This Day, August 9, In Jewish History by Mitchel A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 9
48 B.C.E.: Julius
Caesar defeated Pompey at the battle of Parsalus. This victory helped to cement
Caesar’s position and put an end to Pompey. Considering Pompey’s behavior
towards the Jews, including his desecration of the Temple, Caesar’s victory was
the preferred outcome.
378: Roman Emperor
Valens who began his reign in 364, was killed by the Visigoths as he led his
large to defeat at the Battle of Adrianople.
During his reign Valens followed the course of his predecessors and
issued an edict strengthening the Patriarchate.
He issued an edict that exempted “officers of communities subject to the
‘illustrious Patriarch (Nasi)’ from service on municipal councils. In 368 he issued an edict forbidding the
billeting of troops in Synagogues. Such
minor sounding positive notes, makes him better than his imperial peers when it
came to treatment of the Jewish people.
681: Founding of the
first Bulgarian Empire. Archaeologists have found traces of Jewish communities
in the area that pre-dated the formation of Bulgaria. The first major movement of Jews into
Bulgaria took place early in the 8th century when Jews fled
persecution in the Byzantine Empire.
1471:
The Papacy of Sixtus IV began. “In Italy the reign of Sixtus IV marks a high
point of tolerance. The pope used Jewish physicians, and perhaps employed Jews
for the collection, copying, and translation of Hebrew works. He refused to
canonize Simon of Trent, allegedly a victim of Jewish ritual murder. It is
clear, however, that the pope's tolerance was offset, outside his own domains,
by local hostility. A generous bull of 1479 concerning the Jews of Avignon was
questioned and subsequently withdrawn. In November 1478 the pope issued a bull
investing Ferdinand and Isabella with extraordinary powers to appoint
inquisitors in all parts of Castile.” (Jewish Virtual Library) This was the first step in what would lead to
the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
1506: Prince
Yaroslavitch established the community of Pinsk. At the same time, he
reconfirmed the rights given to the Jews by King Alexander Jagello, King of
Lithuania.
1612: Thirty-five-year-old
Count Philip Ludwig II who invited Jews to settle in Hanau, “permitted them to
build a synagogue and gave them legal status” in spite of opposition from the
Christian clergy passed away today.
1623: Today an entry in
the Jewish Cemetery at Amsterdam made reference to “a daughter of an Englsh Jew
who was interred “behind the boards of
the Bet Haim (cemetery) pm the footing a German Jew, because her mother had not
bathed.” According to Lucien Wolf “this doubtless refers to the wife of
‘Abraham the Proselyte,’ and shows that at this period she had not been
formally received into the Synagogue.”
1732(18th of
Av, 5492): Rabbi Yaakov Culi the Talmudist and Biblical commentator who was the
grandson of Moses ibn Habib, passed away in Constantinople.
1753(9th of
Av, 5513): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time since Jewish Naturalization
Act, allowing naturalization of Jews had received royal assent. (The victory
was short-lived since the act was repealed a year later.)
1761(9th of,
5521): Tish’a B’Av
1762: In Savannah,
Rinah de Lydon, the daughter of Joseph and Leah Tobias and her husband Isaac de
Lyon gave birth to Esther Moses
1772(10th of
Av, 5332): Tish’a B’Av observed
1773: Adoption of the
"General-Juden-Reglement" which provided the rules used to govern the
newly acquired Jewish subjects that Frederick the Great acquired from the
partition of Poland.
1780(8th of
Av, 5540): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that a Spanish fleet and a
squadron for French ships captured a large convoy of British merchant ships,
thus providing necessary aid and comfort to their American allies during the
American Revolution.
1786(15th of
Av, 5546): Tu B’Av celebrated on the same day that Gouverneur Morris moved to
require that fourteen years of citizenship, instead of four years of
citizenship be required to serve as a Senator and Mr. Pinckney expressed his
opposition to the measure because he saw it as a way of “discouraging
meritorious aliens from entering” the United States. (Editor’s note – the
immigration battles are almost as old as the United States itself.
1793(1st of
Elul, 5553): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1793(1st of
Elul, 5553): Jacob Aaron passed away today ervev Shabbat which meant he would
not be buried in the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery until Sunday.
1807(5th of Av): Rabbi
Ze’ev Lesh, author of Kedushat Yisrael, passed away
1815: In Ekenbach
Alsenborn, Germay, Simon Joseph Fels and his wife gave birth to Lazarus Fels,
the husband of Susannah Fels
1816(15th of
Av, 5576): Tu B’Av observed on the day that former President John Adams wrote
to former President Thomas Jefferson concerning the publication of a biograph
of “M Vander Kemp. (Editor’s note – this correspondence on the Jewish holiday
of love is quite fitting because it is representative of the renewal of old
friendship that had gotten lost in the anger of partisan politics.)
1819: With the mobs
crying “Hep, hep!” an anti-Semitic riot broke out in Frankfort.
1821:
Birthdate of Austrian poet Heinrich Landesmann.
1824(15th
of Av, 5584): Tu B’Av observed for the last time during the Presidency of James
Monroe, a supporter of Uriah P. Levy
1826(6th
of Av, 5586): Meir Ben Moses Kurnik, “the German rabbi and calendar maker from
Glogau” passed away today at Hamburg.
1827: Birthdate of
William Morris Stewart, the Senator from Nevada who defended the Jews of
Romania from an attack by Senator Sprague.
Sprague said the Jews were to blame for their suffering because of the
economic success. “Mr. Stewart said he hoped Mr. Sprague did not mean to imply
that when a man gets rich he ought to be killed.” Senator Sprague gave a faint
smile but made no reply.
1828: At Kent Road,
London, Daniel Levy and Amelia Jacobs gave birth to Charlotte Levy.
1828: Birthdate of
Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff who gained fame as Conrad von Bolanden the author
of Judas Makkabaeus, a novella which
appeared in Der Gefangene von Kuestrin
in 1885
1829(10th of
Av, 5589): Tisha B’Av observed
1831: In Bavaria, Josep
Triest and Caroline Hollander gave birth to future Charleston, SC resident Maier
Triest, the husband of Hannah Richmond and the father of Montague and Caroline
Triest.
1831: The foundations
stone of the Montefiore Synagogue was designed by David Mocatta, was laid today
at Ramsgate on the estate of Sir Moses Montefirore.
1832: The seconds for
James Jones Stark, who refused to apologize for calling Phillip Minis a “damned
Jew” and the seconds for Minis met in Savannah to discuss the terms for the
duel between the two men.
1836: Birthdate of
Hamburg, Germany native August Hamberg, the husband of Mathilda Hamberg.
1836: In New York City,
Jacob and Belvidere del Mar, gave birth to their “oldest son Alexander del Mar”
“an American political economist, historian, numismatist and author” who “was
the first director of the Bureau of Statistics at the U.S. Treasury Department.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/282579.Alexander_del_Mar
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-alexander-del-mar-who-scooped.html
1837(8th of
Av, 5597): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time during the presidency
of Martin Van Buren.
1839(29th of
Av, 5599):Sixty-year-old Charlotte Abrahams, the New York born daughter of
Abraham Isaac Abrahams passed away today.
1839: Today “Rabbis
Samuel Aba and Pinchas Shapiro, two brothers in charge of a large Chasidic
printing plant in Slavuta, Poland, received 1,500 lashes each and were
imprisoned for life in a Moscow jail.” (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
1845(6th of
Av, 5605): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon is observed for the first time
during the Presidency of James K. Polk.
1846: In Savannah, GA,
Emanuel Sheftall, the Savannah born son of Emanuel Shefall and grandson of
Sarah and Levi Sheftall and his wife Jane Sheftall gave birth to Mary W.
Cramer, the wife of both Samuel H. Bowman and Robert Godwin Cramer.
1848: Birthdate of
Australian native Alfred David Benjamin who “immigrated to Canada in 1873 and
entered the wholesale hard business” and became a leader of the Holy Blossom
Temple in Toronto.
1849: In Colorado
County, TX Friedericke (Litzmann) and Hermann Nagel gave birth to St. Louis resident
and Washington University Law graduate Charles Nagel, the husband Fannie Brandies
and brother-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis who in 1909
succeeded Osca Straus ad United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
1850(1st of Elul,
5610): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1850(1st of Elul,
5610): Miss Rachel Myers Cohen of Philadelphia passed away at the age of 70.
1851: In Mitau,
Courland, Russia, Selig Braude and his wife gave birth to Abraham Samuel Braude
who served as the rabbi at Mitau before coming to the United States in 1891
where he became the Rabbi of Congregation Ohave Sholem Mariampol at 1347 South
Canal in Chicago, Illinois.
1854(15th of
Av, 5614): Tu B’Av
1854: John Zachariah
Laurence married Miriam Solomon at the Western Synagogue today.
1854: Isaac Mozes
Pereira Mendoza married Sara Isaac Monis at the Portuguese Jewish Synagogue in
Amsterdam.
1855: As further proof
of the existence of a Jewish community from the earliest days of the Lone Star
State, The San Antonio Texan reported today on the excitement that has gripped
this city during its recent election. "In fact the excitement reached
every class of our citizens, old and young, rich and poor, male and female,
Protestant, Catholic and Jew..."
1855: Birthdate of
author Dorothea Gerard, the native of New Monkland, Scotland near Glasgow whose
works include Orthodox, One Year and The Austrian Officer.
1855: In New Orleans,
Samuel Lyons Moss, the Philadelphia born son of Rebecca Lyons and John Moss,
and his wife Isabelle Moss gave birth to Walter Harris Moss.
1855: Birthdate of Jonava,
Lithuania native Leopold Benzion Novokhovitch
the London and American socialist leader and journalist known as Morris
Winchevsky or by his pen name Ben Nez who in Enland “founded the Der Poylisher Yidl (The Little
Polish Jew), one of the first Yiddish daily socialist newspapers; and the
Arbeter Fraynd, the first Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper” and who along
with Abraham Cahan and Louis Miller founded “The Forward” which became the
leading Yiddish language paper in the United States.
1857: In Hehlen, Lower
Saxony, Abraham Bach, the Brunswick, Germany born “son of Calm Schlomo Bach and
Betti Abraham” and his wife Henrietta Jette Bach gave birth to future New York
resident David Bach, the husband of Ida Bach and the father of Alfred Bach.
1858: Birthdate of
musician Isidore Lara, a native of London who studied in Italy and France
before returning to his native land “where he taught for several years at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama and became a well-known singer and composer
of art songs” whose first opera “The Royal World” “premiered at London’s Gaiety
Theatre in 1883.”
https://www.greatwartheatre.org.uk/db/person/1204/
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Lara,_Isidore_de
1858: In Leavenworth,
Kansas, Jonas and Betty (Kohn) Woolman gave birth to University of Michigan
trained attorney a senior partner in Wollman and Wollman and a member of Temple
Emanu-El on 5th Avenue as well as a leader in the Republican Party
and a trustee of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum.
1858:
It was reported today that the in Great Britain, the House of Lords, has taken
action on two of the pressing issues of the day related to religion. Based
apparently on its view of Biblical law, the Lords has expressed its opposition
to allowing a widower to marry the sister of his deceased spouse. The Lords has
agreed to allow Jews to sit in the House of Commons if they are elected to that
chamber. The Lords has opposed this
measure for decades, but as in so many other matters including the repeal of
the Corn Laws and the Divorce Bill, the “upper house” has given way to the
popular will. This latest capitulation
in the matter of the Jews is seen as further evidence of the erosion of the
power of the Lords. [This issue of the Jews sitting in Parliament was, in some
respects, part of a much larger battle that was fought throughout most of the
19th century, between the landed gentry and the rising trading,
industrial and professional classes.]
1859(9th of
Av, 5619) Tish’a B’Av
1859: In Petersburg,
VA, Fannie and Seligman L. Hutzler gave
irth to Richmond resident A. Louis Hutzler.
1860: It was reported today that
Baron Alphonse De Rothschild has been appointed Consul-General of Prussia. He
is the first Jew who has exercised such functions for that Kingdom.
1861: During the Civil
War, Philadelphian Jacob Trautman began 4 years of serving in Company E of the
5th Cavalry.
1862: Leon Jastremski,
the French born son of Vincent Jastremski, a Polish Jewish emigre, fought on
the side of Confederates at today’s Battle of Cedar Mountain in Culpepper
Country, Virginia.
1861: During the Civil
War, Philadelphian Henry Schlosss began 4 years of serving in Company E of the
5th Cavalry during which he would be wounded in fighting a Richmond
in 1864.
1862: During the Civil
War, Philadelphian Jacob Canter began his service with Company C of the 126th
Regiment.
1862: In Wabash, IN,
Joseph Philipson and his wife gave birth to University of Cincinnati and Johns
Hopkins graduate David Philipson, the HUC ordained rabbi who was a Professor of
Homiletics at HUC, the spiritual leader of Congregation Bene Israel in
Cincinnati and one of the leading Reform Rabbis of the late 19th and
20th centuries.
1864: Birthdate of
Roman Dmowski the Polish political leader who, during the inter-war years led a
political party that was both anti-Semitic and anti- ethnic Germans. Among other things, he believed the “wealth
of the Jews and the Germans” should confiscated and given to Polish Catholics.
1865: Berthe the eldest
daughter of composer Jacques Offenbbach whose works included the operetta
“Barbe Bleue” was married today.
1866: In Vienna,
Leopold and Josephine Fuchs gave birth to medalist, painter and sculptor Emil
Fuchs who painted the portraits of Queen Victoria and hers on King Edward VII
and who settled permanently in the United States in 1915 where he spent the
last fourteen years of his life.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/emil-fuchs-1130
1868: In Chicago, a
hospital on La Salle Avenue sponsored by the United Hebrew Relief Association
opened its doors to patients for the first time.
1871: “France and
Algeria” published today described the pitiful conditions of the Jews living in
Algeria prior to its colonization by the French. Among the Moslem “races…hatred of the Jew is
a tradition and almost a religious duty.”
During the Moslem “rule in Algeria, the Jews suffered every kind of
torment. They could not walk in the
streets after 6 o’clock at night without obtaining a special authorization from
the police. If the night was dark,
instead of carrying a lantern, like the Turks and Moors, they had a lighted
candle, which the wind blew out continually.
They were obliged to take off their shoes in passing before a Mosque and
to kneel before the Kasba. Jews could
only address a” Moslem “with deference and submission.” The Jews “moved off the pavement to allow”
the Moslems “to pass and any infraction of these customs was punished with
basonado and fines.” The Jews “could not
ride on horseback and could not event the town on a donkey. Any insult toward a “Moslem” was punished by
sudden death, inflicted arbitrarily, and often according to the offended Moor’s
caprices…” [The idea that all the lands of Islam were hospitable to Jews until
the creation of the state of Israel, is obviously not an accurate one.]
1872:
Birthdate of Julius Gareché Lay the American diplomat who in 1915, as the
American Consul General in Berlin worked with Isidore Hershfield to relieve the
suffering of the Jews caught in the war zone of Poland and Galicia.
1874(26th
of Av, 5634): Bavarian born English minister Ferdinand Christoper Ewald who was
baptized at the age of 23 and whom the London Society for Propagating the Gospel
among the Jews sent to Tunis in 1831 where he “labored assiduously for eleven
years before going to Jerusalem, passed away today.
1874:
It was reported today that the London School Board had appointed “Mr. Levy, a
Jew…as headmaster of a school in Whitechapel, in a district where the majority
of the inhabitants are Jews.”
1875(8th
of Ave, 5635): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1875:
In St. Louis, MO, Hannah Loewen, the German born daughter of Helena and Simon
Bienstock and her husband David Loewen gave birth to Leonard Loewen.
1876:
Birthdate of Bakst, Poland native Rabbi Ephraim Epstein, the “founder of the
Chicago Rabbinical College and husband of Hannah Epstein with whom he had five
children, Harry, Sidney, Manuel Annabell and Sylvia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/07/16/119108267.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1877:
Birthdate of Ukraine native and London resident Shmuel (Samuel) Alman, the
composer of Der meylekh akhaz (King Akhaz), “the first Yiddish
opera and the composer of “a number of compositions to accompany poems by
Jewish writers” who “for many years he served a choir director at the Great
Synagogue (Duke’s Place) in London.”
1877:
In London, Elim Henry d'Avigdor and Henrietta Matilda d'Avigdor gave birth to Sir
Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, the Cambridge educated “Justice of the Peace
for Kent and Sussex,” a “member of the Jewish Board of Guardians and Presient
of the Jewish Working Lads’ Club who was the “husband of Alice Rose Anne
d'Avigdor-Goldsmid” with whom he had four children.
1878:
Birthdate of Borsborn, Germany native Abraham Wili.
1878:
In Baltimore, MD, “Nathan and Dina (Oppenheim) Ulman gave birth to Johns
Hopkins and Columbia University alum Joseph N. Ullman, the lawyer, Baltimore
Judge and member of the University of Maryland Law School faculty who was
President of the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Baltimore, director of the
Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore and husband of the former Ella
Guggenheimer.
http://www.mdhs.org/findingaid/ulman-joseph-nathan-collection-1887-1960s-ms-1914
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/04/19/88525222.pdf
1879:
It was reported today that much of Sarajevo, the multi-ethnic capital of the
Turkish province of Bosnia has been consumed by fire. Amongst those who have suffered great loss
are those living in the Jewish district the home of many of those who dominate
the commercial activities of the region.
1880:
Birthdate of Rose Paglin Dubinsky, the wife of Harry Hessel Dubinsky and the
mother of Anne Dubinsky Wexler and Maxwell Henry Dubin, the long-time associate
Rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles.
1880:
Samuel Untermyer married Minnie Carl, daughter of Mairelius Carl of New York
City today. “They had three children, Alvin, who served in the 305th Field
Artillery in France during the Great War; Irwin, a justice of the Appellate
Division of the New York State Supreme Court, and Irene, a philanthropist who
married Louis Putnam Myers and, after his death, became the wife of Stanley
Richter.”
1880:
In Marlin, TX, Fanny Shapera and Marks N. Rosenthal gave birth to Columbia
University trained engineer and member of ZBT Leon Walter Rosenthal, the
husband of Clarice Auerbach who was a legal and patent expert for several
companies including the American Bosch Magento Company.
1881:
In Vienna, banker Moritz Bauer and Jeannette Bauer née Honig gave birth to
Adele Bloch-Bauer.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bloch-bauer-adele
1883:
“Moritz Scharf, the boy who was the principal witness for the prosecution in
the recent trial of a number of Jews at Nyireghyhaza, charged with murdering a
girl in order to procure her blood for ritual purposes and who swore he saw the
murder committed, has confessed…that his testimony was false.”
1885:
In Detroit, Louis Grossman, the tenth person to serve as Rabbi at Temple Beth
El organized the Emerson Circle, “a society for the promotion of general
culture.”
1885:
“Strolling Bands” published today described the various wandering musicians
found on the Lower East Side and Coney Island.
Membership in the strolling string bands is confined to Polish and
Italian Jews.
1886(8th
of Av, 5646): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1886:
“The New Books” column described Court Royal: A Story of Cross Currents, the
latest novel by S. Baring Gould. The
novel which is “conspicuous” for its “exceeding bad taste, features Emanuel
Lazarus, a Plymouth pawnbroker who is a Jew “of the most repulsive type” and
misses no opportunity to ridicule the customs of the Jewish religion.
1886(8th
of Av, 5646): Rabbi Mendes led the Tish’a B’Av services tonight at the 19th
street Synagogue. The well attended services began with a reading of the 137th
Psalm followed by the chanting of Lamentations.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E0D61030E533A25753C1A96E9C94679FD7CF
1886:
Birthdate of Syracuse native and Syracuse University graduate Martha Rashkower
Gahanna, the wife of Jacob H Gahanna.
1886:
“Solomon At Long Branch” described various reactions to the large number of
Jews who spend their summer at this popular New Jersey resort – ranging from
the ugliest ant-Semitism to the most enlightened views of the 19th
century.
1888:
Chicago Law School graduate Joseph, Sabath, the Bohemian born son of Joachim and Barbara Sabath who rise through
the ranks of the judiciary to serve as Chief Justice of the Superior Court in
Chicago, Illinois, today married Regina Mayer with whom he had three children –
Albert, Milton and Stella.
1888:
During today’s meeting of the House of Representative’s Committee on
Immigration which was holding hearings in New York, Henry Zeltner described the
manner in which many Polish Jews reach the United States. There are several operatives on Canal Street
who “sell steamship tickets to Poles in this country on the installment
plan.” “By paying $3 down, they can have
a ticket to America sent to a relative in Poland. “The relative then comes” to the United
States and “works out the price of the ticket.”
1890(23rd
of Av, 5650): Parashat Eikev
1890:
“City and Suburban News” published today listed upcoming events in the New York
Metropolitan area including a lecture by Dr. Cyrus Adler at the Jewish
Theological Seminary.
1890:
As of today, the leaders of London’s Jewish community have not been able to
“discover the exact truth about the…anti-Jewish crusade in Russia.”
1890:
In Pittsburg, Mrs. William Schmidt, Mrs. Sarah Vabelinsky and their two children,
all of whom are Polish Jews experienced convulsions and fainting spells which
might have been caused by food poisoning.
1890:
Mendel Feldstein told his landlord this morning at breakfast that he had seen
two men hide a bag of jewels last night and that they had threatened him when
they realized he was aware that he had seen them.
1890: A list of those
charities receiving bequests of a thousand dollars from the late Alexander Bach
was published today included: Mount Sinai Hospital, Montefiore Home for
Incurables, Hebrew Benevolent and orphan Asylum Society, United Hebrew
Charities, Temple Gates of Hope, Hebrew Free School Association, Home for Aged
and Infirm Hebrews and Temple Israel of Harlem.
The Deborah Nursery was on the list but only for $500.
1891: It was reported
today that “Steve” Ryan of Atlanta, GA “has vowed vengeance upon the whole
Jewish race” after he failed to pay the debts he owed to Schloss Brothers &
Co according to the attorneys Horowitz and Hirschfield.
1892: “Extradition
proceedings in the case of Harris Blank and Charles Roseneigh,” who have been
accused of murdering a Jewish peddler, Jacob Marks came to a close today in
Toronto, Canada.
1893:
Following claims by Reverend Herman P. Faust of the Hebrew Christian Mission
that the United Hebrew Charities “often refuses to give aid where it is plainly
needed” as exemplified by the case of the late Joseph Korman whose family was
left destitute by the Jewish agency, “a reporter for the New York Times found”
the family “living in rooms that are neat.”
The United Hebrew Charities said that it had offered the family $5 in
aid, “which was refused.” It had not
given more because the family had three children who were old enough to work
and the agency offered, as was its practice, to find each of them jobs.
1895:
In New York, Mendel and Rose Levine gave birth to CCNY graduate and Cornell
University Medical College trained pediatrician, “professor of Pediatrics at
Cornell whose “research focused on neonatology, particularly physiology of
premature infants for which he received the John Howland Award in 1964” who
came to popular attention when In “August 1963, the White House arranged for
Levine to be flown from New York to Boston by the U.S. Air Force and taken by
helicopter to a local hospital to treat Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the premature
infant born to President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy.”
1896:
“East Side Roof Garden” published today described the recently opened facility atop the Hebrew
Institute as “one of the greatest
blessings that could been devised to give the overcrowded population on the
east side a chance to breathe a little fresher air than they can get in the
stifling streets and tenements.” Ice water is provided free of charge to the
eight hundred people allowed on the roof which is also the scene of evening
concerts three times a week.
1896(30th
of Av, 5656): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1896:
Three days after she had passed away, 55 year old Agnes Rosa Samuel “the fourth daughter” born
to Rosa and Ralph Henry Samuel was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1896(30th of Av, 5656):
Aviation pioneer Otto Lilenthal
died when his glider crashed during a test flight. Lienthal is referred to some as the Jewish
“Wright Brothers” since he is credited by some with making one of the first
flights with a heavier than aircraft.
1896: Birthdate of
Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget who was treated by Sabina
Spiielrein, the Jewish pioneer psychoanalyst who served as his analyst for 8
months in 1921.
1896: Birthdate of
Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky.
1896: Due to the “sever
heat” the milk depots funded by Nathan Straus will be kept open all day.
1896: “Free Milk For
Sick Children” published today described the easing of restrictions by Nathan
Straus to make free milk available to the children to New York as well as
instructions for the best ways for children to drink it.
1896: Because of the
“severe heat” all of the depots dispensing free milk sponsored by Nathan Straus
will remain open all day today.
1897:
Birthdate of NYU trained attorney, WW I veteran and Republican Party leader
Lester Bachner the husband of “the former Margaret Goodman” and the father of
Robert Bachner.
1898: During the
Spanish-American War, Mathew N. Levy of Norfolk was mustered into Company H of
the 4th Virginia Volunteer Infantry.
1900: As New Yorker’s
sweltered in 95-degree temperatures, during what is reported to be a record
breaking heat wave, the only death reported today was that of thirty-one year
old Gussie Goldstein of 327 East Third Street.”
1901: It was reported
today that William R. Grace, who while Mayor of New York had chaired public
meetings where Russian treatment of the Jews of Kiev was condemned and
expressions of support for the Jews of that city were, expressed will be
sailing to Scotland next week.
1902: Almost a year
before they were married Arthur Schnitzier and actress Olga Gussman gave birth
to their son Heinrich.
1902: Edward
1902(6th of Av, 5662):
Sixty-six year old Moritz Szeps the editor-in-chief of the Vienna Morgenpost, passed away today.
1903: Today, a meeting
of rabbis was held in Cracow that “opened with a solemn oath taken by all
present to the effect that Jews had never been guilty of ritual murder and that
no Jewish law ever sanction such practices.”
1903: In Cleveland, the
first annual picnic hosted by the United Zionists today “was a great success
socially and financially.”
1903: “A committee was
appointed to canvass for donations and subscriptions for a Jewish publication”
during today’s meeting The Chovevi Zion in Scranton, PA.
1904: Birthdate of
Dresden native Hans Oster, the Protestant clergyman decorated veteran of WW I
and opponent of Hitler who was executed at Flossenberg Concentration Camp in
1945.
1904: On his 24th
birthday Columbia University trained engineer Leon Walter Rosenthal, the
Marlin, TX born son of Fanny and Marks N. Rosenthal, and the husband of Clarice
Auerbach received a patent for “an engineer’s slide rule.”
https://sliderulemuseum.com/Patents/US/0767170.pdf
1904: It was reported
today that the “will of Simon Lavenburg who died on July 5 at Heidelberg,
Germany” names his wife Amelia Lavenburg as primary beneficiary.
1905(8th of
Av, 5665): Erev Tish’a B’av
1905: Today thirty-three-year-old
businessman and philanthropist Herbert Fleishhacker, the San Francisco born
“son of Aaron and Delia (Stern) Fleishhacker married “May Belle Greenbaum with
whom he had three children – Marjorie, Herbert, Jr. and Alan.
1906: In Atlantic City,
NY, at today’s session of the Jewish Chautauqua, Rabbi William A. Rosenau of
Baltimore delivered an address on the book of Jonah and its meaning during which he questioned
whether it could boast the antiquity which its place in the Bible would
suggest, and he declared that its statements were based on tradition
1907: Passengers from
Casablanca who arrived at Tangiers tonight described the slaughter of Jews and
the pillaging and burning of their shops by “Moorish soldiers” after which “the
bodies of dead Jews were dragged around the town by natives” to accompanying
“shouts of derision.”
1908: “In Terror of
Earthquakes” published today described the terror felt by the Jews of
Constantine, Algeria, who like their fellow citizens are terrified by the
quakes and “who refused to enter their houses” while preferring to sleep “in
the open air.”
1909: “The New York
Jewish Community, the organization of most of the religious and Jewish
charitable organizations of New York, announced that it is now taking steps to
form what it calls a Board of Jewish Education, to bring the Jewish religious
schools of the city under one system and supervision.”
1910: In Camden, NJ,
“on opening Sons of Israel Synagogue at eighth and Sycamore Streets” this
“morning, it was discovered that two valuable silver cups had been stolen.”
1910: The 16th
annual convention of the Independent Western Star Order came to an end today in
Cleveland, OH.
1910: Manuel Klein the
English born son language professor
Herman Klein and Adelaide Soman and musical theatre composer who in 1896 had
moved to the United States where his wife Helen, “became a naturalized American
citizen today.
1910: Clarence Isaac de
Sola, the Canadian born son “of Esther de Sola and Cantor Abraham de Sola” and
his wife Belle Maud de Sola gave birth to Esther Leopolda de Sola who became
Esther Leopolda Ellerman when she married Sir John Reeves Ellerman.
1911(15th of
Av, 5671): Tu B’Av
1911: It was reported today that Boston
Rabbi Wolf Margolies has agreed to become the Rabbi for United Hebrew Communion
also known as Adas Israel. The
congregation has 10,000 members and will reportedly the new rabbi an annual salary
of five thousand dollars.
1911: In Milwaukee, WI,
Rose and Louis Cohen, who was the “city attorney gave birth to Harvard Law
School graduate Milton Howard. Cohen, the husband of the former Rowna Chaffetz
and father of three children – Louis, Mark and Rosalind – who is best known for
leading “a broad investigations of the markets that had been requested by
Congress: in 1961 and resulted in 3,000 pages study which starting in 1963, led
to extensive change in securities regulations and markets.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-11-03-0411030133-story.html
1912: Birthdate of
Giora Yoseftal, the native of Nuremburg who made Aliyah in 1938 and became a
leader of Mapai.
1913(6th of
Av, 5673): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1913(6th of
Av, 5673): Fifty-year old Solomon H. Bauer, the Polish born son of Abraham
Jacob Bauer and the recipient of smicha from Rabbi Israel Jehoszua Trunk passed
away today while serving as the rabbi for Congregation Anshe Emet of Chicago
1913: It was reported
today that the University of Geneva has conferred an honorary doctorate on
French chemistry professor Gabriel Lippmann.
1913: It was reported
today that Polish born socialist and journalist Stanislaus Mendelson, the
son-in-law of Naham Sokolow and husband of fellow socialist Maria Jankowska has
passed away.
1914: Five days after the declaration of war, a war in which 10,000
Jews would sign up to serve in just the first year, The H.M. S. Birmingham, a Royal Navy Cruiser
sank the U-15 marking the first time that a German submarine was “lost to an
enemy warship.”
1915: It was reported
today that the committee chaired by Congressman Meyer which will be raising
money to help Jews in war-torn Europe is devising a plan whereby “storekeepers”
will “display cards in their windows “both asking for contributions and showing
that he merchants themselves have already given.”
1916: In World War I,
Italian forces take Gorizia, a battle during which General Roberto Serge showed
such courage that he was cited for bravery and a year later “promoted to chief
of staff of the Fifth Army Corps.
1917: It was reported
today that the officers of the newly formed Jewish Board for Welfare Relief
Work in the United States Army and Navy are Chairman, Colonel Harry Cutler of
Providence, RI; Vice Chairman, Dr. Cyrus Adler of Philadelphia; Treasurer, S.S.
Rosenstamm of New York and Secretary, Sidney Goldstein of New York.
1917: “Through the
Intelligence Department of the Mayor’s Committee on National Defense, the
Provisional Zionist Committee” tonight “made public a letter describing
conditions among Jews in Warsaw under German rule” “the veracity and
authenticity of” which “is vouched for by” Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Chairman of the
Zionist Committee and Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis who is
the committee’s honorary chairman.
1917: London born
featherweight won his second bout today in Queens, NY.
1918(1st
of Elul, 5678): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1918: The Archbishop of Warsaw met with several Jewish
leaders who expressed the hope that “the new Polish state would prove “tolerant
to the Jewish communities.”
1918: On the Western Front, three days of fighting during
which future Medal of Honor winner William Shemmin was wounded after having
“left the cover of his platoon's trench and crossed open space, repeatedly
exposing himself to heavy machine gun and rifle fire to rescue the wounded” and
then taken command of the platoon “after the officers and senior
non-commissioned officers had become casualties.”
1918: It was reported today that the 34th
infantry participated in pogroms at “Jarislawa and other Galician towns’ where
“the police did nothing to protect the Jews.
1918: It was reported today that “Miss Julie Heineman who
is doing relief work overseas has been decorated by King Albert of Belgium with
the Queen Elizabeth medal in recognition of her work for” those French people
have been wounded or blinded.
1918: During WW I which fighting at Chipilly Ridge Nathan
Lieberman, a Corporal in Company of C of the 131st Infantry (which
had had been the 1st Infantry of the Illinois National Guard)
“displayed unusual gallantry he rushed a machine gun nest whose fire was
checking the advance” of the unit and captured 4 prisoners as an added bonus.
1919: Today, “Romanian
Jewish refugees made public a memorandum characterizing the stipulation of the
Bucharest peace treaty as wholly inadequate and demanding a thorough-going
solution of the Jewish question.”
1919: Today, Isaac
Babel married Yevgenia Gronfein, the parents of Nathalie Babel Brown who became
“the editor of her father’s life and work.”
1920: Those who have
attended the conference at Carlsbad, are still “processing” the report that
over five hundred pogroms have taken place in Ukraine with at least 138,000
Jews having been killed.
1920: “Ladies’ Night” produced
by Albert Herman whose Budapest Jewish family had named him “Aladore Herman”
premiered today on Broadway at the Etlinge 42nd Street Theatre.
1921(5th of
Av, 5681): Eighty-six-year-old Woodville, MS native Ceclia Woodville Moïse the
daughter of Charleston, SC natives Priscilla Lopez and Dr. Edward Warren Moise,
who had moved to New Orleans after her mother’s death and where her father became
a lawyer and judge passed away today in New Orleans after which she was
interred in Lafayette Cemetery Number One.
1921: Based on a
recommendation unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the ZOA today, “America’s forty representatives to the World Zionist Congress
will recommend that the executive seat hereafter be located in Palestine
instead of London” and “that a majority of the committee membership will have
to reside in the Holy Land.”
1922(15th of
Av, 5682): Tu B’Av
1922(15th of
Av, 5682): Fifty-eight-year-old Rumanian born NYU trained physician passed away
today in New York.
https://www.seekingallancestors.com/getperson.php?personID=I5665&tree=mytree&sitever=standard
1923: The JTA reported
that it would not be publishing the Daily News Bulletin tomorrow in observance of the national day of
mourning for the death of President Harding
1924(9th of Av, 5684): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a
B’Av
1924: Sixty-seven-year-old photographer Julius Casesar “J.C.”
Strauss, the Cleveland born son of Isaac and Rosa Strauss, the husband of Flora
Isaacs Strauss whom he married in 1883 and the father of Benjamin, Charles and
Irving Strauss passed away today in St. Louis after which he was bried at the
New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum in Affton, MO.
1924: Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation of Labor refused to attend the
notification ceremony for John W. Davis at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Davis was
the compromise candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President,
having been chosen on the 103rd ballot.
1924: A statement from
Samuel Gompers that he was "willing to forget and forgive acts of omission
and commission resulting from differences of opinion during the war" is
contained in a letter made public by Mr. Gompers today incidental to the meeting
of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor at the Hotel
Ambassador.
1925(19th of Av, 5685):
Fifty-nine-year-old philanthropist Sidney Salzado Peixotto passed away today in
California.
1925: A memorial tablet
erected to one of its patients by his fellow patients was unveiled today in the
Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases, at Gun Hill Road and Bainbridge
Avenue, the Bronx. Although tablets on hospital walls usually represent benefactions
to the institution, this one is a tribute from the 600 patients, who were
cheered in his lifetime by Max Messinger.
Confined to his wheelchair for twelve years, Max Messinger was the Good
Samaritan of the hospital. His busy brain and fingers, the only parts of his
body over which he had control, worked to create amusement for the other
patients to whom he brought music, vaudeville, moving pictures, books,
magazines and a social club, as well as a monthly paper, which he edited. By
establishing contacts with performers and film companies, he was able to
present a full performance each week to the hundreds who assembled on crutches
and in wheelchairs for relaxation. He received literature which he distributed
to the others, and traveled about the wards, especially among the children.
With a portable victrola perched on his wheel chair he played the records that
friends had sent. For ten years he was the editor of the monthly paper, The
Montefiore Echo, in which he encouraged the others to write. On the walls,
with memorials to such noted benefactors as Sir Moses Montefiore, Jacob H.
Schiff, Professor Morris Loeb, has been placed a bronze plaque made possible by
the small contributions of the patients, a simple expression of gratitude to
Max Meninger.
1926: The Third
International Conference of the Ort associations opened in Berlin at a building
that formerly housed the Prussian House of Lords. (ORT is an organization that
was founded in 1880 to provide assistance and educational opportunities for Russian
Jews. The scope has expanded, and it
currently offers programs for Jews in over a one hundred countries.)
1926: The extent of Jewish participation in the struggle for
the independence of Poland, in the early days of the movement, unrecognized by
the Great Powers and Polish public opinion at large, was impressed upon the
public mind today when Josef Pilsudski, first Marshal of Poland and leader of
the Legionaires, kissed publicly a Jewish invalid who fought in the Legion. A
highly dramatic scene was enacted when the twelfth anniversary of the crossing
by Pilsudski's Legion of the frontier of Congress Poland was celebrated at the
Legionaire Congress, opened today in Kielce, the first Polish city to be
occupied by the Polish Legion under Pilsudski's command in 1914. Many Jewish
Legionaires were present at the celebration. Pilsudski publicly kissed a Jewish
Legionaire who lost both his legs on the battlefield. (JTA)
1927: In New York City,
“Dr. Henry Minsky, an eye surgeon who was chief of ophthalmology at Mount Sinai
Hospital, and Fannie Reiser, a social activist and Zionist” gave birth to
Marvin Minsky who has made many contributions to AI (Artificial Intelligence),
cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and
optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the
human capacity for commonsense reasoning. Minsky is on the faculty of MIT and
winner of the ACM Turing Award.
1927The Maccabee soccer
team of Palestine left New York today aboard the SS Sinaia.
1927:M. Henri Torres,
counsel for Sholom Schwartzbard, has addressed a cablegram to Louis D.
Brandeis, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, asking him to intervene in favor of
Sacco and Vanzetti.
1928: In Pavlovo,
Czechoslovakia, Joseph Grunfeld, an industrial engineer and his wife Tzyvia
Berger gave birth to Maximillian Grunfeld who gained fame as American master
tailor Martin Greenfield owner of Martin Greenfield Clothiers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/fashion/martin-greenfield-dead.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/will-holocaust-survivor-longtime-presidents-tailor-dress-trump/
1928: Today, Rabbi
Teitelbaum received 437 votes in an election being held to name a replacement
for Eliezer David Greenwald of Satmar who had died on May 20, 1928.
1929: “Friend Sues To
Free Sculptor As Sane” published today described the efforts De Hirsch Margules
to gain the freedom of Alfred Dreyfus. The painter and sculptor has petitioned
Chief Justice Alfred Frankenthaler on behalf of Alfred Dreyfuss, the sculptor
and writer to overturn the order issued by Justice Lydon that has committed his
friend to a sanitarium for the insane.
Margules contends that Drefyuss’ mother brought the suit after having
been unduly influenced by her other son who is seeking to control the family’s
financial affairs.
1930(15th of
Av, 5690): Shabbat Nachamu and Tu B’Av
1930:
Famed cartoon character “Betty Boop” made her debut in the animated film Dizzy Dishes. Boop and the film were the creation of an
Austrian born Jew named Max Fleischer. Fleischer was producing animated
cartoons years before Disney’s Steamboat
Willie appeared on the screen.
1931:
Birthdate of South African native Sir Mark Aubrey Weinberg, the English trained
barrister and financier who founded Abbey Life Assurance Company and Hambro
Life Assurance
1932: In Berlin, Holocaust survivor Hermann
Pressman and his family -- Father Zysia, mother Hinda Leah, brother Hermann and
sister Sonia -- went to the zoo today
“and then to the Rubenstein kosher restaurant.”
1933:
In Vilna, Chamber of Commerce unanimously votes to proclaim a boycott against
German goods in protest against the Nazi treatment of the Jews.
1933:
Ben Jeby (Morris Benjamin Jebaltowsky) was knocked out in the seventh round
today ending his reign as middleweight champion.
1933:
Edgar Ansell Mowrer, president of the Foreign Correspondents Association in
Berlin, resigned from his post in order to secure the release of Paul Goldman,
68-year-old Jewish correspondent of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, who was
charged with "high treason."
1934:
“A group of sixty pioneer settlers including ten representatives of the Jewish
National Workers Alliance sailed for Poland en route to Palestine today on the
Gdynia-American Line Steamer Pulaski.
1935:
“China Seas,” an adventure moved produced by Irving Thalberg was released in
the United States today by MGM.
1936:
It was reported today that “among the questions to come before the first Jewish
World Congress will be the defense of Jewish equality, re-establishment of the
rights of Jews in Germany, the struggle against anti-Semitism and participation
in Jewish reconstruction work in Palestine.”
1936:
At the opening business session of The World Jewish Congress today in Geneva,
Dr. Leon Kubowitski of Belgium made a proposal for a permanent organization
that would be ‘elected for four years, meet regularly biannually” and be
overseen by “a central council that should meet semi-annually” and an
“executive that should have specific administrative duties.
1937:
In New York, premiere of “Souls at Sea” featuring Joseph Schildkraut as “Gaston
de Bastonet.”
1937:
The political resolutions committee of the World Zionist Congress which was
elected today began an all-night debate in Zurich on “the Weizmann policy on
the partition of Palestine.”
1938:
Warner Bros. released “Four Daughters” a musical drama based on a novel by
Fannie Hurst directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal B. Wallis with a
screenplay co-authored by Jules Epstein, music by Max Steiner and featuring
John Garfield.
1938:
Today Senator Norris of Nebraska made a recommendation that President Roosevelt
appoint Felix Frankfurter, Professor of Law at Harvard University and one of
the original New Deal advisers, to the United States Supreme Court to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice Benjamin Cardozo.
1938:
I “Children Go to Palestine,” published today described the migration of 167
Jewish children from Austria and Germany to Palestine. The youngsters are part of the Third Aliyah
and are being settled at Ain Harod and Kfar Jecheskiel.
1938:
The situation in Palestine threatened to grow worse when Moslem ecclesiastical
authorities issued a fatwa calling for Iraqi participation in the fighting in
Palestine which was labeled a Jihad.
Thousands of young Iraqis responded by rushing to sign up at recruiting
stations set up in Baghdad.
1938:
Premiere of “Four Daughters,” a musical directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by
Hal Wallis, co-starring John Garfield, with a script by Julius Epstein, music
by Max Steiner and co-starring John Garfield who was nominated for an Oscar as
Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
1939:
Twenty-seven Jews were arrested tonight in Bratislava “by the Slovak police” who
charged the Jews with attacking a group of Germans in what the local German press described as
the third attack on Germans by “Jewish communists.”
1940(5th
of Av, 5700): Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, author of Ahi’ezer passed away
1940: Birthdate of Carl
Robert Zelnick, the New York native whose assignments for ABC news included a
two year stint as their correspondent in Israel during the 1980’s.
1941: According to
reports at the time the Nazis killed 510 Jews Brest-Litovsk, and 296 Jews
killed in Bialystok
1942: During the Battle
of the Savo Island, the U.S.S. Blue, a destroyer that Ensign Nathan Asher had
guided to the safety of open waters at Pearl Harbor, helped to rescue sailors
from the sinking HMAS Canberra.
1942: Slovakian and
Polish Jews were violently removed from the Rejowiec ghetto as the Nazis shut
it down.
1942: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross died in
Auschwitz. Born Edith Stein, Sister
Teresa and her sister converted long before World War II. However, the Catholic Church allowed the Nazis
to seize her and thousands of other Jews who had converted to Catholicism and
ship them off to the death chambers.
According to Canon Law, Sister Teresa was a Catholic. But apparently she was not a real Catholic
since the Church let her go up in smoke facing the fate of a Jewess named
Stein.
1942: In the first mass
deportation to the gas chambers 10,000 Jews were sent from the Borislave ghetto
to the Belsen death camp.
1942: In London, world
premiere of one of the most popular children’s films “Bambi” based on Bambi, A
Life in the Woods by Felix Saltan, “the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi.”
1942: Two hundred Jews
escape into the forests of Mir. During that week, another 6,000 would die in
Naliboki, Lubcz and Karelicze.
1942: In Winnipeg,
Canada Rabbi Yasha Steinberg and his wife Ruth gave birth to director and
comedian David Steinberg.
http://www.filmreference.com/film/48/David-Steinberg.html
1942: Birthdate of
Richard Michael Suzman, the native of Johannesburg who was an anti-apartheid activist
before becoming a leading social psychologist in the United States.
1943: Fifty-year old
Russian born “expressionist” painter Chaim Soutine died today from “a
perforated ulcer” after having spent the last three years dodging the Gestapo
in Paris.
https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/chaim-soutine-flesh
1943: Birthdate of
French art historian Michel Melot author of The Impressionist Print.
1944: German jurist
Karl Sack was arrested today for his part in the attempt to assassinate Hitler
on June 20th.
1944(20th of
Av, 5704): Sixty-six-year-old Rabbi Levi Yitzchak the Podrovnah (near Gomel)
born son of Rabbi Baruch Schneur and
Zelda Rachel Schneerson and husband of Chana Yanovski who “was the father of the seventh and last
Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson” passed away today.
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/117515/jewish/Biography-of-Rabbi-Levi-Yitzchak.htm
1944(20th of
Av, 5704): Sixty-three-year-old Columbia trained general practitioner Dr. Jacob
Axelrad, the husband of Bella Axelrad with whom he had four children – Joseph,
Sidney, Edith and Eilnor – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/08/11/85160647.html?pageNumber=15
1944: “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…”
1945: Birthdate of
Avraham Poraz, the native of Bucharest who made Aliyah in 1950 and served in
the Knesset and as Minister of the Interior.
1945: More than 500
people attended the funeral services for State Senator Carl Pack today who was
the honorary vice president of Temple Beth Elohim in the Bronx.
1946: “President Truman
expressed the view today that no constitutional question was involved in his
right of approval or rejection of the British plan for dividing Palestine but
gave no hint of his course of action on the controversial issue…”
1946: “The Atlantic
Charter League…announced today that it had sent a telegram to President Truman
protesting against the partitioning of Palestine as a ‘contravention both of
our official commitments and the manifest expression of American public opinion.
1947: “Henry Morgenthau
Jr., general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal campaign for $170,000,000,
reported today that a firsthand survey of conditions affecting the 1,400,000
Jewish survivors in Europe disclosed a dangerous lowering of living standards.”
1947: In calling for
the State Department to refuse to ever grant Lady Astor a visa, Congressman
Emanuel Cellar said that “Lady Gasbags has again abused her privilege as a
visitor to the United States” in light of the “ghoulish statement” she made at
her departure on the Queen Mary when she said “I do not care how many Jews are
killed in Palestine; my only interest is in the number of innocent British who
are slaughtered.”
1947: In a message sent
by radio from the Queen Mary, “Vicountess Astor denied a reported quoting her
to the effect that she did care how many Jews were killed in Palestine.”
1948: The first envoy
from the USSR arrived in Israel today,
1948: In Rissani,
Morocco, Rabbi Meir and Simcha Abuhatzeira, gave birth Rabbi Elazar
Abuhatzeira, known as the “Baba Elazar” the grandson of the Baba Sali, Rabbi
Yisrael Abuhatzeira, and the brother of Rabbi David Chai Abuhatzeira of
Nahariya who moved to Beersheba in 1966.
1949: In New York City,
“aerospace engineer and inventor David Kellerman and his wife Sylvia gave birth
to mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman, the author of the series featuring Dr.
Delaware, the husband of mystery writer Faye Kellerman and father of novelist
Jesse Kellerman and author Aliza Kellerman.
1949: Frank Goldman,
the President of the B’nai B’rith sent a telegram to Secretary of State Dean
Acheson asking that the United States intervene to force the Syrian government
protect that country’s ancient Jewish community which is reeling from the effects
of last week’s murderous bombing of a Damascus Synagogue.
1949: “Trottie True” a
film based on a novel by S.J. Simon and Caryl Brahms, with music by Benjamin
Frankel was released today in London, UK.
1949: In New York City
aerospace engineer David Kellerman and Sylvia Kellerman gave birth to U.C.L.A.
educated novelist Jonathan Seth Kellerman, the husband of fellow author Faye
Kellerman who is best known for his character “Alex Delaware.:
1957: In New York,
Jerry and Sally Solomon gave birth Deborah Solomon the New Rochelle raised “art
critic, journalist and biographer.”
1952: In Westport, CT,
“The Stronger,” an opera by Hugo Weisgall premiered at the White Barn Theatre a
venue created by actress Lucille Lortel, the daughter of Anny and Harris Walder
and wife of industrialist and philanthropist Louis Schweitzer.
1955(21st of
Av, 5715): Just six days before her 73rd birthday, Walla Walla, Washington native
Marion Eugénie Bauer, the composer and music critic, passed away today “in
South Hadley, Massachusetts, where a rabbi conducted her memorial service.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bauer-marion-eugenie
https://www.naxos.com/person/Marion_Bauer/26477.htm
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marion-eugnie-bauer
1957(12th of
Av, 5717): Fifty-five-year-old “Aharon Nethanel, chairman of the General Tire
Rubber Company and chairman of the Maccabi World Union suffered a fatal heart
attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/10/issue.html
1957 According to
papers filed today in Surrogate’s Court “Justice Felix Frankfurter received a
legal of $20,000 from the later Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohen.
1959: “The Ugly
Duckling,” a British comedy starring Bernard Bresslaw was released today in the
United Kingdom
1959: Today Marya
Mannes panned Archibald MacLeish’s “J.B” which is a modern version of the Book
Job saying that it was “boring, pretentious and overproduced.” (So much for Biblical material that does not
include the Dance of the Seven Viels)
1960: The Religious
Torah Front, an alliance of the Ultra-orthodox parties Agudat Yisrael and
Poalei Agudat Yisrael that had been formed in 1955, split today with Poalei
Agudat taking two of the Front’s six seats in the Knesset.
1960: Larry Sherry came
in to relieve starter Johnny Podres and protect the team’s
1961: Birthdate of John
Phillip Key, the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand and leader of the New
Zealand National Party.
1961: “Come September”
a comedy with a script by Stanley Shapiro and music by Hans J. Salter was
released today in the United States by Universal Pictures.
1962(9th of
Av, 5722): Tish’a B’Av
1962: In Brooklyn,
“Leonard Bergstein, an engineering professor, inventor and Holocaust survivor”
and his wife gave birth gave birth to rogue financier David Rafael Bergstein
and husband of Sara Bergstein whom he is currently not seeing since in June of 2018
he was sentenced to eight years in prison after having been convicting of
fraud.
1963(19th of
Av, 5723): Sixty-eight-year-old Columbia trained attorney Paul M. Hahn, the New
York born son of Richard and Eugenie Hahn, the husband of the “former Nannette
Hogan Wells” who gave up the law for tobacco which led to his serving as
“President and Chief Executive officer the American Tobacco Company” passed
away today.
1964(1st of
Elul, 5724): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1964(1st of
Elul, 5724): Fifty-eight-year-old NYU law professor Edmond Nathaniel Cahn, a
graduate of Tulane University, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
and an author whose works drew on the lessons of the Hebrew prophets passed
away today in New York.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03823.html
1964: “More than 2,000
American Legionnaires and members of their families witnessed the dedication”
today of a wooded area in the Skokie Division of the Country Forest Preserve in
Northbrook in honor of the 131st Infantry Division whose members
included Corporal Nathan Lieberman which won the battle of Chipilly Ridge 54
years ago today
1965: Singapore seceded from Malaysia and gained
independence. The Jewish community in
Singapore traces its origins back to the early 18th century. The
famous Sassoon family established business operations in the middle of the
century. David Marshall, a prominent leader of the Jewish community, was known
as the “father of Singapore Independence” for his efforts to gain liberation
from Great Britain. Today, Singapore has
a small but vibrant Jewish community that supports two venerated houses of
worship Maghain Aboth and Chesed El Synagogues.
1965: “One of New
York's most noted veteran players, Harry Fishbein, playing with Charles Solomon
of Philadelphia, led the field in the American Contract Bridge League's Life
Master Pair Championship at the end of the two qualifying rounds here this afternoon.”
1966(23rd of Av, 5726):
Fifty-nine-year author old Marta Molnar the daughter of playwright Ferenc
Molnar and the “widow of Gyoergy Sarkozyk a poet wh was by the Nazis troops in
Hungary during World War II whose Book of Sophie, is her best known work passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/11/79301478.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967(3rd of
Av, 5727): Seventy-year-old Austrian born British actor Anton Walbrook who did
not return to his native land when the Nazis took power because his mother was
Jewish passed away today in Bavaria.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/anton-walbrook/28922/remembering-anton-walbrook
http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Anton/FilmIllustrated.html
1967: Hafez Tahoub, a
former Jordanian district judge, and Mussa el-Bitar, an insurance agent, were
arrested today by Israeli authorities for instigating a general in east
Jerusalem that was aimed at crippling the economy in the section of the city
that had been occupied by the Jordanians from 1948 until June of 1967.
1969: Birthdate of New
York lawyer and politician Andrew Cohen.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/284236-andrew-cohen-wins-nyc-city-council-11-democratic-primary/
1969(25th of
Av, 5729): Seventy-seven year old Robert Owen Lehman, Sr. the son of Philip
Lehman the cofounder of Lehman Brothers and Carrie Lauer who became head of the
investment bank when his father retired in 1925 and guided it through the
roaring-twenties, the Great Depression and the era of unprecedented post-war
prosperity passed away today.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046359
1969: Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski
and four others were murdered in Los Angeles.
It would turn out that they were victims of Charles Manson and his gang
of killers.
1973: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today at Temple Emanu-E; for sixty-five-year-old New
York born, St. Johns Law School graduate and WW II veteran Maxwell Arnold
Kreindler, who was president of the famous “21” Club from 1947 to 1955 two days
after he had passed away.
1973(11th of
Av, 5733): Ukrainian born, Israeli actor David Vardi, who had Hebraized his
name from David Rosenfeld passed away today in Tel Aviv.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/06/david-vardi.html
1973: Today, Premiere
Golda Meir attended the ceremonies marking the opening of the Ivory Coast
Embassy in Jerusalem.
1973: At a lecture to the Staff College, Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan told the officer “the overall balance of forces is in our
favor and this is what decides the question and rules out the immediate renewal
of the war.” These reassuring words
would come back to haunt the Israelis when Egypt and Syria would attack two
months later in the Yom Kippur War, which almost had disastrous consequences
for the survival of the Jewish state.
1974:
In the wake of the Watergate Scandal, Richard Nixon resigned as President of
the United States. Nixon turned out to be “a mixed bag” for the Jewish
people. He began his career on the
political right as a fellow-traveler the McCarthy Movement which made him an
anathema to many Jews who tended to be moderates and liberals. As President, he appointed the first Jew,
Henry Kissinger to the position of Secretary of State. During the Yom Kippur War, he pulled out all
of the stops to aid Israel. Yet the Watergate
Tapes have him uttering some of the vilest anti-Semitic sentiments that one can
imagine coming from the lips of U.S. President.
1974:
Following his assumption of the Presidency today, Gerald Ford invited Prime
Minister Rabin to come to the White House, promised to honor all commitments
that had been made to Israel and later would prove to be a staunch opponent of
the UN resolution condemning Zionism as racism.
1975:
Today, Samuel Bronfman II “was abducted in New York” after which “his father
personally paid $2.3 million ransom” and the FBI and New York City police
rescued him from an apartment in Brooklyn where his “abductors” claimed that is
was all part of hoax hatched by Bronfman.
1978:
Morton Abramowitz began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand.
1980(27th
of Av, 5740): Parashat Re’eh
1981(9th
of Av, 5741):Tish'a B'Av
1981(9th
of Av, 5741): Eighty-nine-year-old Dartmouth alum Milton Aronowitz, the Albany,
NY born son of Max and Dora Ettelson Aronowitz and
Albany Medical College trained surgeon Milton Aronowitz who was the husband of
Gretchen Aronowitz passed away today after which he was buried at Beth Emeth
Cemetery in Loudonville, NY.
1981:
At the All Star Baseball Game in Cleveland, Bob Verdi of the Chicago Tribune
sits next to Jerome Holtzman, the popular Jewish baseball writer who wrote for
the Sun-Times. Holtzman indicated
to Verdi that he was ready to move from the Sun Times to the Tribune. Verdi contacted George Langford, the Trib’s
sports editor, setting in motion Holtzman’s switch from Chicago’s #2 paper, to
the Windy City’s # 1 paper.
1982:
Grenade-throwing Palestinians burst into the Jo Goldenberg deli in Paris and
sprayed machine-gun fire which killed six, including two Americans, and
injuring 21 patrons.
1983(30th
of Av, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1985:
Release date for “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee
Herman.
1986:
“The six-week Waterloo Festival, in Waterloo Village, N.J., and its related
school, at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J under the leadership
Samuel Lipman Lipman, the critic and pianist, who was named artistic director
in 1985 ” is scheduled to come and end today.
1991:
As the Fed expressed its displeasure over Salomon Brothers trading activity,
Bond Trader Paul William Mozer was suspended today.
1993:
In Belgium, coronation of King Albert II during which Queen Paola wore a yellow
coat that was designed by Olivier Strelli, who was born Nissim Israel at
Kinshasa in 1946 and developed “a chain of male and female clothing and
accessory boutiques in Belgium, Switzerland, France and China.”
1994:
Edward P. Djererjian left his post as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1997(6th of Av, 5757): Parashat Devarim;
Shabbat Chazon
1997: Eighty-six-year-old Monuments Man Walter I Farmer
passed away.
1998:
The New York Times features a review
of Benjamin Disraeli Letters Volume
6: 1852-1856
Edited by M. G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar and Ann P. Robson. Disraeli is Britain’s most famous Jew who was
not Jewish.
1999:
Eighty-five-year-old, Martin Arrouge, “a former ski instructor” and the man
Norma Shearer married after the death of Irving Thalberg passed away today
2000:
Clyde Haberman marveled at Joe Lieberman’s run for Vice President, a position
that John Nance Garner was not worth a warm of spit’ but has produced four
presidents since WWII.
2001(20th
of Av, 5761): A suicide bomber struck a
busy intersection in Jerusalem, blowing up a Sbarro Pizza Parlor, killing 15, 7
of whom were children and wounding 130.
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The dead
included Zvika Golombek, 26, from Karmiel; Shoshana Yehudit (Judy) Greenbaum,
31 (5 months pregnant), from Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.;Tehila Maoz, 18, from
Jerusalem; Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, from Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, from
Jerusalem; Malka Chana (Malki) Roth, 15, from Jerusalem; Mordechai
Schijveschuurder, 43, from Neria; Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, from Neria;
Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, from Neria; Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4,
from Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, from Neria;] Lily Shimashvili, 33, from
Jerusalem; Tamara Shimashvili, 8, from Jerusalem; Yocheved Shoshan, 10, from
Jerusalem; and Giora Balash, 60, from Brazil
2001(20th of
Av, 5761): Seventeen year old Aliza Malka was killed by terrorists “in a
drive-by shooting.”
2002(1st
of Elul, 5762): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2002(1st
of Elul, 5762): Eighty-six-year-old Marian Pollock, the wife of Louis Pollock
passed away today.
2002(1st
of Elul, 5762): Seventy-three-year-old Emmy award winning composer Peter Matz
passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/11/local/me-matz11
2003:
“Three Palestinians, two of them suspected gunmen from the Islamic militant
group Hamas, and an Israeli soldier were killed in a firefight.”
2003:
For the first time since January, Hezbollah the Iranian back terrorist group in
Lebanon fired anti-tank missiles and mortar round across Israel’s northern
border.
2004(22nd
of Av, 5764): Ninety-two-year composer David Raskin who earned two Oscar
nominations while composing over 400 scores for movies and television series
including the western “Wagon Train” and medical series “Ben Casey” passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/arts/david-raksin-the-composer-of-laura-is-dead-at-92.html
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/DavidRaksinCentennialTribute.htm
2004:
TNT broadcast the final episode of “The Grid” a miniseries starring Julianna
Margulies.
2005:
Eric Edelman began serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Polic
2005: The
Jerusalem Post reported on The Dry
Bones Project. For more info on
the project, go to http://www.drybonesproject.com.
2005: Haaretz reported on the fourteenth meeting
of World Jewish Congress of Jewish Studies held this week at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
2005(4th of Av, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old
Abraham Jacob “Abe” Hirschfeld, the New York real estate investor and
Democratic Party activist passed away today.
2005(4th of Av, 5765): Seventy-year-old Judith
Rossner, author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar passed away.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081002413.html
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/aug/13/guardianobituaries.books
2006(15th of Av, 5766): Eighty-three-year-old Melissa Hayden, one of
the biggest starts in American ballet
passed away.
(As reported by Anna Kisselgoff)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/arts/10hayden.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1526131/Melissa-Hayden.html
2006(15th of Av, 5766): Fifteen members of the IDF have been killed
and another twenty-five wounded in the fight against Hezbollah.
2007: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Saudi Arabian government continues to bar Jews and Christians from bringing
items such as Bibles, crucifixes and Stars of David into the country and is
threatening to confiscate them on sight. "A number of items are not
allowed to be brought into the kingdom due to religious reasons and local
regulations," declares the Web site of Saudi Arabian Airlines, the
country's national carrier.
2007: A
23-year-old Jewish woman was attacked in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, by two
youths who beat her and shouted anti-Semitic slogans, said the French National
Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism.
2008(8th of Av, 5768): Shabbat Chazon;
Begin reading the Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy)
2008: Five of Israel's representatives will be
competing in the first day of the Olympic Games today. Judoka Gal Yekutiel will
be the first Israeli to take part in the Games, facing Athens 2004 bronze
medalist Tsagaanbaatar Hashbaatar of Mongolia on Saturday afternoon in the
first round of the under-60kg event at the University of Science and Technology
Gymnasium. Gymnast Alex Shatilov will compete at the National Indoor Stadium,
while Gal Nevo, Anya Gostomelsky and Tom Be'eri will swim for the first time at
the National Aquatics Center.
2008(8th of Av, 5768): Seventy-four-year-old
Jack Landau “a founder of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press”
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/us/20landau.html
2008(8th of Av, 5768): In the evening,
Fast of Tisha B’Av begins; David Levin chants Chapter Five from the Book of
Lamentations - a sweet voice for a sad
occasion.
2008: The Washington Post reports
that nearly three months after a
federal immigration raid uprooted almost 400 employees at a meatpacking plant
in northeastern Iowa, dozens of Somali immigrants are slowly but steadily
filling the depleted ranks left by the arrested workers.
2009: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of
Comics “Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle’s insightful, entertaining and
profusely illustrated biographical monograph, which chronicles almost
everything Kurtzman accomplished…”
2009(19th of Av, 5769): Seventy-year-old
Lester Glassner whose penchant for “kitsch” turned him into a major collector
of pop culture artifacts, passed away. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/nyregion/21glassner.html
2009: Gaza militants fired
mortars at a crossing into Israel just as Palestinian patients were being
transferred for treatment, a Palestinian official said..
2009: Fervently
Orthodox Jews mobbed Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and threw stones at his car.
2010: This is scheduled to be the final night of
this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2010: Oscilloscope Laboratories said today that it would appeal the rating by
the Classification and Rating Administration for "A Film Unfinished,"
which explores a Nazi propaganda film taken in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. With
an R rating, viewers under the age of 17 must be accompanied by an adult. The
rating board explained its decision, saying the movie contained “disturbing
images of Holocaust atrocities, including graphic nudity.” “This is too
important of a historical document to ban from classrooms,” Adam Yauch, an
owner of Oscilloscope and a founding member of the Beastie Boys, said in a
statement issued today. The film, which was first screened at the Sundance Film
Festival this year, is set to open nationally later this month.
2010(29th of Av, 5770): Eighty-eight-year-old New York real estate
tycoon Paul Milstein passed away (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10milstein.html?pagewanted=all
2010: A New
Zealand judge has allowed the kosher slaughter of animals to resume until the
lawsuit filed by the Jewish community against the government comes to trial.
2010: The
synagogue of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, luminary sage and father of
modern religious Zionism, was reopened today in southern Tel Aviv 30 years
after it closed its doors. The synagogue, Shaarei Torah, is located in the
Neveh Shalom neighborhood just north of Yafo (Jaffa). Following the informal
re-dedication today amid singing and dancing, the synagogue is now open for
daily prayers.
2011(9th of Ave, 5771): Fast of Tisha
B’Av
2011: The British Jewish community has expressed
its shock over the recent rioting which has shaken the UK over the last few
days. The Board of Deputies of British Jews called for unity and said today
that the community’s thoughts were with the victims.
2011: Transportation
Minister Yisrael Katz, who is a member of the Trajtenberg Committee created to
examine the demands of the social-movement protesters, visited the Rothschild
Boulevard tent protest on this evening where activists explained to him their
discontent with the government, and particularly the minister's, inefficiency.
2011(9th of Av, 5771): Eighty-seven-year-old
David Lewis, the British entrepreneur who founded the Isrotel chain of hotels,
which is the country’s large hotel chain, passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/08/16/3089001/the-eulogizer-british-entrepreneur-david-lewis
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest including The Long Night:
William L. Shirer and ‘The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by Steve Wick
2012:
Jerusalem’s Hazel Hill String Band is scheduled to
perform tonight at Petah Tiqva
2012: Dr. Laibl Wolf is scheduled to deliver a lecture on
"The 2012 Secret of Successful Relationships" - Intimacy, Commitment
& Exploitation!” at the Chabad Center of Rechavia
2012:
An American Jewish woman, Debra Ryder, is demanding
NIS 50,000 in compensation from El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL) for
allegedly switching her seat on a flight from the US, because haredi
(ultra-orthodox) men refused to sit next to her. She claims that the flight
steward moved her to a seat in the back of the plane, which did not meet her
medical needs.
2012:
A Brooklyn hardware store clerk pleaded guilty
today to charges he abducted and dismembered an 8-year-old boy who lost his way
home. The guilty plea, to charges of second-degree murder and kidnapping,
guarantees Levi Aron a sentence of 40 years to life in a case that traumatized
the victim’s tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community.
2012:
Al-Quds also reported that this morning, that
Mossad had transferred a list of names to Egyptian Intelligence that contained
nine names of terrorists connected to the attack in Rafah
2012: David Kilimnick, Razorback by birth – Israeli by choice,
is scheduled to perform The Aliyah Monologues: Tour of Funny through the Holy
Land at the Off The Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem.
2012: Janet Maslin reviewed two books that might be of special
interest to Jewish readers--Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben Macintyre and Agent Garbo: The Brilliant,
Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by
Stephen Talty
2012(21st of Av, 5772): Eighty-three-year-old Mel
Stuart director and producer whose career ranged from the ultra-light (Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” to the very serious (The Triangle Factory
Fire Scandal) passed away today in Beverly Hills.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19210701
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/movies/mel-stuart-willy-wonka-director-dies-at-83.html
2012: The Cleveland Indians fired Scott Radinsky as their
pitching coach.
2012(21st of Av, 5772): Forty-seven-year-old “comic
essayist” David Rakoff passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/books/david-rakoff-award-winning-humorist-dies-at-47.html
2012(21st of Av, 5772): Seventy-seven-year-old
Holocaust survivor turned New York political powerhouse Raymond B. Harding,
passed away today. (As reported by Robert McFadden)
2013:
“Blumenthal” and “Awake Zion” are scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival.
2013:
“Fill the Void,” a film that tells the story an Orthodox Chassidic family from
Tel Aviv is scheduled to open at Century 16 in Anchorage, Alaska, making it the
second theatre in the state to show the film.
2013
“Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin warned today that the West's
one dimensional perception of Iran's nuclear program, focusing solely on the
uranium enrichment path to a nuclear weapon, could enable the Islamic Republic
to build a plutonium bomb without detection.” (As reported by the Jerusalem
Post)
2013:
An Israeli Air Force drone reportedly struck a jihadist rocket launcher in the
Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli-Egyptian border, killing four suspected
terrorists who were planning to launch missiles at Israel, Egyptian security
sources told Reuters today.
2014:
"Automonuments", a solo exhibition by New York based Israeli artist
Niv Rozenberg is scheduled to come to an end today.
2014(13th
of Av, 5774); Sixty year old Joseph Raskin, an Orthodox Rabbi from Brooklyn was
gunned down this morning as he walked to Shabbat services at Bais Menachem, a
Northeast Miami-Dade Synagogue.
2014:
“After nearly two years of campaigning, millions of dollars spent and one
tropical storm that delayed voting in this easternmost corner of Hawaii for
nearly a week, Senator Brian Schatz won the Democratic nomination for his seat”
today.
2014(13th
of Av, 5774): Eighty-four New York real estate developer Arthur G. Cohen passed
away today.
2014:
In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to show “The Big Dig,” a “comedy
lampooning…the madness of everyday life in Israel.”
2014:
“Amid efforts to revive stalled talks in Cairo, Israeli forces and Palestinian
militants in the Gaza Strip traded blows again today, with a volley of rockets
fired toward Israel, and the Israeli military striking dozens of targets across
the coastal enclave.” (As reported by Laura King and Batsheba Sobelman)
2015: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish writers and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Days of Awe by Lauren Fox and We’re Still
Here Ya Bastards:
How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City by
Roberta Brandes Gratz
2015: April Slabosheski , the Holocaust
Educator at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is
scheduled to teach “Holocaust Memorials: Context, Interpretation, Memory,” a class “where
participants will learn about concepts that underlie widely known Holocaust
memorials throughout the world.”
2015: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host
a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator.”
2015(24th of Av, 5775): Eight-five-year
University College London trained British director Jack Gold, the London born
“son of Charles and Minnie (Elbery) Gold and husband of Denyse Alexander, who
was an “Honorary Associate of the London Film School” passed away today.
2015: Adei Ad, which is part of the Shilo bloc of
settlements was among the outposts raided today by police and agents of the
Shin Beit security service who “detained at least nine people.”
2015: In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria broadcast
today, President Obama “said Israeli interference in internal US affairs ahead
of a Congressional vote on the Iranian nuclear deal was unprecedented.”
2015: In Amherst, MA, the Yiddish Book Center is
scheduled to host a challah baking demonstration and talk on cuisine by Tina
Wasserman, author of Entrée to Judaism: A Culinary Exploration of the Jewish
Diaspora and Entrée to Judaism for Families: Jewish Cooking and Kitchen
Conversations with Children
2015: The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is
scheduled to host a talk by Betty Cohen the Amsterdam native who “spent two
years in hiding” until she and her family “were discovered and sent to
concentration camps.”
2016(5th of Av, 5776): Ninety-one-year-old
Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny passed away today. (As reported by William
Grimes)
2016: Linda Levi is scheduled to speak on “The JDC
Archives and What We have to Offer Jewish Genealogists” at the 36th
IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
2016: A gag order was lifted today which made public the
arrest of 38-year-old Wahid al-Bursh, “as senor United Nations engineer” on
charges of “abusing his post in order to aid Hamas.”
2016: “The Last Jews Of Baghdad” which
“provides a historical and personal view of the persecution, torture, escape,
and flight of over 160,000 Jews from Iraq between the years 1940 and 2003” is
scheduled to be shown at the Southampton Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “The Caravan Orchestra,” “a collaborative project
of Jewish Summer Weimar and the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar” is
scheduled tonight in Erfurt “in
celebration of Erfurt’s sister partnership with Haifa.”
2017: The Suzanne Dellal Centre is scheduled to present
“Dust,” “an ensemble of four male dancers,” as part of Tel Aviv Dance.
2018(28th of Av): Yarhrzeit for Larry
Rosenstein, of blessed memory, husband of Judy Levin Rosenstein, of blessed
memory. Gone too soon but always remembered!
2018: The Middle Eastern Mixfest” is scheduled to opening
with a “Meet the Writers” panel
2018: The Breman Museum is scheduled to co-host “Theatre
as Social Change,” “a panel discussion with theatre directors and educators,
Mira Hirsh and Patrick McClorey.
2018: In the early morning hours, Israeli time, dozens of
rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza wounding civilians and forcing
untold thousands to spend the night in shelters while the sound of rockets
mixes with the sound of silence from a world that will care when the IDF
strikes back at the terrorists.
2019: In New York, The Landmark at 57 West is scheduled
to host a screening of Mike Wallace is Here directed by Avi Belkin.
2019: In Santa Fe, NM, the Center for Contemporary Arts
is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2019: As of “Opera in the Park,” “the Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Municipality and the Israeli Opera” are scheduled to present Verdi’s “Nabucco,”
2020: The New York
Times featured books by Jewish authors or of special interest to Jewish
readers including Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels by Rachel Cohen,
Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Wendy Lesser, Twilight
of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum and
the recently released paperback edition of The Second Founding” How the
Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner.
2020: Eventbrite is scheduled to host an online screening
of SKIN followed by a discussion with Israeli film director Guy Nattiv.
2020: The New England Yachad is scheduled to present on
line “YAYA, Chavurah Summer Session.”
2020: As part of the virtual presentation “Anti-Semitism
on Campus in the time of Covid-19” “two Academic Engagement Network board
members, ex-UC president Mark Yudof and political scientist Mariam Elman, are
scheduled to discuss the current increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
sentiments, and how to counter them.”
2020: The 11th Annual Axelrod Israeli Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Those Who Remained.”
2020: In a unique learning environment, the Jewish Museum
of Maryland is going to examine the history of migration with the Jewish Museum
of London during which attendees can discover the history of the Jewish people
in the United Kingdom.
2020(19th of Av, 5780): Yahrzeit of
dermatologist, musician and all around good guy, Dr. Richard Caplan, the
husband of Ellen Caplan and the father of David, Joel, Daniel and Aaron
Caplan.”
https://funeralinnovations.com/obituary/323119/Richard-Caplan/
http://wp.foriowa.org/medicine/scholarships/dr-richard-and-ellen-caplan-medical-student-scholarship/
2020:Congregation
Ahavas Sholom in Bexley is scheduled to host its 107th annual gala virtually at
7 p.m. during which Ed and Lily Friedman will be honored with the Amud HaChesed
for their contributions to the Columbus Jewish community and Gary Covel will be
honored with the Lev Tov Award for his generosity.
2021:
In Piedmont, CA, Kehilia Community Synagogue is scheduled to host another
session of “High Holiday for Rookies, “ which is a “series of classes for
people who are newish to the High Holidays, taught by Rabbi Sam Luckey”
2021:
Modern Jewish Couples is scheduled to present online “Planning a Jewish
Wedding” with Rabbi Jen Gubitz who will “spend some time focusing on how to
build a meaningful wedding ceremony that reflects and honors your backgrounds
and shared future.”
2021:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present, online, The Secret Jews
of Majorca Island during which Dani Rotstein will lead “a special virtual tour
of Majorca’s history and its lessons for all Jews today.”
2021(1st
of Elul, 5781): Rosh Chodesh Elul;
2022:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a screening of
“Latter Day Jew.”
2022:The
Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host another lecture by Dr. Regina
Stein on “Make Yourself at Home! Home, Exile, and Return in the Hebrew Bible.”
2022:
Based on statements made yesterday, today Israelis are hopeful that “the
conclusion of fighting in the Gaza Strip could advance talks between Israel and
the Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers Hamas on a potential prisoner
exchange deal.” (As reported by Yoav Zitun and Alexandra Lukash)
2023:
In Somerville, MA, Modern Jewish Couples is scheduled to present “Tu B’Av Solo
and Searching for Love (45+).”
2023:
Final session of “Inside Jokes: Explore the Essence of Jewish Humor” with
Andrew Silow-Carroll is scheduled to take place today.
2023:
Paper Cut by Yael Rasooly is scheduled to open at the International
Fringe in New York City.
2023:
Temple Emanuel of Newton is scheduled to present “a concert with Stacy
Peasley.”
2023:
Based on previously published reports Prime Minister Netanyahu may have to
contend with protestors at the Golan moshav where he and his wife are
vacationing.
2024:
National Book Lovers Day which should be an event “the People of the Book”
would embrace wholeheartedly.
2024:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host an “Outdoor
Shabbat Picnic,” a “Jewish Baby Network outdoor event or families with kids five
and under.’
2024:
As August 9th 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 308 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
