This Day, September 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 15
53: Birthdate of Trajan who was Roman emperor
from 98 until his death of 117. In the last decade of his rule, Trajan began a
campaign against the Parthians, a people living east of the Roman Empire. Since this territory bordered Judea with its
large Jewish population, Trajan sought to improve relations between Rome and
his Jewish subjects. There were even
reports that Trajan would allow the rebuilding of the Temple. However, as the Romans moved into Parthia, he
met stiff military opposition, fueled, in part, by Jews living in Parthia who
despised Rome for destroying the Temple.
At the same time, Jews in Egypt also rebelled against Rome. The violence there forced Trajan to send
legions to the land along the Nile which weakened his already doomed campaign
as Parthia.
1199:
Pope Innocent III published “Constitutio Pro Judeis: An Edict in Favor of the
Jews”
1084:
Rüdiger Huzmann, the Bishop of Speyer, signed and sealed a document explaining
why he had invited the Jews to settle in his city and the terms and conditions
under which this community was to live. Among other things, he stated that he
“believed” it would “multiply” the “image” of Speyer “a thousand times by
inviting the Jews” and “turn the village of Speyer into a city.”
1254: Birthdate of explorer Marco Polo who told of
meeting Chinese Jews in his 1286 journey to China.
1317:
“The Jews of Berlin and Cöln (later incorporated with Berlin) are first
mentioned in a law of Margrave Waldemar,” bearing today’s date “which provides
that in criminal cases the Jews shall be amenable to the city court of Berlin
1348:
On the Day of Atonement, three Jews and a Jewess in Chillon, a town near Lake
Geneva were tortured in an attempt to get them to confess to charges of well
poisoning that was the alleged cause of the Black Death.
1485:
Pedro Arbues, Canon of the Cathedral of Saragossa was attacked while praying.
He died two days later, and when the news went public, the Christian community
gathered to swear revenge. The attack was planned by prominent Jews (Conversos)
of Aragon including Sancho de Paternoy, Master of the Royal Household; Gabriel
Sanches, the High Treasurer of the kingdom; and Francisco de Santa Fe, assessor
to the Governor of Aragon. The results of this “were that nearly 200 people had
revenge struck upon them, some were murdered outright and some were beheaded
with their mutilated bodies put on display. Some were imprisoned, some
committed suicide to alleviate their suffering, and some fled to France.” The
Church later made Arbues into a Saint in 1867.
1497:
Gershon Soncino published one of the first printed editions of “Selihot” in
Braco, Italy.
1683: Germantown, Pennsylvania was founded by 13 immigrant
families as a separate township outside of Philadelphia. In 1793, Isaac Franks, a veteran of the
American Revolutionary War, opened his Germantown home to President George
Washington, when a yellow fever epidemic gripped Philadelphia which was the
capital of the United States of America at that time
1697:
Frederick Augustus I or Augustus II the Strong
crowned King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth “with the backing of
Imperial Russia and Austria, which financed him through the Jewish banker,
Berend Lehmann.” He was also the monarch
whom Naphtali Cohen “went to see to secure reinstatement in his former
rabbinate of Posen.”
1718(1st of Tishrei, 5479): Sixty-eight-year-old, the
Providence, RI born son of “Stephen and Sarah Arnold” and husband of Mary
Arnold passed away today.
1730(4th of Tishrei, 5491): Sir Solomon de Medina
passed away. A native of Bordeaux Medina was a wealthy Amsterdam Jew who went
to England with William III, when he and Queen Anne gained the throne of the
United Kingdom. According to Prince
Charles, the heir to the British throne “The first Jewish knight, created by
Queen Anne, was Sir Solomon de Medina. It was Sir Solomon who provided the
supplies, including the food that enabled the British Army under the Duke of
Marlborough to win the decisive Battle of Blenheim – a vital turning point in
the War of Spanish Succession and a swift kick in the shins to Louis XIV’s
aspirations.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/medina-sir-solomon-de
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10547-medina-sir-solomon-de
1735: Birthdate of Issachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly an Alsatian
rabbi. At the age of 10, he was sufficiently advanced in his training for the
rabbinate to follow the elaborate lectures of Jonathan Eybeschütz. Later,
Carmoly studied successively at Frankfurt, under the direction of Jacob Joshua,
author of Pene Yehoshu'a, and at Metz, under Samuel Helman, who conferred upon
him the title of rabbi. On returning home, in compliance with the wish of his
father, Carmoly began the study of medicine under the direction of Jacob Assur,
a physician of Nancy, but had to give it up, being engrossed with his
Talmudical studies. The only benefit he derived from his tutor was a fair
knowledge of mathematics, of which he made use later. He passed away in May of
1781. Carmoly married the daughter of a rich banker named Joseph Raineau. The
latter persuaded the bishop of Sulz to create a rabbinate in his see; and
Carmoly was appointed rabbi of Sulz. Carmoly was the author of a commentary on
the Tosefta to the treatise Betzah, published, together with the text, under
the title Yam Yissakar (Sea of Issachar; Metz, 1769). The grandson of the
author, Eliakim Carmoly, claimed to have had in his possession the following
manuscripts of his grandfather.
1752: The
Merchant of Venice was presented in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first dramatic production by a
professional troupe in the 13 Colonies.
There is irony that Shylock made such an early appearance in the one
place in the world where the stereotype did not even begin to fit.
1755(10th
of Tishrei, 5516): Yom Kippur
1765(29th
of Elul, 5525): Erev Rosh Hashana observed as protests moved forward against
the Stamp Act, one of the many steps down the road that led to the American
Revolution.
1774(
10th of Tishrei, 5535): Yom Kippur is observed for the last time
before the American Revolution.
1776:
British troops occupied New York City disrupting Jewish life. Many Jewish
supporters of the Revolution fled the city.
Several of them took refuge in Newport, Rhode Island.
1780:
Birthdate of Jonas Daniel Meijer, the first Jew admitted to the Bar in the
Netherlands. As a lawyer, he worked to
help the Dutch Jews gain full emancipation.
1780(15th
of Elul, 5540): Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire an academic
and the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France, passed away. Born Jacob
Rodrigues Pereira in 1715 at Peniche, Portugal, “he was a descendant of a
Marrano (Portuguese Crypto-Jews) family and was baptized with the name of
Francisco António Rodrigues. He returned to Judaism together with his mother.
His parents were Magalhães Rodrigues Pereira and Abigail Ribea Rodrigues. After
his father's death his mother fled with her son from Portugal to escape the
Portuguese Inquisition and the charge that she had relapsed into heresy, and
about 1741 she settled at Bordeaux. Jacob Rodrigue Péreire formulated signs for
numbers and punctuation and adapted Juan Pablo Bonet's manual alphabet by
adding 30 handshapes each corresponding to a sound instead of to a letter. He
is therefore seen as one of the inventors of manual language for the deaf and
is credited with being the first person to teach a non-verbal deaf person to
speak. In 1759, he was made a member of the Royal Society of London. A lifelong
devotee to the well-being of the Jews of southern France, Portugal, and Spain,
beginning in 1749 he was a volunteer agent for the Portuguese Jews at Paris. In
1777, his efforts led to Jews from Portugal receiving the right to settle in
France. In 1876 Pereira's remains were transferred from the Cimetière de la
Villette (where he had been buried the year in which that cemetery was opened)
to that of the Cimetière de Montmartre. In Bordeaux the street
"Rodrigues-Pereire" was named in his honor. His grandsons, the
Péreire brothers, Emile Péreire (1800–75) and Isaac Péreire (1806–80), were
well-known French financiers and bankers during the second empire who
encouraged the construction of the first railway in France in 1835. In 1852,
they founded the Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier.”
1781:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Jacob Abrahams.
1793(9th
of Tishrei, 5554): Erev Yom Kippur; with France in the 10th day of
the “Reign of Terror” Jews chant Kol
Nidre
1795(2nd
of Tishrei, 5556): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed on the day that the
Dutch surrendered their colony at Cape Town to the British.
1798(5th
of Tishrei, 5559): Parashat Vayeilich; Shabbat Shuva
1798(5th
of Tishrei, 5559): Twenty-year-old
Walter Jonas Judah, the New York born son of Jessie Jonas and Samuel Judah,
“the grandson of Baruch Judah” who was “the first American-born Jew to enroll
in medical school” and passed away while “attending Columbia College.
1801:
Coronation of Czar Alexander I who “declared the Blood Libel -- the infamous
accusation that Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood in the
baking of matzah for Passover, for which thousands of Jews were massacred
through the centuries -- to be false.
http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day_cdo/aid/270354/jewish/Blood-Libel-Declared-False.htm
1804(10th
of Tishrei, 5565): Yom Kippur coincides with Shabbat
1812(9th
of Tishrei, 5573): Erev Yom Kippur
1812:
The only Jews who would have chanted Kol Nidre tonight in Moscow would have
been members of the French Army which had entered the Russian capital to find
it devoid of the local population.
1814(1st
of Tishrei, 5575): Rosh Hashanah
1814:
Jews in Baltimore, Maryland, have a special reason to rejoice as they welcomed
the New Year, since today marked the end of the “Battle of Baltimore” when the
Americans withstood the British bombardment of Fort McHenry and thwarted their
planned attack on the American port.
1821:
Birthdate of Victor Guérin a French explorer and archaeologist whose seven
trips to the “holy land” resulted in the seven volume Geographical,
Historical, and Archaeological Description of Palestine and who used such
Jewish sources “as the Mishna and Talmud, as well as Jewish travelers such as
Benjamin of Tudela and Isaac Chelo”
1821: Costa Rica declares independence from Spain. The first
Jewish settlers in Costa Rica were Sephardim from Curacao, Jamaica, Panama and
the Caribbean who arrived in the 19th century. Jewish life in Costa Rica today
is very vibrant and caters to the 2,500 Jews in the country.
1821: El Salvador declares independence from Spain. Except for the
occasional transit of Portuguese Conversos, there were no Jews in the country
until the first half of the nineteenth century when Sephardim from France
settled in the town of Chaluchuapa. As of 2000, the Jewish population in El
Salvador was approximately 120.
1821: Guatemala declares independence from Spain. Documents in the
archives of the Mexican Inquisition attest to the presence of Marranos in
Guatemala during the colonial period. The origins of the present Jewish
community, however, are from German immigrants who came to the country in the
mid-19th-century. Approximately 1,200 Jews live in Guatemala today, and the
majority of them reside in the capital Guatemala City.
1821: Honduras declares independence from Spain. Conversos, or New
Christians, who converted to Christianity while secretly practicing Judaism,
were believed to be among the Spaniards who succeeded in buying permits that
allowed them to circumvent prohibitions against sailing to the New World during
the period after the Jewish expulsion from Spain. Many of these conversos
disembarked along the Gulf of Mexico, and the Honduran coast. It is possible
that these were the first "Jews" to arrive in Honduras, but this is
disputed by some historians. At the end of the 1800's Honduras
experienced an influx of Jews. The majority emigrated from the Central European
regions of Russia, Poland, Germany, Romania, and Hungary, while a few were of
Sephardic origin, and came from Greece, Turkey and North Africa
1821: Nicaragua declares independence from Spain. The Jewish
population of Nicaragua reaches its peak in the 1920’ when it numbered
approximately 270. During the Sandinista
era, the population dwindled to ten.
Today, there are approximately fifty Jews in Managua that gathers for
Shabbat services, at last report; the community lacked a Sefer torah and a
rabbi.
1822(29th of Elul, 5583): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1823(10th of Tishrei, 5584): Yom Kippur
1824: The first Jewish wedding took place in Cincinnati, Ohio
today when Morris Symonds married Rebekah Hyams.
1824 Daniel Meyers married Hester Levy today at the New Synagogue.
1824: In Posen, Aaron Levin Lazarus and his wife gave birth to
Moritz Lazarus, the professor of psychology at the University of Bern who was
an outspoken opponent of ant-Semitism and who held several leadership roles in
the German Jewish community including the presidency of Jewish Synod of Leipzig
and the Berlin branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.
1825(3rd of Tishrei, 5586):Tzom Gedaliah
1825(3rd of Tishrei, 5586): Mtailda de Symons the
daughter of Arron de Symons and Matlida Israel passed away today after which
she was buried in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1825:
The foundation stone for Ararat was laid in Buffalo, New York. Ararat was to be
a city of refuge for displaced Jews. It was to be on Grand Island in the
Niagara River. Apparently Mordechai Noah, the self-appointed leader of the
Jewish community was not bothered by the conflict with today’s fast.
1827(23rd
of Elul, 5587): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Leil Selichot observed
1829(17th
of Elul, 5589): Alsace, France, native Mayer Lippmann, the “on of Raphaël Isaac
Lippmann and Jutelé Lippmann” and husband of Madeleine Lippmann passed away
today at Verdun.
1830:
George Novra married Rebecca Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.
1830:
Sixty-year-old William Huskisson who presented “a petition signed by 2000
citizens of Liverpool” which was the first step toward gaining full citizenship
for the Jews passed away today.
1834:
Birthdate of Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke, one of the first prominent
German leaders to take a leading role in the anti-Semitic attacks that began in
Germany in the last three decades of the 19th century. His lament that “The Jews are our misfortune”
would become the motto of Der Stürmer Nazi newspaper published by Julius
Streicher the Nazi leader who was hung at Nuremberg after having been convicted
of committing “crimes against humanity.”
1837:
One day after they had died in a fire in the Strand Theatre, Harry Harris and
his daughter Esther Harris were buried today at the Brady Jewish Cemetery.
1837:
Benjamin and Rosa Vallentine gave birth to Nathan Vallentine.
1838(25th
of Elul, 5598): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed on the day
that “Frederick Douglas married Anna Murray, “a free black woman from
Baltimore’ after which they moved to New Bedford.
1838(25th
of Elul, 5598): Eighty-year-old London born Humphrey Mordecai Marks, the
husband of Frances Marks and the father of Alexander, Elias, Frederick and
Isaac Marks, passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1838(25th
of Elul, 5598): Eighty-year-old London native Humphrey Mordecai Marks, the
husband of Frances Marks and long-time resident of Charleston, SC passed away
today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in
Columbia, SC.
1839
Birthdate of Saint-Denis native Marie Clément Jules Alexis Ballot-Beaupré the
president of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation and rapporteur to the
Court's combined chambers of during the first quashing of the verdict that had
condemned Dreyfus who was president of the Court for the second trial that
ended in Dreyfus's rehabilitation.
1841(29th
of Elul, 5601): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1849:
The first synagogue in South Africa, Tikvat Yisrael, was dedicated in Cape
Town.
1850(9th
of Tishrei, 5611): Erev Yom Kippur
1850:
“On Yom Kippur Eve, in the first example of the blood libel hysteria in the
U.S., a mostly Irish Brooklyn mob of 500, including policemen, wrecked a Jewish
home and adjoining synagogue because of rumors that Jews had killed a Christian
girl.”
1854:
In Stopkov, Slovakia, Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, the son of Admor Chaim
Halberstam and his wife Hanna Rachel Halberstram gave birth to Rabbi Avraham
Shalom Halberstam.
1854:
In Bohemia, Nannie Berman and Wolfgang Sadler gave birth to Bernard Sadler who Officiated,
during the holidays, at South Bend, Ind., 1894-1895; and Owensboro, Ky., 1897
before serving as the Rabbi of Montefiore Congregation which was organized at
Cairo, IL in 1894.
Montefiore
Congregation in 189
1854:
The second Jewish synagogue built in Boston was consecrated today. The synagogue was erected by German Jews who
had left the city’s other synagogue which was controlled by Polish Jews.
1855(3rd
of Tishrei, 5616): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva observed on the day when
The Act to Punish Offences Against Slave Property which was passed by the
Legislative Assembly of Kansas Territory on August 14, 1855, was to take
effect.
1856:
Mina (Halfin) and Abraham Levi gave birth to Levi Napoleon Levi in Victoria,
Texas. Young Levi went “north” for
college (The University of Virginia) where he earned an undergraduate and law
degree by the age of 20. Levi returned
to the Lone Star State where he practiced law in Galveston and became a leader
of the civil and Jewish communities. Eventually he would become President of
the National Order of B’nai Brith. He
passed away in 1904.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fle75
1857:
Birthdate of Minsk native Esther Bracha Holstein Ehrlich, the wife of Aaron
Moshe Ehrlich, the mother of Abraham, Simon, Robert, Harry, Anna and Rachel
Ehrlich.
1857:
James Finn of the British Council in Jerusalem wrote to the foreign ministry
offering a plan to settle Jews in agriculture in Eretz-Israel to help the land
prosper.
1857: Birthdate of William Howard Taft the only man
to serve as President and then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Taft served one term of President sandwiched
between Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Taft was the first President to attend a Seder. In 1912, when he visited Providence, RI, he participated in the
family Seder of Colonel Harry Cutler, first president of the National Jewish
Welfare Board.
Nineteen- twelve was an election year and possibly Taft’s attendance at
Cutler’s Seder was an attempt to shore up his political support among Jewish
voters. In 1911, he had angered many
Jewish leaders with his stand on the issue of passports for Jews wanting to go
to Russia. As part of a series of
anti-Semitic actions, Russians were refusing to issue passports to American
Jews who want to go to Russia for business reasons. Taft basically told a meeting of American
Jewish leaders to call off their pressure to get the Russians to stop this
discrimination against American citizens.
To Taft’s credit he vetoed an immigration bill that contained a literacy
requirement designed to keep Jews and others from Eastern Europe out of the
United States. The proposal came as Jews
were seeking to flee the rising tide of pogroms that had swept Russia during
the opening decade of the 20th century.
1858:
In Montreal Cantor Abraham de Sola and Esther de Sola gave birth to Clarence
Isaac de Sola, the husband of Belle Maud de Sola.
1860:
In Cleveland, OH, Benjamin and Hannah Straus Peixotto gave birth to France
Corinne Peixotto who became Frances Corinne “Fannie” Peixotto Bloom when she
married Louisville, KY native Isadore Nathan Bloom
1862:
During the Civil War, Company D of Cameroon’s Dragoons, a Union Cavalry
regiment founded and commanded by Max Friedman took part in an expedition the
left for Indiantown, NC, today while Companies F and H moved toward Drummond
Lake.
1864(14th
of Elul, 5624): Joel Ellis, “the infant child of J.J. Ellis and his wife
Marguerite” passed away today after which he was buried at the Brompton Jewish
Cemetery (As reported by Cemetery Scribes)
1863(2nd
of Tishrei, 5624): As Jews observe the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah “President
Lincoln used the authority granted him under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act
to suspend habeas corpus throughout the Union in any case involving prisoners
of war, spies, traitors, or any member of the military.
1865:
Zillah Simon and Samuel Henry Beddington gave birth to George Stuart
Beddington.
1865:
In Ligonier, Indiana founding the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society which meets
on the second Wednesday of each month.
1866:
In Hungary, Tobias and Helen Sarah Burger gave birth American cigar maker and
tobacco salesman Joseph Burger, the husband of Mary Prince who became a
successful New York restaurant owner as President of the Burger Lunch Company
while serving as board member for several organizations including the Denver
Shelter Home for Jewish Children, the Beth Abraham Home for Incurables, the
Guild for Jewish Blind and the Ohab Zedek Talmud Torah.
1868:
In New York, Miriam Maduro Davis, the New York born daughter of Dr. Daniel
Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her
husband Michael Marks Davis gave birth
to Eva L. Davis.
1868: In Kovno, Solomon Rabinovitz and his wife
gave birth to Joseph Rabinovitz who served as the rabbi of Congregation B’nai
Jacob in Rock Island, Il before moving on to Congregation Adas Jeshuren in
Sioux City, IA.
1868:
In the Ukraine, Muriel and Samuel Rattner gave birth to Clara Chasia Hochberg
the wife of Rabbi Enoch Henry Hochberg.
1869(10th
of Tishrei, 5630): Jews observe Yom Kippur for the first time under the
Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1870:
In Baltimore, Arianna née Handy and Otto Sutro gave birth to Rose Sutro, the
niece of the first Jewish mayor of San Francisco, who with her younger sister
Ottilie would form on of the first, if
not the first, duo-piano teams.
1870:
Birthdate of Rachel Hirsch, the daughter Mendel Hirsch, the director of the
girls’ school serving the Jewish religious community in Frankfurt am Main. In a move that was unusual for her time, she
became a doctor in German and a professor at Charité.
1870:
Future Dreyfusard Clément Moras became the imperial prosecutor in Saint-Girons
1871(29th
of Elul, 5631): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1872:
Birthdate of Czeranch, Hungary native Abraham Gottlieb, the husband of Rose
Gottlieb, with whom he had two children, Belmont and Beatrice Gottlieb, and the
brother of Israel Gottlieb with whom he formed Gottlieb Brothers, “the largest
manufacturers of popular furs in this country and whose factory enrolls from 300
to 400 hands” who is affiliat4d with both Ohab Zedek and Anshe Emeth Congregation
of West Harlem.
1872:
It was reported today that presidential candidate Horace Greely had “indecently
insulted the Hebrews” while speaking in Chappaqua, NY. [Greely was running against U.S. Grant who
would garner the majority of Jewish votes]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E05E1DE1F38EF34BC4D52DFBF668389669FDE
1873:
Birthdate of Max Abraham who was buried at the Landstuhl Jewish Cemetery in
German when passed away fifty years later.
1873(23rd
of Elul, 5633): Seventy-two Samuel Jacobs, a native of the Isle of Sheppey who
became a “dealer in works of art” passed away today in London.
1873:
In Bellefonte, PA, Rosa Grauer and Adolph Loeb gave birth to Herbert Adolph
Loeb.
1874:
Birthdate of Gomel native Nicholas Dobkin, the Columbia University trained
medical doctor.
1874:
Birthdate of Sam Lefkowitz who shares a burial plot with Esther, Shimon and
Anna Lefkowitz.
1875:
Birthdate of Philadelphia real estate broker Horace Groskin.
1875:
Birthdate of Pinsk native and University of Baltimore trained physician Nathan
Ratnoff, the medical director of Beth Israel Hospital and the “head of the
American Jewish Physicians Committee which raised one -third of the funds for
the Rothchild-Hadassah – University Hospital and Medical School on Mt. Scopus.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/27/104398386.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1876:
Birthdate of German born American composer and conductor Bruno Walter
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/18/113414871.pdf
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Walter-Bruno.htm
1877:
In Minsk, Phyliss Goldberg and Solomon Joseph Brody gave birth to Louis Jacob
Brody, a father of six who passed away in 1966 in Dedham, MA.
1877:
Birthdate of Jakob Ehrlich the Austrian lawyer and early Zionist leader whose
service in the Austrian Army during WW I did not save him from being beaten to
death at Dachau.
1878(3rd
of Tishrei, 5548): Shabbat Shuva (the fast is put off out respect for the
Sabbath)
1878:
Birthdate of University of Pennsylvania and Temple University alum Mark Groskin
the real estate and insurance broker who was a member of the American Jewish
Congress.
1878:
“Lessing’s Dramas” published today reviews the three finest plays by Gotthold
Ephraim Lessing which include “Nathan the Wise” which was written in 1779. In
Nathan the Wise, Lessing succeeds in his “aim is to present a perfect ideal
embodiment of the spirit of toleration” which this “a powerful drama.” “The
Germans love this drama” which features “this wise and noble hearted Jew” “and
place it beside Faust as one of their two finest classics.”
1878:
Birthdate of Jennie Weiner who was buried in Waldheim Jewish Cemetery when she
passed away in 1927.
1879:
It was reported today that the population of Romania is 4,582,602 of which
270,000 are Jewish.
1879:
In Anykščiai, which is now part of Lithuania Abel Komaiko and Rebecca Zelesnik,
an aunt of movie producer David O. Selnick gave birth to Solomon Barcuh Komaiko
(S.B. Komaiko) whose varied career made him “one of the 100 most influential
Chicago Jews in the 20th century, a champion of Lithuanian
independence at the Versailles Peace Conference, an ardent Zionist and author
whose style was compared to Shalom Aleichem.
1879:
It was reported today that the Foreign Minister of Romania is continuing to
offer arguments for not allowing Jews to become citizens of his country as was
agreed to during the meeting of the European Powers in Berlin. He contends that
they can be subjects without being citizen of the country. He describes the Jews “by their customs,
their traditions and their aspirations” as forming a “foreign colony, a species
of German colony” in Romania. (This
charge comes at the same time that the growing anti-Semitic movement in Germany
is attacking Jews as being aliens)
1880(10th
of Tishrei, 5641): Yom Kippur
1880:
“The Church Question” published today described the condition of religion in
the United States which “is not a Christian nation.” This is “a Christian land inasmuch as that
form of religion prevails among our people…but the government has only
government political relations with its subjects and makes no discrimination
between Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, believers of any kind and absolute
unbelievers.
1881:
It was reported today that leaders of several Jewish communities in the eastern
provinces of Germany have appealed to their co-religionist in Berlin “to exert
their influence” with the authorities to provide them protections during riots
which they fear will come during the upcoming holiday season which begins on
September 23, Erev Rosh Hashanah
1881:
Reports published today described the passage of 400 Russian Jews who have gone
through Lemberg on their way to the United States.
1881:
In Newark, NY, Bertha Kusky and Siegfried Kohn gave birth to JTS trained rabbi Jacob Kohn the husband of
Augusta Hirsch and leader of Temple Ansche Chesed in New York who during World
War I “conducted services at General Headquarters at Chaumont France” and who
“served at the front for several days at a field hospital for several days
during the San Minhel Drive” that led to the defeat of the Germans in November
of 1918.
1882(2nd
of Tishrei, 5643): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1882:
In Maryland, Cantor Herman Glass and Rachel Glass gave birth to Rena (Rivka)
Gass who became Rena Cohn when she married Jacob Cohn with whom she had four
children.
1882:
Henry and Bella Seegman gave birth to University of Pittsburgh trained
otolaryngologist Simon Seegman, a member of the staff of the Montefiore
Hospital, the Jewish Home for Babies and the Jewish Home for the Aged in
Pittsburgh, PA.
1883:
In Suwalk, Poland, “a successful iron merchant and great Jewish scholar” and his
wife gave birth to Jacob Kovinsky, the husband
of Ida Sterling with whom he had four daughters and the owner of successful
metal businesses in Pontiac and Detroit who owns real estate in those two
Michigan cities valued at $125,000 and who was a member of Beth El in Detroit
as well as a founder and President of the congregation in Pontiac.
1883:
Birthdate of Kovno native, Israel Sack, a leading antique dealer, the founder
and head of Israel Sack, Inc which is now being run by his sons “Albert, Harry
and Robert” that he raised with his wife “Mrs. Ann Goodman Sacks.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/05/89192543.pdf
1884:
Birthdate of Russian native William Tiep, the philanthropist and officer
in B’nai B’rith who was a resident of
Cedar Rapids, IA
1884: Birthdate of Baltimore undertaker Jack
Lewis, the husband of Hannah Bogatzky
and the director of the Jack Lewis Funeral Home which was founded in
1902.
https://jewishmuseummd.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Lewis%2C%20Jack
1885:
Birthdate of Hanover native Leopold Philipp, a graduate of the Hebrew Technical
Institute and Colonel in the National Guard who went to become consulting
engineer in New York where he was active in various civic organization
including the Red Cross.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B05E2DA153FE533A25756C1A96F9C94649FD7CF
1885:
It was reported today that 4-year-old John Franze and Abraham Schmidt caught
smallpox from a fellow student with whom they attend Hebrew School at 127 Pitt
Street in New York.
1885:
In Hawaii, Morris and Augusta “Gussie” Lightner Hyman gave birth to U.C.
Berkeley trained architect Samuel Lightner Hyman who “is especially known for
designing the Jewish Community Center, Hebrew Home for the Aged, and Sinai
Memorial Chapel Mortuary, all in San Francisco and the mausoleum called Portals
of Eternity at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma.”
https://www.askart.com/artist/Samuel_Lightner_Hyman/11004519/Samuel_Lightner_Hyman.aspx
1885:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native and University of Pennsylvania graduate Dr.
Arthur D. Goldhaft, the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and founder of the
Vineland Poultry Laboratory which was “devoted to poultry disease prevention
who was the “consultant in vocational agriculture for the Hadassah Youth
Reference Board” and the husband of Florence Goldhaft with whom he raised two
children – Helen and Tevis – both of whom became veterinarians.
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Egg-Autobiography-Arthur-Goldhaft/dp/B00XLWJAQO1886: In Paris, Lucien
Lévy, an examiner at the École Polytechnique and his wife gave birth to Paul
Pierre Lévy a French mining engineer and mathematician who contributed to
probability, functional analysis, partial differential equations and series.
1886:
Birthdate of Louis Caplan the University of Pittsburgh trained lawyer and the
“11th national President of the American Jewish Committee”
1887:
In New York, Henry and Lilli (Hofimer) Goldsmith gave birth to CCNY graduate
Alfred Norton Goldsmith, the holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia and husband of
Elsie Borg who was a pioneer in the field of radio engineering.
1887:
Birthdate of Chicago native and Armour Institute trained mechanical engineer
Benjamin B. Lipsner the WWI captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was “the
first superintendent of the U.S. Post Offices air mail division.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/people/benjamin-b-lipsner
1888(10th
of Tishrei, 5649): Yom Kippur
1888:
Birthdate of Wiznig, Austria native and graduate of both City College and NYU
Jacob Jablonower, the husband of the former Hannah Sonnenfeld and public-school
teacher whose students included Senator Jacob K. Javits and author Harry
Golden.
1888:
In Kovno, Etta Caplan and Morris House gave birth to
Dickinson College and JTS graduate Louis Jacob
Haas, the husband of Ida Levin who served as a rabbi at congregations in
“Harrisburg and Reading, PA, Stamford, CT and Woodside, Queens” as well a
chaplain at Bellevue Hospital and as “vice president of the National Federation
of Jewish Men’s Clubs.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/05/20/90501336.pdf
1889:
Six days after she had passed away, 27-year-old Amy Judith Levy, the daughter
of Lewis Levy and the former Isabella Levin, was buried today at the Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.
1889:
Judge Henry M. Goldfogle and Mr. Warley M. Patzek addressed the attendees at
the ceremonies celebrating the dedication of the Temple to be used by
Congregation of Mount Sinai which is located on 72nd Street in
Manhattan.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404E6DE1130E633A25755C1A96F9C94689FD7CF
1889:
Members of Shaar Hashomyim (Gates of Heaven) gathered today to celebrate the
dedication of their new sanctuary on East 15th Street near Third
Avenue. The congregation was founded in 1839 and was moved from the current
facility on Rivington Street. Built in
1865 with seating for 1,000, the congregation was forced to move again because
it had outgrown this facility.
1890(1st of Tishrei, 5651):
Rosh Hashanah
1890(1st of Tishrei, 5651): A
fight broke out in a synagogue at Trenton, NJ, when Max Rodden, the
congregation’s former rabbi and some of his followers tried “to take part in
the prayers after they had been warned to keep away.
1890: “A September New Year’s Day”
published today described the presentation of “a set of silver and gold
ornaments” for the Torah by J.H. Schiff and Mrs. Theresa Schiff to Lewis May
who accepted them on behalf of Temple Emanu-El
1890: It was reported today that as
Rachel Greenberg and two of her children left the Barge House to begin their
new lives in the United States, she gave the fruit and candy which her two
other sons had brought as welcoming gift to a group of Polish Jewish children
who were still begin detained.
1891: Birthdate of Ada Meyer Sweddler,
the wife of Nathan Sweedler and the mother of Leonore and Edward Sweedler.
1891: The London Opera Company composed
of six Polish Jewish men and 2 Polish Jewish women were stranded in Providence,
R.I., tonight because the managers had fled and taken all of the money with
them.
1891: In Richmond, VA, Minnie Thalhimer ,
the Hungarian born daughter of Rabbi Dr. Aaron Albert Siegfried Bettelheim and
Anna Henrietta (Yetta) Bettelheim and her husband Jacob E. Thalhimer, the son
of William Thalheimer and Miriam (Mary) Thalhimer gave birth to Albert Felix
Tallmer, the “ex-husband of Ilona Marion Muller-Munk and father of Jerry
Tallmer and Jonathan (John) Tallmer
1892: The SS Nevada arrived in New York
from Liverpool via Queenstown carrying 900 steerage passengers none of whom are
Russian Jews which lessens the authorities that they will have deal with
cholera.
1892: Elke and Herschel Gitlow gave birth
to Abe Gitlow the husband of Augusta Gitlow.
1893: Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Feinberg
who had been shot in the face by her frustrated boyfriend yesterday was a
patient at Gouverneur Hospital where doctors say “she will be disfigured for
life.
1893: Birthdate of Chicago native Harry
Trust, a civil engineer who worked for the Union Pacific and “who served many
terms on the city council and was one of the drafters of the present city
charter. Jews as a group have been politically influential since the 1890s.”
1893: Bernhard Weinberger, the banker who
had offices in Essex, Grand and Huston Streets and who had suffered severe
business losses checked into the Mount Vernon Hotel where he registered as
“Fred Klein” in what may have been an attempt to avoid angry creditors.
1894: Birthdate of Oskar Klein, the famed
Swedish physicist who was the son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb
Klein and Antonie (Toni) Levy.
1894: In Poland, Israel and Bluma Sendak
gave birth to children’s author Philip Sendak “the father of Caldecott Medal
winner Maurice Sendak and children's author Jack Sendak.”
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/philip_sendak
1894: “The Jew Tenderly Handled”
published today provides a review of Lesser’s Daughter by Mrs. Andrew
Dean, the penname of Cecily Wilhelmine Sidgwick who also wrote Scenes of
Jewish Life
1894: Among those listed today to receive
bequests from the late Dr. Bernard Grunhut are Mt. Sinai Hospital and the
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum of New York.
1895: Founding of the Jewish Literary and
Social Club in Shelbyville, KY which holds “holiday services” and conducts a
“religious school.”
1895: Theatrical agent Marcus Mayer
returned to the United States from Paris today with production material that
will be produced “under the exclusive management of Charles Frohman and Al
Hayman.
1895:
In Russia, Wolf and Idessa Tarlowsky gave birth to Salomon Tarlowski who
came to the United States in 1914 where as Solomon “Sol” Tarlow he worked as a
tailor in Roswell, NM where he and his wife Audra Canatsey had three children.
1895: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil of Temple
Emanu-El officiated at the funeral for 50-year-old Bernhard Mainzer,at his home
on East 65th Street followed by burial in the Cypress Hill
Cemetery. Pall bearers included his
partner Henry Budge, Ewald Blathasar, Morris Barr and Hans Sommerhof.
1895: In Louisiana, Rose and Sigmund Kahn
gave birth to Florence Kahn who became Florence Kahn Strauss when she married
Charles Leon Strauss.
1895: In Dresden, art historian Cornelius
Gurlitt and his wife gave birth to Hildebrand Gurlitt, who was able to overcome
the fact that his grandmother was Jewish to become one of those who helped the
Nazis in the looting of art during WW II and continue to hide that stolen art
until his death.
1896: It was reported today that the
German ant-Semite, Dr. Hermann Ahlwardt who has been in the United States since
last December has founded The Gentile
News, a paper that he uses to express his support for William Jennings
Bryan as President while devoting the rest of the space “to violent attack upon
the” Jews.
1896: Colonel George Picquart met with
General Charles-Arthur Gonse, deputy chief of the French general staff. Picquart presented the general with evidence
proving that Dreyfus was innocent. The
general did not dispute the proof but told Picquart that it really did not
matter. The case was closed.
1896: Relying on information that first
appeared in The Chicago Israelite, it was noted today that “Max Nordau and
Theodor Herzl, the leaders of the ‘Zionist Movement’ are avowed Agnostics” who
totally indifferent to Judaism yet “they appeal for and followers only among
the more than extremely orthodox members of their race.”
1896: When David Meyer, an unemployed
locksmith applied for a job at butcher shop owned by John Dangels he was
assaulted by the owner who said “You can’t work here for I hate sheenys.”
1898: Joe Bernstein, the Jewish featherweight
fought Hall of Fame boxer George Dixon to “a six round no decision” today.
1898: Fifty-three-year-old William Ulick
O'Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart, the son-in-law of Jewish banker Henri Louis
Bischoffsheim and the husband of Ellen Odette Cuffe “the most important Jewish
woman in Irish history” passed away today.
1898: Birthdate of Novorodko, Russia,
native Abraham Gribetz who came to the United States in 1902 who devoted his
life to the Hebrew Free Loan Society.
1898: Birthdate of Isador Gottlieb, the
native of Kiev who gained fame as basketball maven Eddie Gottlieb, the first
coach and manager of the Philadelphia Warriors in the National Basketball
Association.
1899: “The Ghetto” by Dutch dramatist
Henrik Hyermann and with an English adaption by American author Chester Bailey
Fernald is scheduled to open up tonight at the Broadway Theatre in New York
under the direction of Jacob Litt.
1899: “Yom Kippur Fast Ended” published
today described “the merrymaking” that took place on the lower east side “after
the holiday ended” which found “the restaurants and dance hall…filled to
overflowing.”
1899: In a letter published today,
Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist MP said “English sympathy for” Dreyfus
“is entirely due to the fact that he is a rich Jew instead of a poor one and to
the desire to injure a rival nation.”
1900: In Cleveland, OH, “Solomon Gans and
Esther Resnick” gave birth to Howard Gans, the husband of Dorothy Selman.
1900: Benjamin Agruss and Rose Agruss
gave birth to Sally Eleanor Agruss the wife of Bernard E. Margulius
1900: The remnants of the hurricane that had struck Galveston with
devastating force on September 8th were last noted near Iceland today
where the storm finally dissipated while Rabbi Henry Cohen and the members of
Congregation B’nai Israel began the work of rebuilding the
Texas city.
1900: Birthdate of Harvard and Oxford
education David Wainhouse, “international lawyer, author and Deputy Assistant
of State” who was the husband of the former Katherine Cohen.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/21/76383025.html?pageNumber=47
1901(2nd of Tishrei, 5662): Second Day of
Rosh Hashanah
1901: The Tompkin brothers, two cantors
who have just arrived in the United States and a chorus of 150 voices are
schooled to be the highlight of the services being hold today at the Grand
Central Palace.
1902: The reorganized Jewish Theological
Seminary of America which had been endowed by $500,000 and had been given a
building by Jacob H. Schiff opened today “at 736 Lexington Avenue.”
1903: In Boston, installation of the
officers of the Sons of Zion at Webster Hall.
1903: Birthdate of Izrael Icek Krysztal
the native of the village of Malenie in what is now Poland who the world knows
as Israel Kristals, the survivor of two world wars who lost his family in the
Holocaust and who in 2016 at the age of 112 years and 178 days, he was declared
the oldest man in the world. (As reported by Liam Stack)
1904: It was discovered today in
Portland, ME that during the night the cornerstone of the new Jewish synagogue
which had just been laid “had been pushed aside and that a copper box contain a
history of the Jewish people in Portland, collections of coins, records” and
other items “had been stolen.”
1905: It was reported today that Maurice
Untermeyer, the brother of Samuel Untermeyer has returned to the United States
aboard the Hamburg American Line Duetschand where his shipmates included Henry
W. Taft, a brother of Secretary of War William Howard Taft called on “called on
all parties” to support William Travis Jerome for New York County District
Attorney.
1906: Birthdate of Kathryn Kohnfelder the
favorite dancing partner and wife Arthur Murray, the grand old ma of ballroom
dancing who was also known as Moses Teichman, the Galicia born so of Sara and Abraham
Teichman.
1906: Birthdate of speed skater Irving
Warren Jaffe, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who “won two gold medals at
the 1932 Winter Olympics.”
1907: As of today, over the last twelve
months 3,031,810 bottles of pasteurized milk have been provided to the poor
thanks to generosity of Nathan Straus.
1907: “Notes of Foreign Affairs”
published today reported that “the Jewish Emigration Bureau published
statistics showing that 500,000 Jews have emigrated from Russia to the United
States since 1899, the number have increased from 24,275 in that year to 200,000
in 1906” and that many more Jews have “emigrated to England, Canada and South
America.”
1908: In Russia, “The Ministry of the
Interior is preparing the draft of a new law on the matter of Jewish
restrictions” which “enlarges the One of Jewish settlement and removes the
restrictions against Jews holding land” while “the Ministry of Commerce is
engaged in a second project” that will allow “Jewish commercial travelers to
move freely throughout the” Russian Empire.
1908: As of today, over the last twelve
months 4,167,675 bottles of pasteurized milk have been provided to the poor
thanks to generosity of Nathan Straus
1909(29th of Elul, 5669): Erev
Rosh Hashanah
1909: The Association for Relief of
Jewish Widows and Orphans of New Orleans made a $25 contribution today.
1909:
Birthdate of Hackensack, NJ native and vaudeville actor turn movie and
television performer Phil Arnold who appeared in 150 films including
several “Three Stooges” movies suffered a fatal heart attack today.
1909(29th of Elul, 5669):
Reuters reporter James Heckscher the native of Hamburg and resident of London
since 1856 who was the first English journalist “to send back news of President
Lincoln’s assassination” and headed Reuter’s parliamentary staff where he served
as a verbatim reporter” passed away today.
1910: In New York City, Emily Rebecca
Wolff Cardozo and attorney Ernest Abraham Cardozo gave birth to Yale Law School
trained attorney Michael H. Carodoz4th, the first cousin of Supreme Court
Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who was the first executive director of the
Association of American Law Schools, a and an associate professor and professor
at Cornell University Law School, specializing in international law and
admiralty while raising three children with his wife Alice.
191l: In New York, publication of the
first issue of Dos Naye Land, a
Yiddish weekly
1911: In New York City, Supreme Court
Justice Goff refuses the incorporation of congregation “Agudath Achim Kahal
Adath Jeshurun on the grounds that the title should be in English.
1911: The police at Munich expel a large
number of Jewish families who had migrated from Russia and Galicia on charges
of peddling without a license.
1911: Birthdate of New York native Joseph
Pevney, the son of Russian-Jewish watchmaker and WW II veteran whose career
spanned from vaudeville, to the silver screen to the small screen
(television)>
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/31/television
1912(4th of Tishrei, 5673):
Tzom Gedaliah is observed for the last time during the Presidency of William
Howard Taft.
1913(13th of Elul, 5673): Eighty-one-year-old
world traveler and author Ármin Vámbéry passed away today.
http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm
1913: In Denver, CO, Abraham and Sarah
Eckstein Fishman gave birth to Dorothy Fishman Weiss, the sister of Bernard
Fishman.
1913: The trial of Melvin Bellis
began. Called the “Russian Dreyfus
Affair”, the trial is covered by hundreds of journalist from Russia, Europe and
the United States.
1914(24th of Elul, 5674): Wulf
Hoffman passed away.
1914(24th of Elul, 5674): Bene
Kirschner passed away.
1915: As of today, in Patterson New
Jersey, the Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Trhough the War has
raised “more than $4,000 of which $2,500 was contributed by Congregation B’Nai
Israel and the remainder by Congregation Ahavath Joseph.
1915: Colonel John Henry, the non-Jewish
commander of the British Legion, a unit in his majesty’s service described the
Zion Mule Corps in the following words to the Jewish Chronicle:
These brave lads who had never seen shellfire before most
competently unloaded the boats and handled the mules whilst shells were
bursting in close proximity to them … nor were they in any way discouraged when
they had to plod their way to Seddul Bahr, walking over dead bodies while the
bullets flew around them … for two days and two nights we marched … thanks to
the ZMC the 29th Division did not meet with a sad fate, for the ZMC were the
only Army Service Corps in that part of Gallipoli at that time.’
1916:: “Plans for a canvass of more than
100 trades and professional on behalf of the 100 or so Jewish charitable
institutions in New York were completed” this “afternoon at a luncheon in the
Bankers’ Club, held by the Organization Committee of the Federation for the
Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies” and it was also “announced that the
federation would begin a campaign on September 18 to increase the yearly total
of Jewish benefactions from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000.”
1916: “Abram I. Elkus, the newly
appointed American Ambassador to Turkey” is expected “to take up his in the
Turkish capital” today.
1916: It was reported today that 65
American women and children seeking to leave Palestine will board the U.S. Navy
cruiser Des Moines at Jaffa and “will be taken by the cruiser to the nearest
Italian port and transferred to ocean liners for the United States.”
1917: Felix Warburg, the Chairman of the
Joint Distribution committee of the Funds for Jewish War Sufferers issued a
statement today directed the Jewish population of the United States. So far the committee has disbursed over
$8,000,000 to alleviate the suffering of their co-religionist trapped in
war-torn Europe. He reassured that
representatives of the committee were directly, or indirectly, in contact with
and providing aid to, Jewish communities in Russia, Palestine, Rumanian and
various states in the Balkans. He
commended the American Jewish community for raising money for war relief while
still meeting the demands of their local charities. At the end of the statement, he extended them
“my most cordial good wishes for the New Year.”
1917: Birthdate of David Flusser, a
professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem who passed away in 2000.
1917: Birthdate of Philadelphia native
Abraham Allen Weintraub, who served as hospital administrator for St. Vincent
Infirmary, the Catholic hospital in Little, AR.
1918(9th of Tishrei, 5679): Erev Yom
Kippur
1918: David Rothschild, the Frankfurt born
son of Stella and Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, and his wife Stefanis Rothschild
gave birth to future Stockholm resident Hans Rothschild, the husband of Sibylle
Rothschild with whom he had three children.
1918: As Jews prepared to go to the
synagogue for Kol Nidre, General John Pershing commander of the American
Expeditionary Force fighting in Europe sent the following cablegram to Colonel
Harry Cutler of Providence, Rhodes Island, Chairman of the Jewish Welfare
Board, “The stirring message of greetings from the Jewish Welfare Board is much
appreciated…The constant support and cordial assistance of our brothers of the
Jewish faith and the thought that all creeds are united one banner gives
courage to our army and urges us on to victory.” Colonel Cutler replied by saying, “This
message coming on the eve of the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar, the
Day of Atonement will bring cheer to the hearts of millions of American
citizens of the Jewish faith.”
1918: While serving with the 76th
Company of the 6th Marines near Thiaucourt, France, H A (First
Class) Bernard W. Herrman, USN displayed “conspicuous coolness” risking his
life while under heavy artillery fire to evacuate an untold number of wounded
men. (The Navy provided the Medical Corpsmen to serve with Marine combat units.
1919: Birthdate of Heda Bloch, the native
of Prague who gained fame as “Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czech writer and
translator whose memoir, “Under a Cruel Star,” described her imprisonment by
the Nazis during World War II and her persecution by the Communists in the
1950s.”
1919: Today, Louis Lipsky chaired the
second session of the 22nd Annual Convention of the Zionist
Organization of America.
1919: A dinner is scheduled to be held
this evening at the Hotel Astor which will mark the start of the campaign “to
raise $500,000 to cover the new cost of the new home of the Hebrew National
Orphan House on Tuckahoe Road.
1920(3rd of Tishrei, 5681):
Tzom Gedaliah
1920: Dr. Harry J. Moss, the former
superintendent of the Baltimore Hospital is scheduled to begin serving as the
superintendent of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital, “a new
institution in East Brooklyn”
1920: Today is the deadline for sending
requests to the Chief Cemeterial Division of the War Department asking that the
bodies of soldiers, including Jewish soldiers, who are buried in France are
brought back to the United States.
1921: Birthdate of prize-winning author
and MK Moshe Shamir.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moshe-shamir
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/aug/27/guardianobituaries.israel
1922: “Jurisdictional strikes in the
building trades—strikes of one union against another – which have in the last
few years help up millions of dollars’ worth of construction work throughout
the country, were condemned in a resolution adopted today the Executive Council
of the American Federation of Labor which Samuel Gompers was the long time
president.
1922: Birthdate of Polish native Natan
Matjeles who lived in Liege during WW II.
1923(5th of Tishrei, 5684):
Parasaht Vayeilach; Shabbat Shuva
1923: In Brooklyn, Louis Mazlish and the
former Lena Reuben gave birth to M.I.T. historian Bruce Mazlish. (As reported
by Paul Vitello)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/books/bruce-mazlish-richard-nixon.html?_r=0
1924: Birthdate of Mordechai
Hankovich-Hendin who as Mordechai Tzipori served in the Knesset and as Minister
of Communication. Tzipori was born at
Petak Tikva, served with the Irgun before pursuing a career with the IDF.
1924: “With the opening of its founders'
"dream store" today, Saks Fifth Avenue, the brainchild of Horace Saks
and Bernard Gimbel, became the first large retail operation to locate in what
was then primarily a residential district.”
1925: Solomon Mikhoels a “major star and
head of GOSET, the Moscow State Yiddish Theater” who was a victim of Stalin’s anti-Semitic
purges after WW II and his wife gave birth to stage director and teacher of acting skills Professor
Nina Mikhoels, the sister of Natalia Solomonovna Vovsi-Mikhoels and
sister-in-law of composer Moisey Samuilovich Vainberg
https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/item/38154?page=1
1925: Today, Max Fleischer and Dave
Fleischer who pioneered the use of the “Follow the Bouncing Ball” device
“released “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” which “was the first film to use the
follow the bouncing ball gimmick.”
1926: Southpaw featherweight Harry
Blitman fought his third bout which was also his third victory – this time by a
knockout.
1927: Birthdate of Boston native and
stand-up comedian Norm Crosby.
1927: “Wills $100 for Ice Cream Fete on
Anniversary of Her Birth” published today described the terms of the will of
Jennie Lewinsohn that included a stipulation that “one hundred dollars ‘to
defray the costs of an ice cream festival to be given in her name on the first
anniversary of her birth occurring after her death’ which is left to the Home
for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.”
1927: It was reported today that “the
Jewish Telegraphic sent out a report to the effect that H.D. Naumberg, the
Jewish Polish publicist and one of the informants of Max D. Steuer on his
recent trip abroad regarding the distribution of Jewish relief funds since the
war, has denied by cable that ‘he told Mr. Steuer he suspects the Joint
Distribution Committee of wasting relief funds.’”
1928(1st of Tishrei, 5698):
Rosh Hashanah observed as Al Smith, the first Roman Catholic to run for
President campaigns against Herbert Hoover
1928; “Luckee Girl,” with lyrics by Max
and Nathaniel Lief opened on Broadway at the Casino Theatre.
1929: In
“Lower Manhattan, Arthur and Pauline (Rechstein) Gell-Mann gave birth to Nobel
Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann who studied and clarified the puzzling phenomenon
of elementary subatomic particles; classifying them as “quarks” within an
ordering system he called the Eightfold Way. The achievement earned him the
Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969. He also served on the faculties of Chicago
University, Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology.
1929:
Pitcher Ed Wineapple made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1930:
Banker “Felix Warburg, the chairman of the administrative committee of Jewish
Agency for Palestine returned today on the North German Lloyd liner Europa from
the meetings of that committee” and “expressed satisfaction at the progress
that had been made” while reiterating “his confidence in the assurances given
him to him of sympathetic British governmental cooperation in the solution of
the problems in the development of Palestine.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/09/16/102161535.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1931:
Filming of “The Trunks of Mr. O.F.” co-starring Peter Lore and Hedy Lamarr
began today.
1932(14th
of Elul, 5692): Forty-nine-year-old Arkansas native Harry “Klondike” Kane
(Harry Cohen) the southpaw who pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis
Brown and the Detroit Tigers in the first decade of the 20th century
passed away today.
1932:
A week after being released in Austria, “Sehnsucht 202,” a German musical
produced by Arnold Pressburger and written by Emeric Pressburger that marked
the screen debut of Luise Rainer was released in Germany today.
1933
(24 Elul 5693): Israel Meir Hacohen, the Hafetz Hayim passed away. Born in 1838, he was prominent Talmudic
leader and author who among other accomplishments wrote commentaries on the Sifra
and Musser. Earning his living as a teacher and later founding a
yeshiva, he consistently refused a rabbinical position. This was partly based
on his belief that "he who hates gifts shall live." Rabbi Yisroel
Meir HaKohen was one of the greatest figures in modern Jewish history. He was
recognized as both an outstanding scholar and an extraordinarily righteous man.
His impact on Judaism was phenomenal. It is interesting to note that, despite
his great stature, he refused to accept any rabbinical position and supported
himself from a small grocery run by his saintly wife in the town of Radin where
they lived. Rabbi Yisroel Meir devoted himself to the study and teaching of
Torah. “Rabbi Yisroel Meir is perhaps best known for his campaign to teach his
fellow Jews about the laws of Lashon Hara (forbidden speech). His first
book, Chofetz Chaim, was devoted to this topic. (The name comes
from T’hilim (Psalms)
34, "Who is the man that desires life (chofetz chaim)… keep your
tongue from evil…." He later published two more books on this subject. The
Chofetz Chaim wrote on many subjects and ultimately published over 20 books.
Some important ones are Ahavas Chesed (Love of Kindness)
on the mitzvah of lending money, Machaneh Yisroel (The
Jewish Camp) for Jews serving in non-Jewish armies, and Nidchei
Yisroel (The Scattered of Israel) for Jews who moved to places
where there were few religious Jews, particularly America. He wrote books about
the importance of Torah study and many other important issues. Probably the
most important book he wrote was the Mishna
Berurah, a six volume commentary on Shulchon Aruch, Orach
Chaim (which deals with the laws of daily life and holidays).”
1933:
Anne Frank’s father flees Germany and moves to Amsterdam where he opens a firm
that sells spices and pectin for jam.
1934(6th
of Tishrei, 5695): Shabbat Shuva
1934:
“The Scarlet Empress” a biopic about Catherine the Great directed by Josef von
Sternberg who produced the film along with Emanuel Cohen and co-starring Sam
Jaffe was released in the United States today
1934:
Sufi Abdul Hamid, a self-styled “Egyptian Black Hitler” allegedly made
utterances against Jews “at an open-air meeting” today “at 125th
Street and Seventh Avenue.
1935:
The anti-Semitic Nuremberg racial laws were passed by the Nazis. The Nuremberg
Laws defined Reich Citizenship. Citizens of Germany had to be of kindred
blood. All Jews were defined as not
being of German blood as a matter of law.
This legalized the division between Aryans and non-Aryans. Jews were defined as anyone with at least one
Jewish grandparent. The Jews are returned to the legal position they had
occupied in Germany before their emancipation in the 19th century. Jews can no
longer exist as German citizens or marry non-Jews. At this time, the swastika was adopted as the
official symbol of Germany; a symbolic sign of the Nazification of Germany.
1935(17th
of Elul, 5695): Seventy-eight-year-old Chaim Hirschson, the native of Safed and son of Yaakov Mordechai
Hisrschson who was the editor of Jewish writings and Chief Rabbi of Hoboken, NJ
passed away today.
1936:
“President Roosevelt today extended New Year greetings to Jewish citizens,
voicing the hope that the year would bring them prosperity and happiness.”
1936:
“Julius Streicher again employed the opportunity provided by a Nazi party
congress to further his plans for an international, not simply a German,
campaign against Jews.”
1936:
“The executive committee of the World Jewish Congress protested today to the
League of Nations against ‘the campaign of threats and defamation organized
methodically at the Nuremberg congress by the highest dignitaries of the German
Government and the Nazi party’” declaring that “the German allegation that
Judaism and bolshevism are identical is absurd.”
1936:
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hulll delivered a speech tonight at the dinner
hosted by the Good Neighbor League in which he outlined the cornerstones and
parameters of American foreign policy including that “in a democracy, even in
the short run the policies of the government must rest upon the support of the
people.” (Editor’s Note – this view
should be kept in mind by anyone trying to understand the actions of the
Roosevelt administration when it comes to events leading up to and during the
Holocaust.”
1936:
Accompanied by officials and prominent members of the Federation of Polish Jews
in America, the Maccabees of Tel Aviv, soccer champions of Palestine received
an official welcome to New York from Mayor La Guardia at the City Hall.
1936:
Birthdate of Toronto native Dr. Albert Stanley “Al” Bergman, the psychologist
and McGill University professor best
known for having defined and conceptually organized the field of
Auditory scene analysis (ASA) in his 1990 book, Auditory Scene Analysis: the
perceptual Organization of Sound
http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/Group2/abregm1/web/
1937(10th
of Tishrei, 5698): Yom Kippur
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that
British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden addressed the League of Nations Council,
meeting in Geneva. Eden said that in the search for a successful solution to
the Palestine crisis Britain was not committed to any definite scheme. He urged
sending a new, special League of Nations Commission to Palestine to seek the
ways to implement the Royal (Peel) Commission's recommended partition and to
negotiate with Jews and Arabs on the provisional boundaries of their proposed
states.
1937: Abdel Barkawi, one of the leaders of the
opposition to the Husseini family, was killed by an Arab terrorist in Jenin.
1938:
In “Arab Nations Lose Zeal on Palestine,” published today Joseph M. Levy
reports that based on reliable information provided by sources in Syria, which
is the “headquarters of the Palestinian Arab rebellion,” German and Italian
money is subsidizing Arab terrorism in Palestine.
1938:
Awards have been
made by the French Government to American designers and artists who
participated in the 1937 International Exposition at Paris, according to
announcement yesterday by Paul Lester Wiener designer and technical adviser to
the United States Commission at the exposition who is the husband of Alma
Morgenthau and the son-in-law of Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
1938:
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany “where he meets
with Hitler” at Berchtesgaden to discuss the crisis that the Nazi leader has
manufactured over the Sudeten Land, a portion of Czechoslovakia populated by
ethnic Germans.
1939:
Charles Lindbergh delivers a speech where he calls for American neutrality that
contains veiled implications that the Jews are behind any war effort when he
asks “who owns and who influences newspaper, the news picture and the radio
station.”
1940:
Two massive waves of German attacks were decisively repulsed by the RAF. The
German defeat caused Hitler to order, two days later, the postponement of
preparations for the invasion of Britain. Although the Blitz would last until
October, the decision to call of the invasion meant, among other things, that
the Jews of the British Isles would not fall victim to the Shoah. Henceforth,
in the face of mounting losses in men, aircraft and the lack of adequate
replacements, the Luftwaffe switched from daylight to night-time bombing. There
was a significant number of Jews (for the size of their population) serving
with the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Among the Jews who flew for the RAF
was Lt Michael Oser Weizmann, the son of Chaim Weizmann who was killed when his
plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay in 1942. The body was never recovered.
1940:
Two days after he passed away erev Shabbat, funeral services are scheduled to
be held for David Rosenthal at the Bethel Chapel of Temple Emanu-El
1940:
“The unveiling of a monument to the memory of Mollie Greenberg is scheduled to
take place this morning at Mount Zion Cemetery.”
1940:
The unveiling of a monument to the memory of Sarah Kirsch, the wife of Hyman
Hirsch and mother of May Shurock and Morris Kirsch is scheduled to take place
this morning at the Montefiore Cemetery.
1940: “At six in the morning, the police surrounded
the house” where Leon Blum was staying and arrested him and incarcerated him
“in a medieval castle at Chazeron in the Massif Central.”
1941(23rd
of Elul, 5701): The Nazis killed 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
1941(23rd
of Elul, 5701): Eighteen thousand Jews are murdered at Berdichev, Ukraine.
1941:The
Orson Wells Show, known as Lady Esther Presents Orson Wells because it was
sponsored by Syma Cohen’s Lady Esther Cosmetic company premiered on radio
today.
1942: The Nazis begin deporting the Jewish community of Kalush, Ukraine, to
the Belzec death camp. It will take 48 hours to complete this vile task.
1942:
Mala Zimetbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish woman to escape from
Auschwitz-Birkenau was shipped to from Belgium to Auschwitz today aboard
Transport 10.
1942(4th of Tishrei, 5703): The Nazis began the weeklong
process of murdering the
Jewish community from Kamenka, Ukraine, at the Belzec death camp.
1942:
Fifty-seven-year-old George Abrahamsohn left Berlin on a transport for Terezin,
the next stop on his way to Auschwitz where he was murdered a month later.
1942:
Sixty-nine-year-old Olga Lehman left Berlin on a transport for Terezin.
1942:
One thousand Jews were deported from Lille, France to Auschwitz. Among the deportees were Mozes Hirschsprung,
his wife Helene and their two little children.
Mozes had been born at Auschwitz in 1901 and Helene had been born there
in 1909. At that time, it was border
town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Between the world wars, the family had moved to Amsterdam. They moved to Lille after the start of the
war because it would be safer there. In
the end, they would be murdered two miles from the place of their birth. Forty-eight-year-old
Fanny Yerkowski was also among the deportees.
A native of London, she had married a French man before WW II and had
settled in Lille. Twenty-one-year-old
Bernice Winer was also a deportee. She was a citizen of neutral
Switzerland. To the Nazis, a Jew was a
Jew was a Jew regardless of his or her nationality. [Source – Holocaust
Journey by Martin Gilbert]
1943(15th
of Elul, 5703): Sixty-seven-year-old Richard Beuthner one of the Jews who had
survived in Berlin under the Nazis died today in the German capital city.
1943: By the middle of September members of the
corpse-burning detail at the Sobibór death camp, had built an escape tunnel
intended to lead them into the camp minefield. Most of the 150 members of the
detail are killed.
1943:
Commandant Kappler, the SS attaché at the German embassy in Rome summoned Ugo
Foa, President of the Rome-Jewish Community to his office and informed him that
the Jews of Rome might avoid deportation if they could give him fifty kilograms
of gold with the next thirty-six hours
1944(27th
of Elul, 5704): Mala Zimetbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish woman to
escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau was sadistically murdered today.
http://www.isurvived.org/Frameset4References-2/-Mala-Ed.html
1944:
One thousand, five hundred young boys were taken to the Children's Block at
Birkenau. Three days later, on Rosh Hashanah Eve, they would be sent to the gas
chambers.
1944:
“Bride by Mistake,” a romantic comedy based on a story by Norman Krasna with a
script by Phoebe and Henry Ephron was released today in the United States.
1945(8th
of Tishrei, 5706): Shabbat Shuva
1945:
At the West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said, “On
this Sabbath of Repentance let us decide to return to our God in prayer and
thanksgiving.
1945:
It was reported today that “Jewish men and women in the armed forces both at
home and abroad will receive opportunity to attend religious services” marking
the observance of the Day of Atonement which starts tomorrow evening
1945:
“Declaring that the peculiar role of Israel is to call the world to repentance,
the Synagogue Council of America” issued a Yom Kippur message today that read,
in part, “The ravaged world, the millions of displace people of broken families
of destroyed lands and decimated nations and above all, the terrifying
implications of the discovery of atomic energy, are proof that humanity needs a
new tur, a return to its spiritual and moral source.”
1946(19th
of Elul, 5706): Eighty-five-year-old English author and manuscript collector
Elkan Nathan Adler, the son of “Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British
Empire” passed away today.
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/adler-elkan-nathan
1947(1st
of Tishrei, 5708): David Levin celebrates his first Rosh Hashanah
1947:
Rabbi Charles E. Shulman, the WWII Navy chaplain the former spiritual leader of
North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL is scheduled to lead his first
Rosh Hashanah morning service at the Riverdale Temple today.
1947:
“O’Dwyer Urges Haven for 250,000 Jews” published today described a speech by
the Mayor of New York in he “proposed the United States” serve “as a haven for
250,000 Jews currently seeking admission to Palestine” and declaring that “If
anyone says there isn’t plenty of room, I’ll show him where it is within 100
miles of New York City.”
1948:
U.S. Naval Academy graduate Henry Emil Bernstein “reported for duty as Naval
Advisor on the staff of the Commanding Officer of the Fort Monmouth (New
Jersey) Area where he was also assigned additional duty as Director of the
Armed Service Electro Standards Agency, Fort Monmouth.”
1948:
Catcher Joe Ginsberg made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1948:
Jewish real estate developer Walter Shorenstein and Phyllis Finey, a convert to
Judaism gave birth to theatrical produce Carole Shorenstein Hays, the wife of Jeff
Hays wit whom she had two children – Wally and Gracie – and sister of CBS
producer Joan Shorenstein and “real estate developer Douglas W. Shornstein.
1948(11th
of Elul, 5708): Forty-nine-year-old Odessa, Russia born violinist and conductor
Jacques Gordon, “the first conductor of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the
head of the Violin Department at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago
who was the husband of Ruth Janeway Gordon and the father of Richard and Noclas
Gordon passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/09/16/94649696.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1949:
ABC broadcast the first episode of “The Lone Ranger” featuring the Masked Man
and his Indian companion Tonto for which Stanley Frazen served as “the
supervising editor.”
1949:
President Truman nominated Casper Platt “to a seat on the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois”
1950:
Today, Jordan’s King Abdullah said that if Israel did not remove its forces
from the disputed land near the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan Rivers
within four days, his government would take military action to dislodge the
Israelis.
1950(4th
of Tishrei, 5711): Fifty-six-year-old jazz violinist and bandleader Dol Dauber,
the father of pianist and cellist Robert Dauber who “was imprisoned at
Theresienstadt” before being shipped to Dachau where he died in 1945, passed
away today.
1951:
On the eve of Hadassah’s 37th annual convention, delegates received
congratulatory telegrams expressing support for the organizations and its goals
from Monnett B. David, United States Ambassador to Israel and President Chaim
Weizmann.
1951(14th
of Elul, 5711): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1951(14th
of Elul, 5711): Eight-nine-year-old Kovno Russia native “Dr. Louis Julius
Ladin, Professor Emeritus of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Polyclinic” the
graduate of City College and Columbia and husband of Evelyn Louise Adler Ladin
who rose to the rank of Lt. Colone while serving with Army Medical Corps during
World War I passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/09/16/88456696.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951:
After 740 performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway
production of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” a Jule Styne musical with a book
co-authored by Joseph Fields.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
government decided to form a Reparations from Germany Purchasing Mission,
attached to the Ministry of Finance. The mission undertook that it would
purchase and use the received goods exclusively for the development in four
fields: agriculture, industry, transportation and power.
1954:
Funeral services are scheduled to take place today for Joseph David Lubinger,
the husband of Beatrice Lubinger and father of Seymour, Julius and Herbert
Lubinger who was an active supporter of Congregation B’nai Israel of Milwood.
1955:
Forty-nine-year-old Eduard Strauch, a Nazi officer who played a key role in the
murder of the Jews of Riga in the Rumbula forest and who had been sentenced to
death twice beat the hangman when he died in a Belgium hospital today.
1955:
Betty Robbins, the world's first female cantor, led Rosh Hashanah evening
services at Temple Avodah of Oceanside, New York. Her appointment as cantor
marked the first time that a woman performed the traditional role of cantor in
a synagogue anywhere in the world. It generated a tremendous amount of
publicity, even making the front page of the New York Times. Robbins had
been unanimously approved as the Reform congregation's cantor by its board of
trustees the previous July, after the congregation found itself without a
cantor for the High Holidays. Although Robbins did not have formal training as
a cantor, she had spent her childhood in Germany singing with her synagogue's
boys' choir, eventually becoming its soloist (once she adopted a boy's haircut
to please the choir's director, who was reluctant to allow a girl to join).
Robbins spent much of the rest of her career teaching religious school and
formed and directed several adult and children's choirs. In her retirement,
Robbins has conducted religious services on many worldwide Jewish holiday
cruises.
1956(10th
of Tishrei, 5717): As Ike and Adlai faced off in the Presidential election,
Jews observed Yom Kippur and Shabbat.
1956:
Washingtonian Fred S. Gichner, the Bielitz born founder of Fred S. Gichner Iron
Works, Inc. a pillar of the Jewish community, father of Henry Gichner and
grandfather of Judy Gichner passed away today.
https://www.doaks.org/library-archives/garden-archives/biographies/fred-s-gichner-iron-works
1957:
The 5th Maccabiah Games opened today in Tel Aviv.
1958(1st
of Tishrei, 5719): For the tenth year in a row, the citizens of an independent
Jewish state celebrate Rosh Hashanah
1958:
CBS broadcast the final episode of the “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”
for which Stanley Frazen served as the supervising editor was broadcast today.
1959(12th
of Elul, 5719): Seventy-two-year-old of Furth native and German trained
mathematician Arthur Rosenthal who was lucky enough to escape from the Nazis
and in 1939 settle in the United States where he taught at the University of
Michigan, the University of New Mexico and Purdue University where a
scholarship “is named in his honor” passed away today.
1959:
Birthdate of Bristol, CT native Mike Reiss the son of a local journalist and a
physican who studied at Harvard before going on to work in television in the
popular animated series “The Simpsons.”
1959:
Final episode of “The Bob Cummings Show” a sitcom for which Stanley Frazen
served as the supervising editor was broadcast today.
1960:
“All the Fine Young Cannibals,” the film version of the novel produced by
Pandro S. Berman and co-starring Susan Kohner, the daughter of producer Paul
Kohner was released in the United States today.
1961:
“All the Way Home” a play produced by Arthur Cantor closed today after 333
performances at the Belasco Theatre.
1961(5th
of Tishrei, 5722): Seventy-seven-year-old philanthropist Julia Horn Hamburger,
the husband of Gabriel Max Hamburger passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/16/98446051.html?pageNumber=19
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hamburger-julia-horn
1962:
Final performance of “Bravo Giovanni,” directed by Stanley Prager which had
opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in May of 1962.
1963:
At Congregation Emanu-El in Mount Vernon NY Rabbi Aaron Blumenthal and Canton
Joseph Amdur officiated at the wedding of Roberta Joan Anchin and Philip Adam
Strasburg.
1964(9th
of Tishrei, 5725): Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre was chanted for first time
during the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
1965:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native and Brown University Nina Jacobson, the former
president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt
Disney Company who went on to establish “her own production company Color
Force” “and was the producer of the Hunger Games film series.
1966(1st
of Tishrei, 5727): Rosh Hashanah
1966(1st
of Tishrei, 5727): Eighty-one-year-old Illinois native Jacob H. “Jack”
Brunwasser the son of Max and Sophia Reens Brunnwasser and the husband of Anna
Detlefson Brunwasser passed away today after which he was buried at the
Waldheim Jewish Cemetry.
1968:
"Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show appeared on CBS
TV.
1969(3rd
of Tishrei, 5730): Tzom Gedaliah
1969:
NBC broadcast the first episode of “My World… and Welcome to it” a sitcom
created by Melville Shavelson, co-starring Harold J. Stone.
1969:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for Isaiah Leo Sharfman
at the Berlin Chaplin at Brandeis University.
1969:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for tax account and Jewish
leader Herbert M. Mandell.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/09/14/302043622.pdf
1970:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Dr. Max Loeb, the
psychoanalyst and member of Park Avenue Synagogue.
1971:
A new paperback version of Tillie Olsen's classic short story collection Tell
Me a Riddle was issued
1975(10th
of Tishrei, 5736): Yom Kippur
1975:
As proof of the continuing influence of the Communist Bloc in Arab-Israeli
affair, the Rumanian News Agency reported that “over 1,500 young people from 17
Arab countries” are studying in Rumanian universities.
1976:
The Auditorium Building which was designed by Dankmar Adler was designated as a
Chicago Landmark today.
1977(3rd
of Tishrei, 5738):Tzom Gedaliah
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
Moshe Dayan, the new foreign minister, left for Washington with his draft of a
proposed peace treaty with Arab states. He had also carried "an
accompanying letter" explaining Israel's stance on the territorial
question. In a special interview with this newspaper Dayan explained that there
was some identity between his "functional ideas" and US thinking
along the lines of a trusteeship for the West Bank.
1978:
Meir Amit who had been appointed Minister of Transportation and Minister of
Communications in Menachem Begin's government, resigned both posts today after
the Democratic Movement for Change broke up. Before entering politics Amit had
held the top post in military intelligence before serving as Director of
Mossad.
1979(23rd
of Elul, 5739): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1979(23rd
of Elul, 5739): Sixty-seven-year-old author and blacklist victim Albert E. Kahn
passed away today.
1979:
Premiere of “And Justice for All” a film that looks at the dark side of the
judicial system with an Oscar nominated script co-authored by Barry Levinson,
featuring Lee Strasberg, Darrell Zerwling and Sam Levene at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
1980:
In Baltimore, MD, fiction writer Moira
Crone and “poet and author Rodger Kamenetz best known for The Jew In Lotus gave
birth to Yale graduate and Village Voice columnst Anya Kamenetz author of Generation
Debt and The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where
We Go Now.
1981:
Birthdate of “American actor, comedian and writer” Ben Schwartz.
1981:
The Jewish Film Festival which has included 25 recent movies is scheduled to
come to an end today at the 92nd Street Y.
1982:
An Associated Press report published today stated, "Defence Minister Ariel
Sharon, in a statement, tied the killing [of the Phalangist leader Bachir
Gemayel] to the PLO, saying 'it symbolizes the terrorist murderousness of the
PLO terrorist organizations and their supporters'."
1982:
A memorial service is scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Memorial
Chapel, to honor the memory of Louis Waldman, a former Socialist State
Assemblyman who became one of the city's foremost labor lawyers,
1982:
Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut.
This was part of an ill-fated attempt by the Begin government to pacify
Lebanon and destroy the PLO.
1983(8th
of Tishrei, 5744): Seventy-seven-year-old William J. Fellner, the Budapest born
Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University who raised his daughter Anna
with the former Valerie Korek passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1983/09/16/168768.html?pageNumber=15
1983:
Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1985
(29th of Elul, 5745): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1985:
A DC-8 cargo plane returning from Iran and supposedly bound for Malaga, Spain,
made an emergency landing in Tel Aviv. Investigation revealed that the plane—
recently acquired from an obscure Miami firm by a shadowy Brussels-based
"Nigerian" company—had been flying Hawk missiles from the US to Iran
via Israel. A Boeing 707 registered to the company had been carrying loads of
1,250 TOW missiles from Israel to Iran via Malaga.
1988:
“Let’s Get Lost,” a documentary written by Bruce Weber who also directed and
produced the film was released in the United States today.
1989:
U.S premiere of “Sea of Love” produced by Martin Bregman and co-starring Ellen
Barkin.
1990:
This evening at the Ridgeway Country Club in White Plains, Rabbi Norton Shargel
officiated at the wedding of Cara Beth Silverman and Anthony Adam Faske, “a
co-publisher of the Manhattan Pennysaver.”
1991:
Birthdate of Israeli singer Roni Daloomi
1991(7th
of Tishrei, 5752): Eighty-three-year-old Andre Baruch who teamed with his wife
Bea Wain to form “a husband-and-wife disc jockey team in New York on WMCA,
where they were billed as Mr. and Mrs. Music” passed away today.
1991:
“Jewish History in Provence” published today provides a history of the
Cavaillon synagogue which was still standing in the last decade of the 20th
century.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/travel/jewish-history-in-provence.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1993(29th
of Elul, 5753): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1933:
Two days after the Oslo Agreements were signed at the White House, at the
1,000-person Reconstructionist University Synagogue in Los Angeles, an
American, an Israeli and an Arab were scheduled to read the speeches President
Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat
had given at Monday's signing ceremony. Rabbi Arnold Rachlis planned to retell
the biblical stories of Abraham's banishment of his son Ishmael--said to be the
father of the Arab nation--and Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son
Isaac--the ancestor of the Jews--to show contemporary connections.
1994(10th
of Tishrei, 5755): Yom Kippur
1994:Kerstin
and Doug Emhoff gave birth Colorado College graduate Cole Emhoff, who is the stepson of Kamal
Harris whom he reportedly calls “Momala.”
1996(2nd
of Tishrei, 5757): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1997(13th
of Elul, 5757): Eighty-nine-year-old Vilna born, and Brussels University educated
survivor of the German occupation of Belgium Shyfra Werber, a delegate “to the
founding conference of the World Jewish Culture Congress in New York who began
her literary career while “writing for Kinder zhurnal (Children’s
magazine) in Vilna (1925-1926),” and who moved to Israel in 1954, passed aay
toay in Kfar Sava, Israel.
1999:
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “30 Days” starring
Ben Shenkman and co-produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, the granddaughter of
Philip and Janice H. Levin was released in the United States today.
2000:
Four days after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “30
Days” starring Ben Shenkman was released in the United States today,
2000:
“In the Penal Colony,” an opera composed by Philip Glass, based on a story by
Franz Kafka, premiered today in Seattle, Washington.
2000:
The 2000 Summer Olympic in which canoer Rami Zur competed for Israel opened
today.
2001(27th
of Elul, 5761): Twenty-three-year-old Meir Weisshaus of Jerusalem “was fatally
shot in a drive-by shooting today on the Ramot-French Hill Road.
2001(27th
of Elul, 5761: Ninety-year-old television producer Fred De Cordova who was best
known for his work with Johnny Carson on Tonight passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/arts/fred-de-cordova-tv-producer-dies-at-90.html
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves
and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein, Middle Age A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates, An Old
Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love
and War by Midge
Decter and Venus In Exile: The
Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art by Wendy Steiner.
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert
Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller by Gregg
Herken, Why Terrorism works:
Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge by Alan M.
Dershowitz and Sharon: Israel's
Warrior-Politician by Anita
Miller, Jordan Miller and Sigalit Zetouni.
2003: “Israel's vice prime minister said today that
killing Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was one of several options now
under government consideration” while a “beaming Mr. Arafat soaked up the
cheers of supporters who descended on his compound for a fourth consecutive
day.”
2003: Today’s decision by the Israeli government to
consider the elimination of Yasir Arafat “followed two Hamas suicide bombings
that killed 15 people…” (As reported by James Bennet)
2004: Gary
Bettman, the Jewish commissioner of the National Hockey League, announced that
the owners again locked the players out prior to the start of the 2004–05
season. Three months later, Bettman announced the cancellation of the entire
season with the words "It is my sad duty to announce that because a
solution has not yet been attained, it is no longer practical to conduct even
an abbreviated season. Accordingly, I have no choice but to announce the formal
cancellation of play." The NHL became the first North American league to
cancel an entire season because of a labor stoppage.
2004: The Seventh
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, under the musical direction of pianist
Elena Bashkirova comes to an end.
2004:
Today Jose “Pékerman was named coach of the Argentine national team, which
qualified for the 2006 World Cup.”
2004:
In the evening, Jews around the world begin the observance of Rosh
Hashanah. This marks the start of the
year 5765.
2005:
Israel's two chief rabbis meet with Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of a landmark Vatican document on relations with Jews, and urge him
to support the fight against anti-Semitism and terrorism. The meeting follows
the historic visit by Benedict to the central synagogue in Cologne, Germany
last month, the second time a pope had entered a Jewish house of worship. It
also follows a diplomatic altercation between the Vatican and Israel that
erupted over the pope's omission of Israel in a list of countries hit by
terrorism. Prior to the meeting Israeli said the dispute had been resolved.
2005(11th
of Elul, 5765): Hundreds of mourners gathered
at Jerusalem's Har Hamenuhot cemetery to bury Cyril Harris, the former chief
rabbi of South Africa whose body was flown from Cape Town after he died of
cancer Tuesday. Harris, credited by many with aiding the transition process in
South Africa from apartheid to a free democracy, was a close friend of former
South African president Nelson Mandela and one of the only people to speak at
Mandela's inauguration in 1994.
2005:
The Bergen County Democratic Organization caucused today, to select a candidate
to fill the seat for District. In
balloting to fill the position on an interim basis, Loretta Weinberg lost by a
114-110 margin to Charles Zisa. In a separate vote, by a 112-111 margin, Zisa
was selected over Weinberg to be the party's candidate on the November ballot.
(Weinberg was Jewish; Zisa was not).
2005:
The Chair of the SEC Board of Presidents announced that “the contract of
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Michael L. Slive has been extended through
July 31, 2009.
2006:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
China has lodged a strong protest with Israel following this week's trip to
Taiwan by a Knesset delegation that its ambassador learned about in The
Jerusalem Post.
2007: The winners of the 2007 Laskera Awards, widely
considered to be one of the most prestigious medical prizes, were announced to
the public. The awards are funded by the
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Born
in 1880, Lasker, a Jew who made his home in Chicago, is considered by many to
be the father of modern advertising. He
passed away in 1952.
2007(3rd of Tishrei, 5768(: Eighty-eight-year-old
Sidney Davidson, the Chicago born son of Mendel and Eva Slosberg Davison and
University of Michigan trained accountant and husband of Freda Joy Sendler
passed away today.
https://aaahq.org/Accounting-Hall-of-Fame/members/1983/Sidney-Davidson
2007(3rd of Tishrei, 5768): Shabbat Shuva – Sabbath
of Return
2008: Esther Jungreis, the Hungarian born founder of
the international Hineni movement in the United States is photograph with the
U.S. Ambassador of Hungary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esther_Jungreis_with_April_Foley.jpg
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/EstherJungreis.html
2008:
On the second night of The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary
Festival Adam Langer reads from
his novel Ellington Boulevard.
2008: As part of the Annual
Primo Levi Conference, Centro Primo Levi
presents: Primo Levi: Historian and
Public Figure. The event features the premiere screening of a
documentary on Primo Levi from the archives of the Italian Broadcasting Company
followed by a discussion of
Primo Levi's public profile vis-à-vis history and politics. For a full program
see
2008: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection. This marked the demise of a
firm that traced its origins to three Jewish brothers from Bavaria – Henry,
Emanuel and Mayer – who first settled in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1850’s before
moving their operations to New York. The firm ceased to be a family company in
the 1920’s.
2009: In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai presents "Singing Psalms"
with the "Al Palgei Mayim" ensemble, which put Psalms to new tunes.
For more than two thousand years, melodies have been hidden among the written
words of the Psalms. The "Al Palgei Mayim" ensemble draws its lyrics
from these ancient poems that so many of us know and find inspirational. This
is a unique project based on new melodies for the Psalms from a contemporary
perspective.
2009: Gabriel Oliver Koppell defeated
his challenger for a seat on the New York City Council by winning 65% of the
vote.
2009(26th of Elul, 5769): Eighty-seven-year-old
Dr. Leon Eisenberg who was a pioneer in the field of autism, attention deficit
disorder and other learning disabilities passed away today. (As reported by
Benedict Cary)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/health/research/24eisenberg.html
2009: Rabbi David Kalb leads a program
entitled Controversy and Conversion at the 92nd Street Y in which he
acknowledges that “conversion is one of the most controversial issues in the
Jewish community today and then delves into the different movements of Judaism
as he explores each movement's separate approach to conversion and how these
differences can create conflict.”
2006: Oliver Koppel won re-election to
the New York City Council today
2009: Jerry Nadler was one of three
Congressmen who introduced the Respect for Marriage Act today.
2010:
Israeli born pianist Shai Wosner is scheduled to perform tonight with
the New York Philharmonic.
2010: U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet with
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas in Jerusalem.
2010: Two mortar shells and two rockets were fired into southern Israel from
the Gaza Strip in the early this morning in what would appear to be Hamas's
attempts to fulfill threats made by the group on Tuesday promising a wave of
violence meant to derail Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
2010: Israeli and Palestinian leaders are "getting down to
business" and tackling the main issues of the Middle East conflict, U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today in Jerusalem. "They have
begun to grapple with the core issues that can only be resolved through face-to-face
negotiations," she said before another round of negotiations with Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
2010: Today Nevin Shapiro “pleaded
guilty…to one count of securities fraud and one count of money laundering.
2010: At the Toronto International Film
Festival, premiere of “Peep World” a
comedy co-starring Ron Rifkin, Sarah Silverman and Ben Schwartz with narration
by Lewis Black.
2010: Janet Maslin reviews Earth
(The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race written and edited by
Jewish faux newsman Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum, Rory Albanese, Steve Bodow
and Josh Lieb
2011: Elisheva Carlebach, Salo W. Baron
Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, is scheduled to give an
illustrated talk in honor of the coming New Year on Jewish conceptions of time
and how these are interwoven with the Jewish sense of history and represented
in Jewish imagery entitled. The Center for Jewish History is sponsoring
“Genesis: Imagining the Beginning of Time.”
2011: Israeli pianist Matan Porat and Alis
Weilerstein are scheduled to perform Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. 5 in D major, op. 102 at the 14th
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2011: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Grief of Other by Leah Hager Cohen and The
Little Bride by Anna Solomon.
“Female orphan, Jewish, 16 years old, seeks
husband to love, house to live in, preferably before the next pogrom. It’s the
1880s in Odessa, and Rosenfeld’s Bridal Service finds the girl, Minna, a match
in America. Soon she is shipped off to Max, who has claimed land in the Dakota
Territory to escape religious persecution himself. Minna arrives to discover
she’s engaged to an old man (he’s 40), and, most inconveniently, will be
stepmother to a strapping 18-year-old named Samuel. Max’s other son, Jacob, is
a mere year younger than Minna. Max isn’t a bad guy, but he is a terrible
farmer, losing his wheat crop to a storm after refusing to harvest on the
Sabbath. They barely make it through the winter, their bodies and stifled
longings all cramped together in a mud cave. Minna is a terrifically complex
heroine: a little snobby, a little selfish and wholly sympathetic.”
2011: British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould announced today that the
Queen of England has signed an amendment to a bill that will prevent the
issuing of arrest warrants against Israeli officials. “
2011: Thousands of Turkish protesters gathered outside the soccer stadium in
Istanbul where Maccabi Tel Aviv was playing against Turkish team Beşiktaş,
waving Hezbollah flags and chanting anti-Israel slogans. The protesters yelled
"no passage for Zionists" and "Israel is a murderer, get out of
Palestine." Local police were deployed in large numbers around the area,
and prevented protesters from reaching dozens of Israeli soccer fans who were
seated in an isolated area. There were no violent incidents inside the stadium.
Yesterday, Turkish police instructed the team to stay within hotel grounds and
to leave only on guarded trips to practice and the game itself. Team spokesman
Ofer Ronen told the local media "we trust the Turkish police to do their
work faithfully." Sports and Culture Minister Limor Livnat said she had
talked with the authorities to beef up the team's security and would be
continuously in touch with the private security company guarding the team.
2011: Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood activists held a demonstration in front of
the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, demanding the cancellation of peace
accords between the two countries and calling for the deportation of the
Israeli ambassador.
2011(16th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-two-year
Francis Bay, the Canadian born Jewish character actress passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/17/local/la-me-frances-bay-20110917
2011(16th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-year-old
Suzy Eban, the widow of Abba Eban, who charmed Americans into loving Israel
while he served as Ambassador to the United States, passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=238138
2012: The Jerusalem International
Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: As the attacks by murderous
Muslim mobs spread from North Africa, to India, Indonesia and Australia, the
video that has supposedly enraged so many turns out to have been made by an
expatriate Coptic Egyptian and not some mysterious Jew as originally reported.
2012: On the last Shabbat of 5722 and
the second to the last day of that year, The Crescent City News published a
summary of the events of the year “The year that was 5772.”
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/the-year-that-was-5772/
2012: The Crescent City Jewish News
published “The year that was 5772.”
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41803808
2012: The Palestinian Authority today accused Hamas of exploiting peaceful
protests against the high cost of living to spread chaos and anarchy in the
West Bank.
2013:
The exhibition, "Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait," is scheduled to
come to an at the Jewish Museum in London
2013:
JCRS (Jewish Children Regional Services) volunteers are scheduled to wrap
thousands of small gifts that comprise 2013's JCRS Hanukkah Gift Program at the
Goldring/Woldenberg Metairie Campus.
2013:
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal reported today that “20 trucks laden with
equipment used in the manufacture of chemical weapons were driven across the
border from Syria into Iraq” for the last two days.
2013:
Lawrence H. Summers, one of President Obama’s closest economic confidants and a
former Treasury secretary, withdrew his name from consideration for the
position of chairman of the Federal Reserve opening up the way for possible
confirmation of another Jewish candidate – Janet Yellen.
2014:
“As part of the European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage, the Wiener
Library is scheduled to host “a special tour exploring the experience of women
with the archives.”
2014:
“Stephen Mandel” began serving as the “21st Minister Health in the
Alberta Government.”
2014:
Dr. Harvey E. Goldberg,
Professor Emeritus, The Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology
at Hebrew University of Jerusalem is scheduled to deliver a lecture on "Ritual Mutuality in North Africa: Jews
and Muslims listen to the Ten Commandments in the Synagogue” at the University
of Connecticut.
2014: The Center for Jewish
History is scheduled to host a screening of “The Fighting 69,” the first in a
series of films to be shown about Jews and World War I.
2014(20
Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of
Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton)
Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud
Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was
the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living
proof that good guys finish first.
2014:
“Hundreds of members of UNDOF, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
stationed on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, crossed the border into
Israel today, after recent clashes with al-Qaeda-linked militants.”
2014(20th
of Elul, 5774): Eighty-seven-year-old Yithak Hofit, the Mossad chief who played
a key role” in the Raid on Entebbe passed away today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/yitzhak-hofi-israeli-spy-chief-who-helped-in-episodes-of-war-and-peace-dies-at-87/2014/09/17/3564f21e-3d0f-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.htmlhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4571243,00.html
2014:
Viennese native and Kindertransport traveler Harry Baum who “co-founded
Euromic, coined the phrase ‘Destination Management Company’” passed away today.
2015(2nd
of Tishrei, 5776): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2015:
“Rabbi Abby Jacobson of Conservative Emanuel Synagogue in Oklahoma City will
not speak about Iran” because her congregants “are dwarfed by the surrounding
culture and they tend to want to talk about something Jewish when they come” to
services.
2015:
“The Huffington Post Highline published Steven Brill's 15-part serial
documentary, "America’s Most Admired Law Breaker,"[28] examining
Johnson & Johnson's 20-year practice of illegally marketing a powerful
drug, Risperdal, to children and the elderly, while concealing the side effects
and earning billions of dollars in profit.
2015(2nd
of Tishrei, 5776): Ninety-seven-year-old Terry Rosenbaum, a victim of the Right
Wing’s anti-Communist mania passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2015:
“The Intern” a comedic look at the modern world of business directed and
produced by Nancy Meyers who also wrote the script premiered in Belgium today.
2015:
“Torrential rains and hail pelted southern Israel” this evening “forcing the
closure of roads and flight delays just days after a severe sandstorm and high
temperatures hit the region.” (Times of Israel)
2015.
This evening Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Defense
Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Attorney General Yehuda
Weinstein and representatives of the security forces” “to discuss the ongoing
violence on the Temple Mount” which has already claimed the life of one
Israeli. (As reported by Times of Israel)
2016:
The Jewish Historical Institute said today that the entire Ringelbaum Archive
“will be available for free on the Internet.
2016:
Today, “a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia upheld Barry Freundel’s
sentence in a unanimous 20-page ruling.”
2016:
The Pace Gallery is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of
“Night” an “exhibition of a new body of work” by Israeli born artist Michael
Rovner.
2017(24th
of Elul, 5778): Eighty-seven-year-old playwright Myrna Lamb passed away today.
(As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2017:
“Dozens of rabbis and community leaders,” including “50 prominent rabbis
activists including Rabbi Uri Regev, Mayim Bialik and Michael Douglas” “signed
a statement calling for sweeping reforms to Israel’s official religious
establishment and its policies” was published this morning. (As reported by
JTA)
2017:
“Victor and Abdul,” a biopic directed by Stephen Fears, with music by Thomas
Newman and filmed by cinematographer Danny Cohen was released in the United
Kingdom today.
2017:
The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2017: The critically acclaimed theatre show “Simon and Garfunkel
Story continues its tour for a third day.
2017: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community Day School is
scheduled to host its Shabbat Dinner.
2017: In Manhattan, Shabbat at Chabad Loft is scheduled to being
a pre-Shabbat Happy Hour, followed by “a user friendly explanatory Kabbalat
Shabbat Service.
2017: In Atlanta, the Bremen Museum is scheduled to host a
program on “How can art and artifacts preserve history and tell stories?”
2018: In Chapel Hill, NC, services are not held at Kehillah
Synagogue due to Hurricane Florence.
2018: In Andover, MA, Temple Emanuel is closed today in response
to a gas crisis that had led to several explosions in communities north of
Boston which have resulted in at least one death.
2018(6th of Tishrei, 5779): Shabbat Shuvah
2019: In Cedar Rapids, four days after she had passed away,
funeral services are scheduled to be held for 93-year-old Irene Harriet Silber,
the mother of Dr. Bob Silber and the mother-in-law of Laurie Silber the duo
that has been a pillar of the Jewish community for several decades.
2019: In Carmichael, CA, Congregation Beth Shalom is scheduled
to host 42nd annual Sacramento Jewish Food Faire, complete “with deli-style
sandwiches, matzah ball soup, kugel, veggie options” as well as arts and
crafts, used books and live music.
2019: The Jewish Genealogical Society is scheduled to present
“Searching For Patterson Roots Remembered and Forgotten in Heritage Tourism
Abroad.”
2019: On the first day of Latinx Heritage Month, Dr. Analucía
Lopezrevoredo founded Jewtina y Co., an organization for Latinx Jews.
2019: In Coralville, IA, Religious School is scheduled to being
today at Agudas Achim.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/15/2019/analucia-lopezrevoredo-founds-jewtina-y-co
2019: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellman, the
daughter of Richard Ellman and The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg by
Eleanor Randolph as well as Nora Krug’s Graphic Review “A German Finally Picks
Up ‘Mein Kampf.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/books/a-german-finally-picks-up-mein-kampf.html?te=1&nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20190914
2020: Jewish Community Library and SFSU Jewish studies are
scheduled to present “U. of Wisconsin professor Jordan Rosenblum talking about
rabbinic debates over what, when, how and with whom one should drink beverages
such as beer and wine.”
2020: In New Orleans, The Tulane University Hillel Board Meeting
is scheduled to take place this evening.
2020: Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu are scheduled to sign a “Declaration of Peace” today at the
White House as the UAE and Bharian normalize their relations with Israel.
2020: Aviv Kempner is scheduled to participate in a ZOOM chat
“part of the Jewish Federation of Sacramento’s Social Justice Film Series.
2020: Israel Bonds is scheduled to host a virtual Selichot with greetings by
Finance Minister Israel Katz and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Shuli Natan
performing “Jerusalem of Gold” followed by an interview with Feut Ifat Uziel,
daughter of Dr. Izik Ifat, famed paratrooper to be among the first to reach the
Kotel during the Six-Day War
2020: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present
online “JLive Music” with violinist Rachel Panitch whose music will create a
virtual Tashlich experience.
2020: In collaboration with the Office of Cultural Affairs,
Consulate General of Israel in New York, Salon de Virtuosi is scheduled to
present a special Alumni Spotlight Concert, featuring world renowned cellist
Amit Peled in an online concert with his pupil Ismael Guerrero.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Women on the
Move” featuring novelist Jennifer Winer and Zibby Owens, “creator of the
podcast Moms Don’t Have to Read Books.”
2020: As part of the Holocaust Lecture Series, Vanderbilt
University is scheduled to host “Jewish Orphans after the Holocaust “the
keynote lecture by Dr. Deborah Dwork.
2020:
As Israelis continue to prepare for the second coronavirus lockdown set to
begin on Friday, they also are preparing to deal with the consequences of Roee
Cohen’s prediction that the lockdown “will have a disastrous effect on the
country’s economy.”
2020:
“Israel is ranked 24th in the world in the total number of coronavirus cases
since the outbreak began, after Germany and Indonesia and before Ukraine and
Canada.”
2021(9th
of Tishrei, 5781): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
2021:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host an “outdoor Kol
Nidre service for fluent Hebrew speakers includes traditional prayers with
modern Israeli music and poetry.
2021:
This morning Hadar is scheduled to host an observance of Yom Ha-Ma’l, which in
ancient times “was a mini-holiday in its own right that will be “a day of
online learning and spiritual preparation for Yom Kippur.”
2021:
“The Health Ministry said this morning that 9,539 new cases of coronavirus were
confirmed yesterday after 165,584 tests conducted indicating a 5.9% infection
rate.
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to present a webinar with Trudy Gold lecturing
on “Jews and Swedes.”
2022:
Today’s issue of the Atlanta Jewish Times is scheduled to feature “colorful
Rosh Hashanah illustrations” submitted by its readers.
2022:
Jewish Book Council is scheduled to present culinary and cultural historian
Michael W. Twitty discussing his new memoir Koshersoul, subtitled “The
Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew,” with food writer and Bay Area
native Adeena Sussman.
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a conversation with award winning
journalist Nina Totenberg, author Dinners with Ruth.
2022:
LBI is scheduled to host Curator Max
Czollek as he present the exhibition “Revenge: History and Fantasy” an
extraordinary exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, accompanied by a
book and podcast, takes a look at the subject of revenge in Jewish cultural
history.
2022:
The JSV Women’s Community is scheduled to present the “Jewish Silicon Valley
Challah Bake,” a social gather and worship to knead and braid round challahs.
2022:The
United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan who landed
in Israel yesterday evening ahead of a today’s scheduled meeting with Prime
Minister Yair Lapid.
2023:
On the eve of
Rosh Hashanah, a “report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics shows most
Israelis are content and happy living in Israel, with some caveats - including
the judicial overhaul and public transportation.” (As reported by Yaron
Druckman)
2023(29th
of Elul, 5783): Erev Rosh Hashana
2024:
The Ophir Competition Finals are
scheduled to present the premiere of “Ruler Road,” directed by Mia Dreyfus.
2024:
In New York, “Art Lives Here: Collecting” a curated exhibition that includes
the works of Haifa native Yadel Dresdner is scheduled to come to an end in the
Wesbeth Gallery.
2024:
Final performance of Iraqi Jewish playwright and former ASF Board Member Anwar
Suliman’s play, Café Munich is scheduled to take place at Theatre for the New
York City.
2024:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth is scheduled to host an open house for its religious
school.
2024:
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth Cemetery is scheduled “to present singer and
storyteller Cheryl Parker and pianist Joe Accurso, who are returning to the
Museum with Award-Winning Songs from the
Movies, a program of songs featured in film…”
2024:
Temple Sinai is scheduled to host a Diamond Jubilee celebrating 75 years of
Rabbinic Leadership from Rabbi Edward P. Cohn and Rabbi Daniel M. Sherman at
Sazerac House.
2024:
In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to present a “Special
Program for Teens and Parents: Presentation and Workshop on Antisemitism on
Social Media with Hen Mazzig.’
2024:
The New York Times features reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Burdened:
Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis by Ryann Liebenthal and The
Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
by William Hogeland.
2024:
YIVO is scheduled to host “the first conference and festival organized by and
featuring formerly Orthodox Jewish scholars, activists, performers, and
artists, as we explore the cultural achievements that emerged from this break
with tradition.”
2024:
In honor of the 137th anniversary of the Eldridge Street Synagogue’s dedication
and first high holiday service, the Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to
host a very special building tour!
2024:
As September 15th 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 345 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)
