This Day ... In Jewish History

OCTOBER 21

1553 BCE (11 Cheshvan 2207): On the civil calendar, this date marked the death of Rachel, the matriarch and wife of Jacob, at the age of 36. She died during the childbirth of Benjamin, near Efrat, and is buried in Beit Lechem (Bethlehem).

336 BCE (24^th of Tishrei, 3425): According to the Book of Nechemia, Ezra and Nechemia convened the Jewish community in Jerusalem. (As reported by Aish)

http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_24.html

681: The revised laws adopted by the Twelfth Council of Toledo including 28 anti-Jewish measures among which was forbidding converts to Christianity from returning to Judaism went into effect today.

686: Pope Conon was consecrated today at a time when the Jews of Toledo were “suffering multiple persecutions.

1096: During the First Crusade, the Turks destroyed the portion of the Crusader army led by Peter the Hermit. Peter escaped and joined the main crusader army. The main body took Jerusalem from the Moslems in 1099. The Crusaders slaughtered the Jews of Europe as they made their way to the Holy Land. When they got to Jerusalem, the continued their bloody behavior as they slaughtered the Jews living in David’s City.

1328(9^th of Cheshvan, 5089): Asher ben Jehiel an leading German Rabbi who moved to Spain after Rudolf I “instituted renewed persecution of the Jews” passed away today in Toledo.

1409: Birthdate of Italian noble man Alessandro Sforza, the patron of “Jewish Italian dancer and dancing master Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro” who converted to Roman Catholicism under his influence

1422: King Charles VI, the monarch who banished the Jews from France in 1394, passed away.

1486: The body of one of the sons of Hieronymus de Sancta Fide, (Jerome of the Holy Faith) who had been arrested with other Marranos who had taken part in the rebellion against Pedro Arbucs was publicly burned today after he had killed himself in order to escape the disgrace of being publicly burned alive. Other members of the Santa Fe family were burned as marranos in 1497 and 1499. Hieronymus de Sancta Fide, Jerome of the Holy Faith was born Ibn Vives Lorki (Al-Lorqui, Joshua ben Joseph). A Jewish Christian convert, he was a Spanish physician and writer who wrote as Gerónimo de Santa Fe (Hieronymus de Sancta Fide, Jerome of the Holy Faith). His Jewish name came from the name of his birthplace, Lorca, near Murcia.

1512: In what may have been one of the most far-reaching decisions in the history of academia, Martin Luther joined the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. It would be almost five years to the day (October 31, 1517) from his appointment, that Luther would post his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle. (This gives a whole new meaning to the term “publish or perish”). Seven years after his appointment (1519) “Luther denounced the doctrines” regarding the treatment of the Jews. His final view of the Jews would be codified in the 1544 pamphlet “Concerning The Jews and Their Lies” that included a call for burning synagogues and destroying the homes of Jews.

1553: Volumes of the Talmud were burned in Venice

1718(26^th of Tishrei, 5479): Edel Oppenheimer passed away today in Vienna.

1745: In Eppingen, Germany, “Schoenle Heinsheimer” and “Moses Heinsheimer-Regensburger
gave birth to Isaack Moses Regensburger, the husband of Sara Oppenheimer and the father of Moses and Nanette Regensburer.

1753(23^rd of Tishrei, 5514): Simchat Torah

1768: In Philadelphia, Martha Lampley and Samson Levy gave birth to Hetty Levy.

1780(22^ndof Tishrei, 5541): Shemini Atzeret

1781: In Austria, Joseph II rescinded the law forcing Jews to war a distinctive badge which had been in effect since 1267, more than 600 years.

1791(23^rdof Tishrei, 5552): Simchat Torah

1804: Birthdate of French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey who created one of the earliest surviving pictorial record of Palestine.

1805: Under the command of Lord Nelson the British won the decisive Battle of Trafalgar where the British forces included “Benjamin da Costa, a midshipman on the Temeraire,”Moses Benjamin and Joseph Moss serving aboard the Victory, John Benjamin on the Royal Sovereign, Henry Levi, Benjamin Solomon, Joseph Manuel and Nathan Manuel on the Britannia Philip Emanuel on the Colossus, and Thomas Brandon and James Brandon, who was killed, on the Revenge. (As reported by Daphne Anson)

1809: In Glasgow, Elizabeth Currie and William Stenhouse gave birth to noted Chemist John Stenhouse whose assistant included Raphael Meldola, the descendant of Sephardic Jews who had been in England since the 18^th century.

1810(23^rdof Tishrei, 5571): Simchat Torah

1812: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Abraham Salomon Van Minden, the husband of Esther Levy and the father of Helena, Solomon and Marry Anne Van Minden.

1812: Isaac Isaacs married Polly Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.

1816: The will of Hyam Levy, who resided at “4 Cock Court, Jewry Street” and which was witnessed by Abraham Marks, Naphtali Hart and Nathan Levy” was probated today.

1817(11^thof Cheshvan, 5578): Meyer Abrahamson, the native of Hamburg who followed in his father’s footsteps and became a doctor who served as “the physician to the Jewish Hospital in Hamburg” and who also pursued a literary career passed away today.

1820: Birthdate of Philip Marcus Leuw, the native of Holland who was the husband of Hanna Van Gelder and the father of Mattje Philip, Marcus and Levie Leuw.

1833: Birthdate of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, creator of dynamite and the Nobel Prizes “Since 1901, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 802 individuals.” While Jews account for only 0.2% of the world’s population, 180 or 22% of the recipients are classified as Jewish or of Jewish ancestry. This anomaly has fascinated writers and researches for decades, but so far has not been satisfactorily explained. [Editor’s note – Claims that Jews are somehow smarter are just as specious as are claims that they are all crooks because of the disproportionate number of Jews involved in recent financial scandals. For more details on Jewish winners, see www.jinfo.organ very informative site that seems to be everybody’s primary source when it comes to these matters.]

1835: In Charleston, SC, Mr. Alexander Solomons officiated at the weeding of Nathan Emanuel of Georgetown, SC and Henrietta Eugenia, the “third daughter of the late Michael Simpson.”

1837(22^nd of Tishrei, 5598): Shmini Atzeret

1837(22^nd of Tishrei, 5598): Thirty-one year old Michael Joseph Gusikow, a multi-talented musician who played the flute and an early form of the Xylophone passed away at Aix la Chapelle.

http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2011/11/jewish-jimi-hendrix-of-1830s.html

1844: Birthdate of Russian native Max Idelman, the Cheyenne, Wyoming liquor wholesaler who was the brother of Abraham Idelman, the husband of Fannie Kaufman Idelman and the father of Samuel Idelman.

1846: Bernard Jacob married Maria Moss at the New Synagogue today.

1847: Birthdate of Danish political leader and author Edvard Brandes.

1853(19^th of Tishrei, 5614): Sukkoth Chol HaMoed

1853(19^th of Tishrei, 5614): Eighty-year old Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg, the Director of Wolfenbüttel Samson School, passed away today.

1856(22^nd of Tishrei, 5617): Shmini Atzeret

1861: Temple Emanuel of Davenport, Iowa was formed today as B’Nai Israel Congregation

1864(21^st of Tishrei, 5625): Hoshanah Rabah

1864: Two days after he had passed away, 24 year old Jacob Stiebel, the son of Sigismund Stiebel and the former Eliza Jacob Mocatta was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1864: “Jewish Festivals” published today reported that “The last of the series of Autumnal Jewish festivals will commence this evening. It is a part of the festival of Succoth tabernacles, previously described in the Times. It is called Shemini Artzareth, and the institution will be found in Numbers xxix, 35. Part of the liturgy of the day is a prayer for rain and a propitious season. To-morrow evening commences the festival of Simchas Torah, rejoicing of the law. According to the regular service of the synagogue each Sabbath a sedrah or "section" of the law of Torah or Pentateuch is read, so that the whole five books of Moses are read each year, and with the new year the first book of Bereshit or Genesis is commenced while the reading of the last section of Deuteronomy is reserved for this festival. It is customary on the eye of this festival to take out all the "rolls or the law" deposited in the Ark, and to carry them in procession round the synagogue, which is brilliantly lit up. In order to pay due honor to the law, both at the termination of its reading and at the commencement, two persons are appointed in each synagogue to fill the offices of Bridegroom of the Law and Bridegroom of the Beginning. The liturgy of the day celebrates the excellence of the law and the mission of Moses, and its festival is greeted with joyous demonstrations. With this festival the Autumnal festivals of the Hebrews are brought to a close. According to the teachings of the Jewish sages, the festival teaches this lesson: Rosh Hashanah (New Year) calls the Israelite to examine his past conduct, the Arsareth Yermi Tershura, ten days of repentance, tell him to repent and amend his conduct, the Your Kippur (Day of Atonement) directs him to make his peace with God and his fellow-men, and when his mind is thus properly prepared, (Succoth,) or Tabernacles teaches him to rejoice in the belief of the Divine bounty, and Simchas Torah seals his attachment and adherence to the law. [Editor’s Note-This article shows an amazing comprehension of Jewish holidays, especially when you consider that it was published in an American newspaper at a time when the Jewish population was comparatively small.]

1865(1st of Cheshvan, 5626): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1866: Louis Israel Aaron the Prussian born American businessman and philanthropist married today married Mina W. Lippman with whom he had “five children” two of whom, “Marcus and Charles survived to adulthood.

1866: Two days after he had passed away, Middlesex native Daniel Collins, the son of William Collins and the former Priscilla Marks was buried today at “Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.”

1867(22^nd of Tishrei, 5628): Shemini Atzeret

1867: Zigmund Schlesinger, frontiersman and Indian fighter gave up life in the Wild West and moved to New York today where he pursued a more civilized life of commerce and business. The following monograph entitled “Zigmund Schlesinger: A Defender of the West” by Seymour "Sy" Brody provides a glimpse of less than typical life for an American Jew.

“General George Forsyth was delegated by General Philip Sheridan to hire 50 first class frontiersmen to fight the attacking Indians. One of the first to apply was a young Hungarian-Jew, Zigmund Schlesinger, who had immigrated to America in 1864. Schlesinger came to New York City and worked at many jobs. He heard about the opportunities that existed in the West and left New York to go to Kansas. In Kansas, he tried his hand at business by baking bread and cake and selling the foods under a canvas tent. The bakery failed as did some other business ventures. When Schlesinger applied for the frontiersman with Forsyth, they were not anxious to have him. He was small with a high-pitched voice and had very little experience or knowledge of firearms and horsemanship. He was told if they couldn't get 50 men, he would be hired. Schlesinger was lucky. He was hired since a 50th man was not found. In his diary, Schlesinger wrote of his first day as a member of the scouts in August 1868. After riding all day, Schlesinger recalled how stiff and tired he was when it was over. His riding abilities bore the brunt of ridicule from others. He was also reminded that he was a Jew. Schlesinger had been involved in many minor encounters with the Indians. The encounter that earned him the respect of the others took place at the Arikaree Fork of the Republican River in 1868. His scouting expedition was set upon by Chief Roman Nose with his band of Cheyenne and Sioux Indians. The scouts were pinned down for 9 days. Their horses had been killed and they suffered 19 casualties. Schlesinger had been wounded in both legs and the head. Yet, he managed to shoot down any Indian who exposed himself. They held off the Indians until a U.S. Army relief column came to their rescue. Forsyth wrote a letter to Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas, lauding the heroism of Schlesinger: "...He was the equal in manly courage, steady and persistent devotion to duty, and unswerving and tenacious pluck of any man in my command." Schlesinger left the company and returned to New York. Eventually, he settled in Cleveland, where he established a successful cigar store business. Active in Jewish organizations, Schlesinger was one of the organizers of the Hebrew Free Loan Association, vice-president of his temple, and president of the Hebrew Relief Association. He died in 1928, leaving behind a legacy as a Jewish Indian fighter and as a philanthropist.”

1869: Birthdate of William Edward Dodd, the first American Ambassador to Germany appointed by Franklin Roosevelt. Dodd became an early foe of the Nazis and tried to warn Americans of the evil that Hitler represented. For more about Dodd see “In the Garden of the Beasts.”

1871: Birthdate of Eva Dux, the wife of Solomon “Sol” Peyser and the mother of Philip and Theodore Peyser.

1871: Birthdate of Cambridge trained orientalist Lionel David Barnett, “the son of a Liverpool Banker” who in 1901 married the former Blanche Berliner with whom he had two children

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/93E11399C980BEE964D977602A5660FC/S0041977X00151286a.pdf/div-class-title-lionel-david-barnett-div.pdf

1873: In Carbondale, PA, “Samuel and Dorothea (Bergman) Singer gave birth to NYU trained attorney Henry B. Singer, the husband of Frances Moses and a partner in the firm of Moses and Singer who was a member of the American Jewish Committee and Temple Beth-El.

1873: “Season of Wonders” published today described many of the unusual apparitions that can be seen at this time of the year including “the erudite Hen that lays eggs inscribed with Hebrew characters.” The article does not say if the Hebrew is script or block printing.

1874: Birthdate of Albert Abram Aftalion, a native of the Ottoman Empire who taught economics at the University of Paris for 14 years before WW II.

1875(22^nd of Tishrei, 5636): Shemini Atzeret

1878: “A committee was empowered to rent the mansion on the southeast corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and McDonough Street for a term of five years at annual rent” to be used for the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1879: Pauline Markham (the future wife of Wyatt Earp) arrived in Yuma, AZ with a theatrical troupe headed for Tucson.

1879: According to a report published today based on a dispatch from Bucharest, the measure adopted by the by the Romanian government concerning the emancipation of the Jews does not contain all that they, the Jews want. But under its terms they are better off than they were before. If they accept the compromise, “there is no reason why they Jews…should not have a peaceful and prosperous political future before them.” Support for Romania by the Great Powers depended, in part, on granting the Jews full rights as citizens. The Romanians did not wish to do this and they kept looking for ways to grant the Jews as little as possible while hoping that the Powers would be satisfied with a minimalist approach.

1880: In today’s review of the recently published A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress by Justin McCarty includes a chapter styled “On the True Faith of a Christian” describes the fight to remove the “disabilities of Jews in England, who for so many years were prevented from occupying the seats in Parliament to which they had been elected by” the words in the oath.

1882: “To Make Farmers of Hebrews” published today described the creation of the Maccabees, an organization formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, “to encourage and aid in the promotion of agriculture among” the Jewish people in the United States. Moses Krohn, Henry Stix, Joseph Abraham, Joseph Trounsine, Alexander Straus, Max Isaacs and Henry Lowenstein are among those who will serve on the new organizations Executive Council.

1882: In Cardiff, Wales, Albert Cahn and the former Matilda Lewis, the daughter of Dr. Sigismund Lewis, gave birth to “businessman, philanthropist and cricket enthusiast” to Sir Julien Cahn, 1^stBaronet Cahn of Stanford on Soar.

1883: At the Essex Market Police Court Judge Gardner heard the facts surrounding the row that had taken place last night at Ansche Chesed, a synagogue located on Hester Street. After hearing the witnesses and the police officers, Gardner told Mr. Korn, one of the congregants, that “he ought to be ashamed of himself for fighting in a sacred place” and fined him $5 for his role in the matter.

1883: “The Jews of Wazan” published today reported that there are 10,000 people living in this Moroccan city, 600 of whom are Jews. Unlike in other cities like the melha, or Jewish quarter, is not “dirtier than any other part of town” and “the well-to-do appearance of the grownups…and pretty laughing faces of the children, show that in Wazan…the ancient race is not subject to persecution.”

1883: “Cremated After Burial” published today described the hassle that had taken place to ensure that the remains of the late Marcus Kronberg were cremated as he had requested; a request that his widow had at first tried to avoid by having him embaled and prepared for a traditional burial. (The embalming was necessitated by the fact that he had died of typhoid in Chicago but the cemetery was in Washington, PA)

1884: Sara Rock, “a well-formed” 18 year old Polish Jewess sued Kever Leiman for $40, the value of the engagement gifts she said he had given her and that were then taken away by his father.

1884: Henry Lehr went on trial today for the murder of John Wilson in Passaic County, New Jersey. The Jews of Patterson, NJ, have provided financial support for their co-religionist who claims the shooting was an accident.

1884: “Life in Tenement Houses” published today included a report by “Dr. Simeon New Leo, Chief Sanitary Inspector for the United Hebrew Charities” said that after inspecting numerous downtown tenement houses the “great and crying evil was” the lack “of a proper water supply and bathing facility.” He also said that the law requiring each tenement dweller “to have 600 cubic feet of air space” need to be enforced and that those buildings that could not comply should be torn down. (Dr. Leo was active in many Jewish organizations including the Young Men’s Hebrew Association whose first meeting was held in his home.)

1885: John Edward Moss, President of Shaar Hashomayim laid the cornerstone for a new synagogue on McGill College Avenue. The building was consecrated in 1886. It had cost $40,000 to build.

1885: Moses G. Zalinski, who rose from the rank of Private to the rank of Captain, began serving with the 1^st Artillery today.

1886(22^nd of Tishrei, 5647): Shmini Atzeret

1886: In Cleveland, Ohio, Anshe Chesed, laid the cornerstone for its new temple today.

1886: In Cleveland, Ohio, a grand ball took place this evening that was attended by city’s “Hebrew elite.”

1887: Isaac and Esther Jacob gave birth to their son Jacob.

1887: In Belz, “Jacob Kremer, a provision master in the army of Czar Nicholas II” and “Anna (nee Rosenbluth) Kremer gave birth to Isabelle “Isa” Yakovlevna Kremer the multi-talented soprano who performed in Europe, the United States and Argentina, who may have been the first woman to bring Yiddish songs to the concert stage in Russia and whose first husband, newspaper editor Israel Heifetz “died while a prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Fort Breendonk in the Netherlands.

1887: “Claimed By Two Mothers” published today described the custody battle between the Lees, an African-American family and Brodsky, a family of immigrant Jews from Poland over child known as either Nellie Lee or Yetta Brodsky.

1887: Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, the Rabbi at Temple Beth-El met with a reported from the New York Times so that he could explain the growing popularity of the Reform movement.

1888: Actor’s from Poole’s and the Oriental Theatre met at 56 Orchard Street today where they formed the Hebrew Actor’s Union.

1889: While touring the Middle East, Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Constantinople for the first time, which would lead to a second visit in 1898 that would when he would meet with Herzl.

1889: Birthdate ofRussian born and Columbia trained physician Dr. Jacob Lattman who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and who raised one son Laurence and two daughters, Frances and Joy, with his wife Yetta.

1890: “Charles Frohman’s newly-organized company is scheduled to perform a new play ‘Men and Women’ at the Twenty-third Street Theatre” in New York.

1891: Dr. Walter Kempster, one of the U.S. Government Commissioners who sets sail today for the United Sates today having completed his investigation of Russian treatment of the Jewish population “has the highest opinion of the Jewish population…and is boiling over with indignation and horror at the inhuman treatment they are receiving from the Russians.”

1891: Baron and Baroness von Suttner and Professor Nothnagel were among those who founded a society for combatting anti-Semitism today

1892: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band marched in today’s Columbus Day Parade in Harlem.

1892: German histologist and medical author Gustav Jacob Born and Bertha Epstein Born gave birth to their son Wolfgang, the half-brother of Max Born, the physicists who played a critical role in the development of quantum mechanics. Gretchen Kauffmann, the mother of Max, was Gustav’s first wife. She passed away after having given birth to Max and his younger sister Käthe. Gustav Born was born in 1862 at Posen. By the time he passed away in 1900 he had made several contributions in the fields of microscopy and embryology.

1893: “The Week at the Theatres” published today described the upcoming revival of “The Merchant of Venice” in which famed Shakespearian actor Richard Mansfield will play Shylock with a portrayal “that will surely be original” but “also true to Shakespeare” and Beatrice Cameron will play the Jew’s daughter, Portia.

1894: Jacob Siegel and a family of Polish Jews – Hyman, Rosie, Becky and Henry Rubin – were among those injured when a stove exploded causing a fire at the tenement at 60 Orchard Street

1895: In Petach Tikva, Avraham and Liba Rochel Shapira gave birth to Rivka Pinchasovich

1895: In Chicago, “Leopold and Marie (Friedman) Saltiel” gave birth to “Chicago-Kent College Law graduate and WW I U.S. Navy veteran William David Saltiel, the “Assistant Corporate Counsel for the City of Chicago, City Attorney and Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General and husband of Cicely Friedman Haas

1896: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Barnett A. Elzas officiated at the marriage of Melvin M. Israel and Corinna Florance Moses, the daughter of Melvin Israel.

1896: Herzl is elected honorary member of "Kadimah."

1897: Mr. Herman Hart “treated two hundred fifty old soldiers to refreshments” this afternoon while they were attending the Earl’s Court Exhibition free of charge in honor of Trafalgar Day.

1897: In London, the Jewish Board of Guardian Relief Committee me at 3:30 pm today followed by a meeting of the Executive Committee at 5 pm.

1897: The members of the Musical and Dramatic section of the East London Jewish Communal gave a concert at the Poplar Union today.

1897: In London, the House Committee of the Home for Aged Jews met this evening.

1899: “San Toy,” or “The Emperor's Own,” a musical comedy with songs by Paul Alfred Rubens premiered at Daly’s Theatre in London

1900: Today the “new structure” housing the “North-West London Synagogue” “was opened by Sir Marcus Samuel.

1901(8^th of Cheshvan, 5661): Faiga Adler passed away today in Pittsburgh, PA.

1902: Birthdate of New York City native Eddy Hamel, the first Jewish players to play for first team AFC Ajax, a leading soccer team in the Netherlands and husband of Johanna Wijnberg, the mother of his twin sons – Paul and Robert – who was gassed at Auschwitz in 1943.

https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/02/12/eddy-hamel-ajax-american-holocaust-victim-auschwitz

1905(23^rdof Tishrei, 5666): Simchat Torah

1905: Based on information provided Boris Gorb, a 17 year old Jew from Uligania now living in New York, “massacres” began in Ekaterinoslva today” which would claim the lives of “thousands of Jews” including his father Simon who “had been mortally wounding defending Dora” his 15 year old daughter.

1907: The Tennessee Volunteers coached by Izzy Levene recovered from their loss at Georgia Tech to defeat Clemson today bring their record to 3 and 1.

1908: Birthdate of Vilnius native Abram Snejder who gained fame as violinist Alexander “Sasha” Schneider, a member of the Budapest String Quartet and the broth of Mischa Schneider

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/04/arts/alexander-schneider-violon-virtuoso-dies-at-84.html

1910: The Minister of the Interior takes prompt steps to suppress anti-Semitic manifestations at Kirk-Klisse, near Adrianople (Edirne, Turkey).

1912: Birthdate of composer George Solti.

1914: “Threads of Destiny” a silent film about the aftermath of a massacre and exile of thousands of Russian Jews starring Bernard Siegel as “Isaac Gruenstein” was released today in the United States by the Lubin Manufacturing Company.

1915: “Reports submitted” tonight “at the forty-first annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities at Temple Emanu-El showed that the organization, despite the European war, had given more aid and accomplished more along constructive lines during the past year than in 1914.”

1915(13^thof Cheshvan, 5676): Eighty year old “Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins, the Dutch born son of “Raphael (Philip) Liepman Prins and Mietje Benjamin Schapp, the husband of Henriette Jacobson with whom he had 8 children and a long time worker in his “family’s famous carpet business” who moved his family to Frankfurt in 1885 so he could pursue a life devoted to the study of Jewish subjects and whose library “consisting of 6,000 books which was moved to Jerusalem” passed away today.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/prins-liepman-philip

1915: In Cincinnati, OH, Isidor Schifrin and Lillian Berman gave birth to Elaine Schifrin

1915: It was reported today that “two hundred and eighty-six Jews in the German Army have been promoted to be officers and 4,000 Jewish soldiers have been decorated with Iron Crosses,” 16 of which were Iron Crosses First Class.

1916: William M. Ingraham, the acting Secretary of War wrote to J.P. Tumulty, the Secretary to President Wilson acknowledging that Captain Le Roy Eltinger had included remarks in his book that were “derogatory to the Jewish race,” that he had been ordered to ordered to go over the book and remove all such remarks and that “the Jewish race has undoubtedly furnished many able officers and many brave soldiers to all the armies of the world and the department is satisfied that many such are now in our own army.”

1916: Herman Bernstein, Rabbi Joseph Seff, Judge Leon Sanders and Bernard Edelhertz were among the speakers who addressed a rally for Woodrow Wilson at Cooper Union which closed with a prayer for the President’s re-lection delivered by Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to Turkey who is now serving as the Treasurer of the National Democratic Committee.

1916: In California, Mary Antin who was part of the women campaigning for Republican Presidential candidate Charles Evan Hughes “said she had heard that the Jews of the nation were going to vote for President Wilson because he had appointed Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court.” (I guess she had not heard about Louis Marshall and other prominent Jewish leaders who were lifelong Republicans and were supporting Hughes.)

1917: Four days after she had passed away, Bertha Cohen, the daughter of Phillip Joseph Salomons and the former Cecilia Samuels was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1917: At a conference held at the Broadway Central Hotel attended by 200 delegates representing various Rumanian Jewish organizations, “a resolution was adopted today urging the dispatch of Jewish commissioner to supervise the distribution of food in Rumania.”

1917: Four days after he had passed away, Noah Simons, the husband of Fanny Simons, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1918: In Brooklyn, Bertha (née Lerner) and Max Himmelfarb gave birth to Milton Himmelfarb an American scholar and brother of Gertrude Mimmelfarm who is famous for his comment on Jewish voting patterns. "Jews earn like Episcopalians, and vote like Puerto Ricans."

1918: Today, after one of Corporal Louis Sorrow’s “helpers had been killed and the other wounded by heavy shell fire” Sorrow, who was serving with Company B of the 307^th Field Signal Battalion near Fleville “continued on alone and repaired the break in the telephones” – behavior which would be described as a display of “unusual bravery to duty” when he was awarded the “Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism.

1918: Sergeant Abraham Blaustein who had been attending Army Candidate School rejoined his unit, the 165^th Regiment, at La Vallone today.

1920: Birthdate of Louis Herman “Red” Koltz the native Philadelphian who played college basketball for Villanova before turning pro where he spent most of his career playing for teams that were the foil of the Harlem Globetrotters, including the Washington Generals.

1920: The Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood held it semi-quarterly meeting today at 318 East 82^nd Street in Manhattan.

1920: Birthdate of Philadelphia native, Louis Herman “Red” Klotz, the Villanova and Philadelphia Sphas basketball player who “was founder and owner of the Washington Generals” the team that always lost to the Harlem Globetrotters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/sports/basketball/red-klotz-beloved-foil-for-globetrotters-dies-at-93.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/louis-herman-klotz-basketball-player-and-coach-whose-washington-generals-side-lost-thousands-of-9631500.html

1921: Louis Marshall took up the role of conservationist when “in an address at the University of the State of New York at Albany” delivered today he “argued that ‘the people of this State have been guilty of criminal recklessness in the manner in which they have permitted their magnificent forests to be destroyed.”

1922: Wake Forest, coached by George Levne lost to the University of Lynchburg in Lynchburg, VA today.

1922: The final chapters of the serialized version of Bambi written by Felix Salten (Siegmund Salzmann) for “an adult audience” was published in the Neue Freie Presse today.

1922: Birthdate of Prague native Peter Demetz, “an American literature scholar of Germany and a Sterling Professor at Yale University, who was also the Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers University”

1922: Future Bantamweight Champion Charlie Phil Rosenberg (a product of the Lower East born Charles Green) fought a second bout with Olympic Bantamweight Champion Frankie Genaro

1922: In Paris, Nazi sympathizer Eugene Schueller, “the founder of L’Oreal, one of the world’s largest cosmetics and beauty companies and Louise Madeleine Berthe Doncieux gave birth to their only child, Lilian, the wife of another pro-fascist, anti-Semitic politician Andre Bettencourt with whom she shared similar views until after WW II when she tried to “cleanse” her past.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/world/europe/liliane-bettencourt-dead-loreal.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region

1924(23^rdof Tishrei, 5685): Simchat Torah

1925: Birthdate of Wolf Stefan Priwin, the native of Berlin and brother of Andre Previn who gained fame as American director and television producer Stephen “Steve” Wolf Previn.

1925: Preferred Pictures, a movie production company formed by B.P. Schulberg in 1919 filed for bankruptcy. This cleared the way for him to join Paramount Pictures and its founder, Adolph Zukor.

1926: Birthdate of Mel Simon the Brooklyn native “who helped shape suburbia developing shopping malls” and who was the co-owner of the N.B.A. Indiana Pacers. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1926: In Brooklyn Henry and Bertha Sadoff gave birth to Frederick Edward Sadoff, who gained fame as the actor Fred Sadoff whose first role was on Broadway in the musical “South Pacific.”

1926: “The Good Reputation” with a script by Walter Wasserman was released today in Germany and France.

1927: After having been arrested and later released by Soviet authorities, today, Rabbi Schneerson, “accompanied by the eight members of his family” arrived in Riga today along with :his entire library consisting of 10,000 books and valuable manuscripts.

1927 Birthdate of Howard Zieff, the commercial director and ad photographer who stuffed an actor with spicy meatballs in a memorable Alka-Seltzer spot and used an American Indian in print ads to convince people “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish Rye,” and then went on to direct movie comedies

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/movies/25zieff.html?ref=obituaries

1927: “Heimweh” a silent film produced and written by Max Glass was released in Germany today.

1928: Alfred Hugenberg, the German businessman and political leader served in Hitler’s first cabinet was appointed chairman of the conservative German National People’s Party of DNVP.

1930: The Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development or Hope Simpson Report of October 1930 was released today. The report followed the Arab Riots of 1929. Prepared by Sir John Hope Simpson, it recommended limited Jewish immigration due to the lack of agricultural land to support it. The report said nothing about limiting Arab immigration into Palestine. The Arab population had been growing since WW I thanks in no small measure to the economic improvements brought about by the Jewish population.

1931: After having agreed to work to overthrow the Weimar Republic, conservative political leader Alfred Hugenberg and Adolph Hitler joined together to create a short-lived united front. Like so many other Hugenberg thought he could control Hitler and instead just ended up being used by him.

1931(10^thof Cheshvan, 5692): Sixty-nine year old Austrian playwright and author Arthur Schnitzler, the son of Dr. Johann Schnitzler passed away today. Born in Vienna in 1862, Schnitzer trained to be a physician. However, he decided to follow his passion and become a playwright and author. One of his more memorable lines was “If a person knew at twenty how fortunate he is to be twenty, he would get a stroke because of sheer bliss.”

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/schnitz.htm

1932(21^stof Tishrei, 5693): Hoshana Raba

1932: “Trouble in Paradise” a comedy directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch who also co-authored the script was released in the United States today.

1932: In Baltimore, MD, “a five-story art deco style expansion to the downtown store, described as "Greater Hutzlers", opened” today. “Hutzler's, or Hutzler Brothers Company, was a department store founded in Baltimore by Abram G. Hutzler in 1858. From its beginning as a small dry goods store at the corner of Howard and Clay Streets in Downtown Baltimore, Hutzler's eventually grew into a chain of 10 department stores, all of which were located in Maryland.”

1933(1^stof Cheshvan, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1933: Three weeks after premiering “Footlight Parade” a musical featuring the lyrics of Irving Kahal and the music of Sammy Fain was released in the United States today.

1933: “Walls of Gold” a drama produced by Sol Wurtzel and co-starring Sally Eilers whose mother was the Jewish America Paula (née Schoenberger) Eilers.

1933: In Ann Arbor, Ohio State led by team captain Sid Gilman lost to Michigan in what would turn out to be its only defeat of the season.

1933: Germany withdrew as a member of the League of Nations – a move that was in keeping with Hitler’s contempt for the Versailles Treaty of which the League was a creation.

1934” “In Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, Samuel and Sarah (Chysyk) Wekselbaum gave birth to Natan Wekselbaum” the owner of Gracious Home, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/obituaries/natan-wekselbaum-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1935: Hank Greenberg was named the American League Most Valuable Player in a unanimous vote by sportswriters.

1936: In Philadelphia, Miss Susan Brandeis, the daughter of Louis Brandeis sat on the platform when Hadassah members “pledged to plant 10,000 trees in Palestine as a tribute to Justice Brandeis on his 80^th birthday” which will be celebrated on November 13.

1936: Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary told a meeting that “one remedy being considered” to deal with Oswald Mosely and his Fascists “is the creation of special ‘danger areas’ where political processions and demonstrations could not be held during a specified period” “which would prevent the Fascists from concentrating in the future in Leeds, Manchester and the East End of London, the largest centers of Jewish population in England.”

1936: “A course on modern Palestine, for which alertness credits will be given to teachers” which will be taught by Abraham Revusky, author of Jews in Palestine is scheduled to meet for the first time this evening at the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

1937(16th of Cheshvan, 5698):American rabbi Henry (Haim) Pereira Mendes passed away. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, this son of Abraham Pereira Mendes was born in Birmingham, England. He was educated at Northwick College (rabbinics), at University College (London), and at the University of the City of New York, taking the degree of M.D. He became minister of the Manchester (England) Sephardic congregation in 1874, and in 1877 was called to the Congregation Shearith Israel of New York, of which he is still (1904) the minister. In 1881 he was one of the founders of the New York Board of Ministers, and acted as its secretary from its foundation up to 1901, when he became president. He joined Dr. Morais in helping to establish the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1886, of which he became secretary of the advisory board and professor of history. On the death of Dr. Morais he became acting president of the faculty until the appointment of Dr. S. Schechter. In 1884, the centennial of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore, he moved his congregation to convene the leading Jews of New York to mark the event by some practical work: the outcome was the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, established in the same year. He was made vice-president of the Gild for Crippled Children in 1896, and in 1901 established the Jewish branch of that gild. He promoted the formation of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of the United States and Canada (1897) and was subsequently elected its president. Mendes was one of the founders of the Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York (1902), of whose advisory board he is chairman. In Zionism, Mendes stands specially for its spiritual aspect; he served as vice-president of the American Federation of Zionists and was a member of the Actions Committee of Vienna (1898-99). The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1904. In conjunction with his brother Frederick de Sola Mendes, and others, he was one of the founders of "The American Hebrew” in 1879, to whose columns, as to those of the general press, he is a frequent contributor. He is the author of Union Primer and Reading Book (1882); Jewish History Ethically Presented (1895); Looking Ahead, a plea for justice to the Jew (1900); The Jewish Religion Ethically Presented (1904). Among his other writings are: In Old Egypt, stories about, but not from, the Bible;Esther; Judas Maccabæus; and many essays in periodical publications.

1937: The Palestine Post reported the death at 66 in New York of Felix Warburg, the banker and a great philanthropist, the leader of the non-Zionist group of the Jewish Agency. Born in Germany in 1871, Warburg eventually became a senior partner in the firm of Kuhn, Loeber and Co where he played an active role in the financial aspects of the industrial development of the United States. Warburg engaged a wide variety of philanthropic activities. “Although not a political Zionist, Warburg was involved in a variety of projects designed to develop Eretz Israel. He was a co-founder of the Jewish Agency and founder of Hebrew University. He actively protested British attempts to limit Jewish immigration to Palestine. His former home on Fifth Avenue is now the Jewish Museum.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that a Jewish constable, Eliahu Shitreet, was seriously wounded by an Arab terrorist in Haifa.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that the new Mandatory Ordinance introduced a more limited definition of a family and "dependants," further limiting the number of Jews eligible to immigrate under this category.

1937: Attendees at a dinner hosted by the New York-Brooklyn Federal of Jewish Charities paid tribute to the memory of the late Felix Warburg. Ironically, the dinner had originally been planned as tribute to Warburg’s son, Paul Felix Warburg, “head of the business men’s council of the federation.”

1937: In Jerusalem, Avinoan Yellin, inspector of the Jewish Schools in the Government Department of Education was shot by an Arab gunman who ambushed him as walked towards his offices. Yellin, the son of Hebrew University Professor David Yellin, was taken to Hadassah Hospital where his condition was described as “grave” following surgery.

1937: “The Awful Truth” a comedy written by Viña Delmar with an uncredited assist from Sidney Buchman was released in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.

1938: “In direct contravention of the recently signed Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler circulated among his high command a secret memorandum stating that they should prepare for the "liquidation of the rest of Czechoslovakia" and the occupation of Memel.”

1939: Birthdate of James D.G. “Jimmy” Dunn, the English born New Testament Scholar who has followed in the footsteps of E.P. Sander in working on “redefining Palestinian Judaism in order to correct the Christian view of Judaism as a religion of works-rightousness.”

1939: Penn State, led by their captain Sidney “Spike” Alter were held scoreless by Cornell as they lost their first game of the year.

1941(30th of Tishrei, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1941(30th of Tishrei, 5702): Residents of the Jewish community at Koidanov, Belorussia, are murdered.

1941(30th of Tishrei, 5702): Thousands of Jews are murdered at Kraljevo, Yugoslavia.

1941: The first transport of Jews left Cologne, Germany for the Lodz Ghetto.

1942: In Brooklyn, Dr. Murray Blum and Ethel Silverman gave birth to Judith Susan Blum who as Judith Sheindlin gained fame as “Judge Judy”

http://www.judgejudy.com/

1942(10th of Cheshvan, 5703): At Szczebrzeszyn, the final Jews remaining were rounded up in a night of fierce and deadly slaughter. Those who were not shot were taken to Belzec. In Zwierzyniec, more Jews were rounded up. The guards all carried walking sticks that they would use to pull out Jews who lagged behind as they were marched to the town square. Those pulled out where shot on the spot.

1942(10^thof Cheshvan, 5703): Eighty-four year old Helene (Goldschmidt) Tedesco, the daughter of Selig Meier Goldschmidt and Clementine Goldschmidt and the wife of Leon Yehuda Tedesco passed away today in Marseilles.

1943(22nd of Tishrei, 5704): Shmini Atzeret

1943(22nd of Tishrei, 5704): The last surviving 2,000 residents of the Minsk ghetto were rounded up and killed in pits outside the city.

1943: Lucie Auerbach, who was six month pregnant, led an ambush in which five German guards and truck drivers were killed while members of the French resistance rescued 13 of their comrades including her husband Raymond had been held by the Gestapo at Montluc.

1943(22nd of Tishrei, 5704): During the final Aktion in Minsk, Belorussia, about 2000 Jews are murdered at Maly Trostinets.

1944: Birthdate of Marilyn "Mandy" Rice-Davies, the British show girl whose involvement in a “Sex Scandal” brought down the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and later would convert to Judaism and marry an Israeli.

1944: The retreating Nazis burned trunk loads of files, documents and papers concerning the Jews of Birkenau. The Germans were busy destroying the evidence of their evil. At the same time thousands of Jews would be sent away from Birkenau. The human evidence was being moved as well. Tens of thousands would die from hunger, cruelty and the raw elements as they marched from the concentration camp towards central Germany. Some would eventually find their way to Dachau and Stutthof.

1944 (4th of Cheshvan, 5705): Frances Y. Slanger, R.N. died in Elsenborn, Belgium, a victim of a German artillery attack. She was the first American nurse to die in Europe after the June 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy. She was 31 years old. On the night before she died, Slanger had written a letter to the Stars and Stripes military newspaper, on behalf of military nurses, praising American G.I.'s and thanking the wounded for the privilege of easing their pain and sharing some of their hardships. Featured on the newspaper's editorial page by editors who did not know of her death, Slanger's letter evoked a deep response. When the news of her death was published, Stars and Stripes received an unparalleled outpouring of letters from its moved readership. Charles Sawyer, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium speaking of Slanger, said "if there is in heaven and in our hearts a special shrine for those who have given the most and the best, it is held sacred for the American nurse." Born in Poland, Slanger came to Boston, Massachusetts when she was seven years old with her family. She helped her father, a fruit peddler, while she attended high school. She graduated from the Boston City Hospital School of Nursing in 1937 and entered hospital work. In 1943, she enlisted in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and attended the first nursing basic training program at Fort Devens. In Europe, she worked as part of a surgical team on the front lines.In June 1945, a cruise ship, refurbished as a hospital ship to return wounded American soldiers from Europe, was commissioned as the Frances Y. Slanger. In November 1947, her body was returned to Boston for reburial. More than a thousand people, including the mayor of Boston, paid their respects.(As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archive)

1946: The HMS Moon, a British minesweeper captured the SS Alma off the coast of Lebanon and towed her to Haifa. The vessel contained 800 Jewish refugees trying to enter Palestine despite the White Paper and the British Blockade. According to reports by the British, the Jews “took strong but unsuccessful action” in an attempting to prevent British sailors from boarding the Alma and tying tow ropes to the vessel. The British claim that no Jews were injured or killed. The Stern Gang used rumors about harm that had come to the refugees to issue a shoot to kill order aimed at British soldiers and sailors.

1947: “In the little town of Raanan on the coastal plain between Tel Aviv and Nathanya a new children’s village and farm school was dedicated today by the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America.” Initially the facility will be home to 170 holocaust survivors ranging in age between 5 and 17 years of age who have been living in displaced persons camps in Cyprus or at the Athlitit detention center. The village will eventually be able to house anywhere from 300 to 500 children.

1947: The UNSCOP majority report with its recommendation of partition was sent to the UN General Assembly with the approval of both the United States and the Soviet Union.

1948: Israeli naval vessels supported by planes from the Israeli Air Force shelled Egyptian positions in Gaza.

1948: At four in the morning, Israeli troops attack the fortified positions of the Egyptians outside of Beersheba. The Egyptians are taken by surprise since they did not know that the Israelis had opened the road to the Negev two days earlier. The Egyptians surrendered and the ancient place to which Abraham returned after “the binding of Isaac” was in Jewish hands.

Or

1948: During Operation Moseh, which was named after “Moshe Albert who fell defending the besieged Beit Eshel” “the Negev Brigade and 8th Armored Brigade attacked Beersheba from the west. Another force joined them from the north. The Egyptian army garrison consisted of 500 soldiers with some light artillery. They put up some resistance for five hours before surrendering.

1948: Twenty-three year old Abraham Abarzel the native of Algeria and member of the French Commando Company of the Palmach Hanegev’s 9^th Battalion evacuated to Kibbutz Dorot after being “mortally wounded in the battle for the capture of Beersheba.”

1948: During Operation Ha-Har, “Moshe ("Morris") Ben-Dror, the commander of the Fifth Battalion, put together a battle corps consisting of two companies of riflemen, a support company and saboteurs, who were instructed to take Bayt Nattif and to destroy its houses, whose inhabitants had fought against the Convoy of thirty-five fallen soldiers who were sent to aid their beleaguered comrades in Gush Etzion

1949: Birthdate of rightwing Israeli politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

1949: Northwestern University undergrad David Lionel Bazel who began serving as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

1952: In Beverly Hills, CA, Phoebe and Henry Ephron gave birth to Amy Ephron the multi-dimensional author whose work includes A Cup of Tea and One Sunday Morning.

1952:The Jerusalem Post reported that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met "Hazon Ish," the supreme authority on interpretation of the Jewish law for extreme Orthodox Jewry. After an hour of animated discussion the area of disagreement between the two leaders remained fundamentally as wide as ever, but they came closer on the need for the mutual understanding. “Hazon Ish” was the appellation applied to the famed Talmud scholar Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz. Born in Poland in 1878, he moved to Eretz Israel in 1933. He settled in B’nai B’rak (yes the same place mentioned in the Haggadah) where he severed as communal leader while writing forty books on a variety of religious topics. Although principally an academic scholar, he applied himself to practical problems such as the use of milking machines on Shabbat and the cultivation of hydroponics during the sabbatical year, when it is forbidden to cultivate land in Eretz Yisrael. He was even once consulted by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion on the question of drafting young women to the Israel Defense Forces. He passed away in 1953.

1953: In Hampstead Garden Suburb, Middlesex, Norman Mandelson, the grandson of the founder of the Harrow United Synagogue and “advertising manager of The Jewish Chronicle and the former Mary Joyce Morrison gave birth to Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, “a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel.”

1954:The City of Hope Auxiliary of San Diego is scheduled to honor the member of its Founder and President for 17 years, Anna Shelley, with a Memorial Fund Luncheon at 12 noon at the Beth Jacob Center.

1954: In Connecticut, Barbara (Freedman) Berg and film producer Dick Berg, gave birth to guitarist and record producer Antony Rains “Tony” Berg, “an A&R exec with Geffen records, the brother of Pulitzer Prize winning author A. Scott Berg and business executive Jeff Berg and the father of musician Elizabeth Anne “Z’ Berg.

1954: “Casino Royale,” “a live 1954 television adaptation of the novel of the same name” co-starring Peter Lorre was broadcast for the first time today.

1956: An Off-Broadway production of “Johnny Johnson” a musical with music by Kurt Weill directed by Stella Adler co-starring Gene Saks opened at the Little Carnegie Playhouse at Carnegie Hall.

1956: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe appeared as contestants on the panel quiz show “What’s My Line?”

1956: Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams lost their third straight game when they were defeated by the Green Bay Packers bring their record to a miserable 1 and 3.

1958: Following Gracie Allen’s retirement, CBS broadcast the first episode of “The George Burns Show” the first attempt by Burns to perform without Allen since the two hooked up in the days of Vaudeville.

1959: In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This is yet another example of Jewish philanthropy for the civil society.

1959: U.S. premiere of “A Bucket of Blood” a satire with music by composer and cellist Fred Katz.

1961: Seventy-seven year old “Walter Edward Sachs,” a “limited partner in Goldman, Scahs” married his third wife Virginia Maitland today.

1961(11^th of Cheshvan, 5722): Parashat Lech-Lecha

1961(11^th of Cheshvan, 5722): Fifty nine year old Jerusalem born and John Hopkins Ph.D . Aaron Morris Margalith the author and professor at Yeshiva University, who was the husband of Helen Margaret Margalith, the hold of a B.A. from Hunter and Masters of Library Science of Columbia and the father of Joan and Carol Margalith passed away today.

1961: Author James Michener purchased a painting by Morris Louis, the great Jewish Washington abstractionist whom kingmaker-critics would anoint as the greatest painter since Jackson Pollock.

1962(23 of Tishrei, 5723): Simcaht Torah

1962: The Observer reported today that “during a public debate of the case for a referendum on whthere to the European Economic Community” “British historian and Conservative peer Max Beloff “argued that a referendum is not meaningful unless clear alternatives are set before the electorate; in the absence of such clarity, ‘the electorate would…be doing no more than indicating a very general bias one way or another.

1962: “The Century 21 Exposition” also known as the Seattle World’s Fair for which Lawrence Halprin provided the “master landscaping plan” came to a conclusion today.

1963: “A call to the major world powers to safeguard peace in the Middle East was issued today by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in his ‘state of the nation’ addressed at the opening meeting of the Knessett…” (As reported by JTA)

1965: Helen Schucman commits the first lines of A Course in Miracles to paper. Dr. Helen Schucman was a Jewish research psychologist who was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University.

1966(7^th of Cheshvan, 5727): Sixty-nine year old Lewis Coleman Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton, the son of a Hastings jeweler under whose leadership the Alliance Building Society “grew into one of the largest and most successful building societies in Britain and who “chaired the inaugural meeting of the Labour Friends of Israel” passed away today.

196717th of Tishrei, 5728): Third Day of Sukkoth

196717th of Tishrei, 5728): An Egyptian missile attack sank the Eilat an Israeli ship 13 miles away from Port Said which meant the attack that cost the lives of 48 Israelis, took place in international waters. Israeli artillery opened up all along the Suez Canal setting the refineries at Suez City on firing thus forcing the evacuation of thousands of Egyptians.

1967: First broadcast of “Twice a Fortnight” co-starring Abba Eban’s nephew Jonathan Lynn.

1967: “Jerusalem of Gold, Israel Festival Song, Strikes Gold” published today descried how “a song originally commissioned by the May of Jerusalem for the 1967 Israel Song Festival in May has become, since the Six Day War, one of the biggest hits ever.”

http://books.google.com/books?id=JUUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT10&dq=%22naomi+shemer%22+leading+songwriter#v=onepage&q&f=false

1970: “Little Fauss and Big Halsy” a comedy produced by Albert S. Ruddy was released today.

1971: For the first time BBC 1 broadcast “Edna, the Inebriate Woman,” produced by Irene Shubik and featuring June Brown.

1973: Yitamar Barne’a and Gil Haran ejected from their F-4E Phantom Jet after it fell victim to a Syrian MIG-21, the most advanced Soviet aircraft of that period. Barne’a was taken prisoner. It is unclear as to whether Haran was captured or killed.

1973: “Israeli forces, led by reserve Maj. Gen. Avraham Adan, encircled the Egyptian Third Army while forces led by Sharon take up positions less than 40 miles from Cairo.”

1973: During the Battle of Ismailia, Egyptian forces “abandoned the Touscan strong point” after having beat off an attack by the Israelis while other Israeli forces who had “attacked Heneidac at dawn…captured the position before noon.”

1973: Israeli forces sustained serious casualties as they fought to re-capture Mount Hermon from the Syrians. The Israelis referred to the 8,200 high mountain as “the eyes of the State of Israel.” Henry Kissinger flew from Moscow to Tel Aviv where he pressured the Israelis into accepting a cease fire. Kissinger and the Israelis knew that the Egyptian Third Army which was on the east bank of the Suez Canal was on the verge of annihilation. Kissinger claimed that such a crushing defeat would weaken Sadat and keep him from making any kind of political settlement in the future. There are those who contend that Sadat was able to sign a peace treaty with Israel because he felt that Arab honor had been redeemed in 1973. Others contend that Sadat also made peace because in 1973, the Egyptians with every possible military advantage still could not defeat Israel and that there was no point in continuing the endless hostilities.

1973: “Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams” a female midl-life crisis movie for which Sylvia Sidney received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress, co-starring Martin Balsam, featuring Dori Brenner in her screen debut, directed by Gilbert Gates, written by Stewart Stern and with music by Johnny Mandel was released today in the United States.

1975: “Hadassah rededicated the rebuilt and refurbished Hadassah University Hospital at Mount Scopus.”

1975: “Fifty-two British MPs signed a motion condemning Soviet treatment of Professor Levich and urging the Soviet government to honor the Helsinki agreement.”

1975: “The USSR permanent mission at the UN protested demonstrations by ‘Zionist hooligan groups.’”

1976: Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature

1976: Victor Elistratov, Mikhail Kremen, Arkady Polishchuk and Boris Chernobilsky were taken away by police today after a demonstration in Moscow in which the protestors wore yellow stars on their chests.

1978(20^th of Tishrei, 5739): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth

1978(20^th of Tishrei, 5739): Eighty-seven year old Samuel E. Goldberg, the New York born son of Malya Molly Goldfarb and Nesanel Dovid Bryer, “known as “the father of Jewish Music in America” whose works included “I Have a Little Driedel” passed away today.

https://www.thejewniverse.com/2015/the-secret-history-of-i-have-a-little-dreidel/?utm_source=jewniverse_maropost&utm_campaign=jewniverse&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-2172-39206

http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ohc/id/1346

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv49530

1979: Birthdate of Israeli jazz guitarist and composer Assaf Kehati.

1980(11^th of Cheshvan, 5741): Eighty year old Jessie Marmorston Weingarten, the Ukrainian born Buffalo Medical college trained physician “known for her research in the field of heart” who was the wife of producer Lawrence Weingarten and who counted MGM movie mogul Louis B. Mayer as one of her patients, passed away today.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/marmorston-jessie

1981(23^rd of Tishrei, 5742): Simchat Torah

1981: Ninety-eight year old Frances Taussig, “a past president of the American Association of Social Work” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/24/obituaries/frances-taussig-dead-at-98-leading-jewish-social-worker.html

1982: Following his death yesterday, the coffin of Leib Gurwicz, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England “was carried by his past and present pupils through the streets of Gateshead, past the synagogue and kollel and taken to the Newcastle Airport on the first league of a journey that will end with burial in Israel tomorrow.

1982: Space epic “The Right Stuff” directed by Philip Kaufman who also wrote the screenplay and produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff had a limited release in the United States today.

1983: Admiral Arnold Resnicoff arrived in Lebanon to lead a memorial service for Sgt. Allen Soifert, an American Jewish Marine killed by Arab sniper fire.

1983: U.S. premiere of “The Dead Zone” a horror film directed by David Cronenberg.

1984: In Hackensack, NJ, funeral services were held today for seventy-one year old “retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge and graduate of what is now Rutgers Law School Morris Malech” the decorated WW II veteran and husband of “the former Freda Lipowitz” with whom he had two sons – Harry and Edward.

1986: During “Operation Wrath of God” Munzer Abu Ghazala, a senior PLO official and member of the Palestinian National Council, was killed by a bomb as he drove through a suburb of Athens

1987: Former Miss America Bess Myerson is arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She is later found not guilty.

1988: In Toronto, Henry Rendall, who was Jewish and his wife Cathy, who was not gave birth to actor Mark Rendall, youngest brother of David and Mathew Rendall

1988: Today Israeli Army officials reported that the Palestinian arrested in the grenade assault on Monday that wounded 67 Israelis, including 24 soldiers, confessed to several recent terrorist incidents. 1988: “Mystic Pizza” on which David Stern worked as a production assistant which was “one of his first gigs in L.A.” was released in the United States today.

1990(2^nd of Cheshvan, 5751): On Yair Street in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Bak’a 19 year old terrorist Omar Said Salah Abu Sirhan stabbed Iris Azulai as she walked out of her house after which she murdered Eli Altaretz and Shalom “Charlie” Chelouche.

1990: Jewish actor Alan Rosenberg, the President of the Screen Actors Guild and his wife Marg Helgenberger gave birth to their first child, Hugh Howard Rosenberg.

1993(6^th of Cheshvan, 5754): Seventy-five year old Long Island University basketball star who went on to play in the NBA passed away today in Florida.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/25/obituaries/irving-torgoff-75-liu-star-in-30-s-and-nba-player.html

1994: “The Puppet Master” a sci-film with a script by David S. Goyer and featuring Yaphet Kotto and Richard Belzer was released in the United States today by Buena Vista Pictures.

1995(27^th of Tishrei, 5756): Eighty-three year old Jack Rose, the Russian immigrant who began as a gag writer for Milton Berle and Bob Hope before pursuing a career as a screenwriter.

1998:Sergio Mattarella, who when he became President of Italy condemned the attack by Palestinian terrorists on the Great Synagogue of Rome began serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy today.

2000(22^nd of Tishrei, 5761): Shemini Atzeret

2000: The BBC broadcast “Nations” part 4 of “A History of Britain” presented by Simon Schama.

2001: The Sunday New York Times features reviews of the following books by Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics including A History of Britain Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603-1776 by Simon Schama, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman and Too Close To Call: TheThirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election by Jeffrey Toobin.

2002(15^thof Cheshvan, 5763): A car packed with explosives pulled up to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour, igniting a massive fireball that killed 14 people along with two suicide attackers.

2002(15^thof Cheshvan, 5763): Ninety-three year old German born Australian mathematician Bernhard Hermann Neumann passed away today.

http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/56/285

2003: Exactly one year after a suicide bomber killed 14 Israeli bus riders, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel tear down a barrier being built as an anti-terrorist measure. The U.N. objects to what critics claim is the “jutting the fence into the West Bank.”

2004: An Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed Adnan al-Ghoul,a leading Hamas weapons maker who was responsible for some of the group’s most powerful bombs and its homemade rockets, Israel’s military said.

2005: The Icon Festival comes to an end at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The Icon Festival, a celebration of science fiction and the imagination is held yearly during the Chol Hamoed period of Sukkoth.

2005: As a testimony to the vibrancy and creativity of Israeli society, Haaretz reported that “Lumenis, the developer, manufacturer and seller of laser and light-based devices for medical, aesthetic, ophthalmic, dental and veterinary applications, has announced the launch of a series of new products over the past two weeks.

2005(18^thof Tishrei, 5766): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth

2005(18^thof Tishrei, 5767): Rabbi Hermann Naftali Neuberger, the President of Ner Israel and the man who helped to save 60,000 Persian Jews. His legacy includes three sons who became prominent rabbis in their own right and two other sons who became prominent members of the legal profession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_N._Neuberger

http://www.forward.com/articles/2224/

2006: David Samson, the President of the Miami Marlins “completed the Ford Ironman World Championship Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii” making him “the only team president of a major U.S. sports franchise to have completed the Ironman Triathlon.”

2006(29^thof Tishrei, 5767): Eighty-eight year old Milton Selzer whose career began during “the Golden Age of Television” passed away today.

http://alt.obituaries.narkive.com/oxsj3SgJ/milton-selzer-88-prolific-character-actor

http://sanfordandson.wikia.com/wiki/Milton_Selzer

2006: Palestinian terrorists fired four Kassam rockets at the western Negev, a day after several other rockets hit Israel. All of them landed in open areas, causing no injuries or damage. Seventy year old

2007(9^thof Cheshvan, 5768): Seventy year old “R. B. Kitaj, an American artist who became influential in Britain with figurative and Pop Art paintings that ran against the grain of 1960s and ’70s abstraction” passed away today. (As reported by Martha Schwendener)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/arts/24kitaj.html?_r=0

2007(9^thof Cheshvan, 5768): Ninety-two year old art dealer Ileana Sonnabend passed away today. (As reported by Robert Smith)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/arts/24sonnabend.html?pagewanted=all

2007: A 10-day klezmer festival featuring over 100 klezmer musicians comes to an end in New York.

2007: In “A Counter History” published today, Alex Witchel traces the history of the New York deli and the role of Abe Lebewohl, who started the 2^ndAvenue Deli in 1954. (Editor’s note – the 2^nd Avenue Deli makes the best tongue on pumpernickel sandwich in the world and their meat knishes are beyond compare.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21deli-t.html?pagewanted=all

2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section features Marvin Kalb’s review of Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War by Howard Kurtz and The Siege of Mecca: The forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda by Yaroslav Trofimov.

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section features reviews of the following books by Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics including Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sexby Andrew Wilson, The Conscience of Liberal by Paul Krugman, Supercapitalismby Robert Reich, Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander, Weimar Germany: :Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz, The Last Chicken In America, Ellen Litman’s elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, The Sabotage Café by Joshua Furst fiction editor of Zeek and Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith.

2007: The Chicago Tribune carried a front page story entitled “How Holocaust heroine rescued 2,500 children” that told the story of how four Kansas high school students “discovered” and publicized the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker an unsung Polish heroine of the Holocaust

2007: the State Senate voted to oppose the Elliot Spitzer plan to issue special driver’s licenses to immigrant workers without requiring proof of legal immigration status by a 39–19 vote

2007: The latest adaptation of I.L. Peretz’s “A Night in the Old Marketplace” has its last performance at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, PA. The musical is the creation of composer Frank London.

2007: Archeologists overseeing contested Islamic infrastructure work on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount have stumbled upon a sealed archeological level dating back to the First Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday. The find marks the first time that archeological remains dating back to the First Temple period have been found on the contested holy site, the state-run archeological body said.

2008(22^ndof Tishrei, 5769): Shemini Atzeret,

2008:Inside the grand Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in this bustling seaside city, five mostly elderly women and a middle-aged man from the Jewish community here gathered this evening to commemorate the holiday of new beginnings: Simhat Torah. For the dwindling Jewish community of Alexandria, where fewer than 25 members now remain, six local attendees is nearly par for the course. And new beginnings seem far away. The last minyan witnessed by the synagogue was last Yom Kippur, when participants sent by the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and several foreign visitors attended services.

2008: The Israeli feature film Seven Minutes in Heaven, directed by newcomer Omri Givon, took the top award in its hotly contested category at the 24^th Haifa International Film Festival, which ended tonight.

2008: Ruth Gruber, Journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian and U.S. government official “was honored for her work defending free expression by the National Coalition Against Censorship.

2008: “The National Coalition Against Censorship honored Anthony Lewish for his work in the area of First Amendment rights and free expression.”

2009: Closing session of the National Jewish Democratic Conference Washington Conference.

2009:Freelance writer David Sax discusses his new book, Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen, at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, in Washington, D.C.

2009:The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival feature programs centered around Morris Dickstein’s Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression and Shana Liebman’s Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection

2009:The IDF and the US military are scheduled to begin a major joint air defense exercise today, highlighting military ties between the two allies at a time of heightened tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.

2009:The Anti-Defamation League said today that despite the apology of two South Carolina Republican Party chairmen for characterizing Jews as penny-pinchers, “they need to do more to publicly disavow their words and to understand why their remarks were so insensitive.” In an opinion piece published Oct. 18 in The Times and Democrat newspaper, Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County Chairman James Ulmer defended the fiscal policies of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, by saying he was “like Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.” The two Republican county officials have since apologized for making the comments disparaging Jews. DeMint called the comment thoughtless and hurtful. One of South Carolina’s two Jewish legislators, Democratic Sen. Joel Lourie, said he was outraged by the remark. He called on the chairmen to be removed. State GOP Chairwoman Karen Floyd also called the statement absolutely unacceptable. “Their apology is a first step, but it doesn’t go far enough,” said Bill Nigut, ADL Southeast Regional Director. “Stereotypes about Jews’ facility with money have survived through generations and have been inculcated into our culture,” he continued. “Mr. Merwin and Mr. Ulmer need to better understand the impact of their words, and how those words will resonate and reinforce anti-Semitism.” The ADL said it would gladly facilitate a dialogue between the two county chairmen and members of the South Carolina Jewish community. “The best outcome of this sad episode would be for Mr. Merwin and Mr. Ulmer to learn more about the root causes of anti-Semitism,” said the ADL statement. “They need to do more to publicly disavow their words and to understand why their remarks were so insensitive.”

2009: The Senate plenum and executive council of Tel Aviv University approved the appointment of Professor Joseph Klafter as the school’s 8^th president.

2009(3^rdof Cheshvan, 5770: English mystery writer Lionel Davidson passed away. In 1966, he won his second Gold Dagger for A Long Way to Shiloh which was published in the United States as The Menorah Men, a story that revolves around the search for a holy candelabrum rescued from the Jerusalem Temple before its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE. The story draws from the Copper Scroll found at Qumran in 1952, which lists buried treasure.

2010: Samuel Heilman is scheduled to deliver The Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish Historybased on The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneersonat The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival in Washington, DC.

2010: Artist Noam Braslavsky unveiled a life-sized sculpture of Sharon in a hospital bed with an IV drip at the Kishon Gallery in Tel Aviv.

2010(13^thof Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety-one year old pianist and author Natasha Spender, the daughter of Jewish refugees from Lithuania who was “the second wife of poet Sir Stephen Spender” who had Jewish members in his family tree, passed away today.

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/oct/22/natasha-spender-obituary

2010:The Chief Rabbinical Council today formed a committee to examine the conversion processes not only in the IDF but also in the State Conversion Authority. Five senior rabbis will be presenting their findings to Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Chief IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz within four months.The Reform and Masorti movements slammed the rabbinate for its decision, and Kadima called on the rabbinate to find any possible way to ease the path of those seeking to join the Jewish nation.

2011(23^rd of Tishrei, 5772): Simchat Torah

2011:A brushfire broke out between Kibbutz Yasur and Moshav Ahihud in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel today. 24 fire engines and five firefighting aircraft are being used in an effort to contain the blaze. Dozens of area residents have been evacuated from their homes. No injuries have been reported, thus far. Highway 70 has been closed between the Ahihud and Yavor junctions, causing heavy traffic in the region. The cause of the blaze is as of yet unknown.

2011:The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court agreed to a police request today to extend the remand of 14 people arrested during a rally outside the Sharon prison last night. Police suspect that the eight men and six women arrested called for more IDF soldiers to be kidnapped and for additional Palestinian security prisoners to be released during the demonstration outside the Sharon district prison. Judge Aviva Talmor ruled to extend the detention of the suspects, who include 11 Israeli Arabs and three Jewish Israelis, for another four days in order to allow police to continue their investigation. According to police, the demonstrators were bused in to the area and began waving Palestinian flags while shouting slogans. Police and Border Police asked the demonstrators to disperse after informing them that they were holding an illegal rally. Warrant officer Yaniv Hindai, for the police, submitted a confidential investigation report to the court and requested that an additional charge of assaulting police officers be added to one suspect, Hamadeh Qasem. However, lawyers for the arrested men and women, who include attorney Orna Cohen of the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, deny that the demonstrators had called for the abduction of additional IDF soldiers. The suspects’ attorneys also claimed that the demonstrators had only referred to the release of three Arab-Israeli women prisoners in the Hadarim prison who had not been included in the deal to release Gilad Schalit. In extending the suspects’ remand, Judge Talmor noted that police had carried out a “consistent, responsible and professional investigation” and that evidence submitted had raised a reasonable suspicion that each of the 14 people arrested were linked to the alleged offenses.

2011: Today, as a freshman at the University of Michigan, Zach Hyman “scored the first goal of his collegiate career.”

2011:Theo Epstein officially resigned as general manager of the Red Sox late Friday night to accept the position of Cubs president of baseball operations. The announcement was made in a joint news release after some cajoling from Major League Baseball, which was upset the two teams’ contentious negotiations for compensation regarding Epstein is a distraction from the World Series.

2012: The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Who Could That Be at This Hour? By Lemony Snicket (who is really David Handler, the son of Lou Handler a Jewish accountant)

2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

2012: Carl Bernstein is scheduled to address a luncheon sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington

2012: Jeanne Golan is scheduled to perform the second and final, in a series of recitals featuring the complete piano sonatas of Viktor Ullman at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

2012: The Wiener Library, “the world’s oldest Holocaust memorial institution,” is scheduled to host an Open Day as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, which will give a wider audience a chance to view the new temporary exhibition, ‘Rescues of the Holocaust: Remembering Raoul Wallenberg and Lives Saved’.

2012: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah is scheduled to sponsor “Yiddish Café & Cabaret” featuring Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel (Temple Judah Confirmation class of 1973), “the Java Jews” (Des Moines gift to klezmer) and Dr. Bill Carson, director of bands at Coe College.

2012: Former Mossad chief and Yesh Sikuy director Meir Dagan is facing the threat of assassination by an Iranian hit squad as he recovers from a liver transplant in Belarus, The Sunday Times reported.

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=288659

2012: Israel’s security forces are being tested rigorously in the upcoming days as they take part in two major drills aimed to test their ability to face both natural disasters and war. The largest-ever joint Israeli and American military drill began today at the same time that the country’s emergency services were participating in their first earthquake preparedness drill.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-prepares-for-the-worst-in-day-of-drills/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=5b7fbc82bf-2012_10_21&utm_medium=email

2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Sex, Yiddish and the Law: Jewish Life in Metz in the 18^th Century”

2013: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), is scheduled to host a seminar, Introduction to Holocaust Studies through the International Tracing Service (ITS) Collection at the Wiener Library, designed for advanced undergraduate, master’s-level and first-year PhD students.

2013(17^thof Cheshvan, 5773): Seventy-two year old New York City “budget maven” Paul Dickstein passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/nyregion/paul-dickstein-kochs-budget-chief-in-new-york-city-dies-at-70.html?hpw&_r=0

2013: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was announced today as the winner of the first Genesis Prize, a $1 million award dubbed “the Jewish Nobel Prize.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ny-mayor-bloomberg-to-be-awarded-first-jewish-nobel/

2013: Two mortar shells fired from Syria, likely spillover from the bloody civil war in the country, landed on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights today near Tel Fares. (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2013: An Opera Fights Hungary’s Rising Anti-Semitism published today described how Ivan Fischer’s “The Red Heifer” is being used to combat rising anti-Jewish sentiment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/arts/music/in-hungary-a-new-opera-joins-the-chorus-against-anti-semitism.html?pagewanted=print

2014: In Glencoe, Illinois, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a screening of the documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus.”

2014: The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled to present Zachary Lazar, author of I Pity the Poor Immigrant and “Art Spiegelman’s WORDLESS! With music by Phillip Johnston.

2014: “A monumental Roman inscription bearing the name of Emperor Hadrian, which surfaced in Jerusalem during salvage excavations earlier this year, was displayed to the public by the Israel Antiquities Authority today.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/rare-roman-monument-bearing-hadrians-name-found-in-jerusalem/

2014: “Former Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar was elected as the new Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, with 28 votes, while Rabbi Aryeh Stern of the Halacha Brura Institute was voted in as Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi with 27.” (As reported by Hezki Ezra)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186401#.VEbAnpt0ypo

2015: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to present a screening of “The World Was Ours, an award-winning one-hour documentary narrated by the award-winning actor, Mandy Patinkin that explores the vibrant and creative life of the Jewish community of Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) between the two World Wars.”

2015: “All 19 Jewish House lawmakers slammed UNESCO for its vote charging Israel with changing the status quo at a Jerusalem holy site.”

2015: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pounded today with a barrage of condemnations after he claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler only decided on the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews after receiving input on the matter from Jerusalem’s then-grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, a Palestinian nationalist widely acknowledged as a fervent Jew-hater.” (As reported by Adiv Sterman and Raphael Ahren)

2015(8^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-nine year old comedian Marty Ingels passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/arts/television/marty-ingels-actor-and-comedian-is-dead-at-79.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: One rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an open area in southern Israel tonight. The code red sirens sounded in the Sha’ar HaNegev and Sdot Negev Regional Councils next to the Gaza border, but the projectile landed in The Sha’ar HaNegev area.

2016(19^thof Tishrei, 5777): Fifth Day of Sukkot

2016: Leonard Cohen is scheduled “to release his 14^th studio album ‘You Want It Darker’ today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/montreal-cantor-helps-leonard-cohen-on-road-back-to-his-jewish-roots/

2016: “American Pastoral” the movie version of Philip Roth’s award winning novel opened in 15 theatres across the United States today.

2016: “Keeping Up with the Jones,” a spy-spoof featuring Gal Gadot which had premiered was released in the rest of the United States today.

2016: “Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot” was among those who appeared at the United Nations today, “on the 75^th anniversary of the first appearance” of the mythical female super hero.

2016: “The Israeli-American seven-piece group Anbessa Orchestra” is scheduled to perform at Barbes in Brooklyn, NY.

2016: In Jerusalem, the Admaya Conference is scheduled to come to an end “with workshops, techniques and displays of earth building” that will be of interest to “the whole family.”

2016: “Denial” comes to the “heartland” with the scheduled opening of the film today at two theatres in Des Moines, Iowa.

2017(1^stDay of Cheshvan 5778): Parashat Noach and Second Day Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2017: The Lincoln Center Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of “Aida’s Secrets” followed by a Q & A with directors Alon and Shaul Schwarz.

2017: In the United Kingdom, Trafalgar Day when Englishmen and Anglophiles pay homage to the memory of Lord Nelson, his victory and the sailor who served with him including those who trained by reading Sir Alexander Schomberg’s “A Sea Manual recommended to the Young Officers of the Royal Navy as a Companion to the Signal Book.”

2018: Rob Snyder, author Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City, is “scheduled to lead a walking tour and panel discussion in the northern Manhattan neighborhood once known as “Frankfurt on the Hudson” for its large population of German-Jewish refugees.”

2018: In Atlanta, Helen Weingarten, “who entered Auschwitz as one of five sisters” of whom only four survived and who “narrowly escaped death when the 500 women she was with were redirected from the entrance to the gas chambers and sent to Germany for slave labor” is scheduled to speak at the Breman Museum this afternoon.

2018: Sarina Roffé, a professional genealogist, founder of the Sephardic Heritage Project, and author of Branching Out from Sepharad: A Global Journey of Selected Rabbinic Families with Biographies and Genealogies which outlines the history and expulsion of Jews in Spain, their history in Syria, and immigration to the Americas” is scheduled to “discuss the Kassin rabbinic dynasty from the 12th century through the 50-year leadership of Rabbi Jacob S. Kassin in Brooklyn, and to solve a Converso mystery” at the Center for Jewish History.

2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “the People vs. Noah” with Prosecutor Alan Dershowitz, Defense Attorney Joe Lieberman and Michael Mukasey, “former Attorney General of the United States” serving as the presiding Judge.

2018 “Julia Louis-Dreyfus” received “the 21^st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” tonight.

2018: The Cleveland Browns with Greg Joseph as their Placekicker is scheduled to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at noon today.

2018: The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum and No Property In Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding by Sean Wilentz

2019: In San Mateo, CA, the San Mateo Performing Arts Center is scheduledto host “A Night of Jewish Humor,” featuring a “performance by bestselling writers Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach, two of three authors of the comic haggadah, For This We Left Egypt?

2019: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a luncheon following Shemini Atzertz services.

2019: Asi Matathius, who “made his debut at the age of fourteen with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta,” is scheduled to perform this with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players at the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church.

2019(22nd of Tishrei, 5780): Shemini Atzeret and Yizkor

http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/off-the-pulpit-a-yizkor-message/

2019(22^ndof Tishrei, 5780: This evening, in Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a “Family-fun Erev Simchat Torah service with Eliana Light.

OCTOBER 22

362: A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch. According to one source,the Christians living in Antioch who were angry with the Emperor Julian for the favor he showed to Jewish and pagan rites, and, outraged by the closing of its great church of Constantine, burned down the temple of Apollo in Daphne. Julian had promised to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem, a promise he was unable to keep due to his untimely and mysterious death. Julian was the last non-Christian emperor of Rome. He opposed the special privileges that his predecessors had granted to Christianity because he thought the road to restoring Roman grandeur lay in returning to basic Roman values which were tied to their pagan religion.

741: Charles Martel passed away. Charles Martel or Charles the Hammer is credited with saving Europe from Islam by defeating the Moors at the Battle of Tours. This effectively meant, that Islamic culture would remain south of the Pyrenees in what is modern day Spain. Although fighting would continue between invading Moslem armies and defending Christian armies, most of Europe was destined to be Christian. This division would have profound consequences for the development of Jewish civilizations in various parts of Europe, Africa and Asia. Charles Martel was the grandfather of Charlemagne, the great French leader and effectively the first Holy Roman Emperor. Charlemagne treated his Jewish subjects comparatively well even in the face of pressure from the Catholic Church

1495: Ines Lopez of Ciudad Real, Spain was accused of heresy. In confessing, she wrote to the Inquisitional Court stating she was a 'Christian', but admitted wearing clean clothing on Saturday. In the letter she accused her cousin of teaching her to observe Passover, saying it was good "for her soul." Turning in her cousin satisfied the Inquisition, but they could do nothing as she was safe in Constantinople. Soon after this, Lopez was sentenced to life imprisonment, ordered to wear the San Benito and was burned at the stake.

1586: Sixtus V issued Christiana Pietas, a papal bull that ameliorated the restrictions placed on Jews by his papal predecessors. Among other things, the papal bull allowed the reprinting of the Talmud and other Jewish books provided that they had properly been censored before publication. The successor to Sixtus would not only reverse this bull, he would promulgate even more onerous restrictions on the Jewish people.

1586: A bull issued today by Sixtus “permitted the Jews to rebuild synagogues on the earlier sites, provided the contributions for the support of catechumens be not reduced in amount.”

1597: The Roman Curia ruled that a Jewish child baptized without the permission of his parents, as required by canonical law, must be brought up as a Catholic. The ruling required the removal of the child from hits parents.

1601: The thirty-one page L’abitacolo degli Oranti or Me’on ha-Sho’alim (The Abode of the Supplicants) by Devora Ascareilli which “was completed in about 1537” was published today in Venice possibly making it the first book published by a Jewish woman.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/devorah-ascarelli

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ascarelli-devora

https://www.jewisheritage.org/web/european-routes/women-in-judaism/45

1668: The Jews of Barbados were forbidden to engage in foreign or local retail trade. Jews were forbidden from purchasing slaves, and were forced into living in a Jewish Ghetto in Barbados. All the discriminatory laws were removed by 1802, by the colonial government of Barbados. In 1820, the British Parliament also confirmed this repeal of the discrimination laws against the Jews.

1688: Birthdate of Nadir Shah of Persia. A member of the Afsharid dynasty, he was positively disposed towards his subjects. Persecution of the Jews resumed after he was assassinated in 1747

1727: Coronation of George II who was so moved when he saw Charles Macklin’s portrayal of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice (of which a bystander said “This is the Jew/That Shakespeare Drew”” the English king “was so moved he could not sleep”

1746: The College of New Jersey, which became Princeton University, received its charter. Like all elite colleges, Princeton has a checkered past when it comes to Jewish students and faculty. Today the university boasts a Jewish Studies Program and a Hillel Chapter. Albert Einstein is probably the most famous Jew to serve at Princeton.

1762:Sarah Pimental and Isaac Da Costa gave birth of Samuel Da Costa, the husband of Savanah, GA born Esther de Pass.

1780(23^rd of Tishrei, 5541): Simchat Torah

1782: “Benvenida de Isaac Henriques Valentine and Amsterdam native Solomon da silva Solis gave birth to Isaac Solis

1790: In Amsterdam, “Frumet Rees” and “Levie Isaac Machielse Hass” gave birth to “Hartog Hirsh Levie Machielse Hass” the husband of “Rebecca Benjamin Polak.”

1792: French troops take Frankfurt and the tri-color floats above the arsenal located at the north gate to the ghetto. Oddly enough, the Jews of Frankfurt respond as “Prussian patriots” and cheered when the French were to leave a few weeks later.

1799(23^rd of Tishrei, 5560): Last Simchat Torah of the 18^th century.

1804: Birthdate of Palestinian geographer Joseph Schwarz.

1806: In London,Nathan Mayer Rothschild married Hannah Barnet-Cohen the daughter of Lydia and Levi-Barent Cohen.

1817: Moses Asher Goldsmid, the London born son of Asher Aron Goldsmid and Rachel Kijser married Eliza Solomon at the Great Synagogue today after which they had three children – Augustus, Louisa Sophia and Charles Godsmid.

1821: Two days after he had passed away, 90 year old Mordecai Levy, the father of Moses Levy, was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1824: A day after he had passed away, Benjamin Moses Van Praagh, a native of Holland, the son of Moses Lammerts Van Praagh and Mindele Benjamin Van Emden and wife of Elizabeth Joseph Speyer with whom he had two children – Lewis and Morris – was buried at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1832: In Prussia, Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich Damrosch gave birth to German American musician and conductor Leopold Damrosch “who was baptized a Lutheran when marrying his wife, former opera singer Helene von Heimburg.”

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Damrosch-Leopold.htm

1835: During the Texas War for Independence Albert Moses Levy who had come to Texas as a member of the New Orleans Greys and who had been appointed surgeon in chief of the volunteer army of Texas began his army career which last would less than five months before he transferred to Republic’s fledgling Navy. In 1986, the state of Texas would institute Albert Moses Levy Day to honor Levy and all of his fellow Jews who served during the War for Independence.

1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated first President of the Republic of Texas. Jews played an active role in the settlement of Texas from the earliest days. Samuel Izaacs was reported to be the first Jew to settle in Texas when he arrived in 1821 with the party led by Stephen Austin. Dr. Moses Levy, a native of Richmond, Virginia, was the surgeon-in-chief of the volunteers. Castroville, Texas takes its name from Henri Castro, a French native who provided financial aid for the fledgling republic in return for a large land grant in south Texas between San Antonio and the Rio Grande River.

1837(23^rd of Tishrei, 5598): Simchat Torah.

1837: In New York, Isabella Lloyd and Henry Russell gave birth to Henry Lloyd Russell

1837: In Liverpool, UK, Eliazer Laman Fox, “the proprietor of a large cap making business” and his wife gave birth to Ephraim Laman Zox who moved to Australia in 1852 where he became a successful financier and political leader.

1839: Birthdate of Leon Jacob Wertheim the Amsterdam born banker and author who was a friend of the French poet Lamartine

1843: Birthdate of Moshe Leib Lilienblum

1845: Birthdate of Liverpool native Esther Anna Phillips who would be interred in the Jewish cemetery at Natchitoches, LA when she passed away on May 18, 1924.

1847(12th of Cheshvan, 5608):Henriette Herz née De Lemos who was “best known for the "salonnieres" or literary salons that she started with a group of emancipated Jews in Prussia” passed away today. “Henriette Herz had grown up in the Berlin of the Jewish emancipation and had shared tutors apparently with the Mendelssohn's daughters. At age fifteen, she married a physician, twenty years her senior. Dr. Markus Herz had studied medicine at the University of Königsberg, one of only three universities that accepted Jews -- but only in its medical faculty. She was said to be an extremely beautiful woman.After a few years the salon split in two, a science-seminar led by her husband and a literary salon by Henriette herself. Most notable men and women in Berlin were said to have attended her salon. Among her friends and acquaintances were Dorothea von Schlegel, Jean Paul Richter, Friedrich Schiller, Mirabeau, Friedrich Rückert, the Danish Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Johannes von Müller, the sculptor Schadow, Salomon Maimon, Friedrich von Gentz, Fanny von Arnstein, Madame de Genlis.Alexander von Humboldt often visited and even received Hebrew lessons from Henriette. The theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher was another frequent visitor; a fact which for Jews was her undoing. After the death of her husband she came under the powerful influence of Schleiermacher and converted to Protestantism. Strange that the daughter of a Portuguese Jewish family, a family that clung to its faith despite the blandishments of Catholic Princes and the threat of the Inquisition, would surrender to the blandishments of the pseudo-equality of 19^th century Germany.

1844: Birthdate of actress Sarah Bernhardt. Born in Parish, she was the illegitimate daughter of Judith van Hard who came from a Dutch Jewish family. Since the youngster’s presence interfered with her mother’s way of life she placed in a convent and baptized, but was always conscious and proud of her Jewish origin.” Ms. Bernhardt was an international star of the legitimate stage and the silent silver screen. She passed away in 1923.

1845(21^stof Tishrei, 5606): Angiolo Fiorentino, the son Solomon Fiorentino and Laura Gallico, who was born at Monte San Savino in 1770 and “was a Hebrew instruct at Leghorn and Florence” passed away today.

1852: A column entitled "Austria" published today reported that a fire had broken out in a synagogue in Kolmed, Galicia where approximately a thousand Jews were attending services. The warning cry of "fire" was first heard in the women's balcony. In the ensuing stampede to avoid the flames thirty-six women were crushed to death as they tried to make their way down the narrow stairway. The fire had been set by a gang of thieves who snatched pearls, diamonds and other jewelry from the women during the confusion.

1856(23^rd of Tishrei, 5617): Simchat Torah.

1860: It was reported today that in New York, the Board of Alderman had adopted report in favor of leasing, at the rate of $1 per year, a plot of ground on the corner of Third-avenue and Seventy-seventh-street, for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the lease to continue so long as it is used for such purposes.

1860: In Staunton, VA, Abraham Singer and Regina Gutman gave birth to Philadelphia attorney Jacob Singer the graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, husband of Lea Marguerite Frank and Republican Party activist who joined B’nai B’rith in 1890 while serving also serving as a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary and a director of Congregation Adath Jeshurun and the B’nai B’rith Manual Training School.

1860: “Eide” and Ephraim Moshewitz gave birth to Esther Moshewitz.

1861: "Affairs in Utah" published today Jews were an important component of this Mormon dominated territory. “A new Governor has been talked of for some time, for this Territory, but I believe no such person has yet appeared in this vicinity. As far as I can see, the reappointment of the late incumbent, Mr. Cumming, would meet the views of Jews and Gentiles here perhaps as completely as could be done by selecting any other name. That burly old gentleman somehow had the knack of getting decently along with both the contending elements of this community, though I believe neither could drive him an inch further than he was inclined to budge.”

1864:22nd of Tishrei, 5625): Shmini Atzeret coincided with Shabbat

1864: During the Civil War. Major Alfred Mordecai, Jr. was named Acting Chief of Ordinance for the Department and Army of Tennessee, one of the largest military units in the Union Army.

1866: “Singular Discover: A Colony of Jews in the Heart of China” published today described the plight of the Jews living in Kaifeng, the capital of Hunan province, which was one of the Seven Ancient Capitals of China. According to a stone found on the site of the now destroyed synagogue, the Jews had first arrived during the Hon Dynasty (200 BCE-200 CE), this house of worship had been built in 1163 during the Sung dynasty and rebuilt about 300 years ago during the Ming dynasty. There are between 200 and 400 people who identify themselves as Jews living in the city. The last Rabbi, who apparently was the last person to know Hebrew, passed away about 40 years ago. The Jews still knew the names of their holidays but had no knowledge of how to observe them. The Jewish community has suffered serious economic loss as a result of the many years of violence that have racked the area. The synagogue had fallen into a state of disrepair and ruin. There was no money to rebuild it. According to this account, the Jews actually tore the decaying building down with the hope of selling the scrap for money to help to meet their basic needs. Somehow, one of the main stones from the synagogue ended up as part of the local mosque.

1866: In London, Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a Jewish leather merchant gave birth to Edward Phillips Oppenheimer who became “one of the country’s most popular writers of spy novels.”

1867(23^rdof Tishrei, 5628) Simchat Torah

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

1873: The Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary “was founded in Berlin today “by Rabbi Dr. Israel Hildesheimer (also Esriel or Azriel) for the training of rabbis in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism.”

1874: In New York City, at the Academy of Music, Bayard Taylor gave a lecture on the topic of “Ancient Egypt.” The well-attended event was sponsored by the Hebrew Young Men’s Association. John R. Brady, a justice of the state Supreme Court introduced the speaker. In his opening remarks, Brady, who was not Jewish, said, “…the purpose of the …Young Men’s Hebrew Association…are first, the establishment of a reading room and library; second, the delivery of lectures on historical , scientific and social topics and on Jewish history and literature, and in the third place, entertainments of a social, artistic, literary and musical nature….This is a program so entirely comprehensive that he who cannot be satisfied with any of the several subjects suggest me be extremely unworthy of the designation of an American citizen. The lecture tonight is given on the invitation of the descendants of a race who were formerly bondsmen on the banks of the Nile, who helped build the pyramids, and hence the propriety of commencing a lecture season with a lecture, the subject of which is identified with that extraordinary performance.”

1875(23^rdof Tishrei, 5636): Simchat Torah

1876: In Fürth, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Baruch Rothschild and his first wife Fanny Rothschild gave birth to “Charlotte (Lotte) Rothschild” who became Charlotte Stern when she married Markus Stern

1876: In Baltimore, MD, the new Hebrew Orphan Asylum was dedicated in ceremonies led by Dr, Benjamin Szold. Governor John Carroll and Baltimore Mayor Ferdinand Latrobe were among the dignitaries in attendance. Szold was the rabbi for Temple Oheb Shalom and the father of Henrietta Szold.

1878: Moritz Ellinger has been chosen to run for the position of Coroner by the opponents of the Tammany political machine.

1878: In Charleston, SC, W.W. Sale officiated at the wedding of Dr. T.E. Hertz and Mrs. Louis E. Jenkins.

1880: In Hungary“Bertha Katscher (1856-1927) and her husband Max Schwimmer (1845-1922), both from secular Jewish, upper middle class backgrounds” gave birth to their third child Franciska aka Franzi, a graduate of National Music Academy in Budapest who was a feminist and music teacher in Hungary and then, starting in 1922 the United States where she supported her mother and her sister until her death in 1963.

1883: In Temesvar, Hungary, Dr. Jules Rosenberg, a leading Jewish lawyer, shot and killed Count Etienne de Battyany in duel fought over the affections of Mlle. Hona de Schossberger.

1883: It was reported today that a dispute over the process of selecting officers to lead Ansche Chesed B’nai Kovanah was the cause of the altercation that took place at the synagogue on the Lower East Side after Shabbat had ended last week.

1883: The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York held its grand opening with a performance of Gounod's ''Faust.'' The Met was the product of the Metropolitan Opera Association. Two decades after the opening of the Met, Otto H. Kahn took over as head of the association and chaired it for almost three decades until his death.

1884: “Shot For A Robbing A Melon Patch” published today described events surround the fatal shooting of John Henry Wilson. Wilson was shot while stealing melons from a patch guarded by a 19 year old German, Henry Lehr.

1884: It was reported today that Justice McCarthy is “reserving his decision” after hearing the evidence in a suit brought by Sara Rook, an 18 year old Jewess from Poland who has been living with her uncle Jacob Leiman, against her cousin Kever Leiman to whom she claims she is engaged and who wrongfully took back gifts he had given as part of the engagement. Kever’s parents testified that the jewelry belonged to his mother who had lent the items to the young lady and that the event which she claims was her engagement party was in fact the engagement party for Kever’s younger brother. (Yes, this Jewish soap opera actually appeared in a major secular newspaper.)

1886(23rd of Tishrei, 5647): Simchat Torah

1886: It was reported today that when a member of the Ohio Grand Lodge of Mason was challenged over his role in laying the cornerstone for Anshe Chesed in Cleveland, he “explained that it is the duty of Masons to lay a cornerstone whenever called upon.”

1886: It was reported today that Mary Suselinski, the young servant girls who had tried to poison the Ginsburg family, told authorities that she was really a Christian and not Jewish. She had only claimed to be Jewish because she thought it would be easier to find work that way.

1887: In “The Growth of Liberalism,” which was published today, Rabbi Kaufman Kohler defended his decision to begin delivering lectures on Sunday at Temple Beth-El that would replace the traditional Saturday services. He began the practice 14 years ago while in Chicago and states that it is quite popular with the Reform leaders in German. He claims that the young men this congregation are highly supportive of the change and the need to attract younger members to Jewish congregations is one of the many reasons for making the shift from Saturday to Sunday. (Those of you who know about the history of the Reform movement will recognize this as a contemporary account of one of that movement’s attempt to create a Judaism that conformed to the world around it,)

1887(4th of Cheshvan, 5648) Seventy-one year old historian Simon Hock passed away today.

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Hock_Simon

1888: It was reported today that the members of the newly formed Hebrew Actors’ Union “are all Socialists and” that they “intend to join the Central Labor Union.”

1888: It was reported today the Centurywill be publishing an article on Assyrian monuments written by Professor Morris Jastrow.

1888: It was reported today that Professor Morris Jastrow “will take charge of the course in Semitic Languages at the University of Pennsylvania while his colleagues are conducting an expedition to Babylonia.

1890: Birthdate of Martha Wertheimer the Frankfurt born author and journalist who lost her newspaper job when the Nazis came to power and whose inability to find safe sanctuary abroad led to her eventual murder at Sobibor in 1942.

1890(8^thof Cheshvan, 5651): Joseph Rosenthal who has been head of the “dry good firm of J. Rosenthal & Co. for the last forty five years” and “was a generous contributor to Hebrew charities” passed away today at his home on East 61^st Street in New York.

1891: “Russia and Europe” published today described the problems that the Czar’s government is having dealing with the disastrous famine gripping the country including the persecution and expulsion of the Jews which has deprived the regime “of the those citizens” who are most useful “in times of distress” and has made the possibility of obtaining a loan even more difficult because of the opposition of Jews throughout Europe to such an action.

1891: “In Belarus, Menachem Mendl Hyman and Esther Bella Kaplan gave birth to Ben Zion Hyman, the “husband of Fanny Feigeh Mindl Konstantynowski” and University of Toronto trained electrical engineer who founded “Hyman’s Book and Art Shoppe” and the Toronto Jewish Public Library.

1892: In Clinton, NY, Hamilton College announced “the prize oration and essay subjects” that included “The Hebrew Prophets as Social and Political Reformers” and “Pathos in the Life and Poetry of Heinrich Heine.”

1892(1^stof Cheshvan, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan; Parashat Noach

1892: Edwin Einstein, the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City “made his first formal speech of the campaign at a meeting tonight in the Hebrew Institute Hall at East Broadway and Jefferson Street.

1893: Birthdate of Manfred George Cohn, the German born journalist who gained fame as Manfred George, the refugee from the Nazis who “started work in New York as editor of Aufbau and turned it into an important journalistic voice for the Jewish exile community in the post-World War II era, leading him to be called ‘a central figure in Jewish journalism of the Hitler and post-Hitler period’".

1894: According to reports published today, Jacob A. Cantor has five opponents in his bid to be elected to the House of Representatives from New York’s 15^thCongressional District. Cantor’s is the first name on the ballot which bodes well for his chances of being elected.

1896: “Baroness Hirsch’s Check” published described how the widow of the Baron had sent a check for $1,000 to Temple B’nai Israel in Columbus, GA after she had received a request four months ago from Mrs. Gabriel, the President of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society who unfortunately passed away on the same day that the check arrived from Paris.

1896: In San Francisco, Louis Cohen and his wife gave birth to Samuel Arthur Cohen who gained famed a major league infielder Sam Bohen who played for St. Louis, Cincinnati and Brooklyn.

1897: “The Sunday –Sabbath” published today described a meeting of the Central Union in Berlin where “it was resolved that the Sunday-Sabbath Sabbaths were against the interests of Judaism and should be abolished”

1897: It was reported today that over 200 Jewish family from Galicia who “have all been reduced to a state of starvation” have arrived in Budapest.

1897: The Treasurer of the Central Synagogue “acknowledged with the thanks of a donation from H.I. Beddington towards the building fund of the Central Synagogue.

1897: Thirty-eight year old “Marks David Greenberg” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1898: Captain Mathew Nathan, a graduate of the Royal Military Academy and the son of Jonah Nathan was promoted to the rank of major in the engineers

1899: The USS Scorpion (PY-3) which had been commanded by Adolph Marx the first Jewish graduate of the United States Naval Academy during the Spanish-American War was recommissioned today.

1900: In New York City, Joseph Leon Buttenwieser and Caroline Weil Buttenwieser gave birth Columbia educated Benjamin Joseph Buttenwieser, the partner in Kuhn, Loeb, who like his brother Lawrence served as “president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.”

1900: In Lodz, Israel Jakob Perelberg (who changed his name to Perlberg) and the former Tajbe Markus gave birth to Wolf Perelberg who gained famed as movie producer William Perlberg.

1901: Thirty-four year old J. Clarence Davies, the New York born of David and Maria Davis who was “one of the organizers of the New York Board of Trade and the Real Estate Board of Trade and the vice president of the West End Synagogue and director of the Bronx Y.M.H.A. married Rosalie Loewi, the mother of his two sons, Valentine and J. Clarence Davies, Jr.

1902:Meeting with Colonial Minister Joseph Chamberlain: Herzl presents the plan for the colonization of Cyprus and the Sinai Peninsula, including El Arish: Jewish settlers under a Jewish administration.

1903: Birthdate of Curly Howard. Born Jerome Lester Horwitz, Howard was one of the Three Stooges, along with his brother Moe Howard and Larry Fine.

1904: In Brussels, “Paul Louis François Spaak and Marie Anne Augustine Janson” gave birth to dramatist Claude Spaak, the husband of Suzanne Spaak, the lady of luxury who joined the joined Leopold Trepper’s “Red Orchestra and saved 163 Jewish children from sent to the death camps before being captured, tortured and murdered by the Nazis – actions for which she recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.

1905: Birthdate of Budapest native József Kozma who was the brother of Ákos Kozma and who gained fame as composer Joseph Kosma.

1906(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5667): Sixty year old Russian born Alexander Cohn, the husband of Lena Marks Cohn and the father of Florence, Stella, Solomon and Arnold Cohn passed away today after which he was buried in the “Dispersed of Judah Cemetery” in New Orleans.

1906: Birthdate of Manfred Erich Swarsensky the German born rabbi who came to the United States after being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp came to the United where served Temple Bethel “a reform congregation in Madison, Wisconsin.”

1906: Birthdate of New Yorker Sidney Krischner, who gained famed as Pulitzer Prize winner dramatist Sidney Kingsley.

1909(7^thof Cheshvan, 5670): Lieb Tubiansky passed away today.

1910: The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, led by Center Albert Lorch “Al” Loe nicknamed “The Yiddish Wildcat,” defeated the University of Alabama.

1911: At a meeting in Pilgrims’ Church, Representative William Sulzer stated “that when Congress convenes in December he will introduce a joint resolution for abrogation of the Treat of 1832 in Russia.”

1911: In response to objections from Rabbi Moses Gaster, the “hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in London” the Board of Deputies revised their decision “with respect to authority for control of Shehitah as provided in the Slaughter of Animals Bill.

1912(11^thof Cheshvan, 5673): Sixty-seven year old Rabbi David Shayne passed away at Atlantic City.

1912(11^thof Cheshvan, 5673): “Philanthropist Baroness de Rothschild” passed away today in Paris.

1913: In Duluth, MN, Isadore and Ann Jaffe gave birth to Edward Jaffe. Isadore Jaffe “was a tailor from Lithuania who borrowed the money for a passage to America from a woman acquaintance who assumed he would then send for her and marry her. When he did not, she came over herself, tracked him down in Duluth and got a rabbi to perform the wedding.” Edward Jaffe moved to New York and “became a press agent legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst, who all but made Broadway his alias and held that the best kind of promotion was self-promotion.” (As reported by Ralph Blumenthal)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/theater/eddie-jaffe-the-press-agent-of-broadway-is-dead-at-89.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1913: In Budapest, Dezső and Júlia Friedmann-Berkovits gave birth to Endre Ernő Friedmann who as Robert Capa became one of the most famous of photographer of his time. He survived the Spanish Civil War and World War II only to die in 1954 while covering the war in Indochina. Capa was in the first wave of troops that hit the beaches at Normandy and his photos are the classic views of the Longest Day.

http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/robert-capa-1913-1954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL535353

http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html

1914: In Wellington, Kansas, Bella and Moses Simon gave birth to Pauline Simon the graduate of the University of Nebraska who became Pauline Hirschfeld when she married Louis Hirschfeld the founder, in 1939 of The Lithoprint Company

1914: “Nathan Straus sent a letter to Govern Glynn of New York today praising the work the Governor had accomplished in the way of legislative reform, particularly the new primary law and the Workmen’s Compensation Law.”

1914: “Great Russian Host on Prussian Border” published today described the multi-ethnic force under General Rennenkampff that included Jews from Riga and Libau which was preparing an new attack on Eastern Front.

1914: In Canonsburg, PA “was broken for a synagogue, which was made of brick, “cost in the neighborhood of $7,000” and whose officers were “president, Samuel Burg; vice president, B. (Benny) Klee; secretary, Samuel Finkel; treasurer, Jacob Morris.”

1914: In describing the fighting on the Eastern Front during World War I,a correspondent for the London Standard reported he shudders “to think of the ravages made by the waves of troops, both German and Russians who passed to and fro over what was once a peaceful, quiet agricultural region inhabited chiefly by Jews.”

1915: Birthdate of Aaron Katz, who would spend fifty years of his life seeking to exonerate Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

1915: Colonel John Monash, who was a brevet brigadier-general was decorated with the Companion Order of Bath.

1915: “Seligman for Perkins” published today quoted a letter from Isaac Seligman to Frank Moss and the Perkins Campaign stating this endorsement of Moss was only for the primary election and that he was prepared to cast his vote for Charles A. Perkin in the upcoming general election for district attorney.

1915: The list of the newly re-elected trustees of the Hebrew United Charities published today included “Mrs. J.B. Greenhut, Louis J. Grumbach, Morris Mayer, Alexander New, Daniel Richter, Jack W. Schiffer, Louis Stern and Edwin C. Vogel.”

1915: Birthdate of Sydney Simon Shulemson DFC who “was a Canadian fighter pilot, and Canada's highest decorated Jewish soldier, during World War II…After the war, Shulemson located aircraft and recruited pilots for Israel's growing Israeli Air Force.” He passed away at his home in Florida in 2007

1915: In the village of Ruzhany, Perla and Shlomo Jeziernicky gave birth to Icchak Jeziernicky who would gain fame as Yitzhak Shamir, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel.

1915: “German Jews Aid Turks” published reported that the “Jewish parishes of Germany have sent to Constantinople two railroad cars filled with hospital supplies for the Turkish Army” under the control of Herr Nosig, the Jewish delegate” who “was received in audience by the Sultan, the heir to throne, the Minister of War, Enver Pasha and other representatives of the Turkish Government.” (Herr Nossig was Alfred Nossig, the son of Fryderka and Iazk Nossig, who had been born in the Ukraine in 1943 and who died in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 – just another prominent German Jew whom the Germans considered to be only a Jew)

1915: It was reported today that “a Moslem-Israelite Union for the promotion of solidary between Jews and Turks” exists in Constantinople.

1915: It was reported today that “the Turkish, German and Austro-Hungarian Governments have exchanged views with the purpose of reaching an agreement concerning the betterment of the position of the Jews in the East.”

1916(25^th of Tishrei, 5677): Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon, 1st Baronet “the elder son of Elias David Sassoon” who built the Knesset Eliyahoo in Mumbai, Ohel Leah in Hong Kong, and Ohel Rachel in Shanghai” which was completed after his death, passed away today.

1916: The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War reported a list of contributions today including $300 from Congregation Gates of Wisdom, $654 from Congregation A.B.I in New Britain and $100 from Beth H’am Hagodal in Jersey City.

1916: “The Provisional Zionist Committee, the organization which in in control of the activities of the Zionist movement, announced that it has secured the consent of the State Department to the sending of a consignment of drugs to Palestine on the Syrian relief ship that is to leave New York under the joint auspices of the Syrian Committee and the Red Cross.”

1916: “Consent has been secured to send a medical unit consisting of ten doctors, five nurses and representative of the Provisional Zionist Committee to Palestine” to deal with the typhus, cholera and other epidemics” that are overwhelming the country due to the scarcity of physicians.

1916: In a case of Jew versus Jew “]at a meeting of the United Hebrew Trades held this afternoon at the Star Casino, five thousand people “derided and jeered at Saul J. Dickheiser, the former Deputy Attorney General of New York State when he challenged Morris Hilliquit during” the speech given by the self-described “scientific socialist.”

1916: Owen Johnson described The Arcade on Lincoln Square, an ethnic melting pot that includes “Jews with their clothing bazars” as being Manhattans “New Bohemia.”

1917(6^th of Cheshvan, 5678): English solicitor George Solomon Joseph, the husband of the former Henrietta Franklin, the father of “composer, arranger and musical teacher” Jane Marian Joseph, passed away today after suffering a heart attack.

1917: It was reported today that “a resolution introduced by ex-Assemblyman Solomon Suffrin” at conference of Rumanian Jews meeting in New York “pledging to the” United States “the loyalty of Rumanian Jewish citizens and promising cooperation in the sale of Liberty bonds was carried unanimously by a rising vote.”

1917: It was reported today that “the Russian peace program drawn up by the Central Executive Committee of the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates” included 15 parts, the seventh of which stated “Rumania to be restored her old frontiers on condition that she…grant equal rights to the Jews.”

1917: At the Fusion coalition party’s headquarters in the Hotel Manhattan, Henry Morgenthau the former Ambassador said that Mayor Mitchel would win re-election with a “plurality of approximately of 40,000” that would spell defeat for the other three candidates including Morris Hillquit.

1917(6^th of Cheshvan, 5678): Seventy-seven year old Giuseppe Foa, the husband of Annetta Luzzati Foa and the father of Ida Dolce Foza Ghiron, who was the Grand Rabbi of Turino until 1903 and knight of the Crown of Italy passed away today in Turin.

1917: The two hundred aged residents of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob in NYC gave $100 to Superintendent Albert Kruger "with instructions of buy a Liberty Bond in the name of the institution. Among the contributors were 109 year old Nissen Rosenstein said to be the oldest man living in NY who gave five dollars and 113 year old Ethel Polansky who contributed one dollar. The residents held a service before making their donations during which they prayed "for the success of the American arms and the coming of an honorable peace.

1918(16^th of Cheshvan, 5679): Eighty-two year old Leopold Bloch, the “son of Samuel and Theresia Bloch” and the husband of Rosa Bloch with whom he had three children passed away today in his native Vienna.

1919: Birthdate of author and political radical Doris Lessing. Lessing led a colorful life. Born Doris Tayler to English parents living in Persia (now Iran) her father moved the family to what was then the British Colony of Rhodesia. In 1943, after divorcing her second husband she married Gottfried Lessing, a German Jewish Marxist, in order to give him the protection of citizenship. Strange what some people would do save one Jewish life while others turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the screams of tens of thousands.

1920: The Young Israel Synagogue announced that the courses being offered for the coming season are Biblical History to the Diaspora, Post Exilic Jewish Education, Hebrew Grammar and Conversation, Current Jewish Problems, Jewish Customs and Ceremonies and The Bible in English.

1920: “Catherine the Great” a German silent film about the Russian ruler directed and written by Reinhold Schünzel

1921: Birthdate of Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician

1921: Eugen Schiffer completed his service as Minister of Justice in the Weimar Republic

1922: In Niagara Falls, NY, Anna Cohen and Louis Goodman, “Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland” gave birth the youngest of their five children illustrator Jeremiah Goodman.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/style/jeremiah-goodman-who-drew-interiors-of-gilded-homes-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1925: Marcus Melchior, “the rabbi of the main synagogue in Copenhagen at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943, and his wife gave birth to Danish member of parliament and cabinet minister Arne Melchior who “headed the Danish Zionist Federation from 1975 to 1979.

1925: “The Farmer from Texas” a “German silent comedy” directed, produced and written by Joe May with sets designed by Paul Leni was released today in Germany.

1926: In New York City, William Isaiah and Sonya Clare (Breitman) Teichner gave birth to Temple University trained M.D. Victor Jerome Teichner, the member of the United States Naval Reserve and Columbia University certified psychoanalysis who was President of the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts and the husband of Gail W. Berry.

1926: In a surprise assault, J. Gordon Whitehead repeatedly punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. The episode contributed to the death of Houdini on Halloween.

1927: Pincus “Pinky” Silverberg won the NBA World Flyweight Championship today in Bridgeport, CT.

1927: “Three hundred delegates assembled tonight in the auditorium of the New Standard Club as the Constructive Relief Conference of the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Jewish Campaign was opened by James Rosenberg.” (JTA)

1928: “Four hundred Jewish leaders attend the non-Zionist Conference on Palestine.”

1929: Fifty-three year old Manchester, England born “short-story writer, novelist and playwright Montague Glass underwent a minor intestinal operation” this morning at the Harbor Sanitarium in Manhattan.

1930: In a case of Jew versus Jew, Abie Bain fought Light Heavyweight Champion Maxis Rosenbloom in Madison Square Garden with the champ winning with a TKO in the 11^th round.

1930:Birthdate of Frank Lowy, the European-born Australian-Israeli businessman who is one of the richest people in Australia. He is known for his co-founding and continuing involvement with The Westfield Group, a retail giant that owns dozens of shopping centers in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain.

1930: The Honorable Harry Snell, the chairman of the Labor Party in the House of Commons is scheduled address the weekly Forum of the Brooklyn Jewish Center this evening.

1931: Five days after his thirtieth, Harry Mordecai Freedman the Russian born of “Barnett (Dov) Freedman and Beila Henah” who received “his rabbinical ordination from Jews’ College in 1924” and received his Ph.D. from the University of London 1930 “was naturalized as a British citizen” today.

1931(11^th of Cheshvan, 5692):Rabbi Morda Zambrowsky of Mahanoy City, PA, the son of Rabbi Joshua Zambrowsky of Congregation Poiley Tzedeck, died in St. Joseph Hospital late tonight,

1931: A codicil to the well of Dr. Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian physician turned playwright who passed away yesterday, was read tonight. The codicil called for a pauper’s funeral, forbidding “wreaths, obituary announcements and all accessories to the funeral ritual such as a guard of honor,” Schnitzler wanted the money that would have been used for the funeral to be given to various hospitals. The codicil also forbids eulogies and the wearing of mourning clothes. Finally, he left instructions that a needle be “thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of his death.

1931: “The Virtuous Sinner” a comedy directed by Fritz Kortner, produced by Arnold Pressburger and with music by Nicholas Brodszky was released today in Germany.

1932(23^rd of Tishrei, 5693): Simchat Torah

1932: “Dinner at Eight,” a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber “opened at the Music Box Theatre.

1932: Three retired major league baseball players including Moe Berg arrived in Japan as part of a tour to teach baseball at various universities after which Berg “went on to tour Manchuria, Shanghai, Peking, Indochina, Siam, India, Egypt and Berlin.” (This is not to be confused with Berg’s more famous 1934 tour where he reportedly engaged in espionage activities for the U.S. government)

1933:Bernard Bergman, the nursing home mogul, received his rabbinic ordination, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein today.

1934: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native David Libai, Israeli lawyer and politician.

1935: Brigadier General Charles H. Sherrill was quoted today as saying “I went to Germany for the purposed of getting at least on Jew on the German Olympic team and I feel that my job is finished.”

1936: “The School for Jewish Studies” is scheduled to “hold an open convocation at 9 P.M. in the Community House of Temple Emanu-El” where Dr. Louis I. Newman of Rodeph Sholem will be the principle speaker.

1936: It was reported today that the government “is issuing free railway tickets to bring” “the Jorga-Cuza anti-Semitic groups to the congress” that they are holding in November which 200,000 are expected to attend.

1936: “An anti-Semitic demonstration took place at the University of Prague today in connection with the first lecture by Professor Kelsen, who had previously lectured at universities in Germany but had to leave that country on account of his democratic and pacific convictions.” (Kelsen is Professor Hans Kelsen

1936: Harold Jacobi, the chairman of the publication committee, announced today that “President Roosevelt is among the sponsors of a book entitled Reconstruction recording what the Jews of American have done for the relief and rehabilitation of their less fortunate coreligionists throughout the world.”

1936: Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of the National Conference of Jews and Christians was among the “jurors” who, “following a mock trial of more than three hours” found newspaper publisher William Randolph Hurst guilty of “perverting the news, breed war, breaking strikes, fascism and destroying liberty.”

1937(17^th of Cheshvan, 5698): Seventy-eight year old Frank Heino Damrosch, the German born son of “conductor, violinist and composer” Leopold Damrosch and “the former Marie Helene Von Heimberg” a leading opera singer and the husband of “Hetty Mosenthal” who pursued a career in business and served as a “lieutenant in the National Guard” before devoting himself to the field of music which included the found of the Institute of Musical Art passed away today in New York City.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/10/23/94443990.pdf

1937: “Conquest” a “historic film” written by S.N. Behrman, Salka Viertel and Samuel Hoffenstein and filmed by cinematographer Karl Freund was released in the United States by MGM

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Avinoam Yellin, the senior inspector of education and a prominent Jewish leader, was shot and seriously injured by an Arab terrorist lying in wait at the entrance to his office.

1937: Funeral services were held today for Felix Warburg at Temple Emanuel on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

1937: Warm tributes were paid to the memory of Felix Warburg tonight at a dinner given by the Joint Distribution Committee of which he was an honorary chairman.

1938(27^th of Tishrei, 5699): Parashat Bereshit

1938(27^th of Tishrei, 5699): Seventy year old Edward M. Hart, the “president of the Yonkers Civil Service Commission and secretary and past president of Temple Emanu-El and brother of Jack Hart passed away today.

1939(9^th of Chesvan, 5700) Shimon Yehuda Hakohen Shkop passed away. Born in 1860, “he was a rosh yeshiva ("dean") in the Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah and in the Telshe yeshiva and a renowned Talmudic scholar. He was born in Torez in 1860. At the age of twelve he went to study in the Mir yeshiva, and at fifteen he went to Volozhin yeshiva where he studied six years. His teachers were the Netziv and Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, with whom he was very close. Shkop married a niece of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon and in 1885 was appointed to the Telz Yeshiva, where he remained for 18 years until 1903. While there, he developed a system of talmudic study which combined the logical analysis and penetrating insights of Rabbi Chaim Brisker with the simplicity and clarity of Rabbi Naphtali Zevi Yehudah Berlin (the Netziv) and which became known as the "Telz way of learning". In 1903, he was appointed Rabbi of Moltsh, and in 1907 of Bransk. A famous pupil of his in Moltsh was Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna who studied under him for a year in 1906, before leaving to the Slabodka yeshiva when Rabbi Shkop himself left. During World War I, the communal leaders urged him to leave before the Germans arrived, but he refused and stayed with his community.Between 1920 and 1939, at the request of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, he succeeded Rabbi Alter Shmuelevitz as Rosh Yeshiva of the renowned Sha'ar HaTorah in Grodno. He raised the level of the institution and transformed it into one of the finest yeshivos in Poland and beyond. Hundreds of young men flocked there from near and far. For many years, Rabbi Zelik Epstein, who was married to a granddaughter of Rabbi Shkop, has headed a successor in Queens. It is known as an exemplary institution. It was there that he taught Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz, the Suvalker Rav.As a young man of eighteen, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz was invited by Rabbi Shimon to give the third level lecture in the Yeshivah Ketanah in Grodno. At the age of 22, he headed a group of students who transferred from Grodno to Mir. However, his four years in Grodno with Rabbi Shimon had a profound influence on his approach to Talmudic analysis. In 1928 Shkop traveled to the United States in order to raise much needed funds for the Yeshiva. After delivering a lecture at Yeshiva University, he eventually acceded to Rabbi Bernard (Dov) Revel's invitation to serve as a Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan (RIETS) in New York. In his absence from Poland, he was greatly missed by Rabbis Yisrael Meir Kagan and Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, who pleaded with him to return. He also received a scathing letter from Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, the mashgiach of Mir, which, according to an eyewitness, he ignored. For family reasons, Rabbi Shkop chose to return to Europe in the fall of 1929.Shkop had a winning personality. He was an active member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of the Agudas Yisroel. Many of his students attained distinction, among them Rabbis Elchonon Wasserman of Baronovitch, Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman of Ponevezh and Isser Yehuda Unterman, a future Israeli Chief Rabbi. Dayan Michoel Fisher of London was also a pupil of Rabbi Shkop. Shkop formed close bonds with [the younger] Rabbi Yehuda Zev Segal, the future Manchester Rosh Yeshiva. He would sometimes come to England to raise funds for his yeshiva, and Rabbi Segal took advantage of these opportunities to serve as his attendant, spending one vacation at Rabbi Shimon's summer resort, studying with him and accompanying him on his walks. He published his classic essay titled Sha'arei Yosher (The Gates of Honesty) in 1925 and Ma'arekhet ha-Kinyanim in 1936. Novellae on the Talmud tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Basra were published posthumously in 1947 with a preface by his son, and on Nedarim, Gittin, and Kiddushin in 1952, and on Yevamos and Ketuvot in 1957. Rabbi Shkop's Talmudic novellae are still studied in yeshivos throughout the world today. Sha'arei Yosher is largely concerned with the intellectual principles by which the law is established, rather than with concrete laws, and is stylistically similar to the Shev Shema'tata of Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, on which it was partly based.As the Russian army was about to enter Grodno during World War II, he ordered his students to flee to Vilna and he himself died two days later on the 9th of Cheshvan 5700 (1939) in Grodno. Including his death, the Jewish people lost three Rabbis and Torah giants in 10 months: Harav Shimon Shkop, Harav Boruch Ber Leibowitz of Kamenitz and Harav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in the Zaniemanski Forshtat section of Grodno.

http://www.aishdas.org/asp/ShaareiYosher.pdf

http://yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/shkop/

1939: Birthdate of English professional football player George Cohen who was on the 1966 World Cup Team.

1939: The Brooklyn Dodgers, whose roster included Ed Merlin and Leo Disend defeated the Philadelphia Eagles led by Fullback “Dynamite” Dave Smulker in the first televised professional football game which “was played in Ebbetts Field before 13,000 people” at a time where there were “approximately 1,000 television sets in New York City.”

1940: The Nazis deported 6,300 Jews living in Baden, the Saar and the Palatinate where there had been Jewish since the 14^thcentury to the Gurs Concentration Camp in southern France which was the first stop on the trip the death camps in Poland.

1940: Jewish business owners in the Netherlands must register their businesses with the occupying Nazis.

1941: Birthdate of Max Apple, author of I Love Gootie: My Grandmother’s Storyand The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories

http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/maxapple.php

1941: Rear Admiral Joseph Taussign who had been forced to retire in September, 1941 “due to his age, despite his petition to continue on active duty with the impending international crisis” and whose 1940 before Congress had accurately predicted the coming war with Japan, today was reported to the rank of Vice Admiral.

1941: The Rumanian command headquarters for the ODESSA "ACTION" were blown up. Seventeen Rumanians and four Germans were killed. In reprisal for this apparent act of defiance over 5,000 Jews were rounded up in Odessa and shot dead the next day. Considering what the Nazis did to the Jews of the Soviet Union, it is always amazing to read about the excuses that were concocted for various mass murders.

1942: The keel was laid for the HMS Totem which would renamed INS Dakar when the Israelis purchased the submarine from the British in 1965.

1942(11^thof Cheshvan, 5703): Sixty-nine year old Dr. Sigismund Schulz Goldwater who served as Superintendent of Mount Sinai Hospital and Commissioner of Health in New York City passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0CE0D71339E33BBC4B51DFB6678389659EDE

1942(11th of Cheshvan, 5703): Icek and Fraidla Dobrzynska, Jewish parents of two children who had been deported from Poland's Lódz Ghetto in September 1942, commit suicide

1942(11th of Cheshvan, 5703): Jacob Joseph, a captain in the United States Marines Corps who was the great-grandson of Rabbi Jacob Joseph and son of New York State Senator Lazarus Joseph was killed today while fighting on Guadalcanal.

1943(23^rdof Tishrei, 5704): Simchat Torah

1943: Birthdate of violinist Paul Zukofsky

1944: Birthdate of “American computer company executive” Donald Sidney Teiser.

1944:The Federation of Jewish Communities officially reestablished its activities today a few days after the liberation of Belgrade, when its surviving chairman, Friedrich Pops, reopened its office. Fifty-six Jewish communities were reconstructed, and the federation, with the aid of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), engaged in a variety of welfare projects, including the reopening of the home for the aged in Zagreb, extending material aid to the needy who began to return to their daily lives, etc. It also reestablished its ties with the World Jewish Congress and other Jewish organizations.

1944: As the Soviets closed in on Budapest, 25,000 Hungarian Jews were deported and forced to dig anti-tank ditches on the Westward roads. Thousands were shot during the marches.

1946: A transport ship is scheduled to leave Haifa today bound for Cyprus loaded with 800 Jews who been taken off the SS Alma when it tried to run the British blockade designed to keep Jews from settling in Eretz Israel.

1946: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Israel Bartal, the “Avraham Harman Professor of Jewish History, and the former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Hebrew University” who was “one of the founders of Cathedra, the leading scholarly journal on the history of the Land of Israel.”

1947: Canadian Ethel Stark became the first woman to conduct at Carnegie Hall when she raised her baton in front of “the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra, the first Canadian orchestra to play at the legendary venue.” (As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archives)

1947: In describing the tenuous situation in Jerusalem, Zipporah Borowdky, who had just arrived from the United States, wrote her parents that “Jerusalem is thick with barbed wire and barricades…I still haven’t gotten used to the idea of being frisked every time I go into a public building, even the Post Office.

1948: Israeli naval commandos using explosive boats sank the Egyptian flagship Emir Farouk, and damaged an Egyptian minesweeper.

1948(19^thof Tishrei, 5706): Fifth Day of Sukkoth

1948(19^thof Tishrei, 5706): One day after having been mortally wounded during the battle to take Beersheba, 23 year old Avraham Abarzel, an Algerian native who survived the Nazi occupation of France and was serving as a member of the French Commando Company of the Palmach Hagegev’s 9^th Battalion passed away after which he was buried at Kibbutz Dorot and later “re-interred at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.

1948: During the War of Independence, the Third Cease Fire went into effect.

1948: The Arab Liberation Army did not feel itself bound by the Third Cease Fire and it “continued to harass Israeli forces and settlements in the north. On the same day that the truce came into effect, the Arab Liberation Army violated the truce by attacking Manara, capturing the strongpoint of Sheikh Abed, repulsing counterattacks by local Israeli units, and ambushed Israeli forces attempting to relieve Manara. The IDF's Carmeli Brigade lost 33 dead and 40 wounded.”

1948:The Arab Liberation Army violated the truce by attacking Manara, capturing the strongpoint of Sheikh Abed, repulsing counterattacks by local Israeli units, and ambushed Israeli forces attempting to relieve Manara. The IDF's Carmeli Brigade lost 33 dead and 40 wounded. Manara and Misgav Am were totally cut off, and Israel's protests at the UN failed to change the situation. [Editor’s note – the more things change, the more they stay the same.]

1948: Operation Yoav, the goal of which was to secure the Negev, came to a close today.

1948: As of today “twelve more Spitfires were ready at Kunovice for a second Velvetta mission but Yugoslavia had rescinded permission for the Israelis to refuel” forcing Sam Pomerance to begin “stuffing even more fuel tanks into the Spitfires in the hope of extending their range to allow a non-stop flight to Israel.”

1948: Birthdate of Peter D. Kramer, the New York born psychiatrist and son of Holocaust survivors whose latest book was Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/books/review/peter-d-kramer-ordinarily-well-about-antidepressants.html?ref=headline&nl=bookreview&emc=edit_bk_20160708

1948:”Off the coast of Ashkelon, Maoz Ben Hecht took part in the attack on two Egyptian Navy ships, Emir el Farouq and the escorting minesweeper.”

1951(22^nd of Tishrei, 5712): Shmini Atzeret

1951(22^nd of Tishrei, 5712): Sixty-three year old Polish born, Maine-raised producer and co-founder of the American Society of Cinematographers Phil Rosen whose career spanned 35 years starting in 1915 passed away today.

1952(3^rd of Cheshvan, 5713): Sixty-one year old bacteriologist Dr. Barnett Cohen, the Russian born son of “Louis and Rose Cohen” and “associate professor of physiological chemistry at John Hopkins University School Medicine” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/10/25/83801189.pdf

1952: The complete “Jewish Torah” was published in English for the first time. A collection of oral and written commentary (dating 200 BC to AD 500) on the first five books of the Old Testament, the Torah comprises the basic religious code of Judaism.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from London that Eliahu Elath, accompanied by eight senior members of his staff, presented Queen Elizabeth II with his credentials as the first Israeli ambassador to the Court of St. James.

1952: In West Homestead, PA, Dr. Harold Goldblum and Shirley (née Temeles) Goldblum gave birth to multi-talented actor Jeffrey “Jeff” Lynn Goldlbum who appeared in such films as “The Big Chill” and “The Fly.”

1953(13^th of Cheshvan, 5714): Ninety-one year old Austrian born Louisa L. Wander, the wife of Solomon Wander and the father of Joseph and Frederick Wander passed away today after which she was buried at the Jewish People’s Cemetery in Albany, NY.

1953(13^th of Cheshvan, 5714): Seventy-nine year old Dr. Max Danzis, the graduate of Bellevue Medical School, “the nationally known surgeon and one of the founders of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, NJ” passed away today.

1956(17^th of Cheshvan, 5717): Seventy-two year old Benjamin Antin, a former New York State Senator and director of the Bronx Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association whose survivors included his Robert H. Antin of Cedar Rapids, passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9804E6DC1F31E23BBC4B51DFB667838D649EDE

1956: In a second round of meetings, Israelis led by Ben-Gurion meet with the British and French at Sevres, France, to make plans for coordinating a triple military attack on Egypt.

1957: Start of the 12^thseason the National Basketball Season which marked the start of Earl Stroms career as an NBA referee

1958: Edgar D’Arcy McGree completed his service as Canadian Ambassador to Israel.

1958: Margaret Blanche Meagher began her service as Canadian Ambassador to Israel.

1959: In Newark, NJ, Claire (née Goldfein) and William Robert Shaiman gave birth to award winning composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman.

1960: The ITV network transmitted the first episode of “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” starring Anthony Newley today.

1961(12^th of Cheshvan, 5722): Eighty-two year old film executive Joseph M. Schenck whose interest in young starlets spanned an era from Norma Talmadge to Marilyn Monroe passed away today.

http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/joseph-schenck/

1963: It was reported today that “Rabbi Yakutiel Halberstam, the Rebbe of Kalusenberg who settled in Israel four years ago” will be returning the United States “because of the continuing strife over Sabbath violations in Jersualem.”

1965: Protestant theologian Paul Tillich passed away.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4466666?uid=3739640&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102792017967

1966(8^th of Cheshvan): Fifty-six year old Hyman Hirsch Shear, the Johannesberg born son of Lazar and Bleama Shear and the husband of Ruby Shear passed away today.

1966(8^th of Cheshvan): Eighty-two year old Michael Noyk, the Lithuanian born solicitor and Irish Republic leader passed away today in London. For more see http://books.google.com/books?id=ae1vo477tVgC&lpg=PA72&vq=noyk&pg=PA72#v=snippet&q=noyk&f=false

1969: Having premiered in Germany, “Marlowe” a detective movie reminiscent of the 1940’s genre featuring music by Peter Matz was released in the United States today.

1969: “The Sterile Cuckoo” directed and co-produced by Alan J. Pakula was released today in the United States today.

1969: In Rockville, MD, Sandra L. Granzow and Arthur H. Spiegel III gave birth to Adam Spiegel, “the great-great-grandson of Joseph Spiegel, the founder of the Spiegel catalog, who gained fame as multi-talented filmmaker Spike Jonze, the winner of “the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Writers Guild of America.”

1973: Birthdate of Great Neck, NY native and MIT trained Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz the winner the 2020 Nasher Prize awarded by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/arts/design/nasher-prize-michael-rakowitz.html

1973: Security Council Resolution 338 establishing a cease fire ending the Yom Kippur War was officially supposed to go into effect at 7 p.m.However, combat did not cease. Syrians continued to bombard Israeli positions. Israeli forces on the west bank ceased a major juncture of highway connecting Suez with Cairo. In Lebanon, Fatah, the Palestinian terrorist organization announced it would not accept the cease fire and fired rockets into northern Israel. It would be another 48 hours before the facts on the ground would reflect the desires of those on the banks of New York’s East River.

1973 Israel took full control over all Syrian positions on Mt. Hermon. (JTA)

1973: “A combined force of Egyptian paratroopers and commandos…repulsed a final Israeli effort to capture the city’ Of Ismalia.

1975(17^th of Cheshvan, 5736): Seventy-three year old Louis Mann, “founder of the Dolly Varden women’s apparel chain and the father of two daughters – Bornie and Leila – passed away today.

1976: “Car Wash” a comedy with a script by Joel Schumacher, the son of Swedish Jew Marian Kantor Schumacher and featuring Irwin Corey and Melanie Mayron was released in the United States today.

1976: After “40 activists demonstrating in the Supreme Soviet, marched out to the reception room of the Central Committee with yellow stars on their clothes… they are detained and taken to a drunkards facility, registered and forewarned

1978(21^st of Tishrei, 5739): Hoshana Raba

1978(21^st of Tishrei, 5739): Eighty-seven year old Samuel Eliezer Goldfarb, “the New York born son of Polish immigrants Malya Molly Goldfarb and Nesanel Dovid Bryer, a cantor and small merchant” considered to be “the father of Jewish music in America” and brother of Israel Goldfarb passed away today.

https://jewishamericansongster.com/

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv69441

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv49530

1981: Birthdate of American actor Michael Aaron Fishman best known for his portrayal of “D.J. Conner” in the long-running sitcom “Roseanne.”

1982: After having passed away two days earlier in England, Rabbi Leib Gurwicz, the Gateshead Rosh Yehsiva was laid to rest “before the onset of Shabbat” in Israel after “a gathering of more than 15,000 people heard eulogies by leading Israeli rabbis in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood.”

1983: Admiral Arnold Resnicoff remained in Beirut after yesterday’s memorial service for Sgt. Allen Soifert instead of flying back to Italy because it was Shabbat.

1984: After the Alignment agreed to join a national unity government with Likud in 1984, Sarid left the party today to join Shulamit Aloni's Ratz.”

1984: Abd Rabbo murdered Ron Levy and Revital Seri today when he “came upon the two hiking south of Jerusalem, tied them up at gunpoint, placed bags over their heads and shot them dead.” (As reported by Elhanan Miller)

1986: Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian born physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate passed away. He was an anti-fascist who helped his Jewish friends escape from Hungary.

1989(23^rd of Tishrei, 5750): Simchat Torah

1989: The funeral of Israeli journalist Dahn Ben-Amotz was held today.

1990(3^rd of Cheshvan, 5751): Seventy-eight year old sports writer Barney Nagler who specialized in covering boxing and horseracing who was the husband of Betty Nagler and the father of Robert Nagler passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/24/obituaries/barney-nagler-78-writer-of-the-ring-and-the-race-track.html

1992: “The Sisters Rosensweig,” a play by Wendy Wasserstein that focuses on three Jewish-American sisters and their lives “premiered off-Broadway in a Lincoln Center Theater production at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater.”

1993: U.S premiere of “Twenty Bucks” with a script by Leslie and Endre Bohem, co-starring David Schwimmer and photographed by Emmanuel Lubezki.

1999: Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy French government during World War II was jailed for crime against humanity. Papon was a senior police official and instrumental in the deportation and murder of large numbers of French Jews. He covered up his crimes for several decades but eventually he was brought to justice.

1999: “One Day in September” an Academy Award winning documentary about the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics was released today in the United States.

1999: Barry Blaustein’s “Beyond the Mat,” a documentary about wrestlers outside of the ring was released today in the United States.

2000(23^rd of Tishrei, 5761): Simchat Torah

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of two books by Jewish authors: The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation by Howard Kurtz and Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/22/reviews/001022.22debottt.html

2001: Ariel Sharon’s son Gilad “was able to get a loan at relatively high rate from the Bank Leumi” to cover part of the 1.5 million NIS that his father had had to return to donors.

2002: The Anaheim Angels defeated the Giants in the third game of the World Series. Scott Schoeneweis, whose mother was Jewish, pitched the final two innings of a 10-4 Angel victory -- he allowed no runs, struck out two, and gave up only one hit. The Angels went on to win the series in seven games

2002: Domazlice -- An old Jewish cemetery was desecrated in a southwestern Czech town. Five tombstones were toppled at the cemetery in Domazlice, 94 miles southwest of Prague, and five copper lanterns stolen. Copper plaques with Hebrew inscriptions were removed from two tombstones.

2002:At least 14 Israelis were killed and more than 45 injured when an explosives-laden sport utility vehicle driven by a Palestinian suicide bomber rammed a bus near Hadera in northern Israel. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

2005(19^th of Tishrei, 5766): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth

2005(19^th of Tishrei, 5766): Alva T. “Ted” Bonda, “a partner with Howard Metzenbaum in Metzenbaum's airport parking company,” “a principal owner of the Cleveland Stokers” and the President of the Cleveland Indians for three years passed away today.

2005: The World Series in which the Houston Astros whose roster included Brad Ausmus began today.

2005: What do you do with the Etrog after Sukkoth? According to the Jerusalem Post, Uzi Eli the "etrog medicine man" has created a variety of etrog-based juices, tonics, pastes, and creams that are more than just medicine; they are a way of life. There is evidence that in the Middle Ages the etrog, or as it is called in English, citron, was used as a remedy for seasickness, pulmonary troubles, intestinal ailments and other disorders, according to Fruits in Warm Climates by J. Morton. Jews are not the only ones who believe the curative value of the etrog. In India, the peel is eaten to cure dysentery and halitosis, while the distilled juice is given as a sedative. In China, the peel is made into a tonic and used as a stimulant and expectorant. In West Tropical Africa, the etrog is used only as a medicine, most often against rheumatism. In Panama, etrogim are ground up and combined with other ingredients and given as an antidote for poison.

2006: The Chicago Tribune book section featured reviews of two books about I.F. Stone: All Governments: The life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone by Myra MacPherson and The Best of I.F. Stone edited by Karl Weber

2006: University of Chicago Professor, Norman Gelb’s long-discredited theory on the Dead Scrolls has gained new support based on recent archeological digs at Qumran. Rather than being a monastery used by the Essenes, Qumran may have been a fortress and then a pottery factory. According to Gelb, the caves were a repository of literature brought from Jerusalem at the time of destruction of the Second Temple, placed in clay containers purchased at the pottery factory and then hidden from the Romans in the local caves. This would mean that the Dead Scrolls are not the unitary work of one sect but a collection of literature from a variety of authors.

2006: At Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Rabbis James Ponet is scheduled to officiate at the wedding Adam Louis Berenzweig and Anya Miriam Kamenetz, the daughter LSU English Professor Moira L. Crone and LSU English Professor Rodger L. Kamenetz who “is also the founder of the Jewish studies program” and he author of The Jew in the Lotus, Stalking Elijah, The Lowercase Jew and The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems.

2006: The Chicago Tribune reported on Dina Babbit’s attempt to reclaim artwork she had created while an inmate at Auschwitz. As a teenager Babbit’s life was spared because she was able to draw pictures for Dr. Josef Mengele. Babbit has been trying to claim the paintings since 1973 when she first found out that they had survived the war. A museum at Auschwitz has the paintings and despite repeated requests from a variety of sources claims that the only one who could make a claim for them would be Mengele since the work was done for him. Babbit wants the art works as a way to bring some sort of closure to the evil experience she endured with her mother.

2006: Siraly (Seagull in English) the newest nightspot in Budapest opened its doors on Kiraly Street in the heart of what used to the city’s Jewish ghetto. The three level bar hosted a Hebrew rapper in the theater space, paintings by a young Hungarian Jew and, on the front door, a mezuzah with a playful cartoon of a little girl. The opening is a climactic event in the Jewish gentrification on this formerly Jewish section that was laid waste by the Nazis and smothered by the Communists.

2006:The New York Timesfeatures reviews of the following books by Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics including Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 by Michael Weisskopf and two books by Lemony Snicket, The End: A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the 13^thand The Beatrice Letters. Lemony Snicket is the pen name of author Daniel Handler, Jewish 33-year-old native of San Francisco

2007: At the Englert Theater in Iowa City, IA, Ambassador Samuel Lewis, one of Washington's most experienced and respected Old Middle East Hands facilitates a presentation that is part of "US and the World," the ongoing series, which focuses on US policy in the Middle East, past, present and, so far as possible, future.

2007: Zigota, a tiny fringe studio/movement theater ensemble presents its new show “The Passerby” at the intimate Tmumna Theatre in south Tel Aviv.

2007: “Yael Naim, the self-titled second studio album by Yael Naïm” featuring the single "New Soul" was released today “ “on the Tôt ou tard label.”

2007: The New York Times and the Washington Post each featured a review of Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson. Like Madeline Albright, Plame did not find out that she was “part Jewish” until she reached adulthood. At least one great grandfather was a rabbi. Her husband, Joe Wilson, who was part of the “leak scandal”, has two Jewish children from his first marriage.

2007: The New Republic magazine featured a review of Fateful Choies;Ten Decisions That Changed The World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw. Kershaw views the Holocuast as one of these ten decisions. “Kershaw argues that the Nazi program for the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question,’ adopted in the summer and autumn of 1941, was for Hitler a strategic decision. In his view the war could never be won unless the Jews were destroyed.”

2008: Simchat Torah, 5769 (The Holiday Season ends)

2008: “Role Models,” a comedy directed and written by Shaker Heights, Ohio, native David Wain premiered in Westwood today.

2008:Award-winning Israeli author Etgar Keret reads from his writing as part of the Raymond Carver Reading series at Syracuse University.

2008: The New Republic includes reviews of Indignationby Philip Roth and Khibet Khizeh by S. Yizhar; translated by Nicholas de Lange.

2009(4^th of Cheshvan, 5770): “Soupy Sales, whose zany television routines turned the smashing of a pie to the face into a madcap art form, died today at the age of 83”. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/arts/television/23sales.html?_r=0

2009: The annual Presidents’ Conference comes to a close in Jerusalem.

2009: In “Examining a Man Who Was (of Wasn’t?) a Holocaust Hero” Stephen Holden reviewed Gaylen Ross’s documentary about the controversial Hungarian entitled “Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/movies/23killing.html?_r=0

2009: Sportswriter and author John Feinstein reads from and discusses Change-up: Mystery at the World Series, his new book for young readers (ages 9-12), at Aladdin's Lamp Children's in Arlington, Va.

2009: At the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival a program entitled “Past Imperfect: New Jewish Fiction” provides an opportunity to meet three of the newest authors of Jewish fiction:Binnie Kirshenbaum (The Scenic Route), Jonathon Keats (The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six) and Norah Labiner (German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons).

2010:YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a program entitled “Lenin's Jewish Question” in which Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern an Associate Professor of Jewish History at Northwestern University and author of Lenin's Jewish Question is scheduled to his discoveries about Lenin’s maternal Jewish great-grandfather named Moshko Blank, “Blank's conversion to Christianity, and related questions, such as why Soviet communists sought to suppress any discussion of Lenin's Jewishness, why Russian racists attempted to portray Lenin as a Jew, and why Lenin approached the Jewish question as he did.”

2010: “Paranormal Activity 2,” produced by Jason Blum, Akiva Goldsman and Oren Peli and co-starring Molly Ephraim was released today in the United States.

2010: The Jewish People Policy's annual conference held its closing session in Jerusalem today

2011: Jews begin the cycle again with the reading on Bereshit.

2011:The 21^st Holocaust Remembrance Concert, featuring the Brooklyn Philharmonic, is scheduled to take place in New York City.

2011:Firefighters battled flames at the Gilon junction and the Ahihud Forest this afternoon, after extinguishing two blazes that had broken out earlier that day and one on Friday

2011: Israel gave Egypt a list of 81 Egyptian prisoners held in Israel to be released in exchange for Ilan Grapel, according to Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabeh, Army Radio reported early this morning. 2012: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to present “a play reading” of My Name is Asher Lev.

2012:The American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to present “Jews as Art Dealers and Collectors,” a panel discussion that will examine Jewish “prominence as collectors and dealers supporting their claim to membership in European high culture and making them the principal targets of Nazi dispossession

2012: “The Queen of Versailles,” directed and produced by Lauren Greenfield and starring Jackie and David A. Siegel was nominated for Best Documentary Film by the International Documentary Association (IDA)

2012:More than 2,500 people signed up to participate in a global Shema flash mob as part of a campaign to promote religious pluralism in Israel. The gatherings early this afternoon came two days after Conservative Jewish congregations were asked to dedicate a recitation of the Shema to the topic as well.

2012: The Israeli air force hit a rocket launching squad in the northern Gaza Strip today, reportedly killing three. The airstrike came in response to rocket fire on southern Israel from Gaza and a mortar attack on an IDF patrol, military sources said.

2013: Mayor Nir Barkat defeated Moshe Lion in today’s mayoral election in Jerusalem.(As reported by Yoel Goldman)

2013: Today, “1n a panel discussion at Yeshiva University Sheldon Adelson said that the United States must get tougher about Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program

1981: Birthdate of American actor Michael Aaron Fishman best known for his portrayal of “D.J. Conner” in the long-running sitcom “Roseanne.”

2013: Rihanna is schedule to be giving a public concert in the Tel Avi’s Park Hayarkon as the ballots from the city’s election are being counted (As reported by Renee Ghert-Zand)

2013: The JCCNV is scheduled to present “My Name Is Asher,” a play reading by Aaron Posner adapted from the novel of that name by Chaim Potok.

2013: The Israel Action Center at the JCRC is scheduled to present “Iran: The Nuclear Threat and Implications for the Greater Middle East.”

2013: The Center for Jewish History” is scheduled to present “The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia – 1350 to the Present Day.”

2013: “An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale took place today in northern Israel, according to the Israel Geophysical Institute. It is the fifth quake in the Galilee in less than a week. The quake was centered at a depth of two kilometers, beneath the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret).” (As reported by Gil Ronen)

2013: Mohamed Aazi, 28, and who helped plan the bus bombing in Tel Aviv last November in which 29 people were injured was killed in a clash this morning with Israeli Special Forces.

2014:The American Sephardi Federation and Congregation Shearith Israel is scheduled to present Mimouna’s Moroccan Jewish Caravan: “Preserving the Past, Connecting in the Present & Building the Future.” http://mimounacaravan.rsvpify.com/

2014:Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man: A Novel, and her daughter Meg, author of the literary sensation The Interestingsand the new young adult novel Belzhar are scheduled to discuss their writing and the family influences that have shaped their work at the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival.

2014:A resident of Gaza was arrested on Wednesday morning by security forces after having illegally infiltrated into Israeli territory. (As reported by Ari Yashar)

2014: “The world-leading Israeli defense company Elbit Systems announced today that it has been awarded contracts from an unnamed Asian country for roughly $85 million, as Israel's Asian ties continue to blossom.” (As reported by Ari Yashar)

2014(28th of Tishrei, 5775): Fifty-six year old “Rabbi Dr. Judith Abrams, the founder and director of the online Talmud learning website, MAQOM, died of a heart attack today in Houston.”

2014: “A baby girl was killed and eight people were injured today, after a terrorist hit them with his car outside the Givat Hatachmoshet (Ammunition Hill) Light Rail stop.” (As reported by Tova Dronin)

2014: “NBC freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa, is free of the virus and will leave the Nebraska Medical Center today.” (As reported by Daily Forward)

2015: In Iowa City, the University Iowa Office Of Research & Economic Development is scheduled to host a lecture by Israeli author Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Good Years

2015: Leslie Epstein, an American novelist who grew up surrounded by some of the luminaries of Hollywood's Golden Age, speaks about his experience as the son and nephew of the writers of Casablanca and dozens of other classic films is scheduled to lecture on Behind the Scenes: Growing Up Jewish In Hollywood sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

2015: Richard Baranick and three of the surviving “Monuments Men” – “Harry Ettlinger, Motoko Furjishiro Huthwaite and Bernard Taper – were honored today with the Congressional Gold Medal.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-monuments-men-congressional-gold-medal-20151022-story.html

2015: Sidney “Blumenthal’s name came up today during” the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi “public questioning of Hillary Clinton at which time a motion calling for Blumenthal’s deposition to be made public was defeated by the Republicans in a straight party line committee vote.

2015: In Los Angeles, celebrities including Israeli movie star Odeya Rush, actress Karla Souza, actor Michael Richards and comedian Jerry Seinfeld attended the third annual Red Star Ball sponsored by The American Friends of Magen David Adom

2015(9^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-eight year old Tony and Emmy award nominated author Jerome Kass, the husband of Delia Ephron passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/theater/jerome-kass-writer-for-broadway-film-and-tv-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2015: Former BBC investigative journalist and television producer Dina Gold is scheduled to recount her successful legal battle to reclaim a building originally owned by her German ancestors and seized by the Reichsbahn, Hitler's railways, in 1937 in a lecture co-sponsored by the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival entitled “Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausentrasse 17/18 Berlin.”

2016(20^thof Tishrei, 5777): Shabbat Chol Hamoe’ed

2016: Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson swapped the red carpet for a turn behind the counter at her new popcorn shop in Paris today where she “dished out the crunchy treat to punters at the launch of the Yummy Pop store she and husband Romain Dauriac have opened in the city’s trendy Marais district.”

2016: “Night” an exhibition of work by Israeli Michal Rovner is scheduled to come to close at the Pace Gallery.

2016: The Cornelia Street Café is scheduled to host a performance by Israeli-born jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman

2016: In NYC, the Beer Garden is scheduled to host Sukktoberfest! Completed with “ice cold harvest beer, glatt kosher bratwurst, a band and a Sukkah.”

2017: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian and the recently released paperback editions of The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israelby Uri Bar-Joseph and Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film by Alexandra Zapruder.

2017: As part of the 2017 Rabbi Jeff Portman Lecture Series, Dr. Robert Cargill is scheduled to present “When Tobias Met Sarah, A Romance.”

2017: Temple Israel Ner Tamid is scheduled to host 2016 Reuben Award Winner, cartoonist Terri Libenson speaking on “A Jewish Family Invades the Comics.

2017: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “A celebration of the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist movement which has figured so prominently in the history of Eastern European and World Jewry.”

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host “Middle East Security: Fresh Takes on Long-Standing Challenges.”

2017: “The Wedding Bar and Bat Mitzvah Show – Simchas Live” is scheduled to take place at the Village Hotel Watford

2017: Today, “the Los Angeles Times reported that 38 women have accused Academy Award winning screenwriter James Toback, the Manhattan born son of “Selma Judith (née Levy), a president of the League of Women Voters” and “Irwin Lionel Toback, a stockbroker and former vice president of Dreyfus & Company” “of sexual harassment or assault.”

2017: The Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a book launch for When Freedom Beckons; The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Jewish Journey to Australia by Vasilios Vasilas

2018: The ASF’s Sephardi Scholars Series is scheduled to present “Synagogue of Iran: Design and Development in Urban Contest” During which “Professor Mohammad Gharipour will discuss his research and recently published book, Synagogues of the Islamic World: Architecture, Design, and Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), which explores how the architecture of synagogues in Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain responded to contextual issues and traditions, as well as how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues.”

2018: In London, at the Jewish Museum, Dominik Czechowski is scheduled to deliver a talk on “The Charms of Frankenstein.”

2019: A “pipe bomb” found in “a mailbox at the home of George Soros” was “proactively detonated by bomb squad technicians.”

2018: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with author Gary Shteyngart whose most recent work was Lake Success

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/gary-shteyngart-takes-aim-at-white-male-privilege/2018/08/28/319f2028-aa61-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.3853ff60f4bf

2019: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host both a Simchat Torah service and a “women’s service with torah dancing” followed by a lunch and dinner that evening.

2019: In San Francisco, this evening the “Weird Film Fest is scheduled to host a screening of “ The Last Shepherd.” a “2015 Israeli comedy-adventure about Kabbalists vs. an angry archangel and a secret government agency.”

2019: In Iowa City, the Hillel Chapter at the University of Iowa is scheduled to host a community wide evening concert featuring scholar in residence Eliana Light.

2019: The Baruch Performing Arts Center is scheduled to host Alon Goldstein, performing “The Art of Imagination,” “a solo recital featuring works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Janacek, Debussy and Ginastera.”

2019(23rd of Tishrei, 5780): Simchat Torah

http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

OCTOBER 23

521 BCE (17^thof Tishrei):The first Babylonian record of Nebuchadnezzar III the usurper who challenged the rule of Darius, the Persian ruler under whose reign the building of the Second Temple began.

42 BCE: The army of Marcus Junius Brutus was defeated at the Second Battle of Philippi. Brutus committed suicide at the end of the day. Since he was one of those who murdered Julius Caesar, the death of Brutus was probably not mourned by most Jews. Caesar's popularity was such among the Jews of the Roman Empires that when he died, the Roman biographer Suetonius wrote, “Public grief was enhanced by crowds of foreigners, lamenting in their own fashion, especially Jews, who came flocking to the Forum for several nights in succession.” Additionally, the victory paved the way for the eventual rule of Augustus who was a better Emperor than most from the Jewish point of view.

1086: At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI. Yusuf ibn Tashfin was the leader of group of puritanical Muslims known as Berber Almoravids. Many Jewish and Muslims scholars and intellectuals left areas controlled by these Berbers and took refuge in Toledo which had been conquered by the Christians in 1085. Periods of Berber control were not a Golden Age for the Jews of Iberia and thousands of Jews joined the army of Alfonso. Although Alfonso lost the battle, the Berbers were too battered to take advantage of their victory and Yusuf had to return to North Africa marking the end of this phase of the long, drawn-out conflict between Christians and Muslims. During the centuries’ long contest, Jewish loyalties varied depending on the nature of the combatants. All of this would come to an end with the Expulsion of 1492.

1340: Nicolas de Lyra, the Franciscan rumored “to be of Jewish descent” and author of an anti-Jewish work entitled "De Messia Ejusque Adventu Præterito” who was known for his commentaries on the Old and New Testaments that drew on “original texts” and who drew heavily on the works of Rashi passed away today.

1392: Pope Boniface IX who in 1376 exempted his physician Angelo di Manuele and his son Angelo from all taxes “appointed the physician Solomone de Sabalduchio his "familiaris,"

1396: “The charter granted to the Jews of Carinthia and Styria today which states that the privileges granted them in 1377 shall be confirmed, is merely a confirmation of the pre-existing "Handfeste"

1456: Seventy Year old John of Capistrano a Franciscan friar who would be canonized by the Catholic Church but who was also known as the “Scourge of the Jews” for his “fiery sermons” that “persuaded southern German regions to expel their Jewish populations,” passed away today.

1548: French Protestant theologian Theodore Beza, the successor to John Calvin at Geneva and like Luther was a believer “that Christian churches were largely responsible for the current unbelief among the Jews and “that there would a large-scale conversion of the Jews” while still acknowledging “the Justice of divine anger the Jewish people” arrived in Geneva, today.

1625: “Pope Urban VIII forbids Jews from having gravestones within the city limits of Rome.”

1703: Letters of privileged granted today by King Leopold I “left it in the hands of the municipal councils” in Hungary to either admit or exclude Jews from their territory.

1715: Birthdate of Peter II of Russia. During his reign, Peter modified some of the anti-Jewish rulings of his predecessor, Catherine I. At the request of some of the Cossack leaders, he allowed them to return to the fairs in Little Russia since their presence was essential for the commercial wellbeing of the area.

1726:António José da Silva a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew"“went through the great auto-da-fé held” today “in the presence of King John V and his court, abjured his errors, and was set at liberty.” His mother would not be released until October of 1729.

1767: In Savannah, GA, Caty Hays and Abraham Sarzedas gave birth to Moses Zarzedas, the husband of Belle Myers.

1776: The brigantine Andrea Doria left the United States headed for the Dutch held island of St. Eustatius with a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Andrea Doria returned from the island which had a significant Jewish population which was supportive of the Americans with the first of several loads of arms and munitions that were critical to American success.

1781: In Frankfurt Am Main, “Bunle Oettingen Schuster” and Salomon Loeb Schott gave birth to Samuel Salomon Schott, the husband of “Louize Polak,” with whom he had six children.

1790: In Jebenhausen, Germany, Jentle Loeb and Moses Fasit Rosenheim gave birth to Ruchele Rosenheim, the wife of Moses Loeb Sontheimer with whom she had six children.

1791: In Savannah, GA, a proud moment for two leading colonial families when Sarah Sheftall and Abraham de Lyon gave birth to Levi Sheftall de Lyon the husband of Leonora de la Motta and the father of Leonorean de Lyon and the husband of Rebecca de la Motta with whom he had four more children.

1793: Aaron Aarons married Hannah Levy at the Great Synagogue today.

1803: Birthdate of Angelo Vivante, the husband of Regina Kohen, who, when he passed away was buried in the Trieste Jewish Cemetery in Italy.

1812: Uriah P. Levy, “a grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Jonas Phillips” and the first Jew to rise to the rank of Commodore in the United States Navy began his military career as a “sailing master.

1818(23^rdof Tishrei, 5579): Simchat Torah

1842: Fifty-six year old Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius the German Biblical critic and Hebrew language expert who authored a Hebrew grammar and a commentary on Isaiah passed away today.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar

1847: In Germany, Lazarus Morgenthau, the son of Moses and Brunhilda Morgenthau and Seline Babette Morgenthau gave birth to Maximilian Morgenthau

1853(21^stof Tishrei, 5614): Hoshanah Rabah

1853: “Compulsory Christianity in Italy,” published today summarized the events of the last five years that are known as the Mortara Affair or The Kidnapping of Edgar Mortara which it says is recent stretch of Papal power in Italy ,making a noise in Europe, which will not be hushed up. It also pointed out that the Papacy and this policy are propped up on the bayonets of Napoleon III’s troops and that if these troops were withdrawn the populace would rise up to defend the rights of the Jewish child’s father. “If rascally servants may clandestinely baptize the children of Hebrews, there is no reason why they not extend the same blessing to those of Protestants and if the Church can lawfully found a claim to the possession of their persons and their minds upon such a ceremony in the former case, they may in the latter.”

1854: It was reported today that in the matter of Abraham Oettinger v Uriah P. Levy, the judge decided in favor of the Plantiff and gave a judgement in the amount of $313.69. This was a landlord/tenant dispute over who should pay for plumbing repairs. [Yes, this is the same Uriah P. Levy who was highest ranking Jewish officer in the United States Navy and a member of one New York’s most prominent Sephardic families.

1855: Birthdate of Emily Levy, the Hamburg born linguist and lexicographer.

1859: Birthdate of Simon Marx, the native of Alsace who is better known as Sam Marx, the husband of Minnie Marx and the father of the Groucho Marx and the rest of the Marx brothers.

1860: “The Present Condition of the Jews” published today stated that, The second of Mr. De Cordova’s course of lectures, to be delivered this evening at Clinton Hall, is upon this highly interesting topic. To discuss it, it is needless to say, the lecturer lays aside the vein of light humor and pleasantry, which usually characterize his productions, and gives us sober facts and apposite illustrations instead.”

1860: A very large audience listened to Mr. De Cordova’s lecture on ‘the Past and Present condition of the Jews,’ delivered in Clinton Hall this evening. Commencing with the Biblical renown of the Israelites, the lecturer traced the distinction of that nation in the field of letters of arms, of medicine, and, in fact, of all the arts and sciences, demonstrating that they are well worth a place in history. He cited the popular idea of a Jew as that of a man with a very protuberant proboscis, engaged in buying old clothes, renovating them by same mysterious and secret process, and selling them for eight times their value to unsuspecting countrymen. He accounted for the degraded condition of the lower class of Israelites from the fact of the relentless persecutions to which the race has been subjected in Austria, Spain, Germany and other countries, where they have been obliged to withstand the most terrible pains and penalties in their adherence to the religion of their fathers. He read official correspondence from Holland to show the good effect of emancipation the Jewish nation in that country, and from the increasing liberality manifested in all countries -- taking example by America -- he foretold a glorious future for Israel. As to the politics of this country he knew many Jews who would vote for Lincoln… Some who would vote for Douglas….Some who would go for Breckenridge and two or three who were Know-Nothings…In conclusion, Mr. De Cordova paid a glowing tribute of admiration to our free institutions, which alike honor and protect the Jew and the Gentile” [Editor’s Note – De Cordova was a Sephardic Jew who was quite popular as a humorist, author and public speaker.]

1861: Samuel Du Pont the U.S Navy officer in charge of the expedition aimed at taking Port Royal, SC from the Rebels “was furious” when he saw the article published in today’s New York Times providing details of his activities. “Jacob da Silva Solis Cohen, as Sephardic Jew…was an assistant surgeon with Dupont’s expedition to Port Royal” who also served with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron which was a key, if unsung, element in the Union’s victory.

1862: Philadelphian Benjamin B. Goodman who had risen to the rank of 2^ndLieutenant in the 27^th Regiment completed his enlistment today but apparently his sense of duty was not since fulfilled since he would re-enlist just eight days later.

1864 :( 23rd of Tishrei, 5625): Simchat Torah

1864: Major Mordecai was named Chief of Ordinance, Department and Army of the Ohio, which was one of the major military units of the Union forces during the American Civil War. Ordinance dealt with Artillery, the one element of the Northern Army that consistently out-performed its Confederate counterparts.

1866: Today in Pilsen, the City Council decided to declare” the secondary” school to be Czech which caused great indignation among the Germans, especially the Jews” “who spoke Czech but considered German to be their mother tongue.”

1866: In London, Miriam and Solomon Abrahams gave birth to their “eldest son,” Barnet Albert Abrahahms.

1866: Birthdate of Paul Ferdinand Strassman, a leading German gynecologist who would be forced to flee when the Nazis came to power.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stra%25C3%259Fmann&ei=MR6iTuibF8OssQKzy9mwBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpaul%2Bferdinand%2Bstrassmann%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D841%26bih%3D694%26prmd%3Dimvnsbo

1867: Seventy-two Senators were summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate, the upper house of the Canadian Parliament. Jews played an active role in Canadian politics as can be seen by the fact that Ezekiel Hart was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1807 and Henry Nathan was elected as to serve as an MP in the House of Commons in 1874. But a Jew did serve in the Canadian Senate until 1955 when David Kroll was appointed to serve in the upper chamber.

1868: Birthdate of Sir Alfred Moritz, the younger son of Ludwig Mond, who gained fame as an industrialist, financier, politician and Zionist and was the husband of Dame Violet Florence Mabel Mond.

1868: The Jews of Barbados were denied the right to engage in retail trade.

1870: In Baton Rouge, LA, “Jacob and Caroline (Kahn) Bernstein, gave birth to Chicago College of Pharmacy and husband of Fannie Hirsch railroad executive Ernest Ralph Bernstein who moved to Shreveport, LA in 1876 where he engaged in numerous successful business ventures while serving on the executive committees of the Leo N. Levi Hospital in Hot Spring, AR and the “Old Folks Jewish Home in Memphis, TN” and belonging to Temple B’nai Zion

1872(21^stof Tishrei, 5633): Hoshanah Rabah

1872: “Minor Topics” published today described the theory of “J.B. Bartnett, a Hebrew scholar” that “Ireland was…settled” by people “from Judea when the Prophet Jeremiah emigrated” there “with the remnant of the tribe of Judah. According to Bartnett, prophet brought with him the stone known as ‘Jacob’s Stone’ which was kept in the sanctuary of the first temple at Jerusalem” and has become “the Stone of Destiny” that was used to crown Irish kings and was later taken to Westminster Abbey by Edward III who used it for the same purpose.

1874(12th of Cheshvan, 5635):Abraham Geiger a German rabbi and scholar who led the founding of Reform Judaism passed away. (There is no way this brief entry can do him justice. See below for gateway article into his fascinating life.)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/AbrahamGeiger.html

1875: Birthdate of Alsatian native Armand Spira, the husband of Suzanne Metzger and father of Henry and Andre Spira and the father-in-law of Marcelle (Kehrli) Spira.

1877: Louis Lazarus, the Jewish owner of a second-hand clothing store on the corner of Baxter and Leonard in Manhattan, was held at the tombs Police Court on the charge of receiving stolen goods. Bail was set at $1,500.

1878: It was reported today that Moritz Ellinger has been chosen to run for the position of Coroner by the opponents of the Tammany political machine.

1879: It was reported today that Joseph De Longpres, a fourteen year old who had arrived yesterday in New York from New Orleans is missing. He was last seen entering a hack hired by a Jew whom he had met on the boat coming up from New Orleans. The boy, who had money and luggage when he left the ship is described as “timid and effeminate.” There is no other description of the other party except that he was a Jew. How this was deduced is not mentioned.

1879: Three days after he had passed away, 70 year old German native Lesser Friedlander, the husband of the former Elizabeth Assur, was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road.

1879: The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald reported that a meeting held in Bolivar County adopted resolutions denouncing Edward Storm as “a dishonest Jew, the servile tool of the slave-owner before the war and the convenient and abandoned ally of the carpetbagger.” The citizens of Bolivar County are urged to vote against Storm who has been nominated by the Republicans for the position of County Supervisor.” [A Google Search cannot find any reference to a Jew named Edward Storm. Poor man, he was hit with the big three of the post war South – Republican, Carpetbagger and Jew.]

1879: Simon Curriak, a Jewish tailor working on Division Street in NYC, has come forward to claim his children who being held at Castle Garden. In the meantime, an unidentified Jewish newspaper editor has asked the authorities to hold the children until he can present their case to “the local Jewish societies” who will provide for their needs.

1881: Eighteen year old Recha Goldschmidt married Alfred Schwarzschild, the son of Isaac Jacob Schwarzschild and Rosalie Kulp.

1880: Birthdate of New York native Pratt Institute trained sculptor Albert Dreyfus who “worked on sculpture for the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in 1901” and the “St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.”

1881: It was reported today that the Jewish synagogues of East Prussia, which total 34, “recently held their first convention.

1881: It was reported today that “the Russian Government proposes to give special privileges to those Jews who will engage in agricultural pursuits.” The Jews will be allowed to purchase land outside of the Pale of Settlement, “but they will be under strict surveillance.”

1881: It was reported today that for Jews, the disappearance of “religious hate” has so completely disappeared” from Serbia that a Jew has been elected to the Serbian Parliament. This stands in stark contrast to “the neighboring kingdom of Romania” where “persecution of Jews still goes on.”

1882: It was reported today that the six largest Jewish congregations in New York are Temple Emanu-El Temple Beth El, Ahavath Chesed, B’nai Yeshurun, Shearay Tefilla and Rodoph Sholom. The membership of these congregations total approximately 1,500.

1883(22^ndof Tishrei, 5622): Shmini Atzeret

1883(22^ndof Tishrei, 5622): Seventy-nine year old German physicist Peter Riess the first Jewish member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences passed away today.

1883: In New York, Christopher Oscanyan, an Armenian-American, delivered a lecture at Steinway Hall entitled “The Women of Turkey and the Jews of the East.”

1884: New York Mayor Franklin Edson and Jesse Seligman were among the dignitaries who attended the dedication of the new building housing the Hebrew Orphan Asylum

1884: It was reported today that in New York City, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association is planning on holding “a Montefiore centenary celebration.”

1884: Rabbi Mendes of Shearith Israel wrote to President Chester A. Arthur inviting him to participate in the upcoming events celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore. Arthur’s private secretary replied with a note expressing his high esteem for the great philanthropist and his regrets that he would not be able to attend due to other official demands on his time

1885: “The Mystery At Wilmington” published today described events surrounding the death of lodger at the Clayton House in Wilmington, Delaware. “The man’s features are clear German, and there are evidences that he was of the Hebrew faith.” (The latter statement may have been a polite reference to the decedent having been circumcised.)

1886: Birthdate of Paul Ferdinand Strassmann, “a pioneer in surgical gynecology.”

1886: It was reported today that the Honorable S.S. Cox will address the upcoming opening exercise of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1886: In Natchez, LA, Samuel and Caroline Friedman gave birth to Louisiana state legislator Leon Friedman

1887: “From Anjou to Touraine” which was published today described the history of the region during Medieval times including the fact that “in 1329, when the Jews were accused of having formed a plot to poison all the wells and springs in France, 160 unfortunate people of that race were burned at the stake in Chinon.”

1887: Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, the rabbi at New York City’s Temple Beth-El gave the second of his Sunday lectures today which was entitled “What is Judaism?”

1888: In New York, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment met today and provisionally approved expenditures for several agencies of the city government and charitable institutions including an expenditure of $60,000.00 for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1888(18^thof Cheshvan, 5649): Seventy-six year old Samuel Bernheimer, the native of Hohenems, Austria and the wife of Henrietta Cahn whom he had married in New Orleans, passed away today in Mississippi.

1889: In Karlsruhe, Germany, Adolf and Klara Reichman gave birth Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the medical school graduate, the wife of Erich Fromm with whom she opened “a therapeutic facility in Heidelberg who was forced to leave Germany and settle in the United States in 1935 where she pursued her career until her death in 1957.

https://spartacus-educational.com/Frieda_Fromm-Reichmann.htm

1889: In Rockford, Illinois, Professor E.L. Curtis delivered a sermon in which he declared that the Book of Job is only a poem written by some pious Jew during the period of the exile.

1889: A group of Russian Jewish immigrants escaping pogroms and persecution who had arrived in Argentina aboard the SS Weser founded Moisés Ville a small town in Santa Fe province which was part of the Jewish agricultural settlements to be financed by Baron Maurice Hirsch.

1889:Birthdate of Avshalom Feinberg one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Feinberg was born in Gedera, Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and studied in France. He returned to work with Aaron Aaronsohn at the agronomy research station in Atlit. Soon after the beginning of war, Aaronson founded the Nili underground along with his sister Sarah Aaronsohn, Feinberg and Yosef Lishansky. In 1915 Feinberg travelled to Egypt and made contact with British Naval Intelligence. In 1917, Feinberg again journeyed to Egypt, on foot. He was apparently killed by a Bedouin near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah. His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket to mark the spot where he lay. In 1979 a new Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula, Avshalom was named after him. Although it was abandoned following the Camp David Accords, a new village by the same name was founded in Israel in 1990.

1892: Birthdate of Gummo Marx, the actor and comedian who was one of the famous Marx Brothers. 1892: Professor Adolph Cohn of Columbia delivered the address of welcome at this evening’s dinner honoring French Admiral Abel de Libran and his staff which was attended by many prominent New York dignitaries including President Rosenthal of the French Hebrew Society.

1892: Fifty-two year old Mehmed Emin Pasha passed away today, reportedly murdered by two Arab slave traders in the Congo Free State while working for the German East Africa Company. One of the minor romantic figures of the 19^thcentury, he was born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, to a German-Jewish family. He converted to Christianity and then to Islam, as he played multiple roles in different parts of the Ottoman Empire.

1892: In his formal speech which the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City delivered at the Hebrew Institute Hall last night, Edward Einstein called on his mostly Jewish audience to go to the polls and “rebuke the present City Government.

1893: Richard Mansfield’s unique portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venicewas seen for the first time at Hermann’s in New York City.

1893: “Cholera Panic” published today described the reaction to outbreak of the disease including the decision by the Chief Rabbi of Leghorn to close “the grand marble synagogue which is the wealthiest synagogue in the world” with the exception of the one in Amsterdam and the “panic and flight” of the Jews living in Baghdad.

1893: In Altoona, PA, “Abraham and Ida Einstein Abelson” gave birth to Myer Abelson who rose to the rank of Sergeant while serving with the “50^th Infantry in WW I.”

1894(23^rdof Tishrei, 5655): Simchat Torah

1894: Birthdate of New Jersey native Alexander Rudolph, the son of a Kosher butcher, who gained fame as World Middleweight Champion Al McCoy.

1895: Birthdate of Austrian native Wolfgang Ackerman, the physician decorated for his service in the Austrian Army during WW I and author of “And Are We Civilized” who moved to the United States in 1924.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dr-wolfgang-ackerman/and-we-are-civilized/

1896: Hattie Heller of St. Louis, the Vice President of the National Council of Jewish Women in Missouri submitted her annual report to “Miss Sadie America, Secretary of the National Council of Jewish Woman that St. Joseph “is the only town of any size, with a Jewish population large to warrant forming a section” that has not formed a section of the organization.

1896(16^thof Cheshvan, 5657): Sixty-eight year old Adolph H. Maas who “began his business career in Savannah, GA before moving to New York in 1852 where he developed a successful chemical manufacturing company passed away today at his home on Lexington Avenue.

1897(27^thof Tishrei, 5658): Parashat Bereshit

1897(27^thof Tishrei, 5658): In Liverpool, two and half year old John Raphael Davis, the son of Helen and D.E. Davis passed away today.

1897: H.R. H., The Prince of Wales is scheduled to be a guest of Lord Rothschild at Tring Park starting today.

1898: Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, who served as the rabbi to several American Congregations was the founder of The National Farm School said today "Tolerance of another's rational faith is the truest stamp of the genuineness and high standard of one's own faith."

1898: The Judeans hosted a dinner at the Tuxedo honoring Israel Zangwill. Dr. Danzinger, President of the Association and Judge Sulzberger from Philadelphia flanked Zangwill on the dais. Zangwill spoke to the group of literary, civic and academic leaders about the evolution of the Jew over the centuries including the development of Jewish culture in the United States. Other attendees at the kosher dinner were Isidore Strauss and Adolph Ochs of New York.

1899(19th of Cheshvan, 5660): One day after his 62^nd birthday Australian businessman and political leader Ephraim L. Zox who held several leadership positions in the Australian Jewish community including serving as President of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation passed away today.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/zox-ephraim-laman-4912

1901: “Enid Miriam Gotthelf married Percy Lewis Hallenstein, the London born son of Recbecca and Micahelis Hallenstein, who later changed his name to Halsted “at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.”

1901: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the marriage of Marcus Barshay to Lena Banov.

1902: Max Brod met Franz Kafka for the first time when he gave a lecture on Arthur Schopenhauer at Charles University.

1904: Birthdate of “German screenwriter and art director” Hans Jacoby who was forced to leave Germany in 1933 but was lucky enough to resume his career in Hollywood.

1904: Birthdate of American artist Edward Biberman

http://www.lacma.org/art/installation/edward-biberman

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/

1905: In Zurich, Switzerland “Gustav Bloch and Agnes Bloch (née Mayer)” gave birth to Felix Bloch who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1952/bloch/biographical/

1905(24^thof Tishrei, 5666): Nineteen year old Theodore Bachman, the son of Johanna Bachman and the nephew of Isador Bader, “the agent for the United Hebrew Charities at the Immigrants’ Home on Montgomery Street” was murdered today during the pogrom at Ekaterinoslav making him one of the 2,000 Jews who have been killed there since October 21st

1907:W.R. Wheeler, who was a member of the commission appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to visit foreign countries for the purpose of studying matters bearing on the American immigration problem, sailed for America on the Adriatic. Before he left England he met with Israel Zangwill, the novelist, who is the President of the Jewish Territorial Organization. Among other things, Zangwill expressed his concern that Jews immigrating to the United States quickly assimilated into the general American culture and lost their Jewish identity. Zangwill felt that America was a much better place for Jews to be than other hostile countries such as Russia, but he looked forward to a time when Jews would be united within their own national territory.

1907: In St. Petersburg, Russia Prince Peter Dolgorouky and Countess Sophy Bobrinsky gave birth to their only child Sofka Skipworth who was honored for her valiant work in saving Jews during the Holocaust.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sofka-skipwith-1427738.html

1908: Birthdate of Iya Frank, the Russian born physicists who won the Nobel Prize in 1958. Establishing the Jewish lineage of those who lived in the Soviet Union can present quite a challenging. Frank’s father definitely was Jewish.

1909(8^thof Cheshvan, 5670): Parashat Lech-Lecha

1909: The University of Michigan led by halfback Joseph “Joe” Magidsohn, “the first Jewish athlete to win a varsity ‘M’” who was the “first athlete known to have refused to compete on the Jewish High Holy Days” defeated Marquette today.

1909: The Tennessee Vols, coached by George Levene were shut out today as the lost to the University of Georgia by a score of 3 to 0.

1909: Birthdate of Avraham Bergman, the Petah Tikva native who as Avraham Biran was the archaeologist who led the dig at Tel Dan and “headed the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem.”

http://huc.edu/faculty/faculty/biran.shtml

http://huc.edu/chronicle/60/biran.shtml

1910: In Berlin, art gallery Hugo Perls and his wife gave birth art dealer and “art sleuth” Frank Perls.

1919: “Mr. and Mrs. N. Blumenthal” gave birth to their daughter Goldina Bluemthal was buried at in Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong when she passed away at the age of ten.

1910: The National Farm School, led by President Joseph Krauskop of Germantown held its 13^th annual meeting in Bucks County, PA today.

1911(1^stof Cheshvan, 5672): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1911(1^stof Cheshvan, 5672): Fifty-six year old Kovno native David Apotheker, the Yiddish author and anarchist who came to the United States in 1888 where he worked “as a printer in Philadelphia” and joined the anarchists in New York passed away today.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/08/dovid-david-apotheker.html

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/A/apotheker-david.htm

1911(1^stof Cheshvan, 5672): Sixty-two year old Yale educated art dealer and “hard money advocate” Louis R. Ehrich, the Albany, NY, born son of Joseph Ehrich and Rebecca Spoborg and the husband of Henriette Minzesheimer known as the founder of the Ehrich Galleries on New York’s Fifth Avenue passed away today.

1911: “Senator Penrose assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia headed by Judge Mayer Sulzberger that he will take up the Passport Question with President Taft and Secretary Knox as soon as soon as Congress convenes” and that his of the opinion that final notice should be served on Russia that the United States will no longer tolerate discrimination against class of citizens.”

1914: “Mass Meeting for Palestine Cause” published today described plans for an upcoming meeting sponsored by Hadassah to deal with the crisis faced by the Jewish community due to World War.

1914: “Wars Horrors In Russia” published today described a Jewish soldier in the hospital at Petrograd “who was raving mad” after having taken part in a bayonet charge against the Austrians where “he drove his bayonet through the chest of his opponent he heard him “gasp the Hebrews death prayer which begins ‘Hear, O Israel.”

1914: “Nathan Straus for Glynn” published today described the Jewish leader’s support for Martin H. Glynn, the first Catholic chief executive of the state of New York.

1915: Untold thousands, including many Jewish women, marched down New York’s Fifth Avenue in support of giving women the right to vote.

1916: “Honest John O’Brien” opened tonight on Broadway at a theatre co-owned by Sam H. Harris.

1916: Oppose a Census of Jews” published today described the view of several newspapers including the Vorwarts and the Tageblatt that the motion passed by the General Committee of the Reichstag calling for a census of men serving in the various associations charged with providing the necessities of life for the nation is anti-Semitic because it counts the Jews doing this as if they are “shirkers” and does not count the number of Jews serving in the army.

1916: In St. Louis, “the House of Deputies of the Episcopal General Convention adopted without opposition a resolution” urging that converts from Judaism be allowed “to observe the national rites and ceremonies of Israel when they accept Christ…”

1917: The Industrial Removal Office, whose officers included Chairman Reuben Arkush, Vice Chairman, Alfred Jaretzki and Secretary Nathan Bijur held it 16^thannual meeting today in New York City.

1917: Two hundred “aged residents” of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob held a prayer meeting today during which they prayed “for the success of the American army and the coming of an honorable peace before turning over $100 of their savings to “Superintendent Albert Kruger with the instructions to buy a Liberty bon in the name of the institution.”

1917: Birthdate of Dub Karel who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Majdenak where he was murdered.

1918: Birthdate of “Harold P. Manson, director of the office of Academic Affairs of the American Friends of the Hebrew University and the husband of “Mrs. Natanya Neumann Manson, a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company.”

1918: Birthdate of Meri Vilner, the native of Vilnius who as Ber Kovner became a leader of the Communist Party of Israel. He was a cousin of Abba Kovner, the famous resistance fighter and Israeli poet.

1918: Constantin C. Arion, the Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs who had said that his “Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the peace treat” and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the Rumanian Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens and that naturalization is only possible for them individually” completed his service in that government position today. (Editor’s Note – Going back to the Congress of Berlin, Rumanian government were always promising to emancipate the Jews living in the country and always failing to do so.)

1919(25^thof Tishrei, 5680): Manhattan native Benjamin Duberstein, who changed his name to Dubois when he enlisted in the Army and who rose from the rank of private to major while serving with the Third Division in France where he contracted pleurisy lost his battle with tuberculosis and passed away at Fort Houston, TX.

1919: Birthdate of Estonian native Isadore Epstein, the Princeton trained astronomer and Columbia professor who “was a leader in the first modern surveys to find sites for observatories in the Southern Hemisphere.”

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss6/record2206.25.html

1920(11^thof Cheshvan, 5681): Parashat Lech-Lecha

1920: The Tri-City Conference of Social Workers with attendees coming from Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York is scheduled to open this evening at the Young Women’s Hebrew Association on West 110^th Street.

1923: In Los Angeles, Abraham Pregerson, “a WW I veteran and postal worker” and “the former Bessie Boobalsky” gave birth to WW II Marine veteran and Cal-Berkley trained attorney and jurist Harry Pregerson who “told the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary that ‘My conscience is a product of the Ten Commandments, the Bill of Rights, the Boy Scout Oath, and the Marine Corps Hymn.’” (As reported by Sam Roberts) Editor’s note – some sources show October 13 but the NYT uses October 23)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/obituaries/harry-pregerson-dead-ninth-circuit-judge-guided-by-conscience.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

1923: In Lawrence, MA, Samuel Bernstein, the Ukrainian born son of Judah and Dina Bernstein and his wife Jennie Charna Bernstein gave birth to Shirley Anne Bernstein, a sister of the renowned Leonard Bernstein.

1924: In Pennsylvania, William and Edith Lieberman gave birth to S. Bernard Lieberman

1926: Middleweight Seymour “Cy” Schindel won his 9^th bout giving him a record of 8 victories and one loss today.

1927: In Israel, a moshav that would be late known as Netanya is founded by Nathan Strauss.

1927(27^th of Tishrei, 5688): Forty-nine year old Joel Blau, the former rabbi of Peni-El Temple and Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, New York who is the current rabbi at the West End London Synagogue passed away today.

1927(27^th of Tishrei, 5688): Seventy-four year old Alois Eisler, the husband of Emilie Eisler and the father of “Otto Eisler; Dr. Rudolf Eisler and Paul Eisler” passed away today in the Czech Republic.

1927: “Sunset” a play “written by Isaac Babel in 1926, based on his short story collection The Odessa Tales” “premiered at the Baku Worker's Theatre” today.

1929: Birthdate of Leonard Freed, the son of Jewish immigrants who became a leading documentary photojournalist who photographed everything from the Amsterdam Jewish Community to the Civil Rights movement with a special emphasis on Martin Luther King, Jr to the Yom Kippur War passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/arts/design/04freed.html?_r=0

1929: In Los Angeles, Nathan and Pearl Adelson (née Swartz), “children of Russian immigrants who had settled in Nebraska” gave birth to real estate developer and television producer Merv Adelson.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/business/media/merv-adelson-daring-tv-producer-dies-at-85.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1929: The city of Netanya named in honor of philanthropist Nathan Strauss. Originally, a coastal Moshav, within a decade it was thriving Mediterranean seaside resort.

1931: The part of recently deceased playwright Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s will, dealing with the disposition of his property is scheduled to be read today.

1932: In Philadelphia, Charles Zimmerman, the “garment industry union-leader and co-chairman of the Socialist Party-Democratic Socialist Federation” and “dressmaker Rose (Prepstein) Zimmerman gave birth to Paul Lionel Zimmerman, one of the “dean’s” of pro-football journalism often referred to as Dr. Z. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obituaries/paul-zimmerman-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1933: Rabbi B.A. Tintiner is scheduled to officiate at the funeral service for “Lorne Haskell, secretary of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America” with a eulogy delivered by George Jessel after which burial will take place at Bethel Cemetery.

1934(14^thof Cheshvan, 5695): Seventy-nine year old Samuel Samuel the British businessman who founded Samuel Samuel & Co in Yokohama in partnership with his brother Marcus and who served as a Conservative MP from 1919 until he passed away today.

1934: Nathan L. Goldstein, President of the United States Maccabiah Association announced today that “the United States will be represented by a team of twenty five athletes at the second Maccabiah” scheduled to be held in Tel Aviv in April of 1935.

1934: In the Bronx, “Samuel and Fannie Kaplan of the Sefardi Recanati family from Salonika, Greece, gave birth to Leonard Martin Kaplan who gained fame Orthodox rabbi and author Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan.

http://bible.ort.org/books/help.asp?action=displaytext&type=1&id=2

1935: Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosenkrantz are fatally shot in a bar in Newark in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. Were there Jewish gangsters? Yes! But contrary to a recent revisionist books on the topic, these thugs were not role models or heroes.

1936(7^thof Cheshvan, 5697): Hyman Goldman, the center for the Lehigh University football team from 1918 to 1920 who went on to serve as an assistant coach for his alma mater and a successful career as a chemical engineer passed away today.

1936: In Amsterdam, violinist Bronislaw Huberman who was the founder of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra performed as a soloist this evening with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Bruno Walter.

1936: In Chicago, Elizabeth (Brandau), a housewife, and Nathan Kaufman, a produce businessman gave birth to director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman who became involved with the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, for which he receives story credit. While the character of Indiana Jones was created by George Lucas, it was Kaufman who came up with the story and the pursuit of the Ark of the Covenant.

1936: It was reported today that the sponsors of Reconstruction, a book “recording what the Jews of America have done for the relief and rehabilitation of their less fortunate coreligionists throughout the world” include President Roosevelt, former Governor Alfred E. Smith, Governor Lehman, Mayor La Guardia, New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman, Illinois Governor Henry Horner, Tennessee Governor Hill McAlister and Wyoming Governor Leslie A. Miller.

1936: “The purge of German Kultur of Jewish influences advanced another step today when the biblical text of the world-famous oratorio ‘Judas Maccabeus’ by George Friedrich Handel, the Anglo-German composer who lied buried in West Minster Abbey, was changed a new ‘German’ text was substituted.”

1936: “Under threat of boycott and picketing by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League and the American Jewish Congress, the management of the Fifty-Fifth Street Playhouse announced today that it had inefinitely postponed the showing of the film ‘Amphitryon’ which “was financed by the French branch of UFA which is virtually owned by the Nazi government.”

1936: As the Mosely inspired fascist attacks continued in the United Kingdom, “Sophie Tucker complained today that ruffians in London’s East End had thrown rocks at her.”

1938: Thirty-six old Alsatian-born American movie mogul William Wyler married Margaret “Talli” Tallichet with whom he had five children -- “Catherine, Judith, William Jr., Melanie and David Wyler.”

1939: Warner Brothers released The Roaring Twenties, a “crime thriller” produced by Hal Wallis and Samuel Bischoff with a script co-authored by Mark Hellinger, Jerry Wald and Robert Rossen based on The World Moves on by Mark Hellinger.

1940: 21^stof Tishrei, 5701): Hoshanah Rabah

1940: The Jewish Hospital in Warsaw was forced to close and move into the Warsaw Ghetto.

1940: In Brooklyn, William Greenwich and “Russian Jewish department manager Rose (Baron) Greenwich gave birth to Eleanor Louise Greenwich who gained fame as singer “Ellie” Greenwich.

1940: Hitler and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco met in Hendaye today where the Nazi leader demanded that his fascist client join his war effort; a demand that the Spaniard turned down.

1941(2nd of Cheshvan, 5702): Odessa "action" continued as 19,000 more Jews were gathered into the city square, sprayed with gasoline and burned alive.

1941(2nd of Cheshvan, 5702): Thousands of Jews are murdered at Kragujevac, Yugoslavia.

1941: Father Bernhard Lichtenberg was arrested for protesting against German deportation of the Jews. He died on his way to Dachau

1941(2nd of Cheshvan, 5702): The Nazis executed 10,000 Jews of the Vilna ghetto

1941: Isidore Newman, who was training as a Wireless with SOE was described today as “good at PT; knows a lot and so this makes him a little unpopular with others in the group.”

1942: The Battle of El Alamein began with a major attack by British forces on Rommel’s Afrika Corps and their Italian Allies. When the fighting started the Axis were on the verge of sweeping the British out of Egypt, seizing the Suez Canal, cutting the Imperial lifeline to India and destroying the Jewish community in Eretz Israel. The well-supplied Allied forces overcame the usual timidity of their generals and broke the Axis lines, starting the Germans on a long retreat that would end with surrender in Tunisia in 1943.

1942: Algerian-Jewish resistance leader José Aboulker met with American General Mark Clark in Morocco. Aboulker is given 800 Sten guns, 800 grenades, 400 handguns, and 50 portable radios. This is in preparation for Operation Torch, the November, 1942 landing of American and British forces in North Africa. One of the big unknowns was how the French forces would react. Would they resist since the French Vichy government was allied with Germany, or would they greet the Allies as liberating comrades in arms. The Americans hoped for the latter, but as this action showed, they were preparing for the former.

1942(12th of Cheshvan, 5703): Forty-one year old Ralph Rainger who was born Ralph Reichenthal was among ,the 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner who are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. The award-winning composer was responsible for such hits Love in Bloom, Blue Hawaii and Bob Hope’s signature song, Thanks for the Memory.

1943(24^thof Tishrei, 5704): Fifty-two year old violinist and bandleader Ben Bernie (Bernard Anzelevitz) whose orchestra “was heard via remote broadcast from the Hotel Roosevelt in New York on the first such broadcast by NBC” passed away. (Editor’s note – some sources show the death date as October 20)

1943(24th of Tishrei, 5704): Five days after their deportation train left Rome, its 1,060 Jewish passengers were gassed at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

1943(24th of Tishrei, 5704: Eighteen hundred Polish Jews formerly held at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, arrive at Auschwitz, where the women revolt outside the gas chambers, killing one SS guard and wounding two. SS reinforcements use gas grenades and machine-gun fire to subdue and kill the resisters.

1943: In Lithuania, a Jewish partisan unit destroys telegraph and telephone lines along the Vilna-to-Lida railway

1943(24th of Tishrei, 5704: One thousand, seven hundred-fifty Polish Jews, believing they were awaiting transport to South America, were sent to Birkenau instead. The women took part in a minor revolt in response to SS Sergeant Josef Schillinger's request for them to strip. He was shot and other SS men were injured. Rudolf Hoess ordered the removal of each of the women into the camp grounds, and had each one shot. According to Jerzy Tabau, who later escaped, "the extermination of the Jews continued relentlessly. . ."

1944: In Budapest, Swedish consul Raoul Wallenberg and Swiss consul Carl Lutz continue to issue protective documents to Jews, partly in response to a decree that Jews in Hungary who are of foreign nationalities or those holding foreign passports will be exempt from forced labor.

1944: Hungarian authorities agreed to send another 25,000 Jews to Germany for purposes of forced labor. Charles Lutz, the Swiss Consul managed to save thousands of others by issuing collective passports and protective documents.

1944: As of today, the National Citizens Political Action Committee “had received contributions totaling $271, 531 and spent $165, 018.

1945: Birthdate of Kenneth Feinberg, an American attorney, specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution who first came to fame as the Special Masster of the September 11^th Victim Compensation Fund. He has remained in the public eye as the TARP “pay czar” and the man who was supposed to sort out the mess related to compensating the victims of the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

1946: The original Kibbutz Ein Tzurim was founded today in Gush Etzion. The Jordanian Army destroyed the Kibbutz during Israel’s War for Independence.

1947: In Kiriyate Bialik, Hadasa and Moshe gave birth to Yosef (Yosi) Barena who at the age of twenty would perish aboard the INS Dakar.

1948(20^th of Tishrei, 5709): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth

1948: The 4^th Battalion of the Givati Brigade captured the village of Ajjur.

1948: Beit Jibrin was captured by the 52 Battalion of Givati and the 8th Brigade today

1949: An Israeli government spokesman reports hundreds of Jews in Iraq had been brutally arrested, and all their property confiscated.

1950(12th of Cheshvan, 5711): Al Jolson passed away. Born Asa Yoelson in Lithuania in 1886, Jolson’s father was a Cantor for a synagogue in downtown Washington D.C. at the turn of the century. Jolson chose to use his singing talents in a different manner. As one of America’s first “superstars, he starred on Broadway, radio and film. He is most famous for starring in the first talkie – the first full length film with sound. It was called the Jazz Singer.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/1950/oct/25/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm

http://jolsonville.com/

1951(23^rd of Tishrei, 5712): Simchat Torah is celebrated by congregants of Adas Israel in its new home at Connecticut Avenue and Porter.

1951: In Manhattan “radio station manager R. Peter Straus” and “Ellen Sulzberger Straus, a cousin of New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger” gave birth to magazine published Diane Straus, the Yale University graduate and “stepsister of Monica Lewinsky.”

1951(23^rd of Tishrei, 5712): Sixty-seven year old Ukrainian born playwright and screen writer Leo Birinski passed away today “at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx” after which he was tragically buried at Potter’s Filed.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported at length on the research conducted in the Negev wadis by Dr. Nelson Glueck, the president of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck discovered and described many wadis, situated deep in the Negev wastes, whose sides had been terraced from bottom to top. There were numerous cisterns to catch the run-off rainwater, as well as many dams and irrigation channels, a testimony to the former intense cultivation and human presence in that currently uninhabited territory. Glueck would eventually record all of his findings in a popular tome entitled Rivers In The Desert.

1953(14^thof Cheshvan, 5714): Eighty year old Florence Walston, the daughter of Caroline and David Lewis Einstein the widow of Theodore David Seligman and archeologist Sir Charles Walston passed away today.

1955: In New York, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, held a cornerstone ceremony which was designed to serve as fund raiser for erecting a new community center. The inscription on the stone read: "Dedicated to Sephardic Unity and Community Service."

1955: It was reported today that Dr. Benjamin Mazar, the President of Hebrew University is visiting the United States as part of an effort to highlight the observance of the school’s thirtieth anniversary. The university currently has 4,000 students and a faculty of 560.

1956: The Hungarian Revolution began as Hungarians sought to remove Soviet forces from their country. The revolt would turn violent as Soviet tanks returned to the streets of Budapest. The Hungarian Revolt came at the same time as the Suez Crisis when the Israelis rolled across the Sinai and an Anglo-French force intervened. In an interesting role reversal the Eisenhower Administration did nothing meaningful to stop the Soviets. At the same, the Eisenhower Administration joined forces with the Soviets to support the Egyptian dictator Gamal Nasser against the English, French and the Israelis.

1958: Russian novelist Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The author of Dr. Zhivago was born to Jewish parents in Moscow. His father was a professor of painting and his mother was a concert pianist.

1959: In Royal Oak, Michigan, “Celia (née Abrams), a lingerie store proprietor, and Leonard Raimi, a furniture store proprietor” gave birth to Michigan State University drop-out and successful movie maker Samuel M. “Sam” Raimi the brother of actor Ted Raimi, screenwriter of Ivan Raimia, Andrea Raimi Ruben and the late Saner Raimi

1960: U.S. premiere of “The Magnificent Seven” the classic western with a most memorable score created by Elmer Bernstein and a script co-authored by Walter Bernstein

1961(13th of Cheshvan, 5722):Harold K. Guinzburg, founder of Viking Press, and the father of publisher Thomas Guinzburg, passed away.

1962: “The Longest Day” an epic about June 6 with a script co-authored by Romain Gary and co-starring Red Buttons was released today in Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

1963: Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre.

1963: Ivry Gitlis performed in Vilna making him the first Israeli violinist to play in the Soviet Union under the cultural exchange between the two countries.

1963: In New York City “Martin and Rhoda Brecker” gave birth to Allison Ivy Brecker, part of a quadruplet birth, who married “film composer Edward Shearmur” and gained fame as movie executive “Allison’Alli’ Ivy Shearmur.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allison-shearmur-dead-star-wars-hunger-games-producer-was-54-1076184

1970(23^rdof Tishrei, 5731): Simchat Torah

1970:“The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail” co-authored by Jerome Lawrence was performed professionally for the first time at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

1972: A terrorist plot was thwarted today when an Algerian “diplomatic courier” who was a Palestinian was “arrested at the airport in Amsterdam for carrying arms” for unknown reasons.

1972: “Pippin” the “Tony Award-winning musical with lyrics and music by Stephen Schwartz” premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre” with John Rubinstein, the son of concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein, playing the title role.

1973: Rabbi Sally J. Priesand offered the opening prayer in the United States House of Representatives, at the invitation of Congresswoman Bella Abzug. According to Abzug, Priesand was not only the first Jewish woman, but the first woman to be accorded this honor. October 23, 1973 also turned out to be the day on which the first resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon was offered. Priesand became the first woman to be ordained by a rabbinical seminary in June 1972. While Priesand was the first American woman rabbi, she was not the first woman to study toward that goal. She was preceded at Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Institute of Religion by other women including Martha Neumark, Helen Levinthal Lyons, Toby Fink, and Norma Kirschner.

1973: The UN Cease Fire Resolution was proving a difficult document to enforce on the ground. There was opposition in Israel to accepting a cease fire. In particular, Menachem Begin, speaking for the coalition of right wing parties, opposed accepting the cease fire as long as Arab forces occupied our territory i.e. any part of the Sinai east of the Suez Canal. Ironically, this would be part of the very land that Begin would trade with Sadat to gain a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

1974(11^thof Cheshvan, 5735): Ninety-four year old Hungarian playwright and screen writer Melichor Lengye; passed away in Budapest.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12120.html

1975: John Gunther Dean, the American diplomat who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 at the age of 12 was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark.

1976: “Information was received that Victor Elistratov, Mikhail Kremen and Arkady Polishchuk were detained for 15 days, and Boris Chernobilsky was placed in Butyrskaya prison.”

1977(11^th of Cheshvan, 5738): Ninety-four year old Brooklyn native and Harvard graduate Clarence Grove Bachrach the Brooklyn Law School trained attorney and partner in the firm of Bachrach and Bisgyer passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/24/archives/clarence-grover-bachrach.html

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, reacting to the recent passenger aircraft hijacking incidents and the murder of a Lufthansa pilot, had postponed its threatened 48-hour global air-transport strike, after the UN agreed to hold a full meeting of the General Assembly on the subject of air piracy.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Lev Ovsiher, a highly decorated Jewish Red Army veteran, gave his 17 medals back to the Soviet government, to protest the refusal to let him immigrate with his family to Israel. Yes, it was only a quarter of a century ago that the Refusniks were fighting to leave the Soviet Union. Change does happen and sometimes it is for the better.

1980: Today “In a provocative essay in the New England journal Dr. Arnold Relman, the editor in chief, issued the clarion call that would resound through his career, assailing the American health care system as caring more about making money than curing the sick.”

1981: In the Soviet Union, “massive pressure was exerted on Hebrew teachers” as “KGB departments in various cities summoned teachers and demanded that they stop teaching” the forbidden language.

1983: A suicide terrorist truck bomb killed 243 US personnel in Beirut. President Reagan responded by withdrawing the Marine peacekeeping force from Lebanon. There are those who feel that this response was viewed as a victory by the terrorists who moved forward with attacks on airports in Europe and the downing of an airliner over Scotland.

1983: Episcopal priest William Bumiller and Rabbi Harold White officiated at the wedding of “Elisabeth Bumiiler of the Washington Post” and New York Times White House correspondent Steven R. Weisman the of Joseph Weisman, the President of the Jewish Homes for the Aged of Greater Los Angeles and “Etta Weisman, the President of Helping hand of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

1983: While a chaplain for the United States Sixth Fleet, Arnold Resnicoff was present in Beirut, Lebanon, during the suicide truck bomb attack that took the lives of 241 American military personnel, and wounded scores more.

1983(16th of Cheshvan, 5744): Thirty-six year old newscaster Jessica Savitch and 34 year old Martin Fischbein, the vice president and assistant general manager of the New York Post were killed in an automobile accident today. (As reported by Peter Kerr)

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/25/obituaries/jessica-savitch-of-nbc-tv-killed-in-car-accident.html

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086321,00.html

http://www.raynesmccarty.com/newsevents/93-no-publication-listed/173-savitch-settlement-8125-million-in-newswomans-death.html

1983: Following a lengthy and intense debate within the Conservative movement, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) faculty senate, voted 34-8 to admit women to the JTS Rabbinical School. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)

1986(20^thof Tishrei, 5747): Sukkoth Chol Hamoed

1986(20^thof Tishrei, 5747): Eighty-six year old Helen Rovine, the Norma, NJ, native who married Benjamin Grossman with whom she had three children, passed away today in Philadelphia.

1987: “Suspect” a courtroom drama written by Eric Roth was released today.

1987: Sixty-three year old David Gorcey, son of Russian Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother, who was known as one of “The Bowery Boys” passed away today.

1991: Nicholas Davies and Robert Maxwell, filled a libel suit against Faber & Faber Ltd the publisher of The Samson Option by Seymour M. Hirsch

1992: “Zebrahead” starring Michael Rapaport was released today in the United States today.

1994: “Ex-Judge Wachtler’s Early Release From Halfway House Denied” published today described the decision not to release Sol Wachtler “because he sneaked out to attend a political fund raiser.”

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-23/news/mn-53884_1_halfway-house

1996(10^thof Cheshvan, 5757): Ninety-one year old social critic Diana Trilling the widow of Lionel Trilling passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/25/books/diana-trilling-cultural-critic-member-select-intellectual-circle-dies-91.html

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/trilling-diana

1996: In Providence, RI, pediatrician Scott Berns and pediatric intern Leslie Grove gave birth to Sampson Gordon Berns “a Massachusetts high school junior whose life with the illness progeria was the subject of a documentary film recently shortlisted for an Academy Award.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1998: “The Last Day” an Oscar winning documentary that ‘tell the story of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust” premiered in Los Angeles.

1998: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the Wye River Memorandum, thus bringing about the end of his first government.

1998 (3^rdof Cheshvan, 5759): Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed abortions, was murdered at his home in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., when a sniper fired a shot through his kitchen window. Slepian was murdered on a Friday night after his family had returned home from Shabbat eve services.

1998: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat signed a land-for-peace agreement at the White House, following nine days of talks at Wye River, Md.

1999: The Howard Nemerov House was dedicated today at Washington University in St. Louis.

http://wustl.edu/community/visitors/tour/danforth/nemerov-house.html

2001(6^thof Cheshvan, 5762): Eighty-four year Daniel Wildenstein, who enjoyed prominent positions in the world of thoroughbred horse-racing and art passed away today. (As reported by Alan Riding)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/arts/daniel-wildenstein-84-head-of-art-world-dynasty-dies.html?scp=7&sq=Wildenstein&st=cse

2002(17^thof Cheshvan, 5763): Sixty-nine year old Al Lerner, the billionaire owner of the Cleveland Browns passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/26/local/me-lerner26

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/sports/alfred-lerner-69-banker-revived-cleveland-browns.html?pagewanted=1

http://www.cbssports.com/print/nfl/story/5827319

2003: Israel honored Hans von Dohnányi by recognizing him as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for saving the Arnold and Fliess families, at risk to his own life.

2003(27^thof Tishrei, 5764): Ninety-one year old “Judah Benzion ‘Ben’ Segal”, the “Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies,” the father of Professor Moshe Zvi Segal and the brother of Dr. Samuel Segal” passed away today.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-j-b-segal-37421.html

2004(8^thof Cheshvan, 5765): Parashat Lech Lecha

2004(8^thof Cheshvan, 5765): Eighty-seven year old opera mainstay Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller) passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/arts/music/robert-merrill-a-favorite-baritone-at-the-met-for-30-years-is.html?_r=0

2005: The New York Times reviewed The Life of David by Robert Pinksy. This biography is one of the first books in the “Jewish Encounters” series, which will match prominent Jewish writers with a variety of subjects.

2005: “Curacao’s place in the Diaspora,” publishedtoday the Boston Globe reports on the history of this Jewish community including the founding of Mikve Israel-Emanuel which was built in 1732, nearly 100 years after the first Jews arrived. Most of them were Sephardics fleeing persecution in Europe.

2006(1^stof Cheshvan, 5767): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that Indonesia will purchase four Israeli unmanned planes, or drones, through a Filipino distributor. The deal was a surprise to some because Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has long supported Palestinian independence efforts and does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.

2006: Max Kellerman began hosting the 10 AM to noon program on WEPN, replacing ESPN's nationally broadcast Colin Cowherd program.

2007: The Upper Midwest Region of Hadassah hosts its annual Big Gifts Dinner honoring Barbara Melamed with Hadassah’s Myrtle Wreath Award.

2007: Today, Luke Ford the son Desmond Ford, a noted Seventh Day Adventist theologian who converted to Judaism “announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party,”

2007: “Emmanuelle Grey Rossum’s album ‘Inside Out’ was released” today “and peaked at 199 in the U.S. Billboard Charts.

2007: “Avenue Q,” Moshe Kepten’s Israeli version of the Broadway hit musical debuts at Beit Lessin, in Tel Aviv.

2008: “Mother Economy,” the 19-minute film on view at New York’s Jewish Museum since July 1, comes to an end This exhibition, continuously screening in the 300-square-foot Goodkind Media Center marks the American debut of Israeli artist Maya Zack and is a powerfully imaginative meditation on Holocaust remembrance and on the myth of the Jewish mother. The elaborate set and intricately choreographed narrative, in which a mysterious protagonist methodically documents personal artifacts of absent family members before baking a noodle kugel, is saturated with ambiguous details, inviting layers of interpretation.

2008: Today, during a congressional hearing, Alan “Greenspan admitted that his free-market ideology shunning certain regulations was flawed.”

2008:As part of the Israel@ 60 Celebration, the Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish presents a screening and discussion of the award-winning Israeli documentary, "No. Seventeen was Anonymous." The event is facilitated by Professor Tova Weitzman of Vassar College.

2008(24^thof Tishrei 5769):Friends and family of Avraham Ozeri voiced sorrow and anger at the killing of the 86-year-old they described as "salt of the earth" in today's stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
"My father was a man whom everyone loved and who never wronged a single person. To stab a man such as this, at this age, is an animal-like act," said Ozeri's son, Amos. He added that his father's motto was "love of the land." Ozeri was born in the capital's Bukharan Quarter to parents who had immigrated from Yemen. He was educated in a cheder orthodox primary school and later in a talmud Torah, another religious institution. From the age of 15 he held various temporary jobs. In 1942, he enlisted in the British Mandate police force, and served as a guard north of the Dead Sea. At one point, he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Jewish underground, although he was released after a short period of time. Ozeri fought in the 1948 War of Independence in the Yemin Moshe and Abu Tor areas of Jerusalem. He volunteered in the 1956 Sinai Campaign and 1967 Six-Day war, working on Israel Defense Forces fortifications.
Ozeri then worked for 35 years as a customs official, retiring in 1998. A year later, his wife Rivka passed away. Nir Yogev, Ozeri's grandson related that his grandfather had planned to participate in a 10-kilometer run in Tel Aviv on Saturday. "Grandpa was an exemplary sportsman and was involved in long-distance running for 40 years. Over the years, there wasn't a marathon that grandpa didn't take part in. His closet was full of trophies and awards. Up until a few years ago he would run with me and [his other] grandchildren every Shabbat from the neighborhood of Gilo to the neighborhood of Ramot, and back," said Yogev.

2008:Vandals rampaged through a sprawling Jewish cemetery in Romania's capital, toppling tombstones and smashing markers for as many as 200 graves.

2008:Today, the German government handed Israel's national Holocaust memorial personal details of the 600,000 Jewish residents of Nazi Germany, the most comprehensive record to date of German-Jewish life during the Nazi era. German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann presented the "Directory of Jewish residents in Germany 1933-1945" during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial.

2009(5^thof Cheshvan, 5770): Ninety-fiver year old Canadian-born character actor Lou Jacobi passed away in New York City.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/nyregion/25jacobi.html?_r=1

2009: As part of his World Tour, Leonard Cohen performs at Madison Square Garden.

2009: The New York Times featured a review of The Humbling, Philip Roth’s latest novella

2009: “Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis” opens at the Cinema Village in New York City. This is a cinematic presentation of material covered in the recently publish, Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust by Anna Porter.http://www.killingkasztner.com/

2010(15th of Cheshvan): Yahrzeit of Shlomo Carlebach

2010: Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple is scheduled to open tonight as Theatre J kicks off its 2010-2011 season in Washington, DC.

2010: New York Timesopinion columnist Thomas Friedman said that many Americans are becoming "fed up" with Israel. Friedman's comments came in an interview with Channel Two reporter Dana Weiss to be aired today. Friedman stated that while the American public was by no means anti-Israel, they no longer care about the Israeli-Arab conflict and this could eventually hurt Israel's national security interests. Friedman added that he believes Israel is not doing the utmost to promote renewed peace talks with the Palestinians."

2010: The vote on a bill that would reinstate stipends for men who study Torah full-time will not take place tomorrow as was previously scheduled, the Prime Minister's Office announced today.

2011: Seventy-one year old Ophir Award winning cinematographer “Amnon Salomon” a “disciple of cinematographer David Gurfinkel” lost his battle with cancer today and passed away.

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5202870

2011: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor “A Walking tour of Old Town Alexandria” that will include visits “to the sites of two former synagogues and several Jewish businesses along King Street-including some that show traces of past Jewish owners.”

2011: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a Walking Tour of Jewish Sites in Arlington National Cemetery that will include visits to “memorials by or for Jews, and headstones of prominent Jewish leaders buried at Arlington.”

2011: Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled to open in Washington, D.C.

2011: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Alice Hoffman’s latest book, a novel entitled “The Dovekeepers,” which attempts to retell the story of the Jewish resistance during the Roman siege of Masada in the first century and “The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45” by Ian Kershaw.

2011: Israel has offered to aid the Turkish government in any way it can after a massive earthquake shook the Turkish southeast, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today

2011: Police have arrested a third suspect in the torching of a mosque in the Beduin village of Tuba Zanghariya in the Galilee in early October, police announced today. The suspect, a minor, was arrested day before yesterday and brought before the Rishon Letzion Magistrate's Court on Sunday morning, where his remand was extended by five days

2011: National Infrastructures Ministry announced today that Egypt has resumed natural gas deliveries to Israel.

2012: Israeli cellist Elad Kabilio is scheduled to appear at the Joyce Theatre in New York

2012: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present “An Evening with Romanian Jewish Author Norman Manea” during which he will from his latest novel, The Liar

2012: An IDF officer was critically wounded while carrying out a routine patrol near the Gaza border fence today. A blast was heard in the vicinity of the incident which the IDF believes was caused by a roadside bomb.http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=288913

2012: The Emir of Qatar embraced the Hamas leadership of Gaza today with an official visit that broke the isolation of the Palestinian Islamist movement, to the dismay of Israel and rival, Western-backed Palestinian leaders.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/10/23/world/middleeast/23reuters-gaza-qatar-visit.html?hp&_r=0

2013: The Jacqueline and Myron Blank Fund along with The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines are scheduled to host a program in dedicating the Iowa Holocaust Memorial at the State Historical Building

2013: Emmy Award winning theatre critic Pat Launer is scheduled to discuss “Broken Glass” one of the last plays by Arthur Miller that combines themes of Kristallnacht with anxieties of a American Jewish couple living in New York.

2013: John “Kander's first musical without Fred Ebb in many years, The Landing, with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre today.”

2013: The Lawrence Family JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” which “chronicles the efforts of Gilbert Kraus and his wife, Eleanor, two Americans who undertook the successful rescue of 50 Jewish children from Vienna in the late spring of 1939.”

2013: Israeli warplanes hit a convoy of advanced missiles heading out of Syria and into Lebanon where they were to be delivered to Hezbollah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported today (Reported Stuart Winer)

2013: When the Red Sox take the field against the Cards tonight in the opening game of the World Series, Craig Breslow will be in the Boston bull-pen.

2013: According to unofficial figures released today 35.9% of the eligible voters went to the polls in Jerusalem and 31.5% of the eligible voters went to the polls in Tel Aviv during the just completed mayoral elections.

2013: Israel's unusual period of seismic activity continued today as yet another small earthquake was felt - this time in the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat. (As reported by Ari Soffer)

2013(19^th of Cheshvan, 5574): Ninety-year old sandal maker and musician Allan Block passed away today, (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/allan-block-whose-sandal-shop-was-folk-music-hub-dies-at-90.html?hpw

2013(19^th of Cheshvan, 5574): Ninety-two year old Bill Mazer “who was a voice and face of sports coverage in New York for decades, pioneering sports-talk radio and becoming a television fixture while earning the nickname the Amazin’ for his encyclopedic recall of sports facts and figures” passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/sports/bill-mazer-a-sports-fixture-of-new-york-radio-and-tv-dies-at-92.html?hpw

2014(29^th of Tishrei, 5775): Ninety year old Frank Mankiewicz, the son of Herman J. Mankiewicz and nephew of Joseph L. Mankiewicz whose writing career took detours to serve in the Presidential campaigns of Robert F. Kenney and George S. McGovern passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/us/politics/frank-mankiewicz-press-secretary-to-robert-f-kennedy-dies-at-90.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

2014: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a screening of “American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco.”

2014: The University of Connecticut is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Philip Balma on “Hiding in Plain Sight: Italian Jews and the Film Industry.”

2014: The University of Connecticut is scheduled to “I Have No Right to Be Silent” -- a panel discussion on the social activism and human rights work of Rabbi Marshal Meyer.

2014: The Chicago International Film Festival which has included a screening of “Gett” is scheduled to come to an end today.

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Two Jewish Loves: Food and Literature.”

2014: “The Sturgeon Queens” is scheduled to be shown at the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Rita Jahan-Foruz is scheduled to introduce her biographical film this evening at the Skirball Center.

2014: Three-month old Chaya Zissel Braun who was killed when a terrorist “drove his car into a crowd waiting at the Ammuniition Hill light rail station” was laid to rest early this morning. (As reported by Lazar Berman)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/funeral-begins-for-baby-killed-in-suspected-terror-attack/

2014: “Robin Banerjee, Amy Winehouse’s bassist for a portion of her career will be performing at Barby Tel Aviv tonight.

2014: “French Jewish leader Roger Cukierman is indicted for referring to Dieudonné as a “professional anti-Semite” during a television appearance.”

2014: The 28^thIsrael Film Festival opens this evening.

http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/

2015: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host “Shabbat Alive!” with Rick Recht.

2015: The Jewish National Fund’s 15^th Annual National Conference is scheduled to open in Chicago.

2015: “Rock the Kasbah” a comedy “directed by Barry Levinson and written by Mitch Glazer is scheduled to be released in the United States today by Open Road Films

2015: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening of Brahms featuring “the Jerusalem Quartet” which is “joined by two friends and frequent collaborators, Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan and clarinetist Sharon Kam (sister to the Jerusalem’s' violist Ori Kam).”

2015(10^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Sixty-six year old Thomas G. Stemberg, the founder of Staples whose Roman Catholic mother Erika Ratzer was disinherited for marrying Jewish Viennese hotel manager Oscar Stemberg passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/business/thomas-g-stemberg-co-founder-of-staples-dies-at-66.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2016(2st of Tishrei, 5777): Hosha’na Rabbah (Editor’s note – excuse those who may seem a little tired since they may have been up all night studying

http://ish-tam.com/rav_drizin/Tikkun_Leil_Hoshana_Rabbah.pdf

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2286/a-tale-of-two-night-vigils/

2016: The 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, named in honor of Lublin born violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski is scheduled to end today

2016: At the Jewish Museum “Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Beatriz Milhazes” organized by Kelly Taxter, Associate Curator and Jens Hoffmann, Director of Special Exhibitions and Public Programs is scheduled to come to an end today.

2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Rules For Others To Live By: Comments and Self-Contradictionsby Richard Greenberg, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones and The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg

2017: Today, “The Knesset unanimously passed a law to ban Israel’s binary options industry, a vast, multibillion dollar scam that has defrauded millions of victims worldwide for a decade.” (As reported by Simon Weinglass)

2017: In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “The Women’s Balcony.”

https://www.menemshafilms.com/womens-balcony

2017: The Landmark Centre in Beachwood, Ohio is scheduled to host Jonathan Schneer, a professor of history George Tech speaking on “The Making of the Balfour Declaration.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Segev-t.html

2017:The American Sephardi Federation and New York Jewish Travel Guide are scheduled to present “Jewish Heritage of Malta” -- an evening exploring a beautiful island's connection to Jewish history and culture

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdd7SW3jIME3vw2B3elD-_OF9j3m_8CPRj4-KdNdIaDQIyrPA/viewform

2018: The Cleveland Jewish News is scheduled to co-host “Women Leadership” moderated by Lauren Rich Fine.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Female Human Animal”

2018: In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Get Creative” a workshop where youngsters will make “spooky arts and crafts inspired” by the museum’s “Frankenstein Exhibition.”

2018: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with John Grisham on the same day that his latest novel goes on sale.

2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to “Can We Talk?” an evening where Melissa Rivers “channels her mother,” the late Joan Rivers.

2018: The National Jewish Book Award Luncheon is scheduled to take place at the Lander College for Women today.

2018: The American Jewish Historical Society to host “The Man who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox,” a “book talk with author Vanda Kreff, MOMA curator Dave Kehr and Brooklyn College Professor Frederick Wasser.”

2018: Howard Kaplan’s latest novel, To Destroy Jerusalem, is scheduled to be released to the general public.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HKWLN3W/

2018: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Exhibiting Difficult Histories: The ‘Anti-Zionist’ Campaign in Poland, 1967-1968, And Its Echoes Today” a discussion led by Dariusz Stola, the director of POLIN.

2019: In Sonoma County, the Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host two screenings of “Bye Bye German.”

2019: In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host New York Times science columnist discussing the subject of heredity.

2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss The German Girl, a novel by Armando Lucas Correa.

2019: The 43^rd Annual Robert S. Hartman Institute Conference is scheduled to begin at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.

2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Ambassador Samantha Power’s Journey from Activist to Insider.

2019: The Boca Raton Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “From Cairo to the Cloud” which tells the story of the world of the Cairo Geniza.

OCTOBER 24

51: Birthdate of Titus Flavius Domitianus, who gained fame as the Roman Emperor Domitian. Domitian was the son of Vespasian and the brother of Titus, all three of whom played a key role in the destruction of Jerusalem which was one of the cornerstones of power for the Flavian dynasty. Domitian was even more hostile to the Jews than either of his predecessors as can be seen by his ruthless enforcement of the ban on Romans converting to Judaism and his rigorous efforts to collect the special taxes assessed against the Jews. His death in 96 would not be mourned by the Children of Israel.

69: At the Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius. This victory helped to pave the way for Vespasian to become Emperor of the Roman Empire. According to Jewish mythology, it was Yoachanah Ben Zachai’s prediction that Vespasian would attain this goal that led to him being able to establish the academy at Yavneh. Vespasian turned matters around Jerusalem to his son Titus who would destroy the Temple within the year.

996: Hugh Capet, King of France who was being treated by a Jewish physician, passed away. The king's decision to use a Jewish doctor gave created the myth (which was believed by many) that the Jews had killed the king.

996: Robert II, who “conspired with is vassals to destroy all the Jews who would not accept baptism” and inspired mob violence against the Jews including “the learned Rabbi Senior” began his solo reign as King of France today.

1147: After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques defeated the Moors and re-conquered Lisbon. According to one source, Alfonso was concerned about his chances of defeating the Moors. He looked to the Bible for support and comfort; something he found in the story of Gideon where a force of 300 Israelites defeated a Midianite army numbering 125,000. Following his victories at Santarém and Lisbon, Alfonso allowed the Jewish population to remain, to build synagogues and to enjoy most of the same rights as the rest of the citizens of his realm.

1273: Coronation of King Rudolf I who in 1286 “instituted a new persecution of the Jews, declaring them servi camerae ("serfs of the treasury"), which had the effect of negating their political freedoms

1492: The Jews were again accused of stabbing a consecrated wafer in Mecklenburg, Germany. Twenty-seven were burned including two women, and all the Jews are expelled from the duchy. The spot where they were killed is still called the Judenberg.

1648: The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War. While the Jews of Europe were not combatants or participants in the peace talk, this treaty did have far-reaching impact on them. The treaty brought an end to the Holy Roman Empire which meant that the various states of Germany were able to choose their own religion and develop on their own. The independence of the Netherlands was recognized. The tolerant Dutch nation had already proven itself as a hospitable for Jews and six years after the treaty European Jews would find haven in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. According to some historians, the treaty marked the end of the religious wars that had gripped Europe (much to the detriment of the Jews) and marked the rise of the modern nation-state system. While anti-Semitism would continue to be part of the European landscape, the Jews of Europe would fare better after 1648 under a system of national citizenship.

1663: In Caen, France, Jacques de Lancy and Marguerite Bertrand gave birth to Etienne de Lancy, also known as Stephen Delancey, the husband of Anna de Lancy and the father of Colonel James de Lancy, an official of Colonial New York.

1669: William Prynne, a lawyer, author and political leader who opposed re-admitting Jews to England passed way. One of the pamphlets published by Prynne that decried “their ill deportment” and “misdemeanors” found favor with the merchants in London who claimed to oppose the admissions of Jews on religious grounds but who were “jealous of the wealth of the Hebrews” and did not want to compete with them for business.

1760: In Powhatan Country, VA, Mary Tabb and John Mayo gave birth to John Mayor, the husband of Abigail de Hart and father of Edward, Maria, Julia and John Mayo.

1764: In Berlin, Moses Mendelssohn and his wife gave birth to their oldest daughter, Brendel Mendelssohn who gained fame as German novelist Dorothea von Schlegel, and the mother of painter Philipp Veit.”

1755: Birthdate of Abraham Mordecai, the native of Philadelphia, PA, who was probably the first Jew to settle in Alabama.

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3135?printable=true

1768: In Philadelphia, PA, Rebecca Myers-Cohen and Mathias Bush gave birth to Abraham Bush.

1777(23^rd of Tishrei, 5538): Simchat Torah

1780: Zipporah Levy and Newport, RI, native Benjamin Mendes Seixas gave birth to Moses Seixas.

1781: “Abraham ben Moses Atziplotz” was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”

1784: In Leghorn, Tuscany, “Joseph Elias Montefiore and his young wife Rachel, the daughter of Abraham Mocatta, a powerful bullion broker in London, who were in the town on a business journey” gave birth to their first child Sir Moses Montefiore, who in a life time that spanned more than a century, proved to be not only a great leader of the Anglo-Jewish Community, but one of the most formidable Jews of the 19^th century. There is no way to do justice to this great man’s life in this brief blog. You are encouraged to examine the many sources available about this successful financier, public servant and philanthropist whose generosity was integral source of support for the Jewish settlers of 19^th century Palestine.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/montefiore.html

1786: “Biene Reiss” and Mordechai Salomon Reiss gave birth to Joseph Reiss.

1792: Marriage of Ruben and Roeschen Gumperz.

1795: Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia. This is an example of the law of unintended consequences. Russia, which had been trying to keep Jews out, now found itself with millions of Jewish Poles as Russian citizens. For the next hundred years the various Czars devised plans to control or destroy the Jewish community in Russia. The most famous example was the one-third, one-third, one-third program. One third of the Jews would convert, one third would immigrate and one third would die. Thus Russia would be rid of its Jews.

1804(19^th of Cheshvan, 5565): Marx Levy Mordechai, the rabbi at Trier and husband of Eva Lwow, who was the father of Heinrich Marx and the grandfather of Karl Marx passed away today.

1807: Birthdate of Prussian poet and philologist Ludwig Wihl who “advanced the theory that Phoenician was a linguistic derivative of Hebrew, and that Phoenicia had exercised a profound influence on the art of early Greece” but whose refusal to be baptized “doomed” his university career.

1811: Birthdate of Ferdinand Hiller the native of Frankfurt am Main who gained fame as composer and director and who founded the Cologne Conservatoire in 1850 where he served as Kapellmeister until 1884.

1821: Joel Benjamin married Frances Cohen at the Hambro Synagogue today.

1821: Eighty-one year Elias Boudinot, the 10th President of the Continental Congress who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the American Indians that the Indians were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes and that the Hebrew was the origin of their language, passed away today. (Editor’s note – Boudinot was but one in a long list of people who held this belief which is why some early explorers were rumored to have included somebody with a knowledge of Hebrew among those serving in their expeditions.)

1826(23^rd of Tishrei, 5587): Simchat Torah

1826(23^rd of Tishrei, 5587): German actor and theatrical manager Jacob Herzfeld passed away.

1828: At The Hague, Moses de Pinto and Sara Salvador gave birth to Dutch jurist Aaron Adolf de Pinto.

1828: Emmanuel Hart was buried today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”

1831: In Philadelphia, Clarissa and Joseph M. Asch gave birth to Myer Asch the dentist turned soldier who began his service as a Second Lt. in Company H of the First Cavalry, Jew Jersey Volunteers in 1861 and rose to the rank of Colonel, in recognition of his valor combat and as a P.O.W. in Libby Prison before being discharged in 1865.

1834: Birthdate of Levi Adler, the husband of Theresa Wile and father of Isaac Adler, the Harvard trained lawyer and 53^rd Mayor of Rochester.

1838: Cerf Cylick married Isabella Magnus at the Great Synagogue today.

1841: Birthdate of Jacob Bettelheim, the Austrian-German author and writer.

1841: Birthdate of Elie Scheid, a native of Hagenau, Alsace and founder of the Ḥebra 'Am Segullah burial society who authored separate histories of the Jews of this hometown and Alsace who became Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s primary assistant when he began his work supporting the colonization of Palestine.

1844: Birthdate of Karl Lueger, the Austrian politician who exploited popular anti-Semitism to be elected Mayor of Vienna. There are those who contend that his successful exploitation of anti-Semitism served as a role model for another resident of Vienna - Adolph Hitler.

1845(23rh of Tishrei, 5606): Simchat Torah

1848: Birthdate of Wilhelm Fleiss, the native of Arnswalde who became a noted otolaryngologist and a friend of Sigmund Freud.

1848: Michel Goudchaux resigned as Minister of Finance after the Assembly adopted a measure today that he interpreted as a vote implying that he was not honest.

1851: The New York Times reported that "the emigration of Jews is on the increase in consequence of the oppressive ukases of the Emperor."

1852: American statesman and unsuccessful Presidential candidate Daniel Webster who served his country as a Senator and Secretary of State passed away. While serving as Secretary of State in President Millard Filmore’s administration, Webster actively opposed as treaty with Switzerland that would have discriminated against American Jews trying to do business in Switzerland. Webster and the American Jewish community enjoyed a positive relationship as can be seen by the fact that he was asked to speak at the Hebrew Benevolent and German Benevolent Society meeting in 1849 in New York City. He had to turn down the invitation because of ill health but he expressed his “respect and sympathy” who have “preserved through darkness and idolatry of so many centuries.

1853(22nd of Tishrei, 5614): Shemini Atzeret

1853: The New York Times reported that Dr. Raphall, a New York rabbi, will deliver a lecture about Russia at a meeting of the Young Men's Literary Association on October 26. Tickets will cost fifty cents.

1853: When an army of Kurds attacked the city of Al-Jazira, it was Muslims, Christians and Jews who picked up arms to defend the city.

1855: In Germany David J. Meyerhardt and his wife the former Esther Marks gave birth Max Meyerhardt the husband of Nettie Watson, the father of Jennie, Julia, Max and Louis Meyerhardt who became a Judge in Georgia.

1856: Birthdate of Sir Stuart Samuel, the brother of Sir Herbert Samuel. ”He was educated at Liverpool Institute and University College School, London” and “was a member of the banking firm of Samuel Montagu and Company.” “Sir Stuart…was president of the Board of Jewish Deputies” and “headed the commission of inquiry sent by the British government to Poland to investigate the anti-Jewish excesses in 1919”

1858: Two days after she had passed away, Eliza Stiebel, the daughter of Jacob Abraham and Rebecca Daniel Mocatta and the wife of Sigismund Stiebel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1861: Birthdate of Lithuanian native and Columbia trained physician Robert Abrahams

1862(30^thof Tishrei, 5623): On Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, Abraham Lincoln continues his quest to find winning generals by replacing Don Carlos Buell with William S. Rosecrans for his failure to pursue the Confederates after the Battle of Perryville.

1869: Elizabeth Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1870: In Algiers under the leadership of Adolphe Cremieux, France granted French citizenship to all Algerian Jews. Prior to this date, citizenship was conferred on individual Jews based on their application. Algeria had been taken over by the French and this move was part of the French program of colonization. Approximately 50,000 Jews gained French citizenship in this way.

1872(22^nd of Tishrei, 5633): Shemini Atzeret

1873: In Philadelphia, PA, “Jacob and Betty (Rebecca) Bacharach” gave birth to Harry Bachrach, the Republican Mayor of Atlantic City and Postmaster serving under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt and founder of the “Jewish Community Center in Atlantic City who was the husband of Hattie Bacharach and the brother of Benjamin Bacharach, the President of Beth Israel Synagogue and Congressman Isaac Bacharach who “represented the Second District of New Jersey” for almost twenty years.

1874: According to a travelogue published today, most of the establishments for money changing in Bayonne, France are owned by Jews.

1875: “The Wild Huntsman” published today provides a brief summary of the legend of the Wandering Jew, one of those canards which has helped to fan the flame of anti-Semitism for centuries. This mythic figure supposedly refused the suffering Jesus a drink of water from a horse trough or refused to provide shelter for the Virgin Mary and Jesus when they were fleeing to Egypt. Regardless, “in some countries” he is now seen “as kind of personification of Jews” in general.

1877: In Ronnenberg, Germany, Simon and Henrietta Seligman gave birth to Frantz Seligman, the husband of Erna Seligman.

1877: “Receiving Stolen Goods” published today described a scheme to buy stolen cloth that has landed Louis Lazarus, the owner of second-hand clothing store and his son in Samuel in the Tombs.

1878: At the home of the bride in Charleston, SC, Rabbi Levy officiated at the marriage of Emil Eckstein of Savannah, GA and Fannie Livingston.

1879: Birthdate of Sydney G. Gumpertz, the native of San Raphael, CA, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during WW I.

1879: In Providence, Rhode Island, the Unitarians are holding a convention where they are “discussing the subject of Monotheism’ and have concluded that the only true monotheists are the Jews, Moslems and the Unitarians. They feel that the Trinitarian belief of Christians moves them away from true monotheism.

1880: Birthdate of Rochester, NY native Haskell Harold Marks a Jeweler and Republican member of the New York State Assembly.

1880: Fifty five year old Oswald Hönigsmann an Austrian lawyer and parliamentarian who spoke out on behalf of the emancipation of the Jewish people passed away today.

1880: In Russia , Ada and Louis Landman gave birth to American Reform Rabbi Isaac Landman who “was editor of the ten-volume Universal Jewish Encyclopedia,” “the first Jewish chaplain in the United States Army to serve on foreign soil” during World War I and a leading anti-Zionist.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/landman-isaac

https://web.archive.org/web/20110608081221/http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/ILandmanb.html

1881: Three days after he had passed away, Russian born Marcus Spero, the husband of Leah Spero, with whom he had three children – “Eamanuel, Harriet and Esther – was bred today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1882: Birthdate of “Skalat, Austria” native Maurice Oliver Magid, the 1905 graduate of the Cornell University Medical College who “was the attending gynecologist to the New York City Correction Hospital and associate gynecologist to the Bronx Hospital.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/01/112750792.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=21

1883(23^rd of Tishrei, 5644): Simchat Torah

1883: Police arrested Aaron Hammer and Moses Rauch, two Jews whose celebration of Simchat Torah got so rowdy that Bernard Levy felt the need to call the authorities for protection.

1883: Jews throughout the world celebrated the 99^th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore.

1883: “Mr. Oscanyan’s Varied Show” published today included a description of that part of the lecture the Turkish born American writer gave about the conditions of “the Jews of the East” with whose persecution he commiserated.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B00EFDE1538E033A25757C2A9669D94629FD7CF

1884: Sir Moses Montefiore celebrated his one hundredth birthday, an event that was marked with celebration throughout much of the world including a letter from Queen Victoria to the successful businessman, philanthropist and humanitarian.

1884: Services are to be held “simultaneously” at four o’clock this afternoon at synagogues in the United States to mark the 100^th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore. The speeches delivered during these services will be given to the Anglo-Jewish statesman on November 8 “which corresponds with the 24^th of October in the Jewish calendar.

1884: “A Home for Hebrew For Orphans” published today provided a complete description of the newly opened Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The four story building on the corner of 10^th Avenue and 136^thStreet is designed to accommodate 1,000 children of both sexes and was built at a cost of $60,000.00.

1886: It was reported today that the Wendell Phillips Literary Society is scheduled to “give a dramatic entertainment” at upcoming fundraising event sponsored by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1886: The Independent Hebrew Citizens’ Association of the Tenth Ward endorsed “Tommy” Grady who is running for seeking to represent the Eighth District in Congress.

1886: Forty-three year old Herman W. Hellman, the Bavarian born husband of Trevino born Ida Heimann “was elected President of the Congregation B’nai B’rith” today in San Francisco.

1887(6^th of Cheshvan, 5648): Sixty-six year old Charlotte Beyfus the wife of Abraham Oppenheim and the granddaughter of Meyer Amschel Rothschild passed away today.

1887: “The Religion of Humanity” published today provides a summary of the Dr. Kaufmann’s recently delivered addressed entitled “What is Judaism?” Kohler feels that Judaism is a religion of humanity and that “It is the Jew’s mission to stand by that religion of human which teaches the unity of the Cosmos in God, the spirit of truth and the social unity of man as based upon his God’s childship.”

1888: Birthdate of Lviv native Marek Weber, the successful “German violinist and bandleader” who fled Nazi Germany where his work was labeled “degenerate” and came to the United States where he was featured as the “Waltz King” on NBC radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62vpXVUS-Jw

1888: “Starving and Freezing” published today described the plight of the Polish Jewish farmers in Ramsey County, North Dakota. The seventy families who came from Chicago two years ago and settled 18 miles from Devils Lake have lost everything as a result of an early frost that wiped out their Wheat crop this year.

1889: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association began its 16^th season tonight with a program at Chickering Hall in NYC.

1889: “Thinks Job A Poetic Myth” published today described a skirmish in the battle between those who read the Bible literally and those who think it is subject to interpretation – a schism that was found in both 19^th century Judaism in Christianity. In this case, it was a Presbyterian Minister, E.L. Curtis who “startled his orthodox congregation” by asserted that the Book of Job “was only a parable and the other persons mentioned were but the creatures of poetical fancy.”

1891: In Russia, where the onset of winter has worsened the effects of the famine, two or three riots broke out aimed at the Jews.

1892: After spending three months at A.B. Simpson College “an institution where converted Jews are trained for missionary work thirty three year old Isaac Hertzfeld was baptized today – a an action that he would later publicly renounce.

1892: The New York Times described a change “in the future career” of Baron Hirsh, “who having devoted his youth to accumulating millions is now devoting his old age to philanthropy.” One example of this was the Baron’s decision to donate all of his “turf winnings,” a sum of 14,500 English pounds, to “deserving English charities.”

1893: The will of David James, the well-known Anglo-Jewish actor left £15,000 to various legatees and provided that his widow should receive the interest on the remaining £30,000 with the principle reverting to various Hebrew charities at the time of her death or re-marriage whichever comes first. (Smith’s birth name was Belasco, which he dropped as he developed his acting career)

1893: “Mr. Mansfield As Shylock” published today reviewed the latest New York production of The “Merchant of Venice” which featured Richard Mansfield in the role of Shylock. Unlike Edmund Kean who played Shylock as a Biblical figure, Mansfield portrayed him as a character from the Middle Ages who “loves his daughter” but “hates his enemy with deadly bitterness

1894: Professor Willis J. Beecher delivered a lecture “The Old Testament as a Whole, “the second in his series on the “Study of the Old Testament.”

1895: “Correct Spelling of Barnato’s Name” published today speculated on the correct spelling of the diamond mine mogul wondering if it was “Barney” or Barnie” a point rendered moot by the fact that his name is “Barnett which is a common surname among Christians and Jews.”

1896: In New York, the Hebrew Institute Literary Society hosted a debate on the abolition of capital punishment tonight.

1896: The teachers and pupils of the Kaminsky Conservatory of Music performed at the Hebrew Institute tonight.

1896(17^th of Cheshvan, 5657): Seventy-eight year old Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, the son of David Sassoon, who was a leading merchant in Baghdad who settled in Bombay where his business success reportedly made him “one of the richest men” in the city, passed away today.

1897(28^th of Tishrei, 5658): Eighty-three year old Yetje Hangjas, “the eldest sister of Simon Dejong passed at Haarlem, Holland.

1897: Phoebe Myers, “the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gershon Myers” married Ellis Moses “the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Moses” at the Western Synagogue.

1897: The Young Zion Institute is scheduled to hold a “public meeting at the Cannon Street Road Hall” today.

1897: At the Great Synagogue in London, Rabbi Singer is scheduled to deliver an address “at the annual thanksgiving service for the children who enjoyed” the support “of the Jewish branch of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund”

1898(8th of Cheshvan, 5659): Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto died at Guantanamo, Cuba, from the effects of fever contracted during the Spanish-American war.A member of a prominent Sephardic family that had settled in New York, this son of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto volunteered to join the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the war with Spain serving “with the Third United States Volunteer Infantry, first as first lieutenant and acting quartermaster, and then as captain of Company D. At the time of his death he was military governor and provost marshal of Guantanamo.”

1898: Ralph Disraeli was buried today in Buckinghamshire, UK.

1898; Following the end of the Spanish-American War the 2^nd Nebraska Volunteer Infantry including Sergeant Charles of North Platte, Private Elmer Heller of Omaha, Corporal Samuel Jacoby and Private Joseph Meitner both of Chadron, Private Joseph Wolf of Lincoln and Private Louis Abel of Norfolk were among those mustered out today.

1899: Birthdate of Warsaw native Anatol Stern, the poet turned screenwriter who survived the Gulag, lived in Palestine before returning to his native land where he died at the age of 68.

1902(23^rdof Tishrei, 5663): Simchat Torah

1902: Herzl had another meeting with Lord Rothschild and an appointment in the British Foreign Office.

1903: It was reported today that “The American Jewish Year book for the year 5664 (which began September 22, 1903)…has been issued. This fifth annual volume, which is 316 pages in length, was edited by Cyrus Adler. Ninety-six pages are devoted to the annual report of the Jewish Publication Society. While the volume contains a great deal of information about Jewry there is no description of the Zionist Convention held at Basel or the Pogrom at Kishinev. The former “was held too late to be included. The latter will be covered in a special pamphlet issued by JPS.

1904: After premiering in London, “The Cinglee” a musical containing “additional material by Paul Rubens opened in New York at the Original Daly’s Theatre where it ran for 33 performanes.

1904: Birthdate of producer, director and playwright Moss Hart. Hart achieved success both on Broadway and in films. One of Hart’s most famous cinematic triumphs was “Gentlemen’s Agreement” which he produced. One of his greatest Broadway triumphs came at the end of his career when he served as director for “My Fair Lady.” He was married to Kitty Carlisle. Unbeknownst to many of her fans, the sophisticated Ms. Carlisle was actually Catherine Conn, a Jewess from New Orleans whose mother was an aggressive social climber. Hart himself passed away in 1960. You can read more about the fascinating life of Moss Hart in his autobiography, Act I.

1905: Birthdate of French Trotskyist leader Pierre Frank.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1984/04/frank.htm

1906: Birthdate of fencer Theodore Lorber who finished in seventh place at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.

1906: In Vienna, “Edmund von Motesiczky, “a talented cellist and keen huntsman” and “Henriette von Lieben who came from one of the most wealthy and cultured families in the Habsburg Empire” gave birth to painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-marie-louise-von-motesiczky-1337146.html

1908(29^thof Tishrei, 5669): Sixty-nine year old Solomon Sonneschein, the Moravian born rabbi who married Rosa Sonneschein in 1864 and whose last pulpit was at Temple B’nai Yeshurun in Des Moines, IA, passed away today.

1908: The New York Times published an interview with Israel Zangwill entitled “Israel Zangwill’s Serious Purpose,” in which the Jewish author discusses his views on the literary worlds of the United States and Great Britain and the reaction to his “The Melting Pot.”

1910(21^st of Tishrei, 5671): Hoshana Rabah

1910: Birthdate of Julius Pike, the tackle for the University of Maine “Blackbears” who was team captain in 192 when the team finished “with a record of 5-1-1.."

1910: Birthdate of Yoel Zussman, the native of Krakow who became the fourth President of the Supreme Court of Israel.

1910: Archaeologist Max von Oppenheim, a member of the famous German-Jewish banking family requested to be allowed to leave the diplomatic service so that he could work on the excavation at Tel Halaf which he asked his father to finance.

1910: The Oscar Hammerstein production Victor Herbert’s “Naughty Marietta” opened its pre-Broadway run in Syracuse, NY.

1913(2erd of Tishrei, 5674): Simchat Torah

1914: Dr. J. L. Manges and Dr. Schmarya Levin are scheduled to address tonight’s meeting hosted by the New York chapter of Hadassah at the Young Women’s Hebrew Association building where they will seek ways to alleviate the threat faced by the Jewish settlers in Palestine resulting from the start of the World War.

1914: The American Jewish Relief Committee was established by Jacob H. Schiff, Louis Marshall, and Felix Warburg. It soon combined with the Central Relief Committee founded by Orthodox leaders and the People's Relief Committee representing labor, into one organization the American Joint Distribution Committee. The “Joint” would become a vital force in providing aid to Jews caught up in the hostilities of World War I which had begun in August of 1914.

1915: In Manchester, UK, Mr. and Mrs. Neville Laski gave birth to English author Marghanita Laski.

1915: “More than 1,000 persons witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the new Sinai Temple near East 163^rd Street, the Bronx” which was done in a formal manner by Adolph Lewis who used a silver trowel with his name engraved on it to “spread the mortar” following with they heard a speech by “Rabbi J. Leonard Levy of Pittsburgh who talked of the place the Jews occupies in American life.”

1915: “A memorial service for Jewish soldiers who have lost their lives in the European war was held” tonight “at Mount Zion Temple on West 119^th Street under the auspices of the German-Jewish Military Society.”

1915: “To Aid Jewish Charities” published today described plans for “a meeting of the council of Jewish Communal Institutions of which Leo Arnstein is President will be held in New York at the end of October or early in November to consider the desirability of establishing a Bureau of Philanthropy to act as a central investigating body for the study of social problems affecting the Jewish community in New York numbering more than 1,000,000.”

1915: The American Jewish Conference which was scheduled to open today in Washington, DC did not meet due to a clash between different factions in the Jewish community represented, respectively, by Louis Marshall and Louis Brandeis who said the conference “would be futile because the conference would purport to be an assembly authorized to express the will of the Jewish people, whereas it would in fact have not such mandate and would lack the necessary support of the Jews of America without which its action would be ineffective.”

1915: In a letter written today, “Sir Henry McMahon, then His Majesty's High Commissioner in Egypt, promised the Sharif of Mecca, Husayn ibn Ali, to ‘recognize and support the independence of the Arabs within the territories proposed by him (Sharif of Mecca)’” -- territories that included the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq Transjordan) and Palestine a portion of which was Tel Chai “an agricultural community settled by Jewish workers from Metulla in 1907.

1915: British High Commissioner, Henry McMahon reached an agreement with Abdulla Hussein of the Hashemi family, trading a revolt against Turkey for Arab independence everywhere except Eretz-Israel. This agreement, which was in direct contradiction with the Sykes-Picot treaty, was like the Balfour Declaration - vague and ambiguous. Many of the problems that we face in the Middle East today can be traced back to the various deals (many of which were dishonest to say the least) made by the British and the French as they sought to break the back of the Turkish Empire and defeat Germany through the “back door.”

1916: In Nashville, TN, Maurice Sanditen, the Lithuanian born son of Abraham Jacob Sanditen and Dina Glike Sa

nditen and his wife Myrtle gave birth to Stanley Leon Sanditen

1916: In New York, Louis Marshall presided over a meeting where the remarks by Republican Presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes about “the treaty relations with Russia” “were received with great applause” in a section of the city “where the Jewish population is large.”

1916(27^th of Tishrei, 5677): Sixty-six year old Antonie (Toni) Amalia Liebermann, the daughter of Ferdinand and Fanny Reichenheim and the wife of Professor Dr. Carl Theodor Liebermann passed away today in Berlin.

1917: Felix Frankfurter is acting as Secretary for the Labor Commission President Wilson sent to Arizona to settle “the big copper strike” which is threatening the manufacture of munitions that rely on the metal.

1917: As part of the final push to publish the Balfour Declaration, Ronald Graham writes Lord Balfour, “Almost every Jew in Russia is a Zionist, and if they can be made to realize that the success of Zionist aspirations depends on the support of the Allies and the expulsion of the Turks from Palestine, we shall enlist a most powerful element in our favor.”

1917: It was reported today that 113 year old Ethel Polansky gave one dollar and 109 year old Nissen Rosenstein, the oldest man in New York State gave five dollars towards the purchase of a Liberty Bond by residents of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob in New York City.

1918: “The Intermountain Jewish News (IJN)” reported today that 27 year old Denver native Sergeant Morris Fishel had passed away at Camp MacArthur six days ago and had been buried at Mt. Nebo Memorial Park in Aurora, CO.

1918: Sarah Friedman, of blessed memory, the wife of Hyman Friedman is scheduled to be buried today in New York City.

1918: Two days after he had passed away, 82 year old Leopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Theresia Bloch and the husband of Rosa Bloch was buried in his home town of Vienna.

1918: Hyman Gerson Enelow, a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board who was touring the war zone wrote today “I have been to some places where one sees the boys going and coming from the trenches. Everywhere they are they are glad to see a Rabbi and hear a kind word. It makes them feel they are not forgotten.” In the hospitals “the doctors and nurses do all they can” and “they appreciate a Rabbi if they never did before.”

1920: In Manhattan, Sidney Donheiser and Bertha Younger gave birth to Julius Stuart Younger, the virologist who “was the last surviving member of the original three-man research team assembled by Dr. Jonas Salk” that found the Polio Vaccine.(As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/science/julius-youngner-dead-salk-polio-vaccine-researcher.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1920: The Tri-City Conference of Social Workers which had opened last night with concert held its business meeting to at the Young Women’s Hebrew Association on West 110^th Street.

1920: The Intercollegiate Zionist Association, the League of the Jewish Youth, the Intervarsity Menorah, Young Judea, Y.W. H.A., Y.M.H.A and the Teachers’ Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary arranged today’s Friedlander Memorial Meeting “to honor the memory of Dr. Israel Friedlander” who was ‘slain by bandits” while delivering aid to Jews in the Ukraine in the Great Hall of City College where more than three thousand young and men heard addresses by Dr. John Finley, Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Ruth Dressler and Leon Hoffman.

1920: David de Sola Pool resigned as a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board today.

1920: “In the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, Abraham Seldin, a dentist from Bessarabia” and the “former Laura Ueberal,” a native of Vienna gave birth to Donald Way Seldin, the driving force behind “what is now the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center” and an expert witness in the trial of Nazi doctors who worked at Dachau.(As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/obituaries/dr-donald-seldin-who-put-a-medical-school-on-the-map-dies-at-97.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1920: Dr. Cyrus Adler presided over “the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Welfare Board which was held at 2 p.m. today at the Jewish Center…in New York City.”

1920: Today marked the end of the election of delegated for 23^rd annual convention of the ZOA which is scheduled to begin on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, in Buffalo, NY.

1922(2^nd of Cheshvan, 5683): Fifty-seven year old Meir Selig Goldschmidt, the son Clementine Fuld and Selig Meir Goldschmidt and the husband of Selma Cramer passed away today.

1923: Birthdate of British born American poet Denise Levertov. Her pedigree is of interest since it provides a picture of the fate of European Jews. Her mother was Welsh. Her father was an Anglican parson. In point of fact, he was an immigrant from Germany who had been raised as a Chasidic Jew before converting to Christianity.

1923: In the Bronx, Betty and Dr. Lee Fisher gave birth to Edwin Zalmon Fisher a cartoonist whose work was a regular feature in The New Yorker magazine.

http://www.edfischer.com/

http://edfischer.com/cartoons.html

1924: Birthdate of Gusta Dynerova, who was shipped from Prague to Ujazdow in 1942 where she was murdered.

1924: “Moon of Israel,” a silent film epic based on the story of the Israelites in Egypt , directed by Michael Curitz, produced by Arnold Pressburger and starring Maria Corda, who saved her husband, the famous movie mogul Alexander Korda from Horthy’s Hungarian fascists, was released today in the United States.

1925: In Brooklyn Max and Beatrice Feldstein gave birth to Albert “Al” Bernard Feldstein “who took over a fledgling humor magazine called Madin 1956 and made it a popular, profitable and enduring wellspring of American satire.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)

1926: Suffering from acute appendicitis and having ignored medical advice that he have immediate surgery, Harry Houdini performed at the Garrick Theatre despite having a fever of 104 °F (40 °C).

1926: Following what would be his last performance, Houdini was taken to the Grace Hosptial in Detroit.

1927: At Temple Sinai in Chicago, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Clarence Darrow debated “Is Zionism a Progressive Policy for Israel and America? Wise argued the affirmative and Darrow the negative. Darrow, the famous defense lawyer “had many Jewish friends and denounced anti-Semitism” but like so many of his generation (Jew and non-Jew alike) “he never supported a separate homeland for Jewish people.

1929: Birthdate of Daniel Donald Dorfman “a highly visible financial journalist whose televised market reports could send a stock soaring — or plummeting — but whose career was tarnished by accusations of insider trading.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1929: Birthdate of Moroccan native Yehonatan Yifrah who made Aliyah in 1951 and went on to serve as “secretary of the Sderot Workers Council” and an MK from 1969 to 1973.

1929: On what is known as Black Thursday, a record number of shares are traded on the NYSE as stock prices tumble, only to rebound when Richard Whitney steps on the floor and dramatically purchases large blocks of Blue Chip stocks. This provides only a brief respite on the road to Black Tuesday when the bottom fell out of the market marking the start of the worldwide Great Depression with all of its negative consequences including the rise of Hitler. The money for Whitney’s dramatic purchases was provided by the three leading New York Bankers, none of whom were Jewish.

1930: Birthdate of Elaine Feinstein poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator who was born in Bootle, Lancashire. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. She has worked variously as an editor for Cambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist. She contributes to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsoe, Norway. Elaine Feinstein's first volume of poetry, In a Green Eye, was published in 1966. Her later work has been influenced by the poetry of Marina Tsvetayeva, a poet whose work she has translated from the Russian. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1990. Her first novel was The Circle (1970), which, like much of her early work, explores themes of female identity seen both inside and outside the family unit. Later novels, such as The Survivors(1982), draw on her knowledge of 20th-century European history and an awareness of her own Jewish heritage. Her most recent novel is The Russian Jerusalem(2008).She is the author of a number of plays for television including “Breath,” televised by the BBC in 1975, and “The Diary of Country Gentlewoman,” a twelve-part series (based on Edith Holden's novel) produced by ITV in 1984. She has also written radio plays, including “Foreign Girls” (1993) and Winter Meeting (1994), and is the author of several biographies, among them studies of the singer Bessie Smith and the writer D. H. Lawrence and a portrait of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, published in 2001. Her book, Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin (2005) is a biography of Anna Akhmatova. Elaine Feinstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was elected on to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. She lives in London. Her most recent poetry collection is Talking to the Dead (2007), dedicated to the memory of her husband, Arnold.

1930: “The Virtuous Sin,” directed by George Cukor was released in the United States today.

1930: British Labour Party MP Harry Gosling passed away today opening the way for Barnett Janner to seek this seat in constituency that had a large Jewish population – something did help the Jewish politician in his first campaign but helped him to gain the set in the next general election.

1931: With Sid Gillman playing end, OSU lost to Northwestern today.

1932: Rufus D. Isaacs, “the last member of the Liberal Party to serve as Foreign Minister” and “the second practicing Jews to be a member of the British cabinet” appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which in its day was sign of being a significant figure in the world.

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19321024,00.html

1933:Nazis pass a law against “Habitual and Dangerous Criminals” that justifies placing the homeless, beggars, unemployed and alcoholics in concentration camps. (Jewish Virtual Library)

1935: “Rendezvous” a spy movie set in WW I produced by Lawrence Weingarten with a screenplay co-authored by Bella and Samuel Spewack co-starring Binnie Barnes, the daughter of George Barnes, an Anglo-Jewish policeman was released today in the United States by MGM.

1935:Final day for the publication of the American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune.

1935(27^th of Tishrei, 5969): Abraham "Abe" Landau, a henchman of gangster Dutch Schultz succumbed to his wounds today.

1935: In Montreal, Abie Baine was knocked out in a bout for the Montreal Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Title.

1935: Mussolini’s Fascist Italian Army invaded Ethiopia. This act of naked aggression helped to make Mussolini a pariah among many Europeans. In turn, this pariah status helped to drive Mussolini into an alliance with Hitler that had disastrous results for Italian Jews. Strange as it may sound, the road to Auschwitz for Italian Jews went through Addis Abba.

1936(8^thof Cheshvan, 5697): Parashat Lech-Lecha

1936(8^thof Cheshvan, 5697): Isidore Abramowitz passed away today after which he was buried at the United Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond (Staten Island) NY.

1936: “The Labor Court at Berlin decided today that a National Socialist maid order by her employer to in a Jewish-owned shop has the right to leave immediately and that the employer must continue to pay her wages until the expiration of the legal notice term.”

1936: In Poland, “anti-Semitic riots in which four Jewish students were injured seriously led to the temporary closing of the University of Lwow Polytechnic School today.” (Editor’s note – According to some, the rampant anti-Semitism in pre-WW II Poland, is one of the under-studied aspects of events that led up to and helped make possible the Final Solution)

1936: As part of the “purge of Jewish influences” on “German Kultur” it was reported today that “several German composers received orders to write new music to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to replace that by Felix Mendelssohn.”

1936: Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra told the Times he had just conferred with Arturo Toscanini on arrangements for the opening concert of the PSO which will be conducted by Toscanini. The symphony has seventy members most of whom are refugees from various European countries where they were leading performers. The concert is schedule for December and is the first of a series of scheduled performances.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Avinoam Yellin, Senior Jewish Education Officer succumbed to his wounds inflicted by an Arab terrorist. The entire Yishuv mourned this outstanding national leader. The Palestine Police offered a £1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Yellin's assassin.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that two Arabs were killed and two others wounded by unknown persons, believed to be Jewish, in Haifa and Jerusalem.

1937: The second season of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra begins today in Tel Aviv under the direction of Hans Wilhelm Steinberg.

1937: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today for “seventy-eight year old Frank Heino Damrosch, the German born son of “conductor, violinist and composer” Leopold Damrosch and “the former Marie Helene Von Heimberg” a leading opera singer and the husband of “Hetty Mosenthal” who pursued a career in business and served as a “lieutenant in the National Guard” before devoting himself to the field of music which included the found of the Institute of Musical Art” followed by private burial services.

1937: “I’ve Got the Tune,” “an American radio opera with words and music by Marc Blitzstein” was broadcast for the first time with Bernard Hermann as the conductor.

1937: The Los Angeles Times reported today that “studio moguls” (many of whom were Jewish) grew so worried about the increased activism of their stars” (many of whom were Jewish) “that they were considering inaugurating ‘a squelch campaign against anything savoring of political activities’” which would include a clause prohibiting such behavior in future contracts.

1938: In the wake of the Munich Agreement and its appeasement of Hitler, “French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet carries out a major purge of the Qui d'Orsay, sacking or exiling a number of anti-appeasement officials such as Pierre Comert and René Massigli”

1938: In what would prove to be one more step on the road to WW II and the Shoah, “at a "friendly luncheon" in Berchtesgaden, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop tells Józef Lipski, the Polish ambassador to Germany, that the Free City of Danzig must return to Germany, that the Germans must be given extraterritorial rights in the Polish Corridor, and that Poland must sign the Anti-Comintern Pact.”

1939: The Jewish Big Band Leader Benny Goodman recorded "Let's Dance"

1939: Jews in Wloclawek, Poland, are required to wear a yellow cloth triangle identifying them as Jews

1940(22^nd of Tishrei, 5701): Shemini Atzert

1940: Birthdate of Rehovot native Yossi Sarid who served as an MK from 1974 through 2006 and was a columnist for Haaretz.

https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=126

1940: In Brooklyn, Jack Meltzer and the former Kitty Talber gave birth to actor and preservationist Daniel Meltzer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/nyregion/daniel-meltzer-protector-of-the-beacon-theater-dies-at-74.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1940: In what should have been a moment of national shame, Marshall Philippe Petain, the Head of State of Vichy France shook hands with German Chancellor Adolf Hitter.

1941: Six thousand work passes were distributed in Vilna. This meant 4,000 Jews without work passes would be sent to their doom in Polna. They were hunted down by the Lithuanians. Among the dead were 885 children.

1941 Sixteen thousand Odessa, Ukraine, Jews are force-marched out of the city toward Dalnik, where they are bound together in groups of 40 to 50 and shot, at first in the open and later through holes drilled in the walls of warehouses. Three of these structures are set ablaze and a fourth is exploded by artillery fire.

1941: Twenty thousand Jews fell into Nazi hands at Kharkov.

1941(3rd of Cheshvan, 5702): As part of the Odessa Action, an additional 16,000 Jews were taken from Odessa and sent to Dalnik. In Dalnik, they were all shot in ditches; machine gunned down, or burned alive in warehouses.

1941: Sixty-five year old Gershon Lichtenstein “was deporte

1942: The Jews of Lichtenstein were deported.

1942: Étienne Szabo, the husband of Violette Szabo, one of those murdered by the Nazis at Ravensbruck, was mortally wounded while “leading his men in a diversionary attack on Qaret el Himeimat at the beginning of the Second Battle of El Alamein.

1944: Allied airman classified as Terrorflieger ("terror aviators") who had been shipped to Buchenwald which was unusual because Western POWs to a concentration camp, were not executed today as had been planned due to the intervention of Luftwaffe officers.

1945: The UN officially came into existence today upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council—France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States—and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. Whatever one’s view of the UN is, it must be remembered that this organization played a key role in the creation of the state of Israel and unlike its predecessor, the League of Nation, it has not witnessed the start of a World War.

1947: In Brooklyn, Moshe Teitelbaum, the Grand Rebbe of the Satmar Chasidim and “Leah Meir, daughter of Rabbi Hanoch Heinoch Meir of Karecska” gave birth to “Aaron Teitelbaum, “one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel.”

1947: Birthdate of actor Kevin Kline. Kline whose father was Jewish but whose mother was not appeared in such films as The Big Chill and Sophie’s Choice.

1947: Members of the Haganah attacked forty members of the Irgun who were posting “propaganda posters.” Two members of the Haganah were wounded during the fight that took place fifteen miles south of Tel Aviv.

1948(21^st of Tishrei, 5709): Hoshana Raba

1948: “Israeli forces belonging to the Givati Brigade captured Deir ad-Dubban in a northward push in Operation Yoav.”

1948: Operation Ha-Har, a week-long successful “campaign to expand the Jerusalem Corridor as far as the western foothills of the Judean Mountains” came to an end today.

1948(21^st of Tishrei, 5709): Seventy-two year old Rustem Vambery, the jurist who had opposed the Communists and Fascists and was the son of Armin Vambery, the biographer of Theodor Herzl, passed away in New York today.

1948: The IDF launched Operation Hiram and captured the entire upper Galilee, driving the ALA, and Lebanese army back to Lebanon, and successfully ambushing and destroying an entire Syrian battalion.] The Israeli force of four infantry brigades were commanded by Moshe Carmel

1952: The Arab Liberation Movement became the only party in Syria. For those who keep asking what happened to the Moslem/Arab world, they might want to consider this entry. While Israel was working to develop democratic institutions from the very birth of the nation, its northern neighbor was set on a course of one-party totalitarianism

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, defended the presence of former Nazis in his Foreign Ministry by claiming that they were irreplaceable and indispensable. It was things like this that caused many Israelis and Jews living elsewhere to want to reject any reparation payments by the West German government. As far as they were concerned, the new Germans were the old Germans in disguise.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Jerusalem District Court ruled that according to the Nationality Law, a child whose father is Israeli and whose mother rejected Israeli citizenship, for both herself and her child, is nevertheless a citizen of Israel. The question of “who is a Jew” has taken on many guises and shapes from ancient to modern times.

1953(15^th of Cheshvan, 5714): Parashat Vayera

1953(15^th of Cheshvan, 5714): Sixty-one year old lifelong New Yorker Fred Ahlert, the law school graduate turned composer and songwriter whose hits included “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter,” “Walking My Baby Back Home” and “Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day” passed away today.

http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=1

1954: Birthdate of Tampa, FL native Martin “Marty” Baron the former editor of the Boston Globe who, in case of Jew as a Jew, was portrayed by Lev Schreiber in the film “Spotlight” and who became the editor of the Washington Post in December, 2012.

1954: Birthdate of Congressman Brad Sherman, representing California’s 27^th District in the House of Representatives.

1954: In San Diego, the city-wide B.I.G (Bonds of the Israel Government) banquet scheduled to be held at the El Cortez Hotel will feature a performance by Jan Peerce, a top tenor of the Metropolitan Operan and a speech by Alex Lowenthal of Pittsburgh, National Chairman of “Cash Sales for the Israel Bond Drive.

1956: In Tel Aviv, “Dr. Rozelia Ruth Garti, a pediatrician who came to Israel from Sofia. Bulgaria, in 1949” and Hayim Baltsan, the journalist, author and founder of founder of the ITIM news agency gave birth to “concert pianist Astrith Baltsan.”

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baltsan-astrith

https://www.musiccathedra.com/astrith-baltsan-english

1956: As the Israelis, French and British worked on plans for what will become known as the Suez Campaign or the One Hundred Hours War, the British negotiators made it clear to the Israelis that they must move towards the Canal so that the British and French would have an excuse to intervene. The Israelis primary point of interest was seizing Sharm el-Sheik which would open the Straits of Tiran. The Israelis said they would move to take the Mitla Pass in the central Sinai and the British conceded that this would suffice for their needed “fig leaf.”

1958: “Torpedo Run,” a WW II submarine movie directed by Joseph Pevney was released in the United States by MGM.

1959: Birthdate of Yakov Kreizberg, the Russian born American orchestra conductor.

1960: “The Alamo” a one-sided costume drama about the fight in Texas co-starring Laurence Harvey and featuring a score by Dimitri Tiomkin was released today in the United States.

1961: Italian premiere of “El Cid,” on which Michał Waszyński served as Executive Producer.

1961: United Artists released “The Manchurian Candidate,” with a screenplay by George Axelrod, the son of a Russian-Jewish immigrant and a score by David Amram.

1962: The recording of “Piano, Strings and Bossa Nova,” an album by composer Lalo Schifrin was completed today.

1962: “The Manchurian Candidate” directed by John Frankenheimer who co-produced the film with George Axelrod, the author of the screenplay, with music by David Amram and co-starring Laurence Harvey was released in the United States today by United Artists.

1964: The “Tokyo” Summer Olympics where the Soviet Union Volleyball team led by Georgy Mondzolevski won a Gold Medal, came to an end today.

1966: In the old Soviet Union,Arkady (Aron) Abramovich, “a state office manager,” and his wife gave birth to “Russian Oligarch”, Roman Abramovich whose grandfather Nahim Abramovich was sent to Siberia and died in the Gulag in 1942.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/roman-abramovich/#411d24f6134a

1966: Simon and Garfunkel’s album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” “was released today by Columbia records.

1970: Birthdate of actor Adam Goldberg who was featured in Saving Private Ryan

1971: In Hacienda Heights, CA, Valerie Bourret, a “Jewish American,” and French-Canadian Dale Bourret gave birth to Caprice Bourret who gained fame as an actress and model, including her role in introducing the Wonderbra.

https://www.capricebourret.com/

1973: As the Yom Kippur War was coming to an end Israeli troops were 65 miles from Cairo and 26 miles from Damascus. While the Arabs scored major victories early in the conflict, the Israelis turned things around and the aggressors were actually worse off from a military point of view at the end hostilities than they were when the shooting started. However, the military victory did little to heal the aching Israeli psyche or ease the sense of loss over those who fell in defense of the Jewish homeland. The IDF death toll stood at 2,522. These losses were over three times the number suffered during the Six Day War. Furthermore, as Yigal Yadin pointed out, this was the first war in which fathers and sons went into action at the same time. It was also the first time where the IDF casualty list included fathers and sons. The war proved once again that the Arabs nations could fight and lose, time after time and still exist. For Israelis, the wars were beginning to seem interminable and there was no margin for error. All they had to do was lose once and the state would cease to exist. The Yom Kippur War showed just how dependent Israel was on the United States for its military and economic wellbeing. The war further heightened Israel’s sense of isolation as Third World countries caved into the Arab Petro-Power and broke off diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Strangely enough, the Egyptian ability to cross the Suez Canal would provide Sadat with a sense that he had redeemed his country’s national honor and provide him with the impetus to negotiate the Camp David Peace Accords. At the same time, the sense of malaise that would grip Israel as a result of the Yom Kippur War would provide some of the momentum that would end the Labor-Zionist control of the Israeli government and bring Begin and his Right Wing nationalist forces to power.

1973: “A second cease-fire was put into effect, but fighting continued between Egypt and Israel as a result of which the Soviet Union threatened the United States that it will send troops to support the Egyptians. (As reported by JTA)

1973: Colonel Giora "Hawkeye" Epstein “downed three more MiG-21s west of the Great Bitter Lake.”

1974: David Fyodorovich Oistrakh, Ukrainian born violinists, passed away.

1976: FirstJewish film & TV festival

1976: “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,” a mystery directed and co-produced by Herbert Ross, written by Nicholas Meyer and co-starring Alan Arkin and Joel Grey was released in the United States today.

1976: The cabinet resolved, without prejudging the charges against Asher Yadlin concerning improper conduct in the management of Kupat Holim that it could no longer delay the appointment, and named Director-General of the Treasury Arnon Gafni as governor of the Bank of Israel

1977: Menachem Begin completed his term in office as Communications Minister of Israel.

1977: The political party founded by Yigal Yadin joined the government formed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin had won an upset victory over the Labor Zionist who had governed the country since 1948. Yadin believed that by joining the new government he could help fashion a much need policy of social reform and play a key role in future negotiations with the Arabs. He based this second hope on the key role he had played in negotiating the cease fire with the Jordanians in 1948. Much to his bitter disappointment, Yadin would find that his plans for social reform would fall victim to Ariel Sharon’s need for money to finance his plan for an expansion of settlements in the West Ban.

1977: The Democratic Movement for Change (DASH), which had won 15 Knesset seats in the last election, joined Menachem Begin in a new coalition with Meir Amit, the retired Major General, serving as minister of transport and communication. He would resign within a year.

1978(23^rd of Tishrei, 5739): Simchat Torah

1979: One persona was injured today when terrorists set off a bomb in the bus terminal in Tel Aviv.

1980: “It’s My Turn” “a romantic comedy” written by Eleanor Bergstein with a title song written by Michael Masser and Carole Bayer Sager and co-starring Charles Grodin was released in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.

1980: The first national US tour of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” started today in Washington, D.C.

1980: “Leningrad refuseniks Lev Furman, Yuli Karolin and Isaac Kogan sent a telegram expressing their sympathy to the Jews of France in connection with the attack on the rue Copernic Synagogue in Paris.”

1981: Birthdate of American fashion designer Zac Posen who as a child reportedly stole yarmulkes to use as materials for dresses he made for dolls.

1981(26^th of Tishrei, 5742): Forty-three year old Raffaele Efraim Pacifici, the son Rabbi Reuven Pacifici who died at Auschwitz, passed away today at Kfar Saba.

1981: Seventy-nine year old law school graduate and pharmacist turned world chess champion Alexander Kervitz passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/03/obituaries/alexander-kevitz-dead-at-79-played-for-us-chess-team.html

1982: Today, in New York, “at the Park East Synagogue” Rabbi Arthur Schneier officiated at the wedding of Harvard MBA Michael Scharf, the “son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Scharf” and “Fiona Vivienne Lunzer” one of the five adult daughters of Ruth and Jack Lunzer, whose collection of Hebrew books were “the basis of the Valmadonna Trust Library.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/25/style/fiona-vivienne-lunzer-michael-scharf-married.html

1982: NBC began broadcasting “Little Gloria…Happy at Last” a miniseries based “on the book by Barbara Goldsmith” the wife of actor Jonathan Goldsmith, produced by Scott Rudin and co-starring Martin Balsam.

1983: Following a lengthy and intense debate within the Conservative movement, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) faculty senate voted 34-8 to admit women to the JTS Rabbinical School. The favorable vote was facilitated by the decision of several JTS faculty members who opposed the innovation not to participate in the vote. In 1977 the seminary's chancellor, Gerson Cohen, had appointed a Committee for the Study of the Ordination of Women as Rabbis. Despite the 1979 committee's final report, which recommended ordination for women by a vote of 11 to 3, tensions within the JTS and the movement delayed a positive vote until 1983.( Editor’s Note – “The next fall, in September 1984, 23 women entered JTS as members of the seminary's first class to include female rabbinical students. In the spring of 1985, Amy Eilberg, who was already studying at JTS when women's ordination was approved, became the first woman ordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement.”)

1986: In Toronto, Sandi Graham (née Sher) who was Jewish and Dennis Graham gave birth to Canadian rapper, songwriter, and actor Aubrey Drake Graham who “was raised by his mother in Toronto's predominantly Jewish area of Forest Hills (and attended Forest Hills P.S. and Forest Hills Collegiate)

1986(21^st of Tishrei, 5747): Hoshanah Rabah

1986: “Soul Man” a controversial comedy produced by Steve Tisch was released today in the United States.

1988: The Summer Paralympics where the Israeli volleyball team led by Hagai Zamir won a silver medal came to a close today.

1989: Mordecai “Shehori acted as page turner for Vladimir Horowitz” on the first day of what “turned out to be the famous pianist’s final recording session.”

1993: The Art Institute of Chicago presents the work of Israeli photographer Michal Rovner

1993(9th of Cheshvan, 5754): “Two IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.) Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23, were killed by a Hamas Iz a-Din al Kassam terrorist squad. The soldiers entered a Subaru with Israeli license plates outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose passengers were apparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, the soldiers were shot at close range and killed. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility for the attack”

1994: A revival of “Mother,” the teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky was featured on the PBS Great Performances series today

1996: Actress Rena Shere Sofer played the role of Lois Cerullo on General Hospital for the last time.

1997(23^rdof Tishrei, 5758) Simchat Torah

1999: Bruce Fleischer won the EMC Kaanapali Classic.

1999: “None of the Above” published today reviewed The Big Test The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/books/none-of-the-above.html

2000: Following its original Broadway opening on May 23, “Proof” costarring Ben Shenkman as “Hal” transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre today.

1999: The New York Times includes reviews of the following books by Jewish authors: The Play Goes On: A Memoir by Neil Simone and In Search of American Jewish Culture by Stephen Whitfield, one of Tulane University’s most illustrious graduates and AEPi’s most illustrious “brother.”

2001: Benefit Premiere for the NYC Theatrical Release of the controversial movie “Trembling Before G-d” at Film Forum.

2001: The sale of Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. to The Walt Disney Company which Haim Saban had announced in July was completed today.

2002: “Broken Wings” directed by Nir Bergman was released today in Israel.

2004: Eight months after premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival, “Walk on Water,” an Israeli film starring Lior Ashkenazie and directed by Eytan Fox was first shown in the United States today.

2004:The New York Timesbook section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on Jewish topics including Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies by George S. Kaufman with Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Ring Lardner and Morrie Ryskind, The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb, Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs and Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan, an autobiography of the life of Robert Zimmerman

2004: Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sponsored its annual Big Dinner fund raising activity. For once, the city of Cedar Rapids was awash with real corned beef and Dr. Brown's Cream Soda. “Es, es mien kinder; es.”

2004: The Jerusalem Post reported that approximately 140,000 Muslim worshippers attended Ramadan prayers on the Temple Mount on the previous Friday afternoon. Considering the violence of the Intifada, it is rather amazing that Israel was willing to risk this large a gathering. It speaks well of the Israelis that they were willing to run the risk so that others, even those who oppose its very existence, might celebrate their religious observances.

2005 (21 Tishrei 5766): Hoshana Rabbah

2005: “The Luddite from York University” published today described the antics of David Noble, who teaches at Canada’s third largest university. As reported by Steven Plaut) [This item is an example of the anti-Semitism that has cropped up on college campuses in North America.]

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6841

2006: In her first weekly column which is called "Breaking the Sound Barrier" Amy Goodman wrote, "My column will include voices so often excluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort and even ridicule]

2006(2^nd of Cheshvan, 5767): Eighty-seven year old Sally Lilienthal the peace activist who founded Ploughshares Fund passed away today. (As reported by Patricia Sullivan) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601603_pf.html

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sally-Lilienthal-founder-of-the-Ploughshares-2486670.php

2006(2^nd of Cheshvan, 5767): Eighty-eight year old “ Benjamin Meed, a leading advocate for Jewish Holocaust survivors who in the decades after the war gathered them together by the tens of thousands, reuniting people with friends, neighbors and family members presumed to have been lost forever, died today at his home in Manhattan. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/obituaries/26meed.html?pagewanted=print

2007: “Third World Love” celebrates the release of its fourth album, “New Blues,” with a performance of Jerusalem’s Yellow Submarine.

2007: Marianne Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl, dropped her lawsuit “seeking damages against al-Qaida and Pakistan’s largest bank.

2007: Terrorists went on a shooting spree in an attack on the West Bank in and around the Ariel junction, seriously wounding one IDF soldier. Hamas and Fatah both claimed they were each responsible for the attack.

2008: Opening of Fall Chavurah (SLIID), hosted by CeRTY of Central Reform Congregation, in St. Louis.

2008:At New York University Etgar Keret joins Todd Hasak-Lowy, professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Florida, for a fiction reading and conversation with NYU professor Matthew Rohrer.

2008(25 Tishrei, 5769): Sixty-five year old “ Rabbi Moshe Cotel, an acclaimed pianist and composer whose works were often infused with themes emanating from his deep Jewish roots, a weave of influences that only later in life led him to the pulpit, passed away today at his home in Manhattan. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/arts/music/03cotel.html?_r=0

2008: Gottschalks, a department store chain founded by German Jewish immigrant Emil Gottschalk in 1904 as a dry goods store in downtown Fresno, California, “was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE officials stated that the value of the stock was too low to continue to be listed, and that its average global market capitalization had remained below $25 million for 30 straight trading days.”

2008: BBC broadcast “American Fervour,” episode three in “The American Future: A History” a four-part documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama.

2009(6th of Cheshvan, 5770): Norma Fox Mazer, an award-winning novelist for young people whose work helped illuminate many dark corners of adolescence, exploring subjects like poverty, betrayal, abandonment and loss, passed away at her home in Montpelier, VT at the age of 78.

2009: At the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival a program entitled “SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry” featuring Jake Marmer who “merges poetry and performance into philosophically viral mixtures like existentialist dancehall, talmudic jazz poetry and personalized bop apocalypse.”

2009: In Jerusalem, Khan Theatre presents "Happiness," a comedy written and directed by Michael Gurevich. The show won two Israeli Theatre Awards for 2004: Best Director and Best Choreography.

2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man’s Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure by Nathan Rabin and The False Friend by Myla Goldberg

2010: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to conduct “A Walking Tour of Old Town Alexandria” that will enable participants to learn about the long and storied Jewish history of this Virginia’s city, from the 1850s to today including the sites of two former synagogues and several Jewish businesses along King Street-including some that show traces of past Jewish owners.

2010: Max Weinreich Center at YIVO along with Hunter College and the Posen Foundation are scheduled to present: A Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Simon Dubnow The day-long conference on the life and career of the renowned historian will include a look at "Dubnow on the East European Jewish Past,""Dubnovism in the 20th Century" and "Dubnow and Jewish Ideologies of His Time." Dr. Brian Horowtiz of Tulane University is scheduled to be one of the presenters.

2010(16^thof Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety-eight year old “Joseph Stein, the Tony Award-winning author of “Fiddler on the Roof” and more than a dozen other Broadway musicals, died today in Manhattan. (As reported by Anita Gates and Bruce Weber)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DF153DF935A15753C1A9669D8B63

2011: A Dramatic Reading entitled “The Civil War at 150 United By Faith, Divided by War: Jews and the Civil War” is scheduled to take place tonight at the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival at the Washington DC JCC.

2011: A new memorial honoring 14 Jewish chaplains who died in the service of the United States is scheduled to be dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.

2011: Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple Inc.'s Jobs, was published by Simon & Schuster, only several weeks after Jobs' death after which it became “an international best-seller, breaking all records for sales of a biography.”

2011: Mayor Carolyn Goldmark Goodman greeted President Obama at the McCarran Airport and “gave him one of her luck mayor chips as a gift” signifying that she did not share her husband’s (and former Mayor) displeasure with remarks the President had made about the city.

2011: In a tale of two Jews in the city of Chicago, incoming Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein arrived at Wrigley Field this morning to meet some of the team's employees and check out his new digs while Mayor Rahm Emanuel was forced to defend the decision to arrest two nurses who remained in Grant Park after the 11 pm closing time as part of the Windy City’s local version of the national protest against economic inequality.

2011: An IDF soldier was arrested by Military Police today on suspicion of leaking information to right-wing elements over military activities in the West Bank. The soldier, from the Samaria Division, allegedly took advantage of his clerical position in the army to send information which allowed activists to disrupt the IDF's operations in the area, and enabled them to carry out 'price tag' attacks. The investigation may lead to further arrests, defense sources have said. Two weeks ago, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that groups of settlers carrying out self-defined "price tag" attacks against Palestinians "operate almost like terrorist organizations." The attacks, carried out against Palestinians and private property, "embarrass the State of Israel," he said during a military tour. Barak also praised the West Bank settlement leadership for condemning the acts. At the beginning of the month, a mosque in the northern town of Tuba Zanghariya mosque was burned, causing significant damage. The attackers left the words "price tag" scrawled on nearby walls. "These are events that need to be fought against. They humiliate the State of Israel and harm its strength and the legitimacy of all settlement within it," Barak said. The attacks also harm "Israel's standing and normal relations with our neighbors, the Palestinians." President Shimon Peres said of the Tuba Zanghariya arson attack: "It brings great shame upon us. It is a terrible thing that I condemn in the strongest possible terms."

2011: In “Ruth Weiss: Beat ‘Goddess’ True Innovator of Poetry & Jazz” Lourdes Acevedo described the life and impact of the beat generation poetess.

http://www.hercircleezine.com/2011/10/24/ruth-weiss-beat-goddess-true-innovator-of-poetry-jazz/

2012: The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Thomas E. Mann entitled “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: The Clash Between Our Constitutional System and Political Extremism.”

2012: Professor Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin) is scheduled to deliver a lecture, “The Witness and the Holocaust - Oral Testimonies and Historical Knowledge” in London, UK.

2012: The Annual Conference of the Program Directors of Reform Judaism that has been meeting in Denver, CO, is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: Today, President Shimon Peres accused Palestinians of using aid donations to fund their rocket campaign against Israel.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/peres-charges-that-palestinians-use-aid-to-keep-firing-rockets/

2012: More than 60 rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza have hit southern Israel in the last 24 hours, striking several homes and injuring three. Between late last night and late this morning Israel Air Force planes hit four of what the Israel Defense Forces said were rocket launching sites, as well as a tunnel used for smuggling terrorists into Israel, according to statements issued from the IDF. The rockets and mortar shells began falling on southern Israeli communities late last night and have continued through the day today

http://forward.com/articles/164837/-rockets-rain-down-on-southern-israel/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20(Monday-Friday)&utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Mon_Thurs%202012-10-24

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-militants-fire-rockets-and-mortars-into-southern-israel.html?hp

2012: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia are scheduled to host a lunch where attendees can question Tim Kaine, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Virginia about his views and policies

2013: The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to co-host the Chicago book launch of Against A Tide of Evil by Dr. Mukesh Kapila.

2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Fritz Stern and Elisabeth Sifton, authors of No Ordinary Men who will lead a discussion about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans Von Dohanyi.

2013: The RAC is scheduled to observe Food Day with a webinar that will feature special guests, Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Honest Tea; and Rabbi Mary Zamore, editor of "The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic,” discussing the various challenges within our global food system, and how we can apply our Jewish values to conscious eating, and the concept of “food with integrity.”

2013: Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said today that a "civil war" has erupted in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Global Jihad elements that have attempted to drag Israel into the conflict (As reported by JPost Staff)

2013: Los Angeles premiere of “The Pin,” a love story about two Jewish teenagers hiding in a barn in Lithuania during WW II.

2013: IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz announced that Colonel Rasan Alian has been appointed to commander the Golani Brigade making him the first Druse officer to hold the position.

2014(30th of Tishrei, 5775): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

2014: “The Obama administration this week refused Israel defense minister’s requests to meet several top national security aides, still miffed over negative comments he made about Secretary of State John Kerry’s Mideast peace efforts and nuclear negotiations with Iran, US officials said today. “

2014: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a piano recital by Tom Zalmanov as part of its “The Future Generation Series.”

2014: The police arrested three Palestinians who were throwing rocks and fireworks at them after the conclusion of prayers on the Temple Mount.

2014: The Women at the Wall celebrated Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan today and their first ever Bar Mitzvahu using a miniature Torah scroll that they had “snuck” in the Kotel plaza.

2014, In Canada, “Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts is presenting An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor, the multi-award winning actor of film, television, and Broadway.”

2014: Temple Judah is schedule to host its first Musical Shabbat of the season along with addition of the Caster/Barnum baby naming

2014: Nick Kotz is a former reporter for The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register is scheduled to discuss The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise Of South Texas at the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival.

2014: An untold number of Jews are scheduled to join in a unique Shabbat experience – ShabbatUK

http://www.shabbatuk.org/

2015: Tamar Ettun’s first solo exhibition at the Fridman Gallery is scheduled to come to a close.

2015: The JCCNVA is scheduled to host “Blue Like Me: The Art of Sinoa Benjamin” which traces the artist’s “roots in the Bene Israel community where she grew up.”

2015: Israel is scheduled to go on “winter time” meaning 2am becomes 3am

2015(11^th of Cheshvan, 5776): Shabbat Lech-Lecha

2015(11^th of Cheshvan, 5776): Ninety-six year old “Earl Raab, longtime executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, an intellectual, a prolific writer and a leader in Jewish life for more than 50 years” passed away today.

https://www.jweekly.com/2015/10/30/earl-raab-iconic-figure-in-jewish-community-dies-at-96/

2015(11^th of Cheshvan, 5776):Rabbi Haim (Howie) Yehiel Rothman, who died today of injuries he sustained during a deadly terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue almost a year ago, was laid to rest in the evening in an emotional ceremony at the capital’s Givat Shaul cemetery.

2015: In New Brunswick, NJ, Congregation Poile Tzedek which had been “declared a National Landmark in 1995” and three Torah scrolls were consumed by fire while one other Torah was saved when Rabbi Mykoff “raced” into the burning building and retrieved the holy scroll.

2015: “Thousands of left-wing Israelis turned out in Tel Aviv tonight for a rally condemning the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what they called its poor response to the current security situation” and demanding that Netanyahu resign.

2016(22^nd of Tishrei, 5777): Shemini Atzeret

2016: The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is scheduled to host a Tot Simchat Torah

2016: In the evening, start of Simchat Torah celebration

2016: A Code Red alarm sounded just before 7:00 a.m. “warning of an impending rocket attack” from Gaza.

2016: “Palestinian officials announced a year-long campaign to commemorate 100 years since the “crime” of the Balfour Declaration, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported today.”

2017: It was announced today that “the new Holocaust memorial in Westminster will be built by the British architect Sir David Adjaye and Israeli designer Ron Arad.”

2017: “Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit spoke at the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem”

2017: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America by University of Southern California professor of history Steven J. Ross “which illustrates how Nazi agents operated in LA” is scheduled to be released by Bloomsbury Press today.

2017: In Beachwood, Ohio, Georgia Tech professor of history Jonathan Schneer is scheduled to lecture on “Ministers at War: Winston Churchill’s War Cabinet 1940-45” which should shed some light on the men who enforced the White Paper even after the war in Europe had ended and the Prime Minister who at the end of war reneged on his promise to Chaim Weizmann.

2017: As “part of the series German-Jewish History in the Now: The Contemporary Relevance of German-Jewish History” presented by the Leo Baeck Institute ‘historian Michael Brenner (University of Munich/American University) and Gavriel Rosenfeld (Fairfield University), are scheduled to discuss what factors and what actors contributed to the collapse of a fragile pluralism in the 1930s, and what that means for our own democracy.”

2017: At the Bard Graduate Center, Andrea M Berlin is scheduled to present “The Great Revolt and its Jewish Afterlife” which is part of the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures.

2017: Peninnah Schram, a professor emerita at Yehshiva University is scheduled to lecture on “Have I Got A Story For You: Exploring the Jewish Oral Tradition” at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.

2018: “Down With the Butchers! The Radical Symbolism of Kosher Meat in the Works of Morris Winchevsky, Y.L. Gordon and Mendele Mocher Sforrim,” a lecture by Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler “that will focus on the literary intersection between kashrut, social injustice and the concept of the modern Jewish protest” scheduled for this afternoon at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has been postponed.

2018: The sixth Pianos Festival is scheduled to open at the Jerusalem Theatre.

2018: The first session The Jewish Learning Institute’s course “Wrestling with Faith” is scheduled to begin this evening.

2018: “Dispute Over Nazi Victim’s Art” published today described how the art world is dealing with Holocaust stolen art seventy-five years after the end of the Shoah.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/arts/design/christies-and-sothebys-differ-on-handling-of-2-schieles.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

2018: This Place is a global art project that explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers. The participating artists are Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington opened at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, after which it is scheduled to be shown at several museums including The Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

2018: “The Disabled Receiving Cutting-edge Care in Haifa,” a photographic exhibition that is part of the Streicker Center’s “Home: Lens on Israel” series is scheduled to come to an end today.

2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “a screening of the new animated adaptation of The Tattooed Torah, beloved children’s book by Marvell Ginsburg” followed by a reception, and Q&A with members of the film’s production team.

2019: “The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies” is scheduled to facilitate a discussion with journalist and author Tom Segev about A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, his new book on the founder of Israel.

2019: Rabbi Daniel Lehman is scheduled to be inaugurated “as the eighth president of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkley.”

2019: The two day long 43^rd annual Robert S. Hartman Institute Conference is scheduled to come to an end at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah

2019: In Danville, CA, Beth Chaim Congregation is scheduled to “Navigating the Challenge to Jewish Identity” during which visiting Professor Tomer Persico talks about “loyalty, tribalism and religion.’

OCTOBER 25

732: Christian forces led by Charles Martel clash defeat the invading Moors at the Battle of Tours which is near Poitiers in modern day France. The victory at Tours ensured that Western Europe would be Christian. For Jews, it also meant that the Sephardic culture would flourish for several centuries to come. 1135: Louis VII, who “banished from the kingdom those Jews who had been converted to Christianity and had later returned to Judaism” was crowned “Junior King of France” today; following a Capetian custom of holding the coronation of the heir apparent while the current monarch was still alive.

1147: The armies of the Second Crusade (1147-49) were destroyed by the Saracens at Dorylaeum (in modern Turkey). The Crusaders went on with fruitless campaigns against Damascus, Syria. The Jews were bystanders during the Crusades. Unfortunately they fell victim to the wrath of the Islamic and Christian combatants at various times throughout this tumultuous period. Furthermore, one cannot understand what is happening in the part of the world best described as the “Islamic/Arab Arc” if one does not have a sense of the period of the Crusades.

1154: King Stephen of England died. Stephen was an inept monarch who reigned during a period of turmoil and civil war. The first blood libel took place in during his rule in 1144. Unlike the nobles and monarchs of France and Germany, Stephen protected his Jewish subjects from the kind of suffering that the Crusaders were inflicting on their European co-religionists. Stephen reportedly did burn the house of Jew living in Oxford but that was because the Jew refused to contribute to the maintenance of the monarch. While the act is inexcusable it is consistent with the greed of many of European nobles who were in constant need of money and saw the Jews as a cash-cow to be milked to death.

1187: Gregory VIII, the Pope who called for the disastrous Third Crusade, began his papacy. Each of the crusades was a disaster for the Jewish people in way or another. On top of everything else, the Third Crusade removed the protective hand of King Richard from England and left the Jews to suffer under the anti-Semitic Prince John.

1268: Jucef ibn Astrug Ravaya, a Jew, was appointed bailiff of Besala (modern day Spain). Jucef later became chief bailiff in Aragon and Valencia. Jucef and his brother were the chief administrators in the government of King Pedro III. Under Jucef's administration, he and his brother were able to raise funds from within the Jewish community to finance an invasion of Sicily.

1400: The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer passed away. Born in 1340, Chaucer is view as one of the great pre-Shakespearian writers. From a purely Jewish perspective, the author of The Canterbury Tales is slight bit on the flawed side. This is remarkable when you consider that the Jews had been expelled from England almost a century before Chaucer lived. In the “Prioress’s Tale” Chaucer tells of an eight year old hymn signing Christian boy who is murdered as he passes through the Jewish section of his town. The boy is seized by “this accursed Jew” who cuts “his throat and casts him into a pit.” In the end the Jewish community is wiped out as punishment for the crime. This version of the blood libel proves that you did need Jews around to preach anti-Semitism, that anti-Semitism was part of the fabric of Christian civilization and that Jews are not the cause of anti-Semitism.

1408: In Spain, The Council of Regency, under the inspiration of the apostate Paul de Santa Maria, reinstituted all previous anti-Jewish legislation of Alphonso the Wise of Castile (1252-1284).

1495: Manuel I the Portuguese monarch who released all the Jews imprisoned by his predecessor John II, began his reign today

1541: The Jews of Algeria escaped capture by the Spanish Army which gave rise to Purim Edom

1613: Sir Edward Coke, who in a case that involved whether Jews were protected by English law, ruled that “All infidels are in law…perpetual enemies (for law presumes not that they will be converted, that being a remote possibility, for between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and the Christian there is a perpetual hostility and can be no peace,” began serving a Chief Just of the King’s Bench today.

1734: Rachel Pinto, the wife of Jacob Pinto, passed away today after which she was interred at Hunt’s Bay Cemetery in Port Royal, Jamaica.

1742: Birthdate of Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi, the Christian native of Parma who was a noted Hebraist. After being named Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Parma, he delivered “His inaugural lecture on the causes of the neglect of Hebrew study.”

1760: King George II who had given royal assent to the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753 which was repealed a year later by Parliament, passed away today.

1760: King George III assumes the throne of Great Britain. The Jews of the 13 colonies would adopt the view of their non-Jewish neighbors and see George as a modern day Pharaoh.

1765: A group of Philadelphia merchants gathered in the State House to sign the non-importation agreement to fight the hated Stamp Tax of the British government. The merchants and other citizens of Philadelphia agreed "not to have any goods shipped from Great Britain until after the repeal of the Stamp Act.” “The first man to step forward to sign his name was the president of Mikve Israel Congregation, Philadelphia's only synagogue, Mathias Bush.”Other Jewish signers included Benjamin Levy, David Franks, Samson Levy, Hyman Levy, Jr., Moses Mordecai, Michael Gratz, and Barnard Gratz.”

1786: In Philadelphia, PA, Joseph Mordecai in a Hebrew ceremony, married Esther "Hetty" Marache, daughter of Solomon Marache and Rebecca "Myers" Marache after which “they moved to Virginia and on to Charleston, SC, where they lived for many years” and had six children:Solomon Joseph, Rebecca [Hertz], Judith, Thomas Whitlock, Harriett and Esther "Hetty".

1786: Rebecca Franks and Lucius Levy Solomons gave birth to Benjamin Samuel Solomons, the husband of “Elkaleh Seixas” and father of Levy, Benjamin, Gershom and Rebecca Solomons.

1791: In Georgetown, SC, Bella Moses and Solomon Cohen gave birth to Abraham Cohen.

1795: In Dassel, Germany, “Pesgen Salomon” and Nathan Joseph Dannenberg gave birth to Betty Dannenberg, the wife of Moses Kohlberg with whom she had eight children.

1796(23^rdof Tishrei, 5557): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of George Washington.

1797: In Charleston, Rabbi Abraham Azuby officiated at the wedding of Solomon Cohen and “Miss Ella Moses Hart, the niece of the late Philip Hart.”

1800: Birthdate of British historian and Whig MP Thomas Babington Macaulay who advocated full civil rights for English Jews as can be seen by his support of Robert Grant’s bill for the “Removal of Jewish Disabilities.”

http://www.jewish-history.com/occident/volume2/june1844/civil.html

1803: Twenty-three year old London born Sephardic Jew Jacob da Dilva Solis, whose great-grandfather was Solomon da Silva Solis, arrived in the United States today marking the American being for the Solis-Cohen family.

1806: Abraham Jacobson, the German born son of “Jacob Moses” and his wife “Reina von Halle” gave birth to Mauriz Jacobson

1818: Isaac Dreyfus, the Swiss born son of Jacob Dreyfus, and his wife Gertrude “Julie” Dreyfus gave birth Leopold (Hirsch) Dreyfus.

1822(10th of Cheshvan, 5583: Abraham Touro died today in Boston at the age of 48.Born in 1774, he was the “oldest son of Isaac Touro, Abraham was born in Newport, Rhode Island. After the death of his father in Jamaica, he lived with his mother and siblings in the home of his uncle Moses Michael Hays in Boston, Massachusetts. As an adult, Abraham lived in Medford, Massachusetts. He entered into the merchant trade and insurance business with his cousin, Judah Hays, taking over the family business when his uncle died. Like his brother Judah, Abraham was known for his philanthropy, contributing to, among others, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston Female Asylum, and the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys. It was his caring and concern for the synagogue and cemetery in Newport, however, that he truly is remembered. In addition to the maintenance of the synagogue, he also contributed funds and oversaw the erection of a fence around the cemetery, the sidewalk from the cemetery to the synagogue, and maintenance and repair of the street that would one day bear his family name.”

1829: A day after he passed away, Hyam Emanuel was married at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1836: Birthdate of Hannah Conquy Abecassis, the native of the Azores “whose forced her to marry her uncle Abraham Abecassis avoiding a marriage with a catholic man she liked.”

1837: This evening Rabbi Poznanski officiated at the wedding of Henry S. Cohen to Caroline Harris, the “daughter of the late Jacob Harris.”

1844: In Prenzlau, Schaye Seelig Peyser and Therese Jaffe gave birth to Julius Peyser, the husband of Doris Lownethal and father of Paula Peyser.

1845: A fire broke out at Constantinople which had consumed the greater part of the Jewish quarter, and destroyed several Synagogues. "Distress, starvation, and misery of all kinds prevail among the unfortunate Jewish population."

1848: In Galicia, Dr. and Mrs.Heinrich Franzos gave birth to author Karl Emil Franzos.

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Franzos_Karl_Emil

1848: In Aufhausen, Germany, Emmanuel Frank and Elise Reese, the sister of Michael Reese, gave birth to Babette Reese Mandel, the wife of Chicago businessman Emanuel Mandel, whose philanthropies and good works included the founding of the Maxwell Street Settlement and serving as “as vice president of the Local Board of the Council of Jewish Women.”

1848: In Galicia, which at the time was part of the Austrian Empire, Heinrich Franzos, “a highly respected doctor” whose “family came from Sepharidi Jews who had fled the Inquisition” and his wife gave birth to author and journalist Karl Emil Franzos

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Franzos_Karl_Emil

1849: Rabbi Rosenfeld officiated at the marriage of L.J. Myers of Savannah, GA and Priscilla Tobias, the daughter of Charleston, SC resident Abraham Tobias.

1850: The Will of Frances Abrahams, the mother-in-law of John Moses was probated today in the United Kingdom.

1853:23rd of Tishrei, 5614):Simchat Torah

1853:The Five Academies comprising the Institute of France held their annual meeting today. Among the presenters was M. Holely of the Academy of Fine Arts, composer of the "Wandering Jew" who read "an interminable discourse on Frohberger, a German organist whom no ever heard of, and whom the writer himself acknowledge was snuffed out by Handel.

1858: In his role as President of the London Committee of Deputies for the Jews, Sir Moses Montefiore sends a letter to the leaders of the American Jewish community asking that they join “with the Jews in England, Holland and France” in seeking the support of their respective governments to take whatever action is possible to ensure the return of Eduardo Mortara to his parents after he had been seized by Catholic authorities so that he could be raised in their faith.

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1858: TodaySir Moses Montefiore, the President of the London Committee of Deputies for the Jews wrote a letter the President of the Hebrew Congregation in the United States and others that urged the American Jewish community to join its co-religionists in England, Holland France in seeking the support of their government in having the Mortara child returned to his parents and to avoid any such future seizures. It summarized the threat that the seizure Edgardo Mortara posed to Jews and “every other denomination of faith” except the Roman Catholics. Montefiore reiterated that this was not just a matter of religious freedom. The behavior of the Catholic Church placed “in peril, personal liberty, social relations and the peace of families.”

1860:An article published today based on information from the Beirut correspondent of the Boston Traveler entitled “Affairs in Syria,” reports that "The Anglo-American Committee, while it retains its original name, has now among its members leading men from the Greek, the Roman Catholic and the Jewish persuasions, and relief is extended to men of every creed irrespective of any peculiarity of faith…It will perhaps interest your readers to know that Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler the Chief Rabbi of the Jews, who resides in London, has issued an address to the Jews throughout Europe, calling upon them for liberal contributions for the poor in Syria, and that the Rothschilds and other eminent and wealthy Israelites are feeling much interest in the subject. Dr. Adler bases his appeal upon the ground that Syria and Palestine is the land of their fathers, and that as it is a land so full of holy associations connected with the past, and so replete with hope for the future, they must rally to the aid of their Christian brethren in the East, who are children of the same Almighty Father, and calls upon them to give liberally as they hope to be restored to the land to which their traditions, prophecies, and hopes, point as their future home."

1861: Isaac Goodman who rose from the rank Private to Sergeant during his four years with the Union Army began his service today with the Company F of the 91^st Regiment.

1862(1^st of Cheshvan, 5623): As Jews observed Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, General U.S. Grant assumed command of the 13^th Army Corps and the Department of Tennessee, a move that would position him to lead the Union to victory at Vicksburg.

1862: The New York Timesspecial correspondent traveling with the Army of the Potomac reported that the recent order relating to sutlers have, to a great extent, cleared out the "Jews" as well as "Gentiles," who had turned Bolivar Heights into a Chatham-street. Bolivar Heights was the site of the Union Army’s camp. Chatham-street was a reference to a street of that name in NYC which was the site of much of the second-hand clothing business; a business allegedly dominated by Jews who were rumored to always taking advantage of their Christian customers.

1862: Birthdate of Matthias Max Bernstein, the German born physician who came to England in 1892 where became a member of the British Medical Association and a member of the “Executive English Zionist Federation.”

1863:A writer for the Richmond Examiner proposes a plan for stowing the population of the entire Confederacy in Richmond, and supplying them with food. While the article is allegedly a satire, the paragraphs about the Jews have the whiff of anti-Semitism.Now“we approach naturally enough the Jews, a class which includes not only the unworthy Israelites, but all who indulge the alleged Hebraic propensity for exacting the pound of Christian flesh and amassing riches at the expense of the life-blood of their fellow-citizens. Such are Yankee tradesmen of whatever denomination, restaurant keepers, confectionery and apple sellers, oyster-cellar men, proprietors of hotels and boarding-houses, and the like. All these come under the same head, and are to be disposed of in the same manner…I am told that the Jews, in addition to the shop in which they are now reduced to the unprofitable business of selling lead pencils at a dollar apiece, meerschaum pipes made out of plaster of Paris, empty pocket-books, and rotten shoe-strings, at similar rates, own a vast number of the best houses in the city, purchased by their honest gains, and now filled with flour, bacon, sugar, salt, coffee, tea, corn, meat, oats, hay, fodder, shucks and other necessaries of life. If this be true, not a moment is to be lost in ousting them, in order to save the army and the people from starvation. They are said to have packed away in their cellars and garrets enough clothing, made and unmade, to furnish every respectable man, woman and child in the Confederacy with two complete Winter suits, besides whisky, brandy and wine enough to keep the taro-banks, cannal-pockets, Congress and Governor Letcher supplied for nearly three months to come. These must be obtained without delay or regard to law or peril to life or limb. My neat and simple plan for effecting this with the required promptness, is to detail the provost-guard, city battalion, night watch, Col. Bronner's cavalry, and any other force that may be needed, to seize Jews, restaurant men and chattels, expose the same to sale -- not at Yankee auction, but at a ladies' fair, to be conducted exclusively by the poor women of the city, assisted by some honest hospital steward (if such can be found,) and in the meantime to lodge the said Jews, restaurant, confectionery, oyster, hotel and boarding-house men in the exceeding capacious and patriotic flour mills of the metropolis, which are now lying idle for lack of the wheat and confidence of our long-headed, good-memoried country gentlemen. If the several mills do not suffice to contain them all, plenty of room can be found in the various tobacco warehouses, which are to be emptied in pursuance of my plan, as will be shown further on. Having packed the Jews, foreign or native born, everyone in the mills and warehouses, it would be cruel to forget that they have been accustomed to active, industrious life, and to leave them a prey to idleness and their own villainous imaginations. I propose to be guilty of no such inhumanity, but to give them constant and laborious employment during the whole term of their incarceration. With this view I have consulted Adjt.-Gen. Richardson, and find that he has now in the Virginia Armory something above one thousand tons of old flints, which he has kindly placed at my disposal. These flints must be carefully skinned by the imprisoned Jews, and the hides thus obtained are to be sold to the Navy Department...”

1864: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Jacob Miller began serving with Company C of the 61^stRegiment.

1865: Today, “two cousins with identical names” married “two brothers” at the Bayswater Synagouge.

1867: Birthdate of Louisville, KY Abram Gideon, the Reform Rabbi and husband of Henrietta Gideon who was the father of composer Miriam Gideon.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/miriam-gideon

https://www.geni.com/people/Abram-Gideon/6000000000630370513

1871: An article published today compared the methods of Irish men and Jews who are engaged in the second-hand clothing business. The Irish rely on a network of their fellow country men and women who work as servants in the homes of the wealthy. “The Jewish old-clothes man” works in the street relying on his ability to trade and barter as opposed to using cash for the purchase of items.

1872(23rd of Tishrei, 5633): Simchat Torah

1874: Esther Hannah Samuel, the daughter of Maurice Moses Beddington and Hannah Maria Beddington and her husband Henry Sylvester Samuel gave birth to Marguerite K. Samuel.

1875: William F. Kintzing, the defense attorney for the three man charge with the murder of a Hebrew peddler in the woods at Westchester (NY) opposed the district attorney’s motion to transfer the case from the Court of General Sessions to the Oyer and Terminer, the court with criminal jurisdiction. Judge Sutherland ruled that since this was a capital case, the transfer was proper and he approved the motion. The three would eventually be convicted of the immigrant Jewish peddler who was supporting his children still living in Europe.

1875: The New York World, a newspaper that supports Democrats published an attack on Jacob Hess, a Republican and leader in the Jewish community

1877: It was reported today that New Yorker Abraham S. Isaacs, an editor of the Jewish Messenger, plans to publish a work on Hebrew literature.

1877: It was reported today that a volume written by Helen Zimmern on the life and works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing will be published in London this fall. Lessing was the close friend of Moses Mendelssohn and wrote “Nathan the Wise.”

1879: The Yuma Arizona Sentinel reported today that “Pinafore Company” bound for Tucson that included Pauline Markham had stopped in Yuma, AZ.

1879: It was reported today the Senate in Bucharest has passed a bill that would revise the Romanian Constitution to allow for the emancipation of the Jews by a large majority.

1881: Birthdate of Pablo Picasso who befriended the Italian-Jewish painter Amedeo Modigliani. He posed for a portrait by Modigliani and tried to help him be a commercial success. According to a 2004 film featuring the relationship between these two artistic giants. Picasso painted a portrait of Modigliani. Picasso reportedly uttered Modigliani’s name on his death bed.

1881: Birthdate of Waterbury, CT, native Alfred William Pollak the graduate of Columbia who pursued a career as a physician and author.

1882: “Mordecai Lyons,” a new play by Edward Harrigan is scheduled to open at the Theatre Comique in New York City. The three act plays includes scenes in a pawnbroker’s shop and a chop-house on Houston Street.

1882: In Vienna, along with Moses Schnirer, Ruben Bierer and Peretz Smolenskin, Nathan Birnbaum founded “Kadima” the Zionist student association whose future members would include Sigmund Freud, Isidor Schalit and Fritz Löhner-Beda.

1882: It was reported today that “Jew” Rosa was among the confederates of the “notorious counterfeiter” Van Rensselaer Abrams. (It has not been ascertained if Rosa’s appellation was indicative of his religious origins.)

1882: A review published today of “Mordecai Lyons” by Edward Harrigan decried it is a “another ‘Jew play’” which reminds us that “when the Jew is not honestly reproduced that he should not be reproduced at all.”

1883: “Celebrating A Fest Too Well” published today described a Simchat Torah celebration that a group of Polish Chassidim held in room above the crockery store owned by Bernard Levy. When Levy heard furniture and windows breaking, he attempted to control the group. But the abundance of liquor and beer prevented this and Levy was forced to call the police.

1884: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to hold a Montefiore centenary celebration in Chickering Hall this evening starting at 8 o’clock.

1884: “The first meeting of the organizers of the Agudath Achim was held at the home of H. and B. Cohen at 213 Maxwell Street, east of Halsted Street.”

1884: In New York City, Jess Seligman delivered the opening remarks at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “Montefiore Centenary Celebration” which the Anglo-Jewish leader’s one hundredth birthday

1884: Baltimore’s Lloyd Street Synagogue was the scene of special ceremonies marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.

1885: “The Strength of Ideas” published today contends that “No race has ever been affected by its wars as the Jews have been affected by the single idea that it was their duty to remain a separate people.”

1886: The Financial News which had been founded by Harry Marks in 1884 began running a series of articles that exposed corruption in local government many of which were written by Marks himself.

1886: It was reported today that Tommy Grady, who is running against Tim Campbell for in the 8^thCongressional District gave an hour-long address to the Tenth Ward Hebrew Citizens’ Association during which he tried “to impress his listeners that he was a friend of the” Jews. (This “courting of the Jewish vote, is yet another example of what differentiated the Jewish American experience from life in Europe, Asia and/or Africa)

1887: Herman De Stern, a German born English grocer was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1889: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman and Judge Richard O’Gorman addressed the meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association held at Chickering Hall. The speeches were followed by a musical event featuring soprano Isabelle Rockwell and tenor Hugo Distlehurst.

1889: In New York City, The American Hebrew reports that Dr. Abraham Neumark "...will hold regular discourses on the Talmud and lectures in German every Saturday afternoon." at Orach Chaim.

1890: Birthdate of Ernst Lothar Müller, the native of Brno which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who gained game as “writer, director and proudcer” Ernst Lothater, the brother of Hans Müller-Einigen, and husband of actress Adrienne Gessner with whom he went into exile following the Anschluss.

1891(23^rdof Tishrei, 5652): Simchat Torah

1891: “Russia’s Grim Outlook” published today described the impact of the famine in the Czar’s domains where it is predicted there will be increasing violence aimed at the Jews

1891: Birthdate of Charles Coughlin. He was an American Roman Catholic priest in Detroit and a vicious anti-Semite. In October, 1938 he began his weekly anti-Semitic broadcasts over national radio. The program was very popular, to say the least. He also formed the Christian Front in New York City which carried out anti-Semitic street meetings and boycotted Jewish businesses. Those who are critical of Roosevelt’s policies regarding European Jewry and the apparent passivity of American Jews in response to the menace Hitler posed to the Jews, would do well to read about American during the 1930’s when anti-Semitism was both public and acceptable.

1892: Twenty-two year old German born American journalist and Republican Party member Gustave Karger married Rachel Levison today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/11/17/104270059.pdf

1893: In Cleveland, OH, Simon P. and Pauline C. (Berman) Burstain gave birth to Columbia graduate and JTS trained Rabbi, Abraham Burstein, the husband of Stella Cohn who began his career leading the Inwood Hebrew Congregation before on to other duties that including serving as “chief of Graves Registration Bureau for the Jewish Welfare Board “in France and Washington.

1894: In New York, The Board of Estimate and Apportionment acted today on the provisional estimates for 1985 for charitable institutions which included $80,000 for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and $85,000 for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York Orphan Asylum.

1894: In Newark, NJ, A mob of angry Polish and Russian Jewish unemployed hat-makers “surrounded the non-union hat factor of J.L. Kreidel threatening death to Kreidel and his nephew” if they did not join the union within the next 24 hours.

1894: In a move to attract Jewish support, the Woman’s Municipal Purity Auxiliary which is part of the anti-Tammany movement, is scheduled to hold its meeting this afternoon at the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway.

1895: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Emanuel “Manny” Victor Littauer who after leading Columbia’s football team to an undefeated season in 1915 gave up the game because of his parent’s fears and joined the school’s basketball team the following year.

1895: “In the Shtetl of Oratov” which is now part of Ukraine the former Dvora Krasnyanskaya and businessman “Joseph Shkolnik” gave birth to “Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik” who gained fame as Levi Eshkol. Everybody knows the names of the glamorous Israeli leaders – Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, etc. But few know the name of Levi Eshkol. This little known Israeli political leader succeeded Ben Gurion as Prime Minister of Israel in 1963. He was a compromise candidate of whom little was expected.   Yet he was the Prime Minister in 1967 when Israel won its great victory over the Arab states and Jerusalem was re-united. Born in Kiev, Eshkol moved to Palestine in 1914. He served in the Jewish Legion during World War I was active in the Labor Zionist movement during the inter-war period. His major accomplishment was the establishment of what would become Israel’s water authority. In a parched land, this was work of major importance. Eshkol joined the Haganah serving as a recruiter and later as the “chief supply officer” for it and its successor, the IDF. As should be obvious, Eshkol’s biggest accomplishment was to serve successfully in a variety of unglamorous positions that were vital to the establishment and growth of Israel. He died of heart attack in 1969.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/levi-eshkol

http://theprimeministers.org/biography-levi-eshkol/

http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/

1896: Rabbi Beisnmar is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Brooklyn dry goods merchant Joseph Wechsler followed by burial in Salem Fields, Cypress Hills Cemetery.

1896(25^thof Cheshvan, 5657): Retired real estate broker Moses kind who “was a member of Stchelberg & Co (cigar makers) and who was a Director of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital passed away today.

1896: The funeral for New York businessman Adolphus H. Maas who began his career in Savannah, GA before manufacturing chemicals in Newark, will be held today at 9:30 this morning.

1897: In Bradford, PA, founding of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association whose members included M.A. Nusbaum, A.D. Cohn, L.J. Kreinson and E. H. Werthman.

1898: The Order Knights of Zion, also called the Western Federation of Zionists, whose members included Max Shulman, Sam Ginsburg and George K. Rosenzweig with offices in Chicago was organized today.

1898: Private Samuel M. Cowen of Waterbury, Private Michael G. Greenberg of New Have and Private Arthur S. Loeb were among the members of the 1^stRegiment of Connecticut Volunteer Artillery mustered out of federal service today.

1898: “The Federated Zionist Societies of the Middle West” was organized today in Chicago.

1901: Birthdate New York native and Columbia educated producer and promoter Charles Einfeld, the husband of May Einfeld with whom he had three children – Richard, Linda and Lisa.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/28/archives/charles-einfeld-fox-executive-who-originated-junkets-dies.html

https://mppda.flinders.edu.au/people/176

1903: In Debrecen, Hungary, Yosef Weissmandl, a shochet and his wife gave birth to Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, the rabbi and community leader “best known for his efforts to save the Jews of Slovakia from extermination during the Shoah.”

1903: Today, “at the National Farm School, at Farm School, PA, a Zionist society called Farm School Brothers of Zion was organized” after which officers were elected including “Vice President M.J. Nowick and Secretary Charles Horn.

1904: Birthdate of University Alabama “three sport star” Andrew “Andy” Howard Cohen the brother of Syd Cohen and “the New York Giant second baseman who, in 1928, inspired the poem "Cohen At the Bat."

1905: In Manhattan, Samuel Fassler, the founder of Fassler Iron Works, “the son of Abba and Chaya Fassler” and his wife Rose Fassler gave birth Benjamin Fassler

1905: British Major-General Sir Charles Wilson passed away at Tunbridge Wells (UK). Born in 1836, Wilson received his first commission in the Royal Engineers in 1855. In 1864, at the instigation of George Grove, Baroness Angela Burdett Coutts helped finance the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. Volunteers were called for from the Royal Engineers to carry out the work and Wilson who had just been promoted to the rank of Captain was selected. The aim of the work was to lay the basis for the improvement of the water supply of Jerusalem, which at the time was severely polluted. In addition to producing a topographical map of the city and its immediate environs, in 1865 the survey party carried out a series of levels from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, which established the relative levels of the two bodies for the first time.While Wilson was still in Palestine engaged on the Survey, the Palestine Exploration Fund was founded. On Wilson’s return to England, the PEF Committee engaged him to carry out a 'feasibility study' for proposed Survey of Western Palestine and to identify suitable sites for future exploration. In November 1865, Wilson and his party landed in Beirut and surveyed their way south to Palestine, planning the Great Mosque of Damascus along the way. From January to April 1866, Wilson carried out reconnaissance and survey work in Palestine, paying particular attention to the archaeology and ancient synagogues of the region. In the same year, Wilson was appointed to the Ordnance Survey of Scotland and, in 1867, acted as Assistant Commissioner on the Borough Boundary Commission. In this year, also, he became a member of the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. In 1868, he volunteered to take part in the Ordnance Survey of Sinai, along with Capt. H.S. Palmer. The report of their work contains Wilson’s chapters on the route of the Israelites and the prehistoric and Byzantine archaeology of the region. In recognition of Wilson’s work in Jerusalem, he was awarded the Diploma of the International Geographical Congress in 1871.Throughout his military career Wilson remained in touch with the Palestine Exploration Fund, serving as its Chairman during the period from 1901 to 1906. (As reported by the Palestine Exploration Fund)

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1776079

http://www.pef.org.uk/profiles/major-general-sir-charles-william-wilson-1836-1905

1906: Major General Georges Picquart, who risked his career when he identified Ferdinand Esterhazy as the author of the bordereau that had been wrongly attributed to Dreyfus was named Minister of War.

1906: Birthdate of Reuven Borstein, the native of Taurage who made Aliyah in 1926, after which he gained fame as Reuven Barkat.

1906: Installation of Rabbi Jacob Meir as Hahambashi of Palestine.  Six months later In April he was deposed by the Sultan of Turkey, and Eliahu M. Panigel was put in the position instead to oversee the orthodox community. Jacob Meir went on to become Chief Rabbi of Salonica.

1912(14^thof Cheshvan, 5673): Sixty-eight year old “merchant and realtor” Henry Korn passed away today in New York.

1909: “Jacob H. Schiff created a Trust Fund of $50,000 to establish Teachers’ Institute” at Hebrew Union College.

1910(22^ndof Tishrei, 5671: Shemini Atzeret

1913: Birthdate of Avraham Yoffee, the native of Yavne’el who served as a general during the Six Day War and as a member of the Knesset.

1914: The first meeting of a special committee formed to alleviate the suffering of the Jews in war-torn Europe chaired by Jacob H. Schiff is scheduled to take place today at Temple Emanu-El.

1914: As part of the campaign to raise $100,000 to alleviate the suffering the Jews in Palestine Louis Brandeis, Chairman of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, addressed the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall.

1915: “Honor Jewish Heroes” published today described a memorial service conducted by Rabbi Tinter at Mount Zion Temple which “eighty-four German Jewish veterans of European wars attended in their uniforms” that paid homage to those Jewish soldiers who have died during the last year in WW I.

1915: “No Houses Left In Sochaczew” published today described the destruction of the Russian city where “a few bearded, ringleted Jews clad in long black cassocks shuffle through the market place and a few Jewish women come to the big iron town pump for water” making it seem “as though the ancient people had one more taken up their dwelling on the ravished slopes of Jerusalem and were shouldering again the age-long burden of their people.”

1915: It was reported today that the sanctuary being built by “Sinai Temple in Stebbins Avenue near East 163^rd Street in the Bronx” “will cost about $95,000” and should be ready for occupancy next summer.

1916: According to reports by New York Times correspondent Cyril Brown who is traveling with General Von Falkenhayn’s German forces in Romania, published today, the “large number of Romanian Jews among the prisoners” captured by the Germans indicates “that a considerable percentage of the Romanian Army was composed of persecuted Jews who do not enjoy equal rights of citizenship” and who, as one of the captives said ‘We have no vote but are compelled to fight.’”

1916: “The charges that Jews were being discriminated against when they sought enlistment in the New York National Guard were not sustained in a report” compiled “by General Louis F. Stonesbury, Adjutant General to Governor Whitman which was made public today” despite “the evidence that two Sergeants who had direct relation with the enlistment of recruits had admitted to a distinct bias against Jewish applicants…”

1917: Leon Trotsky told Julius Martov and other party members who had expressed their disgust at the way in which the Bolsheviks had seized political power, "You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on — into the dustbin of history!" To this Martov replied in a moment of rage, "Then we'll leave!", and then walked in silence away without looking back. He paused at the exit seeing a young Bolshevik worker wearing a black shirt with a broad leather belt, standing in the shadow of the portico. The young man turned on Martov with unconcealed bitterness: 'And we amongst ourselves had thought, Martov would at least remain with us.' Martov stopped and with a characteristic movement tossed up his head to emphasize his reply: 'One day you will understand the crime in which you are taking part.' Waving his hand wearily he left the hall.”

1917: On the Julian calendar a revolt St. Petersburg marks the start of the October Revolution which will topple the Provisional Government and bring the Bolsheviks to power. This corresponds to November 7 on the Gregorian calendar but it explains why the “October Revolution” took place in November.

1918: Birthdate of actor Milton Selzer.

1918: In Brooklyn, Julius and Esther Leipzig gave birth of Isidore Leipzig who gained game as photographer Arthur Leipzig.

http://www.arthurleipzig.com/

1918: “The Polish Ministry for Religious Affairs” resolved “to open a modern rabbinical seminary at Warsaw to prepare rabbis” to serve in Poland.

1918: In Emsworth, Hampshire, Air Commodore P.J. Wiseman and his wife gave birth to archaeologist and biblical scholar Donald J. Wiseman who served as vice president of the British Academy under Sir Isaiah Berlin who among other things established the date of Nebuchadnezzar's first capture of Jerusalem as 15/16 March 597 BCE after extensively examining the Babylonian texts.

1918: The funeral of Julius M Guinzburg, of blessed memory, the brother of Edwin, Adolph, Fernando, Eleanor and Flora Buchbinder is scheduled to take place at the West End Synagogue in New York City.

1919: Winston Churchill “wrote a memorandum for the Cabinet proposing that the Ottoman Empire should not be divided among the victorious powers, but preserved intact, and placed under the authority of the League of Nations. Such a plan would bring an end to the concept of a British Mandate in Palestine, and would have led to the abandonment of the Balfour Declaration pledge of a Jewish National Home.”

1919: “The President of the Swiss Confederation expressed…his approval of the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine guaranteed by a League of Nations” to Zionist leaders in Switzerland.

1919(1^stof Cheshvan, 5680): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1919(1^stof Cheshvan, 5680): David Abrahams, the Russian born son of Rachel and Joseph H. Abrahams who was buried at B’Nai Amoona Cemetery in University City, MO after he passed away today.

1921(23^rdof Tishrei, 5682): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of Warren Harding and for the second time under the strictures of the Volstead Act.

1922: In the Bronx, comedian “Milton Moss and the former Eva Goldstein” gave birth to “Milt Moss, a comic actor who delivered the rueful catchphrase “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing” in a memorable commercial for Alka-Seltzer in 1972.” (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/arts/television/milt-moss-actor-alka-seltzer-commercial.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1923: In Vienna, Leo Sirota and Augustine Horenstein gave birth to Beate Sirota who gained fame as Beate Sirota Gorden, “who at 22 almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/25/1923/birth-of-beate-sirota-gordon-who-wrote-equality-into-post-war-japanese

1924:The Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election. This document, which was a forgery, called for increased Communist agitation in Great Britain. Zinoviev was Grigory Zinoviev, the son of Jewish dairy farmers, who was head of the Comintern.

1925: “The Guardsman, an Austrian silent comedy film directed and written by Robert Wiene and co-starring Maria Corda who rescued her husband Alexander Korda from the clutches of Miklos Horthy, the first of Europe’s fascist anti-Semitic dictators.

1925: In Sosnowiec, Poland, chocolate salesman Issachar Feiner and his wife Rivka Herzberg gave birth to Haim Feiner who gained fame as Israeli entertainer Haim Hefer.

1926:”The Student of Prague” “a 1926 Expressionist silent film by actor and filmmaker Henrik Galeen” was released in Germany today.

1927: “A house (called Brandsby Lodge and belonging to Sir Charles Wilson M. P.) with adjoining land, at the corner of Louis Street and Chapeltown Road, was purchased and at a meeting of the New Briggate synagogue building committee today the decision to appoint local architect, J. Stanley Wright was adopted – the projected cost to be £23,000.

1928: After having premiered in Denmark six months ago, “The Passion of Joan of Arc” a silent French movie filmed byRudolph Maté was released today in France

1929: Arthur Ruppin wrote in his diary describing the devastation the Arabs had wrought on the settlement of Hulda in Palestine. In 1930, Hulda was resettled as a Kibbutz by a group of young Zionist pioneers known as the Gordonia, followers of A.D. (Aaron David) Gordon.

1930: Birthdate of American Jewish author Harold Brodkey.

1930(3^rdof Chevshvan, 5691): Parashat Noach

1930(3^rdof Cheshvan, 5691): Seventy year old Russian-Jewish bacteriologist Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine passed away.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7016-haffkine-waldemar-mordecai-wolff

1930: Northwestern University led by Guard Hyman “Hy” Crizevsky defeated Centre today.

1930: Several thousand people gathered in Tel Aviv to protest the “British government’s new…policy on Palestine.” The demonstration turned violent when the protestors marched passed the city’s main synagogue which was surrounded by a guard of mounted officers. Several of the people in the group who were identified as being Orthodox resorted to violence over what they considered was a desecration of the Sabbath by having the Jewish guards mounted on horses, a violation of halachah. At the same time a picture of Lord Passfield was ripped to shreds by the mob.

1931: Birthdate of Jerusalem native Joseph A. Eliash who latte settled in Ohio.

1931: Birthdate of Queens native Miriam Levine, the daughter of “postal worker” and Hunter College graduate who gained fame as Miriam Bockman, the wife of Eugene J. Bockman , who was a powerful leader in the reform wing of the Democrat Party. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/obituaries/miriam-bockman-groundbreaking-manhattan-democrat-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

http://thevillager.com/2018/07/12/miriam-bockman-86-manhattan-county-leader/

1932(25^thof Tishrei, 5693): A.F. Horowitz, “the founder and head of the National Clothing Company and father of Jess Horowitz who found the A.F. Horowitz Memorial Foundation, passed away today.

1935: A Zionist Committee in Locarno signed a contract with a steamship company that would provide transportation to Palestine during 1936 for 80,000 Jews who will be settling in Tel Aviv.

1936: In London, Peter and Miriam Gilbert give birth to their son, Martin, the grandson of Eastern European immigrants who gained fame as Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. As the author of over 80 volumes, he is one of the most prolific historians of our time. As anybody who has read his works knows, he is also one of the most reliable authorities who turns works of history into works of literature. Yet as busy as he was, he always had time to answer questions from his readers in the most patient and understanding of manner.

1936: The Berlin-Rome Axis was formed. This was the alliance between Hitler and Mussolini that helped paved the way to World War II and the Holocaust.

1936: Birthdate of Rochester, NY native Michael Gedaliah Kammen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/us/michael-kammen-historian-of-us-psyche-dies-at-77.html

1936: “Palestine Editor Predicts An Accord” published today described the belief of Gershon Agronksy, the founder and editor of The Palestine Post of Jerusalem that “Arabs definitely hope for severe limitation of Jewish immigration and all it stands for” while “Jews hope that nothing will be done to restrict their settlement of country” and the British are looking “for a settlement which would make a repetition of the recent Arab outbreak impossible.”

1936: A review of Anti-Semitism, Historically and Critically Examined by Swedish professor A. G. Chater was published today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E02EEDF153DE33BBC4D51DFB667838D629EDE

I936: In Philadelphia, B’nai B’rith sponsored a celebration commemorating the 300^thanniversary of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, banishment from the colony of Massachusetts which was attended by 5,000 Protestants, Catholics and Jews before his statue in Fairmont Park.

1936: Rabbi Henry A. Schorr the leader of Temple Adath Israel and the Jewish chaplain at Bellevue Hospital paid tribute to his fellow Rotarian Reverend William H. Kephart, the pastor of the North New York Congregational Church who is observing the 40^th anniversary of his ministry.

1936: “Jewish leaders of the United States and Canada meeting” in Chicago “ today as the Plan and Scope Committee for the 1936 National Campaign of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee were informed that $2,374,062, more than double the funds collected during 1935, has been raised so far.”

1936: At Comiskey Park, home of the White Sox, “a successful penalty kick by Gauol Machlis…enabled the touring Maccabee soccer team from Tel Aviv to defeat the Illinois All Stars 1 to 0…”   in front of a crowd of 20,000 ran soaked fans. The receipts from the game will be shared by various Chicago charities.

1936: It was reported today that “when King Edward opens the new session of Parliament on November 3,” his address from the throne which is really a statement of the government’s proposals will include the measures “the Baldwin government plans to take to ride the country of the nuisance caused by Sir Oswald Mosley’s Fascisits.

1937:“Babes in Arms is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart” which had opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre “transferred to the Majestic Theatre” today.

1938: Look magazine “printed a series of André Kertész’s photographs, entitled ‘A Fireman Goes to School’ but credited them erroneously to his former boss Ernie Prince” which so infuriated the Hungarian born photographer so much that “he considered never working with a photo magazine again.”

1939: In a letter dated today, “Harry A. Jung, honorary general manager of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation” complained to Representative Martin Dies, Chairman of the House Committee on un-American Activities” about the release of letters that connected his federation with “Nazi organizations.”

1939: Mayor La Guardiapraised the Youth Aliyah Fund which is providing financial support to send Jewish children to Palestine. At the same time, New York’s mayor warned the members that they must be vigilant in guarding the rights of all minorities.

1939: In Highland Park, Illinois, Mrs. Babette Mandel, the widow of Emanuel Mandel who was one of the founders of the Mandel Brothers store, will celebrate her 91^stbirthday with her son Edwin, “her son-in-law Albert S. Lauer, two grandson, Albert E.M. Lauer and Frank Mandel and three great-grandchildren

1940(23^rdof Tishrei, 5701): Simchat Torah

1940: “Seven Sinners” produced by Joe Pasternak, featuring Mischa Auer and filmed by cinematographer Rudolph Maté was released in the United States today.

1940: General Government (the Nazi government of Poland) ended the granting of any more visas to Polish Jews.

1940: As part of Operation Wagner-Bürckel it was decided to evacuate the Jews from Baden (between 6,500 and 7,500) as well as 895 Jews from Karlsruhe,to Gurs where they were locked up under French, not German, administration.

1941: In Melbourne, Stella Campbell and David “Max” Reddy gave birth to Australian-American singer and actress Helen Reddy.

1941(4th of Cheshvan, 5702): Romanian soldiers massacred 26,000 Jews in Odessa, which was part of the Soviet Union. The Romanians were allies of the Germans and participated in their crimes.

1941: Jews at Tatarsk in Soviet Russia revolt against murderous peasants and SS killing squads. The rebellion is put down by regular German Army units, artillery, and air power. All Jews in Tatarsk are murdered.

1941:As of today according to an order issued by the Nazis, all Jews were to have relocated to the Moscow suburb of Riga. As a result, about 30,000 Jews were concentrated in the small area known as the Moscow Forshtat by the end of October 1941.

1941: Einsatzgruppen report to Berlin complains the local population of White Russia was not being helpful in the various actions. “Actions” was the expression for rounding up and murdering Jews. Therefore the Germans themselves would have to step up efforts.

1941: In what is described as “The Birth of the Gas Chamber,” in Germany Dr. Viktor Brack rolled out the new plan for mass execution with "the installation of the necessary buildings and gas plants." Eichmann approved of this method. Such a procedure would assure a systematic method of extinguishing the Jews and reduce incidents of public killings.

1941: The movie of version of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” direct by Jules Dassin, co-starring Joseph Schildkraut with music by Sol Kaplan was released today in the United States.

1942: Dutch resistance leader Jaap Nunes Vaz, founder of the underground paper Het Parool was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Sobibor.

1942: In Oszmiana, Lithuania the Nazis demand that the community give up 400 of its 1000 Jews. The selection of the victims is assigned to the Jewish police in the nearby city of Vilna. Vilna Ghetto leader Jacob Gens decides to hand over Oszmiana's elderly Jews in order to save the others.

1942: Birthdate Los Angeles native Gloria Katz, the award winning screen writer of the 1973 hit “American Graffiti.”

1942: Male Jews in Norway are arrested and sent by sea to Szczecin, Poland, then by railcar to Auschwitz;

1943(26th of Tishrei, 5704): In Birkenau, 2,500 girls from Salonica, Greece, held in Block 25 were all gassed. They sang Hatikvah as they were marched to the death chambers.

1943: The Germans begin the liquidation of the corpse-burning squad at the labor camp in Janówska, Ukraine.

1943: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the collection of Jewish skulls and skeletons at the Reich Anatomical Institute at Strasbourg.

1944: Birthdate of Ronit Lentin, the Haifa born Associate Professor of Sociology at Dublin’s Trinity College whose works include Racism and anti-racism in Ireland and Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence http://www.worldcat.org/title/israel-and-the-daughters-of-the-shoah-reoccupying-the-territories-of-silence/oclc/44720589?tab=details and

1944: The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation. During the 1920, Joel Teitelbaum had served as a rabbi in Carei. Teitelbaum would later be named Grand Rabbi and head of the Satmar.Liberation came too late for most of the Jews of Romania. Over 264,000 Jews perished in Nazi death camps during World War II. Most of the survivors fled postwar communism and emigrated to Israel or the United States. Only 14,000 Jews, most aged over 60, live in Romania today.

1945: Jews are attacked in Sosnowiec, Poland. Yes, the war and the Holocaust ended in May of 1945. But Polish anti-Semitism seems to have a life of its own.

1945: A Haifa military court sentenced 21 year old Joseph Morakh to five years in prison for possession of 23 hand grenades, 20 bombs and assorted other ammunition.

1945: Representative Andrew L. Somers, a Democrat from New York, challenged the British Ambassador to find out the “true facts” surrounding the sentencing of twenty “boys and girls” in Tel Aviv. Members of the group, who range between the ages of 15 to 20, will be sentenced tomorrow to a total of 118 ages on weapons possession and other charges despite the fact that, according to the Congressman, “twenty six prosecution witnesses had failed to establish the connection between the children and the arms.”

1945: Lee Krasner married Jackson Pollack. Krasner was Jewish – Pollack was not.

1946 Twenty-three former Nazi doctors are tried at Nuremberg on charges of conducting unethical experiments on camp inmates. The various experiments included the drinking of seawater, bone grafting, exposure to mustard gas, and other atrocities. This is the so-called "doctors' trial";

1947: The Irgun threatened to fight a “civil war” with Haganah following recent clashes between the two organizations.

1947: The University of Michigan Wolverines led by Fullback and Linebacker Dan Dworsky defeated Minnesota today which was Homecoming in what was their fifth victory in what would become a perfect season.

1948(22^ndof Tishrei, 5709): Shimini Atzeret

1948: A new road to S’dom was opened during the Israeli War for Independence. In November a military contingent made up of new immigrants would move through the Negev and break the six month long siege of S’dom. Yes, this is the same place as mentioned in Genesis.

1949: “Everybody Does It” a comedy featuring George Tobias with “original music by Alfred Newman” was released today in the United States.

1953:The Temple of Truth (Congregation Beth Emeth) groundbreaking ceremony took place today

1953:”Salute to Israel” published today described plans to honor Professor Benjamin Mazar and President Harry S. Truman at a dinner to be held next month at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

1955(9th of Cheshvan, 5716): Sixty-four year old Edward “Eddie” Jacobson, the Man from Missouri who helped convince that other Man from Missouri, Harry Truman, to support the creation of the state of Israel, passed away in Kansas City, Missouri.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09918.html

http://theholocaustmuseum.info/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=new1_flypage.tpl&product_id=978&category_id=47&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=265

1956: David O. Selznick” the scion of Jewish family from Pittsburgh contacted director John Huston at the Blue Haven Hotel in Tobago and enthusiastically welcomed him to the project – filming a re-make of Farewell to Arms with a script by Ben Hecht.

1956: In preparation for the Sinai Campaign, the Israeli government begins to mobilize its reserves and orders a battalion of paratroops to be ready to go into action within four days.

1959(23^rdof Tishrei, 5720): Simchat Torah

1962: A month after opening in the United Kingdom, “The War Lover,” the film version of the novel by the same name with a screenplay by Howard Koch and featuring Al Waxman was released in the United States today.

1964: Call It Sleep, a critically acclaimed 1934 novel by Henry Roth that was commercially unsuccessful “received a second life when it was reviewed by literary critic Irving Howe on the front page of The New York Times Book Review” today leading to “its paperback edition, published by Avon, to sell over a million copies” and the novel being included on TIME magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.”

1965(29th of Tishrei, 5726): Fifty-five year old Eduard Einstein, second son of Albert Einstein passed away at the age of 55.

1967(21^stof Tishrei, 5728): Seventy-eight year old German born Austrian author and journalist who survived internment in Dachau and Buchenwald and resumed his career in the United States in 1939 passed away today.

http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6jg057t

1968: Birthdate of American sports announcer Josh Lewin.

1973: A second cease fire went into effect marking the end of the Yom Kippur War.

1973: The Soviet withdrew its threat to send troops to support the Egyptians.

1973:After the official end of the Yom Kippur War, General Israel Tal, serving as commander of the southern front, received an order from Chief of Staff General David Elazar and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to attack Egyptian forces. Tal refused to follow the order, insisting that it was an unethical order and requesting authorization for the requested attack from the prime minister and the Supreme Court. Such authorization never came. Tal won the argument, but his refusal to follow the illegal order as a practical matter eliminated the chances of his being nominated for the position of Chief of Staff to succeed General Elaza (As reported by Haaretz)

1973: “Ismail Azmy's decision to detonate a bridge over the Sweetwater Canal on October 20 in order to stall an Israeli attack, in violation of direct orders not to do so, led to him being relieved of his command” today.

1974: An Arab summit at Rabat Morocco put an end to Jordanian involvement in the lands west of the Jordan River which it had seized in 1948 and held until 1967. The Arab governments agreed that the PLO, fresh from the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, was designated as the “sole representative’ of the Palestinian people. This ascendancy of extremism in the Arab world fueled Israeli support for the expansion of settlements on the West Bank and gave impetus to Right Wing politicians seeking to unseat the Labor Zionists.

1974: “Moshe Leshem, the Israeli ambassador to Denmark, protested to the Danish Foreign Ministry against Soviet distribution of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel pamphlets in Copenhagen.”

1975: Pravda printed ‘a long, scathing attack on Egypt” today designed “to coincide with President Sadat’s visit to the United States” where he was seeking to salvage a future out of the Yom Kippur defeat.

1976: Most of the protestors, including Vladimir Slepak, Anatoly Sharansky, Yuli Kosharovsky, Yosef Beilin and Felix Kandel who were on their way to protest at the Central Committee were arrested at or near their homes and charged with “hooliganism.”

1978: Israeli Cabinet approved "in principle," a draft compromise peace. This was a necessary step on the road to peace between Israel and Egypt.

1978: “Comes a Horseman” a dark western directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring James Caan was released in the United States today.

1979: Mayor Ed Koch announced today that “caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and humorist S. J. Perelman” who had passed away on October 18 “are among the recipients of the Mayor’s Awards for Arts and Culture.

1980: Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks.

1984: An off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” opened today at the Promenade Theatre.

1984: Ellen Bottomley Fiedler, the widow of Arthur Fiedler who she had had “three children – Johanna, Deborah and Peter—“ passed away today.

1986(22nd of Tishrei, 5747): Shemini Atzeret

1989: Day two of what would prove to be the final recording session of Vladimir Horowitz.

1990: The XIV Dalai Lama and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi met during the historic Jewish-Buddhist dialogue in Dharamsala, India.

1991: Seymour Hersh was sued for libel today for material in The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.

1991(17^thof Cheshvan, 5752): Alfred Morris, the son of Polish Immigrants whose career in hairstyling began at the age of 20 led him to open “the Morris School of Hairdressing, followed by the Morris School of Beauty Culture in Portman Square which became the diploma awarding London Institute of Hairdressing.”

1992: After 245 performances Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women was performed for the last time at the Neil Simon Theatre.

1992: Latvia adopts its first constitution in the post-Soviet period. There are approximately 11,000 Jews living among 2.5 million Latvians. Jews have lived in Latvia since the 17^thcentury. There were approximately 90,000 Jews living in the Baltic republic at the outbreak of WW II. There were approximately 320 left on Latvian soil at the end of the war. The President of Latvia has publicly apologized for the role Latvians played in the decimation of the Jewish populace.

1995: In Washington, Prime Minister Rabin countered Arab slogans by declaring, “There are not ‘two Jerusalems.’ There is only one Jerusalem. For us, Jerusalem is not subject to compromise, and there is no peace without Jerusalem. Jerusalem, which was destroyed eight times, where for years we had no access to the remnants of our Temple, was ours, is ours and will be ours – forever.”

1996: The first community bar mitzvah is held in Beijing for Ari Lee, the son of community founders Elyse Silverberg and Michael Lee.

1996: “When We Were Kings” an Academy Award winning boxing documentary featuring Norman Mailer was released in the United States today.

1997: Greville Janner “was created a life peer as Baron Janner of Braunstone, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire” today.

1997: In a letter sent today Holocaust denier David “Irving threatened to sue John Lukacs for libel if he published his book, The Hitler of History without removing certain passages highly critical of Irving’s work.”

1998:The New York Times included reviews of two books by Jewish authors: Too Good To Be Forgotten: Changing America in the '60s and '70sby David Obst and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick.

2000: Today, in Vienna, “the second building of the Jewish Museum was opened in Judenplatz with the unveiling of the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial to the Austrian Jews who perished in the Holocaust.”

2001(8^thof Cheshvan, 5762): Seventy-five year old Harry Gerard Bissinger II, the husband of Eleanor Lebenthal Bissinger and brother of Eli Kaufman passed away today.

2002(19th of Cheshvan, 5763): Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others, just 11 days before Election Day. The anniversary of Wellstone’s death should serve to remind us that by the end of the 20^th century Jewish political leaders were no longer confined to major metropolitan areas with significant Jewish populations. In Minnesota, the heart of the American heartland, there were actually Jewish senators who came from both the Republican and the Democratic Party. This achievement is all the more remarkable when one remembers that a United States Senator could use the word “Kike” in a speech on the Senate Floor in the 1940’s and get away with it.

2002: “Roger Dodger” a comedy co-starring Jesse Eisenberg and featuring Ben Shenkman was release in the United States by Artisan Entertainment.

2002:In “Jews rank high among winners of Nobel, but why not Israelis?” published today, Shule Kopf examines reasons for Jewish over-representation among Nobel Laureates and the future of Jewish intellectualism.

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/18676/jews-rank-high-among-winners-of-nobel-but-why-not-israelis/

2003(29^thof Tishrei, 5764): Parashat Bereshit – the Torah cycle begins again

2003: Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested at Novosibirsk airport by the Russian prosecutor general's office on charges of fraud.

2004: Former ALP minister Barry Cohen describes his belief that the Australian Labor Party is becoming anti-Semitic in an article appearing in The Age. Barry Cohen was arts minister in the Hawke government. The article is quoted in attempt to give American Jews a sense of the Jewish community “down under.”

It's a sepia-toned family portrait taken in the late 1930s of Mendel and Mindel Kozerwoder and their children Itzek, Charna, Malka, Mania, Yidel, Moishe and baby Faigele. There's nothing unusual about it but it is very precious to me, for they are all members of my family who, with one exception, perished in the crematoriums of Chelmno and Auschwitz. Clasped in the hands of my great-uncle is a photograph of my grandparents, Moishe and Zelda Kozerwoder. Itzek, the only survivor, gave me the photograph after I returned from a visit to Poland, during which I went to the villages of Pajcczno and Dzialoszyn, from which my grandparents departed in the late 1890s. Their travels took them to England, South Africa (where my father was born) and finally to Australia, just after the outbreak of World War I. The photo is the only image I have of the many members of my family who were murdered by the Nazis. When I look at it, my emotions range from gut-wrenching pain to seething rage. It has ensured that I belong to that school of Jewish resolve whose motto is "never again”. There is nothing special about what happened to me and my family. Many Jewish families suffered the same fate. I became aware of the Holocaust in 1944 as the Allied armies swept across Europe and liberated the death camps. I was only nine years old but I can still recall the pain I felt as I watched the newsreels of the emaciated survivors and the mountains of corpses. oon afterwards I was sent to boarding school to prepare for my bar mitzvah. There was a noticeable shortage of synagogues in the country town of Griffith, NSW, where I was born and where my father was the local dentist.My introduction to anti-Semitism commenced on my first day at school. The school sergeant refereed three fights between myself and classmates who called me "a dirty f---ing Jew". I was lucky. Bloody noses and black eyes were nothing compared to what happened to those members of my family who did not have the prescience to depart Europe as my grandparents had done. t didn't, however, make it easier to ignore the taunts and the occasional vicious remark that came at the most unexpected moments and from the most unexpected quarters. Like most Jews in a predominantly Christian society, I developed a defense mechanism to cope. Humor was one weapon. Knowing the history and roots of anti-Semitism was another. So, too, was the pride in seeing the survivors of the Holocaust recreating a Jewish nation for the first time in 2000 years. he survivors of the camps, a million Jews expelled from Arab countries and idealists from all over the Diaspora overcame the combined Arab military forces to ensure that not only did Jews have a haven, but one that was free and democratic. Israel has remained that way, in stark contrast to its Arab neighbors. ustralia is probably the least anti-Semitic country in the world, but what happened to my family made a deep impression on me. I became obsessive about discrimination; be it fighting for civil rights in the US, or against apartheid or the appalling treatment of our indigenous people was, however, an armchair critic mouthing off endlessly about what the government should do. Then a friend hit a sensitive nerve. "What are you doing about it?" he asked. It wasn't difficult to decide. I knew the enemy was on the political right: Nazis, fascists, conservatives, whether from the extreme right that led to the Holocaust or the social exclusion practiced by the genteel middle class. In 1964 I joined the ALP. Not that the Labor Party of the early 1960s was a beacon of light, for there were many ALP members still steeped in the White Australia philosophy and indifferent to the suffering of Aborigines. But those who spoke up about such injustices were almost all from the ALP. By the time I arrived in Canberra in 1969 as the MP for Robertson I felt at home in the company of those led by Gough Whitlam, who forced the Labor Party to change. However, I can still recall the wry amusement my opposition to apartheid caused colleagues. I was accused of being obsessive on the question of racism and to that charge I plead guilty. I became deeply involved in the fight for Aboriginal rights and to this day one of the proudest moments of my life was to be one of a small group of "yesterday's heroes, looking frail and aged", who were brought on stage at the Reconciliation Conference in Melbourne in 1997 to be honored for our work in the 1967 referendum. I have often been asked if my being Jewish was ever an issue during my 20 years in Federal Parliament. Not to the best of my knowledge. I cannot recall a single anti-Semitic remark from either side of the House. That did not mean that everyone agreed with my views on Israel. Nor did I expect them to. However, while my views remain the same, the Labor Party's these days are very different. The Labor Party has always had Palestinian supporters but they used to have little influence on the party's policy. They were more than counter-balanced by the influence of then ACTU president Bob Hawke. In the immediate aftermath of the Yom Kippur War and before my first visit to Israel I attended a meeting he addressed in Sydney. I have not heard a more passionate, nor better informed, defense of Israel or more scathing indictment of its opponents. Convinced that MPs could understand Israel's problems better if they went there, I organized a series of delegations. By the time I retired in 1990 more than half the ALP caucus had visited Israel. But gradually, Labor's Left and more extremist elements, such as the Greens and Democrats, became increasingly shrill in their denunciation of Israel. I found out what Israel was up against when representing Australia at Inter-Parliamentary Union conferences from 1973 until 1981. Created to foster peace and democracy, the union was dominated by communist dictatorships, Third World "democracies" and the 22 Arab countries. Every IPU conference devoted a major part of its sessions to denouncing Israel. It was a mirror image of the UN, whose obsession with Israel was aptly illustrated by Israeli ambassador Abba Eban when he said: "If a resolution was put before the UN that the earth was flat and that Israel caused it, 145 would vote for it, five against with 45 abstentions." That trend has infected the ALP. The handful of pro-Palestinian supporters has grown steadily as the party has become dominated by the education mafia; former public servants and party union apparatchiks. Plenty will say: "Why shouldn't the Labor Party support the Palestinians?" No reason, providing the case they put is not based on the lies spouted by the Palestinian propaganda machine. Nowhere is Israel subjected to more criticism than in Israel. Demonstrations in excess of 100,000 are regularly held in Rabin Square. Supporters of the Peace Now movement have protested in support of Palestinians. In contrast, when Jews have been massacred by terrorists there have been wild celebrations in the Arab streets. How can any social democrat ignore such barbarism? There are Labor MPs who are vigorous supporters of Israel but their numbers are diminishing and they are being drowned out by the more vociferous members of Labor's hard Left. When Australian Jews respond to the grotesque exaggeration about Israel, we are accused of being part of the "Jewish lobby". Israel's opponents in Australia now include those who support the Palestinians not for ideological reasons but because of the increased number of Arab voters in their electorates. This trend reached a crescendo in the aftermath of September 11. For me September 11 was the clearest demarcation ever between good and evil. Yet many Australians could not contain their glee that at last "the Yanks had got their just deserts". I have never been able to fathom the vicious anti-Americanism that permeates so much of Western society. Despite all their faults, Americans have been the one constant bastion against totalitarianism of the right and left. Does anyone doubt that fascism and communism would have been defeated without the US? From the left's point of view, the triumph over communism has been America's greatest crime. The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the revelation that matters were far worse than even the Americans had claimed, forced the left to face up to the fact that for decades their defense of tyrants such as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro et al was inexcusable. There were no apologies, however. Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry or admit you're wrong. This goes a long way to explaining their attacks on George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard, while ignoring the monstrous crimes of the Assads, Saddams, Gaddafis and other Arab despots. The war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have given the left a new lease on life. But this time it has a new twist, a distinctly anti-Semitic one. It surfaced immediately after September 11 and was summed up in comments by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Alan Ramsey, who suggested that the cause of September 11 was America's Middle East policies and their failure to rein in the Israelis. This has been repeated ad nauseam by one left/liberal commentator after another. Israeli scientist Haim Harari nailed this nonsense in a speech earlier this year: "The millions who died in the Iraq-Iran war had nothing to do with Israel. The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Muslim regime is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel. The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilians in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel. Saddam did not invade Kuwait, endanger Saudi Arabia and butcher his own people because of Israel . . . The Taliban control of Afghanistan and the civil war there had nothing to do with Israel. I could go on and on." Anyone who believes that "reining in the Israelis" will bring peace and prosperity to the Middle East should change their medication. The ranting and raving, common among the extreme right, has been taken up with gusto by the left. When it started to infect the social democratic wing of the Labor Party I became extremely worried. There will be those in the ALP who will say "our policies support Israel's right to exist, so what are you complaining about?" That's not good enough. Not for me. I'm sick of the calumny heaped on Israel - most of which is a pack of lies. I'm sick of Labor leaders making all the right noises to Jewish audiences while an increasing number of backbenchers launch diatribes at Israel. When the likes of Labor MP Tanya Plibersek rise in the House of Representatives and call Ariel Sharon "a war criminal" and Israel a "rogue state", or Opposition whip Janice Crosio makes the absurd claim that Israeli forces had destroyed Bethlehem, Nablus and the Jenin refugee camp, I want to hear more than stony silence from those in the Labor Party who say they support Israel. Some do. Most don't. How long is it since any Labor leader gave the sort of passionate and accurate defence of Israel we used to hear from Hawke or Kim Beazley? I don't want even-handedness when it ought to be obvious to all but the blind that there is no moral equivalence between a country that seeks to defend its citizens from thousands of terrorist attacks, and the terrorists themselves. I want to hear Labor MPs stand up and be counted. I want to see an end to well-known Labor identities marching behind banners equating Israel with Nazism. Silence on these issues isn't good enough for me. If people want to criticize Israel, fine - plenty of Israelis do. But let it be reasoned criticism, and if they want even-handedness let them also berate the Arab world for its denial of basic human rights for any of its citizens. Let's hear the Labor feminists take the Arab nations to task for their abominable treatment of women. Let's hear those Labor supporters, who are so loud in their denunciation of homophobia, demand an end to the barbaric treatment of gays. Let's also hear civil rights activists bemoan the lack of basic freedoms available to most of the 300 million Arabs in the 22 Arab countries. There will be some who will argue that I am exaggerating; that the evidence is sparse; that this typical Jewish paranoia. Not at all. It came from the horses' mouths, and the head horses at that. Before the Iraq war one of the most senior NSW right-wing MPs told me: "I understand and support Israel's position, but in my group, I'm the only one."Soon after I told a Labor legend: "Anti-Semitism is now rampant in the Labor Party." I expected a vigorous denial. His response confirmed my worst fear: "I know," he said. For better or worse my character and life were shaped by the anti-Semitism I experienced as a boy and a young man. I was proud to belong to a party that fought all forms of prejudice. Not any longer. The Australian Labor Party can choose any path it likes. So can I.

2004(10^thof Cheshvan, 5765): Eighty-six year old Newark, NJ native “Bernard Morris “Bernie” Weiner, the Kansas State University offensive lineman who played two years of professional football with the Brooklyn Dodgers passed away today.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinBe20.htm

2005 (22 Tishrei, 5766): Shemini Atzeret.

2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish interest including "Team of Rivals," Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “look at Lincoln through his relationships with his former political rivals turned cabinet members…”

2006: Andy “Bachman, a graduate of University of Wisconsin–Madison with a 1996 rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College, became Beth Elohim's first new senior rabbi in 25 years” today.

2006 (3 Cheshvan 5767):Fifty four year old Robert Rosenberg, author, poet, Internet pioneer and journalist, died of cancer in Tel Aviv.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/journalist-robert-rosenberg-dies-at-54-1.203476

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2006/10/25/robert-rosenberg-israeli-internet-pioneer-journalist-and-social-activist-dies-at-54/

2006: One day before her 70^th birthday Deborah Poritz, the first female Chief Just of the New Jersey Supreme Court, resigned her postion.

2007: In New York the Center for Jewish History sponsors a showing of a Russian language film directed by Paul Loungin entitled “Roots”“This farcical comedy follows the exploits of a Jewish con-artist who turns a small town in provincial Ukraine into a fake site of heritage tourism for unsuspecting Americans.” Olga Gershenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, leads a discussion of the film after the showing.

2007: New York’s Erez Safar celebrates the launch of his new website called Shemspeed (www.shemspeed.com) with parties at Hamaabada in Jerusalem and the Knitting Factory in New York.

2007: French President Nicolas Sarkozy honored Avner Shalev director of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial with a Legion of Honor award.

2007(13^thof Cheshvan, 5768): Ninety-six year cellist Harvey Shapiro passed away today.

http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/remembering-master-cellist-and-teacher-harvey-shapiro

http://www.jameskreger.com/article5.htm

2008: The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company presents a production “Chaim’s Love Song” by Martin Chernoff at the Hillcrest Center in Saint Paul, MN.

2008(26^thof Tishrei, 5769): Ninety-four year old Estelle Reiner the mother comedic talent Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner passed away today.(As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/movies/30reiner.html

2009:In Cedar Rapids, Iowa the Hadassah Donor Dinner features Temple Judah’s own Murray Wolfe, an award-winning playwright, who will read from his just completed one-man autobiographical play, “My Name is Moses Volvovic.” Murray’s many interests and accomplishments mark him as the epitome of the term Renaissance Man. Of course Murray is fortunate to enjoy the support of his wife Charlene a culinary virtuoso and an Ashish Chayil in the truest sense of the term.

2009: A revival of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” opened at the Nederlander Theatre.

2009(7^thof Cheshvan, 5770): Ninety-three year old landscape architect Lawrence Halprin passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28halprin.html

2009: Having missed the first ten games of the season, Mathieu Schneider “made his Canucks debut today in a 2-0 win against the Edmonton Oilers.

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb and the recently released paperback edition of The Journey by H. G. Adler; translated by Peter Filkins

2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

2009: At The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Deborah Bodin Cohen reads from her new children's picture book, "Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story" (illustrated by Jago),

2010:The Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation is scheduled to hosts its Hall of Fame Induction Dinner Gala in Southfield, Michigan, where they will honor the MJSF Hall of Fame Class of 2010, including George Cantor (of blessed memory), Richard "Hap" Foreman, Richard Goldberg, and Larry H. Sherman. The honors will continue with the Jewish News Athletes of the Year and Bill Hertz Scholarship winners, Alvin Foon Humanitarian and Book of Life awards.

2010: Capitalism and the Jews by Jerry Z. Muller is scheduled to be the featured volume at tonight’s sessions of The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival.

2010: The New York Times featured a review of Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart who said, “These days, you can call me a Russian writer, American writer, Jewish writer, lefty writer. I don’t care. Anything is good, as long as it’s part of the big soup of literature.”

2010:Ehud Netzer “an Israeli architect, educator and archaeologist,” who was leaning against a railing at the dig at Herodium was seriously injured when the railing collapsed.

2010:Thirty-nine year old Joshua Frydenberg, a graduate of Bialik College in Melbourne who is Australia’s first Jewish lawmaker for the federal Liberal Party paid homage in his maiden speech to all of his family members who perished during the Holocaust and one who survived – his great-aunt Mary Frydenberg. (As reported by JTA)

2010: A report in the French daily Le Figaro late today revealed new information on the military wing of Hezbollah’s structural make-up, with details on the guerrilla group's 10,000 operatives and arsenal of some 40,000 rockets. The report also focused on Syria's role in Hezbollah operations, in both manufacture and transportation of rockets. According to the Le Figaroreport, which quoted anonymous officials in the French Defense Ministry and Western intelligence sources, Hezbollah has three units dedicated to the transportation and maintenance of its rocket arsenal. Hezbollah’s Unit 100 reportedly deals with deployment and training, and making sure the missiles reach their final destinations, in various camps located within 150km from Israel's northern border. As has been widely reported, Le Figaro noted that Iranian officers are responsible for training Hezbollah guerrilla fighters.

2011: Theo Epstein was introduced today as the head of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs. Under Epstein’s leadership, the Boston Red Sox finally won a World Series for the first time since 1918. The Cubs hope that the Jewish baseball executive will end their draught which dates back to 1908. This is a miracle that even Moses might not be able to pull off.

2011: The Intimate Grammar, a cinematic adaptation of David Grossman's book of the same name, is scheduled to be shown at The Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival in Washington, D.C.

2011: “Ben-Gurion: A Political Life” by Shimon Peres with David Landau is scheduled to go on sale in the United States.

2011: A day-long Symposium, “Jews in Britain: Medieval to Modern” is scheduled to take place at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.

2011: The friends, family and fans of Sir Martin Gilbert celebrate the 75^thbirthday of this remarkable man. His career is a tribute to his drive, intellect and artistic skills. The grandson of Eastern European immigrants, he became the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. He has found time to write over 80 volumes that are rock solid history written with the flair of a novelist while teaching and serving the public as a member of the Commission of Inquiry on the Iraq War. At the same time, he has not comprised his personal values describing himself “as a proud practicing Jew and a Zionist.”

2011:Today, Israeli police forces raided three buildings in Jerusalem allegedly being used by Palestinian militants for illegal activities. The raids were carried out based on intelligence gathered by the Shin Bet security services. Two of the buildings, located Dahiyat al-Barid neighborhood in north Jerusalem, were suspected of serving as a center for Hamas militants, while a third building in the Shuafat neighborhood of East Jerusalem was allegedly being used by militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Officers from the Border Police and Jerusalem district police found numerous documents in the buildings, indicating that illegal activity had indeed taken place there. Israel Police Commissioner Yonatan Danino signed an order immediately to seal the documents away for a month. The three buildings have been shut down. The raids come two months after Jerusalem Police shut down a kindergarten in the Abu Tor neighborhood, citing classified intelligence that the site “was meant to serve as a place of terror activity.”

2011:Today, Turkey finally accepted Israel's earthquake aid, two days after a devastating temblor hit eastern Turkey, and following a number of rebuffed Israeli government offers of assistance.

2012: The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall. This “one-night performance” will be under the baton of Zubin Mehta and will be followed by a “black –tie benefit supper at The Plaza.” (The IPO has come a long way since Leonard Bernstein conducted them in Tel Aviv as the artillery boomed during the War for Independence in 1948

2012: Over 100,000 worshippers are expected visit Rachel’ Tomb to mark the anniversary of her death. (The actual anniversary falls on Shabbat this year so the observance has been move to Thursday to avoid desecrating the Sabbath)

2012:Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a lecture Dr. Jack Minker, “Saving Soviet Scientists during which he will discuss his new book , will discuss his new book, Scientific Freedom and Human Rights: Scientists of Conscience during the Cold War.

2012: As we celebrate the 76^th birthday of Sir Martin Gilbert, his family, friends and multitude of admirers pray for his a refuah shlemah while standing in awe of the support being given to him by his loving wife during these trying times

2012: Despite a Gazan mortar shell exploding in an open field near the Eshkol Regional Council Area this morning, a tense quiet prevailed in the South as an informal cease-fire brokered by Egypt appeared to be holding. The cease-fire followed two days of intense violence which saw some eighty rockets and mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=289211

2012: An earthquake and tsunami could cost Israel NIS 100 billion to NIS 150b., Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter said today. Speaking at a meeting of economic officials convened as part of a five-day earthquake preparedness drill, Dichter said he was referring to a possible scenario in which thousands of Israeli would be killed.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=289277

2012: The NBA announced today that David Stern will be retiring as league commissioner in 2013. Adam Silver will be replacing him in the top job.

2012:“The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi” published today.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/oct/25/tragedy-dietrich-bonhoeffer-and-hans-von-dohnanyi/

2012:Britain favoured execution over Nuremberg trials for Nazi leaders

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/26/britain-execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders

2012: Nicolas Rapold reviewed “Orchestra of Exiles” which “retraces the world-renowned violinist Bronislaw Huberman’s heroic feat of organizing an orchestra far from the genocidal scourge of the Nazis”

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/movies/orchestra-of-exiles-documentary-about-bronislaw-huberman.html?_r=0

2013: “One Chance” an English biopic directed by David Frankel and produced by Simon Cowell which had first been seen at the Toronto International Film Festival was released in the UK today by The Weinstein Company headed by Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

2013: Guest artists Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled to perform at Rutgers University

2013: At Rutgers University, Dr. Jeff Friedman is scheduled to facilitate a discussion “on reconstructing historical dance works with differently gendered casting.”

2013: The Edin-Tamar is scheduled to host “Excellence-The Future Generation” which will also be broadcast on Kol Israel.

2013: The Jewish National Fund Conference is scheduled to begin in Denver, CO.

2013:A supposed makeshift grenade was thrown at an Israeli bus transporting students to schools this morning

2013: The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) to advance a new sanctions bill against Iran through the Senate toward final approval. The coalition could not appeal to any Republican Jewish senators since there are none. (The House has one Jewish Republican member)

2013(21^stof Cheshvan, 5774): Eighty-three year old Viennese native Paul Reichmann, the Canadian real estate mogul who made and lost a fortune passed away today. (As reported by Jonathan Kandell)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/business/paul-reichmann-who-helped-develop-the-world-financial-center-dies-at-83.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1414112755-JDYzC7WiAp4yB3iVGqei1Q

2014: In Fairfax, VA, Major General Jeff Jacobs is scheduled to be the speaker at Congregation Olam Tikvah’s fifth annual Military Shabbat.

2014: In conjunction with the Chief Rabbi’s Shabbat UK, the Central Synagogue in London is scheduled to host a special Shabbat service followed by “Just One Shabbos Communal Lunch”

http://www.shabbatuk.org/

2014: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Fall Comedy,” an “evening of comedic storytelling with Annabelle Gurwitch, a Jewish mother, a passionate environmentalist and a reluctant atheist.”

2014: “Zero Motivation,”a “comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli Soldiers” is scheduled to be shown at the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Jerusalem’s Japanese Cultural Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.

2014: The Coe College Concert Band & Jazz Band under the direction of William S. Carson is scheduled to perform tonight in Cedar Rapids.

2014: “Finance Minister Yair Lapid admitted today that Israel was experiencing a low point in its relationship with the US, saying “there is a crisis with the Americans and it must be dealt with like a crisis.” (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2014: Regardless of your interest, celebrate the birthday of Sir Martin Gilbert’s birthday by reading any one of his marvelous books including Churchill and the Jews, In Ishmael’s House and the classic Israel: A History

2014(1^stof Cheshvan, 5775): Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan – Noah

2014: When James Levine lifts his baton and gives the downbeat to begin Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” tonight at the Metropolitan Opera, it will be his 2,500th performance with the company — a conducting record unmatched, and never even approached, in the history of the Met. (As reported by Michael Cooper)

2015:Steven Nadler the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin- Madison whose books include Spinoza: A Life which won the Koret Jewish Book Award is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?” at Agudas Achim Congregation in Coralville, IA.

2015:The America-Israel Cultural Foundation is scheduled to honor the best of Israeli culture at its 76th Anniversary Celebration!

2015: “The grand mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Muslim cleric in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque said in an Arabic interview with Israel’s Channel 2 “that there has never been a Jewish temple atop the Temple Mount and that the site has been home to a mosque since the creation of the world.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)

2015(12^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Fifty-eight year old historian David Cesarani passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/books/david-cesarani-holocaust-historian-dies-at-58.html

2015: In Jerusalem, the JDC Archives is scheduled to host “Matzo Wars: Jews, Communism and Ethnicity in 1946 Hungary.”

2015: Dr. Melvin Urofsky, the author of Louis D. Brandeis: A Life was the featured speaker at luncheon sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society “celebrating the Centennial of the appointment of the first Jewish Justice to the Supreme Court.”

2015: Rainstorms and thunderstorms struck most parts of Israel forcing the closure of Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv and resulting in at least one fatality when when a wall collapsed at construction site in Padres Hanna killing a 20 year old worker

2015: “The Jewish Thought of Emil L. Fackenheim: Judaism, Zionism, Holocaust, Israel” is the topic for Beth Tikvah Conference scheduled to take place today in Toronto, Canada.

2015: The Center for Jewish History in partnership with the International Center of Photography; co-sponsored by American Jewish Historical Society, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to host a symposium on the life and work of photographer Roman Visniac.

2015(12^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-one year old British historian Lisa Anne Jardine passed away today.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/25/renowned-historian-lisa-jardine-dies-aged-71

2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger, Doom To Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship From Truman to Obama by Dennis Ross, America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein and The Courage To Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernake

2016(23^rdof Tishrei, 5777): Simchat Torah

2016: Nimer Basssem Abu Amar, a 15 year old from Lakiya, a predominately Bedouin village in southern Israel, was shot and killed near Mount Harif while working on the border fence with Egypt.

2016: It was announced today that Shawn Levy would be the director “Uncharted” a movie version the game that is a project of Avi Arad.

2016: A meeting held today in the House of Lord “at which a member of the audience won applause for claiming that Jews were to blame for the Holocaust” marked the start of a campaign by Baroness Jenny Tonge who demanded “that the UK government apologize for the Balfour Declaration

2016: Eightieth anniversary of the birth historian Sir Martin Gilbert Z"L whose memory is cherished by so many, but none so much as Lady Esther Gilbert.

http://www.martingilbert.com/

2016: As the stars come out marking the end of Simchat Torah, The World Series which was a creation of Barney Dreyfuss and will provide an opportunity for Theo Epstein to break a second “jinx” and World Series drought is scheduled to start in Cleveland.

2017: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host Jack Jacobs (CUNY), Jonathon Catlin (Princeton), and Liliane Weissberg (Penn) discussing how the Frankfurt School’s analysis of antisemitism illuminates contemporary racism as part of the series on “German-Jewish History in the Now: The Contemporary Relevance of German-Jewish History.”

2017: Yeshiva University Museum and the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host a lecture by Daniel Leisawitz, Muhlenberg College in which he will seek to answer the question “What language did the Jews of Rome speak before Judeo-Roman?”

2017: In Des Moines, IA, Gail Richards is scheduled to receive the first Woman of Honor Award from the Jewish Federation.

2017: The Sydney Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Music in the Camps” during which Andy Bromberger will examine the role of music in the Nazi Concentration Camps where for example “Yiddish songs were sung in Eastern European camps, classical and Jewish music was performed at Theresienstadt and specific orchestras, like the ‘Girls Orchestra’ in Auschwitz and the Jazz Big Band in Buchenwald were established.”

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Rabbi Daniel Lichman lecturing on “What, or Who is Torah in Progressive Judaism?” where he “the impact that late twentieth-century critiques of enlightenment thinking might have on the Progressive Jewish approach to Torah.”

2017: In New Orleans Chabad and Hadassah are scheduled to join forces for the Mega Women’s Challah Bake 200.

2017: At the Bard Graduate Center, Andrea M Berlin is scheduled to present “Material Culture and Rabbinic Isolation: A Cultural Ecology Perspective” which is part of the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures.

2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screenings of “The Wife.”

2018: Shalom Hanoch is scheduled to perform at the Sherover Theatre on the second day of the Jerusalem Theatre Piano Festival.

2018: Eva Schloss, the “stepsister of Anne Frank” is scheduled to speak tonight “at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts” this evening.

2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Winston Churchill and the Jews” in “Ambassador Ido Aharoni” and “Edwina Sandys, Churchill’s 79-year old granddaughter” will discuss the relationship of the Prime Minister with the Jewish people.

2018: Coe College is scheduled to host the final session of “Tragedy and Heroism: Three Historical Novels of Leon Uris” presented by Steve Feller, B.D. Silliman Professor of Physics.

2018: In Des Moines, IA, Beaverdale Books is scheduled to host a book signing for Barbara Feller, the Hebrew teacher par excellence, author of the newly released Road to Waubeek: Discovering Jay G. Sigmund

2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a panel discussion on “the Immigration Crisis: How We Can Make A Difference” this evening

2018: 82^nd anniversary of the birth of historian Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and a patient correspondent who wrote over 80 books, but left us with “one more still to go.” (Editor’s note – best way to celebrate his birthday is treat yourself to reading one of his volumes)

https://www.martingilbert.com/

2019: “On the Anniversary of the Tree of Life Shooting, The Temple Emanu-El Steicker Center is scheduled to host Bari Weiss as she “proposes ten ideas for the Jewish future” in what she sees as “an affirmative plan for the next chapter in Jewish history that will light a fire in our community.”

2019: In Charlottesville, VA, at the Vinegar Hill Theatre, Aviva Kempner, the creator of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” is scheduled to lead a discussion moderated by a Virginia Film Festival Advisory Board member.”

2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Homecoming Showcase Concert under the director Bill Carson, a pillar of the Jewish community is scheduled to take place today at Coe College.

2019: 83^rd anniversary of the birth of historian Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and a patient correspondent who wrote over 80 books, but left us with “one more still to go.” (Editor’s note – best way to celebrate his birthday is treat yourself to reading one of his volumes. An even better way to celebrate is to read two!)

https://www.martingilbert.com/

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=3584d425d1a527634f4ca6967&id=abd4349fd0&e=8453bb29d7

https://mailchi.mp/c2d329df99c3/a-happy-new-year-to-jews-happy-election-results-to-canadians-and-israelis-and-sanity-and-clarity-to-americans-and-british

OCTOBER 26

1235: King Andrew II of Hungary passed away. During the reign of King Andrew II (1205–1235) there were Jewish Chamberlains and mint-, salt-, and tax-officials. The nobles of the country, however, induced the king, in his Golden Bull (1222), to deprive the Jews of these high offices. When Andrew needed money in 1226, he farmed the royal revenues to Jews, which gave ground for much complaint. The pope (Pope Honorius III) thereupon excommunicated him, until, in 1233, he promised the papal ambassadors on oath that he would enforce the decrees of the Golden Bull directed against the Jews and the Saracens (by this time, the papacy had changed, and the Pope was now Pope Gregory IX; would cause both peoples to be distinguished from Christians by means of badges; and would forbid both Jews and Saracens to buy or to keep Christian slaves.

1407: Mobs attacked the Jews in Cracow, Poland. The so-called Cracow Accusations was one of the first libels in Poland. The Jews tried to defend themselves and were forced to take refuge in the Church of St. Anne which was surrounded and then set afire. Any children left alive were forcibly baptized.

1496: An edict expelling the Jews was signed in Naples.

1520: The coronation of Charles V as King of Germany, to whom the Jews of Speyer complained that they were mistreated and denied their given rights. This included beatings, tortures and killings, imprisonment, robbery, expulsion, closing of schools and synagogues, payment of tolls and duties and the denial of the right to appeal to the imperial or other courts” which led him “to renew and confirm the Jews’ charter” took place today.

1631: Birthdate of Cardinal Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch who advised the King to repopulate Hungary with Catholic Jews from Germany and who “held that the Jews could not be exterminated at once but must be weeded out by degrees as bad coin is gradually withdrawn from circulation. To that end he called for the enforcement of the decree by the Diet of Pressburg, “imposing double taxation on the Jews” and deny them right to “engage in agriculture” or “to own any real estate.”

1689: General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje in Macedonia to prevent the spread of cholera. Skopje was part of the Ottoman Empire and it was one of the towns where Jews fleeing from Spain after 1492 found refuge and were able to prosper in the fields of trade, finance and medicine. In the 21^st century, most of the handful of Macedonian Jews lives in Skopje, the country’s capital.

1714: Emperor Charles VI approved an arrangement previously “confirmed by Joseph I that protected the Jews against any infringements of their rights on the Part of the Council of Worms.

1794: In Hilltown, Bucks County, PA, Mary Vastine and Josiah Lunn, the son of Alice and Joseph Josiah Lunn, gave birth to Elizabeth Lunn who became Elizabeth Evans when she married David Evans, the mother of Mary and Robert Evans.

1803: Moses Mosely married Rosetta Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.

1819: On the Isle of Jutland, Aaron Goldschmidt and Leah Rothschild gave birth to the “distinguished Danish poet, novelist and journalist,” Professor Meyer Aaron Goldschmidt.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E0DE1530E633A2575AC2A96E9C94669FD7CF

1825:The Erie Canal opens with passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. Eventually the canal would provide a water access to Buffalo, thus opening a water route that would stretch from the Atlantic Oceans to the all of the lands bordering on the Great Lakes. This would create immeasurable commercial opportunities for all Americans, including the Jews. It would lead to the creation of thriving Jewish communities in places like Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Mordechai M. Noah, one of the most prominent Jews of the early 19^th century was originally an opponent of the canal but changed his mind when he saw that successful development of the land along the Canal would help make his dream of Ararat, A City of Refuge for Jews, a reality.

1826: In New York, John Solomons and Julia Levy gave birth to Adolphus Simeon Solomons, the husband of Rachel Seixas Phillips who became “an influential Washingtonian with strong White House and Congressional connections.”

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13904-solomons-adolphus-simeon

1829: One day after he had has passed away, Hyam Emanuel was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1829: Two days after he had passed away, Michael Solomon, the wife of husband of Hannah Solomon and father of Samuel Solomon was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1831: Morris Lee married Rachel Nathan at the New Synagogue today.

1833(12^th of Cheshvan, 5594): Forty-six year old David Phillip (Feist) Schloss, the son of Jacob and Sprinz Schloss and the husband of Malchen Schloss passed away today at Frankfurt am Main.

1836: John Wagg married Harriet Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.

1841: Birthdate of Viennese born German dramatist Jacob Bettelheim

1842: Henrik Wergeland who had rejected the anti-Semitic views of his father Nikolai, published his book Jødesagen i det norskeStorthing ("The Jewish issue in the Norwegian parliament"), which in addition to arguing for the cause also provides interesting insights into the workings of the parliament at the time

1844: Birthdate of American playwright and producer Edward “Ned” Harrigan the author and producer of “Mordecai Lyons” an 1882 drama which unlike some “Jew plays” is “serious and valuable” when it comes to portraying its Jewish characters.

1853: Dr. Raphall, a New York Rabbi, delivered an address about Russia at a meeting of the Young Men’s Literary Association.

1853: Rebecca Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaaks and her husband Abraham Hart gave birth to Cornelia Rebecca Hart

1853: Following Dr. Raphall’s address to the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Association, Mr. Mosely Lyon delivered an address describing the purpose of the organizations.

1854:Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 32 Pomona.

1855: Birthdate of Richmond dramatist Sydney Rosenfeld, the “first editor of Puck,” “one of the main movers in the effort to secure a National Theatre for the United States” and husband of “Genie Holzmeyer Johnson” who was the author of several plays including “A Possible Case” and “The Club Friend” as well as several “operettas and musicals” including “The Lady or the Tiger” and “The Passing Show.”

1858: Albert Goldsmid was promoted to the rank of major-general in the British Army. Born in 1794, the son of Benjamin Goldsmid, he entered the army in 1811 which gave him the opportunity to fight the French in Spain to serve at the Battle of Waterloo.

1858: The Personal Column published today reported that a "A Moldavian Jew, Israel Benjamin SRAEL, is preparing for a journey through Afghanistan and China. Since 1845, he has gone over the Eastern countries of Europe, as well as Egypt, Palestine, Persia, the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco. The Geographical Society of Berlin have charged him to solve several geographical and ethnographical questions. He has just published Eight Years Travel in Asia and Africa by Israel Benjamin

1859: Bernhard Bettmann who had “established a men’s clothing business in 1856 at Cincinnati, Ohio married Tillie Wald of New York City with whom he had seven children.

1860: In Sweden, Jews, who up until now were only permitted to own property in urban areas, were granted the “right to acquire real estate in rural communities.”

1861: During the American Civil War, the 9^th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered into service as part of the United States under the command of Colonel Frederick C. Salomon. When Salomon was appointed Brigadier General, he brother Charles became the Colonel commanding the regiment. This may have made the 9^th Wisconsin the only unit on either side of the conflict to be commanded successively by two brothers who were Jewish.

1862: Birthdate of Justine Dreyfus Levy who would be buried in Natchitoches, LA in 1917.

1863: In Philadelphia, PA, Marx B. and Henrietta T. Loeb gave birth to Blanche Loeb who became Blanche Langsdorf when she married Jacob Loeb Langsdorft with whom she had one child – Isadore Langsdorf.

1864: Myer Isaacs sent a strongly worded letter to President Lincoln warning him against a deal that he allegedly made with a group of New York Jews who, presenting themselves as leaders of the community, had promised to deliver the “Jewish vote” for him. This letter is one of the germinal documents of early Jewish participation in the American political process.

Your Excellency,

As a firm and earnest Union man, I deem it my duty to add a word ... with reference to a recent "visitation" on the part of persons claiming to represent the Israelites of New York or the United States and pledging the "Jewish vote" to your support, and, I am informed, succeeding in a deception that resulted to their pecuniary profit.

Having peculiar facilities for obtaining information as to the Israelites of the United States, from my eight years' connection with the Jewish paper of this city and my position as Secretary of their central organization, the "Board of Delegates" . . . I feel authorized to caution you, Sir, against any such representations as those understood to have been made.

There are a large number of faithful Unionists among our prominent coreligionists — but there are also supporters of the opposition, and indeed the Israelites are not as a body, distinctly Union or democratic in their politics ... the Jews as a body have no politics.

Therefore, Sir, I am pained and surprised to find that you had been imposed upon by irresponsible men ... such acts are discountenanced and condemned most cordially by the community of American Israelites ...

There is no "Jewish vote"— if there were, it could not be bought. As a body of intelligent men, we are advocates of the cherished principles of liberty and justice, and must inevitably support and advocate those who are the exponents of such a platform — "liberty and union, now and forever."

Pardon the liberty I take in thus trespassing on your attention, but I pray that you will attribute it to the sole motive I have, that of undeceiving you and assuring you that there is no necessity for "pledging" the Jewish vote which does not exist — but at the same time that the majority of Israelite citizens must concur in the attachment for the Union and a determination to leave no means untried to maintain its honor and integrity.

Yours most Respectfully,
Myer S. Isaacs

1864: In France, Clara and Lazar Schorstein gave birth to Therese Alice Shorstein, the first wife of Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, the “youngest son of Nathaniel Montefiore and Emma Goldsmid who was a founder of “Anglo-Liberal Judaism” and the “anti-Zionist League of British Jews” who endowed the Therese Montefiore Memorial in her memory two years after he death in 1889.

1865: In Philadelphia, PA, “mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim” and his wife Barbara Meyers gave birth to their fifth son Benjamin Guggenheim whose marriage to Florette Seligman would unite to of America’s wealthiest Jewish families and whose death at age 46 aboard the RMS Titanic was an unexpected tragedy.

1869: Austen Henry Layard, the archeologist who excavated Nimrud and Niniveh as described in Discoveries at Nineveh completed his service as First Commissioner of Works in the government of Prime Minster Gladstone.

1872: In Brooklyn, banker Joseph S. Taussig and the former Mary L. Cuno gave birth to Frederick Joseph Taussign, the St. Louis educated graduate of Harvard and Washington University Medical School who developed a specialty in gynecology, served as a “professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology” at Washington University and married Florence Gottschalk.

https://digitalcommons.hsc.unt.edu/gynecology/23/

1870: In Louisville, KY, Frances and Lambert N. Goldsmith gave birth to Ida Goldsmith who became Ida Morris when she married Herman Morris with she had had one children, Charles W. Morris.

1872: It was reported today that the Jews of Rumania want to immigrate to the United States en masse. They have written to the Interior Department to see if they can acquire a large enough section of public lands to meet the needs of a large colony. Current laws preclude the granting of their request.

1876: In Kovno, Lithuania, Leopold and Matilda Marver Enelow gave birth to Hyman Gerson Enelow a graduate of the University of Cincinnati who was ordained by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise in 1898 who served several congregations including Temple Israel in Paducah, Congregation Adath Israel and Temple Emanu-El in New York City. (Some sources show 1877 as DOB)

1877: In Philadelphia, PA, Florence LIveright, the daughter of Abraham and Reccah Kahn and Simon Liveright gave birth to Arthur K. Liveright

1877: In Dallas, TX, Philip and Cornelia Mandelabum Singer gave birth to Eli Sanger, the husband of Claudia Meador Sanger.

1881(3rd of Cheshvan, 5642) Eighty-six year old Austrian Talmudist Aaron Kornfeld passed away today at his home town of Goltsch-Jenikau Bohemia.

1881: In Charleston, SC, at Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim on Hasell Street, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the marriage of Henry J. Harby of Sumter, SC to “Adeline Wineman, the only daughter of L.G. Emanuel of Georgetown, SC.”

1881: The Gunfight at the OK Corral takes placed in Tombstone, Arizona. The most famous participant in the fight is Marshall Wyatt Earp. Earp was not Jewish but his last wife Josie was. When Earp died she had his remains buried in the Marcus family plot in a Jewish cemetery in Coloma, California. When Josie died, she was buried next to him. The man with the star lies under the star – of David that is.

1882: “Mordecai Lyons” was performed tonight before a very large crowd at Theatre Comique in New York City.

1883: The Paris Figaro contained a detailed account of the duel between Hungarian attorney Dr. Jules Rosenberg and Count Battyany over the affections that the former had displayed for Mlle. Hona de Schossberger, the daughter of a Jewish family whose patriarch sought to marry his daughter off to a Hungarian nobeleman.

1882: The Troy (NY) Times reported that Harris Udovitch , who has been jailed on charges of assaulting Mrs. Louis Cohen claims that she was injured inadvertently during a fracas between him and Mr. Cohen over the latter’s refusal “to sell his cred with…for $150.”

1883: It was reported today that when Sir Moses Montefiore celebrated his 99^th birthday two days ago he was hailed as “the most celebrated Hebrew now living England” and the most celebrated Hebrew of our generation with the exception of Benjamin Disraeli. “He is more than an ornament to the Jewish race; he is an ornament to mankind…”

1884: The Montefiore Centenary as described in a book by Haim Gudella of the same name published in 1885 began today.

1884: Today is the first of two days during which service are scheduled to “be held in synagogues all over Europe all over in honor of the centenary” of Moses Montefiore.

1884: It was reported today that “Sir Moses Montefiore received hundreds of telegrams congratulating him” on reaching his 100^th birthday “from all parts of world” including a large number from the United States.

1884: In Rochester, NY, Rabbi Max Landsberg and Rev. N.M. Mann of the Unitarian church spoke at Temple Berith Kodesh during services marking the centennial celebration of the birth of Sir. Moses Montefiore.

1884: In Rochester, NY, Etz Chayim Synagogue hosted services marking the centennial celebration of the birth of Sir. Moses Montefiore during which “E.S. Ettenheimer read a sketch of Montefiore’s life,” Sarah Rothschild read an original poem and Rabbi Max Moll delivered a closing oration.

1884: In Petersburg, VA, “Jews and Gentiles united in celebrating the one hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore” at the city’s synagogue where “a special prayer for the long preservation of the life of the great philanthropist was offered by Rabbi Freudenthal” after which “a collection was taken up for the poor of the city.”

1884: In Washington, DC, “the orthodox and liberal congregation held joint exercise” attended by many Christians, honoring Sir Moses Montefiore.

1884: In Cincinnati, Ohio, “the Hebrew Congregations assembled in the Mound Street Temple this afternoon to celebrate the birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore” followed by an evening celebration sponsored “by the Jewish fraternities at the Allemonia Club..”

1884: In Memphis, TN, Rabbi Samfield spoke at the services held to honor Sir Moses Montefiore on his one hundredth birthday.

1884: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, Rabbi David Stern “delivered an eloquent address” at the centennial celebration of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.

1884: In a second day of celebration, Baltimore’s Hanover Street Synagogue was the scene of special ceremonies marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.

1884: “An Anglican Bishop For Jerusalem” published today described the failure of efforts to convert “Jews and Turks” living in Palestine. The Church Missionary Society has spent more than £120,000 pounds in the last 33 years and “as can be proven from their own papers” has “never made a convert…”

1884: “The Czar’s Views of Justice” published today describes efforts to ameliorate the sentences imposed on those who took part in the anti-Jewish riots at Novogrod. In what appears to be the first decision of its kind, the Czar “has at least to some extent taken sides with the oppressed Jew” by refusing to show any leniency and expressing his determination “to take measures to prevent these bloody excesses.”

1884: It was reported today that “the chief rabbi at Naples” has been “rebuked by ultra-orthodox Jews for shortening the fast on the recent Day of Atonement” as a measure to avoid the cholera outbreak plaguing the city. The precaution must have been “a good one since not a single Jews has yet died of the disease. [Editor’s note – Fourteen thousand peopled died from Cholera in Naples in 1884.]

1884: It was reported today no Jews have died of cholera at Toulon, but five Jews died of the disease at Marseilles.

1884: It was reported today that “the reports of Sarah Bernhardt’s illness have been greatly exaggerated” and she will be able to perform in Sardou’s new play, “Theodroa” which is opening at the Porte Saint Martin Theatre.

1884: “Pereira, the Teacher of Deaf Mutes” published today traced the career of Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, the Portuguese born Sephardic French Jew whose first student was his sister who was born with the ability to speak or hear

1884: “Every pew was filled to over-flowing” and the galleries were completely filled as Temple Emanu-El held services to mark the one hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore.

1884: “Every seat…was occupied at Shearith Israel, the oldest synagogue in New York, when services honoring Sir Moses Montefiore began at three o’clock this afternoon.

1884: According to the dedicatory plaque, on this day “The Israelites of the City of New York” dedicated the Home for Chronic Invalids in honor of the centennial celebration of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore

1885: The Patrick Divver Hebrew Association of the Sixth Ward held its annual ball today. (Divver who was Irish Catholic, was a Tammany Hall politician who understood the value of the Jewish vote)

1886: President M. Warley Platzek is scheduled to present an outline of the accomplishments of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association when it meets this evening.

1886: In New York, founding of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society of Green point which “meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month except in July and August.”

1886: Samuel S. Cox, the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire delivered an address to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “on the condition of the Hebrews in the Orient.

1887: Three days after he had passed away, Baron Herman de Stern, the husband of the former Julia Goldsmid, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1887: Rebecca Wolf, “the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Wolff of Ridgeville, SC married Aaron David at his parent’s home in Columbia, SC.

1888: Birthdate of Sokollko native Herman Max Cohen, who in 1891 came to the United States where he earned an M.A. from Columbia and was ordained at Jewish Theological Seminary after which he served as the rabbi of several congregations including Beth Shalom in Kansas City, MO starting in 1919 where helped the growing congregation to build and dedicate a new facility with seats for 1,200 which the “Kansas City Star and Architectural League of Kansas City praised for its beauty and architectural detail”

1889: It was reported today that August Belmont has contributed $50,000 to New York City’s World’s Fair Fund and that Kuhn, Loeb & Co has contributed $60,000 to the same fund.

1889: It was reported today that that the Order of B’nai B’rith will take part in the upcoming Educational Fair being sponsored by the Jews of New York City.

1889: It was reported today that a dinner is going to be held in honor of Sir Julian Goldsmid during his visit to New York City.

1890: Rabbi Kaufman Kohler will conduct funeral services this morning for Joseph Rosenthal the New York merchant born in Bavaria in 1816 who came to the United States in 1845 where he has operated the dry goods firm of J. Rosenthal & Co. for the last forty-five years.

1890: “In the New York Clubs” published today provides a snapshot of the exclusive private clubs including the five whose members are primarily Jewish -- Harmonie, Progress, Fidelio, Metropolitan and Fredundschatt.

1890: In Philadelphia, PA, eighteen year old Roman Catholic Annie Eichert married Morris Stein who was Jewish – a union that Father Henry Dressman would try and put an end to when he told the family that she had to leave her husband because of his religion.

1890: It was reported today that Oscar Hammerstein’s “bold undertaking to establish grand opera in English permanently in New York City seems destined to succeed.”

1891: “An Indictment Russia” published today described events in the career of Jewish businessman Samuel Polyakov as well as their mistreatment at the hands of “the infamous” Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev.

1892: The Ladies’ Uptown Aid Society gave $50 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum “in commemoration of the Columbian anniversary” and presented “a gold medal to Colonel Martin Cohen the leader of the Military Bond.”

1892: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Charles Levin of Georgetown, SC and Estell Rothstein.

1892: “No Belgian Jews Wanted” published today described the demand by the Russian Government that Belgian passports to be used by those wishing to visit Russia show their religion which would mean that Belgian Jews will either be denied admission or “treated to many indignities if they visit Russia.” The Belgians have not responded since failure to comply will close Russia to Belgian businessmen.

1893: Birthdate of New York native Samuel Hamilton Kaufman, the NYU School of Law graduate and “a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York” who presided over “the first trial of Alger Hiss for perjury.

https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383091

1894: Plans were announced for the upcoming meeting of the United Hebrew Charities in New York City.

1894: According to a list published today, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum received $79,000 from the Board of Estimates and Apportionment in 1894 and is asking for $80,000 in 1895 while the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York Orphan Asylum received $82,000 in 1894 and is asking for $85,000 in 1895.

1894: In Newark, NJ, “a double force” of policemen under the command of Captain Bergen are standing guard at the non-union hat factory of J.L. Kreidel which has been surrounded by “a mob” of angry Polish and Russian Jewish “hatters” who have been fired by Kreidel’s nephew.

1894: Count George Leo of Caprivi who defended the Jews against the attacks of the

Anti-Semites led by, among other Herr Zimmerman, completed his service as Chancellor of Germany.

1897(30^thof Tishrei, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1897(30^thof Tishrei, 5658): Forty-nine year old Rachel Nelson, the wife of Barnet Nelson and the daughter of Mrs. Isaac Bernstein passed away today in London.

1898:A Zionist Delegation led by Theodor Herzl arrives in the port of Yaffo (Jaffa). They visit Mikveh Israel and Rishon LeZion.

1898: Wisconsin native Louis C. Wolf was promoted to the rank of 1^stLieutenant today.

1898: After visiting Nes Zionah, Rehovot and Herzl returns to Yaffo where he met with Reverend William Hechler. William Hechler formed a committee of Christian Zionists to help move Russian Jewish refugees to Palestine after a series of pogroms. In 1884, Hechler wrote a pamphlet called “The Restoration of Jews to Palestine According to the Prophets.” A few years later, he befriended Theodor Herzl after reading Herzl’s book The Jewish State and joined Herzl to drum up support for Zionism. Hechler even arranged a meeting between Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II to discuss Herzl’s proposal to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. The two men remained close friends up until Herzl’s death in 1904.

1900: In Hellenthal, Germany, Bernhard Rothschild, the German born so of Sibilla Rothschild and his wife Henreitte gave birth to Martin Rothschild

1902: Feminist, Suffragette and Social Activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton passed away. She helped to create The Women’s Bible “a collection of essays by a committee of women intellectuals on passages of the Judeo-Christian scriptures that discuss women.” “Stanton and her contributors highlighted and heightened the role of the women” putting “particular emphasis on Miriam’s role in the quest for Jewish freedom, for instance” and “the important work of Deborah the judge.” At the same time she wrote, “We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch.... I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.”

1903: Twenty-three year old Laura Hirschfeld, the daughter of Leopold Hirschfeld and Pauline Heilbronner married Siegfried Kurz and became Laura Kurz, the mother of Rudolph Kurz and a victim of the Nazis when died in the Riga Ghetto after being deported there in 1941.

1905: Norway becomes independent from Sweden. According to the census conducted at the turn of the century, there were 642 Jewish residents in a population totaling just over 2 million. In 1814, when control of Norway shifted from Denmark to Sweden, the Norwegians adopted “The Constitution of 1814 that contained “The Jew Clause” in the Constitution of 1814 which stated "No person of the Jewish creed may enter Norway, far less settle down there". The clause was repealed in 1851 which opened a trickle of Jewish immigration to Norway while it was still part of Sweden. In one of those quirks of history, the man most responsible for the repeal of the Jew Clause was the son of the man who led the fight to have included in the Constitution.

1905: In Melsungen, Hessen, Germany, Flora and Isaac Alfred Speier gave birth to Leo Speyer who was murdered at Auschwitz.

1906: Antoine Louis Targe who helped to clear Captain Dreyfus began serving as the Private Secretary to fellow Dreyfusard George Picquart.

1907: The Tennessee Volunteers coached by Izzy Levene continued their winning ways today defeating Maryville College bringing their record to 4 and 1.

1909:The new ballroom of the Hotel Astor is the scene of an event celebrating the 25^thanniversary of the founding of the Montefiore Home Gifts aggregating $101,500 were announced tonight as the birthday presents to the Montifore Home where . B.J. Greenhut, announces that gifts totaling $101,500 have been donated to support the institution. Greenhut, Chairman of the committee sponsoring the event, said that although he had not been authorized to make public the amount of the gifts and the names of the generous friends, he felt the occasion demanded it. The audience broke into applause when it was announced that J.H. Schiff had donated $50,000 to this worthy cause.

1910(23^rd of Tishrei, 5671): Simchat Torah

1911: Birthdate of Minneapolis native Sidney ‘Sid” Gillman the Ohio State University football player who went to a successful college and NFL coaching career.

1911: The Daily News reported that the Orthodox Jews in Batavia, NY “purchased a house at 232 Liberty Street to use as a synagogue.

1911:By an order of the Governor all Jews in the Russian Province of Ekaterinoslaff are subject to expulsion with some minor exceptions.

1912: As a result of the First Balkan War, Thessaloniki becomes part of modern day Greece. The leaders of the Jewish Community are immediately received by King George I and the Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos who promised to respect the rights of the community and offered full equality in the eyes of the Law.

1912: Birthdate of movie director Don Siegel, the native of Chicago who directed Clint Eastwood in several of his finest films.

1913: During the First Balkan War, Bulgarian forces begin bombarding the city of Adrianople in what will become the Siege of Adrianople which would last until March of 1914. Three thousand of the city’s Jews sought shelter in the local schools while another 9,200 were left with no place to go.

1913: Louis Marshall denied tonight that he would have any involvement Governor William Sulzer’s planned appeal of the decision of the High Court of Impeachment. Marshall, a prominent lawyer and leader of the Jewish Community, had reluctantly agree to represent the embattled governor.

1913: Rabbi Rudolph I. Coffee expressed his displeasure over the support that many New York rabbis had given to Governor Sulzer during his recent impeachment trial. Coffee felt that there involvement in this partisan political issue compromised their roles as spiritual leaders of the Jewish people especially when one considers the sleazy nature of the Tammany and anti-Tammany forces. Coffee, the rabbi at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, has been visiting the city during the trial. He ended his comments by saying that “these Rabbis have hurt their religion and they certainly do not each nor practice its ideals.”

1913: Temple Sinai (First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland) broke ground at 28^th and Webster on its new building which was completed in 1914.

1914: Twenty four year old Louis Weinstein “a British subject from Cape Town” arrived in New York today aboard the SS Voltaire “without funds” which resulted in him becoming a charge of the HIAS.

1914: “Brandeis Speaks on Zionism” published today described a speech by the Boston lawyer who said that Zionist movement “must be considered by the Jews of American not only from the point of view of their own platform but from that of the needs born of the war” which meant that Palestine could a welcome refuge to the Jews of Eastern Europe “relieving in part the inevitable heavy immigration that otherwise must flow from the devastated battlefield countries to the United States.”

1915: The R.II “a large three-bay biplane” which was a prototype bomber built by Siemens, “a leading corporate participant in Hitler’s “death through work program;” with slave labor factories at the following death camps: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenberg, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, & Sachsenhausen” was flown for the first time today.

1916: After reading the report of his Adjutant General that while there while statements had been that Christians were preferred as members of the National Guard and some of those connected with recruitment had admitted to “a distinct bias against Jewish applicants” “the evidence does not show a general prevalence of discrimination” when it comes to recruiting Jewish members of the National Guard, Government Whitman issued additional orders stating that “no applicant shall be rejected on account of his race or religion” and that “it shall be the duty of officers charged with making enlistments to see that their subordinates are free from such bias or prejudice…”

1916: In New York City, Hipolit and Anna Firko gave birth to Vivian Firko who gained fame as the Clarence Derwent Award winning actress Vivian Nathan, the wife of Nathan Schwalb.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=VIVIAN-NATHAN&pid=174591991

1916: “Maurice Simmons, Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Good Name of Immigrant Peoples released a statement in answer to the findings of Adjutant General Louis W. Stotesbury that Jews are not discriminated against” when trying to enlist in the National Guard that took issue with the outcome because the complaint was not that there was a “general prevalence of discrimination against Jews” but that the prejudice “existed in certain units.”

1916: Ten days after the Brownsville Clinic opened Fania Mindell was among those arrested by undercover agents because they providing education about, and distributing, birth control materials.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/26/1916/fania-mindell-arrested-for-distributing-birth-control-material

1917(10^th of Cheshvan, 5678): J.H. Valentine, the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Manchester who preferred to be called “Reverend” and who was tireless worker for the Anglicization of Jewish immigrants from Russia as can be seen by his statement “The Manchester Working Men’s Club” would not be a “place for dry sermons and must history” but would instead “raise the tone of our poor brethren by instilling into them habits of industry, thrift, education them in the language and customs of the country whiter they come have come to seek an asylum” passed away today in Manchester.

1917: In England, The Times“published a leading article attacking” the government for its repeated delays in issuing a statement support the Zionist cause. Ironically, the delay was caused, in part, by the concern among some English Jews that support for Zionism would call into question their loyalty to the Crown.

1917: In Kostroma, “The Black Hundreds accused Jews of speculation” which was the justification for the looting of Jewish shops by those looking for food.

1917: In Poltava and Oryol, the militia and other “local organizations” put down attacks on Jews accused of speculating that raised the cost of food.

1917(10^th of Cheshvan, 5678): Eight Jews were killed and another twenty were wounded “in an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence” at Pereyaslav.

1918(20^th of Cheshvan, 5679): Parashat Vayera

1918(20^th of Cheshvan, 5679: Today during WW I, 23 year old Sergeant William Sawelson, a Sergeant, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division, AEF, United States Army “upon his own initiative, left shelter, crawled through heavy machine gun fire to a wound man lay, gave him what water he had in his own canteen and went back to the shell hole in which he had been lying, obtained more water and was killed by a machine gun bullet while returning to aid is wounded comrade. (Editor’s Note – he was posthumously awarded “the Medal of Honor for valor in combat.)

1919: In Philadelphia, Solomon and Dora (Levin) Pressman gave birth to Jacob “Jack” Pressman the graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Jewish Theological Seminary who “served as the rabbi of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles for 35 years and who was “a co-founder of the American Jewish University in Bel-Air

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-rabbi-jacob-pressman-dies-at-95-20151005-story.html

1922: Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt, the accredited representative for Tel Aviv in the United States announced that “Harvey Fisk & Sons, Inc have been appointed commercial and fiscal agency in the United States for Tel Aviv, the modern section of Jaffa which is the principal port of Palestine.” The announcement is important to commercial interests in the United States since Jaffa has become the principal port in Asia Minor following the destruction of Smyrna.

1923: As the Klan grew stronger and more violent as could be seen by blind-fold whipping administered to Philip Rothblum in March of 1922, a headline in today’s Dallas News reported that “Klan Day at the Fair: Great Throngs Participate in Colorful Klan Initiation at the Fair Park”

1926:In Paris, France, the trial of Sholom Schwartzbard comes to an end.A jury of 12 petit-bourgeois Parisians acquitted the Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrant and anarchist of the charge of murder for shooting to death former Ukrainian president Symon Petliura.

1926: Birthdate of Shoredtich (section of East End, London) native Lou Meyers who served with the Royal Marines during WW II, Machel in Iserael from 1948 to 1950 and in Korea from 1950 to 1952.

1928: “Suzy Saxophone” a French-German silent film featuring Herman Picha and filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller was released today.

1929(22^nd of Tishrei, 5690): Shimini Atzeret and Shabbat

1929(22^nd of Tishrei, 5690): Sixty-three year old Abraham Mortiz “Aby” Warburg, a member of the famed German banking family who turned his back on the family business and alternate plans to enter the rabbinate to become a leader in the field of art history passed away today in his home town of Hambrug.

https://jewish-history-online.net/article/levine-obituary-aby-warburg

https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/bku/20867100.html

1930(4th of Cheshvan, 5691): Ninety year old Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine the Russian born bacteriologist who developed “vaccines used against cholera and bubonic plague” and who not only refused to convert to advance his career but was active in Jewish affairs, passed away today.

http://www.asm.org/ccLibraryFiles/FILENAME/0000000248/530787p366.pdf

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa/LIF_SCI_Haffkine.asp

http://haffkineinstitute.org/

1931: In Manhattan, Romanian Jewish immigrants gave birth to their second child Larry Lieber, the “American comic book artist and writer” who was nine years younger than his brother “Stanley Martin Lieber, later best known as Marvel Comics editor and impresario Stan Lee.”

1931(15^th of Cheshvan, 5692): Sixty-nine year old George Washington Ochs-Oaks the son of Bertha and Julius Ochs a member of the Ochs family of New York Times whose varied career included serving as newspaper reporter, a member of the New York National Guard during WW I and may of Chattanooga, TN passed away today.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=22878

1932:The Canada Dry Program, starring Jack Benny was broadcast for the last time on the NBC Blue Network

1932: “Scampolo,” a comedy film produced by Lothat Stark who would be forced to seek refuge in Copenhagen when the Nazis come to power, with a script by Max Kolpe, Felix Salten and Billy Wilder and music by Artur Guttman and Franz Waxman was released today in Germany by Bavaria Film.

1934: Featherweight Harry Blitman fought his 77^th and final bout today in Philadelphia,

1936: Birthdate of Deborah Tobias Portiz, the Brooklyn native who was the first woman to serve as the Attorney General of New Jersey and the first Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

1936: The Church of England issued its “first pronouncement on the agitation by Sir Oswald Mosley’s Fascist movement” today “branding the recent East End disturbances as ‘monstrous’” while the London Diocesan Conference adopted a resolution “urging Christians not to tolerate anti-Semitisms.”

1936: As part of the efforts of the Nazi regime’s “efforts to enforce its discriminator laws against Jews in other countries as well as in Germany,” “The Juridical Weekly” announced that the foreign department of the National Socialist Association “has established a world register of ‘Aryan’ lawyers abroad” who “are fitted to represent German interests abroad” while issuing a warning to “all Germans against employeeing Jewish lawyers in other countries.

1938: “The Gestapo was ordered to arrest and deport all Polish Jews living in Germany immediately resulting in the arrest of 12,000 Polish Jews who were “stripped of their property and herded aboard trains headed for Poland.”

1939: The Nazis prohibited Sh'chita in Poland supposedly on humanitarian grounds.

1939: The Nazis abolished its military government in Poland. It is replaced by the Military Generalgouvernment under the command of Hans Frank. In his first speech he announced that “there will be no room for . . . Jewish exploiters in a territory under German sovereignty."

1939: The Labor Department of the Generalgouvernement of Occupied Poland issues the Arbeitspflicht (Work obligation) decree, which makes slave labor mandatory for all Polish men and women over the age of 14 and under age 60.

1939: Birthdate of University of Iowa Economics Professor Michael Balch.

http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item74

1939: Following a plan devised by Adolf Eichmann, the Nazis deport and "resettle" some 78,000 Jews to a "reservation" located in the Lublin-Nisko region of southeast Poland in a three and half month period ending in the middle of February, 1940. The project is temporarily suspended when rolling rail stock is needed for German military campaigns against the Low Countries.

1941: After the Odessa Action which started on October 23 and ended on October 25 leaving 20,000 murdered Jews, another 10,000 more were sent to various concentration camps from that City.

1941: Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris “addressed a dispatch to Hitler” in an attempt “to save hostages in Nantes and Châteaubriant.

1941: Germans inform Jews of Kalisz, Poland, that elderly Jews in convalescent homes are to be moved to another home the next day

1942: Nineteen year old warehouse worker Simon Levinson was arrested today in Oslo, a month before he was deported on the Donau which took him Auschwitz where he was murdered in 1943

1942: Birthdate of The Rev. Lawrence Boadt, a Roman Catholic priest, publisher and Bible scholar who used his study of the Old Testament as a vehicle for promoting understanding between Christians and Jews,

1942: In Oszmiana, Poland, 400 Jews were deported. To save the remaining 600, the head of the ghetto decided to send only the old so to make up the quota.

1943: At the Janowska camp in Lvov, the Nazis continued to shoot Jews and burn them on pyres. After the mothers and children would undress, the Germans would swing small children, smashing their heads into trees until they died. All this was done in front of the mothers who themselves would be beaten, hung or shot.

1943: Seventy-nine year old Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the Budapest born Jew who became a Lutheran to advance his career as an archaeologist passed away today in Kabul while on the last of his many expeditions to Central Asia.

1943: Three thousand Jews are deported from Kovno, Lithuania, to the slave-labor camp at Klooga, Estonia.

1945: “Fallen Angel” directed and produced by Otto Preminger and with music by David Raskin was released in the United States today.

1946: Kurt Daluege, former SS-Obergruppenführer and deputy Reichsprotektorof Bohemia and Moravia, is hanged in Prague, Czechoslovakia, after being convicted of war crimes.

1946: “A Jewish agency spokesman said today the inner Zionist Council would call on Palestine Jews…to take certain specified measures in cooperation with the Government against the use of violence…” The move was part of bargain to gain the release of 700 Jews who have been held by the British without charges or trial since last June. Among those who would be released is Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department.” The deal would also allow Moshe Sneh head of the Haganah and David Ben-Gurion to return to Palestine from France where they have endured a self-imposed exile in an attempt to avoid imprisonment by the British.

1946: Holocaust survivor and future French political leader Simone Annie Liline Jacob became Simone Veil when she married Antoine Veil whom she met while study law at the University of Paris.

1947: In Washington, DC dedication of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial which “commemorates the accomplishments” of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce and Labor and “the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U.S President.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_Memorial#/media/File:Oscar_Straus_Memorial,_Justice_-_Washington,_D.C..jpg

1947: The British ended their occupation of Iraq. The British departure made it possible for the Arab population to move against the Jews of Iraq. The situation would only grow worse once the Israelis defeated the Arab Armies, including the Iraqis the following year. However, the violence against the Jews began before the UN partition and before there was a state Israel.

1947: Arabian King Ibn Saud warned President Harry Truman that American support of partition of Palestine was an unfriendly and useless act. “The Arabs will isolate such a state from the world and lay siege to it until it dies by famine.”

1947:The day before the Hollywood 10 began testifying, the anti-HUAC celebrities aired the first of a two-part national broadcast called "Hollywood Fights Back!," co-written by Norman Corwin and Robert Presnell Jr., and featuring Garland, Kelly, Bacall, "Bogie," Robinson, Lancaster, Henreid, John Beal and William Holden. HUAC’s investigation into the Communist influence in the film business was tainted in many ways including a predilection for anti-Semitism.

1948(23^rd of Tishrei, 5709): Simchat Torah

1948(23^rd of Tishrei, 5709: Shumel Aharon Fumkin, the son of Leib Fumkin and Sheina Hodess and father of Haim Yakov Frumkin, passed away today on London.

1948: “The Return of October” a comedy directed by Joseph H. Lewis and script co-authored by Melvin Frank was released in the United States today.

1948: Today, “in a public ceremony at naval headquarters in Haifa Prime Minister David Ben Gurion appointed Kvarnit Shulman to the postial of commander in chief of the Israeli Naval Service” which meant that the twenty-six and half year old former U.S. Navy Lieutenant “could not assume the title of Aluf or admiral.”

1950: Sixty-one year old Miguel Mariano Gómez who as President of Cuba in 1936 negotiated with Congressman William I Sirovich about the possibility of “Cuba opening her doors to at least 100,000 persecuted German Jews” passed away today.

1951: “The Blue Veil” a dramatic film directed by Curtis Bernhardt with a screenplay by Norman Corwin and music by Franz Waxman which had premiered in September was released in the United States today by RKO.

1951:Emanuel “Manny” Shinwell, Baron Shinwell completed his service Minister of Defense when the Labor Party was defeated in the “snap election” of 1951.

1951: Winston Churchill “became Prime Minister for the second time.” Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, sends a message of genuine congratulations. In his reply, Churchill refers to the Zionist leader as “my old friend.”

1951: Esta Greenberg and Jack Schnabel gave birth to American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel in Brooklyn. He grew up in Brownsville, Texas. Such a culture clash must have had an effect on his artistic creativity.

1954(29^th of Tishrei, 5715): Eighty-eight year old Jennie Wallenstein Kohnstamm the oldest child of Esther Hellman Wallenstein, the founding president of the Hebrew Infant Asylum, passed away today.

1955: The last American occupation troops left Austria and Austria enacts laws of proclaiming permanent neutrality. The American occupation had been a rather benign affair since the Austrians had been declared the first victim of Nazi aggression rather than a willing partner of the Third Reich. Considering the number of Austrian Nazis, the number of Austrians who served in with the German military and the zeal with Austrian Nazis attacked and helped to exterminate the Jewish population, this was a total misreading of the situation.

1955(10^th of Cheshvan, 5716):“An Egyptian raid today against the small Israeli post at Be'erotaim resulted in the killing of one Israeli soldier and the capture of two others

1955: “A large force of Egyptian soldiers reinforced with artillery, armor and anti-aircraft cannon, took up positions on both sides of the demilitarized zone near Sabcha and Ras-Siram” with “elements of the Egyptian force penetrating one kilometer into Israeli territory and entrenching themselves near a strategic hill, code-named “Lilly” by the Israelis.”

1956: “The Opposite Sex” a romantic comedy produced by Joe Pasternak, with a screenplay by Fay and Michael Kanin and music by Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn, Ralph and George Stoll was released in the United States today.

1956: “The Brave One” directed by Irving Rapper and produced by Frank King who risked a lot by allowing one of those on the Blacklist to write the script was released today in the United States.

1956: “The 202nd Paratroopers Brigade, under the command of Ariel Sharon, is assigned to drop a paratroopers regiment in the Mitla Pass in Sinai and to lead the rest of the brigade forces via land to the landing zone in the Mitla Pass. Sharon is not aware that the task of his brigade is chiefly to deceive the Egyptian army (so it would seem as though IDF is carrying out a limited scope type of action) and to supply the pretext for the involvement of Britain and France.”

1957(1st of Cheshvan, 5718): Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, the first Jewish-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology passed away today at the age of 61. An internationally known biochemist she and her husband Dr. Carl F. Cori and Dr. B.A. Houssay shared the 1947 Nobel Prize.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10913F63F5511708DDDAE0A94D8415B8789F1D3

1958: Sixty-five year old architect László Hudec Hungary’s honorary consul in Shanghai during WW II who helped Jewish refugees from Europe by issuing them passports to ravel safely to Canada and the United States passed away today.

http://www.ladislavhudec.eu/

1959: “Burning Bright” produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein was broadcast today as “The Play of the Week.”

1959: Dr. Arthur Kornberg is awarded the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University.

1960: “The 49^th Cousin” starring Menasha Skulnik as “Isaac,” Marian Winters as “Tracy Lowe” and Eli Mintz as “Simon Lowe” opened on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre.

1965: “The first Broadway performance of” Peter Shaffer’s “The Royal Hunt of the Sun” “took place at the ANTA Playhouse.”

1967: “Wait Until Dark” a thriller starring Alan Arkin “as a violent criminal searching for drugs” was released in the United States by Warner Brothers-Seven Arts.

1967: A production of Lillian Hellman’s “Little Foxes” directed by “Mike Nichols, a third cousin twice removed of scientist Albert Einstein, through Nichols' mother” opened today “at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center.”

1970(26^thof Tishrei, 5731): Sixty-nine year old Kiev native Louis “Kid” Kaplan the resident of Connecticut who also fought under the name of Benny Miller and “was the world featherweight champion in 1925 and 1926 passed away today.

1970: Sixty year old Louis Mundheim Gerstenfeld, the widow of Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld, the powerhouse Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/28/archives/mrs-gerstenfeld-rabbis-widow-64.html

1972: Dutifully playing his part to ensure the re-election of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam. The November elections would come and go and the war would drag on.

1972: Birthdate of Iowa City native Jessica Sharzer, the multi-talented film creator who was awarded The Horror Writers Association Bram Stocker Award for Superior Achievement in a Screenplay in 2011.

1973(30^th of Tishrei, 5734): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1973: Fire broke out in a store in Malverne, NY owned by Arthur Shilkret, the son of Nathaniel Shlkret, the creator the Genesis Suite.

1973: In violation of the ceasefire agreement, the Egyptian Third Army attempted to breakthrough surrounding Israeli; an attempt that was thwarted by the IDF and the IAF.

1973: West German authorities arrested 4 Arabs armed with explosives.

1974: “Israel and the River Plate,” published today, C. L. Sulzberger writes from Herzliya that “it would probably astonish most people to know that Israel counts on Argentina as potentially the largest remaining source of Jewish immigration that can answer this dynamic little country's constant clamor for more people.” To make things even better, the Argentinean Jewish community would provide an already-educated cadre of immigrants.

1975“A Talk With Amos Oz,” by Hebert Mitgang published today provides interesting insights into the life and thoughts of one Israel’s most prominent authors:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/26/home/oz-interview.html

1975: As Arab states seek to recoup their losses from the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian Minister of Defense arrived in Budapest today.

1976: Yorkshire Television broadcast “Success” the fifth episode of “Dickens of London” with music by Monty Norman.

1978(25th of Tishrei, 5739):Alexander Gerschenkron a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor at Harvard who was trained in the Austrian School of economics passed away. He is the grandfather of author Nicholas Dawidoff

1978(25^th of Tishrei, 5739): Eighty-one year old William Jacob Mack, Sr. the son of Lydia and Millard William Mack, who was married to Henritte L. Segal before marrying Grace Bernice Mack passed away today in his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio.

1984: Birthdate of Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen.

1984: “Firstborn” a drama that marked the film debut of Corey Haim and co-starring Sarah Jessica Parker was released in the United States today.

1984: “Body Double” a mystery movie featuring Al Israel with a script by Robert J. Avrech, a graduate of Brooklyn’s Yeshiva of Flatbush was released today in the United States today.

1986(23^rd of Tishrei, 5747): Simchat Torah

1988: NBC broadcast the first episode of “Tattingers” created by Bruce Paltrow and co-starring Jerry Stiller and Rob Morrow.

1989: In Great Britain, Nigel Lawson completed his term as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1990(7th of Cheshvan, 5751: William Paley, the founder and CEO of CBS died of a heart attack at the age of 89. (As reported by Jeremy Gerard)

https://www.biography.com/people/william-s-paley-9542315

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/27/obituaries/william-s-paley-builder-of-cbs-dies-at-89.html

1992: In a case of “Jew versus Jew” Frank Rich reviews David Mamet’s “Oleanna.”

http://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0CE1DF1E3CF935A15753C1A964958260&_r=0

1992: Today, “President George H.W. Bush signed into law the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act” which made Zapruder’s film of the JFK assassination an official “assassination record” and the official property of the United States Government – a designation which the Zapruder contested claiming that it belonged to the family and demanding that it be returned to them.

1992: The Timesquoted Jewish born financier George Soros as saying: "Our total position by Black Wednesday had to be worth almost $10 billion. We planned to sell more than that. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that he would borrow nearly $15 billion to defend sterling, we were amused because that was about how much we wanted to sell."

1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton.

1994: Dame Shirley Porter, “the daughter and heir of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco supermarkets” completed her services as Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London.

1995: Fathi Shikaki, a leader of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad was assassinated while staying on the island of Malta. It is claimed that Mossad agents were responsible for his death.

1997:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interesting including Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank:Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the ''Diary” by Ralph Melnick and Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange.

1997: “Before Women Had Wings” a made for television movie for which Ellen Barkin won an Emmy was released in Canada today.

1998: Rededication of the Oscar Straus Memorial in Washington, DC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_Memorial#/media/File:Worship-monument.jpg

1999: Eighty-eighty year old author and screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, one of the many victims of Hollywood’s Blacklist passed away today. (As reported by William Honan)

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/29/movies/abraham-polonsky-88-dies-director-damaged-by-blacklist.html?_r=0

2000: Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for today’s bombing in the Gaza Strip.

2001(9th of Cheshvan, 5762): Ninety-six year old Laszlo Halasz, the Hungarian born musician who served as the first director of the New York City Opera in which capacity he mount the first performance of “The Dybbuk,” a three act opera by David Tamkin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/arts/laszlo-halasz-first-director-of-city-opera-is-dead-at-96.html

(As reported by Allan Kozinn)

2003: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interesting including And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney and Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead.

2004: Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco celebrates its 60^th anniversary.

2004:Israel's parliament approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

2005(23rd of Tishrei, 5766): Simchat Torah

2005: Jerry Reinsdorf’s Chicago White Sox win the World Series replacing Theo Epstein’s Red Sox at the top of the major league heap.

2005: Avram Grant announced his resignation as the coach of Israel’s national football team.

2005(23rd of Tishrei, 5766): A suicide bomber who had been relased from an Israeli prison a month ago, struck in Hadera wounding 55 and killing five -- Michael Koifman, 68, of Hadera; Perahiya Makhlouf, 53, of Hadera;; Sabiha Nissim, 66, of moshav Ahituv; Jamil Mohammed Ka'adan, 48, of Baqa al-Gharbiyye; Ya'akov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera; Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera and Larissa Grishchenko, 39, of Hadera

2006: A concert entitled “The Yiddish Voice of Love: Songs of Beyle Shaechnter-Gottesmanon ” is presented at the 92^nd Street Y in New York City. “Schaechter-Gottesman is known as one America’s premier Yiddish poets and her work has been a source of inspiration for many Yiddish musicians. A native of Vienna, raised in pre-war Romania, Schaechter-Gottesman won the National Heritage Fellowship in 2005.

2007: The New York Timesfeatured a review of World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofasacism by Norman Podhoretz.

2007: In the evening, five kassam rockets fired by the Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip landed in open fields south of Ashkelon and near Sderot.

2007: “Before the Devil Knowns You’re Dead” the last film directed by Sidney Lumet was released in the United States today.

2008:Rutgers University presents a lecture on the psychological effects of terrorism on Israelis entitled "Does the War End When the Shooting Stops?" by Zahava Solomon, director of the Adler Research Center for Child Welfare & Protection at Tel Aviv University.

2008: The Center for Jewish History presents Jewish Youth and Cultural Change:
A Conference on Rethinking American Jewish History which brings together historians, anthropologists, and scholars of culture in order to reflect on the ways in which young Jews experienced their lives as Jews and Americans over the past two centuries, and how communal and cultural change were reflected in anxieties about Jewish youth.

2008: The Washington Postfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interesting including My Father’s Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraqby Ariel Sabar, Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W. Ryback, and the paperback edition of Janet Malcolm's dual biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, entitled Two Liveswhich is "a meditation on literature and morality, built around the disquieting fact that Stein and Toklas, both Jewish, remained in Europe throughout World War II without either hiding or being swept up in the Holocaust."

2008:Kadima leader Tzipi Livni announced that her efforts to build a coalition government were unsuccessful, and recommended that early general elections be held. Livni made the announcement at a press conference held at the president's residence in Jerusalem, Beit Hanassi, where she arrived at 5:30 p.m.to meet with President Shimon Peres.

Livni explained that though she had hoped to build a coalition government, she was not willing to give up on her values in order to reach that goal. "I was willing to make sacrifices to build a coalition government... but I was not prepared to mortgage Israel's economic and political future or the hope for a better future and a different kind of politics," she said. "There are prices that can be paid, prices that others are willing to pay - but I won't pay them at the expense of the State, at the expense of Israeli citizens - just to become a prime minister in a paralyzed government."

2009: The Center for Jewish History and The Center for Traditional Music and Dance present “Celebrating a Lifetime in Yiddish Song,” conversation and performance featuring Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, America's leading Yiddish poet and songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman, Associate Editor of the Yiddish Forward. In 2006, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was awarded the prestigious N.E.A. National Heritage Fellowship, our nation's highest honor in the traditional arts.

2009:Steven D. Levitt (a professor of economics at the University of Chicago) and Stephen J. Dubner (a former writer and editor at the New York Times Magazine) discuss their new book, "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance," in a program at The Washington Post Conference Center.

2009: At The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Melvin Urofsky discusses "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life," his biography of the Supreme Court Justice (which is the annual Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish History)

2009: An activist in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit community was conditionally released from prison today, a day after his arrest for allegedly spraying an ultra-Orthodox woman with tear gas in the capital's Mea She'arim neighborhood. Yoel Kraus was arrested after the woman filed a police complaint. The alleged attack occurred about two weeks ago, during the Sukkot holiday, as the woman was walking on a "men only" sidewalk, and refused Kraus' demand that she move to the women's side.

2010: According to Sally Kohn “3 things Progressive and Tea Partiers can agree on are “ensuring clean elections,” “ending bailouts and subsidies for Big Business” and the abolition of “Corporate parenthood.”

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/3-things-progressives-and-tea-partiers-can-agree-on

2010: George Soros donated $1 million, the largest donation in the campaign, to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund Proposition 19 that would have legalized marijuana in the state of California if it had passed

2010:Sam Brylawski is scheduled to deliver a lecture styled Emile Berliner: Inventor of the Gramophone, Part II that is a follow up to an earlier lecture on the life of Jewish-German immigrant Emile Berlinerwho “emigrated as a young man from Hannover to Washington in 1870 and became famous internationally for his many inventions and business acumen.”

2010: The Historic 6^th& I Synagogue is scheduled to host Challah & Chutney: An Indian Jewish cooking class where Shulie Madnick, an Indian Jewish food blogger, provides lessons in how to prepare a vegetarian Indian meal, traditional to the Jewish community of India.

2010: The annual trade show of the kosher food industry opened today at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, N.J.

2011: A program featuring a discussion “Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams” by Charles Kings is scheduled to take place at the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival in Washington, D.C.

2011: Rabbi Nissan Antine, the Associate Rabbi and Director of Education at Beth Sholom Congregation, is scheduled to lead a class entitled Responsa of the Holocaust at the JCC of Greater Washington.

2011: The International Conference on the Life and Work of Israeli author Aharon Applefeld is scheduled to open at the University of Pennsylvania.

2011: Former Shin Bet security service director Yuval Diskin defended Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today, saying that Abbas is against terrorism..

2011: In excerpts of an interview released today from an upcoming interview on Sixty Minutes,the wife of the financial swindler Bernard Madoff claims that the couple attempted suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve 2008 after his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed. The attempt, which she described as “impulsive” left her “glad” that “we woke up.”

2011:Three Grad rocket were fired from the Gaza Strip at the Ashdod and Bnei Aish areas shortly before midnight today. The rockets fell into open territories. No injuries were reported but several people were suffering from shock. Police forces were on the scene in the area of the attack. The IDF Spokesman confirmed that one rocket was fired at the Ashdod area. Israel Radio reported that three rockets were fired from the Strip. Police forces were coming the area searching for the landing site. Sirens were heard in Yavne, Gadera, Rehovot, Nes Ziona and Ashdod. This was first time that air raid sirens were activated in Rechovot and Nes Ziona due to a rocket attack. Earlier today night an IDF patrol was struck by a roadside bomb near the West Bank settlement of Efrat. No injuries were reported but an army vehicle was damaged, the IDF Spokesman said. IDF forces were on the scene conducting a search for the attackers. The rocket attack was the first since the deal that freed IDF soldier Gilad Schalit last week. Three weeks ago, two Kassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. One exploded in an open field in the Hof Askelon Regional Council, while the other exploded inside the Strip. No injuries or damage was reported in that attack.

2012(10^th of Cheshvan, 5773): Fifty-one year old television producer and comedy writer Alan Kirschenbaum passed away today.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20121030,0,2908921.story

2012(10^th of Cheshvan, 5773): Eight year old Arnold Greenberg, the founder of Snapple passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/business/arnold-greenberg-a-founder-of-snapple-dies-at-80.html?hpw&_r=1&

2012: Israeli Cellist Elad Kabilio is schedule to lead the musical accompaniment to tonight’s performance of the Ballet Next Ensemble at the Joyce Theatre.

2012: “The Other Son” a film about “two young men–one Israeli, the other Palestinian–who discover they were accidentally switched at birth and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families” is scheduled to appear for the first time in selected theatres in the United States.

2012:The British government opposed the establishment of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals at the end of the second world war because it wanted selected Nazi leaders to be summarily executed and others to be imprisoned without trial, according to a contemporary account that was declassified today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/britain-execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders

2012:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tie-up with far-right coalition partner Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman could backfire by eroding their lead ahead of Israel’s Jan. 22 ballot, a poll said today. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/165001/netanyahus-hard-right-alliance-could-backfire/#ixzz2ARoW83Xe

2012: “Orchestra of Exiles,” a documentary that tells the tale of Bronislaw Huberman’s effort to create what became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra opened today in New York.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-europes-top-violinist-saved-hundreds-from-hitler-to-build-israels-orchestra-of-exiles/

2012: Sonja Spear is scheduled to give a talk about Halloween in America after the Shabbat Dinner being held at the University of Iowa Hillel House in Iowa City, Iowa.

2013: “Channel 2 (Reshet)” released the first episode of “The X Factor Israel.”

2013: Beginning of Jewish Book Month 2013 sponsored by the Jewish Book Council

2013: Sidney A. Katz closed Wolfson’s Department Store on East Diamond Avenue in Gaithersburg, MD which had been started in 1918 by is grandparents Jacob and Rose Wolfson.

2013: Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “A Bit of Bling.”

2013: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a performance of “Don Giovanni” featuring Israel Wind Soloists:

Oboes: Amir Bakman, Josue Cordero

Clarinets: Danny Erdman, Daniel Gurfinkel

Bassoons: Mauricio Paez, Kristijonas Grigas

Contrabassoon: Isaac Ramon Leyva

Horns: Adrian Solis, Edo Hayek

2013: Australian police charged three people today over an anti-Semitic attack on five people in Bondi Beach, Sydney. The five Jews who were taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital included four men aged 27, 39, 49 and 66 wearing yarmulkes and a 62-year-old woman.

2013:Eight Israeli citizens and a Palestinian girl sustained moderate injuries when stones were hurled at the direction of vehicles traveling in south Mount Hebron (As reported by Itmar Fleishman)

2014: Aaron David Miller, the vice-president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars os scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the annual Jewish Endowment Fund Brunch at the Hilton Hotel Riverside where Dr. Edward Soll and his wife Karne will be honred with the presentation of the Tzedakah award. (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News – the source for everything in the land of the Kosher Cajuns)

2014: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War by James Risen, who has been friends with Yossi Klein Halevi “since they both crashed the Nazi Party headquarters in Chicago as student reporters 30 years ago” and recently released paperback editions of You Should of Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz and Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town and the Magic of Theatre by Michael Sokolove.

2014: “Dylan Thomas in America: A Centennial Exhibition” is scheduled to open at the 92^nd Street Y.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/books/a-dylan-thomas-centennial-in-new-york.html?ref=books

2014:In Indianapolis, Lauren and Adam Cantor are scheduled to sing camp songs and share their memories of being song leaders at Goldman Union Camp Institute at the annual meeting of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society

2014: Amid on-going terrorist inspired violence that has shut down parts of the Jerusalem Light Rail, the funeral of the Hamas terrorist who murdered a three month old baby and injured numerous others who were waiting to board the light rail is scheduled to be buried today. (Editor’s note – So far there has been no condemnation of the murder of an infant by the UN)

2014: “Life in Stills” and “The Hangman” are scheduled to be shown on the first day of the Israeli Film Festival sponsored by the Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz.

2014: "The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France" an exhibition that unveils the history behind the children's character, Curious George whose creators The Jewish couple, Margret and H.A. Rey fled Paris on bicycles in 1940 to escape the Nazi invasion and eventually made their way to the United States with their manuscripts and illustrations for the book, "The Adventures of Fifi," which was retitled "The Adventures of Curious George" is scheduled to come to an at the Argenta Branch of the North Little Rock Public Library.

2014: At two o’clock this morning, Israelis change their clocks back to standard time.

2014: In what would appear to be a check of its “lethal arsenal” Hamas has for the eighth since the end of Operation Protective Edge fired rockets into the Mediterranean Sea. (As reported by Cynthia Blank)

2014: “The Arab population in Israel is part and parcel of the Jewish state and will always be a fundamental component of Israeli society, President Reuven Rivlin said today at a memorial ceremony to mark the 58th anniversary of the Kfar Kassem massacre, during which Israeli border police shot to death 49 Arab Israelis, among them several women and many children.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/rivlin-to-address-ceremony-marking-kfar-kassem-massacre/

2014(2^ndof Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-two year old Yemima Muskara became the second victim of Wednesday’s terrorist attach when she died of wounds suffered when a Hamas acolyte struck nine people with his car outside the Ammunition Hill Light Rail stop. (As reported by Gil Ronen)

2015(12^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-eight year old physicist Leo P. Kadanoff passed away today in Chicago. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/science/leo-p-kadanoff-physicist-of-phase-transitions-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~leop/

2015: “The Pesach Tikvah social agency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hosted a reunion for three of the Ewschwege survivors – Sari Gruenzweig, Esther Epstein and Lea Singer – and Alan Golub the American pilot who in April of 1945 forced a German shop keeper to give him the cloth so that these women could have dresses. For more see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/nyregion/a-pilot-and-holocaust-survivors-bound-by-the-fabric-of-war-are-reunited-in-brooklyn.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

2015: The 15^th Annual National Conference is scheduled to come to an end today in Chicago.

2015: A memorial service was held today at St. Paul’s Chapel honoring the late Joseph F. Traub, founder of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/2015/joseph-traub-in-memoriam/

2015: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to host Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner is the first of the Bridge to Beethoven concert series.

2015: The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department is scheduled to host Stephen Russell who will lecture on “A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World.”

2015: The Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to open at Tulane University with screenings of “Life in Stills” and “The Hangman.”

2015: Twenty-first anniversary of the Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel.

2016: In Coralville, IA, Jeannette Gabriel from the Iowa Women’s Archives is scheduled to evaluate family “treasures” as part of the Agudas Achim Centennial celebration.

2016: “A rare, ancient papyrus dating to the First Temple Period” which “has been found to bear the oldest known mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew” “was formally unveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority” today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/oldest-hebrew-mention-of-jerusalem-found-on-rare-papyrus-from-7th-century-bce/

2016: Today “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO in protest of two recent resolutions by the UN cultural body that ignored Jewish and Christian historical ties to Jerusalem holy sites.”

2016: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a tour of Jewish Grounds at the Oakland Cemetery

2016: The Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host a lecture by David Biale the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California at Davis that examines the life and times of Gershom Sholem entitled “Sholem In Love: Affective Ties of a Jewish Historian.”

2016: Tahneer Oksman and New Yorkercontributor Liana Finck are scheduled to discuss Oksman’s new book How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, drawing connections between graphic storytelling and the unstable postmodern Jewish self in an event sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society.

2016: In Paris, UNESCO”s World Heritage Committee is scheduled to vote on a resolution condemning “Israeli violations in Jerusalem’s Old City” that effectively denies the historic connection of Judaism and the Jewish people to Jerusalem and therefore also undermines the entire story of Jesus as presented in the Gospels.

2017: ““Challah in the CLE,” an event where more than 1,500 local women and girls came together to make challah and take part in other festivities, returned to the east side of Cleveland today as the kickoff event of “a larger weekend-long series of events that are part of the Shabbos Project Cleveland – the local chapter of an international, grassroots Jewish identity movement to unite Jews around the world for a full Shabbat.

2017: In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “The Butler.”

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a fun evening of Challah baking and Mezuzah decorating.

2017: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host a celebration of Deccan Heritage Foundation's new publication; Jewish Heritage of the Deccan; Mumbai, The Northern Konan, Pune co-authored by Kenneth X. Robbins and Pushkar Sohoni with photographs by Surendra Kumar.

2017: Samuel Nortich is scheduled to moderate a discussion “The Pew Jew Study: American and German-Jewry In Comparison” in which Steven Cohen and Robin Judd compare and contrast the “situations of German Jews a century ago and American Jews today.”

2017: Yeshiva University Museum, the Center for Jewish History and the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present Giuseppe Veltri discussing “The Temple in Renaissance Imagination.”

2017: Gili Cohen, “an Israeli judoka who won a gold medal” today “at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam judo tournament…had to his sing his own private ‘Hatikvah’ because the organized refused to play the Israeli national anthem.”

2018: Today physicist Abraham “Avi” “Loeb and his postdoc Shmuel Bialy submitted a paper exploring the possibility of the interstellar object ʻOumuamua being an artificial thin solar sail accelerated by solar radiation pressure in an effort to help explain the object's non-gravitational acceleration.”

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat services following by a dinner as part of the “Oxford 3^rd Week Bring a Friend Shabbat.”

2018: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host the “Ensemble Phoenix on early instruments program” where performers us “period instruments.”

2018: The Jerusalem Theatre Piano Festival Is scheduled to host a “Kabbalat Shabbat – Salute to Yankeleh Rotblit.”

2019(27^thof Tishrei, 5780): Parashat Bereshit – The Cycle Begins again. For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2019: The Houston Astros are scheduled to play the Washington Nationals in game four of the World Series without the services of their Assistant General Manager Brandon Taubman who was fired on October 24^th for directing “offensive, vulgar comments toward female reporters during the celebration of the team’s American League Championship Series victory five days earlier.”

2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Holocaust survivor Agnes Schwartz as she tells “how a Catholic housekeeper claimed her as her own niece to protect her during the” Shoah.

2019: The Oxford University Jewish Socieity is scheduled to provide Shabbat meals prepared by its “fantastic chef Joanne” along with hosting Morning and Afternoon services as well as Seudah Shlishit.

2019: Jewish congregations all across America including Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro; Beth Israel and Netivot Shalom in Berkeley; Sherith Israel, Emanu-El and Or Shalom in San Francisco; Beth Jacob in Redwood City, Shir Hadash in Los Gatos; Kol Shofar in Tiburon; and Kol Emeth in Palo Alto are scheduled to participate in “Show up for Shabbat” part of the response to remembering the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that took place on October 27, 2018.

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