This Day, September 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 8
70:
On the secular calendar, Jerusalem is sacked by the 60,000 troops of Titus'
Roman army after a six-month siege. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in
the siege and, following the city's capture, another 97,000 were sold into
slavery. This event is commemorated on The Arch of Titus in Rome. [Date
variations of one day, depend on the source.]
1100:
“Antipope Clement III” “who protested strongly when Emperor Henry IV permitted
Jews who had become converted to Christianity during the anti-Jewish riots of
the First Crusade to revert to Judaism” passed away today. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1140: While
traveling to Palestine, Judah Halevi arrived in Alexandria (Egypt) where “he
was enthusiastically greeted by friends and admirers.” He went on to Cairo where he turned down
requests that he settle in the Egyptian city because he was determined to
complete his journey to Jerusalem.
1157:
Birthdate of King Richard I, the Lionhearted who decreed that the Jews of
England should be left to live in peace. Unfortunately, he spent most of his
time on Crusades or fighting in France which left the Jews to suffer at the
hands of the Church and anti-Semitic nobles.
1207:
Birthdate of King Sancho II of Portugal. Sancho II continued the struggle with
the Church that had begun under his father Alfonso II which proved beneficial
to the Jews. Sancho II ignored the Church’s prohibition against hiring Jews for
positions of powers and appointed Jews as tax-farmers. “Probably it was he who
appointed Don Joseph ibn Yaḥya as almoxarife;
he also permitted him to build a magnificent synagogue in Lisbon.”
1264: The
General Charter of Jewish Liberties known as the Statute of Kalisz was issued
by the Duke of Greater Poland Boleslaus the Pious today in Kalisz. The statute
served as the basis for the legal position of Jews in Poland and led to
creation of a Yiddish-speaking autonomous Jewish "nation within a
nation", which lasted until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. The
statute granted exclusive jurisdiction over Jewish matters to Jewish courts and
established a separate tribunal for matters involving Christians and Jews.
Additionally, it guaranteed safety and personal liberties for Jews such as
freedom of religion, trade, and travel. The statute was ratified by subsequent
Polish Kings: Casimir III of Poland in 1334, Casimir IV of Poland in 1453, and
Sigismund I of Poland in 1539.
1425: King
Charles III of Navarre passed away. Under his reign, the conditions of the Jews
of improved over what they had been under his predecessor Charles II., who died
in 1387. Soon after Charles II came to power, “the Jews presented him with
3,000 livres. In return he granted them several privileges, influenced,
doubtless, by the fact that his court physician was Chief Rabbi Joseph
Orabuena, whose son Judah was also a member of the royal retinue. During the
king's journey to Paris in 1397 he was accompanied by four Jews—two physicians,
a surgeon, and an astrologer. The Jewish residents of Navarre were so
impoverished that they could no longer pay taxes; hence the king, while
continuing a rigid collection from the Jews in Pamplona, who formed the richest
community in the country, exempted their coreligionists of Tudela from the
obligation to furnish beds, etc., during his stay in that city.
1486: Joseph
Günzenhäuser printed Hagiographa Variorum in Naples, Italy. [This probably was
one of the first annotated copies of the section of the TaNaCh known as Ketuvim
or Writings.]
1498:
Torquemada died. Torquemada was descended from a family of Marranos which makes
his role in history all the more ironic Torquemada is popularly known as the
head of the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, he was not the first one to head the
Inquisition; an act of evil that had the full support and control of King
Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. According to some, the Queen was a stronger
supporter of this activity than the King. More importantly, they let the Pope
know that they and not he would control the Inquisition. After all, the
monarchs had empty coffers to fill as well as souls to save.
1504:
Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence. The naked statue of Israel’s
greatest king has a flaw – David is uncircumcised. So did Michelangelo sculpt
the likeness of a nude Florentine boy and call it David so as not to offend the
sensibilities of Christian Italians? Considering that Moses is portrayed with
Horns, anatomically and or texturally correct art was not the strong point of
Renaissance artists.
1514: : In a
bull issued today, Pope Leo X, “expressed his desire that the rights of the
Jews should be respected, and repealed the edict of the Bishop of Carpentras,
who had prescribed a special badge to be worn by the Jews of Avignon,
Carpentras, and Venaissin”
1600: “Jack
Drum’s Entertainment” by on John Marston one of a series of dramas created
during the Elizabethan that contained Jewish characters when no Jews lived in
England was “entered into the Stationer’s Register” today. (Editor’s note – apparently the English
theatre goers, many of whom were “groundlings” did not need to have Jews around
to know about Jews.)
1628: During
the Eighty Years War, the Battle of Matanzas came to an end with Dutch
defeating the Spanish and seizing their treasure fleet as spoils. Among those
helping the Dutch was Moses Cohen Henriques a pirate whose family had been
Sephardim from Portugal. Henriques moved to Brazil from the Caribbean when the
Dutch captured it from the Portuguese. When the Portuguese recaptured Brazil,
Henriques continued his pirating ways hooking up with the notorious Henry
Morgan.
1636: New
College is established in Massachusetts. Three years later it would change its
name to Harvard in honor of clergy man John Harvard, one of the school’s
earliest and most generous benefactors. Harvard has had an uneven history in
terms of the Jewish people. At one time Harvard and its academic community were
supporters of a quotas designed to limit Jewish enrollment. At the same time,
Harvard boast numerous Jewish alumnae and faculty members. Today Harvard has
approximately 2000 undergraduate students out of a population of almost 7,000
undergrads. There are 2,500 graduate students among Harvard’s approximately
11,000 grad students.
1663: Yorkshire
borne Philosemitic “Hebrew and rabbinical
scholar” Henry Jessey, the author of “an account of the 1655 conference at
Whitehall, at which Manasseh ben Israel put a case to the Parliamentary
government of Oliver Cromwell, to lift the restrictions on Jews living in
England” and “An Information Concerning the Present State of the Jewish Nation
in Europe and Judea” who lobbied for the right of the Jews to return to England
and raised “money impoverished Jews living in” Eretz Israel passed away today.
1664: The
Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was surrendered to the British who renamed it New
York in 1669. Now you know how a handful of Dutch Jews became the first “New
York Jews.”
1729:
Congregation Shearith Israel laid the foundation stone of the first building
specifically to be used as a synagogue on Mill Street in New York City.
1748: Abraham
De Leon and his wife gave birth to Rebecca De Leon
1750: Isaac
and Sarah De La Motta gave birth to Isaac De La Motta, the husband of Sarah
Canter with whom he had three children.
1759(16th
of Elul, 5519): Parashat Ki Tavo
1759(16th
of Elul, 5519): Rebecca Tema Ansel passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1760: First
official reports of Jews having settled in Canada.
1764:
Birthdate of Emanuel Deutz, the native of Koblenz who married Judith Berman and
served as Chief Rabbi of France from 1810 until he passed away in 1842.
1787: Abraham
Gerstle and his wife gave birth to Isak Michael Gerstle, the husband of Sofie
Weil with whom he had seven children.
1790(29th
of Elul, 5550): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1790(29th
of Elul, 5550): Forty-four-year-old Esther Hays, the Philadelphia born son
Rachel and Asher Etting and the wife of David Barrack Hays passed away today.
1792(21st
of Elul, 5552): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1793(2nd
of Tishrei, 5554): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1793(2nd
of Tishrei, 5554): Mrs. Hannah Jacobs passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1804(3rd
of Tishrei 5564): Parashat Ha’azinu and Shabbat Shavua
1811: In
Georgia, Moses and Elkali Bush Sheftall gave birth to Perla Sheftall Solomons
the spouse of Lizar Solomons.
1812(2nd
of Tishrei, 5573): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1812:
Birthdate of Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman, a Jew by choice who was a successful
authoress.
1814: “The
most important institution connected with” “Israel ben Solomon Wahrmann, the
first officially recognize rabbi of Pest Hungary” an elementary school called
the Nationalschule which “was an important factor in raising the intellectual
status of the community” was dedicated today.
1817(27th
of Elul, 5577): Hirsch Hurwitz, the “author of several haggadic and halakick
works” and the son of Phone Hurwitz passed away today.
1820(29th
of Elul, 5580): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1828(29th
of Elul, 5588): Erev Rosh Chodesh.
1828: Abraham
de Leon and his wife gave birth to Rebecca de Leon.
1828: In Turnov,
Fania and Joachim Weil gave birth to Leopold Weil the husband of Matilda Weil
and father of Gertrude Lindenthal; Robert L. Weil; Clara Anna Zuckerman;
Frederick Weil; Arnold C Weil; Herbert Weil; Amy Weil; Alice May Weil; Dr.
Richard Weil, Sr. and Walter Weil
1830: Benjamin
Phineas Moses Spiers married Sara Wolf in Rotterdam today.
1830: Two days
after she had passed away, 78 years old “Sarah Simmons, the wife of Nathan
Simmons” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1831(1st
of Tishrei, 5592): Rosh Hashanah
1831: In the
United Kingdom Coronation of King William IV
1838(18th
of Elul, 5598): Parashat Ki Tavo
1838(18th
of Elul, 5598): Judah Mordechai Cohen, the Amsterdam born son of Mordechai
Levie Cohen and Rachel Coenraad Blits and
husband of
Grace Cohen passed away to in London after which he was buried in the Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.
1839(29th
of Elul, 5599): Erev Rosh Hashanah; as Jews prepare to celebrate the New Year,
future President James K. Polk visited Huntsville, Alabama.
1839: In
Liverpool, England, Esther Sewill and Saul Moss gave birth to Barnet Moss.
1840: In
London, the will of John Aaron, the husband of Charlotte Aaron, with whom he
had had four children – Thomas, Mary, Ann and Catherine – was probated today.
(As reported by David Alexander)
1841(22nd of Elul, 5601):
Seventy-two-year-old Sara de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon and wife of
Aaron Correa passed away today in New York City.
1841: Josiah
Solomon married Bella Hart at the New Synagogue today.
1841: In
Charleston, SC, J. Cohen, Jr., Esquire, married Phila Moise, the daughter of
Aaron Moise.
1843:
Birthdate Annie Florence, the wife of Nathaniel Harris.
1847: In
Philadelphia, PA, Rodef Shalom, one of the first German congregations organized
in the United States moved to its new building on Julianna Street. Rodef Shalom had been formed in 1801 by
Ashkenazic Jews who were not comfortable attending Mickvah Israel, a Sephardic
congregation.
1847: Today,
Jefferson H. Nones, a Second Lieutenant om the Second United States Artillery
and “the son of Captain Henry Nones was detailed to Puebla to the command of
twenty-nine men to effect a recovery of mules stolen by Mexican guerrileros”
which resulted a fight with “Mexican lancers” that resulted in ten Americans
being killed and four being wounded including Lt. Nones who was wounded by a
lance.
1848: Two days
after he had passed away, Benjamin Chapman, the husband of Hannah Chapman, was
buried today at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1848: In
Berlin, “trader and cotton printer Jacques Meyer” and his wife Bertha gave
birth to Viktor Meyer, a German chemist who contributed greatly to knowledge of
both organic and inorganic chemistry and invented an apparatus for determining
vapor densities (and hence molecular weights), now named after him. In 1871,
Meyer experimentally proved Avogadro's hypothesis by measuring the vapor
densities of volatile substances (molecular weight, or relative molecular mass,
is twice the vapor density). He went on to determine the vapor densities of
inorganic substances at high temperatures. From benzene obtained from
petroleum, Meyer in 1883 isolated thiophene, a heterocyclic compound containing
sulfur, which much later was to become an important component of various
synthetic drugs. He passed away in 1897.
1850(2nd of
Tishrei, 5611): Second Day of Rosh
Hashanah
1850: In
Hamburg, Germany, Moritz Adolph Unna and his wife gave birth physician and
dermatologist and Franco-Prussian War Veteran Paul Gerson Unna.
https://www.beiersdorf.com/about-us/our-history/personalities/paul-gerson-unna
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14595-unna-paul-gerson
1852:
Birthdate of Henri Moissan, the Parisian who became the second Jew to win the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/moissan.html
1852: In
Charleston, SC, at the Wentworth Street Synagogue, Rabbi Lyons officiated at
the wedding Rachel Sampson, the only daughter of the late Samuel Sampson and
Mr. Hendricks from Texas.
1852: Forty-two-year-old
“Ernestine L. Rose” “the daughter of an Orthodox Polish rabbi who had married
William Rose while living in England and who came to the United States in 1836”
and “Jewish champion of women’s rights addressed the National Women’s Right
Convention in Syracuse.”
1853: In
“Marleybone, London,” “Jacob and Matilda Waley gave birth Julia Matilda Waley
who became Julia Matilda Cohen when she married Nathan Louis Cohen with whom
she had seven children.
1855(25th
of Elul, 5615): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed on the day
during the Crimean War that the Allies began their final attack on Sevastopol
which led to the surrender of the Russians.
1855(25th
of Elul, 5615): Seventy-three-year-old Abigail Isaacs, the Newport born
daughter of Moses Isaacs passed away today in New York City.
1856: “A
Jewish society was organized today in Grass Valley, CA
1858(29th of
Elul, 5618): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed one week before the third of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates.
1860(21st
of Elul, 5620): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed for the last time
during the Presidency of James Buchannan.
1861(4th
of Tishrei, 5622): Because the 3rd of Tishrei fell on a Saturday,
the Tzom Gedaliah is observed today.
1862: Today, one day afte “Florian Moss, a son
of Joseph L. Moss of Philadelphia had been appointed Captain’s Clerk on the
United States Ship ‘Vermont’ which was attached to the South Blockading
Squadron” he was named “Commander’s Clerk on the same vessel.”
1862(13th
of Elul, 5622): Seventy-five-year-old Michael Lazarus, the son of Marks and
Rachel Lazarus who was a leader of the Reform movement in Charleston, SC and
who “opened steam navigation between Charleston and Augusta” passed away today
after which he was buried in the Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston.
1862: Sergeant
Levi Arnold began serving his three-year enlistment by joining Company F of the
143rd Regiment, before transferring to the Veteran Reserve Corps in
1863.
1865:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native Harry Clay Adler, the husband of Tennessee
native Ada Ochs and father of Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler who was the general
manager of the Chattanooga Times, the
first block in the publishing empire of the New
York Times.
1866(28th
of Elul, 5676): Parashat Nitzavim; last Shabat of 5676
1867:
Birthdate of Russian socialist Russian Aleksandr Izrail Lazarevich Gelfand who
become famous as Alexander Israel Helphand, the man who negotiated with the
Germans during World War I to gain Lenin’s return to Russia from Switzerland
which brought about the Communist Revolution and took Russia out of World War
I.
1867:
Birthdate of Maximilian Hirsch who lived in Prague before being taken to
Terezin in 942 where he was murdered.
1871: Adath
Israel (Congregation of Israel) dedicated its new home, a brick structure on 57th
Street between First and Second avenues in Manhattan. As part of the ceremony,
Dr. Wasserman delivered a talk in German and Vidaver delivered a speech in
English that explained the purpose of the various objects in the synagogue.
1872: Birthdate of Clare Castel, nee Sammer one of the
last nine Jewish residents of Kleinsteinach all of whom were killed at either
Theresienstadt or Isbica.
1873: The Wandering Jew is scheduled to be performed at
the Grand Opera House as part of the "fall season" in NYC.
1873: In Heilbronn, Germany, Fanny Ottenheimer and Elias
Marx gave birth to Louis Marx, the husband of Hanchen Rothschile and the father
of Irma, Herbert and Martin Marx
1876: Birthdate of Israel Friedlander, the Polish born
rabbi, educator and biblical scholar who co-founded the Young Israel movement
with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.
1877(1st
of Tishrei, 5638): Rosh Hashanah
1877: Rabbi Gottheil and Lewis May, President
of the Congregation, led services this morning at Temple Emanu-El in New York
City. Services for the Reform temple
began at 10 o’clock while services at the city’s orthodox synagogues “began
much earlier in the day.
1877: The Jewish inmates at Sing Sing Prison
will celebrate the Rosh Hashanah this evening.
Services will be led by a chaplain who has been specially appointed for
this purpose. Mr. Gratz Nathan of the 19th
Street Synagogue and Mr. Adolph Levy of the 44th Street Synagogue
will provide the funds for the service.
1878: In La
Crosse, WI, the Hebrew Benevolent Society became Congregation Anshe Chesed
today.
1879: “Beth
Israel” published today described the “reconstruction of the Boerum Place
Synagogue.”
1879: It was
reported today that Vasile Boerescui, the Romanian Foreign Minister has been
“partially successful” in getting the France and Germany to agree to a
compromise that would delay the promised emancipation of the Jews living in his
country. After a meeting with Count Andrassy, it appears that Austria agrees as
well.
1881: It was
reported today New York Jewish wholesale liquor dealer Henry Lezinskye was
arraigned before Justice Brimley in Long Branch on charges of having swindled
John J. Wheeler out of $775. Chances of
conviction would seem to be slim since the alleged offense took place more than
seven years ago.
1881: Two days
after he had passed away, Bavarian native Joseph Strauss who was “naturalized
in 1864” and was the husband of Rosa Strauss was buried at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery today.
1881: A
committee that has been formed to provide relief Russian Jewish immigrants who
are expected to arrive in the next few days will have its first meeting this
evening at the offices of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. Judge Myer S. Isaacs presided over the
meeting
1882:
In Voronezh, Russian Empire, pianist Michael
Hambourg and his wife gave birth to violinist Jan Hambourg, the brother of
pianist Mark Hambourg and cellist Boris Hambourg and husband of Isabelle McClung
who was a co-director of the Hambourg Conservatory of Music.
1883: In
Cincinnati, OH, Bernhard and Rebecca (Swope) Steinharter gave birth to MIT
graduate and Harvard trained surgeon and gynecologist and WWI veteran Edgard C.
Steinharter who was the gynecologist for the United Jewish Social Agencies in
Cincinnati and the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati.
1883: Isaac
Ottenberg, the Bavaria born son of Maier and Rosa Ottenberg and his wife gave
birth to District of Columbia resident Bertha Pressler.
1884:
“Democratic Reform Work” published today described the rebellion in New
Orleans’ First Congressional District where Colonel Adolph Meyer, a Jewish
wealthy cotton merchant, is seeking the nomination.
1884:
Birthdate of New York Law School graduate and Democratic member of the NY State
Assembly, David C. Lewis, who served as “on the Domestic Relations bench” and
served on the board of “the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of
Washington Heights and Inwood while raising three children – Hope, Rosalee and
Roger.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/david-c-lewis-dies-a-lawyer-here-90.html
1885(28th
of Elul, 5645): Eighty-nine-year-old Kingston, Jamaica native Joseph Gutteres
Henriques, the son of Sarah and Jacob Bueno Henriques and the husband of Eliza
Henriques with whom he had two children, passed away today in London.
1886:
Birthdate of poet and author Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon’s father was Jewish,
but his mother was not. Alfred Sassoon, Siegfried’s father was a member of the
well-to-do Sassoon family of merchants. However, among English Jews, wealth was
not an excuse of assimilation and Alfred was disinherited for marrying a
Christian, even she did belong to one of England’s leading family of sculptors.
Whether out of spite, or just plain insensitivity, Theresa Sassoon named her
son for a leading character in a Wagner opera. His middle name was taken from
that of a Christian clergyman with whom she was friendly.
1887(19th
of Elul, 5647): Thirty-four-year-old Rosa
Hammerslough, the Baltimore born “daughter of Elkan Bamberger and Theresa
Bamberger the wife of Isadore Hammerslough and mother of Carrie Heims and
Stella Schaap” passed away today
1888(3rd
of Tishrei, 5649): Shabbat Shuva observed on the same day that Ann Chapman was
killed by “Jack the Ripper.”
1889: Rabbi
Eugene Harfeld officiated at the wedding of his brother David Harfeld, and
Sarah Marx. This marriage would figure in Harfeld’s later trial on charges of
bigamy.
1890: During
the services which “marked the opening of the new synagogue in Hammersmith
declared that he had received unquestionable confirmation of recent statements
in the newspapers about the persecution of the Jews in Russia.”
1890:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native David J. Gaiter, the editor of the Jewish Exponents for twenty years while
writing columns “under the pseudonym Baruch Haba” who was the President of the
Jewish Book council of Philadelphia and the husband of Minnie Gaiter, with whom
he had two daughters.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/10/31/97628283.pdf
1890: “How The
Jews Were Scattered” published today provided a detailed review of The Jews
Under Roman Rule by W.D. Morrison.
http://www.heritage-history.com/?c=read&author=morrison&book=romanjew&story=_front
1891: One
hundred Russian Jews arrived in Montreal today.
1891: In
Newburg, NY, Rabbi A. N. Coleman officiated at the dedication of Temple Beth
Jacob
1892:
“Aizenstat’s Murder A Plot” published today described the status of the police
investigation into the murder of Lazarus Aizenstat, a Jewish immigrant from
Odessa who was probably killed after an assailant so far only identified as
Solomon and his confederates robbed him of the 35,000 rubles he was carrying
which was to be used to buy a farm in Connecticut.
1893(27th
of Elul, 5653): William Mordecai passed away
1893(27th
of Elul, 5653): Seventy-seven-year-old journalist and champion of the Haskalah
(Enlightenment) Aleksander Zederbaum who was the founder of Ha-Meliz the first
Hebrew newspaper published in Russia, passed away today.
1893(27th
of Elul, 5653): Ninety-year-old merchant and financier Joseph Barrow
Montefiore, the London born son of Eliezer and Judith (Barrow) Montefiore and
husband of the former Rebecca Mocatta who made his fortune in Australia passed
away today in Brighton, England. (According to some sources he passed away on
September 4)
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/montefiore-joseph-barrow-2472
1893: Herman
Appel announced that he was a candidate for Grand Master of the Independent
Order of Ahavus Israel, a position that had been held by Bernard Weinberg, the
disgraced banker
1894(7th
of Elul, 5654): Mrs. Abraham Greenspahn of 117 Siegel Street, Williamsburg
passed away after being hospitalized.
1894: In New
York City, Jacob and Jennie (Reis) Davidson gave birth to NYU graduate Louis R.
Davidson, the Bellevue Hospital Medical College trained surgeon.
1896(1st
of Tishrei, 5657): As Williams Jennings Bryan and William McKinley compete for
the Presidency Jews observed the first day of Rosh Hashanah
1896:
Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia University alum Howard Deitz,
the prolific songwriter and WW I Navy veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/01/obituaries/howard-dietz-songwriter-dies-at-86.html
1896:
Birthdate of Asonia, CT. Herman Broday, the Harvard trained surgical and WW I
veteran who practiced in Springfield, MA.
1896: “The
Fourth Assembly District Tammany Convention to elect delegates was not held
tonight as in other districts because of” Rosh Hashanah. Most of the members of the 4th
District organization are Jewish “and they would allow politics to interfere
with the…observance of the occasion.”
1897: Rabbi
Isaac M. Wise, the leader of the Reform movement wrote from Cincinnati on the
impossibility and impracticality of a Jewish state describing the recently held
Congress in Basel as “a novelty, a gathering of visionary and impracticable
dreams who conceived and acted a romantic drama and applauded it all by
themselves.”
1898: In
Bessarabia, Israel and Sarah (Droll) Gold gave birth Benjamin “Ben” Gold, husband
of the former Sadie Algus, who in 1910 came to the United States where he
served as the president of the International Fur Workers Union, and after
having organized the leather workers folded them into what became the
International Fur and Leather Workers Union.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/25/nyregion/ben-gold.html?searchResultPosition=1
1899: While
visiting the New York State Fair, Governor Theodore Roosevelt delivered an
address that covered several topics including the Dreyfus Case, saying that
such an episode could not happen in this country because justice is applied
equally to all be they Jew, Gentile, Irishman and or “those whose ancestors
landed…at Plymouth Rock.”
1899: Baron
Russell of Killowen, the Lord Chief Justice of England was among those who
attended the trial of Captain Dreyfus which is in the fifth day of the fifth
week.
1899:
Birthdate of World War I veteran George M. “Chick” Feigin the 1922 graduate of
City College “where he won four varsity letters and was captain of the
basketball” after which he graduated from Fordham Law School in 1924 and
founded Camp Chopee for Boys in Pennsylvania.
1899: “Jews
Appeal To The Kaiser” published today described a telegram sent by the Jews of
Memphis, TN asking Kaiser Wilhelm to allow German officials with knowledge that
is germane to the Dreyfus to testify at the trial now being held at Rennes.
1899: In
Washington, DC, Abraham Reingold, a young Jew from New York was discharged from
Georgetown University Hospital even though he was “partly paralyzed” – a
condition that seems to be related to the depression he is suffering as a
result of a failed love affair.
1900: The
deadliest hurricane in U.S. history which killed between 6,000 and 8,000 people
and caused over $20 million in damage struck Galveston, TX taking its toll on a
Jewish community whose leaders included Rabbi Henry Cohen of B’nai Israel,
Rabbi Leo N. Levi, a supporter of the so-called Galveston Plan and I.H. Kempner
who gave “interest free loans to local churches, the library, and the local
orphans home to help them get back on their feet after the storm and who became
Galveston’s first finance commissioner with the goal of helping the city regain
its economic footing.
1900:
Birthdate of Romanian native Isadore Blumenfeld a
Jewish-American organized crime figure based in Minneapolis, Minnesota known as
Kid Cann.
1901: It was
reported that a list of the charities in New York filled “seventy-two closely
printed pages” and included “the immigrant aid societies for every race that
comes to these shore” many of which are for Jewish people.
1902: The US
state of Maine, whose population includes approximately five thousand Jews, held
its election for the House of Representatives.
1903: Yaakov
Dovid Wilovsky also known as Ridvaz or Ridbaz was elected chief rabbi of the
Russian-American congregations in Chicago after having been as the zekan
haRabbanim (elder rabbi) of the United Orthodox Rabbis of America at their
annual meeting in August of 1903
1903: Louis
and Sarah Miller Fishbein gave birth to Nathan S. Fisbein, the husband of his
dancing partner, Evelyn L. Goldberg Fishbein.
1904: As of
today, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum is reported to be providing services to almost
1,000 children.
1905:
“Headgear in Church: The Jewish View of Covering the Head” was published today
in Judaicus.
1906: A three-day
pogrom that would result in the death of more than 32 Jews and negatively
impacted “1,530 families” began today in Siedice, a town in the Polish part of
the Russian Empire.
1906: Hyman
Gerson Enelow attended the second day of dedication exercises celebrating the
opening of the new Temple in Louisville, KY.
1907(29th
of Elul, 5667): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1907: Dr.
Joseph Silverman “and his associate Rabbi J. L. Magnes conducted services a
Temple Emanu-El” which included congregational singing and singing by the
choir.
1907: Dr.
Stephen Wise, the rabbi at the Free Synagogue delivered an address on “The Call
to the Higher Life” in which he that “the chief fault today of the members of
the Jewish race…is that they are imitators instead of originators.
1907: Services
were held at Ellis Island for the “Jewish immigrants who have been detained
there.”
1908: In
Wilmington, DE, University of Pennsylvania trained physician and National Guard
Captain Herman Trager, the Russian born son of David and Zena (Weiss) Trager
gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained physician and National Guard
Captain Herman Trager, who was a member of Beth El-Rothschild in Philadelphia,
married Bertha Grossman.
1908: “After a
conference which Oscar Hammerstein had to-day with Andrew Wheeler, Jr., and G.
Heide Norris, the Jewish impresario announced that a list of the applicants for
grand tier boxes for the approaching operatic season at the Philadelphia Opera
House would be made public in a few days.”
1909: Jews in
Aleppo telegraph the Hahambashi requesting he intervene with the government
respecting taxes for exemption for military service, on account of their
precarious financial situation. The Hahambashi prevailed and the Minister of
Finance telegraphed the Aleppo authorities to collect only 20% of debt Jews
owed, and to release prisoners from prison who could not pay.
1909: Today
“Vitascope-Theater GmbH changed its name to Deutsche Vitascope GmbH, with Jules
Greenbaum as the owner and managing director.”
1910: “The
Council of Ministers today approved a plan to extend to the Jews the right of
residence in eight towns in the Provinces of Vitobsk, Wolhynia, Mohileff,
Polatava and Kherson” which will now be presented to Czar for “imperial
sanction.”
1911: The
German Emperor confers the Order of Red Eagle, Second Class, on Professor Hugo
Munsterberg who has been serving as Professor of Psychology at Harvard
University. “The Order of the Red Eagle was an order of chivalry that the
Kingdom of Prussia awarded to both military personnel and civilians, to
recognize valor in combat, excellence in military leadership, long and faithful
service to the kingdom, or other achievements.” World War I flying ace Manfred
von Richthofen, the Red Baron, is probably the most famous recipient of the
award. Hugo Münsterberg was an early leader in the fields of applied and
industrial psychology. He died suddenly in December, 1916 while giving a
lecture at Harvard.
1911: Monsieur
Levy, Advocate-General at the Court of Appeals in Indo-China is appointed
Procureur General and Chielf of Judicial Service in French Guiana.
1911: F.C.
Hollander was re-elected Mayor of Durban, South Africa
1911: The
cornerstone of the first synagogue in Alberta, Canada was laid.
1911: In
Omaha, Nebraska, dedication of “Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol today.
1911(15th
of Elul, 5671): Mrs. Chawe Mosche Chait passed away today.
1911(15th
of Elul, 5671): David Rueben Hurwitz passed away today.
1911(15th
of Elul, 5671): Lithuanian Rabbi Shlomo-Zalman Traub who was born in 1830 and
succeeded his father, Rabbi Abraham Simon, as the rabbi of Keidan, passed away
today.
1912: It was
reported today that Rosh Hashanah services “have been organized for the Jewish
inmates at the tuberculosis camp at Westfield.
1912: In
Malden, Massachusetts, founding of Agudas Achim.
1912: In
Jersey City, NJ, founding of the Hebrew Free School.
1912: In
Brooklyn, founding of the Machzikei Talmud Torah of Borough Park.
1912: In
Philadelphia, founding of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.
1912: The
strike by furriers in New York, many of whom were Jewish, was settled today.
1913: In
Boston, Victor H. Elsas, the Atlanta born son of Jacob Elisas and Clara Stahl
and his wife Bertha Elsas gave birth to
Jason Morse Elsas/
1913: In New
York City, Minnie and Sender Alexander Frankel gave birth to Moe Frankel.
1914: The
Turkish government canceled capitulation measures, according to which foreign
nationals were subject only to their consuls and not to the governments of the
country in which they live leaving thousands of Jews in Palestine with foreign
citizenship to worry about their fate.
1914: During
the Battle of the Marne, German on attacks at Nancy “tapered off” thanks in no
small part of Joffre countermanding General Castelnau to withdraw from this
critical position.
1914:
Eighty-seven-year-old attorney Gustave Ferdinand Hertz, the Hamburg native
known as David Gustav Hertz who became a Lutheran when he married Anna
Elisabeth Pfefferkorn and father of physicist Heinrich Hert passeawa today.
1915(29th
of Elul, 5675): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1915: In the
evening Rosh Hashanah services are held for the first time at the recently
organized “The New Synagogue” a liberal congregation founded on New York’s West
Side by Rabbi Ephraim Frisch.
1915: At the
Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Dr. Stephen Wise “delivered a Rosh Hashanah
sermon in which he discussed some of the issues inspired by Germany’s attitude
toward submarine warfare.
1915: “On the
eve of the Jewish holidays” approximately $1,000,000 has been raised in
response “to the appeal of the American Jewish Relief Committee made to Jews
throughout the United States in behalf of those suffering in Europe.”
1916(10th
of Elul, 5676): Seventy-five-year-old Joseph Poznanski, the second born son of
Esther G. Poznanski and Gustavus Poznanski, the “shochet and chazzan of New
York’s Congregation Shearith Israel” who began serving Congregation Beth Elohim
in 1836 after which he advocated such “Reform” measures as holding the service
in English, observing only one day of each holiday and including organ music.
1916: Salonica
government declares compulsory military service is now required and that all
Jews over 21 cannot leave from its newly acquired provinces.
1916:
Following the failure during the Taft administration of “a movement to have the
Government establish a university as a memorial to Hyyam Solomon to be
maintained by the interest on the money owed to Hyyam Solomon by the United
States government, it was reported today that the heirs of Solomon, “who gave
George Washington $660 to help finance the American revolution will petition to
restore the money” which an earlier Congress had acknowledged was owed to him.
1917(21st
of Elul, 5677): Seventy-six-year Talmudic scholar Israel Lewy, the author of Ueber Einige Fragmente aus der Mischna
des Abba Saul passed away today.
1918(2nd
of Tishrei, 5679): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1918: Jewish
soldiers and sailors are able to observe the Jewish New York thanks to the
Secretaries of War and the Navy having ordered that furloughs be granted for
that purpose.
1919: After
the Actors’ Equity strike was settled, “La La Lucille,” a George Gershwin
musical reported today at the Criterion Theatre.
1919: In
“France Is Pledged To Jewish Freedom” published today “Marcel Knecht, the
Director of the Official Bureau of French Information in the United States is
quoted as paying “official tribute to the patriotic services of the Jews in
America and elsewhere” during World War I including the contributions of
“Ambassadors Elkus, Henry Morgenthau and Oscar Straus, Justice Louis Brandeis,
Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosenwald, Mortimer Schiff and Colonel Harry Cutler
whose names are greatly cherished” in France.
1920(25th
Elul, 5680): Seventy-seven-year-old German Jewish publisher and philanthropist
Rudolf Mosse who established one of the first advertising agencies in Berlin,
when that “industry” was all but unknown passed away today.
1920: The
first day of examinations for those wishing to attend the Teachers Institute of
the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1920:
Registration began today for all former and new pupils at The Hebrew School of
Congregation of Petach Tikvah in Brooklyn
1920(25th
of Elul, 5680): In Cleveland, Ohio, “communal worker” Ilennan Peskind pass away
today.
1921:
Birthdate of Lou Goldstein, the native of Warsaw whose career became synonymous
with Borscht Belt humor (As reported by Joseph Berger)
1922: In
Yonkers, NY, Max Ziser and his wife Ida
(née Raphael gave birth to the youngest of their three sons Isaac Sidney Caesar
who gained fame as comedian Sid Caesar whose greatest fame came in the 1950's
when he starred in the weekly Sunday night, "Your Show of Shows."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/sid-caesar-comic-genius-of-1950s-television-dies-at-91/
1923(27th
of Elul, 5683): Parashat Nitzavim observed as Jews read “Anti-Jewish Fictions –
International Moratorium of Hate Needed” written by Dr. Stephen S. Wise which
was published in yesterday’s issue of The American Hebrew.
1924: “Opposed
to Jews Settling in Mexico” published described “opposition to efforts to
settle Jews in the Crimea and Mexico which was expressed by the Zionist
Organization of America at its National Executive Committee's meeting in the
Hotel Pennsylvania”
1925:
Outfielder Si Rosenthal made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1926(29th
of Elul, 5686): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1926: As the
year 5687 begins, “sermons will be preached in more than four hundred
synagogues in New York and vicinity in connection with Rosh ha-Shanah, which
begins at sundown today, on the rebuilding of Palestine as a Jewish national
homeland.”
1927: The
funeral of Marcus Loew is scheduled to be held this morning at his estate in
Glen Cove. Burial will be at Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills. “No estimate
was obtainable of the size of Mr. Loew's fortune, but the extent of his
interests and operations indicate it is a very large one. In 1924, Mr. Loew
bought "Pembroke," the late Captain Joseph R. de Lamar estate for an
announced price of $1,000,000 and he is said to have spent several millions
more on it since. In February of this year he was reported to be carrying life
insurance of $5,000,000, being one of the nine men in the country insured for
that much or more. His holdings are said to be concentrated in the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation and Loew's, Inc.”
1928(23rd
of Elul, 5688): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilch; Leil Selichot
1928: It was
reported today that Governor Alfred E. Smith issued his annual message on the
occasion of the Jewish high holy days in which he expressed his wish to his
Jewish fellow-citizens a good and prosperous New Year and in which he asserted
that “the separation of Church and State is a fundamental American principle.”
1929:
Rothschild is in Yugoslavia where the London banker is believed to have
discussed the possibilities of a loan with King Alexander I.
1930:
Birthdate of Sanford “Sandy” C. Sigoloff, a corporate turnaround expert who
called himself the Skillful Scapel. (As reported by Mary Williams Walsh)
1930: Public
schools in New York City began teaching classes in Hebrew.
1931:
Birthdate of Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE, an English playwright, who wrote 129
early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150
screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations
1932(7th
of Elul, 5692): Seventy-four-year-old Jette Eppenheim, the Brandenburg, Germany
born daughter of Louis Eppenheim and Marianne Steinhardt, the wife of Frederik
de Jong and the mother of Leon and Salomon de Jong passed away today in The
Hague.
1932: After
spending part of the summer in Palestine Rabbi Israel Goldstein, the spiritual
leader of Congregation B’Nai Jershurun and the President of the Jewish
Conciliation court report returned to the United States yesterday on board the
SS Europa and reported that Jewish life was developing a sense of strength and
permanence. He also noted that the major building activities have changed the
complexion of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
1933:
Birthdate of Detroit native Paul Fleiss, the California doctor best known as
the father of Heidi Fleiss.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-fleiss-20140720-story.html
1933: The
Second World Jewish Congress met in Geneva and votes to organize a world-wide
boycott of German goods in response to the actions of the Hitler government.
1933:
Following the death today of King Faisal of Iraq, Ghazi bin Faisal began his
reign during which he “fell under the saw of Dr. Fritz Grobba, Hitler’s
ambassador to Iraq/”
1933: “One
Man’s Journey” a doctor story produced by Pandro S. Berman was released in the
United States by RKO.
1934: Appeals
for the relief of distressed Jews in Germany and other foreign lands were
issued today by Jewish organizations and leaders while more than 700 synagogues
and other places of worship completed preparations for the annual observance of
Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year, ushering in the year 5695 in the Hebrew
calendar tomorrow evening at sundown.
1935:
“Benjamin Winter, president of the American Federation of Polish Jews, was
elected chairman today of the world congress of nineteen federations of
communities of Polish Jews outside Poland.”
1936:
Economist Karl Pribram and his wife Edith set sail today from New York aboard
the Italian liner Saturnia today on trip to the Mediterranean.
1936:
Following a greeting sent by President Roosevelt last week to American Jews on
the occasion of the celebration of their upcoming holy days, “similar messages
from two other Presidential candidates were announced today by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.
1936: A
preliminary conference of Christian and Jews organized by the Pro-Palestine
Federation of America which is trying to mobilize and encourage Christian
interest in the right of the Jews to establish a national home in Palestine
took place in the Hotel Pennsylvania which was presided over by Franklyn
Hudgings who said “We Christians stand on the side of God if we help the Jews.”
1936: “Arab
Terrorism Answered” published today which included a summary of the British
response to the last five months of Arab violence and plans for future moves to
quell the uprising end with the conclusion that “For peace and cooperation
between Jew and Arab in the common task of rebuilding Palestine depend on
Britain’s showing unmistakably its determination to maintain its obligations
under the Balfour Declaration.”
1936: In a three-minute
speech at Nuremberg’s City Hall, “Chancellor Adolf Hitler…proclaimed his
restoration of ‘full arms sovereignty’ to the German national during the last
year.”
1936: A
preliminary conference of Christian and Jews organized by the Pro-Palestine
Federation of America which is trying to mobilize and encourage Christian
interest in the right of the Jews to establish a national home in Palestine is
scheduled to take place in the Hotel Pennsylvania
1937:
Nathaniel Shilkret conducted “An American Paris” during the George Gershwin
Memorial Concert which was broadcast from the Hollywood Bowl.
1937: In
Dayton, OH, “Bella (née Cabakoff) and Harry Wexner” gave birth to OSU alum and
CEO of L Brands, Leslie H. Wexner, “the billionaire businessman, philanthropist
and major Republican Party donor” who is the husband of attorney Abigail S.
Koppel and father of Harry, Hannah, David and Sarah Koppel.
1937: A
memorial concert was held at the Hollywood Bowl today, at which Otto Klemperer
conducted his own orchestration of the second of Gershwin's Three Preludes
1938: Baron
Louis Rothschild continues to be “detained at secret police headquarters” in
Vienna “where he is not permitted to receive visitors.
1938: In Rome,
“an authoritative source said today that Guido Serge, Italy’s Consul General in
Boston has been recalled because he was Jewish while an official at the Italian
Embassy took issue with that report because he claimed the decision to recall Serge
had been made “prior to Mussolini’s announcement of the decree banning Jews
from public posts.”
1939: Two
hundred Jews were forced into the synagogue in Bedzin, Poland after which the
building was set on fire.
1939: Jews in
Germany were ordered to mark all businesses with a Star of David
1940: “Dr. Max
Artz a member of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary addressed a
peace service this afternoon at the seminary’s synagogue” in which “he said
Jews would cease to be a religious people if they gave up hope for peace.”
1940: “Strike
at Jews in Maine” published today “the first demonstration of racial conflict”
when varnish was found smeared over the store fronts and windows of the eight
Jewish owned establishments in Bath ME, where Sam Prawer, a wholesale produce
dealer found that all of the tires on
his truck had been slashed.
1941: One and
half year-old Joseph Brodsky and his family were among those trapped in
Leningrad when the siege of that Russian, which would last for almost two and a
half years, began today.
1941: The
requirement Jews wear a yellow badge was annulled after five days by an order
Romanian dictator Ion Antonesu issued today.
1942: In the
House of Commons, Winston Churchill referred to the deportation of French Jews.
No mention was made of the fate of rest of the Jews of Europe. This silence was
not for lack of information available to the Allied governments.
1942:
Composer, conductor and pianist Viktor Ullman whose “list of works had reached
41 opus numbers and contained an additional three piano sonatas, song cycles on
texts by various poets, operas, and the piano concerto Op. 25” was deported to
Theresienstadt concentration camp
1943: On the
day that Eisenhower announced that Italy had surrendered unconditionally,
"six battalions of German paratroopers" marched into Rome causing
panic among the citizenry including a report that "The Jews are in a panic
and trying to leave the city.
1943: The five
thousand Jews deported from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia Ghetto arrive at
Auschwitz.
1943: In
Croatia, the German Army occupied Dubrovnik which had been home to 250 Jews
before the war and which is home to what is now the “oldest Sephardic synagogue
still in use today.”
1943: Italian
insurance executive and university professor Piero Scaerdoti took “refuge in
Switzerland with his wife Ilse, his son Giorgio and his parents” to avoid
further persecution by the Nazis who were now exercising greater control
following Italy’s withdrawal from the Axis cause.
1944: Jermie
Adler returned to Liege after it was liberated by U.S. troops today. Adler was a Hungarian Jew who moved with his
family to Liege before WW II. The Nazis
would kill them all except for one of his daughters.
1944: There
were more reprisals in reaction to the Slovakia Uprisings. Einsatzkommando
broke into Jewish homes and deported the Jewish population of Topolcany,
Slovakia
1945(1st
of Tishrei, 5706): Rosh Hashanah
1945: “Thousands of Jewish immigrants only
recently freed from Nazi concentration camps celebrated the Jewish New Year in
the Holy Land” where “Hebrew newspapers expressed the hope that the New Year
would bring aid to all Jewish survivors of the Nazi plague in Europe including
the 110,000 men, women and children now in Allied caps in occupied Germany.”
1945: In Vienna, General W. Mark W. Clark’s
headquarters announced that all units were issuing twenty four hour passes so
they could “join with the remnants of Austria’s Jewish population in the first
open observance of the Jewish holy days in Austria since the Anschluss in 1938.
1945: In Vienna “3,500 Jews remaining from a
pre-war Jewish population of 180,000 gathered in the ancient Stadt Temple for
Rosh Hashanah Services.
1945: In his sermon today, Rabbi William F.
Rosenblum of Temple Israel called “for a gathering of the world’s religious
leaders a sequel to the San Francisco Conference” that created the United
Nations.
1945: Rabbi J. Howard Ralberg of Congregation
Ohav Shalom told worshippers that “we were now in an era of vigilance, work and
enlightenment” and called “for continuous alertness against the recurrence of
another catastrophe.”
1945” Rabbi David de Sola Pool of the Spanish
and Portuguese Synagogue delivered a sermon on “The New Era of Peace.”
1945: At Temple Rodeph Shalom, Rabbi Louis I.
Newman told his congregants “that in the midst of all discussions of a new age
and new ways, we must remember that it is the heart and will of man which must
be reconstructed.
1945: In a sermon delivered at the West Side
Institutional Synagogue Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein “said that the religious of
reconversion is at least as important as the material aspect.”
1945: In his sermon Rabbi Zev Zahavy of
Congregation Ohab Zedek “compared the scientific strides made during the war to
the great task still ahead of moving toward a higher level in the sphere of
human relations.”
1945(1st of Tishrei,5706): Lt. Col. Louis
Geffen, a judge advocate in the US Army conducted “improvised High Holiday
services” on board his ship which was sailing across the Pacific from
California to the Philippines.
1945: On Rosh
Hashanah, 5706, Bess Myerson was the first (and only) Jew to be crowned Miss
America. Miss Myerson went on to enjoy a successful modeling and television
career before take an active role in New York City politics.
1946:
“Declaring that Palestine alone could not offer a solution to the problem of
the Jewish refugees of Europe, fifty-nine prominent persons have urged, in a
letter to President Truman, that the United States and all other nations open
their doors to a number of immigrants.”
1946:
Following the settlement of the strike at the D. Emil Klein Company which
manufactures cigars, the only issue left to be settled as of today is whether
or not “the Food and Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of the CIO should
act as the bargaining agent” for the company’s plant at Trenton, NJ.
1947: The
refugee ship Exodus is returned to Hamburg and its cargo of 4500 holocaust
survivors removed by force. Some claim that this act more than any other helped
force international public opinion against British policy. Others would contend
that this is a slightly romanticized view of the outcome of this episode. The
saga of the Exodus did supply the opening scenes, and title for, Leon Uris'
epic novel Exodus
1948: “Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, Chairman of the American Section of the World Zionist
Organization said today that while the people and the army of Israel were
strong ‘and their strength is increasing’ they were restive under the current
truce in the Holy Land.”
1948: “New
York will formally observe the establishment of the Republic of Israel on
September 15th as part of the
celebration of the city's Golden Anniversary, it was announced today
1949: “Under
Capricorn,” the film version of the novel by the same name co-produced by
Sidney Bernstein and with music directed by Louis Levy was released today in
the United Kingdom.
1950: In
Passaic, NJ, Edna Kronman and English teacher Morris Goldberger gave birth to Pulitzer
Prize wining Yale educated author and architecture critic Paul Jess Goldberger,
the husband of Susan L. Solomon Z”L and the father of David, Adam and Benjamin
Goldberger who has served as the Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, an
art and design college of The New School and the Joseph Urban Professor of
Design at the institution
1950: In a
letter to the editor published on this date in the New York Times, Alfred Wener
is critical of those who think removing Dr. Bernard (Dov) Josepher as Minister
of Supply and Rationing will solve Israel’s economic crisis. He reminds the
readers that Israel was created a year ago as a result of a long, expensive war
and that it has been absorbing tens of thousands of immigrants most of whom are
indigent. Part of the solution to the crisis could be found in massive
financial aid and assistance from “the world at large.”
1951(7th
of Elul,5711): Parashat Shoftim
1951(7th
of Elul, 5711): After having suffered a heart attack on September 6,
seventy-year-old Russian born Alexander L. Luira, the head of Luria Brothers
and Co. of Philadelphia, the largest scrap metal business in the United was
founded by Hirsh Luria passed away today in Atlantic City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/09/09/84861880.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: It was
announced today that Israel's acceptance of the United Nation's Palestine
Conciliation Commission's invitation to a conference in Paris next week to
discuss possible settlement of outstanding Israeli-Arab problems will be
delivered to the commission tomorrow or Monday.
1952(18th of
Elul, 5712): Seventy-one-year-old Rabbi Eugene M. Mannheimer who had married
Irma Shloss Mannheimer in 1917 passed away after which he was buried at Emanuel
Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.
1952: Israel
agreed to accept reparation money from West Germany. The issue of accepting
reparation money from West Germany was the cause of much acrimonious debate.
Many in Israel did not want to take the money because they felt that no amount
of funds could "buy" forgiveness for the Holocaust.
1952: Leonard
Bernstein becomes a father with the birth of his daughter, Jamie Anne Maria.
1952:
Birthdate of Israeli political leader Eli Aflalo, the native of Casablanca who
made Aliyah in 1962.
1953:
Birthdate of Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, the “Russian businessman and
philanthropist” with ties to Vladimir Putin “the President of the European
Jewish Congress, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF),
Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), and Chairman of the World Jewish
Congress (WJC) Policy Council.
1955: In Los
Angeles, Genna Sue Ervin and Julian Hammer gave birth to
Michaei Arman
Hammer, the son of Julian Armand Hammer and the “grandson of industrialist
Armand Hammer” was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrants.
https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-dad-michael-armand-hammer-dead-from-cancer/
1956(3rd
of Tishrei, 5717): Shabbat Shuva
1956(3rd
of Tishrei, 5717): Fifty-one-year-old Fargo, ND born University of Arkansas and
George Washington University trained pediatrician who founded Bound Brook
Hospital in Bound Brook, NJ with his brothers Benjamin and Maurice passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/10/86697470.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1956(3rd
of Tishrei, 5717): Sixty-two-year-old historian, translator and author Jacob
Levy whose works included “the translation of four of French-Jewish philosopher
Henri Bergson's books into Hebrew” as well a series of history textbooks based
on his belief “that studying historical dates is less important that learning
the processes that led to historical events.” (Editor’s note – MY KIND OF GUY)
1956(3rd
of Tishrei, 5717): Fifty-nine-year-old Sam Ash, the Jewish immigrant from the
Austro-Hungarian Empire who founded “Sam Ash Music Corp., the largest family-owned chain of musical
instrument stores in the United States “ passed away today.
http://samashmusic.com/portal/
1959: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held at The Riverside, for Nathan Hollander, the
husband of Hannah Hollender and a member of Temple Israel at Lake Peekskill,
NY,
1961(27th
of Elul, 5721): Seventy-one-year-old Maxwell Parnes, the son of Louis and Clara
Parnes and the husband of Sarah Blumberg Parnes, passed away today after which
he was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
1962: Having
gained its independence from France, Algerians voted to adopt a new
constitution. “When Algeria attained independence in 1962, legislation granted
Algerian citizenship only to those residents whose father or paternal
grandfather were Muslims. Moreover, the Supreme Court of Justice of Algeria
declared that the Jews were no longer under the protection of the Law. Most of
Algeria's 140,000 Jews left the country for France together with the
pied-noirs; only about 10,000 stayed, a number that would rapidly decrease.”
When the issue of “Palestinian refugee” is discussed, facts like these are
never mentioned.
1963(19th
of Elul, 5723): Eighty-two-year-old Polish born Hyman Goldstein, the Chicago
tailor turned real estate agent who married Rebecca Goldstein after the death
of his first wife Bella, passed away today.
1963(19th
of Elul, 5723): Eighty-four-year-old Hungarian born Rabbi Morris David Waldman,
the “professional head of the American Jewish Committee, the President of the
National Conference of Jewish Communal Service and “executive of the United
Hebrew Charities of New York” passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0023/ms0023.html
1963: “Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chairman of the
American section of the Jewish Agency and the President of the World
Confederation of General Zionists asserted today that the response of the
American Jews community for assistance to meet the barest minimum required for
the absorption and settlement of the increased wave of incoming refugees
arriving in Israel by the scores of thousands ‘has been inadequate and
disappointing.’” (As reported by JTA)
1963: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today for eighty-one-year- NYU trained attorney Isidor Wels, the New York
City born son of Tillie Roth and Simon Wels and the husband of Belle
Hoffman and senior part of the law firm of Moss, Wels and Marcus who belonged
to Temple B’nai Israel and the American Jewish Committee.
1964(2nd
of Tishrei, 5725): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1964:
Birthdate of professional wrestler Scott Levy.
1965: Martin
and Ruth Bader Ginsberg gave birth to American record producer James Steven
Ginsburg
1965(11th of
Elul, 5725): Joshua Lionel Cowen passed away. Born in 1880, he was the American
inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901),
which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had
invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the
Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He
designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His
partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the
Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train
engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To
his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus, he started
a model railroad company
1965: Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Martin Ginsburg gave birth to record producer James Steven
Ginsburg.
1966(23rd
of Elul, 5726): Seventy-two-year-old Willard Hotel manager and long-time member
of the United States Olympic Committee, Charles Lewis Manager who worked on
physical fitness programs for the U.S. Army, helped to create the Maccabiah
Games and was married first to the former Anne Bernstein, and then after she
passed way, to the former Aletha Marlott passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/09/09/82903958.pdf
1966:
“Kaleidoscope” a British film produced by Elliot Kastner and Jerry Gershwin
premiered today in London.
1969: Two
Arabs recruited by Al Fatah lobbed hand grenades at the El Al office in
Brussels.
1969: In a
case of “Jew plus Jew” Yaphet Kotto began playing the part of “Jack Johnson” in
the Howard Sackler’s prize-winning play, “The Great White Hope.”
1971: In
Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is
inaugurated with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's
Mass. Yes, only in America would a civic opera house feature a Catholic themed
musical creation written by a Jewish citizen.
1972(29th of
Elul, 5732): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1972:
“Chancellor Willy Brandt said today that his Government wanted a “frank” and
“ruthless” inquiry into the killings touched off by an Arab terrorist raid on
the Israeli Olympic team…”
1972: “Special
prayers will be recited in synagogue and temples at sundown today for the slain
Israeli Olympic athletes as the observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New
Year of 5773 begins” this evening.
1972: In his
sermon this evening at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Rabbi Emanuel Rackmen said
the Munich Massacre “was only one manifestation of the abandonment of reason by
lunatics.”
1972: In his
annual High Holiday message published today, “Rabbi Louis Bernstein, president
of the Rabbinical Council of America asserted that Rosh Hashanah represented
the ‘struggle between the spiritual and material for the possession of the
hearts and minds of mankind” and “in a reference to the Munich Massacre called
on all nations “to put an end to these wanton acts of murder.”
1972: In his
annual High Holiday message, “Rabbi Irving Lehrman, president of the Synagogue
Council of America” which “is the representative body of Reform, Conservative
and Orthodox Congregations” “called on the American Jewish community not to
neglect its own religious and culture needs.”
1972: “Rabbi
Louis Bernstein, president of the Rabbinical Council of America said at the
Young Israel of Windsor Park” in Queens, “that the council’s affiliated
Orthodox rabbis through the country should memorialize the victims” of the
Munich Massacre.
1972:
“Condemning the Arab terror in Munich” Dr. Edward E. Klein, the senior rabbi of
the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue said that the attack “indicated the barbaric
lengths to which Arab terrorism will go.
1972: In his
annual High Holiday message which comes just weeks before the Presidential
elections, “Rabbi Judah Nadich, president of the Rabbinical Assembly voiced the
prayer that those ‘who aspire to high office in our country will speak and act
in a manner which reflects the demands of Justice for all tempered by the
demands of compassion for all.”
1972: It was
reported today that while some claim that Black September which considered
Jordan to be one of its enemies has
about 300 members, Israeli military sources say that the number is more in the
thousands, that that terrorist group “has received support from leftist
organization in Europe including the Bader-Meinhoff group as well as
governments like Libya and that this terrorist group received the “$5 million
ransom that the German government paid last winter for a hijacked Lufthansa
jet.”
1973(3rd
of Tishrei, 5717): Shabbat Shuvah
1975: As the
Soviets continue to work to cement their relationships with their Arab client
states, President Assad began a visit to Czechoslovakia.
1975: David
Bloomberg completed two years of services Mayor of Cape Town, SA.
1976: It was
reported today that Uganda’s National Defense Council warned President Amin
against attacking Kenya because it would suffer the same economic dislocation
it experienced after it threatened its neighbor last summer following “the
Israeli raid to free the hostages at the Entebbe airport.
1977: In a
case of Jew versus Jew, Roy M. Goodman defeated Barry Farber in today’s New
York City Republican Mayoral Primary
1977: Edward I. Koch won a plurality of the vote in
today’s New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary running against a field that
included incumbent Abraham Beame and Bella Abzug.
1977: Sir
Arnold Wesker”s “The Merchant” (later renamed “Shylock” had it first out of
town performance in Philadelphia, PA with Zero Mostel in the role of Shylock.
1977: Seventy-seven-year-old
Friedrich Mandl, the Austrian arms dealer who flirted with fascism and tried to
deal with Goering despite the fact that his father was Jewish and who was the
husband of Hedy Lamar passed away today.
1977(25th of
Elul, 5737): Zero Mostel whose most famous role came as Tevye in "Fiddler
on the Roof" passed away.
http://www.biography.com/people/zero-mostel-9416421#synopsis
1978: “I Miss
You, Hugs and Kisses” a murder mystery directed and produced by Murray
Markowitz who also wrote the script and featuring music by Howard Shore was
released today in Canada.”
1978: “Almost
Summer” a “youth” movie produced by Rob Cohen and featuring Didi Conn was
released today in the United States.
1981:
''Ya'acobi and Leidental,'' a comedy by the Israeli playwright Hanoch Levine,
will begin a two-week American premiere engagement tonight at the La Mama
Annex, 74A East Fourth Street. The play,about three unhappy people who have let
life slip by, will be performed in English by the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv,
regarded as the national theater of Israel. The actors, Zaharirah Charifai,
Albert Cohen and Joseph Carmon, were also featured in the original Tel Aviv
production in 1972. Mr. Levine, winner of Israel's highest artistic award, the
President's Prize, has directed the production, which features music by Alex
Cagan.
1982: In Books
of the Times published today David Margolick provides a detailed review of The
Day Is Short: An Autobiography by Morris Abram which “records the story of a
small-town Southern Jew who grew to become a fighter for civil and human
rights, a successful New York lawyer, university president and leader of the
American Jewish community.
1983(1st
of Tishrei, 5744): Rosh Hashanah
1985(22nd of
Elul, 5745): Joseph B. Levin, former Assistant General Counsel of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, attorney at law and the most demanding
teacher I ever had at Adas Israel Religious School passed away. Husband of
Deborah and father of Judy, Mitchell and David Levin amongst other things he
predicted that “someday somebody will pay you to write a simple declarative
sentence.” Much to my surprise, he turned out to be right in a way he never
could have imagined.
1984(4th
of Elul, 5746):Seventy-year-old Dr. Nathan Aronoff, the Cincinnati born so of
Isaac ad Mary Ida Yachna Aronoff, and husband of Rose Wasserman Arnoff and
Lucille Hodesh Aronoff passed away today
after which he was buried at the Price Hill United Jewish Cemetery in Price
Hill, OH.
1986: Dr.
Arthur M. Sackler “participated in ground-breaking ceremonies for the Arthur M.
Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University and the Jill Sackler
Sculpture Court and Garden.”
1987:
Birthdate of Danielle Frenkel, “the Israeli high jumper who was the first
Israel to clear 1.90 meters.”
http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Frenkels-star-continues-to-rise-one-centimeter-at-a-time
1987: As
employers search for qualified workers in the Northeast, the New York Times reports on the creative
ways that employers are dealing with the labor shortage seeking including that
of a small-business executive Brian Waxler, vice president of Bruegers Bagel
Bakery, a chain of four profitable bagel-and-coffee shops in downtown Boston.
For several weeks this summer, signs in the shops offered a dozen free bagels
''for any information leading to the hiring of a bookkeeper.'' A customer
finally won the bagels by providing the name of a man who was hired for $21,000
a year, Mr. Waxler said. ''If he had wanted much more money, we would have
gotten by without a bookkeeper,'' Mr. Waxler added.
1988: “Earth
Girls Are Easy,” musical sci-fi comedy starring Jeff Goldblum premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
1990(18th
of Elul, 5750): Parashat Ki Tavo
1990(18th
of Elul, 5750): Eighty-two-year-old Solomon (Shlomo) haKoen Meisels the Oblast
born son of Rabbi Shmuel haKohen Misels and Feige Meisels and the husband of
Ida Ruth Meisels passed away today in North Miami, FL.
1991(29th
of Elul, 5751): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1991(29th
of Elul, 5751): Eighty-year-old Oscar nominated composer, Chester, PA, native,
Alex North (Isadore Soifer) passed away today in Los Angeles. (Personal note: Author of this blog lived in
Chester for three years at a time when the sign said “What Chester makes, makes
Chester” referring to Baldwin locomotive works and Scott Toilet Paper)
1992(10th
of Elul, 5752): Eighty-seven-year-old Mildred Weiss Tarshish, the Johnstown, OH
born daughter of Morris and Ricky Frankel Weiss and the wife of Allan Tarshis
whom she married in 1930 passed away today in Bexley, OH after which she was
buried in Columbus, OH.
1993: New York
State Attorney General announced his resignation today saying that it would
take effect on the last day of 1993.
1994: Premiere
of “Whale Music” a comedy drama starring Maury Chaykin.
1995(13th
of Elul, 5755): Eighty-nine-year-old Israeli historian and archeologist
Benjamin Mazar passed away. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
1995: “To Wong
Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar,” a comedy film directed by Beeban
Kidron was released today in the United States.
1995: Olga
Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya the long-time lover of Jewish author Boris Pasternak and
the inspiration for the character “Lara” passed away today.
1996: Alfred
H. Moses, the United States Ambassador to Romania, described the impact of his
Jewish heritage on his career and his life.
http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=873557&ct=1126715
1996: Moses
Montefiore, who made a fortune in the 19th century as an associate of the
banking house of Rothschild, is the subject of an exhibition at Temple Israel
in New Rochelle that opens with a reception today. “Montefiore, for whom the
hospital in the Bronx is named, was born in Italy in 1784, but acquired his
wealth and reputation as a diplomat and international advocate for Jews in his
adopted country, England, where he lived for most of his 100 years. In 1837 he
was knighted by Queen Victoria for his diplomatic work on behalf of the British
Government, and in ameliorating the suffering of persecuted Jews in Russia,
Syria and Morocco. He attained the rank of baronet in the 1840's and continued
to travel around the world on diplomatic missions until he was 93, ceasing only
because he was restrained by family and doctors.”
1997: "Valentine" a song co-written and performed by American
recording artist Jim Brickman was released today.
1997(6th
of Elul, 5757): Seventy-nine-year-old Maurice Levine, the “founder of the 92nd
Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricist Series, the husband of Bobbi Baird and father of
Tedra, Michael, Whitney and Sigmund Levine, passed away today.
http://www.playbill.com/article/lyrics-lyricists-leader-levine-dead-at-79-com-71440
1998: Pitcher
Keith Glauber made his major league debut with the Cincinnati Reds.
1998: “The
Rounders” a dark film about the world of high-stakes poker with a script by
David Levien and Brian Koppelman and co-starring Martin Landau was featured at
the Deauville Film Festival.
1999(27th
of Elul, 5759): Eighty-eight-year-old Louise Levin, the Pittsburgh, PA born
daughter of “Oscar William Oppenheimer and Claude Siesel and the sister of James Siesel Oppenheimer
passed away today in Charlottesville, VA.
1999: Future
Academy Award winner “American Beauty,” directed by Sam Mendes whose mother was
“an English Jew,” produced by Bruce Cohen and with musice by Thomas Newman, the
son of Alfred Newman was screened for the first time at Grauman’s Theatre in
Los Angeles.
2000: A large
group of influential Jewish scholars and rabbis have signed a theological
statement called ''Dabru Emet'' -- which means ''speak truth'' in Hebrew –
which calls on Jews to relinquish their fear and mistrust of Christianity and
to acknowledge church efforts in the decades since the Holocaust to amend
Christian teaching about Judaism.
2001: “Michael R. Bloomberg,
the Republican businessman running for mayor, was confronted today with
allegations of sexism, racism and homophobia based on revelations about a
birthday present he received 11 years ago.”
2002 Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said today that even though he had authorized
high-level talks with Yasir Arafat to try bringing about a cease-fire in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he doubted they would amount to anything because
the Palestinian Authority is ''a kingdom of terror.'' (As reported by Clyde
Haberman)
2002: “Miss
Peach,” “a syndicated comic strip created by Mell Lazarus appeared for the last
time today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Peach#/media/File:Misspeach52960.jpg
2002: A
production of “Pacific Overtures,” “a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and
John Weidman” set in Japan when the Americans were arriving in 1853 came to a
close at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre.
2002: After
more than forty-five years, Mell Lazarus’s “Miss Peach,” a comic strip whose
title character was a teacher” was printed for the last time in its original
format.
2002: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about
topics of Jewish interest including Longitudes and Attitudes Exploring the
World After September 11 by Thomas L. Friedman, The Fall of Berlin: 1945
by Antony Beevor and Bronx Boy: A Memoir by Jerome Charyn.
2002: The
first season of “The Wire” a gritty crime show set in Baltimore created by
David Simon.
2003: On
MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” Alan Dershowitz said "I will give $10,000 to
the PLO... if you can find a historical fact in my book (The Case For Israel)
that you can prove to be false."
2003(11th of
Elul, 5763): Canadian actress Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky passed away at the age
of 17.
2004:
Full of pride and joy, members and friends of Congregation Chasam Sopher
celebrated the completed first phase of the restoration of the 150-year-old
synagogue at 6 Clinton St. today and the beginning of a 12-month writing of a
new Torah scroll
2004:
Terrorists from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade failed to kill or injure anybody
when they launched an attack at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint attack.
2004:
“Paperclips,” a documentary about middle school class in Tennessee that began a
project designed to collect six million paperclips as a way of studying the
Holocaust was released in the United States today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65lh41YMklk
2005: Today
Robert Magnus began serving as the 30th Assistant Commandant of the Marine
Corps
2005(4th
of Elul, 5765): Seventy-nine-year-old “independent music publisher” Fred
Alhert, Jr., the son of songwriter Fred Emil Ahlert passed away today in San
Francisco.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=fred-e-ahlert&pid=15092878
2005: New
Jersey state senator Byron Baer resigns from the New Jersey State Senate for
reasons of health. “Shortly before he retired from the Senate, the New Jersey
Association of Jewish Federations presented Baer with the Shem Tov and
Distinguished Service awards. Jeffrey Maas, then executive director of the
association, said Baer was responsible for making sure Jewish community
centers, nursing homes, and social service agencies received extensive state
funding.”
2005: In one
of the most monumentally stupid remarks ever made by a Jewish leader (or
anybody else for that matter) “Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi and the
spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas movement, said today that Hurricane
Katrina was God's punishment for U.S. President George W. Bush's support for
Israel's Gaza pullout.”
2006(15th of
Elul, 5766): Ninety-one-year Hilda Bernstein an anti-apartheid activist and
author whose husband was tried for treason alongside Nelson Mandela passed away
today.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/18/guardianobituaries.southafrica
2007: Ruth
Messinger speaks at Durham's Judea Reform Congregation on "Jews as Global
Citizens." Messinger challenging Jews to increase their commitment to
solving world crises
2007: In
Jerusalem the sixth and the closing concert of Jewish Music Days is held at the
Beit Avi Chai. This last concert, closest to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New
Year, is aptly entitled Song and Prayer. The focus of this concert is a
contemporary look at Spanish and Ethiopian poets of the Middle Ages combined
with jazz and Jewish soul music.
2007(25th of
Elul, 5767): In the evening, Selichot.
2008: The
Yeshiva University Museum and the Center for Jewish History in cooperation with
The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German
National Tourist Office hosts a reception for a program styled, “Erfurt: Jewish
Treasures from Medieval Ashkenaz
2008: The
American Israeli Paper Mills Group (AIPM; Niyar Hadera) showed President Shimon
Peres their newest invention, pipes made of paper fibers and plastic. They are
so strong, CEO Avi Brener told Peres, they are almost as tough as steel.
2008: “Before
his final game as an Astro today the team paid tribute to Brad Ausmus with a
humorous video” which may have been the inspiration for the 2-run home run he it in the 3rd inning of
the game.
2009:
Journalist and videographer Max Blumenthal discussed and signed Republican
Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party at Politics and
Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C.
2009: The
Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, hosts a nighttime concert of
some of the best cantors, or hazzanim, around, singing those very songs that
make the High Holiday services so long, yet special, and throwing in a few
other "hits" as well.
2009: The
British military announced today that it has installed its first-ever Jewish
Civilian Chaplain to the armed forces. Rabbi Arnold Saunders will be
responsible for the spiritual and pastoral care of serving Jewish personnel in
all three services - army, navy and air force.
2010(29th of
Elul, 5770): Erev Rosh Hashanah
2010: A mortar
shell fired from the Gaza Strip this morning landed near several children’s'
school buildings in a Sha'ar Hanegev regional council kibbutz, some 30 minutes
prior to the students' scheduled arrival.
2010(29th of
Elul, 5770): Major General Israel Tal, “who helped lay the foundations for the
IDF” and played a key role in the Merkava, Israel’s premier battle tank, passed
away today in Rehovet. (As reported by
Ethan Bronner)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/world/middleeast/09tal.html?pagewanted=print
2010: Canadian actress Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig
filed for divorce from Bobby Salomon today.
2010(29th of
Elul, 5770): Eighty-four-year-old the literary magazine maven Thomas Guinzburg
who founded The Paris Review, passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/arts/10guinzburg.html?pagewanted=print
2010(29th
of Elul, 5770): Eighty-four-year-old folk music maven Irwin Silber passed away.
(As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/arts/music/11silber.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2011: A unique
concert featuring the stirring words of Holocaust survivors is scheduled to
take today place at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. It will be performed by the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and soloists and choirs from Israel and the United
States.
2011:
“Fallen Empires,” the second solo exhibition by Shai Kremer, is scheduled to
open at the Julie Saul Gallery in New York City.
2011:
An exhibition of new photography by Tal Shochat, “In Praise of a Dream” is
scheduled to open at The Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York.
2011: Thomas
Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum are scheduled to appear at the 6th
& I Historic Synagogue where they will promote In That Used to Be Us:
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back another in a series of books by Mr. Friedman
that offer the roadmap to save the world.
2011: This
evening the Tel Aviv District Court issued a temporary injunction preventing
the removal of the protest tents on Rothschild Boulevard, pending a response to
a petition filed by protesters.
2011: A French
court handed out a 6,000 euro ($8,421) suspended fine to John Galliano today
after finding him guilty of anti-Semitic behavior, marking the end in a fall
from grace for the former head designer of fashion house Dior.
2011: Noam
Shalit told a news conference today that he came to New York to meet with
diplomats from many countries and UN officials to press for his son's release
ahead of expected Palestinian moves seeking UN recognition later this month
2011: The
pro-Israel organization J Street decided to reject the Palestinian statehood
bid in its new position paper, aligning with the Obama administration's
position to oppose the unilateral move.
2012: Kandi Abelson
& David Kilimnick are scheduled to perform in Jerusalem at the Off the Wall
Comey Basement
2012: An evening of
Jerusalem Folk Music featuring Caanan Country and The Heeby Gee Bees is
scheduled to take place Motzei Shabbat at Beit Yehudit.
2012: In the evening,
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is scheduled to observe Selichot with its
annual Changing of the Torah Covers ceremony, services and study session. In
the “heartland,” am yisroel chai.
2012: Iran accused
Canada on Saturday of "hostile behavior" under Israeli and British
influence after Ottawa cut diplomatic relations, and it raised the prospect of
swift retaliation.
2012: Egypt and Israel
are coordinating on Cairo's biggest security sweep in decades against militants
in Sinai, in which 32 people have been killed, an army spokesman said today,
the first clear statement on communication between the neighbors.
2013: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish writers and or of special interest to Jewish readers including Dissident
Gardens by Jonathan Latham and examination of the question by Zoe Heller
and Adam Kirsch “Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists?”
2013: The Jewish
Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to sponsor its 4th
Annual Cycle Fest.
2013: Peter Shurman
“was removed from the position” of PC Caucus Finance Critic “after a heated
exchange with” his party leader “in which he refused to repay a housing
allowance he had received for a Toronto apartment.”
2013: The Alexandria
Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the Five Star Premier Residences in Chevy
Chase, MD.
2013: “Fire In My
Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh” is scheduled to come to an at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
2013: Israel complained
to the US regarding Palestinian officials leaking classified details about
ongoing peace negotiations, an Israeli government official said today. (As
reported by Aaron Kalman)
2013: The Air Force set
up an Iron dome missile defense battery in the Jerusalem area on Sunday, as the
United States lobbied for domestic and international support for military
strikes against Syria. The decision was made after situation assessments by the
IDF. (As reported by Yoav Zitun)
2013:
“The Jews of Egypt,” “a documentary on Egypt’s Jewish community” directed by
Amir Ramses “won an award for ‘best documentary’ at the Malmo film festival in
Sweden.” (Times of Israel)
2014:
“The UN Permanent Mission of Palau and the Engr Aja Eze Foundation are
scheduled to sponsor a conference on “Global Anti-Semitism: A Threat to
International Peace and Security” at the United Nations Headquarters facility
in New York City (As reported by Arutz Sheva)
2014:
“Right-wing Israeli poltiicians came out in support of a reported
Egytian-propsed deal to cede land in the Sinai to a future Palestinian state as
a means of resolving the refugee issue.”
2014:
“A Special Film Viewing of Rare Archival Footage from a Century of the American
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC” is scheduled to take place this afternoon at
the Center for Jewish History
2014:
Indian security officials warned that the “likelihood of attacks traveling in
India Has increased” “citing al-Qaeda’s recent public announcement of expansion
into the Asian sub-continent.”
2014(13th
of Elul, 5774): Eighty-eight-year-old health economist Rashi Fein who played a
key role in the creation of Medicare passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/rashi-fein-economist-who-urged-medicare-dies-at-88.html
2014(13th
of Elul, 5774): Ninety-four-year-old impresario Tibor Rudas who was shipped to
Begen-Belsen because his father was Jewish passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
2015:
In Falls Church, VA, Rodef Shalom is scheduled to help its congregants prepare
for the holiday season by offering a 10% discount tonight when it keeps its
Gift Shop open for a special evening sale.
2015:
The Jewish Historical Society of England is scheduled to host a lecture by
Professor Michael Spiro on “The Story of Penicillin.”
2015:
At a time when his power had not been dimmed charges of sexual misconduct, this
even Les Moonves appeared on the premiere of “The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert” “operating a large switch which he could use to switch back to reruns
of ‘The Mentalist’ if he was unhappy with” this new late night venture.
2015(24th
of Elul, 5776): Eighty-five-year-old real estate developer and television
producer Merv Adelson passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2015:
Barry Freundal, the “rabbi who went to jail for installing secret cameras in
the mikvah…adjacent to his synagogue wrote a letter of apology today in which
he said, “I am sorry, beyond measure, for my heinous behavior and the perverse
mindset that provoked by actions.”
2015:
Under the leadership of Manford Levy, Post 436 of the Jewish War Veterans are
scheduled to have their luncheon meeting in Maumelle, AR.
2016:
“Five Arabs from northern Israel were sentenced to multiple-year jail terms”
today “for joining the Islamic State and planning to carry out attacks in
Israel in the terror group’s name.”
2016:
As students return to the University of Iowa, Hillel is scheduled to host an
evening of Bowling with AEPi fraternity.
2016:
Thirty-two-year-old billionaire Dustin Moskovitz wrote about the 20 million
dollars he is donating to defeat Donald Trump in a posting tonight on the
website Medium.
2016:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host
“Holocaust Reparations and Restitutions” where attorney William R. Marks, “a
nationally-recognized expert in the field of German reparations and restitution
will share his experiences.”
2016(5th
of Elul, 5776): Ninety-two-year Greta Zimmer Friedman, the Jewish refugee whose
Times Square kiss from a sailor on the day World War II ended became an iconic
photo passed away today.
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more see
2016:
JW3, also known as Jewish Community Centre London is scheduled to host a final
screening of “Rabin, The Last Day.”
2016:
“The Kremlin announced today that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed
‘in principle’ to resume peace talks in Moscow.”
2016:
As part of year’s Jerusalem Season of Culture, or Mekudeshet, “a nighttime of
sounds, voices and music around a bonfire” is scheduled to take place in the
Jerusalem Forest.
2017:
Today, “House Republicans hissed and
booed senior Trump administration officials” including Secretary of the
Treasury Steven Mnuchin “as they pitched the President’s deal with Democrats to
increase” the debt limit.
2017:
The Pittsburgh Steelers released Safety Jordan Dangerfield, a member of the
Ethiopian Jewish community.
2017:
A hearing is scheduled to be held concerning a temporary restraining order that
has been to block the demolition of the Chevra Anshei Lubavitch Synagogue
“which is housed in a structure built in 1906 and is the oldest operating
synagogue in Borough Park.”
2017:
Tony Levine, the special team’s coordinator is scheduled to take the field as
Purdue plays its second game against Ohio University.
2017:
The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is scheduled to a “celebration of Shabbat for
families with children of all ages featuring a cater dinner with wine,
back-to-school-themed crafts and games, cookie decorating, and more.
2017:
In Tel Aviv, the Israeli Society for Dance Research in collaboration with Diver
Festival and with the Israeli Dance Archive Beit Ariela is scheduled to host
“Retrospective – Body, material, object.”
2017:
As Floridians await the scheduled arrival of Hurricane Irma, the Jewish
community is making preparations including Temple Sinai in North Miami Beach
where Rabbi Alan Litwak said “his synagogue has already cancelled programs that
might coincide with the flood and Bet Shira Congregation where Rabbi Mark Kula
has made arrangements to wrap the Torah scrolls “in two layers of plastic, put
them in van and take them to a local banks where they are placed on table in a
walk-vault built to sustain storms and floods.”
2017:
“Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced today that he intends
to indict Mrs Netanyahu for fraud for allegedly diverting some NIS 360,000
($102,000) of shekels in public funds for her own use.” (As reported by Raoul
Wootliff)
2017:
In Memphis, Temple Israel is scheduled to celebrate a “Musical Shabbat.”
2018:
The three-day Meteor Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
https://meteorfestival.com/experience/
2018:
Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “Shabbat-themed games, stories and
performances” for family members 3 years of age and older.
2018(27th
of Elul, 5778): Last Shabbat of 5778;
Parashat Nitzavim;
2019:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Karl Marx: Philosophy and
Revolution by Shlomo Avineri, Learnng From the Germans: Race and the Memory of
Evil by Susan Neiman, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the
Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik and the recently released paperback
editions of The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion by Steven
R. Weisman
2019:
In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to Darryl Heller speaking on
“Black and Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective.”
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Off the Wall Comedy Theatre is scheduled to host “David
Kilimnick’s Rabbinically Approved Comedy Special” this evening
2019:
In Washington, DC, this afternoon,The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish
Museum is scheduled to host “I Dissent:
Kids Taking a Stand” which will feature readings of I Dissent by Debbie
Levy, a display of white lace collars worn by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a
discussion of attendees “might dissent.”
2019:
The Jewish Museum exhibition “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything” is
scheduled to come to an end today.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/exhibit-explores-how-leonard-cohen-embraced-buddhism-judaism-and-wit/
2019:
The Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong is scheduled to host a “Jewish
Cemetery Tour” led by Howard Elias who “will share the stories of some of the
cemetery’s more notable residents, which includes members of the Kadoorie,
Belilios, Sassoon, Odell and Weill families…”
2020:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host on Zoom “Live from
the Archives: Rosh Hashanah Recipes.”
2020:
The Jewish Community Library and SFSU Jewish studies are scheduled to present a
talk by Eva Mroczek, director of Jewish studies at UC Davis and an expert on
ancient Jewish texts on “Myths of Meritocracy in the Hebrew Bible.
2020:
“Shloshim for Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z"l
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Noshes and Soups” during Joan
Nathan, author of King Solomon’s Table cooks “delicious appetizers and
soups.”
2020:
18Doors Boston is scheduled to join Sara Gardner for a Rosh Hashanah cook-along
during which she “will be cooking Sephardic Rosh Hashanah dishes from her very
own cookbook.”
2020:
The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host the final screening of
“Leona” and the first screening of “Sammy Davis, Jr., I’ve gotta be me.”
2020:
B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to hostThe How & Why of Jewish
Ritual With Cantor Aaron Shifman” during which he will discuss kaddish, mikvah,
tallit and tzizit, brit milah, Shabbat and havdallah to name a few using
Medrashim and Talmudic resources.
2020:
During “Shuk and Cook,” Israeli chef Einat Abramovitch Partin is scheduled to
teach a virtual class on how to make Israeli market and street food.
2020:
During the first virtual session of “Freud, Frankel and Kol Nidre,” Rabbi Yossi
Marcus will talk “about psychology and Judaism’s secret to reinvention.”
2020:
“As part of a new series of JRB Conversations with leading writers and thinkers
on Zoom,” Abraham Socher, the editor of the Jewish Review of Books is scheduled
to talk with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks about his latest work, Morality:
Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times.
2021(2nd
day of Tishrei, 5782): Second Day of
Rosh Hashanah; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2021:
Chochmat HaLev is scheduled to host “Tashlich, Klezmer and a Picnic” complete
“with music from Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band, dancing, singing and pebbles
provided for tashlich.”
2021:
This evening the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, CA is scheduled to host “Birth
Stories in Hebrew” during which a “panel of three women who recently gave birth
at different hospitals in Silicon Valley share their insights and experiences”
in a program designed “for Hebrew-speaking expectant moms.”
2021:
In addition to having deal with incendiary balloons from Gaza and the pandemic,
based on previously published reports seven million Israelis have dealt with
the fact that their personal information is for sale on the internet following
a hack by “Sangkacil” of CIT4U, “the website serving Israeli municipalities.”
2022:
“Bless: Design for Good,” an exhibit that features graphic design works by
contemporary Israeli designers selected by the Shenkar Research Center to
Israeli Design” is scheduled to open today.
2022:
The JDC is scheduled to host a webinar with Dr. Joseph Schwartz lecturing on based
on Professor Tuvia Friling’s forthcoming book The Web Spinner
2022:
East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present the 2019
documentary “After Munich” about the Palestinian terrorist attack on Israeli
athletes-staff at 1972 Olympics followed by a lecture by SFSU professor Eran
Kaplan.
2022:
In Berkely, Ca, the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies is scheduled to
present GTU scholar-in-residence Daniel C. Matt discusses his new book, Becoming
Elijah: Prophet of Transformation which explores Elijah and how the
zealot-turned–compassionate hero transformed over the years from the Bible to
Rabbinic Judaism to Kabbalah and to Christianity and Islam.
2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum’s Women’ Leadership Committee is scheduled to
host a fundraising “Soiree” at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
2022:
The YIVO institute is scheduled to present a Toni Bentley discussing his new
book, Serenade: A Balanchine Story.
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled a Walking Tour “The Jewish Gangsters
at Lower Manhattan.”
2023:
Tel Aviv braces for another day of protests centering around the city’s light
rail system.
2023:
The Army Show featuring Israeli artists Carl Freedman Gallery (booth #409):
Navot Miller; Michael Kohn Gallery (215): Nir Hod ; Tim Van Laere Gallery
(221): Tal R ;Yancey Richardson Gallery (334): Ori Gersht ;Yossi Milo (229):
Orit Hofshi is scheduled to open today at the Javits Center.
2023:
(22nd of Elul): Yarhrzeit Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin
z”tzl, father of Judy z”tzl, Mitchell and David without whom literally, this
blog would never exist and who prophetically told me that someday somebody
would pay me write “a simple declarative sentence.”
2023:
Based on previously published information, due to the political chaos in Israel
over judicial reform, the shekel is at its lowest level in three years. (As
reported by Sharon Wrobel)
2024:
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Board retreat is scheduled to take
place.
2024:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Holocaust Survivor Ellen
Glass as she shares her story, including her memories of
"Kristallnacht," the Night of Broken Glass, an infamous turning point
in Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.”
2024:
The Israel Academy of Film and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque are scheduled to
host screening of “Daniel Auerbach”
directed by David Wallach.
2024:
“Congregation Shaare Tefilla in Dallas, TX is scheduled to host the lecture “Jews
Who Drink: The Surprising and Intimate Story of Jews and Booze.”
2024:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a lecture by Ira Rezak on
“Forms Servig Functions; Coins and Medals As Judaica.”
2024:
Liat Cohen Raviv is scheduled to lecture on the current situation in Northern
Israel and its impact on community resilience and leadership. It will explore
adaptive leadership strategies and practical
approaches to building a strong, cohesive community during times of pressure
and uncertainty.
2024:
Touro University is scheduled to host a lecture by Yossi Klein Halevi on Jewish
Resilience and Vulnerability After October 7th
2024:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jews including Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner and Vertigo:
The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany, by Harald Jähner.
2024:
As September 8th 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 338 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)
