This Day, January 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 7
1256: Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having
been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death of “Little Hugh of
Lincoln.” The son of Rabbi Moses ben Yom
Tov of London, Reb Berechiah was an English Tosafist who was considered an
authority on ritual matters. “He decided that the evening prayer might be said
an hour and a quarter before the legal time of night…and declared that nuts
prepared by Gentiles might not be eaten by Jews.” In August, 1255, the body of
gentile boy named Hugh was found in Lincoln (a town called Nicole in
Norman-French). This discovery gave rise to charges of ritual murder for which
all the Jews of Lincoln were seized and imprisoned in Lincoln. Berechiah
reportedly some time during 1256, but the exact date and cause are unknown.
1325: King Dinis I of Portugal who
resisted pressure from the clergy to apply the anti-Semitic restrictions of the
Fourth Council of the Lateran and “maintained a conciliatory position”
regarding his Jewish subjects passed away today. During the reign of King
Dinis, Alfonso’s father, the clergy invoked the restrictions of the Fourth
Lateran Council in an attempt to get the monarch to restrict the role of Jews
in Portuguese society. The clergy,
however, invoking the restrictions of the Fourth Council of the Lateran,
brought considerable pressure to bear against the Jews during the reign of King
Dinis I of Portugal, but the monarch maintained a conciliatory position.
Alfonso remained faithful to his father’s policies
1325:
Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
During the early 14th century, more than 200,000 Jews lived in Portugal,
which was about 20 percent of the total population. This period was part of
what is known as “Portugal’s Golden Age of Discovery, in which Jews made a
major contribution to Portugal’s success.” The position of the Jews of Portugal
did not begin to deteriorate until the last decades of the 14th
century as can be seen by the decree of King Joao I forcing Jews to wear
special clothing and obey a special curfew.
1328: Before Louis the Bavarian entered
Rome today the citizens had to pay a levy of 30,000 gold florins of which the
Jews paid one third.
1502: Birthdate of Pope Gregory VIII,
famed for the creation of the Gregorian calendar, a method of tracking time has
had a unique impact on Jewish historians trying to match events that occurred
before 1752 (5512) on the Jewish calendar with the civil calendar.
1516: Representatives of several towns including
Frankfort and Worms attended a Diet at Frankfort to discuss how the Jews might
be banished and never allowed to return.
1536: Catherine of Aragon, the wife of King Henry VIII of
England, passed away. She was the
daughter of the two monarchs who created the Spanish Inquisition and drove the
Jews out of Spain. The Spanish monarchs would consent to their daughter’s
marriage if Henry’s father would promise that no Jews would ever live in
England. Ironically, it was Catherine’s
inability to provide a male heir that led to the England’s break with the
Catholic Church which would play in an indirect positive role in the return of
the Jews to England.
1566: Pius V. the Pope, who expelled the Jews from Imola,
began his papacy today. Among those
expelled was Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph the Talmudist and author of the Sefer
Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, also known as Sefer Yaḥya
1601: An entry made today into the Stationer’s Register
assigns Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” a play which oddly enough contains a
posthumous reference to Rodrigo Lopez the Marrano physician who was hung after
being convicted of treason, to the bookseller and publisher Thomas Bushnell
1625: The decree of general expulsion bearing today’s
date was not carried out by Ferdinand II who had “protect the Jews against
forces and oppression, and expressly maintained their rights…
1761: Birthdate of German native Feis Moses Fraenkel, the
son of Moses Feis Fraenkel and husband Kehla Fraenkel with whom he had five
children.
1768: Birthdate of Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon
Bonaparte who as King of Spain abolished the Inquisition.
1768 Lord Bessborough wrote to the Duke of Bedford: Jewish
financier Sampson Gideon wants a seat, he has a great deal of money and
suggested that Gideon might be a suitable purchaser of the Duke’s Hampshire
estates.
1775: For the second time in two months,
Empress Maria Theresa banished all the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia.
1780: In Bavaria, Kalman Heller and his wife gave birth to Isaac
Heller, the husband of Leah Mandelbaum with whom he had ten children.
1786(15th of Shevat, 5546): Tu B’Shevat and Parashat
Besalach
1786(15th of Shevat. 5546): Jerusalem born rabbi and
author Elijah ben Moses Israel who served as chief rabbi after leading the
community in Rhodes who was the brother of Abraham Israel and the father of
Moses Israel.
1789: In the first true test of the workability of the
Constitution “voters cast ballots to choose state electors” in the first
presidential election which would bring George Washington, who expressed his
support for Jews as citizens to the position of the U.S.’s first Chief
Executive.
1792: Birthdate of Enrico Marconi, the non-Jewish Italian
architect who designed the Great Synagogue in Lomza, Poland which “was built on
the initiative of Rabbi Eliezer-Simcha Rabinowicz “and destroyed by the Nazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue,_%C5%81om%C5%BCa#/media/File:LomzaSynagogue.jpg
1795: Birthdate of Bavarian native Abraham Baum, the husband of
Hannah Hamel Straus and the father of Helena Baum.
1799(1st of Shevat, 5559) Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1799: On the same day the Jews observed Rosh Chodesh, Thomas
Jefferson wrote to his political ally Aaron Burr describing the Adam’s
administration to create “a great naval power by building 12 ships of 74. guns,
12 frigates and from 25 to 30 smaller vessels, say a fleet of 50. ships. the
first cost 10. millions of Doll. the annual expenses between 5. & 6
millions. thus our navy alone will cost us annually 1 ½ Dollars a head besides
the first cost. add the army, civil list, & interest of the debt, and
estimate the amount.”
1800(10th of Tevet, 5560): Asara B’Tevet.
1800: Birthdate of Mortiz Daniel Oppenheim whose paintings
included portraits of several notables
including Moses Mendelssohn and “The Return of the Jewish Volunteer from the
Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living According to Old Customs”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heimkehr_(Oppenheim).jpg
1800:
Birthdate of President Millard Fillmore. In 1850, the American Minister to
1810: In the Netherlands, salesman Levi Emanuel Goudsmit, the son
of Emanuel Salomons and Esther Levie and his wife Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit
gave birth to Hester Goudsmit, the future resident of London and wife of
Salomon Abraham van Raalte.
1824: Aaron ben Yehuda married Rechela bat Naphtali Hirtz today at
the New Synagogue.
1829: Miriam Simha and David Isaac Belasco were wed today at Bevis
Marks.
1830: Susanna and Moses David Hyams gave birth to South Carolinian
Pinckney A. Hyams, the husband of Pauline Hyams.
1834: In Canterbury, Mary Lazarus and David Nathan gave birth to
Henry Nathan
1835: Levy Jacobs married Caroline Davis at the Great Synagogue
today.
1841: Birthdate of Israel Levy, the German-Jewish scholar whose
first publication was Ueber Einige Fragmente aus der Mischna des Abba Saul
1842: Today, in London, “there was a lively report of the first
meeting of the friend of ‘Hebrew College’ including a long quotation from Mr.
Joseph Mitchell who would one day emerge as” the proprietor of the Jewish Chronicle.
1843: The first Jewish service was held at the Wellington Hebrew
Congregation in Wellington, New Zealand under the leadership of Abraham Ort.
There had been Jewish people in New Zealand from the beginnings of European
settlement in the north. Jewish traders from England, including John
Montefiore, Joel Polack and David Nathan, were active starting in the 1830’s.
Jews were on the first ships to arrive in Wellington. A Jewish community was
founded in 1843 with the arrival from London of Abraham Hort after he and his
family arrived aboard the Prince of Wales.
1847: Birthdate of Hungarian sculptor whose works included “Hagar
and Ishmael” and “Samson at the Feet of Deliah.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9379-klein-max
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199307
1848: The Noah Benevolent Widows and Orphans’ Association was
formed today. A fraternal and benevolent
order formed by German Jews “who had fled to” the United States “during the
German revolution,” it was first led my Mordecai Noah, a former Sheriff of New
York.
1849: Birthdate of Bavarian native Solomon Weil, the husband of
Sarah Einstein Weil with whom he had three children – Edna, Lionel and Helene
1857: Rebecca Miller married Benjamin Moses Levy today at Bevis
Marks.
1857(11th of Tevet, 5617): Seventy-five year Sampson
Simson, Jr. the native of Danbury CT who was partners in the firm on Simon’s in
Stone Street which “imported beaver coating and other articles” passed away
today.
1858: Birthdate of Eliëzer
Ben-Yehuda. Born Eliezer Yitzhak
Perelman, in what is now Lithuania; Ben-Yehuda was the father of Modern
Hebrew. Ben-Yehuda adopted several plans
of action to accomplish his goal. The main ones were three-fold, and they can
be summarized as “Hebrew in the Home,” “Hebrew in the School,” and “Words,
Words, Words.” By the time he died in
1922, Ben-Yehuda had almost singled-handedly transformed a “dead Biblical
language” into a modern language that embodied the spirit of Zionism and the
modern Jewish world.
1860(12th of Tevet, 5620): Parashat Vayehci
1860: On the same day that Jews read the first sedrah following
the celebration of the secular New Year “The Story of the Sewing Machine” which
told the tale of an invention that would be used by so many immigrant Jews on
the Lower East Side was published today.
1861: Three days after he had passed away, 61-year-old John
Nathan, the husband of Esther Nathan with whom he had had eleven children, was
buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1861: Birthdate of Baltimore resident of Rabbi Adolf Guttmacher,
the husband of Laura Oppenheimer Guttmacher and the father Dorothy and Alan
Guttmacher. https://jewishmuseummd.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Guttmacher%2C+Adolf+%28Rabbi%29
1860:
Solomon F. Joseph of the Portuguese Hebrew Society
was chosen as one of the Directors of the Board of Deputies of Benevolent and
Emigrant Societies at the organizations meeting held tonight at Cooper
Institute in New York City.
1861: In Jaraczewo, Germany Manheim and Dorthea Guttmacher gave
birth Adolf Guttmacher, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, an HUC
ordained rabbi and one of the of the earliest member of the Jewish Historical
Society who in 1884 came to the United States where lead Achuduth Veshalom in
Fort Wayne before coming to Baltimore Herew Congregation which he led while
earning at Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins where he wrote a dissertation on “Optimism
and Pessimism in the Old and New Testaments.”
1863: Ohio Congressman George H. Pendleton introduced a resolution
before the U.S. House of Representatives condemning General Order No. 11. Pendleton was “a Peace Democrat” so his
resolution was more a reflection of his anti-war sentiments than of any great
concern about the well-being of the Jews.
1865(9th of Tevet, 5625): Lazarus Simon Magnus
Esq the beloved and only son of Simon Magnus of Chatham passed away today at
the age of 40. He was buried at the
Chatham (Kent) Jewish Cemetery
1865: Lazarus Magnus “developed a toothache. Despite an invitation
from his brother-in-law to stay with him and his family Lazarus went back to
his offices in London Bridge. He exchanged greetings with the housekeeper and
asked her about the best remedy to the problem. The housekeeper suggested some
laudanum on a piece of lint, but Magnus replied: “That is no use. I will try
chloroform.” Unfortunately, this was a fatal mistake, that cost him his life -
he died from inhaling too much of it.” Born in Chatham in 1826, he was a
successful British businessman, leader of the Jewish community and Mayor of
Queenborough.
1865(9th of Tevet, 5625): Parashat Vayigash
1865(9th of Tevet, 5625): Philadelphian Elia Leon
Hyneman who had been serving with the Union Army since July of 1861 and who was
“captured during a cavalry raid around Petersburg, VA in June of 1864 died
today at the infamous Andersonville Prison.
1867: In London, Herman Klein, a native of Riga and foreign
language teacher and the former Adelaide Soman, a dance teacher gave birth to
American “playwright and actor” Charles Klein, the brother of violinist Max
Klein, composer Manuel Klein, and music critic Herman Klein, the husband New
Yorker Lillian Gottlieb with whom he had two sons, “screenwriter and producer”
Philip Klein and John Klein and close associate of Ohio born Jewish theatrical
producer Charles Frohman.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/authors/search/?query=Klein,+Charles
1868: Birthdate of Abraham M
"Mark" Lidzbarski. Born in
1872: In Greenville, AL, Henrietta and Louis Bear gave birth to
Military Academy of Stanton, VA and Pensacola, FL wholesale grocer Max Lee
Bear, the husband of Bella Rosenau with whom he had three daughters – Leonia,
Elise and Maxine - and the President of Congregation Beth EL.
1873: Birthdate of Charles Pierre Péguy a Roman Catholic, a
socialist and journalist who was a Dreyfusard (supporter of Dreyfus)
1873: Birthdate of Austro-Hungarian
native “Adolf Zuckery” who gained fame as Adolph Zukor, the American
entrepreneur who built the
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pickford-adolph-zukor-1873-1976/
1875: Birthdate of Prussian native Gustav Felix Flatow the gymnast
who “who competed at the 1896 and 1900 Summer Olympics and who starved to death
at Theresienstadt.
1876(10th of Tevet, 5636): Asara B'Tevet
1876: In Panama, “Simon Lazarus Landsburgh and his wife Rebecca”
gave birth San Francisco architect Albert Gustave Landsburgh.
http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/123/
http://www.jmaw.org/lansburgh-jewish-san-francisco/
1877: In Kiev, Sara Friedman and Isaac Lewin gave birth to Cornell
Medical College graduate Samuel Aaron Lewi who was both a physician and
pharmacist who starting in 1911 combined an “active medical practice” with
serving as Director of the Federated Jewish Charities of Brooklyn.
1877: It was reported today that Bishop Claughton presided over a
meeting of several prominent English clergyman where they discussed the
difficulty they were having in converting Jews to Christianity.
1878(3rd of Shevat, 5638): Karl Ritter von Weil, a lawyer by
training who pursued a career as journalist at the Allgemeine Zeitung and “a
member of the executive board of the Israelitische Allianz” passed away today.
1878: It was reported today that the United States Consul at
Florence had sent the State Department a report describing the government loan
institutions (Monte di Pieta) of Italy first introduced by Bernasdoda Feltried
toward the close of the 15th century which led to Jewish
money-lenders being banish from Florence.
1879: Superintendent Lewis was in charge of the orphanage for
Jewish children in Brooklyn that opened today with 4 children residing at the
facility.
1879: In St. Louis, Sarah and Charles Bienenstok gave birth to
Edgar Allan Bienenstock, the husband of Etta Reach Bienenstok and the father of
Charles and Jane Bienenstok.
1879: Birthdate of architect Gustave Albert Lansburgh who designed
Oakland’s Temple Sinai in 1914 and whose personal favorite “was said to have
been the Al Hirschfield Theatre.”
1881: Birthdate of Henrik Galeen, the native of Lemberg whose
extensive career as a screenwriter and movie director began in 1915 with “The
Golem.”
1881: Three days after she had passed way, Blanche Baumann, “the
eldest daughter of David and Sarah Baumann, was buried today at the “Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1881: Herr Strassman who is Jewish received 97 out of 120 votes to
gain re-election as President of the Berlin Municipal Council
1883: Seventy-seven-year-old Sarah Samuel, the daughter of Jacob
Abraham Mocatta and Rebecca Daniel Lousada and the wife of Frederick Samuel
with whom she had one child – Lionel Jacob Samuel – was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1884:
The Hebrew Technical Institute, a vocational High
School in New York City was founded on today. The school was founded after
three Hebrew charity organizations formed a committee to promote technical
education for the many Jewish immigrants arriving in New York at the time. The
school closed in 1939.
1884(9th of Tevet, 5644): Julius Hallgarten, the
wealthy American banker, passed away today in Davos Switzerland.
1885:
Alois Hitler (born Alois Schicklgruber) married Klara
Pölzl whose fourth child would be the author of the Holocaust.
1885: In Bavaria, Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Samuel
Rothschild.
1886: Birthdate of Polish native Peter K. Maybarduk, the husband
of Maira Maydarbuk and the father Alexender P. Maybarduk who is described on
his Orange County, FL tombstone as an “Humanitarian, Physician and Scientist.”
1887(11th of Tevet, 5647): Anna "Nettie" Rosenbaum Grossmann, wife of Ignatz
Grossmann and the mother of Julius, Adolph, Louis and Rudolph who had been born
in Hungary in 1835 passed away today in
Detroit Michigan.
1888: A telegram arrived in Leadville, CO, stating that the
“defendant in the case of the United States vs. Jacob Schloss and others had
achieved final victory before Judge D. J. Brew of the United States Supreme
Court
1888: In Elmhurst, Long Island, NY, Rebecca Morse Hyatt and Louis
Albert Sussdorf gave birth to Harvard graduate Louis Sussdorf, a member of the
U.S. diplomatic corps and husband of Flores Howard whose hobbies included
“skating, skiing and mountain climbing.”
1888: In Russia, Bath Sheiva Puchkoff and Abraham Dubovsky gave
birth to NYU trained medical doctor Benjamin Dubovsky, the husband of Lena
Smith and member of the faculties of NYU and Bellevue Medical College who was
the president of the National Federation of Ukrainian Jews.
http://yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32847
(Editor’s Note: some source show his birthdate as June 7)
1889(5th of Shevat, 5649): Asher Asher passed away in London. Born at Glasgow in 1837, “was the first
Scottish Jew to enter the medical profession” In 1873, he published The
Jewish Rite of Circumcision. “Since 1910, the University of Glasgow awards
the Asher Asher Memorial Medal and Prize, annually for its Ear, Nose and Throat
course.”
1890: State Senator Jacob Cantor was among those who were present
when the 113th New York State Legislature was convened today.
1890: Birthdate of Frieda Ulricke “Henny” Porten the German silent
film actress from Magednberg who “refused to divorce her Jewish husband when
the Nazis came to power” even though it meant the end of her career.
1891: It was reported today that Captain A.F. Wild of the U.S.
Secret service has arrested Antono Ruggiero, an Italian-Jew who used the alias
Anthony Rogers on charges of having been involved with a ring that
counterfeited two-dollar bills.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Bader_Gershom
1892: The Brooklyn Institute is scheduled to host a program
entitled “The Policy of the Czar in the Expulsion of the Jews and the War of
Movement in Europe” this evening.
1893: In Hungary, Stefanie and Adolph Mendlowicz gave birth to
Hertha (Mendlowicz) Mendelson who eventually settled in Haifa.
1893: It was reported today that the meeting organized by the
right-wing anti-Semitic journal Libre Parole was addressed by the Marquis de
Mores. He opened his speech “with a
general onslaught on the Hews as the corrupters of French honesty and the
haters of French honor.”
1893: Birthdate of Breslau native and German trained physician
Ernest Gellhorn whom in 1929 came to the United States where he served as
professor neurophysiology at the University of Minnesota and wrote Principles of Autonomic-Somatic
Integrations
1895: General Horace Porter, the President of the Union Club and
his predecessor Chauncey M. Depew, refused to discuss the resignation of Edward
Einstein from their organization. They
did not dispute Einstein’s claim that he had left because a Jewish candidate
had been blackballed because of his religion.
1895(11th of Tevet, 5655): London born physician Lewis
Oppenheim who worked with Florence Nightingale during the Crimea War and served
as ship’s surgeon on board the SS Kent before opening a practice in the UK
where he passed away today.
1895: Adolph Sutro began serving as the 24th mayor of
San Francisco, CA making him the first Jew to be elected to this position
1895: “Edwin Einstein Resigns” published today described the
impact of Edward Einstein’s resignation from the Union Club which resulted from
the blackballing of the son of Jesse Seligman because of his religion and which
now leaves the social organization without a Jewish member; a situation which
will not soon change since there are no Jews on the list of perspective
members.
1895: “The Crusaders and Their Work” provides a detailed review of
The Crusaders: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by T.A.
Archer and Charles L. Kingsford which attributes the practice of making
pilgrimages to Jerusalem to the Jews in a period the pre-dates Christianity.
1896: Herzl's article "Die Lösung der Judenfrage" -
"The Solution of the Jewish Question" appears in "The Jewish
Chronicle" in
1896: Nine-year-old Rachel Silverman and three year old Sarah
Silverman, the daughters of Freda Silverman “were committed to the Ladies’
Deborah Nursery” today following a hearing at the Essex Market Police Court.”
1896: In South Bend, IN, Jennie Rothschild and Nathan J. Cohen
gave birth University of Chicago graduate and Rush Medical College trained
doctor Seymour Jerome Cohen, the husband of Sylvia Kaplan who served as
instructor in pharmacology at the University of Illinois.
1896: Levi Freiburg, a fifty-year old Jew was being held on
charges of child endangerment at the Lee Avenue Police Station.
1896: Birthdate of David Alper, the Russian born husband of Minnie
"Manya" "Machle" Isiomin whom he married almost a decade
after his first wife Frida Alpher had passed away and father of Moe and Ralph
Abraham Alper.
1896(21st of Tevet, 5656): Fifty-seven-year-old Sir
Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet “a British lawyer, businessman and Liberal
politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1896” passed away
today at Brighton.
1897: Morris Cohen who had
begun walking from his home In Jersey City, NJ was scheduled to arrive in in
San Francisco today after which he enlisted in the Army during the
Spanish-American War where he reached the rank of sergeant and died while
fighting in the Philippines.
1897: The annual meeting of the Educational Alliance which
included addresses by Isidor Straus and Dr. Henry Leipzig was held tonight
Temple Emanu-El in New York City
1897: Birthdate of Hennessey, OK, native Arthur J. “Dutch” Strauss
the Phillips College football player who went on to play professional for the
Toledo Maroons.
1898: The Brooklyn Hebrew Hospital Society applied to the State
Board of Charities for a certificate of incorporation.
1898(13th of Tevet, 5658): Sixty-two-year-old Ernest
Abraham Hart who “was appointed ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's hospital at the
age of 28” and who was the long time editor of the British Medical Journal
passed away today.
1898: Three men were hung today at Hahnville in St. Charles
Parish, LA for their part in murdering a Jewish peddler name Ziegler after they
had robbed him while he was at the Ellington Plantation.
1898: “Charity in the Holy Land” published today described the
indignation expressed by representatives of the Auxiliary Relief Branch of the
Russian and Polish Jewish Central Committee at Jerusalem over charges “made of
misuse of the money collected in the United States for the relief of poor
American Jews in Jerusalem and Palestine.”
1899: “Scotts Novels” published today contained a description of
the English authors novels including Ivanhoe which features “such quotable
characters” as Rebecca and her uncle, Isaac the Jew.
1900: A charge of “ritual murder” was made “against the Jews of
Nachod, Bohemia.
1900: Dr. Joseph Silverman is scheduled to “deliver his second
lecture on ‘Justice to the Christian and Jew’ at Temple Emanu-El” this morning.
1900: It was announced today that “at the monthly meeting of the
Council of the Anglo-Jewish Association that Baron Edmond de Rothschild” has
ceded “his Palestine colonies to the Jewish Colonization Association.”
1901:
Joseph K. Toole who laid the cornerstone when
construction began on Temple Emanu-El in Helena Montana began his second,
non-consecutive term as Governor of Montana.
1902(28th of Tevet, 5662): Sixty-one-year-old Adolph Moses, the
native of Poland who fought with Garibaldi and in the Polish revolt against
Russia before he came to the United States where he served as a rabbi in
Mobile, Alabama and Louisville, Kentucky passed away today.
1902: Birthdate of German Jewish educator Fritz Bamberger who
after coming to the United States to escape the Nazis left the world of
academics to become the editor of Coronet
Magazine.
1902: “Frocks and Frills” starring Rose Eytinge opened on
Broadway.
1902: At the Almorah Cemetery in Jersey, Rabbi J.L. Hanau
officiated at the funder of Solomon Lyons who was a “gunner” in the British
Army and the son of Henry Lyons of Birmingham
1902: Today, “By a margin of only 394 votes, Republican Montague
Lessler defeated” his Democratic opponent “to fill a vacancy for the U.S.
representative seat for the normally Democrat Seventh New York District.”
1902: Radom,
Poland native and Jewish convert to Calvinism Jan Gotlib Bloch the banker and
railway financier who “spent considerable effort to opposing the prevalent
Anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist government and was sympathetic to the
fledgling Zionist Movement” passed away today.
1903: In
1904: “Kishineff Fears Not Ended” published today described
precautions being taken by Jews in Kishinev to avoid the consequences of
another outbreak of violence which included leaving town, staying at home as
much as possible if leaving was not an option and by being “circumspect” as “to
avoid givng a pretext for misunderstanding to their Christian fellow-townsmen.”
1904 Today’s “dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the Russian
Minister of the Interior had made himself personally responsible to the Czar
for the prevention of fanatical outbreaks against Jews at Kishineff.”
1904: The Russian Symphony Orchestra founded by Modest Altschuler
had its debut performance at Cooper Union.
1905(1st of Shevat, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1905(1st of Shevat, 5665): Sixty-year-old Jette
Einstein passed away today.
1906(10th Tevet, 5666): Asara B’Tevet
1906: “Passing of Zadoc Kahn --- Career of France’s Late Grand
Rabbi
published today described “the funeral of Zadoc Kahn, the Grand Rabbi of France
“a unique position” that “dates back to the time of the First Empire” under
Napoleon.
1907: “An interesting premonitory symptom of the effect of
universal suffrage upon the electoral situation in Austria is reported from
Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, where many hundred representative Jews met
today and resolved to create a Jewish provincial organization for the defense
of the political rights and economic interests of Jews, in view of the
forthcoming introduction of universal suffrage.
1908: Birthdate of Syracuse University
trained attorney Arnold M. Grant, “a leading corporate and tax lawyer in the
film industry who for many years was active in fund-raising efforts for the
Democratic Party and Jewish organizations.”
1909: It was reported today that in a
letter to the Times of London, Lord Swaythling, the President of the
Russo-Jewish Committee and the head of Samuel Montague & Co defended the
committee’s depreciation of the proposed ten million dollar loan that would
allow railroads to be built in the Grand Duchy of Finland because most of the
more than 200 Jewish families living Finland “are without legal rights” and
“thirty or more of these families” have been ordered to leave the country
immediately.
1910: In Paris, banker Baron Robert de
Rothschild and Gabrielle Nelly Regine Beer gave birth to banker and
philanthropist Alain de Rothschild whose wealth did not him from being “sent to
a detention camp during WW II and who was the husband of Mary Chauvin de Treuil
with whom he had three children – Beatrice, Eric and Robert.
1911: In Witkovitz, Jakob and Laura
Lichtenstern gave birth to Margit Lichtenstern Wolf.
1912: At a time when Reform
congregations were trying to shift “Sabbath Services” from Saturday to Sunday,
today “Mr. Sigmund Zeisler is scheduled to speak on the ‘Oberammergau Passion
Play’ at Chicago Sinai Congregation where services began at 10:30 a.m.
1912: The musical program at this
morning’s service at Temple Sinai in Chicago is scheduled to include “the
opening anthem ‘Behold God is Great’” and will be led by Cantor Albert Boroff.
1913: In an attempt to help the public
differentiate between to labor unions each of which have a large Jewish
membership, Gertrude Barnum wrote today that that current men’s garment worker
strike has nothing to with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers which
hopes to reach its goals with “a short and peaceful struggle.
1913: It was reported today the members
of the International Order of B’nai B’rith, led by their President , Adolph
Kraus of Chicago have presented
President Taft with a gold medal “in recognition of his services to the Jewish
race, particularly in connection with the Russian controversy.
1914: Leo L. Honor presided over
tonight’s meeting of the Menorah Society at City College during which noted
banker Jacob H. Schiff “voiced a warning against Zionism saying that it
“threatened the very existence of the Jewish race.”
1915: It was reported today that Harry
Alexander and Leonard Haas, counsel for Leo Frank would probably not oppose a
motion by the state of Georgia to advance the hearing of their client’s case
before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1915: A meeting was held at Radcliff
College today where “the purposes of the Menorah Society were outlined to the
members by Mr. Henry Hurwitz and Mr. Ralph a Newman, President of the Harvard
Menorah Society, extended greetings of welcome.”
1915: During WW I, Alexander Helphand a
Ukrainian born Jew who was also known as Israel Lazarevich Gelfand and who had
risen to prominence in the Bolshevik movement, approached the German Ambassador
in Constantinople. He contended that the
Germans and the Bolsheviks should make common cause because they had similar
goals, the overthrow of the Czar and the dismemberment of the Russian Empire
into smaller entities. This intitial
overture would ultimately lead to the Germans shipping Lenin and his supporters
back to Russia during the Russian Revolution to ensure that Russia would make a
separate peace with the Kaiser.
1916: In “Rabbi Silver Will Talk on
General Subjects,” published today, The Wheeling
Register reports on a series of upcoming Sunday lectures to be delivered at
the Eoff Street Temple. "The
general subject for the series will be Aspects of American Life. The lectures
will touch on topics related to business, home, the stage, politics, school and
the press and will be given in Rabbi Silver's characteristic manner."
1916: One of the contributions received
today at the New York office of the American Jewish Relief Committee came from
the Treasurer of the Sunday school of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in
Corinth, Mississippi in the amount of $34.02 which represented the total found
in the collection plate last Sunday.
1916: The Knights of Zion Convention is
scheduled to continue its meetings in Chicago this evening.
1917: “A meeting of the Jewish
Lecturers’ League,” which “was organized two years ago for the purpose of
creating a closer relations among Jewish lecturers throughout the” United
States and “to make the cultural platform more popular” took place today in
Newark, NJ “when colleagues from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and
Maryland “ met to discusses “possibilities of extending the work of the league.
1917: “Speaking in place of Dr. Henry R.
Rose” who had fallen ill, “Rabbi Solomon Foster of B’nai Jeshurun” spoke at the
Church of the Redeemer this evening in Newark, NU, where he “expressed the
belief that after the war religion will be stronger than ever.”
1917: Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered an address
this morning at Temple Emanu-El in which he “argued in favor of Government
supervision of the many relief agencies in connection with the war and the
rebuilding of homes and shops after the war.”
1917: Among the contributions reported
today the Joint Distribution Committee of the Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
were $50,000 from Felix Warburg, $10,000 from Paul Warburg, $5,000 from Temple
Emanu-El and $5,000 from Lamport Mfg. Co.,
the largest company in the world “dealing in remnants which was founding
by Samuel Charles Lamport the Polish born graduate of CCNY who attended Brown
University who was very active in the Jewish community as can be seen by his
support of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob which his mother-in-law, Mrs.
A.J. Dworsky is president..
1917: Birthdate of Alfred Mordecai
Freedman, a psychiatrist and social
reformer who led the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 when, overturning
a century-old policy, it declared that homosexuality was not a mental illness.
1917: “Isidore Montefiore Levy of the
Board of Education” is scheduled “to address the Harlem Forum at the Wadleigh
High School.
1917: “Notable speakers” including Henry
Morgenthau and Dr. J. L. Magnes are scheduled to “discuss the conditions of
Jews in the war territories” this evening at the Waldorf Astoria at a meeting
of the Judeans.
1917: “The annual meeting of the
Education Alliance and its Women’s Auxiliary” are scheduled to hold a meeting
this evening at the Young People’s Branch.
1918: The “Parliamentary Committee of
the British Trade Union Congress and Executive Committee of the British Trade
Union Congress and Executive Committee” issued a memorandum today recommending
“that Jews in all countries enjoy the common elementary of tolerance, freedom
of residence and trade and equal citizenship, and that Palestine be set free
from the oppressive government of the Turk and formed in a free State, under
international guarantee, to which such of the Jewish people as desire to do so
may return.”
1918: On New York’s east side, hundreds
of Jews closed their shops to attend the funeral of Dr. Paul S. Kaplan who
cared for the city’s poorest citizens and was eulogized by a wide array of
speakers including Lillian D. Wald, Abraham Cahan of the Jewish Daily Forward,
Professor Isaac Hourwich, Rabbi J.L. Magnes, Joseph Barondness, Nicolas
Aleinikoff, and Max Pine.
1918: Seventy-three-year-old German
biblical scholar Julius Wellhausen who “is credit with being one of the
originators of the ‘documentary hypothesis’” passed away today.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Wellhausen,_Julius
http://vintage.aomin.org/JEDP.html
1919(6th of Shevat, 5679):
Sixty-seven-year-old Anglo Jewish banker and philanthropist Herbert Stern, 1st
Baron Michelham, the son of Herman de Stern and Julia Goldsmid and the first
cousin of Sydney James Stern and Sir Edward Stern passed away today in Paris.
1920: In Youngstown, OH, Jacob
Grobstein, the son of Harry Yormark Grobstein and his wife Sarah Grobstein gave
birth to Howard Louis Grobe
1920: “The Count of Cagliostro” a
“silent horror film directed by and co-starring Reinhold Schünzel who
co-authored the script along with Robert Liebmann was released in Austria
today.
1920: Louis Waldman and Charles Solomon
were among the five members of the Socialist Party that the New York State
Assembly refused to seat as Assemblymen.
1921: Publication of the first edition
of the resurrected Yiddish language newspaper Der Emmes (The Truth) published by Yevsektsiya, the Jewish section
of the Communist Party. An earlier
version of the paper had been published in 1918 in Moscow. The paper would cease publication in 1939
when it fell victim to an anti-Yiddish campaign in the Soviet Union.
1921: A Commission in
1921: Birthdate of
1922(7th of Tevet, 5682): Parashat Vayigash
1922: The partners of Edgar Speyer published a letter supporting
their business partner and rejected rthe implications of his correspondence
with his German relatives, stating that he was "incapable of any act of
treachery against the country of his adoption"
1922(7th of Tevet, 5682: Abraham Oppenheimer, a veteran
of the Mexican American War and the Civil War passed away today in
Philadelphia.
1923(19th of Tevet, 5683): Emil Gustav Hirsch
“a major Reform movement rabbi in the United States” passed away. Born on May
22, 1852, in Luxembourg, he was “a son of the rabbi and philosopher Samuel
Hirsch. He later married the daughter of Rabbi David Einhorn. For forty-two
years (1880-1922), Hirsch served as the rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation,
one of the oldest synagogues in the midwest. At this post, he became well-known
for an emphasis on social justice. From Chicago Sinai's pulpit, he delivered
rousing sermons on the social ills of the day and many Chicagoans, Jew and
gentile alike, were in attendance. Appointed professor of rabbinical literature
and philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1892, Hirsch also served on the
Chicago Public Library board from 1885 to 1897. He was an influential exponent
of advanced thought and Reform Judaism. He edited Der Zeitgeist (Milwaukee)
(1880–82) and the Reform Advocate (1891–1923). He also edited the Department of
the Bible of the Jewish Encyclopedia. Hirsch is the namesake of the Emil G.
Hirsch Metropolitan High School of Communications (Hirsch Metro), located in
the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. In keeping with his interest in
education, Hirsch advised a wealthy congregant, Julius Rosenwald of Sears,
Roebuck & Co., to use part of his wealth to help build public schools which
black students could attend in the segregated south. The school building
program was one of the largest programs, but not the only, administered by the
Rosenwald Fund.
1924: George Gershwin began working on “American Rhapsody” which
his brother would re-name “Rhapsody in Blue.”
1925: Musical "Big Boy" with
Al Jolson premiered in
1926: George Burns married Gracie Allen. He was Jewish. She wasn’t.
1926(21st
of Tevet, 5686): Eighty-nine-year-old Alexander del Mar, the oldest son of Jacob and
Belvidere del Mar, “an American political economist, historian, numismatist and
author” who “was the first director of the Bureau of Statistics at the U.S.
Treasury Department” passed away
today.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/282579.Alexander_del_Mar
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-alexander-del-mar-who-scooped.html
1926: “John Cohen, a wholesale jeweler, and one his salesman” David
Rosen, “were held up this afternoon” in the Bronx “by four or five-well-dressed
youths” who stole a wallet containing $20,000 in unset diamonds “which had been
ripped from the salesman’s inner vest pocket.
1927: Abe Saperstein’s Harlem
Globetrotters play their first game in
1927: A memorial service was held for
the late Zionist poet Achad Ha’Am at New York’s Cooper Union.
1928(14th of Tevet, 5688):
Parashat Vayechi
1928: “The organization of an
interdenominational committee of Coney Island business men to aid the $250,000
Jewish Community Center drive in Coney Island with George V. McLaughlin, form
er Police Commissioner and President of the Brooklyn Trust Company as honorary
head was announced” today “by Leon S. Kaiser, chairman of the Campaign
Committee.
1929: Birthdate of Washington, DC native
Ida Rubin, the wife of Judge Leonard Ruben who served as a State Senator for
twenty years “rising to the position of president of pro-tem before losing her
seat in 2006.
1929: Henry Arthur Jones, the English
dramatist whose works include “Judah” which was first performed in 1890 passed
away.
1930: Rabbi Abraham Simcha Irom, “the
son of Shifra and Israel David Irom” and his wife Pauline From gave birth to
Rene Irom who became Renee Spivak when she married William Spivak.
1930: Birthdate of Elliot Kastner, the
native of New York who was raised in Harlem after his father died and went to
become a leading movie producer whose work included WW II espionage thriller
“Where Eagles Dare.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/movies/02kastner.html
1931: The first session of the 154th
New York State Legislature in which Carl Pack served as a member representing
the 3rd District, Bronx County opened today in Albany.
1931: Doar Hayom, the newspaper
of the Revisionists, published a demand that the election for the
Jewish-elected Assembly be declared null and void and that new elections should
be held.
1932: Chaim Arlosoroff, head of the
Political Department of the Jewish Agency, wrote a letter to High Commissioner
Viscount Ord Plumer proposing that the municipal region of Jerusalem should be
divided into two boroughs: West Jerusalem, which was mostly Jewish and the Old
City which was largely Arab. A United
Municipal Council would oversee these to two sub-entities. The British rejected the proposal lest it
anger the Arabs.
1932: Birthdate of Allen Richard
Grossman the native of Minneapolis “an award-winning poet whose work bridged
the Romantic and Modernist traditions, claiming nobility and power for poetry
as a tool for both engaging the world and burrowing into the self.” (As
reported by Bruce Weber)
1933(9th of Tevet, 5693):
Parashat Vayigash
1933: In statement issued today, Cyrus
Adler, the chairman of the American Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
declared that “the maintenance of Jewish reconstruction in Palestine is a
project for which the Jews have their honor to all nations” and “call upon the
representatives of the American-Jewish groups to attend the national conference
on Palestine to held on January 15 at the Hotel Astor.”
1934: The New York Times reported on the recent announcement that 200
Jewish families, drawn from the ranks of jobless needle trade workers in
1934: Non-Aryans were banned from adopting Aryan children in Germany which
meant that Jews and people who had had Jewish ancestors but not know it and
thought of themselves as Christians could not adopt.
1934: Birthdate of George Zames, the
Polish born Canadian “control theorist and professor at McGill University.
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~djouadi/files/Zames%20Legacy.pdf
1935: Birthdate of Noam Sheriff, one of
1935(3rd of Shevat, 5695):
Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Menachem Kalisch zt"l, the Amshinover Rebbe,
passed away.
1935(3rd of Shevat, 5659): Fifty-eight-year-old
Wisconsin auctioneer and veteran of fighting in Cuba and the Philippines during
the Spanish-America War, Harry Silver who at the age of 12 came from Russia to
the United States where he served as the chief of police in Manila, an alderman
in Gilbert and an assistant fire chief in Gilbert passed away today after which
he was buried as an Orthodox Jew with full military honors at Spring Hill
Cemetery. (JTA)
1935: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval
sign the Franco–Italian Agreement. The
Italians were looking for a free hand in their conquest of Abyssinia (modern
day Ethiopia). The French were looking
for support in dealing with Hitler. The
irony of this is that Pierre Laval would become the Prime Minister of Vichy
France a role which enable him to ship thousands of French Jews to Drancy and
then on to the death camps in the East.
Mussolini, who had support of some Italian Jews and a Jewish mistress,
would become Hitler’s ally.
1935: Birthdate of Joe Wizan the head of 20th Century Fox's motion
picture division and an independent producer of films such as "Jeremiah
Johnson" and "… And Justice for All” (As reported by Dennis McLellan)
1936: Speaking at a luncheon given in her honor by the Survey
Associates as part of the celebration of her 75th birthday, Hadassah
founder Henrietta Szold “told a large group of leaders in social work that
Youth Aliyah already had brought 950 German-Jewish children to Palestine and
placed them in cooperative settlement camps” where it will cost $360 per child
to provide for them over the next two years.
1936: Today, over 400 people filled the Beth-El Chapel of Temple
Emanu-El in Manhattan where Nathan Perilman, the associate rabbi officiated
over the funeral service for 74 year old Simon Frank Rothschild, the chairman
of the board of Abraham and Straus department store in Brooklyn, following
which Rabbi Alexander Lyons of the Eighth Avenue Temple in Brooklyn officiated
at the burial in the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1937(24th of Tevet, 5697): Fargo, ND, merchant and
civic leader Matt Siegel passed away today.
1937: “The Eternal Road” a four-act opera-oratorio “conceived by
Zionist activist Meyer Weisgal to alert the then-ignorant public to Hitler's
persecution of the Jews in 1937 Germany” opened today at the Manhattan Opera
House.
1937: Chairman of the Board of Directors Bernard Flexner announced
today that “the Palestine Economic Corporation, with its predecessors, the
Palestine Cooperative Company and the Reconstruction Committee, has since 1922
issued loans through subsidiaries aggregating $17,500,000 to helpd urband and
rural groups in Palestine to become self-supporting.”
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that Romania started re-examining the naturalization of all
"foreigners" who had settled there since 1913, in order to deprive
them of their citizenship. The first victims of the new policy were Jewish
doctors who lost their right to practice medicine. Jewish innkeepers were
declared to be "dangerous". All Jews were divided into citizens and
non-citizens, and the latter became the subject of a compulsory expulsion. A
timely British note reminded Romania of her obligations under the Minorities
Treaty, signed in Paris in 1910.
1938: In Baltimore, MD, Klare and Louis P. Hamburger, Jr gave
birth to “Fritzi Hamburger.”
1938(7th of Shevat, 5698): Sixty-five-year-old
Washington, DC native Philip King, the All-American quarterback at Princeton
University who went on to compile a record of 73-14-1 as the head coach at
Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin passed away today in his
home town.
1938: Arnold Bernstein, the 49-year-old decorated German artillery
officer and Jewish shipping magnate was sentenced today in Hamburg to two and a
half years in the penitentiary and a fine of one million marks on charges of
having violated the exchange laws – a sentence that will insure the forced sail
the Red Star Shipping Lines which is already under the control of a Nazi
government trustee.
1939: Official founding
of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.
1939: “A brief conference today between United States Ambassador
William Phillips and Foreign Minster Count Galeazzo Ciano increased hopes that
President Roosevelt’s memorandum to Premier Benito Mussolini on the Jewish
question would results.”
1940(26th of Tevet, 5700): State Supreme Court Justice Alfred
Frankenthaler passed away tonight at the age of 58. Born in 1881, he attended
City College, where he developed a life-long friendship with Felix Frankfurter
and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1903.
Frankenthaler was active in Democratic Party Politics, numerous civic
and professional organizations and Jewish charitable activities.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60D16FE3558127A93CAA9178AD85F448485F9
1941: In Chicago, twenty-one year old Irving Abitz, the son of
Michael and Rose Abitz, enlisted in the U.S. Army where he trained as a medic
which led to him serving with Patton’s Third Army from its activation in 1944
until the end of the war.
1941: Members of the Woman’s League for Palestine are using
tonight performance of “Meet the People,” the new topical, musical revue at the
Mansfield Theatre as a benefit for the Overseas Refugee Relief fund. The net proceeds will augment the $25,000
Emergency Refugee Relief Fund for young women refugees sheltered in the two
home of the league in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1942:
A major Arctic blast hit the
1942(18th
of Tevet, 5702): “The treasurer of the Women’s Democratic Luncheon Club, Mrs.
Grace Newhouse Lederer, the sister of Miss Miriam E. Newhouse and the widow of
Ephraim Lederer, “the Collector of Internal Revenue from 1913 until 1921, who
“president of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, honorary president of the Hebrew
Sunday School of Philadelphia” and “an honorary director of the Federation of
Jewish Charities and of the Jewish Aid Society passed away today in
Philadelphia.
1942:
Throughout the day at the Chelmno,
1943:
British Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley informs the British War Cabinet that
1943:
As the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the great turning points of WWII, reached
its climactic month, the Soviets “sent three envoys” to offer General Paulus
terms for surrender.
1943:
Over the next three weeks, twenty thousand Jews from
1944:
“Anne Frank confessed her love for” Peter Schiff “a boy she had been smitten
with for years.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/24/news.features
1944(11th
of Shevat, 5704): Seventy-one year old Frederick Fred Margareten, the Hungarian born son Julia and Rabbi Joel
Margareten and the husband of Regina Margareten who was part of the
Horwitz-Margareten Kosher Food family who was a contributor to “the Allied
Jewish Campaign” passed away today in Los Angeles.
1944:
Word reached those living in New York City that Rabbi Louis Werfel, the
27-year-old chaplain serving with the 12th Air Force Service Command
was killed in a plane crash in Algeria on Christmas Eve, 1943. Werfel was the
fourth Jewish chaplain be killed in line of duty during World War II. Werfel was known as “the flying rabbi” because
of his willingness to use aircraft to reach Jewish soldiers serving in
far-flung outposts throughout the Mediterranean Theatre
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30A1FFE3955157B93CAA9178AD85F408485F9
1945(22nd
pf Tevet. 5705): Fifty-eight-year-old Tillie Adamosfky Balaban, the wife
Abraham Balaban passed away after which she was buried in the Beth Israel
Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.
1945:
In Ottawa, Canada, “Kate Weiss, a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and Sol
Feuerstein, a Brooklyn salesman gave birth to Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein,
author of The Dialectic of Sex
1946:
In New York, Sim and Edward Wenner gave birth to “Jann Simon Wenner, the
co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone.
https://www.thenational.ae/business/jann-wenner-architect-of-a-rock-n-roll-empire-1.558692
1946(5th
of Shevat, 5706): Eighty-year-old Toledo native Edward Nathan Calisch who at
the age of 26 became the Rabbi at Richmond’s Congregation Beth Ahabah which he
led from Orthodox to Reform and who was the husband of Gisela “Gussie” Woolner
Calisch with whom he had three children passed away today.
1946:
Forty-three-year-old Polish born Pennsylvania lawyer and political leader
Samuel Arthur Weiss resigned his seat as member of the House Representative
1947:
“A government source said today the Foreign Secretary Bevin and Colonial
Secretary Arthur Creech Jones had decided to recommend to the Cabinet that
Palestine be divided into independent Arab and Jewish States.”
1947:
“David Ben-Gurion disclosed today that he would go to Palestine this week on a
‘peace mission’ to try to avert further outbreaks of” violence “by Jewish
extremists.”
1948:
With
1948(25th
of Tevet, 5708): Fifty-six-year-old Berlin born physician and WW I German Army
veteran Max Pinner who began practicing medicine in the United States in 1924,
the year he married Berna Rudovic passed away today and who was an expert in
the field of Tuberculosis passed away today in Berkley, CA.
http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/max-pinner-1891-1948/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/01/09/95087451.pdf
1949: During Israel’s War of Independence Operation Horev
came to an end.
1949:
At two o’clock in the afternoon, Israel accepts a ceasefire on the Egyptian
front based on Egypt’s publicly announced willingness to negotiate an
armistice.
1949: During the War for Independence Israeli pilots including
Ezer Weizamn shot down 5 British planes that flew over the battlefront with
Egypt. The British government was hardly a disinterested party during the
war. The Jordanian Army, known as the
Arab Legion, drew its leadership from the British Army. The British supplied and trained the force as
well. The actions of the RAF at this
point, further debunk the notion that the British were neutrals, and that the
West was responsible for the creation and survival of the infant state of
Israel.
1950:
The "ten greatest Jews of the last fifty
years" were named today by Rabbi Israel Goldstein in a sermon at
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, in New York City.
1950: “The Andrews Sisters version” of "I Can Dream, Can't
I?," “a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal
that was published in 1937” reached the top spot on Cash Box Best Sellers
chart.
1951: As it starts its first post-independence tour in the United
States, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) has its first performance at
Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
1953:
The eightieth anniversary of American Reform Judaism,
founded in Cincinnati by the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise "to adapt Judaism
to the American way of life," was marked tonight with special ceremonies
and a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. More than 300 American Jewish
leaders from various sections of the country attended.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the Knesset debated the proposed State Archives' and Public
Accountants' Bills. Israel seized an Egyptian ship with a cargo of 65 tons of
arms, bound for Syria. The ship was reported to have run aground in Israel's
territorial waters.
1953: President Harry Truman announces that the United States has
developed a hydrogen bomb. The bomb had
been successfully tested at Eniwetok atoll in 1952. The creation of the H-bomb had pitted Edward
Teller against Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the Atomic Bomb.” The two Jewish physicists became the poles
around which the proponents and opponents rallied during this major Cold War debate.
1955(13th of Tevet, 5715): Seventy-six-years-oldProfessor
of Mathematics Edward Kasner, “the first Jew appointed to faculty position in
the sciences at Columbia University” passed away today.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/kasner-edward.pdf
1955: A month after premiering in New York, “Animal Farm” an
animated version of the book by the same name with music by Mátyás Seiber was
released in London today.
1956(23rd of Tevet, 5716): Parashat Shemot
1957: Birthdate of Queens, NY native and Sarah Lawrence graduate
Ira Kaplan, the husband of Georgia Hubley and songwriter/guitarist who is a
leading member of the “indie rock world.”
1958: A week after Ben Gurion resigned as Prime Minister “over the
leaking of information from ministerial meetings” he formed the 8th
government “with the same coalition partners.”
1958(15th of Tevet, 5718): Samuel Yuster passed away
today after which he was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
1958: As Israel transitioned from its 7th government to
its 8th government, Golda Meir continued to serve as Foreign
Minister.
1958: As of today, chess master Samuel Reshevsky “was eclipsed by
the 14-year-old Bobby Fischer.”
1959(27th of Tevet, 5719): Jean Lerman, the daughter of
Dora and the late Philip Rosenbuam and the wife of Dr. Jacob Lerman of Chestnut
Hill, MA, passed away today.
1959(27th of Tevet, 5719): Columbus, OH native and Ohio
State University trained Mechanical and Electrical Engineer Gustav Hirsch, the
organized of Gustice Hirsch Associates, an organization specializing in
consulting engineer who “served in the military during the Spanish American
War, WWI and WW II” passed away today.
https://www.nationalitpa.com/kiosk/hall-fame/hirsch-gustav.html
1959: As the Castro Revolution became a reality, Meyer Lanksy fled
Cuba today headed for the Bahamas in an admission that the Mobs Cuban Casino
days were about to become a thing of the past.
1959(27th of 5719): Fifty-year-old Lodz, Poland native
Dr. Gershon Gelbert, who after earning “a doctorate at Dropsie College,” taught
at Gratz College, the University of Omaha and NYU, and served the “director
Jewish Education in Italy for the Joint Distribution Committee” after World War
II while raising his “daughter Rena” with his wife, Frances Spitzer Gelbart”
passed away today “at his home in Brooklyn.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/01/09/89104616.pdf
1962: Lev Landau’s was in an automobile accident today which left
him so severely injured that he was unable to accept the 1962 Nobel Prize for
Physics in person.
1967(25th of Tevet, 5727): American author and screen writer David
Goodis, passed away.
1969: Marvin Mandel began serving as the 56th Governor
of Maryland.
1969: Birthdate of Israeli comedian and television performer Eyal
Kitzis.
1969: Carl Levin began serving on the Detroit City Council
1969(17th of Tevet, 5729): Eighty-four-year-old Martha
Schallek Wallenstein the wife of Joseph S. Wallenstein passed away today after
which she was buried at Beth El Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1970: In response to cross canal attacks by Egyptian forces,
Israeli planes begin an in-depth bombing campaign against Egyptian military
bases.
1971(10th of Tevet, 5731): Asara
B'Tevet
1971: Today, Israel charged Egypt
with violating the cease-fire when its aircraft made for “sorties over Israeli
positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal.”
1972: Howard Hughes “arranged a
telephone conversation with seven journalist” which was intended to debunk
Clifford Irving’s claim that he had written an authorized biography of the
reclusive, eccentric millionaire.
1973: After 14 performances at the
Billy Rose Theatre, the curtain came down on “Purlie,” a musical comedy with
lyrics by Peter Udell and music by Gary Geld.
1975(24th of Tevet,
5735): Seventy-six-year-old Paul H. Sampliner, “a founder and former president
of the Independent News Company, Inc.” and “an organizing founder of the
Anti-Defamation League” who raised his children – Philip and Joan – with his
wife “the former Sophie Unger” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/08/archives/paul-sampliner-led-independent-news.html
1975: Today, NBC broadcast “The
Dream Makers” a made for television movie directed and produced by Boris Sagal
and co-starring his daughter Katey Sagal.
1976(5th of Shevat,
5736): Eighty-three-year-old Canadian lawyer and political leader Nathan
Phillips, the Brock, Ontario born son of Mary Rosenbloom and Jacob Phillips,
the husband of Esther Lyons and the father of Lewis, Madeline, and Howard
Phillips who was the 53rd Mayor of Toronto passed away today after
which he was buried at the Holy Blossom Memorial Park.
1976(5th of Shevat,
5736): Eighty-year-old Samuel Salzman, the husband of Yetta Salzman and the
father of Fern, Frank and Evelyn Salzman who served with the “37th
U.S. Army Division in France during WW I, founded the United Supply Company in
Cleveland and “was an active member of the Temple on the Heights” passed away
today and was buried in the Glenville Cemetery in Cleveland.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported from Cairo
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's announcement that after the signing of the
peace agreement he would not accept the presence of even a single Israeli
soldier or civilian who would like to remain on Egyptian soil.
1978:
Isaiah Sheffer and “his artistic partner…put on a marathon concert of Bach “at
a grimy, derelict movie theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side” that would
become Symphony Space.
1979: Two
years before he began serving as United States Senator, today Carl Levin
completed his services as member of the Detroit City Council.
1979(8th
of Tevet, 5739): Eighty-three-year-old “Samuel David Landau,” the painter known
as Lev-Landau who raised his son Jacob with his wife Lola, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/09/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html
1979: The
New York Times book section features the following Walter Kerr’s essay on
Anne Frank entitled 'Anne Frank' Shouldn't Be Anne's Play
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/26/home/anne-kerr.html
1980(18th
of Tevet, 5740): Eighty-year old Dov Joseph who served as the military governor
of Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence and served as MK and cabinet
minister passed away today.
1980(18th
of Tevet, 5740): Israeli poet Yocheved Bat-Miriam who stopped writing poetry
when her son Nahum (Zuik) Hazaz was killed in the Israeli War of Independence
passed away today.
1981: Today
brought a reminder that the Jews were not the only ones trying to leave the
Soviet Union when it was reported that “a record 6,030 Armenians left the USSR
during 1980.
1981(2nd
of Shevat, 5741): Sixty-eight-year-old Columbia and University of Washington
trained jurist Brigitte Marianne Levy Bodenheimer, the Berlin born of Ernest
Levy and Zerline Levy who fled Nazi Germany was the wife of Edgar Bodenheimer
who was a professor of law at UC Davis passed away today.
1982: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “Fame” a television series based on the movie of
the same name co-starring Valerie Landsburg.
1983(22nd
of Tevet, 5743): Ninety-eight-year-old Ukrainian born American painter Ben Benn
whose birth name was Benjamin Rosenberg, passed away today.
https://rogallery.com/Benn_ben/Benn-bio.htm
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ben-benn/
1983(22nd
of Tevet, 5743): Ninety-four-year-old Rush Medical School graduate Dr. Edmund
Jacobson, the Chicago born son of Iowa native Fannie Jacobson and Strasbourg
native Morris Jacobson and husband of “the former Elizabeth Ruth Silberman with
whom he had three children – Nancy, Ruth and Edmund, Jr. – who specialized in
“tension control” and who was “known as the father of progressive relaxation”
passed away today
1984:
Birthdate of Ran Danker an Israeli actor, singer, and model who “is the son of
Israeli actor Eli Danker. He has sung such songs as "אני אש" ("I am Fire"). He has also
starred in the hit Israeli series HaShir Shelanu.”
1984(4th
of Shevat, 5744): Eighty-four-year-old Yisrael Abuhatzeira, the Moroccan born
Sephardic Rabbi known as the Baba Slali or Praying father passed away in
Jerusalem.
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/babasali.htm
1985(14th
of Tevet, 5745): Eighty-six year old journalist and author Eugene Lyons, the
Uzlian born son of Nathan Lyons and Minnie Privin and WW I veteran whose time
as a correspondent in the Soviet Union provided him with the opportunity to
interview Stalin as well as the first hand view of that country that led to his
disillusionment with it, passed away today.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAlyonsE.htm
1986:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native and Tel Aviv University graduate Daphni Leef, the
daughter of composer Inam Leef “and the great-granddaughter of Israeli engineer
Zalman Leef who has combined a career in film with social activism that
included “the 2011 housing protests.”
1990(10th
of Tevet, 5750): Asara B’Tevet
1990(10th
of Tevet, 5750): Sixty-year-old
journalist Rose Rehert Kushner lost her battle with the cancer, the disease
against which she had waged a decades long professional and personal battle.
1990: In
“The Russians Are Coming In Droves,” published today Barrymore L. Scherer
described the “torrent of music that has pouring our way” in a variety of
recordings including a live recording Shostakovich's weirdly disturbing Violin
Concerto No. 1 (coupled with the Glazunov Concerto), both performed at Tel
Aviv's Mann Auditorium in July 1988 by Itzhak Perlman with the Israel
Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta (EMI CDC 49814; CD and cassette).
1993:
Showing some flexibility in the crisis over 415 deported Palestinians, Israel
agreed today to allow two Red Cross officials, including a doctor, to visit the
exiles at their tent camp in southern Lebanon.
1995(6th of
Shevat, 5755): Harry Golombek passed away. Born in 1911, Harry Golombek, was a British chess player and
honorary grandmaster.
1995(6th of
Shevat, 5755): Sixty-eight-year-old Economist Murray Newton Rothbard the
co-founder of the Cato Institute passed away today. (As reported by David
Stout)
http://austrian-library.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/books/Murray%20N%20Rothbard/memoriam.pdf
1995: Bruce
Sundlun completed his term in office as Governor of Rhode Island.
1996:
Birthdate of Stockton, CA native and big league pitcher Dean Kremer “the first
Israel drafted by a Major League Baseball team.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dean-kremer
1996: Debbie Friedman
gave a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, commemorating twenty-five years as
one of the world's most well-known contemporary Jewish musicians. “Known for
her folksy and "singer-friendly" style, Friedman has recorded twenty
albums that have sold over 200,000 copies. Friedman began recording on her own
label in 1972, appealing largely to Reform Jews and those interested in Jewish
Renewal. Now, her music is sung in synagogues across the
2000: “Signaling a
continuing hard line against inflation, Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Barak,
nominated a senior central bank economist, David Klein, as the bank's next
governor.”
2000: “President
Clinton intervened in the peace talks between Israel and Syria today by
presenting leaders of both countries with a seven-page ''working paper''
defining their differences over a deal that would return the Golan Heights to
Syrian control.”
2001 (12th of Tevet,
5761): Seventy-two-year-old “Rabbi Yitzchok Singer, whose leadership of the
historic Bialystoker Synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan helped it
thrive despite four decades of community change, passed away today at Beth
Israel Medical Center.” (As reported by Nadine Brozan)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/nyregion/rabbi-yitzchok-singer-72-led-bialystoker-synagogue.html
2001: Giving its
stalled Middle Eastern peace effort one final push, the Clinton administration
said today that it would send its top negotiator to the region this week for
direct talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
End of Days: Fundamentalism and the
Struggle for the Temple Mount by Gershom Gorenberg, To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the
World:The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann By Gail A. Hornstein
and Future Success by Robert B. Reich
2001: Among the 28
recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medals were
Jack Greenberg
In the courtroom and
the classroom, Jack Greenberg has been a crusader for freedom and equality for
more than half a century. Arguing 40 civil rights cases before the United
States Supreme Court, including the historic Brown v. Board of Education, he
helped break down the legal underpinnings of desegregation in America, and as a
professor of law, an advocate for international human rights, and head of the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he has helped shape a more just
society.
Anthony Lewis
Revered by colleagues
and readers alike for his Pulitzer prize-winning reporting, profound insight,
and broad understanding of constitutional law, Anthony Lewis has set the
highest standard of journalistic ethics and excellence. A staunch defender of
freedom of speech, individual rights, and the rule of law, he has been a clear
and courageous voice for democracy and justice.
Robert Rubin
Leaving a brilliant
career on Wall Street to serve as Director of the National Economic Council and
Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Rubin played a pivotal role in creating
Elizabeth Taylor
A screen legend,
Elizabeth Taylor has captured the hearts of audiences around the world,
portraying some of the most memorable characters in film history. A dedicated
leader in the fight against AIDS, she has focused national attention on this
devastating disease. With grace, style, and compassion, she has reminded us of
our responsibility to reach out to those in need.
Marion Wiesel
Convinced that our
greatest hope for a just society is to teach tolerance and mutual respect,
Marion Wiesel has worked with creativity and compassion to combat hatred and
injustice. Whether writing a haunting documentary about the children of the
Holocaust, translating her husband’s work, or helping young Ethiopians in
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
A Holocaust survivor,
Rabbi Arthur Schneier has devoted a lifetime to overcoming the forces of hatred
and intolerance. As an international envoy, Chairman of the Commission for the
Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, and founder and president of the
Appeal of Conscience Foundation, he has set an inspiring example of spiritual
leadership by encouraging interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding
and promoting the cause of religious freedom around the world.
Eli J. Segal
As founder of
AmeriCorps and the first Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for
National and Community Service, Eli Segal has galvanized the American spirit of
community and helped us realize the dream of a vital civilian service corps. As
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Welfare-to-Work Partnership, he
has brought businesses and communities together to create opportunity for
welfare recipients, enabling them to experience the power, dignity, and
independence of work. Juan Andrade, Jr.
2002(23rd
of Tevet, 5762): Actor and comedian Avery Schreiber passed away. Born in 1935 he was half of the comedy team
of Burns and Schreiber.
2002: The captain of a ship seized last week by Israel as it
smuggled tons of weapons said in jail-house interviews today that he had taken
his orders from a weapons agent of Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority and
that his deadly cargo was meant to arm Palestinians.
2003: Rabbi
Arnold Resnicoff delivered the benediction for the Bipartisan Congressional
Prayer Service that welcomed the members of the 108th congress before the
ceremony to swear them in.
2003: Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen today in a
raid on a Gaza Strip refugee camp
2004: Israeli and Libyan officials held a secret meeting in
December and discussed the possibility of ties between the longstanding
enemies, Israeli officials said today.
2005: While
“The Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up his campaign
today with a call for renewed negotiations with Israel.
2006(7th
of Tevet, 5766): Parashat Vayigash
2006: After
three days of a medically induced coma and three operations to stop bleeding
and reduce pressure that arose in his brain from a major stroke on Wednesday,
“a scan of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's brain today showed "very slight
signs of improvement" but no real change in his condition, which remains
stable but critical, a hospital official said this evening.
2007:
Teapacks or Tipex, an Israeli band formed in 1988 in Sdeort was” selected by
IBA's Eurovision Committee to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest
held in Helsinki, Finland”
2007: The Washington Post Sunday book section
featured a review of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind by Peter D.
Kramer.
2007: The Sunday Times (of London) reported
that “Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment
facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.”
2007: Under
the title “Operation Screwball” about 350 Jews staged a noisy protest against
Neturei Karta an anti-Israel religious group whose members - among them a
Monsey rabbi - attended an Iranian conference that questioned the Holocaust.
2007: Two
rabbis, two rabbinic pastors and one cantor were ordained by the Jewish Renewal
Movement at the annual Ohalah convention in Boulder, Colorado.
2008: Sidney Blumenthal a former aide to President of the United
States Bill Clinton and an advisor to Hillary Clinton during her Presidential
campaign was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Nashua, New Hampshire.
2008(29th of Shevat, 5768): Eighty-three-year-old Boris
Lurie “who survived the Holocaust and then depicted its horrors while leading a
confrontational movement called No! Art,” passed away today. (As reported by
Colin Moynihan)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/arts/12lurie.html
2008: In
2008: In
2009: The Wall Street Journal reported that
Cass Sunstein would be named to head the White House Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
2009: At
the Wise Auditorium on the campus of
2009: In
2009(11th of
Tevet, 5769): Eighty-eight-year-old Yaakov Bania, a commander with Lehi who
served with the IDF during the War for Independence and later wrote Hayalim
Almonim (Anonymous Soldiers) passed away today.
2009: Israel suspended
fighting today for three hours to permit humanitarian relief goods to reach
civilians living at Gaza while Hamas declared that the group would not talk
about a cease fire so long as Israel continued its “occupation
2009: As the Madoff Scandal widens in scope, The New York
Times reported that Sonja Kohn , leaving the firm she founded, Bank
Medici, in the hands of Austrian regulators, who took it over last week.
Embarrassment from investing heavily with Mr. Madoff could explain wanting to
disappear from public view. But another theory widely repeated by those who
know Mrs. Kohn is that she may be afraid of some particularly displeased
investors: Russian oligarchs whose money made up a chunk of the $2.1 billion
that Bank Medici invested with Mr. Madoff. It is a stunning reversal for the
60-year-old Mrs. Kohn. The daughter of Jewish refugees from
2010 (21 Tevet, 5770):
The Israeli Government marks today a National Hebrew Day in honor of the 152nd
birthday of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew.
2010: At the 14th
Street Y opening night of “Laba’s Guests." LABA is the National Laboratory
for New Jewish Culture, an innovative arts and culture initiative of the 14th
Street Y
2010: At least 10
mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel.
2010: A breakthrough in
the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed new light on the period in which
the Bible was written, testifying to Hebrew writing abilities as early as the
10th century BCE, the University of Haifa announced today. Prof. Gershon Galil
of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa recently
deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE, and showed that it
was a Hebrew inscription, making it the earliest known Hebrew writing. The
significance of this breakthrough relates to the fact that at least some of the
biblical scriptures were composed hundreds of years before the dates presented
today in research and that the Kingdom of Israel already existed at that time.
The inscription itself, which was written in ink on a 15 cm X 16.5 cm trapezoid
pottery shard, was discovered a year and a half ago at excavations that were
carried out by Prof. Yosef Garfinkel at Khirbet Qeiyafa near the Elah valley.
The inscription was dated back to the 10th century BCE, which was the period of
King David's reign, but the question of the language used in this inscription
remained unanswered, making it impossible to prove whether it was in fact
Hebrew or another local language. Prof. Galil's deciphering of the ancient
writing testifies to its being Hebrew, based on the use of verbs particular to
the Hebrew language, and content specific to Hebrew culture and not adopted by
any other cultures in the region. "This text is a social statement,
relating to slaves, widows and orphans. It uses verbs that were characteristic
of Hebrew, such as asah ("did") and avad ("worked"), which
were rarely used in other regional languages. Particular words that appear in
the text, such as almanah ("widow") are specific to Hebrew and are
written differently in other local languages," Prof. Galil explained.
The deciphered text:
1' you shall not do
[it], but worship the [Lord].
2' Judge the sla[ve]
and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3' [and] the stranger.
[Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4' the widow.
Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5' Protect the po[or
and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.
Once this deciphering
is received, Prof. Galil added, the inscription will become the earliest Hebrew
inscription to be found, testifying to Hebrew writing abilities as early as the
10th century BCE. This stands opposed to the dating of the composition of the
Bible in current research, which would not have recognized the possibility that
the Bible or parts of it could have been written during this ancient period.
2011:
Gold Medals are scheduled to be given to Israeli illustrators Asaf Hanuka and
Koren Shadmi at the first of the three-part “Annual Exhibition: Illustrators
53,” the Sequential/Series and Uncommissioned Exhibit features works by leading
contemporary illustrators worldwide.
2011:
Rabbi Shira Stutman and musician Sheldon Low are scheduled to host 6th
in The City Shabbat at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue in
Washington, DC.
2011:
The first Musical Shabbat of 2011 is scheduled to take place at Temple Judah in
Cedar Rapids, IA.
2011(2nd
of Shevat, 5771): Israel Defense Forces soldier Sgt. Nadav Rotenberg, 20, was
killed today and four were wounded in a violent encounter with Palestinian
militants near the border between Israel and Gaza.
2011:
Israel’s departing intelligence chief said he believes Iran will not be able to
build a nuclear weapon before 2015 at the earliest, Israeli news media reported
today, in a revised and surprisingly upbeat assessment of Tehran’s nuclear
capabilities.
2011:
After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, “The King’s Speech” a film
about King George VI for which David Seidler won the Oscar for best original
screenplay was released in London today.
2012
The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y is
scheduled to present the premiere of the musical theater adaptation of the
famous Israeli children's book "Hanna's Shabbat Dress," by Itzchak
Damiel.
2012:
The Impossible Spy is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Kerem Shalom in
Concord, MA
2012:
Shlomi Koriat is scheduled to perform at the Jerusalem Theatre where he will
give a stand-up performance in which he tells about his childhood, his Moroccan
family, coming to the big city, marriage, and more.
2012(12
of Tevet, 5772): Jews all over the world complete Bereshit – Chazak,
Chazak,
2012:
Approximately 200 protesters clashed with police in south Tel Aviv tonight
during a protest against the municipality’s attempt dismantle a tent city for
homeless families.
2012:
Israel said today the online publication of thousands of its citizens' credit
card details by a hacker claiming to be Saudi was comparable to terrorism and
vowed to hit back.
2013:
The New Yorker published “The Lost Order,” a short story by award winning
author Rivka Galcen the daughter of Israeli born Professor of Metrology Tzvi
Gal-Chen.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/the-lost-order
2013:
The Center for Jewish History with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance
is scheduled to present: “A Vanishing Sound: Jewish Musical Resonance in
Traditional Moldavian Dance--ca. 1800-1950”
2013:
“The Great Book Robbery” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film
Festival.
2013(25th
of Tevet, 5773): Sixty-two-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ben
Cramer passed away today. (As reported by Michael Schwirtz)
2013(25th
of Tevet, 5773): Eighty-eight-year-old poet and New York Times editor Harvey
Shapiro passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013(25th
of Tevet, 5773): Eighty-eight-year-old
Holocaust survivor and Israeli historian Zvi Yavetz whose life you can read
about in his autobiography My Czernowitz, passed away today.
2013(25th
of Tevet, 5773): Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable
passed away today at the age of 91. (As reported by David Dunlap)
2013:
“Life in Stills” is scheduled to be shown at the Washington Film Festival under
the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
2013:
December 2012 witnessed a 400% spike in the number of terrorist attacks in the
West Bank and Jerusalem compared to August, according to statistics published
by the Shin Bet security service today.
2013:
As lights flickered and falling tree branches batted down power lines across
the country today, Israelis continued to brace themselves for a week of
torrential rains and thunderous winds.
2014:
“License to Live” and “The Grandmaster” are scheduled to be shown at the
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2014(6th
of Shevat, 5774): Ninety-one-year-old advertising executive Judy Protas whose
career was tied to Levy’s Real Jewish Rye passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
2014:
Two former employees of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty - Former
Executive Director David Cohen and Chief Financial Officer Herbert Friedman -
were charged in the multimillion-dollar scam at the New York charity.”
2014:
“JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by costly legal woes, will pay more
than $2.5 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s
massive Ponzi scheme, authorities said today.”
2014:
“The US ambassador to Israel said today that a framework proposal on all issues
at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be presented to both
sides soon.”
2015:
The Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to host a
lecture by Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann entitled “After Liberation – Legacies
of the Nazi Concentration Camps”
2015:
A preview screening of “Next to Her” is scheduled to take place in Jerusalem.
2015:
A major snowstorm was scheduled to hit Jerusalem today.
2015(16th
of Tevet, 5775): Eighty year old French cartoonist George David Wiliniski was
among those murdered today when Moslem terrorists attacked Charlie Hedbo’s
offices.
http://forward.com/articles/212218/jewish-cartoonist-georges-wolinski-among-the-dead/
2015:
“Republican Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill today that would immediately halt
US aid to the Palestinians until they halt their effort to join the
International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.”
2015:
As “heavy rains and winds swept through Israel today, hail and snow were
reported” in the northern part of the country this mornings with Jerusalem
bracing for worse weather in the overnight hours.”
2016:
“Orphans of the Revolution” and “Bridge of Spies” are scheduled to be shown at
the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
2016:
“The remains of a 3,400-year-old Canaanite citadel, which were recently
unearthed in the middle of the coastal city Nahariya, are to be preserved and
incorporated in an apartment high-rise” are scheduled to be “presented today at a joint
archaeological conference by the Northern Region of the IAA together with the
University of Haifa.”
2016:
Kobi Peretz, “one of Israel's most popular stars in the Mizrahi genre” is
scheduled to appear at BB King Blues Club in NYC.
2017(9th
of Tevet, 5777): Parashat Vayigash
2017:
In Pendleton, Oregon, “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master,” an exhibition
that explores “the history of the early 20th-century international eugenics
movement and the complicity of physicians and scientists in Nazi racial
policies” is scheduled to come to a close today.
2017:
After a month of performances “at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin” the
curtain is scheduled to come down on “Big The Musical” with music by David
Shire
2017:
A rally “sponsored by the Love Not Hate organization” “was held today in
Whitefish, Montana to show solidarity with the Jewish community which has been
targeted by a neo-Nazi website.”
2017:
“Zionist Union MK Shelly Yachimovich criticized Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu today for taking gifts from a “sugar daddy,” after police questioned
the Israeli leader for allegedly accepting expensive cigars for years from
Hollywood producer and businessman Arnon Milchan, as well as more goods from a
second businessman.”
2017:
This evening “Lt. Gen (res.) Benny Gantz, Lt. Gen (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi, Lt.
Gen (res.) Dan Halutz, Lt. Gen (res.) Moshe Ya'alon and Lt. Gen (res.) Shaul
Mofaz came together at Yedioth Ahronoth's Rishon Lezion offices to express
their firm and unequivocal support of the IDF, its chief Eisenkot, and the
military judicial system.
2018:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jewish in Palestine and Israel,
1917-2017 by Ian Black, Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in
the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
2018:
““The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” about a Jewish housewife in New York City in the
late 1950s, won Best Television series at the 2018 Golden Globe awards” this
evening.
2018:
The Winter Break Promotion which has allowed Kids and Students to visit for
free is scheduled tom come to an end at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center today.
2018:
During an appearance on “Jake Tapper’s State of the Union” on CNN, Stephen
Miller said of Donald Trump, "The president is a political genius... who
took down the Bush dynasty, who took down the Clinton dynasty, who took down
the entire media complex.”
1902: Birthdate of
German Jewish educator Fritz Bamberger who after coming to the United States to
escape the Nazis left the world of academics to become the editor of Coronet Magazine.
2018:
Today, “the Strategic Affairs Ministry published a list of organizations it
says promote the boycott of Israel,” the members of which will be blocked from
entering the country”
2018:
The exhibition “Generation Wealth by Laruen Greenfield” featuring the works of
photographer Lauren Greenfield, is scheduled to come to a close at New York’s
ICP Museum.
2019:
The Begin Center is scheduled to host a lecture Nobel Prize winner Yisrael
Aumann marking the “40th anniversary since Menachem Begin was
awarded the Nobel Prize.”
2019:
Violinist Asi Matatius, , a protégé of Pinchas Zukerman, is scheduled to
perform with the Jupiter Symphony Players in a concert at the Good Shepherd
Presbyterian Church this evening.
2019:
The Jerusalem Theatre is scheduled to host a performance of “Namer Havarborot”
today.
2019(1st
of Shevat, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Shevat;
2020:
Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the Harvey Weinstein criminal
case.
January
7, 2020(10th of Tevet, 5780): Asara B’Tevet;
2010:
Based on reports published yesterday, 19 people including three children have
died during this “flu season” which is the worst in a decade.
2020:
It was reported today that at the same time Iraqis and Iranians were protesting
against American airstrikes, Jordanian were protesting again importing natural
gas from Israel.
2020(10th
of Tevet, 5780): Yahrtzeit for Judith (Levin) Rosenstein, simply known as Judy
to the raft of family and friends who knew and loved her
2021:
“The Contra Costa JCC, Congregation B’nai Shalom and Jewish Book Council are
scheduled to present online “author Barry Gewen as he talks about The
Inevitability of Tragedy his about book about former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger’s life and his role in Vietnam/Chile policies.
2021:
East Bay Jewish film fest, Contra Costa JCC and several local congregations are
scheduled to present “historian Fred Rosenbaum as he talks about movement for
African Americans and Black-Jewish relations.”
2021:
The Jewish Climate Action Network is scheduled to Present online a
“Bentshmarking Webinar.”
2021:
NFTY Northeast is scheduled to present is scheduled to host an “Open Space for
Youth Professionals.”
2021:
B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to host “Cooking with Murray,” with Tova Cohen and
Murray Berkowitz.
2021:
The virtual “San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival” is scheduled to open tonight
with a concert featuring violinist Brynn Albanese, Jazz guitarist Adam Levine
and the SLO Symphony.”
2022:
In a new terrace and a heated tent enclosure YJP is scheduled to present “First
Friday Shabbat Dinner.”
2022:
As COVID rips through the countryside Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to
present online a “Shabbat Service of Hope and Healing.”
2022:
Raphael Recanati International School at Reichman University is scheduled to
host an “Infor Session On Campus” this morning for those living in Israel who
want to study in English.
2023(14th
of Tevet, 5783): Vayechi (“And he lived”
as in "Jacob Lived…”)
47:28
- 50:26 Bereshit (Genesis)
2023:
In, Metairie, LA, Beth Israel is scheduled to host a PJ Library Pajama Havdalah
with milk & cookies, a musical Havdalah, a make-your-own Shema pillowcase
craft and a story.
2023:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music,” with Hila
Zabari Peleg, oboe; Igal Levin, clarinet; Gal Varon, bassoon; Gal Guttman, horn
and Batia Murvitz, piano
2023:
Lockdown University are scheduled to host Professor David Peimer deliver a
lecture on “Jean-Paul Sartre: Antisemite and Jew.”
2023:
In Needham, MA, Temple Aliyah is scheduled to host Temple Tots and Gan Aliyah
Preschool for the annual Pajama Havdalah party that includes Havdalah, pizza,
drinks, and dancing featuring music and dance with little BEATS!
2023:
As Jews digest their Shabbat meal, they can also digest the implications of the
warnings is issued yesterday by “several of Israel’s most respected judicial
figures, led by the renowned former chief justice Aharon Barak, against the
judicial overhaul announced this week by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, saying
it represented a grave threat to Israel’s democratic character and the rights
of minorities.”
2024: The NYT list of “18 New Books
Coming in January,” includes The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook World
and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster that highlights the
career of the Jewish leader heading Ukraine’s fight for independence which is
all the more ironic when you consider the history Ukrainian anti-Semitism.
2024: The Annual Winter Jewish Film
Festival at JHMOMC is scheduled to open with a screening of “Tiger Within.”
2024: Last scheduled day for free student
admission at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
2024: The Tikvah Center is scheduled to
host the first session of “The Wisdom of Rabbi Joathan Sacks” which provides a
unique opportunity for parents to study with their 6th, 7th
and 8th grade children.
2024: As January 7th begins in Israel,
the Hamas held hostages begin day 93 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.)
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