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145:
Birthdate of Septimius Severus, the “Roman emperor, who according to the
Virtual Jewish Library Lucious Septimus Severus treated “Jews relatively well,
allowing them to participate in public offices and be exempt from formalities
contrary to Judaism. However, he did not allow the Jews to convert anyone.” [According to one source, this had to do with
the fact that Severus was not really a Roman, but of Syrian-Phoenician stock,
but I could find no further corroboration of this.]
399: In
the Roman Empire, a law is promulgated prohibiting sending emissaries to
collect donations on behalf of the nasi. "That the Jews should know
that we have delivered them from this iniquitous tribute."
491: Anastasius I
begins his reign as the Byzantine Emperor. The reign of Anastasius marked the
renewal of warfare with the Sassanid Empire.
The Sassanid Empire was the name given to the Persian Empire of the day. This renewal of warfare would have a negative
impact on the Jews who ruled the island of Yotabe also known as Tiran, which is
in the straits of Tiran. The Jews of
Yotabe played an instrumental role in the trade along the Red Sea and when the
Byzantines sought to move East to take control of this trade and defeat the
Sassanids, they would replace the Jewish leaders with their own people.
1241: The Mongol army
under the command Batu Khan defeated King Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of
Muhi. The defeat was a disaster for
Christian forces in general and the Hungarians in particular. Bela looked favorably on his Jewish subjects,
seeing them as a force that could raise his kingdom from the impoverishment
resulting from the defeat. Bela adopted measures that protected his Jewish
subjects from mob violence and church control and allowed them to use their own
legal system for settling communal disputes. In exchange for this protection,
the Jews were to pay their taxes directly to the royal treasury. Needless to say, Bela’s behavior did not meet
with the approval of the clergy and they would move to overturn his rulings
under his successor.
1302: A decree was
issued ordering the Jews of Barcelona to kneel when meeting a priest with the
sacraments.
1571: Today, Richard
Curteys, who had Joachim Gans, the Hebrew speaking first Jew to settle in that
part of North America controlled by the English brought before the officials of
Bristol to face charges of blasphemy was presented by Queen Elizabeth to the
vicarage of Ryhall, as the Bishop of Chichester.
1576: Baptiste Bassano,
a Venetian-born musician at the court of Elizabeth, who may have been of Jewish
descent and who was the father of Aemilia Bassano, who as Emilia Lanier wrote Salve
Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews) which was published in 1611,
passed away today.
1632: “French
Protestant theologian Nicolas Antoine” who had been arrested on charges of
heresy after proclaiming that he was a Jew went on trial today where he
“repeated constantly, ‘I am a Jew, and all I ask of God’s grace is to die for
Judaism.
1649: The largest Auto
De Fe in the New World was held with 109 victims in Mexico. All but one of
them was accused of Judaizing. Thirteen were burned alive and 57 in
effigy. This for the most part ended the prominence of crypto-Jews in Mexico.
1657: “The Council of
New Amsterdam denied a petition by Jacob Cohen (Henriques) for a license to
bake and sell bread.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch).
1689: Coronation of
“William of Orange,” the King of England, Scotland and Ireland whose rise from
Dutch prince to British monarch had been financed by Antonio Lopez Suasso,
later Baron Avernes de Gras and who in 1700 knighted Solomon de Medina who had
served as an army contractor making him the first Jew to be so honored.
1713: Following today’s signing of the Peace Utrecht which marked
the end of Spanish domination over Belgium Jews began to reappear in Brussels
after an absence that dated back to 1370.
1715: Birthdate of Jacob
Rodrigues Pereira, the Portuguese native, who gained fame as Jacob Rodrigue
Péreire, who devoted his life to teaching and working with “deaf-mutes.” Péreire who came from a family crypto-Jews,
officially rejoined the faith of his fathers and was a leader in the French
Jewish Community. His grandsons were two famous 19th century French
financiers -, Emile and Isaac Péreire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Rodrigue_P%C3%A9reire.JPG
1717(30th of
Nisan, 5477): Talmudist Abraham ben Saul Broda, the son of Saul Broda and a
student of Rabbi Isaac ben Ze’eb Harif, passed away today in Frankfort on Main.
1755(30th of Nisan,
5515): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed as British and French fleets raced across the
Atlantic during the French and Indian War.
1761(7th of
Nisan, 5521): Parashat Metzora
1762(18th of
Nisan, 5522): Fourth Day of Pesach
1765(20th of Nisan, 5525): Sixth Day of Pesach
1765: Founding of the
Patriotic Society in Hamburg which would appoint Salomon Heine as an honorary
member in 1843
1766: Virginia native
Elizabeth Whitlock and Philadelphian Moses Mordecai gave birth to Isaac
Mordecai, the husband of Zipplorah Russell and the father of John, Samuel and
Isaac Mordecai.
1767(12tn of Nisan,
5527): Parsahat Achrei Mot; Shabbat HaGadol observed as Benjamin Franklin, who
advocated including an image of the Israelites crossing the Sea of Reeds as an
image for the Great Seal of America, wrote to the British warning them of the
negative impact the Townshend Acts would have on relations with the 13 colonies
in America.
1770(16th of
Nisan, 5530): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1772(8th of
Nisan, 5532): Parasha Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1773: In Savannah, GA,
Sarah De La Motta and Levi Sheftall gave birth to Hannah Seftall, the wife of
Abraham De Lyon whom she married in her hometown in 1827.
1774(30th of
Nisan, 5534): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed on the same that “the British
Parliament passed the Intolerable Act, which included the closing of Boston
Harbor – one of the steps on the path that led to the American Revolution.
1776(22nd of
Nisan, 5536): Seventh Day of Pesach observed as the North Carolina Provincial
Congress prepared to vote on the Halifax Resolves “which was the first official
action in the 13 colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.
1778(14th of
Nisan, 5538): Shabbat HaGadol; erev Pesach observed on the same day that “emissions
totaling $25,000,000 payable in Spanish milled dollars, or the equivalent in
gold or silver, was authorized by Continental Congress resolutions passed at
Yorktown.
1789(15th of
Nisan, 5549): Pesach is observed as the letter from Congress telling George
Washington that he has been elected President of the United States makes its
way to his home at Mt. Vernon, VA.
1792(19th of
Nisan, 5552): Fifth Day of Pesach
1792: In Germany,
Jentle Loeb and Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Abraham Moses Faist
Rosenheim, the husband of Voegele Ottenheimer with whom he had six children
1795: Birthdate of Friedrich
Wilhelm Carl Umbreit, the German Protestant minister who authored works on the
books of the Hebrew Bible while serving as a Professor of Old Testament Studies
at the University of Heidelberg.
1792(19th of
Nisan, 5552): Fifth Day of Pesach
1792: As Jews munched
on their Matzoth, In Meriden, Ct. Joel and Esther Clark Yale gave birth to Levi
Yale, a member of the State House of Representatives. (They are not Jewish, but
the names remind us of the strong Biblical connection that New England settlers
had with the “Old Testament.”
1797(15th of
Nisan, 5557): Pesach celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of
John Adams.
1800(16th of
Nisan, 5560): Second Day of Pesach; Counting of the Omer begun for the last
time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(28th of
Nisan, 5561): Parashat Shmini
1801: Birthdate of
Harburg native and future Brooklynite Sara Selz, the daughter of Elkan Selz,
the daughter of Samuel Baer Liebmann1 with whom she had ten children.
1802: Today,
Philadelphia merchant Solomon Lyons married Rebecca Abraham
1803(19th of
Nisan, 5563): Fifth Day of Pesach is celebrated on the same day that “1803,
just days before James Monroe's arrival, Barbé-Marbois offered Livingston all
of Louisiana for $15 million.”
1805(12th of
Nisan, 5565): Ta’anit Bechorot observed because the 14th of Nisan
fell on Shabbat
1807: “Ezekiel Hart was
elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada over three other
candidates, obtaining 59 out of the 116 votes cast.” Since the election took place on Shabbat,
Hart refused to take the office on that date.
He would cause a further uproar when he did take the oath because he
insisted on using a Hebrew Bible instead of the Christian Bible normally used
for such events.
1808(14th of
Nisan, 5568): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1808(14th of
Nisan, 5568): Fifty-three-year-old Benjamin Goldsmid, the husband of Jesse and
father of Israel-Levier. Solomons passed away today.
1808: In Arnhem, a
larger tract, adjacent to a lot forty feet by one hundred that had been
assigned to Samuel Levie and Solomon Cohen Jacobs in 1755 was added to what had
become the Jewish city’s burial ground.
1809: In New York,
Amsterdam native David Cromelien and Adeline (or Amelia) Cromelien gave birth
to Hannah Cromelien who became Hannah Spiro when she married Philip Jacob Spiro
with whom she had ten children.
1811(17th of
Nisan, 5571): Third Day of Pesach
1814: Napoleon
Bonaparte, emperor of France, who certainly had a great impact on the Jews of
Europe, abdicated the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, was banished
to the Mediterranean island of Elba
1819(16th of
Nisan, 5579): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1822: In Posen Prussia,
“Sabbathi Fischel Huth and Handel Chajah Schreier” gave birth to Myer S. Hood,
the student of “Rabbis Isaac Leahs and Lippman Goldstaub” and graduate of the
Teacher’s Seminary in Breslaum who after coming to the United States was the
“head teacher and reader” two congregations in New Jersey and the
“Superintendent of the Plaut Memorial Hebrew Free School” while being married
to Ernestine Baruch.
1825: Birthdate of
Ferdinand Lassalle, the native of Breslau who became a prominent German jurist
and political leader.
http://spartacus-educational.com/GERlasselle.htm
1827(14th of
Nisan, 5587): One day after the birth of Lew Wallace, the Civil War General who
wrote Ben Hur, the title character who is one of the most famous
fictional Jews, the real Jews observed the Fast of the First Born and sat down
for their first Seder in the evening.
1828: Birthdate of Cincinnati native James Keys Wilson, the
architect who designed Isaac M. Wise’s “
Plum Street Temple” which “was one of the first of many American Moorish
Revival synagogues[6] and is a National Historic Landmark.”
1830(18th of
Nisan, 5590): Fourth Day of Pesach
1831: In Brno, Löbl
Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their 8th child Sophia.
1831: “The Society for
the Education of Poor Children and Relief of Indigent of the Jewish Persuasion
in the City of New York was incorporated today.
1833(22nd of
Nisan, 5593): Eight Day of Pesach
1833: In Bunde Germany,
Bendix Rosenwald and Vogel Rosenwald gave birth to Hermann (Isaac) Rosenwald,
the husband of Jeanette David and the father of Bendix Rosenwald; Gustav
Rosenwald and Ida Bach.
1833: As Jews munched
Matzoth for the last time Connecticut voters chose all six of their congressmen
who were elected at-large instead of district by district.
1835(12th of
Nisan, 5595): Shabbat HaGadol
1835: Solomon Benoliel,
the Gibraltar born son of Don Judah Benoliel and Esther Benoliel and his wife Judith
Benolie gave birth of Abraham Benoliel
1838(16th of
Nisan, 5598): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1840(8th of
Nisan, 5600): Shabbat HaGadol
1842: John Davis
married Amelia Friedberg at the Great Synagogue today.
1844(22nd of
Nisan, 5604): Eighth Day of Pesach
1844: On the same day
that Jews munched their Matzoth for the ls time, Mormon Joseph “was
"chosen as our Prophet, Priest, and King by Hosannas," two months
before he was murdered.
1845: Isaac and Rachel
Pereira Baiz gave birth to Jacob Baiz the “husband of Rebecca Baiz” and “father
of Angela Baiz.
1846(15th of
Nisan, 5606): The Jews of Texas observe their first Pesach as citizens of the
United States.
1848: Jeanetta Malan
and Kent, UK native Joseph Davis gave birth to Miriam Davis.
1850: In Henderson, KY,
Sarah Ochs and Samuel Bissinger, who had been married in Louisville in 1848
gave birth to Benjamin Bissinger, the husband of Helena Bach whom he married in
1872 and the father of Nora, Bernard, Jacob, Louis and Lawrence Bissinger.
1850: Birthdate of
Isidor Rayner, the native of Baltimore who represented the Fourth Congressional
District in the House of Representatives and represented Maryland in the United
States Senate.
1852: In the “Czech
Republic,” Rabbi Benjamin Ullmann, the son of Marks and Dewora Ullmann and
Theresa Ester Ullmann gave birth to Ignaz Ullmann.
1852: Birthdate of John
Stephany, the native of London who was one of the founders of Congregation
Emanu-El, the first Jewish congregation in Statesville, NC.
1856: In Baltimore,
Caroline and Rabbi Aaron Guinzburg gave birth to Henry Aaron Guinzburg, the Colonel
of Cavalry, aide-de-camp and chief of staff of Governor Stone of Missouri and
the husband of Leonie B. Guinzberg with whom he had three children – Leonore,
Harold and Herminia.
1857(17th of
Nisan, 5617): Shabbat shel Pesach celebrated for the first time during the
Presidency of James Buchanan.
1860: The State
Assembly passed a bill to
amend the charter of the Hebrew Benevolent Society of New York
1860:
In Bielitz, Austria, Anna Kanner and Ignatz Zeisler gave birth to Chicago
attorney Sigmund Zeisler who represented the defendants in Illinois vs. August
Spies, et al – the criminal litigation that grew out of the Haymarket Square
labor demonstration or riot, depending on your point of view and who was the
husband of the famed pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
1860: The State
Assembly passed a bill to amend the charter of the Hebrew Cemetery Association
of New York.
1861(1st of Iyar, 5621):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar – Confederate General Beauregard sent two officers to Fort
Sumter with an ultimatum for Major Anderson, the commander of the U.S.
forces. Either he can evacuate or face
bombardment and attack from the surrounding Rebel forces. Today is the last day of peace for four years
in the United States.
1862: Corporal Henry
Wertheim, a native of Germany who was living in Mecklenburg County (NC)
enlisted in the Confederate Army.
1863(22nd of
Nisan, 5623): Eighth Day of Pesach; Shabbat Shel Pesach
1863: Israel Cohen,
“the son of Kitty and Benjamin I. Cohen” and Cecilia Eliza Cohen gave birth to
Anna Maria Cohen who became Anna Maria Minis when she married Abram Minis.
1864(5th of Nisan, 5624):
Merchant and Hebrew scholar, Elijah Bardach, who was born at Lemberg in 1794
and whose works included Akedat Yizhak written in 1833, passed away today in
Vienna.
1865(15th of
Nisan, 5625): Pesach observed for the first time without the firing of guns
from the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia.
1867(6th of
Nisan, 5672): Abraham Lazarus Funk the Dornum, Germany born “son of Lazarus
Gossel Funk and Diertjen Jette Funk – Gans” passed away before reaching his
second birthday.
1868(18th of
Nisan, 5628): Fourth Day of Pesach
1870: In “Aid for the
Hebrews of West Russia” published today, the Executive Committee of the Hebrew
Board of Delegates reported receipt of the following donations:
Simeon Lodge of
Titusville, PA, $13.50; Israelites of Leavenworth, Kansas, $127.10; Purim
Association of Leavenworth Kansa, $202.10; Maimonides Lodge of Nashville, TN,
$10.00; Congregation B’nai Brith, Wilkes-Barre, PA, $30.00. [For those who think of American Jewish
History only in terms of a few major metropolitan areas, this list might give
you pause to consider another view of Jewish settlement of the United States.]
1873(14th of
Nisan, 5633): Fast of the first born; erev
Pesach
1873(14th of
Nissan): This afternoon, Congregation Shaare Rachmim, officially began using
the Norfolk Street Synagogue with services led by the rabbi of Ahamath Chesed,
the congregation that formerly used the Norfolk Street Synagogue. Ahamath Chesed has moved to a new location on
Lexington Avenue.
1875: Four days, after
he had passed away, Louis Samson Diespecker, the husband of the former
Christian Warmington with whom he had had six children was buried today at the
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1875: Birthdate of
Kovno born “wood engraver and painter Henry Bock, the husband of Dora Block and
the father of Adolph and Martin Block whose “colored wood engravings are on
permanent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, the New York Public Library and
the Library of Congress in Washington” passed away today in Plainfield, NJ
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0195/ms0195.html
1876(16th of
Nisan, 5636): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1876(16th of
Nisan, 5636): Fifty-eight-year-old “German physician and co-founder of
experimental pathology in Germany” Ludwig Traube passed away today in Berlin.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14483-traube-ludwig
1877: In Pittsburgh,
PA, Sarah Weiler and Samuel Silverman gave birth to MIT trained electrical
engineer, the husband of Fannie M. Schloss and technical assistant to the
chairman of the executive committee of the Boston and Main Railroad who was a
member of Temple Israel in Boston.
1879(18th of
Nisan, 5639): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Arnold,
Constable and Company which Lithuanian born Jews Meyer and Isaac Liberman would
take control of in 1925 was advertising the sale of “London Style Suittings and
Thousands of Overcoatings.”
1880(30th of Nisan,
5640): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1880(30th of
Nisan, 5640): Twenty-year old Fanny Adler, the wife of Moses Adler, a Jewish
peddler from Prussia, passed away today.
1880: In New York City,
Joseph and Mathilde (Riegelman) Haberman gave birth to Columbia trained
psychiatrist and neurologist J. Victor Haberman, the WW I veteran who enhanced
his knowledge base by earning a doctorate from the University of Berlin.
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fh0070291
1880: “York Minister,”
published today recounts the history of this English city includes an account
of the attacks made on the Jews during the reign of Richard the Lionhearted.
The recounting includes a graphic description of the suffering and death of 500
Jewish citizens at the hands of mob more concerned with not paying their debts
and stealing from the Children of Israel than anything else
1881: Isabella Benjamin
and David Moses Dyte gave birth to Henry Charles Dyte.
1881: It was reported
today that in Paris, the old customs for observing Shrove Tuesday are dying
out. For example, “the traditional
promenade of the Boeuf Gras” did not stop in front of the hotel of Baron de
Rothschild so that the revelers might “drink to the health of the great banker”
as they used to.”
1882(22nd of Nisan,
5642): Eighth Day of Pesach; 7th day of the Omer
1882: In Manhattan,
Yetta and Soloman Rosalsky gave birth to Dr. Harry William Rosalsky, the
dentist who was the husband of Victoria Rosalky and whose siblings included
Judge Otto Rosalsky.
1882(22nd of
Nisan, 5642): Sixty-eight-year-old “German banker and philanthropist” Jacob
Nachod, the son of Naftali and Bertha Nachod who served as President of the
German Federation of Jewish Communities which he founded passed away today.
1883: Attorney A. Leo
Weil, the Keysville, VA born son of Minna and Isaac L. Weil, the senior partner
in the law firm of Weil, Christy and Weil and member of Temple Rodef Shalom in
Pittsburgh married Cassie Ritter today.
1884(16th of Nisan,
5644) Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer counted for the last
time during the Presidency of Chester Alan Arthur who had gained office because
of the assassination of James Garfield.
1885(26th of
Nisan, 5645): Parsahat Shmini
1885: In New Orleans,
LA, Emma Schornstein, the daughter of Bertha and Hertzel Ber Bonart and her
husband Samuel Zigmund Schordnstein gave birth to Moise Schornstein, Sr, the
husband of Blanche Block and father of Beatrice and Moise Schorenstein, Jr.
1886: In London, Maria
Carter and Joseph Ascher gave birth to Floretta Maria Ascher who died before
reaching the age of two.
1886: In St. Louis,
Louis and Clementine Lange Hellman gave birth to Milton Alfred Hellman who
married Alice Stix Eiseman 1917 and with whom he had three children.
1887(17th of
Nisan, 5647): Third Day of Pesach
1888(30th of
Nisan, 5648): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1888: In Jacksonville,
FL, Rabbi David Levy of Charleston, SC officiated at the marriage of “Mose J.
Ullman of Evansville, Indiana and Susie Jacoby of Charleston.”
1888: Henry Ford, the
anti-Semitic auto maker married Clara Jane Bryant today.
1889(10th of Nisan,
5649): A young Jewish boy, Tobias Hipper, died today in New York, the apparent
victim of an assault by to other boys living in his neighborhood. The police
have launched an investigation into the matter.
1890: Ellis Island was designated as an immigration station. Ellis Island would be the first stop for
millions of European Jews coming to America.
1890: In Trenton, NJ, Herman Gross, an unemployed
German Jewish grocery clerk tried to kill himself for a second time while in
jail where he had been taken after his failed attempt to drown himself in the
creek near the Pennsylvania Train Station.
1891: An eight-year-old
Jewish tailor's daughter disappeared on the island of Corfu,
Greece. Rumor spread that she was a Christian girl ritually killed
and these charges resulted in a pogrom. Unfortunately, at this time
of the year, no Jewish community would be exempt from the possibility of
charges like this and the subsequent public uprising.
1891: Lieutenant
Charles A. L. Totten, the military instructor at Yale University” and the
author of publications about the “Hebrew race” has reportedly discovered the
exact date of the “long day” described in the Book of Joshua.
1892(14th of
Nisan, 5652): Fast of the First Born observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
1893: Today Hungarian
army veteran and the son of “a financially well-established merchant and
landowner” Edward Gross started the firm of E. Gross and Company, wholesale
dealers in paper and woolen manufacturers’ supplies located at 92 Avon Street
in Hartford, CT.
1893: The New York
Times reported that “The stock market was not active today, a large
speculative element being absent, owing to the Passover holiday.” [Editor’s
Note: The italics are mine. The
description of the Jews is pure New York Times.]
1893: In Cleveland, OH,
Rose Oppenheimer and Dan Wertheimer gave birth to Harvard graduate and Western
Reserve University Law School trained attorney Howard M. Wertheimer, the
managing editor of The Jewish Review and Observer and a member of the
publicizing committee for the Cleveland United Jewish Campaign.
1893(25th of
Nisan, 5653): Eighty-one-year-old Adolphe Franck who “became a chevalier of the
Legion of Honor in 1844” and who was an “active
defender of Judaism” who continued to the "Archives Israêlites" for
fifty years passed away today.
1894: Today, “the
Dreyfus Affair, a major political scandal in France, began, which centered on
the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain, for treason,
profoundly shocking emancipated Jews and contributing to the rise of Zionism.”
1895: Ecaterina Gaster
Revici, the daughter of Phina Judith Gaster and Abraham Emauel Gaster and her
husband Tulius gave birth to Teofil “Teo” Revici
1895: The will of the
late Michael Stachelberg, the well-known New York cigar manufacturer was filed
for probate today.
1895: The Board of
Estimate and Appropriation met today in New York and disturbed the proceeds
from the theatrical and concert fund to several charitable organizations
including the United Hebrew Charities ($750), the Montefiore Home ($500) and
Beth Israel Hospital ($100)
1896: “The Young Folks’
League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum gave its first entertainment at the
Lexington Avenue Opera House” tonight.
1896: In New York City,
Pesach
(Philip) Luria, a silverware dealer, and Rebecca (Isaacson) Luria gave birth to
Rose Luria Halprin one of the foremost
American Zionist leaders of the twentieth century who served twice as the national
president of Hadassah and held key posts within the Jewish Agency at critical
periods in the history of the Yishuv and the subsequent State of Israel and who
was the wife of Samuel W. Halprin.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/halprin-rose-luria
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0008_0_08276.html
1896: It was reported
today that David Finkelstein of Bridgeport, CT, has not lived with his Ida
since they were married in March when his wife discovered that he had an
artificial nose, a fact that he had not shared with her before their wedding.
1896: Convicted jewel
thief Ben Ouni who had been as a Turk but claimed he really was a Jew named
Benjamin Dreyer is on his way to serving a four year and six-month term in the
New York state penitentiary.
1897: “Jews,
Anthropologically Considered” published today takes issue with the contention
that the “Israelitish race” …is “the most homogenous races” describing the
differences between the Sephardim, Ashkenazim as well as the “nomadic Jews” of
North Africa, the Falashas, the Jews of Cochin and Bombay as well as the Jews
of China.
1898(19th of
Nisan, 5658): Fifth Day of Pesach
1898: Two days after
she had passed away, 45-year-old Bloomah Jacobs, the daughter of Isaac Henry
Jacobs and Matilda Levy was buried today in London’s “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1899: The First Jewish
congregation was formed in Caracas, Venezuela.
1899: Birthdate of
Philadelphia native and Temple University trained attorney A. Alfred Wasserman,
a member pf the State House of Representatives from 1933 to 1937 and husband of
Esther B. Wasserman with whom he had two children – Ethel and Joseph.
1899: “Citizen Pierre,”
with Rose Eytinge playing the role of Madam Tison opened on Broadway.
1900: “Le Juif
Polonais” (The Polish Jew), “an opera in three acts by Camille Erlanger composed
to a libretto by Henri Cain” was first performed today in Paris at the Opéra
Comique. The opera was adapted from a
play by Erckmann-Chatrian of the same
name. In 1871, Leopold Lewis had
translated the play into English under the title of “The Bells” which provide
Henry Irving with one of his most successful acting vehicles.
1901(22nd of Nisan,
5561): Eighth Day of Peach
1901: The Ohavei Zion
(Friends of Zion) are scheduled to hold a Passover celebration and concert at
Cooper Union this evening to raise money for the “suffering Jewish farm
laborers of Palestine.”
1902: Birthdate of Michael
Rothstein who gained fame as media magnate Michael Redstone.
1903(14th of
Nisan, 5663): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol; erev Pesach
1903:
Thirty-four-year-old German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker-Schuler and Berthold
Lasker were divorced today.
1904: Conference of the
Greater Actions Committee meets in Vienna. In the spirit of the Sixth Congress
it is decided to send an expedition to East Africa. The reconciliation
conference was Herzl's last great achievement.
1905: Today, in Warsaw,
a Polish language version of Sholem Aleichem's play
"Tsezayt un tseshprayt" which had been translated by Mark Arnstein
was staged in a Polish theatre under the direction Arnstein.
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/A/arnstein-mark.htm
1905: Einstein reveals his
Theory of Relativity
1905: Colonel Nicolas
Pike, author, naturalist and a relative of the famous explorer Zebulon Pike,
passed away. Among his possession was
camp chest presented to the explorer Dr. David Livingston by Jewish philanthropist
Sir Moses Montefiore
1906: Congressman Allen L. McDermott
delivered a speech in the House of Representatives in which he defended the
Jewish people. McDermott, “who
represents a district in New Jersey, a state in which is published the only
avowed anti-Semitic publication” produced in the United States, spoke out
“against the ‘Christ Killing’ charge and the ritual murder charge.”
1907: A newspaper story
entitled “More Rumors of Pogroms” describes the revival in Russia of “the old
stories about the disappearance of Christian children for use in sacrifices at
the time of the Jewish Passover.” There
are rumors that outbreaks of violence will take place during Russian Easter on
April 2.
1907(27th of
Nisan, 5667): Eighty-six-year-old Nathan Becker, the German born son of Isaac
Becker and Philippine Liebenstein, the husband of Henrietta Jette Becker and father
of Ida D Becker; Rachel Schaffner; Viola Henrietta Stern; Abraham Gamliel
Becker and H. E. Becker passed away today in Chicago.
1908(10th of
Nisan, 5668): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1908: Tonight, the East
Side Businessmen’s Protective Association gave away matzoth, flour, potatoes
tea and eggs to over 2,000 poor Jews living on the Lower East Side.
1908: Birthdate of Leo
Rosten. Educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of
Economics, Leo Rosten spent sixty years acquainting his readers with different
aspects of Jewish culture and the Yiddish language. Some of his better-known
works included Captain Newman, M.D., The Joys of Yiddish and Hooray
For Yiddish. He passed away in 1997.
1909(20th of Nisan,
5669): Sixth Day of Pesach
1909(20th of Nisan,
5669): In one of the great moments of modern Jewish History, Tel Aviv (Hill of
Spring), the first modern Jewish city, was founded on the sand dunes north of
Jaffa with the building of 60 houses. The actual name Tel Aviv was given only
the next year (Hill of Spring) and was taken from a Babylonian city (Ezekiel
3:15) and used by Nahum Sokolow as the title for his translation of Herzl's
book Altneuland. Today Tel Aviv is a thriving modern metropolis
popular and favorite Mediterranean vacation spot for Europeans seeking warmth
in the wintertime.
1909: Miss Judith
Hirsch the “head worker of the Harlem Federation of Jewish Communal Work” is
reported to be one of those supporting The Central Park Protection Association
in its fight against legislation “authorizing the erection of a gallery in
Central Park by the National Academy of Design.
1910: Members of the Hebrew Retail Kosher Butchers' Protective
Association are scheduled to meet this morning, at which time they will decide
whether or not to make the boycott of the slaughterhouses permanent until
prices are reduced at least to nine cents, as it was four months ago.
1911: Today marked the
third and final day for distribution of free Matzoth by the United Hebrew
Community.
1911: Birthdate of
DeWitt Clinton High School child prodigy Benjamin Kaplan the Columbia Law
School graduate who helped prosecute war criminals after WW II and whose
Harvard Law School students included two future Supreme Court Justices – Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
1912: The RMS Titanic left Cork for the United States carrying a wide variety of famous f passengers who had boarded in Cherbourg including Edith Russell who had written her secretary that “this is the most wonderful boat you can think of” and that “it is a monster,” more like a “big hotel than a cozy ship.”
1912: Birthdate of
Elinor Sophia Coleman who became famous as Elinor Guggenheimer an advocate for children,
women and the elderly. Mrs. Guggenheimer became the first woman to serve on the
New York City Planning Commission and she was the city’s commissioner of
consumer affairs in the 1970, where in one of her more lighthearted moments she
went after a store in Queens for selling fake lox. She passed away in 2008. Regardless of how
she may have felt about Kashrut she left us with this little rhyme, “Oysters
that could once delight us, now just give us hepatitis.”
1912: A campaign began
today to raise $200,000 for a new facility to be used by the Young Women’s
Hebrew Association in New York City.
1912: The Technikum,
later to be known as the Technion (Israel's M.I.T.) was founded in Haifa,
Israel. Later that year the Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden, which established
the Haifa Technion, faced a strike by both teachers and students when they
tried to institute German as the school's language instead of Hebrew. The
American co-trustees agreed with the strikers and the Society left Eretz-Israel
after the First World War. There was a lively debate as to whether
Yiddish, Hebrew or German would be the language of the embryonic Jewish
state. There was a strong sentiment for Hebrew since the other two were
languages of the Diaspora and Hebrew was "the language of the
land."
1913: In Chicago, at
Temple Sholom, Rabbi Abram Hirschberg is scheduled to “deliver his 15th
anniversary sermon” this evening on the subject of “Fifteen Years in the Jewish
Ministry.
1913: The President of
Panama attended the dedication of the first synagogue in Colon
1914(15th of
Nisan, 5674): Last Pesach before the start of World War I which begin a long
series of cataclysms for the Jews of Europe.
1914(15th of Nisan,
5674): A special Passover luncheon is scheduled to be served to military
personnel at Tuxedo Hall in New York City.
1914(15th of Nisan,
5674): On the second night of Pesach, The Jewish Sailors and Soldiers’ Passover
Committee hosted a seder for U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines at Tuxedo Hall.
1914(15th of Nisan,
5674): Tonight, Rabbi Maurice H. Harris is scheduled to lead a Seder at Temple
Israel of Harlem.
1914: Two days before
Harry Horowitz was scheduled to be executed for his role in the shooting of
gambler Herman Rosenthal, New York State Justice Goff said the new witnesses
that came forward claiming that he was innocent were not credible and that he would
not grant the motion for a new trial.
1915: Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp.
1915: ‘In his sermon” this “morning in
commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of Temple Eamnu-El, Dr. Joseph
Silverman” the congregation’s rabbi “called for greater extension of social
service and wider consideration of problems of public welfare and personal
conduct as the proper course for the congregation whose founding was one of the
greatest impulses in the development of reformed Judaism” in the United States.
1915(27th of Nisan, 5675): Four days
before his 62nd birthday Manhattan born Dr. Louis Waldstein Walston,
the son of Henry and Sophie Schriesheimer Waldstein passed away to day in
England.
1916: Based on today’s reports from the
Relief Committee for Indigent Jews in Berlin “nearly $2,000,000 has been spent
in relief work” to aid the Jews in occupied Poland much of which has come from
Jews in America.
1916: “Bundle Day timed to the seasonal
change of raiment” today “brought 2,000 packages to the Industrial Department
of the United Hebrew Charities at 37 Greene Street to be utilized for the
poor.”
1917: The first of the “Breaking Down
the Barrier Meetings” sponsored by the Gramercy Neighborhood Association which
the Jews of the area have been asked to attend is scheduled to take place
tonight at the Washington Irving High School.
1917: In Manhattan, Russian immigrant
Louis Sobell, “a pharmacist who opened a drugstore in the Bronx” and his wife
Rose gave birth to Morton Sobell who was found guilty along with the Rosenbergs
but who, unlike them only served an 18-year prison sentence instead of being
electrocuted.
1917: It was reported today that Utah
Governor Simon Bamberger, the first Jew to hold that position, has said that
“by feeding and saving three million starving Jews” in Russia “we help the new
Government as well as our own people, and in making Russian democracy strong to
withstand German autocracy we serve America.”
(Editor’s note: At this time it was seen as critical to keep Russia in
the war fighting the Germans and to do everything possible to keep them from making
a separate peace with the Kaiser whom the Americans had just declared war on a
week ago.)
1917: It was reported today, that
before adjourning those attending the first ever Zionist convention ever held
in Russia, “sent greetings to the American Provisional Zionist Committee, to
the Inner Actions Committee, to Dr. Max Nordau and to all the Zionist
federations throughout the world.”
1918: “The Liberty Loan drive among the
Jews of the east side was launched” tonight” at two meetings held in the Bank
of United States Building at 77 Delancey Street.
1918: Fritz Beckhardt, the WW I German
Ace who had transferred from the infantry “scored his first victory, over a
Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8.”
1919: As Bavaria is engulfed in
violence during an attempt to create a Socialist Republic, “Max Cohen, Chairman
of the Central Committee and one of the Socialist leaders spoke against the
terms of the Armistice and “advocated the formation of a continental bloc as an
offset to the ‘Anglo-American alliance.’”
1920: Tonight, at a dinner at the Astor
Hotel where “more than $1,600,000 was subscribed at the launch of the campaign
knowns the New York Appeal for Jewish War Sufferers” the approximately one
thousand attendees hear Herbert Hoover warned that substantial amounts of
equipment is need “if typhus is not to spread eastward and westward across the
whole of Europe” while Judge Arbam Elkus “described the ravages of typhus as he
witnessed it when Ambassador at Constantinople.”
1920: “More than 40,000 destitute Jews
fleeing from persecution and economic destruction Eastern Europe are now
stranded in German cities according to a cablegram received by Felix M. Warburg
at the headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee for Jewish War
Suffers.”
1921: The British created The Emirate
of Transjordan. The British partitioned
the land of the Palestine Mandate to create this Arab kingdom. There are those who claim that Palestine has
already been partitioned. Since the
Arabs got the land east of the Jordan, the Jews should get the remaining sliver
west of the Jordan River. During the 1930’s Winston Churchill opposed the partition
of the land west of the Jordan River for this very reason. Churchill knew whereof he spoke since he was
the one who really created the Emirate in the first place.
1922: Thirty year old Philadelphia
College of Osteopathy and Columbia University physician Karl Benjamin
Bretzfelder, the New Haven, CT. born son of Benjamin and Bessie (Mendoza)
Bretzfielder” who was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army’s Medical Corps,
a surgeon for the New Have Police Department and physician for both the Jewish
Home for the Aged and the Jewish Orphans while serving as an active member of
the Horeb Lodge of B’nai Brith and Congregation Mishkan Israel gave birth to
Ameilia Kafka today.
1923: Birthdate of Dr. Theodore Isaac
Rubin the husband of Eleanor Katz and past President of the American Institute
for Psychoanalysis whose story “Lisa and David” provided the inspiration for
the 1962 film of the same name.
1924: “Resorting to a new subterfuge,”
Prohibition Agency Izzy Einstein and his partner raided a crowded restaurant
“and seized $25, 000 worth of contraband goods.”
1925(17th of Nisan, 5685):
Third Day of Pesach; Shabbat Chol Hamoed
1925: It was reported today that “the
rebuilding of Palestine as a Jewish national home and the spreading of ethical
ideas based on the teachings of the Bible, will be furthered to a great extent
by a new foundation, which has the support of the fortune left by Joseph Fels,
single tax reformer, through an institution established by his widow. Mrs. Mary
Fels of New York…”
1926: Tonight, “speaking from the
pulpit of the West End Presbyterian Church, Dr. H.G. Enelow, the rabbi of
Temple Emanu-El…called up on Jews and Christians to join together”…in “the
religion of fellowship with God and fellowship with man.”
1926: The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of
America is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. at the Broadway Central Hotel to develop
plans for participating in the United Jewish Campaign’s to raise $500,000 “for
the relief and rehabilitation of Jews in Eastern Europe.
1927: Today, New York philanthropist
Nathan Straus arrived back in the United States after visiting Palestine and
“said that he found steady progress there in spite of the crisis of Tel Aviv
which he said was temporary.”
1927: In Indianapolis, Dorothy
Drozdowitz and Samuel Goldstein, an owner of the Goldstein Brothers department
store gave birth to Purdue educated electrical engineer Richard M. Goldstein,
the husband of Ruth Lowenstam and the father of Rabbi Lisa Goldstein who was an
American radar astronomer and planetary scientist, who has been called
"The Father of Radar Interferometry".
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/science/space/richard-m-goldstein-dead.html
1928: Rookie Second Baseman Andy Cohen
who had been the captain of the baseball team at the University of Alabama
where he belonged to a Jewish fraternity, led the Giants to a stunning opening
day victory over the Boston Braves at the Polo Grounds at the end of which he
was carried off the field on the shoulder of adoring fans.
1929(1st of Nisan, 5689):
Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1929: Today a recording of “You Were
Meant For Me” with lyrics by Arthur Freed was made in Hollywood after which it
was released by the Victor Recording Company.
1929: Based on reports in the Hungarian
press, Mortiz Scharf who as a boy of twelve testified against his father during
the Tisza Eszlar ritual murder trial, died a paupers death today in Amsterdam
(JTA)
1929: Tonight “Joseph V. McKee, the
president of the Board of Alderman formally opened the exhibition of ORT, the
Society for the Promotion of Agricultural and Technical Trades among the Jews
of Eastern Europe” which was attended by five hundred people included “Howard
S. Cullman the commission of the Port Authority” and the National Chairman of
ORT.
1930: “The new play put on at the
Downtown National Theatre tonight was a musical comedy called ‘Motke from
Slobodke’ which is “comparatively plotless” which is unusual for a Jewish play,
and which lacks the “sob-stuff” that is usually connected with “every good
Jewish popular play.”
1930: It was reported today that in
response to Nebi Musa, the Moslem pilgrimage to the supposed site of the tomb
of Moses near Jericho” which coincides with observance of Pesach, “Jerusalem
has reassumed the military aspect it had in August and September 1929 when
steel helmeted British soldiers, British police armed with rifles and mounted
Palestine constables with rifles slung over their shoulders paraded through the
streets.
1931(24th of Nisan, 5691):
Parashat Shmini
1931: Dorothy Parker, the daughter of
Jacob Henry Rothschild and the granddaughter of Prussia born Jews Mary
Greissman and Sampson Jacob Rothschild resigned “her job as drama critic for The
New Yorker magazine.”
1931:Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, the national
campaign chairman, announced today that “drives will begin Washington and
Baltimore this month by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.”
1931: Birthdate of Buenos Aires native
and University of Buenos Aires alum Nelly Kelly, “the family rebel “whose
witty, satire-tinged French films about female empowerment and revenge made her
a distinctive voice in a male-dominated era.” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1931: While speaking at
a dinner given in his honor at London’s Savoy Hotel, David Lloyd George
“assured the leaders of world Zionism that his faith in the Jewish national
home was stronger than it was eleven years ago when his Government took over
the British mandate in Palestine….The Mandate must not be administered
nervously and apologetically, but firmly and fearlessly’ since Christians and
Arabs under the mandate can only benefit from the success of the Zionist
experiment.
1932: Time
magazine published the following description of the Macabbiah.
Three thousand Jewish athletes from 27
countries last week paraded through Tel Aviv (''Hill of Spring") in
Palestine, for the opening of the first Maccabiad. Wrongly described as the
"Jewish Olympics," the Maccabean Games were organized by the World
Maccabee Union, named for the Israelite hero, Judas Maccabaeus. The games began
when 120 pigeons in flocks of ten—messengers to the Twelve Tribes of
Israel—were allowed to fly to their homes in various parts of Palestine. Led by
Tel Aviv's Mayor Dizengoff riding on a white horse, the 3,000 athletes, aged 5
to 60, marched to a huge new stadium that was crowded beyond capacity (25.000).
The Maccabiad lasted four days. No supremely able Jewish athletes were entered;
no world's records were broken. No official team score was compiled.
1932: In Cleveland, OH,
Grace Epstein and actor comedian and musician Mickey Katz gave birth to Joel
David Katz who gained as award winning performer Joe Grey whose best known for
his performance in “Cabaret.”
http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/Joel-Grey.html#google_vignette
1932: In Newark, NJ,
Joyce Slipe and Louis Koch, “a Jewish immigrant from Austria-Hungary” gave
birth to American educator, author, and activist Pauline Koch Thaler, the
wife of CBS Newsman Alvin Thaler with whom she had three children – Samuel Jon
and Jared and sister of New York Mayor Ed Koch
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/nyregion/pat-koch-thaler-dead.html
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13600563
1933(15th of
Nisan, 5693): First Day of Pesach
1933: Mickey Cohen
lost a fight with Chalky Wright in Los Angeles.
1933: “Nazis issued a
Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan,
especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent
classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or
grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
1933: The German government began employment and economic
sanctions against Jews that are widely perceived as being racially based which
were opposed by The Lutheran Church.
1934: “The national
executive of the Pioneer Women’s Organization to with the New York branch” is
scheduled to hold a reception this evening at the Central Plaza for Goldie
Meyerson, the organization’s national secretary who has “returned after a six
month’s country-wide tour during which she visited many clubs” and delivered
numerous speeches. (Editor’s note – this is the future Golda Meir)
1935: Ada Goldberg and
Mathew L. Gelernter gave birth to right-wing columnist Judith Ann Reisman, the
wife of Arnold Reisman “best known for her criticism and condemnation of Alfred
Kinsey” and who reportedly “believes that a homosexual movement in Germany gave
rise to the Nazi Party and the Holocaust.”
1935: Following “recent
anti-Semitic riots” in Romania, “two German Nazis are reported to be among
those arrested” and will be expelled from the country for “acting as
agitators.”
1936(19th of
Nisan, 5696): Shabbat shel Pesach
1936: Rodgers &
Hammerstein's musical "On Your Toes", premiered in New York City.
1936: “In a message
read to 2,000 persons attending the annual dinner of the National Labor
Committee for Jewish Workers in Palestine at the Hotel Commodore” tonight,
Professor Albert Einstein expressed the opinion that a public protest would
prevent the British Government from approving additional restrictions in
Palestine which are now being considered.”
1936: Joseph C. Hyman,
Secretary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced today
that if the committee succeeds in reaching its goal of raising $3,500,000, “it
would allocate $1,115,000 to Jews in Eastern Europe of which 60 to 70 percent
would go to aid Jewish communities and organizations in Poland.”
1936: Birthdate of Carla
Furstenberg, who as Carla Cohen, became co-owner of a unique Washington, DC
institution, Politics and Prose, an independent bookstore that proved too
successful in spite of chain bookstores and internet shopping.
1937: At the Pierre
Hotel, Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan officiated at the wedding of Norma Rubenstein,
a graduate of Smith College and Benedict I. Lubell of Tulsa, OK and “an alumnus
of Columbia College and Columbia Law School
1937: Tonight, in the
Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria, Rabbi Stephen Wise officiated at the
wedding Hilda Friedman ad Alexander Weinig.
1937: It was reported
today that “six American museums have acquired works by Elias Newman a
Palestinian artist of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Mr. Newman has been in the United States
collecting works of modern American artists for Tel Aviv’s new Museum of Art.
Newman was a Polish born artist best known for his watercolors.
1938: Forty-six days
after The British High Commissioner had declared Tel Aviv Harbor open Eliezer
Steinlauf, a resident of Tel Aviv who had been born in Austria, disembarked
from his ship at Tel Aviv making him the first passenger to disembark at the world’s
first “Jewish port.”
1938:
The Palestine Post
reported that since the advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, the British
Consulate in Vienna had handed out more than 12,000 applications for
immigration to Australia. Immigration to New Zealand had been stopped
"temporarily." South Africa demanded £250 for every immigrant.
1938: The Palestine
Post published a special, copyrighted story, written by Ernest Hemingway,
on the activities of the American and British volunteer battalions, fighting
General Franco's insurgents in Catalonia.
1938:
The Palestine Post
reported that Aryans said "Ja" or "Nein" (Yes or No) in
Austrian Anschluss (incorporation into Germany) plebiscite. Special trains
brought more than 12,000 Nazi volunteers from Czechoslovakia for this purpose.
1938:
The Palestine Post
reported that the new "Eden" hotel opened in Jerusalem - a valuable
addition to Jerusalem's hotel amenities.
1939(22nd of Nisan,
5699): 8th day of Pesach; unbeknownst to them, for millions of
European Jews this would be their last celebration of the liberation from
Egypt.
1939: Birthdate of Louise Lasser, the actress who gained fame on “Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!”
1940: Soviet forces complete the slaughter of
26,000 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. When the slaughter is discovered, the Soviets
will try and blame it on the Nazis.
1940: The Nazi
occupiers of Lodz, “renamed the city
Litzmannstadt (after the German general Karl Litzmann, who had conquered it in
World War I); most of the German documents concerning the Lodz Ghetto refer to
it as the "Litzmannstadt Ghetto."
1941(14th of Nisan,
5701): In Washington, D.C, Deb and Joe Levin celebrate their first Seder – a
tradition begins!
1941: Erev Pesach the
ghetto at Kielce, Poland “was sealed off from the outside world” following “a Judenrat was appointed, chaired by Moshe
Pelc, who was eventually arrested and deported to Auschwitz for resisting
German orders.”
1941: Nazi occupiers in
Netherlands confiscated Jewish assets.
1941: On Good Friday, Reverend Conrad Gröber “gave
a sermon whose vocabulary came very close to the anti-Semitic vocabulary of the
Nazi rulers: "As a driving force behind the Jewish legal power stood the
aggressive toadyism and malevolent perfidy of the Pharisees. They unmasked
themselves more than ever as Christ's arch-enemies, deadly enemies.... Their
eyes were blindfolded by their prejudice and blinded by their Jewish lust for
worldly dominion." As for the "people" or, in his words, the
"wavering crowd of Jews", the archbishop said, "The Pharisees'
secret service had awakened the animal in it through lies and slander, and it
was eager for grisly excitement and blood."
1941: Jewish Weekly newspaper
taken control by Nazi's.
1941: Work was begun
today to open the Jadovno contraction camp in Croatia.
1941: Birthdate of Ellen
Goodman, the popular syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe. She is yet another in a long line of Jewish
journalists who have won the Pulitzer Prize. In her case it was for
Commentary. In addition to her journalism, she is a popular author
and speaker.
1942: Three thousand
Jews from Zamosc, Poland, were deported to the Belzec death camp
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/08.asp
1942: A German
proclamation issued in Lvov, Ukraine, excoriated Polish civilians who assisted
Jews.
1942: The USS Blue,
which had not been sunk or damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor thanks to
the efforts of Ensign Nathan Asher, a graduate of the Naval Academy who took
command U.S.S. Blue since the skipper was ashore” was at the Mare Island Navy
Yard today.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/pix1/0538711.jpg
1943: “The Jewish Forum, a publication devoted
to "uniting Jew and non-Jew in safeguarding democracy," celebrated
its twenty-fifth anniversary with a dinner at the Hotel Commodore today.”
1943: “Jews in 6 Weeks
of Mourning” published today described “a six week period of mourning and
intercession” proclaimed by the Synagogue Council of America “during which Jews
of America are to mourn the loss of two million European Jews exterminated by
Hitler and are to plead for governmental action to rescue as many as possible
of those remaining in Nazi-held Europe” which will start on “start on the
closing day of Passover.
1943: The diary being
kept by 19-year-old Julus Feldman that recorded events at the Plaszow
Concentration ended at mid-sentence today after which on an unknown he was
murdered.
https://www.holocaust.org.uk/diary-of-julius-feldman
1943: In St. Louis Adis
Ackeret and Herman Rosenthal, the owner of a women’s apparel store gave birth
to Kenneth Jay Rosenthal, the husband of Linda Kramer with whom he had four
children – Carlye, Kari, Eric and Scott – and the founder of a bakery that “would
become Panera Bread.”
1944; Anne Frank diary
insert - ‘Who has made us Jews different to all other people? Who has allowed
us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but
it will be God, too, who will raise us up again.
1944: The trains filled
with Jews from Ioannina, Arta, Volvos, Preveza, Chalkis, Patras, Trikala,
Larissa, Kastoria and other Greek cities arrived at Auschwitz
1944: Shlomo Venezia
saw his mother and his two little sisters – Marcia and Marta – for the last
time today as he climbed out of a freight car at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1945: American soldiers
liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald,
Germany. Thousands of Jewish prisoners had been marched from other camps
to Buchenwald in early 1945. As the Americans approached, the Nazis tried
to another Death March costing the lives of 25,000 mostly Jewish
prisoners. However, 21,000 prisoners were liberated including 4,000
Jews, 1000 of whom were teenagers and children. Thirty-one
members of the camp staff were later found guilty with two of them condemned to
death and four getting life sentences James Hoyt, of Oxford, Iowa, was the
radio operator and driver for a four-man reconnaissance team when two
Buchenwald escapees flagged them down. The team went to the camp, which was
hidden in a forested area. According to his eyewitness account, “When the
people saw our vehicle with the American markings on it, they really went wild.
They tore a part of the fence down. They threw us up in the air,” Hoyt told The
Gazette 10 years ago. “It was a very sorry sight all the way. They were
skin and bones, the living ones. Of course, there were all kinds of dead ones
there.” In all, about 238,500 prisoners were held at the camp.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/14.asp
1945: Meir Binem (Beniek) Wrzonski the son of Noah Wrzonski and
was Rajzel Maroko was among those who were found alive when Buchenwald was
liberated today.
https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/liberation-of-dora-mittelbau
1945: The 3rd Armored
Division discovered the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp.”
1945: The Palestine Post reported medical
relief units were going to be heading to Greece. Almost one-third of the team
which was first heading to Cairo and then would be off to Greece was made up of
Palestinians (Jews). The team was made up of doctors, nurses, sanitary officers,
laboratory technicians and drivers. Some of the Palestinians were fluent in
Judeo-Spanish and Greek.
1945: Based on accounts
from members of the 102nd Division, United States Army, members of the SS
burned to death over one thousand prisoners at Gardelgen. The
prisoners were slave laborers from several concentration camps that were
being moved east to keep them away from advancing Allied
soldiers. When the SS could no longer move them by train, they herded
them into a barn, soaked them with gasoline and burned them to death. The
SS soldiers killed in this manner to conserve ammunition. Most of the
dead were Jews, a large number of whom appeared to be between the ages
of fourteen and sixteen.
1945: Henry Oster, a
native of Cologne who “was taken to the Lodz ghetto in 1941 and later to
Auschwitz” was among those left alive when Buchenwald was liberated today.
1946: “More than 400
women members of Protestants churches were guests” today “at Temple Emanu-El,
at an institute on Judaism held under the auspices of the National Federation
of Temple Sisterhoods with the cooperation of the New York Council of Church Women”
where “they heard addresses by three rabbis” who “explained the beliefs of
Judaism, synagogue ritual and traditions and ceremonies of the Jewish religion.
1947(21st of
Nisan, 5707): Seventh Day of Pesach
1947: Today E.F. Hutton
and Company founding partner, Gerald Martin Loeb, the San Franciso born of
Dahlia H. Lev and Solomon E. Loeb married Rose Lobree Benjamin the widow of
Shanghai real estate developer Maurice Benjamin and the Brentwood, CA born
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Lobree.
1947: In the Bronx,
“Milton Riegert a food wholesaler” and his wife Lucille, “a piano teacher gave
birth to Academy Award nominate producer Peter Riegert who also was an actor
and screenwriter.
1947: Birthdate of
Israeli political leader Charlie-Shalom Biton.
A native of Morocco, he made Aliyah in
1948: “The first
westbound convoy in almost three weeks fought its way through” to Jerusalem
today from Tel Aviv having fought its way “along the 40-mile hazardous route”
where it faced at least 2,000 Arab fighters.
1949: “President Truman
said today that he was firmly convinced of the need for a speedy peace between
Israel and her Arab neighbors, and he pledged this country's assistance to
attain that objective.
1949: Today, Israel
accepted the United Nations Conciliation Commission’s invitation to attend an
‘exchange of views’ with Arab states in Europe” which “might take place in
Switzerland on May 1.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/04/12/84204468.html?pageNumber=16
1950(24th of
Nisan, 5710): Sixty-eight year old Warsaw Polytechnic Institute trained
mechanical engineer Alphonse Illitch Lipetz, the husband of Basile Carp Lipetz
and the father of Rena Niles who was the
“chief of the locomotive department for the Ministry of Railways in Russia for
three years during the last years of the Czars and who became a consulting
engineer for the American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, NY in 1925 before
becoming a Professor at Purdue University passed away today in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/04/12/86424425.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: President Harry
Truman, who courageously recognized the state of Israel at its moment of birth,
showed his courage again today when he relieved General Douglas MacArthur of
his command.
1952(16th of Nisan,
5712): 2nd day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1952: After having
premiered at Radio City Music Hall in March, “Singing in the Rain,” directed by
Stanley Donen, produced by Arthur Freed, with a script by Betty Comden and
Adolph Green, was released to theatres across the United States today.
1953(26th of
Nisan, 5713): Parashat Shimini
1953(26th of
Nisan, 5713): Ninety-five-year-old David Bach, the German born son of Abraham
and Henrietta Jette Bach, the husband of Ida Bach and the father of Alfred Bach
passed away today in the Bronx. (Editor’s note: He is not to be confused with
David Bach, the founder of
FinishRich.com.)
1953: This morning, NBC
radio broadcast the final episode of “The Buster Brown Program” featuring June
Foray as “the voices of Midnight the Cat and Old Grandie the Piano.”
1955(19th of
Nisan, 5715): Fifth Day of Pesach
1955: “Marty”, the
Oscar winning film with a script by Paddy Chayefsky was released today in the
United States.
1955: Birthdate of
Ethiopian native Ayele Seteng, the internationally acclaimed Israeli
cross-country runner and record holding “marathon man.”
https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/haile-satayin-1.html
1955(19th of Nisan):
Rabbi Jekuthiel Judah Greenwald, author of “Ach laZarah” passed away
1956(30th of
Nisan, 5716): Terrorists opened fire on a synagogue full of children and
teenagers, in the farming community of Shafir killing three children and a
youth worker while wounding five more, three seriously including Albert Edery,
14, of Lod, Kamus Amos Uzan, 15, of Shafrir, Yaakov Harari, 13, of Shafrir, Simcha
Silberstrom, 25, a teacher from Shafrir, Shlomo Mizrahi, 16, of Shafrir abd
Nisim Assis, 13, of Jerusalem.
1956: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held at the “Riverside” for Oscar E. Herbnstadt who raised two sons – George and Richard –
with his wife Helen who was a member of Temple Sinai of Long Island in
Lawrence, NY.
1956: In the Chancery
Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey, a decision was rendered “In Re
Katz Estate” today.
https://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-division-published/1956/40-n-j-super-103-0.html
1958(21st of
Nisan, 5718): Seventh Day of Pesach
1958(21st of
Nisan, 5718): Ninety-year-old Laura Louise Hart, the Charleston, SC born
daughter of Laura Louis Levy and Charles Ferdinand Levy and the wife of David
Lopez Hart passed away today in her hometown.
1959(3rd of
Nisan, 5719): Parashat Tazria
1959: After 558
performances at the Imperial Theatre, the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Jamaica,” a musical with a book and lyrics by Yip
Harburg, music by Harold Arlen and lighting design by Jean Rosenthal
1959: “Davey Jones’
Locker” with music by Mary Rogers was performed for the last time at the
Morosco Theatre.
1960(14th of
Nisan, 5720): Fast of the First Born
1960(14th of Nisan):
Rabbi Chaim Heller, author LeHikre ha-Halakhot passed away
1961: Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman,
makes his singing début in New York City.
1961: The trial of
Adolph Eichman on charges of genocide opened in Jerusalem. The capture of
Eichman in Argentina is the stuff of James Bond. His trial marked a
turning point as Jews and non-Jews alike began to talk openly about what
happened in Europe. Eichman would be the only person ever executed by the
state of Israel. “Justice Moshe Landau read the 15-count indictment aloud in
Hebrew, pausing as each charge was translated into German. The charges included
“causing the killing of millions of Jews,” “torture” and placing “many millions
of Jews in living conditions that were calculated to bring about their physical
destruction.”
1963(17th of
Nisan, 5723): Third Day of Pesach
1963(17th of
Nisan, 5723): Eighty-year old Latvian born leader of the Mensheviks and
life-long opponent of Stalin Raphael R. Abramovich, a co-founder of the Union
for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, “the editor of the Yiddish
encyclopedia Jewish People, Past and Present” and a feature writer for The
Jewish Daily Forward who was the husband of “the former Rosa Segal” and the
father of Dr. Lia Andler and Mark Abramovich, “an electrical engineer” who
“disappeared without a trace” while fighting with the International Brigade
against Franco after he had reportedly been kidnapped by Bolshevists who were
the political enemies of his father, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/04/12/90562035.pdf
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Abramovich_Rafail
1963: Pitcher Conrad
Cardinal appeared in his first major league game, taking the mound for the
Houston Colt 45’s, now known as the Houston Astros.
1964: “Anyone Can
Whistle,” produced by Kermit Bloomgarden, directed by Athur Laurents who also
wrote the book and with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim was performed on
Broadway for the last time at the Majestic Theatre.
1965(9th of
Nisan, 5725): Eighty-seven-year-old Louise Kahn Hirschman passed away today
after which she was buried at Temple Beth-El Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
1965(9th of Nisan, 5725):
Seventy-four-year-old Princeton graduate (1911) and New York Stock Exchange
member James Bernhimer Seligamn, the son of De Witt J. (David) Seligman and
Addie Seligman, passed away today.
1967: “Illya Darling,”
produced by Kermit Bloomgarden opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
which is owned and operated by Max and Stanley Stahl.
1968: The “I’m Solomon”
a musical with music by Ernest Gold had its first Broadway preview today.
1968:
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting
discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in the sale,
rental, and financing of housing. It
took the political skill and acumen of LBJ to insure that being Jewish was no
longer a disability when it came to renting or buying a home. (This is not to
be confused with more famous Civil Rights of 1964, the first piece of
groundbreaking legislations signed into law by President Johnson who proved to
be as strong voice for the underdog and disposed including the Jewish people
and the state of Israel.)
1970: Civil
rights attorney Martin Garbus and writer, therapist, and social worker Ruth
Meitin Garbus gave birth to Elizabeth Fraya Garbus the Brown University
graduate who gained fame as Liz Garbus, documentary film maker.
1971(16th of Nisan, 5731):
Second Day of Pesach
1971: Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, who
had been trained as a paratrooper by the Israelis and who was complicit in the
hijacking of plane by terrorists that led to the rescue at Entebbe, was forced
to flee today marking the end of his “reign.”
1971: A revival of Kurt Weill’s “Johnny
Johnson,” a musical version of The Good Soldier Švejk opened today at
the Edison Theatre
1972(27th of Nisan, 5732):
Yom HaShoah
1972(27th of Nisan, 5732):
Eleven days before his 54th birthday, Solomon Aaron Berson the
physician who was the research partner of Rosalyn Yalow passed away.
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/87/5/1925.full
1973: In the wake of
the Munich Olympic Massacre, Zaiad Muchasi, the replacement for Hussein Al
Bashir in Cyprus, was killed by a bomb in his Athens hotel room today.
1973: New York premiere
of “Scarecrow” directed by Jerry Schatzberg.
1974(19th of
Nisan, 5734): Fifth day of Pesach
1974(19th of Nisan, 5734):
Eighty-seven-year-old Jerusalem native Israel Porath, the husband of Miriam
Titktin with whom he “had 7 children - Shoshana, Samuel, Tzve, Benjamin, Ben
Zion, Joseph, and David – and “for almost five decades,” “the ‘dean’ of
Cleveland, Ohio’s Orthodox rabbis” passed away today.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/p/porath-israel
1974: In a case of “Jew
versus Jew” it was reported today that Lorence A. Silverberg, chairman and
president of the Kenton Corporation, is expected to become president and chief
executive officer of Interstate Stores, Inc., when its pending purchases of
more than 1,100 McCrory stores is completed” instead of Samuel Neaman.
1974: It was reported
today that Samuel Neaman who had resigned as McCrory's chairman and chief
executive Feb. 15 to negotiate for a post as Interstate's top man” and his wife
Celia had left for a trip to England and Israel, countries where Mr. Neaman has
realties.
1974(19th of
Nisan, 5734): Eighteen Israelis, including 8 children were murdered today and
15 more Israelis were injured today when three terrorists belong to of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the
Israeli border from Lebanon and attacked the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona.
1974(19th of
Nisan, 5734): Fifty-five-year-old German born, American mathematician Abraham
Robinson passed away today in New Haven, CT.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/robinson-abraham.pdf
1974(19th of
Nisan, 5734): Polish born American actress Lilian Satz, “a member of the Adler
Yiddish Theatrical dynasty” and the wife of Yiddish actor Ludwig Satz passed
away today at Mamaroneck, NY.
1974: Golda Meir
resigned as Prime Minister “after the Agranat Commission had published its
interim reported on the Yom Kippur War.
1974: “Music! Music!” a
“cavalcade of American Musice with footnotes by Alan Jay Lerner” opened today
at the Theatre Center 55th Street Theatre.
1975(30th of
Nisan, 5735): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1975: Two representatives of the Soviet Union visited Israel
secretly last week and conferred with Premier Yitzhak Rabin and other Israeli
leaders during their two‐day stay, Israeli
Government officials said today as they described the visit which “was the
first high level communication between the two countries in more than a year…”
1976: “The Israelite
exodus from Egypt was given a modern interpretation today in the Flatbush
section of Brooklyn” as “four youngsters dressed in black and white striped
prison uniforms led students in the third annual 10 ‐ mile Passover walkathon for Soviet Jewry” was designed to
gain publicity for the plight of Soviet Jews and while raising money for
families still in Russian prisons.”
1977:
Seventy-seven-year-old French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert who teamed
with hid Josef Kozma, the Budapest born Jewish composer he had worked with
during the 1930’s from Vichy and the Nazis at great person risk to his own life
passed away today.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel
had started to dismantle its outposts in South Lebanon in preparation for the
expected pullback. But Lebanese Christian leaders and many Israelis expressed
concern that the pullback was premature. The world's greatest battleship, the
US atom-powered "Nimitz," completed its Israeli visit and sailed away
from Haifa.
1978: 1978: Harold H. Saunders, who played a key role in the
creation of Camp David Accords, began serving as the 12th Assistant
Secretary of State for Near East Affairs.
1979(14th of
Nisan, 5739): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1979(14th of
Nisan, 5739): Eighty-six-year-old Wharton graduate and WW I Army veteran Sam
Gukenheimer Adler, the former CEO of Leopold Adler Company and husband of
Elinor Gunsfeld Adler with whom he had two sons, Leopold and Sam, passed away
today in Savannah.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/04/12/111091623.pdf
1979(14th of
Nisan, 5739): New York City born social worker Maxwell W. Luchs, a director of
the welfare funds for the American Jewish Congress who had joined the American
Jewish in 1949 after having served as an overseas personnel director for the
Joint Distribution Committee and as field secretary of the Michigan State
Resettlement Service for Refugees passed away today.
Maxwell M. Lochs, Former Aide Of American Jewish Congress - The
New York Times (nytimes.com)
1979(14th of
Nisan, 5739): Eighty-two-year-old Detroit businessman Shmuel-Ber Leykin passed
away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/04/shmuel-ber-leykin.html
1983(28th of Nisan,
5743): General Avraham Yoffe passed away.
A sabra born at Yavne;el in 1913 Yoffe served with Orde Wingate, fought
with British Army during World War II before beginning a distinguished career
with the IDF that included command of the 9th Brigade during the
Suez Campaign and the capture of several significant positions in the Sinai
during the Six Day War.
1983: In “How Punchy
Was Slapsie Maxie?” published today, Jeff Wheelwright examined the life and
demise of the Jewish boxer.
http://www.si.com/vault/1983/04/11/619345/how-punchy-was-slapsie-maxie
1983: Twenty-second and
final episode of the first season of “Family Ties” sit-com created by Gary
David Goldberg was broadcast today.
1983: In “This Week’s
Citation Classic” published today Theodore Lowi discussed his latest work, The
End of Liberalism: Ideology, Policy and the Crisis of Public Authority.
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1983/A1983QH93700001.pdf
1983(28th of
Nisan, 5743): Yom HaShoah
1983: Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp,
officiated today at a mass honoring the Jewish fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising. The mass was one of a series of events over the next week and a half
commemorating the 40th anniversary of the resistance to the Nazis.
1984: CBS broadcast the
final episode of the miniseries “George Washington” co-starring Stephen Macht
as “General Benedict Arnold.”
1985(20th of
Nisan, 5745): Sixth Day of Pesach
1986: “Band of the
Hand” a crime movie directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Stephen Lang
and James Remard was released today in the United States.
1986(2nd of
Nisan, 5746): Eighty-nine-year-old Israel Goldstein the long-serving Rabbi at
congregation B’nai Jerhurun and an ardent Zionist who was also the founder of
both the National Conference of Christians and Jews and Brandeis University
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/13/obituaries/rabbi-israel-goldstein-a-founder-of-brandeis.html
1987(12th of
Nisan, 5747): Shabbat HaGadol
1987(12th of Nisan,
5747): An Israeli woman was
killed by a firebomb thrown into her car in the occupied West Bank today, and
in response hundreds of Jewish settlers rampaged in the West Bank town of
Kalkilya overnight, breaking windows and setting cars ablaze. The Israeli woman
was killed near Alfe Menashe, a Jewish settlement on the West Bank about 25
miles north of here. Her husband and two of her children, who were also in the
car, were reported in serious condition. Her third child and a young family friend
were treated for light burns. The army imposed a curfew on Kalkilya, located 17
miles from Tel Aviv, but security sources said they were unable to stop an
estimated 600 angry Jewish settlers from entering the town.
1987: Following secret
talks held in London, Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan reached an
agreement outlining the method whereby a peace treaty could be negotiated
between Israel and Jordan. In a tragic
turn of events, Yitzchak Shamir, the Prime Minister of Israel, scuttled the
talks and for once it was the Israelis who may have “never missed a chance to
miss a chance.”
1987(12th of Nisan,
5747): Primo Levi passed away. Primo Levi survived the Holocaust and
bore witness to it through an amazing collection of
literature. Born in Turin, Italy in 1919, Levi was trained as a
chemist. He was deported to Auschwitz as a Jew and a member of the
anti-Fascist Resistance. His experiences in the camps and his grueling
efforts to return to Italy after the war are the subject of two of his books, Survival
in Auschwitz and The Reawakening. He is also the author of Moments
of Reprove, The Periodic Table and If Not Now When? Levi did not make a career of being a
Holocaust Survivor. He worked as a chemist after the war and did not
retire to devote full time to his writing until 1977. He died under
tragic circumstances at the age of 67.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0731.html
1988(24th of
Nisan, 5748): Seventy-year-old screenwriter and author Jesse Lasky, Jr who
wrote the scripts for two Biblical “pot-boilers” – “Ten Commandments” and
“Samson and Delilah” – passed away today.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0489679/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
1990(16th of
Nisan, 5750): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1991(27th of
Nisan, 5751): Yom HaShoah
1991(27th of
Nisan, 5751): Eighty-two-year-old Newark, NJ, native and NYU graduate Rabbi
Bertram Klausner, the husband of Helen Rose Berger Klausner who “served B’nai
El Congregation in St. Louis for over 18 years starting in 1953 passed away
today after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinia Cemetery in Affton, MO.
1991: Today, at
06:55:29 PDT, Atlantis whose crew including Jerome Apt, landed on runway 33 at
Edwards Air Force Base, California. The rollout distance was 1,940 m (6,360
ft), and the rollout time was 56 seconds.
1992(8th of
Nisan, 5752): Shabbat HaGadol
1992: This evening at
the Park Hyatt Hotel in Washington, Rabbi Gerald Serotta officiate at the
wedding of Roseanne Ricklin and Andrew D. Tenenbaum, “a lawyer with the
Washington firm of Cohen & White.”
1993: The Children’s
Books column provided a review of Sworn Enemies which uses life in the
shtetls of 19th century to take “on ethical quandaries that echo
throughout the Diaspora” by Carol Mataa author of two novels, Lisa's War
and Code Name Kris, both set during World War II and both concerning the
fate of the Jews;
1994(30th of
Nisan, 5754): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1994: “A recorded
message prepared by Beth Israel Medical Center, said that at 1:24 P.M.,
"there was a discernible worsening" in the condition of Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who is 91 years old.”
1995(10th of
Nisan, 5755): Jacob Weingreen the professor of Hebrew in Trinity College,
Dublin who excavated Samaria and who is the namesake for The Weingreen Museum
of Biblical Antiquities passed away today.
1996(22nd of
Nisan, 5756): Eighth Day of Pesach
1997: “Grosse Pointe
Blank” the funniest high school reunion movie ever made featuring Alan Arkin
and Jeremy Piven was released in the United States today.
1997(4th of
Nisan, 5757): Terrorist killed a member of the IDF after having kidnaped him
near Moshav Zanoah.
1998(15th of Nisan,
5758): First Day of Pesach; In the evening, Mitchell Levin and Harvey Luber, of
blessed memory, celebrated their last seder together.
1999: Matt Bloom debuted on the WWF episode of Sunday Night Heat.
1999: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
“Reading the Holocaust” by Inga Clendinnen and recently published paperback
editions of “The Unexpected Salami” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro and “The Children”
by David Halberstam
2000: A British court
resolved David Irving's libel case against Deborah Lipstadt by affirming
Lipstadt's portrayal of Irving as an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/11/2000/deborah-lipstadt
2000: “An Israeli judge
ruled that” Daniel Weiz “a 19-year-old soldier can be extradited to Canada to
face murder charges, “charges which Wiez has denied.
2000: “Germany has
started an Internet Web site’ www.lostart.de listing thousands of works of art plundered by the Nazis
from museums and individuals in World War II
2001(18th of
Nisan, 5761): Fourth Day of Pesach
2001: “Plotting a
Pardon; Rich Cashed In a World of Chits to Win Pardon” published today
described how Avner Azulay and Rich’s former wife worked with the Clintons to
obtain a midnight pardon for the billionaire fugitive from justice.
2002: Palestinian
terrorists begin to surrender at Jenin.
2002(29th of Nisan, 5762): In Tunisia,
the El Ghriba synagogue was bombed by Al Qaeda killing 21. El Ghriba is an
ancient synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. It is located close to Hara
Seghira, several kilometers southwest of Houmt Souk, the capital of Djerba.
The history of the synagogue is reported to go back about
2000 years, making it the oldest synagogue in Africa and one of the oldest ones
in the world. According to an oral tradition, it was built by Jews who had
immigrated after the destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem. The
synagogue is the destination of an annual pilgrimage of many Tunisian Jews
after the celebration of Passover.
2002: Manhattan
Ensemble Theater presented the world premiere of a new English version of the
Yiddish classic, The Golem. “Drenched in magic and mystery, the play
reworks an ancient Talmudic legend about a 17th century Rabbi in Prague who
molds and animates a huge clay figure to fight for the Jewish community, which
has been threatened by accusations of spilling the blood of Christian children.”
2003: In New York, a federal judged
began hearing arguments in a case where it is contended that Fritz and Guenther
Werthiem had been swindled and that their heirs should be allowed to sue one of
Europe's largest retailers, KarstadtQuelle AG” which “llater absorbed the
Jewish-owned Wertheim department store chain and the land it once held in the
heart of Berlin.”
2004(20th of Nisan, 5764):
Sixth Day of Pesach
2004(20th of
Nisan, 5674): Eighty-three-year-old Austrian-born British “Paul Philip Hamburger, pianist, accompanist, vocal coach and teacher”
passed away today.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1460602/Paul-Hamburger.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-hamburger-549794.html
2004: “Focus on the Soul: The
Photographs of Lotte Jacobi” came to a close.
http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/focus-on-the-soul-the-photographs-of-lotte-jacobi
2004: An exhibition entitled “Elijah Chair: Art, Ritual, and Social Action”
comes to a close at the Jewish Museum in New York. “Elijah Chair,” a video sculpture was
created for the Times Square Seder, a public art and social action
project which took place in New York in 2002.
2005: The New York Times
publishes an article entitled “Acts of Quiet Courage” by Bob Herbert. It
describes the role that Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas, the
wartime Brazilian ambassador to France played
in providing the visas that saved young Felix Rohatyn and his relatives during
World War II.
2005: At joint press conference with Ariel Sharon, President George W.
Bush endorsed the Prime Minister’s plan to withdraw from Gaza and plans for a
final peace treaty with the Palestinians that will acknowledge the new
realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population
centers, which make it unrealistic that the outcome of final status
negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.
2007(23rd of Nisan, 5767): Sixty-three-year-old Tina Susan
Rieger, the wife of United Jewish Communities’ president and CEO Howard Rieger,
lost her battle with pancreatic cancer and passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/2007/04/12/archive/tina-susan-rieger-the-wife-of-united-jewish
2007: As part of the L.A. Theatre Works program, The Skirball Cultural
Center features a performance of Jewish playwright Arthur Miller’s, “The Man
Who Had All The Luck.”
2007: In an article entitled “A Youthful Chronicle of Wartime in Prague,”
the New York Times reviewed The
Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942.
2008(6th of Nisan, 5768): Songwriter and musician Donald Kahn, the son of German born American
lyricist Gus Kahn, passed away today.
2008: Jason Hutt’s documentary film “Orthodox Stance” about the
pugilistic career of Dmitriy Salita which combines boxing with Orthodox Judaism
opens in Los Angeles.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple
Judah hosts the Dan Nichols Musical Shabbat Service!
2009(17th of Nisan,
5769): Shabbat Chol Hamoed
2010: “Sin,” a play by Mark Altman based on “The Unseen” by Isaac
Beshevis Singer is scheduled to have its final performance at the Baruch
Performing Arts Center.
2010: Aaron Posner’s “My Name is Asher Lev” a dramatic adaption from the
Chaim Potok novel is scheduled to completed its premiere run at the Round House
Theatre in Bethsda, MD.
2010: Laura Cohen Applebaum The executive director of the Jewish
Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to discuss the new book
"Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln's City at Barnes & Noble in Rockville MD.
2010: Public
Broadcasting System is scheduled began a four day series of new programs about
the Holocaust. In its first effort, PBS and Masterpiece Classic premiered a new
adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank.
2010: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including All
the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems by Charles Bernstein and A Ticket
to the Circus: A Memoir by Norris Church Mailer who was the wife of Norman
Mailer.
2010(27th of Nisan,
5770): Yom HaShoah
2011: Yeshiva
University Museum and Stern College are scheduled to present a performance by The
Momenta String Quartet
2011: Rabbi Jill Jacobs is scheduled to begin serving, as the executive
director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America on this date.
2011: Dr. Brian
Horowitz of Tulane University, author of “Empire Jews,” is scheduled to speak
at a conference on Jewish Emigration to be held at Temple University.
2011(7th of
Nisan, 5771): Eighty-seven-year-old poet Stanley Siegleman passed away.
http://forward.com/articles/137150/a-poet-passes-stanley-siegelman-/
2011: Itzhak Perlman and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra are
scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center in NYC.
2011: The New York
Times included a review of The Free World, “David Bezmozgis’s
intimate portrait of the Krasnanskys, a Jewish family from Latvia immigrating
to the West in 1978.
2011: A 42-year-old man who participated in Friday's Tel Aviv
marathon died today after being hospitalized for severe dehydration. The man
collapsed of dehydration during the marathon on Friday and was brought to the
emergency room in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. His condition continued to
deteriorate and this morning he died due to liver damage as a result of
dehydration.
2011: Center for Jewish
History presents “The Library that Never Was: The Attempt to Build a Center for
Jewish Books and Learning in Post-Holocaust Europe.”
2011: Assembled in Haifa and Nazareth for the third event held in
Israel under the EUREKA Chairmanship year, EUREKA's national delegates today
approved a series of promising cooperative R&D projects in a variety of
areas, including renewable energy, agrofood technology, biotechnology, physical
and exact sciences, IT and electronics, industrial manufacturing, and more.
2011: A joint Chinese-Israeli conference opens today at Tel Aviv
University, entitled "Replanning Tilanqiao, Formerly the Jewish Ghetto in
Shanghai" a three-day event, organized by the Azrieli School of
Architecture, which will focus on the history and preservation of the ghetto.
2011: In “How Do You
Say ‘Good to the Last Drop’ in Hebrew?” published today Stuart Elliot traces
the relationship between Maxwell House, American Jewry and Jacobs Advertising.
2011(7th of
Nisan, 5771): Forty-nine-year-old Cambridge educated Sir Simon Milton, whose
father came to England on the Kindertansport and later founded Sheraton and
whose government service led to serving as Deputy Mayor of London passed away
today.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8446352/Sir-Simon-Milton.html
2012: As part of the
East Village Klezmer Series, Michael Winograd is scheduled to Klezmer Music
with Strings in NYC.
2012(19th of
Nisan): Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menachem Zemba who was shot dead by the Nazis during
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tDate=4/11/2012
2013: The Alexandria
Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD
2013: As part of
Holocaust memorial program, the University of Utah is scheduled to host a
Candlelight Vigil followed by Peter Black’s speech entitled “70th
Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.”
2013: “The Law In These
Parts” which was selected as Best Documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival is
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2013: “Hitler’s
Children” is scheduled to be shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Fest.
2013: Dr. Astrith
Baltsan is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Hatikvah: Hope Reborn”
2013: Gilles Uriel
Bernheim resigned as chief rabbi of France.
2013: “The flag representing the 30th Infantry Division assumed a
place of honor during the National Days of Remembrance ceremony, an annual
event commemorating the Holocaust at the U.S. Capitol’s Rotunda. It was added
to the 35 others after the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the
U.S. Army Center for Military History determined in late 2012 that members of
the division had liberated Holocaust survivors.” (As reported by Hillel
Kuttler)
2013: Two days after
rejecting calls to do so, French Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim announced that he
was stepping down from his post amid two scandals, a French newspaper reported
today.
2013: Police arrested
five women this morning for wearing tallitot (prayer shawls) traditionally worn
by men, while participating in a Rosh Hodesh prayer service at the Western Wall
attended by some 200 women.
2014: “Under the Skin”
is scheduled to be shown at the Jacob Burns Film Festival.
2014: “General Jack Weinstein
was responsible for the firing of nine Air Force commanders in Malmstrom AFB,
Montana.”
2014: Israeli artist
Tirtzah Bassel’s solo exhibition is scheduled to open at the Slag Gallery.
2014: In “Laemmle’s
List: A Mogul’s Heroism” published today Neal Gabler described the life and
times of “Carl Laemmle, a founder of Universal Pictures” who “unlike his
peers…saved Jews from the Nazis.”
2014: Education and
Sharing Day as established by the United States Congress in honor of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
2014: Cesare Frustaci,
a 77-year-old Holocaust survivor who has been speaking in Cedar Rapids this
week under the sponsorship of the Thaler Holocaust Committee is scheduled to
speak during Shabbat Evening Services at Temple Judah.
2014(11th of
Nisan, 5774: Eighty-five-year-old Darrell Zwerling the character who was the son of Austrian and Romanian
Jewish immigrants and was one of those faces you recognize but a name you do
not know passed away today.
2014(11th of
Nisan, 5774): Centenarian Myer S. Kripke, the Omaha rabbi who was both a
scholar and a philanthropist who relied on investment advice from his friend
Warren Buffett passed away today.
2015: “David Orlowski,
the son of Miriam Winter” is scheduled to be signing copies of his mother
memoir Trains at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015: “The Farewell
Party,” “Rue Madar,” “Victor ‘Young’ Perez” and “Belle and Sebastian” are
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: In New York City
Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center is scheduled to host a Havdalah ceremony
marking the end of Shabbat and Pesach featuring Idan Raichel.
2015: The family of
Bernice Tannenbaum, of blessed memory, the former President of Hadassah will
sit shiva this evening at her apartment.
2015(22nd of
Nisan, 5775): Eight Day of Pesach, a holiday made great again in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa thanks to all of the work of Deb Levin whose skills include everything
from making a great Seder to provide all of the tech help to make it possible
to publish two blogs.
2015: “An unseasonal
recurrence of wintry weather across Israel today forced the cancellation and
rescheduling of many traditional Moroccan Mimouna celebrations signifying the
end of the Passover holiday.
2015: “The Zabinskis’
remarkable wartime actions — which included hiding Jews in indoor animal
enclosures — and are the subject of
‘Zookeeper’s Wife’ seem certain to gain even more renown with the inauguration
today of a permanent exhibition in the villa, an attractive two-story Bauhaus
home from the 1930s still on the grounds of the Warsaw Zoo.” (As reported by
Vanessa Gera)
2015: “During an
interviews in Warsaw” today, seventy-eight-year-old Moshe Tirosh recalled “hiding
in a villa on the grounds of the Warsaw zoo for three weeks during World War II.”
2016: “A new study
published today in the Proceedings of the National of Academy Sciences” that combined
archaeology, Jewish history and applied mathematics, and involved computerized
image processing” provided new information on “when the Bible was written.”
2016: “Rosenwald” is
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2016: In Jerusalem
Migdalei haYm haTichon is scheduled to present Journey through Jazz and French
Chanson" with the Blues star Deborah Benasouli
2016: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present Jews on First (aka The Right
Pitch): an adaptation from Larry Ruttman’s award winning book American Jews
& America’s Game - an exploration of Jewish assimilation, identity, and
guts viewed through the lens of America’s favorite pastime.
2016: Following a
screening of “Rosenwald” the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host “LaNitra M. Berger, PhD, a historian of African and
African-American art talking about Julius Rosenwald’s impact on the
African-American art during the Harlem Renaissance.”
2017(15th of
Nisan, 5777): Seventy-one-year-old Dr. Mark Wainberg, the microbiologist
specializing in HIV research passed away today. (As Richard Sanomir)
2017(15th of
Nisan, 5777): First Day of Pesach; in the evening count the Omer.
15th of Nisan, 5650 (1890): An untold number of poor New Yorkers enjoyed eating meat
at their Seder tonight thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Paulina Rosendorff who
had provided the funding that enabled butchers to distribute their product free
of charge.
15th
of Nisan, 5675(1915): The 300 Jewish
soldiers and sailors who attended last night’s Seder sponsored by the Army and
Navy Y.M.H.A. which also provided a night’s lodging at the Hotel Roland are
scheduled to worship at Temple Beth Israel at Lexington and 72nd
Street today while the Secretary of War, the Governor of New York and the Mayor
of New York City have been invited to attend tonight’s Seder sponsored by the
Army and Navy Young Men’s Hebrew Association for the benefit of 300 of the
8,000 Jews serving in the military which is being held at Vienna Hall on
Lexington and 58th Street.
15th
of Nisan, 5677 (1917): One day after U.S.
declared War on Germany, Jews gather in the synagogue to observe Pesach and
Shabbat
15th of
Nisan, 5705(1945): At least 58 Jews were
murdered in a forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Shuetzen, in what
would come to be called the Deutsch Shuetzen Massacre while in the evening,
members of the Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th Army
serving in Italy took part in a Seder at Faenza.
15th of
Nisan, 5725(1965): While Jews in the Soviet struggled to deal
with a shortage of Matzah created by the government refusal to let state
bakeries prepare adequate supplies of unleavened bread Rabbis in America were
encouraged to deliver sermons that related the themes of Pesach with fight for
Civil Rights complete with references to the recent voting rights march in
Selma.
15th
of Nisan, 5728(1968): For the first time,
Pesach is observed in a unified Jerusalem
2018: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to host “Unsilencing Sephardic Women Writer” Jewish Voices from North
Africa” during while “French literary scholar Nina B. Lichtenstein will
“illuminate the shrouded histories and complicated… identities” of a multiply
marginalized minority: Magrebi (Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian) Sephardic women
writers.”
2018: “CXX Proof, the Bernice Diener
Ensemble-in-Residence at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, is
scheduled to perform the work of Jewish composers and featuring the world
premiere of Proof Positive for violin, clarinet and piano by YU faculty
composer David Glaser. Musicians: Christopher Grymes, clarinet; Xiao-dong Wang,
violin; Xak Bjerken, piano” at the Center for Jewish History.
2018: “The American Jewish Historical Society”
is scheduled to host “We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust” which
demonstrates that “long before the Holocaust was taught in schools, the youth
of America was learning about the Nazi genocide from Batman, the X-Men, Captain
America, and Sgt. Rock.”
2018: One day after she had passed away, Rabbis
Steven Silberman and Dana Evan Kaplan are scheduled to officiate at the funeral
of Harriet Scheuer Kahn at the Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery.
2018(26th of Nisan, 5778):
Eighty-seven-year-old Green Bay, WI, native Mitzi Shore, the owner of The
Comedy Store and the mother of comedian Paul Shore passed away today. (As
reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
2018: Violinist David Lisker and Northwestern
Theatre Professor Rives Collins are scheduled to appear the Yom HaShoah
Commemoration sponsored by the Illinois Museum and Education Center that will
include “a candle lighting by Holocaust Survivors and their descendants, accompanied
by prayer and song by Hazzan Benjamin A. Tisser of North Suburban Synagogue
Beth El.
2018: Following this morning’s detonation of a
Palestinian device “near an Israeli construction vehicle” this evening IAF
struck “a military site belonging to Hamas. (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2019: The Cabaret at Café Sabarsky in the Neue
Galerie is scheduled to host Yael Rasooly’s debut performance that tells “the stories
of the backstreets and alleys, as well as the glamour and exuberance, in the
final years of the Weimar Republic.”
2019: The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Holocaust survivor Sam Ponczak as
part of its “First Person” series.
2019: “At around 3 pm EST” today, Beresheet is
expected to land on the Moon, making Israel “only the fourth country to ever
accomplish this feat.”
2020(17th of Nisan, 5780): Shabbat
Chol Hamoed Pesach
2020: As Jews recite
the special prayers that combine Pesach and Shabbat, we offer special prayers
for the health and well-being of Alan Smason and all the other people at the Crescent City Jewish News and the
friends and family of Dr. Brian Horowitz, Chair of the Tulane University Jewish
Studies Department who are living in New Orleans, the latest “hot spot” during
the coronavirus epidemic.
2020: The Tri-Valley
Cultural Jews in the East Bay are schedule to lead a “Secular Seder” on Zoom
staring this evening at 5 p.m.
2020: Today Eric
Greitens, the former Republican governor of Missouri and Sheena Greitens would
soon accept a job as an associate professor of political science at the
University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs announced
they were ending their marriage
2020; The Seder Squad
is scheduled to present, via Zoom “Crafting our Liberation” during which
attendees can “reflect on Passover through art and the religious ceremony of
Havdalah” while “marking the separation between Shabbat and the rest of the
week.”
2020: In what has to be
one of the most imaginative responses to the Pandemic Quarantine, the Riverway
Project is scheduled to present the Seder Squad’s on-line version of “The Great
Passover Bake Off.”
2020: Idina Menzel,
Ilana Glazer, Ben Platt and many more celebs are scheduled to lead a ‘Saturday
Night Seder’ to raise money for “a Center for Disease Control fund for first responders
working during the coronavirus outbreak.” (As reported by the Crescent City
Jewish News, the voice for everything Jewish in the land of the Bayou)
2021: In Coralville, IA. Congregation Agudas Achim is
scheduled to present via Zoom, Kathy Jacobs who will hold an Adult Ed
Mussar Talk about a New Mussar Course “Gates of Everyday Holiness.”
2021: Eternal Life-Hemshech, the William Breman Jewish
Heritage Museum, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta are scheduled to
co-sponsor, online, Atlanta’s 56th Annual Community-wide Yom HaShoah (Day of
Holocaust Remembrance) Commemoration.”
2021: Yiddishkayt is scheduled to host live-streamed Culinary
+ Culture Salon: The Rye Edition, in which attendees learn about the history
and significance of rye bread, from the one-of-a-kind Stanley Ginsberg, The Rye
Baker.
2021: Hadar and Sheldon are scheduled to host the Yom
Ha’Atzmaut Across America virtual concert with Sheldon Low.
2021: Based on the proclamation issued by President Biden on
April 2, today marks the end “of a week of observance of the Days of
Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust…”
2021: As part of the Women of Sefarad Series, the Jewish
Heritage Alliance is scheduled to host lecture by Professor Abraham Gross on
the life and times of Doña Gracia Nasi
2021: Friends of Bezalel and AICF are scheduled to present an
event featuring Bezalel graduates and AICF grant recipients Zohar Dvir (London)
and Dan Azoulay (Tel Aviv).
https://events.aicf.org/events/discover-animation/
2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Cynthia
Ozick’s review of the biography of Philip Roth by Blake Baily and Plunder: A
Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser.
2021: The JCRS, an organization that really does provide
meaningful support for the Jewish community is scheduled to present “Jews
Roots,’ a remote celebration online of the modern era of the Jewish Children’s
Regional Services which is marking its 75th anniversary.
2021: At a time when most
Israelis are hoping to avoid a fifth election, Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas
is reportedly considering making a political speech in which he will stress his
commitment to Israel, in order to ease the path toward his acceptance by
right-wing parties,
2021: “A power failure
that appeared to have been caused by a deliberately planned explosion struck
Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site on today, in what Iranian officials
called an act of sabotage that they suggested had been carried out by Israel.”
2021 “Fiddler at 50: A Reunion Celebration of Fiddler
on the Roof” is scheduled to take place in London.
https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/fiddler-50-reunion-celebration-fiddler-roof
2022: Seventy-one year
old author, public speaker and sometimes thespian Fran Lebowitz is scheduled to
bring her one-person show “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” to Playhouse Square’s
Connor Palace in Cleveland today.
2022: Stephanie
Butnick, host of “Tablet’s Unorthodox Podcast” is scheduled to moderate
conversation with Lisa Barr and James McAuley as they talk about stolen Jewish art during the Holocaust, antisemitism
and displacement after the war, and the reclamation of the art and the narrative.
2022: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a conversation with journalist Bari Weiss, author
of How to Fight Anti-Semitism and The New Seven Words and the Pulitzer
Prize–winning playwright, director, author and screenwriter David Mamet, the
author of Recessional, who issues “warnings about the liberal Visigoths at our
gates whose “cultural thuggery” is killing not only free thought and expression
but democracy itself.”
2022: Israel appears to
be facing a governmental crisis today following yesterday’s clarification by Yamina
party MK Idit Silman “that she has no intention of walking back her dramatic
decision from last week to exit the coalition, a move that ended the
government’s razor-thin majority in the Knesset, paralyzed its ability to pass
legislation and left it near potential collapse. (As reported by TOI)
2022: Members of the
staff from the Schottenstein Chabad House at Ohio State University is scheduled
to “meet with OSU’s president, Kristina Johnson, Monday, to discuss the
administration’s response” to the vote by the OSU student senate to adopt a
Boycott Divest and Sanctions resolution which is aimed at Israel.
2022: Today the HUC
board of governors is scheduled to meet today and vote on a “plan to stop
training rabbinical students full time in Cincinnati, OH.
2023(20th of
Nisan, 5783): Sixth Day of Pesach; in the evening light candles
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar in which Trudy Gold lectures on
“Nazis and Jews: 1933-1939.”
2023: In Coralville,
IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a “Festival Evening service.”
2023: Bank Hapoalim is
scheduled to sponsore free entrance to 170 museums, national parks, and
heritage sites in Israel, including ANU - Museum of the Jewish People for the
last time during this holiday season.
2023: YIVO is scheduled
to present a lecture by Bozena Keff based on “The Guardians of Fate,” her
collection of essays on Polish language literature the Holocaust.
2023: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held at Kfar Etzion today for 48-year-old Lucy (Lucianne) Dee, who
succumbed to her wounds suffered in a terrorist attack that claimed the life of
two of her daughters as the family, including her husband rabbi Leo Dee were on
a trip to Tiberias. (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
2024: World Jewish
Congress - North America and the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to
present the Exhibit Inauguration of “The Golden Age of the Jews of Alandalus” |
"La Edad de Oro de los judíos de Alandalús"
2024: As part of the
Cathy and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Arts Series, is scheduled to present Tulane
professor and New York Times contributor, Dr. Ilana M. Horwitz as she lectures
on God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Unexpected Influence on Academic
Success,
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Marc Dollinger on “Jews
and Whiteness” and a webinar on “Christian Views of Jews, Part 2: The Church
Fathers” facilitated by Dr. Helen Fry.
2024: In Marblehead,
MA, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host “A Modern “Song of Songs”: Exploring
Jewish cultural themes thru Israeli Rock & Roll.”
2024: The Jewish Museum
is scheduled to host “a conversation between James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith
Menschel Director, and contemporary artist Michal Rovner as part of the
Museum’s continuing series of talks that reflect on the role of art and culture
in today's complex times” during which “the speakers will discuss Rovner’s
career and work, which explores questions of nature, identity, dislocation, and
the fragility of human existence.
2024: At an online lunch and learn “filmmaker Adam Fried to discuss his film, “Everything’s
Koshe, a t documentary that spans countries, generations, and cultures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6CWE0sU_2Q
2024: In its Main
Sanctuary, The Museum at Eldrige is scheduled “to celebrate the release of
best-selling and award-winning author Joan Nathan's new cookbook, My Life in
Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories (Knopf 2024), with cookbook author and
TikTok star Jake Cohen, moderated by four-time James Beard award-winning chef
and author Rozanne Gold.
2024: The Lillian and
Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum to host “Nights at the Seder Table”
2024: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a presentation by Carl Kaplan and Vasily
Zaitsau, TTP’s Archive Services Caseworker in Boston and Archive Services
Coordinator in Minsk, who “will explain how to initiate a genealogy research
request with TTP, what their research process entails, and what kinds of
results you may expect to receive from them, with examples of discoveries made
for previous clients.”
2024: As April 11th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day
188 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.)
2025: Stand-up comedian
Adir Miller is scheduled to perform at Soldier House in Tel Aviv
2025: An "Augma
Lift™ Full-Day Course" is scheduled to take place at the Dan Carmel Haifa
Hotel in Haifa, Israel.
2025: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Jonathan Shippel on the
Parsha of the Week
2025: As April 11th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the
globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 554 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)
2026: The JCRS (Jewish
Children’s Regional Service) Jewish Roots Gala is scheduled to place this
evening.
2026: In Northern
Virginia, the Pozez JCC is scheduled to host the first session of GoldenBoot
Soccer designed for energetic and active tots.
2026: In Brookline, MA
Temple Emeth and Temple Sinai are each scheduled to host “Tot Shabbat”
2026: As April 11th
begins in Israel, indirect “peace” talks are scheduled to take place between
the United States and Iran while Israel is calling for “direct peace talks with
Lebanon.”(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)
2026(24th of
Nisan, 5786): Parashat Shimini, Pirke Avot - Chapter 1; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
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