This Day, January 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 8
1169: A year after Maimonides who was
living in Egypt completed competed “The Book of the Lamp” or “Sefer
Ha-Ma'or" his Commentary to the Mishnah, General Shirkuh entered Cairo
with orders from Saladin to defend the city from the Crusaders.
1198: Start of the papacy of Innocent
III who was responsible for the Fourth Lateran Council which produced an array
of anti-Jewish promulgations.
1297: Monaco gains its independence when Francesco Grimaldi and
his men captured the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco. Monaco has been
ruled by the House of Grimaldi. Any Jews
living in Monaco from the 14th century until the start of World War
II were usually Ashkenazim fleeing from France.
An organized Jewish community was established in 1948. Almost half of the Jewish community is made
up of British Jews living in Monte Carlo.
1324: Venetian traveler Marco Polo, who visited China, then under
the Yuan Dynasty, in the late 13th century and described the prominence of
Jewish traders in Beijing, passed away.
1414: The Disputation of Tortosa, one of the famous disputations
between Jews and Christians of the Middle Ages, which was held in the city of
Tortosa, Spain resumed.
1455: Nicholas V issued a “Romanus Pontifex,” a Papal Bull that
expressed the Church’s approval of Portugal’s seizure of lands in the New World
and Asia. This was part of an attempt to
divide the newly discovered lands between Catholic monarchs and freeze out the
Protestant nations. Fortunately for the
Jews, the Church’s bull was not worth the paper it was written on since the
Protestant nations such as the Dutch and the English would provide a place
where Jews could practice their religion and engage in commerce.
1478: Birthdate of “German Protestant theologian” and Hebraist
Konrad Pellikan who translated a “vast amount” of rabbinical and Talmudic texts
including “Ben Asher’s commentary on the Torah.”
1575: Many Marranos were among the victims of the Auto de Fe
at Seville.
1598: Expulsion of the Jews from Genoa, Italy.
1769: In Frankfurt am Main, Moses Gabriel Worms and Henriette
Worms gave birth to Benedict Moses Worms the husband of Schönche Jeanette Worms
with whom he had seven children including the 1st Baron de Worms.
1771(22nd of Tevet, 5531): London native Mordecai
Marks, who came to America in 1726 and “was married first to Elizabeth Yorieu
and then to Elizabeth Hawkins” passed away today in Debry, CT.
1773:
Daniel David Cohen d'Azevedo, the Amsterdam born son
of David Cohen d'Azevedo and Hana Jessurun Cohen d'Azevedo, the husband of Sara
Cohen d'Azevedo and father of Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo and Hanna Jessurun
d'Oliveira was buried today in his home town.
1786: Henry Lemoine, the English author and bookseller who wrote
“He’s Gone! The Pride of Israel’s Busy Tribe” the obituary for his friend David
Levi, the Anglo-Jewish Hebraist and poet, was married today
1790:
In France, the Deputies excluded the rights of Jews
when considering the rules governing the election of municipal officers.
1792: Beila Wagg, the daughter of Hyman and Mary Wagg was buried
today at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.
1800: Aaron Jacobs married Leah Solomons today at the Great
Synagogue.
1800: In New York City, Sallie Salomon and Joseph Andrews gave
birth to Deborah Andrews, the wife of Jonas Horwitz.
1806: Cape Colony became a British colony as the Union Jack
replaced Dutch rule. Dutch Jews had been
living in the colony since 1652. In
1804, they had finally gained freedom of religion thanks to a proclamation
issued by the Dutch commissioner-general Jacob Abraham de Mist that instituted
religious equality for all persons (including the Jews) without any regard to
creed. One of the first acts of the
British was to repeal this proclamation.
While a new wave of Jews began arriving in the 1820’s, the first
synagogue was not formed until 1841 with the establishment of the Gardens Shul
in Cape Town.
1815: American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the
British at the Battle of New Orleans.
The pirate leader, Jean Lafitte provided a large number of soldiers and
several cannon that were critical to Jackson’s success. According to some sources, Lafitte’s mother
was a Sephardic Jew whose family had fled the Inquisition. He was raised in a home that observed Kashrut
and his first wife was Jewish. Like so
many other things about Lafitte, we cannot be sure where fact ends and legend
begins. There is no question about the
Jewish identity of another fighter at the Battle of New Orleans. Judah Touro, of the famed New England Turo
family had moved to New Orleans and become a prominent member of the community. He volunteered and fought with Jackson’s
forces. He was severely wounded and
taken from the battlefield by Rezin Shepherd, a close friend and fellow
merchant. Touro walked with a limp as a
result of the wounds sustained in the battle.
Touro Infirmary (hospital) and Touro Synagogue provide modern reminders
of this businessman-philanthropist who answered the call to defend the United
States in one of its darkest moments.
1819: In Charleston, SC, Jacob Hertz and his wife Rebeca Hertz
gave birth to Edwin Eger Hertz
1830: The Ohio General Assembly granted Congregation B’Nai Israel
in Cincinnati a charter whereby it was incorporated under the laws of the
state.
1832: In Charleston, SC, Moses Cohen Mordecai and Isabel Rebecca
Lyons Mordecai gave birth to Rosa Hays Mordecai, the wife of Joseph Lopez
Tobias whom she married in 1855 and the mother of Isabel, Eleanor, Hortensia,
David, Abraham, Moses, Thomas and John Tobias.
1836: In East Smithfield, Abigail Moss and Marcus Samuel gave
birth to Maria Samuel, the wife Joseph Aron.
1840: Stephen Spyer married Rosetta de Metz today in Sydney,
Australia
1844: In Bavaria, Ephraim and Lea Koppel Waldstein gave birth to
Sophie “Rosalie” Waldstein,
1845: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Rosenfeldt officiated at the
wedding of Elias C. Polock of Columbia, SC and Adeline Hayms of Charleston, SC.
1846(10th of Tevet, 5606): Asara B’Tevet
1846: In Natchitoches, LA, the former Cornelia “Amelia” Morange
and Miechel de Young, Jewish immigrants from the Netherlands gave birth to
Charles de Young, the grandson of Benjamin Morange, who served as the French
Minister to Spain under Napoleon, who was the founder of what became the San
Francisco Chronicle.
1846: Birthdate of Fordon, Prussia, native Alexander Cohn the
husband of Lena Marks Cohn and father of Florence, Stella, Solomon and Arnold
Cohn, who eventually settled in New Orleans, LA.
1848: Jefferson H. Nones, “the son of Captain Henry B Nones” and a
Second Lieutenant in the Second United States Artillery, demonstrated such
bravery today during “the siege of Puebla, Mexico,” that he was promoted to the
rank of First Lieutenant.
1849: Following the failure of the Revolution of 1848, Prague
native Isidor Bush arrived in New York City where he briefly published Israel’s Herald before moving to St.
Louis where he found fame and fortune.
1851: In Cayuga County, New York, a jury is to be impaneled in the
case of People vs. John Baham, Jr. Baham
and his brothers were charged in the vicious murder of Nathan Adler, a Jewish
peddler from Syracuse.
1851: Moritz Auerbach married Emma Solomon at the Great Synagogue
today.
1851: In Meadville, PA, Isaac Kohn, the son of Abraham Kuhn and
Bella Kohn and his wife Henrietta Yetta Kohn gave birth to Simon Isaac Kohn
1852: Jacob Lehman, the son of a Jewish peddler living in
Philadelphia is seen for the last time.
His disappearance will eventually lead to a gruesome murder case.
1854: Two days after she had passed away, 66-year-old Sarah
Raphael, the wife of Moses Raphael with whom she had had seven children, was
buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1855: The sixth anniversary of the German Hebrew Mutual Aid and
Benevolent Society was celebrated this evening in Pythagoras Hall on Walker
Street in New York City. The dinner,
which began at 7 pm, was attended by two hundred members of the society and
their guests. Before the meal began, a
Hebrew hymn was chanted in memory of the members of the society who had passed
away. Among the speakers for the evening
were Rabbis Raphael and Isaacs. The guests gave a “liberal contribution” to the
poor before departing from the event.
1856:
The New York Times published a summary of The Jew:
A Story of the South by the same author who wrote Leaves From The
Journal of a Physician's Wife
1859: In London, Catherine Barnett and David Jonas gave birth to
Ada Jonas.
1860: Jeanetta Mallan and Joseph Davis gave birth to Augustus
Henry Davis.
1861: In Tabor, Bohemia, Julie and Gutmann Gumpel Klemperer gave
birth to Leo Klemperer, M.D.
1862: Rabbi Arnold Fischel enclosed a copy of the bill that has
been approved which will allow Rabbis to serve as Chaplains in the Union Army
in a letter he sent to his supporters in New York. In the letter, Fischel thanked them for their
financial support. He assured them that
the money had been put to good use in getting the Congressional Committee to
approve the change in the law. He also
reported that a letter had been published in the Washington newspapers from
Reform Rabbis, including Wise, Einhorn and Adler claiming that Fishcel did not
have the authority to act for the Jewish community.
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/af010862.html
1863: Albert Myers, a Sergeant in Company H of the 128th
Regiment completed his completed his six-month enlistment today.
1865(10th of Tevet, 5625): As the American Civil War
enters its final years, Jews observed Asara B’Tevet.
1869: In New York City, Rachel Rosenthal and Louis Hershfield gave
birth to CCNY graduate and NYU trained attorney Isidore Hershfield, the husband
of Annie Goldstein and the HIAS general counsel from 1923 to 1943 who was “one
of the organizers of the Uptown Talmud Torah Association and who during World
War One was responsible for establishing communication between thousands of
Russian Jews living under German and Austrian military occupations that enabled
them to send letters to family in America and received aid from them.
1869(25th of Tevet, 5629): Rachel Hart, the daughter of
Bella and Daniel Hart, the wife of Nathan Hat and the mother of Sauel, Mary,
Jane and Hyman Hart passed away today.
1870: Birthdate of Pilsen native “Dr. Herman Vogelstein, the
former chief of the Liberal Synagogue in Breslau who life left Germany in 1938
and after having spent time in London arrived in New York in 1939 where he was
“active in the New York Board of Ministers and Association of Reformed Rabbis”
and who was the husband of “former Emmy Kosach”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/09/30/85053228.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/History-Jews-Rome-Hermann-Vogelstein/dp/B000PWD16S
https://sztetl.org.pl/en/biographies/6207-vogelstein-hermann
1870: Dr. Ellinger, editor of the Jewish Times addressed
the Longfellow Literary Association at the YMCA in New York City on the outcome
of the Rabbinic Conference, which was held in Philadelphia, PA. Ellinger provided an analysis of the
religious reforms proposed by the Jewish leaders.
1871: In Provincia di Asti Piemonte, Italy Giuseppe and Annetta
Luzzati Foz gave birth to Ernesto Ettore Foz, the husband of Leila Orsola Torre
Foa.
1871: “The Jews In America” published today points out that “few
outside of the Jewish fold have any precise knowledge of “the difference
between Orthodox and Reform Jews and then proceeds to described the differences
“between the rigid orthodox Jew who repeats a hundred benedictions daily…and
the radical reformed Jew…who believes there is nothing supernatural about the
Bible but regards it merely as a book written by mortal hands.
1871: Vice President Samuel A. Lewis, chaired today’s annual
meeting of the members of Mount Sinai Hospital. The meeting was informal since
only fifty members were in attendance and the by-laws require 75 for a
quorum. Emanuel B. Hart has replaced
Benjamin Nathan as President, Nathan having passed away. The hospital, which
treats Jewish and Gentile patients, treated 1,787 out-patients during the past
year. The hospital admitted 677 patients
during the year or whom 609 were designed at “cured or relieved.”
1871: The Hebrew Relief Association which was incorporated in 1831
held its annual meeting this morning at the 19th Street Synagogue in
New York City. Officers include
President Hendry S. Allen, Vice President A.R.B. Moses and Treasurer E.B. Hart.
During this past year, the association distributed $2,500 among the city’s less
fortunate Jewish population.
1874: In New Haven, CT, Clara Philips, and Philip Goodheart gave
birth to Yale Medical School trained neurologist Simon Philip Goodhart, the
husband of Hattie Wolff and father of Edward Goodhart who was the neurologist
and psychiatrist at the Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in the Bronx
the consulting physician for the Manhattan Hospital for the Insane and Beth
Israel Hospital as well as the co-author of Multiple Personality: An
Experimental Investigation Into The Nature Of Human Individuality.
1874: In New York City, Anna Rosenbaum Grossmann and Ignaz
Grossmann gave birth to Mary Grossman who married Louis Buxbaum and became Mary
Grossman Buxbaum.
1875: In New York City, Mitchell J. Asch, the “son of Clarissa and
Joseph M. Asch” and his wife Manuella Asch gave birth to Irina Asch who became
Irina Clara Culver when she married Henry Culver.
1875: Caroline Spiers and Hermann Boas gave birth to Edward
Benjamin Boas.
1875: The Downtown Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society met this
evening and elected a slate of officers.
1877: In Mount Clemens, Michigan, Phillip Axaman and Matilda gave
birth to Clarence Axman, the husband of Boston born soprano Gladys Axman who
joined the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1919.
1877(23rd of Tevet, 5637): Eighty-one-year-old Fanny
Phillips, the wife of Henry Naphtali Solomon whom she had married at the Great
Synagogue in 1817 passed away today after which she was buried in the West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.
1878: It was reported today that the Young Men’s Hebrew Union has
elected the following officers: President, A. Ottinger; Vice President, William
Rothschild; Secretaries, Alfred Steckler and Lewis Heyman; Treasurer, Henry
Bausch.
1879: Birthdate of Mt. Clemens, MI, native Clarence Axman, the
co-founder of the Eastern Underwriter
of which he was the editor for more than 45 years and whose first wife was
“Gladys Weil Axman” who served as war correspondent sponsored by the
Philadelphia Press during WW I.
1881: Birthdate of Isaac Lowi who would be buried at Beth Israel
Cemetery in Gadsden, Alabama in 1952.
1882: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and
Hanna Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, “the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and
his wife Juliana, née Cohen who upon the death of her father in 1874 became the
richest woman in Britain” gave birth to (Albert Edward) Harry Meyer Archibald
Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
1882: “Anti-Juif” an anti-Semitic weekly first published at Paris
in 1881 is published for the fourth and final time today. (There will be several other publications
that will appear using this name.)
1883: Birthdate of Vilna native and Tufts University Medical
School, Dr. Joseph Prenn the author of “Another Case of Syphilis of the Nose”
and “Nasal Hemorrhage.”
https://scholar.archive.org/work/ktldl4rngrhlhhjnqjeygivqea
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM192111171852005
1883: Washington Bartlett, the Savannah, GA born son of Sephardic
Jew Sarah E. Melhado and Cosa Emir Bartlett began serving his term at the 20th
Mayor of San Francisco.
1885: In Voronez, Russia, Michael and Catherine Hambourg gave
birth to Canadian cellist Boris Hambourg.
http://www.hambourgconservatory.ca/bios/boris.html
1886: An article in the American Israelite published today
described the practice of charitable deeds performed on Christmas saying “It is
the custom here [Cincinnati], as in other cities, to provide a hearty meal for
all the poor children of the vicinity during the Christmas holidays, also to
give each child presents, in the shape of toys, candies, books, etc. Some of
our leading citizens form themselves into a club to manage the affair…Many of
our Hebrew families, recognizing that the movement was to make children happy,
set aside all questions of faith and doctrine and contributed very liberally in
money and material. In fact, so bountifully did they subscribe, that public
notice had to be given that no more gifts could be received from any quarter.”
1887(12th of Tevet, 5647): Forty-five-year Isaac
Margolis, the husband of Hinde Bernstein passed away in New York City.
1887: Washington Bartlett, the Savannah, GA born son of Sephardic
Jew Sarah E. Melhado and Cosa Emir Bartlett began serving his term as the 16th
Governor of California.
1888: Judge Nathaniel Rollins, who represented Jacob Schloss in
his suit aimed to protect his “placer patent” from the federal government,
relished the victory he had scored for his Jewish clients from Leadville,
Colorado.
1888: In Lublinitz, Siegmund Courant and Martha Courant née Freund
of Oels gave birth to Richard Courant the mathematician who wrote What Is
Mathematics and was forced to flee to England and then the United States when
the Nazis came to power.
1889: In New York, Stella Corbet and Jules Levy, “perhaps the most
celebrated cornetist of the 19th century” gave birth to the third child and
only son, Jules Levy, Jr. a fine cornetist in his own right who “led his own
brass quartet, and made records for Edison, Emerson and Pathé.”
1890(16th of Tevet, 5650): Sixty-year-old Seligmann Heller, the
Bohemian born poet who “published ‘Ahasverus,’ an epic poem on the Wandering
Jew in 1866” passed away today in Vienna.
1890: Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes of Congregation Shearith Israel
presided over the funeral services for Judge Philip J. Joachimsen, which were
held at his home on 54th Street followed by internment at Cypress
Guardians
1892: It was reported today that Madame Olga Novikoff claims that
in an effort to downplay the seriousness of the famine in Russia, the Czar is
willing to accept private donations, but no government money. She reports that money has been sent from
England “to aid the distressed Jews.”
(This famine was but one more reason that so many Jews were arriving in
the U.S. and the U.K.
1892; It was reported today that stepsons of the late Bernhard
Blumenberg are contesting the will which leave half of his estate to his widow
Anna Blumenberg. They claim that she
could not have been their father’s wife since she had married Loeb Sigel who
was still alive. She claims that they had been divorced.
1893: Thirteen-year-old David Koblenzer delivered an address today
in which he recounted the history of the Boys’ Yorkville Charity Society, a
philanthropic organization begun Jewish youngsters in June of 1891.
1893: Hyman Blum presided over the annual meeting of the Mount
Sinai Hospital Society in New York City.
1893: It was announced today that in September Princeton
University will offer a $75.00 prize to the incoming junior who had the highest
score on the Hebrew Examination. (They may not have liked the Jews, but they
loved their language)
1894(1st of Shevat, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1894: Funeral services for Adolph L. Sanger, the President of the
New York City Board of Education, will take place today at Temple Emanu-El
1894: As the economic downturn in the United States continue to
worsen the offices of the United Hebrew Charities on Second Avenue were so
crowded that the clerks had to work “briskly” to deal with all of the requests
for aid.
1894: In an attempt to help those suffering as a result of the
“Depression of 1893” Nathan Straus will begin selling coal at 25 per cent less
than before. This means that 25 pounds
can be bought for a nickel and 100 pounds can be bought for 20 cents. Straus
had already started selling fresh bake bread at reduced prices “at his
sterilized milk depot.”
1895: Establishment of the first "Israel Gymnastic Club"
in Constantinople (Kushta), Turkey
1895: During a strike by 200 cloakmakers in New York City, the
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor withdrew its offer to give
$10,000 to the United Hebrew Charities. The money was going to be used “pay”
the strikers for their work as street-cleaners.
1895: It was reported today that members of the Union League are
not bothered by the fact that their last Jewish members has resigned. Proving that they are snobs, as well as
anti-Semites members of the league are opposed to admitting Henry Fricke, a
partner of the powerful Andrew Carnegie, because he lives in Pittsburgh.
1896: It was reported today that Rabbi Gottheil was one of several
clergyman who responded favorably to the creation of the United Charities, an
umbrella, inter-denominational organization meant to help the city’s destitute.
1896: Otto Hermann Kahn, the German born son of Emma and Bernard
Kahn who had come to the United States in 1893 married Addie Wolf today and
after his honeymoon joined Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York City, where his
father-in-law, Abraham Wolff, was a partner.
1896: Among those who were reported today to have thanked
President Theodore Roosevelt of the Police Board for services rendered was
Isidor Strauss who sent a letter to TR “thanking the board for” providing a
special detail during the recent Charity Fair at Madison Square Garden.
1896: It was reported today that rising shops belong to Dutch,
German and Jewish merchants have been destroyed as a result of rising
anti-German feeling among those living in London’s east end.
1897(5th of Shevat, 5657): Seventy-six-year-old Leopold
Dukas, the Sulzburg born son of Sara and Baruch Dukas and the husband of
Magdalena Dukas and Lea Dukas passed away today in Freiberg.
1897: It was reported today that the Educational Alliance received
over $25,000 in contributions last year but spent more than $52,000. The deficit was covered by proceeds from a
charity fair. According to Isidor
Strauss, the President of the Alliance, Jewish people play a dominate role in
managing the organization, but it is strictly non-sectarian when it comes to
providing services.
1898(14th of Tevet, 5658): Parashat Vayechi
1898(14th of Tevet, 5658): Julius Peyser, the German
born son of Isaac and Rachel Peyser and husband of Annie Peyser passed away
today in New York City.
1898: It was reported today that among those serving as directors
of the newly created Brooklyn Hebrew Hospital Society are Morris Kotlowitz,
Frank Baratt, Dora Kotlowitz and Annie Levy.
1898: In Bucharest, Sarah and Bernard Mayer gave birth to Many
Mayer who would end his days in China.
1898: It was reported today that Solomon Loeber has purchased a
lot on the corner of Second Avenue and 21st Street from the estate
of Dr. Aaron wise on which he plans to build a seven story office building
which he will give to the United Hebrew Charities as a headquarters.
1898: Graduation exercises were held this evening at the Baron de
Hirsch Trades Circles on East 9th Street.
1898:
Miss Julia Richman presided over the monthly meeting of the Jewish Religious
School Union which was held at Temple Beth-El in Manhattan. The main
topic for discussion was providing the proper incentives for students.
Miss Richman expressed her opposition to artificial incentives except as
expedients. She feels that natural incentives are the key to educational
success and that the use of artificial incentives will lead to the ruin of the
character of a majority of the students.
1899: It was reported today “that many officers of the French Army
have allowed their names to appear in the columns of La Libre Parole as subscribers to the fund intended for the widow
of Hubert-Joseph Henry,” the French officer who committed suicide after having
been arrested on charges of forging evidence against Alfred Dreyfus and that
“the French Minister of has issued a note addressed to commanders reminding
officer “that they are forbidden to participate in subscription having a
political character.”
1899: A summary of the report issued by The Treasury Department of
the South African Republic published today listed among the “negotiable assets”
a “loan to the Netherlands Railway Company, paid out of the Rothschild loan,
£2,000,000.”
1899:
President James H. Hoffman addressed the annual meeting of the “patrons and
members of the Hebrew Technical Institute.”
1899:
Five hundred people attended an evening of entertainment sponsored by the Young
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. One hundred new members joined the league
which provides financial support for the charity.
1899:
Birthdate of CCNY basketball player Nathan “Nat” Krinsky, the husband of Hilda
Krinsky and the father of Paul L. Krinsky, the Superintendent of the United
States Merchant Marine Academy and “Edward M. Krinsky, former Director of
Operations for the United States Basketball League.”
1900(8th of Shevat,5660): Fifty-one-year-old Australian
born Canadian hardware purveyor Alfred David Benjamin, a partner in M. and L.
Samuel and a leader of the Holy Blossom Temple congregation in Toronto.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5966
1900: In Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, to George Francis
Baillieu and Agnes Sheehan gave birth to Margery Merlyn Bailliu who became
Merlyn Myer when she married Sidney Myer (Simcha Baevski) the penniless Russian
Jew who found the Myer retail company.
1901: In Russia, Morris and Bessie (Chaidenko) Greenberg gave
birth CCNY graduate JTS ordained rabbi, Simon Greenberg and husband of Betty G.
Davis who had been the spiritual leader of Har Zion in Philadelphia before
founding the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and serving as vice
chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1902: The obituary of Adolph Moses appeared in today’s Atlanta
Constitution “One of the Most Prominent Rabbis in the United States, Dr. Moses
leaves a wife and ten children. His oldest son, Rabbi Alfred G. Moses, has the
pastorate in Mobile." Dr. Moses had one brother, Rabbi Isaac Moses, pastor
of one of the largest Jewish congregations in New York.
1902: In Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg and Mathilde Schönberg
(Zemlinsky) gave birth to Gertrude (Schonberg) Greissle, the wife of Felix
Anton Greissle.
1902: On the Upper West Side, Julius and Hilda Karmel Tishman gave
birth to Norman Tishman, “the chairman of the board of Tishman Realty and the
husband of Rita Valentine Tishman
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/28/83581694.pdf
1903: Dr. Felix Adler was the last speaker at dinner for
the Southern Education Board and the General Education Board at the Waldorf
which was attended by such notables as the President of Yale, the President of
Hamilton College and the United States Commissioner of Education.
1904: It was “semi-officially announced that all is quiet at
Kishineff” which is consistent with telegrams received in St. Petersburg from
Jews living in that town.
1905: In Berlin, Markus Mosheim and his wife Clara Mosheim née
Hilger gave birth to actress Margarete Emma Dorothea "Grete" Mosheim.
1905: In Russia, Rose and Abraham Meyerson gave birth to Estelle
Meyerson who in 1908 moved to the United States where she settled in Dubuque,
IA, became Estelle Silverman when she married Aaron Silverman after which “they
moved to the Detroit area, where together they ran a gas station/fuel oil
business.”
1906: Lord Rothschild presided over a meeting in Queen’s Hall
where the attendees which included “a very large attendance of all the
denominations of Christians in London” expressed “horror and indignation over
the massacre and outrages perpetrated upon the Jews in Russia.”
1906: “Jewish philanthropist and Zionist” Carl Stettauer delivered
a reported to the Russo-Jewish Committee
1906: U.S. Senator Isidor Rayner of Maryland “received applause
and congratulations of Senators from both sides of the Chamber” after he
“entered a plea for support of his position in favor of granting aid to the
persecuted Jews in Russia” saying “that the Jews would submit to every
indignity and wrong rather than abandon their creed” and that the U.S.
government should take the lead in demanding the Russians “grant to these
people or no longer be allowed to maintain contact or intercourse with civilized
governments.
1906: A meeting was held in the boardroom of the Hampstead
Synagogue for the purpose of inaugurating a North-West London branch of the
Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO). Mr. Lucien Wolf presided. Mr. Wolf said
the formation of this branch of the I.T.O. was a gratifying illustration of the
way in which the movement was progressing among the Jewish community. He did
not pretend that territorialism would be a panacea for all the ills Jewry was
heir to, the essence of which was the position of the Jews in Russia. During
the 20 years past attempts to solve the problem in Russia had been pursued by
means of representations and petitions, but no step had been made towards
emancipation. Meanwhile, emigration schemes had no perceptible effect in Russia
and did very little to improve the social conditions of Jews, who through the
operations of laws, formed new ghettos in the towns to which they were
transferred and entering congested labor markets created an impression of
numbers greater than they were and stimulated prejudice and Anti-Semitism. Then
the late Baron de Hirsch conceived the idea of substituting colonization for
emigration. Baron de Hirsch’s idea was to found colonies in new countries free
from ghettos and Anti-Semitism, but his scheme had not the success hoped for.
It attempted to work from above and did not enlist the enthusiasm or the
sympathy of the people for whom it worked. Dr Herzl proposed territorialism and
afterwards adopted Zionism as the only means of enlisting the almost fanatical
enthusiasm of the Russian Jews. Zionism in turn failed and the I.T.O. came
forward with the natural development of Dr Herzl’s scheme. The advantage was
that they could begin at once upon territory wherever they could get it, and
they had the opportunity of obtaining it in the British Empire. It is of great
importance to get to work at once. Within the last few days the great
Revolution in Russia had been crushed, and the emancipation of Russian Jews was
more remote than ever. He felt bound to pay tribute to the gallantry and
heroism with which their brothers and sisters in Russia had acquitted
themselves in the heroic struggle of the last few months. (Hear, hear). [Ed.
Note - In 1905 the question of a future
Jewish state in Palestine split the Zionist movement. The breakaway Jewish
Territorial Organization (known as the ITO) sought any land that was available
within the British Empire as homeland for the Jewish people. The rest of the
Zionist movement clung to the idea that Palestine was the only place for a
Jewish homeland. . After the British Government, and then the League of
Nations, declared support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the organization
lost its appeal and by 1925 had disbanded.]
1907: “Jewish Spirit in Austria”
published today described a meeting in Lemberg, Galicia, where a meeting of
Jews “resolved to create a provincial organization for the the defense of the
political rights and economic interests of Jews” at a time when Austria is on
the verge of introducing “universal suffrage.
1908(5th of Shevat, 5668): On
the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Moses Mendelsohn who passed away in 1786.
1908: In New York, Jacob Hirsch sold 327 and 329 East 29th
Street, the site of two four-story tenements.
1909: Three days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Waley
Henriques, “the twin daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Henriques” was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1909: In Hamburg, Germany, the Association Review reported that “
in November 1908 the executive committee of the “Zionistischen Ortsgruppe
Hamburg-Altona” [Zionist chapter Hamburg-Altona] hosted a lecture: Pastor Otto
Eberhard, who was presented as “one of the leading experts on the modern
cultural state of Palestine,”
1910(27th of Tevet, 5670): Parashat Vaera
1910(27th of Tevet, 5670): On the Jewish Calendar
yahrzeit Galicia rabbi Samuel Asutereer, author of Ketav Yosher who passed away
in 1929.
1911: Birthdate of Eberfeld, Germany native Alfred “Benn” Benjamin
the Communist Party member and internee at two concentration camps who died
while serving with the French resistance in 1942.
1912:
The Chicago Section adopted resolution to withdraw
from Council of Jewish Women.
1912: Mrs. Leon Cline is scheduled to co-host a meeting of The
Willing Workers this afternoon at Mandel’s Ivory Room.
1913: “Germany May Aid Jews” published today described German
efforts to get the Russians to abandon their anti-Semitic policies regarding
admitting Jews to Russian medical schools because it has led to demonstrations
by German medical students who are opposed to the large number of Russian Jews
studying at German medical schools.
1914(10th of Tevet, 5674): Asara B'Tevet
1914: Eugene Foss who had employed Leo Frank in 1906 and who later
public lead the fight to gain him a new trial after he was convicted of murder,
completed his service as the 45th Governor of Massachusetts.
1915: “Poles and Cossacks Massacre Jews” published today contains
a summary of an article written by Dr. Shmaryah Levin, “the noted Zionist
leader and member of the first Russian Duma that appeared in The Warheit in which he “reveals the
shocking details of massacres of Jews in Poland as a result of the treachery
and duplicity of the Poles who caused the most flagrant falsehoods to be
circulated impugning he loyalty of the Jews’
1915: Louis Marshall, President of the American Jewish Committee
received a telegram from Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan saying that
“The State Department has received a telegram from Constantinople in which it
is stated that the Sublime Porte has accorded an additional month’s time for
foreign Jews to become naturalized and has also decided to exempt the indigent
Jews from the payment of the naturalization fee.”
1915: “A German attempt to explain the expulsion of Jewish
colonists from Palestine appears in a Constantinople dispatch published in the
Frankfurter Zeitung today blamed the action on Djeal Pasha, the corps commander
of the troops in Palestine” who acted without the consents of the Central
Government which tried to countermand the order.
1916: Alvey A. Adee, the Second Assistant Secretary of State wrote
to Simon Wolf acknowledging the President’s request that the Department “use
its good offices for the purpose of obtaining permission from the allies to
ship several cargoes of whole wheat so that at the coming Passover it can be
used to make unleavened bread” and asking “how much wheat you desire to ship,
to what places, to whom it is to consigned and how it is to be distributed”
since “these questions are certain to be asked of the Department by the
Governments from whom the permission to ship the wheat is requested.” (Editor’s Note: Yes, as the World War entered
into what would prove to be its most disastrous year, the Jews are worried
about Matzah for Pesach. Think about
that when you sit down to your Seder this year.)
1916: It was reported today that Felix Warburg received “a
cablegram from the committee of German Jews engaged in relief work in Russian
Poland, saying that the distress was very great in Lithuania, particularly in
Vilna, Kovno, Grodno and Bialystok.”
1916: This evening, at its convention the Knights of Zion is
scheduled to discuss its relationship with other organizations.
1916: During World War I, Allied forces withdrew from Gallipoli
marking the end of this ill-fated attempt to break the stalemate on the Western
Front by forcing their way through the Dardanelles and up the Balkans. Among the forces withdrawn were the Zion Mule
Corps, a Jewish military unit that was part of the British Army. The Zion Mule Corps was the first Jewish unit
to take action since the end of the Second Commonwealth. The Mule Corps was intended to be a supply
unit. However, the Mule Corps earned the
respect of British army officers because they had to carry supplies to the
front line under constant bombardment by Turkish forces. The Zion Mule Corps was one of the
progenitors of the modern I.D.F.
1917: “President Wilson decided today…to designate January 27 as
the date for collecting funds for the relief of suffering Jews in Europe.”
1917: Congress approved an immigration bill that was opposed by
most major Jewish leaders and sent it to the White House where President Wilson
was expected to exercise his veto.
1917: Henry Morgenthau was reported today to have told his
co-religionists in New York that “One of the reasons the Turks treat the Jews
very well now is because they realize that the Zionists generally are not
seeking to establish a separate government in Turkey, but only to encourage
Jewish colonization in Palestine.”
1917: Dr. Irving Steinhardt is scheduled to deliver the first of
“Ten Sex Talks to Girls” “under the auspicies of the Free Synagogue” at 8:30
this evening.
1918: US President Woodrow Wilson who has expressed his support
for the Balfour Declaration delivered his "Fourteen Points" speech to
Congress.
1918: It was reported today that “the Parliamentary committee of
the British Trade Union Congress and the Executive Committee of the Labor”
recommended “in their memorandum on war aims” “that Jews in all countries enjoy
the common elementary rights 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 into a free state, under international guarantee, to
which such of the Jewish people as to do so may return.”
1919:
Thirty-four year old, University of Oregon trained attorney Moses Dayyan
Mosessohn, the Odessa born son of Dr. Nehemiah and Theresa Mosessohn who had
moved to New York in 1918 where became the executive director of the United
Women’s Wear League of America married pianist Blanche Lillian , he daughter of
Rabbi B.M.Kaplan of
1919: In Hungary, Bela Kuhn, a communist dictator, was disposed of
with the help of Rumania and Admiral Nicholas Horthy. Since Kuhn was a Jew, all
the Jews were accused of being communists. During the "White Terror"
that followed, an estimated five thousand Jews were killed.
1920:
It was reported today that Judge Harry M. Fisher will be leaving New York “for
Kiev bearing a gift of thirty-five million dollars for the starving Jews of
Poland and Ukraine” which was raised by the Jewish War Relief Fund of America.
1920:
In New York, Solomon Simon, a dentist, and the former Vera Sheldin gave birth
to “Abbey Simon, an American pianist celebrated for a style that harked back to
an earlier, golden age of keyboard prowess.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1921(28th
of Tevet, 5681): Parashat Vaera
1921:
It was reported today that the tobacco monopoly in Palestine which “was held by
a French concern on the basis of certain special privileges granted by the
Turkish Government several years ago” has been abolished by the British
Mandatory Government.
1921:
“Balfour to Greet Jews” published today described plans by Arthur James Balfour
to hold a reception at the British Embassy in Washington “for a delegation of
leading” American Zionists.
1922:
At the second annual conference of the Federation of Ukranian Jews the Very
Rev. Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, called, attention to
the "astonishing fact in the moral history of contemporary humanity that
one of the blackest pages in the annals of man has just closed and yet the
world knows next to nothing of the unspeakable horrors and infinite crimes
perpetrated against the Jewish people.”
1922:
This morning while addressing the Free Synagogue congregation meeting in
Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said, “I deplore the term ‘Good to the
Jew’ because it implies a certain inferiority in the Jew whether or quality or
of status and a certain superiority in whoever is believed to be a good Jew.”
1923: Birthdate of Joseph Wiezenbaum, a
pioneer in the study of artificial intelligence.
1923: In a letter signed by its President, Mrs. Deborah Hirshberg,
the Oakland, California Sisterhood asked fellow Sisterhoods to let them know of
any Jews moving into this expanding community so “they might extend the hand of
friendship” to them and help make the move a successful one.
1923: In New York City, realtor Alfred
Storch and Sally Kupperman Storch, “a telephone operator” gave birth to
actor-comedian Larry Storch who served with Bernard Schwartz, the future Tony
Curtis, aboard the U.S. Proteus.
1924: In Hamburg, a schoolteacher, Julia
(née Cohen) and James (or Jakob) Cohn, owner of an import business gave birth
to Paul Moritz Cohn, the Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College
London.
1924: In New York City, Jesse George
Rubenstein and Sarah Fine Rubenstein gave to Richard Rubenstein the Rabbi
ordained at JTS who earned a Ph.D. at Harvard and went to lead several
congregations before moving on to the
world of academia.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0685/ms0685.html
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/richard-l-rubenstein
1924: In Tottenham, Middlesex, England
Kate (Ogus) and Bernard (Barnett) Moodnick gave birth to Ronald Moodnick who
gained fame as Golden Globe-winning actor Ron Moody.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/actor-ron-moody-best-known-as-fagin-dies-at-91/
1925: “Henry Hurwitz, editor of The
Menorah Journal said today in an address before the Sisterhood of Temple
Emanu-El that the greatest issue confronting the American Jews is how they
shall order their life and communal efforts to conserve the best elements of
their heritage and at the same time develop their powers for the enrichment of
American culture.”
1926: “Sid Terris” who was Jewish, won
“a 10-round decision over European lightweight champion Lucien Vinez, in New
York.”
1926: In Brooklyn Nina (Kwartin), a
coloratura, and Nathan Shulman gave birth to Evelyn Shulman who gained fame as
operatic soprano Evelyn Lear.
1926: In Franklinton, NC, Irving and
Sadie Supman gave birth to Milton Supman who gained fame as comedian Soupy
Sales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales
1926:
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia. The Saudis had been competing with the
Hashemites for control over the holy places in Arabia. With the ascendancy of the Saudis, the
British were forced to find a “home’ for the Hashemites. The Hashemite got two homes. One son got the throne of the British
invention known as Iraq. The other
Hashemite son got the throne of that other British invention, the Kingdom of
Trans-Jordan later the Kingdom of Jordan.
Trans-Jordan was carved out of the British Mandate which was supposed to
be part of the Jewish home under the terms of the Balfour Declaration. This explains why some people think that the
Arabs already have their state. It is
called Jordan and that is the proper Palestinian State.
1926:
Birthdate of Evelyn Shulman, the granddaughter of Cantor Savel Kwartin and the
daughter of opera singer Nine Shulman, who gained fame as “Evelyn Lear, an
American soprano who became a star in Europe in the 1950s and who later won
acclaim in the United States for singing some of the most difficult roles in
contemporary opera…” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1927(5th
of Shevat, 5687): Parashat Bo
1927:
It was reported today that “new evidence that Nicholas II approved of the
anti-Jewish pogroms committed during his reign” have been “published by
Isvesita, the official organ of the Soviet Government.”
1928:
Birthdate of Kansas City, MO native Henry Guettel an executive with both 20th
Century Fox and Columbia Pictures as well as the head of the Theatre
Development Fund who was the husband of Mary Rodgers and the father of Adam
Guettel.
http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/1311/henry-guettel
1928:
“Not anti-Semitism but ignorance of the spiritual side of his existence is what
the Jew has most to fear, Johnah J. Goldstein, a leader in Jewish educational
enterprises in New York declared” in Philadelphia today “at the cornerstone
laying of the first six Talmud Torah buildings planned by the Federation of
Jewish Charities.”
1928:
“Violantha” the movie version of the novel with a script co-written by Hans
Wilhelm and Walter Supper who took his own life rather than divorce his Jewish
wife and co-starring Mathilde Sussin who was murdered at Theresienstadt
concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
1928:
In Pinsk, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as “the Steipler Gaon” (the
Steipler genius) and Miriam Karelitz, the daughter of a notable rabbinical
judge, gave birth to “Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the greatest Talmudic
interpreters of his generation and one of the most revered figures among the
world’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, who considered him the leading authority on fine
points of Jewish law.” (As reported by Joseph Berger)
1928:
After premiering in New York City a month ago, “The Private Life of Helen Troy”
directed by Alexander Korda and starring his wife Maria as released in the rest
of the United States today.
1929:
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that Meir Dizengoff has been chosen to
serve as Mayor of Tel Aviv. Dizengoff
was one of the founders of the city and has previously held the position of
Mayor
1930: In a forty-minute
meeting after a luncheon in the Bankers' Club, 120 Broadway, today, $107,000 of
the $258,000 needed to meet the first deficit in the history of the Federation
for the Support of Jewlish Philanthropic Societies was pledged by prominent
workers in the federation’s campaign.”
1930: Ada Cohen
Gleszer, a former member of the Bangor City Council and the wife of Maine Law
School graduate Judge Edward Gleszer, “the first Jew to be appointed to the bar
in Maine, has been elected to the Bangor School Board, making her the “first
Jewess to hold such a position in the state of Maine.
1931: In New York City,
“Clarence Ephraim and Marjorie (Kahn) University gave birth to Princeton (BA)
and University Pennsylvania (MBA) educated investment banker Thomas Israel
Unterberg, the husband of Susan Appleman.
1931:
In New York City “Clarence Ephraim and Marjorie (Kahn) University gave birth to
Princeton and University of Pennsylvania trained investment banker Thomas
Israel Unterberg, the husband of Susan Appleman and the father of Emily and
Ellen Unterberg.
1931:
The jury hearing evidence “in the so-called matzoth trust trial” in which “the
question to be answered was whether or not Horowitz Brothers & Margareten,
InC. and B. Manishewitz Company of Ohio constituted a combination in restraint
of trade as charge by Rabbi Moses Weinberger, Inc.” told the judge today at
noon that they are unable to agree on verdict.
1932:
In Milwaukee, WI, Harry Cutler, the “son of Elda and Meyer Cutler” and his wife
Rose Cutler gave birth to Jerry Culer today.
1932:
In Austria, celebration of the 150th anniversary of the promulgation
of the Toleration Decree of 1781 issued by Emperor Josef II under which the
Jews of Austria were accorded civil and political equality.
1932:
In Brooklyn, NY, Pauline and Dr. Jacob Rosenblum gave birth to Morton Edgar
Rosenblum who gained fame as “M. Edgar Rosenblum, an arts executive who helped
steer the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven to prominence in the American theater
landscape, developing work that traveled to Broadway and elsewhere and that won
Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards along the way…” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1933(10th
of Tevet, 5693): Asara B'Tevet
1933:
Birthdate of Warren Kenton, the London native who gained famed as Z’ev ben
Shimon Halevi, a leading teacher of Kabbalah who founded the Kabbalah Society
which promotes the Toledano Tradition.
1933:
A joint committee of the Federations of Yeshivoth and Talmud Torah meeting
today at the Central Jewish Institute adopted a resolution calling for “the
creation of a special education fund for the benefit of Jewish educational
institutions by a small levy on religious articles such as candles as
matzoths.”
1934(21st
of Tevet, 5694): Serge Alexandre Stavisky passed away. Born in 1886 in the
Ukraine, he was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a
political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair. In 1927, Stavisky
was put on trial for fraud. However, the trial was postponed again and again,
and he was granted bail 19 times. Faced with exposure in December 1933,
Stavisky fled. Today the police found him in a Chamonix chalet suffering from a
gunshot wound. Officially Stavisky
committed suicide but there was a persistent speculation that police killed
him. Alexandre Stavisky was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
1935
Reinhard Heydrich announced that Konzentrationslager Columbia was to be adopted
as the official name, in preference to Columbia-Haus by which the concentration
camp founded in 1934 was to be known.
1935:
Today, government in Palestine “began erection of a lighthouse in the estuary
of the Yarkon River near Tel Aviv as part of the project” to improve the harbor
at Tel Aviv and relieve the congestion at the port of Jaffa.
1936:
It was reported today that “there are 10,000 adolescents between the ages of 15
and 18 years waiting in Germany to go to Palestine.”
1936:
Today, Dr. Stephen S. Wise announced that “a national conference on Palestine”
which is being supported by Dr. Israel Goldstein, Maurice Levin, Louis Lipsky,
Morris Rothenberg and Nathan Straus will be held next month at the Willard
Hotel
1936:
Executive Secretary Louis Richman presented the annual report at today’s annual
meeting of the Jewish Conciliation Court in the Federation Building after which
Dr. Goldstein was re-elected President and Mrs. Rebeckah Hohut, Jacob Panken
and Rabbi Moses H. Hyamson were elected vice-presidents.
1937:
Eugene Wigner, the Jewish Hungarian American theoretical physicist and
mathematician became a naturalized United States citizen.
1937:
It was reported today that when David Ben Gurion testified before the Royal
Commission in Jerusalem he “denied that Jewish rights clashed with the rights
of Arabs,” pointed out that “the Jews were the first welcome the independence
achieved by the Arab States of Iraq and Syria,” and reminded the commissioners
that “while our national movement was busy with constructive work, the Arab
nationals in Palestine were only busy with politics” and that “as soon as they
also begin devoting their energies to constructive activities we can meet and
assist each other.”
1938:
It was reported today that police officers acting under orders from Quebec
Premier Maurice Duplessis, raided “the cultural section of the Canadian Labor
Circle, a Jewish fraternal organization” and removed “eight hundred books of
the 950-volume library maintained by the Jewish cultural circle” most of which,
according to the organizations officers were “standard Yiddish classics.”
1938:
“A Lucerne publishing firm, Vita Nova Verlag, announced today that its
collection of speeches and official statements by President Roosevelt and
former Premier Stanley Baldwin translated into German had been formally
forbidden in Germany” because “the German government has declared this volume unerwuenscht or undesirable a word
commonly used in many German towns to describe their attitude toward Jews.”
1938:
“As the Anglo-Italian short-wave radio war opens over the issue of Arabic
agitation in Palestine, a rumbling threat of revolt spreads over the borders of
France’s possessions in the Near East” specifically Syria and Lebanon.
1938:
“Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, the international president of B’nai B’rith,
conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull today concerning the situation
of Jews in Rumania.”
1938:
Today, in Berlin, “the Ministry of Education banned the teaching of Hebrew in
Germany’s Gymnasia (junior colleges) where the subject had been optional.”
1939:
In “Solution of Problem Must Be based on Present, Not Past,” published today
Anne O’Hare McCormick writes that the one thing that is clear “is that it is
impossible to go back twenty years to solve the present problem under the terms
of the Balfour Declaration or the promises made to Sharif Hussein in the
McMahon correspondence.” Among the
changed realities are “the 400,000 Jews now settled” in Palestine and their
“push and energy” which “are transforming the country at an astounding rate.”
She goes on to describe the modernizing impact the Zionists have had on
Jerusalem, the growth of Tel Aviv which “is one of the most extraordinary boom
towns on earth.” Finally she cites the
creation of the port at Tel Aviv by a “people without experience in seafaring
or maritime commerce” when the Arab uprising deprived the use of the port a
Jaffa. The Arab response has been one of
resistance. Ironically, longtime
residents of Palestine “find not only Palestine but also the Palestinians
altered in the last five years (the period of greatest Jewish influx) than in
the preceding century.” She concludes that the “Arab guerilla war is not
independence” but for a halt to Jewish immigration even if this can only be
accomplished with a prolongation of British rule.”
1939:
Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, the chairman of the Citizens Union, today
announced the formation of the Volunteer Christian Committee to Boycott Nazi
Germany “whose members will not buy German goods, travel on German ships or
visit German territory” which will “supplement the work of existing Jewish and
non-sectarian agencies which have striven to develop and tighten the boycott”
on the Hitler regime whose “persecution of Jews and Christians violates and
threatens every principle which Americans…hold most dear.”
1940:
The body of State Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthaler, who passed away
yesterday, lay in state today at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
1941:
In the TSN poll for the 1940 All-Star team for the American and National
Leagues, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) named Paul
Derringer of the New York Giants as the Catcher.
1942:
“A ‘place of honor’ for Jewish Palestine among the United Nations was asked
today by Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund of
America, because it is ‘the only avowed ally in the Middle East of the United
States and Britain.’”
1943:
“The Thin Man,” produced by Himan Brown, returns to the airways sponsored this
time by General Foods.
1943:
Eric Vogel petitioned the Kommandant of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp for
permission to create an amateur band, “The Ghetto Swingers.”
1943: In Philadelphia, PA, Debbie and
Joseph Levin gave birth to Judy Rosenstein (nee Levin), the sister of Mitchell
and David Levin, the wife of Larry Rosenstein and the mother of Danny, David
and Joel Rosenstein who truly was an Ashit Chayil, “A Woman of Valor.” A
devoted wife, loving mother, doting grandmother, faithful friend as well as
daughter and sister extraordinaire, Judy is a gift to all who are fortunate
enough to be part of her life. “And her
children called her ‘Blessed’.”
1944(12th of Tevet, 5704):
Eighty-year-old psychologist Joseph Jastrow passed away.
http://128.104.130.43/Introduction/Jastrow.html
1944: U.S. premiere of “What’s Cooking
Doc?” starring Bugs Bunny the cartoon figure given voice by Mel Blanc
1945: The Alois Mission, an
Anglo-American intelligence unit investigating the progress of the Germans in
creating an atomic bomb departed Stasbourg today
1946: Joseph Rotblat, the Manhattan
Project physicist who had “returned to Britain to become senior lecturer and
acting director of research in nuclear physics at the University Liverpool”
became a naturalized British subject today.
1946: “In the French Concession in
Shanghai, Russian Jewish parents, Abraham and Eva (Krasavitsky) Mohshinsky gave
birth to “Elijah Moshinsky, an Australian theater, television and opera
director known for his productions at the Royal Opera in London, Opera
Australia and especially the Metropolitan Opera…”
1947: “The Political Action Committee
for Palestine denied “today” that it had supplied financial help to the
underground in Palestine.”
1947: As he prepared to leave London to
try and bring peace among the warring Jewish factions in Palestine, David
Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive for Palestine, met with
British Colonial Arthur Creech who had requested that the two talk.
1948: “It was announced today by Edward
A. Norman, president of the American Fund for Palestinian Institutions which
re-presents the Palestine Composers and Authors association in the United
States that “Jedediah Gorochov, president of the Palestine Composers and
Authors Association has arrived in the United States to set up an interchange
of musical information between the United States and Palestine
1948: “A Jewish merchant was stabbed to
death” today in Beirut by “three unidentified assailants today only an hour
after the police had withdrawn special partrols” from the area.
1949: On the day following RAF
intervention in the fighting between Israel and Egypt in which several British
planes were shot down “British pilots were issued a directive to regard any
Israeli aircraft infiltrating Egyptian or Jordanian airspace as hostile and to
shoot them down but were also ordered to avoid activity close to Israel's
borders.”
1951: Today, Rabbi Naftali Landau, the
son of a Hungarian rabbi, who led congregations Agudas Achim and Shmore Hadas
in Chicago, married 19-year-old Minnie Finkelstein.
1951: Today, Yale University graduate
and JTS trained rabbi Hillel E. Silverman, the Hartford, CT born son of Althea
Osber and Morris Silverman married his first wife Devora Halaban.
1953: When Prime Minister Churchill and
President Truman dined at the British Embassy, Churchill impressed Truman with
his vocal support of Israel and his criticism of Egypt for closing the Suez
Canal to ships bound for Israel.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that with the last piece of rock blasted away the new 88-km.
Beersheba-Sdom Road was opened. The road was expected to revitalize the Potash
Works which had been inactive since the road north of the Dead Sea was cut
during the 1948 war. Despite Israeli protests, Washington announced that it had
no objections to the British plans to sell jet planes to the Arab states.
1953: Leo Lerman, the Jewish editor and writer for such glossy
fashion magazines as Vogue, Mademoiselle and Vanity Fair helped discover a new European singing sensation at the
Le Fenice opera house in Venice by the of name Maria Callas.
1953: René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
1954(4th of Shevat, 5714): Eighty-three-year-old
Memphis born Cornell University graduate and Columbia trained attorney S.
Stanwood Menken, the husband of the former Gretchen von Briesen and father of
American diplomat Arthur Menken who served as a member of Herbert Hoover’s
American Relief Committee in 1914,
organized the National Security League to advocate for U.S. preparedness
before WW I and “who volunteered to march along with 20,000 women in the
woman’s suffrage parade” in 1895 passed away tonight.
1954 In Los Angeles, premier of “The Great Diamond Robbery”
directed by Robert Z. Leonard and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg.
1956(24th of Tevet, 5716): Julian Henry Krolik, the
manager of a dry goods company noted for his community and charitable endeavors
who was the namesake of the Krolik School and who was the first president and one of the founders of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit,” was the first president and one of the
founders of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit,” passed away today.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/71288712@N00/2469544532
https://thejewishnews.com/2019/08/16/behind-the-19th-amendment/
1957: Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld of Washington Hebrew Congregation
is scheduled to officiate at the funeral services Winnipeg, Canada and retired
Hecht Company department store executive Charles B. Duncan, Sr., the husband of
Elizabeth Duncan and father of Charles B. Jr, Alvin and Edward Duncan who began
his career as a part time worker in 1912 and after 41 years rosed to be
managing director of Hecht’s Washington area department stores and vice
chairman of the board of directors.
1957(6th of Shevat, 5717): Forty-eight-year-old
Virginia Rich, the New Orleans born daughter of Hilda and Eldon Spencer Lazarus
and the wife of Richard H. Richard passed away today in Atlanta, GA.
1958: “Music World Corporation, an American music production and
music publishing company” founded by “Academy Award-winning songwriter Robert
Sherman” was incorporated today in the State of California.
1958: The filming of “Rock-A-Bye Baby” starring Jerry Lewis who
also served as producer and with music by Walter Scharf and Sammy Cahn was
completed today.
1959(28th of Tevet, 5719): Fifty year old Dr. Joseph
Thon, the Polish native who “came to the United States from Geneva in 1941
where he was director of the office for Jewish refugees for two years” and
pursued a career as an author writing in Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish while
serving as “contributing editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia” and
“national director of the tourist department of the ZOA” passed away today in
New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/01/09/89104622.pdf
1959: Today, the day after Meyer Lanksy had fled from Cuba to the
Bahamas, “Fidel Castro marched into Havana” taking over the country which among
other thing put an end to the gambling empire Lansky had put together on the
island for “the mob.”
1959(28th of Tevet, 5719): Seventy-three-year-old New
York State Supreme Court Justice Albert C. Cohn passed away. Unfortunately, for Judge Cohn, despite a
distinguished career, he will be best remembered as the father of Roy Cohn.
1960(8th of Tevet, 5720): Seventy-seven-year-old
Russian native Louis Belsky, the husband of Esther Pripstein Belsky and father
of Abraham and Raymond Belsky passed away today passed away today in
Philadelphia after which he was buried at Mount Sharon Cemetery in Springfield,
PA.
1960: Ten women affiliated professionally or by marriage with the
fashion industries or fashion press” including Sophie Gimbel, the wife of Adam
Gimble known for her work with Saks 5th Avenue and a creator of the
“new look,” “were announced in a
supplementary list of best dressed fashion personalities” today.
1961: “Howie Carl scored 24 points to lead DePaul past Dayton
75-64” (As reported by Bob Wechsler)
1962(3rd of Shevat, 5772): Sixty-seven-year-old NYU
trained attorney Samuel S. Pines “a founder of the law firm of Pines, Sterling
and Sterling” and city Judge in Peekskill, NY passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/10/91664422.pdf
1962(3rd of Shevat, 5722): Fifty year old English professor and
poet Hyam Plutzik whose work made him a finalist for the Pulitzer prize and who
was the husband of “the former Tanya Roth” with whom he had four children –
Roberta, Deborah, Alan and Jonathan -
passed away today.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/hyam-plutzik
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/10/91664419.pdf
1966: Birthdate of Label Katz Award winner Brent Howard
Novoselsky, the Skokie, Illinois, native who played tight end for the
University of Pennsylvania before playing in the NFL with the Chicago Bears and
Minnesota Vikings.
1967(26th of Tevet, 5727): Sixty-seven-year-old Morris
Aronoff, the Pennsylvania born son of Dora and Isaac Aronoff and the husband of
Katie Orenstein Aronoff passed away today in Camden, NJ.
1968(7th of Tevet, 5728): Seventy-two-year-old Pieter
Anthonie Larusse van Passen the native of Gorcum, Netherlands who gained fame
as Pierre van Paasen the “Canadian-American” author, the WW I Canadian Army
Veteran and Unitarian Minister who was an early constant support of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine as can be seen from such works as “the 1939 best seller Days
of Our Years and The Forgotten Ally passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/01/09/77165343.pdf
1969(18th of Tevet, 5729): In the week following the
death of his wife Kathryn sixty-one-year-old “Davis Wahl” a retired highly
decorated lieutenant of detectives, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/10/77317204.pdf
1969: “Mr. Freedom” a satire directed and written by William Klein
was released in France today.
1971: Today’s Bulletin described the annual meeting of
Congregation Shaar Hasyomyim of Montreal where Dr. Charles Solomon, the
President of the Congregation described the shaky financial situation followed
by the approval by the Board of Trustees of a special assessment to be paid by
each member which would raise $350,000 to be applied against the structural
indebtedness
1972: CBS broadcast the last episode of “Help!...It’s the Hair
Bear Bunch” an “animated television series featuring the voices of Paul
Winchell and Joe E. Ross.
1975: Washington, DC native Ida Rubin, the wife of Judge Leonard
Ruben began serving as a Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 20th
district today.
1975: Stanley Steingut began serving as the 115th
Speaker of the New York State Assembly.
1975(25th of Tevet, 5735): Richard
Tucker passed away at the age of 61.
Born Reuben Ticker, he gained fame as a Cantor and as an operatic
tenor.
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/rtucker-04-cantor.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu45D-5E0ZA
1976: Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow was awarded the National
Book Critics Circle Award.
1978(29th of Tevet, 5738): Eighty-two-year-old Rose
Luria Halprin one of the foremost American Zionist leaders of the twentieth
century who served twice as the national president of Hadassah, the Women’s
Zionist Organization of America, held key posts within the Jewish Agency at
critical periods in the history of the Yishuv and the subsequent State of
Israel passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/halprin-rose-luria
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0008_0_08276.html
1978: The Jerusalem Post
reported from Washington the announcement made by US President Jimmy Carter
that he was still opposed to the creation of an independent Palestinian state,
as it could be used as a base for subversion against Israel.
1978: Terrorists injured three people in a grenade attack at a bus
station in Jerusalem.
1978:
Temple University trained M.D. Victor Jerome
Teichner, the member of the United States Naval Reserve and Columbia University
certified psychoanalysis who was President of the Society of Medical
Psychoanalysts married Gail W. Berry today.
1978: Harvey Milk began serving as a Member of the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors from District 5.
1978: Isaiah Sheffer “wrote down his idea for a place he had
decided to call Symphony Space, in part because that was the name of the
theater and in part because its first event was a symphony concert.
After tens of millions of dollars raised and a decade of
litigation, it became a complex of two theaters with a cafe, offices and a
board of directors.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1979(9th of Tevet, 5739): Seventy-eight-year-old
Zionist and educator Sara Feder-Keyfitz, the Milwaukee born daughter of
“Benjamin and Shaine (Kumok) Feder and childhood friend of Golda Meir who was
the wife of Professor Isidore Keyfitz passed away today in Jerusalem.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Feder-Keyfitz-Sara-Rivka
1980:
Park East Synagogue designated as a New York City
Landmark. The structure was built on New York’s Upper East Side in the last
decade of the 19th century for a congregation led by Rabbi Bernard
Drachman.
1982:
As part of the breakup of AT&T, AT&T agreed
to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. Judge Harold Greene, a Jew who
fled Hitler’s German with his parents, presided over United States v. AT&T,
the antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T vertical market monopoly on the
telecommunications industry in the United States.
1982: Today a Demonstration
of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry took place near the Soviet Mission to the
UN in support of Anatoly Shcharansky and refusenik Hebrew teachers.
1983(23rd of Tevet, 5743): Susanna, the daughter of
Miklós Nyiszli who described his concentration camp experiences in Auschwitz:
A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, passed away today
1984 (4th of Shevat, 5744): In Netivot (southern
Israel), Reb Yisroel Abuchatzeira, the Baba Sali passed away. Rabbi Israel Abuchatzera known as "Baba
Sali," was born in Tafillalt, Morocco in 1890, to the illustrious
Abuchatzera family. From a young age he was renowned as a sage, miracle maker
and master Kabbalist. In 1964 he moved to the Holy Land, eventually settling in
the southern development town he made famous, Netivot. His graveside in Netivot
will become a holy site visited by thousands annually.
1986,
New York City teachers elected long-time teacher advocate Sandra Feldman
president of the city's United Federation of Teachers (UFT). “She was the first
woman to head the UFT. After a decade heading the UFT, Feldman was elected
president of the American Federation of Teachers in May 1997, a position she
held until her retirement in 2004. She was the first woman to head the union
since 1930, and only the second in the organization's history. A recognized
authority on urban education and a former teacher herself, Feldman also served
on the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO. A passionate advocate for children
with an intense commitment to social justice, Feldman continues to be involved
in numerous community organizations. She co-chairs the Child Labor Coalition
and heads the AFL-CIO Committee on Social Policy. In addition, she serves on
the board of the Jewish Labor Committee, the Coalition of Labor Union Women,
and the United States Committee for UNICEF. To mark her retirement, Congress
passed a resolution in 2004 honoring Feldman for "her tireless efforts to
improve the quality of teaching and learning."
1986(27th
of Tevet, 5746): Seventy-three-year-old Detroit business executive Paul
Zuckerman, the founder of the “Velvet-O'Donnell Corporation, a successful
peanut butter company,” the wife of the former Helen Fleischer and the former
chairman of the United Jewish Appeal passed away today.
1986:
Sulayman Khatir, an Egyptian soldier who had machine-gunned a group of
Israelis, killing three adults and four young children, on the dunes of Ras
Burqa in1985, “was found dead in his prison hospital room hanging by a strip
torn from a sheet of plastic.”
1987(7th
of Tevet, 5747): Seventy-eight-year-old New Yorker “Myron Prinzmetal, one of
the first cardiologists to actively explore the link between diet and heart
disease” passed away today.
http://www.prinzmetal.net/myron_prinzmetal.htm
1989(2nd
of Shevat, 5749): Ninety-six-year-old Ukrainian born Canadian violinist Jan
Cherniavsky who as a child performed with Cherniavsky Trio which included his
brother violinist Leo and his brother cellist Mischel Cherniavsky passed away
today.
https://www.thecanadia
enencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jan-cherniavsky-emc
Jan Cherniavsky -
Discography of American Historical Recordings (ucsb.edu) Jan Cherniavsky -
Discography of American Historical Recordings (ucsb.edu)
1991:
Four soldiers were injured when terrorists began throwing grenades at bus
crossing from Jordan into Israel.
1991(22nd
of Tevet, 5751): Harold J. Mason, a seller of rare books and a publishing
company executive passed away today at the age of 64.Dr. Mason, a native of
Brooklyn, held bachelor's and master's degrees from Emory University and a
doctorate in library science form Columbia. He was with the Kraus Reprint
Company before co-founding the Greenwood Press in Westport, Conn., in 1966. In
1973 he established a company in his own name in Norwalk, Conn., selling
antiquarian journals and magazines. He is survived by his wife, the fomer Selma
Werner; two daughters, Lori Reisman of Ventura and Dione Katz of Tel Aviv; a
brother, Robert, of Washington and three grandchildren.
1991:
Israel deported four Palestinians to Lebanon today, less than 24 hours after
they had dropped their final legal appeals. The four, suspected of being
leaders of an Islamic fundamentalist group in the Gaza Strip, were flown
handcuffed and blindfolded to southern Lebanon, dropped off at the edge of
Israel's self-declared security zone and then ordered to march north toward a
Lebanese Army checkpoint. There they offered angry, threatening statements to
waiting Lebanese journalists and then made their way to Beirut.
1992:
Israel and China are expected to establish diplomatic relations for the first
time during a trip by Foreign Minister David Levy to Beijing toward the end of
the month, senior officials here said today. Although Israel was quick to
recognize the People's Republic of China after the Communist revolution in
1949, the countries never developed diplomatic relations. But they have long
had trade, scientific and other contacts that include arms sales by Israel to
China that are said to total several billion dollars.
1994(25th
of Tevet, 5754): Parashat Vaera
1994(25th
of Tevet, 5754): Eighty-eight-year-old Alice Rice Jaffe, the wife of Louis
Isaac Jaffe, the Pulitzer Prize winning editor of The Norfolk-Virginian
Pilot and mother of Louis Lawson Jaffe passed away today after which she
was buried at he Cedar Grove Cemetery in Norfolk, VA.
1995:
At the Mark Beck Theater, after 1,143, the curtain came down on the Broadway
revival of “Guys and Dolls” a Frank Loesser musical with a book by Abe Burrows.
1996(16th
of Tevet, 5756): Eighty-eight-year-old Howard Taubman, the former chief music
critic and chief theatre critic for The
New York Times passed away today.
1997(29th
of Tevet, 5757): Eighty-five-year-old Chemistry Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin
passed away today.
http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Melvin-Calvin-obit.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/10/us/melvin-calvin-dies-at-85-biochemist-won-nobel-prize.html
2000(1st
of Shevat, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
2001(1st
of Shevat, 5760): Eighty-year-old Martin Konigsberg the father of Allan Stewart
Konigsberg, better known as Woody Allen, passed away today.
2001:
Anthony Lewis “received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Bill
Clinton.”
2001:
Jack Abramoff left Preston Gates to join the Government Relations division of
the Washington, D.C. law firm Greenberg Traurig.
2002:
“The captain of a ship seized last week by Israel as it carried tons of weapons
said in jail-house interviews that he had taken his orders from a weapons agent
of Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority and that his cargo was meant to arm
Palestinians.”
2003:
Today, Israeli forces killed a gunman in the Golan Heights, Israel Radio
reported. The Israeli military said the man was killed and another was captured
during a clash with armed men who were crossing into Israeli-controlled
territory near the Syrian and Jordanian borders.
2003:
Judith Steinberg Dean, who earned her MD from Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University completed her service as the “First Lady of
Vermont” when her husband Howard Dean completed his service as Governor.
2004:
“The European Commission agreed today to revive planning for a conference on
anti-Semitism that it suspended two days ago after accusations from European
and American Jewish figures that some of its recent decisions were anti-Semitic
themselves.”
2005:
“Saving Jewish Children, but at What Cost?” published today described the
reopening of “a raw debate on the World War II role of the Catholic Church and
of Pope Pius XII a candidate for sainthood who has been excoriated by his
critics as a heartless anti-Semite who maintained a public silence on the Nazi
death camps and praised by his supporters as a savior of Jewish lives.”
2006:
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Suskind, author of The Price of Loyalty: George W.
Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill, was the special
guest speaker at the United Jewish Community of Broward County's annual Major
Gifts Event in Fort Lauderdale.
2006:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, The Reason I Wont Be
Coming: Stories by Eliot Perlman, Busting Vega$: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees by Ben Mezrich and newly released paperback
editions of Seven Types of Ambiguity by Ellot Perlman, The
Speakeasies of 1932 and Hirschfeld's Harlem by Al Hirschfeld,
Pragmatism, and Democracy by Richard A. Posner and Amos Oz’s Tale of Love and Darkness a
“richly layered memoir that chronicles the life of one of Israel's most
acclaimed novelists. Tracing his ancestors back to 19th-century Ukraine, Oz
weaves his family's history into the broader story of World War II, the rise of
the Israeli state and the death of the socialist-Zionist dream. Oz returns
often to his mother's suicide in 1952, when he was 12: the wound shapes his self-discovery
and the story of how he became a writer.”
2007:
New York magazine, published an
article entitled “Mall Menorah
Smackdown” which told the tale about “dueling rabbis struggling over who gets
to spread the faith to newcomers in the gentrifying area around Atlantic
Yards.” “A turf war has erupted between two Lubavitch rabbis claiming dibs on
the rapidly gentrifying brownstone neighborhoods that surround it. In one
corner is Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum, who showed up in Prospect Heights three years
ago to revive a decrepit Orthodox synagogue in the neighborhood, and recently
opened what he has dubbed the Brooklyn Jewish Community Center in a donated
space over a former laundromat. His rival is Rabbi Tali Frankel, who is backed
by his wife’s powerful uncle, Rabbi Shimon Hecht of Park Slope.”
2008: “A scaled down London revival” of the Jerry
Herman musica., “La Cage aux Folles, opened at the Menier Chocolate, in London.
2008(1st of Shevat, 5768): According to tradition 1
Shevat, 2488 marked the start of Moshe’s dissertations that compose the Devarim
(Book of Deuteronomy).
2008(1st of Shevat, 5768): Lieutenant
General Moshe Levy, the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
passed away. Born in Tel Aviv in 1936,
he was a person of Misrahi origin to serve as Chief of Staff.
2009: As part of the Spiritual Journeys series, at
the 92nd Street Y Rabbi Joyce Reinitz, the spiritual leader of the
Society of Jewish Science in Manhattan and psychotherapist facilitates a noon
time presentation styled “Feminine Reflections on the Rhythms of Our Lives:
Tevet—Illuminating the Miraculous.”
2009 (12th of Tevet, 5769): Two IDF officers and a soldier were killed today as the IDF penetrated
deeper into urban centers in the northern Gaza Strip. Maj. Ro'i Rosner of the
Kfir Brigade's Haruv Battalion was killed and another soldier was lightly
wounded, when a Hamas man fired an anti-tank missile at them as they conducted
searches near the Kissufim crossing into the Strip.Capt. Omer Rabinovitch, 23,
of Arad, was killed in the close-quarter firefights in Zeitoun. Sgt. Amit
Robinson, 21, a tank crewman from Kibbutz Magal, south of Baka al-Gharbiya, was
killed by a sniper, also in northern Gaza. His parents made aliya from
Argentina.
2009: Palestinian
militants in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of at least 30 rockets at southern
Israel today, just hours after the United Nations passed a resolution calling
for an immediate truce between Israel and Hamas.
2009: Three
Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon struck Nahariya, one of which slammed into
a retirement home. Two people were lightly wounded.
2009: The comrades of Private David Sher, the 8th
Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan while fighting the Taliban, hung a
Star of David above his casket as it was prepared to be sent to Melbourne for
burial.
2010: Brit of Nathan Zachary Silber son of David and
Rebecca Silber and grandson of Dr. Robert “Bob” and Laurie Silber, pillars of
the Cedar Rapids Jewish community and all around great guys.
2010: An exhibition is scheduled to open at Ben Uri
Gallery: The London Jewish Museum of Art that includes “Apocalypse,” the “a
previously unknown 1945 gouache by Mac Chagall.” Painted in New York, “Apocalypse shows a
naked Christ screaming a Nazi storm trooper below the cross who has a backwards
swastika on his arm, a Hitler-like mustache and serpentine tail.” This is one more example of Chagall using “an
image of a crucified Jesus…as a metaphor for persecuted Jewry
2010: Israel
has taken the upper hand in a new kind of Mideast conflict, one in which
bullets are replaced by chickpeas. Using a satellite dish on loan from a nearby
broadcast station, chefs in Abu Ghosh today whipped up more than 4,000 kg. of
humous, adding a Guinness world record to the Arab town's reputation for
hospitality and harmony.
2011: The 10th Red Sea Classical Festival
in Eilat comes to a close.
2011: Nadav
Kohen is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at Agudas Achim
in Iowa City, IA.
2011: Rabbi
Tamar Elad-Appelbaum who “fears that without pluralism, Israel will become ‘a
state alienated from itself’” is scheduled to give two talks at Congregation
Agudath Israel of West Essex, Caldwell, NJ, entitled “Israeli Female Rabbis and
the Challenges of 5771” and “Feminine Voices: Halacha and The Public Square.”
2011: As part of the 92nd St Y’s “Out of
Israel Program” the following works are scheduled to be presented:
FAME, a work-in-progress - LeeSaar The Company
2280 Pints!, a work-in-progress - Neta
Pulvermacher’s Neta Dance Company
Blink (2010) & 2 Kilos of Sea (2010) – Deganit
Shemy & Company
A work-in-progress by Netta Yerushalmy
Blush (2009) and Wonderland (2010) – Andrea Miller’s
Gallim Dance
Still Life with Seven Stories and a Woman (2010) –
Michal Samama
Drang (2009) & a work-in-progress – Lior
Schneior
2011: Representative Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords,
Arizona’s first Jewish congresswoman, was in critical condition after being shot in the
head. “Giffords was outside one of her signature "Congress at your
corner" events outside a Safeway in Tucson, the district she represented,
when a gunman approached and shot her in the head.
2011(3rd of
Shevat, 5711):
Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, was
killed in the mass shooting at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's Congress on the Corner
event. Zimmerman, a former social worker, was Giffords's director of community
outreach and the organizer of the meet-and-greet event. Zimmerman was
Giffords's point of contact for constituents in the district. It was a great
fit: Zimmerman had a degree in social work, natural empathy and an extroverted
personality, those who knew him said. Zimmerman was a Tucson native. He had
worked for Giffords since her first campaign in 2006. He was engaged to marry a
nurse and was an avid runner, friends said. Zimmerman had worked with Giffords
since her first congressional race in 2006, the Arizona Daily Star reports, and
his friends described him as having a natural talent at working with other
people. Gabe Zimmerman in 2009 (Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans)He
received a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California at
Santa Cruz and a master's in social work from Arizona State University. In
addition to his mother, he is survived by his father, Ross Zimmerman, stepmother
Pam Golden, brother Ben Zimmerman, and fiancée Kelly O'Brien.
2011: Today four mortar shells fired by Palestinian
terrorists in Gaza landed in a kibbutz in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council,
wounding three foreign agricultural workers – one of them seriously.
2011(3rd of
Shevat, 5771): Eighty-two-year-old “Alexis Weissenberg, a charismatic
Bulgarian-born pianist known for his thundering aggressiveness and rational
detachment at the keyboard, and for his unapologetic defense of those traits in
interviews” passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012(13th of Tevet, 5772): Eighty-one
year old Joe M. Pincus passed away
2012: “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is scheduled to be
shown at the Salisbury Film Festival at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD.
2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is
scheduled to be shown at the Mobile Jewish Film Festival in Mobile, Alabama.
2012: A display of Chanukah menorahs designed by
Bronx-based silversmith Bernard Bernstein which has been part of the New York
Historical Society’s Chanukah celebration is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“Breakdown” by Sara Paretsky, “Henrich Himmler” by Peter Longerich, “Hitler’s
Hangman: The Life of Heydrich” by Robert Gerwarth, “A More Perfect Heavan: How
Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos” by Dava Sobel and “Kayak Morning:
Reflections on Love, Grief and Small Boats” by Roger Rosenblatt.
2012: IDF
soldiers captured close to a dozen pipe bombs at the Salem Crossing near Jenin
in the northern West Bank today, thwarting what appears to have been a major
terrorist attack, possibly against a nearby military court.
2012: The Jerusalem District Court today indicted
five right-wing activists suspected of involvement in the so-called 'price tag'
attack on the IDF's Ephraim Division military base last month.
2013: Seth
Chernoff is scheduled to have a discussion and signing of his new book Manual
For Living: Connection, A User’s guide to the Meaning of Life at American
Jewish University in Los Angeles.
2013: Three shorts – Reality Check, Martha Must Fly
and Shalom – are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Seventieth anniversary of the birth of Judy
Levin Rosenstein זיכרונה לברכה
2013: The Associated Press
reported today that "the consensus now among some U.S. officials involved
in the case is that despite years of denials, Iran's intelligence service was
almost certainly behind the 54-second video and five photographs of Robert Levinson
that were emailed anonymously to his family.
2013: Rabbis from the Rabbis for Human Rights-North
America board are scheduled to deliver a copy of a letter, expressing concerns about settlement
expansion in the E-1 Corridor to the Israeli Embassy in Washington today. The letter contains the signatures of 720
Rabbis and rabbinical students.
2013: Sasson Barashy was found guilty of
racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison
with credit for time served. He was also ordered to serve three years under
supervised release after his release from federal prison.
2013: Traffic resumed in both directions of Tel
Aviv’s main highway, the Ayalon freeway, this afternoon, hours after the road
was closed along with other major arteries due to heavy rains that caused
waters to rise near road-level.
2013: The
Israeli Navy was sent into the coastal city of Hadera late tonight to help
rescue residents stranded by massive flooding.
2014:
Professor Steven Kennedy is scheduled to deliver a second lecture on “Leonard
Bernstein: From Jewish Roots To Broadway” which looks at the legacy of the
multi-talented musician whose Jewish identity was such that he conducted the
symphony in Tel Aviv while Israel was fighting for its independence.
2014:
“Wild West Hebron” and “Pulse” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem
Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
“Protests by African migrants in Israel, unprecedented in their scope,
continued for a fourth straight day today as about 10,000 people, many of whom
came by bus from Tel Aviv, gathered at the Rose Garden in Jerusalem across from
the Knesset.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)
2014:
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon “vehemently condemned extremist Jewish violence”
known as price tag attacks of “terror.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2014:
In a statement released to the Times of Israel today, Karen Lawrence, the
President of Sarah Lawrence University spoke out against the American Studies
Association boycott of Israel writing, “I oppose this boycott. Academic
boycotts have the effect of stifling dialogue vital to academic freedom;
indeed, Israeli academics themselves are crucial voices in debating the
policies of their government. To declare their institutions barred from
academic exchange unfairly curtails their academic freedom and limits the
possibilities for dialogue to contribute to understanding, affect policy, and
even change minds.” (As reported by Debra Kamin)
2014: Vivian Bercovici began serving as Canada’s
ambassador to Israel.
2015: The Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism
is scheduled to host the second of day “Beyond Camps and Forced Labour.”
2015:
In the UK, a conference hosted by the University of Kent that “seeks to examine
the significance of topography of the Nazi concentration camps” which is part
of the schools way to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz is scheduled to come to an end.
2015:
School was canceled in the Golan Heights, West Bank, and around Jerusalem today
due to inclement weather
2015:
“Schools in Jerusalem were set to open at 10 a.m. today amid a much-heralded
winter storm that saw the capital receive a mere five centimeters of snow”
yesterday.
2015:
California Senator Barabara Boxner announced today that she will not run for a
sixth term in 2016.
2015:
“Authorities in Uruguay detonated what turned out to be a fake bomb found near
Israel’s embassy in Montevideo, officials said today.”
2015(17th
of Tevet, 5775): Sixty-five-year-old Bella Ostrovksy who operated the Ostrovsky
Fine Art Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ with her husband Mossad agent and
bestselling author Victor Ostrovsky passed away today.
2016:
“A short-lived but powerful winter storm struck Israel on today, bringing with
it torrential rain and tragic consequences after two people were swept away by
the floods and killed.
2016:
“Our Little Sister” and “Bridge of Spies” is scheduled to be shown at the
Jerusalem Cinematheque.
2016:
The weeklong Yiddish Language and Culture School at Florida Atlantic University
in Boca Raton is scheduled to end today.
2016:
The Texas Jewish Historical Society Winter Board Meeting is scheduled to open
in Galveston Texas this evening with a Shabbat dinner at Temple B’nai Israel
followed by services.
2016:
Congregation Beth Tefillah in Scottsdale, AZ is scheduled to host “Mishpachti
Mexican Shabbat.”
2016(27th
of Tevet, 5776): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tevet_27.html
2017(10th of Tevet, 5777): Assarah
be-Tevet
2017(10th
of Tevet 5777): Today, “four IDF soldiers—three women and a man in their
20s—were murdered and 13 wounded when a Palestinian truck driver deliberately
rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade overlooking the walled Old City
of Jerusalem”
2017(10th
of Tevet, 5777): Calendar Quirk – The
anniversary of the birth of Judy Rosenstein (nee Levin) on the English calendar
coincides with her Yahrzeit on the Jewish Calendar providing family and friends
a prolonged chance to remember this ayshish chayil of the first order.
2017:
The New York Times features books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Final
Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani, Why?:
Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes, Steven Spielberg: A Life in
Films by Molly Haskell, War Against War: The American Fight for Peace,
1914-1918 by Michael Kazin and Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert
E. Lerner
2017:
In Atlanta, GA, Helen Weingarten who along with four of her five sisters
survived Auschwitz, is scheduled to tell her story as part of The Breman’s
Bearing Witness Program.
2017(10th
of Tevet, 5777): Eighty-six-year-old “arranger, producer and composer” Louis
Isidore “Buddy” Bregman, the nephew of composer Jules Styne, passed away today.
2017:
The exhibition — Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven — is scheduled
to come to a close at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2018: The Jewish History Center is scheduled to present a
lecture on “The Fate of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust” by Dr. Joseph
Benatov who teaches at the Universit of Pennsylvania and was the recipient of
the 2017 Fred and Ellen Lewis / JDC Archives Fellowship
2018: In Des Moines, Beth El Jacob Congregation is
scheduled to conduct a Memorial for Rabbi Marshall and Shirley Berg.
2018: “FBI agents, accompanied by Israeli police officers,
visited the Ramat Gan offices of the major binary options platform provider
SpotOption” today as part of Washington’s investigation into “binary options
fraud.”
2018: The Center for Jewish History, the Leo Baeck
Institute and the YIVO Institute are scheduled to present the New York City
premier of “Reversing Oblivion.”
2019: Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “a tribute to
Sasha Argov, one of Israel’s greatest composers and a recipient of the Israel
Prize.
2019: Two days after having met with Prime Minister
Netanyahu, National Security advisor John Bolton is scheduled to meet with
President of Turkey to explain the implications of President Trump’s
announcement that American forces are pulling out of Syria immediately and that
Iran can do whatever it wants to in Syria.
2019: Miami born, and University of Florida trained
attorney Nikki Fried began serving as 12th Florida Commissioner
Agricultre.
2019(2nd of Shevat, 5779): On the Jewish
calendar yahrzeit of “King Alexander Yanni (Jannaeus)” who
reigned “from 103 BCE to 76 BCE.”
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Shevat_2.html
2020:
Michael and Shimrit Greilsammer at scheduled to launch a new album at Nocturnon
where “they will host the award-winning composer and violinist Yonatan Keren.”
2020: Chesa Boudin is scheduled to begin serving as the
District Attorney in San Francisco today.
2020: In Cambridge, MA, the Cambridge Brewing Company is
scheduled to host “D’var in the Bar” with Rabbi Michelle Robinson.
2020:
Seventy-seventh anniversary of the birth of Judy Levin, who gained fame
as Judy Rosenstein – gone but never forgotten
2021: Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to present
online a “Community-Wide Shabbat of New Beginnings.”
2021: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present a “PJ
Library Sing-In Shabbat” “with award winning song writer and educator Eliana
Light.
2021: This morning, B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is
scheduled to host a Kinder Shabbat in the morning Kabbalat Shabbat services
this evening.
2021:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is schedule to host a virtual Lunch and Learn on
“Poetry of Psychological Resistance at Auschwitz: The Words of Krystyna
Zywulska” during which “Dr. Barbara Milewski, Associate Professor of Music at
Swarthmore College, presents her research on the remarkable life and resistance
poetry of Krystyna Zywulska, a Polish political prisoner at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1943 until
her escape in 1945.”
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host “Shabbat Under the
Stars,” an in-person event in the congregation’s parking lot followed.
2021:
In Washington, DC, Sixth & I is scheduled to host “Shabbat: Break Away,” a
virtual service led by Rabbi Aaron and musician Aaron Shneyer” that is lighter
on prayer and has a less sctructured and more casual vibe than a tradition
service.”
2021:
As Israelis cope with opening days of its third lockdown they maybe find
comfort in yesterday’s announcement by the Prime Minister “that most Israelis
will be able to get vaccinated by March” thanks in part to “a new deal with
U.S. drug maker” Pfizer.
2021:
Seventy-eighth anniversary of the birth of Judy Rosenstein missed by her sons
Danny, David Asher and Joel, her brothers David and Mitchell and so many more
whose life she touched for the better.
2022(6th
of Shevat, 5782): Parashat Bo.
2022: Based
on previous published reports, Israelis are scheduled to face higher prices
because Osem, “one of Israel’s largest producers” which is “owned by Swiss firm
Nestle” will be increased “the prices of hundreds of products by an average of
5%.”
2022: The
Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to present “The Best of Chamber Music”
with Nitzan Canety, violin; Gilad Rivkin, violin; Gili Radian Sade, viola; Gal
Nyska, cello; Ishay Shaer, piano
2023: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including American Caliph: The True Story
of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC,
by Shahan Mufti which tells the tale of a conflict between groups of Moslems
that resulted in the seizure of the B’nai B’rith building in Washington, DC.
2023:
Tribetalk is scheduled to present Dr. Rachel Fish hosting an interactive
discussion with teens and parents to unpack the rise in antisemitism
demonstrated by statements from Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, Berkeley law students
and others.
2013: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present curator Ivy Weingram for a
one-hour in-person tour in which she addresses these meaningful questions in
the special exhibition, How Jews Became Citizens: Highlights from the Sid
Lapidus Collection.
2023: Yair
Lapid is scheduled to return to Israel from Paris today after which he says he
will “continue to fight with all of our might” to bring the Netanyahu led
government.
2023: The
National Library of Israel is scheduled to host lecture by Silvana Kandel
Lamdan on Jewish Roots and ‘Jewish Turns’ in Latin American Liberation Theology
in the 1960s-1980s.
2023: Anniversary of the birth of Judy
Rosenstein (nee Levin)
2024: YIVO is scheduled to present a
lecture by Jan Grabowski on “Holocaust Distortion in Poland and Beyond.”
2024: German airline group Lufthansa is
scheduled to resume flights to Tel Aviv today, after the service was suspended
following the Hamas terror group’s October 7 onslaught in southern Israel.
2024: Anniversary of the birth of Judy
Rosenstein (nee Levin), the sister of Mitchell and David Levin, the wife of
Larry Rosenstein and the mother of Danny, David and Joel Rosenstein who truly
was an Ashit Chayil, “A Woman of Valor.” A devoted wife, loving mother, doting
grandmother, faithful friend as well as daughter and sister extraordinaire,
Judy is a gift to all who are fortunate enough to be part of her life. “And her children called her
‘Blessed’.”
2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled
to a discussion with Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman and the cast of the hit
Broadway musical “Harmony.”
https://streicker.nyc/events/harmony-discussion
2024: The Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable
Trust is scheduled to sponsor the Federational-NOLA conversational Hebrew class
at Beth Israel in Metairie, LA.
2024: As January 8th begins in Israel,
the Hamas held hostages begin day 94 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.)
