This Day, November 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
1280:
The 3-year reign of Pope Nicholas III whose bull Vineam sorce
encouraged conversion through "sermons and other means" came to an
end today. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1307:
Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed
all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
The Templars were a group of Christian Knights who took their name from the
fact that their first headquarters was located on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in
an area believed to be on the site of the ruins of Solomon’s Temple.
1348:
Riots reached the Germanic lands of Bavaria
and Swabia. Eighty towns,
including Augsburg, Munich, and Wurzburg were attacked
1547:
Asolo, Italy was the scene of one
of the few pogroms recorded in Italy during which ten Jews in a town of thirty
were killed, and their houses robbed with no apparent motives.
1580: In Poland, the Council of the Four
Lands adopted an ordinance that limits the extent of land leasing, known as
arenda that is permitted to any individual.
The prevention of competition for arenda was one of the council’s major
concerns.
1617: Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan, passed
away. During his reign, Ahmed contracted
small pox. The treatments prescribed by his physicians proved ineffectual. The
widow of Solomon Eskenazi, who had served as a court physician was called in
and she saved the Sultan.
1688: Birthdate of Nāder Shāh Afshār, the
founder of the Afsharid dynasty who reversed the anti-Jewish policies and
practices that had been put in place by the Safawid’s dynasty which had ruled
during the previous century
1758: In New York, Sarah Nunes Navaro and
Aaron Nunez Cardozo gave birth to Abraham Nunez Cardozo.
1761: In Philadelphia, Martha Lampley and
Samson Levy gave birth to Arabella Levy.
1776: In New York City, “Figlah Levy” and
Joseph Simons gave birth to “Hananel Simons.”
1781: In Philadelphia, Zipporah Levy and
Benjamin Mendes Seixas gave birth to Isaac Benjamin Seixas the husband of
Rebecca Judah with whom he had eight children.
1789: In Germany, Rosele Katz and Bernard
Weil gave birth “Elcha Weil” the wife of Gedalia Hayim Bernheimer and the
mother of Jakob and Jette Bernheimer.
1793: Strasbourg prohibited circumcision and
the wearing of beards Further It ordered the burning of all books in
Hebrew. Strasbourg is located on the
border between Germany and France. As
such it has changed hands numerous times.
1795(10th of Kislev, 5556):
Vrouwtje Frumet David Lintz-Cohen passed away. Born at Amsterdam in 1737, she
was the daughter of David Levie Juda-Moshe Lints-Cohen and Bele Simon Samson
Levie-Drukker and the widow of Kalman Isaac Shochet
1797: In London, Levy Salomons and Matilda
de Metz gave birth to Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet, a leading figure in the
19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom who was the
first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London, and one of
the first two Jewish people to serve in the British House of Commons.
1798: In Baden, Sara and Michael Herzog gave
birth to Minette Herzog, the wife “Lemuel Dinkelspiel with whom she had 18
children.
1800 (5th of Kislev): Forty-eight-year-old philosopher
Solomon ben Joshua Maimon passed away
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13043.html
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10301-maimon-solomon-ben-joshua
1805: Birthdate of Mary Anne Keely, the
English actress and manager whose portrait was painted by the Anglo-Jewish
artist Walter Goodman who also wrote a book about the family entitled The
Keeleys, on the stage and at home
1808: In London Hanna Barent Cohen and
Nathan Mayer Rothschild who “had just established the London branch of the
banking business of the Rothschilds” to Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild.
1809: Solomon Abraham married Sarah Harris
today at the Great Synagogue.
1809: Copper manufacturer Harmon Hendricks,
the son of Uriah Henricks, one of the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel
and his wife Frances Isaacs, the daughter of Joshua and Brandy Isaacs gave
birth to Justina Brandley Henricks.
1811(6th of Kislev, 5572): Seventy-three-year-old
Wolf Isak Arnstein, the son of Isak Aron Arnsteiner and Ella Elsa Eleonora
Arnsteiner who was the husband of Veronika Fradche Fradel Arnstein and Rifke
Arnstein passed away today.
1811: In London, Polly Isaacs and Woolf
Marks gave birth to David Woolf Marks the husband of Cecilia Sarah Wolf with
whom he had had 12 children and longtime rabbi of the West London Synagogue
which was considered to be the first “liberal” or “reform” congregation in the
UK
1813: Today, a codicil was attached to the
original will of Benjamin D’Israeli, the grandfather of the Earl Beaconsfield,
Great Britain’s first Prime Minister to have been born Jewish.
1819: Joseph Friedländer, a dealer in
second-hand clothes renewed his application to be allowed to continue to live
and do business in Saxony.
1819: Birthdate of Joseph Seligman, the
native of Bavaria, who founded Seligman Brothers and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1819: Birthdate of Mary Anne Evans, who,
under the pen name of George Elliot wrote Daniel Deronda is a novel by George
Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the
only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of
social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic rendering of Jewish
proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final statement
of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.
1820: Birthdate of Danish native Moses
Abraham Cohn, the son of Abraham Cohn
1822(8th of Kislev, 5583): Sixty-five-year-old
Joseph Lopez, the son of Aaron Lopez passed away today in New York.
1824(1st of Kislev, 5585): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev celebrated that the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the
American Revolution visited “Town Hall and Gray’s Tavern in Fredericksburg, VA.
1826: Birthdate of Italian patriot Enrico
Guastalla who fought in the wars that led to the unification of Italy.
1826: Joseph Joseph married Hannah Cohen at
the Great Synagogue today.
1830: Birthdate of James Picciotto, the son
of Aleppo born Anglo-Jewish businessman and community leader Moses Haim
Picciotto, who sat on the Council of Jews and wrote Sketches of Anglo-Jewish
History published in 1875.
1830: Lord Palmerston who would defend David
Pacifico “as this “man of Jewish persuasion” and about whom he “made a
celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to
say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am
a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British
government, “began his first term as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
1833: Two days after she had passed away, 59-year-old
“Elizabeth (Lazarus) Jacobs, the wife of Elias Jacobs with whom she had had
four children, was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1837: Israel Benjamin Phillips, the son
Abigail Seixas and Benjamin Jonas Phillips married Harriet Jackson today in New
York after which they had one son Benjamin Phillips.
1838: Children of Löbl Strakosch and Julia
Schwarz gave birth to Ludwig, the 15th of their 16 children.
1841: Birthdate of Theresa Wile, the wife of
Levi Adler and mother of Isaac Adler the Harvard trained lawyer who served as
Mayor of Rochester, NY.
1843: Joseph Belasco married Rachel Tolano
at the Bevis Marks Synagogue today.
1843: Samuel Phillips married Rachel Davis
today at the Great Synagogue.
1845: In the UK, Charlotte von Rothschild
and Lionel de Rothschild gave birth to their third son Leopold de Rothschild
who was also the youngest of their five children.
1847: Two days after she had passed away, 68-year-old
Sarah (Levin) Russell, the wife of Moses Russell, with whom she had had nine
children was buried today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1848: Jonas Phillips Levy married Frances
(Fanny) Mitchell today. Born in 1807, he
was the younger brother of Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy and the son of Michael
Levy and Rachel Phillips. This native of Philadelphia, commanded the U.S.S.
America during the Mexican-American War.
He continued his career as a merchant and sea captain until his death in
New York in 1883.
1849: In Kentucky, Hanna Dinkelspiel and
Morris Nathan gave birth to Jeanette Nathan, the wife of Alfred Huger Moses
whom she married in Louisville, KY in 1871 and with whom she had seven
children.
1851:
In New Orleans, Bernard and Sophia Bernstein Kowalski gave birth to
Brownsville, TX resident Isaac B Kowlaski, the brother of Louis, Benjamin and
Zachary Kowalski.
1852: The New York Times reported the Baron
James Rothschild has just been named as a recipient of the Order of the Iron
Crown, Second Class. It is ironic that the award which conferred the status of
nobility should have been awarded at a time when the Jews of Austria are
worried about a possible loss of rights.
1852: “The Austrian Jews” published today reported
that Jews of Austria are worried that they will lose all of the gains they have
made since the revolution and will be forced to return to the repressive status
under which they lived prior to 1848.
The author contends that the Jews will continue to enjoy most of their
newly won rights including that of acquiring real estate and living where they
please. They will once again be banned
from holding any state position that “brings them in contact with the public in
a judicial capacity.
1854(1st of Kislev, 5615): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1854: Two hundred people gathered at the
Chinese Assembly Rooms tonight to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of
the Hebrew Benevolent Society in New York City.
1857(5th of Kislev, 5618): Forty-three-year-old
Austrian published Wolf Pascheles passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pascheles_Wolf
1858: Denver, Colorado is founded. Jews have
been active in Denver from its very beginning.
Fred Z. Salomon and his brother Hyman led the first large pack train
into the settlement that would become Denver.
The two were "fifty-niners" who were later joined in Colorado
by their brother Adolph. A native of Strelno, Posen, Prussia, Fred worked at
various trading centers in New Mexico Territory before leading a supply train
from Independence, MO to Auraria, the village across the river from the soon to
be created Denver. Fred devoted his life
to business and cultural ventures in the Mile High City. He started a brewery which the Rocky Mountain
News “noted speedily decreased the local consumption of strychnine whiskey and
Taos Lightning.” In 1860, Fred and Hyman
started what would become the Denver Water Company. Fred “helped organize the Auriaria and Denver
Chess Club and literary Society, later the Colorado Pioneer Society the Denver
Public Library and the Denver B’Nai Brith Lodge.” In a time when rail travel
was critical to commercial success, the elder Salomon helped lead the fight to
bring the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads to Denver. Fred also found time to serve as territorial
treasurer. Such total identification
with his adopted hometown stands in stark contrast with the decision of member
of the Denver Club - the name of the “chess and literary society head helped
found” to bar Jews starting in 1881. Other Jews connected with Denver in its
early days were Otto Mears who arrived in Colorado in 1852, and Sam Flax, who
after several false starts, meet success in the restaurant and hotel business.
[For more information about Denver Jewry see the website of the Rocky Mountain
Jewish Historical Society and Pioneer Jews by Harriet and Fred Rochlin.]
1858: The New York Times published a
copy of a letter that appeared in this week’s Jewish Messenger addressed
to the President of the Hebrew Congregation in the United States and others
from Sir Moses Montefiore, the President of the London Committee of Deputies
for the Jews. The letter called for the American Jewish community to join its
co-religionists in England, Holland France in seeking the support of their
government in having the Mortara child returned to his parents and to avoid any
such future seizures. It summarized the threat that the seizure Edgardo Mortara
posed to Jews and “every other denomination of faith” except the Roman
Catholics. Montefiore reiterated that this was not just a matter of religious
freedom. The behavior of the Catholic Church placed “in peril, personal
liberty, social relations and the peace of families.”
1858: The New York Times reported
that “our Jewish fellow-citizens will shortly hold a mass meeting in one of our
large public halls, to denounce the unjustifiable abduction of Mortara’s child
by the Roman inquisition. The Israelitish communities of France, Holland and
England have already considered the subject, and a meeting of the Jews of
Philadelphia has recently been held to take action in the same matter.
1859: In London Julia Messeena and William
Flatau gave birth to Jeanette Flatau, the wife of Adolph Tuck and mother of
Gladys, Sybil, Desmond and Mariel Tuck
1860(8th of Kislev, 5621): Sixty-seven-year-old
historian Isaak Marcus Jost passed away today.
htt1866:p://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8931-jost-isaac-marcus
1862: First Lieutenant Levi Myers began
serving with Company of the 178th Regiment.
1863: The “First Hebrew Ladies’ Mutual
Benefit Association” whose members included Mrs. Ike Adams was founded today in
San Francisco.
1864: Philadelphian Isaac M. Abraham, who
had been wounded “near Deep Bottom, VA, and who had risen to the rank of Major
in the 85th Regiment completed his three year enlistment today.
1865(4th of Kislev, 5626): Seventy-eight-year-old
Grace Seixas, the Newport, RI born daughter of Joachabed Levy and Moses Seixas
and the wife of Benjamin Cohen passed away today in NYC.
1866: Ernest Abraham an English medical
journalist who was the son of a London dentist was appointed as a poor law
inspector today which provided him with the opportunity to
the reform of the treatment of sick poor throughout England” and work for the
successful adoption of the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872.
1868:
Birthdate of Wilna native French sculptor
Leopold Bernstein-Sinaieff “who has
produced busts in bronze and marble of many distinguished persons, among whom
were Count Waldeck, Rambaud, Nicholas de Giers, the Russian ambassador, and
Léon Reynier, the violinist.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3151-bernstein-sinaieff-leopold
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ben-austrian/
1870: The Ladies Bikur Cholim Society held
their 9th annual ball tonight at the Apollo Hall. Due to inclement weather, the event was not
well attended.
1871: In Memphis, TN, Ella Marks and Isaac
Schwab gave birth to Harvard Medical School graduate Dr. Sidney Schwab, the
husband of Helen D. Stix and Professor of Neurology at Washington University in
St. Louis who at a Base Hospital with AEF reaching the ranking of Lt. Colonel.
1872: In Nebraska, immigrants from the
Austro-Hungarian Empire gave birth to “electrical and mechanical engineer
Arthur Arton Hamerschlag the husband of Elizabeth Ann Tollast whom he married
in 1901 and father of Ralph Robinson Hamerschlag who was the first President of
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
1874: In Philadelphia, Isaac and Eva
(Lowenstein) Bloch gave birth to Louis Bloch, the husband of Jeanette and
“director of various building and loan associations who was a member of the
board of directors of Congregation Adath Jeshurun.
1875: Vice President Henry Wilson passed
away today making Thomas W. Ferry, the President pro tempore of the Senate,
next in line if the President of the United States should pass. Perry, along with President Grant, would
attend the services consecrating Adas Israel in Washington, DC in 1876. This meant that the two top leaders of the
United States government attended the consecration of a Jewish house of worship
for the first time in the nation’s history.
1875: Pavel Axelrod and
his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer, one of his former students gave birth to
their child, Vera, today.
1877:
Seligman Hirsch, a New York fur dealer was found guilty of receiving
stolen goods. He was defended by Albert Jacob Cardozo. Under the law, Hirsch could have been
sentenced to five years in prison but in response to the jury’s recommendation
for mercy, the judge sentenced the Jewish businessman to only two years in the
state prison
1878: It was reported today that New York
has 375 houses of worship, 25 of which are synagogues of Jewish Temples.
1878: In Frankfort, multi-millionaire
Adolphe Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt, who permanently moved to London in 1895 and
Alice Emma Moses Merton daughter of Joseph Benjamin Moses aka Moses Merton gave
birth to Franck Adolphe Benedict Goldschmidt who gained famed Francis Benedict
Hyam Goldsmith, a British MP and “luxury hotel tycoon.”
1879: David McAdam is scheduled to deliver a
lecture tonight at the Young Men’s Hebrew Union in Clarendon Hall followed by
musical and literary entertainment.
1879: The Young Ladies Charitable Union, an
organization made up of 72 Jewish woman chaired by Julia Richman, are scheduled
to host a fund raiser at the Opera House on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The entertainment will include nine tableaux
representing the nine muses and a children’s pantomime followed by an evening
of dancing. The money raised will go to supply New York’s poor with shoes. Last winter the Union provided over 900 pairs
of shoes for the needy.
1880: It was reported today that there are 3
and a half million people living in Holland, 100,000 of whom are Jews. A million are Catholics and the rest are
Protestants.
1880(19th of Kislev, 5641):
German born Daniel Wolff, the husband of Rebecca Scheuer Wolff and the father
of Johanna, Athaliah and Abraham Wolff passed away today in Manhattan after
which eh was buried in Brooklyn at the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1882: It was reported today that Herr Meyer
killed Captain Emerich in a duel fought at Wurzburg. Meyer had challenged the gentile over a
matter of honor.
1884: Sir Moses Montefiore has had another
attack of the bronchial affection just after the celebration of his one
hundredth birthday, and is now confined to his bed at his home near Ramsgate.
1885: The San Francisco Call reported today
that the late Senator William Sharon had bequeathed $5,000 to the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum of San Francisco.
1885: It was reported today that the annual
Charity Ball sponsored by the Purim Association will be held in February of
1886.
1885: It was reported today that Rabbi
Kaufmann Kohler will officiate at Temple Beth-El’s Thanksgiving Services in New
York City.
1886: A private funeral was today at the
Church of the Heavenly rest for Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of
the United States passed away. Elected as Vice President, Arthur became
President after James Garfield was assassinated by a disappointed office
seeker. Arthur was one of the least distinguished personages to occupy
the White House. In 1882, when the United States finally ratified the Red Cross
treaty, President Arthur appointed Adolphus Simeon Solomons as one of
three delegates to represent the country at the Geneva Congress, where he was
elected vice-president. Solomons was a successful Washington businessman who
played an active role in the secular and Jewish communities
1886(24th of Cheshvan, 5647):
Samuel Isaac, the brother of Saul Isaac, the first Jew to be elected to the
House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party whose varied business
activities included establishing “a large business as an army contractor” and
the construction of the Mersey Railway Tunnel, passed away today.
1886: Based on information that first
appeared in the London Times, it was
reported today that Levy Isaacs, an old German Jewish peddler who dealt in
sponges and jewelry died as a result of house fire at his home on Ashburner
Street, Bolton.
1886: Following the recent Massachusetts
State Supreme Court decision requiring the enforcement of the state’s Sunday
closing laws, it was reported that the police have been making a list of the
peddlers who were buying supplies at the Jewish businesses on Salem Street
yesterday, Sunday. Up until now, the
police have not enforced the law where Jewish businessmen are concerned because
the Jews closed their businesses on Saturday in observance of their Sabbath.
1887: Today, Mark Percy Da Maduro Peixotto, the
Cleveland born son of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto and Hannah Straus and director
general of the Equitable Life Assurance Company “married Katherine de Sadowska,
daughter of General de Sadowska, on 22 Nov 1887 at his parents' home in New
York City.”
1888: Rabbi Alexander Kohut will officiate
at the funeral services for Simon Lederer who will be interred in Cypress
Hills.
1889: In Denver, Rabbi Joseph Zeisler, the
Hungarian born son of Eduard and Josefine Zeisler and his wife Irma Zeisler
gave birth to Paula Zeisler.
1889(28th of Cheshvan, 5650): Seventy-two-year-old
Levi Ali Cohen the Dutch physician and author who was also “a member of the
committee on Jewish affairs in Holland” for twenty years.
1890: Mrs. Philip J. Joachimsen, presented
“a report of the past year’s work done by” the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society of which she is the President.
During the past year, home run by the society has admitted 153 children,
discharged 179 children and is currently caring for 566 children.
1890: Birthdate of Baltimore native Edwin
Posner “who began a 61-year Wall Street career as a $5-a-week runner and rose
to the chairmanship of the American Stock Exchange.”
1891: Birthdate of German born historian
Victor Ehrenberg whose illustrious family includes his sons Sir Geoffrey Elton,
the British historian and physicist Lewis Elton.
1892: It was reported today that until the
Hungarian parliament passes the bills for the state recognition of the Jewish
religion “special regulations to enforce the registration of children of mixed
marriages would be made.”
1892: Birthdate of Omaha, Nebraska native
Herman Lefkowitz the Kansas City School of Law trained attorney.
1893: Birthdate of Lazar Moiseyevich
Kaganovich one of the original Bolshevik’s who survived all of the purges and
would actually live longer than the Soviet Union existed.
1894: In Richmond, today, for the second
Thanksgiving in a row, Christians and Jews prayed together at Beth Ahabah as
Dr. Moses D. Hoge of the Second Presbyterian Church shared the pulpit with
Rabbi Calisch and Rabbi Koplowitz “of Keneseth Israel Congregation offered a
prayer.”
1894: Dr. Kerr of the First Presbyterian
Church delivered the sermon and assisted in the conduct of religious services
at Beth Ahabah Synagogue, in what was the first time that Jews and Christians
worshipped together in the Virginia City.
1895: Samuel Greenbaum, a prominent New York
lawyer was reported to have expressed the view that the Jews of New York would
“take no notice” of the Dr. Hermann Ahlward the German anti-Semite who is
scheduled to deliver a series of lectures in the United States. Echoing the
sentiment of most other Jews, Greenbaum said
“the Jewish people do not have anything to fear from…this disciple of
German anti-Semitism” because “the American people are not like to be
influenced by the wild and unfounded accusations which in the stock in trade of
anti-Semites.”
1896: Michaelis Machol, the Rabbi of the
Sparrow Avenue Temple, plans on delivering a talk today expressing his
opposition to the Thanksgiving message issued by President Cleveland that
invokes the image of Jesus “as a mediator between man and God.” This would not
be his last entrance into the Separation of Church and State fray. In 1901, Machol
joined other rabbis and lay leaders in “protesting the decision of the board of
the Cleveland Public Schools to begin each school day with the Lord's Prayer,
the Ten Commandments, and the 23rd Psalm.”
1896: “President Cleveland Criticized”
published today provided expression of rabbinic displeasure over Grover
Cleveland’s Christologically laced Thanksgiving proclamation including
Cincinnati Rabbi David Phillipson’s state that the Jews “feel excluded from the
invitation to observe the day.” (Full
disclosure – some of his indignation might have been politically motivated
since Phillipson was a Republican and Cleveland was a Democrat.)
1896: The Hebrew Institute will be the site
of the Harmony Musical Society’s concert this evening.
1896:”Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, the rabbi at
Temple Sinai, “predicts the downfall of the Jewish Sabbath. He declares that
the seventh day tradition of the race is doomed, wiped from the Hebraic
calendar swallowed up in the necessity of adapting the religion to the customs
of the countries in it may be transplanted. (Just as the Jew has kept the
Sabbath, so has the Sabbath kept the Jew – from the Saturday morning service.)
1897: In a speech delivered today, Reverend
Samuel Frender, a convert to Christianity told a meeting of Methodist clergyman
that “the average Jew believed that Christians had a prejudice against them.”
1897: Charles Schapiro…the young Russian Jew
who shot and killed Louis Lieberman at a wedding at 123 Henry Street” and tried
to kill his sweetheart Yetta Gordon was arraigned in the Essex Market Court”
today.
1897: In London, the House Committee of the
Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum is scheduled to meet this afternoon.
1897: Four days after she had passed away, 41-year-old
Sarah Franks, the wife of Abraham Franks was buried today at the Plashet Jewish
Cemetery.
1897: In London, the Board of Management of
the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables is scheduled to meet this evening
1897: In a move that might surprise some
advocates of the separation of church and state, a summary of Rabbi Gustave
Gottheil published included his expression of displeasure over Tammany Hall’s
victory “in the recent election” saying that “he had wished the election had
gone the other way.”
1899: In Paris, the Senate sitting as a High
Court for the trial of the conspiracy, which has already heard testimony from
the President of the League of Anti-Semitic that the demonstrations he arranged
were anti-Dreyfus protests and not a plot to overthrow the Republic, resumed
its deliberations today. The Senate was investigating charges of treason that
included many leaders of the anti-Semitic movement in France who were also
anti-democratic rightists.
1900(30th of Cheshvan, 5661) Rosh
Chodesh Kislev coincided with Thanksgiving in the United States.
1900: In response to a request from Dr.
Harris, Miss Annette Kohn is scheduled to reading her paper on “The Jewish
Problem in New York” at the Harlem Temple this evening.
1900: An entertainment and reception by the
Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home” under the
leadership of Mortimer Haymen,, Miss A.R. Rosenthal, Miss Flora Blinn, B. J.
Greenhut and Selon May, is scheduled to take place this evening at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel.
1901: The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times of London said today that
General Vannovsky, the Minister of Education “refused to discuss the request
that Jews be admitted on a more liberal scale” with a group of Moscow students.
1902: Birthdate of Galicia native Emanuel
Feuermann, the world class cellist who found fame playing with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra and who died unexpectedly in 1942 as the result of an
infection contracted during a minor surgical procedure.
1903: “The Sons and Daughters of Zion of
Sioux City, IA held a grand ball and mass meeting” today “in honor of the grand
master of the Order of the Knights of Zion, Mr. Leon Zolotkoff of Chicago who
spoke for two hours.”
1903: Sigismund Kalischer and Helen Teresa
Kalischer gave birth to Iowa State University trained refrigeration engineer
and Westinghouse employee Milton Kalischer whose place of birth has been given
as either Denver, CO or Huntington, Massachusetts.
1903: Birthdate of Warsaw native Joshua
Gelbfarb-Gilad, the Yiddish and Hebrew author who served on the faculty of the
Ramaz School.
1904: Thirty-two-year-old Max Markovitz, the Hungarian bon sone of Victor
and Sallie Markovitz and the brother of David Markovitz with whom he started
the firm of Markovitz Brothers one of the largest seller of retail and whole
hosiery with offices at 321 Market Street who was a director and/or member of
the Hungarian Congregation Emanuah Israel, Ohev Sholom, Congregation Rodeph
Sholom and Congregation B’nai Jeshurun today married Regina Neufeld, the
daughter of Alderman Morris Neufeld and the mother of their three children –
Elinore, Victor and Jerome.
1904: Birthdate of Ukraine native Isaiah
Rabinovich, the graduate of the University Toronto and JTS who taught modern
Hebrew at the college level while writing for a number of Yiddish publications.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/05/shaye-rabinovits-isaiah-rabinovich.html
1905: In Russia, it was a reported today
that a cabinet minister explained the attacks on the Jews by saying that “the
prejudice against the Jews among the ignorant lower classes of Russia is not
imaginary. It is deplorable but true
that the people under the old regime were saturated with the idea that the Jews
were their oppressors. If the Jews were
to receive equal rights with Russians, the latter would accept it as confirmation
of the suspicions they already harbor on account of recent developments that
the Emperor has been betrayed and nothing the Central Government could do would
prevent the most frightful massacres.”
1905: Three days after he had passed away, 67-year-old
Levi Cohen, the husband of the former “Bloom Woolf” with whom he had had four
children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1905: It was reported today that Prince
Ursoff, the new Assistant Minister of the Interior said “that the Jews were to
a certain extent to blame” for the anti-Semitic violence “on account of their
too open exultation over their new-found liberties.”
1905: Dr. J.L. Magnes, the President of the
Jewish Defense Association and Treasurer Joseph Barondess have issued another
appeal for funds which agents of the Bund and the Zionists will use to purchase
arms and ammunition to be used by the Jews of Russia to defend themselves from
the attacks of mobs from which the government has failed to protect them.
1905: Edward A. Lauterbach presided over a
mass meeting tonight at Temple Israel sponsored by “a committee of university
men” seeking to provide aid for the Russian Jews.
1905: Max Stern who lives at 286 Hunterdon
Street in Newark, NJ, received a letter today from Benjamin Rappaport of
Nicolaiev, Russia describing the recent riots that took place in that city
where the “mob broke open the doors of the stores, smashed the windows and
scattered the good” while taking “babies and children” and throwing “them as
high in the air as they could and letting them come down on the paving stones
to be crushed to death.”
1905: Hundreds of Russian Jewish families
are reported leaving or preparing to leave for Palestine.
1906: It was reported today that Isaac N.
Seligman will serve as Treasurer for the Memorial Committee that has been
formed to erect a bronze monument in either Washington or New York that will
honor the late Carl Schurz.
1907: It was reported today that “the
Anti-Clericals who had gained a great victory in the municipal elections” have
decided to elect Ernest Nathan who was a native of England and who had only
recently become an Italian subject Mayor of Rome making him the first Jew to
hold this position.
1908: “Paris Has Yiddish Theatre” published
today reported that “Parisians were astonished to learn that a Hebrew theatre
of the sort which exists on the Bowery in New York has been open” in the French
capital for quite “some time” at the corner of Rue Saint Denis and Rue Etienne
Marcle where performances of both Yiddish translations of classics such as
“Hamlet” and original plays based on “Jewish historical subjects” that have
already been performed in New York and London take place on an irregular basis
1908: In Bessarabia, “pharmacist David
Ackerman and Bertha (Greenberg) Ackerman gave birth to Columbia trained
psychiatrist Nathan Ward Ackerman, who served as the “chief psychiatrist at the
Menninger Clinic” as well as serving in the capacity for “the Jewish Board of
Guardians in New York City”
http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/7/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman.html
https://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman/e/B001K8FF8I
1909: Birthdate of Mikhail Leontyevich Mil a founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter
Plant, which is responsible for many of the well-known Russian helicopter
models, notably the Mil Mi-24 'Hind'. He passed away in 1970.
1909(9th of Kislev, 5670): Six-year-old
Itzig Rabinowitz passed away today.
1909: Speaking in Yiddish,
twenty-three-year-old Clara Lemlich addressed a crowd of thousands of restless
laborers at New York City's Cooper Union. “I am one of those who suffer from
the abuses described here, and I move that we go on a general strike.” The audience of workers had been listening
for hours as numerous labor leaders decried current working conditions in New
York's garment industry but who nonetheless advocated caution when considering
a strike. Lemlich's words and passion stirred the crowd. The chairman of the
event came to her side and called out “Will you take the old Hebrew oath?”
Although not an exclusively Jewish gathering, most in the crowd raised their
right arms and pledged with him in Yiddish: “if I turn traitor to the cause I
now pledge, may my hand wither from the arm I now raise.” And so began the
“Uprising of the 20,000,” a critical turning point in American labor activism.
In the months that followed, thousands of garment workers, mainly young Jewish
and Italian women walked picket lines and confronted police brutality. The
Jewish women, including Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, and Pauline Newman, who
worked tirelessly to organize and sustain the strike effort, insisted that
their concerns extended beyond wages and hours. They fought for dignity in
working conditions and for women's right to union recognition. While the strike
was only partially successful, it set off a wave of general strikes from
1909-1915 in cities across the United States. As a result, U.S. labor leaders
who had long dismissed the needs of women workers and ignored the work of
female activists had to accept the centrality of women's needs within the
American labor movement.
1910: In Budapest, Edith Ehrenfeld and
Jozsef Patai gave birth to Ervin György Patai, who as Raphael Patai would gain
fame as an ethnographer and anthropologist and who raised two daughters –
Jennifer and Daphne with his wife Naomi Tolkowsky.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-25-mn-88-story.html
1911: “There was a well-defined report in
Washington today that President Taft in his forthcoming message to Congress
might have something to say on the subject of probable negotiations between the
United States and Russia looking to a revision of the treaty of 1832,
principally to remove the present restrictions upon the rights of travel and
domicile of American Jews in Russia.”
1912(12th of Kislev, 5673): Civil
War veteran Alfred Pels passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1912(12th of Kislev, 5673): Eighty-nine-year-old
merchant Zachary Bruenn passed away today in New Orleans, LA.
1912(12th of Kislev, 5673): Civil War
veteran Morris Pfaelzer passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1913(22nd of Cheshvan, 5674):
Parashat Chayei Sara
1913(22nd of Cheshvan, 5674: Eighteen-year-old
Moshe Barsky, “a member of Degania Alef, the kibbutz founded in 1909” who had
ridden off on a mule to get medication for Shmuel Dayan, the father of Moshe
Dayan was killed today by “persons unknown” who left his body “lying
with a stick and a pair of shoes on his head.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537120500535373?journalCode=fisa20
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Killing_of_Moshe_Barsky
1913: “Our Financial Oligarchy” by Louis
Brandies which would become the first chapter in Other People's Money And
How the Bankers Use It was published today in Harper’s Weekly.
1914: A review of Zionism by Professor
Richard H. Gottheil was published today.
1914: “Stamp Tax for Jewish Relief”
published today described positive response to “the one self-taxation stamp
issued by the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews” that has included the
formation by the Young Men’s Hebrew Associations of “Enlistment Clubs” where
each member has pledged to contribute 10 cents a week.
1914: According to an announcement made
tonight by the American Jewish Committee “the Turkish Government has assured
the State Department…that is will not expel Russian Jews residing in the
Ottoman Empire. (The important impact of this was on the Jews of Palestine, a
large number of whom had come from Russia starting in the 1880’s and were
viewed as potential enemies by the Turks who were fighting the Czar)
1914: For the second time in two weeks, Al
McCoy the New Jersey born Jewish Middleweight World Champion successfully
defended his crown.
1914: As the First Battle of Ypres sputtered
to a close on the Western Front, Jews in the BEF and the Kaiser’s Army settled
in for what would be the first of several long winters on the Western Front
that would not end until November, 1918,
1914: “At a conference of the lodges
affiliated with the Workmen’s Circle and other Rumanian organizations
representing 5,000 members” held today, “it was decided to protest against the
loan that a delegation from Rumania will be requesting from the United States.
1915: A memorial service will be held this
morning and this evening in honor of Dr. Solomon Schechter.
1915: Maurice Blumenthal, the general
counsel of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel was reported to have said
that his organization would lead a nationwide non-sectarian campaign against
the Gary Plan saying that “the separation of religion from American
institutions is regarded as one of the safeguards of American progress” and
that “the church and the home must remain the place for religious instruction
and activity” while “the public schoolroom must be the last place in which
discussions on religious distinctions shall be made possible or tolerated.
1915: In Germany Dr. Israel Abraham Rabin
and Dr. Ester Else Rabin gave birth to Professor Chaim Menachem Rabin
https://memim.com/chaim-menachem-rabin.html
1915: “Jews Oppose Gary Plan” published
today described the Sons of Israel’s plans for a national campaign to bring an
end to the education program fostered by William Wirt.
1915: “The seventh annual meeting of the
Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue was held” this evening “in
the basement of the Synagogue of Shearith Israel at 2 West Seventieth Street.
1915: “A movement to raise millions of
dollars for the relief of Jewish war sufferers in Europe was inaugurated”
tonight “at a meeting of Jewish business and professional men in the Hotel
McAlpin attended by among others, Jacob H. Schiff, Congressman Meyer London,
Herman Bernstein and Colonel Harry Cutler of Provident presided over by Dr.
J.L. Manges.
1916: In New York plans were reported for
memorial services to be held this Saturday in numerous synagogues on the east
side to mark the passing of Emperor Franz Josef.
1917(7th of Kislev, 5678): Seventy-seven-year-old
chief rabbi and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor Joseph Lehmann passed away
today in Paris.
1917: As Allenby’s forces, including the 38th
and 39th Battalions known as the Jewish battalions, made their way
towards Jerusalem, Turkish forces made three fruitless counter-attacks in an
attempt to dislodge the British from Nebi Samwil.
1917: Woodrow Wilson became the first
president to publicly endorse a national Jewish philanthropic campaign when he
sent a letter to Jacob Schiff, today calling for wide support of the United
Jewish Relief Campaign, which was raising funds for European War relief.
1917: Birthdate of St. Louis native and
Bronze Star WW II Army Veteran, Melvin Kranzberg, the Harvard trained founder
of the “Society for the History of Technology” who was a history professor at
Case Western Reserve and Georgia Tech.
http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0266.pdf
http://www.vqronline.org/essay/technology-history-and-culture-appreciation-melvin-kranzberg
1917: Felix M. Warburg, President of the
Federation of Jewish Charities, issued an appeal today for the eighty-four
societies for which the federation had raised $2,300,000 during the past year
to carry on with their work despite the increasing challenges being faced by
the Jewish community.
1918: In Prague, “the Jewish National
council for the Czecho-Slovak State” sent a “telegram to the International
Zionist Organization” thanking “the British Government for its declaration on
Palestine.”
1918: As Poles and Ukrainians clash in the
anarchy that followed the breakup of the Russian Empire Polish forces began a two-day
attack on the Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov).
1919(29th of Cheshvan, 5680):
Parashat Toldot
1919: It was reported today that that there
will be “an observance of sorrow and mourning of Jews in the Ukraine in New
York City on November 24th.
1920: “The Parents’ Association of the Free
Synagogue of the Bronx” is scheduled to “give a theater party for its members
and friends” today.
1921: Birthdate of comedian and comedic actor
Rodney Dangerfield whose ill-fitting black suits and shirts with the too-tight
collar were as much a part of his comedic signature as was the lament, “I don’t
get no respect.”
1922: Grigori Sokolnikov began serving as
People’s Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR.
1922: Birthdate of Polish native Anita
Novinsky, who gained famed as Anita Novinsky, “a Brazilian historian, who specialized in the Portuguese
Inquisition in Brazil and the history of the Jewish presence in Brazil.”
Anita Novinsky, leading scholar on
history of Jews in Brazil, dies at 98 | The Times of Israel
1923: In Edmonton, Alberta, Rose (Garfin)
and Harry Hiller gave birth to movie director Arthur Hiller whose best-known
movie was the saccharine film of the 70’s – Love Story for which he can be
forgiven because he also direct Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Americanization of
Emily.”
1923: Birthdate of Hanna Meierzak, the
German child actress who made Aliyah in 1933 where she gained fame as actress
Hanna Maron.
1923: At the Commonwealth Sporting Club,
Charlie Phil Rosenberg, born Charles Green on the Lower East Side won a twelve-round
decision on points as he advanced toward becoming the World Bantamweight
Champion.
1924: Birthdate of Alfred G. Paulson, the
husband of Jacqueline Boklan and the father hedge fund manager John Alfred
Paulson.
1925: “Reports of the conditions of Central
and East European Jewries were given at a meeting of The Judaeans at the
Pennsylvania tonight by the Rev. Dr. Hermann Vogelstein of Breslau, who spoke
of the Jews in Germany; the Rev. Dr. Ignatz Ziegler of Karlsbad, who described
the situation in Czechoslovakia, and Dr. Henry Moskowitz, who told of a recent
trip to Russia and Poland. Samson Lachman presided.
1925: Fifty-seven-year-old Abraham
Schrameck, the son of a family of Jewish merchants in Saint-Etienne completed
his seven months as Minister of the Interior four days before his fifty-eighth
birthday.
1926: Featherweight Harry Blitman fought and
won his seventh straight bout.
1926: “Pals in Paradise” a silent film
starring Rudolph Schildkraut “as Abraham Lezinsky” was released in the United
States today.
1927: George Gershwin's "Funny
Face," premieres in New York City.
1927: “The Racket” a three-act drama
co-starring Edward G. Robinson playing the first of the gangster roles which he
would make famous in numerous films, opened on Broadway at the Ambassador
Theatre.
1928: “A dispatch to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency from Bucharest” today “said that the Zionist groups of Transylvania and
Bukovina had made a political alliance with the National Peasant Party assuring
six parliamentary seats to the Zionists.”
https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/sir-ben-helfgott/
1930(2nd of Kislev, 5691):
Parashat Toldot
1930: The Northwestern Wildcats with Hy
Crizevksy playing guard lost their last game of the season when they were
defeated by Notre Dame.
1930: Michigan State University, led by
running back Abe Eliowitz, finished the season with a tie against Detroit Mercy
which meant their record for the year was 5-1-2.
1931: In article entitled “Palestine Goes to
the Theatre”, Jean Jaffe reports approvingly on the wide scope of theatrical
productions offered by the Jewish community including productions of Shaw’s
“Devil’s Desciple” which was produced under the Hebrew names “Bechor Hasatan”,
Upton Sinclair’s “The Pot Boiler” and Zweig’s “Jeremiah.”
1932: It was reported today, that “Professor
Gustav Klausner of St. Louis University” has been elected president of the
newly created organization designed to consolidate “all work for the building
of the Jewish national home in Palestine that will impact seven national Jewish
organizations.
1932(23rd of Cheshvan, 5693):
Phoebe Arbeid, the London born daughter Rebekah and Hyman Nathan and the wife
of Jack Arbeid passed
1933: In Paris, Elisabeth Pelletier de
Chambure, a French Catholic aristocrat and Phillipe de Rothschild, who were not
married to each other yet gave birth to Baroness Philippine Mathilde Camille de
Rothschild.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/philippine-de-rothschild-wine-nobility-dies-at-80.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11056866/Baroness-Philippine-de-Rothschild-obituary.html
1933: Incorporation of the Anti-Nazi League
1933: Birthdate of Dr. David Reuben author
of the ground-breaking Everything You Always Wanted To About Sex (but were
afraid to ask).
1934: "Santa Claus Is Comin' to
Town" was first heard on Eddie Cantor's radio program. And you thought that “White Christmas” was
the only Christmas song with a Jewish connection.
1934: In an effort to curb “excessive
rentals,” Tel Aviv’s Municipal Council vote to impose “regulations for the
fixing of a maximum rate of rent for all business and residential property.”
1935: “Crime and Punishment,” a film based
on the novel of the same name directed by Josef von Sternberg, produced by B.P.
Schulberg and starring Peter Lorre was released in the United States.
1935: Following his unexpected demise
yesterday, today “Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch was praised by civic
leaders and officials as a public servant who had made himself a martyr to
duty, a conscientious citizen and as a leader of the Jewish effort in New
York.”
1935: “The Perfect Gentleman” produced by
Harry Rapf was released today in the United States.
1936: Emir Abduallah fails in his attempt to
convince Palestinian Arabs to give testimony before the Peel Commission.
1936: Birthdate of Fred Wilpon the
Bensonhurst native who made his fortune in real estate before he purchased the
New York Mets.
1936: Birthdate of Dr. Albert Bernard
Ackerman. A native of Elizabeth, NJ who
graduated from Princeton and Columbia Medical School, Ackerman was a founding
figure in the field of dermatopathology who trained a generation of doctors to
recognize skin diseases under the microscope
1937:
The Palestine Post
reported that in Beirut four persons lost their lives and more than 60 were
wounded in demonstrations protesting the closing down by French authorities of
several Lebanese political organizations. Over 300 arrests were made. Palestine
was not the only scene of unrest in the Middle East prior to World War II.
1937: Mathematician Fritz Noether was
arrested on charges of being a German spy who not only spied on the Russian
armament industry but committed acts of sabotage against it
1937:
The Palestine Post reported
that in Vienna the local Jewish community conducted a winter relief appeal for
funds to feed some 1,800 needy residents daily.
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that 2,000 delegates attended the Palestine
Conference in Warsaw. They were addressed by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Ben-Zvi would gain fame as the second
President of Israel.
1938: Beersheba, after having been in the
hands of Arab rebels since it was abandoned by the government civil authorities
six weeks ago, was occupied by British troops today. All towns in Palestine
that the Arab rebels had seized are now controlled by the British military
although Arab terrorists are still active.
1938: “Robert Ley, the Nazi Minister of
Labour declared the today in Vienna: "No compassion will be tolerated for
the Jews. We deny the Pope's statement that there is but one human race. The
Jews are parasites." Catholic leaders, including Cardinal Schuster of
Milan, Cardinal van Roey in Belgium and Cardinal Verdier in Paris, backed the
Pope's strong condemnation of Kristallnacht.”
1939: While on the witness stand in General
Sessions Court today, Fritz Kuhn, the German-American Bund leader admitted “he
had lied to Mrs. Florence Camp…and had lied again to the jury hearing evidence
of larceny charges against him
1939: The Balfour Players are scheduled to
perform “Trial,” “a play concerning the Jews, Arabs and English in Palestine by
Miss Shoshanah Bat Dori at the Heckschler Theatre on Fifth Avenue.
1939(10th of Kislev, 5700): Seventy-five-year-old
Louis Pokroisky, a native of Lithuania
the president of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Roxbury and managing
director of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of Boston who had been married to
Deborah H. Brody for 54 years passed away today in Boston
1939: Supreme Court Justice Julius Miller
said today that “payment to the German government of $3,700 from the $60,000
estate of Mrs. Lucy A. Peck will be authorized if proof is submitted that such
a payment will result in the release of Mrs. Peck’s brother,” 71-year-old
Rudolf A. Strauss, a Jew currently being held in a German prison.
1939: In Newark, NJ, Alice (née Lavroff) and
Philip Goorwitz gave birth to Allen Goorwitz who gained fame as actor Allen
Garfield
http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Allen-Garfield.html
1939: “Harry A. Jung, honorary general
manager of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation…made public today
letters to Representative Martin Dies,” chairman of the House Un-American
Activities Committee denying “that he or the federation had any connection with
Nazi organizations.”
1939(10th of Kislev, 5700): In Warsaw,
Poland a Jew killed an officer. As
punishment for the crime, all 53 male inhabitants of his building were
summarily shot.
1940: “Little Nellie Kelly” a musical comedy
directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Arthur Freed was released in the
United States by MGM.
1940: Prime Minister Winston Churchill
writes to Lord Lloyd, the Secretary of State for the Colonies who is an
opponent of Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel, cautioning him to make sure that
Jewish internees on island of Mauritius be treated humanely.
1940: “Meet the Wildcat,” a mystery directed
by Arthur Lubin, with a script by Alex Gottlieb and co-starring Joseph
Schildkraut was released today in the United States.
1941(2nd
of Kislev, 5702): Sixty-seven-year-old Columbia graduate and JTS ordained rabbi
Bernard Michael Kaplan, the Lithuanian born son of Michael Sheftel and Feigel
Mayor Kaplan who began his career at the McGill Avenue Synagogue in Montreal
after which he served several congregations including the Bush Street Temple in
San Francisco, B’nai Jershurun and
Temple Israel in Waterbury, CT while author “the Strange Melody and others
plays which were performed in the David Belasco Theatre in San Francisco."
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/11/23/105166460.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0\
1941(2nd
of Kislev, 5702): Fifty-five-year-old Kurt Koffka passed away. Koffka was born
and educated in Germany. The famed psychologist moved to America in 1928. With Wolfgang Köhler and Max Wertheimer, he
co-founded the Gestalt school of psychology. Koffka became in time the most
influential spokesman of Gestalt psychology. He applied it to child
development, learning, memory and emotion. The name Gestalt, meaning
form or configuration, emphasizes that the whole is more than the sum of its
parts. Gestalt psychology grew as reaction against the traditional atomistic
approach to the human being where behavior was analyzed into constituent
elements called sensations. He made an influential distinction between the
behavioral and the geographical environments - the perceived world of common
sense and the world studied by scientists.
1942: During WW II, “a Soviet
counteroffensive” trapped “about a quarter of a million German soldiers” within
Stalingrad marking the slow beginning of the turning point that will lead to
the ultimate defeat of the Nazis and the saving of the remnant of European
Jewry.
1942: Today Sir Stafford Cripps, who as
President of the Board of Trade attended the Potsdam Conference where he
expressed the “opinion through economic development Arabs and Jews would learn
to cooperate” and that “with a view to an independent Palestine, we must partition
the country temporarily in order to safeguard the interests of the Jewish
people” completed his service as “Leader of the House of Commons Privy Seal”
and began serving as Minister of
Aircraft Production.
1942 (13th of Kislev, 5703): “Dr. Benzion
Mossinsohn, noted Hebrew educator, Zionist leader and a member of the Jewish
National Council died…today in the Hadassah Hospital at the age of 64, after a
long illness. He was the found and head
of the Herzlia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, the leading secondary school in
Palestine.” Dr. Mossinsohn visited New
York for the first time in 1912 as a representative of the Gymnasium of Jaffa
“the first strictly Jewish school to be established in Palestine in 2,000
years.” During the visit, Mossinsohn
addressed a gathering at Cooper Union during when he declared “Palestine is the
land in which to solve the Jewish problem.
It will be the land of our salvation if we make it a center of culture
and not merely a center for immigration.”
Mossinsohn visited the United States again in 1936, the same year in
which his son was killed by a land mine explosion that took place during the
multi-year long Arab uprising. By now he
was President of the World Confederaton of General Zionists and head of the
Herzlia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv.
1943:
Lebanon gains its independence from France
1943:
Birthdate of former MK Naomi Blumenthal who “was one of the founders of the
Beersheba theatre” and who served as Deputy Minister of National Infrastructure
under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
1943: More
than 1000 Jewish patients at a Berlin mental hospital are deported to
Auschwitz.
1943(24th of Cheshvan, 5704): Professor
Martin Pappenheim, the Viennese psychiatrists passed away today in Tel Aviv at
the age of 62. He was the father of Else Pappenheim, MD Austrian-American
psychiatrist and neurologist and a colleague of Sigmund Freud.
1943(24th of Cheshvan, 5704): Lyricist Lorenz
Hart passed away New York at age 48.
1944: The U.S. Sixth Army Group notified the
Alsos Mission that the capture of Strasbourg which was home to a German nuclear
laboratory was imminent.
1944(6th of Kislev, 5705): Fifty-eight-year-old
“Dr. Benjamin H. Mann, an ophthalmologist at Methodist Hospital” passed away
today at Graduate Hospital “after being ill for six weeks.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/24/86735530.pdf
1944: Birthdate of Yitzchak Mordechai, a
native of Iraq who made Aliyah in 1949.
He became a decorated member of the IDF before beginning a political
career that included service as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport.
1944: Protectors
of Jews in Budapest, Hungary, meet with Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg at
the city's Swedish legation
1945: In Brooklyn, Morty and Sylvia Okun
Bernstein gave birth to Allen J. Bernstein who greatly expanded the high-end
Morton’s of Chicago steakhouse chain during his 17 years as chairman, applying
what some in the industry called a Big Mac approach to filet mignon. (As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1945: “The Day Before Spring,” a Alan Jay
Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical opened on Broadway at the National Theatre.
1945: The British claim that members of
“Jewish underground” took arms from the RAF stationed in Ras el Ain, Syria.
1946: Five days after its premiere in New
York City “The Chase” a film noir written by Philip Yordan was released in the
rest of the United States today.
1946: Birthdate of Denver born political
cartoonist Ed Stein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDuNT9TgRgE
1947: “A responsible information asserted
tonight” that Soviet “officials have been in direct contact with the Stern
group” and that he considered it “an obvious Communist” attempt to influence
the group.
1947
Michigan, led by Fullback and Linebacker Dan Dworsky concluded the regular
season with a 21-0 win at home against rival Ohio State.
1948:
Operation Lot (also known as operation Dabambam in memory of Gershon
Dabbenbaum) did not begin today because reinforcements had not arrived which
meant the attack would not take place until the following day.
1949: The Petersberg Agreement is an
international treaty that extended the rights of the Federal Government of
Germany vis-a-vis the occupying forces of Britain, France, and the United
States, and which was viewed as the first major step of Federal Republic of
Germany (West Germany) towards sovereignty was signed by Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer of the CDU/CSU and the Allied High Commissioners Brian Hubert
Robertson (Britain), André François-Poncet (France), and John J. McCloy (United
States of America) today in a step meant to return Germany to the family of
nations following WW II.
1949: Birthdate of David J. Skorton, who had
served as President of the University of Iowa before becoming the 12th
president of Cornell University in 2006.
1950(12th of Kislev, 5711): Morris
Grossberg, “the son of Mordecai Anshel and Leah (Turner) Grossberg and the
husband of Rachial Miriam Bejgel Grossberg with whom he had six children –
Charles, Max, Rose, Manuel, Chilly and Fannie – passed away today in Detroit after
which he was buried in Hebrew Memorial Park.
1952(4th of Kislev, 5713):
Parashat Tolodot
1952(4th of Kislev, 5713): Forty-two-year-old
Louis Edwin Finerman the New York born son of
Ida Joffe Finerman and Nathan Feinerman, the President of the Workmen’s
Circle passed away today.
1952: Moss Hart’s “The Climate of Eden” closed
at the Martin Beck Theatre in Manhattan today
1954: “Aunt Clara” a British comedy with
music by Benjamin Frankel was released in the United Kingdom today.
1955(7th of Kislev, 5716): Sixty-year-old Shemp Howard, a member of the Three Stooges, died of a heart attack following an evening
out with friends watching boxing matches.
1955(7th of Kislev, 5716): Eighty-three-year-old
Isadore “Izzy” Cohen, who along with Samuel Lehrman created the Giant Food
grocery chain which a major Washington, DC chain that was the first story of
its type to carry challah and where the men in the fish market knew what you
need to make gefitle fish, passed away today.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-11-24/news/1995328013_1_israel-cohen-giant-supermarket
1955(7th of Kislev, 5716): Eighty-six-year-old
Wilmington, Illinois native “Dr. Isaac A. Abt, an international authority on
children’s diseases” and a pioneer in the field of pediatrics passed away today
in Chicago.
1955: Today, two year after the death of
Joseph Stalin, a “Military collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
withdrew the indictments against the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC)
members due to the lack of evidence.”
1956:
"A new Egyptian Nationality Code barred so called 'Zionists' from Egyptian
nationality.
1956:
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad,
which were boycotted by Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon “in response to the Suez
Crisis” that had been precipitated by the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez
Canal, opened in Melbourne today.
1957:
“Bombers B-52” a “Cold War” movie written by Irving Wallace and music by
Leonard Rosenman was released today in the United States.”
1957:
Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom
& Jerry"
1957:
“Morton A. Spring has been named President of Loew’s International succeed
Arthur M. Loew.
1958(10th
of Kislev, 5719): Parshat Vayetzei
1958(10th
of Kislev, 5719): Washington born philanthropist Helen Sonneborn who was
“active in bringing German Jewish children to Palestine” and who was
“benefactor of Hebrew University and the Technion” passed away today in New
York City.
1961:
“The George Raft” story, a biopic starring Julie London and featuring Hershel
Bernardi and Jack Albertson was released today in the United States.
1962:
Birthdate of Dushanbe, Tajikistan native Benjamin Yusupov, the classical
composer, conductor and pianist who was a graduate of Bar-Ilan University
1963:
Filming of the pilot for “Bewitched” created by Sol Saks began today.
1963:
John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President was shot dead in Dallas, Texas – a national
tragedy which Abraham Zapruder inadvertently filmed. Kennedy enjoyed a great of deal of political
support among Jewish voters. He
appointed two Jews to his cabinet – Abe Ribicoff to H.E.W. and Arthur Goldberg
to Labor. Kennedy would appoint Goldberg to the Supreme Court as a replacement
for Felix Frankfurter.
1963:
In Austin, TX, “the women of Audas Achim…were working in their new kosher
kitchen, mixing potato salad for the several hundred people including Vice
President Lyndon Johnson, who were expected to attend the dedication of the new
synagogue which was to take place tomorrow. (As reported by Cathy Schechter;
full disclosure – I taught pre-bar mitzvah at Agudas Achim five years later)
1964(17th
of Kislev, 5725): Seventy-two-year-old Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, the long-time
rabbi at B’nai Jehuda Temple and opponent of corrupt political boss Tom
Pendergast passed away today in Kansas City, MO.
https://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-American-Crusader-Samuel-Mayerberg/dp/1406758817
1965:
Steve Sabol “was the subject of a humorous articled his self-promotion exploits
in today’s issue of Sports Illustrated.
1967: Birthdate of tennis star Boris Becker.
According to an interview Becker gave in 1999, his mother was Jewess from
Czechoslovakia.
1967: In response to its ties to the Civil
Rights Movement, in Jackson, Mississippi, “Beth Israel’s new temple” was bombed
today.
1967: English professional football player
George Cohen”s “37th and final England appearance came in a 2–0 win over
Northern Ireland at Wembley” today
1967: The U.N. Security Council approved
Resolution 242 as a result of the Six Day War fought in June of that year. The resolution would provide the basis for
Israel’s attempts to trade land for peace.
1967: U.N. Secretary General Thant raises
issue of restrictions placed on Syrian Jews at the U.N. Security Council during
Resolution 242 on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Intervention on behalf of the Jews
fails.
1968(1st of Kislev, 5729): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1968(1st of Kislev, 5729): Twelve
people were killed and 55 more were injured when terrorists set off a car bomb
at the Mahaneh Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
1968: First interracial kiss on network
television takes place between Captain Kirk played by William Shatner, and Lt.
Uhura. (Shatner is Jewish.)
1969(12th of Kislev, 5730):
Parashat Vayetzei
1969: The Infants Home of Brooklyn which is
led by its President Murray Adler is scheduled to “mark its 50th
anniversary at a dinner tonight at the New York Hilton.”
1969(12th of Kislev, 5730): Bertha Solomon
passed away today at the age of 77. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solomon-bertha
1971: Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971), an
Equal Protection case in the United States for which Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote
the plaintiff’s brief was decided today with the Supreme Court ruling “that the
administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between
sexes.”
1972: Derek C. Bok, the president of Harvard
and former dean of its law school made a special for in federal court in an
attempt to keep Professor Samuel L Popkin out of jail.
1974: The United Nations General Assembly
grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. For the PLO, this
was a reward for a variety of terrorist acts including the slaughter at the
Munich Olympics. What the UN members
failed to understand was that others would see this as an approval of terrorism
as an instrument for the advancement of their own agendas. There is a direct line between the UN’s
action and the radical Islamic terrorists that are confronting the West in the
21st century.
1974: “Israeli pop start” Mike Brant suffered
fractures after attempting to commit suicide by “jumping out the window of his
manager's hotel room in Geneva
1976: Funeral services are scheduled to be
held today for Hadassah member Rosa Goldschmidt, the wife of Araon Goldschmidt and mother of Doris Hoffman Lockwood.
1976: Today Izvestia published an article
entitled “Formula of betrayal: propagandist ‘of the Zionist paradise’ in the
mantle of the scientist”.
1977: Lucio
Flaviom a Brazilian film directed by Héctor Babenco premiered at The São
Paulo International Film Festival today
1978: “Same Time, Next Year,” a comedy
produced by Walter Mirish and with music by Marvin Hamlisch was released today.
1978(22nd of Cheshvan, 5739): San Francisco
Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was Jewish, were
assassinated in City Hall by a former city supervisor, Dan White. Dianne
Feinstein, who was then the President of the San Francisco's Board of
Supervisors, was the first to discover Harvey Milk's body. Feinstein who was
the first female president of the Board of Supervisors was then sworn in as the
first female mayor of San Francisco in Moscone's stead. In 1979, she was
elected to the first of two full terms as mayor. In 1992, she won a special
Senate election to replace Pete Wilson who had left his seat to become governor
of California. She was re-elected in 1994 and 2000.
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_froeschel
1981: Today, at the Lotus Club, Rabbi Henry
Glazer of the Town and Village Conservative Synagogue officiated at the wedding
of Barnard graduate and Boston University trained attorney Pamel Jarvis and
Elliot Carlen, “a commodities arbitrager with Salomon Brothers.
1981: Sir Hans Adolf Krebs passed away. The
son of a Jewish physician, Krebs was forced in 1933 to leave Nazi Germany for
England. The German-born British biochemist who received (with Fritz Lipmann)
the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in living
organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as the tricarboxylic acid
cycle (also called the citric acid cycle, or Krebs cycle) - the basic system
for the essential pathway of oxidation process within the cell.. These reactions
involve the conversion - in the presence of oxygen--of substances that are
formed by the breakdown of sugars, fats, and protein components to carbon
dioxide, water, and energy-rich compounds. The Krebs cycle explains two
simultaneous processes: the degradation reactions which yield energy, and the
building-up processes which use up energy
1984: In New York, Karsten Johansson and
Melanie Sloan whose Ahskenazi family had lived in the Bronx gave birth to
actress Scarlett Johansson.
1985: “Fever Pitch” that last film directed
by Richard Brooks, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Hyman and Esther Sax
was released today in the United States.
1985: “Bad Medicine,” the cinema version the
novel Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD starring Steve Guttenberg and
Alan Arkin was released in the United States today.
1985: According to the Tower Report Al
Schwimmer, a middleman and consultant for Israel's Prime Minister, Shimon
Peres, fouled up one arms shipment today when he allowed the lease to expire on
three transport planes in Tel Aviv. At the time, weapons for Iran were en route
to Tel Aviv: when they arrived, there were no planes to take them to Iran. As a
result, the arms delivery to Iran was days late, and no hostages were released.
Mr. Schwimmer had been trying to save what amounted to a day's leasing cost. ''I
have never seen anything so screwed up in my life,'' General Secord is reported
to have said.
1988: William Andreas Brown was appointed
U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1988: Today “Jewish singer, performer,
choreographer, and television personality Paula Abdul released her single
“Straight Up” from her debut album, Forever Your Girl.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/22/1988/paula-abdul-releases-first-no-1-hit-single-straight
1988: ABC broadcast the sixth episode of “War
and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name
written by Herman Wouk.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/buttenwieser-helen-lehman
1989: The Mirage, Steve Wynn’s “first major
casino on the Las Vegas Strip” opened today.
1990:
Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom. Thatcher was seen by many as
philo-Semitic and a supporter of Israel. She had been a member of Anglo-Israel
Friendship League of Finchley and Conservative Friends of Israel and during her
career had five Jewish members of her cabinet.
1991: Mark Rydell’s “For the Boys”
co-starring Bette Midler, James Caan and George Segal was released today in the
United States.
1991: “Beauty and the Beast, an “animated
musical romantic fantasy film” with music by Alan Menken was released today in
the United States.
1991: “The Addams Family” a comedy based “on
the cartoon of the same name” directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, co-produced by
Scott Rudin, with music by Marc Shaiman was released today in the United
States.
1992(26th of Cheshvan, 5753):
Luise (Lissy) Cohn the German born “daughter of Gustave and Paula Cohn” and
wife of Bernard Kaufmann passed away today in Amsterdam.
1993: Edward P. Djerejian was appointed U.S.
Ambassador to Israel.
1993: In an example of Jews telling the tale
of other Jews Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” a comedy
based on his experience as a writer for Sid Caesar opened on Broadway at the
Richard Rodgers Theatre.
1994(19th of Kislev, 5755): Eighty-eight-year-old
Viola Spolin, leading innovator in American theatre passed away today in Los
Angeles.
http://www.spolin.com/violabio/
1995: “Two Bits” a drama produced by Arthur
Cohn, the namesake of his grandfather who was the Chief Rabbi of Basel.
1995(29th of Cheshvan, 5756): Eighty-three-year-old
Israel Cohen, a co-founder of Giant Food Stores, a grocery chain known to all
of those living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area which was the first
store of its kind to sell fresh baked Challah and whose fresh fish department
employees knew which aquatic creatures were necessary for Gefilte Fish passed
away today.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-11-24/news/1995328013_1_israel-cohen-giant-supermarket
1995: Ehud Barak finished his term as
Minister of Internal Affairs.
1995: Ehud Barak replaced Shimon Peres as
Minister of Foreign Affiars.
1995: Chaim Ramon began serving as Minister
of Internal Affairs in a government headed by Shimon Peres.
1995: Gonen Segev began serving his second
term as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure.
1996: After having premiered at the Mall of
America on November 16, “Jingle All the Way” a Christmas comedy featuring
Laraine Newman and Harvey Korman with music by David Newman was released in the
United States
1997: It was reported today the President
Bill Clinton was the first recipient …of the Man of Peace Award, established by
the Rabin Foundation and the Peres Foundation, two ''peace centers'' financed
in part with money from the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize the men shared with Mr.
Arafat. Mr. Clinton asked the foundations to devote the $75,000 in prize money
to pay for scholarships for Americans to study in Israel.”
1998: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about
topics of Jewish interest including I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
by Victor Klemperer, Freud: Conflict
and Culture, edited by Michael S. Roth in association with
the Library of Congress and A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellman by Rosemary Mahoney.
1998(3rd of
Kislev, 5759): Seventy-three-year-old Sidney Pollard, the “British economic and labor
historian and Professor at the University of Sheffield” who “pioneered the
study of the role of economic management in the process of industrialization”
the Viennese born son of Holocaust vicitms
Leontine and Moses Pollack whose birth name was Siegfried Pollak and who
survived thanks to the Kindertransport program passed away today.
1998:
Fifty-six-year-old Columbia graduate and Harvard Medical School trained
psychiatrist Robert S. Aaron, the husband of Mayre Rasmussen Z”L passed away
today in San Francisco.
1999: In “Final Sabbath for a Spiritual Hub; A Synagogue That Embodied an Earlier
Bronx Is Closed” published to Barbara Stewart provided the following
description of the Mosholu Jewish Center.
The sign, printed in pencil and taped to the
front door of the Mosholu Jewish Center in the north Bronx, said ''Sale.'' But
there were no customers, only four women, mostly over 70, who sorted through
jumbles of dishes, fabric remnants and memorabilia. There were menorahs for $2
and red Depression-glass cups and dessert plates, $10 for the whole stack.
There were china teapots, 75 cents each, with floral designs faded from years
of use at B'nai B'rith meetings, and boxes of Hanukkah tablecloths, satin Passover
wall hangings, and plaques listing board members of 35 or 40 years ago. ''How
about Shirley and Irving Peck?'' one of the women said, paging through a book
of black-and-white photographs, bound in red with gold letters: ''Jewish War
Veterans, 1974.'' She asked, ''Does anyone know where they are?'' ''They moved to Florida,'' another said.
''Irving died.'' ''Shirley died, too, I think,'' the third said. Seventy-two
years ago, scores of newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Europe founded the
synagogue. Seventy-two years later, its few remaining members dispensed with
its memories. One of the last vestiges of the old Jewish Bronx, the Orthodox
synagogue on Hull Avenue in Norwood had outlived nearly all of its neighbors,
the synagogues that once dotted the east Bronx and Grand Concourse
neighborhoods, along with the kosher butchers, the Yiddish libraries and the
leftist groups like the Workmen's Circle. Had it not been for the stubborn
devotion of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, who had led it since 1947, the Mosholu
Jewish Center would have closed at least 10 years ago. Rabbi Schacter, for
years one of the country's most prominent and powerful rabbis, kept showing up
as the membership shrank from thousands to hundreds, hundreds to handfuls,
raising money from outside sources and preparing the same impressive sermons
week after week. But last year, with fewer than 50 members, nearly all in their
70's or 80's, the 80-year-old rabbi agreed to begin the laborious process of
closing the synagogue, finding an acceptable buyer and disposing of the sacred
objects. The tag sale late last month was the final step in getting rid of the
remaining odds and ends before the new owner, a Head Start program, moves in.
''Such a vibrant shul this was,'' said Florence Rudich, who at 66 is considered
the baby of the congregation. We had so many clubs. The men's clubs, the
women's clubs, the Saturday night dances. On Sabbaths and holidays, four
different services we had, one after another, and each one would be filled,
with people out around the block.'' But like the others, the synagogue -- where
people once waited years for a permanent seat in the sanctuary -- could not
survive the migration of Jews from the Bronx. During the Depression and World
War II, 600,000 Jews lived in the Bronx, accounting for nearly half the
population of the borough. By the early 1960's, thousands began leaving for the
suburbs. By 1980, there were fewer than 100,000 Jews in the Bronx, and since
then, the population has declined even further, except in Riverdale, where the
Jewish presence has always been strong and Orthodox Judaism in particular is
growing. But except for a handful of synagogues, the old Jewish Bronx is a
memory. The closing has left the few members without a place of worship.
Traveling to a more distant synagogue is difficult because of their age and the
Orthodox proscription against traveling on the Sabbath. While Head Start is
reserving the little downstairs chapel for them on Saturday mornings and
holidays, the remnants of Mosholu's congregation would have to organize and run
the services themselves. But they say it is inconceivable to imagine Mosholu
Jewish Center without its rabbi. ''Rabbi Schacter and the synagogue are one and
the same,'' said David C. Cook, a lawyer who grew up in the neighborhood.
''Mosholu Jewish Center wouldn't be what it was without him, and he wouldn't be
what he is without it.'' At one time, it was both a social nexus and a center
of moral and spiritual gravity. As Rabbi Schacter gained national prominence,
he shared his secular and spiritual insights in his sermons. From his pulpit in
Norwood, he rose to chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish
Organizations. He met with Golda Meir and every president from Kennedy on, and
was especially close to Richard Nixon, becoming his confidant and emissary to
Russia. The rabbi said that when people asked him why he did not move to a
larger, more famous synagogue, he replied that Mosholu gave him ''the freedom
to find fulfillment outside.'' But in reality, he made the synagogue his life's
work. Rabbi Schacter, recalled Steven M. Licht, who joined during the 60's,
''was a kind of Renaissance man. He had a spiritual presence and was a man of
the world.'' Even those who thought he was rigid and overbearing -- which, at one
point or another, was nearly everybody -- could not help respecting him. ''We
fell in love with each other,'' the rabbi said. ''I threw myself into the work.
I grew with the congregation and they grew with me and it was fine.'' The
members, too, made the synagogue an important part of their lives, building it
up at the same time they built their families and careers. They were, by and
large, an educated, affluent group. Many lived in the Art Deco buildings along
the Grand Concourse, which was once the Jewish equivalent of the Upper East
Side. Mosholu Jewish Center thrived, becoming one of the most desirable
synagogues in the Bronx. On High Holy Days, thousands gathered. Others spilled
out of the lobby and onto the sidewalk. The decline in membership began around
1974, and for years was barely noticeable. But gradually, from its peak of
3,500, the congregation dwindled. Pews remained empty, then entire sections.
Finally, by the mid-1980's, the rabbi was preaching to a little gray-haired
group clustered in the center of the sanctuary's expanse. Meanwhile, synagogues
throughout the Bronx were closing, and residents who had once had their choice
of kosher butchers within walking distance had to drive to Riverdale to buy
ingredients for a Sabbath supper. By 1989, when the synagogue had fewer than
100 members, the board was in favor of shutting it. But Rabbi Schacter
tightened his grip. He sought out former members, from Manhattan to Florida,
and asked for donations to keep the synagogue going. But in the end, it was not
the lack of money; it was the nearly empty sanctuary. ''He used to look out and
see the place jammed,'' Mr. Licht said.It must have been demoralizing, but he
didn't let anybody know. He didn't shorten the service. He gave the same
sermons he had when it was full.'' Rosh Hashana 1998 was the beginning of the
end. Remembering the crowds of bygone years, Rabbi Schacter made an all-out
effort, sending thousands of pamphlets inviting former members to come for
holiday services. Seats that once cost $50 to reserve would be free. On Rosh
Hashana morning, the rabbi looked out from the pulpit onto the little huddle of
17 men and about a dozen women. ''Tragic,'' he remembered. ''That was the death
knell.'' The closing of a synagogue, like the death of a family member,
involves many legal and practical tasks that must be done in the midst of
mourning. Jewish law forbids synagogues to become houses of worship for other
faiths, and the rabbi was opposed to selling it to a commercial buyer. It took
a year to find an acceptable buyer -- Head Start -- and negotiate the sale.
Then, sacred objects had to be properly disposed of. Torahs and prayer books in
good condition were donated to Jewish schools, and battered ones were buried,
said David Pollock, associate executive director of the Jewish Community
Relations Board, who helped with the closing. A few days before the tag sale,
the eternal light, a candle symbolizing God's presence, was extinguished and
the candleholder put aside to be given to a school. By late afternoon, Mrs.
Rudich and Helen Weintraub gave up on the tag sale and began packing the items
to give to the Salvation Army. ''This reminds me of an older person who passes
on,'' Mrs. Rudich said, putting a stack of glass plates in a box.. The death of
a shul, it's the saddest thing.'' The rabbi, meanwhile, had unlocked the
sanctuary doors and was slowly pacing the aisles, flanked by the carved pews.
He walked over to one of the stained-glass windows, read an inscription, and
gazed up at the balcony, where the women once sat apart from the men, following
the Orthodox custom. ''This is what hurts,'' he said. ''Every time I walk in
here, I remember. These pews -- they're magnificent. Fifty-two years I stood in
that pulpit. You have to realize how I feel.''
1999: “The David Adler Estate,” “the house
and property of American architect David Adler in Libertyville, Illinois, was
added to the NRHP(National Register of Historic Places) today.
2000: “Quills” a film version of the Obie
award winning play, directed by Philip Kaufman was released in the United
States today.
2000(24th of Cheshvan, 5761):
Sarah Katz, the wife of Henry Katz, the sister-in-law of Bert Katz and the aunt
of Toni Neta passed away today in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2000(24th of Cheshvan, 5761):Shoshana
Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60
wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on
Hadera's main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving
home from work. 60 were wounded in the blast.
2001(7th of Kislev, 5762): Eighty-three-year-old
Norman Granz, American jazz musician and record producer passed away.(As
reported by Richard Severo)
2002(17th of Kislev, 5763): IDF
tracker Sgt.-Maj. Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai, 30, of Lod, was killed when an Israel
Defense Forces Givati Brigade patrol near Tel Qateifa, in the Gaza Strip, came
under Palestinian gunfire. Hamas claimed responsibility.
2002: U.S. Premiere of “The Emperor’s Club”
starring Kevin Kline.
2002: “Gimmel's first album Lentoon came out today
and, just after it was published, it went to the number one spot in the Finnish
Albums Chart, remaining there for three weeks.”
2003(27th of Cheshvan, 5764):Two
Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan,
25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a
construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East
Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed
responsibility for the attack.
2004: Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron
Mandelson began serving as European Commissioner for Trade.
2004: Having assembled the largest and most
comprehensive listing of the names of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, along
with biographical details, photographs and nutshell memoirs, Yad Vashem makes
the information available online at www.yadvashem.org.
2005: Angela Merkel becomes the first female
Chancellor of Germany. In 2007, Merkel would receive an honorary doctor of philosophy degree from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem "in recognition of her lifelong dedication to the principles of
democracy and in appreciation of her warm and constant friendship for the
people and State of Israel."
2005: After 26 years, Ted Koppel calls it
quits as host of
2006(1st of Kislev, 5767): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
2006: During an exclusive interview with members of the University of Wisconsin Hillel
staff, Ben Karlin ('93), a Senior Writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”
admits that Sukkot is his favorite Jewish holiday because he “likes lulavs and
loves etrogs.”
2006: “The Fountain” directed by Darren Aronofsky
who also wrote the screenplay and co-starring Rachel Weisz was released today
in the United States.
2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the
International Oud Festival, the Yuval Ron Ensemble present an evening of
pan-Middle-Eastern Diaspora music anchored by Haifa-born vocalist Najwa Gibran.
2007: (12 Kislev 5768) Yahrzeit of Solomon
Schechter founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President
of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and architect of the American
Conservative Jewish movement.
2008: The movie, “Old Days,” set in a
retirement home with a decidedly Jewish feel opens at the Big Apple Film
Festival in New York (www.bigapplefilmfestival.com).
2008: As part of the Israeli Voices series the 92nd Street Y presents
Yoni Rechter who has made a great contribution to the Israeli music scene.
2008: In Arlington, Virginia, children's
author and illustrator Sallie
Lowenstein, author of Waiting
for Eugene and The
Festival of Lights, leads a discussion, "From Memory to Story:
How a Childhood in Burma Became a Novel in the Future," on the origins of
her new young-adult book, In the
Company of Whispers.
2008: 45th anniversary of the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy’s pro-civil rights stance
attracted and energized a significant segment of the Jewish populace. His
sympathy for the state of Israel can be seen in the following speech which he
delivered during his campaign for the presidency.
Prophecy is a Jewish tradition, and the World
Zionist movement, in which all of you have played so important a role, has
continued this tradition. It has turned the dreams of its leaders into acts of
statesmanship. It has converted the hopes of the Jewish people into concrete
facts of life. When the first Zionist conference met in 1897, Palestine was a
neglected wasteland. A few scattered Jewish colonies had resettled there, but
they had come to die in the Holy Land, rather than to make it live again in greatness.
Most of the governments of the world were indifferent. But now all is changed.
Israel became a triumphant and enduring reality exactly 50 years after Theodore
Herzl, the prophet of Zionism, had proclaimed the ideal of nationhood. It was
the classic case of an ancient dream finding a young leader, for Herzl was then
only 37 years of age. Perhaps I may be allowed the observation that the Jewish
people - ever since David slew Goliath - have never considered youth as a
barrier to leadership, or measured experience and maturity by mere length of
days. I first saw Palestine in 1939. There the neglect and ruin left by
centuries of Ottoman misrule were slowly being transformed by miracles of labor
and sacrifice. But Palestine was still a land of promise in 1939, rather than a
land of fulfillment. I returned in 1951 to see the grandeur of Israel. In 3
years this new state had opened its doors to 600,000 immigrants and refugees.
Even while fighting for its own survival, Israel had given new hope to the persecuted
and new dignity to the pattern of Jewish life. I left with the conviction that
the United Nations may have conferred on Israel the credentials of nationhood;
but its own idealism and courage, its own sacrifice and generosity, had earned
the credentials of immortality… Israel was not created in order to disappear -
Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the
brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It
carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom; and no area
of the world has ever had an overabundance of democracy and freedom. It is
worth remembering, too, that Israel is a cause that stands beyond the ordinary
changes and chances of American public life. In our pluralistic society, it has
not been a Jewish cause - any more than Irish independence was solely the
concern of Americans of Irish descent. The ideals of Zionism have, in the last
half century, been repeatedly endorsed by Presidents and Members of Congress
from both parties. Friendship for Israel is not a partisan matter. It is a
national commitment. Yet within this tradition of friendship there is a special
obligation on the Democratic Party. It was President Woodrow Wilson who
forecast with prophetic wisdom the creation of a Jewish homeland. It was
President Franklin Roosevelt who kept alive the hopes of Jewish redemption
during the Nazi terror. It was President Harry Truman who first recognized the
new State of Israel and gave it status in world affairs. And may I add that it
would be my hope and my pledge to continue this Democratic tradition - and to
be worthy of it….The Middle East needs water, not war; tractors, not tanks;
bread, not bombs. There is already little enough available in the way of
financial and physical resources for either side to be devoting its energies to
huge defense budgets. The present state of tensions serves only the worst
interests of Arab and Israeli alike. But a new spirit of comity could well
serve the highest ideals of both. For the original Zionist philosophy has
always maintained that the people of Israel would use their national genius not
for selfish purposes but for the enrichment and glory of the entire Middle
East. The earliest leaders of the Zionist movement spoke of a Jewish state
which would have no military power and which would be content with victories of
the spirit. The compulsions of a harsh and inescapable necessity have compelled
Israel to abandon this hope. But I cannot believe that Israel has any real
desire to remain indefinitely a garrison state surrounded by fear and hate. And
I cannot believe that the Arab world would not find a better basis for unity in
a united attack on all their accumulated social problems - an attack in which
they could benefit immensely from a closer cooperation with the people of
Israel. The technical skills and genius of Israel have already brought their
blessings to Burma and to Ethiopia. Still other nations in Asia and in Africa
are eager to benefit from the special skills available in that bustling land.
Why should the Middle East alone be cut off from this partnership? And why
should not the people of Israel receive the blessings available to them from
association with the Arab world? When we think of the possibilities of this
association, an emotion of soaring hope replaces our somber anxieties about the
Middle East. Ancient rivers would give their power to new industries. The
desert would yield to civilization. Disease would be eradicated, especially the
disease that strikes down helpless children. The blight of poverty would be
replaced by the blessings of abundance…”For the entire text see
2008: An experimental Israeli music ensemble,
the Givol Choir and David Moss, an innovative American singer and percussionist
perform three separate shows at the historic Ha'adumim Building near the Carmel
Market in Tel Aviv.
2008: Seeking to ensure that President George
W. Bush's promises to Israel are transferred to the new US administration,
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert left for Washington tonight for his final meeting
with the outgoing American leader.
2009: The Lost Angeles Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors or/of special interest to Jewish readers
including A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and
Invented Psychoanalysis byLouis Breger
2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors or/of special interest to Jewish readers including
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Foer is part of literary family. His brother Franklin is an editor with the
New Republic. His brother Joshua is a journalist. And is if that was not enough, he married
novelist Nicole Krauss in 2004:
2009: An experienced guide from the Lower
East Side Jewish Conservancy, a nonprofit Jewish educational organization,
leads a tour in which attendees “discover 150 years of Lower East Side history
on Shteibl Row, noted for its abundance of 19th-century one- and two-room
synagogues.”
2010:
Salman Rushdie, the author living under
the threat of a fatwa, is scheduled to speak at the 92nd Street Y in
NYC.
2010:
NoVA State Legislators' Reception 2010 which gives
the Jewish community a chance to Hear our state legislators identify their top
priorities and address the Jewish community's state platform, is scheduled to
take place at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (JCCNV)
2010:
The Leo Baeck Institute in cooperation with Manhattan
School of Music is scheduled to present “Adventures in Listening: Kurt Masur, A
Film by Amit Breuer”
2010:
The IDF's new Head of Military Intelligence,
Major-General Aviv Kochavi, formally assumed his new position today and was
promoted from the rank of brigadier-general.
2011: A
forum hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the subject of
ridding the world of nuclear weapons which representatives from Israel and Arab
states are schedule to attend is scheduled to come to an end in Vienna.
2011: Rabbi
Dr. Levi Cooper a teacher at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in
Jerusalem and serves as the spiritual leader of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in
Tzur Hadassah is scheduled to deliver the first in a series of lectures
entitled “Maharal: The Mystic as Legal Scholar” at Temple Shalom in Chevy
Chase, Maryland.
2011:
Sharon Steinberg, the Cantor at Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, VA,
is scheduled to give the last lecture in the series entitled “An Overview of
Jewish Liturgical Music” as the JCC of Northern Virginia.
2011: Attorney
General Yehuda Weinstein decided today to open a criminal investigation against
Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, for alleged incitement to racism.
2011:
The Military Advocate General filed indictments today
against two Palestinians from the village of Halhoul near Hebron, who confessed
to throwing a rock that killed Asher Hillel Palmer and his son as they drove
near Kiryat Arba in September.
2012: In
Melbourne, Australia, “The One That Got
Away” is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2012:
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust
& Genocide is scheduled to offer an introductory course for students and
researchers wishing to use its extensive photo archive.
2012: In
the U.S., Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim holiday based on Sukkoth
2012: The
IDF Spokesman’s Office said today it was looking into a photograph circulating
widely on Facebook in which 16 IDF soldiers arranged their uniformed bodies on
the sand, to spell out the Hebrew words “Bibi loser” — in a deft physical
critique of Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s failure to send ground
troops into Gaza during the just-ended Operation Pillar of Defense.
2012:
Shin Bet officers and police arrested the
terrorists who bombed a bus in Tel Aviv on Wednesday several hours after the
device exploded, the agency revealed this evening
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=293140
2012(8th
of Kislev, 5773): Twenty-eight-year-old Boris Yarmolnik, the IDF reserve
officer who was wounded in a rocket attack yesterday, passed away today
following an unsuccessful surgical process designed to save his life.
2013:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host
“Discovery and Recovery” – a behind the scenes tour of the Iraqi Jewish Archive
at the National Archives.
2013:
“Fox Dedicates Music Building to Oscar-Winning Composer Lionel Newman”
published today described the ceremony during which “Twentieth Century Fox
renamed its historic Fox Music Building in honor of film and television
composer Lionel Newman.”
2013:
“Kol HaMusica” is scheduled to broadcast a noontime concert by Tatiana Rubina.
2013:
“The archaeologists who have been exploring the Canaanite site, known as Tel
Kabri, announced today that they had found one of civilization’s oldest and
largest wine cellars.” (As reported by John Noble Wilford)
2013: “
Isaac Herzog, the son
of a former president, took the helm of Israel’s Labor Party and thus
Parliament’s opposition today, vowing to restore the party’s historic focus on
promoting peace with the Palestinians and to mount a vigorous challenge to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-leaning government.” (As reported by
Jodi Rudoren)
2014: Lewis Black is
scheduled to appear the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE.
2014: In Melbourne,
“The Last Mentsch” and “The Go-Go Boys” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
International Film Festival.
2014: US Secretary of
State John Kerry called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening and
updated him on the ongoing negotiations in Vienna for a deal with Iran on its
contested nuclear program.
2014: Six Palestinian
youths have been arrested after graffiti “in Arabic praising the Islamic State
terror group was found on a memorial monument for fallen Druze IDF soldiers
along the Carmel Scenic Route, located east of the predominantly Druze village
of Daliyat al-Karmel.”
2014: “The Angriest Man
in Brooklyn and “Hora 79” are scheduled to be shown at the 18th
annual UK Jewish Film Festival
2014(29th of
Cheshvan, 5775): Eighty-five-year-old “Israeli journalist and author Israel
Zamir, the only son of Isaac Bashevis Singer” passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/isaac-bashevis-singers-only-son-dies-at-85/
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/oral-history/israel-zamir
2014(29th of
Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-four-year-old Claire Barry who along with her sister
Merna formed the singing group known as the “Barry Sisters” passed away today.
2015: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Lights
Out: A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted
Koppel, Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home
by Joe Klein and the recently released
paperback edition of The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and
Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson and CHINA 1945:
Mao’s Revolution and America’s Fateful Choice by Richard Bernstein
2015: the Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host a screening of
“The Life of Emile Zola” followed by a “post-screening discussion led by David
Chack.”
2015: The Center for
Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society hosted a Wikipedia
edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement in celebration of
the recently-completed digitization of over 75,100 items and 500 hours of audio
from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement.
2015: The Jewish
Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Cantors Cabaret: From
the Bimah to Broadway,” featuring Jewish and Broadway music, ranging from the
classical Hazzanut of Israel Alter to Broadway's "Annie Get Your Gun;”
from the songbooks of cantorial favorite, Sol Zim, to Yiddish icon, Molly Picon
performed by Hazzan Elisheva Dienstfrey, Agudas Achim Congregation; Cantor
Jason Kaufman, Beth El Hebrew Congregation; Cantor Rachel Rhodes and Cantor
Michael Shochet, Temple Rodef Shalom; and a special guest appearance by Hazzan
Sidney G. Rabinowitz.
2016: Just a couple of
weeks before his 93rd birthday Menahem Pressler is slated to play
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” at Symphony Hall in Boston
where doctor’s saved his life by repairing an aneurysm in his aorta.
2017(4th of
Kislev, 5778): Eighty-nine-year-old Mary Adelman, the Antwerp born daughter of
tailor Morris Golinkski and Caroline Golinskisi, the owner of Osner Business
Machines, one of that dying breed of typewriter repair shops, passed away
today.(As reported by James Barron)
2017: “During an
interview with i24 News” today, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely despairingly “depicted US Jews as
being removed from the sacrifices other Americans make as well as the threats
that govern life in Israel.”
2017: The Yiddish Book
Center is scheduled to close at noon today as part of the observance of the
Thanksgiving holiday.
2017: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Rabbi Michael Hattin leading a
discussion on “From Harlot to Heroine: Rachav’s Remarkable Transformation.”
2017: “A Bag of
Marbles” and “1945” are scheduled to be shown at the 21st UK
International Jewish Film Festival.
2017: Jewish Book
Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish
books and the lives of authors such as Michael Oren who works included Six
Days of War and Power, Faith and Fantasy continues today.
2018: The Chaplains of
the Oxford University Jewish Society are scheduled to host a Thanksgiving this
evening at their house!
2018: “A rare sword, which was given as a present
by SS commander Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Muhammad
Amin al-Husseini during his visit to Nazi Germany in March 1943,” is scheduled
to continue to be offered for sale for a third day on a British website—The
Saleroom— by the German auction house Hermann Historica, which specializes in
selling historical items.” (As reported by Itamar Eichner)
2018(14th of
Kislev, 5779): On the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the birth of Reuben,
Jacob’s first-born son.
2018: Following
screenings of “Humor Me,” “The Resistance” and “Shelter,” the UK Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to come to an with
a festival awards ceremony at the Curzon Mayfair in London sponsored by the
Diana and Allan Morgenthau Charitable Turst.
2018: In Jerusalem, OU
Israel is scheduled to host “an authentic Thanksgiving dinner complete with
turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin” followed by Torah Insights from
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz.
2018: Beit Hillel is
scheduled to host a Thanksgiving Dinner for Hebrew University students
2018: In Jerusalem,
Olive and Fish, Mike’s Place and the Inbal Hotel are scheduled to offer diners
a Thanksgiving Dinner while the Beer Bazaar is scheduled to host a
“Thanksgiving Happy Hour.”
2019: In Palo Alto, CA,
the First Presbyterian Church is scheduled to host “Roses and Almonds” with
Tres Hermanicas and Aquila which includes a mix of “centuries-old Sephardic
music
2019: In San Francisco,
the Sydney Goldstein Theatre is scheduled to host “Mandy Patinkin in Concert”
Diaries with Adam Ben-David on piano.”
2019: For the first
time in its history, Israel begins the first full day of being led by a Prime
Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) who has been indicted on charges of corruption.
2019: Ninetieth
birthday of Sir Ben Helfgotth
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2020: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem and The
Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel.
2020: The ASF Institute
of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “Tour Nahlaot: A Walk Through the
Communities that Make a Neighborhood” a virtual event with Miriam Safira Simon.
2020: Rabbi Georgette
Kennebrae of Curaçao is scheduled to lead an Urban Adamah workshop on applying
the concepts of tashlich and shmita to understanding one’s financial situation
2020: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a virtual
commemoration “Remembering the Holodomor: Commemorating the Famine – Genocide
in Ukraine.”
2020: Hillel
International is scheduled to launch its first virtual Hillel College Fair for
high school students today.
2020: In Cleveland, First
Congregational Church of Hudson, Christ Church Episcopal and Temple Beth Shalom
are scheduled to host an online
interfaith Thanksgiving service at 7 p.m.
2020: Limmud Toronto is
scheduled to open with “More than Menorahs: A Conversation with Authors of
Jewish Children’s Literature,” feature Sidura Ludwig, Tziporah Cohen, Anne
Dublin and Kath Kacer.
2020: Peninsula JCC,
Peninsula Temple Beth El and PJ Library are scheduled to present virtually Children’s
musician Alison Faith Levy and Todah the Sloth leading a Thanksgiving
singalong.
2020: The American
Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to the last of a four part Digital
Conference on “Psalmody Through Ages: Music and the Book of Psalms.”
2020: Via Zoom, The
Breman is scheduled to host “Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust featuring
Polish born George Rishfeld.
2020: Observance
of National Cranberry Relish Day serves
as a reminder of how Leah Koenig’s Ashkenazi mother-in-law made this uniquely
North American “berry” an integral part of her potted meatballs.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/food/articles/cranberries-at-the-jewish-table
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a panel presentation that includes Jake Cohen, Leah
Keonig, Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Sophie Rand, co-founder of Luxe Latkes and is
moderated by Gabriella Gershenson, editor of The 100 Most Jewish Foods that will
examine the “two millennia of latke evolution.”
2021: The London School
of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host the final session of its “Torah of Rabbi Sacks zt”l Course during
which “Rabbi Andrew Shaw, Director of Mizrachi UK will be speaking on “Creating
leaders”, and Rabbi Mendel Cohen, Rabbi at St Johns Wood Synagogue will be
talking on “Chabad meets modernity”.
2021: Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem, Director, the Gershom Scholem
Collection for Kabbalah and Hasidism, the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
is scheduled to explore the “Story of a Guest: Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s
Haunting Hanukkah Tale.”
2021: The Hadassah
Brandeis Institute is scheduled to present, online, Julia Phillips Cohen an
associate professor in the Department of History and the Program in Jewish
Studies at Vanderbilt University lecturing on “In Search of Late Sephardi
Women’s Lives.”
2022: The UK Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Perfect Strangers” and “The
Peacock that Passed Over.”
2022: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a conversation between Grammy nominated comedian
Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld who “chats
about finding humor in the mundane, the comics he chauffeured around in his
classic cars and the long cherished Jewish tradition of comedy.”
2022: Based on
previously published reports, as of today Religious Zionist party leader
Bezalel Smotrich has agreed to serve as the head of Treasury instead of Defense
Minister.
2022: Bob Eiger, the
former CEO of Disney, begins his effort to rejuvenate his former employer after
his successor failed to increase the profitability of Disney.\
2023: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host a tour of its new building.
2023This year’s Annual
Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture is scheduled to take place today at
Gresham College and will be delivered by esteemed historian Professor Sir
Richard Evans who “will examine the history of antisemitism conspiracy theories
from the Middle Ages to today, and look to possible developments in the future.”
2023: Sixtieth
Anniversary of the assassination of John Kennedy .
2023: Sixtieth
Anniversary of Lyndon Johnson, who
backed Israel to the hilt in the Six Day War and who was responsible the
passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which banned religious discrimination
taking the oath office as President of the United States.
2023: As November 22
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 47 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024: The Jerusalem
International Oud Festival is scheduled to host “a tribute to the songs of
Tunisian diva Habib Msika
2024: Central Synagogue
is scheduled to host “Reading Art with Sarah Berman.”
2024: Quinn Levin is
scheduled to serve as House Manager for the second performance of “The Old Man and the Old Moon” at the
Schottenstein Theatre at the Bexley High School
2024: As November 22nd 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, demonstrations at a high
school production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and the beating of a college
student in Chicago sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin
day 413 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)
