This Day, August 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

August 1

 

30 BCE:  Mark Antony died.  Following the victory of Octavian and Antony over those who had murdered Julius Caesar, Antony became ruler of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.  Antony did name Herod as ruler of Judaea.  But when his lover Cleopatra let it be known that she wished to recreate the Ptolemy rule over the area, Antony partially reversed himself by giving the Queen Jericho and numerous other towns in Judaea.  None of this had anything to do with Antony’s feelings about the Jews but rather reflected his passion for Cleopatra. In the end none of this matter since Octavian defeated Antony and control of the Jews passed to the man who became Caesar Augustus.

10 BCE: Birthdate of Claudius 4th Roman emperor. Claudius reigned from 41 through 54. Regardless of how the PBS television series portrayed, for a Roman Emperor, Claudius was a plus for the Jews of his time. He repealed the anti-Jewish edicts of his predecessors. He held the Samaritans responsible for the attacks on Jews in Judea and befriended the Jewish King, Agrippa. At one time he did exclude Jews from the city of Rome. But this appears to have been a matter of dealing with civil unrest sparked the early Christians living in the imperial city.

388: The synagogue located on the Euphrates in Callinicum was looted and burned by Church officials. St. Ambrose (one of the four Latin doctors of the Catholic Church) defended the action. He reprimanded Theodosius the Great for ordering the local Bishop to pay restitution, even though expropriation was illegal under Roman law. St. Ambrose offered to burn the synagogue in Milan on his own. 

527: Justinian I also known as Justinian the Great becomes the Byzantine Emperor.  For gentiles, Justinian might be considered “Great” but he was an enemy of the Jews.  Justinian’s celebrated code contains the following about his policy towards his Jewish subjects. “They shall enjoy no honors.  Their status shall reflect the baseness which in their souls they have elected and desired.”  “The principle of servitus Judaeorum (‘servitude of the Jews’) was established, and the hitherto uneven pattern of persecution was systemized for a Christian civilization march towards its age of faith.”  Justinian banned the recitation of the Shema because its declaration of the Oness of God was at odds with the Trinity.  In response to demands of his Bishops, Justinian banned the public reading of the Torah.  He also forbad the observance of Passover in the years when it preceded Easter on the calendar.

1098: Fifty-three-year-old Adhemar of Le Puy, the French bishop who was a leader of the First Crusade which proved so devastating to the Jews of the Rhineland and the Holy Land died today at Antioch.

1137: King Louis VI passed away and is succeed by his Louis VII who will launch the Second Crusade.  Louis VII’s reign was not “Jew friendly.” Following the logic of the time that it made no sense to go to Palestine to fight those holding on to the Christian Holy Sites and leave the defilers of Christianity at home alone, in 1144 Louis VII would expel all the Jews who had converted to Christianity and then returned to Judaism. In 1171 the first Blood Libel in France took place in Blois.

1263, James I ordered the removal of passages deemed offensive from the Talmud

1291: The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. The original Jews settled in what is now Switzerland during the days of the Roman Empire. Records of the Jewish community officially date back to the 13^th century, with Jews having settled in Basel in 1213, seventy years before the confederation was formed. Jews from France and Germany settled in Bern by 1259, St. Gall in 1268, Zurich in 1273, Schaffhausen, Diessenhofen, and Luzerne in 1299. But anti-Semitism is almost as old as the confederation itself since in1294 in when many Jews living in Berne of the city were executed and the survivors expelled under the pretext of the murder of a Christian boy.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/swiss.html

1298: Although assisted by humane Christian citizens, the Jews of Nuremberg were overpowered and butchered today. Among the victims was Mordecai ben Hillel, a pupil of Jehiel ben Asher, with his wife and children.

1431: “King Sigismund assured the Jews of Worms that all edicts annulling the outstanding debts owed them would be declared invalid upon the payment by each Jew of an indemnity.”

1520: In Cracow, Poland, Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza of Milan, the niece of the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian, gave birth to Sigismund II Augustus, the Polish King who allowed “Jews to settle in Vilna without restriction” and who issued “the ‘Magna Cara of Jewish Self-Government’’ “which permitted Jews to elect their own chief rabbi and judges.”

1580: Evard Mercurian, the fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) passed away.  The first three leaders of the order had been Spanish and there was concern that they might be Coversos or at least have Jewish blood.  So Mercuvian, a native of Luxemburg got the job because Pope Gregory XIII wished to dispel an connotation of a Jewish connection.

1626: In Izmir, Mordecai and Clara Sevi gave birth to Sabbatai Zevi, the most famous the False Messiahs.

1641: King Christian IV “formally reconfirmed the Ashkenazim their general privilege including their cemetery and a synagogue, thus continuing the basis for the existence of their community.”

1658: Coronation of Leopold I who borrowed large sums of money from banker Samuel Oppenheimer to fight the “Great Turkish War.

1670: As a result of a proclamation by the Emperor, as of today, all the Jews had left Vienna.

1768: Today “approximately sixty merchants and traders signed the Boston Non-Importation Agreement which led to most of the ports including Philadelphia and Charleston with their comparatively significant Jewish population  in the 13 colonies to adopt similar measures.

1679: Birthdate of Mantua born poet Simson ha-Kohen Modon, a student of Judah Brill who “gained the good will of Emperor Charles VI.”

https://beta.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/modon-simson-ha-kohen.html

1714: Queen Anne of Great Britain during whose reign an “Act to oblige Jews to maintain and provide for their Protestant children” took effect, passed away today. This act of Parliament grew out of case involving Jacob de Mendez Berta and his daughter Mary who became a Protestant.  According to one source, the father refused to continue to support his daughter after she converted and her newly adopted Protestant community did not want to shoulder the burden of her support.  Hence, this legislation was adopted and would stay in effect until the middle of the 19^th century.

1714: George I began his reign as King of Great Britain and Ireland during which “an act of Parliament that allowed Jews holding land to omit the words "on the true faith of a Christian", when registering their title.”

1753: The Imperial Court rescinded the order confiscating copies of the prayer book and Talmud because they were found not contain derogatory statements about Christianity.

1776(16^th of Av, 5536): Twenty-nine-year-old Francis Salvador, the member of a prominent Sephardic South Carolina family and an ardent Patriot, was killed while fighting the Tory and Indian supporters of the British.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Salvador.html

1778(8^th of Av, 5538): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon Erev Tish’a B’Av

1787: In the UK, Hannah Montefiore, the daughter of Moses Montefiore and Esther Hannah Racah, married Moses Acona with whom she had five children – “Leah, Judah, Moses Montefiore, Esther and Sarah.”

1789(9^th of Av, 5549): Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av

1789(9th of Av): Rabbi Abraham Isaac Castello, the native of Ancona whose works included "A Memorial Sermon on the Death of Francis I. of Germany", written in Spanish, and translated by Castello's son Joseph Castello into Italian passed away in Leghorn, Italy.

1797(9^th of Av, 5557): Tish’a B’Av

1797: Two Jews named Bromet and DeLemon were elected members of the Second National Assembly of Holland today

1798: The British Fleet under Nelson defeats the French Fleet in the Battle of the Nile.  Nelson’s victory left the British in control of the Mediterranean.  Napoleon’s army had already landed before the battle.  Although the French leader would score victories in Egypt and Syria, crossing through Eretz Israel, his victories would mean little since the French army could not be sustained.  Among the lesser known consequences was the end of promises Napoleon had made during the siege at Acre to create a Jewish homeland.

1806:, Rabbi Joseph David Sinzheim a member of the Assembly convened by Napoleon continued to respond to the questions asked by the Imperial Commissioner.

1807: In Philadelphia, PA, Frances “Fanny” Gratz and Reuben Etting who were married in 1794, gave birth to Miriam Gratz Etting,

1808(8^th of Av, 5568): Erev Tish’a B’Av

1813: Birthdate of Stockholm native Charles Kann, the husband of Copenhagen native Amalia Monies and the father of Albert, Ellen, Jenny and Ellen Kann.

1814(15^th of Av, 5574): Tu B’Av celebrated for the last time during the War of 1812.

1819: Birthdate of American novelist Herman Melville who was the special subject of study of Viola Sachs who “conducted research and studies for the decoding of Melville’s master works” and who survived the Holocaust by living in Brazil along with her husband, economist Ignacy Sachs

1820: Hannah Joel, a widow who had died at “Jews Hospital” was buried today at the Brady Jewish Cemetery.

1822(14^th of Av, 5582): Westphalia native Joseph Cohen, the Revolutionary War veteran, the shochet for Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City and Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC who was a clerk for the Gratz brothers who was the husband of Rose Barnet and Hannah Moses passed away today in London.

1827(8^th of Av, 5587): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time while George Canning was Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1830: Today Isaac and Hannah Solomon were married at the Western Synagogue.

1833: On a second reading a bill designed to free Jews from all civil disabilities which would open the world of politics to them, was defeated.

1841: Birthdate of Dr. Isidor Cohnstein the native of Gnesen  and gynecologist  who married Ida Cohnstein.

1842: Birthdate of Hungarian journalist Albert Farkas “who advocated a peaceable of adjustment of the religious differences among Hungarian Jews.”

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6026-farkas-albert

1844: Birthdate of Quedlinburg, Germany native and university of Berlin, Zuch and Bonn trained medical doctor Gustave Albert Schwalbe, the anthropologist and anatomist who “considered the Neanderthal to be a direct ancestor of modern humans” and whose study of the optic nerve led to the identification of what are now called “Schwalbe’s spaces and “"Schwalbe's line", an anatomical line located on the posterior surface of the eye's cornea.”

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13337-schwalbe-gustav

1844: Birthdate of Aaron E. Greenewald, the husband of Sallie Gimbel Greenewald.

1846(9^th of Av, 5606): Erev Tish’B’av; Parashat Devarim

1846: Max-Théodore Cerfberr, a colonel in the French Army and president of the Consistoire Central Israelite de France “was reelected to the Chamber of Deputies today.

1849: In Hlinik, Hungary, Moritz Hecht and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Sigmund Hecht, who in 1868 came to the United States where he earned a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of Alabama and served as rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Montgomery, AL, Congregation Emanu-El in Milwaukee, WI and Congregation B’nai B’rith in Los Angeles, CA.

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/rabbi-sigmund-hecht/

https://www.amazon.com/History-Sigmund-Hecht-Books/s?rh=n%3A9%2Cp_27%3ASigmund+Hecht

1852: In Brighton, Dr. Loewe, the Oriental Linguist to the Duke of Sussex and first Principal of Jews’ College London and his wife gave birth to James H. Loewe, the “manager of the East-end branch of the International Bank of London, Ltd., founder and first President of the Finsbury-park Synagogue and of the North London Beth Hamedrash.

1852: This afternoon, the new Jewish Synagogue in Eighth-street, between North First and North Second-streets, was dedicated by appropriate ceremonies of the Jewish religion. There were Hebrew chant and lectures by Rabbi, Max Lilienthal, Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs and Rabbi Morris Raphall. Dr. Barnard officiated as Rabbi to the congregation. The Synagogue is to be known as the "House of Israel." There were many Gentiles present to view the ceremonies.

1853: Birthdate of Lithuanian Rabbi Icik Benkowitz the Orthodox rabbi who served as Rabbi for two congregations in Chelsea, MA  and who was believed “the nation’s oldest spiritual leader when he passed away in 1963.”

1854: In Krakau, Austria, Herman and Rebeca (Cypress) Guttman gave birth to Dr. Adolph Guttman, the husband of Marilla Goldstein who played a formative role in the creation of the liturgy and religious practices of Temple Concord in Syracuse, NY and who served as the chaplain at the Auburn (NY) prison for 35 years.

1855: Castle Garden opened as the immigrant process center in New York.

1856: Lauritz Weidemann, one of the framers of Norway’s constitution whose opposition to Jewish citizenship was expressed somewhat incoherently when he wrote “"The Jewish nation's history proves, that this people always has been rebellious and deceitful, and their religious teachings, the hope of again arising as a nation, so often they have acquired some remarkable fortune, led them to intrigues and to create a state within a state. It is of vital importance to the security of the state that an absolute exception be made about them" passed away today.

1858: In New Orleans, Bernard and Sophia Bernstein Kowalski gave birth to Zachary Kowalski who would passed away before his third birthday.

1859: The Report of Sir Moses Montefiore to the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews on the subject of his mission to Rome in the Mortara Case was published today. While Sir Moses was thankful for those who assisted in him arranging meeting with Vatican officials, the Church refused to acknowledge any error in the case.  The conversion stands and the Jewish child stolen from his parents will be raised as a Catholic.

1859: An editorial in the New York Times, expresses disappointment at Rome’s refusal to yield on the issues in the “Mortara Case” while expressing relief “that such an enormity as the abduction of the Mortara child cannot be repeated even by Rome.”  The Times also points out the horrible conditions under which the Jews of Austria, a patron and protector of the Pope, are living. “The case of the Israelites…bad as it is in Rome, is still worse in Austria.”  Jews are restricted in the vocations they may pursue and are banned from “many of the higher vocations of trade.”  They are limited in their right to move to different parts of the empire and they need a special license if they want to leave the country altogether.  In some parts of the empire, there is a limit on the number of Jewish marriages “so that a young man must await the death of his parent before he can enter the state of matrimony. This hideous and demoralizing law is but one of the many horrors which Austrian persecution has designed for the Israelites living in Austria, and who are kept by the brutal system, in a state of ignorance which the condition of Jewish populations in free countries proves to abnormal with that portion of the human family.” [All of this will change with a stroke of a pen after Austria loses its war with Prussia and is forced to reorganize as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.]

1861: At the start of the Civil War, Joseph Benedict Greenhut “joined the 12^th Illinois Infantry and was muster in today.

1861: Birthdate of New York City native and former traveling salesman Seymour Caesar Heyman, the husband of Rebecca Gerson and father of Stanley Heyman, who in 1897 moved to Oklahoma City where he opened the Hub Clothing Store, became a civic leader and “an influential member of B’nai Israel Temple.”

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HE021

1861(25th of Av, 5621): Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah A Moses, the Charleston, SC, born daughter of Adeline and Levy I Moses passed away today.

1862: In an interlude between the Siege of Corinth and the Second Battle of Corinth, Jacob C. Cohen of the 27^th Ohio Infantry wrote to the Jewish Messenger to describe what life was like as they bivouacked at Camp Clear Creek just outside of the Mississippi town.

http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/jcc01.html

 1862: The USS Canandaigua on which Adolph Marix served during 1871–1872 was commissioned today.

1864: Birthdate of South Carolina Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith a supporter of the immigration quota system who wanted to exempt Jews from the quota system” because “their thrift, their economy and their love of learning” appealed to him. (As reported by Henry L. Feingold)

1864: Today, following the end of the Schleswig War, Prussia, under the leadership of Bismarck who relied on his banker Gerson Bleichröder for financial advice took possession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

1865(9th of Av, 5625): Tisha B'Av

1865: The New York Times reported that “the Israelites in this city and throughout the world solemnized in sorrow and in sadness, in tears and in lamentation, in fasting and in prayer, the annual fast of Ab, founded on the destruction of the Temple, and the overthrow of the national government. Although nearly 2,300 years have elapsed since the first Temple was destroyed, and eighteen centuries since the construction of the second Temple, both occurrences taking place on the same day of the month, the fast is still continued from Monday evening to Tuesday night, in accordance with the Jewish ritual, and in consonance with Israelitish feeling. The fast is inaugurated with reciting the lamentations of Jeremiah, and, after the morning service, several hours are employed in the synagogues in chanting in plaintive tones the compositions of the saints of antiquity, and imploring the God of Israel to remove the rod of chastisement from Israel, and again to resume the light of other days, by the reestablishment of their Temple and restoration of their government to its original splendor.”

1866: In Moscow, “Andrew and Elizabeth Malkiel” gave birth to NYU trained attorney, the secretary of the Socialist Labor Party and husband of the former Theresa Serber, the socialist advocate for the rights of woman and workers.

1866: Maj. Louis Alexander Gratz and Elisabeth (Lizzie) Trigg Gratz gave birth to Frances Henrietta Gratz who became Frances Henrietta Mann when she married Horace Attlee Mann.

1867: Birthdate of Russia native Ida Solaway Sweedler, the wife of Samuel Sweedler, the mother of Brooklyn Law Schold graduate and founder of the Brooklyn Jewish Chronicle, Judge Nathan Sweedler and the mother-in-law of Ada Meyer Sweedler.

1867: In Russia, Herman Gussow and his wife gave birth to Abraham Gussow, the founder of A. Gussow and Company, on of “the largest manufacturers of women’s underwear in New York and a president of the Cotton Garment Association who was the husband of  Emma Iserlson with whom he had five children – Pansy, Minnie, Anna, Isidore and Alfred.

1868: In Montgomery, Alabama, “Jacob and Bella (Mayer) Jonas gave birth to banker Nathan S. Jonas, the husband of Jennie Strauss who pre-deceased him.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jonas-nathan-s

1868: In Montgomery, AL Bella Mayer and Jacob Jonas gave birth to Brooklyn educated philanthropist Nathan Jonas the husband of Jennie Strauss who rose from traveling salesman, to insurance agent to bank president.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/jonas-nathan-s

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jonas-nathan-s

1869: Birthdate of Moishe Hillkowitz, the native of Riga, who gained famed as New York labor lawyer and Socialist political leader, Morris Hillquit.

1870: Birthdate of Kaunas, Lithuania native Rabbi Tuvia Geffen who gained fame as “The Coca Cola Rabbi” while serving as the leader of Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, GA.

https://mishpacha.com/from-kovno-to-coca-cola/

https://adventuresincemeteryhopping.com/2014/09/26/making-coca-cola-kosher-atlantas-rabbi-tobias-geffen/

1870: A rumor swept New York today that the police had apprehended the murder of Benjamin Nathan – a plumber who with a lacerated face who was caught with a stolen watch belonging to the deceased.

1870: “The Jews in Romania” published today reported that there were 176 synagogues serving 400,000 Jews in Romania.

1870: Di Post, the first Yiddish periodical to appear in the United States was published for the first time today in New York City.

1870: In Lithuania, Gittel Helvich Shubert and David Hersh Shubert gave birth Khana Sora Shubert, the sister of the famous theatrical Shubert brothers.

1870: Benjamin Nathan, the prominent Jewish New York businessman who was murdered in his own home, was buried today at the Jewish Cemetery, Shearith Israel at Cypress Hill. His brother-in-law, Rabbi J.J. Lyons had officiated at funeral that was held at the deceased’s resident.

1871: In Kovno, Lithuania, Chaim Hillel and Bessie (Siegel) Rosenberg gave birth to Isaiah Rosenberg, the University of Leipzig and University of Berne educated author and editor known as Karol Vornberg who married Kamentzky in Newark, N.J. in 1903 where pursuing a career that included serving on the editorial staff of the Forwards, writing for the Day and editing the Jewish Voice in Newark.

1873: It was reported today that the last person to see ten-year-old John Henry Lance was “a Jew peddler in Williamsburg.”

1875: In London, Rebecca and Michaelis Hallensein gave birth to Percy Hallenstein, the brother Emile and Henri Hallenstein who changed his named to Halsted, was the husband of Enid Miriam Gotthelf and passed away in New Zealand.

1875: “The Jews of Italy,” an article published today described the conditions of the Jews living in this newly reunited nation.  It focused on the deplorable conditions of many of the Jews living in the old ghetto of Rome along the Tiber, the improved condition of Jews living outside of the capital and the annual ceremony at St. John the Lateran set aside to baptize any Jew who has converted during the past 12 months. However, no Jew has participated in the ceremony in the last twenty years, despite the best efforts of the Church.

1876:  Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.  The largest number of Jews began arriving in Colorado as part of the gold rush activities in 1859.  Jews helped supply the miners in many of the camps that later became small towns throughout the state.   Hyman and Fred Salomon, two Jewish brothers from Prussia, were leading members of the Denver community by the time statehood was declared.  In addition to their business ventures, they helped organize the Colorado Pioneer Society, the Denver Public Library and the Denver B’nai Brit Lodge.

1876: In New York City, Joseph and Lena (Bernhardt) Kopetzky gave birth Columbia medical school trained physician and author Samuel Kopetzky, a professor in the department of otology at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital and member of the board of governors of the American Jewish Physicians committee for the Establishment of the Medical Department at Hebrew University who, while serving as a medical  officer with the 81^st Division was “cited for gallantry in action after the Meuse-Argonne Offensive” and who was the husband of Anah H. Dobb with whom he had two children – Yvonne and Karl.

1876(11th of Av, 5636): Lewis Wormser, the native of Stuttgart who moved to Ireland in 1821 where he became such a successful businessman and leader of the Jewish community that he was waiting to begin serving as Lord Mayor of Dublin when he passed away today.  Had he lived, he would have been the first Jew to hold that position and honor that would fall to Robert Briscoe eighty years later.

http://homepage.eircom.net/~researchers/sketchped/1.html

1877: Three weeks before her 40^th birthday, in the UK, Sarah Ellis, the daughter of Abraham Ellis, married fifty year old Israel Levy.

1878: Birthdate of Alfred W. Fleisher who would be buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery at Philadelphia when he passed away on Christmas Day, 1928.

1878: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn was incorporated today under the leadership of President Ernst Nathan. 

1879: Following the Russo-Turkish War, Czar Alexander II today awarded Joshua be Aaron Zeitlin “ a medal in recognition of his services” as “a contractor for the victorious Russian Army

1879: As reported in the Jewish Messenger, "...About twenty, mostly young men, have formed themselves into a congregation under the name of 'Orach Chaim', Path of Life, their objective being to hold Divine service every day, morning and evening, as well as on Sabbath and holidays on strict orthodox principles, as it has been handed down to them by their fathers."

1880: “A Christian Woman Becomes a Jewess” published today described the conversion ceremony of Mrs. Morse that took place last month in Rochester, NY.

1881: No reason was given today when it was reported that the excursion of Athletic Society of Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem has been postponed until later this month.

1881: Birthdate of Otto Toeplitz, the third generation German mathematician who would seek refuge in Palestine after the rise of the Nazis.

1881: Birthdate of  Fritz Spira, the Viennese actor who played Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film The Third Squadron but whose fame did not keep him from being arrested by the Nazis and dying ignominiously at the Ruma Concentration Camp in 1943.

1882: Henry Robinson married Mary Pillischer today at the Brighton Synagogue.

1882: “Hammerstein's best-known contribution to the cigar-making process was adding an air-suctioning component to cigar rollers for which he received Patent No. 261,849 today for a method of using suction to hold wrappers of cigars and cigarettes in place on a table, enabling them to hold down tobacco leaves firmly so the leaves could be cut more cleanly - before being wrapped around the cigar or cigarette.”

1882: Birthdate of  Jacob Benjamin Salutsky, the Russian immigrant who gained fame as the J.B.S. Hardman a prominent socialist who serve as Education of Director of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers after having left the Communist movement in apparent disgust.

1882: As the Freight Handler’s strike continued the Russian Jews had been replaced by Germans as workers at Pier Number 39 of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

1883: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Isidore Goudeket the “Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics” was murder at Sobibor in 1943.

1885(20^th of Av, 5645): Parashat Eikev

1885: John T. Robeson, the U.S. Consul-General in Beirut sent a telegram to the governor-general of Syria protesting the order expelling Mordecai Yitzhak Lubowsky and his brother.  The two Jews were American citizens and the diplomat pointed out that expelling them was a violation of the treaty between the Porte and the United States since it discriminated based on religion.

1885: A well-attended memorial service in honor of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, who was buried on Friday in Ramsgate, England, was held today at the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, on the corner of Eighty-fourth street and Avenue A in New York.

1885: Bavarian-born Isaac Alsbacher and Rebecca Klein who settled in Cleveland gave birth to their fifth child Jesse Alsbacher.

1887(11th of Av, 5647): Issac Margolis, the Russo-Polish rabbi who was a descendant of Yom Tov Lippman Heller of Prague  who came to the United States in 1884 and assumed the leadership of Congregation Anshe-Kalvariya  passed away in New York.

1887: Today, on his 18^th birthday, Morris HIllquist joined the Socialist Labor Party of America.

1887: Birthdate of Belarus native and “Jewish labor leader” Reuben Guskin, who “escaped to the United States in 1904 after being sought by the Czarist police for participating in Jewish self-defense in Bobroisk,” where he became president of the United Hebrew Trade and served on “the management council of the Forward.”

https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/G/guskin-reuben.htm

1888: Birthdate of Russian born Yiddish poet Nahum Yud, who wrote under the name Nahum Yersualimchik who came to the United States where he wrote for Yiddish publications until his death in 1966.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yud-nahum

1888: Birthdate of Rene Marx Dormoy, the friend of fellow socialist Leon Blum in whose government he served as Minister of the Interior and defeated the attempt of the right-wing La Cagoule to overthrow the Third Republic before WW II.  Dormoy did not turn his back on Blum after the cowardly capitulation of the French and the rise of Vichy – a loyalty that cost him his life.

1889: New York Mayor Hugh Grant received a letter today from Henry M. Leipziger, Director of the Hebrew Technical Institute concerning an exhibit for the upcoming World’s Fair. 

1889: Nine-year-old Samuel Ehrenstein and five year old Lazarus Ehrenstein were left with Coroner Levy in New York.  A letter said that they were orphans and should be sent to a charitable institution for care

1890(15^th of Av, 5650): Tu B’AV

1890: “The British House of Commons” published today describe activities in Parliament including Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir James Fergusson’s reassurance that he has no proof that the Russian government plans on enforcing any edicts aimed at reducing the rights of Russian Jews.

1890: “In the House of Lords…the Marquis of Salisbury…said he could not confirm reports…of any anti-Jewish edicts by the Russian government.”

1890: In Jersey City, NJ, Hannah Pollock and Morris Eichmann gave birth to Columbia trained attorney Meyer Eichmann, the husband of Mary J. Goldberg.

1890: New York Congressman Charles Baker asked the Committee on Foreign Affairs to consider “a resolution protesting ‘in the name of humanity, against such inhuman and barbarous acts as the enforcement by Russia of the edict of 1882, against the Jews, requesting the President to transmit, through our representatives in Russia, this protest to the Russian Government.”

1891: It was reported today that U.S. government believes the fact that nothing has been heard from Dr. J.M. Crawford the United States Consul General in St. Petersburg “for a long time past” is “convincing proof” that the Russian government is not contemplating any action to enforce the edicts aimed at depriving the Jews of their rights.

1891: Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham of Washington, DC, representing the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the immigration Russian Jews to the United States.

1891: Secretary of Treasury Charles Foster wrote to Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham assuring them that the immigration laws would be enforced “efficiently” but “humanely.

1891:  Birthdate of Eliyahu Lulu, who would gain fame as a member of the First Knesset under the name of Eliyahu Hacarmeli.

1891: “The Czar Changes Bankers” published today attributed the Russian government’s decision to move its accounts from the London branch of the House of Rothschild to Messrs. C.J. Hambro & Son to that country’s “attitude toward the Jews.”

1892: Emma Goldman was among those attending the meeting of anarchists held tonight at 193 Bowery.

1892: At a meeting of anarchist of Newark, NJ the speaker praised Alexander Berkman, who had attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel Strike, by saying “I trust that in the near future we may all become Berkmanns.”

1892: In Chicago, “Ukrainian Jewish immigrants Annie P. (née Cohn) and Nicholas J. Pritzker” gave birth to Harry Nicholas, partners in the firm of Pritzker and Pritzker along with his brothers Abram and Jack, the father of the former Elna Stone and father of Richard and Joanne Pritzker, whose family members created a real estate empire that included the Hyatt hotel chain.

1893: Birthdate of Rossien, Lithuania native Alexander Sachs who joined his brother Joseph in 1904 in the United States where he was educated at CCNY, Columbia and Harvard and became an influential economist and banker best known for delivering the “Einstein–Szilárd letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt” in October of 1939 which led to the Manhattan Project and the birth of the Atomic/Nuclear Age.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/24/archives/alexander-sachs-economist-dead-bush-headed-committee.html

1893(19^th of Av, 5653): Joseph Korman, “an educated Russian Jew” who came to the United States about a year ago and who had been “a successful merchant at one time” passed away today after being for six months leaving behind a destitute widow and four children.

1893: Today is the deadline for all the Jews living in Lifland to sell their property and move into the Pale.

1893: It was reported today that Archbishop Dionysius Latas, a prominent Greek prelate, said that if the subject comes up during his visit to Chicago he intends to express his opposition to the persecution of the Jews.

1893: The body of 76-year-old Solomon Heyman who passed away yesterday in Long Branch will be brought to New York City today for burial.

1894: “East Side Roof Gardens” published today described the growth of these popular venues including one that  “the young men of the Hebrew Institute” have established at the building on East Broadway and Jefferson Street. From 9 in the morning until 8 in the evening mothers and their “babes in arms” can sit under the big awning on the roof in attempt to stay cool during the summer heat.

1894: The trial of Jeremiah J. Levy a Jewish policeman who has been charged with bribery continued today.

1895: Birthdate of Béla Zsolt, the native of Komárom, Hungary who survived Bergen-Belsen, rode to freedom on the “Kasztner Train” and wrote Nine Suitcases a Holocaust memoir that would later be turned into a one act play.

http://dannyreviews.com/h/Nine_Suitcases.html

(For more information about the Kasztner Train see http://www.killingkasztner.com/)

1895: “In The Real Estate Field” published today described the sale of a lot on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue and 77^th Street by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society for $87,500.

1895: “The Clothing Industry” published today attributed the success in New York of the “industry  for manufacturing clothing” to “cheap labor.”  This labor “has not been made cheap through any effort or design of the manufactures” but is the result of vast number of Russian and Polish Jews who have “forced down the price” of labor.

1896: It was reported today that the Jewish Colonization Company will pay the expenses of 800 Jews to return to Russia from Argentina because they know nothing about farming and are not able to work on the Hirsch colonies that have been established in that country.

1896: Thirty year old Chaim Silberman, a Hebrew school teacher who arrived in the United States last January told the authorities about his harrowing trip to the United States during which 6 of his fellow passengers died of suffocation in a case of “criminal neglect.”

1896: Colonel Eugene Levy and thirty –six year old Marie Melanie Simikins a former school teacher who converted from Catholicism to Judaism were married today at the mayor’s office.

1898 Birthdate of Russian born American Conservative Rabbi, William S. Malev.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/malev-william-s

1898: A case involving that pits the Moses Montifiore Congregation of Hoboken against David Engler who claims to own the lot on which the synagogue sits and who is trying to force the congregation to move its building is scheduled to be hear in The Chancery Court in Jersey City, New Jersey today.

1898: The body 53 year old Elias Jacobs who had passed away at his country home in Forest, PA was brought to New York City where his funeral will be held.

1898: Birthdate of publisher William Bernard “Bill” Ziff, Sr. the cofounder of Ziff Davis Inc and supporter of the Revisionist or Jabotinsky Zionists who wrote The Rape of Palestine, a book highly critical of the British Mandate.

1898(13^th of Av, 5658): Ephriam W. Sells, of Sells Brothers Circus, passed away today in Columbus OH.

1899: “The Jews in Babylon” by William Rainey Harpert was published in Volume 14 of The Biblical World.

http://archive.org/details/jstor-3137206

1899: Mordecai is scheduled to run in the Sixth Race at Brighton Beach. (No word as to Haman or Esther)

1900(6th of Av, 5660): Forty-eight year old “German physiologist” Immanuel Munk, the brother of Hermann Munk, passed away today in Berlin.

1900: Rabbi Simon Isaac Finkelstein, “the son of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge Rive Finkelstein” and his wife Hannah Basha Finkelstein gave birth to Herman N. Finkelstein

1901: Eighteen-year-old Mrs. Golda Lucas,  the Bucharest widow of Emanuel Lucas who died three months after their marriage was staying at the New York home of mother-in-law Sarah Lacs after taking part in a ceremony yesterday that relieved her husband’s brother of marrying her in a “levirate marriage” and allowed her to marry anybody she wanted to after her return to Romania.

1902: “Impassioned speeches by Jewish orators of the east side and excited applause from a throng of Jewish listeners were heard tonight at the mass meeting held in Cooper Union to protest against the conduct of the policemen and factory employees who participated in rioting during the funeral procession that followed the hearse of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.”

1903: Birthdate of Helena Nordheim, one of five Jewish members of the Dutch ladies’ gymnastics team, which won the Olympic title in Amsterdam in 1928. Forty years later, Helena Kloot- Nordheim, her husband Abraham and her 10-year old daughter Rebecca were gassed at Sobibor.

1904: Birthdate of Edward Satz, a native of what was then Lwow, Poland, who gained fame as Eli Mintz who made the transition from the Yiddish Theatre to Broadway playing “Uncle David” in “Me and Molly” and was the brother of Ludwig Satz.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/09/obituaries/eli-mintz-stage-and-film-actor-and-uncle-david-in-goldbergs.html

1905: In the United Kingdom, the Star published “Jewish Literary Societies” today.

1905(29^th of Tammuz, 5665): Less than a month before his 47^th birthday Leo Abram Errera a distinguished Belgian botanist who all wrote Les Juifs Russes: Extermination ou Emancipation?" passed away today in Brussels.

1906: It was reported today that the names of Samson A. Lachman and Daniel P. Hays, the great-grandson of of Gershon Mendes Seixas and a grandson of Dr. Maduro Peixotto have been submitted to the Judiciary Nominators who are seeking to name a replacement for the recently deceased Michael H. Cardozo.

1907(21^st of Av, 5667): Sixty-one-year-old Russian born, American publisher Hirsch Bernstein, who in 1870 came to the United States where “he started The Post, the first Judaeo-German or Yiddish periodical in America” passed away today.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3139-bernstein-hirsch

1907: “To prove that the relations between Mme. Melba and himself were not strained, Jewish showman Oscar Hammerstein showed today a latter he had received within the last few days from the prima donna” which was written in a strain of good-natured raillery”

1908(4^th of Av, 5668): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon observed for the last time during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican President who enjoyed considerable popularity among the Jewish voters in the United States.

1909: Thanks to “the kindness of Lee Shubert and comedian Lew Fields, a benefit for the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is scheduled to be held at the Arverne Pier Theatre.

1909: In Sycamore, Illinois, “Morris and Rose (Chosid) Gitlitz” gave birth to the character actor known as Lou Gilbert, the product of Cleveland orphanage  whose stage career began in 1925 and whose film credits including “Viva Zapata,” “Marathon Man” and “Raid on Entebbe.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/09/archives/lou-gilbert-character-actor-69-in-chicago-repertory.html?searchResultPosition=1

1909: Birthdate of Sarah Lawrence College professor, Maxwell David Geismar, the biographer of Mark Twain who “penned the introduction to Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver and who had two daughters – Katie and Elizabeth – with his wife the former Anne Rosenberg.

http://www.nyslittree.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/DB.PersonDetail/PersonPK/425.cfm

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/25/archives/maxwell-geismar-book-critic-author-and-editor-dead-at-69-attacked.html

1910: Birthdate of composer and arranger Walter Scharf, “the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling” who worked with everybody from George Gershwin, to Rudy Valle, to Al Jolson to Elvis Presley.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-scharf28

1911: Jews in Peoria, Illinois contribute one thousand dollars to Jews in Turkey suffering from the aftermath of major fires in that country.

1912(18^th of Av, 5672): Eighty-one-year-old Abraham Benjamin passed away today at St. Kilda, Melbourne.

1912: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Camden, NJ was incorporated today.

1913: A day after she had passed away, Jennie Leuria, the daughter of Bertha and Henry Leuria, was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”

1913: Birthdate of multi-talented composer Jerome Moross whose most famous works may be theme music for the western television series “Wagon Train” and the big screen western “The Big Country.”

http://www.moross.com/

http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/JeromeMorossCentennial.htm

1913: In Buffalo, NY, “Berith Israel (Anshe Sfar) was “rededicated” today.

1914: Germany declared war on Russia in WW I. The Jews of German fought valiantly for the Kaiser in defense of the Fatherland. But the Iron Crosses they earned would not save them or their progeny from the "Austrian Corporal’s Final Solution." According to Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Rigg, “About 10,000 volunteered for duty, and over 100,000 out of a total German-Jewish population of 550,000 served during World War One. Some 78% saw front-line duty, 12,000 died in battle, over 30,000 received decorations, and 19,000 were promoted. Approximately 2,000 Jews became military officers and 1,200 became medical officers.”

1914: The British Ambassador to France “was to have dined with at Edmond de Rothschild Boulogne-sur Seine villa tonight but they have to dine in Paris instead because “all of his horses and automobiles have been appropriated” by the government as part of the mobilization for war.

1914: In Saint Petersburg, Russia, Alexander Govorkovski and Ester Goverkovsky gave birth to Ella Govorkovski who became Ella Drori when she married Amnon Drori.

1915: It was reported today that with 25,000 Jews already serving in the military, the British War Office has made serious efforts “to meet all of their religious requirements” including wherever possible making arrangements for them “to return from the firing line for Passover and for the Feast of Weeks.”

1915: Polish-born English tailor Isaac Roman, who, as Victor Jeremy Jerome became a writer and a leader of the CPUSA arrived in New York today aboard the SS St. Louis.

1915: “The Jews were driven out of Brest-Litovsk” today “by order of the Russian High Command.

1915: It was reported today that the officers of the “New Synagogue” the recently formed “liberal Jewish congregation” on New York’s West Side are Morris Rothschild, Chairman; Jerome Wile, Treasurer and J.L. Frankel, Secretary who will be supporting a professional staff consisting of Rabbi Ephraim Frisch and organist Clarence Adler.

1916: In talking to the press today about the impact of Britain’s attempts to limit food supplies coming into Germany, Filed Marshall Von Batocki, “Germany’s food dictator” noted that “Polish Jews…who largely subsisted on fish were suffering intensely as a result of England’s economic pressure on neutrals particularly in the matter of dish exports to and through Germany.”

1917: In Manhattan, Martha Schallek and Joseph S. Wallenstein gave birth to Herbert Joseph Wallenstein, the Republic political leader who served as Assistant State Attorney General for 20 years starting in 1959.

1917: Harvey B. Franklin, of Stockton, CA is scheduled to begin serving as the Rabbi of Temple Sinai, Oakland, CA.

1917: Eighteen year old Lawrence Valenstein “borrowed $100 from his mother” and today “opened a tiny headquarters” of which would become the Grey Advertising Agency, “one of the country[s leading advertising companies.”  (As reported by Suzanne Daley)

1917: Based on information supplied by Ottis A. Glazebook, the U.S. Consul in Jerusalem who left that city for Switzerland after the U.S. entered the war on the side of the Allies, it was reported today that “there are now in Palestine 500 Jewish-American citizens” all of whom had “been given permission to leave” but preferred “to remain” where they were.

1918: Birthdate of Abraham Brauner, the son of timber wholesaler in Łódź, Poland, who gained fame as movie producer Artur “Atze” Brauner, the husband of Theresa Albert with whom he had four children and the kinsman of 49 people who died during the Shoah including 12 murdered at Babi Yar.

1918: During World War I, while serving in France a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board, Dr. Hyman Gerson Enelow wrote from Beaune, France today  “that there is work for everybody who wants to be helpful, that the Jewish soldiers “are very happy to see me” because it makes them “feel like they are not forgotten and that in addition to his official duties, he has spent several hours at the hospital trying to help “our doctors and nurse who are terribly overworked” and providing comfort to the wounded, especially those close to death.

1918: Decree issued “securing the title of the Chestnut Street Cemetery” in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1918: Abraham Schrameck, begin serving as Governor-General of Madagascar.

1918: Joseph Schlossberg, General Secretary Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Abraham Epstein, President Workmen's Circle were among the leaders of a meeting of a Conference of Trade Unions, Branches of the Workmen's Circle, and other Progressive Labor Organizations of Greater New York scheduled to be held be held in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, for the purpose of organizing the workers into a permanent central body for aiding all persons prosecuted who are in need of help, and of arousing public opinion against the further suppression of constitutional rights and liberties.  The Conference will be held under the auspices of the Liberty Defense Union, and has been endorsed by the United Hebrews Trades and the National Executive Committee of the Workmen's Circle.

1919: As The Hungarian Soviet Republic came to an end, Bela Kun “fled as Romanian troops approached Budapest.”

1919: When the fascist government in Hungary limited the number of Jews in commerce, law, medicine, and banking it defined a Jew as “all those of the Jewish religion and also all who became members of other confession after August 1, 1919.  (This was consistent with an attempt to deny that Jews became Christians when they converted and that, as the Nazis believed, Jews were Jews because of their blood.

1919: “The Jewess of Toledo” “a silent historical drama film directed by Otto Kreisler an adaptation of the 1872 play The Jewess of Toledo by Franz Grillparzer which was based on the relationship between Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa in 12th Century Spain” was released in Austria today.

1919(5th of Av, 5679): Seventy-one-year-old businessman, theater impresario and composer Oscar Hammerstein I, the grandfather of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, passed away today.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/oscar-hammerstein

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/02/97110434.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/02/97110514.pdf

1920: In New York, Joseph Seiden, “a motion picture pioneer, and a producer and director of Yiddish films” and his wife gave birth to Brooklyn College graduate and “highly regard motion picture cameraman” Harold (Hal) Seiden the husband of Jessica Greenberg Seiden and the grandson of Frank Seiden, “one of the first Yiddish language recording artists in the United States.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/classified/paid-notice-deaths-seiden-harold-hal.html?searchResultPosition=4

1920: Birthdate of Israeli politician Michael Dekel, the native of Pinsk who fought with the Soviet and Polish armies during WW II before making Aliyah in 1949.

1920 The Zionist Actions Committee decided “to entrust the Jewish National Fund with the duty of carrying out a plan for a Nordau Garden City in Palestine

1921(26^th of Tammuz, 5681): Seventy-three-year-old “French economist and statistician Alfred Neymarck, the son of Mayes and Henritte Neymark, the husband of Jeanne Neymarck and “vice-president of the International Congress of Societies for Lawsuits and of the International Congress for Landed Property” passed away today.

1923: In Norfolk, VA, Ida Pomarlen, “a business manager for a labor union” and Joseph Pomarlen, “a newspaper distributor” gave birth to  Hunter College graduate and Columbian trained attorney Judith Pomarlen Vladeck, the husband of fellow attorney Stephen Vladeck, the daughter-in-law of labor leader Baruch Charney Valdeck, the mother of David C. Vladeck, the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and the grandmother of University of Texas Law Professor Stephan Isaiah Vladeck who as a partner in Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, “was known as a pioneer in representing individuals and classes in sex, age and race discrimination litigation” and who  was named one of "New York's 75 Most Influential Women in Business" in Crain's New York Business in 1996 and one of The Best Lawyers in New York by New York Magazine in 1995.”

https://abawtp.law.stanford.edu/exhibits/show/judith-p-vladeck/biography

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-12-me-passings12.1-story.html

1922(7^th of Av, 5682): Sixty-three year old mechanical engineer Donát Bánki the son of a Hungarian Jewish physician who helped to invent “the carburetor for the stationary engine.”

1923: Morris Weinberg, the publisher of The Day and Mrs. A.B. Spreckels and J.B. Barron, head of the commission appointed by the government of Palestine to administer the affairs of the Patriarch of Jerusalem were among the passengers who arrived in New York today about the White Star liner Majestic.

1924: In Dąbrowica, Poland, Anna (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak gave birth to Georges Charpak, the French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992.

1924: Birthdate of Michael Stuart Rubin who as Michael Stewart was one of stable writers who got their start writing for Sid Caesar and who went on to became the Tony Award winning creator of “Bye Bye Birdies” and “Hello, Dolly!”

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/21/obituaries/michael-stewart-is-dead-63-author-of-broadway-musicals.html

1925(11^th of Av, 5685): Parashat Vaetchanan

1925: The (Turkish) Palestine Citizenship Ordinance went into effect. It said that any "Turkish subject" in Palestine as of August 1, 1925 shall become a Palestinian citizen, unless he opts for Turkish nationality, or nationality of another state.

1926:  In Memphis, TN, the Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose Throat Hospital, which was founded Louis Levy, the Paducah, KY born son of Max and Rozetta (Minsky) Levy and University of Tennessee Medical School graduate, opened today.

1926: At Constantinople it was announced that the Jews of Turkey formally renounced their rights as minorities. They would for now on be considered full citizens with equal rights as all citizens have.

1926(21st of Av, 5686): Israel Zangwill passed away. The Russian born, Anglo-Jewish author, Zionist and champion of social justice is best known for two of his works - a novel entitled Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People a highly successful play entitled The Melting Pot.  Among those who saw and enjoyed this was President Theodore Roosevelt.

1927: Birthdate of German-American Ivy League (Princeton and Harvard) economist, Dr. Otto Eckstein, the co-founder of Data Resources, Inc and the husband of Harriett Mirkin Eckstein with whom he raised three children – Warren, Felecia and June.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/23/obituaries/otto-ecktein-educator-who-led-in-economic-forecasting.html?searchResultPosition=1

http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/eckstein.htm

1928(15^th of Av, 5688): Tu B’Av is celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of Calvin Coolidge.

1928: It was reported today that the Zionist General Council, while meeting in Berlin, dispatched “a cable appealing to all faction of American Zionism to seek unity in the coming work” which includes raising the almost three million dollars budget “for the coming year’s work in Palestine.”

1928: Today New York lightweight Ruby Goldstein savored the victory won last night over Al Bryant in a ten-round bound at the Newark Velodrome.

1929(24^th of Tammuz, 5689): Forty-six-year-old Troy, NY born, and Harvard educated attorney Judge Abram Ellenbogen, who was serving on the bench of the Fifth District Municipal Court passed away today at Lake Placid, NY.

1929: In Manhattan, Eva and Stanley Garfinkel gave birth to Howard Morris Garfinkel who changed the nature of basketball with his recruiting service and instructional camps. (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/sports/basketball/howard-garfinkel-who-discovered-and-groomed-top-basketball-talent-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1930: In Queens, “dress maker” Abraham Frankel and his wife gave birth to University of Illinois graduate and garment manufacturer Jerry Frankel who went on to become a Tony winning producer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/obituaries/jerry-frankel-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1930: In London, Galician Jewish immigrants Yetta (née Darumstundler) and Morris Begleiter, a master tailor gave birth to composer Lionel Bart, the genius who created the musical “Oliver!”

1930(7th of Av, 5690): Forty-eight-year-old Jack Zuta, an accountant for mobsters in Chicago was shot by unknown gunman while hiding out in Wisconsin.

https://commission.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=783436&module_id=231780

1930: “The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari,” a comedy with music by Franz Waxman and filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller was released today in German.

1930: “Grumpy” directed by George Cukor, co-starring Paul Lukas and filmed by cinematographer David Abel was released today in the United States.

1931:  “Tabu” a silent film set in the South Seas with music by Hugo Riesenfeld was released today in the Unites States.

1931: Birthdate of Elliott Charles Adnopoz, who became famous as Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1931: Eduard Strauch who would murder over 10,000 Jews from Riga in the Rumbula Forest joined the Nazi Party and the SA.

1931: Thirty-three-year-old Major Edward M. Brauer, the WW I veteran and commander “the left wing of the 96tth Aero Squardon who is the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania living in Chicago and a member of Chicago’s Temple B’nai Zion is, as of today, eligible for retirement because he has 22,000 flying hours to his credit.

1932: Birthdate of Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.

1933: The Deutsche Modeamt, a newly-formed Nazi fashion office, announces that Jewish firms will not be permitted to exhibit in the exhibition of men's and women's wear.

1933: Fritz Rosenfelder, leader and founder of the sports club at Saanstaat, Wurtenberg, commits suicide because he was expelled from the club; in a final letter to his former club colleagues, he wrote: "I am leaving with no hatred. My only wish is that Germany should be restored to reason . . . How more beautifully could I have given my life for my Fatherland."

1933: The Commissariat for Medical Associations issues a decree prohibiting non-Jewish physicians from having any professional contact with Jewish physicians; non-Jewish medical men must not serve as consultants and must not treat patients recommended to them by Jewish physicians.

1933: The Dutch Society of Sculptors and Artists responds to an appeal on behalf of Jewish refugees from Germany by donating many objects of art which will be used in a lottery sanctioned by the Government.

1934: It was reported today that “condensed and revised version the Jewish historical pageant, "Romance of a People," will be presented on the stage of the Roxy Theatre beginning Friday, Sept. 7.”

 1935: In the Bronx, “Joseph Weiss, an accountant and the former Jean Bystock” gave birth to Melvyn Irwin Weiss, the NYU trained attorney and the husband of “the former Barbara Joan Kaplan” who was a leading class action attorney. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/obituaries/melvyn-weiss-lawyer-who-fought-corporate-fraud-dies-at-82.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1936: The report of the Peel Commission was discussed today in Geneva, home of the League of Nations. Poland, Romania and other East European countries, debating the Peel Report on the proposed partition of Palestine, demanded that Great Britain continue to fulfill her obligations under the Mandate. The Arab leadership argued that the rights of the people of Palestine could not be contested and that any partition scheme was contrary to Articles 20 and 31 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a contradiction of facts the Arabs did not deny the rights of the Jewish minority in Palestine, and were even prepared to furnish guarantees in this respect, but they unanimously opposed the country's partition and demanded immediate, total independence. But part of the rights of the Jewish community under the terms of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate was to a Jewish Homeland, not citizenship in an Arab country. In South Africa General J.C. Smuts, vice premier and minister of justice, expressed his grave misgivings about the partition scheme in general, and the smallness of the proposed Jewish state in particular. A total rejection of the partition was also the subject of letters written by Colonel J.C. Wedgwood, MP (Member of Parliament), and addressed to the British and world press.

1936: Following the arrival of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in Geneva, the organizations committee of “The World Jewish Congress” which is opening in Geneva on August 8 announced today that it “will devote one special session to the present situation in Palestine”

1936: In Detroit, “Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said tonight that a chemist questioned about a reported Black Legion typhoid epidemic plot” aimed at Jews living in the area “has declared a high ranking legion officer inquired also how to make hand grenades and how to kill people with poison gas and hypodermic needles.”

1936: Birthdate of Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg of Belfast, founder of Stanley Leisure Ltd and found and first President of the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel

1936: The Olympics open in Berlin.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html

1937: Karl-Otto Koch, who would have the strange misfortune of being executed by the SS for mismanaging a concentration camp, today “was given command of the concentration camp at Buchenwald.”

1937: Among the passengers on board the French line De Grasse which arrived in New York today was scholar and author Dr. Joachim Prinz and his wife who are scheduled to “tour American cities on behalf of the United Palestine appeal which is seeking to raise $4,500,000 for the settle of Jews from Poland, Silesia and Germany in Palestine.”

1938: At the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans which had been purchased by Seymour Weiss in 1934, “the Main Bar” later known as the Sazerac Bar, opened with its famous “mahogany bar, walnut paneled walls and Paul Ninas murals.”

1938(4^th of Av, 5698): Eighty-two-year-old of New York native Albert Arnstein, the graduate of Packards Business College and the holder of an LL.B from St. Lawrence University who settled in St. Louis where he was President of the United Jewish and Charitable Associations passed away today.

1938: In Austria, on “rent day” another of the Nuremberg Laws went into effect under “which it is sufficient for a single ‘Aryan’ in a block of flats to object to Jewish tenants for the Jews to receive notices” ordering them to vacate the premises – a move which is expected to lead to Jews being able to only live in flats where all of the other residents of the building are Jewish.

1938: “Virtually all Jewish-owned cafes on Vienna’s famous Ring Boulevard were ordered today to close their doors” while all other cafes were ordered to post signs saying “Jews Not Wanted.”

1939:  In Prague, “a force of Germans in Stroopers’ brown shirts and top boot entered the popular Manes swimming pool this after and ordered all Jews to leave” but “Jews entered the pool after the Germans’ departure.”

1940: In Tel Aviv, journalist Theodor Loevy and his wife Elisa gave birth to television director and writer Ram Loevy.

1940: Antonio Origo and Iris Cutting Origo an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save Jewish children through the kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach gave birth to their second child, and first daughter, Donata.

1940: The Nazis begin the expulsion of the Jewish population from Cracow, Poland. One-third would be sent to Warsaw and other Polish towns.1942: The first "reliable report" of the Nazi plan to murder all the Jews reached the West. The U.S. State Department suppressed the report for several weeks, until Jews living in the United States heard about the report from other sources. 

1941: Heydrich informed Himmler, “that in the future there will be no more Jews in the annexed Eastern Territories." Every day in every village and town, Jews would be hunted down, molested, tortured, and executed. 

1941(8th of Av, 5701): Another 1,000 Jews were shot in the city of Kishenev. 

1941: The Nazis established The Bialystok Ghetto.

1942: In Danbury, CT, Annette and Lazarus Heyman gave birth to Abigail Heyman “a photographer whose stark portraits of women at work, at home and at weddings gave a visual concreteness to feminist doctrine of the 1970s about the oppressiveness of traditional female roles.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1942 (18th of Av, 5702) Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz, last Rebbe of the Radomsk dynasty, educator, a director of the Kesser Torah organization, member of the religious council in the Warsaw ghetto was murdered with his family in the Warsaw ghetto

1942: Benjamin Sagalowitz, press secretary of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities phoned Gerhard Riegner with information from an unimpeachable source, a non-Jewish German industrialist, that Hitler had decided to have all European Jews exterminated by means of poison gas by the end of the year.

1943: In Poland the final liquidation of the Bendzin Ghetto began today as the first batch of what would total 8,000 prisoners were deported today.

1943: When the Nazis began their final liquidation of Bendzin Ghetto they are met with unexpected “armed resistance in several bunkers” led by young Jews that “hampered” the Germans forcing them to spend two weeks on this latest venture in murderous cruelty.

1943: Rabbi Louis Werfel, a graduate of Yeshiva College and RIETS “was sent to North Africa, where he served as Chaplain with the 12th Air Force Service Command, where his area of operations included Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Sicily.

1943(29^th of Tammuz, 5703): Twenty year old Lydia Litvyak a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II with twelve solo victories, four shared kills over a total of 66 combat missions, over about two years of missions, who was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy plane, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace, and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German planes today.

http://www.jewoftheweek.net/?s=Lydia+Vladimirovna+Litvyak+&submit=Search

http://soviet-awards.com/digest/litvyak/litvyak3.htm

1943(29^th of Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-eight-year-old Ismar Elbogen the German rabbi and historian who wrote Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History which has been updated many times since its first publication in 1913, passed away in New York City.

http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=476343

1944: Sixty-six-year-old Manuel L. Quezon, the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines who willing resettled Jews fleeing the killing grounds of Europe despite local opposition which was part of the theme of the movie “An Open Door” and for which he was posthumously honored by the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation passed away today.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/how-doctor-inspired-film-about-philippines-wwii-effort-help-jews-n839356

1944: In Budapest, “György Vajna, a merchant of Jewish descent (born Weidmann) and his wife, Klára gave birth to UCLA  trained American movie producer Andrew George Vajna

1944: Anne Frank writes the last entry in her diary.

1944: Rose Valland, the French art historian and member of the Resistance “learned that the Germans were planning to ship out a last five boxcars full of art” most of which had been looted from French Jews and notified the Resistance “who prevented the train from leaving Paris.

1944: Future Nobel Prize winner François Jacob who fought with Free French 2^nd Armored Division “returned to a liberated Paris.”

1944: Fourteen months after the Warsaw Ghetto, the Polish underground rises against the Nazis in Warsaw. Jewish fighters came of hiding to participate in the fight. However, those who could not come to the aide of the Jews in 1943 would now find out what it felt like. The Soviet Army waited outside the city and did not come to their aid. Instead, they let the Nazis slaughter the Poles and then they entered the city as liberating heroes.

1945(22^nd of Av, 5705): Sixty-four-year-old Russian born, labor editor for The Jewish Morning Journal, William Post. who in 1905 came to the United States where he was “a charter member and vice president of the Jewish Writers Union and an author who used the Nome de plume William Pohotsky as well as the husband of of Pauline Post and the father of Nathan Post, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/02/88272179.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1945: Birthdate of Douglas Dean Osheroff, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996.  His father was Jewish, and his mother was Lithuanian.

1945: Former Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa today announced his acceptance of the presidency of the American League for a Free Palestine and the post of chief political adviser to the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation.

Declaring that he considers the "so-called Jewish problem not as a Jewish or a Hebrew question, but as an urgent problem of the United Nations and of the decent portion of mankind," Gillette urged that the Allied Control Commission in Europe recognize the "Hebrew national status" and permit "stateless or Axis Jews" to decide their own status as Hebrew nationals, or stateless, or nationals of Germany, Rumania or Hungary. He also recommended:

1. Freeing of all Jews from Axis concentration camps.

2. Extension of UNRRA relief operations to the Balkan countries where, he charged hundreds of thousands of Jews in Rumania and Hungary, particularly, are starving and have not yet received any UNRRA aid.

3. Addition of Jewish representatives to the United Nations War Crimes Commission.

4. Consideration by the Reparations Commission now meeting in Moscow of the "claims and rights" of surviving Jews, and inclusion of compensation for the losses of the Jewish people. Gillette said that every Jew in Europe should be authorized "to apply to the nearest British consulate and receive his first papers of Palestinian citizenship." He also suggested the creation of an Anglo-American-Russian committee with adequate powers to effect the speediest repatriation of all such applicants to Palestine. These steps, Gillette asserted, are "essential for the commencement of a solution of the entire problem." Annulment by the new British Government of "discriminatory laws against Jews in Palestine" was likewise demanded by Gillette. (As reported by Jewish Telegraph Agency)

1945: The final Little Boy was assembled and so it would ready to be dropped on Japan.

1946(4th of Av, 5706): In Miskol, Hungry industrial workers stage a pogrom. Two Jews are lynched. This is an example of the post-war anti-Semitic violence that led approximately 4,000 Jews to leave Hungary for Palestine during the next two years.

1946: In San Jose Rodolpho Liberman and his wife gave birth to businessman Luis Liberman Ginsburg, who became Second Vice President of his native Costa Rica.

1947(15^th of Av, 5707): Tu B’Av

1947: In the United Kingdom, the Daily Express reported the story about two British soldiers hung by the Irgun “prominently displaying a photograph of the bodies which, it promised its readers, would be a “picture that will shock the world”

1948: IAF volunteer pilot Leo Nomi took a 25-minute truck ride to Netanya where he flew patrol in a D-114 with three other pilots including Ezer Weizman.

1948: “Syd Antin and Red Finkel flew a pair of S-199s on patrol today, out of Netanya.

1948: Birthdate of Avi Arad the native of Ramat Gan, son of Holocaust survivors from Poland and veteran of the Six Day War who “became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s, and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, a Marvel director, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel Studios.”

1948: Today, Thadée Diffre a non-Jew who joined the Haganah in France sometime in the winter of 1947/48, “was appointed major and given command of the nascent 75th Battalion which included about 50 French and North African Machal volunteers (mostly World War II veterans) and half a dozen other non-Jews, and 300-400 North African Gachal volunteers.

1948: Birthdate of Aline Goldsmith, Kominsky-Crumb, the Long Beach, NY native who “reshaped” the world of comics.

http://jwa.org/people/kominsky-crumb-aline

1949: “Mr. Soft Touch” a crime movie directed by Henry Levin was released today in the United States by Columbia Pictures.

1949: Warner Brothers releases a spoof about the movie industry – “It’s a Great Feeling” with a screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson based on a story by I.A.L. Diamond, a score by Jule Styne all of which were brought together by producer Alex Gottlieb.

1952: As part of a major cost reduction program at MGM studios, today is scheduled to be the last day of work for Richard Goldstone who has produced nine pictures for the studio over the last three years.

1952: In Manhattan, Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger and Dr. Matthew Rosenschien, Jr. gave birth to Daniel Hays Cohen, the adopted son of Yale educated insurance broker Richard N. Cohen and “great-grandson of Adolph S. Ochs, the family patriarch who bought The Times in 1896, and a first cousin of Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., the company’s current chairman and publisher, and of Michael Golden, the vice chairman. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/business/media/daniel-h-cohen-former-times-executive-who-led-advertising-growth-dies-at-64.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1953: Birthdate of British born Jewish historian Martin David Goodman who specialized in the Roman period and whose works included The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome, A.D. 66-70

http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/staff-list/prof.-martin-goodman.html

1954(2^nd of Av, 5714): Seventy-three-year-old Dr. Harry E. Isaacs, “founder of the American Jewish Physicians Committee, an affiliate of the American Friends of the Hebrew University and the former Chief of Surgery at Beth El Hospital passed away today.

1954: A group of ten raiders under the command of Meir Har-Zion returned from a raid conducted near Jenin where they “attacked two policemen and took one of them prisoner.”

1955: “The Kentuckian” co-starring Walter Matthau with music by Bernard Hermann was released in the United States today by United Artists.

1956: The Salk Vaccine, created by Dr. Jonas Salk, becomes available to the American public.

1956(24^th of Av, 5716): Seventy-one year old “Mrs. Lily Oppenheimer Pforzheimer, the wife of investment banker Carl H. Pforzheimer,” “one of the original directors of the Metropolitan Opera Guild” and a board member of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association passed away today.

1957: In Canada, the Israeli Embassy announced that “Arthur Lourie, assistant director-general of the Israel Foreign Ministry…has been appointed Israel’s Ambassador to Canada.” (JTA)

1958(15^th of Av, 5718): Tu B’Av

1958: In Jerusalem, Michael and Shulamit Albeck gave birth to biochemist Amnon Albeck, the grandson of Hanoch Albeck, a “professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was one of the founders of the scientific approach to the study of the Mishna.”

http://ch.biu.ac.il/albeck

1959(26^th of Tammuz, 5719): Parsashat Matot-Masei

1960: Today, Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential nominee issued a statement “paying tribute to Philip B. Perlman, the former United States Solicitor General who died last night” acknowledging his help in drafting “the national platform of” the recently concluded Democratic convention in which “as in everything in his life, he gave unstintingly of his time and effort.”

1960: Ella Fitzgerald began recording what would become an album of the songs of Harold Arlen known as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook.”

1963(11^th of Av, 5723): Fifty-eight-year-old Brooklyn born, and Columbia trained attorney Samuel Klaus who held “the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army during WW II passed away today while serving as “special counsel to the State Department.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/03/81820415.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1963(11^th of Av, 5723): Sixty-six-year-old “Morton J. Baum” the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and WW I U.S. Navy veteran who became “president of the Hickey-Freeman Men’s Clothing Company and the husband of Margaret Baum with whom he had two children – Morton, Jr and Helen – died today after suffering a fatal heart attack.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/02/80461146.pdf

1964(23^rd of Av, 5724): Parashat Eikev

1964(23^rd of Av, 5724): Seventy-six-year-old Rufus Learsi (Israel Goldberg) author of History of the Jewish People and The Jews in America: A History who with his wife had three children – David, Arthur and Judith – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/04/rufus-learsi-writer-of-history-of-jews-in-america-dies-at-76.html

https://archive.org/details/israelahistoryof009502mbp

1965: At Temple B’rith Kodesh, Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein officiated at the wedding of Mary Alice Ark, the daughter of Justice Jacob Ark of the State Supreme Court and Thomas Edward Goldman, the son of Justice Harry D. Goldman of the Appellate Division.

1965: Birthdate of English stage and film director Sam Mendes whose father was from Trinidad and whose mother was an English Jew.

1966(15^th of Av, 5726): Tu B’Av

1967(24^th of Tammuz, 5727): Ninety-four-year-old Cincinnati born, Washington and Lee “dropout” Isaac Herbert Kempner, the husband of Henrietta Blum with who he had five children – Harris, Isaac, Cecile, Lyda, Leonora and Herbert, Jr. – and the founder the both American National Insurance Company and the Imperial Sugar Corporation whose devotion to “good government” including serving as Mayor Galveston, position later held by his granddaughter Lyda Ann Thomas, passed away today after which he was interred in Galveston’s Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/kempner-isaac-herbert

1968: Funeral services are scheduled to be held for seventy-three-year-old Dr. Morton Gottschall, the husband of the former Frances Greenfeild and “dean emeritus of City College’s College of Liberal Arts and Science” who spent his entire career at CCNY, followed by burial at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/31/76959174.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1969: In Shaker Heights, Ohio, Nina (née Saul) and Norman Wain gave birth to muti-talented David Benjamin Wain best known for directing “feature films.

http://davidwain.com/

1970: Nobel Prize winner Otto Heinrich Warburg passed away.  Warburg was part of the famed Warburg clan but he was not Jewish.  His father, Emil, had converted to Christianity.

1970(28^th of Tammuz, 5730): Parashat Matot-Maesei

1970(28^th of Tammuz, 5730): Seventy-four-year-old University of Chicago and Purdue University trained bacteriologist Dr.  Moses Abraham Jacobs, the Portsmouth born son of Isaac Jacobson and Rebecca Karp and veteran of WW I and WW II who was the husband of Lena Cohen passed away today.

1970: Ensio P.H. Siilasvuo of Finland assumes the role of Chief of Staff United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)

1971(10th of Av, 5731): Tish’a B’Av observed

1971: “The Omega Man” a sci-fi film directed by Boris Sagal was released in the United States today.

1971: CBS broadcast the first episode in the series “The Six Wives of Henry VII” co-starring Wolfe Morris as the villainous “Thomas Cromwell.”

1973: Seventy-eight-year-old Solomon Blatt, the Blackville, SC born son of Molly and Nathan Blatt and University of South Carolina trained attorney Solomon Blatt completed as service as Speaker of the House of Representatives, a position he had held since 1951,

1973: After opening on Broadway at the Uris Theatre in March, “Seesaw,” a musical with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Cy Coleman and book re-written by Neil Simon transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

1975: The “Final Helsinki Act” was signed in Helsinki at the summit of 35 nations of Europe, USA and Canada

1976: Natalia Grigoryevna Kushnir and the Russian volleyball team won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics which closed at Montreal today.

1977(17^th of Av, 5737): Seventy-seven-year-old psychiatrist Mark Lewis Gerstle, Jr. “the San Franciso born son of Hilda Alice Gerstle and Marcus ‘Mark’ Lewis Gerstle” and father of Martha, Kathryn and Mark Gerstle passed away today in his hometown.

1979: “Melech Epstein Dead at 90” published today provided a brief account of the life of this former Communist and Jewish author.

http://www.jta.org/1979/08/01/archive/melech-epstein-dead-at-90

1979: Alleged violations by Egypt of its peace treaty with Israel were discussed here today by Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Egypt’s Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali who ended his three-day visit to Israel this afternoon. Read more: http://www.jta.org/1979/08/01/archive/israel-complains-to-egypt-about-violations-of-peace-treaty#ixzz2afGP53oc

1979: “Between today and through most of 1985, few merchants were as lavishly praised as Ed Finkelstein,” Isadore Barmash, a former retailing reporter for The New York Times, wrote in his 1989 book, “Macy’s for Sale.”

1979: Following her graduation from rabbinical college in Philadelphia, Linda Joy Holtzman was appointed spiritual leader of the Conservative Beth Israel congregation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, making her the first female rabbi to head a Jewish congregation in America. 

1979(18^th of Av, 5748): Seventy-eight-year-old Samuel Augie Ratner, the son Benjamin and Rose Ratner and brother of Max and Louis Ratner passed away today after which he was buried at the United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery in Richfield, MN.

1980: “Jerusalem Storm Just One More in Tortured History” published today described the city’s history in light of the Knesset’s vote this week “affirming Jerusalem as a united city and the capital of Israel.”

1980: “Raise the Titanic,” an adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment “and featuring Elya Baskin was released today.

1980: “The Final Countdown” a film that combines the attack on Pearl Harbor with science fiction starring Kirk Douglas and produced by his son Peter was released in the United States today.

1980: Egypt said today that it would not suspend the talks with Israel on autonomy for the occupied areas nor would it recall its Ambassador from Israel in response to the passage of an Israeli law formalizing the annexation of Jerusalem.

1980: Two days after the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law, an article entitled “Jerusalem Storm Just One More in a Tortured History” which traced the history of the city from ancient times to the period following the Six Days War was published. The article includes the following: “During the war that followed Israel’s independence in 1948, Jordan seized the eastern sector of Jerusalem…and the new state won control of the western sector.  The Jordanians evicted all Jews from the Old City; from 1948 to 1967 was off limits to Jews and most of the old synagogues there were destroyed.”  (Editor’s note – The author, working for The New York Times, writes about an eastern sector and a western sector of Jerusalem as well as the Old City.  The term “East Jerusalem and, its concept as a separate city, is apparently a more recent creation.) 

1981(1st of Av, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Av

1981: Dr. Donald Payne, the husband of Jessica Savitch, passed away today in Washington, DC.

1981: Abu Daoud, a Black September commander who openly claimed to have helped plan the Munich attack, was shot multiple times by a gunman in a Warsaw hotel cafe. Daoud survived the attack

1981(1st of Av, 5741): Paddy Chayefsky passed away. Born in 1923, Sydney "Paddy" Chayefsky began writing scripts for television during its golden age of drama in the 1950’s. He switched to films where he won three Oscar for writing "Marty", "Hospital" and "Network." (As reported by Colin Campbell)

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/obituaries/paddy-chayefsky-dead-at-58-playwright-won-three-oscars.html

1985: Birthdate of Benjamin Levin, the son of David Robert Levin

1985(14^th of Av, 5745): Eighty-five-year-old Polish native and WW I veteran Harry Mittleman, the son of peddler, whose family, in 1911 came to the United States where he eventually settled in Portland, OR where he morphed from successful grocery store owner to real estate mogul while serving as an officer of the “the Jewish Old People’s Home and the Jewish Education Association passed away today.

1985(14^th of Av, 5745): Ninety-two-year-old Jules Salvador Moch, the son of Captain Gaston Moch and the grandson of Colonel Jules Moch who fought with the Free French at Normandy before becoming a political leader passed away in Cabris.

1986: “Howard The Duck” a sci-fi comedy co-produced by Gloria Katz who also wrote the script and featuring Liz Sagal as “Ronette” was released in the United States today.

1987(6^th of Av, 5747): Parashat Devarim and Shabbat Chazon

1987(6^th of Av, 5747): Harvey Clurman passed away today and was later buried at the New Montefiore Cemetery in Suffolk County.

1988(19^th of Elul, 5748): Sixty-seven-year-old Robert Tandler Mack, Jr. the Chicago born “son of Jeanette and Robert Tandler Mack,” the husband of Doris Mack, the “father of Robert Tandler Mack III” and author of Raising The World’s Standard of Living passed away today in Palo Alto, CA.

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Worlds-Standard-Living-Tandler/dp/1258197340

1989: Morton Abramowitz began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

1989(29th of Tammuz, 5749): Fifty-nine year old Hungarian born Canadian director John Hirsch who had survived the Holocaust passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/play-immortalizes-forgotten-hero-of-canadian-theater/

1991: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted a formula for peace talks in the Middle East. 

1991 Publication of Jewish Life in Germany: Memoirs from Three Centuries, edited by Monika Richarz.

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=19691

1992: In Montclair, NJ, “Stephen Rosenfield, a teacher of stand-up comedy and the founder of the American Comedy Institute in New York City” and actress Katherine Mathilde "Kate" Redway Rosenfield, gave birth to musician and actor Benjamin “Ben” Rosenfield whose most notable role may be have been in the totally amoral drama series “Boardwalk Empire.”

1992: Thirty-four-year-old producer Scott Rudin “signed a deal with Tri-Star Pictures.”

1993: Showtime broadcast the first episode of Executive Producer Sydney Pollack’s “Fallen Angels” produced by Steve Golin and with music by Elmer Berstein.

1996(16^th of Av, 5766): Eighty-eight year old Frank Glassman, the younger brother of Morris Glassman and lineman who played at Wilmington and Bliss College before spending a year in the NFL with the Buffalo Bisons passed away today.

1998(9^th of Av, 5758): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av

1998(9^th of Av, 5758): Eighty-two-year-old New York City born Soviet spy Joel Barr who was part of the same group that included the Rosenbergs, passed away today.

https://spartacus-educational.com/Joel_Barr.htm

1998: Based on order by the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) today was the deadline from transferring the Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination from the NARA’s film collection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.

1999: U.K. premiere of “A Price Above Rubies,” a film about Chasidic Jews directed and written by Boaz Yankin and co-starring Julianna Marguiles.

2000: Moshe Katsav was sworn in as President of Israel making him the first person to be elected to a seven year term and the first person from Likud to be elected President.

2000: “Space Cowboys” a geriatric, galactic buddy-movie co-produced by Andrew Lazar and with a score by Lennie Niehaus was released n he United States today.

2000: James “Jim” Steinberg completed his service as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Clinton.

2001: Rita Levi-Montalcini “was appointed as Senator for Life by the President of Italy.

2002: Premiere of “Yossi & Jagger,” an “Israeli romantic drama film directed by Eytan Fox.

2002: The body Shani Ladani, 27, of Moshav Olash, shot and bound, was found west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line, in the industrial zone where he was employed.

2002: Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, the daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, resigned as Deputy Minister of Defense.

2003: Jill Abramson, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times was one two people appointed today to serve as managing editor of the Times.  She “will be managing editor for news gathering.”

2004: The New York Times book section features a review of 'Jerome Robbins': From Stravinsky to the Sharks by Nicholas Fox Weber.

2004: In Aspen, CO, Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, Inc. is the headline speaker at United Jewish Communities (UJC) eighth annual Jewish Leadership Forum (JLF)

2004: Lexington, KY native Jeffrey M. Lacker began serving as the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

2004(14th of Av, 5764): Sidney Morgenbesser passed away at the age of 82 from complications of ALS.  Morgenbesser was the Emeritus John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. He attended JTS and earned a Ph.D. from Penn.  He was known for his erudition and his wit.  David Shatz of Yeshiva University recounted the story of Morgenbesser chastising a faculty member for hiding his Jewishness: “Oh, I see your model is Icognito, ergo sum.”

2005 (25th of Tammuz, 5765): George Forman, a longtime comptroller of the American Civil Liberties Union, who brought fiscal discipline to a ramshackle organization near bankruptcy in the late 1970s and later helped it develop into a powerful civil liberties conglomerate, died today at the age of 88.(As reported by Lily Koppel)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/nyregion/07forman.html

2005: President George W Bush nominated Roland Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.

2005: A political essay written by Russian businessman and oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in his prison cell, titled "Left Turn", was published in Vedomosti, calling for a turn to more socially responsible state.

2005 (25th of Tammuz, 5765): Al Aronowitz passed away at the age of 77.  He was a pioneering journalist who covered the Beat literary scene and engineered a meeting between Bob Dylan and the Beatles that has passed into rock 'n' roll legend.

2005 (25th of Tammuz, 5765): George Forman, a longtime comptroller of the American Civil Liberties Union who brought fiscal discipline to a ramshackle organization near bankruptcy in the late 1970's and later helped it develop into a powerful civil liberties conglomerate passed away today at the age of 88.  "During the years of crisis he was more responsible than any other single person for keeping the program afloat," said Ira Glazer, the executive director of the A.C.L.U. from 1978 to 2001. He explained how Mr. Forman juggled the bills and even earned interest on a deficit operational budget, and recalled visits from officials of Chemical Bank who complained that although the organization was moving around millions of dollars, its average balance was $3.79.,"He was the chewing gum and rubber bands that held the organization together and made the high intellectual and strategic law possible," Mr. Glazer said. When Mr. Forman arrived at the A.C.L.U. in 1968, the organization had two lawyers, one part-time press person and no one in charge of administration and finances, fund-raising or development. By the time he retired in the late 1990's, the organization had a $50 million annual income, more than $100 million in assets and staffed offices in every state. Before joining the A.C.L.U., Mr. Forman was the comptroller of the Noma Corporation, a large, diversified holding company; he became unemployed when Noma merged with a predecessor of Gulf and Western. During World War II, he was an Army officer stationed in Washington, where he fell in love with a woman with whom he had his only daughter but felt he could not marry because she was not Jewish. He graduated magna cum laude from New York University in 1939 and earned a graduate degree in business administration there.

2006(7th of Av, 5766): Sixty-two-year art historian Arlene Raven passed away today. (As reported by Elaine Woo)

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/13/local/me-raven13

2006: A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Sweet's decision, holding 2–1 that federal prosecutors could inspect the telephone records of Judith Miller

2006(7th of Av, 5766): Skirmishes with Hezbollah guerrillas in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta al-Shaab left three soldiers, including an officer, of a Paratrooper Brigade unit dead and at least another 25 wounded. The names of the fallen have been released: St.-Sgt. Yehunatan Einhorn, 22, of Moshav Gimzo; First Sergeant Michael Levine, 21, of Jerusalem; and Lieutenant Ilan Gabbai, 22, of Kiryat Tivon.

2006: A number of Jewish-owned stores in Italy had their doors sealed with glue and the shutters nailed down overnight as a response to Israel’s policies in Lebanon

2006: Today, Peter “Gelb became the 16^th General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera” following with he “launched…several new productions, including Madame Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, The First Emperor.”

2007: U.S. President George Bush imposed sanctions on Syria today because of the role the Damascus government has played in creating regional instability.

2007: U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice arrives in Jerusalem.

2008:  Solomon "Momy" Levy began serving his term as Mayor of Gibraltar.

2008: Solomon Levy began serving as the Mayor of Gibraltar. 2008: In Falls Church VA (suburban Washington, D.C.), Jewish author Benjamin Rosenbaum reads from and discusses his new collection of SF tales, The Ant King and Other Stories

2009: At Temple Judah, a Triple Header:

1. Shabbat Nachamu
2. Rabbi Todd Thalbum officially takes the pulpit at Temple Judah and reads the Torah portion at his first Cedar Rapids Shabbat Morning Service
3. Raoul Wallenberg Sabbath  Annual  Observance of Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Day (August 4, 2009) which has been proclaimed by the Governor of Iowa for three years in a row. 

2009(11th of Av, 5769): A gunman shot dead two people and wounded at least thirteen others in an attack at a central Tel Aviv gay and lesbian center tonight before fleeing the scene.

2010: The Skirball Cultural Center show "Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books," is scheduled to come to a close today.

2010: Jake Tapper completed his service as the interim anchor of ABC’s “This Week” – a career disappointment that would help take him to CNN.

2010: Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb is scheduled to have its final showing at the Jewish Museum,in New York.

2010: President Shimon Peres is scheduled to travel to Egypt today for a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The two are expected to meet behind closed doors to discuss advancing diplomatic efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They are also expected to discuss cooperation between Israel and Egypt.

2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008 by Nadine Gordimer, Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint, Norman Podhoretz: A Biography by Thomas L. Jeffers, High Financer: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson and Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman

2010: The Jewish Community Center in Omaha welcomed nearly 1,000 young Jewish athletes for an Olympic-style competition that will run through August 6.  This will be the third time in 19 years that the Maccabi Games have been held at the Jewish Community Center.

2010(21 Av, 5770): Eighty-eight-year-old Reginald Levy, the airline captain who thwarted the hijacking of his Belgian airliner in 1972, passed away.(As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/world/europe/05levy.html

2010: “Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey” is scheduled to be shown for the last time today at the Jewish Museum

2010: President Shimon Peres is scheduled to travel to Egypt today for a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The two are expected to meet behind closed doors to discuss advancing diplomatic efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They are also expected to discuss cooperation between Israel and Egypt.

2011: A screening of “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” Liz Garbus’s documentary that takes us on Fischer’s journey from Jewish child prodigy to world chess master to virulent anti-Semite, is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Festival.

2011(1^st day of Av, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Av

2011: Today, “just seven months after a gunman’s bullet nearly killed her, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the House of Representatives” to cast her firs vote. (JWA)

https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/01/2011/gabrielle-giffords

2011: Today “on the 5th anniversary ("yarzheit") of Michael Levin's death according to the Gregorian calendar, a flag was flown over the US Capitol in his memory at the request of a man from his local area, Johnson Reynolds, who considered him both an Israeli and American hero. (A native Pennsylvanian, Levin had been killed in action while serving with a Paratroopers Brigaded during the Second Lebanon War.)

2011: Today, for the first time, the IDF unveiled a special guided missile system that has been used successfully in action in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Called Tamuz, the missile is based on the Spike Long-Range Missile developed by Rafael and is operated by Meitar, an elite unit which operates under the Artillery Corps. The missile was opened to foreign exports last year

2011: “Kmo Kulam” (Like Everyone Else) by Elisha Banai and the Forty Thieves was released today.

2011: "Volunticipate," a weeklong encounter that brings together representatives of Jewish and Roma, or Gypsy, youth groups from eight countries begins today in Hungary. The youth are gathering to discuss how to build partnerships, plan joint initiatives, and exchange experiences about minority identity and grass-roots civil activism.

2011: Leaders of the protest for affordable housing who met with President Shimon Peres today found a champion for the cause.  Speaking with the social movement's representatives at Beit Hanassi, Peres told them that their protest was legitimate and sincere, and that he would help them in every way possible to change the national agenda.

2011: Haaretz’s board of directors has appointed Aluf Benn as the paper’s editor in chief, effective today. Benn, a veteran correspondent and commentator at Haaretz, replaces Dov Alfon, who has been editor in chief for the past three years and is leaving the paper to establish a new digital enterprise in cooperation with the Haaretz Group

2011: “Just seven months after a gunman’s bullet nearly killed her, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the House of Representatives to cast her vote in favor of a bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.”

2011: A Kassam rocket was fired at southern Israel from Gaza tonight. A woman in her fifties was moderately injured by shrapnel from the rocket, which landed between in open territory in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council.

2012: Ninety-two thousand Jews are scheduled to gather in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium for the 12^th Siyum Hashas.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/nearly-100-000-jews-to-gather-in-n-j-to-celebrate-completion-of-talmud-cycle.premium-1.454493

2012: US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is scheduled to arrive in Israel today to gauge Israel’s determination to attack Iran and to try to persuade Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to give sanctions and diplomacy more time. (As reported by Yaakov Katz)

2012: “Best of Tel Aviv,” celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the Tel Aviv University film school, is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

2012: Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski is scheduled to begin teaching “Simply Mordecai M. Kaplan: From Heretic to Prophet of American Judaism” at the Skirball Center.

2012: Yemen Blues, a group organized by Ravid Kahalani and Omer Avital, is scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park.

2012: In Houston, TX, brit milhah for Joseph Levy (Yosef Label) Strauss, son of Abbie and Feivel Strauss.

2012: Barbara Berger, whose brother, David, was on the Israeli wrestling team in 1972, wrote in Haaretz today that families of the 11 victims of a Palestinian terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics would continue to advocate for a formal moment of silence at the Olympics, despite the refusal of the International Olympics Committee to allow such a moment this year, the massacre’s 40th anniversary. (As reported by JTA and The Times of Israel)

2012: In some respects, today was a historic turning point for Israel — the day on which ultra-Orthodox Israelis became officially subject to the draft along with the rest of the country’s Jewish citizens.

2012: Yakov Toumarkin today became only the second Israeli swimmer to reach the final of an Olympic event by finishing fifth in the semifinal of the men's 200m backstroke event. He also equaled the Israeli national record that he had set earlier in the day in the heats – 1:57.33 minutes. Later on today, Gal Nevo finished fourth in the semifinal of the men's Olympics 200m individual medley. Unlike Toumarkin, however, Nevo's semifinal time was not enough to reach a place in the finals, and he finished tenth overall.

2012(13^th of Av, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old New York Times editor Gerald Gold passed away. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/business/media/gerald-gold-times-editor-on-the-pentagon-papers-is-dead-at-85.html?_r=2&hpw&

2012(13^th of Av, 5772): Seventy-four-year-old Esther Kartiganer who played on the undefeated women’s Brandies University basketball team and was a senior producer at “60 Minutes” passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/business/media/esther-kartiganer-60-minutes-producer-dies-at-74.html?hpw

2013: “Soldier on the Roof,” a documentary about the Jews living in Hebron, is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival today.

2013: Tufts University graduate and University of Massachusetts trained nurse Alan D. Solomon completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Spain.

2013: “Crossing Delancey” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the “Only In New York Summer Film Series.”

2013: A gag order was lifted today on an espionage indictment filed against a 46-year-old Jerusalemite member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta Haredi Sect accused of offering to serve as a spy for the Iranian regime. (As reported by Havi Rettig Gur)

2013: The 12^th Annual March for Pride and Tolerance took place this evening in Jerusalem

2013(25^th of Av, 5773): Sixty-seven year old Igal Brightman the chairman and CEO of the major local accounting firm of Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar died when his plane crashed outside of Eilat.

http://www.haaretz.com/business/1.539592

2013: The Los Angeles Time featured a review of Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar Straus & Giroux by Boris Kachka

2014: The jury is scheduled to announce the winners in the Sukkah Design contest sponsored by Oregon Jewish Museum at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center.

2014: A weeklong workshop “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe in the Records of the International Tracing Service Digital Archive” at the USHMM is scheduled to come to an end.

2014: Based on announcement by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a 72-hour unconditional cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. local time today.

2014(5^th of Av, 5774): Major Benaya Sarel, 26, from Kiryat Arba and St.-Sgt. Liel Gidoni, 20, from Jerusalem both serving with the Givati Brigade were killed today after the cease fire had begun. At the same time 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba was kidnapped. On August 2, Hadar was declared to have died in today’s attack as well. (In life they were loved and admired. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.)

2014: Twenty-four-year-old Lt. Eitan Fund “rushed into a tunnel to try and stop the kidnapping of Hadar Goldin who in fact had already been killed by the terrorist – an act of heroism for which he received the Distinguished Service Medal..

2014: Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican whose last day as House majority leader yesterday, said today that he would resign his seat effective Aug. 18 in hopes that his successor will be able to participate in the lame-duck session after the November elections. Mr. Cantor’s departure means that they are no Jewish Republicans serving in the House of Representatives.

2014: At Temple Judah’s Friday night services, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rabbi Todd Thalblum is scheduled to describe his trip to Israel.

2014: Following his defeat in his party’s primary election Eric Cantor gave up his position as House Majority leader.

2014: Michael Bloomberg’s fellowship, the Genesis Generation Challenge is scheduled to “go live” today.

2015(16^th of Av, 5775): Parashat Vaetchanan and Shabbat Nachamu

2015: Today “opposition leader Isaac Herzog issued a call to action against Jewish terrorism, and demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon respond to such acts in the same way as Israel responds to Islamist terrorism.”

2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the Main State Pier in Portland, ME.

2015: Benjamin Levin, son of David Levin, hits the big Three Oh!

2016: “In the wake of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade in which six people were injured by an ultra-Orthodox man,” “thousands of people attended a number of anti-violence, anti-homophobia rallies across Israel” this evening.

2016: “The Farewell Party” is scheduled to be shown at The Hampton Synagogue Film Series which is now in its 14^th year.

2016: Dani Dayan is scheduled to take office today “Israel’s new consul general in New York.” (As reported by Josef Federer)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-settler-turned-diplomat-to-take-new-post-in-new-york/

2017(9^th of Av, 5777): Tish’a B’Av;

(Editor’s Note:  As we read Lamentations, we will lament giving control to modern day Herodians and Zealots?)

2017: As Jews commemorated “the Babylonian capture and conquest of the First Temple” “new finds in the City of David” that “confirm the biblical account” of the event were being made public. (As reported by Amanda Borschel-Dan)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-jerusalem-finds-shore-up-biblical-account-of-babylonian-conquest/

2017: The IDF is scheduled to “conduct a 24-hour exercise” that “will include a brisk movement of security and forces and vehicles” “in the vicinity of Nitzana communities and the area of the city of Eilat starting” today.

2017(9^th of Av, 5777): Seventy-four-year-old Jeff Brotman, “a founder of Costco” and the husband of “the former Susan Thrailkill” with whom he had two children, Justin and Amanda, passed away today.(As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/business/jeff-brotman-costco-founder-dead.html?_r=0

2017: Marvin Krislov is scheduled to begin serving as the eighth president of Pace University in New York.

2017: In London, on Finchley Road, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of the “Zookeeper’s Wife.”

2017: Friends and family of Benjamin Levin, the son of David Levin celebrate his natal day.

2018: In Atlanta, MGM is scheduled to host a free screening of “Operation Finale,” a movie “based on the 1960 covert mission of Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Y4_6PD0Z4

2018: “The Ancient Law,” a film that tells the story of a rabbi’s son who gains fame as an actor in Vienna, is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

2018: “Vienna Beef, Chicago's legendary manufacturer of hot dogs, sausage, and other food products,” founded by “Austrian-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichl and Samuel Ladany” hosted a public celebration for the community today, in honor of its 125th anniversary.

2018: Today Anna “Kaplan became the first candidate for New York State office to be endorsed by former President Barack Obama.

2018: “The WOW festival with super star Jason Derulo” is scheduled to place “at Rishon Lezion

2019: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Amazing Johnathan” and “The Humorist.”

2019: Friends and family of Benjamin Levin, the son of David Levin, are scheduled to celebrate the start of the last full month of summer and his natal day.

2019: This evening the Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host the “Ladies Mile Walking Tour with Ephemeral New York’s Esther Crain.”

2019: JW3 is scheduled to host the last two London screenings of “Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love.”

2019: As Israelis awoke this morning, they learned that terrorists had crossed into Israel from Gaza and wounded an IDF officer which led to a proportionate response from the IDF.

2020: Round 1 of the “Palywrights’ Center of S.F. Playoff’s” an online competition of 10-minute plays performed as staged readings is scheduled to feature “Why God Made Beggars,” a Jewish theme play by Steve Koppman.

2020: The FJMC Tri-Region Virtual Men’s Club Retreat offering Torah Study, musical havdalah and other programing is scheduled to begin this afternoon.

2020(11^th of Av, 5780): Parashat Va-etchanan; Shabbat Nachamu

2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie K. Brown, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, Ethel Rosenberg by Ann Seeba and Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

2021: Closing night of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

2021: In “How to Read A Film, “East Bay Jewish film fest is scheduled to present screenwriter and film lecturer Galit Roichman deconstructing the 1999 rom-com “Notting Hill,” starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.”

2021: Sharaka an Emirati/Israeli NGO formed after the signing of the Abraham Accords is scheduled to present “The Abraham Accords and the New Middle East” at the Israeli American Council office in Newton, MA.

2021: Bay Area Chabads are scheduled to present a “Ladies Night Out” social gathering with the cuisine and culture of Yemenite Jewry and a henna artist. Includes Yemenite buffet from caterer Ma’lawah Bar and wine.

2021: In Israel, the Maccabi health provider is schedule to begin administering “a third COVID-19 vaccine shot to the elderly” today.

2021: The Jewish Heritage Alliance, in collaboration with the American Sephardi Federation and other co-hosting Partners, is scheduled to present In the “Beginning: From King Solomon to the Ends of the Earth,” the first in a three part series on “Sefard: The Untold Story That Changed the World.”

2021: In the evening, ma’ariv minyan with recitation of Kaddish for the Yahrzeit Deb Levin Z”L

2022: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “And I Was There” and “10 Questions for Henry Ford.”

2022: Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley is scheduled to host a discussion on climate-related bills in the state legislature and how to support them

2022: After “oil prices in Israel rose dramatically in July, crossing the 8 NIS mark for the first time since 2012, oil prices are scheduled  go down today in 1.5 NIS, fixing the new price at 6.58 NIS per liter. (YNET)

2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar during which Jeremy Rosen lectures on “Varieties of Jewish Belief from Fundamentalism to Atheism: Does it Matter?”

2023: In New Orleans, singles from JNOLA, YAS and Tribe are scheduled to mingle while playing bar games.

2023: The Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action is scheduled to present “Young Adult Spark plus Reunion Trivia Night.”

2023: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Nathan-ism,” a “documentary following the life of Jewish artist Nathan Hilu, who obsessively drew his experiences as an 18-year-old army private tasked with guarding high-level German war criminals at Nuremberg, preventing them from committing suicide before their verdicts were announced.”

2024: Funeral services are scheduled to be held in Coralville, IA for Irene Palnick, the widow of Rabbi Elijah “Zeke” Palnick with whom she had two children, Lazar and Rachelle.

2024: The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to hold its 2024 Community Campaign Closing Reception.

2024: Fifteenth anniversary of Rabbi Todd Thalblum assuming the pulpit at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA

2024: JNOLA is scheduled to host “a women's centered discussion centered around a fusion of the physical and spiritual realms of Judaism led by Mushka Cohen from Chabad New Orleans.”

2024: As August 1st  begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 300 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