This Day, November 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 8
30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the
way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the
humiliating experience created by his Flavian predecessors.
641: “Jews were permitted to continue to reside in Alexandria by the treaty
that sealed the Arab conquest of Egypt.” Jews had been living in Alexandria
since its founding in 332 BCE
1223: Louis VIII of France declared that the interest on Jews' debts should
no longer hold good. At the same time, he ordered that the capital should be
repaid to the Jews in three years and that the debts due the Jews should be
inscribed and placed under the control of their lords. The lords then collected
the debts for the Jews, doubtless receiving a commission. Louis furthermore
ordered that the special seal for Jewish deeds should be abolished and replaced
by the ordinary one.
1226: Louis IX, whose “attitude toward the Jews was characterized by
implacable enmity” as can be seen such his seizure in 1234 of “one third of the
debts owe to the Jews, failure to protect the Jews from “would-be crusaders” in
1236 and his burning of cartloads of Jewish” began his reign as King of France
today.
1414: Sigismund of Luxemberg, the future Holy Roman Emporer who “drained the
Jews of their wealth whenever he could” was crowned King of Germany today.
1549: A decree bearing today’s date dealt with the trouble caused because
the Jews of Grodno, Russia, would not
allow Rabbi Mordecai to officiate in the synagogue
1576: During the Eighty Years War, leaders of the provinces of the
Netherlands sign the Pacification of Ghent which committed them to a joint
effort to drive the Spanish from their soil.
The Dutch Protestants would prove triumphant and they would create a
haven for Sephardic
1602:
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public. Today “The
Bodleian Library holds what is probably still regarded as the best collection
of Hebrew manuscripts in the world, alongside an extraordinarily rich
collection of early Hebrew and Yiddish printed books. All fields of traditional
Hebrew scholarship are represented in the collection... The earliest manuscript
accessions in Hebrew were received in 1601 and in the first catalogue of the
library (1605) there are 58 books with titles in Hebrew script. They are mostly
of Venetian origin, where Hebrew printing was then in its prime. The Library’s
founder, Thomas Bodley, took a personal interest in them and, at the end of the
catalogue, he added his own corrections in Latin of some misprints in Hebrew.
After Bodley’s death, the Library continued to enrich the Hebrew collections.
In 1692 it purchased the collections of Dr Robert Huntingdon and Professor
Edward Pococke, the Regius Professor of Hebrew. Among the 212 manuscripts in
the Huntingdon collection is the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (1155-1204) with
the author’s signature (MS. Huntingdon 80), attesting that the text had been
corrected against the original. The acquisition in 1817 of the manuscript
collection which had belonged to the Venetian Jesuit, Matteo Luigi Canonici,
represented the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. The
collection contains over 110 valuable Hebrew manuscripts, chiefly on vellum. In
1829 the Bodleian bought the Oppenheimer Library, thought to be the most
important and magnificent Hebraica collection ever accumulated. Rabbi David ben
Abraham Oppenheimer (1664-1736) was the Chief Rabbi of Prague and during his
lifetime he had amassed 780 manuscripts and 4,220 printed books in Hebrew,
Yiddish and Aramaic, many of which are the only surviving copies. Further
significant collections of Hebrew manuscripts were added in 1848 and 1890. In
1848 the Library purchased the library of Heimann Joseph Michael, numbering 862
volumes and nearly 1,300 separate works. The most recent acquisition of Hebrew
manuscripts of major international importance was the purchase of fragments
from the Cairo Genizah, beginning in 1890. A genizah is usually a room attached
to a synagogue used for storing texts which were worn out and had become
unusable; in this case the genizah was in the attic of the Ezra synagogue in
Old Cairo. An enormous number, over 200,000, of fragments in Hebrew,
Judaeo-Arabic and Yiddish were kept there, which are now dispersed in over 25
public and private libraries across the world. Cambridge, with over 150,000 has
the majority of them, while 25,000 are in New York, 10,000 in Manchester and
5,000 each in the British Library and the Bodleian. Although Yiddish became the
spoken language of most Jews in Europe and beyond, historically it had an
inferior status to Hebrew and was chiefly used to address women, children and
males ignorant of Hebrew; significantly, the first book printed in Yiddish
(Cracow, 1534) is a translation of difficult phrases in biblical Hebrew. For
the same reason, early books in Yiddish were badly printed and ephemeral, and
so have survived, if at all, in very few copies. One of the few bibliophiles to
collect these objects systematically was Rabbi David Oppenheimer (see above) so
the Bodleian finds itself with a very important collection of early Yiddish
printed books, in many cases holding the only surviving copy. Later, because of
its proletarian status, Yiddish was the natural choice of language for the
propagation of socialism. The donation in 1981 of the library of the US daily
Yiddish newspaper Morning Freiheit, founded in 1922 by the Jewish section of
the American Communist Party, gave the Bodleian an extensive representation of
the rich Socialist literature of the later nineteenth-century and the first
half of the twentieth.”
1604:
Baptism of Edward Pococke, the Anglican minister who was the chair of Hebrew at
Oxford and whose works included the Porta
Mosis, extracts from the Arabic commentary of Maimonides on the Mishnah
1616:
In Amsterdam an ordinance championed by the States General was implemented that
prohibited Jews from “speaking publicly against the Christian religion or
publishing anything against it, and forbidding them to mar Christians.”
1665(30th
of Cheshvan, 5426): Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno “a distinguished Dutch physician”
and who “in 1650, in conjunction with Jonah Abravanel, published several
liturgical works, among which were a Spanish translation of the Psalms,
entitled "Psalterio de David, en Hebrayco Dicho Thehylim, Transladado con
Toda Fidelidad Verbo de Verbo del Hebrayco," passed away today in
Amsterdam.
1673(9th
of Kislev, 5434): Israel Aron Hamerschlag, the Polish born on of Aron Chanoch
Hamerschlag and Rachel Geizvogel and husband of Esther Samuel Liebmann and Unk
Aaron passed away today in Berlin.
1687:
The reign of Mehmed IV the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during which Safed, the
home to numerous Jewish mystics and sages “was destroyed by Arabs” and the Jews
of Yemen were banished to Mawza Desert came to an end.
1703
(30th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Joseph Samuel of Frankfor, author Mesorat ha¬Shas,
passed away
1735:
In South Carolina, “Mr. Carvallo in Elliot Street advertised for sale ‘a very
good Rhode Island Pacing Horse.’”
1744:
Frederick the Great took Prague in the Wars of Succession, and the populace
ransacked the ghetto. He soon left and the Croats returned. They accused the
Jews of treason and again their quarters were sacked, this time with the help
of Austrian and Hungarian soldiers.
1761:
In Eistenstadt, , Gittlel Eger and Moses Guns gave birth to Akiva Eger, the
Hungarian-born Rabbi and nephew of Rabbi Wolf Eger, whose works include
“Tosafot Rabbi Akiva Eiger” and “Hagahot Rabbi Akiva Eiger” and who married
Brendel Halevy Feibelman after the death of his first wife Glueckchen
Margolies.1785: Birthdate of Isaac Behrends Cohn, the husband of Jette Ballin
who was buried at the Horsens Jewish Cemetery in Denmark after he passed away.
1772:
In New York City, Jacob Aarons and his wife gave birth to Esther Aarons.
1788:
New York native Moses Myers and Eliza Judah gave birth to Abram Myers
1790:
Birthdate of Borgholz, Germany native Lucas Rosenstein, the son of Simon
Rosenstein and the husband of Selka Lebenbaum with whom he had eight children.
1792:
In Hilltown, PA, Mary Vastine and Josiah Lunn gave birth to Joseph Lunn
1801: Élie Halévy’s first poem, "Ha-Shalom", a hymn
composed while negotiations were being conducted at Amiens, was sung in the
synagogue of Paris, in both Hebrew and French.
The treaty would bring a temporary end to the war between the French
Republic and the United Kingdom.
1806: Birthdate of Bohemian “genre and portrait painter Leopold Pollak whose
works included “Shepherdess with Lamb” and “the Shepherd Boy”
1808: In Charleston, SC, this evening, Rabbi Jacob Suares
officiated at the wedding of Israel Solomons to Esther Ottolengui.
1811: Birthdate of Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig, a
member of the famous Itzig family. A
successful architect, he converted to the Lutheran religion. He passed away in 1881.
1811: Birthdate of Samuel Strauss, the husband of Rosalia
Drucker and the father of Arthur Strauss the Conservative MP “who later joined
the Labour Party.”
1815: Lewis Adolphus Hollander married Sally Rachel
Gompertz at the Hambro Synagogue.
1815: Abraham Solomons married Percelia Moses at the
Hambro Synagogue.
1817: In Aldgate, London, Rachel and Judah Elias Piza
gave birth to David Piza, the husband of Hannah Isaacs and father of Rachel,
Rebecca and Judah Piza.
1818: In Hamburg, the lay leaders of the Jewish community
met with the leaders of the Hamburg Temple and asked them to stop using their
new (Reform) prayer book since "it did not agree with the ritual accepted
by all Jewish communities." The Hamburg Temple rejected the request
out of hand. The Hamburg Temple received an unexpected vote of
support in a letter from Lazarus Riesser who praised the innovations in
the prayer-book and labeled the opponents as "sanctimonious hypocrites."
1825(27th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Raphael Ashkenazi, author
of Mareh Einayim, passed away.
1827: “Le Roi et le batelier (The King and the oarsman)
is a one-act opéra comique by Fromental Halévy was first performed today at the
Opéra Comique in Paris.”
1828: In Charleston, SC, Rachel and Elias Levy gave birth
to Charles Ferdinand Levy, the husband of Laura Louise Levy.
1828(2nd of Kislev, 5589): Fifty-six-year-old
Salomon Oppenheim Jr., the founder of Sal. Oppenheim who created his own
banking dynasty through the 12 children he had with wife Therese passed away
today.
1831(3rd of Kislev, 5592): Twenty days before
her 79th birthday, Grace Mendes Seixas, the daughter Lisbon native
Isaac Mendes Seixas and London born Rachel Franks Levy passed away today in New
York City.
1834(6th of Cheshvan, 5596): Parashat Noach
1834(6th of Cheshvan, 5596): Sixty-five year
old merchant Emanuel Judah, the Newport born son of Hillel Judah and husband
Grace Seixas passed away today in Baltimore.
1835(16th of Cheshvan, 5596): Forty-one year
old Abraham Benjamin Nones the Philadelphia born son of Abraham Benjamin Nones
and Miriam Marks de Nones and husband of Maria del Rosario Martinez passed away
today in Maracaibo, Venezuela,
1837: Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female
Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College. According to latest
available published reports there are 100 Jewish students among the school’s
2,300 undergraduates. The Mount Holyoke
Jewish Student Union serves as the campus Hillel. At Mount Holyoke, the Jewish
studies program is interdisciplinary in orientation and scope. The study of
Jewish culture draws on a wide variety of disciplines, including English,
German, gender studies, history, international relations, and religion. As an
interdisciplinary endeavor, Jewish Studies provides students with opportunities
to cross intellectual boundaries and to make connections across diverse
cultural phenomena. Religion and theology, Middle East politics, the history of
Jews throughout the world, literature and languages, the Holocaust,
contemporary American culture, the history and role of women--all these and
more are bound up with the study of the Jewish people, their history and
culture.
1837:
In Charleston, following her marriage today, Caroline Jacobs, the eldest
daughter of Colonel Jacobs became Caroline Lazarus.
1838(20th
of Cheshvan, 5599): Eighty year old author and teacher Peter Beer passed away
at Prague.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beer_Peter
1840:
In London, Baron Lionel de Rothschild) and Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild
(née von Rothschild), gave birth to their eldest son Nathan Mayer Rothschild,
1st Baron Rothschild, known as “Natty”, the husband of Emma Louisa Rothschild
and father of Walter, Evelina and Charles Rothschild.
1841:Joseph
Jonas, the Exeter, UK, born son of Annie and Benjamin Jonas and his wife Martha
Jonas gave birth to Rosetta Moses, the wife of Dr. Montefiore Moses.
1846:
In Wollstein, Germany, Henry Rosnosky and Selda Schmule gave birth to Isaac
Rosnosky, the husband of Henrietta Verdonoer who served multiple terms as a
member of the Boston Common Council and was the “first Jew” be elected to the
Boston City government and the Massachusetts State Legislature while also
serving as President of Temple Ohabei Shalom and District No. 1 of the
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.
1847:
Twenty-five-year-old Baltimore native Phineas Horowitz who had graduated from
the University of Maryland in 1845 with a Doctor of Medicine degree was
appointed Assistant Surgeon.
1852:
“Letting the Cat out of the Budget” published today reported on the efforts of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Benjamin Disraeli, to balance the budget. The author predicts that the Disraeli will
soon move to remove the duty on French wine based on reports that he told his
win merchant that the price of Claret was “too dear…too dear.” The assumption is that the price of Claret is
too high and the only way to reduce it is to cut the tarrif on it. The author also gives Disraeli for always
arriving at his desk early as he pursues his duty indicating that he does not
over imbibe while the House is sitting.
1852:
The first meeting of Harmonie Club, which had been founded by a group of German
Jews including Herman Cohn, Charles Werner and Sigmund Werner who had been
denied admission to the Union Club, was held today “in a rented room on Broome
Street with thirty-nine members in attendance.”
1853(7th
of Cheshvan, 5614): Thirteen-year-old Louisa Ann Sheftall, the Savannah born
daughter of Emanuel and Jane L. Sheftall passed away today.
1853:
In the White Chapel, London, Abigail Moss and Marcus Samuel gave birth to Sir
Marcus Samuel, the Lord Mayor London and founder of the Shell Transport and
Trading Company. (Some sites show November 5 as the birthdate)
1854(17th
of Cheshvan, 5615): Ten days before her 37th birthday, Hannah
Henricks passed away today.
1854:
Over 200 people gathered in the City Assembly Rooms on Broadway tonight to
celebrate the 11th anniversary of the German Benevolent
Society. Joseph Seligman, President of
the Society presided over the event.
Last year’s dinner raised $5,000 of which $4,400 was given to the needy
and $500 was contributed to the Hospital Fund.
This year’s dinner has raised at least $4,000 in contributions.
1855:
The U.S. agreed not to protest against Swiss discrimination against American
Jews. Apparently, it was the price of
completing a trade agreement with the Swiss.
Obviously, America has changed in the way it fights for the rights of
its Jewish citizens.
1855:
The United States ratified a commercial treaty that permitted the Swiss to
discriminate against U.S. citizens who are Jewish.
1857:
In Louisiana, Sarah Block and Charles Henry Jonas gave birth to Joseph B. Jonas
who died in New Orleans just before his thirtieth birthday
1857:
In Marysville, CA, where “a Hebrew benevolent society” had been functioning
since 1852, Congregation B’nai B’rith was organized and by August of 1860 was
serving a Jewish community that included “23 families” and “105 bachelors.
1860:
Two days after he had passed away, 84-year-old Simeon Samson, the husband of
the former Catherine Davis and father of Rosetta Samson, was buried today at
the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1863:
Sara and Isidor Lewin Pinner gave birth to Thelka Pinner.
1864:
Abraham Lincoln was re-elected President of the United States, defeating
Georgia B. McClellan, the unsuccessful Union general.
1864:
On Election Day, August Belmont was not allowed to vote because he was charged
with having bet on the election by an official at the polling place. According to George Templeton Strong, a New
York attorney who witnessed the event, “Belmont went off in a range.” Bystanders, most of whom were Union
sympathizers “chuckled over his discomfiture.”
Belmont, who was born Jewish, had supported Democratic candidates and
was identified with the new class of money-men.
1864:
Philadelphian Lyon Levy Emanuel, the brother of Louis Manly Emanuel and a Major
in Company A of the 82nd Regiment completed his three year
enlistment during the Civil War.
1866:
Twenty-two-year-old Nancy Priscilla Mordecai, “the eldest child of Samuel
Jefferson and Martha Louisa "Tarrant" Mordecai” became Nancy
Priscilla “Nannie” Mordecai Cash today when she married Wesley Sheppard Cash in
her parents Alabama home.
1866:
In Baltimore, MD, Mary Strauss and Henry Hartman gave birth toe Leon Hartman,
the husband of Ellen Greenbaum and founder in Chicago of the Harman Furniture
and Carpet Company was a trustee of the Jewish Charities of Chicago and a
member of Sinai Temple.
1866:
In Manchester, Rose Emily Henriques and Edward M. Henriques, J.P., the London
born son of Rebecca and David Henriques gave birth to Worcester College, Oxford
educated Classical Scholar Henry Straus Quixano Henriques, the husband of
Henrietta Sarah Henriques and father of Edward and Violet Henriques who was
“the Vinerian Law Scholar at Oxford in 1891, Deputy County Court Judge in the
Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset District and active member of the
Jewish community as can by his service as
Warden at the West London Synagogue, Member of the Anglo-Jewish
Association and President of the Tredegar Jewish Literary and Social Society.
1867:
In Chicago, Helen Fellheimer and Nathan Eisendrath gave birth to Johns Hopkins
graduate and Northwestern University-trained surgeon Daniel N. Eisendrath, the
husband of Maude Rosenbaum who was the attending surgeon at three hospitals –
Michael Reese, Chicago Memorial and Cook County.
1868:
In Breslau, Louis Hausdorff and his wife gave birth to German mathematician who
would die a tragic death during the Holocaust.
1870:
In Prague, Ignatz Isak Löwenbein and Antonie Löwenbein gave birth to Julius
Löwenbein who died at Trebline and who was the husband of Julie Lowenbein.
1871:
Mayer Woolfson married Julia Phillips at Farnham, UK.
1874:
Rabbi Rubin officiated at the wedding this evening of Emile Nehimer of Sheldon,
SC and Fannie Rothstein of Providence, R.I.
1876:
David Mathew Levy (Davitchon Effendi) was elected to the Ottoman parliament.
1876:
In Aurora, Illinois, Jacob and Caroline Alschuler gave birth to attorney and
Illinois Court of Claims Judge Benjamin Phillip Alschuler, the husband of
Lillian Alschuler and father of Jacob, Connie, Sam and Dan Alschuler who also was a delegate to the 1932
convention that nominated FDR and a delegate to the state convention that
ratified the 21st amendment ending Prohibition.
1878:
Sixty-three-year-old Hermann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche the anti-Semitic author
who used the pseudonym Sir John Retcliff and provided much of the material that
later was in the infamous “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” passed away
today.
1878:
It was reported today that Sir Henry Drummond Wolff has been named England’s
Consul-General to Romania and Mr. William Gifford Palgrave has been named
England’s Consul-General to Bulgaria.
Both men are the sons of Jewish converts. Sir Henry’s father, Joseph
Wolff was the son of a Rabbi from Wellersbach. Palgrave’s father is Sir Francis
Palgrave who was the son of Meyer Cohen, a London stock broker. The Palgrave
name came from a relative of Sir Francis’ wife.
1879:
An editorial published today that being “events determine little men and great
men determine events” identified the late Rabbi David Einhorn as an example of
the latter. It praised him for becoming a voice for the Reform Judaism when
that movement was in its infancy as well as becoming a spokesman for liberal
ideas including the abolition of slavery.
1879:
In New York, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment met in the Mayor’s office
where it adopted a resolution of pay bills for charitable institutions for the
support of children committed by the Police Magistrates including $646 for the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1879:
It was reported today that Fischl Hirsch has “discovered a very rare Hebrew
book,” a Machzor printed by Abraham Corat in Mantua (Italy) in 1840. The Machzor follows the worship patterns of
the Roman Jewish community. [A resident of Halberstadt, Germany, Hirsch devoted
himself to the collection and sale of Hebrew books and manuscripts. He became a recognized expert in this field
who played a role in the Hebrew book and manuscript collections in the British
Museum, The Bodleian Library and the Rosenthal Library at Amsterdam.]
1879:
In Jassy, Roumania, Moritz and Tillie Burkan gave birth to NYU trained
attorney, Nathan Burkan, a Director of the United Artists Corporation, Tammany
Hall Democrat and member of Temple Beth-El.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650152/
1880(5th
of Kislev, 5641): Aaron Samuel Liebermann died today in Syracuse, NY.
1880:
Two days after he had passed away way, 50 year old John Hart was buried today
at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1881:
Samuel Shrimski completed his term as a Member of the New
Zealand Parliament for Waitaki.
1883:
The 99th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore was observed today at the
Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York City. Today was the 8th
of Cheshvan which was the date on the Hebrew calendar when the Anglo-Jewish
philanthropist was born.
1883: In New York City, the 99th
birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore was observed at the Hebrew Home for the Aged
and Infirmed. As part of the celebration
Rabbi Lavien led the gathering in the “daily service” with special prayers
added in honor of the famed philanthropist.
Rabbi Koehler of Temple Beth-el gave a special address in which he
praised Montefiore’s great generosity.
1883:
In Russia, Jacob and Pauline Barron gave birth to University of Minnesota
physician and WW I Army officer Moses Barron, the husband of Leah Fligelman
whom he married in 1919.
https://journals.lww.com/theendocrinologist/Citation/2009/09000/Moses_Barron__1883_1974.1.aspx
1883:
“Queen Victoria, Albert Edward Prince of Wales, and many hundreds of Sir Moses
Montefiore’s most distinguished fellow citizens sent telegrams of
congratulation” “as he entered his 100th year.”
1883:
As the British celebrate the 99th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore,
there are numerous stories circulating among the English “illustrative of his
great benevolence.” Among them is the tale of how he responded to Edwin
Arnold’s request to help build a hospital for the poor people in Jerusalem.
When asked for money the reply was “What will you have, £50? £500? £5,000? Only name the sum.” The hospital was built
but the hospital was eventually demolished because of a quarrel between the
Greeks and the Turks.
1884:
Congratulatory address from synagogues through the United States and the
British Empire will be presented to Sir Moses Montefiore today on his 100th
birthday, as marked on the Hebrew Calendar.
1885(30th
of Cheshvan, 5646): Just weeks short of his 57th birthday, Albert
Jacob Cardozo passed away. A practicing lawyer, he was a justice of the New
York State Supreme Court, a leader of Congregation Shearith Israel and the
father of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.
1885:
In New York City, funeral services are scheduled to take place for Jonas
Strauss, who was a partner and brother of Levi Strauss, the man who gave us
“Levis.”
1886:
It was reported today that The Modern Jew – His Present and Future by Anna
Laurens Dawes is now available for purchase at a cost of $.50. (Dawes was the
daughter of a Republican political leader who served as U.S. Senator from
Massachusetts. I cannot find out why
this prolific author chose this particular topic for a book.)
1886:
Philip Zalig Phillips, the son of Joseph Phillips and Charlotte Mozely, was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1887:
The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society will host a benefit at the Terrace
Garden under the guidance of Miss Ray Leszynsky, Secretary of the Board of
Managers.
1887:
A benefit performance for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society for Children
is scheduled to take place this evening by the Thalia Theatre Company at the
Lexington Avenue Opera House in New York City.
1888:
An auction is scheduled to be held this evening for seats at the new school
that is being opened by Zichron Osher in New York City.
1889: Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
In Montana, from the last decade of the 19th century through WW I
the leading female occupation after housewife was ‘fancy lady or madam.’ In
Butte Ida Lev operated on of the leading houses in the red light district. A Jewish hooker demonstrated her ethnic pride
by taking the professional name of Jew Jess.
She must have been well connected since she was often arrested but
rarely convicted. And you thought it was
all about peddlers turned mercantile merchants.
1889:
Joseph Kemp Toole who would lay the cornerstone for Helena’s Temple Emanu-El in
1890, began serving as Montana’s first elected governor
1890:
In Philadelphia, PA, Judge Hare heard a case in which Morris Stein a young Jew
from Camden was trying to re-unite with his wife Annie Stein whose Roman
Catholic family was trying to invalidate the marriage.
1890:
In the United Kingdom, Rachel Gluck and Maurice Baum gave birth to Philip Baum
who died at the age of 4 months.
1891:
In New York, The Hebrew Institute’s new building which is located at the corner
of Jefferson and East Broadway was dedicated today. The building will house The Young Men’s
Hebrew Association, The Hebrew Free School Association and the Aguillar Free
Library. All three of these
organizations share in the common goal of Americanizing the growing number of
Jewish immigrants arriving in New York City.
1892:
Republican William Warner, who lost the Jewish vote due to the anti-Semitism of
State Committeeman Blake, was defeated by William J. Stone in his bid to become
Governor of Missouri.
1892: Grover Cleveland was elected President for the
second time. Cleveland is the only
two-term President to have his terms separated by the election of another
President. This split always causes
confusion in counting American Presidents.
During his second term in office, Cleveland vetoed an immigration bill
that contained a literacy test. The bill
was aimed at keeping immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe out of the
United States. Its enactment was opposed
by many Jewish leaders because it would have trapped the Jews of such places as
Czarist Russia in their increasingly anti-Semitic homelands.
1892:
“Emil Jeremias Abraham,” the son of “Jehuda Leib Abraham” and “Katalin Bohm”
married “Fannie Belf”, the daughter of Jakob Moses Belf today in Budapest.
1892:
In Hungary, Ignatius and Charlotte Link Friedmann gave birth to leading
psychoanalyst Therese Benedick, wife of “dermatologist” Tibor Benedick
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/benedek-therese
1893:
The Abbey Theatre which would be acquired by Theatrical Syndicate headed by
Charles Frohman in 1896, opened today.
1893(29th
of Cheshvan, 5654): Sixty-five-year-old “19th-century French pianist, organist,
music teacher and composer” passed away today in Paris.
1894:
A report published today claimed that Jacob A. Cantor had lost his bid to
represent New York’s 15th Congressional District because of a rumor
that he was engaged to be married to a professional dance, Loie Fuller. When Cantor, whose wife passed away in 1891,
did not respond to the rumor the women in the district banded together to gain
support for the Republican Philip G. Low. (One has to wonder at the nature of
the smear since Fuller was not Jewish and Cantor depended on Jewish votes for
his election. Cantor would remarry and
would be elected to Congress in the next decade)
1894:
In New York, The Hebrew Institute is scheduled to host a lecture on
Switzerland.
1896:
Birthdate of Samuel Adelberg, one of the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis,
who found refuge in Belgium and survived WW II.
1896:
Three days after he had passed away, 74 year old Charles Levy, the husband of
Louisa Levy with whom he had eight children,, was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1896:
Herzl accepted the invitation of the "Austrian Union of Israelites",
a middle class anti-Zionist organization. His speech is well received.
1897:
“Twenty-one families of Russian Jews left San Francisco for the Wymore Ranch
near Dayton, Nevada to begin working the land for which they had made down
payment of $14,000.
1897:
The House Committee of the Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum met this afternoon.
1897:
In Paris, “a man named Dreyfus who is believed to be a cousin of Captain
Dreyfus, the deported artillery officer imprisoned on an island off the coast
of French Guiana; his wife, formerly Rebecca Fortado Abraham, an American their
three daughters” aged 13, 11 and 7 “were found dead this morning at their
residence on the Avenue Marceau.” (As tragic as this entry is, it is
interesting to note how they describe the man who was at the center of one of
the major scandals in pre-War France.)
1897:
The two thousand people were reported today to have attended the New York
Hebrew Mutual Benefit Association banquet included toastmaster Abraham Levy
Judge John Henry McCarthy, Judge Joseph E. Newburger, Judge H.M. Goldfolge,
Julius Harburger and John McIntyre.
1897:
“In Memory of Lewis May” published described the memorial service held at
Temple Emanu-El for the distinguished Jewish leader who passed away
unexpectedly in July.
1898:
College of Charleston, SC and Columbia College alum Montague Triest, the
Charleston born son of Hannah Reichman and Maier Triest, who would later serve
as President of the Hebrew Orphan Society of Charles and the President of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society of Charleston married Addie Israel the daughter of
Morris Israel today in a ceremony conducted by Rabbi B.A. Elzas.
https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1910/montague-triest-melvin-m-israel/
1898:
Second Precinct leader Patrick Divver told Tammany Leader Richard Croker that
the reason he was having trouble getting enough voters to turn out today was
because “the Hebrew vote was lacking” to which Croker, who relied on Jewish
voters as part of his base of support, replied that “if the Hebrews were not in
the Democratic ranks” he should have been told about it two weeks ago when it
could have done some good.
1900:
In Adelaide, Australia, “George Solomon Lewis, an accountant from England, and
his South Australian-born wife Ré Lewis, née Isaacs, an elocution teacher” gave
birth to Sir Aubrey Julian Lewis “the first Professor of Psychiatry at the
Institute of Psychiatry in London and a driving force behind elevating the
level of the profession in the Post WW II world.
1901:
Dinah Cassell, the daughter of Solomon Nathan and Hannah Abrahams and the wife
of Bennett Cassell was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1902(8th
of Cheshvan, 5663): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1902:
“Pictures of the Holy Land” published today provides a review of The Holy Land
by John Kelman which is “an account of his travels in Palestine” that “is of
unusual value” because it is full of first-hand information regarding the
country” and the writings are augment by the watercolor paintings of John
Fulleylove.
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-land-John-Kelman/dp/B0008717GG
1903:
In Scranton, PA, “Mr. Louis Lipsky, chairman of the organization committee of
the F.A.Z” was among those who addressed a “mass meeting” sponsored “by the
Zionist Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
1903:
Birthdate of NYC native and Columbia trained dentist and oral surgeon Manuel
Monash Maslansky,
1904: President Theodore Roosevelt defeated defeats
Alton B Parker. TR had become President
when McKinley had been assassinated.
This was his chance to gain office on his own. Theodore
Roosevelt
was the first President to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he
named Oscar S. Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was
also the first President to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In
1919, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to
settle the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt donated some of his prize money to the
National Jewish Welfare Board.
1905:
U.S. Ambassador White of Morocco wrote a letter describing the treatment of the
local Jews. He stated, "Concurrent testimony positively affirms the
intolerance of the Mohammedan rule in that country toward non-Musselmans. Jews,
especially, appear to suffer from painful and injurious restrictions."
1905:
“The Jewish Defense Association met” tonight “ in the assembly hall of the
Educational Alliance and decided to turn over to Mr. Schiff the funds raised
under its auspices for the relief of the Jewish suffers in Russia and those who
befriended the Jews” so he would see to it that they were used accordingly.
1905:
A letter written from Odessa, Russia concluded “by saying that the distress is
alarming” since “people are dying from starvation and exposure” while “many
prosperous Jewish merchants are reduced to beggary.”
1905:
The Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Mail says that “the towns of Urbat and
Calarisz have been burned and all the Jews perished in the flames.”
1905:
“To insure united action in giving financial aid to the victims of the outrages
in Russia, a call to the Jewish people of America was issued in Chicago tonight
by Adolph Kraus, President of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith who has
been in telegraphic correspondence with the leaders of all the Jewish
organizations in the United States and was authorized to sign the call on
behalf of each organization.”
1906:
Birthdate of Nettie Konigsberg, the mother of Allan Stewart Konigsberg, better
known as Woody Allen
1907:
In New York, Max Abrahams and Fannie Danovitch gave birth to Dr. Elias “Ely”
Abrahams, a dentist who practiced in New York but lived in Brooklyn and was
“the husband of the former Violet Dreishpoon and father of Paul Abrahams.
1908:
“Henry C. Miner, proprietor of Miner’s Bowery Theatre and Miner’s Eighth Avenue
Theatre, has joined hands with Boris and Max Thomashefsky to establish a series
of theaters over the country in which only Yiddish plays will be presented.”
1908:
Today, at the second annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee at the
Hotel Astor, Judge Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia was re-elected President
and “action was taken favoring the creation of a united Jewish community of New
York.”
1908:
Jacob Schiff and Rabbi Joseph Silverman were among those who gave speeches at
memorial service today for the Percival S. Menken, the President of the YMHA
who died last May.
1909(24th
of Cheshvan, 5670): Naftali Freidberg passed away today.
1909(24th
of Cheshvan, 5670): Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen, Baronet a British businessman and
Conservative politician passed away after a long illness at his home in Hyde
Park Gardens, London, at the age of 64. “He was the son of Louis Cohen, a
stockbroker, and his wife Rebecca Keyser. After a private education, he entered
his father's firm. Apart from his business activities he was involved in public
and political works and in supporting Jewish charities. In particular he served
on the committees of the Stepney Jewish Schools, the Jews' Orphan Asylum and
the Home for Aged Jews.mIn 1887 his brother, Lionel Louis Cohen, president of
the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor, died. Benjamin
succeeded him in the post, holding the office until 1900. During his term he
was very successful in raising large sums of money for the charity. He also
altered the board's constitution, allowing women to be members. In the 1880s he
was involved in the resettlement of Russian Jews, and supported proto-Zionist groups
seeking to settle in Palestine. In 1889
he was elected as one of the members of the first London County Council,
representing the City of London for the Conservative-supported Moderate Party.
He retained the seat until 1904. His brothers, Alfred and Nathaniel, were also
members of the council. At the 1892 general election he was elected to the
Commons as Unionist Member of Parliament for Islington East. He held the seat
for eleven years, until he was defeated in the Liberal landslide of 1906. In
1905 he was created a baronet "of Highfield in the parish of Shoreham and
county of Kent"
1910:
It was reported today “Hebrew businessman, religious leaders and
philanthropists” expressed their indignation by the Hearst newspapers that
“indorsement of John A Dix by members of the Union League Club” means he must
have “anti-Semitic sympathies since the Hearst newspapers have charged that
there anti-Semitic Sympathizers in the Union League.”
1910(6th
of Cheshvan, 5671): Charles Henry Jonas, the Kentucky born son of Louisa Block
and Abraham Jonas, the husband of Sarah de pass Block and the father of Louise,
Joseph, Charles and Isabelle Jonas, passed away today in New Orleans.
1911:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Yair Sprinzak who served in the Knesset from 1988
to 1992.
1911:
Lord Rothschild celebrated his 71st birthday.
1912:
Birthdate of Opeln, Germany native Kurt Kassell who gained fame as Curtis
Cassell, a rabbi who served in Germany, the United Kingdom and Rhodesia and who
had fled Nazi Germany to live in England where he served in the Royal Pioneer
Corps.
1912:
“Jack A. Dryfoos, a wealthy hosiery manufacturer who was also the treasurer of
a paper novelty manufacturing company” and his wife gave birth to Orville Eugen
Dryfoos the husband of “Marian Sulzberger and the publisher of The New York Times from 1961 until he
passed away in 1963.
1913: The Arab newspaper Falastin (Palestine)
printed a poem by Sheikh Suleiman al-Taji, a founder of the Jaffa based Ottoman
Patriotic Party entitled "The Zionist Danger." Falstin,
an anti-Zionist newspaper, was first published in 1911.
1913: Birthdate of New York native Robert Strauss whose
most memorable performance may have been as “Animal” in the POW classic “Stalag
17”
1913: Birthdate of New York native Max Desfor, the son of
Jewish immigrants who went on to become a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer.
1914: In Ohio, Olga Landesco and Alexander A. Landesco,
the Romanian born graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, founder
of Mohawk State Bank of Ohio and longtime employee of Lazard Feres and Company
gave birth to their older son, Alexander A. Landesco, Jr.
1914: Thirty-five-year-old George Zepin, the Kiev born
son of Otto and Hannah (Matzov) Zepin and HUC trained rabbi who served Director
of Synagogue and School Extension and Secretary of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations married Laura Lehman today in Cincinnati, OH.
1915: “3,000,000 Jews Ruined” published today quoted
Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, the president of the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis
as saying there are three million Jews in Poland “who have been economically
ruined while the number of Jewish casualties in that section of the war zone
can be placed at about 100,000.”
1915: It was reported today that more money was raised
for the 600 victims of the Kishinev Pogroms than have been raised to help the
suffering Jews in Eastern Europe.
1915: Louis D. Brandeis addressed the members of the
Crotona Lodge of the Independent Order of the B’rith Abraham…on Zionism and the
condition of the Jews today in the warring countries” where “he said that
7,000,000 Jews in Europe were homeless and starving and that after the war the
Jews would be even worse off than the Belgians.”
1916: The “Warheit” a Jewish newspaper, said today “that
the Jewish vote had been five to one for President Wilson and that “the best
indication that the Jewish vote went for the President was contained in the
returns from the Twelfth Congressional District where the proportion of Jewish
voters is to be the heaviest.”
1917:In the wake of the Bolshevik revolt against the
Kerensky government, Herman Bernstein, the Jewish newspaper who had been in
Petrograd during the riots last July said “he was confident that Trotsky was
only the agent of Lenin” who had been “directed the revolt from hiding” and
that they “can’t win because Lenin and Trotsky are both extremely unpopular.”
1917:
The British bombed the German air field at El-tine destroying 11 planes on the
ground and frightening the Turkish garrison in to fleeing.
1917:
As the British “Egyptian Expeditionary Force” continued its southern offensive
in the Sinai and Palestine, The Desert Mounted Corps, the Australian Mounted
Division and the 5th Mounted Brigade capture a series of “water
holes” as they pursued the retreating Ottoman forces.
1917:
As of this evening “all of the Ottoman positions of the Gaza to Beersheba line
had been captured the Ottoman 8th Army was in full retreat.”
1917:
On the second day of the Russian Revolution which would have such a great
impact on the Jews the Second Congress of Soviets “elected a Council of
People's Commissars with Lenin as leader as the basis of a new Soviet
Government” and began arresting members of opposition parties.
1918:
As WW I staggered to an end German authorities left Warsaw opening the way for
the creation of a truly independent Poland – which would prove to be a blessing
and then a curse for millions of Jews.
1918:
In Germany, Jewish political leader Kurt Eisner led his followers in a peaceful
takeover of the Bavarian Diet.
1918(4th
of Kislev, 5679): Second Lieutenant Thomas Maurice Cummins of Johannesburg
passed away today.
1918(4th
of Kislev, 5679): Lieutenant Sonneberg of South Africa passed away today.
1918:
In San Francisco, Roland Schiller, “a clothing manufacturer” and the former
Lucille Bloch gave birth to Emmy award winning writer Robert Achille Schiller
who wrote for radio and television in the “golden age” of both entertainment
mediums.
1919(15th
of Cheshvan, 5680): Parashat Vayera
1919(15th
of Cheshvan, 5680): Russian born Solomon Kruger, the son of Yosef Mordechai
Kruger and the husband of Gittel Kruger with whom he had three children –
Phillip, Hannah, and Harry – who in 1904 came to the United States where he
served as an Orthodox Rabbi in Baltimore, passed away today.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-yekusiel-zev-kruger/
1919:
“According to an open letter to the allied nations, signed by Polish leaders,
which was made public yesterday” it is asserted that reports of a Jewish pogrom
after the liberation of Vilna in which 2,000 Jews were killed” was an invention
of the German press and that “an American correspondent” has been quoted as
saying the reports were “baseless “ and that the 34 Jews killed Lemberg had
been “shooting at the Polish troops.
1920:
The seventh annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of the United States
and Canada is scheduled to open in Baltimore today.
1920:
The second day of the Triennial Convention of the Jewish Women “will be largely
devoted to the regular business of the convention.
1920(27th
of Cheshvan, 5681): Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, the Russian Jewish playwright and
author who used the pseudonym S. Ansky passed away today.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/Ansky/
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Rapoport_Shloyme_Zaynvl
1921:
Beatrix (née Lewkowitz) and Morris J. Saks gave birth to Director Gene Saks
whose credits include Cactus Flower, Bye Bye Birdie and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
1921:
In the aftermath of WW I ratifications were exchanged today in Vienna of the
U.S. – Austrian Peace Treaty which had been made necessary by the Senate’s
rejection of the treaties that had negotiated in 1919 to end the war.
1921:
In New York, Cracow native Max Mirish and the former Josephine Urbach gave
birth to Oscar winning producer Walter Mortimer Mirisch who was responsible for
bringing such classics as The Great Escape, In the Heat of the Night and The
Magnificent Seven to the Big Screen.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-mirisch17-2008jun17-story.html
1922:
Dr. Arthur Ruppin, said to be the foremost authority on the economic situation
in Palestine, declared tonight at the Hotel Astor in his first address to
American Zionists that Palestine now offers sound investments with
opportunities for profit - capital is safe there and investors are assured of
good returns.
1923:
Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in
Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch. Hitler would be imprisoned for this failed
attempt at revolution. While he was in
prison, where he was treated like a celebrity, he wrote Mein Kampf.
1924:
Birthdate of Chicago born attorney and U.S. Army Air Force veteran Sidney
Irving Lezak who served as the U.S. Attorney for Oregon from 1961 to 1982/
1925(21st
of Cheshvan, 5686): Sixty-two-year-old Prague native Rosa Volk, the daughter of
Leopold and Sofie Sara Pick, the “wife of Alexander Volk” and “the mother of
Margarete Volk” passed away today in Vienna.
1926:
“Oh, Kay! a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin,
premiered today at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway where it “ran for 256
performances.
1926:
Featherweight Harry Blitman fought and won his sixth straight bout.
1927:
In Manhattan, Mitzi (née Epstein) and Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., the founder
of Advance Publications gave birth to Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse
Jr who along with his brother managed and grew the publication empire created
by his father.
1927:
In Budapest, Katharina Adler Munk and Lajos "Louis" Munk gave birth
to Peter Munk one of those who escaped aboard the “Kastner Train” who founded
Barrick Gold, “the world’s largest gold-mining company.” (As reported by Ian Austen)
1928:
Pinky Silverberg lost to “Kid Chocolate” a future Featherweight Champion in ten
round bout at New York’s St. Nicholas Arena.
1928:
Birthdate of Detroit native Natalie Zemon Davis the holder of PhD from the
University of Michigan who overcame the Red Scare in the United States to
become an award winning historian and “Adjunct Professor of History and
Anthropology and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.”
1928:
Birthdate of Edward René David “widely known as Teddy
Goldsmith, an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher.”
1929:
With the removal of the curfew, residents of Jerusalem are free to move about
the city at night for the first time in three months. The curfew had been put in place in response
to a wave of Arab violence that had begun in August and included attacks on the
ancient Jewish communities at Hebren and Safed.
1929:
The British Commission of Inquiry canceled its hearings scheduled to be held in
Jerusalem today and instead took an auto trip to Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
1929:
Birthdate of Bertrand “Bert” Russell Berns the native New Yorker who was a
prominent songwriter and record producer.
1930(17th
of Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Vayer
1930:
“The White Horse Inn” an operetta based on a comedy by Oscar Blumenthal that
was created by Ralph Benatzky who was not Jewish but who had two Jewish wives,
premiered today in Berlin.
1931:
In Toronto, Ontario, two Jews from Austria, “Anna (née Cohn) and Max Safer, an
upholsterer” gave birth to popular, long time CBS correspondent Morley Safer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/business/media/morley-safer-dies.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-morley-safer-dies-at-84/
1931:
“A Lady’s Morals,” a Jenny Lind based biopic produced by Irving Thalberg was
released today in the United States.
1931:
Winston Churchill published an article in the Sunday Chronicle about Moses that reflected his fascination with
Jewish history and the concept that Jews’ monotheism and ethics were a central
factor in the evolution and maintenance of modern civilization.
1932:
U.S. premiere of Kameradschaft, a film about German miners rescuing French miners
co-starring Alexander Granach.
1932: New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated
incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.
Roosevelt’s New Deal would prove a boon and tonic for large segments of
the American Jewish Community. His
election and his New Deal prevented the rise of fascism and communism in the
United States, neither of which would have been good for the Jews.
1932:
Herbert Lehman was elected governor of New York.
1932:
Socialist Candidate Morris Hillquit placed third in the New York City mayoral
election.
1932:
As teachers continued their protest in an attempt to secure back pay, the
Mizrachi organization approved the resignation of Hechsel Farbstein from the
Jewish Agency Executive at a “stormy meeting” this evening. “Mr. Farbstein was joined in his resignation
by Emanuel Neumann of New York.” Both
were protesting against budget cuts.
1933:
“Dr. Leo Baeck of Berlin and Dr. Julius Brodnitz, the leader of the Central
Union of German Citizens of the Jewish faith delivered the eulogies” today at
the funeral “of Dr. Ludwig Tietz the noted surgeon and leader of the Jewish
Youth Association” which was attended by “hundreds of prominent German Jews and
delegates from all of the German provinces.”
1933:
Captain Georg Schmitt, who arrived in the United States on November 6 with
authority from Berlin to perfect the organization of the German Stahlhelm in
this country and to coordinate it with other Nazi bodies in support of the New
Germany, was subpoenaed today by George Z. Medalie, United States Attorney.”
1934:
At Weissensee, near Berlin, “Hundreds of prominent German Jews and delegates
from all the German provinces attended the funeral today of Dr. Ludwig Tietz,
noted surgeon and leader of the Jewish Youth Association of Berman.
1934:
In France, Georges Mandel began serving as Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and
Telephones.
1935:
American labor leaders formed the
1935:
“Mutiny on the Bounty” produced by Irving Thalberg with music by Walter Jurmann
was released in the United States today by MGM.
1935:
Birthdate of Kalisch, Poland native and death camp survivor Acting Sgt. “Issy
Rondell” who joined the British Army and served with a “special airborne unit
during the Korean War
1936:
The Maccabees, the champion soccer team from Palestine, plays the final contest
of their U.S. tour today at Yankee Stadium.
The game is the 11th contest of the tour which has left the
Jewish team with a record of 6, 2 and 2.
1936(23rd
of Cheshvan, 5697): Fifty-one year old Isidore Pinckowitz, the Romanian born
butcher who parlayed selling hot dogs into the creation the iconic Kosher
Company, Hebrew National passed away today after which he was interred at Mount
Hebron Cemetery.
1936:
Harry Roy (born Harry Lipman) and his orchestra recorded Al Jolson’s “Avalon.”
1936:
Two hundred thousand people are expected today’s “congress” of “the Jorga-Cuza
anti-Semitic groups in Bucharest for which the government reportedly issued
free railway tickets to bring supporters to the city.
1936:
“About 200,000 persons, mostly peasants, were brought” to Bucharest “today by
special trains with the government's approval, to take part in an anti-Semitic
and pro-Fascist demonstration arranged by the National Christian party, which
is an amalgamation of the Fascist and anti-Semitic groups of Octavian Goga and
A.C. Cuza.”
1936:
Harry “Newman lateraled for both of Brooklyn's touchdowns and kicked both extra
points in a 15–14 loss to the Cleveland Rams.”
1936:
In address at a dinner marking the “opening of the 20th annual
campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies,
Governor Lehman said that in his “opinion nothing could be more unsound or
dangerous than the belief” that government through social security or relief
activities could ever take the place of private welfare agencies.”
1936
“The celebration of the anniversary of Hitler’s beer-hall putsch was opened
tonight with a reunion of the ‘Old Guard’ in the historic Buergerbraeukeller”
and speech by the Chancellor that included at least two attack lines on the
Jews.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that a new wave of anti-Jewish excesses was
reported from various parts of Poland. In Vilna Jewish students were beaten by
their gentile colleagues.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that
after a heated debate, the Hadassah Convention in Atlantic City adopted a
resolution demanding that the Zionist Executive should negotiate with the
British government to affect a constructive policy for the complete
implementation of the Palestinian Mandate over an undivided Palestine. Many
Zionists and supporters of Israel were opposed to the partition of
Palestine. As far as they were
concerned, the British had already partitioned Palestine when it created the
nation of Trans-Jordan from the Mandatory land.
Since the Arabs had this state, these Jews felt that the British should
honor the spirit of the Balfour Declaration leave those living in the Yishuv
with the rest.
1937:
The Eternal Jew' exhibition opened in Nuremberg. It portrayed the Jew as the leaders of
international Bolshevism, dedicated to destroying Germany
1938:
In Great Britain, the Woodhead Report which opposed the creation of independent
Jewish and Arab states in Palestine was submitted to Parliament
1938:
Georg Elsner’s attempt to kill Hitler today, which is the subject of the movie
“13 minutes” failed.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/this-man-almost-killed-hitler-an-incredible-true-story/
1938:
Doctors struggled to save the life of Ernst von Rath, the junior level German
embassy official who was under Gestapo investigation for pro Jewish activity
when he was shot yesterday by Herschel Grynszpan
1938:
Wilfred Israel called on the British Embassy in Berlin in an attempt to
repudiate Hirsch Grynszpan's actions.
1938:
Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois, suffered a major health setback while
listening to the election results at the Congress Hotel in Chicago.
1939:
“Life With Father” the comedy produced by Oscar Serlin which became “the
longest-running non-musical play on Broadway” opened at the Empire Theatre
today.
1939:
Maurice Duplessis who as Premier of the Province of Quebec issued the warrant
which empowered the provincial police to raid “the cultural section of the
Canadian Labor Circle, a Jewish fraternal organization” during which they
removed “eight hundred books of the 950 volume library maintained by Jewish
cultural circle” completed his service as the 16th Premier of
Quebec.
1939(26th
of Cheshvan, 5700): Sixty-year-old Chicago born and Rush Medical College
trained physician and professor of laryngology and otology at Rush Medical
College from 1924 to1939 Robert Sonnenschein passed away today.
1939:
“Two months after Germany invaded Poland, Georg Elser, a young Bavarian
carpenter” who had become “convinced that the top Nazi leadership had to be
eliminated to end the war” placed a bomb behind a lectern in a beer hall where
Hitler was scheduled to speak. Hitler escaped injury because he left the hall
early but seven others were killed. For more see the film “Elser: 13 Minutes.”
1940(7th
of Cheshvan, 5701): Sixty-two year old CCNY trained investment banker Arthur
Mathew Lamport, the Franklin Falls, NY born son of Nathan and Sarah Goldenheim
Lamport and unofficial economics advisor to President Roosevelt who was
national treasurer of the United Palestine Appeal, co-treasurer of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs and the husband of “the former
Sadie Payson” with whom he had three children – Harold, Helen and Natalie –
passed away today.
1940:
“The Mark of Zerro” which “was nominated for an Academy Award for Best original
score” thanks to composer Alfred Newman was released today in the United
States.
1941: A Jewish ghetto at Lvov, Ukraine, was
established today.
1941:
In Manhattan, attorney Jacob Goldsmith and his wife, grade school teacher
Dorothy Markowitz gave birth to Susan Jane Goldsmith who gained fame as
political scientist Susan Tolchin
1942: The Jews from Drancy, France, arrive by
train at Auschwitz, where 227 are assigned to forced labor and 773 are gassed.
1942: During World War II, Allied Operation
Torch landings took place on the Algerian coast and incidentally ensure the
safety of 117,000 Algerian Jews. Algerian-Jewish resistance armed by the United
States, helped limit the impact of the Vichy French response to the Allied
landings.
1942: Lt. Commander Arthur M. Erhsler served “as
pilot of plane in Escort Scouting Squadron Twenty-Nine attached to the U.S.S.
Santee when the “assault on the occupation of French Morocco” began today.
1942: Columbia “signed Zoltan Korda, brother of
Alexander Korda, and director of his United Artists productions, "The Four
Feathers," "Drums," "The Thief of Bagdad" and
"The Jungle Book," to direct a newly scheduled Melvyn Douglas
vehicle, "Sahara," which will deal with the present Libyan campaign
by the United Nations against General Rommel.”
1942: José Aboulker “led the occupation of the main
strategic points in Algiers by 377 members of the Resistance (315 of them were
Jewish), seizing the central police station, with his deputy Bernard Karsenty
and the help of Guy Calvet and Superintendent Achiary.”
1942: In Tripoli, Libya, German occupiers pressed 2600 Jews
into forced labor to build military roads.
1943:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Boaz Davison, the Israeli “director, producer and
screenwriter” who learned the basics of his craft t the London Film School.
1944: The Stern Gang assassinates Lord Walter
Moyne, Britain's minister of state in the Middle East. The Stern Gang was named
for its founder Avraham Stern. The Stern
Gang was in 1940 by former members of the Irgun. They were opposed to the Irgun’s decision to
join with the Haganah which meant setting aside the fight with the British to
fight the Nazis. Stern was killed by British security forces. The Stern Gang
negotiated with the Nazis offering to work with the Germans in a fight against
the British if the Nazis would support the creation of a Jewish state. But they assassinated Lord Moyne, Britain’s
leading official in Egypt because of his association with anti-Semitic Arab
groups. The Stern Gang was branded as
terrorists by the Yishuv. On the other
hand, Yitzchak Shamir, a member of the Stern Gang would follow Begin as Prime
Minister in Israel.
1944 Germans initiate a death march of Jews from Budapest
to the Austrian border. Raoul Wallenberg's intervention saved thousands of Jews
but thousands more continue the trek that would lead to Auschwitz.
1944 John W. Pehle, head of the War Refugee Board who has
delayed for months a request that Auschwitz be bombed, changed his mind. He
argued that bombing would destroy the gas chambers as well as German factories
and soldiers in the area, encourage resistance, and free prisoners. Assistant
Secretary of War John J. McCloy rejected Pehle's reasoning, erroneously arguing
that bombing Auschwitz will hinder the war effort.
1944:
Nazi collaborator Karoly (Charles) Zentai murdered a Jewish teenager named
Peter Balazs in Budapest. Zentai served in a unit of the Hungarian army that
was active in hunts for Jews in Budapest in the fall of 1944 when the fascist
Arrow Cross came to power. Balazs was murdered because Zentai caught him riding
on a streetcar in Budapest without the required yellow star sewn on his coat.
Balazs and Karoly grew up in the suburb of Budafolk, so Zanti knew that the
teenager was Jewish and violating Nazi law.
1944:
The U.S.N. Drum (SS-228) a submarine under skippered by Commander Maurice H
Rindskopf completed its 11th war patrol which was spent “In enemy
controlled water of the Luzon Straits in the Philippines.” Rindskopf, who rose to the rank of Rear
Admiral, was awarded the Navy Cross for his gallantry shown during the dangerous
mission during which he sunk 20,000 tons of enemy shipping.
1945:
General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham is appointed high commissioner for Palestine
and Transjordan.
1945:
Dr. Izzat George Tannous, head of Arab Office in London, says Truman
recommendation for Jewish immigration to Palestine was made without consulting
Arabs and denounces Zionism.
1946: “The Hebrew Committee of National Liberation a group of
non-Zionist Palestinian Jews requested Premier-President Georges Bidault today
to instruct the French delegation to the United Nations General Assembly to
support a move to place the Palestine question on the Assembly agenda.”
1947: The University of Michigan, led by Dan Dworsky who played
“linebacker, fullback and center” defeated the University of Indiana for their
seventh straight win of the season
1947:
According to eyewitness reports The Pan Crescent and the Pan York which are
carrying a total of 12,000 emigrants are preparing to sailing from Turkey to
Palestine in what would be the “largest unauthorized transports of Jewish
refugees to Palestine.
1948:
It was announced today that “Jack Benny has accepted new contract terms
proposed by the National Broadcasting Company, with the result that he will
continue to be heard on the NBC network at 7 P.M. Sundays. The network
submitted the proposals after the Columbia Broadcasting System sought to induce
the comedian to shift the base of his activities to the CBS network on
Sundays.”
1948: Following the first census by the government
of Israel, the Jewish homeland was found to contain 712,000 Jews and 68,000
Arabs.
1949:
Beginning of Operation Magic Carpet, which
was one of the great moments of modern Jewish history. At the moment of its birth, Israel
immediately established itself as haven for Jews throughout the world. Operation Magic Carpet was the name
given to the Israeli Airlift that flew 60,000 Jews from Yemen to Israel. Golda Meir, who would eventually become Prime
Minister of Israel, would go out to the airport and greet Israel’s newest
citizens. She said she marveled at their
courage and endurance. She asked one
elderly chap if he had ever seen an airplane before. He told her had not. She asked him if was afraid. He said he was not afraid. After all, this had all been foretold in the
Book of Isaiah. “They shall mount up on wings of eagles.” And then he stood there and recited the
entire passage from Chapter Forty of the Book of Isaiah. Part of this is found in this week’s
haftarah, “But they that wait upon the Lord she all renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles…” If
you can ever read this haftarah again without getting a lump in your throat,
you are a better person than I am.
1949:
The New York Herald Tribune revealed
that tens of thousands of Jews had been moved dramatically from Yemen to the
then British colony of Aden and were flown to Israel from there. The operation
bore the legendary name "Magic Carpet." The immigrants themselves
prefer to describe the event with a biblical image: "On the wings of
eagles." Israel's military censor only permitted publication of the
operation's details once they were published abroad. The scoop belonged to U.S.
reporter Ruth Gruber, who had been invited to join one of the flights from
Yemen as the guest of the Joint Distribution Committee. A disagreement arose as
to whether she had been invited to write "for publication," or only
"for background" information.
1949:
Republican Stanley M. Isaacs was elected to the New York City Council
1949:
U.S premiere of “All The King’s Men” produced, directed and written by Robert
Rossen with music by Louis Gruenberg.
1950:
“The Lady’s Not for Burning” co-starring Claire Bloom opened at the Royale
Theatre.
1950(28th
of Cheshvan, 5711): Thirty-two-year-old Bernice Herstein Durst, the wife real
estate investor and “inventor of the National Debt Clock” Seymour Bernard Durst
and mother of Wendy, Thomas, Douglas and Robert Durst “fell or jumped to her
death” at the “family home in Scarsdale, NY.”
1951:
“Quo Vadis” a big screen biblical epic directed by Mervyn LeRoy, produced by
Sam Zimbalist with a script by S.N. Berhman and Sonya Levien was released in
the United States today.
1951:
“A year-end dividend of 25 cents a shar on the common stock has been declared
by the directors of De. Emil Klein Company, Inc.
1954:
Roman Hruska, the Republican who in defending the appointment of G. Harold
Carswell to the Supreme Court acknowledged his mediocrity by saying that
mediocre people are entitled to a little representation on the High Court
because “We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos” serving on
the Highest Court in the United States finished serving as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from Nebraska’s 2nd distict.
1954:
Roman Hruska, the Republican who in defending the appointment of G. Harold
Carswell to the Supreme Court acknowledged his mediocrity by saying that
mediocre people are entitled to a little representation on the High Court
because “We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos” serving on
the Highest Court in the United States began his career today as a U.S. Senator
from Nebraska.
1955:
It was reported today that chairman Jerome I Udell has announced that Milton
Kamen will be the new president of Max Udell Sons, and Company, and that at the
age of 34, Kamen will be “the youngest president in the history of the sixty-nine-year-old
men’s manufacturing coner.
1956:
Six Israelis were wounded when gunmen opened fire on a train, attacked cars and
blew up wells, in the North and Center of Israel.
1957:
“The Story of Mankind” the film version the book by the same name, directed,
produced and written by Irwin Allen was released in the United States today.
1958:
Republican Stanley M. Isaacs, was elected to the New York City Council where he
serve as the Minority Leader.
1958(25th
of Cheshvan, 5719): Parashat Chayei Sara
1958(25th
of Cheshvan, 5719): Seventy-nine year old CCNY and NYU Law School graduate Dr.
Gabriel Davidson, the “former managing director of the Jewish Agricultural
Society, author of Our Jewish Farmers and an active member of the Jewish
community as can be seen by his membership in the American Jewish Historical
Society and the American Friends of the Hebrew University” whose wife Anna
passed away in 1947 succumbed to “a heart ailment” today at Parsons Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/11/09/92655404.pdf
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-agricultural-and-industrial-aid-society
1959(7th
of Cheshvan, 5720): Fifty-nine-year-old Joseph “Jack” Rothenberg the Austrian
born son of Morris and Fannie Rothenberg
who married Ann Bodner Rothenber after the death of Bertha “Betty” Drube
Rothenberg passed away today in the Bronx after which he was buried in Beth
Israel Memorial Park.
1960:
In Montreal, David Libman and Goldie Araonovitch gave birth to Robert Libman,
architect turned politician who served as a mayor and as a member of the
National Assembly of Quebec and who has three children – Kevin, Daniel and
Jonathan – with his wife the former Joanne Shapir.
1960: In
one of the closest elections on record, John Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to
become President of the United States. Support of Jewish voters was critical to
electing America’s first Roman Catholic to the White House. Kennedy named two Jews to his cabinet - Abraham
Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Arthur Goldberg as
Secretary of Labor. Kennedy was the only President for whom a national Jewish
Award was named. The annual peace award of the Synagogue Council of America was
re-named the John F. Kennedy Peace Award after his assassination in 1963.
1962(11th of Cheshvan,
5723): On the day after celebrating his 83rd birthday MK Mordechai
Nurock passed away. An ordained Rabbi
who earned a Doctorate in Psychology, he was Israel’s first Minister of Postal
Services which is now known as Minister of Communication.
1962: A remake of
“Mutiny Bounty” directed by Lewis Milestone and produced by Aaron Rosenberg was
released in the United States by MGM.
1962: Shalom-Avraham Shaki, the native of Yemen
who made Aliyah in 1914 became an MK for the first time, replace the late
Mordechai Nurock.
1964(3rd of
Kislev, 5725): Ninety-six-year-old NYU trained mathematician Solomon Jaffe the
oldest living actuary in the United States who had retired in 1933 after
working as an assistant actuary with Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
in 1933 passed away today.
1966(25th of
Cheshvan, 5727): Seventy-five-year-old Dr. Bernhard Zondek passed away. Born in
German, the pioneer in modern endocrinology made Aliyah in 1934 and won the
Israel Prize in medicine in 1958.
1966: “Israeli police
officials said to that the Israeli Security Services tipped off the United
States and Zambian authorities about a plot to blow up a Zambian bridge in
which five persons have been arrested in Israel and two in the United States.”
(JTA)
1966: “Madame X” a film
version of the French play by the same name produced by Ross Hunter was
released today in the United States.
1966(25th of
Cheshvan, 5727): Harvard Dental School professor David Weisberger, the Dunmore,
CT native who earned a DMD from Harvard and an MD from Yale passed away today.
1967: Arthur A. Klotz
“who had unanimous endorsement” was relected to service as the judge of Fourth
District Civil Court in Manhattan.
1970: This morning at Temple
Sinai in Washington, DC, Rabbi Eugen Lipman officiated at the wedding Mrs.
Bernice Schwartman Taube, the widow of Jersey City native and holder of a Ph.D.
from the University of California Martin Taube, the “chairman of the board and
founder of Documentation, Inc.” and lecturer in documentation at Chicago and
Columbia universities who was the author Computers and Common Sense, the Myth
of the Thinking Machines and attorney Isaiah L. Kenen, “a member of Israel’s
charter delegation to the United Nations” and the editor of “The Near East
Report.”
1972: Birthdate of
Yavilah McCoy, the African-American Jew educated in Crown Heights and the
founder of “Ayecha.”
https://blackandjewish.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/people-yavilah-mccoy/
1973: “In the Boom Boom
Room” directed by Joseph Papp and co-starring Madeline Khan opened at the
Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York.
1974: “Cinderella
Liberty” an off-beat comedy-drama directed and produced by Mark Rydell and
starring James Caan and Eli Wallach was released in Finland.
1974: Soviet Jewish
emigration to Israel declined by 37% to 14,822 in the first 10 months of 1974
compared with the same period in 1973, according to the Committee for European
Migration, Geneva.
1975(4th of Kislev,
5736): Esther Vilenska passed away. Born at Vilnius in 1918, she made Aliyah in
1938. Vilenska became a “communist politician, journalist and author who served
as a member of the Knesset for Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from
1961 to 1965.”
1977: Having defeated
incumbent Mayor Abraham Beame in the Democratic primary, Ed Koch was elected
Mayor of New York today.
1977: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that after the Katyusha bombing of Nahariya in which two local
residents were killed, Israeli gunners blasted Palestinian terrorist
strongholds in South Lebanon. This is an
example of the inability of the government of Lebanon to control its
borders. The PLO set up a state within a
state in southern Lebanon. It was these
conditions that would finally force the Israelis to cross the border in the
early 1980’s and eventually set up a buffer state on the border with Lebanon.
1978:
In Belize, Frances Imeon Myvette and Dean Barrow, gave birth to Jamal Michael
Barrow, the rapper known as Shyne who legally had his name changed to Moses
Michael Levi.
1978:”Magic”
the cinematic version of the book by the same name written by William Goldman
who also authored the script which was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard
P. Levine with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States
today.
1978(8th
of Cheshvan, 5739): Seventy-six-year-old Latvian born American “poet, critic
and educator” Eli Siegel, the founder of Aesthetic Realism passed away today.
https://aestheticrealism.org/about-us/eli-siegel-founder/
https://michaelbluejay.com/x/suicide.html
1979(18th
of Cheshvan, 5740): Sixty-three-year-old English actor Sydney Tafler passed
away today after which he was buried at the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery in
London Borough.
https://www.silversirens.co.uk/actors-actresses/sydney-tafler/
1980(29th
of Cheshvan, 5741): Parashat Toldot
1980(29th
of Cheshvan, 5741): Nine days before what would have been his 89th
birthday, Kosher food manufacturer Frederick Margareten who was a Director of
the Jewish Training School for Girls passed away today in New York.
1981:
“The Leningrad KGB did not allow students studying Hebrew to enter the
apartment of their teacher Yakov Rabinovich who had been told to stop teaching
or he would face arrest”
1983(2nd
of Kislev, 5774): One-hundred-one year old
Russian born rabbi Mottel Kaplan, who married Rivka Reiger and after the
death of Lena Rubin passed away today after which he was buried at Glendale,
NY.
1985:
“Transylvania 6-5000” a comedy-horror film starring Jeff Goldblum and featuring
Norman Fell was released today in the United States.
1985:
It was reported today that “Samuel Lipman, the critic and pianist, has been
named artistic director of the summer Waterloo Music Festival and School,”
succeeding Gerard Schwarz, who remains as principal conductor.”
1985:
The trial of former Yale University lecturer Vladimir Sokolov on charge that
“he willful concealed his activities as a Nazi collaborator who wrote articles
calling for the annihilation of Jews” continued for a second day.
1985(24th
of Cheshvan, 5746): Eighty-year-old New York City native Benjamin Hanft, a
“prominent public relations executive for a number of national Jewish
organizations” and the husband of Esther Haft, with whom he had three children
including actress Helen Haft passed away today.
1986(6th
of Cheshvan, 5747): Parashat Noach
1986:
In Chicago Susan and Robert Swartz gave birth to computer programmer Aaron
Swartz founder of “Demand Progress.”
1988:
Nita M. Lowey was elected to Congress where she is currently serving her 8th
term. She is a leading proponent of educational opportunity, health care reform
and biomedical research, stricter gun control and public safety laws,
environmental protection, and women's issues. She is a member of the House
Appropriations Committee. Lowey was the first woman to chair the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, leading the organization from 2001 to 2002.
She has served as Chair of the Congressional Women's Caucus and the House
Pro-Choice Caucus and has been called "the most prominent abortion right
advocate in Congress" by the Washington Post. Before being elected
to Congress, Lowey served as Assistant Secretary of State for the State of New
York.
1988:
Gov. Madeline M. Kunin of Vermont won a third two-year term, defeating Michael
Bernhardt, the state House minority leader.
1992(12th
of Cheshvan, 5753): Ninety-year-old Morris Hinenburg the Kodinoff, Russia born
son Sarah Henes and Abraham Jonah Hinenburg and Yale University trained medical
doctor, who in 1906 came to the United States where he married Rose Becker and
served as a hospital administrator and executive director of the Jewish
Hospital in Brooklyn passed away today.
1995:
“An Appeal for Forgiveness published today contained the full text of an
apology issued by the family of Yigal Amir, “the confessed assassin of Prime
Minister Rabin.
1996:
“Mad Dog Time” a “crime comedy” directed and written by Larry Bishop (the son
of comedian Joey Bishop) starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barken
and Rob Reiner was released in the United States today.
1996:
“Ransom,” based on adaptation of “Fearful Decision” by Richard Maibaum the New
York native who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa in 1931
and earned a masters from the Speech and Dramatic Arts Department and produced
by Scott Rudin and Brian Grazer was released in the United States today.
1997:
North Carolinians came together today, to honor one the
state’s civic leaders and pathbreaking women. Born in 1913 in Virginia, Hannah
Block (née Solomon) studied music at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory in
Baltimore. After completing her studies, Block ventured to New York City where
she forged her way as a jazz singer and performed in some of Manhattan’s most
popular night spots. While in New York, Block met her future husband Charles
Morris Block. After they married, the couple settled in Wilmington, N.C. where
Charles was a partner in a manufacturing company. Block
embraced her new home with verve and spirit. During World War II, she became
the first woman to serve as head lifeguard at Carolina Beach, where she taught
swimming and lifesaving courses for the Red Cross. The attack on Pearl Harbor
in December 1941 inspired Block to become more involved with the war effort.
Bringing new life and depth to her jazz career, she volunteered her time
performing for troops at the local USO. Block organized and trained a group of
60 young women who visited and entertained soldiers on nearby military bases
before their deployment overseas.Towards the war’s end, Block enlisted
volunteers to welcome GI’s back to the U.S. and to help them readjust to life
as civilians. One friend fondly dubbed Hannah Block “Mrs. World War II
Wilmington.”
After the war, Hannah Block remained active in civic
life. She served twice as president of the local American Legion Auxiliary and
organized many pageants, turning them into, as she put it, “more than a
swimsuit contest on the beach.” In her late 40s, she became the first woman to
serve on the Wilmington City Council, and later, the first woman to serve as
the city’s mayor pro tempore. Block also led efforts in Wilmington to preserve
and restore buildings of historical significance. One of these buildings was
the USO center Block has performed in decades earlier. The building, which had
served as Wilmington’s Community Arts Center since 1973, was renamed in 1997 in
honor of Block. That same year on November 8th, the Community Arts Center in
the “Hannah Block Historic USO” put on a jazz and cabaret review to honor
Block. At the event, Block was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of
North Carolina’s highest honors recognizing service to the state. (As reported
by Jewish Women’s Archive)
1998:
The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to
His Jewish Family
by Stephen J. Dubner, Work In Progress by
Michael D. Eisner, with Tony Schwartz and The Book of Job translation,
introduction and notes by Raymond P. Scheindlin
http://stephenjdubner.com/reviews/souls/nytimes2.html
1998:
In “The Specter of Hitler in the Music of Wagner,” published today, Joseph
Horowtiz re-examines the issues surrounding the German composer and the
anti-Semitism of the Nazis.
1999:
“Jewish Chapel’s 50th Anniversary Marked” published today described
the gathering at Ada Ari El Synagogue celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the David Familian Chapel.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/08/local/me-31284
2000(10th
of Cheshvan, 5761): Noa Dahan, 25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south, was shot to
death while driving to her job at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.
2000:
The BBC broadcast “The Body of the Queen” the 7th episode of “A
History of Britain is a documentary series written and presented by Simon
Schama.”
2001:
“Michael Steinhardt’s Voyage Around His Father” published today tells the true
story of the hedge fund manager his father Sol Frank “Red” Steinhardt.
2002:
Linda
Lingle, Hawaii’s governor-elect, has made news for the 50th state and for
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. She is Hawaii’s first
woman governor, its first Jewish governor – and the only chief executive of a
state to become a life member of Hadassah at her own initiative. Hours after
her election, Lingle said: "I am aware of the wonderful work accomplished
at Hadassah Hospital and am very proud of being a life member. I recently had a
meeting with the Israel Consul General during his trip to Hawaii, and he
extended to me an invitation to visit Israel. I look forward to doing so in the
near future and to finally have the opportunity to visit Hadassah Hospital and
meet the physicians and dedicated people responsible for making it so
successful." Lingle, the former mayor of Maui, is also Hawaii’s first
Republican governor in 40 years. Four years ago, a member of the Hawaii chapter
made a one-time gift of annual membership to Lingle. Last year, the chapter was
delighted to receive a check from Lingle that upgraded her status to life
member, according to Sharon Goodhart, then-Vice President of Membership.
According to the 2001 edition of the American Jewish Yearbook, there are
approximately 7,000 Jews in Hawaii. Hadassah Hawaii, which counts some 200
members, is understandably proud of one of their own becoming governor. “We are
thrilled and enormously proud of Linda on her election to governor of our
state. We support her completely in her continued effort to bring about a new beginning
for Hawaii," said chapter President Phyllis Donlin.
2002:
After premiering at the Venice International Film Festival two months ago, “Far
From Heaven,” a film that looks behind the façade of mid-20th century suburbia
with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Edward Lachman was
released today in the United States.
2003(13th
of Cheshvan, 5764): Parashat Lech Lecha
2003:
A sign posted on the door of Paragon Restaurant World calls for the impeachment
of Mayor Bloomberg whose owner sees a conflict between the Mayor’s plan to
balance the city’s budget with his own plans for balancing the budget of his
restaurant supply business.
2004: First
Day of Jewish Book Month. Check out the library at your local Temple or
Synagogue. Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids has just built a new, modern
library. This is also a good time of the year to make donations of books
or funds to the library. Finally, since Kislev (the month with Chanukah)
actually starts in November this year, why not look for some books for Chanukah
gifts. After all, we are "the people of the book."
2005:
An overwhelming majority of adult Israelis are satisfied or very satisfied with
their lives. While 82 percent are happy, 52 percent of the population believes
their lives will improve in the coming years. The third annual survey by the
Central Bureau of Statistics found that 47 percent of adults are satisfied with
their financial situation. About 41 percent believe their financial situation
will improve in the coming years.
2005:
The trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel which was
scheduled to begin today but was postponed when the Judge rule that his lawyer
“Horst Mahler whose license to practice as a lawyer was withdrawn in 2004 and
who, in January 2005, was sentenced to nine months in prison for inciting racial
hatred, could not be part of the defense team.”
2006:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
“containers for ritual offerings, weapons and jewelry are among the finds
uncovered after builders in Jerusalem’s Vayit Vagan neighborhood stumbled upon
a 4,000 year old Canaanite cemetery.
2007:
Jon Lovitz “had the grand opening for his new comedy club ‘The Jon Lovitz
Comedy Club at Aubergine’ in the Gaslamp District of San Diego, CA.
2007:
At the Jewish Community Center of
Greater Washington 38th annual Book Festival, Rabbi Harold Kushner
discusses his latest work, Overcoming Life’s Disappointments.
2007: In
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Suzanne and Bert Katz Fund of the Temple Judah
Foundation presents “The Case for Israel” with Professor Alan Dershowitz at
Sinclair Auditorium on the campus of Coe College.
2007: Spain's Constitutional Court ruled that
Holocaust denial will not be punishable by imprisonment, due to the fact that
it falls within freedom of speech. Spanish law had mandated a sentence of up to
two years in prison for Holocaust denial, but the court, which deliberated on
the case following the trial of a neo-Nazi activist, ruled that such a
punishment was unconstitutional.
Nonetheless,
the court did rule that imprisonment is a constitutional punishment for any
individual convicted of justifying the Holocaust or any other genocide for that
matter.
2008: In Highland Park, Il, Dana Levin, daughter of Gigi Cohen
and Michael Levin is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2008: John Key, the son of Austrian-Jewish mother completed his
service as leader of the loyal opposition following the electoral victory of
the New Zealand National Party.
2009: An exhibition of the works of Gustav Metzger at the
Serpentine Gallery in London that “included the
installation Flailing Trees, which consists of 15 upturned willow trees
embedded in a block of concrete, symbolizing a world turned upside down by
global warming” came to an end today.
2009: Rabbi Simcha Weinstein discusses his book
Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped The Comic
Book Superhero at the Walters Art Museum, Graham Auditorium.
2009(21st of Cheshvan, 5770): Ninety-three year old
“Vitaly
L. Ginzburg, the Russian physicist who helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen
bomb and went on to win the Nobel Prize, passed away today. (As reported by
Michael Schwirtz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/world/europe/10ginzburg.html
2009: Closing session of Union for Reform Judaism's
70th Biennial Convention in Toronto, Canada.
2009
(21st Cheshvan): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit Chanah (Hanah)
Senesh (Sznes) who was executed 65 years ago today on the 21st of
Cheshvan, 5705.
2009:
New York Times bestselling author Neal Bascomb discusses his riveting
new book Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency
Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi at the Fourth Annual JCCNV
Jewish Book Festival.
2009:
Distinguished educator Dr. Erica
Brown, author of Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism,
explores how boredom manifests itself
within Judaism and the cultural impact on a faith structure that advises
sanctifying time, not merely passing it at the JCCGW 40th Annual Book Festival
2009: Students
from three Israeli high schools garnered top honors at the seventh annual
International Student Film Festival Hollywood (ISFFH), which concluded today.
2010: The Center
for Jewish History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance are scheduled to
present “Josh Waletzky: Boiberik and Beyond Yiddish Songs for the 21st
Century.”
2010(1st of Kislev, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2010: “Jazz singer and WWII USO champion Hannah
Block is awarded North Carolina’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/08/2010/hannah-block
2010(1st of Kislev, 5771): Ninety-five-year-old Jack Levine, an unrepentant and much-admired
realist artist whose crowded history paintings skewered plutocrats, crooked
politicians and human folly” passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/arts/10levine.html?pagewanted=all
2010: Mark Helprin “was awarded the 2010 Salvatori
Prize in the American Founding by Clarmont Institute.
2011: Dan
Byman author of “A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli
Counterterrorism” and Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre co-authors of “This
Burning Land: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of the Transformed
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” are scheduled to take part in Panel Discussion at
the JCC of Northern Virginia’s Book Festival
2011: Cantor
Sharon Steinberg, the cantor at Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria,
Virginia is scheduled to deliver the first in a series of lectures that provide
“An Overview of Jewish Liturgical Music.
2011: “Fascinating Facts: Exploring the Myths and
Mysteries of Judaism” is scheduled to begin tonight. Fascinating Facts: Exploring
the Myths and Mysteries of Judaism
2011: In St. Louis, MO, the scheduled Community
Krisallnacht Program will feature Hannie J. Voyles, author of “Storming The
Tulips.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQyIc3D6CFE
2011:
Today, Knesset Speaker Reuven released his speech for the upcoming memorial
session, during which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Shimon
Peres, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish and opposition leader Tzipi Livni
(Kadima) were scheduled to speak..
2011:
The Religious Services Ministry placed burdensome restrictions today on the
Tzohar Rabbinical Council, which provides a legal and religious alternative to
weddings performed outside the framework of the Rabbinate.
2011(11th
of Cheshvan, 5772): Sixty-eight year old Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Rosh Yehsiva of
the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem passed away today.
2011:
Release of “Haver Hadash” (“New Boyfriend”) a single by Elisha Banai and the
Forty Thieves was released today.
2012: Larry Tye Author of Superman: The High Flying History of America's
Most Enduring Hero is scheduled to speak at JCCNV Jewish Book Festival in
Fairfax, VA.
2012: “My Dad is Baryshnikov” is scheduled to shown at the UK Jewish Film
Festival this evening.
2012:
Tesa Cohen, one of Temple Judah’s younger congregants, is scheduled to appear
in the opening performance of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach.”
2012:
Bentlee Birchansky and Lincoln Ginsberg, students at Temple Judah Religious
School, are scheduled to appear in the opening performance of “Guys and Dolls.”
2012:
Prior to their scheduled performance at the Engler Theatre in Iowa Cit, The
Klezmatics are scheduled to give a lecture and demonstration on Klezmer music.
2012:
A well dating from 8,500 years ago, with the bones of two prehistoric people
inside, was uncovered during recent excavations in the Jezreel Valley, the
Israel Antiquities Authority said today.
2012:
Three mortar shells landed across Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan
Heights this morning, in what security officials said was likely a spillover
from fighting between government forces and rebels in the ongoing Syrian civil
war
2012:
IDF soldiers exchanged gunfire with Palestinian terrorists from Gaza today.
According to initial reports, a work crew came under fire near Kibbutz Nirim on
the Gaza border and the soldiers returned fire. (As reported by Ron Friedman)
2012:
Yale University announced that 54 year old Peter Salovey would be the new
president three months after Richard C. Levin announced the he would be leaving
the position “at the end of the academic year.
2012:
Danish premiere of “The Act of Killing,” a documentary about the Indonesian
killings directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
2013:
“Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools” published today describes
allegations of anti-Semitism in the Pine Bush Central School District.
2013(5th
of Kislev, 5774): Ninety-one-year-old Holocaust survivor Saul Kagan, the
founding director of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2013:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a noon-time Grand Master
Recital.
2013:
Tina Sutton, author of The Making of Markova: Diaghilev’s Baby Ballerina to
Groundbreaking Icon is scheduled to speak this morning at the San Diego
Jewish Book Fair.
2013:
Shepard, former Editor-in-Chief of Business Week and Lynn Povich author of The Good Girls Revolt are scheduled to
appear at The San Diego Jewish Book Fair’s Lunch & Talk
2013:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged US Secretary of State John Kerry today
“not to rush to sign” a deal with Iran over its controversial nuclear program.
(As reported by Times of Israel Staff)
2013: US President Barack Obama marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht
today saying that the 1938 pogrom in which Nazis burned synagogues and murdered
Jews across Germany serves as an example of what silence in the face of hatred
can bring.
2014:
Shabbat Va-yayra
2014:
Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the convention center in Denver.
2014:
“The Divorce” and “Samuel-613” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film
Festival.
2014:
In Sydney, “A Place in Heaven” and “Zero Motivation” are scheduled to be shown
at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014(15th
of Cheshvan): “Yahrtzeit of Matityahu, the leader of the Maccabees in their
fight against the Syrian-Greeks, as recorded in the Chanukah story.” (As
reported by Aish)
2014(15th
of Cheshvan): Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Avraham, the Chazon Ish, the Vilna born
scholar who made Aliyah in 1933. (As reported by Aish)
2014:
“Clashes between police and Palestinian rioters raged tonight in Arab
neighborhoods of East Jerusalem as tensions remained high in the capital.”
2014:
“Tens of thousands of Israelis, most members of Israeli youth movements,
gathered in central Tel Aviv tonight to mark the 19th anniversary of the
assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.”
2015:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Not In God’s Names: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan
Sacks, 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik and The
Crime of Silence by Anna Bikont
2015:
In Orlando, Florida, the biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism is
scheduled to come to an end.
2015:
The author of Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan
Berman appeared on FOX News to discuss Susan Berman’s “relationship with Robert
Durst
2015:
Approximately, 3,000 arrived in Washington for the opening session of the
annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.
2015:
Following a rocket attack, tonight, the “IAF launched an airstrike against a
terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza.”
2015:
“The Last Mentsch” is scheduled to be the final movie shown at the annual
Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host “Confronting Extremism: The State of Hate Today.”
2015:
The Jewish Arts & Film Festival of Fairfield County is scheduled to host a
“post festival encore” – Commemorating Kristallnacht: Varian Fry, The American
Schindler.
2015:
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a
workshop followed by a lecture by Ken Sutak on “Cinema Judaica: The Wars.”
2015:
At The York Theatre the curtain is scheduled to come down on the final
performance “Rothschild & Sons.”
2015:
The annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America is
scheduled to open today in Washington, D.C.
2016(7th
of Cheshvan, 5777): Yom HaAliyah
2016(7th
of Cheshvan, 5777): Seventy-nine-year-old Holocaust survivor and historian
Yaffa Eliach passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2016:
Today, “the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) carried out a highly unusual raid
on the Ramat Gan offices of iTrader, a company that offered binary options and
forex trading to the Israeli public” and arrested “seven of its top managers
and salespeople.” (As reported by Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz)
2016:
Forty-two-year-old Republic Eric Greitens a Rhodes Scholar a Navy SEAL whose
decorations included the Bronze Star became the first Jewish governor of
Missouri today when defeated his Democratic opponent in the general election.
2016:
In Pennsylvania, Democrat Josh Shaprio was elected state Attorney General.
2016:
Professor Sara B. Horowitz is scheduled to moderate a debate on “the place and
value of literary approaches to Holocaust memory” as part of HEW (Holocaust
Education Week) in Toronto.
2016:
Glenn Dynner, a Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence is scheduled to deliver
a lecture that will focus on JDC’s generous aid to Jewish traditionalists
(Orthodox and Hasidic Jews) entitled “"The Fountain of Judaism": JDC
Aid to Traditionalist Jews in Interwar and Nazi-Occupied Poland” at The Center
for Jewish History.
2016:
“Primary Colors” and “Weiner” are scheduled to be shown at the 20th
UK International Jewish Film Festival.
2016:
Among those planning on voting in today’s Presidential election is centenarian
“Menia Perelman of South Florida who arrived in the United States at the age of
84” and who became a U.S. citizen so she
could vote in this election. (As reported by JTA)
2016:
Among the candidates on the ballot today is Mindy Finn who, in Utah, is running
for vice president as an independent on a ticket headed by a Mormon – a ticket
that has the blessing of Mitt Romney, the influential Mormon who was the
Republican Nominee for President in 2012.
2017(19th
of Cheshvan, 5778): Rabbi Morris Sklar passed away today in Brooklyn, NY
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:ais196440.435
https://www.everhere.com/us/obituary-brooklyn-rabbi-morris-sklar-6356425
https://books.google.com/books/about/Congregation_Beth_Shalom_Tribute_Dinner.html?id=6ZD3GwAACAAJ
2017:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening with “Bernard-Henri Lévy
for a discussion on why Jewish values, traditions and memory are modern saving
graces for the Jewish people.”
2017:
As part of its “Titans of Industry” program, the Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host an evening with Jeffrey G. Gural, Chairman of GFP Real Estate
and Barry M. Gosin, CEO of Newmark Knight Frank.
2017:
Yeshiva University Museum, the Center for Jewish History and the American
Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host “To Be A Scribe In Italy: A Century
Old Legacy” during which Rav Amedeo Spagnoletto the recently appointed chief
rabbi of Florence, who has become a keeper of the Italian tradition handed down
for centuries will discuss the
history, art, and halakhic norms that converge in the making of handwritten
Hebrew text.”
2018: “Remember the Kindertransport: 80 Years
On,” an exhibition that allows visitors to “discover the stories of the child
refugees in their own words” is scheduled to open at the Breman Museum.
2018: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present “Kristallnacht: 80th Anniversary Commemoration,”
“featuring remarks by historian Marion Kaplan (NYU), the premiere of a short
documentary featuring individuals sharing their memories of 1938, reflections
by radio personality and author Martin Goldsmith, and a musical performance by
the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble.
2018: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host “What’s New In Jewish Genetics” during which “computational
geneticist Itsik Pe’er (Columbia University) and moderator Nathan Pearson
(rootdeep.com) explore what our genomes say today...and may reveal in the
future.”
2018: The 12th Annual Other Israel
Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2018: “Working Woman” is scheduled to be shown
as part of the Opening Night Gala marking the start of the UK Jewish Film
Festival.
2018(30th of Cheshvan, 5779): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
2018(30th of Cheshvan, 5779): Ninety-one-year-old
award winning professor of physics and paleontology Riccardo Levi-Setti, who
survived the Holocaust in Mussolini’s Italy passed away today.
2019: In a case of Jew versus Jew, it was
reported that Bernie Sanders has dismissed a possible presidential run by
Michael Bloomberg as just what the country does not need – another millionaire
in power.
2019: “Love in Suspenders” and “Between
Worlds” are scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the Northern Virginia
Jewish Film Festival.
2019: In Metairie, LA, a special patriotic
program sponsored by the Ben Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans is
scheduled to be held along with “regular Shabbat Services” this evening at
Congregation Gates of Prayer, as part of “a special Veterans Day Weekend.”
2019: In San Mateo, CA, Chabad NP is scheduled
to host “I Was There” during which IDF veteran
Sasson Reuven will talk about participating in Operation Entebbe.
2019: In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is
scheduled to Cantor Barbara Ostfeld, “Judaism’s first ordained woman cantor”
talking “about her new memoir, Catbird: The Ballad of Barbi Prim.”
https://www.amazon.com/Cantor-Barbara-Ostfeld/e/B07MC1ZHYY%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
2020:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons From World War to
Cold War by David Nasaw, The Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and
Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman and Too
Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know by Cass
Sunstein
2020:
“90 Years of Saving Lives In Israel,” “a virtual celebration of the lifesaving
working work of Magen David” featuring a cavalcade of stars including Jason
Alexander and Howie Mandel is scheduled to take place this evening.
2020:
The 2020 Jewish Book Festival, a virtual event sponsored by the Jewish
Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys is scheduled to host a
lecture by Debbi Cenziper, author Citizen 865” The Hunt for Hitler’s Soldiers
in America which is a Kristallnacht Memorial Event.
2020:
In New Orleans, the Jewish Community is scheduled to host it Kristallnacht
Program marking the night of the broken glass.
2020:
Beth Ami and the Sonoma County Israel Committed are scheduled to sponsor a
virtual appearance by “Dry Bones cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen as he talks about
his 50 years of drawing Zionist-Jewish-Israel cartoons and other topics.”
2020:
The Nuremberg Symposium, sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum, is
scheduled to open with a keynote address “Between Vengeance and Forgiveness:
The Legacy of Nuremberg.”
2020:
CCJCC and Congregation B’nai shalom are scheduled to sponsor a lecture by
Ambassador Dennis Ross.
2021:
As part of Museum Mondays, the ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled
to present a Tour of the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem
from the comfort of your own home with Nachliel Selavan, the Museum Guy.
2021: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to host the final showing “Apples and Oranges” following by a panel discussion
“featuring actress and comedian Sandra Bernhard.”
2021:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Representative Adam Schiff as he
discusses his cautionary tome Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our
Democracy and Still Could.
2022:
In Partnership with the Jewish Book Week (London) and Lockdown University, the
National Library of Israel is scheduled to present Hannah Rothschild, Herzog & de Meuron
Senior Partner Jason Frantzen and Oren Weinberg, Director of the NLI, for a
sneak preview of the new National Library for Israel which is a new landmark
for Israel and the Jewish people.
2022:
At the Covenant Winery in Berkeley, CA, is scheduled to host “Healing High:
Israel’s Leading Role in Medical Cannabis” with Yossi Tam, director of The
Hebrew University’s Multidisciplinary Center for Cannabinoid Research, Dr.
Donald Abrams, an integrative oncologist at the UCSF Osher Center for
Integrative Medicine, and Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance.
2022:
“The Kyrie 8, which was supposed to hit the market” today, will not be released
because Nike has suspended its “relationship" with basketball player Kyrie
Irving due to his anti-Semitic statements. (As reported by Julie Creswell and
Jordyn Holman)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/business/nike-kyrie-irving.html
2022:
In Massachusetts, The Chelsea Gateway Project is scheduled to present a
“walking tour of Jewish Chelsea, one of the most significant sites of American
Jewish immigrant history.”
2022:
Holocaust Education in Florida which is held annually the second November which
coincides with the anniversary of Kristallnacht is scheduled to continue for a
second day.
https://www.tcc.fl.edu/about/college/tcc-foundation/hew/
2022:
The 2022 Jewish Writers’ Conference sponsored by the Jewish Book Council is
scheduled to continue for a second day.
2022:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present the second session of
“All in the Mishpocheh; Intro to Jewish Genealogy at the CJH.
2022:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host its monthly board
meeting.
2022: Americans prepare to go to the polls to vote
in the “mid-term” elections which include a whole array of state races.
2023:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its monthly board meeting
where one of the topics will be safety and security.
2023:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is scheduled to host live and
online a conversation Thomas R. Nides, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and
Dan Senor coauthor of a new book, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising
Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World and the New York Times
bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle moderated
by Bianna Golodryga, a senior global affairs analyst and anchor for CNN.
2023:
As part of the Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime series, The Tikvah online
Academy is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Rich Schindelheim on “Holy
Land: The Bible’s Vision of Zion.”
2023:
Temple Judea is scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Feivel who will
talk about Jewish Dogma and Beliefs – the Mysteries of the Torah.”
2023
Today, The Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to host “a special education
event, held online for students and teachers covering the Holocaust this term.”
2023:
The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to a virtual conversation Dani Shapiro who
will talk about her two National Jewish Book Award-winning books, Inheritance
and Signal Fires.
2023:
As part of Jewish Book Month, JCCNS in Marblehead, MA is scheduled to host and
interview with Debby Applegate author of Madam: The Biography of Polly
Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age.
2023:
JWI (Jewish Women International) is scheduled to host a Call-in Day to tell
Congress to save VOCA! (The Victim of Crime Act’s)
2023:
As November 8, begins in Israel, the view from the proverbial fifty thousand
foot level remains the same with tensions increasing on the northern border due
to missile and mortar attacks form Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel presses on with
its offensive in the south against the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group” and the
Hamas hostages begin day 33 in captivity. (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
(Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024:
The Museum at Eldrige Street is scheduled to host a walking tour that will look
at “The Jewish Gangsters of Lower Manhattan” including the pickpockets, extortionists,
armed robbers, bootleggers, gamblers, and hitmen who cropped up in the Five
Points neighborhood but also in the growing Jewish Lower East Side.
2024:
As part of the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore Book Series Professor
Elizabth Garner the “winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for fiction,
“Kantika” (“song” in Ladino) is a kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s
displacement across four countries and follows the joys and losses of Rebecca
Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul
will “be in conversation with Margie Detkin, JBM committee co-chair and
principal of “Connecting With Art.”
2024:
In Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Players are scheduled to perform a revival of “Fiddler
on the Roof” at the Lucie Stern Theatre.
2024:
Hillel International is scheduled to present Yallapalooza 2024.
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Jonathan Shippel on
Noach, this week’s Torah portion.
2024:
As November 8th 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 399 in captivity while Israelis brace for more
rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists based in
Iraq (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)
