This Day, September 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 9
337:
Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine
I as co-emperors dividing the Roman Empire between the three Augusti.
Constantine was responsible for making Christianity the state religion of the Roman
Empire. The sons would quarrel but would
not reverse the father’s decision.
384:
Birthdate of Honorious, one of the Roman Emperors who prohibited the practice
of burning an effigy of Haman on Purim because early Christians saw it “as a
disguised attempt to re-enact the death of Jesus and ridicule the Christian
faith.” As early as the fifth century, there was a custom to burn an effigy of
Haman on Purim.[32] The spectacle aroused the wrath of the early Christians who
interpreted the mocking and "execution" of the Haman effigy as a
disguised attempt to re-enact the death of Jesus and ridicule the Christian
faith. Prohibitions were issued against such displays under the reign of
Flavius Augustus Honorius (395–423) and of
1087:
William the Conqueror, first Norman king of England, passed away. The first
verifiable Jewish population moved from Rouen in France to the British Isles in
the wake of William’s victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Based on the continued acceptance of Jews in
the kingdom by William’s son, the Jews were not there by accident. Rather, the new English rulers saw them as a
source for developing trade and commerce in their new domain.
1379;
The Treaty of Neuberg was signed splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between
the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III. According to historian
Jacqueline Shields, “The position of the Jews became increasingly precarious
during the reigns of Albert III and Leopold III starting in the middle of the
14th century and lasting into the early years of the 15th
century.
1516:
“A Judeo-conversa named María López” and her daughter Isabel were put trial on
trial during the never-ending Spanish Inquisition for allegedly performing acts
that were tantamount to observing Shabbat and the dietary laws.” (As reported
by Renee Levine Melammed)
1553(1st
of Tishrei, 5314) Rosh Hashanah
1553(1st
of Tishrei, 5314): Under the auspices of Cardinal Caraffa, later to be Pope
Paul IV, a “rabid” leader of the counter-Reformation, the Talmud was
confiscated and publicly burned in Rome. The Cardinal chose the day of Rosh
Hashanah of that year specifically so the Jews would feel the grief more
strongly. Talmud burning would soon spread across many other parts of Italy.
1680:
Lawyer Heny Marten, the son of Sir Henry Martin and member of the House of
Commons who called for Parliament to repeal the Act of Expulsion which would
have led to the admission to Jews in the United Kingdom passed away today.
1691:
In Edinburgh, a William Patouin, the former dean of Guilds unsuccessfully challenged
the decision of the Town Council to allow David Brown, the first openly
professing Jew to settle in Scotland to
reside and do business in Edinburgh.
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Sir Martin
1691:
The Edinburgh Town Council defeat a challenge to its grant of permission to David Brown, “who was the first
openly practicing Jew to settle in Scotland” “to reside and trade in the burgh.”
(As described by Sir Martin Gilbert
1744:
In Metz, which at that time was part of France, Minkle Minelet Oppenheim and
Elias Eli Nathan Levy gave birth to Lazard Elie Levy, the husband of Sar
Mayence with whom he had fourteen children.
1751:
Joseph Solomon Ottolenghe wrote a letter describing his arrival in Savanah, GA.
1759:
Rebecca Tema Ansel, who passed away on Shabbat, was buried today at the Hoxton
Old Jewish Burial Ground.
1771(1st
of Tishrei, 5532): Rosh Hashanah
1774:
At Frankfurt-am-Main, Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gutlé Schnapper gave birth
to their third child and second son Salomon Mayer von Rothschild the founder of
the Viennese branch of the “House of Rothschild” who passed away in 1855 while
visiting in Paris.
1789(OS):
In Lizona, Devorah Leah gave birth Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the grandson of
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi and husband Chaya Mushka Schneersohn who “assumed
the leadership of Lubavich on the eve of Shavuot 5591 and was known as the
Tzemach Tzedek)
1790(1st
of Tishrei, 5551): Rosh Hashanah
1791:
Jacob de Beer was employed today by the Dutch East India Company.
1793(3rd
of Tishrei, 5554): Tzom Gedaliah
1793:
Today, during the French Revolution, the Surveillance Committee “requested that
the Jewish community of Metz pay a tax of 20,000 francs.” (Editor’s note – the
term “request” hardly does justice to the relationship between the committee
and the citizenry since this was in the day of the active guillotine.)
1793:
One day after she had passed away, Hannah Jacobs, the wife of Jacob Jacobs was
buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1796:
The National Assembly of the Batavian Republic accorded equal rights to the
Jews of the Netherlands.
1811(20th
of Elul, 5571): Rabbi Jacob Raphael Cohen, the Hazan at Mikveh Israel in
Philadelphia who was a leader of the celebration marking Pennsylvania’s
ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and who raised two children,
Rachel and Abraham, with his wife Rebecca Nunes-Miranda Luria Cohen passed away
today.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cohen_jacob_raphael_5E.html
1812(3rd
of Tishrei, 5573): Jews in the UK and the US are divided by war between their
two countries but they share in hunger as they observe Tzom Gedaliah
1820(1st
of Tishrei, 5581): Two months before Americans elect James Monroe in the least
contested Presidential Election in the history of the U.S. Jews celebrate Rosh
Hashanah.
1824:
In London, Fanny and Hyam Ansell gave birth to Amelia Ansell.
1826:
In Karlsruhe, “Grand Duke Leopold and his wife Grand Duchess Sophie” gave birth
to their third son Frederick who as Grand Duke “appointed the Durlach lawyer,
Moritz Ellstaetter, his minister of finance, making him the first German Jew to
hold a ministerial position.”
1828:
Birthdate of Russian author, Count Leo Tolstoy.
Tolstoy’s attitude towards Jews is a mixed bag. He signed a petition sent to Alexander III
protesting pogroms in 1881. He strongly
condemned the Kishnev Pogrom writing, “The outrages at Kishinev are but the
direct result of the propaganda of falsehood and violence which our government
conducts with such energy.” At the same
time he blamed Russia’s defeat in the war with Japan on Russia becoming a
“pseudo-Christian civilization.” In this civilization “the struggle for money
and success in so-called scientific and artistic pursuits” becomes the dominant
factor. And it is the society in which “the Jews got the edge on the Christians
in every country and thereby earned the envy and hatred of all.” As old age
crept up on him he wrote, “I should like to write something to prove how the
teachings of Christ, who was not a Jew, were replaced by very different
teachings of the apostle Paul, who was a Jews.”
But in the end, Tolstoy noted that his physician Dushin Makovitsky would
have been a saint except for one flaw – his hatred of Jews.”
1828(1st
of Tishrei, 5589) Rosh Hashanah
1828:
Moses de Leon, the son of Abraham de Leon was buried today in New York City.
1833:
In London, Ellen Alice Jacobs and Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Theresa
Simmons.
1836:
Members of Congregation B'ne Israel dedicated the first synagogue built in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1838(19th
of Elul, 5598): Thirty-six-year-old Johanna Cahn Oppenheimer, the Lorraine born
daughter of Sarah Gillen and Moises Cahn and the wife of Salomon Oppenheimer
whom she married in 1799 and with whom she had five children – Mayer,
Gottfried, Charles, David and Isaac – passed away today in Blieskastel,
Germany.
1838:
Birthdate of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Leopold Karpeles, the
native of Prague who earned the honor while serving the Color Sergeant in
Company E, 57th Massachusetts during the Wilderness Campaign in 1864
1839(1st
of Tishrei, 5600): Rosh Hashanah
1839:
The Jewish community of Melbourne, whose members had begun arriving in 1835,
held their first High Holiday services.
1841:
One day after he had passed away, 61 year old Richard Solomon, the husband of
Leah Solomon, was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1843:
Three days after he had passed away, Louis Abelson, the husband of the former
Julia Lazarus, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1844:
In Canterbury, England, Elizabeth Levi and Abraham Abrahams gave birth to
Rebecca Abrahams.
1845:
Birthdate of Ignatz Acsady, the Hungarian Jewish historian whose works include
The Common State Law and the History of Politics and Jewish and Non-Jewish
Hungarians after the Emancipation.
1850: California joins the Union adding a 33rd
star to the U.S. flag. A year before California joined the Union there were
enough Jews to hold Yom Kippur Services in San Francisco. By the end of the decade there were ten
congregations in San Francisco and one in Sacramento. During this time there were two Jewish
associate justices of the state court and at least one Jew was serving in the
state legislature.
1850(3rd
of Tishrei, 5611):Tzom Gedaliah
1852:
In Charleston, Rabbi Lyons officiated at the marriage of Simond Hoseau of
Pouseau and Mrs. Dorohea Abramowitch of St. Petersburg, Russia.
1855:
The Allies siege of Sevastopol proved successful today leading to the defeat of
Russia during the Crimean War, one of a long string of defeats that would lead
to the government using anti-Semitism to turn their people’s heads from the rot
that was the Romanov dynasty.
1857:
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 56 Melete.
1858
(1st of Tishrei, 5619): As Lincoln debates Douglas in the Illinois Senate
Contest, Jews observe Rosh Hashanah
1858:
The City Items column published today reported “The most important of the
annual religious festivals of the Jews, the "Rosh Hashannah,"
commenced today. It is not only one of the most important, but also one of the
most ancient of Hebrew celebrations.” The writer then quoted the verses from
Chapter XXII of Leviticus that describe the commands related to the observance
of the holiday.
1859: Dr. Maurice Raphall “the most celebrated
Rabbi in the United States” delivered the Rosh Hashanah sermon at the Greene
Street Synagogue. Dr. Samuel Adler
delivered the sermon at Temple Emanu-el.
Dr. Bondi, the new rabbi at the Norfolk Street Synagogue, delivered his
first Rosh Hashanah sermon in New York.
1860:
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 61 Danae.
1861(5th
of Tishrei, 5622): Italian historian Samuel Romanin who became a college
professor at Venice, passed away today having completed only three volumes in a
projected nine volume History of Venice.
1861:
Sergeant Julius Stern, Company H, 27th Regiment completed his 90 day
enlistment which was the original term of service Lincoln had called for after
the firing on Fort Sumter. It would turn into three year enlistments after Bull
Run.
1861:
As the Civil War entered its sixth month reports were published today that
“there is a universal stampede of Jews southward, who have been engaged in
running goods into the Southern Confederacy, caused by a report that the trains
on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad would probably be stopped
to-morrow.” This would not be the first,
nor the last, attempt to connect Jews with war profiteering. These stories primarily emanated from the
western theatre of fighting. The author of this particular item shows an
ignorance of the pro-Union sentiment among Jews living in Kentucky as
exemplified by Louis Naphtali Dembitz of Louisville who was one of the three
men who placed Lincoln’s name in nomination for the Presidency.
1863:
Mr. J. L. De Cordova, the humorist and author is delivered his famed lecture,
"Fairy Land and the Fairies," at Dodworth's Hall this evening. The
proceeds will be given to the Hebrew Free Sunday School Teachers' Association.
1864:
In New York City, Gustave Pessels and Aloine Steenbock gave birth Constance
Pessels, who studied at the University of Texas before earning a Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins in 1894, taught English at the University of Texas and whose
works included “The Religious and Ethical Import of Judaism” published in the
Proceedings of the 28th annual session of District Grand Lodge No. 7
of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.
1864:
In Kaschau, Hungary, Henrietta A. Weintraub and Rabbi Albert Bettelheim gave
birth to Rebekah Bettelheim who as Rebekah
Bettelheim Kohut, the wife of Rabbi Alexander Kohut, became one of the
pioneering leaders in the fields of “in the areas of education, social welfare,
and the organization of Jewish women” (As reported by Karla Goldman)
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kohut-rebecca
1867:
In Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, German born chemist and industrialist Ludwig
Mond and Frida Löwenthal gave birth to British chemist and archaeologist Sir
Robert Mond, the brother of Sir Alfred Mond, first Baron Melchett.
https://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/our-history/founders/sir-robert-ludwig-mond
1870:
In Philadelphia, PA, Rabbi Marcus Jastow was serving as the spiritual leader of
Rodeph Shalom, a German Jewish Congregation, which dedicated its new sanctuary
on Broad and Mt. Vernon Streets today.
It replaced the congregation’s first synagogue that had been located on
Julianna Street.
1872(6th
of Elul, 5632): Sixty-six year old Johanna Katharina Diamant, the wife of
Herman Diamant passed away in Pest, Hungary.
1873:
G.L. Fox played Goliath in tonight’s performance of “The Wandering Jew” at the
Grand Opera House in New York City. “The Wandering Jew” or “Le Juif Errant” is
an opera by Fromental Halevy’s based on the medieval Christian legend that
claims a Jew who taunted Jesus at the Crucifixion is destined to wander the
world until the Second Coming.
1873: Birthdate of Maximilian Goldmann, who gained fame as director Max Reinhardt who
fled Hitler’s Europe and settled in the United States where he passed away in
1943.
1874:
In Russia, Sarah Schneider and Morris Barthold gave birth to New York and Paris
trained artis Manuel Barthold, the winner of the first Elliot Medal by the
National Academy of Design who settled in Paris.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Manuel_Loyola_Barthold/10002979/Manuel_Loyola_Barthold.aspx
1876(20th
of Elul, 5636): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed for the last time
during the Presidency of U.S. Grant who had enjoyed overwhelming electoral
support from Jewish voters.
1877(2nd
of Tishrei, 5638): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1877:
Despite claims that it was too small, the little synagogue in Chatham square in
New York City held Rosh Hashanah services in room that could hold anywhere from
300 to 400 people that could be accessed by a four-foot wide stairway which
provided a satisfactory route for worshippers to enter and leave.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404E5DF103FE63BBC4852DFBF66838C669FDE
1878:
In Antrim, Northern Ireland, Anne Rosenbaum and George Betzold gave birth to
Oscar Betzold.
1879:
Birthdate of Julius Pensak, the native of Gortlitz, Poland who came to the
United States in 1883 where he pursued a career as an oral surgeon in Brooklyn
after graduated from NYU Dental School.
1879:
In Glasgow, “the finished Garnethill Synagogue was officially opened” today
with Rabbi Hermann Adler leading the consecration and officiating at the first
worship service.
1881:
“Russian Immigrants” published today described plans that are being made by
prominent New York Jews to deal with the more than 500 Jewish refugees from
Russia that are expected to arrive at Castle Garden in the next three months. It is estimated that it will take more than
$50,000 to meet their initial needs.
1883:
In Belarus, Abraham Paykel and his wife gave birth to Sheboygan, WI grocery
store own John Peykel, the husband of Esther Peykel with whom he had to
children – Cilia and Hildegard who “was member of Ahavas Sholum Congregation
the Davis Lodge B’nai B’rith.”
1883:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Agram, the city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
which is also known by its Croatian name – Zagreb.
1884:
A group of Polish and Hungarian miners from Montana, PA, attacked a Jewish
clothier and chased him and his assistants out town after stealing their packs.
1885(29th
of Elul, 5645): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1885:
Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs led services this evening at the new synagogue on Madison
Avenue at 65th Street in Manhattan which had opened last March.
1888:
Birthdate of Baltimore native Felix Lowy the vice president and general manager
of the Holeproof Hosiery Company which had operations in Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Louis.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/10/06/94434503.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1889:
“The Jews of London” published today provides a review of Reuben Sachs: A
Sketch by Amy Levy.
“Reuben
Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to
Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but unexceptional family. But
without Reuben, a woman like Judith might have a bleak future in mid-19th
century England: a loveless marriage or lifelong dependency are apparently her
only options…” Amy Levy was 19th century Jewish author who led what
was called at the time “an unconventional life.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9901E2DE1531E433A2575AC0A96F9C94689FD7CF
1890:
Birthdate of Dr. Kurt Lewin, the German born American psychologist.
1890:
“The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Graphic” noted today that
there are “no less than 125,000 Jews in the military forces of the empire” and
that “next year’s draft will…amount to no fewer than 50,000” which means that
military service is one of the few rights of citizenship the Jews are allowed
to enjoy and that the Czar’s government see nothing “strange in arming a body
of men habitually oppressed by the State.”
1890:
Joseph Ansell married Zillah Cohen D’Azevedo today.
1891:
Birthdate of Austrian
native, Columbia trained attorney Emil N. Baar, the ustice of the Supreme Court
of the State of New York and chairman of the board of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/baar-emil-n
1891:
It was announced today that Rabbi Solomon Sonnenschein of Temple Israel has
resigned because of health problems and will be returning to Germany. He must
have recovered his health because in 1905 he was the Rabbi at Temple B’nai
Yeshrun in Des Moines, Iowa.
1891:
Yesterday’s ceremony dedicating Temple Beth-Jacob’s new facility was described
today as an ecumenical affair since the speakers included Rabbis De Sola Mendez
and A.S. Isaacs as well as Reverenc R. H. Barr of the Associate Reformed
Church.
1891:
Russian born American gynecologist Hiram N. Vinerber for whom the Hiram N
Vinerberg Research Fund is named married Lena Bernheim today.
1892:
Today, “the New Orleans correspondent for the American Israelite discussed the
work of elite Jewish women on behalf of Touro Infirmary and the Jewish Home for
Widows and Orphans including Mrs. I.L. Leucht, Mrs. Charles Newman and Caroline
Dreyfous, the wife of Abel Dreyfous. At this time, Caroline was the second
vice-president of the Ladies Aid and Sewing Society. The correspondent singled
out Caroline as one of three women deserving special mention.
1892:
Rabbi Hirsch officiated at the dedication of a new synagogue located at on 50th
Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues which was originally
founded 34 years ago by French speaking Jews from Alsace when they started
worshipping at a sanctuary on 45th Street between Second and Third
Avenues
1892:
“Driven From Their Homes” published today relied on first evidence supplied by
a group of Russian Jews passing through Paris on their way to Canada to
describe the plight of their co-religionists who were being expelled by Czar’s
government.
1892:
The Jewish Chronicle reported that
“in response to our appeal Mr. A. Leon Emanuel of Southsea has offered to lend
a sefer for the ensuing holydays.” (Rosh Hashanah, 5653 fell on September 22,
1892)
1893:
Morris Goodhart has been elected President of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society to replace the late Priscilla J. Joachimsen who was the driving force
behind creation of the society which oversees the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and has
been its only President.
1893:
Birthdate of Minsk native Naftoly H.J. Riff who came to the United States in
1916, who served as the Rabbi of the Orthodox Sons or Israel “from the early
1920’s through the late 1960’s.”
1894:
Abraham Cahan addressed a mass meeting of tailors affiliated with the Knights
of Labor at the Windsor Theatre.
1894:
There were enough Jews at tonight’s mass meeting of tailors held at the Thalia
Theatre that some of the speeches had to be delivered in Hebrew.
1894:
Birthdate of Arthur Freed, the Charleston, SC, native who gained fame as a
songwriter and movie producer whose work included the 1951 re-make of
“Showboat” based on the novel by Edna Ferber.
1896(2nd
of Tishrei, 5657): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1896:
The Fourth Assembly District Convention was held this evening at 8 p.m. two
hours after the end of the Jewish New Year.
All other district conventions had been held yesterday, but this one was
postponed until this evening because the district has a large Jewish population
and they would not participate in an event on Rosh Hashanah.
1898(22nd
of Elul, 5658): Seventy-seven year old “London wool broker” Maurice Bedding,
the son of Esther Moses and Henry Moses who left “an estate of £500,000 at his
death” and the husband of Hannah Maria
Beddington who “was a founder of the Central Synagogue” and “a vice president
of the Jew’s Hospital and Orphan Asylum passed away today.
https://www.geni.com/people/Maurice-Beddington/6000000011356919130
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/beddington
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2724-beddington-maurice
1898:
Alfred Aloe was commissioned today as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Army and
assigned to the 18th Infantry.
1898:
In Washington, DC, the Turkish Legations issued statement banning the entrance
of foreign born Jews into Palestine.
1899:
“Changing the Commandments” published today described a revision in the
Decalogue of which the Jewish World is the authority so that now “By order of
the Minister of Education in Russia, the fifth commandment shall read ‘Honor
thy father and they mother, the Emperor and his officials that thy days may be
long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee” leaving one to wonder if
a Russian Jew declined garbling the text of the commandments” would he be sent
to be a worker on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
1899:
In Rennes, crowds of anti-Dreyfusards expressed their pleasure at today’s
verdict by marching through the streets shouting “Vive l'armée” and “Down with
the Jews.”
1899:
When J.M. Francoeur who plays the part of a French officer in the French far
“The Girl from Maxim’s” playing at the Criteriorn Theatre first came on stage
in his army uniform the audience show its anger over the verdict in the Dreyfus
case by booing, hissing and calling out “Vive Dreyfus.”
1899:
Tonight, after hearing of the verdict in the Dreyfus case, New York Deputy
Assistant District Attorney Maurice B. Blumenthal began organizing “a committee
of citizens” regardless of their religion, “including clergymen of all
denominations” which would hold a mass protest meeting and send a committee to
President McKinley requesting that he intervene with French President Loubert
on behalf of Dreyfus.
1899:
At tonight’s meeting in Kansas City, MO, the women of the Hebrew Relief
Association adopted the following resolution: “We do hereby pledge ourselves
not to visit the territory of the French Republic, buy or handle any
merchandise or other thing manufactured or grown in any territory or possession
of said republic until the truth of the innocence of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus shall
be shown to the world by a fair and impartial trial.”
1899:
Among the books listed today as having been received this week were The
Modern Jew by Arnold White and The American Jewish Year Book: 5660
edited by Cyrus Adler.
1899:
Sixty-five year old James Biddle Eustis who had first-hand knowledge of the
Dreyfus Affair because he had been the U.S. Ambassador to France from 1894
through 1897 passed away today before he could complete his book on the affair.
1899: Anti-Jewish riots occurred in Algeria.
1900: Maurice B. Blumenthal is the Chairman of the Speakers
Committee for the state Democratic Convention meeting in Saratoga.
1901: Toulouse-Lautrec passed away who painted Reine de joie, moeurs du demi-monde
(Queen of Joy, The World of Easy Virtue) which depicts “Baron de Rozenfeld, a
Jewish banker, a fictional allusion to the French Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.”
1902: Real estate agents acting for Herman Cohen have sold the
three-story dwelling he owned at 137 West 77th Street.
1903: For one of the first time, “Jewish self-defense units
appearing during the pogrom in Gomel, Mogilev Province, Russia. (As described
by John Klier)
1903: Birthdate of Baghdad native and multilingual educator and
editor Ezra Hadad, whose Hebrew poems were published “in the Jewish weekly Yeshurun” and directed the Jewish
schools al-Waṭaniyya and Shammāsh in Baghdad.”
http://www.dangoor.com/73page88.html
1904(29th of Elul, 5664): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1904: “The Catch of the Season” which was produced by American
Charles Frohman opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.
1904:
In the United Kingdom the will of pawnbroker Isaac Aarons, the husband of Kate
Aarons was probated today. (As reported by David Alexander)
1905(9th
of Elul, 5665): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1905:
In Minnesota, Bertha and Oscar Applebaum gave birth to St. Paul resident Hyman
“Hy” Applebaum.
1905:
Birthdate of movie producer Joseph Levine who founded Embassy Pictures that
produced such interesting flics as “A Bridge Too Far” and “The Lion in Winter.”
1906:
In Philadelphia, PA, Congregation B’nai Abraham celebrated its 25th
anniversary.
1906:
Ohev Sholom Congregation, which had been formed by “Russian immigrants in 1886
during the administration of Grover Cleveland,” moved to its third “location at
500 I Street, NW” in Washington, D.C. “where it remained for the next fifty
years.
1906: In Louisville, KY, the three day ceremonies
dedicating a new temple came to an end.
1907(1st
of Tishrei, 5668): Rosh Hashanah
1907:
In Columbus, GA, the local newspaper that it “looked odd to see how many stores
are closed” today “and that the number of closed businesses…reflected ‘how
prominently the Jews are identified with city’s business life.’”
1908:
Joseph and Pauline Canter gave birth to Edward Leo Canter, the father of Alan
S. Canter.
1909:
“In producing "La Juive" at the Manhattan Opera House tonight Mr.
Hammerstein delved a little deeper than is usual into the archives of French
opera” since "The Jewess" has not been given in New York since 1904,
when it was sung in New York by the French Opera Company from New Orleans.
1910:
In Paris, Alice B. Toklas moves into the home of Gertrude Stein. [Do you think these two daughters of Israel
kept a kosher kitchen?]
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/09/1910/alice-babette-toklas-moves-in-permanently-with-gertrude-stein
1910: El Desperter a new
Ladino newspaper appears in Tetuan. It is the first Jewish newspaper in
Morocco. 1910: The Turkish government placed a tax on sales of kosher meat by
local communities. Proceeds were promised to go to philanthropic purposes.
Governors of all vilayets (provinces) informed and directed to assist chief
rabbis in enforcing payment.
1911:
In New York Barnett and Augusta Goodman gave birth to writer and social
commentator Paul Goodman.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/goodman/goodman-bio.html
1911:
The first party of Jewish farmers arrived in Salt Lake City Utah, on their way
to the Piute Project, to colonize Southern Utah.
1912:
Twenty-six year old Joseph Josephson, the native of Vilnius who lived in Sweden
and England before arriving today at Fremantle, Australia.
1912(27th
of Elul, 5672): Philanthropist Jacob Gallinger passed away today in Nuremberg.
1912(27th
of Elul, 5672): “Educator” Rosalie Moses passed away today in New York.
1912:
In Batavia, NY, a year after “Orthodox Jews purchased a house on Liberty Street
to use as a synagogue,” they began using their new building “Shomrei Emunah
Temple” today.
1913:
“The project for the establishment of a Jewish university at Jerusalem was
among the subjects discussed at the Zionist Congress” meeting in Vienna.
1914:
Birthdate of Cleveland, OH native Seymour Heller, the big time talent agent
whose most famous client was Liberace and who raised three children with his
wife “Billie (Rosenfield) Heller.)
1914:
Reportedly declaring that Germany had lost the war, Helmuth von Moltke, the
Chief of the German General Staff suffered a nervous breakdown today which
necessitated his removal from office. (Sort puts the lie to the “stabbed in the
back” myth that Germans fed themselves.)
1915(1st
of Tishrei, 5676): Rosh Hashanah
1915:
Sculptor Victor David Brenner, Director of the United Hebrew Charities Morris
D. Waldman, Dr. Marcus A. Rothschild, John Levy, Joseph Shay and Samuel
Lovenberg are among those attending Rosh Hashanah services at the newly founded
“The New Synagogue” a liberal congregation on the West Side.
1915:
In New York “in addition to the regular services at the temples and synagogues”
additional services will held “in the auditorium of the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association at Lexington Avenue and at the Young Women’s Hebrews Association
Building.”
1915:
Dr. Maurice N. Harris delivered a sermon on “The Arrested Sacrifice of Isaac”
at Temple Israel in Harlem in which he said “it is difficult to say which is
the harder lot, that of 400,000 Israelites fighting at the front, sacrificing
their lives on the altar of nationalism or of the non-belligerents, women, the
aged and children driven from their homes and their towns as each city falls
into the hands of the conqueror” on the Eastern Front.
1915:
Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered a Rosh Hashanah sermon on “The Greatest Need for
Humanity” at Temple Emanu-El.
1915:
At Temple Beth-El, Rabbi Samuel Schulman delivered a sermon on “The Destiny of
the Jew in the Light of the World War.”
1915:
At Temple Rodoph Sholom, Rabbi Rudolph Grossman delivered a sermon on “Peace”
in which “he declared that those who believed that patriotism was responsible
for the present war had a false conception of patriotism.”
1915:
“Speaking before the Fee Synagogue in Carnegie Hall” on Rosh Hashanah “Dr.
Stephen S. Wise declared the Jew must be something rather than have something”
and “he must stand for something” as “evil’s resistless foe.”
1915:
Based on dispatch from The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Petrograd, it was
reported from London to that “complete cessation of religious persecution” and
“removal of restriction upon the Jews” were “among the reforms in the program
adopted by the progressive parties of the united Duma which control 300 out of
the 439 votes in the House” which are now being considered by the Council of
Minsters whose approval is necessary if the reforms are to become law.
1915:
In Philadelphia founding of Tifereth Israel.
1915:
An American doctor who arrived in New York from Liverpool today described
conditions in Turkey including the government’s order for all Jews, Greeks and
Armenians to leave Asia Minor which has meant that over 200,000 refugees have
been sent to Nineveh.
1915: The Associated Press Correspondent reported
from Lodz today that “the Jews of Russian Poland, now in the hands of the
Austrians and Germans appear to have suffered, prior to the Russian retirement
more than normal hardship imposed by war” as could be seen by “a rather
promiscuous execution by the Russians of Jews accused of espionage” and the
“plundering of Jewish shops and houses by the Russian soldiery.”
1916:
Second baseman Sam Bohne made his major league debut with the St. Louis
Cardinals.
1916:
In “For the Poor of Palestine” published today, A.B. Beaumont asked why
students at Cornell could not “get up some entertainment or something and send
the proceeds to help the destitute Arabian Jews.”
1916:
Today, during the Battle of the Somme, Jack Melnick “a rifleman in the 12th
London Regiment” and the father of Eva Melnick” “was listed as wounded and
missing.
1916:
Birthdate of Montague Ullman, the psychiatrist who founded the Dream Laboratory
at Maimonides Medical Center.
1917:
The New York Times reviewed The
Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text: a New Translation and The
Story of Bible Translation by Max L. Margolis. Dr. Cyrus Adler chaired the committee that
was responsible for the translation and the late Dr. Solomon Schechter played a
key role in this effort as well.
1918:
Birthdate of Albert A. Seedman, the Bronx born son of a taxi driver who became
“the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives in the early 1970s.” (As
reported by Richard Goldstein)
https://www.j-grit.com/public-servants-albert-seedman.php
1918:
It was reported today that a “piece entitle ‘Philopen,” will be performed on Broadway
at the Place by soprano Lina Abarbanell, the daughter of German Sephardic Jew
in an appearance that will mark her return to vaudeville.
1918(3rd
of Tishrei, 5679): In the waning days of The Great War, Jews divided by combat
were united in the observance of Tzom Gedaliah
1919:
“Many Jews” were among the large group of intellectuals who gathered in Paris
to form the “French League of Youth.
1920:
In South Bend, Indiana, Samuel and Sophie Novak Plotkin gave birth Albert
Plotkin, the graduate of Notre Dame and Hebrew Union College and Rabbi at
Congregation Beth Israel in Phoenix who played a key role in the development of
the “Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University.”
1920:
Final day of registration for the Hebrew School of Congregation Petach Tikvah
in New York.
1920:
Second and final day for the Fall Entrance Examinations for admission to the
Teacher’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1920:
A memorial service was held in New York in honor of Rabbi Bernard Cantor and
Dr. Israel Friedlander, professosr at the Jewish Theological Seminary who had
been murdered outside of Kiev while brining aid to the hundreds of thousands of
Jews who were suffering as a result of WW I and the Russian Revolution.
1921:
It was learned at Carlsbad today “that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the
Zionist Organization, would come to Washington to attend the conference on the
limitations of armaments.”
1922:
Birthdate of Hartford, CT, native Pulitzer Prize winning historian Bernard
Bailyn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/books/review/the-barbarous-years-by-bernard-bailyn.html?_r=0
1923:
Birthdate of David Rayfiel, the native of Corinth, NY a screenwriter who in a
long creative relationship with the director Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford
collaborated on many of their most successful films, including “Three Days of
the Condor,” “Out of Africa” and “The Way We Were. ” (As reported by William
Grimes)
1924:
Thirty-five-year-old Yale trained chemist and WW I veteran Phillip Lee
Blumenthal, the Owensboro, KY born son of Bernhard and Minnie (Wolff)
Blumenthal, who was a member of the Men’s Club at Temple Beth Zion in
Lexington, KY married Julia Kirtz today in Buffalo NY.
1925:
“Five Arab notables have decided to quit smoking and to establish a fund for a
bank ‘to save Palestine from the Zionist menace.’”
1926(1st
of Tishrei, 5687): Rosh Hashanah
1926:
Thanks to a directive from the Director of Public Safety, Jewish policemen and
firemen are to be excused from active duty today because of the High Holidays.
1926:
As Jews in New York observed Rosh Hashanah, they contemplated the following
message from Governor Alfred E. Smith, who would be the first Catholic to run
for President of the United States in 1928.
"The
minority of intolerant people in our land are soon hushed by the chorus of
disapproval which arises when intolerance and hatred raise their voices. True
Americanism does not tolerate anything so un-American and unpatriotic as
intolerance of any race or any religion. Once again at the approach
of the Jewish New Year, I want to extend to the Jewish citizens of the State my
cordial and heartfelt greetings. I appreciate the sacredness of the time and
have many memories of the deep solemnity with which my old friends and
neighbors observed these Holidays. In our busy lives it is an inspiring thing
to set aside days on which we take thought of our actions and our life during
the past year and prepared for the future. Communion with God in the deepest
spiritual sense is the basis of all true religion. I profoundly believe in the
separation of church and State as a basic American principle and I could not
believe otherwise. But I do not believe in the separation of religion from
daily life. Each of us observes the requirements of his religion in his own way
but together we are all children of the one God. The minority of intolerant
people in our land are soon hushed by the chorus of disapproval which arises
when intolerance and hatred raises their voices. True Americanism does not
tolerate anything so un-American and unpatriotic as intolerance of any race or
any religion. The Jews are notably a people of peace and in wishing my fellow
Jewish citizens of the State of New York a good New Year, I hope that their prayers
will join with mine that our Universal Father help us all to strengthen the
time-honored American principles of toleration and religious freedom." (As
reported by JTA)
1926: The New York Board of Jewish Ministers issued a New Year
message, in which it declared:
"With Rosh Hashanah begins Israel's most solemn
season of the year, culminating in Yom Kippur, the sacred Day of Atonement. It
is a hallowed usage in the House of Israel that this season is a time for
noting and estimating the individual and the collective situation."Crowded
synagogues will once more attest to the call of the Faith which summons the Jew
to scrutinize his soul and take inventory of his spiritual condition. May the
Heavenly Father send light and guidance upon the path of every sincere supplicant
who implores help from On High. "The celebration of the 150th anniversary
of American independence brings vividly to mind the privilege as well as the
responsibility with which the Jew has been entrusted in this blessed land. He
has shared fully in the life of the nation, from its beginning, having made
many sacrifices and received many benefits. Among the patriots who achieved the
success of the Revolution, the Jewish names were plentiful, though the Jewish
population was meager. The Jew therefore feels thoroughly at home in the land
which he has helped to defend in times of war and to upbuild in times of peace.
He appreciates the bounties, material and spiritual, which he, together with
all American citizens, here enjoys; and with the same fervor that he prays for
his personal well-being, he prays also for the well-being of the United States
of America, its civil leaders, its citizens, and its institutions. "The
collective situation of the House of Israel abroad gives promise of better
things for the coming year." The lot of the Jew in Europe and in Palestine
is showing measurable improvement. As the European nations regain their
composure, the Jew regains his safety. The Peace and Welfare of Israel is
intimately bound up with the Peace and Welfare of Humanity. Therefore the
Prophetic Proclamation of the Holy Day season, 'Peace, Peace, afar and near,'
is Israel's constant prayer."May the wounds of sorrow and suffering
everywhere be healed. "May the New Year 5687 bring Peace and Blessing to
Israel and to all Humanity."
1926:
Establishment of the National Broadcasting Company. NBC (first in radio and then in television)
was the network dominated by David Sarnoff, Chairman of RCA. With William Paley owning CBS, this meant
that two Jews were at the top of the two major broadcasting networks. Contrary to what the anti-Semites claim,
having two Jews at the top did not translate into a Jewish controlled media;
one look at the programming of these two broadcasters will tell you that these
men aimed most of their programming at middle-brow, Middle America.
1927:
“The plan for extension of the Jewish Agency, sponsored by American Zionists
and having the support of non-Zionist Jews in the United States was approved by
the 15th Zionist Congress meeting today in Basle.
1928:
“Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” a silent film directed by William Wyler and produced
by Richard Wyler was released today in the United States.
1928:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Irwin and Esther Zwerling, Jewish emigrants from Austria and
Romania, respectively, gave birth to “American character actor” Darrel
Zwerling, the younger brother of Bernice Zwerling.
https://dialmformovies.net/2014/09/16/darrell-zwerling-chinatown-actor-1928-2014/
1929:
“Joseph Absuhdid, one of the Jews wounded in Hebron during the massacre now
recovering in a Jerusalem Hospital was taken by the police to Hebron where he
identified eighty prisoners as a part of the mob which perpetrated the massacre
on August 24.”
1929:
In the Bronx, Samuel Bialkin, who “worked in his family’s underwear factory”
and homemaker “Lillian (Kastner) Bialkin” gave birth to Kenneth Jules Bialkin
the Harvard Law School graduate and husband of social worker Anna Elizabeth
Eskind who was head of the ADL when it won a posthumous pardon for Leo Frank.
(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1930(16th
of Elul, 5690): Sixty-year-old David Weisbord, the author of a book on Vilna
and “one of the founders of Tel Aviv, the world’s only ‘all Jewish city’ passed
away today in Tel Aviv.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/09/10/118190495.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1931:
In Cleveland, OH, two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held
today seventy-six year old Dr. Nathan
Weidenthal, the son of Bernard Weidenthal, one of the first Jews to
settle in this part of Ohio and Dorothea Weidenthal and the husband of
“Ernestine (Esther) Weidenthal.”
1932:
Sehnsucht 202 (Longing 202) “a German musical comedy” that marked the debut of
Luis Rainer was released in Austria today.
1932:
“The Regiment’s Champion:” with music by Casimir Obrfeld who was killed at
Auschwitz in January of 1945 was released in France today.
1933(18th
of Elul, 5693): Parashat Ki Tavo
1933:
In Bradford, Ontario, Harry and Anne Tulchinsky gave birth Jacob Joseph
Tulchinsky the historian and author who specialized in the field of the History
of the Jews of Canada. (As reported by Ron Csillag)
http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/gerald-tulchinsky-historian-canadian-jewry-dies-84
1933(18th
of Elul, 5693): Hirsch Smulowitz, who although 109 years old only had
twenty-seven birthdays because he was born on Feb. 29, died in his sleep at the
New York Guild for Jewish Blind on St. John's Avenue today. He was one of the
oldest men in the State.
1934(29th
of Elul, 5694): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1934:
At the Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise delivered a sermon on “For Better
or Worse” in which he said some people recognized that in order to destroy
democracy, freedom, justice and civilization the Nazis must first destroy the
Jews.
1934:
Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, the Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El delivered a sermon
“Self-Judgment.”
1935:
“Awake and Sing” a play by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman with a
cast that included Luther Adler, Stella Adler, Morris Carnovsky, John Garfield
and Sanford Meisner re-opened for a second run on Broadway.
1935:
In Tel Aviv, Russian born plaster and Haganah veteran Jacob Topol and Imrela
Goldman gave birth to Chaim Topol who is best known to American audiences for
playing Tevye in the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof."
1936:
In Le Pontet, France, “Sarah Levendel and her husband Max who owned a small
haberdashery shop gave birth to their son Isaac the author of Not the
Germans Alone: A Son’s Search for the Truth of Vichy
1936:
“David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
urged twenty-seven labor leaders at a luncheon” today “in the Hotel New Yorker
to support an exhibition soccer match between the Maccabee Palestine and local
all-star team” which will raise money for the relief of Jews in Poland.
1936:
Tonight at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, Hitler made “another savage
attack on the Jews” that included coupling Judaism with democracy both of which
he said were “destructive to civilization.”
1936:
“More than 3,000 men and women filled Carnegie Hall” tonight “to hear the
reports of sixteen American delegates to the World Jewish Congress held in
Geneva last month” which was attended by representatives from 32 nations.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that the
National Arab Congress, attended by delegates from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq,
Palestine and Egypt, started its deliberations in a small summer resort of
Bludan, in Syria. The Palestine Post
was the pre-Independence name of the Jerusalem Post. It was only after the establishment of the
state of Israel that the term Palestinian came to refer to Arabs.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that the
stabbed and mutilated body of a young unidentified Jew was found in the Yarkon
River. Another Jew, Willy Weiss, was robbed and killed by five armed Arabs on
the Haifa-Nazareth road. His passenger, Michael Dubowsky, was also wounded and
robbed, but left alive.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that
during the first seven months of 1937, Ha’avara Trust Office transferred 18.8
million marks of Jewish capital from Germany to Palestine. The transfers were
about 11m. in 1933-1934, 17.1m. in 1935, 20m. in 1936. Parts of the transfers
consisted of goods, machines and raw materials.
1938:
Premiere of “Boys Town” which told the story of Father Edward Flanigan directed
by Norman Taurog and script co-authored by Dore Schary.
1938(13th
of Elul, 5698): Eighty-four year old Joseph Schulen, the Munich banker who went
into the brewery business in 1895, when he took over Munich’s bankrupt
Unionsbrauerei and in 1904 “acquired Münchner Kindl, another failing brewery in
Munich passed today as the Nazis sought to “Ayranize” his business holdings.
(As described by Yardena Schwartz)
1938:
Ahron Opher who for the last three years has been serving “as rabbi and
director of religious education at the Hebrew Guardians Sheltering Society in
Pleasantville, NY and the Hawthorne School of the Jewish Board of Guardians”
was named today as the rabbi of “the Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights.”
1938:
In response to “the newly decreed race prohibitions which are applied by blood
and not religion,” “the Italian Government announced today that separate
elementary schools for Jewish children would be opened this Fall” thus assuring
“schooling for all Jewish children, especially those of Jews converted to
Catholicism. (Editor’s note - This puts to the lie the contention that the
Italians did not follow the lead of the Nazis since this prohnition moves in
lockstep with the Nuremberg Race Laws.)
1939:
Birthdate of Reuven “Rubi” Rivlin, a native of Jerusalem who is a member of
Likud and Speaker of the Knesset.
1939:
Today, the first mass murder took place at when Bedzin “40 prominent
individuals were executed.”
1939:
Birthdate of literary agent Edward Victor, the Bronx born son of Russian Jewish
immigrants “who was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) for his services to literature” in 2016. (As reported by Sam Roberts) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/business/media/ed-victor-dead-literary-agent.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
1939: Harry F. Guggenheim and his journalist wife
launched Newsday, a tabloid designed to serve metropolitan New York
City.
1940:
Louis Werfel who graduated from Yeshiva College in 1937 and would be known as
“The Flying Rabbi” while serving in the U.S. Army in WW II married Adina
Gerstel whom he had met at the college’s cafeteria.
1940:
Italian planes bombed Tel Aviv. One hundred seventeen people were killed. The Jews of Palestine posed a threat to the
fascists. With much of the Arab world supporting the Nazis, the area controlled
by the Yishuv provided a safe area for British forces in the Middle East. The oil refineries at Haifa were of great
value to the Allies and were subject to bombing raids by the Italians. At the outset of the war Weitzman had pledged
the support of the Yishuv to the Allied cause.
Ben-Gurion spoke for many when he said the Jews would fight the White
Paper (the closing of immigration) as if there were no war and fight the war as
if there were no White Paper.
1940:
The Ordinance Judenkodex (Jewish Code) was adopted in Slovakia. This was part
of a series of law designed to strip Jews of their sources of livelihood.
1941(17th
of Elul, 5701): Sixty-one-year-old Riga native and University of Colorado
graduate “Dr. Aaron S. Green, a noted ophthalmogist and inventor of instruments
for eye surgery” who was the father of three children – Nancy, Patricia and
Alan – passed away today “while on vacation at White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/09/10/104301596.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1942:
The Vichy Government (Unoccupied France) ordered the arrest of all Catholic
priests who were sheltering Jews.
1942(27th
of Elul, 5702): Two thousand Jews were assembled at Kislovodsk, sent to nearby
Mineralnye Vody, marched to a ditch and shot dead. There were no survivors among the 2000.
Kislovodsk is located in southern Russia. In 1987 Kislovodsk took part in a
pioneering U.S. - Soviet venture in peaceful relations by becoming a sister
city to Muscatine, Iowa. (You have to live in Iowa to really appreciate this
one.)
1942:
Future Major General Harold W. Chase enlisted in the Marine Corps today.
1942(27th
of Elul, 5702): Margarete Schiff, the daughter Dr. Josef Bauer whose works laid
the foundation for the therapy that came to known as psychoanalysis, died today
at Theresienstadt, a fate her sister Dora had avoided by committing suicide.
1942: Two thousand Jews are deported from the
camp in Lublin, Poland, to Majdanek.
1943:
In New London, CT, “Dorothy (Karp) Kripke, an author of children’s religious
books” and Rabbi Myer S. Kripke gave birth to Madeline Faith Kripke, the
Barnard College graduate “who kept one of the world’s largest private
collection of dictionaries, much of it crammed into her Greenwich Village
apartment…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1944(21st
of Elul, 5704): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Slichot
1944:
Allied forces liberated Luxembourg today. Of the 3,500 Jews living there in
1939, 1,555 survived, by fleeing, hiding, or surviving in the camps; 1,945 were
murdered, a third in the camps to which they had been deported from Luxembourg,
and the rest in the country itself or in other occupied countries to which they
had fled or been deported. (As reported by Yad Vashem)
1944:
At the Chelmno Death Camp in Poland, an inventory was reported of 775 wrist
watches and 550 pocket watches which had been collected since July from the
victims of the Lodz ghetto cleansing. At
one level, the Holocaust was an economic venture with what might be called a
reallocation of resources. In other
words, the Germans and their allies took the property of the Jews and gave it
to themselves. During the 1950's there
was great deal of hoopla over the German Economic Miracle - the name given to
quick recovery of the West German economy after the devastating defeat in
1945. How much of this
"miracle" was actually funded by the wealth confiscated from the
victims of the Holocaust remains one of the great unasked and unanswered
questions of the post war world.
1944:
The U.S.N. Drum (SS-228) began its 11th war patrol that would take
it to the enemy controlled Luzon Straits in the Philippines. The submarine was under the command of
Maurice H. Rindskopf who would earn the Navy Cross for his gallantry and
intrepidity on this patrol. The Jewish “sailor” would rise to the rank of Rear
Admiral before his retirement in 1972.
1944:
The Germans established a weather station on Svalbard which almost a year to
the day later would be the scene of the last surrender of Nazi forces.
1944:
Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, “the Monuments Officer for the First Canadian
Army” “arrived in Rouen today “and made his first report, carefully recording
the city’s damage from the German air bombardment in 1940, the Allied
bombardment in 1944, and the retreat of German forces.”
1944:
In Philadelphia, PA Morris and Sally Seitz gave birth to their younger daughter
Judith Seitz who gained fame as Judith Rodin, the 12th President of
the Rockefeller Foundation and the wife of a former dean of the Tulane School
of Law.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/dec/17/1993/judith-rodin
1945(2nd
of Tishrei, 5706): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1945:
“General H.H. “Hap” Arnold, head of the Army Air Forces paid tribute today “to
Jewish chaplains for the ‘splendid work they are doing at home, abroad and in
the far-flung combat zones the world over.’”
1945:
It was reported today that American Jews have received greeting from Dr. Joseph
H. Hertz, chief rabbi of the British Empire in which he paid “tribute to the
1,000,000 Jews who fought in the Allied Armies, acknowledged “the more than
5,000,000 Jews killed by Hitler’s assault on civilization” and “said that the
establishment of Palestine as a free commonwealth with equal rights and
opportunities for Jew and Arab would be a ‘historic act of Justice to Israel’s
survivors from Nazi extermination.’”
1945:
“At Shaare Zedek Synagogue, Rabbi Morris H. Goldberg declared that this Rosh
Hashanah “impels us to determine to fashion an international society which will
do justice to the nations of the earth but at the same time control the
aggression of nations.”
1945:
At Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein declared that “if during
the New Year the British and American Governments will proclaim as their policy
the establishment of Palestine as a Jewish state it will be the world’s most
moral act of statesmanship in nineteen centuries.”
1945:
“Rabbi Philip Harris Singer urged his congregation at the West Side
Institutional Synagogue to pray for the final breakdown of Godless state
sovereignty and self-deifying power adoration and for its replacement by an
enthusiastic subordination of all nations of the earth under the unifying
Kingdom of God.”
1945:
In Brooklyn Milton and Violette Kaye gave birth to Melanie Kaye, who gained
fame as Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz the social activist who sought to create a
Jewish identity that went beyond the limits of political Zionism, creating a
message Jewish universality. (As reported by Maya Salam)
1945:
At Congregation Ohab Zedek, Rabbi Zev Zahavy “asserted that even though the war
was over the basic struggle of humanity was continuing unabated.”
1945:
At Ansche Chesed, Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin “declared that the Atomic Age had
prodigious power for good or evil and he urged mankind to release the spiritual
energy it possess in the direction of truth, justice and peace so that the
dream of world cooperation and blessing
can be fulfilled.”
1945:
Lt. Col. Louis Geffen, a judge advocate in the US Army, led Rosh Hashanah
services on a naval transport crossing the Pacific Ocean.
1946:
Birthdate of Glasgow native Gordon David Plotkin, “a theoretical computer
scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh who is
probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics
(SOS) and his work on denotational semantics.”
1946:
Birthdate of “Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist Miriam Fried, the wife
of “violinist and violinist Paul Biss and the mother of pianist Jonathan Biss
and Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss.
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/september/september9.html
1947:
In Camden, NJ, Louis L. Goldman oversaw the ceremonies during which Dr. Max
Artz installed Philip L. Lipis as the rabbi at Congregation Beth El.
1947:
A homemade bomb was discovered on the
Empire Rival after its “human cargo of Jewish refugees” had disembarked and
sent to naval barracks in Hamburg.
1948:
“Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Producers Association of
America, sent a cable today to the New York Board of Rabbis in reply to their
protest against the British film, "Oliver Twist," one of his
assistants said”
1948:
Baruch Zuckerman, president of the American Labor Zionist Organization and
member of the World Zionist Executive, said tonight that the American General
Zionist delegates at the recent meeting of the World Zionist Actions Committee
in Tel Aviv, Palestine, were not able to establish the principle of separation
between the World Zionist Movement and the State of Israel.”
1948:
“Moonrise,” a film noir with screenplay
by Charles F. Haas premiered today in Los Angeles.
1949:
In Connecticut, “Mrs. Winifred McDonald, Secretary of State, today urged town
and city officials in Connecticut to extend voting hours in local elections on
Oct. 3 so Jewish voters could go to the polls after sunset, the end of their
Yom Kippur observance.”
1949:
The Israel Corporation of America announced today that “the Israeli Government
has issued import permits for $3,000,000 in goods from the United States” and
that “the necessary American dollars will supplied by the Keren Hayesod
(Palestine Foundation Fund) in New York.”
1950:
Gimbel’s began selling sports coats from Tel Aviv this afternoon, making it the
first New York Department store to sell clothes designed and manufactured in
Israel. The coats cost $98 plus tax.
1951:
The draft of a mining law designed to promote oil exploration in Israel by
foreign petroleum companies has been drawn up and will be submitted for
Government consideration as soon as a new Cabinet is formed. According to a report prepared by U.S.
Petroleum engineer Max Ball, three are geological in three different locations
in Israel that suggest the presence of oil.
The area of greatest interest is in the Negev.
1951:
Today Leonard Bernstein married Costa Rican born actress Felicia
Montealegre-Cohn; an event which occurred during the same month when he was
appointed Professor of Music at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
1951:
“A basic reorganization of the United Palestine Appeal and other American
Zionist fund-raising agencies is the principal item on the agenda of a
forthcoming national conference to be called by the United Palestine Appeal,
Rudolf G. Sonneborn, U.P.A. national chairman, announced today upon his return
from a two-month stay in Israel. Mr. Sonneborn, who was a delegate to the
recently concluded World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, declared that "the
conference which will be convened as soon as possible in Washington, D.C., must
implement the basic decision of the Congress to streamline and consolidate the
Zionist Funds."
1951:
The newspaper Le Monde reported today that of 7,700 newspapers and periodicals
published in the Soviet Union in 109 different languages not one is being
published in Yiddish.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that West
Germany approved the terms of The Hague Reparations Agreement. Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer and his government hoped that this act, apart from the
contribution to the economic recovery of Israel will build a bridge of
reconciliation. Parliamentary circles in Bonn believed that full diplomatic and
commercial relations with Israel will be necessary to warrant the agreement¹s
safe realization.
1953(29th
of Elul, 5713): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1953(29th
of Elul, 5713: Seventy-year-old San Antonio, TX native and Purdue University
trained electrical engineer Samuel Kahn who in 1925 settled in San Francisco
where he became “a utility and transit company executive” and raised two
daughters, Barbara and Rosaline, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/11/84424317.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954:
Birthdate of Dr. Martin Seth Kramer, the Washington, DC native and holder of a
Ph.D from Princeton who developed an expertise on the politics of Arabs and
Islam and whose first teacher in this field was Itamar Rabinovich who served as
United States Ambassador to the United States.
1954:
In London premiere of “Sabrina” a classic directed and produced by Billy Wilder
who co-authored the script with Ernest Lehman.
1955:
Rabbi Stephen Rosenblatt and Cantorial Soloist Marvin Zeller are scheduled to
officiate at services at Temple B’nai Sholom being held in Carnegie Hall.
1956(4th
of Tishrei, 5717): Tzom Gedaliah observed on Sunday since the third of Tishrei
fell on Shabbat.
1956:
At the Beach Point Club, Rabbis Lawrence W. Schwartz and Jacob K. Shankman
officiated at the wedding of Alice Ray Greenbaum and Robert Heyman Eder.
1957:
Alfred K. Stern and his wife Martha Dodd Stern “were indicted in absentia on
espionage charges.” (Martha Dodd’s father was the first U.S. Ambassador to
serve in Germany during the Hitler era.
She got to see the Nazis up close and this transformative experience
shaped the rest of her life.)
1957:
In New York City, “businessman Ted Arison and Mina Arison” gave birth to
“Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist” Shari Arison, the owner and of
Arison Investments and brother of Micky Arison, “chairman of the Carnival
Corporation.”
1957:
President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first such
legislation enacted since Reconstruction.
Congressman Emanuel Celler was a driving force behind the act having
introduced it into the House. Celler
would play a similar key role when it came to passage of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
1958(24th
of Elul, 5718): Seventy-seven-year old Beatric Cecilia Born Stein, the Manhattan
born so of Cecilia Lichtenstadter and Simon Born and husband of Fredrick Michael
Stein whom she married in 1903 and with she had three children – Fred, William
and Cecilia – passed away today in Manhattan after which she interred at the
Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
1958:
French Premiere of “The Goddess” with a script by Paddy Chayefsky and featuring
Steven Hill as John Tower.
1959:
New York City native and Columbia Law School trained attorney Charles Miller
Metzner was confirmed by the United States as Judge of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York.
1960:
Twenty-seven year old Abraham “Abe” Cohen the native of Plymouth, PA who played
college football for the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Mocs played today
for the Boston Patriots (later the New England Patriots) in the first game of
the American Football League.
1962(10th
of Elul, 5721): Seventy-six-year old Benjamin Joseph Massell, the Lithuanian
born son Ralph and Clara Mitnick Massell and husband of Fannie Wolfson Massell
with whom he had two children – Benjamin and Caroline – who was a member of the
National Advisory Council of the American Jewish Committee passed away today in
Atlanta, GA.
1962:
This afternoon, at the Savoy Hotel, Rabbi A.M. Heller officiated at the wedding
of Leslie Ruth Robbins and University of Michigan trained attorney Stephen
Weinstein.
1963:
Funeral services were scheduled to be held today at the Riverside chapel for
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 father of “Lynn Pearlstein,
Pearl Glaser and Helen Eliezer.
1963:
“Three major civil rights organizations” including the American Jewish Congress
are scheduled to submit a friend of the court brief to the Supreme Court which
urges “an end to the discriminatory treatment of urban voters in state
elections.”
1963(20th
of Elul, 5723): Sixty-eight year old German-American historian Ernst Hartwig
Kantorowicz, the German Army veteran whom Norman Cantor “suggested that, but
for his Jewish heritage, Kantorowicz (at least as a young scholar in the 1920s
and 1930s) could be considered a Nazi in terms of his intellectual temperament
and cultural values” passed away today.
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2656/a-dashing-medievalist/
1964(3rd
of Tishrei, 5725): Tzom Gedaliah
1964:
Birthdate of documentary filmmaker Eyal Sivan, the native of Haifa who was
raised in Jerusalem
1965:
While on his way to start his freshman year at Tulane University, David Levin
“rides out” Hurricane Betsy in a parked railroad car in Slidell, Louisiana as
the storm makes its second landfall near the Crescent City, leaving 76 dead and
$1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first
hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages
1965:
The most famous Jewish player, Sandy Koufax pitched his 4th no-hitter; a
perfect game in which the Dodgers beat the Cubs 1 to 0. (Hank Greenberg rates
as the second most famous.)
1966:
In Brooklyn, Judith "Judy" (née Levine), a nursery school teacher,
and Stanley, an electrical engineer” gave birth to actor and comedian Adam
Sandler who was raised in Manchester, NH.
1966:
In London, opening of the Destruction in Art Symposium chaired by Gustav
Metzger
1966:
Schocken Books, Inc. is scheduled to publish today "Two Tales" by
S.Y. Agnon, the Israeli who has been acclaimed as today's leading writer in
Hebrew and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize. It will be the first English
translation of a book by Mr. Agnon since 1948, and it will mark 50 years of
association between the writer and the Shocken family.
1968(16th
of Elul, 5728): Sixty-two year old New York City native and Pratt Institute
graduate Louis A. Peirez, the “President of Viewlex, Inc,” manufacturers of
“audiovisual, photographic and sound equipment” who “was a member of the
national board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League” and the husband of
Alexandra S. Nininger Peirez with whom he had two children – Helen and David –
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/09/11/76932352.pdf
1968(16th
of Elul, 5728): Sixty-nine year old Polish native and husband of Rachel
Porille Rabbi Chaim Porille who in 1927 came to the United States where
he served as the leader of the United Hebrew Congregations in Providence, RI
and the rabbi of the First Rumanian American Congregation while earning a
degree from CCN passed away today in New York City
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/09/10/317601712.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969:
Operation Raviv, a ten hour raid mounted against Egypt under the command of
General Avraham Adan and Admiral Arvaham Botzer successfully destroyed a radar
site at Ras Saafrana while playing havoc with Egyptian forces on that nation’s
Red Sea Coast.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-6609.html
1970:
A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular From for
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson Field in Jordan. The
names of the Palestinian terrorist groups may change but the goals remain the
same; remove western influence from the Arab worlds and destroy the state of
Israel.
1971(19th
of Elul, 5731): Ninety-four year old University of Chicago trained journalist
Clarence Axeman who worked for several publications including the Louisville
Herald and who was the co-founder editor of the insurance trade journal Eastern
Underwriter passed away today “at a nursing home in Florida.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/10/03/85174573.html?pageNumber=82
1972(1st
of Tishrei, 5733): Rosh Hashanah
1972:
“During the 10-day period of the High Holy Days” that begins with Rosh Hashanah
“the El Mole Rachamim (God Full of Mercy) the solemn prayer for the dead will
be intoned for the athletes killed by Arab terrorists at Munich.”
1972:
“Leaders of major Jewish secular and religious groups in their annual messaged
cited the symbolic significance of Rosh Hashanah and called for the equality
among all peoples and the restoration of full rights in the Soviet Union.”
1972:
In a highly unusual move the National Conference of Catholic Bishops…called for
prayers…on behalf of the Israeli athletes who were murdered by Arab terrorists”
saying that “decent people everywhere can only be appalled by the tragic and
outrageous killing at the Olympic Games.”
1972:
A Syrian military spokesman said that “Syrian fight bombers inflicted heavy
damage and casulaities today on Israeli position in the Golan Heights” after
which three of the Soviet-built Sukohi 7’s and three Israeli Mirage jets were
shot down in ensuing dogfights and by ground fire.”
1972:
In an interview to be published today Chancellor Will Brandt said that it was
his “deep conviction that we cannot allow the impression to arise and that we
have to put all our cards on the table” when it comes to investigating events
surrounding the Munich Massacre.
1972:
“German newspapers complained today that the program for the Olympic closing
ceremony did not take sufficiently into account the massacre of Israeli
athletes by Arab” terrorists which took place “less than a week ago.”
1973(12th
of Elul, 5733): American playwright and screenwriter Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
passed away.
http://users.wpi.edu/~cityofwords/behrman.html
1974(22nd
of Elul, 5734): Sixty-two year old award winning bio-chemist Gertrude Erika
Perlmann passed away today.
1975:
CTV broadcast the first episode of The Bobby Vinton Show” a creation of Chuck
Barris Production.
1975:
“Professor Aryeh Dvoretsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and President
of the Israel Science Academy, lectured at a Jewish scientific seminar in
Moscow, led by Alexander Voronel.”
1975:
“British 35’s Women’s Committee launched a global campaign to collect 12
million signatures in 42 countries on behalf of persecuted Soviet Jewish
women.”
1977(26th
of Elul, 5737): Eighty-five year old Hartford, CT and CCNY graduate Emanuel
Cohen “the newsreel editor for Pathe News from 1914 to 1926” during which the
company produced the film coverage for Lindbergh’s flight and Admiral Byrd’s
first Antarctic expedition before moving to Paramount Pictures where he rose to
vice president in charge of productions while being married to “theformer
Madeline Bender” passed away today at Lenox Hill Hopsital.
1978(7th
of Elul, 5738): Eighty-six year old Jack
Warner, founder of Warner Brothers Studio, passed away.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/202087%7C76481/Jack-L-Warner/
http://alt.obituaries.narkive.com/W54d7Stg/archive-obituary-mr-jack-l-warner-1892-1978
1980(28th
of Elul, 5740): Seventy-eight year Harold Edgar Clurman one of the three
founders of “New York City’s Group Theatre, influential drama critic and former
husband of Stella Adler passed away today.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/harold-clurman-about-harold-clurman/557/
1982:
The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Leo Rosten’s Hooray For Yiddish!
1983(2nd
of Tishrei, 5744): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1983(2nd
of Tishrei, 5744): Ninety year old Samuel C. Feuerstein, “the Chairman of the
Board of Malden Mills, the founder of “Torah Umesorah, the National Society for
the Development of Hebrew Day Schools” and the husband of the “former Mitzi
Landau with whom he had five children – Moses, Aaron, Felix, Irma and Juliette
– passed away today in Boston.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/14/obituaries/samuel-c-feuerstein-90-new.html
1983:
Today, President Reagan nominated Martin Feldman “to a seat on the United
States District for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
1986:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “The Wizard” starring David Rappaport as
“Simon McKay.”
1987(15th
of Elul, 5747): Eighty-year-old Sam Brody, the English born and Richmond and
New York raised son of Russian Jewish immigrants and husband of Claire Gebiner
who was “a founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League” “known for his
work as a photographer and film critic” passed away today.
1987:
“Late Nite Comic,” a musical produced by Philip Rose premiered at the Garde
Theater in New London, Connecticut.
1988:
“Running On Empty” directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Naomi Foner and
starring Judd Hirsch and Steven Hill was released in the United States today.
1991(1st
of Tishrei, 5752): Rosh Hashanah
1993:
Aryeh Gamliel completed his term as Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction.
1993:
The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate
state. Future events would seem to indicate the PLO really did not do this. In
point of fact no copy of the PLO’s National Charter has been published without
the “many clauses declaring the creation of the state of Israel "null and
void", since it was created by force on Palestinian soil calling for the
destruction of the state of Israel.”
1995(14th
of Elul, 5755): Eighty-nine year old Biblical archaeologist Benjamin Mazar
passed away. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/11/obituaries/benjamin-mazar-89-israeli-biblical-archaeologist.html
1995:
In Dayton, The Ohio State Korean War Veterans monument which is
“adjacent to the Jewish Temple” will be dedicated today. The memorial which
overlooks the Great Miami River is the culmination of a six year effort that
included the work of innumerable volunteers.
1995: “Unstrung Heroes” a comedy featuring Maury Chaykin
as Arthur Lidz was released in the United States today by Buena Vista Pictures.
1997(7th
of Elul, 5757): Gertude Lookstein passes away at the age of 90. Gertrude S.
Lookstein, who with her husband, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, was a leader in the
New York Orthodox community and was active in a number of organizations. Her
maternal grandfather, Rabbi Moses Z. Margolies, was the leader of Congregation
Kehilath Jeshrun in Manhattan. He was succeeded by her husband, who served also
as president, then chancellor, of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel,
until his death in 1979. Their son, Haskel, succeeded his father in the
rabbinate in Kehilath Jeshrun. Mrs. Lookstein was a national board member and
New York chapter president of Amit Women. She was also involved in fund-raising
for the Yeshiva University Women's Organization, the U.J.A. Federation and the
Women's Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
1997:
“Two Girls and a Guy” a comedy “written and directed by James Toback and
co-produced by Edward R. Pressman” was released today in the United States.
1999: “The Last Days” a documentary that
“tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Shoah” was released today
in Hungary.
1999(28th
of Elul, 5759): Seventy-six year old actress Ruth Roman the daughter of
Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Mary Pauline (née Gold) and Abraham Roman passed
away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/11/news/mn-8888
2000:
Abu Mazen delivered a speech at the meeting of the Palestinian Central Council
in which he articulated the PLO’s view of peace negotiations.
2001(21st
of Elul, 5761): Yigal Goldstein, 47, of Jerusalem, Morrel Derfler, 45, of
Mevaseret Zion amd
Daniel
Yifrach, 19, of Jerusalem were murdered today when a Hamas terrorist detonated
a bomb in the Nahariya Railway Station in Nahariya, Israel
2001:
A Hamas terrorist injured 17 people when he detonated a bomb Beit Lid Highway
Junction in the Sharon region of Israel.
2002:
Slovakia observed its first Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002:
At the Toronto International Film Festival, premiere of “Evelyn” a dramatic
film co-starring Julianna Margulies.
2002:
At the Toronto International Film Festival, premiere of “The Emperor’s Club”
co-produced by Marc Abraham and starring Kevin Klein whose father was Jewish.
2003(12th
of Elul, 5763): Physicist Edward Teller passed away. Teller is known as the "Father of the
H-Bomb." With Oppenheimer as the
"Father of the Atomic Bomb" and Rickover as the "Father of the
Atomic Submarine" it is obvious that the Jews played a primary role in
providing the United States with the nuclear deterrent during the Cold War. (As
reported by Walter Sullivan)
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Teller.shtml
2003(12th
of Elul, 5763): Senior Warrant Officer Haim Alfasi, 39, of Haifa; Chief Warrant
Officer Yaakov Ben-Shabbat, 39, of Pardes Hanna; Cpl. Mazi Grego, 19, of Holon;
Capt. Yael Kfir, 21, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk, 20, of Bat Yam; Sgt.
Efrat Schwartzman, 19, of Ganei Yehuda; Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, 21, of Moshav Yanuv
and Cpl. Prosper Twito, 20, of Upper Nazareth were murdered this evening and 31
people of one of whom would later die from his wounds, were injured today when
Hamas terrorist detonated a bomb at a bus stop “near Tzrifin,” a military
compound.
2003(12th
of Elul, 5763): Dr. David Applebaum, 51, of Jerusalem – head of the emergency
room at Shaare Zedek Medical Center; Nava Applebaum, 20, of Jerusalem – David
Applebaum's daughter who was to have been married the day after the bombing;
David Shimon Avizadris, 51, of Mevaseret Zion;
Shafik
Kerem, 27, of Beit Hanina; Alon Mizrahi,
22, of Jerusalem – the Café Hillel’s coffee
security guard; Gila Moshe, 40, of Jerusalem and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol,
52, of Jerusalem were murdered today by a Hamas terrorist at the Café Hillel, a
Jerusalem coffee house.
2003:
Publication date for Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT
Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mizrachi the “son of Molli
Newman, a lawyer, and Dr. Reuben Mezrich, a chairman of radiology at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine” who raised him in a conservative
Jewish household.
2004:
On the same that “Israeli forces continued a major operation in Gaza’ which was
designed to suppress rockets being fired into Israel, Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom “again warned that they were considering exiling” Palestinian leader
Yasir Arafat.
2005:
“Campfire” an Israeli film written and directed by Joseph Cedar which “won five
Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel's official submission for the 77th
Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category” was released today.
2005:
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf praised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon as “courageous” for ordering the withdrawal of Jewish settlements from
Gaza, but doesn’t plan to follow up a recent diplomatic breakthrough between
the countries by meeting him at the United Nations this month.
2005:
In a manner reminiscent of the American Judicial System, the Israeli justice
system seemed to be sending mixed messages concerning the treatment of women.
Former defense minister and retired army general Yitzhak Mordechai will not be
stripped of his rank, despite his two convictions for sexual misconduct. The three general panel felt he had been
punished enough. The government can
appeal the decisions. At the same time
a” panel of High Court judges ruled Thursday that employers are not permitted
to fire female workers for absence from work if this is due to their undergoing
fertility treatment. However, the judges decided that the law does not provide
women with general immunity against being dismissed for other disciplinary
reasons, or if the fertility treatment does not justify absence from work.”
2006: “Riding the Wave,” an Ashdod arts festival
celebrating the beachside city's 50th anniversary which was held at Ashdod's
Monart Center came to an end after three days with a singing contest
2007:
Ryan Braun hit a home run today helping “the Brewers to become one of only
three teams in major league history to start a game with three straight
homers.”
2007:
The Sunday Washington Post book
section featured a review of The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt and
reported that two of the three books that the
Post describes as “the most anticipated books of the season” are the
products of Jewish authors – Alan Greenspan and Philip Roth.
2007: The Sunday New York Times book section
features reviews of World War IV
The Long Struggle Against
Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz former editor of Commentary,
Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, which
chronicles Antonia and Jan Zabinski’s successful efforts to save three hundred
Warsaw Jews during the Holocaust and God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a
Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin a Jewish Israeli born writer who has
been covering religious issues for the Washington Post for ten years.
2007: Israeli archeologists announced that they've
stumbled upon the site of one of the great dramatic scenes of the Roman sacking
of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago: the subterranean drainage channel Jews used to
escape from the city's Roman conquerors.
2008: “A Friend In Deed” published today describes
the little known story of the relationship of Lyndon Johnson and the Jewish
people; a relationship that stretched from the Hill Country to Capitol Hill.
http://www.classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=25221
http://lyndonjohnsonandisrael.blogspot.com/
2008: The Leo Baeck Institute presents “Shadows in
Paradise” a film that recreates the stories of the exiled German and Austrian
composers and writers who fled the Nazi regime, hoping to make a living in the
movie industry in Hollywood.
2008:
“An exhibition, "Erfurt: Jewish Treasures from Medieval Ashkenaz,"
went on display at the Yeshiva University Museum of the Center for Jewish
History in New York City” today.
2008:
The first criminal charges were filed against the owners of the country’s
largest kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessors, in connection with a May
immigration raid at the plant.
2008: Following the filing of criminal charges against
Agriprocessors, the Orthodox Union announced today that it would withdraw
certification from the kosher meat company, the nation's largest, unless new
management is hired.
2008:
Avigdor Levin Tel Aviv city official said today that a 215-year-old Jewish
manuscript stolen from a Tel Aviv library a decade ago will be returned by the
German library where it surfaced.
2009
(20th of Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin who, if the legend of
the 36 Righteous Men is true, certainly qualified. He will always be missed. He will always be remembered. He will always be loved.
2009:
In Pittsburgh, PA, the local klezmer-jazz ensemble The Ortner-Roberts Duo kicks
off the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s Opus Concert Series
this year with a “High Holiday Klezmer Fest Kickoff” concert.
2009:
Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review and the
paper's Week in Review section, discusses and signs his new book, The Death
of Conservatism, at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.
2009:
A rare Hebrew manuscript written in 14th century Germany is going on display
for the first time, just before the Jewish New Year, Israel Museum officials
said today.
2010:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was a prisoner of his security detail over
Rosh Hashanah, unable to go to the nearby Great Synagogue in Jerusalem because
of security considerations that would seriously have inconvenienced the other
worshipers.
2010:
Michael Kinsley “joined the staff of Politico as one the publication’s first
opinion columnist.
2010:
Jacques Attali was appointed as a member of the directorate of the Musée
d’Orsay.
2010:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Netanyahu and President
Shimon Peres to wish them a happy Rosh Hashana.
2010(1st of Tishrei, 5771): Rosh Hashanah 5771
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2011:
Steve Ross is scheduled to present a Special Cabaret Concert featuring songs by
George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Noel Coward at the 14th
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2011:
Jack Weinstein, the Commander, Twentieth Air Force, Air Force Global Strike
Command, and Commander, Task Force 214, U.S. Strategic Command was promoted to
the rank of Major-General.
2011: The Gilad Hekselman Quartet is scheduled to appear at The
Falcon in New York City.
2011: Rabbi Shira Stutman and Sheldon Low are scheduled to lead 6th
in the City Shabbat in Washington, DC.
2011: Standard & Poor's Ratings
Service announced it was raising Israel's credit rating today, citing Israel's
response to a global recession. Israel's new credit rating is A+ "with a
stable outlook.”
2011: An Egyptian protester pulled down
the Israeli flag today at the Jewish state's embassy in Cairo, the second time
in less than a month.
2011: “About 100 people gathered in”
Pushkin, “a suburb of St. Petersburg – believed to be the northernmost point
where the Nazis implemented their plan to annihilate the Jews – to remember the
brutal killings that took place here 70 years ago.” (As
reported by the Jerusalem Post)
2012:
The 2012 London Paralympics, in which a 25 person Israeli team has been
competing, are scheduled to come to an end today. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2012:
As the NFL kicks off its first Sunday slate games some of the Jewish owners and
executives include Bob Kraft (Patriots), Marv Levy (Bills). Stephen Ross
(Dolphins), Daniel Snyder (Redskins) as well as a cadre of players
2012:
The Los Angeles Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf and The End of Men by
Hanna Rosin.
2012:
“Zaytoun” an “Israeli adventurer film directed by Eran Riklis premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
2012
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon and Domestic Affairs
by Bridget Siegel.
2012:
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court sentenced four people today to between nine
months and four years imprisonment for stealing Jewish ritual and holy objects
worth approximately $1 million from the Great Synagogue of Milan.
2012:
School was canceled for students in Beersheba and Ashdod today after two Grad
rockets were fired towards southern Israel from Gaza a little after 2 a.m. this
morning.
2013:
In Rockville, MD, Temple Beth Ami is scheduled to host MK Rabbi Dov Lipman who
will speak about “The Future of Religious Cooperation In Israel.”
2013
(5th of Tishrei, 5774): Seventy-seven year old documentary filmmaker
Saul Landau passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/arts/saul-landau-maker-of-films-with-leftist-edge-dies-at-77.html
2013:
Traces of the wild polio virus were detected in Jerusalem’s sewage system, the
Health Ministry announced today. (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2013:
“Finding Vivian Maier” a documentary about the photographer “executive produced
by Jeff
Garlin”
and co-starring Joel Meyerowitz premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival.
2013:
Today Hebrew University researchers announced the discovery of a rare trove of
Byzantine-era gold and silver artifacts, the most impressive of which is a
10-centimeter solid gold medallion emblazoned with a menorah and other Jewish
iconography. (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2014:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum historian Edna Friedberg is scheduled
to lead a discussion entitled “Some Were Wives, Some Were Mothers: Female
Perpetrators during the Holocaust.”
2014:
In Chicago, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to honor Fern and
Manny Steinfeld with the National Leadership Award at luncheon where Doris
Kearns Goodwin is the featured speaker.
2014:
“Today Israel tested the latest upgrade
to its "Arrow 2" missile defense system, in conjunction with the
Missile Defense Agency of the US Department of Defense” without making any
comment “how successful the test had been.” (As reported Yoav Zitun)
2014:
TCM Presents the Jewish Experience on Film. Tonight is the second in this
series. Starts tonight at 6 p.m. with a movie about Eddie Cantor and lasts
until 5 a.m. with Judgment at Nuremburg. For more see http://www.tcm.com/projectedimage/
2014:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a trip
the National Museum of American Jewish History that will included a tour of the
exhibition “Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American.”
2015:
“Rabbi Haskel Lookstein of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York is
scheduled to fly to Washington, DC to lobby Congress to reject the Iran deal.”
2015:
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon “told a close meeting of about 20 young Likud
party members” today “that the defense establishment knows who firebombed the
Dawabseh home in the West Bank village of Duma that claimed the life of 18
month old Ali Dawabsha.
2015:
Vice President Joe Biden said today that “officials in Washington plan to meet
with Israeli counterparts to discuss how the U.S. can ensure Israel’s military
advantage over its enemies.”
2015:
Barry Fruendel’s “letter of apology” was posted today on the website of the
Washington Jewish Week.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/mikvah-peeping-rabbi-barry-freundel-issues-public-apology/
2015: “Into the Light: The Healing Art of Kalman
Aron” is scheduled to open at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
http://www.lamoth.org/news--events/events/exhibit-opening-the-healing-ar/
2016:
“Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom” an exhibition
sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to come to an end
today.
http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9ee686c09238e3a1fb7447ee7&id=9c32d48f73&e=9870a7a862
2016:
“Demon” a horror film based “on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk” is scheduled
to open at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema.
2016:
Rescue workers at the site of a collapsed garage in Tel Aviv tonight removed a
fifth body from the rubble, four days after the four-story underground complex
caved in, burying construction workers under a pile of sand and debris
2016:
Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its first Musical Shabbat of the year
featuring Shir Yehuda.
2016(6th
of Elul, 5776): Sixty-four year old former New York Times executive Daniel H.
Cohen passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017(18th
of Elul, 5777): Parashat Ki Tavo
2017:
The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is scheduled to host a Tot Shabbat.
2017:
In Passaic, NJ, Congregation Ahavas Israel is scheduled to host its “End of
Summer Ice Cream Kiddush.”
2017:
Samuel Maoz’s “Foxtrot” won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival
today. (As reported by Jessica Steinberg)
2017:
In New Orleans, Hadassah is scheduled to host its “Free the Tatas” Disco Ball
this evening.
2017:
The Levins are scheduled to perform the Repairing the World Concert at Temple
Beth Shalom in Hudson.
2018:
It was announced this evening that “CBS chief executive Les Moonves has
resigned amid a flurry of sexual misconduct allegations” which means that that
“a months-long battle for control of CBS between Moonves and Shari Redston has
come to an end.”
2018:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari and the
recently released paperback edition of Thanks, Obama by David Litt.
2018:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to close at 2:00 PM today for Erev
Rosh Hashanah
2018(29th
of Elul, 5778): Erev Rosh Hashanah 5779
2019:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a book talk with Harry
Butowsky, the author of I Survived: My Name is Yitzhak.
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Wurzweiler School of Social Work is scheduled to host an
information session on its program that enables students to earn an MSW from
anywhere.
2019:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Maeera Shhreiber
lecturing on “Desire, Envy and the Jewish-Christian Borderzone.”
2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host the “2019 Risa
K. Lambert Chicago Luncheon” where the topic will be “What You Do
Matters.”
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host an “Israel Insight Event.”
https://mailchi.mp/jewishnews/israel-insight-seminar-at-jw3-19919-invitation?e=025a365fe8
2020:
Live on Zoom, the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute is scheduled to
present “Family History Today: Portuguese Citizenship – Reconnecting with your
Sephardic Iberian Ancestors.
2020(20
Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of
Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton)
Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud
Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was
the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living
proof that good guys finish first.
2020: “In
preparation for the High Holiday season,” “Mayyim Hayyim and Joey Weisenberg, a
leading voice in Jewish music, are scheduled to host the sixth annual “Knocking
at Our Hearts” which for the first time ever, will run virtually and is open
worldwide.
2020:
Peninsula JCC and local Jewish organizations are scheduled to present a panel
discussion about how the wisdom and ritual of the Days of Awe can guide us to
an awakening, notably in a time such as now. With five panelists.
2020: The
Tulane Department of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host an “Anti-Semitism
Webinar” featuring Dr. Golan Moskowitz (Tulane University); Jonathan
Greenblatt, Executive Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); Dr.
Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis University) and Dr. Magda Teter (Fordham University)
2020: The
Streicker Center is scheduled to continue its one week High Holiday Cooking
School with Einat Admony who will providing “exciting new recipes” for the main
course of your Rosh Hashanah dinner.
2020: The
Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland is scheduled to host a virtual
presentation on Family Tree Maker 2019 and its features to help build a virtual
family tree
2020: The
Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Sammy
Davis, Jr. – I’ve gotta be me”
2021(3rd
of Tishrei, 5782): Tzom Gedaliah (Fast of Gedaliah)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fast-of-gedaliah
2021:
Rabbi Jonathan Sidel and the Aquarian Minyan are scheduled to present online
“Vows, Oaths and Liturgical Magic of the High Holy Days” which is “an
exploration of the linguistic background of the music and chant of magical and
liturgical texts in medieval Jewish history, including the Kol Nidre prayer.”
2021: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host online
“Through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein: Beyond Shangahi.”
2021:
Eightieth anniversary of the adoption of “Jewish Code” by Slovakia which
“stripped the country’s Jews of their human and civil rights” and for which the
government of Slovakia issued an apology on the eve of this anniversary which
of course did nothing for the almost 70,000 Jews that were turned over to the
Nazis, most of whom were exterminated.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ry54dolff
2021:
Women of Temple Sinai member Ricki Oleon is scheduled to lead a “Floral
Arrangement Workshop,” in which attendees will “explore the Jewish meaning of
flowers as the relate to the new year…”
2022:
Author Maggie Anton, is scheduled to “share more of her research behind her
acclaimed novel The Chocice at a meeting of the Huntington Beach, CA chapter of
Jewish Women International.
2022: In
a tribute to the strength of small-town traditional Judaism, Rabbi Kushner is
scheduled to lead Friday night services at Sons of Jacob Congregation in
Waterloo, IA.
2022: Dr.
Michael Roizen and Albert Ratner are scheduled be at The City Club of Cleveland today with
Peter Linneman joining virtually to discuss the trio’s upcoming book, The
Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code for a Younger Tomorrow.
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 continue today at the Javits Center.
2023:
In conjunction with the Rottenberg exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum The
Phyllis Watt Theatre in San Franciso is scheduled to host “a screening of ‘Remote,’
artist Mika Rottenberg’s first feature film.
2023:
At Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, Rabbi Jeff Salkin is scheduled
to ‘cancel culture’ “and “how to use a Jewish model for disagreement instead”
at Selichot services.
2023: Galeet Dardashti in collaboration with the Neighborhood:
An Urban Center for Jewish Life is scheduled to present “MONAJAT - Album
release with Galeet Dardashti.”
2023(23
of Elul, 5783): Parashat Nitavim-Vayelech; For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2023: In
the evening, Selichot
