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41: Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by
the Senate. “Claudius rescinded Caligula’s provocative decrees affecting Judean
and reaffirmed Jewish rights throughout the rest of the Roman world.”
Claudius supported the cause of the Jews when they were attacked in separate
incidents by the Greeks of Alexandria and the Samaritans. He maintained a
life-long friendship with the Agrippa the last Jewish king in Eretz Israel.
681: The Twelfth Council of Toledo which
approved several canons aimed at punishing the Jews including on that
prohibited conversos from returning to Judaism and allowed for the confiscation
of Jewish owned goods came to a close.
749: Birthdate Leo IV (the Khazar), the
Byzantine emperor from 775 through 780 who was known as “the Khazar” because
his mother was a Khazar Princess. If the Khazars were Jewish, does this
mean that at least one Byzantine emperor was Jewish?
750: Caliph Marwan II, whose subjects included
“self-proclaimed prophet” and Messianic figure known variously as Abu Isa or
Isaac ibn Jacob al-Isfahani , passed away today.
1138: Anacletus II passed away. Known as Pietro
Pierleone before his elevation to the Papacy in 1130, Anacletus II was referred
to as the Jewish anti-pope because he came from a family that had converted
from Judaism to Christianity. “One of his great-great grandparents, Benedictus,
maybe Baruch in Hebrew, was a Jew who converted into Christianity.” The
appellation of anti-pope is one that is hung on several popes who were elected
under controversial circumstances.
1279: John Of Peckham, who in 1281 “ordered all
but one of the remaining” Jewish “prayer houses in London to be closed down”
was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury today.
1327: Edward III who would re-apply the Edict
of Expulsion of 1290 because there were reports of “secret Jews” or conversos
who had remained in England and were practicing “the faith of their fathers”
became King of England today.
1376(9th of Shevat, 2385): Nissim
ben Reuven, also known as Nissim of Gerona, “one of the last of the great
Spanish medieval Talmudic scholars passed away today.
1494: Ferdinand I who had provided refuge for
the Jews expelled from Spain “in Apulia, Calabria and Naples” passed away
following which Charles VII of France invaded his realm which led to an
outbreak of a disease known as “French fly” which was blamed on the Jews which
led to them being driven from the realm.
1494: Alfonso II became King of Naples. Alfonso
continued to rely on the services of Don Isaac Abravanal the refugee from the
Spanish expulsion who had acted as an advisor to his predecessor on the throne,
King Ferdinand. Alfonso also continued the policy of his predecessor of
allowing Jews fleeing the Inquisition to settle in his kingdom.
1505: Ercole I d’Este, the Duke of Ferrara around whose
court the life Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol, “the Jewish-Italian geographer,
cosmographer scribe and polemicist” revolved passed away today.
1507: In Basel, Switzerland, painter Hans Herbst and his
wife gave birth to printer Johannes Oporinus whose library was bought at
auction by Casiodoro de Reina, the Spanish theologian who translated the Bible
into Spanish, using the Ferrara Bible a Judeo-Spanish version of the Hebrew
Bible used by Sephardi Jews.
1515: Coronation of King Francis I of France
who strangely enough for a French monarch showed an interest in the Hebrew
language. After all, no Jew had legally lived in France for over a
century. But this King invited August
Justiniani, the Bishop of Corsica who was reputed to be a serious student of
Hebrew literature to move to France. He
also invited Elias Levita, the renowned Hebrew grammarian and poet, to move to
France and accept a professorship in the Hebrew language. Levita declined the
offer for obvious reasons.
1533: Henry VIII of England secretly marries
his second wife Anne Boleyn. Henry had failed in his attempt to enlist the
support of Italian rabbis in his futile attempt to get the Pope to annul his
first marriage. His marriage to Anne helped move England into the
Protestant camp which proved to be beneficial in the Jews’ attempt to return to
the British Isles.
1554: Founding of São Paulo, Brazil. As
was the case in so many other parts of Latin America, the first Jews to inhabit
Sao Paulo were New Christians or Conversos. The first openly Jewish residents
of the city arrived from Alsace-Lorraine in the 19th century. Today
São Paulo is home to the largest Jewish community in Brazil with about 130,000
people,
1569: Phillip II of Spain issued the order to
set up an inquisition in the New World. Mexico would be the first five years
later.
1640: English author and Oxford University
fellow Robert Burton who “in Anatomy of Melancholy admitted that the Jews were
‘very industrious whilst among Englishmen the badge of gentry is idleness, to
be of no calling, not to labour…to be a mere spectator, a drone’” passed away
today.
1648: The Khmelnytsky or Chmielnicki Rebellion
against the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania began in earnest when Bohdan
Khmelnytsky brought a contingent of 300-500 Cossacks to the Zaporizhian Sich
and quickly dispatched the guards assigned by the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth to protect the entrance. His defeat of the counterattacking
Commonwealth forces coupled with is oratorical skills brought thousands of
rebels including the Ruthenians to join his uprising. Jews, who served as
the middle-man and administrators for the absentee Polish landlords were an
easy target for the rebels. The bloody uprising will mark the long, slow
disintegration of the Polish state. The slaughter of the Jews was so
great that it would not be surpassed until the time of the Nazis.
1764(21st of Shevat, 5524):
Five-month-old Sara Barnet, the New York City born daughter of Sara Barnet
passed away today.
1754: Bordeaux native Jacob Nones and Rose
Fernandez gave birth to Miriam Nones.
1764(2nd of Adar I, 5524): Sara
Barnet, the six-month-old New York born daughter of Judah Barnet passed away
today.
1766(15th of Shevat, 5526): A double
header as Jews read Parashat Beshlach and celebrate Tu B’Shevat
1772(20th of Shevat, 5532): Parashat
Yitro read on the same day that “the Admiralty Secretary wrote to Colonel Bell,
Commander of the Marines at Plymouth, ordering a recruit who played bagpipes,
and a drummer who played violin be held in readiness to embark on one of the
ships” that would be part of Captain Cook’s second voyage which was designed to
find a way to “circumnavigate the globe” using a southern route that would
prove or disprove the existence of Australia.
1774: Future West Point graduate, Simon
Magruder Levy, the son of fur trader and land speculator Levy Andrew Levy and
his wife Susanna, underwent the Jewish circumcision ceremony called a
“B’rit” after which he went on to a
career in the U.S. Army that included distinguished service at the Battle of
Fallen Timbers, teaching at the U.S. Military Academy and as an engineer at
Forts Jackson and Wilkinson in Georgia.
1782(10th of Shevat): Rabbi Shalom Sharabi
Kabbalist, author of Emet ve-Shalom passed away today.
1783: Philadelphia native Miriam Simon and
Michael Gratz who were married in Lancaster, PA gave birth to Rachel Gratz the
wife of Solomon Moses with whom she had nine children.
1784: Having passed away on Shabbat. Lezer ben
Zelig Rachmonus was buried today at the Alderney Road (Globe Road) Jewish
Cemetery.
1792(1st of Shevat, 5552): Tu
B’Shevat celebrated on the same that Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson wrote
President George Washington offering to prepare a statement of the circumstances
that led to the war with the Indians “as well as of the measures which have
been taken from time to time for the reestablishment of peace and friendship.”
1796(15th of Shevat, 5556): Tu
B’Shevat on the thirty-seventh and last birthday of poet Robert Burns whose
life and poetry are celebrated at annual Burn Dinners including the L’Chaim,
Scotland’s only kosher restaurant.
https://www.jta.org/2014/04/17/ny/a-time-for-tartan
1800(28th of Tevet, 5560): Parashat
Vaera read as the founding fathers Adams and Jefferson compete to become
President of the United States
1801: In London, Julia Asher and Raphael
Raphael gave birth to Jane (Shana) Raphael.
1804: Phineas Moses Samuel married Catherine
Jacobs at the Great Synagogue today.
1806(6th of Shevat, 5566): Parashat
Bo which deals with the Jews being held as slaves in Egypt is read on the same
day that “the Virginia General Assembly passed a law that prohibited the
importation of slaves into the state.”
1812(11th of Shevat, 5572): Parashat
Beshalach
1812(11th of Shevat, 5572):
Eighty-year-old Esther Koperlik, the wife of Abraham Koperlik and mother of
Philipp Koperlik; Joseph Koperlik; Benjamin Koperlik; Wolf Koperlik and Isak
Koperlik passed away today in the Czech Republic.
1817(8th of Shevat, Parashat Bo read
on the same day that “Gioachino Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola"
(Cinderella) premiered in Rome”
1819: With the support of three presidents –
Jefferson, Monroe and Madison and Chief Justice John Marshal, “the Commonwealth
of Virginia chartered a new flagship university to be based on the site in
Charlottesville which is known as the University of Virginia
1821: In Philadelphia, Abigail Seixas and
Philadelphia native Benjamin Jonas Phillips gave birth to Hetty Phillips.
1823: Levi Emanuel Cohen, the husband of the
former Hannah Benjamin and the father of Levy, Rosetta and Abraham Cohen, was
buried today in the United Kingdom.
1823: In Germany, Gela Weil an Isaac Jacob
Bamberger gave birth to Elkan Bamberger the husband of Theresa Hutzler with
whom he lived in Baltimore, MD and raised eight children.
1826: Thirty-four-year-old Philip I. Cohen, the
Richmond born son of Israel I Cohen who “served in the War of 1812” and “was
postmaster of Norfolk, VA” married Augusta Myers today.
1826: In Norfolk, Rabbi Seixas officiated at
the wedding of Philip I. Cohen to Augusta Myers, the daughter of Moses Myers.
1830(1st of Shevat, 5590): Rosh
Chodesh Shevat observed on the same day that “Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina
gave a speech in the United States Congress on the "Tariff of
Abominations" as part of the Webster-Hayne Debates” which turned out to be
one of those steppingstones to the Civil War.
1834(15th of Shevat, 5594): Shabbat
Shirah; Tu B’Shevat
1834: In London, Abigail De Costa Gomes and
Josep Abendana gave birth to Hananel Abendana, who served as a “Steward at the
Spanish Portuguese Hospital.
1839: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Michael
Rudelsheim, the husband of Rebecca Hirsch and father of Samuel Rudelsheim.
1841: In Germany, Babette True and Isaac Jacob
Bamberg gave birth to Bertha Bamberger, the wife of Baltimore resident Aaron
Friedenwald with whom se raised five children – Harry, Julius, Bernard, Norman
and Edgar.
1841: In Bridgetown, Barbados, the committee
governing the Kaal, agreed to place £ 10 sterling “at the disposal of the
London Committee led by Sir Moses Montefiore that is working to alleviate “the
suffering of the Jews in the east.”
1844: Congregation Shaarai Shomayim u-Maskil el
Dol was chartered today in Mobile, Alabama. “Israel I. Jones (1810–1877), a
London Jew who arrived early in the 1830s, was president of the congregation
for most of his life; one of his daughters married the well-known New Orleans
rabbi, James Koppel Gutheim (1817–1886). An auctioneer and tobacco merchant,
Jones was active in politics, served as an alderman, was president of the
Mobile Musical Association, and introduced streetcars to Mobile”
1847: In Kirvany, Comitat Saros, Hungary,
Herman Miller and Rachel Friedman gave birth to Morris Miller, the husband of
Annie Rich, who came to the United States in 1865, lived in Cleveland, Ohio,
Meadville, PA and Kalamazoo, Michigan before moving to Milwaukee in 1881 where
he served as the Director of the Milwaukee Agriculture Association and trustee,
treasurer, vice-president and president of the Hebrew Relief Association.
1849: The West End Synagogue of British which
had been formed by Jews who left Bevis Marks in 1841 dedicated its new facility
in Upper Berkeley Street.
1851(22nd of Shevat, 5611): Sixty-nine-year-old
Lewis Wolfe Levy, the son of Martha and Benjamin Wolfe Levy and the husband of
Julia Levy passed away today in Rockwood, New South Wales, Australia.
http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/levy-lewis-wolfe-4017
1852: Achille Fould resigned as the French
Minister of Finance.
1852: French political leader Achille Fould was
appointed as a Senator and later rejoined the government as a Minister of
State.
1854(25th of Tevet, 5614): Filosseno Luzzatto
passed away. Born at Trieste in 1829; he was an Italian Jewish scholar; son of
Samuel David Luzzatto. His name is the Italian equivalent of the title of one
of his father's principal works, "Oheb Ger," which was written at the
time of Filosseno's birth. “He showed from childhood linguistic aptitude, and
having mastered several European languages, he devoted himself to the study of
Semitic languages and Sanskrit.” At the age of thirteen he deciphered some old
inscriptions on the tombstones of Padua which had puzzled older scholars. Two
years later, happening to read D'Abbadie's narrative of his travels in
Abyssinia, he resolved to write a history of the Falashas. In addition to
writing several original works, he “translated into Italian eighteen chapters
of the Book of Ezekiel, adding a Hebrew commentary. Luzzatto contributed
to many periodicals, mostly on philological or exegetical subjects.”
1854: “The Will of Judah Touro,”published today
described the terms of the late philanthropist and businessman’s final
testamentary document. The will was dated January 6, 1854, 7 days before
his death. The will appointed four executors, three of whom were to
receive $10,000 and a four, R.D. Shepperd who is the “residuary legatee.
Touro bequeathed approximately $450,000 to different Jewish and
non-Jewish institutions and charities. Among them were $20,000 left
to the Jew’s Hospital Society of New York; $10,000 left to the New York Relief
Society for Indigent Jews in Palestine; $50,000 left for the agent of “a
society dedicated to ameliorating the condition of the Jews in the Holy Land
and the securing the enjoyment of their religion” as well as bequests
left to Jewish congregations throughout the United States including, but not
limited to $5,000 to a Jewish congregation in Boston, $5,000 to a Jewish
congregation in Hartford, $5,000 to a Jewish congregation in New
Haven, $5,000 to a Jewish congregation in New York, $5,000 to a Jewish
congregation in Charleston and $5,000 to a Jewish congregation in Savannah
1854: Sir Henry Rawlinson wrote to from Baghdad
today that “a number of clay cylinders taken from the ruins of what is ‘Ur of
the Chaldees’ of Genesis disclosed the fact that a few years” prior “to the
fall of Babylon, Nabonnedus had associated his son Bilsharuzur, the
‘Belshazzar’ of Scripture with him in the government” “thus showing the harmony
between the Biblical narrative and secular history.”
1858: The Wedding March by Felix
Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this
day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of
Prussia. Felix Mendelssohn is the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn. Felix
Mendelssohn was born to Jewish parents in 1809, Felix’s father, Abraham, had
the famous composer baptized as a Lutheran in 1816.
1860(1st of Shevat, 5620): Rosh
Chodesh Shevat
1860: In New York City, Gershom Nathan and
Rosalie Gomez gave birth to Columbia University trained attorney Edgar J.
Nathan, the scion of several the city’s oldest Sephardic families, and partner
of Justice Benjamin N. Cardoza who was the husband of Sara N. Solis and the
father of Edgar J. Nathan, Jr the Manhattan Borough President.
https://www.jta.org/1929/06/20/archive/funeral-services-today-for-edgar-j-nathan
1861: Charles Dyte laid the foundation stone
for the historic Ballarat Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue on the
Australian mainland.
1861: In a letter that an unidentified resident
of New Orleans, LA, wrote to a friend in Boston, he described the voting
patterns of various groups in the recent election. If you believe his
description, most groups voted for one of the Unionist or Compromise
candidates. Only "The Jews voted for secession."
1862(24th of Shevat, 5622): Parashat
Mishpatim read as shipbuilders put the finishing touches on creating the U.S.S.
Monitor, the ironclad that will change naval warfare when it faces off against
the CSS Merrimack,.
1863: In Columbus, GA, Frank Rothschild, the
German born son of Isack Rothschild and Henriette Rothschild and his wife Amanda
Anna Rothschild gave birth to Elias Rothschild who died at the age of seven
months.
1864: Philadelphian Samuel Rothschild began
serving with Company I, Seventy-fourth
1865: Dr. William H. Thomson read a paper
entitled "What we have to learn in the East" at tonight’s meeting of
the American Ethnological Society. A longtime resident of Syria, who
traveled extensively in throughout the Middle East, Dr. Thomson reported on
“the importance of extensive investigations among the innumerable mounds” found
in the area. Examination of similar mounds has provided information about
early inhabitants including the Hebrews, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans.
[Ed. Note – What the doctor was describing are the innumerable “tels” that
would become the focal point of archaeological interest in modern day
Israel.]
1865: In Whitechapel London Ignac and Cecilia
Pick gave birth to Flora Pick who became Flora Jacobs after marrying Montague
Daniel Jacobs with whom she had had five children – Albert, Ella, Gladys, Vera
and Victor Jacobs.
1868(1st of Shevat, 5628): Parashat Vaera and Rosh
Chodesh Shevat
1870: The
New York Times published an editorial defending itself against charges by
“a Jewish newspaper” that the paper is paying too much attention to the “Reform
party within the ancient sect.” The editorial cites the creation of Temple
Israel in Brooklyn as proof of that there is a significant segment of the Jews
that “are anxious to make great and fundamental changes in their doctrines and
faith.” The editorial finished by saying that it would publish
information about any sect within Judaism that are based on “facts.” [Editor’s
note: It is significant that a leading metropolitan daily was publishing
stories about Jewish culture and religion that were generally informative at a
time when the Jewish population was a rather infinitesimal part of the general
population.
1870: In Chicago, Cecilie and Alexander Pam
gave birth to Hugo Pam who earned his law degree at the University of Michigan
in 1892 who served as member of the Superior court “for more than eighteen
years” who served as Vice President of the Zionist Organization of American and
“headed the Platine Restoration Fund in Chicago.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15367.html
1871: Tonight, at Steinway Hall in New York, “a
large and highly-intelligence audience” heard a lecture on “the soul of Eve,”
which concluded “with a beautiful picture of Eden and the love of Adam and
Eve,” the figures from the Book of Genesis.
1872(15th of Shevat, 5632): Tu
B’Shevat
1872: In Rossein, Russia, David Mendel Deinard
and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Samuel N. Deinard, the hold of degrees from
the University of Pennsylvania, De Pauw University and University of Chicago
who led Congregation Shaarei Tov in Minneapolis and served as Head of the
Semitic Department at the University of Minnesota.
1872: The United States confirmed M.A.
Shaffenburg as U.S. Marshall for the Territory of Colorado.
1873: In Lithuania, David Menachem and Taube
Leah gave birth Samuel Nathan Deinard who became “a professor of Semitic
languages and literature” at his alma mater the University of Minnesota and the
rabbi at Temple Israel the oldest synagogue in the Twin Cities and who raised
three children – Amos, Benedict and Miriam – with his wife Rose.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/43/v43i06p213-221.pdf
1874: “The second constitutional convention of
the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith” opened today in Chicago, Illinois at the
Kingsbury Music Hall. Simon Wolf of Washington, D.C. was elected
President. During the afternoon session, a massive gold medal was
presented in memory of A.E. Frankland, the Memphis, TN, Jew who worked to
ameliorate the suffering in that city’s Yellow Fever Epidemic.
https://earlycal.com/products/lionel-edwards-1874-1954-california-plein-air-canvas
1874: Reverend Samuel Alman was installed today
as the pastor of the Second Mission Baptist Church. Before converting, Alman
had been a member of the Stanton Street Jewish Congregation
1877: In San Francisco, “Eugene and Josefine
Mandelbaum Arnstein” gave birth to Leo Arnstein, the Yale educated Attorney,
U.S. Army Lt. Col during WWI and civic leader closely connected with Mayor La
Guardia who was the husband of the former Elsie Nathan with whom he had four
children – William, Robert, Margaret and Elizabeth.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/08/15/87463870.pdf
1879(1st of Shevat, 5639): Rosh
Chodesh Shevat
1879(1st of Shevat, 5639): In
Berlin, Harry and Caroline Bresslau gave birth to Hélène Mariane Schweitzer
1879: In New York City, “Julius Sachs, an
educator” and “Rosa Goldman, the daughter of Goldman Sachs’s founder Marcus
Goldman gave birth to Harvard undergraduate, and Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine trained neurosurgeon Ernest Sachs, the husband of playwright and poet
Mary Parmly Koues with he had two son and one daughter.
https://www.societyns.org/society/bio.aspx?MemberID=7660
1879: The Pioneers, a St. Louis literary club
for Jewish women, meet for the first time today.
1880: In New York City Bertha Nelson and Joseph
Jacobstein gave birth to Columbia University graduate Meyer Jacobstein, the
husband of Lena Lipsky who taught economics at the University of North Dakota
and the University of Rochester before serving as member of the House of
Representatives for three terms.
http://www.irwincollier.com/columbia-economics-phd-alumnus-meyer-jacobstein-1907/
https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/15741
1881: Birthdate of Emil Cohn the native of
Breslau who gained fame as journalist and author Emil Ludwig who specialized in
writing biographies and who re-identified as a Jew when Walther Rathenau was
murdered in 1922.
1882: In London, Leopold de Rothschild and
Marie Perugia de Rothschild whom he married in 1881 gave birth to Major Lionel
Nathan de Rothschild, OBE, the husband of Marie Louise Eginie Beer whom he
married in 1912 and with whom he four children – Rosemary, Edmund, Naomi and
Leopold who was a member of the famous house of Rothschild and a British banker and Conservative politician
best remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens by the New Forest in
Hampshire.
https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/105-lionel-nathan-de-rothschild-1882-1942
1882: In Baltimore, MD, Emma Leerburger and
Henry Guggenheimer gave birth to attorney and John Hopkins graduate Frederick
L. Guggenheimer, the husband of Rose M. Blatner who practiced law in New York
while serving as the Executive Secretary of the Free Synagogue, Chairman of the
Board of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregation and on the board of the Society of Welfare of Jewish Deaf.
1882 (5th of Shevat): Bilu was founded at
Kharkov.
1882: The Hearts of Oak Company featuring David
Belasco as “Mr. Ellingham” performed for the last time at Leubrie’s Theatre in
St. Paul, MN.
1883: Birthdate of Kaharkov, Russia native and
University of St. Petersburg graduate Dr. Naum Jasny, “the agricultural
economist and statistician who was a specialist in the study of the Soviet
Economy.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jasny-naum#google_vignette
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/jasny-naum
1883(17th of Shevat, 5643):
Fifty-nine-year-old Ignatz Isak Löwenbein, the Czech born
son of Nathan Löwenbein and Judith Löwenbein,
the husband of Antonie Löwenbein and father of Julius Löwenbein; Emil
Löwenbein; Karl Löwenbein; Ernst Löwenbein and Alfred Löwenbein passed away
today in Prague.
1885: Five days after he had passed away at
Frankfurt, fifty-one-year-old Abraham Seligman, the husband of Elenore Seligman
with whom he had had five children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1885: Herman Ahlwardt wrote a letter today in
he said, "Antisemitism is illogical; I have always condemned it and shall
continue to condemn religious intolerance until my last breath." (Ahlwardt
would change his views when he failed to find political success among the
Conservatives and become notorious anti-Semitic pamphleteer, agitator and
member of the Reichstag.
1885: In Odessa, Julius and Henrietta (Katz)
Melkiner gave birth to Columbia trained attorney Aaron Melniker, the resident
of Bayonne, NJ, combat veteran of the A.E.F and Republican Party Leader who was
the husband of Gladys Witt.
1886: In Schoneberg, Germany German
archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director Johann Michael Adolf
Furtwängle and painter Adelheid Wendt gave birth to composer Gustav Heinrich
Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler who spoke out against anti-Semitism and the
Nazi regime but who for some unexplainable reason escaped punishment and was
allowed to continue his career throughout World War II.
1886(19th of Shevat, 5646):
Ninety–one year old Elias Mayer, the French born husband of Abby Mayer with
whom he had 13 children passed away today in Philadelphia.
1887: Karl Low, the Czech born son of Helene
and Daniel Low and his wife gave birth to Rosa Low gave birth to Berta Zucker,
the wife of Leopold Zucker.
1887: Birthdate of Berl Katznelson the Russian
native who “was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to
the establishment of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar,
the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/katznelson.html
1888: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and
Cambridge educated American-Jewish mathematician Louis Joel Mordell “known for
his pioneering research in number theory.”
1889: “The Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA
a free burial society serving the residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side, was
incorporated as a non-profit organization with the name of Chebra Agudas Achim
Chesed Shel Emeth (The Society of the Brotherhood of True Charity)” today.https://www.hebrewfreeburial.org/
1889: En route from Russia, Louis A, and
Katherine (Golman) Gitlow gave birth to Columbia trained physician and
biochemist Samuel Gitlow, the husband of Judith Leonora Rosenblum who among
other things taught biochemistry at his alma mater, “worked on alum baking
powders in bread” and was the director of the laboratory at the Bronx Hospital
starting in 1926.
1890: In Louisville, KY, “David and Frieda
(Weiss) Mann gave birth to Louis Leopold Mann, the holder of a BA and MA from
the University of Cincinnati, a B.H.L. from Hebrew Union College and Ph.D. from
Yale University and the Rabbi of Sinai Congregation in Chicago who was active
in numerous cultural and educational organizations including the National
League of Woman Voters and the Jewish Chautauqua Society and was the husband of
Ruth Cohen with whom he had two children – Mary Louise and Arthur Horace.
https://www.jta.org/1966/02/03/archive/dr-louis-mann-leading-reform-rabbi-dies-in-chicago-was-76
1890: Birthdate of Latvia native Milton Kahn,
who in 1904 came to Boston where he earned a B.S. from M.I.T. and became a
successful paper company executive while rising to serve as the National
Chairman of the Brandeis University Associates.
1891: Rabbi Gustav Gustav Gottheil delivered an
address entitled “An Earnest Word To Christians” at Temple Emanu-El in New
York.
1891: Based on information that first appeared
in the London Daily Telegraph it was reported today that Baron Hirsch
has donated £500,000 for education of “indigent Jews” in various parts of
Austria, including Lemberg and Czernowitz. Although intended to provide
education for Jewish children, “the Hirsch school will...be open to Christian
children” as well.
1891: Birthdate of Lazarus Joseph, the native
of the Lower East Side and grandson of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, who served as State
Senator and New York City Comptroller.
1891: In Berlin, Albert Mosse, the of Dr.
Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse and Caroline (Lina) Mosse gave birth to Eric
Peter Mosse
1892: Birthdate of Romanian native and NYU
trained physician Dr. George Ornstein, the former director of medicine at Sea
View Hospital where he “directed a research program on the new
anti-tuberculosis drugs and former “former professor of medicine at New York
Medical College and Columbia’s Post-Graduate School of Medicine” who was the
husband of “the former Claire Rosenstein” with whom he raised two children,
Betty Ann and George, Jr.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/10/11/89968448.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1892: It was reported today that the delegates
from the Hebrew Trades Union would join with others in calling for all labor
organizations in the United States “to send delegates to an international labor
congress” scheduled “to be held in Chicago in 1893.”
1893(8th of Shevat, 5653):
Seventy-five-year-old Sailing Wolfe, the German born husband of Sarah Cohen
Wolfe, with whom he had seven children – Isabel, Rose, Solomon Deboara,
Henrietta, Sarah and Hartwig – and the father-in-law of Dr. Simon Baruch who
was the father of the famous financier Bernard M. Baruch passed away today
after which he was buried at the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in
Columbia, SC.
1893: In Arras (Pas-de-Calais) Protestant
mining engineer Paul-Louis Weiss and Jeanne Javal a member of an Alsatian
Jewish family gave birth to “Louise Weiss was an influential voice in French
and international affairs from the 1920s until her death in 1983.”
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weiss-louise
1894: Isaac Bergman, a 30-year-old homeless
tailor was arrested and imprisoned after he attempted to commit suicide today
at the offices of the United Hebrew Charities because he had been told “that
there was no work” available for tailors.
1894: In Safed, Zeev Wolf Heller and Tziporah
Feiga Heller gave birth to Rabbi Avraham Zeida Heller, the husband of Frieda
Heller
1895: The Young Ladies and Gentlemen's League
of the Montefiore Home hosted a ball at the Carnegie Music Hall to raise funds
for the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.
1895: The Monte Relief Society, a charitable
and social organization founded by a small group of Jewish women under the
leadership of Mrs. Sofia Monte-Loebinger two years ago, is scheduled to host a
party at the Terrace Garden designed to raise funds to relieve “distress among
the Hebrew poor.”
1895: Birthdate of Worcester native and Harvard
trained attorney Wilfred Beeber Feiga who served as an officer for the Jewish
Home for Aged and Orphans.
1896: In New York City, Hyman and Lena
Wallerstein gave birth to actress Rose Wallerstein who began performing at the
age of 5 whose most famous film was “The Cantor’s Son.” (Some sources show her
birthdate at January 24)
1896: A sub-committee of Board of Alderman in
New York met today to discuss whether or not to accept a fountain dedicated to
the memory of Heinrich Heine.
1896: In New York City, Lena Wallerstein and “actor”
Hyman “Hymie” Wallerstein gave birth to Rose Wallerstein who began her acting
on the Yiddish stage at the age of five.
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/W/wallerstein-rose.htm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909102/
1897: Birthdate of Chicago native Fannie
Adelman, who became Fannie Abbell after she married Maxwell Abbell and who was
the moterh of Nahami and Sammy Abbell.
1897: Aloe Alfred began his military today as a
Private in the United States Army
1897: Starting today and lasting for the rest
of the week Civil Service examinations were administered in New York for the
position of Court Interpreter. Hebrew was one of the six languages in
which applicants could be tested. (The test for Hebrew would seem to have been
a misguided attempt to cope with the large surge of Jewish immigrants from
Eastern Europe. In reality, most of these immigrants spoke Yiddish, not
Hebrew.)
1898: Birthdate of Polish native Henry Earl J.
Wojciechowski, the Chicago mobster whose moniker of Earl “Hymie’ Weiss led
people to think that this Catholic whose burial site is topped by a large cross
was Jewish.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2741
https://www.law.gwu.edu/frank-h-marks-intellectual-property-fellowship
1898: Cleveland, Ohio, liquor dealer Saul
Jacobs was convicted of larceny in the first degree for his part in a scheme to
swindle Max Bernstein.
1898: It was reported today that troops were
called out to help the police respond to anti-Jewish riots in St. Malo. (This
was part of the on-going anti-Dreyfus violence sweeping France)
1898: It was reported today that in Algiers,
“the Governor General narrowly escaped a chair which was thrown at him” as he
tried to disperse anti-Jewish mobs. The mob now included “a number of
natives” whose only interest was looting and pillaging.
1898: At least one hundred people went on trial
today for their part in the anti-Jewish riots in Algiers, the capital of
Algeria which was a French colony. “Eighty of the rioters were condemned to
terms of imprisonment varying from three months to year…One who was caught in
the act of pillaging was sentenced to five years in prison.”
1899(14th of Shevat, 5659):
Eighty-seven-year-old Adolphe d'Ennery the French dramatist who converted some
of his plays into successful novels passed away today in Paris.
1899: Birthdate of Worcester native Carl Pack,
the Brooklyn Law School trained attorney and the Bronx Democratic State Senator
from the 22nd District who was “vice president of Temple Beth Elhoim
and the husband of “the former Henrietta Langbert” with whom he had two
children.
1899: In Menominee, Michigan, Sidonie and
Herman Lowenstein gave birth to Helen Shindeling, the wife of Abraham Isaac Shindeling
who passed away in Albuquerque at the age of 93.
1899: Birthdate of Goodman Ace. Born
Goodman Aiskowitz, Kansas City, Missouri, he was a writer and comedian who
created Easy Aces. The scripts for this long-running radio hit would be
the source for television shows in the 1970’s. He also created the “You
Are There,” the pseudo-news show that helped to launch the career of Walter
Cronkite.
1900: Twenty-two-year-old Etta Amolsky, the
Lulling, TX born daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Amolsky became Etta Schtazkey
today when she married Albert Schatzkey with whom he she lived in Houston TX
before moving to Jefferson City, MO where she spent the last 15 years of her
life.
1900(24th of Shevat, 5660):
Seventy-year-old Piedmont native, patriot and financer Senator Isaac Artom who
took part in the battles of Curtatone and Montanara and served as secretary to
Italian leader Count Camillo Cavour, passed away today in Rome.
1900: Rabbi Nison Yablonsky, the Stavisky,
Poland born son of Ezriel and Annie Dvorah Yablonsky who came to the United
States in 1922 where he became “Professor of Talmud and Codes at the Hebrew
Theological Seminary of Chicago” married Celia Klebansky today in Kovno.
1901(5th of Shevat, 5661):
Seventy-two-year-old Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild the son of Baron Carl
Mayer von Rothschild of Naples and the husband of Mathilde Hannah von
Rothschild, the second oldest daughter of Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the
Vienna House of Rothschilds passed away today in Frankfurt where he was head of
the Frankfurt House of Rothschild.
1901(5th of Shevat, 5661):
Sixty-eight-year-old
violinist Simon Hassler, the Bavarian born son
of musician Henry Hessler, who 1842 came to the United States where he
performed with an orchestra his father established in Philadelphia before going
to lead orchestras at the Walnut Street Theater and the Chestnut
Street before being to chosen to direct t the Walnut Street Theater in the same
city, and subsequently of the Chestnut Street Theater and of the Chestnut
Street Opera-House before being chosen to direct the orchestra at the
Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, passed away today.
http://famousamericans.net/simonhassler/
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7323-hassler-simon
1902: Birthdate of Jersey City, NJ native and
Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawence gradate Edwin J. Lukas, “a director of
national affairs for the American Jewish Committee and an early exponent of the
involvement of Jews …”
1902: Herzl proposes to Franz Oppenheimer the
creation of a model cooperative colony in El Arish.
1903: The Eighth Annual Convention of the
Progressive Order of the West opened today in St. Louis, MO.
1903: Today, in Ashtabula, OH, Hamilton, Canada
native David Loeb was married to “a charming woman, well known in Ashtabula and
Cleveland for her untiring activities in behalf of charities” and with whom he
had one son and two daughters.
1904: Herzl met Pope Pius X and tried to
convince him to support the vision of Zionism without any success. The pope
totally rejected the idea that Jerusalem would be in Jewish hands. (The
papacy still clings to this notion.) Herzl is received by Pope Pius X, who
declares, he cannot support the return of the infidel Jews to the Holy Land.
("If you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we want to have
churches and priests ready to baptize all of you.")
1904: Birthdate of Morris Ploscowe, the native
of Libachin, Russia, who came to the United States in 1907 after which he
earned a law degree from Harvard and pursued a career that included serving as
executive director of the American Bar Association Commission on Organized
Crime and an “active member of the American Jewish Community”
1905: “To Teach Jews to Farm” published today
described plans by The Jewish Argicultural Society which is supported by the
Barron Hirsch Fund to erect model buildings on the recently purchased Jeffery
Smith farm near Kings Park, L.I. which will be “used to give practical
instructions to Hebrews in farming” which will help “lead” the Jews from such
crowded areas as the East Side and Brownsville.
1906: Jews in the United States were absorbing
reports coming from Bucharest through Berlin that “massacres of Jews have taken
place in Kishinev and various parts of Bessarabia” for which “details are
lacking.”
1907: Eduard Bernstein, a leading German social
democrat whose “Jewish parents, who were active in the Reform Temple on the
Johannistrasse where services were performed on Sunday” competed his first
terms of service as a “Member of the Imperial Reichstag from Silesia.”
1908: “Because of imitators, Houdini put his
"handcuff act" behind him” today, and “began escaping from a locked,
water-filled milk can.”
1909(3rd of Shevat, 5669): Idudowitz
Schore-Riewe drowned today.
1909: In Sioux City, IA, Kate Sandwina and her
husband gave birth to heavyweight boxer Theodore “Teddy” Sandwina.
1909: German composer Richard Strauss' opera
“Elektra” receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera. Strauss
was born in 1864 and passed away in 1949 which means that his last years as an
active composer coincided with the rise and fall of Hitler and the Nazis.
Many have been critical of his close association with the Third Reich.
His defenders claim that Strauss’ behavior was determined by his need to
protect his son and daughter-in-law who was Jewish, In fact, the couple was arrested
in Vienna during the war and it took all of Strauss’ best efforts to save them.
1910(15th of Shevat, 5670): Tu
B’Shevat
1910: In New York, Dora Mandel and attorney
Maurice Felt gave birth to Wharton graduate Irving Mitchell Felt, who was best
known for leading the drive to build “a new Madison Square Garden.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/24/obituaries/irving-m-felt-84-sports-impresario-is-dead.html
1910: In Detroit, Joseph H. Ehrlich married
University of Michigan graduate and the Regional Director of Hadassah in
Michigan Dora B. Ehrlich, the Russian born daughter of Rachel Gilberg and Hyman
Buchalter and the Regional Director of Hadassah who was a member or leader of the
Women’s League of Hebrew Schools, the Zionist Council, the board of the Detroit
Hebrew Orphan Asylum and B’nai Shaarey Zedek Synaoguge.
1910: On his 38th birthday, Lionel
Nathan de Rothschild was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency
of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and was a Member of Parliament until 1923.
1910(15th of Shevat, 5670):
Sixty-seven-year-old Sarah Lazarus, the daughter of Moses and Esther Lazarus
passed away today in New York City.
1911: Birthdate of Vienna native Fritz Berger
who gained fame as “dancer, educator and author Fred Berker who in 1941 came to
the United States where among other things he formed the Fred Berk Repertory
Dance Company and oversaw the Jewish Dance Division of the 92nd
Street Y.
1912: The Savannah Section withdraws from the
Council of Jewish Women.
1912: At the Louis XIV Room in the Claypool
Hotel, Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht officiated at the marriage of Fannie Rose
Traugott and David Lurvey who plan to honeymoon in New York City.
1913: It was reported today that, “in a
dispatch from Jerusalem” The London Daily has said “that the Palestine
Exploration Fund workers, Mckenzie and McAllister have unearthed Bethe Sehmesh”
the town mentioned in the Sixth Chapter of the First Book of Samuel “in the
ruins thirty miles from Jerusalem.
1913(17th of Shevat, 5673): Parashat
Yitro
1913(17th of Shevat, 5673): Wilhelm
Bacher, a Hungarian rabbi and scholar passed away in Budapest. Born in
1850, he was “a major contributor” to the “Jewish Encyclopedia” as well as
close friend of many Jewish intellectuals notably Chaim Nachman Bialik
1913: Birthdate of Chicago native Armand
Deutsch, the son Adele Deutsch Levy, the grandson of Sears CEO Julius Rosenwald
and the stepson of Dr. David M. Levy whose friendship with the Reagans led to his appointment as a member of the
“Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities.”
1913: “Yiddish star Boris Thomashefsky and his
all-star company” are scheduled give two performances one of which will be a
matinee of the new play “Breach of Promise” at the Haymarket Theatre.
1913: In Camden, NJ, J.F. Kantor, the head of
the of Young Men’s Hebrew Association presided over a meeting attended by more
than a thousand at the Broadway Theatre where he delivered a speech designed to
impress the audience with ‘the importance and necessity of a Jewish communal
building.”
1913: Birthdate of Harlem native Moe Frankel
who played basketball for the Harlem Hebrew Institute, DeWitt Clinton High
School and New York University before playing professional for ABL teams from
1936 through 1947.
http://probasketballencyclopedia.com/coach/moe-frankel/
1914: Today, the Savanah Section withdrew from
the Council of Jewish Women
1914: “More than a thousand persons crowded
into the Broadway Theatre” in Camden, NJ, this afternoon and heard Isaac
Hassler of Philadelphia tell them of the importance of constructing the “Jewish
communal building” which was being championed by the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association of Camden.
1915: A list of contributors to the Hebrew Free
Loan Society provide President Julius J. Dukas published today included Jacob
Schiff, $1,000; Mortimer L. Schiff, $1,000; Felix M. Warburg, $1,500; Adolph
Lewisohn, $500 and Maxwell Guggenheim $100.
1915: Al McCoy, the son of a kosher butcher, defeated
the talented Joe Borrell by the decision of newspapers in a six-round bout in
Philadelphia.
1915: “Fulton Brylawski, of counsel of Leo M.
Frank, under sentence of death for murder in Atlanta, today moved in the
Supreme Court of the United States for the advancement of argument in Frank’s
appeal for a writ of habeas corpus.”
1915: In New York City, Samuel L. Lubell, the
founder of Bell Oil and Gas Company and Lubell Brothers, shirt manufacturers
gave birth to American art deal Grace Lubell, whose three husbands included
Jack Borgenicht, Norman Sachs, Jr. and Warren Brandt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/arts/grace-borgenicht-brandt-86-new-york-art-dealer-dies.html
1915: The trial of Dan H. Leon, the southern
representative of the W.J. Burns Detective Agency, C.C. Tedder and Arthur
Thurman who have been indicted for subordination of perjury that resulted in
false testimony being given in the case of Leo Franks is scheduled to begin in
Atlanta, GA.
1916: “The various committees having a hand in
the collections of money for the relief of the Jews perfected arrangements”
today for the upcoming “observance of he days especially set apart by the
Presidential Proclamation when all may assist Jews in distress in war-stricken
countries
1916: Mayor Mitchel did not last night attend
last night’s meeting of the American Jewish Congress but was reported today to
have a sent a message of regret “in which he said: ‘The Christian peoples of
Europe and America ought to be as one in demanding for Jews equality for the
law, no more, no less.
1916: In Boston, Massachusetts Governor McCall
issued a proclamation “asking the people of the State to contribute on January
27 to the aid of Jews stricken by the European war in accordance with the
recent proclamation by President Wilson?
1917: As Americans debate the wisdom of
entering the war (with all that will come to mean for the Jewish people)
conflicting reports were published today about the deportation of Belgian
civilians by the Germans who have been occupying the country since 1914.
1918: As the day turns into evening and Jews
begin to observe Shabbat Bo, ‘in synagogue throughout” the United States”
rabbis are scheduled to “devote their sermons to the impending re-establishment
of the Jewish State in Palestine to donate the offering to the Palestine
Restoration Fund, the first one million dollars of which is now being raised in
the United States.
1918: Birthdate of Ensley, AL, Tulane alum and
Stanford trained attorney Abe Louis Shugerman, who taught at Duke, Western
Reserve and the University of Miami.
https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/uahoover_aspace_ref368_22r
1918: In New London, Annie Rifkin and Barnett
Lubow gave birth to Sylvia Lubow who became Sylvia Lubow Rindskopf when she
married future Admiral and decorated war hero Maurice Rindskopf.
1918: Vilmos Vázsonyi, the Hungarian leader who
fought to gain “official recognition for the Jewish religion” began serving his
second term as Minister of Justice.
1918: In Bendery, Bessarabia, the municipality
intervened “in favor Jewish students enrolled by the heads of local Railway
Institute where refused admittance by the other students.
1918: In Warsaw, the Jewish Socialist Labor
Party (Paole-Zion) held its fifth conference adopted “resolutions respecting
Jewish municipal life.”
1919(24th of Shevat, 5679): Parashat
Yitro
1919: In New York City, Myron Newman, a credit
manager and Rose (née Parker) Newman gave birth to NBC newsman Edwin Harold
“Ed” Newman, the brother of reporter M.W. Newman and the husband of Rigel
Grell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/business/media/16newman.html
1919: Awni Abdul Hadi and Ahmad Qadri met with an unnamed Zionist representative at the Hotel Meurice.
1920: In Brooklyn, produce merchant Milton
Mollen and Esther Mollen gave birth to Milton Mollen, the WW II veteran and
head of the Mollen Commission which investigated charges of police corruption
in the 1990’s.
1920: “Asserting that the suspension of the
Socialist Assemblymen is an attack on liberty by political action which has
been well prepared through the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, Rabbi
Samuel Schulman, preaching at the Temple Beth-El” this “morning on ‘The Dangers
to American Liberty,’ said that the present tendency toward paternalism in
Government is on which the framers of the Constitution could dream of as
possible for free men.”
1921: In Brooklyn, Lazarus and Jenny Cohen gave
birth to Samuel Theodore Cohen, the Father of the Neutron Bomb.
1922: A committee chaired by Rabbi Louis
Feinberg of Cincinnati, Ohio, will deliver a report to Rabbinical Assembly of
the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) on the acceptability of using unfermented
grape juice for sacramental purposes.
1922: Temple Beth El held its 10th Annual Ball
at the Elmwood Music Hall in Buffalo, New York.
1923: The New York Times published “President
Warren Harding’s letter to a Jewish Jubilee Convention.
https://www.amazon.com/JUBILEE-Convention-Harding-Newspaper-January/dp/B06Y5WC77H
1924: The Hebrew Standard Review of Israel
reported that “the combined sports meeting held at the Love Cove” on January 20th
was a “success” which established “the new spirit and ideal of Sydney’s Jewish
youth…”
1925: The former Hahambashi of Turkey, Rabbi
Haim Nahoum was elected Chief Rabbi of Cairo, Egypt.
1925: Birthdate of John Livingston Weinberg,
American banker and businessman.
1926: “Tartuff” a film version of the French
play photographed by Karl Freund with a script by Carl Mayer was released in
Germany today.
1926: “Jews, Protestants and Roman Catholics”
are scheduled to appear today “at a meeting in the ooms of the Board of
Education of New York City, to urge amendment of the by-laws of the board to
permit reading of the Ten Commandments every week in public school” because the
believe that “numerous crimes committed by youths is due to ignorance of the
Ten Commandments.”
1927(22nd of Shevat, 5687):
Forty-three-year-old, Dr. Julius Lawrence “Mortimer” Mogulesko, a graduate of
Columbia University School of Medicine and specialized in the field of
Bacteriology passed away today.
1927: Birthdate of Yitzhak Hofi, the native of
Tel Aviv who began his career as a member of the Palmach, reached the rank of
General in the IDF before serving as the head of Mossad.
1927: Birthdate of New York native and NYU
graduate Jay Smolens Harrison, the music editor of the New York Herald Tribune
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/13/archives/jay-s-harrison-47-music-editor-dead.html
1928: Birthdate of Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder
the Birmingham Temple in suburban Detroit in 1963. He also was the driving
force behind the creation of the Society for Humanistic Judaism in 1969.
He died in auto accident at the age of 79 in 2007.
1929: In Chicago, Yetta Meisel and Dr. Harry A.
Gussin gave birth to Vivian Roslyn Gussin, the holder of a doctorate from
Tulane University, the wife of Irving Paley who gained fame as Vivian Gussin
Paley, a pioneering teacher and widely acclaimed author who emphasized the
importance of storytelling in early childhood development…” (As reported by
Katherine Q. Seelye)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/education/vivian-paley-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/23/vivian-gussin-paley-obituary
1929: In Surrey, England, Jessica Hay Aitken
and Robert Faurisson gave birth to Robert Faurisson who denies the suffering of
Elie Weisel, the Diary of Anne Frank and the reality of the Final Solution. (As
reported by Adam Nossiter)
1930(25th of Tevet, 5690): Parashat
Shemot
1930: "We
are endeavoring to raise up a generation of God-fearing, law-abiding,
idealistic men and women who will be a credit to Judaism and faithful servants
to mankind," Ludwig Vogelstein of New York, chairman of the executive
board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, declared as its guiding
purpose at the semi-annual meeting of the board today.”
1930: Pinky Silverberg lost a non-title bout to
the reigning NBA World Bantamweight Champion in Havana, Cuba.
1931: In Brooklyn, attorney and some-times
Broadway producer Emil Katzka and his wife gave birth to Gabriel Katzka whose
production included the anti-war and very humorous “Kelly’s Heroes” and the
original version of “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”
1931: Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet “at
the Hotel Astor to plan the first independent campaign in America of the Jewish
Agency for Plaestine”
1932: “Warburg a Leader in Banking Reform”
published today provided a detailed account of the financier’s life and
accomplishment including his criticism of “the present orgies of unrestrained
speculation” months before the Crash of 1929 and his role as trustee of
Tuskegee College, the “all black college” which was an educational beacon of
hope to African-Americans in the days of Segregation.
http://www.minnesotalegalhistoryproject.org/assets/Bechhoefer,%20Charles-MM.pdf
1932: Degrees were awarded to 13 graduates at
the first commencement exercises of Hebrew University which was opened in 1925.
1933(27th of Tevet, 5693):
Seventy-one-year-old Samuel Edgard, the Liverpool born son of Harriet and
Walter Samuel and the husband of Ethel Julia Edgard passed away today in
London.
1933: At the Imperial Theatre which was leased
to Lee and J.J. Schubert , final Broadway performance of “Flying Colors,” directed by Howard Dietz with “Music by
Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz; Book by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz;
Lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz”
1934: In Tarnow, Galicia, Israel Mendel Keller
and his wife gave birth to Naphtali Keller the short-lived author who wrote in
Hebrew.
1935: “The Palestine labor movement was
endorsed today by 241 Reform rabbis of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis in a statement made public here by Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore,
chairman of a committee under whose auspices support was solicited.”
1936(1st of Shevat, 5696): Parashat
Vaera and Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1936(1st of Shevat, 5696):
Sixty-five-year-old gynecologist Dr. George Gellhorn, the husband suffragette
and social reformer Edna Gehllhorn and the father of famed correspondent Martha
Gellhorn passed away today in St. Louis.
1936: “New anti-Jewish rioting broke out today
in Krakow, Wilno and Warsaw universities…”
1936: “A plan to get as many Jews out of
Germany as possible was outlined publicly” tonight in St. Louis “by Sir Herbert
Samuel, the first British High Commissioner for Palestine and Felix M. Warburg,
a partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Co.”
1936: Twenty-five-year-old Ben Kramer, lead LIU
to victory today over St. John’s.
1936: “The Illustrators’ Show” for which
“Songwriter, author and dentist Nathanial Lief” provided “additional lyrics” closed
today Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre.
1937: In another attack on the economic
well-being Jews, “the Reich University of Agriculture issued a decree tonight
enable it to revoke the licenses of horse or cattle dealers who are to be
‘personally unfitted’ for their business.
1937: Today Songwriter Howard Dietz married
Tanis Guinness Montagu with whom he had one daughter and who he divorced 14
years later.
1937: As of today, “no evidence has been
discovered of any incident or development to account for the suspension” by the
secret police of a majority of Jewish
organizations in Germany including “the Jewish League of World War Veterans,
Jewish sport groups, Jewish cultural groups and various occupational schools
organized to help Jews prepare for emigration.”
1938:
Conde Nast, the publisher of Vogue, “announced today that he had
accepted the resignation of Cecil Beaton, British photographer and artist
from the staff of the magazine” because he had submitted a drawing for the
February 1 issue that Nast said appeared to contain “comments that were
critical of the Jews race” and that he “was particularly distressed that these
slurring comments should have been printed in Vogue, especially during these
days of cruel, vicious and unreasoning persecution of Jews.
1938: In “Miami’s Anti-Semitic Jews” published
today Robert Gessner describes a resort where “eighty-percent of all its hotels
are owned and operated by Jews” and where “it’s almost impossible for a Jewish
boy to get a job.”
http://www.unz.org/Pub/NewMasses-1938jan25-00015?View=PDFPages
1939: “Roberto Farinacci and Julius Streicher,
the leading Jew-baiters, respectively, of Italy and Germany, made speeches
tonight in the Sportspalast” in Berlin on "the Jewish problem."
1939: George Rublee, the chairman of the
Inter-governmental Committee on Refugees met with Helmuth Wohlthat, “the
specialist for Aryanization problems” to discuss “ways and means for the
evacuation of Jew from Germany.”
1939: Rabbi J.K. Cohen the associate rabbi of
the Free Synagogue was elected president of the Board of the Jewish Ministers
of Greater New York.
1939: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
this afternoon in the Gramercy Park Memorial Chapel for Iassy, Rumania born,
retired insurance executive Herman Speier who came to the United States in 1904
and has served as executive secretary of the United Rumanian Jews of America
since 1923 while raising two sons and four daughters.
1940: Birthdate of Lt. Col. Avraham
"Avi" Lanir one of the most accomplished and bravest pilots in the
IAF. On the first day of the Yom Kippur War, Lanir joined with Colonel
Oded Marom flew their Mirage jets to the Golan where they engaged four MiGs,
shooting down one a piece. Tragically, Colonel Lanir would be shot down
by the Syrians who tortured him to death.
1940: The Nazi decreed the establishment of
Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
1941(26th of Tevet, 5701): Parashat
Vaera
1941: “The Lady Esther Serenade,” “the first
national radio program sponsored by Lady Ester, the cosmetic company founded by
Syma Cohen in 1913, was broadcast for the last time today.
1941: Warsaw diarist Chaim Kaplan wrote today
“Will we be able to survive? This
question is on everyone’s tongue.”
1942: Birthdate of Holocaust survivor Danny
Wilzig
1942: Hungarian military units under the
command of General Feketehalmi-Zeisler, General Bajor-Bayer and Captain Zoldi
completed “cleaning up the southern region captured from the Yugoslavs” which
included the murder of 1,500 Jews in Novisad.
1943: Hans Frank, the Governor-General of
occupied Poland delivered a “speech on the need to exterminate Poles.” (Eugene
Davidson)
1944: Hans Frank, governor-general of Occupied
Poland, notes in his diary that approximately 100,000 Jews remain in the region
under his control, down by 3,400,000 from the end of 1941.
1945: U.S. premiere of “The Thin Man Goes Home”
with a story by Harry Kurnitz and Robert Ruskin who also co-authored the
screenplay.
1945: U.S. premiere of “I Love A Mystery”
directed by Henry Levin.
1945(11th of Shevat, 5705):
Eighty-five-year-old Bert H. Prinz, who came to the United States in 1864 with
is parents Abraham and Rose Wohlgemuth Prinz where he owned several clothing
stores the most successful of which was Printz Company Men’s Clothing and Furnishing
with headquarters in Youngstown Ohio, passed away today.
1945: Today, two separate recordings of Harold
Arlen’s "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" reached the Billboard
magazine charts today.
1945: Labor camp prisoners from Blechhammer
began their five-day march to Bergen-Belsen during which about 20% of them
died.
1945: The Nazis begin the evacuation of
the Stutthof concentration camp. In yet another Death March prisoners were sent
westward in the middle of driving snowstorm. Many would die from freezing.
Others were shot or thrown into the icy Baltic Sea.
1946: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry,
a joint British and American committee composed of six Americans and six
Englishmen that was charged with examining the “political, economic and social
conditions in Mandatory Palestine as they bear upon the problem of Jewish
immigration and settlement therein and the well-being of the peoples now living
therein” which had been meeting in Washington, D.C. met for a third day in
London.
1946: “My Reputation” a love story directed by
Curtis Bernhardt, co-produced by Jack L. Warner and with music by Max Steiner
was released in the United States today.
1946: “Whistle Stop” a crime film directed by
Léonide Moguy, with a script by Philip Yordan was released in the United States
today
1947: Today “Tel Aviv was placed out of bounds
to British offduty troops today as part of precautions to meet expected new
outbreaks on behalf of Dov Gruner, Irgun Zvai Leumi member sentenced to be
hanged for complicity in an attack on a police station last April.”
1948: Mishmar, a paper first published by
Hashomer Hatzair in 1943, changed its named to Al HaMishmar (On Guard) today.
1948: Rabbi Joachim Prinz officiated at the
wedding of Terese Grossman and Max Rogel which took place in the Starlight
Terrace Room of Essex House in Newark, NJ
1948: In Vancouver, British Columbia,
Congregation Schara Tzedeck which had been founded in 1907 as “Benei Yehuda”
dedicated its new facility which had been completed in September of 1947.
1949: Nathan Yellin-Mor and Matityahu
Shmuelevitch both of whom were members of Lehi were found guilty of having been
leaders of a terrorist organization today.
1949: On the same day that he was found guilty
Lehi leader Nathan Yellin-Mor, the founder of the Fighters List, was elected to
the first Knesset
1949: Ben-Gurion's Mapai party was the top vote
getter in Israel’s first election after the creation of the Jewish state.
However, the party only gained 35.7% of the vote which translated into 46 seats
in the Knesset leaving Ben-Gurion 15 seats short of the majority he would need
in the parliament that has 120 seats. This would necessitate the
formation of a coalition. This would set the stage for a joining of strange
bedfellows which some see as detrimental to the long term stability of the
Jewish state.
1950: “Daniel Frisch, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, announced today that he would seek to call a
conference of leaders of Zionist groups in this country aimed at submerging
“party interests to a minimum so that complete coordination of activities may
be achieved” in aiding Israel.”
1951: Charles Shulman, the Ohio of Northern
University-trained attorney who traded in his shingle to become a Reform rabbi
in 1927 and who was “the first Jewish chaplin and the only rabbi among 225
chaplains in the Seventh Fleet in the last year of WW II was honorably
discharged from the U.S. Navy today
1951: “The Enforcer” co-starring Zero Mostel
premiered in New York City.
1952: “The Sellout” with a story by Matthew
Rapf who also co-produced the film was released today in the United States.
1953: “Rudolf G. Sonneborn, national chairman
of the United Israel Appeal, asserted today that Israel's serious economic
position had been caused, in large measure, by the decline in philanthropic
funds received from this country.”
1953: “Dr. Aryeh L. Kubovy, who spent seventeen
months behind the Iron Curtain as Israel's Minister to Czechoslovakia and
Poland and recently was declared persona non grata by these satellite states,
emphasized today that the Jewish people and Israel were not the "only
targets" of the Communist rulers.”
1954(21st of Shevat, 5714):, Stella
Bernheimer Housman, the daughter of Mathilde and Abraham Steinam, the wife of
Max E. Bernheimer and Frederick Housman and the mother of Geroge Burton and
William Oliver Burton, the artist who had studied at the Yale School of Fine
Arts and who had predeceased his mother, passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
1954: In Jerusalem, Michaella and Yitzhak
Grossman gave birth to Israeli author David Grossman whose work included Her
Body Knows, a collection of two novellas.
1955: In Paris, filmmaker Jacques Remy gave
birth to French film director, screenwriter and film critic Olivier Assayas
whose breakthrough film was “Cold Water.”
1956: The West End production of “Plain and
Fancy” a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein opened at the Theatre Royal
in London.
1957: Today, Dag Hammarskjold rejected Israel's
request for special guarantees in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from the
Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba area which means that Gaza will continue to be
a base for terrorist and the Gulf can again be closed to ships headed for
Eilat.
1958(4th of Shevat, 5718): Parashat
Bo
1958: In New York City, actress, director, and
writer, Lee Grant (née Lyova Rosenthal), and screenwriter Arnold Manoff gave
birth to actress Dinah Manoff
1959: Pope John XXIII proclaims Second
Vatican Council. This would lead to the greatest improvement in relations
between the Church and the Jewish People since the days of Constantine.
1959: Contributions of $132 were received by
the annual appeal of the New York Times
Neediest Cases Fund from the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
1960: Yitzhak Rabin flew to IDF Southern
Headquarters to ascertain the military situation as Egyptian forces stood on
the border with Israel. The crisis would pass since neither side was
prepared for war. But the crisis of 1960 did help to set the stage for
Israel’s response to Egypt’s next foray into the Sinai in 1967.
1960(25th of Tevet, 5720):
Seventy-four-year-old Hungarian born, and Rush Medical College trained surgeon
Max Thorek passed away today in Chicago.
https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5170/431.3
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/07/85131581.pdf
1960: David Susskind produced, and Henry Kaplan
directed two plays by August Strindberg – “Miss Julie” and “The Stronger” – as
part of the Play of the Week.
1961 (8th of Shevat 5721): Bar
Mitzvah of Yissachar Dov Rokeach. Born in 1948 he is the fifth and present
Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Belz. He has led Belz since 1966
1962: In London, June Flewett and Sir Clement
Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud gave birth to UK broadcaster and social
commentator Emma Vallency Freud.
1963: The recording sessions that would
eventually produce “The Barbra Streisand Album” next month came to an end
today.
1964: “One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest” produced
by David Merrick and written by Dale Wasserman, the Rhinelander, WI born son of
“Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel Wasserman and Bertha Paykel” was performed
for the last time on Broadway at the Cort Theatre.
1965: Sheldon Cohen began serving as
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
1965(22nd of Shevat, 5725): Ninety-one-year-old
Frankfurt born economist Moritz Julius Born, the descendant of a family started
in the sixteenth century by Aaron Jacob Bonn, who was distinguished academic as
well as an advisor to the Weimar government passed away today.
http://ieg-ego.eu/en/mediainfo/moritz-julius-bonn-187320131965
1966(4th of Shevat, 5726): Seventy-seven-year-old
Dr. Saul Adler, the expert on parasites who translated Darwin’s The Origin
of Species into Hebrew, passed away today in Jerusalem.
http://english.israelphilately.org.il/articles/content/en/000462
http://www.boeliem.com/content/1994/492.html
1966(4th of Shevat, 5726):
Sixty-three-year-old University of California Professor of Physiology Dr.
Israel Lyon Chaikoff passed away today in Berkeley, CA.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D01E7DC113CEF34BC4F51DFB766838D679EDE
1967: it was reported today that the 41st
Valentine’s Day dinner dance of the Physicians Wives League of Greater New York
will held at the Waldorf-Astoria under the chairmanship of Mrs. Seymour
Grossman.
1967: After having premiered in the United
Kingdom, “Prehistoric Women” co-starring Steven Berkoff was released in the
United States today.
1967: “The Reluctant Astronaut,” a comedy
written by Everett Greenbaum premiered in Houston, TX today.
1968: Last transmission is received from the
Israeli submarine, Dakar
1969(6th of Shevat, 5729): Parashat
Bo
1969: Israel’s Musicians’ Festival is scheduled
to end in New York with a dinner-dance sponsored by the American-Israel Culture
Foundation.
1970: Birthdate of Israeli high jumper Itay
Margalit.
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/israel/itay-margalit-8330
1971(28th of Tevet, 5731):
Sixty-six-year-old Cleveland native and Western Reserve University alum Julia
Stuhlberg Klineman, the wife of Emory Klineman, the retired chairman of
Majestic Specialists and mother of Robert and William Klineman who “was an
officer of the National Council of Jewish Women and the American Jewish
Committee” suffered a fatal heart attack in St. Lucia.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/27/archives/mrs-emory-klineman.html?searchResultPosition=1
1971: Idi Amin led a coup deposing Milton Obote
and became Uganda's president. In his younger days, Amin was favorably disposed
towards the Israelis who trained him as a paratrooper. However, in 1976,
he would prove himself to be a strong supporter of the PLO as he gave refuge to
the terrorists who landed their high jacked aircraft at Entebbe.
1974: “KGB stopped Moscow UPI correspondent
G.P. Joseloff on a Moscow street after his interview with a group of Jewish
activists and seized written replies to questions he posed to them. “
1975: Birthdate of Canadian actress Mia
Kirshner, granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a Canadian
Jewish journalist.
1975(13th of Shevat, 5735): Parashat
Beshalach
1975(13th of Shevat, 5735):
Eighty-year-old Dr. Aaron Solomon, the husband of Ruth Solomon with whom he
raised two daughters and a son and who was “a specialist in internal medicine
and cardiology passed away today at his Fifth Avenue home.
1976(23rd of Shevat, 5736):
Eighty-four-year-old German-born English historian Victor Ehrenberg, the
husband of Eva Dorothea Sommer, the father of Geoffrey and Lewis Elton, the
brother of Hans Ehrenberg, grandfather of Ben Elton and the nephew of Victor Ehrenberg and Richard
passed away in London.
1977(6th of Shevat, 5737):
Eighty-five-year-old motion picture actor, agent and producer Edward Small
passed away today.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806448/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
1978: As part of its “Great Performances
series,” PBS broadcast “Verna: USO Girl” co-starring Howard Da Silva and
featuring theme music by Jerome Kern and George Gershwin.
1978: In Kryvyi Rih,
then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, a
professor and computer scientist and the head of the Department of Cybernetics
and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and
Technology and computer engineer Rymma Zelenska, gave birth to Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy a
Ukrainian politician and former comedian and actor and since 2019 the sixth and
current president of Ukraine whose grandfather, Semyon (Simon) Ivanovych
Zelenskyy, served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red
Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during World War II and whose
great-grandfather and other family members were killed during the Holocaust.
1978: Thirty-three-year-old David Pleat began
managing Luton Town.
1981: In New Orleans, LA, Al Davis’ Oakland
Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XV.
1981: In “Words of a Fallen Soldier,” Hillel
Halkin reviewed Self-Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu
(1963-1976).
1983: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested
in Bolivia
1985: Release date for “The Falco and the
Snowman” directed by John Schlesinger, the product of a middle-class
Anglo-Jewish family.
1986(15th of Shevat, 5746): Parashat
Beshalach and Tu B’Shevat
1986(15th of Shevat, 5756): The
curtain came down on the fifty-year acting career of Lilli Palmer who passed
away today at the age of 71.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/palmer-lilli
1987: Neil Diamond sang the national anthem at
Super Bowl XXI.
1987: Seventy-four-year-old composer and
conductor Henry Krips whose “father was a Jewish convert to Catholicism” which
made him Jewish under Nazi racial laws and thus gave him reason to flee his
native Austria after the Anschluss, passed away in Australia his haven from the
Holocaust.
1987: It was announced today that Allison
Pines, the daughter of Isidore Pines, the “president of National Foods, Inc.” a
company whose divisions include Hebrew National Kosher Foods” which “was
founded by the late Isidore Pinckowitz, great-grandfather of the future bride”
is engaged to second year med school student Kenneth Klein, the son of Dr. and
Mrs. Alan Klein of Chicago.
1988: As the latest round of Arab terrorism
escalates, Yehuda Genyan, a tailor, seems to be expressing the frustration of
many Israelis when he said today of the terrorists, “They walk around here like
kings, but a Jew goes to pray at the wall and he gets stabbed.'' In the wake of
international criticism over Israel’s response to Palestine protesters, Prime
Minister Shamir seems to echoing Genyan when he states, ''We are not allowed to
kill, we are not allowed to expel, we are not allowed to beat,'' Prime Minister
Shamir said. What are Jews allowed to do - Only to be killed, only to be
wounded, only to be defeated.''
1991(10th of Shevat, 5751):
Seventy-two-year-old David Hirsh Panitz the rabbi emeritus at Temple Emanuel in
Paterson who had previously served as rabbi at Adas Israel in Washington, DC
where, among other things he officiated at the Shabbat morning service where Avraham
Elimelch ben Yosef Dov was called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/rabbi-david-h-panitz-educator-is-dead-at-72.html
1992: Singer Ofra Haza and the Amka Oshrat
Yeminite Dance Troupe appear in concert as part of “Israel: The Next
Generation.”
1993: Robert Rubin began serving as the 1st
Director of the National Economic Council under President Clinton.
1993: The New York Times reported that a
United States Senator from Hawaii, the Brooklyn-born chief rabbi of an Israeli
West Bank community, and an organization of disabled Israeli war veterans will
receive the 10th annual Defender of Jerusalem Awards. The $100,000 prize that will
be divided among the recipients will be presented by the Jabotinsky Foundation
Thursday at the Plaza Hotel. The foundation is named for Vladimir Jabotinsky, a
Zionist, philosopher and mentor of many Israeli leaders. Being honored this
year are Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin,
founder of the settlement of Efrat on the West Bank, where he is described as a
peace-keeper and arbitrator between Jews and Palestinians, and the Zahal
Disabled Veterans Organization, which operates two sports, rehabilitation and
social centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa and is building a facility in Jerusalem.
The purpose of the prize, said Eryk Spektor, founder and chairman of the
Jabotinsky Foundation, "is to honor people who have stood up in the
defense of Jewish rights."
1994: “As Israeli and Syrian negotiators
resumed the Middle East peace talks here in a "positive" mood, King
Hussein of Jordan offered a gesture of reconciliation today by meeting with
about 30 American Jews.”
1995: “The Usual Suspects” a dark crime movie
directed by Bryan Singer and filmed by cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel
premiered at Sundance today.
1996: Israel and Syria
resumed peace talks today at the Wye Plantation in Maryland with American mediators hoping that the
participation of two generals on each side would encourage compromises.
1997: “Vilna’s Got A Golem,” by Ernest Joselovits
and directed by Lou Jacob was performed at the Raymond J. Greenwald Theater in
Chelsea.
1998: Today, “a committee headed by Finance
Minister Yaakov Neeman is supposed to hand Mr. Netanyahu a proposal for
resolving the dispute among Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Jews over
procedures for conversion to Judaism,” but “after seven months, more than 70
sessions and 150 hours of deliberations, signs are that the committee has
failed to come up with a compromise that the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate Council
will agree to sign.”
1998: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers
including Hitler’s Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht by John Weitz
and Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Joseph
Sherman.
1999: Yitzhak Mordechai completed his service
as Minister of Defense.
2000: Martin Indyk presented his credentials as
U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2000: U.S. premiere of “The Songcatcher” a
fascinating movie about the Hill people of North Carolina and their music
co-starring Emmy Rossum as “Deladis Slocumb.”
2001: Israel's state-owned power utility said
today that it planned to buy more than half of its $3 billion supply of natural
gas over the next decade from Egypt, after receiving an offer that was 20 to 30
percent lower than domestic prices.
2001: In Toronto, the Al Waxman Fan Club, which
had over a thousand members, held a wake for their hero complete with “a New
Orleans-style funeral march including a jazz band.
2001: After a 48-hour hiatus, Israelis and
Palestinians resumed their peace talks today still hoping for a diplomatic
breakthrough, though increasingly dubious about a full-fledged agreement before
the Feb. 6 election in Israel.
2002: A Palestinian suicide bomber wounded more
than two dozen people when he blew himself up today in a pedestrian mall in a
Tel Aviv neighborhood of populated largely by immigrant workers.
2002: In response to today’s terrorist attack
in Tel Aviv, “an Israeli F-16 attacked the Palestinian security headquarters in
Gaza located near Yasser Arafat's compound.”
2003: On the first day of his trial, an Israeli
Arab student denied that he had tried to hijack an El Al jetliner and force it
to slam into a skyscraper in Tel Aviv. Tawfiq Foqara, 23, told the court that
during the November 17 flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul he had a dispute with a
flight attendant who yelled at him.
2003: The Guardian published an article
entitled “Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution; Nobel laureate
under fire for new book on the role of Jews in Soviet-era,” in which Nick Paton
reviews Two Hundred Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books
[Ed. Note: The article is reproduced in
its entirety to provide a sense of what one of the most acclaimed writers of
the 20th century had to say about Jews. He seemed to comprehend the
fact that Communists like Trotsky had rejected Judaism and to remind us that
for Jews, Russia is a good place “to be from” regardless of who is in charge]
“Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first
exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of
the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the
Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges. In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84,
deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were
as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years
Together -a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which
greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters
discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police
purges of Soviet Russia. But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted
furiously to the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it,
accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of anti-Semitism
in Russia. Solzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary
period” consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians" as being
behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic groups must
share the blame, and that people shy away from speaking the truth about the
Jewish experience. In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote:
"If I would care to generalize, and to say that the life of the Jews in
the camps was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an
unjust national generalization. But in the camps where I was kept, it was
different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was softer than that of
others.” Yet he added: "But it is impossible to find the answer to the
eternal question: who is to be blamed, who led us to our death? To explain the
actions of the Kiev cheka [secret police] only by the fact that two thirds were
Jews, is certainly incorrect.” Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1970, spent much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring
persecution when he wrote about is experiences. He is currently in frail
health, but in an interview given last month he said that Russia must come to
terms with the Stalinist and evolutionary genocides - and that its Jewish
population should be as offended at their own role in the purges as they are at
the Soviet power that also persecuted them.” My book was directed to empathize
with the thoughts, feelings and the psychology of the Jews - their spiritual
component," he said. "I have never made general conclusions about a
people. I will always differentiate between layers of Jews. One layer rushed
headfirst to the revolution. Another, to the contrary, was trying to stand
back. The Jewish subject for a long time was considered prohibited. Zhabotinsky
[a Jewish writer] once said that the best service our Russian friends give to
us is never to speak aloud about us.” But Solzhenitsyn's book has caused
controversy in Russia, where one Jewish leader said it was "not of any
merit". "This is a mistake, but even geniuses make mistakes,"
said Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress.
"Richard Wagner did not like the Jews, but was a great composer.
Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer but had a very skeptical attitude
towards the Jews. "This is not a book about how the Jews and Russians
lived together for 200 years, but one about how they lived apart after finding
themselves on the same territory. This book is a weak one professionally.
Factually, it is so bad as to be beyond criticism. As literature, it is not of
any merit." But DM Thomas, one of Solzhenitsyn's biographers, said that he
did not think the book was fuelled by anti-Semitism. "I would not doubt
his sincerity. He says that he firmly supports the state of Israel. In his
fiction and factual writing there are Jewish characters that he writes about
who are bright, decent, anti-Stalinist people." Professor Robert Service
of Oxford University, an expert on 20th century Russian history, said that from
what he had read about the book, Solzhenitsyn was "absolutely right”.
Researching a book on Lenin, Prof Service came across details of how Trotsky,
who was of Jewish origin, asked the politburo in 1919 to ensure that Jews were
enrolled in the Red army. Trotsky said that Jews were disproportionately
represented in the Soviet civil bureaucracy, including the cheka.
"Trotsky's idea was that the spread of anti-Semitism was [partly down to]
objections about their entrance into the civil service. There is something in
this; that they were not just passive spectators of the revolution. They were
part-victims and part-perpetrators.
"It is not a question that anyone can
write about without a huge amount of bravery, and [it] needs doing in Russia
because the Jews are quite often written about by fanatics. Mr Solzhenitsyn's
book seems much more measured than that." Yet others failed to see the
need for Solzhenitsyn's pursuit of this particular subject at present. Vassili
Berezhkov, a retired KGB colonel and historian of the secret services and the
NKVD (the precursor of the KGB), said: "The question of ethnicity did not
have any importance either in the revolution or the story of the NKVD. This was
a social revolution and those who served in the NKVD and cheka were serving
ideas of social change "If Solzhenitsyn writes that there were many Jews
in the NKVD, it will increase the passions of anti-Semitism, which has deep
roots in Russian history.”
2004: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of
American Power by George Soros, Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol
Oates, Collect Poems by Paul Auster and a newly released paperback
edition of A Saint, More or Less by Henry Grunwald.
2004: Today Israel's high court suspended for
30 days the state's efforts to expel the Palestinian father of an Israeli
soldier, pending a hearing on granting him the right to remain in Israel.
2004: Elyakim Rubinstein completed his service
as Israel’s Attorney General.
2005(15th of Shevat, 5765): Tu B'Shevat
2005: A year after premiering at the Sundance
Film Festival “Metallica” a documentary co-directed and co-produced by Bruce
Sniofsky was re-released in the United States.
2005: As plans are made for a Broadway revival
of Neil Simon’s “Sweet Charity” today, “the show went into production at the
Historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.”
2005: In the U.S. of Representatives
Congressman Pete Session rose today “to pay tribute to Mr. Joel David Brooks”
who is retiring as the Executive Director of the Southwest Region for the
American Jewish Congress after forty years of service.
2005: French debut of “To Take a Wife” (VeLakahta
Lekha Isha) co-directed by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz who also co-authored
the script
2006: The
Tenafly Jewish community has won a six-year battle with local officials over
the right to place symbolic plastic strips on utility poles to create an
enclosure that would allow them to perform certain restricted activities on the
Sabbath.
2007(6th of Sh'vat, 5767): Sydney Simon
Shulemson, DFC, died today in Florida. Born in 1915, he “was a Canadian fighter
pilot, and Canada's highest decorated Jewish soldier, during World War II
.Growing up in Montreal, Shulemson attended McGill University. He enlisted in
the Royal Canadian Air Force on September 10, 1939, and graduated from flight
school in 1942. He joined RCAF 404 Squadron in Wick in Scotland, flying a
Bristol Beaufighter. Shulemson downed a German flying boat on his first sortie.
He pioneered techniques for rocket attacks on Axis ships in the North Atlantic.
After the war, Shulemson located aircraft and recruited pilots for Israel's
growing Israeli Air Force.”
2007: In Derby, UK, Holocaust Memorial Day
Service
2007: Speaker of the Knesset Dalia Itzik became
acting President of Israel when President Moshe Katzav took a three month long
leave of absence.
2008: In Iowa City the funeral is held for
orthopedic surgeon Dr. Webster B. Gelman, recipient of the 1985 University of
Iowa Alumnae Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award who passed away at the
age of 89.
2008: First Musical Shabbat Service at Temple
Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2008: Rami Zuari, a 20-year-old Border Police
officer killed during a terrorist attack at an East Jerusalem checkpoint was
buried in the military cemetery at Be’er Sheva, his home town.
2008: In Great Britain at Friday Prayers the
community of Ahmadi Muslims in the UK say the following prayer in commemoration
of Holocaust Memorial Day. "Sunday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day in
UK. We pray that people learn to recognize, accept and respect their
differences. People of all races and faiths are God’s people. May everyone
accept this truth so that the world can look forward to a peaceful future. May
God enable people to remain close to their Creator, follow His teachings of
peace, and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. Amen."
2009: Politics and Prose Bookstore hosts a
reading from Words that Burn Within Me: Faith, Values, Survival, a
collection of notebooks by Hilda Stern Cohen containing poetry and
recollections of life in 1930s Germany, which was discovered by her husband,
Werner Cohen, after her death in 1997.
2009: Canadian Sharon Fichman defeated her
American opponent in a clay court match at Lutz, Florida
2009: The 5th annual
Brooklyn Israel Film Festival closes this evening with a showing of “Children
of the Sun,” written and directed by Ran Tal and the winner of Israel's Academy
Award for Best Documentary.
2009: The New York Times
includes reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Benjamin Disraeli by Adam Kirsch and Ballet’s
Magic: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 by Akim
Volynsky; edited and translated by Stanley J. Rabinowitz. Akim Volynsky was the
pen name of Chaim Leib Flekser who was born in 1861 into an Orthodox Jewish
family of booksellers in Ukraine.
2009: The New York Times
reports that the kosher symbol, intended to show consumers that the contents
adhere to Jewish dietary laws, was mistakenly left off 14 million boxes of Thin
Mints, the variety that accounts for roughly 25 percent of Girl Scout cookie
sales, said Raymond Baxter, president and chief executive of Interbake Foods,
the parent company of ABC Bakers of Richmond, Va., one of two approved
manufacturers of the cookies. Proofreaders missed the mistake. But a customer
noticed in November that the symbol — a circled U accompanied by a D for dairy
— was missing, said Brian Crawford, an executive at the Scouts’ New York
headquarters. (Some troops sell cookies in the fall, though most sales are held
January through March.) ABC Bakers quickly sent letters explaining the
oversight (and showing proof of kosher certification from the Orthodox Union)
to Scout councils. Rabbi Yisroel Bendelstein of the Orthodox Union, who has
fielded perhaps a half-dozen calls about the cookies, said he hoped the letters
would “obviate any concerns.” Thin Mints, the rabbi said, are his favorite Girl
Scout cookie.
2009 (29 Tevet 5769): Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a pioneer
in interfaith relations passed away today according to an announcement from the
Anti-Defamation League, where he served as director emeritus of interfaith
affairs. A leading figure in efforts to promote Jewish-Christian understanding,
Klenicki was made a Papal Knight by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 in recognition of
his historic contributions to improving relations between Catholics and Jews.
He worked for the ADL for 28 years before his retirement in 2001. Klenicki, a
renowned scholar and theologian, wrote numerous books and articles on
Catholic-Jewish issues. A native of Argentina, Klenicki was ordained at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and earned a
bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati. He was a member of an
Argentine government commission to investigate Nazi activities in Argentina
from 1933 to 1945.
2010: The 19th annual New York
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present the New York premiere “Leap of
Faith,” a documentary about the difficulties that four families face when they
abandons their traditions and embrace Judaism.
2010: The Brooklyn Israel Film Festival is
scheduled to close this evening with a screening of the 2008 Israel Academy
Award for Best Documentary, ‘Children of the Sun.”
2010 (10th of Tevet):
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchok Schneersohn, sixth Rebbe of the Chabad
Lubavitch movement who was also known as the Friediker Rebbe or "Previous
Rebbe."
One year later, to the day,
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Rebbe assumed the leadership position of the
worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
2010: At the Sundance Festival the
first screening of “A Film Unfinished.”
2010: The week after Miep Gies,
passed away, Elie Wiesel wrote the following about her in Time magazine.
Miep Gies
entered history without wanting to. She did what many others were too afraid to
do: she risked her freedom, her life, in her determination to save Jews from
deportation and death.From 1942 to '44, Gies, who died Jan. 11 at 100, helped
shelter and feed Anne Frank and her family in an attic in Amsterdam, where at
that time Jews were being branded, humiliated and condemned just because they
were Jews. Her life remains a moral example for millions to follow. I met Gies
much later and was impressed by her sincerity, the simplicity of her comments
and the moving quality of her smile. Calm, soft and reserved, she radiated
nobility and strength of character. She talked little and quietly, reflecting
on the significance of every word. When speaking of the past, she seemed to
relive it. Naturally, I knew much about her life. Anne's immortal diary, which
Gies found and gave to Otto Frank after the war, was filled with praise for her
devotion and sacrifice.I asked her where she had found the courage to defy the
Gestapo during the dark days of the occupation, and she protested. "I did
nothing heroic or extraordinary," she said. "Human beings were in
peril, and I had to care for them." But for the Franks, she represented
all that is good and generous. She was the incarnation of hope.
2011: The New York Premiere of Black
Bus, which “tells story of two young women who chose to leave their
close-knit Haredi communities in Israel and are, as a consequence, estranged
from their families” is scheduled to take place at The New York Jewish Film
Festival.
2011: David Makovsky and Ghaith
al-Omari with Jane Eisner are scheduled to lead a discussion entitled “Israelis
and Palestinians: Poised Between Crisis and Opportunity” at the 92nd
Street Y.
2011: To mark Holocaust Memorial Day
2011, the Wiener Library is scheduled to hold a special lecture by Prof Clare
Ungerson on The Kitchener Camp, a largely forgotten camp established in 1939
for 4000 male Jewish refugees situated near Sandwich in East Kent.
2011: Police
Commissioner David Cohen said today that he was concerned by the possibility of
ideology-based murders against public officials in Israel.
2011: The international
department of the prosecution services failed to obtain the extradition from
Peru of former judge Dan Cohen, wanted in Israel on charges of bribery, fraud,
breach of trust and obstruction of justice, the government informed the department
today.
2011: After a
preliminary hearing today determined that the issue should be handled in the
courts, the Jerusalem Labor Court will be deciding over the next few months
whether rabbinic ordination should be recognized as equivalent to a bachelor’s
degree, vis-à-vis the Civil Service Commission’s prerequisites for the position
of a supervisor in the haredi educational system.
2011: Nominations for
the 83rd annual Academy Awards, announced this morning, were good for the Jews.
Shoo-ins Natalie Portman (“Black Swan”) and Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social
Network”) got Best Actress and Actor nods, respectively. James Franco, whose mother
is Jewish, also scored a Best Actor nod for his role in “127 Hours.” “Black
Swan” director Darren Aronofsky earned a Best Director nomination, along with
“True Grit” helmers Joel and Ethan Coen. “The Fighter” director David O.
Russell, son of a Jewish father and Italian-American mother, also got a Best
Director nomination. Jews also ruled the screenwriting categories. Debra Granik
scored a nod in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for the brutal “Winter’s
Bone,” while Hollywood vet Aaron Sorkin earned his for Facebook docudrama “The
Social Network,” as did fellow A-lister Scott Silver for scrappy Boston epic
“The Fighter.” In the same category, the Coen Brothers won the Academy’s
attention for their highly acclaimed adaptation of Charles Portis’ 1968 novel
“True Grit.” British improv-drama icon Mike Leigh was nominated in the Best
Original Screenplay category for “Another Year,” his sobering look at happiness
— and the lack thereof — among the British chattering classes. And
British-born, Long Island-raised David Seidler got his first Oscar nomination —
in the Original Screenplay slot — for “The King’s Speech”. Semites didn’t fare
as well in the Best Supporting Actor or Actress categories, though 14-year-old
Hailee Steinfeld — reportedly the daughter of a Jewish dad and black/Filipino
mom — got a nod for her widely lauded turn as vengeful tween Mattie Ross in
“True Grit.”
2011: Misaskim reported
that Nazi-era RIF soap was handed over to the organization for burial.
2011: Twenty-three-year-old
Jason Bailey, a Jewish hockey player, has sued the National Hockey League's
Anaheim Ducks for religious discrimination and harassment based on religion.
Jason Bailey, 23, in a lawsuit filed today in California's Orange County
Superior Court, accused the coaches of one of the Ducks' affiliate teams of
making anti-Semitic remarks and harassment. Bailey said he was subjected to
"a barrage of anti-Semitic, offensive and degrading verbal attacks
regarding his Jewish faith" by Martin Raymond, head coach of the Bakersfield
Condors. The suit says assistant head coach Mark Pederson also made
anti-Semitic remarks about Bailey.The suit claims that Bailey was the victim of
religious discrimination, harassment based on religion, intentional infliction
of emotional distress and retaliation. It asserts that he lost income, benefits
and suffered humiliation, according to CNN. Bailey was drafted by the Ducks in
2005, but has not played in the NHL. He was traded last year and now plays
right wing for the Binghamton Senators, a farm team for the Ottawa Senators.
(As reported by JTA)
2011(20th of
Shevat, 5771): Ninety-one-year-old Daniel Bell, the writer, editor, sociologist
and teacher who over seven decades came to epitomize the engaged intellectual
as he struggled to reveal the past, comprehend the present and anticipate the
future, died today at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 91. (As reported by
Michael T. Kaufman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/26bell.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Daniel%20Bell&st=cse
2012: The; David Harris
Comedy and Variety Show with Special Guests, The Chosen Few are scheduled to
appear at the Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival.
2012: At the New York
Jewish Film Festival “The Silent Historian” is scheduled to have its U.S.
Premiere and “Joann Sfar Draws From Memory” is scheduled to have its World
Premiere.
2012(1st of
Shevat, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Sheva
2012: Palestinian Authority officials said
today that a fifth meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Amman
scheduled for later in the day would be the final meetin
2012: Hackers attacked the websites of two
Israeli hospitals today, managing to bring down the sites for several hours in
the latest round of the ongoing cyber war between pro-Israeli and
pro-Palestinian hackers
2012: Representative “Gabby” Giffords
officially resigned from the House of Representatives.
2013: The Walt Disney Studios and Lucasfilm
officially announced that Jeffrey Jacob “J.J.”Abrams would be the director and
producer of Star Wars Episode VII, the latest entry in the Star Wars film saga
2013: “Yossi,” a sequel to Eytan Fox’s “Yossi
and Jagger” is scheduled to open in New York City.
2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to
perform at Old Town Hall in Fairfax, VA.
2013: As an indication of the vitality of
Yiddishkeit in the Heartland, the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Hadassah Chapter is
scheduled to sponsor a Tu B’Shevat Seder and Soup Supper preceding Shabbat
Services at Temple Judah
2013(14th of Shevat, 5573): Ninety-two-year-old
American diplomat Max Kampelman passed away today. (As reported by William
Yardley)
2013: Austrian parliamentarians and invited
guests gathered today to watch the premiere of an opera depicting how Nazis
methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna
hospital during World War II.
2013: Rabbis in Winnipeg have criticized a
decision by the Jewish community center in the Canadian city to open earlier on
Shabbat.
2013: “Jobs” a biopic co-starring Jose Gad as
“Steve Wozniak” and featuring Brett Gelman and Lesley Ann Warren premiered at
the Sundance Film Festival.
2014: The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community
Center of Houston is scheduled to host the Houston Choreographers X6 Concert.
2014: In Rockville, MD, Congregation Tikvat
Israel is scheduled to show “Hunting Elephants” as part of its Israeli Film
Festival.
2014: Dozens of residents of the city of Lod
protested today against the slashing of some 15 car tires in a religious
neighborhood in the city over the weekend.
2014: Boxes containing pigs’ heads were sent to
the Israeli embassy in Rome and the city’s synagogue, Italian media reported
today
2014: “According to two Israeli researchers” –
Dr. Eran Elhaik and Professor Dan Grauer – “the first human walked on earth
209,000 years ago; 9,000 years earlier than what scientists previously
thought.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4480857,00.html
2015: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Ben-Gurion:
Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira and Mr. Mac and Me by
Esther Freud.
2015: Bud Selig completed his served as 9th
Commissioner of MLB began serving as Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball
2015: “Judy G. Russell, well-known as The Legal
Genealogist, is scheduled to speak about the ethical considerations underlying
genealogy, from privacy issues-how to handle family secrets, what to say about
living people - to the courtesies we should extend to other researchers.”
2015: “The Green Prince” is scheduled to be
shown at Brooklyn Israel Film Festival.
2015: “Cry of the City” and “Forbidden Films”
are scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
2015: “To commemorate the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of the camps and Holocaust Memorial Day, the
Jewish Museum of London” is scheduled to host Zdenka Fantlova who will speak
about her experiences after the Nazis invaded her native Czechoslovakia in
1939.
2015: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host a workshop that explores “the work and techniques of Maurice
Sendak.”
2016: At Tempe Solel, in Cardiff, CA, Dr.
Claudia Tornsäufer is scheduled to lecture on “Mendelssohn, Music and the
Jews.”
2016: The family and friends of Sir Martin
Gilbert, led by Lady Esther Gilbert are scheduled to attend the stone setting
at Eretz Hachaim Cemetery, Beit Shemesh which is part of the memorialization of
Sir Martin Gilbert, of blessed memory.
2016: Weather permitting Matan Porat is
scheduled to perform “Variations on a Theme by Scharlatti” at Butenwieser Hall.
2016(15th of Shevat, 5776): Tu
B’Shevat
2016(15th of Shevat, 5776): Ninety-one-year-old
“Howard Kaslow, apainter and illustrator who for more than four decades
designed many of the most recognizable stamps issued by the United States
Postal Service, including a 1994 series depicting famous blues and jazz
musicians and 30 stamps depicting coastal lighthouses” passed away today. (As
reported by William Grimes)
http://www.lighthousekeepers.com/uploads/files/[email protected]/HLStampSet.pdfa
2016: Today, “US Ambassador to Israel Dan
Shapiro responded to criticism of his charge last week that Israel appears to
institute “two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and
another for Palestinians” in the West Bank.”
2017: Today “German authorities carried out
dawn raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on Jews,
refugees and police, federal prosecutors said.”
2017(27th of Shevat, 5777): On the
Jewish calendar Yahrtzeit of 19th century German Rabbi Samson Rafael
Hirsch.
2017(27th of Shevat, 5777): Seventy-one-year-old
Canadian born professor Stephen P. Cohen “who secretly brokered peace talks
between Arab and Israeli officials for three decades” passed away today.
2017: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
today that the 2,500 new West Bank settlement homes approved a day earlier were
just a “taste” of things to come now that Barack Obama is no longer in the
White House, and said he would discuss the issue with US President Donald
Trump.”
2017: Following a screening of “Cloudy Sunday”
today “film critic Bergson is scheduled to join JKJF Film Programmer Ni Cohen”
in a discussion of the film.
2017: “Experience History at its Source” a tour
exploring the permanent collection of the High Museum ranging from biblical
themes to featured Jewish artists” is scheduled to take place in Atlanta, GA.
2018: The Young Professional Committee of the
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to a “live
performance by singer/songwriter and actor Tyler Hilton.”
2018: Peter G. Weintraub is scheduled to
present another session of “Introduction to Judaism
at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
2018: “Despite the fact that Labour MPs were
asked not to support by their leadership,” “both Labour and Conservative
parliamentarians led calls” “to designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist
group.”
2018: Comedian Judy Gold, best known for “The
Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom” is scheduled to appear at the Buckhill
Brewery in Blairstown, NJ.
2018: Research was published today “in the
prestigious Science magazine” which described the discovery of a “Jawbone
fossil in an Israeli cave that resets the clock for modern human evolution.”
(As reported by Amanda Borschel-Dan)
2018: “The leading European human rights
assembly today endorsed a resolution that called on Ramallah to stop paying
salaries to the families of Palestinian terrorists” while also condemning the
American decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and calling
for an increased European role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.” (As
reported by Dov Lieber)
2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host “the Gemara shiur which will be on mesechet Megillah.”
2018: Today “President Donald Trump said
Palestinians disrespected Vice President Mike Pence when they snubbed him this
week and threatened to cut off assistance to the Palestinians unless they
returned to the negotiating table.”
2018: In Davos, Switzerland, “Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu vowed” today “that Israel would retains control over
Jerusalem’s holy sites in any peace deal while ensuring ‘complete religious
rights for those of all faiths.’” (As reported by Jacob Magid)
2018: Stephanie Halpern is scheduled to teach
the final class of “The American Jewish Family Drama” at the YIVO Institute.
2019 (19th of Shevat, 5779):
Ninety-five year old financier and Ohio State University trained mathematician
Meshulam Riklis, the Istanbul born son of Pinahs and Batya Riklis and WW II
veteran of the British Army passed away today. (As reported by Richard
Sandomir)
2019(19th of Shevat, 5779): On the
Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of the Jews of Basle, Switzerland “who were burned
alive today in a wooden house erected for that purpose” in what was purported
to be the Christian community’s way of responding to the Black Plague.
2019: In Memphis, TN, Rick Recht is scheduled
to lead a Friday night “Shabbat Alive” service.
2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Shir Yehudah is
scheduled to lead the Musical Shabbat service.
2019: Parent’s Shabbat weekend is scheduled to
begin at Oxford University.
2019 The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum is scheduled to host it “2019 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Commemoration” in Washington, DC and on-line.
2020: “God of the Piano” and “An Impossible
Love” are scheduled to be show at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
2020: Today the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
“released a 94-page document detailing it case against” the Beth Oloth
Charitable Organization whose charitable it had stripped because of “its
support Israel’s armed forces, the funding of projects in the Palestinian
territories and sloppy administration.”
2020: As part of its “survivor series” the
Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Felix Weil as he talks about how
he “escaped Germany on the second to the last kindertransport.”
2020(28th of Tevet, 5780): Parashat
Va-ayrah;
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host the third session in which artist Tobi Kahn and
Rabba Wendy Amsellem as they “explore Rabbi Yehuda haNasi’s story in both the
Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds” which is part of “The Barbara C. Freedman
Artists’ Beit Midrash” lectures
2021: In London, the
Jewish Museum is to host “Race in Religion: A Black Virtual History” led by
Learning Officer Shereen Hunte.
2021: The Jewish Family
and Children’s Service is scheduled to present online a performance by Tremble
Clefs, “therapeutic signing group for people with Parkinson’s disease and their
care partners.”
2021: J-Loft is
scheduled to host an online “Tu B’shevat Celebration” that will include a brief
teaching and discussion with the rabbis “followed by a creative workshop led by
Sasha Kopp.
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host an evening with Bryan Cranston the star of
Showtime’s series “Your Honor,” based on the Israeli television show “Kvodo.”
2021: Based on
yesterday’s report by the Health Ministry, Israelis now have to worry the
spread of “a coronavirus variant originally detected in the state of
California.
2022: The Jewish Arts
Collaborative is scheduled to present “Taste of Israel 2022,” “Boston’s first
and only Israeli Restaurant Week.”
2022: The Taube Center
for Jewish Studies is scheduled to present
filmmaker James Gray
discussing two of his works, “Little Odessa” (1994) and “Two Lovers” (2009),
within the theme of “house and home” in Jewish film.
2022: Today “, two
additional men were taken into custody in Manchester (UK) as part of the
investigation” into the hostage taking that occurred at Congregation Beth El in
Texas.
2022: JCC of Greater
Boston is scheduled to present online “School Boards Under Fire.”
2022: Ohio University
Chabad is scheduled to host the third session in the Sinai Scholars program
which will examine “Reason and Ritual: On the Signifcance and Meaning Of Jewish
Obserances.”
2022: First in the
weekly scheduled Tikvah series of live broadcasts from Jerusalem that will
include a panel discussion of the most pressing issues of the day including
“How Will the Israeli Supreme Court change in the years ahead.”
2022: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre and the British Association for Holocaust Studies are
scheduled to present Professor Shirli Gilbert and Dr. Andy Pearce as they
discuss “The Holocaust in Public.”
2022: The Miami Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host the Miami premier of “Bernstein’s Wall,” a
look at one of the major figures in American music during the twentieth
century.
2023: The Hadassah
Brandeis Institute is scheduled to present online, a conversation with Joy
Ladin, author Shekhinah Speaks.
2023: “New Lehrhaus and
JIMENA are scheduled to present an online talk by Professor Sarah Abrevaya
Stein about how Yiddish-speaking and Sephardic Jews from the 1880s through
World War I led the global craze for ostrich and exotic bird feathers, filling
various roles in the trade from Russia to South Africa to the Sahara to New
York City.”
2023: Chabad is
scheduled to present the first class in Book
Smart, a six-part course that explores the history, the nature, and the
contents of these different areas of Torah literature.
2023: The Iowa Jewish
Historical Society and Beit Sefer Shaalom are scheduled to present a special
Readers Theater production of “The Boy n the Grave,” the story of how Dr.
Harold Kasimow and his family survived the Holocaust.
2023: The YIVO
Institute is scheduled to host a presentation live and on zoom about the “700
Years of Vilnius, A City of Translation.
2023: President Isaac
Herzog is scheduled to begin a two-day trip to Belgium today during which he will meet NATO
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Ursula von
der Leyen, European Parliament head
Roberta Metsola and Belgium’s King Philipe and address the European Parliament
in Brussels on the day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (As
reported by Lazar Berman)
2023: The Chabad Center
of Sudbury, MA is schedule to present a lecture by Rabbi Dr. Liabl Wolf on
“Developing Drive, Motivation and Joie de Vivre.
2023: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host an evening with Haifa born mentalist Lior Suchard
2024: At Temple Judea,
it is a family affair as the Straus family – Rabbie Feivel and Canto Abbie –
are scheduled to lead the morning minyan.
2024: In honor of
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Atlanta orthopedic physician Dr.
Reuben Sloan and his patient Gail Cohnwill bring their program, “Corresponding
Angles” to the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans.
2024: In Partnership
with the Lond Borough of Tower Hamlets, UK Jewish Films is scheduled to host a
screening of “My Father’s Secrets” at the Rich Mix.
2024(15th of
Shevat, 5784): With the American heartland in the grips of an icy winter, Jews
show their optimism by celebrating Tu B’Shevat – The New Year of the Trees.
2024: As January 25th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day
111 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: (25th
of Tevet, 5785): Parashat Va-ayrah (And I Appeared)
2025:
Today, at 12:00, the Agnon House in
Jerusalem is scheduled to host a joint reading of “From Apartment to Apartment “ followed by a discussion led by Ofir
Lifshitz that will wonder about the nature of the protagonist's illness and
discuss the mental and psychological changes that occur through changes in the
place of residence.
2025: In
Metairie, LA is scheduled host a 175th Anniversary Celebration
featuring the clergy team of Rabbi Robert Loewy, Victoria May, Rabbi David
Gerber and Jordan Lawrence. Dinner
2025:Today, Hamas is
scheduled to release Liri Albag, Karina
Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy all of whom were abducted when terrorists
stormed IDF’s Nahal Oz surveillance base on Oct. 7, 2023
2025: As
January 25th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism
sweeps the United States including an attempt to shut down a course about the
history of Israel at Columbia four more hostages are scheduled to be released
by the terrorists in Gaza the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages
begin day 477 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: Beth Israel is scheduled to host “6 Million Voices
for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.”
2026: A
Klezmer Music and Dance is scheduled to take play at the Bay Ridge Jewish
Center in Brooklyn.
2026: The
New York Times features review of books w written by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including The Typewriter and the
Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the
Eve of WWII, by Mark Braude
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/mark-braude
2026:
Temple Sinai of Brookline is scheduled to host the New England Jewish Poetry
Festival.
2026: The Jewish Heritage
Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to a host a reception marking the
opening of the exhibition “Jews In Colonial America: New York, Newport, Philadelphia,
Charleston, Savanah and Monmouth County.
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