son
who had no idea that they were stolen. Lazarus would later be arrested. There is no word as to the fate or religion of
either of the men named Bush.
1877: Dr. F. De Sola Mendez is scheduled to deliver a lecture at
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in New York City, starting at 8 p.m.
1878(20th of Tishrei, 5639): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1878: John A. Macdonald, during whose administration “a group of
Russian Jews including Abraham Klenman settled in Quebec” began serving as Prime Minister of Canada
1879(30th of Tishrei, 5640): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1879(30th of Tishrei, 5640): Hannah Davis, the daughter
of Phoebe and Moses Davis and the wife of Henry Harris passed away today after
which she was buried in the Brompton Jewish Cemetery.
1879: Birthdate of German historian Eugen Täubler who worked as a lecturer at the Hochschule für
die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Higher Institute for Jewish Studies) in Berlin
from 1910 to 1914 and again from 1933 to 1941 after which he and his fled Nazi
Germany for the United States where he became a professor at HUC in Cincinnati.
1890: In Odessa, “Yevno (Yevgeniy Grigoryevich) Zhabotinsky, a
member of the Russian Society of Sailing and Trade who was primarily involved
in wheat trading and Chava (Eva Markovna) Zach gave birth to Vladimir
Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky who gained fame as “Revisionist Zionist leader,
author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense
Organization in Odessa” Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the husband of Joanna (or Ania)
Galperina and father of Eri Jabotinsky whose life is too jampacked for this
blog to describe so see all of the sources cited below.
https://en.jabotinsky.org/zeev-jabotinsky/biography/
The
Jabotinsky Paradox » Mosaic (mosaicmagazine.com)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Jabotinsky
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story640.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ze-ev-vladimir-jabotinsky
1880(12th of Cheshvan, 5641): Karl Schmidt, the husband
of Mary Schmidt passed away today after which he was buried in the Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.
1880: James John Woolley married Hannah Cohen today in London
1881: “Minor Affairs Abroad” published today provides a
statistical snapshot of births in Russia including the fact that Jews accounted
for 3 percent of the 8,119 out-of-wedlock births
1881: One hundred thirty-two more Jewish immigrants from Russia
are expected to arrive in New York City today.
1882: Leo Pinkser published his famous pamphlet "Autoemancipation; A Warning of a Russian Jew to his
Brethren."
He published it as a result of the Russian pogroms of the previous year.
Pinsker advocated establishing a homeland as a cure for anti-Semitism. He
thought that a Jewish congress should decide if that homeland should be in
Eretz-Israel, the United States or some third choice. Only later did he join with the “Lovers of
Zion Movement” and acknowledge that Eretz-Israel was the only place for a
Jewish homeland. Pinkser died in 1891,
six years before the First Zionist Congress.
His writings and efforts laid the groundwork for Herzl and others. In 1934, his remains were re-interred on Mt.
Scopus.
1882: Mr. and Mrs. Julius W. Kaskel buried their three week old
son Asher in the Hebrew Cemetery in Leadville, CO.
1882: It was reported today that the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association will be sponsoring a concert at Chckering Hall later this week.
1882: It was reported today that Israel Ettler has been arraigned
in the Harlem Police Court for his alleged role in the recent riot at Ward’s
Island.
1883(16th of Tishrei, 5644): Second Day of Sukkot
1884: It was reported today that Young Men’s Hebrew Association
will be hosting a celebration marking the 100th birthday of Sir
Moses Montefiore tomorrow night. (The overwhelming number of centennial
celebrations marking the birth of Montefiore attests to his importance to Jews
throughout the world and the affection in which he was held. But how many people know who is today/)
1885: The first American Rabbinical
Conference was held in Cleveland, Ohio
1885: In New York, Leon Tanenbaum
and his wife gave birth to 1907 Harvard graduate and real estate broker Jerome
Tenanbaum, a business partner of B.M. Straus, treasurer and director of the
Hebrew Technical School for Girls and the husband of Helen Tanenbaum with whom
he had one child – Charles.
1885: “Statistics of the Jews”
published today used figures provided by The Bulletin of the Geographical
Society of Marseilles to present a demographic picture of world Jewry. There
are 6,377,601 Jews in the world, 5,407, 602 of whom live in Europe, 245,000 in
Asia, 413,000 in Africa, 300,000 in American and 12,000 in Oceania. Of the European countries, Russia has the
largest population at over 2,000,000 followed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire
with 1,600,000. With a combined Jewish
population of 3,000 Norway and Sweden have the fewest.
1885:
A law enacted on this date made religious instruction
for Jewish children living in Lübeck who were attending public schools
compulsory. The city paid an annual subsidy to the synagogue in Lubeck for
providing this instruction.
1886(18th of Tishrei, 5647): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1886(18th of Tishrei, 5647): Seventy-one year old
Michael Cashmore, the London born son of Alice and Joseph Cashmore and the
Sydney, Australia businessman who “was the first Jewish settler of Melbourne
where he owned a haberdashery business and raised a family with his wife
“Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Solomon” passed away today.
1886: “Moses and Henry George” published today provided George’s
praise for the system “Moses tried to found in which there was an absence of
poverty and the idea of the brotherhood of man was paramount. To that end,
“Moses proved not only for a fair division of the land among the people but for
a redistribution every 50 years making monopoly impossible.”
1887: In Richmond, VA, Gustavus and Pauline Lonnersteadter
Thalhimer gave birth to Wharton graduate Morton Gustavus Thalhimer, the husband
of Ruth Wallerstein Thalhimer.
1888: “A Jewish Wedding” published today described the wedding
ceremony that joined New Yorker Louis H.
Rascover to Miss Carrie Thalheimer in Reading, PA which was one of the social
highlights of the year. The ceremony was followed by a reception attended by
five hundred people from New York and most of the major cities in eastern
Pennsylvania. Before her marriage, Miss
Thalheimrt “was the acknowledged belle in Hebrew society circles in Reading.”
1888: The leaders of the
Jewish Order of the Harp of David who were sponsoring a series of “grand
operas, tragedies and high comedies at Poole’s Theatre for the benefit of its
charitable and mutual benefit funds” clashed with Professor Horowitz, the man
it had retained to manage the events during which the latter ceased the
proceeds from the ticket offices and only agreed to pay the actors after they
threatened not to perform this evening.
1889(22nd of Tishrei, 5650): Shmini Atzeret
1889: Sixty-one-year-old Russian philosopher and author Nikolay
Chernyshevsky whose ideas about the “distinct spiritual heritage of the Russian
people” helped to influence Simon Dubnow in his development of the concept
known as Jewish Autonomism passed away today
1890: A citizen’s committee met with Mayor Grant today and urged
him to appoint Coroner Ferdinand Levy to serve as a Police Justice.
1890: Three days after she had passed away today, 86 year old
Hester Meyers, the daughter of Isaac and Sarah Levy and the widow of Daniel
Meyers was buried today in the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1891(15th of Tishrei, 5652): Sukkoth
1891: In Jerusalem, “Rabbi Bernard and Miriam (Charlap) Abramowitz
gave birth Abraham Elijah Abramowitz the graduate of Yishivah Meah Shearim who
served as Rabbi at Agudath Achim in Shreveport, Ahavath Sholom in Ft. Worth,
Texas and B’nai Bazalel in Chicago.
1891: Birthdate of Henry Torres, the attorney who defended Samuel
Schwartbard, the Jewish poet and anarchist who was accused of assassinating
Simon Petlioura for his role in the Ukrainian Pogroms in which thousands of Jews including his
parents were murdered.
1892 In Chester, PA, founding of “Congregation Benai Israel Ansa”
led by Rabbi Berman and whose members included S.D. Levy.
1893: In Berlin, “dental surgeon and businessman Dr. Hugo Ascher
and Minna Luise (Schneider) Ascher gave birth to painter Fritz Ascher.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-not-for-the-nazis-he-may-have-been-the-next-leonardo/
1893: In response to an allegation published in The Evening Post
that Otto Irving Wise is a “hack politician” one of his friends said today
“that Mr. Wise had been connected with Tammany Hall for short time only and
then resigned and affiliated himself with the Republicans.”
1894: As reported today, the average age of the 163 people living
at the Aged and Infirm Hebrews is seventy-two.
1894: The Lexow Committee (named for its chairman Clarence Lexow),
the New York State Senate Committee investigating charges of corruption in the
New York City Police Department heard more testimony including charges of
police intimidation and payoffs in the operation of soda water stands on the
Lower East Side by Samuel Ebert, Wolf Lipman, Samuel Cohen and Amelia Levine.
1896: The University of Wisconsin football team led by first year
head coach Philip King, a Jewish native of Washington, DC won its third
straight game this afternoon.
1897(21st of Tishrei, 5658): Hoshana Raba observed for
the first time during the President of William McKinley.
1897: Letters were written today to a large number of charitable
institutions from Messrs. Barnato Brothers explain that the enclosed checks
were part of bequests from that late B.I. Barnato.
1898: A.C. Wheeler writes a letter to the New York Times in which he takes issue with the surprise
expressed by the paper’s London correspondent at the positive and warm
reception received by Israel Zangwill during his highly successful lecture
tour.
1898: One day after she had passed away, 56 year old Nellie Monk,
“the widow of Israel Monk,” was buried at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery on
Buckingham Road.”
1898: In Monmouth Country, NJ, two “Russian immigrants gave birth
to Sayra Fischer, the Syracuse University trained attorney who became Sayra
Fischer Lebenthal when in 1925 she married Louis Lebenthal with whom she formed
the Wall Street brokerage firm of Lebenthal and Company.
1899: Galicia native Samuel Mallinger, the Pittsburgh bottle
manufacturer married Anna Klee today after which they had four children –
Emanuel, Ruth, Fannie and Benjamin.
1899: In Chelsea, MA, Celia and Morris Marget gave birth to
Harvard educated economist Arthur
William Marget, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve,
faculty member of the University of Minnesota and the husband of Edith Marget,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311906256_Marget_Arthur_William_1899-1962
http://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-alumnus-a-w-marget-too-jewish-for-chicago-1927/
1900: Birthdate of molecular biologist Alfred Ezra Mirsky, the
husband of children’s author Reba Paeff and the father of Reba Goodman and
Jonathan Mirsky.
1900: Herzl meets with the Ernest von Koerber, Austrian Prime
Minister.
1901: Birthdate of Columbia trained lawyer William Jacob Avrutis,
an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board and a President of American
ORT.
1901: In Vitebsk, Russia, “Barnett (Dov) Freedman, a tailor, and
his wife Beila Henah” gave birth to Harry Freedman the holder of two degrees
from the University of London and recipient of “semicha from Jews College who
was the husband of “Rebecca (Bea) Ginsberg” who served congregations in
Melbourne and New York.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/freedman-harry-mordecai-12510
1902(16th of Tishrei, 5663): Second Day of Sukkoth
1902: In Michigan, Detroit native Rudolph Gustave Kauffman and his
wife Lena B. Buboltz gave birth to Louis Edward Kauffman
1903(26th of Tishrei, 5664): Lewis Abraham Tallerman,
the brother of Australian merchant Daniel Tallerman passed away today.
1903: Twenty-five-year-old Benjamin Hamburger, the Brooklyn born
son of Jacob Hamburger and a “senior member of the Hamburger Brothers, manufacturers
of robes and house dresses” married Ray
Marks today after which they gave birth to their son Sidney Hamburger.
1903: Birthdate of author Nathanael West best known for Miss
Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locusts.
1904: “Good Work of Jewish Organizations” published today
described “the progress of the Jewish race” in New York and took note of “the
work of the Education Alliance and the Young Men’s Hebrew Association” in
bringing about “a change for the better in the Young men of the Hebrew
population…particularly in Harlem.”
1904(8th of Cheshvan, 5665): Ninety-one-year-old
Hessen, Germany native Augusta Straus Bachrach, the wife of Aaron Bachrach and
the mother of Charles, Henry, John and Louis Bachrach passed away after which
she was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Bloomington, IL.
1905(18th of Tishrei, 5666): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1905: Today, Governor Higgins appointed Otto Rosalsky Judge of
General Sessions to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge
Newburger who had resigned “to accept the Tammany nomination for the state
Supreme Court.”
1905: Today in New York, the governor appointed Otto Rosalsky
Judge of the General Sessions.
1905(18th of Tishrei, 5666): Sixty-six-year-old Moritz
Moses Luch, the Bavarian born son Seligman Pinchas Luchs and Judith Marx Luchs,
the grandson of Moses and Marianne Luchs, the husband of Rika Luchs and the
father of Albert Luchs; Jette Strauss; Sigmund Luchs; Jakob Luchs; Sabina
Berman; Isidor Luchs and Ida Metzger passe away today in Binswangen, Germany.
1905(18th of Tishrei, 5666): Forty-six-year-old South
African stockbroker Charles Ansell who moved to London in 1888 and was the
uncle of Albert Hyamson passed away today in leaving an estate valued at
£346,000.
1905: Birthdate of Lev Nussimbaum, the native of Kiev “who wrote
under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said.
1906: It was reported today that “The Jewish Maternity Hospital
has bought 270 and 272 East Broadway between Montgomery and Gouverneur
Streets.”
1907: Today, “cellist, conductor and composer” Vladimir I.
Dubinsky, the Russian born son of Sarah Dashinsky and Elias Dubinksy and the founder, organizer and director of The
Dubinsky Musical Art Studio in New York married Ida Bernstein today.
1907: “Francophobia in Morocco” published today, described how a
number of Jews from Casablanca have arrived in Tangiers because they fear that
the “Sultan of the South” will make good on his threat to turn his twenty-five
field guns on the city unless the French forces evacuate Casablanca
1908(22nd of Tishrei, 5669): Shmini Atzeret
1908: A celebration was held today on Abraham Lippman’s seventieth
birthday at Temple Rodeph Shalom in Pittsburgh where he received letters of
congratulations from several dignitaries including President Teddy Roosevelt.
1909(2nd of Cheshvan, 5670): Six-year-old “Feiwe Licht”
passed away today.
1909(2nd of Cheshvan, 5670): Fifty-nine-year-old Victor
Barth, the Illingen, Germany born son Pauline “Barbar” Victor Barth and
Gottlieb “Leopold Barth, the husband of Nettie A. Barth whom he married in 1876
and the father of Irvin Victor Barth who went from being “an itinerant peddler” to being the “most successful
merchant in Central Missouri” “who dollars were always ready for charity or
public enterprise” passed away today after which he was buried in Columbia, MO his
adopted home where he was described as one of “its best citizens in every sense
of the word.
1910(14th of Tishrei, 5671): Erev Sukkoth
1910: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that “local Hebrews are
preparing for the celebration of the feast of which begins tonight at the Sons
of Israel Synagogue” where “they have three sprays of the lulav or bulrushes
from Palestine which will be used in the declaration of the altar.”
1911: Today twenty-eight-year-old Abraham Falick the Rumanian born
son of “Nathan and Mollie (Greenberg) Falick who came to the United States in
1903 as political refugee and began working in the furniture business where he
formed and led two of his own companies – Bauman and Falick, Inc. and Windsor
Furniture Company while becoming a leader in the Jewish community “married
Frieda Schulman, the daughter of Getzel Schulman.”
1911: Henry Turner Bailey, the editor of National Art, is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Our Architectural Inheritance” this
afternoon at a meeting of the Chicago Woman’s Aid being held in the Temple
Sinai vestry rooms.
1911: In New York Dr. Morris Loeb said today that it was his
understanding that his brother, James Loeb, the retired banker, was going to
underwrite the expense of translating 200 hundred volumes of the classics into
English. The volumes in question were originally written in Latin and Greek.
1912: “Supreme Court Justice Greenbaum returned the referee’s
report of Alvan Untermyer” today” in which it as recommended that Mrs. Nellie
H. Chase receive a divorce from her husband Hal Chase, the first baseman of the
New York American Baseball team.”
1913(16th of Tishrei, 5674): Second Day of Sukkoth
1913: Martin Glynn, who appointed Dr. Adolph Spiegel, the Rabbi
Congregation Shaari Zedek “to serve as a delegate from the state of New York to
attend the Congress in Berlin to protest against the violation of the Berlin
Treaty which guaranteed full rights of citizenship to all Jewish subjects” began
serving as the 40th Governor of New York.
1913: It was reported today that survivors of sinking of the SS
Volturno had been met “by representatives of the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society, the Council of Jewish Woman and the Red Cross” whose
treasurer was Jacob Schiff.
1913: Subscriptions for the relief of the for the relief of the
survivors of the catastrophic sinking of the SS Volturno should be sent to the
Mayor of New York or “to Jacob H. Schiff, the treasurer of the American Red
Cross.
1914(27th of Tishrei, 5675): Parashat Bereshit
1914: In Cleveland Jewish immigrants from Lithuania Mikhel Iankel
Segalovich and Sora Meita Khaikels, who changed their names to Michael and
Sarah Siegel after moving to America gave birth to Jerome Siegel, who along
with his friend Joe Shuster created “Superman.”
http://www.thecomicbooks.com/old/super.html
1915: “In Harlem, in the New York borough of Manhattan Jewish
immigrants August (Barnett) Mil and Isidore Miller, the owner of a successful
“women’s clothing manufacturing business gave birth to playwright Arthur Miller
whose works included “Death of Salesman” and “The Crucible” and whose other
claim to fame was his marriage to Marilyn Monroe whose conversation to Judaism
was tied to her relationship with Miller.
1915: “The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of American
announced” today “that Isidore Hershfield, a New York lawyer” would be sailing
for Europe “charged with the mission of locating the families and relatives of
American citizens various war zones of Europe.”
1915: “The Jewish Congress Organization Committee, meeting” today
“in the Broadway Central Hotel decided to hold” next month “a preliminary
conference of representatives from Jewish organizations to decide on methods of
election and other technical details of convening the congress which is to deal
with the whole of the Jewish problem with special reference to the situation in
Europe created by the war.”
1915: “Dr. Samuel Betttelheim, editor and proprietor of the
Hungarian Jewish News of Budapest arrived in New York” today “with the
intention of attending the American Jewish Conference which was scheduled to be
held in Washington…but which has been called off” and which will be replaced by
another national meeting whose attendees will be more representative of the
Jewish community.
1915: “In his farewell sermon at St. Philip’s Episcopal Cathedral
this morning” in Atlanta, GA, “Dean John R. Atkinson” said, “the most Christian
people I have found in Atlanta are the Jews” because “they have more true
charity.”
1915: “In an address this evening at public meeting” in Baltimore,
MD, “held to celebrate the found of the Order of B’nai B’rith, Simon Wolf of
Washington said that on the eve of his departure for California to attend the
Peace Conference, President Wilson entrusted him” with “a letter in which the
President wrote that when the hour of peace should arrive he, as the
representative of a people firm in advocacy of civil and political rights,
would use his best efforts to secure the rights of the Jews in Russia and
Rumania.”
1915: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was among the speakers who addressed
the meeting at the Century Theatre where resolutions were adopted condemning
the treatment of the Armenians by the Ottomans.
1916: It was reported today “a committee of women” whose members
include Mrs. William Einstein, Mrs. Sidney Borg, Mrs. Henry Goldman, Mrs. Henry
Zuckerman, Mrs. Israel Unterberg, Mrs. Samuel Elkeles and Mrs. Alexander Kohut
has been formed to make a special appeal to those of their for contributions to
the Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City.
1916: Eighteen-year-old Mischa Levitz, famed Russian born concert
pianist made his American debut in New York, at Aeolian Hall.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/01/03/85238153.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.steinway.com/artists/mischa-levitzki
1916: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg married Irma Seeman after which
they set up housekeep at 98 Central Park West in New York City where they gave
birth to two sons, Thomas and George.
1917: Maurice Avner, the Manchester, England born of Rose and
Abraham A. Avner who had joined the British Army Service Corps Reserves in 1916
reported for duty today.
1917: Birthdate of Herschel
Schater, the Brownsville native who was youngest son of a 7th
generation shochet and a real estate manager and as chaplain serving with the
Third Army was the first rabbi “to enter and participate in the liberation of
Buchenwald.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1917: Birthdate of Alfred Edward “Fred” Kahn “a leading regulatory
scholar who wielded his influence in both government and academia, helped spur
a broad movement beginning in the mid-1970s toward freer markets in rail and
automotive transportation, telecommunications, utilities and the securities
markets.”
1917: “Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers announced tonight that
the Special Assembly of the Jews of America to plan the continuation of the
Jewish war relief and completion of the $10,000,000 1917 fund which is to bring
together about a thousand of the most prominent Jews from all parts of the
United States will be held at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on October
28th.
1917: In Ohio, Alexander A. Landesco, the Romanian born son of
Abraham and Vera Landesco and Olga Landesco gave birth to Frederick S. Landesco
1918: Four days after he was killed, “Rifleman Israel Davis” was
buried today in the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1919(23rd of Tishrei, 5680): Simchat Torah
1919: Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created. RCA and NBC which were inextricably linked
with David Sarnoff.
1919: Birthdate of Russian physicist Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
1920: Today South Jersey's first Conservative congregation was
officially "organized" and elected Morris Handle as Beth El's first
President.
1920: Birthdate of Montreal native and McGill University graduate
Elie Abel, who worked for the New York Times and NBC News before becoming “Dean
of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/24/us/elie-abel-newsman-and-teacher-dies-at-83.html
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1n39n4q2/entire_text/
1920: In Brussels, Sadi Kirschen and his wife gave birth to
Claude-Anne Kirschen who gained fame as Claude-Anne Lopez one of the most, if
not the most formidable, expert on Benjamin Franklin. “Her father was a defense lawyer for Edith
Cavell, the British nurse who was executed by the Germans after she helped
scores of Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium during World War I.”
(As reported by William Yardley)
1920: Birthdate of Grangeville, Idaho native and USC graduate
Betty Brown who gained fame as Betty Sarah Wouk, when she married Herman Wouk,
the great American Jewish novelist whose service on the USS Zane gave him two
great gifts, Mrs. Wouk and the material for the “Caine Mutiny.”
1921(15th of Tishrei, 5682): Sukkoth
1921(15th of Tishrei, 5682): Sixty-four year old Jacob
Brenner who had passed the bar exam in 1879 and eventually became a Brooklyn
magistrate married Louise Blumenau, “the daughter of prominent Brooklyn real
estate developer Levi Blumenau” with whom head six children -- Arthur and
Mortimer both of whom became lawyers and “Republican party leaders,” Rose who
was President of the National council of Jewish Women, Rica, Selma and
Caroline” passed away today “while giving a speech at Temple Beth-Elohim.”
https://brooklynhistory.org/library/wp/jacob-brenner-papers-1884-1921/
1922: In Manhattan, Jacob Brody, who made “a fortune in the hat
business” and his wife gave birth to high end restaurateur Ira Jerome Brody.
(As reported by Douglas Martin)
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/18/nyregion/jerome-brody-78-is-dead-guided-elegant-restaurants.html
1922: Birthdate of “Bulgarian movie director and author” Angel
Raymond Wagenstein who was raised in France and has raised two sons, Raymond
and Plamen with his wife Zora which may be some of the material covered in
Andrea Simon’s documentary “Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon.
1923(7th of Cheshvan, 5684): Albert Osterman, the
“Director of the Washington Park Zoological Society” passed away today.
1923: Birthdate of Isaac Saba Raffoul, “a Mexican businessman.”
1924(19th of Tishrei, 5685): Fifth of Sukkoth
1924: The Ku Klux Klan staged its second march in less than six
months in Las Vagas, Nevada but found little support for its message of hating
Catholics and Jews.
1925: Birthdate of Irwin Silber, “a founder and the longtime
editor of the folk-music magazine Sing Out!, who was one of the prime
movers behind the folk-music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.” (As reported by
William Grimes)
1926: The formal celebration of the 103rd birth of
Henry Levy, “a resident of the United Home for Aged Hebrews” in New York is
scheduled to take place today in conjunction “with exercises celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of the opening home.”
1926: It was reported today that “occasional rumors from Russia
during the last few months to the effect that anti-Semitism was becoming a
serious problem in the Soviet Republic and was handicapping the Government’s
work of economic rehabilitation are backed up by reports from Moscow” and “it
is asserted that despite the Soviet authorities’ repeated pronouncements in
favor of political, economic and social equality among all workers regardless
of race or color, the feeling against the Jews so assiduously cultivated by the
Black Hundreds under the Czars is again coming to the surface in many
unexpected places.”
1927(21st of Tishrei, 5688): Hoshanah Rabah
1927: Birthdate of guitarist Barney Kessel.
1928: In a statement issued today, David A. Brown, the national
chairman of the United Jewish campaign characterized the upcoming Non-Zionist
Conference at the Hotel Biltmore as “the most important Jewish gathering ever
held in this country.”
1929: “The entire estate left by Harold
Wiener, the British barrister who was killed during the first days of the
Palestine riots even though he “was known as a friend of the Arabs” was
bequeathed to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London
“according to his will has just been probated.” (JTA)
1929: “The Informer,” a film version of the novel with the same
name with a script by Benn W. Levy was released in the United Kingdom today.
1930: In Biddeford, ME, Samuel and Leah Osher gave birth to Marion
Osher, the future wife of Hebert Sandler her partner in creating Golden West
Financial.
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/marion-o-sandler-former-golden-west-co-chief-is-dead-at-81/
1931: After a month, filming of “The Trunks of Mr. O.F.” starring
Peter Lorre and Hedy Lamarr came to an end today.
1931(6th of Cheshvan, 5692): Parashat Noach
1931(6th of Cheshvan, 5692): Eighty-two-year-old
Melanie Mayer Frank, the Natchez, Mississippi born daughter of John and
Jannette Ries Mayer, and the husband of Henry Frank passed away today in New
Orleans after which she was buried in the “Jewish Hill” plot of the Natchez
City Cemetery in Natchez.
1932(17th of Tishrei, 5693) Third day of Sukkoth
1932: Serious fighting broke out at Vienna University this morning
when Hitlerite students, violently attacked Jewish students.
1932: It was reported today that “with warnings that the
charitable institutions of New York City face unprecedented demands for help at
a time when their funds are reduced to a dangerously low level, the 1932 appeal
of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies for funds
to complete the $3,923,000 budget has been laid before 1,100 Jewish leaders of
the city at a dinner at the Hotel Commodore.
1933(27th of Tishrei, 5694) Civil War veteran Ludwig
Kahn passed away today in his home town of Yonkers, NY.
1933:
Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Strangely enough, the New York Times story referred to him as a German
scientist. I guess the guys at the Times had not figured out that for all
of his greatness, he was just another Jew fleeing Hitler’s Germany. When is a Jew in Germany a German and not a
Jew? When he wins the Nobel Prize.
1934:
It was reported today that eight Jewish charitable and religious institutions
will receive bequest under the will of Kalman Berenson whose estate was valued
at more than ten thousand dollars.
1934:
It was reported today that Mrs. Edward Jacobs of New York has been elected
national president of Hadassah and that Henrietta Szold, “founder of Hadassah
has been re-elected honorary president.”
1935(20th
of Tishrei, 5696): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1935:
When the Belgian steamship Leopold II was unloading 97 tons of cement at Jaffa,
“a tin case of cartridges concealed in a barrel” was discovered. According to “unconfirmed reports…from Arab
sources…800 rifles and 400,000 cartridges” were also found among the 537
barrels of cement.
1935: “The party of Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
asserted” today that the arms discovered yesterday when the SS Leopold II was
being unloaded in Jaffa yesterday, “were part of a Jewish plot” and gave rise
to the threat of a general Arab work stoppage.
1936(1st of Cheshvan, 5697): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan and
Shabbat
1936: At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled
to deliver a sermon on “Making a Name.”
1936: At West End Synagogue, Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Neglected Teacher – Experience.”
1936: New York University, with Harry Shorten playing end lost to
the University of North Carolina today.
1936: At Temple Israel, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum is scheduled to
deliver a sermon on “Another Flood – The Only Way Out.”
1936: Marvin Lowenthal is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Jews
at the Crossroads” this after afternoon at the Central Synagogue on East 62nd
Street.
1937: As the Arab Reign of Terror
designed to drive the Jews from Eretz Israel continued, The Palestine Post
reported that the Mandatory Administration at last admitted that the renewed
Arab terror and sabotage causes extensive damage. One of the main buildings at
Lydda Airport was destroyed by arson and the authorities decided that severe
measures would be taken against the town. British women and children living in
Hebron were evacuated to Jerusalem and were accommodated at the YMCA. A Cook’s
cruise was temporarily suspended, and tourist agents reported cancellations.
Railway service suffered from frequent interruptions. Jewish buses were shot at,
and a number of passengers were wounded. One Arab attacker was killed. The
Mandatory Government decided to exert a stricter control over the activities of
the Wakf (Moslem religious endowment fund).
1937 (12th of Cheshvan,
5698): A band of Arab terrorists shot and killed a ten-year old Jewish boy from
Yemeni at Tirath Shalom which is located near Ness Zionah in southern
Palestine.
1937 (12th of Cheshvan,
5698): In the wake of renewed Arab terrorism, “Samuel Gutman, a young Jewish
theological student studying his Talmud lesson in the shade of a tree in the
Schneller quarter of Jerusalem was attacked by an Arab, who stabbed him six
times.”
1937 (12th of Cheshvan,
5698): In the wake of renewed Arab terrorism, two buses filled with Jewish
workers returning to Jerusalem from the quarry near Motzah were fired on by
Arabs. The gunmen escaped having failed
to wound or kill any of their targets.
1937: A movement “led by Max Seligman” a
lawyer from Cardiff, Wales, now living in Tel Aviv, that is seeking to convert
Palestine into a British Crown Colony as a way of ending the fighting between
Arabs and Jews files an application with the Palestine Attorney General’s
office in attempt o register an organization called “The Palestine Crown Colony
Association.”
1937: Late tonight Arab terrorists
attempted to blow up a ridge on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho. The bridge was partially damaged, but the
road remained opened to traffic.
1938(22nd of Tishrei, 5699):
Shmini Atzeret; Yizkor
1938(22nd of Tishrei, 5699):
On the 45th birthday of her son, painter Frtiz Ascher, 71 year old
Minna Luise Ascher passed away today.
1939: The Nazis deported over one
thousand Jews from Moravska Ostrava, of the former Czechoslovakia, and sent
them to Lublin region of Poland. There, they were forced to build themselves a
labor camp. Adolph Eichmann, now in charge of “Jewish resettlement”, greeted
the train
1939: With the cessation of hostilities, the Nazis finally fixed
the Polish-German frontier. At a meeting, Hitler made clear that the policy
would be to cleanse Poland’s towns of Jews, Poles and intelligentsia from all
lands falling within the Gerneralgouvernement. Implementation was put in
the hands of Henreich Himmler and his SS.
1939: “Municipal Court Justice Jacob S. Strahl, Democratic
candidate for re-election in the Fourth Brooklyn District, was declared
"disqualified" for the bench by the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York at its meeting” tonight.
1939: Hitler lectures General
Wilhelm Keitel and other top Wehrmacht generals on the need for “Jews,
Poles, and similar trash” to be cleared from old and new territories of the
Reich.
1940(15th of Tishrei,
5701): First Day of Sukkoth
1940: “Coincident with the
departure of Vice Premier Pierre Laval for important negotiations with the
occupying authorities in Paris, the Cabinet here tonight announced the adoption
of a series of measures regulating the status of Jews” which will exclude them
from “holding office in public administration” and limit their “participation
in medical, educational and certain other professions.”
1941: In Port Jefferson, NY, Dr.
Edward Klane and Adele Blum gave birth to UNC educated screenwriter, novelist
and filmmaker, Robert Klane whose second novel, Where's Poppa? was
adapted by Klane into a feature film directed by Carl Reiner and starring
George Segal.
1941: “The Devil and Daniel
Webster,” co-starring Simone Simon with music by Bernhard Herrmann who won an
Oscar for his work on this picture was released in the United States today.
1942: According to reports published in the New York Times, Palestine is filling a dual role in the British war
effort. It is home to a key military
headquarters called the “Palestine Base and Lines of Communications
Headquarters.” It has also become an
industrial center that fills many needs of the British military in the Middle
East including the manufacture of mines and hand grenades and the repair of
British and American tanks and other military vehicles damaged during combat
action. Many of the workers are refugees
from central and Eastern Europe which has given them the capability of
producing goods that used to be supplied by “Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany
and other industrialized European nations.”
1942: Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer Fritz Löhner-Beda
was deported to the Monowitz concentration camp near Auschwitz.
1942: Over 10,000 Jews were transferred from Buchenwald
Concentration camp to Auschwitz.
1942: The Nazis murdered 1600 Jews from
Buczacz, Ukraineat the Belzec death camp.
1942: Four hundred and five Jews
held in the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, Germany, concentration camps are
deported to Auschwitz. Austrian-Jewish opera librettist Fritz Beda is among
those deported from Buchenwald.
1942: Birthdate of Yosef Lahav (Joe Sikorel), the native of
Alexandria, Egypt who died when the Dakar was lost at sea in 1968.
1943(18th of Tishrei, 5704): Sukkoth Chol Hamoed
1943(18th of Tishrei, 5704): Seventy-five-year-old
Montgomery, AL native and founder of the Manufacturers Trust Company Nathan
Jonas, the philanthropist and son of Jacob and Bella Jonas whose wife Jennie
Straus Jonas pre-deceased him passed away today “in the Jewish Hospital of
Brooklyn which he founded.”
1943: A Jewish partisan unit
commanded by Abba Kovner destroys two rail engines and two bridges near Vilna,
Lithuania.
1943: German Ambassador to the Vatican
Ernst von Weizsäcker writes to the German Foreign Ministry that the College of
Cardinals has been “particularly dismayed” since the roundup of Jews in Rome is
occurring “below the very windows of the Pope.” He notes that the Pope
continues to do everything he can “not to burden relations with the German
government and German agencies in Rome.”
1944:
Adolf Eichmann returned to Budapest. He demanded that 50,000 Jews be
assembled to be used as forced laborers in Germany. He further ordered that they should march
there on foot.
1944: At Birkenau, Dr. Mengele began
another selection of children to be sent to the gas chambers. Only this small
selected group of about 200 twins were continued to be spared his wretched
wrath.
1945: Premiere of “Week-End At The
Waldorf” based on Vicki Baum’s novel Grand Hotel with a script co-written by
Bella Spewack
1945(10th of Cheshvan, 5706):
Sixty-three-year-old Max Abrahams, the English born son of Emanuel and Leah
Horowitz Abrahams and the husband of Fannie Danovitch Abrahams whom he married
in 1905 passed away today after which he was buried in the Mount Hebron
Cemetery in Flushing.
1946: King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia sent
a letter to President Truman charging that the American leader’s “call for
opening the gates of Palestine to more Jews was in ‘complete contradiction’” to
what the King said were “presidential assurances to the Arabs.” The King described the Jews as “aggressors
from the start” when it came to matters regarding Palestine.
1946: In Warsaw, “Ozjasz Szechter, the
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, and Helena Michnik,
a historian, communist activist, and children's-book author” gave birth to Adam
Michnik, the author and historian who was imprisoned by the Polish Communist
regime and worked to bring it down.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/09/solidarity-poland-berlin-wall-1989
https://www.centralsynagogue.org/about_us/shofar_shabbat/michnik
1946: A production of “Lysistrata”
written by Gilbert Seldes opened at the Belasco Theatre.
1947: Following a six day trial, Yossef
Vavriel and Abraham Katalan, two members of the Irgun, “were convicted of
carrying arms in a room of the house at Kiryat Sahul where two British
policemen” who had been kidnapped from a swimming pool in June were being held
prisoner. The two British policemen had not been harmed by their captors.
1947: David Ben-Gurion called on members
of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to disband their organizations and join the
Haganah as the Jewish community moved to protect itself from attacks from the
Arabs. Ben-Gurion denied that
negotiations were being held with the leaders of these organizations since his
goal is to have only one military force that will answer to the civilian
leaders of the Yishuv.
1947: Mr. Moshe Shertok the head of
Political Department of the Jewish Agency, addressed the United Nations, making
the case for the creation of a Jewish state as part of the Two State Solution.
Moshe Shertok would become Moshe Sharett after the creation of the state of
Israel, serving as it first Foreign Minister and second Prime Minister.
1947: “The Exile” directed by Max Ophüls
and filmed by cinematographer Franz Planer was released today in the United
States.
1948(14th of Tishrei, 5709):
Erev Sukkoth
1948: Israeli naval vessels shelled
Majdal which had been occupied by invading Egyptian troops.
1948(14th of Tishrei) Yosef
Tzvi Dushinsky, also known as the Maharitz, passed away. Born in 1865 he moved
to Jerusalem in 1930. He was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky and Chief Rabbi
(Govad) of the Edah HaChareidis of Jerusalem.
1948: The 52nd and 54th
Battalions of the Givati Brigade began a three-day action aimed at taking
control of “the internal Negev road from Julis to Bror Hayial through Kawkaba
and Huleiqat.”
1948: During Operation Yoav, Egyptian
forces begin withdrawing from the Negev after suffering heavy attacks by the
Israelis. The Egyptians were retreating
from land to which they had no legal or moral claim. Operation Yoav was
conducted during the Israeli War for Independence. It took place following numerous violations
of the UN brokered cease fire about which the international organization did
nothing.
1948: During the “Battles of the
Separation Corridors,” “at 22:50, Hill 103 was taken without resistance by the
4th Company, which proceeded to link up to the 3rd Company attacking Hill 113.
Hills 100 and 113, joined by Egypt into one position, were captured by the two
companies today at 01:15
1949: Premiere of “The Reckless Moment”
a “film noir directed by Max Ophüls and produced by Walter Wanger.”
1949: “The recovery of 250,000 volumes
of Judaica and 10,000 ceremonial objects in Germany, representing part of the
Nazi loot from Jewish libraries, synagogues and museums in Europe, and their
shipment out of that country last year, was announced by Prof. Salo W. Baron of
Columbia University, president of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., at its
annual meeting” tonight at the Harmonie Club, 4 East Sixtieth Street
1949: “A communique from the Israeli
Legation in London said tonight that the Tel Aviv Government had received
‘gravely disquieting reports of a new wave of persecution again members of the
Jewish minority in Iraq.’”
1950: David Ben-Gurion made an attempt
to form a minority government consisting of Mapai and Sephardim and Oriental
Communities today, but it was not approved by the Knesset.
1950: In New York, Edith (née
Leibovitch)Tolkin, “a studio executive and film industry lawyer” and “the late
comedy writer Mel Tolkin” gave birth to Middlebury College graduate Michael L.
Tolkin, the novelist and film writer who won an Edgar Award for the screenplay
for “The Player”
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported that the Joint Distribution Committee agreed to
defray half the cost of the upkeep and medical treatment of the North African
immigration. The forced migration of Jews living in Moslem lands to Israel is
one of the untold “refugee” stories.
Following the creation of the state of Israel Jews from such places as
Morocco came to Israel, in part, because the local Arab population had turned
against. This happened despite the fact
that Jews had lived there for centuries.
It is interesting to compare the efforts of the Israelis to integrate
immigrants into their society as opposed to the Arab treatment of their Moslem
brethren who had left what would become the state of Israel for whatever
reasons.
1953(8th of Cheshvan, 5714):
Parashat Lech-Lecha
1954(20th of Tishrei, 5715):
Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1955(1st of Cheshvan, 5716):
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1956: U.S. premiere of “What Happened to
Julie on Her Honeymoon?” produced by Martin Melcher.
1956:
“Attack” a WW II “anti—war” movie co-starring Robert Strauss was released today
in the United States.
1956:
Michael Todd’s “Around the World In Eighty Days” was released today in the
United States.
1957(22nd of Tishrei, 5718):
Shemini Atzert
1958: NBC broadcast “An Evening with
Fred Astaire,” the Emmy winning special directed and co-produced by Bud Yorkin
(Alan David Yorkin)
1958(3rd of Cheshvan, 5719):
Eighty-three-year-old “Mrs. Lenke Molnar, the widow of Jacob Molnar, an
official of the Hungarian national railroad system” and the mother of Dr.
Julius Molnar and Nicholas Molnar “the director of the Molnar Laboratories”
passed away today.
1959(15th of Tishrei, 5720):
Sukkoth
1959: In the UK, Julie Brett and Eric
Selig Phllip Cowell, Sr. who is Jewish gave birth to television personality
Simon Cowell.
1960(25th of Tishrei, 5721):
Seventy-three-year-old well-known Brooklyn civic worker Max Abelman and “the
executive director of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities from 1909 to
1923” passed away today.
1960: “Tenderloin,” a musical with a
book co-authored by Jerome Weidman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by
Jerry Bock opened on Broadway today at the 46th Street Theatre.
1963(29th of Tishrei, 5724): Mathematician
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard passed away at the age of 98. Although Hadamard
claimed to be an atheist when it came to religion he became an active in
support of Jewish causes following the Dreyfus Affair. Part of this may have stemmed from the fact
that his wife was related to the wrongly accused French Colonel.
1963: “All the Way” the movie version of the 1960 play produced by
David Susskind was released today in the United States.
1963: “Jennie,” “a musical with a book by Arnold Schulman, music
by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz “opened on Broadway at the
Majestic Theatre.”
1964(11th of Cheshvan, 5725): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1964(11th of Cheshvan, 5725): Ninety-seven-year-old
Pauline Pappenheimer, the Cincinnati, OH born daughter of Sarah and Louis Newburgh,
the “wife of Alexander T. Pappenheimer and mother of Ralph Pappenheimer; Paul
A. Pappenheimer and Louis Pappenheimer” passed away today in Fort Thomas, KY.
1966: During a discussion of the construction of the new chapel at
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal Jack Breslow expressed his concerns
about the arrangement of the seating and positioning of the bimah which he
feared would be “a departure from the tradition of Conservative Judaism” and
impractical while Rabbi Shuchat took the view that “the location of the bimah
had no bearing on the tradition of Conservative Judaism.”
1967: Barbra Streisand starred in “Belle of 14th
Street” a special on CBS television.
1967(13th of Tishrei, 5728): Seventy-one year old
Eugene Otterbourg, the son American “envoy to Mexico, Marcus Otterbourg,” a
1904 graduate of CCNY and the third generation attorney who “was a founder and
senior partner of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston and Rosen” where he was “a
specialist in bankruptcy and reorganization law” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/18/83636558.pdf
1967: Memorial service for
Brian Epstein was held at New London Synagogue – The Jewish Connection to the
lads from Liverpool.
1968: “Far From the Madding Crowd,” a film adaptation of the 19th
century novel directed by John Schlesinger with a script by Frederic Raphael
was released in the United States by MGM today.
1970(17th of Tishrei, 5731): Shabbat shel Sukkoth
1972: ABC broadcast the first episode of “Goodnight My Love”
written and directed by Peter Hyams and co-starring Barbara Bain.
1973: The “Battle of the Chinese Farms” comes to an end when an
Egyptian counter-attack fails to dislodge Israeli troops leaving the bridgehead
across the Suez Canal intact. The battle, which began on October 15th
was one of the bloodiest and costliest of the war.
1973: During the Yom Kippur War, the
Soviets were landing 70 planes per day crammed with modern supplies at Egyptian
and Syrian airports. Egyptian forces failed in their attempts to dislodge
Israeli forces from their new positions on the west bank of the Suez
Canal. At the same time, the Egyptians
were not making any progress with the attacks on Israeli positions east of the
Canal. As the fortunes of war began to
turn against the attacking Arab Armies, the Soviets increased the pressure for
a cease fire. The Israelis were
unwilling to consider any action that would reward Arab Aggression.
1973: OPEC started an oil
embargo against a number of western countries.
Supposedly OPEC was using the Oil Weapon to reverse the Arab defeat
during the Yom Kippur War. In point of
fact, OPEC succeeded in raising the price of petroleum which enriched OPEC,
shifted the economic balance and along the way impoverished millions of people
living in Third World Nations – untold numbers of Arabs and other followers of
Islam living in non-OPEC nations.
1974: Birthdate of Larchmont, NY native and Wesleyan University
graduate Ariel Levy, the author who is also a staff writer for the New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/ariel-levy
1975:
The United Nations declared that “Zionism is racism.” This came in the same period when the U.N.
General greeted the pistol packing Yasser Arafat with a standing ovation.
Arafat was still in the full flush of his victory; having been responsible for
the terrorist attack on the Munich Olympics and the slaughter of the Israeli
athletes.
1975: U.S. premiere of “Rooster Cogburn”
produced by Hal Wallis.
1975: The final collapse of New York
predicted for today was avoided by the so-called “matzo summit” between real
estate developer Richard Ravitch and teacher’s union leader Al Shanker who was
convinced to use “its pension funds to buy bonds from the Municipal Assistance
Corporation.
1976(23rd of Tishrei, 5737):
Simchat Torah celebrated for the last time during the presidency of Gerry Ford.
1977(5th of Cheshvan, 5738): Eighty-one-year-old
English film producer Sir Michael Elias Balcon, the grandfather of Daniel
Day-Lewis and Tasmin Day-Lewis passed away today.
https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Michael_Balcon
1977(5th of Cheshvan, 5738):
Seventy-five year old David “Dave” Ziff who played “end at Syracuse University
in the early 1920’s” and then played two seasons for the nascent National
Football League passed away today.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that a prominent, unnamed, West Bank
figure, whom the local Arab politicians expected to become a central member of
any Palestinian delegation at the renewed Geneva Peace Conference, was seeking
an urgent meeting with Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, to check whether Israel
would be prepared to negotiate an eventual self-determination for the Palestine
Arabs at the conference table.
1978: “Goin’ Coconuts” a musical comedy
directed by Howard Morris was released in the United States by Columbia
pictures and proved to be box office flopped that was panned by ciritics.
1979(26th of Tishrei, 5740): Seventy-five-year-old Sidney Joseph Perelman,
known as S.J. Perelman, who was born in Brooklyn in 1904, raised in Providence,
where he graduated from Brown University passed away today. For almost forty
years, Perelman was a true man of letters gaining fame as a cartoonist, author,
screenwriter, and satirist. A city boy
by birth, Perelman chose to live in rural Bucks County for forty years. During that time, he wrote, “A farm is an
irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and
his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city.”
1980(7th of Cheshvan, 5741): Eighty-yea-old Kiev native
and Northwestern University graduate Alexander J. Burnstein, the JTS ordained
Rabbi and leader of the Millinery Center Synagogue in Manhattan from 1942 until
1970 who raised two sons, Raphael and Ira, with his wife Etta and whose
accomplishments included rescuing Euorpean Rabbis which serving as secretary of
the Advisory Committee on Refugee Jewish Ministers passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/10/18/111808379.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1982(30th of Tishrei, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1982(30th of Tishrei, 5743): Seventy-two-year-old École libre des Sciences politiques graduate
and banker at Rothschild Feres, the son of Baron de Rothschild and Gabrielle
Nelly Regine Beer and the father of Mary Chauvin du Treuel with home had three
children – Robert Eric and Beatrice – passed away today in New York City.
1983(9th of Cheshvan, 5744): Seventy-eight-year-old
Raymond Aron passed away. Born in Paris, the famed author and social
commentator, served in the French Air Force and then fought with the Free
French during WW II. While his name may not be a household word, he was a
life-long friend and worthy intellectual opponent of Jean-Paul Sartre.
http://www.egs.edu/library/raymond-aron/biography/
1984(21st of Tishrei, 5745): Hoshanah Rabah
1984(21st of Tishrei, 5745): Seventy-one-year-old
“retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge and graduate of what is now Rutgers
Law School Morris Malech” the decorated
WW II veteran and husband of “the former Freda Lipowitz” with he had two sons –
Harry and Edward – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/20/obituaries/morris-malech-71-former-jersey-judge-dies.html
1984(21st of Tishrei, 5745): Eighty-one-year-old Rabbi
Levi Arthur Olan passed away. Born in 1903 at Cherkasy, Ukraine, he was Rabbi
of Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1929 to 1948. From 1949 to
1970 he was Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, Texas.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0181/ms0181.html
1984: The Light Opera of Manhattan unveiled its new production of
Sigmund Romberg’s 1928 Broadway hit “New Moon.”
1985(2nd of Cheshvan, 5746): Ninety-year old conductor
and opera manager Joseph Rosenstock passed away today. (As reported by Dena
Kleiman)
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/18/arts/joseph-rosenstock-90-conductor-of-operas.html
1985: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at
Hempstead, Long Island, for former New York Knicks basketball star Max
Zaslofsky.
1987(24th of Tishrei, 5748): Parashat Bereshit
1988: Today’s announcement that chemist Gertrude Elion had
won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine represented the culmination of an
unlikely career. The young Elion had known what she wanted to do—but nobody
seemed ready to let her do it. New York’s Hunter College provided her with a
free education during the Depression, but when she graduated at age 19, summa
cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, not one graduate school would provide her
with needed financial aid. Unable to find a laboratory job, she started
secretarial school. Supporting herself as a doctor’s receptionist and a
substitute high school science teacher, Elion earned a master’s degree in
chemistry from New York University in 1941 (she was the only woman in her
classes). With more lab opportunities open to women during World War II, Elion
found a job at Burroughs Welcome, a pharmaceutical company, in 1944.Elion’s
research with her mentor and partner George Hitchings led to the first
effective treatment for childhood leukemia and to immunosuppressants that made
organ transplants possible. Her anti-viral research led to treatments for many
ailments including AIDS. Elion, whose doctorates were all honorary, received
the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Hitchings and
British scientist James Black. Elion thus joined an impressive list of American
Jewish female Nobel Prize winners in science that also includes American-born
Rosalyn Yalow (1977), and Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1947) and Rita
Levi-Montalcii (1986) who were born and educated abroad. (As reported by the
Jewish Women’s Archive.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/17/1988/gertude-elion
1989: An army inquiry completed today found that a Syrian MIG -23 fighter-bomber was able to penetrate Israeli
airspace unchallenged last week because of an error by the air defense officer
on duty at the time.
1989: “Closer Than Ever” a revue featuring the music of David
Shire “opened in previews” today at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
1990: Publication of William Steig’s Shrek! a picture book for children about a young
ogre whose name is derived from the Yiddish work for “fear” or “fright.”
1990: “Reversal of Fortune” film adaption of
Alan Dershowitz’s book produced by Edward R. Pressman and co-starring Ron
Silver was screened in Los Angeles for the first time.
1994: The draft of a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan was
finalized. This would prove to be one of
the tangible positive by-products of the Oslo Peace Process.
1995(23rd of Tishrei, 5756): Simchat Torah
1995: “Alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be
suspended in New York City for Simchat Torah which ends the annual cycle of the
public reading of the Torah.”
1995: “The Babysitter” starring Alicia Silverstone was released in
the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1997(16th of Tishrei, 5758): Second day of Sukkoth
1997: “Shooting Fish,” a British comedy starring Dan Futterman as
“Dylan” was released today in the United Kingdom by Entertainment Film
Distributors.
1997(16th of Tishrei, 5758): Ninety-six-year-old
character actor Ben Welden passed away today.
1997: After having premiered at the 54th
Vencie International Film Festival, today “Wilde,” a film version of the
biography written by Richard Elman, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev and
Romaia starring Stephen Fry was released
in the United States.
1998: A Palestinian conducted a grenade assault on the Beersheba
bus terminal, wounding 67 Israelis, including 24 soldiers.
1999: The New York Times
book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jews including Bad Jews And Other Stories by Gerald Shapiro
and Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel.
2000: At the Library of Congress
opening of an exhibition entitled Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the
Millennium that presents works by cartoonist Herb Block, who chronicled the
nation’s political history and caricatured twelve American presidents from
Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton.
2001 (30th of Tishrei, 5762): Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam
Zeevi was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet
minister by Palestinians. Born in
Jerusalem in 1926, Zeevi served in the Palmach.
He enjoyed a very successful thirty-year career in the IDF. After retiring with the rank of Major
General, he pursued a career in politics. A general in the Israel Army, Zeevi
had a distinguished military career before pursuing a political career.
2001(30th of Tishrei, 5762): Eighty-six-year-old Oscar
winning composer and lyricist Jay Livingston passed away today. (As reported by
Richard Severo)
2002 In Jerusalem, Ari and Naomi Zivotosky gave birth Menachem
Binyamin Zivotofsky whose parents filed suit against the U.S. State Department
when the government refused to list his birthplace as either Jerusalem, Israel
or simply as Israel.
2002: A Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical
“Flower Drum Song” produced by Benjamin
Mordecai opened at the Virginia Theatre
2003(21st of Tishrei, 5764): Hoshana Rabah
2003: U.S. premiere of “Runaway Jury,” co-starring Dustin Hoffman
and Rachel Weisz
2004: The body of Sam Kellerman the brother of Max Kellerman an
American boxing commentator and sports talk radio host based in Los Angeles was
found in a Hollywood (CA) apartment” which led to the arrest of “former boxer
James Butler” who “ later confessed to the murder and was given a 29-year
sentence.”
2004(2nd of Cheshvan, 5765): Uzi Hitman “an Israeli singer,
songwriter, composer and television personality” passed away. His career began
in 1976, and he became a popular Israeli artist during the 1980s and 1990s. He
has famously composed a popular melody for Adon Olam in 1976. His most famous
songs include Noladati Lashalom (I Was Born for Peace), Ratziti Sheteda (I
Wanted You to Know), Todah (Thank you) and Kan (Here), which reached 3rd place
during the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest. Hitman also appeared on the 1980s
children's programmes Parpar Nehmad and Hopa Hei. He died after a heart attack
at the age of 52. He was buried at the Yarkon Cemetery near Tel Aviv. The City
of Ramat Gan renamed Kikar Hashoshanim (Roses Square) in his neighborhood of
residence to Kikar Hitman (Hitman Square).
2005: Haaretz reported
that Kinneret Mendel and Matat Rosenfeld-Adler, 21-year-old cousins from the
settlement of Carmel, and Oz Ben Meir, 15, from the settlement of Ma'on were
murdered by terrorist on Sunday and buried today.
2005(14th of Tishrei, 5766): Erev Sukkoth
2006: Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called on President Moshe
Katsav to resign in response to the police's recommendation to indict him on a
number of charges including rape. "In the current situation, almost
without connection to the criminal question, I believe that it would not be
right for President Katsav to continue to serve as president," said Livni.
Livni made the comments at a ceremony marking the opening of "Kadima
House" in Hadera
2007(5th of Cheshvan, 5768): Ninety-eight-year-old WW
II Australian hero General Paul Cullen passed away today.
http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cullen-paul-alfred-20603
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10685368
2007(5th
of Cheshvan, 5768): Eighty-eight-year-old Hempstead, NY, native Milton “Mickey”
Rutner the third baseman who played in 12 games for the 1947 Philadelphia
Athletics passed away today in Georgetown, TX.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml
2007: “Bernard and Doris” a ‘semi-fictionalized” biopic directed
and produced by Bob Balaban “premiered at the Hamptons International Film
Festival” today.
2007: Virtuoso
Pianist Vladimir Feltsman plays “Music from Poland and Russia” at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Since his arrival in the
U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1987, world-class pianist Vladimir Feltsman has
graced every major concert hall in the country. Feltsman performs music from
Poland's keyboard master, Chopin, and one of Russia's most dramatic piano
pieces: Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
2007: As an example of the secular power
21st century Jews have attained, a photo is taken at 10:13 a.m. of
Michael Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general chatting with
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman prior to the start of confirmation hearings
before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The two Orthodox Jews were classmates at Yale Law School.
2007: The New York Times features a review of Just Say Nu: Yiddish for
Every Occasion (When English Just Won’t Do) by Michael Wex.
2007: A London-based Jewish radio station, Shalom FM, founded by Mike Menoza as
a way of providing, "some balanced reporting about the community and
Israel" ceased broadcasting at midnight.
2008: In a reversal of cultural roles.
The Jerusalem Cinematheque features an American film about an Israeli. The film
is “You Don’t Mess with Zohan” an American made film about an Israeli
2008: Jerusalem mayoral candidate Nir
Barkat toured Jewish and state-owned lands in an area between the French Hill
and the Arab neighborhood of Anata, promising that “In Anata, a new Jewish
neighborhood will be established and this will provide a solution to the
housing needs of students and the city’s younger generation.
2008 (18th of Tishrei, 5769): Eighty-five-year-old
Montreal native Ben Weider who was a founder and longtime president of the
International Federation of Body Builders” passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/sports/othersports/21weider.html?_r=0
2009:
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” is performed at
Kimmel Theatre on the campus of Cornell College in Mt. Vernon Iowa. The
production is based on Wendy Kesselman’s acclaimed new adaptation of the play
that makes thoughtful use of recently recovered segments of Anne’s diary to
deepen our understanding both of the cultural context of the events and to
present a much more complex (and less sentimental) Anne.
2009: At Agudas Achim in Iowa City, Sam Stalkfleet
is called to the Torah as a the Bar Mitzvah
2009: PBS
broadcast the first episode of “Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth” featuring Ruth
Reichel, “the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine.”
2009: At
the 14th St Y in Manhattan opening of the LABALMA Exhibition
followed by the Y Dance party.
2009(29th
of Tishrei, 5770): Sheldon Jerome Segal “an American embryologist and
biochemist who spent his entire career working on contraception and made major
innovations in the field of long-lasting alternatives, including in the
creation of Norplant, the first major development advance in birth control
since the birth control pill” passed away.
2009(29th
of Tishrei, 5770): Seventy-eight-year-old novelist Norma Fox Mazer, passed away
today. (As reported by Margalit Fox) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/arts/25mazer.html
2009: “A
Believer in Heroism, to Jews’ Lasting Gratitude” published today told the tale
of Dr. Tina Strobos who hid more than 100 Jews from the Nazis in occupied
Amsterdam.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/nyregion/17metjournal.html?pagewanted=print
2010: The
Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival opened in Washington,
DC.
2010: Dr.
Stephen Whitfield, Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University, author
of In Search of American Jewish Culture and one of Tulane University’s
most distinguished graduates is scheduled to speak at the Guardain-Benefactor
Luncheon sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
2010: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Great House by Nicole
Krauss and David Susskind: A Televised Life by Stephen Battaglio.
2010: The IDF Israel Defense Forces attacked a
terrorist cell planning to launch Qassam rockets or mortar bombs at Israel from
Gaza.
2011: President Shimon Peres is scheduled to
open his residence to the public today from from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. It is
the continuation of a long-held tradition for the presidents of Israel to open
the residence to the wider public during one of the intermediate days of the
Succoth.
2011: Philip Levine, the newly named Poet
Laureate is scheduled to open the annual literary season of the Library of
Congress with a reading of his work at the Coolidge Auditorium.
2011: Ron Skolnik, Executive Director of
Partners for Progressive Israel (formerly Meretz USA) is scheduled to speak on
"Rent, Cottage Cheese and Peace: What's making Israel tick these
days?" at Kol Ami, the Northern Virginia Reconstructionist Community
2011: Dr. Michael Berenbaum is scheduled to
deliver a lecture entitled “Three German Jews Rediscover Their Judaism” during
which he will examine the lives of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Gershom
Scholem.
2011: A genuine simchah as the family and
friends of Laurie Silber celebrate the birthday of this remarkable ayshish
chayal: loving wife, devoted daughter, doting mother and grandmother, sweet
singer of Psalms who brightens the Musical Shabbat and energetic community
leader who taught in our Sunday School for many years and who brings new energy
to Temple Judah in each of her terms as co-President. For those lucky enough to know her she is a
“chever” – a friend for all seasons.
2011: The Israel Law Center (Shurat
Hadin) is set to launch a hotline today, to help Jewish college students who
are victims of anti-Semitism on their campuses. According to attorney Kenneth
A. Leitner, the Law Center’s director of American affairs, students will be
able to call the hotline to report incidents of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel
acts on US college campuses, and the Law Center will use the data to take legal
action against colleges believed to be breaching Jewish students’ legal rights,
he added.
2011:
The State today responded
to petitions lodged against the release of 477 Palestinian prisoners in
exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit at the High Court of Justice
today, saying the swap was strictly a political matter to be carried out by the
government.
2011:
The High Court of Justice
rejected numerous petitions against the execution of the Gilad Shalit prisoner
swap deal today, effectively removing the last legal obstacle en route to the
release of the abducted Israel Defense Forces solder.
2011(19th of Tishrei, 5772): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2011: Following a speech by David Einhorn today at the Value Investing
Congress in which he “publicly announced his short position in Green Mountain
Coffee Roasters, its share price fell by 10 per cent.
2011(19th of Tishrei, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old audio
innovator Edgar M. Villchur passed away (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/business/edgar-m-villchur-hi-fi-innovator-dies-at-94.html
2012(1st of Cheshvan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2012(1st of Cheshvan, 5773): Eighty-nine-year-old “Stanford R.
Ovshinsky, an iconoclastic, largely self-taught and commercially successful
scientist who invented the nickel-metal hydride battery and contributed to the
development of a host of devices, including solar energy panels, flat-panel
displays and rewritable compact discs,” passed away today. (As reported by
Barnaby J. Feder)
2012: University of Liverpool Professor Eve Rosenhaft is scheduled to deliver
a lecture entitled “Black People under Nazi Rule: Perspectives on the ‘Racial
State’” at the Wiener Library in London.
2012: The Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Hebrew Language are
among the sponsors of the scheduled screening of “Four Pairs of Shoes” at the
Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
2012: Israeli singer-song writer Onili (Nili Ohayon) is scheduled to perform
at Littlefiled in Brooklyn.
2012:
Israel has not done enough
to carry out the directive issued by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to
increase the country's aerial firefighting capabilities, in spite of the
growing threat of wildfires posed by rockets and missiles pointed at the
Israeli home-front both from the north and south, the state comptroller's
report stated today.
2012:
Incoming Egyptian
ambassador to Israel Atef Salem presented President Shimon Peres with his
official credentials at the President's Residence in Jerusalem today. Salem,
the first ambassador sent by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, said at the
ceremony that Cairo is committed to all agreements with Israel, including the
peace agreement.
2012: Friends and family look forward to celebrating the birthday of
Laurie Silber a pillar of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Jewish community whose
efforts has included multiple tours as President of Temple Judah, enthusiastic
singing member of Shir Yehuda, long-time Sunday School teacher as well as a
loving wife, devoted mother and “grand” grandmother An Ashish Chayil in the truest sense of the
term.
2013(13th of Cheshvan, 5774): Eighty-four year old Emmy award
winning producer Lou Scheimer passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013: At the Library of Congress, the Czech film series that features
movies with Jewish themes is scheduled to show “Four Pairs of Shoes.”
http://www.mutualinspirations.org/archive/2012/events/docs-in-salute2/
2013: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel
discussion on “The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem” featuring
Jeremy Dauber author of The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life
and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye
2013: The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled
to present “Behind the Scenes of Elegy” in which Ron Hirsen discusses his play
that “reveals the family dynamic between Holocaust survivors and the next
generation.”
2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the
National Archives are scheduled to present “Discovery and Recovery: Preserving
Iraqi Jewish Heritage”
2013: Middle Eastern vocalist and composer
Galeet Dardashti is scheduled to demonstrate the melismatic vocal ornaments
present in Mizrachi Jewish music and Persian classical music to students at
Tulane University
2013: US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro
expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism
following an IDF guided tour of a recently unearthed tunnel running beneath the
border with the Gaza Strip today. (As reported Naama Barak)
2013: While Israel issued no official response
to a Washington Post report today that claimed Turkey had deliberately exposed
a network of up to 10 Iranians working for the Mossad, a former Israeli spy
chief fumed that, if accurate, the incident constituted a grave betrayal by
Turkey of years of unwritten understandings between the two intelligence
communities.
2014: SukkahPDX 2014 , Juried Outdoor Design
Exhibit sponsored by the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust
Education is scheduled to come to an end.
2014(23rd of Tishrei, 5775): Simchat
Torah
2014(23rd of Tishrei, 5775): Ninety-five-year-old
Mildred Puro Pittman, who had been pre-deceased by both of her husbands –
Joseph Puro and Howard Pittman – passed away today in Delray Beach
2014(23rd of Tishrei, 5775): Eighty-five-year-old
playwright Herb Shapiro passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2014: In the UK, the Oxford University Jewish
Society chaplains are scheduled to host a festive lunch at their home.
2014: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Ritual
Committee hosts a Pizza dinner prior to the Consecration Ceremony honoring the
newest youngster in the Religious School.
2014: “The US State Department denied claims
today that US Secretary of State John Kerry made statements yesterday
suggesting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fueling the spread of Islamic
terror in the Middle East.” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)
2014: Following yesterday’s congressional
hearings, Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, appears to have become the scapegoat for the current Ebola outbreak
in the United States.
2014: “Fury” a very disappointing movie set in
the last days of WW II starring Shia LaBeou, Logan Lerman, John Bethanal and
Jason Isaacs was released throughout the United States two days after its
premiere in Washington, DC.
2014: An Ebola defense exercise was held early
today with participants including Ben-Gurion International Airport units, the
Health Ministry, MDA, the Interior Ministry Population and Migration Authority
and the Israel Police.
2015: Shabbat Noach
2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host “a women’s tefillah service” this morning designed to provide
“an opportunity for all women from whatever strand of Judaism to come together
and pray together.”
2015: Rabbis and leaders of the Reform,
Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist movements in conjunction with the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations have designated
today as a special Sabbath of Solidarity with Israel.
2015: As a sign of the vitality of “small town
Judaism” in Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah Shabbat morning services are scheduled
to “go on the road this morning” when they are held at Cottage Grove Place for
the convenience of its Jewish residents.
2015: “New York City mayor Bill de Blasio
visited victims of a recent terror wave in Jerusalem today as part of a
“solidarity visit,” saying that pain felt by Jerusalem was also being felt by
his city.”
2015: The Tulane University Jewish Studies is
scheduled to host Dr. Steve Whitfield, the Max Richter Professor of American
Civilization at Brandeis University and the smartest person I ever met at
Tulane as he speaks about “Franz Boas and the Struggle Against Racism.”
2015: “The Decent One” a documentary about
Himmler is schedule to open at Cinema Village in NYC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuqgHir41gk
2016(15th of Tishrei, 5777): Sukkoth
2016: Among the candidates for the short-list of the
“Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for non-fiction are Ben
Judah author of This is London and Phillipe Sands author of East West Street.
2016(15th of Tishrei, 5777): Ninety-two
“celebrity” dentist Irwin Smigel passed away today.
2016(15th of Tishrei, 5777): On the Jewish
calendar 73rd anniversary of the Sobibor Uprising which began in the
early hours of a day when Jews were commanded “to dwell in booths.”
2016: Retired four-star Marine Corps
General James E. “Hoss” Cartwright,” the former vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of staff “pleaded guilty today to a federal felony charge of lying to
the FBI in a probe of a leak of classified information about a covert U.S.
–Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear program.” (As reported by Spencer S.HSU
and Ellen Nakashima)
2016: On the final day of the
Conference of the “US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation” a group whose
leader is opposed to the existence of the state of Israel, attendees are
scheduled to lobby members of Congress.
2017: The Kennan Institute of the
Woodrow Wilson Center hosted “a film screening and conversation with Israeli
documentary directory Boris Maftsir, creator of the Searching for the Unknown
Holocaust film series this afternoon.”
2017: Master Canasta Teacher, Judie
Begoun, from the L'Chaim Center in Deerfield is scheduled to offer tips as part
of “Friends, Fun and Games” sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center.
2017: At the Bard Graduate Center,
Andrea M Berlin is scheduled to present “Jewish Daily Life in the time of Herod
the Great” which is part of the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures.
2017: The American Jewish Historical
Society is scheduled to present Deborah Dash Moore and Ronit Stahl speaking on
“Jewish New York, 1917” part the exploration of “New York Jewry’s myriad
responses to WWI from the viewpoints of military and social urban history”
2017: Walter Isaacson’s biography of
Leonardo da Vinci was published today after which Universal Pictures won “a
bidding war” for the right to bring the book to the movie screen.
2018:
From Milwaukee, to Memphis, to Cedar Rapids friends and family of Laurie
Silber prepare to celebrate the natal day of the Matriarch of a Clan of three
generations whose sense of Yiddishkite is a tribute to example, guidance and
plain old fashioned hard-work.
2018: In Atlanta, GA, the Bremen
Museum is scheduled to host another stop in its “Historic Jewish Atlanta Tours”
with a visit to “historic Oakland Cemetery” whose “Jewish Hill” is the final
resting place of “several members of the Rich family who founded Rich’s
Department Store Dr. Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy that served the first
Coca-Cola; Jacob Elsas, owner of the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mill; as well as
members of the Montag, Selig, Massell, Haas, and Guthman families.”
2018: The YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research is schooled to host “Nudge, Wink in Whitechapel: Secret Histories from
the Lyrics of the Cockney-Yiddish Music Hall at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century” – a lecture by “historian, Yiddishit and performer Vivi Lachs, the
author of Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse,
London 1885 – 1914.
2019(18th of Tishrei,
5780) Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2019: The Center for Jewish History
and the American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host a screening of
“Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People,” “followed by a conversation with
director Oren Rudavsky.”
2019: The Jewish Studies program at
Vanderbilt is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Sefarad” as part of the
Nashville Jewish Film Festival.
2019: The exhibition “Jews, Money,
Myth” is scheduled to come to an end at the Jewish Museum in London.
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/jews-money-myth/
2019: In New York, Theaterlab is
scheduled to present “A Ghost Tale” by Moti Brecher “created in collaboration
with Roni Cohen, a scholar of 16th and 17th century
popular Jewish literature…”
2019: Holocaust survivor Halina
Peabody is scheduled to make the introductory remarks before the screening of
“For Sama” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum>
2019: “Cosmic Diaspora,” “A trio that
combines experimental poetry, jazz and klezmer in an eclectic, improvised
manner that touches on Jewish mysticism, the immigrant experience, ritual and
much more” is scheduled to perform at Malloy Hall in San Francisco.
2019: As part of the Donald and Sue
Pritzker Voices of Conscience Program, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to present “No Surrender: A Father, A Son and an Extraordinary Act of
Heroism” during with Pastor Chris Edmonds described how his father Sgt. Roddie
Edmonds “refused to cooperate with the Nazis and identify the Jewish servicemen
under his command” – an act of heroism that earned him recognition by Yad
Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.
2019: In Atlanta the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host “Music Talk – African Americans, American Jews and American
Popular Music” featuring “pianist and author Ben Sidran” and “composer and
musician Reverend Dwight Andrews.”
2019: In New Orleans, the National
Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to host the Hannah Solomon Award Luncheon.
2019: The Sonoma County JCC’s 24th
annual Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the Bay Area Premier of
“Sustainable Nation” along “with the Israeli humorous short film ‘How to
Swim.’”
2019(18th of Tishrei, 5780): Fourth
Day of Sukkoth
2020(29th of Tishrei,
5781): Parashat Bereshit
2020: In San Francisco, the
Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to re-open “its doors to the public
with reduced capacity and safety protocols.
2020: The Jewish Family and
Children’s Service is scheduled to present, online, an “Inclusive Torah Study”
with Alex Maslow.
2020: The Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish
FilmFest is scheduled to make “Golden Voices” available this evening.
2021: “Elizabeth Diller Is Retelling
Edmund de Waal’s Story — and Her Own” published today describes how Elizabeth Diller is undertaking the design
and execution of the exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan to evoke the
book The Hare With Amber Eyes which traces the fortunes and
fate of the prominent Ephrussi family — Edmund de Waal’s ancestors on his
father’s side.
2021: The Center for Jewish
History is scheduled to present “Confronting Antisemitism: Activating Archives,
Libraries, Museums, and Cultural Institutions in the Fight Against
Antisemitism.”
2022: Urban Adamah,
Kehilla, Chochmat HaLev, Aquarian Minyan and Beyt Tikkun are scheduled to team
up for a “Simchat Torah Bash,” a multi-generational event complete with
services, live klezmer, and half-hour kids service with singalongs, puppets and
dancing.
2022: The San Francisco Athletic Club
is scheduled to host a screening “Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man,” a “2002
drama about Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian who saved more than 5,000 Jews during
the Holocaust plus a ceremony honoring Perlasca with Steve Geiger of Mensch
Foundation and S.F.-based consul generals Sergio Strozzi (Italy), Marco
Sermoneta (Israel).
2022(22nd of Tishrei, 5783): Shmini Atzret, Yizkor ;
in the evening Simchat Torah;
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to
host a visit to its “Main Sanctuary for the publication of Leah Koenig’s new
book Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen, with New York’s
beloved food maven Arthur Schwartz and four-time James Beard award-winning chef
and author Rozanne Gold.”
2023: In New Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to host a
screening of “Guardians” by Ido Glass and Yoav Kleimann.
2023: Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host a YESOD
lecture on The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Kingdoms, with Dr. Elana Stein Hain,
Rosh Beit Midrash and Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
2023: Brigadier General (Res.) Amir Aviv is scheduled
to provide an update on the current war in Israel at 9:00 AM CDT.
2023: As part of the Women on the Move series the
Streicker Center is scheduled to a talk by best-selling novelist Jean Kwok.
2023: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is
scheduled to host a reading via Zoom of Sir Martin Gilbert’s diary of the 1973
October War by Lady Esther Gilbert.
2023: Martin Kaufman is scheduled to deliver a
virtual lecture on “How To Read The Guide For The Perplexed.”
2023: Friends and family, whether near or far are scheduled to celebrate the natal day
of Laurie Silber, an ayshish chyil in the truest sense of the term.
2023: As part of the “Jewish Values and Strategy in
Wartime,” The Tikvah Center is scheduled to host via Zoom a lecture by Mathew
Levitt on “Hamas: Its Origins and Ideology.”
2023: In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to
hold a matinee screening “Simon and Garfunkel, The Concert” a film record of
“the reunion concert which attracts more than 500,000 people to New York’s
Central Park.”
2023: During this emergency, and until quiet is
restored, Beit Agnon will not hold in-person
literary meetings but is scheduled to provide virtual presentations .
2023: Eden Tamir Center has cancelled all concerts
until it is safe to play again.
2023: More Americans are scheduled to be evacuated
from Israel by ship to Cyprus in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks and
the continued firing of ordinance by Hezbollah and Hamas.
2023: “Israel’s wartime Knesset” is scheduled to meet
for a second day.
2023: Based on previously published information, the
number of Israelis those thought to be held hostage by Hamas has increased to
199 which does not include the number of foreign nationals held as hostage by
Hamas.
2024(15th of Tishrei, 5785):
Sukkot; for more see Weekly Torah Reading / Weekly
Torah Portion (downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com)
2024: Moshe Davis is scheduled to host “experts from Israel
who will provide a 30-minute war update and analysis on the current situation
in Israel”
2024: For the friends and family of Laurie Silber, an ayshish chyil in the truest sense of the term today is
a double barreled simcha – Sukkot and the celebration of her natal day.
2024: The Straus Historical Society is scheduled to host
a webinar “"The Strauses in Bloomingdale: the Family, the House, and the Neighborhood"
2024: JWA is scheduled to host the streaming premiere of “Bella!
This Woman’s Place Is In THE HOUSE.”
2024: As October 17th 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 377 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)
