This Day, November 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin

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1217: During the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary defeated Sultan Al-Adi in what would prove to by a pyric on the banks of Jordan River.  The Moslems retreated into fortified positions from which they could not be dislodged and the Hungarian monarch finally went home with little more than bags of “relics” to show for all of his campaigning. 

1290: The community of Huesca, Spain prohibited Christians from buying meat or poultry from Jews under a penalty of 70 days in jail.  

1444:  At the Battle of Varna the Ottoman Sultan Murad II defeated a Christian Crusading Army under the Polish King Vladislus III.  The Turkish victory paved the way for the Ottoman Moslem conquest of parts of Eastern Europe as well as the conquest of Constantinople. The extension and consolidation of the Ottomans was “a good thing for the Jews” since Ottoman Empire was a place of refuge for Jews escaping Christian Europe. Murad II opened his empire to Jews escaping from persecution in Germany and employed two Jews as court physicians.  Vladislus III followed in the footsteps of his father Valdislus II and attempted to deny the Jews the rights and privileges granted by previous Polish monarch.  The Battle of Varna paved the way for the fall of Constantinople in 1453 which in turn provided some of the impetus for the search for a water route to the Orient which gave rise to the travels of Columbus which opened the way for what would become the American Jewish community.  No, this is not a shaggy dog story.  It is the law of unintended consequences that makes up the history of Jews.

1483: Birthdate of Martin Luther, German religious leader and reformer. At first Luther was friendly to the Jews thinking that this kindly treatment would them to accept his new form of Christianity.  When the Jews accepted his friendship but rejected conversions, he turned on them and began his anti-Semitic attacks.  He died in 1546.

1509: Emperor Maximilien issued a second mandate reproaching the Jews of Frankfort for disobeying his first edict and ordering the confiscation of their holy books to continue.

1549: Pope Paul III passed away.  According to the Graetz, “Paul III was specially well-disposed to Jews.”  According to a Bishop named Sadolet of Carpentras, “No pope has ever bestowed on Christians so many honors, such privileges and concessions as Paul III has givn to the Jews.  They are not onlyu assisted, but positively armed with benefits and prerogatives.”  Paul protected the Marranos from the Inquisition and employed a Jewish physician named Jacob Mantin.

1619: René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes would play a major role in the development of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza with the Dutch Jew first accepting and the rejecting Descartes’ notion of duality.  Furthermore, while Descartes was able to maintain some semblance of religious practice even though his philosophy was at odds with Catholic doctrine, Spinoza took a different road. When he found a dissonance between his philosophy and Judaism, he ceased to follow its rituals and customs. 

1659(24^th of Cheshvan, 5420): Antonio Fernandez Carvajal(a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first naturalized English Jew passed away. He was born about 1590, probably at Fundão, Portugal. He appears to have left Fundão on account of the persecution of the Inquisition and, proceeding to the Canary Islands, acquired much property there, made many commercial connections, which led him (about 1635) to London, where he settled in Leadenhall Street. In 1649 the council of state appointed him one among the five persons who received the army contract for corn. In 1653 Carvajal was reported as owning a number of ships trading to the East and West Indies, to Brazil, and to the Levant. He dealt in all kinds of merchandise, including gunpowder, wine, hides, pictures, cochineal, and especially corn and silver, and is reported to have brought to England, on average, £100,000 worth of silver per annum. In the early days of his residence in England, Carvajal used to attend mass at the Spanish ambassador's chapel, and in 1645 was informed against for not attending church; but the House of Lords, on the petition of several leading London merchants, quashed the proceedings. In 1650, when war broke out with Portugal, Carvajal's ships were especially exempted from seizure, though he was nominally a Portuguese subject. In 1655 he and his two sons were granted denizenship as English subjects (the patent being dated August 17 of that year); and when the war with Spain broke out in the following year, his property in the Canaries was liable to seizure, as he was a British subject. Oliver Cromwell made arrangements by which Carvajal's goods were transported from the Canaries in an English ship which passed under Dutch colors. When Menasseh Ben Israel came to England in 1655 to petition Parliament for the return of the Jews to England, Carvajal, though his own position was secured, associated himself with the petition; and he was one of the three persons in whose names the first Jewish burial-ground was acquired after the Robles case had forced the Jews in England to acknowledge their creed. Carvajal, besides advancing money to Parliament on cochineal, had been of service to Cromwell in obtaining information as to the Royalists' doings in Holland (1656). One of his servants, Somers, alias Butler, and also a relative, Alonzo di Fonseca Meza, acted as intelligencers for Cromwell in Holland, and reported about Royalist levies, finances, and spies, and the relations between Charles II and Spain. It was to Carvajal that Cromwell gave the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England. Under the date of February 4, 1657, Burton, in his diary, states: The Jews, those able and general intelligencers whose intercourse with the Continent Cromwell had before turned to profitable account, he now conciliated by a seasonable benefaction to their principal agent [Carvajal] resident in England. In 1648 a cargo of logwood belonging to Carvajal was seized by the customs officers. He assembled his servants and friends, broke open the government warehouses, and carried off his merchandise. The litigation to which this gave rise was interrupted only by Carvajal's death, which occurred in London.

1674: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster which ended the Anglo-Dutch War, the Netherlands ceded New Netherlands to England.  This meant that New Amsterdam would become New York and the Jewish community in the New World would be tied to the fate of an English speaking world.

1687: The Jews of Posen, Poland successfully defended themselves against attack by anti-Semitic mobs  

1766: William Franklin (son of Benjamin Franklin born out of wedlock) royal governor of the colony of New Jersey, signs the charter of Queen’s College which is now known as Rutgers University. Today, “The Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers offers an interdisciplinary approach to the academic study of all aspects of the Jewish experience. Courses offered by the Department, which are open to all students, address the historical, social, cultural, religious and political life of the Jewish people from ancient times to the present. Students pursuing a B.A. degree may major or minor in Jewish Studies.”

1773: Birthdate of Joseph Perl, the native of Galicia who went from being a youthful follower of Chasidism to being a leader of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment Movement)

1775: The United States Marine Corps was founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.  Robert Magnus was probably the highest ranking Jew to serve with the Marine Corps.  When he retired in July of 2008 he had four stars on his shoulders and had just finished serving a tour as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. Barney Ross is considered by some to be the most famous Jewish hero to serve with the Marine Corps.  Despite the fact that he was in this 30’s when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ross enlisted in the Marines.  He rejected a ceremonial, public relations role and insisted on joining the combat forces.  He got his wish when he began a tour on Guadalcanal where he earned a Silver Star, the third highest commendation awarded for bravery in battle. The largest single contingent of Jewish members of the corps to serve in one place might have been at Iwo Jima where approximately 1,500 Sons of Jacob joined their fellow Leathernecks in the some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific.  The most famous novel to come out of World War II about the Marines was Battlecry written by Leon Uris, a Jewish Marine who had a flair for words and a combat veteran’s view of war that was up close and personal.

1776(28^th of Cheshvan, 5537): Six year old Aaron Levy, the song of David Segal Levi, who was described as “a darling and pleasant child” passed away today in the United Kingdom.

1790: In Richmond, VA, Judith (Judy) Myers and Jacob Mordecai gave birth to Ellen Mordecai.

1793: In Bonfeld, Germany, “Schoenle Lazarus” and Lazarus Ruben gave birth to Alexander Ottenheimer.

1807: The Jews of the region of Widdin on the Danube escape destruction leading to “an annual celebration known as the Purim of the Poisoned Sword.”

1808: Birthdate of Lewis Charles Levin the first Jew elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the American Party candidate from Pennsylvania in 1844. Born in Charleston South Carolina, he graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) with a law degree. He was a founder of the Native American Party and published and edited the Philadelphia Daily Sun. Levin was reelected twice before being defeated in 1850. He then returned to the practice of law in Philadelphia until his death on March 14, 1860. [The Native American Party, popularly called The No-Nothings, was a nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant party supposedly founded by WASPS.  So one must wonder how a Jew got involved with this and/or how did these people let a Jew became part of their party.]

1809: In Diespeck, Bavaria, Maier and Karoline Einhorn gave birth to David Einhnorn one of the most influential of the Rabbis in the early days of the Reform Movement who risked his life while serving at Har Sinai in the slave holding state of Maryland to denounce the institution and support the cause of the Union.

1810: Birthdate of Lazarus Adler, the Bavarian born rabbi and author whose last “work, favoring wise reforms, bore the title Hillel and Shammai.”

1810: Birthdate of Eduard Simson the Konigsberg born Jew whose family converted in 1823; a move which surely helped him rise to serve as the first President of the German Parliament.

1813: Lawrence Phillips married Esther Spyer at the Great Synagogue today.

1819: Emanuel Minden married Sarah Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1823: In Sparrow Corner, Hanna and Abraham Harris gave birth to Lewis Harris.

1824: Solomon Hyams married Rachel Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1824: Lewis Marks married Mary Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.

1824: In Hesse, Germany, Seligmann Falcke Goldschmidt, the “son of Jacob Falcke Goldschmidt and Eva Seligman” and his wife Schönchen Hinka Alexander gave birth to Levi Goldsmith who settled in Philadelphia, PA.

1826: In Loslau, Upper Silesia, David Hamburger and his wife gave birth to Jacob Hamburger the “editor of the first explicitly Jewish Encyclopedia.”

1828: Birthdate of Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, the French librettist who collaborated with Ludovic Halévy to create “Orpheus in the Underworld.”

1834: In Kolo, Poland, Marya Lachman and Jeremiasz Kleczewsi gave birth to David Colski who was buried in London’s Plashet Jewish Cemetery.

1840: Birthdate of Alois Kaiser, the Hungarian born Chazzan and Composer who came to the United States in 1866 where he soon became  the cantor at Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD. He passed away in 1908l

1848: Ibrahim Pasha, who served as the de facto Kehdive of Egypt and Sudan passed away. In 1840 he he had forbidden “the Jews to page the passage in front of the (Western) Wall” and had “cautioned them against ‘raising their voices and displaying their books there.’”

1849: In Ostend, Belgium, Julie Schoenholz and Aron Elsbach gave birth to Bertha Elsbach, the wife of Raphael Robert Reinsberg.

1852: Dr Raphall is scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Literature of the Hebrews” this evening at the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Association at Stuyvesant Institute in NYC.

1853: The Jews of Philadelphia established the Mercantile Club. Louis Bomeisler was its first president.

1854: In the United Kingdom, the will of Moses Alexander was probated today.

1856: Jews’ College, the rabbinical seminary of London opened its doors today

1859: In Moravia, Charlotte Eisler and Joseph Singer gave birth to Isidor Singer who served “as literary sectary to Count Foucher de Carell, the former French Ambassador at Vienna” before coming to New York in 1895 where he became managing editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia.



1860: Birthdate of Philadelphian Oscar Brower Teller, the University of Pennsylvania trained attorney who was interred in that city’s Mt. Sinai Cemetery.

1861: Three rabbis, including Marcus Jastrow who had participated in Polish nationalist activities were arrested today and imprisoned in the citadel of Warsaw.



1861: In London, Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin gave birth to Amy Levy, the author and poet who was the first Jewish student to attend Newnham College, Cambridge and whose love affair with Vernon Lee provided the impetus for her work on Sapphic love.

http://www.poemhunter.com/amy-levy/

1862: During the Civil War, Sergeant Henry H. Jacobs began serving with Company F of the 165^th Regiment.

1862: During the Civil War, Corporal Nathan From began serving with Company A of the 167^th Regiment.

1865: Henry Wirz, the commandant at Andersonville Prison whose inmates included Jewish Medal of Honor winner George Geiger, was hung today after a Union Court Martial found him guilty of conspiracy and murder for his role in administering the p.o.w. compound.

1865: Four days after he had passed away, 48 year old David Meyer Davidson, the son of Meyer Davidson and Jesse Cohen and the husband of Henrietta Cohen was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1865(21^stof Cheshvan, 5626): Fifty-eight year old Dr. Marcus Mosse the son of Salomon Moses and Henriette (Jette) Marcus Levin and husband of Ulrike Mosse passed away in Posen.



1866: Philip Peyser and Natalie Ann Kiliñski gave birth to Pauline "Lena" Peyser who would be buried in the Washington, DC Hebrew Cemetery in 1923.



1867: Birthdate of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson a supporter of the Zionist cause who commanded the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion.

http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2008/the-seven-lives-of-colonel-patterson.html

http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/John_Henry_Patterson_biography.htm





1867(12^thof Cheshvan, 5628): Fifty-three year old Solomon Klein, the Grand Rabbi at Colmar in Alsace, passed away today.



1868(25th of Cheshvan, 5629): Samuel Sampson, a solicitor and secretary to the London Board of Deputies passed away today. Born in 1804, he began life on the Stock Exchange, but after some time resigned his membership and entered the legal profession. He became honorary solicitor to several of the leading charities; as solicitor and secretary to the Board of Deputies his advice was sought on many important issues, and he accompanied Sir Moses Montefiore on his mission to Morocco. Samuel was a member of the committee of the Great Synagogue and of nearly all the charitable institutions, in the foundation of many of which he was concerned. He helped to establish the Jews' Infant School, London, and took an active part in its management. (As reported by Joseph Jacobs and Goodman Lipkind)



1869: Moritz Ellinger became publisher of The Jewish Times



1870: In San Francisco, Joseph M. Bramdenstein and Jane Jeannette Brandenstein gave birth to Edward Bransten

1874: (1st of Kislev, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1875: In Chicago, Joseph and Miriam Cahn gave birth to Bertram Joseph Cahn the “husband of Irma Cahn” with whom he had three children and the Northwestern educated lawyer who served on the Crime Commission and belonged to the Urban League.

1875: Charles Harald Hansen married Dinah Nathan today in New Zealand.

1876: In Philadelphia, PA, The Centennial International Exhibition where Charles Fleishmann who “created the first commercially produced yeast” “demonstrated Viennese baking” which “dramatically increased” the revolutionary product, came to an end.

1877: In Shreveport, LA, J.A. Bergman and Annie Wise gave birth to University of Cincinnati grad and HUC trained Rabbi, Moise Bergman who served Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan before assuming the pulpit at Gates of Prayer in New Orleans in 1904.

1877: Birthdate of Ukraine native Louis Landau the Yiddish writer and editor of the Amerikaner who was the father of Betty and Max Landau.

1879: A report published today described conditions in the central Asian city of Merv including the fact that this “immense walled city with 2,000 houses and 5 palaces included “a small quarter for the Jews separated by a wall from the rest of the city.”

1880: “Polish Jewish refugee Max and Mary Epstein gave birth Jacob Epstein the New York City born sculptor who worked chiefly in England, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict but in the end was enough of an “establishment figure” that he was knighted for his effort thus becoming Sir Jacob Epstein

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-epstein-jacob.htm

1880: It was reported today that “3,000 Jews have left Romania” for the United States by way of the prot of Bremen.

1881: “A Home For Aged Hebrews” published today described plans for the new building that will be constructed by the Home for Aged and Infirm Jews at a cost of $100,000 for its clients and patients.

1883: It was reported today that Jews have joined with Protestants and Catholics in the opening of the celebration at Eisleben of the 400^thanniversary of the birth of Martin Luther. (Considering how Luther treated the Jews, this is a surprising entry.)

1883: It was reported today that “a mob attacked the Jews” at Zalaloevoe, Hungary and that mob fired on the police who came to protect the Jews.

1883: “Helping The Prophets” published today described the demise of the Palestine Railroad Company “which has been dissolved by order of a Massachusetts court.”  In addition to providing transportation for those traveling from Cairo to Jerusalem, the builders thought the locomotive fulfilled the prophetic vision “that fiery chariots would someday be seen in the streets of Jerusalem.”

1884: “A Rear Tenement Fire” published today described the efforts of fireman to put out a fire on Cannon Street that housed the shops of Jewish tailors, slipper makers and  cigar manufactures S.G. Goldsmith, Sieche & Hummel and Meigner & Kander. The loss to building and contents is estimated to exceed ten thousand dollars.

1884: English actor Henry Irving played the role of Shylock, the Jew, in tonight’s performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at the Start Theatre.  Shylock is one of Irving’s singular roles.

1885: Mrs. Clara Bronner Waterman, the daughter of Isaac H. Bronner applied for a divorce today in the Common Pleas Court in New York City.

1885: In St. Louis, MO, Frederick “Tiny” Pagels fired a double-barreled shotgun at a Kohn a Jewish business rival, killing him instantly. Pagels would be tried and sentenced to death for the crime. (Unlike in Europe, the fact that the victim was Jewish was not enough to beat the hangman.)

1886: A fire broke out this evening in a school run for Jewish children by Joseph Isaac Bluestone in New York City.

1887(23^rd of Cheshvan, 5648): In the UK, Solomon Levy the older brother of Abraham Levy passed away today.

1887: Birthdate of German born author and peace activist Arnold Zweig.

1889: Celeste Martin and Julius P. Witmark peformed a musical sketch entitled “When We Are Married” as part of the benefit concert being held tonight for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society at Hardman Hall in NYC.

1889: It was reported today that the “American Hebrew, the excellent Jewish newspaper pbished yb the American Hebrew Publishing company has issued a special” edition “to make the close of the 10^thand beginning of the eleventh year of its existence.”

1889: A reception was held today at the newly completed annex at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews on 9^th Avenue between 105^thand 106^th Street in New York City.

1889: Ascher Lodge Number 13 of the Order of Free Sons of Israel celebrated its 20^th anniversary tonight at Webster Hall.

1890: “Literary Notes” published today included anecdotes about Lord Beaconsfield that can be found in James Anthony Froude’s biography of the British statesman including “one pertaining to the death of the Prince Imperial in Africa” of whom he said, “A remarkable people the Zulus.  They defeat our Generals, the convert our Bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.”

1890: According to reports published today, the third volume of Renan’s Histoire du People d’ Israel will soon be available in Paris.  In this volume, Renan presents the evidence that the turning point in the history of the world was the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity.  If this had not happened, he contends that Jews would have suffered the same fate as the citizens of the Northern Kingdom which would have meant Christianity would never have been created and the world would not have known the information contained in Biblical literature.

1890: Birthdate of Austrian native Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck, the scholar who translated Plato from Greek to Hebrew and “wrote several volumes on Maimonides and who was the chair of the Jewish Philosophy Department at Hebrew Union College.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0462/ms0462.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/05/113087822.pdf

1890: Birthdate of Cologne, Germany native Alfred Salmony, “an internationally recognizes authority on Asian art” and Professor of Fine Arts at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.

1890: Birthdate of El Lissitzky, multi-talented Russian born artist.

1892(20^th of Cheshvan, 5653): Seventy-four year old Israel Meyer Japhet who “was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt am Main” passed away today.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Japhet,_Israel_Meyer

1893(1^st of Kislev, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1893: Baron Hirsch’s “four year old brown fill La Fleche” won the Liverpool Autumn Cup. Among the horses she beat was “The Jew” which had led as the horses turned into the straightaway and headed for home.

1893: As young Jewish men in New York seek to elicit support from leaders of the community such as Nathan Straus and Edward C. Stone, for an new facility for the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, it was reported that the organization has gained 200 members since last May bringing its membership up to 700 and that it has a small surplus having paid off all of its debts.

1893: The list of those receiving bequests from the late Louis Arnheim published today included  $500 each to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and Mount Sinai Hospital  and $100 each to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1893: The immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island today aboard the SS Poland most of whom were Russian Jews have been described by Commissioner Senner as “the worst lot he has had to contend with” and that “nearly all of them are impoverished, unclean and unkempt.

1894: In Newark, NJ, Ferdinand Bornstein told police today that four sets of the Ten Commandments were stolen from a closet in his synagogue. Bound in silver, they “were valued at $600.”

1894: Birthdate of author Meyer Wolf Weisgal, the native of the Pale of Settlement who came to the United States at the age of 11 who served as president of both the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.

https://www.jta.org/1977/09/30/archive/meyer-w-weisgal-dead-at-83



1894: In Kurenitz, Morris L. Kramer and Rachel Elka Stikan gave birth to their 7^th child, Samuel Kramer.

1895: In New York details are announced describing the events of "The Great Hebrew Fair" to be held in December.  The goal is to raise at least $225,000 to aide in educational endeavors.

1895; In Moravia, Joseph Singer and Charlotte Eisler gave birth to Isidor Singer who became the literary secretary to Count Foucher de Careil in 1887 and then move to New York in 1895 where he became the driving force for the creation of a Jewish Encyl

1897: In Vienna, there was an outbreak of violence caused by a demonstration that the Jewish students blamed on their German counterparts.

1897: President Henry Rice presided over the annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities held tonight at Temple Emanu-El

1897(15^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Sixty-six year old stockbroker and historian whose works included Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History passed away today.

http://www.jewishstore.com/books/Products.asp?ProdID=187105503

1897: Two days after she had passed away, 72 year old Leah Marks, the widow of Reuben Marks was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1898: Tammany leader Croker was reported today to have expressed his displeasure with Patrick Divver for waiting until election to tell him that the Democrats were in danger of losing the Jewish vote in New York County because if such were the case he should have known about “two weeks” before the election when he should have sounded the alarm.

1898: Henry Rice was re-elected President at tonight’s meeting of the United Hebrew Charities. Others chosen were Henry S. Allen and Isaiah Joseph, Vice Presidents; C.L Sulzberger, Treasurer and I.S. Isaacs, Secretary.

1898: The Hebrew Infant Asylum which had been housed at 490 Mott Avenue “moved into its new building on Eagle Avenue near 161^st Street.

1899: In Paris, “pandemonium” reigned in the Senate as the galleries echoed with cries of “Down with the Jews’ and a Dreyfusard Deputy traded blows with an anti-Dreyfusard journalist.

1899: A summary of the October report for the United Hebrew Charities of New York published today that the society had received 2,306 applications from 7,687 seeking various forms of relief and assistance including help with finding employment.

1900: In “Central Bohemia,” Ferdinand and Eugenie Pick gave birth to Elsa Pick, who became Elsa Rina when she married Wilhelm Rind who perished with her during the Holocaust.

1900: At Karl-Ferdinand University students call for a boycott of the classes taught by Czech patriot and intellectual Tomas Masaryk for his role in gaining a re-trial for Leopold Hilsner on the trumped up charges of ritual murder following the death of Agnes Hruza.  Masaryk felt that the faculty and the student body were “infected with the uncultivated virus of street anti-Semitism.

1901: In Vienna Victor Stern, “an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent attached to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and, later, to the International Red Cross” and her Roman Catholic mother Felicie gave birth to Elise Amelie Felicie Stern who gained fame as photographer Lisette Model.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/31/obituaries/lisette-model-a-photographer-is-dead-at-76.html

1902:Twenty-six year old Rabbi Abram Brill, the Ogdensburg, NY born son of “Rabbi Joseph and Charlotte (Tumim) Brill, married Edna Goldstein today while serving the congregation in Greenville, Mississippi,

1905: It was reported today that in St. Petersburg, “proclamation have been posted in the Alexander Market calling on the population to kill the Jews.”

1905: In Moscow, while “alarming rumors are in circulation that anti-Jewish outbreaks will occur simultaneously” in Russia’s two largest cities, “foreigners and Jews have received threatening letters and have asked the authorities for protection” – a request that so far has met with no response from the government.

1905: It was reported today that at Rostoff-on-Don the “houses of 7,000 Jews were looted, the synagogue burned” and the families without shelter who “appealed to the authorities for protection…were shot.”

1906: “Dr. Jacob Hamburger, the Landrabbiner of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who would be honored by the Central Conference of American Rabbis as “one of the most devoted workers in the field of literature” celebrated his 80^thbirthday today.

1908: It was reported that Sir Joseph J. Duveen, a partner in Duveen Brothers of London, one of the largest art dealers in the world, has passed away while visiting France.

1909: This morning’s session of the Central Conference of American Rabbis “was devoted to the reading of reports from various committees and biographic paper by Rabbi Kaufman Kohler, President of the Hebrew Union College…in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of” Rabbi David Einhorn.

1909: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago’s Sinai Congregation delivered a memorial address in honor of the centenary of the birth of Rabbi David Einhorn. “Judaism…is not a matter of confession, nor yet of race.”  It is “a gift of birth that cannot be lost or shaken off and that carries with it the mission of spreading the monotheistic conception among all nations until the messianic age of love and righteousness be accomplished.”  At the same time, Dr. Hirsch spoke out against Zionism, Zionists and attempts to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1909: Birthdate of Mt. Vernon, NY songwriter Johnny Marks who, ironically is responsible for such Christmas hits as “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and Holly Jolly Christmas.”

https://www.songhall.org/profile/Johnny_Marks

1909: This afternoon delegates attending the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis visited the Hebrew Technical School for Boys and the Hebrew Technical School for Girls at the United Charities Building in New York City.

1910: Birthdate of New York native Abe Eliowitz who in 1932 earned an honorable mention as Grantland Rice All America while serving as the co-captain of the Michigan State Spartans for whom he also excelled as a record setting baseball player.

1911: Rabbi Moses Franco of Rhodes was made Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.

1911: The British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries appointed Frederick M. Davis “as assistant naturalist in connection International Fisheries Investigations.

1911: A.H. Jessel, K.C. was “elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn.

1911: The Town Council elected Mayer Fredman as Mayor of Devenport.

1911: The Queen of Holland appointed R. Couvee as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

1911: In Camden, NJ, the Congregation of the Sons of Israel held its annual meeting today.

1911: Press department of Zionist Central Bureau in Berlin denies report that Chief Rabbi of Tripoli had telegraphed to Rome welcoming Italians. The Hahambashi in Turkey declared there is no, and has not been any, chief rabbi in Tripoli for a long time.

1912(30^th of Cheshvan, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1912: Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society headquartered in Denver opened their 8^th annual meeting today in New York City.

1912: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Two Reformations, Luther and Einhorn” at Sinai Temple on the south side of Chicago.

1912: In Chicago, Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Responsbility of Power” at the Isaiah Temple. (Editor’s note – these are examples of the Reform movement’s attempt to make Sunday “the Sabbath” replacing the traditional Saturday observance.

1912: The People’s Synagogue Association is scheduled to hold services under the leadership of Dr. Gerson B. Levi at Chicago’s Ziefgeld Theatre.

1913:  Birthdate of Karl Shapiro, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

1913: Birthdate of American poet James Broughton who would be the father of Gina, the daughter of film critic Pauline Kael.  (Kael was Jewish; I could find no record concerning him.

1914: In Brooklyn Al McCoy the New Jersey born Jewish Middleweight World Champion successfully defended his crown.

1914: Birthdate of Freudenburg native Berta Samuel who was interred at Drancy before being transported to Auschwitz where she died in 1942.

1914: The treasurer for the Central Committee for the relief of Jews “reported today that the committee has received $16,441 and that additional subscriptions were coming in at the rate of about $1,000 a day.”

1915: It was reported today that “the railroad system” in Palestine “has been greatly enlarged” since the start of the war with a new line reaching Gaza and “the line from Jaffa to Jerusalem” having been united with the Hedsmas Railway.”

1915: It was reported today that “Ira S. Wile of the Board of Education” has told the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis that the Gary Plan has “dragged religion into the schools creating barriers and denominational differences between children, between children and their teachers and between homes.”

1915(3^rd of Kislev, 5676): Fifty-nine year old County Tax Commissioner Sam Cohn passed away today in Toledo, Ohio.

1915: “The German Branch of the Alliance Israelite Universelle issued a protest against the circular sent abroad by the French Secretary General of the organization which, the members of the German Branch say, contains the ‘gravest charges against our Fatherland.’”

1916: Today “the triennial convention of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations opened for a three day session in the Young Women’s Hebrew Association Building on 110^th Street”

1916: Birthdate of Lynn, MA, native Harold D. Ashkenazy who gained fame as Harold Ashe All-New England guard on the Bowdoin College football team.

1916: In Wheeling, West Virginia, the Eoff Street Temple “observed the 59th anniversary of the permanent organization and the 25th anniversary of the cornerstone laying of the Temple.”

1917: Rabbi Felix A. Levy is scheduled to lead Shabbat morning services at Temple Emanuel in Chicago.

1917: Three days after the armed insurrection that brought the Bolsheviks to power deposing the Kerensky government, opposition forces uses “posters and newspapers” to criticize the their action and refuse to recognize their authority.

1917(25^th of Cheshvan, 5678): Parashat Chayei Sara

1917(25^th of Cheshvan, 5678): During The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres where Monty Moss, a buyer for Moss Bros. which had been founded by his grandfather Moses and was now being run by his father George was killed ended today.

1917(25^th of Cheshvan, 5678): As of today, “over 350 Jewish men fight under British command are known to have been killed today since the start of the Battle for Passchendaele which began on July 31, 1917.

1917: It was reported today that 31 year old Rabbi David Goldberg has been commissioned in Acting Chaplain with the rank of Lt. Junior Grade (the equivalent of 1^st Lt. in the Army) by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels making him the first Jewish person to fill such a post in the history of the United States Navy.

1918: Five days after he had passed away, Harry Geller, the son of Nathan and Rachel Geller, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1918: Following an angry denunciation against those whom he felt had betrayed him including the Jews, Kaiser Wilhelm, having abdicated the day before, “crossed the border by train and went into exile in neutral Holland.

1918: Samuel Untermeyer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Keren Hayeson announced that a dinner would be held on Sunday, November 13 for a delegation of Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinsky that would be arriving in New York on November 11.

1918: Louis Marshall presided over the 12^th annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Astor where a report of the war activities was submitted that “said from 150,000 to 200,000 Jews were serving in the American armed forces or about 130,00 in the army and about 20,000 in the Navy and Marine Corps.”

1919: A special committee formed by the House of Representatives to determine whether or not a convicted felon and war opponent should be seated as a member of Congress concluded that Victor L. Berger should not be allowed to take his seat.  The committee then declared his seat vacant.

1920: The seventh annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of the United States and Canada continued to meet on its second to last day in Baltimore, MD.

1920: The New York Times reported on a luncheon attended by about thirty members of the Jewish clergy, at the Cafe Boulevard honoring Dr. Frederick De Sola Mendes, one of the oldest rabbis in New York, following his retirement from the Rabbinate two weeks ago.

1920: The Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women continued to meet in Denver, CO at the Brown Hotel.

1924: A campaign for 5,000 new members of the Hadassah -- the women s Zionist organization of America -- was launched at a luncheon attended by 2,000 women, in the Hotel Astor today. The guests of honor were Miss Henrietta Szold, President of the Hadassah, and Mrs. Edward Jacobs and Mrs. A.H. Fromenson, two members of the National Board, all of whom have recently returned from Palestine.

1925: Two days after she had passed away, 62 year old Rosa Volk, the daughter of Leopold and Sofie Sara Pick and the wife of Alexander Volk, was buried today in Vienna.

1928: Birthdate of New York native Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman, the actress known as Norma Crane who grew up in El Paso, “studied drama at Texas State College for Women in Denton (now NTSU) and then made the leap to Elia Kazan’s Actors Studio which prepared her for her Broadway debut in “The Crucible”

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/29/archives/norma-crane-dead-played-tevyes-wife.html

1929(7^th of Cheshvan, 5690): Seventy-five year old Joseph Hyman, “the organizer and former president of Tomchay Torah of the Bronx” and a leader of “the General Washington Lodge of the Old Order B’rith Abraham” passed away today.

1929: Birthdate of Marilyn Katz, the native of Brooklyn who became the wife of Alan Bergman and who as Marilyn Bergman joined him in creating decade’s worth of hit songs including the lyrics for the score of “Yentl” starring Barbara Stressiand and “The Way We Were” another Streisand film.

1931: The 4^th Academy Awards ceremony was held today and Sam Mintz, who was “nominated in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay” did not walk away with the Oscar trophy.

1932: “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” a crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni was released today in the United States.

1933: Birthdate of Eliezer David Jaffe “the founder and president of The Israel Free Loan Association and a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem”

1934: “Jacob W. Mack, newly elected chairman of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations” presided over “his first board meeting tonight where resolutions were passed in memory of the board’s late leader, Mr. Ludwig Vogelstein. (As reported by JTA)

1936: Nicolas Louis Alexandre, Baron de Gunzburg arrived in New York City today “and rented an apartment in the Ritz Tower.

1936: In London, the text of the government’s new public order bill aimed at curb the activities of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts and similar groups,” which was necessitated by the “recent violent disorders’ in the predominately Jewish neighborhoods of  East End of London, Manchester and Leeds  “was made availed to members of the House of Commons today.”

1936: During his visit to London, “Colonel Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister asserted today that there was ‘no longer any reason for the existence of small Jewish shopkeepers’ in Poland” and said that he had discussed the need for letting Jews immigrate to Palestine with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.

1937: Benjamin Cohen, a 70-year old American Jew living in Tel Aviv sued Hebrew University for 5,000 pounds in damages for rejecting his discovery reversing the theory of Copernicus today in the District Court of Jerusalem.  The case was heard by Judge W. Clive Curry, President of the District Court. “After forty years of work” Cohen “has become convinced that the sun revolves around the earth and sets in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.”   Cohen contends that “the university committed a crime against science” by not accepting his discovery.  “Judge Curry rejected the claim for damages since the claimant had no contract with the University for accepting his discovery and since the institution caused him no damage in any sense whatsoever.”

1937:The Palestine Post reported that five young pioneers: Itzhak Migdal, Moshe Baumgarten, Joshua Puchovsky, Arie Mordecovitch and Aaron Olechowsky, members of Kvutzat "Bama’aleh" of Gordonia, were murdered by eight armed Arabs in the Judean hills while engaged in clearing grounds for a new settlement, "Kiryat Anavim B" (renamed Ma¹aleh Hahamisha in their honor). Police arrested 12 Arab villagers.

1938: It was learned today that “fifty-one of the sixty-eight persons condemned since the establishment of military courts” on November 18, 1938 “had been hanged.”

1938: The synagogue in Hanau, a town outside of Frankfurt am Main was set afire today.  The Jewish community shrank from less than 500 in 1933 to a mere 82 souls in pre-war 1939.

1938: The Neu-Isenburg orphanage which had been founded by the late Bertha Pappeheim was attacked today and the main building was burned to the ground.

1938: One hundred thousand cheering Germans attend a rally in Nuremberg, Germany, celebrating Kristallnacht.

1938: After 24 hours of nationwide violence, 91 Jews have been killed, 30,000 more have been arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, and 8,000 have been evicted from Berlin. Tens of thousands of shops and homes have broken into and Nazi Storm Troopers have set fire to 191 Synagogues.

1938: Most of the men living in Karlsruhe were arrested today and sent to Dachau.

1938: The largest synagogue in Vienna, The Leopoldstädter Tempel, was destroyed during the Reichskristallnacht. The building designed by Ludwig Förster was built in 1858. All that remains is a memorial plaque that reads: Here stood the Leopoldstädter Tempel, built in 1858 in the moorish style according the plans of architect Leopold Förster, all but the foundation of which was completely destroyed by National Socialist barbarians on the so-called "Night of Broken Glass", on the 10th of November 1938).

1938: American musical icon Kate Smith sang her signature song, Irving Berlin’s God Bless America, for the first time on radio.

1938: Paul “Sachs, one of the founding members of The Museum of Modern Art, who had been serving as a trustee since 1929 completed his service in that role today.

1938: One day after Kristallnacht, the main building of the Neu-Isenburg orphanage for Jewish girls, founded by Bertha Pappenheim was burned down “and the other buildings were burned down.

1939: U.S. Premiere of “First Love” directed by Henry Koster and co-produced by Koster and Joe Pasternak,

1940: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for sixty-two year old CCNY trained investment banker Arthur Mathew Lamport, the Franklin Falls, NY born son of Nathan and Sarah Goldenheim Lamport and unofficial economics advisor to President Roosevelt who was national treasurer of the United Palestine Appeal, co-treasurer of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs and the husband of “the former Sadie Payson” with whom he had three children – Harold, Helen and Natalie

1940: Sir Norman Angell, the British author and Nobel Peace Prize winner told five hundred members attending the United States Palestine Appeal Conference that “the British and Jewish peoples now share the honor of being the two peoples of all the earth upon whom Hitler visits his deadliest enmity.”

1940: “Prizes were awarded today to 700 children chosen from 30,000 in the Jewish Religious Schools of Greater New York for highest merit in attendance, scholarship and deportment at a program sponsored by the Jewish Education Committee of New York at the Washington Irving High School.”

1941: Friedric Jeckeln, arrived in Berlin where he would discuss plans with Himmler for the liquidation of the Riga Ghetto.

1941: The scholarship fund of the Neighborhood Playhouse of the Theatre, “a non-profit organization founded in 1928 by Miss Irene Lewisohn of New York and her sister, Mrs. Herbert Crowley, the former Miss Alice Lewisohn to train students in the theatre arts” “will benefit from the performance of ‘Blithe Spirit’ at the Morsco Theatre” this evening.

1942: “Arthur Babbit, one of Walt Disney’s earliest animators” who later sued Disney after he was terminated enlisted in the Marines today.

1942: During World War II, Germany invaded Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.  Vichy referred to the pro-Nazi “rump” French government headed by Marshall Petain.  As bad as things were for the Jews under Vichy, they would get a whole lot worse now that the Nazis were in total control.

1942: Six thousand Polish Jews who have been hiding in forests since the spring of 1942 surrender after the Germans promise safe passage to a new Jewish ghetto.

1943(12^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Fifty-four year old Russian born Dr. Max Bakst, the 1911 graduate of Long Island College Hospital Medical School and associate otolaryngologist at Beth Moses Hospital who was the husband of Frannie Graf Bakst with whom he had two children – Daniel and Grace – passed away today in Brooklyn.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/13/85132966.pdf

1944(15^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Thirteen members of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld group which included “escaped detainees from forced labor camps and Jews” were “publicly hanged in Cologne.

1944(15^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Thirty-five year old Miklós Radnóti was murdered by militia man while a group of 3,200 Jews was being forced march into central Hungary and “buried in a mass grave near the village of Abda.”

http://forward.com/articles/187883/hungarian-jewish-poets-statue-struck-by-a-car-brea/

1945: In New York City, William Lindsay Gresham, the author of Nightmare Alley and Joy Davidman the author of Smoke on the Mountain gave birth to author and actor Douglas Howard Gresham who with his wife Merrie has had five children.

1946: “It was learned today” that “Britain has asked the Italian government to exercise increased vigilance over Jewish refugee camps, especially in southern Italy, to aid in preventing the flights of Jews toward Palestine.”  (See the entry for 1940 for an example of irony in spades)

1947: “The United States and the Soviet Union reconciled their basic differences over Palestine today to support a new United Nations plan for enforcement of partition under which Britain would bother her mandate and her military occupation of the Holy Land” by May 1, 1948.

1948: The United Nations ruled that the Israelis had violated the truce.

1948: Today there were reports that the Israelis had detained two UN representatives who were trying to observe the fighting in the Negev.

1949: Israel holds a reception for new immigrants.  According to the Jewish Agency 32,000 Yemenite Jews have been flow from Aden to Israel and that another 15,000 will be flown out in the next two weeks.  At the same time, Jews living in the USSR, Romania and Hungary have been prevented by their governments from making Aliyan

1950: Broadway premiere of “The Country Girl” written and directed by Clifford Odets, the Philadelphia born son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported extensively on the death of the first president of the State of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 78, who died at his home in Rehovot on the morning of 21 Heshvan, 5713, November 9, 1952. The funeral was planned to take place on a consecrated spot in Rehovot, in an olive grove of 75 trees planted in honor of his 70th and 75th birthdays. Born in Russia in 1874, Weizmann was trained as a biochemist in Switzerland.  He moved to England in 1905 where he became a leader in the Zionist movement.  Weizmann’s discovery of acetone played a key role in the issuance of the Balfour Declaration.  Weizmann played a leading role during the inter-war years in developing the Jewish home in Eretz Israel.  He was elected Israel’s first President in 1949 and was received by President Truman in that capacity at the White House.

1952: During a parliamentary debate on Egypt, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to pay tribute to Chaim Weizmann who had passed away the day before and to the accomplishments of the Zionist movement.

1956(6^th of Kislev, 5717): Just ten days before his 45^th birthday photojournalist David Seymour was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the aftermath of the Suez War.

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1

http://merrill.umd.edu/events/visible-scars-children-and-war-photography-david-chim-seymour

http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/bio_chim.html

1961: Tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone is “Deaths-Head Revisited” Rod “Serling's statement on the Holocaust, written in reaction to the then-ongoing Eichmann trial, in which a former Nazi, on a nostalgic visit to Dachau, is haunted and ultimately driven insane by the ghosts of inmates he had killed there during the war including “Alfred Becker” portrayed by Austrian born American actor Joseph Schildkraut.

1965: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Dr. Erwin Sills, the husband of Dr. Esther Goldman

1966: “Penelope” a film version of novel by Howard Fast, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Peter Falk, Dick Shawn and Lou Jacobi was released today in the United States.

1967: The HMS Totem formerly a British submarine, was commissioned as the INS Dakar by the Israeli Navy.

1968: A testimonial dinner was held in honor of Samuel Lerner “who had completed forty years of service” to Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, “the last fifteen of them as principal of the congregational schools.”

1968(19^th of Cheshvan, 5729): Eighty-nine year old Ada Rosenthal Salus the wife of University of Pennsylvania trained lawyer and Republican political leader Samuel Salus and the mother of Arthur S. Salus passed away today.

1969: NBC broadcast episode nine of “My World and Welcome to It” created by Melville Shavelson, produced by Sheldon Leonard and co-starring Harold J. Stone.

1969: Debut of Sesame Street.  Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the two creators of the program, was a Roman Catholic.  However, her father was Jewish and her maternal grandfather was Emil Ganz, the three-mayor of Phoenix, AZ, where Cooney grew up.

1970: Richard Rodger’s “Two By Two” a musical based on Clifford Odets's play “The Flowering Peach” that tells the story of Noah's preparations for the Great Flood and its aftermath with a cast that included Danny Kaye and Madeline Kahn opened at the Imperial Theatre today.

1973(15^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Parashat Vayera

1973(15^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Seventy-year old Bessarabian born Yiddish writer Falki Lerner, who pursued his career in Argentina and Chile passed away today.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/falik-lerner.html

1974: Anatoly Sharansky and Anatoly Malkin were detained in Minsk. During the search materials about the persecution of Jews in Minsk, letters of the Jews to various state institutions, and notebooks were confiscated.

1975: PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the United Nations General Assembly.  In a low point in the history of an organization founded to support peace, the members of the General Assembly applauded as the pistol-packing Arafat arose to address them with the blood the Israeli athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics on his hands.  In the 21^st century the world learned the price of those applauses as terrorists struck from New York, to London, to Madrid, to Mumbai, to…the list goes on.

1975: In New York City, Adele and R. Gerald Grodstein gave birth to Columbia University graduate Lauren Grodstein, the novelist and Rutgers University Professor best known for the novel A Friend of the Family who was married to musician Ben Freeman with whom she had two children – Nate and Penny.

1975: The UN General Assembly voted to equate Zionism with Racism. This infamous proclamation was officially retracted 16 years later in December 1991.

1975: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America's Ambassador to the UN proclaimed: “The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” The “infamous act” was Resolution 3379, calling Zionism racism, slandering one form of nationalism, Jewish nationalism.

 1975: Israel's Ambassador Chaim Herzog, carrying the dignity of 4,000 years of Jewish history, declared: “I stand here not as a supplicant. For the issue is neither Israel nor Zionism. The issue is the continued existence of this organization, which has been dragged to its lowest point of discredit by a coalition of despots and racists. You yourselves bear the responsibility for your stand before history. We, the Jewish people, will not forget.” Herzog then ripped the resolution to shreds.

1976: “The Next Man,” a thriller centering on Israel and OPEC produced by Martin Bregman was released in the United States today.

1976: “Prisoners of Zion Yuri Vudka and Lazar Lubarsky received exit visas to Israel.”

1976: “The United Nations Security Council issued a Consensus Statement, which warned Israel “that any act or profanation of the Holy Places, religious buildings and sites, or any encouragement of, or connivance at, any such act, may seriously endanger international peace and security.’ Ironically, the first Israeli interference with worship in Jerusalem was made against the Jews, whom the Israeli authorities prevented praying on the Harram, in deference to Muslim sensibilities.”

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli jets bombed PLO bases in South Lebanon, in response to the Katyusha rocket attack by Palestine terrorists in which Rivka Lupu, 35, was killed and five persons were wounded by shrapnel

1978:  Hannah Ruppin the widow of the late Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin and a longtime resident of Jerusalem expressed her concern that the treaty with Egypt would not work. She wrote a letter stating, “As I am a Pessimist, I don’t believe we will have peace.”  There was a special poignancy in these words since Arthur Ruppin had been a supporter of a bi-national state.  He gave up on the concept during the Arab Riots that started in 1929 and became a supporter of an independent Jewish state. \

1978(10^th of Cheshvan, 5739): Eighty-seven year old American born jurist Juris Arthur Lehman Goodhart who became a leading British professor of law passed away today in London.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf

1981(13^th of Cheshvan, 5242): Seventy-five year old Manfred Erich Swarsensky, the German born rabbi who survived being imprisoned Sachsenhausen concentration camp and escaped to America in 1940 where he served for 36 years as the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Madison Wisconsin.

1983: “Amen Corner” a musical “with a book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell” who also wrote the lyrics opened on Broadway today at the Nederlander Theatre.

1984(15^thof Cheshvan, 5745): Parsahat Vayera

1984(15^thof Cheshvan, 5745): Seventy-eight year old British mathematician Louis Rosenhead who “noted for his work on Fluid mechanics, and who was Head of Department at Liverpool University from 1933 to 1973 passed away today.

1989: A revival of Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Tenth Man” opened at the Lincoln Center Theatre.

1990: Final broadcast of Pee-wee’s Playhouse starring Paul Reubens.

1991: Today marked the final performance of “City of Angels,” “a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart” at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

1991: Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game. What is less remembered about the Nazi Olympics is the saga of two American Jewish sprinters, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. In 1936, Marty Glickman was an 18-year-old track and football star at Syracuse University.  Glickman and Sam Stoller, a star athlete at the University of Michigan made the 1936 U. S. Olympic squad as members of the 400-yard relay team. Glickman and Stoller traveled to Germany and prepared diligently for the relay race. The day before the race, however, with little explanation, the U.S. track team coaches replaced Glickman and Stoller with two other runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, both African-Americans. By Glickman’s own account, the last-minute switch was a straightforward case of anti-Semitism. Avery Brundage, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee, was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler’s regime and denied that the Nazis followed anti-Semitic policies. Brundage and assistant U. S. Olympic track coach Dean Cromwell were members of America First, an isolationist political movement that attracted American Nazi sympathizers. Additionally, Cromwell coached two of the other Olympic sprinters, Foy Draper and Frank Wyckoff, at the University of Southern California and openly favored those two over Glickman and Stoller. Glickman’s suspicions about the fairness of the relay team selection process began at the American Olympic team trials in New York, when he was told he placed fifth of the seven runners competing in the sprint finals. Finish-line photography was not yet in use at that time, but films of the race seem to indicate that Glickman actually finished third behind Owens and Metcalfe. The judges, apparently under pressure from Cromwell, placed Glickman fifth behind Draper and Wyckoff. As a result, Glickman was not one of the three sprinters entered in the 100-yard dash, a premiere Olympic event. Instead, Glickman and Stoller traveled to Berlin as part of the 400-yard relay team, each scheduled to run a 100-yard leg of the race. As an 18 year old, Glickman was grateful to be going to the Olympics; even if he felt that he’d been robbed of his chance at a medal in the 100 yard dash. There was an effort made by some American Jewish organizations to convince the U. S. Olympic committee to boycott the Nazi Olympics, but Brundage prevailed and the team went. Glickman, like most American Jews, thought that the anti-Semitism he might encounter in Berlin would be no worse than what he faced growing up in Brooklyn. Like many Americans, Glickman had no inkling of the horrific fate awaiting German Jewry in the years after 1936. Once in Germany, Glickman, Stoller, Draper and Wyckoff spent two weeks practicing as the 400-yard relay team. They were confident of victory. Then, on the day of the qualifying trials, head track coach Lawson Robertson told Glickman and Stoller that Owens and Metcalfe would be replacing them. To his credit, Owens protested to Robertson that Glickman and Stoller deserved to run. Glickman pointed out to Robertson that any combination of the seven teammates could win the race by 15 yards. Robertson replied that he would enter his four best athletes in the relay and that, in his judgment, Owens and Metcalfe were better than Stoller and Glickman. Robertson said his goal was winning, nothing more. Glickman turned to assistant coach Cromwell and said, "Coach, you know that Sam and I are the only two Jews on the track team. If we don’t run there’s bound to be a lot of criticism back home." Cromwell retorted, "We’ll take our chances." The American team won in record time as Glickman watched from the stands. Glickman (who remained a close friend of Owens until the latter’s death) and Stoller were devastated by the decision. Stoller, age 21, announced his retirement from track competition but later recanted. Later that year, he won an NCAA sprint championship. Glickman returned to college and became a football All-American. After a brief professional career in football and basketball, Glickman went on to become a distinguished sportscaster, best known as the voice of the New York Knicks and football Giants. He joined the radio station WHN and by 1943 was its sports director. A long, distinguished broadcasting career followed. When the New York Knickerbockers were formed in 1946, Glickman was their radio announcer. Later, he was the National Basketball Association's first announcer for TV. He was the voice of the football Giants, for 23 years, of the Knicks for 21, Yonkers Raceway for 12, the New York Jets for 11. Glickman did pre- and postgame shows for the Dodgers and Yankees for 22 years; he broadcast track meets, wrestling matches, roller derbies and rodeos, even a marbles tournament. NBC employed him as a critic and teacher of its sports announcers. In 1988 WCBS hired him for his second tour as the Jets' play-by-play announcer on radio. It was from that position that Glickman quietly said goodbye to his last audience in December 1992, at age 74. Glickman underwent heart bypass surgery Dec. 14. He died of complications from the operation at the age of 83.

1992(14^th of Cheshvan, 5753): Six days before his 76^thbirthday, Albert Weiner, the son of “Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic” and the husband of “Sylvia Cooper” passed away today in Baltimore, MD.

1994(7^th of Kislev, 5755): Ninety-two year old Columbia trained attorney Louis Nizer, the London born son of Bella and Joseph Nizer and the husband of Mildred Nizer passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/11/obituaries/louis-nizer-lawyer-to-the-famous-dies-at-92.html

https://famous-trials.com/rosenberg/2008-nizer

1994: In Los Angeles, “actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch” gave birth to actress Zoey Deuch who “was raised in her father's Jewish religion, and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.”

1997: The Dark Side of Camelot by Jewish investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch is published.

1997: Edward S. Walker, Jr. was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1997: Daniel Charles Kurtzer, a graduate of Yeshiva University, was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Egypt by President Clinton.

1998(21^st of Cheshvan, 5759): Seventy-nine year old Brooklyn College graduate Doris Rabinor Feld, the Bronx born daughter of Aaron and Esther Rabinowitz and wife of Joseph Feld passed away today.

1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1999: “Light it Up featuring Amy Landecker in the role of a “Reporter” was released in the United States today.

1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Actress Mary Kay Bergman passed away.  Bergman continued in the tradition of Mel Blanc as the voice for numerous animations ranging from South Park to Mrs. Butterworth, the symbol of pancake syrup.

2000(12^th of Cheshvan, 5761):Sgt. Shahar Vekret, 20, of Lod was fatally shot by a Palestinian sniper near Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.

2001: Frank “Auerbach was the subject of a television film entitled ‘Frank Auerbach: To the Studio’ directed by Hannah Rothschild and produced by Jake Auerbach (Jake Auerbach Films Ltd)” which was first broadcast on the arts programmer “Omnibus on 10” today.

2002(5^th of Kislev, 5763): Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2002: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including the following two works released in new paperback editions: Collected Stories by Saul Bellow; All but one of these 13 stories appeared in earlier collections, but together they provide new and old fans with an immersion into Bellow's vibrant world, a place where events happen, (typically brainy) characters think about them and then the fun begins. The Same Sea by Amos Oz; Set in modern-day Tibet and Tel Aviv, this novel revolves around the sexual mixing and matching of several sets of characters, including a middle-aged widower and his son, who wanders off to the Himalayas in search of himself. (The characters telephone the author from time to time, criticizing him for the way he portrays them in the novel.)

2003(15th of Cheshvan, 5764): Irv Kupcinet, the famed Chicago Sun-Times columnist passed away at the age of 91. (As reported by Richard Severo)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/us/irv-kupcinet-91-dies-chronicled-chicago-for-60-years.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

2004: Today, the U.S. Federal Reserve, chaired by Alan Greenspan  raised the overnight federal-funds interest rate a quarter point.

2005: Cantor Rebecca Garfein performed a concert at Carnegie Hall where she presented the debut of “Golden Chants in America…Commemorating 350 Years of Jewish Music, 1654-2004.

2005:  Haaretz reported on the work of Aaron Lansky, founder and director of the National Yiddish Book Center in Massachusetts.  Lansky started the center 27 years ago when he singled handedly set out to save the remaining Yiddish books in the world from extinction

2006: In Halbe, Germany suspected neo-Nazis attacked a memorial to a synagogue burned down on Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938. The German government vows to take action to bring the perpetrators to justice. What a difference six decades can make.

2006: After the original Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade was cancelled but the Jerusalem Open House announced that it would hold a parade today after reaching an agreement with the police and with the municipality

2007: “One Family”, an exhibit of the works of Israeli photographer Vardi Kahana opens at New York’s Andrea Meislin Gallery.

2007: The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under Doron Salomon presents its Balkan music program at Kibbutz Givat Brenner.

2007: Zeev Tene releases his new album “Heder” at a concert in Tel Aviv.

2007(29th of Cheshvan, 5768): Novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and pseudo-social rebel, Norman Mailer passed away at the age of 84.  The Brooklyn Jew with the engineering science degree from Harvard used his experiences as a soldier in the Philippines to launch his literary career with The Naked and the Dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/10/books.booksnews

2007: Freshman Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a third generation Arizona Jew, married astronaut Mark Kelly.

2008: In New York City, presentation of two works by Israeli choreographer Netta Yerushalmy that are parts of two larger works – “Dispostif” and an unnamed project scheduled to premiere in 2009.

2008: Time magazine publishes a list of “The 50 Best Inventions of the Year” that lists at the thirty first spot “Einstein's Fridge.” That Albert Einstein guy had some pretty good ideas — relativity, the photoelectric effect, the "up" hairdo — but his contributions to the field of refrigerator theory have been sadly neglected. No longer; scientists at Oxford University have resurrected an eco-friendly refrigerator design that Einstein and a collaborator patented in 1930. Instead of cooling the interior of the refrigerator with freon — a serious contributor to global warming — Einstein's design uses ammonia, butane and water. It also requires very little energy. Though Einstein's original refrigerator wasn't all that efficient, the Oxford researchers have tweaked his version and believe it could eventually compete in the marketplace. Then maybe we'll remember Einstein the way he wanted — as a guy who liked to keep things cool.

2009: Patrick K. O'Donnell discusses and signs They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany at Borders in Baileys Crossroads, Va.

2009: Jonathan Tropper as he discusses his latest novel, This Is Where I Leave You, at the Fourth Annual JCCNVJ Jewish Book Festival.

2009: The hardcover edition of “A Friend of the Family” by Lauren Grodstein was published today.

2009: Charles London, author of Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community, shares his personal journey grappling with his heritage and coming to terms with his connection to Israel at a session of the 40th Annual Book Festival sponsored by the JCCGW.

2010: Robert L. Bernstein delivered The Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Lecture University of Nebraska at Omaha on Human Rights entitled “Human Rights in the Middle East

2010: Paramount Pictures releases “Morning Glory,” a marvelous, underappreciated comedy co-produced by J.J. Abram and co-starring Jeff Goldlbum

2010: Elaine Hall author of Now I See The Moon: A Mother, A Son, A Miracle and Abraham H. Foxman, author of Jews & Money: The Story of a Stereotypeare scheduled to appear at The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, which is :Proud to be the Largest Jewish Book Festival in the U.S.!”

2010: It was reported that The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York has charges against 17 people for participating in a $42.5 million fraud at the Claims Conference. Details of the charges were disclosed at a news conference yesterday afternoon by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Officials at the Claims Conference, which acts as a pass-through to distribute more than $400 million per year from Eastern European governments directly to survivors, discovered late last year that it had paid out at least $7 million in pension payments dating back as far as 1980 to 202 imposters who used fraudulent documents to file claims for payments.

2010: The storied career of an indomitable ultra-Orthodox political fixer appears to have entered its final phase with the conviction of Rabbi Milton Balkany, known to the press as the “Brooklyn Bundler.”Balkany was found guilty today of attempting to extort $4 million from Steven A. Cohen, a hedge fund manager. The rabbi is now home on $1 million bail, allowed only to see his doctor and to attend synagogue once a week as he awaits sentencing.  Balkany, whose only official job is as dean of a Boro Park girls yeshiva, has been known for decades as a major donor to conservative politicians, capable of bringing home significant government cash to causes dear to the Orthodox community. He has also escaped conviction in a number of previous financial scandals.

2011(13^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Durham, N.C. native and University of North Carolina graduate Robert Alan Koch (MFA) who retrieved stolen art during and after WW II as one of the Monuments Men passed away today.

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt-robert-a

2011: Sonia Taitz is scheduled to discuss her novel “In the King’s Arms” at the JCC of Northern Virigina’s Jewish Book Festival.



2011: In Israel “the supreme court delivered its opinion today unanimously upholding Moseh Katsav's conviction and sentence.”



2011: Bob Gruen and Joel Dovev are schedule to participate in the “Rock & Roll Retro Nite” at the 33^rdAnnual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.



2011: “Jewish Political Behavior in Europe, Israel and the United States,” a two-day symposium  that will explore aspects of Jews' political experience in Eastern Europe, the United States, Israel, and in the international arena is scheduled to open at the University of Michigan.



2011: Professor Brian Horowitz, of Tulane University, is scheduled to take part in “Jews in Russian and East European Politics in Historical Perspective,” a panel discussion that is part of a symposium sponsored by the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.



2011: Dennis B. Ross, a seasoned diplomat who has been one of President Obama’s most influential advisers on Iran, the Middle East peace process and the political upheaval in the Arab world, will leave the White House in December, a senior administration official said today. Mr. Ross, who announced his departure at a lunch with Jewish leaders, told White House officials that he promised his wife he would leave the government after two years.



2011: Jewish comedian Billy Crystal has agreed to take over the role of Oscar host. Mr. Crystal lit up the blogosphere late Thursday afternoon by posting a message to Twitter: “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show.” A spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed that Mr. Crystal wasn’t joking.



2011: A delegation of Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Druze religious leaders in Israel met today with Pope Benedict XVI in a high-profile display of their efforts to promote interfaith peace initiatives in the region. Israeli chief rabbi Yonah Metzger praised the "historic" nature of the audience with the German-born pope and noted that it fell on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the Nazi's 1938 anti-Jewish pogrom which left 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted. 



2011(13^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-one year Robert Alan Koch, the Durham, NC born son of “Frederick Henry and Loretta Jean (Hannigan) Koch who was a “museum curator, scholar of Northern Renaissance of Art” and one of the Monuments Men passed away today.

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt-robert-a



2011(13^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-three year old Irving H. Franklin, co-founder of Franklin Sports and innovator of the baseball batting glove, passed away.(As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/sports/baseball/irving-franklin-maker-of-batting-gloves-dies-at-93.html





2012: Temple Judah’s Tessa Cohen is scheduled to appear in tonight’s final performance Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoir” at Linn-Mar High School



2012: Temple Judah’s Bentlee Birchansky and Lincoln Ginsberg are scheduled to appear in tonight’s final performance of “Guys & Dolls.”



2012: In Greensboro, NC, the URJ Southern Region Shabbaton hosted by Temple Emanuel is scheduled to come to an end.



2012: “Off White Lies” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.



2012: The 4^thInternational Holiday Bazar is scheduled to open today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.



2012: Maggie Anton, author of the book-club favorite Rashi’s Daughter, Secret Scholar, is scheduled to introduce her new historical novel, Rav Hisda’s Daughter: A Novel of Love, the Talmud and Sorcery at Beth Shalom of Whittier, in Whittier, CA.



2012: Southern Israel came under a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza tonight, in a cross-border escalation following an earlier terrorist attack that injured four soldiers. Israel carried out counter-strikes, killing five Palestinians and wounding 30.

2012: Intermittent rainfall accompanied by strong winds and unseasonably cold weather were experienced in the North and Center this morning after yesteday’s showers caused flooding and damage in Haifa and Eilat. Rain was expected to weaken this afternoon; however additional showers were likely to fall at the beginning of next week, according to the Israel Meteorological Service.

2012: David “Amram was the recipient of the second annual Pete and Toshi Seeger Power of Song Award at Symphony Space in New York City, in a gala evening presented by Peter Seeger's Clearwater Foundation.”

2013: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, With A Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah adapted by Amy Ehrlich, The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales by Shoshanah Boyd Gelfland and the recently released paperback edition of The New Religious Intoleranceby Martha C. Nussbaum



2013: Sholem is scheduled to present “Yiddish on the Silver Screen – Tevya “ @Westdie Neighborhood School



2013: Members of Temple Judah as well as friends and family from the community are scheduled to take a field trip to the Holocuast Museum in Skokie, Illinois.



2013: “The Jewish Cardinal,” a dramatization of the life of Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.



2013: The Fourth Annual Israeli-Russian Film Festival is scheduled to take place at the Tribeca Film Center.



2013: Lauren Strauss presented “Kosher Southern Belles and Yankee Bubbies Confront America’s Greatest Crisis: Jewish Women and the Civil War” at the Jewish Museum of Baltimore.



2013: The General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America is scheduled to open in Jerusalem.



2013: Dozens of protetesters gathered in front of the U.S. Consulate in Jersualem to express their displeasure with Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks that gave the green light to terrorists to start a 3^rd Infitdada because of “Israeli intransigence.”  (As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud)



2013: Today “the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center commemorated the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass,” when Nazis swept through Jewish towns and neighborhoods throughout Germany burning homes and synagogues, destroying shops, and attacking Jews. (As reported by David Lev)

2013: “Imprinting on Clay” is scheduled to come to an end at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.

http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/282/

2014: As part of its World War I and the Jews initiate, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Jews and the Great War: A Reflection at the Centennial.”



2014: In Melbourne, “Yalom’s Cure” and “The Israeli Code” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: “Hora 79” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.



2014: Israeli television is scheduled to air a segment that “focuses on the search for shadowy commander Muhammad Deif.” (As reported by Avi Issacharoff)

2014(17^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty year old Almog Shiloni was stabbed today by a terrorist as he walked to a train station in Tel Aviv.

2014(17^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-three year old Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, the surfing physician passed away today

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/sports/dorian-paskowitz-doctor-and-surfer-who-lived-an-endless-summer-dies-at-93.html?_r=1

2014(17^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-six year old Dalia Lemkus was murdered by a terrorist as she waited at a bus stop.

2014: “An Israeli legal group filed suit against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the International Criminal Court today, arguing that the Fatah head was responsible for rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli cities during the summer conflict which were claimed by members of his faction.”

2014: Sydney A. Katz completed his service as Mayor of Gaithersburg, MD.

2014: A federal jury found 67 year old Rasmieh Yousef Odeah charged with immigration fraud guilty for failing to disclose her conviction and imprisonment for taking part in the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket that took the lives of two people.                                      

2015: “In partnership with The Foundation for Jewish Studies and the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host special bus trip to study the Civil War in Anacostia at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum and Frederick Douglass House.



2015: “The Last Marranos” which “takes a fascinating look at the village of Belmonte, Portugal” is scheduled to be shown in St. Augustine, Florida, on the Flagler College Campus.



2015: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a tour of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute “a cutting-edge facility for family history research.”



2015: CUNY New York City College of Technology is scheduled to host “Kristallnacht, 77 Years After: Never Again Anti-Semitism, Indifference and Racism!  in Brooklyn.”



2015: In Washington, DC, the annual General Assembly of the Federations of North America came to an end.

2016: “Some 500 Jewish mothers from around the world bonded in Jerusalem” today “as they participated in “The Great Big Challah Bake” and baked hundreds of the twisted egg bread loaves “for Israeli soldiers.”



2016: “The annual concert of works by Israeli composer Emanuel Vahl took placed at the Studio of ‘Hassadna’ Convservatory in Jerusalem.

2016; The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the Genocide Studies Project at PSU are scheduled to host From humanitarian relief to Holocaust rescue: Tracy Strong Jr. and the fate of Jewish refugees in southern France.



2016 The WRJ SW District Biennial is scheduled to open today in Memphis, TN.

2016: “The Babylon Line” by Richard Greenberg, “premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater” today.

2016: The Habima National Theater is scheduled to stage “A Simple Story,” based on a story by S. Y. Agnon, in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba for the first time after sparking criticism of the theater troupe amid an ongoing dispute over a government attempt to have cultural acts toe a more nationalistic line.



2016: “Denial” is scheduled to be shown in Auckland as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.



2016: In Toronto, Michael Gray is scheduled lead a discussion about “Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting.

2016: Today, President Obama met in the Oval Office with Donald Trump whose election led to a drive by “Arizona-based Modern Orthodox Rabbi Shmuly Yankolowitz,” “the dead of the Valley Beit Midrash and co-founder of the Orthodox social justice movement Uri L’Tzedek” to replace the recitation of “Hanoten Teshua” with a new “Prayer for our Nation.”

2016: “Moon in the 12^th House and “Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story” are scheduled to be shown at the 20^th UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2016: The multi-talented Leonard Cohen, a member of congregation Shaar Hashomayim was laid to rest “in a simple pine casket” in Montreal “at a cemetery on Mount Royal.”

2016: “The Kind Words’ and “Voice of Peace” are scheduled to be shown at Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema.

2017: JNF’s National Conference which it describes as “the premiere annual event in Jewish philanthropy” is scheduled to open at The Diplomat Resort and Spa in Hollywood, FL.

2018: Omer Meir Wellber, a sabra from Be’er Sheva is scheduled to conduct a “performance of Bizet’s Carmen” as part of his Metropolitan Opera debut.”

2018: Oxford Jsoc 5th Week MT Shabbat is scheduled to continue today with Morning and Afternoon services, lunch and Seudah Shlishit.

2018: “Bye Bye Germany” and “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel” are scheduled to be shown at the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.

2018: In Springville, IA, the Springville Public Library 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: Avi Avital is scheduled to bring his “mandolin magic” to the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

2018(2^ndof Kislev, 5779): Parashat Toldot;

2019: “The Tobacconist” and “God of the Piano” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2019: “Sustainable Nation” and “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz” are scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.

2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “S.F. writer and actor Roger Grunwald performing his one-man play about the Holocaust and related socio-historical issues” as part of a commemoration of Kristallnacht.

2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California is scheduled to host “an induction gala” honoring Dave Feldman, Pat Gallagher, Joc Pederson, Henry Schulman and Jerry Seltzer.

2019: “The City of Joel” and “Tel Aviv on Fire” are scheduled to be shown today at the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.

 2019: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a screening of “the film ‘Henri Dauman: Looking Up’” which “celebrates the work and inspiring story of the artist behind some of the world’s most iconic images” including photos of “Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley.”

2019: The Jewish War Veterans of the USA and the National Museum of American Jewish Military History are scheduled to host a “Veterans Weekend Walking Tour of Jewish Sites at Arlington National Cemetery.”

2019: The “Third Annual Conference on Jews and Conservatism” is scheduled to take place today in New York City.

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603 BCE (7th of Kislev): King Jehoiakim burned the scroll which had been dictated by the prophet Jeremiah to Barcuh ben Heriah.

518 BCE: A delegation of Babylonian Jews arrived in Jerusalem to inquire from the prophet Zechariah whether the fast of Av should be discontinued (Zechariah 7:1)

1050: Birthdate of Henry IV, who as Holy Roman Emperor took steps to protect his Jewish subjects.  For example, Henry granted the request of Moses ben Guthiel, leader of the Jewish community of Speyer that Jews who had been forcibly converted by marauding Crusaders be allowed to renounce the vow and return to Judaism without penalty. This and other such protective measures set him at odds with various leaders of the Church.

1155: Birthdate of King Alfonso VIII of Castile who employed a number of Jews in position of importance including Joseph ben Solomon Ibn-Shoshan and Abraham Ibn-Alfachar who served as his ambassador to Morocco which was governed by the intolerant Almohades.

1215: The meeting of the Fourth Lateran Council during the the papacy of Pope Innocent III (1161-1215) marked the zenith of Papal power. Old anti-Jewish decrees were expanded and Jews were compelled to wear the Yellow Patch, the "Badge of Shame", to distinguish them from Christians. It was enforced in France, England, Germany and later in Hungary. The Pope also originated the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, in which the wafer (Host) and wine in the Eucharist are believed to become the blood and flesh of Jesus. This led to the infamous Host Desecration libels of the next few centuries.

1216: Today, following the death of King John, William Marshall who had “regarded King John’s policy towards the Jews…as harmful to the welfare of the state” “was named by the King’s council to serve as protector of the nine year old King Henry II and regent of the Kingdom.

1500: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon sign The Treaty of Granada in which they agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them. The treaty did not hold and Ferdinand would not gain control of Naples until 1510 at which time he would expel the Jews, following the same pattern he adopted in 1492.    

1651: The Cossacks are forced to accept a peace treaty dictated by John Caimir, the Polish King.  One of the terms of the treaty, was a guarantee that Jews could settle anywhere in the Ukraine and could hold property on lease.  Chmeilnicki, the leader of the Cossack uprising would soon break the treaty and the violence would resume again.

1711: Birthdate of Benjamin Mendez Pacheo a New York merchant, the uncle of Isaac M. Seixas and husband of Judith Seixas who “donated money for the erection of the first synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel and for the steeple on Trinity Church

1711(29th of Cheshvan: Rabbi Moses Hefez (Gentili) author of Melekhet Mahashevet, passed away.

1736: The Will of Isaac Franks, the brother of Isaac and Aaron Franks, all three of whom were”anmed as contributors two the fund for part of the new synagogue in New York in 1730” was probated in London today.

1761: In Tower Hill, England, Sarah Cohen and Henry Marks gave birth to Michael Marks, the husband of Massachusetts native Jochabed Isaacks with whom he had ten children.

1763: Dutch born Frances Hart and Savanah, GA born Mordecai Sheftall gave birth to Perla Shetall.

1766: In Philadelphia, PA, Moses Mordecai from Bonn, Germany and Elizabeth "Esther" [Whitlock] Mordecai from England gave birth to their third son Joseph Mordecai who moved to Virginia before finally settling in Charleston, SC.

1792: Birthdate of Mary Anne Evans, who gained fame as Mary Anne Disraeli, 1^stVicountess Beaconsfield, the wife of Benjamin Disraeli.

1803(26^th of Cheshvan, 5564) Eighty-one year old Raphael Cohen who served as Chief Rabbi of Alton-Hamburg-Wandsbek passed away today.

1807: In Charleston, SC, Rebecca Phillips married Josiah Moses this evening.

1807: Nathan ben Yedhuda and Sara bat Chaim were married today at the Great Synagogue.

1813: During the War of 1812, Mordecai Myers of Newport, Rhode Island, was wounded “while leading the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry at the Battle of Chrysler’s Farm” which was fought on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence River

1813: Mordecai Davis married Esther Bendahn at the Great Synagogue today.

1819(23rd of Cheshvan): Rabbi Joseph Raphael Hazzan, a native of Smyrna who came to Palestine in 1811 where served as a Rabbi at Hebron and then Jerusalem who was the father of four rabbis and the grandfather of two more – Hyyim Palaggi and Israel Moses Hazan, passed away today.

1820: Today, “Philadelphia educator and social activist Rebecca Gratz wrote to her sister-in-law Maria Gist Gratz in Kentucky” saying “One of the curses of slavery is the entire dependence the poor mistress is reduced to when she is rich enough to have all her wants supplied by numerous servants.”

1821: Birthdate of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky”s anti-Semitic views were revealed in The Diary of a Writer.

1822: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Lea Nabarro, the wife of David Zacharias Baruch and the mother of Gratia, Rebecca, Clara, Isaak and Abraham Baruch each of whom was born in Amsterdam.

1827: In London, Eleano Levy and Amsterdam native Simon Marcus gave birth to James Marcus.

1828: In Birmingham, England, Phoebe and Nathan Jacob Claisher gave birth to Julius Calisher, the husband of Dublin native Julia Calisher.

1830 (26th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Raphael Yekutiel Zalman author of Torat Yekutiel passed away

1835: One day after he had passed away, Henry Ezekiel, the son of Abraham and Sarah Ezekiel and the husband of the former Betsy Levy and father of Ellen Ezekiel was buried today at the Exert Jewish Cemetery.

1839: At, Lexington, founding of Virginia Military Institute (VMI), “the oldest state supported military college” in the United States. Moses Jacob Exekiel, who joined his fellow cadets at the Battle of New Market in 1864, was the first Jew to attend the academy.

1840: In New York, Esther Nathan, the daughter of Isaac and Sarah Nathan became Esther Lazarus when she married Moses Lazarus with whom she had several children the most famous of whom as the poet Emma Lazarus.

1842: Salomon Grätz and Henrietta Grätz gave birth to attorney Louis Alexander Gratz, the Mayor of North Knoxville, TN and a Major in the Union Army serving with the Army of the Cumberland and fighting at the Battle of Chickamauga with the 6^th Kentucky Cavalry.

1848: In Moravia, Elijah Karpeles and his wife gave birth to historian and editor Gustav Karpeles.

1849: Birthdate of Kherson, Ukraine native Maximilian Bern the novelist whose first work was Auf Schwankem Grunde which seemed to open the road to success in Berlin but was actually the highpoint of a life that ended with suicide in the 1920’s that was driven, in part, by the hyperinflation of the time.

1851: Reverend Henry Giles delivered at lecture at the Mercantile Library Association entitled “The Hebrew Man, or the Man of Faith." Giles "gave a clear analysis of Hebrew laws, showing that the thought they seemed extremely sever, yet provisions was always made to mitigate or avert them. He contended that "The Hebrew man stands out among ancient men as the special recipient of religion -- among modern men as its special witness, and often as its special martyr.  As the man of Faith, the, he may be considered, first, as the man of theocracy; second as the man of tradition....His mere existence is evidence of vitality, and strength and honor."



1851: In Dresden, 39 year old painter Eduard Bendemann, the son of a banker, and his wife gave birth to German painter Rudolf Bendemann who died in 1884 “at Pegli, near Genoa, Italy”

1852: Rabbi Jonas Wiesner and Estra (Therese) Wiesner gave birth to Leopold Wiesener.

1852: Tonight a number of citizens of the Jewish persuasion, met at Constitution Hall, to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the "HEBRA HASED V. AMET," a society originally established, and still sustained, by Benevolent Israelites, for the purpose of aiding the sick of their faith who need aid, and to bury the dead according to the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish persuasion. George Henriques chaired the event.  He was assisted by Isaac Philips, the President of the Association.

1853: Birthdate of Posen native Marcus Feder Sr. who came to Titusville, PA when he was in seventeen and made money in the oil business before going broke in the tobacco business and who invention of the Sweet Caporals brand of cigarette earned him a fortune and the sobriquet of the “Father of the American Cigarette.”

1853: One day after he had passed away, Philip Magnus was buried today at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.

1853: The Jewish Chroniclereported that in Jersey, Alfred Alexander Jones of Quality Court, Chancery Lane was elected to represent the synagogue in London.

1855: Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard passed away.

http://pietyonkierkegaard.com/category/kierkegaard-and-the-jews/

1857: In the UK, the will of John Abrahams, a member of Bevis who worked as manufacturer of jewelry, upholsters, cabinets and furniture was probated today.

1857: Rabbi Isaac Lesser officiated at the marriage of  Morris Rosenbach and Isabella Polock, the parents of collector and rare books expert Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach.

1860: First Jewish wedding takes place in Buenos Aires Argentina.

1862: During the Civil War, Jacob Miller, a Corporal serving with Company H of the 61^st Regiment was discharged from the Army today because of the injuries he had sustained when wounded while fighting a Malvern Hill during McClellan’s ill-fated Peninsular Campaign.

1863: Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams passed away today.  She left her considerable estate to Benjamin Disraeli “in testimony of her affection for him and in approval and admiration of his efforts vindicate the race of Israel…”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DEEDC133EE433A25756C2A9619C94609FD7CF

1864: Birthdate of Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian born pacifist and winner of the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/alfred-fried

1864: Birthdate of Ukraine native Yehousha Hankin who in 1882 moved to Rishon Le-Zion with his parents which led to becoming one of the major land purchasers for the Zionists and who was helped in his cause by his wife, the famous mid-wife “Olgad Belkind-Hankin

http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_yehoshua_hankin.htm

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/belkind-hankin-olga

1864: During the Civil War Corporal Jacob Frank completed his six months of service with Company C of the 197^thRegiment.

1865: In Baltimore, MD, Samuel and Julia Thanhouser gave birth to Edwin Thanhouser who went on to start the Thanhouser Film Coporation in New Rochelle, NY while raising his son Lloyd with his wife the former Gertrude Homan

1867: Birthdate of Kingston, Jamaica native Zillah Cohen D’azevedo, the wife of London born Joseph Ansell

1872(10^th of Cheshvan, 5633): Thirty-one year old Annetta Luzzati Foa, the wife of Professor Giuseppe Foa, chief rabbi and Knight of the Crown of Italy, passed away today.

1874: The Times of London reported approvingly on the judicial performance of Sir George Jessel who disdained the “proverbial slowness” of others serving in the judiciary.  Jessel cleared cases quicker and with more accuracy than his colleagues.

1874: “A Rabbi’s Scientific Expedition” published today traced the life of Mardochée abi Serour the son of a poor Moroccan Jewish family whose travels took him to Palestine where his studies earned him the title of Rabbi.  He traveled to Timbuktu where he established the first Jewish counting-house which he ran successfully for ten years until his caravans were attacked leaving him penniless. Mardochée eventually made his way to Paris where he convinced the French government to provide financial support for an expedition to Timbuktu that will combine commerce with scientific inquiry.

1878:  It was reported today that Dr. E. M. Snow’s Annual Vital Statistics Report shows that only two Jews were married in Providence, Rhode Island.  This ranks them at the bottom of the list along with the members of the Mormons.

1882: It was reported today that following riots in the suburbs of Vienna, the police tore down posters from the lampposts reading “Down with the Jews.”

1883: It was reported today that the district attorney in Troy, NY, will prosecute an unnamed Jewish merchant for bigamy if he goes ahead with his planned marriage.  The Polish Jewish merchant said he plans on marrying a Jewess from New York City because he has received a bill of divorce from a religious tribunal.  The DA does not recognize their authority in this matter.

1883: “By Direction of the Grand Lodge No. 1, of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel, Julius Harburger, the District Grand Master, will send Sir Moses Montefiore a letter congratulating on him on the celebration of his 99^th birthday.”

1883: Birthdate of Judge William F. Bleakly, who during his unsuccessful bid to defeat Governor Lehman in 1936 smeared David Dubinsky as a “Red” the sobriquet for being a Communist at a time when the anti-Semites were making the unwarranted connection between Communism and Judaism.

1884: It was reported today that Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC is planning a reception to introduce its recently completed wards.

1884: “Mr. Irving” published today highlights the month-long appearance of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry who bring an added dimension to their respective portrayals of Shylock and his daughter Portia in “The Merchant of Venice.”  Irving, a noted English actor portrays Shylock in a manner that is “delightful” for its “completeness, beauty” and “scholarship.” 

1884: Counselor John H. Bird is scheduled to play the role of Shylock, the Jew in the Mimosa Dramatic Society’s performance of “The Merchant of Venice.”

1885: The funeral of Albert Cardozo, attorney, jurist, leader of the Sephardic Jewish community and father of future Supreme Court Justice, was scheduled to take place at 10:30 this morning in NYC.

1885: Birthdate of General George Patton, Jr. Regardless of how you may about the career of Old Blood and Guts” and allegations that he was an anti-Semite, many Jews will always remember Patton as the leader of the troops that liberated Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, the first concentration camp liberated by American troops. (There is a note of irony that the Warrior General was born on the date that would become synonymous with “Peace In Europe.”

1885: It was reported today that Referee hearing the suit for divorce filed by Mrs. Clara Bronner Waterman against her husband B. Frank Waterman.  The Watermans were married in a synagogue in Syracuse but she moved back to New York City after he suffered financials reversals and stopped supporting her and their children.

1886: It was reported today that all of the students escaped unharmed when a night school for Jewish children caught fire in New York City.  It was determined that the fire was started by a kerosene stove in the basement of the building occupied by Joseph Bluestone, his wife and child all of whom escaped from the flames.

1887: Albert Parsons, the husband of Lucy Parsons who addressed the Jewish dominated the Jewish dominated Chicago Tailor’s Union on the danger of overly powerful capitalists, was hung today for his alleged role in the Haymarket Riot.

1888: Birthdate of Stefan Lux the  Jewish Czech journalist, who committed suicide in the general assembly room of the League of Nations during its session to alert the world on the perils of German anti-Semitism.

1888: Two days after he had passed away, four month old George Ernest Leverson, the son of Ernest Leverson and the former Ada Esther Beddington, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1888: It was reported today that Acting Grand Master Julius Harburger addressed the 400 people who attended the 20^th anniversary celebration of the Free Sons of Israel.

1888: It was reported today that the benefit council held for the Hebrew Sheltering and Guardian Society was well-attended and raised “a neat sum.”

1889: It was reported that new wards have been added to the Home For Aged and Infirm Hebrews to meet the needs for the “exceedingly old and infirm patients.” This latest addition to the building and improvement to the grounds cost $24,000 and was brought to fruiting under the leadership of Simon Borg and the Building Committee.

1889 The Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host its “first informal entertainment of the season” tonight at the Vienna Hall in New York City.

1889: Washington joins the Union as the 41^st state. Isadore Friedlander, a trader in Washington during its territorial days, gained fame and notoriety when he married an Indian princess named Sken-What-Ux who was also known as Elizabeth.  According to one source, “in her later days she became affectionately known as ‘Grandmother Elizabeth’ Friedlander.” Edward S. Salomon, a decorated hero of the Civil War and one of the famed Salomon cousins all of whom became generals in the Union Army, served as governor of Washington territory for two years.  Bailey Gatzert served as mayor of Seattle during the 1870’s. Gatzert had married Babette Schawbacher. Her three brothers had settled in Walla Walla, Washington where they prospered as merchants becoming leaders of the communities in Walla Walla and Seattle.  Babette is described as the first woman (not just the first Jewish woman) to establish a home on the northwestern frontier.  The ups and downs of the Schawbacher clan, which played an active role in Washington’s secular and Jewish communities until the 1970’s, is a saga worthy of a made for television movie or HBO special.

1891(10^th of Cheshvan, 5652): “Hungarian oculist” Ignaz Hirschler, “who was made a life member of the Hungarian House of Magnates by the Emperor Franz Joseph and who “was the intellectual leader of the Jewish community in Hungary” passed away today.

1890: Today Rabbi Samuel Schulman married Emma Wienberg with whom he “had four children: Mitchell Simon, Aubry Aaron, Walter Harris and Dorothy.

1891: Birthdate of Lilya Yuryevna Brik, the Moscow born Jewess who was married to Osip Brik, the Jewish-Russian author.

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

1893: Birthdate of Clarence D. Chamberlain who flew Charles Albert Levine to Europe in what would make the Jewish businessman, the first “passenger” to fly the Atlantic.

1893: By special request the band from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum is scheduled to play this evening at Mr. McCrow’s Flower Show, a major New York City social event.

1894: Birthdate of Aaron Avshalomov who fled pogroms and revolutions in Russia in the beginning of the 20th century, went to China where he entered the world of Shanghai's academia and trained a number of young Chinese musicians in classical music, who in turn became leading musicians in contemporary China. He moved to Portland Oregon and was the father of composer Jacob Avshalomov, conductor of the Portland Junior Symphony (now called the Portland Youth Philharmonic Orchestra) from 1953-1994.

1894: The London Daily News reported that the total number of Jews leaving Russia in 1894 will total 250,000 by the end of the year.

1894: A “fire was discovered at 11:10 o’clock” tonight on the first floor of a tenement at 80 Henry Street which is occupied by 20 families most of whom are Jewish.

1894: Professor Felix Adler delivered the first in a series of lecture on “the religion of humanity” at the Society of Ethical Culture entitled “It’s Dawn In Palestine.”

1894: A fund raiser was held tonight at the Lenox Lyceum for the benefit of Beth Israel Hospital, “the poorest of the three Jewish hospitals in New York.”

1895: Birthdate of Gertrude Wald Kaphan, the sister of Nobel Prize winning Professor Dr. George Wald and the wife of Dr. Ludwig Kaphan who “was a founder and former president of the Women’s International ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training” and “a consultant on problems facing Jewish youth in Africa, Europe and Israel.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/09/77093676.pdf

1896: While still working in his family tobacco business twenty-four year old Staten Island born George Louis Beer the Columbia trained historian married Edith Hellman, “the niece of E.R.A. Seligman” “one of his early mentors at Columbia who was also his brother-in-law.

1897: The Education Committee of Jews’ College met this evening in the office of the Chief Rabbi

1897: Today, in New York City, Miss Julia Richman, the Principal of Grammar School 77 will celebrate “the 25^thanniversary of her first appointment as a teacher in the public schools.  In addition to her work as a public school educator, Miss Richman is a champion of improving the quality of Jewish education as can be seen in her works as the Director of the Hebrew Free School Association, Vice President of the Jewish Religious School Union and “Chairman of the National Committee on Sabbath School Work of the Council of Jewish Women.

1897: According to reports published today during the past year the United Hebrew Charities of New York raised $135, 348.93 and spent $133,680.97 providing aid and assistance.  The society spent $38, 210.24 in relief work while expending additional sums for 16,420 free burials and working to obtain employment for almost 6,600 people.

1897(16th of Cheshvan, 5658): Rabbi Sabato Morais passed away. Rabbi Sabato Morais was the spiritual leader of Philadelphia's Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Mikveh Israel from 1851 until his death in 1897. To many in his community, the Italian-born Morais epitomized the idealized traits of a sage: piety, humility, and wisdom.

http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/sabato_morais.pdf

1898: Today, Mr. Stern of the firm of Stern and Jackson which had purchased the property on Clinton Street that had been home Ohab Zedek for fifty years following a mortgage foreclosure,  proposed to sell the property back to the congregation for $66,000 which the congregants said would be impossible that the “sanctuary would have to go.

1899: In Paris, the police raided the offices of the La Croix the daily newspaper published by the Assumptionist priests which was “the principal vehicle for the transmission of the Catholic Church’s anti-Semitism during the late 19^th century.”

1899: A list of the editors of compiling “The Jewish Encyclopedia” which is to be published by Funk & Wagnalls showed Dr. Isidiore Singer of New York City “who is the author of several books on the Jewish question” as being the managing editor.

1899: In New York, Ida Japhe and advertising executive Samuel Knopf gave birth to Edwin H. Knopf who pursued a career in film after working for his brother’s publishing house – Alfred Knopf.

1899: “Florodora,” a musical with lyrics and music by Paul Rubens opened in London at the Lyric Theatre.

1899: “In Re Haym Salomon – The Loan Never Returned “published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70B11F83C5911738DDDA80994D9415B8985F0D3

1900: In Lithuania, Hannah Rivkin and Abraham Saks gave birth to Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs who gained fame as English labor leader Emil Solomon Sachs.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/emil-solomon-sachs

1900: Birthdate of Nat Holman’s younger brother Aron Holman who played forward on the 1920 NYU championship basketball team.

1900: In Minneapolis, MN, Jacob and Clara Halpern gave birth to University of Minnesota trained attorney Saul Ernest Halpern who was buried at Adath Yeshurun Cemetery in Edina, MN after he passed away in 1961.

1901: The Charles Frohman production “Quality Street,” a comedy in four acts written by the same author who created Peter Pan opened today at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York.

1901: Birthdate of Helen Faith Kahn, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland, who would gain famed as Helen Reichert, the graduate of Cornell University who founded The Round Table of Fashion Executives.

1901: Birthdate of Bensison Gotlob, the native of Pologne, France who was on board Convoy 25 that left Drancy for Auschwitz in August of 1942.

1902: In St. Louis, German immigrant Carl M. Loeb “who made a fortune after gaining control of the American Metal Company” and Adeline Moses gave birth to Harvard graduate John Langeloth Loeb, Sr. the grandson of Alabama banker Alfred Huger Moses and husband of Frances Lehman who was president of Loeb, Rhoades and Company and “a financial supporter of Israel where he funded the building of the Jewish Community Center in East Jerusalem.”

1903: Birthdate of Sam Spiegel.  Born in Galicia, Spiegel enjoyed a successful career in Europe until the rise of the Nazis.  He left Germany and came to the United States.  He is remembered as the producer of several cinematic hits including “On the Waterfront” and “Bridge Over The River Kwai.”

1903: Herzl writes the "Letter to the Jewish People".

1905: On New York’s Lower East Side a meeting at Capitol Hall tonight raised $2,000 for the Relief Fund Committee which had been formed to aid those suffering from the massacre of Jews in Russia.

1906: Eighty-one prominent Jewish Americans met at the Hotel Savoy in New York and established the American Jewish Committee.

https://www.ajc.org/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-american-jewish-committee/

1906: Birthdate of “Theodore Gottlieb, who as Brother Theodore performed apocalyptic one-man shows about life, death and broccoli in Greenwich Village nightclubs to dazzling and disturbing effect.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1910: Birthdate of Israel Scheib who gained fame as Israel Elad, leader of Lehi. He described his activities from 1938 in The First Tithe which was finally published in English by the Jabotinsky Institute in 2008. He passed away at his home in Jerusalem in January of 1996.

1910: A Jew, Zeki Effendi Hayon, was appointed Inspector of Finance for the Ottoman Empire.

1911: Jewish colony of Petach-Tikvah in Palestine passes a resolution to contribute 1,000 Francs to the Ottoman military towards defense of the [Turkish] country.

1911: It was reported that in Camden, NJ the Sons of Israel has chosen Samuel Albert as the President of the Board of Education governing the congregation’s Hebrew school.

1912(1^st of Kislev, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1912(1^st of Kislev, 5673): Seventy year old Lithuanian native Hinde Margolis, the daughter of  David Aryeh Leib Zirilstein and Kaila Bernstein and the wife of Isaac Margolis passed away today in the Bronx.

1912: The Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society headquartered in Denver continued their 8^th annual meeting for a second day in New York City.

1912: Birthdate of Cleveland, OH native and Western Reserve University alumnus Morris Abrams the president of Curtis Industries, “a founder of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Technion” and an advocate for a strengthened United Nations.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/17/89546923.pdf

1913(11^th of Cheshvan, 5674): “Cotton planter” Philip Feld, the “president of the Board of Trade” passed a way today in Vicksburg, MS.

1914: In New York, “Ida (née Miller), a British Jewish immigrant, and  Barney Fast,a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant whose name was shortened from Fastovsky upon his arrival in America” gave birth to author Howard Fast who is known to many as the author of Spartacus, the historical novel that provided the inspiration for a movie and television series.

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfast.htm

https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2004-Di-Ko/Fast-Howard.html



1914: Birthdate of Jacob C. Hurewitz, “Columbia University professor whose voluminous research, belief in the importance of local histories and evenhanded scholarship contributed depth and complexity to the emerging field of Middle Eastern studies starting in 1950.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1914: “Sell Stamps to Aid Jews” published today described a plan of the Central Committee for the relief of Jews” to issue “self-taxation stamps to storekeepers and others who will then sell them to their customers and use them on their business letters.”

1914: It was reported today that according to Dr. Alexander von Nuber de Pereked, the Austro-Hungarian Consul General…there were more than 400,000 Jewish refugees from Galicia, Poland and other parts of the war zone in Vienna and Budapest nearly of” who “were in need of immediate relief.”

1915: In the Bronx, ”Hillel Jacobson and the former Pauline Shainmark, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe” gave birth to Anna Jacobson who would gain fame as “Anna J. Schwartz, a research economist who wrote monumental works on American financial history in collaboration with the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman..” (As reported by Robert D. Hershey, Jr)

1915: In a case of Jew versus Jew “German Jews Indignant” published today described the anger of the German members of the Alliance Israelite Universille over a circular sent by its French Secretary General which has led to the decision to “dissolve relations with the International Society until full satisfaction is given.”

1915: While in a hospital in England, Corporal Zalman Cogan wrote today about the impact Second Lieutenant Alex Grodsky’s death had on the members of the Zion Mule Corps including its commander Colonel Patterson. ‘He had been an officer and at the same time best friend of all the soldiers. Owing to his knowledge of English he was the intermediary between us and the Colonel … I never heard from him one complaint … an honest and just man …we have lost one of the best men of the Corps …promoted in the field to Lieutenant.’ (Jewish Virtual Library)

1916: “Ralph Horween (born Ralph Horwitz) kicked a 35-yard field goal to lead Harvard over previously unbeaten Princeton

1916: Herman Bernstein, the editor of the American Hebrew said “that Poland will again become an independent nation after the present European war, whether or not the Central Powers make good their recent promise to grant her independence” and “that the position of the many of Jews in Poland might be very precarious under the new regime unless steps were taken immediately to insure them equal rights with other citizens of the new country.”

1916: It was announced today that “a campaign to raise $10,000,000 for the relief of Jews in the war zones of Europe” under the auspices of the Joint Distribution Committee for the Relief of Jewish War Suffers will officially begin on December 21 with a meeting in Carnegie Hall.

1916: The triennial convention of the national council of Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations continued to meet for a second day in New York City.

1917: Louis Marshall presided over “the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Astor in New York City.”

1917: Birthdate of Eliezer Henkin the son of a rabbi and Talmudic scholar who gained fame as “Louis Henkin, a legal scholar often credited with creating the field of human rights law and the author of classic works on constitutional law and the legal aspects of foreign policy…”

1918: The Western Allies and the Germans signed an Armistice that signified the official end of World War I with an Allied victory. Out of the estimated 1,506,000 Jewish soldiers in all the armies approximately 170,000 were killed and over 100,000 cited for valor. In Germany alone over 100,000 Jews fought for the Fatherland with 12,000 killed. According to Winston Churchill some 60,000 Jews had fought in the Armed Forces of the British Empire.  Of these 2,324 gave their lives for the cause and 6,350 were wounded.  Five Jewish soldiers won the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest decoration and another 1,533 won other awards for bravery.  Considering the small size of the Jewish population, Churchill described the Jewish participation as disproportionately high for such a small number of people.

1918: Among those who breathed a sigh of relief that the war was over was Saul Adler, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who was born in Pittsburgh, PA and who proudly kept the marksman’s medal he earned as a Marine long after the war was over.

1918(7th of Kislev, 5679): At 10:45 am, 15 minutes before the Armistice on the Western Front was to go into effect, Battery D, 2nd Battalion, 129th Field Artillery of the American Expeditionary fired its last barrage.  The unit was commanded by Captain Harry S. Truman, the man who consider himself as a modern day Cyrus for the role he played 30 years later during the creation of the state of Israel and included in its ranks his friend Eddie Jacobson who would boldly plead for President Truman’s support of the Jewish state 

1918: Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow “submitted a report to the Jewish Welfare Board and the people of Temple Emanu-El today” which “set forth in details his activities” starting with July 18, 1918 which was when he arrived in France.

1918:  Birthdate of Stubby Kaye. The chubby, cherubic Kaye played in a wide variety of hits including “Guys & Dolls,” “Lil' Abner” and “Cat Ballou.”

1918: Józef Piłsudski came to Warsaw and assumesd supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence. “As one of his first acts as chief of state, he assured a delegation of Jewish leaders of his full-heated commitment to their people’s security.” But the Poles did not share Pilsudski’s enlightened views.  As a wave of xenophobia in general, and anti-Semitism in particular, swept the re-born nation of Poland, Pilsudski gave into to pressure to diminish the role of the Jewish people.  Pilsudski would become disgusted with Polish political life and return to serving as chief of the Army.  In the mid-twenties he was brought back to political power in a bid to bring peace to the nation.  At the time of his return, conditions improved for the Jews.  However, with the advent of the Great Depression, anti-Semitism returned in full force.

1918:  In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, William L. Shirer, who was in an officer training unit watched the Armistice celebrations with a sense of disappointment because he would not be able to respond to Wilson’s call to fight in the “War to end all Wars.”  Shirer would see the face of war as covered the rise of Adolph Hitler and the opening years of WW II for CBS News and write two classics on the subject - Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.



1918: As WW I comes to an end, “at least thirty nine Utah Jews” had joined the armed forces.

1919: “The first Armistice Day in Jerusalem” was celebrated today on a cloudless, sunny day by an outdoor party hosted by Lady Watson and Mrs. Popham which brought “together for the first time in the history of Jerusalem representatives of all races and religions” in a public event.

1919: Following a banquet last night hosted by King George V in honor of the President of French Republic, “the first official Armistice Day was held this morning on the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

1920: Birthdate of Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, the Warsaw native who would become a fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  Spiegel was one of the few who survived the fighting and settled in Montreal after the war.

1920: The Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women continued to meet in Denver at the Brown Hotel.

1920: The seventh annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of the United States and Canada came to a close in Baltimore, MD.

1921: Vladimir Jabotinsky, organizer of the Jewish Legion, which served under General Allenby in Palestine, arrives in New York on the SS Olympic with a delegation of European Zionists headed by Nahum Sokolow.

1921: “Violets” a silent melodrama co-starring Eugen Berg was released in Germany today.

1922 (20th of Cheshvan): Composer Abraham Baer Birnbaum passed away.

1922: The Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee met for the sixth time this year.

1922: After having won the British Middleweight title in June Ted “Kid” Lewis won the European Middleweight title.

1923: Today at the Klaw Theatre, “the Lenox Quartet gave the first performance of Ernest Bloch's Piano Quintet No. 1.”

1923: Today, “the Maccabean Hall (also known as the Jewish War Memorial) in Darlinghurst Rod, Darlinghurst in Sydney was officially opened by Sir John Monash.”

1924: The Martin Beck Theatre which will be renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003 opened in New York City.

1925: “The Gentleman Without a Residence” a silent comedy film starring Paul Otto who will commit suicide in 1943 when his Jewish origins were discovered was released in Germany today.

1926: Birthdate of Yitzhak Arad “a Lithuanian-born Israeli historian and retired IDF brigadier general. A veteran of the Nazi-era Jewish resistance movement in ghetto; partisan, he has researched, lectured, and published extensively on the Holocaust.”

1926: “Chaste Susanne” a silent comedy film starring Otto Wallburg was released in Germany today.

1927: GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet and his wife gave birth to Sir Leonard Gordon Wolfson who would become 2^nd Baronet in 1991.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leonard-wolfson-businessman-and-philanthropist-1990944.html

1927: “Turkish Delight” a silent comedy co-starring Rudolph Schildkraut was released in the United States today.

1928: In Omaha, Nebraska, Russian-Jewish immigrants “Sonia (née Feldman) and Hymie Zorinsky” gave birth to U. of Nebraska graduate Edward Zorinsky, the Mayor of Omaha and when elected Senator , “the first Jew to be elected to a statewide office.

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/obituaries/edward-zorinsky-58-dies-us-senator-from-nebraska.html

1928: In Vienna, at the Vienna University, “groups of Christian students who favored the return of the monarchy attacked Jewish students, including the girls, throwing them downstairs, beating them with sticks while shouting “Down with the Jews! Down with the Jewish Republic.”

1928: In Jerusalem, “memorial services were held “today” at the British military cemetery” and “wreaths were laid on the graves of soldiers who fell on the Palestine front” as part of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Armistice ending the World War.

1928: In the Bronx, “Adolfo Socolovsky, an Argentine who had trained as a classical violinist, and the former Sarah Mindich” gave birth to Saint Socolow, who under the name Sandy Socolow became a leading executive of CBS news during its “golden years.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/business/media/sandy-socolow-cbs-newsman-during-heady-days-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sandy-socolow-news-producer-for-walter-cronkite-at-cbs-dies-at-86/2015/02/02/5824b2a8-aaf1-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html

1930: In Brooklyn, Polish Jewish immigrants “Ethel (Teichtheil) and Meyer Spiewak” gave birth to Mildred Spiewak who gained fame as MIT professor Mildred Dresselhaus, “the recipient of numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award and the Vannevar Bush Award.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mildred-dresselhaus-physicist-dubbed-queen-of-carbon-dies-at-86/2017/02/22/3355d3a2-f8a7-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.176059ee9105

1930: Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1933(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5694): Parashat Chyei Sara

1933(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5694): Ohio State University, led by team captain Sid Gillman, defeated the University of Pennsylvania.

1933: In Cleveland, Ohio, Helen Rosenfeld and Joseph Lewis, who co-founded the Progressive Mutual Insurance Company, gave birth to Peter Benjamin Lewis the insurance mogul who was also a noted philanthropist.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/11/peter_b_lewis_dies.html

1934: Following today’s meeting of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations “200 leaders of Reform Jewry” attended a memorial service at Temple Emanu-El for the late Ludwig Vogelstein, the industrialist and philanthropist who chairman of the board of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations at the time of his death.

1934: The landscape of the modern town of Tiberias “was shaped by today’s great flood.”

1934: Father Coughlin, the anti-Semitic pro-fascist Detroit priest announces the formation of the National Union for Social Justice.

1935(15^th of Cheshvan, 5696): Sixty-three year old Albert Osterman, the Dutch born son of “Bonna and Albertje Osterman passed away today in Cicero, Illinois after which he was buried at Forest Park in Cook County.

1936: In Brooklyn, “dance band musician Mal Keller and his wife Reva” gave birth to James Walter Keller who gained fame as “composer, songwriter and record producer” Jack Keller whose musical partners included Howard Greenfield.

1936: The officers and board members of the Jewish Education Association tonight attended a testimonial dinner at the Savoy-Plaza hosted by Harry H. Liebovitz in honor of Mark Eisner, chairman of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York.

1936: In Los Angeles, Lupita Tovar a Roman Catholic Mexican born actress and Paul Kohner  a Czech Jewish movie producer from Bohemia gave birth to Gold Globe award winning actress Susanna “Susan”Kohner.

1936: In Belgrade, Yugoslavian, “Prince Paul, the Regent, gave an audience to Dr. Nachum Goldman, the president of the Jewish World Congress” during which he “expressed a strong interest in Zionism and grief over the present maltreatment of Jews in Central Europe” said that “my dynasty has always regarded Jews as loyal and trustworthy citizens.”

1936: Armistice Day exercises held this evening at Temple Rodeph Sholom under the auspices of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, the Metropolitan Conference of B’nai B’rith and the Men’s Association of Temple Rodeph Sholom were opened with an invocation by Rabbi Wendell A. Phillips and included a speech by former Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer who reviewed the commendable  record of Jews during the World War and assailed the anti-Semites who smear Jews with the claim that all Jews are Communists.

1936: The Maccabee champion soccer team which had been playing exhibition matches in the United States since September 14^th, departed for home on the French liner Normandie.

1936: The Peel Commission was sent to Palestine to investigate the Arab riots. Though Peel judged Arab claims to be baseless, he encouraged partition into three separate Arab and Jewish states. This, he claimed, would silence Arab objections to a Jewish state.

1936:  The members of the Peel Commission arrived in Jerusalem and since it was Armistice Day, they attended the memorial services at the British Military Cemetery on Mt. Scopus. 

1937:  In Washington, DC, Rosemary Wolf who “converted to Judaism” and “actor and comedian Jack Wolf gave birth to sportscaster Warner Wolf

1937: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Rudolph A LaRusso the Dartmouth basketball player who went to play in the NBA for the Lakers and the Warriors.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jul-10-me-larusso10-story.html

1937: Today, during the Civil War, Soviet agent Walter Krivitsky (Samuel Goldberg) had a meeting with Elsa Poretsky during which he warned that she and her children were “in grave danger”

1938: Jews are killed and injured during an anti-Semitic pogrom at Bratislava, Slovakia.

1938: After having escaped from Vienna in March, seventeen year old Leo Bretholz  finally found a safe haven in Antwerp where he spent the next 18 months learning to become an electrician.

1938(17th of Cheshvan, 5699): Fifty-year old Jesse Sampter an influential Zionist educator, a poet, and a Zionist pioneer passed away at Kibbutz Givat Brenner. Born into a highly assimilated home in New York City, Sampter was influenced by Henrietta Szold, Josephine Lazarus, Mary Antin, Mordecai Kaplan and others to become an ardent advocate of Judaism and Zionism. Assuming the role of Hadassah's leading educator, she produced manuals and textbooks and organized lectures and classes. She led Hadassah's School of Zionism, training speakers and leaders for both Hadassah and other Zionist organizations. She also wrote poems and short stories throughout her life that emphasized her primary concerns: pacifism, Zionism, and social justice. Having contracted polio at age thirteen she remained in poor health throughout her life. This did not prevent her from settling in Palestine in 1919 where she helped organize the country's first Jewish Scout camp. Sampter developed a strong commitment to assisting Yemenite Jews, founding classes and clubs especially for Yemenite girls and women who often received no education. At the time of her death, she had established a vegetarian convalescent home at Kibbutz Givat Brenner. Henrietta Szold presided at her funeral.

1938: Erich Kreutzberger and Anna Blumenfeld Neufeld, the parents of Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld also known as television personality Don Francisco, escaped to Chile.

1938: “The Italian council of ministers announces a series of new anti-Semitic laws: all Jews will get a special notation in their civil records, they are excluded from the military, they are not allowed to employ "Aryan" servants, marriages between Jews and "Aryans" are forbidden, any such marriages that currently exist are annulled, and Jews are forbidden from owning large tracts of land.”

1938: Following Kristallnacht, Heydrich reported to Goering that 815 shops, 29 department stores, and 171 dwellings of Jews had been burned or otherwise destroyed, and that 267 synagogues had been set ablaze or completely demolished (in fact, this was only a fraction of the synagogues destroyed). The selfsame report refers to 36 Jews killed and the same number severely injured, but it was later officially stated that the number killed was 91. In addition, hundreds perished in the concentration camps.

1939: At Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Penn State led by their Team Captain Spike Alter defeated the University of Pennsylvania.

1939: Six hundred Jews are murdered by German troops at Ostrow Mazowiecki, Poland.

1939: Two Jews are among six men and three boys taken from Zielonka, Poland, to be shot in nearby woods.

1939(29^th of Cheshvan, 5700): Thirty-eight year old wilderness advocate Robert Marshall, the son of lawyer and Jewish communal leader Louis Marshall who had served as chief of forestry in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, from 1933 to 1937, and head of recreation management in the Forest Service, from 1937 to 1939” passed away unexpectedly today.

http://www.jta.org/1939/11/13/archive/robert-marshall-u-s-forestry-official-dead-at-37-was-son-of-louis-marshall

1939: Under threat of military action from the Nazis, António de Oliveira Salazar issued orders today that consuls were not to issue Portuguese visas to "foreigners of indefinite or contested nationality; the stateless; or Jews expelled from their countries of origin". This order was followed only six months later by one stating that "under no circumstances" were visas to be issued without prior case-by-case approval from Lisbon.

1940: Fifty-five non-Jewish Polish intellectuals are murdered at Dachau, Germany.

1940: German authorities in Poland officially declare the existence of the Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto.

1940:  Birthdate of Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator from California since 1993.  Born Barbara Levy, Boxer worked her way through the system like any other politician serving a stint in the Marin County Government and the House of Representative before being elected to the Senate.

1941: Sixty-one year old Charles Huntziger, the French general who “was one of the signatories of the anti-Semitic Statute on Jews” which “excluded Jews from the army, press, commercial and industrial activities, and the civil service and were quickly followed by other anti-Semitic laws that ingratiated him with the victorious Nazis died today in a plane crash.

1942(2^ndof Kislev, 5703): Seventy-four year old who had been sent to Drancy was murdered today at Auschwitz.

1942: Norwegian Protestant bishops in Oslo publicly protest deportations of Norwegian Jews. They state in a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling: "God does not differentiate between people."

1942: Seven hundred forty-five French Jews were shipped to Auschwitz.

1942: As German troops “invaded the Southern Zone and occupied all of France” Leon “Blum could see the troops moving south” which caused him to be concerned about his own well-being as well as that of his future wife Janot.

1942: After the Nazis took over “unoccupied France” today, the Vichy government transferred Jewish resistance fighter Georges Mandel to the Gestapo.

1942: Jews living in the Free Zone of France were ordered to start wearing the Yellow Star.

1942: Until today, following the German occupation of all of France, employees of HICEM which was “an acronym HIAS, ICA and Emigdirect” – the three sponsoring organizations – were at work in all of the French internment camps, including Gurs, which were little more than way-stations on the road to the East and the death camps.

1942: In Newark, Henry and Ruth Wolkstein gave birth to Diane Wolkstein, “a children’s author and folklorist who once served as New York City’s official storyteller.”  (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1942: Varlık Vergisi ("wealth tax" or "capital tax") was levied on the non-Muslims citizens of Turkey including the Jews which was intended to pay for the national defense if the country should enter the war – something which did not happen.

1942: HICEM which was “an acronym HIAS, ICA and Emigdirect” – the three sponsoring organizations --

1943 “The Battle of Russia” the fifth film in the “Why We Fight” series written by Julius and Phillip Epstein was released in the United States today.

1943: Birthdate of Nashville, TN native Benjamin Morris “Ben” Achtberg, the holder of a BA from Harvard and MA from the University of Pennsylvania whose documentary “Code Gray: Ethical Delimas in Nursing” was nominated for an Academy Award in 1985 and who has had one son with his wife Emily Jo Paradies.

1943: Following in the centuries old custom of an individual community creating its own special Purim when it is delivered from great calamity, the Jews of Casablanca celebrated Hitler Purim (1 Kislev) when the city was saved from falling into German hands.  “A Hitler Scroll was written, paraphrasing the traditional Megillah, including the words ‘cursed be Hitler, cursed be Mussolini,’ and naming many of the other Nazi and Fascist leaders.”

1943: On the 25^th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice in the forest of Compiegne, German officials take revenge by assembling all 47,000 Jews not yet deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to Birkenau in a large square for an ill-organized “census.” At 4:00 AM the torture began by rousing them all and making them stand in the cold in the city square. As night fell, the Jews stood in a drizzle made more miserable by falling temperatures. The Germans held them until 10 pm at which time the survivors were allowed to seek shelter inside. Drizzle came, the dark of night, and the temperatures lowered.

1943: “What’s Up?” the musical created by Frederick Lowe and Alan Jay Lerner opened on Broadway at the National Theatre.

1944: The leadership of Histadrut condemned the killing of Lord Moyne and condemned the Stern Gang and Irgun as fascist. 

1945: Senator Ralph O. Brewster (Maine) says British-Russian disputes in Middle East may presage another war and urges creation of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine.

1945(6th of Kislev, 5706): Broadway and cinematic composer, Jerome David Kern passed away.  Kern was born in 1885 to a first generation Jewish family from Germany.  Kern wanted to follow a career in music.  His father wanted him to enter the family business.   In one of his first deals, Kern was sent to buy two pianos.  However, he mistakenly signed an order for two hundred pianos.  When the pianos were delivered, Kern’s father gave in.  Young Jerome pursued his musical education and then followed with a successful career as composer for Broadway and the movies.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0127.html

1945(6th of Kislev, 5706): Yehoushua Hankin passed away. Born in the Ukraine in 1864, Hankin made Aliyah in 1882 when he moved with his family to Rish Litzion. He was active in making purchasing land on behalf of the World Zionist Organization.  Among his first purchases was the land that would be occupied by Rehovoth.

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

1946: Nikolai V. Novikov, Soviet ambassador to Washington, suggested that Palestine be given independence from Britain and the area be placed under UN trusteeship.

1947: Vaad Leumi (Jewish National Council) votes to raise money for defense fund against Arab and Jewish terrorists.

1947: Release date for “Gentlemen's Agreement,” the cinema version of Laura Hobson’s novel that dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism with a script by Moss Hart and Elia Kazan and co-starring John Garfield. Daryl Zanuck, who was mistakenly thought to be Jewish produced the movie despite objections from Jewish movie moguls who were afraid of how audiences would react to a movie on this topic.



1948: “Long Is the Road,” “the first German-made film to directly portray the Holocaust” which it examines from the perspective of a Polish Jewish family and a young man who is able to escape while being transported to a Concentration Camp” was released today in the United States.



1948:”Recently ousted Haganah Chief of Staff Yisrael Galili briefed members of the Mapam Political Committee” about reports concerning “the killing of civilians during Operations Yoav and Hiram.”

1949: In “The Jews in Iraq” published today, Moshe Keren, the Counsel of the Embassy Israel in Washington D.C. called for “a neutral investigation by disinterred observers of the position of the Jews in Iraq.”



1951: “An American in Paris” an Oscar winning musical “inspired by George Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral composition,” produced by Arthur Freed, with a script by Alan Jay Lerner and co-starring Oscar Levant was released today in the United States.



1953(4th of Kislev, 5714):Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, a prominent Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism passed away in New York City.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Louis_Ginzberg.html

1953(4th of Kislev, 5714): Krakow native Gershom Bader, the son of Izaak Moyzesz Bader and Helene Bader passed away in New York City.
 1954: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is scheduled to deliver an address on “Is American Facing World Leadership this evening in San Diego, CA at event sponsored by the Jewish Community Center which is a fund raiser for the organization.



1954: Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, the oldest Jewish congregation In New York City celebrated its 300^thanniversary today.

1954(15^th of Cheshvan, 5715): Sixty-eight year old German actor and director Reinhold Schünzel who spent WW II in the United States passed away today in Munich.

1955: At Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, Alan Smason gets a sister with the arrival in the world of Arlene Smason Weider.

1955(26th of Cheshvan, 5716): Jerry Ross an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" passed away.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00717F6385C177B93C0A8178AD95F418585F9

1956:”Samuel Adelman, the Rabbi of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue of Newport News,” who “spent four weeks in Russia this summer as a member of the Rabbinical Council of America Mission to the Soviet Union” is scheduled to “be the guest speaker at a special Jewish Community Center Jewish War Veterans” event today where he will deliver an address entitled “An Eye Witness Account of Conditions Behind the Iron Curtain.”

1956: Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams ended a five game losing streak by defeating the San Francisco 49ers for their second win of the NFL season

1957: The New York Times reported from Jerusalem that “digging in Israel supports the Bible’s accuracy as a historical document.” The contention is based on the recent discovery of a “massive gate” that was “unearthed in Hazor” which “appears to have been built by Solomon.” Further evidence of the Bible's accuracy as a historical document has been uncovered by Israeli archaeologists in their diggings at the site of ancient Hazor

1957(17^th of Cheshvan, 5718): Sixty-eight year old Russian native Samuel Kappel, “the last survivor of the three founders of Howard Stores Corporation” and the husband of Minnie Kappel with whom he had four daughters who was “a member of the American Committee for the Weitzman Institute of Industry and Science” and “a fellow Brandeis University.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/12/102282687.pdf

1963: Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for the Beatles

1964: Murray Schisgal's "Luv," directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach, Gene Wilder and Larry Blyden premieres in New York City.

1965: Birthdate of Chicago native Jason Nidorf “Max” Mutchnik the television producer and writer who has received both an Emmy and a People’s Choice Award.

1966:”Father of Biophilosophy” published today described the plans that Jonas Salk has for the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9506E3DC1330E43BBC4952DFB767838D679EDE

1969(1st of Kislev, 5730): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1971: Neil Simon’s “Prisoner of Second Avenue” premiered in New York City.

1973: The Egyptians and Israelis began negations for the disengagement of forces along the Suez Canal.  When the fighting had stopped, Israeli forces were on the West Bank of the Suez Canal.  They had reached kilometer 101 on the Suez-Cairo Road. The Israelis offered to cross the Canal and to a position 10 kilometers to the east.  Egypt wanted a much deeper withdrawal with Israeli forces taking up positions on a line east of the passes in the Sinai that were key to controlling the entire Peninsula.

1974(26^th of Cheshvan, 5736): Seventy-seven year old Jane Ace (born Jane Epstein) the wife of Goodman Ace with whom she created the American radio hit show “Easy Aces” and who made America life with her “Jane-isms” passed away today.

http://www.radiohof.org/easyaces.htm

1975: Today, after ignoring the political solution recommended by Professor Zelman Cowen Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked the Prime Minister.

1975: Seventy-five year olds “Soviet documentary filmmaker, Elizaveta Svilova…the wife and collaborator of acclaimed Soviet film pioneer Dziga Vertov” and Director of the “Nuremberg Trials” passed away today.

https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367302/

https://www.fandango.com/people/elizaveta-svilova-655955/biography

1979(21^st of Cheshvan, 5740): Ukrainian born American composer Dimitri Tiomkin passed away. Tiomkin wrote the scores for countless film classics including Lost Horizon, It’s A Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and High Noon.  He also wrote themes for popular television westerns including Rawhide and Wild Wild West.

http://www.dimitritiomkin.com/

1980: The first phase of the Conference on monitoring the implementation of CSCE or Helsinki agreements opened today in Madrid with Ambassador Max Kampelman heading the U.S. delegation.

1980: “Shogun Assassin,” with a script co-authored by David Weisman who also served as producer was released today in the United States.

1981(14^th of Cheshvan, 5742): Eighty-three year old Soviet economist Evsei Grigorievich Liberman whose “wife, Regina Horowitz, pianist and pedagogue, was a sister of the famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz” passed away today.

1982: A gas explosion at an Israeli army headquarters results in 60 deaths.

1984(16^th of Cheshvan, 5745): Fifty six year old Ritz Charmetz Davidson the Yale Law School graduate and wife of David Sternheimer Davidson who became “the first woman to serve on the Maryland Court of Appeals.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Davidson-Rita-Charmatz

1985: Funeral services were held today for eighty year old New York City native Benjamin Hanft, a “prominent public relations executive for a number of national Jewish organizations” and the husband of Esther Haft, with whom he had three children including actress Helen Haft,

1987: “Siesta” a film version of the novel of the same name starring Ellen Barkin was released in the United States today.

1988: U.S. premiere of “Iron Eagle II” a film based on Operation Opera, the Israeli bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor, co-starring Stuart Margolin and Maury Chaykin.

1991: “Black and White” for which John Landis would help develop the music video was released today.

1992: "The Liberators," a film that portrayed the neglected history of the 761st Battalion, putting considerable stress on the involvement of some of its members at the liberations of two of the most notorious camps in Germany, Dachau and Buchenwald was viewed today. (The film became controversial because of the lack of evidence concerning the liberation of these camps by this unit)

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/01/nyregion/doubts-mar-pbs-film-of-black-army-unit.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1998: Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.  Six years later, the world is waiting for the Peace.

1998: ABC broadcast the final episode of “The Secret Lives of Men” a sit-com created by Susan Harris.

1999(2^nd of Kislev, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1999(2nd of Kislev, 5760): Jacobo Timmerman passed away.  Born in 1923, Timmerman published a newspaper in Argentina that publicized human rights violations by the Argentinean government, in particular calling attention to the disappearances of people during that government's "Dirty War". As a result, he was arrested, and during interrogations he was subjected to electric shock treatments, beatings, and solitary confinement. He chronicled his experiences in his 1981 book, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. After his release, he immigrated to Israel.

1999: After almost 21 years of service, David Herbert Samuel ceased to be a member of the British House of Lords.

2000(13^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Sgt. 1st Class Avner Shalom, 28, of Eilat, was killed in a shooting attack at the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip.

2001(25^th of Cheshvan, 5762): Aharon Ussishkin, 50, head of security at Moshav Kfar Hess, east of Netanya, was shot and killed at the entrance to the moshav on Sunday evening, after being summoned to investigate a suspicious person.

2003: The helipad at the Ted Arison Medical Center in Tel Aviv is used by the Israeli Air Force for the first time.

2003: Today, “in an interview with The Washington Post, Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death".

2003: Museum of Jewish Museum in New York presents an exhibition styled “Ours to Fight For: American Jews During the Second World War” The inaugural exhibition for the Robert M. Morgenthau wing, “Ours To Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War” was named the grand-prize winner of the Excellence in Exhibition Competition at the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Citing the exhibition's use of the first-person narrative, the judges felt this approach engaged museum visitors and allowed them to make connections with the experiences of soldiers 60 years ago and troops serving today. The exhibition companion volume, Ours To Fight For: American Jewish Voices from the Second World War, chronicles the experience of American Jewish men and women who came together with other Americans to heed their nation's call to arms.

2004: The reunion episode of Israeli sit-com “Krovim Krovim” named "Hamatzav Tzav" was filmed today in the studios of the Israeli Educational Television

2004: Theatre Or presents Voices from the Holy Land-A Festival of Staged Readings of Cutting Edge Plays at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Local co-sponsors North Carolina Hillel, the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Judea Reform Congregation, and Beth Meyer Synagogue. The purpose of the festival is to present the community with unique artistic works from a foreign culture that pose questions of universal urgency, help us reflect about our values in new ways and promote cross-cultural dialogue. All plays are by Israeli artists. The dramatic presentations include:

Hard Love by Motti Lerner:Two young ultra-orthodox newlyweds are forced to divorce when the husband turns his back on religion. Twenty years later, their children fall in love, and the two meet to discuss their children's budding relationship. Can they also rekindle their own? (Director - Joseph Megel)

 Women's Minyan by Naomi Ragen: Chana flees her orthodox home in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, leaving behind her 12 children, and carrying with her a terrible secret. Two years later, armed with a secular order, she returns to see her children who have now been hidden. She convenes a secular minyan, a trial of 10 women, to judge her fitness to see them. (Director - Joseph Megel)

 The Fist by Misha Shulman: Shauli, a highly-decorated officer, refuses to serve his military duty in the occupied territories, spurring a three generational family debate about what it means to serve and protect. Is conscientious objection justifiable? (Director - Jerome Davis)

The Demonstration by Elisheva Greenbaum: Ambulance sirens interrupt two Israeli sisters, who are arguing the merits of attending a peace rally. When the radio announces that the terrorists have struck a bus, the sisters wait anxiously to learn the fate of one of their daughters.  

Masked Faces by Ilan Hatzor: The play describes the dilemma of three Arab brothers during the Intifada as they wrestle with conflicts between duty, family, survival and principles. The play is a brave attempt by an Israeli playwright to depict the point of view of the "other" side. (Director - John Feltch)

2005: The topsy-turvy world of Israeli politics becomes even more confused. Shimon Peres has been defeated by Amir Peretz in the race to head the Labor Party.  This could bring down the government led by Likud’s Ariel Sharon forcing new national elections.  Since Sharon well might lose the chair of the Likud Party, the elections might include a coaltion party led by Peres and Sharon, two national leaders who cannot control their own political parties. 

2005: “The Constant Gardner” a movie version of the novel by the same name starring Rachel Weisz was released today in the United Kingdom

2005: Right-wing British historian David Irving, who claimed that Adolf Hitler knew nothing about the systematic slaughter of six million Jews, has been arrested in Austria on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust.  Under an Austrian law Holocaust denial is a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

2005: “Zathura” a sci-fi fantasy adventure film directed by Jon Favreau was released in the United States today.

2005: “The Bee Season,” the movie version of Myla Goldberg’s novel of the same name was released in the United States today.

2005: The Princeton University Board of Trustees approved the endowment for S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Daniel C. Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt was the first one appointed to fill this endowed chair

2006: Members of Congregation Beth-El, gathered, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to celebrate their heritage and the many people who have enriched and defended it

2006: Initial screening of Yoav Segal’s “Battle of Cable Street” in selected London cinema houses.

2006: As America honors its veterans on Armistice Day, the Jewish community of Cedar Rapids takes special note of the following who served in uniform:  Harold Becker, Arnold Bucksbaum, Maurice Estes, Bill Gasway, Herman Ginsberg, Bert Katz, Sol Maikon, Oscar Siegel and Ed Spector

2006: The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution today that sought to condemn an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and demand Israeli troops pull out the territory. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the Arab-backed draft resolution was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."

2006(19th of Cheshvan, 5767): Esther Lederberg, pioneering microbial geneticist and wife of Nobel Prize winner Joshua Lederberg passed away at the age of 83. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/dec/13/obituaries.guardianobituaries

2007:In Tampa, FL, as part of Jewish Book Day, the JCC, features an afternoon with nationally acclaimed writer Gloria Goldreich, author of Leah's Journey, Dinner with Anna Kareninaand other award-winning books for adults and children.

 2007: At the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington 38^th annual Book Festival, Brad Meltzer discusses his latest novel, The Book of Fate.

2007: The Sunday New York Times and the Washington Post book sections each feature a review of Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King by Foster Hirsch.

2007: On Veteran’s Day, The Cedar Rapids Gazette features an article about the World War II military exploits of Bert Katz the 85 year old businessman, philanthropist and pillar of the Jewish Community.

2007(1st of Kislev, 5768): Rosh Chodesh Kislev – It’s beginning to look a lot like Latke Time.

2008: 90^th anniversary of the Armistice that needed the War to End All Wars. The impact of that war is with us to this day in places like Jerusalem, Baghdad and any home in the United States where families mourn the loss of a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan.

2008: Idina “Menzel released ‘Hope’ benefitting Stand Up To Cancer.”

2008: Wagner College and the Center for Jewish History present “The Pulpit and the "Bully Pulpit":Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign in which a panel including Rev. James M. Dunn, PhD, Divinity School, Wake Forest University, Rabbi James Rudin, Senior Advisor on Inter-religious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, Peter Steinfels, PhD, New York Times columnist, Co-Director, Fordham Center on Religion & Culture, Seymour P. Lachman, PhD, Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform, Wagner College, co-author One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Science, Moderator discussed “How religion affected the 2008 presidential election and voting patterns.”

2008: U.S. Jewish organizational leaders are meeting today with Bahraini King Hamad ibn Issa al-Khalifa, who has introduced democratic reforms in his Persian Gulf island nations; he recently named Houda Nonoo, a Jewish woman, as ambassador to Washington. The meeting is taking place in New York week during an interfaith dialogue held under the auspices of the United Nations and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, who has pressed in recent years for greater interreligious understanding despite resistance from his kingdom’s Islamist clerics.

2008: Uri Lupolianski completed his service as Mayor of Jerusalem.

2008: Lyricsby Paul Simon appears on bookstore shelves.  “Lyrics spans his entire career from Simon & Garfunkel’s 1964 debut album through this year’s unrealeased songs ‘Rewrite’ and ‘Hard Times.’”

2008: Over 35 percent of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Jerusalem mayoral race by 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, an indication that opposition leader Nir Barkat and MK Meir Porush of the United Torah Judaism Party will be in for close finish. Incumbent mayors of Afula and Beit Shean had reportedly won re-election as Israelis went to the polls to vote in mayoral elections across the country.

2009: Stephen P. Cohen, the president of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development, discusses and signs his new book, "Beyond America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East," at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

2009(24^thof Cheshvan, 5770): Seventy-four year old Emanuel Zisman, a former MK and the 2006 recipient of the Yakir Yerushalayim award passed away today.

2009(24^thof Cheshvan, 5770): Seventy-eight year old movie and television producer Mavin Minoff, the husband of actress Bonnie Franklin passed away today.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=135914438

2009: David Makovsky, author of Myths, Illusions, & Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East“offers a groundbreaking explanation of how we have repeatedly fallen prey to dangerous myths about the Middle East highlighting those with roots that reach back decades and still persist today” during a session of the 40th Annual Book Festival sponsored by the JCCGW.

2010: Americans observed Veterans Day.  This holiday was originally known as Armistice Day.  It was celebrated on November 11^th because on the 11^th day of the 11^th month at the 11^th hour the guns fell silent on the Western Front marking the end of what was then called the Great War.  One person who opposed the Armistice was General John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force. He wanted the Allies to push forward with great assault on the German Army.  He said that if the war end now, the German Army would march back into Germany as an intact force and the people would never accept the fact that they had been defeated; a fact that was fraught with all sorts of unforeseen consequences.  Apparently Pershing knew what he was talking about, because no sooner had the war ended then the myth that the German Army had not been defeated but had been stabbed in the back began to gain wide currency.  This myth, which features the Jews as prominent backstabbers, would become a staple of right wing politicians including Hitler and his supporters.

2010: In New York City, The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene is scheduled to present the noted Israeli actor Rafael Goldwaser in “New Worlds: A Celebration of I.L. Peretz,” an evening of multi-media one-acts based on the writing of the great Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz.

2010: A 1600 for 1600 rally was held on the mall in Washington, DC this evening. The goal was to attract at least 1600 people to protest against the abduction and continuing imprisonment of Gilad Shalit, who has spent 1600 days in captivity.

2010: “Roy Lichtenstein painting fetches $42.6m at auction” published today described the record setting sale of the Jewish artists work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11732551

2010: Today Egyptian security forces arrested 25 members of a terror cell who allegedly intended to carry out attacks on Israeli tourists in Sinai. The terrorists were residents of the Egyptian cities of El-Arish, Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah, according to the report. Earlier on today, Time magazine reported that Egyptian intelligence operatives gave Israel information that led to last week's Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) assassination of an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist outside Hamas security headquarters in Gaza City.

2010: Mohammed Namnam, 27, a top operative with the Army of Islam, was killed by a missile shot at his car from an Israeli helicopter.

2010: The remains of IAF pilot Maj. Amihai Itkis, 28, and navigator Maj. Emmanuel Levi, 30, whose F16I jet crashed at the Ramon Crater last night, were found this afternoon. IAF commander Major General Ido Nehushtan notified the pilot and navigator's families of their loss.

2010: Today, the  Anti-Defamation League criticized as “completely inappropriate and offensive” remarks by Glenn Beck on his radio and television programs, in which he drew a link between the behavior of US Jewish billionaire investor George Soros as a young boy and the actions of others in sending Jews to death camps during the Holocaust.  On his October 10 radio show, Beck described how Soros, who was born in Hungary to Orthodox Jewish parents, “used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off. And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It was frightening. Here’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.” ADL national director Abe Foxman released a statement slamming the Fox News commentator's criticism of Soros. "Glenn Beck’s description of George Soros’s actions during the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top.  For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say – inaccurately – that there’s a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, as part of a broader assault on Mr. Soros, that’s horrific," said Foxman. Foxman, a holocaust survivor, added that while he too sometimes disagrees with Soros, known for his support of left-wing causes and occasional criticism of Israel, Beck's comments were unacceptable. "To hold a young boy responsible for what was going on around him during the Holocaust as part of a larger effort to denigrate the man is repugnant. The Holocaust was a horrific time, and many people had to make excruciating choices to ensure their survival. George Soros has been forthright about his childhood experiences and his family’s history, and there the matter should rest," added Foxman.

2011: “Jewish Political Behavior in Europe, Israel, and the United States,” a two-day symposium at the University of Michigan is scheduled to come to an end.

2011: Agudas Achim Congregation is scheduled to host its annual New Member Shabbat Dinner

2011: Charlene Bry, Ellie S. Grossman, Jon Harris and Ari Axelbaum are scheduled to take part in “Missouri’s Own Program” at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.

2011: The Miami Marlins owned by Jeffery Loria and led by President David Samson announced their re-branding campaign today.

2011:  The UN Security Council met today in New York behind closed doors to review a report presented on whether the Palestinians meet the criteria for admission to the UN, but did not raise a vote on the issue, nor is it clear when or if such a vote would be brought to the body.

2011: The Dead Sea was not among the winners in the New 7 Wonders of Nature contest despite a high profile campaign on the part of the government, according to a list of provisional results released at about 9:30 p.m. Israel time today.

2012: Yiddish Vinkl’s 20^th Anniversary concert with Cantor Michael Smolash is scheduled to take place at the Sabes Jewish Community Center in Minneapolis, MN.

2012: The largest annual Jewish philanthropic conference in the country - The Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly – is scheduled to open in Baltimore, MD.

2012: At the UK Jewish Film Festival, premiere showing of “The Other Son,” a film about a Jewish and Muslim baby who are switched at birth.

2012: “For his Chromatic Silence show,” Wissam Jubran, a resident of Nazareth, “will take the stage with only oud for company.

2012: The 4^th Annual International Bazaar sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: Armistice Day – Today marks the 94^th anniversary of the end of WW I.  On the 11^th day, of the 11^thmonth at the 11^th hour, the guns fell silent on the Western Front marking the conclusion of what was called “The War To End All Wars.”  For the Jews of Eastern Europe, this would be a farce as tens of thousands more would die in the many wars and revolutions that plagued the old Russian Empire into the 1920’s.  On the other hand, Zionists were heartened by the end of the hostilities which made it possible for Jews who had been expelled from Palestine by the Turks to return to their homes and opened the way for the implementation of the Balfour Declaration.

2012: Veteran’s Day – As the following article points out. Jews have been serving in the military since colonial times

http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2010/45/at_column_berger_20101104.html

2012: Three people were wounded by rocket fire in Sderot during a barrage fired to coincide with the daily commute to work. One man was moderately injured by shrapnel and flying glass in his car, while a couple heading to work was lightly hurt by shrapnel outside. A fourth person sustained injuries while racing for cover at a bomb shelter during the rocket siren.

2012: The IDF fired a warning shot, in the form of a guided missile, at the Syrian military on today after a Syrian shell exploded in the Golan Heights for the second time in recent days. Israel has not fired at Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

2013: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff  a decorated retired military chaplain and Rear Admiral Herman Shelanski are scheduled to speak at the “53^rdAnnual Meeting: Fait and the Foxhole” at Adas Israel in Washington, DC



2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to sponsor a discussion of The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan led by the father and son literary duo – Jonathan and Adam Kirsch.



2013: 95^thanniversary of the end of “The War to End All Wars



2013: Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Religious Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Eli Ben-Dahan proposed a bill today that would create one chief rabbi replacing the dual system that leaves the state with the Ashkenazi and Sephardic chief rabbis. (As reported by Lahav Harkov)



2013:“Yisrael Beytenu Avigdor Liberman is now Foreign Minister, after he was sworn in to the position in the Knesset today, less than a week after his acquittal from fraud and breach of trust charges.” (As reported by Lahav Harkov)

2013: Today, “during the First Creative Economy Forum between Korea and Israel held in Tel Aviv, which featured the exposure of the Korea-Israel Hi-Tech Network - a project aimed to increase industrial collaborations in various hi-tech fields,” “Korean Ambassador in Israel Kim Il-soo announced that Israel and South Korea could become an economic powerhouse, referring to hi-tech cooperation between the countries.”

2013: Today one of Jack,”Keller's arrangements, Stephen Foster's Beautiful Dreamer, appeared on the Beatles' album On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2.”



2014: Professor Emma Maayan Fanar  a visiting Art Historian from the University of Haifa spending the academic year at UConn.is scheduled to deliver a lecture on Photographic Expeditions to the Holy Land in the 19th & Early-20th Century



2014: In Virginia, George Mason University Hillel is scheduled to host its second annual “Expression of the Holocaust” that will include “Uniform,” a one act play by Aaron Sulkin.



2014: As Americans observed Veterans Day, Jews can take pride in their military service which dates back to 1654 when Asher Levy insisted he be allowed to serve as a guard in New Amsterdam and refused to pay a fee that would have excused his service.



2014: The “whole House of Israel” and decent people everywhere mourn the passing of 20 year old Almog Shiloni an IDF soldier who was murdered yesterday by a terrorist at a Tel Aviv train station.



2014: The “whole House of Israel” and decent people everywhere mourn the passing of 26 year old Dalia Lemkus who was stabbed to death yesterday as she waited at a bus stop.



2014: Fifty-nine year old Gilad Goldman is reported to be recovering from the wounds he suffered yesterday when he tried to thwart a terrorist attack yesterday in Tel Aiv.



2014: “Thanks to a curious library volunteer, Canadians learned of the discovery of a rare comic book honoring Jewish World War II heroes in time for the country’s Remembrance Day” which is celebrated today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/rare-canadian-jewish-comic-book-turns-up-in-toronto/



2014: “The IDF today deployed an Iron Dome missile defense battery in northern Israel as a precaution against possible rocket fire from Lebanon or Syria.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/fearing-rockets-from-north-idf-deploys-iron-dome-near-haifa/



2014: Former New York Times printer Carl Tobias Schlesinger was scheduled to be laid to rest today.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?pid=173112362



2014: “Jews in the American Military,” an exhibit that conveys the role of American Jews in defending their country, from Asser Levy’s being granted the right to bear arms in 1657 to help protect Manhattan, to the 55 Jewish men and women killed in this era in Iraq and Afghanistan” opened at at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History. (As reported by Hillel Kutler)

http://forward.com/articles/209033/jewish-veterans-stories-spotlighted-in-new-exhibit/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Special%20Forward%2050%20%2814181%29&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=Combo





2015: In Los Angeles, “Paris On The Water” is scheduled to be shown at the 29^thIsrael Film Festival.



2015: Veterans Day – a good time to remember the work of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA who use this week to raise funds for the valuable work.

http://www.jwv.org/images/uploads/JWV_History_Timeline.pdf



2016: On Veterans Day, which was originally called Armistice Day to mark the day when the guns fell silent on the Western Front, we are reminded that more than 200,000 Jews served in the U.S. Army which meant that Jews, who made up only three per cent of the U.S. population made up four per cent of the American fighting force.



2016: “Disturbing the Peace” is scheduled to be shown for the first time in New York City.



2016: In honor of Veterans Day, no films are scheduled to be shown at the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema.

2016: The BBC rebroadcast portion of a 2007 interview with Leon Cohen in which he spoke about his view about religion in which he said that while he “investigates other spiritual systems,” he feels “very much part of” the Jewish tradition” which he practices and which his children practice.

2016: In the Crescent City friends and family of Arlene Smason Weider, the Advertising & Marketing Director of the Crescent City Jews, the leading voice for  all things Jewish in the “City that Care Forget” prepare to celebrate her natal day.



2016: The Shabbos Project is scheduled to begin this evening.

https://www.theshabbosproject.org/en/?gclid=CMG4vpOMldACFQcIaQodGIEGrQ



2017(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5778): Parashat Chayei Sarah; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/



2017: In the United States, Veterans Day – While Jews have served in the American military since the Revolutionary War and many of them have served with such distinction that have won the Medal of Honor or reached the rank of General, the Jewish  military man who has had the greatest impact on the nation’s defense was one who never fired a shot in anger – Admiral Hyman Rickover, the “father of the nuclear navy” which was the most leg of the “triad” during the Cold War and which provides the U.S. with an edge against a myriad of threats in the 21^st century.  (Editor’s note – at a time when nativism seems to be popular political stance of the day, one might ask where we would have been if a Polish Jew named Chaim Godalia had been kept out of the United States)

2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host the first day of its “Holiday Boutique Weekend.”

2017: In New Orleans the JCC is scheduled to host an evening affair celebrating the successful completion of its Capital Expansion Project.

2017: The JNF”s National Conference is scheduled to continue for a second day in Hollywood, FL.

2017: “Master of York” and “The Outer Circle” are scheduled to be shown this evening in Manchester as part of the 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: In New Orleans, Armistice Day takes on an added festive note as the friends and family of Arlene Smason Weider of the Crescent City Jewish News are scheduled to gather to celebrate her natal day.

2018: The New York Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jews including The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani

2018: The Yoav Eshed Trio Millionaires with Yoav Eshed on guitar, Oren Hardy on Bass and Eviator Slivnik on Drums is scheduled to perform at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.

2018: “Who Will Write Our History?” and “An Israeli Love Story” are scheduled to be shown on the final day of the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.

2018: While the rest of the world is celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the end of the War to End all Wars, the friends and family of Arlene Smason Wieder, the sister of Alan Smason are scheduled to gather to celebrate her natal day.

2018: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host “A Global Day of Learning.”

2018: In Kansas City, MO, “For Liberty: American Jewish Experience in WW I” an exhibition hosted by The National WWI Museum and Memorial is scheduled to come to an end today.

https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/liberty-american-jewish-experience-wwi

https://www.jta.org/2018/10/05/life-religion/an-exhibit-on-jewish-life-during-world-war-i-energizes-a-midwestern-community

2018: The Center of Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion that covers material found in World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America by Volker Berghahn.

2018: One hundredth anniversary of the Armistice when on the 11^th day, of the 11^th month at the 11^th hour the guns fell silent on the Western Front.

https://www.jewishhistory.org/world-war-i-and-the-jews/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/wwi-and-the-jews/

https://www.momentmag.com/how-the-first-world-war-changed-jewish-history/

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=w1nnW9XhFYzajwTt05K4CQ&q=history+of+the+Jews+in+WW+I&btnK=Google+Search&oq=history+of+the+Jews+in+WW+I&gs_l=psy-ab.3...164465.171826..175280...3.0..2.709.3875.21j4j1j1j0j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0j0i131j0i22i30.5vXwP2JBKJo

2019: In Atlanta, The Temple is scheduled to host a screening of “In the Presence of Their Absence.”

2019: The Rutgers University Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of Aviva Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”

2019: Friends and family of New Orleans native Arlene Smason Wieder, the sister of Alan Smason, the driving forces behind the Crescent City Jewish News, are scheduled to celebrate her natal day.

2019: In London, “Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein” and “The Birdcatcher” are scheduled to be shown during the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2019: In the United States observance of Veterans Day which began as Armistice Day which marked the end of WW I on the Western Front on the 11^th day of the 11^th month at the 11^th hour. (Editor’s note -  the lack of literature published about the war in conjunction with its 100^th anniversary should be considered a blot on those who write history.)

2019: In Australia, observance of Remembrance Day, the Aussie version of what was known as Armistice Day.

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1290: Al-Ashraf Khalil began his reign as Sultan of Egypt and Syria during which he drove the Crusaders from their last stronghold from Acre marking an end to the multi-century Christian assault on the Holy Land which had brought so much death and destruction to Jews living in Europe and Asia Minor.

1414(Cheshvan, 5175): The Disputation of Tortosa, which had begun in February of 1413 came to an end after nine months.  At the final session of the disputation the the Jews were forced to listen to the Treatise of Geronimo De Santa, a convert to Christianity, in which he contended that the Talmud recognized Jesus as the Messiah. Joseph ibn Vidal Labi, a prominent Spanish-Jewish scholar and orator, son of the philosopher Solomon ibn from Saragossa, was one of the 25 rabbis who by order of Pope Benedict XIII assisted at the disputation where he distinguished himself by his oratorical ability. Of course, no amount of Jewish scholarship or oratorical skill would change the outcome of these disputations since the Church was always going to win. Jews tried to avoid participating, and, when forced to, “pulled their punches” lest they anger Catholics or the mob which result in riot or death.

1532: Giles of Viterbo, “a 16th-century Italian Augustinian friar, bishop of Viterbo and cardinal” who “is coupled with the grammarian Elias Levita, who honed his knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic passed away today When the turmoil of war drove Levita from Padua to Rome, he was welcomed at the palace of the bishop, where, with his family, he lived and was supported for more than ten years. It was there that Levita's career as the foremost tutor of Christian notables in Hebrew lore commenced. The first edition of Levita's Baḥur (Rome, 1518) is dedicated to Aegidius. Aegidius introduced Levita to classical scholarship and the Greek language, thus enabling him to utilize Greek in his Hebrew lexicographic labors — a debt acknowledged by Levita, who, in 1521, dedicated his Concordance to the cardinal.

1558(21^st of Cheshvan, 5319):  Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph passed away.  Born in 1500, Shalom Shakna was the Rabbi of Lublin, Poland and later of the entire province.  Shakna and two of his contemporaries, Rabbi Moses Isserles and Rabbi Solomon Luria laid the groundwork for the great Yeshivot of Poland.  Prior to this period, Polish Jews were dependent upon the academies in Austria and Germany.  Considering the importance of study to Jewish survival, the development of Polish centers of learning was critical to the spiritual and communal foundation of the growing Jewish community in Poland and Lithuania.  Shakna was also instrumental in founding the inter-communal government that regulated the life of Jewish Poland. The institutions he helped found were part of the Jewish way of life until the Holocaust when it was all swept away.

1631: Simon Wolf Auerbach, the native of Posen who served as a rabbi in several including Posen and Vienna passed away today in Prague where he had been serving as Chief Rabbi.

1701: The will of Sarah Aboab Delawal, a widow living in Covent Garden was probated today.

1720: Birthdate of Simon von Gelden, the native of Vienna who was a traveler, author and the great uncle of Heinrich Heine who said of his ancestor, “His charlantry, which we do not wish to deny, was not of a common kind.”

1735: The will of Emanuel Abenatar aka Manuel Vander Croon was probated today.

1772: In Buchau, Judith Essinger and Hirsch Naphtali Wallersteiner gave birth to Jacob H. Wallersteiner, the husband of Roeschen Obermayer, and the father of Samuel and Henriette Wallersteiner.

1777: In Fulda, Rabbi Joseph Joe who “later took the name of Wiesbaden” and his wife gave birth to Ashe ben Joseph who Joseph Johlson became a leader of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment Movement.

1787: Joseph II (Austria-Hungary) forced the Jews to adopt family names as part of his "Aufklaring" policy. “Aufklaring was an eighteenth-century philosophical movement, characterized by free thought, emancipation from dogma, and materialistic tendencies.  In the Germanic Catholic world, it meant an overhaul of the education system that included processes previously associated with the Protestants. It also meant a comparatively more enlightened social view than had prevailed and this included trying to make the Jews appear to be more included (even if reality said otherwise).

1791: Camden, SC native Hannah Henricks and Columbia, SC native Jacob de Leon gave birth to Mordecai Hendricks de Leon, the husband of Rebecca Lopez and the father of David, Edwin, Agnes, Maria, Adeline and Thomas de Leon.

1792: The will of Lewis Bare was probated today.

1794: Sander Russelsheim married Rachel Moses at the Great Synagogue today

1795: Birthdate of Alsace-Lorraine native Joseph Marks, the husband of Hannah Mendel with whom he had seven children

1796: In Offenbach-on Main, Wolf Breidebenbach and his wife gave birth to University of Heidelberg trained jurist Mortiz Wilhelm August Briedenbach, who held a number of positions in the government of Hesse and served “as the principal author of its penal code.”

1797(23rd of Cheshvan): Judah ben Mordecai Halevi Hurwitz, physician and author of Sefer Amudei Bet Yehudah, passed away

1799: In Aufhausen, Germany “Frummet Froelich” and Joseph Liebmann gave birth to Samuel Baer Liebmann and husband of Sara Selz with whom he had ten children.

1812: Birthdate of British portrait painter Julia Goodman née Salaman

1813: Following the Battle of Crysler’s Farm, the American forces including Mordecai Myers who had commanded the 13^th Pennsylvania Infantry began the retreat that would eventually take them back to Plattsburg.

1817: In Charleston, SC, Dr. Abraham Sheftall a resident of Savannah, GA and the son of the late Levi Sheftall married Miss Sarah De La Motta this evening.

1818: Birthdate of Jakob Eduard Polak, the native of Bohemia who was one of the first westerners to teach medicine in Iran and who was the “personal physician of Naser-aldin Shah,” the ruler of Persia.

1819: Birthdate of German lexicographer Daniel Sanders, the native of Strelitz who published a translation of the Song of Songs in 1866.

1825: In London, Esther and John Nathan gave birth to Rachel Nathan.

1831: Birthdate of Elie-Aristide Astruc, the native of Bordeaux who served as Chief Rabbi of Belgium, helped care for the wounded during the Franco-Prussian and returned to his native country in 1879 where he pursued a career as an author.

1833: The Kentish Gazette reported that “Mr. Joseph Abrahams of Canterbury” has married Fanny Nathan the daughter of a fruit merchant in Dover, UK.

1834:  In “Haigerloch, Germany, Samuel Newburger” and his wife gave birth to Morris Newburger, the “vice president and chairman of the School Committee of the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia” and “president of the Jewish Publication Society from 1888 to 1902.”

1834(10^th of Cheshvan, 5595): Chazan Moses Belasco passed away today which meant that Moses Cohen D’Azevedo Samuel Elias Daniels and Edward Aaron Moses “acted alternatively” and without pay as the Chazanim until they left Barbados for Philadelphia.

1841: The headline of today’s Voice of Jacob read: “The Attempt to Establish a Synagogue On Principles Opposed To Our Laws and Customs” highlighted the conflict between those attempt to “form a United Congregation” that reflected the practices of the Reform movement

1841: The first edition of The Jewish Chronicle appeared in London, UK

1841: In a postscript to a note thanking Nathan Marcus Adler for his contribution to a fund to aid the Jews of Smyrna, Sir Moses Montefiore wrote I feel most anxious to obtain a copy of your sermons. It would be presumptuous in me to express how greatly they would prove serviceable to our brethren in England.” At that Adler was serving the Jewish community of Hanover and nobody could have known that someday he would become the Chief Rabbi in the UK.

1849: The first report of the Finance Committee of the Free Sons of Israel was made at the 29^th meeting of the Grand Lodge.

1849: In Wheeling, VA, founding of “Congregation Leshem Shomayim” (for the sake of Heaven), the first Jewish congregation in West Virginia, which became known as the Eoff Street Temple whose members included Samuel Kraft, Joseph Emsheimer, Henry Baer, Irma Kraft, Millie Stein and Lee Baer.

1854: Rabbi Zeev Wolf and Toba Bluma (née Barg) gave birth to Yehuda Dovid Eizensztejn who gained fame as Julius (Judah David or JD) Eisenstein, the Polish-Jewish-American writer who established America's first society for the Hebrew language, called Shocharei Sfat Ever and was also the first to translate into Hebrew and Yiddish the Constitution of the United States

1856: The will of John Moses, the husband of Caroline Moses, a wine merchant in Bristol was probated today naming William Wolfe Alexander and Thomas as executors. (As described by David Alexander)

1856: In Bresalu, the former Arabella Auberbach and Dr. Leopold Auerbach, “a professor of medicine at the University of Breslau gave birth to physicist and patron of the arts Felix Auberach, the husband of German suffragette Anna Silberleit, who was denied a full professorship at the University of Jenna for most of his thirty year career because he was Jewish.

https://access.cjh.org/home.php?type=extid&term=1002270#1

1858: In New York City, August and Caroline Belmont gave birth to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont.  August Belmont was a German born Jewish American financier who chose the route of assimilation.  His wife was the daughter of the naval hero, Commodore Mathew Perry and the Great Niece of the even more legendary Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, young Belmont’s namesake.  Belmont graduated from the United States Naval Academy, a school not noted for its acceptance of Jews. One must wonder if his maternal Naval connection were able to overcome his father’s Semitic origins. Belmont lived out the life of a wealthy gentile playboy.

1859: William H. Seward, the U.S. Senator from New York, arrived in Paris today on the return leg of his trip from Jerusalem and the Holy Land.  No reason was given for the trip by the man would who seek the Republican nomination for President in 1860 and served as Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.  

1862: During the Civil War, Corporal Daniel Straus began his service with Company F of the 167^th Regiment.

1862: During the Civil War, Sergeant Joseph Jacoby began his service with Company I of the 167^th Regiment.

1865: One day after he had passed away, 56 year old Julius Sing, the husband of Rika Woolf with whom he had three sons – Aaron, Jacob and Simon – was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1866: Birthdate of Sun Wen, known as Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China, who held admiration for the Jewish people and Zionism, and who saw parallels between the persecution of Jews and the domination of China by the Western powers, stating that “Though their country was destroyed, the Jewish nation has existed to this day... [Zionism] is one of the greatest movements of the present time…”

1870: In Stettin, German, Elias Witt and Sophie Schlesinger gave birth to Max S. Witt, the husband of Margaret Gonzalez, who became a composer of popular songs including “The Moth and the Flame” and “My Little Georgia Rose.”

1871: In St. Paul, MN, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society whose members included Mrs. B.B. Plechner and Mrs. Sol Fox which “meets on the first Wednesday of the month from September to April inlclusive.”

1871: Robert Strahl, Jr., Samuel D. Sewards, Davis Kisch and Joseph Dorenfeld were among the speakers who addressed a meeting of the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary and Benevolent Association that was held tonight at Cooper Union in New York City.

1879: It was reported today that Professor Felix Adler, “who has been accused of being a rationalist,” an infidel and an atheist, proved his critics wrong during his lecture entitled “Struggle of Free Religion in the United States” in which “he paid a glowing and eloquent tribute…to the late Rabbi Einhorn, one of the founders of Reformed Judaism.”

1880: Birthdate of Dutch physicist Leonard Salomon Ornstein

1880: Theodor Mommsen’s declaration that “referred to Anti-Semitism as a contagious plague that threatened to poison the relationship between Jews and Christians” which “was signed by seventy-five well-known scholars and other public figures, Jews and non-Jews alike” was published today “in the Berlin daily National-Zeitung.”

1883(12^th of Cheshvan, 5644): Sixty-three year old Sigmund Max Einhorn, the “son of Karoline and Maier Mendel Einhorn” and the husband of a different Karoline Einhorn with whom he had four children, passed away today

1883: It was reported today that “the Lord Mayor of London has refused to allow Herr Stocker, the ‘Jew-baiter,’ who is no in London to lecture at the Mansion House.” (Stocker is Adolf Stoecker, a German Lutheran theologian. The Lord Mayor was Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler)

1884: In New York Monseigneur Thomas John Capel delivered an address on “Patriotism” to a meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1884: Businessman Mordecai Yitzhak Lubowsky a native of Lithuania who had lived in the United States in 1870 “bought…a large tract of land of 2,800 dunams at “Maroun” …in the district of Safed.

1885: Rabbi Julius Lewis Mayerberg, the Lithuanian born son of Hannah and Jacob Mayerberg, and his wife Hannah Mayerberg gave birth to Sarah Mayerber

1885: It was reported today that the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society is planning on hosting a fair to raise funds “to assist the poor without regard to creed, color or nationality…”

1885: In an interview published today, Ohio Governor George Hoadley defended issuing a Thanksgiving Proclamation that did not mention God by declaring that “the founders of this Government wanted it free for the Jews and the Gentile, the infidel and the worshiper… I have no right to command the people of this State to worship God on a certain day.”  (This defense of religious freedom is one of the things that has made the Jewish experience in America different from that in other places.)

1886(14th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Avraham of Kosover, also known as Rabbi Borcuh Kosover, author of Amud ha-Avodah passed away today.

1886(14th of Cheshvan): Jehiel Brill, publisher and editor of the Hebrew monthly “Ha-Lebanon” and author of Yesod ha-Ma'alah passed away.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A00E2D81730E13BBC4B53DFB566838D629EDE

1890: Birthdate of Lily Kronberger who was Hungary’s first World Champion in figure skating.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kronberger-lily

1890: Birthdate of Irma Shloss Mannheimer was buried at Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA when she passed away in 1974.

1891: Six days after she had passed away, 67 year old Ann Benjamin Braham, the daughter of Alexander and Jane Jones and the wife of Isaac Benjamin and Francis Brahm was buried today at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.

1892: The Metropolitan Press Club of which Abram Levy of the Hebrew World is Vice President is scheduled to hold its second regular meeting tonight.

1892: The New York Times reports on the successes and failures of organized Jewish agricultural efforts including those in Connecticut and those in New Jersey sponsored by Baron Hirsch.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70C13FE3D5C17738DDDAB0994D9415B8285F0D3

1892(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5653): Sixty-two year Seligman Adler, who was born in Bavaria in 1830 and who established “the wholesale dry goods house of Adler, Newbouer & Co at New York in 1858” passed away today.

1893: “Court Martial Oaths” published today traces the changes that have taken place to the point now where “the Jews are customarily sworn by the five books of Moses and the great God of Israel, that the evidence…shall be the truth and nothing but the truth.”

1894: Following yesterday’s fire at a tenement on 80 Henry Street that housed more than twenty Jewish families, losses today including those at Lewis Fisher’s tailor shop, were estimated at $1,500.

1894: It was reported today that 100,000 Jews most of whom are poor, live within a half-mile radius of Beth Israel which is the poorest of New York’s Jewish hospital.

1896: H.W. Greene is scheduled to speak on “The Development of American Song” this evening as part of the free lecture series sponsored by the Educational Alliance at the Hebrew Institute in New York City.

1896: “(Mrs. J.B.) Rebecca M. Judah, the President of the Louisville, KY Section of the National Council of Jewish Women submitted her report that described the largest of the city’s four or five religious schools as having an enrollment of 250 children “under the direct care of Dr. Adolph Moses” and described the section as having 69 members divided into 5 circles.

1897: Rabbi Maurice H. Harris of Temple delivered a lecture this evening entitled “The Value of Our Good Name in the Present Municipal Contest” in which he decried “appeals to a Jew to vote as a Jew” as an “insult to the patriotism of the Jew” and asks “How often need the depraved politician be informed that in his civic duty here the Jew knows only one Nation, the American nation?”

1897: It was reported today Mr. Joseph Tobias Levy, who is an American citizen, continued to be “detained by Moorish authorities” despite the fact that “the United States has demanded his release..”

1897: It was reported today that “a neat sheet calendar for 5658 has been issued by the Bene Israel Mutual Fund Society of Bombay.

1897: Birthdate of Samuel W. Kalb, the WW I Marine Corps veteran and graduate of Valparaiso University and the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine who practiced obstetrics for 35 years in his home town of Newark, NJ.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-11-05-9202270823-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/obituaries/samuel-w-kalb-obstetrician-94.html

1899: Birthdate of Galicia native Menashe Unger whose expertise in the field Chasidism can be seen his book Social Origins of Chasidism” and who in 1934 came to NYC where he became “a writer for The Day” and lived with his wife Ruth Brilliant Unger and their daughter Judith.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/12/menashe-unger.html

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32882

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/08/78386020.pdf

https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/09321/F875D5C9B3FCB52165AF1661B549804C9A77EA2A.html

1899: It was reported today that Jules Guerin, “who proposed to suppress all who stood in his way and by the revolver to drive the Jews from France and by that weapon to convert unbeliever to his doctrine of anti-Semitism” will probably stand trial for his role in an attempted coup-d’état he had plotted with Paul Déroulède

1900: Birthdate of Caroline Klein Simon, a pioneering attorney, communal worker, and state official. After graduating from law school in 1925, Simon was unable to find a law firm that would hire her. She turned to volunteering, working as an unpaid clerk at a law office and immersing herself in political work with many of New York City's secular and Jewish women's organizations. She involved herself particularly in issues of crime prevention and correction. In 1935, Simon became executive director of the New York State Council of Jewish Women. Throughout her long and active life, Simon worked to change a number of discriminatory laws in her community. In the 1930s, Simon led a campaign to allow women to serve on juries in New York. In the 1940s, she helped to draft the nation's first state law on job bias based on religion, race, or nationality, and was a founding member of the State Commission Against Discrimination. In 1957, Simon became the first woman to be nominated for city-wide office in New York City. Although she lost that election for president of the New York City Council, Governor Nelson Rockefeller named her New York Secretary of State in 1959. She held that position for four years. In 1958 Simon also served as the legal advisor to the American delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. In the 1960s, she sat on the New York Court of Claims. Simon remained active in legal work into her nineties.

1900: Lord Robert Cecil, the uncle of Lord Balfour of Balfour Declaration fame, completed his final term as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a position that he had first held under his political mentor, Benjamin Disraeli.

1902: Joseph Whyl married Rosa Phillips today.

1902: Birthdate of Buffalo, NY, native Philip Halpern, the University of Buffalo trained lawyer and “Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division”and  the husband of “the former Goldene Friedman with whom he had two sons – James and Charles

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/26/89956283.pdf

http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/history-legal-bench-appellate-04.html?http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/luminaries-appellate/halpern-philip-4.html

https://www.jta.org/1963/08/27/archive/justice-philip-halpern-dead-at-62-served-on-important-u-n-body

1905: Based on rumors that have been circulating in Moscow, “anti-Jewish outbreaks” are scheduled to “occur simultaneously in Moscow and St. Petersburg today.

1905: It was reported today that many Jewish families “are fleeing to Finland” because of the on-going outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence

1905: “Arm the Jews Says Rabbi” published today described the view of Charles Fleischer the rabbi at Temple Adath Israel in Boston that given the pogroms taking place in Kishinev and Odessa, that “if the Russian Government cannot protect the people against lawlessness then the law-abiding must encouraged to protect themselves” which means entrusting the Jews with arms.”

1905: Meetings expressing support for the Jews of Russia and to raise funds for their relief are scheduled to be held at Capitol Hall on Manhattan and 63 Meserole Street in Manhattan.

1905: “The fund being raised in” the United States “for the relief of the victims of the Russian massacres was increased” today “by the addition of a check for $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie who announced his gift in a letter to Isidor Strauss.”

1905: Leah Dinah Goldberg, the wife of Morris Goldberg with whom she had five children – Miriam Rachel, Kate, Annie and Mordecai – was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1905: The Jews of Paterson, NJ met this morning in Barnet Memorial Temple to raise funds for the suffering Jews of Russia and ex-Mayor Nathan Barnet who presided over the meeting said “I do not know how this money…is to be expended but if I were to spend it I assure you the greater part of it would purchase dynamite to be used for assassinating the Czar, the Romanoffs and their followers.”

1905: In Pittsburgh, PA, Henry Jackson, President of the Zionists’ Council of Pittsburg presided over a meeting at the Washington Street Synagogue this evening “where steps were taken to assist in the relief of the stricken Jews of in Russia.”

1905: At a meeting this afternoon at the Forest Street Temple in Cleveland, Ohio, $541 which will be forward to Jacob H. Schiff was raised to help the Jews of Russia.

1905: In Boston, “a mass meeting was held today in the Baldwin Place Synagogue for the purpose of aiding a movement to raise $50,000 for the relief of the Jews in Russia.”

1905: Herman Rosenthal, the chief of the Slavonic department of the New York Public Library and one of the editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia was quoted as saying that “In a nutshell the situation the situation” in Russia regarding the Jews is this: “Russia in its attitude to Jews, is just about where England was in the thirteenth century” where “the Jew was always pictured as the villain, the man to be hated, despised and ill-treated.”  While the Anglo-Saxons decided three centuries ago that “the Jew was a human being to be treated liked themselves” such is not the case in Russia nor will it be for some time to come.

1905: Tonight, 10,000 Jews of the East End of London gather “gathered in the great assembly hall where a memorial services was held for the Jews recently killed in Russia” during which “almost all present burst into tears and mournful wailing during the chanting of the Fifth Chapter of Lamentations.”

1905: In Warsaw, “at 9 o’clock this evening an infantry patrol, without provocation, fired into a crowd of Jews, seriously wounding eight.”

1905: In Chicago, $50 was raised for the relief of Russian Jews at a meeting of Jewish peddler and the Central Committee announced that it had received contributions in the amount of $400 for the same purpose.

1905: Mass meetings were held in Rochester, NY tonight to raise funds for the Jews of Russia.

1905: In Baltimore, MD, Samuel Rosenthal presided over a meeting of Jewish citizens including rabbis, lawyer, doctors and businessman at the Eutaw Place Temple where plans were made to aid “their persecuted co-religionists in Russia” and where $10,250 was raised in half an hour for that purpose.

1905: In St. Louis, MO, an inter-denominational meeting raised $16,000 this afternoon to aid Jews of Russia.

1905: At a meeting this afternoon at Cincinnati’s Plum Street Temple $5,000 was raised “for the Jewish victims of the atrocities in Russia.”

1905: Five meetings were held in Philadelphia today for the purposed of raising relief funds for the Jews of Russia, the largest of which was held at Mercantile Hall where $20,000 was raised.

1905: In response to a message sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg. “reminding him of his duty to exert the full force of his influence to prevent a recurrence of the Jewish massacres” Chief Rabbi Adler said today that “it as a noble utterance; a grand recognition of the fact that the Russian horrors are something which concern not simply the Jews but everybody who loes the right and abhors religious persecution and fiendish inhumanity.”

1907: Birthdate of Klara Fejer, the future wife of Alexander Steiner and mother of Agnes Steiner.

1908: Birthdate of Harry Blackmun, who replaced Abe Fortas as U.S. Supreme Court Justice. It would not be until 1993 that another Jew would successful to a seat on the Supreme Court.

1909: Birthdate of Chemistry Professor David Perlman, the author of A Guide of Qualitative Organic Analysis and the husband of “the former Evelyn Rose.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/06/archives/dr-david-perlman-62-dies-chemistry-professor-here.html

1910(10^th of Cheshvan, 5671): Parashat Lech-Lecha

1910: George Tech, led by Albert Lorch “Al” Loe who played Center for the Yellow Jackets “where he was nicknamed ‘The Yiddish Wildcat’” lost to Vanderbilt today.

1910: Isidor and Ida Weinstein gave birth Michigan physician Irving Posner, the husband of Helen Posner.

1911: Birthdate of Yehoshua Rabinovitz, the native of Vishneva who made Aliyah in 1934 and became Mayor of Tel Aviv in 1969. 1913: Rodosto, Turkey is taken, and 60 Turkish Jewish families sought safety in Constantinople. The Rodosto referenced here is a city in northwest Turkey that had originally been founded Greeks.  The fighting mentioned here was part of The Balkan Wars, which preceded World I, and in some respects, helped to provide the kindling that brought on that worldwide firestorm.

1912: In New York, third and final day of the 8^th annual meeting of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society which is headquartered in Denver, CO.

1913: At the Montefiore Home, opening of the largest Jewish hospital in the world, built at a cost of nearly $2,000,000.

1913: In Konigsberg, Elkhanan Elkes, “a prominent doctor who became a medical officer in the Russian Army during World War I and the Russian Revolution” and his wife, the former Miriam Albin, both of whom were murdered by the Nazis, gave birth to Dr Joel Elkes “who published the first scientific trial of a medication for schizophrenia and became a foundational figure in modern psychiatry…” (As reported by Bernard Carey)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/science/joel-elkes-who-cast-light-on-psychosis-dies-at-101.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1913: “Committees composed of both Christian and Jews, with the assistance of the German government” are operating soup kitchens in Warsaw and Lodz to help feed the hundreds of thousands in who are “suffering for want of food.”

1914(23^rd of Cheshvan, 5675): Funeral services were held today for 78 year old Mrs. Agie Roski, the “wife of the late Azer Roski after which she was buried at the Oakwood Cemetery.

1914: The medical staffs of the  Montifore Home and Hospital for Chronic Diseases and ADV-Sixteen are scheduled to be consolidated today.

1916:”Dr. Samuel Schulman who preached this morning at Temple Emmanu-El on ‘The Jewish Congress’ said that the union of the Jews of all factions in this country was necessary in to make an appeal to the ‘conscience of Christendom’ to provide fairly for the future of the Jews” in those parts of Europe “where they are now oppressed.”

1916: “An International Committee of Correspondence to facilitate a world-wide demand for the settlement of the Jewish problem at the end of the war in Europe was proposed by Oscar S. Straus, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, at the tenth annual convention of the American Jewish Committee held at the Hotel Astor” today.

1916: At the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Committee, the issued “was silent as to the condition of” the Jews in Russian whose “misery” defied description.

1917: After a twelve day voyage across the Atlantic, Abraham Blaustein, would become a decorated war hero arrived at Brest, France with the rest of the 165^th Regiment.

1917: Following the Bolshevik takeover, anti-Bolshevik forces began fighting the Red Guards at Tsarekoye Selo.

1917: Jewish Soldiers’ Councils were formed at Prague, Theresienstadt, Olmutz and Bruenn with the approval Czech leaders.

1918; In New York, the Provisional Zionist Committee received a cable from Dr. Chaim Weitzman, President of the British Zionist Committee and Dr. Nachun Sokolow of the Inner Actions Committee “giving the complete text of the British proposal” known as the Balfour Declaration “which differs somewhat from the first reports published in” the United States.

1918: As World War I came to an end and the Austro-Hungarian Empire died and the predominately Germanic portion of the old imperial state became a republic called German Austria, popularly known as Austria. The new state included 300, 000 Jews, 200,000 of which were living in the capital city of Vienna.  The little known Treaty of St. Germaine which had a major impact on the inter-war years guaranteed, among other things, the rights of Jews as a minority living in the news Austrian Republic.  Unfortunately, this would mean little when anti-Semitism reared its head in the 1930’s capped by the final blow of Anshluss in 1938.

1918: Jozef Pilsduski, head of the newly-born Polish state received a delegation of Jewish leaders.  Yizhak Gruenbaum, a prominent Zionist, demanded autonomy for Poland’s Jews.  Pilsduski promised to take measures to repress anti-Jewish violence.

1918: Abraham and Mildred Gussow gave birth to Roy Gussow, “an abstract sculptor whose polished stainless-steel works with swooping contours gleam in public squares and corporate spaces.” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1919 Dr. J. Stanley Durkee in 1936 would criticize “Jews for declining to become ‘an integral part of the civilization around them’ was “inaugurated as President of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

1919: Governor Al Smith appointed Abram Isaac Elkus to fill a vacancy on the New York Court of Appeals.

1919: Birthdate of ”Estelle Ellis Rubinstein, who as promotion director of the brand-new Seventeen magazine helped American businesses discover what she called ‘a whole new country’ — the untapped market of millions of teenage girls” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1920: It was reported today that “A.C. Cuza, the last of Romania’s anti-Semites in public life is retiring.”

1920: In New York, the former Dorothy Milius, the daughter of Pauline and George Washington Milius and her first husband, Sidney Walter Kaufman, gave birth to Katherine Kaufman

1920: Birthdate of Manhattan native Leonard James Schliefer, “the son of a clothing-company executive” who gained fame as director James Sheldon. (As reported by Anita Gates)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/arts/television/james-sheldon-director-whose-career-reflected-tvs-evolution-dies-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1920: The Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women which has been taking place at the Brown Hotel in Denver came to an end.

1921: In Brooklyn, Rebecca Leiber and William Leiber, “a junk dealer” gave birth to WW II Army veteran “modernist painter” Gerson Leiber (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/obituaries/gerson-leiber-96-dies-artist-created-museum-with-designer-wife.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1922: The Chicago Cardinals football team defeated the Akron Pros 7-0 thanks to a long pass thrown by Arnold "Arnie" Horween

1922: In Camden, NJ, Lieutenant Lewis Liberman delivered an address entitled “Y.M.H.A. Boys in Service” during a memorial service held this afternoon to honor the five Y.M.H.A. members who lost their lives during World /War I.

1924: “The Yeshivah of Slobodka opened a branch in Hebron

1924: During the first cycle of Daf Yomi “small siyums’ were held to mark the completion of Tractate Berachot.

1925: In the Bronx, Pauline and Milton Redlich gave birth to Norman Redlich, a quiet luminary of the New York legal community who pioneered the pro bono defense of indigent death row inmates and who, as a staff member of the Warren Commission, helped develop the so-called single-bullet theory to explain how President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1927: Seymour “Cy” Schindel fought his 19^th bout today which he lost on points to “Italian Joe Gans.”

1927:  Leon Trotsky was expelled from Soviet Communist Part as Stalin tightened his grip on the USSR after the death of Lenin.  Stalin played the card of anti-Semitism in his fight with Trotsky.  It would not be the last time that the Georgian would show himself to be a vindictive anti-Semite.

1928: In Portland, ME, Anna (Richardson) and Nathan Weinman, co-owner of a dry goods store” gave birth to Marjorie Weinman who gained fame as Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, the creator of the “Nate the Great detective series.” (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/obituaries/marjorie-weinman-sharmat-nate-the-great-author-dies-at-90.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1928: Today, Victor released a recording of “Making’ Whoopee” with lyrics by Gus Kahn which was “first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!

1929: Two days after he had passed away, funeral service are scheduled to be held this afternoon “in the Riverside Memorial Chapel” on Amsterdam Avenue for 75 Jewish religious and philanthropic leader Joseph Hyman.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/11/12/96012347.pdf

1930(21^st of Cheshvan, 5691): Forty-five year old Israel George “Izzy” Levene, the End on the University of Pennsylvania football team who went on to head coaching jobs at Tennessee and Wake Forest.

1931: Sixty-three year old Harvard Professor Robert DeCourcy Ward, the co-founder of the Immigration Restriction League who had informed Congressmen in 1919 that Jews were about to enter the United States as part of “well-organized immigration” plan passed away today.

1930(20^th of Cheshvan, 5691): Forty-five year old U of Pennsylvania All-American end Israel George “Izzy” Levene who served as an assistant under the legendary John Heisman before serving as head coach at the University of Tennessee and Wake Forest University passed away today.

1933: The Nazis received 92% of vote in Germany only a few months after gaining power through an electoral squeaker.

1933: Birthdate of Abram Krivosheyev, the Soviet “middle distance runner” who represented the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.

1934: The Strathaird arrived in Melbourne where Egon Kisch” the refugee from Nazi Germany who “was a delegate to the All-Australian Congress Against War and Fascism” “was greeted by numerous supporters, whom he acknowledged from the deck by raising his fist.

1934(5^th of Kislev, 5695): Sixty-eight year old attorney Moritz Rosentahl who “defended Standard Oil” in 1907 against the trust busting efforts of President Teddy Roosevelt passed away today.

1935: “No Monkey Business” a British comedy with must by Benjamin Frankel was released today in the United Kingdom.

1935: While destroying the economic opportunities of its Jewish citizens, “Nazi Germany prohibited the export of food and industrial raw materials” “in an effort to address nationwide supply shortages.”

1936(27^th of Cheshvan, 5697): Fifty-six year old Hungary native Gustave Hartman the “son of Sarah Luchs and Kalman Hartman,”  and “lawyer, municipal court judge, city court judge, Republican political leader  and philanthropist” who “founded the Israel Orphan Asylum” and was honored by the creation of the Gustave Hartman Triangle in New York passed away today.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20722848#view-photo=7648827

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/11/16/85435329.pdf

1936: “Although the Lord Chamberlain banned the public performance of Lillian Hellman’s The Children's Hour in Great Britain in March 1935 the play was presented in its entirety today “at a private performance at the Gate Theatre Studio in London.

1936: On the day before his 80^th birthday took his place at the Supreme Court just as he has every day for the last two decades since he was appointed by President Wilson and “his deep tones rang clearly through the room as he questioned New York attorney Frederick H. Wood on aspects of the New York Unemployment Insurance Law.”

1936: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress announced today “that a series of public celebrations would be held to honor Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis on his eightieth birthday tommorw, November 13,

1936: Birthdate of Brooklyn born composer Mort Shuman.  Classically trained, Shuman gained fame as a popular song writer composing for everybody from Elvis, to Janis Joplin to the music group known as “Dion and the Belmonts.”  If you ever heard “Save the Last Dance For Me,” you have heard the works of Shuman. 

1936: “Theodora Goes Wild” a comedy with a script co-authored by Sidney Buchman and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that two Arabs were killed and five wounded by a bomb which exploded outside the National Bus offices, off Jaffa Road in Jerusalem. The bomb, which appeared to be home-made, exploded with a tremendous force. A curfew was imposed on the city. Jewish extremists were suspected of having thus responded to the murder of five young Israelis at Ma¹aleh Hahamisha. The Mandatory authorities announced that henceforth any member of the forces would be able to arrest any person reasonably suspected of having planned or committed any offence that could be tried in military courts.

1937: “The Last Gangster” a crime film starring Edward G. Robinson and featuring Lionel Stander was released in the United States by MGM.

1937:  Birthdate of Ina Rosenberg the Brooklyn native who gained famed as actress Ina Balin whose first break came when she appeared on the Perry Como Show during the 1950’s.  The high point in her acting career came when she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in From the Terrace.  Balin appeared in numerous pictures with some of Hollywood’s biggest name before her untimely death at the age of 52.

1938: Hermann Goring leads a discussion of German officials that results in a one-billion-mark ($400-million) fine against the German-Jewish community to pay for Kristallnacht.Göring calls this extortion an "expiation payment." Seizing the money German insurance companies were paying the Jews for their damages, the Nazis require the Jews to pay for the repair of their own properties damaged in Kristallnacht.

1938: The Nazis decide on a decree to remove all Jews from the German economy, society, and culture. Reinhard Heydrich suggests that every Jew be forced to wear a badge. Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels suggests that Jews be kept from using public parks. Hermann Goring mentions that Hitler told him on the phone on November 9 that if war breaks out, Germany "will first of all make sure of settling accounts with the Jews. [Hitler] is going to ask the other nations: 'Why do you keep talking about the Jews? Take them!'" In the Nazi Party's principal newspaper, Goebbels writes: "We want only one thing, that the world loves the Jews enough to rid us of them all."

1938: Speaking at a meeting with the South African minister of economics and defense, Hitler remarks that Europe's Jews will be killed in the event of war.

1938: Hermann Goring announced consideration of Madagascar as a home for European Jewry

1939: The Nazis ordered the Jews of Lodz, Poland to wear yellow armband as they began to deport them to other parts of Poland.

1939: Heydrich, Chief of German Secret Security, ordered Jews cleared from portions of annexed Poland that were now considered to be part Greater Germany.  Heydrich was truly evil person.  He was one of Hitler’s favorites and many thought that he was Hitler’s successor.  Heydrich was the prime author of the Final Solution.  He never got to fulfill his dreams since the British had him murdered while he was serving in Bohemia.

1939: Activity in Palestine,” published tody Peter Gradenwitz reports on the successful year enjoyed by the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. “The Summer heat, the pre-war mood and the outbreak of war in Europe have not been able to paralyze Palestine’s musical life.  On the contrary the Palestine Orchestra had its most extensive Summer Season since the start of its activities.  From June to September the orchestra played twice weekly in the specially arrange gardens of the Levan Fair Grounds to a large an appreciative audience, and in addition to the Tel Aviv concerts there were offerings in Jerusalem, Hair and the Rechovoth.

1940: In Wadowice, Poland to Sala Gelbwachs and Arik Kriszer-Weinlez gave birth to Roza Kriszer-Weinlez, the Holocaust survivor known as Ruth Rosenfeld.

https://www.chhange.org/personal-histories/stories/ruth-rosenfeld

1940: Vichy France ordered all Jewish businesses to be sold or expropriated for Aryanization.   In other words, the French joined Germany in the plundering of Jewish assets.  Anti-Semitism was and continues to be “good business” for those who trade in it.

1940: “Land of Liberty” a documentary that traces American history from pre-revolutionary days to 1939 written by Jesse L. Lasky, Jr with music by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II premiere today at Williamspor.

1941(22nd of Cheshvan, 5702): Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, a hit-,man for Murder Incorporated turned “stool-pigeon” fell (or was pushed) to his death.

1941: Laurence Adolph Steinhardt completed his service as United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

1941: In Berlin Friedrich Jeckeln met with Himmler who gave him orders on liquidating the entire Riga ghetto.

1943: Benito Mussolini argued at a general Fascist Party congress to have all Jews in Italy declared enemy aliens by law.

1943: William Schuman’s “Symphony for Strings” which “was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky” was performed for the first time today.

1943: Birthdate of Valerie Leon, the London born daughter of Textile Company executive who went from being “a trainee fashion buyer at Harrods” to a career in acting that including performing as “a Bond girl” in “The Spy Who Love Me” and “Never Say Never Again.”

1943: Birthdate of actor Wallace Shawn

1943: Birthdate of Poughkeepsie native and Republic politcian Stephen M. Saland the graduate of the University of Buffalo and Rutgers Law School who was a Republican member of the New York State Senate, representing the 41st District from 1990-2012.”

1944:  Birthdate of sports reporter Al Michaels.  If Jews could not play the game, they sure could write and talk about it.

1944: Otto Blumenthal, a German mathematician died in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt. Born a Jew, Blumenthal became a Protestant at the age of 19.  He remained in Germany after the rise of the Nazis.  At the age of 67, he asked to be sent to Theresienstadt so he could be with his sister who reportedly had feel while imprisoned there.  Unfortunately for Blumenthal, she had died before his arrival.

1945: Six hundred rabbis march to Capitol and stop at White House and British Embassy to plead that Palestine be opened for Jewish immigration.

1945: The American League for a Free Palestine announced today that Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington State, Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart of California’s 9^th Congressional District and Guy W. Gillette, the former Senator from Iowa are scheduled to discuss “The United States Congress and Palestine” in a program to be broadcast tomorrow night by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Gillette was the president of the American League for a Free Palestine, a pro-Zionist group seeking to create a Jewish state. (As you can see, the term Palestine has not always by synonymous with Arabs),

1945: A photographic record is created of Kibbutz Buchanwald, “the first agricultural training camp established in Germany after the Holocaust” which was ironically established in what had been a death camp.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/13.asp

1946: It is announced that 1,050 Jews in Cyprus will be admitted to Palestine under quotas until mid-January.

1947: The Jewish Agency plans to establish Jewish state within boundaries set by UNSCOP, regardless of any UN decision. There are rumors that King Abdullah of Jordan plans to take over part of Palestine outside Jewish state

1948: Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion confirms that talks are under way between Israel and two Arab governments (presumed to be Egypt and Transjordan). Israel is opposed to new UN proposal whereby Israeli troops give up recent gains in Negev. In original partition plan, Negev is consigned to Jews. Ben-Gurion claims dispute can be settled in four weeks if U.S. stops Britain from interfering with Arabs' wish to talk peace terms.

1948: UN mediator Ralph Bunche orders Israel to give up Iraq Suweidan.

1948: “No More Vices” a comedy directed and produced by Lewis Milestone with a screenplay by Arnold Manoff and music by Franz Waxman was released in the United States today by MGM.

1949: In an address tonight “at the Biennial National Convention of the American Jewish Congress in the Hotel New Yorker,” “Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein of Rochester, former, adviser on Jewish Affairs to the United States Army in Germany warned” that Communism and its ideology must be rejected by Jews in” the United States.

1950: “Southside 1-1000” a drama about a gang of real life counterfeiters starring George Tobias was released today in the United States.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from Rehovot that more than 250,000 persons filed past the bier carrying the body of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel, statesman and scientist. Sirens brought the nation to a standstill at 2:30 p.m. A few hundred persons were privileged to be present during the burial ceremony in his garden, while some 30,000 others gathered on nearby hilltops. Messages of condolence poured from all over the world. US President-elect Dwight Eisenhower sent a cable to the Israeli Ambassador, Abba Eban, and asked him to forward it to Mrs. Vera Weizmann.

1952: Actress Ruth Roman, the daughter of Mary Pauline (née Gold) and Abraham Roman and her “husband Mortimer Hall, the son of publisher Dorothy Schiff” gave birth their son Richard..

1953: A “Salute From American Higher Education to the Hebrew University” which will be attended by Professor Benjamin Mazar, the newly chosen President of the Hebrew University, is scheduled to be held tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

1954: Ellis Island, the gateway to America for millions of immigrants, including untold number of Jews, closed today.

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/bp/nov-12-1954-ellis-island-closes-admitting-millions-164516820.html

1954: Edward B. Lawson, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel presented his credentials today.

1955(27^th of Cheshvan, 5716): Parashat Chayei Sarah

1956: “Middle-East Echoes” published today described the impact of Anglo-French military action during the Suez Crisis on the economy in general and the commodities market in particular.

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,824597,00.html

1958: Eighty-three year James Michael Curley, the quintescential Irish politician who was best known for his terms as Mayor of Boston and who said in 1944 the  “service and sacrifice by the Jewish people entitle them to the respect of their fellow Americans and an end of Jewish persecution here and abroad” passed away today.

1962: “Billy Budd” a movie version of the 19^th century novel with a screenplay co-authored by Robert Rossen and featuring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States today.

1962: In San Francisco, Deborah Goleman, an anthropologist and the author of The Lesbian Community and “Leonard Wolf, a Romanian-born gothic horror scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Yiddish translator” gave birth to Yale and Oxford educated author and liberal political advisor whose first book The Beauty Myth was “named one of the 70 most influential books of the 20^th century by The New York Times” and whose latest work Outrages may be totally wrong.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/25/naomi-wolf-learns-of-serious-flaws-in-upcoming-book-during-bbc-interview/

1964: “New Comedy Opens at the Booth” published today provides a positive review of Murray Schisgal’s “Luv” a comedy directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/12/archives/theater-schisgals-luv-is-directed-by-nichols-new-comedy-opens-at.html

1967: Today, “Rabbi J.J. Kokotek delivered the sermon at the New Liberal Jewish Congregation’s annual service held “in commemoration of the 1938 pogroms” after which the “memorial panels on which the names of the congregation’s past officers and members are inscribed” were dedicated.

1969: Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the son of Yiddish speaking Litvak immigrants, broke the story of the My Lai Massacre.

1969(2^nd of Kislev, 5730): Sixty-nine year old Columbia graduate and Parkinson disease patient A. Wilfred May, the former foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, NANA and The London Financial Times and “economic expert with the SEC” fell to his death from his 4^th floor suite at the Plaza Hotel

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/13/83689321.pdf

1969(2nd of Kislev, 5730: Harry Scherman an American economist. passed away. He wrote several works during the second third of the twentieth century. Maybe his best known book is The Promises Men Live By, published in 1938. In it he develops an analysis of economic problems in terms of people beliefs. His open criticism to accepted policies and then fashionable Keynesianism brought his work to oblivion; something a little ironic, taking into account that he had been one of the co-founders of The Book of the Month Club in 1926. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079308/

1970: “The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer” a British satirical film co-starring Harold Pinter and featuring Valerie Leon was released today in the United Kingdom.

1973(18^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Eighty-nine Dutch born American cinematographer David Abel “who filmed 110 films for RKO” and who was the husband of Eva “Chava” Rayevsky, passed away today in Los Angeles.

1973: “A Delicate Balance” produced by Ely Landau was released today in the United States.

1976(19^th of Cheshvan, 5737): Eighty-seven year old “Pessie Poupko, the widow of Rabbi Eliezer Poupko, former dean of Orthodox rabbis in Philadelphia, and a Talmudic scholar in her own right, passed away today in Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/15/archives/pessie-poupko-talmudic-scholar-and-widow-of-rabbinical-leader.html

1976(19^th of Cheshvan, 5737): Seventy year old Yale trained psychologist and psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Yochelson the World War II veteran of the Army Medical Corps and the husband of “the former Kathryn Mersey” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/30/archives/dr-samuel-yochelson-dies-at-70-an-expert-on-criminal-behavior.html

1976: “Two-Minute Warning” one of those epic disaster films directed by Larry Peerce and co-starring Martin Balsam was released in the United States today.

1978(12^th of Cheshvan, 5739): Thirty-eight year old Barry Multer the son of Samuel L. Mutler and Estelle Strossman who played Guard for Rhode Island passed away today.

1980: Mayor Ed Koch admitted to trying marijuana.  Ah yes, the Jew with the Joint.

1982: Israeli political leader Avraham Hirschson and his wife gave birth to their second son Elroi.

1982: The Path to Power, Robert Caro’s fist volume about Lyndon Johnson which would win the 1983 National Book Award was released today.

1982: “White Dog,” a cinematic treatment of Romain Gary’s novel of the same name and directed by Samuel Fuller was released in the United States today.

1982: The Tucson Citizen published “Jewish Pioneers, Temple Due Honors” today which “snapshots of the lives of pioneer Jews Samuel and Philip Drachman, Albert Steinfeld, Isodore Gotthelf, and Sam Mansfeld.”

http://swja.arizona.edu/content/jewish-pioneers-temple-due-honors

1992(16^th of Cheshvan, 5753): Eighty-three year old Edward Mier Mayehoff the Baltimore born salesman turned actor passed away today.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562305/bio

1985: Birthdate of Roy Kafri the native of Moshav Nahal who has carved a career in the Israeli entertainment industry.

1992: Two days after he had passed away, 75 year old accountant Albert Weiner, the son of “Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic” and the husband of “Sylvia Cooper” was buried today in Baltimore, MD.

1993: CBS broadcast the final episode of “ Family Album,” a sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman.

1995: “Showtime” broadcast “Fearless” an episode of “Fallen Angels” based on “a novelette of the same name” by Walter Mosley who identifies as “African-American and Jewish.”

1996(1^st of Kislev, 5757): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1996(1^st of Kislev, 5757): Seventy-seven year old Denver native Aaron Klausner, the son Tillie (Bienenstock) Klausner and Josef Klausner and the husband of Pearl Kalusner passed away today.

1997:  In an unusual move, The Berlin Literary Trust released a statement that included Sir Isaiah Berlin's last letter expressing his views on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the events surrounding the writing and publication of the letter.



1997: Terrorist Ramsi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.



1997: Despite a tire-burning protest set off by the main event up the road – Today marked the grand opening of a new fortified complex encasing Rachel's Tomb, the traditional burial place of the wife of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The festivities, attended by hundreds of strictly Orthodox Jews, Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai and Israel's two Chief Rabbis, were a celebration of Israel's continued control of the ancient shrine venerated by Jews for generations. The opening took place despite a tire-burning protest which was part of the violent Palestinian protests that have been going on for the past twelve months. 



1998: At the Vivian Beaumont Theatrre “first preview performance” of “Parade” a musical that “dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank.”



1998: A Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s “Little Me” opened today at the Criterion Center Stage Right



2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Echoes Down The Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000 by Arthur Miller, Edited by Steven R. Centola, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World by Peggy Orenstein, Karl Popper – The Formative Years, Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna 1902-1945 by Malachi Haim Hacohen, Lower East Side A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner and One Palestine, Complete:Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev, Translated by Haim Watzman.





2000(14th of Cheshvan, 5761): Leah Rabin, widow of Yitzchak Rabin, passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/13/world/leah-rabin-israeli-first-lady-and-peace-advocate-dies-at-72.html?ref=leahrabin



2001(26^thof Cheshvan, 5762): Eighty-one year old “German American composer and actor” Albert Hague passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/arts/albert-hague-81-a-composer-and-actor.html



2003: Rabbi Asher Wade tackles questions of Holocaust, God at local lecture” published today described a lecture given by the Jewish leader who had been a pastor in the United Methodist Church until he converted in 1983.

http://ww2.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2003/200345/frederickcty/county/186594-1.html





2004: “Controversial American radio personality” advocates dropping a bomb on the funeral of Yasser Arafat.



2005: NYPD Chief of Detectives Al Seedman said that his decision to become a police officer date back to when “as a kid” he had been made “an Official Stairwell Monitor.”

2005: “Nothing Lasts Forever” a comedy produced by Lorne Michaels in 1984 that was not released to the public, co-starring Mort Sahl, Sam Jaffe and Eddie Fisher with music by Howard Shore was screened today at the St. Louis International Film Festival.

2006: “Grace period” granted to American born Joel Covington (a.k.a. rapper Rebel Sun) his wife Soshanna and their two Israeli born children is scheduled to come to an end.  The African American musician and his family have been attempting to make aliyah since 1999.  They are not Jewish.  They want to convert, but they cannot take part in a conversion program until they have visas and so far the government has not granted them visas; talk about “Catch 22.”

2006: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner and Too Soon to Say Goodbye by Art Buchwald.

2006: “Box on the Boulevard, an outdoor exhibit of large-scale Keren Kaymet boxes by contemporary Israeli artists,” opened in Haifa at the Carmel Auditorium.  These artistic renderings of the famed “little blue charity boxes” were warmly received at its opening in Tel Aviv.  The exhibit will be open in Haifa until November 26.

2006(15th of Cheshvan, 5767): Gary Siegel passed away at the age 62.  He was associate accounting professor at Depaul University and founder of the Jewish Burial Society of Chicago.

2006:  The 10^th Annual Dayton Jewish Book Fair comes to an end.

2006: Today, Bruce “Karatz retired from KB Home and agreed to pay the Company the profits he received based on KB Home’s stock option back-dating procedures.”

2007: The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under Doron Salomon presents a program featuring Balkan music at Ein HaShoresh in the Natania-Hadera region.

2007: Jewish economistRobert Kuttner, founder and co-editor of the magazine American Prospect, discusses and signs The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

2007 (2 Kislev 5768): Staff-Sergeant Asaf Waxman, 28, from Rishon Leziyon, was killed and four others were lightly to moderately injured when an armored personnel carrier overturned during a training exercise in the Golan Heights.

2007 (2 Kislev 5768): Seventy eight year old Ira Levin, “a mild-mannered playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the creeps” passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/books/14levin.html

2008: As part of the Israeli Voices Series, the Israeli guitar playing vocalist Chava Alberstein performed at the 92^nd St Y in Manhattan. 

2008: U.S. Jewish organizational leaders are scheduled to meet with the King of Saudi Arabia. The meeting is taking place in New York this week during an interfaith dialogue held under the auspices of the United Nations and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, who has pressed in recent years for greater interreligious understanding despite resistance from his kingdom’s Islamist clerics. The meeting will be held behind closed doors.

2008: This afternoon, IDF troops gunned down four Gaza terrorists as fresh clashes raised new concerns that the increasingly shaky five-month-old truce could collapse.

2008: In Budapest, “The 20th meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC)” came to a close today.

2008: Following a very close race, the media declared that Alaska Congressman Don Young had defeated Ethan Berkowitz and Don Wright.  Berkowitz is Jewish.  The other two are not.

2009: “Crocodile Tears” by Anthony Horowitz, the 8^th Alex Rider novel, was released in the UK today.

2009: The 31^st Annual Jewish Book Festival comes to a close.

2009: Opening of Jewish Book Month, an annual event sponsored by The Jewish Book Council.

2009: In Iowa City, Israeli Film & Food Night will include a showing of the award-winning Israeli film, The Band’s Visit.

2009: Judge Joseph “Wapner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame” today.

2009: Today a jury found Sholom Rubashkin, formerly a manager of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, guilty of 86 charges of money laundering and bank, mail and wire fraud. He faces another trial on 72 immigration charges.

2010: “The Electric Mind,” a documentary created by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Harel is scheduled to have its U.S. premiere at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.

2010: IAF pilot Major Amichai Itkis will be buried today in Kfar Saba. Itkis had died in a training crash along with his navigator, Major Emanuel Levi. The funeral will begin at noon in the Kfar Saba military cemetery. Itkis, 28, who lived in Sde Warburg, is survived by his parents and a sister. A brother, Barak, died in 1998 during his military service in the navy. Barak had dreamed of becoming a pilot but was unable to do so due to imperfect eyesight. Family friends said Thursday that becoming an IAF pilot was Amichai's dream as well. Amichai was engaged to marry in March. He had recently begun studying at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

2010: Antonia Fraser’s new memoir, “Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter,” is the first tome listed on the New York Times list of Coffee Table Books.

2010 Morris Lapidus: Architecture of Joy is one of the books on antiques that the New York Times recommends buying as a gift during the upcoming Holiday Season. [Lapidus is the Russian born American architect who set the style for the resort hotels built in Miami Beach and its environs during the 1950’s]

2010: Ariel Sharon was moved from the long-term care facility to his home in Havat Shikmim for a 48-hour period, the first of five planned home visits.

2010: “Tiny Furniture” “a comedy-drama written by, directed by and starring Lena Dunham” and also co-starring Laurie Simmons and Alex Karposvsky was released in the United States today.

2011(15^thof Cheshvan, 5772): Seventy-five year old “Evelyn H. Lauder, a refugee of Nazi-occupied Europe who married into an illustrious family in the beauty business and became an ardent advocate for breast cancer awareness, raising millions for research” passed away today. (As reported by Cathy Horn)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/nyregion/evelyn-h-lauder-champion-of-breast-cancer-research-dies-at-75.html?_r=0

2011: The 3^rd Annual International Holiday Bazaar is scheduled to begin at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

2011: The Hadassah Attorneys' Council of Greater Washington  is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Charles S. Fax entitled "Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: Suing the Hungarian State Railroad Company in Federal Court For Its Role in Transporting Jews to the Auschwitz Death Camp"

2011: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to sponsor its Fall Fundraising Gala: A Night of the Arts in Arlington, VA.

2011: Around 10,000 people gathered in Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv this evening for a memorial for the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 16 years ago by a right-wing Jewish extremist.

2011: Seventy-five year old “Evelyn H. Lauder, a refugee of Nazi-occupied Europe who married into an illustrious family in the beauty business and became an ardent advocate for breast cancer awareness, raising millions for research died today from the effects of nongenetic ovarian cancer. (As reported by Cathy Horyn)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/nyregion/evelyn-h-lauder-champion-of-breast-cancer-research-dies-at-75.html



2012: At the UK Jewish Film Festival premiere screening of “Life In Stills,” about the life and work of Israeli photographer Rudi Wasserstein.



2012: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “The Ritchie Boys” as part of the Veteran’s Day commemorations.



2012: Dorit Beinisch, the first woman to serve as President of the Israeli Supreme Court, “was awarded Doctor of Philosophy "honoris causa" degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science.”



 2012: Muhamad Abd al-Wahab, Farid al-Atrash, Layla Mourad and Asmahan are scheduled to perform at the Jerusalem International Oud Festival. (The pear-shaped instrument is compared to the lute)



2012: A Grad rocket landed in the yard of a house in the southern city of Netivot this morning. No one was injured, but the explosion caused damage to the building and its surroundings, leading to power outages in parts of the city. Twenty-six people were treated for shock.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iaf-strikes-three-terror-targets-in-gaza-overnight/



2012: There’s no predominantly anti-Israel sentiment on most American campuses – rather apathy is the true danger facing the Jewish state, according to an Israeli diplomat.



2012: Israel fired at and struck two Syrian mortar launchers today, following the second time in as many days that Syrian artillery shells exploded in Israeli territory. A tank from the 401 Armored Brigade fired at the Syrian targets in what was an escalated Israeli retaliation to Syrian fire. Unlike Sunday’s exchange, the IDF fired with the intention of hitting its target, as part of a new policy designed to deter Syrian forces from firing into Israel.



2013: The Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Anne Frank Trust is scheduled to host Baroness Helena Kennedy who will speak on “What Does the Rule of Law Really Mean?”



2013: In Jerusalem, the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America chaired by CEO Jerry Silverman is scheduled to end today.



2013: Today, in Washington, D.C, “75 people” including Bulgarian Ambassador Elena Poptodorova, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and Neil Glick attended a ceremony naming “the intersection adjacent to the Embassy of Bulgaria at 22^ndStreet and R Street, NW, Dimitar Peshev Plaza” in honor of Dimitar Peshev, the Bulgarian leader who helped to prevent the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews “ for which he was named one of the "Righteous Among the Nations".



2013: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “Water: Israeli-Palestinian Cinematic Project.



2013: Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called today for the urgent release of imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard a day after US Ambassador Dan Shapiro appeared to end hope that he would be freed any time soon. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)



2013: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu directed Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel to "reconsider" plans for preliminary planning of some 24,0000 housing units beyond the Green Line, saying this would harm efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program. (As reported by Herb Heinon and Tovah Lazaroff)



2013: Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar responded today to Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe Abutbul's homophobic remarks in a Friday interview with Channel 10, saying: "I condemn, in the most unequivocal way, the words of Beit Shemesh mayor. The things that he said represent a dark and outrageous perception, and it's hard to believe that someone would say these things in this day and age." (As reported by Omri Efraim



2014: “In a new spree of anti-Semitic incidents in Paris, a kosher restaurant is firebombed, and a Jewish student wearing a yarmulke is assaulted outside his private high school.”



2014: The Skirball Center and the United States are scheduled to host “Rescuing the Evidence: Three Minutes in Poland” 



2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro.”



2014: The University of Connecticut is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Sanders on “Scholem’s Myth of Oral Torah and Jewish Interpretation before the Bible”



2014: “The Foreign Ministry announced today it would not cooperate with the UN inquiry into the summer Gaza conflict, and rejected an entry request issued by three members of the investigative committee seeking to gather evidence, leaving them stranded in Amman. (As reported by Mariss Newman)



2014: “A new report from the Ministry of Health into the leading causes of death in Israel between 2000 and 2011 shows a significant decline in mortality from heart disease, stroke, accidents, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases over the past decade. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in fatalities from Alzheimer's and dementia.” (As reported by Yaron Keiner)



2014: Oren Kosansky, an “Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lewis & Clark College” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Jewish-Muslim relations in Morocco as part of Portland Jewish Book Month.



2015(30^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



2015(30^thof Cheshvan, 5776): Ninety-three year old portrait artist Aaron Shikler passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/arts/aaron-shikler-portrait-artist-known-for-images-of-americas-elite-dies-at-93.html?h



2015: Funeral services are scheduled to be held at Temple Judah for 93 year old Fred Rodgers, a long-time member of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community followed by burial at Eben Israel Cemetery.  Ironically, Mr. Rodgers passed away on November 10, the day after Kristallnacht. For years, Mr. Rogers would speak each about Kristallnacht describing his family’s experience at that time while living in Frankfort.



2015: Hezbollah weapons warehouses were the targets of this afternoon’s Israeli airstrikes in Syria.



2015: Angela Bothelo is scheduled to lecture on “Modern Marrano: German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion as part of the Speakers Series sponsored by the Tulane University Jewish Studies Department.



2015: “Fired Birds” and “Sabena” are scheduled to be shown at the 29^thIsrael Film Festival in Los Angeles.



2015: The Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College is scheduled to host a screening of “The Return,” “a documentary about being young and Jewish in today’s Poland, followed by a discussion with director Adam Zucker.”



2015: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “author and film historian Thomas Doherty-Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University-as he addresses the impact of Nazism in films and newsreels from his book Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939.”



2016(11^thof Cheshvan, 5777): Parashat Lech-Lecha



2016: The Shabbos project continues

https://www.theshabbosproject.org/en/?gclid=CMG4vpOMldACFQcIaQodGIEGrQ



2016: “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “A Grain of Truth” are scheduled to be shown at the 20^th UK International Jewish Film Festival.



2016; In Canberra, “The People vs Fritz Bauer is scheduled be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: The 106 year old Mexican-born actress Lupita Tovar, the wife of Paul Kohner, the Czechoslovakian born Jewish producer whom she married in 1932 and the mother of actress Susan Kohner, passed away today.

2016; Agudas Achim is scheduled to host “Eat, Sing, Love--an Evening of Jewish Music” as part of the congregation’s centennial celebration.

2016: “Wounded Land” and “Sand Storm” are scheduled to be shown at the

11^thChicago Festival of Israeli Cinema.

2016: “Israel moved into third place with nine points in its soccer World Cup qualifying Group G by beating Albania 3-0 in Elbasan, near Tirana” tonight.

2016: “Big: The Musical” featuring music by David Shire and with a book by John Weidman, the son of Jerome Weidman is scheduled to have its final performance at the Theatre Royal Plymouth tonight.

2017: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory by Michael Korda, The Bad Mood and The Stick by Lemony Snicket, The Boy and The Whale by Mordicai Gerstein and the recently released paperback editions of Idaho by Emily Ruskovich and Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman as well as Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequalityby Jonah Winter which appeared on list of “The Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017.”

2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a “reading of Toni and Markus written by Walter Roth explores the everyday lives of the author's relatives both in German, and as refugees in Chicago.”

2017: In Des Moines, Beit Sefer Shalom is scheduled to host a “Global Day of Jewish Learning.”

http://www.theglobalday.org/about/?utm_source=Aleph+Society+and+The+Global+Day+of+Jewish+Learning&utm_campaign=374575c836-Aleph_GDJL_JDC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_32f0e43b07-374575c836-207730901



2017: In Manchester, UK, as part this year’s “Remembrance Sunday” members of the Jewish community are scheduled “to place small wooden Magen Davis poppies” which “are an innovative joint initiative between the Jewish Representative Council (JPR) and the Manchester branch of the national Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX)” “at cenotaphs across the city.”

2017: The Primo Levi Center is scheduled to present “Dressing the Sacred Text: Mappòt, Me’ilim and Parochyot in the Synagogues of Rome.”

2017: In honor of Veterans Day, The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, the National Museum of American Jewish Military History and Jewish War Veterans of the USA are scheduled to co-host a tour the Jewish Sites at Arlington National Cemetery.

2017: The 19^th annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Seminar is scheduled to take place today in NYV.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such Herman Wouk who has been with us for more than half a century and Jewish books for the next thirty days is scheduled to begin today.

2018: In an interview broadcast on CBS’s “60 Minutes, “six-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman” who is Jewish “said that she was sexually abused by Dr. Larry Nassar, who worked as the women’s gymnastics national team doctor of decades.”
2018: The Zionist Organization of America feted Stephen K. Bannon, a founding member of the board of Breitbart News, at a gala dinner in New York tonight

2018: The “Parallel Lines” Jewelry Exhibition featuring works by Israeli artists Naama Bergman, Tamar Navama, Ruta Reifen, Dana Hakim, Noga Harel, Vered Kaminski, and Einat Leader” is scheduled to open today in New York City.

2018: Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to host curator Jacob Wisse as he leads “a tour of Lost & Found, exploring the remarkable story of a pre-war family photo album that was owned a woman who was deported from the Kovno Ghetto in 1943.”

2018: Dr. David Kraemer is scheduled to teach the second class on “Maimonides, The Man and His Genius” at the Streicker Center

2018: Centro Primo Levi and The American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present an evening with Dora Piperno, Celeste Pavoncello Piperno and Rav Umberto Piperno who will discuss “The Silk Tallit Renaissance.”

http://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/filo-so-fare/



2018: The Temple Emanu-El Steicker Center is scheduled to host “Jewish Broadway” during which “leading Broadway and nightclub stars will celebrate the iconic tunes that brought the Jewish American songbook to life, putting its indelible stamp on the popular culture of our country and the world.”

2018: Classes have been canceled in Israeli communities along the border with Gaza following rocket attacks and clashes with Hamas terrorists that claimed the life of a yet to be identified IDF officer

2019: In London, the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “A Cantor’s Head
and “The Diary of Diana B.”

2019: The Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society and The Workmen’s Circle are scheduled to host “History Behind the Headlines: Socialism”, “the first in a series of programs designed to look at today’s political issue against the backdrop of history.”

2019: The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host “The Origins of, Parallels between, Zionism and Black Nationalism,” the “third and final event in the HNCU Speaker Series.

2019: In Sebastopol, CA, the Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of the comedy “Abe.”

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354:  Birthdate of St. Augustine of Hippo.  While St. Augustine may be held in high regard by the Roman Catholic Church, he held the Jews in especially low regard. In his famous work The City of God, Augustine reports that the Jews were exiled because of their rejection of Jesus. The dispersal of the Jews to so many different places is way of reminding Christians that their belief in Jesus as Messiah is correct.  The exile came about because the Jews were enemies of the Church, but the Jews must not be slain so that they can finally see the error of their ways and repent.  The sword of Constantine and the cross of Augustine would soon draw together to make a bitter brew for Jews for centuries to come.

361: Emperor Constantius II who continued the anti-Semitic policies of his father and who, among other things, “decreed that a person who was proven to have converted from Christianity to Judaism would have all of his property confiscated by the state” passed away today. (Those who contend that Christianity grew because of spiritual superiority might want to rethink this in light of this entry)

1093: Normans loyal to King William Rufus who had “managed to prevent the massacre of Jews in England like those that had taken place in Rouen and the Rhineland that had preceded the First Crusade” were victorious at the “Battle of Alnwick”

1160:  Marriage of Louis VII of France with Adele of Champagne. Unfortunately, this marriage produced King Phillip II who exploited the Jews and then expelled them from his kingdom. 

1312: At Windsor Castle, King Edward II and Isabella of France gave birth to King Edward III who borrowed 140,000 florins “on the eve of the Hundred Years’ War” from a consortium led by Vivelin of Strasbourg, “an Alsatian Jewish financier” who was thought to be “one of the richest people living in the Holy Roman Empire.”

1460: Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal passed away at the age of 66.  A devout Catholic who was a master of the Knights Templar, Henry was dedicated to bring glory to Portugal through maritime endeavors.  To that end he was only too willing to employ Jewish mathematicians, astronomers and cartographers despite his strong Crusading temperament.

1549: Paul Fagius, who learned Hebrew from Elia Levita with whom he founded a printing business that published Shemot Devarim, an Old Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary, in 1542 and who served as Hebrew lecturer at the University of Cambridge before being replaced by convert Immanuel Tremellius passed away today.

1685: King James II of England ordered the Attorney General to stop any proceedings against the Jews because “they should not be troubled upon his (the King’s) account but they should quietly enjoy the free exercise of their religion whilst they behaved dutifully and obediently to his government.”

1742: Founding of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters to which Ludwig Lewin Jacobson in 1809 announced rediscovery of and researches concerning a hitherto unknown absorptive organ in the human nose (later named after him "the Jacobsonian organ").

1757: The Talmud was publicly burned in Kamenets-Podolski (Poland). Jacob Frank, a follower of the false Messiah Shabbetai Zevi had begun his own movement which emphasized the Kabbalah and denigrated the Talmud. His practices (some of which were of sexual nature) were condemned by the local Rabbinate. In revenge, he arranged a dispute in Lvov between himself and the local Jewish leaders. Bishop Nicholas Dembowski who presided over the disputation ruled in favor of Frank and ordered all copies of the Talmud found to be dragged through the streets and burned. Around 1000 copies of the Talmud were destroyed. Within a few years, many of the Frankists converted to Christianity.

1761(19^th of Cheshvan, 5522): Nathan Nata Spira, the son of Selig Spira and grandson of Nathan Nata Spira passed away at at Eibenschütz, in Moravia, where he had been serving as rabbi for the past year.

1769: Sarah Cohen and Henry Marks gave birth to Miriam Marks was living in Philadelphia when she passed away in 1784.

1773(o.s.): In Liozna, Sterna Segal and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi gave birth to Dovber Schneuri the second Rebbe of  the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement also known as the “Mitteler Rebbe” or Middle Reebe since he was the second in the chain of the first three leaders of Chabad.

1779: Birthdate of German native Solomon Samuel Massenbacher, the husband of Lisette Arnold and father of Isabella, Caroline, Miriam, Hester and Jeanette Massenbacher.

1785:Hirsch Janow, known as “Hirsch Harfi” (Hirsch the acute)  who had succeeded his father-in-law Raphael Kohn as the rabbi of Posen in 1776 before becoming chief rabbi at Furth passed away today in Bavaria.

1787: In Essingen, Germany, “Bunle Babetter Isaac” and Emanuale Nathan Scharff gave birth to Abraham Scharff, the husband of Nanette Dreyfus and father of Sara, Heinrich, Regine, Isaac, Esther and Babette Scharff.

1791: King Louis XVI signed the resolution of emancipation guaranteeing all French Jews full rights of citizenship.

1796: In Offenbach-on-the Main, Wolf Breidenbach and his wife gave birth to Moritz Breidenbach, who earned an LL.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1817 “whose principal literary work was his commentary on the Hessian legal code” of which he had been the “principal author.”

1797: In Buchau, Germany, Sarah Binswanger and David Wolf Bernheim gave birth to Jakob Bernheim, the husband of Katharina Heilbronner and father of David, Benedic “Isak,” and Emanuel Bernheim.

1798: In Heidenheim, Germany, Barbara Adelsdorfer and Moses Hausman gave birth to “Jeutle (Judith) Hausman,” the wife of Isaak Baer and mother of Bernard, Babette, Mary, David, Samuel, Moses and Fanny Baer.

1799: Henry Harris married Fyla Frances at the Great Synagogue today.

1799: Moses Levy married Sarah Phillips at the Great Synagogue today.

1806: Jewish merchants of Gibraltar wrote Aaron Nunez Cardozo a prominent merchant serving as a liaison between the British government and the Muslim Barbary States seeking his help in getting them an exemption from the Moroccan dress code for dhimmis. As the following entry shows, dhimmi status was part of the “peculiar relationship” that the Muslims imposed on the Jews.  “The Muslim attitude toward Jews is reflected in various verses throughout the Koran, the holy book of the Islamic faith. "They [the Children of Israel] were consigned to humiliation and wretchedness. They brought the wrath of God upon themselves, and this because they used to deny God's signs and kill His Prophets unjustly and because they disobeyed and were transgressors" (Sura 2:61). According to the Koran, the Jews try to introduce corruption (5:64), have always been disobedient (5:78), and are enemies of Allah, the Prophet and the angels (2:97­98). Still, as "People of the Book," Jews (and Christians) are protected under Islamic law. The traditional concept of the "dhimma"("writ of protection") was extended by Muslim conquerors to Christians and Jews in exchange for their subordination to the Muslims. Peoples subjected to Muslim rule usually had a choice between death and conversion, but Jews and Christians, who adhered to the Scriptures, were allowed as dhimmis (protected persons) to practice their faith. This "protection" did little, however, to insure that Jews and Christians were treated well by the Muslims. On the contrary, an integral aspect of the dhimma was that, being an infidel, he had to openly acknowledge the superiority of the true believer--the Muslim. In the early years of the Islamic conquest, the "tribute" (or jizya), paid as a yearly poll tax, symbolized the subordination of the dhimmi. Later, the inferior status of Jews and Christians was reinforced through a series of regulations that governed the behavior of the dhimmi. Dhimmis, on pain of death, were forbidden to mock or criticize the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize among Muslims or to touch a Muslim woman (though a Muslim man could take a non-­Muslim as a wife). Dhimmis were excluded from public office and armed service, and were forbidden to bear arms. They were not allowed to ride horses or camels, to build synagogues or churches taller than mosques, to construct houses higher than those of Muslims or to drink wine in public. They were not allowed to pray or mourn in loud voices-as that might offend the Muslims. The dhimmi had to show public deference toward Muslims-always yielding them the center of the road. The dhimmi was not allowed to give evidence in court against a Muslim, and his oath was unacceptable in an Islamic court. To defend himself, the dhimmi would have to purchase Muslim witnesses at great expense. This left the dhimmi with little legal recourse when harmed by a Muslim. Dhimmis were also forced to wear distinctive clothing. In the ninth century, for example, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews, setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany. The Moslem view of the Jew as permanent second class citizen would help to explain the hostility towards the state of Israel.  Under the concept of dhimmi Moslems could not accept living in a state where Jews had equal rights and they certainly could not accept living in a state that had been created by a victory of Jewish soldiers over soldiers of Islam.

1809: Birthdate of Kingston, Jamaica native Moses Joseph Henriques, the husband of Sarah Henriques and the father of Elizabeth Henriques.

1817: In London, Isabel and Isaac Lyon Goldsmid gave birth to Caroline Goldsmid.

1827: Birthdate of Philadelphia lawyer Leonard Myers, the native of Attleborough, PA who “was elected as Republican from the 3^rdDistrict of Pennsylvania to the 38^th, 39^th, 40^th, 41^st, 42^nd and 43^rd Congresses.”

1830: Joseph Mérilhou, the Minister of Public Education under Louis Phillippe, offered a motion placing Judaism on an equal footing with the Christian religions, paying Synagogues and rabbis from the public treasury in the same manner as was done for Churches and their ministers.  In presenting his motion, "which was adopted by a large majority" Merilhou spoke approvingly of how well Jews had performed as citizens of the republice since they had been granted citizenship during the French Revolution.

1833: Birthdate of Edwin Booth, a member of the famous 19^thcentury acting family of whom critics said that “there is no other actor who can realize so well as he all the meaning of the character of Shylock, the bitter hatred, the firmness of purpose, the deep passion, the unswerving faith and the tenderness of his undemonstrative affection for his child” which sets apart from all his contemporaries including Lawrence Barrett..

1834: Birthdate of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto a New York born lawyer who was the son of Dr. Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto and the grandson of Rabbi Moses L. M. Peixotto. After attending school in New York he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied law under Stephen A. Douglas and wrote for the Cleveland Plaindealer. In 1867 he removed to San Francisco, where he continued his practice as a lawyer. In 1870-'5 he was United States consul in Bucharest, Romania, where his influence was marked in securing civil and religious liberty. In 1876 he returned to the United States and took part in the presidential canvass in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1877 he declined the appointment of consul-general at St. Petersburg. He was subsequently made United States consul at Lyons, France, a post which he held until 1885, when he returned to New York and resumed the practice of law. Peixotto was active in various Jewish educational and charitable movements throughout the United States.  A well-known lecturer, he was the editor of the Menorah, a publication established in 1886 which highlighted the activities of the B’nai Brith as well as the Jewish religion and literature.

1837: In Texas, Abraham Lewis who had served as “a member of Captain James C. Winn’s Company” during the fight for independence “was issued Bounty Certificate No. 278 for 640 acres” today for having served in the army

1839: In Darmstadt, Germany, Lob and Bina Oppenheimer gave birth to Rosa Oppenheimer who became Rosa Bloom when she married her second husband Isidor Bloom.

1839: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Gustavus Poznanski officiated at the wedding of John J. Cohen of Augusta, GA and Miss Cornelia Anne Jacobs, the daughter of Colonel Jacobs.

1844(3rd of Kislev): Purim Amtchislav (Mstislavl, Belorussia) was annually observed by that community in a commemoration of a happy event that took place on that day

1844: Czar Nicholas I of Russia issued a decree calling for the establishment of a school for Jewish students and a seminary to train rabbis and teachers.  This was not nearly as benign as it sounded and most Jews avoided the siren call of enrolling their young in schools run by the government of Czarist Russia.  The Czar had a secret plan to gradually close the old Jewish schools and thus leave Jewish education in the hands of a government committed to the extinction of the Jewish people in Russia.

1845: In Germany, Zadek and Esther Machol gave birth to Michaelis Machol, the graduate of the Theological Seminary of Breslau and served as rabbi at Kehillath Anshe Maariv in Chicago before beginning his long-term service as a Rabbi at Temple Anshe Chesed in Cleveland, Ohio.

http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/machol.htm

http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/people/machol-ccar.htm

1849: The Hebrew Benevolent and German Hebrew Benevolent Society are scheduled to hold its anniversary in New York City.



1852: Birthdate of Jacob Voorsanger, the native of Amsterdam who came to the United States in the early 1870’s where he served as the rabbi at several congregations including Emanu-El in San Francisco while also serving as a professor of Semitic Languages at the University of California and a chaplain at Stanford.

1853: Birthdate of Moses Alexander, the Mayor of Boise and Governor of Idaho who was the husband of Helena Kaestner Alexander and the father of Leha Alexander Spiro.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article195798964.html

http://americanjewisharchives.org/education/timeline/alex_moses.html



1855: Rabbi Isidor Kalisch’s translation of a Phoenician inscription that had been found in Sidon, Asia was read before the Syro-Egyptian Society of London,

1856: Birthdate of Louis Brandeis.  Southern born, Harvard educated; Brandeis pursued a successful legal career as a champion of the underdog.  He was an ally and confidant of President Woodrow Wilson.  Wilson appointed Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916.  This was a milestone in American history and Jewish history.  Brandeis was the first Jew named to the high court.  He was also the first of whole group of minorities who would eventually take their place on the court including African-American and women.  The Brandeis nomination was contested by anti-Semites and the American business community.  Brandeis served on the bench until 1939.  Brandeis was also a committed Zionist and a leader of the movement in the United States.  He passed away in 1941.  Words from Brandeis: “The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”  “Every American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will be a better man and a better American for doing so.” 

https://www.oyez.org/justices/louis_d_brandeis

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

1856: In New York, the Hebrew Benevolent Society celebrated the 35^thanniversary of its founding with a lavish banquet held in the City Assembly Rooms.

1857: One day after he had passed away, 61 year old Lewis Abrahams, the husband of Julia Abrahams and the father of Charles Abrahams was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1858:  The New York Times reported that "the Jews of New Orleans have contributed $150 for the New Orleans sick."

1860: Four days after he passed away, Reuben Salomons, the son of Barent and Rose Salomons and the husband of the former Sarah Hurwitz was buried today at the Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.



1863: Sixty-four year old Alexander McCaul, the Anglo-Irish author who spent over a decade trying to convert Jews in Poland, who “wrote vigorously against the blood libel” and who “became professor of Hebrew and rabbinical literature at King’s College, London” passed away today.

1866: In Louisville, KY, Moritz and Esther Flexner gave birth to Dr. Abraham Flexner, the husband of the former Anne Crawford with whom he had two daughters Jean and Eleanor

https://www.ias.edu/flexner-life



1868: In Philadelphia, “Seligman Bernheimer and Betty Loeb” gave birth to Dr. Charles S. Bernheimer, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Union and a member of the Jewish Chautauqua Society who was the “compiler and editor” of “The Russian Jew in the United States.”

1871: In Orangeburg, SC, Philip and Jennie Rich were wed today.

                                               

1872: It was reported today that, based on information that had first appeared in The Times of London that the suffering of the Romanian Jews has given rise to a demand for concerted action by their co-religionists to protest and improve their condition.  A conference to be held in Brussels for this purpose is attracting delegates who are prominent leaders from several places including Paris, London and Berlin.

1872: Birthdate of Savannah, GA native Charles Garfunkel, the husband of Lina Adler Garfunkel with whom he had two sons – Benjamin and Sylvan

1873: One day after she had passed away, Edith Russell was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1875: Birthdate of Gershon Lichetenstein, the native of Babimost who would be murdered by the Nazis in Lodz at the age of 65.

1878: Birthdate of German born American mathematician Max Wilhelm Dehn, who look so many others gave up his career in his homeland with the rise of the Nazis, but unlike others, was able to find refuge in the United States.

1880: Todays dispatch to the London Standard from Berlin stated “A petition has been presented to Prince Bismarck to restrict the civil rights of the Jews and repeal the absolute equality enjoyed by them with German citizens.” (Prince Bismarck is Otto Von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor who really ran Germany)

1881: Seventy-four year old Harris Michaels, the husband of the former Elizabeth Daniel and the father of Priscilla Michaels, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1882: It was reported today that “the Mount Sinai Hospital…is one of the leading hospitals” in New York City.  It treats patients of all creeds and its “list of free patients is as large as any other institution of its kind in the country.”

1882(2^nd of Kislev, 5643): Ephraim Alex the Anglo-Jewish philanthropist who served as overseer of the Great Synagogue and founded the Jewish Board of Guardians passed away today in London.

1883: It was reported today that when the Lord Mayor of London refused to allow the Dr. Stocker, the anti-Semitic Chaplain to the Court of Germany to lecture at Mansion House, he said “he could not disregard the feelings of the Jewish community of London by giving prominence…to a man who has excited hostility against the Jews.”

1884: Rosa Schuminchler, a Polish Jewess who had previously been deported, and her seven children were among those who arrived in the United States today aboard the SS Queen

1884: Samuel A. Lewis, Tammany political leader, former President of the Board of Alderman an the editor of a Jewish newspaper was arrested as a result of civil suit brought by his sister, Harriet L. Lewis.

1884: “Mgr. Capel on Patriotism” published today described the speech by Monsignor Thomas John Capel to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association” in which he calls for quality public education where the teachers are “appointed upon their merits and goodness” and not “because they are friends of the mayor.” In describing the role of women, he reminds his listeners that “husbands are breadwinners” but women “are formers of character.” (Why Capel, a Catholic priest who stood accused of a variety of “improprieties” during his lifetime, was chosen to lecture to a Jewish organization is something for which I have not found an explanation.)

1884: English thespians Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will perform “The Merchant of Venice” this evening.  She will play the Jewess Portia and he will play Shylock, the Jew – one of his signature dramatic roles.  (Based on newspaper accounts at the time, this particular Shakespearian drama was extremely popular in the post-Civil War United States.)

1885: William Sharon, the former Senator from Nevada, who would bequeath $5,000 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum at San Francisco passed away today.

1886: It was reported today that plans are being made for a concert at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.

1887: In Estonia, “Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg” gave birth to American sculptor Minna Harkavy, a founding member of both the Sculptors Guild and the New York Society of Women Artists who was the wife of pharmacist and Yiddish author Louis Harkavy.

1888: One day after she had passed away, Henrietta Salamon, the daughter of Solomon and Harriet Prager Levien and the wife of Edward Salamon with whom she had eight children was buried today at the “Rookwood Cemetery in Rookwood, NSW Australia.”

1889: A delegation of Jews went to New York political leader Coroner Levy to protest the failure of authorities to bury Abraham Bergman, a child who died two weeks ago.

1892: “Israel in the Wilderness” a cantata by Dr. Alfred R. Gaul which opens with “a Hebrew chorale” was performed for the first time in New York City.

1892: Founding of the Perth Hebrew Congregation “the oldest of three synagogues serving the Jewish community of Perth, Australia”

1892: The Trustees of Temple Emanu-El met today and decided to hold a memorial service in honor of the late Seligman Adler the New York businessman who was a trustee of the Temple for 22 years.

1893: In Romania, birthdate of Rubin Zelicovici, who gained fame as Israeli painter Reuven Rubin whose works included an oil canvas painted in 1922 entitled “Self Portrait with a Flower” which is on display in the Rubin Museum. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038@N08/6152510301/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/reuven-rubin

For more of his paintings see http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/galleryE.asp?artist=277535&list=

1894: In Vienna, Jewish philosopher Nathan Birnbaum and Rosa Korngut gave birth to Austrian artist Uriel Birnbaum.

1894: Three days after she had passed away, Kettchen May, the daughter of Isaak Simon Landauer and Sprinz Salomon Michel and wife of Ferdinand May was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road.

1894: Following their debut at London in July pianists Rose Laura Sutro and Ottilie Sutro played a Bach concerto during their American debut which took place in Brooklyn today.

1895: According to a summary of the United Hebrew Charities’ monthly report, during October the society processed 2,507 applications which provided assistance for a total of 8, 356 people.

1895: Work of United Hebrew Charities” published today described the successful operations of this New York organization which collected $14, 413. 50 this past month of which it spent over $10,000 to provide services ranging from the support of an industrial school for girls to providing transportation for immigrants to settle in other parts of the country.

1895: After the Emperor had refused to ratify the election of “Dr. Karl Luger, the anti-Semitic leader in the Reichsrath” as Burgomaster of Vienna, the Municipal Council elected him to the position again today which led to an imperial decree dissolving the council.

1895: The New York Times reported on an instructive and most entertaining lecture on the subject of “Ghosts” given in the West End Synagogue by Rabbi F. de Sola Mendes to an audience composed almost entirely of women and young girls.

1896: “Dowers For Orphan Girls” published today described the work of the newly formed Greater New York German Orphan Society which was modeled on a program started several years ago by Mr. Morgenthau for Jewish girls that will provide dowries to German girls, regardless of their religious denomination which will enable these worthy but impoverished maidens a chance to enjoy the benefits of marriage.

1897: Birthdate of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Friedman, the founder and former spiritual leader of the Garment Center Synagogue in Manhattan. Born in Jerusalem, Rabbi Friedman came to the United States with his mother and brother in 1918 to escape famine in his homeland. His father had arrived a year earlier. Trained as a scribe, Rabbi Friedman began his rabbinical studies in 1919. He was a rabbinical graduate of Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1921. After his ordination, he was appointed rabbi of Congregation Ezrath Israel in Ellenville, N.Y., a position he held for four years before moving to Brooklyn. In 1931, after serving at several synagogues in New York City, Rabbi Friedman founded the Garment Center Synagogue. In the mid-1950's, he was named rabbi emeritus. He passed away in 1993 at the age of 95.



1897(18^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Mrs. Marion Levy, the widow of A.S. Levy, who was born in New York in 1857 and who later moved to Brooklyn passed away in her adopted home town.



1897(18^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Sixty-four year old Dutch banker and philanthropist A.C. (Abraham Carel) Wertheim who was the husband of Rosalie Marie Wertheim with whom he had eight children passed away today.

1897(18^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Sixty-seven year old James Picciotto passed away today at his mother-in-law’s residence in London.



1897: In Vienna police were called to quell the fighting that broke out today between German and Jewish university students



1897: “The Rev. Sabato Morais” published today eulogized the life of the recently deceased Rabbi whom the secular press said devoted his life “ to the promotion of the liberty and advancement of the human race, the defense of the conservatism of the Jewish religion and the leadership and uplifting of the Jewish People.”



1898: Plans were published today describing the upcoming course of Monday talks to be given at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.



1899: In Chicago, Julia (née Cohen) and Paul Caspary gave birth to American “lady of letters” Vera Louise Caspary who wrote the novel Laura, which was turned into one of the finest films-noire

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/17/obituaries/vera-caspary-screenwriter-and-novelist.html?sq=Vera+Caspary&scp=1&st=nyt



1900: Herzl meets the French millionaire Reitlinger and discusses the idea of redeeming the Turkish debt.

1903(22nd of Cheshvan, 5664): French impressionist painter Camille Pissarro passed away at the age of 73. Born Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro he was the son of a Sephardic Jew living in the Virgin Islands where owned by Denmark. “None of Pissarro's paintings refer to the Bible or Jewish rituals or include Hebrew inscriptions. However, the art historian Stephanie Rachum has pointed out references to Judaism in three pen and ink drawings that Pissarro created in 1890 for his nieces. In "Capitol," Pissarro drew a smartly-dressed man with a hooked nose amidst throngs of needy people. In a letter to his nieces, Pissarro identified the ‘vulgar and ugly’ figure as a portrait of a rich Jew, ‘of an Oppenheim, of a Rothschild, of a Gould, whatever.’ The hooked noses appear in two other illustrations in the series, which also depict the Golden Calf. Although some might consider Pissarro a self-hating Jew for drawing these pictures, it is significant that they were not intended for publication. They reflect the complicated way in which his anarchist political views confronted his Jewish identity; to Pissarro, a rich Jew seemed to have been primarily a rich man and coincidentally Jewish. Joachim Pissarro, an art scholar and Camille's great-grandson, suggests that Camille's complicated relationship with Judaism impacted his work. The artist's religious struggles helped him develop, according to Joachim, "a critical stance which he could apply to the system of taste and to the conventions that governed art teaching at the time of his arrival in France in 1855."

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Art/History_and_Theory/Jewish_Painters/pissarro.shtml

1904: In Hamburg, Louise (née Löwenthal) and John Biermann gave birth to Dagobert Biermann the Jewish resistance fighter who was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz.

1905: “Jacob H. Schiff told an audience at the headquarters of the Educational Alliance” tonight “of the outrages” suffered by the Jews of Russia which is causing their “exodus…to the United States” where they “would make… the greatest Jew of all the ages.”

1905: As of tonight, approximately $40,000 “has been collected by the various Jewish organizations” in Philadelphia, PA for the relief of the Jewish “survivors of the massacre in Russia.”

1905: “At the meeting of the Executive Committee” today ‘in the United Hebrew Charities Building word was received from the banking houses of Rothschild in London and Paris that London’s fund, of which Baron Rothschild is Treasurer, has reached £53,000 and the Paris fund is 625,000 francs which is about half the London fund.”

1905: According to Mr. Spring-Rice, the Attaché of the British Legation, today, “the house of every Jew in St. Petersburg was marked with chalk as a preliminary to a general campaign against the Jewish race”

1905: As a sign that the concern for the plight of the Jews of Russia is not limited to a single “creed or faith” a meeting is scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Baptist Church of the Epiphany at Madison and 64^thStreet “to protest against the massacres and to take steps to aid in the relief work.”

1905: The Free Sons of Israel sent a “communication” today to Jacob Schiff declaring that the Order “was now actively engaged in the collection in the collection of money for the alleviation of the sufferings of the Russian Hebrews” along with its first contribution of $1,000.

1905: In Odessa, “the dismissal of Prefect D.B. Neidhartd” who is considered to be responsible for many of the recent anti-Semitic attacks “was announced this evening” which brought “rejoicing to the Jewish population.”

1906: In spite of her efforts to conceal the fact, Eleanora Leigh, the actress appearing in “Pippa Passes” at the Majestic Theatre finally conceded that she is really “Alice Lewisohn, the daughter of the late Leonard Lewisohn and the sister of Jesse Lewisohn.

1906: Birthdate of Eva Zeisel, American industrial designer. Born in Hungary, Zeisel is another refugee from Hitler’s Europe who enriched American culture; in her case in the world of ceramics and pottery.

1906: Miss Alice Lewisohn, the daughter of the late Leonard Lewisohn and the sister of Jesse Lewisohn explained that she was performing in “Pippa Passes” under the name of “Eleanora Leigh” because while she enjoyed the theatre she did not want to be known as a professional actress.

1907: In West Park, Ohio, Wilbur and May Nichols gave birth to Kenneth David “Nick” Nichols, a Major General who played a key role in the Manhattan project and who was one of the driving forces behind removing the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer whom he said was a community “in every sense except that he did not carry a party card.”

1908: Birthdate of New York City native Robert Garvey Cohn, the CCNY trained writer.

1909(29^th of Cheshvan, 5670): Parashat Toldot

1909(29^th of Cheshvan, 5670): Elje Schafirstein passed away today.

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 the University of Pennsylvania today.

1909: The Tennessee Volunteers coached by George Levene lost to the University of Alabama today.

1911(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5672): Forty-year old architect Charles Henry Israels, the New York born “son of Lehman Hartog Israels and Florence Zilla Israels and husband of Belle Linder “whom she met at the Alliance where he had been a volunteer club leader” passed away today from the effects of “heart disease.”

1911: The Vaad or Council of Rabbis of the Jewish community of Safed voted 20,000 Francs toward the [Turkish] war fund.

1913(13^th of Cheshvan, 5674): Thirty-eight year old theatrical manager Daniel S. Fishell, the Louisiana born son of Ferdinand and Lizzie Fischell passed away in St. Louis.

1913: Birthdate of Karl Jay Shapiro, the Baltimore native who “was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

1914(24^th of Cheshvan, 5675): Seventy year old “Hebraic scholar” Moses Neumann, the son of Wolf Neumann of Austrian Galicia who came to the United States seventeen years ago passed away today in New York

1914: In Sydney, the Hebrew Standard of Australasia reported that thirty-four year old Louis Sefton Cullen joined the Royal Fusiliers.

1916: Herman Bernstein, the editor of The American Hebrew said today that “the economic boycotts against the Polish Jews of which he had spoken about previously had taken place in Russian Poland and not in the part” of Poland occupied by the German forces.

1916(17^th of Cheshvan, 5677): Private Philip Samuels, the native of West Kensington, London and son of Charles and Rebecca Samuel was killed today during the Battle of the Somme while serving with the 7^thBattalion of the Royal Fusiliers.

1916: Julius Rosenwald, Chicago merchant and philanthropist contributed $500,000 toward the endowment fund for the proposed medical department of the University of Chicago

1917: During the “October Revolution” the Bolsheviks used artillery to gain control of Moscow but Alexander Kerensky, the moderate Socialist who was Chairman of the deposed Russian Provisional Government continued to enjoy support outside of the Russian capital.

1917: Private Abraham Balustein and the rest of the 165^th which had just arrived in France from the United States remained in Brest for a second day.

1917: As Egyptian Expeditionary Force continued its advance after the battles at Beersheba and Gaza, Allenby’s forces drove back the Ottoman forces from their strong defensive positions in what was known as the Battle of Mughar Ridge, but was, in a typical case of English understatement as the Action of El Mughar in official dispatches.

1918: A group of prominent Jewish leaders including Samuel Untermeyer, Nathan Straus, Abram I. Elkus, Louis Marshal, Adolph Lewisohn Samuel C. Pamport, Louis Lipsky, Judge Otto A. Rasalsky, Dr. Samuel Schlman, Israel Unterberg and Franklin Simon host a dinner in New York for a delegation of visiting Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinksy that includes Professor Otto Warburg and Alexander Goldstein.

1918: Jeanne Levy, the Paris born daughter “Alfred Dreyfus and Lucie Eugénie Hadamard” and her husband Pierre-Paul Louis Lévy gave birth to Madeleine Lévy who was murdered at Auschwitz.

1919: In Los Angeles attorney Joseph Max Wapner and the former Fannie Friedman gave birth to decorated WW II Army veteran Joseph Albert Wapner a real judge and the “judge on televisions The Peoples Court who was the husband of Mildred Nebenzahl and the father of Sarah, Frederick and David Miron-Wapner.

1919: Birthdate of Isadore “Izzy” Spector who lead the Grand Junction High School to the state championship in Colorado before playing three years at the University of Utah where he earned honorable mention on the Grantland Rice All-America team in 1940.

1920(2^nd of Kislev, 5681): Parashat Tolodot

1920: Dr. R. H. Melamed is scheduled to deliver a sermon on the portion of the week at Petach Tikvah in Brooklyn.

1920: Rabbi E.L. Solomon is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Doctrine of Immortality” at Kehilath Jeshurun.

1920: Rabbi David Davidson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Jacob and Esau: A Character Study for Simple Folks and Superwise Critics” at Atereth Israel’

1920: Birthdate of Eugene Ferkauf “the founder of the E. J. Korvette chain of discount department stores, whose 1950s strategy of low prices, quick turnover and high volume helped shape today’s retail landscape…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1921: Over 2,000 men, women and children gathered today to commemorate “the completion of thirty-nine years by Edward Lauterbach as a trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1921(12th of Cheshvan, 5682) Fifty-one year old Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher passed away.  Born in 1850, this Hungarian Jew is considered with of the three founders of modern Islamic studies in Europe.



1921: Dr. Joseph Silverman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu-El, surprised almost 1,200 guests at a dinner at the Hotel Astor tonight by declaring himself in favor of the upbuilding of Palestine and the establishment there of a republic patterned after the democracy of the United States. “Rabbi Silverman has always been known as a non-Zionist, and while his beliefs do not quite coincide with those of the ardent Zionist, they were accepted by the large attendance as a practical endorsement of the Zionist movement.”

1921: In Camden, NJ Rabbi Mortimer J. Cohen of Philadelphia’s Beth Sholom and Rabbi Max Klein took part in the services dedicated the building which would serve as the temporary home for Congregation Beth El

1922: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Samuel Bashlow had delivered a eulogy entitled “Facts of the Unknown” at the service in Camden, NJ honoring the five members of the Y.M.H.A. who had lost their lives in the World War which was followed by Rabbi Harry S. Davidowitz’s speech and closing prayer offered by Rabbi Solomon Grayzel.

1923: In Boyle Heights, Morton and Fanny Greenstone gave birth to Leonard Greenstone, “a Los Angeles businessman and developer who helped create innovative training and rehabilitation programs for California prison inmates during 50 years of volunteer service to the prison system…” (As reported by Rebecca Trounson)

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-leonard-greenstone-20121031,0,7464335.story

1923: In Edmonton, Alberta, Harry Hiller the owner of a secondhand musical instrument store and the former Rose Garfin gave birth to director Arthur Hiller whose most famous picture was the schmaltzy,  tear-jerker “Love Story.” (As reported by Dave Kehr)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/movies/arthur-hiller-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=

1924: “Waxworks,” a silent horror film directed Paul Leni and Leo Birinsky who was also the producer was released in Germany today.

1926: In his 11^th bout, Seymour “Cy” Schindel suffered his second loss at the Walker Athletic Club in New York.

1927: In New York, Louis and Mary (Halkin) Wiener, gave birth to Dr. Naomi W. Cohen, the Columbia University trained history professor and author who was the wife of Gerson D. Cohen, the Jewish historian and chancellor of JTS.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohen-naomi-w

https://www.jta.org/2018/01/30/news-opinion/united-states/naomi-cohen-scholar-of-american-jewish-history-dies-at-91

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/241380

1927: This evening, Albert Weisbord is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Ten Years of Working-Class Government” at a “Mass Celebration” marking the “Tenth Anniversary of Soviet Russian” hosted by the Workmens Circle Temple.  

1928: During a dinner “arranged by the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America in’ honor of the fifty years of religious and public service of Dr. H. Pereira Mendes which was broadcast by WJZ, Rabbi Mendes called for the “convocation of the Jewish World Sanhedrin, the religious parliament which has not met since the Roman era, to deal with problems of orthodox Judaism raised by recent social and economic changes” in the modern world.

1931: In Budapest Klara nee Fejer and grain merchant Alexander Steiner gave birth to Agnes Steiner who survived the Holocaust and made a new life for herself as Leach Barcela in Israel.

1930: Birthdate of New York native left-wing Princeton Professor Richard A. Falk who was able to provide a rationalization for the terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/world/middleeast/un-israel-palestine-apartheid.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

1933: The film version of “The Invisible Man” produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. was released in the United States today.

1933: In contrast to how the Jews were being treated in Germany, the Baden Interior Minister “sent the following directive to police headquarters” today: "Forceful measures against Catholic clergymen outside the framework of the general laws are not permitted in the future."

1933: “A rally of German Christians was held at the Berlin Sportpalast, where — before a packed hall — banners proclaimed the unity of National Socialism and Christianity, interspersed with the omnipresent swastikas and  series of speakers addressed the crowd's pro-Nazi sentiments with ideas such as:

the removal of all pastors unsympathetic with National Socialism

the expulsion of members of Jewish descent, who might be arrogated to a separate church

the implementation of the Aryan Paragraph church-wide

the removal of the Old Testament from the Bible

the removal of "non-German" elements from religious services

the adoption of a more "heroic" and "positive" interpretation of Jesus, who in pro-Aryan fashion should be portrayed to be battling mightily against corrupt Jewish influences.

1934: “J. W. Mack to Remain As Head of Reform Union Body Till’35” published today described the decision to have “Jacob W. Mack, newly elected chairman of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, serve in that capacity at least until the Union’s thirty-fourth annual council in Washington in March, 1935.” (As reported by JTA)

1934”Egon Kisch jumped from the Strathaird onto Melbourne's concrete dock, breaking his leg. Kisch held the mistaken belief that he would be arrested and detained on Australian soil if he set foot in the country. Instead, authorities carried him back onto the ship as it sailed for Sydney.”

1936: Winston Churchill wrote to his son Randolph that the initial basis for the creation of the Anti-Nazi League was Jewish resentment at their abominable persecution, the base had grown to include all those who are prepared to support genuine military action to resist tyranny or aggression.

1936: Four meetings sponsored by the Brooklyn council of the American Jewish Congress scheduled to be held this evening in honor of Justice Louis D. Brandeis who is celebrating his 80^th birthday today include a discussion of the jurist’s life led by Zionist leader Abraham Goldberg “at an open forum in the Flatbush Congress House.

1936: Those sending cables and telegrams to Justice Brandies on his 80^thbirthday included Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization; David Ben Gurion on behalf of the 100,000 members of the Federation of Jewish Workers in Palestine; Dr. Israel Goldstein on behalf of the Jewish National Fund of America; Menachem M. Ussishkin, Henrietta Szold and Isaac Ben Zvi on behalf of “Palestine Jewry.”

1936: The executive board of Hadassah, which had announced “that the out-patient department of the medical center now under construction in Jerusalem  would be named for Justice Brandies and that a Brandeis for would be established in his honor in Palestine,” today “sent a birthday message to Justice Brandeis on half of its 52,000 members.”

1936: In Washington, DC, at Adas Israel, Rabbi Solomon Metz is scheduled to deliver a Friday night sermon “Brandeis, a Modern Sage” which will be followed by “an open forum with a talk on ‘Brandeis, the Champion of the People.

1937: In Konigsberg, Germany, “Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner” and “Yitta (Ida) Dunner” gave birth to “Abraham (Aba) Moshe Dunner.”

1938: “The twenty-seventh annual convention of the New Jersey Federation of the Y.M.H.A. and Y.W.H.A continued to meet at the Morristown Jewish Center.

1938: The Nazi government orders the Jews to cease all trading and business activities by end of the year.

1938: Today, mathematician Ernest David Hellinger, “the Silesian born son of Emil and Julie Hellinger” “was arrested, taken to Festhalle and then put into Dachau” from which he was later rescued and eventually found his to the faculty of Northwestern University.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095929484

http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hellinger.html

1938: “Pastors at many congregations protested in sermons from their pulpits” today “against the renewed persecution of the Jews in Germany” and “the congregation of the Community Church approved” sending “a message to the German Ambassador in Washington asking him to inform his government of American reaction.”

1939: “Divisional meetings of members of the Women’s League for Palestine were held…at the homes of members in all part of” New York “ to discuss plans for a campaign to raise $100,000 for a new league center in Jerusalem similar to those already established in Haifa and Tel Aviv.”

1939: SS troops in Poland arrest and execute 53 Jewish men who happen to reside at the same address as a Jewish man who has shot and killed a Polish policeman.

1940: In Bay Shore, New York, Dorothy K. Kripke and Myer S. Kripke would serve as rabbi at Beth El Synagogue in Omaha, Nebraska gave brith to their first child, “philosopher and logician” Saul Kripke

1941: Warsaw diarist Chaim Kaplan writes that his wife has been stricken with typhus.

1941: Francie Rabiner, the Ft. Dodge, Iowa, native who was the daughter of Samuel and Daisy Lumelsky Rabiner became Francie Cohen when she married Samuel Cohen today in Cedar Rapids, IA.

1942: The members of a Kibbutz originally called Sha’ar HaNegev “moved to the Finger of the Galilee, where they established a new kibbutz called Kfar Szold.”

1942: The American (Jewish) Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) report on the situation of Jews in North Africa including the fact that the occupation by Spanish military forces at Tangiers had led to the introduction of anti-Jewish laws being put into effect.

1943(15^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Parashat Vayera

1943(15^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Today, after a year in hiding the Urman family was betrayed and when the German police came to arrest them eleven and half year old Jerzy Feliks Urman took his own life, telling his mother with his dying breath “Mummy, I took the cyanide.”

1943: Frizt Lustig tried to escape from Birkenau. He was caught and shot ten days later.

1944: Due to “constantly rising costs, irreplaceable personnel losses, curtailed business due to war conditions and mounting losses,” today, after 57 years, “The Jewish Daily Courier, one of the oldest Jewish newspapers in the United States, suspended publication.” (JTA)

1944: In Newcastle upon Tyne Labour Party political leader Bennie Abrahams and his wife gave birth to David Martin Abrahams, the British real estate developer and Labour Party activist.

1945: American soprano Edis de Philippe landed in Israel and within a short time created the Israel National Opera.  De Philippe's company performed night after night all over the country. The company was so successful, that it attracted young and rising international opera stars to spend some time in Israel.

1945: Prime Minister Clement Attlee suggests formation of a joint Anglo-American committee to investigate the problem of Jewish refugees and devise a solution to it.  This apparently benign suggestion was an attempt to smooth Truman’s ruffled feathers over the British government’s refusal to accept Truman’s request that 100,000 Jews be admitted immediately to Palestine.

1945: British Foreign Minister Bevin gives a speech attacking Zionism and the Jewish people.



1945: President Truman and British foreign minister Ernest Bevin announce U.S.-British agreement on creating joint committee of inquiry to examine problem of European Jews and Palestine. Bevin suggests that Palestine become a trustee state of UN and later have self-government.



1945: Foreign Minister Bevin refuses the entry of 100,000 Jews into Palestine and declares a quota of 1,500 immigrants a month, subject to Arab acquiescence.



1945: Senator Kenneth McKellar (Tennessee) charges that British are distributing arms to Arabs and denounces UK Foreign Minister Bevin.



1945. Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington State, Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart of California’s 9^th Congressional District and Guy W. Gillette, the former Senator from Iowa appeared on radio show tonight to discuss the situation in Palestine.  During the broadcast, Senator Gillette charged “that the present restrictions on Jews in Palestine were comparable with the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws of Nazi Germany.”  Senator Magnuson “discounted the idea that transfer of large numbers of Jews to Palestine would cause any trouble with the Arabs.”  Representative Gearhart, a conservative Republican said, “Every Hebrew who declares his desire to go to Palestine should be declared a citizen of that land, ipso fact, and should immediately be repatriated”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0916FD3D5B10738DDDAD0994D9415B8588F1D3



1945: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York) denounced the British.

1946: As part of growing wave of terror caused by Britain’s failure to honor its war time promise to allow Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel and increasing repressive measure aimed at the Jews of the Yishuv, two British policemen were killed while patrolling the Jerusalem-Jaffa rail line.

1946(19^th of Cheshvan, 5707): Seventy year old investment banker Robert C. Schaffner, “the chairman of the board of A.G. Becker and Co. who had one daughter, Katherine, with his wife Frances and who a supporter of Chicago’s Art Institute passed a way today in Michael Reese Hospital.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/11/14/93177634.html?pageNumber=29

1947: U.S. premiere of “Out of the Past” starring Kirk Douglas

1947: Today, “the Synagogue Council of America appealed to the American rabbinate to give special attention to the collection of books and religious articles for Europe’s needy Jews” because as important as it is to send clothing, food and medical supplies, it also important to send those things that will “help in the cultural rebirth of the remnant of European Jewry.

1948: The newly created Israeli government announced that it will launch shortly a full-scale development plan for the Negev desert area of southern Palestine, centered on Beersheba as an Israeli town, it was learned today.

1948: President Truman feels that direct Arab-Jewish negotiations might work. He advocates a full recognition of Israel and aid for 500,000 Arab refugees in Middle East.

1948:UN Security Council listens to plan by UN mediator Ralph Bunche. Israel would withdraw to October 14 lines. Egypt would stay where it had retreated in Negev fighting. A large part of Negev would be demilitarized pending UN negotiations for peace. Israel rejects part of plan in which Beersheba would be under Arab administration. Plan is endorsed by Council's special committee on Negev and Bunche orders Egypt and Israel to carry out plan.

1949: The biennial convention of the American Jewish Congress comes to an end

1952: In Chicago, Illinois, Shirley (née Horwitz) Garland. a director of volunteer services at Chicago's Council for Jewish Elderly and Cyril Garland, the head of Garland Advertising gave birth to Judge Merrick Garland, the Supreme Court Nominee whom the Republican refused to consider because they claimed lame duck President were not supposed to fill openings on the High Court, a position that set them at odds with Presidents going back to George Washington who as a lame duck President during an election year (1796) filled two positions on the court.

1952(25^th of Cheshvan, 5713): New York born and Harvard trained attorney Abraham Howard Feller who taught at his alma mater before providing legal services to the Office of Lend-Lease Administration and the Office of War Information before serving as general counsel to the newly formed United Nations, reportedly jumped to his death today.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/feller-abraham-howard

1954: Larry Blyden completed an eleventh month run as “Grant Cobble” in the Broadway production of “Oh, Men! Oh, Women!”

1955: Two Jewish refugees who met and married while living in China during WW II gave birth Eliezer “Eli” Marom, the native Moshav Sde Eliezer who served as the Commander of the Israeli Navy” from 2007 to 2011.

1956: The first Israeli train arrived in Gaza, after Israeli troops drove out the occupying Egyptian army and cleaned out the terrorist bases.  Israeli troops would leave Gaza in 1957 under pressure from the U.N. and the Eisenhower Administration.  Ten years later, the U.N. would fail to honor the guarantees made to Israel concerning protecting the Jewish state from the Arabs.  The result would the Six Day War in 1976.

1956: In London, Sylvia (née Packman) Cesarini and Henry Cesarini, a hairdresser, gave birth to Jewish historian David Cesarani.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/26/david-cesarani

1960: “North to Alaska” a cold weather westerner co-produced by Charles Feldman with a script co-authored by Ben Hecht and music by Lionel Newman was released in the United States today.

1960:  Sammy Davis, Jr. married Swedish actress May Britt.  Davis was probably one of the most famous if not the most famous convert to Judaism in the middle of the 20^th century.  His marriage to Britt caused a furor because it was inter-racial.  Others, with a more parochial view, were upset that he had married a non-Jew.

1963: Abdelkader Benjelloun completed his served as “Minister Delegate for Employment and Social Affairs” in Morocco.

1963: U.S. premiere of “Take her, She’s Mine,” produced and directed by Harry Koster based on a play by Henry and Phoebe Ephron with music by Jerry Goldsmith.

1964: Birthdate of actress Tzufit Grant, the native of Petah Tikvah who hosted the television show “Milkshake” and who has had two children with her husband Avram Grant.

1966(30^th of Cheshvan, 5727): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1966(30^th of Cheshvan, 5727): Seventy four lyric tenor Mario Chamlee, the Los Angeles born son of Samuel Ricket Chamlee and Clarissa Elizabeth Chamlee, the husband of Ruth Miller Chamless and the father of Archer Mario Chamlee, who sang “the style of the Great Caruso” passed away today after which he was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA.

https://library.stanford.edu/collections/ruth-and-mario-chamlee-collection

1966(30^th of Cheshvan, 5727): Eighty-six year old New York born, NYU trained attorney Nathan Raymond Leavitt, the founder of Central Home Trust Company passed away tonight at his home in Elizabeth, NJ after suffering a heart attack.

1967(10^th of Cheshvan, 5728): Seventy-two year old Lemberg, Austria, native, Harry Salpeter, “an art deal and critic” and the husband of Betty Berkowitz passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/11/14/90417644.pdf

https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/harry-salpeter-papers-9052

1968(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5729): Eighty-two year old University of Wisconsin trained economist Dr. David J. Saposs, the Kiev born son of peddler Isaac Saposnik and Shima Erevsky Saposnik, who held several government post, wrote both Left Wing Unionism and Communism in American Politicswhile raising two daughters with his wife Bertha Tigay Saposs passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/16/76907905.html?pageNumber=37

1967(10th of Cheshvan, 5728):  Seventy-one year old world class pianist Harriet Cohen passed away. Born in London in 1895, she studied at the London Conservatory before going on to fame and fortune.  Such was her skill, that she was honored as a CBE (Most Excellent order of the British Empire) in 1938. 

1970: Birthdate of Ariel Atias, the Tel Aviv native who has served as an MK and cabinet minister.

1971: “The Go-Between” a movie version of the novel by the same name with a script by Harold Pinter was released in the United States today.

1973: Maj.-Gen. Shmuel (“Gorodish”) Gonen wrote to IDF Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. David “Dado” Elazar that as the cease-fire appeared to be stable, “the timing is right to ask that you investigate the conduct of General Sharon and if my claims are proven, that he stand trial” adding “that failure to do so “after what happened, will cause demoralization and damage the character of the army.”

1974(29^th of Cheshvan, 5735): Sixty-four year old Philadelphia native and University of Pennsylvania trained electrical engineer Saul Nathan Lev passed away today

1975: In Jerusalem an explosive charge went off near cafe Naveh, on Jaffa Road near the pedestrian mall. Seven people were killed and 45 injured.

1976: In Houston, TX, attorney J. Kent Friedman, the Tulane University baseball player and his wife gave birth to Andrew Friedman who followed in his father’s footsteps by playing baseball at Tulane who went from being a financial analyst to a career in baseball management that led him to becoming the President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers”

http://blog.nola.com/tpsports/2008/10/tulane_alumnus_andrew_friedman.html

1977: Palestinian terrorists detonated bombs in 2 separate attacks in Jerusalem during which two of the bombers were killed and four bystanders were injured.

1977: The comic strip ''Li'l Abner'' by Jewish cartoonist Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.

1979: Birthdate of Ya'akov "Kobi" Shimoni known by his stage name Subliminal an Israeli hip hop artist and music producer.

1980: “Victor Brailovsky, the editor of the samizdat journal “Jews in the USSR” and organizer of the unofficial scientific symposia”, was arrested today

1982: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, the former military chaplain who “worked to create the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC…delivered the closing prayer” today at its official dedication.

1984: David Levy finds his 1st comet.

1987: “Cross My Heart” a comedy produced by Lawrence Kasdan and featuring Paul Reiser was released in the United States today.

1988: ABC broadcast the first episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”

1990: Comptroller Liz Holtzman greeted the Committee for Responsive Democracy when it began its hearings in New York City by “saying that ‘many don’t see themselves as being represented.’”

1991: World Premiere of Beauty and the Beast, a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film, with music by Alan Menken.

1995: “Israeli Security Neglected a Tip Of a Rabin Plot” published today revealed failures that led to the assassination of the Prime Minister by Yigal Amir including a reliable tip received last June about the killer’s intention on which there was no follow up.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/13/world/israeli-security-neglected-a-tip-of-a-rabin-plot.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1995: The Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, freely admitting that it was reviving the charitable practices of a bygone era, announced that it would give a total of $2 million to four leading New York City hospitals to help pay for care for uninsured patients as government cutbacks are made in Medicare and Medicaid.

1996: Eighty-five year old June Gale, the second wife of Oscar Levant passed away today.

1998: “Lord Levene of Portsoken became the eighth Jewish Lord Mayor of London. An Ashkenazi by birth, Lord Levene's first public act was to walk, with a retinue, from his official residence (Mansion House) to Bevis Marks Synagogue, for the Sabbath Eve service.”

1998: U.S. premiere of “Meet Joe Black” directed and produced by Martin Brest, with a script by Bo Goldman, music by Thomas Newman and filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

2000(15^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Gabi Zaghouri, 36, of Netivot was killed by gunfire directed at the truck he was driving near the Kissufim junction in the southern part of the Gaza Strip

2000(15^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Sarah Leisha, 42, of Neveh Tzuf was killed by gunfire from a passing car while travelling near Ofra, north of Ramallah.

2001(15^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Cpl. Elad Wallenstein, 18, of Ashkelon, and Cpl. Amit Zanna, 19, of Netanya were killed by gunfire from a car passing the military bus carrying them near Ofra.

2002(3th of Kislev, 5763): Irving D. Rubin chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) from 1985 to 2002 died in jail awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to bomb private and government property.

2003: In a reiteration of the American commitment to the separation of church and state, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ), issued a unanimous opinion ruling that "Chief Justice Moore has violated the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics” and that he was being removed from office because it was obvious from his past behavior and statements that he would not comply with any orders regarding the removal of his “Ten Commandments Monument”

2004: Opening of the 2004 Inaugural Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music

2005: Today, during an interview on “60 Minutes,” Jim Cramer discussed “his violent temper and what finally led him to come to his senses and ‘calm down’.”

2005: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including A Time to Run by Barbara Boxer

2006: Haaretz reported that an initiative to refurbish the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp has sparked a storm among Holocaust survivors in Israel. The initiative was announced last month by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum's new director, who claimed that the current exhibits were outdated and insufficiently attractive to visitors. A detailed refurbishing plan has yet to be drawn up, but participants at a recent meeting of Holocaust survivors' organizations warned against moves to "beautify" the site, as has been done with other Nazi concentration camps. "Dachau and Sachsenhausen have already become well-kept gardens; we won't allow the same to happen to Auschwitz," they said.

2007(3^rdof Kislev, 5768): Eighty year old Peter Zinner, the Oscar and Emmy award winning film editor passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/arts/19zinner.html





2007:Wagner College and the Center for Jewish History present “Immigration to New York City:100 Years of Transformation” in whicha distinguished panel explores the changing face of New York City through the framework of three diverse ethnic and religious communities--Irish, Italian, and Jewish--and address the implications of these transformations on current and future generations.



2007: While visiting Israel, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko promised followers of Reb Nachman that he would protect the gravesite from sale or commercial exploitation.



2007: Joe Roth, the former chairman of 20^th Century Fox and Walt Disney Studios “was introduced as the majority owner of the Seattle Sounders, the Major League Soccer team that began playing in 2009.

2008: The Jewish Reconstructionist (JRF) Biennial Convention opens in Boston, Mass.

2008: In New York, the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival comes to an end.

2008: Opening of The 32nd annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This premier show and sale of contemporary craft features 23 artists from Israel among the 195 artists who will be showing and selling their wares.

2008: Opening of Congregation Beth Judea’s Family Education Weekend featuring Mordechai Rosenstein as its Artist in Residence in Long Grove, Il.  “The Hebrew alphabet is the essence of the art of Mordechai Rosenstein.”

2008: In Iowa City, Award winning authorAmy Bloom attends a reception at the University of Iowa Hillel and then participates in a reading at Prairie Lights Book Store.

2008: Hassan Diab, 54, a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen who teaches at the University of Ottawa, was arrested at his home in Gatineau, Quebec today by Royal Canadian Mounted Police acting on a French request for extradition. Diab is suspected in the October 3, 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four people, including an Israeli woman, and wounded dozens.

2008: Today, the day after municipal elections, secular Jerusalem mayor-elect Nir Barkat attempted to assuage the fears of the city's haredi community, whose candidate Meir Porush failed in his bid to replace Mayor Uri Lupolianski, saying he would gladly welcome the ultra-Orthodox parties into his coalition if they agree to his basic party line.

2008: US President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff apologized to the Arab-American community today for remarks his Israeli-born father made to Ma'ariv. Last week, Benjamin Emanuel talked about his son Rahm Emanuel's new job and told the Israeli daily that "obviously he'll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to be mopping floors at the White House."

2009(29^th of Cheshvan, 5770): Hannah Block, one of the Tar-Heel State’s leading civic leaders and trailblazing feminists passed away at the age of 96 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/08/2010/hannah-block

2009: At 8 PM this evening Lt Col (Ret) Bruce Lichtman will lead a Veteran’s Day Service at Ft. Belvoir in Virginia. Services will be preceded by a deli dinner at the Fort Belvoir Chapel Social Hall. Rabbi Chaplain Gary Davidson is the featured speaker for the evening.

2009: Friday the 13^th– The idea that Friday the 13^this inherently unlucky is a belief whose origin has been lost.  According to some, it is tied to the story of Jesus i.e. there were thirteen people at the Last Supper which provided the impetus for Good Friday.  Others claim that the Egyptian First Born died on Friday the 13^th.  The idea that 13 is unlucky for Jews would certainly come as a heck of a shock to the legion of Bar Mitzvah Boys whose right of religious passage is tied to their 13^th birthday.

2009: An 18-year-old Arab terrorist attempted to attack a group of IDF soldiers near the Mughrabi Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem today. Shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (Allah is Great), the cry of the Muslim jihad (holy war), the young man unsheathed a knife and tried to stab a Border Patrol officer. The soldier managed to fight off the attacker, who was subdued by other soldiers and then arrested.  The terrorist was transferred to security personnel for interrogation. No one was injured in the incident. This was the third attack of this nature in recent weeks. Less a month ago, an Arab terrorist stabbed a Border Guard officer standing at the Kalandia security checkpoint in northern Jerusalem. The officer, who sustained moderate stomach wounds, was rushed to a hospital in the capital. His attacker was caught and the weapon he used was confiscated. Several weeks prior, another security officer was stabbed by a 16-year-old Arab terrorist at the entrance to the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in northern Jerusalem. Magen David Adom medics who responded to the scene immediately treated the victim before rushing him to the hospital with the knife still in his throat.

2009: Jeffrey Pollack announced on his Twitter feed that he was resigning as Commissioner of the World Series of Poker.

2010: On Shabbat, Rahm Emanuel formally kicked off his campaign for Chicago mayor at large public gathering.

2010: Today, 94 year old Eli “Wallach received an Academy Honorary Award for his contribution to the film industry from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.”

2010: Bernard Kouchner, the French physician who co-founded Doctors Without Borders completed his term as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs

2010: Chavruta, the first ever county wide Night of Jewish Learning and Celebration complete with a Chinese/Sushi Bar sponsored by the Westchester Board of Rabbis and The Westchester Jewish Council is scheduled to be held tonight at the Temple Israel Center of White Plains in White Plains, NY.

2010: Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is scheduled to award an honorary Oscar to French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, "a notorious vocal...anti-Semite."

2011: Funeral services will be held at noon today at Temple Beth Emunah, for “Irving H. Franklin …co-founder of Franklin Sports and innovator of the baseball batting glove.”

2011: The 8^th Jewish Eye Festival, the World Jewish Film Festival held each year in Ashkelon is scheduled to open today.

2011: Erin Bode is scheduled to appear with St. Louis Symphony Musicians in a concert featuring the works of Rogers and Hammerstein at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.

2011: Dr. Stephen P. Morse is scheduled to present a lecture entitled “Getting Ready for the 1940 Census” sponsored by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington.

2011: The 3^rd Annual International Holiday Bazaar sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to come to an end in Skokie, Illinois.

2011: The Global Day of Jewish Learning is scheduled to take place in over 200 Communities in 40 different countries.

http://www.theglobalday.com/

2011: A popular German radio host is slated to return to his program today, after being temporarily pulled from his post for writing an email denying the Holocaust and spreading conspiracy theories against the US to a listener earlier this month. Ken Jebsen, who is a host at the publicly funded “Jugendwelle” music program aired by Radio Fritz, wrote, “I know who invented the Holocaust as PR.” In his crude e-mail, Jebsen said Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels implemented the public relations plan of the Holocaust and the Americans provided fuel for the entire Nazi bombing campaign, citing Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller, the American businessman.

2011: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat today urged District Police Commander Niso Shaham to put a stop to the exclusion of women's images from billboards across the city, and to the defacing of advertisements on which women do appear, both trends initiated of late by the local ultra-Orthodox sector. out of advertising in the capital.

2011: Egyptian security forces have arrested 16 suspects in connection with recurrent attacks on a pipeline for the supply of gas to Israel and Jordan, a security source said today. The head of security in North Sinai, Saleh al-Masri, told DPA that the search for suspects began yesterday with police and the army deployed in Sinai.

2011: In “Sisters Unto Death” Caroline Weber reviewed A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/10/2011/this-week-in-history-train-in-winter-reveals-strength-of-women-s-friendship

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/a-train-in-winter-by-caroline-moorehead-book-review.html

2012: The Hebrew language film “The Matchmaker” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2012: Ilan Elia, whose songs “have always combined local Jewish and Israeli traditions with ancient ones from the mountains of Kurdistan,” is scheduled to perform at the Jerusalem International Oud Festival.

2012: Israeli artist Domy Reiter-Soffer is scheduled to lecture at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

2012: In Baltimore, MD, the largest annual Jewish philanthropic conference in the country - The Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly - is scheduled to come to an end today.

2012: The Free Library of Philadelphia hosted authors Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy for a discussion of their book Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame followed by a discussion that featured contributors David Plotz and Mark Leibovich.

2012: Israel faces threats on two fronts why Syria fires into the Golan and terrorists fire more rockets from Gaza.

2012: Two rockets fired by Gaza terrorists slammed into a greenhouse in the Hof Ashkelon region this afternoon, breaking a brief lull in hostilities after four days of cross border fire.

2012: Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak during a visit to the Gaza border said the current episode of rocket fire from the coastal strip is not over. Today Barak held a security analysis with the Israel Defense Forces chiefs in the area.

2012: Elie Wiesel and President Obama are not writing a book together, as reported by an Israeli newspaper. The subscription-only Publisher's Lunch, citing a source close to Obama,reported that there is no book and no book deal, the Forward reported today.

2013: In California, the Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to present “Pacific Jews: Exploring 19^th Century Jewish In California” in which Dr. Joellyn Zollman “will look at the many reasons American Jews settled in the Golden State.”



2013: Israeli born glass artist, Ilanit Shalev is scheduled to lead a “fused glass workshop at the LFJCC.



2013: The History Channel is scheduled to broadcast “Lost in Translation,” the first in a series entitled “Bible Secrets Revealed” part of which “was shot in Tel Zekah” where U of I Professor Robert Cargill is “participating in an excavation of a sit on the border of the Biblical kingdoms of Judah and the Philistines.”



2013(10^th of Kislev, 5774): Eighteen year old Eden Atias, an Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a sixteen year old Palestinian terrorist from Jenin as he slept on a bus in Afula.  Atias was still in basic training and was returning to his base from his home in Nazareth Illit. The murderous attack comes a day after Prime Minister Netanyahu had called a halt to further construction In Jerusalem in compliance with Secretary of State Kerry’s demand which he said, if unmet, could lead to a third Intifada.  There has been no comment from the Secretary on this latest act of violence



2013(10^th of Kislev, 5774): Ninety-eight year old Marjory Raskin, the Polish born daughter of Rachel and Morris Kurtzman and the wife of Morris Raskin passed away today in “West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.”

2013: Jerry Levin received the Hall of Fame Award at the National Shoe Retail Leadership Conference today in Boston, MA.



2013: Benjamin Weiser described the government’s response to charges of ant-Semitism in New York’s Pine Bush Central School District first reported in the New York Times on November 8.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/nyregion/us-investigates-anti-semitism-claims-at-pine-bush-schools.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&_r=0&pagewanted=print



2014: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts in New Orleans, LA.



2014: Barbara Winton, the daughter of Nicholas Winton is scheduled to share the “story of her father’s rescue of Czech Jewish children on the eve of the Holocaust” at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.



2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion – “Giving Women their Place in Holocaust History.”



2014(20^thof Cheshvan, 5775): Eighty-six year old German born French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck who won the Fields Medal in 1966 passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/world/europe/alexander-grothendieck-math-enigma-dies-at-86.html





2014: “Next Year Jerusalem” is scheduled to be shown at the 18^th UK Jewish Film Festival.



2014: “The US government condemned the scheduled demolition of homes belonging to Palestinians who carried out terror attacks in Israel, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki contending that such a move amounted to collective punishment and would only heighten tensions in the region.”



2014: "Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the assistant director of the New York field office of the FBI, announced the indictments” of “more than a dozen members of a prominent Satmar Hasidic family in New York who were charged with lying to obtain $20 million in mortgages while also receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public benefits.” (As reported by JTA)



2014: “Rising anti-Semitism in Europe threatens not only Jews but overall European values, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said at a conference on anti-Semitism in Berlin” that ended today.



2014: “The trilateral meeting in Amman between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the recent surge of violence in Jerusalem ended this evening, with Kerry issuing a statement praising the sides for their commitment to reduce tensions surrounding the Temple Mount.”



2014: “Closer to the Moon” a “dark comedy” based on the Ioanid Gang screened at the Romanian Film Festival in London



2014: “THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL’S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY

TO THE SCRIPTURES” by Tony Kushner is scheduled to open at Theatre J in Washington, DC.



2015(1^stof Kislev, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host the winners of the Kol Hamusica Young Artists Competition.



2015: “Under the Wings of the Sultan: The Rise of Jewish Communities in the Ottoman Empire" is scheduled to be delivered as the opening lecture in “The Rise and Fall of Ladino-Speaking Jews” at the Yiddish Book Center.

2015: “Indecent,” “a play by Paula Vogel” that “recounts the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which was produced on Broadway in 1923, for which the cast of the original production was arrested on the grounds of obscenity” opened today at the La Jolla Playhouse.



2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish writers and or of special interest to Jewish readers including Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Languageby Esther Schor and Algren :A Life, Mary Wisniewski’s biography of Nelson Ahlgren Abraham whom the world knew as author Nelson Algren.



2016: The recently renamed Ben Katz Post No. 580 of the Jewish War Veterans of America is scheduled to host a prayer service and a special program in honor of Jewish war veterans and servicemen and servicewomen at Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation where Major Carol Berman will speak on “A Jewish Soldier in a Hostile War Zone” and Post Commander Judge Sol Gothard, who will deliver a talk on “Jewish Defenders of Freedom Throughout the Ages.” (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)



2016: The Jewish Community Day School (JCDS) is scheduled to celebrate 21 “fabulous” years in a Las Vegas style gala fundraising affair at Congregation Gates of Prayer synagogue in Metairie, LA this evening.



2016: The 11^th Annual Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema is scheduled to come to an end with a screening of “Mr. Gaga.”



2016: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host a reading and discussion of Sarit Yishai-Levi’s award winning novel The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem



2016: Last chance to see “Odessa: The Soul of a City” an exhibition that provides a picture of this city that played such a critical role in the development of Jewish culture including “literature, art and politics” at the Yeshiva University Museum.”



2016: One-hundred sixtieth birthday of Louis D. Brandeis, the ground-breaking lawyer, distinguished Jurist and ardent Zionist who 100 years ago, in 1916 became the first Jew to sit on the Supreme Court.

http://www.brandeis.edu/legacyfund/bio.html



2017: Dr. Diane M. Sharon is scheduled to continue lecturing on “Demagogues, Madmen and Cowards” The Failure in the Book of Judges at the Streicker Center.

2017: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host a presentation on “Imagining I.N. Steinsberg’s Jewish in the Kimberly” which examines “I. N. Steinberg’s plans for a Jewish refugee settlement in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.”

2017: “Mr. Emmanuel” and “The Women’s Balcony” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^stUK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: Today “the United Nations authorized Israel to expand its technological support for its peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic and help improve security in the country.”

2017: The Jewish National Fund’s National Conference is scheduled to end today.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such as mystery writer Faye Kellerman whose sleuths combine crime solving with observing Kashrut and Shabbat and Jewish books for the next thirty days is scheduled to continue for a second day.

2018: The 30^th Kosherfest is scheduled to begin at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ.

https://www.kosherfest.com/

2018: After suffering through a night filled with a barrage of “over 300 rockets and mortar shells” “school was cancelled today for all students in Ashkelon Kiryat Malachi and Kiryat Gat.” (As reported by Matan Tzuri, Yoav Zitun, Ilana Curiel and Elior Levy)

https://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.html

2018: In Ann Arbor, Michigan, Eddie Portnoy of the YIVO Institute is scheduled to “discuss the seamy underbelly of pre-World War II New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late- 19th and early-20th centuries” during his lecture entitled “The Bizarre Tales of Yiddishland: What the Yiddish Press Reveals about the Jews.”

2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the second in a series of lectures on “New York Jewish History” in which Dr. David E Kaufman explores the “Jerusalem of America.”

2018: In Brooklyn, The Community Bookstore is scheduled to host a discussion of Muckwith its author Dror Burstein and Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers

https://www.communitybookstore.net/burstein

2019: In suburban New Orleans, Gates of Prayer is scheduled to host its second Women's Mega Challahbake!!

2019: As part of the UK Jewish Film Festival, The Glasgow Film Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “The Birdcatcher” and Cineworld Disbury in Manchester is scheduled to host a screening of “Murer: An Anatomy of a Trial.”

2019: The Rutgers University Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Those Who Remain” and “Latter Day Jew.”

2019: At Oxford, today, the JSoc is scheduled to host “a welfare coffee-meetup” that will include advice for students coping with the stressing of “5^thweek.”

2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “three members of the law nonprofit Integrity First for America who will speak about their legal actions against white supremacists, in a conversation with Rabbi Jason Rodich

2019: Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Jewish-Christian Relations in the Modern World” taught by Rabbi Joseph Skloot.

2019: As the day begins, the question on the minds of Israelis and all those concerned with the Middle East, is will Islamic Jihad continue its rocket attacks on Israel and what role will Iran play in its client’s muscle flexing which will have an indirect impact on the upheaval going on in Syria.

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109 BCE (25 Cheshvan, 3652): John Hyrcanus defeated the Samaritans in Samaria and destroyed their temple. The Samaritans were a mixed race who had been in conflict with the Jews since the end of the Babylonian Exile.  They believed in a form of monotheism but rejected all oral law. They believed that Mt. Gerizim, near Nablus, was their place of sacrifice.  John Hyrcanus was a nephew of Judah Maccabee.  He was the third son of Simon, the last of the original Maccabee brothers.  John Hyrcanus ruled from 134 BCE through 104 BCE.  He felt that it was his mission to restore the territory of the original Davidic Kingdom to Jewish control.  The victory over the Samaritans was part of this grand plan of conquest

565: Roman Emperor Justinian dies at 82. As Christianity grew in power in the Roman Empire it influenced the emperors to limit further the civil and political rights of the Jews. Justinian's Law said Jews may not offer testimony against Christians who are engaged in litigation.

1305: In Lyon, consecration of Pope Clement, the first of the “Avignon Popes” who was the “first pope to threaten Jews with an economic boycott in an attempt to force them to stop charging Christians interest on loans.”



1417: On St. Martin’s Day, the Council of Constance elected Otto Colona Pope who as Martin V accorded “many privileges” to the Jews of Ancona in an effort to “increase the economy of the city and the state.”



1650: Birthdate of King William III of England.  Also known as William of Orange, he was the ruler who came to the throne as a result of the Glorious Revolution, which was financed, in part by Dutch Jews.  The newly readmitted Jewish community in England had nothing to fear from the new who King who be the first English monarch to bestow knighthood on a Jewish subject.

1791: In New York City, Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Rebecca Hart the wife of Moses Seixas.

1792: Moses Ephraim married Lydia Nathan at the Great Synagogue today.



1797: Birthdate of Moses M. Haarbleicher the German-Jewish poet and critic whose father founded the Jewish School of Hamburg.

1802: Nathan Salomons married Esther Aron Goldsmid at the Great Synagogue today.

1805: Birthdate of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn.  Her brother was Felix Mendelssohn and according to some, his closest confidante.  Fanny was the granddaughter of Moses Mendelssohn.  Both of her parents were Jewish at the time of her birth.  As a youngster, her parents had her (and her other siblings) baptized as Lutherans.  Her father, like five of the six of Moses Mendelssohn’s children would also convert.



1810: Birthdate of educator and author Jacob Auberbach, the brother-in-law of novelist Berthold Auerbach who wrote Lessing and Mendelssohn and a History of the Jewish Community of Vienna from 1874.



1815: Birthdate of  Moritz Duschak, the Moravian born rabbi who had studied with Rabbi Moses Sofer and who had served the community of Cracow, before finally settling “in Vienna where he spent his last days in neglect and disappointment.”

1820: Birthdate of “Marylebone, London” native Hannah da Cunha, the mother of Ventra da Cunha.

1820: “Margherita d’Anjou” an operatic melodramma semiseria in two acts by German-Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer was performed for the first time in Milan, Italy.



1821: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Myer J. Ellis and Miss Francis Polack Abrahams, the daughter of Jacob Abrahams.

1824: In Philadelphia, Henry Benjamin Nones, the Philadelphia born son of “Abraham Benjamin None and Miriam Marks de Nones and his wife Anna M. Nones gave birth to Jefferson Henry Nones

1825: Three days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Phillips, the wife of Lyon Phillips and the mother of Joseph Phillips was buried to in the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.

1827: Lesser Gottheimer married Elza Zachariah at the Great Synagogue today.

1828(8^thof Kislev, 5589): Five days after his 40^th birthday “playwright, critic and journalist Isaac Harby a scion of a Sephardic family who advocate reforms in Jewish ritual practices passed away today.

1831: German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel passed away.  The work of this leading thinker of the Age of Enlightenment is beyond our grasp.  For a better understanding of Hegel’s views on Judaism and his impact on Jewish thought see Chapter Three of Hegel's Philosophy of History by Robert L. Perkins entitled “The Fossil and the Phoenix: Hegel and Krochmal on the Jewish Volksgeist” by Shlomo Avineri or the entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=509&letter=H&search=Hegel

1932(15^thof Cheshvan, 5693): Eighty-nine year old Dr. Herman Bendell, the Albany, NY born son of “Edward and Hanah (Stern) Bendell, husband of Wilhelmina Bendell and father of Beulah, Joseph, Myra and Berta Bendell who served as surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War and Superintendent of Indian Affairs under President Grant passed away today.



http://www.jmaw.org/bendell-jewish-arizona/



1834: Moritz Wolff and Fanny Schwabe gave birth to Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, a German born British shipbuilder and politician. Wolff’s family had converted in 1819 so he was raised as a Lutheran.



1837: Danish painter David Monies married Bolette Jacobsen the daughter of Isaac Jacobson, a merchant and his wife, the former Sara Heimann.



1838: In Charleston, SC, Marx E. married Armida Harby, the “daughter of the later Isaac Harby.”



1848: Birthdate of Sándor Wekerle, the Hungarian Premier who introduced a bill into the Hungarian Parliament that provided “for equal religious rights for Jews and Christians.”



1852: In St. Louis, MO, Joachim Fleischman and Kathrine Bloch gave birth to Samuel M. Fleischman, the husband of Mathilda Kahn who served as a rabbi in Akron, Ohio from 1880 to 1886 and began serving as Superintendent of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum at Philadelphia in 1886.

1853: Isidore Newman arrived in New Orleans today.

1853: Birthdate of New Orleans native “impresario” Theodore David “Ted” Marks, the grandson of New Orleans merchant and philanthropist Isadore Newman.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/02/10/104890825.pdf



1855: Two days after she had passed away, 55 year old Mary Kensington Levy, the wife of Moses Levy of Notting Hill (London) with whom she had ten children, “who opened the first soup kitchens in the East End” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.



1864: During the Civil War, Sherman’s Army, including the 82^nd Illinois Infantry under the command of

Colonel Edward Selig Salomon spent its last night in Atlanta as it prepared for the March to the Sea.



1870: An English language production of “La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein,” an operetta, based on a libretto co-authored by Ludovic Halevy at the Metropolitan in New York City.

1871: In “Paddington, London,” Hannah de Lara and Henry Russell gave birth to Henry Russell, the oldest born son from his second marriage.

1871: It was reported today that “during the remainder of the Jewish year the following holidays will be observed by our Hebrew population: Dec. 8, Feast Chanukah; Dec. 22, Feast of Teveth; March 21, 1872, Fast of Esther; March 24, Purim; March 25, Shushan Purim; April 23, first day of Passover; June 12, Feast of Weeks; July 23, Fast of Tammuz; August 13, Fast of Av.”



1873(24th of Cheshvan, 5634): Seventy-three year old Louis (Ludwig) Bischoffsheim who had married the daughter of Chaim Goldschmidt of Frankfort-on Main and the son of Raphael (Nathan) Bischoffsheim passed away today.

1878:Birthdate of “author, art critic and art collector and Columbia graduate George S. Hellman, the grandson of banker “Joseph Seligman founder of J & W Seligman” who was the husband of the former Hillda Emily Josephthal and Mrs. Irene Shuman Shafer with whom he had two children – Geoffrey and Rhoda.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/07/18/81989857.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=21

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1376





1879: Joseph Betzky lost five members of his family, including his wife and two sons in a fire this morning in the tenement house at #80 Cannon Street in New York City. Solomon and Lena Cohen were questioned about the origins of the fire since the son of the building’s owner claimed that Mrs. Cohen had started it. However, authorities released them without making any charges after the deposition was taken.



1880: “A Story of the East” published today provided a lengthy review Ben Hurby Lew Wallace. The reviewer has nothing but praise for this creation by Civil War General Lew Wallace who created the character of Judah ben Hur, a prince among his people.



1881: Birthdate of Nicholas M. Schenck, the native of Rybinsk who became one of the early movers and shakers in the film industry.

1881: Pavel Axelrod and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer, one of his former students gave birth to their third child Sofia today.



1882: Birthdate of Dr. William Fileerman who at the beginning of World War was the President of the Federation of the Unions of the Jewish Communities in Romania

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



1883: In state Supreme Court, Judge Larremore married Samuel Moressor and Fannie Abraham.  Moressor agreed to marriage to avoid further incarceration on charges of breach of promise of marriage.



1883: In a case of Jew versus Jews, the Sheriff arrested Morris Dampsky in a suit for $10,000 for breach of promise of marriage brought against him by Annie Zeiss.



1883: In Manhattan, David Salzman, Russian Jewish youngster who earns his living by blacking boots in Castle Garden, found a check in the amount of $1,250 today.



1884: It was reported today that Rosa Schuminchler, who arrived in this country yesterday, will be deported for a second time.  She had been sent back to Poland after she took part “in the disturbance in the offices of the Hebrew Aid Society on State Street in New York City.

1884: In Bloomsberg, PA, Lewis Cohen, a native of Nagle, Germany who came to the U.S. at the age of 16 and served in the Union Army during the Civil before going into the business of manufacturing cigars and Flora (Alexander) Cohen gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained physician and surgeon Joseph Cohen, the husband of the former E. Grace Vaughn



1885: The annual fair of the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society, a fund raising activity, opened tonight at Parepa Hall in New York City

1885: Birthdate of Galveston native and merchant George Solomon Cohen.



1885: In Gradizhsk, a village in the Ukraine, Anne Terk Stern and Elie Stern give birth to Sonia Stern, who as Sonia Delaunay became known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker. (As reported by Julio Maryann De)



1886: The Board of Directors of the Hebrew Free School Association hosted a reception today in honor of 3 of its members who have just returned from Europe.



1886: “M. De Giers” published today described the shifting foreign policy of the Russian Empire and the increased role that Nicholas de Giers, who “comes from a Swedish-Fin family of Jewish extraction” will be playing in shaping relationships with Germany and other European powers. De Giers, “whom haughty Grand Dukes, intriguing Panslavists and impatient Generals sneer at as ‘the Jew’ has a reputation for taking the blame for policies that are not of his making.  In this case, he was supporting the Czar’s continued desire to ally with Germany. 



1886: The residents of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews will be entertained this evening by a concert featuring Master I. Wessell.



1887: “Life in the Holy Land 1900 Years Ago” published today provided a detailed review of Palestine in the Time of Christ by Edmond Stapfer



1889: “Why The Child Is Not Buried” published today describes the fate of Abraham Bergman, a child who died two weeks but remains unburied because Marcus Sanftman, the former President of the Warschauer Benefit Sick and Burial Society has refused to sign the burial permit even though  the burial fee has been paid.  By his own admission, Warschauer has failed to act because of a dispute he is having with the newly installed President.



1889: Birthdate of Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the movement for Indian Independence and first Prime Minister of India.  Nehru was opposed to the creation of the state of Israel.  Like so many others, Nehru admired the suffering Jews, but did not like to see them in a position of power.  More to the point, he opposed the creation of a Jewish state in an attempt to curry favor with India’s Moslem minority.  After the creation Israel, Nehru did what he could to isolate the new Jewish state.  Fortunately, over the last decade, India and Israel have developed harmonious relations at both the personal and governmental level.



1889: In St. Louis, MO, Joseph Lazarus Kranson and Caroline Kranson gave birth to Abraham H. Kranson.



1890: Judge David McAdam, the Chief of the City Court and the Judge-elect of the Superior Court published his campaign expenses today which included $25 owed to the Hebrew World, $10 owed to the Hebrew Leader and $40 owed to the Jewish Daily News.

1890: In New York City. De Witt J. (David) Seligman, the son of James (Jacob) Seligman and Rosa Seligman and Addie Seligman gave birth to James Bernheimer Seligman.



1892: In St. Petersburg, the prohibition against Jews being allowed to emigrate “that was enforce during the cholera epidemic” has been lifted.



1892: In another example of how Jewish culture infuses Western culture,  the New York premier of Israel in the Wilderness, a cantata  that opens with a Hebrew Chorale and includes sections entitled “The God Abram Praise,” “Forth from the Land of Egypt” and “O Fertile Land of Egypt” was well received by the audience and the journalist who reviewed it.



1892: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Reverend Henry P. Smith a noted Professor of Hebrew at Lane Theologilical Seminary is being tried by his fellow Presbyterians for his beliefs which question the inerrancy of Scripture and question the accuracy of statements made in the Bible when one considers the differences between events described the books of Samuel and Kings as opposed to the description in Chronicles. 



1892: Judge Henry M. Goldfogle presided over the special meeting of the Grand Lodge, District No. 1 Order of B’nai B’rith which had been called to deal with the financial crisis facing the organization.



1892: In an interview published today, former Chancellor Bismarck denied that Germans or Russians wanted to fight a war with each other saying that “the only warlike elements in Russia are the press, the Poles and the Jews.” (Bismarck seemed to have forgotten the German decision not renew its alliance with Russia which pushed it into the arms of the French.  But aw we have seen in our times, it is so much easier to blame the Jews and the media)



1892: Reports published in New York today relying on information provided by the Vienna correspondent of the London Standard described the confirmation received by “the leading financial house of Vienna” that “the Paris house of Rothschild has declined to have anything with the new Russia loan. Baron Alphonse agreed with the logic stated by the London house of Rothschild that the House of Rothschild would not assist those who oppress Jews. (Contrary to the Shylock image of the Jew, this was a case where principle outweighed profit)



1893(5th of Kislev, 5654): Fifty-six year Baron Moritz von Königswarter, the Austrian banker and spokesmen who  was appointed by the emperor a life member of the Austrian House of Peers in 1879 and who was outspoken defender of his co-religionists passed away today.



1894: The 15^th annual reported of the President of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York which has been issued as pamphlet “contains an interesting history of the work that has been done by the society.”



1896: In New York delegates are gathering from across the country for the first convention of the National Council of Jewish Women which is scheduled to open tomorrow.



1896: Mr. Isidor Straus presided over the dinner at Delmonico’s given “in honor of Joseph Jacobs, the English author and critic who is here to deliver a series of lectures to the National Council of Jewish Women” before moving on to Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago.



1896(9^thof Kislev, 5657): Eighty-four year old Ephraim Wolbach, a native of Bavaria who “was engaged in the jewelry and tailoring businesses before retiring 24 years ago” passed away today at the home of his niece, Mrs. Max Lion.



1896: “The advanced pupils of the Academy of Dramatic Arts are scheduled to participate in a pantomime and play directed by Henry E. Dixey” this evening at the Hebrew Institute at the corner of East Broadway and Jefferson Street.





1897: In Vienna, the authorities blamed the Jewish students for the second outbreak of violence because they were angered by the Germans who had attacked them in the first uproar earlier in the week.

1897: “The winter program of the Jews’ College Literary Society” is scheduled to begin today with a lecture by “Mr. Alexander” a rabbi who served “one or two provincial congregations” before going into business in London

1897: Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture at Carnegie Hall to members of the Society for Ethical Culture entitled “What Has Religion Done for Civilization?”

1897(19^thof Cheshvan, 5658): Benn Levy, the youngest son of Joseph and Cordella Levy of Leicester died today after “a fall from his horse.”

1897: Three days after he had passed away, 33 year old Henry Barend Hayman was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London”



1897: “Honors to the American Author” published today described the visit of Mark Twain to Vienna where “the utmost attention is being paid him by the press, the ‘Jewish press’ as the big Vienna dailies are called.  The anti-Semitic papers have hardly taken any notice of his visit.” (While in Vienna, Twain would write about the government’s used of anti-Semitism to deflect public attention from rioting in the Empire and he later defended his comments in “Concerning the Jews” which was published in Harper’s magazine.



1898: Barnet Phillips is scheduled to deliver at lecture this evening entitled “The Past in the Present” which will be the first in a series of weekly talks sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.



1898: “Israel Zangwill delivered an address on the religion of the Ghetto” tonight at the annual meeting of the Education Alliance at Temple Emanu-el.



1898: A “mass meeting” attended by 3,000 was held tonight at Oheb Zedek on Clinton Street in an attempt to raise the $3,000 from the realtors wrecking ball.



1899: Lord Rothschild, Sir Samuel Montagu and Mr. Benjamin Montagu were among the Jewish leaders who were on the platform at the tercentenary celebration of Oliver Cromwell which included “the unveiling of a statue of the Protecter.



1900(22nd of Cheshvan): Author Judah Behak passed away

1900(22^nd of Cheshvan): Sixty-eight year old Adolph Pollitzer, the Budapest native who “was regarded as the most eminent” violin teacher “of his time in England” and who “became leader at Her Majesty's Theatre under Sir Michael Costa as well as the leader  the new Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society” passed away today.

1900: Leopold Hilsner was found guilty of the ritual murder of Agnes Hruza of Polna Bohemia



1900: Herzl seeks a meeting with Lord Rothschild.



1900:  In Brooklyn, Harris Morris Copland, a merchant who had Anglicized its name from the original Kaplan, and Sarah Mittenthal Copland gave birth to Aaron Copland who was noted for a variety of concertos for piano and clarinet, the suite Quiet City and the Ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.  He won a Pulitzer Prize for this last creation. He passed away in 1990.  ‘Many of Aaron Copland's fans have wondered how a young Jewish music-lover from Brooklyn came to compose such works as Billy the Kid and Rodeo. Copland himself had a handy explanation: his grandparents had once lived in Texas, where his grandfather owned a store in Dallas.  Frank James - brother of Jesse James – was reputed to have been one of the employees. But for the persistence of choreographer Agnes de Mille, Rodeo might never have been produced. After the success of Billy the Kid, she suggested that Copland write another Western ballet. Copland resisted giving as his initial response, ‘I've already composed one of those. Can't you do a ballet about Ellis Island?’"

https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200182578

https://www.biography.com/people/aaron-copland-9256998



1903: “A few of his veteran friends” celebrated the 50^th anniversary of the arrival of Isidore Newman in New Orleans

1904: In Camden, NJ Abraham Lichtenstein purchased the property at 335 Liberty

Street which had previously belonged to Congregation Sons of Israel today.

1904: Today, “on the West Side of Manhattan, David Mannes and the former Clara Damrosch - founders of the Mannes College of Music” gave birth to “author, journalist and critic” Marya Mannes “who wrote under the pen name of ‘Sec’”.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/15/obituaries/marya-mannes-the-writer-dies-social-critic-and-satirist-was-85.html

1904: As of today “the nature of the rift that has split the Camden, NJ Jewish community with the Sons of

Israel going to” property at South and Sycamore Street and others staying at 335 Liberty Street is

unknown.

1905(16^thof Cheshvan, 5666): Five year old Morris Samuel Abrams passed away today after which he was buried at the Shaare Zedek in Pittsburgh, PA.

1905: David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West," premieres in New York City. Belasco’s father was Jewish.  His mother was Roman Catholic.

1905: “Three influential Jews left Odessa for St. Petersburg today to present to the Council of Ministers a full account of the outbreak at Odessa, supported by documentary evidence.”

1905: The list of the Directors of the Educational Alliance published today included “James Frank, Albert Friedlander, Samuel Greenbaum, Ferdinand Kuhn, Henry M. Leipziger, Louis Marshall, William Salomon, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Tuska.”



1905: Today’s American Hebrew called for “new measures to cope with” the massacres of Russian Jews including “convening a Jewish congress in the United States” for the purpose of coordinating the relief efforts of every Jewish organization.



1905: It was reported today that in Odessa, P.D. Neidhart has been replaced by “General Gergorieff, a conservative anti-Semite. (This is the same general who will massacre the Jews of Odessa in the Summer of 1919 during the Russian Civil War)



1905: As of today “the fund for the relief of Jewish sufferers from the Russian massacres” “has reached at $200,000 although there is actually in hand about $70,000 less than that sum.”



1905: The Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee is scheduled to meet in the office of the Mayor of Philadelphia today to discuss ways of providing “immediate relief to the survivors of the massacre in Russia.”



1906: “Miss Alice Lewisohn Is Now An Actress” published today provided the explanation by the daughter of the late philanthropist and businessman Leonard Lewisohn that she concealed her identity while performing in “Pippa Passes” at the Majestic Theatre because she did not plan on being a professional actress and that her appearance was purely for educational purposes that would help her with the amateur theatrical productions at the Henry Street Settlement House.



1907: In Brooklyn, Joseph Steig, a house painter, and his wife Laura Ebel Steig, a seamstress gave birth to multi-talented graphic artist William Steig.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/nyregion/william-steig-95-dies-tough-youths-and-jealous-satyrs-scowled-in-his-cartoons.html





1908: Oscar Straus' musical "Der tapfere Soldat," premieres in Vienna. .  Straus dropped the

 second‘s’ at the end of his name so he would not be confused the more famous Strauss family.



1908: Albert Einstein presents the quantum theory of light



1908: Birthdate of Yedida Shofet the native of Kashan, Iran who was the last Chief Rabbi of Iran “and the worldwide spiritual leader of Persian Jewry.



1909(1st of Kislev, 5670): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1909(1^stof Kislev, 5670): Thirteen year old Benze Zieg passed away today.

1910: Emma Keyman “the second daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Keyman” married David Krichefski, the youngest sont of Mr. & Mr. Krichefski of Jersy at the Wellington Road Synagogue.



1909: Birthdate of artist, illustrator and author of children’s books William Steig.  Steig sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker Magazine in 1930.  His work would appear so often in that publication (including 117 covers, that he was dubbed the “king of cartoons.’ Here are a couple of his more “bland” works.  For more covers go to



 http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/031020onco_covers_gallery



1909: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, the Rabbi at Chicago’s Temple Sinai, gave an address tonight at the Broad Street at event celebrating the centenary of Rabbi David Einhorn, of blessed memory. During his speech he demonstrated how the Reform movement had revitalized Judaism from the dead hand and hypocrisy of Orthodoxy. “Nine hundred and ninety-nine ot of every thousand Orthodox Jews who pray regularly to back to Jerusalem would be stricken with apoplexy if the Messiah should suddenly announce that they could go back.”



1910: Today, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded German poet and novelist Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1912(4^thof Kislev, 5673): Eighty-three year old Civil War veteran Joseph Rosenthal passed away today in Chicago.

1913(14^thof Cheshvan, 5674): Seventy-five year old Joseph Hiam Levy, the native of Aldgate and son of Lawrence Levy whom he upset by leaving the Great Synagogue for the more liberal West London Synagogue and who was an Inspector of Accounts at the Department of Education before becoming a lecturer at Birkbeck College and a leader of the Personal Rights Association passed away today.

1914: In Georgia, the appellate court, upheld the trial court’s ruling denying Leo Frank a new trial.



1914: Birthdate of Shmuel Tankus, the native of the Neve Shalom district of Jaffa who became the 5^th commander of the Israeli Navy.

1914: It was reported today that “there will be five Jews in the next Congress” including two Democrats – Julius Kalen of California and A.T. Sabath of Illinois --, two Socialists – Victor Berger of Wisconsin and Meyer Loudon of New York – and one Republican – Isaac Sigel of New York.

1914: It was reported today that “the Massachusetts Commission recently stated that Russian Jews in Massachusetts presented a larger proportion of naturalized citizens than any other nationality with which the commission came into contacts.”





1915: “Old Heidelberg” a silent romance co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released today in the United States.



1915: “Revive Jewish Artistry” published today described an exhibition in New York of works from Jerusalem’s Bezalel School under the leadership of Professor Boris Schatz who has led to the revival of the arts among “the Hebrews in Palestine.”



1915: An order signed today by Russian Cavalry General Oblonsky commands “that when the Russians enter a town of the enemy, or reconquer a town of their own , the leaders of the Jewish community be taken and held as hostages” and that “at the same time a warning should be given to all Jews that if any one of them should be in any way help the enemy, even after we have left the town, these Jewish leaders will be killed.”



1915: “It was decided at the ninth annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee” which held was held today at the Hotel Astor in New York City “to call a conference “which will take steps to organize “organize a congress of American Jews” that will meet after the end of the World War “to consider” ways to ensure “the rights of Jews in belligerent lands and Romania.”



1916: As control of Poland shifts from Russia to Germany during WW I, it was reported that Herman Bernstein, the editor of the American Hebrew has urged all concerned “that steps should be taken” to ensure that Jews enjoy “equal rights with others in Poland after war” comes to an end.



1916: Birthdate of writer and producer, Sheldon Schwartz.  Schwartz is another Jew who played a key role in the creation of what some call middlebrow American culture.  He wrote for Ozzie and Harriet, produced The Brady Bunch and created and produced Gilligan’s Island.



1917: “A bloody battle” was fought between the Turks and The Kiwis (New Zealand soldiers fighting under General Allenby) at Ayun Kara, a village “southeast of Tel Aviv.”



1917: It was reported today that “the declaration by Great Britain of its purpose to facilitate the effort of the Zionists to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine…carries with it a proviso that the establishment of a Jewish State in the Holy Land shall not in any way conflict with the rights of non-Jewish communities now existing in Palestine” while carrying “pledges by Great Britain to oppose any project which might in any way impair the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.



1917: Amid growing attempts to prevent Jewish students from receiving scholarships, Stuart Samuel and Charles Emanuel met with Cyril Cobb, the Chairman of the London County Council’s Education Committee and Sir Robert Cecil in a failed attempt to thwart the change in policy that would require eligible candidates “to be British when applying for the award and to have been born or have fathers who were born in Britain or in the Dominions.”



1918: Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. Jan Masaryk was the guiding force behind this effort the first president of the new Czech Republic. Masaryk was one of the most decent and courageous leaders of the 19^th and 20^thcentury.  During the 1880’s when Prague was swept by a series of anti-Semitic riots including charges of the blood libel, Masaryk condemned the anti-Semites and worked to alleviate the suffering of the Jews.  Ironically, in 1916, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies, whose parents had emigrated from Bohemia (later to be part of Czechoslovakia) who arranged for Masaryk’s first meeting with President Wilson.  Wilson’s support would prove to be critical in the creation of the Czech Republic. Thanks to the Masaryk’s Jews enjoyed the benefits of full citizenship in law as well as in fact.  “Jewish communal institutions and holidays enjoyed full juridical recognition and protection.”  Jews played a key role in creating a vibrant, Czech economy and played a leading role in the areas of art and culture.  Of course, the most famous Jewish artist of the time was Franz Kafka.  We are not better acquainted with the rest of these Jewish Czech artists because the Nazis did their job all too well.



1918: Days after the Armistice was signed, Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow wrote today that “these have been wonderful days in Paris” where “the streets have been full of wild enthusiasm” and “the people don’t seem to be able to find a way to express their joy” now that “the most terrible war in human history has come to an end.



1919: In a move that must have the Jews feel "uncomfortable," the Constituent Assembly in Poland declared Sunday as the official day of rest.

1920: Birthdate of Izo Hertzig, the native of Siret, Romania who gained fame as Israeli MK Yitzhak Artzi.

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/my_homeland/yitzhak_artzi.asp

1920: “The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee…was held at the Hotel Astor” today where “President Louis Marshall presented the annual report of the Executive Committee, which dealt with endeavors to obtain improvement of the condition of the Jews in Poland, the Ukraine, Hungary and Rumania.”

1920(3^rd of Kislev, 5681): Sixty-one year old  Jacob Wertheim, the son of Baruch and Henrietta Wertheim who turned ownership in a small New York cigar story in “the United Cigar Manufacturers Company with a capital of twenty million dollars” and who was “one of the foundrs of the Federation ofr the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies” passed away today.

1920: Today, “leading Jews in America untied to protest against the announced proposal to undertake an evangelization campaign among the Jews of New York City” for which “the Presbyterian Church has” raised “nearly $200,000.”

1920: Birthdate of Irving Dover Ravetch the Newark born son of a Jewish immigrant who had fled the Russian pogroms, became a pharmacist and, later, a rabbi. His mother, an immigrant from what is now northern Israel, was a Hebrew teacher. He gained fame as Irving Ravetch, whose playwriting career stalled on the brink of Broadway but who became half of one of Hollywood’s most successful husband-and-wife screenwriting teams, creators of the Oscar-nominated scripts for “Hud” and “Norma Rae,”



1921: “Honor Lauterbach For Aid To Orphans” published today described the honors paid to Edward Lauterbach for his 39 years of service to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum including a brief talk by one of the children, Paula Schwartz who “said that this name would be everlastingly remembered by those who were housed in the institution during his trusteeship.”



1923: Winston Churchill told British businessman and leading member of Jewish community, Sir Robert Waley Cohen, that he would no longer be able to work with him on the merger of two of Cohen’s companies with the Anglo-Persian Company.  Churchill turned his back on this lucrative business arrangement because he had decided to return to public life as a Member of Parliament.  Ironically, Churchill would lose his first bid to return to Parliament in March of 1924.  It speaks to Churchill and his business partners sense of rectitude that both wanted to avoid an appearance of impropriety regardless of any financial reverses that either of them might suffer.

1924: In Shanghai, Celia Krisel and Alexander Krisel, “a lawyer and distributor for United Arts films,” gave birth to architect William Krisel. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/arts/design/william-krisel-dead-architect-alexander-house-sun-belt.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well



1924(17^thof Cheshvan, 5685): Fifty-three year old Utica, NY born “Judge Hyman Lazarus of the Court of Common Pleas of Hudson County, NJ and since 1911 publisher of The Bayonne Times” passed away today early this morning at his home in Bayonne. NJ.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/11/15/100236384.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=13



1924: Birthdate of famed Russian violinist Leonid Kogan who won the Lenin Prize in 1952 proving that regardless of which side of the Iron Curtain you looked you would find a Jewish Fiddler on the Roof.



1925: Birthdate of Gladys Lenore Blum who would attain theatrical success as Gladys Nederlander, producer of nine Broadway shows.  She passed away in July, 2008



1927: As Stalin consolidated his control over the Communist Party, Trotsky was expelled from the Party.

1928: “Impressive Armistice Day Celebration is Held in Jerusalem” published today described how “two hundred members of the former Jewish Legion which fought in the British Army during the World War for the liberation of Palestine passed in review before Acting High Commissioner H. C. Luke” as part of the ceremonies marking the anniversary of the end of the World War.



1929: Birthdate of Alan J. Shallack who collaborated with Margaret Rey staring in the 1970’s to bring Curious George, the creation of her late husband, to the television.



1929: It was reported today that “the Abyssinian government has awarded the Order of the Ethiopian Star to Dr. Jaques Faitlovitch, the international explorer and executive director of the work among the Falashas in Abyssinia” who “has made six expeditions into Abyssinia, during which he made scientific studies of the Falasha, a people that has observed the Jewish faith for over 2,000 years.” (As reported by JTA)



1929: Fritz and Charlotte Fuerst, got married today in Vienna, Austria. “Fritz Fuerst illegally immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938. His wife, Charlotte, was deported to Kielce, Poland. Charlotte perished in the Holocaust “

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/01.asp



1930: “Morocco” a romantic film for which Josef von Sternberg received an Oscar nomination for Best Director was released in the United States today.

1931: With Sid Gillman playing End, Ohio State defeated Wisconsin for its fifth victory out of seven games played to date.



1931: After 91 performances, the curtain came down on “The House of Connelly” starring Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Clifford Odets which was staged by Lee Strasberg at the Martin Beck Theatre.



1931: Montefiore Kahn, vice president of Oil Shares, Inc., a $6,000,000 corporation having its principal offices in Jersey City, was held on $25,000 bail for a hearing Tuesday, upon his arraignment before Magistrate Capshaw in Jefferson Market Court on a charge of being a fugitive from justice in New Jersey. He is wanted in connection with the theft of $100,000.



1933: In Passaic, N.J., Nathan and Anne Zion gave birth to Sidney Zion, “a journalist and author who turned his daughter’s death at New York Hospital in 1984 into a crusade that led to national reforms in the training, workload and supervision of young doctors.” (As reported by Robert D. McFadden

1934: It was announced today that Leo Arnstein, the “vice president and treasurer of J. H. Rossbach and Bros., Inc., and the Rossbach Brazil Co., who is a director of Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Associations” “was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Central Savings Bank.”

1935: The Nazis began the First Implementation Order to the Reich Citizenship, Clause 5; "A Jew is a person descended from at least three grandparents who were full Jews by race."   This meant that a lot of Christian Germans found out that they were “really Jewish” since the conversion of their parents offered no protection from being designated as a Juden.  As many as 500,000 German citizens fall into the Mischlinge or mixed-race category. Marriages between Jews and second-generation Mischlinge are prohibited by law.

1935: Seventy-year old German classical scholar Friedrich Münzer “was officially classified as Jewish, upon which many colleagues and acquaintances distanced themselves from him.”

1935(18^th of Cheshvan, 5695) Seventy-five year old French banker and art collector Count Moïse de Camondo who rebuilt the family mansion on Parc Monceau complete with a Kosher Kitchen, passed away today. Unfortunately the family’s position and wealth was not enough to protect his family. The Camondo family disappeared after the French deported his daughter, Béatrice, his son-of-law Léon Reinach and their children, Fanny and Bertrand to Auschwitz where they were murdered.

http://forward.com/articles/123207/camondo-splendor/

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/travel/past-prologue-and-paris.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1935: Birthdate of King Hussein of Jordan.  The Jordanian monarch presented a mixed bag when it came to relations with Israel.  In 1967, despite pleas from the Israelis, Hussein joined Syria and Egypt in waging war against Israel.  It was his fortunate choice of action that resulted in Israel ending up with all of Jerusalem and the West Bank.  At the same time, Hussein personally and publicly apologized for terrorist attacks against Israelis in 1997.  Finally, in 1994, with cancer consuming his body, the King signed a peace agreement with Yitzchak Rabin.  As he said, he finally completed the work begun by his grandfather, King Abdullah.

1935: Herbert Samuel completed his service as MP for Darwen which had begun in 1929.

1935(18^th of Cheshvan, 5695): New York attorney Morris Cooper, the husband of Alice Jaretzki Cooper with whom he had two children – “Richard M. Cooper and Mrs. Gay V. Land”—passed away today.

1936: Sophomore Harry Shorten helped lead NYU to victory over Rutgers.

1936: Today, “the Provincial Commission in Tripoli issued an order…to the effect that all shops were to remain open all days of the week except Sunday” which was part an attempt to force Jewish shopkeepers to leave the new quarter of the city and return to the less economically attractive old quarter of Tripoli.

1936: “Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, the chairman of the House Immigration Committee” announced “that in view of the large amount of religious and racial ‘hate propaganda’ brought out in the Presidential election campaign he will offer a resolution in the Congress for an investigation of subversive and un-American activities by the House committee which in 1934 looked into Nazi activities” in the United States.

1936: An exhibition of paintings by Elias Newman, an American artist who lived in Palestine for eight years that has been on display at the Jewish Club in New York comes to an end.

1937: The New York Timesreports on the publication of the text of “And Stars Remain” by Julius S. and Philip G. Epstein, a comedy produced by the Theatre Guild during the 1936 season

1937: Dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow debuted on Broadway. Sokolow got her professional start in "radical dance" in 1929 when she joined Martha Graham's dance company, and for the next decade she studied and danced with Graham, but she also began to work with other groups and to choreograph pieces of her own. Sokolow felt the need to move beyond Graham's orbit to draw upon her own ethnic background and to use dance to dramatize the economic, social, and political crises of the time. Sokolow's first major composition for a group, Anti-War Trilogy, was performed at the 1933 First Anti-War Congress, and the dangers of war and fascism continued to be reflected in her later work. Sokolow was a key figure in the development of modern dance in both Israel and Mexico, and worked with a variety of dance forms. Sokolow often worked with theater productions, choreographing many Broadway performances. She was a central figure in the choreography and staging of the musical Hairin 1967. In the later part of her career, Sokolow incorporated Jewish themes more heavily in her work. Her first piece with clear Jewish content was The Exile (1939), and many of her compositions returned to the themes of exile and suffering. Her 1945 Kaddish, which was choreographed just as the war was ending, drew upon traditional Jewish elements to express her pain and suffering. Sokolow's 1961 work, Dreams, was the first serious dance exploration of the Holocaust. She also based a number of her works on Jewish female figures, both Biblical and modern, ranging from Ruth and Deborah to Hannah Senesh and Golda Meir.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/14/1937/anna-sokolow

1937: “In the mixed Arab Jewish quarter of Romemah on the outskirts of Jerusalem Arabs attacked Jew who was rescued by a policeman.  Two Jewish girls walking along the road were hit by a stray bullet and injured slightly.”

1938: “Daniel Frohman, dean of Broadway theatrical producers was one of the many show people who signed a telegram” sent to President Roosevelt today “urging him to ‘express the feeling of horror and indignation of American people toward Nazi brutality by invoking” his “Executive powers under existing American laws to declare an official embargo on all trade with Germany.”

1938: Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated 5 million listeners in defense of Herschel Grynszpan, pointing out that the Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.

1938: “Contrary to early reports, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury was not consulted in advance on the new French financial decrees and knew nothing of the French plans until he read of the in the newspapers, the Secretary said at a press conference this afternoon.”

1938: “Storm Over Bengal” which received a an Oscar nomination for Best Score for the music written by Cy Feuer was released in the United States today.

1939: Divisional meetings of members of the League for Palestine were today at the homes of members throughout the Long Island area today to discuss plans for a campaign to raise $100,000 for a new league center in Jerusalem similar to those already established in Haifa and Tel Aviv.

1939: “Five hundred Jewish refugees, mostly from Poland and the first to arrive since the war started, landed near Tel Aviv today and were taken into custody by British officials who said their entry was illegal.”

1940(13^th of Cheshvan, 5701): Eighty year old Albert Kahn, the son cattle dealer Louis Kahn and Babette Bloch,  a millionaire Parisian banker and philanthropist whose plan to use his fortune to document the world in photographs was thwarted by the Great Depression died in France today during the Nazi occupation.

https://thebioscope.net/2007/05/21/searching-for-albert-kahn/



1940: During the Blitz, the Nazis bombed Coventry. Unbeknownst to people at the time, the bombing of Coventry, a civilian target of no military value, presented Churchill with his greatest moral dilemma of the war.  Because of Ultra, the English could “read” Nazi communications which gave them a great edge.  When Churchill found out that the Nazis were going to bomb Coventry which lacked anti-aircraft defense, he had to decide if he should send guns to the city which would have tipped the Germans off that the English were reading their code which would have led to them changing the code or let them remain defenseless during the terror raid.  He opted for the latter.  As cold-blooded as this decision may seem to us today, to have done otherwise might have led to the loss of the Battle of Britain which would have brought The Final Solution to the British Isles.  http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/coventryh.htm

1941: In a message to the Jewish Chronicle Winston Churchill recognized the Jewish suffering. "None has suffered more cruelly than the Jew... The Jew bore the brunt of the Nazis' first onslaught upon the citadels of freedom and human dignity."  Fine words, but there was no action to back them up.  The doors to Palestine remained firmly shut and millions of Jews perished

1941: “I Wake Up Screaming” a film noir produced by Milton Sperling was released in the United States today.

1941: Nine thousand Jews from Slonim, Belorussia, are murdered at Czepielow

1942: The Nazis set up Ghettos in Radom, Cracow, and Galicia.

1942: In Perth Australia engineer Simon Feldman and his wife gave birth to Guggeheim Fellow and Dan Prize winner Marcus Feldman, who, ironically earned one of his degrees at Monash University, a school named after Sir John Monash the leading Australian general in WW I and a leader of the post-war Australian Jewish community.

http://www-evo.stanford.edu/Feldman-cv.pdf

1942(5^th of Kislev, 5703): Sixty-one year old Henry Charles Dyte, the son of Isabella Benjamin and David Moses Dyte passed away today.

1943: At today’s general Fascist Party Congress, Benito Mussolini arranged “to have all Jews in Italy declared enemy aliens” under the law.

1943: Italian fascists in Ferrara killed 3 Jews in cold blood in broad daylight. They were not arrested or prosecuted in any way. 

1943:Chicago Bear’s Sid Luckman passed for 7 touchdowns as the Monsters of the Midway defeated the New York Giants, 56 to 7.

1943: Having recently been appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein made his conducting debut on last-minute notification—and without any rehearsal—after Bruno Walter came down with the flu. He became instantly famous because the concert was nationally broadcast. The soloist for that concert was Joseph Schuster, solo cellist of the New York Philharmonic, who played Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Because Bernstein had never conducted the work before, Bruno Walter coached him on it prior to the concert. It is possible to hear this concert thanks to a transcription recording made from the CBS radio broadcast that has since been issued on CD.

1944(28th of Cheshvan, 5705): Seventy-one year old Hungarian violinist Carl Flesch died in Lucerne, Switzerland today.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/carl-f-flesch-writer-and-son-of-the-violinist-834612.html

1944: The Nazis hanged German businessman Walter Cramer, for his role in the attempt to kill Hitler on July 20.

1945: Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, joint chairmen of the American Zionist Emergency Council, criticize U.S. for agreeing to the creation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry designed to determine the facts concerning the conflict in Palestine and to make recommendations to improve the situation.

1945: Hadassah and World Jewish Congress criticized British foreign minister Ernest Bevin.

1945: Former Senator Guy Gillette, who is the President of the American League for a Free Palestine, is scheduled to fly to London today as head of an unofficial delegation to the British Government on behalf of the establishment of Palestine as a “free and democratic state.” [Until the creation of the state of Israel, the Jewish homeland was referred to as Palestine and Gillette was head of a Zionist organization.”]

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0916FD3D5B10738DDDAD0994D9415B8588F1D3

1946: Birthdate of folk musician Jay Ungar who with his wife Molly Mason wrote “the soundtrack to the acclaimed documentary film Brother's Keeper” and “Ashokan Farewell.”

http://thejewniverse.com/2015/the-jew-behind-the-famous-civil-war-lament/

1946: The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemns the idea of anti-British being expanded from Palestine to Britain.

1947: In Egypt, Lucy and Eliyahu gave birth to Yosef Frachi who was a member of the INS Dakar when it was lost at sea in 1968.

1947: Violence erupted in Palestine after the British kill three Jewish girls and two boys are at a farmhouse where a cache of weapons is found.

1948: "While Iraqi troops were still on the battlefield, an Iraqi law had added 'Zionism' to communism, anarchism and immorality in a list of offences whose propagation was punishable by seven years in prison or a heavy fine.

1948(12^th of Cheshvan, 5709): Sixty-seven year old Samuel Abelow, the Lithuanian born son of Harris Abelow and the husband of Jeanette Abelow who served on the Board of Education of the School of Biblical Instruction passed away today after which he was buried at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens.

1949: “The United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission formally replied today to the widespread criticism both” in the United States “and abroad of its draft statute for the internationalization of Jerusalem” which included a plan that “would vest all normal powers of government in the local Israeli and Arab authorities in Jerusalem” while allowing for a United Nations commissioner and two tribunal that “would be empowered to supervise free access to the Holy Places in the Jerusalem area and insure peaceful realtions and normal intercourse between the Arab and Jewish sectors of the divided city.”

1950: “An official publication Reshumot (Portofolio of Notifications 130) announcement on the election to Jerusalem municipality council, that were held today, states that among the approved candidates Rabbi Amram Aburbeh was candidate number 7 to honor the Yichud Shevet Yehudah party candidates list, representing the religious Sephardi Jews.”

1950(5^th of Kislev): Fifty-year old New York born mental hygiene activist Florence Brooks the widow of Arthur Adler, “the president of the Adler Shoe Company” and mother of Richard B. Adler, who was an active member of the National Council of Jewish Women and the “organizer of the Norwalk Allied Nations Committee for Home Hospitality passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/11/16/91118756.html?pageNumber=31

1952(26^th of Cheshvan, 5713): Seventy-three year old Don Kaplan who had been imprisoned for his anti-Czarist activities and who in 1900 came to the United States where rose from writing poetry and short stories to the editorship of the Sunday literary page of the Jewish Daily Forward passed away today aboard a train that was taking him to Miami Beach.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/11/19/93589885.html?pageNumber=29



1956: The Knesset agreed to an Israeli withdrawal from all territory captured in the Sinai campaign, provided that the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) could be used to keep Egypt from closing the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and stop Gaza from serving as a base for terrorists attacking Israel.  Eleven years later, it would be the unilateral withdrawal of UNEF from the Sinai and the blockade of the Straits that would lead to the famous Six Days War in June of 1967.

1956: “Love Me Tender” Elvis Presley’s first film with music by Lionel Newman was released in the United States today.

1956: Birthdate of Avraham “Avi” Cohen a football player who played for Liverpool in England.

1957: The West End production of the musical “Bells Are Ringing” “with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne

1960: Alexander "Alex" Bittelman was formally expelled from the Communist Party.

1960: “The Facts of Life” co-directed, co-produced and co-written by Melvin Frank and featuring Louis Nye was released in the United States today.

1962(17^th of Cheshvan, 5723): Just days before his 67^thbirthday Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, the Russian born educational director of the Commission of the Jewish Education of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and past president of the National Council for Jewish Education passed away today.

https://www.bjpa.org/search-results/publication/5697

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gamoran-emanuel

1962: Birthdate of Keyboardist Josh Silver.

1963: “The Servant,” Harold Pinter’s film adaptation of a novelette of the same name in which he appears as “Society Man” “opened at London's Warner Theatre.”

1966(1^st of Kislev, 5727): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1966(1^st of Kislev, 5727): Seventy-eight year old Rabbi Moses Aaron Poleyeff, a native of Minsk who was on the faculty of Yeshiva College passed away today in Jersey City, NJ.

1968(23rd of Cheshvan, 5729): Seventy-two year old Riga native, Samuel J. Briskin who worked at produced films for several major studies including Columbia, RKO, Paramount, MGM and Liberty as well as the U.S. government during WW II passed away today.

1968: “The Shoes of the Fisherman,” the film version of the novel of the same name produced by George Enguland, the son of Mabel Albertson and the nephew of Jack Albertson, was released in the United States today.

1969: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today for sixty-nine year old Columbia graduate and Parkinson disease patient A. Wilfred May, the former foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, NANA and The London Financial Times and “economic expert with the SEC”

1971(26^th of Cheshvan, 5732): Sixtyyear old Paris native and Sorbonne attendee Dr. Nathan Edlemean, the CCNY undergrad and hold of a Ph.D. from Columbia, who taught French at two colleges and wrote Attitudes of 17^thCentury France Toward the Middle Ages passed away today.

1972: Birthdate of wrestler Mathew Jason “Matt” Bloom.

1974: Birthdate of actor David Moscow. When asked about his religious upbringing Moscow said, “My father is Jewish and my mother is Mormon. Culturally, I was raised Jewish. We celebrated the major holidays in my house but we celebrated many Christmases with my mother’s side of the family.”

1974: “Leading Jewish activist Victor Polsky received an exit visa” which will lead to his arrival in Israel on December 24th.

1977:  In an interview with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat repeated his willingness to visit Israel.

1977: In an unauthorized interview, IDF Chief of Staff, General Motta Gur said that Egyptian forces were being prepared for an attack against Israel in 1978.

1978(14th of Cheshvan, 5739): Eighty year old Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2^ndViscount, the son of Herbert Samuel and the father of Professor David Samuel passed away.  A WW I veteran who served with the Jewish Legion he served as the last Director of the Palestine Broadcasting Service which was part of the Mandatory Government.

1978: David Samuel, the 3^rd Viscount Samuel, began serving in the British House of Lords.

1980: It was reported today that 1,424 Soviet Jews had emigrated during the month of October.

1980: “The Idolmaker,” a musical co-starring Tovah Felshuh was released in the United States today.

1986: “Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky” the son of Jewish Detroit delicatessen owners “pleads guilty to insider trading and agrees to pay a $100 million fine and cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation.”

1986: “Streets of Gold” a movie about Jew who wants to play on the Russian basketball team directed and produced by Joe Roth was released in the United States.

1986: Five days after he had passed away, a memorial service for seventy-three year old A. James Speyer, the Pittsburg born “son of Stella (Tillie) Speyer and Alexander C. Speyer and graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology who was one of the “leading experts on contemporary American and European art” is scheduled to be held today at the Art Institute.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/11/obituaries/a-james-speyer-an-authority-on-modern-art-is-dead-at-73.html



1986: U.S. premiere of “Hoosier’s” the basketball movie with the signature score by Jerry Goldsmith.

1986: “Every Time We Say Goodbye,” a movie about “a gentile American in the Royal Air Force, stationed in mandatory Jerusalem, who falls in love with a girl from a Sephardic Jewish family” directed and written by Moshe Mizrahi and filmed mostly in Israel” was released in the United States today.

1988: Neil Simon’s latest play, “Rumors” is scheduled to open today at the Broadhurst Theatre under the direction of Gene Saks.

1990(26^th of Cheshvan, 5751): Seventy-one year composer Saul Kaplan passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/obituaries/sol-kaplan-71-dies-composer-and-pianist.html

1990: U.S. premiere of “The King’s Whore” with a script by Frederic Raphael.

1991: Today,the music video for "Black or White" which John Landis helped to create “premiered on MTV, BET, VH1, and Fox (giving them their highest Nielsen ratings ever at the time) as well as the BBC's Top of the Pops in the UK.”

1994: In East Jerusalem, the al-Wasiti Art Centre was opened in Sheikh Jarrah.  Its first exhibition of paintings was entitled ‘From Exile to Jerusalem.’

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World Since 1948 by Avi Shlaim Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999by Benny Morris, The David Story: A Translation With Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuelby Robert Alter, Spanking Watson by Kinky Friedman  and Give Us A King Samuel, Saul, and David: A New Translation of Samuel I and II with an introduction and notes by Everett Fox.

2002: In “Holocaust Writer in Storm Over Role of Catholic Church, “ published today Mark Landler describes the response of the Catholic Church to 'A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/world/holocaust-writer-in-storm-over-role-of-catholic-church.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

2003: In an interview conducted by Yedioth Ahronoth reporters Alex Fishman and Sima Kadmon, Ami Ayalon and three other former heads of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri and Carmi Gillon “warn of an impending "catastrophe" for Israel and urge the public to rally behind a document created which sets out the principles of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.”

2004: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Buildingby Noah Feldman, Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Heroby Michael Korda and The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon.

2004: Shalshelet’s 2004 Inaugural Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music which was held at Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Maryland, comes to an end.

2005:  Boychicks, Beantown, Basketball, Baseball.  Sports Illustrated Magazine of this date carried stories about Red Auerbach and Theo Epstein.  Auerbach, a coach legend in his own time and the President of the Boston Celtics attended the team’s home opener at the age of 88.  Feisty and competitive as ever, Red, sans cigar, was insisting that it was time for another championship, something that has eluded the Celtics since 1986.  Epstein, last year’s boy-wonder who broke the Boston Red Sox jinx, found himself out a job.  Even a genius general manager has a boss.  In the world of work, when employees clash with the boss, the boss always wins even when he (or she) is not right.

2006: At Brown University a three day conference entitled “The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 years of Archaeological Research” comes to an end.  The conference features abstracts by Jon Seligman, Jerusalem region archeologist for the Antiquities Authority.

2006: Fran Dreshcer guest starred today in “The War at Home,” an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intnent.

2006: “Thin,” a “documentary direct by Lauren Greenfield was released today in the United States.

2006: Those participating in the Perek Yomi Program complete the final chapter of the Book of Chronicles, the final book of the Tanach.  This calls for a Siyum Tanach, a party celebrating this milestone in Jewish study.  Siyum is the Hebrew word meaning “finish.”

2007: “The Quarrel” is performed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York followed by a discussion with playwright Rabbi Joseph Telushkin  “This provocative play follows a chance encounter between two estranged friends, each believing that the other had perished in the concentration camps. One man an Orthodox rabbi, the other a secular writer, their experiences and losses during the Holocaust have reinforced the rabbi’s trust in God and the writer’s trust in himself. Capturing the bittersweet memories of two men revisiting their past, the play confronts the spiritual questions raised by these survivors’ opposing lifestyles.”

2007(3^rd of Kislev, 5768): Eighty-five year old clarinetist David Oppenheim, the former Dean of the N.Y.U. School of Arts passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/arts/03oppenheim.html

2007: The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that the remains of an ancient terraced street that dates back to the roman period have been uncovered in the Western Wall tunnels. The street, which like led to the nearby Temple Mount itself, dates back nearly 2,000 years when the city was call Aelia Capitolina during the second to fourth centuries of the Common Era.

2007: New York Governor Elliot Spitzer withdrew an executive order that would have allowed the state to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens starting in December.

2007: “The Farnsworth Invention” “a stage play by Aaron Sorkin did not open on Broadway as scheduled today due to a strike by stagehands.

2008: “No Rock Like You: Songs for the Jewish Soul” Shalshelet’s annual musical festival comes to an end in Washington, D.C.

2008: Today, Rabbi Rachel Cowan was awarded HUC-JIR’s President's Medallion at Jerusalem Academic Convocation

2008 “The First Basket,” a documentary about Jews and basketball, opens in Los Angeles.www.thefirstbasket.com.

2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa,Curtis David Litow, son of Kathy and Charlie Litow, begins his Bar Mitzvah weekend by leading Friday Evening Services. “Am Yisroel Chai”

2008: At an initial appearance today on new charges of bank fraud, former Agriprocessors Chief Executive Officer Sholom Rubashkin, 49, was ordered by Magistrate Judge Jon Scoles to be held until a detention hearing Wednesday.

2008: Following the morning's Kassam rocket strikes on Sderot and the Sha'ar Hanegev region, the Ashkelon area also came under attack on Friday afternoon. Five Grad-type Katyusha rockets were fired at the region, one of which hit the city center and another that landed on its outskirts.

2009: Congregation Sha’are Shalom, Loudoun County’s Conservative synagogue, hosts its annual art auction this evening. Proceeds from the art auction will be used to benefit the synagogue.

2009: In Acre registration begins for the Second UNESCO World Heritage Workshop on “Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage. “Professionals from 16 countries are coming for the conference, including speakers from Italy, Japan, Peru and India. The workshop is about reducing the risk to cultural heritage sites - in Israel and around the world. There are ways to stop the damage before it happens. Israel was chosen to host the event due to the country's abundance of cultural heritage sites, Kislev said. Places such as Masada, Caesarea and Safed are exposed to many risks, from earthquakes to floods to vandalism”

2009: In San Francisco, after Shabbat, Yuri Foreman became the first Israeli to claim a professional boxing crown when he defeated Daniel Santos of Puerto Rico to take the WBA junior middleweight (under-70 kilogram) title on points. Foreman, a Belarus-born Israeli who has lived in Brooklyn for 10 years and is studying to be an Orthodox rabbi, won the 12-round bout by unanimous decision - 116-110, 117-109 and 117-10

2009: Hundreds of hareidi religious Jews picketed outside the plant belonging to computer chip giant Intel at the Har Hotzvim hi-tech industrial area in Jerusalem, in protest of the fact that the plant employs workers on the Sabbath.

2009: Tonight was a split decision for Jewish boxers.  In New Castle, England, Dimitry Salita lost to Amir Khan when the two fought for the WMA light welterweight title. In Las Vegas, Yuri Foreman won the WBA super welterweight championship by a unanimous

2010: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

2010: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa the Hadassah Donor Dinner features Temple Judah’s own Murray Wolfe, an award-winning playwright, who is scheduled to read from his 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.

2010:“With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East,” an online event promoting peace through cross-border cooperation is scheduled for a global broadcast today at www.withearthandeachother.org.  Anti-Israel groups have failed to get Pete Seeger and others to refrain from taking part in the event.

2010: The 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to take place at Adas Israel, one of two Conservative congregations in the District of Columbia.

2010: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey.” 

2010: Major Emanuel Levi who was serving as navigator for IAF pilot Major Amichai Itkis when their plane crashed earlier this week will be buried today at 11:30 a.m. The funeral is scheduled to take place in the Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. He was from Maaleh Adumim and is survived by his parents, two younger brothers who are serving in the army, and a sister. Friends and family described him as a talented, caring, well-liked man who was “addicted to the army” and had planned to work as a career soldier.

2010: As part of Jewish Book Month, Michelle Edward read from her new book, “The Hannukkah Trike” this morning.

2010: The Temple Rodef Shalom Players performed “Fools” – A Comic Fable by Neil Simon

2010: The head of state-owned French railway company SNCF made an unprecedented show of regret today for the company’s responsibility in sending some 76,000 Jews in France to Nazi death camps.The apology came as part of a bid to assuage American and Jewish community reticence about working with a company that notoriously collaborated with Nazi occupiers.

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=195387

2011: The Jewish Agency for Israel’s board of governor is scheduled to convene today in Argentina.

2011: Molly Birnbaum and Rabbi Andrea Myers are scheduled to take part in the “Memoir Panel” at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.

2011: “Love Me Please” based on the life of Russian journalist Anastasia Baburova is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World Film Festival.

2011 Funeral service for Evelyn Lauder are scheduled to be held at 11:30 at Central Synagogue in New York City.

2011: Archaeologists have deciphered a grey marble slab whose 800-year-old Arabic inscription makes it the only Crusader artifact in that language ever found in the Middle East, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said today. The inscription bears the name of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and the date "1229 of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah," leading the IAA to proclaim it "a rare archaeological find."

2011: The Knesset approved this evening a bill proposing to abolish the rule that a justice cannot be appointed Supreme Court president unless he is at least three years short of the mandatory retirement age of 70.

2012: “Simon and the Oaks,” a film depicting the story of Simon Larsson’s childhood under the specter of Nazi German, is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival

2012: Shawn Joe Lichaa is scheduled to deliver a lecture “As It Is Written - Karaite Judaism: Texts, Textualists and Tradition” at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC

2012: Harry Brod read from Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way  Prairie Lights in Iowa City.

2012:  “A New York grand jury indicted Pedro Hernandez on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the case of Etan Kalil Patz the six year old who disappeared from his New York neighborhood in 1979.

2012: Dorit Beinisch, the first woman to service as president of the Supreme Court in Israel  was awarded "Doctor of Humane Letters-Honoris Causa"by The "Hebrew Union College"Jerusalem,

2012: In response to the incessant rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip - more than 800 have struck Israel since the beginning of the year, and more than 120 since Saturday - the IDF has launched a widespread campaign against terror targets in Gaza. The operation, called Pillar of Defense, has two main goals: to protect Israeli civilians and to cripple the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza

http://www.israelpolitik.org/2012/11/14/in-response-to-terror-attacks-israel-launches-operation-pillar-of-defense/

2012: Second and final day of Kosherfest

http://www.kosherfest.com/

2013: The 7^th annual Other Israel Film Festival is scheduled to open today in NYC



2013: The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio is scheduled to perform at the 92^ndStreet Y.



2013: Four mortars were fired into Israel from Gaza with one landing in the Eshkol Regional Council, one landing in “PA Arab Territory” and two landing around Ofakim.



2103: The IAF blasted “two concealed missile launchers in northern Gaza in response to a barrage of rockets and mortars fired by terrorists.



2013: Today “a United Nations interpreter, unaware that her microphone was on, uttered words of truth in reaction to the General Assembly’s adoption of nine politically-motivated resolutions condemning Israel, and zero resolutions on the rest of the world.”



2013: “Janet Yellen breezed through questions about the financial crisis, the Fed's stimulus efforts and banking regulation, as the Senate Banking Committee weighed her nomination to serve as future head of the Federal Reserve” today



2014(21^stof Cheshvan): “Yahrtzeit of Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra (1480-1573), known by the acronym of his name, Radbaz who served as the Chief Rabbi of Egypt.”



2014(21^stof Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-three year old composer Irving Getz passed away today.  (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/movies/21gertz.html





2014: In Melbourne, “Night Will Fall” and “Operation Sunflower” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2014(21^stof Cheshvan, 5775): Eighty-six year old Princeton graduate James “Jim” Avram Lebenthal who went from a career as a journalist, to filmmaking where he was nominated for an Academy Award to finance at which time he joined the family business Lebenthal and Company where he specialized in municipal bonds passed away today.

https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/nytimes/173198508















2014: “This Is Where I Leave You” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival



2014: In Coralville, IA, at Agudas Achim composer Samuel Adler and  guest cantor Deborah Norin-Kuhn are scheduled to lead Friday night services.



2014: “Walking With the Enemy” is scheduled to open in Cedar Rapids, IA.

http://www.walkingwiththeenemy.com/

2014: The family of Palestinian terrorist Abdel-Rahman al-Shauludi who killed two people including an infant at light rail station in Jerusalem last month has forty-eight hours to appeal the order issued today for the demolition of the home in Silwan.

2014: MKs Hanin Zoabi (Balad) and Afu Agbaria (Hadash) as well as Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the radical wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel were among those demonstrating in Umm al-Fahm while others threw rocks and blocked the road north of Jerusalem today. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2015: “Son of Saul” is scheduled to be shown at Auckland as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2015: The Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival began today.

2015: “Afterthought” and “Man in the Wall” are scheduled to be shown at the 29^th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles.

2015: A screening and discussion of the 2003 documentary El último sefardí (The Last Sephardic Jew) are scheduled to take place at the Yiddish Book Center

2016: “The Second Time Around” and "The Settlers” are scheduled to be shown at the 20^th UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2016: “The Tenth Man” and “Sand Storm” are scheduled to be shown in Sydney, Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: The American Jewish Historical Society and American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host author Yossi Sucary in “a staged reading” of Benghazi Bergen-Belsen, “the first novel exploring the experiences of Libyan Jews in the Holocaust.”

2017: In New Orleans, the Bart Jewish Cultural Series is scheduled to host an evening with author Walter Isaacson who latest work is a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.

2017(25^th of Cheshvan, 5778): Ninety-three year old Tulane trained, iconic architect Albert C. Ledner passed away today in New Hampshire. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/albert-ledner-architect-with-a-quirky-sense-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region

http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/2017/11/article-2884



https://www.dezeen.com/2017/11/20/american-modernist-architect-albert-c-ledner-dies-aged-93/

2017: Today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered humanitarian assistance to the victims of the devastating earthquake that has killed hundreds in Iran and Iraq.

2017: It was revealed to that “an Iron Dome missile defense battery was deployed in the Dan region — made up of Tel Aviv and the surrounding suburbs to protect against a possible rocket attack.”

2017: The Jewish Federation’s General Assembly is scheduled to come to an end today in Los Angeles.

2017: “Lenny” and “Monsieur Mayonnaise” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^stUK International Film Festival.

2017: Dr. Naomi Weinberger is scheduled to lecture on “American Priorities in the Middle East” at the Streicker Center.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and the author of 80 books many of which provide a highly literate look at the Jewish people and the events of the World Wars, and Jewish books for the next thirty days is scheduled to continue for a third day.

2018: While the people of Gaza danced last night celebrating the truce that had been reached after their unprecedented, massive barrage of rocket and mortars, Israelis are awakening this morning to reports of squabble among government ministers over what actions should have been taken and will be taken

2018: Tali Rubinstein, an Israeli born and raised musician is scheduled to make her debut at Lincoln Center.

2018: The Gersham Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the Philadelphia premiere of “Heather Booth: Changing the World

2018: Irene Pletka, a Vice Chairman of the YIVO Board and Founder and Chairman of the Kronhill Pletka Foundation,” is scheduled to honored this evening as “The YIVO Institute Research’s 2018 Gala Award Dinner.”

2018: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host “The Science of Photography: Jewish Pathways” in which “Professor Michael Berkowitz will explore the particular historical circumstances that allowed and encouraged Jewish innovators” including “Gabriel Lippmann, a French pioneer in color photography; Nahum Luboshez, responsible for huge advances in radiography; Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky, Jr., the co-inventors of Kodachrome; and Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid” “to challenge photographic conventions.”

2018: The Oxford Jewish Society and the Islamic Society are scheduled to host tonight’s “Interfaith Formal Dinner” at Lady Margaret Hall.

2018: The Uri Gurvitch Quarter whose leader “was only 20 years old when he won Israel’s Jazz Player of the Year competition” is scheduled to perform at “Dizzy’s Club at Coca-Cola.”

2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening of “In Love and Anger” followed by a discussion with screenwriter and AIDS “activist” Larry Kramer.”

2018: The 30th Kosherfest is scheduled to come to an end today at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ.

https://www.kosherfest.com/

2019: Congregation Beth Emek is scheduled to host Julie Golde of S.F.-based Federation as she discusses the demographics based on a recent 10-county Jewish population study.

2019: In Berkley, CA, Professor Ron Hassner, the Faculty Director at the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies is scheduled to deliver “the inaugural lecture of the Helen Diller Family in Israel Studies” during he “will explore how religion affects modern militaries.”

2019: In San Francisco, the Mechanics Institute is scheduled to co-sponsor a lecture by Lori Harrison the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy and the Black-Jewish Imaginary during which she “will discuss the career of writer and suffrage activist Miriam Michelson, an overlooked figure of the early women’s rights movement” whose The Superwoman and Other Writingsshe edited.

2019: In Palo Alto, CA, the Mitchell Park Community Center is scheduled to host the “Great Pink Challah Bake,” “a communal baking session with ingredients and aprons provided for women of all ages.”  (Editor’s note - are men required to provide their own ingredients and aprons!)

2019: “My Polish Honeymoon” and “Latter Day Jew” are scheduled to be shown at the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.

2019: The Oxford University of Jewish Society is scheduled to host Rabbi Igor's Lunch and Learn” during which he discuss ‘Guard my tongue from evil’ (Berachot 17a): Jewish Concepts of Ethical Communication and Social Media.’”

2019: “The Last Resort” and “Fig Tree” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2019: “Xhemal Veseli, 93, who is among a handful of Muslim rescuers alive today, will travel to Warsaw with Albania’s foreign minister, Edmond Panariti, whose family also saved Jews from the Holocaust where they will attend in Warsaw an event titled “An Evening for the Righteous” scheduled to be held today. (As reported by JTA)

2019: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to host “a special evening honoring Ambassador Alfred H. Moses.”

https://www.promnetwork.com/about/the-company/board/alfred-h-moses

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1215: Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle Ages. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory decrees. Among other things, it encouraged creating schools and holding clergy to a higher standard than the laity. It also forbade clergymen to participate in the practice of the judicial ordeal, effectively banning its use. At the Fourth Lateran Council, Innocent III and his prelates legislated against subordination of Christians to Jews. Canon 69 forbade "that Jews be given preferment in public office since this offers them the pretext to vent their wrath against the Christians."

1280: Albertus Magnus, the German Dominican Friar and Bishop also known as Albert of Cologne who while in Paris took part in the council that ordered the burning of the Talmud but who took a special interest in Jewish literature and who according to Manuel Joël drew many of his ideas from Jewish writers including Maimonides, passed away today.

1316: Birthdate of King John I of France who lived for only five days.  He was the son of Louis X who readmitted the Jews to France.  He was succeeded by his uncle Philip V, who according to some may have played a role in the death of the infant monarch.  Regardless, Philip followed the policies initiated by Louis that among other things, protected them from the enmity of the clergy.

1380: Charles VI ascends the French throne: He told a mob that he would relieve some of the taxes but not expel the Jews. Screaming "Aux Juifs" they plundered and murdered in the Jewish quarter for four days. Some Jews took refuge in the royal prison. Hughes Abriot, the Provost, obtained an order for restitution of all property and the return of all infants forcibly baptized. Because of this, he was accused of converting to Judaism and sent to jail for a year in penance.

1492: Six Spanish Jews and five Spanish Conversos were accused of using black magic

1515: Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.  A year before getting his “red hat” Wolsey had been named Bishop of Lincoln. This is the same town of Lincoln which had been home to one of the five most important Jewish communities in England, well established before it was officially noted in 1154. In 1190, anti-Semitic riots that started in Lynn, Norfolk, spread to Lincoln; the Jewish community took refuge with royal officials, but their habitations were plundered. The so-called "House of Aaron" has a two-storey street frontage that is essentially 12th century and a nearby "Jew's House" likewise bears witness to the Jewish population. In 1255, the affair called “The Libel of Lincoln” in which prominent Jews of Lincoln accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy ("Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln" in medieval folklore) were sent to the Tower of London and 18 were executed. The Jews were expelled en masse in 1290.

1616: 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,” completed his service as Chief Justice of the King’s Bench today

1643: Today, during the investigation of the surrender of Bristol by Nathaniel Fiennes William Prynne who was an outspoken critic of re-admitting the Jews to England, “presented articles of accusation against Fiennes to Parliament.

1658: “Alexander VII., in bull "Ad ea per quæ," orders Roman Jews to pay rent even for unoccupied houses in ghetto, because Jews would not hire houses from which Jews had been evicted” (As reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)

1660: Asser Levy was licensed as the first kosher butcher in New York City.  From such humble beginnings came such great institutions as the Second Avenue Deli of blessed memory

1688 (28th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Zev Wolf, author of Nahlat Binyamin, passed away

1727(2nd of Kislev): The General Assembly of New York passed an act permitting Jews to omit the phrase “upon the faith of a Christian” from the oath of abjuration.

1759: German native Maier Wimpfheimer and Rebecca Wimpfheimer  gave birth to Beile Wimpfheimer.

1771: Orders were given to ban auto-de-fe's from taking place in public, and to ban the production of lists of persons who would be sentenced.

1780: In Mecklenburg, Germany Louis Wolf and his wife gave birth to William Leo Wolf who was the father to at least three doctors – Moritz, George and Joseph Wolf.

1782: In Scotland, printer Thomas Dobson, and his wife, the former Jean Paton gave birth to their third and youngest daughter, Catherine after which the family moved to Philadelphia where Dobson would be the first person “to publish a complete Hebrew Bible.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Dobson_-_Hebrew_Bible.jpg

1790: In Munich, Germany, Rebecca Heller and Nathan Loebl Bomeisler gave birth to Louis Bomeisler, the husband Elizabeth McKaraher and the father of Charles, Edwin, Theodore, Evelyn and Josephine Bomeisler.2

1790: The Jews of Hungary organized a celebration marking the coronation of King Leopold II.  The celebration was held in anticipation of the expectation that the new king would approve the decision of the Diet to grant them citizens.

1791: Georgetown University, America’s first Catholic college opens its doors. Georgetown has followed the trend at a number Catholic colleges and universities in offering programs in Jewish studies.  Today Georgetown offers approximately 35 courses in its Jewish Studies Program and offers a Major in Jewish studies.  About 650 of its 6000 undergraduates are Jewish.  Approximately 1,000 of the schools 6,000 grad students are Jewish.

1793: “Marx Berr…who had been a Jacobin until the purge during the Terror” had his tax bill of 25,000 reduced to 10,000 today after having appeal the original ruling of October 31, 1793>

1796: At the age of 16, “Daniel Meijer took the lawyer's oath, becoming the first Jewish lawyer and one of the youngest lawyers in the history of the Netherlands”

1802: A delegation of German Jews came to Ratisbon where the German princes were trying to create the government that would replace the now defunct Holy Roman Empire and today presented a petition asking for "passive citizenship."  The petition, which probably originated with the Jews of Frankfort, requested freedom to live any place they desired and to pursue a wide variety of occupations and trades. At this time, Jews in many part of the empire had been classified as "serfs" regardless of the economic level.

1805: At Hamburg Abraham Mendelssohn and Lean Salomon, a granddaughter of Daniel Itzig gave birth to Fanny Mendelsohn.

1809: Edward Hime married Priscilla Elkin at the Great Synagogue today.

1812: Two days after she had passed away, 91 year old “Abigail Fano, the wife of Hyam Fano” was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1816: Birthdate of Isidor Kalisch, the German born Rabbi who became the spiritual lead of  the Tifireth Israel congregation in Cleveland, Ohio in 1850.

1817: Birthdate of James Koppel Gutheim, the native of Münster, Germany who came to the United States in 1843 and became a prominent American rabbi. He served in that capacity in several southern towns and cities including Temple Beth El in San Antonio Congregation Shangarai Chasset of New Orleans

1825: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany, native Leopold Fulda, who with his wife Gitta had four children – Emily, Charles, Alice and John Fulda.

1829: Birthdate of Benjamin Szold, the Hungarian born American scholar who began serving as the Rabbi for Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, Maryland and who was the father of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah.

1831: Birthdate of Bavrian native David Weil, a private in the CSA and husband of Rosina Simon Weil.

1832(22nd of Cheshvan): Hannah Adams, early American author of a book on Jewish history, passed away

1832: Birthdate of Abraham Printz a native of  the village of Kashua (“now a part of Slovakia”) and husband of Rosa Printz who was buried in the Tod Homestead Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio.

1835: In Novogrodak, Yaakov Harkavy and Dvora Weisbrem gave birth to Dr. Albert (Avraham Eliyahu) Harkavy.

1835: In, Baltimore, MD, “Benjamin I and Kitty (Etting) Cohen gave birth to Edward Cohen the brother of Israel Cohen and the nephew of his business mentor Samuel Etting, who left his native city at the start of the Civil War and settled in Richmond where married Caroline Myers, “became president of the City Bank of Richmond and supported numerous civic porjects.

1840: Birthdate of Jacob Furth, an Austrian native who became a prominent banker and businessman in Seattle, Washington where he was a member of Ohaveth Sholum, the city’s first synagogue.

1842: At Borek, Prussia, Louis Gerechter and his wife gave birth to Emanuel Gerechter who came to the United States in 1866 and who began serving as Rabbi of Temple Zion, in Appleton, Wisconsin.

1843: “German Christian Lawyer” Carl August Buchholz who championed for the rights of Jews of Lubeck and served as the representative of the Jewish communities of Lubeck, Hamburg and Bremen at the Congress of Vienna where sought laws that would ensure the emancipation of European Jewry passed away today.

1848: In the Berlin national assembly, together with two other deputies, Johann Jacoby initiated the resolution calling for citizens to withhold paying taxes as an attempt to combat the coup d'état

1851(19^th of Cheshvan, 5612): Nineteen month old Pauline Bodenheimer, the daughter of Elka Hrischfelder and Hermann Bodenheimer pass away today after which buried in the Durbach Jewish Cemetery in Offenburg, Germany.

1851: Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick, was published.  Relax; Melville was not Jewish.  But this large literary work is another example of the impact that Jewish Civilization has had on Western and/or World Civilization.  From “Call me Ishmael,” to Captain Ahab, to the great white whale, there could have been no Moby Dick without the Bible.  More to the point, Melville knew that his readers were so conversant in this aspect of Jewish culture that they would understand his references.  Just as an aside for those who were forced to read this novel by some English teacher, the book was deemed a flop when it first came out.

1852: Hermann Goldschmidt discovered his first asteroid today which was named 21 Lutetia.

1854: Said Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt gave a French company headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps the concession to dig the Suez Canal, which would link the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea.  The canal would create a short, all-water route from Great Britain to its most valued possession, India.  Defense of the Canal became one of the keystones of British foreign policy for the next hundred.  This British obsession would play a key role in the development of the Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel.  Sometimes the effect was positive; more often than not, it was negative.

1855: The 34^th anniversary of the Hebrew Benevolent Society was celebrated tonight at the Chinese Asssembly Rooms in New York City.  The event, which was attended by 250 to 300 people rasied $4,000.  During his address, the society’s president reported that they had provided assistance to 1,600 applicants which had depleted the organization’s treasury of its $4,500 in receipts.

1856: “Tonight, a German Jew named Isaac Morris was arrested at West Hoboken by Officer Stephen H. Manly, of Baltimore, and Deputy-Sheriff Robins of Hudson County, on the charge of obtaining goods by false pretences. He was apprehended upon the authority of a requisition from the Governor of Maryland.”

1857: Three days after he had passed away, Abraham Davidson, a London surgeon and the husband of Hannah Davidson with whom had seven children, was buried to at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery with whom he had had eight children, was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1857: Two days after he had passed away, 70 year old Eleazer Hart, the husband of Sarah Hart q

1858: “The Mortara Casa” published today reported that Jews of New York are planning on holding a meeting to protest the “recent abduction of the child Mortara and the extraordinary pretensions of the Pope in regard to such cases. It will be remembered that the Catholic nurse of the infant had it baptized without the knowledge of its parents, who were Jews; and that the child was then taken away and committed to the care of priests.”  The Pope and local authorities refused to return the child who had “thus ‘miraculously’ snatched from the hands of unbelievers.  It is natural that Jews should the lead in demonstrations against such pretensions, inasmuch as they are thus far the principal suffers from them.  But all persons not Catholic are, or may be equally interested in” joining the protest.  “It is not possible to conceive of any greater outrage upon private rights than is embodied in these extraordinary claims, and unless the whole matter should be hushed up, and the principle on which it rests quietly abandoned, it should receive the attention of the government as well as the people of every country holding relation with the Roman states.

1859: Birthdate of Leo Lerner, the native of Bessarabia born “seventeen days after his father’s death” who came to “the United States with his wife and five daughters in 1891” after which he earned an LL.B. from NYU, practiced law starting in 1897 and served as the President of the Hebrew National Orphan Home and the President of the original federation for Bessarabian Jewry of which he was one of the founders.

1860: Birthdate of Simeon Samuel Grigoryevich Frug, the native of the Ukrainian “Jewish agricultural colony of Bobrovy-Kut, Kherson” who gained fame a multi-lingual poet and early Zionist support Simon Frug.

1861: Judah P. Benjamin completed his service as Attorney General for the Confederate States of America.

1862: Birthdate of Isidor Baumann who was buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery when he passed away in 1890.

1862: During the Civil War, First Lieutenant Michael Rosenstein began his service with Company K of the 173^rd Regiment.

1863(4^th of Kislev, 5624): Barnett Abrahams passed away.  Born at Warsaw in 1831, he moved to England in 1839..  Following a rigorous education program that included study with Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, he started serving as the rabbi at Bevis Marks in 1851 and was serving at the Principal of Jew’s College at the time of his death. His sons Joseph and Moses became rabbis and Israel “became an author and teacher.”

1864: Colonel Edward S. Salomon (later General), one of a small group of general officers who were both at the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Atlanta, was among those who marched out of Atlanta as Union forces began their march to Savannah, one of the major Atlantic seaports still in Confederate hands.

1868(1^st of Kislev, 5629): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1868: Esther Mocatta the daughter of Rebecca and Jacob Abraham Mocatta was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1868(1^st of Kislev, 5629): Seventy-six James de Rothschild who founded the French branch of the family banking empire with the opening of De Rothschild Frères and whose name lives on among wine drinkers when they order a bottle of Lafite-Rothschild passed away today.

1871: “Barnard Lawrence Phillips,” the son of Lawrence Phillips and Esther Spyer and the husband of Emma Phillips with whom he had two children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1873: Rabbi Raphael D.C. Lewin delivered a sermon on the subject of “Judaism” in the new synagogue at 63^rd& Lexington in New York City.

1874: A service was held to honor the memory of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, of blessed memory, who had passed away in October of 1874.

1878: Birthdate of Jacob Polakavetz, the native of Kamenetz-Litovsk who came to the United States where he became a successful merchant in Troy, NY.

1879: Rabbi De Sola Menes will deliver the first in a series of lectures on the history of Jewish literature at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association this evening.  The lectures which begin at 8:30 are free and open to the public.

1881: One hundred sixty Jewish refugees from Russia arrived in New York today aboard the SS Bohemia. The Alliance Israel Universelle helped pay for their passage.

1881: Chicago native Simon Cook was promoted to the rank of Ensign today in the United States Navy.

1881 In Chicago, “Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams gave birth to Franklin Leopold Adams who gained fame as Franklin Pierce Adams or F.P.A,, the alumnus of Armour Institute and the University of Chicago, husband of Esther Sales Root and author whose works ranged from newspaper columns at various New York newspapers the most famous of which was “The Conning Tower,” a “humorous syndicated column.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf

1881: A report published today described plans for an upcoming lecture to be delivered by Julius Franks sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association entitled “The Jew: Has he Still a Mission?”

1881: The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, which would become The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Pittsburgh.  Samuel Gompers, a Jewish immigrant from London, was the first President.  In fact, with the exception of one year, he served in that capacity until his death in 1924.  Unlike more militant leaders of the labor movement, Gompers believed in the capitalist system and rejected the concept of class struggle.  As a member of the working class (he was a cigar maker by trade) Gompers was no naïve fool.  He and his union fought for the concept of collective bargaining, binding written contracts and a ban on injunctions aimed against working men and women.  When asked what the American worker wanted Gompers replied, “More!” During World War I, Gompers showed that the American labor movement could be patriotic when he and the AFL supported Wilson in the “word to end all wars.”  Gompers philosophy was simple.  “Reward your friends and punish your enemies.” 

1882(4^th of Kislev, 5643): Daniel Ehrmann, the Bohemian born rabbi who “edit the Jewish periodical Das Abendland was teaching at Brunn when he passed away today.

1882:  Birthdate of Felix Frankfurter.  Born in Vienna, educated at CCNY and Harvard Law School, the young, legally brilliant Frankfurter became the protégé of the very powerful Henry L.  Stimson.  He began a twenty-five year career as a professor at Harvard Law School in 1914.  But Frankfurter was no cloistered Ivy tower egghead.  He was a confidant of Woodrow Wilson and, among other things attended the Versailles Peace Conference.  As a Zionist, like Brandeis, Frankfurter worked to promote the cause of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.  In the 1920’s and 1930’s the liberal Frankfurter was an advisor to and supporter of, Al Smith and FDR.  Several of Frankfurter’s former students were part of the FDR’s Brain Trust or held important positions in several regulatory agencies created by the New Deal.  FDR appointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939, making him the third Jew to hold such a position since 1916.  He retired from the court in 1962 after suffering a stroke.  Frankfurter’s tenure on the court was a disappointment to many of his political allies and colleagues.  They had expected him to be a liberal.  However, Frankfurter believed in judicial restraint which meant he gave great credence to federal and/or state legislative actions.  He looked to the legislative branch to correct social ills. The pre-court liberal turned into a High Court conservative.  He passed away in 1962.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/robes_frankfurter.html

1883: Three days after he had passed away, Lazar Schorstein, a Viennese born “financial editor” and the husband of Clara Schorstein with whom he had three children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1883: In Russia “Abraham B. and Sarah (Tikotsky) Dobsevage gave birth to Socialist George I. Dobesevage who aafter at tending CCNY and UNY pursued a career in research and literature that included overseeing the illustration office of the Jewish Encyclopedia, aiding in the “preparation of the abridged editions of the Standard Dictionary and serving as secretary of The Jewish Publication Society of America while being married to Elizabeth Breslow.

1883: It was reported today that Annie Zeiss is claiming that she was betrothed to Morris Dampsky according to Jewish custom which is the basis for her suit that she has brought against him for breach of contract (marriage). While sitting in jail, Dampsky is wondering if a secular court will accept a religious observance as binding under civil law.

1884: It was reported today that an unnamed Jewish cattle dealer had tried to sell seventeen diseased cows to several farmers between Jamaica and Foster’s Meadow.

1886: In state Supreme Court, Judge Andrews heard a case that will determine whether or not $50,000 that was originally part of the estate of the late Sampson Simpson will go the North American Relief So city for the Indignant Jews of Jerusalem or two his surviving relatives.

1886: It was reported today that Jacob H. Schiff has given $10,000 to a project designed to establish a free library which will be “called the Aguilar Free Library Society” and which will be open to “people of all religions and nationalities.”

1886(17^th of Cheshvan, 5647): Seventy four year old Gustav Heine von Geldern the founder of Vienna Das Fremdenblatt, a periodical that became the official organ of the Austrian Foreign Office, the brother of Heinrich Heine and the father of Maximilian Heine, “the author of the libretto to Mirolan” passed away today.

1886: It was reported today that Judge M.S. Isaacs and Uriah Herrman addressed a reception given in honor of Mrs. Julius Hammerslough, Mrs. Simon Steinberger, Mrs. Solomon Loeb and Mrs. Louis Levy, members of the Hebrew Free School Association’s Board of Directors who have just returned from a trip to Europe.

1886: It was reported today that the Hebrew Free School Association is currently industrial education to 2,500 youngsters. The service is only available to youngsters who are enrolled in the public system.

1887: Birthdate of Austrian nave Isidor Teitlebaum who in 1892 came to the United States where he became a “furniture merchant”, an honorary vice president of the American Jewish Congress and a trustee of Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx.

1888: The will of Sidney Greenberg who lived at the Caulfield Club Hotel was probated today.

1889:  Emperor Pedro II is deposed and Brazil is declared a republic. At the time, Brazil had a small community of Sephardic, mostly Moroccan, Jews. One group established a synagogue in Belem in the northern part of the country while another built a synagogue on the banks of the Amazon River. A decade after becoming a republic, experimental agricultural were established that provide a haven for Jews fleeing the violence of Czarist Russia.

1890: Birthdate of American screenwriter and novelist Samuel Ornitz, one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist which was the epitome of Right Wing America’s paranoid reach for power.

1891:”An Oriental Bazar” published today described the plans of a group of prominent New Yorkers led by J.H. Schiff and Julian Nathan among others for hosting a Palestine Bazar to raise funds for the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Daily School

1892: In Memphis, TN, the National Farmers’ Alliance and the Industrial Union opened its convention at the hall of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. (This agriculture alliance was considered to be “radical” and the Jewish owned facility may have been the only one that was available for its use.)

1892: “Graded Rates Established” published today described the decision of the B’nai B’rith to adopt a sliding membership fee based on age starting with those between the ages 21 and 25 paying $15 rising to a maximum of $30 for those aged 50 and above.  The sliding scale was adopted to attract younger members, all of whom will be eligible for the same $1,000 in burial insurance.

1892: The trial of Reverend Henry P. Smith, the professor of Hebrew at Lane Theological Seminary, goes into its second day.  The trial has gained national attention from members of many denominations because Smith has used modern scholarship to question the inerrancy of the Bible – a conflict that was helping to divide Reform from Orthodox among the Jewish people.

1892: Several parties of Russian Jews were reported today to have been on their way to Hamburg now that travel restrictions in Russia have been eased.

1892: The funeral for Seligman Adler, the husband of Caroline Adler, who was a supporter of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital, is scheduled to take place at 9:30 this morning at Temple Emanu-El.

1893: Birthdate of John H. Salman, the husband of Regina Salmen.

1893: Commissioner Senner said that the immigrants who arrived the SS Roland, most of whom are Russian Jews, are “all nearly impoverished, unclean and unkempt.”

1894: In Hampstead, Hannah Lawrence and Jose de Sola Pinto gave birth to Adrian de Sola Pinto who died before he reach the age of three months.

1895: Birthdate of Polish poet and writer Antoni Słonimski, a Roman Catholic whose great-grand father was Abraham Sztern the Jewish inventor who “made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators.”

http://dictionary.sensagent.com/list+of+polish+jews/en-en/

1895: Birthdate of Yisrael Idelson, the Ukrainian native who made Aliyah in 1926 and as  Yisrael Bar-Yedhuda became an MK, Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Transportation.

1895: According to Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El in New York, during the last 25 days ending on this date 15,000 Armenians have been massacred and “200,000 souls have been rendered homeless and robbed of their possessions.

1895: Birthdate of Bella Rosenfield Chagall, the first wife of Marc Chagall whom she met when he was a penniless painter in 1909, married in 1915 and posed for several of his pictures including “Bella with White Collar.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Rosenfeld#/media/File:Chagall_Bella.jpg

1895: Pennsylvania native Daniel M. Appel was promoted from the rank of Captain, Assistant Surgeon to Major/Surgeon.

1895: Herzl began a two week visit to Paris and London designed to meet and gain support from the leaders of these two Jewish communities In Paris he conducted negotiations with Narcisse Leven, Chief Rabbi Zadoc Kahn among others.  None of these leaders took the assimilated Viennese journalist seriously

1896: The National Council of Jewish Women opens its first national convention at Tuxedo Hall in New York City. Founded at the conclusion of the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition in November 1893, the National Council of Jewish Women was the first national open-membership organization for American Jewish women. Addressed by the leaders of the nation’s leading women’s organizations and numerous prominent rabbis, it was clear that the Council was helping to establish the legitimacy of Jewish women’s presence on a public stage. The convention received extensive coverage in the New York Times and other papers. With the NCJW's creation in 1893, local sections around the country began focusing on diverse activities ranging from Bible study to education for children to active philanthropy in the interest of immigrant women and children. Representatives at the first convention summarized these achievements, established a clear institutional structure, and sought to offer guidance to local sections. Conflict emerged during the 1896 convention in relation to the Jewish character of the Council. Hannah Solomon of Chicago presided over the meetings, but some members objected to her advocacy of Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. Solomon memorably responded “I consecrate every day in the week.” As the New York Times reported, “Pandemonium reigned for five minutes, and then Mrs. Solomon was re-elected.” In its first few decades, NCJW transcended religious divisions by focusing especially on aid to newly arrived Jewish immigrants. In sections across the country, NCJW provided an early training ground for Jewish women leaders and a forum for Jewish women’s concerns within and outside the Jewish community.

1896: Mrs. Mary Low Dickinson, President of the National Council of Women is scheduled to deliver  the opening address at the first  convention of the National Council of Women followed by address on “Philanthropy” given by Mrs. E. M. Henrotin “who was the Vice President of the of the Ladies’ Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition.

1896: It was reported today that in speeches delivered at Delmonico’s Jacob A. Schiff and Senator Jacob A. Cantor urged Jews to take “a deeper interest in national affairs and Adolph S. Ochs spoke about the “ideals and influence of journalism.”

1897: Birthdate of Aneurin Bevan the British Foreign Minister in the Labor Government of Clement Atlee.  Much to the dismay of Zionist leaders, the Laborite government elected in 1945 opposed the creation of the Jewish state.  Displaying that uniquely understated form of British anti-Semitism, when talking about the plight of Jewish Displaced Persons, said that the Jews were always “pushing their way to the head of the cue” instead of patiently waiting their turn. 

1897: Today, Rabbi Taubenhaus of the State Street Synagogue is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Mrs. Marion Levy a long time member of the Hebrew Benevolent Society and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum who was the widow of A.S. Levy and the mother of Bella Levy.

1897: When Mathieu Dreyfus, the brother of imprisoned Captain Dreyfus “denounced Esterhazy” today he responded by saying that “Captain Dreyfus had forged his handwriting”

1898: One day after he had passed away, 80 year old Morris Solomons, the husband of Caroline Abrahams with whom he had four children, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1898: The demolition of the building on Clinton Street occupied by Ohab Zedek has been temporarily stopped which will give the congregants time to raise enough money to save the structure.

1898: Novelist and playwright  Israel Zangwill delivered a lecture this morning at the Waldorf Astoria “on the ghetto…not the poetic Ghetto of his books, but the real specific Ghetto, the dwelling place of the Jews…closed by real gates and the home of a peculiar to itself.”

1898: The Berlin correspondent of the Times reported on the expulsion of Polish Jews from Breslau which is part of a larger pattern of deportations instigated by the Prussian Minister of Finance “which will serve as a pretext for more severe measures against aliens.”

1898: Section two of the Constitution of the Union of Judæo-German Congregations commits the organization to providing funds for several purposes including  training for teachers and cantors, for pensions for “aged officials” and their families and for providing aid to released convicts.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6572-gemeindebund-deutsch-israelitischer

1899: “The Merchant of Venice” opened tonight at the Knickerbocker Theatre with Ellen Terry playing the Jewess Portia and Henry Irving delivering his signature performance of Shylock.

1899: Today twenty year old Edward Daily Levy, the Paris, TX born son of Henry and Clara Levy and the future president of Pierce Petroleum married Katy Levy Lewis in Ft. Worth, TX.

1902: A political cartoon, “Draw the line in Mississippi” by Clifford K. Berryman that “spawned the Teddy Bear” appeared in the Washington Post. Russian Jewish immigrants Rose and Morris Michtom created the Teddy Bear created the creature after seeing this cartoon which showed T.R. and bear cub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheodoreRooseveltTeddyBear.jpg

1905: Further evidence that the drive to provide relief for the Jews being massacred in Russia is not a matter for the Jewish community will be seen this evening when Bishop Coadjutor Greer of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the Reverend Dr. Robert S. MacArthur of Calvary Baptist are among the speakers at meeting sponsored by the Council of Jewish Women at Temple Emanu-El.

1905: Moses Plaut of L.S. Plaut & Co. is the driving force behind the meeting scheduled to be held in Newark, NJ tonight where “a large sum of money will be raised” to aid victims of the anti-Semitic violence in Russia.

1905: “The Odessa Relief Committee made up of former residents of that city” is scheduled to meet in the Apollo Hall” for the purpose of raising funds for those suffering attacks in Russia.

1905: The New York Socialists’ Organization is scheduled to meet this evening to raise funds for the victims of the anti-Semitic attacks in Russia.

1905: “The United Hebrew Community which has a membership of over 4,000” is scheduled to meet “in the Synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol at 61 Norfolk Street” where the leaders expect the attendees to add a considerable amount to add to the $500 that has already been raised.

1906(27^th of Cheshvan, 5667): Sixty-three year old Raphael Benjamin passed away today at the Hotel St. George where he had been living for the past three years.  A native of London, he came to the United States 25 years ago and settled in Cincinnati before moving to New York where he became the Rabbi of Temple Beth Elohim.

1907: One day after she had passed away, 29 year old Dora Yanovsky Solomon, the wife of John Solomon and the moterh of Betsy and Samuel Solomon was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1909(2^nd of Kislev, 5670): Mrs. Frume Rostowsky passed away today.

1912: Rabbi Gerson B. Levi is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at B’Nai Sholom – Temple Israel in Chicago.’

1912: Rabbi Abram is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at Temple Sholom at the corner of Pine Grove Avenue and Grace Street.

1914: “A special meeting of the officers of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society is scheduled to be held today Temple Emanu-El in NYC.

1915: The list of the officers of the American Jewish Committee published today included Louis Marshall, President; Judge Julian W. Mack and Professor Jacob H. Hollender, Vice Presidents; Isaac W. Bernheim, Treasurer; Jack H. Schiff and Dr. J. L. Magnes, Executive Committee.

1915: President Clarence I de Sola presided over today’s opening session of the “Fourteenth Convention of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada” at the Auditorium Hall.

1916: Two days after she passed away, Caroline Spiers Boas, tfehe daughter of Benjamin Spiers and Sara Wolf and the wife of Hermman Boas with whom she had seven children, was buried today at the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.

1917(30th of Cheshvan, 5678): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1917: In New York, Abraham Handelman, the Ukrainian born son of “Joseph and Dobish Handelman” and his wife Anna (Boorstein) Handelman gave birth to Lillian Handelman who became Lillian Pollack when she married Jack Pollack

1917(30th of Cheshvan, 5678): Fifty-nine year old Sociologist Emile Durkheim, the son, grandson and great-grandson of French rabbis, passed away.

http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Biography.htmla

1917: As Allenby’s forces continued their advance, “the 75th Division and the Australian Mounted Division advanced towards Latron where the Jaffa to Jerusalem road enters the Judean Hills.

1917: Birthdate of Bernard Bellush, the Bronnx native who became a Professor of History at City College of New York.

1917: As British forces continued their successful campaign in Palestine, ANZAC forces occupied Ramleh and Lydda.

1917: It was officially announced today that British forces under General Allenby had taken the junction point of the Beersheba to Damascus Railway with the Jerusalem line after fighting that resulted in heavy Turkish losses.

1918: Four days after the Armistice, Sergeant Abraham Blaustein who received the Croix de Guerre for heroism visited Lyon where he found out that the Army Candidate School was to be closed since “no more officer commissions will be granted.”

1918: “The Jewish Press reported” from Stockholm, “that anti-Semitic riots have broken out in several towns in Western Galicia and Poland” where at least “six Jews have been killed” in a village 55 miles southeast of Warsaw.

1918: “Julian W. Mack, President of the ZOA and Louis Marshall” joined together and sent a telegram to President “acquainting him the facts concerning” the threat of Jews in Eastern Europe with a special emphasis on Poland and Romania.

1920: Mr. Louis Mann is scheduled to deliver an address at the annual meeting of the Rodeph Sholom Women’s Association this afternoon in Manhattan.

1921: Benjamin Schlesinger, the President of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union laid the cornerstone for the union’s new headquarters building on West 16^th Street in NYC.

1923(7^th of Kislev, 5684): Rosalie V. Moses passed away today after which she buried at the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, CO.

1923: Birthdate of Polish born Holocaust survivor Samuel Klein, the found of “the Casas Bahia chain of department stores whose success has led him to be called “the Sam Walton of Brazil.”

1924: In Hartford Max Rich and the former Bella Shub gave birth to DNA expert Alexander Rich.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/us/alexander-rich-dies-at-90-confirmed-dnas-double-helix.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1924: Russian born American journalist Isaac Don Levine and his first wife gave birth to their only child, a son, named Robert Don Levine.

1925:  Birthdate of Russian author Yuli Daniel

1925:In Paris, Pierre Léon Dreyfus, the “son  of Alfred Dreyfus and Lucie Eugénie Hadamard” and Marie Apollonie Dreyfus gave birth to Nicole Dreyfus

1925: Birthdate of Jacek Zlatka, the native of Warsaw who as “Jack P. Eisner used the millions he made in the import-export business to tell the story of how he survived the Holocaust in a book, play, movie and many public appearances.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/30/nyregion/jack-eisner-77-holocaust-chronicler-dies.html

1925: “The Road to Yesterday” a silent film starring Joseph Schildkraut and Jetta Goudal was released today in the United States.                                                        

1926: The National Broadcasting Company, part of Robert Sarnoff’s “RCA Empire” debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.

1927: A pre-Broadway tour of Showboat, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel began today.

1928: The National Conference of Jews and Christians sent a telegram to President-elect Hoover “congratulating” him “on his upcoming trip to South America” which the organization hopes “will bring all peoples and creeds both at home and abroad into better relationships of mutual understanding and helpfulness.”

1929: In Kansas City, MO, Russian Jewish immigrants, Lizzie (née Seliger) and David Morris Asner gave birth to Edward “Ed” Asner the multi-talented actor who could play everything from “Lou Grant” to the menacing “Axel Jordache” in “Rich Man, Poor Man.”

1930(24^th of Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Chayei Sara

1930: Northwestern, led by guard Hy Crizevsky, defeated the University Wisconsin by a score of 20-7 at Dyche Stadium in Evanston, IL.

1932: Birthdate of Haim Drukman, the native of Kuty who made Aliyah in 1944 and now serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva.

1932: “In the Dough,” a comedy “featuring Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges and Lionel Stander was released today in the United States.

1933(26^th of Cheshvan, 5694): Fifty-five year old Max “Maxie” Idelman, the Russian born son of Louis and Tillie Idelman passed away today in Muskogee, OK after which he was buried in the Beth Hamedorosh Hagoldol Cemetery in Ladue, MO.

1934: “The Strathaird arrived in Sydney but Egon Kisch” who had escaped the Nazis “was not allowed to leave the ship.”

1935: Under the Nuremberg Laws, German Jews are formally stripped of their citizenship meaning, among other things, that they cannot vote, hold public office or be employed by the government.

1935: The German Churches begin to collaborate with the Nazis by supplying records to the government indicating who is a Christian and who is not; that is, who is a Jew.

1935: “A Night at the Opera” the Marx Brothers comedy co-starring Kitty Carlisle, produced by Irving Thalberg with a script by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Al Boasberg was released in the United States today by MGM.

1936: In Hamburg Emma (née Dietrich),  a Communist Party activist, and  Dagobert Biermann, a German Jewish dockworker a member of the German Resistance gave birth to Wolf Biermann, a Jewish communist German singer-songwriter who survived the bombing of Hamburg in 1943.

1936: Israel Rokach begins serving as Mayor of Tel Aviv.

1936: “In Abraham’s Ur of the Chaldes” published today, Louise Maunsell Field provided an in depth review of Abraham: Recent Discoveries and Hebrew Origins by Sir Leonard Woolley.

1937: The Habima Players of Tel Aviv “who have just ended a successful season at the Paris Exhibition open a season at the Savoy Theater” today in “their second appearance in Britain.  They will open with ‘The Dybbuk,’ probably their finest as well as their most popular production.  The plays all will be performed in Hebrew, but the realism of their acting surmounts to a large degree the barrier of language.”  During the course of the season Habima will also be performing “Uriel Acosta,” “The Wandering Jew,” and “The Goldem’s Dream.”

1937: Birthdate of actor Yaphet Kotto, both of whose parents are African Jews from Cameroon. In an interview he said being fully Black and Jewish gave others even more reason to pick on him growing up in New York City. However, to this day, he remains a devout, practicing Jew. Yaphet Kotto is a regular on TV's, Homicide: Life on the Streetsplaying the role of Lt. Al Giardello

1937: Haaretz and Davar, two of the leading Jewish dailies in Palestine, “publish strong editorials “condemning recent acts of violence by Jews brought on by the last two years of Arab attacks.  The two papers called on “Jews to ‘take revenge’ only through constructive activities.”

1938: “The first solo exhibition of the work of Frida Kahlo” which had been mounted by Julien Levy at his gallery at 15 East 57^th Street came to a close today.

1938: Jewish students were barred from German schools

1938: In Saxony, eleven year old Zeev Raphael was expelled from the Hans-Schemm-Schule.

1938: Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, the British anti-Semitic Nazi sympathizing politician attended a luncheon at the German Embassy in London where he met with other Englishmen who sympathized with Hitler.

1938: In the wake of the bloody pogroms of Kristallnacht, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt withdraws the United States ambassador from Germany;

1939: The Nazis began the mass murder of Warsaw Jews.  The war had started on September 1, 1939.  After only two and a half months, the War Against the Jews was in full swing.  This is one more fact that puts the lie to those revisionists who contend that genocide was not an essential part of the Nazi program from its very outset.

1939: The anti-Semitic Fideikommissariat(Estate commission) is established to "Aryanize" Jewish-owned businesses in Occupied Poland.

1939: In New York City Avraham Kotto who claimed to be related to Jews who had ruled a region in Cameroon and Gladys Marie, a nurse and Army officer who had converted before marrying her husband gave birth to actor Yaphet Kotto, whose most famous role may have been that of Lt. Al Giardello in the outstanding series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

1940: The Nazis officially declared the Warsaw ghetto to be in existence as workers began to build walls to encircle district.

1940: Welterweight Al “Bummy” Davis (Albert Abraham Davidoff) lost a non-title bought in which he committed so many fouls that he was disqualified from boxing by the New York State Boxing Commission.

1941: Four days after his death in a plane crash, Charles Huntziger, one of the French generals who signed “the anti-Semitic Statue on Jews in 1940” and whose widow was decorated by the regime at Vichy was buried today at Vichy

1941: “Blues in the Night” a musical directed by Anatole Litvak, produced by Hal B. Wallis and with a script by Robert Rossen was released in the United States today.

1941: Today, Leon Banov, “the Charleston County health officer” wrote to newly elected Senator Burnet R. Maybank outlining the public health challenges facing Charleston because of the influx of war workers at the Charleston Navy Year and asking his assistance in bringing these concerns to the attention of the Surgeon General.

1941: Although it had been operating for months Treblinka was “founded officially” today.

1941: Hinrich Lohse, the Nazi official who had created the ghetto in Riga, Latvia, by rounding up all of the Jew’s living in the city and its surrounding areas asked his boss Alfred Rosenbeg to confirm that all the Jews were to be killed “regardless of economic considerations.”  The response would be in the affirmative since the goal was to make Latvia “judenrein” or “Jew free.”

1942: The Soviet-based Jewish Antifascist Committee releases a report, "The Liquidation of the Jews in Warsaw."

1942: In Japanese occupied Shanghai, “the idea of a restricted ghetto was approved” today.

1942: In an action led by Mayer List, two Jewish women partisans in Paris place two time bombs at a Nazi barracks window, which will kill several soldiers.

1942: In his diary, Rudolf Rederlin described the scene at Belze after a train was unloaded. The men were stripped naked and sent directly to the gas chambers, the women brought to the barracks to have their head shaven. Then they went to the chambers. The head of the Judenrat was ordered to stay behind and beaten to near death as an orchestra played on. Then the man was shot in the head and pushed into the bundle of gassed Jews. 

1942: In Buenos Aires, Aida (née Schuster) and Enrique Barenboim gave birth tod pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.

1942: Birthdate of Devra G. Kleiman, “a conservation biologist who reintroduced into the wild the tiny endangered monkey known as the golden lion tamarin, and who learned so much about the lives of giant pandas that scientists could later help them reproduce in captivity”

1943: In describing Leonard Bernstein's first performance as conductor of the New York Philharmonic which occurred last night, The New York Times editorial remarked, "It's a good American success story. The warm, friendly triumph of it filled Carnegie Hall and spread far over the air waves."

1943: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

1943(17^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Twenty-one year old Lawrence Balfour “Duke” Abelson, a Flying Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force from Ottawa, Ontario, “was killed during a training flight” today after which he was buried in Cheshire, England.

1943(17^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Salo Landau, a Galician born Dutch Chess Champion was probably murdered today at Auschwitz.

1944: Actor and director Kurt Gerron was killed today at Auschwitz.

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/western-europe/westerbork/gerronkurt/

1944: The deportations of Hungarian Jews living in Budapest continued In the meantime the authorities establish an ‘international ghetto' consisting of dozens of buildings that housed Jews technically under the protection of the Swiss Legation.  This rescue operation was engineered by Carl Lutz, a Swiss official representing Great Britain’s interests in Hungary.  Lutz’s rescue work mirrored that of the other, more famous, hero of Hungarian Jewry, Raoul Wallenberg.

1944: “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” the film version of the Doolittle Raid directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist was released in the United States by MGM.

1945: Today is a day of prayer and fasting to protest British foreign minister Ernest Bevin's actions.

1945: A complete curfew is declared at noon in Tel Aviv, Palestine by the British government. Any one (this means Jews) carrying a weapon may be punished by execution.

1945: In Haifa, Palestine, Zionist sailors serving in the British navy protest.

1945:  Forty people who were part of the staff of the concentration at Dachau go on trial.  The trial would last until December 14, 1945 resulted in thirty seven of the accused being sentenced to death.

1946: As the Irgun continued its violent attacks aimed at driving the British out of Palestine, it was reported today that an Arab fireman “was killed while riding on train that had struck a mine Jaffa” and that “two British soldiers were killed in a road explosion in Jerusalem.

1947(1^st of Kislev, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1947(1^st of Kislev, 5708): William Marias Malifsoff, “a research biochemist based at different times in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York City” whose “interest in science and its philosophical aspects led him to found the Philosophy of Science” in 1934, died suddenly today.

1947: The British foreign office denies that Britain plans to take over financial surplus in Palestine treasury to pay for costs of evacuation and fighting illegal Jewish immigration.

1947: Moses A. Leavitt, the executive vice chairman of The Joint Distribution Committee, said that the committee “would increase its food purchases to eight million pounds for the last quarter of this year” and that it would be shipped abroad immediately to aid “distressed Jews” in Europe.

1947: In Atlantic City, NJ, where 250 delegates had gathered for the opening of the 38^th annual convention of the American Federation of Polish Jews, Dr. Schwartzbart, a “member of the World Zionist council and a member of the Polish Parliament in pre-war Poland, said that “the Jewish people may be far from reaching their goal of a Jewish state” because “the way is still fraught with obstacles.”

1947: “Universal relief over the fact that Britain has formally announced her intention of getting out of Palestine, surrendering her mandate and disassociating herself from the United Nations partition” plan was evident in London today.

1948:Moshe Shertok declares that Israel will fight before it gives up Negev.

1948:Israel announces its peace conditions: (1) Jewish control of modern Jerusalem corridor to remainder of Israel; (2) no Arab use of Haifa port or Lydda airport except under Israeli terms; (3) retention of Western Galilee as long as area is needed for Israel's defense; and (4) no readmission of Arab refugees to Israel until peace is established. Israel also requests UN admission.

1948: As of today, another seven Spitfires had been prepared for the long-range flight to Israel, but Czech authorities refused to let them take off.

1948:Salah el-Kuntar, leader of Druse tribesmen's National Army, says Druses want their 4,000-square-mile area shifted from Syria to Israel. Druses helped drive Syrian troops out of Upper Galilee.

1948: The Metropolitan Opera Association’s new roster released today listed three new conductors including Walter Taussig.

1950: The Israeli Cabinet appointed a planning unit “to examine the possibility of” establishing a “settlement in the northeastern Negev desert and the Arad area.”

1950: “Kansas Raiders” an “oater” filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released today in the United States.

1952: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover met with Lewis Wester Jones the president of Rutgers University to discuss pending security cases including one involving ancient and classical scholar Moses I. Finley.

1952: The Bugs Bunny Cartoon Rabbit's Kin featuring the voice of Mel Blanc is released in theaters throughout the United States.

1953: The 17^th annual meeting of the United Israel Appeal which had been meeting in Chicago for the last two days came to an end. “In response to Prime Minster David Ben-Gurion’s plea for aide, the delegates pledged to carry out a program, apart from fund-raising. Of borrowing a minimum of $75,000,000 for a period of five years ‘in order to refund Israel’s short-term obligations which were incurred as a result of the unprecedented immigration policy.’”

1952: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover met with Lewis Webster Jones, President of Rutgers University to discuss the inquiry into the loyalty of faculty members including Moses I. Finley (born Moses Isaac Finelstein) who was accused of being a communist.

1953: Alexander Wiley, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee clashed with Guy Gillette, the Democratic Senator from Iowa and the senior member of the committee over the issue of U.S. support for Israel.  Gillette took issue with the Eisenhower administration’s policy in the Middle East which he described as appeasing the Arab states by kicking Israel in public.

1955(30th of Cheshvan, 5716): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1957(21^st of Cheshvan, 5718): Seventy-seven year old Oswego, NY native and Columbia trained urologist Dr. Clarence Garfield Bandler, the son of William and Eva Fox Bandler and the husband of Miriam Zack passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/17/132854902.pdf

1962: Birthdate of Judy Gold the Newark, NJ native known as a comedian but who has also “won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.”

1962: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Dr. Milton Simon Fine, the husband of Frances Fine and the father of Stephen Isaac Fine in Manhattan.

1962: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Celia Fishman, the wife of Dr. Harry Fishman and mother of Muriel Feuerman and Dr. Stanley Fishman at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue where she is remembered for her “gracious service to the synagogue” of which her husband was President.

1963(28th of Cheshvan, 5724): Symphony conductor Fritz Reiner passed away.  Born in Hungary in 1888, Reiner trained as both a lawyer and a musician.  After a successful career in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1922 where he served as conductor for several symphony orchestras.  He was the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the time of his death at the age of 74

1966(2nd of Kislev, 5727): William Zorach was a Jewish Lithuanian-born American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer who won the Logan Medal of the arts passed away.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0915FF355C14738DDDA90A94D9415B868AF1D3

1966: At Staatsoper, world premiere of Paul Dessau’s “Puntila.”

1967: Birthdate of actress Lisa Bonet. The daughter of a Jewish mother and a black father, Lisa Bonet first found fame in the mid-80s on The Cosby Show as Denise, one of the four daughters of Bill Cosby’s character Cliff Huxtable.

1967: “Who’s That Knocking At My Door” which marked the cinema debut of Harvey Keitel premiered today in Chicago.

1967: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-two year old Lemberg, Austria, native, Harry Salpeter, “an art deal and critic” and the husband of Betty Berkowitz 

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/11/14/90417644.pdf



https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/harry-salpeter-papers-9052

1968: Birthdate of Dr. Michael Levin

1969: U.S. premiere of “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” a musical adaption of the novel by the same name directed by Herbert Ross

1973: Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war following the Yom Kippur War.

1974: “Earthquake” a disaster film produced and directed by Mark Robson which marked the cinema debut of Walter Matthau was released in the United States today.

1977: Birthdate of Wharton graduate Jonathan Benjamin “Jon” Hurwitz, the screenwriter/director responsible for among other things the “Harold & Kumar” movies.

1979: Rodef Shalom, “the oldest congregation in Western Pennsylvania” which traces its origins to formation of a burial society in Pittsburgh in 1847, was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places today.

1979: The B'er Chayim Temple (Well of Life, a metaphor in which Torah is likened to water) in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland was added to the National Register of Historic Places Properties in Allegany County: Maryland Historical Trust; 2008-10-06. The Temple was built in 1866 for the local Jewish congregation. Originally Orthodox, it is now Reform. It is one of the oldest congregations in Maryland and its 1865 building is one of the oldest synagogue buildings in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%27er_Chayim_Temple

1981: A revival of Lerner and Lowe’s “Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 48 performances

1984: 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe is the fourteenth album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow was released today.

1984: After over two decades of building a reputation as a passionate and generous member of the Jewish community through her activism and volunteer work, Baltimorean Shoshana Cardin was elected as the first woman president of the Council of Jewish Federations. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)

1985: “The Last Romantic,” “a documentary filmed the townhouse of Vladimir Horowitz” produced by Peter Gelb was released in the United States today.

1986: The SEC fined Ivan F. Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading. Boesky was, and is, one of many Jews who have been involved in white collar crime stretching from the junk bond debacle to the collapse of Enron.  To paraphrase a character in a Faye Kellerman novel, God must have known that Jews were capable of theft.  Why else would He have commanded the Jews not to steal?

1986(13^th of Cheshvan, 5747): Eighty-nine year old composer Alexandre Tansman whose career was a “casualty” of the Holocaust passed away today.

http://forward.com/culture/217468/on-alexandre-the-greatest-jewish-composer-youve-ne/



1987: After 1,761 performances over four years, “La Cage aux Folles” with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman came to a close.

1988: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

1988: “Goetz Collection Picasso Sold for $24.75 Million” published today described the auction of the art collection of the late William and Edith Mayer Goetz.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-15/news/mn-162_1_art-collection

1988: ABC broadcast the second episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”

1989: U.S. premiere of “Steel Magnolias” a film highlighting the strength of southern women directed by Herbert Ross.

1989: Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premiered in New York City.  Born in 1961, the Scarsdale native wrote this successful court-martial melodrama without ever serving in the military or attending law school.  He showed his versatility when he wrote the hit romantic comedy, American President.

1991: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Trials of Rosie O’neill” created and produced by Barney Rosenzweig.

1996; “The English Patient” a movie version of the novel of the same name which won an Oscar for producer Saul Zaentz as the Best Picture of the Year, was released today in the United States.

1997: William Shatner weds Norine Kidd.

1997: Eighty-eight year old John Coulson “a diplomat at the British Embassy in Paris during the Exodus crisis “suggested how to spin the Jews’ confinement in the camps to score a public relations” coup when he wrote “If we decide it is convenient not to keep them in camps any longer, I suggest that we should make some play that we are releasing them from all restraint of this kind in accordance with their wishes and that they were only put in such accommodation for the preliminary necessities of screening and maintenance.”

1997(15th of Cheshvan, 5758): Saul Chaplin passed away.  Born Saul Kapan in 1912, this leading American composer and musical director lists of hits include the scores for American in Paris, West Side Story and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  He collaborated with Sammy Cahn on that unique musical creation "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” apopular song, the title meaning "to me you are beautiful." According to at least one show biz legend, the original verson of the song was written for a Yiddish musical in 1932.  In 1937 Cahn and Chaplin heard two African American singers perform it at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.  Impressed with the audience response, they bought the rights to the song, reworked it, and the rest is musical history.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Hidden Book In The Bible Restored, translated and introduced by Richard Elliott Friedman, Truth Comes In Blows: A Memoirby Ted Solotaroff, There Once Was A World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshokby Yaffa Eliach, Flora’s Suitcase by Dalia Rabinovich and Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albrightby Ann Blackman.

1999: Irwin Cotler began serving as a Member of the Canadian Parliament for Mount Royal.

1999: INS Leviathan, a Dolphin class submarine, was commissioned today.

1999: A new exhibit on life and work of Jewish activist Rebecca Affachiner, known affectionately as "the Betsy Ross of Israel," at Emory University's Schatten Gallery will open with a special public program and reception today in the Joseph W. Jones Room of Woodruff Library.

1999: A dinner was held in Melbourne in honor of the late Ron Castan.

http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/former-justices/kirbyj/kirbyj_castan.htm

2000: U.S. Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton “delivered an emotional eulogy for Leah Rabin” today in Jerusalem.

2001: After being hired today as President and CEO of the Red Sox, Larry Luchino hired Theo Epstein

2001: Ilyas Malayev an Uzbekistani musician and poet who had emigrated to the United States, in part because he could not get his poetry published due to anti-Semitism became a United States citizen today.

2002: “Interview With The Assassin” produced by Brian Koppelman and David Levien was released today in the United States today.

2002(10th of Kislev, 5763):Twelve people - 9 soldiers and three civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team - were killed and 15 others wounded in Hebron when Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish worshipers and their guards as they were walking home from Sabbath prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The dead included civilian worshipers and soldiers, some of whom were caught in an ambush as they pursued the attackers. Three terrorists were killed in the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic Jihad. The victims: Col. Dror Weinberg, 38, of Jerusalem; Border Police officer Ch.-Supt. Samih Sweidan, 31, of Arab al-Aramsha; Sgt. Tomer Nov, 19, of Ashdod; Sgt. Gad Rahamim, 19, of Kiryat Malachi; St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf, 19, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov, 20, of Netanya; Sgt. Igor Drobitsky, 20, of Nahariya; Cpl. David Marcus, 20, of Ma'aleh Adumim; and Lt. Dan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem. The three civilian members of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Yitzhak Buanish, 46; Alexander Zwitman, 26; and Alexander Dohan, 33.

2002: In the following letter-to-the editor published in the New York Times, Martin Peretz, Editor in Chief, “The New Republic,” comes to the defense of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,

In a vast documentation of the culpability of the Roman Catholic Church in the Nazi genocide of the Jews, the archdiocese of Munich has caught Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, the author of ''A Moral Reckoning,'' in one tiny mistake. It has gone to court to get an injunction against the sale of the book, reviving the index of what it does not want people to read. Mr. Goldhagen misidentified a cleric marching at a Nazi rally in a photograph included in his text. Relying on the authority of a responsible scholarly archive, he indicated that the priest was Cardinal Michael Faulhaber. It wasn't. Still, several incidents involving the cardinal, cited in the book and not challenged by anyone, are devastating. They support the author's argument that the church was not a passive witness to the Holocaust but an active collaborator in it. And who was the mysterious father in the photograph? Alas, the papal nuncio, Cesare Orsenigo, the personal diplomatic representative of Pius XI.

2003(20th of Cheshvan, 5764): Laurence Tisch, former CEO of CBS passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/business/laurence-a-tisch-investor-known-for-saving-cbs-inc-from-takeover-dies-at-80.html

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2003(20th of Cheshvan, 5764): The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.

2004: “Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel” was released today.

2005: Two years to the day after his brother passed away, Preston Robert Tisch, owner of Lowes Hotel and the New York Giants, passed away.

2005: Today, a fellow female police detective described her first meeting with Felicia Shpritzer “who in the early 1960's broke a gender barrier in the New York Police Department when she earned a sergeant's stripes, paving the way for the advancement of women in police work across the country” saying that “she was wearing a trench coat and loafers and carrying two shopping bags.”  Speaking with “her thick Yiddish accent” Shpritzer “looked and acted like the typical Jewish mother” who “comforted her subordinates when they had problems and scolded them when they were wrong.”

2005: When an Israir charter flight takes off this morning for Tunis it will be historic not only because it is the maiden trip of an Israeli airline to the North African Arab country. More significantly, it will be carrying Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom a man who left Tunisia, his place of birth, at the age of one and is now returning for the first time as his adopted country’s foreign minister. Shalom is traveling to Tunisia to attend the UN World Summit on the Information.

2005: Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen announced that the trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel on 14 counts of inciting racial hatred “was to be rescheduled to allow new counsel time to prepare.”

2006: “The Jewish Eye-World Jewish film Festival” opened at Be’er Sheva.  The festival featured the first showing of Director Ramin Farahani’s Jews of Iran.

2006: Jack Abramoff began serving his term in the minimum security prison camp of Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, Maryland, as inmate number 27593-112.

2007(5^th of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-two year old Tani Lispector, the middle daughter of Pinkhas Lispector and Mania Krimgold Lispector and older sister of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector passed away today.

2007: Ruth Wisse, “a pioneer in the development of Yiddish scholarship in the United States…received the…National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the White House.”  (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)

2007: In Stuttgart, the first German production of Stephen Schwartz’s musical “Wicked” opened at the Palladium Theatre.

2007: A children’s book entitled Germ Stories by the late Dr. Arthur Kornberg appears in bookstores.

2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Muhammad Abu Ajaj presents Bedouin music and songs from the Negev.

2007:The MFA in Creative Writing Program at George Washington University hosts an evening with four writers participating in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program including AlexEpstein, a fiction writer from Israel.

2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Curtis David Litow, son of Kathy and Charlie Litow, is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.

2008:The Ninth Annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival presents “Jellyfish.”

2008: On Saturday night MK Ya'acov Litzman was attacked by a group of Slonimer Hassidim. 

2009: A revival of “Ragtime” a musical based on the E.L. Doctorow’s novel with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens opened at the Neil Simon Theatre.

2009: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington holds its 49^thannual meeting.

2009: The groups Adas Reads and Brunch & Learn present a reading and discussion with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, author of "From Beirut to Jerusalem" and, most recently, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America," and Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld, author of "Revenge: A Story of Hope," at the Adas Israel Congregation

2009: The 40th Annual Book Festival sponsored by the JCC of Greater Washington and The 4th annual Jewish Book Festival sponsored by The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia come to an end.

2009: AJHS, CJH, and YUM sponsor an International Conference entitled “Genocide and Human Experience: Raphael Lemkin's Thought and Vision.”

2009: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Humbling by Philip Roth and the recently released paperback editions of Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag; edited by David Rieff and My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past by Ariel Sabar whose “father was the last bar mitzvah boy in a Kurdish town where Jews had lived for nearly 3,000 years. Soon thereafter, most of Kurdistan’s Jews left for Israel, taking with them their ancient language, Aramaic, Jesus’ tongue. The elder Sabar, reduced to manual labor in Israel, spent his time obsessively cataloging his dying language. Sabar’s book is a biography of his father but also ‘part history, linguistics primer and memoir.’”

2009: The Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler and SUPERFREAKONOMICS: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

2009: In Crown Heights Chabad's the 25^th annual International Conference of Shluchim comes to a close.  The “lamplighters” like the renowned Rabbi Pinchas Ciment of Little Rock, AR, return to the life-long labor of drawing their fellow Jews to warmth of Torah and the love of Ha-shem.

2010: Internationally acclaimed photographer, videographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat and best-selling author Angella Nazarian are scheduled to present a program entitled The Jewish-Iranian Immigrant Experience: At the Threshold of Two Worlds at the 92^nd Street Y.

2011: Julie Salamon, author of “Wendy & the Lost Boys,” Myla Goldberg, author of “The False Friend,” and William Cohan, author of “Money & Power” are scheduled to speak at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festiva.

2011: “The Little Traitor” a film based on a novel by Amos Oz is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World Film Festival.

2011: Recent bouts of violence along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip are leading toward significant and offensive military action in the coastal enclave, Israel Defense Forces chief Benny Gantz said today, adding that there was still a chance for a flare-up of West Bank violence over the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations.

2011: About 100 senior doctors submitted their resignation today, in an apparent escalation of the residents' struggle against a National Labor Court decision to cancel their previous collective protest resignation.

2011(18^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Eighty-nine year old Hubert C. Wine “a solicitor, District Court judge and prominent member of the Irish Jewish community who served as the chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland for fourteen years” passed away today.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/old-cutbacks-take-a-long-time-to-heal-26113474.html

2012: “The Art of Spiegelman” which provides a look at the world and studio of Art Spieglman, the creator of Maus, is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2012: World Music from Poland is scheduled to meet Spanish Flamenco when Kroke Trio and Amir-John Haddad perform at the International Jerusalem Oud Festival.

2012: The Canadian Folk Music Awards is scheduled to open today in New Brunswick. “Songs for the Breathing Walls,” a collection of mainly Jewish liturgical pieces recorded by Lenka Lichtenberg in 12 Czech Synagogues has been nominated for two awards at the festival. (As reported by Renee Ghert-Zand)

2012: Final day for submitting entries to the Agudas Achim Poetry Contest.  The poems are each intended to memorialize the congregation’s former home on East Washington Street in Iowa City.

2012(1^st of Kislev, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

2012(1st of Kislev): According to Rabbi Judah, the start of the winter season in Israel

2012: The Israeli Air Force struck some 70 targets in the Gaza Strip in one hour's time, the IDF Spokesman's Office said shortly before 10 p.m. tonight. Among the targets, the IDF statement said, were underground medium-range rocket launching pads. The most recent blitz of air strikes brought the total number to well over 300.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=292102

2012: Booms were heard following an air raid siren in Tel Aviv this evening, just an hour after a rocket from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open field outside of Rishon Lezion. There were no reports of injuries in either strike.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=291954

2012(1^st of Kislev, 5773): Mirah Scharf, 25, Aharon Smadja, 49, and Itzik Amsalem, 27 were murdered by Hamas rockets at Kiryat Malachi (City of Angels).

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=292021

2013: “The Fading Valley” and “Under The Same Sun” are scheduled to be shown 7^th annual Other Israel Film Festival.

2013: “Boris Lurie: The 1940’s”, a ninety five piece exhibition is scheduled to come to an end today at the Studio House Space.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/painters-hidden-work-on-display-for-the-first-time/

2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the University of Mary Washington in Frederiksberg, VA

2013: In Encino, CA, Valley Beth Shalom a Yiddish evening of song featuring Eleanor Reissa.

2013: Today “the first baby was born at the IDF field hospital set up the day before in the Philippines to help deal with the destruction Typhoon Haiyan has left in its wake. The mayor of Bogo City where the hospital was established announced the baby will be named "Israel." As reported by Ari Yashar)

2013: “Jewish Identities” published today included reviews Jews in Gotham, The Rise of Abraham Cahan, Hanukkah in America and Jews and the Military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/books/review/jews-in-gotham-by-jeffrey-s-gurock-and-more.html?ref=review&_r=0



2014(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5775): Shabbat Chayei Sarah





2014: In New Orleans, Tulane University, home of the Tulane University Jewish Studies Department chaired by Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to play its first Homecoming Football game in Yulman Stadium.



2014(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5775): Sixty five year old transgendered activist and author Leslie Feinberg passed away today in Syracuse, NY.

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/209405/transgender-activist-leslie-feinberg-dies-at-65/





2014(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5775):  Seventy-seven year old “Mervyn Smith, president of the African Jewish Congress and a major anti-apartheid activist in the Jewish community” passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/2014/11/16/news-opinion/world/mervyn-smith-south-african-jewish-leader-dies





2014: The 6^th Annual International Holiday Bazar sponsored by Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to open today.



2014: The Batsheva Dance Company is scheduled to perform for the third and last time during its current visit to New York.



2014: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a chamber music concert featuring works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky.



2014: In Melbourne, “Natan” and “24 Days” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: “The Sturgeon Queens” and “Bethlehem” are scheduled to be shown at the 18^thUK Jewish Film Festival.



2014: “A 31-year-old Belgian rabbi was stabbed in Antwerp today while on his way to his synagogue, near a train station in the city’s Jewish district.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/belgian-jewish-man-stabbed-in-antwerp/



2014: Arabs threw rocks and fired fireworks at police as they clashed with Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-said-seriously-injured-in-east-jerusalem-clash/



2014: “University professor Hassan Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, appeared before an anti-terror judge just hours after arriving from Montreal after losing a six-year legal battle against extradition” and “was charged in Paris today for his role in the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four and wound forty who were among the 300 worshipers attending Kabbalath Shabbat services.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanese-canadian-accused-of-1980-paris-synagogue-bombing-extradited-to-france/





2015(3rd of Kislev, 5776): Seventy year old songwriter P.F. Sloan (born Philip Gary Schlein) passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/arts/music/p-f-sloan-60s-songwriter-dies-at-70.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0





2015: The 17^th Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Seminar sponsored by the Jewish Book Council is scheduled to be held today in NYC.



2015: "Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem" is scheduled to be shown at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.



2015: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington in partnership with the University of Maryland Hillel are scheduled to host “Routes: A Day of Jewish Learning.”



2015: Eighty-six year old Stephen Birmingham who was mistkenly thought to be Jewish because he wrote Our Crowd’: The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite and The Rest of Us: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/nyregion/stephen-birmingham-chronicler-of-the-rich-and-other-elites-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0





2015: Dr. Stanton Samenow, author of Inside the Criminal Mind is scheduled to serve as moderator at Beth El Hebrew Congregation’s “Meet the Authors” program featuring Ellen Brazer, Bea Epstein and Dr. Allan J. Lichtman.



2015: Tel Aviv born composer, pianist, singer and arranger, Yoni Rechter who “has worked closely with many of Israel's top artists, including Arik Einstein, Gidi Gov, and Yehudit Ravitz” is scheduled to perform at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill tonight in New York.



2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Killing A King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron, My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich, Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts by Caroline Heller and Between Gods: A Memoir by Alison Pick.

2016(14^thof Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-two year old music producer and arranger Milt Okun passed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/arts/music/milt-okun-dead-cherry-lane-publishing.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1



2016: Kosherfest, “the world’s largest kosher trade show” opened today at Secaucus, NJ.

2016: According to a report by Channel 10 broadcast 10, David Shimron “a long-time personal lawyer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” and “the representative of a German company trying to sell Israeli military submarines that Netanyahu has been pushing for Israel to buy against the will of the IDF” “is alleged to be at the center of a multi-billion shekel controversy involving Israel’s possible purchase” of these ships.

2016: In collaboration with multiple organizations, including the Thaler Foundation and Coe College, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library are scheduled to host Gideon Frieder, a speaker from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Survivor Speakers’ Bureau to speak of his experience as a Holocaust survivor at Coe College’s Sinclair Auditorium.

2017: Lebanon is scheduled to announce which companies have won the auction granting drilling rights “to areas in the Mediterranean Sea contested by neighboring Israel.”

2017: “Ra’anan Boustan (Princeton University)” is scheduled to “speak on the paradoxical image of Rome as a repository for “Jewish” artifacts and strategies by which Roman Jews and Roman Christians utilized these artifacts to make claims on the ancient past’ at the Center for Jewish History

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Jewbilation MT17.”

2017: “Land of the Little People” and “West of the Jordan River” are scheduled to shown at the 21^st UK International Jewish Festival.

2017: Kosherfest 2017 is scheduled to come to an end today.

https://www.kosherfest.com/

2017(26^thof Cheshvan, 5778): One-hundred and six year old MIT graduate and numismatist Eric Pfeiffer Newman, the husband of Evelyn Newman with whom he had two children, passed away today, (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/obituaries/eric-newman-dead-leading-authority-on-coins.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0



2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such as Dr. Brian Horowitz the author of a series of books including Empire Jews which paint a realistic of the world most know only from “Fiddler on the Roof” and Jewish books for the next thirty days is scheduled to continue for a fourth day.

2018: “Jonathan Franzen is scheduled to read from his new essay collection, The End of the End of the Earth” at the 92^nd Street Y today.

2018: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host “Seltzertopia” which will include the New York “premier screening of the short ‘Egg Cream’ and a celebration of the publication of Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Drink by Barry Joseph, followed by tastings of various egg creams.”

2018: “Doubtful” and “Song of Black and Neck” are scheduled to be shown at the 38th Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.

2018: The Maltz Museum is scheduled to host a lecture on “Talmud and Literature: How an Ancient Jewish Text Can Inspire Contemporary Art” followed by a Q and A with Ruby Namdar, the author of The Ruined House, “winner of Israel’s 2014 Sapir Prize.”

2018: Columbia University, Fordham University and YIVO Institute is scheduled to host “In Dialogue: Polish Jewish Relations During the Interwar Period” with “Samuel Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and one of the world's leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of Poland” and “Paul Brykczyński, an independent historian, whose interests include nationalism, antisemitism, and radical politics, in Eastern Europe and beyond” and whose “first book, Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland, won the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies.

2018: As they awake this morning, Israelis look to see the impact of the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman while those living along the border with Gaza contemplate the impact of Netanyahu’s ceasefire agreement.

2019: “A staged reading of Wonderdrug, a brand new feature screenplay by BAFTA nominated writer Raphael Smith and Jamie Kutner. Wonderdrug tells the story of 24 year old Miles Mendelsohn, scientific genius and chronic nebbish, who invents a drug that cures almost anything and becomes a controversial folk hero” is scheduled to take place at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2019: In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to host “The Art of French Theatre.”

2019: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to “The Mystical Voice” during which “JCCSF’s Rabbi Zac Kamenetz gives a talk in the museum’s gallery chat series on Kabbalah, in conjunction with Annabeth Rosen exhibit.”

2019: In San Francisco, the Women’s Building is scheduled to host “Around: Watch and Bake” during which attendees “bake challah from scratch and while it’s baking, watch “Around,” a 45-minute doc about why Bay Area Jews and non-Jews are making time to make challah.”

2019: “The Shabbat Project, a global, grassroots movement uniting Jews around the world using the magic is scheduled to being today.

2019: Israelis are braced for more rocket attacks despite claims of cease fire that is short on ceasing and long on firing.

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42 BCE: Birthdate of Tiberius, 2nd Roman emperor. The stepson of Augustus reigned from 14 to 37 C.E. A competent general with a sour disposition, Tiberius came to the thrown through the efforts of his pushy mother. Tiberius treatment of the Jews did not spring from some early form of anti-Semitism. Rather, he was a bit of a clod who made poor decisions, some of which impacted the Jews. He placed power in the hands of the power-hungry Sejanus who happened not to like Jews. He appointed Pontius Pilate Procurator in Judea, a role that was a classic mismatch between the governed and the governor. And for a period, he banned the Jews from Rome, but this had to do with some domestic spat, not religion. In the end the true measure of the man was his choice of heirs. Tiberius selected Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula. Caligula’s belief in his own divinity would create another set of problems for the Jews of Judea and Alexandria.



534: Publication of the second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus or Justinian’s Code. The code reflected Justinian’s hostility towards Judaism. It contained provisions that prohibited marriage between a Christian and a Jew (the fear was that the marriage would lead to the Christian converting to Judaism) and placed restrictions on the practice of circumcision. It elevated canon law to the equal of civil law thus forcing the Jews to accept the authority of Church officials. It also forced the Jews to use a Greek translation of the Bible in their services, placed restrictions on public assembly by Jews, prohibited Jews from building new synagogues and testifying against Christians in legal matters and finally banned the celebration of Passover in years when it came before Easter.



1272: King Edward III who continued the predatory taxation policies towards his Jewish subjects that had been followed by his father King John passed away today. In addition to confiscatory tax policies, the King enacted royal decrees inimical to the well-being of the Jewish people including one that stated, “And that there be no synagogue of the Jews in England save in those places in which synagogues were in the time of King John, the king’s father…and that every Jew wear his badge conspicuously on his breast.”



1380: Jews were killed in riots in Paris.



1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. Jadwiga would marry Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania who took the name of Władysław II when ascended the Polish throne. The purpose of the marriage was to unite Poland and Lithuania. For the Jews of Poland, the results were less than optimal since the first extensive persecutions of the Jews took place during the reign Wladislaus II and neither the king nor his successors acted to stop these events.



1491: Five Jews were accused of murdering a child in La Guardia (Spain). The investigation was conducted by Tomas De Torquemada, the cleric who would later lead the infamous Spanish Inquisition. Even though there were no witnesses nor was a body ever found all five were found guilty. Three of them were forcibly baptized, strangled, and then burned. The two others were just torn apart.



1497: Gershon Soncino published a copy of “Talmud Babli Sanhedrin” at Barco.



1500: In Pilsen, “Kaspar Bernášek is shown to owe 100 Meissen thalers or 50 Bohemian coppers to the Jew Mekl and his son Turek. In the event of non-repayment, they had the right to sell his possessions and hereby to avoid damages, although without having the right to any interest payments”



1628: Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, under whose leadership a group of Sephardic Jews migrated to Suriname in 1652 and “settled in the Jodensavanne area” married Elizabeth Cecil today.

1694(28th of Cheshvan): Rabbi David Lida, author of Be’er Mayim Hayyim, passed away



1745: In Trier Rabbi Isaac Sinzheim and his wife gave birth to Joseph David Sinzheim, the Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg.



1756 (23rd of Cheshvan): Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel Lampronti, author of Pahad Yizhak, passed away.

1759: The will of Reuben Adolphus, the brother of “Simon, Samuel and Dr. Joyo Adolphus” and  the nephew of Simon Adolphus which contained a bequest for Solomon Henry and name Sir Joseph Hankey and Michael Adolphus was probated today,

1765: Spanishtown, Jamaica native Abraham Rodrigues de Leon and his wife gave birth to Rebecca de Leon.

1779: Sixty-three year old naturalist and explorer Pehr Kalm who on his visit to the United States in 1748 described the Jews of New York as forming “a considerable portion of the population” passed away today He also said the Jews “had stores and fine houses and ships, and a flourishing synagogues and enjoyed all the privileges of other citizens.  The young Jews, especially when away from home, made no scruple about eating pork when the opportunity offered.”

1780: In Buttenhausen, Germany, Melia and Jacob Strauss gave birth to Hirsch Strauss, the husband of Rebecca Strauss with whom he had four children.

1794(23rd of Cheshvan, 5555): Saul Berlin passed away in London. Born in 1740, he “was a German Talmudist and one of the most learned Jews of the Mendelssohnian period.”

1803: In Frankfurt am Main, Jacob Hirsch Kann, the “son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kann” and Jetta Kahnn gave birth to Philip Kann.

1803: Birthdate of Heinrich Ewald the German theologian and author whose works included Complete Court on the Hebrew Language, The Poetical Books of the Old Testament, History of the People of Israel and Antiquities of the People of Israel.

1818: Two days after she had passed away, 67 year old Lydia Cohen, the wife of Levi Barent Cohen with whom she had seven children, was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1819: Birthdate of Wilhelm Marr, the ner-do-well who married three Jewish women, became a leader in the modern German anti-Semitism movement and then recanted his beliefs towards the end of his life.

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

1821: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail which enjoyed a Golden Era of trade that lasted until the early 1850’s. Jews were reluctant to be identified as such since New Mexico was still thought to be within the jurisdiction of the Inquisition. Apparently a Prussian Jew named Albert Speyer had no such qualms and he conducted trading operations on the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico itself in the early 1840’s

1825: Jacob Abraham Wood married Hannah Simmons at the Hambro Synagogue today.



1827 OS(9^th of Kislev, 5588): Fifty-four year old Dovber Schneuri, the second Lubavitcher Rebbe also known as the Mittler Rebbe (or Middle Rebbe) who was the son of Shneur Zalman of Liabi, the found Chabad Lubavitch  and whose daughter Chaya Mushka married her cousin Menachem Mendel Schneersohn who became the third rebbe, passed today on his birthday, according to the Hebrew calendar.



1827: Birthdate of Charles Eliot Norton, the Harvard professor, whose friendship with James Loeb was so meaningful that Loeb, the Jewish banker and philanthropist created The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship in his honor.

1828: In Crosby Square, London, Rebecca Montefiore and Joseph Solomon gave birth to Matilda Solomon, the wife of Jacob Waley.

1831: Elias and Sophia Solomons were married at the Hambro Synagogue today.

1833: In the United Kingdom, The Dover Telegraph reported that Fanny Nathan, the daughter of local china and fruit importer had Mr. Abrahams of Canterbury.

1841: Birthdate of Abraham Mendes Chumaceiro, the Amsterdam native who moved to Curaçao in 1856, where he became a prominent member of the bar.

1841: Birthdate of Landstuhl, Germany, native Michael Abraham, the husband of Carolina Berg.

1843: Samuel Strauss and his wife, the former Rosalia Drucker gave birth to Sigmund Ferdinand Strauss the brother of British MP Arthur Strauss.



1845: Israel Beer Josaphat was baptized at St. George’s German Lutheran Chapel in London where he took the new name of Paul Julius Reuter.  His name lives on today in the name of the news service he established- Reuter’s.  Reuter may have shed his religion but his enemies would mock him as a Jew when it suited their needs.



1849: Hayyim Zebi Lerner, the native of Dubno who was a follower of Wolf Adesohn, a leader of the Maskilim, “was appointed government teacher of the Jewish public school of Berdychev.”



1850(11^thof Kislev, 5611): Aaron Alexandre, “a Bavarian trained rabbi” who became a leading chess player after arriving in France in 1793 passed away today in London.



1852: An article entitled Germany: Political Movements published today reported that in Berlin that newly empowered reactionaries are seeking to modify Article 12 of the Constituion, which had freed “the exercise of political rights from all ddependence on the religion of the citizen…” The change is aimed at excluding the Jews from the political process so that Prussia will be “a Christian State.”  The liberals are afraid that once the Jews are excluded, other groups will be excluded including “the free communists, German Catholics and other non-conformists.



1853: The Tenth Anniversary Dinner of the German Benevolent Society was held tonight at the Assembly Rooms in New York City. Joseph Seligman, president of the society presided over the affair which was attended by two hundred gentlemen. The attendees donated $2,000 to the society.



1853: Birthdate of Victor Worms, the native of Luxembourg who was the younger brother of Emile Worms and a prominent French lawyer.

1859: Two days after she had passed away, 56 year old Isabella Myers, the wife of Benjamin Myers with whom she had four children, was buried at the Exeter Jewish Cemetery.

1859: Prussian native Saling Schiff and Katherine Mosely gave birth to Adelaide Schiff.

1860: Birthdate of Jesse Houghton Metcalf, the Senator from Rhode Island, who as early as June of 1933 “deplored” the racial and religious prejudice of the German government in a speech on the floor of the Senate.

1868: “The will of Abraham Hirsh was probated” today.

1871: “Cruelties Practiced by Poultry Dealers” published today described activities at the so-called “Jews’ Washington Market” on Essex Street which is home to a large number of butchers and their coops of chicken.

1872: George Joseph Emanuel, the London born son of Joseph and Jane Emanuel and his wife Elizabeth Emanuel gave birth to Arthur Emanuel

1874: It was reported today that Rabbi Artom officiated at the wedding of Mr. Isaac Abecassis of Lisbon and Miss Helena Ben Sande of the Azores at the Portugese Synagogue on Bryanstone Street.  The service included all of the Jewish traditions including the breaking of the glass.  The reception was held at the Langham Hotel where Jewish traditions continued to prevail among a wedding party that included many gentiles as could be seen by wearing of hats by the Jewish men during the entire affair.



1874: It was reported today that Carl Schurz will deliver a lecture next Wednesday members of the Hebrew Young Men’s Association in New York.



1874: It was reported today that Rabbi De Sola Mendez will deliver a lecture next week at the Lyric Hall in New York City.



1874: It was reported today that the Jews of Chicago have held a service to honor the memory of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, the leader of Reform Judaism in Berlin who passed away in October of 1874.



1874: It was reported today that those who lost seats in recent Austrian elections blame their defeat on the fact that there were two Jewish members of the government.



1879: It was reported today that “Romania positively refuses to enfranchise her dirty Israelites, except on her own conditions” which are not those that she had agreed to when negotiating with the Great Powers.



1879: Four days after he had pass away, 61 year old Isaac Lindo Mocatta, the son of Moses Mocatta and Abigail Lindo, the husband of Abigail Mocatta and the father of Grace Mocatta, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1880: Birthdate of Minsk native Nissan Telushkin who “served as a congregational rabbi in Europe until 1924 before coming to the United States where served as Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Yitzchak in Brooklyn for over forty years.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html

https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1019480/jewish/After-80-Years-Commentary-Sees-Light-of-Day.htm

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/telushkin-nissan



1881: It was reported today that SS Silesia is expected to arrive soon in New York City with 250 Jews from Russia.  A total of 5,000 Jews are expected to come during the Winter months.  “Most of the Jews are farmers and will settle in Texas and Louisiana.”  The Hamburg Line, whose ships are bringing the Jews to America, has promised to provide Kosher food for the travelers “from the time they leave the Russian frontier until” they arrive in the United States.



1881: It was reported today that Julius J. Frank is planning on giving a lecture to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.



1881: It was reported today that The Porte has told representatives of English and German philanthropists who are promoting the migration of Jews to Turkey that Jews will be allowed to settle “in separate communities in all parts of the empire, except Palestine.



1883: It was reported today that in England, Charles K. Salaman has used “words…in the original language of the Old Testament to compose “A Hebrew Love Song.” (Salaman is name many do not recognize today.  He was prolific 19^th Anglo-Jewish composer whose career spanned 70 years)



1883: It was reported today the President of the Union Trust Company on Broadway in New York gave David Salzman a quarter when he turned in a check in the amount of $1,250 drawn on the company.  The Jewish boy who works as a bootblack “was somewhat surprised at the amount.”

1883: In Chicago, Eli Benjamin Felsenthal and Nettie Felsenthal gave birth Agatha Felsenthal who became Agatha Schoenbrun when she married Leo Schoenbrun with whom she had three children.

1884: The leaders of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Society hosted their annual reception at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.



1884: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil officiated at the wedding of Miss Leonitine Huebsch, the daughter of Rabbi Adolphus Huesbsch , of blessed memory and Mrs. Joshua Kantrowitz, associate editor of the Hebrew Standard.



1885: The National Rabbinical Convention, a meeting of Reform rabbis from across the United States, opened this morning in Concordia Hall in Allegheny City, PA.

1886: Sigmund and Julia Kohlman gave birth to Alabama resident Flossye Kohlman.

1886: “Curious Will Suit” published today described litigation brought by the heirs of the late Moses Issacks  to try and recover $50,000 that had been left to him as a life interest by his Uncle, the late Sampson Simson, the noted philanthropist who helped to fund Mt. Sinai Hospital.  According to the will, upon Isaacks death, the principle of the life estate was to revert to an organization that would help with educational activities in Jerusalem. The executor of the estate turned the money over to the North American Relief Society for the Indigent Jews but the heirs claim they should get the money because the money did not exist at the time of Simson’s death so it was not eligible. (The court will find for the Society.)



1886: In Glasgow, KY, Caroline Morris and Joseph Korck, gave birth to Arthur B. Krock who was raised by his maternal grandparents Emmanuel and Henrietta Morris until he was six and who gained fame as a conservative political journalist working for the New York Times. According to some published reports, during the 1930’s the Jewish publisher of the Timesdenied Krock who would win four Pulitzer Prizes a promotion because the paper did not want to have Jews in prominent editorial positions.



1887: Over two thousand men and women attended the 9^th annual charity ball hosted by the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum at the Academy of Music.

1887: Birthdate of Rabbi Nathan Gerstein who “became ill while traveling to New York to get approval to build a new synagogue on Main Avenue in San Antonio, TX.



1888(12^thof Kislev, 5649): Forty-two year old Arsène Darmesteter linguist and author who served as “Professor of Old French Language and Literature” at the Sorbonne who used the writings of Rashi in his study of Old French passed away today.

1889: It was reported today that shots were fired into stores and homes owned by Jews living in three towns in Louisiana’s East Carroll Parish.  At the town of Alsatia “a placard was stuck on the door” that reading “‘No Jews after the 1^st of January.  If you disregard this warning fire and lead will make you leave.’”



1889: Birthdate of American playwright George S. Kaufman. Born into a family of German-Jews in Pittsburgh Kaufman moved to New York where he worked as a journalist before pursuing a career in the theatre. Kaufman almost always wrote in collaboration with somebody else, but he was always the senior collaborator, no matter how distinguished the other writer might have been. In their day, Kaufman’s works were almost all theatrical successes. But most of his works are not known to today’s public. One exception would be three plays – The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera and Animal Crackers – all of which were made into hit movies by the Marx Brothers. Kaufman passed way in 1961.



1890: Birthdate of Roona, Russia native George Feldman, who “emigrated to Canada in 1913, joined the Jewish Legion in Saskatchewan “and served in Palestine with the 39^th Battalion of the Royal Fusilers after which he returned to Canada where he married in 1922 and raised three children.

1890: In Philadelphia, PA, The Society Hachnasath Orechim, or Wayfarers' Lodge, was organized today.



1890: In “Alliance Colony, an agricultural community in rural southern New Jersey, Anna Saphro and pharmacist George Sergious Seldes gave birth to Henry George Seldes an “investigative reporter” who was part of a talented family that included his brother, writer Gilbert Seldes, his niece, actress Marian Seldes and his nephew, literary agent Timothy Seldes



1890: In “One of the Persecuted Jews” published today Herman Rosenstraus, a Russian Jew living in the United States provided a firsthand account of the travails that brought him to this county.

1890: Birthdate Alliance Colony, NJ native author and journalist George Seldes. (As reported by William Dicke)

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/03/obituaries/george-seldes-is-dead-at-104-an-early-fervent-press-critic.html



1891: In Philadelphia, found of Congregation “Dirshu Tove” which held daily service and used Har Nebo Cemetery.

1892: The building owned by Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Memphis hosts the second day of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union’s national convention.  The Alliance is a southern version of the Grange, which was considered to be a “radical” agrarian organization by the railroads and the banks.





1893: The Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived last week aboard the SS Roland who are still being detained at Ellis Island will be re-examined today and if they continue not to meet the required standards will be ordered back to Europe.



1893: Today, when Emmeline Obermeyer turned 20, 29 year old photographer Alfred Stieglitz succumbed to family pressure and married her in New York.



1894: Birthdate of Jacob Samuel Potofsky, the native of Radomysl, Russia who came to the United States where he rose to become President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers



1895: Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon at Temple Emanu-El entitled “The Charity of the Jews.”

1895: In Luka, Czech Republic, Bertha and Hermann Ullmann gave birth to Paula Ullmann who became Paula Lowidt when she married Leo Lowidt both of whom were killed during the Holocaust.

1896: Rabbi Kahn of Rodof Sholom officiated at the funeral of 84 year old Ephraim Wolbach who was a co-founder of the congregation.

1896: Rose Landsberg, the President of the Rochester, NY Section of the National  Council of Jewish Women which had been “organized in the summer of 1895 with a membership of 40” submitted a report which showed the section had grown to 66 members and offered 6 study circles.



1896: An address by Mrs. Nellie L. Miller of Memphis “stirred up a lively discussion” at this afternoon’s “session of the National Council of Jewish Women.  Many of the delegates took issue with her declaration “that today the people of her race are lax in their religion, careless in the faith of their fathers “ and could learn lessons from Christian women when it comes to “strength and perseverance.

1897: In Johannesburg, South Africa, Isidore Heyman and his wife gave birth to a son

1897(21^stof Cheshvan, 5658): Eighteen month old Sarah Rosetta “Rosie” Rabbinowicz, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Rabbinowicz passed away today at Whitechapel. UK.

1897: “Ferdinand Forzinetti, the commandant of the Cherche-Midi military prison, and one of the first to be convinced of Dreyfus's innocence, was relieved of his position when his views about the matter became public.

1897: In London, The Relief Committee of the Board Guardians was scheduled to meet at 3:30 this afternoon.

1897: Birthdate of Richmond native Henry Stern Raab, the realtor and leader of the Jewish community.

1898: “100,000 Given for Education” published today described how Jacob H. Schiff had contributed $25,000 towards an endowment fund for the Educational Alliance that attracted the following additional contributions: Louis Stern, $25,000; B. Altman, $20,000; William Saloon, $10,000; Isidor Straus, $10,000; Felix Warburg, $5,000 and Louis Marshall, $5,000.





1898: The staff at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and public health authorities including Dr. Dillingham, the assistant Inspector for the Health Department “discredited” reports “of a severe outbreak of scarlet fever” at the Jewish children’s facility.





1898: It was reported today that Israel Zangwill had delivered a lecture on the history of the Jewish people in which he said that “Colonel Roosevelt had said to him that the Jews in the Rough Riders were among the bravest in his regiment.”



1899: Today’s review of the most recent revival of “The Merchant of Venice” praised Henry Irving’s portrayal of Shylock as the best since that of the late Edwin Booth because of its “expression of the Jew’s craft and malice, his implacable disposition and the bitterness of his hatred.”  (Shylock was one of Irving’s signature roles.  Portrayals of Shylock have varied over the centuries and often reflect how Jews are viewed in a given place or time.)



1899: In Harrison, OH, “Edward and Hannah Mary (Hart) Hannah gave birth to Harvard Ph.D. Harold Edward Israel, a professor at Smith College, the “noteworthy psychologist and educator” who was the husband of Elsa Siipola.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/10/10/97318148.html?pageNumber=43



1899: “Answer to a Correspondent” published today provided a discussion of the etomolgy of “Mizpah” which comes from the Hebrew word “Mitzpah” which “was the name of several places in Palestine” but was first used in the story of Jacob Laban where the word is used to describe “a rude heap of stones” that served as a “witness” to the agreement they had made and served a “boundary” marker.



1900: Lissa & Kann, the family owned bank managed by Zionist leader Jacobus Henricus Kann makes £ 700,000 available for Herzl’s use. Born in 1872, Kann was an aide to Theodor Herzl and was one of the founders of the Jewish Colonial Trust in 1899. He was an active participant in the Zionist Congresses and was elected to the Zionist Organization's executive in 1905. Later he worked on various projects in Palestine. He passed away in 1945.



1900(12^thof Kislev, 5649): Fifty-nine year old Moritz Rosenhaupt the cantor at Nuremberg who is the author of “Shire Ohel Ya’akob” and who wrote a concerto using the 42^ndPsalm passed away today.

1903: Birthdate of Polish native Casimir Oberfeld, the French composer who was arrested in Nice and shipped to Auschwitz where he died in January, 1945.



1905: “The diary of a Jewish merchant from Odessa written in the course of those first four awful days of the month when the massacres were in progress were received at the office of The Jewish Morning Journal” today “impress the reader with the horrors of Odessa…far more graphically than of the news dispatches that have reached” the United States.



1905: Police on the East Side of New York were informed tonight “that swindlers were collecting money in the name of Russian Relief Fund Association and were giving forged receipts for payments that have been made.



1905: “At the Synagogue Beth Hamedrdash Hagadol where the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation of the United States and Canada” were meeting tonight Rabbi Pereia Mendes read cablegrams from Baron Grunsberg and Professor Mandelstam of Kiev in which it was stated that disorders in the southern provinces were still in progress.





1906: The house physician at the Hotel St. George attributed the death of Rabbi Raphael Benjamin to “acute indigestion” which was probably the result of the “bad health” he had been experiencing for an extended period of time.  At the time of his death “he was much disturbed over an incident in connection with the recent unveiling of the Washington monument at the Williamsburg Bridge plaza. He had been invited to speak on that occasion as a representative of the Hebrews, and the Rev. Father Belford pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of Sts. Peter and Paul was also to deliver an address, but before the ceremony the priest made a public denunciation of the Jews, and invitations to both speakers were cancelled.” (As reported by “Cyber Angel”)

1907: The University of Tennessee football team coached by Izzy Levene defeated Mississippi A&M today by a score of 11 to 4.



1907: Oklahoma was established as the 46th state in the Union. In 1890 the estimated Jewish population of Oklahoma Territory was one hundred and at statehood about one thousand. In Oklahoma City the time lag between the founding of the mostly German Reform congregation B'nai Israel and the mainly Eastern European Orthodox Emanuel Synagogue was only one year (1903 and 1904). By the time Oklahoma was granted statehood, the Jewish population had grown from an estimated 100 living in the territory in 1890, to around a thousand. Signs of the establishment of Jewish communities, as opposed to just individual Jewish settlers, could be seen even before statehood was granted. In Oklahoma City, Temple B’nai Israel was formed in 1903 by the Orthodox Emanuel Synagogue in 1904. In Muskogee, Temple Beth Ahabah, was formed in 1905. In the same year that statehood was granted, the 100 or so Jews who had settled in Ardmore formed a Reform congregation called Temple Emeth. Today, the small but vibrant Jewish community is centered primarily in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.



1909: Turkey bans all non-Muslims from holding political meetings in houses of worship.



1909: Alma Gluck first appeared on stage with the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Sophie in Massenet's Werther. (As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archives)

https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/16/1909/alma-gluck

https://www.nytimes.com/1938/10/28/archives/alma-gluck-dead-operatic-soprano-former-star-of-metropolitan-was.html

1910(14^thof Cheshvan, 5671): Ephraim Feldman, a “Talmudist” teaching at Hebrew Union College passed away today in Cincinnati, OH.



1910: Birthdate of Superior, Wisconsin native Morrie “Morris” Arnonvich, nicknamed “Snooker, the life-time observer of Kashrut who was an all-star basketball player for Superior State Teachers Colleges before going on to a major league baseball career that was interrupted by a four-year wartime stint in the U.S. Army.

1912(6^thof Kislev, 5673): Parashat Vayishlach

1912: Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Caring for the Orphan” in honor of the dedication of the Marks Nathan Orphan’s Home during Shabbat morning services at the Isaiah Temple in Chicago.



1912: Joseph Wohl and his wife gave birth to Bertha Rachel Friedman, the sister of Sam Wohl.

1912: It was reported today that “of the 20,356 Jewish immigrants who arrived at” the port of New York “during the last three months, some seven hundred came from the Balkan peninsula.”

1912: “An Epoch-Making Book” published today provided Harold Berman’s review of “a novel treating the Jewish question written by M.A. Goldschmidt, the celebrated Jewo-Danish novelist which has recently been issued in a German translation.”

1914: The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. In 1930, Eugene Meyer was the first Jew appointed to serve as the Chairman of the Fed.  Two more Jews have served as Chairman of the Fed.  Alan Greenspan was appointed in 1978.  When he retired, Ben Bernake was appointed in 2006



1914: In Germany, a small group of intellectuals whose leaders included Albert Einstein appeals for “the prompt achievement of a just peace without annexations and for the establishment of an international organization that would have as its aim the prevention of future wars.”



1915(9th of Kislev, 5676): Sixty-six year old Raphael Meldola, the Anglo-Jewish chemist who invented Mendola Blue Dye, passed away.

1915: Solomon Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic gave birth to Albert Weiner, the husband of Sylvia Cooper.

1915: The Fourteenth Convention of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada ended today with “the singing of Hatikvah and God Save the King

1916: A Reuter’s dispatch from Amsterdam received in London says: “A Warsaw telegram announces that an edict has been published recognizing Judaism as a religion in public law.”

1917(1st of Kislev, 5678): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



1917: Premiere of “When Four Do the Same” a “German silent comedy drama directed by Ernst Lubitsch” who also co-authored the script and appeared in the film.



1917: New Zealand cavalrymen entered Jaffa; next stop – Jerusalem



1917: During World War I, British forces under General Allenby entered Tel Aviv. In less than a month, the British Army, including Jewish contingents would liberate Jerusalem.



1917: In Ekaterinoslav, the militia finally restores order after anti-Semitic rioters looted Jewish shops.



1917: It was reported today that The Joint Distribution Committee has collected two thirds of the $10,000,000 it plans on collecting by December including $1,000,000 that was contributed by Julius Rosenwald.

1917: In Warsaw, “Bundist delegates on the Municipal Council demand that Jewish elementary schools applying for municipal subsidy omit Jewish religious education and study of Hebrew from the curriculum.”

1918: In the chaos that followed the end of World War I, Hungary declared its independence from Austria which forced Theodore Von Karman to leave the country and ultimately settle in the United States where he became known as “The Father of Supersonic Flight.”

http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=31

http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/von-karman-theodore.pdf

1918: Isaac C. Hirsch, of Company E of the 306^th Infantry was cited today for showing “great heroism, determination and courage” when acting as a stretcher bearer on August 27 he carried the wounded to safety “in an area which was swept by shell, machine gun and rifle fire.”

1918: Private Bernard Teitelbaum who was temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth Platoons, Company D, 306^th Infantry was cited today for showing “extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty” when he gave first aide “to five wounded men” while under heavy fire from shrapnel and “high explosives” “until he was himself hit by shrapnel and severely wounded.”

1918: Over seven thousand dollars was collected at the Central Synagogue for the United War Work Campaign after an appeal by Dr. Nathan Krass.

1918: Today, Major Solomon Lowenstein “who was with the Palestinian Commission headed by Dr. Finley urged the need of large reconstruction work Palestine and told how utterly helpless large sections of the Jews in the Holy Land were.”

1920: In Dresden, Germany, writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel gave birth to” Peter Viertel who moved to the United States with his parents in 1928 where he grew up with his Hans and Thomas, graduated from Dartmouth, served with the U.S. Marines and the O.S.S. during WW II before pursuing a career as an author and screenwriter. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/arts/06viertel.html?ref=obituaries



1920: Joseph G. Shapiro of Shelton, CT was appointed judge of the City Court today.

1920: A fund raising drive sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Louisville, KY is scheduled to begin today.

1920: Dr. Judah L. Magnes and Dr. Joseph Silverman, the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El officiated at the funeral of Jacob Wertheim after which he was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester, NY.



1921: Birthdate of Ben Weisman an American composer and pianist best known for having written many of the songs associated with Elvis Presley. A native of Providence, Ben Weisman was one of Elvis Presley's chief songwriters throughout the 1960s. He co-composed for Elvis' movies and stage performances nearly sixty songs that proceeded to go gold or platinum, including "First in Line", "Got a Lot of Living to Do", "Follow That Dream" and "Wooden Heart". Weisman also wrote songs recorded by Barbra Streisand ("Love in the Afternoon"), The Beatles ("Lend Me Your Comb"), Johnny Mathis ("When I Am with You"), Terry Stafford ("I'll Touch A Star"), Bobby Vee ("The Night Has A Thousand Eyes") and many others. Since Weisman's outward appearance was atypical for a "rock 'roll guy", Elvis' pet nickname for him was "the mad professor". Just before Weisman's last meeting with Elvis in 1976, Elvis proudly announced to the crowd that he had recorded more of Weisman's songs than those of any other songwriter. Weisman's most recent musical score was for the 1995 movie Crossroads at Laredo: The Lost Film of Edward D. Wood Jr.

http://archive.jewishcurrents.org/tag/ben-weisman/





1922(25th of Cheshvan, 5683): Forty-seven year old German physicist Max Abraham passed away today in Munich.

1922: Birthdate of Manhattan native George Neumann Spitz who played a leading role in turning the New York City Marathon from a race to a “cultural happening” (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/nyregion/george-spitz-civic-gadfly-helped-transform-marathon-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1924(19^thof Cheshvan, 5685): Fifty-eight year German born American journalist Gustav J. Karger , the husband of Rachel Levison who was also a “member of the Republican State Central Committee in Ohio, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/11/17/104270059.pdf



1924: This afternoon, five thousand persons tried to get into the auditorium of the National Hebrew School in New York to attend the funeral services for Dr. Menachem Mendel Scheinkin, the noted Zionist leader who was killed in a street car accident while visiting Chicago, Illinois



1924: In Kansas City, Goodman Ace (born Asa Goodman) and Jane Sherwood (born Jane Epstein) were married – a union that their fans came to know as the witty Easy Aces.



1924: Birthdate of Haim Brotzlewsky in Vienna who made Aliyah to Palestine in 1939 where he gained fame as Haim Bar-Lev, the IDF’s Chief of General Staff from 1968 through 1971.

1925: In Lodz, Nacha (Baran) Bawnik and Yakov Bawnik, “a baker” gave birth to Chaim Hercko Bawnik, later known as Henry Bawnik who survived years of concentration life including the sinking of the prison ship Cap Arcona. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/obituaries/henry-bawnik-survivor-of-death-camps-and-an-inferno-at-sea-dies-at-92.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries



1926: Birthdate of Herbert “Herb” Krautblatt,, the only basketball player at Rider University who played for an NBA team – in this case the Baltimore Bullets for one season.

1927: In Brooklyn, “businessman Morris Gimbel and Lottie Gimbel” gave birth to lyricist Norman Gimbel who gave us such memorable music "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/obituaries/norman-gimbel-dies-at-91.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage



1928: A resolution adopted by the Synagogue Council of America which “profoundly deplored the interference with Jewish worship took place at…the Wailing Wall…on the Day of Atonement” was made public today.

1928(3^rdof Kislev, 5689): Sixty-two year old Gustav Cohn, the “son of Levi and Eva Regina Cohn” and the husband of Paula Cohn passed away today in “Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.”



1929: In Coburg, German, Julius and Katy Wertheimer gave birth to photographer Alfred Wertheimer “who for a few fleeting days in 1956 captured strikingly intimate images of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley just as he was becoming a rock ’n’ roll sensation…”  (As reported by William Yardley)

http://www.alfredwertheimer.com/



1931: “The House of Connelly” starring Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Clifford Odets which was staged by Lee Strasberg opened at the Mansfield Theatre after having closed at the Martin Beck Theatre.



1933: The United States recognizes the government of the Soviet Union. Maxim Livtvinov, the Soviet Foreign Ministers led the effort that resulted in this major foreign policy shift, Born Max Wallach, Litvinov was one of many Jews who played a leadership role in the Bolshevik movement and the government of the Soviet Union. Litvinov saw the opening of relations with the United States as a key in the fight against fascism. Litvinov would lose his job in the late 1930’s when the Soviets negotiated a non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany. At that point, Stalin was prepared to do anything to ingratiate himself with Hitler.



1933: “Little Women,” a screen version of the novel by the same name, directed by George Cukor with music by Max Steiner was released today in the United States.



1934: “The White Parade” an Academy Award nominated film produced by Jesse Lasky with a script by Jesse Lasky, Jr and Sonya Levien was released in the United States today.

1934: Designer George Salter, whose father had converted but who now found himself “Jewish” according to the Nazis arrived in New York thanks in no small part to an affidavit that had been submitted on his behalf by his brother Stefan who had come to the United States in 1928.

1935(20^thof Cheshvan, 5696): Parashat Vayera

1935: The University of California football team led by Guard Robert Gilbert defeated the University of Pacific today.

1935: “Jumbo, a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and a book co-authored by Ben Hecht” opened on Broadway at the Hippodrome Theatre today.



1936: ”The Violet of Potsdamer Platz” produced by Lothar Clark a German Jew who had taken refuge from the Nazis in Denmark only to be one of those fortunate “Danish” Jews who found a final refuge in Sweden.

1936: During a discussion today “regarding enforcement of the Nuremberg decrees of 1935 against Jewish relations with non-Jewish woman, State Secretary Heydrich “stated that the number of prosecution on this charge was steadily increasing.”

1936: In Jerusalem, a rabbi and his wife gave birth Isaac “Ike” Berger the weightlifter who gold and silver medals for the United States at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/IsaacBerger.htm

1937: Rabbi Jonah B Wise of the Central Synagogue officiated at the funeral of businessman John David who had passed away two days ago and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/11/18/94461672.pdf

1937: Birthdate of Doris Bonfield who will be interred in the Agudas Achim Cemetery in Iowa City.



1937: Pierre Crabites, a Law School Professor at L.S.U. and for 25 years the American Representative on the Mixed International Tribunal at Cairo of which he became the chief judge wrote a letter to the New York Times in which he advocated that the Haz Anim El Husseini, the Grand Mufti be allowed to return from his self-imposed exile from Palestine without having to fear arrest for the role he allegedly has played in the wave of Arab violence. In the letter, Crabites states his belief that the Grand Mufti is a key player in any attempt to bring to peace to Palestine while appearing to support limitations on the settlement of Jews in Eretz Israel.

1938: The fifth annual “Night of the Stars” which is seeking to raise $100,000 as an emergency fund for the settlement of oppressed Jews in Palestine” is scheduled to take place tonight at Madison Square Garden.

1938: Following a conference between Mayor La Guardia and Police Commissioner Valentine “a special squad was created today to protect German officials and German property” which it turned was “to be manned by Jews.”

1938: Birthdate of American philosopher Professor Robert Nozick. When he passed away in, he was described as “ the greatest American philosopher since William James; his influence extended far beyond the academic world, most famously with his powerful critique of the Left-liberal moral philosophy that underpinned the welfare state.

1938: Radio Stations WJZ and WABC broadcast the “Catholic Protest Against Nazi Persecution of Jews” featuring several Church leaders and former Governor Alfred E. Smith” from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m.



1939: At Lodz, the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear a Star of David



1939(4th of Kislev, 5700): Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of the Kamenetz Yeshiva, passed away



1939(4^thof Kislev, 5700): Sixty-five year Edward Max Chase,the Alytaus, Lithuania born son of “Jacob and Rebecca Fritz Chase” and  Lewiston, ME educated president of E.M. Chase Company of Manchester where his civic activities included founding the “Chase Memorial and Manchester Hebrew Free Loan Association,” serving as “state treasurer of all drives for Jewish war sufferers and state chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board” while being married to Dora Samplin Chase with whom he had four children – Jasper, Eleanor, Helene and Clara Chase passed away today.





1940: The Warsaw ghetto was permanently closed. Officially Jews no longer had access to anything, or business, outside of the ghetto.



1940: Leon Blum “was transferred to the Château de Bourrassol in the Massif Central near Riom, where he was to be tried.”



1940: “South of Suez,” a murder mystery co-starring George Tobias was released in the United States by Warner Bros.

1942: Leopold Pick was transported from Tabor to Terezin

1942: Today, during the darkest days of World War II, a proclamation was published  over the signatures of 1,521 outstanding Americans, declaring the moral right of the stateless Jews of Europe and of the Jews of Palestine "to fight -- as they ask to fight -- under the ancient banner of David the King, as the Jewish Army…They renewed the appeal that has been made ineffectively in the last eighteen months against Arab opposition for he separate arming of 200,00 Jews or more in the Middle East.”  The declaration read, in part “The first victims of Hitler’s aggression cannot conceive democracy denying to them participation…in this crusade against barbarism.”

1943: In Manhattan, Edith Hillman Boxill and Dr. Nathan Epstein gave birth to Dr. Paul Epstein, “a public health expert who was among the first to warn of a link between the spread of infectious disease and extreme weather events, adding a new dimension to research into the potential impact of global climate change” (As reported by Paul Vitello)



1943: Ill Jewish slave laborers at the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, ammunition factory, who are lured from their barracks by Ukrainian guards and SS men promising soup, are gunned down or loaded onto trucks and taken to an execution site elsewhere in the camp. The Ukrainians killed all those they thought were too weak to continue working.



1943: In an example of the law of unintended consequences a planned attempt to assassinate Hitler by a group known as the “Black Band” did not take place today because of the impact of an Allied air attack,



1943: British forces carried out a search at for arms at Ramat Hakovesh. When members of the kibbutz resisted, the situation erupted in violence. The British killed one kibbutznik wounded 35 others and arrested an additional 35 Jews.



1945: Premiere of “The Lost Weekend” the film about an alcoholic directed by Billy Wilder.



1945: A delegation representing the American League for Free Palestine, a Zionist organization, took off from New York today bound for a meeting of the UN in London.

1945: Yeshiva University came into existence (as a university), making it the first American university under Jewish auspices.

1946: “The Chase,” a film noir produced by Seymour Nebenzal, with a screenplay by Phillip Yordan and music by Michel Michelet was released in the United States toay.

1946: At the Music Box Theatre, the curtain comes down on the final performance of “A Flag Is Born.”

1947: Speaking today on her “World Security Workshop Program” broadcast by ABC, “Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today the United States’ support of the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states ‘is fair and correct as you look back on history.’”

1947: The British seized the SS Kadima, one of several ships filled with Jews that tried to run the British blockade of Palestine.  The ship, which was equipped to carry 400 passengers, left Italy filled with 800 Jews desperate to get out of the European DP camps.  The British took control of the ship at Haifa and deported the Jews to the camps at Cyprus where they remained for a year and three months. Mira (Miriam) Shefer was one of the passengers on the ship.  She met her future husband Efriam while on Cyprus.



1948: The Arabs continue to insist on not recognizing Israel.



1948:The UN Security Council demands that Israel and Egypt negotiate Negev armistice directly or through UN mediator Ralph Bunche. This demand does not alter previous order calling for demilitarization of Negev.



1948(14th of Cheshvan, 5709): Former California Congresswomen Florence Prag Kahn passed away in San Francisco. Elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States Representative-elect Julius Kahn, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (February 17, 1925-January 3, 1937), she was unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936.

1949: As the Middle East adjusted to the reality of Israel, Syria, held elections for a Constitutional Assembly.

1950: The last of the 500 sets of the The Survivors' Talmud (also known as the U.S. Army Talmud) was an edition of the Talmud published in the U.S. Zone of Allied-occupied Germany on behalf of Holocaust survivors housed in displaced persons (DP) camps” were printed today.



1952: Eighty-four year old Charles Maurras the French leader whose anti-Semitism stretched from Dreyfus to Leon Blum to supporting Vichy passed away today.



1954: “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays” a popular song played incessantly in the United States from Thanksgiving to Christmas with lyrics by Al Stillman was recorded today.

1954: “Désirée,” a biopic directed by Henry Kostler with a script by Daniel Taradash was released in San Francisco today. (Editor’s note:  Where else but in the United States would you find two Jews making a moving about the love affair of a French emperor?)



1955(1st of Kislev, 5716): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



1957(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5718): Parashat Chaei Sara

1957(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5718): Sixty-five year old architect Maurice Courland who was responsible for designing several Jewish buildings including Temple Beth El in Rockaway Park and the Flatbush Jewish Center and who was the husband of Rebecca Graff Courland and the father of Raphael and Nehama Courland passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/18/90854339.html?pageNumber=31





1958: Birthdate of actress Marg Helgenberger, the Catholic wife of the Jewish actor Alan Rosenberg who was President of the Screen Actors’ Guild. Helgenberger is credited with the following quip: “I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.”



1959: David Susskind produced “The Waltz of the Toreadors” on “The Play of the Week.”



1959: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music'' opened on Broadway. Two Jewish writers created a Broadway (and later cinematic) box office hit about a failed Catholic Nun who married an Austrian nobleman and then escaped the Nazis. Theodore Bikel played the lead role as Baron von Trapp. Many of you remember Bikel for his portrayal of Tevya in “Fiddler on the Roof” and for his numerous recordings of a wide variety of folk music including authentic melodies from Russia and Israel. Bikel was born in Vienna. His family moved to Palestine in the 1930’s to escape the rising tide of European anti-Semitism. So his portrayal of von Trapp struck a responsive personal chord. And all of the action in the played happened while everybody was singing a raft of very memorable tunes. Only in America!



1961: “Summer and Smoke” a film adaptation of the play by the same name produced by Hal Wallis, starring Laurence Harvey with music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States today.

1967: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to held for seventy-two year old Lemberg, Austria, native, Harry Salpeter, “an art deal and critic” and the husband of Betty Berkowitz  followed by “burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/11/14/90417644.pdf

https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/harry-salpeter-papers-9052





1965(21^stof Cheshvan, 5726): Fifty-year old chess master Albert Charles Simonson who “was part of the American team which won the gold medals at the 1933 Chess Olympiad” passed away today.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=24137



1968: “The Legend of Lylah Clare” featuring Milton Selzer as “Bart Langer” was released in the United States today by MGM.



1969: The New York Times features a review of the novel, “Phoenix Over the Galilee” by Ka-tzetnik 134633; translated from the Hebrew by Nina de-Nur. “Ka-tzetnik was the slang used to designate a prisoner in a Nazi death camp.  Ka-tzetnik 135633 was an inmate of Auschwitz.” (As reported by John Reed)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0D10FB345D13728DDDAF0994D9415B898AF1D3



1970: At a board meeting of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal Dr. Solomon reported on meeting with Lazarus Phillips and Jack Shacter as the congregation grappled with a financial shortfall.

1971: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Paris native and Sorbonne attendee Dr. Nathan Edlemean, the CCNY undergrad and hold of a Ph.D. from Columbia, who taught French at two colleges and wrote Attitudes of 17^thCentury France Toward the Middle Ages.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/16/archives/nathanedelman-iexpertohfrehgh-teacher-at-oolumba-dead-wrte-major.html



1972: “Applause,” a musical with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and a score by Charles Strouse opened in the West End at Her Majesty's Theatre today and ran for 382 performances with Lauren Bacall in the lead role.

1972: Today “some 200 members of the Israeli Labor Party” broke up the annual general meeting of the International League for Human Right which led to the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights being suspended from the organization in 1973.



1972: “I and Albert” a musical based on the lives of Victoria and Albert by Charles Strouse “debuted in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre” today.

1973: Today, “The New York Review of Bookspublished a long article by Mikhail Agursky, a cybernetic engineer and Moscow activist reviewing the anti-Semitic novel Beware – Zionism.”

1977: U.S. premiere of Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of a Third Kind” produced by Julia Phillips co-starring Richard Dreyfus.

1977: In Manhattan, “filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs” gave birth to “actress and producer” Margalit Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal, “the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal.”

1977: Menachem Begin met with his cabinet to discuss developments since the dramatic announcement in the Egyptian parliament the week before by President Anwar Sadat that he was to speak before the Knesset to achieve peace. General Ephraim Poran, and aide to Begin told Colonel Menachem Milson that he had been chosen to serve as aide-de-camp to Sadat should he actually make the trip to Israel.



1977: Arnold Wesker’s “The Merchant” with Joseph Leon playing Shylock and Marian Seldes as Shylock’s sister opened at New York’s Plymouth Theatre.  Zero Mostel had originally been casted in the role but he passed away before the Broadway production opened.

1978(16^thof Cheshvan, 5739): Eighty-year old Yale and New York Medical College trained ophthalmologist Dr. Samuel L. Saltzman who fought for Israel during the 1948 War for Independence and the husband of Rose Salzman with whom he had two children – Suzanne and Jonathan – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/18/archives/dr-samuel-saltzman-eye-surgeon-historian.html





1978: Jacob Landau delivered the convocation address at Colby College entitled “The State of the First Amendment.”



1980(8^thof Kislev, 5741): Eighty-two year old six-time Tony Award winning scenic designer Boris Aronson passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/03/theater/the-stage-worlds-of-boris-aronson.html



1980(8^thof Kislev, 5741): Sixty-seven year old Philadelphia native and Harvard and U of Pennsylvania alum Morris Pfaelzer, the son Frank and Elsie Pfaelzer a WW II veteran and California lawyer passed away today.

1981(19^thof Cheshvan, 5742): Eighty-four year old Ukrainian born and University of Toronto trained mental health specialist Herschel Alt passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/18/obituaries/herschel-alt-84-expert-on-young.html



1982(30th of Cheshvan, 5743) Rosh Chodesh Kislev



1984(21st of Cheshvan, 5745): Seventy-nine year old Croatian Zionist Arnold Kohn, “the longtime President of the Jewish community of Osijek who was the only member of his immediate family to survive Auschwitz passed away today.

1984(21^stof Cheshvan, 5745) Sixty-six year old Washington, DC born cellist Leonard Rose passed away today. (As reported by Tim Page)

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/19/obituaries/leonard-rose-cellist-dies-key-performer-and-teacher.html



1985: “My Beautiful Launderette” a comedy starring Daniel Day-Lewis with music by Hans Zimmer was released today in the United Kingdom.

1988: ABC broadcast the third episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”



1996: “Jingle All the Way” a Christmas comedy featuring Laraine Newman and Harvey Korman with music by David Newman premiered today at the Mall of America.

1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Illustrated History of the Jewish People, edited by Nicholas de Lange and A Director Calls by Wendy Lesser



1999: Martin Indyk was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1999: Premiere of “End of Days” directed by Peter Hyams who also served as the cinematographer.

1999: The meeting of the General Assembly Of United Jewish Communities opens today in Atlanta, GA.



2000: It was reported today that during Senator-elect Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Knesset she could hear Palestinian gunman firing into the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilonow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/16/world/mrs-clinton-makes-plea-for-peace-at-rabin-funeral.html?ref=leahrabin



2001: Ronald Lauder opened the Neue Galerie in New York, an art museum a few blocks away from the Metropolitan Museum, dedicated to art from Germany and Austria from the early 20th century.

2002(11^thof Kislev, 5763): Parashat Vayetzei

2002: “Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people.”

2003: The New York Times book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including Desire and Delusion: Three Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler, selected and translated by Margret Schaefer

2004: Publication of Robert J. Avrech’s The Hebrew Kid and The Apache Maiden, a paperback novel that tells the story of  “Ariel Isaacson, who having migrated westward with his family following the Civil War, is determined to have his Bar Mitzvah, while he also forms a deep friendship with Lozen, an Apache warrior girl.”

2005: The Geffen Playhouse, “which was named for donor David Geffen” re-opened today in Los Angeles.

2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that “in a move meant to pave the way for its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Saudi Arabia cancelled its economic embargo against Israel. Israel is a member of the WTO. Under the bylaws of the WTO charter, no member nation may impose an economic embargo on another member state. As a member of the Arab League, Saudi Arabia participated in a joint embargo on Israel for many years, despite its desire to enter the organization. During 12 years of negotiations with the WTO, the Arab nation had refused to lift its embargo against Israel.” The Director General of the WTO described Saudi Arabia’s decision as being an historic event that will pave the way for Saudi entrance into the trade organization next month.



2005: In “A shy wunderkind, Stephen Feinberg” Eytan Avriel described the business workings of the CEO of Cerberus.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/a-shy-wunderkind-stephen-feinberg-1.174285



2006: Nathan Cooper auditions for Chair Placement at the 60th annual All-State Music Festival Nathan Cooper of Cedar Rapids Jefferson and a stalwart member of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community, is one of a thousand outstanding high school musicians who have been chosen to participate in this major cultural event at Iowa State University



2006: Ross Posnock appeared at the Columbia University Bookstore for a discussion and signing of his new book, Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity



2006: British religious and architectural charities appealed for help saving the country’s struggling synagogues as they marked the 350th anniversary of the resettlement of Jews in England after they were expelled by King Edward I.



2006(25th of Cheshvan, 5767): Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman passed away at the age of 94.(As reported by Holcomb Noble)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/business/17friedmancnd.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.economist.com/node/8313925



2006: National Jewish Book Month begins.



2007(6th of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-six year oldVictor Rabinowitz, “a leftist lawyer whose causes and clients over nearly three-quarters of a century ranged from labor unions to Black Panthers to Cuba to Dashiell Hammett to Dr. Benjamin Spock to his own daughter” passed away today.(As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/nyregion/20rabinowitz.html





2007: Guest Conductor Roni Porat leads the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra an all-Mozart program, including Abduction from the Seraglio Overture, Symphony No. 35 in D Major (Haffner), Serenade no. 6 in D Major and Serenata Notturna.



2007: After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, “Margot at the Wedding” written and directed by Noah Baumbach and co-starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black was released today in the United States.



2007: Adi Shamir, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and one of the world’s most prominent cryptographers issued a warning about a hypothetical scenario in which a math error in a widely used computing chip places the security of the global electronic commerce system at risk.

2007(16th of Kislev, 5768): Maine native Harold Alfond, philanthropist and Dexter Shoe founder passes away at the age of 93.



2007: It is time for another round of Dueling Jewish Economists. While on a trip to London, Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist said the U.S. economy risks tumbling into recession because of the “mess” left by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan defended his record and said that Stiglitz’s criticisms are “inaccurate or incomplete.”



2007: The Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign affairs announced that Reb Nachman’s grave in Uman is a cultural site and cannot be sold. The announcement provides comfort to the followers of Breslov Chasidism that the grave site would sold to private parties for commercial exploitation.



2008: Today’s issue of Makor Rishon contains Ya'akov Bar-On's interview with former Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau who recently became Chairman of the Board of Yad Vashem. In this informative interview, Rabbi Lau spoke about the meeting in March 1946 between Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevy Herzog and Pope Pius XII.At this audience, Rabbi Herzog entreated the Pope to make a public declaration to churches, monasteries and Catholic families which had rescued Jewish children to return them to their people. "To this day," Rabbi Lau stated, "no such declaration has been made."It is clear that the conversation went badly and that for Rabbi Herzog the encounter must have been distasteful. Lau related that, at the conclusion of his audience, the Chief Rabbi asked to be taken directly to the mikve teharah, the ritual immersion bath. A member of his entourage told that "he felt a need to immerse himself in purifying water." Meeting a clergyman of another faith is definitely not a reason for ritual immersion, so Herzog's request was original and extraordinary. Through this silent and symbolic deed, the Chief Rabbi revealed his feelings after being in the presence of Pope Pius XII. Separately, we have an additional piece of fragmentary information indicating that Rabbi Herzog was profoundly shaken by this failure. During a lecture at the Darkhei No'am yeshiva in Jerusalem, Rabbi Beryl Wein, recounted that, shortly after his visit to Rome, Rabbi Isaac Halevy Herzog came to Chicago. There, Rabbi Herzog publicly wept because he had failed to recover the Jewish children in Catholic institutions. Rabbi Herzog's efforts have not been generally known. One of the challenges for historians of this generation will be to discover more pieces of the larger story and asses their significance. Hopefully, new information will come to light so that we may learn more about the fateful struggle to recover the Jewish war orphans in Europe after the Holocaust. This was a contest which seems to have been lost.



2008: The Jewish Reconstructionist (JRF) Biennial Convention comes to a close in Boston, Mass.



2008: Final performance by the Inbal Dance Company of “Shaker.” This collaboration between Inbal Pinto and Avshalam Pollak looks and feels like an eerily beautiful winter day. It is a dance-theater piece rich in poetic imagination, interspersed with unique humor and covered with snowflakes. This magical work is intended to make you feel as though you have entered the enchanted world inside a snow globe.



2008: The 32nd annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show which featured 23 Israeli artists comes to an end.



2008: Congregation Beth Judea’s Family Education Weekend comes to a close in Long Grove, Il.



2008: In Chicago, the Spertus presents a lecture entitled “What Is Literary Archaeology?”

during which Yair Zakovitch, Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University, discusses “how biblical narratives are designed to deliver messages” and explores “how these accounts may reflect only one version of a complex and multifaceted story.” Zakovitch’s most recent book is entitled That’s Not What the Good Book Says written with Avigdor Shinan.



2008: The New York Times book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics concerning Jews or Judaism including Friendly Fire: A Duet by A. B. Yehoshua; translated by Stuart Schoffman and Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager.



2008(18^thof Cheshvan, 5769): The emotional legal battle over whether to keep a 12-year-old New York boy on life support at Children's National Medical Center ended early today after the boy's heart stopped beating, a lawyer for the boy's family said today. Motl Brody, who had been hospitalized in Northwest Washington with brain cancer since June 1, was buried near his Brooklyn home today after a private funeral, said the family's lawyer, Jeffrey I. Zuckerman. Doctors had declared the boy legally dead Nov. 4 after his brain activity ceased. But his parents, who are Orthodox Jews, said their faith does not define death on that basis and had sought an order from D.C. Superior Court to keep him on life-sustaining equipment. Although the boy was kept on a ventilator to maintain his breathing and was given intravenous drugs to keep up his blood pressure, pending a court decision, neither measure proved enough to keep his heart beating."In the end, nature took its course before the judicial system ran its course," Zuckerman said. The Brody family's case echoed highly publicized debates over life support for Terri Schiavo and Karen Ann Quinlan, and the hospital received nearly 200 emails and phone calls within the past week, mostly from New York residents urging officials to keep him alive.



2008: Ami Ayalon announced he would be leaving the Labor Party for the left-wing religious Meimad party



2009: Columbia University's Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies and American Studies Program together with The Library of America present an evening with Meir Shalev Israeli Novelist, Essayist and Columnist who will discuss “The State of Israeli Literature.”



2009: Letters of Conscience: Raphael Lemkin and the Quest to End Genocide opens at Yeshiva University Museum. “This exhibition focuses on the activities and legacy of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-American Jewish lawyer who coined the term genocide, working relentlessly and inventively to protect the rights and survival of specific groups targeted for destruction. Organized jointly with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History, this exhibition, which presents a fascinating array of original correspondence and documents, serves as a stirring and important reminder of an individual's ability to better humanity and the future.”



2009: Noralee Frankel discusses and signs Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.



2009: Journalist Ariel Sabar discusses and signs his memoir, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq as part of the Schapiro Lecture Series held at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Branch, Baltimore, Md.,



2009: After the revival of his play “Brighton Beach Memoirs” closed a week after it opened, Time magazine quotes Neil Simon as saying “After all these years, I still don’t get how Broadway Works.”



2009(29th of Cheshvan, 5770): Sixty-eight year old “Bobby Frankel, one of the most successful American thoroughbred trainers of the last 40 years, whose horses included the champions Bertrando, Ghostzapper and Empire Maker, the winner of the 2003 Belmont Stakes, died today. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/sports/17frankel.html





2009: Excerpts of the diaries kept by Claretta petacci, Benito Mussolini's mistress, were published today that showed the Italian dictator to be "a fierce anti-Semite who proudly said that his hatred for Jews preceded Adolf Hitler's and vowed to 'destroy them all.'"



2010: Dr. Laurie Ann Levin author of God, The Universe: Where I Fit and Rebecca Rosen author of Spirited are scheduled to speak at the 19th Annual Book Festival of the MJCAA in Atlanta, GA



2010: The New York Times featured a review of Cynthia Ozick sixth novel, Foreign Bodies.



2010(9^thof Kislev, 5771): Ronni Chasen was murdered today.  Born in 1946 she was called "Hollywood's ultimate old-school publicist"by Los Angeles Times film critic Patrick Goldstein in an article posted about Ms. Chasen's murder.



2010: Montclair philanthropist Josh Weston was named an honorary fellow of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo as part of today’s ceremony dedicating the institution’s Josh and Judy Weston School of Management and Economics Building.



2011: Martin Fletcher, author of “The List” and David Javerbaum, author of “The Last Testament” are scheduled to appear at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.



2011: David Amram was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and given their Jay McShann Lifetime Achievement Award for his sixty year career as one of the first jazz French hornists, a multi-instrumentalist, a pioneer of world music, a scat singer, the creator with author Jack Kerouac of Jazz Poetry in 1957, and one of the first conductors to bring the worlds of jazz and classical music together during the past fifty years.

2011: “Max Schmeling,” a film about the German boxer that includes tales of how he worked to save Jews, is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival.

2011: The meeting of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors is scheduled to come to an end in Argentina.

2011:Joshua Maroof  the rabbi at Magen David Sephardic Congregation in Rockville, Maryland is scheduled to  give the first in a series of lectures entitled “Ezekiel: Prophet of Majesty, Mystery, and Hope.”



2011:A trio featuring Liza Stepanova – piano; Michael Katz – cello; Balazs Rumy – Clarinet is scheduled to perform this evening at Agudas Achim in Iowa City, Iowa.



2011:Iran today denied press speculation that Israel was behind the explosion at a military base near Tehran which killed 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

2011:Thousands of aging Holocaust survivors in the U.S. ¬want Congress to clear a path for them to sue European insurance companies they contend illegally confiscated Jewish life insurance policies during the Nazi era and have refused to pay an estimated $20 billion still owed. A hearing is scheduled today in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a bill that would provide the survivors with access to U.S. ¬courts and also force companies such as Germany's Allianz SE and Italy's Assicurazioni Generali to disclose lists of policies held by Jews before World War II

2011: For the fourth time in the past month, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN Security Council condemning the continuing rocket fire emanating from the Gaza Strip.

2011(19^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Eighty-eight year old “Irwin Schneiderman, a lawyer and a philanthropic leader who guided the New York City Opera through a decade of ups and downs” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/nyregion/irwin-schneiderman-philanthropic-guide-for-city-opera-dies-at-88.html





2012: Dr. Jenny Carson of the University of Manchester is scheduled to a lecture entitled “Quaker Service: The Friends Relief Service in Post-War Europe” at the Weiner Library in London.  “Friends Relief Service (FRSO ‘Team 100’ was one of the first relief teams  to enter the newly liberated “Camp of Bergen Belsen.”



2012(2nd of Kislev): On the Hebrew calendar in ancient Israel today would be proclaimed as a fast day if the rains had not begun to fall



2012: As Operation Pillar of Defense continues, Israeli officials have placed limitations on those who can attend services at the mosque on the Temple Mount as a pro-active measure to avoid outbreaks of violence. 



2012: Kathe & Gary Goldstein, pillars of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community celebrate the birth of their second grandchild, the daughter of Chava and Stephen Rosenbaum.



2012: As Jews around the world prepare to observe Shabbat, their hopes and prayers are with their co-religionists in Israel who have been subjected to rockets attacks for several weeks by Hamas which is dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state and have been forced to take military measures to defend themselves.



2012: Councilors selected Michael Mark Applebaum to serve as interim Mayor of Montreal.

2012: “An Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system” was “placed in the Dan region” today.

2012:Two rockets landed outside of Jerusalem this evening as sirens rang out, causing no injuries or damage. Police reported there was "no indication" that rockets landed in the city, stating that "most likely, the rockets landed in an open area outside of Jerusalem."

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=292171



2012:Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the IDF's request this evening to increase the maximum number of reservists it could enlist, seeking cabinet approval to mobilize up to 75,000 troops ahead of a possible Gaza ground operation.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=292195



2013: In Olney, MD, Shaare Tefila is scheduled to host is annual Chanukah Celebration and Talent Show.



2013: In Herndon, VA, Congregation Beth Emeth hosts an evening with Stacey Beyer, “one of TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Starts of New Jewish Music.



2013: “Arabani” and “Dancing In Jaffa” are scheduled to be shown at the 7^thannual Other Israel Film Festival.



2013: Provincial governor Hilario David III visited the the hospital in Bogo where he thanked “Israel for sending the  medical team to the Philippines which was hammered by Typhoon Heiyan last week.” (As reported by Tova Dvorin)



2013: Members of the IDF met with Phillipine officials to determine the best way to get aid to the devasted resident of Cebu in the wake Typhoon Heiyan.



2013(13^thof Kislev, 5774): Ninety year old Yehiel Kadishai, a confidant and ally of Menachem Begin, passed away today.

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Yehiel-Kadishai-longtime-Begin-aide-dies-at-90-331955





2013(13^thof Kislev, 5774: Eighty-nine year old Louis D. Rubin, Jr. “a champion of Southern Literature” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/arts/louis-d-rubin-jr-founder-of-algonquin-books-dies-at-89.html?_r=0



2014: The New York Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including William Wells Brown: An African American Life by Ezra Greenspan and the recently released paperback edition of The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann.



2014: The Skirball is scheduled to present “The People vs. Abraham” where prosecutor Eliot Spitzer will charge the patriarch defended by Alan Dershowitz with “attempted murder and child endangerment.”



2014: In conjunction with the 25^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Jews and the Berlin Wall.”



2014: Global Day of Jewish Learning, a project of the Aleph Society is scheduled to take place today.

http://www.theglobalday.org/24x14xrabins/



2014: The Beth El Women of Reform Judaism (BE-WRJ) and the Brandeis National Committee Northern Virginia Chapter are scheduled to host an afternoon with Rabbi Roger Herst author of Rabbi Gabrielle’s Scandal, Dr. Stanton Samenow author of Inside the Criminal Mind, Chervis Isom author of The Newspaper Boy, Leslie Maitland author of Crossing the Borders of Timeand Beyhan Cargi author of The Ottoman Turk and the Pretty Jewish Girl.



2014: A thirty-two year old member of the Breslov Hassidic sect was stabbed in the back by an Arab man wielding a screw driver as he walked along a street in Jerusalem this evening.



2014:Israel defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina 3-0 tonight in the UEFA 2016 European Championship qualifying group B soccer match.

2014(23^rd of Cheshvan): Sixty-two year old Charley J. Levine, founder and CEO of Lone Star Communications who traded in the Lone Star State for living under the Star of David  passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pr-leader-charley-levine-dies-at-62/





2015(4t of Kislev, 5776): Eight-eight year old Seymour Lipkin, whose breakthrough came when at the age of 20, “he won first prize in the Rachmaninoff Fund Piano Contest” passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/arts/music/seymour-lipkin-pianist-and-conductor-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: “Labyrinth of Lies” and “To Life!” are scheduled to be shown in Sydney during the Jewish International Film Festival.

2015: “Director Steven Spielberg, Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman, singer Barbra Streisand, and playwright Stephen Sondheim were among the 17 recipients of the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom announced” today.

2015: “HAGIGA – The Story of Israeli Cinema” is scheduled to be shown in Los Angeles at the 29^th Israel Film Festival.

2015: “Poland’s last Yiddish feature film, Our Children” is scheduled to be shown today as part of the program “First Response: Postwar Cinema and the Holocaust”

2016: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present “Out of the Ghetto: Struggle, Resistance, and the Human Spirit, The Ringelblum Archive Publication Project” during which “historian Eleonora Bergman(Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw) will discuss the monumental project to publish the entire Oyneg-ShabesArchive, secretly gathered in the Warsaw Ghetto by Emanuel Ringelblum and colleagues.”

2016: The Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center is scheduled to “what Is Israel’s Story Really About?” – a conversation with Dr. Daniel Gordis and Jonathan Greenblatt.

2016” Curator Bonni-Dara Michaels is scheduled to lead a tour Yeshiva University Museum’s newest exhibition – “Uncommon Threads: Clothing and Textiles.”

2016: Historic Congregation Or VeShalom is the scheduled destination for today’s Historic Jewish Atlanta Tours.

2016: “A delegation led by US Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, is in Israel through this evening to witness latest local developments in emergency responsiveness.

2016: “The world’s earliest-know complete stone inscription of the Ten Commandments, described as a ‘national treasure’ of Israel sold at auction today in Beverly Hills for $850,000.”

2016: Leonard Cohen’s manager, Robert B. Kory “offered more details about his client’s death today saying that he “died during this sleep following a fall in the middle of the night on November 7” and that “the death was sudden, unexpected and peaceful.”

2016: “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Fever At Dawn” are scheduled to be shown at Melbourne as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: Neshama Carlbach is scheduled to host a concert in commemoration of the 22nd Yahrzeit of her Father, Reb Shlomo Carlebach, ZT”L featuring the singing of Abbie Strauss.

2016: Today Eva “Moskowitz met with United States President-Elect Donald Trump” to discuss “a possible appointment in the Trump administration as United States Secretary of Education.”

2016: Gloria Steinem and Annie Leibovitz are scheduled to “lead a discussion on women’s rights and female incarceration in a public gathering” today

2017: “When a delegation of Reform movement leaders tried to hold a Torah-reading service” at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, “Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism was roughed up by security guard, one of whom threated to spray him with mace” and “Anat Hoffman, chairwoman of Women of the Wall, the feminist prayer group, was accosted by an ultra-Orthodox man, who tried to pull a Torah scroll out of her hands” “while “Rabbi Gilad Kariv, executive director of the Reform movement in Israel, was detained for questioning by police…” (As reported by Forwards and Haaretz)

2017: “Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles-based news anchor and former model, wrote today in an article that Al Franken, a Democrat who has served as a senator for Minnesota since 2009, groped her during a tour in the Middle East in 2006 when Franken was a comedian and a writer

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an “in-depth text-based Gemara learning” session today “before the weekday meal.”

2017: Ashe Salah is scheduled to lecture on the 18^th century travels of two Jews who left the Roman Ghetto – Amadio Abbina and Sabato Isacco Ambron at the Center for Jewish History.

2017: “Remember Baghdad” and “My Mother’s Lost Children” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival today.

2017: After the resounding success of last season’s concerts, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble is scheduled to come back to Temple Emanu-El in New York this evening.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such as Chaim Potok, whose works included The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev,  and Jewish books for the next thirty days is scheduled to continue for a fifth day.

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Shabbat Dinner following Kabbalat Shabbat services.

2018: In Des Moines, IA, author Dori Weinstein is scheduled to deliver “the dvar Torah about being an author at Tirfereth Israel” followed by a community dinner.

2018: The Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Waldheim Waltz.”

2019: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “When Harry Met Sally,” “The Human Factor” and “How About Adolf?”

2019: In Los Gatos, CA, Congregation Shir Hades scheduled to host author Michael David Lukas as he discusses The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, his novel which won the “2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.’

2019: At Congregation Beth David, “The Addison-Penzak JCC and Silicon Valley Federation are scheduled to co-host a service for a program that aims to strengthen local synagogues and Jewish agencies.”

2019: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host an evening in the museum is scheduled to “recognize a group of Holocaust survivors who volunteer at the Museum, sharing their personal testimonies, serving as tour guides, translating historic materials, and more.”

2019: The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Tel Aviv on Fire.”

2019(18^thof Cheshvan, 5719): Parashat Va-ayra; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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November 17

9CE:  Birthdate of Titus Flavius Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor put down the Judean Revolt which included the destruction of the Second Temple.

284: Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. “According to Jewish tradition, in his youth Diocletian had been a swineherd and when he went past the Beis Midrash the children would beat him.” After he became Emperor, Diocletian spent time in Tiberias where enemies of the Jewish people said they disrespectfully referred to him as ‘the swineherd.’ Angered by the charges, the emperor demanded that Jewish leaders come to Tiberias and answer for their slanderous remarks.  The rabbis conceded that they had acted badly towards Diocletian the swineherd but they had never been disrespectful towards Diocletian, the emperor.  The Emperor accepted their argument and apology.  Based on this experience the Jerusalem Talmud cautions Jews against treating any Roman disrespectfully, no matter how low his station in life, since one never knew how high he might rise. In an attempt to bring unity to the empire, Diocletian ordered all of his subjects to accept his divinity and to offer sacrifices to his cult. Fortunately, he exempted his Jewish subjects from this decree.  Diocletian’s reign was a comparatively favorable period for the Jewish people especially when one remembers the fate they would suffer in the next century at the hands of Constantine and his successors.

331: Birthdate of Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus. Known by some as Julian the Apostate, Julian reigned from 361 until his death in 363.  Ironically, he was the nephew of Constantine the Great, the man who made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. For some unknown reason, Julian repealed many of the harsh laws that had been promulgated against the Jews by his predecessors.  While Julian believed that his paganism was superior to Judaism, he felt that the Jews had suffered unnecessarily at the hands of Rome for the last four centuries and he sought to redress the imbalance.  Julian announced plans to rebuild the Temple and Jerusalem.  He ordered the local Roman officials to help with the project.  Jews returned from as far away as Persia and even built a small synagogue near the Temple Mount in anticipation of this monumental project.  Unfortunately, Julian died while on a military campaign before work could begin.  Rumor had that he had been killed by a Christian Arab in the pay of those who disliked his support of the Jews.  This brief window of hope closed and the Christian Religion joined hands with the power of the Roman state to embitter the lives of the Jews.  

473: The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I. Leo was the Byzantine Emperor from 457 until 474. Leo was determined to wed the power of the Empire to the Christian Church. In 468 Leo issued a decree banning everyone but Christians from practicing law. Jews were persecuted with combinations of imperial decrees and church canon. Leo, in his desire to outlaw Judaism and force Christianity upon Jewish people, declared in Constitution LV (55) of the Constitutions of Leo, "Therefore We, desiring to accomplish what Our Father failed to effect, do hereby annul all the old laws enacted with reference to the Hebrews, and We order that they shall not dare to live in any other manner than in accordance with the rules established by the pure and salutary Christian Faith. And if anyone of them should be proved to, have neglected to observe the ceremonies of the Christian religion, and to have returned to his former practices, he shall pay the penalty prescribed by the law for apostates." Leo's Constitution became part of the Justinian's Civil Law. Now Jews had to pretend they were Christians and observe Christian ceremonies. The penalties that could be inflicted on Jews included loss of real estate and/or personal possessions, loss of testamentary rights, exile and, in some case, loss of life.

1278:Edward I of England arrested all the Jews for alleged coin clipping and counterfeiting. 680 were arrested, jailed and put on trial. The judges were given prior instructions clearly biased against the Jews. Although many Christians were accused, many more (ten times as many) Jews were hanged than Christians (269 Jews and 29 Christians). Edward received 16,500 pounds from the property of the executed Jews and the fines of those charged. At that time Jews comprised 1% of the English population. 16,500 pounds was almost 10% of the exchequer's national income.

1278: “Among the Jews arrested today were Benedict fil’ Licoricia, a prominent Jew of Winchester, and the affluent woman financier Belaset of Lincoln whose house is still standing in Steep Hill.”

1333 Ibn Batuta, the Arab traveler, visits Jewish communities in India

1494: Thirty-one year old Pico De Mirandola, Count Giovanni Frederico, a student of the Kabbalah and one of the first Italian nobles to collect Hebrew books and who translated the Hokamt ha-Nefesh into Latin passed away today.

1494: Thirty-one year old Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola who “was convinced that the literature of Kabbalah was the true transcript of what Moses heard at Sinai , that Christianity and Judaism were one with Kabbalah as the point of connection and that the differences between Judaism and Christianity were superficial” passed away today in Florence.

1558: The Protestant monarch Elizabeth I assumed the throne of England following the death of her Catholic half-sister known to history as “Bloody Mary.” During her reign the Jewish community was limited to small groups of Marranos living in London and Bristol.  Jews did play a part in the realm foreign affairs. “Don Solomon Aben-Jaish, an adviser to the Sultan of Turkey established ties with Lord Burleigh, one of Elizabeth’s closest advisors.  The two men were and their two countries were drawn together by their common foe, Philip II, the Catholic King of Spain. In 1588 England faced the threat of the Spanish Armada. A Morrano, Dr. Hector Nunes provided the English with invaluable intelligence on the progress of the Armada as it sailed north towards England.  This information enabled Drake and the other English Sea Dogs to position their ships to best advantage.  On a more negative note, Dr. Roderigo Lopez, who served as one of Elizabeth’s physicians, was accused of plotting to poison the monarch. Lopez was caught in political contest between two of Elizabeth’s advisors – The Earl of Essex and Sir Robert Cecil.  Essex provided evidence of Lopez’s guilt;   Cecil proclaimed his innocence.  Given the tenor of the times, and the numerous plots on her life, Elizabeth had the unfortunate doctor executed.  His ordeal provided the impetus for Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Maltaand William Shakespeare’s TheMerchant of Venice featuring the famous Shylock.

1720(10th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Jehiel Michel Teimer, author of Seder Gittin passed away today

1742: In New York, Rachel Franks Levy and Isaac Mendes Seixas gave birth to Abigail Seixas the wife of Hillel Judah with whom she had eleven children.

1755: Birthdate of King Louis XVIII of France. Following the defeat of Napoleon, Louis was restored as the Bourbon King of France.  As such, he is seen as a figure of reaction seeking to undo the legacy of the French Revolution, including the rights gained by the Jews of France.  The facts speak otherwise.  As Napoleon became more and more an Emperor and less and less of a Republican he chipped away at the rights of the Jews.  Under the Infamous Decrees of 1808, Napoleon placed severe restrictions on Jewish businessmen.  These decrees remained in effect until 1818, when the restored Louis refused to renew them.

1757: Rebecca Judah and Isaac Hays gave birth to Regina Hays who passed away in Philadelphia in 1835.

1757: Bishop Dembowski's violent death that led to a reversal of fortune in conflict between the Frankist and Talmudists in Poland.  Persecution of the Talmudists immediately came to an end. The Frankist found themselves declared outlaws subject to persecution and imprisonment.  

1765: In Swansea, RI, Judith Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Abraham Isaacks, the husband of Rebecca Simson and the father of Moses and Jochebed Isaacks.

1778: In York, PA, Shinah Solomon and Elijah Etting gave birth to Joseph Etting, not to be confused with Joseph Etting of Lancaster, PA who was the son of Solomon Etting.

1785: Birthdate of German native Kobritsch Marx, the wife of Elias Lazarus Ottenheimer with whom she had eight children.

1785: In Amsterdam, Eva Woudhuijsen and Levie Hartog gave birth to Daniel Levie Woudhuijsen, the husband of Eva Koster.

1795: In Frankfurt am main, Gutle Schott and Moses Yantof Oppenheim gave birth Aron Opppenheim, the husband of Adelhied Moselli with whom he had six children.

1800: In Paris,Beer Léon Fould, a successful Jewish banker, and his wife gave birth to Achille Fould, French financier and statesmen who was a close advisor to Louis Napoleon and the grandson of wine merchant Jacob Bernard Fould.

1805: The wife of Ephraim Mosely, with whom she had three children, was buried today in the UK.

1814: One day after he had passed away, 57 year old Lyon Levy was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1819: Louis Samuel married Henrietta Israel at the Hambro Synagogue.



1822: Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their second child and second son, Israel.



1823: Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their third child and first daughter, Rachel

1830: Barnett Boam married Fanny Phillips today at the Great Synagogue.

1839: Rosetta Cohen and Michael Meir Myers gave Hannah Myers.

1830: Birthdate of Joseph Londoner who settled In Leadville

http://www.jewishleadville.org/londoner.html

1846: A welfare society, the Chevra Mevaker Cholim, was organized today in Montgomery, Alabama by 12 German Jewish immigrants including Emanuel *Lehman, uncle of Herbert H. *Lehman. The society conducted services, purchased a cemetery, and on June 3, 1849, with 30 members transformed itself into Congregation Kahl Montgomery. The mobility of immigrant Jews and the tentativeness of their settlement is indicated by the constitutional provision of Kahl Montgomery that "four members shall be sufficient to continue the Society, but should there be only three members, the Society shall be dissolved." The congregation is now called Temple Beth Or, and its first building, built in 1862 with seed money from Judah Touro, is the oldest synagogue building in the state. It now houses a church.

1852: In New York City, the members of the German Hebrew Benevolent Society celebrated the organizations 9^thanniversary with a dinner in the City Assembly Rooms.  From September 1, 1851 to September 1, 1852 the society had raised $2,325.50 and spent $2,148.52 in meeting the needs of the poor and the indigent.

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 one ever heard of, and whom the writer himself acknowledged was snuffed out by Handel.



1856: Founding of the Bradford Festival Choral Society whose conductors would include Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen

1858: The New York Times reported that the Pope is back in Rome, “safer than ever…since he assumed the Triple Crown.”  The Pope “is disgusted with political reform but deeply interested in infant Jews.”  By infant Jews, the reporter was referring to the Morata Affair, which involved the kidnapping of a Jewish child who was secretly baptized by a maid and turned over to the Catholic Church for safe-keeping.

1859: Birthdate of Bruno Borchardt the native of Bromberg and physicist who turned to a career in journalism after being forced to give up his teaching position because of his political beliefs.

1862(24^th of Cheshvan, 5623): Seventy-eight year old Gotthold Salomon the German Jewish rabbi who continued with the work pioneered by Moses Mendelssohn which led him to be the first Jew to translate the TaNaCh into High German.

1869: The Suez Canal opens creating a direct water route from Europe to the Orient. The canal is controlled by the French with the Egyptians as minority stockholders British imperialists wanted control of the canal since it was the gateway to India, the pride of the Empire. In 1875 Benjamin Disraeli bought the Egyptians shares using money borrowed from the Rothschilds. Protecting the Canal was the primary goal of British policy in the East from that day until the middle of the twentieth century.  The British wanted the mandate over Palestine to protect the East Bank of the Canal. Hence their willingness to betray the promises of the Balfour Declaration because they saw Arab violence as being a threat to English control of the waterway to Inida.  The British gave up the Mandate in 1947 which resulted in the creation of Israel because India was gaining its independence.  The Suez Crisis of 1956, which led to the Six Day War in 1967 which has led today’s stalemate, was triggered by British vestigial feelings for the Canal. 

1871: It was reported today that the Jewish Messenger approves of the recent defeat of the Tammany Machine in local city elections.  The Messengergives credit to the New York Times for informing the public about the great abuses and agrees with the Times that this was not a victory of party but of principle.

1871: It was reported today that the Jewish Messenger does not think that appealing to the Russian government for a redress of the conditions of the Jews of Russia will do much to improve conditions. The primary source of misery comes from “petty sources” that no government can control in such a vast expanse as Czarist Russia. [To most of us, this view Jewish life in Russia, is unique]

1871: In Mako, Rabbi Enoch Fischer and his wife gave birth to Emil Maki the Hungarian poet who also wrote “a Biblical drama” entitled “Absalom.”

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

1872: Charles August Lauff, the German native and California businessman, and his wife, Maris J. Sebran, the daughter of Gregorio and Ramono Briones, gave birth to George Lauff.

1874: Birthdate of Samuel Platt, the native of Carson City, Nevada who graduated from Stanford University who became one of the state’s leading lawyers and Republican Party leaders who was also active in B’nai B’rith.

http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/samuel-platt

1877: Gilbert and Sullivan’s two act comic opera “The Sorcerer” for which Giulia Warwick (born Julia Ehrenberg) “created the role of Constance” opened in London today.

1878: Eighty-five year old Betsy Jonas was buried today at Exeter Jewish Cemetery.

1878: “Ancient and Modern Gymnastics” published today commented on the recently published findings of Dr. Schaible in which he traces the history of physical training among various ancient people.  According to Schaible, “the Jews ‘paid but little attention to exercises for the body.’ If this were true, it would that the nation which possesses the most inexhaustible vitality” (the Jews) “is that which has taken the least trouble about training.” The article challenges Schaible’s view of Jewish physicality.  Not only does the Bible contain numerous accounts of a people who were physically strong enough to win and hold their lands by the swords.  But in modern times, the number of successful Jewish boxers in the UK would tend to refute his contentions.

1878:“The Jews and the Keys of Jerusalem” published today described two unusual customs practiced by the Jews living under Ottoman rule in Palestine The first concerns “small squares of brass-foil stamped with the Hebrew words meaning visiting the sick.”  Nobody is sure of the origin of this unsanctioned (by the Turkish government) coinage but it is used for commercial among the Jews in the local bazaars. The other custom has to do with acquiring the great keys to Jerusalem when each Sultan passes away.  After a mysterious religious ritual, the Jews return the keys to authorities for used by the incoming Sultan.  The local Turkish authorities see it as harmless activity that enriches them since the Jews have to pay a bribe to get the keys.

1879: “Hearts of Oak” a play co-authored by David Belasco opened at Hamlin’s Theatre today in Chicago, Illinois.

1881: Julius J. Frank delivered a lecture entitled “The Jew” Has he Still a Mission” at a meeting sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1882: Birthdate of Rakel Glick, the Norwegian factory owner who was arrested in Trondheim and shipped to Auschwitz where he was murdered.

1882: Birthdate of Austrian native Joseph Hecht, the husband of Rose(Loewy) Levy and the father of Oscar winning producer Harold Hecht.

1884: “A Good Old Philanthropist” published today provides a detailed review of Sir Moses Montefiore: A Centennial Biography by Lucien Wolf

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/december/index.asp

1884: Plans for an upcoming fund raiser to be held at the Thalia Theatre “for the benefit of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society” were published today.

1884: It was reported today that Mount Sinai Hospital currently has 168 patients.  The hospital has a capacity to serve 185 patients and serves them regardless of race, creed or financial condition.  The hospital has a fund of $175,000 and owes no money on its building or furnishings.

1885: “Hebrews in Convention” published today described events at a conclave of 35 Reform rabbis at which Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler presented his plans for changing the practice of Judaism in the United States.  Among them is the rejection of the traditional belief that all Jews are going back to Palestine and the elimination of reading those sections of the Scriptures “which referred to certain subjects not fit to be read in public or placed in the hands of children.”  He also “denounced the rite of circumcision as a relic of barbarism.” (As can be seen from Kohler’s proposals, the rift between Reform and Jewish traditionalists was about a lot more than just serving shell food at a banquet in Cincinnati)

1887(1^st of Kislev, 5648): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1887: “Dancing for Charity’s Sake” published today provided a full description of the 9^th annual charity ball held by the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The event opened at ten o’clock when President and Mrs. Ernst Nathan and Vice President Samuel Goldstein and his daughter Sara led the promenade. Mayor Whitney and Mayor-elect Chapin attended the event which raised $6,000.

1889: “Modern English Jews” published today traces the history the Jewish community in the British Isles from its earliest days until the end of the present time when Sir Henry Isaacs is about to be named Lord Mayor of London.

1891(16^th of Cheshvan, 5652): Fifty-seven year old author and teacher Jacob Egers who “was for more than twenty years a master at the Training-School for Teachers in Berlin” passed away today.

1892: “Indignant Russian Hebrews” published today described the anger friends of the late Louis Krabitz expressed when Israel Ronginsky was released following a coroner’s inquest. Both men were Jewish immigrants from Russia who worked as peddlers.

1893: Having lost their courtroom battle with landlord Alexander Grant, 33 Russian Jewish families were reported today to have three days to move out of their tenements and find other housing.

1895: At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Gustav Gottheil “began a series of sermons on ‘Womanhood’ the first of which was entitled ‘The Birthday of a Great Woman.’”

1895: Birthdate of Polish born poet Ayzik Platner who lived and worked in the United States “from 1927 until 1932” which moved to the Soviet Union passed away today after which he was buried in Minsk.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2018/07/ayzik-platner.html

1895: “The Charity of the Jews” published today described Rabbi Joseph Silverman’s view on the generosity of his co-religionist which included his view “that Israel was always noted for her charity, and, in fact was the first nation to make public charity and benevolence prevalent among its people so that a landed aristocracy could hold no footing in the nation.”

1895: It was reported today that Temple Emanu-El’s Joseph Silverman has “paid tribute to the liberal spirit of the Emperor of Austria for his firm stand against the anti-Semitic fanaticism that recently broke out in Vienna.”

1895: “Queer Marriage Customs” published today described marital rituals in ancient times and non-European societies including “Talmudic prohibitions” requiring “that the male must not be under fourteen years and a day and the female under thirteen years and a day.” During the Middle Ages the Jewish wedding banquet featured “a dressed hen and a raw egg” which “were placed before the bride as a way of urging her to be prolific when it came to children.

1896: Mrs. Sophie C. Axman of Kansas City delivered a lecture on “Child Life” at the Convention of the National Council of Jewish Women which is now in its third day.

1896: Birthdate of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky

1897: The Emigration Committee of the Board of Guardians met in London this afternoon

1898: Dr. Dillingham, the assistant Sanitary Inspector of the Health Department was reported today to have said that the two cases of measles and three cases of scarlatina have been taken care of and there is no public health problem at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1900: In Manhattan, “Israel Silberkleit and Julia Wink” who came to the United States in 1885 and were wed in 1888 gave birth to their youngest child Louis Horace Silberkleit, “the co-founder of Archie Comics.”

https://www.pulpartists.com/Silberkleit.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/25/obituaries/louis-silberkleit-co-founder-of-archie-comics-dies-at-81.html

1901:  Birthdate of director Lee Strassberg. Born Israel Strassberg in Budzanow, Poland, he was the son of a provincial innkeeper. At the age of 7, he immigrated with his family to the United States, where his father worked in the garment industry. Growing up on the Lower East Side, he attended the theater whenever possible and joined the Chrystie Street Settlement's drama group as an actor. It was at that time that he changed his name to I. Lee Strasberg, subsquently dropping the initial. He worked as a wigmaker; studied improvisational acting techniques with Richard Boleslavsky, a student of Stanislavsky, and began working as an actor. He pioneered the technique of "method acting" and taught many famous actors and actresses how to behave on stage and in front of a camera.  In later life he gave a memorable performance as the Myer Lansky like character in Godfather II.

1902: Birthdate Laurette Eugen Wigner. Wigner was a Hungarian-born American physicist who was the joint winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Maria Goeppert Mayer and Johannes Hans Jensen) for his insight into quantum mechanics, for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles. He made many contributions to nuclear physics and played a prominent role in the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear energy.

1904: Abraham Fisher Sergie, the husband of Fanny Mann with whom he had six children and the son-in-law of Bernard Mann and Sophia Berman was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern, Ireland.”

1904: Birthdate of Dallas native and Missouri trained lawyer Irving Fane who was the attorney for the Sport’s Authority in Kansas City.

1905:  Today, on the same day that the government presented revolutionaries with a new constitution “a rumor was spread that orders had been given to attack the Jews, followed by an attack abated by soldiers and Cossacks during which the mob smashed windows, broke down doors, broke locks, put booty in their pockets and “grievously” beat men, women and children while shouting “Money, gave us your money.”

1905: Two weeks of massacres began in Zhitomir, Ukraine.

1905: As of today, $302, 678.39 has been collected to help the suffering Jews of Russia and has been sent to Baron Gunsberg in St. Petersburg.

1905: Jacob Schiff, the Treasurer of the Nation Relief committee to raise funds for the sufferers by the Massacres in Russia received a cablegram from Lord Rothschild in London which states in part “Russian catastrophe, according to details from Russia today, far greater than expected; outrages and whole robber and incendiarism in eighty-four town, so relief fund has huge take to grapple with.”

1905: It was decided today to form a National Self-Defense Association of Jews in Russia which will necessitate sending “delegates to the Czar’s dominions.”

1905: Meetings were held tonight at Ottawa and Montreal which were attended by several members of the Dominion Parliament to protest the attacks on the Jews of Russia and to raise money for their relief.

1906: Birthdate of Mischa Ounskowsky, the native of St. Petersburg who gained fame as American actor Mischa Auer.

1907(11^th of Kislev, 5668): Aba Ascher Levin the father of eight sons and six daughters, passed away today in Baltimore after which he was buried at B’nai Israel Congregation Cemetery.

1907: Lord Lionel Rothschild has tentatively agreed to send two of his motorboats to the United States to take place in a series of race scheduled to take place during 1908.

1909: Birthdate of Alter Mojze Goldman a Polish Jew who was active in the French Résistance during World War II

1909(4th of Kislev, 5670): Rabbi Nissim Moche Amon, President of the Constantinople Bet Din (religious court) passed away at the age 72.

1911: “Christian and Jewish lawyers refuse to appear in any future cases” which are to be heard by a magistrate in Sanok Galicia who is known for his anti-Jewish outbursts.

1911: In Great Britain, the King followed the recommendation of the Home Secretary and appointed Londoner Israel A. Symmons as a metropolitan Police Magistrate.

1911(26^th of Cheshvan, 5672): Eighty-five year old Jacob Aaarons passed away today after which he was buried at the Plashed Jewish Cemetery in London.

1911: Celebration of the 70^th anniversary of the London Jewish Chronicle.

1911: Joseph Weinberg, the father of “billionaire businessman Harry Weinberg” “came to Baltimore” from Galicia today “on the S.S. Breslau” after which he sent for his wife Sarah and their four children who “arrived in August, 1912 aboard the S.S. Koln.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/06/obituaries/harry-weinberg-82-businessman-in-transit-and-real-estate-is-dead.html

1911: The Jewish Community of Sydney, Australia, expressed their support for a “movement among the city’s largest to close all workshops and business houses on Saturdays.”

1911: In New York City, vaudeville monologist and movie character actor Julius Tannen and his wife gave birth to actor William Tannen best known for his long-running supporting role in television western “Wyatt Earp.”

http://www.playbill.com/person/william-tannen-vault-0000043873

1912(7^th of Kislev, 5673): Henry Thalsheimer, the New Orleans merchant who in 1908 built a new dry goods store at a cost of “about $12,000” passed away today in the Crescent City.

1912: In Chicago, dedication of the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home.

1912: In Pueblo, CO, “Samuel Cohen and the former Dora Inger” gave birth to Rosie Cohen who gained fame as actress and performer Connie Sawyer.  (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/obituaries/connie-sawyer-films-oldest-working-actress-dies-at-105.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1913:  Amidst a controversy over using Hebrew as a language of instruction in the schools in Palestine, the German Counsel in Haifa warned Berlin that use of Hebrew would heighten Arab suspicions about Jewish intentions while exacerbating inter-communal conflicts among the Jews.

1914: American Jewish relief agencies sent “twenty cases of clothing to Belgian Jewish refugees in England” after they sent another forty cases “to the Jews of Galicia.

1915: The Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC made an announcement today, that “in an effort to draw within their border Jews no in territory ceded away by the Ottoman Empire as a result of the last Balkan war, the Turks have decided to grant the same benefits and exemptions” to the Jews which “heretofore were accorded only to Mohammedans.”

1915: Today “omitting any references to the failure and insuffiency of supplies, the military censor willingly permitted the Zemlya” to explain “the Russian reverses” by writing “If it were not for the Jews the war with Germany would not have been accompanied by the unpleasant features which contributed so strongly to the success of the enemy.

1916:Ater “rejoining his battalion in France in March 1916 and taking part in the fighting at Pozières, today Australian Leonard Keysor was transferred to the 42^nd Battalion

1916: General Sir Ian Standish Hamilton, the commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign wrote to Jabotinsky today from his home at 1 Hyde Park Gardens” about the Zion Mule Corps saying  that ‘The men have done extremely well, working their mules calmly under heavy shell and rifle fire, and thus showing  a more difficult type of bravery than the men who were constantly in the trenches and had the excitement of combat to keep them going’ (Jewish Virtual Library)

1916: Birthdate of author and Civil War historian Shelby Foote.  Foote grew up in Greenville, Mississippi.  His maternal grandfather was a Viennese Jew who immigrated to the United States and settled in Mississippi.  According to an interview found in Confederates in the Attic, Foote’s mother took him to Saturday services in Greenville until he was eleven years old.  Foote did not say why she stopped taking him. However he did say that he did not experience any anti-Semitism while growing up in Greenville. He soon found out that the rest of the world was not as accepting. As a student at UNC in Chapel Hill, Foote was blackballed from a fraternity being pledged by his friends because of his religion. As Foote said in an interview, “’I knew all the trouble I’d have down the line,’ he said of his Jewish heritage.  “I was always not wanting to take on that kind of trouble.   It just added one more problem, an added awkwardness to life.’” So, while in his twenties, Foote was Baptized and confirmed as an Episcopalian. Foote passed away in 2005.

1916: “Dr. Judah L. Magnes made public in statement issued” tonight "an idea, the details of which have not yet been worked out…which contemplates a gigantic loan, the largest in the world’s history and without interest, to the Jews of Europe” that will help them to “rehabilitate themselves and their devastated lands at the end of the European War.”

1916: Until today, “the hostility of the authorities against the Jews” particularly in Poland “found expression in well-known laws and in uninterrupted persecutions and oppressions of the Jewish community as well as in the fact that a religious body to which 14 per cent of the population of Poland belongs was deprived of all uniform organizations.”

1916: The Jews of Poland received a “grant of new rights” under which “the members of the Jewish religion will be permitted to reorganize as a religious body” and a “guarantee is given that no religious tendency can be suppressed by the majority of the population.”

1916: German General von Besseler, the Governor General at Warsaw made public today an ordinance that “provides for the creation of an organization of the heretofore unorganized and unrecognized Jewish religious communities”

1917(2^nd of Kislev, 5678): Parashat Tolodot

1917: Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber is scheduled to lead Saturday morning services at K.A.M. Temple in Chicago.

1917: Rabbi Julius Rappaport is scheduled to lead services at Beth El Temple in Chicago.’

1917: The Russian Civil War which pitted the Whites against the Reds – which would come to mean the Red Army led by Leon Trotsky – began today.

1917: It was reported today that New York Samuel A. Lewisohn, the son of Adolph Lewisohn is engaged to Margaret V. Seligman, the daughter of the late Isaac N. Seligman.

1917: It was reported today that that Isaac B. Bergson has replaced Herbert S. Goldstein as the director of activities for the Central Jewish Institute in New York.

1917: In Munich, Major Franz Carl Andres “in an address delivered under Zionist auspices and sanctioned by the imperial (the Kaiser) authorities intimated that Germany will support Zionist aims in Palestine. (Note – this speech comes two weeks after the issuance of the Balfour Declaration and would seem to be a bid by the Germans to hold on to Jewish support)

1917: During World War I, General Allenby’s forces entered the Hills of Jerusalem.  The German General on whom the Turks were depending left Jerusalem and headed for Nablus.  He had no intention of fighting by the side of his Ottoman compatriots as the Allies made their way towards the City of David.

1917: “The battle of Nebi Samwil which was the first attempt by the forces of the British Empire to capture Jerusalem” began today.

1917: Birthdate of Helen Gavronsky the  Germiston, South Africa native who would gain fame as activist and Nobel Prize Winner Helen Suzman

1917: In Brookline, MA, Rose and Myron Helpern gave birth to David Moses Halpern, “the business side of the husband-and-wife apparel design team known as Joan & David…” (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1918(13th of Kislev, 5679): Seventy-five year old Captain Joseph B. Greenhut passed away today in Peoria, Illinois.  Born at Bishop-Purnitz, Austria, in 1843, lived in Mobile, Alabama before moving to North prior to the Civil War.  He was the second man in Chicago to respond to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers.  As a Sargeant in the 12^thIllinois Infantry he fought at Fort Donelson where he was wounded and then promoted to the rank of Captain.  His fought in most of the major battles of the war including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and the Battle Above the Clouds.   His valor earned him the brevet rank of Colonel.  He served on the state of Edward S. Salomon, one of the Jewish soldiers to reach the rank of General in the Union Army.  After leaving the Army, Greenhut settled in Peoria where he was a successful businessman for over thirty years. His membership in the Grand Army of the Republic and the B’nai Brith bespeak his pride in being an American and a Jew.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00716F83B55157A93CAA8178AD95F4C8185F9

1918: Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow delivered a sermon today “at the temple of the Liberal Union of Paris” entitled “The War and the Future of Religion.”

1918: Birthdate of  New York native Herbert S. Landsman, WW II U.S. Navy Commander and Ivy League educated executive vice president of Federated Department Stores who raised four children – John, Herbert, Jr, Margaret and Julie – with his wife “the former Madeline R. Stricker”

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/29/archives/herbert-landsman-stores-official-dies-held-a-key-position-in.html

1918: In New York City Nathan M. and Sara (Damsky) Landsman gave birth to Ivy League (Dartmouth BA, Harvard MA) educated businessman Herbert Samuel who began his career with “Wm. Filene’s Sons Company in Boston and who married Madeline Rollman Stricker after his first wife Claire Zimmerman passed away.

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/29/archives/herbert-landsman-stores-official-dies-held-a-key-position-in.html

https://prabook.com/web/herbert_samuel.landsman/1065194

1919: Birthdate of composer and arranger Hershy Kay.

1920: A fund raising drive sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Louisville, KY is scheduled to continue for a second day.

1921: Winston Churchill demands that Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner, move forcefully to collect the fines from Arab rioters who had attacked Jews and destroyed their property in Jaffa.

1922: Birthdate of Stuart Schulberg, the son of producer and studio executive B.P. Schulberg and younger brother of novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg,

1922: Sarah (Apfel) Berlinger, the wife of Moses Berlinger with whom she had two children, was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1924: Release date for a Rudolph Valentino melodrama “A Sainted Devil produced by Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor.

1927: Birthdate of Stanley Cohen, “an American biochemist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his researches on epidermal growth factor (EGF), a substance produced in the body that influences the development of skin tissues. With the nerve growth factor (NGF) studied by Levi-Montalcini, these were the first of many growth-regulating signal substances to be discovered and characterized. The discovery of NGF and EGF opened new fields of widespread importance to basic science and increased understanding of many disease states such as developmental malformations, degenerative changes in senile dementia, delayed wound healing and tumor diseases.”

1927: In Boston, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to perform Alexander Tansman's Symphony no. 2 in A minor which will mark its first performance in the United States.

1928: Dr. Zemach Feldstein, the Director of the Hebrew Gymnasium of Kovno was among the speakers who addressed the opening meeting of the first national convention of the Federation of Lithuanian Jews in America that opened tonight at the Mecca Temple in New York City.

1930: University of Pennsylvania trained legal scholar Philip Amram, the son of David Werner Amram, and his wife gave birth to acclaimed composer David Amram III, one of the most eclectic, versatile, and unpredictable American musicians of the 20th–21st centuries, who has given equal attention throughout his life thus far to contemporary classical art music, ethnic folk music, film and theater music, and jazz. The Boston Globe has saluted him as "the Renaissance man of American music," and The New York Timesnoted that he was "multicultural before multiculturalism existed." Yet Amram's so-called multiculturalism has not been political—"correct" or otherwise—but rather a function of his genuine interest in a variety of musical traditions and practices. "Music is one world," he has declared. Amram was born in Philadelphia, but he spent his childhood on the family farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the family moved shortly before his seventh birthday. His father had been a farmer before becoming a lawyer, and—like David Amram to this day—he continued to farm in addition to his professional pursuits. Since there was little Jewish population in that farming region, young David grew up without the benefit of a Jewish community, but his grandfather (David Werner Amram, for whom he was named), who had been active in early American Zionist circles and had spent considerable time on a kibbutz in Palestine, taught him basic Hebrew; and his father conducted Sabbath services in their home. His father also introduced him to recordings of cantorial music and to his own amateur piano renditions of European classical pieces. His uncle was a devotee of jazz, introducing David to recordings of such artists as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong—and then taking him to hear some of those performers in person. Those three traditions—jazz, classical, and Jewish liturgical music—were thus somehow interrelated for him from childhood, in terms of both emotional and improvisational aspects.

1930: “Sweet and Low,” a musical revue produced by Billy Rose whose stars included George Jessel and Fanny Brice opened on Broadway at Chanin’s 46^thStreet Theatre.

1931: Montefiore Kahn, vice president of Oil Shares, Inc., is scheduled to make a court appearance today related to the theft of $100,000.

1931: “Kameradschaft” a German made film with social protest overtones co-starring Jewish actor Alexander Granach premiered in Germany today.

1933: “The Right to Romance” written by Sidney Buchman was released today by RKO in the United States.

1934(10^th of Kislev, 5695): Parashat Vayetzei

1934: Jews in the Free City of Danzig observed the last Shabbat before the victory of the Nazis in that city’s elections

1935: Seventy-three year old Edward Shortt, who while serving as Home Secretary told Lt. Col Malone, in a session of Parliament that he feared that law conferred no powers upon him to allow for the suppression of the pamphlet “The Jewish Peril.”

1936: In Budapest, Hungary, “anti-Semitic student demonstrations at the University of Budapest which had ceased during the visit of the Italian Foreign Minister were resumed today.”

1937: As the Arab terrorist war against the Jews of Palestine continued, The Palestine Post reported that 45 Jews were arrested under the new emergency regulations. The Jewish Agency stated, in reference to the revolting murder of five Jewish pioneers at Ma’aleh Hahamisha, and an apparent dissidents’ retaliation during which six Arabs were killed in Jerusalem, that it would oppose to the utmost any attempts at revenge on innocent persons. The agency was confident that all responsible Jewish bodies would stamp out dissidents from their midst. British troops killed three Arab terrorists in Galilee.

1938: U.S. premiere of “The Cowboy and the Lady” a western comedy produced by Samuel Goldwyn with a script by S.N. Behrman and music by Alfred Newman.

1938: Birthdate of Peter Kassovitz, the native of Budapest who left Hungary during the 1956 Revolution and whose directorial credits include one of the most unique Holocaust movies – Jakob the Liar.

1938: Mussolini adopted an Italian anti-Semitic Code patterned after the German Nuremberg Laws.  Was Mussolini an anti-Semite?  This is the subject of The Contract: Mussolini, the Publisher of Hitler by Giorgio Fabrre, recently released in English translation and reviewed by the New York Times on November 7.  This book explores the murky relationship between the two fascist dictators including the fact that Mussolini paid an exorbitant sum for the rights to publish Mein Kampf in Italy.  Apparently the money was really a secret campaign contribution from Mussolini to Hitler.  Prior to the enactment of this code, Mussolini had already moved against the Jews of Italy including his former mistress who was Jewish. The most immediate impact of the code was to force many Jews out of Mussolini’s Fascist Party.  This controversial book has forced many Italians to re-examine this dark chapter in their history.

1938: Sheik Abdul Rahman el Khatib was shot and seriously wounded while walking on a street here this morning. There is little hope for his recovery. His Arab assailant escaped.

1938: As Arab violence continues for a second straight year, “A Jew was fatally shot this morning by an Arab near Sharona, a Christian German colony near Tel Aviv.”

1938: Ernst von Rath whose murder by Herschel Grynszpan was the excuse for Kristallnacht, “was given a state funeral in Düsseldorf, which was attended by Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop who in his funeral oration described the shooting as an attack by the Jews on the German people.”

1939: Nazis destroy all of the synagogues in Lódz, Poland.

1939: Abraham Kaplan, the author of Conduct of Inquiry, married child psychologist Iona Judith Wax; a union which produced two children -- Karen Eva Kaplan Diskin and Jessica Aryia Kaplan Symonds.

1939: Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in New York City.

1939(5th of Kislev, 5700): Boruch Ber Leibowitz passed away.  Born at Slutsk (Belarus) in 1864, he was Talmudic prodigy who studied under Rabbi Chaim Brisker before becoming head of the Kneseth Beis Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka which he was forced to re-locate and reconstitute in different locales based on the vicissitudes of World War I and the ensuring violence that gripped Eastern Europe.  Tragically, death came to him in Vilna the last location of his Yeshiva.

http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tworld/rlebowitz.html

1940: The Lodz Ghetto Archive was established today, by order of the Chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/october/15.asp

1940: In Tel Aviv, a conference of 300 communal representatives formed a “United National Front” dedicated to carrying out the reform program championed by Pichas Rutenberg.  “This united front has the support of many middle class Jews” who have been concerned by the breach growing between “socialists affiliated with the General Jewish Labor Federation and Zionist Revisionists.”

1940: In Berlin, Lieutenant Colonel Kazys Skirpa, former Lithuanian ambassador to Germany, established the Lietuviu Aktyvistu Frontas (Lithuanian Activist Front), a collaborationist Fascist organization dedicated to nationalism and anti-Semitism.

1941: Birthdate of Arlington, VA, native James Steven “Jim” Bregman “a member of the first American to compete in judo in the Summer Olympics.”

1941: The Hitch-Hiker a radio play written by Lucille Fletcher featuring a score written and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, Fletcher's first husband was broadcast of the Orson Welles Show on CBS Radio for the first time.

1941: Proceeds from tonight’s performance of the play “Theatre” at the Hudson Theatre featuring Cornelia Otis Skinner will go to the Women’s League for Palestine and help the league raise funds for the construction of a center for refugees in Jerusalem.

1941: Eight Jews executed for going outside the Warsaw ghetto without permission. Six were women.

1941: In France, the Vichy government expanded the Aryanization rules to exclude Jews from any employment beyond menial labor.

1942: Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz “married Rachel Unger Leifer of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Rabbi Naftali Unger, av beis din of Neumarkt  and a descendant of Rabbi Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz.”

1942: It was reported today that two chapters “Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary” by Bella Fromm have appeared in Harper’s Magazine.   [Bella Fromm was a German Jewish correspondent for the Ullstein newspapers and the Times. She risked her life by staying in Germany during the 1930’s so that she could report on events surrounding the Hitler régime.  She finally fled to the United States where her reportage became the inspiration for this first-hand account of events in the land of the Nazis.]

1942: The headline in today’s edition of Haaretz announced that "The Eretz-Israeli residents that have been exchanged have arrived from the Reich."  According to the Jewish daily, “There’s been much commotion at the Afula station in preparation for the arrival of 114 women and children, relatives of Eretz-Israeli and British residents, who've come from Germany. They were exchanged for German women and children from Eretz Israel, who were allowed to travel to Germany."

1943: Nine hundred ninety-five Jews from Holland were sent to Birkenau where 531 were gassed, including 166 children.

1943: Max Sievers, who was forced to return to Europe in 1939 because he could not get a visa that would have allowed him to say in the United State was sentenced to death by the Nazis.

1943: General Antonescu, the Rumanian dictator warned the cabinet against giving into Hitler's demands for the Jews. Hundreds of thousands still survived in camps and ghettos. "We will take them away from here." Four thousand, four hundred orphans were the first to be repatriated, followed by 15,000 others.

1943: The director-general of the BBC, Robert Foot, issued a policy directive . . . 'that we should not promote ourselves or accept any propaganda in the way of talks, discussion, features with the object of trying to correct the undoubted anti-Semitic feeling which is held very largely throughout the country'

1944: “The Princess and the Pirate” produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with music by David Rose and screenplay co-authored by Mel Shavelson was released today in the United States.

1944: In Palestine, Florence Becker and Henry Abraham Lipowitz gave birth to Lorne Lipowitz, the Canadian raised television producer known as Lorne Michaels the driving force behind “Saturday Night Live.”

1945: A delegation from the American League for Free Palestine headed by former Senator Guy Gillette arrived in London tonight.  The delegates are supposed to hold discussions with British leaders about the situation in Palestine and payment of reparations to those living in DP camps in Germany.

1945: As the British government sought to enforce the White Paper and clamp down on Jewish resistance activities, “British paratroopers carried twenty expectant mothers to hospitals in armored cars today.  A baby born in one of the armored cars was named Shalom by his mother.

1946: As part of growing wave of terror caused by Britain failing to honor its war time promise to allow Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel and increasing repressive measure aimed at the Jews of the Yishuv, four British policemen were killed when their truck was blown up outside Tel Aviv.

1946: In New York premiere of “The Chase” with a screenplay by Philip Yordan

1946: Freedom Fighters for Israel (FFI) also known as Lehi or the Stern group operatives detonated a mine that killed four and wounded several others; over the course of the month, FFI gunmen sabotaged rail lines, shot at trains, blew up military vehicles, destroyed international telegraph lines, attacked police stations, robbed Barclays Bank in Tel Aviv, and set off an explosion at a British military base.

1946: Eighty-six year old archaeologist Max von Oppenheim whose accomplishments included the excavations at Tell-Halaf passed away today.

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/141788/hitler-jews-oppenheim

http://tabletmag.com/scroll/143626/parsing-max-von-oppenheims-legacy

http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/163/the-passion-of-max-von-oppenheim--archaeology-and-intrigue-in-the-middle-east-from-wilhelm-ii-to-hitler

1947: Eighteen year old Yeruham Ben-Issar Jacob Krubelnik and sixteen year old Mordehai Zeev Sofar “went on trial today before the Jerusalem military court on suspicion of having caused an explosion under the Cairo-Haifa express” which resulted in the death of the engineer who was Jewish and the derailing of five coaches.

1947: “Unidentified robbers gagged and bound a Tel Aviv diamond merchant in his home and escaped with jewels valued at $8,000.”

1947: Members of the “Stern Gang…announced that they were ready to resume their truce pledge.”

1947: Today “a prominent Arab source said differences of between King Abdullah of Transjordan and the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, had ruled out a coordinated invasion by Arabs opposed to a partition of the Holy Land.”

1947: In Palestine, the departing British administration plans to sell state-owned real estate along the Haifa waterfront and to invest in England money from bonds sold to Palestinians.

1947: A Liverpool jury needed only 13 minutes of deliberation to find newspaper editor James Caunt not guilty of charges of “seditious libel against the Jews in Britain.”  Caunt had written an editorial in The Visitor criticizing “British Jews for not doing more to prevent Zionist killing of British troops in Palestine, describing Jews as ‘a plague on Britain’ and encouraging violence against them.

1947: Today, while the National Conference of the CDE was still conducting its business, Dr. William Filderman resigned from the leadership of the UER, and after a short time, succeeded in leaving Romania clandestinely. This decision had to be made, because it was discovered that the Romanian authorities were preparing a plot in which he would be accused of being a spy for Great Britain.

1948: King Abdullah of Transjordan hopes for a "real peace" to replace "semi-peace." He suggests that "the Israelis should be more reasonable "and the Arabs "should accept the logical." (Abdullah was a complex figure who wanted to rule Jerusalem. He announced that no land under the control of the Jordanian army would be turned over to what are called today the Palestinian Arabs.)

1949: Charles "Charlie" Thompson Winters was released today after spending 18 months in prison for violating the Neutrality Act of 1939 in conspiring to smuggle three bombers via Czechoslovakia to Palestine.

1949: “The first of the military’s dead – the remains of those who fought in Latrun, in Kfar Etzion and the Convoy of 35, along with those buried in Sheikh Bader – some 300 people in all – were buried in a communal grave in the military cemetery on Mt. Herzl. (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)

1950: Soprano Roberta Peters, the twenty year old daughter of Ruth and Sol Peterman debuted at the Metropolitan Opera when she replaced a colleague on six hours’ notice. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archive)

1950(8^th of Kislev, 5711): Eight-eight year old Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Cohen, dean of the Canadian Rabbinate and president of the Montreal Council of Orthodox Rabbis” passed away today.

http://imjm.ca/location/1428

1953 (17 Kislev): Eighty-three year old  Isser Zalman Meltzer passed away.  Born in 1870, he was a famous Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva and pose. He is also known as the "Even HaEzel", after the title of his commentary on Rambam's Mishne Torah.

1953: Anna Meingest, who had been Stefan Zweig’s secretary in Salzburg for twenty years during the inter-war years passed away today.

1954(21st of Cheshvan): Hebrew poet Yizhak Lamdan passed away

1954: “Désirée” a movie version of the novel by the same name, directed by Henry Koster, produced by Julian Blaustein and written by Daniel Taradash

1958: Syrian terrorists killed the wife of the British air attaché in Israel, who was staying at the guesthouse of the Italian Convent on the Mt. of the Beatitudes.

1959: NBC broadcast “The Big Time” starring George Burns, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and George Jessel which was the seventh episode of Startime,

1960: “Morgan the Pirate” produced by Joseph E. Levine was released today in Italy.



1960: Birthdate of Mandy Yachad a former South African cricketer and field hockey player who represented the South African national team in both sports.

1961: Birthdate of history professor and author Jonathan Zimmerman

https://scholar.gse.upenn.edu/zimmerman

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170290





1961: “A Proper God” published today reviews Paddy Chayefsky’s “Gideon” a play “drawn from 3 chapters of the Book of Judges” that “explores the relationship of an ordinary man to God.”

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,939335,00.html





1962: “Little Me” a Broadway “musical written by Neil Simon with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.



1962: “More Language That Needs Watching” by Theodore M. Bernstein, the assistant managing editor of the New York Times is scheduled to be published today. This is Bernstein’s second book on linguistics. “Watch Your Language” provided examples “of words gone wrong – incorrect usage – and inept sentence structure” as well as selections of “bright and incisive writing.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10E13FE355E107B8EDDA80894D9415B828AF1D3

1962: In his sermon delivered today, Dr. Israel Margolies said that laws that prevent the abortion of deformed babies are barbarous. The New York City rabbi has been quoted as saying “that the truly civilized mind would be hard pressed to devise a greater sin than to condemn a helpless infant to a life of permanent deformity, or to the twilight world of the slum and orphanage, or to an unwelcome home.”

1962(20^th of Cheshvan, 5723): John Shubert who had taken over as head of operations from his father Jacob in the 1950’s “passed away unexpectedly” today.

1964(12^th of Kislev, 5725): Chaim Mordechai Katz the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, suffered a massive, fatal heart attack today.

1964: Seventy-eight year old General Sir George James Giffard who served as General Officer Commanding British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan from 1940 to 1941 passed away today.

1965: “The War Lord” a medieval war movie with a score by Jerome Moross was released in the United States today.

1966: Woody Allen’s “Don’t Drink the Water” premiered on Broadway today.

1967: “Former concentration camp guard Erwin Busta, Gestapo official Ernst Sander and chief of security for the V-weapons program Helmut Bischoff went on trial before the District Court at Essen, West Germany on charges that included “summary executions of prisoners who had attempted to escape or were accused of sabotage.”

1968(26th of Cheshvan, 5729): Ninety-four year old Vicksburg native Sidney N. Scharff, the son of Nicholas Scharff and Carrie Bernheimer passed away today in St. Louis

1968: In what became known as the “Heidi Game” NBC cut away from the last minute of football game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets so viewers could see the children’s classic, Heidi.  Given the closeness of the game, NBC’s switchboard was lit up with calls from irate fans.  The Jets were owned by two Jews, Sonny Werblin and Leon Hess and the Raiders were owned by another Jew, Al Davis. 

1969: NBC broadcast “Friend of the Earth” the 11^th episode of “My World and Welcome to It” created by Melville Savelson, produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Arnold and co-starring Harold J. Stone today.

1969: An F-4E Phantom Jet manned by Ehud Hankin and Shaul Levi fell victim to Jordanian anti-aircraft fire.

1970(18^th of Cheshvan, 5731): Seventy-five year old NYU trained attorney Irving Warshaw, the husband of the “former Hilda Nurenberg” with whom he had three children and who “helped found the Hebrew University of Jerusalem” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/18/archives/irving-warshaw-75-law-partner-here.html

1971(29^th of Cheshvan, 5732): Seventy-six year old “Yehuda Leib Levin, the chief rabbi of Moscow’s Central Synagogue passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/18/archives/rabbi-levin-76-dead-in-moscow-religious-leader-in-soviet-was-foe-of.html

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841356,00.html



1972: “They Call Him The Mechanic” a “crime thriller directed by Michael Winner, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler with music by Jerry Fielding was released in the United States today.

1973: NPR broadcast the first episode of “The National Lampoon Radio” whose stars included Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and Richard Belzer

1977:Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel. This is the start of a historic process that will result in the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.  While Sadat may have been the leader of the sneak attack that started the Yom Kippur War, he is worth remembering as an Arab Nachson, a man who was brave enough to plunge into the unknown for the greater good.  He literally paid for peace with his own blood. 

1976(24^th of Cheshvan, 5737): Eighty-one year old Meyer Loshie Casman the Russian born son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Casman, who attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and West Point which him to a career as “a lawyer, engineer and prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials passed away today after which he was buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery.

1977: Colonel Menachem Milson, the Israeli officer named to serve as aide-de-camp to Anwar Sadat during his upcoming visit to Israel met with the committee coordinating preparation for the historic visit. 

1978(17^th of Cheshvan, 5739): Eighty-two year old Chicago native Mildred Rosenkranz, “the daughter of Emil Firth and Benvenida Solis” and the wife of Elias Victor Rosenkranz passed away today in Beverly Hills today.

1978: Publication of Faggots, a novel by Larry Kramer.

1978: Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” premiered today at Lyttelton Theatre & Royal National Theatre in London

1980: Bella Abzug and Grace Paley were among the thousands of women who participated in today’s Women’s Pentagon Action.

1980: In a move that reinforced the concept of separation of church & State, the Supreme Court today decided in Stone v Graham, that “a Kentucky statute requiring the posting of a copy of the Ten Commandments purchased with private contributions on the wall of each public classroom in the State is unconstitutional”

1980: “Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the Jews of Berlin in which he discussed his views of Catholic-Jewish relations” in which he “claimed that Catholics must embrace the Hebrew Bible as being equally valid as the New Testament” and “asserted that God's Old Covenant with the Jewish people was never revoked which meant, as Darcy O'Brien wrote, that the pope had indicated that the Catholic Church had abandoned its mission to proselytize the Jews and has embraced the Jews' salvation.”

1982(1st of Kislev, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1982(1st of Kislev, 5743): Russian violinist Leonid Borisovitch Kogan passed away.

1983: Birthdate of Milwaukee Brewers MVP Ryan Braun.

1985: “Art View; The Best and Biggest In Pittsburgh” published today described the 49^th Carnegie International Exhibition which included works by Lucian Freud and Mel Bochner.’

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/arts/art-view-the-best-and-biggest-in-pittsburgh.html?pagewanted=all

1985(4^th of Kislev, 5746): Eighty-one year old Jimmy Ritz, one of the Ritz Brothers, passed away today after he was buried with his brothers at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.”

1988: Neil Simon's "Rumors," premieres in New York City.

1988: ABC broadcast the fourth episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”

1989: “The Little Mermaid” an animated musical with a score by Alan Menken was released in the United States today.

1990(29th of Cheshvan, 5751): Robert Hofstadter passed away. Hofstadter was an “American scientist who was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961 for his investigations in which he measured the size of the neutron and proton in the nuclei of atoms. He revealed the hitherto unknown structure of these particles and helped create an identifying order for subatomic particles. He also correctly predicted the existence of the omega-meson and rho-meson. He also studied controlled nuclear fission. Hofstadter was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Stanford Linear Accelerator. He also made substantial contributions to gamma ray spectroscopy, leading to the use of radioactive tracers to locate tumors and other disorders. (He shared the prize with Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer of Germany.)”

1992: In the wake of last year’s riots in Crown Heights, “New York Governor Mario Cuomo gave the Director of Criminal Justice Services, Richard H.Girgenti, the authority to investigate the rioting and the trial” of Lemrick Nelson, Jr who was identified by Yankel Rosenbuam as his attacker before he succumbed to his wounds.

1993: Judith Rodin was named the president of the University of Pennsylvania making her the first woman to head an Ivy League University. Serving as Penn's president until 2004, Rodin guided the university through the largest capital construction period in its history and increased its U.S. News and World Report ranking from 16 in 1994 to 5 in 2003. Rodin is a faculty member of Penn's psychology department and in its School of Medicine. Widely published, her research focuses on the complex relationships between mind and body. Rodin attended Penn as an undergraduate and spent 22 years on the faculty of Yale University, where she served as provost from 1992 to 1994. In addition to her academic work, she chaired the board of Innovation Philadelphia and the Knowledge Industry Partnership. She serves on the steering committee of college presidents for America Reads and the executive committee of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Rodin also served on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Rodin was not a token, but a trailblazer.  When she retired in 2004, she was followed by another Jewish woman, Amy Gutman.  Gutman would gain a measure of notoriety when she was photographed with a student dressed as a suicide bomber at a Halloween Costume Party in 2006.

1993(3rd of Kislev, 5754): Sgt. 1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37, was stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while seated at the cafeteria at the Nahal Oz road block at the entrance to the Gaza Strip. The terrorist was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the murder.

1994: Irish Labor Party member Mervyn Taylor completed his service as Minister for Equality and Law Reform.

1994: “Sunset Boulevard,” a musical based on “Billy Wilder’s Oscar winning film of the same name” oped today on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre.

1995: “It Takes Two” a comedy starring Steve Guttenberg was released in the United States State.

1996: In New York, the complete list of candidates for landmark status and their architects suggested by Robert A. M. Stern includes the Henry L. Moses Research Institute, Montefiore Hospital, East Gun Hill Road, Bronx

1998: Israel's parliament overwhelmingly approved the Wye River land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians.

1999: U.S. premiere of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” produced by Scott Rudin, with music by Danny Elfman and filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

2000: Mathew Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud and Elizabeth Murdoch gave birth to their first child Charlotte Emma Freud.

2001: In New Jersey, Bat Mitzvah of Jamie Shulman, the daughter of Lori and Mark Shulman, “a disaster inspector, fire prevention and risk consultant for Marsh & McLennan in New York” who died on 9/11.

http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=147312



2001: Daniel Saul Goldin finishes serving as Administrator of NASA.  Goldin was the first Jew to hold the post.  He held the position longer than any of his predecessors, serving under three different Presidents.

2002 (12th of Kislev, 5763): Abba Eban passed away.  (Editor’s note:  This entry is a little on the lengthy side, but the subject is well worth the time.  There is a prejudice at work here.  As youngster growing up in Washington during the 1950’s I heard Eban speak several times. His round Churchillian tones along with his sharp, lucid comments made one swell with pride.  I was further amazed to think that Israelis sounded just like Winston Churchill [boy was I in for a surprise].  But in the early days of the state, when Israel was not a popular cause, Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N., Abba Eban bucked the odds, conducting a one-man diplomatic and public relations offensive against the well-heeled American oil lobby and the Arab governments to provide Israel with a positive image in the United States at a time when the survival of the state hung in the balance on daily basis. He will always be remembered as one of the statesmen who helped persuade the world to approve creation of Israel and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades.)

Abba Eban, orator, Israeli statesman and diplomat, Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1974, was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and brought up in England. He studied oriental languages and classics at Cambridge University, England, where he was a lecturer in Arabic from 1938 to 1940. He was already a public speaker of caliber and renowned for his presence at debates on the Middle East. During World War II he served in the British Army in Egypt and Mandate Palestine, becoming an intelligence officer in Jerusalem, where he coordinated and trained volunteers for resistance in the event of a German invasion. In 1946, the Jewish Agency appointed him political information officer in London, where he participated in the negotiations with the British government and the UN concerning the establishment of the State of Israel. When Israel became independent in 1948, he was appointed its first Ambassador at the UN. From 1950 until 1959 Eban was both Israel's ambassador in Washington, D.C., and chief delegate to the UN. On his return to Israel in 1959, Eban was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Mapai party, and served under David Ben-Gurion as Minister of Education and Culture from 1960 to 1963. From 1963 to 1966, he was deputy to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. He was also president of the Weizmann Institute at Rehovot from 1959 to 1966. As Israel's Foreign Minister from February 1966 to 1974, Eban tried to strengthen relations with the United States and to associate Israel with the European Economic Community. During and after the Six-Day War of June 1967, he led Israel's diplomatic struggle in the UN. Following the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, Abba Eban helped bring about a disengagement of Egyptian and Israel forces in Sinai.  Eban continued to serve in succeeding sessions of the Knesset, but outside the ministerial sphere, as a member and later as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, until he retired from politics in 1988. He was widely admired for his brilliant oratory outside Israel and his statesmanship at the UN on Israel's behalf, including some dramatic oratory. He wrote a scathing article on the infamous UN "Zionism=Racism" Resolution in 1975.  A figure of multiple accomplishments, Eban was fluent in ten languages, with the dual vocation of statesman and erudite academic. Throughout his career, he found time to publish meticulous and detailed historical works based on his vast knowledge and personal experience. His books include Voice of Israel (1957); My People (1969); My Country (1972), and Personal Witness (1992), as well as An Autobiography. After his retirement, he was able to dedicate more time to writing and lecturing, including essays and books The New Diplomacy and Diplomacy for the Next Century(1998), but his major landmarks were his involvement in the creation of three major historical television documentary series about the Jewish People and Israel, in which his remarkable voice rings throughout the narration with elegance and confidence. The first two were for Israel Television: Heritage: Civilization and the Jews; Personal Witness: A Nation is Born; and The Brink of Peace was produced with PBS.  In 2001, Abba Eban was awarded the Israel Prize for his lifetime achievement, but his wife received the prize on his behalf, as he was too ill to attend the ceremony. He also held twenty honorary doctorates and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2002: The New York Timesbook section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, Media and Her Children by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated by Arch Tait and The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Rightby Daniel Levitas.

2004: Premiere of the French comedy “The Grandsons,” directed, produced and written by Ilan Duran Cohen.

2005(15^th of Cheshvan, 5766): Ninety-six year old Waterloo, IA native Maurice Zimm whose career included writing radio and television scripts as well as serving as Peace Corps administrator as whowas he brother of talent agent Mike Zimgring, the father of criminologist Franklin Zimring and he grandfather of comedian Dan Lewis and historian Carl Zimgring passed away today.

 http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/24/local/me-passings24.3

2005: Ira Glass’ “This American Life celebrated its tenth anniversary.”

2005:  Haaretz reported on the three day visit of Israel’s President Moshe Katsav to Italy.  On the second day of the trip, Italy’s prime minister said that Israel should be admitted to the European Union.  This appears to be further evidence of the end of a period in which Israel was isolated from western democracies.  Katsav also announced his plans to invite the new Pope to visit Jerusalem.

2005: Conrad M Black was indicted for his alleged role in stealing $51.8 million dollars from Hollinger International, the giant international newspaper publisher he helped create.  His publishing empire included The Jerusalem Post.  Black is Catholic but he is married to the conservative columnist Barbara Amiel, who is Jewish.  

2006: William Shattner, the actor best known for his role as Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise appears in a commercial on the History Channel proclaiming that he is a Jew while wishing Mazel Tov to the Pilgrims.  The commercial is promoting an upcoming television telling the untold story of the Pilgrims travels to America in 1620.

2006: “For Your Consideration” a comedy with a script co-authored by Eugence Levy who co-starred in the film along with Bob Balaban was released today in the United States.

2006: Pierre Lellouche, the Tunisian born French Jewish political leaders completed his term as President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

2006: Jessica Savitch, of blessed memory, was inducted into "The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's Hall of Fame"

2007: The International Oud Festival presents "Peace on Earth" at the Jerusalem Theater. The ensemble put together by Dinkjian for our Festival this year is comprised of some of the finest musicians from Greece, Turkey and Israel, Christians, Muslims and Jews, who will improvise together and play a selection of works by composers of the different faiths.

2007: As part of the Australia Festival of Jewish Cinema “The Vow” is shown in Melbourne, Australia and “The Cantor’s Son” is shown in Sydney, Australia.

2007: Omer Golan scored the winning goal for Israel against Russia, handing England a lifeline in their qualification group for Euro 2008,

2007: Haaretz reported that “the Jewish poverty rate in the United States is higher than that in Israel. In Israel 24 percent of the population is considered poor, but about half is not Jewish…The poverty line for a family of three is set at an annual income of $15,000 but in New York and other large cities it is adjusted to the higher cost of living and set at $22,530.”  

2008: The Jewish Community Center of Chicago holds its annual Hall of Fame Dinner, this year honoring Edward Fox followed by a benefit concert featuring Itzhak Perlman with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

2008: As part of the Meet the Author series, the JCC in Manhattan presents an evening with Yehudit Katzir, “a leading fresh female voice from Israel whose work has been translated into many languages.”  Her latest novel, “Dearest Anne, is a coming of age story set in mid-1970s Israel. After divorce shatters her family, Rivi is raised by her neglectful mother and helps care for her two younger brothers. She documents her feelings in a diary addressed to Anne Frank.”

2008(19th of Cheshvan, 5769): Ali Ashtari was hanged today after being sentenced to death on June 30 by a revolutionary court in Teheran. It was the country's first known conviction for espionage linked to Israel in almost a decade.

2008: Moshe Ya'alon announced that he was joining Likud and that he would participate in the primaries which would determine the Likud candidates for the 2009 elections. Ya’alon had served as IDF Chief of Staff from 2002 through 2005.

2009: At Acre, the second workshop sponsored by UESCO on the subject of “Protecting Heritage Sites from Disaster” comes to an end.

2009: Opening of The Fifth International Water Technologies and Environmental Control Exhibition - WATEC Israel 2009 at the Trade Fair and Convention Center in Tel Aviv.

2009 (30th of Cheshvan, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

2009: Noralee Frankel discusses and signs Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee at noon as part of the Books & Beyond series at the Library of Congress.

2009: A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as a train-station manager was charged with 58 counts of murder today after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers. University of Vienna student Andreas Forster was working on a project about the slaying in a forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen when he stumbled across Adolf Storms' name in witness testimony

2010: In New York City, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present: Journeying to the Jews: Literary Ethnography along the Eastern Front, 1914-1918.

2010:  In New York City, Jaimy Gordon was the surprise winner of the National Book Award for fiction.

2010: It was announced today that A Holocaust survivor who teaches children the value of citizenship is among those who will be honored by President Obama with a Medal of Freedom. Gerda Weissman Klein, who survived the notorious death march at the end of the war designed by Nazis to keep Jews from being rescued, recently founded Citizenship Counts, “an organization that teaches students to cherish the value of their American citizenship,” the White House said in a statement.

2010: Today Israel approved the withdrawal of troops from the northern half of a divided village that straddles the border with Lebanon — a step that would end its four-year presence in the volatile area. 2010: Jean-François Copé began serving his term as President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly.

2011: The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El are scheduled to present “Gender, Power, and Authority in Jewish Life: Challenges and Opportunities in North America and Israel” featuring Renana Pilzer, head of the Beit Midrash at the Shalom Hartman Institute Midrashiya Girls High School and Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Director of Strategic Initiatives,Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community

2011: Jeremy Cowan author of “Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah: How it took 13 years, extreme Jewish Brewing and Circus sideshow freaks to make Schmaltz Brewing Company an International Success” is scheduled to appear at the JCC in St. Louis, MO.

2011: Rabbi Jeff Portman is scheduled to begin teaching a five session course “The Simpsons and the 10 Commandments” at Kirkwood Community College.

2011: “The Young Zionist of Dror in Morocco” a film that documents Jewish life in Morocco during the 1950’s is scheduled to be shown today at the Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival.

2011: Israel has reached its lowest poverty levels since 2003, according to the 2010 poverty report released today, but still faces significant problems in wealth disparity and impoverished children.

2011: Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch said today that medical residents who were resigning en mass in protest over pay and conditions were “taking the law into their own hands

2012(3^rd of Kislev, 5773): Ninety-four year old “Leah Gottlieb, who started with a single sewing machine in a refugee camp in the new nation-state of Israel and rose to become one of the world’s most renowned designers of women’s bathing suits” passed away at her home in Tel Aviv today.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/fashion/leah-gottlieb-a-designer-of-swimsuits-dies-at-94.html?hpw&_r=0

2012: “Süskind,” a cinematic treatment of the life the Jewish manager of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam in 1942, is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2012: The Jerusalem International Oud Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: The World Union For Progressive Judaism is scheduled to host the 2012 International Humanitarian Awards Dinner in NYC.

2012: Flory Jagoda, Aaron Shneyer, Hannah Spiro, Freida Enoch, Jessi Roemer, Jill Sege and Jonathan Tucker are scheduled to perform at Congreation Tifereth Israel as part of the Jewish Folk Arts Festival.

2012: As Jews around the world observe Shabbat the words “Oseh shalom bimromav hu ya'aseh shalom aleynu v'al kol yisrael vimru amen”  (He who makes peace in his high places, he shall make peace upon us and upon all Israel, and say amen) take on a special poignancy as terrorist rockets are fired at Jerusalem and Israeli soldiers prepare to risk their lives to preserve the Jewish state.

 2012: As Israel entered the fifth day of Operation Pillar of Defense, an eerie silence washed over the south, with the familiar sound of red alerts and booms of rockets giving way to rumors of a ceasefire.

2012: The Iron Dome intercepted two Iranian-made Fajr-5 missiles aimed at Tel Aviv today.

2013: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Map and The Territory: Risk, Human Nature and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan, Jews In Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 by Jeffrey S. Gurock, The Rise of Abraham Cahan by Seth Lipsky, Hanukkah in America: A History by Dianne Ashton, Jews and the Military: A History by Derek Penslar  and The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt.



2013: In Australia, the annual Jewish International Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.



2013: “The Fading Valley” and “Good Garbage” are scheduled to shown at the “Other Israel Film Festival” in New York City.



2013: France favors an interim agreement with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, French President Francois Hollande said today in Israel, but such an agreement would only be signed if Tehran would abandon its ambition to acquire a nuclear weapon. (As reported by Raphael Ahren and Adiv Sterman)



2013: According to reports published in the London Sunday Times the Saudis have agreed “to let Israel use its airspace in a military strike on Iran and cooperate over the use of rescue helicopters, tankers and drones.” (As reported by the Times of Israel staff)



2013(14^thof Kislev, 5774): Seventy-seven year old Syd Field author of Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, the “bible of screening passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/arts/syd-field-author-of-the-definitive-work-on-writing-screenplays-is-dead-at-77.html?adxnnl=1&rref=obituaries&hpw=&adxnnlx=1416101827-s+kpfXLoxv4051Cdjd0jew

http://sydfield.com/



2014: In Melbourne, “The Last Mentsch” and “Regarding Susan Sontag” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: “The Last Mentsch” and “Natan” are scheduled to be shown at the 18^thUK Jewish Film Festival



2014: The funeral of Charley J. Levine is scheduled to take placed this afternoon at 4 p.m. at Har Menuchot in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem.



2014: Twenty-three year old Yonatan Souid, a French Jew will be formally charged today after being arrested yesterday for scalling the Brookly Birdige, apparently in an attempt to take some photographs.



2014: “As tensions within the fractured government reached new levels” of crisis, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman met today “to discuss solutions for the crisis in the coaltion over the state budget. (As reported by Moran Azulay)



2014: “Many Palestinian bus drivers in Jerusalem did not show up for work today after an Arab bus driver was found hanged last night in what was classifified as suicide following an autoposy. (As reported by Marissa Newman)



2014(24^thof Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-five year old Victor Elmaleh the Morooccan-born American Jewish businessman who, ironically, was one of the first to import German made VW’s into the United States passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/nyregion/victor-elmaleh-builder-and-entrepreneur-dies-at-95.html?rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article&_r=0



2015: “Partner with the Enemy” and “April Fool’s” are scheduled to be shown in Los Angeles at the 29^th Israel Film Festival.



2015: “Deli Man” and “The Physician” are scheduled to be shown in Sydney at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2016: The ADL is scheduled to host “Never Is Now!” its “groundbreaking summit on anti-Semitism today in New York City.



2016: The American Jewish Historical Society and the American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to host the Ted Rosenthal Quintet performing “The Great Jewish American Songbook” – “an evening of jazz interpretations of famous Jewish composers including George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, and Jerome Kern, and a post-performance talk by Ted Rosenthal about the Jewish immigrants contributions to the American jazz repertoire of the 20th century”

2016(16^thof Cheshvan, 5777): Photo-journalist Ruth Gruber, who shepherded a boat load of Jews to safety to the United States passed away today at the age of 105. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/ruth-gruber-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ruth-gruber-who-accompanied-1000-jews-to-the-shores-of-the-united-states-during-the-holocaust-dies-at-105/2016/11/17/da16277c-ad12-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html?utm_term=.c0de1f2fb548



2016: “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” and “Natasha” are scheduled to be shown at the 20th UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2016: “Twenty mayors from around the world who are part of a delegation visiting Israel expressed opposition to two recent UNESCO resolutions that omitted Jewish and Christian links to Israeli holy sites in Jerusalem.”

2016: “Cloudy Sunday” and “Alone in Berlin” are scheduled to be shown at Sydney as part of the International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: The 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival goes dark Erev Shabbat.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host two services – Orthodox and Egalitarian followed by a Shabbat evening meal.

2017: After being viewed at several film festivals, including Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. “Holy Air” was released today in the United States.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such Jewish Michael Korda who is not a revisionists but whose Alone and With Wings Like Eaglesprovide highly readable, and unique views of Dunkirk and The Battle of Britain.

2018: “The Last Suit,” “Memoir of War,” “The Prince and the Dybbuk” and “Inside the Mossad” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2018: “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas” is scheduled to be shown on the final night of the Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.”

2018: Dina Pruzhansky a Russian-Israeli pianist and composer is scheduled to perform this afternoon in New York.

2018: Award winning author Dori Weinstein is scheduled to lead children’s services at Tefereth Israel in Des Moines, IA.

2018(9^thof Kislev, 5779):  Parashat Va-yaytzay;

2019: The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end this evening with a screening of “The Song of Names.”

2019: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story.”

2019: The Yeshiva Museum is scheduled to host “Philistines-Rehabilitating a Biblical Foe” where a group of international scholars examine the foes of the ancient Israeltes.

2019: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Bella, Bella – The Play” with a “special Talkback with Harvey Fierstein.

2019: The Jewish Military Association is scheduled to host the 85^th annual ceremony and parade at The Cenotaph in Whithall.

2019: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including And The Bride Closed The Door by Ronit Matalon, Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to “Game of Thrones” by Daniel Mendelsohn, We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel by Daniel Gordis and Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Lizabeth Cohen

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1095: Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200 bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a pilgrimage to Jerusalem made every other penance superfluous.  And so began one of the darkest periods in Jewish history.
1297: Today during the Papacy of Boniface VIII, “the inquisition issued a bull according to which an accuser or witness could remain unrevealed to the accused when the latter was a person of influence” and since “the Jews were classed among the powerful persons, a simple denunciation sufficed to condemn them.”

 1302: Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctamthat proclaimed, "outside of the Church there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins” which was part of an on-going effort to isolate the Jews from the general community and make anti-Semitism a permanent part of European society. It’s declaration that those who resist the Roman Pontiff are resisting God's ordination was one more plank in a platform that would sour Jewish-Christian relations for centuries to come. This is the same Pope Boniface VIII who issued the bull Exhibita Nobis, ordaining that Jews could be denounced to the Inquisition without the name of the accuser being revealed, so as to protect Christians against Jewish reprisals.

1489: Joseph Günzenhäuser, Yom-Tov ben Perez and Solomon ben Perez published “Hobot ha-Lebabot” (Duties of the Heart) by Bayha ibn Pakuda in Italy. Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived at Zaragoza, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. The same trio had printed “Eben Bohan” by Kalonymus ben Meir ben Kalonymus in August of 1489. Kalonymus was an author and translator who lived in Provence “Eben Bohan” (The Touchstone) was a seminal work on morality for the Jews living in southern France.

1554: Philip “was invested with the Kingdom of Sicily and Jerusalem today by Pope Julius III.

1570: In Ferra, Italy, the town where Azarya ben Moses dei Rossi is living was struck by an earthquake, which “miraculously” spared the Jewish Community.   In the aftermath of the earthquake, Dei Rossi became aware of whole body of Jewish literature from the time of the Second Temple which was known to Christians but had been lost to the Jews because it was written in Greek.   In twenty days he translated "The Letter of Aristas," from Greek into Hebrew. "The Letter of Aristas,""is supposed to be the discourse a Greek king gave about the wisdom of the Jews [Some sources give 1571 as the date for the earthquake.]



1576: Birthdate of Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg who in 1603 “invited many wealthy Jewish” to live in Hanuah and provided them with “a definite legal status” as well as permitting them to build a synagogue.

1648: Bogdan Chemielniki and his Cossacks began their attacks. Kamenets, in the western Ukraine is one of the first cities to be attacked, with thousands killed in the first few days. Chemielniki was leading a Ukrainian national uprising against their Roman Catholic Polish masters. The Russian Orthodox Ukrainians were bitter over the forced conversions to Catholicism led by the Jesuits and the unscrupulous taxes collected by some Jews for the nobles.  The Jews managed the Ukrainian estates of the absentee Polish landlords. This volatile mixture of nationalism, religion and economic exploitation set the stage for the Cossack uprising. During the reign of Vladislav IV, the Zaporozhin Cossacks lived in a semi-autonomous kingdom called Sitch. Led by their leader - or Hetman - Chemielniki, they decided to avenge the people's rights. Their victories over the Polish army encouraged the serfs to join them. The Jews were even more hated than the Poles and were massacred in almost every town. In the ten tumultuous years that followed, over seven hundred Jewish communities were destroyed and between one hundred and five hundred thousand Jews lost their lives.

1738: Abraham De Leon and his wife gave birth to Isaac De Leon

1759: Following a mass baptism of Sabbatians at Lvov, today Jacob Frank and his wife were baptized “under the patronage of the King of Poland” in the cathedral at Warsaw following which the Catholic Church rejected “the request of the Frankists  that they be allowed to continue to live separately from other Christians and that they be permitted to wear Jewish clothing, to keep their sidelocks, avoid pork, to rest on Saturday as well as Sunday to retain use of the Zohar and other works of the Kabbalah.

1766: In Philadelphia, Elizabeth Whitlock and Moses Mordecai gave birth to Joseph Mordecai, the husband of Esther Marache with whom he had seven children.

1783: In Amsterdam, “Marianne Witzenhausen-Italianer” and Marcus Koster gave birth to Eva Marchu Koster the wife of Daniel Levie Woudhuijsen with whom she had three children.

1792(3^rd of Kislev, 5553): Zipporah Phillips Noah, the daughter of Jonas and Rebecca Mendes “Machado” Phillips, and the wife of Manuel Noah with whom she had two children – Mordecai Manuel Noah and Judith Noah – passed away today after which she was buried Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC.

1795; David Nathan married Sarah Isaacs at the Great Synagogue today.

1804(15^th of Kislev, 5565): First observance Purim of Abraham Danzig which is also called Pulverpurim or Powder Purim. Memorial Day established for himself and his family by Abraham Danzig, to be annually observed by fasting on the 15th of Kislew and by feasting on the evening of the same day in commemoration of the explosion of a powder-magazine at Wilna in 1804. By this accident thirty-one lives were lost and many houses destroyed, among them the home of Abraham Danzig, whose family and Abraham himself were all severely wounded, but escaped death (see Danzig, Abraham ben Jehiel). Danzig decreed that on the evening following the 15th of Kislew a meal should be prepared by his family to which Talmudic scholars were to be invited, and alms should be given to the poor. During the feast certain psalms were to be read, and hymns were to be sung to the Almighty for the miraculous escape from death.

1823: Two day after he had passed away, “Issacher bar Yehuda” was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1835: Alexander Davis married Anne Solomons at the Western Synagogue today.

1838: In Mainz, Lazarus and Eleonore Hallgarten gave birth to Charles Hallgarten, the husband of Elise Mainzer who followed in his father’s footsteps as an American banker at Hallgarten & Company.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/04/21/105004782.pdf

1842: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Lamle ‘Lewis’ and Judith Einstein gave birth to Edwin Einstein who was the Congressman from New York’s 7^th district from 1879 until 1881.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/EEinstein.html

1844: Birthdate of Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen, Baronet, British businessman and Conservative politician.

1845: Sir George Grey, who hired Samuel Joseph, an Anglo-Jew from London as his interpreter” began serving today as the third Governor of New Zealand.

1846: In Exeter, Devon, Eliza and Isaac Lazarus gave birth to Julia Lazarus the wife of Louis Abelson.

1847: “After passing the exams of the U.S. Navy’s Medical Department,” 25 year old Phineas Jonathan Horowtiz, a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, was appointed Assistant Surgeon today after which he was posted to the Gulf Squardron.

 1849: Birthdate of Ukrainian native Maximilian Bern, the son of a German physician and husband of Austrian actress Olga Wolbruck who starved to death in post-war Berlin because his novels and other writings did not provide enough money to support himself.

1849: Birthdate of French banker and horse breeder Maurice Ephrussi, the native of Odessa who was part of the “Euphrussi family” and the husband of Beatrice de Rothschild, the daughter of Alphonse de Rothschild

1851: Birthdate of Austrian critic and journalist Anton Bettelheim.

1851: Reverend Henry Giles delivered a lecture before the Mercantile Library Association entitled "The Greek Man: or the Man of Culture" in which he compared the ancient Greeks to the Jews. Among other things he said that "Among men of the higher races, the Hebrew man and the Greek man stand, perhaps, the most in contrast. The spirit of the Hebrew man went upward; the faculties of the Greek man went outward.  In one was the idea of the divine: in the other, the idea of the Human.  The Hebrew man abhorred all image of God; the Greek man had no Got but in an image...The worship of the Hebrew ascended to a single and supreme object; the worship of the Greek went diffusively abroad...The mere form of the Hebrew ritual was eminently ceremonial...the appeal was with a sublime and sacramental meaning of which that of the Greek had nothing...the Hebrew life was developed through faith  and governed by authority.  The Greek life was developed through imagination and was governed by art.

1852: At the Paris Observatory, Hermann Goldschmidt confirmed his observations of November 15 that had led to the discovery of Asteroid 21 Lutetia.

1853: “Alsey Harris” and Abraham Ellis gave birth to Jane Ellis.

1856: German born, Cincinnati, OH, businessman and civic leader Julius Frieberg and his wife Duffie Frieberg gave birth to their first child, Minnie Frieberg who became Minnie Ranshoff when she married Dr. Joseph Ransofhoff.

1856: In Lancaster, PA, Congregation Shaarai Shomayim was incorporated today with Jacob Herzog serving aas the first president.

1858: At New York’s Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, popularly known as the Greene Street Synagogue, Rabbi Morris Raphall preached a Thanksgiving Day Sermon following the afternoon service based on the words of the Psalmist, “Thank ye the Lord, for He is good; His mercy endureth forever.”  In his sermon, the Rabbi noted that the Governor’s Thanksgiving Proclamation had been written in such a manner that it did not offend the Jews making this a day that fulfilled the words of the Psalm, “How good, how beautiful it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

1858: A Thanksgiving Day service was held today at Congregation Shearith Israel on Crosby Street.  The service began at 11 a.m. and featured a sermon by Dr. Fischel based on the words of the Psalmist, “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman walketh but in vain.”

1859: Today, the Jewish Chronicle published an advertisement “for a German Lady to teach in her own language and to give instruction in Hebrew” from a “Ladies’ school” in Dover “where the number of pupils is small and where there are resident French and English Governesses.

1862: During the Civil War, James Goldsmith who go from Corporal to Sergeant during his three year hitch, began his service to with Company H of the 163^rdRegiment which was part of the Eighteenth Cavalry

1863:  King Christian IX of Denmark decided to sign the November constitution, which declared Schleswig as part of Denmark, what was seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and lead to the German–Danish war of 1864. If you look at history in the long haul, The Prussian war with the Danes was the first of a series of conflicts ultimately led to the creation of Modern Germany.  In other words, there is a line from war with the Danes, to war with the Austrians, to war with France in 1870, to World War I to World War II and the Holocaust.

1864(19^th of Cheshvan, 5625): Jacob Weil the German educator and author from Frankfort-on-the-Main who was the father Professor Henri Weil passed away today.

1869: In New York City, Rabbi James K. Gutheim delivered a Thanksgiving Day sermon at Temple Emanu-El based on Isaiah, XXXV, 17.

1869: A group of dissident members of “Congregations Beaith Israel and Beth Elhoim” in Brooklyn including Jacob Wechsler, S.L. Moses, Simon Sondheim and Abraham L. Bass, all of whom were “sympathetic to the Reform movement” met today and formed Temple Israel which initially held services in rooms rented from the YMCA on the corner of Gallatin Place and Fulton Street.

1871: The British Medical Journal reported today that Henry Behrend was the first Chairman of the Jews’ Deaf and Dumb Home “founded in 1863 by Baroness Mayer de Rothschild as a schoolor where resident Jewish children could learn to speak” and William Van Praggh, “the grandfather of chemist Gordon Van Praggh” was the Director,



1873: “Give a Dog a Bad Name” by Anglo-English playwright Leopold Davis Lewis was published today.

1874: Rabbi De Sola Mendes delivered the first in a series of six lectures on Hebrew poetry at the Lyric Hall in Manhattan.

1875: The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald reported that an unnamed young woman living on the city’s west side has canceled her wedding.  The bride assumed that her future husband, a local doctor, was a Roman Catholic.  In fact he is a Jew who regularly attends services at his synagogue.  The young woman sent word that she would not marry him unless he renounced his Judaism; something that he does not appear to be willing to do.

1878: It was reported today that during the recent Congressional elections in Alabama Senator John Tyler Morgan delivered a speech opposing the candidacy of Colonel William Lowe in which he described Charles E. Mayer, the United States District Attorney and a Lowe supporter as being a “Jew dog.” The attack on Mayer resulted in many Jews who had opposed Lowe to support him in his bid for election.  Lowe, who was opposed by the Bourbon Machine, won the election. Morgan was a bigot who sought to pass legislation legalizing lynching an repealing the 15^th Amendment. Mayer served as U.S. District Attorney from 1876 through 1870.

1879: Bernard Williams, a Jew born in Poland now living in New Orleans, was one of the witnesses who testified before the Senate Sub-Committee looking into allegations of irregularities regarding the elections held in the Crescent City’s Seventh War in 1876.  Allegations concerning voter fraud were a major issue in the South following the Civil War as the “Bourbons” sought to return to power by disenfranchising newly freed slaves and poor whites who would not support them.

1880(15th of Kislev, 5641): Arthur Lieberman, a Jew who had fled Russia to avoid arrest by the authorities took his own life today in Syracuse, NY.

1883: It was reported today that the Lord Mayor of London has received telegrams from Jews in the United States and Germany congratulating him on his decision to not let Herr Stoeckel, the anti-Semitic German religious leader speak at Mansion House.

1883: It was reported today that Herr Stoeckel, the anti-Semitic German minister, has had numerous offers to speak before sympathetic audiences in London.

1883: “Morris Ranger’s Career” published today traces the rise and fall of this native of Hesse-Cassel who joined the Liverpool Exchange and became the “Napoleon of the Cotton Speculators” before suffering financial reverses in the amount of £10,000,000.

1883: “Gossip of the Theatres” published today contained a clarification issued by Daniel Frohman, the Jewish American theatrical producer, expects “The Strangler” to run for another seven or eight weeks at the New Park Theatre.  This play is a collaborative effort of all three Frohman brothers - Daniel, Charles and Gustave.

1883: Birthdate of Chicago native Milton S. Yondorf “the president of the S. Yondorf and Company, real estate and mortgage bankers.

1884(30^th of Cheshvan, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1884: It was reported today that the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society for Children is providing lodging for “nearly 400 children who are homeless waifs.”

1884: The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society for Children sponsored a fund raiser featuring theatrical and dramatic performances by the Thalia Theatre Company

1885: “A New Jewish Platform” published today lists the 8 points of what will become known as the Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism – that group’s controlling document for decades to come.

1885: The Hebrew Asylum Ball was held tonight at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY.

1886: Chester A. Arthur, 21^st President of the United States passed away.  Elected as Vice President, Arthur became President after James Garfield was assassinated by a disappointed office seeker.  Arthur was one of the least distinguished personages to occupy the White House. In 1882, when the United States finally ratified the Red Cross treaty, President Arthur appointed Adolphus SimeonSolomons as one of three delegates to represent the country at the Geneva Congress, where he was elected vice-president. Solomons was a successful Washington businessman who played an active role in the secular and Jewish communities

1888: “Searching For Her Husband” published today tells the story of Mrs. Hirschbeck, a Jew from Warsaw who has arrived in Buffalo, NY, her latest stop on a five year quest to find her husband, who is now known as Nathan Cohen.  According to her, he was a dissipated man who deserted her and their five children.

1890: A conference of Protestant clergymen met today at the University of the City of New York where attendees spoke in favor of keeping religion out of the public schools because Roman Catholics and Jews “were partners in the public schools” and “their children were entitled to the benefit of them…without the liability of having” to change “their faith in the religion of their fathers.”  The ministers felt it was the responsibility of churches and homes to provide moral and religious training.

1890: Birthdate of architect Maurice Courland who was responsible for designing several Jewish buildings including Temple Beth El in Rockaway Park and the Flatbush Jewish Center and who was the husband of Rebecca Graff Courland and the father of Raphael and Nehama Courland https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/18/90854339.html?pageNumber=31

1891: Tonight, in New York, Carnegie Hall will be transformed into an Oriental Bazaar such as those found in Palestine where items will be sold in various “stalls” to raise funds for the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Daily School.

1891(17^th of Cheshvan, 5652): Eighty-three year old Amalia Bamberger passed away today after which she interred at the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Cemetery.

1892 (28th of Cheshvan, 5653)): Seventy-six year old Hebrew scholar Senior Sachs passed away in Paris.  Born in Russia he was trained in Talmud by his father Rabbi Tzemach Sachs.  After studying in Berlin during the 1840’s he arrived in the French capital in 1856 where he worked as a private librarian and produced several works including Kanfe Yonah

1893: As two more Spanish regiments arrive Mellila to deal with the Rif Berbers “numbers of Jews continue to leave” the Spanish city on the coast of Morocco.

1893: In Morocco, 12 Spanish Jews were each “sentenced to six years’ penal servitude” after a court martial found them guilty of keeping rifles intended for the Riffians in their houses.  (The Riffians were a group of Berbers who were rebelling against their European masters)

1894: In New York, Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a talk on “What Is The Attitude of Judaism to Christianity and Other Religions” which is “the first of a series of lectures on ‘Answers to Jewish and Christian Inquirers.”

1894: The Glasgow Herald published a theory propounded by one of its readers “that the Japanese are…descendants of the ten lost tribes” basing “his arguments on linguistic considerations point out that ‘Hiroshima’ has a very strong resemble to the Hebrew word for Jerusalem and that ‘Tokyo’ may be a corruption of ‘Tekoa.’”

1895: It was announced today that “Dr. Ahlwardt, the anti-Semitic leader of Berlin, Germany, is making arrangements to sail for the United States next month to deliver lectures”  at the invitation of “a committee of German Americans in Milwaukee.”  Given his nickname “Jew-baiter” there is little doubt as to the subject matter of the talks.

1896: Fannie and Irving Dittenhoefer married today in New York City.

1896: In Cleveland, Ohio, Micahelis Machol, the Rabbi at the Reform Temple on Scoville Avenue protested “against that portion of President Cleveland’s Thanksgiving proclamation of Christ as the mediator between man and God.”

1896: Following today discussion of the Report of the Committee on Motto and Badge and a report of the Committee on the New Constitution, the delegates at the National Council of Jewish Women changed the name of their organization to the Council of Jewish Woman after Mrs. Mendola de Sola of Canada protested “the use of the word national” following which the delegates then adopted “Faith and Humanity” as their motto.

1897: Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, “who has forced the government to reopen the Dreyfus case did not attend today’s meeting of the Senate so that he could meet with President Faure who told him that “I give you my word of honor that” the documents in the Dreyfus case that have been brought to my notice “contain irrefutable proofs of guilty” and “I beg you to cease this campaign by you are comprising the republic and yourself to no purpose.”

1897: In Little Rock, AR, “Emanuel V. Benjamin and Rachel Goldsmith” gave birth to the New Orleans educated (Isidore Newman School) Harvard graduate Edward Bernard Benjamin, WWI Army officer and husband of Blanche Sternberger, who was a successful businessman and generous philanthropist.

1897: In Albany, Chief Examiner Fowler of the State Civil Commission announced that candidates for the upcoming examination of interpreter for the First Judicial District must be able to interpret several languages including “Hebrew jargon.” (This may a reference to Yiddish)

1897: The Relief Committee of the Board of Guardians is scheduled to meet this afternoon in London.

1898: William Sparger conducted the Sabbath eve service at Temple Emanu-El which was a prelude to a Thanksgiving Service and a celebration of Dr. Guastav Gottheil’s silver anniversary as the Rabbi of New York’s leading Reform congregation.

1898: It was reported today that in New Orleans, “Felix J. Dreyfous and several others were to draw up an ordinance calling for an election in the near future which would give the people an opportunity to vote on the two and one-half mill tax for sewerage and drainage” which led to the upgrade of the sewerage and water systems which was the crowning victory during his tenure as a New Orleans City Councilman.

1898: Following the meeting of Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II outside of Jerusalem, the London Daily Mail wrote today that: “An Eastern Surprise Important Result of the Kaiser’s Tour Sultan and Emperor Agreed in Palestine Benevolent Sanction Given to the Zionist Movement One of the most important results, if not the most important, of the Kaiser’s visit to Palestine is the immense impetus it has given to Zionism, the movement for the return of the Jews to Palestine. The gain to this cause is the greater since it is immediate, but perhaps more important still is the wide political influence which this Imperial action is like to have. It has not been generally reported that when the Kaiser visited Constantinople Dr. Herzl, the head of the Zionist movement, was there; again when the Kaiser entered Jerusalem he found Dr. Herzl there. These were no mere coincidences, but the visible signs of accomplished facts.” Reverend William Henry Hechler, an Anglican clergyman who supported the Jewish return to Palestine, was instrumental in arranging the meeting between the Zionist leader and the German monarch.

1899: Birthdate of Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy was a child prodigy.  He began playing the violin at the age of 4 and entered the Royal Academy at the age of 5.  Ormandy’s father dreamed of his son becoming a great violinist.  So he was disappointed when Ormandy pursued a career that would lead him to become one of the world’s greatest conductors.  For most of his career, Ormandy was the conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.  This was no small accomplishment since he was following in the footsteps of the world-renowned Arturo Toscanini.   He passed away in 1985.

1899: “Notes and News” published today described the decision of Harper & Brothers to published a second edition of The Jewish Question and the Mission of the Jews  which include “much additional material” including an article on Captain Dreyfus. Originally published anonymously, the second edition will included the name of the author, Dr. Charles Waldstein, Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge, an American born Jew who graduated from Columbia.

1901: Birthdate of leading musician Lillian Fuchs who often performed with brothers, violinist Joseph Fuchs and cellist Harry Fuchs.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/05/1995/death-of-lillian-fuchs-one-of-best-string-players-in-america

1905: “A tract of eighteen acres” was purchased for new buildings at the Hebrew Union College.

1905: Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Secretary of the fund being raised by the National Relief Committee said this afternoon that “if the subscriptions now in the mail equal in volume those of the last few days we out by tomorrow night have $500,000 to apply to the relief of the sufferers from the massacres in Russia.”

1905: A letter published in Paris from a Frenchwoman in Odessa gave “a graphic description of the Jewish massacres” in which she estimated the dead at 8,000 and the wounded at 12,000.

1905: “Arnold Kohn, Vice President of the State Bank on Grand Street, near Norfolk Street announced” today” that the total amount of money received at the bank for the last six days for the aid of the sufferers from the Russian massacres was $13, 359.38.”

1905: Nineteen year old Isaac Gillman and his twenty year old sister Rebecca who came to the United States two years ago gave their bankbook which showed a balance of one hundred dollars to Arnold Kohn and “asked him to see that their mother and father who are in Odessa received the money so that they might come to America.

1905: As of today a grand total of $369, 870.04 has been raised to for the relief of the Jews suffering from the massacres in Russia.

1905: “The Russian Jews” published today provides a review of The Russian Jew In The United States edited by Dr. Charles S. Bernheimer which “is a compilation by many hands that undertakes to show what the Russian Jews have been doing and are doing in America…”



1905: “25,000 Jew Murdered” published today described “a cablegram that Clarence I. De Sola, President of the Zionist movement in Canada has received from General President Wolssohn of Odessa” stating “that 25,000 Jews have been murdered and 100,000 wounded in the recent outrages in Russia.”

1906: Birthdate of German novelist Klaus Mann.  Klaus Mann was the son of Thomas Mann and Katia Pringsheimz.  Pringshmeimz was Jewish which according to Halachah means Kalus Mann was Jewish as well. He was also part of the unit known as “Ritchie Boys.”

1906: Birthdate of biologist George Wald, American biochemist who received (with Haldan K. Hartline of the U.S. and Ragnar Granit of Sweden) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for his work on the chemistry of vision

1906: In Brooklyn, Leopold Wintner, the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Elohim and Canto Leon Kourick officiated at the funeral of Raphael Benjamin the Rabbi of Beth Elhoim who was the subject of the eulogy delivered by Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Beth Emmanuel in Manhattan.

1907: Birthdate of Martin John Gilman, a relative of the Jewish pioneer who founded his native Gilman, CT and who played basketball for the University of Connecticut Huskies in the mid-1920’s.

1907: In Baltimore, at the Lloyd Street Synagouge, Rabbi Levinson is scheduled to officiate at funeral services for Aba Ascher Levin the father of eight sons and six daughters, after which he was buried at B’nai Israel Congregation Cemetery.

1908: In Warsaw, Hebrew education and Zionist Yechiel Heilperin and his wife gave birth to Uriel Heilprin who went to Palestine in 1921 where he changed his last name to Shelah but was better known by his nom de plume Yonatan Ratosh under which name he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for his literary accomplishments.

1912: In Baltimore, MD, Rabbi Charles A. Rubenstein officiated at the funeral of Felix Graetz, who had been a patient at the Jewish Home for the Consumptive and was “the son of the late Professor Heinrich Graetz,” the author of the multi-volume History of the Jews and the brother of Professor Leo Graetz.

1914: In Far Rockaway, NY Rabbi Stephen S. Wise addressed a group of orthodox and reform Jews at meeting at Temple Israel where $3,000 was raised to provide “relief for the Jews of Palestine.”

1914: The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War announced today that as of today it had raised $19,463.

1915: “Turkey Is Offering Advantages To Jews” published today quotes the offer being extended to Jews which will give them “the advantages and exemptions” that “during the last century the Ottoman Government has accorded to Mohammedan immigrants come to Turkey from Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Bosnia including “the acquisition of Ottoman nationality” as well as “immunity for a certain period of time, from payment of taxes and military.”

1915: Forty-four year old Abraham Ber Goldenson, the Lithuanian born St. Louis Rabbi “became a naturalized United States citizen” today.

1915: In his address about the World War entitled “Democracy vs. Sovereignty” Darwin P. Kingsley note that in this war nationalism has overridden all other considerations so that “Christians are fights Christians; Jews are killing Jews; Moslems are against Moslems; whites are murdering whites; men of color are fighting their own kind.”

1916: The Battle of the Somme, an exercise in futility and stupidity that was a hallmark of the British General Staff which is brilliantly described in The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War by Sir Martin Gilbert, came to an end today.

1916: Today, Jewish leaders in New York City took a great deal of interest in “a dispatch to the New York Timesfrom its Berlin correspondent describing the promise of freedom in religion and in civil life to the Jews of Poland and telling of the enthusiasm with which Polish Jews had received this news.”

1916: Dr. S.M. Melamed, the editor of The American Jewish Chronicle announced today plans for a national loan for the Jews of Europe that differed from that proposed by Rabbi Judah L. Magnes because among other things it would charge interest – a fact that Melamed said “would create a sense of self-interest and responsibility that would be an uplift in the work of reconstruction in Russia and Poland.”

1917: At a time when Reform Judaism is trying to observe Shabbat on Sunday, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Philanthropy and Religion” at Sinai Temple in Chicago.

1917: Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to conduct services this morning “with the co-operation of the Isaiah Junior Congregation and Religious School where he will deliver a sermon on “And the Elder Shall Serve the Younger.”

1917: In Chicago the “Zion Congregation and the Woman’s Society” are scheduled to “give a reception and entertainment in honor of their new members” this evening that will feature a performance of “The Burden” by the Sinai Center Players.

1917: In the hope of ensuring that the Ottoman army had little time to regroup or construct defenses which, given more time, might prove impregnable, while Allenby was at the British XXI Corps headquarters at El Kastine,  the decision was made to closely follow the Ottoman Seventh Army into the Judean Hills.

1917: Saul J. Cohn is scheduled to speak on “What the recent British Declaration Means to the Jews” before the Harlem Forum at Wadleigh High School this morning.

1917: “Denouncing a false reports in the European and American newspapers that Jews were leading and support the Bolshevik movement in Russia, Herman Bernstein, in an address before the Institutional Synagogue…declared” today “that the attempt to associate the Jews with the Bolsheviki was merely another expression of anti-Semitic propaganda.”

1917: Yale University Professor William Lyon Phelps is scheduled to speak on “The Drama of  Today” at this morning’s service at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall.

1917: This evening, Henri La Fotanine is scheduled to speak on “The Case for Belgium” at the Sunday Evening Forum of the Free Synagogue.

1917: This evening, “three orphan boys who are wards of the Hebrew National Orphan House” are scheduled to the guests of honor “at a dinner arranged by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the House at Beethoven Hall.”

1917: The 75th Division with the Australian and Yeomanry Mounted Divisions began their entry into the Judean Hills with the objective of capturing and securing the heights on either side of the main Jaffa to Jerusalem road at Amwas, so the 75th Division could advance up the road and into the Judean Hills

1917: The American Jewish Congress” which is to work “for the attainment of full rights for the Jewish people in all lands where such rights are denied them and which is to work for the economic reconstruction of the Jewish communities in the war zones after the war is over” which was originally supposed to meet on September 2 is scheduled to open today in Washington, D.C.

1917: Eleven young men in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded Sigma Alpha Rho(ΣAP)  the oldest, continuously run, independent Jewish High School Fraternity.

1919(25th of Cheshvan, 5680): Sixty year old German mathematician Adolf Hurwitz, the husband of Ida Samuel who helped develop the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion (which I do not pretend to understand) passed away today in Zurich

1920: In Louisville, KY, The Young Men’s Hebrew three day fund raising driving which has a goal of $50,000 is scheduled to come to an end today.

1921: “President Warren Harding gave Rabbi Simon Glazer of Kansas City, Kansas, executive permission to adopt five children who are now in Romania.” Glazer already has five children of his own.  The orphans lost their mother in one of the Ukrainian massacres last year and their father died in the United States.  If it had not been for President Harding’s intervention, current immigration restrictions would have kept the rabbi from bringing the youngsters to the United States.

1921(17th of Cheshvan): Fifty-six year old journalist and author Micha Josef Berdyczewski passed away in Berlin.  Born in Russia, the son of a Rabbi, he wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish and German. Sdot Micha, the moshav founded in 1955, was named in his honor

1922:  Fifty-one year old Marcel Proust passed away. “Marcel Proust was the son of a Christian father and a Jewish mother. He himself was baptized (on August 5, 1871, at the church of Saint-Louis d'Antin) and later confirmed as a Catholic, but he never practiced that faith and as an adult could best be described as a mystical atheist, someone imbued with spirituality who nonetheless did not believe in a personal God, much less in a savior. Although Jews trace their religion through their mothers, Proust never considered himself Jewish and even became vexed when a newspaper article listed him as a Jewish author. His father once warned him not to stay in a certain hotel since there were "too many" Jewish guests there, and, to be sure, in Remembrance of Things Past there are unflattering caricatures of the members of one Jewish family, the Blochs. Jews were still considered exotic, even "oriental," in France; in 1872 there were only eighty-six thousand Jews in the whole country. In a typically offensive passage Proust writes that in a French drawing room "a Jew making his entry as though he were emerging from the desert, his body crouching like a hyena's, his neck thrust forward, offering profound `salaams,' completely satisfies a certain taste for the oriental." Proust never refers to his Jewish origins in his fiction, although in the youthful novel he abandoned, Jean Santeuil (first published only in 1952, thirty years after his death), there is a very striking, if buried, reference to Judaism. The autobiographical hero has quarreled with his parents and in his rage deliberately smashed a piece of delicate Venetian glass his mother had given him. When he and his mother are reconciled, he tells her what he has done: "He expected that she would scold him, and so revive in his mind the memory of their quarrel. But there was no cloud upon her tenderness. She gave him a kiss, and whispered in his ear: `It shall be, as in the Temple, the symbol of an indestructible union.'" This reference to the rite of smashing a glass during the Orthodox Jewish wedding ceremony, in this case sealing the marriage of mother to son, is not only spontaneous but chilling. In an essay about his mother he referred, with characteristic ambiguity, to "the beautiful lines of her Jewish face, completely marked with Christian sweetness and Jansenist resignation, turning her into Esther herself"--a reference, significantly, to the heroine of the Old Testament (and of Racine's play), who concealed her Jewish identity until she had become the wife of King Ahasuerus and was in a position to save her people. The apparently gentile Proust, who had campaigned for Dreyfus and had been baptized Catholic, was a sort of modern Esther. Despite Proust's silences and lapses on the subject of his mother's religion, it would be unfair, especially in light of the rampant anti-Semitism of turn-of-the-century France, to say that he was unique or even extreme in his prejudice against Jews. And yet his anti-Semitism is more than curious, given his love for his mother and given, after her death, something very much like a religious cult that he developed around her. His mother, out of respect for her parents, had remained faithful to their religion, and Proust revered her and her relatives; after her death he regretted that he was too ill to visit her grave and the graves of her parents and uncle in the Jewish cemetery and to mark each visit with a stone. More important, although he had many friends among the aristocracy whom he had assiduously cultivated, nevertheless when he was forced to take sides during the Dreyfus Affair, which had begun in 1894 and erupted in 1898, he chose to sign a petition prominently printed in a newspaper calling for a retrial. The Dreyfus Affair is worth a short detour, since it split French society for many years and it became a major topic in proust's life--and in Remembrance of Things Past. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) was a Jew and a captain in the French army. In December 1894 he was condemned by a military court for having sold military secrets to the Germans and was sent for life to Devil's Island. The accusation was based on the evidence of a memorandum stolen from the German embassy in Paris (despite the fact that the writing did not resemble Dreyfus's) and of a dossier (which was kept classified and secret) handed over to the military court by the minister of war. In 1896 another French soldier, Major Georges Picquart, proved that the memorandum had been written not by Dreyfus but by a certain Major Marie Charles Esterhazy. Yet Esterhazy was acquitted and Picquart was imprisoned. Instantly a large part of the population called for a retrial of Dreyfus. On January 13, 1898, the writer Emile Zola published an open letter, "J'accuse," directed against the army's general staff; Zola was tried and found guilty of besmirching the reputation of the army. He was forced to flee to England. Then in September 1898 it was proved that the only piece of evidence against Dreyfus in the secret military dossier had been faked by Joseph Henry, who confessed his misdeed and committed suicide. At last the government ordered a retrial of Dreyfus. Public opinion was bitterly divided between the leftist Dreyfusards, who demanded "justice and truth," and the anti-Dreyfusards, who led an anti-Semitic campaign, defended the honor of the army, and rejected the call for a retrial. The conflict led to a virtual civil war. In 1899 Dreyfus was found guilty again, although this time under extenuating circumstances--and the president pardoned him. Only in 1906 was Dreyfus fully rehabilitated, named an officer once again, and decorated with the Legion of Honor. Interestingly, Theodor Herzl, the Paris correspondent for a Viennese newspaper, was so overwhelmed by the virulent anti-Semitism of the Dreyfus Affair that he was inspired by the prophetic idea of a Jewish state. In defending Dreyfus, Proust not only angered conservative, Catholic, pro-army aristocrats, but he also alienated his own father. In writing about the 1890s in Remembrance of Things Past, Proust remarks that "the Dreyfus case was shortly to relegate the Jews to the lowest rung of the social ladder." Typically, the ultraconservative Gustave Schlumberger, a great Byzantine scholar, could give in his posthumous memoirs as offensive a description of his old friend Charles Haas (a model for Proust's character Swann) as this: "The delightful Charles Haas, the most likeable and glittering socialite, the best of friends, had nothing Jewish about him except his origins and was not afflicted, as far as I know, with any of the faults of his race, which makes him an exception virtually unique." It would be misleading to suggest that Proust took his controversial, pro-Dreyfus stand simply because he was half-Jewish. No, he was only obeying the dictates of his conscience, even though he lost many highborn Catholic friends by doing so and exposed himself to the snide anti-Semitic accusation of merely automatically siding with his co-religionists.”

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Proust-Marcel.html

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/white-proust.html

1922: Die Zaubernacht (The Magic Night), a children’s pantomime by Kurt Weil premiered at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm;

1926: In Cleveland, Barnett Brickner, the Rabbi at Anshe Chesed and Rebecca Ena Aaronson gave birth to Arthur James Balfour Brickner who gained fame as Rabbi Balfour Brickner the founder of Washington, D.C. Temple Sinai, one of the city’s leading Reform congregation whose members included Dr. Jack and Ada Levine and their three children – Judy, Dale and Nancy.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102485.html

1926: In Manchester, UK, Nelly Ades and Abraham Sciama, both of whose families “traced their roots back to the ancient Jewish community of Aleppo, gave girth to physicist Dennis William Siahous Sciama

http://www.sissa.it/ap/activity/sciama.php

1927: Birthdate of Chicagoan Paul Silverberg, the son of teacher and writer Viola Spolin who gained fame as Paul Sills the “founding director of The Second City. (As reported by Campbell Robertson_

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/theater/04sills.html

1927: In Breslau, Germany, Hans Hubert Pinkus, the son of Max and Hedwig Pinkus and Charlotte Pinkus gave birth to Freda Maria (Freddie) Pinkus and Johanna Hedwig (Jonnie) Pinkus

1927: Humphrey Bogart divorced his first wife, the Jewish actress Helen Menken.  (Bogart’s fourth and final wife would also be Jewish)

1928: WABC is scheduled to broadcast the thirty minute “Jewish Program” at 9:30 p.m.

1928: In his sermon this morning at the Motefiore Congregation in the Bronx, Rabbi Jacob Katz declared that “America is the first country to give the Jews an opportunity to change their religion for the better” which stood in stark contrast to past times when “persecution led the Jew to submit to death rather than to transgress his faith.”

1929: Featherweight Harry Blitman fought his 51^st bout today, suffering only his third loss at the Arena in Philadelphia, PA.

1929: According to the report of the Palestine Committee presented at today’s meeting of Hadassah held in Atlantic City, NJ, “the outstanding event in Palestine heal work this year has been the completion an formal opening of the Nathan and Lina Straus health center in Jerusalem.”

1933(29^th of Cheshvan, 5694): Parashat Tolodot

1933: Led by team captain Sid Gillman Ohio State defeated the University of Wisconsin today.

1933: “Roberta,” a musical with a score by Jerome Kern opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre for the first of 295 performances.

1933: This evening, “a week before Thanksgiving, the SPHAS, the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association basketball team took the floor at their home court, the Broadwood Hotel at the corner of Broad and Wood Streets in Philadelphia” in what “was the first game for the 1933-34 season of the American Basketball League, the premier professional league of that era.”

1934: In one of those steps that would eventually lead to the Shoah, the Nazis won the elections in what was then the “Free City of Danzig.”

1935: In what would turn out to be one of the many steps that led to WW II and the Shoah, “the League of Nations sanctions against Italy,” which would have no effect on fascist aggression went into effect today

1936: It was reported today that the police did not intervene when Jewish students were attacked by anti-Semitic and fascist mobs after they refused to leave their classes at the University of Budapest.

1936: Two weeks after meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, the archbishop of Munich, “met with leading members of the German hierarchy of cardinals to ask them to warn their parishioners against the errors of communism.”

1937: Establishment of military courts in Palestine to try civilians. 

1937: The Palestine Post reported that a Jewish farmer, Yehuda Shpanov, was shot in Afula and died four hours later in the local hospital, where his wife was awaiting the birth of their child. An official amendment held that "no judgment over the proceedings of the Military Court shall be called in question or challenged in any manner whatever by or before any other Court."

1937:  The Palestine Post reported that in Hamburg a baptized Jew, Dr. Theodor Wohlfahrt, was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for having married a gentile and claiming in a German court that it was his right to do so.

1938: Hitler recalls Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, German ambassador to the United States, after President Franklin Roosevelt recalled the U.S. ambassador to Germany as part of America’s protest against Kristallnacht.

1938: The American Virgin Islands Assembly offers the islands as a haven for Jewish refugees. The American government does not explore this possibility.

1939: Hans Frank, the governor-general of Occupied Poland, reiterates Reinhard Heydrich's order of September 21 regarding the establishment of Judenräte in Jewish ghettos.

1939: The Nazis ordered the Jews of Cracow to wear a Star of David.

1939: In Lodz, German-occupied Poland today, the German administrator issued a decree stating that “any Jew leaving his home without a special permit between 5 P.M. and 8 A.M. may be punished by death” and “also made punishable by death the failure of any Jew, irrespective of age or sex to wear a yellow armband. In case of extenuating circumstance, a money fine of unlimited sixe or imprisonment or both may be adjudged.”

1939: At Michie Stadium at West Point, NY Penn State led by their Team Captain Spike Alter defeated the team of the United States Military Academy.

1939(6^th of Kislev, 5700): Sixty-seven year old Dr. Jacob Itzhak Niemirower  a supporter of Zionism and the first Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry passed away today in Bucharest.

1941: J.D. Salinger “wrote to a young woman in Toronto,” Marjorie Sheard, “to look for a new piece of his in a coming issue of The New Yorker” which he described as “the first Holden story.” (As reported by Dave Itzkoff

1941: Friedrich Jeckeln, the SS General who developed the 8 point Jecklin System for murdering Jews was searching for the right place to slaughter of the Jews of Riga when he saw Rumbula for the first time.

1942:  Birthdate of pianist Jeffrey Siegel.

1942(9^th of Kislev, 5703): Seventy-six year old Milton Kraus, a native of Kokomo, Indiana who organized a company of volunteers for the Spanish-American War and served in the 65th, 66th and 67th Congresses passed away today in Wabash, Indiana after which he was buried in Peru, Indiana.

1942: As part of the Holocaust German SS carry out a selection of Jewish ghetto in Lviv in the western Ukraine arresting 5.000 "unproductive Jews". All get deported to Belzec death camp.

1943: In an attempt to hide the Holocaust from the westward moving Soviet Army, 300 Jews at Borki were told  that they were to dig up the trenches of 30,000 dead humans in Borki and then burn them all. One thousand bodies were placed on each pyre. The bones were ground to dust and taken away. The graves were emptied, disinfected, filled with earth and grass was planted over them.

1943: During the Holocaust, as part of Aktion Emtefest, the Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, western Ukraine, murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews. The German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews).

1944(2nd of Kislev, 5705): Thirty nine year old  Enzo Serini, Havivah Reik, Raffi Reiss and Zvi Ben Ya'acov who were all Jews from Palestine who had parachuted behind German lines were murdered today at Dachau.

1944(2^nd of Kislev, 5705): Alfred B. Nietzel died valiantly today during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest providing covering fire for his comrades “during an enemy advance threatening to overrun his position” – an action that would earn him the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor.

1945: “The premiere performance of Nathaniel Shilkret’s “Genesis Suite” took place today at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

1945: At Zionist Organization of America meeting, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver is elected to succeed Dr. Israel Goldstein as president. A proposal is made to allow the Jewish National Fund of America to buy 500,000 acres of land in Palestine in defiance of British land transfer regulations. A budget is approved for immigration and settlement.

1945: In the wake of the latest British statements about Palestine it was reported today that “It was apparent that some sort of compromise will have to be forthcoming from outside Palestine as there is little possibility of the Arabs and Jews getting together on anything so far proposed.” (Editor’s Note – what was written in 1945 sounds as if it could have been written in 2020)

1945: Twenty eight year old basketball player Jule Rivlin, the future coach of Marshall University, married Esther Komesar, a union that lasted until his death in 2002 and produced “5 children, 1 son, Jerry and 4 daughters, Randy, Sherryl, Susan and Felicia.”

1945: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, says British foreign minister Ernest Bevin cannot divide Zionists and other Jewish People.

1946: Police and Jewish citizens clashed in Tel Aviv

1946(24^th of Cheshvan, 5707): Lithuanian born Harry Lazarus, the son of Basheva Pearlman Lazarus and the husband of Maggie Oppert Lazarus passed away today in Valdosta, GA after which he was buried in the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta.

1946: “A Flag is Born” opened at the Broadway Theatre.

1947: Today, Hitler’s closest confidante Albert Speer wrote down the following recollection in his Spandau prison diary which today sounds so eerily prophetic:

I recall how [Hitler] would have films shown in the Reich Chancellory about London burning, about the sea of fire over Warsaw, about exploding convoys, and the kind of ravenous joy that would then seize him every time. But I never saw him so beside himself as when, in a delirium, he pictured New York going down in flames. He described how the skyscrapers would be transformed into gigantic burning torches, how they would collapse in confusion, how the bursting city’s reflection would stand against the dark sky...

http://www.acpr.org.il/english-nativ/02-issue/wistrich-2.htm

1947: “Stern Gang Hints at Truce” published today examined the possibility of “a respite from violence in Palestine” should among other things Lehi make good on its announcement to the press that it was “ready to resume its truce pledge.”

1947: Birthdate of Peter Shurman, the native of Ontario who went from being a radio talk show host to a career in politics as member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

1947: Birthdate of Michel-Jean Hamburger, a very successful French singer and songwriter of Jewish origin.

1947: “Lewis Neikrug, the director general for Europe of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society” who “was among the 400 passengers who sailed from Pier 88, North River, for Europe on the French liner De Grasse” said that “the projected partitioning of Palestine can ease considerably the problem of displaced persons of Europe.”

1947: British editor James Caunt was reported today to have expressed his belief that the accusations of seditious libel that had been filed after his assertions that anti-British propaganda “was financed by American Jews and “that if British Jews were really concerned by the shooting of British boys in Palestine they should ‘disgorge their ill-gotten wealth in try to dissuade their brothers in the United States from pour out dollars to facilitate the entrance into Palestine of European Jewish scum’” were politically motivated by those who believe that “anyone who criticizes the Jews must be a Fascist.”

1948: British state minister Hector McNeil offers the Political Committee a resolution calling for permanent settlement based on Bernadotte plan. Israel proposes compromise: it will withdraw all troops who arrived in Israel after October 14; troops who arrived before October 14 will stay to ensure that area does not fall to Egypt. Israel announces it is ready to begin armistice with Arabs.

1949: “Adams Rib,” a comedy directed by George Cukor, produced by Lawrence Weingarten and featuring Judy Holliday was released in the United States today.

1949: UN Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East proposes after a three-month study that the General Assembly set up program of relief and public works in various Arab countries for 652,000 Arab refugees from Palestine. No comparable fund would be suggested for providing aid to Israel when Jewish populations of Arab and Moslem countries were forced to flee from their homes.

1950: The CCNY football team played its last game today at Lewisohn Stadium name for “financier and philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn” who “donated the money for the combination athletic facility and amphitheater which opened in 1915 and fell victim to the wrecking ball in 1973.

1950: After 742 performances at the Morosco Theater, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”

1951: In Tel Aviv, second generation architect Yaakov Rechter and his first wife, Sara Safir gave birth to Israeli musical artist Yoni Rechtet, the stepson of Israeli actress Hanna Meron.

1951: Birthdate of David “Dudu” Fisher, the native of Petah Tivka who pursued a decade’s long career as a cantor before appearing as “Jean Valjean in the musical Les Miserables.”

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that observers noted Arab protests over the German-Israeli Reparation Agreement were meant only to extort more trade and imports from their countries to Germany.

1952(30^th of Cheshvan, 5713): Seventy-seven year old John Parker an English Jew who was the “editor of reference works” passed away today.

1953: As he eight years as New York City comptroller were coming to an end, Lazarus Joseph was quoted by the New York Times as warning the citizenry “"that it is easy to borrow, but the reckoning always must be met in the expense budget, and by the taxpayer” – words that seemed to be prophetic when the city went bankrupt in the 1970’s.

1954: Terence William Leighton MacDermot began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.

1954: “The Last Time I Saw Paris” a romantic company directed by Richard Brooks who wrote the screenplay along with Julius and Philip Epstein, filmed by cinematographer Joseph Rutten with a theme song by  composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II was released in the United States today by MGM,

1955(3rd of Kislev, 5716): Sixty-five year old chess master Solomon Rosenthal passed away today.

1956: After finally winning their second game of the season last Sunday, Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams returned to their losing ways by dropping a game to the Chicago Bears.

1956: In case of “Jew on Jew,” Alfred Kazin reviews Saul Bellow’s most recent book, Seize the Day.

1958: The Assistant United States Attorney that the $4,790.44 that Charles A. Levine still owed the government as part of a $5,000 fine levied after he was convicted of smuggling in 1937 was not collectible.

1958: “I Want to Live!” a dark film that raises questions about capital punishment co-starring Theodore Bikel and with a theme-song by Johnny Mandel was released today in the United States.

1958: Jerusalem's new reservoir was opened ending a long history of water problems that made Jerusalem more vulnerable to siege.  Water for Jerusalem had been a challenge going all the way back to Biblical times.  Remember the story of how David took the city in the first place.  Fear of siege was not paranoia for the Israelis.  The Jews had nearly lost the city ten years earlier when the Jordanian Army (the Arab Legion) laid siege to it during the War for Independence.

1959(17^th of Cheshvan, 5720): Sixty-one year old Arkady Shaiket, who like Robert Capa and Joe Rosenthal was another Jewish photojournalist who provided iconic WW II photographs

http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/russian-photography/arkady-shaikhet

1959: “A Summer Place” a movie version of the novel with the same name contains “a memorable instrumental theme composed by Max Steiner, which spent nine weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960” was released the United States today.

1959: William Wyler’s film Ben-Hur premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City. William Wyler was Jewish.  Judah Ben Hur was also Jewish.

1959: Opening of the Sephardic Bibliographical Exhibition in Madrid, Spain.  The Exhibition was in conjunction with the World Sephardi Federation, Arias Montano Institute, the faculty of Philosophy of the Madrid University as well as the Royal Academy of Spanish Language. The Exhibition demonstrated rare Sephardic documents, books, maps and material showing the life of Jews in Spain up to 1492.

1961: “The Gay Life,” a musical based on the plays of Arthur Schnitzler “with a book by Fay and Michael Kanin,” “music by Arthur Schwartz,” directed by Gerald Freeman and featuring Jules Munshin opened today on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre.

1962: Niels Henrik David Bohr passed away. “Bohr was a Danish physicist, born in Copenhagen, who was the first to apply the quantum theory, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For this work he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. He developed the so-called Bohr Theory of the atom and liquid model of the nucleus. Bohr was of Jewish origin and when the Nazis occupied Denmark he escaped in 1943 to Sweden on a fishing boat. From there he was flown to England where he began to work on the project to make a nuclear fission bomb. After a few months he went with the British research team to Los Alamos in the USA where they continued work on the project.”

1962: “Some 1, 000 persons attended a special service at Temple Emanuel here today, marking the 30th year in the rabbinate of Dr. Nathan A. Perilman, rabbi of the temple, the largest house of Jewish worship in the world. The service observed the 30th year of Dr. Perilman’s affiliation with the Temple.”

1963(2^nd of Kislev, 5724): Sixty-two year old Lean Zion Alper, the wife of Abraham Joseph Alper and the mother of Ben and Frances Alper passed away today after which she was buried in the B’nai Zion Cemetery in Chattanooga, TN.

1964: In London, UK, Neil Simon’s “Little Me” opened at the Cambridge Theatre.

1964: NBC broadcast “The Hanged Man” directed by Don Siegel, co-starring Norman Fell and featuring Stan Getz who also wrote the music for the first time.

1966: Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to an arthritic left elbow

1968(27^th of Cheshvan, 5729): Seventy-four year old movie producer Walter Wagner who was responsible for the 1963 big screen epic “Cleopatra” based away today.

http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/walter-wanger_intro.htm

https://spartacus-educational.com/SPYwanger.htm

1969: “The Arrangement” the movie version of the novel with the same name starring Kirk Douglas and featuring Harold Gould with a score by David Amram was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.

1971(30th of Cheshvan, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1971: ITV broadcast the “The Best Laid Plans, the last episode of “The Lovers” a British sitcom created by Jack Rosenthal who also served as the writer and director.

1973: “David Ben-Gurion suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and was taken to Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer, Ramat Gan.”

1973: Sixty year old Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro, the scion of a prominent of Sephardi family who converted to Christianity passed away today.

1973(23^rd of Cheshvan, 5734: Eighty year old Phillip A. Vogelman, the Polish born “president and chairman of the Onondaga Silk Company and active member of the ADL, UJA and Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/19/archives/philip-vogelman-of-onodaga-silk-industry-leader-60-years-diesused.html

1973: Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis delivered a speech today at Madison Square Garden that led to the formation of “Hineni,” “one of the first Ba’al Teshuva movements.

1974: An analytical report compiled by refuseniks M. Agursky, A.  Luntz, V. Davidov, V. Rubin, D. Beilin, A. Voronel, A. Sharansky, V. Slepak, A. Lerner was transferred to the West. The report was submitted to the administration of President Ford on the eve of the summit between Ford and Brezhnev in Vladivostok.

1975: “Alexander Silnitsky, a 23 year old student from Krasnodar, was sentenced to three years imprisonment on charges of draft evasion.”

1976(25^th of Cheshvan, 5737): Sixty-six year old “Louis G. Cowan the former President of CBS” and his wife 63 year old Pauline Cowan were killed today when “a fire swept through their apartment in the Westbury Hotel.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/19/archives/louis-cowan-killed-with-wife-in-a-fire-created-quiz-shows-louis.html



1976(25th of Cheshvan, 5737): Eighty-six year old American born artist Man Ray passed away in Paris.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100127075614/http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c347_a17217/The_Arts/Museums.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20100127075614/http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c347_a17217/The_Arts/Museums.html

1976: Refuseniks held a sit-in demonstration at the Supreme Court demanding an answer to a letter filed by them a month earlier. In the evening, participants were detained, taken into the woods and released.

1977: Seventy-nine year old Kurt Schuschnigg the Austrian chancellor who opposed Hitler’s annexation of his country and spent the war in two different concentration camps passed away today.

1977: Longtime feminist activist and U.S. Representative Bella Abzug presided over the first federally funded National Women's Conference.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that 60 Egyptians and 2,000 journalists arrived in order to prepare the historic visit of the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Israel. Chaim Herzog, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, suggested that the General Assembly suspend the "acrimonious and counterproductive" debate on Palestine in order to be able to consider this historic event. It was also reported that Sadat¹s visit was partly prompted by a question that the Post¹s US correspondent, Wolf Blitzer, had asked Sadat in Washington last April.

1978(18th of Cheshvan, 5739): Judge Leo Frederick Rayfiel passed away.  Born in 1888 to immigrant parents in Brooklyn, he was a graduate of New York University Law School.  He was a member of the New York State Assembly and served two terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives before being appointed to the federal bench by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. Rayfiel was a voracious reader and die-hard Dodgers fan until the team left Brooklyn.

1981(21^st of Cheshvan, 5742): Seventy-eight year old Oklahoma nativeEleanor (Klein) Lapowski,  the wife of Errold Baum Lapowski and the mother of Jean and Louise Lapowski passed away today in El Paso, TX.

1983(12^th of Kislev, 5744): Eight-three actor Marcel Dalio passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/23/obituaries/marcel-dalio-83-film-actor-dead.html

1983(12^th of Kislev, 5744): Ninety-one year old publisher, George B. Eisler passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/09/obituaries/george-b-eisler.html

1986: “An extended version of” Billy Joel’s “Big Man on Mulberry Street was used today on an episode of Moonlighting”

1988: In Tel Aviv, Orly Silbersatz and Yuval Banay gave birth to singer and guitarist Elisha Banai, older brother of Amalia and Sophie Banai and the grandson of another Israeli performer Yossi Banai.

1988: In New York City, Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles” premiered at the Playwrights Horizon.

1990(1st of Kislev, 5751): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1990: The third Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof opened today at the Gershwin Theater. It ran for 241 performances at the George Gershwin Theatre. Topol starred as Tevye, and Marcia Lewis was Golde. Robbins' production was reproduced by Ruth Mitchell and choreographer Sammy Dallas Bayes. The production won the Tony Award for Best Revival.

1991(11^th of Kislev, 5752): Eighty-three year old French Marxist Claude Cahen who has been described as “the  doyen of Islamic social history and one of the most influential Islamic historians of [his] century” and who “neither self-identified as Jewish nor supported the State of Israel” passed away today.

1993(4^th of Kislev, 5754): Ninety-three year old German born American character Fritz Feld passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/23/obituaries/fritz-feld-actor-93.html

1999: The 1999 Trophée Lalique, a figure skating competition held in Paris, in which Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovski represented Israel in the ice dancing competition opened today.

2000(3rd of Kislev, 5762):St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip.

St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded in the Palestinan shooting attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds on Nov 20.

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Complete Works of Isaac Babel:  Edited by Nathalie Babel, Translated by Peter Constantine. Introduction by Cynthia Ozick, Somewhere For Me:
A Biography of Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions by Martha C. Nussbaum, Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 by Richard Overy and I’m Not Bobby by Jules Feiffer.

2002(13th of Kislev, 5763) Esther Galia, 48, of Kochav Hashahar, was killed in a shooting attack near Rimonim, on the Allon Road, some 15 kilometers northeast of Ramallah

2002: During the investigation of Jack Abramoff’s business activities in Guam a grand jury issued a subpoena demanding that the administrator of the Guam Superior Court release all records relating to the contract.

2002: “U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of Montgomery, Alabama, orders the removal of Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument, finding that it violated the constitution's ban on government establishment of religion.”

2003(23rd of Cheshvan, 5764: Fifty-five year old Grammy award winning musician Michael Kamen passes away. While studying the oboe, he formed a rock classical fusion band called New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, which was on the first of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/20/arts/michael-kamen-55-award-winning-composer.html

http://www.michaelkamen.com/

2003(23rd of Cheshvan, 5764): Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004(5th of Kislev, 5765): Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist passed away.  Born Seymour Kaufman, to Jewish immigrant parents, Coleman won or was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, 3 Emmy Awards and 2 Grammy Awards. (As reported by Robert Berkvist)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/theater/19cnd-coleman.html

2005(15th of Cheshvan, 5766): Harold J. Stone passed away. Born Harold Hochstein to a Jewish acting family in 1913, Stone practiced his craft on Broadway, in film and finally in television where he gained respect and a form of fame as “a character actor.” 

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/19/local/me-stone19

2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that Pope Benedict XVI responded positively to an invitation extended to him by President Moshe Katsav when the two met at the Vatican. 

2006: Some eight thousand people gathered near Germany's biggest World War II soldiers’ cemetery to protest against far-right extremism.

2006(27th of Cheshvan, 5767: Jack Werber passed away at the age of 92.  He was a Holocaust survivor who helped save more than 700 children at Buchenwald slave labor camp.  He gained economic success in the mid-fifties by manufacturing coonskin caps during the Davey Crockett craze.

2007: The SundayWashington Post book section featured a review of The Conscience of a Liberal by Jewish economist Paul Krugman

2007: The Sunday New York Timesbook section featured reviews of three books about or by comedian Woody Allen including, Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking by Eric Lax, Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen and The Insanity Defense: The Complete Proseby Woody Allen.

2007: The Chicago Tribune business section reported on the growth of Chicago based Levy Restaurants. Since its founding in 1978 by brothers Larry and Mark Levy, Levy Restaurants has grown from a single delicatessen in Chicago to a specialized, industry-leading food organization with a network of internationally acclaimed restaurants; the leading market share of premium foodservice operations at sports and entertainment facilities; as well as a full-service consulting and advisory services group. The keeper of the Company’s precious culture is Eadie Levy, mother of Larry and Mark, and resident Mom to almost 15,000 team members. Her story is simple, but it’s one filled with a passion for great food and a love for making people happy. When her two sons opened a delicatessen called D.B. Kaplan’s in Chicago’s Water Tower Place in 1978, they thought they had everything under control. That is, until their ambitious investment started to struggle a bit. Their rescue strategy? They called their mother, Eadie. At the time, she was living in St. Louis and her cooking skills were considered a work-in-progress, being that she didn’t even learn to cook until she was married. But as any mother would do, she came to the rescue of her two sons. Eadie moved to Chicago and immediately became involved in the deli operations, starting in the kitchen. Many of the recipes in the Levy Restaurants repertoire are Eadie’s or her grandmothers, passed down from generation to generation. Eadie herself trained the staff on the preparation of the traditional Jewish menu items. Her work with D.B. Kaplan’s eventually lead to the creation of her namesake restaurant, Mrs. Levy’s Delicatessen, located in Chicago’s Sears Tower. Since 1986, Mrs. Levy’s Deli has been one of the city’s greatest delis, treating guests to authentic, New York-style sandwiches, homemade soups and old-fashioned soda fountain creations. After a few years behind the scenes, Eadie’s desire to have more interaction with her guests grew, and she moved to the front of the house, where she remains today, meeting and greeting guests, most of whom she knows by name. This personal touch has made Eadie a celebrity in her own right. Photos of her posing with her favorite celebrities – everyone from local hero, Michael Jordan, to Hollywood stars Goldie Hawn and Steven Spielberg – adorn the walls of the deli. And in true Midwestern style, Eadie graciously obliges every request to have her picture taken and added to the growing "Wall of Fame." These days, Eadie Levy, a grandmother and great-grandmother, still believes that despite her own success, her proudest accomplishment remains her sons’ entrepreneurialism and creativity in making Levy Restaurants a successful company, full of genuinely nice people.

2008: In Israel, members of the National Religious Party “voted to disband the party in order to join the new Jewish Home Party

2008: French and Israeli police discovered 43 of timepieces that had been stolen from the L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic art in two French bank safes.

2008: Ethan Berkowitz himself conceded defeat in the race to fill the seat of U.S. Representative for Alaska's At-large congressional district, after counting of absentee and provisional ballots had mostly been completed and his Republican opponent Don Young had a clearly insurmountable lead.

2008: At Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Des Moines, Iowa AIPAC Midwest Political Director Jonathan Greenberg speaks on “Changes in the White House and on Capitol Hill:  How It Impacts The Pro-Israel Agenda.”  Of course, the presentation is based on the premise that AIPAC’s agenda and the “Pro-Israel Agenda” are one and the same.

2008: The Ninth Annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival presents: “The Counterfeiters”  “One Day You’ll Understand,” adaptation of Jerome Clement’s autobiographical novel, Plus Tard, Tu Comprendras and “Two Ladies” a hopeful drama that offers a sensitive portrayal of the unlikely friendship two French women – Esther, who is Jewish, and Halima, who is Muslim – which defies the prejudice and hostility that surround them.

2008: As part of the "Jewish Encounters" series at the D.C. Jewish Community Center, writer and poet Adam Kirsch discusses and signs Benjamin Disraeli, his new biography of the British prime minister in which takes an in-depth look at the first—and only—Jewish Prime Minister of England.

2008: Michael Rosen was presented with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the Government of France at the French Ambassador's residence in London

2009 (1^st of Kislev, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

2009: Moshe Holtzberg, son of Barvriel and Rivka Holztberg of blessed memory who were murdered by the terrorists in Mumbain in 2008, celebrated his third birthday according to the Jewish calendar. A party was held at Kfar Chabad which was attended by 2,000 people who stayed for a memorial dinner for his parents.

2009: In Fairfax, VA, Congregation Olam Tikvah hosts “Sacred Scripture: How do you understand your own? Can I try?” as part of its interfaith program.

2009: At the UK Jewish Film Festival, a screening of an episode from the groundbreaking TV drama "Good Intentions", which centers around two female chefs, one Palestinian and one Israeli, co-hosting a cookery show despite intense opposition from their respective communities.

2009(1st of Kislev, 5770): Seventy-five year old  “Ari Kiev, a psychiatrist whose early work on depression and suicide prevention led to a career helping athletes and Wall Street traders achieve peak performance, passed away today in Manhattan. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/30kiev.html

2009(1st of Kislev, 5770): James F. Berg, who as the chief negotiator for most of the major landlords in New York City was given large credit for an era of labor peace in their buildings because of the trust he inspired on both sides of the bargaining table, died today in Manhattan. He was 65 (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

2010: “Precious Life” is scheduled to be shown at the Other Israel Film Festival today at the JCC in Manhattan.

2010: In New York, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present The Fall Concert which is part of The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO:

2010: In response to a call by Chief Ashkenazi RabbiYona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo for the public to pray for rain during this draught-like period, today is scheduled to be a special day of fasting and prayer to atone for the sins that are likely preventing the direly missing rainfall.

2010:"Army of Islam," a group linked to Al Qaida, released today for the first time a statement in Hebrew threatening to avenge the killing of two senior members of the organization in the Gaza Strip yesterday



2010: Jacob Lew began serving as Director of the Office of Management and Budget.



2011: “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish” is scheduled to be shown this evening at Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival.



2011: An opening reception is scheduled to take place at the Derek Eller Gallery marking the opening of “Rona Yefman: Marath a Bouke, project #4” in which Rona Yefman will present an installation about Martha Bouke, an 80-year-old grandfather and Holocaust survivor living in Tel Aviv who assumes a feminine persona…”



2011: It was reported today that Henry Kissinger in 1972 called Jews "self-serving" because of pleas from the community for the Nixon administration to increase the pressure on the Soviet Union to allow its Jews to leave. "Is there a more self-serving group of people than the Jewish community?" Kissinger, who is Jewish, asks Leonard Garment, also Jewish, in transcripts of a 1972 exchange released this week by the State Department and reported by The Associated Press. Garment, a special counsel to President Nixon, replied: "None in the world." Kissinger, who at the time was the national security adviser, added: "What the hell do they think they are accomplishing? You can’t even tell bastards anything in confidence because they’ll leak it.”Nonetheless, Kissinger tells Garment he will raise the issue with the Soviet ambassador. Kissinger resented the Jewish community's emphasis on releasing Jews, saying it detracted from the overall White House strategy of achieving detente with the Soviet Union -- a strategy he to this day maintains would have brought greater success for Soviet Jewry, although veterans of the movement adamantly disagree. Kissinger's office said he was traveling and not immediately available for comment. A request to Garment for comment, emailed to a law firm where he is last known to have had offices, went unanswered. Revelations of Kissinger's disparagement of Jews during his Nixon years have at times led to him apologizing; most recently, last December, he said he was "sorry" for telling Nixon in 1973 that it would not be an American concern if the Soviets were to consign Jews to death camps.

2011:Israel sent housing assistance for up to 1,000 people in Turkey affected by two earthquakes that hit the country in October. The mobile homes, which were requested by the government in Ankara, were delivered by the Defense Ministry this morning.

2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe which “begins with Marvel’s best-known employees:” – Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber) and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzburg) and the recently released paperback edition of A Train In Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women Friendship and Resistance in Occupied Franceby Caroline Moorehead which traces the fate of 230 women shipped to Auschwitz in January, 1943.

2012: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: The American Society for Jewish Music and American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to present The Hugo Weisgall Centennial Concert

2012(4^th of Kislev, 5773): Eighty-six year old academic and diplomat Helmut Sonnenfeldt passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/world/helmut-sonnenfeldt-expert-on-soviet-and-european-affairs-is-dead-at-86.html

2012: Adas Israel Cantor Arianne Brown and the Charm City Klezmer are among those scheduled to perform at the Jewish Folk Arts Festival hosted at B’nai Israel in Rockville, MD.

2012: Global Day of Jewish Learning

http://www.theglobalday.com/community/curriculum2012/

2012: As published today in the Cedar Rapids Gazette

For weeks Arabs have been firing rockets into southern Israel.  Israeli schools have been closed for days at a time.  Citizens of several towns including Beersheba have had to stay within seconds of a “safe room” because that is all the warning that exists between the launching from Gaza and landing in Israel.  In one sense, there is nothing new about this.  The Arabs in Gaza did this in November of 2011, 2010, etc. The reason for the attacks is simple.  Hamas is committed to the destruction of the state of Israel.  When Israel left Gaza without any pre-conditions, the Arabs had a choice.  They could start working on building a state or they could enhance their war of destruction aimed at Israel.  Unfortunately, they chose the latter.  Today, the Israelis had enough. They responded to these incessant attacks by killing one of the leaders responsible for these rocket terror attacks and unleashed a series of limited attacks on launch sites and the logistics net that supported it.  Unfortunately, the American media chose not to cover the attacks of the last three weeks so all we have in the news tonight is the mean old Israelis attacking the poor Palestinians.  http://thegazette.com/2012/11/17/weeks-of-arab-attacks-preceded-israeli-attack/

2012: After a few hours of relative quiet, a rocket fired from Gaza this evening hit a house near Kiryat Malachi. (As reported by the Jerusalem Post)

2013: The Center For Jewish History and the YIVO Institute For Jewish Research are scheduled to present a concert and lecture “Charles-Valentin Alkan: His Life and Music” as part of the Circles of Justice Program.



2013: “The Lesson” and “Mom, Dad, I’m A Muslim” are scheduled to be shown at The Other Israel Film Festival.



2013: The Embassy of the Czech Republic, Embassy of Israel and LCPA-Hebrew Language Table are scheduled to present “The Story of the Shipwrecked from the Patria.”



2013: French President Francois Hollande continued his official visit today, touring the Old City in Jerusalem, meeting with senior Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah and then visiting the Knesset, where he listened to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly call on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to break the diplomatic freeze and come address the Israeli parliament. (As reported by Moran Azulay)



2013: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-mmon walked through the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate as he began his to Auschwitz where he paid tribute to those murdered by the Nazis and their allies.



2013: “Former chief rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested today at the culmination of a long investigation into a litany of financial crimes involving millions of shekels.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)



2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev: Composing in War Time.”



2014: In Melbourne “Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem” and “King of the Jews” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: “Swim Little Fish” and “This Is Where I Leave You” are scheduled to be shown at the 18^th annual UK Jewish Film Festival.



2014(25^th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59; Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, a British-born father of six; Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43; and Rabbi Kalman Levine, 55 were murdered by Arab terrorists this morning and “at least 8 others were injured” while praying at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2839734/Peace-loving-devout-British-father-six-slaughtered-prayed-neighbourhood-moved-quiet-life.html



http://www.jta.org/2014/11/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/four-israelis-killed-in-terror-attack-on-jerusalem-synagogue



http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-jerusalem-terrorists-shatter-silence-of-prayer-with-synagogue-bloodbath/

The Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing Stravinsky’s Suite de L'histoire du soldat for violin clarinet and piano, Prokofiev’s Sonata in D Major for violin and piano and Ravel’s Piano Trio.The Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing Stravinsky’s Suite de L'histoire du soldat for violin clarinet and piano, Prokofiev’s Sonata in D Major for violin and piano and Ravel’s Piano Trio.

2014: Chaim Rothman, the husband of a friend of Renee Ghert-Zand, was attacked by “Palestinian assailants” who “axed him in the head as he prayed in a Jerusalem synagogue this morning.” (As reported by Renee Ghert-Zand)

2014: Thousands attend funerals of Aryeh Kupinsky, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Rabbi Kalman Levine, and Rabbi Moshe Twersky, killed at prayer in Jerusalem this morning.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-funerals-for-synagogue-terror-victims-mourners-grieve-with-24-orphans-from-one-street/

2014: New York City increased its police presence at synagogues and other locations in the wake of an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that left four dead

2014: In the United Kingdom, the Community Security Trust issued the warning today in a security bulletin that contained nine instructions to Jewish institutions, including a call to “ensure visible external security patrols take place to deter and detect hostile activity” and immediate reporting to police of any suspicious behavior.

2014: Zidan Saif, a police officer who was seriously injured in the Tuesday-morning terror attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem, succumbed to his wounds.Saif, 30, was shot in the head during a gunfight with the two terrorists. According to eyewitnesses, he was hit by a bullet when attempting to protect a fellow police officer.He is the fifth victim of the attack.Druze community leaders and residents of Saif’s village of Yanuh-Jat in the Galilee describe him as a hero, NRG reports. (As reported by Lazar Berman and Adiv Sterman)

2015: “A Jewish teacher in the French city of Marseille was stabbed by a man wearing an Islamic State T-shirt who shouted anti-Semitic profanities at him with two other men.”

2015: At Oxford,  Hindy Najman, the new Oriel and Laing professor for the interpretation of holy scripture who is the first Jew and the first woman to have the role is scheduled to talk about new perspectives on how prophecy continues in ancient Judaism from her paper titled: "The Beginning of Judaism: New Perspectives”

2015: “The Physician” and “The Voice of Peace” are scheduled to be shown at Melbourne at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2015: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-fathers-book-on-mental-illness-wins-national-book-award/

2015: “The Kozalchik Affair,” a documentary about Yakov Kozalchik a Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz known as “The Warden of the Death Block” is scheduled to be shown in Los Angeles as the 29^thIsrael Film Festival.

2016: In “Amos Oz on His Novel ‘Judas,’ Which Challenges Views of a Traitor” published today Gal Beckerman examined the Israeli author’s latest work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/books/amos-oz-on-his-novel-judas-which-challenges-views-of-a-traitor.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=arts&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Arts&pgtype=article&_r=0

2016: “Two Nazi symbols and the words ‘Go Trump’” were discovered today “on a piece of playground equipment” at “a New York park dedicated to the memory of the late Beastie Boy member Adam Yauch” during a year in which “anti-Semitic imagery has proliferated on social media, Jewish journalist” have been targeted “and longstanding anti-Jewish conspiracy theories” have gotten “a fresh airing.”

2016: “Dark Diamond” and “Aida’s Secrets” are scheduled to be shown in Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: “Women: New Portraits of Annie Leibovitz” is scheduled to open in New York.

2017(29^th of Cheshvan, 5778): Parashat Toldot

2017(29^th of Cheshvan, 5778): Ninety-eight year old Benjamin Scheinkopf, who survived the Holocaust along with his brother Josef, because of his hair-cutting skill and who went to a life time of barbering in Chicago passed away today.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-news/ben-the-barber-scheinkopf-survived-nazi-death-camp-by-cutting-hair/

https://www.americanisraelite.com/social_news/obituaries/article_bfbe20bc-d9e6-11e7-befb-bf2fb1938456.html



https://www.jta.org/2017/11/24/news-opinion/united-states/holocaust-survivor-who-cut-hair-in-chicago-till-he-was-97-dies

2017: Seventy-five year old Ken Shapero, “the former child actor and creator of ‘The Groove Tube,’” passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/obituaries/ken-shapiro-whose-groove-tube-satirized-tv-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0

2017: “The Cakemaker” and “The Heir” are scheduled to be shown in London at the 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Joseph Telushkin whose wide variety of works included Jewish Literacy, Jewish Humorand A Code of Jewish Ethics continues today

2018: “Parallel Lines,” a week-long jewelry exhibition “featuring the work of Israeli artists Naama Bergman, Tamar Navama, Ruta Reifen, Dana Hakim, Noga Harel, Vered Kaminski, and Einat Leader” is scheduled to come an end today.

2018: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to present David Biale delivering a lecture on “The Afterlives of Shabbati Zvi.”

2018: The Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.

2018: “The Cleveland Jewish News” is scheduled to present the 4^th annual “18 Difference Awards Ceremony” at Landerhaven in Mayfield Heights, OH.

2018 AJEX (The Jewish Military Association”) is scheduled to sponsors its “84^th Annual Remembrance Ceremony and Parade” where attendees can show their support and honor “the Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women who have served the United Kingdom in the Armed Forces since the 1750s as well as all the victims of the Holocaust.”

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/ajex-parade-2018/

2018: As part of Inter Faith Week, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a free open house where attendees can take part in such activities as making challah for a local homeless shelter and decorating a Tzedakah box.

2018: The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present “Soundscapes of Modernity: Jews and Music in Polish Cities,” a concert presenting “choral pieces from 19th-century progressive congregations, compositions associated with Jewish music societies, and avant-garde works by Jewish composers.”

2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the audiobooks The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris and read by Richard Armitage, Parker: Selected Stories by Dorothy Parker and read by Elaine Stritch, The Feral Detective, a novel by Jonathan Lethem, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World by Robert Kagan, the son of Donald Kagan and in “American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away,” brief looks at The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religionby Steven R. Weisman, The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today by Jack Wertheimer, The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World by Robert Mnookin, God is in the Crowd: Twenty-First Century Judaism by Tal Keinan and Dear Zealots: Letters From a Divided Land by Amos Oz.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/books/review/steven-weisman-chosen-wars.html?ref=headline&nl_art=&te=1&nl=book-review&emc=edit_bk_20181116

2019: As the day begins in Israel, it would seem that the two biggest issues facing the country are the on-going rocket attacks from Gaza and the need to avoid a third round of elections by forming a new government.

2019: “The Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesman,” Avichai Adraee “said today that posts he make last week alleging that an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Gaza Strip, which killed a Palestinian family of eight, had targeted a terrorist may have been ‘imprecise.’” (As reported by Adam Rasgon)

2019: The American Sephardi Federation and the Embassy of Kosvo are scheduled to present two screenings of “The Righteous Gypgsy” which “tells the story of Hajrija Imeri-Mihaljić, the only Gypsy woman honored by Yad VaShem as a Righteous Among the Nations.”

2019: “A Skirball Academy Special Class,” “Jewish Mysticism: The Spark of the Soul” with Rabbi David Wolpe is scheduled to meet for the first time.

2019: In London, the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Echo,” “Ms Stern” and “Henri Dauman: Looking Up.”

2019: In Berkley, CA, the Aquarian Minyan is scheduled to host “The Grateful and Speaking Dead,” a “lecture examining the Jewish tradition of communicating with the dead through Jewish text and ritual.”

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1095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. The Crusades ushered in one of the darkest periods in Jewish history.  In the name of Christianity, the Crusaders would leave a path of death and destruction for the Jewish people that stretched from the Rhineland to the streets of Jerusalem.

1190: Baldwin of Forde, the Archbishop of Canterbury who expressed his displeasure with King Richard’s decision to allow a Jew who had been forcibly converted to return to the faith of his fathers by saying “If the King is not God’s man, he had better be the devil’s” passed away today while with serving with the Crusaders in Palestine.

1557: Sixty-three year old Polish Queen Bon Sforza who modified and defined the “rights of the Jewish community in 1549” by requiring them “to pay 17 percent of the taxes the government assessed against the city,” freeing them “from some special taxes paid in kind” and required citizens to get “royal permission” before selling a house to a Jew, passed away today.

1600: Birthdate of King Charles I. The English monarch who would be defeated by the Puritan forces commanded by Cromwell and eventually be executed in 1649. The death of Charles and the rise of the Puritans helped encourage Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel to approach Cromwell about allowing the Jewish people to return to England. 

1621:  Rabbi Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz, known as the Shlah after the title of one of his major works Shnei Luchos Ha-Bris arrived in Jerusalem.  The Shlah was a renowned Halachist, kabbalist and communal leader.  He was born in Prague in 1656 and eventually became head of the Jewish community in Frankfort.  He moved to Jerusalem after the death of his wife.  The Shlah was a wealthy philanthropist who stressed man’s ability to overcome the evil inclination and turn it into the good inclination.  He passed away in 1650 and was buried in Tiberias near the tomb of the Rambam.

1765(6^th of Kislev, 5526): Moses Hart, the Breslau born son of a Rabbi who came to London in 1697 where he became one of the “Twelve Jew Brokers on the Royal Exchange and who “funded the construction of the Great Synagogue which opened in 1722 with his brother Aaron serving as the Rabbi passed away today.

1775: In Charleston, SC, Rachel Andrews and Myer Moses, the English born merchants who was an ardent supporter of the Revolutionary cause, gave birth to Priscilla Moses, the husband of Newport, RI native David Lopez who settled in his wife’s home town where they had eleven children.

1793: The will of Amsterdam native David Lion Arons, the brother of Abraham Lion Arons, was probated today.

1815: Joseph Levy married Hannah Isaacs at the Western Synagogue today.

1816: Warsaw University is established in the part of Poland that was incorporated into the Russian Empire as part of the partitions that had taken place in the waning decades of the 18^th century.  The fortunes of the university would follow the ebb and flow of political and cultural events in Poland as it sought to regain and then maintain its independence. In 1968, the government would conduct and anit-Semitic and anti-democrat campaign at the university that would touch off a wave of student unrest. During the subsequent government crackdown professors of Jewish descent were removed from their positions and many of them were forced to emigrate. 

1829: In Frankfurt am Main, Zerline(Worms) Beyfus and Meyer Levin Beyfus gave birth to Mathilda Emma Beyfus

1835(27^th of Cheshvan, 5596): Fifty-nine year old Abraham Mendelssohn, the second son of Moses Mendelssohn, the co-founder of the Berlin banking firm of Mendelssohn & Co and who with his wife Leah Solomon gave birth to Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy passed away today.

1836: In London, Rachel Mocatta and Lewis Raphael gave birth to banker George Charles Raphael, the huasband of Charlotte Raphael with whom he had ten children.

1843: In New York City, a group of Jews including Levy Philip, Wolf Felsenheld, Marx Neuburg, Emanuel Stoffman, Jacob Blumenthal, Julius Meyer and Kalman Jacobs founded a society dedicated to forming a new congregation which would follow a more liberal or reform minchag.

1847: Caroline Samuel and Frederick Goldsmid gave birth to Francis Arthur Goldsmid.

1849: In Amsterdam, Lea Nabarro and David Zacharias Baruch gave birth to Clara David Baruch.

1849: As of today, in Amsterdam out of a total population of 224,949, 25,173 were Jews who divided into 22,426 Ashkenazim and 2,747 Portuguese (Sephardim).

1853(17th of Tishrei, 5614): Third day of Sukkoth

1860: Birthdate of Landstuhl, Germany native Ferdinand Ehrmann.

1862: During the Civil War, Jacob Cohen of the 27^th Ohio Infantry wrote to the Jewish Messenger from Davis’ Mill, MS where the Union Army had gone into camp describing the victories at Iuka and Corinth.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of the more interesting stories, if it is true involves Dr. M.L. Rossvally, a Jewish surgeon who saved the life of a Christian drummer boy.  Rossvally went on to become the Surgeon General of the United States.

1868: Two days after she had passed away, Rebecca Levy, the wife of Goodman Levy with whom she had four children, was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1869: It was reported today that in a manner similar houses of worship of other denominations, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun hosted a Thanksgiving Service where Rabbi Henry Vidaver delivered a sermon based on the words of Zechariah.

1870: Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse and Emil Cohn gave birth to Bianca Israel

1871: Four days after he had passed away, Nathan Solomon was buried today at the Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.

1872: A meeting was held tonight at the Thirty-fourth Street Synagogue in New York City to deal with impending immigration of Romanian Jews to the United States who were seeking refuge from the persecution in their native land.  A twenty-five man Executive Committee was established that will contact various European Jewish Committees involved with this issue to ensure that the emigrants come from the “industrial classes” and to arrange for their transportation. Several hundred families are expected to arrive in the Spring and the committee will set the mechanism to provide them with employment and support.

1874: Nathan Aaronson, a wealthy Jew is spending tonight in the Tombs after having been arrested and charged with numerous counts of grand larceny, obtaining goods under false pretenses and other crimes related to a series of swindles. Aaronson was arrested after having posted bail on similar charges in New Jersey as he attempted to sail to Europe.

1874: Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler attended the start of the construction of the Middle Street Synagogue which designed by architect Thomas Lainson.

1876: The New York Times published a review of The Ethics of Benedict De Spinoza: From the Latin with an Introductory Sketch of his Life and his Writings published in New York by D. Van Nostrand. According to the review, this is believed to be the first translation of any of the writings that has appeared in the United States.

1876: A report published today attributed the change in the writing style of George Eliot( Mary Anne Evans) that resulted in Daniel Deronda was a product of a collaboration with her consort, George Henry Lewes.  Lewes claims that “he wrote every line of the chapter which describes the discussion at the club to which Mordecai introduced Daniel. Such a club as this really had an existence in London under the presidency of a Jew upon whom Mr. and Mrs. Lewes modeled Mordecai.”  The report concluded that many of Eliot’s admirers are not pleased with the new novel feeling that literary partnership “has destroyed the classic purity of the lady’s English.”  Despite this, the novel is selling quite briskly.

1878(23rd of Cheshvan): Poet Abraham Dov Levenson (Adam ha-Kohen) and father-in -law of Jewish author Joshua Steinberg, passed away

1879: Birthdate of Columbia trained “medical economist, Dr. Michael Marks Davis, the husband of “the former Alice Taylor” with whom he had two sons.

http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62r3wx1

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Davis%2C%20Michael%20Marks%2C%201879%2D1971

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/27/archives/michael-davis-a-health-expert-advocate-of-nationwide-insurance-plan.html

1880: The Jewish Chronicle reported that a “North German young lady who is able to teach German, French, drawing, drilling and needlework wants a situation in a family or in a school” in the Jersey, Channel Islands.

1880: Birthdate of Hugo Gutmann, the German Jewish officer who was Adolph Hitler’s commanding officer during 1918 and who saw to it that the Austrian corporal received the Iron Cross First Class.

1880: Based on information that first appeared in the Boersen Zeitung, “public quarrels and duels have taken place between Jews and Germans.”

1881: “The Hebrew Union College” published today summarized plans to upgrade HUC, the Cincinnati educational institution that is only place in the United States dedicated to providing formal education for rabbis in the United States. The plan is to create a million dollar endowment by selling 200,000 “subscription certificates at $5 each.”  (The rabbis trained here will be Reform and will not be able to address the needs of the traditional movements of Judaism)

1882: It was a reported today that the Public Prosecutor has applied to the court at Nyireghyhasa, for an order to disinter and re-examine the body of a Christian girl, who it is alleged, was by the Jews at Tiszaeszlar” in order to sift through the evidence “and put an end to a scandal which has lasted six months.” (This is a reference to The Tiszaeszlár Affair, a blood libel that began in April of 1882 and would actually resurface in the world of Hungarian politics in the 21^st century.)

1882: It was reported today that a radical newspaper editor has fought a duel with a member of the parliament who defended Jews against charges in The Tiszaeszlár Affair.

1884(1^st of Kislev, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1885: Upon his return to Cincinnati from the national of Reform Rabbis in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise said, “The meeting was an official expression and confirmation of principles which have been advanced and advocated by progressive Jews for a decade past.”

1885: It was reported today that the Reform movement has adopted a resolution that would effectively allow the substitution of Sunday morning services to replace the traditional Saturday morning Shabbat services. 

1885: “The Hebrew Asylum Ball” published today provided a description of the fundraiser hosted for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” which was attended a large segment of notables including Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wechsler, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wechsler and Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Oppenheimer.

1886: In Prague,Jakob and Barbara Bondy gave birth to Rudolf Bondy

1886: It was reported today that based on information that first appeared in the Vossische Zeitung, Jews make up the largest contingent of the Hungarian immigrants crossing Germany on their way to the United States.

1887(3rd of Kislev, 5648): Emma Lazarus passed away.  Born in 1849, Lazarus is remembered as the poet who wrote the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty. When Emma Lazarus died on November 19, 1887 at the age of 38, the obituary published in the New York Times referred to her as "an American Poet of Uncommon talent," but did not mention her poem, "The New Colossus," which today is indelibly associated with The Statue of Liberty. One of the first successful Jewish American authors, Lazarus was part of the late nineteenth century New York literary elite, and was celebrated in her day as an important American poet. In her later years, she wrote bold, powerful poetry and essays protesting the rise of anti-Semitism and arguing for Russian immigrants' rights. She called on Jews to unite and create a homeland in Palestine before the title Zionist had even been coined. She is best known today for her poem, "The New Colossus," which was written in 1883 as part of the effort to raise money for a pedestal to the Statue of Liberty. France was donating the statue to the United States, but Americans had to raise the funds for the pedestal. Her untimely death, probably from cancer, was mourned in both the Jewish and broader communities. It was only, however, after Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler installed a bronze memorial tablet inside the entrance to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903, inscribed with the lines from the "New Colossus," including "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," that Lazarus's memory became forever associated with her powerful vision of America as a symbol of hope for the down-trodden.

1888: Birthdate of Samuel “Sam” Melitzer, the native of New York’s Lower East Side and Columbia University who experienced anti-Semitism when southern crowds would should “Get the Jew” and who after coaching at NYU traveled the world as mining engineer before become a high school Phys Ed and math teacher.

1890(7th of Kislev, 5651): Thirty-nine year old Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, the daughter of Juliana and Mayer de Rothschild, who was rumored to be the richest woman in Britain, passed away. (There is no way that we can do justice to the life of this woman. She is far more fascinating than any fictional character created by Bronte sisters and those other writers of 19^thcentury romance novels)

1890: The Citizens’ Savings Bank paid out $113,000 to depositors as a run on the bank began following a story “in an east side Hebrew Newspaper.”

1891: The more than four hundred pupils attending the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Daily School are the beneficiaries of the Palestine Bazaar which is being held for a second day at Carnegie Hall.

1891: Montague Daniel Jacobs, the “son of Samuel and Julia Ann Jacobs” and his wife Flora Jacobs gave birth to Ivan Albert Jacobs.

1892: “Prussians Jealous of Hebrews” published today, relying on information that first appeared in the London Daily News described a debated taking place among “Prussian Conservatives” on the “ways and means of decreasing the influence of Jews in public life.”  The Conservatives are especially upset because the Jews “get themselves better educated than their neighbors and so win their way to professorial chairs.”

1892(29^th of Cheshvan, 5653): Fifty two year old Jacques de Reinach, the French banker who successfully invested in the Canadian Pacific Railway before becoming embroiled in the scandals surrounding the building of the Panama Canal passed away today.

1892: During an interview Otto Von Bismarck warned “the anti-Semites that ‘in trying to obtain State legislation against the Jews, they got hold of the wrong insect powder. (The term used was Wanzenpulver which has a contation that is even more insulting than the English translation and gives one the idea of the low esteem in which the Iron Chancellor held the Jewish people)

1893: According to a rumor published today, the Jews are fleeing Melilla because they fear what “the inquiry into the illicit trade firearms’ might reveal. (The implication is that the Jews are guilty of selling guns to the Berbers who are revolting against their Spanish colonial masters)

1893: Today’s review of “The Bells” praises Henry Irving’s performance of Mathias whom he plays as “a large, spectacular figure” who is a victim of remorse; a portrayal that is not consistent with that found in the translation of Leopold Lewis. The reviewer concludes his portrayal of this Jewish figure is “always worth seeing once” and then worth seeing a second time because Irving’s “Mathias is to be remembered because of its historical importance.”

1894: In Germany Elizabeth (nee Kirchner) and Wilhelm Hopf a Jew who converted gave birth to mathematician Heinz Hopf.

1894: Three days after he had passed away, 70 year old Montague Durlacher, who married Annie Durlacher after the death of his first wife, the former Deborah Benjamin, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1894: In Newburgh, NY, Russian immigrants Lena Friedland and Simon Silverman gave birth to Morris Silverman, the long-time Rabbi at The Emanuel Synagogue, editor the classic Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book which was the standard prayer book for the Conservative movement for decades and the husband of author Althea H. Osber.

http://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/04/archives/rabbi-morris-silverman-author-and-editor-deadj.html?_r=0

1894: Birthdate of Columbia trained pediatrician and WW I Army Medical Corps veteran Dr. Harry Bakwin the husband of Dr. Ruth Morris who joined together to become major art collectors.

http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=11848

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/12/27/91064521.pdf

1894: In Bialystok, “Harris and Amelia (Malinsky) Bloom gave birth to Julius Henry Bloom who in 1910 settled in Greenville SC with his family, served in combat on the Western Front during WW I after which he married Leonara Shatenstein in Washington D.C with whom he had three children serving as President of Congregation Beth Israel and running Bloom’s Department Store which his father had founded.

http://archives.library.cofc.edu/findingaids/mss1118.html

1894: “Not Antagonistic To Christianity” published today provided Dr. Joseph Silverman’s views on the attitude to of Judaism to non-Judaic religions.  Among other things, he said that Judaism’s view on this has always been represented; that Judaism is neither “tribal, narrow nor exclusive” but universal.  While Christianity claims that only those who believe in its doctrine can be saved, “Judaism has never claimed that universal salvation depends on universal conversion to Judaism.”

1895: While visiting Paris and London trying to gain Jewish support for a Jewish homeland, Herzl gained one “convert’ - Max Nordeau

1896: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of New York and the Hebrew Technical Institute were reported today to be among the institutions willing to host a “series of popular lectures on the affairs of the City” which will lead to greater civic participation.

1896: The first national convention of the National Council of Jewish Women which was held at Tuxedo Hall in New York City between came to an end. Founded at the conclusion of the Jewish Women's Congress held at Chicago's World Columbian Exposition in November 1893, the National Council of Jewish Women was the first national open-membership organization for American Jewish women. Addressed by the leaders of the nation's leading women's organizations and numerous prominent rabbis, it was clear that the Council was helping to establish the legitimacy of Jewish women's presence on a public stage. The convention received extensive coverage in the New York Times and other papers. During its first three years, Council sections around the country had focused on diverse activities ranging from Bible study to education for children to active philanthropy in the interest of immigrant women and children. Representatives at the first convention summarized these achievements, established a clear institutional structure and sought to offer guidance to local sections. Conflict emerged in relation to the Jewish character of the Council. Hannah Solomon of Chicago presided over the convention, but some members objected to her advocacy of Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. Solomon memorably responded "I consecrate every day in the week." As the New York Times reported, "Pandemonium reigned for five minutes, and then Mrs. Solomon was re-elected." In its first few decades, NCJW transcended these religious divisions by focusing especially on aid to newly arrived Jewish immigrants. In sections across the country, NCJW provided an early training ground for Jewish women leaders and a forum for Jewish women's concerns within and outside the Jewish community.

1897: It was reported today that in London, “the alterations at the Talmud Torah on Brick Lane have been completed.

1897: It was reported today that plans are being made for a larger synagogue to meet the needs of the Stepney Orthodox Congregation whose numbers “have greatly increased and whose “affairs are flourishing.

1897: Birthdate of Russian native and Brown University alum Samuel Temkin, the Georgetown U. trained attorney

1897: Herzl publishes his article "Die jüdische Kolonialbank" -"The Jewish Colonial Bank" in Die Welt.

1897: “Dreyfus May Be A Victim” published today offers the unique theory that the French Captain was actually the victim of a blackmail plot gone awry.  Taking advantage of the “wave of Jew-baiting” that was sweeping Europe in 1893, these conspirators forged the documents that would lead to the conviction of Dreyfus.  The conspirators had used “a beautiful woman whose house” was a refuge to many French officers and foreign diplomats as a go between to try and extort money from Mrs. Dreyfus who was wealthy in her own right in exchange for the document.  When the Dreyfus family refused to be involved, members of the press who were part of the plot helped to incite the public in such a way that the conviction of Dreyfus was inevitable.

1898: “Dr. Gottheil’s 25 Years” published today included a summary of the accomplishments of the Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El who according to some stem the tide of assimilation while raising his voice for “justice and the down-trodden of his race’  “when anti-Semitism raised the black flag of intolerance in Germany, Austria and other European countries.”

1899: In San Francisco, Samuel and Beatrice Dinkelspiel gave birth to Stanford alum and Harvard trained attorney Lloyd William Dinkelspiel who rose to the rank of Lt. Col in the U.S. Army Air Force during WW II and raised two children with his wife Florence.

1900:In Mainz, “antiquarian and art dealer” Isidor Reiling and Hedwig Fuld gave birth to Anna (Netty) Reiling, who gained fame as the author Anna Seghers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130704063048/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seghers-anna

1902: Twenty-one year old Aline Frankau, the daughter of Rebecca and Joseph Frankau became Aline Bernstein today when she married “Wall Street broker, Theodore Bernstein” with whom she “had two children – Theodore and Edna – while pursuing a career as stage and film set designer.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aline-bernstein

1904: Birthdate of New Haven, CT native Beatrice Hahn, “the director of finance of the National Council of Jewish Women” and “former national president of the Council of Jewish Juniors.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/11/05/84895367.html?pageNumber=31

1904:  Birthdate of Nathan Leopold.  Leopold and Loeb, sons of wealthy Chicago families, saw themselves as a superior intellects not bound by the rules.  Their murder of Bobby Franks and the trial that followed (where they were defended by Clarence Darrow) forever marked both of them as venal, vile killers.  Leopold died in 1971. 

1905: Tonight, in Boston, “at a special service in the Warren Avenue Baptist Church Rabbi Charles Fleischer urged President Roosevelt to warn Russia against further persecution of the Jews and declared that the Jews in Russia should be armed for self-defense.”

1905: Birthdate of “Isaac Kashdan, an international grandmaster chess player and chess editor for The Times” (As reported by Michael Seiler)

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-22/local/me-614_1_grandmaster-chess-player

http://www.chessgames.com/player/isaac_kashdan.html

1905: As the Zemstvo Congress is scheduled to open today, “we are witnessing a series of massacres of Jews carried out by the rabble, thanks to the criminal tolerance of the authorities.

1905: Rabbi Harris of Temple Israel and Frank Moss, an attorney, addressed the congregation in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Our Savior tonight at a service, “the proceeds of which are for the benefit of the Jews in Russia.”

1905: In London, “the Evangelical Alliance, which is composed of representatives of several denominations of Christians decided at a meeting at Exeter Hall to open a fund for the relief of the Russian Jews” which it is hoped “will touch broader circles of Christians life than any other appeal having the same purpose.”

1905: “Several hundred men, women and children attended a mass meeting” today “at Temple Adath Israel…to protest against the massacre of Jews in Russia and to raise subscriptions for the relief fund.

1905: Miss Sadie American presided over a memorial meeting in honor of Emma Lazarus which was held tonight at Temple Beth-El under the auspices of the New York Section of the Council Jewish Women at which Adele Szold read a biography of the Jewish poetess.

1905: “Boiled Jewish Children” published today described the murder of approximately 1,500 Jews in one quarter of” Odessa” which was as large La Chapelle in Paris” by “the police and Cossacks” who “poured boiling water on the children and threw the old men out of the windows.

1906: Birthdate of Henri Temianka, a native of Scotland who was the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants.  Among his accomplishments was a performance of the Bach Double Violin Concerto with four other Jewish violinists – David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szeryng and Jack Benny.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/10/arts/henri-temianka-is-dead-at-85-violinist-and-founder-of-quartet.html

1906: “Big Crowd Attends Funeral” published today in the Brooklyn Standard Union describes the funeral of Rabbi Raphael Benjamin at Congregation Beth Elohim which was so well attended “that hundreds of men and women were unable to gain admittance...”

1909: “Alma Gluck first appeared on stage with the Metropolitan Opera today in the role of Sophie in Massenet's Werther. (JWA)

1909: At the request of the Hahambashi, the Grand Vizier of Turkey directs the Minister of War to appoint Jewish chaplains to battalions where Jews serve, to grant soldiers the ability to observe the high holidays and to facilitate they be provided with kosher food. The Hahambashi also requested that all teachers in Jewish school and rabbinical students be granted an exemption from military service.

1910(17^th of Cheshvan, 5671): Parashat Vayera

1910: Despite the best effort of a team led by Center Albert Lorch “Al” Loe, known as the Yiddish Wildcat, George Tech lost to arch rival Georgia today.

1911: In London, the “vote of censure for the President of the Board of Deputies” was defeated today.

1911: David Lindo Alexander upheld the action of the Board of Deputies “in regard to the recent” riots in South Wales.

1911: Birthdate of Zagreb native Zdenka Buchler, the “operatic soprano” who gained fame as Zdenka Rubinstein, when she married Bartold Rubinstein who had his wife and daughter Mira convert, along with him, to Catholicism in an attempt to avoid the anti-Semitism that was sweeping Europe in the 1930’s.

1911: The First Hebrew Congress opened today in Lemberg, Galicia.

1911: In Jersey City, NJ, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “adopted a “resolution protesting against discriminated by the Russian Government against American citizens.

1911: Herman Bernstein, who has written for such publications as The Nation and The New York Evening Post delivered an address to the Mikve Israel Association in Philadelphia, PA, entitled “Anti-Semitism in Russia, Germany and Elsewhere.”  According to Bernstein, while political and social progress has been made “in every part of the world” anti-Semitism is the one age-old evil “for which no remedy has been found.” [Bernstein would go to a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent with the New York Times and as U.S. Ambassador to Albania.  His History of a Lie provides an account of the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.]

1912: The New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections which was attended by delegates Samuel Gompers and Lee Frankel of New York City opened in Syracuse, NY.

1912: In Hesse, Germany, Rabbi Joseph Bruer, the Hungarian born son of Rabbi Solomon Breuer and Sophie Bruer and his wife Rika Breuer gave birth to Marc Bruer whose maternal grandfather was Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.

1913: Serbian troops enter and loot Monastir. As part of the violence, Jewish shops were burned and robbed.

1913: Birthdate of Morris Ziff, the Brooklyn native, who was an award winning expert in rheumatic diseases and  who investigated how the body sometimes turns on itself to cause such illnesses (As reported by Jeremy Pearce)

1914(1^st of Kislev, 5675): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1914(1^st of Kislev, 5675): Forty-nine year old Frannie Bernstine passed away today after which she buried at the Temple Beth-El Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.

1914: “Jews Raise Relief Fund” published today described a fund raiser to provide relief for the Jews of Palestine where the attendees heard from Professor R.J.H. Gotteheil of Columbia University, Rabbi Ephraim Frisch and Rabbi Jacob Lichter of Far Rockaway, NY.

1914: “Forced Czernowitz To Raise Ransom” published today described the “how humble Hebrews sacrificed their ritual candelabra” to help meet demands made by General Arintinoff when his Russian Army entered the Austrian city that the citizens pay “a levy of 600,000 rubles in gold or silver.

1914: “For Relief of Jews” published today provides a list of those who have contributed to the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War including Ike Scher of Richmond, VA, Congregation Shaarey Tzedek of Windsor, Ontario, Congregation Tree of Life, Oil City, PA, Rebecca Bender of Ashly, ND and Congregation B’nai Jacob of Vineland, NJ.

1915: “The Jewish News learns from Warsaw that a fund of $125,000 raised by an American committee for the relief of Jews in Poland, has just been transmitted to a joint committee representing the Jewish population of Poland.”

1915 (12th of Kislev, 5676): A wide variety of Jewish and gentile leaders including Louis Marshall, Jacob Schiff, John H. Finley, President University of the State of New York at Albany and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia, expressed their sense of sorrow and deep admiration for Dr. Solomon Schechter who passed away today in New York. Schechter’s original fame rested on his work with the Cairo Geniza. As President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he was the driving force behind Conservative Judaism.  He was an early Zionist who played an active role in the work of the Jewish Publication Society.  This brief entry cannot do justice to his impact on the world at large or the Jewish community in particular.

1915: In speaking today about the death of Dr. Solomon Schechter, Dr. Cyrus Adler, the President of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning said that they “were friends for twenty-five years” and that he considered Schechter “the greatest Jewish scholar of his generation and the on towering personality among all the Jews no resident in America” – “a great thinker, a great scholar, a great leader and the most lovable of all men.”

1915: Jewish opera singer David Kronland was “appointed professor of singing at Lemberg Conservatory of Music” today.

1915: In Vienna, formation of the “Committee for the Enlightenment of Eastern Jewish Question.”

1915: Birthdate of Gyoengyoes, Hungary, native and Holocaust survivor, Stephen Jeffrey Roth, the British based Director of the Institute of Jewish Affairs and the husband of Eva Gandos.

https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-stephen-roth-1596303.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/03/obituaries/stephen-roth-79-a-rights-official-of-jewish-congress.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20140203061955/http://www.shoahlegacy.org/org/stephen-roth-institute-study-contemporary-anti-semitism-and-racism

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13501679508577809

1916: Today, twenty year old Russian born David Alper married his first wife Frieda Alper.

1916: Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn established Goldwyn Company which would become one of the most successful independent filmmakers.

1916: Approximately 3,000 people “representing membership in thirty affiliated Zionist societies” attended “the annual reception and ball” sponsored by “the Zionist Council of New York” which “was held” tonight “at the Central Opera House on East 67^th Street.”

1916: “During the laying of the cornerstone of the building for the Young Men/s and the Young Women’s Hebrew Association” today at Borough Park in London” a telegram was read from President Wood Woodrow Wilson that said, “My warmest greetings and good wishes.  I hope the building of which the cornerstone is now being laid will contribute in every way to the promotion of the admirable purpose of the Y.M.H.A. and Y.W.H.A.”

1916: “Not a single child under the age of 5 years can be found in large areas of Poland according to a report presented to the People’s Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers which opened its national convention” today in Boston.

1916: While speaking this afternoon at the graduation exercises of the Schools for Jewish Girls of the Kehillah at Stuyvesant High School Louis Marshall said, “America is the logical new center of the Jewish faith and the Jewish population of the world.”

1917: David A. Brown announced tonight that “Jacob H. Schiff has given $200,000 to start the $5,000,000 New York campaign for Jewish War Relief and for the Jewish Welfare Board in the United States Army and Navy.

1917: In “Jews Against Bolsheviki,” published today Herman Bernstein “who had spent three months in Petrograd after the revolution” said that from the point of view the Jews in Russia men like Trotsky “are not Jews in the real sense of the word,” “are not sympathetic to Jewish culture or Jewish ideals” and are the enemies of the Jewish people.

1917(4^th of Kislev, 5678): Sixty-seven year old “communal worker” Max Tapolsky passed away today in Pittsburgh, PA.

1917(4^th of Kislev, 5670): Forty-one year old Dr. Richard Weil, a major in the U.S. Army passed away today at Camp Wheeler.

1917: “Against War Time Wealth” published today included the views of Jacob Schiff who said that “No man should seek to increase his personal fortune for the period of the war” since it is “the duty of every American at this time to devote his whole thought and effort to the needs of the Government and to the needs of those who have been made to suffer through the war.”

1917: This evening, as British forces were fighting their way to Jerusalem a thunderstorm followed by a drenching downpour broke over the opposing armies leaving every wadi in the foothills and on the plain in a flood making it almost impassable for wheeled vehicles,

1918: According to a cablegram received in New York today by the ZOA, “Jewish and Zionist brigades…are being organized throughout Austria, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia” to fight agains those responsible for “the anti-Semitic disturbances in Galicia and Poland” that have been going on since the first of the month.

1919: The U.S. Senate, under the leadership of the Republicans, fails to ratify the Versailles Treaty.  This meant that the United States would not be joining the League of Nations which meant that the League was DOA.  It also signaled America’s return to isolationism.  The rejection of the Versailles Treaty was a contributing cause to the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Holocaust.

1919: Birthdate of Pisa native Gillo Pontecorvo the Italian filmmaker and during WWII anti-fascist resistance fighter who won “the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966” for “The Battle of Algiers.”

1919: Birthdate of Judge Wapner of People’s Court Fame.  Considering the Torah’s injunctions about Judges, what do we make of the fact that both Judge Judy and Judge Wapner are Jewish?

1920: “Free Synagogue Institute Arranges Courses” published described the establishment of a Teacher’s Institute by the Free Synagogue in New York “to meet the need for trained teachers in the field of Jewish Religious Education.”

1920: It was reported today that in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the Temple Emanuel Sisterhood “plans to erect: a building “which will serve as a center for all Jews regardless of the form of worship to which they adhere.”

1921: Today Joseph Missrahi Orpahli, an Oriental Jew, became the first Jew to receive the death penalty for murder in connection with the August riots.  “Orphali was accused of firing from a rooftop into a mob of Jaffa Arabs who had congregated supposedly for an attack on Tel Aviv.”  Three British police officers Dixon had testified that “they had heard no shots besides those of the police who fired on the mob, but relatives of Arabs killed declared the accused had killed on Arab purposely and another unintentionally.”

1921: “Thirty-seven Arabs of the Tireh village, near Haifa who had previously been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, had their sentences reduced on appeal today to three months.  They had been accused of participating in an attack on Bath Gilim, a suburb of Haifa.”

1921: Pinchas Ruthenberg, director of the Palestine Electric Corporation and chairman of the Palestine National council, told the commission of inquiry” sent from London to find the reasons for the Arab August riots and the lack of preparation on the part of the police, “how he had warned H.C. Luke, acting High Commissioner, of the gravity of the situation developing over the Wailing Wall, and was told by Mrs. Luke that he was exaggerating the danger.  Mr. Rutenberg’s suggestions for precautions were not followed.”

1923: In Charleston, SC, Louis D. Rubin, Sr. and Jeanette Weinstein Rubin gave birth Louis D. Rubin, Jr. “a teacher, novelist, essayist, editor and publisher, among other things —who was devoted to the practice and promotion of American Southern writing.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)

1925: Birthdate of Zygmunt Bauman the Polish born sociologist who was forced to take refuge in England in 1970 following an anti-Semitic purge orchestrated by the Polish Communist Party.  Bauman “has made some of the most important observations about the Holocaust and modernity.”

https://baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/about/

1926: Birthdate of Newark, NJ, native Herbert “Herb” Krautblatt, the left-handed shooting guard for Rider University who was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets for whom he played in 1948.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/krauthe01.html

1928: “The New York State Law of 1923 aimed at the rules of secrecy adopted by the Ku Klux Klan” which hearings at a House Committee had established “was conducting a crusade against Catholics Jews and negroes and stimulating hurtful religious and race prejudices” “was upheld as constitutional today by the Supreme Court of the United States.”

1928: A concert featuring Alexander Baerwald and Thelma Yellin was held in Jerusalem as the European born Jews of Jerusalem celebrated the centenary of the death of Schubert.

1929: Birthdate of medieval scholar, Norman Cantor.  Cantor did step out of his expertise when he wrote The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews. Based on the reviews, Cantor would have been better off if he had stuck to works on the Middle Ages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/obituaries/norman-f-cantor-74-a-noted-medievalist-is-dead.html?mcubz=0

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1473036/Norman-Cantor.html

1929: U.S. premiere of “The Love Parade,” a musical comedy directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch co-starring Lillian Roth.

1931: “The Office Manager “ a comedy directed by Hans Behrendt, who died at Auschwitz in 1942 and starring Felix Bressart, the Jewish actor who escaped to the United States before WW II, was released today in Germany.

1932: In Brooklyn, “Alfred Pomeroy, a furniture designer who own a store on Flatbush Avenue” and “the former Florence Greenberg gave birth to architect Lee Harris Pomeroy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/obituaries/lee-harris-pomeroy-85-dies-architect-revived-subway-stations.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1932: ‘The White Demon” a German language film that looks at the drug culture starring Peter Lorre was released today in Germany by UFA.

1932: Birthdate of Avner Friedman, who earned his doctorate from Hebrew University in 1956 and became Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University.

1933(1st of Kislev, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1933: Birthdate of Gerald "Jerry" Sheindlin who served as a judge on the television show The People’s Court and is married to Judith Sheindlin, known as television’s Judge Judy.

1933(1st of Kislev, 5694): “Samuel Leib Gordon, noted Hebraist, teacher and scholar who translated Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ and Zangwill’s ‘Children of the Ghetto died’ in Tel Aviv today.” The sixty-six year old intellectual had lived in Tel Aviv since 1924.  “Mr. Gordon was born in Lida, Lithuania in 1890.  He taught Hebrew in Jaffa from 1898 to 1910 and wrote and edited many textbooks in Hebrew.  For a time he edited Olam Kata, a Hebrew magazine for Jewish youth, published in Warsaw.  Several volumes of a scientific commentary on the Bible which he began in 1903 have also been published. His son, Moses Gordon, has followed in his father footsteps by serving as general secretary of Tarbuth, the Hebrew education movement.

1933: In Brooklyn, Jennie (Gitlitz) and Edward Jonaton Zeiger gave birth to Lawrence Leibel Harvey Zeiger who gained fame as radio and television personality Larry King.

1934: As the Nazis worked to revamp German culture, today “German Labour Front leader Robert Ley decreed that time clock punching would be abolished and replaced with bugle calls.”

 1934: Birthdate of French artist Sam Szafran.

http://forward.com/articles/179077/jewish-artist-who-once-called-chagalls-art-crappy/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%202013-06-29&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29

1935(23^rd of Cheshvan, 5696): Eighty-five year old Arthur Eloesser, the Brandenburg, Germany born son of Leo and Ida Eloesser, and husband of “Molly Helen Eloesser” passed away today in San Francisco.

1935: “The University of Budapest closed for a day due to anti-Semitic rioting.”

1936: “Johnny Johnson,” a Kurt Weill musical directed by Less Strasburg and a cast that included Luther Adler, Lee J. Cobb, John Garfield and Sandy Meisner had its Broadway premiere at the 44^th Street Theatre.

1936: As Hitler seeks to gain support from the Catholic Church by creating an alliance based on the anti-Communism of the Nazis and the Church, “Pius XI announced that communism had moved to the head of the list of ‘errors/’”

1936: One of the reasons for the issuance today of a “decree compelling the owners of certain foreign securities to deposit them with the Reichsbank or its designated agents bank” was “revealed by the newspaper Angriff which charges that foreign securities are in Jewish hands.”

1936: “The occupants of the leading history chairs in Reich universities were forced to drop their lectures and seminars for the latter part of this week and come” to Munich “for the opening tody of the Jewish research section of the Institute for the History of New Germany” which “is in reality a propaganda institution devoted almost exclusively to anti-Semitism and other National Socialist doctrines.”                                        

1936: Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, the rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El made “a please for strong self-respect by the Jewish people” in address he gave “at a testimonial luncheon at the Astor Hotel” in honor of “Mrs. David E. Goldfarb who has completed twenty-four years as president of the Mount Neboh Sisterhood” which was attended by more than one thousand members of the sisterhood.

1936: “Evidence that that there is not and never has been unemployment among the Arabs of Palestine since the start of the British occupation was given by E. Mills, Director of Migration and Statistic of the Palestine Government before the first public session of the Royal Inquiry Commission” meeting today in Jerusalem.

1937: Today marked the end of the first of a four week London Season for the Habima Players.  They had demonstrated what is known as the "Habima Method" in their performances of the Dybbuk.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that the country was generally quiet, but the Jerusalem curfew continued for the eighth day in succession. Telephone lines were cut between Hebron and Beersheba and Beersheba and Gaza.

1937: “Damsel in Distress,” a musical produced by Pandro S. Berman, co-starring George Burn and featuring music and lyrics by Ira and George Gershwin was released today in the United States.

1937: In an article critical of the Jewish development of Galilee ThePostpointed out that the Jewish settlement of Mahanayim had been completely deserted since the riots of 1929. Mishmar Hayarden, "The Watch Over the Jordan," was almost a dead village ­with many of the farmyards burned to the ground. The Post demanded rapid development of this area, with particular attention given to the settlement of those Jewish lands which belonged to persons who did not live in Palestine.

1938: “Nuremberg Ousts Jews” published today described how “uniformed storm troops rounded up the Jewish population of Nuremberg and marched them to the Labor Front office” where “they were ‘persuaded to accept a plan for released their property under which the Labor Front retains 90 per cent of the realizable value.” (Editor’s Note – Once again we see that anti-Semitism is a profitable business.)

1938(25th of Cheshvan, 5699): Seventy-two year old existentialist philosopher Lev Isaakovich Shestov passed away.  Born in Czarist Russia in 1886, he fled from the Bolshevicks in 1921 and settled in France where he continued to work until his death. While not well-known today, Shestov influenced many more famous philosophers and writers including Albert Camus.

http://www.shestov.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/biog.htm

1940: William King, the Senator from Utah who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews” began serving as “President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate” today.

1940: A Christian is killed by German soldiers for throwing bread into the Warsaw ghetto. Close to 400,000 Jews would be contained within approximately 37,200 apartments.

1941: In the West, gassing has become the popular method of exterminating the Jews. Eichmann moved forward on his plans for the deportation of Jews.

1941: Friedrich Jeckeln decided that Rumbula was the best site to murder the Jews imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto.

1942: Birthdate of Calvin Klein, the Bronx born son of Jewish-Hungarian immigrants who went on to became a leading figure in the American fashion industry.

1942: Birthdate of Congressman Gary Ackerman who represents New York’s Fifth District.

1942(10th of Kislev, 5703): The Germans shot 100 Jews from Potrkow outside of the town.

1942: Germans in Debica, Poland, announce that as of December 1, any Pole who assists Jews "will be punished by death."

1942: The Forverts (The Forward) published "A soycher fun fel" (A fur merchant), by Galician born American Yiddish author and poet Fradle Shtok.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shtok-fradel

1942(10^th of Kislev, 5703): In the Drohobycz Ghetto, the Nazis gunned down, at random, 250 Jews on what was known as “Black Thursday.”

1942(10th of Kislev, 5703): Bruno Schulz, the brilliant Polish Jewish author and artist, was gunned down by a Nazi officer in the Drohobycz ghetto.

http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR29.6/paloff.php

1943: Jewish prisoners at Janowska, a labor and extermination camp, revolted against their captors. The revolt failed and the camp was liquidated.  One thousand of the survivors were taken to the town of Sandomierz

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

1943: One thousand Jews are shot at the Jewish cemetery outside Sandomierz, Poland.

1944: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment in which Max Kampelman was one of the 36 participants began today.

1945: Five months after World War II ended in Europe, Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Lublin, Poland. Jan T. Gross would document post Holocaust anti-Semitism in Poland in Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz published in 2006.

1945: It was announced today that the curfew imposed on Tel Aviv after rioting last week will lifted effective tomorrow.

1945: “Five thousand officers and men of a Jewish brigade in the British Army of the Rhine began a hunger strike today in protest against Foreign Minister Bevin’s declaration on Palestine.”  Some did not go to the mess hall “while others sat idly before full plates.  The Jewish brigade is deployed in a swath of territory from northwest Belgium and through southwest Netherlands

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70E12FA3D5B127A93C2AB178AD95F418485F9

1945: In London members of the American League for a Free Palestine called on Great Britain to immediately allow 100,000 Jews to settle in Palestine.  Guy Gillette, a former U.S. Senator from Iowa and head of the league warned the British that any delay would be unpopular with the citizenry of the United States.

1945: Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met twice today to discuss the situation in Palestine. Among the attendees were Robert F. Wagner the Democratic Senator from New York and Robert A. Taft the Republican Senator from Ohio “co-authors of a proposed Senate resolution favoring immediate unlimited Jewish immigration to Palestine.” [Wagner, who was a Liberal and Taft, who was a Conservative, were polar opposite on most issues.  Dealing with the DP Jews of Europe and Palestine brought them together in common cause.]

1946: Inky Lautman and Sol Schwartz are among the members of the Philadelphia Sphas, “the runner-up to Baltimore in the American Basketball League playoffs” who, it was reported today, will take the court against the Brooklyn Gothams on November 24.

1947(12^thof Kislev, 5752): Sixty-six year old Lodz born and European trained surgeon Dr. Arthur Abram Salvin who had come to New York in 1923 after working in Russian hospitals passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/11/20/104377097.pdf



1947:  Chaim Weizmann “rose from his sickbed” and went to Washington to meet with President Truman to talk about the creation of a Jewish state that included the Negev.

1947: A British government “spokesman said today that by the end of November, the army already would have re-requisitioned 5,000 acres” which Zionist leaders in Palestine are worried that the British would sell thus limiting the size of any future Jewish state.

1947: “Two new colonies were established today within twenty-five miles of the Egyptian border, bring the total number of Jewish settlements in the Negev to 19 and the number of” settlers to 1,900.



1947: Lessing J. Rosenwald, the President of the American Council for Judaism expressed his opposition for “plans to establish the American Jewish Conference on a permanent basis to coordinate all Jewish activities” in the United States.

1947(6^thof Kislev, 5708): Sixty-six University of Zurich trained physician Arthur A. Salvin, the Lodz, Poland born son of “Zelman Salmonowicz and the former Hinda who in 1923 came to the United States where he later became an attending surgeon at Sydenham Hospital in New York passed away today.



https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/11/20/104377097.pdf





1948:UN mediator Ralph Bunche accepts Israel's proposal made yesterday that included the Jewish state’s stated readiness to begin an armistice with the Arabs.



1948: In an unprecedented move that would have serious consequences for the region th UN General Assembly approves $30 million fund for relief of Palestinian refugees forming the UNRPR. Assembly asks UN member countries for contributions. No money would be provided for Jewish citizens forced to flee from their homes in Arab and/or Moslem countries.  These funds would create a permanent and ever-growing refugee population on Israel’s borders and would keep the Arab and Moslem states of the region of offering a home to their Palestinian brethren.

1949(27^thof Cheshvan, 5710): Parashat Chayei Sara

1949: It was reported today that “Moshe Sharett, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs” has arrived in the United States “to take part in the final session of the U.N. General Assembly” where he will oppose the “plan to internationalize Jerusalem”

1950: Two days after he had passed away funeral service were held in Montreal for Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Cohen, dean of the Canadian Rabbinate and president of the Montreal Council of Orthodox Rabbis”

https://www.jta.org/1950/11/21/archive/rabbi-zvi-hirsh-cohen-dean-of-canadian-rabbinate-dies-was-90-years-old

http://imjm.ca/location/1428



1951(20^thof Cheshvan, 5712): Seventy four year old Cleveland, OH businessman Abraham J. Bialosky “the last of three brothers who gave the nursery wing to Mt. Sinai Hospital in 1918 and one of the foundrs of the old Cleveland Jewish Center” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/21/94280389.pdf



1951: “Tillie’s Unpunctured Romance” published today describe the love affair between Tillie Louse (born Myrtle Ehrlich) with the tomato.

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,857087-1,00.html



1952(1^stof Kislev, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



1952:The Jerusalem Postreported that Albert Einstein had declined to accept the offer of the Israeli Presidency. Einstein said that while he was deeply touched by the offer, he felt unsuited for such an office.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the minister of social affairs, Mrs. Golda Myerson, promised that the new immigrants’ tent cities would completely disappear within the next half year.  Mrs. Myerson was a former school teacher from Milwaukee who would change her name to Meir and go to serve as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister.

1953: As tensions mounted between Israel and Jordan because Palestinian terrorists repeatedly crossed from Jordan in to Israel, Prime Minister Churchill cautioned against sending British troops to support the Jordanians lest they be caught in a cross-fire between Israeli and Arab forces.

1954: Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident. 

1958: U.S. premiere “Houseboat,” a romantic comedy produced by Jack Rose who also co-authored the script.

1958: In New York City, Helen and Myron Kaufman gave write to NYU grad and award winning film maker Charlie Kaufman whose best known film may be “Being John Malkovich and who has had one child with his wife Denise.

https://www.gq.com.au/entertainment/film-tv/charlie-kaufman-is-the-21st-centurys-mad-genius-of-cinema/news-story/d0d0b135799b83935c92d51a8d1bcdaf

1959: ABC broadcast the first episode of “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends” for which Hans Conried provided the voices of “Snidely Whiplash” and “Dudley Do-Right.”

1959: David Susskind produced an adaptation of “The Power and the Glory” for tonight’s broadcast of the Play of the Week.

1962: S(amuel) N(athaniel) Behrman’s "Lord Pengo," premiered in New York City

1965: In New Orleans, Benjamin and Richard Swig acquired the Roosevelt Hotel from Seymour Weiss, renaming it the Fairmont-Roosevelt before finally changing the name to the Fairmont New Orleans.

1967: “The Happy Time,” “a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by N. Richard Nash” premiered today in Los Angeles.

1969: “The Comic” directed by Carl Reiner who co-produced and co-wrote the film with Aaron Ruben was released in the United States today.

1969(9^th of Kislev, 5730): Morris Garfinkle, the “husband of Eva Rivka Garfinklle” and the father of Cyril Harold Gary passed awa today.

1969(9^th of Kislev, 5730): Sixty-three year old Harvard trained labor lawyer Lee Pressman, the husband of the former Sophia Platnik passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/21/89385294.pdf

https://spartacus-educational.com/Lee_Pressman.htm

1971(1st of Kislev, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1971:Birthdate of Laurel, MD native and Oberlin College English major, Myla Goldberg, the musician whose instruments of choice are the banjo and the accordion and author of the Bee Season, which was the basis for the 2005 film of the same name.

http://www.fluxfactory.org/fluxers/myla-goldberg/

http://www.grendel.org/milgeek/myla.html

1971 (1st of Kislev): Seventy-five year old Yiddish poet and essayist Jacob Glatstein passed away

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/761/features/summoned-home/

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/jacobglatstein.html

1971(1st of Kislev, 5732): Sportscaster Bill Stern passed away at the age of 64.

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/BillStern.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/21/archives/bill-stern-sports-announcer-known-forhis-anecdotes-dies.html

1971: U.S. premiere of “Werewolves on Wheels” filmed by cinematographer Isidore Mankofsky.

1972(13^th of Kislev, 5733): Eighty-seven year old Nathan M Orbach, the founder of the department store chain that bears his name passed away today.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ohrbach

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/20/archives/nathan-m-ohrbach-dead-at-87-built-stores-on-profit-in-pennies.html?searchResultPosition=7

1975: Birthdate of New York native Lauren Grodsein, the Rutgers University professor and novelist whose works included the best-seller A Friend of the Family

1975: U.S. premiere of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: produced by Saul Zaentz with a screenplay co-authored by Bo Goldman filmed by cinematographer Haskell Wexler.

1976: “Mark Lutsker, who had recently completed a two year sentence for draft evasion” received “an exit visa” so he could go to Israel.

1976: “Dorothy Schiff, editor in chief and publisher of the New York Post announced that she had agreed to sell the afternoon daily to Rupert Murdoch, the Australian publisher.”

1977:  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1977: Birthdate of gymnast Kerri Strug, the Tucson, AZ, native who was a member of the Magnificent Seven

1978: In Israel, four people were killed and thirty were injured as a result of bus bombing that was aimed at citizens of Belgium, Canada, Sweden and the UK.

1979: Thirteen people waiting at a bus stop were injured by a bomb that had been placed on a bus.

1979: A second bomb placed on a different bus exploded but there were no reports of casualties.

1980:CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields. [He is Jewish; she is not.]

1980: “Taxi” starring Judd Hirsch and created by Ed Weinberger begins its third season.

1981(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5742): Seventy-one year old Michigan State and CFL star and Detroit High School football coach Abe Eliowitz who was the husband of Gertrude Lipman and Ida Sara Lachman passed away today.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MHctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lZgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7102,3277520&dq=frank+turville+award&hl=en

1982(3^rd of Kislev, 5743): Sixty year old Canadian born Erving Groffman sociologist passed away today. (As reported by William Dicke

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/22/obituaries/erving-goffman-sociologist-who-studied-every-day-life.html

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/goffmanbio.html

1983(13^th of Kislev, 5744):  Fifty seven year old lyricist Carolyn Leigh passed away.(As reported by G. Gerald Fraser)

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/21/obituaries/carolyn-leigh-lyricist-for-peter-pan-dies.html

1984: The final entry of The Making of the President 1984, co-authored by Theodore White  titled “The Shaping of the Presidency, 1984” which was “a lengthy post-election analysis piece in TIME, in its special Ronald Reagan issue which was published today.

1986(17^th of Cheshvan, 5747): Seventy-six year old German born “Swiss musicologist” Harry Goldschmidt passed away today in Dresden.

1988: A month before his death at the age of 79, Alter Mojze Goldman was elected to the Légion d'Honneur on for his role in the French Résistance today.

1991(12^th of Kislev, 5752): Two days before his 92^ndbirthday, “Austrian-Swiss ophthalmologist and inventor Hans Goldmann passed away today.

http://ascrs.org/honorees/hans-goldmann-md

https://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/76/6/384.full.pdf

1991: The Dallas Symphony Orchestra performed a rare Mavin Hamlisch classical symphonic suite titled Anatomy of Peace (Symphonic Suite in one Movement For Full Orchestra/Chorus/Child Vocal Soloist)

1992: Robert Strauss completed his tour as United States Ambassador to Russia.

1993: “Addams Family Values” a sequel to “The Adams Family” directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Scott Rudin and with a script by Paul Rudnick was released in the United States today.

1994: The Shagmar Commission which had been established to conduct to investigate the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin held its first meeting today.

1998: During the Mona Lewinsky scandal, The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1997: “The Hunter” an 1833 painting by Danish painter David Moines was sold at Butterfield’s today.

1998(30th of Cheshvan, 5759): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1998(30th of Cheshvan, 5759): Seventy-seven year old American film producer, writer and director Alan J. Pakula the Yale educated son of Jewish parents from Poland passed away. Some of his more memorable efforts included “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Sophie’s Choice,” “Klute” and “The Pelican Brief.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/20/movies/alan-j-pakula-film-director-dies-at-70.html

1999(10^th of Kislev, 5760): Eighty-seven year old publisher and editor Alexander Liberman passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/20/arts/alexander-liberman-conde-nast-s-driving-creative-force-is-dead-at-87.html?pagewanted=print

1999: In Atlanta, GA, the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities comes to an end.

2000:  The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including At Memory’s Edge:  After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architectureby James E. Young, Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yoav Karny, Lying Awake by Mark Saltzman and Louisa by by Simone Zelitch

2001: During the investigation of Jack Abramoff’s business dealings in Guam, U.S. Attorney Frederick A. Black, the chief prosecutor for Guam and the instigator of the indictment, was unexpectedly demoted and removed from the office he had held since 1991. The federal grand jury investigation was quickly wound down and took no further action.

2002: Amram Mitzna “won the Labour's leadership elections today with 54% of the vote.”

2003(24^TH of Cheshvan, 5764): Patricia Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of Ecuador was killed and four other tourists, pilgrims from Ecuador, were wounded when a terrorist entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of Eilat from the Jordanian side and opened fire. The terrorist was killed by Israeli security guards.

2003(24^th of Cheshvan, 5764): Nineteen year old Sgt. Liron Siboni of Ramat Gan died today from the wounds suffered on September 9^thwhen Hamas terrorist attacked the bus stop next to Tzrifin military base.

2004(6th of Kislev, 5765): Children’s book illustrator Trina Schart Hyman passes away.

2004: “National Treasure” an adventure movie directed by Jon Turteltabu who co-produced it along with Jerry Bruckheimer, with music by Trevor Rabin and co-starring Harvey Keitel was released today in the United States.

2004: “Palaces of Prayer,” sponsored by the Angel Orensanz Foundation, Eldridge Street Project and the Lower East Side Conservancy came to a close today at the Angel Orensanz Center.

http://forward.com/culture/4420/built-judaism/

2004:The Wall Street Journalpublishes “They Call It Chrismukkah: ‘The O.C.’ launches a new interfaith holiday” in which columnist Jonathan Eig describes another response to the confluence of Christmas and Chanukah in America. "The O.C.," is a television show which traces the lives of some hip teens in Orange County, Calif. One of them is Seth Cohen, the fictional son of a Protestant mother and a Jewish father.

2005: The movement that was the first to welcome intermarried families into its synagogues nearly three decades ago now will focus on actively inviting non-Jews to convert to Judaism. That was one of the initiatives announced by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, during his Shabbat sermon at the movement’s 68th biennial in Houston.

2006: TheNew York Times book section featured reviews of Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan, Collected Poems:1947-1997by Allen Ginsberg, and I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life  by A Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman

2007: Eighty-eight year old André Bettencourt, who like so many Frenchmen of his generation had a checkered pass, as can be seen by his service as cabinet under President Pierre Mendès France after having written during the days of Vichy France that Jews were “hypocritical Pharisees whose race has been forever sullied by the blood of the righteous” for which “they will be cursed” passed away today.

2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Dovid Broza and Yair Dalal present an evening of love songs in Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic.

2007(9^th of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-one year old Wiera Gran passed away.

http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/131148/curse-of-the-survivor?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=15762aae5f-5_2_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-15762aae5f-207008977

2007: In “Bad and Badder” published today described F. Murray Abraham’s reaction to playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Barabas in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta

http://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/26544/

2007(9th of Kislev, 5768): Ido Zuldan, a 29 year old resident of Shavei Shomron was killed by Palestinian gunman while traveling between two villages on the West Bank while in a separate incident, five Qassam rockets and 18 mortar shells struck the western Negev including at least one rocket that struck the city of Ashkelon.

2008: Barney Rosset receives a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in honor of his many contributions to American publishing, especially his groundbreaking legal battles to print uncensored versions of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He is also the subject of “Obscene,” a documentary by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O’Connor.

2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hadassah Book Club discusses The History of Love by Nicole Krauss at the home of Amy Barnum.

2008: On its final night the Ninth Annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival presents “Four Seasons Lodge”, a movie about a bungalow colony in New York’s Catskill Mountains, has provided idyllic refuge to a group of Holocaust survivors and their families for nearly three decades.

2008: Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives won his race to become the new minority whip today, becoming the second-ranking Republican in the US House of Representatives.

2008: Facing a tight economic crunch, the New York-based Anti-Defamation League has laid off nearly 10 percent of its staff at its national headquarters, the organization said today.

2008:Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said today they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the Jewish monarch was buried here..

2008: Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg replaced Moshe Tamir as commander of The Israel Defense Forces Gaza Division (Territorial) which is subordinate to the Southern Regional Command.

2008: Today, following dozens of Qassam rockets and mortar rounds which exploded on Israeli soil, the plan for operation cast lead was brought for Barak's final approval.

2008: John Key assumed office as the 38^th Prime Minister of Australia.

2009: Melvin Urofsky, a professor of law and public policy, discusses and signs "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life," his new biography of the Supreme Court justice, at the National Archives

2009: At the Trade Fair and Convention Center in Tel Aviv the Fifth International Water Technologies and Environmental Control Exhibition - WATEC Israel 2009 comes to an end.

2009: Moshe Holtzberg, son of Barvriel and Rivka Holztberg of blessed memory who were murdered by the terrorists in Mumbain in 2008, receives his first haircut at a ceremony called upshiren.

2009: The Iowa Department of Economic Development Board approved state incentivizes of more than $600,000 that will help kosher meatpacker Agri Star Meat & Poultry in Postville launch a $6.7 million expansion to add a line of oven-baked beef and poultry.  Agri Star is the successor the defunct Rubashkin operations in Postville.  The new Canadian owners have made a commitment to operate in a manner that is Kosher in name and as well as spirit since they have promised to follow federal, state and local laws and regulations.



2010: Israeli/International Folk Dance for Seniors is the scheduled activity for today at The Jewish Folk Arts Festival.



2010:An exhibition featuring the work of Ayala Gazit, the Haifa born photographer, entitled “Was It A Dream,” is scheduled to open in New York City.



2010:Following multiple rockets and mortar shells being fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip today, the IDF confirmed that IAF jets successfully struck three terror-related targets in Gaza in response. The IDF also reported that the four mortar shells that landed in the Ashkelon Regional Council area earlier today contained white phosphorous.  

2010(12^th of Kislev, 5771): Children’s writer Betty Jean Kirschner, the wife of psychiatrist Robert Jay Lofton, the son of Harold A. Lofton and Ciel Roth, passed away today.



2010(12th of Kislev, 5771): Seventy six year old  Marvin Levin, a real estate developer who wore a wire in his cowboy boots during a major FBI anti-corruption sting of California’s state government in the 1980s, passed away today

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/11/local/la-me-marvin-levin-20101211





2011: “Now I Am Talking, Memories of a Woman Partisan” a film that tells the story of Vitka Kovner, the Jewish resistance fighter who was the wife of Abba Kovner, is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival.



2011: Adat Reyim is scheduled to host its annual Autumn Art Auction in Springfield, VA.



2011:Cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to perform selected string trios as part of the Amerigo trio with Glenn Dicterow and Karen Dreyfus at the music for Youth Concert in New York.



2011: David “Amram was awarded the 1st Annual Bruce Ricker Lifetime Achievement Award under the auspices of The Paso Digital Film Festival.”



2011:Israel sees cracks in Syrian power structures amid increasingly violent unrest, and there are signs President Bashar Assad may not be in power for long, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on today.



2011:Israel Police and the Communications Ministry cut off the broadcasts of Kol Hashalom radio station today, claiming that they are pirate broadcasts. Kol Hashalom’s operators claim that their offices, which are located in the Palestinian Authority, are not subject to Israeli law, but Palestinian law, and therefore the Communications Ministry does not have the authority to shut it down.



2011(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5772): Eighty-one year old museum curator I. Michael Heyman passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/us/michael-heyman-smithsonian-leader-dies-at-81.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ira-michael-heyman-former-secretary-of-the-smithsonian-institution-dies-at-81-541564/?no-ist=





2011(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-three year old “Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral candidate and a City Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and criminal turmoil of the 1970s” passed away today. (As reported by Matt Flegenheimer)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/nyregion/sanford-garelik-former-new-york-city-mayoral-candidate-dies-at-93.html?_r=0



2012: Jean-François Copé begins serving as President of the Union for a Popular Movement Group in the French National Assembly,



2012: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Jewish World in Action: Facing the Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683.”



2012(5^th of Kislev, 5774): Eighty two year old Warren Rudman, the senator who led the fight for a balanced budget passed away today. (As reported by Adam Clymer)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/us/politics/warren-b-rudman-new-hampshire-senator-dies-at-82.html?pagewanted=print





2012:The Wiener Library and the University of London are scheduled to host "The Strongest Possible Terms": The Evolving Role of Parliamentary Condemnations of Atrocities Past and Present a debate marking the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Persecution of the Jews.



2012: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to sponsor a musical evening celebrating 100 years of Woody Guthrie. 



2012: To date, since the start of the year, more than 1,700 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza.



2012: As Sunday gives way to Monday, Israel continues to defend itself during Operation Pillar of Defense.



2012: Two Katyusha missiles aimed at Israel from Lebanon were “discovered” today in the southern region. Both were set to launch, a security source told Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star.



2012:Israel’s operation to stem Palestinian rocket fire on southern Israel continued in its sixth day today. The Israel Air Force struck over 80 terrorist targets in Gaza, while Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired 130 rockets into Israel.



2013: “It’s Better To Jump” and “The Lesson” are scheduled to be shown at the Other Israel Film Festival.



2013: Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs warned today “that chances of peaceful end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be ‘irreparably damaged’ unless steps are taken to prevent new Israeli settlement building and ‘other negative developments.’” 

2013: Terrorists in Gaza fired mortars at IDF soldiers on the Israel side of the the border between the Palestinian “entity” and the Jewish state. 



2013: IAF destroyed a weapons factory and two tunnels used by terrorists this evening in response to Arab attacks which come on the first anniversary of Pillar of Defense.



2013(16^thof Kislev, 5774): Ninety-eight year old children’s book author and editor Charlotte Zolotow passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/books/charlotte-zolotow-whose-books-tackled-childrens-real-life-issues-dies-at-98.html?hpw



2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “The Rosenburg Files: The German Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi Past.”



2014: Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life is scheduled to present Charles Asher Small speaking on “The Dimensions of Global Anti-Semitism: Will it spread to the U.S.?”



2014: “Dancing in Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.



2014: The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present Erga Atad speaking on “How News Becomes News: The Israeli Case.”



2014: Decent people everywhere mourn the loss of Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, 40, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Rabbi Kalman Levine, 50, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59 and Police Officer Zidan Saif, 30 who were brutally murdered yesterday in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood by two Arab terrorists.



2014: “Members of Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue returned today for morning prayers (Shacharit), the first service held at the shul since the gruesome terror attack Tuesday that left five people dead.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/congregants-return-to-synagogue-for-first-prayers-after-attack/





2014: “Police set up checkpoints around some Arab neighborhoods and beefed up their presence across Jerusalem Wednesday as the city boosted security efforts a day after a deadly attack on a synagogue that left five people dead.”



2014(26^thof Cheshvan, 5775): The multi-talented 83 year old Mike Nichols passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/movies/mike-nichols-celebrated-director-dies-at-83.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0



2015: “According to a new Weizmann Institute study by Professor Eran Segal and R. Eran Elinav” published in today’s issue of the journal “Cell,” the reason it may be “so hard for some people to lose weight” is “because different people’s bodies respond differently to the same meal, depending on their gut bacteria.”

2015: In Los Angeles, the 29^th Israel Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2015: “A major American Academic association, the American Anthropological Association, overwhelmingly approved a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions during the group's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado” today.

2015:Micah Goodman, a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the director of Israel’s Ein Prat Midrasha is scheduled to discuss his latest work, Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism at the Skirball Center.



2015: “The Zionist Idea” and “The Kind Words” are scheduled to be shown in Melbourne during the Jewish International Film Festival.



2016(18^th of Cheshvan, 5777): Shabbat Vayera

2016(18^th of Cheshvan, 5777): Eighty-eight year old Oscar winning production designer Paul Sylbert passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/movies/paul-sylbert-dead-oscar-winner-heaven-can-wait.html

2016(18^th of Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-five year old optometrist Irving Fradkin the creator of the Dollars for Scholars program passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/irving-fradkin-died-scholarship-america.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

https://scholarshipamerica.org/fradkin/



2016: Today, “black paint was poured on a monument for Holocaust victims on Mogilev, a city in Belarus located 150 miles east of the capital of Minsk” which was just one more sign of an increase in anti-Semitism among Ukrainians

2016; “The Pickle Recipe” and “One Week and A Day” are scheduled to be shown in Brisbane, Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.



2016; “The Wedding Date” and “The 90 Minute War” are scheduled to be shown at the 20^th UK International Jewish Film Festival.



2016: After six months, “Sign from Iran” an exhibition of 60 original Iranian art posters on display atJerusalem’s Museum for Islamic ‘Art is scheduled to come to an end today.

2017(1^stof Kislev, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Kislev; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/



2017: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to hold its annual meeting where attendees will discuss “Envisioning Our Future Museum.”

2017: Elisha Wiesel, son of the late Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, is scheduled to speak at Highland Park, Illinois High School Auditorium where he will reflect “on the indelible legacy his father left for him and the world, and how he works to advance his father's message today.”

2017: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn, Heather, The Totality by Matthew Weiner, The Age of Perpetual Lightby Josh Weil, Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin and Dead Girls and Other Stories by Emily Geminder as well as he audiobook The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

2017: “The Algemeiner is scheduled to host a conversation with journalist and former Taliban captive Jere Van Dyk on “From Daniel Pearl to Steven Sotloff: Jews and Political Kidnapping.”

2017: “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue” and “Bye Bye Germany” are scheduled to be shown today in London at the 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: As part of its series of Biblical trials series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to host “The People vs. Eve with Kelly Ayotte as prosecutor and Alan Dershowitz, the attorney who helped Kalus Von Bulow beat the charge of murder, serving as defense attorney.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Joan Nathan whose wide variety of cookbooks included The Jewish Holiday Baker and Jewish Cooking in America continues today.

2018: “Makeup and lifestyle persona, Ashley Waxman Bakshi” is scheduled to meet her fans at the Jerusalem Azrieli Mall.

2018: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for 93 year old WW 2 U.S Navy Veteran and ISU electrical engineering graduate Arnold Bucksbaum, who worked on the Apollo Moon Landing Project at Collins and who was a long time member of Temple Judah following which he will be buried at Eben Israel Cemetery.

https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2018/Nov/Arnold-M-Bucksbaum/



2018: “Steve Pinker Thinks the Future Is Looking Bright” published today provides a snapshot of the views of the iconoclastic Harvard psychologist and author of Enlightenment Now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/science/steven-pinker-future-science.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage



2018: “The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others” published today provided a review of Trinity by Louisa Hall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/books/review/trinity-louisa-hall.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage



2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dr. Diane Sharon lecturing on “The Secret Life of The Psalms” and Dr. David Kraemer lecturing on “Maimonides: The Man and His Genius.”

2018: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host Harriet Jackson lecturing on “Political and Spiritual Resistance, From Russia to France: The Extraordinary Case of Rabbi Zalman Schneerson.”

https://www.yivo.org/Zalman-Schneerson

2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to a Day of Philanthropy that will include a luncheon featuring “keynote speaker Sander Weill” and honoring Alvin H. Baum, Jr.

2019: In New Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to host “SHUK: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking” which is part of The Cathy and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Arts Series.

2019: In University City, MO, Kol Rinah Synagogue, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to host “American and the Holocaust: What Did Missourians Know?” presented by Dr. Edna Friedberg, the Director of Strategic Relationships at the USHMM.

2019: In Glasgow, the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Unorthodox.”

2019: Benny Ganz is down to his last two days to form a government

2019: The Petaluma, CA Community Center is scheduled to host Leon Malmed the “Holocaust survivor from France discussing his family’s harrowing experiences, with video presentation.”

https://www.jewishpetaluma.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/4525526/jewish/Holocaust-Survivor-Leon-Malmed.htm

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331 BCE (21st of Kislev, 3431): According to the Talmud, Simeon the Just destroyed the Samaritan Temple at Mount Gerizim.  The Samaritans had undermined the efforts during the post-exilic period and this move was as much about establishing political sovereignty as it was about wiping out a “high place” intended to compete with Jerusalem.  The victory was marked by a minor festival called Mt. Gerizim Day.
284: Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.  Diocletian began a policy of subdividing the various provinces of the Roman Empire into increasingly smaller administrative units.  Palestine, the name the Romans gave to Eretz Israel, was divided into three territories: Palaestina Prima including Judea, Samaria, and the coastal plain, Iduemea and Peraea with Caesarea (the one on the Mediterranean that had played such a key role in the Great Revolt against Rome) as its capital; Palaestina Secunda, consisting of the Galilee and the Golan with Beth-shean (the city to which the ancient Philistines had taken King Saul’s decapitated body) as its capital; Palaestina Terita consisting primarily of the Negev with Petra as its capital.  In a further division of powers, each of these new subdivisions had a military and a civilian head. All of the new bureaucrats who came with these new subdivisions took on aura of divinity connected in keeping with their role as representatives of the Divine Emperor.  What it meant for the people of the empire was further subjugation and impoverishment.  Diocletian was also the last of the Roman Emperors took actively persecute the Christians.  His ultimate successor would adopt a policy that represented a 180 degree and would mark even worse times for the Jewish people.
542: The Nea Church which contains a the Madaba Map, the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem as part of its floor mosaic was dedicated today.
1194: Palermo, Sicily, is conquered by Emperor Henry VI. By the time of Henry’s conquest, Jews had been living on the island of Sicily for over a thousand years. Jews had been living in Palermo since the sixth century because we have evidence that in 590 “Pope Gregory the Great ordered the ecclesiastical authorities to reimburse the Jews of Palermo for the damage suffered by the expropriation of their synagogue.” Furthermore, just prior to the conquest, the famous traveler Benjamin of Tudela mentioned the Jewish community of Palermo in his writings.
1272:Edward I proclaimed King of England. Edward is remembered as the English king, who, after stripping the Jews of their wealth, expelled them from his realm in 1290.
1316: King John I of France died.  His father, Louis X had issued a decree in 1315 allowing the Jews to return.  We do not know how John felt about the Jews (or anything else for that matter) since he only lived for five days.  We do know that the Jews were allowed to remain in France until the end of the 14^th century when they were again expelled.
1316: King Phillip V, also called Phillip the Long or Phillip the Tall began his reign during which “300,000 men, headed by a deposed priest and a renegade monk began their desultory march to the Holy Land: which included ravaging the Jews of Navarre, slaying 6,000 Jews in Estella and laying siege to Verdun where the Jews took their own lives rather than the victims of this so-called “Shepherd’s Crusade”
1451: Pope Nicholas V issued an edict empower the bishop of Osma and the vicar of Salamana to appoint new inquisitors to examine the cases of "new-Christians suspected of Judaizing.  The inquisitors were authorized to punish the convict, imprison them, confiscate their goods and disgrace them, to degrade even priests and hand them over to the secular arm - a church euphemism for condemning them to the heretic's stake
1521: All Jewish wine was dumped by Arabs and heavy fines imposed on the Jewish community of Jerusalem. The Arabs blamed the Jewish use of wine for a severe water shortage. 
1600: Robert Wilson “the Elizabethan dramatist” who “is generally accepted as the author of The Three Ladies of London,” a play that portrayed Jews in a sympathetic light which went against the accepted view of them usurers and Shylocks passed away today.
1616: Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War.  Richelieu was the power behind the throne during the reign of King Louis XIII. Any decree issued over the signature of Louis was probably written by Richelieu.   While Jews had long been banished from France, exceptions were made. For example, when the French captured the city of Metz, a special letter was posted allowing the Jews to remain because their presence was a necessity for the good of the Kingdom.  Furthermore, the ban against Jews was not enforced during Louis XIII’s reign in his overseas possessions. Once again, thanks to economic needs, in places such as Martinique, the Jews were allowed to settle while engaged in trade and practicing their faith.
1657: Manasseh Ben Israel passed away. Manasseh Ben Israel will always be remembered as the Jewish leader who negotiated with Oliver Cromwell to gain the right for Jews to settle in England.
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/jb-Menasseh-ben-Israel
1685: In Burlington, NJ, Elizabeth Harvey and John Day gave birth to Elizabeth Day, the wife of Thomas I. Branson with whom she had 13 children.
1772: In Philadelphia, PA, Sara Cohen and Henry Marks gave birth to Hyman Marks, the husband of Grace Siexas Judah with whom he had 7 children.
1775: In New York City, Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Judah Isaacks.
1778: In Amsterdam, Belia Meijer Wolfe and Emanuel Levie Duitz gave birth to Elias Emanuel Duitz.
1785: “The earliest known Yiddish letter from the United States was written by Barnard Gratz of Philadelphia to his brother Michael in London today.
1789: New Jersey became the first state to ratify the amendments to the U.S. Constitution known as the Bill of Rights with its guarantee of Freedom of Religion.  It would take another two years for the Bill of Rights to become part of the Constitution. Virginia would put it over the top in December of 1791.
1790: Governor of Georgia Edward Telfair authorized a charter for the "Parnas and Adjuntas of Mickve Israel at Savannah" under which the congregation still operates.
1796: David Levy married Hannah Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.
1808: During a debate on “Jewish emancipatory legislation Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von Schrötter, the Prussian minister of state and veteran of the Seven Years War, expressed his opinion about the demonstration of “Jewish valor on the battle field in which he said “The Jew has fiery oriental blood in his veins and vivid imagination, all indicative of virile courage, when utilized and carried into practice.  He was very brave in the ancient and middle epochs and even in very recent times” during “the American as well as French Revolutionary Wars.  The timidity of the Jews arises, according to my opinion, from the serfdom in which they are kept and from the contempt in which all nations regard them.”
1811: Moses Phillips married Esther Jacobs at the Great Synagogue today.
1816: Birthdate of Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the native of Mir, Belarus, who was “also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv amd was an Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/naftali-tzvi-yehudah-berlin-the-netziv
1823: Birthdate of Baruch Hirsch Strousberg, the native of Neidenburg, East Prussia, who gained fame as Christian convert Bethel Henry Strousberg, the German industrialist who lost most of his railway empire following business reverses that took place after the Franco-Prussian War.
1827(1^st of Kislev, 5588): Rosh Chodesh
1827: One day after she had passed away, 34 year old Sophia (Minden) Cohen the wife of Aaron Cohen, was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1829: The Jews were expelled from the Russian cities of Nikolayev and Sevastopol.
1833: Samuel Cohen married Hannah Phillips at the Great Synagogue today.
1836: Seventy year old Aaron Lazarus, who had married Ann Levy after his first wife Sophia Lehman had passed away, was buried today in the United Kingdom.
1842: Birthdate of Italian lawyer, editor and political leader Caser Porec.
1842: Morris Lee married Rebecca Duke today in the City of London
1845: Bolette Salomonsen and Zacharias Isaac Levy gave birth to Herman Levy who was buried in Denmark when he passed away in 1895.
1850: Birthdate of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian rabbi, who aggressively fought August Rohling, one of the leading Austrian anti-Semites – a stand which resulted in his being elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
1850: In Columbia, SC, Rabbi P.S. Jacobs officiated at the wedding of Jacob Levin and Julia Mordecai.
1856: Birthdate of Piemonte, Italy native and coal dealer Pacifico Ghiron the husband of Ida Dolce Foa Ghiron and the father of Anna Ghiron Fubini.
1857: In Westphalia, German Solomon Spiegel and Rosalie Herzberg gave birth to Cincinnati trained lawyer Frederick S. Spiegel, the husband of Minnie Steinberg who became a Judge of Court of Common Pleas in the 1^stJudicial District of Ohio.
1858: The Executive Committee of the Representatives of the United Congregations of Israelites of the City of New York addressed a letter to President James Buchanan concerning the Mortara Case. The letter included reference to the letter sent by London Committee of Deputies of British Jews “to their brethren in the United States” seeking their support in having the boy who was kidnapped in Bologna returned to his family.  The letter informed the President of the support being offered by several European nations and of plans to hold a public meeting to enlist public support in the United States. The committee reminded President Buchanan of the prompt action taken by President Van Buren in 1840 when he was asked to intervene to aid the persecuted Jews of Damascus and expressed the hope that he would do the same.
1858: At Vienna, Dr. of Jurisprudence Gustav Fruend and Rosa Fruend gave birth to Dr. of Jurisprudence Hugo Freund.
1858(13^th of Kislev, 5619): Hirsch Edelman, the native of White Russia, who worked at Oxford’s Bodelian Library where he produced several works on of the most famous of which was Derekh Tovim: The Path of Good Men, “a compilation of writings by Judah ibn Tibbon and Maimonides along with Arabic and Greek proverbs in Hebrew” passed away today.
1859: In Lancaster, PA, Moses Aaron and his wife gave birth to Israel Aaron the graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College who served as a rabbi at Fort Wayne, Indiana, before filling the pulpit at Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, NY.
1859: In Chicago, Jacob Alschuler and his wife gave birth to attorney Samuel Alschuler, the Democratic state legislator who lost in elections for Congress (1892) and governor of Illinois (1900).
1863: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Albert M. Sigmund completed his service as an Assistant Surgeon with the 38^th Regiment.
1864(21^st of Cheshvan, 5625): Fifty-year old Jacob Ezekiel Lowy, the nation of Austrian Silesia passed at Beuthen where he had been serving as rabbi since 1854.passed away today.
1869: In Kalwaria, Poland, Nehemiah Spectorsky and Hannah Leah Hirschberg give birth to Isaac Spectorsky, the husband of Frances Hurwitz and graduate of the “New York University School of Pedagogy” who was superintendent of the Education Alliance in New York and assistant principal of the Baron de Hirsch Trade School as well as the editor of the Cleveland Jewish Free Press and the author of Yiddish Method of English for Immigrants.
1870: It was reported today that Robert C. De Large, a mulatto with a Jewish father has defeated Mr. C.C. Bowen in the race for the Second Congressional District in South Carolina. A Republican, Mr. De Large “combines the shrewdness of the Jew with the intuitive cleverness of the negro…”
1874: Thirty-two year old Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian born son of Samuel and Julia Naphthaly and San Francisco lawyer and his wife Sarah, “the daughter of Blaize L. and Pauline Schhmitt” gave birth to Samuel Leon, their first born child.
1877: In “Suwalki, Poland,” Louis and Rebecca Goldstein Rosenthal, gave birth to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Rosenthal who became Elizabeth Feinberg when she married Moses Feinberg.
1880: It was reported today that the Purim Association will be hosting a ball in March at the Academy of Music “for the benefit of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.”
1880: In Germany, the members of the government are expected to face questioning from deputies about anti-Semitic “agitation” that has been taken place.
1880: According to a referee’s reported filed today described the sham by Henry Cone, Abraham Altman, Emanuel Levi and the Third National that enabled them to gain control of the Buffalo clothing firm Friedman & Co owned by Jacob and Burnet Friedman.
1881: It was reported today that “the King of Denmark has knighted four Jews in Jutland.”
1881: A resolution was adopted by a group at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum to hold a meeting on November 27 to discuss ways to deal with the unprecedented demand on resources being created by the arrival of the wave of immigrants from Russia.
1883: The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum held its second annual charity ball tonight.
1884: Birthdate of Norman Thomas social reformer and frequent Socialist candidate for President of the United States.  Thomas was not Jewish but he was active in numerous causes that affected the Jewish People.  He was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.  As a member of the America First Committee he opposed America’s entry into World War II until Pearl Harbor changed his mind.  At the same time, he worked to change American policy during the 1930’s to make it possible for Jewish victims of the Nazis to enter the United States.
1885: It was reported today that while the Reform movement has approved substituting Sunday services for Saturday services, such will not be the case in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Rabbi Wise, who spoke approvingly of the change said that it was not necessary to make the change in the Queen City.
1886: Birthdate of Alexandre Stavisky, the Ukrainian born French financer whose elaborate swindle gave rise to the infamous Stavisky Affair, a scandal that rocked France in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.
1886: Birthdate of Hungarian native James Eugene Tischler who in 1895 came to the United States where he later became a Notary Public in Ft. Wayne Indiana.
1886: It was reported today that the recent decision of the Supreme Court that “affirmed the illegality of keeping open a shop on Sunday “for the purpose of doing business’” will work an extra hardship on Jewish merchants.  The police had allowed them keep their shops open on Sunday “on the supposition” that because they observed the Sabbath on Saturday they were not covered by the law.  Rabbi Solomon Schindler has already chaired a packed meeting at the Columbus Avenue Synagogue on this subject.  The Jews will comply with the law but will work to have the legislature change it in the next session.
1886(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5647): After having been struck by a Hansom cab, 54 year old artist Rebecca Solomon passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solomon-rebecca
http://jwa.org/media/rebecca-solomon-wounded-dove-1866
1887: “Miss Adams, The Writer” published today traces the life and career of Hannah Adams, the first American woman to earn her living as an author.  Her works included The History of the Jewswhich was published in 1812.  The full title was The History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Time and it may be the first book on this topic published in the United States.
1887: “Reading From Right to Left” published today relied on information that first appeared in the Hebrew Journal to speculate as to way Hebrew is read from right to left.  “The most pertinent reason lies in the fact that our vision from right to left is much clearer and stronger than it is from left to right.”
1887: “Emma Lazarus” published today provided a laudatory obituary of the Jewish poet who passed away yesterday.
1887: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler delivered a lecture to the congregants at Temple Beth-El entitled “Prejudice.”
1888: A concert was given tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House to raise money for the Aguilar Free Library, an institution supported by the leading Jews of New York City.
1888(16^th of Kislev, 5649): Forty-seven year old Mitchell J. Asch, the “son of Clarissa and Joseph M. Asch” and the husband of “Manuella Asch” passed away in New York.
1888: As the Third Republic continued to be torn apart by competing factions “Count Munster, the German Ambassador in Paris” reported to his government in Berlin that Baron Hirsch, the Jewish financier and philanthropist was willing to put “a few million” down in support of General Ernest Boulanger “the man on White Horse” who had risen to power originally with the support of one of the sons of the former Orlean kings.
1888(16th of Kislev, 5649): Simon Lederer, a prominent New York merchant passed away today.  Born in Austria in 1823, he came to the United States in 1857 where he pursued a 17 year career in the tobacco business  first with Gustav Resiman and  then as a partner in Bondy & Lederer. A life-long bachelor, he was a generous but modest supporter of Jewish charities.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9502E0DD1330E633A25751C2A9679D94699FD7CF
1889: Gustav Mahler’s 1st Symphony premiered.  Mahler was born Jewish and was still nominally Jewish when he wrote the First Symphony.  He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1897 so that he could become Director of the State Opera.
1889: Birthdate of “German textile merchant and manufacturer Karl Amson Joel who fled the Nazis via Switzerland and Cuba and was the “grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel.”
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Karl-Amson-Joel
1889(26^th of Cheshvan, 5650): Sixty-seven year old Dutch bibliographer Meyer Roest  who “to various Jewish periodicals, such as the Dutch Spectator and the Taalkundig Magazin, and edited the (non-Jewish) Navorscher and Israelietische Nieuwsbode for several years and whose best known work is Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica aus der L. Rosenthal'schen Bibliothek passed away in his native Amsterdam today.
1890: As the “run” on Citizens’ Saving Bank, located on the Lower East Side with a large number of poor, Jewish depositors, it was suggested “that Chief Rabbi Joseph be invited to examine the thousands of dollars in the bank’s vault and then tell his people what he had seen” – a move that the Bank President hoped would reassure the depositors and end the run.
1890: In Richmond, VA, “Philip and Mary (Meyer)” gave birth to dentist Harry Bear, the first graduate of the School of Dentistry at Virginia Common University to serve as its dean and the husband of Betty Gellman.
https://prabook.com/web/harry.bear/1064794
https://dentistry.vcu.edu/about/history/
1892 (1^st of Kislev, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1892(1^st of Kislev, 5653): Seventy-two year old Haim Nathan Dembitzer the Galician rabbi and historian who worked with historian Heinrich Graetz and  whose publications include a biography of Tosafist Joseph Porat passed away today.
1892: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Military Band is scheduled to play at a fundraiser at Central Turn Hall which will be addressed by Ferdinand Levy, Judge Henry M. Goldfogle and Dr. Herman Baar, the Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
1892: A service is scheduled to take place this morning at Temple Emanu-El to honor the memory of the recently deceased Seligman Adler.
1892: “Russia and Her Jews” published today provided a detailed review of The New Exodus” a Study of Israel in Russia by Harold Frederic a Presbyterian journalist and novelist who had just visited Russia last summer.
1893: As of today the tenants at 59, 61, 63, and 65 Moore Street, all of whom are Russian Jews are to have vacated the premises as ordered the Civil Justice in Brooklyn.
1894(21st of Cheshvan, 5655): Russian born pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein passed away.
1894: Birthdate of English film composer and music director, Louis Levy.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/942790-Louis-Levy
1894: Pauline and George Washington Milius gave birth to Dorothy Milius who was the wife of “Sidney Walter Kaufman and Sidney Salkey.”
1894: Birthdate of Austrian screenplay writer Carl Mayer who, with the rise of the Nazis, fled to Britain where he would die young, poor and almost completely forgotten. 
1893: Twenty-three year old Harvard graduate Jesse Isidor Straus, the New York born son of Isidor Straus and the former Rosalie Ida Blum, who became an executive with Macy’s and American Ambassador to France, today married Irma Nathan.
1896: Birthdate of Rakhel Peisoty, the native of the Ukraine who gained fame as American labor leader Rose Pesotta best known for her work with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
1896: “Rachel Frank of California, the only woman rabbi who is famous as the ‘inspired prophet’ of the Jews on the Pacific Coat” was “conspicuous among” the delegates at the just completed first convention of the National Council of Jewish Women
1896: As the first convention of the National Council of Jewish Women during which Joseph Jacobs of London gave an address in which he said “The future of Judaism lies with Jewish woman and  Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon was elected president came to an end.
1896: Professor H. L Sabsovich, the General Agent of the Baron De Hirsch Fund officiated at the service dedicating the new synagogue in Woodbine, NJ, a colony settled by Russian-Jews.  The service included a sermon in English by Rabbi Sabato Morris and a sermon in German by Dr. Morris Jastrow.
1896: Birthdate of Russian author Yevgenia Ginzburg.
1897: The Beni Zion Association is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. in King’s Hall in London
1898: A summary of the United Hebrew Charities report for October revealed that the society had processed 2,243 applications that would provide assistance to 7,477 people.

1898(6^th of Kislev, 5659): Fifty-five year old Emanuel Wachenheim passed away tonight at Bellevue after he had brought to the hospital from the Victor Hotel where he had registered under an assumed name and may have tried to take his own life.
1898: Birthdate of “German textile merchant and manufacturer” Karl Amson Joel, “the grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel” and pop-star Billy Joel.
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Karl%20Amson%20Joel&item_type=topic
1898: Vice President Maruice Untermyer gave the opening address at the formal dedication of “the new home of the Hebrew Infant Asylum” which included a performance by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band.
1899: Birthdate of Bohemian born “Austrain-Swiss ophthalmologist and inventor” Hans Goldmann. (Some sources show November 21 as his birthdate)
http://www.ascrs.org/honorees/hans-goldmann-md
1901: At the opening meeting of the Second New York State Conference of Charities and Correction, Rabbi Adolph Radin of the People’s Synagogue and Chaplain of the House of Refuge arose from his chair and said, “I wish to register…my protest in the name of justice and humanity against the action of the Juvenile Asylum” to which “Jewish children are sent…and after a brief period are sent to Christian families.” He compared this form of proselytism to the practices of Czar Nicholas II.
1901: A devastating fire broke out a four story brick factory building in Brooklyn, the top floor of which was occupied by Isadore Gerber’s sweatshop.
1902: “The Jewish Theological Seminary held its first public gathering this evening in the hall of the Young Men's Hebrew Association at Lexington Avenue ad Ninety-Second Street. Prof. Solomon Schechter, the professor at Cambridge University, England, who is known for his archaeological work in the Genizah of Cairo, made his inaugural address as President of the Faculty of the new seminary.”  Dr. Cyrus Adler, President of the Board of Trustees, followed with a speech that outlined the development of Jewish educational institutions in the United States.
1903: Birthdate of journalist and co-editor of the Menorah, Herbert Solow who began as a Bolshevik and ended up working for Henry Luch.
1905: “Says President Can Act” published today includes a challenge by Charles Fleisher a Boston Rabbi to the notion that there is nothing President Roosevelt can do to help the Jews of Russia saying that “if both as an individual and the representative of 80,000,000 people consecrated to decency and brotherhood, Mr. Roosevelt express with character vigor the indignant protest of America, then the Czar cannot choose but take notice.
1905: Oscar S. Straus presided over The National Committee for the Relief of Sufferers by Russian Massacre held a meeting today in Temple Emanu-El during which reports were read by Treasurer Jacob H. Schiff, Secretary Cyrus L. Sulzberger “and the various trade committees that have been soliciting funds.
1905: As of today, the Jewish Relief Fund for the victims of the Russian massacres has reached the $500,000 dollar mark including $152 from the Jewish community in Hamilton, Ohio, $20 from Congregation Temple Israel in Portsmouth, N.H., $111 from the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Ybar City, FL and $93 from the Orthodox Jews of Wichita, KS,
1905: It was reported today that in England “at a good many churches preachers have made references to the Russian atrocities” and that a number of congregations have adopted “formal resolutions expressing sorrow and shame that in the name of Christ’s religion and in a Christian county such acts of fiendish cruelty have been perpetrated.
1905: It was reported today that National Committee collecting money for the relief of the Russian Jews who are being massacred has raised $498,651 including $500 from “the Jews of Bradford, PA,” $200 from Dr. Morris Skalmer, West Colfax Settlement, Denver, Colorado,” $93 from the “Orthodox Jews of Wichita, Kansas and $112 from the Canton Hebrew Congregation, Canton, Ohio.
1907(14^th of Kislev, 5668): Forty two year old New York City native Samuel A. Tuska, the 1884 graduate of CCNY and “member of Heller, Hirsh & Co” who was a trustee of both the Aguilar Free Library society and the Society for Ethical Culture passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/11/21/104712218.pdf
1908: The Grand Vizir of Morocco sent a letter to President of the Alliance Israelite Universelle approving educational work and stating that the new Sultan is resolved to protect Jews.
1909: In Berlin, “architect Alfred Breslauer” and “Dorothea Lessing, the daughter of art historian Julius Lessing gave birth to Marianne Breslauer, the noted photographer who left Germany rather than have work published under a pseudonym and the wife of Walter Feilchenfeldt whom she met in Holland.
https://www.museunacional.cat/en/marianne-breslauer-photographs-1927-1938
1909(7^th of Kislev, 5670):Parashat Vayetzei
1909(7^th of Kislev, 5670): Mrs. Schore Shapiro passed away today.
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 the University of Minnesota today.

1909: The One-hundredth anniversary of the death of Moses Mendes Seixas was observed at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York. Gershom Mendes Seixas was the first native-born rabbi in the United States. He was one of seven children of Rachel and Isaac Seixas. He was born in New York City on January 15, 1746. He was the first rabbi in America to give his sermons in English. He gave sermons which dealt with Jewish participation in the life of the state and made appeals for support of the American Revolution and against the British-Indian raids in the Northwest Territory. When the council members of Philadelphia made eligibility for an assembly seat dependent on professing the divine origin of the New Testament, he and other Jews fought against this unconstitutional religious test.
1911: In Munich, Bruno Walter conducted the premiere of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
1911: The Hebrew Congress meeting in Lemberg, Galicia came to a close.
1911: As American indignation over the Russian treatment of American Jews in Russia continued to grow, members of the “Progressive Order of the West” petitioned Missouri Governor Herbert Hadley to “write to President Taft” asking him to “take action on the Passport Question.”
1911: Missouri Governor Hadley wrote to President Taft “advocating the abrogation of the Treaty of 1832” with Russia.
1911: It was reported today that in Camden, NJ, the Hebrew school will shortly open a course for girls since it now successfully is conducting three classes for male students.
1911: In Warsaw, “Regina and Benjamin Szymin, a respected publisher of Yiddish and Hebrew Books” gave birth to David Syzmin who gained fame as David Seymour famed photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos.
http://davidseymour.com/
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1
http://merrill.umd.edu/events/visible-scars-children-and-war-photography-david-chim-seymour
http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/bio_chim.html
1912: Lee K. Frankel of New York, Simon Rosendale of Albany, and William M. Rosendale of New York attended the second day of New York State Conference of Charities and Correction at Syracuse, NY.
1912: The Alliance Israelite Universelle New York branch which is led by its President Kaufman Mandell issued an appeal for aid on behalf “of our brethren who have been left homeless and falling victim to Cholera” as a result of the “massacres and devastations of the Balkan War” in which thousands of more Jews have lost their lives.
1913: Arnold Schoenberg completed the opera "Die glückliche Hand" ("The Hand of Fate")
1913: Birthdate of Charles Bettelheim, a French economist and historian and founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI).
1913: Birthdate of Leo Hanin, the native of Vilna who found refuge in China and Japan before finally making Aliyah in 1948
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/idcard.php?ModuleId=10006693
1913: Birthdate of Professor Henry A. Fischel, the noted linguist who played a key role in the founding of the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University
1914: “For the Relief of Jews” published today urged donors making contributions to The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews to send them to Treasurer Harry Fischel at the World Building.
1915(13^th of Kislev, 5676): In Chicago, Dr. Adolf Decker a physician and chess champion passed away.
1915: The New York County Chapter of the Red Cross of which Jacob H. Schiff is Treasurer “issued a Thanksgiving appeal for further funds for work in Europe.”
1915: “A Great Thinker” published today described Dr. Cyrus Adler’s view of his friend and colleague, Dr. Solomon Schechter of blessed memory which included his statement that Schechter’s “most notable scientific discovery was the great find of the Hebrew treasures in the so-called Genizah at Cairo, Egypt which was the greatest single discovery of ancient manuscripts that has ever been made by one man” and that included “the lost original of the Hebrew text of Ecclesisasticus.”
1916: According to reports published today the new facility of the Young Men’s and the Young Women’s Hebrew Association being built in Brooklyn “is the first of its type to provide equal accommodations for men and women” and will be “equipped with two gymnasiums and swimming pools
1916: Birthdate of Lilian Halpernova, who was transported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow where she was murdered.
1917: “The Chicago Woman’s Aid” is schedule to “hold its next regular meeting today at 2:00 p.m. at Sinai Center.”
1917: “Approximately five thousand men and women composing the 1917 Committee For Six Thousand” are scheduled to “attend the Opening Dinner Rally at the Standard Club” this evening which will mark the “launcing of the Ten Day Campaign to raise additional funds for the Associated Charities” in Chicago.
1917(5th of Kislev, 5678): Caroline "Carrie" Goldman Bendel, the daughter of Lewis and Sarah Peterson Goldman and the wife of Edward Henry Bendel passed away today after which she was interred in the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Cemetery.
1917: As the Empire of Russia collapses, the Ukraine declares itself an independent republic. In the ensuing civil war, as many as 100,000 Jews may have been killed in organized pogroms or by forces competing for control who had one thing in common --- anti-Semitism.
1917: “The Woman’s Society of Zion Congregation” is scheduled to act as “hostess to the Jewish women of the sixty-three organizations affiliated with the ‘Chicago Conference’’ this afternoon at the Zion Temple on Ogden Avenue and Washington Boulevard.
1917: Nathan Straus, Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff were among those who attended a meeting tonight where plans were discussed for the upcoming campaign in which New Yorkers were aiming to raise five million dollars for Jewish Relief and for the Jewish Welfare Board in the United Army and Navy.
1917: In Palestine, during the Battle of Nebi Samwil, which was part of the British offensive designed to capture Jerusalem, the 75^th Division advanced along water-logged muddy roads and seized the villages of Saris and Kuryet el Enab which had been held by a rearguard detachment which meant the main body of the Ottoman Army was still waiting for them.
1917: In Johannesburg, SA, those attending “a mass meeting” adopted a resolution “favoring the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine” and “thanking the Imperial Government for its sympathy and support” in attaining this end.
1918: In “Palestine Needs Aid” published today an appeal was made for the “contributions of clothing for men, women and children for immediate ship to Palestine” where “an epidemic of pneumonia is threatening the population of Galilee who are facing the cold weather in a practically naked condition.”
1918: Rabbi Joseph Silverman is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Civil War veteran and successful Peoria (Illinois) businessman Captain Joseph B. Greenhut this morning at 10 o’clock at Temple Emanuel with burial at Salem Field Cemetery.
1920(9^th of Kislev, 5681): Parashat Vayetzei
1920”Rabbi Max Reichler is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning on “The Pursuit of Happiness” at Sinai of the Bronx this morning
1920: Rabbi Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at Temple Beth-El at 5^th Avenue and 76^th Street.
1921(20^th of Cheshvan, 5682): Seventy-seven year old David Zvi Hoffmann passed away today in Berlin.
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2012/01/rabbi-david-hoffmann-zl-by-eliezer-m.html
1922: The Conference of Lausanne, one of the many peace conferences held to windup World War I which was covered by Albert Karasu opened today. Born in 1885 in Ottoman Salonika, he went to school in Switzerland before returning to Istanbul where he founded Le Journal d’Orient which survived until 1971, 11 years before Karasu passed away.
1923: In Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa, Isidore Gordimer, a Jewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė and Hannah "Nan" (Myers) Gordimer gave birth to Nadine Gordimer, a South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.  Gordimer was educated at an Anglican convent school. Thereafter she studied for a year at Witwatersrand University, but did not complete her degree. During the 1960s and 1970s she taught at several universities in the United States. She drew praise for her demand that South Africa re-examine and replace its long held policy of apartheid. As such, most of her works deal with the moral and psychological tensions of her racially divided home country. Her first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. A founding member of the Congress of South African Writers, Gordimer has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, as well as France's Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
1924: Birthdate of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot is a leading proponent of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html
1925: “Countess Maritza” a silent film with a script by Max Glass was released today in Germany.
1925: In Moscow, Rachel Messerer-Plisetskaya, a silent-film actress and “Mikahil ‘Misha’ Plisetski, a diplomat and engineer” gave birth to “ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-mourns-jewish-ballet-rebel-maya-plisetskaya/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/arts/dance/maya-plisetskaya-ballerina-who-embodied-bolshoi-dies-at-89.html
1925:  Birthdate of Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 be he was supposedly upset because Kennedy was a supporter of the state of Israel.
1928: Birthdate of “Sgt. Alec ‘Moishe’ Freedman,” the native of Stepney-Middlesex who was wounded when the 1^st Battalion Leicestershires attacked Hill 317 “on the night of November 6^th, 1951.”
1928: “For the first time in the history of the Zionist movement in America, 150 leaders of the Zionist and non-Zionist facts met at a dinner” tonight at the Hotel Astor” where “they discussed plans for the intensive development of Palestine as the national home of the Jews and joined in praising Dr. Chaim Weizmann…for his recent achievement in healing the split between Zionists and non-Zionists.”
1929: Birthdate of Joyce Beber (née Sacks) the yesihiva student turned advertising executive who co-founded Beber Silverstein & Partners and created numerous memorable campaigns for the Helmsley group of hotels, which successfully promoted Leona Helmsley and her hotel chain, but led to her being hired and fired four times by Helmsley.
1929: Rabbi Judah P. Magnes declares that Palestine must be a place for Christians, Moslems and Jews. He sees Palestine as an international home for people of all three faiths and calls for “the renunciation of all ideas of Jewish political domination” along with the development of “cultural Zionism.”
1929: Today, Gertrude Berg's popular radio program, The Goldbergs, about an upwardly mobile American Jewish family debuted on NBC radio.
1933(2nd of Kislev): Rabbi Moses Mordecai Epstein, author of Levush Mordecai, passed away today.
1934: Lillian Hellmann’s "Children's Hour," premieres in New York City.
1934: The Hartford Symphony Orchestra, which Fritz Mahler served as music director from 1953-1962 performed for the first time tonight.
1934: After Nazi students interrupted his lectures, Felix Hausdoff stopped teaching his Calculus III course during the winter semester.
1935: Benito Mussolini, Hitler’s partner in the original “Axis of evil” “declared government control of all the gold in Italy.”
1935: In Michigan, Miriam Meckler-Horowitz, a piano teacher, and Ben Meckler, an English teacher, in Detroit, gave birth to Ruth Meckler who gained fame as pianist Ruth Laredo.
http://www.ruthlaredo.com/
1935: King Levinsky, who had recently been knocked out by a youthful Joe Louis, “fought professional wrestler Ray Steele in a bout that attracted national interest.”
1936: William Green, the President of the American Federation of Labor today “protested again the persecution of the Jews in Germany by the Hitler government voicing indignation against the attacks on a race which had committed no wrong and which, during the centuries, ‘has made its contribution toward freedom and the spiritual welfare of the world.’”
1936: At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Samuel H. Godenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Stone That Became the Altar.”
1936: At the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, author Marvin Lowenstein is schooled to deliver an address on “The Jews of Germany.”
1936: At Temple Rodeph Shalom, Rabbi Louis I Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Where is the Gates of Heaven?”
1936: In Perth Amboy, NJ, Murray Goldstein and the former Evelyn Bier gave birth to Charles Arthur Goldstein a successful attorney who worked to recover Holocaust art.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/nyregion/charles-goldstein-dies-at-78-sought-return-of-art-looted-by-nazis.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
1936: Today, Premier Benito Mussolini sent money and an invitation to come to Italy to the Polish-Jeish student Janien Berg, who has been unable to finish his studies” in Warsaw “because of anti-Semitic riots.
1937(16^th of Kislev, 5698): Parashat Vayhishlach
1937: In Detroit, Michigan, “Miriam Meckler-Horowitz, a piano teacher, and Ben Meckler, an English teacher” gave birth to Ruth Meckler who gained fame as concert pianist Ruth Laredo, the wife of violinist Jamie Laredo.
1938: Father Coughlin made the first of his many anti-Semitic attacks on his radio show. Using Nazi documents, American radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin contends that Jews are responsible for Russian communism and for Germany's problems. All of Coughlin's radio programs are approved by his archdiocese as not contradicting Catholic faith or morals. Some Catholics protest Coughlin's broadcasts, including Chicago's Cardinal George Mundelein, but most of the American Church is silent.
1939: In what had been Poland, the Nazi Generalgouvernement blocked all bank accounts held by Jews. Withdrawals were limited to thirty dollars per month.
1939: In a letter bearing today’s date sent to Representative Martin Dies, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on un-American Activities, Harry A. Jung, honorary general manager of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation wrote that he had never corresponded with Oscar C. Pfaus, “director of a Nazi propaganda agency called Ficte Bund” or “anyone else about going on any publication board for an alleged Nazi magazine”
1940: Britain announced a more stringent policy aimed at Jews trying to enter Palestine illegally.  Jews found on ships running the British blockade will not be allowed to enter Palestine.  They will be taken to an undetermined colonial destination where they will be imprisoned until the end of the war.  At that time, there final destination, which will not be Palestine or the site of the imprisonment will be determined. 
1940: The Jewish Agency informed Prime Minister Churchill of the inhumane conditions under which Jewish detainees are being held on the island of Mauritius.
1940: In Manhattan, attorney Walter J. Loria and his wife Ruth gave birth Jerry Loria, the art dealer who bought the Miami Marlins major league baseball team.
1940: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers. This is the first step on the long road which will belatedly bring the Holocaust to the Jews of Hungary including Nobel Prize Winner Elie Weisel.
1940: In Vienna, in his talk with Hitler Hungarian Prime Minister Teleki “brought up the Jewish question” saying “that when peace was concluded the Jews would have to be moved out of Europe” to which Hitler “replied that he regards the solution of the Jewish question for Europe as one of the biggest problems of peace”
1941(30th of Cheshvan, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1941(30th of Cheshvan, 5702): Approximately 7000 Jews from Minsk, Belorussia, are killed at nearby Tuchinka.
1942 (11th of Kislev, 5703): Rechaviah Lewin-Epstein, who was in charge of the economic work of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs died in Cairo today at the age of 49 while on his way to Palestine to continue his work.  Mr. Lewin-Epstein, the son of author and Zionist leader Elias W. Lewin-Epstein, established The Bureau of American Economic Committee for Palestine an organization he headed until 1938.  He returned to New York in 1939 after he had “facilitated the settlement of thousands of refugees in agriculture, industry and trade” in Palestine.
1942: U.S. premiere of “Strictly in the Groove” featuring Shemp Howard
1942: Birthdate of folk singer Norman Greenbaum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPlGFh6OpQ
1943: Facing withering fire from Japanese artillery and machine guns, U.S. Marines land on Tarawa.  This bloody battle provides part of the backdrop for “Battle Cry,” the World War II novel by Leon Uris.
1943: This afternoon several hundred residents of Tel Aviv protested the search that had been carried out at Ramat Hakovesh.  The protesters also demanded the release of men who had been arrested during the search. 
1943: “Winged Victory,” a play originally created and produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a morale booster and as a fundraiser for the Army Emergency Relief Fund” with a script by Moss Hart that “tells the story of a group of recruits struggling to make it through pilot training” opened in New York at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre today and became a smash hit, playing to over 350,000 people in 226 performances.
1943: Madeline Dreyfus who had chosen to remain in France as part of the Resistance instead of joining most of her family in the United States was sent to Auschwitz. Her grandmother Lucie Eugénie Hadamard, Colonel Dreyfus’ widow stayed with her.  She would be hidden in a convent, survive the war and not pass away until 1945.
1943: The Nazis auction off the furniture and household possessions of the family of Isak Plesansky in an example of how the property of Norwegian Jews “mysteriously” disappeared.
1944: Forty-five year old anti-Nazi resistance leader Leo Drabent who had been arrested by the Gestapo along with his wife and eight other comrades was” guillotined at the Brandenburg-Gorden Prison” today.
1944(4th of Kislev, 5705): Havivah Reik and Rafael Reiss, together with a group of captured Jews, were murdered in the Kremnica forest by the Germans and their Slovakian fascist collaborators. They dumped the bodies into a large ditch that served as a mass, unmarked grave.

1944: “The special People’s Court sentenced “Hans Neumann, Leo Drabant, his wife along with eight other resistance members” “to death because they had ‘attempted to destroy the resistance of the German People…”

1944(4th of Kislev, 5705):Haviva Reik was captured and executed by the Nazis and members of the Ukrainian Waffen SS. Born in 1914, she was one of four volunteers from the Yishuv in Eretz Israel who parachuted into Slovakia to help the uprising against the Nazis. In September 1944 she succeeded in helping the Jews who were left in Banska Bystresis. When it fell they moved into the mountains with other Jewish partisans. Kibbutz Lahavot Haviva and the Givat Haviva center are dedicated to her memory.

1945:  Twenty-four Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg in which Colonel Benjamin Kaplan, “who later became a Harvard law professor and served nine years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court” played a key role in crafting the indictment. 
1945: Birthdate of Deborah Eisenberg, an American short-story writer, actor and teacher who is the long-time companion of actor Wallace Shawn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/books/review-your-duck-is-my-duck-deborah-eisenberg.html
1945: Joseph Newman wrote to the War Office today to ask why the Gestapo had released Denise Desvaux so quickly, how did they know that Isidore Newman was a British officer and had she betrayed him to the Nazis.
1946(26^th of Cheshvan, 5707): Sixty-two year old Russian born, NYU trained attorney Samuel Mandelbaum who had been serving as federal judge since 1936 passed away today.
1946: As tensions rise in Palestine, a bomb exploded in Jerusalem.
1947: The New York Times includes a review of The Victim, Saul Bellow’s novel about Asa Leventhal, “a frightened and lonely, man.”
1947:"Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC. The popular television news show began as a radio program in 1945, produced by Lawrence Spivak. A panel of four news people interviewed a prominent leader of the day.    When the show shifted to television, Spivak was the permanent panel member and some time served as moderator. 
1947: Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in New York City.
1947: It was reported today that Lessing J. Rosenwald, the President of the American Council of Judaism, has expressed his strong opposition to “plans to establish the American Jewish Conference on a permanent basis to coordinate all Jewish activities in this country.”  The American Council of Judaism was a leading anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the United State.
1947: British diplomat Sir Alexander Cadogan delivered his country’s response to United Nations General Assembly’s Committee on the Palestine.
1948: “The Little Ballerina” a British drama featuring Anthony Newley was released in Sweden today.
1948: In New York City, “high school counselor Claire Masure” and her husband who was a pharmacist gave birth to actor Richard Masur who “served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild.”
1948: “An unarmed RAF photo-reconnaissance De Havilland Mosquito of No. 13 Squadron RAF was shot down by an Israeli Air Force P-51 Mustang flown by American volunteer Wayne Peake as it flew over the Galilee towards Hatzor Airbase. Peake opened fire with his cannons, causing a fire to break out in the port engine. The aircraft turned to sea and lowered its altitude, then exploded and crashed off Ashdod.” Both members of the crew were killed. (So much for the myth of British neutrality in the Middle East.
1948: The first preliminary armistice talks begin when William E. Riley, chief UN truce observer, meets separately with Israel Foreign Office officials and Egyptian commander Fouad Sadeh Bey.
1948: Dr. Philip C. Jessup announces U.S. policy regarding peace talks in the Palestine including a proviso that any changes in Israel’s boundaries must be agreed to by the Jewish state and a willingness to examine some parts of Count Bernadotte’s plan including the internationalization of Jerusalem.
1949: The Jewish population of Israel reached one million.
1951: Lewis L. Strauss addressed the second annual convocation of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.  Dr. James Conant, President of Harvard, Dr. A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, president and publisher of The New York Times, received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters. (Sulzberger was the Jewish member of the trio).
1951: Dr. Simon Greenberg, vice chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary conferred the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature on Rabbi Shraga Abramson, a visiting lecturer on the Talmud.
1951(21^stof Cheshvan, 5712): Seventy-five year old Russian native Philip Davis, whose education at the University of Chicago, Harvard  and Boston University Law School led him into the fields of social work, the law and motion pictures where he served as the President of the National Motion Bureau “from 1914 to 1940” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/21/94280389.pdf
1952: The Slánský trials- a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials - began in Czechoslovakia. The Slansky trials take their name from Rudolf Slansky.  “A veteran of revolutionary of Jewish origin, he had served as Secretary of the Czech Communitys Party.  Slansky was accused of spying for American imperialism, for the State of Israel and for the Zionist movement; allegedly he was a link in a chain of treachery” designed to undermine the authority of the Socialist Revolution i.e. Stalin and the Soviets.  “Fifteen years later this affair was officially declared to have been a despicable slander, the whole affair having been fabricated by Soviet security agents working in Czechoslovakia.”
1955: Dr. Cari Alpert, special assistant to Yaakov Dori, president of the Technion (Israel’s answer to MIT) “said a permanent peace between Israel and the Arab states would result in the opening of Technion’s doors to Arab students.
1957:Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in New York City. Wishengrad was raised on New York’s Lower East Side by his Orthodox Jewish father.  Wishengrad was not particularly interested in maintaining his Jewish identity which was rather ironic because, in 1944, he became the first script writer for the radio show, “The Eternal Light” produced by the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1959: WABC fires Jewish disc jockey Alan Freed over payola scandal.
1960(1^st of Kislev, 5721): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1960(1st of Kislev): Seventy-nine year old author and poet Ya’Kov (Jacob Cohen) passed away
1960: When the White House announced today that James D. Zellerbach was retiring as U.S. Ambassador to Italy, it released a letter from President Eisenhower to the Ambassador in which he wrote “You have served your country with a high sense of dedication and purpose of which you should be justly proud.”
1962: Birthdate of pianist and composer Robin Speilberg, the granddaughter of flutist Rubin Spielberg.
http://alextimes.com/2009/10/robin-spielberg-setting-her-life-to-a-s/
1964: The Second Vatican Council, under Pope Paul VI, condemned anti-Semitism, declaring that the Jewish people as a whole are not to be blamed for Jesus' death.
1965: In New York, “art dealer” Harold Diamond and “interior designer” Hester Diamond gave birth to Michael Louis Diamond who gained famed the rapper “Mike D.P
1968: Birthdate of David Einhorn, an American hedge fund manager and the founder of Greenlight Capital.
1969(10th of Kislev, 5730): Sixty-three year old labor lawyer Lee Pressman who was accused of involvement with the Communist Party passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=980CE5DA1E3AEF3BBC4951DFB7678382679EDE
1971(2^nd of Kislev, 5732): Parsahat Toldot
1971(2^nd of Kislev 5732): Seventy-three year old Katherine Stieglitz, the daughter of photographer Alfred Stieglitz and Emmy Stieglitz passed away today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stieglitz#/media/File:Stieglitz-Katherine.jpg
1972(14^th of Kislev, 5733): Eighty-year old Jennie Grossinger, the “queen” of Grossinger’s Resort Hotel passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/grossinger.html
1973(25^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Forty-eight year old author and songwriter Allan Sherman who wrote the popular musical satire Camp Granada passed away.
http://jangle04.home.mindspring.com/sherman3.html
http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/sherman.htm
1974: “In The Boom Boom Room” directed by Joseph Papp and co-starring Ellen Greene and Helen Hanft opened today at The Public Theatre.
1975: Spanish dictator Francisco Franco passed away.  A fascist who aligned himself with the Hitler and Mussolini during the Spanish Civil War which would be seen as a “dress rehearsal for WW II” Franco refused to join the Axis and remained neutral during the war.  “According to the recent discovery of a World War II document, Franco ordered his provincial governors to compile a list of Jews while he negotiated an alliance with the Axis powers.] Franco supplied Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler with a list of 6,000 Jews in Spain, for the Nazis'"Final Solution". However, Franco built no Jewish concentration camps on Spanish territory, nor did he voluntarily hand Jews over to Germany. Furthermore, Spanish diplomats extended their diplomatic protection over Jews in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Balkans
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/20/franco-gave-list-spanish-jews-nazis
1975: “The arrest of Boris Zaturensky, 33, in Minsk is reported. Zaturensky was arrested on charges of buying and selling gold coins, not long after his application to emigrate to Israel.
1975: A fortnightly scientific seminar, similar to the one in Moscow, is begun  in Kiev with the participation of 15 Jewish scientists, most of whom were refused exit visas to Israel
1976: “Dorothy Schiff Agrees to Sell Post” published today described the decision to sell the venerable afternoon New York newspaper to Australian Rupert Murdoch including information that was found Jeffrey Potter’s biography Men, Money and Magic which appeared last month.
1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/sadat_speech.html
http://www.historycentral.com/Israel/1977SadatComesToIsrael.html
1978: The funeral of Judge Leo F. Rayfel is scheduled to take place today at 2 pm in Farmingdale, Long Island.
1979: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French Special Forces to put down the uprising.  Anybody who was paying attention would have noted that violence in the Middle East has many causes that have nothing to do with Israel and  the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites should be a real matter of concern
1982(4^th of Kislev, 5743): Parashat Toldot
1982: Andy Kaufman was forever voted off of Saturday Night Live by a live phone poll.
1982(4^th of Kislev, 5743): Seventy-nine year old Abraham Louis Pomerantz the Brooklyn trained lawyer who was “deputy chief counsel at the Nuremburg Trials” and the father of Daniel Pomerantz and children’s author Charlotte Pomerantz passed away today. (As reported by Edward R. Gargan)
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/21/obituaries/abraham-pomerantz-79-pioneering-lawyer.html
1983: ABC broadcast “The Day After,” a made for television film directed by Nicholas Meyer, co-starring Steve Guttenberg and with theme music by David Raskin for the first time tonight.
1987: Jerry Reinsdorf’s Chicago Bulls began a streak of sold out games that would only come to an end with the retirement of Michael Jordan in 1999.
1988: ABC broadcast the fifth episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”
1990: Efraim Gur began serving as Deputy Minister of Transportation.
1991: Nadine Brozan described one of those strange coincidences in life where Richard Dreyfus and Michael Burns who lived near each other as children both became involved in projected related to Alrde Dreyfus.  Burns authored Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945 while Dreyfus produced and starred in a film about the French Captain entitled “Prisoner of Honor” that focuses on one of those sought to free Dreyfus, Georges Picquart.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/20/style/chronicle-992491.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1992: ABC broadcast the episode of “Civil Wars” a legal drama created by Steven Bochco, the son of painter Mimi Bochco and concert violinist Rudolph Bochco.
1995:  In a front page article, The Austin American Statesman reported that a group of IBM employees who were supposed to move from Florida to Austin were balking at the move because Austin lacked a kosher butcher and a Jewish Day School.  With a month, H.E.B opened a kosher butcher shop at one of its Austin stores.

1998(1st of Kislev, 5759): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1999: In Paris, the 1999 Trophée Lalique figure skating competition which saw Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovski give Israel a sixth place finish in Ice Dancing, came to an end.
2000: In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum was nominated to serve as “Secretary of the of the Environment of the Federal District” today.

2000(22nd of Cheshvan, 5761): Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded 2 days ago in the Palestinian shooting attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds today

2000(22^ndof Cheshvan, 5761): Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of Kfar Darom, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5 children, were injured.
2001: Toronto native and documentary film maker Avi Lewis, “the great grandson of Moshe Losz, an outspoken member of the Jewish Bund,” “was featured on” today’s “Life and Times” episode of “The Lewis Family.
2002: In “Network Tries to Expand Jewish Nation” published today Mica Rosenberg described the work of the Jewish Multiracial Network in dealing with the changing demographics of the Jewish people.
https://www.jta.org/2002/11/20/lifestyle/network-tries-to-expand-jewish-nation


2003: Car bombings in Istanbul continues after the initial bombings targeted two synagogues resulting in the death of 25 people and the wounding of 300 more.
2003: “The Last Samurai” directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, with a script co-authored by Marshall Herskovitz and music by Hans Zimmer was released today in Tokyo..

2004: “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” a comedy produced by Barry Mendel and Scott Rudin, with a script co-authored by Noah Baumbach and co-starring Jeff Goldblum premiered in Los Angeles today.
2005: A symposium was held at the American Schools of Oriental Studies entitled “The Tel Zayit Stone: A New Tenth-Century Inscription from the Judean Shephelah.” A dramatic discovery punctuated this year's excavation season at Tel Zayit, Israel, where The Zeitah Excavations recovered a large stone bearing an incised, two-line inscription. The special importance of the stone derives not only from its archaic alphabetic text, which hints at formal scribal training at the site, but also from its well-defined archaeological context in a structure dating securely to the tenth century BCE. The borderland site of Tel Zayit lies in the lowlands district of Judah, and in this period it exhibits strong links with the highland culture to the east, in the direction of Jerusalem, not with the coastal culture of the Philistine plain. The early appearance of literacy at Tel Zayit will surely play a pivotal role in the current discussion of the archaeology and history of Israel and Judah in the tenth century BCE.
2005: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including the paperback edition of Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books byAaron Lanksy which recounts the adventures of  Lansky, who won a MacArthur award in 1989, as president and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, traveling the world to salvage and catalog a literature once on the verge of oblivion.
2006: “A rally organized by Anglo students to raise Israeli awareness about the genocide in Dafur is held at Zion Square in downtown Jerusalem.  The rally is sponsored by Hatzilu et Amei Dafur (Save the Nation of Dafur) a group composed of Yeshiva and seminary students.
2006: Birthdate of Noah Pozner who would be the youngest victim at the Sandy Hook Mass Shooting
2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Imad Dalal who heads the Arabic music department at Safed College presents a program of traditional and contemporary song.
2007: Prime Minister Olmert is reported to be going to Cairo for a surprise meeting with Egyptian leaders.
2008: At the conclusion of his three-day trip to Great Britain President Shimon Peres is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace where he will be awarded a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG), the sixth-most senior award in the British system, used to honor individuals who have rendered important services in relation to foreign nations. After an audience with the queen, the president will have a private meeting with Prince Charles, who celebrated his 60th birthday this week. A meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at his residence at 10 Downing Street, followed by dinner in his honor hosted by the prime minister and his wife in the State Dining Room, will mark the end of Peres’ first official visit to the UK.
2008: After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level since 1997.  This is part of the long descent into what has been termed the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression that will have a devastating on all Americans, Jew and gentile alike.  Many Jewish organizations will be forced to down-size as funding sources dry up.
2008: In a secret ballot House Democrats voted 137-122 to have Congressman Henry Waxman replace John Dingell as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
2008: As part of the Live From Lincoln Center series, Jewish, Violinist Gil Shaham, the son of two Israelis, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and pianist Jonathan Feldman perform this intimate concert at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse featuring the music of composer Pablo de Sarasate in a panoramic survey of the music of his music on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of his death.
2008: Poland's capital marked the completion of a massive restoration project that marks the borders of the former Jewish Ghetto that was walled in by Nazis occupiers during World War II. The mayor of Warsaw, along with the minister of culture, inaugurated the project that included 21 new information points along the boundaries of the former Jewish Ghetto. The project also placed a beige line, labeled "Ghetto Wall," along the city streets that outlined the furthest reaches of the Ghetto's borders. The line snakes along sidewalks and around apartments and offices, broken only when it reaches roads or tram lines. Paid for by the city of Warsaw and the Ministry of Culture, the project was launched last year by a team of historians."When you ask people in Warsaw about the Ghetto, they can tell you about it and have an idea of where it was," said Tomasz Merta of the Ministry of Culture. "But in reality, nobody could tell you how big it was and how it was a huge prison in the heart of the city."Varsovians can now easily find the line running along several major streets near downtown and curling around what is now the Jewish Cemetery "Now it's here, and we can see it and touch it. And it's very difficult to remember, because of how hurtful it was," Merta said, "but at least now we can remember. This is our responsibility." Nazi officials cut off the Jewish Ghetto from the rest of the city on November 16, 1940. At its broadest circumference, the Ghetto wall enclosed 307 hectares. Some 360,000 Warsaw Jews and 90,000 from other towns were forced into the ghetto, according to the city of Warsaw. Some 100,000 people died of hunger. "It's not only important to Warsaw, but it's a universal lesson about memory," Merta said. The inauguration ceremony included a bus tour that took people along the former borders and stopped at the information points that marked important sites or events in the Ghetto's history. A crowd of project officials, local residents and historians went along for the trip. Older residents recalled the disquiet in the city when the wall was first built. "Nobody was sure if their house would lay in the Ghetto, or where the borders would be," said historian Jan Jagielski, author of a book about the Ghetto. "Walls had been built earlier, and people were worried that there would be a ghetto. From November 16, people couldn't leave." Jagielski lead a group of mostly elderly women through a park and wondered at how modern Warsaw sits atop borders that are gone but not forgotten. "This is all real and unreal," he said. "That we're here walking, through these streets."
2008: The 45^thanniversary edition of the New York Review of Books was was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein was published today.
2009: The 92^nd St Y in New York, hosts the Shababa Bakery where you are invited to prepare for Shabbat by squishing, rolling and braiding your very own challah which you can take home and bake.
2009: At Columbus, Ohio, at Tifereth Israel, Rabbi Unger leads The Mitzvah Initiative which features an unconventional approach to learning that is a series of open and honest workshops and discussion by participants which examine some of the most critical elements of Jewish life. Congregation Tifereth Israel is one of over forty Conservative congregations participating in the Mitzvah Initiative that explores a variety of topics including, Tikun Olam, Bikur Cholim (attending to the ill and suffering), and God, Love and Mitzvah.
2009: The U.S. State Department issued a statement noting “a growing trend of anti-Semitic hate crimes and discrimination around the world.” The statement coincided with the appointment of Hannah Rosenthal to serve as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.  “The position has been vacant since Gregg   Rickman left at the end of the Bush administration.”
2010: Sarah Michelle Levin and Melissa Ellen Levin are scheduled to be called to the Torah as B’not Mitzvah at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El.  They are the twin daughters of Gigi Cohen and Michael Levin and the sisters of Dana Levin who celebrated her Bat Mitzvah in the same congregation in November of 2008.  They are the granddaughters of Zena and David Cohen of blessed memory Mrs. Betty Levin, an ayash chayil par excellence and Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory.
2010: JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to hold its 30th Fall Fundraiser honoring Tanya and Stephen Bodzin.
2011: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest of Jewish readers including “Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945” by Max Hasting, “Eva Bruan: Life with Hitler” by Heike B Gortemaker, “The Unmaking of Israel” by Gershom Gorenberg and Umberto Eco’s novel, “The Prague Cemetery,” that explores the history of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
2011: “Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny,” a film Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, that recounts Churchill's years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, his support for Jews, his return to government by the demand of the British people and his rise to the Prime Minister's office in 1940, is scheduled to be shown at The Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival.
2011: Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper who the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled the first in a three part lecture series entitled Rabbi Akiva: The Mystical Prayer of a Legal Authority at Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
2011: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scheduled to speak at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa.  Emanuel is Jewish.  Jefferson and Jackson were not!
2011: Fears of a fuel crisis this morning followed last night's discovery of a water problem in Ben Gurion International Airport's jet fuel.

2011: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today called for medical residents to return immediately to their hospitals as their representatives informed the High Court of Justice that they were willing to return to the negotiating table and to accept the court's proposal to appoint a mediator.

2012: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginias is scheduled to present the final part of the series “The Evolving Views on the Afterlife in Judaism.”

2012: Steven A “Cohen was implicated in an alleged insider trading scandal involving an ex-SAC manager” today.

2012: Four rockets fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded near a community in the Eshkol Regional Council.

 2012: As of midnight, Operation Pillar of Defense enters its seventh day with the Israeli government holding off on a ground offensive in the hope that talks in Cairo will lead to an end to massive Hamas assault on its citizens.

2012: Those living in southern Israel organize demonstrations against plans for a cease-fire one of which is to take place in Kiryat Malachi where three Israelis had been murdered by terrorist rockets and one at Ashdod.

2012(6^thof Kislev, 5773): Eighteen year old Corporal Yosef Partuk and an Arab-Israeli civilian identified as Alayaan Salem al-Nabari were this  morning during a mortar attack

2013: Today Noah Pozner would be turning 7 if had not been gunned down last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

2013: Yosef Mendeolovich is scheduled to discuss his memoir, Unbroken Sprit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage and Survival at the Center for Jewish History

2013: Temple Judah is scheduled to host the Hadassah Book Club which will discuss Breakfast at Stephanie’s by Nancy Margolis.

2013: “Inheritance” is scheduled to be shown at the Other Jewish Film Festival.

2013: Joseph P. Franklin a white supremacist who killed at least 8 people and wounded Larry Flynt and Vernon E. Jordant, Jr. in an attempt to start a race war was put death in Missouri today by lethal injection for have having murdered Gerald Gordon outside of a St. Louis Synagogue where this innocent non-Jew was attending a Bar Mitzvah.

2013: A mid-range missile defense system, intended to close a large gap in Israel’s aerial defense readiness, successfully completed an intercept test today, the Defense Ministry announced. (As reported by Mitch Ginzburg)

2014(27^th of Cheshvan): “2104 BCE (1657 from Creation), as the Flood waters finally subsided, Noah, his family and the animals left the Ark. On this day, God commanded them to repopulate and resettle the earth

2014(27^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-one year old Samuel Klein whose founding of the Casas Bahai chain of Department Stores earned him the nickname “the Sam Walton of Brazil” and whose philanthropies included major contributions to the Lubavitch Yeshiva in the Born Retiro neighborhood passed away.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-founder-of-brazils-largest-retail-chain-dies/

                                                                                                              

2014: “The Palestinian Authority has arrested some 30 suspects over the last 72 hours thought to be planning terror attacks, primarily against settlers, as well as operatives involved in incitement against Israelis, senior Palestinian sources told The Times of Israel today.”



2014: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present: “Mizrahi Music, Piyyut, and the Search for Israeli Identity”

2014: “Authorities intercepted a massive shipment of tens of thousands of firecrackers, as well as knives, Tasers and other weapons today that police say was en route to rioters in East Jerusalem.” (As reported by Tamar Pileggi)

2014: Jerry Seinfeld backtracked on his recent self-diagnosis of autism today, saying he was not on the spectrum but only “related to it on some level.”

2014: “A Nazi Roundup, Chaotically Evoked In 'La Rafle'” published today provides a an informative review of movie that  “chronicles the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of July 1942, in which roughly 13,000 Jews living in Paris (4,501 of them children) were removed from their homes by French police and sent to detention camps in the countryside, before being deported to Auschwitz.”
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/164879883/a-nazi-roundup-chaotically-evoked-in-la-rafle


2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion “Towards Life: Reviving Jewish Life in Contemporary Poland.”
2014: In the Senate, the Majority Leader “filed for cloture on Noah Mamet’s nomination to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.

2014: In Melbourne, “A Match Made in Heaven” and “Zero Motivation” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2014: “Unorthodox” is scheduled to be shown at the 18^th UK Jewish Film Festival

2014: The 16^th Street Book Club is scheduled to discuss The World to Come by Dora Horn
2015: After having premiered at Cannes, “Carol” featuring Carol Brownstein as “Genevieve Cantrell” was released today in the United States

2015: “Soviet genocide in Ukraine” by Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew who “coined the term genocide” was added to Russian index of "extremist publications", whose distribution in Russia is forbidden

2015: Jeremy Katz, the Director of the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a tour providing an in-depth look at the Breman’s latest Southern Jewish History Exhibition Eighteen Artifacts: A Story of Jewish Atlanta.

2015: Broadway previews of the latest production of Fiddler on the Roof are scheduled to begin this evening.

2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Schnitzel and Shmooze” Friday night dinner.

2015: In a post on Facebook today, “said he planned to take two months of paternity leave after his daughter is born this year” because “studies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families.”

2016: “Alone in Berlin” and is scheduled to be shown on the last evening of the 20^th UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2016: “The Tenth Man” and “The Last Laugh” are scheduled to be shown at Brisbane as part of the Jewish International Film Festival

2016: “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” is scheduled to shown as part of the Global Day of Jewish Learning.

2016: “From Silence,” a new one-act play by Anne Marilyn Lucas that explores how the trauma of the Holocaust gets passed on from one generation to the next is scheduled to be performed for the last time at the Theatre for the New City, the Lower East Side theatre that has gained a reputation for staging radical political plays… (As reported by Cathryn J. Prince)

2016: The Skirball Center is scheduled to a mock trial “The People vs. King David” with Prosecutor Chris Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz defending the Jewish monarch.

2016: A screening of “Mir Kumen On” an “educational film from 1936 which is one of the precious few surviving movies evoking Jewish life in Poland prior to its poisoning from external, racist forces” is scheduled to be shown at MoMA today. (As reported by Jordan Hoffman)
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cfb8b7e18d631d09f248bc525&id=c1a35cb9c2&e=e3800374ef


2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature by Adam Kirsch, Moonglow by Michael Chabonand Eleanor Roosevelt The War Years and After Volume Three: 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
2017: “Holy Air” and “Monsieur Mayonnaise” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “The New York Times said today that it was suspending Glenn Thrush, one of its most prominent reporters, after he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior.”
2017: Jacob Wisse, director of Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to lead “a walking tour through Yeshiva University Museum’s exhibition The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back, exploring the image and legacy of the Arch of Titus from Imperial Rome to modern-day Israel.”
2017: The Primo Levi Center is scheduled to host Michela Andreatta (University of Rochester), Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome La Sapienza) and Jane Tylus (New York University) in a discussion of “Ariosto’s masterpiece Orlando Furioso in the context of an early modern Jewish quest to define minority status amidst a dramatic transformation of mentality, political equilibria, and power structures.”
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its Chanumas/Chrismukah Party completed with“mince pies, doughnuts, xmas crackers and dreidels.”
2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Barbara Tuchman whose works included The Guns of August and The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 continues today.
2018(12^thof Kislev, 5778): On the Hebrew calendar yahrzeit of “Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen, the Director of Chabad Lubavitch in Cyberspace and considered by many the pioneer of Jewish education on the internet.”
2018: “An International Jewish Festival for Contemporary Culture” which will feature “Erez Lev-Ari and The Suits doing Ari San, a tribute to Rabbi Shalom Shabazi” is scheduled to open today.
2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host lectures on “Zionism and Challenge to American Jewry” by Rabbi Robert Hirt and “Two Faiths, Two Scriptures, One God: The Torah and the Quran” by Rabbi Leonard Schoolman and Dr. Hussein Rashid.
2019: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Leona” in Glasgow and Manchester.
2019 The North Peninsula Jewish Community is scheduled to host a “From to Healing” which will include a screening of “Bogdan’s Journey.”
2019: Jews For Entrepreneurship is scheduled to celebrate its 10^thanniversary at the Greenwich Mansion in San Francisco.
2019: JNEXT, the Jewish Federation’s “engagement vehicle for members of the Greater New Orleans Jewish community (and interfaith partners and spouses) in their forties and fifties is scheduled to take place this evening featuring  Chefs Alon Shaya and Graison Gil in conversation about their recent trip to Israel.”
2019: “The head of the European Jewish Association has written to an auction house in Munich, Germany asking for it to halt a sale of 147 different items from the Third Reich, including clothing belonging to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, Hitler's top hat and a silver-covered edition of Mein Kampf” which is scheduled to take place today. (YNET)

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456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): On November 21, Ezra called together all the men of Judah and Benjamin and told them that they would have to give up their foreign born wives.  This was part of an attempt by the returning exiles to purify and strengthen the House of Israel even though some might say that it altered the definition of “who was a Jew” as can be seen by the Book of Ruth which was written to portray a different point of view. 

164 BCE: On the secular calendar, Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

1265: Abraham of Augsburg, who had converted to Judaism “died a martyr’s death” today which was the subject of elegies by Mordecai ben Hillel and Moses ben Jacob.

1272:  Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.  As bad as Henry had been for the Jews, Edward would prove to be even worse.  After squeezing all he could out of his Jewish subjects, Edward expelled them in 1290.  England would remain officially Jew-free until for the next four centuries.

1384, Philip the Bold regulated the status of the Jews. He permitted fifty-two families to settle in the towns of his domain on payment of an entrance fee and an annual tax. He fixed the rate of interest; henceforth a Jew was to be believed on his oath, and the evidence of a single apostate was declared invalid. The chiefs of the Jews were called "masters of law"; the Jewish cemetery was separated from the others, and a noble of the court was instituted guardian of the Jews. The general expulsion of the Jews from France in 1394 put an end to their presence in Franche-Comté. Israel Lévi has proved that a certain number of well-known rabbis lived in this province in the first half of the fourteenth century—for instance, Joseph b. Jacob Tournoy and Joseph de Musidan.

1513: As Johann Reuchlin continued Johannes Pfefferkorn's drive to confiscate all books belonging to the Jews, Pope Leo ordered the Bishops of Speyer and Worms to hear the charge against Reuchlin.  Reuchlin was a Christian German Scholar whose field of study included Greek and Hebrew.  He had studied the Hebrew texts for the Emperor and found that most of them did not speak ill of Christiainity which meant that they should not be destroyed.  This thwarted the aim of Pfefferkorn and his allies. 

1616(5377):Moses Mordecai ben Samuel Margolioth, the native of Posen who served as the head of the Yeshiva at Cracow for twenty years starting in 1591 when Joseph Katz passed away, passed away today.

1619: Shah Abbasi (Sufi Dynasty, Persia) intensified persecution against the Jews. Many Jews were forced to live "Marrano-like" lives, outwardly practicing Islam. This policy was continued by his son, Abbas II.

1654(11^th of Kislev, 5415): Rachel Heller (Ashkenazi), the wife of Tosfot Yom Tov and daughter of Aharon Moses Ashkenazi (Munk) and Nechama Nechele Nechly Netile Ashkenazi passed away today.

1694: Birthdate of the French philosopher Voltaire.  The great philosopher of the Enlightenment was a vicious anti-Semite.  Not only that, he was an anti-Semite with a twist.  Other Enlightenment philosophers that once Jews were no longer persecuted they would give up their religious trappings and meld into the mainstream of European culture.  Voltaire believed that Jews were innately deformed and that they were beyond reform.  However, Voltaire was humane, but he did not believe that they should be burned at the stake. In his own words he described Jews as “an ignorant, and barbarous people who have long exercised the most sordid avarice and detestable superstition, and an insurmountable hate for all peoples who have tolerated and enriched them.

1746: In Reading, PA, David Mendez Machado and Zipporah Nunez gave birth to Rebecca Menes Machado who became Rebecca Mendes Phillips when she married Jonas Phillips and later became “one of the founding members of the Female Association for Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstance” and a “director of the Female Benevolent Society, the first Jewish charity in America unrelated to a synagogue."

1778: Savannah, GA native Abigail Sarzedas and Myer Polock gave birth to David Polock

1784: In Savannah, GA, Judith Polock and Philip Minis, gave birth to Esther Minis

1786: In Amsterdam, Beila Meijer Wolfe and Emanuel Levi Duitz gave birth to a son.

1789: North Carolina ratifies the U.S. Constitution to become the 12^thstate in the Union.  North Carolina has one of the oldest Jewish communities in the United States. The early history of the Jews in North Carolina is a mixed.  In 1776, it was one the original thirteen colonies that could boast of having an organized Jewish community.  In 1852, the Jews of Wilmington, N.C, purchased land for a burial plot.  However, the congregation was not organized for another until 1867.  This lengthy was not unusual in the South.  In other ante-bellum communities, land was purchased for a cemetery, but with war clouds gathering, Jews waited before building synagogues and temples.  Further delay was caused by the Civil War and the impoverishment that followed. In 1809, Jacob Henry was the first Jew elected to the legislature in the state.  He accomplished this feat despite the state’s religious tests for office holders.  Strangely enough, the Tar Heel state did not get around to removing religious tests until 1876. The Jewish Community of North Carolina has made great strides over the years.   According to the Glenmary Research Center, which publishes Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States Guilford County (which includes Greensboro and High Point) ranked 99^thon a list of the 100 counties in 2000 with the largest Jewish communities, based by percentage of total population. The thirty thousand Jews comprise 0.3% of the state’s population but pack enough clout to have gotten then Governor Jim Hunt to support a state agency designed to stimulate economic and cultural exchanges with the state of Israel. 

1792: Birthdate of Benoit Fould, the French banker who married Helena Oppenheim whose dowry provided “part of the initial capital of the new bank Foul-Oppenheim et Cie.

1800: Birthdate of “bare-knuckle boxer” Barney Aaron the native of Aldgate who was nicknamed “The Star of the East” and who was the father “Young Barney Aaron”.

1818: A petition written by Lewis Way, an English missionary, requesting the restoration of an independent Jewish nation in Palestine was submitted by Czar Alexander to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle

1822(7th of Kislev, 5583): Eighty year old Lazarus Solomon passed away in Jamaica today.

1823: Birthdate of Julius von Gomperzes, the Austrian industrialist who brother of historian Theodor Gomperzes, and the uncle of philosopher Heinrich Gomperzes.

1824: [Editors note: Contrary to popular misconception, the American Jewish Community has deep, historic roots outside of New York and its immediate environs.] The first Reform Congregation, Beth Elohim, was established in Charleston, South Carolina. Beth Elohim congregation is the birthplace of Reform Judaism in America and the oldest surviving Reform congregation in the world. Its members have been eminent leaders in the city, state and nation. Among them: Moses Lindo, who helped develop cultivation of indigo, and Joseph Levy, the first Jewish military officer in America. The present beautiful Greek revival temple at 90 Hasell Street (pronounced Hazel) was built in 1840. The congregation began as a Sephardic group in 1749. George Washington wrote, "May the same temporal and eternal blessings which you implore for me rest upon your Congregation..." The Beth Elohim Coming Street cemetery is the largest pre-Revolutionary Jewish cemetery in America. The congregation's first rabbi, Moses Cohen, was the first person buried here, in 1762. Bernard Baruch's great grandfather, Rabbi Hartwig Cohen, is one of several other Beth Elohim rabbis here. Other noteworthy persons at this site are nine Charleston Jews who took part in the American Revolution, six who fought in the War of 1812, eight of the 180 Charleston Jews who fought in the Civil War, and three of the Jewish Masons who founded the Scottish Rite here in 1801. The history of Charleston Jewry is beautifully documented with ceremonial objects, records, paintings and photographs at the Beth Elohim Archives Museum. A three-story house at 89-91 Church Street in Charleston was the model for Catfish Row, the centerpiece of Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin wrote the opera while living in Folly Beach. As it moves into the 21^st century, the Jewish Community shows its vibrancy through the construction of the College of Charleston, Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Center. Housed in a new three million dollar, 12,000 square foot building, the center offers college credit Jewish studies courses serving the entire community. The Robert Scott Small Library houses the largest archives of South Carolina Jewish history.  Last but not least, Reuben Morris Greenberg has been Chief of Police in the city since 1982.  He is the first African-American Jewish police chief in the city’s history.

1831: Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer premiered tonight at the Academie Royale De Musique in Pars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_le_diable#/media/File:Robert_le_Diable_(Meyerbeer)_1831.jpg

1837: Birthdate of “Austrian literary historian Marcus Landau” the native of Brody who “wrote over 700 essays, memoirs, and feuilleton articles in German and Italian for newspapers and literary periodicals.”

1841: Jonas Jonas married Catherine Levy the Great Synagogue today.

1842: Sir Louise Loewe created a series of hand-drawn maps for Sir Moses Montefiore showing the parts of Western and Eastern Europe through which they would be traveling on their way to the Levant.

1848: In New York, the "B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society," for the relief of indigent females was formed thanks to the efforts of Mrs. Henry Leo, Mrs. A.H. Lissak and Mrs. David Samson.

1849: Birthdate of William A Gans, who practiced law with Samuel B Hamburger for 35 years and who besides his involvement in numerous Jewish communal organizations, served as a Captain in the Sixth Regiment of the National Guard of New York.

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1851: In New York, Albert M. Gans and Julia Stransky gave birth to attorney William A. Gans the graduate of NYU, the youngest ever appointed to serve in the New York National Guard and active member of the B’nai B’rith who was president of the Maimonides Library for twenty years., president of the Menorah Publishing Company for five years and columnist for the American Hebrew who wrote the “On the Wing Column” using the nom de plume “Argus.”

1852: Birthdate of Jeanette Schwerin, the native of Berlin who “was a women’s rights activist and a pioneer social worker.

1854: Birthdate of Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa who as Pope Benedict XV denounced anti-Semitism in response to a petition by American Jews and who gave Nahum Sokolov an extended audience where he presented the case for a Jewish state in Palestine to the Pontiff.

1857: In Zanesville, Ohio, Jacob Schumacher and his wife gave birth to Gottlieb Schumacher, the future U.S. Consular Agent in Haifa.

1859: Simon F. Norton the future father-in-law of Henry Klein, who had founded Norton’s Dry Goods at Los Angeles earlier this year became a naturalized U.S citizen today.

1860: Phineas Solomons married Julia Myers at the Great Synagogue today.

1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Judah P. Benjamin Secretary of War. Before the Civil War, Benjamin had been the second Jewish member of the United States.  After the war, he would refuse to surrender and would move to Great Britain where he became a barrister.  Benjamin is always connected with Louisiana and New Orleans.  However, there is also a strong connection with Charleston, South Carolina. Judah Philip Benjamin attended the Hebrew Orphan Society School in Charleston, as a boy. The building still stands at 88 Broad Street. High on the front is a Hebrew inscription. The house of Judah Benjamin's father can be seen nearby at 35 Broad Street.

1865: Abraham Shnerman and Bonetta Wiley gave birth to Rosa Shnerman who married Max Shloss and became Rosa Shnermann Shloss, the name on her tombstone in Emmanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.

1866: Jacob Schiff was licensed as a broker today.

1870: In Vilna, leather merchant Osip Berkman and Yetta Berkman gave birth to Ovsei Osipovich Berkman who gained famed as Alexander Berkman the anarchist from of Emma Goldman who attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the steel strike.

1871: “Railroad Travel” published today described the interaction between a passenger traveling from Syracuse and New York City and what he described as “Hebrew matron” weighing at least “250 pounds.”

1873: It was reported today that the Charity Committee of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society has issued an appeal to the Jewish community to provide aid to their less fortunate co-religionists who are suffering during the current economic depression which has resulted in a marked increase in unemployment.  Because of the severity of the current economic crisis there is a large number of “industrious laborers and artisans” who are suffering and are not used to seeking aid and assistance. Contributions of money and clothing can be left a Number 6 Walker Street in Manhattan.

1874(12^th of Kislev, 5635): Birthdate of Rena L. Phillips.

1875: According to reports published today, Emanuel B. Hart, a member of New York’s Jewish community will be in charge of entertainment at next month’s fund raiser for Mount Sinai Hospital.

1877: Birthdate of Rudolf Löb, the native of Eberfeld, Prussia who was the first non-family member to serve as chairman of the banking house of Mendelssohn & Co.

1878: It was reported today that a copy of the “Kabbala Denudata” which was published in Frankfort in 1684 has been sold at auction for $19.00. (This probably refers to work entitled “The Kabbalah Unveiled” by Christian Knorr von Rosenroth.

1879: “An assignment for the benefit of creditors, by Abraham Lager to Max Moses, with $1,850 preferences was filed in the County Clerk’s office” in New York today.

1879: A report was published today describing the worsening situation of the Jews in Germany.  During the last month, at least 30 anti-Semitic pamphlets have been published in Berlin.  An "Antisemiten-Liga" (“League of Antisemites”) has been formed the members of which are “many of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens.”  Riots have taken place in which Jews have been not only insulted by severly maltreated.   The origin of this commotion may be traced back directly to that current of reaction, both in Church and State, which is now setting in over all of Germany.”

1879: The first edition of The American Hebrew is published in New York. Phillip Cowen was the first publisher of this weekly paper which was founded by F. de Sola Mendes.

1880: Founding of the Hebrew Union Synagogue in Greenville, MS located on Main Street with a cemetery on Poplar Street whose members included Charles Hafter, Sam Blum and Henry Schall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Friedland

1880: The annual reception and ball sponsored by the William Rothschild Association is scheduled to take place this evening in New York City’s Irving Hall.

1880: It was reported today that the government faced stiff questioning about the recent outbreak of anti-Semitism during a session of the lower house of the Prussian Diet.  Deputies “denounced the revival of race hatred and pointed out the inconsistency” of a country that “had taken diplomatic action in favor of the removal of disabilities of the Jews in the Balkan Principalities” harboring such sentiments.

1881: “Jewish Legends” published today provides a detailed review of The Wandering Jew by Moncure Daniel Conway.

1881: Birthdate of Viennese banker Felix Somary who before the Anschluss repeatedly tried to get Baron Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild to leave Austria

1882: Jehiel Brill left Rosinoi, Russian Poland, with eleven men—ten farmers and a "melamed" (teacher)—today, and arrived at Palestine the following month. The story of his journey and of its results is given in detail in his work, Yesod ha-Ma'aleh (The Base of the Slope). Brill was Russian journalist who had been chosen for his take by Rabbi Samuel Mohilever and Baron Edmond de Rothschild.  (As reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)

1883: It was reported today that Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Nathan led the opening march at the charity ball hosted by the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1883: In Franklin Falls, NY, Nathan Lamport, the son of Esther and Tsvi Hirsch Lamport and Sarah Lamport gave birth to Arthur Lamport

1883: Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia Law School trained attorney, George Zerdin Medalie, the Republican who lost the Senate race in 1932 but who was appointed to the NY Court of Appeals by Governor Dewey and who was the father of tennis player Gladys Heldman, “the founder of World Tennis magazine.”

1884: In Odessa, Mordecai (Max) Podeell and Minnie Podell gave birth to David Louis Podell, who came to the United States in 1893 where he became a successful lawyer in New York, helped to draft the National Industrial Recovery Act,served as a trustee for the Federation of Jewish Charities and the Educational Alliance and was the husband of Sarah (Cissie) Podell

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/02/02/93786780.pdf

1885: At Parepa Hall on the corner of 86^th Street and Third Avenue “A charitable fair” sponsored by the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society which is raising “funds to assist the poor without regard to creed, color or nationality” is scheduled to come to an end this evening

1885: On Shabbat, Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes delivered a sermon at Shearith Israel Synagogue “concerning the recent meeting” of a group of rabbis at Pittsurgh “and their publication of a…declaration of the ideas of reformed Judaism, ideas which” the rabbi said, “are totally different from European reformed Judaism.

1886: Three days after she had passed away, 80 year old Rosetta (Rose) Lazarus, the widow of Joseph Lazarus, with whom she had eight children, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1887: Birthdate date of Louise Pollak who married Julian Pollak in 1913

1887: “Something About Prejudice” published today highlights the views of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler on this subject. In his view, the Jews can do a great deal “to totally annihilate” prejudice “by not exhibiting prejudice in their turn”

1888: It was reported today that Conrad Ausorge performed Schubert’s “Wander Fanstasia” at the Metropolitan Opera House as part of concert that was a fundraiser of the Aguilar Free Library which was founded in 188 and named for Sephardic Jewish author Grace Aguilar.

1890: After surviving a three day run the Finance Committee of the Citizens’ Savings Bank which had been so desperate to regain public confidence that it had enlisted the services of a local rabbi, is scheduled to meet today to see what can be done to salvage the financial institution that has large number of poor Jewish depositors. 

1890: Mark Koss, a tailor from Kiev, begged Agent Reinholz of the United Hebrew Charities Society to help him recover his missing baby who had been kidnapped by Sara Grimsburg, a former girlfriend whom he had known in Russia.

1891: A “Palestine Bazaar” a fund raiser held to provide additional funds for the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Daily comes to an end after three days.  The Bazaar had been closed on Friday.

1891: Herzl's comedy "Prinzen aus Genieland" - "Princes from Genius Land", is produced at the Carltheater in Vienna. It achieves only a short run.

1891(20^th of Cheshvan, 5652): In the U.K. 41 year old David Crawcour who lived at 10 Mulcaster Street, passed away today.

1892(2^nd of Kislev, 5653): Henry Murh, a prominent member of the Philadelphia, PA Jewish community passed away.  A native of Bavaria, he established H. Murh’s Sons, a jewelry manufacturing firm.

1892: Sándor Wekerle, the Prime Minister of Hungary appeared before the Diet where he “promised that bills for State recognition of the Jewish religion” would be introduced by his government.

1893: Dr. Joseph Silverman introduced Professor Charles Briggs at a meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association who lectured on “Modern Biblical Criticism.”

1893: “A Sop for Jews in Russia” published today described a possible new policy in Russia that will Jews to live in “Russo-Polish” villages owned by noblemen who will “guarantee their lawful behavior” but will continue to forbid Jewish settlement where such guarantees cannot be obtained.

1894: “The New Czar” published today held out little hope for an improvement of the condition of the Jews, since “the cruel persecution of the Jews, was the most popular part of the late Czar’s governmental program and that if a “really representative Russian Parliament” were ever assembled it adopt even more stringent regulations against the Jews.

1895: Several New York Jewish businessman expressed their “utter indifference” with the announced plans of Dr. Ahlwardt , the German anti-Semite and Jew baiter to visit the United States next month. 

1895: Herzl arrives in London and holds conversations with Israel Zangwill. Zangwill gives him the names of "several suitable men" with whom to meet including Colonel Goldsmid, Rabbi Singer and Chief Rabbi Adler.

1896: Following the issuance of President Grover Cleveland’s Thanksgiving Proclamation that asked for “a continuance of heavenly favor through the mediation of Him who us how to pray, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise said that in invoking the image of Jesus, “the President panders to the passions of those bigoted sectarians who have been endeavoring to undermine the pure secularism upon which this Government is based.”

1896: The University of Wisconsin football team led by first year head coach Philip King, a Jewish native of Washington, DC defeated the University of Minnesota today for its sixth straight victory.

1897: The Chief Rabbi is scheduled to preach the sermon at today’s service marking the celebration of the centenary of the founding of Western Synagogue which will include a musical program under the direction of Orchestra conductor Johann Davids and choir director D.M. Davis.

1897: Professor Felix Adler delivered an address “What is Religion?” at the Carnegie Music Hall today.

1897: The Board of Deputies is scheduled to hold its monthly meeting this morning at the Vestry room of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London.

1897: Today, Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the founder and President of the National Farm school said, "It requires courage, moral courage, the highest kind of courage to be honest: fairly, frankly, fully honest. If you are honest, their lives not a man on earth who can humiliate you. If you have honor, though very little else besides, you have more wealth, more glory, more power, than all the hypocrites combined."

1897: Services were poorly attended today at Temple Emanu-El “owing to the fact that it was not generally known that Sunday services were being held” and that this only the second Sunday on which Sabbath services have been held. (The Reform Movement would find that moving Shabbat Services from Saturday to Sunday would not be a boon to attendance any more than the replacing Saturday services with Friday Night Family Services would be.)

1898: In London, Sir Meyer Adam Spielman and Gertrude Emily Spielman gave birth to Winifred Jessie Gertrude Speilmann who became Winifred Jessie Gertrude Raphael when she married Ralph Oliver Raphael.

1898: After having identified the body Emanuel Wachenheim, William Wolf was reported to have said he count imagine “why he killed himself” since he was “in good circumstances,” had a wife and three children and was active in several Jewish organizations including the Sons of Benjamin.

1898: According to a description published today the new Hebrew Infant Asylum “building” which can accommodate 200 children “is a four story structure of colonial design” that includes all the modern conveniences including “a hospital for contagious disease.”

1899: Herzl submits a memorandum for the Czar to explain the Zionist plans and to ask for an audience.

1899(19^th of Kislev, 5660): Seventy-three year old A. L. Freidland (Moshe Aryeh Leib Friedland) the husband of Hanna Keila Friedland and the “donor of the Bibliotheca Friedlandiana to the Imperial Academy of Sciences” passed away today in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1899: In Paris, “The Senate sitting as High Court for the trial of conspiracy cases resumed the examination of” Jules Guérin “who insisted the Anti-Semitic League of France” of which he is a leader ‘had not meddled with politics but had merely ‘defended the working classes against the power of the Jews and that he “had never plotted against the Republic.”  (Anti-Semitism, including the Dreyfus case, were part of a larger conflict between those who supported the Third Republic and those who sought a rightist takeover.)

1899: Birthdate of Bohemian naïve Hans Goldman, the Prague trained award winning Swiss ophthalmologist

http://ascrs.org/honorees/hans-goldmann-md

https://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/76/6/384.full.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322693931_Hans_Goldmann_1899-1991

1901: The care of children was scheduled to be the topic at the second day’s meeting of the Second New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections at which time Rabbi Adolph M. Radin will be allowed to express his concern about the treatment of Jewish children at the Juvenile Asylum including the lack of a Rabbi to serve as a children and the practice of taking Jewish children and sending to live with Christian families who will raise the youngsters in that faith.

1901: Birthdate of Harry Denberg.

1903: Birthdate of Warsaw native Isaac Chomski, “the official doctor to the Israeli Consulate and United Nations Mission” in New York City.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/07/obituaries/dr-isaac-chomski-80-dies-physician-to-israeli-officials.html

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/09/yitskhok-khomski-isaac-chomski.html

1904: In New York City, “Charles H. Israels, an architect and Belle Linder who was a political advisor to Governor Al Smith gave birth to Carlos L Israels the graduate of Amherst and Columbia University Law School, “a specialist in securities law” and “ the president of the United Hias Service” who was the husband of “the former Ruth Goldstein” with whom he had three children – Charles, Michael and Elizabeth.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/26/81552662.pdf



1904(13^th of Kislev, 5665): A month before his 62^ndbirthday, Joseph Bernard Bloomingdale, the Bavarian born Jewish immigrant who, along with his brother Lyman “founded Bloomingdales Department Store” or as it is known to shopping aficionado’s  “Bloomies.”

http://genforum.genealogy.com/bloomingdale/messages/56.html

1905: Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the famous equation e=mc².

1905: “In an interview on the ant-Jewish outrages Prince Urusoff, the new Assistant Minister of the Interior said today that the Jews were to a certain extent to blame on account of their open exultation over their new found liberties.”

1905: Having already sent $600,000 to Sir Samuel Montagu which is to be forwarded as quickly to Russia, Jacob H. Schiff, Treasurer of the National Committee for the Relief of Sufferers by Russian Massacre is scheduled to send $50,000 today to the Anglo-Jewish leader for their Russian co-religionists.

1905: In Chicago, “M.E. Greenbaum, Treasurer of the Jewish Relief Association Committee, sent a check for $20,000 to Jacob H. Schiff of New York” today bring the total sent from this city to $60,000.

1905: It was reported today that Miss Lillian D. Wald of the Nurses Settlement and her co-workers have offered “to go to Russia and nurse the sick and wounded.”

1905: Dr. Maurice Fishberg of the Jewish Daily News “received a letter from Solomon Rabinowitz” the author known as Sholom Aleichem describing conditions in Kiev in which he wrote “I, with my wife and children are cowering under a storm of leaden bullets that are being fired over our heads so that we shall remain powerless, useless, paralyzed.”

1905: In the Russian capitol, “an afternoon paper quotes a man who has just arrived in St. Petersburg as saying that 10,000 Don Cossacks are marching from Tashkent to St. Petersburg with the object of releasing the Emperor, whom they believe to be a captive in the hands of the Jews.”

1905: “Speaking of the Jewish question a member of the Russian Cabinet said today: “For the Cabinet there exists no Jewish question.  It is not what should be done, but how to do it.  We are absolutely of one mind that all the restrictions on the Jews should be abolished.  But for the government to decree equality without action on the part of the Duma would be full of danger” because anti-Semitism is so prevalent in the country.

1907: Birthdate of American artist Aaron Bohrod, the native of Chicago and “son of an emigre Bessarabian-Jewish grocer” who is “best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/06/arts/aaron-bohrod-84-realist-artist-whose-paintings-could-deceive.html

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-aaron-bohrod-12310

1909: In New York City, Pauline Meltsner and Joseph Goldwater gave birth to Dora Goldwater the older sister of Sadie Goldwater.

1909(8^th of Kislev, 5670): Mrs. Mariane Leibowitz passed away today.

1912: In Palestine, Nehemiah Myer Cohen and his wife gave birth to Israel Cohen, who left his father’s butcher shop business in Lancaster, PA during the 1930’s to combine forces with Samuel Lehrman to open the first of the grocery stores that became the Giant Food store chain.

1912: The New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections which was attended by delegates Samuel Untermyer, Mortimer L. Schiff, Simon Rosendale of Albany, NY, William M. Rosendale, Rabbi Max Landsberg, Mrs. Albert Hessberg, Samuel Gompers and Lee Frankel of New York City opened in Syracuse, NY was scheduled to come to an end today.

1913: Supreme court Justice Seabury ordered the sale in foreclosure of the Bijou Theatre property in a suit brought by Felix M Warburg, Isaac N Seligman, Paul M. Warburg and Mortimer L. Schiff as trustees under the will of Alfred M. Heinsheimer against the Bijou Real Estate Company. [Seabury was the only non-Jew mentioned in this item.]

1914(3^rd of Kislev, 5675): Parashat Toldot

1914(3^rd of Kislev, 5675): George Zierger passed away today in New York

1914: “Contributions to the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering the war” as of today “amount to $1,845” with the amount deposited to date in the Guaranty Trust Company of America totaling $23, 556.

1915: Funeral services for Dr. Solomon Schechter were held this morning at the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Four hundred mourners, including a “who’s who” of the Jewish community, packed the building while more than a thousand people stood outside waiting to pay homage to the deceased sage and scholar.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E6DB153BE233A25752C2A9679D946496D6CF

1915: In response to a written, publicly published request by Ephraim Cohen, their President, members of Congregation Kehilath Israel are among those attending the funeral service Professor Solomon Schechter that start this morning at 10:30 A.M.

1915: “In an address” today “before the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel at Daniel Webster Hall, Maurice B. Blumenthal expressed the Jewish fraternal organization’s opposition to the Gary Plan because of its “religious features.”

1915: The funeral of New Yorker Isaac Aaron who passed on November 19 is scheduled to be held today

1915: The tombstone of Abraham Weckstein was unveiled this afternoon at Mount Zion Cemetery at Maspeth, L.I.

1916: Birthdate of BeatriceDenberg,

1916: Birthdate of Sid Luckman, legendary quarterback of the Chicago Bears.

1916:  Emperor Franz Josef dies at the age of 85. He is followed to the throne by his 29 year old great nephew, Archduke Charles. Beginning with the start of regime of Franz Joseph I of Austria as the Emperor of the Austria–Hungary Empire his Jewish subjects enjoyed an unprecedented period economic, artistic and social success. “Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria bestowed on the Jewish population equality of rights saying, ‘the civil rights and the country’s policy is not contingent in the people’s religion.’ The emperor was well liked by the Jewish population, which as a token of appreciation wrote prayers and songs about him which were printed in Jewish prayer books. In 1849 the emperor canceled the prohibition against the Jewish population organizing within the community. In 1852 new regulations of the Jewish community were set. In 1867 the Jewish population formally received full equal rights. In 1869 the emperor visited Jerusalem and was greeted in great admiration by the Jewish population there. The emperor established a fund aimed at financing the establishment of Jewish institutions and in addition established the Talmudic school for rabbis in Budapest. During the 1890s several Jews were elected to the Austrian parliament.” But Franz Josef’s greatest impact on the Jewish people was his role in the start of World War I.  The Emperor’s unwillingness to reach any compromise with Serbia and his determination to punish his Slavic neighbor unleashed the catastrophe that caused unprecedented suffering for the Jews of eastern Europe who were caught between the opposing imperial armies for four years, unleashed the forces that led to the Holocaust and led to the destruction of the Ottoman Empire that results of which reverberate across the Middle East as we approach the second decade of the 21^st century.



1917: “Heavy rainfall and cold weather” thwarted the advance of His Majesty forces who were faced with 8,000 entrenched troops and their artillery which led to a decision retire to Beit Ur el Foqa and wait for support from the 1 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps which would give them an edge as they continued to advance towards Jerusalem.”

1917: Dr. Anna White Sage is scheduled to deliver an address on “Morals on Social Hygiene in War Time” at today’s “regular meeting of the Baron Hirsch Woman’s Club” at the Sinai Social Center in Chicago.



1917: The Allied Forces (including Jewish soldiers) under General Allenby were fighting the Turks on the slopes of Nebi Samwil, the traditional site of the Tomb of the Prophet Samuel.

1917: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch led the Study Class of the Chicago Woman’s aid which met this morning at the Sinai Center in Chicago.

1917: Nora Funkenstein is scheduled provide a piano selection and Dr. Anna White Sage is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Morals on Social Hygiene in War Time” at today’s regular meeting of the Baron Hirsch Woman’s Club at the Sinai Social Center in Chicago.

1918: After the fall of the Czar there was a strong movement in Ukraine to establish an independent political entity. The Jewish parties voted against the severance with Russia leading to direct attacks on the Jews in the form of Pogroms (lasting 2 years). One of the first attacks was in Lvov where 72 Jews were killed and 443 wounded.

1918: In Dorchester, MA, Solomon and Ray (Brooks) Prokesch gave birth to Dr. Clemens Prokesch, the graduate of Yale, MIT and New York Medical College and husband of Natilie Prokesch who practiced internal medicine after his discharge from the U.S. Air Force.

http://www.neilanfuneralhome.com/obituary/Clemens-E.-Prokesch/New-London-CT/416809

1918: During the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Lwów or Lemberg Pogrom began.

1918:Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia, Poland.

1919: After having commissioned as the first Jewish chaplain in the United States Navy in 1917 with the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, Rabbi David Goldberg completed his services at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station today where he had been serving since June of 1918.

1919: In an interview with the Sultan, Hahambashi assures him that Jews will never forget that when they were persecuted in other countries, Turkey welcomed them and that, if they had reason for complaint in recent years, it was directed rather against the regime which had been disastrous for all elements of the population, than against the Turkish people.

1920: The annual meeting of Temple Israel of Harlem is scheduled to be held today following by a banquet at the Hotel Astor.

1921: Dr. Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning at “What Does the Jew Believe About the Bible” at Carnegie Hall.

1921: Birthdate of Lev Lipschitz, the Moscow native who made Aliyah in 1924 and gained fame as Israeli political leader and MK Aryeh Eliav.

1921: In Los Angeles, Mordechai and Elsie Vickman gave birth to Robert “Bob” Vickman, the WW II veteran of the USAAF who disappeared in July, 1948 while flying a mission for Squadron 101, the first fighting unit of the infant Israeli Air Force

1922: The first official meeting of the Lausanne Conference, which was intended to deal with issues arising out of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire was held today with Lord Curzon serving as its President.

1923: Birthdate Harry Zohn the native of Vienna who became a professor at Brandeis University.

1924: In Baltimore Cantor Max Kotlowitz and his wife Debra gave birth to “Robert Kotlowitz, a novelist and editor who reluctantly became a public television executive in 1971 and went on to help shape a lineup of homegrown and imported shows — including “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” “Live at the Met,” “Dance in America” and “Brideshead Revisited” — that represent a high-water mark in American television” (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1924: Today, the Febre Line vessel, SS Canada which is carrying the body of the late Dr. Menachem Mendel Scheinkin set sail for Jaffa which is to be the site for his burial.

1927: In Cherry Hills, NJ, Leo and Bella Adler gave birth to CPA Milton Adler, the husband of Marion Adler.

1928: “Children to Aid Palestine Fund” published today described the plans of Hadassah to “enlist the services of 125,000 children in” New York City religious schools “in its campaign to raise $15,000 to provide luncheons for school children in Palestine.”

1929: Birthday of Nahum Admoni the native of Jerusalem who served as Direct of Mossad from 1982 to 1986.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=1091989&ticker=BLZ:LN&previousCapId=430536&previousTitle=EMBLAZE%20LTD



1929: Birthdate of Brooklyn born comedian Stanley Myron Handelman.  By the time he died on August 5, 2007 at the age of 77 Handeleman had enjoyed a successful career as a television and nightclub comedian.

1930: Birthdate of Melvin “Mel” Seeman “a 6'5" forward and center, who played for three seasons with NYU after which he played one season the old American Basketball Association.

1931: With Sid Gillman playing End, Ohio State defeated the University of Illinois in the last home game of the season.

1933: A delegation representing all elements of the Jewish community including members of the Vaad Leumi, representatives of Agudath Israel, leaders of the agricultural community and Israel Rokach, the Vice Mayor of Tel Aviv, met with the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope.  They were protesting British immigration policy including plans to deport Jews already living in Palestine as well as the negative impact of that immigration policy on the economic well-being of all those living in Palestine including the Arab populace.

1933: Henry G. Schackno resigned his seat in the New York State Senate preparatory to filling one of the new Justice of the City Court positions to which he had been elected on November 7.

1934: Dr. George Landauer and Dr. Martin Rosenbluth said today that “twenty thousand German Jewish refugees have settled in Palestine and one-fifth of them are engaged in agriculture.”

1935: U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and 800 others honored Rebekah Kohut's 50 years of communal work at a special dinner. Chaired by the novelist Fannie Hurst, the dinner assembled a wide array of political, cultural, and philanthropic notables who spoke of Kohut's varied contributions and her efforts to apply scientific principles to charitable work. Kohut was a notable activist in the Jewish and secular communities in the areas of education, social welfare and women's organizational life. She came to the United States from Hungary as a child, growing up in Richmond and San Francisco where her father served as a rabbi. In her early twenties, she married the traditionalist New York rabbi Alexander Kohut, a widower with 8 children, 6 under the age of 13. Rebecca devoted herself chiefly to these children and to her husband's scholarly work until his death in 1894. In succeeding years, Kohut immersed herself in the expanding world of Jewish women's organizational life and in the financial support of her family. She was the first president of the New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, gave public lectures on Jewish subjects, and opened a private school in cooperation with her stepchildren. During World War I, she became involved in employment work, which led to her role as an advisor on unemployment to New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early 1930s. Her efforts to bring relief to devastated European Jewish communities after World War I led to her leading role in convening the World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna in 1923 and being elected as the organization's first president.

1935(25^th of Cheshvan, 5696): Fifty-one year old “Bernard S. Deutsch, the President of the Board of Alderman,” an NYU trained attorney and president of the American Jewish Congress” who was the husband of “the former Frances Weinstein” with whom he had “two daughters, Elinor and Dorothy Edith,” died unexpectedly this evening.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/11/22/101515300.pdf

https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/56611

http://judaism_enc.enacademic.com/5064

1936: It was reported today that Janien Berg, a Polish-Jewish student who had once studied in Rome received money from Mussolini so that he could return to Italy and finish his studies which had been stopped due to anti-Semitic riots in Poland.

1936: “Three Men on a Horse” the movie version of the Broadway play directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and featuring Same Levene in a reprise of his role of “Patsy” was released today in the United States.

1936: At Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “What Shall We Do About Our Fears?”

1936: At Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Brothers Ashkenazi.”

1936: At the Jewish Science Society, Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Wake Up and Live.”

1937: Henri Caïn, who the libretto for “Le Juif Polonais” (The Polish Jew) passed away today.

1937: Birthdate of Ingrid Pitt, the daughter of a Polish Jew who survived the Stutthof Concentration Camp to become the first lady of British horror cinema, who starring in sanguinary classics of the 1970s like “The Vampire Lovers,” “Countess Dracula” and “The House That Dripped Blood.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1938: The British House of Commons objects to German persecution of minorities.

1938: Today “in an address to the world's Catholics, the Pope rejected the Nazi claim of racial superiority, and insisted instead that there was only a single human race”

1938: Birthdate of Sydney, Australia, native David John Alfred Clines, the academic biblical scholar who “served as President of the Society for Old Testament Study and the President Society of Biblical Literature” and who was honored two books published in his honor Reading from Right to Left: Essay on the Hebrew Bible and Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible with a contribution by Marc Zvi Brettler, the Brandeis trained Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University who won the National Jewish Book Award in 2004.

1938(27th of Cheshvan, 5699): Pianist Leopold Godowsky passed away,

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60914FF3C5F1B7A93C0AB178AD95F4C8385F9

1938: In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, Time published an article entitled “German: These Individuals!”

"The civilized world stands revolted by a bloody pogrom against a defenseless people. Every instinct in us cries out in protest against the outrages which have taken place in Germany during the last five years and which sank to new depths in the organized frenzies of the last few days. . . . If you saw a gang of cowardly ruffians set upon a helpless man in a public street and proceed to beat him, you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a fanatical mob pillage and burn a church or a synagogue you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a brutal band drive helpless families from their own homes, you would speak out, and promptly." Thus last week outspoke New York State's defeated gubernatorial candidate, Republican Thomas E. Dewey, and was joined in vehement indignation by Democratic Senator William H. King of Utah who proposed that the U. S. forthwith break off diplomatic relations with the German Government. Outspoke ex-U. S. President Herbert Clark Hoover: "The blame is squarely up to the political agencies in power [in Germany]. These individuals are taking Germany back 450 years in civilization to Torquemada's expulsion of the Jews from Spain. They are bringing to Germany not alone the condemnation of the public opinion of the world. These men are building their own condemnation by mankind for centuries to come." One, Two, Three. But no active head of State,* and no No. 1 official associates of any head of State chose to speak out last week against "these individuals" who shocked an almost shockproof world with a display of deliberate and unprovoked mass cruelty. "These individuals" are four. Adolf Hitler is the World's No. 1 anti-Semite by temperament and conviction, whose intimate friend Julius Streicher publishes Der Stunner, the grossly fanatical No. 1 anti-Semitic newsorgan of the world. No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is a part-time virtuoso of antiSemitism, using his Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment alternately to incite and to calm German anti-Semitic mobs. And No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm GÖring is a ruthless German activist who signs the most drastic anti-Semitic decrees and has them legally enforced by the courts, the police and the army. "I Am Not A Dog!" The Führer was beside himself last week because a Polish Jew, once a resident of Germany, had put two bullets into Ernst vom Rath, third secretary to the Germany Embassy in Paris. Herr Hitler immediately sent his personal physician, Dr. Brandt, to Paris accompanied by the eminent German specialist, Professor Georg Magnus of the university at Munich. Four blood transfusions failed to save Ernst vom Rath. He died in a coma without being able to understand a message from the Führer promoting him to First Class Embassy Counselor. The assassin, Herschel Grynszpan, meanwhile told his French jailers: "Being a Jew is not a crime. . . . I hoped President Roosevelt would take pity on us refugees. . . . I am not a dog. I didn't mean to kill. I lost my head.""Mobs" and Mobs. Nazi bigwigs have often said off the record that if a Jew should ever assassinate the Fuhrer, "next day not a single member of the Jewish race would be left alive in the Reich." Last week only a handful of Jews were reported killed in the avenging of Ernst vom Rath. But in every part of Germany mobs smashed, looted, burned Jewish property. The purpose was to wreak final ruin on a section of the German population which had already been systematically persecuted to the brink of ruin. Synagogues were everywhere fired or dynamited. Numberless Jews of both sexes were beaten by mobs from the Baltic to the Brenner and from Sudetenland to the North Sea. The complicity of the German Government was proved by the fact that in most cases police made no effort to restrain the so-called "mobs." These consisted mostly of young Germans who drove up in cars. Heavy boots of the sort worn by party members when in uniform gave a good clue to the identity of the window smashers and firebugs. The synthetic "mobs" were in some cases joined by genuine mobs but these were mostly Germans who simply grabbed what they could after Jewish shop fronts had been smashed by the "mobs." Some mobsters tossed Jewish goods out of smashed windows to passersby with guffaws and cries of: "Here are some cheap Christmas presents. Get yours early!" Not all German Aryans countenanced this depravity. Said an Aryan Berlin housewife despondently as she watched Aryan children making off with the contents of a Jewish shop: "So that is how they teach our children to steal!". A few poorly-clad men jogged the elbow of a New York Times Berlin correspondent and whispered: "The German people do not approve of such treatment of the Jews." Bad Neighbor Policy. The harsh, explosive epithets in which the German language is rich, were heaped, together with obscenities, upon Jewish men, women and children in every part of the Reich. They were spat upon, cuffed, nose-jerked, kicked and given black eyes. The atrocities stopped short of rape or firing squads. Some Jews were so affected by the Nazi terror that, notably along the German-Netherlands frontier, they pitifully got down on their knees and crawled some distance, wailing and lamenting, to supplicate Dutch frontier guards to let them in. These guards were adamant in every case, on instructions of Her Majesty's Government, for The Netherlands has good reason to fear Bad Neighbor Germany. Damage & Indemnity. In Germany, insurance companies reported damage claims of more than $5,000,000 from Jewish policy holders in Berlin, more than $4,000,000 in Vienna. The New York Times estimated that total damage to Jewish property in Germany "may possibly reach one billion marks" ($400,000,000). The Times thought that the Jewish community this week, after all depredations, still owned property in Germany worth perhaps four billion marks ($1,600,000,000) and, before Hitler, may have owned 20 billions. But the spoliation did not end with the three-day pogrom. At the Air Ministry in Berlin last week, Air Minister Goring signed, as Economic Chief of the German Four-Year Plan for Self-Sufficiency. decrees providing: 1) that Jews of German citizenship as a community pay to the State a billion marks indemnity for the assassination of Rath; 2) that the State confiscate whatever is payable to Jews by insurance companies for damage done last week; 3) that Jewish owners of damaged premises must repair them at their own cost; 4) that after Jan. 1, 1939 Jews be excluded from "operation of retail shops, mail-order houses and independent exercise of handicrafts. . . . Jewish shops operated in violation of this order will be closed by the police" [and presumably turned over to Aryans]. He planned ultimately to move into ghettos all Jews who can or must tolerate life in Germany. And Jews were also forbidden to go to theatres, concert halls, art galleries, public schools, high schools, universities. In Paris, when the assassin of Rath heard of these decrees, he vowed in anguish: "I will pray every Monday for forgiveness for what I have done to my people." In England meanwhile Lord Rothschild said that nothing short of the execution of the Jews of Germany could be worse than what has now been done. Let Jews Starve? In Frankfort, where the assassin once resided, every male Jew between the ages of 18 and 60 was taken into custody. The same was done in certain other German cities. With many Jewish breadwinners torn from their families, with many of those families hungry, Der An griff, personal organ of Dr. Goebbels, coldly noted: "Noticeably large is the number of Jewish women with many children who ask for relief. . . . Our laws give even a foreigner the right to relief. . . . [Jewish] progeny and their [obscene synonym for "females"] become a burden on German funds." By holding the Jewish community of Germany in a state of general inability to earn a living wage, Nazis obviously hope to force the international Jewish community to remit to Germany huge enough sums in "good money" to keep their Jewish relatives in the Reich from going too hungry or too cold. The dollars, pounds, francs to be secured by thus "shaking down the whole Jewish race" (as some Nazis term it) are wanted to pay for such vital imports as Germany cannot get by barter deals. The Schwarze Korps, influential Nazi newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's personal Elite Guard and the Blackshirt Storm Troops, has openly hinted at the burgeoning of this gangster-blackmail scheme for several years. "Intellectual Originators." Referring to the assassin, Der Angriff libelously insinuated: "It is no coincidence that Grynszpan took the same line followed by Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper and their associates!" Der Angriff went on with a long list of "the intellectual originators of the crime'' which included, strangely enough, certain French Rightists like Henri de Kerillis but not the French Jewish Socialist on whom Nazis usually vent spleen, Leon Blum. Obvious reason: Blum and his Socialists last week had not broken with French Premier Edouard Daladier, one of the Munich "Big Four." In Paris the Jewish aunt and uncle of the assassin were arrested and it was revealed that just prior to the killing of vom Rath they were held under arrest for five days on suspicion of harboring an undesirable alien. Their papers were seized and the French Surete Generale probed to discover who really were the "intellectual originators" of the crime—if any. Meanwhile, French editors were not behind those of Britain and the U. S. in denouncing German pogroms in the strongest possible language and showing they felt even that to be inadequate. It was suggested that Charles Augustus Lindbergh and other Aryans who have recently received high German decorations ought to send them back to the Führer. Funk No. 2? The Great Powers plainly funked when Germany was permitted to dismember Czechoslovakia. On the issue of Jewish persecutions in Germany, Funk No. 2 raised its head this week. Typically funking was a statement issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England: "Would that the rulers of the Reich could realize that such excesses of hatred and malice put upon the friendship which we are ready to offer them an almost intolerable strain!"

^{*Britain's Neville Chamberlain did say: "No one in this country would seek to defend the senseless crime of the murder of vom Rath, but at the same time there will be deep and widespread sympathy for those being made to suffer for it."}

1939(9^th of Kislev, 5700): Fifty three year old Aaron Lipper, the president of Brooklyn’s Kay Manufacturing which makes steel products for furniture and bedding and “the chairman of the budget and policy committee of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan passed away today “in Lakewood, NJ where he had gone to recuperate from pneumonia.”

1940: A cargo of 1,771 stateless Jews mostly from Austria, Slovakia, Bohemia, Hungary and Rumania are loaded aboard the Patria, a French steamer chartered by the British to ship them from Palestine to detainment camps on the British island of Mauritius.

1941: U.S. premiere of “Shadow of the Thin Man,” the fourth in a series of Thin movies in this case based on a story by Harry Kurnitz who also co-authored the screenplay.

1942(12^th of Kislev, 5703): Parashat Vayetzei

1942(12^th of Kislev, 5703): Sixty-six year old Elizabeth, NJ native and NYU trained attorney Abe J. David who served as district court judge and country prosecutor and who was the husband of Anna Kampner David passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/22/85067540.html?pageNumber=52

1942: It was reported today that that the Algiers Municipal Council has adopted a resolution which says that the city would again be governed by the principles of equality” thus abrogating the anti-Jewish ordinances of the Vichy period and that the “Jews would be compensated for losses suffered as a result of the Vichy laws.”

1943:  Future Nobel Prize winner Dr. Arthur Kornberg married Sylvy Ruth Levy, also a biochemist of note. She worked closely with Kornberg and contributed significantly to the discovery of DNA polymerase.



1943: In a review entitled “A Revolutionist’s Testament” Saul Bellow examines the newly published Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler.

1944(5^thof Kislev, 5705): Eighty-four year old Hungarian sportsman Ferenc Kemeny, “a founding member of the International Olympic Committee and Nobel Peace Prize nominee” lost his battle with anti-Semitism and, along with his wife, committed suicide today rather than face the deadly wrath of the Arrow Cross.

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/FerencKemeny.htm





1944: In Chicago, Ruth and Nathan Ramis, who owned the Ace Food & Liquor Mart on the city's far North Side gave birth to Harold Allen Ramis who performed and wrote in several comedies including Animal House and Groundhog Day.

1945:  Laura and Edward Hawn gave birth to Goldie Hawn, the product of the Washington suburbs who first gained fame on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.

1945: “What Next, Corporal Hargrove?” a WW II comedy written by Harry Kurnitz was released in the United States by MGM.

1945: John Farrar and Roger Williams Straus, Jr. “began the firm of Farrar Straus & Co.”

1945: “Saratoga Trunk,” the film version of the Edna Ferber novel by the same name produced by Hal B. Wallis with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States by Warner Bros.

1945(16th of Kislev, 5706): Twenty-five year Al “Bummy” Davis, who named to Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time” was gunned down today when he tried to thwart a robbery at Dudy’s Bar in Brownsville..

1946: Plans for the upcoming installation of Joseph Smith to serve as the new Rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel in Burlington, NJ were published today.

1947: “Against Palestine Partition” a letter from several prominent Americans published today provides a panoply of reasons of why the United States should oppose the creation of a Jewish state including the fact that four –fifths of the proven oil reserves are in Arab hands and the fact that there are 40 million people inhabiting the Arab League States. The letter writers “all have intimate Jewish friends” but warn that any outbreak of violence in the Middle East that hampers American business interests will lead to a wave of anti-Semitism in the United States.

1947: U.S. Premiere of “The Lost Moment” directed by Martin Gabel

1948:The Sunday morning religious program "Lamp Unto My Feet" first aired over CBS television. It became one of TV's longest-running network shows, and aired through January 1979.

1948: Israeli soldiers jam the biblical city of Beersheba to hear piano concertos played by Leonard Bernstein.

1948: Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion praises King Abdullah of Transjordan and says he will meet with Abdullah and other Arab leaders anytime they wish.

1948: It was announced in Tel Aviv today that “the picking of citrus fruit will begin throughout Israel this week, with the prospect of a crop almost equaling last season's in Jewish-owned groves but altogether of a little more than one-third of the pre-war production in Palestine.”

1949: The United Nations voted to give Libya its independence within 14 months triggering a mass exodus of Jews who were so fearful of their future in the Moslem state that they left even though it meant giving up most of their property and wealth.  Over 30,000 of these Jews found refuge in the state of Israel.



1954: In Baltimore, “Elizabeth D. (née Davidson) and attorney Donald N. Rothman gave birth to

 Thomas Edgar “Tom” Rothman, the Brown University Alum and Columbia Law School grad who went from teaching English and coaching soccer” to serving as “the chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group.

1955: It was reported today that a two-day conference under the auspices of the American Tenchnion Society, the financial arm Technion, which was being held at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. has come to an end.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/23/archives/carey-drucker-wed-to-george-zuckerman.html

1958: U.S. premiere of “The Tunnel of Love” produced by Martin Melcher and Joseph Fields, with a script by Joseph Fields, the son of Lew Fields.

1959(20th of Cheshvan, 5720):  Max Baer passed away.  Baer was heavyweight boxing champion in 1934.  He was 49 at the time of his death.

1959:  Jack Benny, on the violin, played a duet with pianist Richard Nixon, then Vice President of the United States.

1961: Alexander Bittelman was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide testimony about his former organization today but he refused to testify, citing his rights under the 1st and 5th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

1961: New Square, the first Chassidic town in the U.S., elected its mayor. 

1962: U.S. premiere of “Two For The Seesaw” produced by Walter Mirsch, with music by Andre Previn which saw the movie debut of Harold Gould.

1962: Birthdate of Abraham Kwastler who gained fame as broadcaster Avri Gilad who has been listed “among the top-ten TV earners.”

1962: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion attends the founding ceremony for the city of Arad.

1965: The port of Ashdod port opened for business when a freighter docked at the port for the first time.

1965: The Central Council of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America created a Golden Jubilee Committee to celebrate the Brotherhood's fiftieth anniversary. At the time there were over 2,500 members of the Brotherhood.

1965: Birthdate of Memphis, TN filmmaker Ira Sachs whose movies include the “semi-autobiographical Keep the Lights On” which premiered at Sundance in 2012.

1967: “The eponymous album of The Hassles,” a rock group that included Billy Joel “was released today.”

1969: Wayne Morse (one of only two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) is scheduled to speak today at the funeral of Jewish labor lawyer Lee Pressman which will be attended by “his widow, the former Sophia Platnik, three daughters – Susan, Marcia and Dr. Ann Pressman – a his brother Irving.

1970(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5731): Anzia Yezierska, “a female sweatshop worker from a Polish shtetl” who became a “renowned author” passed away today.

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Literature/Jewish_American_Literature/Immigrant_Literature/Anzia_Yezierska.shtml

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/yezierska-anzia



1970: Birthdate of Israeli actress and comedienne Alma Zack.

1972: “Black Gunn” a “blaxploitation” movie co-starring Martin Landau was released in the United States today.

1973: The Agranat Commission, a national committee charged with investigating the failures of the IDF prior to the Yom Kippur War, was established today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9803E0DA1F3CE13BBC4A51DFB7678388669EDE

1973(26^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Seventy-four year old George M Feigin the all-star City College athlete and graduate of Fordham University Law School who served in WW I and founded Camp Chicopee for boys in Pennsylvania passed away today

1976: In New York, premiere of “Rocky” the boxing film produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff.

1976: Three days after he had passed away, the funeral was held for sixty-six year old “Louis G. Cowan the former President of CBS was following which he was buried “in a family plot on Martha’s Vineyard.”

1977:  Off-Broadway premiere of “Uncommon Women and Others” the first play written by Wendy Wasserstein.

1980: “The Apple” a musical comedy that “makes use of Biblical allegory including the tale of Adam and Eve” directed and written by Menahem Golan who co-produced along with Yoram Golbus and was filmed by David Gurfinkel was released in the United States today.

1982: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff delivered the closing prayer at the official dedication of “The Wall,” the Vietnam memorial in Washington, DC

1984: “Operation Moses,” a two month long “covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan began today.

1985: Jonathan Pollard and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Israel. Pollard, who had worked for Naval Intelligence, had passed on information to Israel regarding Arab capabilities. Pollard was caught as he was trying to enter the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The Pollard affair caused great embarrassment to Israel both from the American perspective and also due to Israel's refusal to support him once he was caught. He was given a life sentence, and despite numerous requests from Israel for clemency he is still in prison.

1988(12^th of Kislev, 5749): Eighty-one year old Esther Gottlieb, “the founder and president of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation” which provided aid for “older artists in need” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/23/obituaries/esther-gottlieb-is-dead-art-fund-head-was-81.html

1988: Michael Dekel completed serving his term as Deputy Minister of Defense.

1988: Weizman Shiry completed serving his term as Deputy Minister of Defense.

1989: Morton Isaac Abramowitz was appointed “Career Ambassador.”

1990: Michael Milken was sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1991: William Caldwell Harrop was named U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1991(14^th of Kislev, 5727): Sixty year old Columbia University dropout Robert Kaufman, the Peabody and Emmy award winning screenwriter passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/26/obituaries/robert-kaufman-60-tv-and-film-writer.html

1991(14^th of Kislev, 5752):Seventy-nine award winning director Daniel Mann whose works ranged from comedies like “The Teahouse of the August Moon” to weighty dramas like “ The Last Angry Man.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/23/theater/daniel-mann-79-the-director-of-successful-plays-and-films.html

1991(14th of Kislev, 5752):  David "Sonny" Werblin passed away.  For most Americans, Werblin is best remembered for his purchase of the New York Jets in 1963.  Werblin then used his fortune to draft the AFL’s first super-star, Joe Namath.  Namath would lead Werblin’s Jets to victory in Super Bowl III, an event that would change the face of professional football.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/23/sports/sonny-werblin-an-impresario-of-new-york-s-sports-extravaganza-is-dead-at-81.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1996: Publication of the Impressionist Print in which Michel Melot describes Alphonse Hirsch as “an artist but mainly a hanger-on” to Edgar Degas” who “was one of several prominent artists who depicted Hirsch in his work.”

http://forward.com/articles/181929/is-jewish-girl-star-of-edouard-manets-famed-painti/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Mon_Thurs%202013-08-13&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29

1997: Speaking “at a ceremony at which he recalled the push for peace made  by” the late Yitzhak Rabin President Clinton “warned the Israelis and Palestinians today that they were running short of time” to reach come to an agreement.

1997: The movie version “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” featuring Michael Ronsebaum as “George Tucker” was released in the United States today.

1998(2^nd of Kislev): Eighty-eight year old Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, the Lakewood Mashgiach, passed away.

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Yosl Rakover Talks To God by Zvi Kolitz; translated by Carol Brown, Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprisingby Ian MacMillan and In The Family Way: An Urban Comedyby Lynne Sharon Schwartz.

2000: Itamar Yefet, 18, of Netzer Hazani died from a gunshot wound to the head by Palestinian sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction

2000: Professor Peter Pulzer of Oxford, “the Chairman of the Leo Baeck Institute of London and a prominent international historian specializing in the history of German Jewry gave the first inaugural Simon Dubnow Lecture” today.

2002(16th of Kislev, 5763): 2002 - Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Hodaya Asraf, 13, of Jerusalem; Marina Bazarski, 46, of Jerusalem; Hadassah (Yelena) Ben-David, 32, of Jerusalem; Sima Novak, 56, of Jerusalem; Kira Perlman, 67, and her grandson Ilan Perlman, 8, of Jerusalem; Yafit Ravivo, 14 of Jerusalem; Ella Sharshevsky, 44, and her son Michael Sharshevsky, 16, of Jerusalem; Mircea Varga, 25, a tourist from Romania; Dikla Zino, 22, of Jerusalem.

2004: In an article entitled “At Holocaust Museum, Turning a Number Into A Name,” the New York Times reports on plans for Yad Vashem to make its lists of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, along with biographical information available on line.

2004: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including Breath: Poemsby Philip Levine

2005: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked President Moshe Katsav to dissolve the Knesset, just hours after he sent shockwaves across the political system with his decision to quit the Likud and form a new centrist party. Sharon formally announced that he had left the Likud and had formed a new party called National Responsibility.

2005: Shaul Mofaz rejected Sharon's invitation to join his new party, Kadima, and instead announced his candidacy for the leadership of Likud.

2006: Southern California coastal authorities have decided to allow a beachfront eruv - a boundary that makes it possible for observant Jews to carry objects on Shabbat - to be built in the state for the first time. The eruv will surround sections of Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Marina del Rey.

2007: The planned chopping down of the chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis did not take place thanks to a court order issued on November 20,2007 ordering city officials to into ways to save the 150 year old tree.

2007: “Yiddish Theatre: A Love Story” opens at the Two Boots Pioneer theater in Manhattan.This new documentary film is about Zypora Spaisman the amazing woman who has kept the oldest running Yiddish Theater in America alive. Zypora Spaisman is a Holocaust survivor who conquers all hearts in her passion for art, life and Yiddish.

2008: President Shimon Peres returns to Israel after a three-day state visit to Great Britain where he met with dignitaries, visited Parliament, delivered a lecture at Balliol College, Oxford University's oldest college, and met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and the Prime Minister.

2008:In Manhattan, the 92^nd Street Y presents “An Exploration of the Seven Deadly,” during which Aviad Kleinberg, one of the most prominent intellectuals in Israel examines the seven deadly sins with his trademark insight and deadpan humor.

2008: Dozens of synagogues and mosques across the United States and Canada are to take part in a first-of-its-kind three-day joint public relations campaign against anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim xenophobia beginning today. The initiative, which was given the code-name "Twinning," calls for close cooperation between rabbis and imams based in some of the largest cities in North America, including Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Palm Beach, St. Louis, and Washington DC.

2009: In the face of far-left, Arab and Muslim opposition, the New York Mets organization has decided to honor its commitment to rent its Caesar's Club for a fundraiser benefiting the Jewish community of Hebron that is schedule to be held tonight

2009: At the 92^nd St Y in Manhattan Alan Dershowitz, the self-described “top defender of Israel in the court of public opinion,” and Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and director of J Street, debate issues surrounding America’s policy in the Middle East with special emphasis on matters surrounding Israel and its relationship with the United States.

2009: Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, in collaboration with the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, gives two performances of the children’s opera, Brundibar, sponsored by the Joan & David Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund, Bradley & Riley, P.C and Dr. Ronald and Sue Reider, two pillars of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.

2010: Michael Makovsky is scheduled to delve into Winston Churchill's complex relationship with Zionism, his impact on the creation of the State of Israel and the modern Middle East that emerged from the two world wars of the 20th century during a program entitled Winston Churchill, Zionism & the Modern Middle East at the 92^nd Street Y in New York City.

2010: Avrom Bendavid-Val, author of The Heavens are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod  is scheduled to deliver a lecture based on his writings at the Historic 6^th& I Synagogue in Washington, DC.

2010: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick and Saul Bellow: Letters edited by Benjamin Taylor.



2010: The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy by Jonathan Miles. “The son of a prosperous Czechoslovakian manufacturer, Katz, who was Jewish, was drawn to the theatrical (and cabaret) life of Berlin, where he aspired to playwriting. What politicized him was the rise of Nazism in the 1920s, in particular its vicious anti-Semitism. He gravitated toward the Soviet Union, which seemed to him — not incorrectly at the time — the only nation mounting any sort of effective opposition to Hitler. In his accurate view, all the other major European states were, albeit somewhat more politely, anti-Semitic as well.”



2010:Outgoing head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin issued a warning at his final cabinet meeting today, saying that Israel should not be lulled into complacency by the relative quiet that the country has recently enjoyed. Yadlin said that Israel's enemies, with Iran under the leadership of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being chief among them, are "getting more powerful and better arming themselves."

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=196161



2010: Debbie Rosenbloom, the wife of David Levin, became a savta (grandmother) today when her daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter.



2011: “Latkes & Grits” by Murray Wolfe is scheduled to open at the Missing Piece Theatre in Burbank, California.



2011: In California, Helen Duffy and Marcie Lynn Ross starred in “a wonderful reading of Murray Wolfe’s funny future in-law comedy ‘Latkes and Grits.’”



2011: David Mitchell became the Rabbi at West London Synagogue.



2011: The 8^th Jewish Eye Festival, the World Jewish Film Festival held annually at Ashkelon is scheduled to come to an end.



2011: Israel and Arab states plan to attend talks at a forum opening today sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at freeing the world from nuclear weapons.



2011:Israel has gradually boosted naval patrols around its east Mediterranean natural gas fields for fear of guerrilla attacks and as maritime rivalry with Turkey deepens, an Israeli official said today.

2011:A Jordanian delegation visiting the West Bank today called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to renew peace talks with Israel.



2012: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to sponsor a screening of 'Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today'



2012: As the eighth day of Pillars of Defense begins, Israelis mourn the loss of eighteen year old Corporal Yosef Partuk and an Arab-Israeli civilian identified as Alayaan Salem al-Nabari who had been killed yesterday morning during a mortar attack



2012: In a case of Jew follows Jew, Lionel Perez was elected borough mayor of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace by acclamation, replacing Michael Applebaum after the latter was selected as the new Mayor of Montreal.



2012(7^th of Kislev, 5773: Eighty-one year old “Mr. Food” who was in reality Art Ginsburg passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/us/art-ginsburg-known-as-mr-food-dies-at-81.html?hpw&_r=0





2012(7^th of Kislev, 5773): Eighty-nine year old film editor Dann Cahn passed away,

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dann-cahn-20121125,0,3751475.story#axzz2l8iYAP5b



2012: Ninety year old Valdka Mead, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in which she served as a courier and arms smuggler, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/world/vladka-meed-who-infiltrated-warsaw-ghetto-dies-at-90.html?_r=0



http://forward.com/articles/166582/vladka-meed-warsaw-uprising-leader-dies-at-/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Weekly%20+%20Daily&utm_campaign=Weekly_Newsletter_Friday%202012-11-23





2012:An explosion ripped through a bus in central Tel Aviv around noon on Wednesday — the first bombing attack in the city since 2006.Twenty-one people were injured in the bombing, three of them seriously. No one was killed. 



2012: The UN Security Council called on Israel and Hamas to uphold a ceasefire agreement today and commended the efforts of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and others for brokering the deal.



2013: The Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensatio.”



2013: Whole Foods in Friendship Heights is scheduled to host “8 Days of Oil” which will include a free olive tasting…and take-home booklets for celebrating” Chanukah.



2013: The Valley Chapter of the of Los Angeles Yiddish Club is scheduled to host an evening of Yiddish Song with Cindy Paley



2013: The 7^th annual Other Israel Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.



2013: Tonight, Twentieth Century Fox renamed its historic Fox Music Building in honor of film and television composer Lionel Newman, whose career with Fox spanned nearly half a century and included more than 200 films, 11 of which earned him Academy Award nominations, including “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and “Doctor Dolittle,” and 1 of which – the score for “Hello Dolly” – won him an Oscar,



2013(18^thof Kislev, 5774): Fifty-one year old Michael Weiner, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Player Association passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/sports/baseball/michael-weiner-who-headed-baseball-union-dies-at-51.html?pagewanted=print





2013: The Iranian government is reminiscent of “dark regimes of the past” that tried to wipe out the Jews and then conquer the world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today in Moscow, vowing to deny Iran nuclear weapons.

2013:German authorities released more pictures and details today of the massive trove of art that was discovered in a Munich apartment last year.



2014: In Melbourne, “Anywhere Else” and “Young Perez” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014(28th of Cheshvan, 5775): Eighty-two year old Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and former foreign correspondent Richard Eder passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/business/media/richard-eder-arts-critic-and-foreign-correspondent-dies-at-82.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well





2014: “A new production of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opened today at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.”



2014: In the UK, the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host a seminar that “will help students acquire skills to locate archival material on subjects including: the Holocaust, twentieth-century German history and European Jewish culture.”



2014: “This Is Where I Leave You” is scheduled to be shown at the 18^th UK Jewish Film Festival.





2014:Two Jewish seminary students were attacked and wounded in East Jerusalem this evening. The two were reportedly hit with stones, metal rods and nails near the Beit Orot seminary in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, days after Palestinian terrorists opened fire in a Jerusalem synagogue and killed four rabbis and a Druze policeman. (As reported by Noam (Dabul) Dvir)



2014: “My Old Lady” a marvelous comedy set in Paris written and directed by Israel Horovit and co-produced by Rachel Horotvitz was released in the UK today.



2014: “French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve expressed his support for the Jewish community.” “Every time you feel the violence exercised against you, when you are afraid for your children, when you are worried about this rising violence, remind yourselves that the republic protects you and an interior minister who loves you and who is your friend,” Cazeneuve said at an event sponsored by Station J, a Jewish radio channel. (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)



2015: In Fairfax, VA, Congregation Olam Tikvah Men’s Club is scheduled to host Indian-Jewish Night with complete with a Kosher Indian Dinner.



2015: “The Law” and “To Life” are scheduled to be shown in Melbourne at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2015: “Saturday’s Profile” published today under the headline “WW II Hero Credits Luck and Chance in Foiling Hitler’s Nuclear Ambitions” described actions by Joachim Ronnenberg, who is now 96, and his team that “destroyed the Nazi’s only source of heavy water” thereby helping to thwart Hitler’s plan to build an Atomic bomb.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/europe/wwii-hero-credits-luck-and-chance-in-foiling-hitlers-nuclear-ambitions.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news





2015:Jonathan Pollard, who has been imprisoned for 30 years for spying for Israel is scheduled to be released today.



2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert by the piano duo of Tami Kanazaw and Yuval Admoni.



2015(9^th of Kislev, 5776): Parsha Vayetze

2016(20^th of Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-four year old British hairstylist and Holocaust survivor Rose Evansky passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/europe/rose-evansky-blow-drying-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0



2016: “A year-long celebration” of the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in Montreal is scheduled to begin today “with the closing of the 2016 CJA campaign.

2016: “Fever at Dawn” and “One Week and A Day” are scheduled to be shown in Sydney, Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: Koch Industries and others who invested in the Madoff fund from offshore accounts won a key ruling in federal bankruptcy court today, when the judge said certain funds held abroad — estimated at about $2 billion — could not be made available to victims” of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

2016: Following “the closing of the 2016 CJA campaign” “a year-long celebration of the founding of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in 1916? Is scheduled to get underway today in Canada.

2017: Yitzhak Lewis is scheduled to present the first lecture in the series “Introduction to Gerhsom Schloem” at the Center for Jewish History.

2017: “Remember Baghdad” and “The Boy Downstairs” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^stUK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: Dr. Naomi Weinberger is scheduled to continue her lectures on “American Priorities in the Middle East at the Streicker Center.



2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as the award winning Simon Schama who works included secular works on the British, Dutch and French including Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution as well as the Jewish including The Story of the Jews: Volume I and II continues today.

2018:  “A rare sword, which was given as a present by SS commander Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini during his visit to Nazi Germany in March 1943,” is scheduled to continue to be offered for sale for a second day on a British website—The Saleroom— by the German auction house Hermann Historica, which specializes in selling historical items.” (As reported by Itamar Eichner)

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5410604,00.html



2018: Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host a performance of “Lunar Legends: Chelm and the Moon,” a play in which “the people of Chelm try to overcome darkness by chasing after the light of the moon.”

2018: As part of the UK Jewish Film Festival, “Itzhak” starring Itzhak Perlman and Bill Joel, is scheduled to be shown at the Glasgow Film Theatre in Glasgow and “The Accountant of Auschwitz” in Manchester.

2018: As part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center the photographic exhibition “Moroccan Jews Outside Haifa” is scheduled to come an end today.

2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host the opening of the exhibit, “They Shall Be Counted: The Theresienstadt Ghetto Art of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly.”

2019: In Metairie, LA, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to host a Limmud course on the Prophets which is part of “Ego and Leadership: A "929" Crash Course in the Prophets.”

2019: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Love In Suspenders” in Manchester and a screening of “My Polish Honeymoon” in Cambridge.

2019: The Center for Jewish History, the Jewish Book Council, AJHS and Tablet magazine are scheduled to host an evening with authors Stephanie Butnick and Leil Leibovitz as they talk about their latest work, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia.

2019: “Never Is Now, ADL’s Annual Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate” is scheduled to convene today “at the Javits Center in New York.”

2019: In Sausalito, CA, “Robert Darr, a translator of classic Persian and Arabic” is scheduled to present “A Jewish Monument to Peace and Collaboration” which is a “discussion about the history leading up to a golden age of collaboration among Spanish Christians, Jews and Muslims in the 13th and 14th centuries.”

2019: Israelis awaken to a world of new political reality where neither of the two front runners have been able to form a new government.

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1220: Frederick II, who would become the protector of the Jews in Frankfurt in 1236, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor today by Honorius III.

1280: The 3 year reign of Pope Nicholas III whose bull Vineam sorce encouraged conversion through "sermons and other means" came to an end today. (Jewish Virtual Library)

1307: Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. The Templars were a group of Christian Knights who took their name from the fact that their first headquarters was located on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in an area believed to be on the site of the ruins of Solomon’s Temple.

1348: Riots reached the Germanic lands of Bavaria and Swabia.  Eighty towns, including Augsburg, Munich, and Wurzburg were attacked

1547: Asolo, Italy was the scene of one of the few pogroms recorded in Italy. Ten Jews in a town of thirty were killed, and their houses robbed with no apparent motives.

1580: In Poland, the Council of the Four Lands adopted an ordinance that limits the extent of land leasing, known as arenda that is permitted to any individual.  The prevention of competition for arenda was one of the council’s major concerns. 

1617: Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan, passed away.  During his reign, Ahmed contracted small pox. The treatments prescribed by his physicians proved ineffectual. The widow of Solomon Eskenazi, who had served as a court physician was called in and she saved the Sultan.

1688: Birthdate of Nāder Shāh Afshār, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty who reversed the anti-Jewish policies and practices that had been put in place by the Safawid’s dynasty which had ruled during the previous century

1758: In New York, Sarah Nunes Navaro and Aaron Nunez Cardozo gave birth to Abraham Nunez Cardozo.

1761: In Philadelphia, Martha Lampley and Samson Levy gave birth to Arabella Levy.

1776: In New York City, “Figlah Levy” and Joseph Simons gave birth to “Hananel Simons.”

1781: In Philadelphia, Zipporah Levy and Benjamin Mendes Seixas gave birth to Isaac Benjamin Seixas the husband of Rebecca Judah with whom he had eight children.

1789: In Germany, Rosele Katz and Bernard Weil gave birth “Elcha Weil” the wife of Gedalia Hayim Bernheimer and the mother of Jakob and Jette Bernheimer.

1793: Strasbourg prohibited circumcision and the wearing of beards Further It ordered the burning of all books in Hebrew.  Strasbourg is located on the border between Germany and France.  As such it has changed hands numerous times.

1795(10^th of Kislev, 5556): Vrouwtje Frumet David Lintz-Cohen passed away. Born at Amsterdam in 1737, she was the daughter of David Levie Juda-Moshe Lints-Cohen and Bele Simon Samson Levie-Drukker and the widow of Kalman Isaac Shochet

1797: In London, Levy Salomons and Matilda de Metz gave birth to Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet, a leading figure in the 19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom who was the first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London, and one of the first two Jewish people to serve in the British House of Commons.

1798: In Baden, Sara and Michael Herzog gave birth to Minette Herzog, the wife “Lemuel Dinkelspiel with whom she had 18 children.

1800 (5th of Kislev): Forty-eight year old philosopher Solomon ben Joshua Maimon passed away

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13043.html

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10301-maimon-solomon-ben-joshua

1805: Birthdate of Mary Anne Keely, the English actress and manager whose portrait was painted by the Anglo-Jewish artist Walter Goodman who also wrote a book about the family entitled The Keeleys, on the stage and at home

1808: In London Hanna Barent Cohen and Nathan Mayer Rothschild who “had just established the London branch of the banking business of the Rothschilds” to Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild.

1809: Solomon Abraham married Sarah Harris today at the Great Synaogue.

1811(6th of Kislev, 5572): Seventy-three year old Wolf Isak Arnstein, the son of Isak Aron Arnsteiner and Ella Elsa Eleonora Arnsteiner who was the husband of Veronika Fradche Fradel Arnstein and Rifke Arnstein passed away today.

1811: Birthdate of David Woolf Marks, a leading Reform Rabbi in the UK who was the first Rabbi to serve at The West London Synagogue, the country’s first (and oldest) reform congregation.

1813: Today, a codicil was attached to the original will of Benjamin D’Israeli, the grandfather of the Earl Beaconsfield, Great Britain’s first Prime Minister to have been born Jewish.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DEEDC133EE433A25756C2A9619C94609FD7CF

1819: Joseph Friedländer, a dealer in second-hand clothes renewed his application to be allowed to continue to live and do business in Saxony.

1819: Birthdate of Joseph Seligman, the native of Bavaria, who founded Seligman Brothers and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1819: Birthdate of Mary Anne Evans, who, under the pen name of George Elliot wrote Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.

1820: Birthdate of Danish native Moses Abraham Cohn, the son of Abraham Cohm

1826: Birthdate of Italian patriot Enrico Guastalla who fought in the wars that led to the unification of Italy.

1826: Joseph Joseph married Hannah Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.

1830: Birthdate of James Picciotto, the son of Aleppo born Anglo-Jewish businessman and community leader Moses Haim Picciotto, who sat on the Council of Jews and wrote Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History published in 1875.

1833: Two day after she had passed away, 59 year old “Elizabeth (Lazarus) Jacobs, the wife of Elias Jacobs with whom she had had four children, was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1838: Children of Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to Ludwig, the 15^th of their 16 children.

1841: Birthdate of Theresa Wile, the wife of Levi Adler and mother of Isaac Adler the Harvard trained lawyer who served as Mayor of Rochester, NY.

1843: Joseph Belasco married Rachel Tolano at the Bevis Marks Synagogue today.

1843: Samuel Phillips married Rachel Davis today at the Great Synagogue.

1845: In the UK, Charlotte von Rothschild and Lionel de Rothschild gave birth to their third son Leopold de Rothschild who was also the youngest of their five children.

1847: Two days after she had passed away, 68 year old Sarah (Levin) Russell, the wife of Moses Russell, with whom she had had nine children was buried today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1848: Jonas Phillips Levy married Frances (Fanny) Mitchell today.  Born in 1807, he was the younger brother of Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy and the son of Michael Levy and Rachel Phillips. This native of Philadelphia, commanded the U.S.S. America during the Mexican-American War.  He continued his career as a merchant and sea captain until his death in New York in 1883.

1850: In France, David and Gertrude Caroline Kahn gave birth to Lazard Kahn who in 1866 came to the United States where he eventually became President of the Estate Stove Company in Hamilton, OH and who was  “made Chevalier of Legion of Honor by France” while raising a family with ihs wife Coarlie Alice Kahn

1852: The New York Times reported the Baron James Rothschild has just named as a recipient of the Order of the Iron Crown, Second Class. It is ironic that the award which conferred the status of nobility should have been awared at a time when the Jews of Austria are worried about a possible loss of rights.

1852: An article published today entitled “The Austrian Jews” reported that Jews of Austria are worried that they will lose all of the gains they have made since the revolution and will be forced to return to the repressive status under which they lived prior to 1848.  The author contends that the Jews will continue to enjoy most of their newly won rights including that of acquiring real estate and living where they please.  They will once again be banned from holding any state position that “brings them in contact with the public in a judicial capacity.

1854: Two hundred people gathered at the Chinese Assembly Rooms tonight to celebrate the 33^rd anniversary of the Hebrew Benevolent Society in New York City.

1857(5^th of Kislev, 5618): Forty-three year old Austrian published Wolf Pascheles passed away today.

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



1858: Denver, Colorado is founded. Jews have been active in Denver from its very beginning.  Fred Z. Salomon and his brother Hyman led the first large pack train into the settlement that would become Denver.  The two were "fifty-niners" who were later joined in Colorado by their brother Adolph. A native of Strelno, Posen, Prussia, Fred worked at various trading centers in New Mexico Territory before leading a supply train from Independence, MO to Auraria, the village across the river from the soon to be created Denver.  Fred devoted his life to business and cultural ventures in the Mile High City.  He started a brewery which the Rocky Mountain News “noted speedily decreased the local consumption of strychnine whiskey and Taos Lightning.”  In 1860, Fred and Hyman started what would become the Denver Water Company.  Fred “helped organize the Auriaria and Denver Chess Club and literary Society, later the Colorado Pioneer Society the Denver Public Library and the Denver B’Nai Brith Lodge.” In a time when rail travel was critical to commercial success, the elder Salomon helped lead the fight to bring the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads to Denver.  Fred also found time to serve as territorial treasurer.  Such total identification with his adopted hometown stands in stark contrast with the decision of member of the Denver Club - the name of the “chess and literary society head helped found” to bar Jews starting in 1881. Other Jews connected with Denver in its early days were Otto Mears who arrived in Colorado in 1852, and Sam Flax, who after several false starts, meet success in the restaurant and hotel business. [For more information about Denver Jewry see the website of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Pioneer Jews by Harriet and Fred Rochlin.]

1858: The New York Times published a copy of a letter that appeared in this week’s Jewish Messenger addressed to the President of the Hebrew Congregation in the United States and others from Sir Moses Montefiore, the President of the London Committee of Deputies for the Jews. The letter called for 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.”

1858: The New York Times reported that “our Jewish fellow-citizens will shortly hold a mass meeting in one of our large public halls, to denounce the unjustifiable abduction of Mortara’s child by the Roman inquisition. The Israelitish communities of France, Holland and England have already considered the subject, and a meeting of the Jews of Philadelphia has recently been held to take action in the same matter.

1859: In London Julia Messeena and William Flatau gave birth to Jeanette Flatau, the wife of Adolph Tuck and mother of Gladys, Sybil, Desmond and Mariel Tuck

1860(8th of Kislev, 5621): Sixty-seven year old historian Isaak Marcus Jost passed away today.

htt1866:p://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8931-jost-isaac-marcus

1862: First Lieutenant Levi Myers, began serving with Company of the 178^thRegiment.

1863: The “First Hebrew Ladies’ Mutual Benefit Association” whose members included Mrs. Ike Adams was founded today in San Francisco.

1864: Philadelphian Isaac M. Abraham, who had been wounded “near Deep Bottom, VA, and who had risen to the rank of Major in the 85^thRegiment completed his three year enlistment today.



1866: Ernest Abraham an English medical journalist who was the son of a London dentist was appointed as a poorlaw inspector today which provided him with the opportunity to the reform of the treatment of sick poor throughout England” and work for the successful adoption of the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872.

1870: In Reading, PA, “Raphael Austrian and Fannie Elizabeth Dreifoos” gave birth to “self-taught painter” who “began to paint at the age of nine” and whose works include “Temptations, “After the Race” and “The Intruder.”

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ben-austrian/

1870: The Ladies Bikur Cholim Society held their 9^th annual ball tonight at the Apollo Hall.  Due to inclement weather, the event was not well attended.

1874: In Philadelphia, Isaac and Eva (Lowenstein) Bloch gave birth to Louis Bloch, the husband of Jeanette and “director of various building and loan associations who was a member of the board of directors of Congregation Adath Jeshurun.

1875: Vice President Henry Wilson passed away today making Thomas W. Ferry, the President pro tempore of the Senate, next in line if the President of the United States should pass.  Perry, along with President Grant, would attend the services consecrating Adas Israel in Washington, DC in 1876.  This meant that the two top leaders of the United States government attended the consecration of a Jewish house of worship for the first time in the nation’s history.

1875: Pavel Axelrod and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer, one of his former students gave birth to their child, Vera, today.

1877:  Seligman Hirsch, a New York fur dealer was found guilty of receiving stolen goods. He was defended by Albert Jacob Cardozo.  Under the law, Hirsch could have been sentenced to five years in prison but in response to the jury’s recommendation for mercy, the judge sentenced the Jewish businessman to only two years in the state prison.

1878: It was reported today that New York has 375 houses of worship, 25 of which are synagogues of Jewish Temples.

1878: In Frankfort, multi-millionaire Adolphe Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt, who permanently moved to London in 1895 and Alice Emma Moses Merton daughter of Joseph Benjamin Moses aka Moses Merton gave birth to Franck Adolphe Benedict Goldschmidt who gained famed Francis Benedict Hyam Goldsmith, a British MP and “luxury hotel tycoon.”

1879: David McAdam is scheduled to deliver a lecture tonight at the Young Men’s Hebrew Union in Clarendon Hall followed by musical and literary entertainment.

1879: The Young Ladies Charitable Union, an organization made up of 72 Jewish woman chaired by Julia Richman, are scheduled to host a fund raiser at the Opera House on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.  The entertainment will include nine tableaux representing the nine muses and a children’s pantomime followed by an evening of dancing. The money raised will go to supply New York’s poor with shoes.  Last winter the Union provided over 900 pairs of shoes for the needy.

1880: It was reported today that there are 3 and a half million people living in Holland, 100,000 of whom are Jews.  A million are Catholics and the rest are Protestants.



1882: It was reported today that Herr Meyer killed Captain Emerich in a duel fought at Wurzburg.  Meyer had challenged the gentile over a matter of honor.

1884: Sir Moses Montefiore has had another attack of the bronchial affection just after the celebration of his one hundredth birthday, and is now confined to his bed at his home near Ramsgate.

1885: The San Francisco Call reported today that the late Senator William Sharon had bequeathed $5,000 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco.

1885: It was reported today that the annual Charity Ball sponsored by the Purim Association will be held in February of 1886.

1885: It was reported today that Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler will officiate at Temple Beth-El’s Thanksgiving Services in New York City.

1886(24^th of Cheshvan, 5647): Samuel Isaac, the brother of Saul Isaac, the first Jew to be elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party whose varied business activities included establishing “a large business as an army contractor” and the construction of the Mersey Railway Tunnel, passed away today.

1886: Birthdate of Los Angeles native Mendel B. Silberberg, the powerful entertainment industry attorney and fund raiser who “was a pallbearer at Louis B. Mayer’s funeral and a delegate to the Republican Presidential Conventions” from 1948 through 1960.

https://www.jta.org/1965/07/01/archive/mendel-b-silberberg-noted-jewish-leader-dies-in-los-angeles-was-78

1886: Based on information that first appeared in the London Times, it was reported today that Levy Isaacs, an old German Jewish peddler who dealt in sponges and jewelry died as a result of house fire at his home on Ashburner Street, Bolton.

1886: Following the recent Massachusetts State Supreme Court decision requiring the enforcement of the state’s Sunday closing laws, it was reported that the police have been making a list of the peddlers who were buying supplies at the Jewish businesses on Salem Street yesterday, Sunday.  Up until now, the police have not enforced the law where Jewish businessmen are concerned because the Jews closed their businesses on Saturday in observance of their Sabbath.

1887: Today, Mark Percy Da Maduro Peixotto, the Cleveland born son of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto and Hannah Straus and director general of the Equitable Life Assurance Company “married Katherine de Sadowska, daughter of General de Sadowska, on 22 Nov 1887 at his parents' home in New York City.”

1888: Rabbi Alexander Kohut will officiate at the funeral services for Simon Lederer who will be interred in Cypress Hills.

1889: In Denver, Rabbi Joseph Zeisler and Irma Zeisler gave birth to Paul Zeisler.

1889(28th of Cheshvan, 5650): Seventy-two year old Levi Ali Cohen the Dutch physician and author who was also “a member of the committee on Jewish affairs in Holland” for twenty years.

1890:Mrs. Philip J. Joachimsen, presented “a report of the past year’s work done by” the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of which she is the President.  During the past year, home run by the society has admitted 153 children, discharged 179 children and is currently caring for 566 children.

1890: Birthdate of Baltimore native Edwin Posner “who began a 61-year Wall Street career as a $5-a-week runner and rose to the chairmanship of the American Stock Exchange.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D04E6DA133BE73ABC4E53DFB6678382679EDE

1891: Birthdate of German born historian Victor Ehrenberg whose illustrious family includes his sons Sir Geoffrey Elton, the British historian and physicist Lewis Elton.

1892: It was reported today that until the Hungarian parliament passes the bills for the state recognition of the Jewish religion “special regulations to enforce the registration of children of mixed marriages would be made.”

1893: Birthdate of Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich one of the original Bolshevik’s who survived all of the purges and would actually live longer than the Soviet Union existed.

1894: In Richmond, today, for the second Thanksgiving in a row, Christians and Jews prayed together at Beth Ahabah as Dr. Moses D. Hoge of the Second Presbyterian Church shared the pulpit with Rabbi Calisch and Rabbi Koplowitz “of Keneseth Israel Congregation offered a prayer.”

1894: Dr. Kerr of the First Presbyterian Church delivered the sermon and assisted in the conduct of religious services at Beth Ahabah Synagogue, in what was the first time that Jews and Christians worshipped together in the Virginia City.

1895: Samuel Greenbaum, a prominent New York lawyer was reported to have expressed the view that the Jews of New York would “take no notice” of the Dr. Hermann Ahlward the German anti-Semite who is scheduled to deliver a series of lectures in the United States. Echoing the sentiment of most other Jews, Greenbaum said  “the Jewish people do not have anything to fear from…this disciple of German anti-Semitism” because “the American people are not like to be influenced by the wild and unfounded accusations which in the stock in trade of anti-Semites.”

1896: Michaelis Machol, the Rabbi of the Sparrow Avenue Temple, plans on delivering a talk today expressing his opposition to the Thanksgiving message issued by President Cleveland that invokes the image of Jesus “as a mediator between man and God.” This would not be his last entrance into the Separation of Church and State fray. In 1901, Machol joined other rabbis and lay leaders in “protesting the decision of the board of the Cleveland Public Schools to begin each school day with the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the 23rd Psalm.”

1896: “President Cleveland Criticized” published today provided expression of rabbinic displeasure over Grover Cleveland’s Christologically laced Thanksgiving proclamation including Cincinnati Rabbi David Phillipson’s state that the Jews “feel excluded from the invitation to observe the day.”  (Full disclosure – some of his indignation might have been politically motivated since Phillipson was a Republican and Cleveland was a Democrat.)

1896: The Hebrew Institute will be the site of the Harmony Musical Society’s concert this evening.

1896:”Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, the rabbi at Temple Sinai, “predicts the downfall of the Jewish Sabbath. He declares that the seventh day tradition of the race is doomed, wiped from the Hebraic calendar swallowed up in the necessity of adapting the religion to the customs of the countries in it may be transplanted. (Just as the Jew has kept the Sabbath, so has the Sabbath kept the Jew – from the Saturday morning service.)

1897: In a speech delivered today, Reverend Samuel Frender, a convert to Christianity told a meeting of Methodist clergyman that “the average Jew believed that Christians had a prejudice against them.”

1897: Charles Schapiro…the young Russian Jew who shot and killed Louis Lieberman at a wedding at 123 Henry Street” and tried to kill his sweetheart Yetta Gordon was arraigned in the Essex Market Court” today.

1897: In London, the House Committee of the Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum is scheduled to meet this afternoon.

1897: Four days after she had passed away, 41 year old Sarah Franks, the wife of Abraham Franks was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery.

1897: In London, the Board of Management of the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables is scheduled to meet this evening

1897: In a move that might surprise some advocates of the separation of church and state, a summary of Rabbi Gustave Gottheil published included his expression of displeasure over Tammany Hall’s victory “in the recent election” saying that “he had wished the election had gone the other way.”

1899: In Paris, the Senate sitting as a High Court for the trial of the conspiracy, which has already heard testimony from the President of the League of Anti-Semitic that the demonstrations he arranged were anti-Dreyfus protests and not a plot to overthrow the Republic, resumed its deliberations today. The Senate was investigating charges of treason that included many leaders of the anti-Semitic movement in France who were also anti-democratic rightists.

1902:  Birthdate of Emanuel Feuermann.  Born in Galicia, this world class cellist found fame playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  He died unexpectedly in 1942 as the result of an infection contracted during a minor surgical procedure.

1903: “The Sons and Daughters of Zion of Sioux City, IA held a grand ball and mass meeting” today “in honor of the grand master of the Order of the Knights of Zion, Mr. Leon Zolotkoff of Chicago who spoke for two hours.”

1903: Sigismund Kalischer and Helen Teresa Kalischer gave birth to Iowa State University trained refrigeration engineer and Westinghouse employee Milton Kalischer whose place of birth has been given as either Denver, CO or Huntington, Massachusetts.

1903: Birthdate of Warsaw native Joshua Gelbfarb-Gilad, the Yiddish and Hebrew author who served on the faculty of the Ramaz School.

1904: Birthdate of Ukraine native Isaiah Rabinovich, the graduate of the University Toronto and JTS who taught modern Hebrew at the college level while writing for a number of Yiddish publications.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/05/shaye-rabinovits-isaiah-rabinovich.html

1905: In Russia, it was a reported today that a cabinet minister explained the attacks on the Jews by saying that “the prejudice against the Jews among the ignorant lower classes of Russia is not imaginary.  It is deplorable but true that the people under the old regime were saturated with the idea that the Jews were their oppressors.  If the Jews were to receive equal rights with Russians, the latter would accept it as confirmation of the suspicions they already harbor on account of recent developments that the Emperor has been betrayed and nothing the Central Government could do would prevent the most frightful massacres.”

1905: Three days after he had passed away, 67 year old Levi Cohen, the husband of the former “Bloom Woolf” with whom he had had four children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1905: It was reported today that Prince Ursoff, the new Assistant Minister of the Interior said “that the Jews were to a certain extent to blame” for the anti-Semitic violence “on account of their too open exultation over their new-found liberties.”

1905: Dr. J.L. Magnes, the President of the Jewish Defense Association and Treasurer Joseph Barondess have issued another appeal for funds which agents of the Bund and the Zionists will use to purchase arms and ammunition to be used by the Jews of Russia to defend themselves from the attacks of mobs from which the government has failed to protect them.

1905: Edward A. Lauterbach presided over a mass meeting tonight at Temple Israel sponsored by “a committee of university men” seeking to provide aid for the Russian Jews.

1905: Max Stern who lives at 286 Hunterdon Street in Newark, NJ, received a letter today from Benjamin Rappaport of Nicolaiev, Russia describing the recent riots that took place in that city where the “mob broke open the doors of the stores, smashed the windows and scattered the good” while taking “babies and children” and throwing “them as high in the air as they could and letting them come down on the paving stones to be crushed to death.”

1905: Hundreds of Russian Jewish families are reported leaving or preparing to leave for Palestine.

1908: In Bessarabia, “pharmacist David Ackerman and Bertha (Greenberg) Ackerman Columbia trained psychiatrist Nathan Ward Ackerman, who served as the “chief psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic” as well as serving in the capacity for “the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City”

http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/7/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman.html

https://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman/e/B001K8FF8I

1909: Birthdate of Mikhail Leontyevich Mil a founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, which is responsible for many of the well-known Russian helicopter models, notably the Mil Mi-24 'Hind'. He passed away in 1970.

1909(9^th of Kislev, 5670): Six year old Itzig Rabinowitz passed away today.

1909: Speaking in Yiddish, twenty-three-year-old Clara Lemlich addressed a crowd of thousands of restless laborers at New York City's Cooper Union. “I am one of those who suffer from the abuses described here, and I move that we go on a general strike.”  The audience of workers had been listening for hours as numerous labor leaders decried current working conditions in New York's garment industry but who nonetheless advocated caution when considering a strike. Lemlich's words and passion stirred the crowd. The chairman of the event came to her side and called out “Will you take the old Hebrew oath?” Although not an exclusively Jewish gathering, most in the crowd raised their right arms and pledged with him in Yiddish: “if I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may my hand wither from the arm I now raise.” And so began the “Uprising of the 20,000,” a critical turning point in American labor activism. In the months that followed, thousands of garment workers, mainly young Jewish and Italian women walked picket lines and confronted police brutality. The Jewish women, including Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, and Pauline Newman, who worked tirelessly to organize and sustain the strike effort, insisted that their concerns extended beyond wages and hours. They fought for dignity in working conditions and for women's right to union recognition. While the strike was only partially successful, it set off a wave of general strikes from 1909-1915 in cities across the United States. As a result, U.S. labor leaders who had long dismissed the needs of women workers and ignored the work of female activists had to accept the centrality of women's needs within the American labor movement.

1910: Birthdate of Ervin György Patai, who as Raphael Patai would gain fame as an ethnographer and anthropologist.

1912(12^th of Kislev, 5673): Civil War veteran Alfred Pels passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1912(12^th of Kislev, 5673): Eighty-nine year old merchant Zachary Bruenn passed away today in New Orleans, LA.

1912(12th of Kislev, 5673): Civil War veteran Morris Pfaelzer passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1913(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5674): Parashat Chayei Sara

1913(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5674: Eighteen year old Moshe Barsky, “a member of Degania Alef, the kibbutz founded in 1909” who had ridden off on a mule to get medication for Shmuel Dayan, the father of Moshe Dayan was killed today by “persons unknown” who left his body “lying with a stick and a pair of shoes on his head.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Moshe_Barsky#/media/File:Moshe_Barsky_memorial_in_Kibbutz_Degania.JPG

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537120500535373?journalCode=fisa20

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Killing_of_Moshe_Barsky

1913: “Our Financial Oligarchy” by Louis Brandies which would become the first chapter in Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It was published today in Harper’s Weekly.

1914: A review of Zionism by Professor Richard H. Gottheil was published today.

1914: :Stamp Tax for Jewish Relief” published today described positive response to “the one self-taxation stamp issued by the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews” that has included the formation by the Young Men’s Hebrew Associations of “Enlistment Clubs” where each members has pledged to contribute 10 cents a week.

1914: According to an announcement made tonight by the American Jewish Committee “the Turkish Government has assured the State Department…that is will not expel Russian Jews residing in the Ottoman Empire. (The important impact of this was on the Jews of Palestine, a large number of whom had come from Russia starting in the 1880’s and were viewed as potential enemies by the Turks who were fighting the Czar)

1914: For the second time in two weeks, Al McCoy the New Jersey born Jewish Middleweight World Champion successfully defended his crown.

1914: As the First Battle of Ypres sputtered to a close on the Western Front, Jews in the BEF and the Kaiser’s Army settled in for what would be the first of several long winters on the Western Front that would not end until November, 1918,

1914: “At a conference of the lodges affiliated with the Workmen’s Circle and other Rumanian organizations representing 5,000 members” held today, “it was decided to protest against the loan that a delegation from Rumania will be requesting from the United States.

1915: A memorial service will be held this morning and this evening in honor of Dr. Solomon Schechter.

1915: Maurice Blumenthal, the general counsel of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel was reported to have said that his organization would lead a nationwide non-sectarian campaign against the Gary Plan saying that “the separation of religion from American institutions is regarded as one of the safeguards of American progress” and that “the church and the home must remain the place for religious instruction and activity” while “the public schoolroom must be the last place in which discussions on religious distinctions shall be made possible or tolerated.

1915: In Germany Dr. Israel Abraham Rabin and Dr. Ester Else Rabin gave birth to Professor Chaim Menachem Rabin

https://memim.com/chaim-menachem-rabin.html

1915: “Jews Oppose Gary Plan” published today described the Sons of Israel’s plans for a national campaign to bring an end to the education program fostered by William Wirt.

1915: “The seventh annual meeting of the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue was held” this evening “in the basement of the Synagogue of Shearith Israel at 2 West Seventieth Street.

1915: “A movement to raise millions of dollars for the relief of Jewish war sufferers in Europe was inaugurated” tonight “at a meeting of Jewish business and professional men in the Hotel McAlpin attended by among others, Jacob H. Schiff, Congressman Meyer London, Herman Bernstein and Colonel Harry Cutler of Provident presided over by Dr. J.L. Manges.

1916: In New York plans were reported for memorial services to be held this Saturday in numerous synagogues on the east side to mark the passing of Emperor Franz Josef.

1917(7^th of Kislev, 5678): Seventy-seven year old chief rabbi and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor Joseph Lehmann passed away today in Paris.

1917: As Allenby’s forces, including the 38^th and 39^thBattalions known as the Jewish battalions, made their way towards Jerusalem, Turkish forces made three fruitless counter-attacks in an attempt to dislodge the British from Nebi Samwil.

1917: Woodrow Wilson became the first president to publicly endorse a national Jewish philanthropic campaign when he sent a letter to Jacob Schiff, today calling for wide support of the United Jewish Relief Campaign, which was raising funds for European War relief.

1917: Birthdate of St. Louis native and Bronze Star WW II Army Veteran, Melvin Kranzberg, the Harvard trained founder of the “Society for the History of Technology” who was a history professor at Case Western Reserve and Georgia Tech.

http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0266.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/09/us/melvin-kranzberg-78-historian-of-technology.html

http://www.vqronline.org/essay/technology-history-and-culture-appreciation-melvin-kranzberg

1917: Felix M. Warburg, President of the Federation of Jewish Charities, issued an appeal today for the eighty-four societies for which the federation had raised $2,300,000 during the past year to carry on with their work despite the increasing challenges being faced by the Jewish community.

1918: In Prague, “the Jewish National council for the Czecho-Slovak State” sent a “telegram to the International Zionist Organization” thanking “the British Government for its declaration on Palestine.”

1918: As Poles and Ukrainians clash in the anarchy that followed the breakup of the Russian Empire Polish forces began a two day attack on the Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov).

1920: “The Parents’ Association of the Free Synagogue of the Bronx” is scheduled to “give a theater party for its members and friends” today.

1921:  Birthdate of comedian and comedic actor Rodney Dangerfield.  Dangerfield passed away in 2004.  His ill-fitting black suits and shirts with the too-tight collar were as much a part of his comedic signature as was the lament, “I don’t get no respect.”

1922: Grigori Sokolnikov began serving as People’s Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR.

1923: In Edmonton, Alberta, Rose (Garfin) and Harry Hiller gave birth to movie director Arthur Hiller whose best known movie was the saccharine film of the 70’s – Love Story for which he can be forgiven because he also direct Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Americanization of Emily.”

1923: Birthdate of Hanna Meierzak, the German child actress who made Aliyah in 1933 where she gained fame as actress Hanna Maron.

1923: At the Commonwealth Sporting Club, Charlie Phil Rosenberg, born Charles Green on the Lower East Side won a twelve round decision on points as he advanced toward becoming the World Bantamweight Champion.

1924: Birthdate of Alfred G. Paulson, the husband of Jacqueline Boklan and the father hedge fund manager John Alfred Paulson

1926: Featherweight Harry Blitman fought and won his seventh straight bout.

1926: “Pals in Paradise” a silent film starring Rudolph Schildkraut “as Abraham Lezinsky” was released in the United States today.

1927: George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in New York City.

1927: “The Racket” a three-act drama co-starring Edward G. Robinson playing the first of the gangster roles which would he would make famous in numerous films, opened on Broadway the Ambassador Theatre.

1928: “A dispatch to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from Bucharest” today “said that the Zionist groups of Transylvania and Bukovina had made a political alliance with the National Peasant Party assuring six parliamentary seats to the Zionists.”

1929: Birthdate of Polish native Ben Helfgott, a survivor of Buchenwald and Theresienstadt who went to compete as a weightlifter in the Olympics for the United Kingdom and who was knighted in 2018.

1930(2^nd of Kislev, 5691): Parashat Toldot

1930: The Northwestern Wildcats with Hy Crizevksy playing guard lost their last game of the season when they were defeated by Notre Dame.

1930: Michigan State University, led by running back Abe Eliowitz, finished the season with a tie against Detroit Mercy which meant their record for the year was 5-1-2.

1931: In article entitled “Palestine Goes to the Theatre”, Jean Jaffe reports approvingly on the wide scope of theatrical productions offered by the Jewish community including productions of Shaw’s “Devil’s Desciple” which was produced under the Hebrew names “Bechor Hasatan”, Upton Sinclair’s “The Pot Boiler” and Zweig’s “Jeremiah.”

1932: It was reported today, that “Professor Gustav Klausner of St. Louis University” has been elected president of the newly created organization designed to consolidate “all work for the building of the Jewish national home in Palestine that will impact seven national Jewish organizations.

1933: In Paris, Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, a French Catholic aristocrat and Phillipe de Rothschild, who were not married to each other yet gave birth to Baroness Philippine Mathilde Camille de Rothschild.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/philippine-de-rothschild-wine-nobility-dies-at-80.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11056866/Baroness-Philippine-de-Rothschild-obituary.html

1933: Incorporation of the Anti-Nazi League

1933: Birthdate of Dr. David Reuben author of the ground-breaking Everything You Always Wanted To About Sex (but were afraid to ask).

1934: "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" was first heard on Eddie Cantor's radio program.  And you thought that “White Christmas” was the only Christmas song with a Jewish connection. 

1934: In an effort to curb “excessive rentals,” Tel Aviv’s Municipal Council vote to impose “regulations for the fixing of a maximum rate of rent for all business and residential property.”

1935: “Crime and Punishment,” a film based on the novel of the same name directed by Josef von Sternberg, produced by B.P. Schulberg and starring Peter Lorre was released in the United States.

1935: Following his unexpected demise yesterday, today “Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch was praised by civic leaders and officials as a public servant who had made himself a martyr to duty, a conscientious citizen and as a leader of the Jewish effort in New York.”

1935: “The Perfect Gentleman” produced by Harry Rapf was released today in the United States.

1936: Emir Abduallah fails in his attempt to convince Palestinian Arabs to give testimony before the Peel Commission.

1936: Birthdate of Fred Wilpon the Bensonhurst native who made his fortune in real estate before he purchased the New York Mets.

1936: Birthdate of Dr. Albert Bernard Ackerman.  A native of Elizabeth, NJ who graduated from Princeton and Columbia Medical School, Ackerman was a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology who trained a generation of doctors to recognize skin diseases under the microscope

1937: The Palestine Post reported that in Beirut four persons lost their lives and more than 60 were wounded in demonstrations protesting the closing down by French authorities of several Lebanese political organizations. Over 300 arrests were made. Palestine was not the only scene of unrest in the Middle East prior to World War II.

1937(18^th of Kislev, 5698):

1937: Mathematician Fritz Noether was arrested on charges of being a German spy who not only spied on the Russian armament industry but committed acts of sabotage against it

1937:  The Palestine Post reported that in Vienna the local Jewish community conducted a winter relief appeal for funds to feed some 1,800 needy residents daily.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that 2,000 delegates attended the Palestine Conference in Warsaw. They were addressed by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.  Ben-Zvi would gain fame as the second President of Israel.

1938: Beersheba, after having been in the hands of Arab rebels since it was abandoned by the government civil authorities six weeks ago, was occupied by British troops today. All towns in Palestine that the Arab rebels had seized are now controlled by the British military although Arab terrorists are still active.

1938: “Robert Ley, the Nazi Minister of Labour declared the today in Vienna: "No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope's statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites." Catholic leaders, including Cardinal Schuster of Milan, Cardinal van Roey in Belgium and Cardinal Verdier in Paris, backed the Pope's strong condemnation of Kristallnacht.”

1939: While on the witness stand in General Sessions Court today, Fritz Kuhn, the German-American Bund leader admitted “he had lied to Mrs. Florence Camp…and had lied again to the jury hearing evidence of larceny charges against him

1939: The Balfour Players are scheduled to perform “Trial,” “a play concerning the Jews, Arabs and English in Palestine by Miss Shoshanah Bat Dori at the Heckschler Theatre on Fifth Avenue.

1939(10th of Kislev, 5700): Moissaye Joseph Olgin, a Russian-born writer, journalist, and translator in the early 20th century passed away. He found the Morgen Freiheit, a New York City Yiddish Newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party, among whose stated aims was the promotion of the Jewish labor movement and the defeat of racism in the United States.

1939(10^th of Kislev, 5700): Seventy-five year old Louis Pokroisky, a native of Lithuania  the president of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Roxbury and managing director of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of Boston who had been married to Deborah H. Brody for 54 years passed away today in Boston

1939: Supreme Court Justice Julius Miller said today that “payment to the German government of $3,700 from the $60,000 estate of Mrs. Lucy A. Peck will be authorized if proof is submitted that such a payment will result in the release of Mrs. Peck’s brother,” 71 year old Rudolf A. Strauss, a Jew currently being held in a German prison.

1939: In Newark, NJ, Alice (née Lavroff) and Philip Goorwitz gave birth to Allen Goorwitz who gained fame as actor Allen Garfield

http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Allen-Garfield.html

1939: “Harry A. Jung, honorary general manager of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation…made public today letters to Representative Martin Dies,” chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee denying “that he or the federation had any connection with Nazi organizations.”

1939(10th of Kislev, 5700): In Warsaw, Poland a Jew killed an officer.  As punishment for the crime, all 53 male inhabitants of his building were summarily shot.

1940: “Little Nellie Kelly” a musical comedy directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Arthur Freed was released in the United States by MGM.

1940: Prime Minister Winston Churchill writes to Lord Lloyd, the Secretary of State for the Colonies who is an opponent of Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel, cautioning him to make that Jewish internees on island of Mauritius be treated humanely.

1941(2nd of Kislev, 5702): Kurt Koffka passed away. Koffka was born and educated in Germany. The famed psychologist moved to America in 1928.  With Wolfgang Köhler and Max Wertheimer, he co-founded the Gestalt school of psychology. Koffka became in time the most influential spokesman of Gestalt psychology. He applied it to child development, learning, memory and emotion. The name Gestalt, meaning form or configuration, emphasizes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Gestalt psychology grew as reaction against the traditional atomistic approach to the human being where behavior was analyzed into constituent elements called sensations. He made an influential distinction between the behavioral and the geographical environments - the perceived world of common sense and the world studied by scientists. 

1942: During WW II, “a Soviet counteroffensive” trapped “about a quarter of a million German soldiers” within Stalingrad marking the slow beginning of the turning point that will lead to the ultimate defeat of the Nazis and the saving of the remnant of European Jewry.

1942 (13th of Kislev, 5703): “Dr. Benzion Mossinsohn, noted Hebrew educator, Zionist leader and a member of the Jewish National Council died…today in the Hadassah Hospital at the age of 64, after a long illness.  He was the found and head of the Herzlia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, the leading secondary school in Palestine.”  Dr. Mossinsohn visited New York for the first time in 1912 as a representative of the Gymnasium of Jaffa “the first strictly Jewish school to be established in Palestine in 2,000 years.”  During the visit, Mossinsohn addressed a gathering at Cooper Union during when he declared “Palestine is the land in which to solve the Jewish problem.  It will be the land of our salvation if we make it a center of culture and not merely a center for immigration.”  Mossinsohn visited the United States again in 1936, the same year in which his son was killed by a land mine explosion that took place during the multi-year long Arab uprising.  By now he was President of the World Confederaton of General Zionists and head of the Herzlia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv.

1943: Lebanon gains its independence from France

1943: Birthdate of former MK Naomi Blumenthal who “was one of the founders of the Beersheba theatre” and who served as Deputy Minister of National Infrastructure under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

1943: More than 1000 Jewish patients at a Berlin mental hospital are deported to Auschwitz.

1943(24th of Cheshvan, 5704): Professor Martin Pappenheim, the Viennese psychiatrists passed away today in Tel Aviv at the age of 62. He was the father of Else Pappenheim, MD Austrian-American psychiatrist and neurologist and a colleague of Sigmund Freud.

1943(24th of Cheshvan, 5704): Lyricist Lorenz Hart passed away New York at age 48.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-13/features/8703010662_1_lorenz-hart-dorothy-hart-beverly-hills-hotel

1944: The U.S. Sixth Army Group notified the Alsos Mission that the capture of Strasbourg which was home to a German nuclear laboratory was imminent.

1944(6^th of Kislev, 5705): Fifty-eight year old “Dr. Benjamin H. Mann, an ophthalmologist at Methodist Hospital” passed away today at Graduate Hospital “after being ill for six weeks.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/24/86735530.pdf

1944: Birthdate of Yitzchak Mordechai, a native of Iraq who made Aliyah in 1949.  He became a decorated member of the IDF before beginning a political career that included service as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport.

1944: Protectors of Jews in Budapest, Hungary, meet with Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg at the city's Swedish legation

1945: In Brooklyn, Morty and Sylvia Okun Bernstein gave birth to Allen J. Bernstein who greatly expanded the high-end Morton’s of Chicago steakhouse chain during his 17 years as chairman, applying what some in the industry called a Big Mac approach to filet mignon. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1945: “The Day Before Spring,” a Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical opened on Broadway at the National Theatre.

1945: The British claim that members of “Jewish underground” took arms from the RAF stationed in Ras el Ain, Syria.

1946: Five days after its premiere in New York City “The Chase” a film noir written by Philip Yordan was released in the rest of the United States today.

1946: Birthdate of Denver born political cartoonist Ed Stein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDuNT9TgRgE

https://edsteinink.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/why-denvers-ed-stein-is-quitting-the-political-cartoon-business-the-passion-was-gone/2012/06/12/gJQAVgD4WV_blog.html?utm_term=.9cfe793b4cde

1947: “A responsible information asserted tonight” that Soviet “officials have been in direct contact with the Stern group” and that he considered it “an obvious Communist” attempt to influence the group.

1947 Michigan, led by Fullback and Linebacker Dan Dworsky concluded the regular season with a 21-0 win at home against rival Ohio State.

1948: Operation Lot (also known as operation Dabambam in memory of Gershon Dabbenbaum) did not begin today because reinforcements had not arrived which meant the attack would not take place until the following day.

1949: The Petersberg Agreement is an international treaty that extended the rights of the Federal Government of Germany vis-a-vis the occupying forces of Britain, France, and the United States, and which was viewed as the first major step of Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) towards sovereignty was signed by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the CDU/CSU and the Allied High Commissioners Brian Hubert Robertson (Britain), André François-Poncet (France), and John J. McCloy (United States of America) today in a step meant to return Germany to the family of nations following WW II.

1949: Birthdate of David J. Skorton, who had served as President of the University of Iowa before becoming the 12^th president of Cornell University in 2006.

1952(4^th of Kislev, 5713): Parashat Tolodot

1952(4^th of Kislev, 5713): Forty two year old Louis Edwin Finerman the New York born son of  Ida Joffe Finerman and Nathan Feinerman, the President of the Workmen’s Circle passed away today

1954: “Aunt Clara” a British comedy with music by Benjamin Frankel was released in the United Kingdom today.

1955(7th of Kislev, 5716): Sixty year old  Shemp Howard, a member of the Three Stooges,  died of a heart attack following an evening out with friends watching boxing matches.

1955(7^th of Kislev, 5716): Eighty-three year old Isadore “Izzy” Cohen, who along with Samuel Lehrman created the Giant Food grocery chain which a major Washington, DC chain that was the first story of its type to carry challah and where the men in the fish market knew what you need to make gefitle fish, passed away today.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-11-24/news/1995328013_1_israel-cohen-giant-supermarket

1955(7^th of Kislev, 5716): Eighty-six year old Wilmington, Illinois native “Dr. Isaac A. Abt, an international authority on children’s diseases” and a pioneer in the field of pediatrics passed away today in Chicago.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/11/24/91379058.pdf

1955: Today, two year after the death of Joseph Stalin, a “Military collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union withdrew the indictments against the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) members due to the lack of evidence.”

1956: "A new Egyptian Nationality Code barred so called 'Zionists' from Egyptian nationality.

1956: The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, which were boycotted by Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon “in response to the Suez Crisis” that had been precipitated by the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal, opened in Melbourne today.

1957: “Bombers B-52” a “Cold War” movie written by Irving Wallace and music by Leonard Rosenman was released today in the United States.”

1957: Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry" 

1961: “The George Raft” story, a biopic starring Julie London and featuring Hershel Bernardi and Jack Albertson was released today in the United States.

1963: Filming of the pilot for “Bewitched” created by Sol Saks began today.

1963: John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President was shot dead in Dallas, Texas – a national tragedy which Abraham Zapruder inadvertently filmed.  Kennedy enjoyed a great of deal of political support among Jewish voters.  He appointed two Jews to his cabinet – Abe Ribicoff to H.E.W. and Arthur Goldberg to Labor. Kennedy would appoint Goldberg to the Supreme Court as a replacement for Felix Frankfurter.

1963: In Austin, TX, “the women of Audas Achim…were working in their new kosher kitchen, mixing potato salad for the several hundred people including Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who were expected to attend the dedication of the new synagogue which was to take place tomorrow. (As reported by Cathy Schechter; full disclosure – I taught pre-bar mitzvah at Agudas Achim five years later)



1964(17^th of Kislev, 5725): Seventy-two year old Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, the long-time rabbi at B’nai Jehuda Temple and opponent of corrupt political boss Tom Pendergast passed away today in Kansas City, MO.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/23/archives/rabbis-s-mayerberg.html

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-American-Crusader-Samuel-Mayerberg/dp/1406758817

1965: Man of La Mancha” a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman and music by Mitch Leigh opens” at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre in Greenwich Village Irving Jacobson, a veteran of the Yiddish Theatre playing “Sancho Panza” (Only in America could a Jew play a major role in play set in what would become the Land of the Inquisition)

1965: Steve Sabol “was the subject of a humorous articled his self-promotion exploits in today’s issue of Sports Illustrated.

1967: Birthdate of tennis star Boris Becker. According to an interview Becker gave in 1999, his mother was Jewess from Czechoslovakia. 

1967: English professional football player George Cohen”s “37th and final England appearance came in a 2–0 win over Northern Ireland at Wembley” today

1967: The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242 as a result of the Six Day War fought in June of that year.  The resolution would provide the basis for Israel’s attempts to trade land for peace.

1967: U.N. Secretary General Thant raises issue of restrictions placed on Syrian Jews at the U.N. Security Council during Resolution 242 on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Intervention on behalf of the Jews fails.

1968(1^st of Kislev, 5729): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1968(1^st of Kislev, 5729): Twelve people were killed and 55 more were injured when terrorists set off a car bomb at the Mahaneh Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.

1968: First interracial kiss on network television takes place between Captain Kirk played by William Shattner, and Lt. Uhura. (Shatner is Jewish.)

1969(12^th of Kislev, 5730): Parashat Vayetzei

1969(12th of Kislev, 5730): Bertha Solomon passed away today at the age of 77. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solomon-bertha

1971: Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971), an Equal Protection case in the United States for which Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the plaintiff’s brief was decided today with the Supreme Court ruling “that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.”

1974: The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. For the PLO, this was a reward for a variety of terrorist acts including the slaughter at the Munich Olympics.  What the UN members failed to understand was that others would see this as an approval of terrorism as an instrument for the advancement of their own agendas.  There is a direct line between the UN’s action and the radical Islamic terrorists that are confronting the West in the 21^st century

1974: “Israeli pop start” Mike Brant suffered fractures after attempting to commit suicide by “jumping out the window of his manager's hotel room in Geneva

1976: Today Izvestia published an article entitled “Formula of betrayal: propagandist ‘of the Zionist paradise’ in the mantle of the scientist”.

1977: Lucio Flaviom a Brazilian film directed by Héctor Babenco premiered at The São Paulo International Film Festival today

1978: “Same Time, Next Year,” a comedy produced by Walter Mirish and with music by Marvin Hamlisch was released today.

1978(22nd of Cheshvan, 5739): San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was Jewish, were assassinated in City Hall by a former city supervisor, Dan White. Dianne Feinstein, who was then the President of the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, was the first to discover Harvey Milk's body. Feinstein who was the first female president of the Board of Supervisors was then sworn in as the first female mayor of San Francisco in Moscone's stead. In 1979, she was elected to the first of two full terms as mayor. In 1992, she won a special Senate election to replace Pete Wilson who had left his seat to become governor of California. She was re-elected in 1994 and 2000.

1979(2^nd of Kislev, 5740): Eighty-eight year old George Froeschel, the Viennese born Jewish screenwriter who won an Oscar for the script he wrote for WWII favorite “Mrs. Miniver.”

http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_froeschel

1981: Sir Hans Adolf Krebs passed away. The son of a Jewish physician, Krebs was forced in 1933 to leave Nazi Germany for England. The German-born British biochemist who received (with Fritz Lipmann) the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in living organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle (also called the citric acid cycle, or Krebs cycle) - the basic system for the essential pathway of oxidation process within the cell.. These reactions involve the conversion - in the presence of oxygen--of substances that are formed by the breakdown of sugars, fats, and protein components to carbon dioxide, water, and energy-rich compounds. The Krebs cycle explains two simultaneous processes: the degradation reactions which yield energy, and the building-up processes which use up energy

1984: In New York, Karsten Johansson and Melanie Sloan whose Ahskenazi family had lived in the Bronx gave birth to actress Scarlett Johansson.

1985: “Fever Pitch” that last film directed by Richard Brooks, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Hyman and Esther Sax was released today in the United States.

1985: “Bad Medicine,” the cinema version the novel Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD starring Steve Guttenberg and Alan Arkin was released in the United States today.

1985: According to the Tower Report Al Schwimmer, a middleman and consultant for Israel's Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, fouled up one arms shipment today when he allowed the lease to expire on three transport planes in Tel Aviv. At the time, weapons for Iran were en route to Tel Aviv: when they arrived, there were no planes to take them to Iran. As a result, the arms delivery to Iran was days late, and no hostages were released. Mr. Schwimmer had been trying to save what amounted to a day's leasing cost. ''I have never seen anything so screwed up in my life,'' General Secord is reported to have said.

1988: William Andreas Brown was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel

1988: ABC broadcast the sixth episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”

1989: The Mirage, Steve Wynn’s “first major casino on the Las Vegas Strip” opened today.

1990:  Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  Thatcher was seen by many as philo-Semitic and a supporter of Israel. She had been a member of Anglo-Israel Friendship League of Finchley and Conservative Friends of Israel and during her career had five Jewish members of her cabinet.

1991: Mark Rydell’s “For the Boys” co-starring Bette Midler, James Caan and George Segal was released today in the United States.

1991: “Beauty and the Beast, an “animated musical romantic fantasy film” with music by Alan Menken was released today in the United States.

1991: “The Addams Family” a comedy based “on the cartoon of the same name” directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, co-produced by Scott Rudin, with music by Marc Shaiman was released today in the United States.

1992(26^th of Cheshvan, 5753): Luise (Lissy) Cohn the German born “daughter of Gustave and Paula Cohn” and wife of Bernard Kaufmann passed away today in Amsterdam.

1993: Edward P. Djerejian was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1993: In an example of Jews telling the tale of other Jews Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23^rd Floor” a comedy based on his experience as a writer for Sid Caesar opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

1994(19th of Kislev, 5755): Eighty-eight year old Viola Spolin, leading innovator in American theatre passed away today in Los Angeles.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/07/1906/this-week-in-history-birth-of-viola-spolin-creator-of-theater-games

http://www.spolin.com/violabio/

1995: “Two Bits” a drama produced by Arthur Cohn, the namesake of his grandfather who was the Chief Rabbi of Basel.

1995(29^th of Cheshvan, 5756): Eighty-three year old Israel Cohen, a co-founder of Giant Food Stores, a grocery chain known to all of those living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area which was the first store of its kind to sell fresh baked Challah and whose fresh fish department employees knew which aquatic creatures were necessary for Gefilte Fish passed away today.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-11-24/news/1995328013_1_israel-cohen-giant-supermarket

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/25/us/israel-cohen-83-who-helped-pioneer-the-us-supermarket.html



1995: Ehud Barak finished his term as Minister of Internal Affairs.

1995: Ehud Barak replaced Shimon Peres as Minister of Foreign Affiars.

1995: Chaim Ramon began serving as Minister of Internal Affairs in a government headed by Shimon Peres.

1995: Gonen Segev began serving his second term as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure.

1996: After having premiered at the Mall of America on November 16, “Jingle All the Way” a Christmas comedy featuring Laraine Newman and Harvey Korman with music by David Newman was released in the United States

1997: It was reported today the President Bill Clinton was the first recipient …of the Man of Peace Award, established by the Rabin Foundation and the Peres Foundation, two ''peace centers'' financed in part with money from the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize the men shared with Mr. Arafat. Mr. Clinton asked the foundations to devote the $75,000 in prize money to pay for scholarships for Americans to study in Israel.”

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941by Victor Klemperer, Freud: Conflict and Culture, edited by Michael S. Roth in association with the Library of Congress and A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellmanby Rosemary Mahoney

1999: In “Final Sabbath for a Spiritual Hub; A Synagogue That Embodied an Earlier Bronx Is Closed” published today Barbara Stewart provided the following description of the Mosholu Jewish Center.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/22/nyregion/final-sabbath-for-spiritual-hub-synagogue-that-embodied-earlier-bronx-closed.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1999: “The David Adler Estate,” “the house and property of American architect David Adler in Libertyville, Illinois, was added to the NRHP(National Register of Historic Places) today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Adler_Estate#/media/File:David_Adler_Estate_1700_N_Milwaukee_Libertyville,IL.JPG

2000: “Quills” a film version of the Obie award winning play, directed by Philip Kaufman was released in the United States today.

2000(24^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Sarah Katz, the wife of Henry Katz, the sister-in-law of Bert Katz and the aunt of Toni Neta passed away today in Cedar Rapids, IA.

2000(24^th of Cheshvan, 5761):Shoshana Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera's main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work. 60 were wounded in the blast.

2001(7th of Kislev, 5762): Eighty-three year old Norman Granz, American jazz musician and record producer passed away.(As reported by Richard Severo)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/arts/norman-granz-who-took-jazz-smoky-clubs-put-it-concert-halls-dies-83.html

2002(17^th of Kislev, 5763): IDF tracker Sgt.-Maj. Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai, 30, of Lod, was killed when an Israel Defense Forces Givati Brigade patrol near Tel Qateifa, in the Gaza Strip, came under Palestinian gunfire. Hamas claimed responsibility.

2002: U.S. Premiere of “The Emperor’s Club” starring Kevin Kline.

2002: “Gimmel's first album Lentoon came out today and, just after it was published, it went to the number one spot in the Finnish Albums Chart, remaining there for three weeks.”

2003(27^th of Cheshvan, 5764):Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004: Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson began serving as European Commissioner for Trade.

2004: Having assembled the largest and most comprehensive listing of the names of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, along with biographical details, photographs and nutshell memoirs, Yad Vashem makes the information available online at www.yadvashem.org.

2005: Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. In 2007, Merkel would receive an honorary doctor of philosophy degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem "in recognition of her lifelong dedication to the principles of democracy and in appreciation of her warm and constant friendship for the people and State of Israel."

2005: After 26 years, Ted Koppel calls it quits as host of ABC’s late night news show, Nightline.  Begun before the 24/7 world of cable news turned television news into tabloid entertainment, Koppel started a show that proved that some Americans wanted something a little more substantive than “Here’s Johnny” at the end of the day.

2006(1st of Kislev, 5767): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

2006: During an exclusive interview with members of the University of Wisconsin Hillel staff, Ben Karlin ('93), a Senior Writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” admits that Sukkot is his favorite Jewish holiday because he “likes lulavs and loves etrogs.”

2006:  “The Fountain” directed by Darren Aronofsky who also wrote the screenplay and co-starring Rachel Weisz was released today in the United States.

2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, the Yuval Ron Ensemble present an evening of pan-Middle-Eastern Diaspora music anchored by Haifa-born vocalist Najwa Gibran.

2007: (12 Kislev 5768) Yahrzeit of Solomon Schechter founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

2008: The movie, “Old Days,” set in a retirement home with a decidedly Jewish feel opens at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York (www.bigapplefilmfestival.com). It’s a coming-of-age story of sorts about a 74-year-old woman, Lillian, who moves into a retirement community after her husband’s death. Like the new girl in school, Lillian struggles to make friends, fend off bullies and find romance, which in this case comes in the form of a middle-aged divorcé who has been singing at the retirement home for as long as anyone can remember. “Old Days” is compelling because its subject, the Jewish retirement home, has received scant attention in film.

2008: As part of the Israeli Voices series the 92^nd Street Y presents Yoni Rechter who has made a great contribution to the Israeli music scene.

2008: In Arlington, Virginia, children's author and illustrator Sallie Lowenstein, author of Waiting for Eugene and The Festival of Lights, leads a discussion, "From Memory to Story: How a Childhood in Burma Became a Novel in the Future," on the origins of her new young-adult book, In the Company of Whispers.

2008: 45^th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy’s pro-civil rights stance attracted and energized a significant segment of the Jewish populace. His sympathy for the state of Israel can be seen in the following speech which he delivered during his campaign for the presidency.

Prophecy is a Jewish tradition, and the World Zionist movement, in which all of you have played so important a role, has continued this tradition. It has turned the dreams of its leaders into acts of statesmanship. It has converted the hopes of the Jewish people into concrete facts of life. When the first Zionist conference met in 1897, Palestine was a neglected wasteland. A few scattered Jewish colonies had resettled there, but they had come to die in the Holy Land, rather than to make it live again in greatness. Most of the governments of the world were indifferent. But now all is changed. Israel became a triumphant and enduring reality exactly 50 years after Theodore Herzl, the prophet of Zionism, had proclaimed the ideal of nationhood. It was the classic case of an ancient dream finding a young leader, for Herzl was then only 37 years of age. Perhaps I may be allowed the observation that the Jewish people - ever since David slew Goliath - have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership, or measured experience and maturity by mere length of days. I first saw Palestine in 1939. There the neglect and ruin left by centuries of Ottoman misrule were slowly being transformed by miracles of labor and sacrifice. But Palestine was still a land of promise in 1939, rather than a land of fulfillment. I returned in 1951 to see the grandeur of Israel. In 3 years this new state had opened its doors to 600,000 immigrants and refugees. Even while fighting for its own survival, Israel had given new hope to the persecuted and new dignity to the pattern of Jewish life. I left with the conviction that the United Nations may have conferred on Israel the credentials of nationhood; but its own idealism and courage, its own sacrifice and generosity, had earned the credentials of immortality… Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom; and no area of the world has ever had an overabundance of democracy and freedom. It is worth remembering, too, that Israel is a cause that stands beyond the ordinary changes and chances of American public life. In our pluralistic society, it has not been a Jewish cause - any more than Irish independence was solely the concern of Americans of Irish descent. The ideals of Zionism have, in the last half century, been repeatedly endorsed by Presidents and Members of Congress from both parties. Friendship for Israel is not a partisan matter. It is a national commitment. Yet within this tradition of friendship there is a special obligation on the Democratic Party. It was President Woodrow Wilson who forecast with prophetic wisdom the creation of a Jewish homeland. It was President Franklin Roosevelt who kept alive the hopes of Jewish redemption during the Nazi terror. It was President Harry Truman who first recognized the new State of Israel and gave it status in world affairs. And may I add that it would be my hope and my pledge to continue this Democratic tradition - and to be worthy of it….The Middle East needs water, not war; tractors, not tanks; bread, not bombs. There is already little enough available in the way of financial and physical resources for either side to be devoting its energies to huge defense budgets. The present state of tensions serves only the worst interests of Arab and Israeli alike. But a new spirit of comity could well serve the highest ideals of both. For the original Zionist philosophy has always maintained that the people of Israel would use their national genius not for selfish purposes but for the enrichment and glory of the entire Middle East. The earliest leaders of the Zionist movement spoke of a Jewish state which would have no military power and which would be content with victories of the spirit. The compulsions of a harsh and inescapable necessity have compelled Israel to abandon this hope. But I cannot believe that Israel has any real desire to remain indefinitely a garrison state surrounded by fear and hate. And I cannot believe that the Arab world would not find a better basis for unity in a united attack on all their accumulated social problems - an attack in which they could benefit immensely from a closer cooperation with the people of Israel. The technical skills and genius of Israel have already brought their blessings to Burma and to Ethiopia. Still other nations in Asia and in Africa are eager to benefit from the special skills available in that bustling land. Why should the Middle East alone be cut off from this partnership? And why should not the people of Israel receive the blessings available to them from association with the Arab world? When we think of the possibilities of this association, an emotion of soaring hope replaces our somber anxieties about the Middle East. Ancient rivers would give their power to new industries. The desert would yield to civilization. Disease would be eradicated, especially the disease that strikes down helpless children. The blight of poverty would be replaced by the blessings of abundance…”For the entire text see

 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/JFK+Pr-Pres/1956/002PREPRES12SPEECHES_56NOV25.htm

2008: An experimental Israeli music ensemble, the Givol Choir and David Moss, an innovative American singer and percussionist perform three separate shows at the historic Ha'adumim Building near the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv.

2008: Seeking to ensure that President George W. Bush's promises to Israel are transferred to the new US administration, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert left for Washington tonight for his final meeting with the outgoing American leader.

2009: The Lost Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors or/of special interest to Jewish readers including A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis byLouis Breger

2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors or/of special interest to Jewish readers including Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Foer is part of literary family.  His brother Franklin is an editor with the New Republic. His brother Joshua is a journalist.  And is if that was not enough, he married novelist Nicole Krauss in 2004:

2009: An experienced guide from the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, a nonprofit Jewish educational organization, leads a tour in which attendees “discover 150 years of Lower East Side history on Shteibl Row, noted for its abundance of 19th-century one- and two-room synagogues.” They will also ‘visit the meticulously restored Bialystoker Synagogue and hear the story of this sacred site's role in the Underground Railroad and “see the original site of the Henry Street Settlement, and learn what critical role settlement houses played in this community.

2010: Salman Rushdie, the author living under the threat of a fatwa, is scheduled to speak at the 92^nd Street Y in NYC.

2010:NoVA State Legislators' Reception 2010 which gives the Jewish community a chance to Hear our state legislators identify their top priorities and address the Jewish community's state platform, is scheduled to take place at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (JCCNV)

2010: The Leo Baeck Institute in cooperation with Manhattan School of Music is scheduled to present “Adventures in Listening: Kurt Masur, A Film by Amit Breuer”

2010: The IDF's new Head of Military Intelligence, Major-General Aviv Kochavi, formally assumed his new position today and was promoted from the rank of brigadier-general. In a ceremony honoring Kochavi and outgoing MI Chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, The IDF's Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, hailed Yadlin for being an honest person – “an essential trait for any leader and commander, and even more so for the head of Military Intelligence.”

2011: A forum hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the subject of ridding the world of nuclear weapons which representatives from Israel and Arab states are schedule to attend is scheduled to come to an end in Vienna.

2011: Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper a teacher at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and serves as the spiritual leader of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah is scheduled to deliver the first in a series of lectures entitled “Maharal: The Mystic as Legal Scholar” at Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

2011: Sharon Steinberg, the Cantor at Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, VA, is scheduled to give the last lecture in the series entitled “An Overview of Jewish Liturgical Music” as the JCC of Northern Virginia.

2011: Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided today to open a criminal investigation against Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, for alleged incitement to racism.

2011: The Military Advocate General filed indictments today against two Palestinians from the village of Halhoul near Hebron, who confessed to throwing a rock that killed Asher Hillel Palmer and his son as they drove near Kiryat Arba in September.

2012: In Melbourne, Australia,  “The One That Got Away” is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2012: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to offer an introductory course for students and researchers wishing to use its extensive photo archive.

2012: In the U.S., Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim holiday based on Sukkoth

2012: The IDF Spokesman’s Office said today it was looking into a photograph circulating widely on Facebook in which 16 IDF soldiers arranged their uniformed bodies on the sand, to spell out the Hebrew words “Bibi loser” — in a deft physical critique of Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s failure to send ground troops into Gaza during the just-ended Operation Pillar of Defense.

2012: Shin Bet officers and police arrested the terrorists who bombed a bus in Tel Aviv on Wednesday several hours after the device exploded, the agency revealed this evening

2012(8^th of Kislev, 5773): Twenty-eight year old Boris Yarmolnik, the IDF reserve officer who was wounded in a rocket attack yesterday, passed away today following an unsuccessful surgical process designed to save his life.



2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Discovery and Recovery” – a behind the scene tour of the Iraqi Jewish Archive at the National Archives.



2013: “Fox Dedicates Music Building to Oscar-Winning Composer Lionel Newman” published today described the ceremony during which “Twentieth Century Fox renamed its historic Fox Music Building in honor of film and television composer Lionel Newman.”



2013: “Kol HaMusica” is scheduled to broadcast a noontime concert by Tatiana Rubina.



2013: “The archaeologists who have been exploring the Canaanite site, known as Tel Kabri, announced today that they had found one of civilization’s oldest and largest wine cellars.” (As reported by John Noble Wilford)



2013: “



Isaac Herzog, the son of a former president, took the helm of Israel’s Labor Party and thus Parliament’s opposition today, vowing to restore the party’s historic focus on promoting peace with the Palestinians and to mount a vigorous challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-leaning government.” (As reported by Jodi Rudoren)



2014: Lewis Black is scheduled to appear the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE.



2014: In Melbourne, “The Last Mentsch” and “The Go-Go Boys” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: US Secretary of State John Kerry called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening and updated him on the ongoing negotiations in Vienna for a deal with Iran on its contested nuclear program.



2014: Six Palestinian youths have been arrested after graffiti “in Arabic praising the Islamic State terror group was found on a memorial monument for fallen Druze IDF soldiers along the Carmel Scenic Route, located east of the predominantly Druze village of Daliyat al-Karmel.”



2014: “The Angriest Man in Brooklyn and “Hora 79” are scheduled to be shown at the 18^thannual UK Jewish Film Festival



2014(29^thof Cheshvan, 5775): Eighty-five year old “Israeli journalist and author Israel Zamir, the only son of Isaac Bashevis Singer” passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/isaac-bashevis-singers-only-son-dies-at-85/

http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/oral-history/israel-zamir





2014(29^thof Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-four year old Claire Barry who along with her sister Merna formed the singing group known as the “Barry Sisters” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/arts/music/claire-barry-half-of-yiddish-singing-duo-dies-at-94-.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0





2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Lights Out: A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted Koppel, Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home by Joe Klein and  the recently released paperback edition of The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson and CHINA 1945: Mao’s Revolution and America’s Fateful Choice by Richard Bernstein



2015: the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host a screening of “The Life of Emile Zola” followed by a “post-screening discussion led by David Chack.”

2015: The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement in celebration of the recently-completed digitization of over 75,100 items and 500 hours of audio from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement.

2015: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Cantors Cabaret: From the Bimah to Broadway,” featuring Jewish and Broadway music, ranging from the classical Hazzanut of Israel Alter to Broadway's "Annie Get Your Gun;” from the songbooks of cantorial favorite, Sol Zim, to Yiddish icon, Molly Picon performed by Hazzan Elisheva Dienstfrey, Agudas Achim Congregation; Cantor Jason Kaufman, Beth El Hebrew Congregation; Cantor Rachel Rhodes and Cantor Michael Shochet, Temple Rodef Shalom; and a special guest appearance by Hazzan Sidney G. Rabinowitz.

2016: Just a couple of weeks before his 93^rd birthday Menahem Pressler is slated to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” at Symphony Hall in Boston where doctor’s saved his life by repairing an aneurysm in his aorta.

2017(4^thof Kislev, 5778): Eighty-nine year old Mary Adelman, the Antwerp born daughter of tailor Morris Golinkski and Caroline Golinskisi, the owner of Osner Business Machines, one of that dying breed of typewriter repair shops, passed away today.(As reported by James Barron)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/obituaries/mary-adelman-89-fixer-of-broken-typewriters-is-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0



2017: “During an interview with i24 News” today, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi  Hotovely despairingly “depicted US Jews as being removed from the sacrifices other Americans make as well as the threats that govern life in Israel.”

2017: The Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to close at noon today as part of the observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Rabbi Michael Hattin leading a discussion on “From Harlot to Heroine: Rachav’s Remarkable Transformation.”

2017: “A Bag of Marbles” and “1945” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^stUK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Michael Oren who works included Six Days of War and Power, Faith and Fantasycontinues today.

2018: The Chaplains of the Oxford University Jewish Society are scheduled to host a Thanksgiving this evening at their house! 

2018:  “A rare sword, which was given as a present by SS commander Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini during his visit to Nazi Germany in March 1943,” is scheduled to continue to be offered for sale for a third day on a British website—The Saleroom— by the German auction house Hermann Historica, which specializes in selling historical items.” (As reported by Itamar Eichner)

2018(14^thof Kislev, 5779): On the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the birth of Reuben, Jacob’s first-born son.

2018: Following screenings of “Humor Me,” “The Resistance” and “Shelter,” the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to  come to an with a festival awards ceremony at the Curzon Mayfair in London sponsored by the Diana and Allan Morgenthau Charitable Turst.

2018: In Jerusalem, OU Israel is scheduled to host “an authentic Thanksgiving dinner complete with turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin” followed by Torah Insights from Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz.

2018: Beit Hillel is scheduled to host a Thanksgiving Dinner for Hebrew University students

2018: In Jerusalem, Olive and Fish, Mike’s Place and the Inbal Hotel are scheduled to offer diners a Thanksgiving Dinner while the Beer Bazaar is scheduled to host a “Thanksgiving Happy Hour.”

2019: In Palo Alto, CA, the First Presbyterian Church is scheduled to host “Roses and Almonds” with Tres Hermanicas and Aquila which includes a mix of “centuries-old Sephardic music

2019: In San Francisco, the Sydney Goldstein Theatre is scheduled to host “Mandy Patinkin in Concert” Diaries with Adam Ben-David on piano.”

2019: For the first time in its history, Israel begins the first full day of being led by a Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) who has been indicted on charges of corruption.

2019: Ninetieth birthday of Sir Ben Helfgotth

ttps://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/90-messages-for-90-years-happy-birthday-sir-ben-helfgott/

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912: Birthdate of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy nor Roman. During his reign Rabbis living in the Rhineland addressed questions to the Rabbis in Palestine “concerning the reported appearance of the Messiah.” This report was based on information supplied by 12 century Rabbi Isaac ben Dorolo.

1221: Birthdate of King Alfonso X of Castile who had Yehudah ben Moshe translate several texts on magic into the national vernacular.

1248: In the long war to unite Spain, King Ferdinand III of Castile takes Seville from the Moors. Ferdinand is remembered as the king who refuses Pope’s demand that Jews be forced to wear special badge and clothing.  The reason given by the monarch is a fear that Jews would flee to Muslim Granada, which would be disastrous for the revenues of the kingdom. “The Jews have played a prominent part in Seville’s history since the 4th Century and after the Christian Reconquest, their community was concentrated in this part of the city and enjoyed a period of great prosperity until the end of the 14th Century. Jews were prominent bankers, tradesmen, doctors, writers, philosophers, and advisors to both Arab and Christian rulers. It is no coincidence that the Jewish quarter of Santa Cruz is located right next to the Royal Palace, the Alcázar. A street called “El Callejón de La Judería” (“The Little Street of the Jewish Quarter”) leads into the heart of the Santa Cruz neighborhood.”

1510: The Jews were expelled from Naples. Fifteen years earlier, the Spanish had conquered the island, and within a year had issued an order for the banishment of all Jews, which was never carried out. Now the community, which had existed since Roman times, was forced out. The only Jews remaining were the "New Christians" (who were to be expelled 5 years later) and 200 wealthy families who paid a new annual tax for such tolerance.

 1584: The Sultan ordered an investigation to the number of synagogues in Safed. In his letter to the local administration, he wrote, "in the town of Safed there are only seven sacred mosques. But the Jews who in olden times had three synagogues have now thirty-two synagogues, and they have built their buildings very high."

1593: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Bucharest claiming the lives of many Jews.

1648: Coronation of old Frederick III, who said of the Jews, they “have stolen into Denmark contrary to long-standing custom, [since the days of the Reformation, the Lutheran creed had, according to the laws of Denmark, been compulsory throughout the kingdom], and have dared to traffic with jewels and the like” which led him “to order that no Jew should enter Denmark without a special passport ("Geleitsbrief"), and that those who were already in the country should be heavily fined if they did not leave within fourteen days” [Editors’ note: A few years later, Frederick III., being in need of funds for his wars, borrowed money from the Jew Abraham (or Diego) Teixeira de Mattos of Hamburg (known through his relations with the Swedish queen Christina), and gave as security crownlands in Jutland. Teixeira thereupon made such good use of his influence with the Danish king that, as early as Jan. 19, 1657, "the Portuguese professing the Hebrew religion" were permitted to travel everywhere within the kingdom, and to trade and traffic within the limit of the law. Teixeira himself gained little by his transaction with the Danish monarch. As his loan was not returned, he took instead the estates he held as security, selling them later at a great loss. The king acted similarly in his dealings with the De Lima family, who were in possession of the Hald estate from 1660 to 1703.”]

1700: Beginning of the Papacy of Clement XI who in 1704 issued a bull that “dealt with the education of potential converts, encouraged forced preaching to Jews, and emphasized the importance of providing financial assistance to Jews who converted” and “asserted that new converts were to be fully accepted into the Catholic community.”



1702(3rd of Kislev): Thirty six Jews were killed in an explosion in Lemberg, Poland

1777(23rd of Cheshvan): Rabbi Aaron Katzenellenbogen of Brisk, author of Minhat Aharon passed away.

1794: In Savannah, GA, Judith De Lyon and Joseph Abrahams gave birth to Rachel Abrahams.

1800: In London, Dinah and Henry Henoch Myers and Michael Meir Myers.

1800: In Charleston SC, Sarah and Abraham Moise gave birth to Isaac Moise, the husband of Hetty Lopez.

1801: In Philadelphia, Leon van Amringe, Isaiah Nathan, Isaac Marks, Aaron Levi, Jr., Abraham Gumpert, and Abraham Moses took title to a plot of ground to be used as a place of burial for members of the newly formed Congregation Mickvé Israel.

1801: In Bridgetown, Barbados, Eliezer Montefiore and Judith Montefiore gave birth to Jacob Barrow Montefiore who “entered into business with his brother Moses, and when in the early thirties the movement for the financing of Australian colonization from London was incepted Montefiore, who had been connected with the Colonial produce trade, became active in the various public schemes as a member of the South Australian Colonization Association, organized to settle South Australia on the Wakefield system. He was also appointed member of the first board of commissioners entrusted by the British government with the administration of the colony. He visited the colony in the year 1843 and again in 1854. His reception on his first visit by the governor, Sir George Grey, and the people was enthusiastic. During his visit to South Australia in 1843 he acted as an agent for the Rothschilds, at the same time holding a partnership with his brother Joseph Barrow in the firm of Montefiore Brothers of London and Sydney. The township of Montefiore, at the confluence of the Bell and MacQuarrie rivers, in Wellington Valley, was founded by the brothers, and they contributed actively to the establishment there of places of worship for all denominations. The organization of the Bank of Australasia was largely due to their efforts. In Adelaide there is a hill named after them. In 1885, at the request of the directors of the Art Union Gallery of Adelaide, Jacob sat for the artist B. S. Marks, the portrait being hung in that gallery

1804: Birthdate of Franklin Pierce fourteenth President of the United States. Pierce is part of the unmemorable trio who served occupied the White House in the decade before the Civil War including Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan.  Among his few claims to fame is that he was the first and maybe the only President whose name appears on the charter of a synagogue. Pierce signed the Act of Congress in 1857 that amended the laws of the District of Columbia to enable the incorporation of the city's first synagogue, the Washington Hebrew Congregation.

1812: Miriam Keyser and London born Barent Solomon Gompertz gave birth to Charlotte Gompertz.

1825: Birthdate of Henriette Goldschmidt who married Rabbi Abraham Meyer Goldschmidt and was a leading educator, social worker and activists in the fight for the rights of German women.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/goldschmidt-henriette

1831: Jonas Engel married Sarah Louisa Barnett today.

1833: In Turek, near Kalish in Russian, Poland, Wolf Rosenthal and Esther Kolskey gave birth to “painter, engraver, etcher, lithographer and illustrator” and husband of Carolina Rosenthal who came to Philadelphia in 1849 where he pursued a career that included making illustrations of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War for the United States Military Commission, producing a collection of five hundred historical portraits and providing illustrations for “The Legend of Ben Levi.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Rosenthal#/media/File:New_Masonic_Hall_Interior_1855.jpg

1836(14th of Kislev, 5597): Jacob Cohen Bakri, a wealthy French Jew who played a key role in the French acquisition of Algeria passed away today.

1838(6^th of Kislev, 5599): Sixty-seven year old Bohemian native Samuel Hyman and the husband of Elizabeth Hyman passed away today in Plymouth, England.

1840: Sixty-six year old Louis Gabriel Ambroise Bonald, the anti-Semitic “French philosopher, politician and author” who believed that most Jews were “parasites” and that before they could be emancipated they must adopt Catholicism, passed away today.

1841: It was announced that Albert Goldsmid had been promoted to the rank of Lt. Col. In the British Army.

1843: One day after he had passed away, 31 year old Isaac Abrahams was buried at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1844(12th of Kislev, 5605): Fifty-three year old “Austrian financier and philanthropist Hermann Todesco passed away at his native Pressburg, Hungary today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0020_0_19910.html

1845: Paul Julius Reuter married Ida Maria Elizabeth Clementine Magnus in Berlin completing a series of changes that had begun a month before when he arrived had arrived in London.  In that time he changed his name to Joseph Josephat, converted to Christianity and then changed his name again to Paul Julius Reuter.

1845: Forty-six year old Michael Solomon Alexander, the first Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem passed away.  An ordained Rabbi, he converted to Christianity in 1825.

1845: Forty-six year old Michael Solomon Alexander, a convert to Christianity who became the first Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem passed away today.

1847: The Ladies of the Society for the Religious Instruction in Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution of tribute at the passing of the British author, Grace Aguilar. Aguilar had died on September 16, 1847 at the age of 32. Aguilar's work had been championed by Philadelphia editor Isaac Leeser, who published Aguilar's books in the United States and included her writings in his monthly magazine, The Occident and American Jewish Advocate. As a result, Aguilar was in many ways better known in the Jewish community of the United States than in England. In addition to historical romances (e.g. The Vale of Cedars) and reflections on Judaism (The Spirit of Judaism, 1842) Aguilar's influential book, The Women of Israel (1844), contested the claims by numerous Christian authors that Judaism denigrated women. Aguilar argued for Judaism's ancient and contemporary regard for women by detailing the strong and admirable women who appear in Judaism's essential defining text, the Bible. Aguilar returned the feeling of kinship that American Jewish women bore her. She even responded to an 1843 request from Savannah to contribute to a fair that local Jewish women were holding to raise funds to hire a rabbi. Aguilar sent along 2 purses, 6 needle cases, and 12 pincushions on which she had done the needlework, along with additional needlework pieces gathered from some of her friends. In mourning Aguilar's passing, the Charleston women truly felt they had lost one of their own. Aguilar's death at a young age evinced a strong response. Leeser observed that “there has not arisen a single Jewish female in modern times who has done so much for the illustration and adornment of her faith as Grace Aguilar.” The Charleston women expressed their appreciation for the “power and effect” of the “pen of this champion of our faith, against that giant Prejudice, whose shadow blackens the earth.” Citing her as the “moral governess of the Hebrew family,” the women of the Society resolved that her death “must be regarded as a national calamity; and that no demonstration of respect, however high, can convey an adequate sense of the exalted estimation in which we hold her character or of the profound regret with which we received the tidings of her dissolution.”

1848(27th of Cheshvan, 5609): Twenty-six year old Hermann Jellinek, the younger brother of Rabbi Adolf Jellinek was executed today for his role in the Vienna Uprising in October, 1848

1848 (27th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Meir Benjamin Danon, author of Be’er ba Sadeh, passed away

1852: An article published today entitled “Trial for Arson In the First Degree’ described the trial of Aaron Diamond on charges of arson. Mr. Morrison appeared as counsel representing Aaron Diamond, a German Jew who does not speak English in the case of the People vs. Aaron Diamond.  The case revolved around an allegation that Diamond and Joshua Feller had set fire to the dwelling of John Nally.  Morrison demanded that Diamond be tried separately. When several of the prosecution’s witnesses failed to show up, the District Attorney said that it would “unsafe” to convict the defendant and the Jury was directed by the court to render a verdict of not guilty.

1852: The discovery of Asteroid 21 Lutetia by Hermann Goldschmidt was published today.

1853: Two days after he had passed away, 99 year old Levy Alexander, the husband of Prussian born Fanny Alexander, was buried today at the “Exeter Jewish Cemetery.

1853: The Hebrew Benevolent Society celebrated its 32^nd anniversary this evening with a dinner attended by 350 gentlemen at the Chinese Assembly Rooms on Broadway. 

1854(2^nd of Kislev, 5615): Fifty year old Belarus native Meshulam Zalman Feiwel Friedland, of Slutsk, the “son of Shmuel Zanvil (Zavel) Friedland and Itke Friedland” passed away today in Latvia.

1855: Seventy-four year old French statesman Louis-Mathieu Molé the opponent of Jewish emancipation who was the official named by Napoleon to bring together the Sanhedrin in 1806 and 1807 passed away today.

1856: Isaac and Julie Judith Josephine Mautner gave birth to Rosa Perlhefter.

1863: Two days after she had passed away, Rachel (Isaacs) Ansell, the wife of Jacob Ansell with whom she had had eleven children, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1867: Birthdate of Edgar D. Peixotto, the native New Yorker and son of Raphael Peixotto who became a successful lawyer in San Francisco, CA.

1868: In Chicago, Illinois, Julius Rosentha and Jette Wolfe gave birth to attorney Lessing Rosenthal the graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern Law School and husband of Mrs. Lillie Frank Myers who combined a distinguished legal career with service to the Jewish community including serving as director of the Jewish Training School in Chicago.

1870: It was reported today that Thanksgiving Services will be held at the 44^th Street Synagogue after which children from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will enjoy a holiday dinner provided by the Trustees.

1870(29^th of Cheshvan, 5631): Augusta Feuchtwanger nee Levy, the wife of Lewis Feuchtwanger, passed away today in New York.

1870: Lewis Hart married Adelaide Levy at the New Synagogue today.

1871: Birthdate of Morris Masskov, the native of Odessa who gained fame American character actor Maurice Moscovitch whose last film may have been his most famous – Charlie Chaplain’s “The Great Dictator.”

1871: Ignatz Ratzsky was released from Sing Sing Prison after having served nine years for the robbery-murder of a German Jew named Sigismund Fellner.  Ratzsky had originally been sentenced to death, but Governor Fenton commuted his sentence based his judgment that the conviction had been based on circumstantial evidence.

1873: In New York, founding  of the Société Israélite Française de Secours Mutuels de New York which met on the fourth Sunday of each month, provided money for sick, death and burial benefits and owned burial grounds at Bayside, Long Island.

1874: Carl Schurz will deliver a lecture this evening sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association on “Educational Problems” at Steinway Hall in New York.

1876: In Washington, DC, “Zody and Sarah (Ullman) Strasburger gave birth to Georgetown University trained attorney Milton Stasburger, the husband of Elsa Coblenzer who “served in the office of the Adjutant General during World War” and who was a member of Washington Hebrew Congregation.

1877: It was reported today that two men have been charged for their role in stealing furs from A.T. Stewart & Co. Robert Kyle was charged with stealing the first while Seligman Hirsch, who was described as a “Hebrew” fur dealer, was charged with receiving the stolen firs. Why or how the reported knew that Hirsch was Jewish is not stated nor is any reason given for not identifying any of the other characters by their religious affiliation.

1880: It was reported today the lower house of the Prussian Diet debated the proposals by the anti-Semitic party to limit the activities of Jews in Germany.  The anti-Semites reflected the views of Reverend Stecker, the Court Chaplin who wants legislation adopted that will “keep the Jews from any post of authority.”  The opponents including members of the Liberal Party defended the Jews and “contended that it was breach of the Constitution to deny that Jews were Germans.”

1882: In New York, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment distributed funds to a variety of charitable institutions including $1,680 to the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1883: It was reported today that Spanish in Morocco tried and convicted twelve Jews accused supplying guns to the Berbers.

1883: Henry Irving will play Shylock, one of his signature roles in tonight’s performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at the Star Theatre.

1883: According to a report that appeared in today’s edition of the Hebrew Standard, Hugh O’Neill is quoted as telling a Jew in New York, “We don’t want any of your people in our employ.”

1884: It was reported today that the friends of Mrs. Max Rosenberg, the former Miss Jennie E. Lyman, were surprised to hear that she has filed for divorce especially since most of them did not she had gotten married several months while visiting New York.  In her petition, Mrs. Rosenberg accused her husband of “extreme cruelty.”  Rosenberg disputes his wife’s claims and says that the cause of the problem is her father’s dislike for him because he was Jewish.

1885: Birthdate of Valerian Dovgalevsky, the Ukrainian born “son of Zaiwel Dovgalevsky and Berta Dovgalevsky, an “intimate of Lenin” and a participant in the October Revolution who served as the Soviet Union’s Ambassador to France in the 1920’s.

1885: Birthdate of Alexander “Alex” Trachtenberg the native of Odessa who was active in the Socialist Party of America and the Communist Party USA.

1885: It was reported today that this year’s Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Fair raised over $7,800.

1886: Warrants are expected to be issued today for those who have violated Massachusetts “Sunday Closing Laws.”  Several Jews and their customers are expected to be named since up until last week, it had been considered permissible for the Jews to operate their businesses on Sunday since they were closed on Saturday for their Sabbath observances.

1886(25th of Cheshvan, 5647): Sixty-four year old author and historian Leopold Kompert, best known for his role in the “Kompert Affair” in which he and Heinrich Graetz “were brought to court in Vienna for publishing ideas that were heretical to Catholic faith, in addition to contradicting Jewish tradition.”

1888:  Birthdate of Harpo Marx, one of the famous Marx Brothers.

1889: Jacob Levy arrived in New York City from Poland today and moved in with his brother at 83 Norfolk Street in NYC.

1889: Sanitary officers “seized some unwholesome meat and vegetables in the sidewalk markets in the Hebrew quarter in the Tenth Ward.”

1889: “The Red Hussar,” a comedy opera in three acts by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens, which opened at the Lyric Theatre in London tonight.  Solomon was the prolific Ango-Jewish composer and conductor who died prematurely at the age of 29.

1890: Seventy-three year old William III of Netherlands who in 1855 appointed Aron Mendes Chumaceiro chief rabbi of the colony of Curaçao and intervened on behalf of “the persecuted Dutch Jews of Coro, Venezuela” passed away today.

1890: Today’s New Publication List includes a review of a novel entitled The Jew, translated from the Polish of Joseph Ignatius Kraszewski by Linda Da Kowalewska

1890: “Catholic Spain” published today provided a detailed review of Chapters From The Religious History Of Spain Connected With The Inquisition by Henry Charles, a subject near and dear to the hearts of Jews in general and Sephardic Jews in particular.

1891: In Savannah, GA, founding of the Daughters of Israel whose members including Miss Maria Minis, Mrs. M.G. Ehrlich and Miss Maud Hendricks.

1891: Two days after he passed away, 73 year old Aaron Levy, the husband of the former Marianne Hart and the father Alexander and John Arthur Levy, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1893: In Milikov, Karl and Rosa Low gave birth to Helene Low who became Helene Neubauer when she married Karl Neubauer and who died at Treblinka.

1894: At today’s meeting of the Tenement House Committed that was held in the Old Criminal Court Mr.Rice and Mr. Tuska of the United Hebrew Charity expressed their agreement with Reverend John B. Devins that tenement residents do not prefer filth, “that there should be public lavatories and that “every saloon should have an outside drinking fountain.  They also believe that tenements should be better lit, have water on each floor and house kindergartens.

1895: This evening in Richmond, VA, the Paradise Lodge of B’nai B’rith “began a movement for the Jews of the United States to give tangible evidence of the debt they owe to the memory of Thomas Jefferson as father of religious liberty” in the United States.

1896:”A Radical Chicago Rabbi” published today summarized the view of Dr. Emil G. Hirsh, the rabbi Temple Sinai on the Windy City’s south-side, including his beliefs that observing Shabbat on Saturday “and the hope of the return to the Holy Land” are “relics of an attractive tradition but entirely out of keeping with advance and progress of modern ideas.

1896: In Philadelphia, the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women hosted a reception for the National Board at the Mercantile Club.

1896(18^th of Kislev, 5657): Forty-one year old Ella Heyman, the native of Wheeling, West Virginia, passed away today in St. Louis.

1897: The Ladies Committee of the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables met this afternoon in London.

1897: The Apprenticing Committee of the Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum met at Hamilton House this morning.

1897: Charles Schapiro was being held in the Tombs today after having killed Louis Lieberman and wounded his girlfriend Yetta Gordon yesterday.   Gordon whose wounded eye was bandaged is being held in the House of Detention as a material.  She had rejected Schapiro because he did not earn enough money.  And he was angry because she would not return the twenty-five dollar ring he had “bought for her with money she had lent him.”

1898: Today “Marcus Aaron who worked for his father at the Louis I. Aaron Company and in 1911 would succeed his father at the Homer Laughlin China Company married Stella Hamburger with whom he had two children – “Marcus Lester and Fannie Hamburger Aaron.

1898: In Pécs, Hungary, the local cantor and his wife gave birth to opera singer Dezső Ernster who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to perform at the Metropolitan Opera.

1899: Birthdate of Parisian Israel Moshe Blauschild, the son of Romanian immigrants who as Marcel Dailo the movie actor who spent WWII in Hollywood before returning to his native country to pursue his career.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/23/obituaries/marcel-dalio-83-film-actor-dead.html

1901: In Chicago, Edward Morris, the Jewish born son of Sarah and Nelson Morris and the President of the Morris and Company (Meatpackers) and the former Helen Swifts gave birth Wellesley College graduate and leading psychoanalyst Muriel Gardiner Buttinger and wife of Joseph Buttinger whom she met while studying medicine at the University of Vienna.

1902: Birthdate of New York native Aaron Bank, the U.S. Army Colonel considered by some to be father of what eventually became “the Green Berets.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/business/col-aaron-bank-101-dies-was-father-of-special-forces.html

http://www.cedu-diver.com/aaron.htm

1905(25^th of Cheshvan, 5666): Sixty-eight year old German born American actor Daniel Edward Bandmann, the son of Solomon and Rebecca Bandmann turned Montana rancher passed away today after which he was buried in Missoula.

https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/DocumentCenter/View/739/Bandmann-Daniel?bidId=

1905: As of today it was reported that the committee which is collecting funds for the relief of Jews suffering from the Russian massacres has raised $660, 756 including $51from the Orthodox Congregation of Erie, PA, $15 from the New London (CT) Ladies’ Aid Society and $720 from the citizens of Wheeling, West Virginia.

1905: “In view of the very great demand made upon the Jews of America to relieve the sufferings of the victims of the Russian savagery, the Committee on the Celebration of the 250^th Anniversary of the Settlement of Jews in the United States has resolved to abandon the project of a commemorative monument and will return to the donors to the monument fund all contributions thus far received” with the hope that the money will then be donated to help the Jews of Russia.

1905: In New York, “not a seat was to be had” during the matinee showing of “The Riots of Kishneff” (Kishinev) which raised $1,506.06 for the relief fund aid the Jews of Russia.

1905: Tonight, Jacob P. Adler oversaw a production of “King Lear” which raised $1,500 for the Jews of Russia.  Adler gave a speech at the end of the third act in which he asked how they could go with the play “when our minds are upon the atrocities committed our countrymen?  Will we leave out the fourth act?” to which the audience responded with cheers and cries of “yes, yes!”

1905: A “procession arranged by Joseph Barondess, Abram Wattman and Dr. Simonoff organized “what was probably the most remarkable demonstration that has ever been known on the east side…when fully one hundred thousand Jews turned out” today “to join a procession…formed to mourn the dead slain in the Russian anti-Semitic riots.”

1905: It was reported today that as the violence against the Jews has continued Percival Menken said “There is far more in this massacre of our race in Russia than is apparent on the surface.  Not until the Jews are restored to their native land and have their own armies and battleships will these persecutions cease. (This is nine years after the First Zionist Congress met and forty years before the Shoah came to an end.)

1905: It was reported from St. Petersburg, that “dispatches from Southwestern Russia indicate that the Zionist movement has obtained a powerful impetus from the anti-Jewish disorders.”

1909: The annual meeting of the Civic Federation which features a discussion of old age pensions by a panel including Samuel Gompers came to a close in New York City.

1911(2^nd of Kislev, 5672): Eighty-five year old Rabbi Jacob Hamburger, “the sole author and editor of the first explicitly Jewish Encyclopedia” passed away today.

1911(2^nd of Kislev, 5672): Seventy year old Imperial Councilor and Chief Cantor Josef Singer passed away today.

1912(13^th of Kislev, 5673): Parashat Vayishlach

1912(13^th of Kislev, 567e): Seventy year old Wolfe Londoner, the New York City born son of Rachel Hearts and Herman Londoner and Republican Mayor Denver  who was forced to leave office because of election irregularities passed away today.

1912: It was reported in today’s edition of The Reform Advocate that Congressman Jefferson M Levy has announced that will combat the efforts now being made to acquire Monticello… which he owns, for the United States government and he will not and cannot be forced to part with is property.

1912: “This evening a memorial meeting for the late David Blaustein is scheduled to take placed at the Educational Alliance under the auspices of the Society of Jewish Social workers of Greater New York.

1912:  The British Consul in Jerusalem continued to complain to the British Ambassador in Constantinople about the British born Jews arriving in his city.  Of the latest batch of 20, only six had means to support themselves while twelve of them were living off of contributions supplied by local Jewish charities.

1912(2^nd of Kislev, 5672): Ninety one year old General Sir Charles D’Aguilar, the son of Lieut. Gen. Sir George D’Aguilar who had “held high office at Bevis Marks” passed away today leaving  an estate valued at £200,000 to be shared by his two daughter.

1913: Supreme Court Justice Seabury has ordered the sale in foreclosure of the Bijou theatre property on Broadway in a suit brought by Felix M. Warburg, Isaac N. Seligman, Paul M. Warburg and Mortimer L. Schiff as trustees under the will of Alfred M. Heinsheimer against the Bijou Real Estate Company.



1914: During WW I “A Reuter dispatch from Constantinople by way of Sofia” says that the Porte (Turkish government) has decided to permit Russian Jews resident in Turkey to become Ottoman subjects provided that they do not revert to their former nationality at the end of the war.”  (This had special meaning for the Jews living in Palestine, since a large number of them had come from Russia and were viewed suspiciously by the Turks)



1914: In New York, The Evening Telegram reported that when German troops “reached the neighborhood of Pabiantze” they appeared to feel already at home” since it “is large people German colonists” and “the rest of the inhabitants are exclusively Jews.”



1914: The Petrograd (Russia) correspondent of the Morning Post wired London today about friction between the Germans and their Austrian Allies as could be seen by “a stormy council” presided over by the Kaiser during which after “mutual ruminations” had been exchanged the Germans “demanded that Austria should give up every man in defense of East Prussia” while the Austrians demanded “that the Germans should make a serious attempt to save Cracow.”  (Most people think about WW I as being fought in the trenches of the Western Front. Here is a reminder of the fighting on the Eastern Front – fighting which took an unbelievable toll on the Jewish populations of Russia and Austria since the combat was waged in the lands where they were living.)



1914: According to reports published today the American Jewish Committee contends that 5,000 Jews in Jaffa had applied for permission to become naturalized Turkish subjects out of a total of 25,000 Russian Jews living in the region of Palestine.



1915: In London, a French delegation led by François-Georges Picot, a professional diplomat with extensive experience in the Levant, and a British delegation led by Sir Arthur Nicolson met to discuss plans for the post-war partition of the Ottoman Empire which would eventually result in the Sykes-Picot Agreement.  (Editor’s Note – You cannot understand what is going on in the Middle East today if you do not understand the origins and nature of this agreement)



1915: “Praise Sisterhood’s Work” published today included the positive comments made by Chief Magistrate McAdoo about the work done by Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue under the leadership of Mrs. Mortimer Menken “to help wayward Jewish girls in the police courts” as well as to aid neighborhood settlement houses in their activities.



1915: It was reported today that based on information provided by Jacob H. Schiff and Dr. J.L. Magnes American Jews must raise at least thirty million dollars to aid the approximately five million Jews in who are suffering from the effects of the World War in Russia, Poland, Galicia and Palestine.



1915: In the manner of a Shiva Minyan, a memorial service will be held again this morning and this evening in honor of Professor Schechter of blessed memory which will be led by the students and faculty of JTS.

1915: Birthdate of Olmütz native Anton Hare, a passenger on board the St. Louis who survived because he was allowed to disembark in England.



1916: A wireless message of sympathy was sent by the executive committee of the American Federation of Galician and Bukowinian Jews and the American Federation of Hungarian Jews to the Austrian imperial family following the death this week of Emperor Franz Josef.



1916: “At a meeting this evening of the executive committee of the American Federation of Galician and Bukowinian Jews and the American Federation of Hungarian Jews it was decided to issue a proclamation calling upon all Jewish congregations and federated bodies to set aside the day of the burial of Emperor Francis Joes for the observation of appropriate services and exercise.”

1916: Birthdate of Rose Vessel, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland who gained fame as Rose Mattus who along with her husband Reuben founded Häagen-Dazs ice cream business.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/obituaries/01mattus.html





1917: As Imperial forces struggle with the weather and the Ottoman forces in the Judean Hills, the “60^th (London) Division commanded by Major General John Shea arrived at Latrun to provide relief for the units that have been worn down by the elements and combat.



1917: In Roslavi, Russia eight Jews were killed and twenty were wounded during an anti-Semitic riot when the mob looted Jewish opened shops.



1917: Kozlov and Tiraspol, Russia were the site of “grave anti-Jewish riots.



1917: A pogrom in Tambov “leads to the total ruin of businesses established by Jewish refugees from the war zone lead the Jewish leaders to ask authorities to give official sanction to a plant to arm a Jewish self-defense corps.”



1917: Izvestia and Pravda published the full text of Sykes-Picot Agreement which exposed the plans of the French and British to carve up the Ottoman Empire after the World War ended. 



1917: It was reported today that the recipients of the funds raised by the Federation of Jewish Charites included Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Hebrew Technical Institute, the Jewish Big Brothers, the Motefiore Home, the Educational Alliance and many sisterhoods associated with local synagogues and temples.

1918: In New York Rose Gussin, a shopkeeper and her husband, gave birth to Zelma Gussin who gained fame as California architect Zelma Wilson

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-14/local/me-4057_1_michael-wilson





1918: After three days, the Lemberg Pogrom came to an end with 50 to 150 Jewish dead, hundreds more injured and untold loss of property thanks to looting carried out by Polish soldiers and local civilians.

1918: Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, announced that organization's decision to hold its New York City campaign designed to raise $5,000,000 to aid Jewish war sufferers during the week starting on December 8 and ending on December 15.

1919: In Durham, NC, Fredrick and Loretta Koch gave birth to University of North Carolina and Princeton graduate and the holder of two Master of Fine Arts Degree Robert Alan Koch who was one of the “Monuments Men.”

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/koch-lt-robert-a

1920: The New York section of the National Council Women is scheduled to meet today.

1920: Birthdate of poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan who used the pseudonym of Paul Antschel.

Death is a gang-boss aus Deutchland his eye is blue

he hits you with leaden bullets his aim is true

there's a man in this house your golden hair Margareta

he sets his dogs on our trail he gives us a grave in the sky

he cultivates snakes he dreams Death is a gang-boss aus Deutschland

(from 'A Death Fugue')

1920: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver “an address on ‘Henry Ford’s Challenge and a Jew’s Reply’” today at “the regular monthly meeting of the New York Section council of Jewish Women” being held at Temple B’nai Jeshurun.

1920: “Mrs. Frederick Wakeham, the historian of the Society for Political Study” is scheduled to deliver the first of a series of lectures to the New York Section of the Council of Jewish Women that will help them understand their role in voting.

1921: Churchill offers to send a warship to help Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner, collect the fines levied against the Arabs in Jaffa who had rioted and attacked Jews in villages surrounding the ancient port.

1922: The silent movie, Hungry Hearts  produced by the Goldwyn Company and based on a book of the same name written by Anzia Yezierska opened in New York City on Thanksgiving.

1922: At today’s session of the Conference of Lausanne which was supposed to modify the Treaty Sevres which dismembered the Ottoman Empire, Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary clashed with Ismet Pasha a member of the Turkish delegation that included Chief Rabbi Nahum.

1923: Birthdate of Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock, an American musical theatre composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1965 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Harnick.

1924: The Price of a Party featuring Dagmar Gadowsky the daughter of Leopold Godowsky.

1924: Herzliya was founded as a moshav. It has since become a flourishing town on the Mediterranean coast. 

1924: In Irvington, NJ, Fannie and Harry Yablonsky gave birth to sociologist Lewis Yablonsky.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/lewis-yablonsky-provocative-sociologist-dies-at-89.html

1925: In New York, opera singer Hannah Mandel and garment manufacturer Albert Mandel gave birth to award winning composer and arranger Johnny Mandel whose work include the theme for M*A*S*H ---“Suicide Is Painless”

1926: At Kibbutz Ein Harod, “Noach Hantman, a farmer and poet and Yehudit Volwelsky, a social activist” gave birth to Rafi Eitan, the leader of the Mossad operation that led to the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichman.

https://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/personalities/pages/rafi%20eitan.aspx

1928: In New Haven, CT, George Bock and the former Peggy Alpert gave birth to Jerrold Lewis Bock, the man who composed such Broadway hits as “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Fiorello!” and “She Loves Me.”

1929: After 407 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Whoopee!” a musical with lyrics by Gus Kahn and starring Eddie Cantor as “Henry Williams.”

1930(3rd of Kislev, 5691): Eighty-three year old Russian born American “Hebrew Poet” Israel Fine who was “an intimate friend of President Roosevelt” and the author of “Ode to America” which was “written in Hebrew on the occasion of the centennial celebration of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in 1914” passed away today.

https://www.jta.org/1930/11/26/archive/israel-fine-poet-zionist-friend-of-roosevelt-dead

1932: “Dr. Finley Honored As Friend of Jews” published today described banquet in which Dr. John H. Finely, the associate editor of the New York Times was awarded the American Hebrew Medal which goes to the American who has done most to promote better understanding between Chrisitians and Jews in the United States during 1932.

1932: “The Wonderful Day” a comedy film produced by the brothers of Bernard Natan and Emile Natan was released today in France.

1934: It was reported today that “in an effort to curb excessive rentals” the Municipal Council of Tel Aviv “passed a regulations for the fixing of a maximum rate of rent for all business and residential property in the community.”

1934: Today “while the rest of the team was playing in Omiya, Moe Berg went to Saint Luke's Hospital in Tsukiji, ostensibly to visit the daughter of American Ambassador Joseph Grew. Instead, Berg went up to the roof of the hospital, one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, and filmed the city and harbor with his movie camera. This provided American intelligence with rare photos of the city

1935: In New York City, Milton and Abby Goldsmith gave birth to “critic and classical pianist” Harris Goldsmith.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/arts/music/harris-goldsmith-classical-pianist-and-critic-dies-at-78.html



1935: “Stars Over Broadway,” a musical produced by Samuel Bischoff, with a screenplay co-written by Jerry Wald and Julius Epstein was released in the United States by Warner Brothers.

1936(9^th of Kislev, 5697): Sixty-two year old Samuel Jacob Jatzkan, the Lithuanian born rabbi turned publisher who was an early support of Herzl passed away today after suffering a heart attack in Paris.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E06E5DC173EEE3BBC4C51DFB767838D629EDE

1936: Life, the photo journalism magazine, created by Henry R. Luce, was first published. In the days before television, webcams, the internet and the myriad of other ways we have a recording and sending pictures, Life, with it large splash, creative or documentary like images was the major window on the world for millions of Americans.  It was the photographers who made Life the magazine it was and some of the most famous were Jewish including Alfred Eisenstaedt who shot “The Kiss,” Robert Capa who shot “Death of a Loyalist Soldier” as well as the first still photos of first wave at Omaha Beach, Cornell Capa who photographed Grandma Moses and Margaret Bourke-White who snapped “Working Atop the Chrysler Building.”          

1937: In the tenth day of the Arnold Bernstein’s trial before the Hamburg Emergency Court, the German-Jewish shipping magnate is charged by the the prosecution with “exchange irregularities in connection with 2,000,000 marks loaned by the Chemical National Bank of New York.  The trial was part of a ploy by the Nazi government to assume control of Arnold Bernstein & Red Star Line.

1938: In a memorandum to Winston Churchill correspondents in Europe quote Hitler as saying, “he wanted eliminate from German life the Jews, the Churches and suppress private industry.  After that, he would turn to foreign policy again.”

1938: It was reported today that, “The movement started only a week ago by Palestine Jewry to adopt children from Germany is spreading with amazing rapidity.  Following a suggestion made by Israel Rokach, Mayor of Tel Aviv…to members of the Jewish Women’s Labor Federation” have already “volunteered to adopt refugee children.”  The National council of Palestine Jewry had set a goal of adopting 5,000 children but given the quick positive response the goal will be met and exceeded.

1938: Violinist Mischa Elman played “Larghetto Lamentoso” during Leopold Godowsky’s funeral which was held in Manhattan today.  Godowsky was the composer of this piece of music. Music critic Leonard Liebling described the late composer as “a citizen of the world” and “a great and patient teacher of music…” (Godowsky, Elman and Liebling were all Jewish.)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60914FF3C5F1B7A93C0AB178AD95F4C8385F9

1938: In a column published today Leopold Godowsky was described as “a unique figure among all his contemporaries: a phenomenal pianist and a musician of the most exceptional attributes.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB071EFF3C5F1B7A93C1AB178AD95F4C8385F9

1939: At 2:30 pm WEVD is scheduled to present a program of “Jewish Melodies.”

1939: “Measure Meets Strong Opposition in Upper House” published today described the split in Hungary with House of Deputies approving the government’s Land Reform Bill which would first be felt by non-resident Jews whose estates would be the first to be broken up and those in the Upper House who oppose the bill that “would allot 1,500,000 acres to small tenants.”

1939: In Baltimore, at the annual convention of the Junior Hadassah, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise told his audience “that American Jews who really believed in democracy had no choice but to support the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine.”

1939: “Jung Denies Link to Nazi Organizations” published today described testimony by Harry A. Jung, an American anti-Semite before the House Committee on un-American Activities in which he claimed never to have corresponded with Oscar C. Pfaus and Anna Bogenholm who wanted to start a paper called The National American Patriot that would play a key role “in recovering our country from control of the Jews..”

1939: “The National Catholic Welfare Council said today” that during the two years since January, 1937 the Episcopal Committee from Refugees from Germany has handled the cases of 2,756 refugees “the majority of whom “are of Jewish extraction.”

1939: In Nazi-occupied Poland, Frank ordered that “All Jews and Jewesses within the Government-General who are over ten years of age are required to wear . . . the Star of David.

1940: All Jewish professors of the Utrecht University were dismissed, among them the Dutch mathematician Julius Wolff.

1940: Newspaper people visited Abu Sinan, a village north of Nazareth, where they investigated reports that Helen Yussef Nicola, an 8 year old Arab girl whose parents are devout Greek Orthodox, has been responsible for miraculous healings including cures “of a crippled Arab boy and a crippled Jewish boy from Tel Aviv.”  Over the last two weeks, “hundreds of Christians, Moslems and Jews have visited Helen and come away allegedly convince of her curative capacities.”

1941:  Cherna Berkowitz describes the arrival of refugees at Dorohoi at Transnistria. "The deportations resumed. Women, elderly people and so many children in the freezing cold. With each passing day their numbers dwindle as more of them die.” Dorohoi, people say, “We send the children to give the newcomers some warm tea. They return with horror stories. The men were all at work when they deported the women and children. We have one woman with three small children, one of whom is not yet weaned. All she has are rags and a few pennies in her pocket. The soldiers round up the arrivals and order them to march on."

1941: Thirty thousand Jews are killed at Odessa, Ukraine. "

1942(14^th of Kislev, 5703): Seventy-eight year old the Netherlands native Louis Sachs, the son of Jacques Löehman Sachs and Rebekka de Jonge  and husband of Emma Sachs was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz

1942: Hitler: Man of Strife by Ludwig Wagner the first full-length biography about the Nazi dictator to appear in the United States since the publication of “Hitler” by Konrad Heiden in 1936 was published today.

1942: “My Sister Eileen,” a comedy written by Joseph A. Field and Jerome Chodorov and produced by George S. Kaufman which had opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre, transferred to the Ritz Theatre where it opened tonight.

1943: One hundred and fifty Jewish partisans escape from Occupied Kovno, Lithuania, and head eastward into the Rudninkai Forest.

1943: In one of the most bizarre moments in WW II the following a British bombing raid on Berlin, the damage report of the police commissioner of the Nazi capital recorded a strike on the New Synagogue. 

1943: Birthdate of Andrew Goodman.  Goodman worked a volunteer in the voter right’s registration movement in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. He and two of his fellow volunteers would be murdered that summer in Neshoba County.  It would take years to finally bring their killers to justice.  This brutal murder was one of the many events that helped bring about the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.  That fall, Mississippi would show its displeasure with this change in events by voting for Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate for President who opposed the Civil Rights Act.  This election would mark a turning point in American history providing the Republican Party with its political base.  

1944: “Three Is a Family” a comedy based on a play by Henry and Phoebe Ephron was released in the United States today.

1944: In New York City, “Selma Judith (née Levy), a president of The League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC and  Irwin Lionel Toback, a stockbroker and former vice president of Dreyfus & Company” gave birth to “screenwriter, director and author” James Lee Tobck

1944:Over the next four days, Swiss consulate officials Leopold Breszlauer and Ladislaus Kluger issue about 300 protective documents to Hungarian Jews gathered at the Hungarian-Austrian border.

1944: Birthdate of Joe Eszterhas, the Hungarian-American author, who cut his father out his life entirely what at age 45 he learned “his father had concealed his collaboration in the Hungarian Nazi government and that he had "organized book burnings and had cranked out the vilest anti-Semitic propaganda imaginable."

1945: Ruth and Moshe Dayan give birth to Asaf "Assi" Dayan, an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/an-israeli-remake-heads-to-hollywood/

1945:  Birthdate of comedian Steve Landesberg.  Born in the Bronx, Landesberg is best known for his portrayal of Dietrich, the cerebral detective on in the television sitcom, Barney Miller.

1946: Fawi Husseini, cousin of Arab Higher Committee chairman, is killed by Arabs for selling land to Jews.

1947(1st of Cheshvan, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

1947: Der Tog (The Day) began publishing a serialized version of Oyf Fremde Vegn (On Foreign Roads), a novel of Jewish life in America, today

1947: U.S. Army chaplain, Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz married Holocaust survivor Rachel Abramowitz married at Berlin.  They had first met at one of the DP camps General Eisenhower had established for Jewish survivors of the Shoah following clashes in camps shared between survivors and those they recognized as murderers. To Eisenhower’s credit, he found that “The situation was unbearable” and moved to remedy it.

1947:  Eliezer Sukenik an outstanding archaeologist and text expert on the faculty of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered earlier that winter by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran.  Sukenik was able to purchase three of the scrolls they had found, the War Scroll, the Thanksgiving Scroll and a small Scroll of Isaiah.  The Great Scroll of Isaiah had already been purchased the Metropolitan Stephen, of St. Mark’s Church.  In one of the strange twists of fate, Yigal Yadin, Sukenik’s son, would arrange for the purchase of the Scroll of Isaiah and three other scrolls in 1954.  The purchase began with a simple newspaper ad in the Wall Street Journal, “Miscellaneous For Sale…Four Dead Sea Scrolls.” Yadin knew the importance of the items and arranged for a loan of a quarter of a million dollars (a large sum in those days, especially for the infant state of Israel) to bring them back to their ancestral home.  The secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls are still being unlocked by scholars to this day.  Considering that the acquisition of the scrolls began against the backdrop of the Partition of Palestine and the Israeli War for Independence, there is enough adventure here for an Indiana Jones style movie.

1948: In today’s session of the UN General Assembly's Political and Security Committee, Dr. Philip C. Jessup suggests that both Bernadotte and UN partition plans be considered in fixing Israeli boundaries. Israel would keep Galilee and pan: of Negev.

1948: Sharp tongued journalist H.L. Mencken whose diaries revealed a streak of anti-Semitism which did not keep him being “close friends” with Alfred Knopf and Ben Hecht, praising the work of Ayn Rand or that asserted that “books such as Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street by Eddie Cantor (ghost-written by David Freedman) did more to pull America out of the Great Depression than all government measures combined” “suffered a stroke, which left him aware and fully conscious but nearly unable to read or write and able to speak only with difficulty.”

1948: During the War for Independence, Israeli forces launched Operation Lot in the “eastern Negev and Arava.”

1948: Aubrey S. Eban (Abba Eban) defended Jewish claims to both the Galilee and Negev.

1948: Israel forms a reserve forced made up of men aged 40 to 45.

1949: One day after he had passed away funeral services were for Dr. Nathan Krass, the rabbi emeritus at Temple-Emanuel, a congregation he had served for nine years.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/24/96478961.html?pageNumber=32

1949: Israeli forces made their way through the Negev Desert to the isolated outpost at Sodom (the Biblical Sodom) on the Dead Sea which had been cut off from any overland contact for more than six months.  Their success in reaching Sodom extended the boundaries of the new state of Israel 20 miles further south and east.

1950: As of this date 80,000 Jews were reported to be waiting to leave Iraq.

1950: In Brooklyn, exterminator Abraham Schumer and the former Selma Rosen gave birth to Charles Ellis Schumer better known as New York Senator Chuck Schumer.

1951: In London Diana, née Schneiderman and Mark Rapport, “a taxi driver” gave birth to David Stephen Rapport.

http://davidrappaport.co.uk/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/04/obituaries/david-rappaport-character-actor-38-seen-on-la-law.html?scp=8&sq=la%20law&st=cse

1951: “Superman and the Mole Men” a film directed by Lee Sholem and based on characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster was released in the United States today.

1952(5^th of Kislev, 5713): Sixty-three year old Polish born Yiddish writer “Ber (Berl) Lapin” who split his adult life between the United States and Argentina passed away today.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/02/ber-berl-lapin.html

1953: “Three Sailors and a Girl,” a musical film based on George S. Kaufman’s “The Butter and Egg Man” produced by Sammy Cahn who created the music along with Sammy Fain and with a script co-authored by Devery Freeman was released today in the United States.

1955(8^th of Kislev, 5716): Today, on his way home from a boxing matching, sixty year old  Shemp Howard suffered a fatal heart attack and/or cerebral hemorrhage.

http://www.shemphoward.com/biography.html

1956 (19th of Kislev): Birthdate of Elliot R. Wolfson, author of Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menachem Mendel Schneerson



1956(19th of Kislev):: On Friday night, Rabbi Schneerson, "The Rebbe," delivers "a learned discourse on kabbalistic themes to mark the 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev...the Lubavitch 'Day of Redemption.'"



1956: "An inflammatory proclamation was read in all mosques in Egypt declaring 'All Jews are Zionists and enemies of the State.'"

1957: “I Was A Teenage Frankenstein,” a “cult classic” co-produced by Herman Cohen and Iowa native Samuel Z. Arkoff was released today in the United States.

1958: Birthdate of Jerusalem native Izhar Ashdot, the singer-songwriter and co-founder of the rock bank T-Slam.



1958(11th of Kislev, 5719): Fifty-four year old comedian Harry Einstein, who had begun his career writing for Eddie Cantor died from a heart attack at a Friars Club of Beverly Hills Roast of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz today in Los Angeles, California.



1958: “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” a biopic for which Mark Robson “received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination” was released today in the United States.



1959: David Susskind produced The White Stage, this week’s selection for “The Play of the Week.”



1963: Congregants of Agudas Achim in Austin, TX who had been planning to dedicated their new building today – an event that was to include a visiting from Vice President Lyndon Johnson – “gathered to mourn the death of John F. Kennedy and pray for their old friend Lyndon Johnson;”



1964: “Bajour” a musical featuring Herschel Bernardi and Herbert Edelman opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre.



1964(12^th of Kislev, 5681): Abraham Lieber, the father of Ronald and Dr. Leon Lieber passed away today in Ponca City, OK.





1967: Edward and Peter Bronfman made the opening statements at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim when the Library Museum, which was a gift in honor of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bronfman was formally opened today.



1968: After 1, 234 performances, the curtain came down on the Broadway production of “Cactus Flower” a farce written by Abe Burrows.

1970: Birthdate of Oded Feher.  Born in Tel Aviv he lived there until he was age 18 when he joined the Israel Navy for 3 years. At the completion of his National Service duty, he went to Europe to pursue a business career but instead of business, he discovered acting. He went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England. Oded appeared as Don Juan in a production of Don Juan Comes Back From War at the Courtyard Theatre in London.  He has also appeared in both The Knock and Killer Net on British Television.  In his Breakout Role, Fehr played the role of Ardeth Bay in his first major screen role, The Mummy, a 1999 Universal release.

1972: Birthdate of Christopher James Adler,an American drummer, best known as a member of the metal band Lamb of God. He is the older brother to bandmate and guitarist Willie Adler.

1973(28th of Cheshvan, 5734): Mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel passed away. Leonard Bernstein paid her tribute in a eulogy at her funeral, saying, ‘when Jennie opened her mouth, God spoke.’”

http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1967/jennie-tourel

1973: Following a cerebral hemorrhage that he suffered on November 18, David Ben Gurion stopped improving and his condition began to deteriorate today.

1974: During the height of the Cold War and the fight to “free Russian Jews,” “at a meeting in Vladivostok, USSR, U.S. President Ford and Soviet leader Brezhnev negotiated arms control.”

1975: Dr. Mikhail Stern was reported to be seriously ill in prison.

1976: Soviet authorities searched the apartments of “the organizers of the symposium on Jewish culture including Benjamin Fain, Vladimir Prestin, Pavel Abramovich, Vladimir Lazaris, Iosif Begun and Eliyahu Essas.

1983: Seventy-nine year old tUkrainian poet Mykola Bazhan whose 1943 poem “Babi Yar” “explicitly depicted the infamous massacre in the ravine” but does not mention the fact that the victims were Jews passed away today.

http://polyhymnion.org/lit/bazhan/

1987: About 100 Soviet Jews, united by their inability to emigrate, crowded into a two-room apartment today to discuss state secrets: the secrets that keep them from leaving the Soviet Union, the secret process by which the holders of secrets are identified, and the reason the secrets themselves are secret. 1988: “Cocoon – The Return” a sequel co-starring Jack Gilford and Steve Guttenberg was released in the United States today.

1988: “Scrooged” a comedic version “The Christmas Carol” directed and co-produced by Richard Donner with a screenplay co-authored by Mitch Glazer and music by Danny Elfman was released in the United States today.

1989(25th of Cheshvan, 5750): Ninety-three year old art dealer Sidney Janis passed away today. (As reported by Grace Glueck)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E5DB153AF93BA35753C1A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=

1990: “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” a film version of the novel with the same name starring Paul Newman and featuring Melissa Newman was released in the United States today.

1991: “Israel Has Its Nuclear Demons” published today provides a review of The Samson Option by Seymour Hersh.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13217965.400-review-israel-has-its-nuclear-demons-/

1994(20^th of Kislev, 5755): Eighty three year old Oscar winning orchestrator and conductor Irwin Kostal passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/02/obituaries/irwin-kostal-83-orchestrated-music-for-hollywood-films.html

1994: “The Pagemaster” an animated horror film co-starring Leonard Nimoy and with music by James Horner was released in the United States today.

1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Tuesday’s With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom, Banjo Eyes: Eddie Cantor and the Birth of Modern Stardom by Herbert G. Goldman and A History of the Twentieth Century Volume 1: 1900-1933 by Martin Gilbert

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/23/reviews/971123.23gavint.html

2000(25th of Cheshvan, 5761): A powerful car bomb killed two Israelis and wounded scores during rush hour in the coastal city of Hadera this evening. Prime Minister Ehud Barak immediately pledged that Israel would ''get even'' for a ''barbaric'' attack that took the current violence into the country's heartland. The bomb struck at a busy hour on a congested street. A car detonated by remote control blew up beside a city bus on President Street, lifting the bus in the air and hurling it into a kiosk. A blinding flash of light was followed by a tremendous boom. Store windows shattered, and several fires started. A man and a woman were killed, and several people, including a 1-year-old girl, were hospitalized in very serious condition. Naftali Wechter, 47, was riding in the bus in front of the one that exploded. ''I saw a column of smoke and a flash of fire several feet high,'' he said while lying on a gurney at the local hospital. ''We were thrown.'' Also in the hospital, Michal Azaria, 43, a shopkeeper, had a blood-caked face. ''The noise was terrifying,'' he said. ''Things flew in the air and got stuck in my legs. I saw people thrown on the ground. It was like a battlefield. They didn't move. They had blood on their hands and legs, and people were groaning, 'Oy, oy.' They were in great pain.'' Within minutes the street was littered with metal scraps and glass shards. The bus remained whole but was burned out inside. It rested on the sidewalk, its nose inside the kiosk under a crumpled awning. The car that had carried the bomb was nothing more than a piece of twisted metal with a steering wheel.

2000(25^th of Cheshvan, 5761):Sgt. Samar Hussein, 19, of Hurfeish, was killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire at soldiers patrolling the border fence near the Erez crossing.

2000(25^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Lt. Edward Matchnik, 21, of Beersheba, was killed in an explosion at the District Coordination Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.

2000(25^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Sixty-nine year old Clarence Yale Palitz, Jr. the Chairman of the Board  of Financial Federal Corporation and patron of the arts who is survived by his wife Anka passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/classified/paid-notice-deaths-palitz-clarence-yale-jr.html

2001(8^th of Kislev, 5762): Sixty-four year old major league pitcher Robert “Bo” Belinsky, whose mother was Jewish passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/sports/bo-belinsky-64-the-playboy-pitcher-dies.html



2001: An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a van in the West Bank, killing Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a leading member of Hamas, the Islamic terror organization.

2003: The Al Hirschfeld Theatre which had been renamed in honor of his talents and long career reopened on with a revival of the musical Wonderful Town. Hirschfeld was also honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

2003: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural Historyby Adam Bellow and The Media and The War co-edited by Marvin Kalb

2004(10th of Kislev, 5765): Rafael Eitan, a former Israeli Army chief of staff and government minister who was reprimanded after Lebanese Christian allies of Israel massacred Palestinian refugees in 1982, drowned today after being swept into stormy seas. He was 75. Mr. Eitan was a war hero whom Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called "a comrade-in-arms and a friend." But Mr. Eitan's reputation, like Mr. Sharon's, was blighted by the killing of hundreds at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut while Israeli forces stood by. Mr. Sharon called Mr. Eitan's life "the story of this country." Mr. Eitan, known as Raful, was born in 1929 in Tel Adashim, a communal farm, and at 16 he joined the Palmach, an elite fighting force of the Haganah that later became the foundation for the new state's army. A paratrooper and pilot, he fought in all of Israel's wars and was wounded four times. He was appointed chief of staff in 1978.Mr. Eitan was known as a blunt talker and strict disciplinarian who would always meet his troops returning from night raids against the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. He also established programs to bring poor youths into the army to integrate them better into Israeli society. In civilian life, Mr. Eitan was a carpenter and olive farmer. He was also a politician of the right who formed a hard-line party, Tzomet, when he left the army. He opposed withdrawal from Sinai and other interim peace deals with the Palestinians, whom he once called "drugged cockroaches in a bottle." He was elected to Parliament many times and served as agriculture minister, environment minister and deputy prime minister in various governments. His party later joined Likud, which Mr. Sharon currently leads. Mr. Eitan left politics to work in his olive grove and build rocking horses at his wood shop in his birthplace, and in recent years had gone back to work as an adviser and construction coordinator for the Ashtrom Company, which is improving the breakwater at the port in Ashdod. This morning about 7, Mr. Eitan was examining storm damage at the breakfront and talking to the company on a cellphone when he was apparently swept off the breakwater by the sea, the police said. He was found by police and naval personnel aided by a helicopter, but paramedics were unable to revive him. (As reported by Steven Erlanger)

2005: Labor Party MK Ophir Pines-Paz completed his service as Minister of Internal Affairs.

2005: Major General (Ret) Matan Vilnai completed his term as Science, Technology and Space Minister

2005: Ariel Sharon began his second term as Minister of Internal Affairs.

2005: Shimon Peres completes his term in office as Vice Prime Minister.

2005: Dalia Itzik, who will become the first women to serve as Speaker of the Knesset, completed her term as Communications Minister of Israel.

2005: Isaac Herzog completed his term as Minister of Housing and Construction.

2005: Eli Ben-Menachem completed his term as Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction

2005: After playing in the first ten games of the season, today, offensive lineman Lennie Friedman was placed on waivers by the Washington Redskins today.

2005:A decision by a Federal appeals court opens the way for settlement payouts for Austrian Jews. Deferring to US foreign policy interests, a federal appeals court has tossed out a class-action lawsuit by Austrian Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in a ruling that may clear the way for payouts from a 2001 settlement fund.  In a 2-to-1 ruling Tuesday, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said it was "particularly mindful" of the federal government's statement that dismissing the case would advance its relations with Austria, Israel and Western, Central and Eastern European nations. The lawsuit was the final case holding up implementation of an agreement with Austria that established a fund to compensate Austrian Jews whose property was confiscated during the Nazi era and World War II, the appeals court said. Distributions from the Austrian compensation fund were contingent on dismissal of the case. The fund included $150 million to cover certain property claims

2005: The IDF unveiled the tombstones of five soldiers including two American volunteers, who fell in a battle for Latrun in the War of Independence at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery after positively identifying their remains which had been resting in a mass grave. The five soldiers being honored were Pvt. Menachem “Mendel’ Math, Cpl. Shlomo Berber, Pvt. Yehuda "Jerry" Kaplan, Pvt. Ya'akov Shnawiss (who changed his name to Sheleg Lavan), and Pvt. Moshe Hessman. Math and Kaplan were members of MACHAL.” During the War of Independence, some 3,500 volunteers from 37 different countries rallied to Israel's defense. These young men and women, Jews as well as non-Jews, were known as MACHAL (Mitnadvei Chutz-La'Arets) - the Hebrew acronym for overseas volunteers. Many of the volunteers had been members of Jewish underground movements in Palestine and abroad before the State was proclaimed, or had served as crew members on Aliya Bet ships running the British naval blockade to bring Holocaust survivors to the shores of the Land of Israel. Most overseas volunteers were veterans of World War II; their skills and expertise were crucial - often decisive - for the newly-formed Israel Defense Forces, on land, at sea and in the air. These men and women fought valiantly and served with distinction in every branch of the IDF, including infantry, artillery, armor, the air force, the navy, the medical corps and the signals corps, often in key positions. Overseas volunteers came with a high sense of purpose and a shared feeling of pride and privilege in knowing they were helping to create and to defend a Jewish homeland. After the war, most returned to their home countries, but about 500 settled in Israel and raised families. One hundred and nineteen overseas volunteers lost their lives in Israel's struggle for independence: four of them were women; eight were non-Jews. Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, said: "The participation of...men and women of other nations in our struggle cannot be measured only as additional manpower, but as an exhibition of the solidarity of the Jewish people...without the assistance, the help and the ties with the entire Jewish people, we would have accomplished naught...some of our most advanced services might not have been established were it not for the professionals who came to us from abroad..."

2006: Americans gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving. The holiday is based on two traditions: the English Harvest Home and the Biblical Sukkoth.  The Pilgrims were a deeply religious people who saw themselves as modern Israelites fleeing their own Pharaoh so they could worship their One true God.  The New World was synonymous with the Promised Land.  So it was only to be expected that when looking for a way of expressing thanks for a bountiful harvest, they would turn to the Bible and fashion a week long holiday in the manner of Sukkoth.

2006(2nd of Kislev, 5767): Betty Comden passed away at the age of 89.  She was a writer, who with longtime collaborator Adloph Green created the lyrics and the librettos for some of the most celebrated musicals of stage and screen

https://web.archive.org/web/20101023061431/http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C59

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/betty-comden



2006: “Nagasaki, an oratorio composed by Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke” the son of Frankfurt born Jewish journalist Harry Viktorovich Schnittke premiered in Cape Town, eight years after the composer had passed away.

2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, violinist and singer Sameer Makhoul performs with French double bassist Joelle Leandre.

2008: In a visit sponsored by Alive Productions, Randy Newman performs in Tel Aviv's Hamishkan Leomanuyot Habama (performing arts house).

2008:At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, following a dinner, Rabbi Lane Steinger, Regional Director, Union for Reform Judaism, Midwest Council, facilitates adiscussion will concerning interfaith families and the challenges they may face with the upcoming winter holiday season.

2008: In Chicago, on the 500^th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, the Spertus presents a lecture entitled “Calvin and the Jews” in which Dr. Dean Bell, Chief Academic University at Spertus, explores Calvin’s and his impact on Christian/Jewish Relations.

2008: At the Shirlington Branch Public Library, journalist Michaele Weissman discusses and signs her new book, God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee.

2008: The New York Times featured a the review of a biography of the Jewish born creator of the Follies entitled Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Businessby Ethan Mordden.

2008: The Washington Post book section included reviews of the latest addition to the Holocaust Literature genre, The Journal of Hélène Berr,translated from the French by David Bellos and two books that recount “the making of modern Hebrew”:Resurrecting Hebrew by Ilan Stavans and Yehuda Amichai” The Making of Israel's National Poet by Nili Scharf Gold.

2009 Lord Nigel Lawson became chairman of a new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a registered education charity

2009: The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and the Moline Public Library sponsor an address by Israeli Ambassador Asher Naim who will speak on “The Behind the Scenes Story of Operation Solomon: The Exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel”. Author, humanitarian, and retired Ambassador Asher Naim will speak about his work on behalf of Ethiopian Jews during his distinguished diplomatic career. From 1990-1991, Asher Naim served as Israeli Ambassador to Ethiopia. He was instrumental to the success of Operation Solomon, which ensured the rescue and resettlement of Ethiopian Jews. For his efforts in Operation Solomon, and his current work with Ethiopian Jews in Israel, Ambassador Naim was recently presented with the “2009 Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award” from the American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia.

2009 (6 Kislev, 5770): Eighty-year old Fred Silberstein, a survivor of Auschwitz who gave evidence at the Nuremberg Trials passed away today in New Zealand. Silberstein, who was 14 when he was taken to Auschwitz in 1943, spent much of his life educating people in New Zealand about the horrors of the Holocaust and the subsequent dangers of racism. The president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, Stephen Goodman, described him as a righteous person. “For 60 years he worked tirelessly bearing witness to the horrors of the Holocaust,” Goodman said. “He was a modest and humble man.” Silberstein survived operations by Nazi “doctor” Josef Mengele, called the “Angel of Death,” and avoided near-certain death by telling camp guards he was 15 and able to do manual labor. His evidence at the Nuremburg Trials in 1946 helped to convict Nazi leaders such as Hermann Göring and Rudolf Heß. He moved to New Zealand in 1948.

2009 (6 Kislev, 5770): Ninety-one year old Max Eisen, a Broadway press agent from the days when feeding tidbits of gossip to columnists like Walter Winchell and staging stunts were standard practice for stirring up a bit more box-office appeal, passed away today.  (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/theater/01eisen.html

2009: Israeli author Naomi Frenkel is to be laid to rest on Kibbutz Beit Alfa at 2 p.m. today three days after dying at Sheba Medical Center on her 91st birthday.  Frenkel catapulted to fame with her triumphant trilogy, Saul and Johanna (1956-67), which tells the story of two young men who grow up in assimilated Jewish families in Germany before the Holocaust and find freedom through Zionism.  "I don't know what need it met; it's still a mystery to me," Frenkel told The Jerusalem Post's Esther Hecht in 1998 when asked to explain its phenomenal success. She returned to her native Germany briefly after receiving an Anne Frank Foundation scholarship to write the second part of the trilogy.  Born in Berlin to an assimilated family herself, Frenkel was spirited out of Nazi Germany on a boat in 1933 by her guardian after both her parents had died.  She attended Havat Halimud Lebanot, an agricultural school for girls in Jerusalem, studied Jewish thought at the Hebrew University and moved to Kibbutz Beit Alfa, where she married a teacher, Yisrael Rosenzweig, and had a daughter, Idit.  According to Frenkel, she had a falling out with the kibbutz when it wrongly accused her of pocketing reparations from Germany.  "It was character assassination, one of the methods the Left uses," she charged. In any case, she left the kibbutz and when her husband died and remarried journalist Meir Ben-Gur. In 1969, she helped Meir Har-Zion, the hero of Ariel Sharon's legendary Commando 101, edit his autobiography. She worked for the Israel Navy from 1970-8, doing highly classified work and earned the rank of major. Frenkel later revealed that she had edited protocols of the navy and army before and after the Yom Kippur War, and the material that passed through her hands shocked her deeply. "I saw a country that was corrupt, a party that was corrupt, generals who acted out of personal interest," she said. In her later years, Frenkel's political views swung from the Left to the Right, she became religiously observant and settled in Kiryat Arba with her family in 1982. Although she was ostracized by the left-leaning arts community, Frenkel - who had always considered herself an outsider - finally felt at home. "I felt I had found what I was looking for," she said. "I had found my place. I found what it means to be a Jew. I will never leave Hebron, under any circumstances." After the terrorist murder of 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass in Hebron in 2001, she wrote, alluding to the Hebrew meaning of the baby's name: "Despite the murder, the flame will never be extinguished. We have returned to our land, and we live now in the city of our forefathers." Last year, she sent a much-publicized message of support to families who returned to the Amona outpost after it had been violently evacuated in 2006, saying: "I bless you in the laying of the cornerstone of your new home. If they destroy it, build it again!" Frenkel won several prizes for her books for children and adults - many of which were translated into German and English - including the Ruppin and Levy Eshkol prizes as well as the Ussishkin, Neumann and Press awards. Her most popular books include My Beloved, My Friend(the story of a young woman who is treated as an ugly duckling when she arrives on a kibbutz) Wild Flower, A Boy Growing Up on the Banks of the Assi, Racheli and the Little Man, Morning Star, Barkai, (which traces the history of a Sephardi family in Hebron), and Preda (her last book published by Gefen in 2003 which is the story of two very different friends: Malchiel, a member of the Old Yishuv, and Yoske, his commander in the Palmach and the Israeli of modern times). Several of Frenkel's books were turned into radio dramas and television movies. She never cut ties with Kibbutz Beit Alfa, especially because it was the birth place and home of her daughter, and requested that she be buried there.

2010: Kathleen Straus is scheduled to be honored with the Jewish Community Lifetime Achievement Award by the Detroit American Jewish Committee.

2010: Dwight Garner’s list of the “Top 10 Books of 2010” included books written by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “ Simon Wiesentahl: The Life and Legends”  by Tom Segev, “Letters” by Saul Bellow; edited by Benjamin Taylor, “Cleopatra: A Life” by Stacy Schiff, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance” co-authored by Nouriel Roubini, “Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, “Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory” by Ben Macintyre, one of the most successful disinformation operations of the 20^thcentury which was masterminded by Ewen Montagu, a leading member of the UK’s Jewish community.

2010: This afternoon at JFK airport in New York City, a Holocaust survivor was reunited with the Polish man who rescued her from the Nazis, after not having seen one another for 65 years. Wladyslaw Misiuna, 85, from Poland, and Sara Marmurek, 88, from Canada had not seen each other since the war. NEW YORK – On Tuesday afternoon at JFK airport in New York City, a Holocaust survivor was reunited with the Polish man who rescued her from the Nazis, after not having seen one another for 65 years. Wladyslaw Misiuna, 85, from Poland, and Sara Marmurek, 88, from Canada had not seen each other since the war. They were reunited by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, a New York-based non-profit organization which identifies, honors and financially supports non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The organization flew them in to the US as an illustration of gratitude in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. “Mr. Misiuna helped me. He gave us food. And he told us what’s going on in the world,” Marmurek told the New York One cable news channel. “If they [the Nazis] found [out] he brought food for us, he could have been shot. If they found out he tells us what’s going in the world, he could have been shot. Anything he did [sic].” When asked why he did what he did, Misiuna said through an interpreter, “I acted as a human, as a human who was able to help and not only look at it [the persecution] and walk away.” In the summer of 1943, Marmurek had been taken from the Sandomierz ghetto in Poland to Radom, where she was imprisoned at women’s slave labor camp Szkolna. Inmates at Szkolna were forced to work in an Austrian-owned armaments factory. Misiuna, a local Polish teenager, saw the way the women were treated as they were marched to the factory, and it upset him. He got a job tending the factory owner’s rabbit farm, and convinced German troops to allow Marmurek and four other women inmates to help him in the farm. During the work day, Misiuna fed the women and gave them medicine and clothing. At one point, one of the women became very ill, and Misiuna deliberately infected himself so that he could get the appropriate medicine to treat her. He wrote poems for the women, and tried to give them hope and the will to live through their ordeal. “These young Jewish women and I lived like a family,” Misiuna recalled. The Szkolna camp was “liquidated” on July 25, 1944. Misiuna was in the fields, collecting grass for the rabbits, and returned to find that the women he had been working with had been marched to another location, and from there, were sent to Auschwitz in August of 1944. While most Jews arriving at Auschwitz at that point were gassed immediately, the five women, having been fed proper food by Misiuna for over a year, were healthy enough to be kept alive to be put on work detail. In November 1944, they were transferred to the Ober- Alstadt slave labor camp. In the meantime, after the Szkolna camp was liquidated, Misiuna was denounced to the Germans and sentenced to death. He escaped and remained in hiding until Radom was liberated in January 1945. In early May 1945, the five women were liberated by the Soviet army, attributing their survival in no small part to the kindness shown to them by Misiuna. “I thank God that I have the opportunity to say thank you to him in person for what he did,” Marmurek said. The two will spend the Thanksgiving holiday together.

2010(16th of Kislev, 5771): Seventy three year old Ingrid Pitt,long celebrated as the first lady of British horror cinema, who starred in sanguinary classics of the 1970s like “The Vampire Lovers,” “Countess Dracula” and “The House That Dripped Blood,” died today in London. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/arts/25pitt.html

                                                                                                                                       

2011: The Israeli Folk Dance Thanksgiving Marathon is scheduled to begin at 9 pm at the 92^nd St Y in Manhattan.

2011:Rabbi Nava Hefetz, Educational Director at Rabbis for Human Rights is scheduled to be the  guest speaker at the first session of the Adult Education series at the West London Synagogue.



2011:The IDF identified Bedouin smugglers on the southern border trying to infiltrate Israel from Egypt, and a firefight erupted between the two sides tonight. No IDF soldiers were injured in the clash. The two smugglers attempting to penetrate the border into Israel were identified by an IDF force who, according to regulations, fired at their legs. Although details of the incident were not immediately clear by press time, a second firefight between the Beduin smugglers and Egyptian security forces also apparently developed. The smugglers returned toward Egypt but were identified by Egyptian security forces on the southern side of the border. They fired at the Egyptians, killing two security officers, according to Army Radio. The two incidents apparently took place 400 meters apart from each other. The IDF recovered a Kalashnikov and a pistol from the area.



2011: Recent archeological excavations in Jerusalem show that, contrary to popular understanding, King Herod was not solely responsible for constructing the Western Wall. Israel's Antiques Authority announced today that the discovery of a mikveh (ritual bath) alongside Jerusalem's ancient drainage channel challenges the conventional archaeological perception that Herod built the wall in its entirety, saying it is now evident that construction was completed at least 20 years after Herod's death (believed to be in 4 BCE). The excavations, directed by IAA archaeologist Eli Shukron with assistance from Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa, revealed three clay oil lamps of a type that was common in the first century CE as well as seventeen identifiable bronze coins. The clay oil lamps and bronze coins were found when archeologists sifted through soil removed from inside the sealed mikveh. According to Dr. Donald Ariel, curator of the IAA numismatic collection, the latest four coins were struck by the Roman procurator of Judea, Valerius Gratus, sometime around 17 or 18 CE – about 20 years after Herod's death. "This bit of archaeological information illustrates the fact that the construction of the Temple Mount walls and Robinson’s Arch was an enormous project that lasted decades and was not completed during Herod’s lifetime," said the IAA, adding that the find confirms descriptions by the Jewish historian Josephus, which state that it was only during the reign of King Agrippa II (Herod’s great-grandson) that the work was finished."



2011:The threat of another political murder exists in Israel, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch told the Knesset today. Aharonovitch's statement came in response to a query from MK Isaac Herzog (Labor) following the repeated harassment of activist Hagit Ofran and the Peace Now organization. Recently, death threats were sprayed on the apartment building of Ofran, a Peace Now activist, and Peace Now offices in Jerusalem were vandalized in suspected "price tag" attacks. "Price tag" is the name given by extremists to activities against Palestinians, peace activists or security forces in response to what are considered to be actions against the settlements or illegal outposts in the West Bank. "Police are conducting a vigorous investigation and arrested a suspect who is still in custody," Aharonovitch told MKs. "The case is still being investigated. The investigations branch is doing all it can to prevent such acts and to investigate fully what happened.""As for the threat of another political murder, this is indeed a question," Aharonovitch said. "It is my job to be worried. The threat exists. Both we and the Shin Bet security service, it is our job to be vigilant and conduct all operations. We're talking about a threat that covers the entire political spectrum." The most infamous political murder in Israeli history took place on November 4, 1995 when then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist after a peace rally in Tel Aviv.



2012: “Oy Vey! The Play” a comedy about a wealthy widow, her three daughters, her son, her Rabbi is scheduled to be performed at The Lion Theatre in New York City.



2012(9^th of Kislev, 5773): Seventy-four year old Devorah Krinsky “ the wife of Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, secretary to the late Lubavitcher rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson” whom she married in 1957 passed away. (As reported by JTA)



2012: "Seeds of Resiliency," a new film directed and produced by Susan Polis Schutz, the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants is scheduled to open tonight at the Quad Cinema in NYC.



2012: Memorial services were held for Art Ginsburg, the American television chef known as Mr. Food, “were held at B'nai Aviv Synagogue in Weston” after which he was buried at Beth David Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Florida



2012: National Yiddish Theater Presents "The Golden Land" at the Baruch Performing Arts Center



2012: Rain fell from the North to the Negev today morning with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms forecasted to continue throughout the day.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=293174



2012: Hamas Islamists enforced a fragile two-day-old truce on today by evacuating Palestinians from a "no-go" border zone after IDF gunfire across the Gaza border killed one Palestinian and wounded several others.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=293204



2013: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a performance of the Klezmer Nutcracker Holiday Concert.



2013: As part of the Murra Blackman Memoril Weekend, Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman delivers a Shabbat sermon “What is the Most Important Verse in the Torah?” followed by an afternoon talk “The Two Happiest Days in Judaism – What are they? A Taste of Talmud” (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)



2013: Israeli soldiers “fired rubber bullets at a group of Palestinians who were throwing stones at them during a day in which three Arabs were arrested by Israeli forces near the security barrier separating the Jewish state from the Gaza after they had snuck across the border near Kibbutz Be'eri. (As reported by Gil Roen)



2013(20^thof Kislev, 5774): Seventy-seven year old philanthropist and businessman Dov Lautman lost his battle with ALS today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/philanthropist-industrialist-dov-lautman-dies-aged-77/

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4456867,00.html



2013(20^thof Kislev, 5774): Eight year old Peter B. Lewis, the former Chairman of Progressive Insurance Company passed away.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/longtime-progressive-ceo-peter-lewis-dies-at-80/





2014: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris’ “novelization of the Dreyfus affair” and Memories of a Marriage by Louis Begley.



2014: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to present “Poetry & Prose Workshop” with Willa Schneberg.



2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration, and the Making of an American Family.”



2014: Eighteenth annual UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.



2014: The Chabad Partners Conference is scheduled to be held at the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel

http://kinus.com/media/pdf/843/FiTl8434492.pdf



2014: A live broadcast from the Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, a group that includes Rabbi Pinchas Ciment who has been a lamplighter par excellence in Arkansas for over two decades, is scheduled to take place this afternoon.

http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/221818/jewish/Live-Broadcast-Conference-of-Chabad-Lubavitch-Emissaries.htm





2014(1^stof Kislev, 5775): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



2014(1^stof Kislev, 5775): Sixty-five year old Allan Kornblum, the founder of Coffee House Press passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/business/media/allan-kornblum-independent-publisher-dies-at-65-.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1





2014: By a vote of 14 to 6 “the cabinet approved a controversial proposal today to define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people in a constitutional Basic Law.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-okays-controversial-jewish-state-bill-sends-it-to-knesset/



2014: “Riots follow Sakhnin’s 1:0 victory over Beitar in soccer match.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/riots-follow-sakhnins-10-victory-over-beitar/



2015: In Potomac, MD, Congregation Har Shalom is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Reuven Hammer on “Akiva: Living and Dying for Love.”

2015: The New England Patriots football team observed a minute of silence before its game tonight in memory of 18 year old Sharon, MA native Ezra Schwartz who was murder by a terrorist while distributing food packages soldiers to Israeli soldiers. (As reported by Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman)

2015: “Thanksgiving – A Holiday of Family and Foods

https://www.jhsgw.org/blog/thanksgiving-a-holiday-of-family-and-foods?utm_source=Thanksgiving+%2F+In+the+Press&utm_campaign=Thanksgiving%2FIn+the+media&utm_medium=email



2015: In London, The Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a talk by curator Joanne Rosenthal on the exhibition “Blood” which “draws together manuscripts, prints, Jewish ritual and ceremonial objects, art, film, literature and cultural ephemera to present a rich exploration of how blood can unite and divide, reflecting on over 2,000 years of history.”

2016(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5777): Eighty-six year old British comedy start Andrew Sachs passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/arts/television/andrew-sachs-hapless-waiter-on-the-bbc-sitcom-fawlty-towers-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well



2016: “The Tenth Man” and “The Last Laugh” are scheduled to be shown in Melbourne, Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.



2016: “The Settlers” and “Alone in Berlin” are scheduled to be shown in Sydney, Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2017: “The Heir” and “A Quiet Heart” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: In the spirit of having something for everything, The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Chinese Night” for the hungry preceded by a continuation of a discussion of  Masechet Megilla as part of the in depth study Gemara study program

2017: In the United States – Thanksgiving

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/do-jews-celebrate-thanksgiving

https://reformjudaism.org/blog/2014/11/21/whats-jewish-about-thanksgiving

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/is-thanksgiving-kosher/

https://www.jhsgw.org/blog/thanksgiving-a-holiday-of-family-and-foods?utm_source=Thanksgiving+%2F+In+the+Press&utm_campaign=Thanksgiving%2FIn+the+media&utm_medium=email

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Jonathan Sarna whose works included American Judaism: A History and When General Grant Expelled The Jews continues today.

2018: Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” a play which “recounts the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which was produced on Broadway in 1923” is scheduled to open at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

2018: “Professor Avigdor Shinan and invited guests” are scheduled to “join Israel Museum curators to bring the weekly haftarah to light.”

2018: The Village East Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of “Family in Transition” which tells “the story of a family in Nahariya…whose lives change after their parent comes out as a transgender woman.”

2018: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host the opening of the “9^thAnnual Sigid Celebration” where attendees will enjoy a traditional Kosher Ethiopian Shabbat Dinner.”

2018: While Israelis may not officially celebrate Thanksgiving, they are scheduled to hit the shops for “Black Friday.”

https://www.timeout.com/israel/news/black-friday-2018-the-complete-guide-to-all-the-best-sales-on-israeli-brands-112118

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Black-Friday-seems-to-be-a-thing-now-in-Israel-572391

2019: The UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Solomon and Gaenor” in Newcastle (no need to bring coals)

2019: The Peninsula Jewish Community is scheduled to host “Rabbi Lavey’s Joyous Learning Table,” a tisch filled with stories and song.

2019: As part of “Reconstructing Judasim Shabbatton, Or Zarua is scheduled to host a Shabbat Service with D'var Torah and Conversation with Rabbi Deborah Waxman.

2019: In Berkley, CA, St. John’s Presbyterian Church is scheduled to host “Roses and Almonds” with Tres Hermanicas and Aquila which includes a mix of “centuries-old Sephardic music

2019(25^thof Cheshvan, 5780): Parashat Chayei Sarah; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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166 BCE: According to secular calculations this date marked “The Origin of Era of the Maccabees.”

655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution “that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during the Migration Period, had to pass Christian festivals in the presence of their bishop so as to prove the veracity of their faith” and that “lack of compliance with this last rule would in flogging or forced fasting, depending on the age of the offend” came to an end today.

380: Theodosius I made his” adventus,” or formal entry, into Constantinople. Eight years later, in 388, Theodosius attempted to intervene unsuccessfully on behalf of the Jews of his Empire.  “The bishop of a town on the bank of the Euphrates was among those responsible for the burning of a synagogue by a Christian crowd”  When the governor of the province refused to punish the bishop, Theodosius exercised his imperial power and ordered the offending bishop to build the Jews a new house of worship.  However, Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan and a leader of the Christian Church, overruled the emperor and Theodosius folded like a cheap suit. This episode points to the worsening conditions of the Jews.  If a powerful Emperor like Theodosius could not stand up to the Church, how could one expect a lesser ruler to challenge the growing power of the prelates?

1105: Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary.  According to Heinrich Graetz, Ben Yehiel is the only Italian who made a contribution to Jewish literature during this period which was dominated by the Jews of Spain.  He published his dictionary under the name Aruch.  What this work lacks in originality it makes up for in thoroughness.  It became a standard text for Jews studying the Talmud during the Middle Ages.

1190: Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King. This took place during the period when the Crusaders controlled the City of David.  Their “kingship” should not be confused with the reign of the Davidic Dynasty.

1275:  Edward I issued the Statute of the Jewry which placed a number of restrictions on the Jews of England. See http://www.heretical.com/British/jews1275.html. for a complete copy of the text.

1328: Levi ben Gerson finished “Sefer Tekunah” his work on astronomy today.

1493: Gershon Soncino printed an edition of the Pentateuch at Brescia.

1615: Louis XIII, who reaffirmed the ban on Jews living in France that had been in effect since the fourteenth century, despite the fact that his mother had brought a practicing Jew to France to serve as Louis’ doctor when he was a child, married Anne of Austria, the daughter of Philip III of Spain

1631 (5 Kislev, 5392): Rabbi Samuel Eliezer Edels, also known by the acronym, “MaHarSha,” passed away. Born in 1555 in Krakow, he was one of the best known Talmudic commentators. His Chidushei Halachot is included in almost every publication of the Talmud. He believed that many of the Agadot (Talmudic legends) could be explained rationally and/or as parables. Edels also served as the chief rabbi in Lublin and Ostrog. As part of his commentary and explanation on the subject of guardian angel, Edels wrote, “In the way you wish to go in life, so you will be led by your Guardian Angels." According to the MaHarSha,” this passage explains that, in the way you wish to go in life, so you will be led by your guardian angels.  In other words  every action, word and thought that you do in this world creates an angel, so if you really want something good to happen in your life, create enough angelic good angels with kindness, loving thoughts and honest words . And then these angels you have attracted to you by your good thoughts, words and actions will indeed lead you to your goal.” As you can see from this commentary, all Rabbis living in Eastern Europe were not dry legalist.  Those of you who think of them in that manner will get a chance to re-consider that concept if you study this period of Jewish History.

1632: Birthdate of Baruch Spinoza (known also as Benedict De Spinoza). The life and philosophy of Spinoza are too complex for this brief daily blurb and you are urged to read more about him on your own) In brief Spinoza was born in Amsterdam to Sephardic Jews who had fled from the Inquisition in Portugal, Spinoza received a rigorous Jewish education including the study of such “modern” commentators as Maimonides and Ibn Ezra.   However his inquiring mind led to learn Latin and to study with so-called free-thinkers.  He became a disciple of Descartes and his rationalist philosophic approach to life.  Spinoza was a pantheist believing that God was within nature and not above nature with His own divine will.  To paraphrase Telushkin, Spinoza did not believe that God created nature, but that God is Nature.  In 1656, while still in his twenties, Spinoza was excommunicated (in Hebrew “kerem”) for denying the immortality of the soul and God’s authorship of the Torah.  On this latter point, Spinoza was a forerunner of modern Biblical critics.  He believed that the Torah had not been written by Moses, but by Ezra the Scribe.  The ban from the Jewish community was total.  Spinoza spent the rest of his life moving from place to place in Holland studying and developing his philosophical works.  At one point he joined a Mennonite sect and changed his name to Benedictus or Benedict. By the time of his death in 1677, Spinoza had developed a philosophy of rational pantheism in which to “know” nature is to know God.  Over the centuries, many Jews have expressed their displeasure over Spinoza’s excommunication.  In the 1950’s no less a figure than David Ben Gurion tried unsuccessfully to have the ban lifted.  From the writings of Spinoza: “As long as a man imagines a thing is impossible, so long will he be unable to do it.”  “Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all humankind.”  (Sounds like Hillel).

1752: In Stratford, CT, “Isaac Menes Seixas and Rachel Franks Seixas” gave birth to Grace Mendes Seixas who married Simon Nathan and as Grace Mendes Nathan was the mother of four children

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seixas-nathan-grace

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43058337.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

1767: In Germany, Ellen and Solomon Levi gave birth to Maier Levi, the husband of Juttle Trouble with whom he had elven children.

1767: IN London Ester Leon and Elias Judah Piza gave birth to Judah Elias Piza, the husband of Rachael Piza and the father of Elias Judah Piza and David Piza.

1768: Three years and 11 days after they were married in London, Ribca and Daniel Brandon Seixas gave birth to Daniel Seixas.

1772: Lancaster, PA native Shinah Solomon and Frankfurt native Elijah Etting gave birth to Elizabeth Etting, the wife of Robert Mickle.

1783: In Poland, Sarah and Fishel Chohen gave birth to Hartwig Cohen who had eleven children in South Carolina with his wife Deborah Marks.

1789: In a letter bearing today’s date, George Washington wrote to Lt. Colonel Solomon Bush who had served with him at the Battle of Brandywine thanking him for his letter of July 20 in which he congratulated his comrade in arms on being elected to the presidenc.

1799: In Prague, Judah Jeitteles and his wife gave birth to physician, poet and author Aaron Ludwig Joseph Jeittles

1824: Gabriel Gabriel married Esther Reuben today at the Great Synagogue.

1827: Middlesex, England, natives Hannah Levy and Michael Emanuel gave birth to Morris Emanuel.

1829: In Whitechapel, London, Mary Simha and David Isaac Joseph Belasco gave birth to Rebecca Belasco.

1835: Joseph Myers married Julia Isaacs at the Great Synagogue today.

1841: David Barnard married Kate Nathan today.

1841: Solomon Nathan, the son of Barnett Nathan and Julia Solomons and the husband of Betsy Isaacs with whom he had had five children, was buried today at the “Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.”

1841: In Charleston, Rabbi Poznanski officiated at the married Joseph H. Marks of Columbia, SC and Cecile Abrahams of Charleston, SC.

1843: Birthdate of David Zvi Hoffmann, a rabbi and Torah scholar who was active in the “Wissenschaft des Judentums” a German based movement that attempted to apply scientific methodology to all aspects of Judaism. His daughter Hannah married Alexander Marx who along with Max L. Margolis published “A History of the Jewish People” which was a classic work of the inter-war period. Rabbi Hoffiamn passed away in 1921.

http://seforim.blogspot.com/2012/01/rabbi-david-hoffmann-zl-by-eliezer-m.html

1843: Birthdate of Tammany Hall political leader Richard Croker, Jr. who recognized the importance of the Jewish vote in the municipal elections of 1898 when he threatened to get rid of all the leaders who did not do enough to deliver it to the Democratic Party machine.

1848(28^th of Cheshvan, 5609): Seventy-eight year old Joseph Mendelssohn the German Jewish banker who was the oldest son of Moses Mendelssohn and the uncle of Felix Mendelssohn passed away today.

1851: "Acapulco" published today described the high cost of living in the Mexican city provided the unusual comparison that "a little crib not bigger than a Jew's clothing-shop in San Francisco, brings $50 a month."

1851: Austrian physician Jakob Eduard Polak entered Iran where he began teaching medicine at Dar al-Fonun

1853: The cornerstone for a new Jewish Hospital was laid this afternoon in a two hour long ceremony.  At 2 pm a procession including members of the Hospital Society, the Hebrew Benevolent Society and other dignitaries left the Crosby street synagogue and walked to the site of the new hospital on 28^th street between 7^th and 8^thavenues.  At 3 pm, Henry Hendricks made a few opening remarks in Hebrew and handed the trowel to Sampson Simpson who also make a few remarks in Hebrew before actually laying the cornerstone.  Rabbis Lyon and Helsen then delivered prayers in Hebrews followed by an address given by Rabbi Isaacs in English.  During the talk Isaacs assured listeners, including NYC dignitaries that the hospital would offer its services to all – Gentiles and Jews alike.  Sampson Simpson donated the land on which the hospital is being built.  He has also promised that $30,000 bequest will made to the hospital at the time of this death.

1853: Rabbi Isaacs is scheduled to give a sermon this evening at 5 pm on the topic of Charity.

1855: An article published today entitled “The Merchants of London” described the financial activities of the various banking houses in London.  The House of Rothschild is reported to be very active in the affairs of Spain where it is represented by Mr. Weisler.  The Rothchilds hold large mortgages on the silver mines located in Spain

1858: Under the guidance of Max Maretzek, Adeline Patti made her operatic debut at age 16 in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Academy of Music, New York. (He was the Jewish impresario and concert master.  She was the native of Spain who went on to a brilliant career.) 

1858: A schochet named Aaron Friedman appeared before New York Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann and accused Abraham Joseph Asch, Pesach Rosenthal and Moses Levi of selling lottery tickets which is against the law.  Abraham Joseph Asch served as Rabbi at Beis Hamedrash Hagadol on Bayard Street. Founded in 1852, it was the first congregation founded by Russian Orthodox Jews.  Pesach Rosenthal was the founder of the Downtown Talmud Torah, Yiddish speaking school also founded in 1852.

1858: In New York City, Sergeant Birney and 12 officers of the law, armed with a warrant to search and seize lottery tickets arrested Rabbi Abraham Joseph Asch, Reb Pesach Rosnethal and Moses Levi.  Rabbi Asch was arrested while he was leading services at this synagogue.  All three were taken before May Tiemann to answer the charges lodged against them.

1858: Thanks to the efforts of Austrian born American-Jews impresario Max Maretzek, “Adelina Patti made her operatic debut in the title role of Donizetti’s “Luci de Lammermoor” in New York City.

1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which explained his theory of evolution. Ironically, Hitler was greatly influence by Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution. Hitler believed that the German people were the most advanced race of people, and all others were inferior. For Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest to be true, all other inferior species had to die. Hitler was making sure the inferiors would die off rapidly, so his MASTER RACE would rule faster.

1862: Michel Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert’s "Salammbo." Levy (not Flaubert) was Jewish.

1862: One day after he had passed away, 42 year old Solomon Benjamin the son of Ephraim and Phoebe Benjamin and the husband of Sarah Harris was buried today at the “Wolverhampton Old Jewish Burial Ground.”

1863: During the Civil War, the 82^nd Illinois Infantry under the command of Edward S. Solomon took part in the Union Army’s victory over the Rebels at the Battle of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN. Joseph B. Greenhut, an Austrian born Jew, served as Captain of Company K during the Battle.

1864: Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and Adèle Tapié de Celeyran gave birth to artist Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec whose work included “Reine de joies.”

1867: In San Francisco, Augusta and Joseph Phillip Newmark gave birth to Samuel Mark Newmark, the husband of Carolyn C. Newmark with whom he had two children and who held a patent for “Newmark’s Pure,” a “coffee, cinnamon, tea and lemon extract used for food-flavoring purposes.”

1869(20th of Kislev, 5630): Jonathan Alexandersohn, a German born Hungarian rabbi, passed away passed away in the Jewish hospital at Altofen.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1162-alexandersohn-jonathan

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

1869: Louis Moreau Gottschalk collapsed from having contracted malaria. Just before his collapse, he had finished playing his romantic piece Morte! (interpreted as "she is dead"), although the actual collapse occurred just as he started to play his celebrated piece Tremolo.

1869: During a concert in Rio de Janeiro, having just completed playing “Morte!” composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk collapsed from the effects of Yellow Fever.

1870: Rabbi S.M. Isaacs is scheduled to deliver the sermon at the Forty-Fourth Street Synagogue’s Thanksgiving Day services which will begin at 11 a.m. Children from Hebrew Orphan Asylum will attend the service after which they will be fed Thanksgiving Dinner paid for by the synagogues trustees.

1871: It was reported today that the Reorganization Committee meeting in St. Petersburg has been discussing whether or not to allow Jews to serve as officers in the Russian Army.  The majority of the committee favor postponing a decision until enough time has elapsed to evaluate the recent decision to allow Jews to hold civil service positions in the Russian government.

1873: Birthdate of Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum, the scion of Jewish family living in Constantinople who as Julius Martov became a leader of the Mensheviks during the Russian Revolutions.

1874: It was reported today that Jacob Cohen has donated a printing press, Hebrew type, non-Hebrew type and other printing office furniture to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York.  [The printing operation would prove to be a beneficial source of training an income for the male orphans.]

1875: Birthdate of Jana Fürnbergová, the resident of Prague who was murdered at Terezin.

1877(18^th of Kislev, 5638): Eighty-three year old Rabbi Samuel Bondi of Mayence the son of Rabbi Jonas Moses Bondi and Bella Bondi and thus husband of Sophie Bondi passed away today.

1878: It was reported today that the Rothschilds in London have successfully gained the right to underwrite the “new Numidian loan” for which they will receive a premium commission.

1878: In New York Samuel Sachs and Louisa Goldman Sachs gave birth to Paul Joseph Sachs, the partner in Goldman Sachs and associate director of the Fogg Art Museum who enter American pop culture as one of the Monuments Men.

https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/sachsp.htm

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-harvard-group/sachs-paul-joseph

1878: In Austria, Alfred Abraham Finzi and Rachéle Finzi gave birth to Isak Isidor Finizi

1878: It was reported today that Maggie de Rothschild has been receiving religious instruction from a Roman Catholic priest in Frankfort, Germany.  Conversion to Christianity is a condition set by the family of her future husband, the Duc de Guiche for their approval of the marriage.  The family has no objection to her Jewish money, just to her Jewish religion.  If the trend of intermarriage continues, the more numerous Christian will eventually absorb the Jews. “That is one way getting rid of the Jews…but one which will take time.”

1879: It was reported that a confidence man identified a Hebrew from New York has swindled several French businessmen out of 6,000,000 francs.

1879: It was reported today that Lord Beaconsfield has only been able to gain promises of “moral support from Austria and Germany” in the current conflict involving the Russian and Ottoman empires.

1879: Albert Lavergne, alias Abraham Levy, an Alsatian Jew, went to the 29^thPrecinct in New York and confessed to having stolen $30,000 worth of diamonds in France in 1876.

1879: Birthdate of Yitzhak Gruenbaum the native of Warsaw who was a leader of Polish Jewry until he made Aliyah in 1933 and expanded his career to include a leadership role that caused the British to arrest him during their “leadership sweep” in 1946 and enabled him to become a signatory to the Declaration of Independence in 1948.

1880: “The German War on the Jews” published today noted that “the authorities are inclined to wink at, if not openly encourage, the movement for stemming the rising tide of Jewish power and influence and in the Empire.”  While Chancellor Bismarck has modified his view that used to include opposition of “the admission of Jews into office” the anti-Semitic movement has plenty of power as can be seen from the leadership supplied by Reverend Stoecker, one of the Kaiser’s Chaplains.” (Editor’s note: The emergency of the anti-Semitic movement paralleled the emancipation of Jews in Germany and was in full flower long before a Bavarian Corporal came to power.

1880: At today’s meeting of the New York State Senate Committee on City Affairs, Judge P.J. Joachimsen defended the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society from remarks made by Elbrdige T. Gerry

1881: J.S. Moore responded to the anti-Semitic attacks by Goldwin Smith, a Professor at Oxford that appeared in the October issue of the Nineteenth Century.”

1882 In Munich, Joseph Schülein, the son of Julius and Jeanette Schulen, and Ida Schulein gave birth to Franziska (Mimi) Heinemann, the future wife of Theobald Heinemann.

1882: In Cleveland, OH, Aaron and Theresa Hahn gave birth to Edgar Aaron Hahn, Western Reserve University trained lawyer and Cleveland civic leader who was the husband Irene Hahan with whom he had two daughters – Alice and Katherine.

https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hahn-edgar-a

1882: In New York, incorporation of the Passover Relief Association which was founded in 1877 whose officers included Morris Silbertstein, President; Mrs. Fred Sobel, Vice President; Mrs. Eli Solomon, Treasurer and Adolph Schwarzbaum, Secretary which supplied 490 families with groceries for Passover.

1884:  Birthdate of Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, the second President of Israel.  After the death of Chaim Weitzman, Ben-Zvi was elected in 1952.  He served until his death in April of 1963.

1885: Henry M. Leipziger, the principal of the Hebrew Technical Institute presented a report at a meeting of the Industrial Education Association in New York today during which he described what his school had during the past 18 months to meet the needs of boys ages 12 to 14.

1885: In Manhattan, David and Wilhemina (Minnie) Cohen gave birth to Bluma Cohen who gained famed as Blanche Cohen Nirenstein, the wife of realtor Alexander Schlang and Ellick Nirenstein whose civic work earned the title of “Mother of Year” according to the RJJ School Ladies League.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/04/archives/mrs-blanche-nirenstein-official-of-mizrachi-87.html

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nirenstein-blanche-cohen

1885: In Friend, Nebraska, Sydney Dix Strong and his wife gave birth to Anna Louise Strong, the wife Joel Shubin, the Jewish agronomist and “Soviet Deputy Minister of Agriculture.”

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/index.htm

1886: At the Star Theatre in New York, in front of a packed house, Edwin Booth played Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” part to which he brings a unique portrayal.

1887: “La Tosca” a five-act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou “was first performed today at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role.

1887: In a moment of honesty, Reverend Armitage delivered a sermon at the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in which he “compared the American Thanksgiving feast with joyous ‘Feast of Tabernacles’ of the ancient Jews. This Jewish feast continued eight days, and commemorated the gather of fruits. With the Jews, it was a joyous outpouring of religious feeling and in this quality of their religion they set an example which will be followed by Christians.”

1887: On Thanksgiving, “bountiful dinners” were provided those under the care of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1887: Thanksgiving Services were held at Temple Emanu-El in New York City

1889(1^ST of Kislev, 5650): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1889: “Jews of Bagdad” published today described the mistreatment of the Jews of Mesopotamia during the recent cholera epidemic.

1889: It was reported today that The Conference of the Civic, Commercial, Industrial and Educational Bodies will be presenting a “silk banner” to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society.

1890(12th of Kislev, 5651): Seventy-six year old August Belmont, a Prussian Jew who “came to the U. S. in the diplomatic service, became a representative of the Rothschilds founded the banking house, August Belmont & Co., made a vast fortune and kept a racing stable passed” away today.

1892: The SS Weimar a large number of whose 1,906 passengers are Russian Jews is still detained at the Cape Charles Quarantine facility at Baltimore in accordance with President’s order this matter.

1892: On Thanksgiving Day Mrs. J. P. Jonchimsen will deliver the opening speech at the dedication of the new Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York will take place at 2 p.m.

1894: According to figures provided by Charles G. Wilson, the President of the Board Health published today “the lowest death rate…is in the tenement wards where the Hebrew population is densest.”  Wilson attributed this fact to the observance of “the Mosaic laws regard cleanliness” and avoiding abuse of alcohol as well as the fact that Jews “observe certain religious rules and regulations requiring them to keep their apartments clean.”

1894: In London, premiere of “The Shop Girl” a musical comedy featuring "The Little Chinchilla" a popular song written by Paul Alfred Rubens.

1895: In St. Louis founding of the Prospect Club located at 2737 Locust which meets on the first and last Tuesday of the month.

1895: “Flora’s Beautiful Gifts” traces the role of flowers in various civilizations and cultures including the Hebrews who used the rose and the lily and whose King Solomon “was a botanist” as can be seen from his gardens “which are among the most ancient gardens of which we know.”

1895: Herzl expounds his plans at The Maccabeans Club, the first group to hear his ideas. (In his diary he wrote, "Abends bei den 'Makkabäern'. Mageres Dinner, aber guter Empfang." - In the evening with the 'Maccabaeans', skimpy dinner, but good reception.")

1896: As of today, it was reported that Mrs. Hannah Solomon is President of the National Board of the National Council of Jewish Women and Miss Laura Mordecai is President of the Philadelphia chapter of the organization.

1896: In Limirck, another of the sporadic attacks took place on the Jews of the city.

1897: In Chicago, Illinois, Leopold Godowsky and Frederica Saxe gave birth to silent film actress Dagmar Godowsky.

1897: “Thanksgiving Exercises for Orphans” published today described upcoming holiday plans for those at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue.

1898: Birthdate of Pittsburg native Louis “Lou” Mervis” the Walter Camp All-American lineman who played tackle on the undefeated 1918 University of Pittsburgh football team.

1898 Simon Guggenheim and Olga Hirsch married today at the Waldorf Astoria; an event they celebration by providing 5,000 poor children with a Thanksgiving Dinner.

(Editor’s Note: The following four entries are examples of the Americanization of the Jewish Community in the best sense of the term.  It provides an indication of why American Jews believe that their experience is different from that in Europe, North Africa or the Middle East)

1898: Rabbi Silverman will deliver a sermon on “American Progress” at Temple Emanu-El during Thanksgiving Services that start at 11 a.m.

1898: Rabbi Rudolph Grossman will deliver the sermon at Temple Rodeph Sholom during Thanksgiving Services that start at 10:30 a.m.

1898: Shaarai Tephilla and B’nai Jeshurun  will hold a joint Thanksgiving Service at 10:30 a.m led by Rabbi Stephen G. Wise that will include “the reading of the of the President’s proclamation by Morris Wise, a speech by Washingtonian Simon Wolf and a performance by the brass band of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum

1898: “The Young Men’s Hebrew Association” is scheduled to hold Thanksgiving Services at 861 Lexington this morning starting at 10:30.

1899: Jacob Furth, the Jewish President of the Puget Sound National Bank of Seattle, Washington, described economic conditions in the Northwest to a group meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria. The seven banks in the area have more than 13 million dollars in deposits most of which has been investing in Eastern commercial paper since there is so little demand for money in the Pacific Coast region. Manufacturing and farming have been so profitable that there has been little need for borrowing. Furth concluded his remarks by saying that he saw an automobile for the first time while traveling through Chicago on his way to New York.  Furth is convinced that the Pacific Northwest is too hilly “for the successful operation of the horseless carriage.”

1903: In Vienna, Carl and Emilie Popper gave birth to Hans Popper, “the founding father of Hepatology” who was fortunate enough to escape arrest by the Nazis during the Anschluss by making his way to the United States aboard the SS New Amsterdam.

1904: In New York City, Minnie Dasnin gave birth to Olympic gold medal winning discus thrower Lillian Copeland.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/copeland-lillian

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lillian-copeland

https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/lillian-copeland-1.html

1905 (26th of Cheshvan): Nahum Meyer Shaikevich (Shomer) Yiddish novelist and playwright, passed away

1908: Birthdate of Harry Kemelman, the Boston native who created the Rabbi David Small mystery novels.

1908: Birthdate of Mosze Lifszyc, the native Kiev who gained fame as movie director Aleksander Ford.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080506105210/http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/misi032.htm

1910: Led by Center Albert Lorch “Al” Loe, known as the Yiddish Wildcat, George Tech defeated Clemson today in the final game of the season

1910: On Thanksgiving Day in Atlanta, GA, Leo Frank, who would be lynched in the single worse episode of anti-Semitism in U.S. history, married Lucille Selig, the daughter of Emil Selig.

1911: The Damascus newspaper Muktebisattacked Jews, and in response readers wrote letters to the Grand Vizier to condemn the attitude of the paper.  On the same day the editor of another newspaper, the Turkish Hikmet, insulted Jews in an 'open letter to the Sultan.' As a result of the letter the editor was banished from Constantinople.

1911: Lazarus Klein was elected a member of the Divisional Council in Cape Province, SA, for the district of Tulbagh.

1911: The members of the Monmouthsire Standing Joint Committee “strongly criticized the attitude of police “during the “recent riots in Tredegar, Wales.

1912: In Rochester, NY, David Kanin and Sadie Levine gave birth to screen writer and director Garson Kanin.

1912: In Antwerp Paul (Pinchas) Gluck-Friedman and Henia Shipper gave birth to Antoinette Gluk who would marry a young Swiss-born French rabbi named David Feuerwerker and who would become famous as a decorated hero of the Resistance and as a jurist in post-war France.

1912: In the presence of an audience of 600 persons, including all of the members of the Straus family, a memorial tablet in honor of Ida Straus was unveiled this afternoon at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, an institution for aged men and women at 301 and 303 East Broadway. Impressive services marked the official dedication of the tablet, which has been mounted upon the wall of the large auditorium to the right of the main entrance. The large bronze casting bears the raised profile of Mrs. Straus upon the center, directly under the inscription; “The Ida Straus Memorial of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob.” On one side are the words “Her life was beautiful” and the date in the Hebrew calendar of Mrs. Straus’s birth, “Shebat 14, 5609.” On the other side is the inscription “Her death was glorious,” and the date of the Titanic disaster, “Nisan 28, 5672.” Below the profile are the words: To the everlasting memory of Mrs. Ida Straus, one of the noble and heroic daughters in Israel, the hospital wards of this home are dedicated. She perished on the high seas in the Titanic disaster, together with her husband, Isidor Straus, statesman, philanthropist, and merchant, persistently [sic] refusing to be saved that she might remain to cheer the last moments of her life’s companion. Beneath is this quotation from the Book of Ruth: Where thou Diest Will I Die, and There Will I Be Buried. Dr. Nathan Abramson opened the dedication services with a hymn, in which he led a selected chorus of sixteen voices. The Rev. H. Pereira Mendes delivered the opening prayer, in which he expressed the hope that the example of the heroic and devoted wife in whose memory the tablet was erected and to whose lasting fame the wards of the hospital were dedicated might be forever an inspiration to the women of her race and ancient creed. Dr. Henry Fleischman, President of the Educational Alliance, made the principal address. He lauded the modest charity and kindliness of Mrs. Straus and the great unselfish works of her husband in the public service. Other speakers were Joseph Barondes of the Board of Education, the Rev. Dr. Schulman, pastor of the Congregation of Beth-El; the Rev. H. Masliansky of the People’s Synagogue, and Gustavus A. Rogers, who acted as Chairman.The most impressive incident of the dedication occurred when the 186 inmates of the home, led by Supt. Albert Kruger, filed slowly into the auditorium and took their seats in the front rows. The oldest of the feeble and decrepit men and women was said to be almost 108, and the youngest in the procession more than 70 years old. Just before the close of the exercises they arose and with quavering voices chanted aloud in unison a prayer for the eternal happiness of their departed benefactress. Among those seated on the platform were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Straus, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Mrs. Nathan Straus, Herbert Straus, Jesse I. Straus, Mrs. Weil, Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Kohns, and Mr. Lee Kohns. At the close of the exercises the members of the Straus family group, together with a few intimate friends, made a tour of inspection of the new hospital wards of the home

1912: A meeting in honor of the late Dr. Morris Loeb is scheduled to be held today at the Hebrew Technical Institute in New York.



1912: Services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 in Chicago at Sinai Temple where Dr. Emil G. Hirsch will deliver a sermon “The Open Window.”



1912: In Chicago, Rabbi Joseph Stoltz is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled “It Is Good to Give Thanks” at today’s service hosted by the Isaiah Temple.



1912: Gerson Levi is scheduled to deliver the sermon at The People’s Synagogue where services begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Ziegfeld Theatre.

1912: Rabbi M.J. Gries of Cleveland delivered a sermon today marking the 20^th anniversary of his years of service followed by a special musical program.

1912: “The elections for the Executive Council of the Jewish community in London” which “for the last twelve years have given rise to heated quarrels” between the Zionists “and the so-called official party much to the delight of the anti-Semites are scheduled to take place today.

1913: A mass meeting was held in New York under the auspices of the Federation of Oriental Jews that reside $58,000 for the relief of Balkan Jewry.

1914: Today’s contributions to the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering through the war amounted to $944.74 bring the total collected to day to $25,010.

1914: Today, Herman Bernstein, editor of The Day, a Jewish daily newspaper published in New York “made public telegraphic correspondence” between him and Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, the British Ambassador in Washington, D.C. in which the editor asks if England will give protection to German and Galician Jews living in Jaffa now that the British reportedly occupy the city formerly controlled by the Ottomans.  Spring-Rice responded ‘Jews of all nationalities who may come under British control can of course count on the same protection and liberal treatment which England has always extended to them.  I have, however, no information that Jaffe is in the hands of England.”  (The reality is that the Turks expelled the Jewish population and the British did not take the city until 1917).

1914: “Let Jews Become Turks” published today described the decision of the Ottoman government to grant citizenship to Russian Jews living in the empire – a decision that would mean a great deal to many of the Jewish settlers in Palestine because they came from Russia.

1914: It was reported to that “two members of the Serbian Legation who remained at Constantinople to assist Henry Morgenthau,” the Jewish philanthropist serving as the American Ambassador, “were ordered to leave the city within 48 hours.”

1914: On the Western Front during WW I, Lieutenant F.A. De Pass, a Jewish officer from London “led two of his Indian soldiers into the sap of a German trench that had been pushed out to within ten yards of the Indian line” and destroyed the sap after which de Pass carried a wounded comrade to safety – an action that led him to being the first Jewish officer to receive the Victoria Cross.

1915: As of today, “the contributions to the fund for the relief of the sufferes from the Russian massacres reached a total of $734,494.

1915: Birthdate of Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky, the native of St. Petersburg who gained fame as Alexander Nov, “a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history.”

1915: Jacob Bosniak, presided over a meeting of students at the Jewish Theological Seminary where “resolutions expressing their grief were adopted.”

1915: The faculty of JTS met today for the first time since the death of Solomon Schechter.

1915: In Manhattan, an exhibit sponsored by Bezalel that included rugs, silver filigree work, copper inlaid articles, Torah Bells and Meghilloths came to a close.

1916: At Temple Israel, Dr. M.H. Harris delivered a sermon on “The Fate of the Jew After the War’ in which he talked about the fate of 1,500,000 Jews in Poland and said he did not put any trust in Germany’s recent promise to create an independent Kingdom of Poland.

1916: The Greek government considers calling on Jews to serve in military; prior to this date they were exempt from service.

1916: Writing in The Jewish Chronicle, Dr. Joseph Kruk described his first meeting with Alexander Protopopov, the Minister of the Interior, “on whom depends the course of the policy towards the Jews of Russia” who said he believes “in equal rights for the Jews” but believes that the lack of a commercial treaty will be a hindrance towards his government reaching that goal.

1917: For the first time since the United States entry into WW I,  “With the cooperation of the Dutch government” which was neutral, the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee began distribution “relief funds in territories occupied by Germany.”

1917: In London, Harry Rowson and his wife gave birth to Sefton Wilfred David Rowson who gained fame as Israeli diplomat and Professor of International Law, Shabtai Rosenne.

1917: “A mass meeting” designed “to enroll men and women in the International Zionist Organization” is scheduled to “held at the Morris High School” at eight o’clock this evening.

1917: “The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America announced today that Samuel Mason, as special representative of the organization, has started for Japan to investigate condions among the Jewish emigrants stranded in that country.”

1918: Felix Warburg outlines plans for a December campaign designed to raise funds for Jewish war suffers at a meeting of the People’s Relief Committee which represents the working class of New York Jewry.

1918: The Jewish Welfare Board met today.

1918: “After suspension of aid to Germany that began when the United States entered WW I, today, “with the cooperation of the Dutch government “distribution of relief funds in territories occupied by Germany was resumed by representatives of the JDC of the American Jewish Relief Committee.

1918: “The registration campaign” is scheduled to continue until today at which time the district elections for the ZOA are scheduled to be held.”

1919: In London, a poor Russian immigrant tailor, Louis Kossoff and his wife gave birth to award winning actor David Kossof  who also became “an anti-drug campaigner” when his son rock musician Paul Kossoff died as a result of drug abuse.

1921: “Five congregations, three Christian and two Jewish held a union Thanksgiving service at Temple Israel in Far Rockaway this morning.

1922: Seventy-five year old Italian politician and Prime Minister Sidney Costantino Sonnino, the son of Isacco Saul Sonnino – a Jewish born son of a banker – who converted to Anglicanism passed away today.(Ironically, one of his big claims to fame is that he was regarded as unique because he was a Protestant in country almost completely dominated by Roman Catholic political leaders,)

1922: Birthdate of Claus Adolf Moser, the native of Berlin who was brought to England in 1936 where his contributions to the world of statistics led to his being made a Life peer with the title Baron Moser>

1922: In Akron, Ohio, Benjamin and Bertha Munitz Ovshinsky gave birth to Stanford R. Ovshinsky, the inventor of the nickel-metal hydride battery. (As reported by Barnaby J. Feder)

1924: In New York, Barbara Stettheimer and “Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, who was the president and publisher of The Chattanooga Times and the general manager of The New York Times from 1935 until his death in 1955” gave birth to Julius Ochs Adler, Jr “a business executive and public relations consultant who ran a popular independent bookstore in Manhattan for 16 years.” (As reported by Robert D. McFadden and Eric Pace)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/nyregion/julius-ochs-adler-jr-78-businessman-publicist-and-bookseller.html

1928(11^th of Kislev, 5689): Parashat Vayetzei

1928(11^th of Kislev, 5689): Semei Kakungulu who founded the Abayudaya (Luganda: Jews) community in Uganda in 1917 passed away today.

http://puttivillage.org/history-of-abayudaya/

1928: According to dispatches from Bucharest received by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “Julius Maniu, the National Peasant Premier of Rumania seems determined to maintain the promise he made…after assuming office to see to it that all minority races in the Kingdom including the Jews” will “enjoy the protection of the government in the exercise of their rights.”

1928: “Napoleon’s Barber” an early “talkie” written by Arthur Caesar and featuring Michael Mark was released in the United States today. 

1929: Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France during the final years of World War I passed away.  He provided the stamina that helped France stay the course and defeat the forces of the Kaiser.  For Jews, he will be remembered as a French politician who risked his career to support Emile Zola as he worked to gain justice for Colonel Dreyfus. 

1930: In Essen, Germany “a Jewish father who was the director of a textile company and a Lutheran mother gave birth to Inge Schönthal the photographer who was the wife of “Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.” (As reported by Elisabetta Povoledo)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/obituaries/inge-feltrinelli-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

https://lithub.com/remembering-inge-feltrinelli/

1930: One day after he had passed away, eighty-three year old Russian born American “Hebrew Poet” Israel Fine who was “an intimate friend of President Roosevelt” and the author of “Ode to America” which was “written in Hebrew on the occasion of the centennial celebration of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in 1914” was buried this “afternoon in the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.”

https://www.jta.org/1930/11/26/archive/israel-fine-poet-zionist-friend-of-roosevelt-dead

1931(14^th of Kislev, 5692): On the day before his 51^stbirthday William Andrew Saks, the Baltimore born son the former Jennie Rohr and Saks 5^th Avenue co-founder Andrew Saks passed away today.

1932: A call to orthodox Jewry to unite to finish rebuilding Palestine as a Jewish homeland was sounded today by Rabbi Wolf Gold of Brooklyn, president of the Mizrachi Organization of America, at the opening session of the annual convention of that body held in Buffalo, NY.  “Detailing the Mizrahi’s program for Palestine which calls for a rebuilding along strict orthodox line, Rabbi “Gold held that the organization was the only one in the world which could accomplish the task of taking back to the homeland the ancient principles of Judaism.”  On a more practical note, “Rabbi Gold reported that…$40,000,000 has been invested in more than 63,000 acres of orange groves in Palestine.  Raising oranges is one of the chief industries of the homeland he said.”  Despite problems in the world economy, he reported that orange exports have “increased tremendously” over the last year.

1933(6^th of Kislev, 5694): Seventy-three year old Russian born Rabbi Bernhard Rabbino who served congregations in several small towns including Keokuk, IA and Brunswick, GA, before becoming a lawyer and champion of the established of the “Domestic Relations Courts in New York” and who was the husband of “the former Anna Ladewig” with whom he had had four daughters passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/11/25/105822888.pdf

1933: The German Law Against Dangerous and Habitual Criminals adopted today allows for compulsory castration of “hereditary” criminals.

1934: Lillian Hellman's drama “The Children's Hour” premiered on Broadway today for the first of   691 performances

1934: In “Engels in the Volga German Republic of the Russian SFSR”, Frankfurt born journalist and translator Harry Viktorovich Schnittke and Maria Iosifovna Schnittke (née Vogel) gave birth to composer Alfred Schnittke, the grandson of philologist and translator Tea Abramovna.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cyoungk/schnittkebio.htm

1934: In New York, Birdie (Blakeman) and William Charnin, an opera singer gave birth to Martin Charnin, “best-known work is as conceiver, director and lyricist of the musical Annie.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/theater/martin-charnin-who-helped-create-annie-dies-at-84.html

1934: “In Engels, in the Vogla-German Republic of the Russian SFSR” Frankfurt born Jewish journalist Harry Viktorovich Schnittke and Maria Iosifovna Schnittke, gave birth to Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke, creator of the oratorio “Nagasaki.”

1935: Birthdate of Los Angeles native Mordicai Gerstein the Caldecott Medal winning illustrator whose works include The Man Who Walked Between the Towers.

1936: According to testimony given today before the royal commission of inquiry by officials of the Palestine government including B.G. Harris, irrigation adviser to the development department; B.G. Harris, irrigation adviser to the development department, F.G. Salman, Commissioner of Land and Surveys and N.C. Bennett, assistant director of land surveys, “nothing has been done by the mandatory government to fulfill Article VI of the Palestine Mandate, calling for the facilitation of the settlement of Jews on government land.

1936: “About 600 University of Warsaw students, a third of them girls, locked themselves in the college building today and announced they would refuse to leave until the university agreed to segregate the Jews.”

1936: The Jerusalem Arab daily newspaper al-Liwa demanded the Peel commission should reach only one conclusion: ‘a National Arab Government’ throughout Palestine.

1937: The Reich is about to assume permanent control of the property of the Jewish shipping operator, Arnold Bernstein, without awaiting his conviction on "economic treason" charges. His trial before the Hamburg Emergency Court has been going on for ten days

1938: Winston Churchill condemned the British stewardship of Palestine in speech in the House of Commons.

1938: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chicago native Sylvia Polisky, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Braverman Polisky became Sylvia Padzensky today when she married Edward Padzensky in what became a “love affair that lasted for more than fifty years.”

1939: “Catholic Welfare Council Helped Jews and Others in Reich” published today described the organization’s efforts to refugees from “Germany and countries under the sway of the German Reich” which has included raising $285,486 to help those of Jewish extractions as well as “a large number of Catholics classified as ‘non-Aryans’”

1939: “Links Zionist Aims to Democratic Way” published today described Rabbi Stephen S. Wise’s belief that those “who really believed in democracy had no choice but to support the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine.”

1939: It was reported today that Junior Hadassah has raised “about $100,000 for its undertakings in Palestine” and that it will be a hospital for the children’s Village at Meier Shfeyah to be named for Miss Alice Seligsberger” who “was in charge of the Zionist medical unit which went to Palestine in the World War and established a network of hospitals and similar institutions.

1939: Due in part “to the continued sales of stocks formerly owned by Jews for the Reich’s account” in Berlin, “the share index advanced slightly to 102.07. (Anti-Semitism is good for business)

1940: Slovakia becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers. Regardless of the impact of Slovakian troops on the fighting on the Eastern Front, this move helped lay the groundwork for the Jewish community which saw 65,000 of its 77,000 shipped to the camps and their death by 1945.

1940: The Atlantic, with 1,783 illegal Jewish refugees on board was escorted into the harbor at Haifa.  How determined were the British to keeps Jews out Palestine?  Consider the following; at this time in 1940, Britain stood alone against the Nazis.  France had surrendered the previous June. The Soviet Union was still an ally of Hitler and would not enter the fray until June of 1941.  The United States would not enter the fight for another year.  The U-boat wolf-packs were sinking British ships in the North Atlantic.  Yet at a time when British merchant vessels need all the protection they could get. British warships were cruising the Mediterranean so they could keep a few thousand Jews out Palestine.  

1941: A ghetto was set up at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia in the old barracks and then in the walled town itself. All the 3,700 local inhabitants were moved out. Although Theresienstadt was set up as a "model settlement," its death rate reached 50% in 1942 through starvation and epidemics. During an investigation by the Red Cross in June 1943 the Germans changed the external appearance of the town and deported many so that there would be less overcrowding. All the interviews were carefully orchestrated and immediately after the visit most of the "actors" were then deported. In all 140,937 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt, of whom 33,529 died in the ghetto and 88,196 were deported to death camps. There were 17,247 persons left in the ghetto when it was liberated.

1941: After premiering last month in London, “49^th Parallel,” a British war movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger who wrote the screenplay and starring Leslie Howard was released in the United Kingdom.

1941: "Life Certificates" were distributed to some Jews of the Vilna Ghetto. By now most of the Jews of Vilna had been slaughtered.  Only about 15,000 Jews held “yellow certificates” and these would do them little good.  By the end of the war, 96% of the Jews of Vilna would be dead.

1941: Karel Švenk “was one of the first artists to be deported to Terezín today, and was among the 342 young Jewish men sent to prepare the previously non-Jewish camp for the Jewish artist inmates to follow.”

1942: American born Zionist leader Rechaviah Lewin Epstein was buried in Rehoboth today.

1942: Dr. Stephen S. Wise presided over a memorial service for the late Rechaviah Lewin Epstein in the New York Offices of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs

1942: During the Battle of Stalingrad Field Marshall Erich von Manstein “advised Hitler not order the break out by the 6^th Army” because his forces could break through the Soviet lines and relieve the embattled group at the same time that Goring boasted that the Luftwaffe could resupply the force – two pieces of advice that Hitler wanted to hear but that sealed the fate of the German forces and led to the loss that was a turning point in WW II.

1942: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a founder and president of the World Jewish Congress, announces at a press conference that the United States State Department has confirmed that Europe's Jews are being slaughtered by the Nazis. Wise estimates that the Germans have already murdered two million Jews, which is an understatement;

1942: Birthdate of Earl Leslie Krugel, the West Coast coordinator of the Jewish Defense League.

1942: “Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary” by Bella Fromm is scheduled to be published today.  Fromm is a German Jewish reporter who left Germany just before the outbreak of World War II.  The book is based on her first-hand observations of the Nazi leaders in Berlin.

1943: Mordechai "Modi" Alon who had enlisted in the RAF in 1940 finally began his flight training today in Rhodesia.  Alon would one of the IAF’s first pilots and hero of the War for Independence.

1943: “Easy Aces” starring Goodman Ace and his wife Jane, two Jews from Kansas City, became a one-half-hour-per-week broadcast at 7:30 PM on CBS radio.

1943: In Washington, DC, Theodore Rosenberg who worked at the Pentagon and his wife Isabelle gave birth to Leslie Rosenberg, who gained fame as Leslie R. Wolfe, “a longtime leader of the Center for Women Policy Studies.” (As reported by Amisha Padnani)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/obituaries/leslie-wolfe-who-pursued-equality-for-women-dies-at-74.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1944: Birthdate of former congressman and Agriculture Secretary, Dan Glickman.

1946(1^st of Kislev, 5707): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1946: Fifty-one year old Hungarian born ”László Moholy-Nagy, “arguably one of the greatest influences on post-war art education in the United States” and convert to the Hungarian Reformed Church passed away today in Chicago.

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/laszlo-moholy-nagy

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-moholy-nagy-laszlo.htm

1946: Today’s concert, during which Dame Julia Myra Hess played Beethoven’s Third Symphony with the NBC Symphony Orchestra “was preserved on transcription discs and later issued on CD by Naxos Records.”

1946: “The formal installation of Joseph Smith as the new rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel in Burlington, NJ is scheduled to take place this evening at 8 p.m. in the social hall.

1946: The Philadelphia Sphas led by Inky Lautman, Sol Schwartz and Bernie Opper are scheduled to play the Brooklyn Gothams tonight in American Basketball League game at the Broadway Brooklyn Arena.

1946: Birthdate of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the New York born Sephardic Jew who became the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy

1946: “Report on the Sanitary and Medical Organization of the Monowitz Concentration Camp For Jews (Auschwitz-Upper Silesia)” by Dr. Leonardo De Benedetti, Physician and Surgeon and Dr. Primo Levi, Chemist was published in the Turin-based medical journal Minerva Medica. The material will be republished in 2007 as Auschwitz Reportby Primo Levi.

1947: The Jewish Agency (part of the de facto Jewish government in Palestine) began registering “Jewish youths to work for and defend” the as yet undeclared and unrecognized Jewish state.

1947: Birthdate of Eli Ben-Menachem, the native of Bombay who made Aliyah in 1949 and has served as an MK and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.

1947: A group of writers, producers and directors, known later as the Hollywood 10, was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer a committee’s questions about alleged communist influence in the film industry. This was viewed as part of right wing America’s war against “Jewish Hollywood.”  This was actually part of the first round of what would later come to be called the Culture Wars which have always had a taint of anti-Semitism to them.

1947: The House of Representatives overwhelming vote to approve citations for contempt of Congress citations against the Hollywood Ten for the “defiance” of the mis-named House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).  “Of the Hollywood Ten, six - John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Albert Maltz and Samuel Ornitz — were Jews.”

1948: Dr. Maurice Finkelstein, the Professor at St. John’s University Law School and Chairman of the Temporary Housing Rent Commission which had been “set up to administer the local law freezing rents for permant guests of hotels, apartment hotels, and rooming and lodging houses” in New York resigned today “when an uproar followed sanction of hotel rent increases as high as 12 per cent.”

1948: The UN Truce Mission announces “a provisional…truce line” between Arab and Israeli forces.

1949: “Israel and Egypt signed an armistice whereby the Nitzana region, situated in Israel, was declared a demilitarized zone. The armistice agreement also stipulated that on the Egyptian side of the border "no Egyptian defensive positions shall be closer to El Auja than El Qouseima and Abou Aoueigila

1950: Guys and Dollsa musical by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows opened at the 46th Street Theatre and enjoyed a run of 1,200 performances.

1951(25^th of Cheshvan, 5712): Parashat Chayei Sarah

1951(25^th of Cheshvan, 5712): Seventy year old Dora Shubert Wolf, the daughter of David and Gittel Shubert, the wife of Milton Wolf and the sister to theatre owning Shubert brothers passed away today.

1952(6^th of Kislev, 5713): Forty-eight year old Rutgers alum and Columbia University trained attorney Alexander Feller, the “associate editor of Current Legal Thought passed away today in New Brunswick, NJ.

1953(17^th of Kislev, 5714): Sixty-year old Abraham Krotoshinsky who earned a Distinguished Service Cross for his role in rescuing the “Lost Battalion” during WW I passed away today.

1956: After 1,063 the curtain comes down on the original Broadway production of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’ musical hit “The Pajama Game.”

1957(1^st of Kislev, 5718): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1957(1^st of Kislev, 5718): Seventy-eight year old Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, the Christian Oxford trained professor of “Jewish Descent” and Laborite who became a supporter of Zionism passed away today in Avon, CT.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041029213157/http://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/history/history_2.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38730



1958: Yisrael Barzilai began serving as Minister of Postal Services in Israel.

1959: CBS broadcast “Merman on Broadway” featuring songs from “Gypsy,” the musical ‘with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents” that included an appearance by Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Klein)/

1963: Today, Life magazine “purchased all rights” to Abraham Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy Assassination.

1963: Jack Ruby, born Jacob Leon Rubenstein, the Chicago born son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy. 

1967: Life published selected frames Abraham Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy Assassination.

1969: NBC broadcast the 1th episode of “My World and Welcome to it” created by Melville Shavelson, produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Arnold.

1970: ITV broadcast “A Pipe and A Moustache” an episode of “The Lovers” a British sitcom created by Jack Rosenthal who also served as the writer and director.

1973: “Scream, Pretty Peggy” featuring Allan Arbus as “Dr. Eugene Saks” and Tovah Feldshuh as “Agnes Thornton” was broadcast for the first time on ABC’s Movie of the Week.

1974: American nuclear physicist and “ufologist” Stanton Friedman married Stella M. Kimball today in Los Angeles

https://web.archive.org/web/20121017081214/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=798566834341088233

1974: Birthdate of Sam Kellerman, one of the four Kellerman brothers that included sportscaster Max Kellerman, an aspiring playwright who wrote “The Man Who Hated Shakespeare.”

1975: In Paris, Jews originally from Arab and Muslim countries...to establish the Tel Aviv-based World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC)



1976: Ninety-two refuseniks appealed to world Jewry for help in protesting searches in the apartments of the organizers of the symposium on Jewish culture.



1976: “Yevgeny Abezgauz, a leading Leningrad refusenik, received permission to emigrate to Israel.”

1982(8th of Kislev, 5743):  Seventy-seven year old Benny Friedman passed away. The University of Michigan football star was considered the first of the great professional passing quarterbacks.  After WW II, he served as the Athletic Director and Football Coach for Brandeis University

http://michigantoday.umich.edu/04/Fall04/story.html?passing

1983: The PLO exchanged 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Arabs held by the government of Israel.  This would not be the last of such numerically disproportionate trades in which the Israelis would engage.

1984: On BBC One and BBC HD, today was the original network release of “Four Days in July” written and directed by Mike Leigh

1985(11^th of Kislev, 5746): Ninety-five year old Maurice Podoloff, the native of Elzabethgrad, Russia who graduated from Yale Law School and was the first Commissioner of the NBA passed away today in West Haven, CT.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/26/sports/maurice-podoloff-dead-at-95-was-first-nba-president.html

1986: The original production of “Smile” “a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman opened on Broadway today at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

1986: Susan Sontag’s short story “The Way We Live Now” which “remains a significant text on the AIDS epidemic” was “published today in The New Yorker.

1986: In a letter written today “explore Laurens van der post, after a visit to the Gulf with Princess Diana” Prince Charles “implied that the ‘influx of foreign, European Jews’ to Israel was to blame for fueling the Israeli-Arab conflict, and lamented that US presidents were unwilling to take on the American ‘Jewish lobby.’”

1990(7^th of Kislev, 5751): Parashat Vayetzei

1990(7^th of Kislev, 5751): Eighty-two year old Brooklyn native, Robert “Buck” Halpern who “played guard at the City College of New York from 1926-1928” and “then played as a guard in the NFL with the Staten Island Stapletons in 1930” passed away today.

1993: “Josh and S.A.M.” a comedy produced by Martin Brest in which Noah Fleiss made his film debut was released in the United States today.

1994 Paul Grosz, president of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, opened library at the Jewish Museum in Vienna.

1994(21^st of Kislev, 5755): Fifty-one year old David Patton Garfield who “became a successful cameraman and film editor” after he decided not to follow in the acting footsteps of his father John Garfield passed away today in Los Angeles.

1995(1^st of Kislev, 5756): Rosh Chodesh KIslev

1995(1^st of Kislev, 5756): Ninety-five year old Dr. Moses Paulson, professor emeritus of gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins medical school and an expert on digestive diseases, passed away today.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-11-27/news/1991331025_1_gastroenterology-ulcerative-colitis-digestive-diseases

1997: As part of the process in which Zypora Frank, a Polish Jewess, learned that her family had owned part of the land on which the Auschwitz death camp stood, and where most of her mother's family perished she went to visit Auschwitz today. And there, in the records of the village that the Poles called Oswiecim, she found her grandfather's property -- now hers and her brother's. Fifteen square miles of what became the Auschwitz death camp had been his tile factory.

1999(15th of Kislev, 5760): David Kessler, the man most responsible for making the Jewish Chronicle the most respected Jewish weekly in the world passed away. He achieved this by dint of his unwavering desire for fairness, his belief that all sections of a community must be given a fair hearing, his insistence on total independence, accuracy, economic stability and the need for accepting modern progress. As chairman and managing director for 50 years of the newspaper, in which he and his family held the majority of shares, Kessler was able to ensure, at times after a struggle, that it followed his principles.

1999: American-Jewish economist Joseph E. Stiglitz announced that he would resign as the World Bank's chief economist after using the position for nearly three years to raise pointed questions about the effectiveness of conventional approaches to helping poor countries".

1999: Eight days after it had premiered, “End of Days” directed by Peter Hyams who also served as the cinematographer was released in the United States toda.

2000(25^th of Chehsvan, 5761): Maj. Sharon Arameh, 25, of Ashkelon was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip.

2000(25^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was killed by Palestinian fire as he travelled near Otzarin in the West Bank

2000(25^th of Cheshvan, 5761): Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was killed by Palestinian fire as he travelled near Otzarin in the West Bank.

2001(9^th of Kislev, 5762): Eighty-three year old Jacob Landau, the Philadelphia native whose works can be found in in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery past away today.

http://nt.gmnews.com/news/2002-01-09/Front_page/027.html

2002: The New York Timesbook section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including A Moral Reckoning The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repairby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, The Punch by John Feinstein, Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know: What You Can Do to Fight Backby Arthur Levitt, Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim by Theron Raines and The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 by Amos Elon.

2002: The government adopts Resolution 2793 which provides the criteria for The Israel Antiquities Authority and the Old Acre Development Company, in cooperation with the Israel Lands Administration, to begin a rehabilitation and conservation project in Old Acre. The area where the work is to be done is called Block 10 and is located in the northwestern part of the city and represents the first of its kind effort in Acre since the creation of the modern state of Israel.

2002(19^th of Kislev, 5763): Eighty-year old Richard S. Lazarus who was ranked as one of the “one hundred most eminent psychologists of the 20^th century” passed away today.

https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html



2003(29th of Cheshvan, 5764): Rabbi Abraham Karp, a pulpit rabbi in Rochester, N.Y., and prominent scholar in American Jewish history, passed away today at the age of 82. Rabbi Karp, who served as spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Rochester from 1956 to 1972, was a professor of history and religion at the University of Rochester until he retired in 1991 and was named professor emeritus of Jewish studies. He moved that year to New York, becoming adjunct professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of

2005: The Israeli bobsled team, a.k.a. the “Frozen Chosen” has chosen to defrost this year away from the slopes. In just two full seasons of competition, they had catapulted themselves into the elite ranks of the sport, and have already taken part in two World Championships.  Teams members expressed extreme disappointed at not being able to represent Israel at the upcoming Winter Olympics. The decision was based on a number of factors, including the realization that no support would be forthcoming from the Israeli Olympic committee and changes in the family situations of most of the team members. The team has already prepared complete four year plan, in order to begin preparing the Israel Bobsled Federation for the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver, Canada.  The development of winter sports may seem a little strange for a country that of as arid with a Mediterranean climate. However, the Israeli bobsled team takes its place alongside the Israeli hockey team as proof of the broadening cultural scope of Israel and its citizens. 

2006: The Jewish Daily Forwardfeatured an interview with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gershowitz.  The 26 year old Lubavitcher is the leader of the 5 Chabad Rabbis serving the needs of Kazakhstan’s 25,000 Jews. Rabbi Gershowitz stated that the treatment of the Jews of Kazakhstan bears no relationship to the images appearing in Sasha Cohen’s hit film “Borat.”  “He is hoping that the movie never finds its way to Kazakhstan, as he fears it could hurt the warm relationship that the Kazakh president has with the Jewish community - and with Israel. ‘If he will think that the Jews are against him, and don’t like what he does, we will get the result,’ he said.”

2007: After two months, the first major UK production of “Parade,” a “musical that dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank” came to a close today.

2007: Mark Dreyfus became a member of the Australian Parliament for the Division of Isaacs in the suburbs of Melbourne which was named after Sir Isaac Isaacs.

2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Ladino singers Janet and Jak Esim close the musical event with a blend of Judeo-Spanish melodies and song.

2007: “David and Bat Sheba,” a new production of the COMPAS Dance Company premiers at Merkaz Habama, Ganei Tikva, Israel.

2007: A mild earthquake registering 4.1 on the Richter scale was felt in central Israel shortly after midnight between Friday and Saturday, days after a 4.2 tremor struck the northern Dead Sea earlier this week. Police said they had received no reports of injuries or damage. Reports of the quake were recorded, among other places, in Ra'anana, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Rehovot and Jerusalem, Army Radio reported. Seismology experts said the epicenter of the earthquake was east of the city of Ramle, Israel Radio reported Saturday morning.



2008:As part of Works & Process at the Guggenheim in New York, a performance John Zorn’s Shir Ha-Shirim. Scored for five female voices and two narrators, Shir Ha-Shirim is John Zorn’s lush and sensitive setting of the Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s—perhaps the world’s first erotic verse. This romantic and lyrical project evokes feelings of love, eroticism, and spirituality and features a specially-commissioned dance work.

2008: Sports Illustrated magazine featured a “Jewish Triple Header” with stories about Rena Glickman, the Jewish grandmother recognized as the “mother of woman’s judo,” charges of insider trading leveled by the S.E.C. against Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban and plans by Lew Wolff to move the Oakland A’s to Fremont, CA where he has promised Bob Wasserman, the town’s Jewish mayor, he will be building a $500 million baseball stadium using his own money.  

2008; Empire poultry which has already expanded its Turkey production to meet the demands of the Thanksgiving holiday reportedly is to begin “increasing its production of poultry today by 50%, thus putting about 100,000 more chickens on the market each week.”

2008:The United States Department of Agriculture is now verifying and certifying “numerous” claims by livestock and poultry sellers for nonpayment, according to a court motion filed today by a U.S. attorney in New York. In an unusual action, the United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New York is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to send Agriprocessors’ bankruptcy case to Iowa. Criminal and regulatory actions in Iowa against the Postville kosher meat processor were one of the reasons he offered for moving the case. Under the Packers and Stockyard Act, Agriprocessors must meet strict payment schedules for the purchase of livestock and poultry from local sellers.

2008: A human resources worker facing federal charges for allegedly helping illegal immigrants get jobs at Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville has pleaded not guilty. Karina Freund had already pleaded not guilty to a charge of harboring illegal immigrants after being arrested in September. A federal indictment also charged her with conspiracy to harbor undocumented immigrants.

2008: “The Jerusalem Foundation launched Jerusalem 2010, a campaign celebrating 150 years of British involvement in Jerusalem, at a special private event at London's Bevis Marks Synagogue. Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill and author of the History of Jerusalem in the 19th Century, gave an address on 150 years of Britain and Jerusalem

2009: In “N.F.L. Head Injury Study Leaders Quit” published today “Pulitzer Prize nominated” New York Timesman Alan Schwarz continued his long-running coverage of the effect “of concussions among football players of all ages.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/sports/football/25concussion.html

2009: The British commission of inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilicot that was to examine the British role in the Iraq War which included Sir Martin Gilbert began its inquiry today,
 

2009: The oldest complete Spanish Torah scroll will be up for sale at Sotheby's Judaica auction today. The scroll, the only Spanish Torah to include the kabalistic traditions of curved letters, has an estimated worth of $300,000-$500,000.

2009: In a program entitled “Above and Beyond attendees at the Washington DCJCC Learn over Lunch examine “The Origin of Ethics and Piety Out of the Pages of the Jewish Legal Tradition.”

2009(7 Kislev, 5770): Eighty-five year old Abe Pollin “the owner of the N.B.A.’s Washington Wizards, who built the sports arena that revitalized downtown Washington and was known for his wide-ranging philanthropy, passed away. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/sports/basketball/25pollin.html?_r=0

2010: The Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Annual Dinner is scheduled to take place at the Detroit Renaissance in Detroit, Michigan.

2010: Holocaust survivors of Greek extraction will soon have their Greek citizenship restored in an expedited process, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitrios Dollis, who accompanied Prime Minister George Papandreou on his official visit to Israel in late July, told The Jerusalem Post today.

2010(17^th of Kislev, 5771): Joel Daner, a West Orange, NJ man who devoted his life to Jewish communal service, died today at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, a few days after his 72nd birthday. He had been suffering from cancer for several years.

2010: Jonah Lerner and his wife Sarah Liebowitz bought the Shulman House (built of for photographer Julius Schulman) for $2, 250,000.

2011: The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress is scheduled to meet today at the King David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem where it is to elect businessman Vadim Shulman to be its new president

2011: Family and friends gather to celebrate the birthday of Bill Gasway, husband, father, grandfather, recent Bar Mitzvah and pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community.

2011: Congressmen Ted Deutsch (D-FLA) and Steve Israel (D-NY) have asked US Comptroller-General Gene Dodaro to investigate the Palestinian Authority’s use of American funding, three weeks after MK Moshe Matalon (Israel Beiteinu) sent a letter informing the budget committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s policy to pay murderers released from Israeli prisons $5,000 and build them new homes.

2011: A group of Palestinians and Iranians protested today against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he was speaking to members of the Jewish community at a synagogue in Bochum, Germany.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4153004,00.html

2012: Millinery Center Synagogue is scheduled to present “The Controversial, The Amazing, and The Mystical Ideas in Judaism"



 2012: East Midwood Jewish Center, a conservative synagogue, in Brooklyn is scheduled to host a benefit concert for the displaced victims of Hurricane Sandy this evening.



2012: Several armed groups belonging to Fatah in the Gaza Strip claimed today that they had also fired various types of rockets and missiles at Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=293297





2012: Senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Zahar said today that Iran will increase the military and economic aid to Gazan groups because of the victory Hamas claims against Israel in Operation Pillar of Defense.



2013: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The State of Israel: ‘My Promised Land’ by Ari Shavit.

2013: The 55^th Venice Biennale International art festival which includes a Vatican exhibit “Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation” based on the first 11 chapters of Bereshit is scheduled to come to an end today. (As reported by JTA)



2013(21^stof Kislev, 5774): Eight-seven year old Mathew Bucksbaum, the native of Marshalltown, Iowa who went on to become a successful realtor and mall developer passed away today,\.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/business/matthew-bucksbaum-mall-developer-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0



2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform in Camp Springs, MD.



2013: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to Maurice Sendak’s “Pincus and the Pig” – “a Jewish version of Peter and the Wolf.”



2013: At Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman is scheduled to deliver a lecture “Law or Love? What Are We All About?” as part of the Murray Blackman Memorial Weekend. (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)



2013: President Shimon Peres issued a special statement in which he addressed the deal signed last night between the P5+1 and Iran in Geneva



2013: Prime Minister Netanyahu made the following remarks at the Cabinet Meeting in response to the agreement signed by the P5+1 and Iran."What was achieved last night in Geneva is not an historic agreement; it is an historic mistake. Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon in the world. For the first time, the world's leading powers have agreed to uranium enrichment in Iran while ignoring the UN Security Council decisions that they themselves led.





2014: In Melbourne, “The Last Mentsch and “Gett, the Trial of Vivian Amsalem” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014(2^ndof Kislev): Yarhrzeit of Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the Lithuanian born American rabbi who worked to persuade Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau to work to save the Jews of Europe and founded the Yeshiva at Lakewood, NJ.



2014: “Coalition leaders decided today to delay a vote on the controversial “Jewish state” bill by one week, as ministers vowed to continue to oppose the measure even if it meant their jobs.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/vote-on-jewish-state-bill-delayed-amid-coalition-jockeying/



2014: An officer sustained minor injuries this evening when “an Arab man driving a stolen car ran over him in Kikar Adam near Binyamin before fleeing the scene, security forces said tonight. (As reported by Ido Ben Porat, Cynthia Blank)



2014: Ira Glass appeared on the Here's The Thing podcast.



2014; “Israeli journalist and author Israel Zamir, the only son of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer is scheduled to be buried at Kibbutz Beit Alfa, “his home for 77 years.”



2015: Director Steven Spielberg, Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman, singer Barbra Streisand, and playwright Stephen Sondheim are among those scheduled to be presented with the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony today.



2015: The U.S.-led peacekeeper force in the insurgency-wracked Sinai will remain unchanged after Egypt and Israel rebuffed proposals to trim it by about a fifth, an Egyptian official said today



2015: Eighty-three year old Rita Berkowitz, a native of Romania who made Aliyah in 1951 “won the third annual Miss Holocaust Survivors Beauty Pageant in Haifa” today.



2015(12th of Kislev, 5776): Ninety-one year old attorney M. Roland Nachman, the Montgomery, Alabama born son of a prominent department store owner, “who opposed The New York Times in a libel case that resulted in a landmark Supreme Court decision establishing greater leeway for newspapers and individuals to criticize government officials and other public figures” passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/us/m-roland-nachman-lawyer-in-times-v-sullivan-libel-case-dies-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0



2015: A memorial evening to honor Sir Martin Gilbert, of blessed memory, is scheduled to be held this evening in Central London.



2016: Wildfires which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attributed to “natural and unnatural” causes “raged through central and northern Israel for a third day today, devouring forests, damaging homes and prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.”



2016: As we sit down to celebrate Thanksgiving we pause to remember the 8^thanniversary of the Mumbai Massacre which occurred on Thanksgiving in 2008 and counted among its victims Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29; Rebbetzin Rivka Holtzberg, 28; Bentzion Kruman, 26; Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, 37; Yoheved Orpaz, 62 and Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich, 50.





2016: Start of Jewish Book Month http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/about/jewish-book-month.html



In 2016, Jewish Book Month begins on November 24 and ends on December 24.  The Jewish Book Council is the driving force behind Jewish Book Month.  According to the Jewish Book Council “It is the only organization in the American Jewish community exclusively committed to promoting and advocating for Jewish literature.  The Council serves as a catalyst for the writing, publication, distribution, reading and public awareness of books reflecting the rich variety of Jewish experience.”



What is a Jewish Book?  Obviously our traditional texts such as the Bible, the Talmud, Prayer books, and Rabbinic commentaries (ancient as well as modern) are Jewish Books.  Then there are books by Jewish authors about Jewish topics such as Jewish history, Jewish customs, Jewish cooking and Jewish people (fiction as well as non-fiction).  They too would obviously qualify as Jewish books.  But what about books by Jewish authors about topics that are not Jewish.  For example, Leon Uris was a Jewish author who wrote Exodus, a novel about the creation of the modern state of Israel.  Obviously this would be a Jewish Book.  But what about Battle Cry a novel Uris wrote about Marines fighting in the South Pacific?  Is this a Jewish Book?  What about books by non-Jewish authors about Jewish topics?  John Hersey is not Jewish.  He wrote The Wall, one of the first and finest novels about the plight of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto?  Is The Wall a Jewish Book?  While the answers to these questions are open to discussion, for our purposes any book by a Jewish author or on a “Jewish topic” will be considered a Jewish Book.  After all, why limit your choices, when there is so much out there waiting to fill your intellectual appetites?

2017: Today, “Health Minister Yaakov Litzman informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is stepping down after the government signed a deal for ongoing infrastructure work on rail lines to continue this Shabbat.”

2017(6^thof Kislev, 5778): Eighty-four year old Rabbi Neil Gillman, the son of Ernest and Rebecca Gillman who was “one of the premiere theologians of the Conservative movement” passed away today.

 (As reported by Joseph Berger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/obituaries/rabbi-neil-gillman-theologian-of-conservative-judaism-dies-at-84.html

https://templeemunah.org/images/sermons/Rabbi_David_Lerner/Previous_Years/5778/12-02-17%20-%20Va-yishlah%205778%20-%20Rabbi%20Neil%20Gillman%20and%20What%20Do%20We%20Believe.pdf





2017: The Oxford Jewish Society book club is scheduled to discuss Duties of the Heart this evening before services and the Shabbat dinner.

2017: Today, “The Trump administration backtracked on its decision to order the Palestinians’ office in Washington to close, instead saying it would merely impose limitations on the office that it expected would be lifted after 90 days.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Leo Rosten whose works included The Joys of Yiddish continues today.

2018(16^thof Kislev, 5779): Shabbat Va-yishlach;

2018: In further testament to the vitality of small community Jewish Life, in Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the baby naming during Shabbat morning services of Mila Rose O’Neill.

2018: The American Sephardi Federation and Chassida Shmella are scheduled to host the second day of an “authentic Ethiopian Jewish weekend.”

2019: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Operative,” “Leona” and “Solomon and Gaenor.”

2019: In San Francisco, the Church of the Advent is scheduled to host “Roses and Almonds” with Tres Hermanicas and Aquila which includes a mix of “centuries-old Sephardic music.”

2019: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy and Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel

2019: Following last night’s demonstrations in Haifa and Bialik in favor of Netanyahu, Israelis will see if there are more of the same today in response to the Prime Minister’s call for his supporters to take to the streets.

2019: “Alti Rodal is scheduled to provide a multi-media overview of the long history of Jews on Ukrainian lands and their interactions with Ukrainians, and others, in the context of empires and changing political regimes, times of crisis, and centuries of co-existence and cross-cultural fertilization in music, language, folk art, folklore, literature, and cuisine” at the Jewish Community Library in San Francisco.

2019: The Center for Jewish History and the Jewish Genealogical are scheduled to host Mikhal Dekel, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Rifkind Center for Humanities and the Arts who is the author of Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey as she talks about “One of the Greatest Untold Stories of WW II: A Decade-Long Quest After My Father and A Quarter Million Other Holocaust Refugees.”

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2348 BCE: According to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began on this date.

407 BCE: Yedanaiah petitioned Bagohi, the governor of Yehud to rebuild the Jewish Temple at Elephantine.

http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/westsem/templeauth.html

1120: The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.  The sinking of the ship would lead to chaos since William was Henry’s only male heir. When Henry, who treated his Jewish subjects well, passed away civil war broke out between the claimants to the throne. The crown went to King Stephen who was opposed by the Empress Matilda. Both monarchs raised cash from the Jews. Matilda had placed a levy on the Jews of Oxford and, on seizing the city, King Stephen demanded a levy three and a half times that of Matilda. The king forced payment by the simple expedient of burning the Jews’ houses one by one until the full sum was paid. On the other hand, King Stephen did protect his Jewish subjects from those who were going off to join the Second Crusade.  Things would improve for England and the Jews of England as well, when Henry I’s grandson, Henry II finally took the throne.

1177:  Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.  The Crusader victory was one of their last in the Holy Land and only delayed the inevitable return of Jerusalem to Moslem control.  For Jews, Moslem control was comparatively better than Christian control.

1277: Nicholas III began his papacy. “During his brief reign Nicholas displayed a considerable zeal for the conversion of the Jews. His bull Vineam sorce encouraged conversion through "sermons and other means." Copies of the document were sent (1278–79) to the *Franciscans and provincial priors of the *Dominicans in various provinces. Concurrently, however, he renewed the decisions of his predecessors forbidding the forcible baptism of Jews and protecting them from attacks by Christians. Nevertheless, several *Church councils and synods legislated against the free intercourse of Jews and Christians. It is not clear whether it was the supposed hostility of Nicholas or his mildness toward the Jews which prompted Abraham b. Samuel *Abulafia to announce his intention of visiting the pope to demand the release of captive Jews. (When he arrived, however, the pope was already on his deathbed.)” (As reported by Jewish Virtual Library)

1357: Charles IV issued an edict protecting the Jews of Strasbourg. Two years later, amidst rumors about well-poisonings, 1,000 Jews would be burned and the remainder forcibly baptized.  Rumor trumped Royal Protection

1420: Pope Martin V favorably reinstates old privileges of the Jews and orders that no child under the age of twelve can be forcibly baptized without parental consent.

1489:  A work popularly referred to as “Abudarham's Siddur” was published for the first time in Lisbon.  Actually the book was untitled by its author David Abudarham, a Jewish scholar who lived in Seville (Spain) in the first part of the 14^th century.  He modestly referred to his work as “Ḥibbur Perush ha-Berakot we-ha-Tefillot."  In fact it was a commentary on the various prayers tracing their origins and providing information about their liturgical significance.  This volume proved to be so popular that it went through nine editions the last of which appeared in Warsaw in the middle of the 19^th century.  The printer was Eliezer Alantansi who used a lion rampant on a shield as his printer’s mark. “In his first publication, the Tur Orah Hayyim (1485), it is framed in red; in his second book, the Tur Yoreh Deah (1487), the frame is black; in his third book, the undated Pentateuch [1487-88], the lion appears without a frame. The designer and cutter is probably Alfonso Fernandez de Cordoba, who, no doubt, created the beautiful types and ornaments for Alantansi's books.”

1491:  The siege of Granada last Moorish stronghold in Spain began. When the siege is over, Spain will be united as a Catholic nation and Jews will be confronted with the choice of conversion or expulsion.

1491: Muley Abdu-Abdallah, the last Moorish ruler of Granada signed a secrety treaty with Ferdinand and Isabella, in which he agreed to surrender the city and its surrounding territory at a future date (January, 1492).  Included in the terms was a provision that Jews were to be allowed the same rights of protection that were being extended to the Moors.  However, "relapsed Marranos" were given one month to leave the city.  After that time they would be turned over to the Inquisition.  Also, the Moorish King made the incoming Christian monarchs promise that no Jew would serve as an "officer of justice, tax-gather, or commissioner" if holding that position would mean that the Jew would have authority over any Muslim.



1622:  "Christian IV, King of Denmark, addressed a letter to the Jewish Council of Amsterdam asking them to encourage some of their members to settle in his state.  He promised them freedom of worship and other favorable privileges."



1626: Sixty year old Edward Alleyn the English actor who was the first to play the title role of “Barabas” in Marlowe’s “Jew Of Malta” passed away today.



1707(1^st of Kislev, 5468):Jente Opennheimer passed away today in Vienna.



1738: Birthdate of German mathematician Thomas Abbt who in 1763 entered a competition that was sponsored by the Berlin Academy for an essay on the application of mathematical proofs to metaphysics that was won by Moses Mendelssohn whom Abbt “yearned” to have as “his close friend” and to whom he “poured out…the deepest meditations of his troubled soul.”

1744: Austrian soldiers killed an untold number of Jews in Prague.

1761(1st of Kislev): The first Jewish social and civic club in North America was founded in Newport, RI

1766: Abigail Sarzedas and Myer Polock gave birth to Isaac Polock who was buried in Newport, RI when he passed away.

1769: Lazarus Eliezer Leiser Joseph van Geldern the son of Joseph Jacob Juspa van Geldern and Braeunle Brunella van Geldern passed away in Duesseldorf where he had been born in 1695.

1783: American forces retake New York from the British. Jews who had fled the British were able to return. Jews who were loyal to the Crown left along with other Loyalists making their homes in Canada or returning to England. Many of the Jews had taken refuge in Philadelphia, including Raabi Gershom Mendez Seixas who returned to the pulpit at Shearith Israel.

1783: Rebecca Franks and Lucius Levy Solomons gave birth to Rebecca (Becky) Solomons

1795: In Dijon, France, Nathan Brunschwig and his wife gave birth to Colette Brunswick the wife of Joseph Bing-Jacob and the mother of Rosine, Celestine, and Elisa Alice Bing-Jacob.

1795:  Stanislaus August Poniatowski the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.  This marks the last act in the third and final partition of Poland.  “Polish” Jews now live in Austria, Germany and Russia.  As a result of the partition of Poland, Russia ended up with millions of Jews.  The Czars had worked long and hard to make and keep their empire “Jew free.”  Their greed for Polish land created their “Jewish problem.”  The shift from Poland to Russia dealt a mortal blow to the welfare of the Jewish people for the duration of the 19^th century and on into the 20^thcentury.

1799(27^th of Cheshvan, 5560): In Frankfurt am Main, Benedict-Benedikt Moses Worms and Schönche Jeanette Worms gave birth to Zerline Worms who became Zerline Beyfus after her marriage.

1799: York, PA native Solomon Etting and Rachel Gratz gave birth to Kitty Etting, the wife of Richmond native Benjamin I. Cohen.

1802: In Prague gave Michael Klapp, the son of Wolf Klapp and his wife Sara gave birth to Abraham Klapp

1806: Birthdate of French financier Isaac Pereire who was the grandson of Jacob Rodrigues Pereire. During the 19^th century, the Pereires were financiers on a par with the Rothschilds.  Unlike the Rothschilds, the Piereires were Sephardim who traced their ancestry to Portugal. (As reported by Meyer Kayersling, Isidore Singer and Jacques Kahn) 

1818: Today’s “report of the Administration of the Margraviate of Saxony shows that it intended to expel Joseph Friedlander” effective November 1, 1819.

1823: Birthdate of Francis Joseph Schuster, the Frankfurt born merchant and convert to Christianity who moved to Manchester in 1866 to continue his career

1829: Henry Abrahams married Ann Barnett today at the Great Synagogue.

1829: In Zerbst, Jakob Hirsch, a merchant, and Bertha Elkisch Bendix gave birth to Jenny Hirsch wrote for the Bazarunder the pseudonym J. N. Heynrichs until 1864 when she became active in the cause of women’s rights.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hirsch-jenny

1830: Birthdate of Breslau native Lina Bauer, who gained fame Lina Morgenstern, the wife of Theodore Morgenstern whom she married in 1850 and who was a noted author, feminist, pacifist and a member of the German Peace Society as well as the mother of five children – Clara, Olga, Martha, Michael and Alfred.

1837: In London, Joseph and Jane Emanuel gave birth to George Joseph Emanue the husband of Elizabeth Emanuel with whom he had seven children.

1838: In New York Benvenida Solis and Leon Ritterband gave birth to Joseph Ritterband, the first of their seven children.

1838: In Dublin, Ireland, Caroline Ellen Picard and Isaac Abraham Harris gave birth to Hannah Harris, the wife of Henry Simmons.

1850: Abraham Einstein and Helene Moos gave birth to Jakob Einstein a younger brother of Hermann Einstein.

1852: A banquet celebrating the 31^st anniversary of the Hebrew Benevolent Society began at 8 pm in New York City’s Chinese Assembly Rooms on Broadway.  The evening raised over $5,000 in donations which ranged in amounts from $10 to $150.

1852: In Rome, NY, Benjamin Bloomingdale and Hanna Weil gave birth to Columbia trained attorney Emanuel Watson Bloomingdale, the husband of Adele Bernheimer and President of the Retail Dry Goods Association who was a Republican presidential elector and director of the “Jewish Proctectory.”

https://www.jta.org/1928/02/08/archive/funeral-services-today-for-e-w-bloomingdale-well-known-merchant

1853: The New York Times reported that yesterday, which was celebrated as day of Thanksgiving by the people of New York, "the Jews laid the cornerstone of a new hospital for people of their persuasion."



1853: “The Jews In Europe” published today focused on the treatment of the Jews by the government of Austria. Reports “that the Austrian Government has revived the system of intolerance against the Jewish subjects” were misleading because “there was no need of a revival of the system of intolerance, because the Austrian Government have at all times been cruel and malicious against the unfortunate Jewish inhabitants.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D06E6DF103AE334BC4D51DFB7678388649FDE

1856 (27th of Cheshvan): Danish philanthropist Simon Aaron Eibeschuetz passed away

1856: Four days after she had passed away, Anne Cohen, the wife of Abraham Cohen was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1858: Birthdate of Paul Haupt, the German born American Assyriologist who “projected and edited the Polychrome Bible, a critical edition of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, and a new English translation with notes” and published critical texts of the following with notes: Canticles (1902), Koheleth (1905), Ecclesiastes (1905), Nahum (1907), Esther (1908) and Micah (1910)

1858: Today Solomon Beyfus was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London today “declaring that his father, Gotze Philip Beyfus late of Birmingham, was teacher of languages and had lived at 7 Bury Street in the City of London, a location adjacent to the Bevis Marks Synagogue.”

1859: Today, for the second time,  the Jewish Chronicle published an advertisement “for a German Lady to teach in her own language and to give instruction in Hebrew” from a “Ladies’ school” in Dover “where the number of pupils is small and where there are resident French and English Governesses

1863: Max Maretzek, the Moravian born American-Jewish maestro conducted the first performance of "Faust" in America

1863: During the Civil War, the Union broke the Confederate stranglehold at Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge where Colonel Frederick “Knefler was in command of the combined 79th Indiana and 86th Indiana infantry regiments that led the unexpected charge up the center of the ridge and which led to his being “complimented” for the unexpected charge up the hill and for one of his fellow officers to write that Knefler ““richly merits a commission as brigadier-general for his gallantry displayed in the charging and taking of Missionary Ridge.”

1864:British statesman Benjamin Disraeli declared in a speech: 'Man is a being born to believe, and if no church comes forward with all the title deeds of truth, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.'  Disraeli had been baptized at his father’s insistence.  Disraeli was proud of his Jewish heritage and often vilified for it by his political enemies.

1865: In Cleveland, Ohio, founding of the Ungarischer Frauen Unterstutzungs Verein which meets on the “third Sunday of the month” and “pays a sick benefit.”

1868: Birthdate of Hungarian native Calvin Leichtman who in 1884 came to the United States where he settled in Hazeltown, PA and was a member of the Community Chest and B’nai B’rith

1869: New York businessman Daniel McFarland fatally shot New York Tribune reporter Albert Deane Richardson in front of Daniel Frohman, Jew from Ohio who was working as a clerk at the paper and would go to become a famous theatrical and film director.

1871: “The Bells, a play in three acts by Leopold Davis Lewis opened today at the Lyceum Theatre in London for the first of 151 performances.  “The Bells is a translation by Leopold Lewis of the 1867 play Le Juif Polonais (The Polish Jew) by Erckmann-Chatrian.”

1871: A pair of pantaloons which had been left hanging in front of a Jewish clothing store at No. 6 on Main Street in Brooklyn was stolen tonight.

1873: Birthdate of Russian born “Israeli engineer and businessman” Moshe Novomeysky who “was an early developer of the Palestine Potash Company.”

1874: Carol Schurz delivered a lecture at the Steinway Hall in New York as part of a course sponsored by the Hebrew Young Men’s Association.

1877: “Joseph II and the Jews” published today traces the history and impact of The Toleration Edict promulgated by the Austrian monarch.

1880: Rabbi de Sola Mendes delivered a talk in which he uses the “Passion Play” as an example of what he calls “Religion Out of Place.”

1880: In Offenburg, Germany David and Fanny Kahn gave birth to Adolf Kahn the husband of Bertha Kahn, both of whom were murdered during the Holocaust.

1880: In Baltimore, MD, the former Jennie Rohr and Saks 5^th Avenue co-founder Andrew Saks gave birth to William Andrew Saks.

1880: In London, Marie (nee de Jongh) and Solomon “Sidney” Rees Woolf gave birth to author, publisher and civil servant Leonard Sidney Woolf, the husband of fellow author Virginia Woolf.

1880: It was reported today that Arthur Lieberman, the Jew who committed suicide in Syracuse was a Nhilist from Russia. He fled the country to avoid arrest after having written a pamphlet espousing his beliefs.  Apparently he shot himself because he was despondent over having to leave his family.

1881: Alexander and Ida Kursheedt gave birth to Jessie Millier

1881: Birthdate of Jacob Fichman the Moldavian born Hebrew writer who twice won the Biliak Prize and was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 1957, a year before his death.

1881: Birthdate Angelo Roncalli.  Roncalli would enter history as John XXIII, the Pope of Reform who tried to improve relations between the Church and the Jewish People

1881: “A large number of” Jewish immigrants from Russia were among the 1,338 passengers who arrived at Castle Garden aboard the SS Silesia.

1882: In Odessa, Ukraine, “Nokhem Mayer Shaikevitsch, a novelist and playwright and Dinneh Bercinsky gave birth to Manya Shaikevitsch who gained as American “journalist, playwright and artist Miriam Shomer Zunser, the wife of Charles Zunsers and the daughter-in-law of poet Eliakum Zunser.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/zunser-miriam-shomer



1883: “Peace in Galilee” published today described a visit to Bukeia, “an interesting community of Jews who maintain that they are the descendants of families who were not dispersed and that they are the only Jews in the whole of Palestine whose direct ancestors inhabited the same spot and cultivated the same land prior to the destruction of Jerusalem.”

1883: Pere Hyacinthe delivered a talk on “Catholic Reform in France” at New York’s Presbyterian Church during which he said that “Judaism is recognized in France and I am glad of it.”

1884: The Brooklyn Academy was the scene for tonight’s Grand Ball sponsored by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1885: It was reported today that there are 70 boys enrolled in the Hebrew Technical Institute on Crosby Street.

1886: Mrs. Tillie Bernheimer (or Miss Lillie) provided Thanksgiving Dinner for the children at the United Hebrew Charities’ Industrial School on St. Mark’s Place.

1886: Birthdate of New Orleans native Percy Abraham Lemann, who matriculated at VMI in 1902 where he was part of the Class of 1906

1887: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman preached a Thanksgiving Day sermon at Temple Emanu-El entitled “Religious Liberty” in which he said “We meet today as Jews and Americans…as Jews in religion and as Americans in citizenship.”

1888: It was reported today that the Industrial School sponsored by the United Hebrew Charities plans to provide a Thanksgiving dinner at the school this year.

1889: Jacob Levy, a recent Jewish immigrant from Poland was beaten today when he mistakenly opened the door to the wrong apartment.

1890: Dr. H. M. Leipziger presented the claims of the Jews in Russia at today’s meeting of the New York Bureau of the Siberian Exile Petition Association a non-denominational group whose Executive Committee included Jacob H. Schiff.

1890: The funeral for Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, the daughter of Juliana and Mayer de Rothschild was held at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery.

1890: In Bristol, England, Barnett (Dovber) and Hacha Rosenberg, native of Dvinsk gave birth to British poet Isaace Rosenberg who while serving as a Private in the 11th (Service) Battalion of The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regimentwas killed on the Western Front at the age of 27 on April 1, 1918.  He was the author of Poems from the Trenches which are considered by some to be among the most outstanding poems written during the First World War. “In The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell's landmark study of the literature of the First World War, Fussell identifies Rosenberg's Break of Day in the Trenchesas ‘the greatest poem of the war.’"

Break of Day in the Trenches

The darkness crumbles away.

It is the same old druid time has ever,

Only a live thing leaps my hand,

A queer sardonic rat,

As I pull the parapet’s poppy

To stick behind my ear.

Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew

Your cosmopolitan sympathies.

Now you have touched this English hand

You will do the same to a German

Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure

To cross the sleeping green between.

It seems you inwardly grin as you pass

Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes

Less chanced than you for life,

Bonds to the whims of murder,

Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,

The torn fields of France.

What do you see in our eyes

At the shrieking iron and flame

Hurled through still heavens?

What quaver - what heart aghast?

Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins

Drop, and are ever dropping;

But mine in my ear is safe,

Just a little white with the dust.

He was killed on April 1, 1918 while fighting on the Western Front. His self-portrait hangs in the British National Portrait Gallery.

1892: Birthdate of Dresden native Max Ehrlich “one of the great comics of the pre-war Berlin whose last performance was reportedly at Auschwitz.

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/western-europe/westerbork/max-ehrlich/

1893: Herman Lottmann who has owned a saloon for years in Brooklyn “announced today that he intended to quit the liquor business because “I am a Jew” who has been harassed by a gang of Irish ruffians for the past year and the courts have been no help.  “Lottmann said his wife had threatened to leave him if he had license renewed.

1894(10th of Kislev, 5716): In Berlin, fifty year old Dr. Arnold Heinrich Bodek, “also known Aaron Chaim” the husband of Malwine Malva Bodek, passed away today.

1895:Herzl begins a two days visit Colonel Goldsmid, leader of the British Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) Movement, in Cardiff, Wales.

1896: After his return to Vienna, Herzl reworks the "Rede an die Rothschilds" and a new work finally emerges: Der Judenstaat: Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage or in English The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question. “Theodore Herzl's pamphlet Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State, heralded the coming of age of Zionism….In The Jewish State, Herzl envisioned that diplomatic activity would be the primary method for attaining the Jewish State and he called for the organized transfer of Jewish communities to the new state. Of the location of the state, Herzl said, ‘We shall take what is given us, and what is selected by public opinion.’ Herzl's The Jewish Stateincluded social innovations such as the seven-hour working day. In general, he was interested in an economy where free enterprise and state involvement went hand-in-hand. It was to be a modern, sophisticated and technologically advanced and Europeanized society. The Jewish Stateestablished Herzl as the leader of Zionism, and the "father of the Zionist Idea." Zionist also provoked considerable opposition, in particular from the assimilationst Jews of Central and Western Europe. The book became required reading for all Zionists and was taken as the basic platform of political Zionism. In conclusion, he wrote: ‘And what glory awaits those who fight unselfishly for the cause! Therefore I believe that a wondrous generation of Jews will spring into existence. The Maccabeans will rise again. Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who wish for a State will have it. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes. The world will be freed by our liberty, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there to accomplish for our own welfare, will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity.’” 

For more information about The Jewish State and complete copy of the text see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/index.html, click on the icon “Israel” scroll down to Zionism, and then go to  Excerpts From Herzl's The Jewish State.

1897(30^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1897: Dr. Gustav Gottheil will deliver a sermon entitled “The Most Religious Day of the Year in America” during Thanksgiving Services at Temple Emanu-El which begin at 11 a.m.

1897: At New York’s Agudath Yesharim(Jersharim), Rabbi J.P. Solomon will officiate at the Thanksgiving Services starting at 3 p.m.

1897: Two days after he had passed away, 70 year old Morris Lack was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1897: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will lead Thanksgiving Services at Temple B’Nai Jeshrun beginning at 3 p.m.

1897: “The children of the Industrial and Sabbath Schools of the United Hebrew Charities will have a Thanksgiving Dinner today at 58 St. Mark’s Place at noon.

1897: The Cadet Corps of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum provide a full dress parade as part of the today’s Thanksgiving celebration.

1897: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam will hold services 3 pm.

1897: Emile Zola addressed a letter to Le Figaro that might have been called “The Injustice of French Justice” since the author “intimated that he believed Dreyfus was innocent” and that he had the proof for this belief.  The letter ended “The truth is on the way; nothing can stop it.”

1897: “To Begin Its Receptions” published today described plans for a series of upcoming functions hosted by the Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum.

1898: Birthdate of Regina Gotlop, the native of Tarnow, Poland who was part of Convoy 25 that left Drancy for Auschwitz on August 28, 1942

1898: “Former Counsel General…Opposes Expansion” published today provided the view Simon Wolf, the former United States Counsel to Egypt on how this country should deal with Cuba and the Philippines, countries that were part of the Spanish Empire until the recent U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War.  Wolf is opposed to annexation.  He thinks that we should develop a special relationship with both of them, in the way that England has with Egypt.  But he believes that we must make them independent and not annex them.  (The disposition of former parts of the Spanish Empire including Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines was “a hot political topic” at the end of the 19^thcentury and is interesting that a leading Jewish statesman would take the stand for individual and national liberty as opposed to imperial expansion.)

1899: The final performance of “The Children of the Ghetto” will take place tonight at the Herald Square Theatre.

1899: Mme. Nevada’s final performance this evening at the Metropolitan Opera House was a fund-raiser for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum which is need of help to pay for the “recent heavy expenditures” resulting from the modernization and enlargement of its facility on Eagle Avenue and 161^stStreet.

1899(23^rd of Kislev, 5660): Eighty-seven year old Jewish merchant and philanthropist Marcus Nordheim whose assets amounted to 10 million marks part of which were used to establish the Nordheim Foundation, passed away today.

1900: At Cape May, NJ. Meyer S. Isaacs presided over the ceremonies held to dedicate De Hirsch Hall, the new dormitory of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural and Industrial School at Woodbine.  Woodbine an agricultural colony founded 12 years ago.  With a population of 1,000, it is the most successful De Hirsch funded colony in New Jersey.

1901: It was reported today Marks Arnheim has spent the last three days looking for the person who has printed and distributed circulars urging a boycott of his tailoring shop on the corner of Broadway and 9^thStreet in New York.

1902: Birthdate of Morris Lapidus, the Russian-born American architect who was responsible for the design of resort hotels in Miami and Miami Beach in the 1950’s.

1903: In Boston, the Sons of Zion is scheduled to host a ball today.

1903: Birthdate of New York City native Albert Gustavus Baum, the graduate of Columbia and the Jewish Institute of Religion who served as “acting rabbi of Temple Israel” before becoming the rabbi at “Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim” in Alexandria, LA.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0412/ms0412.html

1903: Birthdate of Henri Samuel Sack, the Swiss-born, American holder of a “doctorate in experimental physics who worked at Zurich University and was “a resident associate in applied physics at Cornell University” becoming a full professor in 1949 while working on “applied physics, supersonics, analog computers and the elastic properties of solids.

1904(17^th of Kislev,5665): Seventy-four year old Henry Strauss, a native of Alsace who served in the 10^th Mississippi Infantry and was buried in the Beth Israel Cemetery, passed away today.

1905: Soprano Lina Abarbanell, the Berlin born daughter of Paul Abarbanell, “a descendent of a prominent Sephardic Jewish family of Bulgarian descent, was a well-known Berlin musical director” made “her debut today at the Metropolitan Opera House as “Hansel” in “Hansel und Gretel.”

1905: Today, President Dabney of the University of Cincinnati spoke at Hebrew Union College during the celebration marking “the 250^thanniversary of the settlement of Jews in America.”

1905: After 3 months, “Catch of the Season,” a two act musical produced by Charles Frohman was performed for the last time at Daly’s Theatre in New York.

1905: Mr. Arnold Kohn said today “that although the contributions at the State Bank” deposited into the fund for the Russian Jews “came mostly from the poor” $20,000 has been deposited in to the account.

1905: Jacob H. Schiff received a letter today from Jacob G. Schurman, the President of Cornell University in which he enclosed his check “for the fund in relief of the suffering Jews of Russia whose terrible condition appeals to the universal heart of mankind.”  Schurman, a native of Canada whose family came from the Netherlands wrote, “The atrocities of the Russian mob have been beyond all description or imagination.  Such an exhibition of bigotry, intolerance and racial hatred has seldom if ever, disgraced the history of the mankind.  And to crown the horrors of it, the fiendish mob invoke the name of Jesus of Nazareth, who preached good will to men…”

1907: The Neu-Isenburg orphanage for Jewish girls (Mädchenwohnheim Neu-Isenburg) founded by Bertha Pappenheim began operation today.

1908(1st of Kislev, 5669): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1908(1st of Kislev, 5669): A.M. Edelweiss passed away in Cuba.

1908: In Cedarhurst, NY, pathologist and Columbia faculty member Dr. Max Pappenheimer and his wife gave birth award winning “biochemist and immunologist” Alwin Max Pappenheimer, the brother of Harvard Professor John Pappehnheimer.

https://www.aai.org/About/History/Past-Presidents-and-Officers/AlwinMPappenheimer

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/24/obituaries/alwin-m-pappenheimer-jr-86-shed-light-on-bacterial-toxins.html

1909: In New York City, William and Gussie (Goldenberg) Feuer gave birth Columbia Law School trained attorney Mortimer Feuer, a “partner firm Hays, Feuer, Porter & Spanier” and the first vice president of the Amsterdam Democratic who married Louis Younker Gottschall with whom he had two sons – Thomas and Richard.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549458.pdf

1909: Turks resolve to grant all requested privileges to Jewish soldiers, except kosher food

1910: Birthdate of Léon Poliakov, the Russian born French historian whose field of expertise was Holocaust and anti-Semitism. In November 1950, Poliakov wrote "The Vatican and the 'Jewish Question' - The Record of the Hitler Period-And After," in the influential Jewish journal Commentary which was the first article to consider the attitude of the papacy during World War II and the Holocaust.

1911: “Replying to inquiries from Mr. O’Grady, MP, Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs” stated  “that the Government is aware of discrimination against English Jews practiced by the Russian Government in the matter of passports; that no agreement countenancing such discrimination exists between Great Britain and Russia; and that so long as the ‘Russian regulations respecting person of the Jewish faith are applied to all persons alike, irrespective of nationality, which His Majesty’s Government have reason to believe to the case, they have no treaty grounds for protest.”

1911: The “North Manchester Synagogue” adopted “resolutions regretting that invitations to the forthcoming conference on the Chief Rabbinate have been withheld from a number of congregations and declaring that no Chief Rabbi will be recognized as spiritual head of British Jewry who has not been chosen by votes of all Orthodox Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and Ireland.”

1912(15^th of Kislev, 5673): Sixty-two year old Isidor Raynor who represented the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland from 1887 to 1889 and 1891 to 1895 and served as U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1905 until today, passed away.

1912: ‘The next regular meeting of the Junior Auxiliary of the Mother’s Aid of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary is scheduled to be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon in the vestry rooms of  Temple Isaiah in Chicago, Illinois.

1912: The following article entitled “Daughters of Jacob Honor Ida Straus” described the memorial ceremony commemorating the life of this Jewess who went down with her husband on the Titanic.

 In the presence of an audience of 600 persons, including all of the members of the Straus family, a memorial tablet in honor of Ida Straus was unveiled yesterday at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, an institution for aged men and women at 301 and 303 East Broadway. Impressive services marked the official dedication of the tablet, which has been mounted upon the wall of the large auditorium to the right of the main entrance.The large bronze casting bears the raised profile of Mrs. Straus upon the centre, directly under the inscription; “The Ida Straus Memorial of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob.” On one side are the words “Her life was beautiful” and the date in the Hebrew calendar of Mrs. Straus’s birth, “Shebat 14, 5609.” On the other side is the inscription “Her death was glorious,” and the date of the Titanic disaster, “Nisan 28, 5672.” Below the profile are the words:To the everlasting memory of Mrs. Ida Straus, one of the noble and heroic daughters in Israel, the hospital wards of this home are dedicated. She perished on the high seas in the Titanic disaster, together with her husband, Isidor Straus, statesman, philanthropist, and merchant, persistenly [sic] refusing to be saved that she might remain to cheer the last moments of her life’s companion.

Beneath is this quotation:

Where thou Diest Will I Die, and There Will I Be Buried. RUTH

The Rev. Dr. Nathan Abramson opened the dedication services with a hymn, in which he led a selected chorus of sixteen voices. The Rev. H. Pereira Mendes delivered the opening prayer, in which he expressed the hope that the example of the heroic and devoted wife in whose memory the tablet was erected and to whose lasting fame the wards of the hospital were dedicated might be forever an inspiration to the women of her race and ancient creed.  Dr. Henry Fleischman, President of the Educational Alliance, made the principal address. He lauded the modest charity and kindliness of Mrs. Straus and the great unselfish works of her husband in the public service. Other speakers were Joseph Barondes of the Board of Education, the Rev. Dr. Schulman, pastor of the Congregation of Beth-El; the Rev. H. Masliansky of the People’s Synagogue, and Gustavus A. Rogers, who acted as Chairman. The most impressive incident of the dedication occurred when the 186 inmates of the home, led by Supt. Albert Kruger, filed slowly into the auditorium and took their seats in the front rows. The oldest of the feeble and decrepit men and women was said to be almost 108, and the youngest in the procession more than 70 years old. Just before the close of the exercises they arose and with quavering voices chanted aloud in unison a prayer for the eternal happiness of their departed benefactress. Among those seated on the platform were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Straus, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Mrs. Nathan Straus, Herbert Straus, Jesse I. Straus, Mrs. Weil, Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Kohns, and Mr. Lee Kohns. At the close of the exercises the members of the Straus family group, together with a few intimate friends, made a tour of inspection of the new hospital wards of the home.

1913: Birthdate of Robert Friend, the American born “poet and translator” who made Aliyah and became “a professor of English literature at Hebrew University.”

1914(5^th of Kislev, 5675): While fighting on the Western Front during WW I, twenty-seven year old  Lt. F.A. De Pass, a Jewish officer from London died while he and an Indian soldier faced German machine-gun fire for two hundred yards, to bring in a badly wounded Indian lying in No-Man’s Land.

1914: “Zangwill Lauds Schiff” published today defends Jacob Schiff saying this his proposal “for a conference to end Prussian Militarism” does not make him a “mouthpiece of Berlin” but shows him as one who draws on his Jewish background and “speaks…with the voice of Jersualem.

1914: “Britain Will Protect Jews” published today provides the response of the British Ambassador to questions about the British protecting the rights of German Jews in lands they may conquer by saying that “Jews of all nationalities who may come under British control can of course count on the same protection and liberal treatment which England has always extended to them.”

1914: “For the Relief of Jews” published today provided a list of contributors to the fund including Rabbi J.S. Levy of Waco, TX , Joe Matz of Pocahontas, VA and Mrs. Charles Fryer of Muscatine, IA.

1915: According to a dispatch from the Associated Press the Russians dynamited much of Brest-Litvosk, destroying three quarters of the houses before retreating from the Polish city and leaving a mass of refugees most of whom were Jewish and were forced to seek refuge in the swamps where many of the “died of malignant diseases.”



1915: Max Meyerson, Commissioner of Education Isadore M. Levy, Magistrate Samuel D. Levy and Abram I. Elkus were among the speakers at the Thanksgiving exercises held by the Hebrew Sheltering Immigrant Aid Society tonight during which they explained “the newcomers what reasons they had for being thankful” including the fact that they were not being exposed to the “horrors in war-ridden Europe.”



1915: Today, following “a second consecutive poor harvest” and decrease in population of “almost two-thirds” the state of Utah order the termination of title of the Jewish agricultural colony at Clarion.

1915: On Thanksgiving, Jacob H. Schiff spoke to the 450 inmates at the Montefiore Home and Hospital for Chronic Invalids many of whom who “could not leave their cots “and asked them to be thankful that America was enjoying peace.”



1915: Philip Watenberger of the Bronx, presided over a meeting at McKinley Casion where “some 3,000 persons” heard “an appeal for aid for the suffering Jews of Poland, made homeless because of the war.”



1915: Months after Leo Frank was taken from the Milledgeville prison, members of the Knights of Mary Phagan burned a gigantic cross on top of Stone Mountain, reportedly inaugurating a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The group was led by William J. Simmons and attended by 15 charter members and a few aging survivors of the original Klan.



1915: It was reported today that among those being considered to replace the later Dr. Solomon Schechter as President of the Jewish Theological Seminary are “Dr. Buchler, head of the Jews’ College in London and Dr. Toznanski of the Jewish Institute in Petrograd.”

 

1915: In London, The Times publishes a letter from Israel Zangwill takes issue with an interview it had published with Jacob Schiff in which its correspondent apparently made it seem like Schiff spoke for Germany.  Zangweill contends that he is “noblest of millionaires” engaged in “philanthropic work” who is one of the most patriotic Americans I have ever known.”  “Descended from a long-line of Jewish rabbis and scholars (one of his ancestors was Chief Rabb of the Great Synagogue of London in the eighteenth century) Jacob Schiff himself might sat to Lessing for a portrait of ‘Nathan der Wise.’”

1915: Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, the member of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family succeeded Winston Churchill as the Chancellor of the Duchy Lancaster in the government headed by Prime Minister Henry Asquith

1915(18^th of Kislev, 5676): Eighty-three year old Michel Jules Alfred Bréal, the French philologist who was responsible for the marathon being part of the first modern Olympics passed away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03483.html

1916(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5677): Parashat Chayei Sara

1916: According to an article written by a member of the Reichstag that appeared in the Tageblatt today, “the Prussian Government has also been lucky in solving the Jewish religious problem in Poland” because unlike the Czar’s Government, “the German Governor of Poland has granted the Jews of Poland far-reaching self-government respecting their religious institutions and has accorded them all the religious rights recognized by State.”  (Editor’s note – this is only one example of why some Jews in the United States did not want to enter the World War on the side of the allies because that would have been supporting the anti-Semitic government of the Czar.)

1916: Synagogues on New York’s east side are scheduled hold memorial services honoring Austrian Emperor Franz Josef who passed away earlier this week.

1916: The replacement of Boris Stürmer an anti-Semite “suspected of being pro-German” as Prime Minister in Russia with Alexander Trepov “was hailed by liberals” and those who were worried about Russia continuing the war against Germany.

1916: In Berlin, “during the course of the discussion of the budget before the committee of the Reichstag” it was suggested that Germany employ Jews in Poland while also looking using “the population of occupied territories for work in Germany.”

1917:The New York Section of the Council of Jewish Women dedicated the first shelter for “homeless and friendless” Jewish women discharged or paroled from New York City and New York state jails. Speakers at the dedication included the prominent rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Deaconess Young, who directed another home for “friendless women” in the same neighborhood. Although the home was founded to serve Jewish women, the president of the New York Council section affirmed that “no unfortunate woman of any race, creed or color would be refused aid if she needed it.”

1917: The Provisional Zionist Committee, chaired by Stephen S. Wise, “sent a cable message of greetings and congratulation to the Zionist mass meeting what held in London” celebrating the adoption of the Balfour Declaration. 

1917:  A mass meeting of Zionists attended by Lord Walter Lionel Rothschild, Chaim Weitzman, President of the British Zionist Federation and Rabbi Moses Gaster was held in London this evening designed “to celebrate the promise by the British Government ot support the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine.

1917: A contribution of $200 from Witty Brothers, the New York men’s clothing store was among those listed today by the American Jewish Relief Committee.

1917: Among the contributions listed today by the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War included $1,436 from the committee in Dubuque, IA, $236 from the committee in Iowa City, IA, $135 from the committee in Keokuk, IA, $300 from the committee in Mason City, IA, $301 from the committee in Muscatine, IA and $286 from the committee in Ottumwa, IA.

1918: It was reported today that “the Administrative Committee for an American Jewish Congress will meet tomorrow to fix a new date for the” convening of the congress which is to deal with the questions of Jewish nationality in Palestine and the guaranteeing of equal rights for Jews in all  the countries of Europe.

1920: Thanksgiving observed in the United States.

1920: The 23^rd annual convention of the ZOA is scheduled to begin to in Buffalo, NY.

1920: The Young Women’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to “hold services dedicated to the memory of the late Jacob H. Schiff” this evening which the entire neighborhood is invited to attend.

1922: Wake University “under head coach George Levene” lost to North Carolina State for its third straight loss at home.

1924(27th of Cheshvan, 5685): Ninety-two year old Jules Worms, the French painter and engraver who was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1876 passed away today after which he was “buried in Paris Montparnasse Cemetery , Section 5.

1925: In Moscow, silent film actress Rachel Messerer-Plisetskaya and Mikhai “Misha” Plisetski, a diplomat, engineer and mine director, gave birth to ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress Maya Plisetskaya.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/arts/dance/maya-plisetskaya-ballerina-who-embodied-bolshoi-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

1926: In Brooklyn “Jewish immigrants Irene (Sperling) and Abraham Schisgal, a tailor, gave birth to playwright and screenwriter Murray Schisgal whose hits include Luv and Tootsie.

1927(1^st of Kislev, 5688): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1927(1^st of Kislev, 5688): Morris Ganss, who had been born in Maryland in August of 1865 and was the husband of Helen Peyer and father of Harold Ganss passed away today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery at Washington, D.C.

1927: Yehudi Menuhin was the soloist with New York Symphony Orchestra today where he played the Beethoven Violin Concerto. His performance won audience approval and critical acclaim and marked the start of tours through the United States and Europe.

1928: In Syracuse, NY, David A. Brown of Detroit, “the national chairman of the United Jewish campaign raise $25,000,000 Jewish activities” “declared tonight at the first joint gathering of Zionists and non-Zionists” that “Jews through the world will benefit from the agency recently formed in Palestine for relief work under the coordinating support of all Zionist movements.”

1928: A photograph of “Masons Hillsborough Lodge No. 25” published today included Henry Brash, Abe Maas and Isaac Mass provided evident of the level of acceptance of Jews in the Tampa community.

1931: According to figures released by the census authorities, of the 1,035,154 inhabitants of Palestine, 387,525 live in Palestine’s major cities including 90,526 in Jerusalem, 51,876 in Jaffa, 46,109 in Tel Aviv and 50,869 for Haifa.  “There is an almost equal number of men an women in nearly all the urban localities, the total being 197,307 males and 190,218 females.” Since the last census conducted in 1922, “purely Arab areas showed less than a 1 per cent increase in population…while the mixed Arab-Jewish residential localities showed a 30 per cent rise indicating a higher measure of prosperity during the past decade.”

1932: U.S. premiere of “Rockabye” a drama directed by George Cukor and produced by David O. Selznick.

1933(7^th of Kislev, 5694): Seventy-three year old Sarah Hexter, a native of Brandeburg, German who was the wife of Max Hexter with who she had three children passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1933: Max Born received a letter from Werner Heisenberg in which he said he had been delayed in writing due to a “bad conscience” that he alone had received the Nobel Prize “for work done in Göttingen in collaboration — you, Jordan and I.” Heisenberg went on to say that Born and Jordan’s contribution to quantum mechanics cannot be changed by “a wrong decision from the outside.” Jordan was Pascual Jordan a physicist who joined the Nazi party and became a Brown Shirt. Heisenberg was an “Aryan” who stayed in Nazi Germany.  Born was a Lutheran who was classified as a Jew under Nazi Racial Law and would win his Nobel Prize in 1954.

1934: John Kenmuir reports that “not since the period immediately following the World War have so many new places claimed attention from mapmakers as in the last few months. Towns have seemingly appeared out of nowhere…”  Included in this category is Tel Aviv, “the second largest city in Palestine a country of age-old town.  This thriving metropolis of 70,000 did not even exist in 1909, its site being then a deserted area of rolling sand dunes north of Jaffa.

1934: Dr. George Landauer, the head of the Jerusalem branch of the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine and Dr. Martin Rosenbluth, from the London headquarters said today that “a minimum of 40,000 German Jews can settled in Palestine in a statement issued from offices of the UJA in New York.

1935: Herbert Louis Samuel, 1^st Viscount Samuel who lost his seat in the elections of 1935 ended his leadership of the Liberal Party today.

1935: “One Way Ticket,” a cinema version of the novel by the same name which marked “the directorial debut” of Herbert Biberman was released in the United States today.

1936: Tonight, the police “stormed Warsaw University in order to clear the buildings occupied for two day by several hundred Fascist student” who were demanding that Jewish students be segregated from the rest of the student body.

1936: Dr. Chaim Weizmann began his testimony before the Peel Commission by dwelling “first on the tragedy of at least 6,000,000 superfluous Jews in Poland, Germany, Austria and other countries who before the war found an outlet in emigration to the United States and South Africa but who now find all gates barred to them” which “lends grave importance to the question of a Jewish national home in Palestine, the only spot in the world where Jews can turn their eyes with the hope of being saved from moral, cultural and economic stagnation” not to mention death.

1936: Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty that will be the basis of the Axis alliance.  The treaty is another step towards World War II and the Final Solution. At the time, the treaty seemed to be one more diplomatic victory for Hitler, but the Japanese actually outsmarted the Little Corporal.  The treaty did not commit the Japanese to take military action against the Soviets.  Hitler fully expected the Japanese to attack Russia when he invaded the Soviet state forcing Stalin to fight a two front war.  The Japanese never budged.  Hitler was left to fight the Soviets on his own and it was this Soviet ability to have face only the Germans that helped chew up the divisions of the Wermacht. [If the Japanese had really been such dedicated anti-communists you would have thought they would have joined the Nazis in attacking the leading communist state of the time, the Soviet Union.  Of course the Japanese did not having been bloodied by the Soviets in the late 1930’s.  Even strange bedfellows do not always sleep together]

1936: Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munich, informed the Bavarian bishops that he had promised Hitler that the bishops would issue a new pastoral letter in which they condemned "Bolshevism which represents the greatest danger for the peace of Europe and the Christian civilization of our country." In addition, Faulhaber stated, the pastoral letter “will once again affirm our loyalty and positive attitude, demanded by the Fourth Commandment, toward todays form of government and the Führer."

1936: Fifty-five year old Sir Leon Levison, the son of Rabbi Nahum Levison, whose conversion to Christianity and service as the first President of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance did not prevent him from raising 200,000 English pounds to relieve the suffering Jews during the World War or being “a fierce opponent of the Nazis” passed away. 

http://www.lcje.net/High%20Leigh/Sunday,%20August%207/2%20Sir%20Leon%20Levison%20at%20High%20Leigh%201931%20by%20kai-kjaer%20hansen.pdf

1937: The Palestine Post reported that the first death sentence was passed, under the recently promulgated Defense Regulations, by a military court on Sheikh Farhan e-Sadi, leader of a terrorist group, who was found guilty of carrying firearms and ammunition. The Arab Defense Party appealed for clemency.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that a large number of Jews had been attacked and beaten in riots in Memel, Shavli and Wilkomir in Lithuania. This outburst of anti-Semitism took place two years before the outbreak of World War II.  This is an example of the inherent European anti-Semitism that helped to make the Holocaust possible and provided the Nazis with willing accomplices in completing the Final Solution.

1938(2^nd of Kislev, 5699): Fifty-five year old Jessie Sampter who made Aliyah in 1919 which led her to work with Yemenite Jews and the establishment of “a vegetarian convalescent home at Kibbutz Givat Brenner” passed away at Beilinson Hospital where she was being treated for malaria and heart disease.

1938: “Submarine Patrol” a pre-war Naval adventure film written by Jack Yellen was released today in the United States.

1938(2^nd of Kislev, 5699): Sixty-one year old Aaron Garber, the Lithuanian born Cleveland, OH, attorney, Zionist and “a leader in the Bureau of Jewish Education” who was “a founder and president of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools” passed away today.

http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/ins/garber/garber-history.htm

https://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/ins/garber/garber-obituary.htm

https://www.google.com/search?ei=l-T5W8nLKsLojwSAz4ewDA&q=Aaron+Garber%2C+Cleveland%2C+OH&oq=Aaron+Garber%2C+Cleveland%2C+OH&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i299l2.7467757.7481323..7482002...6.0..1.367.3116.28j3j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0j0i131j0i67j0i10i67j0i131i67j0i22i30j33i160j33i22i29i30.489_1WSHjNE

1938: In Owensboro, KY, a gold course owner whose father had emigrated from Lithuania and his wife gave birth Stephen Cohen, a product of the Russian Studies program at Indiana University and holder of PhD from Columbia who went to become a “Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Princeton,” a prolific author and one of those who as of 2018, “continues to dismiss theories of Russian collusion” in the U.S. Presidential elections.

1939: There were 1,000 German Jews aboard the SS Vulcania as it left Italy tonight bound for New York City.

1939: Today is the deadline for the Jewish population of Teschen to leave the city.

1939: Today, playing on their home field Penn St. led by their Team Captain Spike Alter defeated cross-state rival Pittsburg.

1939: It was announced today that American “with relatives in the Upper Silesia and Danzig areas of Poland may send me to them through the Federation of Polish Jews in America at 225 West 34^thStreet” in New York City.

1939: Birthdate of economist Martin Feldstein winner in 1977 of the John Bates Clark Medal.

1939: In New York, Dr. Samuel H. Goldensohn is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled “The Sacrifices of Thanksgiving” on Saturday morning at Congregation Emanu-El.

1939: In New York, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled “How Would Your Rewrite the Bible” on Saturday morning at Temple Israel.

1939: In New York, Rabbi Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled “I Have Everything” on Saturday morning at West End Synagogue.

1939: In Baltimore, MD, “more than a thousand delegates to the Junior Hadassah convention passed by acclamation today a resolution condemning the British White Paper on Palestine and calling upon the British Colonial Secretary, ‘for the sake o the honor of Great Britain,’ to abandon it.”

1939: Mrs. David De Sola Pool of New York, national president of Senior Hadassah, Miss Nell Ziff of New York, president of Junior Hadassah and Rabbi Isadore Breslau, director of the American Zionist Bureau in Washington addressed today’s session of the Junior Hadassah Convention.

1939: In New York Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled “Changing Our Name and Changing Our Character” on Saturday morning Congregation Rodeph Sholom

1939: The government in Bucharest published “the result of an investigation concerning the citizenship of the Jews” living in Rumania according to which only 63.5% of the Jews living in the country were really citizens.

1939: “Mrs. Isidor Achron of 45 West Eighty-First Street” said today she had received word from her aunt in London that her cousin Moijzesz Kusewitsky, chief cantor Poland who had been reported killed by a German bomb during the Nazi capture of Warsaw “had escaped with his family to Bucharest, Romania.

1940: The Patria, a steamer carrying illegal Jewish immigrants sank in Haifa port killing 250 of the passengers. The Patria was a French steamer chartered by the British to ship illegal immigrants who had previously made it to Palestine to detainment camps on the British island of Mauritius. This removal of the Jewish immigrants was part of a British campaign to placate the Arabs.  The plan was in violation of the terms of the Mandate.  The plant was also a violation of basic human decency since the Jews were seeking a safe haven from the advancing Nazi armies.  However, nobody has ever accused the British Foreign office or the Arab leaders of that time of having an over abundance of human decency when it came to dealing with Jews.  The explosion on board the Patria was caused by the Haganah who were attempting to disable the ship and force the British to let the refugees land.  Almost two thousand of the Patria’s human cargo would end up staying in Eretz Israel while another similar number would end up in internment camps.  This was but one small event in the combined British-Arab attempt to strangle the Yishuv.

1941: Following the German conquest of Belgium, the Jews “set up their own coordinating committee” which the Nazi Security Police replaced with the Association of Jews in Belgium or AJB.

http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205777.pdf

1941: German Jews were shipped east to Kovno.  This gave the SS new targets for their killing raids. In one day the Einsatzkommando reported the deaths of 1,159 men, 1,600 women and175 children. Four days later they reported killing another 693 men, 1,155 women and152 children.

1942: In the evening and continuing into the next day, the SS and Norway’s State Police began rounding up all woman and children. In all, 532 Jewish women and children in Norway are arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Although more than 700 Norwegian Jews were eventually sent to Auschwitz, about 930 found refuge in Sweden.

1942: Jews hiding in Piotrkow (Poland) were offered a chance to stay in the ghetto legally if they came out of hiding. Some did, and they were killed by Ukrainians upon doing so.

1943: World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1943(27^th of Cheshvan, 5704): One of two dates given for the suicide of 65 year old actor Paul Otto in Berlin after his Jewish ancestry was discovered.

1944: Crematorium II at Birkenau was dismantled by the Nazis and its remains were buried in attempt to hide the evidence of the Final Solution. 

1944:  Birthdate of actor, self-styled political commentator and game show host Ben Stein

1944: According to some sources Himmler was responsible for the issuance today of a “general prohibition…concerning the further killing of the Jews” – a claim which would seem to fly in the face of the facts that an untold number of Jews continued to perish under the most brutal of conditions.

1944: Warner Brothers release “Arsenic and Old Lace” comedy that includes murder and mental illness produced by Jack Warner with a score by Max Steiner and a screenplay by Julius and Philip G. Epstein.

1945: Jewish underground attacks Palestinian coast guard; blows up two coast guard stations in retaliation for capture of Greek schooner Demetrios which brought 200 illegal immigrants to Palestine.

1946(2^nd of Kislev, 5707): Ninety-year old Henry Morgenthau, Sr. the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during WW I whose grandchildren included historian Barbara Tuchman and long-time NY DA Robert M. Morgenthau passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/1946/11/26/archive/henry-morgenthau-sr-dies-one-time-envoy-to-turkey-was-active-in-jewish-affairs

http://www.armenian-genocide.org/morgenthau.html

1947: The House of Representatives overwhelming vote to approve citations for contempt of Congress citations against the Hollywood Ten for the “defiance” of the mis-named House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).  “Of the Hollywood Ten, six - John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Albert Maltz and Samuel Ornitz — were Jews.”

1947: Funeral services were held today “Jeffers Community Chapel in Brooklyn for Isidor L. Marrow the president of the Harwood Manufacturing Company and director of the Israel Zion Hospital” and the husband of Rebecca Marrow with whom he had six children ---Alfred, Seymour, Ruth, Sylvia, Lucille and Blanche.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/11/28/99278434.pdf

1947: The movie version of the novel “It Always Rains on Sunday” produced by Michael Balcon was released today in the United Kingdom.

1947: Following yesterday’s overwhelming vote to cite the Hollywood Ten for Contempt of Congress, the Hollywood studios blacklisted them. “Of the Hollywood Ten, six - John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Albert Maltz and Samuel Ornitz — were Jews.”  (As reported by Jennifer Lipman)

1947: “The Gangster” based The Low Company a 1937 novel written by Daniel Fuchs who wrote the screenplay and with music by Louis Gruenberg was released today in the United States today,

1948: Arabs announce they will not negotiate with Israel except through UN.

1948: UN mediator Ralph Bunche recommends to Political Committee that UN try another strong appeal for Israel and Arabs to get together. He urges Israel's admittance to UN.

1948: Israel's Provisional Government Council announces it will hold first general elections on January 25. Persons aged 18 years or more will be eligible to vote.

1948:  Birthdate of French born, American educated, film director Jonathan Kaplan

1949: Israel turns down the UN Palestine Conciliation Committee's plan for an international Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett says Jews favored UN control of Jerusalem at one time. They oppose it now, because if they lose Jerusalem they will have to rescue it from Arabs. They recommend that Jerusalem's old city be internationalized. Modern Jerusalem's holy places will be accessible to people of all faiths.

1959: Birthdate of Yaakov Edri, the native of Morocco who made Aliyah in 1959, earned two degrees from the University of Haifa and pursued a political career that including service as an MK and in several ministerial posts.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that fear for the safety of 2,500,000 Jews behind the Iron Curtain was voiced in the Knesset by Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett when he read the government¹s statement on the Prague trials of former leading Communists, accused of Zionism and espionage, which he called “a farce in the form of a trial.”

1952: Premiere of Hans Christian Andersen produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with a script by Moss Hart and starring Danny Kaye.

1953: “The Fake” a “British crime film” with music by Matyas Seiber was released today in the United Kingdom.

1955: “The Big Knife,” the film version of the 1949 play by Clifford Odets and co-starring Shelly Winters was released in the United States today.

1955(10th of Kislev, 5716): Fifty year old U.S. Chess Champion and International Master Herman Steiner passed away today.

1956: In Boston, Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy addresses a dinner honoring Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/JFK+Pre-Pres/1956/002PREPRES12SPEECHES_56NOV25.htm

1957: U.S. premiere of “Bernadine” directed by Henry Levin with music by Lionel Newman.



1957: Today, CBS broadcast “Beyond This Place,” an adaptation of the novel of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by David Susskind and co-starring Shelly Winters.



1960: Today, CBS news broadcast “Harvest of Shame” a ground-breaking documentary about migrant farm workers directed by Fred W. Friendly.



1961: Negotiations between representatives of the Israeli government and King Hassan of Morocco came to an end with an understanding that would make it easier for the Jews to leave for Israel.



1963: Following the assassination of President Kennedy, “the Jewish Community Council held a memorial service at Washington Hebrew Congregation that included “a tribute delivered by Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.”

1964: Funeral services were held today for Brooklynite Pincus Joseph Greenberg, the husband of Sadie Greenberg with whom he had had five children.



1965(1^st of Kislev, 5726): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1965(1^st of Kislev, 5726): Seventy-five year old pianist “Dame Myra Hess who…became wartime a wartime hero though her morale-raising recitals at London’s National Gallery” passed away today.



https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hess-dame-myra

http://www.picturethispost.com/meet-dame-myra-hess-musicians/

https://www.duopianistscontiguglia.com/images/bbc_myrahess.pdf

1966: In a special edition on the Kennedy Assassination, Life magazine published frames of Abraham Zapruder’s homemade movie that is the photographic of this national tragedy.



1967: After 463 performance the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “The Apple Tree,” a musical with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, produced by Stuart Ostrow, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Larry Blyden.

1967: A version of “Suszanne” a song  that Canadian born Jewish musician Leon Cohen created from his platonic relationship with Suzzanne Verdal which had “entered The Billboard Hot 100 chat in October “peaked at number 56 today.



1969: Birthdate of Israeli actress and comedian Orna Banai



1970: “A Promise at Dawn” the film version of the 1960 novel by Romain Gary who co-authored the script with Jules Dassin who also directed and produced the movie and starring Assi Dayan, the son of Moshe Dayan, was released in the United States today.



1973: Three Arab terrorists hijacked a KLM jumbo jet headed for New Delhi and forced the pilot to land at Abu Dhabi.



1973(30^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Forty-five year old debonair actor Laurence Harvey whose on screen persona was so different from what one would expect from Lithuanian born Jew named Hirsch Moses Skikne passed away today.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002131/bio



1974: Appeal in behalf of Soviet Jewish prisoners, signed by over 600 politicians, academics, musicians, writers, stage and film actors published in The Times in London.

1974: About 200 Riga Jews organize pilgrimage to Rumbuli on the anniversary of the liquidation of the Riga ghetto; several arrested.

1975: Suriname, a Dutch colony on the Northeast coast of South America gains its independence from the Netherlands. According to The Virtual Jewish Library, “the Jewish community of Suriname is one of the oldest in the Americas. Jews apparently arrived from Brazil (or Holland) and settled in Suriname as early as 1639, and there is an extant ketubbah, marriage contract, signed by a rabbi in 1643.”  For part of its history, the Jewish community was quite active and wealthy. By the end of the 20^th century “200 Jews live in Suriname with the Nederlands Portugees Israelitische Gemeente overseeing the community's activities. The two 18th century synagogues in the capital, Paramaribo, have been restored. Neve Shalom is considered to be Conservative, and both synaggoues hold weekly Shabbat services. The Ashkenazi synagogue has a sandy floor, which is symbolic of the 40 years in the desert, and was also supposed to have hidden the footsteps of the Conversos. Kosher food is available in Suriname and there is a community newspaper, Sim Shalomthat is printed in Dutch.

 For more information see www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Suriname.html.  

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announced that his government had adopted the policy of promoting communications with Israel in order to establish a comprehensive Middle Eastern peace settlement. It was suggested that the proposed Israeli-Egyptian dialogue would be held in the UN Sinai buffer zone.

1978: Prime Minister Menachem Begin met German Ambassador Klaus Schuetz. This was the first time Begin had personally conferred with any German representative.  During the 1950’s Begin had been a vocal opponent of accepting reparations from the Bonn government.

1979: Robert Strauss completed his service as Special Envoy for the Middle East for President Carter

1979: Birthdate of Gerson Levi-Lazzaris,a Brazilian archaeologist, descendent of Italo-Slovenian immigrants. Most of the Lazzaris are from Forno di Zoldo, Veneto, from where most of them emigrated during the end of the XIXth century, and also after the Second World War to Argentina, Australia, Brazil and United States.

1979: As part of the Camp David Accords, Israel surrendered the Alma oilfields

1981(28th of Cheshvan, 5742): Seventy four year old actor Jack Albertson passed away.  Born to immigrant parents in 1907, this Bay State native was a multi-talented entertainer. Some of his more famous roles include a bit part as a postal worker in Miracle on 34^thStreet, a starring role in the Broadway hit The Sunshine Boys and as the cantankerous elderly Anglo in Chico and the Man.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/26/obituaries/jack-albertson-versatile-star-of-stage-film-and-tv-series.html

1981: The Samuel Freeman House, designed by Rudolph Schindler was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument today

1983:Syria and Saudi Arabia announced cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli.  There are a number of people who blame Israel for all of the problems in the Middle East.  There is a growing chorus on the both the Left and the Right in America who blame America’s problems in that region on United States support for Israel.  The Civil War in Lebanon is a reminder that turmoil and violence exist in that region without regard to the existence of Israel.  In fact the argument can be made that Arab violence against Israel is merely another manifestation of on-going Arab versus Arab conflicts.

1987: Eighty-six year old Genevieve Brown, who had been marred to All-American football player and Coach Ralph Horween (Ralph Horwitz) for 64 years passed away today.

1987(4^th of Kislev, 5748): Terrorist who “flew” into Israel aboard hang gliders from Lebanon killed 6 Israeli soldiers and wounded six others.

1987(4^th of Kislev, 5748: Eighty-six year old Genevieve (Brown) Horween who had been married to Ralph Horween, the All-American Harvard and NFL football player and lawyer who founded the Horween Leather Company with his brother, passed away today.

1987: U.S. premiere of “Three Men and a Baby” directed by Leonard Nimoy, photographed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg, co-starring Steve Guttenberg with music by Marvin Hamlisch.

1989(27th of Cheshvan, 5750): Ninety-four year old Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron, who was recognized as one of the century's great historical scholars for his sweeping multivolume history of the Jews passed away today. (As reported by Peter Steinfels)

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/26/obituaries/salo-w-baron-94-scholar-of-jewish-history-dies.html

1990(8^th of Kislev, 5751): Four Israelis were killed and 26 more were wounded by an “Egyptian crossing the border.”

1990(8^th of Kislev, 5751): Ninety-year old clinical psychiatrist Bettina Warburg Grimson, the graduate of Bryn Mawr and Cornell Medical School who was the wife of the musician Samuel B. Grimson passed away today in Manhattan.

1991: Birthdate of Mexican actor Joseph Sasson Entebi best known for his role in the “children’s soap opera, “Amy, The Girl in the Blue Backpack.”

1992: The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993. “After the peaceful division of Czechoslovakia in 1992, Slovakia gained its independence on January 1, 1993. Since Slovakia’s independence, such organizations as Maccabi and B’nai B’rith have become active in the communities… During the immediate post-Cold War period, the Czech Republic reopened diplomatic ties with Israel and Czech President Vaclav Havel became the first leader from a previously Soviet controlled Eastern European country to travel to Israel.”

1992: U.S. premiere of “Aladdin” an animated musical fantasy with Scott Weinger providing the voice of “Aladdin” and music by Alan Menken.

1992: “The Bodyguard,” a “romantic thriller written and co-produced by Lawrence Kasdan was released in the United States today.

1994: John Charles Walker, “an American agricultural scientist “and winner of the Wolf Prize an Israeli award funded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, the former Cuban ambassador to Israel

1998(6th of Kislev, 5759): American philosopher Nelson Goodman passed away at the age of 92.

1998: “Very Bad Things” a very sick comedy directed by Peter Berg and co-starring Jeremy Piven was released in the United States today.

1998: “A Bugs Life,” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, featuring Madeline Kahn, with music by Randy Newman and edited by Lee Unkrich was released today in the United States.

2001: Peter Temes reviewed The Brigade: An Epic, Story of Vengeance, Salvation and World by Howard Blum which described the role played this Jewish unit in the British Army.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-212652.html



2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg, The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalemby Kanan Makiya, In The Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk and Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller with Judith L. Shoolery

2002(20th of Kislev, 5763): Seventy six year old “Karel Reisz, a Czech refugee who became a leading director of the British New Wave before making "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and other Hollywood dramas” passed away today. (As reported by Rick Lyman)

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/arts/karel-reisz-director-of-films-including-the-french-lieutenant-s-woman-dies-at-76.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/nov/28/guardianobituaries.filmnews



2002: Theo Epstein was appointed General Manager of the Boston Red Sox. In less than two years (2004) the Sox would beat the hated Yankees for the American League Pennant and then win the World Series thus breaking “the curse.”  The youthful Jewish executive would be hailed as part of a new generation of baseball executives.

2002: In a review of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Dvesti let Vmeste (Two Hundred Years Together) the first of two volumes devoted to the history of Jews in Russia from the third partition of Poland in 1795, when Russia, until then effectively without Jews, suddenly acquired one million Jewish subjects, Daniel Pipes discusses the Russian author’s attitude toward Jews and the role of Jews in Russian history.

2005: “The Ice Harvest” directed by Harold Ramis which premiered at the Deauville American Film festival was released in the United States today

2005: “One Six Right: The Romance of Flying” a “film about the general aviation industry” starring Sydney Pollack and Hal Fishman was released in the United States today.

2005: In a reminder that even in the hell of the Holocaust, there were righteous people who did the right thing, Ruth Greiner, a Holocaust survivor and Joanna Zalucka, her Polish protector were re-united.Sixty-one years ago, Joanna Zalucka hid a young Jewish girl in her bedroom for eight months, saving the child from the Nazi killing spree in their native Poland.

 2006: The Jerusalem Quartet takes center stage marking the first time that Jerusalem Music Center musicians have abandoned the safety of their lofty haven and descended to the level of the man in the street by performing at the local YMCA auditorium. Breaking what some consider a chain of snobbery they perform their superb New Chamber Concert Series, entitled "YMCAMERI" in honor of the venue at prices the average Israeli can afford.

2006: In an article entitled “A Torah for the Next Generation” The Washington Post reported on the efforts of members of Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to write an entire Torah in time for the 150^thanniversary of the congregation which was founded in 1857.

2007:The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra with conductor, Daniel Kossov, soprano, Keren Hadar, tenor, Yotam Cohen, and pianist, Yoni Fahri performs Humperdinck`s Hansel und Gretel: Vorspiel, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Mozart’s Symphony in A Major, no. 29, performs a special benefit concert.

2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section featured a review of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Canadian born Jewish commentator and social activist Naomi Klein.

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of A Pigeon and A Boy by Israeli author Meir Shalev, Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore and Dough: A Memoir by Jewish author Mort Zacht

2008: In Manhattan, the 92^ndStreet Y presents a program entitled, “Rabbi David Wolpe in Conversation with Safran Foer” during which “Rabbi Wolpe, one of today’s leading voices of contemporary religion, discusses his personal journey through life-threatening illness, from the depths of darkness to the illuminating light of faith.

2008: David Korn-Brzoza’s documentary “L'affaire Finaly” which examined the effort to have two Jewish children who had been hidden by Catholics returned to the their parents by David Korn-Brzoza, was also broadcast by France 2, today.

2008:Israel closed its cargo crossings with Gaza today because of Palestinians fired at least one rocket into Israel, just a day after Israel had allowed vital humanitarian supplies to shipped into Gaza

2008: Premiere of “The Nutty Professor” produced by Jerry Lewis, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein and starring Jerry Lewis.

2008(27th of Cheshvan, 5769):Eighty-four year old Gerald Schoenfeld the chairman of the powerful Shubert Organization, the largest and most important theater owner on Broadway and in the United States passed away. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/theater/26schoenfeld.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

2009: At the Jerusalem Music Center, the final performance "The Bald Soprano": a chamber opera by Israel Sharon, based on a play by Eugène Ionesco.

2009: “The Jazz Baroness,” a documentary about Nica Rothschild by her great-niece Hannah Rothschild airs on HBO at 8 pm.

2009: In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai presents "One Spring for Me": The love story of Leah Goldberg.

Among the poems that will be part of the performance are “Shir ha-haflaga,” “Ve-lo haya beinenu ela zohar,” “Ani halakhti az,” “At telkhi ba-sadeh,” “He-halil,” “Laila,” “Selihot,” “Ha-har ha-yarok,” and many more.

2010: In Jerusalem, comedian David Kilimnick is scheduled to present his Thanksgiving Special, ‘My Family Made Me in America'

2010: The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, today strongly denounced a Palestinian Authority paper that denies any Jewish connection to the Western Wall, the iconic holy site and place of Jewish worship in the Old City of Jerusalem, describing the report as “reprehensible and scandalous.”  



2011: Downtown Shabbat, a Carlebach-inspired service led by Cantor Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner is scheduled to be held at the Historic 6^th& I Synagogue in Washington, DC.

2011:While tens of thousands of protesters are amassing in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the Sinai Peninsula is heating up. Egyptian security forces today raised the alert level to an unprecedented level in the al-Arish area in northern Sinai after they received information that Jihad members are planning on carrying out an attack on the local security headquarters, the Ma'an news agency reported today.

2012(111^th of Kislev, 5773): Eighty-four year old “writer, composer, jazz fanatic and sweetheart” Sol Weinstein passed away today.

http://www.oy-oy-7.com/sol.html

2012: The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) is scheduled to bestow an honorary degree on Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird (As reported by the Canadian Jewish News)

2012: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Far From the Tree Parents: Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon, Iron Curtain:The Crushing of Eastern Europe,1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum and Saul Steinberg: A Biography by Deidre Bair.

2012: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Family Stories at the Center: Young Historians.”

2012: “Hava Nagila” is scheduled to shown tonight at the close of the Jewish International Film Festival in Australia.

2012:Syrian fire pierced Israel for the second time in a day Sunday night, as bullets fired from across the border struck next to a military vehicle near the border.

2012: Morethan 123,000 Likud members have the power today to shape the face of their party’s list for the 19th Knesset, and political analysts say they will use it to move the party further to the right.

2013 In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah is scheduled to host the community-wide Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service.



2013:The Black Institute, in partnership with Bend the Arc, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Russian-Speaking Community Council of Manhattan and the Bronx, Inc. (RCCMB), is scheduled to host a forum to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in support of Jewish civil rights in the Soviet Union.

2013: “”The Silver Line, the only free confidential telephone helpline offering information, friendship and advice to older people in the United Kingdom” which “was established by Dame Esther Rantzen” was “launched nationally” today.

2013(22^ndof Kislev, 5774): Ninety-eight year old “Alfred Feld, whose more than a eighty years of service at Goldman Sachs made him the bank’s “longest serving employee” passed away today. (As reported by Susan Craig)

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/alfred-feld-goldmans-longest-serving-employee-dies-at-98/



https://www.financial-planning.com/news/alfred-feld-goldman-sachss-longest-serving-worker-dies-at-98



2013: “A remarkable archaeological find in the Judean lowlands southwest of Jerusalem includes a six-millennia-old cultic temple and a 10,000-year-old house. The ancient sites were located in routine archaeological digs conducted ahead of a planned expansion of Route 38, the main access road to Beit Shemesh. The building is the oldest ever found in the area, and constitutes remarkable “evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings,” researchers said today.” (As reported by Hativ Rettig Gur)



2013: “President Shimon Peres awarded his Presidential Medal of Distincition to author Elie Wiesel today in New York City.” (As reported by JPost)

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Peres-awards-Elie-Wiesel-the-Presidential-Medal-of-Distinction-333007



2014: In Melbourne, “Life as a Rumor” and “The Dove Flyer” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: In a speech Finance Minister Yair Lapid delivered this moring to the Sderot Conference for Society, he “slammed Likud saying the ruling party was ‘so detached that they are leading to us to completely pointless elections.’”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-midst-of-coalition-crisis-lapid-slams-likud-corruption-old-politics/



2014: Amir Benayoun, “a popular Israeli singer was disinvited today “from an upcoming event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem after he released a song many saw as expressing racist sentiment against Arabs.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)



2014: “Israel received a short reprieve from a wet, stormy week this morning, with more rain and wind expected throughout the rest of the week.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)



2015: The 92^nd St Y is scheduled to host its annual Israeli Folk Dancing Thanksgiving Marathon this evening.



2015: The Israel Antiquities Authorities announced today that it had granted eight year old Itai Halpern a certificate of honor for “discovering the head of a statue from the First Temple period and giving this important archaeological discovery to the Antiquities Authorities’ officials.

2015: “An IDF soldier was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at the Fawwar junction near Hebron shortly before noon today.”

2016(24^thof Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-one year old Sulzburg, Germany, native and State University of New York at Buffalo graduate Erich Bloch who helped developed supercomputers at IBM before serving as director of the National Science Foundation passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/technology/erich-bloch-who-helped-develop-ibm-mainframe-dies-at-91.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article&_r=0

https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/pr0230.htm

2016: “Maya Ben Zvi was hosting a wedding party at her popular restaurant, Rama’s Kitchen, in the Jerusalem hills community of Nata” today when the decisions was made to evacuate” just a short time before “the entire” went up in smoke – the victim of wildfires that have been burning out of control since the first part of the week.



2016: Untold thousands of Israelis have been forced to flee in the face of raging wildfires.



2016: “The People vs. Fritz Bauer” and “Sand Storm” are scheduled to be shown at Melbourne as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: “The Lion” produced by Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be released today in the United States after having premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

2016: Sabra Éyal Hai is scheduled to perform at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg.

2017(7^thof Kislev, 5778): Parashat Va-yaytay; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host Agnes

Schwartz, the native of Budapest, telling her story of how the “family maid, Julia Balazas” hid her from the Nazis and protected her the effects of Allied bombing.

2017: “Let Yourself Go!” and “No Pay, Nudity” are scheduled to be shown at the 21^stUK International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books outside of our “comfort zone” including The Jews of Arab Lands, Among the Righteous and In Ishmael’s Housecontinues today.

2018(17^th of Kislev, 5779): Ninety-five year old American professor Randolph L. Braham, the author of The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary and the foremost expert on the genocide of the Jews in his home country of Hungary passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/obituaries/randolph-braham-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

2018: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Trinity, Louisa Hall’s based on the life of J. Robert Oppenheim, All-Of-A-Kind Family Hanukkah, a children’s book written Emily Jenks and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, Meet The Latkes by Alan Silberberg and We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett.

2018: The Lior Milliger Quartet, featuring Lior Milliger , “an Israeli born Saxophone player, improviser and composer and  graduate of Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in composition and performance who has recorded and performed in Israel, Europe and New York City” is scheduled to appear this evening at “Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3.”

2018: This afternoon, “Chassida Shmella Ethopian Jewish Community,” in “collaboration with Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host “the 9^th Annual SIGD Celebration” complete with “Ethiopian culinary specialties” and dancing in the Ethiopian style.”

2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Back to Berlin.”

2018: “Beit Avi Chai” is scheduled to host a lecture by Professors Haim Be’er and Hananel Mack on “Key Figures in the Mishna and the Talmud: Abaye, Homa and Rava.”

2018: In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a walking tour of the V&A that “profiles its history and architecture before focusing on highlights with a Jewish association.

2018: AJEX, the Jewish Military Association of the UK is scheduled to feature a lecture by Paula Kitiching in which she “will explore the final year of the First World War and the role that Anglo Jewry played as the guns stopped firing and life returned to a peacetime footing.”

2019: In Bristol, the Watershed Cinemas is scheduled to host a screening of “Solomon and Gaenor” as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2019(27^thof Cheshvan, 5780): Yahrzeit of Deborah D. Levin, wife of Joseph B. Levin with whom she had three children – Judy, Mitchell and David.

2019: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to cede the four ministerial positions he holds, following his indictment by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in three corruption cases.” (As reportedby Itamar Eichner and Kobi Nachshoni)

2019: Political America is expected to respond to Michael Bloomberg’s unorthodox run for the Democratic nomination for President which began over the weekend with a 23 million dollar media blitz.

2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present “The Rediscovered Musical: Stempenyu” during which “a forgotten and never-staged novella-musical written by Sholem Aleichem is discussed by Cantor Sharon Bernstein and U. of Chicago Illinois professor Karen Underfill.”

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43 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. This power sharing arrangement would fall apart. Octavian would defeat Mark Antony and remove Lepidus leaving him as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire.  Initially, Antony’s defeat and Octavian’s victory did not change the situation for the Jews living in Judea.  Herod had made the mistake of backing Antony.  So if Antony had won, Herod would have kept his kingdom.  But Antony’s defeat did not cost Herod his kingdom.  In one of the history’s greatest acts of political audacity, Herod went to the island of Rhodes where he met with Octavian.  He admitted that he had supported Antony but convinced the young Caesar that this was a good thing because he now he would give Augustus the same level of support.  Impressed by Herod’s audacity (and in need of allies) he left Herod on his throne.  So the outcome for the Jews of Judea, in the short term, was the same no matter what.  In the long run, the Jews probably did well with the victory of Augustus since he would follow the same kind of comparatively benevolent policies followed by his uncle Julius including exempting the Jews from emperor worship and respecting Jewish laws by exempting Jews from appearing in court after dark on Friday or on Shabbat.

1346: Coronation of Charles IV whose decision in 1349 to turn over the taxes paid by the Jews of Frankfurt to the citizens of that city could not prevent the pogrom that followed his departure from the city, as King of the Germans.

1504: Queen Isabella I of Castile, the first Queen of united Spain passed away.  Born in 1451, Isabella is one of history’s more fascinating monarchs.  She was every bit as wiley, clever and effective as Queen Elizabeth of England, even though she does not get her share of credit for these traits.  Isabella did have Jewish advisors, physicians and financiers.  But in the end her devout Catholicism and need for funds to finance “crusades” against Moslems proved the undoing of her Jewish subjects.

1572: King Maximilian II expressed his intention “to expel the Jews of Pressburg (Bratislava), stating that his edict would be recalled only in case they accepted Christianity.”

1669: As events surrounding the blood libel that would lead to the death of Raphael Levi unfolded, two swineherds found the head and the neck of a child in the woods near Metz.  Despite the fact that two surgeons testified that the body parts came from a recently killed person, officials decided that this was the body of the Christian child that had been reported missing and killed more than a month ago.  These body parts would be used in the trial of Levi where he was found guilty.  He was buried alive, protesting his innocence to the end.  This blood libel was part of a series of persecutions aimed at the Jewish community of Metz and would end with their expulsion from the city.

1645: Today, Scottish Calvinist minister and Cromwell supporter John Dury who had met Manasseh ben Israel in 1644 and who favored re-admitting Jews to England “gave a well-known sermon to Parliament style “Israels Call to March out of Babylon into Jerusalem.”

1696: In London, Richea Asher and Moses Raphael Levy gave birth to Abigail Levy, the wife of Jacob Franks and the mother of Phila, David, Naphtali, Rachel and Moses Franks.

1715(30th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Joseph ben Mordecai Ginzburg, author of Leket Yosef passed away today

1768: In Trois-Rivières, Canada, Aaron Hart and Dorothea Judah gave birth to shipping magnate and banker Moses Hart, the adopted father of Alexander Thomas Hart and the Uncle of Craig Hart.

1775: The American Navy began using chaplains within its regular service.  However, Rabbis were not allowed to serve as Chaplains until 1862 when President Lincoln sponsored legislation allowing ordained Protestant, Catholic or Jewish ministers to serve as Chaplains.

1783: In Jamaica, Abraham Rodrigues De Leon and his wife gave birth to Abigail De Leon, the wife of Joseph Henriques.

1789: Once the United States had been established as an independent nation, President George Washington proclaimed a day of national thanksgiving for November 26, 1789. Congregation Shearith Israel held a service on that first Thanksgiving Day (and has continued to do so each year since), at which time Rev. Gershom Mendes Seixas delivered an address. He noted that the Jewish community had reason to rejoice "as we are made equal partakers of every benefit that results from this good government; for which we cannot sufficiently adore the God of our fathers who hath manifested his care over us in this particular instance; neither can we demonstrate our sense of His benign goodness, for His favourable interposition in behalf of the inhabitants of this land."

1794: David and Elizabeth Levy were married today at the Great Synagogue.

1800: Salomon Rothschild married 18 year old Caroline Stern, the only daughter of Jacob Stern a wine seller.  As can be seen from the Ketubah (wedding contract) this was another beneficial marriage arranged by A.M. Rothschild.

1802: As the Jews of Maryland seek full equality On Nov. 26, 1802, a petition "from the sect of people called Jews" specifically stating their grievance, namely, "that they are deprived of holding any office of profit and trust under the constitution and laws of this state," was referred to the General Assembly, which read it and referred it to a special committee of five delegates, including the two Baltimore representatives, with instructions to consider and report upon the prayer of the petitioners for relief. A month later the petition was refused by a vote of thirty-eight to seventeen. The attempt to secure the desired relief was repeated at the legislative session of 1803; again proving unsuccessful, it was renewed in the following year.

1805: In London, Elizabeth Kahn and Samuel Gershon gave birth to Isaac Gershon.

1822: Seventy-two year old Karl August von Hardenberg who as Prime Minster of Prussia pursued many liberal policies including working to guarantee equal rights for the Jews, passed away today.

1832: In Finsbury, Esther and Joseph Moses Levy gave birth to Emily Levy.

1834: Birthdate of Isabella H. Polock, the wife Morris Rosenbach and mother of literary collector Abraham Simon Wolf (A.S.W.) Rosenbach.

1835: In Baja, Hungary, Baruch Asher Perles and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Perles, whose works included essays on the lives of Nachmanides, and Shlomo be Aderet, the Spanish sage known as the Rashba.

1837: Isaac Solomon married Mary Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.

1840: In Italy Marco and Giustina Luzzati gave birth to Annetta Luzzati who became Annetta Foa when she married Giuseppe Foa, the Grand Rabbi of Turino.

1840: Sixty-five year old anti-Semite Karl von Rotteck who “wrote in 1828 that ‘the Jews had to be de-Jewified” and who “rejected Jewish emancipation with the argument that their religion was…antisocial as well as anti-national” passed away today.

1840: In Sebes, near Eperies, Hungary, Isaac Rubovits and Salie Klein gave birth to Edward Rubovits, a teacher in Hungary and husband of Mathilde Kiss who was in the “book, stationary and printing business in Chicago” while also serving as “vice president of Zion Congregation and Isaiah Temple.”

1841: The Voice of Jacob published “Alleged Progress of London Jews Towards Christianity” which reported that “the attempt of a few gentlemen, of the West End section of the town, to form a synagogue there, with certain omissions from the established liturgy, and in contravention of the regulations of one of the London congregations, of which they have been and are yet members… These gentlemen are not known as a congregation, but as an association, deeming itself qualified to abrogate the customs which Israelites have observed for centuries… While the almost universal feeling condemns this movement as the presumptuous attempt of a handful of laymen, and while therefore there need be no apprehension of the evil spreading, the only wise policy would be to treat the attempt as neither formidable by numbers, by status (at least theological), nor otherwise possessing a single element of union.” The Voice of Jacob was published fortnightly and was the first publication that provided “real-time” reports on events in the Jewish community.  The article refers to attempts to established London’s first Reform Congregation which became known as the West London Synagogue of British Jews

1842: The University of Notre Dame is founded as private Catholic University. Since 1992, Rabbi Dr. Michael Signer has filled the Abrams Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture and has served as the Director of the Notre Dame Holocaust Project. “The Notre Dame Holocaust Project promotes educational opportunities about the destruction of European Jewry during World War II for the university community.”  http://www.nd.edu/~msigner/2005_spring/nd_holocaust_project.shtml. 

For more information about opportunities offered to Jewish students attending Notre Dame see http://campusministry.nd.edu/ecumenical-interfaith/jewish-resources

1843(3^rd of Kislev, 5604): Seventy-one year old Hertz Salomon Schwarzschild, the son of Salomon Jacob Schwarzschild and Ester Maas passed away today.

1844: One day after she had passed away, “Simha Harris,” the wife of Michael Harris with whom she had had six children was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1848: Birthdate of Odessa native and “Yiddish-language folk poet and composer” who was encouraged in his work by Abraham Goldfaden and Sholem Aleichem.

1849(11th of Kislev, 5610): Julius Eduard Hitzig a German author and civil servant passed away. Born Isaac Elias Itzig) at Berlin in 1780, he was a member of the wealthy and influential Jewish Itzig family Between  1799 and 1806 he was a a Prussian civil servant, after which he became Criminal Counsel at the Berlin Supreme Court in 1815 and its director in 1825. In 1808 he established a publishing house and later a bookstore. He was very active in Berlin’s literary circles.  Heinrich Heine, of all people, reportedly made fun of his name change.

1852: At the Greene Street Synagogue, Rabbi Morris Raphall preached a sermon based on the opening words of the 92^nd Psalm, “It is good to give thanks unto the Lord –to sing praise unto Thy name, O most high!” 

1855: Adam Mickiewizc, a noted Polish poet and ardent nationalist died today in Constantinople while working with his friend Armand Levy, to organize a Jewish legion, the Hussars of Israel, comprising Russian and Palestinian Jews.  The legion was supposed to join in the fight against the Russians during the Crimean War.  Polish nationalists believed that a Russian defeat would help undermine the authority of the Czar and help lead to the liberation of Poland.  [Mickiewizc was not Jewish and I have not been able to find an explanation why he was organizing a Jews for this fight.]

1858: James (Jacob) Seligman, the son of David and Fanny Seligman and Rosa Seligman gave birth to Jefferson Seligman

1858: In London, Barnett Abrahams, the principal of Jews’ College, and his wife gave birth to Israel Abrahams, the Jewish scholar whose works included A Companion to the Authorized Prayer Book and Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.

1858: It was reported today that Rabbi Isaac Leeser, head of Beth El Emet has written a series of articles about the Mortara Affair that have appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger and that “indignation meetings in reference to the Mortara Affair" have been held. For more about the Mortara Affair see:

1858: In New York, members of the Jewish community expressed their indignation over the tactics used by the police when arresting three of their co-religionists on charges of selling lottery tickets. Among other things they were protesting the fact that the police had arrested a rabbi who was leading his congregation in prayers. The three have posted $1,000 in bail

1859: In Philadelphia, David Hays Solis and Elvira Nathan Solis gave birth to Emily Grace Solis, who became Emily Grace Solis Solis-Cohen when she married her cousin Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen.

1861: During the Civil War, Samuel Alexander, who would later be killed in fighting at Dranesville, VA, completed a ninety day enlistment as an Assistant Surgeon with the 44^th Regiment, part of the First Cavalry

1862: During the Civil War, Jonas H. Kaufman began his service as Assistant Surgeon with 151^st Regiment of the Pennsylvania volunteers serving with the Union Army.

1862: Birthdate of Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Born in Budapest, Stein was a Hungarian Jewish archaeologist who became a British citizen. He was also a professor at various Indian universities. Stein was inspired by Sven Hedin's work, Through Asia.His travels and research in central Asia, particularly in Chinese Turkistan, revealed much about its strategic role in history.  In 1906, Stein uncovered a group of mummified corpses near Loulan, in Central Asia. Their well-preserved bodies were clad in woolen garments and they wore tall felt hats decorated with jaunty feathers. The men were bearded and their facial features seemed European. Stein dated them to c.100 BC. When the Dunhuang Caves, China, closed for centuries, were reopened, he discovered 15,000 manuscripts (1907), including the Diamond Sutra, reputed to be the first dated printed book (868 A.D.). He passed away on October 26, 1943.

1863:Thanksgiving was first observed as a regular American holiday. Proclaimed by President Lincoln the previous month, it was declared that the event would be observed annually, on the fourth Thursday in November.  While Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, it has it origins in the Bible.  The Pilgrims were students of what they called The Old Testament.  When they had enjoyed their first successful harvest at Plymouth, they looked to scripture for a way to express their joy.  They found the answer in the holiday of Sukkoth – a celebration of in-gathering; a celebration of thanks that took place after the harvest was completed.  There are reports that the first Thanksgiving was a week-long affair but I would avoid making any claim that this was intended to mirror the seven days of Sukkoth. 

1864: Corporal Benjamin L. Kauffman, transferred from Company D of the 90^thRegiment to Company H of the 11^th Regimet today.

1867: Birthdate of French political leader Abraham Schrameck who endured anti-Semitic attacks by the Action francaise starting at the turn of the century was interred by the Vichy government which did not turn him over to the Nazis thus making it possible for him to avoid the fate of most French Jews.

1868: On Thanksgiving Day, Rabbi Marcus Jastrow delivered a sermon at Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1869: Birthdate of Alfred Eicholz, M.A., M.D. and B.Ch. the graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and husband of Ruth Adler, the second daughter of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire who, among other things served as His Majesty’s Inspector of school for the Blind, Deaf and Mentally and Physically Defective in England and Wales and the Council and Education Committee of the Jews’ College while writing papers for the British Medical Journal

1871: Five days after he had passed away, 67 year old Emanuel Mocatta, the son of Jacob and Rebecca Mocatta, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1872: In St. Louis, MO, Ignatz and Anna (Kohn) Hartman gave birth to Washington University Law School graduate Judge Moses Hartman the husband of Carrie A. Scooler with whom he had three children and who was President of Congregation B’nai El

1872: In Baltimore, MD, Helen Guggenheimrer and Herman H. Cone, the brother-in-law of Jacob Adler and the co-owner of the dry goods store Cone and Adler gave birth to Julius Washington Cone, the husband of Laura Cone and the “founder of Proximity Manufacturing Company” which later became known as Cone Mills.

1874: In New York City,Arnold and Ida (Lagowitz) Tanzer gave birth to Ivy League (Harvard and Columbia) educated attorney Laurence A. Tanzer, a founding member of the Citizens Union and “the senior member of the law firm of Tanzer, Mullaney, Mitherz and Pratt and the husband the husband of the Florence Keller Tanzer with whom he had two daughters.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/07/10/96234372.pdf

1876: Birthdate of Isadore Bernstein, the New York native who wrote scripts for 65 films from 1914 through 1938.

1876: It was reported today that the Hebrew Charities and Purim Association plan to sponsor a Hebrew Charity Ball next month at the Academy of Music.

1879: “The Man With The Evil Eye” published today described the exploits of “Albert Lavergene, alias Abraham Levy, an Alsatian Jew” who confessed to having stolen $30,000 worth of diamonds while living in France two years ago and who is known to his wife’s relatives as “the Jew” or “the man with the evil eye” because of the way he used to beat her.

1880: Luther R. Marsh will deliver a lecture entitled “On the Power of the Alphabet” at meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at Lyric Hall. (Marsh was prominent New York lawyer who developed an interest in Spiritualism.  He was not Jewish)

1880: “Disraeli’s Latest Novel” published today provided a detailed review of Endymion by the Right Honorable Earl of Beaconsfield.

1881: It was reported today that the influx of immigrants from Russia is overwhelming the resources of the United Hebrew Charities.  As many as 400 Jews have been arriving each week, most of whom are “destitute and helpless.”

1882: “Monmouth and the Wye” published today provides a brief history of medieval England that includes the reminder that “butchery of the helpless Jews at York, when the despairing wretches hurled their children from the battlements upon the howling murderers below and the slew each to the last man” “cannot drop from the memory of mankind….”

1883: The Baltimore Sun reported that the colony started for Russian Jewish immigrants in Middlesex County, Virginia has been abandoned.

1883: It was reported today that the current issue of the Nineteenth Century features Dr. Charles H.H. Wright’s Paper “The Jews and the Malicious Charge of Human Sacrifice” which “goes over the whole history of the recent outrages in Europe.”

1883: Robert Solomon, an Anglo-Jewish Cape Town diamond dealer arrived in New York this evening aboard SS Servia of the Cunard Line.

1883: It was reported today that “David Phillipson…who graduated from Hebrew Union College” last July “has accepted a call from a congregation in Baltimore, MD.

1884: It was reported today that three prizes – a diamond ring, a bracelet and a face pin – were awarded to the ladies who had sold the most tickets to this year’s grand ball, a charity event sponsored by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society.

1885: During Thanksgiving services a large throng listened to an address by Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler at Temple Beth-El that reviewed the principles adopted by the Reform Rabbis at their meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.

1885: Birthdate of Heinrich Brüning, German Chancellor from 1930 to 1932 who, for whatever shortcomings he may have had, worked to keep Hitler from coming to power a stance that led to his self-imposed exile  to avoid being arrested by the Nazis.

1886: In Munich,Joseph Schülein, the of Joel (Julius) Schülein and Jeanette Schülein, and his wife Ida gave birth to Elsa Haas, the wife of Dr. Alfred Haas.

1886: The New York Times featured a review of The Land the Book by William Thomson, a book that examines the material in the scriptures with the information gained by explorations in Palestine through 1880. While some of the information in the Old Testament is “not borne out by facts…many more points” in the Scripture “have been corroborated”  that the results cannot have failed to find favor with Jews.

1888: As she went to visit her sister, eighteen year old Yetta Reiner, a Jewish girl who has been in the United States for two weeks, disappeared when she walked off with a Hebrew-speaking man on the corner of Norfolk and Hester Street who had offered “to get her a situation.” 

1888: Leo Bamberger the master of ceremonies, introduced Moses May, the Chairman of the Fair Committee who introduced Brooklyn Mayor Alfred C. Chapin who officially opened the charity fair on Clermont Avenue that will raise funds of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1888: “The Hebrews’ Thanksgiving” published in the Washington Post notes that the Jewish Feast of Lights, this year Falls on the same date as Thanksgiving.

1888: It was reported today that the son of the “sexton who dwells in the basement of the synagogue” on 8^th Street in Washington is suffering from typhoid fever.

1889: Police are expected to arrest Morris Kassofky who gave “a terrible beating” to Jacob Levy when the latter mistakenly tried to enter his apartment. They live in a building on Norfolk Street that is inhabited by Jewish immigrants from Poland.



1889: In Newark, NJ, founding of the Plaut Memorial Hebrew School which held classes daily from 4 to 7 p.m. and was led by Myer S. Hood, the Principle and Superintendent Myer S. Hood.

1890: “Friends of the Exiles” described the rejection of request made Jews to help their suffering co-religionists in Russia by the New York Bureau of the Siberian Exile Petition Association because “the work of the association…was done by petition” and “the work for the relief of the Jews required a different kind of effort.”

1890: Birthdate of Newark, NJ, native and New Jersey Law School trained attorney, Judge William Unterman, “the chairman of the Ninth Ward Democratic Club” and “President of the Third District of B’nai B’rith who was the husband of Esther Untermann, the “first woman police judge in the City of Newark,

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/02/09/86846234.pdf

1891 (25th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Mordecai Gimpel Jaffe passed away.

1892: “In the Czar’s Family” published today described the hope that by naming the Crown Prince as President of the Russian State Council “the repression of Jews…will eventually be relaxed.”  (Things were always going to get better for Russian Jew – in the future!)

1892(7^th of Kislev, 5653): Sixty year old Mortiz Wahrman the first Jew chosen to chosen a member of the Hungarian delegation and successful businessman who bequeathed 200,000 crowns to “benevolent societies and “600,000 crowns for the erection of a Jewish gymnasium (school) passed away today.

1892: In Baltimore, MD, “Simon and Jennie (Levy) Turk gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained attorney and WW I Army veteran and the author of Turk’s “Harvard Notes on Trusts” who was a member of B’nai B’rith.

1893: “Seen in Ceylon” published today described the commercial life of this island state including “the keen-faced Jews with long, black ringlets” who “preside over stores of shining gems.”

1893: Professor Felix Adler “gave the second lecture in his series on religious leaders” entitled “Moses and the Prophets” to an overflow audience at the Music Hall in New York City.

1893: “Jews Expelled from Besieged Meililla” described the decision of the Spanish General to order all Jews to leave the Moroccan city as he battles against the Riffs  -- a decision that is consistent with the behavior of "military commanders in Europe” who “rightly or wrongly” feel that the Jews are spies for their enemies.

1894: The will of Adolph Bernheimer which names his widow, his brother Lehman and William Rothschild as executors was filed for probate today.

1894: In Washington, DC, Solomon “Sol” Peyser and Eva Dux gave birth to Theodore Dux “Ted” Peyser who earned a law degree at the University of Virginia and served in WW I.

1894: Birthdate of “Ukrainian-born American trade unionist” Jacob Samuel Potofsky who served as president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America from 1946 until 1972.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E0CE2DA153EE732A25755C0A96E9C946890D6CF



1894:  In Columbia, MO, Leo Wiener and Bertha Kahn gave birth to child prodigy and famed mathematician Norbert Wiener.  Among his many accomplishments, Weiner is known as the discoverer of cybernetics.  President Johnson awarded him with the National Medal of Science two months before his death in 1964.

1895: Today, “Judge Allison, in General Sessions…dismissed an indictment against” delicatessen dealer Peter Peiser “who had been arrested for selling sausage on Sunday.”

1896: The University of Wisconsin football team led by first year head coach Philip King, a Jewish native of Washington, DC played to a six-six tie against Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois.

1896(21^st of Kislev, 5657): Joseph C. Wolf who was elected the State Assembly from the 16^th District in 1892 and the State Senate in 1893 passed away today.  Born in 1849, the native of Besancon, France and graduate of Columbia Law School enlisted in the Second New York Light Cavalry at the start of the Civil War serving with the Army of the Potomac. 

1896: Temple Israel and the West End Synagogue will hold a joint Thanksgiving Service starting at 3 p.m.

1896: Temple Emanu-El will hold a Thanksgiving Service at 11 a.m.

1896: As part of day long holiday observance, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society will hold a Thanksgiving Service at the synagogue on 11^thAvenue and 151^st Street.

1896: William Matthew Flinders Petrie married Hilda Urlin in London. This was the same year that he and his archaeological team were conducting excavations at Luxor when they discovered the “Israel’ or Merneptah Stele

1897: During the Dreyfus Affair, today the French minister of war “received the following anonymous letter: ‘Monsieur le Minstre: You will find in a chamber on the sixth story interesting document concerning the Dreyfus case’ signed “A Patriot”

1897: Through her lawyer Mr. Jullemier, Madame de Boulancy, cousin and former mistress of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, had decided to avenge her lover and debtor and sent to Senator Auguste Scheurer-Kestner letters from this officer, including the famous "letter of Uhlan". Scheurer-Kestner showed the letter to Pellieux, military commander of Paris, in charge of the administrative inquiry on Esterházy

1898: The Emperor and Empress of German arrive at Potsdam this morning on their return from Palestine where the Kaiser met with Herzl.

1899: Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a lecture this morning at Temple Emanu-El on “Are We Children of the Ghetto, or Children of the World?” which was a play on words using the name of the drama now appearing at a New York theatre.

1899: In Roxbury, MA, founding of the Helping Hand Temporary Home for Destitute Jewish Children at the corner of Fort Ave and Beech Glen.

1899: “Rosebery On Cromwell” published today provided the remarks made by Lord Rosebery at the ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of Oliver Cromwell including his observation that Cromwell “was the first Prince who reigned in England who welcomed and admitted Jews” a fact of which Jews and Englishmen are equally proud of as can be attested to by the presence of Sir Samuel Montagu, Lord Rothschild and Benjamin Cohen on the platform at the banquet honoring his memory.

1899: In Roxbury, MA, founding today of Helping Hand Temporary Home for Destitute Jewish Children located at Fort Avenue and Beech Glen.

1903: On Thanksgiving Professor Richard Gottheil delivered a lecture on Zionism at a Temple in New York City which “was accorded a most cordial reception.

1903: Birthdate of Alice Herz-Sommer, also known as Alice Sommer-Hertz and Alice Sommer, “a Czech pianist, music teacher and survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/life-and-laughter-from-oscar-nominated-film-about-survivor-110/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/world/europe/alice-herz-sommer-pianist-who-survived-holocaust-dies-at-110.html?_r=0

1904:Clarence Isaac de Sola, the “son of Cantor Abraham de Sola and Esther de Sola, and his wife Belle Maud de Sola  gave birth to Jessica E. Mellor who was married to both Ronald David de Pass and Sir John Mellor.

1905: The First Jewish Colony on Manhattan Island published today described events that will be celebrated this Thanksgiving regarding “one of the most important events in Israel’s History” – the growth of New York’s Jewish population from 23 people to half a million.

1905: “The contributions to the fund for the relief of the Jewish sufferers from Russian massacres took another upward bound” today “under the impetus of additional collections from many cities, particularly Chicago, which by sending $20,000 more now leads in contributions outside of New York City, there have been forwarded from there in all $80,000.”

1905: It was reported today that the Jewish relief fund has raised $827,579 to help those suffering from the anti-Semitic violence sweeping Russia.

1905: When Blood Flowed Like Water at Odessa” published today provided an eye-witness account “of the awful scenes of carnage” when Russian gentiles attacked the Jews following the Czar’s proclamation granting the people a Constitution.

1906: Birthdate of “Rabbi Henry Enoch Kagan” the graduate of the University of Cincinnati and HUC who was “the first full-time rabbi to be licensed by New York State as a consulting psychologist” and who was a tireless worker for better relations between Christians and Jews which did not deter him from raising two sons – Jonathan and Jeremy – with his wife “the former Esther Miller.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/08/18/78392037.html?pageNumber=35

1908: Birthdate of award winning scriptwriter and playwright Leonard Spigelgass, the brother-in-law of photographer Sanford Roth and the brother Beulah Roth, a “speechwriter for FDR and Adlai Stevenson” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/16/arts/leonard-spigelgass-a-writer-for-broadway-and-hollywood.html

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-02-17-8501060212-story.html

1909: Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.

1909: Birthdate of Moe Mizler the London born boxer who was the brother of “British lightweight champion Harry Mizler.

1911: Birthdate of Samuel “Sammy” Herman Reshevsky, the Polish born Jewish-American chess grandmaster who was a strong contender in the World Chess Championship competitions for a thirty year span.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/07/nyregion/samuel-reshevsky-is-dead-chess-grandmaster-was-80.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=3

1912(16th of Kislev, 5673): Eighty-four year old Baron George De Worms passed away.

1912: In Chicago, “the first regular meeting of the K.A.M. Auxiliary is scheduled to be held this after in the vestry rooms of the Temple where attendees will hear speakers present “A Practical Symposium on the High Cost of Living.”

1912: Simon Bloom was elected Mayor of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

1912: Birthdate of playwright Eugene Ionesco. There is dispute about Ionesco’s Jewish origins. According to a sizeable body of evidence, Ionesco’s mother was a Romanian of Sephardic Jewish origin. 

1913: Birthdate of Josefina Grunfeldova, who in 1942 was deported from Prague to Ujazdow where she was murdered by the Nazis.

1913: In a letter from the Chief Rabbi of Salonica to Prince Nicholas of Greece, the rabbi denies truth of charges of excesses committed by Greek soldiers, and declares he has not sought protection of powers for Jews of Salonica. Three months later the Greek Prime Minister, Venizelos, assured the Chief Rabbi that the rights of the Jews would be continued.

1913: Jesse Laksy forms The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in partnership with his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later known as Sam Goldwyn) and his friend Cecil B. DeMille. The Squaw Man is the company’s first film and it is an instant hit.  It is also the first movie filmed entirely in Hollywood, California. 

1914: While fighting on the Western Front during WW I, Lt. F.A. De Pass, a Jewish officer from London “went forward to a sap-head in the front line to repair a parapet that had been damaged.   Seeing a German sniper at work, he tried to shoot him, but was himself shot through the head and killed.”  He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the British equivalent of the American Congressional Medal of Honor, for his bravery in the face of the enemy.

1914: Harry Baff charged today that his father Barnett Baff had been shot dead “at the instigation of a clique of retail poultry buyers” referred to as the “kosher killers.”

1915: It was reported today that there were 300,000 starving Jews in Poland and that “5 cents a day would provide succor for one war victim.”

1915: “Isadore Hershfield of New York” the official representatives of Jewish relief societies of America arrived in Berlin today “on a mission of relief for the Jews in the war areas of Poland and Galicia.”

1916(1^st of Kislev, 5677): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1916: The list of contributions received by The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War published today including $22 from the Congregation Sons of Israel in Frostburg, MD, and $76 from the Congregation Sons of Israel in Dallas, TX.

1916: In “Half of War-Stricken Poland’s Population Destitute” published today, Dr. Judah L. Magnes reported that in Poland, “there is no work that a Jew can do…and thousands are starving.”

1916: This afternoon, Harry H. Schlacht of the East Side Protective Association announced “arrangements for a great peace meeting” which will be held at Public School 4 and whose attendees will include Jacob H. Schiff.

1916: According to an announcement made today the American Jewish Committee “a Russian Jew named Gershenovitz…who was sentenced in 1914 to six years of penal servitude because he was accused of have helped he Germans” was acquitted by the Chief Military Court based “on evidence gathered by O.O. Grusenberg, a lawyer.”

1916: During today’s meeting “of the Reichstag main committee it was pointed out that large numbers of Jews in Poland” who are not working “might be profitably employed in manufacturing” which help alleviate the shortage of laborers but would also prove beneficial to the Jews as well.

1917: It was reported today that Adolph Lewisohn has donated his home at 881 Fifth Avenue to house the bazaar which be hosted next month by Temple Emanu-El to reduce expenses so that the maximum amount of money can “go to the relief of Jewish war sufferers and for welfare work among American soldiers and sailors.”

1917: Jan Kucharzewski who would tell an interviewer from “the Jewish press” that he was not an anti-Semite became Prime minister of Poland today.

1917: In Great Britain, the Manchester Guardian printed the text of the Sykes-Picot Agreement – the secret document that determined how the Ottoman Empire would be divided between the UK and France after World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement#/media/File:Skyes_Picot,_The_Manchester_Guardian,_Monday,_November_26,_1917,_p5.jpg

1918: Dr. Solomon Oppenheimer, the Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum who has just returned from Palestine, gives a report on the condition of the Jews in Eretz Israel.

1918: Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow, a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board, wrote from France today, “There are so few Jewish workers here I regard it a duty to remain here as long as possible.  It has not been possible to do much for” for those who suffered from the tribulation of the War.

1919: “Madame DuBarry” a silent film biopic directed by Ernst Lubitsch was released today in Denmark.

1920: Two days after he had passed away, Robert Hodes, the husband of Leah Hodes, with whom he had had three children, was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”

1921: The peace treaty between the United States and Austria which ended World War I between these two nations was registered with the League of Nations.  The separate treaty was needed because the U.S. Senate, in a further act of the isolationism that would indirectly lead to WW II, had “refused to ratify the multilateral Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye of 1919.”

1922: In an article entitled “Palestine Industries Thriving Capital and Settlers Needed” Dr. Arthur Ruppin notes the changes that have taken place since Herzl called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland 25 years ago at the first Zionist Congress.  While “towns of thousands houses have grown up on neglected ground” the need to develop irrigation projects and travel facilities represent the biggest challenge for future development as well as creating investment opportunities for foreign financiers.

1923: “The Wanters” a drama from the silent film ear directed by John M. Stahl, produced by Louis B. Mayer and co-starring Norma Shearer was released in the United States today.

1924: Birthdate of George Segal, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures.

1924: Ted “Kid” Lewis (born Gershon Meneloff) lost both the British and European Welterweight crowns.

1925: Birthdate of pianist Eugene Istomin. He was an American pianist born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parents. He was famous for his work in the trio, with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose, known as the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio, with whom he made many recordings, and particularly of music by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. He also played with them in orchestral music, with conductors such as Eugene Ormandy Bruno Walter and also as a soloist.  He passed away in 2003.

1926: In “Palestine Industry Thriving,” published today Arthur Ruppin describes the social and economic progress that has been in Eretz Israel in the 25 years following Herzl opened the founding Zionist conference in Basel, Switzerland.

1926: Birthdate date of Albert Maysles, the native of Boston, who teamed with his younger brother David to produce award winning documentary films.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

1928: In Moscow, “Andrei Navrozov, a writer, and the former Dina Minz, a neuropathologist” gave birth to their only child “translator and Soviet dissident” Lev Navrozov who in more than one publication claimed that while serving as Israel’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Golda Meir “had given Stalin a list of Russian Jews who would fight for Israel” and who then “disappeared at the hands of Stalin’s organs of state security.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/arts/lev-navrozov-dead-soviet-dissident-translator.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1928: It was reported today that “Dr. Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary” said “the condition of present-day Judaism” was like “a leaky ship” and that it was becoming apparent that the ship that was built tin the ghetto must undergo reconstruction for” use in America.

1928: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that evidence presented during the trial of a “communist named Teichman” the Druze Rebellion against the French mandatory government in Syria received financial and moral support from Communist groups in Palestine.

1931: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionist leader, in a lecture today before the Keren Hajessod for the Rhineland and Westphalia on the present states of Jewry and Zionism, said the unhappy position of the Jews in Germany was really no different from their position everywhere in the world.

1932(27^th of Cheshvan, 5693): Parashat Chayei Sarah

1932: “At a mass meeting in the auditorium of the City School of Commerce,” more than a thousand people heard the Palestine delegates to the eighth national convention for Jewish workers in Palestine reported on “the successful development of a working organization to lead youth into productivity” in agricultural endeavors.

1933: Funeral services were held today “at Temple Adath Israel, in the Bronx” for seventy-three year old Russian born Rabbi Bernhard Rabbino who served congregations in several small towns including Keokuk, IA and Brunswick, GA, before becoming a lawyer and champion of the established of the “Domestic Relations Courts in New York” and who was the husband of “the former Anna Ladewig” with whom he had had four daughters.”

1933: In "Two Contrasting Views of Palestine" published today Jacob Weinstein reviewed Modern Palestine: A Symposium edited by Jessie Sampter and Beside Galilee: A First-hand Survey of Zionism and Modern Palestine by Hector Bolitho.

1933: In “Two Contrasting Views of Palestine,” published today Jacob Weinstein reviews Modern Palestine edited by Jessie Sampter with a foreword by Albert Einstein and Beside Galilee: A First-hand Survey of Zionism and Modern Palestine by Hector Bolitho.

1934: The cinematic version of Fannie Hurst’s novel Imitation of Lifedirected by John M. Stahl and produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr was released today in the United States.

1935: The Nuremberg Laws which were aimed Jews “were extended to ‘Gypsies, Negroes or their bastard offspring.’”

1936: Birthdate of Yitzhak Yitzhaky, the native of Tiberias, the founder of and director of “Idud, a village for intellectually challenged children” who was an MK.

1936: Nathan D. Perlman was “appointed as a justice of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York” today, a position to which he was reappointed in 1945.

1936: For a second time, “the local rabbinical council protested to the Governor, Marshall Italo Balbo over the order that all shops in Tripoli are to remain open on all days of the week expect for Sunday which will force the Jewish merchants to violate their Sabbath or leave the new part of the city.

1937(22^nd of Kislev, 5698): Fifty-eight year old Yakov Ganetsky, the son of a Jewish factory owner, who joined the Bolshevik movement and became a close associate of Vladimir Lenin “was executed today” during Stalin’s Great Purge which was designed to consolidate the Dictator’s power and which had a distinctly anti-Semitic tinge.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that three Jews were wounded when Arab terrorists shot at a crowded bus, traveling from Nesher to Haifa, and escaped.

1937:  In another example of the anti-Semitism that was endemic to European society, the Palestine Post reported that a large number of Jews were again attacked and beaten in various towns in Lithuania.

1938: “Angels with Dirty Faces” a gangster film with a twist directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Samuel Bischoff and with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.

1938: In Pittsburgh, during the annual convention of Junior Hadassah, four speakers each agreed that “Jewish young people of American must pool their energies in a ‘fight for democracy’ and promote Zionism.”

1938: Today “the National Republican Club adopted a resolution condemning the ‘relapse into barbarianism of the present rulers in Germany.’”

1939: “Two Pioneers of Russian Music” published today provides Howard Taubman’s review of “Free Artist: The story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein by Catherine Drinken Bowen.

1939: Dr. Mordecai Soltes, Harry Grayer, Dr. Jacob I. Steinberg, Herman Z. Quittman and Nathan Seidelman are scheduled this afternoon’s meeting of the Order of Sons of Zion in Greater New York at the Hotel Astor.

1939: Dr. Henry G. Knight, Dr. Gabriel Davidson, Professor O.S. Morgan and Dr. Carl B. Woodward are scheduled to speak at the memorial service for Dr. Jacob Goodale at Temple Emanu-El.

1939: At Congregation Emanu-El in New York, Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer is scheduled to speak on “The Promise of American Life.

1939: At the Free Synagogue which holds services at Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to speak on “Happiness and Character: Do They Destroy Each Other?”

1939: At Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York, Rabbi Israel Goldstein is scheduled to speak on “Information Please: A Jewish Intelligence Test.”

1939: At Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York, Ludwig Lewisohn is scheduled to speak on “The Answer to Israel’s Enemies.”

1939: At the West End Synagogue in New York, “Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel will review John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath at a lecture-forum service.”

1939: In New York at the Astor Hotel “a resolution” introduced by Herman Z. Quittman, executive director of the Sons Zion, “calling on the British Government to admit 50,000 Jewish refugee families from Eastern and Central Europe into Palestine in the next twelve months was unanimously adopted” this “afternoon by 200 delegates to the annual conference of Eastern leaders of the Sons of Zion, a national Zionist group” described the desperate plight of Jews living in Nazi Germany where there has been no organized immigration for Jews since last year and where mothers and wives do not know the fate of their sons and husbands.  “Our people have been pushed back and forth over the borders.  Palestine is the only country in the world where the arrival of Jewish refugees is greeted with rejoicing and festivities.”

1939: “The third week of the 1939 merged appeal of the New York and Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities was ushered in” tonight “with a dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel attended by 1,200 representatives of the radio, music, refrigeration and allied industries including  David Sarnoff, Arthur Murray and Benjamin Abrams.

1939: “1,000 Refugees on Vulcania” published today described the hopes of 1,000 German Jews fleeing the Nazis who have sailed from Genoa to settle in the United States.
1939: In Baltimore, MD, Miss Gisela Warburg, the niece of the late Felix Warburg, who has just returned from Europe where she helped with Youth Aliyah, told those attending the sixteenth annual convention of Junior Hadassah

1939: ‘More than a thousand members of the Jewish community of Teschen, Germany” have been given two more weeks to prepare for their deportation to Poland.
1939: In South Bend, Indiana, Gertrude and Herman Boorda, gave birth to Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda, “the 25^th Chief of Naval Operations” and “the first American sailor to have risen through the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations,” the top position in the United States Navy.



1939: “Death Decreed for Jews Who Fail to Wear Armbands or Ignore Curfew” published today described the edict issued in German occupied Poland that “any Jew leaving his home without a special permit between 5 pm and 8 am may be punished by death” and that Jews failing “to wear a broad yellow arm band” will also face the death penalty.

1939: “Cantor Kusewitsky Is Safe” published today brought word that Moijzez Kusewitsky, the chief cantor of Poland and the cousin of Mrs. Isior Achron has not been by the German bombing of Warsaw but has escaped with his family to Bucharest.

1939: “May Send Mail to Poland” published today described a cablegram from Arnold M. Kaiser, secretary of the Polish Fund of London that included the assertion that letters for those living in Upper Silesia and Danzig maybe sent through the federation which will forward them to Geneva before they reach their final destination in Poland.

1940: British Secretary of State for the Colonies Lord Lloyd calls those who are working to save Jewish lives by illegally transporting them to Palestine "foul people who had to be stamped out."

1940: The Nazis forced 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto.

1940: “Nearly 600 people, including leaders from the judiciary, education and Newark’s political and social life” attended a dinner-dance at the Essex House which was a celebration of Judge William Untermann’s fiftieth birthday.

1941: A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo left Hitokapu Bay under strict radio silence. On December 7^th, the world would find out that their destination was Pearl Harbor.  The arrival of the fleet would usher in America’s entrance into World War II and all that would flow from that. 

1941: The recapture of Rostov by Russian forces marked the first major setback suffered by Germany in World War II, 1941.  The German blitz had moved unchecked across the Soviet Union since June of 1941.  By stopping the Nazis at Rostov, the Soviets forced the German Army to suffer through a Russian Winter from for which it was ill-prepared.  The Germans would resume their offensive in the Spring of 1942 but the Wehrmacht would have been depleted just enough that it would fail a year later at Stalingrad which would mark the beginning of the end for the German military.  Unfortunately, none of these military setbacks would slow down the pace of the Final Solution. 

1942: A ship called the Donausailed from Oslo’s Pier 1 carrying 532 Norwegian Jews, now classified as prisoners all of whom would end up in Concentration Camps.

1942 Norwegian police forces under the direction of the Gestapo handed 532 Jewish prisoners to the SS at Pier 1 in Oslo harbor. The ship was under the command of Untersturmführer Klaus Grossmann and Oberleutnant Manig. Men and women were put in separate holds on the ship, where they were deprived of basic sanitary conditions and mistreated by the soldiers. Only 9 of the prisoners survived the Second World War.

1942: At dawn, in Norway, the Quisling police returned to the home of Isak Plesansky, the founder and proprietor of the Tonsberg Clothing School and arrested his wife, daughter and son.   All of them would be gassed at Auschwitz within the month.

1942: ''Casablanca,'' starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York. The Jewish connections with this film classic are so numerous that this should only be considered a partial list. Jewish actors included Peter Lorre, S.Z."Cuddles" Sakall, and Leonid Kinskey.  Conrad Veidt was not Jewish but his wife was.  Michael Curtiz, a Hungarian Jew, was the director. The script was a product of Jewish writers Julius and Philip Epstein. The inspiration for the movie came from a play by Murray Bennett.  Bennett got the idea after going to Vienna to help Jewish relatives after the Aunschluss in 1938.  The score was written by Max Steiner…and that will have to do for now.

1942: Jews in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, who are lured from hiding places by Nazi promises of no retribution, are taken to a synagogue, locked inside, and subjected to random gunfire by Ukrainians.

1943: Birthdate of producer and director Bruce Paltrow, a native of Brooklyn, a graduate of Tulane University where he is a member of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity and  a producer who was responsible for two of television’s best dramatic series - The White Shadow and St. Elsewhere.  He also directed several episodes of Homicide as well as full length motion pictures.  He died in 2002 after battling cancer.

1944: In an interview given today on the eve of his 70^thbirthday, Dr. Chaim Weizmann said that “any blueprint for the future of what is left of the Jewish people should include allowing at least 100,000 refugees settle in Palestine annually and that this “must be undertaken by the United Nations as a measure of historic justice.  He said that this is the least that is owed to the Jewish people “whose agony in Hitler’s Europe during this war needs no elaboration.”  When he used the term “agony” Weizmann could have included the loss of his son Michael who died while serving with the RAF.

1944: Government officials announced that “twelve more arrests were made today in Tel Aviv and Haifa during continued police searches for suspects connected with” what they described as underground political terrorist groups.

1944: As World War II entered its last phase, the Germans decided to hide all evidence of the mass murders. On orders from Himmler the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz and Birkenau were blown up.

1945: 21^st of Kislev, 5706): Sixty-seven year old Columbia trained civil engineer “and author of standard textbooks on the design of bridges, Myron S. Flak who served as a Major during WW I and who was the consulting engineer on the erection of Temple Emanu-El passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/11/27/88318255.html?pageNumber=23

1945: In a personal letter bearing today’s date Nathan Shilkret wrote to his wife about why he undertook the Genesis Project including the insights that “it was never intended to be a work of musical art” but rather a creation intended “to appeal to all record buyers.”

1945: Jewish underground blows up police headquarters and several electric power stations.

1945: Mandatory government sends troops to search for arms in Jewish settlements in Sharon and Samaria.

1945: Soviet Union proposes submission of the Arab-Jewish problem to Big Five Conference.

1945: Polish Jews announce in Italy that they intend to proceed to Palestine by any means.

1946(3rd of Kislev, 5707): Stephen Theodore Norman, the only grandson of Theodor Herzl, plunged to his death off a Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Washington D.C. at the age of 28.  During WWII, Norman had served as a Captain in the British Army.  He visited Palestine in late 1945 and 1946.  Severe depression brought on by the Holocaust and the plight of the Jews after World War II ended led to severe depression which led to his final moments.

1946: Birthdate of Roni Milo, future Mayor of Tel Aviv

1946(3^rd of Kislev, 5707): Sixty-six year old Dr. Elias Margolis, the Vilna born son of “Rabbi Isaac Margolis and Hinde Bernstein Margolis who in 1885 came to the United States where he received degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College and Columbia, led several congregations while leading the Rabbinical Assembly of JTS and the Synagogue Council of America and raised five children with his wife Esther Molly Jacobson Margolis passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/11/27/91627984.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=25

1946: Jewish refugees in Haifa resist British attempts to ship them Cyprus.



1947:Louis Bromfield, co-chairman of American League for Free Palestine, charges that Arabs have obtained surplus U.S. arms.



1948: Bulgaria recognized Israel.



1948: Hans Möser: Ex SS-Obersturmführer and commander of the Protective Custody Camp at Mittelbau-Dora who had been condemned to death on 30 December 1947 for his involvement in the executions of camp inmates was executed in Landsberg prison today.



1948: Sixteen more Spitfires in Czechoslovakia were awaiting “an opportunity to fly to Israel.”



1948: Menachem Begin visited New York Mayor William O’Dwyer



1948: Abba Eban tells a meeting of the UN Truce Mission that Israel will not let a large force of Egyptians surrounded by the Israelis in the Negev retreat until the Arab’s accept the Armistice Resolution.



1949: Pasha el Mulbi says that the Jerusalem must be held by the Arabs to protect the surrounding Arab sectors.



1949: Jordan rejected the plan for an internationalized Jerusalem.



1949: Birthdate of Roni Milo, Israeli MK and cabinet minister who served as Mayor of his hometown, Tel Aviv from 1993 to 1998.

1949: Birthdate of Shlomo Artzi an Israeli folk rock singer-songwriter and composer. Born in Moshav Alonei Abba he has sold over 1.5 million albums, making him one of Israel's most successful male singers matching the success of his sister Nava Semel the author of Kova Zekhukhit (Hat of Glass) which was the first published work in Israel that addressed topics of the children of Holocaust survivors

1950: Rabbi Theodore Friedman is scheduled to speak at a Youth Aliyah Dinner-Dance at the Henry Hudson Hotel sponsored by The North Hudson New Jersey chapter of Hadassah

1951: The Tales of Hoffmann “a British Technicolor film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann,” co-directed by Emeric Pressburger was released today in the United Kingdom.

1952:The Jerusalem Post reported that in the Knesset Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion sharply attacked Mapam in the debate on the Prague trial, accusing it of duplicity and inability to face the truth about the Soviet regime. The Knesset, by an overwhelming majority, adopted a resolution expressing “its sense of shock at the trial now proceeding in Prague, which had struck at the Jewish people... and on the attempts to bring into disrepute the good name of the State of Israel.”

1952: In Bonn, “entrepreneur and tobacco industrialist Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma” and his wife gave birth to Jan Philipp Reemtsma “who hired a researcher” at the start of the 21^st century to examine the art collection he inherited from his father to make sure that none of it had been looted by the Nazis from its rightful owners, many of whom would have been Jewish.

1952: “Time Out For Ginger” a comedy starring Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) opened on Broadway today at the Lyceum Theatre.

1953(19^th of Kislev, 5714): Seventy-nine year old Mary Grossmann Buxbaum, the daughter of Ignaz and Anna Rosenbaum Grossman and the wife of Louis Buxbaum passed away today after which she was buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohi.

1954: Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, said that through the use of dense settlement and exploitation of natural resources Israel's southern Negev desert could be restored to its ancient prosperity.

1954: Birthdate of Rosalind "Roz" Chast, the Flatbush native who became an award winning cartoonist for The New Yorker.

http://jwa.org/people/chast-roz

1956:Sixteen-year-old Ellery Schempp refused to listen or to participate in the mandatory Bible-reading exercise of his high school in the Abington School District outside of Philadelphia. According to one source, Schempp was disciplined for reading from the Koran during his high school’s mandatory Bible reading time. After being severely disciplined by the district administrators, Ellery and his family initiated a lawsuit that would ultimately make its way to the Supreme Court of the United States. The defendants were the authorities of the Abington School District. In the end, the Supreme Court ruled that religious recitations and prayers of any kind were in violation of the Constitution of the United States if practiced in public schools. Schempp was raised as a Unitarian. “The minor rebellion led to a landmark Supreme Court case that (much to the relief of many Jewish students) outlawed school-sponsored prayer.

1958: Birthdate of David Asper, a Canadian businessman and lawyer who has served as the  Executive Vice President of the Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications Corp and as Chairman of the National Post newspaper and a Professor at the Robson Hall Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Asper is the eldest son of the late Izzy Asper, founder of CanWest Global..

1959(25^th of Cheshvan, 5720): Seventy-eight year old Austrian born Columbia University trained “physician and surgeon” Dr. Joseph F. Saphir, the former “chief of proctology at Manhattan State Hospital” and the husband of Elsa Saphir with whom he had had three daughters passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/11/27/80562443.pdf

1960: In Newark, Delaware Elaine "Leni", a social worker, and William Markell, who taught accounting at the University of Delaware gave birth to Jack Alan Markell, the 73^rdGovernor of the state of Delaware.

1960: ITV network transmitted the last episode of “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” starring Anthony Newley who “devised the British comedy series.”

1960: Seventy-eight year old Mississippi Congressman John Rankin “the equal opportunity bigot” and outspoken anti-Semite who called Walter Winchell a kike while speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives and who attacked Albert Einstein passed away today.

1961(18^th of Kislev, 5722): Anglo-Jewish Zionist leader Israel Cohen who “from 1909 to the beginning of World War II Cohen directed the English department of the Zionist Central Office in Cologne and later in Berlin” and whose exciting life was chronicled in A Jewish Pilgrimage: The Autobiography of Israel Cohen passed away today.

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Jewish_Pilgrimage.html?id=-JMaAAAAIAAJ

1963(10^th of Kislev, 5724): Sixty-seven year old Dr. Otto Saphir, the Viennese born “director of the Department of Pathology at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center” and husband of Ethel Saphir with whom he had had two children passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/11/27/121702046.pdf

1964(21^st of Kislev, 5725): Sixty-nine year old “Dr. Joseph L. Fink, the Springfield, OH born son of “Rabbi Mendel and Tillie Kagen Fiinkelstein and husband of Janice Gutfruend and the rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, NY passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/27/archives/dr-joseph-fm-rabbi-69-is-dead-spokesman-for-reform-jews-led-buffalo.html

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0105/ms0105.html

1964(21^st of Kislev, 5725): Sixty-one year old Herbert Solow the editor of the Menorah Journal who went from being a follower of Trotsky to an editor of Fortune passed away today.

1965: “My Ship Is Comin’ In” a song written by Joey Brooks was released today in the United Kingdom.

1966(13^th of Kislev, 5727): Parashat Vayishlach

1966(13^th of Kislev, 5727): Seventy-six year old Galician Poland native Dr. Morris Teller, the son of Samuel and Annie Teller who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania after which he was ordained at JTS where he also received advanced degrees before serving as rabbi of the South Side Hebrew Congregation and who was the husband of “the former Nellie Ruby and the father of Sheldon Teller passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/11/28/90238888.pdf

1966: NBC broadcast “Fame Is the Name of the Game” a mystery movie directed by Stuart Rosenberg.

1973: “Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don't You Ever Forget It)” with Ellen Greene in the title role has its first pre-Broadway performance tonight.

1975: An ABC show titled "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" was cancelled today.

1976(4^th of Kislev, 5737): Eighty-four year old Vanderbilt University Medical School graduate, Julius A. Haiman, “an ear, nose and throat specialist” and adjunct professor at Polyclinic Hospital passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/11/30/80207343.pdf



1976: The Organizing Committee of the symposium on Jewish culture appealed to a number of international organizations and public figures with a call for support.

1977: “A passage featured in Nelson Algren's 1983 book The Devil's Stocking was broadcast during the Southern Television hoax which generated international publicity when students interrupted the regular broadcast through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in England for six minutes” today.

1980: Two months are premiering in the United States, “Without Warning” a sci-fi film co-starring Martin Landau was released in France.

1981: Boris Chernobylskii, who had previously been “detained on the street” and kept in the police station for two days “was arrested in Moscow” today after which the Moscow Municipal Court sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment.

1982: The New York Times reported that the number of Jewish day schools was “on the rise, especially among the Orthodox as they catered to the growing number of Orthodox youths, including the children of Soviet, Israeli and Iranian immigrants.”

1982:Howard Cossell called his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch.

1986: The New Yorker Magazine published "The Way We Live Now" a short story about AIDS written by Jewish author Susan Sontag.

1986: “Solarbabies,” a sci-fi film co-starring Jamie Gertz was released in the United States today.

1986: U.S. premiere of “The Mosquito Coast” produced by Saul Zaenta and featuring Jason Alexander who would gain fame as “George Constanza” on “Seinfeld.”

1986: The trial of John Demjanjuk opened in the Jerusalem District Court today.

1986: “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” directed by Leonard Nimoy who also co-starred in the film with William Shatner was released today in North America

1987: Five people were injured in the bombing of a military bus stop in Israel.

1988(17^th of Kislev, 5749): Seventy-six year old Werner Julius Seligmann, the son of Frantz Seligmann and Erna Seligmann and husband of Irma Seligmann passed away today in Notevideo.

1989: The New York Times included a review of The Jews In America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter by Arthur Hertzberg.

1990(9^thof Kislev, 5751): Ninety-three year old Samuel Noah Kramer the Ukraine born husband of the former Mildred Tokarsky and the award winning authority on Sumerian literature and culture passed away today. (As reported by John Noble Wilford)

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/27/obituaries/samuel-noah-kramer-93-dies-was-leading-authority-on-sumer.html





1991(19^thof Kislev, 5752: Seventy-seven year old advertising man Norman B. Norman, “a founder and longtime chief executive of Norman, Craig and Kummel” the WW II Navy veteran and husband of the former Gail Snyder passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/28/nyregion/norman-b-norman-77-is-dead-former-ad-and-marketing-adviser.html



1992(1^stof Kislev, 5753): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



1992: FOX broadcast the final episode of “The Heights” a short lived “musical drama series” created by Eric Roth.



1992(1^stof Kislev, 5753): Ninety-year old Bernard M. Baruch, Jr., the son of the fame financier passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/29/obituaries/bernard-m-baruch-jr-financier-s-son-90.html



1993(12^thof Kislev, 5754): Eighty-two year old Brazilian born American composer Bernardo Segall, the nephew of painter Lasar Segall passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-01/local/me-62674_1_bernardo-segall



1994: CTV broadcast the last episode of “Robo Cop” the television series produced by Jay Firestone, the son of Esther Firestone, the first female cantor in Canada.



1995: Showtime broadcast “Red Wind,” the final episode of “Fallen Angels” an anthology series developed by Steve Golin with theme music by Elmer Bernstein.

1996: Publication of The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York by Claudia Roden.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394532589/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0394532589&linkCode=as2&tag=thejewniverse-20&linkId=TAVEZJ3BH54L22AI#reader_B00358VHU6





1997: “Alien: Resurrection” a sci-fi horror film co-starring Winona Ryder and Ron Perlman was released in the United States today.



2000: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor



2001(11th of Kislev, 5762): A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip.



2001: Eric Moonman “appeared at an ‘Executive Luncheon” hosted by the Centre for Counter Studies during which he said he thought the media had been, "highly responsible and supportive of U.S. and international efforts to root out terrorism" and that when it came to fighting terrorism “we can’t afford to abide by the Queensbury rules of war in the face of such a dangerous and unscrupulous threat."



2003(1^stof Kislev, 5764): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



2003(1^stof Kislev, 5764): Seventy-seven year old composer Myer Kupferman passed away today. (As reported by Allan Kozinn)

http://www.meyerkupferman.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/arts/meyer-kupferman-composer-in-many-forms-is-dead-at-77.html





2005: Start of Jewish Book Month sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. 

2005: Sharon Fichman defeated Pemra Özgen to win the tennis tournament at Ashkelon.

2005(3rd of Kislev, 5707): Children’s author and illustrator Stan Berenstain passed away.  He and his wife Jan are best known for creating the children’s book series, “The Berenstein Bears.”

2006: Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman praises the talent of Jay “Bluejay” Greenberg during an interview on tonight’s broadcast of CBS News 60 Minutes.

2006: Just in time for Jewish Book Month, The Sunday Washington Post book section featured a review of Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amdanda Vail.

2006: The Sunday New York Timeslist of “100 Notable Books of the Year” includes the following volumes by Jewish authors or about Jewish topics: Everyman by Philip Roth, Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore, Intuition by Allegra Goodman, A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua, Courtier and The Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern Worldby Matthew Stewart.Greatest Story Ever Told: The Decline and Fallof Truth From 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich,The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn,Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg andSweet and Low: A Family Story, by Rich Cohen.

2006:  In Auckland, New Zealand, The Governor-General of New Zealand, gives a speech at event celebrating one hundred years of the Auckland Chevra Kadisha and Benevolent Society attended by Hon Judith Tizard; President of the Auckland Chevra Kadisha and Benevolent Society, Sonny Beder; President of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi Jack Engel and former President, Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence.



2006(5th of Kislev, 5767): Eighty-eight year old Jeanne Lesser who had been married to Louis Lesser for more than 70 years passed away today.

2007: Holocaust denier David Irving and Nick Griffin anti-Semitic leader of the British National party are scheduled to speak at the Free Speech Forum sponsored by the Oxford Union.  Britain’s defense secretary Des Browne, three British lawmakers and Labour Party leader Denis MacShane have all refused to appear before the group because of Irving and Griffin.

2007: In Jerusalem the Uganda Pub hosts an Ethiopian evening – music, films, food, lectures and even Ethiopian beer - followed by DJ and dancing.

2007: Premiere of “Boy A” starring Andrew Garfield as “Eric Wilson / Jack Burridge.

2007(16^th of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-four year old comedy writer Mel Tolkin, “the man who made Sid Caser funny” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/arts/27tolkin.html

2008: The OU Bicentennial Convention opens in Jerusalem.

2008: Premiere of “The Joy of Singing” a French film directed by Ilan Duran Cohen.

2008: The 92^nd Street Y hosts an Israeli Folk Dance Thanksgiving Marathon.

2008: After months of delay, the Supreme Court is due to hear a petition regarding the 20,000 Subbotnik Jews of Russia, many of whom have found it increasingly difficult in recent years to get permission to make Aliyah

2008: Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz notified Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday that he planned to indict him on several criminal charges relating to the Rishon Tours affair.

2008(28th of Cheshvan, 5769): Bentzion Chroman, who survived an earthquake in China earlier this year, was killed when a terrorist invaded the Mumbai Chabad House where he had stopped briefly today for the afternoon minhah prayer. Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, who helped supervise kashrut was also killed in the attack. Other victims of the terrorist attack on the Mumbai Chabad House included Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his pregnant wife Rivka and Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich.

2008: “Saul Steinberg: Illuminations,” a travelling exhibition, which will displayed original Steinberg works opened in London.

2008: “Milk” a biopic about Harvey Milk, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, produced by Bruce Cohen with music by Danny Elfman was released in the United States today.

2009: At the Sixth & I Lunch & Learn Rabbi Ethan Seidel leads a class studying unsettling stories containing elements of relativism, confusion, acknowledgment of chaos, and distrust of authority.

2009: Tikvat Israel Synagogue in Rockville, MD, features an evening of Israeli folk dancing.

2009: Hamshushalayim, a three-weekend-long festival, opens in Jerusalem.

2009: Minister of Culture and Sport Limor Livnat told Likud activists this evening that “I do not envy the prime minister because I know he is in distress. It isn’t easy to face an American President.”

2009: This evening, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired five mortar shells toward the western Negev. The shells landed in an open field in the Eshkol region, causing no casualties or damage.

2009: Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks gave his first speech in the House of Lords during which he “apid homage to Britan an said it was a sense of indebtedness to the country that drives Jews to make the vast contribution they make to society.”

2009: Belgian attorney and politician Mischaël Modrikamen, the son of Marcel Modrikamen whose father was “a Jewish immigrant from Poland who had fled anti-Semitism” launched the People's Party (PP,) which, he claimed, was based on the values of justice, responsibility and solidarity.

2010: The New York Times Reviews Nora Ephron’s Last Book

http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/26/2010/nora-ephron

2010: The National Museum of American Jewish History opens in Philadelphia, PA

2010: In Brussels, opening of Party Like a Jew a fun-filled weekend organized by the European Centre for Jewish Students (ECJS), the largest European organization for young adults in Europe.

2010(19^th of Kislev, 5771): “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism.”  The 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev is celebrated as the "the New Year of Chassidus (Hasidism)."“It was on this date, in the year 1798 that the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), was freed from his imprisonment in czarist Russia. More than a personal liberation, this was a watershed event in the history of Chassidism, heralding a new era in the revelation of the “inner soul” of Torah. The public dissemination of the teachings of Chassidism had in fact begun two generations earlier. The founder of the chassidic movement, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760), revealed to his disciples gleanings from the mystical soul of Torah which had previously been the sole province of select kabbalists in each generation. This work was continued by the Baal Shem Tov’s disciple, Rabbi DovBer, the “Maggid of Mezeritch”—who is also deeply connected with the date of “19 Kislev”: on this day in 1772, 26 years before Rabbi Schneur Zalman’s release from prison, the Maggid returned his soul to his Maker. Before his passing, he said to his disciple, Rabbi Schneur Zalman: “This day is our yom tov (festival).” Rabbi Schneur Zalman went much farther than his predecessors, bringing these teachings to broader segments of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe. More significantly, Rabbi Schneur Zalman founded the “Chabad” approach—a philosophy and system of study, meditation, and character refinement that made these abstract concepts rationally comprehensible and practically applicable in daily life. In its formative years, the chassidic movement was the object of strong, and often venomous, opposition from establishment rabbis and laymen. Even within the chassidic community, a number of Rabbi Schneur Zalman’s contemporaries and colleagues felt that he had “gone too far” in tangibilizing and popularizing the hitherto hidden soul of Torah. In the fall of 1798, Rabbi Schneur Zalman was arrested on charges that his teachings and activities threatened the imperial authority of the czar, and was imprisoned in an island fortress in the Neva River in Petersburg. In his interrogations, he was compelled to present to the czar’s ministers the basic tenets of Judaism and explain various points of chassidic philosophy and practice. After 53 days, he was exonerated of all charges and released. Rabbi Schneur Zalman saw these events as a reflection of what was transpiring Above. He regarded his arrest as but the earthly echo of a Heavenly indictment against his revelation of the most intimate secrets of the Torah. And he saw his release as signifying his vindication in the Heavenly court. Following his liberation on 19 Kislev, he redoubled his efforts, disseminating his teachings on a far broader scale, and with more detailed and “down-to-earth” explanations, than before. The nineteenth of Kislev therefore marks the “birth” of Chassidism: the point at which it was allowed to emerge from the womb of “mysticism” into the light of day, to grow and develop as an integral part of Torah and Jewish life.”

2010(19^th of Kislev, 5711): Yahrtzeit of the Maggid of Mezritch, the successor of the Baal Shem Tov

2010: Alice Herz-Sommer turned 107 today and is the world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor, as well as being the second oldest resident of London, England.

http://www.nickreedent.com/index.htm

2011: Pianist Taiyuan Stepanov and clarinetists Alex & Daniel Gurfinkel are scheduled to perform “Clarient with a French Flavor at the Eden Tamir Music Center in Ein Kerem-Jerusalem.

2011: Penultimate performance of Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall” sponsored by Theatre J (an arm of the DC Jewish Community Center) is scheduled to take place tonight in Washington, DC.

2011: A Kassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel exploded in the Eshkol Regional Council area early today.

2011: The Israel Air Force struck two centers of terrorist activity in the southern and central Gaza Strip tonight in response to rocket fire into southern Israel, according to the IDF Spokesman's office.

2012: David Siegel, the Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles is scheduled to speak at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills.

2012: A scheduled screening of “Killing Kasztner, The Jews that Dealt with the Nazis” at the Upper East Side Chabad will be followed by a discussion led by the film’s director and Dr. Joseph Berger, Holocaust survivor saved by Kasztner.

2012: Ehud Barak, who over a half-century career became Israel’s most decorated soldier and held the nation’s trifecta of top positions — chief of staff of the military, prime minister and, since 2007, defense minister — announced today that he would soon “leave political life,” withdrawing from elections scheduled for Jan. 22.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/world/middleeast/ehud-barak-israeli-defense-minister-to-quit-politics.html?hp&_r=0

2012: The French Consulate in Jerusalem recently hosted as a guest of honor a Palestinian terrorist, Salah Hamouri, who was convicted of plotting to kill Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi of Israel and the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, an Israeli newspaper reported today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/french-consulate-hosts-terrorist-who-planned-to-kill-top-israeli-rabbi/



2013: Jewish Book is scheduled to come to an end today.



2013: Robert Levinson, “if he is still alive” today “become the longest held hostage in American history.”



2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “The Reconquest of Jewishness in Post-War America: Will Herberg and Irving Howe



2013: Rabbi Jonah Layman is scheduled to lead the Greater Olney Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at Shaare Tefila.



2013: Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor who is the subject of “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” is scheduled to celebrate her 110^thbirthday

http://www.timesofisrael.com/109-year-old-survivor-may-be-headed-to-the-oscars/



2013: Fifth anniversary of the Mumbai Massacre a terrorist attack on  Westerner and Hindus and institutions that they used including the Naiman House, the Chabad Center where Jews, regardless of their affiliation could always find comfort and a meal. The victims included Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his pregnant wife Rivka, Israelis Bentzion Kruman and Yoheved Orpaz, Brooklyn Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum and Mexican Jewess Norma Rabinovich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nariman_House#Victims



2013(23^rdof Kislev, 5774): Sixty-six year old Guiora Esrubilsky, “a prominent Argentinian businessman bas in Florida” who “presided over last summer’s Maccabiah Games” passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/guiora-esrubilsky-maccabi-world-union-head-dies/





2013(23^rdof Kislev): Seventy-four year old legendary Israeli performer Arik Einstein passed away today. (As reported by Elad Benari)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174509#.UpUsIZuA2po



2013(23^rdof Kislev): Ninety-year old Israel Prize Winner Bracha Kapach passed away one day before the 96^th anniversary of the birth of husband Rabbi Yosef Kapach.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/bracha-kapach-israel-prize-winning-charity-organizer-dies-at-90/



2013(23^rdof Kislev, 5774): Eight-nine year old photographer Saul Leiter passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/arts/saul-leiter-photographer-with-a-palette-for-new-york-dies-at-89.html

http://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=9&fotograafid=15



2014: In the UK The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host “The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation?”

http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On?item=155



2014: In Melbourne, “The Israeli Code” and “Shtisel” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.



2014: “Interior Minister Gilad Erdan canceled the residency permit of the widow of one of the Har Nof synagogue killers today, effectively deporting her out of Israeli territory and stripping her of any financial or social benefits.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)



2014: “Torrential rains continued to sweep across much of Israel rasing the levels of the Sea of Galilee by 3.5 centimeters (1.37 inches) marking the highest one-day rise of the so for the the lake that is one of Israel’s key water sources. (As reported by Spence Ho)



2015: ”Lless than two weeks since the bride’s father Rabbi Yaakov Litman, and her 18-year-old brother Netanel were shot dead in a terrorist attack as they drove on Route 60 in the southern West Bank on November 13” Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Biegel were married this evening at the elevated plaza in front of Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. (As reported by Renee Ghert-Zand)



2015(14^thKislev, 5776): Sixty-five year old “Amir D. Aczel, a science writer who took readers on a mathematical mystery tour in “Fermat’s Last Theorem,” his account of how a famous 300-year-old problem in number theory was finally solved in the 1990s, and went on to write more than a dozen popular books on intriguing scientific ideas and discoveries” passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/science/amir-aczel-author-of-scientific-cliffhanger-dies-at-65.html





2015: The Chaplains of the Oxford University Jewish Society are scheduled to host Thanksgiving Dinner in their home with a traditional Turkey dinner, pumpkin pie “and all of the trimmings.”



2015: In London, Professor Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Blood Fractions: The Octoroon and Other Fantasies” at the Jewish Museum.



2016(25^thof Cheshvan, 5777): Parashat Chayei Sara

2016: “Two Palestinians were arrested” this “morning on suspicion of starting a fire” that devastated the settlement of Halamish” but were later released.

2016: Standing amidst the ruins of their restaurant Rama’s Kitchen which had been by raging wildfire, Rama Ben Zvi and Maya Ben Zvi said they would re-build “but that it take time” in part because they were “still coming to terms with the loss.”

2016: “Monsieur Mayonnaise” and “Dark Diamond” are scheduled to be shown in Melbourne as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2017: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Wine Lover’s Daughter: A Memoir by Anne Fadiman and In Deadly Cure by Lawrence Goldstone.

2017: Marc “Trestman won his third Grey Cup with the Argonauts defeated the Stampeders, 27-24.”

2017: Rhe Studio of the Jerusalem Conservatory “Hassadna” is scheduled to host “Hineh ma Tov!” the annual concert of works by Israeli composer Emanuel Vahl.

2017: “The Calcalist business daily reported” today that “US e-commerce behemoth Amazon is preparing to launch retail sales activities in Israel and is in talks to rent 25,000 sq. meters (260,000 sq. ft.) of storage space in central Israel to provide the local market with products.”

2017: The 21^st UK International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Bernard Lewis whose works included Semites and Anti-Semites and  The Muslim Discovery of Europe continues today.

2018: Tobi Kahn, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses and Rabbi Esther Azar are scheduled to lecture on “Artist’s Beit Midrash: Re-Reading Torah.”

2018: Tenth anniversary of terrorist attack on Hariman House in Mumbai.

2018: Biet Avi Chai is scheduled to host Professor Daniel R. Schwartz of Hebrew University lecturing on “Two Views of the Maccabean Revolt”

2018: In Israel businesses are scheduled to take part in Cyber Monday as can be seen by “Hazorfim’s Cyber Monday Sale” https://hazorfim.com/en/sale.htmland El Al’s Cyber Monday sales https://hazorfim.com/en/sale.html

2019: In Metairie, LA, the Slater Torah Academy is scheduled to host its Thanksgiving Dinner.

2019: As part of the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to a host a screening “It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story” at the City Screen Picturehouse at York.

2019: In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host Rina Z. Neiman as she discusses Born Under Fire, “her debut novel based on the story of her mother, a child prodigy pianist in 1940’s pre-state Israel.”

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/rina-z-neiman

https://www.bornunderfire.com/

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176: Emperor Marcus Aurelius granted his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. To the world at large Marcus Aurelius was “the philosopher-king” or “philosophical but impractical” ruler, but to the Jews he was just Roman emperor who held them in contempt describing them as “’Stinking and tumultuous!’” to his companions as he traveled through Judea. The dissolute nature of Commodus has become well known to all through the film “Gladiator.” Commodus showed his ineptitude in his failed attempt to defeat the Parthians, Rome’s eastern enemy whose empire reached to the borders of Palestine.  Unable to defeat an armed enemy in the field, Commodus began fresh persecutions of the Jews living there denying them, among other things, the right to use their courts of justice.

602: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor who in 592 punished “the entire Jewish community of Antioch after a Jew violated one his laws” passed away today

1095: First Crusade proclaimed by the Council of Clermont. By now everybody should be aware of the fact that the Crusades ushered in a period of death and destruction for the Jews of Europe and Eretz Israel.

1198(Kislev, 4959): Rabbeinu Abraham ben David known by the abberviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) passed away.  Born in Provence, France in 1125, he was a Provençal rabbi, a great commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key and important links in the chain of Jewish mystics

1308: Henry VII who “was presented with a scroll of the Law by a delegation of Jews from Rome which had gone to meet him began” began his reign as King of the Romans

1614: In Frankfurt, Vincenz Fettmilch, the ringleader of the Fettmilch Rising during which the Judengasse was attacked looted, was arrested along with 38 of his followers and “charged for their persecution of the Jews.”  (They would eventually be executed.  The authorities really were not upset about his attack on the Jews.  What got him into trouble was when he was perceived as a threat to the Emperor and the ruling order.

1688 (4th of Kislev): Rabbi Elijah Kovo of Salonika, author of Aderet Eliyahu, passed away

1703: In New York City, Etienne de Lancy, the Caen born son of Marguerite and Jacques de Lancy, and his wife Anna de Lancy gave birth to Colonel James de Lancy , the acting Governor of New York.

1710: Birthdate of Robert Lowth, the Bishop of the Church of England who 1754 was awarded a Doctorate in Divinity by Oxford University, for his treatise on Hebrew poetry entitled Praelectiones Academicae de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum (On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews) which derives from a series of lectures that were published by George Gregory in 1787 as "Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews".

1755: An English merchant named Joseph Salvador bought 10,000 acres near Fort Ninety-Six, in the southern part of the Carolina Colony. In 1773, Joseph Salvador would send his nephew Francis Salvador to South Carolina to develop the land as an indigo plantation.  At the outbreak of the American Revolution the wealthy young aristocrat joined the fight for independence.  He died of wounds in August of 1776 while fighting the Cherokee allies of the British.  The following words were etched on his tombstone: Born an aristocrat he became a democrat, An Englishman he cast his lot with America; True to his ancient faith, he gave his life for new hopes of liberty and human understanding.”

1757: Birthdate of William Blake, English poet, painter and printmaker. Controversy surrounds Blake’s grasp of Jewish mysticism. It seems pretty clear that Blake’s art and writing invoke Kabbalah, but scholars debate how Blake accessed the Jewish mystical concepts he quoted. Some argue that the dozen or so Hebrew inscriptions in Blake’s etchings and watercolors show that Blake was fluent in Hebrew. But close analysis of the works, some of which are on exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum, reveals that Blake had not even mastered the letter alef. Reading Kabbalah in Hebrew without knowing the first letter of the alef-bet would be as implausible as tackling “Finnegans Wake” with barely a grasp of the English alphabet. Arguments that Blake knew Hebrew date back to Frederick Tatham, who cared for Catherine after Blake’s death in 1827. In a letter to bookseller Frances Harvey, Tatham said that Blake’s library included “well thumbed” books in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Italian, as well as works by Swedenborg and Christian mystic Jacob Boehme. “His knowledge was immense, his industry beyond parallel,” Tatham wrote. Modern scholars echo Tatham’s claim. Writing in the journal Modern Philology in 1951, David V. Erdman ascribed “some Hebrew” to Blake, particularly the knowledge that beth-lehem means “house of bread.” “We know that Blake knew a little Hebrew,” Anthony Blunt agreed, writing in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes in 1943, “for he wrote to his brother in 1803 that he was learning the Hebrew alphabet, and his etching of the Laocoön [a copy of the sculpture “Laocoön and His Sons”] bears a few words in Hebrew script.” In his book “The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (The Davies Group, Publishers, 2000), Thomas J. J. Altizer suggests not only that Blake knew Hebrew, but also that he was self-taught.But the work that Blunt cites as proof of Blake’s proficiency in Hebrew, “Laocoön” — a circa 1820 print depicting snakes strangling the famous Trojan priest and his two sons — is one of the best pieces of evidence that Blake did not know Hebrew. Writing “malakh Jehovah,” which he translated as “The Angel of the Divine Presence,” Blake inadvertently rotated the alef 90 degrees on its y-axis. He spelled “Lilit” (Lilith) correctly, but he miswrote “Jeshua” (Jesus) with another rotated letter, this time an ayin (the 16th letter). “Laocoön” does not appear in the Morgan show, but an etching from Blake’s Job series does. In an etching from Blake’s Job series, the artist again wrote “The Angel of the Divine Presence,” but this time he wrote the Hebrew “melekh Jehovah,” which means King Jehovah, rather than malakh (with an alef), the Angel of Jehovah. In “William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job,” S. Foster Damon says that Blake intentionally removed the alef to show that Job was worshipping a false God — mistaking an angel for the king. But could Blake really have known enough Hebrew to distinguish between “melekh” and “malakh,” when he revealed in “Laocoön” that he didn’t even know how to form the letter properly?  “Job’s Evil Dreams,” features a bearded figure with hooves encircled by a snake. The figure hovers above a reclining man and points with its right index finger to the Ten Commandments. Though Blake wrote out only two of the commandments in full, the inscriptions contain more than a dozen mistakes. One line contains a properly and an improperly formed alef, a further inconsistency suggesting that Blake was copying a language he did not understand. “Blake did study Hebrew with his one-time patron, William Hayley, but scholars are not agreed about his proficiency in the language,” explained Leslie Tannenbaum, associate professor of English at Ohio State University and author of “Biblical Tradition in William Blake’s Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art” (Princeton University Press, 1982). According to Tannenbaum, the late Gerald Bentley, a Blake scholar who taught at Princeton University, implied in a biography that Blake was “fairly fluent” in Hebrew. But Tannenbaum also notes that Sheila A. Spector, whom he describes as “an extremely meticulous scholar and expert on Blake and the Kabbalah,” writes that Blake did not know the biblical language.In Blake’s preface to the chapter “To the Jews,” from the poem “Jerusalem,” Tannenbaum sees references to the kabbalistic concept of Adam Kadmon (the primordial man). Blake learned Kabbalah from Swedenborg’s writings on Boehme, who seems to have been influenced by Balthasar Walther, Tannenbaum adds, and Blake also identified with the Avignon Society, which sought science and reason “in such unlikely places as alchemical lore, cabbalistic numerology, mesmerist séances, Swedenborgian spiritualism, and (perhaps most surprising of all) the Scriptures.” In “Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake’s Kabbalistic Myth” (Bucknell University Press, 2001) Spector, an adjunct associate professor at New York University, agrees that Blake’s kabbalistic sources were Christian rather than Jewish, and English rather than Hebrew. Further, Blake was “unfortunately” influenced by his contemporary Anglo-Israelites, who thought that English derived from Hebrew “and that the language of the Jews was a spurious version in which the rabbis obscured the ‘true Christian’ message to be found in the Bible,” Spector said.“Under the circumstances, the question of whether or not Blake was fluent in Hebrew misses the point,” she added. “He rejected normative Hebrew in favor of the linguistic gymnastics that re-interpreted words to conform with some eccentric – to be charitable – interpretations that coordinated Hebrew and English, as well as Greek, etymologies to proffer a new interpretation of Scripture.” (As reported by Menachem Wecker)

1780: Birthdate of Bavaria native “Leser Lazarus Oschsenhorn,” the husband of Nanette Wexler with whom he had six children, several of whom shortened the family name to Ochs  when the settled variously in Chattanooga, Brooklyn, Louisville and San Francisco.

1785(25^th of Kislev, 5546): Channukah

1798 (19th of Kislev, 5559):Rabbi Shneur Zalman founder of Chabad Lubavitch was released from a St Petersburg jail. He had been arrested on charges of high treason for allegedly sending money to the Czar’s enemy, the Sultan of Turkey. In reality he was sending money to Jews living in Eretz Israel which was part of Turkey at the time.  Shneur Zalman is the author of two works Tanya and Likkute Torah which describe the philosophy of the Chabad movement.  Chabad is an acronym for the Hebrew words Chokhmah (wisdom), Binah (understanding) and Da’at (Wisdom).  Lubavitch is the name of the town in which the Descendants of Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezhirech, Shneur Zalman’s “teacher” settled.  In 1798, November 27 corresponded to the 19^th day of Kislev.  Ever since then Chabad Lubavitchers mark YUD-TET KISLEV (19^th of Kislev) as day of joy and celebration.

1804: Birthdate of Sir Julius Benedict, the German born highly successful English composer and conductor who was knighted in 1871.

1804: While serving in the United States Navy, today, Gershom R. Jacques was promoted from “Surgeon’s Mate” to “Surgeon.”

1814: Judah Elias Piza and Rachel Piza, the parents of David and Elias Piza were married today.

1815: Birthdate of Simon Hock, the Prague born businessman who created a history of the Jews of Bohemia.

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

1819: Leopold Zuns and Eduard Gans founded the Verein fuer Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden, (The Society for Culture and Science of Judaism). It delved into Jewish history, culture and literature using scientific methods of criticism and assessment. The Society lasted less than five years. Gans and many others converted to Christianity.

1830: Joseph Mérilhou, the French official who successfully got the Deputies to adopt legislation treating Judaism on equal footing with Christianity when it came to public financial support for synagogues and rabbis completed his term as Minister of Public Education.

1834: Birthdate of Michael Bernays, the Hamburg born lawyer who displayed an expertise in matters pertaining to Shakespeare and Beethoven and who unlike his brother Jakob, converted to Christianity.

1837: Birthdate of Ludwig Loewe, who began as manufacturer of sewing machines and then became major arms maker whose employees included Georg Luger, the inventor of the famous “Luger” pistol.

1839: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Poznanski officiated at the marriage of Jacob Suares and Isabella Nathans.

1844: Five days after she had passed away in Paris, 32 year old Mary (Montefiore) Mocatta, the wife of Benjamin Mocatta, was buried today “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1846: A wagon train owned and commanded by Albert Speyer, a Prussian born Jew, arrived  at San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico, in time for the pre-Christmas fair where he sold his merchandize, “reloaded the wagons with Mexican goods – mainly silver curios and sugar – and returned to Chihuahua” Mexico.

1853: In London, Catherine Barnett and David Jonas gave birth to Elizabeth Jonas, the wife of Edward Joseph.

1853: An editorial entitled “The Arrest of Rabbi Asche” published today questioned the methods used by the authorities when they arrested Rabbi Asche and two other Jews on charges of selling lottery tickets.  The editorial supported the concept of law and order but thought the police could have used better judgment in exercising their authority.

1856: Proof of the role of Jews played in settling the American Frontier can be found in the letters Thomas Gladstone sent to the London Times excerpts of which were published today.  In describing those traveling up the Missouri River Gladstone reports that his fellow passengers included “Border Ruffians, Abolitionists…Jews” and others who “completely” represent “the various classes of the population in Kansas.”



1858: It was reported today that two New York Rabbis have been arrested on charges of selling lottery tickets based on the charges brought by one of their co-religionists.

1860: In Paris, there are reports of a serious rift between Achille Fould, the Jewish financier who is a close advisor to Emperor Napoleon, and the Empress.

1861: Seventy-seven year old Jeanette Wohl the confidant of Ludwig Borne, the German Jewish writer who like so many of his contemporaries became a Lutheran but was not above characterizing his rival Heine as “a yeshiva student” whom he accused of “the Jewish trait of employing witticisms for their own sake,”

1863: Jacob Miller was wounded at Mine Run, VA, while serving at the 60^thRegiment of the Third Cavalry.

1863: At the Wooster-street Synagogue, Thanksgiving Day services were held at 3 o'clock, embracing the usual afternoon prayers, conducted by Rabbi S.M. Isaacs the Prayer for the Government and appropriate hymns, after which an address was delivered by Meyer S. Isaacs, the Rabbi’s son He commenced with a reference to the peculiar significance of the present day of thanksgiving, observed as it was by all Americans, wherever resident, in response to the recommendation of the Executive. It was a grand spectacle, an entire nation united in offering up incense on an altar of a religion all alike profess -- thanksgiving and praise to the Supreme Being. Divesting themselves of social, political and religious distinctions, superior to the division of sentiment engendered by sectional ideas and antagonistic theories, they assembled in their respective places of worship, to pour forth praises to Him enthroned on hish. Actuated by these considerations, his audience had gathered together in their house of God, that they too might join in the grand anthem swelling upward to celestial heights. Israelite and Christian grasped each other's hand in cordial confidence, working together, fighting together the battles of the Union, pouring their blood on the battle-field in friendly rivalry for country's sake. There was no trace of religious intolerance or sectional feeling in the proclamation of the day; we were called upon to observe it as Americans, acknowledging special obligations to Heaven for the providences so graciously displayed in the progress of our struggle for national existence, and not unmindful of His divine favor in the daily blessings unintermittingly showered upon us, whose value we often fail to diiscern until we are deprived of them. He then took his text from Psalm c., verses 4 and 5, discussing it from its various points of view, and earnestly directing attention to the necessity of sincerity in this observance of National Thanksgiving. The stake was too mighty a one to permit even the semblance of insincerity in the history we were making, in our protestations of patriotism. It is understood now, that our love of country is not purely romantic, but that we were in earnest in our expressions of determination to reestablish the national supremacy, to permit no armed assemblage, however formidable, however desperate, to maintain an eternal antagonism to the constituted authorities.  Were we equally sincere in our observance of Thanksgiving, in our expressions of dependence upon God, of our own unworthiness and His eternal goodness and truth? This was to be the lesson of the day. He then illustrated his text by a reference to the peculiar benefits the Israelites of America enjoy in this land of thorough civil and religious liberty. We should enter His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise, "for here there was no distinction recognized between Jew and Gentile in the guaranty by the Constitution of protection in the enjoyment of the sacred rights of man.  Returning to the broader view of the subject, as Americans, we should signalize the sincerity of this observance by an amendment in those respects where we acknowledge national faults. Although we have demonstrated a stauncher patriotism than we ourselves believed to be inherent in American character, there may be more sacrifices to make, more selfish considerations to combat, more errors of administration to deplore and divest of their apparent danger to the State by a confirmed determination to strengthen the hand of those we have chosen to preside over our national destinies. In conclusion, he spoke of the favorable prospect before us, as contrasted with the gloom, astonishment and despondency at the culmination of the preparation for the war upon our flag. The ship of state, madly tossed upon an unknown sea, exposed to the dangers of the warring elements, her pilots surrendered to the guilt of the hour or sadly inexperienced, was now sailing majestically into a safe harbor, a clear head and a steady hand at the helm; but God be thanked for this great salvation -- no human wisdom or power hath accomplished this.  He closed with a fervent prayer for the continuance of Divine favor to the land, and its speedy restoration to peace and prosperity.

1867: In New York, the former Maria Phillips and David Davis the owner of the Washington Rubber Company gave birth to real estate mogul J. Clarence Davis, vice president of the West End Synagogue, director of the Bronx YMHA and patron of the arts who donated his collection the Museum of the City of New York

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23135026?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://collections.mcny.org/Gallery/24UAKVNRBJ

1868: The Philadelphia “Press” published an abstract of the Thanksgiving Day Sermon delivered by Rabbi Jastrow at Congregation Rodef Shalom.

1871: An article published today entitled “A Tolerant City” quotes the Jewish Chronicle as saying that “Ireland is the only country where Jews were never persecuted.”  As proof of Irish tolerance, the Chronicle cites the case of a young Jewess named Miss Samuel, who, when she was on her death bed was the object of prayers of recovery offered both in Jewish synagogues and Christian Chapels.  Her funeral included thirty carriages that were filled with citizens of both faiths.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E0DE163EE63BBC4051DFB7678382669FDE

1871: In Philadelphia, Simon B. Fleisher and Cecelia Hofheimer gave birth to Samuel Stuart Fleisher the Wharton graduate, manufacturer of year and amateur artist whose works were displayed at American Art Society Exhibition in 1903 who also served Director of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Chautauqua Society.

1872: Two days after he had passed away, 62 year old Hyam Levy, the husband of the former Frances Naphtali with whom he had had six children was buried today at “West Ham Jewish Cemetery” on Buckingham Road.”

1873: The Charity Committee of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum has asked that an appeal be made during today’s Thanksgiving Day services for contributions of money, clothing and other items that can be used to aid Jews who are economically distressed due to the current depressed economy.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9500E3D91339EF34BC4951DFB7678388669FDE

1874:  Birthdate of Zionist leader and Israel’s first President Chaim Weizmann. He first gained fame as the Russian-British chemist who used bacteria for the synthesis of organic chemicals. During WW I, a recent immigrant into Great Britain, he discovered a way to use a bacterium to synthesize acetone during the fermentation of grain. Acetone was important in the manufacture of cordite for explosives. Postwar, he modified the fermentation to produce butyl alcohol, suitable for uses such as lacquers. This was the forerunner of the deliberate use of microorganisms for a wide variety of syntheses. A generation later, penicillin and vitamin B12 were produced in this way.

1876: In New York City “Isidor and Ida (Blun) Straus gave birth to the Harvard educated R.H. Macy and Co vice president Percy Selden, the husband of Edith Abraham who was active in several civic and philanthropic organizations as can be seen by his service as President of the Jewish Agricultural Society and Chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City.

http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7815

1878: In Sumter, SC, Rabbi E.S. Levy  officiated at the wedding of A. De Leon Moses of Burke Country, GA and Eliza Cohen, the daughter daughter of Max Cohen who used to live in Charleston, SC.

1879: Dr. Henry W. Bellows, a prominent Unitarian Minister, delivered the Thanksgiving Day Sermon at Temple Emanu-El, the New York Jewish house of worship led by Rabbi Gustav Gottheil

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E0DE163EE63BBC4051DFB7678382669FDE

1880(24^th of Kislev, 5641): In the evening kindle the first light of Chanukah.

1880: The New York Times reported today that “the celebration of the Jewish feast of ‘Chanuka’ will be commenced this evening by the Children of Israel throughout the world.” The Times goes on to provide an accurate description of the origins of the holiday and its modern observance including the fact that the events celebrated began “on the 25^thday of the month of Kislev.” (This was written 15 years before the Ochs family acquired the paper)

1880: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association hosted its “fourth entertainment” of the season tonight at Lyric Hall.

1881> On day after she had passed away, 72 year old Sophia Ford, the wife Amsterdam native Charles Ford and more of Henry and Rose Ford was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1881: At Rostov-on –Don Isaiah and Feodosia Chatzman to their daughter Vera, the future wife of Chaim Wiezmann, who was a leading Zionist in her own right. (As reported by Esther Carmel-Hakim)

1881: A meeting was held this morning at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum to discuss additional measures to be taken to meet the growing influx of Jewish immigrants from Russia which is overwhelming the resources of the United Hebrew Charities.  One solution is to establish “farming colonies” which will provide a livelihood for the impoverished new arrivals and avoid population congestion in a few east coast cities.

1882: A review of Natural Religion by Sir John Robert Seeley, the author of Ecce Homo, cites the author’s contention that “the Hebrew Scriptures express in poetic form and in language suited another age the spirit of modern science.  Notably the Book of Job contrasts the conventional and, as it were, orthodox view of the universe with the view which those obtain who are prepared to face it awfulness directly.” (Editor’s note – this comes at a time when there was a clash between science and religion so it is intriguing that an English author would find a harmony between the two in the Jewish section of his Bible.)

1882(16^th of Kislev, 5643): Sixty-two year old Moses Soave, Italian “Hebraist” who “supported himself as tutor for Venetian Jewish families” while writing biographies of several Italian Jews including Sara Copia Sullam, Amatus Lusitanus, Abraham de Balmes, Shabbethai Donnolo and Leon de Modena passed awat today.

1883: “Clothing merchant” Simon Mandel, a resident of Merrill, Wisconsin and Carrie Mandel gave birth to Milton Simon Mandel who settled in New York where he registered for the Draft during WW I, married his wife Helen and became wholesale fur merchant as a partner in Mandel and Weinblatt located on West 27^thStreet.

1883: “Hen” Rice, who had been a Deputy Sherriff is New York is being held on charges that he won $2,700 from Robert Solomon, an Anglo-Jewish diamond dealer, by cheating at card games they played while crossing from England to the United States aboard the SS Servia.

1883: “Russian-Hebrew Colony Broken Up” published today provided a brief history of an agricultural colony that had been established for Jewish immigrants from Russia in Middlesex County, Va.  Despite the contribution of several thousands of dollars from the Jewish community in Baltimore, MD, the experiment failed.  One family has asked to be sent back to Russia while the remaining men have been provide with jobs and several of the women are being taught to use sewing machines.  The Torah used by the colonists will be returned to the Hebrew Hospital Association which had lent it the newcomers.

1883: It was reported today that Herr Haumann one of the lawyers who represented the Jews unfairly charged with the ritual murder of Christian girl in Hungary, fought a duel with Herr Vay, the Police Commissioner.  The sword fight, during which Vay was “severely wounded in the chest,” resulted from the attorney’s accusation that the Police Commissioner had tortured the Jewish prisoners.

1885: “Judaism of the Future” published today provided a summary of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler’s view of the principles adopted by Reform rabbis at their meeting in Pittsburgh.  He described it as a “Jewish Declaration of Independence” which no longer looks to the memories of ancient Israel, rejects tradition “but recognizes in Christianity and Islamism valuable helpers and co-workers in the direction of the fruition of the kingdom of virtue and truth.”  (Editor’s note – one cannot help but wonder what Rabbi Kohler would have to say about the Reform movement in the 21^st century)

1887: In Bialystok, Leah Zuro and Louis Zuro “a Russian immigrant who became a producer of opera” gave birth to Josiah Zuro the American “music director for the Pathe Motion Picture Studio” who conducted numerous symphony orchestras and “organized his own opera company known as the Zuro Opera Company.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9B02E6D81138E433A25752C2A9669D946194D6CF

http://www.vipfaq.com/Josiah%20Zuro.html

1887: In Great Britain, “Isaac Asher Isaacs and Hannah Zylberlast Isaacs” gave birth to Estelle Stella Isaacs who became Estelle Stella Jacobs when she married “Alexander Susman Susman Jacobs.”

1888: Today marks the second day of the fair sponsored by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum which is an annual fundraiser for this Jewish organization.

1888: The will of Moss Abadee, the husband of Kate Abadee was probated today.

1888: It was reported today that a new congregation “Zichron Osher” has been established on the west side of New York. Joseph Arthur Levy was the founder of the synagogue whose services will include congregational singing and the use of English for some of the prayers.  Rabbi H. Veld will lead the new congregation assisted by Rabbi J.I. De Young.

1889: It was reported today the United Hebrew Charities will be hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner this week

1890: At 3 p.m. the boys of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum held their annual parade” today, marching through the streets of Harlem.

1890: Birthdate of New York City native and Boston University trained attorney Samuel Barnett who was a county court judge in Massachusetts and an active Zionist

1891: In New York, Sarah Bernhardt appeared in the opening performance of “Pauline Blanchard” at the Standard Theatre.

1892: The Maccabeans, An Aggressive Club” published today described the formation of this club by London’s Jews in the wake of the Russian persecution of their co-religionists. “The meetings of the Maccabeans afford something quite novel to English Judaism – an arena in which all the social, ethical and theological questions which are bubbling so vehemently in the Jewish mind can be thrashed out freely and without prejudice.”

1892: The members of Shaary Zedek voted not to remove the bodies from the congregation’s old cemetery on 88^th Street between Park and Madison and reinter them in the new Bay Side Cemetery on Long Island

1892:  It was reported today that Herman Ahlwardt, who is in jail because he was convicted of libeling a Jewish gun-making firm and is such “a shameless rogue” that he has been publicly disowned by “the anti-Semitic Party won a seat in the Reichstag by-election running three thousand votes ahead of his nearest opponent with campaign cry of “Down with the Jews.!”

1893: Seventy-eight year old Sebastian Brunner, the Austrian Catholic writer who was part of a group 19^th authors whose “anti-Jewish propaganda had no equal…either for quantity or virulence and who was part of the infamous libel charges brought against Ignaz Kuranda and Heinrich Graetz passed away today.

1894: In Paris, the Grand Rabbi preached a lengthy sermon at a well-attended service during which he “lauded Alexander III’s peace and exhorted all to pray for his soul as well as for his successor Czar Nicholas, his wife and all their relatives.”

1894: The bequests of the late Adolph Bernheimer published today included “$10,000 in 3 per cent bonds” to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital.

1895: In St. Louis, Caroline and Joseph Lazarus Kranson gave birth to Julius Kranson

1895: In a change of policy it was reported today that “a recent Ministerial order in Russia, Jews living in the interior who have been members of a first-class guild for five years are permitted to retain a permanent domicile in the place of their present habitation and this privilege will extend to their children.”

1895 Alfred Nobel established Nobel Prize.“At least 167 Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2004, and constituting 37% of all US recipients during the same period.  In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, and Physics, the corresponding world and U.S. percentages are 26% and 39%, respectively.  (Jews currently make up approximately 0.25% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.)
 

·         Chemistry (28 prize winners, 19% of world total, 28% of US total)

·         Economics (21 prize winners, 38% of world total, 53% of US total)

·         Literature (12 prize winners, 12% of world total, 27% of US total)

·         Physiology or Medicine (52 prize winners, 29% of world total, 42% of US total)

·         Peace (9 prize winners, 10% of world total, 11% of US total)

·         Physics (45 prize winners, 26% of world total, 38% of US total)

1896: Frank Rorschach who served aboard the Puritan during the Spanish American War was appointed from Kansas today.

1896: Birthdate of Alexader Ubushone, the native of “the Ukrainian shtetl of Talne, who gained fame as “leader Charles S. Zimmerman.” (As reported by Joseph B. Treaster)

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/05/obituaries/charles-s-zimmerman-dies-at-86-longtime-garment-union-leader.html

1896(22^nd of Kislev, 5657): Rav Israel Jaffe passed away today

1897: The Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum will host a dance tonight at Terrace Garden.

1897: Following an anonymous tip, a Commissaire of Police “made of thorough search” at 3 Rue Yvon-Villareau in Paris where he was told to look for “interesting documents concerning the Dreyfus case. The apartments were occupied by Lt. Col. Picquart and what he found was not revealed to the public.

1897: Authorities searched for Madame de Boulancy, the cousin and former mistress of Ferdinand Esterhazy.

1898: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas officiated at the marriage of Louis Flanders and Jeannette Wetherhorn.

1898: In Chicago, $10,230 was raised during the auction of the boxes for the charity ball being held by the Young Men’s Hebrew Charity Association.

1898: Birthdate of Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, the native of Odessa who became an American economist and Soviet spy.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A07E7DC1E3FEE32A25756C1A9669D946591D6CF

1898: “The Week At The Theatres” published today provided a detailed review “The Merchant of Venice” at Daly’s Theatre  starring  Sidney Herbert as Shylock and Ada Rehan as Portia which is described as being filled with “a few keen disappointments.”

1899(25^th of Kislev, 5660): First day of Chanukah

1899: “Dr. Silverman On The Jew” published today provided the views of Rabbi Joseph Silverman on the survival of his co-religionist over the many centuries of mistreatment only to emerge triumphant in the 19^th century where he “always feels himself a citizen of the in which he lives” but where “his religion is cosmopolitan.”

1900: Four days after he had passed away, “Nahum Salaman,” the husband of the former Amelia Bertram with whom he had had six children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”

1901: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas officiated at the marriage of William Rosenbaum and Rosalie Levy.

1902: Today, twenty-six year old Harvard educated R.H. Macy and Co vice president Percy Selden, the New York City born son Isidor and Ida (Blum) Straus, who was active in several civic and philanthropic organizations as can be seen by his service as President of the Jewish Agricultural Society and Chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City married Edith Abraham.

1905: David Kosse, the President of the Temporary Odessa Societies Organization and Joseph Sanders were the marshals for today’s parade on the Lower East Side held in honor of the victims of the Odessa massacres which led by three men carrying flags – the American flag, the flag of Zion and a black flag edged in white.

1905: Samuel Simon wrote today, “I note with profound regret the fact that one of my co-religionists advances the theory that it would be wise to petition the Pope with a view toward his intervention with Russia in” behalf of the Jews “and with the idea of bringing to a cessation the terrible atrocities that have befallen our brethren that country” because he maintains “that it has already be demonstrated that our salvation lies in our own hands.”

1905: Simon Rasch presided over a mass meeting held by the First Odessa Benevolent Association at the Great Central Palace attended by over 2,000 people who raised “several hundreds of dollars” to fund to aid those suffering in Russia.

1905: At an executive meeting of the national committee collecting funds for the Russian Jews held in Jacob Schiff’s office it was “decided to use its utmost endeavors to inspire the country with the idea that there must be no let-up in contributions” since conditions are far worse now than they were when it was decided to raise $1,000,000.

1905: “Rabbi Adolph S. H. Radin of the People’s Synagogue, Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle and actor Jacob P. Adler” are scheduled to address a mass meeting on Clinton Street.

1905: A mass meeting is scheduled to be held tonight “in the open square made by the judge of Sheriff, Grand and East Broadway, in the vicinity of the Young Men’s Benevolent Association” to protest against the treatment of the Jews of Russia.

1905: As conditions of the Jews in Russia continued to worsen, it was reported that today that the United States Government is being urged “to enact a more liberal immigration law which would allow many of the Jewish people who are barred from entering this country at the present time to come to America where they could be protected by the Jewish people.”

1905: As of today it was reported that $878,511 has been raised by the national committee collecting funds to aid the suffering Jews of Russia.

1905: “According to a private telegram from an eminently trustworthy source” the violence in Sevastopol continues forcing the inhabitants, “especially the Jews” to flee the city.

1905: “Consular advices by cable received” in Washington report that fifteen Jews were killed at Rostoff during the recent riots in Russia.

1907: Birthdate of Syracuse native Phoebe Brand, the daughter of the “chief mechanical engineer for Remington typewriters, the actress and acting teacher who was the wife of actor Morris Carnovsky and the mother of Stephen Carnovsky.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/theater/phoebe-brand-96-actress-and-group-theater-co-founder.html

1907: In Boston, Louis and Muriel Fisher gave birth to Golda Walters the wife of Charles H. Walters and Boston University lawyer who while serving as a “Massachusetts judge” lost out on a chance for a federal judgeship in 1941 when President Roosevelt decided to fill the two vacancies with two men and who was described as the “prettiest judge” in the January 31, 1939 of Look magazine.

1907: In Hesse, Germany, Isaac and Sophie Plaut gave birth to Alfred Plaut, the husband of Fanny K. Kasper.

1907: Sixty-four year old Cyril Flower, 1^st Baron Battersea, the husband of Constance, the daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild passed away today.

1909(14^th of Kislev, 5670): Parashat Vayishlach

1909(14^th of Kislev, 5670): Noachm Schapiro passed away today.

1909: Birthdate of Alfred Lionel Piser, the native of Chicago and graduate of the University of Illinois who served in WW II and became a successful Ophthalmologist.

1911: Birthdate of Newark, NJ native Jack Chernck, the Rutgers and U. of Chicago trained physicist who wrote The Nuclear Reactor Comes of Age.

https://www.amazon.com/nuclear-reactor-comes-age/dp/B000ORALVW

1912: In Chicago, Mrs. Hamburger is scheduled to give German readings after which Mrs. G.B. Levi will lead the singing of German songs at this afternoon’s meeting of The Willing Workers.

1912: A troupe of Yiddish language actors including Jacob P. Adler will begin performing this evening at the Haymarket Theatre.

1912: Professor Percy Homes Boynton of the University of Chicago is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the Chicago Hebrew Institute on “The Trend of American Fiction.”

1912:  In St. Louis, MO, Samuel Margulois, “a hand-to-mouth salesman and his wife Celia” gave birth to David Lee Margulois, the Washington University graduate and lawyer who gained fame as David Merrick, the theatrical producer best known for his production of “Hello Dolly.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/theater/david-merrick-88-showman-who-ruled-broadway-dies.html

1912: In Pueblo, CO, Romanian Jewish immigrants Samuel Cohen and Dora Inger who had been living in Denver gave birth to Rose Cohen who gained fame as actress Connie Sawyer.

https://www.jta.org/2018/01/25/news-opinion/united-states/connie-sawyer-oldest-working-actress-in-hollywood-dies-at-105

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/obituaries/connie-sawyer-films-oldest-working-actress-dies-at-105.html

1912: Leopold Godowsky’s piano recital at Carnegie Hall today included a half dozen of Listz’s most difficult etudes.

1913: Anglo-Jewish featherweight/bantam weight Matt Wells defeated Owen Moran in Sydney, Australia

1914: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was established by combining several separate organizations. Its original name was the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers and was chaired by Felix M. Warburg. It campaigned and distributed funds wherever Jews were in need, especially in Eastern Europe. It is popularly known as the "Joint" or "JDC." During the First World War they spent almost 15,000,000 on relief efforts.

1914(9^th of Kislev, 5675): Lt Frank Alexander de Pass of 34 Poona Horse, part of the Indian Expeditionary Force which arrived in France soon after the war began” and who first Jew to be awarded the Victoria Cross (posthumously) was killed today.

1914: In Brooklyn, Rabbi Alexander Lyons preached a sermon entitled “Prejudice in American Life” at Friday night services “in which he referred to the prejudice again Leo M. Frank that existed in Atlanta during the trial of Frank which resulted in a verdict convicting him of the murder of Mary Phagan.

1914: If the Supreme Court of the United States denies the application of Leo Frank for a writ of error, Georgia Governor John M Slaton told reporters at the Waldorf today that he will review all of the evidence and if Frank “is not guilty then he ought to be saved from the (death) penalty and shall not a victim of injustice because he is a Jew.”  As to his feelings towards Jews, the governor pointed out that Mr. Philips, his law partner for nineteen years is a Jew and that Jews have been an integral part of Georgia since the days of the Crown when the Minis family settled in the colony.

1914: “Following the second reversal at the hands of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States” Leo Franks has issued a public statement “calling attention to several phases” of his case including the fact that the members of their jury feared for their lives because of “the dangerous…crowd which surrounded the jail” and that the “Supreme Court has never reviewed the question of his guilt or innocence” but has only responded to questions of procedural technicalities related to his appeal.

1915: The American Embassy in Berlin is working with the German government to get permission for Isadore Hershfield to go to Poland where, among other things he will try to make contact with Jews whose families in America would like to send them financial assistance.

1915: On Shabbat, at Temple Israel on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 120^thStreet, Rabbi M.H. Harris delivered a sermon on “Thanksgiving in Tribulation” in which he made “an appeal to the Jews of America to give aid to their starving brethren in Galicia and Poland.”

1916: It was reported today that a Russian officer had made speech to the peasants the District of Lutsk in which “he said the Jews were enemies of the State and traitors and they must be expelled” and told them that they must come forward and testify as to how the Jews had welcomed and supported the Austrians.

1916: “Plain clothes men who arrest women on the streets were defended” tonight “by Justice Henry Herbert of Special Sessions at the annual meeting of the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue – an organization which spends a considerable amount of time and money working among the “Jewish girls whom into the magistrate’s courts” with the intent of leading them away from criminal activity.

1916: It was pointed out at today’s session of the Reichstag that “the Jewish population of former Russian Poland amounts to 14 percent” of the work force and that this “large number of Jews in Poland might be profitably employed by” German manufacturers “to relieve the dearth of labor.”

1917: As revolution spreads across Ukraine and nationalist forces tried to take control of what had once been part of the Russian empire, it was reported today that that Jews in Skivira have been attacked in a pogrom.

1917: Turkish forces began four days of attacks against Allenby’s troops in futile attempt to keep the British forces from Jerusalem.

1917: At Petrograd, “a delegation of Jews appeared at the British Embassy today to express its gratitude for the action of the Entente Allies with reference to Palestine.”

1917: Birthdate of Yhyah Qafih, the native of Sana’a Yemin who was the son of Rabbi David Qafiḥ and the grandson of Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ, making him the third generation of leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and then in Israel.

1918: Birthdate of New Yorker Elliott Pershing Stitzel who gained fame as actor Stephen Elliott.

1918: Felix M. Warburg, the Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Suffers issued a statement tonight explaining why it was necessary “to raise $5,000,000 for Jewish relief” that began “The Jewish civilian populations throughout the war zones have been deprived of the opportunity to be self-supporting” and “the end of the war has not altered their state but has actually accentuated their misery” as can be seen by the fact that “in many countries the Jews will not receive the bread distributed by the government” unless it is done by the Jews themselves.

1918: Birthdate of Victor Elmaleh, the native of Mogador, who imported the first Volkswagens to the United States and “developed $7 billion worth of real estate.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/nyregion/victor-elmaleh-builder-and-entrepreneur-dies-at-95.html?rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article&_r=0

1919: Following the end of WW I, Bulgaria signed The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine which included guarantees of the rights of that country’s Jewish population.

1922: It was reported today that “a committee on local arrangements, composed of the presidents of important synagogues in New York and Brooklyn under the chairmanship of Daniel P. Hays” is already making preparations for the meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations which will be held on January 20, 1923.

1922: It was reported today that last week during the dedication of a memorial tabled to the men of Harlem who died in the World War, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia and Congressman Isaac Siegel spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan – an organization which a large section of the population of New York led by the Catholics and Jews has declared “open warfare against.”

1922: It was reported today that President Harding has not yet appointed Congressman Isaac Siegel who did not seek re-election to the House of Representatives “to one of the vacant judgeships in the local United States District Court.”

1924: In the New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held.  Macey’s was not founded by Jews, but it was two Jews, Isidor and Nathan Straus, who took control of the store in 1896 who turned into what was then “biggest department store in the world.”

1925:  Birthdate of Ernest Wiseman, the English comedian who changed his name to Ernie Wise to further his career as an actor and singer in English music halls.  He was best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, which became an institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.  He passed away in 1999.  Just as in American, English entertainers changed their names to get ahead and like Irving Berlin helped add luster to the Christian’s Christmas.

1925: In Paris Paulette (née Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann gave birth to Claude Lanzemann, the French filmmaker who joined the Resistance at the age of 18 and fought the Nazis and later became “chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.” Lanzmann's most renowned work is the nine-and-a-half hour documentary film Shoah (1985), which is an oral history of the Holocaust, and is broadly considered to be the foremost film on the subject.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/claude-lanzmann-acclaimed-director-of-documentary-shoah-dies-at-92/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=9c99bf4dd6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_05_06_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-9c99bf4dd6-53921877

1925(10^th of Kislev, 5686): Forty three year old Horace Andrew Saks, the son of Andrew and Jennie Sakes and the husband of Dorothy Isabel Sakes passed away today, who along with Bernard Gimbel had created Saks Fifth Avenue in 1924.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/11/28/98842905.pdf

1926: “The Miraculous Mandarin” “a one act pantomime ballet…based on the story by Melchior Lengyel” premiered today in Cologne, Germany where “it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds,”

1928: “Blame for the recent riots at the wailing wall in Jerusalem was placed squarely on the Jewish community in a White paper issued today by the Colonial Office, containing a memorandum on the subject by L.C.M.S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies” that “stated that officials intervened at the wailing wall only after the Jewish worshippers had violated the existing agreement by bringing chairs and benches or screens to the street pavement.”

1932: Today, three Jews were arrested in Lwow following the fatal stabbing of Jat Grotowski who was reported one of “sever youths” who having seen “a group of Jews in a café tried to eject them.”

1933: In Brooklyn, restaurant workers “Al Saperstein and Doris Bergman” gave birth to Burton Saperstein who gained fame as bibliophile Burt Britton. (As reported by James Barron)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/obituaries/burt-britton-a-book-lover-if-ever-there-was-one-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1933: Birthdate of William G. Dever, the native of Louisville, KY who became “an archaeologist specializing  in the history of Israel and the Near East in Biblical times” whose works included What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?

http://www.centuries.co.uk/dever-review.pdf



1933: As Hitler moves to consolidate his control over German society Kraft durch Freude (KdF; Strength through Joy) is established to tie leisure activities of the German Volk (people) to the aims of the Nazi Party.

1933: A transfer company was established today in Tel Aviv to facilitate the immigration of German Jews along with whatever property they are able to bring with them. (Jewish Virtual Library)

1935(1^st of Kislev, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1935(1^st of Kislev, 5696): Sixty-seven year old Louisville, KY native Benjamin Edward Bensinger, the husband of Rose Frank Bensinger,  father of Yale graduate Benjamin Edward Bensinger, Jr. and Benjamin Edward Bensinger III passed away today in Chicago.

1936: Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels declares that film criticism is henceforth banned, freeing the Nazi-controlled German film industry to pursue its own agenda, which includes blatantly anti-Semitic films. During the same period in the United States, Hollywood is self-censored in that it fears dealing with Jewish issues because of the high level of anti-Semitism existing at the time in the United States.

1936: “Born to Dance,” a musical with a script co-authored by Sid Silvers who also played the role of “Gunny” Sacks was released in the United States today.

1936:  In a letter-to-the editor published today, Hendrik Willem Van Loon expressed his appreciation to the New York Times for printing a previous letter in which he “suggested that we do a little cosmic pinch-hitting and erect a statue of Felix Mendelssohn and keep it here until our German friends shall be able to once more to listen to his charming music without getting Aryan jitters. (This was a reference to the Nazi ban on the music of Mendelssohn whose Jewish origins did not spare him from a posthumous form of anti-Semitism)

1937: Opening performance of "Pins & Needles" a pro-labor musical revue produced by ILGWU

1938: Speaking before the National Council of Teachers of English in St. Louis, “Professor Clyde R. Miller of New York, the director of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis said today that America may expect increasing Nazi propaganda to justify the persecution of Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Germany” and that “the object of the Nazi propaganda was to break Americans up into dissenting groups – getting Christians hating Jews, Catholics hating Protestants, natives hating foreign born.”

1938: “Erich Rix, the president of the San Francisco unit of the German American League for Culture announced today that the group had adopted a declaration condemning the Hitler government for a regular pogrom against the Jews.”

1939: In New York, at the Hotel Astor, Dr. Kurt Blumenfeld, president of the German-Jewish Settlers Association in Palestine, Dr. Georg Landauer, head of the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine, Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Palestine Foundation Fund, Charles Ress and Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn addressed tonight’s meeting of the Palestine Foundation, the fiscal arm of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

1939: It was reported today that the rise in the price of stocks in Berlin is due “partly to the continued sales of stocks formerly owned by Jews for the Reich’s accounts” which “were taken in payment from former holders at prices considerably below their present values” and partly in anticipation of the next payment of 200,000,000 marks which the Jews must make in December.

1939: As of today, the new national officers of Junior Hadassah were President Nell Ziff, Vice Presidents Goldie Brenner of Newport News, VA; Sylvia Brody of Akron, Ohio; Claire Gottfried Jacobson of New York; Esther Brody, Brooklyn, NY; Secretary Ernestine Kirschner of New York and Treasurer Dorothy Hines of New York.

1939: George Z Medalie was reported to have “announced that during the upcoming week twenty-seven luncheons, dinners and group meetings” would be held as “part of the program to enlist support for” the 1939 Appeal of the New York and Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities.

1939(15^th of Kislev, 5700): Seventy-six year old Alexander Harkavy, Jewish lexicographer, author and publisher of newspapers in Montreal and Baltimore passed away today at the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9500E3D7143EE432A2575BC2A9679D946894D6CF

http://www.bjpa.org/publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=19362

1939:  It was reported today “that the German plan for the deportation of all Jews within the confines of the Greater Reich foresees the transportation of 150,000 Jews from the Protectorate, 60,000 from Austria, 30,000 from the conquered provinces of Posen and Western Prussia and approximately 200,000 from the old Reich territory to Eastern Poland.”

1941: The Jews were deported from Wuerzburg, Germany.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/09.asp

1941: Friedrich Jeckeln met with the leaders of Protective Police, “a branch of the German Order Police” who would be participating in the upcoming massacre of the Jews in Riga.

1941: The first of 19 trains leaves Germany to resettle thousands of Jews in Riga and Kovno. Yet, 1000 newly resettled German Jews were taken and killed at the same time.

1941: “The Palestine Symphony Orchestra has just announced the results of a competition open to composers in Palestine and the neighboring countries.”  Because of the volume and quality of the entries, four “winners” instead of just one were announced including, a Divertimento for Orchestra by Joseph Huttel, director of European Music at the Egyptian State Broadcasting, Cairo, Overture to a cantata by A. Daus of Tel Aviv, a Symphony of Variations for Soloists and Orchestra by Peter Gradenwitz of Tel Aviv and Fatum, a symphonic poem by J. Wohl of Haifa.

1942: From this date through August 1943 more than 110,000 Poles are expelled from their homes in the fertile Zamosc province so that the area can be resettled by ethnic Germans, SS troops, and Ukrainians. More than 300 villages are affected. Thousands of Polish children are deported from the area to Belzec and other death camps.

1942: Birthdate of poet Marilyn Hacker

1942: On Friday night, Rabbi Harold Saperstein delivered a sermon entitled “What Have We Jews to Be Thankful For?” on the day following Thanksgiving when the condition of American Jewry stood in stark contrast to the news “the papers have given the general public information about what is happening to the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe.”

1943: U.S. premiere of “Old Acquaintance” a comedy-drama directed by Vincent Sherman with music by Franz Waxman.

1943(29^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Parashat Toldot

1943(29^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Fifty-four year old Ukrainian born revolutionary Jacob Golos, a founding member of the CPUSA and spy for the Soviet Union suffered a fatal heart attack today.

http://documentstalk.com/wp/golos-jacob/

1944: In the weekly internal report of the War Refugee Board, it reported that the United States embassy had received from the Spanish Foreign Office: "Official confirmation that appropriate instructions have been sent to the Spanish Legation in Bern to seek the collaboration of the Swiss government in the efforts of the Spanish Embassy in Berlin to obtain the release and transfer to Swiss territory of the group of 155 Sephardic Jews at Camp Bergen Belson."

1944: "The Trial and Punishment of European War Criminals," a report by U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is submitted to President Franklin Roosevelt. 

1944(11th of Kislev, 5705): Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist, passed away.

1944(11^th of Kislev, 5705): Albert Isaac Myers, “the proprietor of Myers & Co.” a bookstore specializing in “rare books, fine prints and choice early maps” who was described by Harold Laski as being “one of the most learned and helpful of booksellers” and whose activities in the Jewish community included serving on the Board of Management of the Dalston Synagogue and the committees for the Jewish Free Reading Room and the Home for Jewish Incurables.

1945: The American League for a Free Palestine, chaired by former Iowa Senator Guy Gillette, sent a telegram to President Harry Truman protesting recent beatings of Jewish displaced persons housed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British military police.  According to the League, an unnamed German had told the British that the Jews planned to protest Ernest Bevin’s recent hostile comments about Palestine. British forces arrested the leader of the Jewish “prisoners’ and reportedly beat several of the women.

1945: In London, former U.S. Senator Guy Gillette, head of the American League for a Free Palestine, held a press conference after meeting with Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin in which he declared “that the United States was ‘thoroughly worked up’ over Palestine” and regarded the situational there as a testing ground for all the principles of Atlantic Charter.

1945: The American League for a Free Palestine submitted a memorandum to the British government calling for action by the Big Five Powers to deal with any violence that the British claim will occur if 100,000 Jews are allowed to immigrate to Palestine.

1946(4^th of Kislev, 5707): Seventy –two year old Rabbi Solly Baron, who escaped to Germany in 1939 and arrived in Halifax in 1945 passed away today in St. Louis.

1947: Thanksgiving in the United States

1947: On Thanksgiving, “the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society fed turkey dinners to fifty children and to 200 newly arrived immigrants” to whom “the significance of Thanksgiving Day in the United States was carefully explained.”

1947: “The Palestine Government’s intention to sell Government land on the Haifa waterfront, which has aroused a storm of protest from the Jewish community” and which Mrs. Golda Myerson has described as “incomprehensible” “was confirmed today in the official Palestine Gazette.

1947: In Prague, Czechoslovakia Franci and Kurt Epstein gave birth to American author Helen Epstein.

http://www.helenepstein.com/

1948: Goldblatt’s a chain of discount stores owned by Nate and Maurice Goldbatt which operated in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, closed its store in Buffalo, NY which had opened in 1941 and had failed to perform at an acceptable leve.

1949: Eighty-six year old William H. King, the Senator from Utah who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews” passed away today.

1950: A rummage sale sponsored by the Jordan Metropolis Chapter of the B’nai B’rith is scheduled to begin today in New York City.

1950: Mrs. Jack Kesselman is scheduled to address today’s meeting of the Jersey City, NJ chapter of Hadassah at the Jersey City Jewish Community Center.

1950:  Films of Europe and Israel are scheduled to be shown at tonight’s meeting of the Kinnereth Business and Professional Group of Hadassah meeting at the Henry Hudson Hotel.

1951: Today thirty year old produer/director Jospeh Papp married Salt Lake City, Utah native, Peggy Marie Bennion who earned an MSW from the Hunter College School of Social Work.

https://www.scribd.com/document/315097496/Family-Therapy-Pioneers-Peggy-Papp

1953(20^th of Kislev, 5714): Seventy-seven year old French playwright Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein the victim of an anti-Semitic riot in 1911 whose play “Dreaming Lips” was made into a movie in 1932 and who spent WW II living at the Waldorf-Astoria passed away today after which he was  buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.

1956: Senator John F. Kennedy addresses the Annual Banquet of Histadrut Zionist Organization, Baltimore, Maryland.

1956: In Amsterdam, Queen Juliana attended the opening performance of Goodrich and Hackett's “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

1956(18^th of Kislev, 5654): Seventy-seven year old muralist Hugo Ballin whose works included a mural at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple that “encircles the main Sanctuary” that tell the story of the Jewish people from Bereshit until the time of its commissioning in 1929.

1956: The Jerusalem Post reported that Jews arriving by plane in Paris 'confirmed that expulsion orders were being issued to Jews in Egypt by the thousands.'



1956: Golda Meir, the Israeli Foreign Minister, "wrote the first of two letters to the UN Secretary General, protesting the 'action taken by the Egyptian Government against the Jewish Community in Egypt.'"



1957: “The Sad Sack” a comedy produced by Hal B. Wallis, starring Jerry Lewis and featuring Peter Lorre was released today in the United States.

1958: Polish born conductor Artur Rodziński passed away. Rodzinski was not Jewish but under the law of unintended consequences, he had major impact on the career of a Jew who was one of the musical icons of the 20^thcentury, Leonard Bernstein.  “Rodzinski said that God told him to hire 24 year old Leonard Bernstein, to be his assistant conductor. In the fall of 1943 Rodzinski decided to take a vacation, spend a little time with his goats, and called in Bruno Walter to conduct seven concerts in ten days. Only hours before one of those concerts (in the program, works by Schumann, Rosza, Strauss and Wagner) Walter fell ill. Rodzinski was only four hours away, in his farm. But he declined to come back to Carnegie Hall: "Call Bernstein. That's why we hired him." The concert was broadcast over radio and a review appeared on page 1 of The New York Times the next day: "Young Aide Leads Philharmonic; Steps in When Bruno Walter is Ill’" And the rest, as they say, is history.

1958(15^th of Kislev, 5719): Seventy-five year old “artist, critic, author” and college professor Walter Pach passed away today at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9500E6D7143DE53BBC4051DFB7678383649EDE

https://www.flickr.com/photos/26746018@N03/3234018815/in/photostream/

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/walter-pach-papers-suppressed-old-digitized-microfilm-9852/more

1958: In Tel Aviv, “theatre actor Shmulik Atzmon” and his wife gave birth to actress and singer Anat Atzmon.

1960: Following the merger of Ohev Sholom and Talmud in 1958, the congregation’s “newly built synagogue building on upper Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, was dedicated” today.

https://www.ostns.org/history

1961: In New York, “Nathan M. Ohrbach, board chairman of Ohrbach’s, Inc. received the insignia of Officer of the French Legion of Honor from the French Consul General.

1962(30th of Cheshvan, 5723): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1962(30^th of Cheshvan 5723): Fifty-one year old photographer Florence Meyer Homolka, the daughter of Eugene Meyer and actor Oskar Homolka, passed away today.

1963: Birthdate of three-time Ophir Award winner Ronit Elkabetz.

1964(22^nd of Kislev, 5725): Seventy-one year old WW I Field Artillery veteran Abram Efroymson, the Indianapolis born son Harry and Hannah (Schiff) Efroymson who was President of the Terminal and Refrigeration Corporation, a leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and the husband of Sylvia Spira with whom he had two children – Alan and John – passed away today.

1964: In Montreal, Dr. Gina Shochat-Rakoff and Dr. Vivian Rakooff gave birth to “prize-winning humorist” David Benjamin Rakoff (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/books/david-rakoff-award-winning-humorist-dies-at-47.html?_r=0

1964: Birthdate of Ophir award winning Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz, the native of Beersheba who oldest four children born “to a religious Moroccan Jewish family originally from Esaaouira.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E2DD123DEF3ABC4051DFB767838D609EDE

1965: “Gamera: The Giant Monster” a horror film featuring Alan Oppenheimer as “Dr. Ctonrare” was released today in Japan.

1967: At news conference today President Charles de Gaulle called Jews “elite people, sure of itself and domineering.”

1968: In Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France, “Eddie Vartan, a Bulgarian-born musician, and Doris (née Pucher) Vartan, a painter and artist gave birth to Franco-American actor Michael Vartan, the nephew of singer Sylvie Vartan.

1969(17^th of Kislev, 5730): In Athens, one Greek child was killed and 13 others were wounded when two Jordanian terrorists attacked the El Al offices with hand grenades.

1972: Release of Free to Be You and Me, the album of non-sexist stories and songs that helped shape the self-understanding and worldview of a generation of children. Letty Cottin Pogrebin was the editorial project consultant for the album as well as the book and television special associated with the project, all of which were created by feminist and actress Marlo Thomas. Free to Be You and Me, which features such songs as “Parents are People” and “It's All Right to Cry,” is still enjoyed by children today. In addition to her work on Free to Be You and Me, Pogrebin was a founding editor of Ms. Magazine. She was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, as well as the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Center for Peace in the Middle East. She wrote the best-selling parenting guide to raising non-sexist children, Growing Up Free: Raising Your Children in the 80s (1980), as well as Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America (1991), Family Politics: Love and Power on an Intimate Frontier (1983), and Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate Journey (1996). Pogrebin recently published her first novel, Three Daughters (2003).

1973:Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in New York City.

1976: “Network” the Paddy Chayefsky written classic directed by Sidney Lumet. Lumet was nominated for an Oscar and Chayefsky won one for his screenplay was released today in the United States.

1978(27th of Cheshvan, 5739):  In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. Milk was Jewish.  Moscone was succeeded by Jewish the head of the Board of Supervisors, Diane Feinstein. Feinstein would go on to be elected to the U.S. Senate where she and fellow Californian Barbara Boxer would become the first Jewish female duo to represent a state in the nation’s Upper Chamber.

1980: ABC broadcast the first episode of “Bosom Buddies,” a sitcom co-starring Wendie Jo Sperber today.

1981: “Ten Out of 10,” “the eighth studio album by 10cc” which marked the first involvement with the band by American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold and was co-produced by Graham Gouldman was released today.

1981: Eighty-three year old singer and actress Lotte Lenyam, the widow of Kurt Weil who although not Jewish herself, left Germany when the Nazis came to power passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/28/obituaries/lotte-lenya-singer-actress-in-us-and-germany-is-dead.html?pagewanted=all

1987(6^th of Kislev, 5748): In Israel, two “internal security agents” were killed today.

1991: The New York Times published a review of Benevolence and Betrayal Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/27/books/books-of-the-times-5-jewish-families-in-fascist-italy-on-both-sides.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1993(13th of Kislev, 5754): Marvin H. Bernstein, a businessman and philanthropist in New York for many years passed away today at the Miami Heart Institute. He was 66 and lived in Miami. Mr. Bernstein was the founder and for 34 years the president of the Variety Knit Corporation of Manhattan, which makes women's clothing and T-shirts. He also founded the Marvin Bernstein Oil Company, a petroleum exploration company with headquarters in Miami. Mr. Bernstein was a fund-raiser for and a contributor to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the Simon Weisenthal Center, Israel Bonds, the Weitzman Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University and other medical and religious groups.

1994(24^th of Kislev, 5755): In the evening, kindle the first Chanukah light

1995: Salah Tarif begins serving as the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs

1995: Uri Or began serving as the Deputy Minister of Defense.

1998: “The Slums of Beverly Hills” a comedy about “a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970s in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months” starring Natasha Lyonne and Alan Arkin and featuring Carl Reiner and Eli Marienthal was released in the United Kingdom today, three months after premiering in the United States.

1999:  The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. In 2005, she opposed a visit by Israeli President Moshe Ktsav because of a dispute surrounding alleged Mossad agents and the issuing of fraudulent passports.

2000: Illusionist Dave Blaine began a stunt called “Frozen In Time” at New York’s Times Square

2001(12^th of Kislev, 5762): Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani was killed three others were injured when a Palestinian terrorist threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

2001(12^th of Kislev, 5762): Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.

2002(22nd of Kislev, 5763): Eighty-nine year old Stanley Black, the conductor and composer born Solomon Schwartz passed away today in London

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/03/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

 2005:  In the topsy-turvy world of Israeli politics, Shimon Peres is seriously considering leaving the Labor Party and joining Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima Party. 

2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom and The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam.

2006: The Times of London reported Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned former KGB agent had just returned from a trip to Israel. A dossier drawn up by Alexander Litvinenko on the Kremlin’s takeover of Yukos, the world’s richest energy giant was turned over to Scotland Yard as police investigate the former KGB spy’s secret dealings with some of Russia’s richest men. It emerged yesterday that Mr. Litvinenko traveled to Israel just weeks before he died to hand over evidence to a Russian billionaire of how agents working for President Putin dealt with his enemies running the Yukos oil company. He passed this information to Leonid Nevzlin, the former second-in-command of Yukos, who fled to Tel Aviv in fear for his life after the Kremlin seized and then sold off the $40 billion (£21 billion) company. Mr. Nevzlin told The Times that it was his “duty” to pass on the file. “Alexander had information on crimes committed with the Russian Government’s direct participation,” he said. There has been more than a whiff of anti-Semitism in Putin’s drive to gain control of Russia.

2006: In New Zealand, John Key became the parliamentary leader of the National Party.

2006: Cartoonist Jules Feiffer began a stint “at the Arizona State University Barret Honors College” today.

2006: Seth Rudetsky starred in “Off-Off-Broadway production of “Torch Song Trilogy” which opened today.

2007: Batsheva Dance choreographer Ohad Naharin premiers his latest work, “Kamuyot” in Stockholm.  The premier will be followed by 100 performances before 20,000 students all over Sweden.  “Kamuyot” can be translated as “numbers of” or “characteristics.”

2007: The scheduled U.S. sponsored meeting of Israelis and Arabs at Annapolis, MD, comes to an end.

2007: YIVO Institute presents The Klezmatics: Up Close in downtown Manhattan.  The Klezmatics perform music drawn from their 2007 Grammy award-winning CD Wonder Wheel – Lyrics by Woody Guthrie, YIVO’s Max and Frieda Weinstein Sound Archives and their vast repertoire.

2007: "Operation: Last Chance” will be formally launched at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Simon Wiesenthal Center's "Operation: Last Chance" is targeted to find and bring to justice at least some of the thousands of Nazis still hiding in South America 62 years after the end of World War II. It will probably be the final major effort to locate and bring to justice Nazis in hiding scattered around the world.

2007: At the end of the Annapolis Conference, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke of the relevance to any future Israeli-Palestinian agreement of the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries after 1948.

2008: As the Thanksgiving weekend begins, Secrets directed by Avi Nesher premiers theatrically in commercial movie theatres. In the 'Secrets', director Avi Nesher skillfully presents the quandaries facing Naomi (Ania Bukstein) the studious, devoutly religious daughter of prominent rabbi, who convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free spirited and equally headstrong fellow student.

2008: During the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Indian army reported that it had secured the Jewish outreach center at Nariman House and liberated 60 people in the building.

2008:  Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar are calling for a mass prayer rally today in the hope that heavenly intervention will stem the global financial crisis.

2008: Final showing at the Jacob Burns Film Center of “One Day You’ll Understand” a film that portrays the reaction of French businessman’s reaction to the televised trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in 1987.

2008: Israeli sculptor Gideon Gechtman, a native of Alexandria, whose family made Aliyah in 1945, passed away today.

http://www.imj.org.il/imagine/collections/results.asp?searchType=simple&words=Gechtman%2C+Gideon&ArtistE=on&Submit2=Search

http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=272639

2008: Idina Menzel performed "I Stand" on the M&M Candies float as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

2009: A man accused of murdering Dutch civilians as a member of a Waffen SS hit squad said at his trial today that he was proud about being chosen to fight for the Nazis. Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October. As part of that SS unit, he is charged with killing a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted. Boere said he remembered his mother waking him up the night in 1940 that Germany invaded his hometown in the Netherlands and seeing Stuka dive-bombers overhead. Instead of fearing the German bombs, Boere, whose father was Dutch and mother German, said his family was elated as the attack unfolded. "[My mother] said 'they're coming' now things will be better," he told the court, speaking animatedly to the panel of judges. "It was better," he added later. Boere was born in Eschweiler, Germany, on the outskirts of Aachen where he lives today, but moved to the Netherlands when he was an infant. After the Germans had overrun his hometown of Maastricht and the rest of the Netherlands, he remembers as an 18-year-old seeing a recruiting poster for the Waffen SS, signed by Heinrich Himmler. It offered German citizenship after two years of service and the possibility of becoming a policeman after that. He showed up with 100 other Dutchmen at the recruitment office and was one of 15 chosen. "I was very proud," Boere told the court in a statement read by his attorney before he answered questions from the presiding judge. After fighting on the Russian front, Boere ended up back in the Netherlands as part of "Silbertanne" - a unit of largely of Dutch SS volunteers responsible for reprisal killings of their countrymen for resistance attacks on collaborators. Boere admitted the three killings to Dutch authorities when he was in captivity after the war but managed to escape from his POW camp and eventually return to Germany. He was sentenced to death in the Netherlands in 1949 - later commuted to life imprisonment - but Boere has managed to avoid jail so far. Still, Boere told the court he was aware of the possibility he would be pursued by authorities, so much so that he never married. "I always had to consider that my past might catch up with me, and I didn't want to inflict that upon a woman," he said in his statement.

2009: A Palestinian terrorist was killed this morning when the IAF struck a Gaza terror cell preparing to fire rockets into Israel, according to the IDF.

2009: The Israeli Black Panthers hosted a special tour of the Musara neighbored in Jerusalem. 

2009: Performance of “Lost in Yonkers” at the DC JCC.

2009: Paul “Godfrey was announced as the chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation” today,

2009: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Noah Thalblum helps to lead Friday Night services as part of his Bar Mitzvah weekend.

2009: Abe Pollin’s funeral service is held at Washington Hebrew Congregation.

2010(20^thof Kislev, 5771) Eighty-seven year old Irvin Kershner - who directed the Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and Robocop 2 – passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30kershner.html



2010(20th of Kislev, 5752): Vilém Flusser a Czech-born Brazilian Jewish philosopher, writer and journalist passed away.

2010: In Michigan, the Young Adult Division of Jewish Federation is scheduled to sponsor the sixth annual Latke Vodka donor thank you event.

2010: A rock was thrown through the back window of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center, which is located on the Indiana campus, today. Earlier in the week, a rock was thrown through the back window of the Chabad Jewish student center located just outside the campus. Bloomington city police and campus police are investigating whether the attacks are related.

2011: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams” by Herbert Leibowitz

2011:Ministerial Committee on Legislation decided today not to back a bill that would limit public access to High Court petitions, sponsored by MKs Danny Danon and Yariv Levin from the Likud.

2011:Prominent Israeli singer Margalit Tzan'ani pleaded guilty on today to extorting her manager, and is expected to be sentenced to several months of community service.

2011: The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2011 includes the following books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers: “The Free World” in which David Bezmozgis overturns clichéd expectations of immigrant idealism in his first novel, which follows a Soviet Jewish family awaiting visas in Rome in 1978; “The Grief of Others” by Leah Hager Cohen;  “Say Her Name” by Francisco Goldman, “Scenes From Village Life” by Amos Oz; “The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World” by Haifa-born physicist David Deutsch; “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India” by Joseph Lelyveld; “In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family Hitler’s Berlin,” Erik Larson’s account of the experiences of William Dodd, F.D.R.’s first ambassador in Nazi Germany; “Jerusalem: The Biography” by Simon Sebag  Montefiore; “The Memory Chalet” by Tony Judt; “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War” by Tony Horwitz; “Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark” by Brian Kellow; “The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World” by Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin; “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by Stephen Greenblatt; “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Israeli born Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman; “A Train Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France” by Caroline Moorehead



2011(1st of Kislev, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Kislev



2012: In Rmallah, the tomb of Yasser Arafat is schedule to be opened as the first step in process intended to determine if he was poisoned.



2012: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a program that will examine ”the Rothschild Baba Kama, an ornate and richly decorated manuscript written in 1721-22 by Anshel Moses Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild dynasty.”



2012: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to present a program that will “explore how the image of a typical Israeli has been depicted in Israeli films from the 1960’s until today.



2012: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, members of the Jewish community are scheduled to meet to discuss ways to further the cause of Israel in the Hawkeye State.



2012: “The National Library of Israel signed contract with Pri-Or to preserve its archive of more than one million images.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-photo-shop-freezes-a-changing-israel-in-its-frames/



2012(13^th of Kislev, 5773): Fifty-eight year old French journalist Érik Izraelewicz “who was the director and editorial executive of Le Monde” passed away today.





2012(13^th of Kislev, 5773): Ninety-five year old “Marvin Miller, an economist and labor leader who became one of the most important figures in baseball history by building the major league players union into a force that revolutionized the game, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.” (As reported by Richard Goldstein)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/sports/baseball/marvin-miller-union-leader-who-changed-baseball-dies-at-95.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=print



2012: The Taub Center released its annual State of the Nation Report for 2011-2012 this morning, which according to the organization, paints “a troubling picture of the way Israeli governments have thus far dealt with Israel’s primary socioeconomic problems.”



2013: In the evening, kindle the first Chanukah candle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/business/media/carve-the-turkey-and-pass-the-latkes-as-holidays-converge.html



2013: Chabad of Talbiya is scheduled to host its third annual Chanukah Menorah Lighting Festival at the entrance to the Mamilla Mall.



2013: The City of  Tel Aviv-Jaffa in collaboration with Heritage Fund for Israel in Tel Aviv are scheduled to host two candle lighting ceremonies – at Culture Square and Rabin Square.



2013: Former State Department official and ambassador Elliott Abrams argued in his Council for Foreign Relations blog today that the language used by the White House to discuss the Iran interim deal was largely “aspirational,” suggesting that much of the touted P5+1 deal with Iran had yet to be hammered out, a contention that appeared to be born out the statements of State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. (As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)



2013: Five teenagers from the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya in East Jerusalem were brought before the Jerusalem District Court today and charged with throwing Molotov cocktails at an IDF base in the capital.  (As reported by Stuart Winer)



2013: The Israel Antiquities Authority and the Netivei Israel Company “invited the public to visit the excavation site Eshtaol” which “includes a six-millennia-old cultic temple and a 10,000 year old house” today.

2014: In England, the chaplains (rabbis) of the Oxford University Jewish Society are scheduled to host “a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner” at their home for which there is a minimal £3 charge.

2014: In Melbourne, “Night Will Fall” and “Above and Beyond” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Festival.

2014: In an address marking the anniversary of the death of David Ben-Gurion, former President Shimon Peres bitterly criticized the “Jewish state” bill today, arguing that the legislation is designed for political gain and damages Israel’s democratic principles (As reported by Marissa Newman)

2014: An IDF fired back at Palestian gunmen inside the Gaza Strip who had opened fire on an IDF patrol operating on the Israeli side of the border fence. (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2014: “Members of a Hamas terror ring in the West Bank, run from the organization’s headquarters in Turkey, sought to carry out an array of major attacks, including on Jerusalem’s main soccer stadium and its light rail line, the Shin Bet security service said today.”

2014(5^th of Kislev, 5775): Seventy-nine year old Paramount Pictures President, Frank Yablans, “who oversaw the release of “The Godfather” and its first sequel and whose writing skills were responsible for bringing one of my favorite sports novels, North Dallas Forty, to the screen passed away today. (As reported by Michael Cieply)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/business/media/frank-yablans-film-executive-dies-at-79.html

2014(5^th of Kislev, 5775): Ninety-four year old Newsweek editor and NBC television executive Lester Bernstein passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/nyregion/lester-bernstein-former-newsweek-editor-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/lester-bernstein-wide-ranging-journalist-who-led-newsweek-dies-at-94/2014/12/02/533361ac-7984-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html

2015: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum offers exhibitions on The Story of Jewish Atlanta, “featuring a collection of 18 carefully selected objects, the Holocaust styled “Absence of Humanity” and for the children “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak In His Own Words & Pictures.”

2015: According to reports published today Israeli diplomate Rami Hatan is preparing to leave for Abu Dhabi where he will open Israel’s first diplomatic mission to the Arab country which will be part of IRENA, the UN’s International Renewable Energy Agency.

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host another concert in its “Excellence of the Future Generation Series.”

2015: Six months after premiering at Cannes and one week after having been released in the United States, “Carol” featuring Carrie Brownstein as “Genevieve Cantrell” was released today in the United Kingdom.

2015(15^th of Kislev): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi (135 - ca. 220 CE), also known as Rabbi Judah the Prince.

2016(26^th of Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-three year old MIT professor Bruce Mazlish, the author of In Search of Nixon: A Psychological Inquiry, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/books/bruce-mazlish-richard-nixon.html?_r=1

http://toynbeeprize.org/blog/bruce-mazlish-a-tribute/

 

2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Where Memory Leads: My Lifeby SaulFriedländer, An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitlerby Peter Fritzsche, The Hostage’s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness and the Middle East by Sulome Anderson and the recently release paperback edition of As Close To Us As Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner as well as an interview with Amos Oz “whose most recent novel is Judas” and Calvin Trillin “on the Scariest Word” in the English language.

2016: “Alone in Berlin” is scheduled to be shown in Canberra as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: In Venice, the Biennale Architettura which has featured an Israeli pavilion since 1952 is scheduled to come to an end today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-venice-biennale-israeli-pavilion-merges-art-and-science/

2017: Dr. Diane M. Sharon is scheduled to present the final session of “Demagogues, Madmen and Cowards: The Failure of Leaders in the Book of Judges”’

2017: Martin Kaufman is scheduled to present the final session of “Judaism’s Ethics Committee” in which he examines “the role of ethics in Judaism through the lens of three highly influential thinkers whose work spans the 16th through 20th centuries: the Maharal of Prague, a towering theologian; Nachman of Breslov, a dynamic Chasidic master; and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, perhaps the greatest philosopher of Halacha of the Modern Era.”

2017: In the United Kingdom, the Chief Rabbi is scheduled to visit Oxford where he will speak to a student only audience, followed by the meal sponsored by the Oxford University Jewish Society and concluding with a session that is open to the entire community.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Bernard Lewis whose works included “Semites and Anti-Semites” and “The Muslim Discovery of Europe” continues today.

2018: Barbara Feller, a pillar of the Jewish community, is scheduled to read from her new publication Road to Waubeek at the Marion Public Library.

2018: In keeping with the Jewish tradition of “lifetime learning,” Yaffe Kaye is scheduled to offer another class in “Beginning Hebrew.”

2018: After week, an International Jewish Festival for Contemporary Culture that has featured such performers “Erez Lev-Ari and The Suits doing Ari San” is scheduled to come to an end today in Jerusalem

2018: As Americans are preparing to take part in Giving Tuesday, United Synagogue Youth has set up its fundraiser, #IAmUSY.

2018: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the History Center, as part of its “Oral Histories Live!” series, is scheduled to host an evening with “almost centenarian” Herman Ginsberg whose family has been the jewelry business for almost one hundred while also being pillars of the Jewish community.

2018(19^thof Kislev, 5779): On the Jewish calendar, “yahrtzeit of the Maggid of Mezrech (1710-1772), the successor of the Baal Shem Tov, who consolidated chassidic teachings into a structured, cohesive movement.” (As reported by aish.com)

2018(19^thof Kislev, 5779): Chasidim and “friends of Chasidim” celebrated “Yud-Tet Kislev – Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism that commemorates the release of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe and founder of Chabad-Lubavitch  from his 53 days of imprisonment “in the Peter-Paul fortress in St. Petersburg.”

2019: The Saatchi Synagogue in St. John’s Wood, London, is scheduled to host “an international panel awareness event on” “Mental Health in the Jewish Community: Facing the Challenge Together.”

2019: Israelis brace for another rocket barrage from Gaza and more demonstrations held in response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call for his supporters to take to the streets.

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1058: Casmir I the Restorer who was “the de jure monarch of Poland starting in 1034” during whose reign there were Jews living in the capital city of Gniezno passed away today.

1095: On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appointed bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land. The call for the Crusade is based, in part, on false reports of atrocities committed by Muslims against Christian pilgrims.  The Crusades, which will begin in the following year, mark a dark chapter in Jewish history as those marching under the Sign of the Cross sack Jewish settlements in Europe and later slaughter Jews living in Eretz Israel.

1598: “In the archives of the city of Amsterdam, probably the oldest date dealing with Portuguese Jews is today, when there was entered in the "Puyboek," v. 22b, the announcement of the intended marriage of Manuel Lopez Homé and the above-mentioned Maria Nuñez”

1660: At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. A British physician named Isaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1727, making him the first Jew to be so honored.

1680: Seventy-eight year old “Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher” who “found the best evidence of the Hebrew-first theory in the simplicity of the language’s triconsonantal roots” passed away today

1744: Frederick the Great took Prague in the Wars of Succession and the populace ransacked the ghetto. He soon left and the Croats returned. They accused the Jews of treason and again their quarters were sacked. A few weeks later (December 18 and January 7) Empress Maria Theresa banished all the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia. Due to the protests of the Jews and the governments of England and Holland, the decree was dropped everywhere but in Prague.

1752: Lisbon native Isaac Mendes Seixas and London born Rachel Franks Levy, gave birth to Grace Mendes Seixas, the wife of Simon Nathan and the mother of “Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan.”

1755(24h of Kislev, 5516): In the evening, Kindle the first Chanukah Light, at a time when Jews in New York are embroiled in clash between Solomon Hays and Congregation Shearith Israel.

1757: Birthdate of William Blake, English poet, painter and printmaker. Controversy surrounds Blake’s grasp of Jewish mysticism. It seems pretty clear that Blake’s art and writing invoke Kabbalah, but scholars debate how Blake accessed the Jewish mystical concepts he quoted. Some argue that the dozen or so Hebrew inscriptions in Blake’s etchings and watercolors show that Blake was fluent in Hebrew. But close analysis of the works, some of which are on exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum, reveals that Blake had not even mastered the letter alef. Reading Kabbalah in Hebrew without knowing the first letter of the alef-bet would be as implausible as tackling “Finnegans Wake” with barely a grasp of the English alphabet. Arguments that Blake knew Hebrew date back to Frederick Tatham, who cared for Catherine after Blake’s death in 1827. In a letter to bookseller Frances Harvey, Tatham said that Blake’s library included “well thumbed” books in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Italian, as well as works by Swedenborg and Christian mystic Jacob Boehme. “His knowledge was immense, his industry beyond parallel,” Tatham wrote. Modern scholars echo Tatham’s claim. Writing in the journal Modern Philology in 1951, David V. Erdman ascribed “some Hebrew” to Blake, particularly the knowledge that beth-lehem means “house of bread.” “We know that Blake knew a little Hebrew,” Anthony Blunt agreed, writing in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes in 1943, “for he wrote to his brother in 1803 that he was learning the Hebrew alphabet, and his etching of the Laocoön [a copy of the sculpture “Laocoön and His Sons”] bears a few words in Hebrew script.” In his book “The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (The Davies Group, Publishers, 2000), Thomas J. J. Altizer suggests not only that Blake knew Hebrew, but also that he was self-taught. But the work that Blunt cites as proof of Blake’s proficiency in Hebrew, “Laocoön” — a circa 1820 print depicting snakes strangling the famous Trojan priest and his two sons — is one of the best pieces of evidence that Blake did not know Hebrew. Writing “malakh Jehovah,” which he translated as “The Angel of the Divine Presence,” Blake inadvertently rotated the alef 90 degrees on its y-axis. He spelled “Lilit” (Lilith) correctly, but he miswrote “Jeshua” (Jesus) with another rotated letter, this time an ayin (the 16th letter). “Laocoön” does not appear in the Morgan show, but an etching from Blake’s Job series does. In an etching from Blake’s Job series, the artist again wrote “The Angel of the Divine Presence,” but this time he wrote the Hebrew “melekh Jehovah,” which means King Jehovah, rather than malakh (with an alef), the Angel of Jehovah. In “William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job,” S. Foster Damon says that Blake intentionally removed the alef to show that Job was worshipping a false God — mistaking an angel for the king. But could Blake really have known enough Hebrew to distinguish between “melekh” and “malakh,” when he revealed in “Laocoön” that he didn’t even know how to form the letter properly?  “Job’s Evil Dreams,” features a bearded figure with hooves encircled by a snake. The figure hovers above a reclining man and points with its right index finger to the Ten Commandments. Though Blake wrote out only two of the commandments in full, the inscriptions contain more than a dozen mistakes. One line contains a properly and an improperly formed alef, a further inconsistency suggesting that Blake was copying a language he did not understand. “Blake did study Hebrew with his one-time patron, William Hayley, but scholars are not agreed about his proficiency in the language,” explained Leslie Tannenbaum, associate professor of English at Ohio State University and author of “Biblical Tradition in William Blake’s Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art” (Princeton University Press, 1982). According to Tannenbaum, the late Gerald Bentley, a Blake scholar who taught at Princeton University, implied in a biography that Blake was “fairly fluent” in Hebrew. But Tannenbaum also notes that Sheila A. Spector, whom he describes as “an extremely meticulous scholar and expert on Blake and the Kabbalah,” writes that Blake did not know the biblical language.In Blake’s preface to the chapter “To the Jews,” from the poem “Jerusalem,” Tannenbaum sees references to the kabbalistic concept of Adam Kadmon (the primordial man). Blake learned Kabbalah from Swedenborg’s writings on Boehme, who seems to have been influenced by Balthasar Walther, Tannenbaum adds, and Blake also identified with the Avignon Society, which sought science and reason “in such unlikely places as alchemical lore, cabbalistic numerology, mesmerist séances, Swedenborgian spiritualism, and (perhaps most surprising of all) the Scriptures.” In “Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake’s Kabbalistic Myth” (Bucknell University Press, 2001) Spector, an adjunct associate professor at New York University, agrees that Blake’s kabbalistic sources were Christian rather than Jewish, and English rather than Hebrew. Further, Blake was “unfortunately” influenced by his contemporary Anglo-Israelites, who thought that English derived from Hebrew “and that the language of the Jews was a spurious version in which the rabbis obscured the ‘true Christian’ message to be found in the Bible,” Spector said.“Under the circumstances, the question of whether or not Blake was fluent in Hebrew misses the point,” she added. “He rejected normative Hebrew in favor of the linguistic gymnastics that re-interpreted words to conform with some eccentric – to be charitable – interpretations that coordinated Hebrew and English, as well as Greek, etymologies to proffer a new interpretation of Scripture.” (As reported by Menachem Wecker)

1763: Ester Alvares and Bordeau native Daniel Nones gave birth to Isaac Nones.

1791: One day after he had passed away, Levi Levy, the son of Barnet Levi and Esther Elias was buried today at the “Falmouth Jewish Cemetery.

1809: Solomon Emanuel, Reuben Cantor and Anhalt Cothn became citizens of the United States today.

1810: Noah Davis married Catherine Levy at the Great Synagogue today.

1816(8^th of Kislev, 5577): Eighty-six year old Benjamin D’Israeli, the Italian born Anglo-Jewish merchant who was the grandfather of the British Prime Minister of the same name passed away today.

1822: Ezekiel Moss married Elizabeth Moses at the Great Synagogue today.

1825: In Münster (Westphalia), Elias Marks and Alexander Grove Village founded The Marks Grove Village Foundation which funded programs to help train Jewish children and integrate them into German society.

1827 (9th of Kislev, 5588): On the secular calendar Dov Baer Schneersohn passed away.  Dov Ber succeeded his father Shneur Zalman of Lyady as the second Lubavitcher Rebbe.  Shneur Zalman was the found of Chabad, Dov Baer was known as the “Middle Rabbi” because he came between Shneur Zalman and the third Rebbe Menachem Mendel known as the Zemen Zedek.   Among other things, Dov Baer was responsible for starting a Chabad settlement in Hebron in 1823. In 1826, Dov Baer was imprisoned by the Czar on trumped up charges of sending money to support the Sultan of Turkey.  He was released on the tenth of Kislev which has been a day of celebration among Lubavitchers ever since.  “The only way of converting darkness into light is by giving to the poor.”  “Every act of kindness that God performs for man should make him feel not proud, but more humble and unworthy.”  

1827: Aaron Harris married Martha Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.

1829: Birthdate of composer Anton Rubinstein. Rubinstein was quite a widely performed composer in his lifetime, but following his death, his works were largely ignored. Some have suggested that this was due to the anti-Semitism prevalent at that time in Germany, the musical hub of Europe.

1831: Birthdate of John William Mackay, the Irish born American industrialist and one of the four Silver Kings of the Comstock Lode who was greatly upset when in 1890 he was erroneously accused of “despising Jews.”

1839: According to a report issued today by the Ministry of the Interior, Joseph Friedlander was the only Jew living in Saxon outside of Dresden or Leipzig.

1839: Birthdate of Jacob Moser, the scion of the only Jewish family in Kappeln, Schlewsig who was educated in Hamburg before moving to “Bradford in 1862 where he became a wealthy woolen manufacture and exporter as well as leading member of the Anglo-Jewish community and active Zionist who among other things supported the Jewish hospitals in Leeds and Manchester as well as contributing the funds to build the Herzlia Gymnasium in Jaffa while being married to “his beloved wife,” the former Florence Julia Cohen.

1842(25^th of Kislev, 5603): Chanukah

1856: Two days he had passed away, Moses Jacobs, the son of Henry Jacobs and Kitty Moses and the husband of Sarah Levy who with he had had five children, was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.

1860: Two days after she had passes away “Joseph, Rebecca (nee Hyams),” the wife of Samuel Joseph with whom she had had eight children was buried at “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1862: During the Civil War, after volunteering for duty, Theodore Minis Etting “received the appointment of acting Midshipman” today in the United States Navy.

1863:Thanksgiving was first observed as a regular American holiday. Proclaimed by President Lincoln the previous month, it was declared that the event would be observed annually, on the fourth Thursday in November.  While Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, it has it origins in the Bible.  The Pilgrims were students of what they called The Old Testament.  When they had enjoyed their first successful harvest at Plymouth, they looked to scripture for a way to express their joy.  They found the answer in the holiday of Sukkoth – a celebration of in-gathering; a celebration of thanks that took place after the harvest was completed.  There are reports that the first Thanksgiving was a week-long affair but I would avoid making any claim that this was intended to mirror the seven days of Sukkoth. 

1864: During the Civil War, Major Alfred Mordechai, Jr. was named Chief of Ordinance for the Union Army’s Department of the Cumberland.

1866: In Germany Heinrich and Regina Sedel Schafnner gave birth to Morris Schaffner who settled in Erie, PA where he was a member of the Fire Commission, a member of the Jewish Welfare Board and a supporter of B’nai B’rith’s Home for Friendless Children.

1865: In Troy, NY “Bennett and Pauline (Spero) Marks gave birth to music publisher and “member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Council for Coordination Industy, Edward Bennet Marks, the husband of Miriam Chuck with whom he had three children

1873: Birthdate of Louis Ginzberg, the native of Kovno, Lithuania who became a noted Talmudist, as a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a leader of the Conservative Movement in the United States for half a century.

1873: Birthdate of Lehmann (Leo) Katzenberger, the owner of several shoe shops in Nuremberg who guillotined by the Nazis for allegedly having an affair with an Aryan woman.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007908

 1873 “The Laundry Business” published today traced the history of laundering clothes from ancient to modern times reported that “the ancient Jews had great regard for cleanliness.  They never sat down to a meal or said a prayer without first washing their hands, and it is only fair to presume that a people who would be so particular in keeping their goodies clean would not be behind in keeping their garments equally spotless and free from taint, the more particularly as among these ancients white garments were the emblems of purity and holiness.

1874: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association hosted a musical and literary entertainment this evening at Number 112, West 21^st Street in Manhattan.

1874: Rabbi Schneerson, an American citizen in Palestine, was attacked by a group of Jews at Tiberias. After robbing him, he was imprisoned, stoned, stripped naked and ridden through the streets, barely escaping with his life.

1878: A theatrical review published today shows the changing view of the Jew, at least in the theatrical community.  Unlike his famous predecessors, the great tragedian Edwin Booth portrays Shylock as man “of well and keen perception.”  “A certain class of critics” now seek Shylock “as a species of hero and martyr who is more worthy of our sympathy and pit than our contempt.”

1879: In Rochester, NY, Levi Adler and his wife gave birth to Harvard graduate Mortimer Adler, a vice president and co-founder of Levy brother, a leading clothing manufacturer and a present of Congregation B’rith Kodesh who was the husband of “the former Ida Lichtenstein” and the father of Robert, Ruth and Frances Adler.

1880(25^th of Kislev, 5641): First Day of Chanukah

1880: It was reported today that meetings instigated by the anti-Semitic party are being held in Leipzig.

1880: It was reported today that the police have torn down placards in south-eastern Berlin “directly inciting the inhabitants to persecute the Jews.”

1881: New York Congressman Samuel S. Cox returned from his visit to Palestine today on board of the SS Republic. (Four years later Cox resigned his seat in Congress to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, replace Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur, the novel with the Jewish prince as its protagonist.)

1881: The articles of incorporation for the Hebrew Society for the Improvement of the Sanitary Condition of the Poor were filed in the County Clerk’s office today.

1881: “Aid For Hebrew Immigrants” published today described efforts to meet the rising and growing tide of Jewish immigrants Russia.  Leading Jewish citizens in New York have agreed to organize the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society which will be incorporated under the laws of New York State.  Jacob Schiff publicly expressed his opposition to the formation of the group, but most of his co-religionists including Charles L. Bernheim, Jacob Seligman and Frederick Nathan overcame his objections. Baron Maurice de Hirsch has pledged a million pounds to support the efforts of the society to assist in the establishment of agricultural “colonies” which will provide homes and a livelihood for the immigrants.

1881:  Birthdate of Austrian Stefan Zweig.  Although barely known today, in his time he was a noted poet, essayist and dramatist.  Although he was an assimilated Jew, he could see that Austria was no place for Jews and he fled the country in 1934.  Sadly, he and his wife committed suicide in Brazil in 1942.  They had come to the conclusion that the life was no longer worth living in a world that was spinning a downward spiral.

1883(28^th of Cheshvan, 5644): “Russian Hebraist and author Mordecai Plugian” who was “a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe” passed away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15875.html

1883: It was reported today that “Sir Moses Montefiore is the first Jews that was ever elected to be Sherriff of London.  He was chosen a few days after the succession of Queen Victoria and received the honor of Knighthood at the hands of her Majesty when she visited the city on the following Lord Mayors’ Day.”

1884: “Hittite Inscriptions” published today provided a detailed review of The Empire of the Hittites by William Wright who contends that these ancient people were contemporaries of the ancient Israelites and were involved in the story of their enslavement in Egypt.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F02E4D81038E033A2575BC2A9679D94659FD7CF

1884: Birthdate of Olean, NY native Benjamin M. Marcus the Columbia University trained “oil company executive.”

1884: It was reported today that Reverend Charles H. Eaton has told his congregation that “the sentiment of the Hebrew song sung at the Feasts of Tabernacles” has now come “naturally to our lips upon our Thanksgiving Day.” (Editor’s note – Nice to see that a 19^th century Christian source acknowledge the Jewish origins of our most popular secular holiday)

1885: It was reported today that much to the surprise of her family, Mamie Curran, a Catholic girl, has secretly married a Jewish suitor, John Cohen.  Her father, Edward Curran, is so distraught over the news that he has gone to his room which is over a local saloon and his refused to leave it.

1886(1^st of Kislev, 5647): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1887: It was reported today that German-Jewish author and historian Jacob Auerbach has passed away.

1887: It was reported today that Daniel Greenleaf Thompson has dedicated his latest book, The Religious Sentiments of the Mind, to “my friend and partner, Oscar S. Straus…”  Straus was a leading figure in the American Jewish community who served as U.S Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

1888(24^th of Kislev, 5649): In the evening, kindle the first light of Chanukah on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  This will not happen again until 2013.

1888: Baron Hirsch has made a donation of $5,000,000 for schools for Jews in Galicia and Bukovina

1888: In New York, police began looking for Yetta Reiner, and 18 year old girl who has been in this country for two weeks and has been reported as missing.

1888: Mrs. Julia Lind challenged the will of her late mother Jettie Lissauer, a Jewess who passed away in December of 1887.

1888: Today the cornerstone was laid for the new home of the Progress Club was had been designed the Jewish architect Alfred Zucker who was a native of Silesia.

1889: Two hundred and fifty-eight children who attend the Industrial and Sunday Schools sponsored by the United Hebrew Charities will be eating Thanksgiving dinner today at St. Mark’s Place in New York City.

1889: The Conference of the Civic, Commercial, Industrial and Educational Bodies will present a silk banner to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society as its annual Thanksgiving festival today at 3 p.m.

1889: Samuel D. Levy celebrated his birthday today by sending a box of candy to each of the children who attend the schools sponsored by the United Hebrew Charities.

1889: The Washington Centennial Committee presented a banner to the youngsters at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in recognition of their “excellent marching in the civic parade” that had been held last Spring. Charles Freund accepted the banner on behalf of his schoolmates.  General William T. Sherman spoke to the boys complimenting them on their drilling.

1889: The cornerstone of the new Temple that will be used by Congregation Zichron Ephraim was laid this afternoon on 67^th Street between Lexington and Third avenues.

1890: Herman Kertscher is under arrest following the accident at yesterday’s annual parade of the boys at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.  While driving his wagon, his horse crashed into the parade seriously injuring two boys.  Kertscher “made no effort to stop his horse either before or after the accident.

1890: A day following the national holiday, Temple Israel of Harlem will host a Thanksgiving Service where the topic of the sermon will be “The Ethics of Gratitude.”

1891: Today’s review of “Pauline Blanchard” which opened at the Standard Theatre in New York described the theme of the play as “well-worn” and “familiar” but praises the performance of Sarah Bernhardt in the title role saying that her “genius elevates this role” and that “her acting was incomparably fine and eloquent…played with all of her energy.”

1891: Birthdate of Berlin born physician Max Pinner who in 1928 became a naturalized citizen of the United States where served on the staff of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Chicago and the faculty of the University of Illinois

http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/max-pinner-1891-1948/

1892: Engineer George Franjieh presented his plans for a tramway in Jaffa.  The plan, like his one for a new water supply system to Jerusalem, we rejected.

1892: Baron Hirsch was wounded in the hands and forearm by the explosion of his gun while hunting at Acheres in France.



1892: The French government was confronted by a demand that the coffin of Baron Reinach be exhumed amid rumors that his death was a sham and that the coffin does not contain his body.



1893: The Berlin Verein Zur Abwehr Des Anti-Semitismus, a Society to Combat Anti-Semitism, held its first general meeting today under the leadership of Rudolf Geniest, Heinrich Rickert and Theodor Barth at which it was reported that it had 13,33i members in 963 localities



1893: “New Bill At The Theatres” published a review of the “Merchant of Venice” which found Henry Irving’s portrayal of Shylock to be “fine, subtle, thoughtful” but not his greatest work since “he reached the zenith of his powers some time ago.”  (Irving was one of those who had made a career playing the Jewish banker, providing at one time, a powerful interpretation.)  As in so many earlier productions, Ellen Terry played Portia to Irving’s Shylock.



1894: “Russian Jews Forgive Russia” published today described a strange ceremony where 400 Jews having attended a memorial service for the late Czar in Paris swore allegiance to his successor, Nicholas II “in the presence of the Russian Consul and the secretary of the Russian Embassy.”



1894: General Mercier, the French Minister of War “declared in an interview with Le Figaro that Dreyfus’ guilt was ‘absolutely certain.’”



1895: Three hundred and fifty young ladies attended the Thanksgiving Day Dinner hosted by the Girl’s Industrial School of the United Hebrew Charities at St. Marks Place.



1895: Registrar Ferdinand Levy delivered a speech at the Thanksgiving Service held at the synagogue at 115 East 86^th Street entitled “The Jews as a Citizen and Patriot.”



1895: Rabbi Silverman delivered a sermon at the Temple Emanu-El Thanksgiving Service entitled “The Ethics of American Patriotism.”



1895: Rabbis Mendes and Harris will speak at the West End Synagogue Thanksgiving Service to which The Young Men’s Hebrew Association and members of Temple Israel of Harlem have been invited.



1895: Half a dozen Jews including Rabbi Isaac Blankfort “rushed into the Madison Street (Police) State” tonight “and said that two loafers had assaulted them and pulled their beards on East Broadway.”  The police went out and arrested the two after they saw them “striking at every Jew they passed.”



1896: According to reports published, the Tenth Ward of New York, in spite of its being the most densely crowded area of its size in the world” has “a remarkably low rate” because “its population consisted largely of Hebrews, who were the first race in the world that learned the secret of the ‘length of days’ and have known what not to eat ever since the adoption of the Levitical codes, three or four thousand years ago.

1896: In New York City, Solomon Edman, “a shirt manufacturer” and Ricka Sklower Edman, gave birth to Irwin Edman, the Columbia University Phi Beta Kappa undergraduate who earned his PhD from Columbia where he spent his academic career rising to chair of the philosophy department in 1945.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/09/06/84133208.pdf





1897: In Paris, “Le Figaro published a letter informing the public about the belief that Esterhazay was the doorway to France and its army.”  (By doorway, they meant that Esterhazy and not Drefyfus was the spy selling French military secrets to the Germans)



1897: Three days after she had passed away, Leah Coleman, the daughter of “Julia and Israel Coleman” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”





1898: In Chicago, opening of a charity fair bazaar sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Charity Association the proceeds of which will split evening between Michael Reese Hospital and United Hebrew Charities.





1898: “Jewish Agrarian Colony In Bessarabia Russia” published today descried a law that “has just been promulgated in St. Petersburg for the establishment of a Hebrew agrarian colony on the estate of Baron Horace Guenzburg…which covers about 1,350 acres.”

1899:





1899: At Petach Tikva, Taub (Yona) Margalit, the Bialystok born daughter of Elijah and Sara Golda Bloch, and her husband Moshe Dov Bear Margalit gave birth to Sara Margalit who became Sarah Mirkin when she married Moshe Arie Mirkin.





1902: In Berlin, Gertrude Sternberg, who was Jewish, and Dr. Oscar Jolles gave birth to Heinz-Frederic Jolles who gained fame as pianist and composer Henry Jolles.





1900: Birthdate of Erich Klibansky, the native of Frankfurt am Main, husband of Meta David with whom he had three sons: “Hans-Raphael, Alexander and Michael” and “headmaster and teacher of Jawne, the first Jewish Gymnasium of Rhineland in Cologne” who was murdered by the Nazis in the woods in Minks.



1903(9^thof Kislev, 5664): Sixty-five year old Jules Levy, “the most celebrated cornetist of the 19^th century, passed away today.

http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/levy/



1903: Birthdate of Portland, OR, native Maurice Edward Dorfman, the hold of an “A.B. from Reed College” who went on to graduate school at the University of California and then worked as a “research chemist with Midway Gas Company.

1905: Sinn Fein founded today based on the vision of Arthur Griffith whose disciples included Michael Noyk the Lithuanian born Irish-Jewish lawyer who joined shortly after the “Easter Rising.”

1905: In a letter from U.S. Ambassador White of Morocco to the Algeciras Conference, he stated, "Concurrent testimony positively affirms the intolerance of the Mohammedan rule in that country toward non-Musselmans….Jews, especially, appear to suffer from painful and injurious restrictions."

1905: Four thousand Jews attended a meeting tonight in Berlin “to protest against the massacres in Russia.”

1905: It was reported today that $895, 225 has been raised by the national committee collecting funds for the relief of the Jews in Russia $103 from the “Jews of Decatur, Alabama, $50 from Congregation Emanuel, Talladega, Alabama, $395 from Congregation B’nai Israel, Monroe, Louisiana and $106 from Congregation B’nai Jacob, Charleston, West Virginia.”

1905: It was reported that “uprising against the Jews” have taken place in Bahmut, Luhgantz, Marianople Ghenitchesk and Ekaterinoslav.”

1905: Isidor Straus, the President of the Educational Alliance, presided over a meeting of fifty business and professional men at his home to discuss the future of the organization.

1905: Seventeen year old Boris Gorb, a Russian Jew “who recently arrived in New York after escaping from the Uligani in Ekaterinoslave received a letter” today “from one of his brothers…informing him that that their father, Simon Gorb had been mortally wounding in defending their 15 year old sister Dora” and after reading it fainted while in the presence of Isador Bader, the agent of the United Hebrew Charities at the Immigrants’ Home on Montgomery Street where he has been staying.

1907:  In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theater.  From these humble beginnings would come the famed studio MGM.

1907: At Birmingham, The Tennessee Volunteers coached by Izzy Levene lost the final game of the season to the University of Alabama leaving them with an over-all record of 7-2-1.

1908:  Birthdate of Claude Levi-Strauss. Born in Belgium, Claude Levi-Strauss was the son of an artist, and a member of an intellectual French Jewish family.  He was a popular French anthropologist most well-known for his development of structural anthropology.

1909(15^th of Kislev, 5670): Jossel Schafir passed away today.

1910: In Brooklyn, Alter Abelson, a rabbi and poet, and of Anna Schwartz Abelson, a writer of short stories gave birth to Lionel Abel who won an Obie for his tragedy “Absalom.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/25/arts/lionel-abel-90-playwright-and-essayist.html

1912: In Chicago, The Lenora Sewing Club which meets and sews every Thursday at Temple Sholem will not meet today because it is Thanksgiving.

1912: The Haymarket is scheduled to host another evening of Yiddish Theatre which may include “Every Woman,” “Madame X” or “The Jewish Crown.”

1912: “The annual ball of the B’nai Abraham Auxiliary whose officers are Charles D. Kaufman, President, Rose F. Ehrman, Financial Secretary and Clara C. Weil, Recording Secretary, is scheduled to be held “in the Louis XVI Room of the Hotel Sherman

1912: Birthdate of Morris Louis.  Born Morris Louis Bernstein, Louis became one of America’s leading abstract expressionist painters before his untimely death at the age of 49.

1913(28^th of Cheshvan, 5674): Eighty-six year old Isaac Greensfelder, “the grand old man” of the Jewish people of Chicago and the founder “of the Associated Charities” passed away today in Chicago.

1914: It was reported today that Lemberg, a major city in Galicia which the Russian have captured from the Austrians has a population of 30,000 Jews, 50,000 Roman Catholics and 15,000 Greek Orthodox.

1914: “Palestine for the Jews” published today includes Israel Zangwill’s response to the following inquiry addressed to him by H.G. Wells: “And now what is to prevent the Jews having Palestine and restoring a real Judea?”

1914: William Jessup Hand, an attorney, writes from Scranton, PA that “it is plan that Leo Frank was denied…the highest and most vitally essential right of every person: a fair and impartial trial.

1914: “It was learned today that when counsel for Leo M. Frank asks leave of the Supreme Court of the United States on November 30 to file a petition for a writ of error a brief will be presented at the same time” due to the rules of procedure governing appeals of this sort.

1915: It was reported today that “$30,000,000 will be needed to rehabilitate the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and to save the families, many of whom are dying of starvation.”

1915: Rabbi Herbert Goldstein and Commissioner of Education Joseph Barondess were among the speakers at today’s dedication of the new facility belong to the Jewish Day Nursery.

1915: “Seventy-five fatherless children…romped in a sunny playground at the new nursery” operated by the Harlem branch of the Jewish Day Nursery which opened today 61 East 107^thStreet.

1915: The Bronx Relief Committee of the People’s Relief Committee for the Jewish Sufferers has divided the borough into 500 districts in which 1,500 volunteers are scheduled to sell tags during today’s fund raiser.

1915: It was reported today that the Dr. Julius Weiss will be presiding over the upcoming service sponsored by the Federation of Rumanian Jews of America to honor the memory of the late Professor Solomon Schechter.

1915: “A History of the Jews of Russia and Poland” published today provides a review of The Jews of Russia and Poland by Israel Friedlander in which the reviewer says the author “sketches a sympathetic yet faithful and carefully objective history of Jews of Russia and Poland lands which not harbor in their inhospitable and storm-tossed midst half the Jews of the world and upon whose mercies, in the future even as in the long pain-racked past, the fate of the Jews in the Diaspora must ever chiefly depend.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F03E0DB153BE233A2575BC2A9679D946496D6CF

1916: “Word that the Turkish Government has rescinded its previous agreement to allow several hundred Americans to leave the Turkish Empire via Jaffa reached the State Department” in Washington “today from Ambassador Elkus at Constantinople.”

1916: In Memphis, TN Josef Kalusner, the Hungarian born son of Chaim and Chana Klausner and Tillie Klausner, the Polish born daughter of Arron and Miriam Bienenstock, gave birth to David Klausner

1916: “Prominent Jews from all over the country attended a dinner at the Hotel Savoy honoring philanthropist and statesman Simon Wolfe who “for more than fifty has been the representative in Washington of American Jewry” on his 80th birthday.

1916: Screenwriter Samuel Ornitz and his wife gave birth to cinematographer Arthur J. Ornitz who directed “Wanted – A Master” which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

1916: It was reported today that George Gothein, a Jewish member of the Reichstag, expressed the view that “it might not be advisable to grant the High Council” which is the highest Jewish authority in Poland “unlimited self-government at once” since the German government has only recently taken full control of the area from the Russians.

1917(13^th of Kislev, 5678): Sixty-two year old German lexicographer Emil Levy whose son Frederich would die in a concentration camp, passed away today.

1917: Former President William H. Taft was among those who attended the production of “On the Road to Victory” which was under the direction of Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff was part of Jewish Relief Day, a fundraiser for the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for Jewish War Relief.

1917:Sigmund Romberg’s revue "Over the Top," premiered in New York City.

1917: Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev, a physician and leader of the Kadets (Constitutional Democrat Party) who in March of 1916 took the unusual position of defending the Jews against charges of destroying the war effort, was arrested today by the Bolsheviks and “imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress” today.

1917: In London, General F.B. Maurice, Chief Director of Military Operations at the War Office said “Our troops are now in sight of Jerusalem but the Turks have had time to get up reserves and make a stand and it is problem that Jerusalem will not fall without another definite battle.

1917: The Ottoman forces continued to re-take the village of Nebi Samwil (Tomb of Samuel) which the British had conquered after a week of hard fighting as they continued their campaign to take Jerusalem.

1918(24^th of Kislev, 5679): Thanksgiving feast is followed in the evening by the kindling the first light of Chanukah.

1918: On Thanksgiving, Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow is scheduled “to take part in services at a large Synagogue” in Paris.

1918: With Lou Mervis playing tackle, the U. of Pittsburgh Panthers defeated Penn St. at Forbes Field.

1918: The Jewish Guardian reported that on the first anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) declared, “Speaking entirely as a non-Jew, I look on the Jews as the natural importers of western leaven so necessary for countries of the Near East.”

1918: Eighteen days after crossing the border into Holland, Kaiser Wilhelm II who blamed the Jews for his defeat and who would send telegrams of praise to Hitler following his victories “issued a belated statement of abdication from both the Prussian and imperial thrones, thus formally ending the Hohenzollerns' 400-year rule over Prussia.”

1919: Birthdate of Faye Schulman, the Lenin born photographer who was one of only 26 people spared by the Nazis when they slaughtered the Jews of town including her parents, sisters and younger brother. They did not kill her because they wanted her to develop their pictures of the massacre

http://www.jewishpartisans.org/t_switch.php?pageName=mini+bio+short+bio+2&fromSomeone=&parnum=56

1920: Pianist and composer Mana-Zuca is scheduled to perform an original composition which will be heard in New York in the Hippodrome.

1922: “The Russian delegation arrived in Lusanne” where negotiations had already begun on settling the outstanding questions regarding the replacement of the Ottoman Empire, which had included Palestine, with what would become the modern nation of Turkey.

1922: In the Bronx, Sadie "Sonia" Birkenfeld and Harry Eidus, a Latvian born Jewish violinist gave birth to Arnold Eidus, “the first American violinist to win the Jacques Thidbaud Award

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/business/arnold-eidus-90-adman-with-stradivarius-dies.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1417065744-4e8cTch/2QhzJZfmmxE+kA

1924: French premiere of “Le Miracle des Loups” (The Miracle of the Wolves) the historical melodrama directed by Raymond Bernard.

1925: Today Chaim “Zhitlowsky's 60th birthday was celebrated at the Manhattan Opera House in New York” and “a Zhitlowsky memorial volume was published in Berlin containing articles and reminiscences of his intimate friends and disciples” with the proceeds from the sale of the work going to YIVO in Vilno.

 1926: Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a report to the Endowment on his observations in Egypt, Palestine and Greece, made public today, declares that the movement to colonize Palestine with Jews is "unfortunate and visionary," and will in the long run "bring more bitterness and more unhappiness both for the Jew and for the Arab."  According to Dr. Pritchett, “Zionist plans for a national Jewish home in Plaestine…have nothing to commend them and are bound to fail.”  He also wrote despairingly of any attempt to improve the economic conditions in Palestine; attempts which he said were doomed to failure. Nicholas Murray Butler, who is President of the Carnegie Endowment, was responsible for the report being published today.  As President of Columbia, Butler has advocated limiting the enrollment of Jews at Columbia where he has supported a strong quota system.

1926: British flyweight Moe Mizler fought and won his seventh bout today at Premierland, Whitechapel.

1926: In Jerusalem, Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim and his wife gave birth to Meir Benayahu, the researcher who devoted his life to the of Kabbalah, Sabbaticalism and the Sephardi Diaspora who was also the brother of MK Moshe Nissim.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/404349

1928: “London Blames Jews in Wailing Wall Issue” published today “concludes by explain that while the Palestine government is ready and anxious to act as an intermediary in obtaining a Moslem-Jewish agreement over the Wailing Wall, it cannot use compulsion to ring this about especially as the disputes have now ceased to be purely religious and have become political and racial also.” (Editor’s note – the irony is that nine decades later, the issue has now become one of Jew versus Jew as the Orthodox seek to exercise a hegemony over this holy site that denies access other Jews.)

1928: Birthdate of Shulamit Aloni. Born in Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel, Aloni served in the Palmach in the War of Independence and gained fame as an attorney, teacher, journalist and the winner of numerous awards including Honorary PhD in Humanities from Hebrew Union College (1994), Honorary PhD of Law from Kon-Kuk University in Seoul (1994),Honorary PhD of Philosophy, Weitzman Institute of Science (1999), Decoration of Honor from the International Academy for Humanism (1996), Honorary PhD from the Free University in Brussels (1997) and Israel Prize Honoree for special lifetime contribution to Israeli society (2000).

1929: In Chicago, Samuel “Sam” Rabinovitz, the Lithuanian born son of “Sholem Moshe Rabinovitz and Chaya-Leah Levy” and his wife Esther Hannah Callner gave birth to Myrtle Rabinovitz

1929: “Show of Shows” a Warner Brothers film that was unique because it was “a talkie” and in Technicolor featuring Carmel Myers was released today in the United States.

1929: “The Girl with the Whip” a comedy with a script by Walter Wasserman and filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller was released in Germany today.

1929(25^th of Cheshvan, 5690): Sixty-seven year old Hannah Bachman Einstein a Jewish social worker who “was one of the founders of the Federation of Jewish women’s Organizations” passed away today.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/einstein-hannah-bachman

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

1931: In their final game of the season, with Sid Gillman playing End, Ohio State lost to the University of Minnesota today.

1932: NBC’s Blue Network broadcast the first episode of “Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel” a situation comedy radio show starring Groucho and Chico Marx, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.

1932: Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time

1933(10 of Kislev 5694): Sixty-seven year old Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein died in Jerusalem

http://matzav.com/rav-moshe-mordechai-epstein-ztl-on-his-yahrtzeit-today-4/

1934: The Gold Eagle Guy, written by Melvin Levy with a cast that included Luther Adler, Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg, Clifford Odets, Sanford Meisner and Jules Garfield opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre.

1935(2^nd of Kislev, 5696): Frederick, Falk, MD, passed away today in Seattle, Washington

1936: “Alpha and Omega” a play written by two Jewish authors “was hooted off the stage” in Poznan, Poland by a group of anti-Semitic Students.

1936: In New York, at the Manhattan Opera House, Mayor La Guardia told the 20,000 delegates attending the convention of the National Labor Committee for the Jewish Workers in Palestine that “rulers of modern countries that seem to thrive on the persecution of minorities face the fate of the Romanoffs and the Hapsburgs.

1936: “The elimination of race prejudice and religious intolerance was advocated” today “by the Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, pastor of Christ Methodist Episcopal Church speaking as guest preacher at the Sabbath service of Central Synagogue which opened the ninetieth anniversary celebration of the congregation.”

1937(24th of Kislev, 5698): This evening Jews kindled the first Chanukah Candle.

1937: “Non-Stop New York” a sci-fi film with a script co-authored by Curt Siodmak and filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum opened in the United States today.

1938: Dr. Arthur H. Compton is scheduled to be installed as co-chairman to night during the dinner meeting of the New York Round Table of the National Conference of Jews and Christians at the Hotel Astor.

1938: The Henry Street Settlement and East Side Branch of the Progressive Women’s Council is scheduled to host a panel including Cecilia Razofsky, Reverend William B. Sperry, Louis Bart, Lena Finkelstein, Max Schenk and Helen Hall that will discuss “”What Can We Do to Help the Jews in Germany?”

1938: Dr. David de Sola Pool is scheduled to lecture on “Jewish Wanderings, Whither Today?” at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.

1939: The Nazi governor-general of Poland established the Judenrat. The Jews were ordered to set up Jewish Councils in every Jewish community in the General Government of Germany. Heydrich ordered that the deportation of 80,000 Jews and Poles should be carried out by December 17.

1939: In what was tantamount to a death sentence, “The authorities of Kaunas, Lithuania arrested” Polish refugee “ Maurycy Orzech, a correspondent for the Jewish Daily Forward and ordered him to return to the German-occupied territory of Poland.”

1939: During today’s meeting of the Good Neighbor Committee on the Émigré and the Community “Edward M.M. Warburg, chairman of the administration committee of the Joint Distribution Committee told of the tremendous burned placed on the Jewish community in this country and abroad by the refugee problem and warned that anti-Semitism was spreading in Europe.

1939: In Bucharest, Premiere George Tatarescu delivered a speech today in which he announced a new plan that “would facilitate the emigration of Jews who are not Rumanian.” 

1939: It was reported today that “70,000 Jews from Germany have been absorbed in Palestine since 1936” and that there are plans for “the immediate settlement of 25,000 Jewish refugees in Palestine.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=980CE3D7143EE432A2575BC2A9679D946894D6CF

1939: As the case against Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the German American Bund who is charged with grand larceny came to a climax, Assistant District Attorney Herman J. McCarthy presented his summation to the jury challenging Kuhn’s contention that he was the victim of plot carried out by Daniel Kirchman, the young Jewish lawyer whom Kuhn says was a thief and the young Jewish accountant Irving Hest who is on the staff of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.

1940: The anti-Jewish film Der Ewige Jude, “The Eternal Jew,” was released.

1940: “The legal successor of the DIG, the Jewish Religious Association (Jüdischer Religionsverband in Hamburg), was forced to sell the building for the ridiculous sum of ℛℳ 120,000 to the Colonial Office (Kolonialamt; a legally dependent subunit of Hamburg).”

1941: “The Corsican Brother” a swashbuckler directed by Gregory Ratoff, produced by Edward Small with music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released in the United States today.

1941: In Riga the Jews responded in horror when the Nazis issued orders that separated the able-bodied men from the rest of the population because they knew that in Latvia a separation of population had preceded the murder of the Jewish population.

1941: “Walter Bruns, a Major General of Engineers, learned today that planned mass executions would soon take place in Riga

1941: The first transport of Laupheim (Germany) Jews left for Stuttgart, before being shipped to Riga.

1941: Hitler entertained Hajj Amin al-Husseini during which the grand mufti of Jerusalem pledges to cooperate in the extermination of the Jews and offers to enlist Arabs to fight for Germany.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/

1942: “George Washington Slept Here” the film version of the stage play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, produced by Jerry Wald and starring Jacky Benny was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.

1943:The U.S. Army Medical Corps established a 500 bed hospital at Tlemcen, the Algerian city whose “most important place pilgrimage of all religions was the Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of town.”

1943:  Birthdate of singer Randy Newman known for a variety of off-beat ditties including Short People, I Love LA, andRaindrops.

1943: A testimonial is scheduled to be held tonight to celebrate the 70^th birthday of Dr. Louis Ginzberg, the Polish born Talmudist and Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) who has been living in the United States for the last 44 years.  Dr. Louis Finnkelstein, President of the JTS is chairing the committee hosting the event; a committee that includes several notables such Dr. Butler, President of Columbia, Dr. Woodburn, Chancellor of New York University and Dr. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0F15FF35581B7B93CAAB178AD95F478485F9

1944: As he tried to negotiate the rescue of Hungarian Jews Rudolf Kasztner followed the instructions of the Germans and left for the Swiss border.

1944: In Budapest, Hungarian Fascist gangs attacked a hospital of Jews, killing 28.

1946: Three Jewish refugee ships were reported off Haifa tonight, trying to run the Navy-Air Force blockade in a new challenge to British immigration policy.

1947: In Haifa, the British admit 1,450 Jews from Cyprus, ahead of immigration quota.

1947: The United Nations General Assembly “postponed a vote on the Palestine questions” today when it approved a resolution to delay the vote for 24 hours “to give the Arab representatives an opportunity to present a compromise plan as a substitute for partition.”

1948 (26th of Cheshvan): Moses Kleinman editor of Ha-Olam, passed away

1948: Lt. Col. Moshe Dayan and his Arab counterpart met at Government House in Jerusalem. Under UN supervision, the two military commanders worked out the terms of cease fire for the divided holy city.  Once the cease fire was announced soldiers of the Arab Legion danced with joy and Arab refugees returned to the Old City.  All attempts by Jews to pray at the Wall were rebuffed.  As the cease fire took effect Chaim Weitzman returned to the city for the first time in a year.  The first President of Israel comforted the people over the fact that Jerusalem was divided.  “All will come to pass in peace.”

1948: Birthdate of self-promoting political lobbyist Dick Morris.

1948: Birthdate of author Bruce Vilanch.

1948: The Polaroid Land Camera went on sale, at a Boston department store. The 40 series, model 95 roll film camera went on sale for $89.75. This first model was sold through 1953, and was the first commercially successful self-redeveloping camera system. A sepia-colored photograph took about one minute to produce. Jewish inventor Edwin H. Land had previously demonstrated his invention of instant photography at a meeting of the Optical Society of America on 2 Feb 1947. His first commercial success came in 1939 with his invention of Polaroid filters for lenses in products such as ski goggles, sunglasses and slip-on sunglasses for optical glasses.

1949: Birthdate of Canadian born Mossad agent and author Victor John Ostrosky, the grandson Esther and Haim Margolin,, the Auditor General of the Jewish National Fund and the husband of artist Bella Ostrovsky.

1949: U.S. premiere of “Port of New York” directed by László Benedek, produced by Aubrey Schenk with music by Sol Kaplan.

1949: Birthdate of bandleader and David Letterman straight man Paul Shaffer.

1950: The New York Council of the Pioneer Women is scheduled to have its Chanukah meeting at the home of Mrs. David H. Panitz.

1950: Oscar Karlweis and Mrs. Irving M. Engel are scheduled to address today’s meeting of the Brooklyn Section of the National Council of Jewish Women being held at Temple Beth Elohim.

1950: Dr. Henry Shoskes is scheduled to address today’s meeting of the Abraham Herman Chapter of HIAS.

1950: The Passaic, NJ Section of Hadassah is scheduled to meet this evening at the Y.M.H.A.

1951: In France, re-release of “Le Miracle des Loups” the classic film directed by Raymond Bernard first shown in 1924.

1951: Arthur Wilson and the former Harriet C. Friedeberg gave birth Mary Jean Alexandra Wilson, who gained fame as British historian Mary Fulbrook, the winner of the “Wolfson Prize 2019 for Revelatory Holocaust Study Reckonings.”

https://www.midaspr.co.uk/news-stories/mary-fulbrook-wins-wolfson-history-prize-2019/



1953: In Elizabeth, NJ, Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff (1915–96), a Talmud scholar and the former leader of the Congregation B'nai Israel in Elizabeth” and “Livia Chertoff (née Eisen), an Israeli citizen and the first flight attendant for El Al gave birth Harvard trained attorney Michael Chertoff, the grandson of Rabbi Paul Chertoff and Esther Barish Chertoff who served as the 2^ndUnited States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009.

1954: For the first time ABC aired “What’s Going On?” a game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.

1954: Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate passed away.  Fermi was not Jewish, but his wife was.  He left Europe in 1938 because he was afraid of the fate that awaited her and her family.

1961: One hundred five Moroccan Jews sailed from Casablanca for Nice on board the French steamship Lyautey.  This marked the beginning of a major exodus of Morrocco's ancient Jewish community.



1957(5th of Kislev): Dr. Pinchas Churgin, the first president of Bar-Ilan University passed away.



1962(1st of Kislev, 5723): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1962: Birthdate of Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz who gained fame as Jon Stewart host of the fake news program The Daily Show. Born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, the popularity of this late-night show has earned Stewart notoriety as “the most trusted name in fake news,” a sardonic reflection of his stature as the Walter Cronkite for a younger generation. He has also gained attention as an outspoken critic of established news media sources.

1963(12th of Kislev, 5724): Actress Karyn "Cookie" Kupcinet, daughter of columnist Irv Kupcinet is murdered.  The crime remains unsolved.

1963: Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz delivered a sermon at the interfaith Thanksgiving Day service attended by President Lyndon Johnson who was making one of his first such appearances since the assassination of President John Kennedy.

1963: This evening, in a nationally televised address, President Johnson paraphrased the words Rabbi Rabinowitz had used early in the day, “speaking of how blessings can come from evil situations.”

1963(12th of Kislev, 5724): Seventy year old Abba Hillel Silver, who served as Rabbi of The Temple in Cleveland, Ohio and was an ardent Zionist passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E02EEDB103AE637A2575AC2A9679D946291D6CF

1964(23^rd of Kislev, 5725): Fifty-six year old Hans von Halban, the French physicist who worked on the Heavy Water project related to the development of the Atomic Bomb passed away today.

1966: Birthdate of actor, writer and media commentator Sam Seder

1967: Morris Lasker was nominated to serve as a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Today.

1968: In today’s Village Voice, Alfred Leslie, revealed that “Pull My Daisy” directed by Robert Frank was not “an improvisational masterpiece” but “actually carefully planned, rehearsed,” before being shot “on a professionally lit studio set.’ (Frank was Jewish, Leslie was not)

1970: Birthdate of Ran Ben Shimon, the Israeli football (soccer) player who became the manager for Hapoel Tel Aviv.

1973: Donna Karen participated in today’s The Battle of Versailles Fashion today as an assistant to her mentor Anne Klein.

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a11385/versailles-french-american-fashion-show/

1974(14^th of Kislev, 5735): Seven days after his 60^thbirthday, Detroit lawyer, Archie Katcher, the North Dakota born son of Louis and Rebecca Katz Katcher who was an active member of the Anti-Defamation League passed away today.

1975(24^th of Kislev, 5736): Seventy-three Jack S. Popick, a native of Kishinev who came to the U.S. in 1906 where he became a “business executive and Jewish communal and Zionist leader passed away today in Miami.

1980(20th of Kislev, 5741): Eighty two year old, Russian born, Israeli painter, sculptor and author Nachum Gutman passed away today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachum_Gutman#/media/File:HHGM_20121230_153928.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachum_Gutman#/media/File:Gutmanstudio.jpg

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/Gutman.html

1981: “Venom” a horror film produced by Martin Bregman with music by Michael Kamen was released in Japan today.

1982: The film version of Norman Mailers, The Executioner’s Song, co-starring Eli Wallach was released today in the United States

1982: Today, at a  “Delegates Conference in NYC, 65 elected representatives of New Jewish Agenda (NJA) chapters and at-large members from across US, consented on a National Platform” that included a general Statement of Purpose and specific statements on 18 issue areas

1984: Seventy-eight year old Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg the anti-Nazi German historian who came to the United States to warn against the danger of Hitler and the evil of anti-Semitism passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/01/obituaries/prince-loewenstien-hitler-foe-dies-in-bonn-at-78.html

1985: “Dispute Flares Over Book On Claims to Palestine” published today, described the controversy over From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/28/books/dispute-flares-over-book-on-claims-to-palestine.html?scp=1&sq=Yehoshua+Porath&st=nyt

1989(30^th of Cheshvan, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1989(30^th of Cheshvan, 5750): Eighty-eight year old NYU trained attorney Meyer Pessin, “a former corporation counsel for Jersey City, NJ and former president of the Jewish National Fund of America passed away today in Caracas, Venezuela” where he had been living for the last four years.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1989/11/30/927489.html?pageNumber=114

1989: After having been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his mother, actress Susan Cabot, her son Timothy Scott Roman “was sentenced to three years’ probation” today.

1990: Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind completed his service as Secretary of State for Scotland.

1990: Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, began serving as Secretary of State for Transport

1993(14^th of Kislev, 5754): Marvin H. Bernstein, a businessman and philanthropist in New York for many years, died today at the Miami Heart Institute. He was 66 and lived in Miami. Mr. Bernstein was the founder and for 34 years the president of the Variety Knit Corporation of Manhattan, which makes women's clothing and T-shirts. He also founded the Marvin Bernstein Oil Company, a petroleum exploration company with headquarters in Miami.n Mr. Bernstein was a fund-raiser for and a contributor to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the Simon Weisenthal Center, Israel Bonds, the Weitzman Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University and other medical and religious groups.

1993(14th of Kislev, 5754): Monroe Abbey passed away. Born in 1904, he was a Canadian lawyer specializing in mining law and a Jewish civic leader in Montreal. He was president of Canadian Jewish Congress from 1968 to 1971.He was married to Minnie Cummings. His daughter, Sheila Finestone, was a Member of Parliament and Senator. In 1978, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "devoted community worker who has held office in every important Jewish organization in Montreal".

1994(25th of Kislev, 5755): First Day of Chanukah; in the evening kindle the second light

1994(25th of Kislev, 5755): Jerry Rubin, the 1960s war protester, died in Los Angeles at 56, two weeks after he was hit by a car.

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including  A Life on the Stage: A Memoirby Jacob Adler, translated and edited by Lulla Rosenfeld, Carl Sagan: A Lifeby Keay Davidson and Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmosby William Poundstone.

2000(1^st of Kislev, 5761): Rosh Chodesh Kislev)

2000: Workers cut away at the ice that has encased David Blaine since he began the Frozen in Time stunt 63 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds ago which was a world’s record.

2001(13th of Kislev, 5762): Kal Mann passed away.  Born Kalman Cohen, the Philadelphia native gained fame for writing lyrics to such rock and roll hits as Elvis Presley's "Teddy Bear," Bobby Rydell's "Wild One", and Chubby Checker's "Let's Twist Again."

2002(23rd of Kislev, 5763): Three suicide bombers detonated an SUV in the lobby of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killing 13 people and injuring 80. Among the dead were three Israeli tourists who presumably were the targets of the attack, and 10 Kenyans, mostly members of a dance troupe. About 20 minutes earlier, two surface-to-air missiles were fired at an Arkia Boeing 757 airliner carrying 271 people, narrowly missing the aircraft, which was taking off from nearby Moi International Airport. The plane was able to land safely in Tel Aviv.

2002(23^rd of Kislevn 5763):Noy and Dvir Anter, aged 12 and 14, of Ariel, and Albert (Avraham) de Havila, 60, of Ra'anana were killed along with 10 Kenyans when a car bomb exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost exclusively by Israeli tourists, near Mombasa in Kenya; 21 Israelis were among the 80 wounded. Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as for the simultaneous attempt to down an Arkia plane.

2002(23^rd of Kislev, 5763): Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Ya'acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48 - all of Beit She'an; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about 40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004: Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman praised Jay “Bluejay” Greenberg's talent during a CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast this evening.

2004: NBC broadcast “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” a television version of the stage musical co-starring Jason Alexander as the Ghost of Jacob Marley and with a score by Alan Menkin

2004: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special interest to Jewish readers including including High Noon In the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Max Frankel and Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Ann Norton.

2005: The Jerusalem Postreported from Budapest that the Israeli ambassador to Hungary, David Admon had recognized the efforts of 13 Hungarians and their families to assist Jews during the Holocaust by presenting them with the title of "the Righteous among the Nations." Ten of the 13 honored were awarded the distinction posthumously. The ceremony in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was attended by the president of the National Assembly, Katalin Szili, and the primate of the Catholic Church in Hungary, Cardinal Peter Erdo. Yad Vashem has so far awarded the "Righteous among the Nations title to over 20,000 people worldwide, including 650 in Hungary. Nearly 600,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered during World War II.

2005(26^thof Cheshvan, 5766): Ninety-five year old character actor Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith) passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/arts/marc-lawrence-95-actor-whose-specialty-was-tough-guys-dies.html



2006: Fred Goldsmith was hired today to coach football at Lenoir-Rhyne University.



2006: Groundbreaking Ceremony for the New Schechter Institute Campus in Jerusalem.



2006: Today, in his maiden speech as National Party leader John Key talked of an "underclass" that had been "allowed to develop" in New Zealand, a theme which received a large amount of media coverage,

2006(7^th of Kislev,5767): Seventy-nine year old “Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who spent the years after World War II as a tireless hunter of Nazis, starting with the man who murdered his mother passed away today at the age of 79. [Information supplied by Margalit Fox, one of the great obituary writers for the New York Times.]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/nyregion/03welles.html

2006: In a move that would earn him the appellation of “Bigot” from New York Mayor Ed Koch, Dennis Prager “wrote that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, should not be allowed to take his Congressional oath using a Koran because ‘the act undermines American civilization.’” (Apparently Mr. Prager’s Jewish education did not include a study of the problems that Jews in England had in taking their seats in Parliament after being elected.)

2006(7^th of Kislev, 5767): Ninety year old Rose Mattus who with husband Reuben created Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream passed away today.  (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/obituaries/01mattus.html

2007: “The Rothschild Egg,” a Fabergé egg Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild presented to Germaine Halphen upon her engagement to Béatrice's younger brother, Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild “was sold by Christie's auction house today for £8.9 million (including commission) which “set three auction records: it is the most expensive timepiece, Russian object, and Fabergé object ever sold at auction, surpassing the $9.6 million sale of the 1913 Winter egg in 2002.”

2007: “Yiddish Theatre: A Love Story” is shown for the last time at the Two Boots Pioneer theater in Manhattan.This new documentary film is about Zypora Spaisman the amazing woman who has kept the oldest running Yiddish Theater in America alive. Zypora Spaisman is a Holocaust survivor who conquers all hearts in her passion for art, life and Yiddish.

2007: “The Land Was Theirs” is shown at the Highstown Memorial Library in Highstown, NJ. “An absorbing documentary about Farmingdale, New Jersey, one of many Jewish farming communities in the United States established with the help of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Spanning more than fifty years, the history of Farmingdale provides a perspective on the pressures, problems, and satisfactions of rural Jewish life as experienced in one community.”

2007: Social scientist Riane Eisler, Czech born Jewish American author of the influential The Chalice and the Blade, discusses her new book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C

2008(1st of Kislev, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

2008: Daniel “Barenboim made his conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for the House's 450th performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.”

2008: Former government minister and civil rights activist Shulamit Aloni celebrates her 80th birthday.

2008: The centenary of the legendary French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was celebrated in Paris. As a centenary celebration of a legend, however, it is rather unusual, as the birthday boy is very much alive and well at this time. (He passed away on October 30, 2009.)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-claude-levi-strauss4-2009nov04,0,890035.story

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/03/claude-levi-strauss-obituary

2008: Indian commandos were dropped by helicopter on the roof of the besieged Chabad headquarters in Mumbai as Indian snipers at the site opened fire early this morning. Sharpshooters in buildings opposite the headquarters of Chabad began shooting early Friday as a helicopter circled overhead. Meanwhile, there were at least three blasts in the building Friday, as militants were believed to be holed up inside - possibly with hostages - but the situation still remained murky. Approximately 5.000 Jews live in Mumbai. This does not include the large number of Jewish visitors to the city, including a large number of Israelis on their way to visit other tourist sites on the subcontinent. Where there are Jews, there is Chabad.  In this case the Chabad House is run by Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, from Brooklyn and his Israeli born wife.  In response to requests from Chabad, Jews around the world recite Psalm 20 as they wait for further word on the fate of their co-religionists facing this nightmare.

2009: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Noah Thalblum is called to the Torah as Bar Mitzvah at Shabbat Morning Services.

2010: Today Germany's main Jewish group elected its first leader born after the Holocaust, Dieter Graumanm a 60-year-old businessman who promised to focus the organization more on contemporary Jewish life.

2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Dealings: A Political and Financial Life by Felix Rohatyn and I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron.

2010: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim

2010: “Party Like A Jew” is scheduled to come to an end in Brussels, Belgium.

2010: Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza resumed rocket fire on the Western Negev this morning, striking near Sderot. As usual when no one is injured and there is no serious damage, Israel media did not report the Kassam attack. The short-range rocket exploded in mid-air as thousands of children and college students returned to schools and the local Sapir College.

2010(21^st of Kislev, 5771): Eighty-nine year old “Samuel T. Cohen, the physicist who invented the small tactical nuclear weapon known as the neutron bomb, a controversial device designed to kill enemy troops with subatomic particles but leave battlefields and cities relatively intact, died today at his home in Los Angeles”  (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/us/02cohen.html?pagewanted=all

2011: The 92^nd St Y is scheduled to host “Finding A Lost Tribe of Israel: The Bnei Menashe of India,” a program in which “the Bnei Menashe community, along with Shavei Israel founder Michael Freund, tell the remarkable story of how this lost tribe is finally coming home.”

2011: President Shimon Peres, under the instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left for Amman today to meet with Jordan's King Abdullah II, to discuss stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

2011: The IDF returned fire on the source of at least three rockets fired into northern Israel from Lebanon tonight,

2011(2^nd of Kislev, 5772): Ninety-nine year old Brooklyn born, Cornell University graduate Charles Baker Schleifer, a World War II codebreaker who was the husband of Florence Schleifer and the father of Doctors Lawrence and Leonard Schleifter, passed away today.

2012: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is scheduled to present its legislative agency at tonight’s “Northern Virginia Legislators’ Reception at the JCCNVa

2012(14^th of Kislev, 5773): Ninety-six year old New York real estate and newspaper tycoon Jerry Finkelstein passed away today. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/nyregion/jerry-finkelstein-new-york-power-broker-dies-at-96.html?hpw&pagewanted=print

2012: The French Institute American Alliance Française is scheduled to host a reception prior to the opening of “Haim Shelley Part One & Two” which “presents works by Brigitte NaHoN from 1999 to the present, a period when the artist lived in New York and immigrated to Tel Aviv.”

2012: The convulsions of the Arab Spring may be driving the American public’s support for Israel to new highs, according to a poll released today by the Washington-based group The Israel Project.

2012: Today Germany announced its opposition to the Palestinian bid to upgrade its status at the United Nations to a nonmember state, but did not indicate whether it would vote against or merely abstain.

2013(25^thof Kislev, 5774): First Day of Chanukah



2013(25^thof Kislev, 5774): Ninety-three year old “Yiddish poet and songwriter “Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the daughter of Lifshe Sschaecter and wife of Dr. Johan (Yoyne) Gottesman with whom she survived the Holocaust passed away today in the Bronx.

https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/beyle-schaechter-gottesman





2013(25th of Kislev, 5774): Eighty-eighty year old Joseph Bihari one of three brothers who “the founders of Modern Records in Los Angeles and its subsidiaries such as Meteor Records based in Memphis” passed away in Los Angeles. (As reported by William Yardley)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/arts/music/joe-bihari-who-put-early-rb-on-record-dies-at-88.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&rref=obituaries&hpw=&adxnnlx=1386825901-v1D73FX4K0JEKiQR41NRag&





2013: Thanksgiving – for the first time since 1888, the first day of Chanukah and Thanksgiving coincide.  In 1888 it happened on November 29.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/business/media/carve-the-turkey-and-pass-the-latkes-as-holidays-converge.html

http://www.timesofisrael.com/thanksgivukkah-watch-eat-groan/

2013: A Jordan-based scientific research center that counts as its members Iran and other Middle Eastern countries has named an Israeli physicist from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, Eliezer Rabinovici, as vice president, AFP reported.

2013: A two-year-old baby was seriously injured today when Muslim terrorists hurled rocks at the car she was in, at the entrance to the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in southern Jerusalem.

2014: In Melbourne, “Orange People” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2014: “Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, named tonight as the next IDF chief of the General Staff, firmly opposes Israeli military intervention to thwart Iran’s nuclear program unless Iran poses an immediate existential threat to Israel, an Israeli television report said.”

2014: “The highly anticipated trailer for the seventh installment of the Star Wars blockbuster directed by J.J. Abrams was screened today to film audiences throughout the United States.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/star-wars-releases-new-movie-trailer/

2014: In Atlanta, GA, the Berman Museum’s store is scheduled to hold a “Black Friday Sale” offering “BIG SAVINGS.”

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host Schumann-Brahms concert featuring Yevgenia Pikovsky, Elyakum Salzman – Violin; Dmitry Ratush, Vladislav Krasnov –Viola; Felix Nemirovsky – Cello and Marianna Sorkin – Piano.

2015: The Historic Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host an evening with “Hot Tuna.”

2015(16^th of Kislev, 5776): Shabbat Va-yishlach

2015: Today, the curtain came down on the final performance of  West Revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Gypsy” which had opened at the Savoy Theatre in April.

2016(27^th of Cheshvan, 5777): Yahrzeit Deborah Dorfman Levin, the wife of Joseph B. Levin

2016: “Rabin In His Own Words” and “The Pickle Recipe” are scheduled to be shown at Melbourne as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: “The Shas party said” today “it would propose a bill that would make it illegal to hold pluralistic prayer services at the Western Wall plaza” which should it pass “would effectively end the negotiated agreement by the cabinet almost a year ago that decided on an egalitarian prayer plaza alongside the Orthodox-controlled one at the holy site”

2016: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Israel in Three Anthems” in which Michael A. Figueroa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) addresses three anthems that have helped shape Israeli society—“Ha-Tikva,” “L’Internationale,” and “Yerushalayim shel Zahav,” analyzing these songs as performances of collectivity representing the multifaceted nature of Zionism and the shifting political landscape in Israel.

2017: Rich Recht is scheduled to appear at tonight’s JRR Donor Appreciation Concert.

2017: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to offer the second part of Yitzhak Lewis’ “Introduction to Gershom Scholem”

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Shabbat Candlestick Making Workshop preceded by a free dinner.

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host the last session of Dr. Naomi Weinberger’s  “American Priorities in the Middle East.”

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Heinrich whose works included the classic and ground-breaking, multi-volume “History of the Jews” continues today.

2018: At the University of Michigan’s Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the “Author’s Forum” is scheduled to host “A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture,” a conversation with “Samer Ali, an association professor of Arabic language and literature” and Shachar Pinsker, professor of Judaic studies and Middle East Studies and author of A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture.

2018: Today The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to “a screening of Duki Dror’s ‘Shadow in Baghdad’ in honor of the date date chosen by the Knesset to commemorate the Middle Eastern Jewish experience, including the exodus of Iraqi Jews after denationalization in 1950.”

2018: In London, the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Diobedience.”

2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the “State of Moral Emergency,” in which Daniel Altschuler, Stosh Cotler, Rabbi Jill Jacobs and Melanie Nezer, along with Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson discuss “the Jewish Response to the Immigration Crisis.”

2018: Beit Ave Chai is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Zeli Gurevich on “The Language of Love in Shir HaShirim.”

2019: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Thanksgiving Dinner with the Chaplains.

2019: As Americans look at their tables for their Thanksgiving turkey, Israelis look to the skies to see if yesterday’s IDF action will mean there will be a day without more rockets being fired from Gaza.

2019(30^th of Cheshvan, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Kislev; For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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800: Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III. Leo and Charlemagne were allies.  Charlemagne would exonerate Leo of the charges and Leo would crown Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.  This was “good for the Jews” since Charlemagne was protective of his Jewish subjects at a time when many were using the sword of Constantine to advance the cause of the Cross of Christ.

1226: At the Reims Cathedral, coronation of Louis IX who at the request of the Pope Gregory burned “24 cartload of Jewish books in 1242, made plans to expel the Jews after confiscating their property and ordered them to wear a “Jew’s badge” and “to listen to missionary sermons”

1268: Pope Clement IV, who in 1264 “renewed the prohibition of the Talmud promulgated by Gregory IX, who had it publicly burnt in France and in Italy” and who “ordered that the Jews of Aragon submit their books to Dominican censors for expurgation” passed away today

1314: Although he would not be officially crowned un 1315, Louis X, who overturned the decision of his father, Phillip the Fair, to ban Jews from his realm began his reign as King of France.

1378: Sixty-two year old Charles VI, “the first King of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor” whose classification of the Jews in Frankfort as “vassals of the emperor” was not enough to halt the 1349 Pogrom in that city passed away today.

1378: Wenceslaus IV who as Emperor failed to continue the Imperial protection of the Jews of Luxembourg which led to their expulsion in 1391 began his reign as King of Bohemia today.

1394: Massacre of the Jews of Augsburg Germany.

1424: According to some sources, Anti-Pope Benedict XIII passed away.  In an attempt to curry favor and consolidate his position, Benedict conducted an aggressive program of forced conversion among Jews that included the issuance of a Bull that prohibited study of the Talmud, banned Jews from holding public office, practicing medicine, engaging in crafts, trading or bathing with Christians, wear a red or yellow badge and compelled them listen to at least three sermons a year during Advent.

1655: The Brazilian/Dutch Jews of New Amsterdam make an application for a license to enter the fur trade.  It was later denied

1755(25^th of Kislev, 5516): Parashat Vayehsev; Shabbat Shel Chanukah on the first day of the holiday.

1769: In Savannah, GA, Sara De La Motta and Levi Sheftall gave birth to Sarah Sheftall, the wife of Abraham De Lyon with whom she had ten children.

1777: San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. Jews began to play an active role in the affairs of San Jose at the time of the Gold Rush in 1849.

 http://www.sanjose.com/history/jews/  San Jose History - San Jose's Jewish Community

1790: The Jews of Hungary handed a petition, in which they presented their claims to equality with other citizens, to King Leopold II at Vienna.  Written in Latin, probably at the behest of the Rosenthal family, “it read, in part ‘At long last, permit us to be citizens and useful taxpayers of the fatherland.  In the whole world, outside Hungary we have no fatherland, no other father than the King…no other brothers than those with whom we live and die one society.’”



1790: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Lewis Silver, the husband of Leah Abrahams.

1793(25^th of Kislev, 5554): As the citizens of Philadelphia recover from a yellow fever epidemic that took the lives of 5,000 and France coped with the Reign of Terror and Jews experience life under two “Georges” (George Washington and King George III) Jews on both sides of the Atlantic celebrate Chanukah

1797: Seventy-four year old Reverend Samuel Langdon, the former President of Harvard College passed away today. As can be seen by a sermon he preached in the New Hampshire Legislature “The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States” who believed that the Old Testament and the ancient Hebrews provided the foundation of the democracy being championed in the newly formed United States.  He saw “Moses as a destroyer of tyranny” and the seventy men appointed chosen to assist Moses as the prototype for a “Senate.”

1803” Birthdate of Gottfried Semper who the German architect who designed a synagogue built in Dresden between 1838 and 1840 known as the “Semper Synagogue” that contained a “a silver lamp of eternal light” that caught the “fancy” of Cosima and Richard Wagner who spent a lot of money “to have a copy” of the lamp made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Semper#mediaviewer/File:Alte_Synagoge_Dresden_1860_2.png



1806: Napoleon wrote to Minister of the Interior Champagny, “[It is necessary to] reduce, if not destroy, the tendency of Jewish people to practice a very great number of activities that are harmful to civilization and to public order in society in all the countries of the world. It is necessary to stop the harm by preventing it; to prevent it it is necessary to change the Jews. [...] Once part of their youth will take its place in our armies, they will cease to have Jewish interests and sentiments; their interests and sentiments will be French.”

1807: Birthdate of Jonas Warburg, the husband of Bernhardine Wetzlar.

1809(21st of Kislev, 5570): Sixty-five year old New York native Moses Seixas, the eldest son of Isaac Mendez Seixas who was one of the founders (1795) of the Newport Bank of Rhode Island, of which he was cashier until his death and who addressed a letter of welcome in the name of the congregation to George Washington when the latter visited Newport, and it was to him that Washington's answer was addressed passed away today in Newport, RI.

1812: Isaac Isaacs married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1812:Napoleon's Grand Army crossed the Berezina River in its retreat from Russia which marked the beginning of the end for Napoleon and therefore also marked the beginning of the end of new found freedom that Jews had begun to experience in most of Germany, Italy and Russia when the French Armies marched across these lands bringing the message of “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality”  on the tips of their bayonets.

1813: In Alsace, France, Isaac Dreyfus, the Alsace born son of Jacob Dreyfus, and his wife Gertrude “Julie” Dreyfus gave birth to Gertrude Dreyfus who became Gertrude Bernheim when she married Leopold Bernheim with whom she had nine children.

1820:  In New York City, first publication ofIsrael Vindicated by an anonymous author who styled him or herself as “An Israelite.”   “The work was ‘a refutation of the calumnies propagated respecting the Jewish nation; in which the objects and views of the American Society for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews are investigated.’” The original subtitle also contained the additional words “‘and reasons assigned for rejecting the Christian religion.’” In his monograph entitled “The Freethinker, the Jews and the Missionaries,” Professor Jonathan Sarna contends that the book was the work of a freethinker named George Houston who was assisted by a Jewish printer named Abraham Collins.

1830: The November Uprising also known as the Cadet Uprising begins in Warsaw when a group of Polish non-commissioned officers began an unsuccessful attempt to throw off the yoke of Russian rule. Josef Berkowicz, whose father had commanded a Jewish legion in the 1794 Uprising and who had fought alongside his father in the Battle of Kock, was a leader in what would prove to be another failed attempt to gain Polish independence.

1831(24^th of Kislev, 5592): In the evening, kindle the first Chanukah light

1831(24^th of Kislev, 5592): Poet Moshe Shmuel, the Hungarian born son of “a poor cantor” who overcame numerous hardships to develop “a master’s command of the Hebrew Language” and who also “compiled a geography, a Biblical history for the young and an elementary arithmetic” while raising a son, Asher Enshil Naiman the husband of Hadassah Naiman, passed away today.

1832: In Camden, SC, Hayman Levy, the son of Solomon and Rebecca Eve Levy, and his wife Almeria Levy gave birth to Rebecca Hendricks Samuel

1840: Two days after he had passed away, 70 year old Woolf Solomons was buried at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery” today.

1841: Birthdate of Josiah Cohen, the native of Plymouth England who became a successful American lawyer and Republican Party leader who was “appointed judge of the orphans’ court in Allegheny County (PA)” in 1901.

1843: Birthdate of London native, Deborah Aaron, the wife of Joseph Hobinstock Woolf.

1845(29^th of Cheshvan, 5606): Parashat Tolodot

1845: After having been invited to address the congregation, Dr. M. Lilienthal, who had only recently arrived in the United States delivered a sermon in German at the Henry Street Synagogue in New York City after having been invited to address the congregation.

1846: Two days after she had passed away, 78 year old Hannah Abraham, the wife of John Abraham, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1849: In “Kollin, Bohemia,” Rabbi Bernhard Illoway and Katherine Schiff gave birth to Dr. Illoway, the Miami Medical College trained physician who was the “professor of Diseases of Children at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surger and the visiting physician at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati.”

1851(5^th of Kislev, 5612): Parashat Toldot

1851(5^th of Kislev, 5612): Jacob Lyon, the native of Poland who came to Richmond, VA, at the 18^th of century where he became a successful merchant and whose third wife was Eliza White passed away today.

1853: Reverend Francis N. Vinton, D. D delivered a lecture entitled "The Merchant, or the Progress and Influence of Commerce" during which he stated that the Jews had invented the first bills of exchange in 1160.  This invention was so important that soon it would be impossible to transact business without using them.  Furthermore, the Jews created one of the first banks, at Boscoe, but it was used merely as depository for Gold. (Boscoe was probably a city in Italy.)

1854: In Charleston, SC, at the Hasell Street Synagogue, Rabbi Mayer officiated at the wedding of Israel Ottolengui to Rosalie C. Moise the youngest daughter of Mrs. R.C. Moise.

1855: Most of the Jews of New York City celebrated Thanksgiving today by “eating hearty dinners” and giving thanks “in private.”



1855: During his Thanksgiving Day sermon, Rabbi Morris Raphael rebuked New York’s Governor Clarke for issuing a proclamation inviting “only patriots and Christians to keep Thanksgiving.” At the same time, he commended Mayor Wood for inviting “all the people” to join in observing the holiday.



1855: Rabbi S.M. Isaacs delivered the sermon during Thanksgiving Day services at Shaaray Tefillah, the synagogue on Wooster Street.

1856: A pro-Zionist meeting was held in Great Britain at the Great Assembly Hall of Miles End. There was a "great rush into the building" with most seats taken quickly. The meeting was presided over by Dr. M. Gaster, Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, and among those present were Sir Francis Montefiore.

1858: It was reported from Boston that the Jews of that city have a held a meeting to express their outrage over what has happened in Bologna. “The theft of the child is an outrage of the worst kind and shows there are men in the old Church ready to go as far as did their predecessors of the old days, when the Inquisition was a great fact, and a very disagreeable one, too.”  [This refers to the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara which had taken place in Bologna and became known as the Mortara Affair.]

1859: Lazarus Simon, the son of English coal merchant Simon Magnus accepted a commission as a Captain in the newly formed 4th Corps of the 1st Brigade of the Kent Voluntary Artillery

1859: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Abraham Printz and Rose Wohlgemuth Printz gave birth to Bert H. Prinz who came the United States in 1864 and opened several stores in Pennsylvania and New York before opening "Printz Company Men's Clothing and Furnishing in Youngstown, Ohio which became the headquarters of his commercial enterprises.



1860: In San Francisco, “The Episcopalians, the Roman Catholics and the Jews, all opened their churches…” for the celebration of Thanksgiving.  The Jewish Church is probably a reference to Congregation Sherith Israel and Congregation Emanu-El. Sherith Israel which was founded in 1849 had about 110 members and consecrated its first synagogue which was located on Stockton Street in September of 1852. Emanu-El which followed the Reform minchag had about 260 members and dedicated it sanctuary in 1854.



1861: In New York Leopold and Kate gave to attorney David Gerber who became a partner of Judge A.J. Dittenhoefer. 



1862: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Louis and Emma (Goodhart) Heinsheimer gave birth to Stella Heinshier.  In 1894 she married J. Walter Freiberg, a partner in Frieberg and Workum, Distillers.  As Stella Heinshier Frieberg she pursued her two passions – “helping the arts flourish in her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, and furthering the growth of Reform Judaism—and the role of women in it—in the United States and Western Europe..” (As reported by Laura Lieber)

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/freiberg-stella-heinsheimer



1862: Phoebe Yates Levy Pember wrote a letter to her sister indicating that she was “to take charge of one of the hospitals at Richmond.” In December 1862, she reported for duty at Chimborazo, a hospital for the care of Confederate soldiers in Richmond, Virginia, reputed to be the largest military hospital in the world up to that time. Pember oversaw nursing services in one of the hospital's five divisions. In this role, she was responsible for the medical and dietary needs of over 15,000 men. Pember had grown up in a prosperous and acculturated family in Charleston, South Carolina. Along with her siblings, she was strongly identified with the Confederate cause and received the invitation to serve as matron of Chimborazo Hospital from the wife of the Confederate secretary of war. In A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond, published in 1879, Pember described daily life at Chimborazo, detailing the poor state of the Confederate medical facilities. Despite resistance to her authority, Pember's spirit and determination overcame many obstacles. At the end of the war in April 1865, Mrs. Pember stayed at her post so that her patients might be cared for during the transition from Confederate to federal control. (As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archives)

1867: Future Medal of Honor winner George Geiger “reenlisted with Troop M, of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, November 29, 1867 in St. Louis, Missouri.”

1872: George Gieger completed his enlistment and was discharged at Unionville, SC

1869(25th of Kislev, 5630): First Day of Chanukah; for the first time Jews celebrate the Festival of Lights under President Grant, who received a majority of the Jewish vote.

1870: It was reported today that Governor Hoffman will deliver an opening address at the upcoming Hebrew Fair designed to raise funds for Mount Sinai Hospital and Hebrew Orphan Asylum

1870: In New York, Henry Hissig, a German-born Hebrew went on trial for violating New York’s new seduction law.  He is accused of having seduced his cousin, Ida Schwab.

1872: In Odessa, Jacob Henry and Rachel (Avrick) Topkis gave birth to Louis Topkis who in 1881 arrived where he settled in Wilmington, Delaware,  became President of Topkis  Brothers Company and active member of the Republican Party while serving as President of the Wilmington Hebrew Charities Association while raising a family with the former Esther Krigtstein.

1873: Major Alfred Mordecai, Jr. begins serving as a member of the New Cavalry Outfit Board.

1873: Louis, duc Decazes, who used Bohemian born Franco-Jewish journalist to expose German plans to invade France, began serving as Foreign Minister today.

1873: It was reported today that members of Adas Jeshrun and Anshi Chesed, two Jewish Temples in Manhattan, have been meeting to discuss the possibility of consolidation. Anshi Chesed has over 100 members while Adas Jeshrun has approximately 300 members. Some of the sticking points revolve around finances with Anshi Chesed being in $110,000 in debt from the construction of a new sanctuary. The other points of contention revolve around ritual. Adas Jeshrun is not in favor of many of the reforms adopted by other Temples.  Prayer is in Hebrew and heads are covered during services.  Anshi Chesed favors reform.  Services are held in German and there is a movement to begin using English.  And heads are uncovered during services.

1874: “Influences of Judaism on Early Christianity” published today shows that acknowledging the Jewish origins of Christianity becomes a negative in the conflict between Protestants and Catholics.  “There is no question that the earliest Christian Church was a Hebrew Church. There is also no question that it was an offshoot from this Hebrew Church which planted itself with exceptional vigor at Rome; and that hence Roman Christianity from that time to this, has been strongly tinctured with Jewish elements, has blazed with Jewish intolerance, delighted in Jewish gorgeousness, and fallen a victim to Jewish realism; while Pauline or Augustinian or Protestant idealism has struggled manfully…to overcome the deep weight of these lower ingredients…and to assert for intelligence and freedom their true place in the Church.”

1874: The New York Times defended itself charges leveled in the Jewish Messenger that the paper’s use of the term “Jew” was one of derision or insult.  The Times contended that it was merely using it as an identification of national origin or ancestry in the same way that that it uses the term to American or Englishman.  The Times identifies lawbreakers as Jewish and does not do so with Christian lawbreakers, because absent the statement of distinction, it is assumed the criminal is a Christian.

1877: Birthdate of Ira Solomon Wile, the native of Rochester, NY who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1902 and “practiced as a pediatrician at Mt. Sinai Hospital” in New York City.

1878: It was reported today that government of Romania has continued to fail to honor its pledges concerning the treatment of Jews given to the Great Powers when they met in Berlin. “Unless the some of the treat power can be induced” to take direct action “It is likely that the Romanian Jews will be no better off in the immediate future they have been in the past.

1879(14th of Kislev, 5640): Mr. S.L. Lewis passed away today in the Sandwich Islands. (This may be the first reported death of a Jew in what is now Hawaii).

1880: It was reported today that “a petition has been presented to Prince Bismarck to restrict the civil rights of the Jews and repeal the absolute equality enjoyed by them with German.” The petition sent to the Chancellor is filled with complaints that Jews “are rapidly getting rich as merchants, landed proprietors and capitalists” and that if left unchecked within a generation Jews “will be lording it over the Teutons” i.e. the true Germans. 

1881: It was reported today that I. Albert Engelhart is the President of the newly incorporated Hebrew Society for the Improvement of the Sanitary Condition of the Poor.  Uriah Hermann and Alfred Steckler are the vice presidents of the society which is dedicated to improving the living conditions of the immigrant and poor in New York.  Among other things, the society will work for the construction of “good tenements” that will be healthful home and to “prevent the adulteration” of their food.

1883: Miss Lillie Bernheimer treated 170 children attending the Industrial School of the United Hebrew Charities to turkey dinner in honor of Thanksgiving.

1884: In Cleveland, OH, newspaperman Maurice Weidenthal, the Bohemian born son “of Emanuel and Julie Weidenthal” and his wife Lida Weidenthal gave birth to Edward Weidenthal

1884(11^th of Kislev, 5645): Fifty-seven year old, Levi Goldenberg  A native of Frankfort, he came to the Baltimore, MD in 1845 before eventually moving to New York where he became a leading lace merchant, as one of the principles of Goldenberg Brothers &Co.  Goldenberg was a noted philanthropist and was a founding member of Temple Beth-El

1885: It was reported today that there has been a clash between a band of Austrian Gypsies and a Jews living in village in Bessarabia.

1885: A review of The Religion of Philosophy or The Unification of Knowledge by Raymond S Perrin published today points out that the “Hebrew Religion has a chapter to itself.”

1886: It was reported today that there are approximately 6,300,000 Jews in the world today, two and a half million of whom live in the European part of the Russian Empire.  There are 63,000 Jews living in France while there are 562,000 Jews living in France.  Ironically, 39,000 of them live in Alsac-Lorraine which means the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War reduced France’s Jewish population by about one third.

1887: It was reported today the Reverend E. D. Simons of Bloomfield, NJ, will present a paper entitled “Why the Jews Crucified Christ” next week.

1887: A national meeting of Reform Rabbis came to a close in New York City today. 

1887: Seventy-eight year old Dr. Samuel Adler, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El “gave a dissertation on the benedictions with which ritual is interspersed “tracing them back “Ezra and the return from the Babylonian Capitivty.”

1888(25^th of Kislev, 5649): For Jews a double header – first day of Chanukah and Thanksgiving

1888: At Temple Beth-El in New York, Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler will deliver a sermon entitled “What does America owe to the Jews and what the Jew to America at today’s Thanksgiving  Services

1888: It was reported today that the late Mrs. Jette Lissauer named the Home for Aged and Infirmed Hebrews and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum as two of her beneficiaries in her will provided that the patients and students say Kaddish on her Yarhtzeit. 

1888: It was reported today that Yetta Reiner, an 18 year old Jewish girl who arrived in the United States two weeks ago was last seen on November 26 talking to a man on the corner of Hester and Norfolk Streets who promised to find her a job.

1888: It was reported today from Vienna, that “Baron Hirsch has made a donation of $5,000,000 for schools for Jews in Galicia and Bukovina.”

1889: It was reported today that one of “little girls” under the care of the United Hebrew Charities read a poem to Samuel D. Levy yesterday “congratulating him on having his birthday on Thanksgiving Day, so that he could celebrate with Turkey.”

1889: It was reported today that the new synagogue being built on 67^thStreet between Lexington and Third avenue “will be known as the Ephraim Memorial in honor of the late Ephraim Weil,” whose sons have contributed heavily to the building fund.  In Hebrew, the congregation is called Zichron Ephraim.(The congregation lives on today as Park East Synagogue. The orthodox congregation is led by Rabbi Bernard Drachman.

1889: It was reported that the 600 children at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum “ate about six hundred pounds of turkey at their Thanksgiving dinner” and consumed “enough cake and ice cream and candy to freight a ship. (The reference to Turkey and ice cream makes wonder about the Kashrut at this esteemed institution supported by such Jewish luminaries as Jesse Seligman and Oscar Straus)

1892: In France, during the investigation of the scandal surrounding the failed attempt to build the Panama Canal the Chamber of Deputies heard testimony that Charles de Lesseps had said that among those whom he paid to influence the price of his company’s stock were the Jews who “offered to assist when new issues were announced” because they were “able to praise or decry according to the sums received.”  ( Frenchmen were always willing to blame Jews every time one of their financial bubbles burst and the public’s view of Jews as conniving manipulators was instrumental in creating the environment that gave birth to the Dreyfus affair).

1893: Plans were published today for the upcoming Thanksgiving Dinner sponsored by the United Hebrew Charities Society.

1894(1st of Kislev, 5655): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1894: Thanksgiving

1894: In Cleveland, OH, Marcus and Addie Fedder gave birth to Lloyd H. Feder, the husband of Jeanne Feder.

1894: “Three hundred and fifty little girls and boys pupils of the Industrial School of the United Hebrew Charities were entertained today at a Thanksgiving dinner at the schoolhouse on 85 St. Mark’s Place

1894: “To Humanity,” the new Hamilton place wing of the Montefiore Home was dedicated today in New York.  The Montefiore Home had been dedicated ten years earlier as part of the Centennial Celebration honoring Sir Moses Montefiore. Among the speakers were Jacob Schiff and Charles S. Fairchild who noted “how appropriate it was to have the celebration on Thanksgiving Day.”

1895: According to evidence presented today at the Harlem Court, Solomon Riens a resident of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews right to vote was challenged by Eugene Frayer because the institution received tax money which meant he was a public charge and this not eligible to vote. The unanswered question is why the other 12 residents of the Home were allowed to vote without any challenge.

1895: Twenty-seven year old Daniel Ryan and 36 year old Daniel Healy were charged with “Jew baiting” in Essex Market Court after the police observed them striking at every Jew they passed on East Broadway.

1895: It was reported today that attendance of the Girl’s Industrial School of the United Hebrew Charities averages 250 students a day.

1896(24^th of Kislev, 5657): Kindle the first Chanukah Candle

1896: Several trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund visited the agricultural colony established by the fund at Woodbine, NJ for Jewish immigrants from Russia.

1896: The Jewish settlers at Woodbine, NJ dedicated their new house of worship this evening.

1896: James Loeb will deliver a lecture at the Hebrew Institute on “Civic Life in Greece.”

1896: The funeral for former State Senator Joseph C. Wolff will take this place this morning at Temple Ahawath Chesed at Lexington and 55^th.

1897: Birthdate of Alfred K. Stern, the Fargo, ND, native who marred Martha Dodd Stern, the daughter of William E. Dodd FDR’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany. She became a foe of the Nazis and fascism and he joined her in her efforts which led to them being named as suspected spies for the Soviet Union.

1897: Herzl outlines his ideas for the "Jewish Colonial Bank" in a letter to Max Nordau.

1897: Birthdate of Troy, NY native Joseph Harris, who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic

1897: “Jews In United States” published today included information in the recently issued sixth publication of the American Jewish Historical Society that featured an article by Philadelphian David Sulzberger entitled “Growth of the of the Jewish Population in the United States.”

1898: The outbreak of measles among the children of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum which began on November 5 “has been checked” according to Superintendent Baar.

1898: Birthdate of C.S. Lewis

http://blog.beliefnet.com/kingdomofpriests/2010/02/jrr-tolkien-cs-lewis-on-jews.html

1898: Birthdate of Kovno native Louis Eliot Baker, the Massachusetts attorney who was active in the YMHA and B’nai B’rith

1898: Twenty-seven year old Wittenberg educated and Ohio State University trained physician Louis Syman, a specialist in the practice of internal medicine and the Cleveland born son of Ranks and Rebecca Syman who served as the “regimental surgeon of the 362nd Infantry, U.S. Army during WWI, married Bertha Reinheimer today.

1898: Birthdate of Morris Dicker who would be buried in the Agudas Achim Cemetery in Iowa City.

1898: In Camden, NJ, “Solomon Joseph and Rosa (Zuckerman) Goldstein” gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained physician who specialized in obstetrics and gynecology and co-authored “Paget’s Disease of the Bones” and served as President of Beth-El Synagogue in Camden, NJ.

1900: Birthdate of Evansville, IN, native and newspaperman Arthur T. Weil, the holder of Bachelor’s in Journalism from University Missouri who wrote “Exploding the Myth of a Jewish Hierarchy which was published in the American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune which published in May of 1934.

1902: In St. Louis, Morris and Eva Ostrich Bearman gave birth to their youngest son Leo Berman, the Vanderbilt trained attorney who practiced in Memphis where he was a pillar of the Jewish community.

http://www.jhsmem.org/bio/LeoBearman.pdf

1902:  Birthdate of Italian painter and novelist Carlo Levi.

1905(1^st of Kislev, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1905: On its editorial page, the New York Times published “the letter by a worthy Christian with a heart and soul full of sympathy” for the “poor suffering Jews of Russia” signed simply “W.H.S.”

1905: Jacob H. Schiff, the Treasurer of “the National Relief Committee which is collecting funds for the sufferers from Russian massacres” received a letter from Baron Horace Gunzberg which provided “the first word” of how the funds will be distributed once they get to Russia which he said will go to the Jews and those who have suffering by helping to protect the Jews.

1905: The Koinigsberf Hartugnsche Zeitung,  a German newspaper that is “usually reliable” printed “dispatch from Minsk” today  saying that a planned massacre of the Jews had been “averted through negotiations between the Jews and the priest who leads the anti-Semitic element” but that in reality, “the massacre has merely been postponed until next week.”

1905: Today, in Paris, “prices on the Bourse were feeble at the opening, but strengthened on a report that the Russian laws aimed against the Jews had been abrogated.”

1905: It was reported today that so far $920,000 has been collected by the National Committee for the Relief of the Sufferers from the Russian Massacres including $545 from Congregation Beth-El in Alexandria, VA, $114 from Temple Emanu-El in Vancouver, British Columbia and $43 from the “Jewish Community of Enid, Oklahoma.”

1905: “Russian Poles and Jews” who are seeking employment in Canada and “who were captured by the Japanese arrived” in Victoria, British Columbia aboard “the steam Iyo Maru” today.

1905: It was reported today that in Russia “all train service has been stopped so there is no means for the Jews to escape the slaughter” but “when the trains are running again the Jews will emigrate by the thousands and come to America.”

1905: It was reported today that four thousand Jews gathered at a mass meeting in Berlin where “strong resolutions were adopted” protesting against the violence in Russia.

1905: The Altamont Culture Club, whose members included Joseph Deane, Charles H. Schneer and Samuel Berman was “organized” today in Norfolk, VA.

1905: It was reported today that a committee consisting of Isidor Straus, Marcus M. Marks, Edward Lauterbach, Arthur K. Kuhn, Abraham Erlanger, Albert Stiglitz and Gustav Lindenthal will make an appeal to the public for additional funds on behalf of the Educational Alliance which is facing an “increased demand” for its services in “Americanizing the ignorant and destitute immigrants who are coming to” the United States in ever increasing numbers because of the “persecution now going on in Russia.

1906: Thirty year old Charles C. Simons, the Detroit born son of David W. Simon and University of Michigan trained attorney who was appointed by President Harding to serve as a U.S. District Judge married Lillian Bernstein today in Chicago.

1906: Birthdate of photographer Sterling Henry Nahum, the Clifton College and University of Manchester decorated WW II veteran, known as the Baron, who began his career of photographing the Royal Family thanks to having “earned the confidence Lord Mountbatten.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-jews-shot-their-way-into-britains-photographic-memory/

1907: Birthdate of Italian-born British geneticist Guido Pontecorvo. who fled from his homeland to Great Britain in 1938 to avoid growing anti-Semitism.

http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/makers-of-modern-genetics/digitised-archives/guido-pontecorvo



1908: Birthdate of Harry Wagreich, the Professor of Chemistry at CCNY and brother of Dr. Samuel Wagreich and Dr. Paul Wagreich.

1910: Birthdate of Austrian born Anglo-Jewish scholar Walter Ullman who specialized in “medieval political thought and legal theory.”

1911(8^th of Kislev, 5672): Cleveland rabbi, Max Lakman passed away today.

1912: In Chicago Rabbi Katkoff and Cantor Millar are scheduled to lead Friday night services at the Institute.

1912: Yiddish theatre stars Jacob P. Adler, Leon Blank and Francis Adler are scheduled to perform tonight at the Haymarket in Chicago this evening.

1914(11th of Kislev, 5675): Sixty-four year old Gittel “Catherine” Helvich Schubert, the wife of the late David Schubert with whom she had six children passed away today after which she was buried in Salem Fields Cemetery.

1914(11^th of Kislev, 5675): Lewis Seasongood, the Bavarian born son of “Mendel and Hannah Suessenguth, and the husband of Emma Seasongood with whom he had two children, who “settled in Cincinnati in 1851 after which he was appointed in 1873 “by President Grant Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition and “in 1882 appointed by Governor Foster Quartermaster of the State with the rank of General” passed away today in Atlantic City.

1914: Borough President Marcus M. Marks the delegates attending the sixth annual convention of the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America which is meeting in the Education Alliance building “that they ought to avail themselves of the free markets” thereby helping to reduce the cost of living among Jews living on the Lower East Side.

1914: A committee of 100 formed at a meeting of the Educational Meeting is scheduled to meet Solomon Rabinowitz who uses the pen name Sholom Aleichem when he arrives in New York today aboard the Frederik VIII from Copenhagen where he has staying “since his escape from Berlin.”

1914: The Day published an editorial entitled “Russian Promises and Polish Pogroms” by Herman Bernstein.

1914: It was reported today that “in Janow and Krasmk the Jews were accused of setting mines to destroy Russian soldiers” which was the justification for destroying the two towns and hanging Jews including children from telephone poles.

1914: “Poles Killing Jews” published today provides a summary of the attack first published in The Day “by George Brandes, the Danish critic on the anti-Jewish agitation in Poland.

1914: It was reported today that a brief will be presented to the Supreme Court that will include a challenge to the conviction of Leo Frank by on a suggestion “by Mr. Justice Homes that there was a denial of due process of law through the presence of hostile mob.”

1915: Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, the commander of the Zion Mule Corps fell ill and had to be evacuated to Alexandria and thence to London “leaving Joseph Trumpeldor in command.”  (Jewish Virtual Library)

1915(22^nd of Tevet, 5676): Meyer London a native of Wolkovishk, Russia who came to the United States 47 years where he became so successful at baking “unleavened bread” that he was known as the Matzah King passed away today at this home on East Broadway.

1915: Mrs. Etta Fine the “President of the association of 1,200 mother who support and manage” the Jewish Day Nursery facilities which serve “fatherless children” was quoted today as saying that “it will take $25,000 to run the branches on Henry Street and East 107^th Street.”

1916: Fifteen hundred of the six thousand Jews in the United States who have gone in for farming sent delegates” today “to the opening session of the eighth annual convention of the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America” where “they were welcomed by Louis Marshall, the President of the American Jewish Committee, eighty year old Simon Wolf of Washington, Rabbi Judah L. Magne and Cyrus Sulzberger.

1916: Jacob H. Schiff is among those who have been asked to address the “great peace meeting” scheduled to be held at P.S. 4 this evening whose supporters included Harry Schalacht of the East Side Protective Association.

1917: Former University of Michigan 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” and his wife Jennie Magidsohn gave birth to their second child Dorothy Magidsohn today.

1917(14^th of Kislev, 5678): Forty-one year old Dr. Sigmund Deutsch, a member of the army medical reserve corps passed away today in New York City.

1917: The Jewish National Workers Alliance of America which had been organized in 1912 held its annual conference today in Trenton, NJ.

1917: As the British continued their offensive to take Jerusalem, a combined force of the British and Australian Nos. 1 and 111 Squadrons, attacked the Tul Keram aerodrome in the morning and again in the evening “after German planes bombed the Julis aerodrome and hit No. 113 Squadron's orderly room.”

1917: Thanksgiving

1917: President Wilson received a pledge of the support of the Jews of the United States in his prosecution of the war at a Thanksgiving service of the Institutional Synagogue where “Representative Isaac Siegel…said that the pacifist views attributed to certain elements of the Jewish people did not represent the general attitude of the Jews of this country” since “there are 62,000 loyal Hebrews in the Army,” four thousand of whom “are already with General Pershing in France.”

1917: Standing on a platform at Cooper Union draped with the Stars and Stripes and the flag of Zionism Baruch Zuckerman, the General Secretary of the Peoples Relief Committee presided over a meeting tonight “of Zionist who are Socialists” and are celebrating the declaration of the British Government expressing support for “allowing the Jews to establish their national home in Palestine

1918(25^th of Kislev, 5679): First Day of Chanukah and the first Chanukah celebrated after four years of World War.

1918: “Julian W. Mack, the President of the Zionist Organization of America and Louis Marshall, the President of the American Jewish Committee, issued a joint statement” today in which they said that the organizations they represent have received from authoritative and unprejudiced sources in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London and the Hague explicit cablegrams substantiating reports of pogroms in Galicia and various parts of Poland and Rumania.

1918: It was reported today that Dr. Stephen S. Wise will serve as chairman of the delegation that the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is sending to Europe to deal with “many questions concerning” the Zionist movement that have arisen in Europe.  The delegation includes Mrs. Joseph Fels, Louis Robinson, Dr. Shmarya Levin and the Chicago attorney Bernard Flexner. (This delegation was being sent as the world prepared for the Peace Conference at Versailles which was intended to formally end the World War and lay the groundwork for a new world order based on Wilson’s 14 Points. Among other things, the Jews wanted to make sure that the victors honored the promises of the Balfour Declaration and took measures to protect the Jews living in the former Austrian, German and Russian empires.

1919: In Montreal, Louis and Anna Weider gave birth to Josef Weider who gained fame as bodybuilder Joe Weider the creator of “an empire of muscle magazines, fitness equipment, doubtful dietary supplements and Olympic-style contests featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.” (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

1920: In New York City Richard Wolff, “a mechanical engineer” and the former Estelle Cohn gave birth to Robert Alfred Wolff, the sportscaster whom I first heard as the voice of one of the worst teams in baseball – the Washington Senators – and whom none of my friends at the time knew was Jewish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/sports/bob-wolff-dead-sports-broadcaster.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article&_r=0

1921: “In the town of Soroke in Bessarabian Romania,” Rokhl and Elkhonen Gendler gave birth Arkady Gendler who became the “icon and paragon of the Yiddish Revival Movement.:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/131547/91-year-old-yiddish-rock-star

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/235155/obituary-arkady-gendler-yiddish-music-legend?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=c4da957459-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-c4da957459-206644398

 1921: Twenty-six year old Thea (Almerigotti) La Guardia, the first wife of  future Mayor Fiorello La Guardia whose father was a Catholic from Italy and whose mother was Jew from Trieste and who chose to follow in the faith of his father but dazzled New Yorkers with his ability to speak Yiddish on the campaign trail

1921: Eighty-five year old Augustus Hopkins Strong the author of Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of of God which “which presented an alternative explanation of all the alleged inaccuracies reflected in the Hebrew Bible” passed away today.

1922: In the Village of Ashmore in Dorset, Edith Edinger and Geoffrey Howard gave birth to Oxford historian Michael Elliot Howard the winner of the Wolfson Prize, which was established by Sir Isaac Wolfson, in 1972 for The Grand Strategy: August 1942 – September 1943

1923: Charlie Phil Rosenberg, a product of the Jewish Lower East Side in New York, met future Bantamweight World Champion Eddie Martin for the first of their three bouts today.

1924: Birthdate of Jane Niederhoffer the Flatbush native who gained fame as landscape artist Jane Freilicher.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/arts/jane-freilicher-an-outsider-in-era-of-abstract-expressionism-dies-at-90.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1925: In Washington, DC, the Hebrew Home for the Aged dedicated a new 35 bed facility.

1925: Two days after he had passed way, funeral service were held for 43 year old Horace Andrew Saks, co-founder of Saks Fifth Avenue followed by burial in Brooklyn at Salem Fields.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/11/28/98842905.pdf

1926: In responding to publication of the report of Dr. Henry S. Pritchett of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who asserted that the movement to colonize Palestine with Jews is ""unfortunate and visionary," Congressman Emanuel Celler maintained that Dr. Pritchett went to Palestine to find a flare and was surprised to find success.  He said that disparage Palestine now was ‘childish,’ that it has been sanctioned and encouraged by the League of Nations. ‘To call the Jews an egotistical nation without capacity of cooperation, with the rest of the world, is akin to insult and belies the history and tradition of the Jews.’ [Editor’s Note:  An early version of anti-Zionism meets anti-Semitism.

1926: At tonight’s meeting of the Jewish National Fund at Cooper Union, Bernard A. Rosenblatt responded to “the adverse report of Dr. Henry S. Pritchett on Zionism in Palestine…declared that the fundamentals of economic prosperity exited in Palestine and they would be fully developed.”

1928: Thanksgiving

1928: “In a Thanksgiving address at Temple Ansche Chesed,” Senator Royal S. Copeland “traced the origins of Thanksgiving Day to the Jews of Biblical times saying: ‘I have no doubt that Elder Brewster and the Pilgrim Fathers consulted the Book of Books in preparing for the first Thanksgiving Day.’”

1928: In Manhattan, Irving Kaufman, a CPA and the former Sophie Smith gave birth to Charles Kaufman, the holder of a doctoral degree in musicology who “saved” the Mannes College of Music. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/nyregion/charles-kaufman-former-mannes-college-of-music-leader-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1928: Birthdate of Shulamit Aloni an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-minister-shulamit-aloni-dies-at-85-2/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/world/middleeast/shulamit-aloni-outspoken-israeli-lawmaker-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0

1929: ‘The Love Parade,” a musical comedy directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Lillian Roth was released today in the United States.

1929: In Chicago,  Arthur Mordechai Rabinovitz, the Lithuanian born son  of Sholem Moshe Rabinovitz and Chaya-Leah Levy, and his wife Anna Dorothy Silverstone gave birth to Abba Silverstone Rabinovitz

1930(9^th of Kislev, 5691): Parashat Vayetzei

1930: In Randfontein, South Africa, Eli and Olga Goldblatt whose parents had fled European persecution gave birth to photographer David Goldblatt.

https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/exhibitions/david-goldblatt/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/16/david-goldblatts-photographs-documenting-the-casual-horror-of-apartheid-south-africa

1930: This evening “a prominent member of the Revisionists’ Central Committee…said that Jabotinsky’s party would not agree to negotiate with the British Government on the basis of the present white paper. The Revisionists also will not negotiate with the Arabs as long as they continue to demand the abolition of the Balfour Declaration, revocation of the Palestine mandate and the denial of right Jews to repopulate Palestine as a national homeland.

1930: In Upper Clapton, London Jacob Edward "Jack" Cohen, the founder and owner of Tesco, and Sarah "Cissie" (née Fox), the daughter of a master tailor gave birth to Shirley Cohen who gained fame as Dame Shirley Porter, a leader of the Conservative Party in the UK and who “helped established the Porter Centre for Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University, which opened its iconic LEED Platinum-graded building in 2014.”

1931: In Philadelphia, PA the former Rose Schwartz and Harry Rosenberg gave birth to Allen Perry Rosenberg the Olympic rowing coach. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

1932: Several Jews were injured in Lwow by Gentiles leaving the cemetery where Jan Grotowski while four young Jews who had previously been arrested were “tried in a summary court” as anti-Semitic outburst continued throughout the country.1935

1933: Birthdate of Dr. David Reuben author of Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex

1934: “While the rest of the team was playing in Omiya, Moe Berg “the intellectual baseball player turned spy’ went to Saint Luke's Hospital in Tsukiji, ostensibly to visit the daughter of American ambassador Joseph Grew but instead sneaked onto the roof of the hospital, one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, and filmed the city and harbor with his movie camera. (These pictures would later be used by the Doolittle Raiders when they attacked Tokyo in 1942.)

1934: “A delegation representing the Vienna Jewish community was en route to Paris today to negotiate with leading Jewish organizations” including the American Joint Distribution Committee “for extensive loans to the community organizations” in Austria where the government has instituted a program “ousting Jews from the country’s economic system.

1935: In Cleveland, OH, Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner addressed the National Convention of Hadassah where he urged “this generation of Jews to make Palestine the homeland for hundreds of thousands of Jews who are being crowded out of many countries.

1936: Germany's Minister of Agriculture, Walther Darré, declared that democracy and liberalism were invented by the Jews and that “communism would not fail because of its theories but solely because it was Jewish.”

1936: It was announced today that “Governor Herbert H. Lehman and leading educators from parts of the country will participate in a series of meetings designed to ‘honor and evaluation scholarship in the fields of religion and Hebraic learning’ under the auspices of the Semi-Centennial Committee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.”

1936: “The British Royal Commission now in Jerusalem inquiring into the administration of the Palestine mandate was asked today” through a “resolution adopted by the National Council for Palestine” which is composed of Jewish” leaders in the United States, “to embody in its findings the policies of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which pledged Great Britain to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.”

1936: Tonight in Moscow at the All-Union Congress of Soviets Premier Molotoff attacked fascism, declared Soviet democracy was superior to bourgeois democracy” and emphasized that equality of races was guaranteed in the Soviet Union” where “active anti-Semitism was punished by death” while “Chancellor Adolf Hitler used Jews as scapegoats for everything that went wrong in Germany.”

1936: “Air Minister Herman Goering…declared that Germany was now a stronger power than she was in 1914.” (See the above and the outlines of WW II become obvious as to why there were Jews who supported the Soviet Union and the Communist Party.)

1936: The National Council for Palestine adopted a resolution which was sent today to the British Royal Commission now meeting in Jerusalem ask that it “it embody in its findings the policies of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which pledged Great Britain to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.”

1937(25th of Kislev, 5698): First day of Chanukah; in the evening kindle the second light.

1937: Birthdate of Zuzana Goldmannová who in 1942 was deported from Prague to Ujazdow where she was murdered by the Nazis.

1937: Today’s edition of Time magazine describes the fate of Arnold Bernstein at the hands of his Nazi jailers.

Greying Arnold Bernstein, 47, son of an old-time Saxon shipper, served with distinction as a German artillery officer during the War, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class. Back in Germany after the War he evolved the scheme of fitting modern freighters with automobile elevators so that U. S. cars could be exported to Europe uncrated and unscratched. So successful was this that Bernstein "floating garages'' have long carried over 60% of all U. S. automobile exports, made enough money for sole Owner Arnold Bernstein to allow him to buy out the American-Belgian-British Red Star Line and incidentally bring into Nazi Germany thousands of dollars yearly in much needed foreign exchange. Bernstein passenger agents find their boats are "very popular with intellectuals who object to the snobbishness of Cabin Class." Partly because of his personal popularity and War record, Shipper Arnold Bernstein was left in control of his business much longer than most Jewish tycoons. Finally last January, Nazi extremists forced the Government's hand. Arnold Bernstein and four of his managers (three Jewish), were clapped into jail, charged with "economic sabotage" through infringing German foreign exchange regulations. While he sat in jail Bernstein's 21-month-old Palestine Shipping Co. went into receivership "because the Jews deserted me," says Prisoner Bernstein, and Japanese bought for $150,000 its auctioned steamer Tel Aviv. Last week in Hamburg the trial of Arnold Bernstein began. Of all the eight charges in a 88-page indictment against Shipper Bernstein the gravest was that several years ago he set aside in Manhattan banks a fund from the Arnold Bernstein & Red Star Lines' profits to be held for a rainy day of the two lines (whose two chief creditors are the Erie R. R. and Chemical Bank & Trust Co.). This entire sum was returned to Germany some months ago. Hamburg lawyers scoffed at news stories that Bernstein "faces death," expected him to get anything from a five-year jail sentence to pardon. Since the arrest of Arnold Bernstein, Herman Kollmar, the director of his Red Star Line and his executor, has been in amicable contact with Minister President & Economic Director Hermann Goring, seeking a pardon, showing Ford and Studebaker company letters urging clemency. Mr. Kollmar denied rumors that the German Government has taken or plans to take over the Bernstein Line, admitted these rumors have caused many cancellations.

1937: The Habima Hebrew Players open their third week of their season at London’s Savoy Theatre with a performance of “The Wandering Jews.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that a police tender was ambushed and a British constable was killed near Nazareth. A Jewish worker was wounded when a bus was shot at near Nahalal, at the same spot where two Jewish shepherds were murdered and their flocks stolen a year earlier.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that there were very favorable, frequently enthusiastic reports on the series of performances given by the Habimah theater troupe on its visit to London. In the midst of Arab terrorism the Jewish community to develop its artistic, social and political institutions.

1938(6^th of Kislev, 5699): Sixty-five year old school teacher Isaac Plaut, the German born son of Simon and Lina Plaut and husband of Sophie Plaut with whom he had had eight children was murdered today at Sachenhausen

1938: Establishment of the 29^th“tower and stockade” kibbutz, Mishmar Zevulun which would be moved to a new site in 1940 and renamed Kfar Masaryk in honor of the first President of Czechoslovakia.

1939: “Mrs. Roosevelt Charges Intolerance Drive Against Refugees and Seeks Fund Sources” published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A05EED7143EE432A2575AC2A9679D946894D6CF

1939: “American numismatist,” Eric Pfeiffer Newman, the son of Samuel Elijah Newman and Rose Pfeiffer Newman married Evelyn Edison who “had two children, Linda N. Schapiro and Andrew E. Newman.”

1939: Heydrich commented on the first stages of the Final Solution declaring that "The factor determining the pace of the evacuation is the Evacuation Plan."   Nothing would slow down the ultimate march to the Death Camps.

1939: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the death penalty for German Jews who refuse to report for deportation.

1939: Thanks to the “intervention by the United States and British consul execution of the order by the authorities in Kaunas that Maurycy Orezch, the correspondent for the Daily Forwardreturned to the German-occupied territory of Poland has been stayed and the British consul said he was ready to grant Orzech a visa to England if Estonia, Latvia and Sweden would grant transit visas.”

1939: “Premier Wladilas Sikorski of Poland issued a statement” in Paris tonight “vigorously protesting Nazi ‘atrocities’ in the western part of Poland” which have been incorporated into the German Reich.

1940: Levie (Louis) Hillesum, the father of Esther (Etty) Hillesum was dismissed as classics teacher and deputy headmaster of the gymnasium in Deventer “by the occupation government imposed by Nazi German following the invasion of The Netherlands.”

1940: On his own initiative, Dutch Physicist Leonard Ornstein withdrew his membership in the Dutch Physical Society

1940: “The Bank Dick” a comedy featuring Shemp Howard with music by Charles Previn was released in the United States today.

1940: Six months after having been released in the United Kingdom, “Contraband, “a spy film with a screenplay by Emeric Pressburger was released in the United States today.

1941: Fredrich Jecekeln  held a final planning session with is senior commander where he told them that “the extermination of the Jews was their patriotic duty” and that nobody would be excused from participating in the upcoming liquation of the ghetto.

1941: Karl Heise met with the Protective Police and told them of their role in tomorrows “resettlement of the Jews in the Riga Ghetto, a term they all knew meant a mass killing.

1941: The Latvian militia and police received their final instructions as to their role in the upcoming liquidation of the ghetto. (The Nazis could always count on local accomplices during the Shoah)

1941: In Riga, as of this morning “the Nazis had finished segregating the able-bodied men into the small ghetto.”

1941: In Riga, “while the columns of 1,000 were formed this morning, they were later dispersed, causing relief among the inhabitants, who believed that the entire evacuation had been cancelled

1941:“After returning from work today, Max Kaufman and his 16 year old son, did not return to the large ghetto, but were housed instead in a ruined building on Vilanu Street in the small ghetto

1941: The first transport of German Jews from Berlin arrived in Riga today.

1941: Jan Peerce (b. Yakob Perelmuth) “made his much acclaimed debut at the Met” at the same time when his brother-in-law Richard Tucker was trying to start a small business and working at Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx.

1941: Kovno Massacre of the Ghetto. Estimated 10,600 people would be killed over the next few days.

1942: The Jewish Fighting Organization of the Warsaw Ghetto assassinated the economic head of the Jewish Council who was an active German collaborator

1942: The U.S. Drum, a submarine serving in the Pacific, began its fourth war patrol with future Admiral Maurice Rindskopf serving as Torpedo and Gunnery Officer.

1942: Dr. Erich Blumenthal, a resident of Berlin who was born in 1883 was deported today and finally murdered in Auschwitz. (As reported by YNet)

1942: Helen Blumenthal, a resident of Berlin who was born in 1888 was deported today and finally murdered in Auschwitz. (As reported by YNet)

1942: Friedrich Rehmer, a member of the Red Orchestra, who was in the Brietz military hospital recovering from a severe war wound sustained on the Eastern Front was arrested today and taken from the hospital. Eventually, he would be killed for his role in the resistance.

1943: “50,000 Kiev Jews Reported Killed” published today provides a firsthand account of the slaughter at Babi Yar and the attempts to cover it up by the Nazis.  It is worth reading in its entirety because it puts the lie to the notion that people did not know about the slaughter of the Jews until after the war was over.

1944: Today, “four days after advancing into Holland,” Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, the lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge who had been serving with the British Army since 1940 and had joined the Monuments Men in 1944” “fractured his ankle in a traffic accident” after which he “outmaneuvered the medical staff at a hospital in Eindhoven” and thus avoided being ship back to the UK.

1946: British Court in Palestine rejects a petition to prevent deportation of Jews to Cyprus

1946: Today, Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman delivered a tribute in memory of Dr. Solly Baron, the rabbi who had fled Nazi Germany and who passed away at the age of 72 two days earlier in St. Louis.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98900950

1946: Today, for the second time, NBC cancelled “The Guiding Light,” a soap operated created by Irma Phillips which “was based on personal experiences.

1946: Szapsel (Shabtai) Rotholc, the Polish-Jewish boxer, “was expelled from the Jewish community for a period of two years; his civil rights in the community were rescinded for a further three years.” (As reported by Uri Talshir)

1947: In one of the most historic moments in Jewish history, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted to accept the recommendation of the United Nations Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP).  UNSCOP recommended the partition of Palestine into two states – one Jewish and one Arab with Jerusalem to governed by an international authority.  The vote was thirty-three in favor, thirteen against and ten abstentions.  In a rare moment of Cold War solidarity, both the United States and the Soviet Union supported the UNSCOP plan which guaranteed the creation of the state of Israel in May of 1948.  One other recommendation of the UNSCOP plan was the opening of a port on February 1, 1948 to Jewish immigrants.  Almost three years after the ovens of the Holocaust had cooled, boatloads of displaced persons would finally have a final destination.  When news of the partition vote reached the public, “there were celebrations in New York, in Palestine, wherever Jews lived.  Traffic stopped in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as people danced in the streets until the early hours of the morning.”  In the words of Rabbi Isaac Herzog, “After a darkness of two thousand years, the dawn of redemption has broken.”  Arabs say they are not bound by decision and charge that U.S. and Soviet Union coerced smaller countries to vote for partition.[ Starting on the next day, the Arabs responded with violence that would continue until the end of the mandate and unfortunately has continued literally to this day in the 21^st century]

1947: Edis De Philippe mounted a gala performance of selections from operas, which was soon followed by a full production of Thaïs in which she performed the title role (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)

1947: Despite having virtually no Jewish population or tie to the Yishuv, Iceland is among nations voting for the Partition Plan creating a Jewish state.

1947: The annual convention of Junior Hadassah, the young women's Zionist organization of America, at its concluding session today, received from Dr. Chaim Weizmaiin, former president of the World Zionist Organization, a call for young men and women, "who are nurtured in western methods and standards" to "further the building of the (Jewish) state."

1948: Israel applied for admission to the United Nations.

1948: Stanton Griffis was appointed Director of the UNRPR.

1948: In Encino, CA, Bernard and Ferne Milken gave birth UCLA trained lawyer and junk bond trader Lowell Jay Milken, the brother of crooked financier Michael Milken

1949: In Chicago, Illinois, print shop owner Irving Shandling and his wife pet store proprietor Muriel Estelle (née Singer) Shandling gave birth to Garry Emmanuel Shandling who was raised in Arizona and gained game as comedian Gary Shandling.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/garry-shandling-who-parodied-tvs-conventions-in-two-hit-comedy-shows-dies-at-66/2016/03/24/cc268cde-f1ff-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html

1949(8^th of Kislev, 5710): Forty-seven year old Dallas native and Goucher College graduate Reba Wadel, “a former chairman of the National Women’s Division of the UJA” and the husband of Ernest G. Wadel was among the 28 people who were killed in plane crash at the edge of Love Field in Dallas, TX.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/30/96483635.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/30/96483598.pdf



1949: Israelis pause to celebrate anniversary of the United Nations partition resolution.  Zipporah Porath, a nurse working in Haifa, wrote to her parents living in the United States describing the proud parade of Israel’s newly minted soldiers.

1950: Birthdate of Hideo Levy, the son of a Polish-American mother and a Jewish father who “was honored with a Japan Foundation Special Prize in 2007 “for his contributions to the introduction of Japanese literature to foreign readers.”

1950(20th of Kislev, 5711): Sixty-five year old Czernowitz native Frederick Zelnik the prominent producer and director of silent movies in Germany who took refuge in the United States with the rise of Hitler passed away today in London.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/6403915417

1951(30^th of Cheshvan, 5712): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1951(30^th of Cheshvan, 5712): Sixty-four year old Latvian born American expert on Russia Max Laserson, the husband of Mina A. Laserson and the father of Eliazar Laserson passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/12/01/89819503.html?pageNumber=9

1952(11^th of Kislev, 5713): Parashat Vayetzei

1952(11^th of Kislev, 5713): Sixty-six year old Latvian born, Cornell University trained neurologist, Dr. David M. Kaplan, the WW I Army Medical Corps veteran who “wrote papers and a book on endocrine subjects” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/12/01/84373185.pdf

1953(22^nd of Kislev, 5714): Fifty-three year old, Joseph Burstyn, a Polish born Jew who came to the United States in 1921 where he gained fame as “the importer and distributor of foreign films” passed away today while flying over the Atlantic in a TWA aircraft.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/11/30/83865466.pdf

1953: As the holiday season begins, which in America means a meshing of Christmas and Chanukah, International Records has released “Holiday Time,” a record combining music from both holidays. The record is designed “to promote better human relations through an understanding of the general cultural significance of Christmas and Chanukah” while avoiding mentioning the theological differences between the two holidays.

1953: Birthdate of Moshe Igvy, the native of Casablanca, who has become one of Israel’s leading directors and actors.

1953: It was reported today that Kinor Records has released “Chanukah Music Box” just in time for the holiday season.  Designed as a participation record for children, it features music written and sung by Shirley R. Cohen, with narration by Eli Gamliel and musical accompaniment by Helen Schraeter.

1954:Birthdate of Joel Coen. Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers, are Jewish-American film director best known for their quirky comedies such as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski, as well as for darker film noir dramas such as Fargo and Blood Simple. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, alternating top billing for the screenplay. Until recently, Joel received sole credit for directing the films, and Ethan for producing, but the two brothers work so closely together and share such a strong vision of what their films are to be that actors report that they can approach either brother with a question and get the same answer. The brothers are known in the film business as "the two-headed director."

1954: On this cold and rainy night Esther Borenstein was on duty when a "mosquito" plane was hit by lightning and crashed while landing. Esther ran towards the burning plane, rescuing the badly injured navigator. Although ammunition on the plane began to explode, Esther did not hesitate and ran in again to rescue the pilot, Ya'akov Shalmon. When they reached a hiding spot, the entire plane blew up. Esther was awarded a Badge of Courage for this operation by Moshe Dayan, then Highest in Command of the IDF. Esther was born in Bulgaria, and during the Second World War, her family was ousted to Italy. As early as her childhood, Esther always loved the Land of Israel, and at age 11, left her home in an attempt to come to Israel. At 16, she indeed arrived, with her brother, and shortly afterwards, in spite of her early age, joined the Israel Defense Forces.  She joined the Air Force, completed a medic's course, and viewed army service as an honor and not a duty. After completing her army service, Esther continued to work as a nurse with the Israeli Red Cross, and was the first female ambulance driver in the country. Later, she looked for a job that would express her love for the country and chose to be a tour guide. At that same time, the 6-Day War broke out, and Esther joined the paratroopers, where under constant fire and shelling, she tended to injured soldiers, receiving the nickname "Angel of the Paratroopers". She volunteered during the Yom Kippur war as well, and in 1973, she received the Medal of Honor for saving the pilot. In February 2003, she passed away during a trip to Italy, and was buried there at her family's request. In February 2005, Bridges of Viewpoint was built in memory of Esther Borenstein on a quiet corner on the banks of the Jordan River, opposite the basalt arches of the 2,000 year old Roman-era bridge.

1956(25^th of Kislev, 5717): Chanukah

1956: The original Broadway production “Bells Are Ringing” with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, produced by Jerome Robbins and starring Jerome Robbins opened at the Shubert Theatre.

1956:  Birthdate of actor and comedian Howie Mandel

1957(6th of Kislev, 5718): ComposerErich Wolfgang Korngold passed away.Korngold was born in an assimilated Jewish home in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), the son of the music critic Julius Korngold, and studied music under Alexander von Zemlinsky and Robert Fuchs. Gustav Mahler, upon meeting the young Erich, called him a "musical genius." He had success in Europe with his opera Die tote Stadt (1920) among other pieces before moving to the United States in 1934, where he wrote a number of highly regarded film scores. He continued to write concert music in a rich, Romantic style, with a violin concerto among his notable later works. In 1943, Korngold became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He died in Hollywood, California.

1957(6^th of Kislev, 5718): Fifty-four year old Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl “a rabbi and shtadlan” who worked “to save the Jews of Slovakia” from extermination during the Shoah passed away at Mt. Kisco, NY.

http://www.oxfordchabad.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1378317/jewish/A-Rabbi-from-the-Bodleian-Library-who-saved-Jews-from-the-Holocaust.htm

http://www.weissmandl.org/

1957:  The three-day dedication program of the nation's largest Orthodox Jewish synagogue, the Baron Hirsch Synagogue of Memphis, starts today.

1959: Birthdate of Rahm Emanuel the son of a former member of the Irgun and civil rights activist who went on to represent  the Fifth District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives  and serve as White House Chief of Staff under  President Barak Obama before being elected Mayor of Chicago.

1959: “Fiorello!” a Pulitzer Prize winning musical about the Yiddish speaking New York Mayor with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, a book by Jerome Weidman and co-starring Tom Bosley and Howard Da Silva opened on Broadway today at the Broadhurst Theatre.

1960: Birthdate of Jaqueline Laura Hoffman, the native of Queens, NY who gained fame as multi-talented comedian and actress Jackie Hoffman.

1962: Larry Blyden served as the director of “Harold” when it began its Broadway run today.

1962: Forty three year old Lwow native Perec “Peter” Rachman who escaped from the Nazis and the Soviets to serve with 2^nd Polish Corps during WW II and then became an “infamous” landlord whose last name gave rise to the word “Rachmanism” which the Oxford English Dictionary describes “as a synonym for the exploitation and intimidation of tenants” passed away today after which he was “buried in the Jewish cemetery at Bushey, Hertfordshire.”

https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/vmpeople/infamous/peterrachman.asp

https://julesbirch.com/2012/10/24/revealing-the-real-rachman/

1962(2nd of Kislev, 5723):  Rav Aaron Kotler famed Orthodox Talmudic scholar passed away.

1963: Today’s issue of Lifemagazine “published about thirty frames of” Abraham Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy Assassination “in black and white.”

1963(13^th of Kislev, 5724: Fifty-seven year Brest-Litvosk native and NYU graduate Frank Leff, the “director of special projects for the American Jewish Committee” and the husband of Johanna Leff with whom he had two children – Bernard and Naomi – passed away today “while on his way to work.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/11/30/89979923.pdf

1963: Today’s “episode of Miss Peach” a comic strip created by Mell Lazarus which had been prepared weeks ago “was pulled from syndication because one of the characters fantasized about saving the President of the United States' life—one week after John F. Kennedy was assassinated.”

1963: “Rabbi Silver Dies; A Leading Zionist” published today provides a summary of the life Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, of blessed memory.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E02EEDB103AE637A2575AC2A9679D946291D6CF

1965: “The Big T.N.T.” directed by Larry Peerce, the son of tenor Jan Peerce was filed before a live audience today at the Moulin Rouge in Los Angeles.

1969(19th of Kislev, 5730): Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer, a general in the Soviet Army passed away today at the age of 64.  His promotion to the rank of general “apparently made him the highest ranking Jewish military figure in the Soviet Union since Leon Trotsky organized the Red Army after the Bolshevik Revolution.”  Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Kreizer took command of the 1^st Moscow Motorized Infantry and fought forces under Heinz Guderian to a virtual stand-still giving other Soviet forces a chance to regroup. He was designated a Hero of the Soviet Union for his efforts.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F3081FFC345F127A93C1A91789D95F4D8685F9

1969: In Massachusetts, the Marblehead School Department has banned all religious reference to Christmas and Hanukah in the town’s public school. The decision prohibits the exchange of gifts and any decorations in connection with either holiday.  The policy comes in response to complaints by the American Civil Liberties Union about the religious aspects of the Christmas activity and numerous complaints from Jewish parents protesting their children’s involvement in school holiday activities.

1972: A Hallmark Hall of Fame production of “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” the creation of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, was broadcast by NBC today.

1973(4^th of Kislev, 5734): Eighty-nine year old Hungarian producer Josef Somlo who escaped to Great Britain when the Nazis came to power passed away today in Switzerland.

1974: “Ben-Gurion House,”  “an historic house museum in Tel Aviv which served as one of the residences of David Ben-Gurion between 1931 and 1968 was opened to the public today where visitors can take guide tours and participate in symposiums about the early days of Zionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Gurion_House#/media/File:PikiWiki_Israel_4323_plate_in_bengurions_house.jpg

1975(25^th of Kislev, 5736): Ze’ev Beret was killed when his F-4E Phantom II Jet spun out of control and crashed.

1975(25^th of Kislev, 5736): First Day of Chanukah; light the second candle in the evening

1976(7^th of Kislev, 5737): Eighty-five year old Lithuanian born Conservative rabbi, Phillip Reis Alstat who lived in a JTS dorm for 43 years and who was a columnist for the Jewish Week while also serving as a chaplain at the Manhattan house of corrections passed away today.

1977:The Jerusalem Post reported that in reply to President Anwar Sadat’s appeal, Israel named Eliahu Ben-Elissar and Meir Rosenne as members of the Israeli negotiating team to the proposed Cairo Conference, which was expected to prepare ground for the reconvened Geneva Peace Conference. Israel joined the fervent Egyptian appeal to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon for their participation, but they uniformly rejected Sadat’s initiative. The US continued to study the Egyptian invitation.

1978(29^th of Cheshvan, 5739): Seventy-five year old Newport News, VA, native Mark Peyser Friedlander, the son of Charles Friedlander and Blanche Peyesr passed away today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

1979(9th of Kislev, 5740): Zeppo Marx, one of the Marx Brothers, passed away.

1980: Twenty-five year old Simon Shnirman a refusenik from Zaporozhye, was released after completing a two and a half year prison sentence on charges of evading military conscription.

1981(3rd of Kislev, 5742): Fredric Wertham, German-born, American psychologist passed away.  During the 1950’s, in what seems like a laughable episode half a century later, many Americans became convinced that comic books were the cause of juvenile delinquency.  “This anti-comic book sentiment led in the spring of 1954 to the publication of The Seduction of the Innocent,based on Jewish psychologist Frederic Wertham's seven-year-long study of the effects of comic books on America's youth. Dr. Wertham condemned most of the genre--especially crime and horror comics--for having contributed to juvenile delinquency. As the outcry following the publication of Seduction of the Innocent grew, so did the call for government intervention. The Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary opened in Manhattan federal court on April 21, 1954.” (Ed. Note: I must confess that my brother and I were eager consumers of comic books during this period.)

1984: Gotthard Günther German born, American philosopher passed away.  Günther was not Jewish but he was married to the Jewish psychologist Dr. Marie Günther-Hendel.  Together they made their way out Nazi Europe before WWII and finally made their way to U.S. 

1986: In Canada, CTV network began broadcasting “Sword of Giedon” a four hour miniseries “about Mossad Agents hunting down terrorists associated with the 1972 Munich Massacre  based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas,

1988(20^th of Kislev, 5749): Seventy-eight year old Washington “hostess with mostess” Gwendolyn Cafritz, the widow of realtor and philanthropist Morris Cafritz passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/01/obituaries/gwendolyn-cafritz-78-washington-hostess.html

http://www.cafritzfoundation.org/about

https://www.silverspringdowntown.com/go/montgomery-college-morris-and-gwendolyn-cafritz-art-center



1989(1st of Kislev, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1989(1st of Kislev, 5750): Robert W. Schleck, a former foreign service officer, teacher and research analyst who was second secretary at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv during the Suez crisis in 1956 passed away today.

1991(22^nd of Kislev, 5752): Ninety-six year old Rabbi Louis Eliezer Finkelstein, the Cincinnati born son of “Simon Isaac Finkelstein” and “Hannah Basha Finkelstein, the husband of Carmel Finkelstein. (As reported by Ari Goldman)

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/30/nyregion/louis-finkelstein-96-leader-of-conservative-jews.html



1993: At a press conference held today. Amos Schoken announced the closure of Hadashot, a daily newspaper that he had begun in March of 1984.

1993: A revival production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” which had been directed by Elmer Rice in its initial Broadway production opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.

1993: Richard Danzig began serving as Undersecretary of the Navy.

1994: The New York Times featured a review of A Chosen Few by Mark Kurlansky.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Isaiah Berlin: A Lifeby Michael Ignatieff, The Crisis of Global Capitalism Open Society Endangered by George Soros and Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony by Arnold Steinhardt

2000: At the New York Public Library, a presentation byMarion Kaplan entitled “Friendship on the Margins: Jewish Social Relations in Imperial Germany” that asks the question, “With whom did the German Jews spend their leisure time?” This lecture examines the spectrum of friendships available to Jews in Imperial Germany (1871-1918), looking at extended families, friendships among Jews, and relationships with non-Jews. Those friendships could be intense or distant, intimate, or burdened by social and political anti-Semitism. Marion Kaplan is a social and cultural historian, with an emphasis on women’s history. Dr. Kaplan’s writings include Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, which won the National Jewish Book Award for 1998.

2001(14^th of Kislev, 5762): Samuel Miloshevsky, 45, of Herzliya, Yehiav Elshad, 28, of Tel Aviv and Yehiav Elshad, 28, of Tel Aviv were murdered today and nine more people were injured this evening when a terrorist from either Fatah or Islamic Jihand (they both claimed credit) set off a bomb aboard an Egged bus traveling between Nazareth and Tel Aviv as it passed through the town of Pardes Hanna-Kaurkur.

2001: “In Jenin, about 3,000 Palestinians marched and celebrated the bombing an Egged bus.”

2002(24th of Kislev, 5763): In the evening, Kindle the first Chanukah light

2002: “Mary Christmas” a drama starring Tom Bosley was released in the United States today.

2003: Danny Elfman married Bridget Fonda. (He was Jewish, she was not)

2004*16^th of Kislev, 5765): All-Star catcher Harry Danning, whose brother Ike played for the St. Louis Browns, passed away today in Indiana.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/sports/baseball/harry-danning-baseball-star-in-30s-dies-at-93.html

2004: Victor Brailovsky completed his term as Deputy Minister for Internal Affairs.

2004: Victor Brailovsky replaced Ilan Shalgi as Minister of Science and Technology.

2004: “The Émigré:  The farewell broadcast of a voice from the past by Janet Malcolm

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/11/29/041129fa_fact3?currentPage=all

2005: “Havoc” a crime film directed by Barbara Kopple, filmed by cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau and featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Robert Shapiro was released in the United States today.

2005(27^th of Cheshvan, 5766): Forty-seven year old Wendie Jo Sperber lost her battle with Breast Cancer today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/movies/wendie-jo-sperber-actress-dies-at-46.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/02/local/me-sperber2



2005: The Seattle Reconstructionist congregation Kadima which, according to its Web site, “welcomes members from all backgrounds, including multicultural, gay, and lesbian households,” now is welcoming Ariel Sharon's adoption of its name. "[We] wish Prime Minister Sharon the very best with his new party name," Kadima Executive Director Susan Davis told The Jerusalem Post via email.

2006(8^th of Kislev, 5767): Seventy-seven year old “Leonard Freed, a prominent photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective who was known primarily for his in-depth coverage of African-Americans in the era of the civil rights movement” passed away. (As reported by Philip Gefter)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/arts/design/04freed.html?_r=0

2006: A Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy “Company” opened today at the Ethel Barrymore Theare

2006: In Jerusalem, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies awards the 10th Liebhaber Prize for Religious Tolerance to Deborah Goldman Golan, Director of the Bamidbar Center for Pluralistic Jewish Studies in Yeroham.

2007: A tribute was held in New York City in anticipation of poet Philip Levine's 80th birthday. Among those celebrating Levine's career by reading Levine's work were Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, E. L. Doctorow, Charles Wright, Jean Valentine, and Sharon Olds. Levine himself read several new and interesting poems. He thanked his students and asked them to refrain from asking for any more letters of recommendation.

2007: At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, television star Sarah Silverman, headlines “Comedy without Borders” a fund-raiser for the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the ecological and coexistence center located at Kibbutz Ketura, near Eilat.

2007(19th of Kislev, 5768):  Ninety three year old “Victor Erlich, a path-breaking scholar of Russian literature, passed away today (As reported by Marissa Brostoff)

http://forward.com/articles/12194/victor-erlich--scholar-of-russian-literature-/

2007: USCJ International Biennial Convention opens in Orlando, FL.

2007: The Jerusalem Post reported that “Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni failed in attempts to set up meetings in Annapolis or Washington with colleagues from the Arab world, even though the summit was designed to show international support for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations… Israeli officials interpreted this as evidence that the Arab world had not changed its fundamental policy that there would be no warming of relations with Israel until after a deal, and that normalization was one of the Arab world's major bargaining chips.”

2007: Sixty one years after he was buried at a wind hilltop cemetery in southeast Washington, Stephen Theodore Norman, the only grandchild of Theodor Herzl was exhumed as the first step of trip that will lead to his burial in Israel.

2008: On this Shabbat when we recite “Av harachameem,” there will be special poignancy to the words as we mourn the passing Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the beloved directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai. “The Father of mercy who dwells on high in His great mercy will remember with compassion the pious, upright and blameless the holy communities, who laid down their lives for the sanctification of His name.They were loved and pleasant in their lives and in death they were not parted.They were swifter than eagles and stronger than lions to carry out the will of their Maker, and the desire of their steadfast God.May our Lord remember them for good together with the other righteous of the world and may He redress the spilled blood of His servants as it is written in the Torah of Moses the man of God: "O nations, make His people rejoice for He will redress the blood of His servants. He will retaliate against His enemies and appease His land and His people". And through Your servants, the prophets it is written: "Though I forgive, their bloodshed I shall not forgive When God dwells in Zion" And in the Holy Writings it says: "Why should the nations say, 'Where is their God?'"Let it be known among the nations in our sight that You avenge the spilled blood of Your servants. And it says: "For He who exacts retribution for spilled blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the humble". And it says: "He will execute judgement among the corpse-filled nations crushing the rulers of the mighty land; from the brook by the wayside he will drink then he will hold his head high".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwom17kFOb0

2008: This afternoon authorities announced that the family of one of Israeli victims of the attack on the Mumbai Chabad House had identified her as being Yocheved Orpaz, aged 60. Another woman was identified as a Jewish resident of Mexico, whose name has not yet been released.

2008: U.N. Israel Partition Day – 61^st anniversary of this momentous moment in Jewish history. “Three minutes that changed two thousand years of wandering.”

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGUPlhtMWQ

2009: In Jerusalem, the opening of Whiskey Month at the Mia Bar featuring whiskey tastings and special winter dishes which go well with whiskey.

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel and the recently released paperback edition of Friendly Fire: A Duet by A. B. Yehoshua.

2009: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta.

2009: Beachwood, Ohio declares today “Hudesa Gora Day” to mark the 100^thbirth of this holocaust survivor who ran a successful fur business in Cleveland for many years.

2010: Roz Chast, Al Jaffee and Robert Mankoff are scheduled to participate in a program entitled “The Cartoonist Chronicles” at the 92^nd Street Y in New York City.

2010: Today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Mossad veteran Tamir Pardo as his choice as the new head of Israel's spy agency, to succeed Meir Dagan.  Pardo served in senior positions in the Mossad for many years, as well as in various operative units. He left the agency in 2009, before which he served as deputy Mossad chief.

2010(22^nd of Kislev, 5771):  Sixty seven year old  “Steven N. Posner, who with his father, Victor, was caught up in a major corporate raiding case that led to the convictions of Ivan F. Boesky and Michael R. Milken, died today in a high-speed boat collision on Biscayne Bay, Fla. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/business/01posner.html?_r=0

2010: At the 92nd Street Y in New York, Deborah Solomon interviewed actor Steve Martin about his new novel, An Object of Beauty, which is set in the art world. In response to emails received in real-time by the Y staff from viewers of the interview, a note was dispatched to Solomon on-stage, telling her to shift the conversation from art to Steve Martin's film career

2010(22^nd of Kislev, 5771): Ninety year old “Richard N. Goldman, a San Francisco civic leader and philanthropist best known for co-founding the Goldman Environmental Prize, which is given to six grass-roots environmental activists every year, died  today at his home in San Francisco. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/05goldman.html

2010(22^nd of Kislev, 5771): Seventy year old “Stephen J. Solarz, a nine-term Democratic congressman whose concerns went beyond traffic lights and beach erosion in his Brooklyn district to nuclear weapons, the Middle East and his revelation that Imelda Marcos owned 3,000 pairs of shoes, died today in Washington. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30solarz.html?pagewanted=all

2011: David Kalender, the Senior Rabbi of Olam Tikvah in Fairfax, Virginia, is scheduled to deliver the first in a series of lectures on The Book of Ruth.



2011: In honor of the 10th anniversary of the JCC in Manhattan, the JCC is scheduled to screen the audience’s favorite film.

2011: “Sara Hurwitz, an Open Orthodox Jewish spiritual” from South Africa who was raised in Boca Raton, FL and “who received ordination from Rabbi Avi Weiss” was “featured in Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance's (JOFA) Mission Statement YouTube video uploaded” today in which she said “JOFA is trying to shape the young minds of children, to a gender sensitive curriculum that I worked on many years ago.



2011: The Tulane Hillel Board Meeting is scheduled to take place at Goldie & Morris Mintz Center for Jewish Life.



2011: In New Orleans, Rabbi Alexis Berk is scheduled to lead the Touro Synagogue Interfaith Chavurah Group in a discussion of “The December Dilemma.”

2011: Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan said in a television interview today that if Israel attacks Iran, it will be dragged into a regional war. According to Dagan, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas will respond with massive rocket attacks on Israel.

2011: It was announced earlier today that former Mossad chief Meir Dagan will lead a group that will endeavor to immediately alter the system of government in Israel

2012: Yeruham Scharovsky is scheduled to conduct the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in a gala concert featuring young piano artists. (In a tribute to the courage and resiliency of the Jewish people, the flyer announcing this event went out at the same time that rockets were being filed on the capital city of Israel)

2012: Pianist Bill Charlap was the real piano player at the television wedding of “Liz Lemon,” a leading character on “30 Rock.”  He is a descendant of 16^th century Italian Talmudist  of Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph

2012: The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Jew in the Warsaw Rising” followed by a Q & A with the film’s director Anna Ferens.  (This is a film about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and not the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943)

2012: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present an evening with Montreal writer Julija Šukys, the author of  Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė,“which beckons back to life this quiet and worldly heroine, a giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem's honored Righteous Among the Nations) and yet so little known.”

2012 Sixty-fifth Anniversary of the UN vote approving the creation of Jewish state in Palestine with independence to come within six months. Am Yisrael Chai.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGUPlhtMWQ

2012: Sixty-five years to the day after the UN voted for the partition of mandatory Palestine – a move the Jews accepted and the Arabs rejected – the same body overwhelmingly voted today to grant the Palestinian delegation the upgraded status of non-member observer state.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=294029

2012: Labor members went to the polls today to elect the party’s list for the 19th Knesset, in a vote that will show how much influence party leader Shelly Yacimovich has, as opposed to the growing opposition within Labor led by MK Amir Peretz.



2013(26^thof Kislev, 5774): Second Day of Chanukah



2013(26^thof Kislev, 5774): Seventy-seven year old Pulitzer Prize winning historian Michael Kammen passed away today. (As reported by Matt Schudel)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michael-kammen-pulitzer-winning-historian-dies-at-77/2013/12/04/90374b28-5d00-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html





2013: “Moses Montefiore: The Man Behind the Windmill,” an international conference at Mshkenot Sha’annaim is scheduled to come to a close.

http://www.mishkenot.org.il/English/files/events/pdf/MosesMontefioreEng.pdf



2013: The Maccabees Festival near Modi’in, the site of the original Chanukah story, is scheduled to open today.



2013: “Closer to the Moon” a dark comedy based on the “exploits” of the Ioanid Gang “had its world premiere at the Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema Festival at the Lincoln Center” today.  (This is one of those must see flics)



2013: Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon expressed outrage at the incident reported in Israeli media that three Druze IDF soldiers were delayed entry to the Dimona nuclear reactor while there Jewish fellow soldiers were admitted. (As reported by JPost)

2014: In Melbourne, “The Last Mentsch” and “Zero Motivation” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2014(7^th of Kislev, 5775): Sixty year old Hillel Oscar of Ashdod died today at the hospital after beig his by the ball “while refereeing a cricket matching in the Israeli coastal city.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-cricket-referee-dies-after-hit-by-ball-in-ashdod-game/

2014: A fire broke out this evening in Jerusalem’s Pat neighborhood on the grounds of Hand in Hand a dual Hebrew and Arabic language school in southern Jerusalem, sparking suspicion of politically motivated arson.

2014: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a performance by the Amaya Trio.

2014: Shabbat Va-yaytzay

2015(17^th of Kislev, 5776): Seventy-nine year old David Cohen, former president of Common Cause and voice for ethics in government passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/politics/david-cohen-pioneer-of-public-interest-lobbying-dies-at-79.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

2015: “Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case”  an “800 square foot exhibit that examines the historical context surrounding 13-year old Mary Phagan's murder at the National Pencil Company as well as Jewish superintendent Leo Frank's trial, appeals, and eventual lynching that has been on display at the Southern Museum at Kennesaw, GA, is scheduled to close today.

2015: Today, while playing Guard for the New York Giants, Mitchell Schwartz, who had started all eleven games, sustained a broken leg during a loss to the Washington Redskins.”

2015: The National Appeal for Tzedakah, the major fund raising campaign of the Jewish Federation of France (FSJU) is scheduled to start today after having been postponed because of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

2015: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Complete Works of Primo Levi, a 3 volume work edited by Ann Goldstein and the recently released paperback editions of We Are Piratesby Daniel Handler and Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer



2016: As part of the “Meet The Author Series” Alice Hoffman is scheduled to “discuss her career, her novels and her latest book Faithful at the Skirball Center

2016: According to a report from Israel Radio. “a ceremony is scheduled to held tonight in the British Parliament tonight to mark the 100^thanniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

2016: According to the Anti-Defamation League, today “the Huffington Post’s Arabic-language edition” contained “a blog post claiming a Jewish woman poisoned the Prophet Muhammad with arsenic.”

2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an “Intimate Concert with Jam Band Mr. Blotto: paying “tribute to iconic rock and roll producer and Holocaust survivor Bill Graham.”

2017: Followed by “a meal of burgers and hot dogs” (who knew the English ate such stuff) the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a screening of “Love Actually” as part of the popular “Movie Night.”

2017: Today, “in Norfolk, VA, the JWB Chaplains Council, a signature program of the JCC Association of North America” is scheduled to dedicate a Torah in memory of World War II” Army Air Corps “veteran Jacob Kamaras aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford.

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening of schmoozing with Joy Behar, Gretchen Carlson, Maureen Dowd and Jill Kargman.

2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Howard M. Sachar whose works included the classic “A History of the Jews in the Modern World” and “A History of the Jews in America” which might be the single best piece of Holocaust literature, continues today.

 2018:  The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a lecture on “History Matters: Defining Holocaust Memory in Poland” moderated by Northwest University Associate Professor Benjamin Frommer, Ph.D.

2018: The Village East Cinema is scheduled to host the final screening of Ofir Trainin’s “Family in Transition.”

2018(21^st of Kislev, 5779): Fifty-five year old Lisa Miriam Schwartz, the NYU trained physician “who with her husband devoted her life to warning patients about the dangers of unnecessary medical tests and treatment and excessive diagnoses” passed away today.(As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/obituaries/dr-lisa-schwartz-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries



2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of “Back to Berlin.”

2018: The Hebrew University is scheduled to celebrated  the “100 years since the laying of its cornerstone” with a conference during which “the German Literature Archive Marbach together with the Hebrew University will explore the history of a century of German-Jewish culture and research.”

2018: In Manhattan, the Quad City Cinema is scheduled to host the final screening of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah: Four Sisters – Ruth & Ada” and “Shoah: Four Sisters – Hanna & Paula.”

2018: Seventy-first anniversary of the UN General adoption of Resolution 181.

https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/11/who-saved-israel-in-1947/

2019: The Friday night dinner sponsored by the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to include a moment of mystery as diners get to “solve a confounding murder case.”

2019: Today Israel can look forward to an improvement in its international position following yesterday’s announcement that Bolivia has renewed diplomatic relations with Israel.

2019(1^st of Kislev, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Kislev; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/