This Day, October 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"l
OCTOBER 7
3761 BCE: According to some Jewish
traditionalists, this corresponds to the date on which God created the
World. This marks the start of the epoch of the Modern Hebrew
calendar. The attached article should provide an explanation of this
entry. For those who have been studying in Cedar Rapids, please note the
role of the Babylonian exile in the development of the calendar, which, as we
have seen has been one of the most important vehicles for Jewish survival. I
have included this rather lengthy article since so many people ask about the
Jewish calendar and I know so little about.
"The Hebrew calendar, also known as the Jewish
calendar, is the annual calendar used in Judaism. It is based upon both
lunar months and a solar cycle (which defines its years) and so is a lunisolar
calendar. This is in contrast to the Gregorian calendar, which is based solely
upon a solar cycle, or the Islamic calendar, which is purely lunar. Jews use
this calendar to determine when the new Hebrew months start; this calendar
determines the Jewish holidays, which Torah portions to read, and which set of
Psalms should be read each day. Jews have been using a lunisolar calendar since
Biblical times, but originally referred to the months by number rather than
name. During the Babylonian exile, they adopted Babylonian names for the
months. Some sects, such as the Essenes, used a solar calendar. The epoch of
the modern Hebrew calendar is Monday, October 7, 3761 BCE, being the tabular
date (same daylight period) in the proleptic Julian calendar corresponding to 1
Tishri AM 1 (AM = Anno Mundi = in the year of the world). This date is
about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul
AM 1! A minority place Creation on 25 Adar AM 1, about six months after the
modern epoch. Thus adding 3761 to a Gregorian year number will yield the Hebrew
year number beginning in autumn (add 3760 for that ending in autumn). This
holds until the Gregorian year 1 BCE. After that (due to the lack of year 0),
adding 3760 to the Gregorian year yields the Hebrew year beginning in autumn
(3759 for that ending in autumn). Because the Hebrew year drifts relative to
the Gregorian year, this actually only works until the year 22,203, but it's a
fairly good rule of thumb. The Hebrew month is tied to an estimate of the
average time taken by the Moon to cycle from lunar conjunction to lunar
conjunction. Twelve lunar months are about 354 days while the solar year is
about 365 days so an extra lunar month is added every two or three years in
accordance with a 19-year cycle of 235 lunar months (12 regular months every
year plus 7 extra or embolismic months every 19 years). The average Hebrew year
length is about 365.2468 days, about 7 minutes longer than the average tropical
solar year which is about 365.2422 days. Approximately every 216 years, those
minutes add up so that the Hebrew year is "slower" than the average
solar year by a full day. Because the average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days,
the average Hebrew year is slower by a day every 231 Gregorian years. There are
exactly 14 different patterns that Hebrew calendar years may take. Each of
these patterns is called a "keviyah" (Hebrew for
"species"), and is distinguished by the day of the week for Rosh
Hashanah of that particular year and by that particular year's length.
- A chaserah
year (Hebrew for "deficient" or "incomplete") is 353
or 383 days long because a day is taken away from the month of Kislev. The
Hebrew letter ח"het", and the letter for the weekday
denotes this pattern.
- A kesidrah
year ("regular" or "in-order") is 354 or 384 days
long. The Hebrew letter כ"kaf", and the letter for
the week-day denotes this pattern.
- A shlemah
year ("abundant" or "complete") is 355 or 385 days
long because a day is added to the month of Heshvan. The Hebrew letter ש"shin",
and the letter for the week-day denotes this pattern.
A variant of this pattern naming includes another letter which
specifies the day of the week for the first day of Pesach (Passover) in the
year. Every hour is divided into 1080 parts. A part (31/3
seconds or 1/18 minute) equals a small Babylonian time
period called a barleycorn, itself equal to 1/72
of a Babylonian time degree (1° of celestial rotation). The weekdays
start with Sunday (day 1) and proceed to Saturday (day 7). Since some
calculations use division, a remainder of 0 signifies Saturday. The calendar is
based on mean lunar conjunctions called "molads" spaced precisely 29
days, 12 hours, and 793 parts apart. Actual conjunctions vary from the molads
by up to 13 hours in each direction due to the nonuniform velocity of the moon.
This value for the interval between molads (the mean synodic month) was known
to the Babylonians by about 250 BCE and was later used by the Greek astronomer
Hipparchus and the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy. Its remarkable accuracy was
achieved using records of lunar eclipses over several centuries. Measured using
an absolute scale, such as an atomic clock, the mean synodic month is becoming
gradually longer, but since the rotation of the earth is slowing even more the
mean synodic month is becoming gradually shorter in terms of the day-night
cycle. The value 29-12-793 was almost exactly correct in 1 CE and is now about
0.6 s per month too great. The 19 year cycle has 12 non-leap and 7 leap years.
There are 235 lunar months in each cycle. This gives a total of 6939 days, 16
hours and 595 parts for each cycle. Due to the vagaries of the Hebrew calendar,
19 Hebrew years can be either 6939, 6940, 6941, or 6942 days each. To start on
the same day of the week, the days in the cycle must be divisible by 7, but
none of these values can be so divided. This keeps the Hebrew calendar from
repeating itself too often. The calendar almost repeats every 247 years, except
for an excess of 50 minutes (905 parts). So the calendar actually repeats every
36,288 cycles (every 689,472 Hebrew years). The leap years of 13 months are the
3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and the 19th years. Dividing the Hebrew year
number by 19, and looking at the remainder will tell you if the year is a leap
year (for the 19th year, the remainder is zero). A Hebrew leap year is one that
has 13 months in it, a non-leap year has 12 months. A mnemonic word in Hebrew
is GUCHADZaT (the Hebrew letters gimel-vav-het aleph-dalet-zayin-tet, i.e. 3,
6, 8, 1, 4, 7, 9. See Hebrew numerals). Another mnemonic is that the intervals
of the major scale follow the same pattern as do Hebrew leap years: a whole
step in the scale corresponds to two non-leap years between consecutive leap
years, and a half step to one non-leap between two leap years. A Hebrew non
leap-year will only have 353, 354, or 355 days. A leap year will have 383, 384,
or 385 days. Although simple math would calculate 21 patterns for the calendar
years, there are other limitations which means that Rosh Hashanah may only
occur on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, according to the
following table:
|
Day
of Week |
Number
of Days |
|||
|
Monday |
353 |
355 |
383 |
385 |
|
Tuesday |
354 |
|
|
384 |
|
Thursday |
354 |
355 |
383 |
385 |
|
Saturday |
353 |
355 |
383 |
385 |
Basically, the Hebrew months alternate between a short month and a long month,
for example: Tishri (30 days), Cheshvan (also spelled Heshvan) (29 or 30 days),
Kislev (30 or 29 days), Tevet (29 days), Shevat (30 days), Adar (29 days),
Nisan (30 days), Iyar (29 days), Sivan (30 days), Tammuz (29 days), Av (30
days), Elul (29 days). For leap years, a 30 day month of Adar 1 is added
immediately after the month of Shevat, and the 29 day Adar is called Adar 2.
This is to ensure that the months remain at the same season rather than
continuing to drift earlier by about 11 days per year. The 265 days from the
first day of the 29 day month of Adar (the last one of the year) and ending
with the 29th day of Heshvan forms a fixed length period that has all of the
festivals specified in the Bible, such as Pesach (Nisan 15), Shavuot (Sivan 6),
Rosh Hashannah (Tishri 1), Yom Kippur (Tishri 10), Sukkot (Tishri 15), and
Shemini Atzeret (Tishri 22). The festival period from Pesach up to and
including Shemini Atzeret is exactly 185 days long. The time from the
traditional day of the vernal equinox up to and including the
traditional day of the autumnal equinox is also exactly 185 days long.
This has caused some unfounded speculation that Pesach should be March 21st,
and Shemini Atzeret should be September 21, which are the traditional days for
the equinoxes. Just as the Hebrew day starts at sunset, the Hebrew year starts
in the Autumn (Rosh Hashanah), although the mismatch of solar and lunar years
will eventually move it to another season (but not in your lifetime). Karaites
use the lunar month and the solar year but determine when to add a leap month
by observing barley, rather than a fixed calendar. This occasionally puts them
a month out of sync with the rest of the Jews"
1072: Sancho the Strong was betrayed and murdered by a Zamoran noble
during his assault on Zamora, Spain.
1072:
Alfonso the Brave succeeded
his brother Sancho the Strong as king of León and Castile at a time when “the
Jews of Leon were assured equal rights with the Christian inhabitants of the
country by the Cortes assembled at Leon in 1020 as well as in the Fuero of 1090
which meant they were also permitted to take part in duels “they were subjected
to special taxes.
1272: Pope Gregory X condemned the ritual murder libels aimed at
the Jewish people. In addition, since Jews could not bear witness against
Christians, he refused to accept testimony by a Christian against a Jew unless
it was confirmed by another Jew.
1349: The
Jewish population of Krems, Germany, was massacred in the Black Death riots.(As
reported by Aish)
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_16.html
1512: As
the attempt to ban all Jewish books including the Talmud, the inquisitor Jacob van
Hoogstraaten and his allies “, obtained an imperial order confiscating the
Augenspiegel” which was the pamphlet that Johann Reuchlin the German scholar
with a deep knowledge of Greek and Hebrew had written in defense of “Jewish
books” and denying a claim that he had been bribed.
1533(18th
of Tishrei, 5924): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed as England, a place from when
Jews have been banished, is racked by the “quarrels” surrounding the
replacement of Queen Mary with Queen Anne Boleyn
1555:
Hundreds of Jews in Cracow were killed during the Hakafot, the ritual trouping
of the Torah connected with Simchat Torah.
1571: The
Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroyed the Turkish fleet at The Battle of
Lepanto. This was part of a centuries-long battle before European Christians
and the forces of Islam, in this case the Ottoman Empire. Often the
fighting was more about commercial gain than it was about religion. The
battle was significant because it was the first naval defeat the Ottomans had
suffered in more than a century. While the Jews were not directly involved, the
fighting had an impact on them. At the time of the defeat, Selim II was
the Sultan. He opened his kingdom to the Jews settling a colony of them
on the Island of Cyprus. The Ottomans accepted the defeat as the will of God,
and unlike some Europeans, did not use the Jews as scapegoats for their loss.
1620:
Polish nobleman Stanisław Żółkiewski who was erroneously credited with the
founding of Brody by Nathan-Michael Gelber in his work Toldot Yehudei Brody
(The History of the Jews of Brody) passed away today.
1665(28th
of Tishrei, 5426): Chaim Auberach who served as the “assessor of the rabbinate”
in Vienna and who was the brother of Menachem Mendel Auerbach and Benjamin Wolf
Auerbach passed away today
1716(21st
of Tishrei, 5477): Moses Mayer Schiff, the son of Meir and Chava Schiff passed
away today.
1753(9th
of Tishrei, 5514): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre observed for the first time since
The Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753 had been passed by Parliament and
received the royal assent of King George II.
1761:
Birthdate of Newport, RI native Eleazer Elizer, the son Isaac Elizer who
settled in South Carolina where he served as a justice of the piece and as
postmaster for the town of Greenville.
1762(20th
of Tishrei, 5523): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1763:
George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing
aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white
settlements. This attempt to control the growth of Colonial America was one of
the causes of the American Revolution, with all that that would mean for the
Jewish people. More immediately, the closure had a negative impact on the
fortunes of Moses Franks, Jacob Franks, Barnard Gratz, Michael Gratz, David
Franks, Moses Franks, Jr., Joseph Simon, and Levy Andrew Levy each of whom
dabbled in “western” land speculation.
1765(22nd
of Tishrei, 5526): Shmini Atzeres
1767: In
New York City, Baruch Judah and his wife gave birth to Jacob Judah.
1770(18th
of Tishrei, 5531): Fourth Day of Sukkot observed for the first time while Lord North,
of American Revolutionary War fame was serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1772(10th
of Tishrei, 5533): Yom Kippur
1775(13th
of Tishrei, 5536): Parashat Ha’azinu read on the same day that John Adams, a
delegate to the Continental Congress and a leader of the American Revolution
wrote to his wife Abigail warning that “the situation of things is so alarming
that it is our duty prepare our minds and hearts for the worst.” i.e. British victory which would result in
his being drawn and quartered as a traitor
1777: Under today’s date John Adams wrote his wife that he was in
York, PA, where "I am lodged in the house of General Roberdeau, an
Israelite, indeed, I believe, who with his sisters and children and servants
does everything to make us happy. We are highly favored. No other delegates are
so well off." Fearing capture by the British, the Continental
Congress had moved to York where it could meet in comparative safety. [Editor’s
Note – Adams may have been in error since according there was a General
Roberdeau whose father’s name is Isaac Roberdeau and they were Huegenots.]
1777:
During the Revolutionary War, The Americans defeated the British in the Second
Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. This defeat led
France to recognize the new United States of America and, more importantly,
sign a treaty which brought the Americans much needed supplies, money and the
support of the French fleet. It was the turning point in the war that
would create the home of the most significant Jewish community outside of Eretz
Israel. Col. David Salisbury Franks, the highest-ranking Jewish officer serving
with the Continental Army served with valor during the Battle. Franks
would later be serving as an aide to Benedict Arnold when the general turned
traitor. He was cleared of all charges and continued to serve with during
the war. He is not to be confused with his uncle David Franks who was a
Loyalist.
1778(16th
of Tishrei, 5539) Second Day of Sukkoth is observed as American forces under
Count Pulaski arrive at Chestnut Neck which the British are fleeing to avoid
combat with Colonials.
1780(8th
of Tishrei, 5541): Shabbat Shuva observed on the same day that the Patriots
scored a major victory over forces loyal to the crown at the Battle of Kings
Mountain in South Carolina.
1783:
Richea Hart and Abraham Seixas who were married at Charleston in 1877 gave
birth to Abigail Seixas.
1784(22nd
of Tishrei, 5545): Shmini Atzeret is celebrated by Bedford merchant David Hays,
the brother of Michael Hays.
1786(15th
of Tishrei, 5547): Sukkoth
1789(17th
of Tishrei): Third Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of George Washington, the first President of the United States under
the United States Constitution.
1790:
Zipporah Isaacs and Hymen Cohen gave birth to Andrew Asher Cohen.
1791(9th
of Tishrei, 5552): Erev Yom Kippur
1792(21st
of Tishrei, 5553): Hoshana Raba
1800(18th
of Tishrei, 5561): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that Gabriel
Prosser was hanged after having been found guilty the day before of leading a
planned slave insurrection in Virginia.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/prosser-gabriel-1775-1800/
1801(30th
of Tishrei, 5562) Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan observed for the first time during the
presidency of Thomas Jefferson of “separation of church and state fame.”
1803(21st
of Tishrei, 5564): Hoshana Raba
1803(21st
of Tishrei, 5564): Dob Bär ben Judah Treves the Hungarian rabbi who served as
rabbinical judge in Wilvan from 1760 to 1790 who wrote “a commentary on the
Pentateuch, in which, through cabalistic explanations, he endeavored to
establish a connection between the written and the oral law” passed away
today. (Some sources show the day of his
death on the secular calendar as October 17 but then he could not have passed
away on the 21st of Tishrei)
1804: In
London, Elizabeth Kahn and Samuel Gershon gave birth to George Gershon.
1805(14th
of Tishrei, 5566): Erev Sukkoth
1805(14th
of Tishrei, 5566): Twenty-four-year-old Rachel Aaron was buried today at the
Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1808(16th
of Tishrei, 5569): Second Day of Sukkoth
1808:
Rebecca Phillips and Isaiah Moses who had been married in 1807 at Charleston,
gave birth to Columbia, SC native Levy I Moses, the husband of Adeline Moses
whom he married at Charleston in 1832 and with whom he had nine children.
1811: In
the West Indies, Jacob Mendes DaCosta and his wife gave birth to Sarah Miriam
Mendes Da Costa, the wife of Hart Lyon “of Barbados.”
1812: In
Charleston, SC, Jacob Lazarus married Mary Hart, the daughter of the late
Daniel Hart.
1812:
Today, at the London Tavern, Joseph Abrahams, one of the earliest Anglo-Jewish
attorneys, and Elizabeth Myers, daughter of a wealthy fishmonger who were
members of the Great Synagogue were married in a ceremony attended by the Lord
Mayor of London.
1813(13th
of Tishrei, 5574): Hannah Cohen, the wife of Phillip Cohen of Brixton, passed
away today “in the 40th year of her age.”
1814(23rd
of Tishrei, 5575): Simchat Torah
1814:
Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin fell from a window today and suffered injuries that
would lead to his death on Tisha B'Av, 5575 (August 15, 1815)
1816(15th
of Tishrei, 5577): First Day of Sukkoth
1819: In
London, Charlotte Florence Wattier and Isaac Gompertz gave birth to Charles
Gompertz who passed away two days later.
1821(11th
of Tishrei, 5582): Ephraim Levy Green the father of Abraham, Saran and Levy
Ephriam Green passed away today.
1822(22nd
of Tishrei, 5583): Shmini Atzeret
1826(6th
of Tishrei, 5587): Shabbat Shuva
1824(15th
of Tishrei, 5585): First Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
Presidency of James Monroe.
1827(16th
of Tishrei, 5588): Second Day of Sukkoth
1829(10th
of Tishrei, 5590): Yom Kippur
1830: In
Tiefenthal, Germany, Caolina Labe and Abraham Baum gave birth to dressmaker
Esther Baum who in 1852 came to the United States where she settled in
Philadelphia and became an active support of the United Hebrew Charities and
the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum.
1834:
Today, the Missouri Republican reported that “in 1834 Philip Philipson, the son
of Simon Philipson, returned to St. Louis from a four-year trip to the Rock
Mountains” which was made twenty years before Solomon N. Carvalho’s trip with
Colonel John C. Fremont
1835(14th
of Tishrei, 5596): Erev Sukkoth observed for the first time during the Texas
War for Independence which had begun five days ago.
1837(8th
of Tishrei, 5598): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Martin Van Buren.
1837: In
Charleston, SC, Catherine Oppenheim, the daughter of Joseph and Rachel Moses
and her husband Hertz Wolf (Fritz) Oppenheim gave birth to Emily Frederika
Mayer, the wife of Emil Joseph Meyer and the mother of Emil Joseph Meyer, Jr.
1838(18th
of Tishrei, 5559): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1840:
Willem II became the King of the Netherlands. He was the son of Willem I the
first Dutch monarch who ruled after the defeat of the French. Unlike his
Germanic counterparts, Willem did not rescind the rights the Jews had enjoyed,
and this policy of acceptance was followed by his son who did nothing to
abrogate the rights of the Jews.
1841(22nd
of Tishrei, 5602): Shmini Atzeret observed for the first time during the
Presidency of John Tyler.
1842:
Birthdate of Sir Phillip Magnus, the Reform Rabbi turned educational reformer
and political leader who was the husband of Katie Magnus and the father of
publisher Laurie Magnus.
https://www.jta.org/1933/08/30/archive/sir-philip-magnus-dead-scientist-communal-leader
1845(6th of Tishrei,
5606): Author and linguist Samson Bloch who was an ardent supporter of the
Haskalah movement passed away today.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3403-bloch-samson-simson-b-isaac-ha-levi
1846(17th of
Tishrei, 5607) Third Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Mexican-American War.
1848(10th
of Tishrei, 5609): As revolutions erupt throughout Europe, the Jews observe Yom
Kippur
1851: In New
York, a Hungarian Jew named Nathan Levins who has been in the United States for
only two weeks filed a complaint at the Sixth Precinct claiming that Israel
Steinhardt, another Hungarian Jew had robbed him of 940 pounds in Bank of England
notes. The police went to the house on Pell Street where Steinhardt was
living, placed him under arrest and took him back to the precinct house where
he was to be held until he could be brought before a magistrate.
1851: In Buffalo, NY,
Samuel and Marie Weil Desbecker gave birth to Emelia Desbecker Weill, the
husband of Louis Weill whom she married in 1873 and mother of Alfred and Bertam
Weill.
1852: In Nachod,
Bohemia, Nathan and Julie Judith Josephine Mautner gave birth to Isidor
Mautner.
1853: The ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of a Jewish Educational Institute, in Greene-street,
adjoining the Synagogue Bnai Jesharun, took place today. The Institute is
intended as the beginning of a Hebrew College to be hereafter erected in this
City. The religious services on the laying of the Cornerstone were conducted by
Rabbi Raphall.
1854(15th of
Tishrei, 5615): Sukkoth
1854: William Wilkins
gave a speech to a large gathering of Democrats in Pittsburgh, PA where he
denounced the Know Nothing Party which is known for its opposition to
foreigners and Catholics. “He argued that if the Know Nothings succeeded,
no religious sect would safe – that next after the Catholic the Hebrew would be
proscribed.” Jews feared the Know Nothings because of its views on
non-Protestant religions and its animosity towards immigrants since many of the
Jews were recent immigrants.
1855: Phoebe Simmons
and Abraham Marks gave birth to Aaron Marks.
1856: Sarah Naar
Cardozo, the New York City born Daughter of Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro
Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her husband Abraham Hart Cardozo,
the Richmond, VA born tobacco merchant and founder of the firm of A.H. Cardozo
and Company, gave birth to their son Abraham Hart Cardozo, Jr.
1857(19th of
Tishrei, 5618): Fifth Day of Sukkot observed on the same day that “Queen
Victoria proclaimed a day of national humiliation in recognition of the
barbarous acts by rebellious Sepoys and the brutal reprisals made by British
troop.”
1858: In Bielitz,
Austria, Anna and Isaac Leonard Zeisler gave birth to Dr. Joseph Zeisler and
husband of “Theresa Feuchtman” who was recognized an expert in the fields “of
skin and venereal diseases.”
1859(9th of
Tishrei, 5620): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1860: According to a
letter written by the President, Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco has had
a net gain of 49 members in the past year raising its numbers to a total of
227. In the past year one adult and eighteen Jewish children passed away
in the last year. Monthly expenses have risen from $750 to $800. The sale
of seats has grown by $2,000 and total over $5,000 this year. Dr. Elkan Cohn
continues to serve as the Rabbi of the congregation that is growing so fast it
will need a new sanctuary. In addition to which, the congregation needs
to appropriate money for a school for the youngsters, including salaries for
the teachers.
1863: A
newspaper published in Petersberg, VA, reported that our readers have already
been apprised of the recent extensive sales of gold, paid for in drafts as
valueless as the paper on which they were written. The premium "paid"
for this gold was $12. Since the withdrawal of this heavy customer the demand
for the precious metals has measurably subsided, and, as the Jews are now
keeping one of their protracted annual holidays, the transactions for several
days past have been very light. The commission brokers are now asking $11 50
for gold. No silver in the market.” The “protracted annual holidays” referred
to the Sukkoth cycle with Simchat Torah having ended the day before the article
was written.
1864:
Joshua Pickering a member of the Cameron Dragoons, “a largely Jewish regiment”
commanded by Colonel Max Friednman was killed today at Darbytown Road, Virginia
during the Civil War
1864:
Birthdate of Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk, the son of a Missouri governor who
gained fame as a conductor and composer for musicals and movies.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/07/17/94552317.pdf
1865(17th
of Tishrei, 5626): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1865(17th
of Tishrei, 5626): Sixty-four-year-old Michael Hart Cardozo the Easton, PA born
son of Sarah Hart and Isaac Cardozo and the wife of Helen Desouza Hart with
whom he had five children passed away today in New York City.
1865(17th
of Tishrei, 5626): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth observed in a united United States for
the first time since 1860.
1866: In
Lamar County, AL Samuel Jefferson Mordecai, Sr. and Martha Louisa Mordecai gave
birth to Samuel Jefferson Mordecai who married Lula D. Taylor after the death
of his first wife Paralee McNees, the mother of his son Rack Stonewall
Mordecai.
1867:” Blood Libel charges triggered anti-Jewish riots in
Romania.”
(As
reported by Aish)http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_17.html
1867: In
Prescott, AZ, the 4th Territorial Legislature, which was attended by
Phillip Drachman who had traveled 200 miles “by buckboard, stage and horseback”
from Tucson adjourned today after it had voted to move “the capital from
Prescott to Tucson” in 1868.
1868:
Founding of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. Today at Cornell, there are
approximately 3,500 Jewish undergrads among the 13,500 undergraduate population
and another 500 Jewish students among its 5,000 Jewish graduate students. In
other words, Jews account for about 25% of the school’s population. The school
offers a major and minor in Jewish Studies as well as a full panoply of social
and cultural on campus designed to meet the needs of Jewish students.
1870:
During the Franco-Prussian War, Leon Gambetta escaped from Paris by balloon.
This was the only way that Gambetta could reach Tours where he was active in
organizing further military opposition to the Prussians. Gambetta was
instrumental in the formation of the French Third Republic. His father
was Jewish. His mother was not.
1871(22nd
of Tishrei, 5632): Shemini Atzeret
1871:
Congregation Bethel was organized today shortly after the Great Chicago Fire.
1871: In
Germany, Nathan Baruch Rothschild, the son of Baruch and Esther Rothschild and
his wife Sophie Rothschild, both of whom settled in Columbus, GA gave birth to
Gerson Rothschild
1871: It
was reported today that “the Hebrew Feast of Tabernacles closes this
morning…Offerings of branches of the palm tree, the myrtle, willow and the
citron were made” yesterday during services held in the synagogues of New York.
1874: Moses
Phillips married Julia Defries today.
1874: It
was reported today the government of Romania is upset by an article published
in a Jewish paper that portrays Benjamin Peixoto, the U.S. Consul in Bucharest
as “the only protector of the persecuted Jews” of that country. The
Romanians claim they have done everything possible to protect the Jews.
The government claims that the increase in the number of Jews entering the
country from Russia and Austria and the cessation of the exodus of Jews from
Romania serves as proof of their contention.
1876(19th
of Tishrei, 5637) Shabbat Shel Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
presidency of U.S. Grant.
1878(10th
of Tishrei, 5639): Yom Kippur
1878:
According to reports published today, a new group of people has been discovered
in India who are supposed to be descendants of Jews sent there by King Solomon
to capture elephants and work in the gold mines. Instead of calling
themselves Jews, they refer to themselves as Sons Of Israel. They have
prayer-books and Bibles written in Hebrew. They observe Shabbat but show
no knowledge of Yom Kippur or Pesach. [Editor’s Note – While the connection
with Solomon might be hard to prove, referring to themselves as Sons of Israel
and not Jews would argue for their antiquity considering how much later the
latter term came to be used to describe The Chosen People.]
1878: With
the end of Yom Kippur this evening Morris Bloom a peddler living on Orchard
Street and Sarah Greenberg of Hester Street can be married in a synagogue. The
families of the couple had opposed the marriage and the youngsters had a Judge
of the Court of General Sessions perform a civil ceremony. Once the
families saw that the two were committed to each other, they relented which is
the reason for the religious ceremony.
1879:
Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create
the Dual Alliance. This alliance had amazing durability. It was this
alliance which helped trigger World War I and all the suffering for Jews and
non-Jews that has flowed from this seminal event.
1879: Birthdate of Davidovich Bronstein, the son of wealthy
Jewish farmers in the Ukraine, who became Leon Trotskky a revolutionary
committed to the overthrown of the Czar. After spending time in Siberia,
he joined forces with Lenin. After the Bolshevik Revolution created the
Red Army which defeated both the foreign armies that invaded the Soviet Union
and the White Forces during the bloody civil war that followed. Trotsky
would lose out to Stalin in the power struggle that followed Lenin’s
death. Trotsky would be hacked to death by one of Stalin’s agents in 1940
while living in Mexico. Anti-Semites would use Trotsky’s Jewish origins as one
source of proof that Communism was part of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the
world. The joke among Jews was the Trostkys make the revolutions and the
Bronsteins suffer the consequences.
1879: In Petersburg, VA, Rachel Rosenbaum and Moses Randolph Saul
gave birth to Tulane University trained attorney Irving Randolph Saul, the
husband of Gertrude Goldsmith whom he married in 1908.
1880: In Chicago, Julia and Bernhard Daniels gave birth to Julius
Daniels, the brother of Max, Minnie, Samuel and Hattie Daniels
1881(14th
of Tishrei, 5642): Erev Sukkoth
1881(14th
of Tishrei, 5642): Seventy-one-year-old Lewis Jacob Marcus lawyer and political
activist who moved to England after his retirement passed away in Manchester,
UK.
1881: “Current Foreign Topics” published today described the trial
of the chief editors and a reporter for
two of Germany’s leading newspapers who had been charged with “insulting a
police commissioner” by reporting on his attendance at an “anti-Jewish
meeting” last year. The journalists accused him of “neglecting his duty” for
not intervening when “a section of the audience attacked the Jews.” The
reporter was acquitted but the editors were fined 50 marks.
1882(24th of Tishrei, 5643):
Parashat Bereshit chanted on the same day that the “Chicago White Stockings
(NL) beats Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA), 2-0 at Bank Street Grounds,
Cincinnati” in the second game of the 19th century’s version of the
World Series.
1883: It was reported today that the Young Men’s Hebrew Association plans
to offer a series of lectures every Saturday between now and November that will
help with the Americanization of immigrants who have come from Germany, Russia
and other parts of Eastern Europe. Starting in November, the YMHA will
offer classes four nights a week in reading, writing and spelling. Among those
leading the effort are M.A. Kuresheedt, M.W. Platzek and Rabbi Aaron Wise.
1884: In Bavaria,”
the famous mathematician
Max Noether and his wife Ida Amalia Kaufmann” gave birth mathematician Fritz
Noether, the third of their four children who moved to the Soviet Union because
the Nazis would not him pursue his career but ended up being executed in 1941
after the Russians decided the Jew was really a spy.
1884: “City and Suburban News” published today included a note that
Hebrew teacher Gadalic Richter has been released from the Tombs after charges
of arson against could not be proven.
1885: In Copenhagen, Christian
Bohr,a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen, and Ellen Adler
Bohr, who came from a wealthy Danish Jewish family prominent in banking and
parliamentary circles” gave birth to Neils Bohr the physicist who is the Father
of Quantum Theory and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.
1885: Birthdate of New York City native and University of London graduate
Alexander Harris the President of “Ronson Corporation” the manufacturer of the
famous cigarette lighter, husband of “the former Hannah Lightenburg and father
of Dr. Jonathan L. Harris.
1886(8th of Tishrei, 5647): Solomon Goldberg, a 34-year Jew from Poland
who had been confined to The Tombs on charges of not supporting his wife, took
his own life this afternoon.
1886: Birthdate of Russian native and realtor Edward Aaron Adas who in
1887 came to the United States where he settled in Detroit working in the
leather goods business while being an active member of the Jewish Federation.
1886: Joseph Rosenberg, who had passed away at the age of 102, was buried
today in New Orleans, LA.
1887: In London, Edward Montefiore Micholls and Ada Rachael Micholls, the
Surry born daughter of Maurice Moses Beddington and Hannah Maria Beddington,
gave birth to Colonel Wilfred Horatio Micholls.
1888: “New Settlers Destitute”
published today while many of the homesteaders living in the Dakota territories
are suffering due to crop failure, the greatest suffering is found among the
300 Russian Jews who settled there two years ago. Some of the families
are without food and the rest will need outside financial assistance if they
are to survive. (My grandfather and his brother homesteaded in the Dakotas in
the 1890’s and experienced hardship. After a winter of living on
crackers, as soon as the roads were passable, my grandfather went back to
Chicago to seek “fame and fortune.”)
1888: “Old World News By Cable” published today described the many
contradictory stories going around Europe about the German scheme to rescue
Emin Pasha. Those opposed to the plans point out that he really is a Jew
named Isaac Schnitzler. (Emin Pasha had in fact been born a Jew but he
converted and became a romantic Muslim leader).
1888: Birthdate of movie director Robert Z. Leonard.
http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/robert-z-leonard/
1889:
Driven by the effective and fervent lobbying efforts of activist Annie Nathan
Meyer, Barnard College opened its doors. Although a number of northern elite
women's colleges had opened during the 1870s, numerous cities, including New
York, had little to offer young women of scholarly inclinations. At age 18,
Meyer, who was largely self-educated, organized a reading circle and enrolled
in the newly established extension program for women at Columbia College. Meyer
married shortly before her 20th birthday in 1887 and soon began working to
establish an affiliate women's college to Columbia. Meyer published a powerful
letter to the Nation magazine and circulated a petition throughout the
city to win the college's trustees over to her effort. Meyer achieved funding
and support from the trustees on April 1 1889, leased quarters for the school,
and began accepting applicants. Barnard became the first women's college in New
York to offer the rigorous course work equivalent to that of male liberal arts
colleges. Annie Nathan Meyer continued her work with Barnard throughout her
life, becoming a member of the first board of trustees and remaining active in
trustee affairs for the ensuing six decades. (Jewish Women’s Archives)
1889: In
Berlin, the former Martha Behrendt and her husband, bank director and newspaper
published Richard Jacob gave birth to author and journalist Heinrich Eduard
Jacob “who also wrote under the pen names Henry E. Jacob and Eric Jens
Petersen.”
1890(23rd
of Tishrei, 5651): Simchat Torah.
1890: “A
Great City University” published today described the meeting of the Trustees of
Columbia University where a list of gifts to the school was presented including
$1,000 from Jesse Seligman which is to be allocated to the Seligman
Fellowships.
1891: In
Berlin, “historian and socialist Ignaz Jastrow” gave birth to archeologist
Elisabeth Jastrow who settled in the United States in the 1930’s who along with
her sister “Lotte Beate Jastrow Hahn” successful rescued her mother Anna
Seligman Jastrow from Nazi Germany
1891: A
brief summary of the annual report of the United Hebrew Charities showed that
the organization had spent $167,811.85 in the last year, $62,121.60 of which
came from the Baron de Hirsch Committee.
1891: “Jews
And The Russian Loan” published today described the concern among American Jews
that two “Jewish” banking houses – Mendelssohn & Co. and Warschauer &
Co. --- are willing to extend credit to a government that treats its Jewish
subjects so poorly.
1891(5th of
Tishrei, 5652): Seventy-two-year-old Jakob Eduard Poak, the Austrian trained
physician who played a key role in bringing modern medical practices to Iran
and served as the personal doctor to the Shah from 1855 to 1860 passed away
today in Vienna.
1891: Birthdate of Russian
born and Cornell University Law School graduate Abraham S. Bordon the husband
of Mindel Bordon with whom he had two daughters – Nancy and Ann -- who
“was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court,”
1894: Rabbi
Wintner officiated at the wedding ceremony of Ida E. Korne and John Bernstein,
the son Nathan Bernstein, the wealthy Brooklyn merchant who is near death and
insisted that he marriage take place so he could witness it before he passed
away.
1895(19th
of Tishrei, 5656): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1896:
Birthdate of Minsk native Shmuel-Ber Leykin.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/04/shmuel-ber-leykin.html
1896: In
Fort Wayne, IN, Celia Wachtel and Samuel J. Goldstine gave birth to MIT and
Rose Polytechnic Institute trained chemical engineer Edgard Nathan Goldstine
“who engaged in the design of structural steel and reinforced concrete
structures… with various firms” who was a member of B’nai B’rith while living
in Miami Beach.
1897: “Over
In Camden” published today included a description of the observance of Yom
Kippur in that New Jersey city just outside of Philadelphia, PA.
1897: The Bund (Jewish Workers Party) held its first conference in Russia.
It was the first Jewish Socialist party in Eastern Europe. At first decidedly
anti-Zionist and pro-Yiddishist, it was organized as a union of Russian Jewish
socialist groups. The bund exerted a great influence on Jews in Europe and
America. Interestingly enough, the Bund held its first meeting during the same
year in which the Zionists held their first Congress.
1897:
Professor Francis William Newman, the author of A History of the Hebrew
Monarchy (1847) and Hebrew Theism (1874) who was the brother of the
late Cardinal Newman passed away.
1897: It
was reported today that the late Lewis Stark, a New York businessman who “was a
member of a number Hebrew charitable organizations” will be buried in
Baltimore, MD
1898(21st
of Tishrei, 5659): Hoshanah Rabah
1898:
Birthdate of Alfred Wallenstein, principle cellist for the Chicago Symphony
from 1922 to 1929.
1899: It
was reported today the Jewish poet and author Salomon Mandelkern has come from
his home in Leipzig to visit his son Israel who is living on East Broadway in
Manhattan.
1899:
Abraham Cahan was described today as “the ‘Yiddish’ author” who “lives near the
up-town ‘Ghetto’ and edits a Hebrew scientific periodical, besides teaching and
writing interesting newspaper articles about the east side and its peculiar
peoples.”
1900:
Birthdate of Russian-born American muralist and painter Louis Goodman who came
to the United States in 1910, studied at The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago and who did everything from creating “a comic strip called ‘The Kids on
Our Block’” to painted “murals at the RCA Building” at the time of the 1939
World’s Fair.
https://www.artprice.com/artist/134267/louis-goodman-ferstadt/biography
http://www.askart.com/artist/Louis_Goodman_Ferstadt/60429/Louis_Goodman_Ferstadt.aspx
1901:
Birthdate of Ralph Reichenthal who gained fame as composer and pianist Ralph
Rainger.
1902(6th
of Tishrei, 5663): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit Reform Jewish leader Israel
Jacobson who passed away in 1828.
1903(16th
of Tishrei, 5664): Second Day of Sukkoth
1903(16th
of Tishrei, 5664): German Born mathematician Rudolph Otto Sigismund Lispchitz
passed away. Born in 1832, Lispschitz was a professor at the University
of Bonn for almost forty years and the man who developed the mathematical
paradigm known as the Lipschitz Continuity.
1903: In
San Francisco, a contract was entered into to begin building the new sanctuary
for Congregation Sherith Israel
1904:
“Russian Jews Arrested” published described “reports received at the Ministry
of the Interior” in St. Petersburg, “that the Jewish revolutionists are
displaying renewed activity in the dissemination of pamphlets urging their
co-religionists not rely on the promises of the Government and asserting that
the remedy” to their problems “is a revolution.”
1905(8th
of Tishrei, 5666): Shabbat Shuva
1905:
“History of Egypt” published today provides a detailed review of W.W. Flinders Petrie’s “third volume of the
history of Egypt” which covers the time frame of the Jew’s exodus the land
Pharaoh
1905:
Birthdate of Chicago newspaperman and award-winning author Meyer Levin who was
best known for Compulsion, a compelling tale based on the infamous
Leopold and Loeb murder case that was turned into a riveting film.
1906: The
Sinai Temple congregation resolved to have Dr. Leon Messing, a native of
Alabama, who was serving a congregation in Bloomington, commute to
Champagne-Urbana every Sunday and on the high holidays.
1906:
During his quest to get Cuban approval for the creation of a Jewish cemetery
Manuel Hadida, Chairman of the United Hebrew Congregation (UHC) of Cuba, met
with Rabbi Haim (Henry) Pereira Méndez, the spiritual leader of the
Spanish-Portuguese synagogue, Shearith Israel, in New York. Hadida was
looking to the United States to use its influence with the newly independent
Cuba to move this project forward.
1907:
Today, “The Union of Russian People of Odessa…continued their attacks and
outrages upon the Jews” which included surrounding the Hebrew Cemetery during a
funeral and stoning and firing “a volley of revolver shots at the mourning
Jews” many of whom were wounded.’
1907”
Today, in Odessa, “members of the Black Hundred divided themselves into small
groups and ransacked several Jewish shops” while “mercilessly beating the
properitors.”
1908:
Today, at Le Mans, France, Mrs. Edith. Berg, the wife of Hart O. Berg the
Jewish born American managing the promotion of the Wright Brother’s tour of
Europe flew in a Wright brother’s aircraft piloted by Wilbur Wright in what was
claimed by some to be the first time a member of her sex had flown in an
aircraft.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/10/08/104759965.pdf
1908:
Twenty-four-year-old Columbia and University of Berlin trained chemist, the New
York City born son of Elizabeth Friedlander and Charles Jacobs married Laura
Dryfoos today.
1909(22nd
of Tishrei, 5670): Shemini Atzeret
1909:
In Odessa, Lydia Cherkassky gave birth to Alexander Isaakovich Cherkassky who
gained fame as Ukrainian-American composer and pianist Shura Cherkassky whom
she served as his first piano teacher.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/29/arts/shura-cherkassky-84-pioneer-of-romantic-school-dies.html
1909:
Birthdate of Cambridge educated diplomat Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, the
“descendant of Levi Barent Cohen whose posts including serving as Governor of
Uganda in the 1950’s.
1910:
Louis-Norbert Carrière “the government commissioner who successfully pled at
Rennes for Dreyfus's second conviction” returned to civilian life ending a
career that had begun when joined the 38th Infantry Regiment in 1855
after graduating from St. Cyr.
1911(15th
of Tishrei, 5672): Sukkoth
1911:
In Odessa, Lydia Shelmenson and Isaac Cherkassky, gave birth to musical prodigy
Shura Cherkassky who in 1922 came to the United States where he “made his first
public appearance in concert at Baltimore” and “played at the White House by
special request.”
1911(15th
of Tishrei, 5672): Nineteen-year-old Jankel Nissen Schattenstein, the son of
Dov Schattenstein passed away today.
1912(26th
of Tishrei, 5673): Thirty-four-year-old Dobe Chatzkelsohn, the daughter of
Josef Chatzkelsohn passed away today.
1912:
Lionel de Rothschild M.P. married Mlle. Marie Louise Beer in Paris this
afternoon. Mlle. Beer is the daughter of French banker Edmond Beer, and
her sister married Baron Robert de Rothschild.
1912:
Opening day of the “Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial.” Herman Rosenthal was
a Jewish gambler in New York who was allegedly gunned down by Harry Horowitz’s
Lenox Avenue Gang. Becker was Charles Becker, a crooked cop, whom the District
Attorney believed had ordered the murder.
1913: New
York mobster Joseph Amberg, the brother of fellow mobsters Hyman and Louis
Amberg, shot Joseph Schaefer and David Goldstein, a crime for which he was
eventually sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary.
1913: On
New York’s Lower East side, a Russian immigrant tailor and his wife gave birth
to Arthur “Archie” Kameros “a four-year starting center for LIU-Brooklyn in the
mid-1930s, graduate of Columbia University of Dentistry and Bronze Star winning
WW II veteran.
1913(6th
of Tishrei, 5674): Seventy-three-year-old Benjamin Altman, the New York son of
Bavarian Jewish immigrants who found B. Altman, a New York landmark department
store passed away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Altman
1914(17th
of Tishrei, 5675): Third day of Sukkoth
1914: In Washington,
D.C., Georgetown University trained
attorney Louis Ottenberg, the District of Columbia born son of Regina and Isaac
Ottenberg and his wife Nettie Ottenberg
gave birth to Miriam Ottenberg.
1914: Today
“a morning journal reported the discovery of a shekel of gold, bronze and
platinum, struck by the Jews of 3400 B.C., marked with Hebrew character
signifying things that were never marked on shekels and with a representation
of ‘the Start of Bethlehem’” and the article continues “there is a duplicate of
the coin in the British Museum.”
1914:
“Rabbi Levi Answers Ross” published today described the response of Rabbi
Charles S Levi to an article written by Professor Edward A. Ross of the
University in which attacks Jews, especially
those from eastern Europe. (This is not is not Ross’s first brush with
ethnic slurs. He was fired from Stanford for his attacks on Chinese and
Japanese immigrants).
1914:
Birthdate of Bernard Phillips, one of the UK’s leading insolvency practitioners
whose expertise led to him being elected chairman and then president of the
Insolvency Practitioners Association.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarybernard-phillips-1317581.html
1915: In
New York City, Harry Scherman and Bernardine Kielty Scherman gave birth to
Swarthmore graduate Katharine Scherman an editor at “Book-of-the-Month Club and
author who became Katherine Scherman
Rosin when she married Axel Rosin with
who she had two daughters.
1915: A
letter written to the New York Times
today notes that “the accounts that come to us and to the million or more
Russian Jews in this country from their fathers, mothers and sisters in Russian
Poland and Galicia unfold a chapter of horrors in the lurid light of which the
past tragedies of that martyred race pale in their intensity and in their
extent, affect no less than three million souls.”
1916(10th
of Tishrei, 5677): Yom Kippur
1916: In
“Rosalsky Pleads for Jews” Otto A. Rosalsky, a judge of the court of General
Sessions in New York said that while Jews in American “are enjoying civil,
religious and political freedom in the largest measure ever accorded to those
who live in a land of liberty” “calamity has befallen our Jewish brethren” in
Europe, where “over a million Jewish soldiers are on the battlefields fighting
for the cause of countries that not only denied them civil, religious and
political freedom but have subjected them to every form of brutal oppression.”
1916: At
the Kessler Theatre, where Rabbi Herman Kiminester was conducting services,
2,500 people found their prayers interrupted when fire engines arrived in
response to what turned out to be a false alarm.
1916: At
Temple Israel, in Harlem, Rabbi M.H. Harris spoke on the origins of the term
scapegoat, telling of how the Jews had filled that role in Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales, in the actions of the “unspeakable Tom Watson of Georgia, and to Germany
where “the anti-Semitic movement was ‘a cunning political move to diver the
attention of the public from the autocratic powers and abuses of the Government
by persuading the people that all of their social troubles were due to the
Jews.’”
1916: At
Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon on “The New Judasim”
which included an appeal to his congregants “to do all in their power to aid
Jewish sufferers in the war zone abroad.”
1916: Birthdate of economist Walt Whitman Rostow who along with his
brother Gene was an architect of American foreign policy under the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations.
1917(21st
of Tishrei, 5678): Hoshanah Rabah
1917: It
was announced today that the Executive Committee for the American Jewish
Congress whose members include Nathan Straus, Adolph Lewisohn, Colonel Harry
Cutler, Louis Marshall, Louis Kirstein and Dr. Stephen S. Wise would meet in
special session” next week to select a date when the full Congress will meet.
1917: “In
making public plans for an anti-pacifist campaign in New York this week, the
American Alliance for Labor announced” today “that the Jewish Socialist League
would lead the fight on the East Side.”
1917:
Birthdate of Jerome Pitkow, the native of Philadelphia and 1941 graduate of NYU
Law School who became an executive with Supermarkets General Corporation and a
leading New York Jewish philanthropist.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/09/77093677.html?pageNumber=35
1917:
Abraham Dubin, the Kiev born son of Morris and Leah Dubin and his Anna Dubin
gave birth to Sidney Dubin.
1917: In
Vienna, Alfred Guttman and his wife gave birth to actor Helmut Dantine who was
arrested after the Anschluss because of his anti-Nazi activities.
1917: Rabbi
Abraham Cronbach, the Indiana born son of Marcus and Hannah (Itzig) Cronbach
married “Rose Hentel, a teacher at the Free Synagogue in New York” who would
adopt a daughter Marion, the future wife of Rabbi Maurice Davis.
1918:(1st
of Cheshvan, 5679); Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1918: “A call for a final military effort on the battlefield was
published in the Vossiche Zeitung.
Written by the Jewish industrialist Walther Rathenau, its aim was to give
Germany the strongest possible position from which to negotiate a peace of
equality rather than of defeat. ‘It is peace we want, not war --- but not a
peace of surrender.’”
1918: In
New York City. Arthur and Frances Landau Jaffa gave birth to Harry Victor Jaffa
one of Leo Strauss’ first graduate students.
1918:
Birthdate of Marcus Klingberg the native of Poland who took refuge from the
Nazis in the Soviet Union where he graduated from Medical School. After
serving doctor with the Red Army during World War II, he moved to Israel in
1948. Eventually he would rise to a ranking position at the Israel
Institute for Biological Research. In 1983 he was unmasked as leading
agent for the Soviet Union.
1919:
Birthdate of Sir Zelman Cowen 19th Governor-General of Australia and
active leader of the Melbourne Jewish Community.
1919: It
was announced today that Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, had been awarded the French Croix de Guerre for
his service during World War I.
1920: Mrs.
Eva Epstein and her son Edward who have spent the summer in Paris, London and
Scotland are scheduled to return to New York today aboard the S.S. Olympic
1920:
“Jewish representatives from all parts of Palestine” are scheduled to gather
today for the first Jewish Assembly where they will elect “an independent
executive composed of Palestine Jews to replace the present Zionist
Commission.”
1921: It
was reported today that under an agreement reached by France and Great Britain,
the mandatory powers for Syria and Palestine “Haifa will become a free port”
and after the construction of harbor by the government, Haifa will become the
most important port in Syria and Palestine.
1922(15th of Tishrei, 5683): First Day
of Sukkoth
1922(15th of Tishrei, 5683): Sixty-eight-year-old
Montague Gluckstein, the son of Hannah Joseph and Samuel Gluckstein and the
husband of Matilda Franks with whom head two children – Samuel and Isidore--
passed away today after which he was buried in the Willesden Liberal Jewish
Cemetery.
1922: Wake Forest coached by George Levene kicked
a field goal which was enough to defeat Elon
1923: In a major league career that lasted one
week, Outfielder Moses Solomon played his last game for the New York Giants.
1923:
Arnold and Ralph Horween “both scored in the same game as” Arnold “kicked two
extra points and” Ralaph “ran for a touchdown as the Chicago Cardinals beat the
Rochester Jefferson.”
1924(9th of
Tishrei, 5685): Erev Yom Kippur
1924: Dr.
Nathan Krass delivered the sermon this evening at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth
Avenue in Manhattan.
1924: Dr.
H.G. Enelow delivered the sermon during the sermon at Aeolian Hall; a venue
which the leaders of Temple Emanu-El had engaged to handle the overflow
crowd which the Fifth Avenue location
could not accommodate.
1925(19th
of Tisahrei, 5686) : Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1925:
Birthdate of Hungarian native and Holocaust survivor Joseph Altman, the award
winning NYU trained biologist and neurobiologist Joseph Altman the husband,
successively of Elizabeth Altman and Shirley A. Bayer.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cne.24058
1925: First
game of the 1925 World Series which saw Buddy Myer playing 2nd base
for the Washington Senators.
1926: “The
Girl on a Swing” directed by Felix Basch was released today in Germany.
1926: In
Germany, Aaron and Rose Lubrani gave birth to Israeli diplomat and government
official Uri Lubrani who began his career serving as the political secretary to
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and who has held several other positions the most
rewarding of which may have been as the coordinator for Operation Solomon in
1990.
1927: It
was reported today that in a story that is very much like that of his own life,
Al Jolson has made his screen debut in the picturization of Samson Raphaelson's
play "The Jazz Singer," and through the interpolation of the
Vitaphone and the audience had the rare opportunity of hearing Mr. Jolson sing
several of his own songs and also render most effectively the Jewish hymn
"Kol Nidre."
1928(23rd
of Tishrei, 5689): Simchat Torah
1928:
The
questioning of a rabbi on the blood-ritual charge at Massena, N. Y., on the
evening of the Jewish Day of Atonement was assailed by rabbis in their sermons this
morning.
1929: The
Palestine Emergency Fund reached a total of $1,841,433.04 through gifts
totaling $18,935.81 received at the fund headquarters, 111 Fifth Avenue, during
Rosh ha-Shanah in letters that were opened today, it was announced by David A.
Brown, chairman of the fund.
1930(15th
of Tishrei, 5691): First Day of Sukkoth
1930: At
the Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered
a sermon ln “Succah and Faith.”
1931:
Birthdate of Sidney Shankman, the “child psychiatrist who founded and directed
the Second Genesis outpatient and residential drug and alcohol and recovery
programs for more than three decades.”
1932: Thirty-six-year-old
Benny Leonard’s “career ended today when he was TKO’ed in 6 rounds.
1933(17th
of Tishrei, 5694): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1933: Led
by Captain Sid Gillman, Ohio State defeated Virginia 75-0.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-obituary-for-leo-henry/54017156/
1934(28th
of Tishrei, 5695): Dutch painter Isaac Lazarus Israëls passed away.
Painting must have been in his blood since he was the son of Jozef
Israëls. For examples of his work see
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_artists/00017044?lang=en
1935: A memorial
service for Jacob H. Schiff, Jewish philanthropist, was held today in the
original building of Congregation Ohab Zedek at 18 West 116th Street in
Manhattan. In 1906, Mr. Schiff had laid the cornerstone for this structure. A
tribute by Morris Engelman, chairman of the congregation, included a plea for
the establishment of a Schiff Memorial Fund that would aid Jewish social,
educational and religious institutions throughout the world.
1935: In Miami Beach,
FL, electrical equipment salesman Bert Beren and his wife Rose gave birth
Bernice Harriet Berend, the graduate of Hunter College and the Institute of
Fine Arts at NYU and the wife of Herbert Rose “a lawyer who was the legal
adviser to many prominent Jewish organizations” who gained game as “Bernice
Rose, an art historian and curator whose groundbreaking exhibitions put
traditional drawing on an equal footing with painting and sculpture,
challenging notions of it as their poor cousin…” (As reported by Carol Vogel)
1936(21st of
Tishrei, 5697): Hoshana Rabah
1936: At Geneva,
“Christian Lange of Norway expressed ‘great astonishment’ that Britain had not
yet ended the Palestine disorders” and “criticized Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden for refusing the mandates commission’s request that Britain report to it
on Palestine in November.”
1936: In London, the
Home Secretary “invited his critics to pass a new law against ‘provocative’
demonstrations if they wished to prevent a repetition of the recent riots
caused by the Fascists under Oswald Mosely taking to the streets in the Jewish
section of the East End.
1937: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Bronislaw Huberman, the famous Jewish violinist and the founder
of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, was passenger on the Royal Dutch (KLM)
plane which crashed in Sumatra. He escaped without serious injury.
1937: The Jerusalem Post reported that French
troops stopped clashes between Arabs and Turks at Antioch.
1937: Dr.
John Haynes is scheduled to officiate at the funeral service for 78 year old
Emily M. Oper “who for thirty-five years was associated with the Hebrew
Technical School for Girls” followed by burial “in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in
Westchester, NY.”
1938: In
London, UK, premiere of “The Lady Vanishes” co-starring Paul Lukas with music
by Louis Levy.
1938: The
Fascist Grand Council in Rome issues a set of new antisemitic laws designed for
the "defense of the Italian race" and to suppress "world
Hebrewism." Most of the laws target Jews,
1938: Germany decreed that passports of Jews were to be marked with a J.
1938: Judy
Garland (who was not Jewish) made her first recording of "Over the
Rainbow" is a ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip
Harburg, a ballad written for “The Wizard of Oz.”
1939: Hitler appointed Himmler head of the R.K.F.D.V., an organization
responsible for the deportation of Poles and Jews from Polish provinces.
1939: “Stop
Me If You’ve Heard This One, a comedy radio series hosted by Milton Berle aired
for the first time tonight.
1939: As of
today, it was reported that Rumania has a population of 20,000,000, a fourth of
which are “classified as minorities” which include 770,000 Jews.
1939:
“Speaking at the first Fall luncheon meeting of the Foreign Policy Association
at the Hotel Astor” “Anne O’Hare McCormick of the editorial staff of the New York Times declared that “Hitler’s
peace proposals as advanced in his Reichstag speech, constitute an ‘imperious
demand’ that Great Britain and France accept the ‘new order he and Stalin
intend to set up in Eastern Europe’ and leave the Allies with no alternative but
to reject them flatly.”
1939: In
England Edith and Heinz Krotoschiner gave birth to Harold Krotoschiner who gained fame as chemist Sir Harold Kroto,
who co-discovered fullerene and shared in the 1996
Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1939:
Today’s occupation of Zamosc, Poland by the Nazis is preceded by Polish mobs
attacking the town’s Jews.
1939:
George and Isabel Schwartz Shenker gave birth to Joseph Shenker, who at
the age of 29, became the youngest president of a college in the City
University of New York system and one of the youngest in the nation, when he
was appointed interim president of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn
in 1969.
1939:
“U-Boat 29” produced by Alexander Korda , with a script by Emeric Pressburger,
which had been related as “The Spy in Black” was released in the United States
today, two days after its New York premiere.
1939: Penn
St. led by its captain Sidney “Spike Alter defeated Bucknell in its season
opening football game.
1940: German troops move into Romania bringing with them
the horrors of the Holocaust. As can be seen from negotiations
surrounding the 19th century Treaty of Berlin, anti-Semitism was an
established part of the Romanian landscape. The Romanians, led by the infamous
Iron Cross killed tens of thousands of their Jewish neighbors. Estimates
as to the actual number killed range from 280,000 to 380,000.
1940: The
Vichy Government “swept away the Cremieux Decree of 1870; a law that granted
French citizenship to the Jews of Algeria. This act of anti-Semitism
would echo in the world of 21st American politics when Virginia
Republican Senator George Allen found out for the first time that his was an
Algerian Jew; a refugee from the Holocaust who had never told her son of his
Jewish ancestry for fear that someday the United States would turn on its
Jewish citizens in the same that France had during World War II.
1941: At Rowne, Volhunia, the SS and local militia took over 17,000
Jews taken from their homes, marched them to open pits, and slaughtered them.
1942:
“Because of its experience in directing and financing widespread Jewish
immigration, American Jewry will be charged with a large responsibility in
connection with immigration on a much larger scale after the war, Dr. Jonah B.
Wise of the Central Synagogue of America declared” today.
1943(7th
of Tishrei, 5704): Sixty-four year old Lithuanian native Ephraim Caplan, the
“religious editor of the Jewish Morning Journal,” long-time director of the
Jewish National Fund of America and President of the Council for Orthodox
Jewish Education who was the husband of Eva Caplan with whom he had one
daughter, Martha and “three sons, Dr. Leon Caplan, Dr. Joseph Caplan” and Saul
Caplan who served with the U.S. Army in WW II, passed away today in Brooklyn.”
1943:
German convoys deported Jews from Morocco to the concentration camps of Europe.
1943:
“Lassie Come Home,” produced by Samuel Marx and Dore Schary was released today
in the United States.
1943:
Jewish partisans fighting in Lithuania destroyed fifty telegraph poles.
1943: Paul
Steinberg, Phillipe Hagenauer and “former world boxing champion Victor ‘Young’
Perez were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz together.
1943: One thousand Jews are deported from Paris to their deaths at
Auschwitz.
1943: In an official report, the German chief of police in Poland
recommends that Poles who aid Jews should be dealt with without benefit of
trial.
1943: In a Yom Kippur radio
message to Jewish service men, Vice President Henry A. Wallace said that
"the names of those who have served in this war will be honored whether
they belong to the so-called blue-bloods from Boston or Negroes from South
Carolina…' We are not Jews or Gentiles, Whites or Blacks,' but people of the
United States.”
1944(20th of
Tishrei, 5705): Dutch banker Jacobus Henricus Kann who was a partner in Lissa
& Kann and a co-founder of the Jewish Colonial Trust died today at
Theresienstadt
1944: While
the furnaces belched forth Jewish ashes, a group of Jewish members of the
Auschwitz Sonderkommando revolted. They killed a number of their masters,
destroyed one gas chamber/crematorium complex, damaged another, and - more than
any other nation - stopped the slaughter of innocent Jews. One of the key
participants in this little-known revolt was Rosa Robota, a young Jewish
prisoner, who arranged to obtain the explosives, stored them, and turned them
over to the Underground. Young Rosa and three other women prisoners were hanged
for their complicity in this revolt a few days before the Germans abandoned the
camp. She received the highest award from the Polish government, and is honored
with a sculpture in Yad VaShem.
1944(20th of Tishrei, 5705): Today, the Sonderkommandos at Birkenau chose
to revolt instead of being selected to be "sent away." Chaim Neuhof
was the first to strike an SS guard. Then the rest of the Crematorium IV men
surged forward with pick and axes against their guards despite the arrival of
multiple machine gun units. After setting fire to the Crematorium, the SS
machine-gunned all the men. Despite this Crematorium II Sonderkommandos and
Russian prisoners followed their lead and joined in the fight. Many men
from Crematorium III and V broke out through the fences. Almost all were caught
and executed. [Editor’s note- this took place on the 6th of
Sukkoth. You have to wonder why this event has not been memorialized
in the festival liturgy.]
1945: During a press conference in Rome two Republican Senators, Karl E.
Mundt of South Dakota and Frances P. Bolton of Ohio expressed their opposition
to a reported request from President Truman to the British government 100,000
Jews into Palestine be allowed to move to Palestine immediately.
1946: Ben Hecht’s “A Flag Is Born” opened at the Adelphi Theatre.
1946: In the UK, “social worker and former communist Miriam Abramsky and
Professor Chimen Abramsky the son of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky gave birth to Dame
Jennifer Gita "Jenny" Abramsky, DBE the chairman of the UK's National
Heritage Memorial Fund
1946: “The Jewish National Fund made a world-wide appeal today to Jews to
contribute $20,000,000” during the upcoming Jewish year. Dr. Abraham
Granowsky, chairman of the Board of Directors of the JNF said that funds
contributed during the past year had made it possible for new settlements to be
built in areas that extended the reach of the Yishuv.
1947(23rd of Tishrei, 5708): Simchat Torah
1947: British trade unionist Manny Shinwell begins serving as Secretary
of State for War under Prime Minister Clement Attlee making him part of the
civilian leadership controlling the British Army that was battling with the
Jews of pre-state Israel.
1947: “Dr. Joshua Loth Liebman, rabbi of Temple Israel in Boston for the
last nine years, declined a call from
Temple Emanu-El, New York, saying he would remain here to "continue my
rabbinical work in New England."
1948(4th of
Tishrei, 5701): Fifty-eight-year-old Philadelphia native and graduate of the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Albert A. Light, the “former president of the
Light Box Corrugated Box Corporation who was an officer of Young Judea and a
director of the Welfare Society passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/10/08/96435109.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1948:
Just months after the state
of Israel triumphantly declared its independence the town of Waltham, Mass.
welcomed the nation's first non-sectarian, Jewish-sponsored University.
Spanning a total of 100 acres, the original campus replaced the former Middlesex
College. Prominent members of the American Jewish community, including Albert
Einstein, founded the University in tribute to Louis D. Brandeis, who served on
the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. The University initially comprised
the School of General Studies, the School of Social Studies, the School of
Humanities and the School of Science. First-years were to enroll in the School
of General Studies and then choose a field of specialty. Heralded by its first
president, Abram Sachar, the school’s first president said that the institution
would follow those ideals of "academic integrity" and service,
exemplified by its namesake.
1948: The
Neutral Zone around Government House in Jerusalem was transferred to United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
(UNTSO) protection.
1948: “Love
Life” “a musical written by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner who provided the
books and lyrics opened on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre.
1949: In
response to the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany which was made up
of the French, British and U.S. occupation zones, the Soviet Union for the
German Democratic Republic known as Eastern Germany – the one part of Nazi
Germany that never underwent de-Nazification or paid reparations to the Jewish
victims of the Holoaust.
1951: In
Baltimore, MD, Morton and Bettie Brenner gave birth to Barbara Ann Breener, who
“became Breast Cancer Action’s first executive director in 1995, two years
after undergoing treatment for the disease and a year before it recurred.” (As
reported by Denise Grady)
1951: Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion presented his new government to the Knesset.
The long drawn-out process convinces Ben-Gurion that Israel needs to move from
the multi-party system to a two-party system like the British use. But
even Ben-Gurion cannot bring about this change. To this day, Israeli
politics continue to chaotic due to its multiplicity of parties and shifting
political alliances.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Dov Shilansky tried to sabotage the reparations agreement with
Germany by an attempt to bomb one of the Foreign Ministry buildings in
Jerusalem's Hakirya. Emotions on this topic ran high on this topic. Many
Jews felt that accepting money would somehow be a sign of forgiving the
Germans. Others felt that it was “blood money” and it was tainted.
Ultimately, a realistic view would prevail, and Israel would use the money in a
variety of ways designed to help the infant state survive.
1953(28th
of Tishrei, 5714): Forty-five-year-old Dr. Elias “Ely” Abrahams, the son “Max
and Fannie Abrahams,” “the husband of the former Violet Dreishpoon” with whom
he had one child Paul and dentist who practiced in New York but lived in
Brooklyn passed away today after which he was buried at Baron Hirsch Cemetery.
1954(10th
of Tishrei, 5715): Yom Kippur
1954(10th
of Tishrei, 5715): Sixty-seven-year-old Yosef (Joseph) Opatoshu, the son of
Polish timber merchant Dovid Opatovsk who in 1907 came to the United States
where he taught school , earned a civil engineering degree from Cooper Union
and pursued a literary career that including publishing such books at From
the New York Ghetto and the novel Alone.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/08/yoysef-joseph-opatoshu.html
1954:
“Suddenly,” a film noir with music by David Raskin was released today in the
United States.
1955: CBS broadcast the
first episode of “The Crusader” a detective series whose leading character was
the son of a mother who died in a Nazi Concentration Camp and included
appearances by such stars as Jack Albertson, Leon Askin, Michael Landon and
Werner Klemperer.
1955: Beat
poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" for the first time at a
poetry reading in San Francisco
1956: The
Israeli Cabinet expresses support for Ben Gurion’s decision to exercise
restraint and not mount reprisal raids against Arab terrorists.
1956: “The
Bespoke Overcoats” the Oscar winning British film “based on a 1953 play of the
same name by Wolf Mankowitz” which co-stars Alfie Bass and David Kosoff was
released in the United Kingdom today by Warner Brothers.
1957(12th
of Tishrei, 5718): Sixty-eight-year-old Jekuthiel Ginsburg, the native of
Poland and husband of the former Anna Bodsky, who came to the United States in
1912, earned his degrees in Mathematics at Columbia and founded the Institute
of Mathematics at Yeshiva University passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/10/08/91168776.pdf
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/08/yekutiel-ginzburg-jekuthiel-ginsburg.html
1958: “Milton
M. Unger of Newark, a former president of the New Jersey Bar Association, was
acquitted early today of one of three counts of making false statements to the
Government.”
1958: “The
Old Man and the Sea,” a movie version of the novel with a screenplay by Peter
Viertel and music by Dimitri Tiomkin premiered in the United States today.
1959: U.S.
premiere of “Pillow Talk,” a comedy co-produced by Martin Melcher, with a
script co-authored by Stanley Shapiro and co-starring Tony Randall.
1959: In
New York City, heiress and author Jean Stein and diplomate and lawyer William
vanden Huevel gave birth to “editor and publisher” Katrina vanden Huevel, the
granddaughter of Jules C. Stein, the founder of MCA and the wife of Stephen F
Cohen.
1959: In
the United Kingdom, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell a music executive who came from a
family of Polish Jews and his non-Jewish wife Julie gave birth to American Idol
Judge Simon Cowell.
1960:
ABC broadcast the first episode of “The Law and Mr. Jones” created and produced
by Sy Gomberg which had included guest star appearances by Sam Jaffe and Martin
Landau
1961: After
607 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of
“Bye Bye Birdie” with music by Charles Strouse
1962(9th
of Tishrei, 5723): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre is heard for the first time in
New Orleans by Tulane freshman Mitchell Levin
1963(19th
of Tishrei, 5724): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1963:
Understudy Joan Copeland assumed the lead role in hit Broadway musical
“Tovarich.”
1964: “Fail
Safe” a film version of the novel by the same name directed by Sidney Lumet,
produced by Sidney Lumet and Max Youngstein, with a script co-authored by
Walter Bernstein and co-starring Walter Matthau was released in the United
States today.
1964(1st
of Cheshvan, 5725): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1964(1st
of Cheshvan, 5725): Sixty-five-year-old Odessa born and University of
California educated economist Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, “the head of a large
ring of Communist spies” that included “his wife Helen and Stepson Anatole
Volkov” passed away today in Philadelphia.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/15/nathan-silvermaster-economist-once-accused-as-spy-dies-at-65.html
1964(1st
of Cheshvan, 5725): Seventy-six-year-old Abraham Joseph Alper, the son of Isaac
and Lotta Alper and the husband of Lena Zion Alper, passed away today after
which he was buried at B’Nai Zion Cemetery in Chattanooga, TN.
1964: “See
How They Run” “the first made for television movie” with music by Lalo Schifrin
and co-starring Senta Berger was aired
today by NBC.
1966(23rd
of Tishrei, 5727): Simchat Torah
1967(3rd
of Tishrei, 5728): Shabbat Shuva
1968(15th
of Tishrei, 5729): Sukkoth celebrated for the last time during the Presidency
of Lyndon Johnson
1968: In
Eugene, Oregon, two scientists, one a Unitarian from St. Louis and her husband
a man of Jewish descent gave birth to novelist Rachel Kushner whose first work
was Telex from Cuba.
1969: Sam
Melville (Samuel Grossman) was “responsible for or connected to today’s bombing
of the Army Induction Center on Whitehall Street.
1969:
“Battle of Neretva” a film based on the Axis attempt to wipe out the Yugoslav
partisans in 1943 produced by Harry Weinstein and Steven Previn with music by
Bernard Hermann was released today.
1970(7th
of Tishrei, 5731): Seventy-year-old Hamburg born pathologist Paul Kimmelstiel
who along with Clifford Wilson, is considered to be the first to describe
diabetic nephropathy passed away today while serving on the faculty of the
University of Oklahoma.
https://www.renalpathsoc.org/resources/Documents/InMemoriam_2008_PaulKimmelstiel.pdf
1971:
“Bedknobs and Broomsticks” a Disney musical with songs by Richard and Robert
Sherman and a score by Irwin Kostal was released in the United Kingdom today.
1972:
Birthdate of American screenwriter and film director Ben Younger who is
responsible for a marvelous little film called “Boiler Room.”
1973: Today
“Israel’s defense minister Moshe Dayan told prime minister Golda Meir to
consider making preparations for the use of nuclear weapons, according to an
interview with a ministerial aide now being published for the first time.” (As
reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/dayan-pushed-pm-meir-to-consider-using-nuclear-weapons-in-1973/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/opinion/when-israel-stepped-back-from-the-brink.html
1973:
Publication of the Israeli official English translation of Prime Minister
Meir’s radio and television address given after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur
War.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/opinion/when-israel-stepped-back-from-the-brink.html
1973: On
the second day of the Yom Kippur War, 100 tanks arrived on Israel’s border with
Syria. General Hofi, the Israeli commander on the Northern Front had
requested the tanks before the fighting started. This meant that General Hofi
had 170 tanks to use against 1,400 Syrian tanks. To understand the
immensity of the threat faced by the Israelis, consider the following, in World
War II the Nazis used 1400 tanks to invade the Soviet Union along a 1,000-mile
front. The Syrians had 1,400 tanks to use along a forty-mile front.
1973: On
the second day of the war the IAF lost six F-4 Phantoms over Syria during Model
5 a mission designed to knock the Syrian SAM batteries on the Golan front – a
mission that failed miserably.
1973:
Caught by surprise and badly outnumbered, Israeli troops cling to front in the
Sinai. In twenty-four hours the Israeli force of 290 tanks had been
reduced by two thirds. Dayan visited the Sinai front and called for a
withdrawal to the Sinai passes, which he thought would be a better line of
defense. General Sharon arrived with a reinforcing division and wanted to
advance to the east bank of the Canal. As the generals debated, the
soldiers on the ground were fighting a series of bloody holding actions.
Egyptian hand held missiles were negating the edge that the Air Force and
armored units had previously given the IDF.
1973: A
discussion took place at the Prime Minister's Office that centered on how to
enlist American support at the United Nations and head off a cease-fire that
would hurt Israel. Mrs. Meir suggested putting together a list of
requests. Mrs. Meir rejected a suggesting that the Israelis should
present U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger with a partial, distorted
picture exaggerating Israel's poor situation to win the Nixon administration's
support. Meir rejected the suggestion out of hand. "We should telegraph
him the details; he should get the real picture," she said. "We can't
play hide and seek with him." Minister Yisrael Galili asked in response,
"Do we sell him the fact that we've moved out of the populated
areas?" Mrs. Meir replied, "I don't object to us saying,
there's also risk to populated areas ... I want to give him the real picture.
I'm not under the impression the situation is doomed ... We should tell it to
him convincingly. Tonight was a bad night."
1973: Word of the stunning success of the Israeli missile boats
brought crowds down to the Haifa breakwater this morning to welcome the
returning squadron. Barkai, the commanding officer, had decided that there
would be no brooms tied to masts, the traditional symbol of a naval victory.
Any flaunting of the victory over the Syrians, he said, "wouldn't be
respectful to them or to ourselves."
1973: Gad
Smooch landed safely after the Syrians had fired a SAM at his F-4E
1973:
Despite suffering “severe losses” the 162nd Division under the
command of Avraham Adan continued to attempt to throw the Egyptians back across
the Suez Canal.
1973: “On
the second day of the war, Maj. Gen. Shmuel “Gorodish” Gonen, a learned
disciplinarian shouted at a recalcitrant General Sharon ‘I will dismiss you
right now!’ when Sharon told him his attack orders were mistaken and would be
‘a disastrous mistake.’” (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
1973:
Avikam Lif, Ami Elkelei, Shuki Wolfson, Avi Barber, and Zvi Afik were all taken
prisoner when the F-4E Phantom Jets they were flying were shot down by Syrian
Surface to Air Missiles (SAM)
1973: On
the second day of the Battle for the Valley of Tears, “Syrians forces suffered
heavy losses as the outnumbered Israeli tanks and infantry fought desperately
to buy time for reserves forces to reach the front lines.”
1975: The
“first Broadway production of ‘The Robber Bridegroom, a musical with a book and
lyrics by Alfred Uhry’ opened today at the Harkness Theatre.”
1975: The
“USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium” ratified an agreement providing for economic
and technical cooperation with Syria that could only be seen as threatening to
Israeli planners.
1977(25th
of Tishrei, 5738): Ninety-two-year-old Irving Blum, the husband of “the former
Ann Gedney’ with whom he had three daughters – Helen, Pearl and Ruth -- and the “deputy collector of the Customs
Service in New York City from 1945 to 1955’ who began his 34 year career in the
Customs Service with an appointment by President Harding in 1921, passed away
today at the Montefiore Hospital in New York.
1977:
“Black Martin Baby” a movie version of the novel produced by Milton Sperling
and featuring Tom Bosley was released today.
1979(16th
of Tishrei, 5740): Sukkoth II
1979(16th
of Tishrei, 5740): Eight-four year old “Irving Maidman, a major owner of
properties around Times Square, the dean of West Side Development,” “a founder
of the Albert Einstein Medical School” and husband of “the former Edith Shvitiz
with whom he had four children – Robert, Mathew, Rebecca and Ellen – passed
away today in Upper Nyack where he was “a direct of Congregation Sons of Israel
Temple.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/10/08/112128060.pdf
1980(27th
of Tishrei, 5741): Sixty-seven-year-old
Gimble’s department store president Brice Alva Gimbel, the New York born
son of Ava Bernheimer and Bernard Gimbel, the previous president of Gimbels
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/10/09/111297718.html?pageNumber=55
1980(27th
of Tishrei, 5741): Seventy-eight-year hold hotel owner Hyman B. Cantor, the
husband of the “former Gertrude Levinson” and philanthropist passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9504E0D81F3BE732A2575AC0A9669D94619FD6CF
1981(9th of
Tishrei, 5742): Erev Yom Kippur
1981: As
the Jews of Cedar Rapids chant Kol Nidre, Abbie Silber, daughter of Laurie and
Dr. Robert Silber arrives in the world. It is an appropriate and
auspicious choice of birthdates for a young woman who has gone to become a
“Sweet Singer in Israel” and whose parents are pillars of the Jewish Community.
1981(9th of
Tishrei, 5742): Novelist Albert Cohen passed away. Cohen is a study in
the multi-nationalism of Jewish identity. Born in Greece in 1895, Cohen
wrote his novels in French and became a Swiss Citizen in 1919.
1981:
Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the
assassinated Anwar Sadat. Much to the consternation of those who plotted
Sadat’s murder, Mubarak continued to honor the peace agreement with Israel.
1983:
“Never Say Never,” one of the films in the James Bond series, directed by Irvin
Kershner and produced by Jack Schwartzman was released in the United States by
Warner Brothers.
1985(22nd
of Tishrei, 5746): Shemini Atzeret
1985: In
Washington, DC Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Linda Greenhouse and attorney Eugene R. Fidel gave birth to Indiana
University director, producer and screenwriter Hannah
Fidell
1985: Palestinian gunmen hijacked the
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400
people aboard. “Four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took
control of the liner off Egypt while she was sailing from Alexandria to Port
Said within Egypt. The hijackers had been surprised by a crew member and acted
prematurely. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel
to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in
Israeli prisons. When refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers shot
one wheelchair-bound passenger – an American named Leon Klinghoffer – because
he was Jewish, and threw his body overboard. The ship headed back towards Port
Said, and after two days of negotiations the hijackers agreed to abandon the
liner for safe conduct and were flown towards Tunisia aboard an Egyptian
commercial airliner.
1987: “Baby Boom” a comedy produced by Nancy Meyers and
co-starring Harold Ramis was released in the United States by United Artists.
1988:
Health Ministry officials began vaccinating all
people under the age of 40 in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The vaccination was in response to concerns about a possible outbreak of polio.
1989(8th of Tishrei, 5750): Shabbat Shuva
1989(8th of Tishrei, 5750): Ninety-three-year-old Rose Smith, the daughter
of Gittel and Jehuda Massel and the sister of Esther and Rabbi Jacob Massel
passed away today.
1989: “Forever Your Girl,” the debut album from singer Paula Abdul
“hit number for the first time” today.
1990: Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens as Sadam
Hussein threatens to fire Scuds armed with chemical weapons on the Jewish
state. In the Gulf War, Hussein will fire Scuds, but none of them will
contain chemical weapons. At the request of the Bush Administration, the
Israelis refrained from retaliating against the Iraqis. This is the first
time that an Israeli government has entrusted security to another nation.
1990: By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad
Officer, “a nonfiction book by a former
katsa (case officer) in the Israeli Mossad, Victor Ostrovsky and Canadian
journalist and author Claire Hoy” reached number 1 on the New York Times
bestseller list.
1991(29th
of Tishrei, 5752): Eighty-three-year-old Italian author Natalia Ginzburg, the
daughter of histologist Giuseppe Levi, the wife of Leone Ginzburg and the
mother of historian Carlo Ginzburg passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ginzburg-natalia
1992(10th
of Tishrei, 5753): As Bill Clinton seeks to unseat George Bush, Jews observe
Yom Kippur
1992(10th
of Tishrei, 5753): Sixty-two-year-old Allan Bloom, the native of Indianapolis best
known for championing an intellectual approach to education and literacy
encapsulated in The Closing of the American Mind passed away today. (As reported by Keith Botsford)
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/08/obituaries/allan-bloom-critic-of-universities-is-dead-at-62.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-allan-bloom-1556931.html
1996: In a
speech in the Knesset, Shimon Peres appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu to sign the
Hebron agreement.
1999: In
“Hanging In” published today Yehuda Lev described what it is like to be a 72-year-old
in a classroom full of Gen Xer’s at Brandies
http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/hanging_in_19991008
2000(8th
of Tishrei, 5761): Shabbat Shuva
2000: PBS
broadcast a revival production of “The Man Who Came To Dinner,” a three-act
comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
2001: Hamas
claimed credit for today’s attack at the Erez Crossing.
2001(20th
of Tishrei, 5672): Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for today’s bombing at
Shluhot, a kibbutz located “in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shluhot#/media/File:Shluhot_carrots.jpg
2001(20th
of Tishrei, 5762): Famed cartoonist Herblock passed away. [Words do not justice
to this brilliant political artist and satirist. The following is just one of
the many websites where you can see his work http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/
2001: The New York Times reviewed Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected
on the Journey to Motherhood by Naomi
Wolf.
2002: “The
Kennedy Years,” an exhibition of the phots of Stanley Tretick is scheduled to
come to a close today at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/020718.htm
2003(11th
of Tishrei, 5764):
Seventy-one-year-old Israel
Harold "Izzy" Asper, Canadian tax-lawyer, media
magnate and leader of the Canadian Jewish community passed away.
2003: In
“Keeping His Foot In a Creaking Door; Radio Pioneer Clings to Imagination,”
Joseph Berger chronicles the professional life of Himan Brown, the creator and
producer of “such popular radio programs as ‘The Adventures of the Thin Man,’
‘Dick Tracy,’ ‘Grand Central Station’ and ‘Inner Sanctum’.”
2003(11th
of Tishrei, 5764): Ninety-one-year-old composer Arthur Berger passed away. (As
reported by Alan Kozinin)
2004(22nd of
Tishrei, 5756): Shmini Atzeret
2004(22nd of
Tishrei, 5756): “Three Israeli soldiers were killed in border raid today
Hezbollah” terrorists who “captured” their bodies and used them along Elhanan
Tenebaum as ransom for a prisoner exchange.
2005: U.S. premiere of
“good night, and good luck,” a must-see movie produced by Grant Heslov with a
script co-authored by Grant Heslov.
2005(4th of
Tishrei, 5766): Ninety-two scriptwriter Devery Freeman passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D7173FF937A25753C1A9639C8B63
2005: Sarah Levy-Tanai,
founder of the Inbal dance troupe and one of the country's most important
choreographers was laid to rest. She had passed away at the age of 95.
2005: The
legendary Israeli basketball guard Doron Sheffer announced his
retirement. The Israeli native had played on championship teams at the
University of Connecticut. He was the first Israeli to be chosen in the N.B.A.
draft. Sheffer passed up a chance to play with the Los Angeles Clippers
and returned to Israel where he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel
Jerusalem. He led Hapoel Jerusalem to its first European title when it
defeated Real Madrid in the ULEB Cup final.
2006:
Opening of the International Haifa Film Festival
2007(25th
of Tishrei, 5768): Ninety-eight-year-old General Paul Alfred Cullen the WW II
Australian war hero who served in several theatres most notably in New Guinea
where he played a key role in the nasty fighting aimed at re-capturing Kokoda.
(For more on the military of Jews in the “land down under,” see the newly
published Jewish Anzacs by Mark Dapin.)
2007: The
Jewish Museum of Florida presents an exhibition styled “The Art Of Rabbi Shoni Labowitz.”.
2007: Leonard “Slatkin announced he had
reached agreement on a three-year contract, followed by a two-year option, to
become the new music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, beginning with
the 2008-2009 subscription season.”
2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section included reviews of The Israel Lobby And U.S.Foreign
Policy by John J.
Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt and The Deadliest Lies The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish
Control by Abraham
H. Foxman.
2007: The Sunday New York Times
book section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics
related to Judaism including Exit Ghost by Phillip Roth, The
Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to
Live Forever in which David M. Friedman examines the Lone Eagle’s
love affair with eugenics that help explain some of his views about Hitler, the
Jews and World II, You Can Lead a Politician to Water but You Can’t Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics by
Kinky Friedman and The Journal Of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982, Edited
by Greg Johnson. Oates “discovered late in life her own family's Jewish
history: Her grandmother, who immigrated to the United States in the 1890s,
kept her religion hidden for fear of persecution. So the question arises: Is
Oates Jewish and can Oates' writing be characterized as distinctively Jewish?”
2008: Israeli Chief Ashkenazi
Rabbi Yona Metzger has issued a prayer for the safe return of captive soldier
Gilad Schalit which he plans to distribute today, to be read in synagogues
throughout Israel on Yom Kippur and weekly on Shabbat after the Torah reading.
2008(8th of Tishrei, 5769): Ninety-five-year-old Rabbi Leslie
Hardman, “the first Jewish British Army Chaplain to enter Bergen-Belsen” when
it was liberated in April of 1945 passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/13/secondworldwar-judaism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3155068/The-Reverend-Leslie-Hardman.html
2008: A woman who admitted fabricating a
best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust as a child by living with
wolves has won a court battle with her former publisher. Misha Defonseca's 1997
book, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years was translated into 18
languages, made into a feature film in France, and drew interest from the Walt
Disney Co. and Oprah Winfrey. After Defonseca admitted earlier this year that
she had made up the story, her former publisher, Jane Daniel, sued to try to
overturn a $32.4 million court judgment Defonseca and her ghost writer, Vera
Lee, won against her in an earlier fight over profits. Daniel argued that
because the story was false, Defonseca perpetrated a hoax on the trial judge
and the jury. But this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Timothy Feeley
threw out Daniel's lawsuit because she did not file it within a one-year
statute of limitations. The judge said that the truth of the memoire was not an
issue in the earlier court battle between Defonseca and Daniel. Instead, the
case was about claims of violations of the contract between the authors and the
publisher, Feeley said. Defonseca's fraud, misrepresentations, and misconduct
did not go to the heart of the case, he said in his written ruling, filed
today. Daniel said the jury at the 2001 trial would not have issued a verdict
against her if they had known that Defonseca made up the story.
2009(19th of Tishrei, 5770): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2009(19th of Tishrei, 5770): Photographer Irving Penn passed away at the
age of 92. (As reported by Andy Grundberg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/08/irving-penn-obituary
2009: In the nation’s capital, The DCJCC presents “An Evening With Betty
Buckley.”
2009: At Yale University in New Haven, a
screening of "The Case for Israel: Democracy's Outpost," a
feature-length documentary film followed by a discussion led by Professor
Dershowitz.
2010: An exhibition of the paintings of Tel Aviv artist Tamar Rosen is
scheduled to open at the Agora Gallery in New York.
2010: Former State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi,
once considered a leading voice on corporate governance and ethics, stood
before a judge today and calmly explained how he took part in a sprawling
corruption scheme involving New York State’s $125 billion pension fund while
serving as its sole trustee.
2011(9th of Tishrei, 5772): Erev Yom Kippur
2011: In University City, MO, the family of the late Edward Stix, Jr.
whose family owned the Rice-Stix, Inc. received friends today at The
Gatesworth.
http://www.stljewishlight.com/obituaries/article_4bed76ec-f4eb-11e0-ae1e-001cc4c03286.html
2011(9th of Tishrei): Abbie Silber celebrates her first
birthday as the wife of Rabbi Feival Strauss. This birthday is unique
because it falls on the same dates on both the religious and secular calendars
as it did the year when Mrs. Strauss was born. Abbie is the daughter of
Laurie and Dr. Robert Silber, pillars of the Jewish community and two of the
finest people you would ever want to meet.
2011(9th of Tishrei,
5772): Seventieth Anniversary of the end of the two-day Nazi massacre of over
33,000 Jews at Babi Yar, at a ravine outside of Kiev, the Ukrainian city that
was part of the Soviet Union.
2011: The European Union said today that the Middle East Quartet will
meet on October 9 in Brussels as part of a wider effort to restart the moribund
Israeli-Palestinian peace process. EU spokesman Michael Mann said today the
focus would be to maintain momentum in encouraging the parties to return to
negotiations.
2011: The IDF announced that the security presence in Jerusalem were
beefed up today in preparation for Yom Kippur
2011: Silence fell over Israel at around 5
P.M. today, as the Yom Kippur fast began. Air traffic to and from Israel halted
from 1 P.M. and is not scheduled to begin again until 9:30 P.M. tomorrow, while
the border crossings to Jordan and Gaza have been closed down. The weather
forecast bodes well for fasters, with comfortable temperatures. Tomorrow will
be slightly warmer than today but not more humid, so the heat stress will not
rise - good news for fasters.
2011: Over 1000 people attended a Kol Nidre
Yom Kippur service organized by Daniel Sieradski at the Occupy Wall Street
demonstration that had begun in September.
2012(21st of Tishrei, 5773): Hoshana Rabbah
2012: “A vandal scrawled graffiti on a mural by modern Jewish American
master Mark Rothko at London’s Tate Modern today.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rothko-mural-defaced-at-tate/
2012(21st of Tishrei, 5773): In keeping with the minchag of
Reform Judaism, Temple Judah is scheduled to host a Pizza Simchat Torah
celebration in Cedar Rapids.
2012: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld and All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen
2012: In Iowa City, Agudas Achim is scheduled to sponsor its second
annual Sukkah Crawl
2012: Lorraine Lotzof Abramson, author,
"My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up under Apartheid in South Africa is
scheduled to appear on Channel 75
2012: In Venezuela, voters are scheduled to go to the polls and vote for
either Hugo Chavez or Henrique Capriles, the grandson of Holocaust survivors as
the next president of this major South American nation.
2012: French President Francois Hollande today promised the Jewish
community a major increase in security after blank bullets were fired near a
Parisian synagogue in the most recent incident in a wave of anti-Semitic
attacks in France.
2012: After a month, curtain came down on The Kansas City Repertory
Theatre’s revival production of Stephen Schwartz’s Tony Award-winning musical
“Pippin.”
2013: Ben “Shapiro
co-founded TruthRevolt, a U.S. media watchdog and activism website, in
association with the David Horowitz Freedom Center”
2013: In Washington, DC, the Hyman S and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary
Festival is schedule to present an evening with mystery writer Walter Mosely.
2013: “In association with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Ben Shapiro
launched the website for media watchdog group TruthRevolt in response to the
left-leaning Media Matters for America
2013: Jason Isaacs was chosen to play one of the “tankers” in the WW II
movie “Fury.”
2013: Rabbi Moshe Arye Bamberger, the Head of the Bet Din of the Jewish
community of Metz, France is scheduled to present a seminar on a new
publication, Torat Chachmei Metz, or The Torah of the Scholars of Metz,
which is based on an original manuscript in the YIVO Archives.
2013: From Cedar Rapids to Columbus, Ohio and points beyond friends and
family of Abbie Strauss, the daughter of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber and the wife
of Rabbi Feivel Strauss celebrate the birthday of this accomplished
musician, supportive helpmate and mother par excellence.
2013: Five more people are scheduled to on trial in federal court in New
York in connection with Bernie Madoff’s massive stock fraud and con.
2014:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host two
seminars on “Iranian-Jewish Culture and History” presented by Isaac Yomtovian
author of My Iran: Memories, Mysteries and Myths.
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a lecture by Gennady
Estraikh entitled “Farewell to Communism: Howard Fast and Soviet Yiddish
Writers.”
2014(24th
of Tishrei, 5776): One hundred-year-old Ralph Goldman who played a key role in
the creation of the state of Israel passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/long-time-jdc-leader-ralph-goldman-dies-at-100/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.619737
2014:
“Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in an explosion next to a tank near the
border with Lebanon this afternoon, setting off the second border clash in the
area in three days.” Hezbollah took
credit for the explosion.
2014:
“The Israeli Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi petitioned the High Court of
Justice against a Knesset Ethics Committee decision to ban her for six months
from parliament debates because she declared that the Palestinian kidnappers of
three Israeli teenagers were not terrorists.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2014:
In Dallas, TX, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host
Do Words Kill? Hate Speech, Propaganda, and Incitement to Genocide.
2015:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center and the ADL presented a
program marking the 50th commemoration of The Second Vatican Council
of 1965.
2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a “book talk” featuring
Sasha Abramsky, the author of The House of Twenty Thousand Books.
2015:
JCC Manhattan is scheduled to “Home Alone,” “Renewal,” “Glove Story” and
“Reflections” – “short films relating to Israel’s celebrated modern dance
scene.”
2015:
As the latest wave of terrorist attacks continues that have left for Israelis
dead from stabbings in Jerusalem, “an 18-year-old Palestinian woman” “was shot
and wounded by police” after she stabbed an Israeli man “in an alleyway near
the Western Wall.”
2015:
“A team of engineers from the Israeli nonprofit Group SpaceIL is the first to
advance in an international competition sponsored by Google to send a
privately-funded space craft to the moon, contests organizers announced” today.
2016(5th
of Tishrei, 5777): One hundred four-year-old Austrian-born photographer and
cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky passed away today.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/wolfgang-suschitzky
2016:
Amiram Levin, “a former senior IDF officer who played a role in Israel’s daring
1976 rescue of hostages at Entebbe airport slammed former president Shimon
Peres, who passed away last week, as a “crook” and “liar” who inflated his role
in the operation.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-officer-says-peres-inflated-role-in-entebbe-rescue/
2016:
At a train station in the “western Ukrainian City of Zyhtomir” Chabad Rabbi
Mendel Deitsch was several beaten this morning and robbed of his cell phone and
money.” (Six months later he would from the wounds received in the beating.)
2016:
Shimon Dotan’s “The Settlers” is scheduled to be shown at the 54th
New York Film Festival.
2016:
In the UK, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Things to Come.”
2016:
“Latin American Jews living in Israel added their voices to the chorus of
congratulations sent to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on winning the
Nobel Peace Prize” today.
2016:
In Weimar, the Onion Festival, which will featuring a new offering – “Kosher
Thurngian bratwurst” – is scheduled to open today giving observant Jews their
first chance to sample what has been a “traif delicacy.”
2017(17th of Tishrei, 5778): Shabbat and Sukkoth Chol
Ha’moed; for more see
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Shabbat morning
services followed by lunch
2017:
The Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem is scheduled to host special Sukkoth
family activities during Sukkoth Chol Hamoed.
2017:
This evening, the University of Iowa Hillel is scheduled to host Havdalah and
cookies in the Sukkah.
2018:
Friends and family prepare to celebrate the birthday of Abbie Strauss, the
sweet singer of song at Temple Israel in Memphis, TN, who along with her
husband Rabbi Feivel Strauss provides one-two punch of Yiddishkite
2018:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including a graphic novel for children, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich
Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler and the recently released paperback
editions of The Ruined House by Ruby Namader and Vivian Maier: A
Photographer’s Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos.
2018:
“Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky is scheduled to lead a walking tour that
“commerates the centenary of the end of WW I” “that highlights the Jewish East
End associations with the Great War including a remembrance of “poet and artist
Isaac Rosenberg,
2018:
Due to flooding at “The Center for Jewish History, the 20th
Anniversary Celebration of the Strauss Historical Society” scheduled for today
has been cancelled.
2018:
“The internationally renowned National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is scheduled
perform Mama’s Loshn Kugel” at an “event that will honor Atlanta’s Holocaust
survivors” with proceeds going “to support restoration and preservation of the
Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery, scholarships for Holocaust
education to teachers and students, and programs to pass on survivors'
collective experiences to succeeding generations.
2019:
In Sam Rafael, CA, the Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to host “Learning
Unlimited,” “a talk about how Donald Trump was connected to and influence by
Roy Cohn,” of Joe McCarthy fame.
2018: Adam Maalouf and Lara Bello are
scheduled to perform at the American Sephardi Music Festival.
2019:
As part of “The American Sephardi Federation’s Sephardi Scholars Series, the
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host Dr. Nicole Cohen-Addad lecturing
on “North African French Resistance: A Well Kept Secret --- The Vichy Regime,
the Allies and the Camps.”
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Curtiz.”
2019:
Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman is scheduled to join the Jupiter Chamber Players in
“Lovin’ Beethoven.”
2020:
The Vilna Shul, “Boston’s Center For Jewish Culture” is scheduled to present
“Jewish Perspectives With David Bernat,” a course that “explores current
hot-button issues in the American landscape through the lens of Jewish texts,
traditions and history.”
2020:
The Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to present a virtual visit to Marc
Chagall’s stained glass windows in Jerusalem.
2020:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn on
“History Repeating: The Forced Labor and Genocide of the Uyghurs.”
2020:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host via zoom a “Lunch
and Learn with Rabbi Feivel Strauss: on ‘Great Jewish Thinkers - Who are the
individuals whose impact on Jewish thinking is still felt today? Martin Buber’”
2020:
The Jewish Museum in London is scheduled to present a “Live Object Talk: Little
Squares of Hope!” during which Esther from the Council of Christians and Jews
will help participants find out more about the online exhibition ‘Little
Squares of Hope: Shelter from Storm’ created in partnership JW3.
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dr. Ziony Zevit, author of What
Really Happened in the Garden of Eden as he lectures on “The Biblical Past
Ain’t What It Used To Be.”
2020:
In New Orleans, The Jewish Community Day School is scheduled to host a “Sukkot
Family Barbecue.
2020:
In Bexley, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host the “Men’s Club Scotch and
Snacks in the Sukkah” with mask wearing and social distancing.
2020:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Coffee with Survivor”
during which second generation speaker “Sue Spinello will share the story of
how her father, George Kennedy, endured horrific conditions in a forced labor
camp when he was 20 years old.”
2020:
Live on Zoom | American Sephardi Federation & Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood
of America is scheduled to host “Preparing for the High Holidays – Simchat
Torah.
2020:
The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host “Yiddish Children’s Literature Today,”
panel discussion that will Rokhl Kafrissen of Tablet Magazine and Mriam Udel ,
editor and translator of Honey on the
Page.
2020:
In New York, Orthodox Jews awaken to the reality that the governor has order
“that schools be closed in 11 New York City neighborhood” where there has been
a significant spike in infections and the Jewish population has decided to
abide by rules aimed at confining the pandemic.
2021:
President Isaac Herzog’s state visit to Ukraine which had begun on October 5 is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2021:
The first ever American Jewish Theatre Macher Lab Showcase is scheduled to take
place today.
2021:
Temple Emanuel’s “culinary trip to Israel”19 is scheduled to begin today.
2021:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to present, online “Integrity First For
America: Exposing the Web of Hatred” with Amy Spitalnick, Roberta Kaplan and
Michael Bloch.
2021(1st
of Cheshvan, 5782): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar with Rabbi Shippel
discussing this week’s Torah Portion.
2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a webinar with
Professor Shrili Gilbert discussing Sir Martin Gilbert’s In Ishmael’s House:
A History of Jews in Muslims Lands which is must-read tome for anybody
interest in the history of the Jewish people and/or the lands of the Sephardim.
2022:
Based on previously published reports Israel forces in the northern part of the
country are on high alert as negotiations with Lebanon falter.
2023:
“Glorius Ashes” and “Squaring the Circle” are among the movies scheduled to be
shown on the last night of the Haifa International Film Festival
2023:
Temple Judea is scheduled to host a morning “minyan with Yizkor Prayers with
Cantor Abbie followed by Torah Study with Rabbi Fievel
2023:
This evening in Coralville, IA Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a Simchat
Torah Service and Fire Pit.
2023:
In Berkley, CA, this evening “Urban Adamah, Kehilla Community Synagogue and
Chochmat HaLev are scheduled team up for a multi-generational celebration with
music from the Kehilla Klezmer band, puppet show and dancing.
2023:
Based on agreement reached between the municipality of Tel Aviv and Rosh
Yehudi, that organization is scheduled to hold a Simchat Torah celebration in
the city, outside of Dizengoff Square without physical barriers between men and
women.
2023:Arab terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched massive rocket barrages at southern and
central Israel this morning, combined with an assault by dozens of gunmen who
infiltrated the border town of Sderot and other communities, clashing with
Israel Defense Force troops killing at least 40 Israelis and injuring 779
more.(As reported by Israel Fabien)
2023:
In reality, more than 1,200 people were killed
2023:
Staff Sgt. Itay Avraham Ron, 20, a Golani soldier from Ness Ziona, was killed today
battling the Hamas invasion of the Nahal Oz IDF outpost.
2023(22nd
Tishrei, 5784): Shimini Atzeret and
Yizkor
2023(22nd
of Tishrei, 5784): Fifty-eight-year-old Moshe Ben Porat from Tiberias “was
murdered today by Hamas terrorists in Ofakim” while on his way to the synagogue.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/moshe-ben-porat-58-god-fearing-man-slain-before-grandsons-brit/
2023(22nd
of Tishrei, 5784): Bernard Cowan (Cohen), a 57-year-old dual Scottish-Israeli
citizen, was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Sufa today.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bernard-cowan-57-scottish-israeli-lover-of-diving-and-traveling/
2024: The Atlanta, GA community is scheduled to gather in Sandy Springs for a special event to honor and remember the victims of October 7th including the 1,200 who were murdered.
2024:
At The Anthem “thousands from across the Greater Washington Jewish community are
scheduled to commemorate one year since the horrific attacks in Israel that
changed our world forever during attendees will remember the lives lost, pray
for those still in captivity, honor the survivors, and unite in our communal
resilience.
2024:
In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host “a contemplative and
prayerful ceremony to remember and honor the victims of the October 7th
massacre’ that will include candle lighting, poetry reading and “symbolic
letters to the victims and survivors/’
2024:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the “Swords of Iron Civilian
Casualties” list.
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/swords-of-iron-civilian-casualties
2024:
In Washington, DC, the Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host “Haaretz
investigative reporter Lee Yaron, the author of 10/7: 100 Human Stories
the definitive account of the day Hamas launched an unprecedented terrorist
assault on Israel, told through the stories of its victims and the communities
they called home.”
2024:
In Des Moines, IA, The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, Lubavitch of Iowa,
Temple B’nai Jeshurun, and Tifereth Israel Synagogue are scheduled to host an
event this evening in the State Capitol’s Rotunda marking “one year since the
horrific attack on Israel by Hamas and pray for the return of the hostages.”
2024: This evening the World Values Network is scheduled
to host the first October 7th Memorial
in the heart of Times Square.
2024:
As October 7th begins in the Middle East, Israel is confronted with fighting a
four-front-war following the attacks from Iran. (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)
2024:
As October 7th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 366 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocket
attacks by Hezbollah (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)
