This Day, August 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 14
508: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor
who in 592 would punish “the entire Jewish community of Antioch after a Jew
violated one his laws” began his reign today.
1084: Yusuf al-Mu’tamin, King of Zaragoza defeated
Sancho Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre at the Battle of Morella, which was
a temporary setback for the Reconquista, an event, which when completed led to
the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
1197: "In the year 4957, on the twenty-eighth
of Ab, there was a great persecution of the Jews in the kingdom of Leon at the
hand of the two kingdoms that came to besiege it. At that time they removed
thence the twenty-four sacred books which were written about 600 years before.
They were written by R. Hillel ben Moses ben Hillel, and hence his name was
given to the codex, which was called 'Hilleli.' It was exceedingly correct; and
all other codices were revised after it. I saw the remaining two parts of it,
containing the Former and Latter Prophets, written in large and beautiful
characters; these had been brought by the exiles to Portugal and sold at Bugia
in Africa, where they still are, having been written about 900 years ago. Kimḥi
in his grammar on Num. x. 4 says that the Pentateuch of the Hillel Codex was
extant in Toledo."
1349: Walram of Jülich , the Archbishop of Cologne
who “protected” the Cologne Council from paying the debt it owned to “a Jewish
banker named Meyer of Siegburg who was officially condemned to death, passed
away today.
1385:
In what might be called the “Battle of the Johns” The Portuguese forces
commanded by King João I (King John I) defeat the Castilian army of King Juan
I(King John I) at the Battle of Aljubarrota, leaving King Juan as ruler of
Portugal. The victory of King João I guaranteed the existence of an independent
Portugal which would provide a haven for Jews fleeing Christian persecution in
Spain at the end of the 14th and start of the 15th
centuries.
1433:
John I (King João I) of Portugal passed away.
As the following entry shows, King John I provided a haven for at least
one Jew seeking to escape persecution in Spain.
In
1391, an anti-Jewish riot inspired and provoked by the church occurred in
Seville and spread rapidly throughout Spain. Jews were being beaten and killed
by religious fanatics and many others who were just taking advantage of the
rioting to rob the Jews. The streets were flowing with Jewish blood;
synagogues, homes and businesses are being destroyed; Jewish property is being
stolen. The rioters were yelling; "Convert or Die!" The church
promised peace and safety to the Jews who convert. Don Samuel Abarbanel, an
observant Jew and his family were forced to convert. At that time the
Abarbanels was one of the most distinguished families in Spain. Its patriarch is Don Samuel Abarbanel,
Treasurer of the State, Courtier, and friend to three kings of Spain. But even
somebody as powerful as Don Samuel was not immune from the violence. He took
the Christian name of Juan Sanchez de Seville and continued to serve King Henry
III as his treasurer. He and his family attended church and mass on Sunday, but
at great risk they were secret Jews, trying to eat kosher, observe the Sabbath
and holidays and pray to Hashem. It was not an easy thing for them to do but
they did so for about six years when it became increasingly more difficult. By
1397 Juan Sanchez de Seville and his family were able to escape to Portugal
where they threw off their Christian customs and names and resumed their
practice of Judaism.
Don
Samuel Abarbanel's reputation as a brilliant financier and statesman preceded
him. King John I had his agents approach Don Samuel to ask him to be an advisor
to the king. Don Samuel readily agreed, and a long personal friendship and
relationship began. The relationship was not only between the king and Don
Samuel, it was between their two families, their children, and their
grandchildren. Samuel's son Judah followed in his father's footsteps. Don Judah
was highly respected by King John I who frequently sought his advice. King John
I was called "King John the Great." The title was well justified.
During John I's reign Portugal prospered. Portugal was entering the age of
exploration and acquiring new territories and becoming rich. Don Judah Abarbanel's
advice to the king was invaluable in pursuing this course of action. One of
King John's sons was Prince Henry the Navigator who ran a school of navigation
and encouraged its Navy to explore, discover and settle new territories and to
bring greater wealth and prestige to Portugal.
1447:
Following a fire in Posen (Poland) where the original charter granting the Jews
"privileges" was written, (by Casimir the Great), Casimir IV renewed
all of their rights, making his charter one of the most liberal in Europe. This
charter lasted less than a decade before it was revoked.
1569:
In Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz began printing “R. Naftali Hertz ben
Menahem of Lublin’s “commentary on the Torah Portion of Midrash Rabbah.
1587:
When Vincent I succeeded his father William as Duke of Mantua today Salamone
Rossi was serving in his first year as a court musician and concertmaster.
1587:
Thirty-nine-year-old to “Federico II of Gonzaga, the ruler of the Italian city
of Mantua at the time of the birth of Leone de' Sommi, the first
“unapologetically Jewish playwright and poet” and a ruler who enjoyed Jewish
comedians enough to hire “Solly and Jacob” passed away toay.
1591(24th
of Av, 1591): Abigdor Eisenstadt, aka Abigdor Sofer ben Moses, “the author of
translation of festival prayers and a prayer-book from Polish into German”
passed away today.
1629:
Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, who had been befriended by “Bohemian Court Jew
and financier” Jacob Bassevi and who “was arrested at the order of the imperial
court of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, put in prison in Vienna, and accused
of insulting Christianity” was freed today because a group of “generous Jews”
paid a first installment of 2,000 florins on the 10,000 florin fine that had
been levied against him,
1688:
Birthdate of Frederick William I of Prussia whom Veitel-Heine Ephraim served as
court jeweler and mint master.
1714:
In Cologne, Meyer Low Schomberg and his wife gave birth Leyden trained English
physician Isaac Schomberg who was created a Medical Doctor at Cambridge by
royal mandate after he had been baptized.
1714:
In Cologne, Meyer Schomberg and his wife gave birth to English physician Ralph
Schomberg, the twin brother of Isaac Schomberg.
1716: Italian Rabbi Isaiah Bassani wrote a poem in
honor of Zebulon Conegliano passing his examination in medicine today in Padua.
1725:
“The Jewish Law of 14 August 1725” “forbade the settlement by Jews in places
where they had not previously been settled” including Reichenberg.
1735:
Birthdate of Jacob Meyer mystic and magician who gained fame as Jacob
Philadelphia the name he took when he converted to Christianity.
1758:
Philip Cuyler wrote to David Franks concerning the insurance policy on “good in
the Charming Rachell…”
1767:
The will of Barbados resident Emanuel Aboaf was dated today.
1772(15th
of Av, 5532): Tu B’Av observed for the first time when the Jews of the Galicia
and Lodomeria are under the rule of the Habsburg Monarch as a result of the
first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which had begun nine days
ago.
1777:
Birthdate of Newport, RI native Priscilla Elizer the daughter of Isaac Elizer
who passed away at Charleston, SC in August 1796
1781:
Richea Hart and Abraham Mendes Seixas who were married at Charleston, SC in
1777 gave birth to Joshua Seixas.
1788:
In Amsterdam, Abraham Benjamin Cohen and Elizabeth Gompertz gave birth to
William Cohen.
1779:
In Prague, Selig Trebitsch, ḥazzan at the Old New Synagogue and his wife gave
birth to Rabbi Menahem Nahum Trebitsch whose writings included “Shelom Yerushalayim"
1787(30th
of Av, 5547): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1787(30th
of Av, 5547): Isaac de Pinto “a Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin, a scholar and
one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company” passed away. He had
been born in 1717 in Amsterdam. In1748, Pinto helped stadholder William IV of
Orange, sending or lending him money to defeat the French at Bergen op Zoom. In
return he asked for uplifting measures against Jewish merchants forbidding them
to sell clothes, gherkins or fish on the street. He proposed to send the
poorest Jews to Surinam. Pinto was a man of broad learning, but did not begin
to write until nearly fifty, when he acquired a reputation by defending his
co-religionists against Voltaire. In 1762 he published his Essai sur le Luxe at
Amsterdam. In the same year appeared his Apologie pour la Nation Juive, ou
Réflexions Critiques. The author sent a manuscript copy of this work to
Voltaire, who thanked him. Antoine Guenée reproduced the Apologie at the head
of his Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugais, Allemands et Polonais, à M. de
Voltaire. In 1763 De Pinto became bankrupt as a result of speculation; he had
to sell his house on Nieuwe Herengracht with five famous fixed wall-paintings
by Jan Weenix. De Pinto moved to another fine mansion in The Hague; he and his
family were invited to the palace when Mozart and his sister played. In 1768,
Pinto sent a letter to Diderot on Du Jeu de Cartes. His Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit appeared in Amsterdam in
1771, and was twice reprinted, besides being translated into English and
German. His Précis des Arguments Contre les Matérialistes was published at The
Hague in 1774. Pinto's works were published in French (Amsterdam, 1777) and
also in German (Leipzig, 1777).
1793:
Birthdate of Baruch Auerbach, the “educator and philanthropist” who founded the
Jewish Orphan Asylum in Berlin.
1796(10th
of Av, 5556): Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time during the Presidency of
George Washington.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hart-myer
1798:
Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son Eva Jacob Cohen and Benjamin Jonas
Cohen, and his wife Elisabeth Gompertz gave birth to Willi/Ze’ev Wolf Cohen
Amesfort.
gave birth to William
1815:
Birthdate Rabbi Maier Zipser “one of the leaders of the Conservative (Neolog)
movement of the Hungarian Jewry.”
http://www.balassagyarmatizsidosag.hu/en/maier-zipser
1818: In St. Thomas, Jacob Baiz, a native of Bayonne,
France and his wife Leah Baiz gave birth to Rachel Baiz who became Rachel Levi
when she married Joseph Levi.
1820: John Jacob Hays, the grandson of Solomon Hays
arrived today in Fort Wayne where he began serving as Indian an Indian agent
making him the first Jew to settle in the Indiana city.
1821: In Hungary, Ignatz Morningstar and his wife gave
birth to Bernard Morningstar, the resident of Pittsburgh and husband of
Charlotta Davis Morningstar whom he married in 1864 and with whom he had four
children.
1821: Leonardus Levy Abraham Verveer, the Amsterdam born
“son of Abraham Salomon / Shabtay Cohen Kloot and Marretje / Mata Mozes Tokie
and his wife Caroline Elkan gave birth to Judith Verveer
1822:
In New York, Thomas Strong gave birth to Dr. James Strong a student of the
Hebrew language whose pamphlet on the subject was published before the Civil
War. Strong was a member of the
Palestine Exploration Committee and traveled there in 1884. (Strong was part of
a group of 19th century Christians whose interest in Palestine laid
the groundwork for the archaeological activities that became “Israel’s National
Pastime.”)
1824:
Birthdate of Breslau native Edward Kanter, the Detroit banker and husband of
Fanny R. Granger Kanter with whom he had four children – Henry, Charles, Edward
and Jessie.
1828(4th
of Elul, 5588): Fifty-eight-year-old New York City born bookseller Benjamin
Gomez passed away today.
1829:
Birthdate of Jules Moch a graduate of Saint-Cyr who fought served in the
Crimean War and was captured at the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian
War.
1833:
In Charleston, SC, Rebecca Phillips and Isaiah Moses, who were married at
Charleston in 1807 gave birth to Ezra I. Moses.
1834:
German born Samuel Stiebel and Jane Stiebel gave birth to Charles Dan Stiebel.
1840(15th
of Av, 5600): Tu B’Av
1840:
In New York, Asher Kursheedt and Abigail Judah gave birth to CCNY graduate and
attorney Manuel Agustus Kursheedt, a director of the United Hebrew Charities
and the Educational Alliane.
1840:
The U.S. government sent instruction to Mr. Glidon, the American Consul
expressing President Van Buren’s concern over the treatment of the Jews of
Damascus and his wish that United States work in concert with the governments
of Europe to relieve their suffering.
1840:
In New York, Asher Kursheedt and Abigail Judah City College of New York alum
Manuel Augustus Kursheedt, whose activities in the Jewish community included
serving as “the director of the United Hebrew Charities and the Educational
Alliance, managing secretary of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society and President
of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1841:
In London, Maure Solomon, the Edmonton, London born son of Moshe Eliezer
Lieberman Solomon and Betsy (Elizabeth) Solomon and his wife Louisa Solomon
gave birth to Charlotte Solomon.
1841:
In London, Maurice Solomon the Edmonton, London born son of Moshe Eliezer
Lieberman Solomon and Betsy (Elizabeth) Solomon, and his wife Louisa Solomon
gave birth to Charlotte Solomon.
1844:
Morris de Saxe married Abigail Isaacs at the Great Synagogue today.
1848(15th
of Av, 5608): Tu B’Av celbebrated on the same day that Congress created the
Oregon Territory, “an area that includes what is today, Oregon, Idaho,
Washington and western Montana.
1849:
David and Catharine Pick Bierman gave birth to Eli Bierman, the husband of
Hannah Bierman.
1850:
David Hyams married Rebecca Arrobas today at the Great Synagogue today.
1850:
One day after he had passed away, Myer Moses was buried today at the Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.
1853(10th
of Av, 5613): Tish’a B’Ab observed
1855(30th
of Av, 5615): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1856:
In Philadelphia, Babette Scherzer and Jacob Langsdorf gave birth to Isidore
Langsdorf, the husband of Blanche Loeb and the manufacturer the Roig Cigars who
was a leading member of Congregation Rodeph Shalom and a Director of the United
Hebrew Charities.
1857:
In Bavaria, Jacob and Theresa Weil gave birth to future Bostonian August Weil, the husband of Emma “Anna” Weill
and father of famed soprano Glady Axman,
the wife of Clarence Axman.
1859:
Congregation Gemiluth Chassed was founded today in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
1861:
Second Lieutenant Leopold Rosenthal began who would be wounded at Fort Magruder
in Virginia began his three years of service with the 5th Cavalry
today.
1862:
Philadelphian Jacob Stern began his service with Company E of the 133rd
Regiment.
1862:
Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, a native of Richmond, VA who had moved to Philadelphia
with his father in 1850 enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Unlike some other native Virginians, Hyneman
was able to choose fighting for the Union as opposed to defending slavery.
1863:
Birthdate of London “communal worker” Felix Arthur Davis.
1863:
"Affairs at Vicksburg” published today describes conditions a month after
the fall of the Confederate Citadel including the following, "When the
news reached the North that Vicksburg had fallen, a few thousand Hebrew
patriots immediately made an exodus in this direction, with a view of opening a
few hundred clothing stores at once. Greatly to their disgust Gen. Grant
refused to allow any trade whatever, and much to their pecuniary grief they
found that they had brought their shoddy to the wrong market. Something,
however, must be done, and so fifty or sixty opened shops for the repair of
watches, an equal number opened establishments for taking pictures, another
quantity went to work gathering up the immense amount of old rags left
everywhere by the rebels, while the balance stood disconsolately for a time
around corners cursing Grant in every dialect originating at Babel, and then
returned up the river. Those who went into the rag business had a good thing,
for rags are high and the quantity left by Confederates in this place was
enormous."
1864:
In Columbus, Indiana, Samuel Ginsburg and Rachel L. Helfman gave birth to
Bernard Ginsburg the husband of Ida Esther Goldman and resident of Detroit,
Michigan who was Director of the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland for eight
years and began serving as the first vice-president of the National Conference
of Jewish Charities in 1904.
1865:
Prussia and Austria signed the Gastein Convention that established the rules
for governing Schleswig and Holstein which was one of the steps on Bismarck’s
path to making uniting Germany under Prussian rule and making it the dominant
power in Europe – a path that led to three wars: Franco-Prussian, WW I, and WW
II – which had major impacts on the Jews of the Continent which included the
Holocaust.
1865:
Today's Foreign Items column reports that The Chief of Police in Warsaw has
forbidden the Jews to wear their ancient dress and coiffure, (two curls
sticking out from a velvet cap.
1865:
Officer Thomas Ward who was murdered by a gang of felons in the line of duty,
died at the Jew's Hospital. (Jew’s Hospital would later be known as Mt.
Sinai. The hospital took on the role of
treating New Yorker’s regardless of religion during the Civil War when it
treated large numbers of Union soldiers wounded during McClellan’s ill-fated
Peninsula Campaign.)
1871:
In Sály, Hungary, Rabbi
David Margittai, the Hungarian born “son of Rabbi Yitzchok Tzvi Margaretten and
Rachel Lea Margaretten” and Rachel
Rozalia, Juli Margittai gave birth to Fani Hani Schwartz, the wife of Herman
Schwartz and the “m.”other of Dezso Schwartz; Malvin Schwartz; Margit Farago;
Jolan Schwartz; Adolf Schwartz; Jolan Schwartz and Rezsin Rozsi
1872:
A letter published today signed simply “A Jew” took issue with the New York Tribune’s characterization of
President Grant’s views on, and relationships with, the Jewish people. The writer denied the Tribune’s claim that
Grant had apologized for General Oder No. 11 by saying “that his chief of staff
had issued and that he (Grant) had countermanded it. When questioned on the subject in 1868, Grant
said that “he issued that order under misapprehension and regretted his
action. He took the responsibility and
did not claim credit for countermanding it.”
The Tribune, whose publisher Horace Greely, was running against Grant
for the Presidency, was making the same claims against Grant that had failed to
dissuade Jews from voting for the Civil War hero in 1868. The writer concludes by stating that The Tribune
does not understand Jews. Jews think for
themselves. Some will vote
Democrat. Some will vote Republican. But none of them will be swayed by the
Tribune’s re-hash of the claims left over from the 1868 Presidential Campaign.
1873:
According to Chief of Police John Malloy, the man who was murdered in Albany is
a Brooklynite named John D. Weston. He
was allegedly murdered by Emil Lowenstein, a German-Jewish barber who had been
enlisted by Mrs. Weston with enticements of sharing in the decedent’s property
and enjoying her company.
1874(1st
of Elul, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1874:
It was reported today that the police superintendent of New York had received a
telegram from the Sheriff of McLean Country, Illinois, stating that the ”German
Jew named Levy” had confessed to murdering New York businessman Benjamin
Nathan. The sheriff doubts that truth of
the confession and thinks the man is “a humbug” looking for a free trip back to
New York.
1875(13th
of Av, 5635): Shabbat Nachamu
1875:
In Cincinnati, Theresa and Joseph Levy gave brit to Sadie Foster, the first
wife of Solomon Robert Foster, the Reform Rabbi who served as chaplain in three
wars and was the spiritual leader of
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun of Newark, N.J., for more than 50 years.
1876(24th
of Av, 5636): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Ephriam Zalman Margolioth of Brody, the author
of Bet Ephriam who passed away in 1828.
1877:
Solomon Rosalsky, the Russian born son of Adeline and David Rosalsky and his
wife Yetta Rosalsky gave birth to Municipal Court Justice Joseph S. Rosalsky
the wife of Laura Vivian Ernst whose siblings included Judge Otto Rosalsky,
Bella Schapira, Dr. Harry Rosalsky, Alexander Rosalsky, Maude Morrison, Murray
Rosalsky and Dora Seglin.
1877:
Two days after she had passed away, Adelaide Collins, the daughter of Solomon
Collins and Catherine Isaacs and the husband of John Collins with whom she had
four children – Kate, William, Louisa and Solomon – was buried today at the
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1878(15th
of Av, 5638) Tu B’Av
1878:
It was reported today that the government is doing nothing to alleviate the
suffering from the effects of the famine in southern Morocco. The Jews of the region are receiving some
assistance from co-religionists
1879: Harris Levy, a 28-year-old Polish Jew was
shot in the arm on Forsyth Street in New York.
Levy was as a night watchman for Louis Solomans, a manufacturing tailor
whose businesses occupied three rooms on the building’s 6th floor.
1881:
In Latvia, Abraham I. and Jennie Kaplan Gallant gave birth to St. Louis
attorney C. Lew Gallant
1881:
“Bleichroder and Thiers” published today described one Frenchman’s reaction to
Barthelemy St. Hilaire recommending that the President of the Republic name
Gerson von Bleichröder the German Jewish banker with close ties to Chancellor
Bismarck be named a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
1881:
In Kiev, Abraham and Dvora Wellcher gave birth to Laibel Welcher gained fame as
aviation pioneer Arthur L. Wlesh who was a flight instructor and friend of the
Wright Brothers.
1881:
It was reported today that donations to help defray the cost of the next
excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children can be sent to the
offices of the Jewish Messenger on
Walker Street.
1881:
A concert sponsored by several prominent Jews is scheduled to be held today to
raise funds for a cemetery at the popular resort town of Long Branch, NJ. The
cemetery, “The Strangers’ Cemetery, will be open to all – rich or poor, Jew or
Gentile
1882:
It was reported today that there are forty Jews living in Hoboken NJ.
1882:
It was reported today that yesterday’s account in the Congressional Record of
speech given by S.S. Cox in defense of the Jews of Russia could not have
happened since Congress had already adjourned. This was an example of the
time-honored technique of entering things into the Congressional Record that
were not actually said on the floor of the House and/or Senate.
1882:
It was reported that a barrel of gunpowder had accidentally exploded at a shop
in Grodeno, Russia killing an untold number of Jewish children attending a
nearby school
1882: “Old
Time Business Ways” reviewed The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
by William Cunningham which included a description of how the reality of Jewish
money lending in Medieval England. While
it appeared that the Jews had a monopoly on money lending, “the King had
indirectly a monopoly on moneylending” because the Jews “were mere chattels of
the King” which meant that “all that they had was his.”
1883:
“According to “Looking Forward” published today, described conditions in two Hungarian
villages, Tiszaelar and Nyireghyhaza, where “two hostile parties called Christians
and Jews are arrayed in deadly strife against each other” where the strife,
rioting, bloodshed and killing…have no relation to any proposition by either
part” but where “the motive of combat springs
wholly out of traditions, prejudices, superstitions from an indefinite past
1883:
“With Hermann Guthe’s publication of his monograph on the scroll fragment
completed” today “the Shapira’s manuscript” which was a scroll of Deuteronomy
“officially achieved scholarly recognition.”
1884:
Solomon Rosalsky, the Russian born son of Adeline and David Rosalsky and his
wife Yetta Rosalsky gave birth to Alexander Suskind Rosalsky, the “husband of
Pauline Leah Rosalsky and
father
of Maurice Binion Rosalsky.”
1884:
It was reported today that Rabbi Henry Zindorf of Detroit’s Temple Beth El has
been chosen as Professor of History and Hebrew Literature at Hebrew Union
College.
1884:
Tonight, in Kingston Jamaica, “David ben Abraham Nunes” married “Amy bat Alfred
Delgado,” the granddaughter of “Moses Delgado, amajor figure in the history of
Jewish Jamaica” who served as “President of the Kaal Kadosh Shahar Ashamaim,
the Sephardic synagogue of Kingston” and who “was responsible for the
successful 1831 campaign to grant full civil rights to the country’s Jews.”
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/rare-jamaican-ketubah-to-be-sold-at-auction
1886:
On the Lower East Side, Louis and Mary Strauss Frankenthaler gave birth to
George Frankenthaler who served as the State Supreme Court Justice and New York
County Surrogate.
1887:
The members of the jury that convicted Israel Lipski of murder are scheduled to
meet with the condemned man’s solicitor today.
1887:
It was reported today that Israel Lipski’s solicitor has new facts that will
prove that he did kill Miriam Angel, the woman he was convicted of
killing. Lipski’s lawyer has met privately with Judge Stephen and
convinced him of his client’s innocence.
1887:
It was reported today that that Israel Lipski’s solicitor has “sent a telegram
to the Queen” asking her to stay the execution because “he is in possession of
facts which will enable him to establish” Lipski’s innocence.
1887:
“Old World News By Cable” published today included a description of the
excitement gripping London over the upcoming hanging of Israel Lipski, a Polish
Jew who was found guilty of murdering Miriam Angel.
1888:
An excursion for sick children under the age of six sponsored by the Sanitarium
for Hebrew Children will take place this morning at nine.
1888:
Birthdate of Dr. Paul Zucker, the successful German architect who, when the
Nazis came to power left for the United States where he became a citizen in
1944.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/02/16/81997918.pdf
1888:
Twenty-four-year-old Joseph B. David, the Louisville born “son of Theobold and
Adelaide (Strauss) David” who practiced law in Chicago where he was a Special
Assistant City Attorney before serving several terms as on the Superior Court
of Cook County, first as a judge and then as Chief Justice married Emma Siesel
today
1889:
The seventh free excursion of the summer sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children is scheduled to leave from the Fifth Street pier of the East
River. Only children without contagious
diseases and six years of age or younger will be allowed on the boat.
1889:
One hundred twenty Jewish families arrived in Buenos Aires giving birth to the
modern Argentinean Jewish community. In 1889, 824 Russian Jews arrived in
Argentina on the S.S. Weser from Podolia in western Russia. Many of them became
gauchos (Argentine cowboys). The gauchos bought land and established a colony,
which they named Moiseville. Due to lack of funding, the gauchos appealed to
Baron Maurice de Hirsch for funds and the Baron subsequently founded the Jewish
Colonization Association. During its heyday, the Association owned more than
600,000 hectares of land, populated by more than 200,000 Jews. While many of
these cooperative ranches are now owned by non-Jews, Jews continue to run some
of the properties.
1890:
It was reported today that donations to help defray the costs of the Sanitarium
for Hebrew Children can be sent to Nathan Lewis, President; Dr. H. Gomez, Vice
President; Hezekiah Kohn, Treasurer: and Joseph Davis, honorary Secretary.
1891:
In “Hackney, London,” Amy Davis and Solomon Henry Andrade gave birth to Arthur
Frank Andrade.
1891(10th
of Av, 5651): Sixty-four-year-old Emile Frank, the widow of Joseph Frank and
passed away at Huguenot, NY. The funeral will be delayed because the body has
to be taken back to New York City and tomorrow is Shabbat.
1891:
Mr. Rosenbluth, of the Sanitary Aid Society who works with the Trustees of the
Baron Hirsch Fund gave one of the Russian Jewish refugees living at Highstown,
NJ $5,000 and sent him out to purchase farmlands in an attempt to replicate the
success that Jewish refugees have enjoyed farming in Connecticut.
1892:
Lewis Novra the son of George Novra and Rebecca Abrahams was buried today at
the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1892:
Rabbis Aaron Wise and David Cahn officiated at the wedding of Lottie Naomi
Swartwood and Leopold Kahn known as “Admiral Dot.” Kahn and Swartwood were both
dwarfs. He had begun performing with
P.T.Barnum until he formed the American Lilliputian Company in 1877 where both
of them were stars.
1892:
Louis-Norbert Carrière the government commissioner who successfully pled at
Rennes for Dreyfus's second conviction was appointed government commissioner to
the Dreyfus court martial in Rennes today,
1892:
“Decline of the Hat Industry in the Oranges” published today offered numerous
reasons for the decline of millinery business in New Jersey including the fact
that Polish Jews in Newark and Orange are finishing hats for eight and three
quarters of a cent per dozen. “American
workmen have always been paid 25 cents per dozen.” (In reality, the problem was the tariff)
1893:
When representatives of the Board of Health, the Street Cleaning Department,
the Fire Department and the Police swept through Hester Street and Mulberry
Bend in an attempt to clear out the pushcarts and street vendors, they were
forced to deal with “an old Jew” selling pears who had padlocked his cart in
place and a Jew selling calico wrappers who claimed he could not move his cart
because the wheel was broken.
1893:
Birthdate of Samuel Simon Leibowitz,
American attorney and jurist who would gain fame as the lawyer who defended the
Scottsboro Boys.
1893: Jack O”Mara, the bartender at Patrick Devitt’s
saloon in Brooklyn, is scheduled to go before the judge on charges that he
handcuffed a Jewish paddled named Bruns and then stole his pack.
1894: Two day after his death “in his 48th
year,” Oscar Alexander, the husband of Sarah Woolf with whom he had nine
children – Henry, Rachel, Leah, Hannah, Amelia, Rebecca, Bertha, Jacob and Rose
– was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1896: Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia
University graduate Herbert Posner, the WW I U.S. Navy veteran who in 1930
started serving as President of the Dr. Posner Shoe Company founded by his
father.
1896: According to the entry on his tombstone in New
York, actors Sara and Jacob Adler gave birth to their eldest son and American
actor Jay Adler who was the “brother of actor siblings” including Ceilia,
Julia, Stella and Luther and the uncle of author Allen Adler. (other
sources show September 26)
1896: Heinrich von Gossler was appointed Prussian
Minister of War. During his tenure in office, he would defend Jewish
manufacturers of rifles of when they were attacked by anti-Semites in the
Reichstag.
1897: In Chicago, Samuel Marlow, a German Jew and
his son were arrested today when “officers raided a little frame house on 26th
Place” where they found a still that could produce 52 gallons of moonshine a
day.
1898: Today, Johns Hopkins University trained physician,
Edward J. Bernstein, the professor of laryngology at Woman’s Medical College in
Baltimore and the ophthalmologist and otologist at Grace Memorial Hospital in
Detroit who was a member of Temple Beth-El married Dr. Ida Pollock.
1898: As the staff at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum works
to deal with an epidemic of dysentery “a well-known physician said that there
forty to fifty cases in apartments in the same neighborhood which he attributed
to polluted water.
1898: “The Arrival of the Immigrant” published today
described the arrival of Italians at Ellis Island and the Barge Office who have
replaced the wave of Jews “from the Ghettoes, the Judenstrasses and the village
streets of Russia, Russian Poland and all of Jewish Western Europe” that filled
these offices through-out the 1880’s.
1899: A New
York Times reporter went to 3,815 Park Avenue which Abraham Reinold, a
patient at Georgetown University in Washington, DC gave as his address. The address given by this mysterious Jews was
a vacant lot and no one in the neighborhood knew who he was.
1899: Birthdate of Evelyn Kozak the native New
Yorker whose parents had left “Russia to escape anti-Semitic attacks” who would
be described as the world’s oldest living Jew when passed away at the age of
113.
1899: In Paris, the police have surrounded the
office of the Anti-Semite League where M.M. Guerin , the president of the
league and Max Regis, the “noted –Jew baiter” and former Mayor of Algiers have
barricaded themselves in attempt to avoid arrest “for political crimes that are
punishable with penal servitude.” A mob
of their supporters shouting “Vive l’armee” and Mort aux Juifs’ has gathered
outside the building.
1899: Birthdate of New York City native Dr. Alfred
M. Appelbaum, the NYU trained Ophthalmologist who served on the faculty of
Columbia.
1899: “Dreyfus Fight Thickens” published today
described the split in French society that centers “around the shadowy and
emaciated red-haired Jew, whose uniform of an artillery Captain so ill fits and
befits his figure physiognomy.”
1901: Today, Odessa Commercial College and Ecole des
Sciences Politiuqes educated economist, Simon Litman, the Odessa born son of
Pauline Helfman and Jacob Litman married Rachel Frank after which he taught
economics at the University of California and the University of Illinois.
1901: Two days after she had passed away “in her 16th
year,” Rachel Davis, the daughter of “Isaac and Betsy Davis” was buried at the
Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1902: “Romanian Jews Protest” published today
described “a meeting Romanian Jews held at the Hebrew Alliance during a
resolution was adopted censuring the Romanian Government for “the smaeful
ill-treatment and abuse heaped upon Bernhard Lazare of Paris, representing the
French Gazette L’Auror, who went to Romania to make known to the world the
condition of the Jews in that country.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/08/14/101962933.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1902: In New York city, 40-year-old Peter (Pinchas)
Kolbrener and 35 year old Fannie Schwartz gave birth to NYU trained attorney
Martin M. Kolbrener and Nassau County court judge who was the father of the
former Frances Denker and the father of Peter and Jack Kolbrnener.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/09/90357682.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1903: Birthdate of Hezl Rosenblum, the native of
Kaunas who was “a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he
worked as editor of Yedioth Ahronoth
for more than 35 years.”
1903(21st of Av, 5663): Lucia Jonas Block,
the Kentucky born daughter of Louisa Block and Abraham Jonas who were married
in 1829, the husband of Augustus Block and the mother of Bertha, Frederick,
Dora, Augustus and Louise Block, passed away today after which she was buried
in the Dispersed of Judah Cemetery in New Orleans, LA.
1904: In Latvia, ebbi Meir Bar-Ilan (the leader of
Mizrachi) and his wife gave birth to Dr. Judith Lieberman who for 25 years
“served as Hebrew principal and later dean of Hebrew studies of Shulamith
School for Girls in New York City, the first Jewish day school for girls in
North America and who was the granddaughter of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
and second wife of Jewish religious scholar Saul Lieberman.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lieberman-judith-berlin
1904: A number of people from Brooklyn “arrived at
the Kaaterskill today to attend the entertainment for the Brooklyn Jewish
Hospital tonight.
1904: Rabbi Meir Berlin and his wife gave birth to
Judith Lieberman the
1904: Lillie Solomon, the daughter of Anna and I.E.
Solomon, who was born in Solomonville, Arizona Territory in 1879, married
Jewish merchant Max Lantin of Globe.
1905(13th of Av, 5665): English painter Simeon
Solomon passed away. For examples of his art and a whole lot more see
http://simeonsolomon.com/default.aspx
1905: Louis M Mayer and his first wife, Margaret
Shenberg gave birth to their eldest daughter Edith “Edie” Mayer who married
producer William Goetz.
1905: It was reported today that “District Grand
Lodge No 1 of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel, the larger
Jewish fraternal institution in the United States will hold is annual picnic”
on August 16 “at the Manhattan Casino.”
1906: Leo Berman wrote a letter to the New York
Times in which the B.R.T. car riots to “the anti-Jewish riots in Russia.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/15/120282017.html?pageNumber=2
1907: Today, seventeen-year-old Joseph Kastner, the son of a Russian grain
dealer came to the United States where he worked as a cabinet maker in Ohio and
Chicago before settling in Piqua, OH, where he “bought an iron and metal yard”
married Sarah Colp and joined the “Jewish Congregation of Piqua, and B’nai
B’rith.
1907: In Deal, NJ, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, who
served on the New York State Supreme Court before becoming a partner in the law
firm now known as Proskauer Rose and the former Alice Naumburg, who helped
found the Euthanasia Society of America, a right-to-die group gave birth to
“Ruth Proskauer Smith, a longtime reproductive rights advocate who helped found
what is now Naral Pro-Choice America.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/nyregion/27smith.html
1908: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for
Sigmund Rosenwald, a leader of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, followed by Internment
at the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1908: In Lynchburg, VA, Edwin ad Katie Lillian Kierstein
Schlossberg gave birth to Washington and Lee University graduate Alfred I.
Schlossberg the founder of the New York company Alfred Schlossberg, Inc, a
textile manufacturing enterprise, the husband of Celia Mae Hirsch Schlossberg
whom he married in 1933 and the father of Edwin Schlossberg, the husband of
JFK’s daughter Caroline.
1909(27th of Av, 5669) Parashat Re’eh
read on the same day that the first motor race took place at the famous
Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
1910: Birthdate
of French-Jewish photographer Willy Ronis
1910: Birthdate of Natan Alterman the Warsaw native
who gained fame as an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-alterman
1910: Birthdate of Herta Herzog, the author of “The
Jews as 'Others': On Communicative Aspects of Anti-Semitism” and the wife of
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld.
1910(9th of Av, 5670): Tish’a B’Av
1910(9th of Av, 5670): Moses Frankfurt
who had been born in 1828 and was married to Babette Frankfurt passed away
today in Norfolk, VA.
1911: In Richmond, Indiana, a meeting of the Society
of Friends adopts a resolution protesting the treatment of the Jews of Russia.
1911: Today Lazarus Schwartz was elected Mayor of
Mobile, Alabama, a position he would hold until 1915.
1919(1st of Elul, 5672):
1912: In New York, Ella Friedman and Julius Oppenheimer
gave birth to Johns Hopkins and Cal Tech trained particle physicist Frank
Friedman the brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/about/history/frank
1913(11th of Av, 5673): On the Jewish
calendar, yahrzeit of linguist and post Rabbi Simhah b. Abraham who passed away
in 1874
1914: In what would prove to be a costly act of
bravado “the French First and Second Armies crossed the Franco-German border
and began fighting the Battles of Morhange and Sarrebourg and the Battle on
Mortagne which were part of the ill-fated Battles of the Frontiers – a doomed
offensive that would almost cost the Allies the war in the Summer and Fall of
1914. (Editor’s note - there is a direct line from these defeats to the defeats
suffered in 1940 and the subsequent collapse of France which led the Jews to
Drancy and then to the death camps.)
1915: “In Brixton, south London,” “Arnold Mishcon, a
rabbi who emigrated from Russian Poland, and his wife Queenie” gave birth to
Victor Mischon, the British solicitor and Laborite who as a life peer became
Baron Mishcon in 1978.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/30/guardianobituaries.mainsection
1915: Harry H. Schlacht, who is working to form “the
American Legion, composed of foreign-born Americans who have received military training”
said tonight “these people are loyal Americans” who “are anxious and willing to
join the Foreign Legion and are ready to respond to the call for drill just as
soon as army officers are appointed to train them.”
1915: Long Island College Hospital trained medical
doctor Isadore David Bronfin, the Russian born son of Leah Shrage and David
Bronfin, the future medical director and superintendent of the Denver
Sanitorium run by the Jewish Consumptive Society today married Elizabeth Rothbardt.
1916(15th of Av, 5676): Tu B’Av
1916: It was reported today that the in Russia “no
definite decision has been reached” by the government but “the wish has been
expressed that the circular of the ex-Minister of the Interior, Prince
Cherbatoff abolishing the pale of settlement be confirmed and incorporated by
the legislative institutions i.e. the Duma and Council.”
1916: “Please Help Emily,” featuring a performance
by Anton Ascher opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre.
1917: A
memorandum from the Jewish Socialist Labor Union has been delivered to the Dutch-Scandinavian
Labor Committee which calls for “perfect civil equality for Jews in every
country and their re-establishment in the provinces” which they were forced to
leave because of the war.
1917: It was reported today that “the situation in
Palestine this Summer is the most serious since the war began,” that “a scheme
for the looting of Jerusalem is already being executed” and the only hope of
the inhabitants “is that the British armies now hammering at the gates of the
Holy Land may soon drive out the Turks.
1917: A cablegram from Kiev sent to The Day, a Jewish daily in New York
announced today “that the Ukrainian Congress had elected a member of the Jewish
Socialist Territorialist Party as Minister for Jewish Affairs in Ukraine”
1917: In the Bronx, Harry and Molly Glickmann give
birth to Martin “Martry” Glickman. A graduate of Syracuse University, where he
played football, Glickman was best known for his skills in track & field.
In 1936, Glickman was one of two Jews on the U.S. 400-yard relay team at the
1936 Olympics. The two were replaced
just before the event. According to
Glickman, this was in response to pressure Avery Brundage, an anti-Semite and
supporter of the Nazi regime. Glickman went on to a very successful career as a
sports broadcaster. Glickman’s parents came from Jassy where the Germans and
their Romanian allies slaughtered over twenty thousand Jews during the summer
of 1941.
1918: As the
Amiens Offensive, in which John Monash played such a key role comes to an end,
French forces continue to engage the flagging Germans at the Battle of
Montdidier.
1919: Field Marshall Liman von Sanders who
unsuccessfully led the Turkish troops against the Allied forces under Allenby
that conquered Palestine in the World War has been repatriated to Germany by
the Allies.
1920: After having visited congregations in Denver,
Salt Lake City and other Western and mid-Western cities “on behalf of the
Palestine Restoration Fund of the ZOA, Rabbi Louis I Newman of the Bronx Free
Synagogue is scheduled to return to New York City today.
1921(10th of Av, 5681): Tish’a B’Av is
observed for the first time during the Presidency of Warren Harding.
1922(20th of Av, 5682):
Sixty-three-year-old Richmond born and Yale trained attorney Levy Mayer, a
“senior member of the law firm of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian and Platt” who “was
national known for his actions as attorney for the ‘big five packers’ and for
liquor interest passed away in his today in his apartment in the Blackstone
Hotel in Chicago.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/15/99056278.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1922 A petition in bankruptcy was filed today
against Samuel and Joseph Levin composing the firm of S. Levin and Son,
stationary supplies, located in New York City.
1923: It was reported today that Samuel Untermyer,
President of the Palestine Fund, has received a letter from Dr. Arthur Ruppin,
the chief expert on Palestine, urging him to come Palestine so that he could
see for himself how much progress there has been in the settlement of Jewish
suburbs surrounding Jerusalem and the development of “big municipalities” in
Palestine.
1924: It was reported today that that there has been
a great deal of comment in the newspaper in Vienna concerning the “the
disclosure that Hans Herzl, the son of the founder of the Zionist movement” has
converted to Catholicism.
1925: It was reported today that “with $300,000 in
cash already raised and pledges of $520,000, the success of the ORT
Reconstruction Fund for aiding the impoverished Jews in Southern Europe has
been assured and that it is expected that the one-million-dollar goal will be
reached by Christmas.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/08/14/104279591.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1926: In Paris, Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, “a
chemical engineer from Warsaw” and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna gave birth
to cartoonist René Goscinny, the co-creator of Astérix
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/goscinny.htm
https://www.asterix.com/en/the-creators/rene-goscinny/
1926: Birthdate of William Lowenberg who in 1945 was
liberated by the American Army from a subcamp of Dachau who served in the United
States Army during the Korean War.
1926:
Birthdate of Martin Broszat “a prominent West German historian and a specialist
on Nazi crimes against the Jews.” (As reported by Eric Pace)
1927: Twenty-three-year-old Julliard trained
violinist and composer Samuel Applebaum, the Passaic, NJ born son of “Michael
and Fanny (Levine) Applebaum” married Sada Rothman with whom he had two
children – Lois and Michael Applebaum.
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85374282/
1928: The original production of “The Front Page,”
directed by George S. Kaufman, opened at the Times Square Theatre
1929(8th of Av, 5689): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1929: The Jewish Agency
for Palestine was founded. The Jewish
Agency “became the main organization through which Palestinian Jewry maintained
its contacts with world Jewry and with the Mandatory authorities and foreign
governments. It was, in fact, the de
facto government of the Jews in the Jewish homeland.
1930; The consequences
which England may have to face in regard to the Palestine mandate if no
improvement is shown in the attitude toward Jewish interests, and the possible
consequence to the Zionist organization if a special Zionist congress is not
called in December were discussed at Prauge in a closed session of the fourth
annual conference of the Union of Zionist Revisionists” under the leadership of
Vladmir Jabotinsky.
1931(1st of
Elul, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1931: In Chicago, Irene
Rose (née Mauser) and Cedric Michael Raphael gave birth to Oscar winning
screenwriter Frederick Michael Raphael.
1932: “Morris Green,
theatrical producer, who was associated with A.L. Jones in the production of
the original and subsequent editions of the "Greenwich Village
Follies," filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy today in United States
District Court, listing liabilities of $272,650 and assets of no value.”
1932: The 1932
Olympics in which Attila Petschauer a gold medal winning swordsman was part of
the Hungarian Fencing Team, came to an end today. The 1999 film Sunshine
is a multi-generational study of Petschauer’s family and vividly depicts his
death at the hands of the Nazis in 1943. Jewish Gold Medal winners included Istvan Barta, Hungary water polo, Gyorgy Brody,
Hungary, water polo; Lillian Copeland, USA, athletics, discus throw; George
Gulack, USA, gymnastics, flying rings; Endre Kabos, Hungary, fencing, team
saber; Miklos Sárkány, Hungary water polo.
1933: While
speaking in Prague, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary president of the American
Jewish Congress, approves of the boycott against German goods and services.
1933: The
Government prohibits the circulation in Germany of all Jewish newspapers
printed in foreign countries, irrespective of language, and commands Jewish
libraries to remove such periodicals from their quarters.
1934: It was
announced today that “the first medical center and graduate school of medicine
in Palestine to be known as the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital will be
built on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem near the Hebrew University.
1934: “Albert
Goldman the former Commissioner of Plant and Structures was appointed Acting
Postmaster of New York City today.”
1934: After buying “the
defunct synagogue building formerly run by Rabbi Meyer Isserman,” Rabbi Yaakov
Ben Zion HaCohen Mendelsohn opened the Bergen Street Shul today – a “ceremony
attended by hundreds of locals along with rabbis from Passaic, West New York,
the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia.”
1935: President
Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act
1936: Today, “the World
Jewish Congress adopted the main principles of its organization on a permanent
basis, empower the executive committee, which is to be elected, to draft
statutes and put them into force” and “also voted a $75,000 budget to finance during
the first year the work to which this session has committed the congress.”
1936: It was announced
today “at Second Corps Area Headquarters on Governors Island” that “Jewish
soldiers in the United States Army will be granted to observe the High Holy
Days” starting at noon on September 15th.
1936: Following appeals
by ninety-two American citizens to the United States Consul and appeals by a
number of Polish citizens to the Polish Consul “for protection against Arab
terrorists in Safed” the consuls of these two countries “made representations
to the Palestine Government” in Jerusalem “regarding the safety of their
nationals in the city of Safed.”
1936: Arnold Spencer
Leese was put on trial in London on charges of seditious libel against British
Jews. In 1935, Leese who was a licensed veterinarian had proposed using gas
chambers to murder Jews. This led to an
indictment “on six counts relating to two articles published in the July issue
of The Fascist (the IFL newspaper) entitled "Jewish Ritual Murder,"
which later appeared as a pamphlet.” He would be convicted and served 6 months
in prison. The experience did not
chasten him since he would help members of the Wafften SS escape Justice which
would lead to another prison term in 1947.
Leese was so extreme that he attacked fellow fascist Oswald Mosley for
being soft on the Jews.
1937: In his closing statement to the 20th Zionist Congress, held in
Zurich, David Ben-Gurion said that the subject of a passionate debate regarding
the proposed Jewish state was not the integrity of Palestine, which no Zionist
can forgo, but the methods for securing the quicker achievement of the common
aim. He welcomed the decision of the two-thirds majority of the Executive to
negotiate the precise contents of the scheme, while this did not imply any
assent to the principle of Partition.
1937: Nazis continued to harass the Zionist delegates in Zurich.
1937: Commissioning of the The USS Blue (DD-387) which on December 7, at Pearl Harbor, Ensign
Nathan Asher, a graduate of the Naval Academy took command of since the skipper
was ashore and in a harrowing trip lasting one and half hours guided the ship
out to open waters and safety while Ensign Milton Moldane, a graduate of
Washington University Law School “took charge of the forward machine guns”
fighting off the attacking Japanese aircraft.
1937: While the League of Nations debated the recommendations of the Peel
Report, Arab attacks against Jews in Palestine continued. Shots were fired at
Motza and other Jewish settlements in a significant number of increased
terrorist attacks all over the country.
1938:
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist
Organization of America, announced today that the Jewish children who were
among the Austrian exiles expelled from Burgenland by Nazis and set drift on
the Danube four months ago will be cared for by the Youth Aliyah (immigration)
of movement and sent to Palestine before Sept. 30.
1938(17th of Av, 5698): Fifty-six-year-old Abraham Zevi
Idelson the Latvian born Cantor who in 1922 composed Yiftah (Jephthah) passed
away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Zevi-Idelsohn
1938: Arab terrorists conducted a series of early morning attacks
including one by 200 armed Arabs at “the tiny Jewish colony of Shimroon” and
another at Kfar Yabetz where Arabs “burned an orange packing house and uprooted
four hundred trees on the grounds of the Kibbutz.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Zevi-Idelsohn
1939:
A resolution expressing "deep
regret" that the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine did not
resign immediately upon publication of the terms of the recent British White
Paper was adopted today by the World Mizrachi. Mizrachi announced plans to
fight the White Paper and calls on World Zionists to refuse to cooperate with
the British in Palestine.
1939:
Birthdate of Eric Weissberg the
American banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance.
1940: While fleeing from Paris which had been conquered by the Germans,
Italian banker and philanthropist Angelo Donati stopped in Marseille where he
was the best men at the wedding of his cousin Piero Sacredoti and Marseille Ilse Klein, daughter of
Siegmund and Helene Klein.
1941: Republican
organization leaders made strong efforts today to avoid the two principal
contests in the party primary, that of John R. Davies against Mayor La Guardia
for the nomination for Mayor and that of Stanley M. Isaacs, the incumbent,
against Edgar J. Nathan Jr., organization designee, for the nomination for
Borough President of Manhattan.
1941:
All residents of the Jewish community of Lesko, Poland, are transported to
Zaslaw, Poland, and executed.
1941: In the aftermath
of the German invasion of the Soviet Union which raised the rate of Jewish
genocide exponentially, Stalin sought to ingratiate himself with the West by
signing a military alliance with Poland today – just two years after the Communist
Jackal had eaten his half of Poland after the Nazi conquest.
1941: As German killing
squads slaughter Jews in the Soviet Union, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill jointly issued the Atlantic Charter, stating the Allied goals for the
post-war world.
1941: Today, a training
report described Isidore Newman, who was being trained as a Wireless Officer
with SOE as being “self-assured and thinks with precision.”
1941: In Hungary, The
Union of the Jewish Communities obtained “the liberation of the rabbis, leaders
of communities, and teachers employed in Jewish schools, who had been arrested
after the outbreak of war with the U.S.S.R., from the Targu-Jiu concentration
camp. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1942(1st of
Elul, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1942(1st of
Elul, 5702): The Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto including the
parents, sisters and younger brother of Fay Shulman
http://www.jewishpartisans.org/t_switch.php?pageName=mini+bio+short+bio+1&parnum=56#
1942: Esther
"Etty" Hillesum returned to Amsterdam from Westerbork
1942:
The Archbishop of Lvov provided hiding places for Jewish children and Sifrei
Torah.
https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/english-content/65196,The-Church-saving-Jews.html
1942:
Fifty-six-year-old Brandenburg native William Chaskel completed the three-day
trip from Drancy to Auschwitz.
1942: The entire Jewish community from Gorlice,
Poland, is deported to the Belzec extermination camp.
1942:
This evening which was, the first day of the Hebrew
month of Ellul, a Friday, the SS surrounded the ghetto in the village of
Zagrodski, near Pinsk in Belarus (Belorussia), home to five hundred Jewish
families. “The commotion and noise on that night”, recalled Rivka
Yosselevska, “was not customary, and we felt something in the air.”
1942: A woman named Rivka Yosselevska is one of
just four Jews to survive a bloody burial-pit massacre outside Zagrodski,
Poland, near Pinsk.
1943:
Premiere of wartime musical comedy “This Is the Army” directed by Michael
Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner, featuring 19 songs by Irving
Berlin, co-starring George Tobias.
1944:
Twenty-five-year-old Edwin Newman, the future NBC television journalist and
anchor married Rigel Grell today.
1944:
“The American Jewish Conference submitted a four point ‘International Bill of
Rights’” to the Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr which they want
submitted to “four-power conference on post-war and international security
which is scheduled to meet on August 21.
1944:
Five days after “Leon Kubowitzki (later Aryeh Leon Kubovy), the head of the
WJC's Rescue Department, relayed a message from Ernest Frischer of the
Czechoslovak State Council to the US State Department urging the destruction of
the gas chambers and the bombing of railways lines leading to the Auschwitz
death camp. US Undersecretary of War John J. McCloy rejected the suggestion
five days later, writing to Kubowitzki: "After a study it became apparent
that such an operation could be executed only by the diversion of considerable
air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive
operations elsewhere and would in any case be of such doubtful efficacy that it
would not warrant the use of our resources."
1945:
From Larissa, Greece it was reported: "One synagogue is completely
destroyed, not even the foundation exists, so thorough has been the German
destruction. The other synagogue has been almost-completely destroyed, also- It
cannot be used in its present condition
1945: Japan surrendered unconditionally to end WW
II. It took two atomic bombs and the
invasion of Manchuria by the Soviet Army to finally convince the Japanese that
all was lost. The official surrender
ceremony would not take place until September, 1945 on the decks of U.S.S.
Missouri which would be anchored in Tokyo Bay.
While there is general agreement as to what the official start dates were
for World War II, we have seen that the end dates both the war in Europe and in
the Pacific get a little fuzzy.
1945: Alfred Eisenstaedt took the iconic photo of a sailor kissing a
nurse in Times Square as part of the V-J celebrations that was published in
Life magazine.
1946: Today, “Will Rogers, Jr” the son of the popular American
entertainer and “Board Member of the American League for a Free Palestine”
wrote to Barley C. Crum, a Roman Catholic “member of the Anglo-American
Commission of Inquiry on Palestine” who supported opening Palestine to
unrestricted Jewish immigration” in which he said the League was “determined to
challenge” the British claim of “illegality” when it came to the issue of
“Hebrew immigration into Palestine” “by publicly announcing the intention to repatriate
the Hebrew people to Palestine and by assuming public responsivity for this
action…”
1947: India granted
independence within British Commonwealth.
According to some historians, the end of British rule in India had an
impact on British policy in Palestine.
The reason the British had wanted to control Palestine, according to
them, was to protect the Suez Canal which was part of the route connecting
Britain and India. Once India was
independent, the imperative for holding on to Palestine was no longer there and
the British were no longer quite so keen to spend blood and bullets on rocks and
sands of Palestine. There other imperial
holdings including Transjordan, et al were enough to meet English commercial
and political needs.
1947: “The Buchenwald
Trial or United States of America vs. Josias Prince of Waldeck et al in which
31 people answered charges of war crimes “related to the Buchenwald
concentration camp and its satellite camps” came to an
1947: “Life With
Father” a movie version of the novel by the same name directed by Michael
Curtiz and music by Max Steiner was released in the United States today Warner
Bros.
1948(9th of Av, 5708):
Since it is Shabbat, the fast will begin in the evening and be observed on
Sunday. There is an irony in this since
it is the first time this day of mourning will be observed in an independent Jewish
state.
1948(9th of
Av, 5708): Tish’a B’av
1948: A day after
testifying before HUAC where he denied being a communist, Harry Dexter White
suffered another heart attack as he was arriving at his farm in Fitzwilliam,
NH.
1948:
Habib Vidal, "the owner of a printing shop and the custodian of the
synagogue at Helwan" was one of the Jews arrested in Egypt. Vidal
was sentenced to 15 months at the Huckstep Prison despite the fact that he had
not been formally charged or tried in a court of law. (In Ishmael's
House by Martin Gilbert)
1948:
The Pan York, a ship filled with Jewish DPs as well as American volunteers for
the Israeli army, arrived in Haifa.
1948: Birthdate of
Kathi Kamen Goldmark who “had made a lot of friends in the literary world by
shepherding authors on book tours when one day inspiration struck: what the
very best authors yearn to be, she realized, are rock stars.” (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
1949:
Seventy-one-year-old Mrs. Bianca Schlesinger “one of two in a family of forty
to survive the Nazis’ purge of German Jews” was the oldest person to arrive
today in Boston in a group of displaced persons aboard the Army transport Gen.
S.D. Sturgis.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/08/15/85650617.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1948: Today Prime
Minister Muhsin al-Barazi who had conducted secret negotiations with Israel
which were leading to a summit meeting with Ben Gurion was killed today during
a coup today in Damascus.
1951: “A Place in the
Sun” starring Shelly Winters and featuring Paul Frees with music by Franz
Waxman was released in the United States today by Paramount Pictures.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Jerusalem was assured of a regular supply of ice
for domestic purposes from outside of the city and that the government granted
a subsidy, due to the cost of the transport of ice from the coast. The
Jerusalem Program for Zionism, replacing the Basel Program drawn up at the
First Zionist Congress in 1897, was drawn up for the 23rd Zionist Congress to
be held in Jerusalem on August 14.
1952(23rd of Av, 5712): David Zvi Pinkas passed away. At the time of his death at the age of 57,
Pinkas was Minister of Communication in the Israeli government.
1952:
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir became on MK
“as a replacement for the late David Pinkas.”
1952: Israel and the representatives of the World Jewry announced that
they reserved the right to demand restitution payment for the undeclared and
heirless property in Austria.
1952: At this time, life in Israel was very difficult. The Jewish settlers were pioneers in the
truest sense of that term. For example, The Medical Advisory Council told the
government that a large section of the Israeli population, mainly those who
depended solely on the government’s rationing scheme, did not receive
sufficient nutrition.
1953: In Los Angeles, Oscar winning set designer and art director Harry
Horner and the former Joan Frankel gave birth to James Roy Horner the composer
who won two Oscars for the romantic disaster film “Titanic.” (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
1953: “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis” a musical comedy based on the short
stories about this adolescent created by Max Shulman was released in the United
States today.
1953(3rd of Elul, 5713): Eighty-one-year-old Julius Ullman,
the physician who practiced medicine in his home own “for more than sixty
years” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/08/16/92731390.pdf
1953: Forty-eight-year-old Max Colpet (born Max Kolpenitzky) a native of
Koningsberg, whose parents died in a concentration camp during WW II and who
was a friend and a collaborator with fellow artist Billy Wilder became a United
States citizen today.
1955. “Zero Mostel declined to name names and jousted with the members of
Congress, invoked the Fifth Amendment, while standing up for his right to the
privacy of his personal political beliefs.”
1956(7th of Elul, 5716): Forty-year-old German native Ernest
Sawady who came to England before” WW II and served as the rabbi at St.
George’s Settlement Synagogue from 1946 to 1956 passed away today.
1956(7th of Elul, 5715): Seventy-eight-year-old St. Louis native and CCNY trained civil engineer Arthur H.
Diamant the long-time vice president of the Rosoff Subway Construction Company
who “was in charge of building the first section of Sixth Avenue subway line…” who was the brother of Sidney J. Diament and
Mrs. Hattie Nathan passed away today
TimesMachine:
August 15, 1956 - NYTimes.com
1956(7th of Elul, 5715): Eighty-eight-year-old Moses A. Horowitz,
“a founder of Horowitz Brothers and Margareten” the Long Island City makers of
matzoh and noodles who had retired in 1950 passed away today at Mt. Sinai
Hospital after which he was interred at the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood,
NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/15/84935908.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957: Mohammed V, who
according to Meredith Hindley, found Vichy’s laws pertaining to Jews
“appalling” and did what he could given his limited power, to ameliorate their
affect went from being Sultan of Morocco to being King of Morocco.
1959(10th of Av, 5719): Seventy-year-old labor economist,
college professor and author Selig Perlman whose works included A Theory of
the Labor Movement and The History of Trade Unionism in the United
States passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04EFD71F3CE63BBC4D52DFBE668382649EDE
1960: In New Rochelle, NY, Rabbi Simon G. Kramer and Cantor Lawrence
Avery officiated at the wedding of Ida May Adler and Richard J. Mahler, the NYU
trained physician.
1963(24th of Av, 5723): A month after his 57th birthday,
playwright Clifford Odets succumbed to colon cancer.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/17/stage-left
http://blog.roundabouttheatre.org/2013/03/22/playwright-biography-clifford-odets/
1966: At Temple Israel in Great Neck, Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, Rabbi
Theodore Friedman and Cantor Benjamin Siegel officiated at the wedding of Carol
Barbara Feder, the daughter of Dr. Aaron Feder, a clinical professor of
medicine at Cornell and University of Maryland Law School graduate Samuel
Elliot Cohan.
1967(8th of 5727): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1967: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for Carl
Resnikoff, the husband of Mary Resnikoff and the brother of Rabbi Simon
Resnikoff.
1967:
Prof. and Mrs. Walter A. Rosenblith announced the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Sandra Rosenblith, to Sheldon L. Baskin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J.
Baskin of Highland Park, Ill.
1969(30th of Av, 5729): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1969(30th of Av, 5729): Eighty-eight-year-old author and
publisher Leonard Woolf, the husband of Virginia Woolf passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/chapters/1210-1st-glen.html
1971(23rd of Av, 5731): Parashat Eiken
1971(23rd of Av, 5731): Seventy-nine-year-old New York native
Benjamin Cohen, the husband of Anna Klein Cohen and the father of Gerald Robert
Cohen passed away today after which he was buried in “Neveh Zedek-Rose City
Lodge Cemetery” in Portland, OR
1972(4th of Elul, 5732): Actor,
composer and musician Oscar Levant passed away.
http://www.pictureshowman.com/articles_personalities_levant.cfm
1973(16th of Av, 5733): Seventy-eight-year-old Lady Eva Violet Mond
Isaacs, née Melchett, Marchioness of Reading passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/mond-isaacs-eva-violet-second-marchioness-of-reading
1974: “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” produced by Martin Baum, with
music by Jerry Fielding and co-starring Helmut Dantine, an Austrian gentile
whose anti-Nazi activities landed him in a concentration camp after the
Anschluss, was released in the United States.
1974: “Valery and Galina Panov demonstrated outside Soviet Embassy in
London on behalf of Victor Polsky, the Soviet Jewish activist accused of
“dangerous driving”.
1975: A letter from President Gerald R. Ford with today’s date praised
John Gunther Dean, the U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia for carrying out the
evacuation of the capital city which was “one of the most difficult assignments
in the history of the Foreign Service” “with distinction.
1976: It was reported today that “In Morris Township, NJ, the Rabbinical
College of America announced that its new President would be Albert Richman” an
electrical engineering executive who was a graduate of Cooper Union and “a
founding member of the Technion.”
1976: It was reported today that during a White House reception, when
Betty Ford, whose husband is running for re-election “was introduced to Bernice
Tannenbaum, the board nominee for Hadassah president” she “laughed and said,
‘If you’re elected and we’re elected, I’ll see you here again.’”
1977: The new Likud cabinet announced a policy of equalization of
services for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. Officials claimed that
this did not mean annexation or a change in the legal status of these areas, an
opinion which was disputed by Arabs, foreign observers and the press.
1977: The American Jewish leadership asked US President Jimmy Carter to
clarify his position on his possible recognition of the PLO.
1977: According to Time Magazine
Israel provided Lebanese Christians with $30 million to $35million in direct
aid.
1979: After losing her seat in the 1977 elections Esther Herlitz
“returned to the Knesset today as a replacement for the deceased Yehoshua
Rabinovitz.
1979(21st of Av, 5739): Seventy-six-year-old Harry Cutler, the Russian
born son of Elda and Meyer Cutler and husband of Rose Cutler with whom he had
had four children passed away today in Long Beach, CA
1979(21st of Av, 5739): Sixty-seven year old Yehoshua
Rabinovitz, who had served a Minster of Housing and Minister of Finance, passed
away today.
1980: Jimmy Carter, the man who brokered the Camp David Peace Accords,
was nominated by the Democrats for a second term.
1980: Bruce Sundlun who become Rhode Island’s second Jewish Governor was
a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which came to an end today.
1981(14th of Av, 5741): Sixty-five-year-old Morton B. Levin, a
native of Philadelphia who worked for the federal government for over 3 decades
and who was a member of Adas Israel passed away today.
1981: Warner Bros. released “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) the
Oscar winning song “written by Burt Bacharach, and Carole Bayer Sager.
1982: In Moscow, Anna Shulkina and Aleksandr Epshteyn gave birth to Boris
Epshteyn investment banker and attorney, turned Chief Political Analyst for the
Sinclair Broadcast and “senior advisor to Donald Trump whose marriage to Lauren
Tanick Ephsteyn in 2009 has produced one child to date.
http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/boris_epshteyn.html
1982: Birthdate of Benjamin Cohen who became known for his dot.com
enterprises as a teenager and for a dispute with Apple computers over the
domain itunes.co.uk. In 2006, he became technology correspondent for Channel 4
News in the UK
1983: Elvira and Mark
Kunis gave birth Mila Kunis who plays “Jackie” on the television hit, That 70’s
Show.
1983(6th of Elul,
5743): Seventy-six year old Brooklyn born Julius Yablok, the son of Lena and
Louis Yablok and the husband of Miriam Yablok who played quarterback for
Colgate University, coached St. Francis College and law partner of Mickey
Marcus passed away today in California.
1985(27th of
Av, 5745): Eighty-six-year-old actress Edith Holm "Gale" Sondergaard
who along with her husband writer Herbert Biberman was blacklisted passed away
today.
1986(9th of Av, 5746):
Tish'a B'Av
1987: Premiere of “No
Way Out” co-produced by Laura Ziskin
1987(19th of Av, 5747):
In Little Rock, Arkansas, Sheldon Luber, son of Elaine and Harvey Luber passed
away. He left us too soon, but he will
always be remembered.
1989(13th of
Av, 5749): Ninety-two-year-old Rosa Levin Toubin, the daughter of Joe Levin and
wife of Sam H. Toubin passed away. A
native of Brenham, TX, this graduate of Rice University demonstrated her skill
as a Jewish Texan historian with the publication of History B’nai Abraham Synagouge.
1989(13th of Av, 5749):
Sir Dove-Myer Robinson passed away. Born in 1901, he “was Mayor of Auckland
City from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980, the longest tenure of any holder
of the office. He was a colorful character and became affectionately known across
New Zealand as "Robbie". He was one of several Jewish mayors of
Auckland, although he rejected Judaism as a teenager and became a lifelong
atheist. He has been described as a "slight, bespectacled man whose tiny
stature was offset by a booming voice and massive ego.”
1990: Leonard Bernstein
conducted Copland's Symphony No. 3, BMCO
1991: Comedian
Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld.
1991: In “The Pioneers
of Israel Long Before the State” published today Herbert Mitgang reviewed The
Blue Mountain by one of Israel’s premier authors Meir Shalev.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/14/books/books-of-the-times-the-pioneers-of-israel-long-before-the-state.html
1993: According to
Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman the authorization for the Argentinian
prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the authorization for the bombing of the AMIA
(Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) was given at today’s meeting of Iran’s
National Security Council (As reported by Adiv Sterman)
1994: The fifth
congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies opened today in
Copenhagen.
1994: Ilich Ramírez
Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", was captured.
Carlos involvement with Arab Terrorists, specifically the Marxist Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) began in 1970. By July 1970 Ramirez was
at a training camp in Jordan and after a meeting with Abu-Sharif the PFLP's
recruiting officer he became known as Carlos the Jackal. The PFLP gained
strength and started to form alliances with other terrorist groups such as the
Baader-Meinhof gang and the Italian Red Brigade. Carlos' reputation within the
organization grew after "Black September" where he fought against the
Jordanian army trying to purge their country of terrorists. In 1972, the PFLP
ordered Carlos to kill a respected member of the Jewish community in London,
Edward Sieff the president of Marks & Spencer. In December 1973 Carlos went
to Sieffs house and shot him, luckily not fatally. Carlos had preceded this by
a hand grenade attack on the London headquarters of an Israeli bank and a car
bomb in Paris in 1972, which injured 63 people. His international reputation
was born. In 1976 he was involved in a skyjacking of an Air France jet to
Uganda that lead to the famous raid on Entebbe by Israeli Special Forces
1994(7th of Elul,
5754): Hamas took credit for the murder
of 18 year old Ron Saval today in an ambush near the Kissufim Junction.
1994(7th of Elul,
5754): Eighty-nine-year-old Elias
Canetti, a novelist, playwright and cultural historian who won the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1981, passed away today (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/press.html
1996(29th of Av, 5756):
Eighty-eight-year-old Albert Neuberger, the German born physician who was a
Professor of Chemical Pathology and a Fellow of the Royal Society, passed away.
https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-professor-albert-neuberger-5603945.html
1998: “Slums of Beverly
Hills” a comedy about “a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970s
in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months”
directed and written by Tamara Jenkins, co-starring Natasha Lyonne Alan Arkin
and Carl Reiner and featuring David Krumholtz and Carl Reiner was released
today in the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
1999(2nd of Elul,
5759): Phillip Klutznick, U.S. Secretary
of Commerce under President Carter, passed away
2000: “The White House
has calculated that the effective deadline for a final Middle East peace
settlement during the Clinton presidency is the end of September, a senior
administration official said today” and the senior official also said President
Clinton is prepared to reconvene a summit meeting -- intense, but shorter than
last month's Camp David talks -- but only if he is assured that the Israelis
and Palestinians are ready to settle all outstanding issues, including
Jerusalem…”
2001: In Israel's
deepest thrust into Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank, army
tanks rolled early today into Jenin, the suspected base for some of the suicide
bombers who have attacked Israel in recent weeks. The Israelis withdrew from
the city about three hours later, after their bulldozers demolished a
Palestinian police station.
2002: “In an….interview
with American Journalist Amy Goodman Shulamit Aloni described how she believes
the charge of antisemitism is used to suppress criticism of Israel.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2002/8/14/stream
2002(6th of
Elul, 5762): Seventy-eight-year-old artist Larry Rivers (Yitzroch Loiza
Grossberg) passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/arts/larry-rivers-artist-with-an-edge-dies-at-78.html
2002: Argentine pianist
“Alberto Portugheis was the only Europe-based pianist to play in the concert
"Homage to V Scaramuzza" at the Colon Theatre” today.
2003(16th
of Av, 5763): Moshe Carmel “an Israeli soldier and politician who served as
Minister of Transportation for eight years” passed away today.
2004(27th
of Av, 5764): Parashat Re’eh
2004:
This evening, at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, Rabbi David H. Lincoln
officiated at the wedding of Rachael Mara Sandrew and Joshua M. Silverman.
2005(9th of Av, 5765):
Tish'a B'Av:
2005: “The evacuation
of Neve Dekalim” an Israeli settlement in Gaza was completed today as part of
the unilateral disengagement plan that was supposed to put an end to violence
in the Gaza Strip.
2005: Members of the
Ukrainian Conservative party demanded that Jews be prevented from teaching the
Tanya in Jewish schools and synagogues. While Ukrainian officials denied any
anti-Semitic intentions, others saw a link between this policy and those being...
2005: The
Jerusalem Post reported that “members of the
Ukrainian Conservative Party and several far right-wing editors demanded that
Jews be prevented from teaching the Tanya in Jewish schools and
synagogues.” While Ukrainian officials
at the embassy in Tel Aviv offered assurances that their government was opposed
to any anti-Semitic behaviors, others saw a similarity between these demands
and those being made in other republics of the former Soviet Union.
2005: The
Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that the Library of American will publish an eight-volume
collection Phillip Roth’s novels and stories beginning later this summer. Roth joins Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty as
the only American to have their complete works preserved by the Library of
America during their lifetimes.
2005: The Sunday New York Times
book section included a review of The Last Expedition: Stanley’s Mad Journey
Through the Congo by Daniel Liebowitz and Charles Pearson which
describes the quest to find Emin
Pasha who was a Silesian born Jew named Isaak Eduard Schnitzer
2006: A
U.N. sponsored cease fire takes place along the border between Israel and
Lebanon marking an end to five weeks of fighting.
2006: Kohenet’s first Hebrew Priestess Training Institute began
today, at the Elat Chayyim Retreat Center in Accord, NY
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/14/2006/kohenet-hebrew-priestess-institute
2006: A
Polish humanitarian organization is working to provide humanitarian assistance
to hard-hit residents of northern Israel.
2006: Cease
fire goes into effect intended to end the “war” between Israel and Hezbollah in
Lebanon.
2006: A
month “after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot killing eight Israel
Railways workers service was restored today to the KIryat Motzkin Railway
Station, “an Israel Railways passenger station serving the city of Kiryat
Motzkin and the surrounding Kerayot region.”
2007: Haaretz reported that fifty-nine years
after they were killed in the War of Independence near the Arab village of Tel
Arish, the Israel Defense Forces has identified the bodies of five fighters.
The men were soldiers in Battalion 52 of the Givati Brigade, and have been
identified as First Lieutenant Yehiel Rosenfeld, Private David Kohavi, Private
Itzhak Hamami, Private Yehoshua Lustig and a fifth soldier. The remains of the
soldiers, who up until now were considered missing, were identified in unmarked
graves in the Nahalat Itzhak cemetery. Their families have been notified. The
mission to locate the bodies has gone on for approximately ten years. Nine
months ago, the graves of the five were dug up, and samples from the bodies
were sent to a laboratory in the United States, where
2007: Rosh
Chodesh Elul, 5767
2008: In Becket, MA, Gallim Dance appears
at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. “Prior to founding Gallim Dance, artistic
director Andrea Miller danced with master choreographer Ohad Naharin’s
Batsheva, in Tel Aviv. Now, Miller presents her own explosive movement
vocabulary, which hangs somewhere between elegance and insanity, in this smart,
powerful program.”
2008(13th
of Av, 5768):
Marvin Pomerantz, 78, a friend and adviser of Republican governors and
presidents for four decades who twice served as president of the Iowa Board of
Regents, passed away today in Iowa City.
http://okhenderson.com/2008/08/20/in-memoriam-marvin-pomerantz/
http://iowaindependent.com/4086/former-regent-gop-political-adviser-marvin-pomerantz-dies-at-78
2009: In New
York, opening performance of “Peace Warrior” by Israeli Professor Doron
Ben-Atar of Fordham University. a historian of the early American republic and
a playwright.
2009: In New
York, Rooftop Films presents a screening of “Bloomfield or a Childhood
Memory" by Eran Barak.
2009: Willy
Ronis celebrates his 99th birthday. “The sole survivor of a generation of famous French photographers that
included Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau, Ronis has become a media
darling. Yet, this son of a Ukrainian-Jewish portrait photographer father and a
Lithuanian-Jewish pianist mother, both of whom fled pogroms to settle in Paris,
still remains a belatedly recognized outsider. Ronis’s religious mother made
sure her son had a Jewish education (Willy was bar mitzvahed at Paris’s
venerable Grande Synagogue on the Rue de la Victoire, familiarly known as the
Rothschild-Schule). Ronis, however, remained an nonbeliever like his agnostic
father, reserving his real devotion for the labor movement. Outraged to see his
father working himself to an early death, the young Willy, despite years of
studying to be a violinist and composer (the latter studies were with the noted
French-Jewish musician André Bloch), became his ailing father’s assistant. An
unrelenting diet of tediously static identity photos and posed marriage
snapshots spurred Ronis to redefine photography for himself as something
essentially dynamic, capturing movement on the spur of the moment with
crackling energy. Soon after his father’s death in 1936, Ronis created some of
his most celebrated images, like “Front Populaire, 14 Juillet 1936” (“The
Popular Front,” July 14, 1936), which immortalized the revelry of humble
Parisians after the election of Léon Blum, the first Socialist — and first
Jewish — premier of France. A moderate left-winger, Blum resolved to augment
workers’ rights, and despite many attacks, such as one by a right-wing National
Assembly deputy who termed Blum a “cunning Talmudist,” the newly elected
Socialist was widely seen widely as a symbol of hope (short-lived, as it turned
out). Ronis’s immediate empathy with workers was translated into photos marked
with seemingly unplanned architectural symmetry (which Ronis himself has
likened to Bach’s counterpoint), especially when compared to the relatively
cold formalism of Cartier-Bresson, or the sometimes sentimental, staged images
of Doisneau. Armed with a secondhand Rolleiflex, Ronis captured vivid,
strikingly natural-seeming images like “Rose Zehner, Grève aux Usines
Javel-Citroën, 1938” (“Rose Zehner, Strike at the Javel-Citroën Factory,
1938”), showing a powerful female labor organizer haranguing fellow workers
with theatrical zest. Depicting hefty French laborers as moving with the grace
of professional dancers became a Ronis specialty. His subject, Rose Zehner,
soon became a Resistance fighter. Zehner would be reunited with Ronis decades
later in a 1982 feature-length documentary film, “Un Voyage de Rose” (“Rose’s
Voyage”), in which both photographer and subject reminisced about their
left-wing friends of long ago. These included French-Jewish cinematographer and
union activist Henri Alekan and popular singer Francis Lemarque (born Nathan
Korb of Lithuanian-Polish Jewish origin). More pertinent to Ronis’s growing
aesthetic mastery was his collegial friendships with fellow photographers like
Izis (born Israëlis Bidermanas in Lithuania), David “Chim” Seymour (born David
Szymin in Warsaw) and Robert Capa (born Endre Ernö Friedmann in Budapest). The
steady rise of European fascism made Ronis feel especially close to these
émigré friends and colleagues. Already feeling excluded as a boy, due to
schoolyard antisemitic jokes, Ronis was not inclined to try to live under the
German occupation overoptimistically, as many French Jews did at first. As
Ronis recently told a Radio France Internationale interviewer with typical lapidary
concision, “I didn’t want to wear a yellow star.” So he fled to the South of
France with false papers (his mother, who refused to leave Paris, managed to
survive the occupation, shielded by friends and neighbors). After the war, when
Ronis returned to Paris with the woman who would become his wife, he quickly
realized that many of his Jewish relatives, friends and neighbors had not been
as fortunate. An atypically tragic aura invades some of Ronis’s postwar photos,
like those taken at a 1949 commemoration held at Oradour-sur-Glane in west
central France, the site of a Nazi massacre where almost an entire village,
including women and children, was burned alive. Ronis’s images taken during the
commemoration ceremony show visitors (especially children) reacting to the site
with somber reverence. As if in a subliminal search for other survivors, Ronis
soon became a visual poet of Belleville, then, as now, a lower-class Parisian
neighborhood with a historic population of Jewish residents. As Karen Adler’s perceptive
“Jews and Gender in Liberation France” (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
notes, Ronis “humanized Belleville’s poverty and architectural decline” after
World War II. Essential to his capturing of these lines and forms is that for a
while after the war, cars were still very scarce, until eventually they
returned in force to Paris, suffocating the city. Away from Paris the same
year, Ronis took what remains his most loved photo, “Le Nu Provençal: Gordes,
1949” (“Nude in Provence, Gordes, 1949”), a celebration of sensuality that
shows his wife at a wash basin in a village bedroom in Southern France. Despite
such exultant imagery, to some observers Ronis retains a sense of dislocation
and apartness that is integral to his artistry. His friend and fellow photographer
Brassaï dedicated his volume of “Conversations With Picasso” “to Willy Ronis,
the distant one.” Amid all the merited hoopla, it is worth recalling that this
photographer’s sheer survival has an element of the escape artist to it, a
sleight of hand that perhaps can never be fully analyzed or understood. Having
retired from photography almost a decade ago because of arthritis, and having
survived his wife as well as their son, Vincent, Ronis now lives in a humble
two-room flat in Belleville. He emerges for public appearances and patiently
receives visitors eager to interview and photograph him, sometimes with frankly
odd results. Despite what seems like friendly forbearing toward young
shutterbugs, Ronis recently confessed to the French daily Le Monde: “I have
little esteem for machine-gun [photographers]. It may be a severe notion of my
trade, but I believe an image must be deserved before it can be taken.” Ronis
has deserved, and taken, some of the memorable images of his century.”
2009(24th of Av, 5769): Erev Shabbat, Leonard Arik Karp, 59,
was accosted and murdered by a gang of youths while walking with his wife and
daughter along the Tel Aviv beachfront tonight.
2009: The City of Pittsburgh designated today as “Evelyn Kozak Day” which
coincide with her 110th birthday.
2010: The 35th Hutzot Hayotzer International Craft Fair is
scheduled to come to an end.
2010(4th of Elul, 5770): Eighty-eight-year-old Moshe “Misha”
Lewin, Polish born Holocaust surviror and noted Russian history professor
passed away today.
http://www.upenn.edu/emeritus/memoriam/Lewin.html
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/lewinm.html
2010: The Daily Mail rates
Issac Rosenberg as one of the ten greatest British poets.
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/lewinm.html
2011: The headstone unveiling for Rose Becker is scheduled to take place
today at Eben Israel Cemetery
2011: The 31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is
scheduled to open today in Washington hosted by the Jewish Genealogy Society of
Greater Washington.
2011: The JCC Maccabi Games are
scheduled to open in Philadelphia, PA and Springfield, Mass.
2011: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia
O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume I, 1915-1933 edited by Sarah
Greenough and recently released paperback editions of Dreyfus: Politics,
Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, by Ruth Harris, Where I Live:
New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin and The Cookbook
Collector by Allegra Goodman.
2011:
Twenty high-school teachers brought to
Israel by the UK-based Holocaust Education Trust will complete a 10-day
education training seminar at the International School for Holocaust Studies at
Yad Vashem. The group, which arrived in Israel on August 5, participated in a
series of workshops and lectures conducted by leading academics and experts,
covering issues such as 19th-century anti-Semitism in Europe, Jewish life
between the world wars in Poland, the Final Solution, and Jewish theological
responses to the Holocaust.(As reported by Jerusalem Post)
2011:
Israeli NBA star Omri Casspi is
returning to Maccabi Tel Aviv, David Federman, one of the club's owners said in
an interview with Army Radio today. According to Federman, the majority of
Casspi's contract has been negotiated and he will be joining Maccabi for the
upcoming season, granted the NBA labor dispute continues and the 2011-2012 NBA
season is delayed or canceled all together as many suspect. (As reported by
Jerusalem Post)
2011: Egypt, in coordination with Israel, has deployed its military in
the northern Sinai Peninsula in order to gain control over the anarchy that has
taken hold of the region, a senior Israeli defense official said on today.
2011(14th of Av, 5771): Seventy-seven-year-old transplant
expert Dr. Fritz Bach passed away. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/us/18bach.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2012: The Eyal Vilner Big Band, led by Tel Aviv native Eyal Vilner, is
scheduled to perform at the Garage Restaurant in NYC.
2012:
Sacramento city leaders are scheduled
to vote on a resolution making Ashkelon its 10th sister city (As reported by
Ari Ben Goldberg)
2012: The price of a price-controlled loaf of will bread is scheduled to
rise by 6.53% today. “The price of standard 750-gram loafs of dark or white
bread will rise to NIS 5.24; a 500-gram challah will increase to NIS 5.72; a
750-gram loaf of sliced and packaged dark bread will cost NIS 7.87; and a
500-gram loaf of sliced and packaged white bread will cost NIS 6.99.”(As
reported by Jerusalem Post)
2012: Funeral services for Zev Wolfson are scheduled to be at Sh’or
Yoshuv Institute followed by interment at Wellwood Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY.
2012:
European rabbis said today that they
were lobbying Apple Inc. to pull a mobile app version of “The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion,” a notorious anti-Semitic forgery
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-call-for-apple-to-drop-elders-app-from-itunes/
2012: Some 350 new immigrants from North America — including five sets of
twins and two sets of triplets — were welcomed personally by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport this morning. “I’m proud of you,” the
prime minister told the group. “We’re all proud of you. Friends of Israel,
Jewish and non-Jewish alike, are all proud of you.”
2013: Noam Kat, the Minister for Public Diplomacy at the Embassy of
Israel is scheduled to provide a briefing on The Middle East Process.
2013: Israeli jazz guitarist Assaf Kehati and his trio are scheduled to
perform at the Bar Next Door in New York City.
2013: Today, Kevin “Pillar was called up to the Blue Jays for the first
time in his career.”
2013: The inauguration of Rabbi David Lau “took place today at the official
residence of the President of Israel.”
2013:
The IDF launched an airstrike on Gaza early this morning in response to rockets
fired into southern Israel from the territory, the army said in a statement.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches-airstrike-after-gaza-rockets-target-israel/
2013:
Twenty-six convicted Palestinian terrorists were freed by Israel, and welcomed
home to the West Bank and Gaza, as part of the US-brokered deal that enabled
the resumption of peace talks. (As reported by Asher Zeiger and Michal
Shmulovich)
2014: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host
“Jewish Italy: Food Culture and Travel” during which attendees can “discover
Italy’s cucina ebraica (“Hebrew kitchen”) and desserts like sour cherry
cheesecake from Rome’s famed Forno del Ghetto.”
2014: “The owners of 21 grocery store branches and kiosks”
are scheduled to attend court session in Tel Aviv this morning “where they are
expected to be ordered to close on Saturday.” (As reported by Niv Elis)
2014:” The State
Department confirmed today that weapons shipments to Israel would be undergoing
additional review due to the war in Gaza, but denied reports that the Pentagon
had engaged in weapons transfers to Israel behind the back of the White House
and State Department.” (As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
2014: “The Simon
Wiesenthal center requested that a small hamlet south of Paris known as
La-Mort-aux Juifs—‘Death to the Jews’—since the 11th century change its name.”
(As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014: “Today, the South
African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) initiated both criminal and civil
charges against Tony Ehrenreich, provincial secretary of the Western Cape
branch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, for hate speech and
incitement to violence against the Jewish community’s leadership” when he wrote
“The time has come to say very clearly that if a woman or child is killed in
Gaza, then the Jewish board of deputies, who are complicit, will feel the wrath
of the People of SA with the age old biblical teaching of an eye for an eye,”
he wrote. “The time has come for the conflict to be waged everywhere the
Zionist supporters fund and condone the war killing machine of Israel.”
2014(18th of
Av, 5774): Eighty-year-old Leonard J. Fein the Jewish man of letters who
founded and edited Moment Magazine and who was the brother of Rashi Fein passed
away today.
http://www.jta.org/2014/08/14/news-opinion/leonard-fein-liberal-activist-and-scholar-dies
2015: In “Sabbath”
published today, Oliver Sacks examines the big questions of life using the
Jewish day of rest as his point of reference.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html?_r=0
2015: Shira Garielov, the
Israeli musician who “was kicked off American Idol” and is working on “her
second LP for the Israeli market” is scheduled to perform at Arlene’s Grocery.”
2015: After premiering at
the Sundance Film Festival in January, “Mistress America” a comedy directed,
produced and written by Noah Baumbach was released in the United States today.
2015: After premiering at
the Washington Jewish Film Festival in February, “Rosenwald a documentary film
directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of American businessman and
philanthropist Julius Rosenwald was released in the United States today.
2015: The Secure
Community Network issued an alert today warning that Hamza bin Laden, who has
ambitions to lead al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization founded by his father,
posted an audio message calling “for the targeting of Jewish American interests
globally.”
2015: Prime Minister
“Netanyahu announced the appointment” Danny Danon who in 2013 “asserted that
his Likud Party’ was “staunchly opposed to a two-state solution” “as Israel’s
next Ambassador to the United Nations.” (As reported by David Horovitz)
2015: An exhibition
featuring the work of Haifa born artist Guy Yanai is scheduled to come to an
end today.
http://www.amy-nyc.com/exhibitions/guy-yanai
2016:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including American Heiress: The Wild Sage of the Kidnapping, Crimes and
Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin and Cousin Joseph: A Graphic
Novel written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer.
2016:
the UKJF is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Bulgarian Rhapsody” –
Bulgaria’s official submission to the 2015 Academy Awards.
2016:
“Shadows From My Past” is scheduled to be shown today as part of the Tisha B’av
Film Series.
2016(10th
of Av, 5776): Fast of Tisha B’Av observed since the 9th of Av fell
on Shabbat.
2016(10th
of Av, 5776): Ninety-three-year-old Obie award winning actor Fyvush Finkel
passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2017:
“The Police National Fraud Unit today detained Israeli diamond mogul Beny
Steinmetz and four others for questioning in a money-laundering investigation
involving real estate deals abroad, police said in a statement.” (As reported
by Stuart Winer)
2017(22nd
of Av, 5777): Ninety-seven year old St. John Law School grad Milton Mollen, the
navigator who spent part of WW II in a Nazi POW camp and who was the leader of
the corruption fighting Mollen Commission passed away today. (As reported by
Joseph P. Fried)
2017: In New Orleans, Kenneth Hoffman is scheduled
to his new position today as the executive director of the Museum of the
Southern Jewish Experience.
2017:
“The Legacy of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home” an exhibition that “highlights the
oldest Georgia-based Jewish non-profit from inception to present through
photography and stories” is scheduled to open today at the Breman Museum
2017:
Israeli singer and actress Miri Mesika is scheduled to host Yehuda Poliker at
the Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair today.
http://www.hebrewsongs.com/artists-yehudapoliker.htm
2018:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Through Lotte’s Lens” a
documentary that tells the extraordinary story of the ‘Hitler Émigrés’, the
refugees – mainly Jewish who escaped the Nazi regime in the 1930s and found
refuge in the UK.”
2018:
“The Israeli rock band ‘Tattoo’ is scheduled to open tonight’s performance by
“English song-writer and singer Marc Almond” at the Caesarea Amphitheatre in
the Israeli seaside resort city that dates back to Roman times.
2019:
The Jerusalem Municipality, in cooperation with the Youth Division of the
Football Association and the Referees Union” are scheduled to host the
Jerusalem Football Cup Tournament for the second time at the Kraft Sports
Center in the Jerusalem Valley.
2019:
A reception is scheduled to be held today in Berlin marking a photo exhibition
featuring the works of “Israeli photographer, videographer and visual
storyteller Boaz Arad.
2019:
Tel Aviv born drummer Daniel Dor is scheduled play with saxophonist Daniel
Zamir and guitarist NItzan Bar in Jerusalem
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “As Dr. Ruth.”
2019:
In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host the Executive Committee
Meeting of the Jewish Federation.
2020:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Poland 1939: The Outbreak of
World War II by Roger Moorhouse and Time of the Magicians by Wolfram
Ellenberger
2021:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Singing at the
Square: The Female Version” featuring Noa LeBren and Yoss Reuven singing
feminine interpretations of well-known Israeli songs typically sung by men.”
2021:
In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host ”A Special
Concert
In
Memory of Prof. Alexander Tamir commemorating two years since his passing
2021(6th
of Elul, 5781): Parashat Shoftim
2022:
The Museum of Jewish is scheduled to host a screening of “The Flat” followed by
a discussion of this Aron Goldfinger film.
2022:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “Eldridge Eats: A History of
the Lower East Side Food Tour” during which participants “visit historic Lower
East Side sites and nosh on delicious rugelach, pickles, knishes, and
dumplings!”
2022:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to a host conversation between Dr.
Yoel Finkelman is Curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at
the National Library of Israel and Ruth R. Wisse, author of Free as a Jew: A
Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation in which she reflects on her experience fleeing the
Holocaust as a child, living through the birth of the State of Israel, and
teaching Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University
for more than 20 years.
2022:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Digital Republic: On
Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind.
2023:
For those who cannot make it in person the Museum at Eldrige Street is
scheduled to host a “Virtual Walking Tour of the Lower East Side.”
2023:
“Daniela Haviv, a singer songwriter from California is scheduled to bring
“country flavored music” to Tel Aviv with a debut performance at The Guitar
Loft.
2023:
Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to begin his vacation today after
delaying it by one day “to meet with security officials, although his plans may
have also been changed after protesters planned to disrupt his arrival at a
resort on the Golan Heights and local farmers said they would resist any
restrictions imposed on them that would interfere with their ability to reach
their orchards.” (As reported by Attila Somfalvi, Itamar Eichner, Moran Azulay
and Yair Kraus)
2023:
In Cambridge, MA the Belmont World Festival is scheduled to present the New
England premier of “Stay With Us,” a film “by and about Gad Elmaleh” who was
“named France’s funniest comedian.
2023:
The Parliament of the World’s Religion which feature a presentation by Leah
Rauch, the director of education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled
to begin today at the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place.
2023:
In Metairie, LA, Shir Chadash, the Conservative Congregation is scheduled to
hold its board meeting.
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Making
Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Deuteronomy 18,
Prophecy.”
2024:
Chabad of Louisiana and Chabad Jewish Center of Metairie are scheduled to present: “Survival Through Song: An Evening
with Survivor Saul Dreier” who endured the horrors of World War II, surviving
ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps, including a stint at Schindler's
factory and who emerged as the sole survivor of his family and led to the
founding of the Holocaust Survivor Band—a symbol of the healing power of music
and human resilience.
2024:
Chabad is scheduled to host “With a Full Heart: Rambam on Divine Service” the
third class in the Rambam Revolution.
2024:
The annual summer festival of literary performances sponsored by Agnon House is
scheduled to begin tonight performances of "Shira Darling" - an
original traveling show following the novel "Shira" by S.Y. Agnon
and "Outdoor Dog" - an original musical performance about Kafka and
Agnon's dogs,
2024:
The Sixth and I Synagogue is scheduled to host the second session of the
Interfaith Couples Workshop.
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, President Brian Cohen is scheduled to chair the board meeting
at Temple Judah.
2024:As
August 14th 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 313 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)
