This Day, September 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 13
586
BCE (3 Tishrei 3338): On the civil calendar assassination of Gedaliah ben
Achikam. He had been appointed Governor of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar in an
attempt to revitalize the Jewish community. His assassin, Ishmael ben Natanya,
a descendent of the royal house, was convinced by neighboring nations that a
revolt against the Babylonians could succeed. In fear of retribution, many of
the remaining Jews fled to Egypt destroying what was left of the Judean
government. This day is commemorated as a fast day, The Fast of Gedaliah. Yes, on the Jewish calendar, the first two
days of Tishrei are days of Joy - Rosh Hashanah. This is immediately followed by a minor fast
day - the Jew never forgets that life is a mixture of joy and sorrow.
81:
The Roman Emperor Titus who gained fame for destroying the Second Temple passed
away.
122:
The building of Hadrian's Wall begins. The wall was named for Hadrian, the
Roman Emperor who had it built as part of plan to set limits on the size of the
Roman Empire and to essentially go over to a defensive posture. For the Jews, Hadrian was no “prince of
peace” since he is the suppressed the Bar Kochba Revolt with vehemence and
violence.
335:
In an example of the Religious Imperialism that afflicts the Jewish people,
Emperor Constantine the Great consecrates the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in
Jerusalem. Christians believe that this is the site where Jesus was crucified
by the Romans as well as the site of Jesus' tomb.
531: Kavadh I, the Sassanid King of Persia against
who Mar Zuta revolted and established a Jewish state in Babylon that lasted for
seven years passed away today. (The History of the Jewish People)
604:
Today, Sabinian, a contemporary of Benjamin of Tiberias who was responsible for
a revolt that led Jewish forces to take Jerusalem in 614, became Pope today.
1438:
King Duarte of Portugal passed away.
During his reign he enacted laws prohibiting Jews from employing
Christians. In 1433 Master Guedelha, a rabbi who served as doctor and
astrologer for King Duarte prophesied “to King Duarte terrible events if he did
not postpone his ascent to the throne of Portugal. A year later, Duarte and his
army met with disaster at Tangiers and four years later - 1438 - King Duarte
died of the plague - the Black Plague which decimated all of Europe.”
1503:
Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. While the statue may win high
marks as Renaissance heart, it gets a big “F” in Halakah since the statue of
the Jewish king is of an uncircumcised male.
1520: “Sir Richard
Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate (near Stamford, Lincolnshire), and his
wife, Jane Heckington” gave birth to William Cecil, 1st Baron
Burghley, Queen Elizabeth’s chief advisor who believed that “the state could
never be in safety where there as toleration of two religions’ (he was speaking
here of Catholic versus Church of England but it would stand to reason that he
would not have favored the re-admission of the Jews) but who also looked to the
‘Old Testament” for guidance in such matters a usury believing “that while the
judicial laws of Moses were to some uniquely framed for the Jews, their moral
equity applies to all nations” passed away today, working until the last moment
for his sovereign. (Cecil’s seemingly schizophrenic view of relying on the
Jewish book for moral guidance while not wanting to have the Jews around was
not unusual then and for that matter now.)
1597(1st of
Tishrei, 5358): Rosh Hashanah
1597:
In Amsterdam a hall that had been “secured for worship” that was named
"Beth Ya'aḳob," after one of its founders, Jacob Tirado consecrated
it today.
1598:
Phillip III, who supported the policy of making his realm Jew free and gave a
free hand to the murderous Inquisition began his reign as “King of Spain,
Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia…”
1600:
The Jews of Klausenburg, Hungary, were massacred.
1610:
Bookseller Thomas Bushnell transferred his rights in “The Tragical History of
Doctor Faustus” which includes a reference to Rodrigo Lopez, the Marrano
physician who served Queen Elizabeth, to John Wright.
1625:
Rabbi Isaiah Horowith and 15 other rabbis were arrested in Jerusalem by an Arab
leader and held for ransom. Rabbi Isaiah
ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz, known as the Shlah after the title of one of his
major works Shnei Luchos Ha-Bris, was a renowned Halachist, kabbalist and
communal leader. Born in Prague in 1565,
he made aliyah in 1621 after the death of his wife. Unlike most others, he settled in Jerusalem
where he worked to rebuild the community.
After his release he moved to Tiberius where he was buried next to the
grave of the Rambam.
1629:
Sixty-four year old Johannes Buxtorf “a professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine
years at Basel, known by the title ‘Master of the Rabbis’ whose De Synagoga Judaica documents the
customs and society of Germany Jewry” passed away today.
1635: The Massachusetts General Court banished
Separatist preacher Roger Williams, 32, for criticizing the Massachusetts Bay
Company charter and for perpetually advocating a separation of church and
state. Williams would end up with his own colony, Rhode Island, where rules of
religious toleration would become the template for the future United
States. Of course, it was the values and
vision of Williams that made the United States such a hospitable place for
Jewish migration and development.
1684:
It did not appear until the final verdict rendered in this suit by the
magistrate of Prague today that through the machinations of the notorious
apostate Philipp Lang, chamberlain to the emperor until 1608, the record of
Samuel Meisel’s privileges had been secretly stricken from the official
register in 1601, on the ground of their having been obtained by fraud, and
that the sums subsequently paid to the widow and to the heirs, and the two
houses given them, were alleged to have been merely gifts.
1708:
“A Massacre of the Jews of Mstislav, Poland was averted by the intervention of
Czar Peter the Great of Russia.” (Green book 258)
1721(21st of Elul, 5481): Banker Mendel Menachem Emanuel Oppenheimer,
the husband of Judith Gomperz and the son-in-law of Salman Gomperz passed away
today in Vienna.
1755(8th of Tishrei, 5516): Shabbat
Shuva observed as the British begin deporting the Acadians.
1759: The British defeated the French at the
Battle of the Plains of Abraham which gave them control of Quebec and opened
the way for the British to take control of Canada which meant the Jews could
settle there, something they could not do as long as the French Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham
1759: At the Battle of the Plains of Abraham,
the British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in
the United States as the French and Indian War. This victory led to a peace
treaty that made Canada an English Colony.
English colonies were usually more hospitable venues for the growth of
Jewish communities. In 1760, the first
Jewish families arrived in Montreal and by 1768 they had formed the first
congregation in Canada called Shearith Israel
1762: Birthdate of Canadian politician
Pierre-Stanislas Bédard the leader of Le Canadien, who argued against granting
a seat to Ezekiel Hart in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada claiming
that "no Christian nation had granted Jews the rights of citizens, not for
unjust reasons, but because they themselves do not wish to be part of any
country. They may make a country their residence to pursue their business
dealings, but never their home. This state of affairs is a result of the Jewish
tradition, which requires Jews to wait for the messiah, their prince; while
waiting, they cannot pledge allegiance to any other prince.”
1764:
Today a “freehold transfer of 1 ¾ acres of land in Charles Town (Charleston),
South Carolina” “recorded in the Nidhe Israel Mahamad minutes” showed a
“transaction between Isaac da Costa of Charles Town and Isaac de Pisa, Benjamin
Messias, David Castello, David Lindo, and Isaac Pinheiro of Nidhe Israel,
Barbados.” (As reported by Karl Watson)
1768(2nd
of Tishrei, 5529): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1768:
In Newport Rhode, Island, Aaron Lopez closes his businesses on the Second Day
of Rosh Hashanah.
1772:
Birthdate of Hirschel Eliazer Kann, the Nederland native who was the found of
the Lissa & Kann Bank.
1782:
The Kahal Kadosh Mickvé Israel, the first Jewish congregation in Philadelphia,
PA, dedicated its new building on Cherry near Third Street. Haym Salomon, of
Revolutionary War fame, “agreed to pay one fourth of the cost” of the new
building which had a price tag of £600. Gershom Mendez Seixas, the New York
rabbi who had fled when the British occupied the city, was the spiritual leader
of the congregation. Rabbi Jacob Raphael
Cohen replaced Seixas when he returned to New York after the war.
1783:
In Prague Baruch (Benedict) Jeiteles gave birth to Ignaz Jeitels “a German
writer and philosopher, who studied at the law school of Prague University but
dedicated himself to classic languages and literature.”
1785(9th
of Tishrei, 5546): In the evening, Kol Nidre observed on the same that
“Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia after seven years as the U.S.
Ambassador to France and prepares to take office as the new Governor of
Pennsylvania.”
1798(3rd
of Tishrei, 5559): Tzom Gedaliah observed during the year when Nathan Mayer
Rothschild moved to Manchester, England and established his textile trading
business.
1800:
Birthdate of Max Letteris a leading poet of the Enlightenment (Haskala) in
Galacia who in 1852 edited “an edition of the masoretic text of the Hebrew
Bible for a Christian missionary organization, the British and Foreign Bible
Society.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Letteris-1896-IA.djvu&page=5
1806(1st
of Tishrei, 5567): As Jews observe Rosh Hashana, they join their fellow
Americans in mourning the death today of William Paterson, the Governor of New
Jersey who had the courage to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1766.
1808(21st
of Elul, 5568): Twenty-five year old Deborah Myers-Cohen, the daughter of Haym
Moses Salomon, Sr. and Rachel Heilbron and wife of Simon Myers-Cohen passed
away today in New York City.
1812:
Richea Gratz and Samuel Hays gave birth to Rebecca Hays who would not live to
celebrate her third birthday.
1814:
In the absence of the president Dr. Hart Myers, Vice President Samuel Joseph
chaired a meeting at the Talmud Torah of the Great Synagogue in London where “a
letter of resignation from Dr. Hart Myers of the Presidency of the Talmud
Torah” was received Joshua Van Oven submitted a reported proposing “that the
title of the Charity be altered to that Free School for German Jews” and that a
school room be erected on the plan laid down by Mr. Lancaster for such a
purpose.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777948
https://matt-houghton.squarespace.com/dr-joshua-van-oven-1766-1838
1814: During the War of 1812, the British begin the
assaults intended to capture Ft. McHenry, the gateway to Baltimore. There were at least thirty Jews among the
defenders of the famous fort including Privates Jacob, Philip and Mendes Cohen
and Second Sergeant Samuel Cohen all of the 1st Regiment Maryland
Artillery and Solomon and Samuel Etting, the father & son duo of the
Baltimore Fencibles. (Editor’s Note: At night, the famous Bombardment of Fort
McHenry would be observed by Washington attorney Francis Scott Key who was
being held aboard a British ship)
1817(3rd
of Tishrei): Shabbat Shavua observed for the first time during the presidency
of James Monroe.
1825(1st
of Tishrei, 5586): Rosh Hashanah is observed for the first time during the
presidency of John Quincy Adams.
1829(15th
of Elul, 5589): Thirteen month old Jette Ochsenhorn, the Bvarian born daughter
of Nanette Wexler and Lese Lazarus Ochsenhorn passed away today.
1833(29th
of Elul, 5593) Erev Rosh Hashanah observed on that same that “nearly 100 tons
of ice, cut in block from frozen lakes arrived in Calcutta which home to Shalom
b. Obadiah ha-Cohen, “the first Jewish merchant to settle there.”
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/0913calcutta-ice-ship/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/calcutta
1836(2nd
of Tishrei, 5596): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah marking the final time that New
Year prayers will be uttered during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1837:
In Birzi, Kovno, Yehiel Michel Sossnitz and Tony Zive gave birth to Joseph
(Jehuda) Loeb Sosnitz, the husband of Freida Luria and Superintendent of the
Jewish Asylum Riga who came to the United States where he founded the Uptown
Talmud Torah in New York and wrote several articles on religious and secular
topics including “On Three Branches of Astronomy.
1837:
In London, Frankfurt, Germany native Sigismund Stiebel and Eliza Jacob Mocatta
gave birth to Adeline Stiebel who would die in childbirth twenty years later.
1837:
Isaac Levy married Elizabeth Russell at the Western Synagogue today.
1838:
The New Synagogue which was which founded in 1760 by Moses Jacob had its new
edifice located in Great St. Helen consecrated to by Dr. Solomon Herschell, the
chief rabbi.
1839: Birthdate of London native Arthur Lindon, the
husband of Selina Spyer and the father of Ernest and Cecil Lindo.
1842(9th
of Tishrei,5603): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the second time during
the Presidency of James Tyler
1844(29th
of Elul, 5604): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of John Tyler
1845:
Today, “The Gardeners' Chronicle
announced: "We stop the Press with very great regret to announce that the
potato Murrain has unequivocally declared itself in Ireland” which was the
“official notice” that the Potato Blight that would trigger the great famine
that would grip Ireland changing the immigration patterns in the United States
and providing a challenge to Jewish philanthropists in Great Britain.
1846:
Representatives of Rome's Jewish community send a message to Pope Pius IX
complaining about the conditions they live in and asking for release from the
many onerous restrictions that have been imposed upon them by recent popes.
1847(3rd
of Tishrei, 5608): Tzom Gedaliah
1847(3rd
of Tishrei, 5608): Rabbi Isaac Lob Wormser, the “Baal Shem of Michelstadt”
whose reputation for miracles was so well known that during World War I, Jewish
soldiers would stop and pray at his grave, passed away today.
1848:
Lewis Jonas married Sara Levin at the Great Synagogue today
1851(16th
of Elul, 5611): Fifty-two year old Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff who while
serving as a Professor of Literature at the University of Jena where one of his
students was Karl Marx and who wrote and published “under the pseudonym
"Pliny the youngest” passed away today.
1854:
Isaac Levy married Isabella Salomonsen at Kobenhavn, Denmark today
1855(1st
of Tishrei, 5616): Rosh Hashanah
1855:
Birthdate of Silesian native Heinrich Conried, the theatrical manager who
became director of the Metropolitan Opera. (Editor’s Note – There is some
confusion about his birthdate. NYT obit used September 13 while others use
September 3 or September 18. There is no
disagreement about when he died)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/04/27/101878127.html?pageNumber=1
https://americanhistory.si.edu/steinwaydiary/annotations/?id=1998
1860(26th
of Elul, 5620): In London, 73 year old Nathanial Levy, born Nathan ben Yehuda
HaLevi in 1787, passed away today.
1861(9th
of Tishrei, 5622): During the Civil War,
Erev Yom Kippur. Jewish soldiers serving
with the Army of Northern Virginia are in the trenches because the Confederate
general in command rejected the request of a rabbi in Richmond to allow them to
leave to observe the holiday.
1861:
Philadelphian William Moss, the son of Joseph L. and Julia Moss began serving
as a surgeon with the Seventieth Regiment.
1863(29th
of Elul, 5623): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1863:
In Van Buren, AR, Samuel and Sarah (Sulzberger) Adler gave birth to their third
child Cyrus Adler who would become famous for his role as Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., President of the Jewish
Theological Society, a key player in the translation of the JPS Bible of 1917
and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference (to name but a few of his
accomplishments.) The irony is that this
giant of Jewish culture was born in Van Buren, Arkansas.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0001_0_00426.html
1864:
Corporal Isaac Gause distinguished himself today when he captured the colors of
the 8th South Carolina Infantry during a reconnaissance mission
along the Berryville and Winchester Pike in Virginia.
1868:
Today, on the first Sunday following the dedication of Temple Emanu-El in
Manhattan, “the public sale of pews was held” raising $100,000 “over above the
cost of the building and lots” with Mr. Joseph Reckendorfer having paid $9,300
for his pew which was the highest price paid by any congregant.
1872(10th
of Elul, 5632): Thirty-three year old Aaron Edwin Lopez, the son of Mary Ann
Gomez and Joshua Lopez passed away today in his home town, NYC.
1874(2nd
of Tishrei, 5635) Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1874:
“The Jewish New Year” published today
described the observance of the holiday by the Jews of New York City as
well as a preview of the upcoming holiday of Yom Kippur, “the greatest and most
solemn of all the Jewish religious days, it being the only one upon which Jews
kneel in their devotions.
1874:
It was reported today that there are upward of 100,000 Jews living in New York.
1874: In the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna,
Samuel and Pauline Schoenberg gave birth to composer Arnold Schoenberg who “is
particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonality, and
for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows.”
1874:
“The Hebrew Orphan Asylum” published today describes the results of an
investigation of this institution “which has always been regarded with especial
pride by the Jewish community.” The
investigation highlights the managerial shortcomings of Meyer Stern, President
of this organization.
1874:
An article published today questioned Myer Stern’s qualifications to serve as
Commissioner of Charities and Correction in New York. Stern’s supporters had argued that his
experience as President of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum qualified
him for this public position. However, reports recently published in The New Era, a Jewish publication cite his
failures as evidence by the inability of any of the 173 youngsters at the
institution to be able to recite the Ten Commandments in English or Hebrew and
the poor quality of the food served “in one of the most liberally endowed
institutions in the country.”
1875:
Birthdate of Edith Julia Morley “the daughter of a London dental surgeon” and
literary scholar who fought gender discrimination to become a Professor at
Reading College, making her “the first woman to be appointed professor at any
British university.”
1876:
Birthdate of Louisville native Isaac F. Marcosson, the journalist who worked
for several publications including The Saturday Evening Post and who
interviewed such notables as Prime Minister Lloyd George, Marshall Ferdinand
Foch and President Woodrow Wilson.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marcosson-isaac
1876:
Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native and architect A. Lincoln Fecheimer,, “a
graduate of Clark School for the Deaf, Columbia University and the Ecole des
Beuax Arts in Paris
1877:
Birthdate of Sophie Ranter, the mother of actor Gregory Ratoff and the wife of
Benjamin Ratner.
1877:
In Louisville, KY, Helene and Louis Marcosson gave birth to journalist and
author Isaac Frederick Marcosson, the
city editor of the Louisville Times, financial editor of the Saturday
Evening Post and co-author of Charles Frohman: Manager and Man who married Grace Griffiths in 1906
1878(1st
of Tishrei, 5548): As a Yellow Fever Epidemic ravages the Mississippi River
Valley claiming the lives of at least 20,000 people, Jews observe Rosh Hashanah
1878:
Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia trained civil engineer Myron S.
Falk, the author of standard textbooks on the design of bridges, who served as
a Major during WW I and who was the consulting engineer on the erection of
Temple Emanu-El.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/11/27/88318255.html?pageNumber=23
1878(1st
of Tishrei, 5548): Eighty-three year old Rachel Russell, the Richmond, VA born
daughter of Philip M. Russell and wife of David Nathans passed away today.
1880:
Birthdate of Jesse Louis Lasky, the San Francisco born motion picture industry
pioneer who founded Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor and was the father of
screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/13/obituaries/jesse-lasky-jr-79-was-a-screenwriter.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jesse-l-lasky
1880(8th
of Tishrei, 5641): Eighty-three year old Penina Moise, the Charleston native
known for writing hymns and poetry, passed away.
http://www.scmuseum.org/women/Moise.html
http://www.discoveringpeninamoise.com/
1880:
In Louisville, KY, Amy Brandeis and Ott A Wehle gave birth to Harvard trained
attorney Louis Brandeis Wehle, the husband of Mary Gray Patteson Liddell and
father of Mark, Luis and Mary Wehle who was counsel to the United States
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, organizer and counsel to the
Federal Shipbuilding Labord Adjustment Board and “general counsel to the War
Finance Corporation.”
1880: “Teaching A Boy to Steal – One Blumenthal,
Cigar Deal, Assumes the Character of Fagin the Jew” published today presents
the unsubstantiated claims of August Jambert, who was caught stealing by his
employer, that he was led into this life of crime by William Blumenthal. The inflammatory and stereotypical headline
shows that anti-Semitism was part and parcel of the American scene.
1882(29th
of Elul, 5642): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed on the same day that British won a
decisive victory during the Anglo-Egyptian War at Tell El Kebir.
1882:
Members of Shearith Israel will attend services in their refurbished synagogue
which has been undergoing alterations and repairs for the past three months.
1883(11th
of Elul, 5643): Reb Avraham Yaakov Friedman zt’l a son of the Sabba Kadisha who
led the Sadigur Chassidim for 30 years, passed away.
1883:
Louise Brener, a widow and her child who arrived in New York today aboard the
SS Canada told authorities that she had been here by The Hebrew of Society of
Paris.
1883:
It was reported today that the police in Agram have arrested the leaders of
several secret societies which are “endeavoring to direct riots against the
Jews.”
1885:
Coroner Levy presided over a meeting at Pythagoras Hall that sought to take
steps to protect the tens of thousands of newly arrived Jewish immigrants the
bulk of whom come from Russia and Poland.
1885:
Four year old John Franze, who contracted smallpox from a boy named Neumann who
first showed signs while attending the Hebrew School on Pitt Street, was taken
to the hospital today.
1886:
In Podolsk, Russia, Leah Shrage and David Bronfin gave birth to Long Island
College Hospital trained physician Isadore David Bronfin, the husband of
Elizabeth Rothbardt and Medical Director and Superintendent of the Beth Israel
Hospital in Boston who went on to become the Medical Director of the Sanatorium
for Jewish Consumptives Relief Society in Denver, CO.
1887:
In New York City, Hellie Rykos and Harris Berkowitz gave birth to attorney
Abraham Berkowitz, the husband of Ida Katz and “attorney for Register of Wills
and Auditor General of Pennsylvania in the Department of Inheritance Taxation”
who President of the Hebrew Literature Society of Philadelphia and a member of
Adath Jeshurun Congregation.
1887:
Three days after he had passed away, Albert Alexander, the Jamaica born son of
David Alexander and the former Rebecca Cohen was buried today at the Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.
1887:
In a letter to Morris Sabato, fellow Philadelphian Laura Mordecai, the daughter
of Sara Ann Hays and Alfred Mordecai whose activities in the Jewish community
included serving as a member of the Religious School Committee of Congregation
Mikveh Israel and serving as a member of the board of the Philadelphia Section
of the Council of Jewish Women wrote to Sabato Morais today
“My
dear Mr Morais.--
My
Mother requests me to enclose you this $5.-- note as our contribution to the
Succah, which we hope you will be success-ful in erecting.
With
best wishes from us all for the New Year.
Very
respectfully
Laura
Mordecai
https://morais.exhibits.library.upenn.edu/items/show/8344
1889:
At its meeting in Buffalo, NY, the Polish Alliance Convention amended its
by-laws to exclude “Jews and infidels” from its membership.
1889(17th
of Elul, 5649): Hakham Adbdallah Somekh, the merchant turned Torah scholar who
took a leading role in promoting the educational level of the Jews of Iraq
passed away tonight during a cholera epidemic.
1889:
Birthdate of Irving W. Halpern, the Russian-born school who rose from being a
“probation officer with the Jewish Protectory and Aid Society” to serving as
chief probation officer of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan” as well as a
college lecturer on criminology while raising a family with his wife, “Judge
Caroline K. Simon of the State Court of claims.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/12/11/82529683.pdf
1890:
A dozen newly arrived Polish Jews immigrants were placed in the detention pen
at the Barge Office because no relatives or other responsible people had
arrived to take them into New York.
1890:
In Kasa, Czechoslovakia, Sally Stern and Isadore Kellner gave birth to Chicago
of Fine Arts and Chicago Art Institute trained painter and illustrator Charles H. Kellner, the husband of Sara
Divinoff, who amongst other things “won first prize in American Art School at
Bellevue, Paris in landscape and portrait painting” and was the an illustrator
for the B’nai B’rith Magazine.
1890
The surviving son and three daughters of the late Joseph Bossie are contesting
the will of their father which “leaves his entire estate,” approximately
$10,000, to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which they claim as a
violation of the 1860 law “under which a person cannot leave more than one-half
of his estate for charitable purposes.”
1891:
As of today, in Montreal, a group of Russian Jewish immigrants is being housed
at the Government Immigration Office and fed by the Baron de Hirsch Institute
whose advisory board is planning on soliciting public to support to aid their
destitute co-religionists.
1891:
As an example of the law of unintended consequences, it was reported today that
credit is no longer available in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa, in part because “the
Jews are calling in very available kopek of assets” as they leave in the
country in response to government regulations.
1891:”Forty-two
Polish and Russian Jews were arraigned at the Essex Market Police Court” this
morning on charges of “having blocked the sidewalk at the corner of Delancy and
Ridge Streets.
1891:
“Mr. Kipling’s Stories” published today provided a review of Life’s Handicap, a
collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling that includes the “Jews of
Shushan.”
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/lifes/chapter7.html
1891:
“New Books” published today included a brief review of A King of Tyre: A
Tale of the Time of Ezra and Nehemiah by James Ludlow.
1891:
Gustav Jacob Born married Bertha Epstein. Born’s first wife, Gretchen Kauffmann
had passed away five years earlier. This
earlier union had produced Max Born, the Nobel Prize Laureate. The elder Born
was famous in his own right for his work in the field of microscopy and
embryology.
1892:
“Justice Connelly of the Gates Avenue Court issued thirty warrants for the
arrest of” Jews “in the section of the 26th Ward called Brownsville
for violating the regulations for the preservation of health and cleanliness.”
1892:
Birthdate of Isle of Rhodes native Morris Hanan who in 1910 moved to the United
States where he settled in Seattle, WA where he worked as a produce merchant
and was a leader in the Sephardic community.
1892:
“Two letters signed by passengers on board the Scandia…were sent to the office
of the Hamburg-American Packet this morning” refuting claims about mistreatment
and unsanitary conditions aboard the vessel including claims that “the Polish
and Russian Jews…were placed in a compartment by themselves.”
1892:
Dr. Alfred R. Gaul’s latest cantata “Israel in the Wilderness” was performed
tonight for the first time in New York City under the direction of Alfred
Stubbs Baker.
1893:
Reverend James J Dougherty, the past of St. Monica’s Church attributed the
attendance of six or seven Jewish children in his parochial school to a lack of
classroom space in the public schools where there are not enough desks for each
of the children.
1894:
Birthdate of Julian Tuwim, the Polish born Jewish poet.
1894:
“Not The Hebrews Of Fiction” published today describes the difference between
“sensational romantic” depiction of Jews as “richly-fed men, extravagantly
attired with diamonds…rubbing their hands and computing their tremendous and
illicit gains with oily satisfaction” and the reality of life among the Jews
living along Orchard and Broome Streets where “none of them have jewelry” and
“all of them only too plainly suffer from a perpetual insufficiency of food.”
1895:
A fire that is consuming vast amounts of timber and game lands” broke at Reega,
NJ, which home is home to colony for Russian Jewish immigrants financed by the
Baron Hirsch Fund. The fire appears to be of natural origin, fueled by the
drought like conditions.
1895:
Henry Budge, a partner in the banking firm of Hallgarten & Co who cut short
his European trip when he heard of the tumor being removed from the throat of
Bernhard Mainzer is scheduled to arrive in New York where he will learn that
his partner passed away yesterday.
1896:
In Bunkie, LA, Gisella Elias and Samuel Weiss gave birth to Seymour Weiss the
long-time manager of the Roosevelt Hotel and confidant of Huey P. Long.
1896:
It was reported today that the Armenian Relief Fund being formed in Hamburg
includes the city’s “eminent and public spirited” Jews who have already
displayed their “splendid philanthropy in the cause of their own suffering
people” who are fleeing from Russia.
1896:
Birthdate of Terrence MacDermot the native of Ropley Jamaica who served as
Canadian Ambassador to Israel from 1954 to 1957.
1897:
Birthdate of Benjamin Tietelbaum the Yiddish novelist who used the pen-name “B.
Demblin” and who with his wife Sylvia had one daughter, Miriam.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/30/archives/b-demblin-author-of-yiddish-novels.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/demblin-benjamin
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32521
1899:
A resolution was sent to Secretary of State asking him to obtain “an official
copy” of the testimony by a French minister “in which he said that the rigorous
treatment of Dreyfus was due in part to the understanding that there was a plan
on foot to rescue the prisoner by a party of Americans” so that this “slander”
could be refuted.
1899:
Robert J. Thompson, Secretary of the Lafayette Memorial Commission says he
think the people of the United States are making a rash move in condiment the
French nation because of the Dreyfus verdict.”
1899:
In Chicago, Dr. Zuhn has been elected President of the Dreyfus Movement
Auxiliary Society which is made up of a “100 prominent Jews.”
1899(9th
of Tishrei, 5660): In the evening, Kol Nidre is chanted for the last time in
the 19th century.
1899(9th
of Tishrei, 5660): In Richmond, “Abraham Greenewald the oldest member of Beth
Ahahab, passed away
1899:
Jacob Wolf led services for 2,000 Jews at Tammany Hall.
1899:
Yom Kippur services began at 6:30 pm at Temple Israel on the corner of 125th
Street and 5th Avenue.
1899:
Shouts of “Fire, fire” filled the air in the Thalia Theatre on the Bowery where
Jews were attending Yom Kippur services.
It turned out to be a false alarm and the firemen had no use for their
hoses when they arrived.
1899:
“The Jewish Year Book” published today provides a “snapshot” of the American
Jewish Community at the turn of the century.
1900(19th
of Elul, 5660): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Hayym Beneviste,
author of Knesset ha-Gedolah.(5443)
1900
: In Laudenbach, German, Emil Worms, the son of Gabriel and Babbete Worms and
his wife Clara Worms gave birth to Justin Worms, the husband of Regina Worms
and the father of Helenc Worms.
1901(29th
of Elul, 5661): Erev Rosh Hashanah As
Jews prepare to observe Rosh Hashanah, President McKinley who is dying of
gangrene brought on by an assassin’s bullet tells those surrounding his bed,
“It is useless gentlemen. I think we
ought to have a prayer.”
1902:
Herzl writes to Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von
Koerber. He encloses a copy of a letter Plehve addressed to Herzl. He
expresses the hope that also Austria will support the Zionist undertaking.
1903:
Birthdate of Fredric R. Mann, the Russian born Jewish-American industrialist
and patron of the arts who helped finance music centers in Philadelphia and Tel
Aviv.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/obituaries/fredric-r-mann-arts-patron.html
1903:
In New York, Henry Krensky married Julia Rabinowitz following which they would
move to Waterloo, IA in 1908 where he owned a retail grocery store at 1500
Commercial Street.
1904:
In Georgia, Gerson Rothschild, the son of Sophie and Nathan Baruch Rothschild
and his wife Frances Rothschild gave birth to Myron J. Rothschild.
1905:
Birthdate of Zurich native Hans Jakob Polotsky, the Berlin educated son of
Russian Jews who “became an Israeli orientalist, linguist, and professor for
Semitic languages and Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.”
1906:
It was reported today that in the wake of the murder of Colonel Jakovloff, the
Chief of the Transfer Prison, in Warsaw, Governor General Skallon “is taking
energetic steps to prevent an attack on the Jews” that could come from “enraged
soldiers.”
1907:
In New York, Bessie (nee Mikofsky) Appel and Louis Appel gave birth to Layfette
College graduate Benjamin Appel, the author of crime novels and husband of
Sophie Marshak.
1908:
Birthdate of György Dobó, the native of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who moved
to France after WW I, converted to Catholicism and became Georges Devereux the
name under which he is known as a leading ethnologist and psychoanalyst.
1909:
Birthdate of British diplomat Sir John Coulson, who during the Exodus Crisis of
1947 “suggested how to spin the Jews’ confinement in the camps to score a
publication relations victory.
1909:
A total of 12,214 Jewish young men registered as recruits for the Turkish Army.
1909:
The first English language version of “The Chocolate Soldier” an operetta
composed a year earlier by Oscar Straus was performed for the first time in New
York City.
1910:
“The round-up of Jews listed for expulsion” from Kiev, Solomenka and Demieffka
“continues” with “authorities now giving their attention to those who have thus
far escaped expulsion by hiding.
1911:
It was reported today that Lenoid Menschikoff, the former chief of the Russian
secret police who arrived in the United States yesterday said “he has no faith
that Russia will change her attitude in the matter of the American passport
which she has refutes to honor when by American Jews” while admitting that
there is “persecution of the Jews” in Russia.
1912(2nd
of Tishrei, 5673): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah is observed for the last time
during the Presidency of William Howard Taft.
1913(11th
of Elul, 5673): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1913:
After leaving the Army, Sir John Robert Chancellor, began serving as Governor
of Mauritius, the first step on a diplomatic career that would lead to him
being named High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine, a post from
which he expressed his anti-Jewish views.
1913:
Birthdate of Hernan Goldstine, the Chicago born University of Chicago trained
mathematician who developed EINA, the first of the modern computers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/26/us/herman-goldstine-dies-at-90-helped-build-first-computers.html
1913:
Seventy-six year old English composer Alfred Robert Gaul, whose work included
“Israel in the Wilderness” passed away today.
1913:
Harry Warner and his wife gave birth to their second child and first daughter,
Dorise.
1914:
Birthdate of Bronx born movie producer Max J. Rosenberg best known for “his
horror and supernatural films” who found much of his success making films in
the United Kingdom.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-rosenberg-38700.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/17/local/me-rosenberg17
http://www.ducts.org/12_06/html/profiles/evanier.html
1914(22nd
of Elul, 5674): Moses Hirschberg passed away today,
1914:
As the Germans retreated to defensive positions following the Battle of the
Marne most of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) crossed the Aisne Rive on
pontoon bridges in an attempt to flank the Huns and keep faith with the concept
that the troops would be home by Christmas. (Entries about WW I are significant
because the prolongation of the war would have traumatic and dramatic impact on
the Jews that have lasted into the 21st century)
1915:
According to a report published in the Chicago Daily News that was based on a
dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, “Henry Morgenthau, American Ambassador to Turkey
recently made an offer to the Turkish Government to raise $1,000,000 to
transport to America the Armenians who thus far have escaped the general
massacres.” (Morgenthau was Jewish and the Armenian massacres, according to
some presaged the Holocaust.)
1915:
An agreement dated today between Morris Israel, the who “stowed” the hats and
coasts of the Ritz Restaurant in Brooklyn and the owners stipulated that
“Israel bound himself to pay $2,500 for the tip privilege for the first year
and $3,000 for the second year
1915:
According to a dispatch from Petrograd that first appeared in the Daily Mail,
the dispute over the implementation of the reforms demanded by the Duma,
including the full emancipation of the Jews, continues between the forces of
reform and the Council of Ministers serving the Czar.
1916:
It was reported today that “through the courtesy of the Secretary of the Navy
permission has been granted for the cruiser Des Moines to take aboard at Jaffa
the wives and children of American citizens who desire to leave and come to the
United States.”
1916:
In New York, “Joseph Barondess asked the Board of Education…to excuse with pay
those teachers and clerks who would from their duties on the Jewish New and Day
of Atonement” because “they could not conscientiously attend” to their work
“without violating their religious convictions.”
1917:
Tonight, in New York, Harry Cutler, the Chairman of the Jewish Board of Welfare
Work in the Army and Navy made public a telegram from Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels that read “I have sent a message to all commanding officers in
the navy granting leave to all Jewish sailor on holy days, Sept. 17, 18 and 26
when it can be done without injury to the service.”
1918:
Having liberated Pannes yesterday The AEF, including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein
of the 165th Regiment left the French town that had been occupied by
the Germans since 1914, “captured important coal fields and a rail center” as
they drove toward St. Benoit.
1918:
“Comment on the letter of Jacob Schiff” that expressed his positive “attitude
toward Zionism, Dr. David Philipson, the Rabbi of the Rockdale Avenue Temple”
in Cincinnati “said today, “Mr. Schiff’s intense sympathy with our suffering
co-religionists in land of oppression causes him to overlook the dangers of
Zionism…”
1919:
In Peekskill, NY, Louis and Gussie (Yormark) Rubenfeld gave birth to Milton
Rubenfeld who flew for the RAF and USAAF before becoming, in 1948, one of the
founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force.
1919:
In Vienna, Max and Rosa Weidenfeld gave birth to Arthur George Weidenfeld,
Baron Weidenfeld, who came to Britain after the Nazis annexed Austria and
became a major publisher and philanthropist. He has served as “Chairman of the
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (1996–2004), Governor of Tel Aviv
University, Governor of the Weizmann Institute and Vice-Chairman of the
EU-Israel Forum.”
http://www.aish.com/jw/s/-Lord-George-Weidenfelds-Legacy.html?s=mm
1920(1st
of Tishrei, 5681): Rosh Hashanah
1920:
In Chicago, Rabbi Abraham Hirschberg is scheduled to lead services at the
Medina Temple, the temporary home of Temple Sholom which was formally known as
the North Chicago Hebrew Congregation.
1920:
Thanks to an order issued by Major General P.C. Harris, the Adjutant General of
the Army, Jewish soldiers have a furlough for today so they can observe the
Jewish New Year.
1921:
It was reported today that the Steamer Paris which will makes stops in France,
Southern Europe and Syria before reaching Palestine is scheduled to set sail
from New York City on September 14.
1922:
“Samuel Take The Oath” published today described the ceremony that took place
in Jerusalem in the Council Hall of Government House “when Sir Herert Samuel
took the oath of office as the High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of
Palestine in the presence of Field Marshall Lord Allenby, who liberated
Palestine from the Turks; Emir Abdullah, ruler of Transjordania and a brilliant
gather of the Diplomatic Corps, religious dignitaries, British Army officers
and high officials of the Administration.”
1922:
“Following the exchange of a number of uncomplimentary letters” concerning the
“question of how many Jews will be allowed to matriculate in Hungarian
universities” “the rector of Budapest University Dr. Barsony has challenged Dr.
Meny, a professor of civil jurisprudence to a duel with swords.”
1923(3rd
of Tishrei, 5684): Tzom Gedaliah
1923:
In Newark, NJ, Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Laufer gave birth to Charles Harry Laufer,
the high school teacher who created Tiger
Beat. (As reported by Douglas
Martin)
1924:
Birthdate of Cleveland native and Western Reserve trained medical doctor Irwin
Siegel who worked “with the Food and Drug Administration and the National
Institute of Health.
1924:
Birthdate of Israel Tal, the IDF general who was an expert in Tank Warfare and
took the lead in developing the Merkava Tank.
1925(24th
of Elul, 5685): Seventy-eight year old Bavarian Alexander Sanger the Texas
merchant who was part of Sanger Brothers and the founder of what became Temple
Emanu-El in Dallas, TX passed away today.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsa54
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ijsqj
1925:
Birthdate of Melvin Howard Tormé, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who
gained fame as singer and jazz man Mel Tormé.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mel-tormé-mn0000344275/biography
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/06/us/mel-torme-velvet-voice-of-pop-and-jazz-dies-at-73.html
1925:
The "Cinderella of the Sweatshop," Anzia Yezierska, received a
glowing review in the New York Times for her best known novel, Bread
Givers. "Bread Givers enables us to see our life more clearly, to test
its values, to reckon up what it is that our aims and achievements may mean. It
has a raw, uncontrollable poetry and a powerful, sweeping design," the
Times wrote. Yezierska, dubbed the "Cinderella of the Sweatshop" by
the popular press, wrote Bread Givers about the daughter of an immigrant family
who struggles against her Orthodox father's rigid idea of Jewish womanhood.
Yezierska immigrated as a young girl with her family to the United States in
the early 1890s. Her fiction centered upon the lives of Eastern European Jewish
immigrants in New York City around the turn of the century. Her work featured
female protagonists struggling with issues of economic survival,
Americanization, and the tension between immigrant parents and their children.
In addition to Bread Givers, Yezierska wrote a number of other books.
Her first, a collection of short stories entitled Hungry Hearts, was turned into a 1922 silent film. The
film's producer, Samuel Goldwyn, offered Yezierska a $100,000 contract to write
screenplays. Yezierska moved to Hollywood but was unable to feel at home there
and moved back to New York City. Yezierska's first novel, 1923's Salome of Tenements, was also
made into a silent film, though it did not become as well known.
1925:
A two day “conference of American Jewry” is scheduled to come to a close today
at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia whose attendees reportedly were
to include David A. Brown, Louis
Marshal, Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald.
1925:
Birthdate of Leon Levy, “a hedge fund pioneer who began investing at 13 with
$200 and went on to make many millions, enough to make him one of the main
individual backers of archaeological research…” “His father, Jerome, a dry
goods merchant, amateur economist and successful investor, predicted the stock
market crash of 1929 and sold much of his stock before it happened. He taught
his son many financial lessons, particularly the importance of corporate
profits in charting overall economic directions.”
1926(5th
of Tishrei, 5687): Eighty-one year old Jacob Baiz, the “son of Isaac and Rachel
Baiz” and the “husband of Rebecca Baiz” passed away today in Curacao,
Venezuela.
1926:
Birthdate of Helmut Sonnenfeldt, “an expert on Soviet and European affairs who
was known as “Kissinger’s Kissinger” for his influence in advising Henry A.
Kissinger, the architect of American foreign policy.” (As reported by Douglas
Martin)
1927:
“Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue of New York, returned today
on the White Star liner Olympic with Mrs. Wise from a two months' trip to
Europe” and “said that general conditions on the Continent were worse in his
opinion than they were last year.”
1928:
“The Woman on the Rack” a German silent film directed by Robert Wiene and
produced by Josef Somlo was released today in Germany by Deutsche Fox.
1929:
Today Rabbi Moses Blau and several Austrian Jewish refugees who had arrived in
Vienna from Palestine gave their impressions of the situation in Eretz Israel.
Blau was a leader among the oldest group of Jews who had settled in Palestine. His family had settled there more than a
century ago, long before the birth of the modern Zionist movement.
1930:
In Cleveland, OH, Jacob Stacel, the son of Maria and Salomon Stossel and his
wife Minnie W. Stael gave birth to Leroy Solomon Stacel
1931(2nd
of Tishrei, 5692): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1931:
Birthdate of Millicent Fogel, the Chicago native who gained famed as actress
Barbara Bain best known for her role as “Cinnamon Carter” in the television hit
series “Mission Impossible.”
1932:
“Dreaming Lips” a film directed by Paul Czinner based on a play by Henri
Bernstein was released today by Bavaria Film.
1933:
“Lady For A Day” produced by Harry Cohn with script by Robert Riskin was
released in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1933:
“Leave It to Smith” an English comedy with music by Louis Levy was released
today in the United Kingdom.
1934:
Nahum Goldmann met Jozef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, in Geneva today to
try to persuade him not to repudiate the Minorities Treaty. He was not
successful in his attempt.
1934:
Poland revoked the minority treaty, fearing that Russia (now a League member)
would become involved with her "private" affairs. This move meant
more free-reign in the country's discrimination against the Jewish population.
1935:
“The Bishop Misbehaves” produced by Lawrence Weingarten was released today in
the United States by MGM.
1935:
As Americans grappled with the challenge of attending the 1936 in Hitler’s
German, “General Charles H. Sherrill, an American member of the International
Olympic Committee left Nuremberg for Paris today after having been the personal
guest of Hitler…”
1935:
“The Gay Deception” a comedy directed by William Wyler, produced by Jesse Lasky
and starring Francis Lederer was released in the United States today.
1936:
In “Two Live That Dramatize an Epoch of Power” published today Louis
Kronenberger reviewed The Brothers Ashkenazi by I. J. Singer which he
compared to Sholem Asch’s Three Cities saying that Asch “has imbued his
book with deeper feeling, with greater sense of humanity and with stronger
ethical fervor” while “Singer has attacked his theme with a directness and
power that Asch nowhere equals.” “It
matters less which is strictly the better book, however, than that the two
books taken together picture a way of life and a phase of history beyond the
need of any third.”
1936:
“British To Apply Force In Palestine” published today described the decision by
the British government, “after almost five months of hesitation” to take “the
plunge” and “use overwhelming force against the turbulent Arabs in Palestine”
which means calling up three thousand reservists and sending “a division of
12,000 men… from England” to end what the Colonial Office has described as
“Arabian violence and outrage.”
1936:
Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Conquest of
Trouble” at the Jewish Science Society this morning.
1936:
“Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the High Commissioner” met with the Arab High
Committee and “made it clear that it must decide immediately on the cessation
of the strike and violence” adding that “unless the Arabs acted at once he
would not be responsible for what might happen to them after General John G.
Dill takes over the reins of government from him.”
1936:
At Nuremberg, “Brown battalions of Storm Troops and regiments of black-clad
Schutzstaffen paid homage to their Führer” in “a tribute that began at 8
o’clock in the morning and lasted until well past 4 o’clock this afternoon.”
1936:
At Nuremberg, “in a speech praising the achievements of the National Socialist
press, Max Amman, president of the Reich Press Chamber” said today “that
National Socialism had created a “true independence of the press by excluding
all ‘non-Aryans’ and those related to ‘non-Aryans.’” (Editor’s note : non-Aryans was a euphemism for Jews)
1936:
In “Second Avenue Moves to Broadway” published today William Schack provided a
preview of the upcoming New York theatre season “which officially opens as
usual on the first day of Rosh Hashanah falling on Thursday, September 17” and
which will feature “an unprecedented number of Yiddish playhouses” including
“eight in Manhattan, four in Brooklyn and two in the Bronx.”
1936:
Plans were published today describing plans for a testimonial luncheon honoring
Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman the proceeds of which “will be added to the donations
received by the Greater New York Campaign which is seeking to raise $1,500,000
for reconstruction work in behalf of Jews in Germany, Poland and Eastern
Europe.
1936:
In his laudatory review of The Jews of Germany: A Story of Sixteen Centuries by
Marvin Lowenthal , Walter Littlefield included the observation that “as the
German Jew sinks from the stage of history, he leaves in the very process of
his demise a heritage richer perhaps than anything his genius or days of vigor
achieved” and that is lesson for us all “that Jewish rights and universal
rights are inseparable.”
1936:
It was reported today that under the leadership of Mrs. A. H. Goodman the New
York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women is planning to host Erev
Rosh Hashanah services on Welfare Island led by “Dr. Leo M. Reichel, the new
Rabbi followed by a dinner” as well as services on both days of the holiday and
special bedside services for those too infirmed to participate in the communal
worship.
1937:
“Non-Stop New York” a sci-fi film with a script co-authored by Curt Siodmak and
filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum opened in the United Kingdom today.
1937:
Laurence Steinhardt began serving U.S. Ambassador to Peru.
1937:
Birthdate of Fred Silverman; one of host of Jews who rose to fame in the
broadcasting industry. In Silverman's
case he held top positions at both ABC and NBC.
1937:
The Palestine Post's special
correspondent, Molly Lyons, described in glowing terms how a group of American
pioneers from Hadera established a new settlement on the hill of Jiara, a
desolate, uninhabited area, some 22 kilometers away from Mishmar Ha'emek.
1937:
In the Palestine Post, Lord Peel
described the objective difficulties he and his colleagues faced as members of
the Royal Commission, before they reached their unanimous decision recommending
the partition of Palestine.
1937:
“Mayerling” a quasi-biopic directed by Anatole Litvak, with a screenplay
co-authored by Joseph Kessel was released in the United States today.
1938(17th
of Elul, 5698): A Jewish policeman was shot dead tonight at Rishonlet Zion.
1938:
In Washington, D.C., Jacob Perlman the native of Bialystok who earned a
doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin and the former Helen
Aronson whom he married in 1935, gave birth to Judith Perlman who as Judith
Martin became “Miss Manners” an Emily Post-like arbiter on equity.
1938 (17th of Elul, 5698): Seventy-year old Professor
Samuel Alexander, O.M., Litt.D., who had served as a for Professor of
Philosophy at Manchester University for over 30 years and who was the first
Jewish fellow at Oxford passed away at his home in Manchester.
1939(29th
of Elul, 5699): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1939:
Germany occupied Miclec, Poland, and murdered its entire Jewish population.
Among those killed 35 Jews were burned alive at the slaughterhouse and 20 more
were burned alive in their synagogue.
1939:
Eighty year old Eugene Foss, who had employed Leo Frank in 1906 and who used
his position as a former Governor of Massachusetts to work a commutation of his
sentence passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9902EFDA1338E633A25754C2A9639C946496D6CF
1940:
Private memorial services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Bernice
Marks Stearns at the residence of Mrs. Henry Dreyfuss.
1940:
Congregation Rodeph Sholom announced the death of Rhoda Masius, the wife of Max
L. Masius.
1940: Italian forces begin their ill-fated invasion
of Egypt. The Italian failure will draw
Germany into the fighting in North Africa.
Irwin Rommel will lead a drive that takes him figuratively to the gates
of Cairo. These German successes are
cheered by the Arabs. They also lead the
British to enlist the aid of Jewish forces in Palestine. The training and arms that they Jews received
would later help in the fight for Israeli independence.
1941: Suspicious
that the Allies may be decoding its radio messages, Berlin orders German
commanders in the Soviet Union to send future reports of Nazi executions of
Jews and other Soviet civilians by courier instead of radio.
1941(21st of Elul, 5701): Eleven members of
the Jewish Council of Piotrkow, Poland, who had cooperated with the Jewish
underground, are executed following two months of Gestapo torture.
1941: Charles and Anne Lindbergh, members of
the America First Committee, attend a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, at which
Lindbergh blames the Jews for "agitating for war...for reasons that are
not American....Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large
ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our
government." [Ed. Note: Anybody seeking to understand FDR’s response to
the plight of Europe’s Jews must factor in the depth of anit-Semitism that
existed in the United States. Echoes of
Lindbergh and the America First Movement can be heard today in the writings of
Pat Buchanan a former Republican White House Speech writer who regularly
appears on MSNBC.]
1942(2nd
of Tishrei, 5703): Rosh Hashanah II
1942: The Jewish community at Checiny, Poland,
is deported.
1942(2nd
of Tishrei, 5703): Forty Rabbis of the ghetto of Lodz were killed by the Nazis.
1942:
In Brooklyn, Selma Goldmaker, the Youngstown, OH born daughter of Sara and
Jacob Grosbstein and her husband Harry Goldmaker gave birth to Normans S.
Goldmaker.
1942:
During the siege at Stalingrad, three days after her arrival at the airfield at
Verkhnaia Akhtuba, on the east bank of the Volga rive,r Lydia Litvyak piloted
one of four Yak-1s that attacked “a
formation of Junkers Ju 88s escorted by Messerschmitt Bf 109s and she shot down
one bomber and one fighter plane.
1943:
At Westerbrook, a 65-year old woman in Philip Mechanicus’ barracks “committed
suicide” today to keep her daughter from joining her on the death train to
Theresienstadat.
1943(13th
of Elul, 5703): In the Lodz Ghetto, the Nazis hung Icek Bekerman, 34, for
stealing a few pieces of leather with which he had planned to make himself a
pair of shoelaces. The Lodz carpentry shop was ordered to build the gallows.
1944:
At Fort Bragg, N.C., left-wing political activists Herbert and Fay Philippa
Aptheker gave birth to self-described “Red Diaper Baby” Bettina Aptheker.
1944:
The shipment of Jews from Westerbork, the Dutch concentration camp, to
Auschwitz, Sobibor, Begen-Belsen and Thereisendstdat which had begun in 1942
came to an end. Over 100,000 Jews were
shipped to the camps during this period. The Frank Family were among those who
were shipped from Westerbrook to the death camps.
1944:
Eliane Plewman three other SOE agents - Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment
and Noor Inayat Khan)- were taken from their cell and forced to kneel in pairs
before being executed by a single shot to the head by executioner Wilhelm
Ruppert (They were not Jewish be we owe it them to hnor t heir lives and their
sacrifice.
1944:
Thirty-two year old Yolande Beekman, an SOE agent, was shot through the back of
the head by her Nazi captors at Dachau.
(She was not Jewish – be we owe it to her to honor her life and
sacrifice)
1945:
Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa made public a letter that President Truman had
written on August 31, 1945, to Britain’s Prime Minister Clement Attlee that the
issuance of 100,000 certificates of immigration to Palestine would help to
alleviate the refugee situation.
1945:
The U.S.S. President Warfield, the ship that would gain fame as the SS Exodus,
left active service with the United States Navy.
1945(6th
of Tishrei, 5706): Fifty-one-year old New York City native and Columbia trained
Chemical Engineer Leo Altenberg, the “department sales manager of the Calco
Chemical division of the American Cyanamid Company passed away today at Beth
Israel Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/09/16/306108202.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946(17th
of Elul, 5706): Fifty-four year old Michael Mindlin, the Russian born play
producer and operator of motion picture theatres who “in 1928 clashed with the
State Board of Censors over the German film “The City Without Jews” which tells
“the story of an imaginary state which passes a law expelling all Jews” and who
“was one of the first producers to bring out a film scorning Hitler” – Hitler’s
Terror – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/14/94061164.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946:
Five people who are reputed to be members of the Irgun were arrested tonight,
one in possession of 500 [$2,000], an automatic pistol and hand grenades, in a
search of Tel Aviv and adjoining Jaffa for Jews who had held up three banks
earlier in the day.
1947:
Mutual Radio Network broadcast the first episode of a post-war revival of “Stop
Me If You’ve Hear This One’ featuring panelist Lew Lehr and Morey Amsterdam.
1947:
Mickey Rutner hit his only major league home run. He did it as a member of the
Philadelphia Athletics in an 8-2 win over the Chicago White Sox. In the
following interview with the NJ Jewish News, Rutner, who has made his
retirement home in Georgetown, Tex., describes the big blow as well as
providing insights on his diamond career.
“The
guy threw me a curve ball, and I hit it quite well, and as I was rounding
second I was thinking to myself, ‘Holy cow!’”He also had his first base hit,
which had come a few days earlier in Yankee Stadium, against Joe Page. “That’s
what you dream about. You always want to play at the Stadium against the
Yankees,” said Rutner, who was born in Hempstead, NY, and attended St. John’s
University. Actually, retirement is a relative term. Rutner, at 87, the oldest
living Jewish ex-major leaguer, has been working for the public relations
department of the Round Rock Express, the AAA affiliate of the Houston Astros
owned by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan. “I work as a greeter in the luxury
suites,” he said. “I keep them away from Nolan so they don’t bother him during
the game. I enjoy being out there. The people are very nice to me. I do a lot
of handshaking.”Rutner played with Lou Limmer — who had been the oldest Jewish
ex-major leaguer before passing away last April — in the Puerto Rican winter
leagues. Like Limmer, he was a basically a New York kid who was shocked by the
anti-Semitism he faced in the Deep South towns of the minor leagues. “It was an
experience,” Rutner said. One of his teammates when he first started out was
the author Eliot Asinof. “The manager of the team…said, ‘I can’t have two Yids
on my team,’ so he released Eliot,” Rutner recalled. It turned out to be a good
career move for his friend. “He was a bright man and he went on to play in a
different league and then he wrote a few books.” One on those books, Eight Men Out, became the seminal
account of the 1919 Black Sox gambling scandal. Rutner himself was the subject
of a novel by Asinof, Man on Spikes,
the fictional account of Mike Kutner, a good career minor leaguer struggling to
break into the bigs. “[Asinof] was visiting us at the house…and he was taking
notes and he asked me if it would be all right if he wrote this book about me —
but he wouldn’t use my name.”In Memories
of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game,
author Roger Kahn cites Man On
Spikes as one of his favorite baseball books and offers an
insightful observation on the subtleties of discrimination.“Rutner was Jewish;
apparently Connie Mack held that against him,” Kahn wrote. “Asinof’s hero is
not Jewish. He wears eyeglasses. The techniques of novelists can be every bit
as fascinating as the techniques of lefthanded pitchers and center
fielders.”Rutner said he hoped the novel, originally published in 1955, will be
turned into a movie some day. Although he still enjoys good health and as much
as he still loves baseball, Rutner doesn’t know if he’ll return to the Express
in 2008; it might interfere too much with his weekly golf game.
1948(9th
of Elul, 5708): Dr. Zvi H. Wachsman, the Palestine born journalist for several
Jewish newspapers who had been living in New York suffered a fatal heart attack
in Montreal where he had gone to seek support for the Palestine Pioneers
Foundation.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/09/16/94649715.html?pageNumber=29
1948(9th
of Elul, 5708): Four Jews, including two children, were killed in Jerusalem
today by shelling from the Arab Legion, the Jordanian army that had invaded
Israel and has occupied the Old City.
Another four children were wounded in the shell.
1948:
Two unidentified Jewish women died in a Jerusalem hospital today from wounds
sustained in last week-end’s Arab shelling.
1948:
In a violation of the truce agreement, the Arab legion shelled Jerusalem’s
northern residential quarter as well as positions in the southern part of the
city held by Israeli troops.
1949(19th
of Elul, 5709): Eighty-three year old Cleveland native Salmon Portland Halle,
the businessman who supported the work of the American Joint Distribution
Committee for “more than a quarter of a century” passed away today in his
hometown.
1949:
It was reported today that the Jerusalem municipality had “adopted unanimously
a resolution reiterating opposition to the internationalization of the city.
The resolution stated that “in view of the present eff19orts to reintroduce
plans for the internationalization of Jerusalem the municipality once more
declares in the name of the inhabitants that it will accept only full Israel
sovereignty. Jerusalemites fought and shed their blood for the city when it was
abandoned by all the world, and they will continue to defend it so that it will
remain the capital of Israel.” (As reported by JTA)
1950(2nd
of Tishrei, 5711): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1950:
Israeli forces have occupied an area at Naharayim along the border of Jordan
because it is Israel's territory under the Rhodes armistice agreement with King
Abdullah, an Army spokesman said today.
The territory controls the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan
Rivers. “The confluence is about six
miles south of the Sea of Galilee and” near the Rutenberg hydroelectric
works.
1950:
In Philadelphia Gertrude Cohen and Nathan Lenat gave birth to Douglas Bruce
Lenat, “an artificial intelligence researcher who spent nearly 40 years trying
to build common sense into computers” and “founder and CEO of Cycorp, Inc. in
Austin, TX.” (As reported by Cade Metz)
1951(12th
of Elul, 5711): Fifty-seven year old Polish born multi-talented Jewish artist
passed Arthur Szyk away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/uc-berkeley-to-display-jewish-artists-unique-work/
1951:
Ely Palmer, chairman of the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission
meeting in Paris, “handed the Israelis a copy of five proposals that the
commission drafted for the Arabs and Israelis in an effort to transform the
armistice into a peace treaty.”
1951: As David Ben Gurion continues to establish a
new coalition government six weeks after the last national election, the Mapam
Workers party broke off negotiations with the Prime Minister paving the way for
a coalition made up of Mapai and the General Zionists.
1952(23rd
of Elul, 5712) Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilch; Leil Selichot
1952(23rd
of Elul, 5712): Sixty-seven year old New York native and Columbia trained
pathologist Dr. Max Lederer, the “director of laboratories at Jewish Hospital
in Brooklyn from 1918 until 1943 and the discoverer of “a blood disease known
as Lederer’s Anemia” who was the husband of Martha Luntz Lederer with whom he
had two children -- Theodore and Leona – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/14/93384396.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956(8th
of Tishrei, 5717: Rachel Miriam Bejgel Grossberg, the wife of Morris Grossberg
with whom she had six children – Charles, Max, Rose, Manuel, Chilly and Fannie
– passed away today after she was interred at the Hebrew Memorial Park in
Clinton Township, Michigan.
1957(17th
of Elul, 5717): Sixty-year old Sam Mintz, the Minks native who became a
successful American screenwriter passed away today.
1958(28th
of Elul, 5718): Parashat Nitzavim
1958(28th
of Elul, 5718): Sixty-three year old Henry Meyer, the Berlin born son of Nathan
and Rose Meyer and the husband of Hannah Meyer passed away today after he was
buried in the Waldheim Jewish Cemetery.
1959(10th
of Elul, 5717): Seventy-five year old Donaldsonville, LA native and Tulane
undergrad Monte Lemann, the Harvard trained lawyer, the Tulane University Law
School professor who in 1931 was the only member of President Hoover’s
Wickersham Commission to refuse to sign the report recommending “further and
stricter efforts to enforce prohibition” and who with his wife Mildred raised
two sons Thomas and Stephen Lemann passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/23/88824954.pdf
1959(10th
of Elul, 5719: Sixty-one year old Pittsfield, Massachusetts native Lawrence
Abraham “Larry” Weltman, the Syracuse football and basketball player who spent
one year playing professional with the Rochester Jeffersons passed away today.
1959(10th
of Elul, 5719): Fifty-six year old Gilbert Adrian, the costume designer known
simply as “Adrian” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/14/80550712.pdf
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/adrian-hatmakers-son-dressed-america/
1960(21st
of Elul, 5720): Seventy-five year old Hungarian composer Leo Weiner passed away
today.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/le%C3%B3-weiner-mn0001643797/biography
1961(3rd
of Tishrei, 5722): Tzom Gedaliah
1961(3rd
of Tishrei, 5722): Fifty-three year old Bronze Medal winning bantamweight boxer
Harry Isaacs passed away.
https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/is/harry-isaacs-1.html
1961(3rd
of Tishrei, 5722): Seventy-nine year old Princeton graduate and R. H. Macy
partner Nathan Strauss, Jr. the New York born son of Nathan and Lina (Gutherz)
Straus and husband of Helen E. Sachs who served as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy
during WW I and a New York State Senator while serving as a director of the
Palestine Economic Corporation and the Palestine Development Council as being
an active member of the Free Synagogue and the “Temple Beth-El Clubs” passed
away today.
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/findbrow.cgi?collection=Straus,+Nathan,+Jr.
1965:
Nathan Phillips Square which is named for Nathan Phillips the Ontario born son
of Jacob Phillips and Mary Rosenbloom and former mayor of Toronot.
1966:
Birthdate of Washington, DC native and Ivy League educated Joshua Stein, the
“50th Attorney General of North Carolina.”
1967:
Fifty-nine year old Varian Fry an American journalist who ran a rescue network
in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000
anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi occupied Europe and the Holocaust
passed away today Among those Fry aided were the following:
- Hannah Arendt
- Andre Breton
- Marc Chagall
- Max Ernst
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Heinz Jolles
- Wilfredo Lam
- Wanda Landowska
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Alma Mahler
Gropius Werfel
- Andre Masson
- Otto Meyerhoff
- Marcel Duchamp
- Franz Werfel
- Henrich Mann
- Ylla
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005740
(This
blog cannot do justice to the courage shown by Fry, and you are urged to read
more about him on your own.)
1968:
Terrorists attacked a military police headquarters in the Golan Heights.
1969(1st
of Tishrei, 5730): Rosh Hashanah
1969(1st
of Tishrei, 5730): Fifty-one year old Howard Mandell a “tax expert, deputy
mayor of the village of Hewlett Harbor and a member of the cabinet and
executive committee of the Greater New York Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies” who was married to Lenore Mandell with whom he had three
children – Marjory, Richard and James – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/09/14/302043622.html?pageNumber=92
1969:
Though the Mets were trying to win a National League, Art Shamsky, with the
approval of his manager did not play today.
1969:
In her Rosh Hashanah message, Golda Meir “ushered in the year 5730 on the
Hebrew calendar with a warning to the Arab nations by saying that "Attacks
on the frontiers, sabotage attempts within Israel and attacks of piracy against
Israelis abroad have fortified Israel's resolve never to return to the
situation of constant peril which prevailed before the Six-Day War."
1970(12th
of Elul, 5730): Eighty-two year old Morris Abraham “Two Gun” Cohen who “fought
with the Canadian Railway Troops in Europe during World War I” and was
“aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National
Revolutionary Army” passed away peacefully today in England.
1970:
Running of the first New York City Marathon which was co-founded by Holocaust
survivor Fred Lebow.
1970:
Birthdate of Louise Lombard who played the title role in “Esther” a film “that
follows the biblical account very closely and featured F. Murray Abraham as
Mordecai.
1971(23rd
of Elul, 5731): Samuel Joseph Miller, the Towanda, NY born son of Dorothy and
William Grossman, who was serving time in prison for multiple bombings was
killed today during the Attica Prison uprising which he reportedly helped to
engineer.
1971: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services are
scheduled to be held today for 94 year old Judge Joseph Meyer Proskauer.
1972: Marcia Leventhal wrote today that she was “appalled and
incensed by the tragedy at Munich in which several of my fellow Jews were
brutally and senselessly slaughtered by Palestinian terrorists” while
denouncing as “barbarism” “the cry voiced by the Jewish Defense League…for the
random assassination of Arab diplomats and the indiscriminate shedding of Arab
blood…”
1972:
“China denounced Israeli air strikes into Syria and Lebanon today but
maintained silence on the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian
terrorists” which had been the cause of the attacks by the IAF.
1973:
Syrian and Israeli planes clash over the Mediterranean. The Israelis shoot down 13 Syrian MIGS while
losing only one plane. The subsequent
mobilization of the Syrian armed forces is seen as a response to the Israeli
air victory and not what it really was – preparations for all-out war that
would being on Yom Kippur, 1973.
1974:
Michael Kheifetz, a history teacher and writer was sentenced today “in
Leningrad to 4 years strict regime in labor camp plus two years internal exile
"for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation"
1975(8th
of Tishrei, 5735): Shabbat Shuva
1975:
Pravda and Izvestia published the “complete text of the Helsinki Final Act.”
1977(1st
of Tishrei, 5738): Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1978:
“Days of Heaven” a romantic epic that won an Oscar for Best Cinematography
produced by Bert Schneider and Harold Schneider and filmed by cinematographer
Haskell Wexler was released in the United States today.
1980(3rd
of Tishrei, 5741): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuvah observed for the last time
during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1981:
As his ten day trip to the United States was coming to a close Prime Minister
Menachem Begin of Israel spent a busy day in New York seeking approval from
sectors of opinion made wary by recent events in the Middle East while at the
same time reassuring his followers that nothing had changed.
1982:
Joseph Stephen Stanford completed his service as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1984:
Yitzhak Shamir completed his first term as Prime Minister
1984:
The 21st government of Israel was formed today with Shimon Peres as
Prime Minister.
1984:
Haim Bar-Lev began serving as Minister of Public Safety, a ministry that had
been abolished in 1977 and renewed in 1984.
1984:
Moshe Shahal replaced Yitzhak Moda’I as Minister of Energy and Water Resources.
1984:
Gideon Patt replaced Yuval Ne’eman as Minister of Science and Technology
1984:
Amnon Rubinstein replaced Mordechai Tzipori as Minister of Communications.
1984:
Yitzhak Rabin replaced Moshe Arens as Minister of Defense.
1984:
Leonard Bernstein conducts the 40th anniversary concert of Jeremiah Symphony
with PSO.
1984:
Shimon Peres replaced Yosef Burg as Internal Affairs Mnister.
1985:
The original hand-written copy of the lines that have inspired millions and
served for generations as a symbol of America - ''Give me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free'' - are among the highlights
of an exhibition opening today at the New-York Historical Society honoring the
centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus's famous poem,
''The New Colossus,'' was later inscribed on a bronze tablet on an interior
wall of the pedestal, but the original copy will be on view in this exhibition.
1985:
Eighty-eight year old Canadian General Edson Louis Millar Burns who served with
the UN peace keeping forces during the Suez Crisis and who was author of Between
Arab and Israeli passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E06E0D61331E036A05757C1A9619C946291D6CF
1986:
Leonard Bernstein led the premiere of Jubilee Games with IPO.
1986:
In “The Novel Origins of ‘Gidget’” published today Charles Champlin describes
the role that Frederick Kohner played in the creation of what became an
American Icon.
1986:
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse starring Pee-wee Herman (real name – Paul Rubens) was
broadcast for the first time on CBS.
1987:
''Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Drawings'' an exhibition at the White Chapel Art
Gallery which is part of the Jewish East End Celebration was scheduled to close
today.
1987:
In Toronto, premiere of “Sister, Sister” starring Jennifer Jason Leigh.
1987:
NBC broadcast the first episode of season six of “Family Ties” a sit-com
created by Gary David Goldberg who wrote many of the scripts.
1989(13th
of Elul, 5749): Arye Leon Dulzin, a former Israeli Government official and
former chairman of the World Zionist Organization and of Israel's Jewish
Agency, died after a prolonged kidney illness today in Tel Hashomer Hospital in
Tel Aviv. He was 76 years old and had lived in Tel Aviv. Born in Minsk in 1913,
Mr. Dulzin had a lifelong interest in Zionism and in the plight of Russian
Jews. He immigrated with his parents to Mexico in 1928 and in time became
secretary general of the Zionist Federation of Mexico, serving as president of
the organization from 1938 to 1942. He later became chairman of the political
committee and president of the Mexican branch of the World Jewish Congress and
was a delegate to several sessions of the Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. Mr.
Dulzin settled in Israel in 1956 and joined the Jewish Agency, where he headed
the economic department and investment bureau until 1965. He then served as
head of immigration, absorption and resettlement for the agency and was its
treasurer from 1968 to 1978. As a member of the Israeli Liberal Party, Mr.
Dulzin joined the Cabinet of Prime Minister Golda Meir as a Minister Without
Portfolio in 1969 and was later affiliated with the Likud coalition headed by
Prime Minister Menachem Begin. In 1986, he broke with the Liberals, and he and
several other leaders formed the Liberal Center Party. Role in Settlements Mr.
Dulzin was elected chairman of the World Zionist Federation in 1978 and a short
time later became chairman of the Jewish Agency. As head of that organization,
he was deeply involved in Jewish emigration to Israel, and as chairman of the
World Zionist Organization, he was responsible for furthering the spread of the
Hebrew language and Jewish culture and with promoting new Jewish settlements in
Israel's occupied Arab territories. He retired in 1987. In 1980, he was awarded
an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Yeshiva University in New York for his
role in directing immigration and resettling Jews in Israel. Bernice S.
Tannenbaum, chairman of the American section of the World Zionist Orgnization,
described Mr. Dulzin as a leading force in modern Zionism who had helped draw
the major religious streams of Judaism into the Zionist ranks.
1990(23rd
of Elul, 5750): Eighty-five year old New York born author Marya Mannes, the
daughter of David and Clara (Damrosch) Mannes and the sister of Leopold Mannes
passed away today in San Francisco.
1990:
Less than 48 hours after the government of Israel was successful in getting a
preliminary injunction to stop the sale of 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 “an appeals court threw it out” enable the book to go one
sale.
1991(5th of Tishrei, 5752): Movie producer Joseph
Pasternak
movie producer at the age of 89, a victim of cancer
1991:
U.S. premiere of “Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare” part of the Nightmare on
Elm Street series co-starring Yaphet Kotto who has described the difficulty of
growing up as “a black Jew.”
1991(5th
of Tishrei, 5752): Eighty-nine year old movie producer Joe Pasternak passed
away today.
1992(15th
of Elul, 5752): Eighty-eight year old Julius Max Meyerhardt, the son of Max and
Dora Mayerhardt passed away today after which he was buried in Jefferson City,
MO.
1992:
The Jerusalem Post reported that US
President George Bush proposed legislation to Congress granting Israel a $10
billion loan guarantee for the absorption of Soviet immigrants. He also
announced a proposed sale of 72 F-15s to Saudi Arabia with "compensatory
steps to ensure Israel's military edge."
For those looking for evidence of Bush and Saudi ties, look no
further. President Bush would use aid to
Israel as lever to for that government to take a "more conciliatory"
view towards the Arabs.
1993: Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an
Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway
1993:
In a triumph of hope over history, Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel,
and Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the P.L.O., shook hands today on the White
House lawn, sealing the first agreement between Jews and Palestinians to end
their conflict and share the holy land along the River Jordan that they both
call home.
1993:
A photograph was published today in People magazine documenting Alfred
Eisenstaedt’s final formal photographic project the subject of which was
President Clinton, his wife and his daughter as they spent their first
presidential summer at Martha’s Vineyard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt#/media/File:ClintonsEise_copy.JPG
1994(8th
of Tishrei, 5755): Seventy-year old songwriter Arthur Siegel passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/17/obituaries/arthur-siegel-song-composer-and-pianist-70.html
1996(29th
of Elul, 5756): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1996: “From the Court Jews’ Uneasy Heyday” published today
provides the background for “From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage
and Power 1600-1800” now on display at the Jewish Museum in New York.
1997(1st
of Tishrei, 5738): Rosh Hashanah
1998:
The New York Times book section
included reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including A History of Palestine
From Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti by Thomas A. Idinopulos and The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias.
1999(3rd of Tishrei, 5760): Tzom Gedaliah
1999(3rd of Tishrei, 5760): Eighty-five
year old Harry Krane, born in Brooklyn as Harry Kravistky, who went from Borscht Belt
comic to screenwriter for Hollywood films and television for which he created
the “Honeymooners” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/20/arts/harry-crane-85-who-helped-create-the-honeymooners.html
2000: At a
meeting of the High Follow-up Committee for Arab citizens in Israel in Kafar
Manda, United Arab List's MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe declared: "We will beat
or forcefully attack any policeman and we will break his hands if he comes to
demolish an Arab house … we are on the verge of an Intifada among Israel’s
Arabs following Alik Ron’s incitement."
2001: Jennifer Jason Leigh began took over the lead
role of “Catherine” in the Broadway production of “Prof.
2001” “Only two days after the terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center in New York City, Ruth Laredo celebrated the 25th
anniversary of her debut in the Alice Tully Hall with a recital as the opening
concert of Lincoln Center's 2001 season
2001: At the Toronto International Film Festival
premiere of “The Grey Zone, based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness
Account written by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli directed by Tim Blake Nelson whose
maternal grandparents escaped from the Nazis just before the start of WW II.
2001: At the Toronto International Film Festival
premiere of “The Man From Elysian Fields” starring Julianna Margulies.
2002: An exhibition styled “Myer Myers: Jewish
Silversmith in Colonial New York came to a close at the Henry Francis du Pont
Winterthur Museum in Delaware.
2002: “One-Hour Photo” a dark tragedy co-starring
Michael Vartan was released in the United States today.
2003: The Tel Aviv – Beit Shemesh section of the
Jaffa-Jerusalem railway and Beit Shemesh Railway Station were re-opened.
2003: Today’s bout between Oscar De La Hoya and
Sugar Shane Mosely led to Robert “Bob” Arnum, the Crown Heights born lawyer and
boxing promoter complaining about the judging during the fight and his
suggesting that “there was a vendetta against him from a member of the Nevada
State Commission.”
2004:
The leadership of the National Religious Party approved the party’s remaining
“in the government on condition that the government would not hold a general
referendum (משאל עם, Meshal Am) regarding removal of the Israeli settlements,
which would require a special majority, before the issue could be brought to a
decision in the Knesset.
2005: Despite the desecration and destruction of
Synagogues in Gaza by Palestinians, the Jerusalem
Post reported that Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo
Amar announced he was considering ostracizing any Jew that attacks mosques in
retaliation. 2005(9th of Elul, 5765): Sixty-eight year old Cyril Kitchener
Harris, the native of Glasgow who served as Chief Rabbi of South Africa from
1987 to 2004 passed away today.
2005: In “How Curious George Escaped the Nazis,” published today,
Dinitia Smith recounts the harrowing trip Hans and Margret Rey took to avoid
being victims of the Holocaust.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/books/13geor.html
2006: Today’s offerings of
the 2006 OyHoo Festival in New York includes:
- Homage to Lenny Bruce & Free Speech;
- Jewish Music
Showcase featuring
some of the best Jewish Music from many great Jewish Labels such as
Tzaddik and such performers as Paul
Brody, Chana Rothman
and Gary Lucas
- By the Rivers of
Babylon featuring Jewish Poetry as Music and Music as Poetry
- The Big Quiz Thing, NYC's
live-trivia spectacular, pitting Jewish bigwigs against each other in a
game-show smack down of all things
2006: “The Knesset House Committee approved Moshe Katsav's request
for leave of absence.”
2007(1st of Tishrei, 5768): Rosh Hashanah 5768
2007: According to Peter Applebome, Kehillat Lev
Shalem, the Jewish congregation in Woodstock, NY, is scheduled to again hold
the High Holy Days ceremonies outdoors in their beloved tent.
2008: An historic event
takes place in Vienna when the first festival devoted to Jewish and Israeli
music ever held in Austria opens
2008: Temple Judah hosts it first annual rustic “Barbecue and Havdalah Service”
at Woodpecker Lodge, Pinicon Ridge Park, in Central City.
2008: “The King and I,” opens at the Englert Theatre in
Iowa City featuring Temple Judah’s very own Cyndie and Bentlee Birchansky.
2008: Today, Steve “Stone accepted the
job as the color commentator for the White Sox television broadcasts for six
years beginning with the 2009 season.”
2008: For the second time in less than a month, today, Israeli ice
dance Galit Chait married Francesco Moracci in Florece Italy.
2008: At ZOA House in Tel Aviv, the curtain comes down on “Setting
the Stage,” Beit Lessin's ninth annual revelation of new plays by local
playwrights.
2009:
Religious School begins at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA
2009:
Jack Black led the audience at the MTV Video Music Awards in a Satanic prayer.
2009:
The Sisterhood and Men's Club of Olam Tikvah presents historian, world
traveler, and lecturer Claire Simmons who leads a discussion of "The
Mystery of the Jewish Knapsack: What the Jews Packed for Their Journey into the
Diaspora.”
2009:
In Teaneck, NJ, a Beshert Moment as Debbie Rosenbloom and David Levin join
together under the Chupah to begin a life together that should be marked only
by health, happiness and the most sublime sense of joy possible. Mazel tov.
2009:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Why Jews Are Liberals by
Norman Podhoretz, Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow and The
Magicians by Lev Grossman.
2009:
The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times book sections each
featured a review of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great
Depression by Morris Dickstein
2009(24th
of Elul, 5769): Tragedy struck the family of late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon
again today, when his son Captain Asaf Ramon was killed in a crash while flying
an Israel Air Force F16-A.
2009:
The Cedar Rapids Gazette features a review of Gertruda’s Oath: A
child, a Promise and a Heroic Escape During World War II by Ram Oren.
2009: The Israel
Antiquities Authority researchers said today that a stretch of road in
Jerusalem dating to the Second Temple and thought to be used by pilgrims on
their ascent to the temple had been cleared over the past few months.
2010: David Broza
who was raised and educated in Israel, Spain and England and is a superstar in
his homeland of Israel, as well as a modern troubadour of urban folk-rock is
scheduled to appear at the City Winery in New York City.
2010: The 6th Annual
Behind the Scenes Gala, sponsored by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre is scheduled
to take place in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
2010: Ben Gurion
International Airport was shut down for nearly eight hours today due to a
strike by Israel Aviation Authority workers over their pensions..
2010(5th of Tishrei, 5771):
Eighty-eight year old William Coblenz, prominent San Francisco attorney and
civic leader, passed away today. (As reported by Dan Pine)
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/59260/attorney-and-civic-leader-william-coblentz-dies-at-88/
2010: New York magazine featured a
cover story about The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald
to New Orleans by Mark Jacobson in which the author provides documentary
proof that the skin of Holocaust victims was indeed used to make lampshades.
2011: The Ariel Quartet and Alisa Weilerstein
are scheduled to perform Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, D. 956 at the 14th
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2011: The JCC of Northern Virginia is
scheduled to present the first of a series of brown-bag programs with the theme
of “In Search of Jewish Spirituality.”
2011: Turkey's
Military Electronic Industry developed a new identification system for its F-16
fighter jets that will allow it to attack Israeli targets, according to report
by the Turkish Star Gazette today.
2011: Today MK Amir
Peretz attacked his opponent for the leadership of the Labor Party, MK Shelly
Yacimovich, saying that she had resorted to the "lowest possible tactics
in Israeli politics," during Monday's primary election in which she
slightly edged Peretz with 32 percent of the vote to his 31%.
2011: Hamas is
weighing a resumption of suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians, a
senior counter-terrorism expert warned in Herzliya today.
2011: Hakim Awad was sentenced to five
consecutive life sentences today for murdering Ehud and Ruth Fogel, along with
three of their young child-ren, Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months old.
2011: Republican Bob Turner and Democratic
Assemblyman David I. Weprin are facing each other in a special election being
held today to fill the Congressional seat vacated by Representative Anthony D.
Weiner.
2012: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to present a lecture by Professor John Lukacs entitled: Anti-Semitism and Judaeophobia: A Critical Analysis of the Development in
European Anti-Jewish Sentiment During The Interwar Period.”
2012: At a Rosh Hashanah reception at his residence,
today, US Vice President Joe Biden said “there is no daylight” between the
United States and Israel when it comes to Iran.
2012: A top Reform rabbi appeared with Libya's U.S.
ambassador and Muslim and Christian leaders condemning the attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Libya and the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, along with the anti-Muslim
film that allegedly incited the violence.
2013(9th
of Tishrei, 5774): In the evening Kol Nidre and the start of Yom Kippur
2013:
Kol Nidre services will not take place tonight at the Chabad Synagouge in
Boulder due to the unprecendneted flooding wreacking havoc across a large swath
of Colorado.
2013:
Expecting many thousands of Jewish worshipers to gather at the Western Wall in
Jerusalem at the start of Yom Kippur this evening, police have preemptively
undertaken numerous security measures to safeguard them for the duration of the
fast, which ends tomorrow evening. Security crossings into Israel from the West
Bank were temporarily closed today and will open again following Yom Kippur in
accordance with security assessments adopted by the IDF. (As reported by Daniel
K. Eisenbud)
2014:
“Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust, an exhibition
of photographs by the most important Soviet photojournalists” opened today.
http://www.hilliardmuseum.org/exhibits/through-soviet-jewish-eyes-photography-war-and-the-holocaust
2014:
Social Commentator and Comedian Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at
Centennial Hall in London, Ontario.
2014:
“Syrian rebels are in control of almost the entire Syrian border with Israel, a
monitoring group and the Al-Arabiya news network reported today.”
2014:
Monuments Man Horace V. Apgar, Jr. passed away today.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/apgar-t-sgt.-horace
https://legacy.newsok.com/obituaries/oklahoman/obituary.aspx?n=horace-apgar&pid=172595688
2014:
“Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman,
television host Bill Maher, Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver and owners of
large Hollywood studios such as co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Amy
Pascal, Chairman and CEO of MGM Gerry Barber” were among the members of the
film industry who posted an additional ad in the New York Times expressing
their “commitment to peace and justice” which included a condemnation of Hamas
and continued support for Israel. (As reported by Yitzhak Benhorin)
2014:
Korean Air is scheduled to resume flying to Israel “after shutting down flights
to and from Israel at the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in mid-July.”
(As reported by Yaakov Levi)
2015:
As to today, Israel’s population will reportedly stand at 8.4 million people.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-population-hits-8-4-million-ahead-of-jewish-new-year/
2015:
The New York Times features books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Marvels, written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and Fear of Dying
by Erica Jong.
2015:
Jewish fans of the New York Giants are in for a disappointment as the Giants
are scheduled to kick off their season at home against arch-rival Dallas at
8:30 this evening, well after the start of Rosh Hashanah.
2015:
Unlike baseball great Sandy Koufax, New York Giants offensive lineman Geoff
Schwartz is scheduled to play in tonight’s home opening NFL game.
2015(29th
of Elul): Seventieth anniversary of the Erev Rosh Hashanah Services led by
Martin Reisenberg being held “at a synagogue in the Kreuzberg section of Berlin
where 400 members of the capital’s remaining community of Jews gathered for the
first such observance since their liberation from a twelve-year campaign of
extermination.”
2015:
‘The Palestinian Authority, Jordan and the Arab League slammed the Israeli
government for an operation during which police officers found pipe bombs on
the Temple Mount in the Old City in Jerusalem’ today.
2015:
Police chief Bentzi Sau vowed today that protesters would not be allowed to
threaten the security of visitors to the Temple Mount while Public Security
Minster Gilad Erdan warned that access to the site could be affected by the
discovery of a stash of pipe bombs.
2015(29th
of Elul, 5775): In the evening Erev Rosh Hashanah
2016:
Israeli cellist Maya Beiser is scheduled to “perform music from her new album
TrnaceClassical at Le Poisson Rouge” this evening.
2017(22nd
of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin without whom this blog would not exist.
2017:
Today, the “BBC announced that it had ordered a full series of ‘Tracey Breaks
the News” starring Tracey Ullman.
2017:
The Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host Merav Michaeli, MK who will talk
about her grandfather “Dr Yisrael Kastner, a Jewish Hungarian journalist and
lawyer who lobbied in Budapest and other places to save Jews and who
successfully rescued thousands from their deaths during the Holocaust.”
2017:
As part of the Washington Jewish Film Festival Year-Round, the Jewish
Historical Society is scheduled to co-present a screening of “Zuzana: Music is
Life” “The triumphant story told by Zuzana Ruzickova, 90, about how she became
a world-famous harpsichordist and interpreter of Bach in Czechoslovakia,
despite three years in concentration camps and forty years of communist
persecution.
2017:
Center for Jewish History, The Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh
University, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschun, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft,American Jewish Historical Society & Leo Baeck
Institute are scheduled to present “a talk by Professor Susannah Heschel” on
“Political Prophecy versus Liberation Theology.”
2017:
The critically acclaimed theatre show “Simon and Garfunkel Story” is scheduled
to being its Israeli tour at Ma Sherover in Jerusalem.
2017:
“Death, Einstein and Hints of Eternity” published today provides a review of
Naomi Levy’s Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul
https://jewishjournal.com/tag/rabbi-robert-marcus/
2017:
In an interview broadcast today, Roni Alsheich, Israel’s national police chief
“confirmed that investigators recently questioned Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan
was part of a corruption investigation involving Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.”
2017:
Yigal GuettaYigal Guetta,
“a lawmaker from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party resigned today after coming
under fire from rabbis, who criticized him for attending his nephew’s gay
wedding.”
2018:
Bet Avi Chai is scheduled to present “Repentance from the Heart of Sea: Three
Readings of Jonah” with Dr. Orit Avnery.
2018:
Today, L Brands CEO Leslie Wexner, “the wealthiest support of the GOP in Ohio
said… that he is no longer a member of the Republican Party.”
2018:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last three screenings of “Dough,” a
tale of espionage featuring agents from Mossad.
2018:
Speaking today, “25 years to the day after Oslo peace accords were signed on
the White House lawn…Jared Kushner said President Trump had improved the chance
for peace by stripping away the ‘false realties’ that surround Middle Ease
peacekeeping.” (As reported by Mark Landler)
2019:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to launch the first Musical Shabbat
of the 2019-2020 year.
2019:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host The J-Men’s Group.
2019:
In Columbus, OH, Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host the Heschel
Book Club which is exploring “the concept of the divine-human partnership in
Abraham Joshua Heschel’s classic book, God in Search of Man.”
2019:
“Unbelievable,” a mini-series created by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon was
released for showing on Netflix.
2019:
Netflix is scheduled to broadcast “What’s New Buenos Aires?” which is the
second episode of “Spy,” a mini-series based on the life Eli Cohen.
2019:
In Florida, the Tallahassee Film Society is scheduled to host a screening of
“The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2020:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback
edition of Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
2020:
In New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to host the
“Board Workshop.”
2020:
The Shapell Manuscript Foundation – in partnership with the Columbus Jewish
Historical Society – is scheduled to “present a webinar about Jewish Civil War
soldiers.”
2020:
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host an
online event which “which will serve as the centerpiece of the week-long
groundbreaking celebration.
2020:
The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2020:
The “Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to present a talk about artists
whose designs are inspired by transcendent experiences, including painter Mark
Rothko and CJM architect Daniel Libeskind.
2020:
The Breman Museum is scheduled to host an online book talk with David Lowe,
whose work on the late civil rights lawyer Morris Abram, Touched With Fire,
won the National Jewish Book Award for best biography in 2019.
2020:
Chabad Center of Natick is scheduled to present “pre-Rosh Hashanah beekeeping
show where attendees learn about “bees, honey” and the Jewish New Year.
2020:
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation is scheduled to cellist Krstina Reiko
performing youngIsaeli stars violinist Asi Matathias and Victor Stanislavsky.
2020:
Chief Rabbi Mirvis, Dr Yael Zeigler, Rabbi Lord Sacks, Dr Erica Brown, S&P
Senior Rabbi Dweck and many more are scheduled to part of the “BIG LSJS Elul
Day.”
2020:
The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host “Nusakh Vilne Memorial,” the “annual
event commemorating the Jewish community of Vilna through poetry and music.”
2020:
While Israelis await the new coronavirus lockdown rules scheduled to be
announced after today’s cabinet meeting, they can savor the announcement that
Bahrain has joined the UEA in recognizing the state of Israel.
2021:
Modern Jewish Couples is scheduled to present online “Happy New Year, Honey!
Instention-Setting for 5782.”
https://www.jewishboston.com/events/happy-new-year-honey-intention-setting-for-5782/
2021:
First day of the two day virtual conference “Transnational and Comparative
Approaches to the History of Jewish Education” sponsored by Stanford’s graduate
program in education/Jewish studies and Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
2021:
This morning in London, “Dr Aviva Dautch is scheduled to explore the
relationship between prayer and poetry, focusing particularly on the Avinu
Malkeinu.”
2021:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present “The Match of Hannah
Senesh and the Candle of Yom Kippur.”
2021:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “Dr Erica Brown who
will be discussing the role of regret in repentance in her session Managing
Regret.
2021:
The JDC Archives is scheduled to host a webinar on “The Role of JDC in the
Rehabilitation of Cyprus Detainees 1946-1949.”
2021:
YIVO and Forward are scheduled to present “The Jewish Press Today.”
2022: In the Bay Area,
Jewish Family and Children’s Services directors Rabbi Daniel
Isaacson and chaplain Bruce Feldstein are scheduled to lead shofar-blowing and
self-reflection session.
2022: The Steicker Center is scheduled
to host an evening with Ukraine’s Press Secretary Iuliia Mendel
2022: In anticipation of the
broadcast of their new film, The U.S. and the Holocaust, Ken Burns, Lynn
Novick, and Sarah Botstein are scheduled to discuss the important themes the documentary
will address and the opportunities the film provides for teaching about
Holocaust history, as well as American history in a virtual event sponsored by
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2022: In San Francisco, the
JCCSF is scheduled to host music historian Richie Unterberger as he presents
vintage film clips of Jewish stars of the ’60s and ’70s including Lou Reed, Bob
Dylan, Paul Simon, Carole King, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Leonard Cohen,
and discusses their impacts
2022: Thirteen becomes a
“lucky number” as friends and family join in celebrating the 13th
wedding anniversary of Debbie Rosenbloom and David Levin, my sister-in-law and
brother. (And that is Jewish history in
the real sense of the word)
2023: In Berkley, CA, Theatre
Dybbuk is scheduled to present a reading of selections from this version of
Shakespeare’s classic The Merchant of Venice, which is subtitled “In Sooth I
Know Not Why I Am So Sad” and adds news and issues from modern times.
2023: Manhattan Jewish
Historical Initiative The Battery Conservancy, & The New York Board of
Rabbis are scheduled to present “Landing Day Celebration” marking “the 369
years since the arrival of the first Jewish community in America.”
2023: EBIJFF, CCJCC, Diablo
Valley Hadassah, Madison Ballet, Diablo Ballet and Marika Brussel are scheduled
to present “a special screening of an Israeli documentary on modern dance
company Bat Sheva and a ballet performance set to the Kol Nidre prayer in honor
of National Dance Day.”
2023: In Florida, Temple Judea
is scheduled to host Rabbi Feivel Strauss lecturing on “Mysteries of the Torah”
which in this case is “The Lost Tribes.”
2023: Fourteenth anniversary
of Debbie Rosenbloom and David Levin, my sister-in-law and brother. (And that is Jewish history in the real sense
of the word)
2023: “Due to an increase in
COVID-19 cases in Israel ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Health Ministry is
advising people in high-risk groups to wear masks in closed, crowded places.”
