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628: Persian Shah Khosrau II who “conquered
Jerusalem after a brief siege in 614 during the Byzantine – Sasanian War” came
passed away today.
1255: Bishop Richard of Worms transferred to
the chapter of the local cathedral, among other revenues from the city, the sum
of 40 pounds heller which the Jewish community was obliged to pay annually on
St. Martin's Day which falls on November 11.
1261: Henry III, the Duke of Brabant and
Margrave who provided the first evidence Jews living in Antwerp when he
“expressed his wish that the Jews of Brabant should be expelled and destroyed
because they were all considered ‘usurers’’ passed away today.
1276(12th of Adar): Bishop Pierre III Rostaing
guaranteed protection to the Jews of Carpentras, France in return for a tax of
one-thirteenth of the total seat rents of the synagogue
1348: At the Cortes of Alcala de Hebares King
Alfonso XI issued a "startling" decree which forbad Jews and Moors
from lending money “at interet.”
1488: Joshua Solomon Soncino began printing
copies of the Bible at Soncino, Italy.
1574: The first official Auto da Fe in the New
World was held in Mexico after the establishment of the Inquisition 5 years
earlier. The first unofficial Auto da Fe was actually held in 1528 when the
conquistador Hernando Alonso was executed.
1575(18th of Adar II): Rabbi Elijah ben Moses
de Vidas completed Reishit Hakhmah
1592: Clement VIII issued Cum saepe accidere,
a Papal Bull that forbade the Jews of Avignon from selling new goods.
1593: Clement VIII issued Cum Haebraeorum
militia, a Papal Bull decreeing that the Talmud should be burnt along with
cabalistic works and commentaries, which gave the owners of such works 10 days
to turn them over to the Universal Inquisition in Rome and subsequently two
months to hand them over to local inquisitors.
1648: The reign of
Christian IV, the King of Denmark and Norway who lifted the restrictions that
had been placed on Sephardic Jews when he took control of the town of Altona
came to an end today.
1648: Frederick
III, who said of the Jews, they “have stolen into Denmark contrary to
long-standing custom, [since the days of the Reformation, the Lutheran creed
had, according to the laws of Denmark, been compulsory throughout the kingdom],
and have dared to traffic with jewels and the like” which led him “to order
that no Jew should enter Denmark without a special passport
("Geleitsbrief"), and that those who were already in the country
should be heavily fined if they did not leave within fourteen days” began his
reign today. [Editors’ note: A few years later, however, the tables were
turned. Frederick III., being in need of funds for his wars, borrowed money
from the Jew Abraham (or Diego) Teixeira de Mattos of Hamburg (known through
his relations with the Swedish queen Christina), and gave as security
crownlands in Jutland. Teixeira thereupon made such good use of his influence
with the Danish king that, as early as Jan. 19, 1657, "the Portuguese
professing the Hebrew religion" were permitted to travel everywhere within
the kingdom, and to trade and traffic within the limit of the law. Teixeira
himself gained little by his transaction with the Danish monarch. As his loan
was not returned, he took instead the estates he held as security, selling them
later at a great loss. The king acted similarly in his dealings with the De
Lima family, who were in possession of the Hald estate from 1660 to 1703.”]
1659: Birthdate of Father Jean Morin, a French
biblical scholar who was the first to edit the “Samaritan Pentateuch and
Targum.
1660(16th of Adar I, 5420): Jacob
Katzenellenbogen the son and successor of Abraham (Joseph Jacob)
Katzenellenbogen of Lemberg who served as President of the bet din and head of
the yeshiva of Lemberg passed away today.
1675: An agreement was ratified today that
would allow 250 Jewish families to return Vienna and occupy 50 places of
business. In return for this privilege, the Jews agreed to make a payment
of 300,000 florins and the payment of an annual tax of 10,000 florins.
The government agreed to the return of the Jews because the treasury was empty.
1677: In Newport, RI, Jewish community
purchased land to be used as a cemetery
1715: Judah Monis “was admitted a freeman by
the Mayor and Common Council of New York City today.
1720: Judah Monis, an Algerian born Jew who
would become the first American author of a Hebrew grammar book arrived in New
York.
1747: Benedict XIV issued Postremomens,
a Papal Bull that deals with the baptism of Jews.
1748: Today, “there was a flutter of excitement
when “the Great Synagogue in London “was broken into and property was stolen,
including plate and vestments, to the value of £300.”
1761(24th of Adar I, 5521): Parashat
Vayakehl
1762: Dutch born Hyam Mers and Rachel Louzada
who were married in New York in 1751, gave birth to Belle Myers, the wife of
Samuel Asher Levy.
1756(27th of Adar I, 5516): Parashat
Vayakhel
1763(15th of Adar, 5523): Shushan
Purim
1767(29th of Adar I, 5527): Parashat
Pekudei; Shabbat Shekalim
1770: in New York City, Eleazer Benzaken and
his wife gave birth to Jacob Benzken who did not live to celebrate his second
birthday.
1771(14th of Adar, 5531): Purim
1781: Birthdate of German native Isaac Jacob
Bamberger, the husband of Babette Treu, Bella Jacobs and Gela Weil and father
of Bertha, Henry, Ansel, Rosa and Clara Bamberger.
1782(14th of Adar, 5542): Purim
1784(6th of Adar, 5544): Parashat
Terumah
1784: Moses Cohen de Larah arrived in Savannah
after which he lived in Charleston and Philadelphia.
1784: Ralph de Pass, a “vendue master”
(auctioneer) arrived in Savannah today from Jamaica before moving on to
Charleston, SC where he passed away in 1812.
1784: Jacob de Pass, the son of Ralph de Pass
arrived in Savannah today from Jamaica the place to which he would return in
1788.
1784: Esther de Pass, the future wife of Samuel
da Costa, arrived in Savannah today.
1784: One day after he had passed away, Nathan
ben Hayyim, was buried today, erev Shabbat, at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd)
Jewish Cemetery.”
1786(30th of Adar I, 5546): Rosh
Chodesh Adar I
1787: The state legislature of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania granted Hugh Henry Breckenridge a charter for a school that is
now known as the University of Pittsburgh. Today, there are approximately 1,800
Jewish students among the total undergrad population of 16,000 and 500 Jewish
students among the 7,000 graduate students. The university offers a major in
Jewish studies. Jewish students can avail themselves of programs offered
by Hillel and Chabad as well as find kosher meals at the “Kosher Korner” at the
University Center.
1789(2nd of Adar, 5549): Parashat
Terumah
1790(14th Adar, 5550): Purim
1799: Birthdate of Father Johann Joseph Ignaz
von Döllinger author of “The Jews In Europe.”
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_21/June_1882/The_Jews_in_Europe_I
1799: Napoleon, the first European leader to
meet with Jewish leaders in Palestine, led his army out of Gaza and headed for
Ramallah.
1799: In Georgetown, SC, Belle Moses and
Solomon Cohen who were married her hometown of Charleston in 1786 gave birth to
Sarah Henrietta Cohen, the wife of Mordecai Myers and then Robert Phillips.
1801(15th of Adar, 5561): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim
1805(29th of Adar I, 5565):
Seventy-nine-year-old Naphtali Hirz Wessely, the Jewish man of letters born at
Hamburg in 1725 and educated at Copenhagen passed away today in his native
city.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_20854.html
1806: Birthdate of Bohemia native Siegfried
Becher, the University of Prague and University of Vienna educated economist
who taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna and was employed in the
ministry of commerce from 1848 to 1851.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2704-becher-siegfried
1808(30th of Shevat, 5568): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1808: Birthdate of Frances “Fanny” Francks
Hirschberg, the wife of Henry M. Hirschberg and the mother of Georgiana,
Michael and Isabella Hirschberg.
1811(4th of Adar, 5571): Eighty-six-year-old
Jakob Faibel, the husband of Ewa Duschenes passed away in Prague.
1812(15th of Adar, 5572): Shushan
Purim
1812: Danzig native and Professor of History
Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz “who drew a very sharp distinction between the
Sephardim and Ashkenazim of London” saying “Dress, language, manners,
cleanliness, politeness, everything distinguishes them, much to the advantage
of the former who have little to distinguish them from the Christians,” passed
away today.
1812: Birthdate of Moses (Moyses) Baruch,
Auerbach who gained fame as German-Jewish author Berthold Auerbach who published
a novel entitled Spinoza: Ein Historischer Roman in 1837 and who passed
away in 1882 at the age of 70.
1814: Two days after she had passed away,
Bilhah Gompertz, the son of Barnet Gompertz and Rachel Benjamin Isaac was
buried today at the “Hoxton Old Burial Ground.”
1818: Birthdate of Amsterdam native and future
resident of Viriginia Catherine de Castro, the wife of Jacob Ezekiel and mother
of auctioneer Henry Clay Ezekiel
1819(3rd of Adar, 5579): Jochebed
Levy, the daughter of Simeon Levy passed away. (She is not to be confused with
other contemporaries with the same name.)
1820(13th of Adar, 5580): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim observed as the United States debate the legislation that
will be known as the Missouri Compromise.
1822: Birthdate of Solomon Rhodes, the husband
of Maggie Rhodes and the father of John Allen Rhodes who passed away in
Tennessee at the age of 71.
1823: Birthdate of Ernest Renan a French author
who specialized in studies of the ancient languages and civilizations of the
Middle East. Late in life, Renan wrote a three volume “History of
Israel.” The first volume appeared in 1887 and the final volume appeared
in 1897. Some claimed that he was an anti-Semite (anti-Jewish) because of
comments about the limitations of the Semitic mind. But Renan contended
that the Jewish people were not a race in the biological and he was an opponent
of the nationalism that took hold in Germany in the latter of the 19th
century because of its anti-Semitic component.
1824(29th of Adar I, 5584): Parashat
Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim observed on the same day that Robert E. Lee wrote to
Secretary of War John C. Calhoun describing his qualification for entering the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
1826: Birthdate of Prague native and Czech
trained physician William Tausig who immigrated to New York in 1847 and moved
on to St. Louis a year later where he was elected Mayor in 1852 in which would
mark the start of decades of public service that included serving as St. Louis
County Judge, the raising of two regiments during the Civil War to turn back
Rebel raiders and the construction of the first road and railroad bridge across
the Mississippi River
1827(1st of Adar, 5587): Rosh
Chodesh Adar observed on the same day that “The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
incorporated, becoming the first railroad in the United States offering
commercial transportation of both people and freight
1827(1st of Adar, 5587): Rabbi Menahem Mendel
of Shklov passed away
1827: In New York, Moses Mendes Seixas Phillips, the Philadelphia born “son of Naphtali
Phillips and Rachel Mendez Phillips and his wife Rebecca Phillips gave birth to
Naphtali Jacob Phillips, the husband of Miriam Rosina Phillips and father of
Moses and Victoria Rebecca Phillips.
1828(13th of Adar, 5588): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim as General Andrew Jackson campaigns against John Q. Adams,
the only President who was elected by House of Representatives after a deadlock
in the Electoral College.
1829(25th of Adar, 5589): Wolf Breidenbach
passed away
1831: In Philadelphia, John A. Forepaugh and
Susannah Heimer gave birth to Adam John Forepaugh, the circus owner who
included Leopold S. Kahn, “the dwarf performer” known as Admiral Dot among his
acts in the 1890’s
1832: Birthdate of Moritz Wahrmann, the native
of Budapest and the grandson of Israel Wahrman and brother of Alexander
Wahrmann who was a leader of the Jewish community, a member of the Hungarian
Parliament and President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Budapest.
1837: In Bavaria, Jakob Neumond and his wife
gave birth to Isidore Newman the husband of Rebecca Kiefer and “head of the
banking firm of Isidore Newman and Sons, the “owner of street railway systems”
in several cities and the President of the New Orleans Stock Exchange whose
philanthropies included chairing the Board of Trustees of the Endowment Fund
for the Jewish Widows’ and Orphans’ Home, chairing the Endowment Fund of the
Touro Infirmary Board, Commissioner of Audubon Park and the founding of the Isidore
Newman Manuel Training School.
1838: Birthdate of French engineer Maurice
Levy.
1838: In New York City, Myer David Cohen and
Judith Simha Solis gave birth to Jacob Da Silva Solis Cohen, the husband of
Miriam Binswanger with whom he had eleven children who graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College and who served with
both the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War before pursuing a career as a
leading laryngologist in Philadelphia.
1839(14th of Adar, 5599): Purim
1839: Wilhelmine and David Simon Adler gave
birth to Hanne Emilie Adler married Philip Wulff Heyman, “a Jewish Danish
industrialist who co-founded the Tuborg Brewery and who was also a pioneer of
Danish butter and bacon exports to the United Kingdom.”
1842: B'ne Yeshurun, a congregation organized
by the German Jews living in Cincinnati, Ohio was incorporated under the laws
of the state of Ohio.
1842: In Cleveland, Ohio, Anshe Chesed (now
Anshe Chesed - Fairmount Temple) which had been founded as a German Orthodox
congregation in 1841 was chartered today. The congregation had 30 members
and Asher Lehman served as the Rabbi.
1843: In Bishop-Purnitz, Austria, Mina and
Benedict Greenhut gave birth to Joseph B. Greenhut, a decorated Civil War
veteran and a successful Chicago, Illinois, businessman.
1845: Sarah Moses and Alexander Jones gave
birth to Lewis Jones.
1847: In Canterbury, Kent, Hannah Baranard and
Nathan Jones gave birth to their daughter Ellah Jacobs.
1849: London born Amelia Joel and Solomon Marks
gave birth to Mary Marks.
1850: The General Assembly of the provisional
State of Deseret established the University Desert which was the forerunner of
the University of Utah located at Salt Lake City, Utah. Today the university
has approximately 350 Jewish students out of a student population of
15,000. The school has ten courses in Jewish studies and offers a major
degree in Jewish Studies. Not bad for a school founded deep the heart of
the land of Brigham Young.
1851(26th of Adar I, 5611): Eighty-one-year-old
Annie Ezekiel, the England born daughter of Sarah and Abraham Ezekiel, the
husband of Exeter, England, Benjamin Jonas with whom she had nine children
passed away today in Cincinnati, OH.
1853: One day after he had passed away, Jacob
Aaron, a London hosier and haberdasher, the son of “Leib Milkman Aaaron”,
husaband of the former Catherine Benjamin with whom he had had six children was
buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1854(30th of Shevat, 5614): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1854: The Republican Party of the United States
is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. The party was formed in the wake of the
Kansas-Nebraska act and was designed to stop the Democrats’ pro-slavery
agenda. Some of the Jews who were active in the early days of the party
were Sabato Morais, rabbi of the Mikveh Israel Congregation, Moritz Pinner who
edited a German language abolitionist paper in Kansas , Kentuckian Lewis Naphtali Dembitz,
uncle of the Louis Brandeis and New Yorker Sigsmund Kaufman who was an a member
of the electoral college that chose Abraham Lincoln to serve as President in
1860.
1855: In a demonstration of the extent to which
Jewish concepts have penetrated the general cultural milieu, while giving a
speech in New York on the habits of North American Indians, General Sam Houston
tells the audience that until “the spirit of revenge had been conquered by
civilization” the law of the Cherokee Nation “was the same as that practiced
under the old dispensation by the Jews of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth and blood for blood.”
1857(4th of Adar, 5617): Parashat
Terumah
1858(14th of Adar, 5618): Purim
1858(14th of Adar, 5618): Joseph
Reuben Romm, the third generation of printers of Hebrew books, who moved the
family business from Grodno to Vilna, passed away today.
1858: At Frankfurt Am Main, Selig Meier
Goldschmidt and Clementine Goldschmidt gave birth Helene Goldschmidt, the
future wife of Leon Yehudah Tedesco making her Helen Tedesco.
1860: “In Nieder-Rehbach, Austria-Hungary
(today in Romania,” Julia and Ignatz Berger gave birth to Milwaukee, WI
socialist journalist Victor L. Berger, the husband of fellow socialist Meta
Schlichting and the first member of the Socialist Party to hold a seat in the
U.S. House of Representative.
https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9304
1861: Birthdate of Kuppenheim, Germany native
and San Francisco trained lawyer Julius Kahn, the U.S Congressman who was a
strong advocate for national defense before, during and after WW I and the
author of legislation designed to exclude Chinese immigrants while enjoying the
unique distinction of having his wife Florence Prag Kahn succeed him in the
House after he passed away.
https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/K/KAHN,-Julius-(K000003)/
1862: “Affairs In Utah” published today
described the drive of those living in that territory to become a state in the
Union. “As things go, it does seem apparent that Jews and Gentiles here are,
more or less, under the conviction that the particular time ‘in the course of
human events’ is at hand when a change is inevitable in the fashion of
Government among "this people." Some may be surprised to hear of Jews
connected with Utah which is almost synonymous with the Mormon Religion. The
first Jews who settled in Utah were probably “dropouts” from the wagon trains
heading to California during the California Gold Rush. By 1853, two Jews had
established a millenary store in Salt Lake City. The first non-Mormon governor
of Utah would be a Jew named Simon Bamberger. As to the issue of
statehood, it would be another 34 years before that goal was reached. The
price of admission would be a formal rejection by the Mormons of the practice
of polygamy. To date, this is the only time that the federal government
has “interfered” with the doctrines of a religious organization.
1862(28th of Adar I, 5622): Meyer
Schoenfeld, who is buried in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery & Mausoleum
in St. Louis County, passed away today.
1862: In Mauth, Czech Republic Katti and Samuel
Glaser gave birth Julius Glaser, the husband of Stella Sommers whom he married
in 1926, the Director of Boatmen’s National Bank and President of the Jewish
Federation of St. Louis who was also President of Temple Sinai and the Mt.
Sinai Cemetery Association
1863: The will of the late Commodore Uriah P.
Levy, U.S. Navy, which has been admitted to probate, is now before the Supreme
Court, at Special Term. Proceedings have been “instituted to break it, in
respect to its bequests to the people of the United States, or the State of
Virginia, and then to certain Hebrew congregations in New-York, Philadelphia
and Richmond, for the purpose of founding an agricultural school at Monticello,
in the State of Virginia.”
1864: During the Civil War, according to
General Order No. 9 issued today at the Headquarters of the 3rd
Brigade, 3rd Division, 11th Corps stationed at Whiteside,
TN which is to be read “on dress parade to the troops today” that in parting
with Captain Joseph B. Greenhut of the 82nd Regiment Illinois
Volunteers who has resigned his resignation after having “served three years,
taking active part in all the most decisive battles in the East and West” “the
Colonel commanding feels it both a duty and a pleasure to bear testimony to his
diligence, zeal and fidelity in the performance of his duty in the office as
well as in the field and he regrets to see so excellent and brave an officer as
Captain Greenhut leave his command.
1865: In Geneva, Kate, née Levison and Michel
Bergson gave birth to Mina Begson, the sister of Henri Bergson who gained fame
as “artist and occultist” Moina Mathers.
1866(13th of Adar, 5626): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim on the last day of “a month that concludes with having a
full moon.”
1868(5th of Adar, 5626): Rabbi Israel Muschkat,
author of Harei Besamim, passed away.
1869: In New York City,
Louis and Sarah (Greenbaum) Sloss gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Marcus
C. Sloss, the husband of Hattie Hecht whom he married in 1899 and who practiced
law in California where he served as an associate California State Supreme
Court Justice and was a member of the American Jewish Committee.
1869: In Austria-Hungary, Philip and Marie
(Goldfinger) Greenbaum gave birth to Philadelphia Dental College graduate, Max
Greenbaum, D.D.S, the husband of Blanche Goldsmith and author of “The Practice
of Dentistry” who was a member of Keneseth Israel.
1874: Birthdate of Brooklyn
native Benjamin Britton Gottsberger, the husband of Helen Majorie Beadle
Gottsberger whom he married in 1898.
1875: Birthdate of Kiev native Morris
Garfunkel, the resident of New York and President of the Garfunkel Conditioning
Corporation.
1875: Birthdate of Riga native Adolph Abbey,
the student of Rabbi Isaac Eichanan Spector and University of Oregon trained
attorney who led congregations in Washington, D.C. and Spokane, WA before
becoming the rabbi at the Hall Street Synagogue in Portland, OR.
1877(15th of Adar, 5637): Shushan
Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant who had
attended dedicatory services at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C.
1878: Birthdate of Warsaw native Zdzisław
Birnbaum, the Polish violinist and conductor who served two terms as Music
Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
1878: In response to “the proliferation of
door-to-door begging in the city by destitute Jews,” “a meeting was held in
Leeds to establish a Board of Guardians to provide a system of relief to those
in need.”
1879: One day after he had passed away, Isaac
Horwitz, the son of “Abraham Horwitz” and “Lena Altman” was buried today in the
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1880: In New York City, Samuel Steinbrink, who
operated a small candy store on the east side and Fredricka (Stein) Steinbrink
gave birth to NYU trained attorney and Republican party member Meier
Steinbrink, the husband of Sadie Bloch and father of Stuart Steinbrink and
Miriam Abelow who became a New Your State Supreme Court Justice and President
of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn as well as a “director and incorporator
of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charites.”
1880: In Lithuania, Lazarus and Miriam (Burros)
Abramowitz gave birth to Herman Rabinowitz, who in 1890 came to the United
States where he graduated from CCNY, Columbia and the Jewish Theological
Seminary before moving to Canada in 1903 where he served as Rabbi of Montreal’s
Shaar Hashomayim Congregation and the Senior Jewish Chaplain in the Canadian
Army during WW I while also founding the Canadian Jewish Congress and raising
two children with “his wife, the former Theresa Bockar.
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn31777
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/abramowitz-herman
1882 In Hungary, Judah and Marjem Grunwald gave
birth William Vilmus Grunwald, the borther of Samuel, Hani, Emanuel and Ida
Ethel Grunwald.
1882(9th of Adar, 5642):
Eighty-four-year-old Almeria Levy, the daughter of Jacob and Hannah de Leon and
wife of Hayman Levy passed away today in Philadelphia.
1882: It was reported today that the Russian
government offered an explanation to the British government for the expulsion
of Mr. Lewisohn from the Czar’s empire. While the British saw Lewisohn as
an English citizen, the Russians saw him as being a Jew. And in Russia,
Jews, regardless of the country in which they live, are considered to be Jews
which make them a thing without legal standing.
1882: John w. Foster will deliver a lecture on
“The Czar and His People” a tonight’s meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association at Chickering Hall in New York City.
1883: Twenty-four-year-old Yale alum and
Columbia trained attorney Adolph S. Ochs, the future owner and President of The
New York Times married Effie M. Wise today in Cincinnati, OH.
1885(13th of Adar, 5645): Shabbat
Zachor; erev Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Benjamin Harrison.
1885: In Dayton, OH, Mollie Witkowsky and Moses
Kusworm gave birth to Cincinnati Law School trained attorney Sidney Grover
Kusworm, the husband of Helen Frances Block and Republican politician who was
the president of the Jewish Federated Charities of Dayton and a member of B’nai
B’rith.
1886(23rd of Adar I, 5646):
Pawnbroker Aaron Simon, a native of Prussia, passed away today after which he
was buried at the Wolverhampton Old Jewish Burial Ground.
1886:
Birthdate of Helen Alexander who was buried in Beth Israel Cemetery
which she passed away at the age of 24.
1887: Rumania excluded Jews from public service
and the tobacco trade.
1887: Birthdate of Zorach Gorfinkel who gained
fame William Zorach, “a Lithuanian-American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and
writer” who won the Logan Medal of the arts and who was “the husband of
Marguerite Thompson Zorach and father of Dahlov Ipcar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zorach#mediaviewer/File:William_Zorach,_Moses,_1952.JPG
1888: In Baltimore, MD, Charles and Rebecca
Erlanger gave birth to Johns Hopkins lacrosse player and textile executive
Milton S. Erlanger, the husband of Alene Stern Erlanger “who was responsible
for the formation of the Canine Corps during WW II and with whom he had a son
and two daughters.
1889: Gertrude Block and Benjamin Lifshutz gave
born to Russian born University of Chicago graduate and Rush Medical College
trained ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist Jacob Lifschutz and husband of
Rose Sager whom he married in 1916 who was the “attending otolaryngologist” at
Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Marks Nathans Orphan Home and the Jewish Old Home in
Chicago.
1889(27th of Adar I, 5649): In Edinburgh,
Marcus Levy, a picture frame maker and Minna Levy, a draper, gave birth to
Hyman Levy.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Levy_Hyman.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Obits/Levy_Hyman.html
1890: Lena Catosk Pearlstone, the Mississippi
born daughter of Mina and Louis Hart and her husband Barney Pearlstone gave
birth to Morris Pearlstone
1891: Birthdate of Yaakov Kamenetsky, the
Lithuanian born Rosh Yeshiva and Talmudist, who moved to North America in 1937
where he served as a Rabbi in several U.S. and Canadian cities.
1892: In Buffalo, NY Nathan and Esther
(Freedman) Aaron gave birth to University of Buffalo trained attorney A. Howard
Aaron, a member of Temple Beth Zion and supporter of the Jewish Federation for
Social Service who was the husband of Arline Schwartz.
1893: Decrees ordering the expulsion of the
Jews from Poland today which were even more far-reaching than those that had
been issued expelling Jews from their homes in Russia.
1894: In New York City, Joseph Seligman and
Babette Seligman gave birth to Walter Joseph Seligman
1894: In New York City, Joseph and Sarah
Swernofsky Hecht gave birth to Racine, Wisconsin resident and American
playwright Ben Hecht, the two-time Oscar winner whose most famous work was “The
Front Page” which he co-authored with Charles MacArthur but whose real claim to
fame for some was his ardent support for the Zionist cause.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Hecht
https://www.amazon.com/Ben-Hecht-Fighting-Moving-Pictures/dp/030018042X
1895: It was reported today that the officers
of the Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home are: Lucien
Bonheur, President; Miss Gertrude Hess, Vice President; James Loeb, Treasurer;
Amelia Simon, Secretary.
1895: “Great Hebrew Charity” published today
included Jacob Schiff’s acknowledgement of the receipt $10,063.19 for the
Montefiore Home that was raised by the recent charity ball as well as an
additional $2,000 that came from payment of dues.
1895: “German Hebrew Immigration” published
today described the debate in the Reichstag on restricting the immigration of
Jews from Russia and Austria which one deputy described as being “so great as
to amount to a national plague.” Deputies from the Social Democrats and
National Liberty Party voiced their opposition to any restrictive measures
which led to an end to the debate.
1895: Birthdate of New York City native and
Johns Hopkins trained obstetrician and gynecologist Jacob Pearl Greenhill, the
author Office Gynecology.
1896(14th of Adar, 5656): Purim
1896: Two days after she had passed away, Sarah
(Levy) Moses, the wife of Moses Moses, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: One day after she had passed away, 71-year-old
Henrietta Cohen, the wife of Marcus Cohen, was buried today at the “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1897(26th of Adar I, 5657):
Fifty-eight-year-old the Cracow born Austrian physician Blumenstock von Halban
who was raised to nobility in 1891 in recognition of his service as chairman of
the forensic medicine department passed away today.
1898: In New York City, Polish Jewish
immigrants “Clara (née Ostrow), a wardrobe mistress, and Louis Opiekun, a
shirtmaker” gave birth Malka Opiekun who gained fame as actress Molly Picon.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/molly-picon
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Picon-Molly.html
1898: Two days after he had passed away
63-year-old Nathaniel Nathan was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery”
in London.
1898: In Lisrobin, Kiskeam, County Cork James
and Margaret O’Flaherty gave birth to Hugh O’Flaherty, the priest and Roman
Curia official who risked his life to save Allied P.O.W.’s and Italian Jews
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-unbelievable-heroic-story-of-irelands-overlooked-oscar-schindler/
1898(6th of Adar, 5658):
Eighty-two-year-old Joseph Baron von Morpurgo passed away today at Trieste.
1898: “The Get-Together Clubs” of New York and
Brooklyn met this evening where the general discussion of “The Problem of the
Unemployed” including a presentation by N.S. Rosenau, the Director of the
United Hebrew Charities.
1898: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and WW I
veteran Jacob Ark, the George Washington University graduate and Georgetown
trained attorney who began serving as New York State Supreme Court Judge in
1961.
1899: In Ukraine, Victor (Avigdor) Kramer and
his wife Rochel gave birth to future Boston resident Rose Snyder, the wife of
Henry Snyder with whom she had two children—Elaine and Marvin.
1899: It was reported today that Oscar S.
Straus was member of the Executive Committee of the Civil Service Reform
Association of the City New York which will become the official agency of New
York designed to promote a system based on the notion that “a public office is
public trust.”
1900: During the Second Boer War the 118-day
siege of Ladysmith came to an end. Major Karri Davies was one of the Jewish
soldiers who fought in defense of the British position at Ladysmith. There were
at least 2,800 Jews fighting for the British and an untold number fighting for
the Boers.
1900: Attorney and University of Cincinnati
graduate Isadore Rosenthal, the HUC trained rabbi and Long Island born son of
Ernestine Witkowski and Bernard Rosenthal who served congregations in
Lancaster, PA and McKeesport, PA married
Florence Rosenstein today.
1901: Birthdate of Vilem Bribram, a member of
the Czech Army who was buried in the East Ham Jewish Cemetery in 1944.
1902(21st of Adar I, 5662):
Fifty-two-year-old Gratz Mordecai, the Washington, D.C. born son Sarah Ann Hays
and West Point graduate Alfred Mordecai, the youngest brother of Civil War hero
Alfred Mordecai and the husband of Frances Kingsland Gifford whom he married in
1900 and who was the author of A Report on the Terminal Facilities for Handling
Freight of the Railroads Entering the Port of New York passed away today in
Swarthmore, PA.
1902: Two days after she had passed away,
Elizabeth Michaels was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1903: Max Nordau meets Leopold Greenberg in
Paris and sends a wire to Herzl: "Greenberg had obtained everything that
can possibly be conceded in an official agreement."
1904(12th of Adar, 5664): Six days
after his 65th birthday, Hamburg, Germany, native Adolf Calman, the
rabbi at Yorkville, NY passed away today.
1904: The first entry was made on the marriage
register of the Artillery Lane Synagogue.
1905: In New York, the initial meeting of a
“Choral Society for Ancient Hebrew Melodies” was held at the rooms Young Men’s
Hebrew Association under the direction of Mr. Rosenblatt.
1906: Twenty-two-year-old Sarah Manilla, Paris
France born daughter of Benjamin and Miriam Manilla became Sarah Lewis today
when she married Max J. Lewis in Cleveland, OH where she served as the
President of the Cleveland Chapter of Hadasah
1906: Sarah M. Lewis, the Paris born daughter
of Benjamin and Miriam Manilla, the president of the Cleveland chapter of
Hadassah and a member of Tifereth Israel married Max J. Lewis today.
1906: In the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn Jennie (Riechenthal) and Max Siegel gave birth
to Benjamin Siegel who gained fame as mobster Ben “Bugsy” Siegel considered by
some to be “the father of Las Vegas.”
https://www.biography.com/people/bugsy-siegel-9542063
1907(14th of Adar, 5667): Purim
1907(14th of Adar, 5667): Ninety-two-year-old
Canadian “businessman and financier” Jacob Henry Joseph passed away today in
Montreal.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biology-physics-cooper-westinghouse/
1907: In Hillsboro, OH, John and Elizabeth
Caniff gave birth to cartoonist Milton Arthur Paul Caniff the creator of “Steve
Canyon” and “Terry and the Pirates.”
1907(14th of Adar, 5667): Eighty-year-old
Wilhelm Rapp passed away. Born in Germany in 1827, he moved to the United
States in 1852 after having participated in the failed Revolutions of 1848.
Rapp edited newspapers in several cities before the Civil War. An
outspoken abolitionist and Unionist, he
was forced to flee from Baltimore to Washington, DC in 1861. Rapp turned down
President Lincoln’s offer to make him postmaster general and moved to Chicago,
Illinois where he worked as a newspaper editor until his death.
1908: In Milwaukee, WI, Henry and Anna Gattman
gave birth to Marie Louise Gattman the “ex-wife of Hyman Hirsh.”
1908(26th
of Adar I, 5668): Sixty-four-year-old Hungarian native of Rabbi Sigmund
Drechsler who was hired “at the salary of $1,000 per year” to serve as the
spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun when it moved into its new
building in Cleveland, OH” passed away today.
1909: In Kensington (UK) Edward Harold Spender
and Violet Hilda Schuster who was consider “half Jewish” because her father’s
family had been German Jews before converting gave birth to Poet Laureate Sir
Stephen Spender whose identification with the Jewish people was strengthened by
the fact that his second wife was English Pianist and author Natasha Spender.
1910: “Leon Kamarky and Jacob Faphirstein of
New York told President Taft today that for a number of years the Jews of” the
United States “had been endeavoring to secure action that would give American
citizens freedom from political arrest in Russia” and “President Taft said he
was deeply interested in the matter and had instructed Mr. Rockhill,” the
American Ambassador to St. Petersburg “to make strong representations to the
Russian Government looking to the inviolability of America of American passports”
in Russia.”
1911(30th of Shevat, 5671): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1911(30th of Shevat, 5671):
Seventy-four-year-old Jeanette Nannette Diamant Herzl, the wife of Jacob Herzl
and the mother of Pauline Herzl and Theodore Herzl, the father of Modern
Zionism
1911: Akron, Ohio businessman Bert A. Polsky
and the former Hazel Steiner gave birth to their daughter Peggy who was the
wife of H.C. Dodge.
1911: Birthdate of Judah Leon Bernstein who
gained fame as photographer Lou Bernstein.
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lou-bernstein?all/all/all/all/0
1912(10th of Adar, 5672): On the
Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph Chajes of Lamberg who passed away in
5445 on the Jewish calendar.
1912: Louis E. Levy, the president of the
Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants “filed a protest with
Congress in a letter to Congressman J. Hampton Moore against the incorporation of
an educational test or monetary requirement into U.S immigration law.”
1912: Birthdate of Isabella Harris, the native
of Bethnal Green, London the wife of Harry Weinberg, the son of Betsy Cohen and
Emanuel Weinberg.
1913(21st of Adar I, 5673):
Fifty-seven-year-old Phil Phillips passed away in Cardiff, Wales.
1913: “Liliom,” by Ferenc Mlnar, the Budapest
born son of “Dr. Mór Neumann, a prosperous and well-regarded
gastroenterologist, and Jozefa Wallfisch, both of German-Jewish heritage”
enjoyed a “triumphant premiere” today in Vienna after Alfed Polgar, the
Leopoldstadt born son of Henriette and Josef Polak, “moved the plot to the
Vienna Prater and added a prologue”
1913: Seventy-seven-year-old, the president of
William Sicher Dry Goods Company who had come to St. Louis in 1852 and was a
member of Share Emeth Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to be buried at Mt.
Cemetery following a funeral service to be conducted at his home.
1914(2nd of Adar, 5674): Parashat
Terumah
1914: “Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff sailed
today on the United Fruit steamer Calamares for a three-week cruise to the West
Indies including a visit to the Panama Canal.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/03/01/100083417.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1914: In Cook County, IL, Judge Leon Edelman
and Sarah Kramer Edelman gave birth to Isabel Edelman Miller, the sister of
Alvin Edelman and Lila H. Edelman Morrow.
1915(14th of Adar, 5675): Purim
1915: “One thousand members of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association attended” services at Temple Beth-El in New York this
“morning to celebrate the festival of Purim.”
1915: Tonight “The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish
Congregation, the oldest in the United States” presented “a series of tableaux
representing the influence of Jews on the early history of America.”
1915: The Church Peace Union founded by Andrew
Carnegie whose trustees are 29 prominent clergymen including those from Jewish
organizations made public an address cautioning the clergy “against
partisanship in discussing the European War and protesting against the
agitation for increased armaments.”
1915: In Brooklyn, NY, Israel Mostel
and Cina "Celia" Druchs gave birth Samuel Joel "Zero"
Mostel an actor known for his roles in the original version of “The Producers”
and “Fiddler on the Roof.”
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAmostel.htm
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/179731%7C179732/Zero-Mostel-Profile.html
1915: “Aid For Polish Jews” published today
described efforts that have been organized in the United States and Petrograd
to provide aide for the approximately 500,000 Jews of Galicia who have been
“ruined” by the war.
1915: It was reported today that “the large
number of Jewish refugees arriving in Moscow from various parts of” war torn
Poland are given “a sympathetic reception” while “the situation is quite
different for Jewish refugees…who arrive in Petrograd” who now “are all being
sent back to the pale of settlement.”
1916(24th of Adar I, 5676): Morris Lasker, aged
76, millionaire miller, pioneer, Indian fighter and philanthropist died in
Galveston, Texas, this afternoon. Mr. Lasker won wide fame when he led
the Jews of the South in a fight for the life and vindication of Leo Frank, who
was convicted in Atlanta for the murder of Mary Phagan. Mr. Lasker came
to America from Germany at the age of 16. He “was in the mercantile
business in George for three years, and then came to Texas, settling at Weatherford,
where he engaged in many expeditions against the Indians.” He settled in
Galveston in 1867 and married Miss Nettie Davis of Albany, NY, the widow who
survives him, along with six children including Albert Lasker of Chicago.
1916: The Board of Trustees of Congregation
Orachim held a special meeting today where they adopted resolutions expressing
their sorrow at the death of Henry Glass, the President of Henry Glass and
Company.
1916: On the same day that it was reported that
the Czar has granted freedom of travel to Jews from the United States, Judge
Leon Sanders said that as a result of the work of New York lawyer Isidore
Hershfield “sums of money are now being sent to Russia by Jewish immigrants in”
in the United States “which will far surpass the amounts thus far collected for
relief purposes.
1916: Henry James, one of the literary giants
of the 19th century, passed away. For more about how James
viewed Jews including his review of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda see
Milton Kerker’s Henry James on the Jewish scene/
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-112354673.html
1917: “The 5,000
members of the Federation of Hebrew Grocers’ Association have been advised by
their executive committee” “which met last night” “to close the 8,000 retail
grocery stores which they operate unless the housewives, now boy boycotting
certain foodstuffs, are force to change their tactics.”
1917: Two days after
she had passed away today, 58 year old Kate Samuel, the “wife of Ralph Samuel”
was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1917: Today, fearing a
violent revolution, “the High Command of the Russian tried to convince Czar
Nicholas II to abdicate in favor Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, his younger
brother.
1917: Two days after he
had passed, 46 year old Morris Hymovitch was buried today at the “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1918: “The 150 recruits
for the Jewish units in the British Army who have enlisted” in the United
States “were mustered into the service at the British and Canadian Recruiting
Mission” in New York City “and led by mounted policemen, a band and British and
Canadian officers down Fifth Avenue to the Fall River line pier from which
point they embarked on their way to way
1919: Birthdate of Leo
Cantor who “played halfback at the University of California-Los Angeles from
1938-1941. He then played defensive back, halfback, and fullback in the NFL
with the New York Giants in 1942 and for the Chicago Cardinals in 1945.”
http://scjewishsportshof.com/cantor.html
http://www.nfl.com/player/leocantor/2511023/profile
1919: Following the
decision to combine two Yiddish newspapers whose readers were “the younger and
more progressive Orthodox Jews, the Day-Warheit
appeared for the first time today
1919: In Paris, Dr. Sikolow, the head of the
Zionist delegation to the Peace Conference who summed up the aspirations of the
Jews as comprising the recognition of the historic title of the Jews people to
Palestine and the right to re-establish national home” “said today that the
Supreme Council gave an attentive hearing to the Zionist case.”
1920(9th of Adar, 5680): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1920: Oscar S. Straus, the former Ambassador to
Turkey said today that the people of the United States “should demand immediate
ratification of the Paris Peace Treaty” and that “the responsibility for
delaying the reconstruction of the world rests upon the United States of
America” and those who wish to make ratification the issue in the upcoming
Presidential campaign.
1921: Fire destroys 120 homes and a large
amount of shops in the Jewish quarter of Kouskoundjouk, Constantinople. Most of
these belonged to poor Jews.
1921: Conference of rabbis in Jerusalem elects
a court of Justice and chooses four Ashkenazi and four Sephardi rabbis with
Rabbi Kook (Ashkenazi) & Jacob Meir (Sephardic).
1921: In Passaic, NJ, “Morris and Goldie
Zaentz, Jewish refugees from a shtetl in eastern Poland” gave birth to Oscar
award winning movie producer Saul Zaentz whose work included “One Flew Over the
Cukoo’s Next” and “Amadeus” (As reported by Robert McFadden)
1922: Today, Irma Rothschild Jung, the Baden
Germany born daughter of “wealthy observant Jews of Swiss-Jewish descent” “married
Moravian-born Rabbi Leo Jung” Irma whom she had met at Stansstad on Lake
Lucerne at a camp she ran for refugee children.
1922: David A. Brown, director of the Jewish
war relief campaign today told the volunteer workers at meeting “that one
million dollars had been subscribed since last Thursday and that the lists
carried the names of a about ten thousand person who had not contributed to
previous Jewish funds.”
1922: It was announced today that “the portrait
painter Seymour S. Stone had informed the committee that he would paint the
portrait of any person who would pay ten thousand dollars” to the Jewish war
relief campaign.
1923: “Campus discussion of the senior
council's reported informal recommendation that steps be taken to limit
admission of Jewish students to Syracuse University had practically subsided
tonight after Chancellor Charles Wesley Flint had reiterated that no discrimination
had been tolerated at the university and that none would be.”
1924: At the Hotel Almanac, Rabbi Gabriel
Schulman officiated today at the wedding of Helen Kaffeman and Alan S. Cohen,
the son of New York residents Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Cohen.
1924: “The Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Abraham
Isaac Kook” left Jerusalem for an official visit to America.
1924: Tonight, at the St. Regis Hotel, Judge
Joseph M. Proskauer officiated at the wedding of Florence A. Harris whose
matron of honor was Mrs. Louis Bloom and Louis N Messing, the nephew of Aaron
Naumburg.
1925: In Hamilton, Ontario, an immigrant Hebrew
teacher from the Ukraine and his wife gave to McGill University graduate and
NYU Ph.D. Louis Nirenberg, “a mathematician who explored the complexities of
equations commonly used by physicists and engineers, and who shared the 2015
Abel Prize, a top math award modeled after the Nobles.” (As reported by Kenneth
Chang)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/science/louis-nirenberg-dead.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00449-y
1926(14th of Adar, 5686): Purim
1926 Programs celebrating Purim are scheduled
to take place at all of the 91 institutions affiliated with the Federation for
the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
1926: “Young Judaea Clubs throughout” the
United States presented plays as part of their Purim celebrations.
1926: In New York, the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews held an open house on Purim.
1926: “The Cohens and Kellys” “the first of the
Cohens and Kellys film serials” with a screenplay by Alfred Cohn and starring
George Sidney as “Jacob Cohen” was released today in the United States.
1927: “An exclusively Jewish program was
offered this evening from the pulpit of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Park
Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street” which included the singing of three Hebrew
melodies that preceded the introduction of the speaker, James Waterman Wise,
son of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who spoke on the Jews' contribution to Western
civilization.
1928: The Soviets decided to set up a
Jewish district in Biro-bijanin Eastern Siberia. Most of its 14,200 square
miles were uninhabitable due to floods. It was to be used as a buffer zone
against China.
1928: In Malden, Massachusetts, “Katherine
(Hellerman) Greenfield” and Nathan Greenfield, who “was in the wool and waste
business” gave birth to Joshua Joseph Greenfield “the Oscar nominated
screenwriter” who chronicled the life of his autistic son. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
1929:”The Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of
Canada issued an official statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
correspondent” in Montreal “denying the previous report that the Society had
received 2,500 permits for the admission of Jewish immigrants to Canada and
that there is a 5,000 qota for Jewish immigrants under present regulations.
1929: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to
officiate at the wedding today at the Savoy Plaza of Luara Plaut, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Plaut and Leonard Celler Herzig
1929: In Toronto, Thelma (née
Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg gave birth to architect Frank Gehry.
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1930: In the Bronx, Jewish immigrants Anna Zola
and Irving Kupchik gave birth to Leon N. Kupchik who gained famed as Columbia
trained physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Leon N. Cooper, the husband of Kay
Allard.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060316094457/http://physics.nobel.brainparad.com/leon_neil_cooper.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biology-physics-cooper-westinghouse/
1930: Today, “through Max Gabel, there was
staged in the Public Theatre with Jennie Goldstein in the title role,
"Sonitchka, a comedy-drama by Israel Rosenberg, lyrics by the author,
music by Herman Wohl.”
1931(11th of Adar, 5691): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1931: “A letter from Professor Albert Einstein
commending the work of American Jewry in its efforts to rehabilitate the Jews
of Eastern and Central Europe was made public” today “by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise,
chairman of the 1931 fund of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
which is seeking $2,500,000 to continue reconstruction work among destitute
European Jews.”
1932: “Heart of Paris,” directed by Marie
Epstein and Jean Benoit-Levy who also wrote the screenplay, premiered today in
France.
1932: It was reported today that Eugene Meyer,
Jr., chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation would be one of the
witnesses to be called by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee which is
holding hearings on the behavior the stock markets flowing the passage of “the
Glass-Steagall credit stimulus.”
1933: Richard Frederick Jessel, an officer in
the Royal Navy was promoted from Lieutenant to Lieutenant Commander today
1933(2nd of Adar, 5693):
Eighty-four-year-old Lautenburg, Germany native David Davidson, the Breslau
educated Rabbi who came to the United States in 1880 where he served on the
“faculty of Hebrew Union College” and led several congregations including
Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Des Moines from 1881 to 1885 passed away today.
1933: In Germany promulgation of the Reichstag
Fire Decree, legislation that suspends civil liberties, enabling "the
cabinet to take any necessary measures to protect public safety"
1934(13th of Adar, 5694): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim
1934(13th of Adar, 5694): In the
depths of the Great Depression, for some Jews, the fast of Esther was just one
more day without food.
1934: As a sign of the acceptance of the Nazis
by the German people “Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller declared tonight that
"the German Christians will not rest until only national Socialists are
found in the pulpits of the church and only national socialists sit below
them."
1934: Tonight, Mayor LaGuardia and other
speakers at the Yeshiva College dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria denounced the
persecution of the Jews in Central Europe and urged religious tolerance here.
1934: Mayor LaGuardia and Aldermanic President
Bernard S. Deutsch received gift basked of fruit nuts and wine” today “ from representatives
of the Jewish National Fund” including its president Dr. Israel Goldstein “on
the eve of the Purim celebration at which time Jews exchange gifts.”
1935(25th of Adar I, 5695): Jeannette Miriam
Goldberg, who organized Texas chapters of the National Council of Jewish Women
and the Jewish Chautauqua Society, passed away.
1935(25th of Adar I, 5695):
Fifty-nine-year-old Austrian born, retired Newark, NY “produce broker” Meyer
Augenblick, the wife of Anna Branies Augenblick and father of Jack Augenblick
who with his brother Adolf had founded a butter and egg firm in 1899 when which
they sold to the Borden Company and who was a director of Beth Israel Hospital
suffered a fatal heart attack in Jerusalem
1936: The celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the founding the Young Men’s Hebrew Association took place today
in Atlantic City, NJ.
1936: Otto
David Tolischus, the Prussian born Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent today
wrote a description of the Nazi regime that began with the withering words:
“Like every successful revolution that wants to be more than successful in
ousting the ins by the outs the National Socialist revolution is eagerly
seeking to creates its own style of living which shall visibly demonstrate its
totalitarian character and wean the populace from any longing to return to ‘the
good old day,’ thereby helping to assure the permanence of the new regime.
1937: It was reported today that Rabbi Sidney
E. Goldstein of the Free Synagogue will chair “a community program on ‘Marriage
and the Home’”
1937: “More than 100 Jews of German origin
attended a service held in memory of the Jews who have died as a result of Nazi
persecution sponsored by the German Jewish Congregation and led by Rabbi Max
Malina.
1937: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today in the chapel of Temple Emanu-El for seventy-three-year-old Henry
Wineburgh, the president of the United Advertising Corporation of Texas, the
husband of Claire Lowenstein Wineburgh and the father of Harold and Robert
Wineburgh.
1937: In “Jewish Literature” published today
John Cournos provided a review of Volume III of A History of Jewish
Literature from the Close of the Bible to Our Own Days by Meyer Waxman.
1938: During the Arab revolt, “an armed Arab
mob” attacked Tirat Tzvi, “a kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley.
1938: As the latest wave of Arab violence
continued, The Palestine Post reported that the
"representatives" of armed bands were regularly visiting Arab towns
and villages, demanding money for their "activities" and issuing
"receipts." A bridge on the Jenin-Afula road was damaged by an
explosion and there were numerous shooting incidents throughout the country. A
curfew was imposed on a number of villages after armed Arab terrorists stormed
isolated police posts and stole arms and ammunition, intimidating the local
Arab constables.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that
The Union of Romanian Journalists expelled all Jews who became members after
December 1919.
1939: The curfew that had been imposed on all
of the Arab quarters starting on February 26 following the murder of 3 Jews by
Arabs was scheduled to come to an end today at 6 A.M.
1940: The British adopted the MacDonald White
Paper that included restriction of sale of Arab land to Jews in Eretz Yisrael.
This document nearly voided the Balfour Declaration
1940: Ben “Auberbach and his NYU squad played
against in Georgetown University in a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in
one of the first two college basketball games to ever appear on television.”
1941(1st of Adar, 5701): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1941: “A gold medal for the most creative idea
submitted in a poster contest for Brotherhood Weed, conducted by the National
Conference of Christians and Jew was presented” today “to Joseph Hess, a senior
in the School of Industrial Art.”
1941: It was reported today that ‘the
immigration quotas of the United States” and other countries “remain unfilled
because Jews” in Vienna who are in a position to meet immigration requirements
have not the money to pay for transportation which means they will be
“transferred” Poland.
1942: In Tel Aviv, Aharon Werba, a civil
servant who made Aliyah in 1933 and his wife Chava gave birth to Dorit Werba
who as Dorit Beinish was the first woman to serve as president of the Supreme
Court of Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Madam-Chief-Justice
1943: George Gershwin's "Porgy and
Bess" opened on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan. The
musical originally premiered in 1935 and survived for a mere 124
performances. The musical was revised after Gershwin's death and slowly
gained popular and critical acclaim.
1943: Brotherhood Week came to an end today.
1943: In Kovono Ghetto, thousands of Jews
attend the funeral of Rabbi Avraham Duber Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno despite
an order from the Nazis forbidding them to do so.
1944(4th of Adar, 5704):
Sixty-three-year-old Kishinev native Semion Portugeiz who camed to the United
States in 1941 after the Nazis conquered France and “who for many years wrote
in the Jewish Daily Forward under the name of S. Ivanovitch” passed away today,
(JTA)
1945(15th of Adar, 5705): Shushan
Purim
1945(15th of Adar, 5705): Siegried
Adler, one of the last Jews surviving in Berlin, died today.
1945: Author Heinrich Eduard Jacob “gained
American citizenship” today.
1945(15th of Adar, 5705): Walter
Süskind, the German born Dutch Jew who saved over six hundred Jewish children
died either at Auschwitz or one of the death marches inflicted on Jews by their
Nazi captors as the war came to a close.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/suskind.html
http://www.morsephotography.com/suskindfilm/home_welcome.htm
http://www.castelfilm.ro/node/202
1946: Fifty-four year old “Bela Imredy, the
father of the anti-Jewish bill intended to exclude Jews and those Christians
with Jewish parentage from the Hungarian civil service and liberal professional
while radically curtailing their position in trade and industry who resigned as
Premier in 1939 because “he was compelled to admit…that he was of Jewish
descent” since “his mother’s grandfather was born a Jew” passed away today.
1947: The group of 600 Jewish passengers who
were going to sail on the Abril, a ship intending to run the British Blockade
arrived at Port de Bouc from Grenoble.
1947: Jacob and Niza Gabbai, a husband-and-wife
couple who have just arrived in New York City from Palestine enrolled at
Fordham University. The Gabbais are part of the Young Palestinian League
which is working to develop a new cultural environment in their homeland.
They chose Fordham “because it is a complete university and not just a drama or
radio school, and also because it located in the world capital of the theatre.”
1948: The famed Golani Brigade was formed
today during the Israeli War for Independence when the Levanoni Brigade
in the Galilee split into the 1st Golani Brigade and the 2nd Carmeli Brigade
1949: “Problems of racial and religious
discrimination cannot be solved by statutes or speeches but require a militant
personal living of brotherhood, former Governor Herbert H. Lehman said today at
the eighth annual luncheon of the rayon division of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.”
1949: A delegation from Trans-Jordan which is
scheduled to negotiate an armistice with Israel was greeted by Dr. Ralph S.
Bunche today at Rhodes.
1949: Following evacuation by an Egyptian
brigade, today Israel too control “of the Faluja pocket.”
1950:
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett presented the cabinet with the draft of five
year non-aggression pact between Israel and Jordan. The pact is the
product of several months of secret negotiations. It includes most of the
terms of the armistice agreement without setting final boundaries. Some
additional points include the opening of the Israeli held road to Bethlehem to
Arab traffic, the opening of the road to Mt. Scopus to Israelis and an Israeli
promise to supply electricity to the Arab held sections of Jerusalem.
Israeli opposition to the agreement will be limited to a handful of leftists
who oppose King Abdullah because they think he is a puppet of the British
imperialists and the rightwing nationalists who believe that all of the land
west of the Jordan should be part of a Jewish state. Jordanian approval
is much more problematic since it will face serious opposition from numerous
sources including those who want a second war with the Jews so that they can
destroy the Zionist entity. [Abdullah would be assassinated in the following
year for conducting these negotiations and it would take another four decades
before Israel and Jordan finally concluded a peace agreement.]
1952:
Birthdate of William Alan Finn the Boston born musician whose “musical
Falsettos received the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Music and Lyrics and for Best
Book.”
1952: Samuel H. Daroff, Philadelphia civic and
philanthropic leader, was honored tonight on his twenty-fifth anniversary of
community service at dinner held by the Philadelphia Committee for Bonds of the
Israel Government during which he received
awards from the state of Israel, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce,
the national board of governors of the Israel bond campaign and the
Philadelphia Committee for Bonds of the Israel Government.
1953(13th of Adar, 5713): Parashat
Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1953: In Albany, NY, Anita and David Krugman,
the children of Jewish immigrants gave birth to Yale and MIT educated NYT
columnist and Professor of Economics at City University of New York, Paul
Krugman, “the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for
his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography.:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2008/krugman/facts/
https://wwnorton.com/author/KRUGMANPAUL/paulkrugman
1953(13th of Adar, 5713): Israeli archeologist
and Hebrew University professor, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik passed away. His
life reads like an early history of the Zionist movement. Born in Bialystok in
1889, Sukenik made Aliyah in 1911. He served in the British army in World War I
in the 40th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers which became known as the Jewish
Legion. He played a central role in the establishment of the Department of
Archaeology of the Hebrew University. He recognized the importance of the Dead
Sea Scrolls to Israel and worked for the Israeli state to buy them. In 1948, he
published an article tentatively linking the scrolls and their content to a
community of Essenes, which became the standard interpretation of the origin of
the scrolls, a theory that is still probably the consensus among scholars but
has also been widely questioned. He was the father of soldier, politician and
archeologist Yigael Yadin, the actor Yossi Yadin, and Mati Yadin, who was
killed in action during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1954: “Riot in Cell Block 11,” a crime film
directed by Don Siegel was released today in the United States.
1954: Birthdate of Tulane graduate and
Renaissance man Alan Smason whose interests have led to serve as everything
from a theatre reviewer to the founder of the Crescent City Jewish News, the
source for everything Jewish along the bayou.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com
http://koshercomputing.blogspot.com/
1955: Three days after Arab terrorists had
murdered an Israeli civilian at Rehovot, paratroopers from a brigade under the
command of Ariel Sharon implemented Operation Black Arrow that included an
attack on an Egyptian base in Gaza and the ambushing of the relief column – an
action in which the Israelis lost eight men while he enemy lost 37 men with
“many more wounded.”
1955(6th of Adar, 5715): On his 81st
birthday Brooklyn native Benjamin Britton Gottsberger, an engineer and Yale
faculty member who was the husband of Helen Majorie Beadle Gottsberger whom he
married in 1898 passed away today in New Haven, CT after which he was buried at
the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.
1956: In response to a resolution adopted by
the Supreme Soviet last Dec. 28, “The Knesset expressed readiness today to
exchange parliamentary delegations with the U.S.S.R.
1957: Israel is expected to announce her
willingness to withdraw her troops from the two areas” based on the “United
States proposals for solution of the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba problems.”
1959: In Atlantic City, NJ, “Jane (née Divac)
and Franklin Abramoff, who was president of the Franchises unit of Diners Club
Credit Card Company” gave birth to crooked lobbyist Jack Allan Ambramoff.
1960: The Second Annual Concert of Jewish Music
was held this evening at Congregation Beth-El in Camden, NJ, for the benefit of
the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1961: Recently elected President
Kennedy named Henry Kissinger as special advisor. Before being the
first Jew to be named Secretary of State, Kissinger followed a path that took
him from Kennedy, to Rockefeller, to Nixon.
1961: Twelve days after premiering in London, “Jungle
Fighters” produced by Michael Balcon, with a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz,
music by Stanley Black and starring Laurence Harvey was released today in the
UK.
1962: “A trial of former SS leader Felix Landau
on charge of ordering the shooting of twenty Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland in
July of 1941” which opened yesterday in Stuttgart is scheduled to continue
today.
1963: “Hot Spot,” a musical with “lyrics by
Martin Charnin, music by Mary Rodgers, and additional lyrics and music by
Stephen Sondheim” opened at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, PA.
1964(15th of Adar, 5724): Shushan
Purim
1964(15th of Adar, 5724): Sixty-two
year old mining engineer Samuel Grossman Laskey, the Denver, CO, born son of
Ida Grossman Lasky and Juda Eisen Lasky who graduated from the Colorado School
of Mines and earned an MS from Yale while marrying Leon Lasky in 1927 and the
former Melba Beale in 1944 passed away today in Luxembourg after which he was
buried at Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El Mausoleum in Colma, California.
1965: This afternoon,
at Temple Israel in South Orange, NJ, Rabbi Herbert Weiner officiated at the
wedding of Shary M. Topf, who “graduated cum laude from Wheaton College” and Rutgers
University educated attorney Gary N. Skoloff
1965: Cast a Giant Shadow
by Ted Berkman “is now ready for the camera” thanks to fac that Kirk Douglas
has been signed to play the part of Colonel David (Mickey” Marcus.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060218/
1966: The New York City debut of The Guarneri
Quartet whose members included 1st Violinist Arnold Steinhardt,
Violist Michael Tree and Violoncellist David Soyer took place today at the New
School for Social Research.
1967(18th of Adar I, 5727):
Ninety-year-old Eleanor Kuh, the daughter of Samuel and Rosalie Peck, the wife
of Millar F. Kuh and “mother of Howard Michael Kuh” passed away today.
1967: The recording of "Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds" which was photographed by Henry Grossmanbegan with
rehearsals in Studio 2 at Abbey Road
1968(29th of Shevat, 5728):
Sixty-seven-year-old Philadelphia born University of Virginia graduate and
Harvard Medical School trained surgeon whose big claim to famed was that he was
the second husband of actress Claudette Colbert whom he married in 1935 in a
union that lasted until he passed away today.
1969: “The State’s Chief Watchdog” published
today provided a detailed profile of Vilna native and Harvard trained attorney
Goodman Alexander Sarachan, the acting chairman of the State Investigation
Commission.
1970(22nd of Adar I, 5730): Parashat
Ki Tisa
1970: “Georgy” “a musical with a book by Tom
Mankiewicz, lyrics by Carole Bayer” closed today at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1971: “The Sporting Club” produced by Lee Rich,
the Cleveland born son of Jewish parents Anna Neminsky and Morris Richtaller
was released in the United States today.
1971: ITV broadcast the first episode of
“Doctor at Large” a British television comedy
which included an early performance by Dame Maureen Lippman, the Hull born
daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman, a tailor and Zelma Pearlman.
1972(13th of Adar, 5732): Fast of Esther
1972: “Israeli forces withdrew today from
southern Lebanon after a four-day reprisal operation against Palestinian
commandos based there, an Israeli Army spokesman reported.”
1974: Nigel Lawson, the London born son of Joan
Elizabeth Davis and Ralph Lawson, “the owner of a London tea-trading firm and
the grandson of Latvian born merchant Gustav Leibson began serving as a Member
of Parliament for Blaby
1974: The United States and Egypt renew
diplomatic relations. This was one of the steps from the Yom Kippur War
to the Camp David Peace Accords.
1974: Greville Ewan Janner began serving as an
MP for Leicester on the same day he completed his service MP for Leicester
North West.
1976(27th of Adar I, 5736): Parashat
Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
1977: The family and friends of Joseph M.
Hyman, the producer and co-producer with the late Bernard Hart of nearly a
score of Broadway plays who passed away last week are scheduled to gather this
morning at Frank E. Campbell’s in Manhattan.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that
the majority of the plenum of the 29th Zionist Congress, held in Jerusalem,
approved a resolution calling for a Jewish education program in the Diaspora,
based on the principle of equality for all trends in Judaism, and specifically
including the Conservative and Reform movements.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that
the Liberal Faction of the Likud in the Knesset described the recent action
taken by Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon in the settlement of the Yamit
(Rafiah) area as injurious to the national interest, "idiotic" and
"crazy."
1978: David Mamet’s “The Water Engine”
“transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway as a double-bill with a short
Mamet play entitled Mr. Happiness, and ran for 24 performances”
1979(1st of Adar, 5739): Rosh
Chodesh Adar
1979: Six people were injured in a terrorist
bombing in Jerusalem.
1980(11th of Adar, 5740): Fast of
Esther
1980: Bruce Cutler, “an assistant Brooklyn
district attorney was quoted by two Hasidic rabbis today as having declared in
a courtroom summation that two “Hasidic, funda- mentalist, Lubavitch, Jewish
defendants are guilty” of attempted murder” which then led to “Rabbi Mendel
Shemtov, who said he spoke as board chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish
Community Council, asserted the statement was “anti-Semitic" and “smearing
a whole community.”
1981(24th of Adar I, 5741):
Parashat, Vayakhel
1981(24th of Adar I, 5741):
Fifty-nine-year-old New York native and CCNY and Columbia educated geneticist
Dr. Arnold Warren Ravin, the WW II veteran and Director of Morris Fishbein
Center for the Study of History of Science and Medicine passed away today.
http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf7-00511.xml
1982: “Come, Meet the Family,” published today
provides a review of Old World, New World a novel by Mark Dintenfass
that examines the life of a Jewish-American family, “with one foot in the old
world of religious belief and timeworn customs and the other in Brooklyn, where
material success and equality beckon.”
1983(15th of Adar, 5743): Shushan Purim
1983: Ninety-year-old Dutch born, English “writer
and translator” Joseph Leftwich one of “The Whitechapel Boys” whose career
included stints with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Palestine Post,
passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leftwich-joseph
http://www.jta.org/1983/03/07/archive/joseph-leftwich-dead-at-90
1984(25th of Adar I, 5744): This evening Rabbi Philip L. Rabinowitz who was appointed rabbi of Kesher Israel in
1950 “ a 63-year-old widower who lived alone, was murdered in his West End
home by an unknown assailant shortly after returning from Maariv.
1985: Today marked the “preview performance of “Requiem
for a Heavyweight” starring George Segal and with a script by Rod Serling at
the Martin Beck Theatre.
1986: John Demjanjuk was deported to Israel
today
1986: The first issue of The Jewish Journal of
Greater Los Angeles “appeared today.”
1986: Laura Z. Hobson who wrote Gentlemen’s
Agreement, the novel about anti-Semitism that was turned into a 1947 film
classic starring Gregory Peck, passed away.
1987(29th of Shevat, 5747): Sixty-seven-year-old
ballerina Nora Kay, born Nora Koreff, passed away. (As reported by Jennifer
Dunning)
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/obituaries/nora-kay-is-dead-leading-ballerina.html
1990: Israel and Poland resumed full diplomatic
relations today after a 23-year break which meant that Poland, which had broken
off relations in 1967 to show its support for the Arab nations, was the third
Warsaw Pact country to renew relations with Israel in the last six months.
1991(14th of Adar, 5751): Purim
1991: A twenty-five-year-old Jewish religious
student, Elhanan Atali, was found in an abandoned storeroom in the Muslim
Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. His throat had been slit, and he
had been stabbed in the back.
1992: “The story told in "Gay Block:
Rescuers of the Holocaust," at the Museum of Modern Art, is deeply moving,
if not altogether unfamiliar: during World War II, a few Gentiles risked their
own lives to shelter Jews from the methodical campaign of deportation and
murder being carried out by the Nazis.
1993: At the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, “The
Sisters Rosensweig…a play by Wendy Wasserstein” that “focuses on the lives of
three Jewish-American sisters” closes after 149 performances.
1993: Actor Tony Curtis, born Bernard
Schwartz, wed Lisa Deutsch.
1994: Jeffrey Dinowitz began serving as a
member of the New York State Assembly from the 81st District.
1994(17th of Adar, 5754): Seventy-eight-year-old
geographer Jean Gottman passed away today. (As reported by Richard D. Lyons)
1995: “Russia today revealed another small but
stunning portion of the artistic booty plundered from Nazi Germany by the
Soviet army and hidden away for half a century, including major works by El
Greco, Goya, Tintoretto, Veronese, Renoir, Degas and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Most
of the work, which ranges from the 14th to the 19th centuries, came from
private collections, some of them still unidentified, including those of
Hungarian Jews who are thought to have been deported and executed,”
1995: In “The Midlife Crisis Strikes Again,” “Circus
Life,” written by Murray Schisgal, the co-author of the hit film “Tootsie” is described
as “a dull and humorless variation of the theme of male midlife crises that
gets stuck in its own sexual time warp.”
1996: One thousand mourners filled Beth Sholom
Congregation and spilled out into the street for the funeral of Sara Duker who
was killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem along with her fiancée Mathew
Eisenfeld.
1996: In Eilat, “a bronze sculpture by Israeli
sculptor Daniel Kafri” commemorating the raising of the Ink Flag in1949 which was considered to be the end of the war
and the birth of Israel was unveiled today.
1997: “The
Portrait of a Lady,” the cinematic version of the novel of the same name
starring Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters which had premiered
at the Venice Film Festival was released in the United Kingdom today.
1997: Thirty-one-year-old, “a former kosher
butcher and rabbinical student” who had been arrested after calling in a bomb
threat at the Jacksonville, FL Jewish Center where Shimon Peres was scheduled
to speak was placed on a suicide watch today.
1998(2nd of Adar, 5758): Parashat
Terumah
1998: After “five agents of the Mossad were installing
phone-tapping equipment,” Israel made a quiet apology to Switzerland for trying
to wiretap a suspected member of an Islamic terrorist group in Bern.
1999(12th of Adar, 5759):
Eighty-four-year-old “millionaire British industrialist” Sir Emmanuel Kaye,
Russian born son of wheat merchant Zelman Kagarlisky and botanist Chassia
Annie and “philanthropist known for
founding Lansing Bagnall” and the husband of Elizabeth Kaye, the daughter of
Mark Cutler passed away today.
1999: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters by Wendy Lesser
and Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy by
Edward Luttwak
2000(22nd of Adar I, 5760): Kariel Gardosh, the
prominent Israeli political cartoonist known by the pen-name "Dosh,"
died in his home in Tel Aviv from a cardiac arrest. He was 79 years old.
“Gardosh was best known for cartoons featuring his character Srulik. Srulik was
a small boy in short, sandals and a traditional Tembel hat. Gardosh's
character, always intended by the caricaturist to act a symbol for Israel, was
a blank slate upon which to reflect the changing national mood and a perfect emblem
for the emerging nation's view of itself in the 1960s and 1970s as a small
nation surrounded by hostile aggressors. The small boy facing down
representative from a hostile Arab world left an indelible impression upon
several generations of Israelis allowing the character to remain popular
through several changes in the political climate. The character is still a
presence in various licensed formats such as posters and stickers.”
2001: “Bolstered by the Labor Party's agreement
to join him in a unity government, Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon shifted
his attention today to satisfying the demands of potential partners from
religious and right-wing political factions.”
2002: Hungarian premiere of “An American
Rhapsody” starring Brandeis graduate Tony Goldwyn, the grandson of Samuel
Goldwyn and featuring Emmy Rossum as “Eva.”
2003(26th of Adar I, 5763): “Alfred Bernstein,
a New Deal lawyer who led the movement to unionize government workers and later
helped desegregate the lunch counters, restaurants, public swimming pools and
playgrounds of Jim Crow-era Washington, died today at his home in Washington.
He was 92.Mr. Bernstein attended public schools in Manhattan and graduated from
Columbia College and Columbia Law School. Inspired by the social ferment of the
New Deal, he moved to the capital in 1937 to work as an investigator for the
Senate Commerce Committee's inquiry into the monopolistic railroad industry.
''What all of us were interested in was the transformation of the political
process -- drafting regulations, establishing Social Security, making
regulatory agencies work,'' he once told an interviewer. ''There was a lot of
idealism at the time.'' After serving in the Army Air Transport Command in the
South Pacific in World War II, Mr. Bernstein returned to Washington where he
helped lead the successful effort against Jim Crow laws in the capital.”
2003: Ariel Sharon begins serving as
Communications Minister.
2003: Eliezer Sandberg began serving as Science
and Technology Minister
2003. Reuven Rivlin completed serving as
Communications Minister.
2003: Benjamin Netanyahu completed his service
as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
2003: Silvan Shalom begins serving as Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
2003: Natan Sharansky completed his service as
Minister of Housing and Construction.
2003: Eli Suissa completed his service
Jerusalem Affairs Minister
2003: Tzachi Hanegbi succeeded Uzi Landau as
Minister of Public Safety.
2003: Yosef Paritzky replaced Effi Eitam as
National Infrastructure Minister
2003: Avraham Poraz replaced Eli Yishai as
Minister of Internal Affairs.
2003: David Azulai competed his service as
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.
2004(6th of Adar, 5764): Daniel Boorstin passed
away at the age of 89. He was one of America's most renowned historians and,
between 1975 and 1987, the Librarian of Congress in the world's largest library
in Washington. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Daniel Joseph Boorstin
was born on October 1, 1914, in Atlanta. He was educated at Tulsa Central High
School and Harvard, from where he graduated with honors in Law. Boorstin wrote
more than 20 books, including a trilogy on the American experience and one on
world intellectual history. The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
the final book in the first trilogy, received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in
history.
2004(6th of Adar, 5763): Forty-seven
year old “poet and published of avant-garde magazines” Elzabeth Perl Nasaw, he
sister of historian and author David Nasaw passed away today
2005: In Hackensack, NJ, funeral services were
held for Ella Nagle, the widow of Isidore Nagle and mother of “Harvey Nagler
and Claire Harmon.”
2006(30th of Elul, 5766): Rosh
Chodesh Adar (first of a two day Rosh Chodesh).
2006: Johanna van Schagen, a woman who helped
Jews escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust and later was honored by Israel
died at the age of 91. Johanna van Schagen, who had suffered a series of
strokes, died at Friendship Village in nearby Trotwood, where she lived. Van
Schagen and her husband, Cornelius, moved to the United States from the
Netherlands in 1956. She told the Dayton Daily News in 1994 that she and
her husband sheltered Jews out of anger toward Germans who were taking over
their native Netherlands. "We were afraid many times ... there were lots
of raids and if they had found them in your home, you would be taken to
concentration camps, too," she said. Israel honored the couple in 1987 and
a tree along the Avenue of the Righteous in Jerusalem is named for Johanna van
Schagen, the newspaper said. Her funeral was scheduled for Friday at Polk Grove
United Church of Christ in Dayton, which sponsored the van Schagens when they
moved to the United States, said Jacob van Schagen, a son. She is survived by
four sons and a daughter.
2007: The second International Eilat Chamber
Music Festival opens.
2007: One day after the anniversary of the
birth of his father and historian Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. the son of Prussian
Jew, 89-year-old historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. whose Unitarianism is an
oft told tale of the assimilation of American Jewry passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/16/83750756.pdf
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rabbi
Lane Steinger, Regional Director of the Union for Reform Judaism, teaches an adult education class
at Temple Judah on the Reform Movement's New Prayer book, Mishkan Tifillah.
2008: In New York City, the 92nd
Street Y presents “Witness to Nuremberg” featuring Richard W. Sonnenfeldt the
chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the Nuremberg trials who
discusses startling new information about the Nazi war criminals and the
origins and development of the Holocaust.
2008: “The Diary of Anne Frank: A Song
To Life” a musical that tells the story of Anne Frank's life in
German-occupied Holland and her death in a concentration camp, using songs that
sound like a combination of Fiddler On the Roof and Spanish tunes (complete
with flamenco guitar) opens in Spain.
2008(22 Adar 1, 5768): Israel
Prize-winning author and translator Aharon Amir passed away at age 85. Amir,
who was born in Lithuania, grew up in Tel Aviv and was a member of both the
Irgun and the Lehi. He was one of the founders of the Canaanite movement, which
saw geographical location rather than religious affiliation as the defining
element of Hebrew or Israeli culture. He studied Arabic language and literature
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but translated works of literature mainly
from English and French. Authors whose work he rendered into Hebrew include
Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Lewis Carroll, Albert Camus, and
Charles de Gaulle. Amir won the Tchernichovsky Prize for translation in 1951
and the Israel Prize for translation in 2003.
2008: ‘Eyes Wide Open,” a documentary
film that chronicles the preconceptions and revelations of American Jews as
they visit Israel, is held at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. The film was directed by veteran filmmaker Paula
Weiman-Kelman and written by award-winning journalist Stuart Schoffman
2008(22 Adar 1, 5768): Esra Shereshevsky, 92, noted
Hebrew-language scholar and educator, died in Jerusalem. As founder and former
chairman of the Department of Hebrew and Near Eastern Languages and Literature
at Temple University, Shereshevsky was one of the first professors to establish
Hebrew as a full course of study at an American university. His classes were
exciting events. Whether discussing Bible, medieval manuscripts or 20th-century
poets, his teaching was seasoned by his love of the Hebrew language.
2009: According to Reform Judaism
magazine, Brandeis University, Harvard University and RadcliffeCollege, Tufts
University, Boston University, and Northeastern University are among the
"Top 60 Schools Jews Choose."
2009: In Barbados, Terry
Schwarzfeld, who had just started her term as president of Canadian Hadassah
WIZO and was executive director of Ottawa's largest synagogue, Agudath Israel,
was mortally by an ex-con when he tried to rob her and her daughter-in-law,
Lauana Cotsman.
2009: In Chicago, the Harris
Theatre presents “Pinchas Zukerman in Recital” along “with his long time
collaborator, pianist Mark Neikruug.”
2009: Rabbi Ellen Weomberg Dreyfus is installed in Jerusalem during
the CCAR's 120th Annual Convention. She is the second female Rabbi to be
elected to this position and the first female leader of a major rabbinic
organization to begin her tenure in Israel. She succeeds Rabbi Peter S. Knobel,
66, Rabbi of Beth Emet in Evanston, IL, who will complete his two-year term as
CCAR President.
2009: From January 1 through today,
there were 64 terrorist attacks that took place in the West Bank or were
carried out by terrorists from the West Bank
2009: In “His Story Told, Koch
Makes His Peace and Dares to Look Ahead,” published today former New York May
Ed Koch ruminates on his concerns as he reaches the twilight years and
describes his plans for a funeral that will leave no question as to his
profound attachment to his Jewish faith. He’s already installed and inscribed
his tombstone. He’s recruited a rabbi to preside over his funeral. He’s been
saying some goodbyes. He insists he no longer carries any grudges; well, maybe
just a few. He’s issued an apology or two and even confesses to a few regrets
as mayor. But the former mayor — still looming though stooped from stenosis, a
spinal degeneration — is philosophically confronting his own mortality. His is
a life that has played out mostly in the public eye, and now, perhaps
appropriately, so are many of his preparations for the beyond.
2010(14th of Adar,
5770): Purim
2010(14th of Adar,
5770): Ninety-five year old Chicago born child-welfare advocate Natalie
Goldstein Heineman passed away today.
http://www.examiner.com/article/natalie-goldstein-heineman-died-just-18-days-after-her-96th-birthday
http://jwa.org/weremember/heineman-natalie
2010: An exhibition at the Center
for Jewish History in New York entitled “In the Beginning: Artists Respond to
Genesis” is scheduled to come to a close.
2010: Final performance of Rinne
Groff’s “Compulsion” is scheduled to take place at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
2010: The Los Angeles Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Ask, a novel by Sam Lipsyte
2010: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapir.
2010(14th of Adar,
5710): Jose Mindlin, a Jewish bibliophile who owned the largest private library
in Latin America has died today in Brazil. He was 95. Born to Ukrainian
parents, Jose Mindlin owned over 38,000 books and was a member of the
prestigious Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 2006, he donated about half of his
collection to the University of Sao Paulo, mostly on topics related to
Brazilian studies. A building will be built in the university's campus
specifically to maintain this massive library and will be named after the Guita
and Jose Mindlin Foundation. After retiring from the business world, Mindlin
was able to dedicate his time to a passion he had since he was 13 years old:
collecting and preserving rare books. The first rare edition in his collection
was "Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle," by Jacques-Benigne
Bossuet, published in 1740. Mindlin had occupied several public positions in
the cultural field in Sao Paulo, including that of secretary of culture.
2010: Israeli police entered the
Temple Mount compound today after Palestinians began throwing stones during
rioting in Jerusalem's Old City
2010: Two Jewish athletes took
home medals at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver which ended today.
Steve Meisler won a gold medal for the United States in the four-man bobsled,
pushing his team to a combined time of 3:24:46 in the four-heat race.
Jewish ice dancer Charlie White claimed a silver medal in ice dancing along
with partner Meryl Davis. White's victory edged a fellow ice dancer and
American Jew, Ben Agosto, off the medal podium. Agosto and his partner, Tanith
Belbin, finished fourth. The pair won a silver medal at the 2006 games. Other
Jewish competitors in ice dancing, the Israeli brother-sister duo Roman and
Alexandra Zaretsky, finished 10th. Their routines included music from
"Schindler's List" and "Hava Nagila," and in one
performance, Roman wore a yarmulke. Israel's third Olympic athlete, skier
Mikail Renzhin, finished 35th in the slalom and 55th in the giant slalom. Laura
Spector, a Jewish biathlete from Massachusetts, finished 65th and 77th in the
two races in which she competed.
2010: Ethan Bronner wrote the following obituary describing the
life of Holocaust scholar David Bankier. “David
Bankier, who helped expand the contours of Holocaust research by examining the
participation of ordinary Europeans in the extermination of their Jewish
neighbors, died over the weekend after a long illness, Yad Vashem, the
Jerusalem Holocaust center, announced. He was 63. Mr. Bankier, who was
head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem,
focused his scholarly work on anti-Semitism, especially its use by the Nazis to
promote and sustain a broader ideology. He was the author of “Germans and the
Final Solution: Public Opinion Under Nazism” as well as a collection of essays,
“Hitler, the Holocaust and German Society: Cooperation and Awareness.”
Born in Germany just before the state of Israel was created, Mr. Bankier grew
up and was educated here, earning his doctorate in Jewish history at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. He held a professorship at Hebrew University and had
served as a visiting professor in Britain, the United States, South Africa and
South America. He spoke excellent English and Spanish, in addition to German
and Hebrew. A rumpled, somber man who sought to understand the most bewildering
aspects of genocide — how someone could play soccer with an acquaintance one
day and assist in his murder the next — Mr. Bankier insisted both on the
uniqueness of the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews and on its applicability
to other cases of mass murder. For anti-Semites, ‘Jews represent mysterious,
mythic and evil forces,” he said at a recent lecture, “an omnipotence playing a
sinister role in world history.’ At another lecture he noted that for Hitler,
“Nazism was a doctrine of world salvation to redeem humanity from the
Jewish-Christian-Marxist doctrine. The acquisition and maintenance of total
suppression of the German race, Hitler believed, must be through total war of
Germans against the Jews.” At the same time, Mr. Bankier said last year in an
interview with The New York Times that the work he was overseeing at Yad Vashem
on the role of bystanders and neighbors in numerous smaller mass killings
across the former Soviet Union in the early 1940s had important implications
for contemporary genocide in Africa and other places. He argued that the world
was a different place as a result of what the Nazis had done, that if genocide
in far-off places shocked average people today it was partly because of their
knowledge of the details of the Holocaust. In other words, Holocaust deniers
aside, Holocaust awareness was central to contemporary sensibility. Avner
Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, said that with Mr. Bankier’s death, the world
had lost one of its most important scholars in the field. He noted that Mr.
Bankier, who had fought his illness over a long period, kept a regular schedule
until his last day.”
2011: “Korach: The Biblical
Anarchist” is scheduled to have its final performance tonight at the Living
Theater on New York’s Lower East Side.
2011: Theodore Bikel and Jim
Brochu are scheduled to do a concert reading of The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon
at a fundraiser for Theatre J in Washington, DC.
2011: “A host of charities and
social action organizations from across the Jewish world” are scheduled to meet
at the Nalaga’at Theater in Jaffa ttoday “to discuss the future of their field
and hear from a wide range of professionals who will guide them on improving
their services
2011: The New York Times
featured a review of “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of
American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan” by Jewish author and
political pundit Jeff Greenfield.
2011(24th of Adar I, 5771): Eighty-two-year-old
“prolific writer, editor and popular radio broadcaster Netiva Ben Yehuda passed
away in the early hours of this morning.
2011: The prosecuting attorney in
the trial of Adolf Eichmann, retired Supreme Court justice Gabriel Bach, said
today that a psychiatric evaluation conducted on the Nazi leader following his
capture in 1960 suggested that the man responsible for the deaths of millions
during the Holocaust had ambivalent sexual tendencies. (As reported by the
Jerusalem Post).
2011(24th of Adar I,
5771): Ninety-two-year-old Louis Sachwald, the former resident of Pikesville,
MD who survived the Bataan Death March and 42 months as a POW passed away
today. He was a member of Baltimore’s Beth-El Congreation.
http://philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/sachwald_louis_bio.html
2011(24th of Adar I, 5771): Seventy-five-year-old
Harvey Dorfman who worked with many Major League Baseball stars and wrote books
on sports psychology, including “The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak
Performance,” passed away today. (As reported by the Eulogizer)
2011: Actress Natalie Portman condemned
Christian Dior chief designer John Galliano for anti-Semitic comments made at a
bar in Paris, France which appeared on an online. “I am deeply shocked and
disgusted by the video of John Galliano’s comments that surfaced today,"
Portman said in a statement. "In light of this video, and as an individual
who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any
way." The Oscar winning actress is currently under an endorsement contract
with Dior for its "Dior Cherie" fragrance.
2011: The United States Senate confirmed the
nomination of Amy Totenberg to serve as Judge of the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia
2012: Ballet de Genève's stunning artists are
scheduled to perform a work by Israeli born choreographer Emanuel Gat at the
Joyce Theatre in New York City.
2012: Israeli trained clarinetist Alexander
Fiterstein is scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center tonight. The program will
include a work by American Jewish composer Aaron Copland.
2012: Megillat Ha-Manginot (The Scroll of
Melodies) a musical celebrating Israel and its songs is scheduled to be
performed at the Jerusalem Theatre on Rechov Marcus.
2012: Publication of “Faye Schulman – the
Jewish Girl Who Fought the Nazis”
http://www.blogwrath.com/jewish-issues/faye-schulman-the-jewish-girl-who-fought-the-nazis/2585/
2012: Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch
put down her gavel this morning, ending a 45-year legal career, and urged in
her farewell remarks that it is crucial to maintain the independence of
court.
2012: The IDF said today that soldiers
patrolling the border overnight spotted a group of people who had breached the
frontier.
2013: Jack Lew, an observant
Orthodox Jew, was sworn as Secretary of the Treasury.
2013: It was announced today that
Idina Menzel would make her return to the Broadway stage, starring as Elizabeth
in the new musical “If/Then.”
2013: Cantor Yitzchak Meir
Helfgot “performed with violinist Itzhak Perlman at a Jewish Music concert at
the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.”
2014: The exhibition, “Passages through the
Fire: Jews and the Civil War,” comes to a close at the Jewish Museum of
Maryland.
2014: In Bethesda, MD, Congregation Adat Shalom
is scheduled to start a hosting a weekend devoted to exploring “The Enduring
Legacy of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.”
2014: Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled
to perform at Abrons Arts Center Playhouse.
2014: In Denver, CO, “45 Israeli and North
American Jewish Artists are scheduled to show and sell their creations: under
the auspices “Jewishcolorado.”
2014: The IDF has reportedly issued a stern
warning to the Lebanese government, clarifying that the government will be held
response and be a target for response should Hezbollah carry out its threats to
attack Israel. (As reported by Ari Yashar)
2014: The Israeli Air Force attacked an
underground rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip tonight in an effort to
eliminate “an imminent threat” of rocket fire towards Israel. (As
reported by Yoav Zitun)
2014: The Islamist Basij militia force in
Tehran ran a special military exercise yesterday and today preparing for an
Iranian takeover of Jerusalem. (As reported by Dalit Halevy and Tov Dvorin)
2015: In Rockville, MD, Magen David Sephardic
Congregation is scheduled to host “Bling Bling Like A Persian King…..A 21+Purim
Extravaganza.”
2015: In a bit of homecoming, Lewis Black is
scheduled to perform at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.
2015: This evening in Iowa City, Hillel is
scheduled to host its Annual Fundraising Concert.
2015: “Stitching History” “a remarkable exhibit
about the late Hedy Strnad, a Jewish-Czech dressmaker who with her husband,
Paul, attempted to immigrate to the United States on the eve of the Holocaust”
is scheduled to come to a close at the Jewish Museum in Milwaukee.
http://www.jta.org/2014/10/05/arts-entertainment/the-jewish-dressmaker-fdr-turned-away
2015: The Igael Shemtov Exhibition which has
been on display for the last three weeks at Baxter St at CCNY is scheduled to
come to an end
http://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/igaelshemtov/
2016: The Andalusian Orchestra is
scheduled perform with Berry Sakharov and Raymonde Abecassis on tonight at 10
p.m. at Zappa Herzliya.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-little-bit-oud-country-a-little-bit-rock-n-roll/
2016: “The first major documentary about
legendary director about Claude Lanzman who has never won an Oscar entitled
‘Claude Lanzmann: Specters of the Shoah’ is among the nominees for this year’s
Academy Awards” which are scheduled to be announced at tonight ceremony in Los
Angeles.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/will-lanzmann-finally-win-an-academy-award/
2016: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Right Wrong Man:
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi
War Crimes Trial by Lawrence Douglas
2016(19th of Adar I, 5776): Ninety-three-year-old
Chicago born real estate developer and “banker to the stars” Bram Goldsmith
whose philanthropies included Jewish Federal Council of Greater Los Angeles and
the National Conference of Christians and Jews passed away today.
2017: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host “No Shushing Allowed” an event designed to introduce the
general public to the institutions librarians and archivists in an informal
atmosphere.
2017(2nd of Adar, 5777): Ninety-two-year-old
Marion Javits, the widow of Senator Jacob K. Javits passed away today.
https://nypost.com/2017/03/01/marion-javits-found-dead-in-her-apartment/
2017: “Israel’s state comptroller took military
and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the
threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in
a pair of long-awaited, highly critical reports published” today. (As reported
by Judah Ari Gross)
2017: The headstone of Staff Sgt. Jack Weinger,
a navigator for the 345th Bombardment Group killed during an air
raid over Japan in 1945 was replaced today “with one bearing a Star of David”
“at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.” (JTA/TOI)
2017: Dr. Robert Silber, a pillar of the Jewish
community and chair of the Thaler Holocaust Committee is scheduled to begin his
career as a professor at the University of Iowa Medical School.
2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host Rabbi Norman Cohen’s lecture “Cain and Abel.”
2017: “Israel’s state comptroller took military
and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the
threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in
a pair of long-awaited, highly critical reports published” today.
2017: Today Marc “Trestman was named the head
coach of the Toronto Argonauts,”
2017: J Street’s annual convention is scheduled
to come to an end today.
2017: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to
host a screening of the iconic film “Casablanca” followed by a discussion of
We’ll Always Have Casabalanca by Noah Isenberg.
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Well-Always-Have-Casablanca/
2018(13th of
Adar, 5778): Fast of Esther; Megillah reading in the evening;
2018: Today, “Olympic
gymnast Aly Raisan” filed papers in California Superior Court suing “the United
States Olympic Committee and U.S.A. Gymnastics…saying that they should have
prevented the former team doctor, Lawrence G. Nassar, from sexually abusing her
and other athletes.
2018: Hillel of Iowa
and Augdas Achim are scheduled to join forces to observe Purim complete with
Megillah reading, face painting, hamantaschen baking and carnival games.
2018: Following a
community breaking of the fast and the reading of the Megillah, the Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Purim Party.
2019: The Oxford
University LBBTQ Society is scheduled to host a panel on “Gender, Diversity and
Religion.”
2019: “Professor Ora
Paltiel, a haematologist and epidemiologist at Hadassah-Hebrew University, and
Professor A Mark Clarfield, a geriatrician at Ben-Gurion University,” are
scheduled to speak at UCL today in the United Kingdom.
2019(23rd of
Adar I, 5779): Eighty-nine-year-old award musician Andre Previn passed away
today. (As reported by James Barron)
2019: The Town and
Village Synagogue Social Hall is scheduled to host Ken Maltz, Lauren Brody and
Aaron Alexander as part of the New York Klezmer Series.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the
last two screenings of “On the Basis of Sex,” a biopic about Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg.
2019: In the Negev, the Darom Adom (Red South
Festival) is scheduled to come an end.
https://www.touristisrael.com/darom-adom-festival/9365/
2019: Professor of Modern Jewish History and
Holocaust Studies at Emory University, Dr. Deborah Lipstadt is scheduled to
discuss her latest book Antisemitism: Here and Now this evening at the
Streicker Center.
2019: The 24th
annual East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is schedule to open “with
‘Riphagen,’ a drama about a Nazi collaborator” “who help the Nazis round up
Jews, stealing their treasures for himself” while destroying “Resistance
groups.”
2019: Friends and
family are scheduled to celebrate a milestone-birthday for Tulane grad and CCJN
published Alan Smason, a mensch and Renaissance man
2019: After testifying
publicly yesterday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen is
scheduled to testify today in a closed session before House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence.
2020: Erev Shabbat, The
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to “go dark” for the
evening.
2020: In Los Gatos, CA,
Congregation Shir Hadash is scheduled to host a Shabbat service followed by
historian Benny Morris lecturing on “A New Look at the 1948 Arab Israeli War”
2020: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host both “an orthodox minyan and a
student-led egalitarian minyan” followed by an interfaith Friday night dinner.
2020: “Friends of
Bezalel are schedule to present “Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover by Boaz
Aharonovitch” a photo-diary “documenting a gardening project that took place in
his studio.”
2020: Erev of Shabbat
is especially joyful for the friends and family of Alan Smason, the
multi-talented bon vivant who publishes the Crescent City Jewish News, as he
celebrates another natal day.
2021: The Atlanta
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of Howie Mandel: But,
Enough About Me.”
2021: Addison-Penzak
JCC in Los Gatos is scheduled to host a Purim CARnival, “a drive-in event in
its parking lot.”
2021: “The Jewish
Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Birmingham Jewish Federation, in
partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel's Partnership2Gether program” is
scheduled to host Mitchell Barak and Robert Mann “for an informative and
engaging discussion on how civics and governance structures work in Israel and
in the United States - and what we can do when those mechanisms become stuck.”
2021: As part of Jewish
Book, the Jewish Book Council is scheduled to sponsor Delphine Horvilleur,
only France’s third female rabbi, as she” discusses antisemitism and more with
Philippe Sands.”
2021: In Ohio, Temple
Emanu El and five other area synagogues are schedule to sponsor “a concert by
Nefesh Mountain,” this afternoon.
2021: In New Orleans,
the Jewish Community is scheduled to host a Purim Celebration.
2021: The American
Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “live on Zoom, “Sephardic Culinary
History with Chef Hélène Jawhara-Piñer.”
2021: In Palm Beach
Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host a Purim Party “for all kids
0-13.”
2021: The Jewish
Community Library is scheduled to present Historian David Nasaw talking “about
the difficult times and lives in limbo for the last 1 million Eastern Europeans
in Germany after WWII, including 250,000 Jews, stuck in displaced persons camps
for three to five years.”
2021: KlezCalifornia is
scheduled to present Instructor Bruce Bierman teaching “a class on how to
inject shtick and special, old-time styles of exaggerated acting to the
characters in the Purim story.”
2021: In London, at
Highgate Synagogue Rabbi Liss is scheduled to lead a “Sunday Morning
Discussion” on the topic of “Is It Ever Ok to Lie?”
2021: Based on
published reports Israel has “posted 4,574 new virus cases with 31 deaths over
the weekend.”
2021: Private graveside
services are scheduled to be held at noon today for Eishes Chayil Diane
Levin, age 60, beloved wife of Stephen Levin, happily married for 35 years;
loving mother of Amy Levin and Allison Levin (Max Affrunti); much loved sister
of Sharon Finegood.
2022: The
Streicker Center is scheduled to present the first lecture on “Poland, The
Holocaust and Cinema” by Dr. Eric Goldman.
2022: The American
Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Sarah Benor, a
Professor of Contemporary Jewish studies at HUC on “Jewish Languages Today:
Endangered, Surviving and Thriving.”
2022: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to present the first lecture on the “Agony of the Latter
Prophets” by Diane M. Sharon.
2022: Floating Walls, curated by Aya Goshen, which
presents a multidisciplinary survey of works made by seven NY-based Israeli
artists: Dana Levy, Gal Cohen, Lee Tal, Michal Geva, Naomi Safran-Hon, Noa
Charuvi, and Zac Hacmon. Image: Michal Geva, is
scheduled to have its last showing at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery.
2023: It
was reported today that the Israeli drama “Shtisel” is scheduled to begin
streaming on Netflix for a third season on March 24.
2023: “A
Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons” published today
provides a review “Slava Ukraini” in which “the writer and filmmaker
Bernard-Henri Lévy warns of a heavy price if the West fails to defeat Putin in
Ukraine.”
2024: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is scheduled to host the second night of a
two-night virtual summit on “Anti-Semitism: The Dangerous Reality We Must
Confront.”
2024: YIVO is scheduled
to present a talk by Aleksandra Jakubczak on “East European Jewish Women in
Their Quest for a Dowry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.”
2024: The Museum of the
Southern Jewish Experience is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald,”
that tells the incredible story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius
Rosenwald joined forces with Booker T. Washington and African American
communities in the segregationist Jim Crow South to build more than 5,000
schools.
2024: As February 28th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 145 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)
2025(30th of Shevat, 5758): Rosh
Chodesh Shevat
2025: Today is the deadline for submitting
applications to the JCRS for Camp Scholarship.
2025: In San Francisco, Congregation Sherith
Israel is scheduled to host its “seventh annual HIAS Refugee Shabbat with guest
speaker Adoubou Traore, founder and executive director of the African Advocacy
Network.”
2025: Based on previously reported information,
the term “human trafficking” takes on a new meaning as Hamas gains the return
of hundreds of their “followers” in exchange for the dead bodies of four
Israelis who were taken on October 7.
2025: As February 28th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas
held hostages begin day 511 in captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too
fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the
posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026: Based on a warning issued yesterday by
the U.S. State Department, all non-emergency personnel and the family member of
those stationed in Israel” leaving due to the possibility of war with Iran.
2026: “Progressive Jewish movements in the
Diaspora continue to be outraged about a bill that could ban and criminalize
non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall.”
2026: Purim Party Drag Night is scheduled to
take place at Lehrhaus in Sommerville, MA
2026(11th of Adar, 5786): Shabbat
Zachor; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
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