This Day, March 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levi Z"L
347: Traditional birthdate for Jerome, the priest and theologian best known for the creation of the Vulgate Bible, the Latin translation of the text and the author of correspondence with Augustine of Hippo that frequently mentioned the Jews living in Africa.
538 BCE: Cyrus was
crowned “King of Babylonia and King of All Lands.” Cyrus was the King who made it possible for
the Jews to return to Judea marking the end of the Babylonian exile.
196 BCE:
Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. Ptolemy was one of the Greco-Egyptian
rulers who fought with Antiochus for the control of Judea.
972: In
Orleans, “Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine” gave birth to Robert II who
“conspired with his vassals to destroy all of the Jews who would not accept
baptism” and who “inspired mob violence against the Jews including the learned
Rabbi Senor.
1188: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I
Barbarossa, who was comparatively protective of his Jewish subject “took up the
Cross” and joined what would become the Third Crusade.
1191: Pope
Clement III who was one of the Popes locked in a power struggle with the Holy
Roman Emperor, Henry IV in which the Jews were mere pawns, passed away today.
Henry considered the Jews to be his subjects and beyond the control of the
Church. During the First Crusade, the hordes going through Germany killed and
robbed the Jews. At the same time, many Jews were forced to convert. Henry was
in Italy and much to the dismay of the Pope, when he heard what was going on in
Germany, the Emperor set about punishing those of the perpetrators who were
still around including at least one archbishop. He also ordered that any Jew
who had converted under duress should be allowed to return to the faith of
their fathers. Clement over-ruled the Emperor on this one. He did not how
people were brought to Jesus, but once they were there, there was no going
back.
1309: Pope
Clement V, who in 1305 became the first pope to threaten Jews with an economic
boycott in an attempt to force them to stop charging Christians interest on
loans, excommunicated Venice and all its population.
1378: Gregory
XI, the last of the Avignon Popes, passed away. In 1375 Gregory had issued an
order “to compel” Jews to hear sermons.
The order would later be vacated and replaced by the older formula
allowing one to “exhort” the Jews to listen. (For more see Popes, Church and
Jews in the Middle Ages by Kenneth Stow)
1625(OS): The
reign of King James I of England, Ireland and Kings James VI of Scotland who
had Henry Finch arrested because a work he had published “predicted in the near
future, the restoration of the temporal dominion to the Jews” and who was
responsible for the King James Bible came to an end today.
1639: In Rome,
a child is forcibly baptized after his father jokingly remarked that he would
not mind it, on the condition that the Pope acted as godfather. The Jews rioted
and were violently crushed. As a result, two of his children were taken, one a
baby, and were carried in a ceremony by the Pope.
1766(17th
of Nisan, 5526): Third Day of Pesach observed on the same day that friends in
London wrote to George Washington congratulating him “and all our friends in
America” on the repeal of the Stamp Act.
1753: In
London, “Elizabeth Crowcher, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Wapping” and
Ralph Schomberg, the physician and Anglican convert who was the son of German
Jewish physician Meyer Low Schomberg, gave birth to controversial British naval
officer and historian Isaac Schomberg.
1774(15th
of Nisan, 5534): Pesach was celebrated as Parliament debated what became known
as the Boston Port Act, London’s reaction to the Boston Tea Party.
1775(25th of
Adar): Rabbi Chaim Ben David Abulafia, author of Nishmat Chaim passed away.
1775:
Elizabeth Ezekiel married Samuel Judah today in London.
1786: Jacob
Louzada, a loyalist who owned 88 acres at Bound Brook, NJ made a second, and
unsuccessful claim for indemnification after his property had been confiscated
and sold “by order the State Legislature of New Jersey.”
1786(27th of
Adar, 5546): Based on tombstone found in the original Jewish cemetery in Ghent,
date on which an unnamed Jew passed away. This unknown Jew or Jewess was the
first Israelite to be legally buried in the city under the reign of Joseph II.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6652-ghent
1791: In
Savannah, GA, Shankey Hartand Abraham Jacobs gave birth to Georgianna (Judith)
Jacobs.
1793: In Grove
Germany, Rivka Mosheim and Itzig Behr gave birth to Bernhard Benrend, the
husband of Eliese Heine with whom had fourteen children.
1797: In
Essingen, Germany, Bunle Babette Isaac and Emanuel Natahn Scharff gave birth to
Aaron Emanuel Scharff, who married Magdelanna Roos with whom he had seven
children after having first been married to Apollonia Nathan.
1798: Today,
“Moses Myers, the consignee of four and half hogsheads of brandy lost his case
in” United States District Court after which “permission was granted to him to
petition the Secretary of Treasury for a reversal of the decision” as long as
Myers paid the costs.
1800(1st
of Nisan, 5560): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1800: On the
same day that the Jews were uttering additional prayers for the celebration of
the New Moon, the United States Senate was citing editor William Duane Contempt
in their fight to muzzle a journalist who was critical of the Federalist Party.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Holds_Editor_in_Contempt.htm
1802: Raphael
Nathan Bischoffsheim and his wife Helene, the daughter of Herz Moses Cassel,
gave birth to their daughter Amalie who married was married in August 1818 at
Mayence.
1804(15th
of Nisan, 5564): Pesach
1812(14th
of Nisan, 5572): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach observed for the last time
before the outbreak of war between the United States and Great Britain, known
as the War of 1812.
1816: Gabriel
Gabriel married Rebecca Marks today at the Great Synagogue.
1820: In
Baghdad, David Sassoon and Hannah Joseph gave birth to businessman Elias David
Sassoon.
1820: Woolf
Davis married Rachel Meyer at the Seel Street Synagogue in Liverpool, England.
1827(28th of
Adar): Rabbi Samuel ben Nathan Ha-Levi author of Mahat-zit ha Shekel passed
away
1827:
Birthdate of Wolf Frankenburger, the native of Obbach who became a successful
lawyer and represented the Constituency of Middle Franconia in the Reichstag.
1830(3rd
of Nisan, 5590): Parashat Vayikra read as the Chinese tried to end the Opium
trade which would lead to the “Opium War.”
1834(16th
of Adar II, 5594): Before reaching the age of two, Levin Lev, the Hamburg born
son of Hannchen and Moses Nathan Levy passed away today.
1835:
Birthdate of Alton, Germany native Bernhard Cohen who settled in England where
he was bured at the Scholemoor Jewish Cemetery.
1836: In
Kecskemét, Hungary, Maria (nee Hacker) and Samuel Goldstein gave birth to
cantor and composer Josef Goldstein who “was chief cantor at the Leopoldstädter
Tempel in Vienna, Austria from
1857 until his
death” in 1899.
1847:
Birthdate of Nanette Adeline Kilian, the wife of German born Max Tutuer and
mother of Walter and Josephine Tuteur both of whom were born in London.
1836: During
the Texas Revolution, an untold number of Jews died when Antonio López de Santa
Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POW's who had fought
under James Fannin at Goliad, Texas.
1839 (12th of
Nisan, 5569): On March 27, 32 Jews living in Meshed, Persia were massacred, and
the remaining 100 families were forced to convert to Islam.
1839(12th
of Nisan): The Jews were forced to convert in Meshed, Iran. Influenced by other
anti-Jewish riots under the Kajar Dynasty in Iran, the local community attacked
the Jewish quarter. The Synagogue was destroyed, over 30 Jews killed, and the
rest of the community threatened with annihilation. Moslem leaders offered to
prevent further riots on condition that the Jews convert, which they did. The
Jews became known as Jadid al-Islam or New Moslems thus ending the presence of
the Jewish community. They continued to practice their Judaism in secret and
fled the city with their families whenever an opportunity for escape presented
itself.
1840(22nd
of Adar II, 5600): Abraham J De Lyon, the Savannah, GA born son of Abraham and
Sarah Sheftall D’Lyon and the brother of Isaac, Rina Levi Joseph and Mordecail
Sheftall De Lyon passed away in Savannah after which he was buried at the Levi
Sheftall Cemetery in Savanah.
1842(16th
of Nisan, 5602): Second Day of Pesach celebrated on the birthdate of Alexandre
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, the author of Mission des Juifs which was favorable to Jews.
https://www.amazon.com/MISSION-JEWS-ANTIQUITY-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN-LEGACY/dp/0983710279
1847:
Birthdate of German born chemist Otto Wallach. In 1910, he won the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry.
1848: In
Meseritz, Prussia, Neuman and Johanna Arnfeld Tuholske gave birth to Herman
Tuholske, the Missouri Medical College
trained physician, surgeon and medical school professor who co-founded he St.
Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine in 1882 and established the St. Louis
Surgical and Gynecological Hospital in 1890 and had three children with his
wife Sophie Epstein Tuholske.
https://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/FC059
1849(27th
of Nisan, 5609): Jonas Alexandre Aron, the Lorraine born son of Alexandre
Sender Nathan Aron and Antoinette Judelen (Judlen, Yitele, Judle) Aron, the husband
of Sara Zerlé Simon Aron and
father of
Nathan Aron; Judith Ytel Aron; Joseph Cerf Aron; Simon Aron; Esther Cahn -
Lazard; David Aron; Lazare Jonas Aron; Arnold Aron; Alexandre Aron; Sophie
Weill; Isaac Aron; Rosalie Loeb and Hélène Elise Salomon passed away today In
Phalsbourg, France.
1850(14th
of Nisan, 5610): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1850: In
Rotterdam, Dunkirk, France native Sara Wolf and Hampshire born Benjamin Pinheas
Moses gave birth to Henry Moses Spier who died before he had reached the second
month of his life.
1850(14th
of Nisan, 5610): Fifty three year old banker and astronomer Wilhelm Wolff Beer
for whom the crater Beers on Mars is named and who is the brother of Giacomo
Meybeer passed away.
1860:
Birthdate of Eugene C. Kahn, one of the first, if not the first, Jewish child
to be born in Morgan City, a port city on the Atchafalaya.
1861(16th
of Nisan, 5621): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
1861: The New York Times reports a drop in the
sale of livestock this week due to Lent and the observance of Passover.
1861: Charles
August Lauff, the German native and California businessman, and his wife, Maris
J. Sebran, the daughter of Gregorio and Ramono Briones, gave birth to Charles
A. Lauff.
1862: Captain
Nathan Davis Menken, a merchant from Cincinnati who was serving with Company A,
1st Ohio Cavalry in the Union Army served with distinction today at
the Battle of Kernstown in Virginia.
1863: In
response to the “recommendation by the President of the Confederacy” that this
be a Day of Prayer, Rabbi M. J. Michelbacher, of the German synagogue Bayth
Ahabah in Richmond, Virginia, preached a sermon, "to which he added a
prayer for the Confederate States of America "to crown our independence
with lasting honor and prosperity," and for its president, Jefferson
Davis, "grant speedy success to his endeavors to free our country from the
presence of its foes." [On a personal note, it never ceases to amaze me
that Jews could support slavery. How does one go to a Seder after reciting such
a prayer?]
1868: Lazar
Schorstein, the Vienna born son of Yithak Schorstein, and his wife Clara
Schorstein gave brith to Bertha Victoria Shostein (who may have changed her
last name to Shorstone who lived in the United Kingdom with her siblings,
Gustave Isidore Schrstein and Therese Alice Schorstein, the wife of Claude
Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore.
1869: The New York Times reported that “At
sundown last evening the Jewish Feast of Passover commenced. It was instituted
in commemoration of the deliverance of God's chosen people from Egypt, in
bondage, and the passing over by the destroying angel of those families the
doors of whose dwellings were marked with the blood of the Paschal Lamb.”
1869(15th of
Nisan, 5629): First Day of Pesach; in the evening count the Omer for the first
time.
1869(15th of
Nisan, 5629): In New York Temple Emanuel and the Nineteenth-street synagogue
were among the Jewish houses of worship holding services on the first day of
Passover.
1875:
Birthdate of NYC native and CCNY and Pratt trained architect Charles B. Meyers
whose creations included 44 Union Square which was opened on July 4, 1929.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_B._Meyers
1876: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Association moved from its temporary quarters to the Harvard
Rooms at Forty-Second Street and Sixth Avenue in New York City.
1876: In
Austria, Sarah Risefeld and Max Blatteis gave birth to Bellevue Medical College
trained medical doctor Simon R. Blatteis the husband of Minnie Levin and
consultant pathologist and attending physician at the Jewish Hospital of
Brooklyn who was the consulting physician at the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and
Hospital for the Aged and a member of the Union Temple in Brooklyn.
1877: In New
York City, “Sigmund and Pauline Ullman gave birth award winning impressionist
painter Eugene Paul Ullman whose son Paul was shot and killed by the Gestapo
while secretly working for the Allies in WW II and for which Eugene “accepted
France’s Corix de Guerre on Paul’s behalf.
https://library.newschool.edu/archives/findingaids/KA0042.html
1877: In New
York City, Justice Murray dismissed charges filed against Henry Sollinger for
having obtained money under false pretense from Mrs. Jane Ferguson. Sollinger
was born Jewish but claimed to have converted to Christianity at which time he
began using the alias Frederick E. Hall.
1878: In
Cleveland Ohio, Falk Vidaver, the son of Nathan Vidaver and his wife Anna gave
birth to Ruth Vidaver who became Ruth Dodge when she married Dr. Henry
Washington Dodge, Sr.
1879: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Free School Association has received $10,
840.60. The money was raised by the Purim Association at its dress ball that
had been held on March 6th.
1880(15th of
Nisan, 5640): First Day of Pesach
1880: It was
reported today that Baron James de Rothschild is President of the newly formed
society established in Paris to promote Jewish studies.
1881: In
Albany, NY, Joseph and Matilda Anker gave birth to Edward R. Anker, the
long-time newspaper editor and husband of Frances Freund Anker
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/12/08/113173280.pd
1882: In New
York, Benjamin Arnheim, the son of Walter and Sophia Arnheim and his wife
Henrietta Arnheim gave birth to Walter B. Arnheim
1883: In
Teplitz, Rabbi Adolf Aharon Rosenzweig and his wife gave birth to Rabbi
Arthur Rosenzweig who passed away in Prague in 1935.
1883: In Paris, France, Benjamin and Miriam Manilla gave
birth to Western Reserve University educated Cleveland, OH Jewish activist and
Democratic Party Member Sarah M. Lewis the wife of Max J. Lewis and member of
Tiftereth Israel Congregation whose many activities including serving as a
regional director of Hadassah for Ohio, serving on the executive board of the Council of Jewish and serving as
Democratic Party ward leader.
1884(1st of
Nisan, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the same day “the first
long-distance telephone line between New York and Boston was activated, using
copper for the very first time,”
1887: “The
first organized effort on the part of” Jews in Brooklyn “to tender a public
tribute to the late Henry Ward Beecher too place” today” at the Kane Street
Temple where…a large number of prominent Israelites met ‘in order to co-operate
with other creeds and societies in raising a fund for a statue and free library
to perpetuate the memory of the great friend of humanity and champion of
religious liberty --- Henry Ward Beecher.’”
1888(15th
of Nisan, 5648): Pesach observed for what was thought to be at the time, the
last time the Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
1889: In
Rheinhessen, Germany, Abraham Beckhardt and his wife gave birth WW I ace Fritz
Beckhardt who scored 17 kills while flying for the “Fatherland” which later
attempted to erase his record when the Nazis came to power.
1890(6th
of Nisan, 5650): Emanuel Berhnheimer a native of Germany who came to the United
States in 1844 and formed a partnership with August Schmid that led to
formation of Lion Brewery, passed away today.
1891:
Birthdate of Russian native and Columbia trained “neurologist and psychiatrist”
Dr. Irving J. Sands, the author and leading medical educator who was the
husband New York City Board of Education member Cecile Ruth Humbert Sands and
the father of Drs. William L and Richard H Sands.
1891: The
Citation for First Sergeant Jacob Trautman Medal of Honor was issued today.
1892(25th
of Adar, 5652): Sixty-eight-year-old German native and winemaker Samuel
Lachman, the founder of Samuel Lachman & Sons, the husband of Henriette
Lachman and father of Albert Lachman; Rebecca W. Metzger and Henry Lachman was
laid to rest today in Colma, CA, three days after he had passed away.
https://www.jmaw.org/lachman-jewish-wine-california/
1892: The
Biennial Convention of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association was held at
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1893: The
Bowery Amphitheater “reopened as a Hebrew theatre under the management of
Sigmund Magulesko, Isidore Lindeman and Joseph Levy.
1893:
Birthdate of sociologist Karl Mannheim, author of "Ideology and
Utopia." Born in Hungary, he passed away in London in 1947.
1893(10th of
Nisan, 5653): Solomon Beyfus, the son of Hamburg born language professor Gotz
Philip Beyfus and Plymouth born Cippy Beyfus and the husband of Charlotte
Abrahams, “the daughter of Esther and Henry Abrahams, a jeweler of Bevis Marks
in the City of London” with whom he had ten children passed away today “leaving
£81,326” and tribe of children who became successful in the law and theatre.
1893: “Jews
and Intermarriage” published today contains a refutation by Rabbi Mendes of the
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of previously published sermons that Jewish
law does not prohibit intermarriage between a Jew and his earnest request that
further discussion of this topic be limited to the Jewish press.
1894: Birthday
of Israel B. Padway, the native of Leeds, England who came to the United States
in 1906 where he graduated from Marquette Law School and began practicing law
as well as serving as President of the Board of Jewish Education.
1895:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture tonight at the Hebrew Institute on
“The Influences of Organized Labor.”
1898: The
Excelsior Club which meets every Sunday and whose members include William
Weinbeck, Ben Harvey, Frank Eggelton, Harry Hartman, Edgar Rosenthal and Jack
Lipschutz was founded today in Philadelphia.
1898: “In
Algeria the sixth paper devoted to anti-Semitism, L'Anti-Juif Algérien, appeared, with an illustrated supplement.”
1898:
“Austro-Hungarian Polity” published today described the some of the cause of
that have led to unrest in certain agrarian districts including “a marked
contempt and dislike for commerce and trade” among Hungarians, “so that the
industry of this country is to a large extent, in the hands of the Jews.”
1899(16th
of Nisan, 5659) Second Day of Pesach
1899: New York
Mayor Van Wyck met with six boys from the Hebrew Institute at Jefferson and
East Broadway.
1899:
Birthdate of Polish born physician Hyman Edward Canter, who moved to Pittsburg
in 1913 where he practiced obstetrics.
1900: Herzl
had a meeting with Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber about sanctioning the
Viennese electoral reform. He requests that the “Neue Freie Presse” should not
oppose the reform too massively.
1901:
Anti-Jewish riots began in Smyrna, Turkey. The riots were triggered by the
reports of the disappearance of a child who was said to have been slaughtered
by the Jews for 'ritual murder.' Though the riots continued for four days, the
child was eventually found and paraded through the streets to show he was
indeed alive.
1901(7th
of Nisan, 5661): Seventy-seven-year-old “German manufacturer and
philanthropist” Heinrich Blumenthal was “for a quarter of a century Blumenthal
was a member of the city council, and for more than two decades the president
of the Jewish community of Darmstadt” passed away today.
1902:
Birthdate of screenwriter Sidney Robert Buchman, the native of Duluth,
Minnesota and Columbia University graduate who served as President of the
Screen Writers Guild of America who ended up on the infamous Hollywood
Blacklist.
http://zenithcity.com/thisday/august-23-1975-death-of-duluth-screenwriter-sidney-buchman/
1902: It was
reported today that President Theodore Roosevelt had sent a letter of regret
expressing his disappointment at not being able to attend the dedication of the
Lucas A. Steinam School of Metal Working which is new addition to the Hebrew
Technical Institute in New York.
1903: The
Zionist Commission met Herzl in Cairo.
1904(11th
of Nisan, 5664): Colonel Albert Edward Goldsmid the distinguished British
officer who founded the Jewish Lads’ Brigade and the Maccabaeans passed away.
1905: The Pall
Mall Gazette published “The Truth About the East End” by Meyer Jack (MJ) Landa
the native of Leeds who worked as journalist in London where he also wrote
plays including “The Shylock Myth.”
1905:
Birthdate of Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff a German military officer
who played a role in two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler, and who,
thanks to the bravery of his tortured comrades remained undiscovered and thus
survived the war.
1906: At the
insistence of the Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria, the Minister of the Interior of
Bulgaria issues a circular to his governors to take every form of precaution
against anti-Semitism over Easter.
1906: Oscar S.
Straus and former state Supreme Court Justice William N. Cohen, who spoke on
“The Function of the Synagogue in America” were among those who addressed the
first meeting of the Temple Beth-El Club which was held at the sanctuary on 5th
Avenue and 76th Street.
1906(1st of
Nisan): First publication of Der
Yiddisher Kemfer, a publication American Labor Zionism
1907: It was
reported today that the Rumanian Central Relief Committee in New York is
sending $5,000 to Rumania for the relief of the Jews, including the four
hundred destitute families who had escaped from the attacks in Bucowina as well
Jews living at Gabatz and Jassy.
1908: It was
reported today that Oscar Hammerstein is planning on breaking ground next week
in Philadelphia for an Opera House that should be ready to open on November 15th.
1908:
According to a letter today by Joel Benton what was described as “The Easter
Lily” “was really a large and glorified anemone, which grows in great profusion
in Palestine” and which has “very rich velvet-colored petals.”
1909: In
Munich, author Thomas Mann and his Jewish wife Katia gave birth to their third
child, Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann who gained fame as historian Golo Mann.
1910(16th
of Adar II, 5670): Shushan Purim
1910(16th
of Adar II, 5670): Twenty-two days after celebrating his 66th
birthday, Hungarian born “rabbi and historian” Markus Horovitz, the holder of
doctorate from Tubingen who moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1878 where “he organized two model religious schools,” where he “was
given authority over the entire community's religious institution, and he promoted coexistence between the Orthodox and
Reform factions maintaining that it was possible for a unified community to
exist while both sides exercised autonomy over their own institutions while
raising “German Orientalist Josef Horovitz passed away today after which he was
buried at the Old Jewish Cemetery.
1910: “The
Executive Committee of the Jewish community, which represents 690
organizations” in New York City “has appointed a Conciliation Committee to act
as a sort of arbitration body to adjust amicably differences arising in Jews
congregations, societies lodges of New York.
1911: Hundreds
of organizations, as well as “wealthy men and well-to-do businessmen sent
checks” and “liberal contributions” as well as “notes of sympathy” to offices
of the Mayor and Jacob H. Schiff, the Treasurer of the National Red Cross
Relief Committee to help the victims and the families of those who died or were
injured in what we now call the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire”
1912: In
Lisbon, the Colonial Committee is considering a scheme to encourage Jews “of
all nationalities” to settle in Angola.
1912: A Jew,
for the first time, receives an appointment as an officer in the Ottoman
Turkish Army upon graduation from the Imperial Military Academy.
1913: This
evening Dr. Dave de Sola Pola Pool of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on the “The Jews Of England” at Clinton Hall
sponsored by Young Israel
1913:
Birthdate of SS Captain Theodore Dannecker, one of Eichman’s underlings who was
a “ruthless” participate in the Final Solution.
1913: Today
Hunter College graduate and lyric soprano Hulda Lashanska the New York City
born daughter of Babette Born and Henry Lashanska became Hulda Lashanska
Rosenbaum when she married Harold A. Rosenbaum after which made her debut
concert at Detroit in 1916 and give her first New York recital in 1917.
1914: In New
York City B.P. Schulberg and Adeline (née Jaffe) Schulberg, who founded a
talent agency taken over by her brother, agent/film producer Sam Jaffe gave
birth to Seymour Wilson Schulberg who gained fame as Budd Schulberg, the
novelist and screenwriter whose credits include “What Makes Sammy Run” and “On
the Waterfront.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/movies/06schulberg.html
1915(12th
of Nisan 5676): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1915: Starting
today, Dr. Nathan Blaustein will accept applications at his office from 3 to 6
pm for those who wish to adopt the three-month-old daughter of Sadie Mager who
died while giving birth to the child.
1915: Rabbi
Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon at Temple Emanu-El this morning “choosing
as his text ‘And Abraham bowed down to the people of the land’” in preparation
of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Dr. Isaac Meyer Wise, the
found of Hebrew Union College and the driving force behind the Reform Movement
in America.
1915: As the
celebration of Passover approaches, the American Jewish Relief Committee for
the Suffers from the European War sent out a special appeal to American Jews.
1916: In
Philadelphia, at the Hotel Walton, the conference that is making plans for the
convening of the first American Jewish Congress, which is being attended by
more than 400 delegates from the United States entered its second day
1916:
Approximately 15,000 people attended the third day of the bazaar sponsored by
the People’s Relief Committee for the Relief of the Jewish War Suffers at the
Grand Central Palace which was capped off by Russian Night and resulted in an
additional $20,000 being added to the fund which now totaled $75,000.
1916: Three
hundred people including New York Governor Whitman attended a dinner tonight at
the Savoy Hotel “where nearly $75,000 was collected for a home for aged, blind
and crippled Jews” which is to be erected by the Daughters of Jacob in the
Bronx.
1917(4th of
Nisan, 5677): Seventy-two-year-old Civil War veteran and sculpture Moses Jacob
Ezekiel passed away in Rome, Italy
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ezekiel.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mezekiel.html
1917: Now that
all “absolute equality” has been granted to the Jews in Russia, it was reported
that “there will be no further restrictions upon the issue of passports to
Russian or American Jews who desire to visit Russia than those common to other
persons.”
1917:
According to telegrams received in Copenhagen today Maxim Vinaver and Oscar
Gruzenberg have been appointed to the Russian Senate and Supreme Court making
them the first Jews “who ever obtained a seat in a Russian tribunal.”
1917: The Army
and Navy Bulletin of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations stated
that during the upcoming Passover festival “Jewish soldiers will be able to
participate in Seder and synagogue services” and that plans are being made for
all those serving on “every one of the big vessels” in the Navy including the
battleships Missouri and New York to have the same opportunity.
1917: “Leo
Motzkin of Kiev, one of the leading Zionist publicists and the head of the
international press bureau which had much to do with the acquittal of Mendel
Bellis of the charge of ritual murder” said in New York today “that he was
confident that the Russian revolution would mean the ultimate liberation of the
Jews and unprecedented progress for the Zionist movement.”
1917: The
editors and publishers reported today to have attended the recent meeting at
the home of Samuel Untermeyer where it was decided to form the Jewish League of
American Patriots which would “enlist the moral and physical support of every
loyal American Jew in the event of war” included Israel Friedlkin publisher and
Peter Wiernick, editor the Jewish Morning
Journal; Morris Weinberg publisher and William Edlin, editor of The Day; Herman Paley, publisher and
Isidore Conikman, editor of the Warheit;
Leon Kamaliki publisher and Odalia Bublick, editor of the Jewish Daily News and Judge Aaron J. Levy also of the Warheit
1918: Henry
Adams passed away. To many he was part of the last generation of the
distinguished Adams family. For Jews he was that and a little more or should I
say a little less. In 1894, Henry Adams organized the Immigration Restriction
League to limit the admission to America of "unhealthy elements" --
Jews being first among these. In his famous book, The Education of Henry
Adams, he wrote about those he was trying to keep out of America: "Not
a Polish Jew fresh from Warsaw or Cracow - not a furtive Jacob or Isaac still
reeking of the Ghetto, snarling a weird Yiddish to the officers of the
customs..." He found many supporters for his cause, but he did not win.
1918(14th of
Nisan, 5678): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1918: Based on
information supplied by the Jewish Welfare Board, “Jewish families in the
vicinity of army and navy cantonments” are scheduled to act as hosts for Jewish
soldiers and sailors” who will have leaves so they may observe Passover.
1918: “Jewish
Soldiers in the British army held a Seder at” Beit Yehudayoff, known as the
‘palace’
1918: Rabbi
Barnet Siegel and John L. Bernstein presided over the Seder sponsored by the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society which was attended by 1,000 people.
1918: For what
may have been the first time in history a Seder was conducted at Yokohama,
Japan for Jewish immigrants most of whom were women and children.
1918: Having
secured the territory around Jerusalem, the British moved across the Jordan and
began what was the opening of the First Battle of Aman.
1919: It was
announced today the Continental Headquarters in Paris that “the approximately
60,000 Jewish soldiers in the American Expeditionary Force will receive an
average of five to six pounds of Matzos from the Jewish Welfare Board so they
can observe Passover.
1920(8th
of Nisan, 5680): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1921: During
his fact finding visit to Palestine, Winston Churchill went to the British
Military Cemetery on the Mount of Olives to attend a service of dedication
honoring the sacrifice of Allied soldiers who had fought against the Turks.
1922: In San
Francisco, Joseph and Lillian Kurzman gave birth to military historian Daniel
Halperin Kurzman whose works included include Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire. (As
reported by Daniel Slontnik)
1922: The
daily noon service at Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to begin at 12:30.
1923:
Birthdate of British impresario Victor Hochhauser who, along with his wife,
promoted numerous events including those for the Israeli Philharmonic
Orchestra.
1923: Lord
Grey, who “had been the foreign secretary during the McMahon-Hussein
negotiations”, addressed the House of Lords today. During his speech, “he made it clear that he
entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British government's
interpretation of the pledges which he, as foreign secretary, had caused to be
given to Hussein in 1915.
1923(10th
of Nisan, 5683): Sixty-seven-year-old Felix Daus, “the inventor of the Daus
duplicator and hectograph” who had founded the Felix F. Daus Duplicator Company
in 1880, died suddenly this afternoon while visiting his lawyer Herman Brasch
and was buried later at the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/03/28/105105033.pdf
https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Felix_F._Daus_Duplicator_Company
1923: Sidney
and Helen Livingston Weinberg gave birth to Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. who would
become a senior director at Goldman-Sachs.
1923:
Birthdate of Prof. Nahum M. Sarna, z"l the father of Jonathan Sarna and a
noted scholar in his own right
https://www2.bc.edu/~langerr/NMSarna/
1924(27th
of Adar II, 5684): Ninety-one-year-old Abraham Berliner, the son of Franziska
and Baruch Benjamin Berliner, the husband of Henriette Berliner and father of
Flora, Selma, Max and Paul Berliner, who should not be confused with the
German-Jewish historian of the same name, passed away today in Berlin.
1925: In Tel
Aviv Lord Balfour delivered a speech today in which he said “that the rebuilt
Jewish community of Palestine will make new, important contributions toward the
culture and civilization of the world.”
1926: “For
Jewish Students in the City” published today described plans by the Women’s
Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations to provide home
hospitality for during Passover for Jewish students attending colleges in New
York which “is not charity or philanthropy” but is an expression of a “deeper
love” that come when opens their doors.
1927: Banker
and philanthropist Nathan Jonas was the guest of honor at a banquet tonight at
the Hotel Biltmore where 1,000 guests gathered to “mark the completion of his
three decades of service on behalf of Brooklyn Jewish Charities.
1927: In New
York City, Kassel Lewis and Sylvia Surut gave birth to New York Times correspondent Anthony Lewis, the author of Gideon’s
Triumph
1927: “Out of
the Mist” a silent film produced by Karl Fruend was released in Germany
Deutsche Fox, the German subsidiary of the William Fox’s film company
1927: “Mr.
Antin Write a Stark Book on State Politics published today provides a review of
The Gentlemen From The Twenty-Second: An Autobiography by Benjamin Antin which
is described as “an autobiography you could waltz to.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A04E4D81538E13ABC4F51DFB566838C639EDE
1928: It was
reported today that Cellist Gdal Saleski, the author of Famous Musicians of
Jewish Origins has performed a concert at Steinway Hall that included
Joseph “Achron’s ‘Fragment Mystique’ which “is based on a Hebrew theme.”
1928(6th of
Nisan): Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki, son of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Ber Plotzker of
Kutno, the President of Kollel Polen and a prolific author whose works included
Chemdas Yisrael on Sefer ha-Mitzvot passed away today. When
Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki visited America, he “pronounced Manischewtiz matzah to
be thoroughly reliable – ‘there is none more faithful to be found’ – citing
“constant supervision of one of the sages of Jerusalem,” Rabbi Mendel M. Hochstein.
1929(15th
of Adar II, 5689): Shushan Purim
1929: This
afternoon The New York Chapter of Hadassah celebrated the Feast of Purim and
the seventeenth anniversary of the founding of Hadassah at the Central
Synagogue Community in Manhattan.
1930:
Birthdate of actor David Janssen. Born David Meyer, Jansen gained fame playing
the lead in the long running TV drama, “The Fugitive.”
1930:
Flyweight Moe Mizler fought his 39th bout at Whitechapel, London, UK
1930: “The
meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency ended this morning
after a short session with Felix M. Warburg, chairman, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
president of the Agency, expressing their satisfaction with the work that had
been accomplished. There was a general feeling among the participants that the
meeting had been fruitful of practical results for Palestine, and there was
particular gratification that the complete budget of three and a half million
dollars was confirmed.” (As reported by JTA)
1931: English novelist Arnold Bennett, the
confidant and advisor of Anglo-Jewish pianist and advocate for refugees from
Nazi Germany Harriet Cohen whom she described as my “dear friend and mentor of
my youth” passed away today.
1931: “A
demand for greater unity among Zionist fund-raising bodies was expressed by the
New York Zionist Region today in a resolution unanimously adopted at the fourth
annual convention of the organization at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
1931: Charlie
Chaplin received France's distinguished Legion of Honor.’
1932: It was
reported today that Chief Judge Cuthbert W. Pound of the New York Court of
Appeals will preside at the regional finals of the National Oratorical Contest,
replacing Benjamin Cardozo, the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who was
his predecessor as the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
1933: A
gigantic anti-Nazi protest rally, organized by the American Jewish Congress,
was held in New York City. 55,000 people attended and threatened to boycott
German goods if the Germans carried out their planned permanent boycott of
Jewish-owned stores and businesses.
1933: Rabbi
M.S. Margolis, the President of the of the Orthodox Jewish Congregations
delivered a speech “at a mass demonstration in Madison Square to protest again
the Nazi persecution of German Jews.
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa8388
1933: In
“Germany: Scared To Death,” Time reported that “To say that most German
statesmen and politicians outside the Government's charmed circle were scared
to death last week, would be understatement. Panic made cowards of the bravest
of brave German Socialists and Communists. Even Catholics trembled—except Dr.
Hans Luther. It was accurately said that in less than two weeks Chancellor
Hitler has reduced his opponents to a lower level of groveling fear than did
Premier Mussolini in the two years after the March on Rome, Oct. 30, 1922.”
1934: In
Brooklyn, NY, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Adler gave birth to Dr. Joel B. Adler, the
graduate of Yale and the University of Downstate Medical State Center and
husband of Flora Adler with whom he had two children, Douglas and Allison.
1935(22nd
of Adar II, 5695): Sixty-one-year-old Croatian architect Rudolf Lubiniski who
designed the Croatian State Archives, passed away today in Zagreb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lubinski#/media/File:Sove_HDA_2_1009.jpg
1936: From
Windsor, Ontario, novelist and critic Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn named “the ten
greatest living Jews” who are Professor Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, French
philosopher Henri Bergson, Martin Buber, Chaim Wiesmann, gynecologist Dr.
Bernard Zondek, author Scholom Asch, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Justice Louis D.
Brandeis and composer Arnold Schoenberg.
1936: It was
reported today that Eddie Cantor warned, that based on “information he had
received recently, ‘a pogrom will follow the Olympic Games in Germany’” and
that “he and members of his family had been threatened” which led to his belief
that it is “necessary for Jews to have some form of unity.
1936(4th
of Nisan, 5696): Albert A. Brager, the Alexandria born son Joseph Brager, the
founder of Brager’s Department Store who married Blanche Krause after the death
of his first wife Blema Friedenwald was the father of A. Stanley Merla, Bessie
and Joseph Brager passed away today in Baltimore.
1937(15th of
Nisan, 5697): First Day of Pesach, Shabbat Shel Pesach
1937: In New
York, at Shaarey Tefilah “two fires occurred simultaneously in the basement of
the synagogue and caused minor damage. Later that same morning, at 10 o'clock,
700 persons assembled to celebrate the second Seder of the Passover. A few
hours after the congregation had gone, a third fire was reported at 3:15
o'clock. This fire damaged the Ark of the Covenant and destroyed 18
hand-illuminated Torah kept in the Tabernacle. The $25,000 pipe organ was badly
damaged and the entire south end of the synagogue was wrecked by flames, smoke
and the axes of the firemen. After investigations by the Fire Marshall, it was
discovered that the incendiary fires had been set by the synagogue's caretaker.
The synagogue was reconstructed and remodeled to designs of S. Brian Baylinson,
and a four-story synagogue house was added.
1937: The
Joint Distribution Committee announced today that France, Belgium, England
Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland had ratified the Geneva agreement granting
German citizens (including Jewish refugees from the Nazis) who were in foreign
countries prior to July 4, 1936 refugee certificates “good for one year” which
meant they had “the right of residence.”
1937: It was
reported to that “Mrs. Justine Waterman Wise Tulin, a justice of the Domestic
Relations Court of this city and the widow of Professor Leon Arthur Tulin, was
married to Isadore Polier, New York attorney, at noon yesterday at the home of
her parents, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Wise of 340 West Fifty-seventh
Street.”
1938 After
meeting him while performing with the Phil Harris orchestra, Leah Ray married
MCA executive and future Jets owner Sonny Werblin with whom she had three sons
during their fifty year marriage.
1938(24th
of Adar II, 5698): Sixty-six-year-old William Louis Stern, the Berlin born son
of Joseph Stern and “husband of Clara Joseph” who fled the Nazis and continued
his work in the field of psychology at Duke University passed away today.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060319004052/http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Stern.asp
1938: Miss
Henrietta Szold, 77-year-old founder of Hadassah, the Woman's Zionist
Organization of America sent a cable from Jerusalem to Hadassah headquarters in
New York describing her efforts to arrange for the transfer of Jewish children
from Austria to Palestine. “The change is described as vital and as being the
only hope for the youngsters to ever lead normal lives.”
1939: Dr. Max
Danzis, the chief of medical staff, appealed to Newark Beth Israel’s board at
their meeting today “to exerts all possible influence on behalf of “refugee
physicians fleeing Nazi Germany.
1940(17th
of Adar II, 5700): Seventy-four-year-old Philadelphia native Harry Clay Adler,
the husband of Tennessee native Ada Ochs and father of Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs
Adler who was the general manager of the Chattanooga Times, the first block in
the publishing empire of the New York Times passed away today.
1940: Himmler
ordered the building of Auschwitz concentration Camp in southern Poland
1941(28th
of Adar, 5701): Forty-five-year-old Russian born David Alper who married Minnie
“Manya” Isiomin after he had been married to Frieda Alper passed away today
after which he was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, NY.
1941: A
Yugoslav government that was sympathetic to the Nazis “was toppled by an
anti-German military coup” which led to a Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and
Greece in April. This would prove to be
disastrous for the Jews of the Balkans since it would bring them into the grasp
of the Final Solution. Ironically, the
long-term effect of this would lead to the ultimate defeat of the Germans in WW
II. The invasion of the Balkans delayed
the German invasion of Russia. That
delay meant the German army would be mired in the Russian Winter, which was a
major factor in handing the Nazi war machine its first defeats on the eastern
front.
1942: On day
after the start of the deportation of Slovokian Jews, Slovakia’s Chief Rabbi
Micahel Weissmand and the Slovokian Zionist leader Gisi Fleischann sent a
message of SS Captain Dieter Wisliceny offering him a bribe stop the shipment
of the Jews to the death camps.
1942: Goebbels
described in his diary, Belzec and the cremation of the Jews, "The
procedure is pretty barbaric, one not to be described here most definitely. Not
much will remain of the Jews. . . fully deserved by them."
1943: “Blue
Ribbon Town” featuring Jewish comedian Groucho Marx was heard for the first
time on CBS Radio
1943: The CKC
resistance movement including Jewish cellist Frieda Belinfante “organized and
executed the bombing of the population registry in Amsterdam today, which
destroyed thousands of files and hindered Nazi attempts to compare forged
documents with documents in the registry.”
1944: Several
of the leaders of the Yishuv including executives of the Jewish Agency and
General Council of Palestine Jews, Tel Aviv Mayor Israel Rokach and the
municipal councilors of Tel Aviv and Mayor Joseph Saphir of Petak Tikvah met in
Jerusalem this morning to deal with the latest outbreak violence by “the small
terrorist group whose sabotage activities have led to a new and grave
situation.” Among those calling for action to end the violence were chief
Rabbis Isaac Herzog and Bension Uziel.
1944: In A
Children’s Aktion, the Nazis collected all of the Jewish children of Lovno.
1944(3rd of
Nisan, 5704): Forty Jewish policemen were shot by the Gestapo in the Riga
Ghetto.
1944(3rd of
Nisan, 5704): Two thousand Jews were murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944: One
thousand Jews left the Drancy Concentration Camp in France for Auschwitz
Concentration Camp
1944(3rd of
Nisan, 5704): Resistance fighter Abraham Geleman, born in Lodz was killed in
Belgium.
1944: Nazi
troops started their occupation of Kolozsvár, Hungary.
1944: As the
Red Army approached Riga, Kovno and Vilna, Germany picked up the pace with
actions against the surviving inhabitants of the ghettos. Children everywhere
were being seized and driven off to their death. "The Children's
Action" in Kovno resulted in the death of thousands of children under the
age of 17. Most of them were shot. In order to spare their children from such
horrors, some parents poisoned them. In Lodz, a mother killed her severely
handicapped boy with a lead pipe across the head instead of allowing him to
meet his fate with the Germans.
1945: Task
Force Baum, the unit under the command of Captain Abraham Baum that had been
sent behind enemy lines to liberate camp OFLAG XIII-B, near Hammelburg whose
POW’s included the son-in-law of General Patton broke through the bridgehead at
Aschaffenburg and “arrived in sight of the camp” by the afternoon.
1945(13th of
Nisan, 5705): Jacob S. Kahn, the president of the Refrigeration Maintenance
Company passed away today at the age of 62. Kahn had been a builder during the
1920’s, who erected the Hyde Park Hotel.
1945(13th
of Nisan, 5705): Seventeen-year-old Lily Freedman, the daughter of Ray and
Simon Freeman, was “killed by enemy action” today.
1945(13th of
Nisan, 5705): Sixty-five-year-old Moshe Avigdor Amiel, the Chief Rabbi of Tel
Aviv passed away today.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~szwetch/Stamps.of.Israel/6.html
1946: USCGC
Northland (WPG-49), a cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic
operations that served in World War II was decommissioned today by the U.S.
Coast Guard which would lead to its eventual acquisition by a Jewish group who
would renamed it Jewish State and use it to transport refugees to Palestine.
1946: Today
“the steamer Tel Hai, carrying 736 passengers, was intercepted by the destroyer
HMS Chequers 140 miles out at sea as it approached Palestine.”
1946: In
Cleveland, Dr. and Mrs. Gittelson celebrated their 40th wedding
anniversary today.
1947: A.H.
Weaghorn, a British police sergeant who is an expert on Jewish political
affairs was attacked by three men outside of Tel Aviv’s central police station.
Two of the men opened fire and one threw a bomb. The sergeant, who was wounded,
returned fire along with several of his comrades.
1947: “Current
high costs of plywood to consumers are a source of embarrassment rather than
profit to plywood manufacturers, Lawrence Ottinger, president of United States
Plywood Corporation, declared today.”
1948:
Twenty-two-year-old Algerian Avraham Abarzel, the son of Albert and Diamantine
Abarzel, who had survived the Nazi occupation of France arrived in Israel today
and “immediately joined the IDF” which later transferred him “to the French
Commando Company of the Palmach Hanegev’s 9th battalion.”
1949(26th of
Adar): Russian born Hebrew poetess Elisheva Bikhowsky passed away
1949: The
Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, co-sponsored by Herbert
Aptheker came to a close today.
1950(9th of
Nisan, 5710): Sixty-four-year-old Harvard graduate and founder of Wertheim and
Co., Maurice Wertheim, the son of Jacob and Hanna Wertheim and the husband of
Cecile J. Seiberling passed away today.
1950: After
having been "rebuffed" by Levi Eshkol, the Treasurer of the Jewish
Agency, Shlomo Hillel, "one of the Israeli organizers of the Iraqi Jewish
emigration" "went to see Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion who
was totally supportive of the mass emigration from Iraq.’Tell them to come
quickly,' Ben-Gurion said to Hillel...'What if the Iraqis change their minds
and rescind the law? go and bring them quickly.'" Hillel would return to
Iraq and try to expedite matters but the Jewish Agency "held the purse
strings" and insisted on slowing down the immigration movement to what it
considered were more manageable numbers.
1950: Dr.
Serge Koussevitzky, the 75-year-old conduct emeritus conductor of the Boston
Symphony is scheduled to leave for Europe today after having conducted 16
concerts in Israel.
1950:
Anglo-Israeli financial negotiations on problems dating from the days of the
mandate are scheduled to come to a successful conclusion today with the planned
signing of an agreement in London.
1950: The New York Times publishes a picture of
Charlotte Johnson, The American Red Cross representative in Israel, watching as
Jewish children who have arrived in Tel Aviv from Europe receive clothes made
from textiles donated by the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross.
1950: An
adaptation of “The Man Who Came to Dinner” a comedy written by George S.
Kaufman and Moss Hart was broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre.
1951:
“Odette,” a biopic about British agent who was not executed at Ravesnbruck
filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in the United
States.
1952(1st of
Nisan, 5712: Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Jewish Agency decided to send 100 disgruntled immigrants from India, who had
been squatting outside the agency's offices in Tel Aviv, back to where they
came from, announcing that this should not serve as a future precedent insofar
as other immigrants were concerned.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that The
Ministry of Health had announced that every Israeli between the ages of four
and 60 would be inoculated against typhoid.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that at The
Hague the German delegation to the Reparations Conference expressed surprise at
the extent of the Jewish request of the sum of $500 million, to be paid within
five years. They expected a smaller sum, but agreed to recognize all claims as
"urgent" and had "shown willingness" to meet them. Jewish
delegates pointed out that they didn’t want to wait until all the Nazi victims
were dead but intended to help the living.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Israeli delegation in London held extensive talks on possible oil deliveries
and economic cooperation.
1952: New York
premiere of “Singin’ in the Rain,” a musical comedy directed by Stanley Doenen
written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
1955:
Birthdate of Susan Neiman, the Atlanta, GA, high school dropout and Ph.D.
recipient from Harvard whose memoir Slow Fire described “her life as a
Jewish woman in Berlin” during the 1980’s.
1956:
“Patterns” a film noire co-produced by Jed Harris (Jacob Hirsch Horowitz) was
released in the United States today.
1957: Funeral
services were held this afternoon for eighty-year-old English born Cleveland
realtor David J. Cohen, the husband of Katie Fisher Cohen with whom he had
three daughters --Eleanor, Dean and Miriam – after which he was interred at the
Mayfield Cemetery.
1958: A less
than laudatory review Edna Ferber’s Ice Palace published today described
“her story as too repetitious and disorderly to win a prize in the world of
literature” but then mockingly said it might provide immeasurable help in the
campaign “to win statehood for Alaska.”
1958: “Carl
Foreman said today that he wrote the screenplay for “The Bridge Over the River
Kwai” the day after Pierre Boulle was given an Oscar for writing the script.
1958: “Run
Silent, Run Deep,” a WW II submarine thriller with music by Franz Waxman and
featuring Don Rickles in a non-comedic role was released today in the United
States.
1959:
Twenty-seven-year-old "Elizabeth Taylor took the Hebrew name Elisheba
Rachel and converted to Judaism."
1960: ABC
broadcast “Fair Game,” an episode of “The Rebel” directed by Irvin Kershner.
1961(10th of
Nisan, 5721): Eighty-seven-year-old Moshe Novomeysky the Siberian native and
engineer who developed the Palestine Potash Company passed away today.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.711008
1962(21st
of Adar II 5722): Ostrow, Poland native Israel I. Blumenfeld, a survivor of the
Warsaw Ghetto who in 1952 arrived in the United where he served as the
executive director of the western region of Histadrut passed away today in Los
Angeles.
1964(14th
of Nisan, 5724): Erev Pesach; first seder celebrated for the first time during
the Presidency of Lydon Johnson.
1965(23rd
of Adar II, 5725): Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah
1965(23rd
of Adar II, 5725): Sixty-year-old New Jersey born, Columbia Ph.D. “Israel E.
Drabkin, chairman of the department of classical languages and Hebrew City
College who married Miriam Frideman after his first wife Norma Lowenstein died
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/28/97189720.pdf
1966: László Jenő Ocskay of Ocskó and Felsődubován a Hungarian
army officer, captain of the Royal Hungarian Army who saved approximately 2500
Jews in Budapest in 1944–45, thus being one of those Hungarians who saved the
most Jews during the Holocaust” passed away today.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13kskds9?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic
1967(15th
of Adar II, 5727): Shushan Purim
1968(27th
of Adar, 5728): Eighty-four-year-old Baltimore native University of Virginia
trained attorney “Louis J. Shapiro, founder and president of the Los Angeles
Processing Equipment Company and the father of children’s book author Charlotte
Zolotow whose husband Maurice Zolotow is also an author passed away today at
the Midway Hospital in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/03/28/77082207.html?pageNumber=47
1970(19th
of Adar II, 5730): Seventy-nine-year-old thrice married medium and author Viola
Brothers Shore the eldest child of Abram and Minnie Epstein and one of the many
called as witness by HUAC passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Shore-Viola-Brothers
1974: “Mame” a
cinematic version of Jerome Lawrence Broadway musical directed by Gene Sakes
with music by Jerry Herman and co-starring Bea Arthur was released today in the
United States.
1974:
“Concrack,” a marvelous adaption of The Water is Wide directed by Martin Ritt
and with a screenplay co-authored by Irving Ravetch was released today in the
United States.
1975(15th
of Nisan, 5735): Pesach
1977: In
Allentown, PA, Donald and Melina Kohn gave birth to Sally Rebecca Kohn founder
and chief education officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a contributor to Fox
News and “a distinguished Vaid Fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force Policy Institute.”
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
week-long port workers’ go-slow strike continued, and ships were loaded at half
the normal rate. Angry citrus farmers called on the government to allow them to
load their fruit by themselves. The Bank Leumi strike ended and its 300 branches
opened for business. The hospital doctors’ strike was called off at the last
moment. But radio and TV broadcasts were halted for seven hours as the result
of a strike by the Broadcasting Authority administrative staff.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that in New
York US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance promised Jewish leaders that during his
forthcoming visit to Moscow he would discuss the problems of Soviet Jewry at
the Kremlin.
1979(28th
of Adar, 5739): Jamaica, NY native and Columbia and Princeton University
trained physicist Melville Saul Green, the husband of Vivian Grossman passed
away today.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2995682
1979(28th of
Adar, 5739): One person was killed and 14 were injured during a terrorist
bombing in downtown Tel Aviv.
1980: The
Louisville Free Public Library which had been co-designed by William G. Tachau
who designed buildings for Congregation Mike Israel, Graz College and Dropsie
College was placed on the National Register of Historic Places today.
1981: “Thief,”
a crime film directed by Michael Mann who also produced and wrote the script,
produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring James Caan was released in the
United States today.
1982: ABC
broadcast the last episode of “Bosom Buddies” costarring Wendie Jo Sperber and
featuring Billy Joel’s “My Life” as its opening theme.
1983: “The
neo-Nazi National Democratic Party will not be able to use “a city-owned public
hall” for its party congress which is scheduled to open today in Frankfurt
thanks to a change announced by the mayor of the German city that came about
because of protests that came from several groups include the Social Democratic
Party.
1984:
“Terrible Joe Moran” a made-for-television film co-starring Ellen Barkin and
featuring New York political leader Edward I. Koch as “Moe” was released today.
1986:
Birthdate of Vania Heymann, the native of Jerusalem who creates novel video
including commercials for PepsiMax.
1990(1st
of Nisan, 5750) Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1990(1st
of Nisan, 5750): Ninety-two-year-old Morris Holman the captain of the 1918 CCNY
basketball team and the brother of Nat Holman who coached CCNY in 1920 passed
away today.
1990: “Rent
Collection” a “genre piece” by David Monies was sold by Sotheby’s London today.
1991: Isaiah
Berlin met with author Lewis M. Dabney, a professor of English at the
University of Wyoming in London at the Athenaeum Club. Dabney was editing
Edmund Wilson's last journal, ''The Sixties,'' and had begun a biography.
Dabney wanted Berlin to fill out the account of Wilson he had begun in a short
memoir published a few years earlier. In the course of their conversation,
Berlin told Dabney two “funny stories” about Wilson’s visit to Israel. Wilson
“went to Jordan and when he came back he had to pass through the Mandelbaum
Gate. The Israeli passport officer looked at his passport, noticed it was
Edmund Wilson, then said: ''I think your dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls is not
quite right. I think it should have been 50 years before.'' And Edmund answered,
and the chief officer said: ''Stamp Mr. Wilson's passport. You can't discuss
the scrolls here, not on the Government's time.'' He talked to me about that
afterward, saying, 'Only in Israel would I find a passport officer who wished
to question the date of the scrolls.'’ That amused him. It pleased him. Then he
went to see the man he most admired in Israel, who was a scholar called Flusser
(David Flusser) in Jerusalem, who talked to him about the Bible and the
scrolls. Edmund asked him what he thought of Israel. Flusser said: 'Israel est
un tres petit pays. Et je ne suis pas patriote.’ He was delighted with that.
Anybody who said he wasn't a patriot went straight to his heart.”
1994(15th of
Nisan, 5754): First Day of Pesach
1996: The New York Times featured a review of Hitler’s
Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen
1996: Final
broadcast of “Dream On,” the HBO sitcom created by Marta Kaufmann and David
Crane.
1998: After
meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai in the U.S. today U.S.
Defense Secretary William Cohen indicated that Washington has agreed to expand
the joint Arrow anti-missile project and provide $45 million in funding for a
third battery of missiles for Israel.
1998: The Times of London included a review of
John Murray’s biography of Edmund de Rothschild entitled "A Gilt-Edged
Life."
1999(10th
of Nisan, 5759): Parashat Tav; Shabbat HaGadol observed for the last time in
the 20th century
2000: Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak urges Israel to return the annexed Golan Heights to
Syria.
2000: U.S.
premiere of “The Audrey Hepburn Story?” in which “Emmy Rossum appears during
early scenes of the film playing Hepburn in her early teens.”
2000: Jack
Lang began serving as Education Minister of France for a second time today.
2001: Islamic
Jihad took credit for a bombing in the Talipot industrial zone in which 7
people were injured.
2001: Hamas
took credit for the bombing an Egged bus at French Hill in which 28 were
injured in Jerusalem.
2002 (14th of
Nisan, 5762): A suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis during a Passover Seder in
Netanya, Israel. The stark statement speaks for itself.
2002 (14th of
Nisan, 5762): Milton Berle passed away. Born Mendel Berlinger on July 12, 1908,
Berle's career began at the age of five when he modeled as Buster Brown. He
starred in a variety of entertainment mediums. But he gained his greatest fame
as Uncle Miltie, star of the Texaco Milton Berle Show. The show began airing in
1948. It was the first national television hit and became a must see every
Tuesday night. Berle was also one of the first to learn that television was a
devouring medium that used you up and spit you out. Although his career would
last for another half century, he would never know the success he gained with
his Tuesday night television triumph. Berle died at the age of 93, smoking
cigars and stealing other people's material almost to his last day.
2002(14th of
Nisan, 5762): Director Billy Wilder passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/us/billy-wilder-master-of-caustic-films-dies-at-95.html
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/30/guardianobituaries
2003: In
Memoirs of a Queen, Middle East Perspective” published today Jane Maslin
provides a review of Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen
Noor, who considers “1948, the year the State of Israel was founded, as the
''year of the catastrophe,'' and who “assails Zionism, the building of Israeli
settlements and the perceived power of American Jews in influencing these
matters” while having come to “the realization that many studio executives were
Jewish, ''deeply loyal to Israel and Israeli politics, right or wrong.''
2004:
Eighty-one-year-old Dr. Sabina Zimering sat in the audience at the Great
American History Theatre in Saint Paul, MN and watched the remarkable story of
her own survival in Nazi Europe unfold on stage.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/27/2004/sabina-zimering
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of topics of special interest to Jewish readers
including "Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the
Ages" by Jaroslav Pelikan and the recently released paperback edition of "Someone
to Run With" by Israeli novelist David Grossman; translated by Vered Almog
and Maya Gurantz.
2006(27th of
Adar, 5766): Eighty-one-year-old Rudolf Vrba, who as a young man escaped from
Auschwitz and provided the first eyewitness evidence not only of the magnitude
of the tragedy unfolding at the death camp but also of the exact mechanics of
Nazi mass extermination passed away at a hospital in Vancouver, British
Columbia today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/world/europe/07vrba.html
2006: Ehud
“Banai sang a duet with David D'Or on D'Or's CD, Kmo HaRuach ("Like the
Wind"), which was released” today.
2006: The New
Yorker published “Allice Off the Page” an essay in which Calvin Trillin
“discusses his late wife.”
2007(8th of
Nisan, 5767): Ninety-nine-year-old Berlin native Axel Gerhardt Rosin, the
long-time president of the Book-of the-Month club, note philanthropist and
husband Katherine Scherman passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/obituaries/28rosin.html
2008: “The
Lemon Tree,” an Israeli film directed, produced and written by Eran Riklis was
released today in Israel.
2008: Sammy
Ofer donated £20 million to London's National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, as
part of a £35 million program of expansion.
2008: The 92nd
Street Y presents a lecture by Professor Robert Seltzer a professor of history
at Hunter College and Director of the Hunter Interdisciplinary Program in
Jewish Studies who answers the questions “Why was the State of Israel needed?
What were the reasons behind its establishment by the Jewish Diaspora?”
2008: Haaretz reported that two of
its writers Shmuel Rosner and Or Kashti were recently named winners of the
B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism for 2007 on the basis of their
work for the paper.."
2008: As
President Georgi Parvanov of Bulgaria’s visit to Israel came to an end,
Bulgaria accepted responsibility for the genocide of more than 11,000 Jews in
its jurisdiction during World War II.
2009: In
Baltimore, Maryland B’nai Israel Synagogue presented a Friday night event
featuring Philip J. Tulkoff, President, Tulkoff Food Products who delivered a
talk entitled “Memories of Horseradish Lane and the Growth of Tulkoff Foods” in
which he reminisced about “the good old days.” Thanks to the efforts of Lena
and Harry Tulkoff that began in the 1920’s Tulkoff Horseradish Products Company
became one of the nation's largest manufacturers of prepared horseradish
products.
2009(2 Nisan,
5769): Eighty-six-year-old Irving R. Levine whose ever-present bow tie was his
unique visual signature while he covered business and the economy for NBC News
passed away. Unlike the blowhards and blow dried talking heads who read this
news beat today, Levine understood the subject matter and conveyed it a low
keyed professional manner. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/28levine.html
2010: Shabbat
HaGadol
2010: Sidney
Ferris Rosenberg, the radio personality who is the cousin of former Minnesota
Senator Norm Coleman “returned to WFAN hosting a show in Port St. Lucie before
the New York Mets faced the Washington Nationals.”
2010: the
Jewish Ensemble Theatre is scheduled to present Wendy Kesselman’s newly adapted
version of The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, MI
2010: Opening
of the “Legacy of the Shoah Film Festival” at John Jay College in New York
City. The opening night features Forgotten Transports: Women’s Stories –
Estonia, Children of the Night by Marion Wiesel and a discussion with the
award-winning director Lukas Pribyl.
2011 Dr. Jane
Katz “was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Commack, New
York for her pioneering athletic contributions to the field of aquatics.”
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest including “Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India” by Joseph Lelyveld and the recently
released paperback edition of” Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good
Enough” by Lori Gottlieb
2011: YU
Center for Israel Studies, Yeshiva University Museum, YU Bernard Revel Graduate
School of Jewish Studies presented Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the
Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine.
2011: “Norman
Gorbaty: To Honor My People,” exhibition at the Walsh Art Gallery is scheduled
to come to a close at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn.
2011: “The
Chosen” is scheduled to be performed at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC under
the sponsorship of Theatre J.
2011: The
Harry Houdini Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York is scheduled to come
to an end.
2011: The
second annual Limmud Conference is scheduled to take place in Chicago,
Illinois.
2011: The
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor A
Walking Tour of Old Jewish Alexandria.
2011: Jews and
Baseball: An American Love Story and God & Co.are two of the films
scheduled to be shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Festival.
2011: “The
Infidel” and “The Human Resources Manager” are scheduled to be shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2011: “The
Whipping Man,” featuring a Seder on the first night of Pesach as its dramatic
hook, is scheduled to have its last performance at the City Center State in New
York.
2011: Six
gunmen in Sinai targeted the pipeline that carries natural gas from Egypt to
Israel and Jordan today, overpowering a guard and planting an explosive device
before fleeing, The Associated Press reported.
2011: Bank
Leumi and Hashava – The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust
Victims’ Assets ended months of arbitration by signing an agreement in which
the bank will pay the company NIS 130.8 million, the two sides announced today.
The money will go to heirs of Holocaust victims and toward projects that help
Israeli Holocaust survivors – more than a quarter of whom live under the
poverty line, according to government estimates.
2011(21st of
Adar II, 5771): Ninety-five-year-old Bernard B. Roth; founder of South
Gate-based World Oil Corporation passed away today. (As reported by Shan Li)
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/31/local/la-me-bernard-roth-20110331
2012: The 16th
Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end with a
reception and a tango party.
2012: The Andy
Statman Trio is scheduled to perform klezmer music at the Charles Street
Synagogue.
2012(4th
of Nisan, 5772): Eighty-two-year-old Baltimore born poet Adrienne Rich, whose
father was a Jewish doctor passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012: Peter Guber
became a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers through his affiliation with
Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC
2013(16th
of Nisan): Second Day of Pesach
2013(16th
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old screenwriter Fay Kanin, the partner and
wife of Michael Kanin, both of whom were blacklisted, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/arts/fay-kanin-95-writer-for-movies-and-tv.html?_r=0
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/31/fay-kanin
2013: “Jews of
Egypt” a “controversial documentary on Egypt’s expulsion of its long-resident
Jewish population opened” to at three movie theatres in Cairo and Alexandria
“despite an initial effort by the Egyptian government to block its release.”
2013: The 23rd
annual Haifa International Children’s Theatre Festival is scheduled to open at
the Haifa Municipal Festival Theatre Complex.
2013: Bulgaria
will provide more evidence that Hezbollah planned the airport bus bombing that
killed five Israelis in Burgas last year, and to use that proof to pressure the
European Union to formally label the Iran-backed Islamist group a terrorist
organization, Reuters reported today
2013: Some of
Israel’s most sensitive computer information is stored on servers in a building
above ground in the south of the country, acutely vulnerable to attack or
natural disaster, a TV investigative report said today.
2014:
“Aftermath” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film
Festival.
2014:
In Boston, attendees of the Keshet Cabaret are scheduled to have the
opportunity to bid on a personal voicemail from Sarah Silverman.
2014:
“For the first time since 1993, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is scheduled
to perform at Jones Hall in Houston.”
2014:
“Malmö police arrest two teenagers, out of a gang of five, who attempted to
break into the local Jewish community center. When they were stopped by
security at the gate, they voiced anti-Semitic slurs, according to the police.
They were also seen filming and taking pictures of the building before their
arrest.” (As reported by Yair Rosenberg)
2014:
Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College and the music director and
principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra for whom he is scheduled
to conduct Max Bruch’s ‘Moses’ at Carnegie Hall
2014:
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
and The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide is scheduled
to host “No Stab in the Back!” Race, Labour and the National Socialist Regime
under the Bombs, 1940-45”
2014:
“The Israel Anti-Fraud Unit said today that it is investigating former Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, who is suspected of obstructing justice and witness
tampering.”
2014:
The IDF Northern Command announced today that it was changing its orders
regarding opening fire in areas along the Golan border fence. Anyone from the
Syrian side who comes near the fence should expect to be shot, the IDF said.
2014:
Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism in partnership with the
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
and The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide is scheduled
to host the opening session of “Labour and Race in Modern German History.”
2014:
In commemoration of “the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the
nationwide mass deportations in Hungary, the Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host a screen of “Free Fall” a documentary that “explores the
unique circumstances of the Holocaust in southern Hungary.”
2015:
“The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern
Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2015:
“Cupcakes” a film “set in contemporary Tel Aviv” is scheduled to open at the
Quad Cinema in NYC.
2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to appear in Westhampton Beach, NY.
2015:
“The European Union kept Hamas on its terrorism blacklist today despite a
controversial court decision ordering Brussels to remove the Palestinian
Islamist group from the register.”
2015(7th
of Nisan, 5775): Ninety-two-year-old George Spitz who made the New York
Marathon what it is today passed away today.
2016:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host “New World Haggadah: A
Passover Story for a Diverse America” featuring Ilan Stavans “one of today’s
foremost interpreters of Jewish and Ladino cultures.”
2016:
“A Tale of Love and Darkness” a cinematic adaptation of Amos Oz’s
autobiographical novel is scheduled to be shown at the 20th annual
Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.
2016:
Tal Nitzán, “an Israeli award winning poet, writer, editor and a major
translator of Hispanic literature” and “author of six poetry books, one novel
and four children's book, and editor of three poetry anthologies, among them
the ground-breaking anthology With an Iron pen": Hebrew Protest Poetry”
is scheduled to appear at a bilingual poetry reading at the Cornelia Street
Café.
2016:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Best Place on Earth: Stories by Ayelet Tsabari, Rightful
Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America by Douglas Brinkley
and Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy
Orenstein.
2017:
JTS is scheduled to host “Wondering Jews: Abigail Pogrebin and Joseph Telushkin
in Conversation.”
2017:
“Almost a decade after losing billions of his clients’ money in Bernie Madoff’s
Ponzi scheme, hedge fund financier Charles Murphy leaped to his death today
from the twentieth floor of Midtown Manhattan’s luxury Sofitel Hotel, in what
is being described as a suicide” proving that the evil of this ultimate con man
never seems to end. (As reported by Daniel J. Solomon)
2017:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Shalom
Italia” a film about “Italians brothers who reunite in the Tuscan mountains
searching for the cave that save their lives.”
2017:
In New York, “Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev, mezzo soprano, and the Beatrice Diener
Ensemble-in-Residence at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University are
scheduled to perform the work of Jewish composers with music by Martin
Boykan, Edward Jacobs and the world premiere of Concertino No. 1 for
Guitar and Chamber Ensemble by YU faculty composer David Glaser.”
2017:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present for talk by
“Efrat Yerday on the contemporary parallel struggles of Ethiopian Jews in
Israel/Palestine and Black Lives Matter in the US and on the struggles of black
people against racism from a transnational perspective” entitled “Between Yosef
Slamsa and Martin Luther King” The Ethiopian Jewish Struggle in Comparative
Perspective.”
2018:
Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin is scheduled to present “A 50-Year Perspective
on the American Left” as part of the History Matters lecture series at the
Center for Jewish History.
2018:
“Bye Bye Germany” and “1945” are scheduled to be shown at the Jacob Burns Film
Center as part of the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2018:
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the leader was
taken to hospital on Tuesday for tests following an illness.
2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled host a presentation by Rabbi Jerome K.
Davidson and Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson on “All In The Family” which examines the
relationship between Abraham and Isaac.
2018:
From Israel to Iowa friends and family of Giora Neta celebrate the birthday of
this staunch Zionist and a person of uncompromising beliefs.
http://crgazette.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1550467&CategoryID=52778
2019:
The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present curator Jacob Wisse as he leads “a tour of ‘Lost and
Found,’” which explores “the remarkable story of a pre-war family photo album
that was owned by a woman who was deported from the Kovno Ghetto in 1943.”
2019:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to “a book launch of Avrom
Goldfaden and the Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theatre” featuring a talk by
author Alyssa Quint.
https://yivo.org/Avrom-Goldfaden
2019:
Robert Kraft and his attorney are scheduled to make a court appearance today in
connections with charges with two charges of solicitation that allegedly took
place in a Florida massage parlor.
2019:
Following yesterday’s assault of incendiary balloons, Israelis are preparing to
face another day of what is now a two-pronged threat of violence from Gaza.
2020:
In Boston, Havurah on the Hill is scheduled to host a Virtual Shabbat Dinner
starting with “a community Shabbat candle-lighting.”
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to offer a virtual presentation by Rabbi Amy
Ehrlich on “Forging Ahead – Bruria as a Model of Resilience.”
2020:
Rabbi Heath Watenmaker of Beth Am in Los Altos are scheduled to offer stories,
a bedtime Shema and Shabbat blessings for kids on Zoom or by phone
2020:
This afternoon, the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled
to host a “Virtual Challah Bake.”
2020:
Ninety-three-year-old U.C.L.A. graduate Harriet Glickman the Sioux City, IA
born daughter of Russian Jewish grocery store owners Harry and Tone (Merlin)
Ratner and wife of Richard Glickman who in 1968 persuaded Charles M. Schulz,
the creator of “Peanuts,” to add an African-American character to his roster of
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang, passed away today. (As reported
by Daniel Slotnik)
https://schulzmuseum.org/remembering-harriet-glickman/
2020:
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz of the JCCSF is scheduled to lead a virtual Shabbat service
on Facebook that includes his guitar and reflections on these times.
2021(14th
of Nisan, 4781): Shabbat Hagadol
2021:
Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to presents a socially distanced outdoor seder
for adults and older children at the Freidenrich Community Park Palo Alto, CA.
2021(14th
of Nisan, 5781): This evening, the Maccabeats will finish your seder.
:
https://www.kveller.com/the-maccabeats-new-passover-medley-will-help-you-finish-your-seder/
2021:
JewBelong’s Virtual Passover seder “Burning Man-ischewitz” is scheduled to take
place this evening.
2021:
Congregation Shir Hadash is scheduled to present a virtual, intergenerational
seder led by Rabbi Ted Riter, Cantor Devorah Felder-Levy and Rabbi PJ Schwartz.
2021:
For the first time in history, the Jews of Bahrain are scheduled to celebrate
Passover with the Jewish communities of the Gulf i.e., Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and the U.A.R.
2022:
Starting today, “Israel will host a historic summit this weekend with the top
diplomats from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and
Bahrain, a sign of how quickly the realignment of Middle Eastern powers is
accelerating as Israelis and some Arab governments find common cause not only
over Iran but in navigating the new global realities created by the Ukraine
war.”
2022:
The Jewish Heritage Alliance is scheduled present “The Golden Age of Sefarad
and The Abraham Accord” which is a global online
event that celebrates and connects today's growing rapprochement between Israel
and Arab countries with the medieval Golden Age of Spain, highlighting the
timeless benefits of peaceful tolerance and coexistence between Jews, Muslims,
and Christians global online event which
celebrates and connects today's growing rapprochement between Israel and Arab
countries with the medieval Golden Age of Spain, highlighting the timeless
benefits of peaceful tolerance and coexistence between Jews, Muslims, and
Christians.
2022: Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story remake is up for seven
statues at the Oscars tonight.
2022: Temple Judea celebrated the installation of Feivel Strauss
as its Assistant Rabbi.
2022: Rabbi Yakov Raskin is scheduled a virtual tour of the
Middle East, Far East and Caribbean as part of the Chabad Zooming around the
World.
2022: The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come
to an end today.
2022: A “week of paralysis” is scheduled to continue today in
with “targeted demonstrations against ministers and MKs…”
2023: A special meeting of the members of Congregation B’nai
Israel is scheduled to be held this evening to discuss the decision of the
Central Conference of America Rabbis Ethics Committee concerning a former
spiritual leader of the congregation.
2023: Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, one of the co-authors of
The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope is
scheduled to speak today at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a
discussion about James Gray's critically acclaimed film, Armageddon Time with
film critic Stephanie Zacharek
2023: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to an
interactive book discussion of The Thread Collectors, co-written by
internationally bestselling author Alyson Richman and debut author Shaunna J.
Edwards, who have come together to collaborate on a rich historical novel set
during the Civil War.
2023(5th
of Nisan, 5783): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit
for fifty-four-year-old Amy Barnum, the wife of Joel Barnum with whom
she raised three daughters – Emma, Sasha and Gail – and daughter Jack and Bette
Kozlen of Omaha who was a pillar, in the truest sense of that term, of the
Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and a driving force behind the Traditional
Services at Temple Judah whose untimely passing can
only be described as a tragic loss for all of us.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/
2024:
The JTA Jewish Film Club is scheduled to host its last session with a screening
of “Minyan.”
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar by Jeremy Rosen on “Making Sense of
the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 14:17, Back into the
Desert.”
2024: HULU is
scheduled to scree the first episode of “We Were the Lucky Ones,” ‘a limited
series inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at
the start of WWII.”
2024: YIVO is
scheduled to lecture by Barbara E. Mann on “Yiddish and Hebrew Little Magazine
in the Weimar Republic.”
2024: The
Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to a “Hybrid Exhibition Talk: Sinjar
Destroyed: Photographs and stories of the aftermath of ISIS genocide in
northern Iraq.”
2024: The
Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to a virtual seminar on “Our Remarkable
Lower East Side Women” centering on portraits, created by artist Adrienne
Ottenberg, which “are printed on silk or cotton include a tableau of street
maps depicting the Lower East Side places where these women worked and lived.”
2024: The
American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled a book talk with Daniel
Schulman author of The Money Kings.
2024: Jewish Book Council and Touro University are scheduled
to host an interactive panel discussion on Jewish literature with some
of the 73rd National Jewish Book Award winners.
2024: As March
27th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 173 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.)
