This Day, September 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 14
81: Domitian, the third of the Falvians, became Emperor of the
Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Like his father Vespasian and his brother
Titus, Domitian took great deal of pride in the victory over Judea. On the way back from Jerusalem after the war,
Titus and Domitian celebrated the latter’s birthday with a slaughter of Jews at
Caesarea. Domitian’s treatment of the Jews was actually harsher than that of
his two predecessors. “He strictly
enforced the special taxes” imposed on the Jews “and the ban on conversion to
Judaism in Rome. According to the Roman
historian Seutonius “In Domitian’s days,
the Jews’ tax was collected with the utmost rigor. Thos who observed Jewish customs without
admitting it, and those who concealed their Jewish origin in order to evade the
tax imposed on their nation, were denounced to the imperial treasure. I still remember…how the procurator, in the
presence of a crowd of assistants, inspected an old man of ninety to see
whether he was circumcised.” According
to “another Roman historian, in the year 95, Domitian ordered the execution of
Flavius Clemens, a nobleman closely related to the imperial house, for
Judaizing tendencies and banished his wife Dimitilla.
407: St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople passed
away today. Referred to in Catholic literature as "the man with the golden
tongue" he was a virulent hater of Judaism, who disseminated his views
through violent writings and preachings. He considered it meritorious to kill
Jews
775: Byzantine Emperor Constantine V passed away. During his reign Constantine V modified a
Byzantine law, dating from the tenth century that “demands that a Jew when
swearing shall have a girdle of thorns around his loins, stand in water, and
swear by "Barase Baraa" (Bereshit Bara), so that if he speaks untruth
the earth may swallow him as it did Dathan and Abiram.”
786:
Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother
al-Hadi. During his Caliphate, al-Rashid honored Charlemagne’s request to send
Jewish teachers to establish a Jewish Middle class in Europe. These came with
Rabbi Machir who was given by Charlemagne a Princedom in Narbonne and was known
as King of the Jews. In 807, al-Rashid forced Jews to wear yellow badges and
Christians to wear blue badges.
1131: In what may be a case
of usurpation to those who believe in the David Kingship, the Crusaders make
Count Fulk V of Anjou the Third King of Jerusalem.
1214: Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem passed away.
While in this position, he wrote “a formula of life” for the Carmelites at
their request. The roots of the
Carmelites “are traced to the 12th century (after the third crusade) when a
group of hermits began practicing their Christianity on Mt. Carmel by following
the ways of the Prophet Elijah. They lived in caves on Mt, Carmel for about a
century, when they were forced to leave, in 1235, due to persecution by the
Saracens. At the time they did not view anyone in particular as their founder
but saw Elijah as one of the founders of monastic life.” [Editor’s note – This is yet another example
of how Judaism and Eretz Israel impacted those who lived in the land, even if
they were not Jewish.]
1427(13th of Elul, 5187): Yaakov ben
Moshe Levi Moelin, known as the Maharil (Our Teach, the Rabbi, Yaakov Levi) who
was the son and pupil Moshe Levi Moelin the Rabbi of Mainz passed away today in
Worms.
1560:
Sixty-seven-year-old Anton
Fugger, German merchant who hired Hans Dernschwam the German traveler who
described the condition of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire including those “in
Constantinople” where “the Jews were thick ‘as ants’” and “there were forty-two
or more synagogues divided by nationality” serving a community that numbered
“over Jewish men alone” passed away today.
1614:
Mass murder of Jews in Salonica took place while they were killed while
returning from the Dolia market.
1615:
Today, Shabbtai Zvi became a Muslim when he was brought before the Sultan where
took off his Jewish head dress, replacing it with Turkish turban. The
repercussions of his conversion sent shock waves throughout the Jewish world
and were to be felt for many years. Some of his followers claimed that it
wasn't really him who converted; others professed that this was the proof that
he was the Messiah by going to Islam to redeem them as well. The Sultan, aware
that killing Shabbtai Zvi would have made him a martyr, had
"convinced" Shabbtai that converting to Islam was in his best
interest.
1666:
After having considered the choice between death or converting, Shabbetai Zvi
appeared before the Sultan and put on a Turkish turban; a sign of his
acceptance of Islam.
1741:
Handel began working on his three-act oratorio Samson, one of his many
biblical-based works
1763:
Birthdate of Moses ben Samuel Schreiber, the native of Frankfort also known as
Moses Sofer. (Editor’s note – there seems to be some confusion about the
birthdate. We defer to the Jewish
Encyclopedia)
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sofer_Mosheh
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/chasamsofer.html
1752:
The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the
previous day was September 2). While this change may have been good science it
creates a level of uncertainty when converting dates from the Jewish calendar
to the secular calendar
1755(9th
of Tishrei, 5516): Erev Yom Kippur
1755:
The affair known as “The Battle of Balcony” began tonight at Congregation
Shearith Israel in New York.
1762:
Nathan Barnett and his wife gave birth to Love Barnett,
1762:
Birthdate of Frankfort, Germany native Rabbi Moshe Sofer.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-moshe-sofer-chasam-sofer
1765(28th
of Elul, 5525): Parashat Nitzavim chanted as Philadelphians prepare to take
action protesting the Stamp Act.
1768(3rd
of Tishrei, 5529): Tzom Gedaliah
1771(6th
of Tishrei, 5532): Parshat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuvah
1774(9th
of Tishrei, 5535): Erev of Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time when
the thirteen colonies were still under the rule of King George III.
1776(1st
of Tishrei, 5537): American Jews celebrate their first Rosh Hashanah (5537) as
citizens of the United States following the signing of the Declaration of
Independence from Great Britain.
1780:
General Francis Marion’s American troops defeated the British at the Battle of
Black Mingo, the creek that gave them to the town of Black Mingo, SC which is
where Sarah Judah and Lizer Joseph gave birth to Eleanor Joseph, the wife of
Israel Solomons with whom she had nine children.
1785(10th
of Tishrei, 5546): Yom Kippur
1793(8th
of Tishrei, 5554): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time after the
“National Convention began the 10-month reign of terror” in France.
1795(1st
of Tishrei, 5556): Rosh Hashanah observed as the Dutch prepare to surrender
Cape Town to the British
1799(14th
of Elul,5559): Parashat Ki Teitzei change for the last time in the 18th
century
1804(9th
of Tishrei, 5565): Kol Nidre; erev
Shabbat and erev Yom Kippur observed on the same day that Lewis and Clark
entered into their journals, “the first scientific description of the
pronghorn, which they continued to refer to as a goat.”
1805(20th
of Elul, 5565): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed as Lord Nelson set
sail from Portsmouth aboard HMS Victory and his date with destiny at the Battle
of Trafalgar.
1811(25th
of Elul, 5571): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Selichot
1812:
Birthdate of Samuel Bernheimer, the husband of Henrietta Cahn and the father of
Marcus Bernheimer.
1812:
As French grenadiers enter Moscow, “The 1812 Fire of Moscow” begins as soon as
Russian troops leave the city. The fire was part of a scorched earth policy
that left nothing for the conquering French armies. A month later, the French would begin their
long, disastrous retreat that would reduce the army from 400,000 to 40,000.
Chasidic Jewry reacted differently to Napoleon’s invasion and subsequent
retreat from Russia. “During the French
invasion of Russia, while many Polish Hasidic leaders supported Napoleon or
remained quiet about their support, Rabbi Shneur Zalman openly and vigorously
supported the Tsar. While fleeing from the advancing French army he wrote a
letter explaining his opposition to Napoleon to a friend, Rabbi Moshe Meizeles:
“Should Napoleon be victorious, wealth among the Jews will be abundant. . .but
the hearts of Israel will be separated and distant from their father in heaven.
But if our master Alexander will triumph, though poverty will be abundant. . .
the heart of Israel will be bound and joined with their father in heaven. . .
And for God's sake: Burn this letter. ” Some Polish Hasidic leaders supported
Napoleon. Some argue that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's opposition stemmed from
Napoleon's attempts to arouse a messianic view of himself in Jews, opening the
gates of the ghettos and emancipating their residents as he conquered. He
established an ersatz Sanhedrin, recruiting Jews to his ranks, and spreading
rumors about his conquest of the Holy Land to make Jews subversive for his own
ends.[10] Thus, his opposition was based on a practical fear of Jews turning to
the false messianism of Napoleon as he saw it. It should be noted that Rabbi
Yisroel Hopsztajn of Kozienice, another Hasidic leader, also considered
Napoleon a menace to the Jewish people. However, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson identifies Rabbi Yisrael as the Chasidic leader who preferred that
Napoleon defeat the Czar.
1814(29th
of Elul, 5774): Erev Rosh Hashana
1814:
Birthdate of Samuel Löw Brill the Hungarian Rabbi and Talmudic Scholar who was
educated by his father, Azriel Brill.
1814:
Birthdate Albert Cohn, the native of Hungary who found fame and fortune in
France, where among other things he served as the tutor for three of children
of Baron James de Rothschild.
1814:
As the sun rose over the Baltimore harbor, the defenders of Ft. McHenry,
including at least 30 Jewish soldiers and volunteers watched as a giant
American flag was raised a sign of American victory to which the British
responded by sailing down Chesapeake Bay for New Orleans and an even more
decisive defeat in which Jews including Judah Touro and Barataria Pirates would
play a role.
1816(21st
of Elul, 5576): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed on the same day that
representatives of the Cherokee National and “Major General Andrew Jackson,
General David Meriwether and Jesse Franklin, Esq., who served as agents of the
United States in the capacity of "commissioners plenipotentiary"
negotiated what became known as “the treaty of Chickasaw Council House.”
1823(9th
of Tishrei, 5584): Kol Nidre
1825(2nd
of Tishrei, 5586): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah is observed for the first time
during the presidency of John Q Adams.
1828(6th
of Tishrei, 5589): Fifty-nine-year-old Israel Jacobson, the German businessman
and philanthropist who is one of the founders of Reform Judaism, passed away
today.
1829:
The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the
Russo-Turkish War. This was but one of a
series of wars in which the European powers would nibble away at the power and
territories of the Ottoman. The last
great nibble would be World War I, which when it ended, would find Palestine in
the hands of the British, the authors of the Balfour Declaration.
1832:
Judge David Naar, the St. Thomas born son of Sarah and Chazan Joshua Naar and
his wife Sarah Cohen gave birth to Eleanor Naar.
1834:
In New York City, Emanuel Martinez Henriques, the Jamaica born son of Sarah and
Jacob Bueno Henriques and his wife Sarah Henriques gave birth to David Mendez
Henriques
1835:
In London, Maria and Hyman Cohen gave birth to Matilda Cohen.
1835:
Birthdate of Posen native Abraham Slimmer who came to the United States at the
age of 15 and became a successful Iowa businessman before passing away in
Dubuque, Iowa, the birthplace of Deb Levin of blessed memory.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE0D9113BE733A25750C1A9619C946397D6CF
http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SLIMMER,_Abraham
1836(3rd
of Tishrei, 5596): Tzom Gedaliah was observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1842(10th
of Tishrei, 5603): Yom Kippur
1844(1st
of Tishrei, 5605): Rosh Hashanah
1846:
Salomon and Roeschen Baruch gave birth to Jakob Baruch the “husband of Ida
Edelchen Baruch and father of Julius Baruch; Rosa Baruch; Siegfried Baruch;
Regine Baumgarten; Siegmund Salomon Baruch; Minna Falk; Else Daltrop and Bertha
Wallach.”
1847:
During the Mexican-American War, General Winfield Scott occupies Mexico City
following the United States victory at The
Battle of Chapultepec. During The Battle of Chapultepec, Dr. David Camden de
Leon of South Carolina, known as the “fighting doctor” because of his
willingness to put down his scalpel and pick up a sword when the need arose,
led two cavalry charges against Mexican positions after the line officers in
command of the unit had either been killed or wounded. “Special note was taken
of his gallantry by the U.S. Congress.”
South Carolina’s famous fighting Jewish physician had fought against the
Seminoles during the 1830’s and would become Surgeon General in the Confederate
army.
1850(8th of Tishrei, 5611): Parashat
Ha’Azinu, Shabbat Shuva
1850(8th of Tishrei, 5611): Thirty-year
old Lt. Solomon Harby, the Charleston, SC born son of Isaac and Rachel Mordecai
Harby passed away today after which he was interred in the Kahal Kadosh Beth
Elohim Cemetery.
1852(1st of Tishrei, 5613): Rosh Hashanah
1853: Mier Danziger married Catherine Jacobs at the
Great Synagogue today.
1854: Eleven-year-old Jewish-American manufacturer
and financier Gustavus Sidenberg, the Silesia born son of Wilhelm and Henrietta
Bruck Sidenberg “arrived in New York City on the ship Elizabeth with
his mother, three younger brothers, a sister, and perhaps other relatives…”
1854: In San Francisco, CA, Dr. Julius Eckmann
officiated at the dedication of Congregation Emanu-El’s new synagogue. Eckmann was the congregation’s first
Rabbi. The building cost $35,000.
1855(2nd of Tishrei, 5616): Second Day of
Rosh Hashanah
1856: Dr. Sternberger officiated at the wedding of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fauerbach who had come to Germany as children and who would
serve as Superintendent and Matron of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
Orphan Asylum for 17 years.
1859: Three days after he had passed away, Frankfurt
born English merchant Sigismund Stiebel, the son of Isaac Daniel Stiebel and
the former Vogel Heinemann, and the husband of the former Eliza Jacob Mocatta
with whom he had four children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1860: Birthdate of Jules Guérin, the French
journalist who founded The Antisemitic League of France (Ligue
antisémitique de France) which
played an active role in whipping up anti-Jewish sentiment during the Dreyfus
Affair.
1861(10th of Tishrei, 5622): During the first year of the Civil War, Jews
in the North and South observe Yom Kippur.
1861(10th of Tishrei, 5622):
Seventy-three-year-old Alexander Marks, the Charleston born son of Frances and
Humphrey Mordecai Marks and the husband of Esther “Hetty” Hart Marks whom he
married I 1816 passed away today in New Orleans after which she was buried in the
Dispersed of Judah Cemetery.
1862(19th of Elul, 5622): During the
Civil War, Philadelphian Jacob Miller was killed at the Battle of South
Mountain while serving with company A of the 45th Regiment.
1862: In New York, Rachel and Bernhard Sondheim gave
birth to CCNY graduate and banker Phineas Sondheim, a partner in the banking
firm of Heidelbach Ickelheimer and President of Harmonie Club was the husband
of the former Clara Renskorg and a member of Temple Emanu-El.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/07/24/85111880.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1863:
In Piemonte, Italy, Giuseppe and Annetta Luzzati gave birth to Ida Dolce Foa
Ghiron
1863(1st of Tishrei, 5624): Rosh Hashanah
1863: “Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish New Year’s Day”
published today reported that
“In
Leviticus xxiii, 23, 24 and 25, is found the following command:
‘23.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying,
24.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying. In the seventh month, in the first
day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a
holy convocation.
25.
Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by
fire unto the Lord.’ Such is the ancient authority, direct from God, enjoining
the commemoration of the great Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah, which
commenced last evening.
The
occasion is regarded by all good Israelites throughout the world as one of the
most solemn and important character, and will be celebrated by the Jews of this
community with all the services and ceremonies of the olden time. In order to
throw some light upon the peculiar situation of this holiday in reference to
the division of the Christian year, it may be well to recall the fact that the
Jews, although like ourselves making it consist of twelve months, gave them
twenty-nine and thirty days alternately. In their leap year, an entire month
intervened between the sixth and seventh months, and consequently in the brief
period of nineteen years they found no less than seven leap years, to wit, the
third, sixth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth. By
these periods of nineteen years and seven leap years, they counted, the latter
number being greatly venerated by their race. The beginning of the year, or
New-Year's Day, was set for the first new moon after the recurrence of the
Autumnal Equinox, or in the month which, as its name designates, was also the
seventh mouth of the year under the old Latin arrangement -- the Tishri of the
Jews. The day itself is made the commencement of the year, as it is reputed to
be the anniversary of Adam's birth, and the first occupancy of our planet by
man. With these majestic attributes is, also, united the characteristic that it
is the Jom Haddin, or day of God's judgment upon the sins committed during the
the past year, which it not absolutely atoned for are carried onward to the
great account. It may, therefore, be imagined with what interest the return of
this great day which marks so decisive an epoch in his individual destiny, and
in the history of his race is regarded by every orthodox Israelite. In this
City preparations have been in progress for a week past, and the various
synagogues (some twenty in number) have all been purified and decorated for the
festival. They were, yesterday evening, thrown open for the preliminary
services, Rabbi Raphall officiating in the Green-street, and the Rabbi J.J.
Lyons in the Nineteenth-street edifice.
In
Numbers, xxix, 1, the offerings of the "Feast of Trumpets" -- the
other name of New-Year's Day -- are prescribed:
"1.
And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets
unto you.
2.
And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one young
bullock, one ram and seven lambs of the first year, without blemish.
3.
And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three-tenth deals
for a bullock and two-tenth deals for a ram.
4.
And one-tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs.
5.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you."
These
sacrifices are to be independent of the ordinary ones for the day and the
month.
The
present anniversary is, according to the Jewish calendar, the five thousand six
hundred and twenty-fourth since the creation of the world, and owing to the
rapid changes going on in Jewish society, and the many removals and deaths
occasioned among them in this country, by the existing war, will be observed
with peculiar formality and impressiveness. The services of last evening were
noteworthy chiefly for the solemn manner in which the Rabbin alluded to the
waning orthodoxy of many worldly members of their synagogues, and reminded
their hearers that, if the season should pass unimproved, the Angel of Death,
preventing the enjoyment of another, may bear away with him to the dread record
a list of sins beyond atonement. To-day and to-morrow, all but absolutely
indispensable labor will cease in every good family of Israelites, and at noon
upon each day the great Shofar or trumpet, will be blown in the synagogues amid
the reverence of thousands of the Faithful.
On Wednesday, the 23d inst., or tenth day of the seventh month, will
occur the Yom Kippur or "Day of Atonement" the most solemn and
important of all the Jewish fasts. Upon the approach of that impressive period
we may have occasion to allude to it at greater length. No more curious and
instructive spectacle lies within the observation of our readers, than the
solemnizing in our midst, and according to the ancient ritual, of these hoary
anniversaries by the ancient people.”
1864:
In Paris, France, banker Alphonse James de Rothschild and Leonora de Rothschild
daughter of Lionel de Rothschild gave birth to their daughter Charlotte known
as Beatrice who became Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild when she “married the
Russian-born banker Maurice Ephrussi.
1864:
One day after she had passed away, Isabelle Woolf, “the daughter of Annie and
Israel Edward Woolf” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1864: Today in
Philadelphia, 27-year-old silk merchant William Bower Hackenberg, the son of
Judah Lazarus Hacekbenberg and Maria (Allen) Hackenberg, the founder of W.B.
Hackenburg and Company who “is a supporter of almost every Jewish charity
in Philadelphia” married “Adeline Schoneman, the daughter of Joseph and Clara
Schoneman.”
1866(5th
of Tishrei, 5627): Sixty-three-year-old French novelist and playwright Léon
Gozlan passed away in Paris.
1867:
In Lithuania, Gitte Sarah Meshumami and Zundel Bloch gave birth to Rabbi Chaim
Isaac Bloch, the husband of Chana Schmidt, who arrived at New York City in 1923
where her served as the Rabbi of Congregation Agudath Shalem of Jersey City,
NJ.
1868:
In San Francisco, CA, Leopold Rosenbaum and Sabine Dreschfeld gave birth to
University of Virginia Law School graduate Oscar H. Rosenbaum the
vice-president of the Pittsburgh Industrial Removal Office, the director of the
Pittsburg United Hebrew Charities and the president of District No. 3 of the
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.
1871:
In Altdorf, Germany, Jonas Weil and his wife gave birth to Benjamin J. Weil the
Columbia Law School graduate who went into the real estate business with his
father and his brother, L. Victor Weil with whom he formed B.J. & L.V. Weil
Company, served as “trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and
President of Congregation Zichron Ephraim” and who was the husband of “the
former Juliana Pollock.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/07/10/96234380.pdf
1872:
The New York Tribune, the paper
controlled by presidential candidate Horace Greeley published a column entitled
the “Christian Spirit of Liberalism.”
The column was an attempt to offset disparaging comments that Greely had
made about Jews.
1873:
In Birzai, Lithuania, Rubin and Fruma Hinda (Wittert) Cohen gave birth to
Scranton, PA realtor Abraham B. Cohen, he husband of Ella Wittret and President
of the Keyston Realty Company who was president of the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Districts of the United Synagogues of America, organizer and
president the Linden Street Temple, and one of the organizers of Temple Israel
in Scranton.
1874(3rd
of Tishrei, 5635): Tzom Gedaliah
1874:
In London, Clara and Marcus Landau gave birth to Isaac Landau.
1875(10th
of Tishrei, 5545) Yom Kippur
1876:
Rabbi Dr. Henry W. Schneeberger delivered his first sermon as rabbi of Chizuk
Amuno – ushering in what was to be a forty year association with this shul!
1876:
It was reported today the B.F. Peixoto, the United States Consul at Bucharest
and a prominent leader of the Jewish community will address the upcoming
meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1877:
In Lithuania, Harris and Anne Mandelbaum gave birth to Annie Mandelbaum who
became Annie Lillian Friedlander when she married Samson Friedlander.
1878:
In New York, The Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee sent funds to a variety
of organizations that will alleviate the suffering from the Yellow Fever
Epidemic including $1,000 for the Hebrew Benevolent Society in New Orleans.
1878(2nd
of Tishrei, 5548): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1878:
As the Yellow Fever Epidemic continues to hold New Orleans in its deadly grip,
it was reported today that Marx Moses who had served as the Rabbi of the
Jackson Street Hebrew Congregation has lost most of his family including his
wife, a son named Samuel, and a daughter named Matilda. One child is convalescing after suffering a
bout of the fever.
1879:
“The Roumanian Hebrews” published today denied that Jews are being persecuted
in Romania because of their religion.
Rather, the new government is failing to honor its treaty obligations
and failing to make the Jews citizens for economic reasons. (Anti-Semites
always do find a way
1879:
It was reported today that there are 21 clergyman among the new members of the
Austrian Parliament one of whom is a rabbi.
1879:
It was reported today that the Jews of Cooktown, Austrialia, presented an
address welcoming the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland who was both
“surprised and gratified” by this turn of events.
1879:
In New York City, Philip and Rebecca Davidson gave birth to Maurice P.
Davidson, the NYU trained attorney who was the “founder of the City Fusion
Party” which played a key role in the election of Mayor La Guardia and the
husband of “the former Blanche Reinheimer and father of Robert, John, Alfred,
Harold and Frank Davidson.”
1880(9th
of Tishrei, 5641): In the evening Kol Nidre
1880:
Birthdate of Latvia native Isaac Feinstein, the husband of Jennie Avent
Feinstein
1880:
It was reported today that “Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement,…commences at
sundown this evening. During this
period, orthodox Jews observe a strict fast, neither food nor drink being
permitted to pass their lips for 24 hours.”
1881:
A meeting is to be held at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association on 42nd
Street where a number of prominent New York Jewish leaders including Coroner
Moritz Ellinger, Julie Bien and Adolph Sanger will make further plans for the
Russian Jewish immigrants arriving in the city.
Those “who are suited to farm work” will be settled on land, primarily
in Texas and Tennessee, purchased by these men who will also provide them with
funds for farm impliments.
1882(1st
of Tishrei, 5643): Rosh Hashanah – The following poem by Emma Lazarus entitled
“Rosh Hashanah 1882” captured her feelings about the day:
"The
New Year"
Rosh
Hashanah, 5643
Now
while the snow-shroud round
dead
earth is rolled,
And
naked branches point to frozen skies, --
When
orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold,
The
grape glows like a jewel, and the corn
A
sea of beauty and abundance lies,
Then
the New Year is born.
Look
where the mother of the months uplifts
In
the green clearness of the unsunned West,
Her
ivory horn of plenty, dropping gifts,
Cool,
harvest-feeding dews,
fine-winnowed
light;
Tired
labor with fruition, joy and rest
Profusely
to requite.
Blow,
Israel, the sacred coronet! Call
Back
to thy courts whatever faint heart throb
With
thine ancestral blood, thy need craves all.
The
red, dark year is dead, the year just born
Leads
on from anguish wrought
by
priest and mob,
To
what undreamed-of morn?
For
never yet, since on the holy height,
The
Temple's marble walls of white and green
Carved
like the sea-waves, fell, and the world's light
Went
out in darkness, -- never was the year
Greater
with potent and with promise seen,
Than
this eve now and here.
Even
as the Prophet promised, so your tent
Hath
been enlarged unto earth's farthest rim.
To
snow-capped Sierras from vast steppes ye went,
Through
fire and blood and
tempest-tossing
wave,
Mighty
to slay and save.
#
High
above flood and fire ye held the scroll,
Out
of the depths ye published still the Word.
No
bodily pang had power to swerve your soul:
Ye,
in a cynic age of crumbling faiths,
Lived
to bear witness to the living Lord,
Or
died a thousand deaths.
In
two divided streams the exiles part,
One
rolling homeward to its ancient source,
One
rushing sunward with fresh will, new heart.
By
each truth is spread, the law unfurled,
Each
separate soul contains the nation's force,
And
both embrace the world.
Kindle
the silver candle's seven rays,
Offer
the first fruits of the
clustered
bowers,
The
garnered spoil of bees. With prayer and praise
Rejoice
that once more tried, once more we prove
How
strength of supreme suffering still is ours.
For
Truth and Law and Love.
1882(1st
of Tishrei, 5643): Henry (Hayyim Gershon) Vidaver passed away today in San
Francisco, CA. Born in Warsaw in 1833, he was a prominent rabbi, publisher,
Hebraist, and orator in America. “In 1859, Vidaver immigrated to the United
States, and became the rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia. In
1861 he resigned his position and moved to Germany then returned to the U.S. in
1865 to become rabbi of United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri where
he withdrew his support for the Confederacy and wrote in praise of Abraham
Lincoln. In 1867, he assumed the pulpit of the B'nai Jeshurun in New York and
from 1874 until his death in 1882 served as rabbi of Congregation Sherith
Israel in San Francisco. Vidaver and Jacob Levinski co-authored the first
abridged Hebrew Bible, which was published in 1869. He also commonly published
poems in Hebrew about Jerusalem and other Jewish issues in Hebrew newspapers,
such as Havatzelet.
1882:
Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes and lay-reader D. H. Nieto led Rosh Hashanah
services today at Shearith Israel in New York. “Their pronunciation of Hebrews
is according to the Spanish method.” (This is a reference to the fact that they
used Sephardic instead of Ashkenazi pronunciation that was common among the
Polish, German and Russian Jews.)
1882:
In Bloomington, Illinois, the Moses Montefiore Congregation, a newly formed
Reform congregation, held its first Rosh Hashanah service
1883:
The Hebrew Charities found out that if they do not provided assistance to
Louise Bremer, a widow who arrived aboard the SS Canada from France, she will
be sent back to Europe.
1884:
“Biblical Geography” published today provides a detailed review of Kadesh-Barnes:
Its Importance and Probable Site With the Story of A Hunt For It by H. Clay
Trumbull which includes “studies of the route of the Exodus” and a search for
the Southern boundary of the Holy Land.
1885:
Eight-year-old Abraham Schmidt who attends a Hebrew School at 127 Pitt Street
was taken to the hospital after he was diagnosed as having smallpox.
1885:
Birthdate of Marie Abelesová who was transported from Prague to Terezin where
she was murdered in 1943 at the age of 57.
1885:
It was reported today that from 1847 until January of 1885, 85,000 Russian Jews
and 11,000 Polish Jews had come to the United States. In the last 8 months, an additional 9,000 had
arrived in America. Currently, there are
69,000 foreign born Jews living in the United States.
1886:
After a four year engagement, Sigmund Freud married Martha Bernays in the same
year during which he opened his practice.
1886:
The will of “Commission Agent” Joseph Aarons, the “son of John Aarons” and
husband of “Julia Aarons” was probated today in the UK.
1888(9th
of Tishrei, 5649): Kol Nidre
1888:
The Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society contributed $10.00 to the Mayor of New York’s
Yellow Fever Fund.
1890(29th
of Elul, 5650): On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Ray Frank became the first Jewish
woman to preach formally from a synagogue pulpit in the United States. Frank
worked as a correspondent for several Californian newspapers, and this work
brought her to Spokane, Washington, on the eve of the High Holy Days. Frank was
shocked to find that no synagogue services were scheduled, since many affluent
Jews lived in the area. A prominent member of the community who knew of Frank's
reputation for Jewish learning offered to arrange Rosh Hashanah services if
Frank would give a sermon. Frank agreed, and word of the event spread; Jews and
Christians alike came to hear her speak, filling the city's opera house.
Frank's sermon entreated her audience to overcome the differences between
Reform and Orthodox ritual that had divided Spokane's Jewish community and to
form a permanent congregation. Frank so impressed her audience that they
invited her to remain through the High Holidays, and she delivered a sermon on
the eve of Yom Kippur as well. After these sermons, Frank was much in demand as
a speaker throughout the 1890s across the country. The press speculated about
Frank's rabbinic aspirations, and many headlines referred to her, incorrectly,
as the first woman rabbi (America's first female rabbi was not ordained until
1972). Although Frank expressed no interest in becoming a rabbi, her actions
forced American Jewry for the first time to consider seriously the possibility
of women rabbis.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/14/1890/ray-frank
1890(29th
of Elul, 5650): Rabbi Alexander Kohurt conducted services this evening at
Temple Ahawath Chesed where the choir sang “By Thee, Oh God Inspired, Be True
Devotion Shown” and “Though Ages Come and Go.”
1890(29th
of Elul, 5650): Rabbi de Sola Mendes proved over services at Shaaray Tephilla
which ended with the singing of “Yigdal.
1890(29th
of Elul, 5650): At six o’clock services began at Temple Emnu-El where Rabbi
Silverman delivered a sermon entitled “The Day of Reconciliation.”
1890:
“Jews in Russian Service” published today described the surprise, first
expressed in the Spectator that the Czar has forced thousands of Jews to join
the army saying that “there is something strange in arming a body of men
habitually oppressed by the state.
1890:
As of today, it is reported that there are 125,000 Jews in the Russian Army
with another 50,000 scheduled to be drafted next year.
1890:
Rachel Green and her two children arrived today aboard the SS Sorento where
they were met by her two son Charles and Simon who had landed at Castle Garden
three years ago.
1891(11th
of Elul, 5651): Rabbi Zeev Wolf Landau, the son
of Rabbi Abraham "The Ciechanówer" Landa and Itta Landau
passed away today.
1891:
“Jews Made To Wait” published today described the arrest of 42 Polish and
Russians who were arrested and later fined $2 each for failing to clear the
sidewalk at the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets fast enough to suit the
local police – a failure brought on by the fact that the Jews did not
understand what they were being told to do.
1892:
In New York City, “Joseph and Bessie (Furman) Brickner gave birth to Columbia
educated Barnett Robert Brickner the socially active and Zionist Reform Rabbi
who lead Holy Blossom Congregation in Toronto before beginning thirty three
years of service at Anshe Chesed
https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/brickner-barnett-robert
1892:
In Kingston, NY, Rabbi Gustav Gotheil preached the sermon at the dedication of
Temple Emanuel located on Abeel Street.
“Henry Abbey read a poem entitled ‘Emanuel’” as part of the ceremony.
1892:
Flora Weinberg, who is suing her Jewish husband Abraham Weinberg for divorce,
made an application for alimony in Superior Court today.
1893(4th
of Tishrei, 5654): Joseph Goldstein, a young Jewish tailor shot his
girlfriend Rebecca Feinberg and then
took his own life at Garfunkel’s ice cream parlor when his matrimonial plans
appeared to be frustrated.
1893:
Dr. Gustave Hitzel, the Buffalo born son of Jacob J. and Bertha J. Hitzel and
graduate of the medical department of the University of Buffalo, married
Roberta L. Cooke of Ontario with whom he had one son, Roswell C. Hitzel.
1894:
Edward Gudeman, the New York City born son of Clara Alexander and Moritz
Gudeman the chemistry instructor at Columbia married Clara E. Asher today in
Memphis, TN after which he settled in Chicago where he worked as consulting
chemist, chemical engineer and “scientific expert.”
1894:
The will of Dr. Bernard Grunhut was filed for probate in Kings County
Surrogates office today “by the executors, Abraham Stern and William Gregory
Ketcham.
1894:
Today, in Memphis, TN, Edward Gudeman, Ph.D. the Columbia educated chemist and
New York born son of Clara Alexander and Mortiz Gudeman married Clara Asher
afte which he went to move to Chicago where maintained a “private practice as a
consult chemist, chemical engineer and scientific expert.”
1894
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70A17FD3A5515738DDDAC0994D1405B8485F0D3
1895:
In New Jersey, there is no sign that the fire threatening the Jewish farm
colony at Reega will abate and the Russian immigrants may lose “the haven”
financed by Baron Hirsch.
1895(25th
of Elul, 5655): Parashat Nitavim-Vayeilech; Selichot
1895(25th
of Elul, 5655): Fifty-two-year-old Moritz Brasch, the chief editor of the Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon. Passed
away today in Leipzig.
1895:
In Baltimore, MD, found of Congregation Zichron Jacobs which holds services
daily in the morning and evening and on Shabbat holidays and whose members
including William Marks, H.S. Hartogensis and Israel Goodman
1896: L'Eclair
published "The Traitor," a retrospective article “which pretended to
bring to light the real motives for the judgment” in Dreyfus case in 1894.
Ye
1897(17th of Elul, 5657): Eleven-year-old
Leo Goldman, the St. Louis born son of Yetta and Samuel Goldman pass away today
after which he was buried at B’nai Amoona Cemetery in University City, MO.
1897: Writing from Paris Rowland Strong described
events at the recently concluded Oriental Congress where Monsieur Halevy
delivered a paper about investigations that he had personally conducted in
Abyssinia where he found a group of Essenes who “in every respect are similar
to those existing in the time of Jesus Christ” and who “kept the Sabbath with
extreme rigor…”
1898: In Elizabeth, NJ, Michael and Mary (Shapiro)
Getzoff gave to Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn trained mechanical engineer
Edward M. Getzoff, the employee of the Singer Manufacturing Company and the
International Motor Company of Plainfield, NJ.
1898: Birthdate of movie producer Hal Wallis who is best known for
his most famous work, The Maltese Falcon
starring Humphrey Bogart. The producer did not explain how when he had changed
from Walinsky, his birth name, to Wallis.
1899(10th
of Tishrei, 5660): The final Yom Kippur of the 19th century.
1899:
Jews in London’s East End carrying a banner that read “Dreyfus, the
Martyr. All the Civilized World Demands
His Instant Release” marched through Spitalfields
1899:
At 6 a.m. services began at the Great Synagogue in London where Dr. N.M. Adler,
the congregation’s Rabbi delivered a sermon on the injustice of the Dreyfus
verdict in which he said this was as great a defeat for France as Waterloo or
Sedan.
1899:
Between three and four thousand people attended services today at Tammany Hall
which lasted from seven until seven that were sponsored by the Odessa Musical
and Benevolent Association
1899:
At Temple Israel, Dr. Maurice Harris delivered a sermon in which he declared
“There is one man in everyone’s thoughts today – Captain Alfred Dreyfus” who
“once vilified, has now the sympathy and admiration of the whole world.”
1899:
“Panic In The Thalia Theatre” published today described the chaos that broke
out during Kol Nidre services when “a fight took place between some youths who
crowded the upper gallery” and somebody shouted “fire”
1899:
Ohio native George W. Moses was promoted to the rank of 1st Lt. with
the 4th Cavalry in the United States Army.
1900(20th
of Elul, 5660): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit Rabbi Judah Arey Moscato,
“author of Kol Yehuda.”
1901(1st
of Tishrei, 5662): Rosh Hashanah (See the item below – gives a whole new
meaning to the term New Year)
1901:
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States following the
assassination of William McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt was the last Republican
to receive significant Jewish support; his fierce independence and support of
specific Jewish concerns made him a hero to many within this community. Theodore Roosevelt was the first
President to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he named Oscar S.
Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was also the first
President to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In 1919, when he
received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to settle the
Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt donated some of his prize money to the National
Jewish Welfare Board. And then there is the fact that he took office on Rosh
Hashanah.
1902:
“Anti-Semitic Outbreak” published today described how “at Czenstochowa, a
pilgrim resort in Poland, on the Russian-Galician frontier,” “a mob stormed the
Jewish shops and wrecked the bread shops” while fourteen Jews were killed, and
an untold number were injured.
1902:
“Jewish Colony Found in the Caucasus” published today described how “an
adventurous traveler who recently penetrated to the extreme highlands of the
Caucasian Mountains where he reports that he has discovered in the remote
regions of Eastern Caucasus, clans of natives undoubtedly of Jewish origin, who
maintain many of the customs and the principal forms of religious worship of
their ancestors.”
1902:
Reverend Harris conducted a consecration service to marking the opening of the
structure occupied by the Griqualand West Hebrew Congregation which was led by
its president Gustav Bonas.
1903(22nd
of Elul, 5663): Jews of Homel, Russia, were massacred.
1903:
Feibisch Jolles who passed away two days ago at the age of 71 was buried in
Vienna today.
1904:
“Passports in Russian” published today described the Democrat platform’s stand
on the “failure of Russia to recognize passports in the hands of American Jews”
as “explicit and straightforward” in its support for the passports of all
citizens to be recognized” while saying “that there not a concurrence among
Republicans in the assertion of” President Roosevelt “that the State Department
has done all that can be done to safeguard the interests of American Jews
traveling in Russia.”
1905:
As strikers in Baku continue their violence, it “is reported from Kursk that
gangs of toughs are attacking the Jews.”
1906:
In Chicago’s “Maxwell Street neighborhood, Morris and Grace Gertz gave birth to
University of Chicago trained attorney whose clients included Nathan Leopold,
Arthur Miller and Jack Ruby. (As reported by Eric Pace)
1907:
“Over a thousand members of the Zionist Council of Greater New York met in
Cooper Union tonight and passed resolutions denouncing those who have opposed
the Zionist movement, which has as its object the establishment of a permanent
Jewish colony in Palestine and the ultimate regaining of the entire Holy Land
by the Jewish people.”
1908:
The first Jewish self-defense organization in Eretz Yisrael was founded. This
is probably a reference to Ha-Shomer (in English "The Watchman")
which other sources say was founded in 1909.
Made up of about forty members, Ha-Shomer was founded to protect the
early kibbutzim and Jewish towns from attacks by marauding Arab robbers and
others. The early settlers were
determined not to rely on others for their defense. This mounted force that could blend in with
the local population because they dressed liked Arabs and spoke Arabic had as
its motto," By blood and fire Judea fell; by blood and fire Judea shall
rise."
1909:
“The Chocolate Soldier,” a “Viennese operetta by Oscar Strauss” based on the
play “Arms and the Man” is scheduled to open today at the Lyric Theatre in New
York.
1909:
At the request of the Hahambashi, authorities take important steps to suppress
the White Slave Trade. Both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews did have involvement
with this, but when Chief Rabbi Nahum provided the Turks with lists of names
for investigations, they did nothing with them.
1910:
“Searching Kieff For Jews” published today reported that “from September 9 to
September 12, fifty Jews “were hustled out of the city” and thirty-two more
were notified they were being deported while forty eight Jews were expelled
from suburban communities at the same time that the authorities have begun to
give “their attention to those who have thus far escaped expulsion by hiding.
1911:
University of Pennsylvania trained chemist Jacob Samuel Goldbaum, the New York
City born son of Rosalie Berkowitz and Michale Goldbaum, an instructor inn
elctro-chemistry and the University of Pennsylvania, the chief chemist at Fels
and Company and a member of the board of trustees of Rodeph Shalom married Nell
Virginia Lieb today.
1911:
Maximilian Toch continued to serve as President of the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children where he had established “a chemical and bacteriological laboratory”
to insurance the purity of the milk served to the youngsters.
1912:
Harry Horowitz and “Lefty Louis” Rosenberg were arrested in Queen today on
charges of having participated in the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal.
1912(3rd
of Tishrei, 5673): Shabbat Shuva
1912(3rd
of Tishrei, 5673): Mrs. Sara Simsohn passed away.
1913:
Birthdate of historian Mary Plug Handlin the wife and colleague of Professor
Oscar Handlin passed away today
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/5/25/mary-flug-handlin-dies-at-62/
1913:
Today, thirty-three-year-old Rabbi Aaron Cohen, the Russian born son of Bear
and Hodel Cohen married Edith Lubinsky while serving Agudas Achim in Peoria,
IL.
1914:
Having failed to defeat the French and the British in a quick summertime
offensive, the Kaiser replaced Helmuth von Moltke (the Younger) with Erich von
Falkenhayn as German Chief of Staff.
(Editor’s note – this was the first of many German attempts to blame
somebody for their failure to win, a blame game that would end with the
infamous “stabbed in the back” canard that would be used to justify the rise of
Hitler)
1914(23rd of Elul, 5674): Lt. Ronald Lucas
Quixano Henriques of the Queen’s Regiment, a member of a long-established
Sephardi family who attended Harrow and Sandhurst (the British West Point) was
killed today making him the first Anglo-Jewish officer to die during WW I.
1915: Dr. Felix Kornfeld and Paula Mandl gave
birth to their second child, Ulrich Kornfeld the husband of Lorie Granitsch.
1915: It was reported today that “Turks admit
that the Armenian persecution is the first step in a plan to get rid of”
several groups and “that the Jews also are marked for slaughter and expulsion.”
1915: Albert Lucas, Secretary of the Central
Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering through the war announced today the
organization of a new committee in Paterson, NJ.”
1916: Samuel Goldwyn resigned as Chairman of
the Board of the Famous Players-Lasky after a series of dispute with Jesse
Lasky, leading to a partnership with Edgar and Archibald Selwyn that would
become known as Goldwyn Pictures with its distinctive “Leo the Lion” (the
roaring lion) trademark.
1916(16th of Elul, 5676):
Sixty-six-year-old broker Jefferson Rosenberg passed away today in London
1916: “Instructions to arrange for
transportation of sixty-five American women and children out of Palestine on
the cruiser Des Moines were called by the State Department today to the
American Constantinople.”
1916: It was reported today the motion made
by Joseph Barondess and seconded by Leo Arnstein to allow Jewish teachers and
clerks to be excused from work on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur which had been
objected to by Arthur S. Somers, Dr. Ira S. Wiles and Thomas W. Churchill even
after the motion was changed to make it leave without pay was referred to the
Committee on By-Laws
1917: At Petrograd, the ringleaders of “Holy
Russia” a secret society that published a newspaper Groza “that contained
attacks on the Jews and the Allies, urged an immediate peace and declared that
the Jews were responsible for the continuance of the war.”
1917: Yeshivas in Kovno, Vilna, Radin and
Grodno received assistance from a committed founded “for that purposed by
Orthodox Jews in Berlin.”
1917: In Jerusalem, the Hebrew daily Ha-Herut suspended publication.
1917: Three days after he had passed away, 17
year old Myer Ganz, the son of “Joseph and Jane Ganz” was buried today at the
Plashet Jewish Cemetery.
1917: In Warsaw, the order of German
authorities expelling all students who were not natives of the city from the
colleges and universities led to a disproportionate number of Jews having to
end their studies.
1917: It was reported today that Chairman
Harry Cutler of the Jewish Board of Welfare Work in the Army and Navy has
announced “hospitality at services on the high holy days would be extended to
all men in military service who obtain a leave of absence” as permitted by the
Secretary of the Navy or the Adjutant General who have ordered that furloughs
be granted so long as granting them “does not interfered with public service.”
1918(8th
of Tishrei, 5679): Shabbat Shuva
1918:
By order of the War Department and the Secretary of the Navy, Jewish soldiers
and sailors have been granted furloughs effective today so they observed their
holy days.
1918:
On the Western Front, Abraham Blaustein of the 165th regiment
(formerly the fabled 69th regiment) was among the troops who entered
St. Benoit where the Allies established[ML1] their front line.
1918:
In Warsaw, German authorities issued an order expelling all students who were not natives of the city, a large
number of whom were Jewish, from colleges and universities.
1918:
“The Zionist Organization of America announced” tonight “that information had
been received from Austria showing the existence there and in West Germany of a
well-developed agitation to provoke the Christian population against their
fellow-countrymen of the Jewish faith, which had grown to such a dangerous
stage as to call for a public protest by the council of the Jewish Community of
Vienna to which more than 400 communities in Austria have signified their
approval.” (Editor’s note – this may explain why the Anschluss with its
Anti-Semitism went so smoothly a mere 30 years later.)
1919(19th
of Elul, 5679): Sixty-eight-year-old Polish born French chess master Jean
Taubenhaus passed away
1919:
Today, “The 22nd Annual Convention of the Zionist Organization of
America…opened at the Auditorium Theatre” in Chicago.
1920(2nd of Tishrei, 5681): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1920: Rabbi Jacob Katz is scheduled to lead services this morning
at B’nai Israel in Brooklyn
1920: Rabbi Nathan Blechman
is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “God’s Way with Man” this morning at
Montefiore Congregation in the Bronx.
1920: Rabbi David Davidson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on
“The Survival of the Morally Fit” this morning.
1920: Birthdate of economist and Nobel Prize Winner, Lawrence
Klein.
1920: Best wishes for the New Year were extended to “members,
patrons, donors and friends of Jewish Maternity Hospital on East Broadway of
which Sam Finkelstein is the President.
1920: Prices of poultry were expected to be reduced from to 8 to 5
cents per pound for the New Year because the health commissioner of New York’s
decision “to issue a large number of licenses to prepare meats for the High
Holy days in order to produce independent competition with the so-called kosher
poultry trust.”
1921(8th of Elul, 5681): Esther Teitelbaum, the
daughter of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum and Chavah Horowitz and the granddaughter of
Abraham Chaim Horowitz passed away today.
1921: It was reported today that over the past weekend, Dr.
Rudolph Coffee has been installed as the Rabbi of Temple Sinai is Oakland CA.
1922: “The Earl of Essex” a silent film about the English noble
starring Eva May was released today in Germany.
1923: Three days after he had passed away, seventy-two-year-old
Philadelphia optician and movie producer Siegmund Lubin, the Breslau born son
of ophthalmologist Samuel Lubszyński and Rebeka Lubszyńska, who had formed
the Lubin Manufacturing Company to make movies in the City of Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love was buried
today.
1923: Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain. “The
government of Miguel Primo de Rivera decreed that every Sephardi could claim
Spanish citizenship. This right was used by some refugees during the Second
World War, including the Hungarian Jews saved by Ángel Sanz Briz and Giorgio
Perlasca. This decree was again put to use to receive some Jews from Sarajevo
during the Bosnian War.”
1924: Birthdate of Willem Polak whose parents were murdered during
the Holocaust and who served as Mayor of Amsterdam for six years.
1925(25th of Elul, 5685): Sixty-year-old Max Pam who “read law in
the offices of Adolph Moses” before gaining admission to the bar and whose
clients included such blue chip companies as U.S. Steel and International which
provided him with the wherewithal to serve as the benefactor of Hebrew Union
College and Notre Dame where funded the School of Journalism passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C07E6D7133AEF3ABC4D52DFBF66838E639EDE
1926:
It was announced to that “Julius Rosenwald has been chosen head of a committee
that is arranging a conference of State and city chairman of the $25,000,000
United Jewish Campaign” which will be held on October 9 and October 10 at the
Standard Club in Chicago.
1927(17th
of Elul, 5687): Forty-six-year-old Mrs. Abraham Joseph Hyman (Esther Levy) the
wife of a Manchester, UK, grocery store who survived the sinking of the Titanic
and with whom she had two children – Jonas and Rachel – passed away today.
1928(29th
of Elul, 5688): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1928:
On New York’s Lower East Side, Mammie and Morris Shanker, Jewish immigrants
from Poland gave birth to labor leader Albert Shanker, the President of the
militant American Federation of Teachers which challenged the dominant
teachers' organization, the NEA.
http://www.shankerinstitute.org/
1928:
“Kiddush Hashem,” an “historical drama in three act and seventeen scenes” was
first performed today by Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater troupe” today
at the Yiddish Art Theatre at 114 East Street.
https://www.moyt.org/exhibitions/pih/kiddush-hashem.htm
1928:
“Sinner’s Parade” one of what have been the last “silent crime films” produced
by Harry Cohn with a “story by David Lewis” was released today in the United
States.
1929:
In Manhattan, Mary Gutfreund and Manuel Gutfreudn, a butcher who became a meat
wholesaler and distributor gave birth to financier John Gutfreund. (As reported
by Jonathan Kandell)
1930:
“German voters elect 107 Nazis to the Reichstag, elevating Hitler’s
organization to major party status.
1930:
When the Nazi Party polled six million votes during today’s election, the
Catholic hierarchy called on its people to examine their consciences.
1930:
Forty-eight year old Bet A. Polsky, the son of Abram and Mollie Bloch Polsky
“opened his store in downtown Akron, Ohio today.”
1930:
First baseman Hank Greenberg made his major league debut with the Detroit
Tigers.
1930:
Birthdate of Allan Bloom, the native of Indianapolis best known for championing
an intellectual approach to education and literacy encapsulated in The
Closing of the American Mind.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/08/obituaries/allan-bloom-critic-of-universities-is-dead-at-62.html
1931:
Birthdate “Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Kilma.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14917-wilczynski-ernest-julius
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wilczynski/
1932:
Minnie and Max Koeppel gave birth to real estate developer Alfred J. Koeppel
who followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Abraham Koeppel the founder of
Koeppel and Koeppel.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Attorney+Alfred+Koeppel,+68,+long-time+real+estate+mogul.-a071203651
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/business/alfred-koeppel-68-headed-real-estate-concern.html
1933:
Mrs. Zackheim, the widow of a German-Jewish author attracted considerable
attention as she sat behind the wheel of her taxicab in Tel Aviv. Mrs. Zackheim appears to have been the first
female cab driver in Palestine, but she will not be the last if reports that “a
cooperative group of women drivers, most of them refugees from Germany” is in
its formative organizational stages prove to be correct.
1934:
“The bad German trade balance is not due so much to the economic boycott as to
the "amazing internal extravagances" of the Hitler regime, according
to Dorothy Thompson, journalist and author, who returned on the United States
liner Leviathan today.
1934:
“Avery Brundage, who is investigating whether Germany's treatment of Jewish
sportsmen will permit America to participate in the next Olympic games
scheduled to take place in 1936, announced today that he had decided "not
to decide this thorny question on the spot."
1935(16th
of Elul, 5695): Parashat Ki Tavo
1935(16th
of Elul, 5695): A week after his 58th birthday Hungarian born Eugene
Krow, the husband of Helen Klein and father of Charlotte Jean Krow, passed away
in McKeesport, PA where he helped to organize a synagogue.
1935:
“Special Agent” a gangster movie produced by Samuel Bischoff was released in
the United States by Warner Bros.
1935:
A day before the Nuremberg laws were introduced “by the Reichstag at a special
meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party,” and while a
debated was raging about boycotting the 1936 Olympics because of German racial
policies, it was reported that “General Charles H. Sherrill, an American member
of the International Olympic Committee had left Nuremberg” on September 13
after having been the personal guest of Hitler…
1935:
Re-release of “Thirteen Women” produced by David O. Selznick, with a screenplay
by Samuel Ornitz and music by Max Steiner.
1936:
Left fielder Morrie Arnovich made his major league debut with the Philadelphia
Phillies of the National League.
1936(27th
of Elul, 5696: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who has been rated as one of the half dozen
greatest pianists of his generation and is the Director of the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, passed away. His wife Clara,
the daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and their daughter Nina were with
him.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F2071FFB345B1B7B93C7A81782D85F428385F9
1936(27th
of Elul, 5696): Thirty-seven-year-old
Irving Grant Thalberg, known was the “Boy Wonder” of filmdom who was the creative force at MGM and the
husband of actress Norma Shearer who converted to Judaism so she could marry
him passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/14/local/me-a2anniversary14
1936:
The Maccabees of Tel Aviv, soccer champions of Palestine, arrived in New York
City today for a tour of North America.
1936:
Mrs. Amy G. Wyle is scheduled to preside over the 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 on behalf of Jews in Germany, Poland and Eastern
Europe.”
1936:
Two German Jews are among the thirty foreign aviators quartered at Cuatro
Vientos Airport in Madrid where they have joined the fight against Franco and
his fascists.
1936:
At testimonial luncheon given today in her honor at the Hotel Commodore
sponsored by the Women’s Division of the Greater New York Campaign of the Joint
Distribution Committee that is raising $1,500,000 for the aid of Jews in
Germany, Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe, Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman
described “the destitute condition of the oppressed groups in Europe,
particularly the Jewish people of German” and made a please for supporting the
work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
1936:
Outfielder Morrie Arnovich made his major league debut with the Philadelphia
Phillies.
1937(9th
of Tishrei, 5698): Erev Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre
1937:
WHN is scheduled to broadcast Yom Kippur services from Temple Emanu-El from 8
to 9:30 P.M.
1937:
WABC Network is scheduled to broadcast a program arranged by the National
Federation of Sisterhoods starting at 4:30 P.M. that will included the “singing
of Kol Nidre by a choir under the direction of Ruth Best” and readings from the
Union Prayer Book by Rabbi George Zepin, the Secretary of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations..
1937:
Outfielder Goody Rosen made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1937:
Today, “a group of 30 men announced the formation of the Rochester Professional
Football Team, Inc. to continue operation of the Rochester Tigers” which were
coached by former All-American quarterback Harry Newman.
1938: Birthdate of actor and comedian Leonard Frey.
1938:
During the crisis over the Sudetenland, French diplomat Georges Bonnet
displayed the attitude of Western Weakness that would lead to WW II when today
he told Sir Eric Phipps that “we cannot sacrifice ten million men in to prevent
three and half million Sudetens joining the Reich.”
1938(18th
of Elul, 5698): While escorting a laborer’s cart, Alfred Asher, a Jewish
policeman, was shot dead on the road between Rehovoth and Givat Brenner.
1938(18th
of Elul, 5698): Three Jews were killed when a land mine exploded under their
car while they traveled on the road between Afuleh and Kirat Zion.
1938(18th
of Elul, 5698): “Late in the afternoon Dr. Abraham Rosenthal, a well-known
heart specialist in Jerusalem was shot dead at Ramleh while driving from Tel
Aviv.
1939(1st
of Tishrei, 5700): Rosh Hashanah 5700
1939(1st
of Tishrei, 5700): On the first day of the Jewish New Year, 43 Jews were taken,
forced to do labor and then shot to death at Przemsysl, Poland. Asscheer Gitter
was among the dead.
1939:
Order No.7 of German Civilian Administration transferred all Jewish industrial
and commercial enterprises in Poland to "Aryan' hands. This was part of the ongoing economic war
that the Nazis conducted against the Jews wherever they went. Killing Jews was the Final Solution. But the first goal was to steal everything
the Jews owned (so much for the nobility of the Aryans).
1939:
“The German Army entered” Wloclawek, Poland “and aided by local sympathizers,
began looting Jewish property, shooting Jews, and burning synagogues.” (Yad
Vashem)
1939:
For the second time in three days, the Luftwaffe bombed Warsaw which the
Wehrmacht crossed the Bug River forcing the government of Poland which had left
its capital to leave Luck and keep moving southwards.
1939:
Today, during the Battle of the Atlantic, the long running Allied fight to
defeat the Nazi submarine attempt to strangle England and prevent shipping of
the supplies necessary for the invasion of Europe, the British scored their
first victory when U-39 failed to sink the HMS Ark Royal and was forced to
surface where it was scuttled.
1939:
Eric Colcraft, a photographer with the English newspaper Planet News took a
picture today of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, after the Germans had
bombed the city
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/03.asp
1940:
Isaac Siegel began serving as Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in New
York City – a position he held until his death.
1940(11th
of Elul, 5700): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1940(11th
of Elul, 5700): Sixty-one-year-old Prague native Ernst August Pribram, the son
of Dr. Otto Primbram and Fanny Primbram, the Austrian Army, serologist and
bacteriologist who settled in Chicago where he taught at Loyola University,
passed away.
1941(22nd
of Elul, 5701): Nine thousand Jews were killed by the Nazis in Slonim, Russia
1941:
Dedication of Temple Emanu-El in
Dothan, Alabama. Jews have lived in the Dothan area for over one hundred
years. The congregation was charted in
1929.
1942(3rd of Tishrei, 5703): Tzom Gedaliah
1942(3rd of Tishrei, 5703): Wellesley
College graduate Sylvia Goulston Dreyfus, “a trustee of the New England
Conservatory of Music” and “chairman of the Boston Committee of the Palestine
Orchestra Fund” who was married to Carl Dreyfus with whom she had three children
passed away today in Boston.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/09/15/85050440.pdf
1942: Pitcher Harry Shuman made his major league
debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1942: Having shot down one bomber and one fighter
yesterday over Stalingrad, according to authors, Lydia Litvyak shot down her
second Messerschmitt, the fighter that was the pride of the Luftwaffe
1943:
Jacob Gens, head of the Jewish Council of the Vilna Ghetto was summoned to
Gestapo headquarters. He never returned.
Earlier in the Summer Gens had played a less than stellar role regarding
armed resistance to the Nazis in Vilna.
A Jewish shoemaker named Itzik Vitenberg was the leader of resistance
group that planned on fighting the Nazis in the ghetto. Vitenberg was turned over to the Nazis by
Jewish police chief in the Ghetto. After
he was rescued by his comrades, the Gestapo demanded that the Jews surrender
him or suffer the consequences. Gens
urged the people to give him up; to not sacrifice the common good for one
person. The Vilna Jews felt that they
had enjoyed a year and half of "peace" thanks to Gens working with
the Nazis and ultimately Vitenberg was forced to give himself up. He was
brutally murdered by the Nazis.
1944(26th
of Elul, 5704): Seventy-nine-year-old Judith Eugenia Salzedo Morningstar, the
Cleveland born daughter of “Benjamin Franklin Peixotto and Hannah Peixotto, the
wife of Joseph (Illava) Morningstar and mother of Karl Illava Morningstar;
Joseph K. George (Illava) Morningstar, Jr.; Benjamin (Robert) Peixotto
Morningstar; Flora (Peggy) Funkhouser Owen; Percy Peixotto Morningstar; and
Mary (Marie) C. MacLennan” passed away today in Charleston, West Virginia.
1944(26th
of Elul, 5704): Wilhelm Haas, the husband of Eleasah (Elise) Haas, who is the
granddaughter of Bella Baer the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Marx, the uncle of
Karl Marx, died today at Theresienstadt.
1945:
“Asserting that 5,000,000 Jews in Europe had lost their lives and that those
surviving were in a pitiable condition, William O’Dwyer, Democratic and
American Labor party candidate of Mayor declared that the human wreckage left
by the Nazis at the end of the war needed immediate salvaging.”
1945:
On the Friday before the Day of Atonement, WABC broadcast a Yom Kippur Service
from 5 to 5:15 led by Chaplain Jacob P. Rudin, Cantor David Putterman and
Chaplain Luther D. Miller.
1945:
At 5:30 in the evening WQXR broadcast a service from Temple Emanu-El
1945:
At 8:00 pm WEVD broadcast “News in Yiddish” followed fifteen minutes later by
the “Jewish Philosopher.”
1945:
According to reports published in the New
York Times, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, has sent
$1,112,000 during the past four months to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) Bureau
of the Jewish for the purpose of caring for young Jews who have survived the
Nazi camps.
1946:
Hank Greenberg drives in 7 Tiger Runs with 2 home runs and a double as Detroit
defeats the Yankees in their final game of the season.
1947(29th
of Elul, 5707): Erev Rosh Hashana
1947:
WW II Navy Chaplain Charles E. Shulman who has been the spiritual head of North
Shore Congregation Israel for sixteen years is scheduled to “conduct his first
service as rabbi of Riverdale Temple” this evening.
1947:
Seventy-three-year-old soldier/statesman General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
the High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and Trans-Jordan
from 1931 until his retirement in 1938 – a period that was marked by “a
three-fold increase in the Jewish population” and an “economic boom of sorts
for Jewish commercial activities but was also marred by the Arab uprising
passed away today.
1948:
“Johnny Belinda,” a film version of the Broadway play produced by Jerry Wald
and with music by Max Steiner was released today in the United States.
1948:
David Ben-Gurion met with all 64 Palmach commanding officers. He explained to them why he was abolishing
the Palmach National Command which had acted as an army within an army since
the establishment of the IDF. Ben-Gurion
was determined to see to it that there was only national military force in
Israel and that it was under the control of the government. Neither the Irgun on the right nor the
Palmach on the left would be allowed to undermine this goal.
1948:
With the sound of shellfire from Arab artillery in the background, Dr. Felix
Rosenblueth, the Ministers of Justice swore in the first five justices to serve
on Israel’s newly created Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Moshe Smoira and Justices Rabbi Simcha Assaf, Itzhak
Olshan, Moshe Dunkelblum and Schneur Zalman Cheshin covered their heads and
recited the oath “to maintain fidelity to the State of Israel and its laws and
not to swerve from justice but to judge people properly.” This is the first
Jewish court to sit in a Jewish state since the Sanhedrin met in the days of
the Second Commonwealth
1948: Milton Berle started his TV career on
Texaco Star Theater. "Uncle
Miltie" would become the first national television entertainment
celebrity. In the early fifties, this
Jewish semi-successful vaudeville comic would dominant Tuesday nights in a way
not since again until the creation of Monday Night Football.
1949:
“The American Jewish League Against Communism, Inc, today renewed its charge
that ‘400,000 Jews were deported from the Ukraine, and White Russia to
Archangel and Siberia because the are considered to pro-democratic to be left
on the Soviet borers in case of possible war.’”
1949:
In Tel Aviv, military and diplomatic and civil sources say that “it just cannot
be done” when it comes to severing Jerusalem from the rest of Israel.
1950(3rd
of Tishrei, 5711): Tzom Gedaliah
1950:
As tensions rise over the Israeli occupation of an area at Naharayim along the
confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan River, “Maj. Gen. William E. Riley, United
Nations chief truce supervisor, said that, from an interpretation of a map,
Israel undoubtedly was right in her claim to land disputed by Jordan, but that
he had legal reservations arising from the fact that the land had belonged to
Transjordan before the” fighting in 1948. The area in question is the site of
the Israeli owned Rutenberg Hydroelectric Plant which had “been the most
important source of electric power for Palestine “but had fallen into disuse
due to the dispute with Jordan. As night
fell, Major General Yigal Yadin, the Israeli Army Chief of Staff expressed
Israel’s determination to defend all of its land even if meant a renewed
outbreak of hostilities.
1950:
In New York, “Pamela (née Wolkowitz) and Murray Deutch, a music executive and
publisher” gave birth to director Howard Deutch whose body of work includes
“The Replacement” a comedy that will warm the heart of any Washington, DC
football fan.
1952:
At the Harmonie Club, Rabbi Gerson Levi officiated at the wedding of Miriam
Tarcher and David Karney, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shalom Volovelsky of Tel Avi
who was a former member of the Israeli embassy staff in Washington, DC.
1953:”Always
a Bride” a comedy with a musical score by Benjamin Frankel was released today
in the United Kingdom.
1954(16th
of Elul, 5714): Seventy-four-year-old Rabbi Jacob Massel the Belarus born son
of Gittel and Sophie Massel, husband of Sophie Massel and father of Ezekiel,
Moses and Menachem Massel, who was one of the founders of HIAS “died suddenly”
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/09/15/84138948.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1955:
Birthdate of Yosef Yitzhak Paritzky, the Israeli lawyer whose political career
has included serving as an MK and Minister of National Infrastructure.
1955:
Birthdate of Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks whose works
included People of the Book, a novel featuring the Sarajevo Haggadah.
1956(9th
of Tishrei, 5717): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1956:
The American Hebrew appeared for the last time before merging with
the Examiner to become The American Examiner.
1957:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Have Gun – Will Travel” that included an
opening theme composed by Bernard Herrmann and over its six year history
included episodes written by Bruce Geller and Irving Wallace as well as
appearances by Martin Balsam, Sydney Pollack, Norma Crane, Suzanne Pleshette,
Werner Klemperer and Dyan Cannon
1957:
In Halifax, Beth El Congregation completed its new sanctuary located on the
corner of Oxford Street and Coburg Road
1957:
Birthdate of Pittsburgh born and educated hedge-fund manager David Alan Tepper
who gave up his share of the Pittsburgh Steelers so that he could become owner
of the Carolina Panthers.
1958(29th
of Elul, 5718): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1958(29th
of Elul, 5718): Eighty-two-year-old Frieda Fanny Warburg, the daughter of Jacob
and Therese Schiff and wife of Felix Moritz Warburg passed away at White
Plains, NY.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Warburg-Frieda-Schiff
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/09/15/79401538.pdf
1959(29th
of Elul, 5719): Forty-five-year-old radio writer Milton Lewis, “the author of
the long-running radio serial, ‘This Is Nora Drake’ on WCBS” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/15/88821043.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1959(11th
of Elul, 5719): Seventy-two-year, Scottish chemist Sir Ian Heilbron (born
Isidor Morris) passed away today.
ttp://pubs.acs.org/cen/priestley/recipients/1945heilbron.html
1959(11th
of Elul, 5719): Fifty-five-year-old London born Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg, the
holder of degrees from CCNY, Columbia and Hebrew Union College, a leading Rabbi
in the Reform movement who sought to “further liberal Judaism in Israel” who
was the husband of Edna Suer Trachtenberg with whom he had one child passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/15/88821035.pdf
1960:
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. The
persistence of the Arab-Israeli conflict finally triggered a response that
transformed OPEC into a formidable political force. After the Six Day War of
1967, the Arab members of OPEC formed a separate, overlapping group, the
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, for the purpose of
centering policy and exerting pressure on the West over its support of Israel.
Egypt and Syria, though not major oil-exporting countries, joined the latter
grouping to help articulate its objectives. Later, the Yom Kippur War of 1973
galvanized Arab opinion. Furious at the emergency re-supply effort that had
enabled Israel to withstand Egyptian and Syrian forces, the Arab world imposed
the 1973 oil embargo against the United States and Western Europe, while
non-Arab OPEC members did not.
1962:
“Jungle Fighters” produced by Michael Balcon, with a screenplay by Wolf
Mankowitz, music by Stanley Black and starring Laurence Harvey was released
today in the United States.
1963(25th
of Elul, 5723): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selchot
1963(25th
of Elul, 5723) Fifty-three-year-old Mrs. Jeanne Lifrak Ezickson, the former
reporter, picture editor for AP and dress shop owner who acted under the name
of Jeanne Asch and was the wife of Aaron J. Ezickson passed away today in
Kingston, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/15/96235367.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1964(8th
of Tishrei, 5725): Fifty-eight-year-old Vasily Grossman, the Soviet journalist
who provided first-hand accounts of the battles at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk
and Berlin as well as riveting descriptions of the death camp at Treblinka,
passed away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/06/vasily-grossman-russia-victory-day
1965:
Pope Paul VI opened the fourth and final session of Vatican II which approved
Nostra Aetate which said that “all Jews today are no more responsible for the
death of Christ than Christians.”
1965:
Final publication of the American Hebrew which had begun publication in 1935.
1966(29th
of Elul, 5726): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1966:
Stephen Neal Shulman, the son of Harry Shulman, a Jewish immigrant from the
Russian Empire who served as a professor and eventual dean at Yale Law School
began serving as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1966(29th
of Elul, 5726): Actress Gertrude Edelstein Berg passed away. Born in 1894, Berg gained fame as the Jewish
housewife Molly Goldberg. She began the
role on radio in 1929. She sharpened it
in the 1948 Broadway hit Molly and Me.
She reached her apex of celebrity when The Goldbergs was a television hit from 1949 through 1955. Berg was a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red
Hunt and the show was taken off the air.
1968(21st
of Elul, 5728): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1968(21st
of Elul, 5728): Eighty-six-year-old Berlin native and the University of
Freiburg and Humboldt University trained attorney Ernst Levy, the WW I veteran
of the German Army who became a professor at the University of Washington after
having been forced to leave his native land by the Nazis passed away today.
1969(2nd
of Tishrei, 5730): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1969(2nd
of Tishrei, 5730): As traditional Jews observe the second day of Rosh Hashanah
the miracle Mets who survived Art Shamsky’s decision not to play on the Jewish
New Year continue their drive for the National League Pennant.
1969:
“Sinai Tour Routes Avoid Suez Routes” published today described “one of the
unexpected results of the six-day war of 1967” is a boom in tourism in the
Sinai Peninsula
1970(13th
of Elul, 5730): Seventy-year-old Ukraine native and Columbia trained educator
Abraham D. Feingold , “a co-founder and co‐director of the Rugby
School, an institution for mentally retarded and handicapped children in
Brooklyn” and whose “name was thrust into the public spotlight in 1950, when,
with seven other public school teachers here, he was” unfairly “suspended
without pay for refusing to answer questions about his conduct and his loyalty,
including questions on alleged membership in the Communist party” passed away
today.
1972:
The building on West Franklin Street that had been home to Beth Ahabah (Hebrew:
House of Love) a Reform synagogue in Richmond, Virginia that was founded in
1789, was designated as part of the U.S. Historic District.
1972(6th
of Tishrei , 5733): Eighty-five-year-old Worcester, MA native and University of
Pennsylvania graduate Rabbi Julius J. Price, the holder of a Ph.D. from
Columbia and graduate of JTS who was “chaplain of the Bronx County Jail and
spiritual director of Sinai Temple who was the husband of “the former Florence
Cooper” with whom he had two sons, Winston and Ira Price passed away today.
1972(6th
of Tishrei, 5733): Eighty-four-year-old French playwright Jean-Jacques Bernard
who was interned at Compiegne at the start of the Nazi occupation but who
avoided deportation to one of the death camps passed away today in Paris.
1972:
In the wake of the Munich Massacre, it was reported today that the official
Chinese government newspaper Jenmin-Jih Pao said that “the Israeli aggressors
claimed to have bombed Syria and Lebanon in self-defense” but what they had
committed was inexcusable aggression designed “to undermine the unity between
the Arab nations and the Palestinian people.”
1973:
Israel shot down 13 Syrian MIG-21s. It
was victories like this that bred the sense of over-confidence that some
critics would later lead to the successful sneak attack that started the Yom
Kippur War (October, 1973).
1973:
“Stateline Motel,” the movie version of the novel, starring Eli Wallach was
released in Italy today.
1974:
Broadcast of the first episode of “Friends & Lovers” a sitcom created by
James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring Jack Gilford and Steve Landesberg.
1974:
Birthdate of Evanston, Illinois native Lindsey Durlacher the All-American
wrestler at the University of Illinois who the bronze medal in Men’s
Greco-Roman Wrestling while representing the United States at the World
Championships in 2006.
1975(9th
of Tishrei, 5736: Erev Yom Kippur
1976:
CBS broadcast “Rescue At Entebbe: How They Saved The Hostages” a “news special
about the planning and execution of the recent Israeli commando raid in Uganda
to free airline hostages.”
1976:
“Bar Mitzvah Boy,” a British television play, written by Jack Rosenthal, was
broadcast today.
1976:
“Hard Line and Hijackings” published today reported that in the wake of the
hijacking of a “New York-to-Chicago airliner” “the dominant view among aviation
at the moment is that there is nothing wrong in governments adopting a “policy
of toughness in dealing with hijackers” as exemplified by “the Israeli commando
raid that freed hostages at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport earlier this year.”
1976:
“Checking Out,” a Broadway play directed by Jerry Adler and starring Joan
Copeland, Hy Anzell and Mason Adams opened at the Longacre Theatre tonight.
1977(2nd
of Tishrei, 5738): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1978:
The Democratic Movement for Change splintered with the different components
dividing themselves between three other parties.
1979:
Sofia Cosma a native of the Smorgon, a shtetl on the border between Latvia and
Lithuanian took his final turn at the podium when he conducted Concerto No.1 by
Tchaikovsky today
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/22/local/la-me-sofia-cosma-20110222
1980(4th
of Tishrei, 5741): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the
presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1981:
Nigel Lawson ended his service as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and began
serving as Secretary of State for Energy.
1981:
For one day, the Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to bd moved from the 92nd
Street Y to the Jewish Museum.
1983:
Birthdate of Amy Winehouse
1983:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and defensive midfielder Moshe Mishaelot who began
playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2002.
1983:
Ninety-three-year-old Ernst Moritz Hess who was Hitler’s commanding officer
during WW I and lost his job as Judge after the passage of the Nazi Nuremberg
race law because even though his father was Protestant and he had been
baptized, he was classified as a Jew, passed away today.
http://jewish-voice-from-germany.de/cms/hitlers-jewish-commander-and-victim/
1983(7th
of Tishrei, 5744): Seventy-eight-year-old Vilna native Hyman Bezprozvany, who
in 1922 came to the United States where he gained fame as Hyman B. Bass the
Yiddish teacher and author who worked tithe Joint Distribution Committee and
served as “national officer with the Workmen’s Circle” passed away today.
1984:
Gary Rosenblatt, the editor of the Baltimore
Jewish Times, “published an article titled ‘The Simon Wiesenthal Center:
State-of-the-art Activism or Hollywood Hype?’ analyzing whether Wiesenthal
Center officials were truthful in marketing their Holocaust Museum as a
non-sectarian, humanitarian institution in order to receive funding from the
state of California. This article was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer
Prize in the category of Special Reporting in 1985. The honor marked the first
time an article in a Jewish publication was cited in the Pulitzer competition.”
1984(17th
of Elul, 5744): Ninety-two-year-old Memphis, TN, philanthropist Abe Plough the
native of Tupelo, MS who created a company that eventually became
Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals of which he was chairman
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1064
1985:
Premier episode of the Golden Girls.
The show was the creation of Jewish television executive Brandon
Tartikoff. Two of the four lead
characters in this long running television hit were Jewish – Beatrice Arthur
and Estelle Getty.
1985(28th
of Elul, 5745): Julian Beck, whose Living Theater expanded the frontiers of
theatrical innovation for nearly 40 years, died of cancer today at the age of
60. (As reported by Samuel Freedman)
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/17/theater/julian-beck-60-is-dead-founded-living-theater.html
1989:
The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” opened at the
Circle in the Square Theatre.
1989:
Seven members of ACT UP, an organization co-founded by Larry Krammer
“infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to the VIP
balcony to protest the high price of the only approved AIDS drug, AZT”
1990:
“White Hunter Black Heart,” with a screenplay co-authored by Peter Viertel was
released in the United States today.
1990:
“Death Warrant” an action movie written by David S. Goyer was released in the
United States today by MGM.
1992:
Today, the New Yorker published Ann Goldstein’s first translation, an essay by
the Italian writer Aldo Buzzi.
1991(6th
of Tishrei, 5752): Shabbat Shuva
1991(6th
of Tishrei, 5752): Eight days after his 66th birthday, Berlin native Moshe Goshen-Gottstein the “professor of
Semitic linguistic and biblical philology at Hebrew University” and the husband
of clinical psychologist Esther Hepner with whom he had two sons – Alon and
Yonatan – passed away today.
1993:
Yithak Rabin replaced Aryeh Deri as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1993:
“A Bronx Tale,” a crime film produced by Jane Rosenthal premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
1994(9th
of Tishrei, 5755): Erev Yom Kippur
1994:
Acting Commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the
baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players. Selig is one of a
number of Jews who have found success as executives in the world of
professional athletics.
1994:
The 46e régiment d'infanterie in the French Army, in which Archaeologist and
Egyptologist” Adolphe Joseph Reinach, the son of archaeologist Joseph Reinach
and Henriette-Clemintine Reinach and husband of Marguerite Dreyfus, daughter of
Mathieu Dreyfus and niece of Alfred Dreyfus, with whom he had a son,
Jean-Pierre Reinach was as a “Lieutenant of Cuirassiers in the French Army”
when he was killed in 1914 was disbanded today.
1994:
“Quiz Show” a movie based on Richard Goodwin’s Remembering America: A Voice
From the Sixties co-starring Rob Morrow and featuring Barry Levinson that
describes the Quiz Show Scandals and centers around Herb Stempel was released
today by Buena Vista Pictures.
1996(1st
of Tishrei, 5757): Rosh Hashanah
1996:
In a landmark decision on reproductive rights, Israel's Supreme Court ruled
today that a childless woman estranged from her husband could have their frozen
embryos implanted in a surrogate against the husband's wishes. An 11-member
panel of judges voted 7-4 that the right of the woman, Ruti Nahmani, to be a
mother outweighed objections to fatherhood made by Danny Nahmani, the husband
from whom she is separated. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
1997:
About 90 headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island were found overturned
today and swastikas had been spray-painted on 5, the police said. Visitors to
the Baron Hirsch Cemetery at 1126 Richmond Avenue in the Graniteville section
alerted officers to the vandalism with a 911 call about 4:30 P.M., Officer
Valerie St. Rose, a police spokeswoman, said the vandalism is being
investigated as a bias crime.
1997:
The New York Times book section
featured reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including Alice Hoffman’s 12th novel, Here On Earth and Watching My
Language: Adventures in the Word Trade by William Safire.
2000: A
general strike began in Nazareth protesting what they described as "police
incompetence in handling violence and crime" after the murder of a local
resident,52-year-old Nabieh Nussier,
2000:
U.S. premiere of “Dancing at the Blue Iguana” directed by Michael Radford who
co-authored the script.
2001:
“Yasir Arafat angrily rejected tonight any suggestion that Palestinians had
rejoiced over the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11,
declaring that the Palestinian reaction was one of identification and not
satisfaction with American suffering.” (As reported by James Bennet)
2001:
A surge of violence punctuated by an Israeli tank thrust into a West Bank town
that left eight Palestinians dead today, as well as an Israeli settler shot
dead by Palestinian gunmen. Led “Palestinian officials to the Israelis of
stepping up military actions while international attention was focused on the
terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.” (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
2002(8th
of Tishrei, 5763): Shabbat Shuva
2002:
A memorial service was held for Louise Rosenfield Noun, the Grinnell College
graduate and social activist “at the Iowa State Historical Building in Des
Moines.”
http://iagenweb.org/boards/poweshiek/obituaries/index.cgi?read=412744
2003:
Pitcher John Grabow made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
2003: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Law, Pragmatism and
Democracy by Richard A.
Posner and Mad Art: A Visual
Celebration of the Art of MAD Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It by Mark Evanier.
2004: “A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up at an agricultural
gate” south of Kalanda injuring two.
2005:
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon shook hands in an apparent chance encounter in the corridors of the
United Nations summit Wednesday. The handshake followed a landmark meeting
between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel last week, the first
formal high-level contact between the Islamic and Jewish states. Pakistan is the world’s second largest Muslim
country. Israel has sought to improve
relations with non-Arab Muslim countries.
2005:
“The Israeli cabinet approved, by a 9-1 majority, plans to compensate settlers
who left the Gaza Strip, with only the NRP's Zevulun Orlev opposing. The
government's plan for compensation uses a formula that bases actual amounts on
location, house size, and number of family members among other factors. Most
families should receive between U.S.$200,000 and 300,000.”
2005:
Days after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza the Palestinian Religious Scholars
Society issued a fatwa (Islamic religious decree) forbidding
normalization with Israel. The fatwa came in response to a surprise ruling
earlier this week by Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, head of Egypt's al-Azhar Mosque
University, in favor of normalization with Israel.
2005:
An opera titled Seven Attempted Escapes From Silence for which Jonathan Safran
Foer wrote the libretto premiered at the Berlin State Opera today.
2006(1st
of Tishrei, 5757): Rosh Hashanah
2006: Germany took a richly symbolic step in its long
journey of historical reconciliation oas three men became the first rabbis
ordained in this country since the Holocaust.
2006:
Aharon Barak completes his service as President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
2006:
“T-Slam” an Israeli rock band founded in 1980 “played a one-off reunion show
with Rami Fortis and Berry Sakharof in Jerusalem.”
2006:
Dorit Beinish was appointed the 9th President of the Supreme Court
of Israel making her the first woman to hold this position.
2007(2nd
of Tishrei, 5768): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2007:
“Toots” a film about America’s most famous saloon keeper during the 1940’s and
1950’s which was directed by his granddaughter Kristi Jacobson opens in New
York at the Quad City Cinema on the afternoon of the Second Day of Rosh
Hashanah. Ms. Jacobson will be at the Friday night showing of the film.
2007:
In “Saggy pants reveal more than underwear” a column by Jill Fields in which
she discusses current fashion among adolescent males, she writes, “Several
decades ago, my teenage sister wore ‘hot pants’ to Friday night services at
Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California.
A congregant complained. Rabbi
Harold Schulweis later told us he had replied, ‘You should look into her eyes,
not what she’s wearing.’”
2008(14th
of Elul, 5768): Eight-five-year-old Hyman Goldman who along with his
brother-in-law Leonard Marsh and Arnold Greenberg founded Snapple, the beverage
company, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21golden.html
2008:
In Washington, D.C., The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary
Festival opens with "Laughing for God's Sake: Humor in Jewish
Literature," featuring interpretive readings by local actors (directed by
Ian Armstrong) of work by the likes of Shalom
Auslander, Faye Moskowitz and Nathan
Englander. This event will feature the 10 finalists of the festival's
writing contest
2008:
On the occasion of the publication of the full translation of The History of the Yiddish Language the YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research presents a symposium where panelists including Neil G. Jacobs, Ohio
State University; Robert D. King, University of Texas; and Kalman Weiser, York
University discuss this work by Max Weinreich.
2008: In Vienna, the first festival devoted to Jewish and Israeli music ever
held in Austria comes to a close.
2008:
The Washington Post book section
includes a review of Philip Roth’s latest novel, Indignation.
2008:
The Sunday New York Times book
section featured books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interest
including Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Is There a Right to Remain
Silent? Coercive Interrogation and the
Fifth Amendment After 9/11 by
Alan M. Dershowitz and
The
Way of the World: A Story of Truth and
Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
2009:
A special exhibit featuring the work of Will Ronis at this summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photography festival on view in
Southern France comes to an end.
2009: Robert
J. Samuelson, a columnist for both The Washington Post and Newsweek,
discusses and signs The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and
Future of American Affluence at the Bethesda Library, Bethesda, Md.
2009: Israel
Air Force pilot Captain Asaf Ramon was laid to rest next to his father Ilan
Ramon today, a day after he was killed in a training accident while flying an
Israel Air Force jet
2009: Israel
commemorated the Munich Massacre of 1972 today in a state ceremony attended by
politicians, athletes and relatives of the fallen. Eleven Israel coaches and
athletes and one German policeman were killed in the attack."An entire
country held its breath and watched, transfixed, as the El Al plane from Munich
landed in our national airport, and out came the surviving athletes, silent and
stunned, standing next to their friends who returned in coffins,” said Minister
of Sport Limor Livnat, who spoke as the official government representative at
the ceremony. "The memory of the 11 athletes murdered in Munich is the
pillar of fire leading the great camp of the children of light to overwhelming
victory in their war against the children of darkness,” she said. Michal
Shahar, whose father Kehat Shorr was among those murdered in the attack, spoke
on behalf of the bereaved families. Former Olympic swimmer Yoav Bruck spoke in
the name of Israel's athletes.Tzvi Varshaviack, Chairman of the Israeli Olympic
Committee, said in a speech, “Thirty-seven years have passed since that black
day, and it remains impossible to forget. Since then, Israeli athletes have
continued to represent the state of Israel with pride and to make remarkable
achievements. We will not let terrorism defeat us,” he said. The memory of
those slain in Munich remains in the Olympic Committee's consciousness, he
added. “We will do whatever we can to perpetuate their memories,” he said.
2009: “Ex-Mayor of Memphis Starts Bid for Congress,
Invoking Race in Campaign” published today reported that “The black candidate,
former Mayor Willie W. Herenton of Memphis, has argued that Tennessee needs a
black voice in its currently all-white delegation. He is running a blistering
campaign against Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat who is Jewish
with a precarious hold on the majority black district.” Herenton has attacked
Cohen by saying “that he does not really think very much of African Americans.” Sidney Chism, a black county commissioner and
Herenton’s campaign manager said that “this seat was set aside for people who
look me. (As reported by Robbie Brown)
2010(8th of Tishrei, 5771): Ysrael Seinuk, a structural engineer who made
it possible for many of New York City’s tallest new buildings to withstand
wind, gravity and even earthquakes passed away today at the age of 78. (As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/nyregion/01seinuk.html?_r=0
2010: Eric “Schneiderman was the Democratic Party
nominee for New York Attorney General, defeating four other candidates in the
Democratic Primary” today.
2010: Fireflies
(Gachliliyot), a film
tied to the Yom Kippur War is scheduled to be shown at The JCC in Manhattan.
2010: Mira Awad, who represented Israel in the
Eurovision song contest 2009 alongside Noa with the song "There must be
another way" from their duet album carrying the same name, is scheduled to
appear at the Winery in New York City.
2010: Ahmed
Jaabari, leader of Hamas' military wing, issued a rare statement today
threatening a wave of violence intended to derail the ongoing
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
2010: The
leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority held more than two hours of
face-to-face peace talks in this Red Sea resort today, delving into several of
the core issues that divide the two sides but not breaking an impasse over
Jewish settlements.
2010: A
royal box built at the upper level of King Herod's private theater at Herodium
has been fully unveiled in recent excavations at the archaeological site,
providing a further indication of the luxurious lifestyle favored by the
well-known Jewish monarch, the Hebrew University announced in a statement
released today.
2011: Israeli
violinist Guy Braunstein and Frank Braley are scheduled to perform Hanns
Eisler’s Eisler Duo for Violin & Cello, op. 7 at the 14th
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2011: Galeet
Dardashti is scheduled to perform a The JCC in Manhattan.
2011: Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the early
evacuation of Israel's embassy in Jordan today, over fears of violent
anti-Israel protests similar to those which erupted in Cairo last week.
2011: British Prime
Minister David Cameron decided that the UK would not take part in the
UN-sponsored Durban III anti-racism conference on September 22 because he did
not want the UK to engage in an event with anti-Semitic association, the Jewish
Chronicle reported today.."
2012: Izhar Patkin’s “The Messiah’s Glass” is
scheduled to go on displace at the Jewish Museum.
2012: A revival of
Stephen Schwartz’s Tony-Award winning musical Pippin opened at the Kansas City
Repertory Theatre today.
2012: Tom Rothman, “the
chairman and executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment” resigned today.
2012: U.S. President
wished the world's Jews a happy new year today, issuing a video in which he
called for reconciliation and peace.
2012: As the High
Holidays begin, an argument between Shas and Meretz that has become an annual
tradition rears its head yet again: When should daylight saving time end? MK
Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) slammed Interior Minister Eli Yishai today, saying the
minister promised to pass a law to extend DST by 11 days, but buried it in the
Shas-controlled Knesset Interior Committee.
2012: Jerusalem police
clashed with hundreds of Muslim youth today after they left prayers atop the
Temple Mount in the direction of the Damascus Gate. Police said the rioters
were on their way to the US consulate, presumably to protest against a film denigrating
the Prophet Mohammad, which has already sparked mass protests in Libya, Egypt
and Yemen.
2013(10th of
Tishrei, 5774): Yom Kippur
2013: While being held
captive by ISIS, Steven Sotloff, who would eventually be beheaded secretly
“fasted on Yom Kippur, by feigning illness.”
2013: Due the
cataclysmic flooding that has hit parts of Colorado including Boulder, home of
the University of Colorado, Yom Kippur services will not be held in the Chabad
synagogue according to Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm
2013(10th of
Tishrei): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Ilan Caplan keeps alive an unbroken streak
dating back to the 19th century and the founding of Beth Jacob by
leading traditional Yom Kippur Services.
2013: Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu's office had no comment tonight on the new US-Russian
agreement on destroying Syria's chemical weapons stores, as Israel awaits the
arrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry on tomorrow (As reported by Herb
Keinon)
2013: “A four-year-old
girl accidently drowned in a mikveh in Bnei Barak today, on what was otherwise
a relatively quiet Yom Kippur in terms of medical emergencies.”
2014: The Congregation
Olam Tikvah Sisterhood and Men's Club are scheduled to host a talk by MERCAZ
USA's Executive Director Rabbi Golub on "Promoting Jewish Pluralism in a
Changing Israeli Society"
2014:
“The Good and the True,” a Holocaust based play is scheduled to have its final
performance at the DR2 Theatre in Manhattan.
2014:
The Jewish Women’s Archives is scheduled to celebrate its 18th
anniversary by honoring Gail Twersky Reimer, the founding executive director.
2014:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a
walking tour of Jewish Old Town Alexandria tracing the start of a community
that dates back to the 1850’s.
2014:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp
David by Lawrence Wright, World Order by Henry Kissinger and The Monogram
Murders by Sophie Hannah as well as an interview with Sara Paretsky, the author
of the V.I. Warshawski novels.
2014:
Today is the European Day of Jewish Culture.
2014:
“The oldest book of Jewish liturgy, dating back to the ninth century, was en
route to Israel today, and will be on display at the Bible Lands Museum in
Jerusalem until late October.”
2014:”The
IDF will hand down a “sharp and clear punishment” to members of Unit 8200 who
are refusing to serve in West Bank missions, IDF spokesman Moti Almoz said
today.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)
2014:
Following his surpise appearance at Lady Gaga’s Tel Aviv concert last night,
Tony Bennett performed on his own in Tel Aviv
2015(1st
of Tishrei, 5776) Rosh Hashanah
2015(1st
of Tishrei, 5776): Sixty-four-year-old Alexander Levlovitz died in the early
hours this morning “after he lost control of the car he was driving came under
attack from rock-throwing attackers in East Talpiot, Jerusalem.
2015:
British Labour MP Lucian Berger began serving as the Shadow Minister for Mental
Health today.
2015:
Based on previous statements made by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, he will lobby
Congress to reject the Iran deal, but today, “when he stands before his
congregation to welcome the New Year, he will not mention Congress, Iran or
nuclear weapons.”
2015(1st
of Tishrei, 5776): Seventieth
anniversary of the first celebration of the Jewish New Year in Vienna since the
Anschluss in 1938 at the Statdt Temple.
Before the war Vienna had been home to almost 200,000 Jews who supported
almost 100 Jewish houses of worship. The
Stadt was the only building to survive and the city’s Jewish population had
been reduced to approximately 3,500.
2015:
An unidentified “young Israeli man was lightly wounded by rock-throwers in
Jerusalem” in what was assumed to be another attack by Palestinian Arabs.
2015:
“Two people – a policeman and a young Jewish man – were hurt this morning as
clashes resumed at the Temple Mount for the second consecutive day during which
nine people were arrested.”
2016:
Benjamin Goodman, Philip Solomonick, and Tomer Gewirtzman, Piano Yuval Herz and
Barak Shossberger, Violin, Shmuel Katz, Viola and Oded Hadar, Cello are
scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of the Young Israeli Artists in
NYC series.
2016:
In the early hours of the day (Israeli time), Shimon Peres’s office said he was
in serious but stable condition” after having suffered a stroke yesterday.
2017:
Shir Chadash, the only Conservative Congregation in the Greater New Orleans
area is scheduled to host” Zemer Atik: Ancient Meoldies.”
2017:
Members of the family of Shimon Peres, “world leaders and state and business
leaders attended this morning’s ceremony at Mount Herzl Cemetery” marking the
one year anniversary of the Jewish leader.
2017:
In Jerusalem, Night Stroll 2017 is scheduled to include “Vincent’s Travels in
the Holy Land.”
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of ”Bogdan’s Journey, a
heartbreaking account of the pogrom that took place in the town of Kielce,
Poland in July 1946 is scheduled to premiere in Manchester, UK
2017:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a screening of
“Menahse.”
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/menashe-2017
2018: The Bezalel Art
Fair is scheduled to take place between 10 am and 4 pm today in Jerusalem.
2018:
As Hurricane Florence strikes along the Carolinas, Ariela Davis,the Director of
Judaics at Addlestone Hebrew Academy and the Rebbetzin of Brith Sholom Beth
Israel, the historic shul of downtown Charleston, South Carolina is scheduled
to ride out the storm in South Carolina coastal city.
2018:
“The Columbus Dispatch reported today
that Les Wexner had renounced his affiliation with the Republican Party due to
changes in its nature.”
2019(14th
of Elul, 5779): Parashat Ki Taytzay;
2019:
At Vanderbilt University, the Jewish Studies Program is scheduled to co-sponsor
“A Short History of Anger – the Destruction of Smyrna.
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/jewishstudies/events/destruction-of-smyrna/
2019:
In Jerusalem, the International Convention Center is scheduled to host “The
Dire Straits Experience.”
2019:
Beitar Jerusalem is scheduled to play Hapoel Haifa at Teddy Stadium in
Jerusalem.
2019:
In Columbus, OH, this afternoon following services, Congregation Tifereth
Israel is scheduled to host the “Israel Discussion Group.”
2019:
As Jews chew on their Cholent, they can look back on a week that included a
tragic synagogue fire in Duluth, the announcement by Prime Minister Netanyahu,
just days before the election, that he will annex significant parts of the
so-called West Bank and reports that Israel was behind the placement of
“spyware” near the White House…and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
2020:
The Combined Jewish Philanthropies is scheduled to host online a “Community
Rosh Hashanah Seder” in which local presenters will “highlight a series of
foods that represent different aspiration of the New Year.”
2020:
Temple Emanu El “Men’s Book Group is scheduled to discuss The Map that
Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon
Winchester.
2020:
Rabbi Allie Fischman of URJ Camp Newman is scheduled to lead “Apple and Honey
Days,” a family friendly event.
2020:
An online exhibition hosted by the Breman Museum, “A Jazz Memoir” featuring the
photography of Herb Snitzer is scheduled to open today.
2020:
Israelis prepare to deal with a shutdown that starts September 17, erev Rosh
Hashanah during which during which “movement is restricted to 500 meters from
home, private sector work places are to close to the public, public sector is
to continue under limitations, restaurants, commerce are banned, schools closed
and congregation is limited to no more than 10 people indoors and 20 outside.”
(As reported by Itamar Eichner and Adir Yanko)
2021:
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav’s disability and accessibility committee and hineni
caring community are scheduled to sponsor online “You Don’t Have to be
Miserable: Finding Accessible Alternatives to Yom Kippur Tradition” a
presentation especially for those who can’t fast stand for long periods or
spend hours upon hours in synagogue.”
2021:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host Eleanor Bergstein as she
discusses the screenplay she wrote for the iconic film “Dirty Dancing.”
2021:
The Jewish Heritage Center is scheduled to present online Lucy Adlington, the
author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who
Sewed to Survive.
2022:
The JFCS Holocaust Center and the Jewish
Community Library are scheduled to present UC Davis history professor Kathryn
Olmsted as she discusses how the most powerful press barons in the U.S. and
U.K. worked together to pressure their governments to ignore and minimize the
Nazi threat through their news coverage, editorials and (in some cases)
pro-fascist propaganda that they publish.
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar with Patrick Bade lecturing
on “Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale – Felix Mendelssohn: A Romantic
Relationship.”
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “KOOLULAM: ONE SONG, ONE VOICE, ONE
UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.”
https://streicker.nyc/events/koolulam
2022:
The American Sephardi Institute is scheduled to present journalist, Sephardic
historian and cookbook author Sarina Roffé who will share recipes and discuss the foods
unique to Syrian Jews on Rosh Hashanah.
2023: Lockdown University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold and Lady Milena-Grenfell Baines on
“The Case of Nicholas Winton: A Hero and a Rescuer.”
2023: The Oscar J. Tolmas
Charitable Trust is scheduled to sponsor the JNOLA Rosh Hashana Toast in New
Orleans.
2023: Rabbi Feivel and
Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead the morning minyan at Temple Judea.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge
Street is scheduled to host a walking tour of the Lower East Side where
participants can virtually and follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah,
Charlotte, and Gertie, the adorable sisters depicted in All-of-a Kind
the first book of the iconic series.
2024: In Palo Alto, CA, this
evening, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Chef, food writer and critic Ruth Reichl discusses her
life’s work and her new book, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir,
chronicling her groundbreaking tenure as editor-in-chief at the influential
food and cooking magazine.”
2024: Lockdown University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Professor David Peimer on “The Great Directors:
Spielberg, Part 2.”
2024: At Beth Joseph Congregation/Rebibo
Center, in Phoenix, AZ , after davening Joel Haber is scheduled to deliver a
lecture on “Chulent & Hamin: The Stew with 1000 Flavors” following in the
evening by an informal discussion for teens on “What Makes a Food Jewish?”
2024(11th of Elul, 5784):
Parashat Ki Taytzay (When you will go out)
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
As September 14th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 344 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
