“Unprovoked Attack” or A Deep State War?  “Israel and Hamas at war after surprise attacks from Gaza Strip” reported the Guardian, adding “A ground infiltration by Hamas gunmen into Israeli towns and villages on the periphery – an unprecedented development in the 16 years since the Islamists took over the strip – is ongoing, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) saying that at one point, seven villages and towns were under Hamas control.” God’s call to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6) has never been more urgent than it is today. Taliban Releases Statement Following the Israel-Hamas War — Urges Islamic Nations and International Community to Act Against Israel  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) has released an official statement in the wake of the recent Israel-Hamas war. The statement outlines the Taliban’s stance on the issue and calls upon Islamic countries and international organizations to take action against Israel. Israel to evacuate communities around the Gaza Strip, North  Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered an evacuation on Sunday for the communities near the Gaza Strip and for communities up north, according to Israeli media. A Contract for COVID-19 Research was issued 3 months before COVID-19 was known to “officially” exist by the U.S. D.O.D …why does United States Government data show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a contract on the 12th November 2019 to Labyrinth Global Health INC. for ‘COVID-19 Research’, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19? U.S. moves carrier strike group closer to Israel amid fear of multi-front war   Israel At War The great earthquake of the Ezekiel 38 war has NOT begun. But we are in the midst of a major foreshock. In the last few hours, Hamas fired thousands of missiles from Gaza into Israel. They targeted Israeli civilians. Hamas soldiers broke through checkpoints and bulldozed parts of the border fence. Their army attacked Israeli neighborhoods in border towns, randomly killing and randomly taking hostages. The Day of Infamy When Hamas Slaughtered and Abducted Hundreds of Jews Palestinian terrorist group Hamas unleashed horrific attacks on a massive scale against Israeli civilians by land, sea, and air on October 7th. The terrorists launched their savage rampage on the Jewish Sabbath and holiday of Simchat Torah, committing numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against defenseless Israeli civilians in what is being called Israel’s 9/11. BREAKING: U.S. Naval Warships Being Deployed to Middle East as ‘Show of Support’ for Israel in Escalating War Multiple news outlet are confirming that the U.S. Navy is deploying warships to the Middle East in what officials say is a “show of support” for Israel in its military response to a Hamas surprise attack on Saturday. Military aircrafts will be moved closer to Israel, U.S. officials said. The deployment is set to commence immediately, but the ships are not expected to be in the region for several days.     OCTOBER 9 768: Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Charlemagne treated to his Jewish subjects well, even if it meant parting from the doctrine of the Church. For example, he extended the rights previously granted to the Jews of Narbonne by his father. Jews “mingled freely at the Frankish court in defiance of canon law…Disputes between Jews were resolved in Jewish courts.” The increased protection and freedom offered to the Jews by Charlemagne resulted in increased commercial and financial activity, especially trade with the Islamic world. 1184: Judah ben Elijah Hadassi a Karaite Jewish scholar who lived in Constantinople began working on Eshkol ha-Kofter, “a treatise on the Ten Commandments.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Hadassi 1192: After having negotiated a treaty with Saladin following the Battle of Jaffa, that created a three year truce, Richard III left Acre for a planned return to England. 1217: During the 5th Crusade, a force led by King Andrew II of Hungary landed on Cyprus “from where they sailed to Acre and joined John of Brienne, ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem” and others who were preparing to fight the Ayyubids of Syria. 1238: In Spain, King James I of Aragon founded the Kingdom of Valencia. In 1263, James I presided over the disputation between Nachmanides and a convert to Christianity named Paul Christian. 1253: English scholar and theologian, Robert Grosseteste, the Bishop of Lincoln who in 1244 “decided that the jurisdiction in dipsutes between Jews and Scholars at Oxford should rest with the Chancellor of the University and who was “widely consulted on the correct attitude to be adopted toward Jews” passed away today. 1261: Birthdate of Denis I who as King of Portugal resisted pressure by the clergy to “invoke the restrictions placed on the Jews by the Fourth Lateran Council. 1264: The army of King Alfonso the Wise of Castile conquered the Spanish city of Jerez that had been held by the Moors since 711. The Jewish community of Jerez, complete with a separate Juderia or Jewish quarter had existed since the time of the Moors. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the city had two synagogues with Don Yucaff and his son Don Todros each living in one of the “houses of the rabbis” Among those Jews to whom the king gave houses and/or lands were “Don Yehuda Mosca who made translations from Arabic into Spanish for the king; the “almoxarife” Don Mayr, or rather Mür de Malhea, and his son Çag (Isaac); Çimha (Simḥah) Xtaruçi, whose father lost his life and the whole of his large fortune during the rebellion of the city; Don Vellocid (Vellecid), “ballestero del rey a caballo”; Solomon Ballestero; and Axucuri Ballestero—the last three being in the king’s army.” [Editor’s Note – As can be seen from this entry, the image of the Spanish Jews flourishing under the Moors and suffering under the Christians is not an accurate one.] 1290(3rd of Cheshvan, 5051): Today, St. Denis’s Day, the Jews of London departed in accordance with the Edward’s order of expulsion which was to take full effect in November. 1328: Birthdate of Peter I, the King of Cyprus and Kingdom of Jerusalem one of those monarchs who attended “The Banquet of Five Kings “in 1363) 1334: Casmir the Great (Poland) renewed the Charter of Boleslav, granting Jews the freedom of residence in all areas of the kingdom. This document was instrumental in encouraging Jews to begin to flee Germany and move east. King Kazimierz showed how favorably disposed towards Jews he was when he confirmed the privileges granted to Jewish Poles in 1264 by Boleslaus V. Under penalty of death, he prohibited the kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of enforced Christian baptism. He inflicted heavy punishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries. He invited Jews who were being persecuted elsewhere to settle in Poland, protecting them as ‘people of the king.’ 1390: Despite the best efforts by “his physician Moses ibn Zarzal” King John I died today. 1390: Henry III who appointed the Jewish convert to Christianity Paul of Burgos keeper of the royal seal and Lord Chancellor began his reign as King of Castile and Leon. 1480: A royal order was dispatched by Ferdinand and Isabella “to the governors of provinces to furnish the new inquisitors and their retinue with everything necessary for their journey to Seville” and at the same time declared that their privileges were the same as those ranted by Emperor Frederik II to the inquisitors in Italy in the 13th century. 1526: Today, the Queen regent Maria, the widow of Louis II, continued her anti-Jewish policies first displayed when by expelling the Jews of Sopron by allowing the city of Pressburg, to expel its Jewish citizens. 1547: Christening of the Don Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. According to some sources, Cervantes mother, Lenor de Cortinas was a descendant of Conversos, Jews who chose Christianity over death or despoliation of their wealth. 1580: Immanuel Tremellius, the Italian Jewish convert to Catholicism who then became a Protestant and was the Regius professor of Hebrew at Cambridge before becoming the Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg passed away today. 1635: Colonial American Separatist Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for preaching that civil government had no right to interfere in religious affairs. (Williams was seeking to establish freedom of worship through the separation of church and state.) Rhode Island would provide the model for the rest of the United States on this issue. In addition to which, William’s policy would Rhode Island an attractive place for Jews to settle during the colonial and Revolutionary War periods. 1666(10th of Tishrei, 5427): Yom Kippur 1666(10th of Tishrei, 5427): In Hamburg, Germany, blessings were offered in honor of Sabbatia Zvi during Yom Kippur. The Hamburg community was unaware of the fact the self-proclaimed Messiah had converted to Islam in September of 1666. 1676(16th of Tishrei, 5528: Second Day of Sukkoth 1691: English merchant Erasmus Smith whose philanthropy was recognized by Trinity College when it created the Erasmus Smith Chair of Hebrew in 1724 passed away today. 1701: The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. In 1805, Moses Simons became the first Jew to attend Yale. Seventeen years later, Judah P. Benjamin attended Yale Law School, making him the school’s second Jewish student. Benjamin left without graduating. According to recent records 1,200 of Yale’s 5,300 undergraduate students are Jewish while 200 of the 1,200 graduate students are Jewish. The school offers 45 Jewish courses and a minor in Jewish studies but no major. This is a vast improvement over the situation for Jews at Yale as late as the 1960’s when administrators, faculty and alumnae sought to limit Jewish enrollment at the Ivy League school through quotas and other forms of social pressure. You have to wonder if these people knew that Elihu Yale’s Jewish mistress, after whom the school was named, had born him a son. Would the Yalies have accepted Yale’s son? 1764: Richea Myers-Cohen and Barnard Gratz who were married in 1760 gave birth to Rachel Gratz, the wife of Solomon Etting whom she married in 1791 and with whom she had nine children. 1766: Uriah and Eva Esther Hendricks gave birth to Jochabed Sarah Hendricks 1770(20th of Tishrei, 5531): Sixth Day of Sukkoth 1771: Count Jan Klemens Branicki, the Polish nobleman who proclaimed the Jews of Bialystok to be subject to bylaw and other local laws on an equal footing with the other townsmen, passed away. 1775(15th of Tishrei, 5536): First Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the American Revolution. 1778(18th of Tishrei, 5539): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that during the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams wrote to the Sicilian Ambassador to France, Domenico Caracciolo, expressing their “thanks to the Sicilian king for allowing ships of the United States of America to enter Sicily’s ports.” 1780(10th of Tishrei, 5541): Yom Kippur observed as Barbados, whose Jewish community dated back to the last half of the 17th century, began to feel the first effects of what would come to known as The Great Hurricane of 1780.” 1784: Benjamin Nones, a native of Bordeaux, France who served with distinction during the American Revolution became a naturalized citizen of the United States today. 1786(17th of Tishrei, 5547): Third Day of Sukkoth 1786: In Newport, RI. Isaac Cohen d’Azevedo and his wife gave birth to Moses Azevedo who would die before his first birthday. 1789: Birthdate of Meno Burg, “the first and for a long time the only Jew serving as a Prussian staff officer.” 1792(23rd of Tishrei, 5553): Simchat Torah observed on the same day that James Madison wrote to James Monroe, both of whom were future presidents of the United States, proposing to nominate Aaron Burr instead of Governor Henry Clinton as Vice President of the United States. 1794(15th of Tishrei, 5555): First Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that President Washington reviewed the troops that were going to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, the first violent challenge to the authority of the U.S government. 1797(19th of Tishrei, 5558): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth 1797(19th of Tishrei, 5558): The Vilna Gaon passed away. There is no way that we can do justice to this Giant of Judaism. We urge you all to consult the numerous books, websites and other sources that can give you some sense of the importance of this sage who was such an expert in matters of Torah, Talmud and Halachah that even the descendants of those to whom he stood in opposition recognize his merit. 1798: In Bamberg, the chief rabbi and his wife gave birth to German jurist Karl Feust. 1799(10th of Tishrei, 5560): Final Yom Kippur of the 18th century 1800(20st of Tishrei, 5561): Sixth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time under the Presidency of John Adams. 1803(23rd of Tishrei, 5564): Simchat Torah 1803: Rabbi Meanchem Mendel Rubin of Linsk, “the first rebbe of the Rosphitz dynasty and the son-in-law of Rabbi Yizchak Halevi Horowitz passed away today. 1805(16h of Tishrei, 5561): Second Day of Sukkoth observed as Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery broke camp near what is today Spalding, Idaho. 1807: Birthdate of Alzey, Germany native and future acting Mayor of Baltimore, MD, Leon Dyer, the quartermaster-general of the Louisiana State Militia a Major in the Army of Texas during its war for independence and a Colonel and quartermaster general serving under General Winfield Scott during with Mexican American War who settled in San Francisco in 1848 where he founded what was reported to be the first Jewish congregation “on the Pacific Coast. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Jewish_Encyclopedia/0DkyAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mayor+Leon+Dyer&pg=PA23&printsec=frontcover 1808(18th of Tishrei, 5569) Fourth Day of Sukkoth 1809: Birthdate of Adolphe Franck the French philosopher whose work on the Kabbalah was popular with the public and was President of the Société des Etudes Juives 1811(21st of Tishrei, 5572): Hoshana Raba 1813(15th of Tishrei, 5574): First Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that Techumseh was reportedly killed following the American victory at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812. 1816(17th of Tishrei, 5577): Third Day of Sukkoth celebrated on the same day that former President Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison seeking a government job for a soldier who had fought at Fort McHenry and had since fallen on hard times. 1817: Johanna Benzinger and Secekel Loeb Wormser, “the Wonder Rabbi of Michel City” gave birth to Jaidel Wormser 1817: Daniel Rees married Priscilla Davis at the Western Synagogue today. 1818: Birthdate of Benedict Zuckerman, the native of Breslau who was a leading German mathematician who served on the faculty of the Breslau Seminary under the leadership of Zacharias Frankel. 1823(4th of Cheshvan, 5584): Jacob I. Cohen, a native of Bavaria and the son of Joshua and Peslah Cohen, who fought in the Battle of Beaufort while serving under Captain Lushington and who in 1789 “took the lead in organizing the first synagogue in Virginia, passed away today in Philadelphia http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=40015895&PIpi=43513456 1823: In London, Frances Cohen and Joel Benjamin gave birth to Leon Benjamin. 1823: Copenhagen native Dr. Ludwig Lewin, the surgeon who treated casualties during the British bombardment of Copenhagen, who served as a surgeon with the French army to improve his medical skills and who “invented several appliances which proved of great benefit to the surgical profession” which led to the the Académie des Sciences awarding him one of the Monthyon prizes and being created a knight of the Dannebrog passed but who refused to abandon the faith of his fathers for career advancement married Angelique Jacobine Vilhelmine 1824(17th of Tishrei, 5585): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe. 1827(18th of Tishrei, 5588): Fourth day of Sukkoht 1832(15th of Tishrei, 5593): Sukkoth 1833: In Laupheim, Jewish merchant Viktor Steiner and his Sophie gave birth to German banker and industrialist Kilian von Steiner. 1835(16th of Tishrei, 5596): Second Day of Sukkoth 1835: In Wurttemberg, Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Mirjam and Moses Levi Frankfurter, and his wife Esther gave birth to “Mirjam Frankfureter.” 1837(10th of Tishrei, 5598): As the economic crisis known as the Panic of 1837 grips the United States Jews observe Yom Kippur. 1838(20th of Tishrei, 5599): Sixth Day of Sukkoth 1840: Birthdate of British painter Simeon Solomon. [There is no way to do justice to this complex man’s life and work in this small space. Among other sites, look at http://simeonsolomon.com/default.aspx 1841(24th of Tishrei, 5602): Parshat Bereshit, the cycle begins again for the first time during the presidency of John Tyler. 1843(15th of Tishrei, 5604): Sukkoth 1845: The Sephardic Synagogue of Kingston, Jamaica celebrated taking possession of a new Sefer Torah.” The service was conducted by the Isaac Lopes, who served as the congregation’s rabbi. 1846(19th of Tishrei, 5607): Fifth Day of Sukkoth 1846: In New York City linguist and orientalist Elias Markens and his wife gave birth to journalist Isaac Markens, a manager and/or reporter for the United Press Association, the New York Commercial Advertiser and the New York Evening Mail and Express who was a member of the Free Sons of Israel, author of Hebrews In America and the husband of Rachel Benjamin. 1848: In Lübeck, laws were adopted that “abolished all the disabilities” of the Jews thus making them true citizens of the city. 1849: In London, Rosetta Pinto, the Lond born daughter of Rabbi David Aaron de Sola and Rebecca (Rica) de Sola and her husband Henry (Haim) Pinto gave birth to Esther Pinto. 1849: In Charleston, SC, Fannie and Bendix Abraham Weinberg gave birth to Amelia Weinberg who became Amelia Strauss when she married Alfred Abraham Strauss with whom she had six children before her untimely death at the age of 31. 1850(3rd of Cheshvan, 5611): Fifty-four year old Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn the Chasidic rebbe known as Der Heiliger Ruzhiner (“The holy one from Ruzhyn”), passed away today. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17198.html http://www.aish.com/jw/s/Hava-Nagilah-The-Story-behind-the-Quintessential-Jewish-Song.html?s=mm 1851: Today’s edition of the San Diego Herald described the observance of the first Yom Kippur observance in that California town which had taken place on October 6. “The Israelites of San Diego, faithful to the religion of their Forefathers, observed their New Years days and Day of Atonement with due solemnity. $e Day of Atonement – one of the most solemn and sacred days in the Jewish calendar – was observed by Messrs. Lewis Franklin, Jacob Marks, and Chas. A. Fletcher (the only three Hebrews in town) by their assembling in the house of the former gentleman and passing the entire day in fasting and prayers. We are glad to record such an act of religious faith under circumstances the most unfavorable.” 1853: Birthdate of German native Moritz Falkenstein, the husband of Cacilie Falkenstein and the father of Frieda and Harry Falkenstein 1854(17th of Tishrei, 5615): Third Day of Sukkot 1855(27th of Tishrei, 5616): Joseph Abendana, the husband of Abigail de Costa Gomes and the father of Hananel Abendana, a “Steward at the Spanish Portuguese Hospital pass away today. 1856(10th of Tishrei, 5617): Yom Kippur 1856: “A God-Send For The Express” published today reported that “the German organ of the Buchanneers in Philadelphia accuses Fremont of being a Hebrew by birth and having been educated in the Mosaic faith besides being born in Alsace. As the Express must by this time be tired of calling Col Freemont a Jesuit, it will be delighted of an opportunity to accuse him of being a descendant of Abraham.” Fremont is John C. Fremont, a native of Virginia, an Episcopalian, military hero and explorer known as the Great Pathfinder. He was also the Republican Party’s first Presidential nominee. 1857: In New York, the Recorder heard a second day of testimony in the case where Nathan Levin, a recently arrived Jewish immigrant from Hungary, had accused Israel Steinhardt, a fellow Hungarian co-religionist of stealing 940 pounds in Bank of England notes. A witness named Francois Guilland testified that he and Steinhardt had sailed on the same ship in September and that he had seen Steinhardt holding several of the bank notes that Levins claim Steinhardt had stolen from him just two days ago in New York. Two other witnesses testified that Levins had not the bank notes in his possession when they met with him just before the theft. It would appear Levins’ accusation that his fellow Jew had violated the 7th commandment was false and that Levins was attempting a swindle. The Recorder is holding the case over until tomorrow at which time a decision will be made as to which Jew is trying to cheat which Jew. 1858: “Chronology of Comets” published today reported that “Josephus the historian includes the appearance of a comet among the miracles which announced the destruction of Jerusalem and the ruin of its temple.” In 1208, “the Jews of the West” thought that a very bright comet that appeared for two weeks foretold the coming of the coming of the Messiah. 1858: In Arva, Hungary, Philip Greenbaum and Marie Goldfinger gave birth to Philadelphia Dental College graduate Leopold Greenbaum, the “assistant professor Materia Medica and Chemistry at the Philadelphia Dental College. 1859: In Mulhouse, Alsace, Raphael and Jeannette Dreyfus (née Libmann) gave birth to the ninth child, Alfred who would enter history as Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer at the center of scandal that rocked France for a decade and helped to produce the modern Zionist movement. 1860: Birthdate of Count Walter Puckler-Muskau, the anti-Semitic agitator known as “Dreschgraf” (the thrashing count) for the calls for violent attack against the Jews that fill his speeches. 1862(15th of Tishrei, 5623): Sukkoth 1862: During the American Civil War, as the Jews on both sides observed Sukkoth, JEB Stuart’s Confederate Cavalry humiliated Union General George McClellan by riding around the Army of the Potomac completely unscathed. 1864(9th of Tishrei, 5625): Yom Kippur 1864: In New York City, “Raphael Levy Maduro Peixotto , a prosperous Ohioan involved in trade with the South, and Myrtillie Jessica Davis gave birth educator and writer Jessica Blanche Peixotto, the second woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkley, the “first women to become a full professor at Cal, Berkley and the university’s first woman department chair. 1864: As Sherman’s victorious Union Army completed the occupation of Atlanta during the Civil War, one wonders if the Jewish soldiers serving under him joined the Jews of Atlanta in observing Yom Kippur. 1865(19th of Tishrei, 5626): Fifth Day of Sukkoth 1865: In Russia, Deborah Wolk and Benzion De Waltoff gave birth to University of Moscow doctor David De Waltoff, the husband of Dora Frank and escapee from Siberia who served in the U.S. Intelligence Department during the Spanish American War, invented Agavin Cream and served as the president of the B’nai Israel Community Center in Brooklyn. (Some sources show his birthdate as December 1861) 1866: The Law Reports column published today described in detail the breach of contract case brought by a young Jewess named Nanna Solomon against Jewish tailor named Bernard Brown. According to the evidence presented, there was no dispute over the fact that the two were engaged to married and that there had been ample public ceremonies to celebrate the event. There is no dispute that the marriage did not take place. Miss Solomon claimed that the Brown did not marry here because of interference from her mother. Brown implied that Miss Solomon had been seeing other men and was not the stellar character she had presented herself to be. In the end, the jury found for the plaintiff but awarded her only five hundred dollars in damages when she had sought $10,000. 1867(10th of Tishrei, 5628): Yom Kippur 1867(10th of Tishrei, 5628): Abraham Mapu “one of the first, and finest, of the novelists to write in Hebrew” passed away. “Heavily influenced by a wide range of sources–the Bible, the Romantic Novelists, and renewed pride in ancient Jewish history–his works recall the finest works of writers such as Flaubert and other great romantic novelists. His first novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (The Love of Zion), published in 1853, won immediate acclaim. Its sixteen editions attest to its continued popularity. (As reported by Toby Press) http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10385-mapu-abraham 1873: Birthdate of violinist Carl Flesch whose pupils included Jewish violinists Szymon Goldberg, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Yfrah Neaman, Eric Rosenblith, Max Rostal, Henryk Szeryng, Henri Temianka and Roman Totenberg 1875(10th of Tishrei, 5636): Yom Kippur which the secular press described as “a solemn fast universally observed among the orthodox Jews by abstaining from food or drink of any nature whatever for twenty-four hours and spending the entire day in continuous attendance at their places of worship.” 1875: In New York City, “Josephine (née Solomon) and Selmar Hess” gave birth to Columbia trained physician Alfred Fabian Hess, the husband of the former Sara Strauss, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Strauss with whom he had four children and the developer of the Hess Test which came about while studying “the role of nutrition in scurvy and rickets.” 1875: In the Washington, D.C., Isaac Ottenberg, the Bavarian born son of Rosa and Maier Ottenberg and his wife Regina Ottenberg gave birth to Samuel Ottenberg. 1876(21st of Tishrei, 5637): Hoshana Rabah 1876: In Poznan, Maks Kantorowicz, the “owner of a spirits factory” and the former Rosalinde Pauly gave birth to their child Gertrude Kantiriwucz who is interesting life turned out to a circuitous route Theresienstadt. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/jews-who-stabbed-germany-in-the-back 1867: Fanny Janauscheck the Austrian actress who would perform in “Zillah, The Hebrew Mother” made her American stage debut at the Academy of Music in New York. 1876: The New York Times featured a review of “Daniel Deronda” by George Elliot which was the penname of Mary Anne Evans. This was her last novel and it featured a sympathetic portrayal of Jewish characters and was sympathetic to the concepts of Zionism. 1877: Charles Stein, who is described the most dangerous confidence man of our times, was arrested in St. Louis, MO. [It can’t always be about Nobel Prize Winners] 1878(12th of Tishrei, 5639): Seventy-eight year old Abraham Oppenheim who had begun his career as a partner in the banking house of his father Salomon Oppenheim passed away. 1879(22nd of Tishrei, 5640): Shemini Atzeret 1880(4th of Cheshvan, 5641): Sixty-four year old Joseph Mayer Montefiore, a nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore who was a member of the Board of Deputies and a director of the Alliance Insurance Company and the National Provincial Bank of Ireland, passed away today. 1880: “Persecution of the Jews of Morocco” published today relies on information that originally appeared in the Petit Marseillais and the Pall Mall Gazette, to describe the brutal murder of a Jew named Bendahan’s by the Moslem governor of Estifa. Bendahan’s crime was that he had taken a Moslem women into his home during the recent famine and provided her with food and shelter. When the governor heard of this he summoned the Jew and him beaten to death. Apparently, any relationship between a Moslem and a Jew was unacceptable even if was only intended to save a life. 1881: Birthdate of Victor Klemperer, a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specializing in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life, successively, in the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and in the German Democratic Republic were published in 1995. He passed away in 1960. 1881: It was reported that the Minister of Justice in Hungary has introduced a bill in the lower house of the Diet that would legalize marriages between Jews and Christians. 1881: It was reported today that the Russian government “intends to all Jews to acquire land in places where there is no fear of collision between them” and the non-Jewish locals. 1881: “The Wander Jew in Hull, 1769” recounts the history of this anti-Semitic tale which reinforced the view of the Jew as an evil villain who has walked the earth since the days of the Crucifixion 1881: “Old York,” published today provides a brief history of this ancient English castle and city, including the time when it was “the scene of a gruesome tragedy” when a group of “landless knights” and “broken men” penned up the Jews in the castle with the intent to “plunder” and “murder them.” However, most of the Jews, their intended victims, “with desperate courage, forestalled them by burning their property and killing their families and themselves. 1882: Three days after he had passed away, sixty year old “Samuel Gettenstein Salaman,” the husband of Rosa Salaman with whom he had two children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.” 1882: It was reported today that G.P. Putnam’s Sons will be publishing Fundamental Questions Relating to the Hebrew Scriptures, a liberal view of the subject by Edson L. Clarke. 1884: In Minks, M.A. and Sarah (Epstein) Slonimsky gave birth to Dr. Henry Slonimsky, the dean emeritus of the New York School of Hebrew Union College‐Jewish Institute of Religion, http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0637/ms0637.html 1886(10th of Tishrei, 5647): Yom Kippur 1886: In “Yom Kippur” published today J.S. Moore, a non-Jew, provides a complete description of the observance of the holiday including the observations that “no other religion…has a similar festival” “ and that “ it may be safely predicted that nations, empires and peoples may and will pass and be only remembered in history while the ‘Yom Kippur’ will retain its hold upon a race which has already during the vicissitudes of thousands of years withstood annihilation and bids fair to hold fast to its religion as long as this globe is populated.” 1886: The Uptown Gossip column published today attributed the low attendance rate at theatres in New York yesterday to the fact that the Jews were observing the “fast of Yom Kippur.” “Jewish people are the most liberal patrons of the theaters, and any fast day which they observe makes a very marked difference in the receipts of theatre’s treasury.” 1886: “Big Hebrew Fair” published today described efforts to host a fundraiser this December that provides funds for the establishment of a “Jewish Cooper Institute.” The project has the support of the city’s temples and synagogues as well as the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. 1887: “Levitcal Names” published today contends that there is strong evidence of an Egyptian connection between the Levites – the leading tribe of the Exodus – and those who enslaved them. The names of Moses, Miriam and Pinhcas, Aaron’s grandson, have an Egyptian etymology . The mother of Pinchas was the daughter of Putiel, a name with an Egyptian rather than Hebrew etymology.   Finally, Aaron’s ability to address Pharaoh would indicate a knowledge of the Egyptian language that would be more consistent with an educated Egyptian than a wandering Semitic nomad. 1887(21st of Tishrei, 5648): Sukkoth Chol HaMoed 1887: The day after he had passed away, Nathan Samuel Raphael, the son of “Samuel Raphael and the former Charlotte Levy” who had left his native London for Austrailia in 1849 was buried today in “Orange, NSW, Australia.” 1887(21st of Tishrei, 5648): Sixty-two year old Czech born American musician and impresario Maurice Strakosch, whose autobiography Souvenirs of an Impresario was published in 1886 passed away today in Paris. 1888: As the London police investigated the murder of Catharine Eddowes, The Evening News reported that Jacob Levy, the son of butcher from Aldgate, was “obstinate” when questioned, refusing “to give the slightest information “ leaving “one to inter that he knows something but…is afraid to be called” during the inquest. 1889(14th of Tishrei, 5650): Erev Sukkoth1889(14th of Tishrei, 5650): Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, the son of Samuel Phillips, a London tailor, who founded the publishing house of Faudel, Phillips & Sons, was a leader of the Anglo-Jewish community and the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London, passed away today. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12110-phillips-sir-benjamin-samuel 1890: In Germany, Das Volk accuses the committee “engaged in gathering the municipal addresses” which are to be presented to Count Von Moltke on his 90th anniversary as being made up of “Jews….seeking pecuniary benefit from their connection with the movement to honor the Count.” 1891: “A Fire on Fifth Avenue” published today described the fire that swept through the New York home of August Belmont. 1891: Mrs. August Belmont and her children awoke at the old Belmont mansion at 109 Fifth Avenue where they had spent the night after their new home at 101 Fifth Avenue had been destroyed by fire. 1891: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, Mendel S. and Rachel Naomi Salsburg gave birth to Philip Salsburg who was the Treasurer of Il Minatore Publishing Company in Scranton, PA. 1891: Gustave S. Drachman of the law firm of Drachman & Nelson who has been retained by Charles Horwitz, a 23 year old Russian Jewish peddler “to look after his interest in an alleged estate in San Francisco valued at $30,000,000” said today that he has not been able to learn about “any man by the name of Horwitz” who “ever died in San Francisco leaving a large fortune.” 1891: According to today’s American Hebrew, “the letter of Mr. Harold Frederic…continue to present the case of the Jews in Russia in vivid colors and convincing tones.” 1892: In the wake of a decision by the Reform movement that circumcision is no longer a necessary part of the conversion process, a “conclave of rabbis” is scheduled to begin meeting today in New York. 1892: “Phases of City Life” published today described eastside Jews as being “as careful with their money as any people in the world” who will “part with the dollars freely under two conditions –sickness or death in the family” as can be seen by the round the clock medical care being provided for a child who was scaled two weeks ago which has required all of the to “work harder than ever to get the money for it all.” 1892: Construction began on a building that would be called the Frances Jacobs Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Frances Jacobs, known as Colorado’s “Mother of Charity,” devoted her life to community service. She is the only woman included among the sixteen Colorado pioneers depicted through stained glass portraits in the state’s Capital Rotunda. Born in Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati, Jacobs moved with her husband to Colorado in 1863; they settled in Denver in 1870. Jacobs quickly became involved in Denver’s Jewish and non-Jewish communities. Jewish issues were especially important to Jacobs. Soon after moving to Colorado with her husband in 1874, she became president of the Hebrew Benevolent Ladies Society (today known as Jewish Family Service of Colorado). By 1872, she was president of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society and in 1874 helped found the nonsectarian Denver Ladies’ Relief Society. She pushed for the creation of Denver’s first kindergarten and helped organize Denver’s Charity Organization Society, a forerunner to the United Way, in 1877. Jacobs also pushed the Denver Jewish community to attend to the care of the many Jewish tuberculosis sufferers who came to Denver. At that time, the only known treatment for tuberculosis was clean air and sunshine; since Denver had both of these resources in abundance; it became a popular destination for infected immigrants from the industrial Northeast. When these immigrants arrived in Denver, they found no facilities available to treat or even shelter them, and the community ignored their plight. Jacobs did her best to help those who were ill on an individual basis, but worked to convince the Jewish community to help, leading to the construction of the hospital, whose motto became “None may enter who can pay, and none can pay who enter”. Jacobs died, at the age of 49, weeks after the hospital’s cornerstone had been laid. The hospital’s trustees voted to name the hospital after her. Today the institution is known as the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, and is the only medical and research center in the United States devoted entirely to respiratory, allergic, and immune system diseases. Jacobs died, at the age of 49, weeks after the hospital’s cornerstone had been laid. The hospital’s trustees voted to name the hospital after her. Today the institution is known as the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, and is the only medical and research center in the United States devoted entirely to respiratory, allergic, and immune system diseases. http://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/09/1892/frances-jacobs 1892: The 15 Jewish families living in the tenement at 100 Suffolk lost personal property in yesterday’s fire that was valued today at approximately $2,000. 1892: In Boston, MA, “Jewish Lithuanian immigrants Joseph Weit and Sarah Magilewski gave birth to economist Harry Dexter White. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00149.pdf 1893: It was reported today that villages on the German borders with Austria and Russia are crowded with Jewish “families who have been expelled from Russia and are eager to come to United States but are so destitute that they “prostrate themselves before travelers and beg for bread or money.” 1894: It was reported today that Mrs. Elke Rubenstein the widow of convicted murderer Pesach Rubenstein has been ordered to leave the country because she might become a public charge and without having been able to claim the $1,000 which her husband when police arrested him for the murder of Sara Alexander. 1894: It was reported today that Brooklyn resident Nathan Bernstein must have died a happy man since he lived to see his son John married by a rabbi to Miss Ida Korne. 1894(9th of Tishrei, 5655): Erev Yom Kippur 1894(9th of Tishrei, 5655): Sixty year old Wolf Cohn “dropped dead while attending services at Adelphi Hall on 52nd Street and 7th Avenue. 1894: John Most is scheduled to play the lead in “Die Weber” which is part of the anti-Yom Kippur revelry planned for tonight by the Hebrew Anarchists at the Clarendon Hall. 1894: Voter registration is set to begin in New York City which will be a problem because the sites owned by the Jews will have to close well before the official 9 pm closing time due to the Jewish Holiday. 1894: “Anti-Semitic Groups Combine” published today described the formation of the German Social Reform Party which was created by the delegates to a conference led by Jew baiters at Eisenach Germany. 1895(21st of Tishrei, 5656): Hoshana Raba 1895: Abraham Stern, a wealthy real estate lawyer, filed a the will of his late aunt, Mrs. Babet Karl, for probate today and discounted reports that there was another will which had been prepared under the influence of Rabbi Aaron Wise and son Otto who is an attorney. 1895: Tonight, Tammany Hall nominated Joseph E Newburger, a graduate of Columbia Law School, a Judge on the City Court, a director of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the President of Rodolph Sholom to run for a position on the Court of General Sessions in New York. 1896: As David Schwarz worked to develop a successful airship, a test failed today because the hydrogen used “was not of required purity” and was unable to provide the required life. 1897(13th of Tishrei, 5658): On Shabbat, in Newark, NJ 45 year old Simon Davis “one of the best known” Jews in the city who has been a partner for the last twenty years in a catering service with his brother, passed away today. 1897(13th of Tishrei, 5658): Kate Lintine, the sister of Mrs. Harry Stone of Johannesburg, SA, passed away today in Birmingham, UK. 1898(23rd of Tishrei, 5659): Simchat Torah 1898: Birthdate of Aaron Nissenson, who came to United States from his native Russia in 1911, earned “a degree in pharmacy from Fordham” which he did not use turning instead to a life as “a poet, essayist, novelist and journalist working for The Jewish Morning Journal while being married “the former Kate Heller” with whom he had “a son, Herschel.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nissenson-aaron 1898: Herzl has another audience with Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden. On the same day Herzl is received by Foreign Minister Bernhard von Bülow and Reich’s Chancellor Hohenlohe. 1898: “Sixty or seventy of the most prominent lawyers” in Chicago attended a banquet at the Union League Club in honor of the 70th birthday of Julius Rosenthal who began his career in 1854 as clerk at the banking of house of R.K. Swift before passing the bar. 1900: Harvard educated attorney Edwin South Mack, the Cincinnati born son of Jennie Wolf and Herman S Mack married Della Adler after which he became a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin and practiced law in Milwaukee. 1901(26th of Tishrei, 5662): Seventy-year old Sigmund von Henle who represented the city of Munich in the Bavarian Diet from 1873 to 1881 and who served on the board of trustees “of several Jewish societies” passed away today. 1901(26th of Tishrei, 5662): Seventy-five year old Kate(nee Reuben)Aaron the wife of Samuel Aaron and the mother of Louisa, Rachel and Simeon Aaron passed away today after which she was interred at the Bath Jewish Burial Grounds. 1901: Simon Lipkie married Emily Somers today. 1902: Today, the Athens correspondent for The Times of London, said the best hope for the Jews of Rumania lies in the soon to be reached “moment when the Rumanian floating debt must be converted by means of a great loan” because, according to him “the influence of Jewish capitalist may then be of more avail in helping their suffering kindred than the whole force of the humanitarian sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic.” 1903: It was reported today that Cyrus L. Sulzberger has been notified that he is the Fusion nominee for Borough Present and that Abraham Gruber “has been tendered the nomination for Sheriff.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/09/102025341.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 1904: Samuel Golden, the Bialystock born son of Gussie and Harris Golden who in 1886 came to the United States where he eventually founded the Golden Shoe Company married Bessie Penn today, after which they had two children – Raymond and Evelyn. 1904: “In the city of Kamenyets, Platon Artemovych Bazhan and his wife gave birth to Ukrainian poet Mykola Bazhan whose 1943 poem “Babi Yar” “explicitly depicted the infamous massacre in the ravine” but does not mention the fact that the victims were Jews. http://polyhymnion.org/lit/bazhan/ 1905(10th of Tishrei, 5666): Yom Kippur 1905(10th of Tishrei, 5666): Forty-two year old Isaac Levy, the husband of Lena Levy, passed away today after which he would be interred at the Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA. 1906(20th of Tishrei, 5667): Sixth Day of Sukkoth 1906: In answer to a reporter’s question, “Can the Jews in Russia hope to obtain complete freedom” Premier Stolypin replied that “that was a question which only the representatives of the Russian National could answer.” 1907: Three days after he had passed away, Posen native Louis Braun, the husband of the former “Julia Joseph” with whom he had eight children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.” 1908(14th of Tishrei, 5669): Erev Sukkoth is observed William Jennings Bryan attacks Republican presidential nominee William Howard Taft and President Teddy Roosevelt, both of whom enjoy great support among Jewish voter, blaming them for the Panic of 1907. 1909(24th of Tishrei, 5670): Parashat Bereshit 1909: The Tennessee Volunteers coached by George Levene lost to the University of North Carolina that scored only three points. 1909: The Sick Benevolent Society of Zialkamian, the hometown of Naphtali Herz Imber who passed away yesterday, asserted its right to take care of the burial of the poet superseding the claim of those who wanted to bury him “in a Rumanian Jewish cemetery at Bayside” where he reportedly owned a plot. 1910: Ty Cobb, the great baseball player with a streak of the anti-Semite, won the Chalmers Award today. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mlb-ty-cobb-baseball 1911: Birthdate of Joe Rosenthal. In 1945, at the age of 33, Rosenthal snapped the most famous of all World War II photos – The Raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima. 1911: In Paris, France, founded of the Der Yidisher Arbeyter (The Jewish Worker) a Yiddish language newspaper aimed at the “working class” that went out of business in 1914 because it espoused pacifist beliefs at a time when France was on the brink of war. 1911: Birthdate of Jacob L. Trobe, the son of an Orthodox rabbi, who as a representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was among the first relief workers to enter the concentration camps. 1912: President Winthrop and Vice President Green delivered eulogies at today’s special meeting of the Board Education held today following the death of Professor Morris Loeb which occurred yesterday. 1913: “The indictment of Mendel Beiliss charging him with the murder of the boy Andrew Yushinsky on March 25, 1911, near Kiev, was read immediately upon the reassembling of the court this morning.” 1914: It was reported today that at Columbia University, John Dyneley Prince will teach several foreign language courses including one in Hebrew. 1915(:1st of Cheshvan, 5676): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan 1915(1st of Cheshvan, 5676): Seventy-nine year old Augusta Hortensia Jacobsson, the daughter of Mauriz Jacobsson and Carolina Weslig and the wife August Abraham Josephson passed today in Stockholm. 1915: It was announced today that Catholics, Protestants and Jews at the Columbia University’s Teacher College have joined together to create “a co-operative union to be known as the Students’ Religious Organization.” 1915: Birthdate of New York City native and Barnard College Belva Offenberg, who married ophthalmologist Dr. Irving Plain which was known as Belva Plain when she began her successful career as a novelists at the age of 59. (As reported by Elsa Dixler) https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18plain.html 1916: Among the newly released books available to the public is Charles Frohman: Manager and Man, the “authorized biography of the great manager written by those who had access to all the papers, correspondence and records of Charles Frohman and the Empire Theater.” 1917(23rd of Tishrei, 5678); Simchat Torah 1917(23rd of Tishrei, 5678); After enduring days of torture at the hands of the Ottoman authorities Sarah Aaronsohn committed suicide rather than betray her comrades. Aaronsohn was a member of Nili, a Jewish spy ring working for the British in Palestine. Aaronsohn had been born in Palestine in 1890 and was motivated to work for the British when she the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide. She was buried in the cemetery in Zichron Yaakov. There are those who make an annual pilgrimage to her grave on the anniversary of her death so the memory of this brave young Jewess will always be part of the heritage of the Jewish people. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/SAaronsohn.html 1917: Fuad I began his reign as Sultan of Egypt. 1918: Today, ten months after the Parliament of Finland had promulgated an act making it possible “for Jews to become Finnish nationals” “Frederick Charles was elected King of Finland by that same Finnish Parliament. 1919(15th of Tishrei, 5680): Sukkoth 1919: The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Chicago White in the World Series that would become known as the Black Sox Scandal. According to many “experts” Arnold Rothstein, a Jewish born gambler of unsavory reputation, supplied the money to bribe selected members of the White Sox. Abe Attell, a former boxer known as “The Little Hebrew,” was Rothstein’s bagman. According to information left on this blog “Attell was Jewish, but he grew up in an Irish neighborhood. Because of that, he often found himself involved in fights, and according to him, he would get involved in as many as 10 bouts each day as a kid. Attell’s father abandoned his family when Attell was 13, and Attell had to sell newspapers to support his family. He used to sell them on the streets and corners, and while selling newspapers, he got a chance to witness the fight between Solly Smith and George Dixon for the world’s Featherweight championship. With that, Attell and two of his brothers were convinced that maybe they had a future in boxing.” 1920: Dr. Enlow is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Lessons from the Life of Jacob H. Schiff” during Shabbat Services at Temple Emanu-El in New York. 1920: Birthdate of Jason Wingreen, the native of Brooklyn and graduate of Brooklyn College whose decade’s long acting career known to many as the bartender on “All in the Family.” http://deadline.com/2016/01/jason-wingreen-dead-prolific-tv-actor-all-in-the-family-boba-fett-the-empire-strikes-back-1201675164/ 1921: Dr. Morris Murray Peshkin married Lillian Rapaport today. 1921: In Berlin “historian George Herlitz, the founder of the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem” and his wife gave birth to MK and diplomat Esther Herlitz who became Israel’s first female ambassador when she served represented Israel in Denmark in 1966. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-first-female-ambassador-passes-away-at-94/ 1922(17th of Tishrei, 5683): Third Day of Sukkoth 1922: In Brownsville immigrant tailor Harry Finkel and his Mary gave birth to Philip “Fyvush” Finkel, the veteran of the Yiddish Theatre, who won an Emmy for his role as a lawyer in the television hit “Picket Fences.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/theater/fyvush-finkel-pillar-of-yiddish-theater-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0 1922: Elinor Fatman Morgenthau and Henry Morgenthau, Jr. who would serve as FDR’s Secretary of the Treasury gave birth of Dr. Joan E. Morgenthau, the wife of Fred Hirschhorn, Jr. 1923: Birthdate of Israeli, poet, novelist, journalist and filmmaker, Haim Gouri. A sabra. Gouri worked with Jewish refugees in Hungary after WW II and fought with the Palmach in the Negev during the War for Independence before pursuing his literary career. He has won the Bialik, Israel and Uri Zvi Grinberg awards. http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/3162/12/Chaim-Gouri https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/obituaries/haim-gouri-poetic-voice-of-a-rising-israel-is-dead-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well 1924: Dutch diamond polisher and baseball player Hartog Hamburger, the father of psychiatrist and “Jewish resistance fighter Max Hamburger, “was hit in the head by a line drive” today in a freak accident that would lead to his death on the following day. 1924: In Manhattan, “Dr. Sebastian Smigel and the former Bella Soloway” gave birth to Irwin Elliot Smigel, the dentist whose clients included numerous stars.” (As reported by Sam Roberts) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/nyregion/irwin-smigel-new-york-dentist-behind-cosmetic-techniques-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1 1925(21st of Tishrei, 5686): Hoshana Rabah 1925: In Sosnowiec, Poland, ‘chocolate salesman Issachar Feiner and Rivka Herzberg gave birth to Haim Feiner who immigrated to Palestine in 1936 and gained fame as songwriter, poet and author Chaim Hefer. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/world/middleeast/haim-hefer-israeli-songwriter-and-poet-dies-at-86.html?_r=0 1926: A conference of State and city chairman who will be leading United Jewish campaign to raise twenty five million dollars is scheduled to begin today at the Standard Club in Chicago. 1926: Max Derfiner, a pioneer silk manufacturer who arrived in New York from Tel Aviv last week continued to tout the possibilities for developing the silk industry in Palestine. Derfiner who already expressed his belief that in ten years Tel Aviv can become a “second Lyon” said today that one of his keys to success was his ability “to concentrate in one plant all the processes of silk manufacturing…which in France, Switzerland or America would be performed in separate establishments.” Derfiner also said that the Zionists had “developed the ‘Made in Palestine’ label into a commercial asset…” In Jewish homes through the world the name Palestine had a business value as well as a sentimental appeal. 1927(14th of Tishrei, 5688): Erev Sukkoth 1927: According to a statement issued today by Judge William M. Lewis, National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, “an invitation to attend a national conferred on Palestine at Cleveland at October 29 and 30 has been extended to representative Jewish men and women throughout the United States by Nathan Straus…” 1928: It was announced today in Cincinnati, OH, by Rabbi Henry G. Enlow of New York at the 39th annual meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis that “Lucius N. Littauer of New York City has given $5,000 a year to maintain a foundation for advancing Judaism along literary and spiritual lines…” 1929: “June Moon,” a play co-authored by George S. Kaufman premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. 1930(17th of Tishrei, 5691): Third Day of Sukkoth 1930: As Dr. Drummond Shiels, British Under-Secretary for Dominions, left his hotel today an angry crowd shouted “Away with Parliament which does do justice to Jews,” “Shame to the British Government” and “Remember Hebron, Safed and Motza,” a reference to the 1929 sites of bloody Arab attacks on defenseless Jews. The crowd sang Hatikvah as Shiels sped away under the protection of the local police. “The demonstration was caused by a report from London that Shiels had promised an Arab delegation that a Parliament for Palestine” would be established. Creation of such an institution was part of a plan to circumvent the creation of a Jewish home in Palestine and guarantee that Jews would always be a minority in Eretz Israel. 1930: “Sir John Monash” published one day after his death stated that “It is not an exaggeration to say that Sir John Monash…was one of the ablest soldiers that the British colonies sent to the World War.” Monash was known for his ability to train troops as could be seen from his work with the Third Australian Division. A brave soldier, he was an able tactician and strategist who played a key role in the great assault that broke the Hindenburg Line which forced the Germans to sue for peace. It was said of him “that he would command a division better than a brigade and corps better than a division.” [Nowhere in the article that traced Monash rise to prominence was it mentioned that he was Jewish.] 1931: More than 300 guests attended the reception marking the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Benno Lewinsohn, the father of Sara Lewinsohn, “the former secretary of the late Oscar S. Straus. 1932(9th of Tishrei, 5693): Kol Nidre was chanted for the last time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover. 1932: HIAS is scheduled to conduct services for the Day of Atonement beginning this evening. 1932: Services are scheduled to be held this evening for the Jewish immigrants detained on Ellis Island. 1933(19th of Tishrei, 5694): Fifth Day of Sukkoth 1933: In Manhattan, Yetta Kleinberg and pressman David Sokolsky gave birth to Melvin Sokolsky “a photographer who pushed boundaries by creating fantastical tableaus for fashion bibles like Harper’s Bazaar that seemed to defy both gravity and logic…” (As reported by Alex Williams) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/fashion/melvin-sokolsky-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/melvin-sokolsky/ 1933: “Wedding at Lake Wolfgang” a musical directed by Hans Behrendt who died at Auschwitz was released today in Germany. 1933: Birthdate of Martin Gottfried “a drama critic and the author of several biographies of entertainers and playwrights as well as two influential studies of the Broadway musical.” (As reported by Daniel Slotnik) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/theater/martin-gottfried-theater-critic-and-author-dies-at-80.html?_r=0 1934: In New York, Minnie and David Alper gave birth to long term IBM employee Ralph Abraham Alper, the husband of the former “Linda Ann Propp.” 1935: U.S. premiere of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” directed by Max Reinhardt at the Warner Bros. Hollywood Theatre in New York City. 1936(23rd of Tishrei, 5697): Simchat Torah 1936: In Chicago, at a rally featuring Al Landon, the Republican candidate for President, Anna Smith told the throng that “It is necessary for Christians, Jews and Gentiles to join together to resist this sinister movement, communism” which ironically was part of what would become a decades long campaign to equate Democrats, liberals and Jews with the Communists and a conspiracy to take over the United States. 1936: It was reported today that “the version of the story” surrounding the arrest and conviction of a Jew named Abraham Kaiser for writing a letter to a friend in America that was critical of Hitler and the Nazis “stated that the police discovered the letter in his flat” while at the same time claiming that Kaiser who lived in Duisburg had mailed the letter from Dusseldorf in order to conceal his identity. (Editor’s Note – accuracy is not necessary in the world of anti-Semitism) 1936: “Libeled Lady” a comedy produced by Lawrence Weingarten was released in the United States today by MGM. 1937: Birthdate of Queens College and Columbia University children’s book author Johanna Hurwitz. https://www.kidsreads.com/authors/johanna-hurwitz 1937: The Los Angeles Examiner reported today that when Vittorio Mussolini, the son of the Il Duce, came to Hollywood, the Hollywood Ant-Nazi League (HANL) “denounced the visit on behalf of all ‘artists and writers’ declaring that ‘Fascism means the suppression of all freedom of expression.’” 1938: Thirteen year old future “Monuments Man” Harry Ettlinger, and his family arrived in New York having “escaped” from Germany in September. 1938: Today, Maurice Babadu, the Swiss Catholic theology student tried to assassinate Hitler “travelled from Brittany to Baden-Baden, then on to Basel, where he bought a Schmeisser 6.35 mm (.25 ACP) semi-automatic pistol.” 1939: In London, Bill Sedley and his wife gave birth to British jurist Sir Stephen Sedley. 1939: In Philadelphia, Herman Levin, a police officer and the former Madeline Simmons gave birth to Ronald Stanley Levin “the self -described ‘most fabulous colorist in the word,’” whose clients included Nancy Sinatra, Farrah Fawcett and Marilyn Monroe. (As reported by Alex Vadukul) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/style/ron-levin-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries 1939: Himmler declared that 550,000 Jews living in Polish provinces should be relocated 1939: “Hitler’s Plan for Jews Scored” published today described the decision of the delegates attending the Order of the Sons of Zion Conference at the Hotel Astor to adopt a resolution condemning the Nazi plan “establish a Jewish State in Polish Territory” as “a hypocritical scheme, fraught with the gravest of dangers to European Jewry.” 1940: Adina Gerstel and Rabbi Louis Wefel were married today. Werfel would gain fame for his role as a chaplain during WW II who was known as the flying Rabbi. Unfortunately, his would be cut short when he died when his aircraft crashed in 1943 while he was bring the joy of Chanukah to U.S. troops fighting in North Africa. 1940: In Great Britain, the Committee of Privileges reported that the detention of the anti-Semitic MP Archibald Maule Ramsay under Regulation 18B that applies to people “suspected of disloyalty” “was not a breach of privilgege.” He would be released in 1944 and would return to the House of the House of Commons where he introduced a resolution calling for the banishment of the Jews as had been done by King Edward I. 1941(18th of Tishrei, 5702): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth 1941(18th of Tishrei, 5702): Forty-seven year old Dallas resident Herbert Mallinson, “the chairman of the Southwest region of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the son of Samuel and Rose Mallinson and husband of Beatrice Mallinson, passed away today “while attending a meeting of the Dallas Jewish Federation for Social Service.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/10/11/105164141.pdf 1941: The Nazis murdered 3,726 Jews including 717 children in the Poligon barracks near Swieciany, Lithuania. 1941: A recruiting rally was held in Tel Aviv as part of a campaign to get another 5,000 Jews from Palestine to enlist in the British Army. Currently there are approximately 10,000 Jews from Palestine serving in the British Army and RAF throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. The leading Jewish institutions sponsoring the campaign have adopted the slogan “Jews are fighting with the Allies for victory.” 1941: Parades of Jewish veterans of World War I were greeted by cheering throngs in Haifa and Tel Aviv. The parades were the climax of week’s long effort to recruit more Jewish recruits for the British military. Jewish leaders encouraged every man who can be spared to “enroll under the Union Jack” to “help in the fight against Adolf Hitler.” 1941: Hans Frank told the ministers of the General Government in Cracow; “As far as Jews are concerned . . . I want to tell you quite frankly that they must be done away with one way or another.” 1941: The Nazi-allied government led by Marshal Ion Antonescu began deporting Jews to camps located in Transnistria, an occupied area in the former Soviet Union. 1941: J.D. Salinger who had been corresponding with Marjorie Sheard, “a Toronto woman about his age” wrote to her today asking that she send him a picture of herself. 1941: Governor Lehman will not be attending “the dinner forum on ‘Europe Today’ scheduled to be held this evening which is co-chaired by Lillian Hellman and Ernest Hemingway because a number of the committees sponsoring the event “have long been connected with Communist activities.” (Editor’s note – Hemingway was not Jewish. The dinner demonstrated the problem that was to plague America for years: how to oppose … Continue reading ISRAEL at WAR!