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This Day, March 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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March 3

 321: Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for honoring the sun as a day of rest.  This was an attempt by Constantine to close the gap between pagans and Christianity and to isolate the Jews.  Constantine’s day of rest should not be confused with the Jewish Sabbath which was a universal day of rest.

505: Rav Ahai ben Ray Huna, a member of the Saboraim, passed away

561: The Papacy of Pelagius I came to an end.  He owed his election to Justinian I, the emperor whose religious program included placing restrictions on Jews and interfering with their practices by trying to force them to substitute the Greek Septuagint for the TaNaCh.

1186: Saladin takes control of the city of Mosul which at that time had a Jewish population of approximately 7,000 souls which had been led by Zakkai ha-Nais “who claimed to be a descendant of King David.” (As reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)

1240: Seizure of all copies of the Talmud in France

1337: Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG Levi observed a solar eclipse today.

1431: Eugene IV began his papacy today. This was a less than positive move for Jews since the new pope would “decree and order that from now on, and for all time, Christians shall not eat or drink with the Jews, nor admit them to feasts, nor cohabit with them, nor bathe with them. […]  They cannot live among Christians, but in a certain street, separated and segregated from Christians, and outside which they cannot under any pretext have houses.”

1455: Birthdate of John II, the King of Portugal whom Abraham Zacuto served as Royal Astronomer.

1554: Fifty-year-old John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, whose issuance of “a mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in business in or passing through his realm” sparked an episode in which Luther showed that he had become an anti-Semite passed away today.

1605: VIII, during whose Papacy Jews were forced to attend “conversionist sermons,” prohibited from “dealing in new articles of clothing” and forced to allow copies of the Talmud to be burned in 1601, passed away today at the age of 69.

1619(17thof Adar, 5379): Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz passed away.  Born at Lenczyk in 1550 he was “a rabbi, poet and Torah commentator, best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yakar.” (For more see Seeing with Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance by Leonard S. Levin)

1641: One day after he had passed away Rabbi Meir Jacob Schiff-KaZ, the son of Jacob Schiff-KaZ and Gitlin Schiff-KaZ and the husband of Sprinz Schiff-KaZ was buried  today at Frankfurt am Main.

1658: Dr. Jacob Lumbrozo, the first Jew to settle in Maryland was given amnesty by Oliver Cromwell. Lumbrozo had been indicted on charges of blasphemy which was a capital offense.

1732(6thof Adar, 5492): Isaiah Azulai, father of Isaac Zerahiah Azulai and the grandfather Hayyim Joseph David Azulai passed away in Jerusalem.

1742: Last will and testament of Benjamin Bravo of Kingston, Jamaica.

1743: In Oberdndorf, Wurtembger, Tavis Einstein and Solomon Abraham gave birth to Amson Solomon, the husband of Zerla Lucas whom he had married in 1773 and the father of Abraham Amson.

1771: In New York City, Eve Esther Gomez and Uriah Hendricks gave birth to Harmon Hendricks, the husband of Frances Isaacs.

1779(15thof Adar, 5539): Shushan Purim

1782: Birthdate of German native Elias Levi Rosenheim, the husband of Rosetta Nathan Eisendrath with whom he had seven children

1788: Birthdate of German native Jeanette Franc, the wife of Hertz Heyn and the mother of Betty Heyn.

1791: Birthdate of Bavarian native Meyer Strauss who had four children with his first wife, Goldie Strauss and three children – Abraham, Lessman and Nathan Strauss – with his second wife.

1799: Birthdate of Posen native and author Israel Albu, the husband of Johanna Cohen and the father of Berthold, Cacilia, Salomon, Adolph and Eveline Alabu.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14462890.Israel_Albu

1799: The French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte reached the outskirts of Jaffa. The army had left for Palestine on the first of February in an attempt to forestall a Turco-British invasion through the Palestinian land-bridge. A division under the command of General Kleber deployed along the shores of the river Yarkon, 10 kms north of the town and was responsible for shielding the besieging forces from hostile interference. This military action had nothing to do with the Jewish people. It was another example of the land of the Jews being a battleground because it was the land bridge between Africa, Asia and indirectly, Europe.

1800: In Charleston, SC, Priscilla Moses and David Lopez gave birth to Aaron Lopez, the husband of Eleanor Cohen with whom he had eleven children.

1801: David Emanuel took office as the Governor of Georgia. Emanuel was the first Jewish person to serve as a governor in the United States. Emanuel was appointed to serve the last eight months of the term of his predecessor who had assumed a seat in the U.S. Senate. Born in Pennsylvania in 1743, he passed away in 1808.

1803: John Jacob Hays, the New York City born son of Baruch and Prudence Hays and his wife Mary Louise Hays gave birth to Jane Hays, who became Jane McKenney when she married Samuel Templeman McKenney

1805(2ndof Adar II, 5565): Eighty-year-old author Naphtali Hartwig Wessley passed away in Hamburg following which he was buried “in the cemetery of the Portuguese Israelites, whose rituals he had professed all his life.”

1808: In the Kingdom of Westphalia, ruled by Jerome Bonaparte, Israel Jacobson “was appointed president of the Jewish consistory which was established today.

1810: In Frankfurt am Main, Jacob Hirsch Kann, the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kann, and Jetta Kahn gave birth to Fanny Sichel

1811: Birthdate of Bernhard Wolff, the German journalist and editor who founded Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau which was the German version of Rueters (British) and Havas (French).

1813: Henry Moses married Esther Nathan today at the Great Synagogue.

1814: Birthdate of Charles Kensington Salaman, the native of London who gained fame as pianist and composer.

1819: Benjamin Cohen married Jestina Montefiore today at the Great Synagogue.

1822: In Baltimore, “Dr. Jonas Horwitz and his wife Debby Andrews” gave birth to Phineas J. Horwitz, the 1845 graduate of the University of Maryland who would become Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine.

1824: Daniel Levy married Amelia Jacobs today at the New Synagogue.

1824: Isaac Vallentine married Sarah Green today at the Hambro Synagogue.

1826: In London, Ellen Allice Jacobs and Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Samuel Simmons who would be buried in Brooklyn, NY when he passed away fifty-five years later.

1833: Birthdate of Mendel Hirsch, the German born Bible commentator and poet who was the son of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.

1844: Birthdate of “Dreyfeusard” Clement Moras.

http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-clement-moras.htm

1845: Florida becomes the 27th state to join the Union.” In 1763, the first recorded Jews in Florida came to Pensacola, in the northwest corner of the territory. More Jews moved to north Florida in the next few decades, but the Jewish population remained small during this time, numbering no more than a dozen individuals. When Florida became a state, there were less than 100 Jews in a population of 66,500. The first U.S. Senator from Florida was a Jew, David Levy Yulee.” For more about the history of the Jews of Florida see

http://www.floridajewish.com/florida_jewish_history.php

1846: The French Supreme Court declared the “Jewish Oath” unconstitutional in response to a case involving Rabbi Lazard Isidor of Pflazburg who was defended by Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, the Jewish lawyer and political leader.

1846: In Franklin, PA, Julius Marx Rieser and Clara Kahn gave birth to Hernai Rieser, the CCNY grad and husband of Carrie Rosenfeld who served as the Manager of the Clara de Hirsch Home and Superintendent of Beth Israel Hospital.

1848: Birthdate of Freudenburg, Germany native David Kahn.

1849: The United States Department of the Interior is established. Joel D. Wolfsohn who served as Assistant Secretary of the Department from in the final months of the Truman Administration appears to be the highest-ranking Jew to have served at the Department of the Interior. He served from July 10, 1952 through February 20, 1953.

1849: Israel’s Herold was published for the first time in the United States

1850: Aaron Lyons married Fanny Nathan at the Great Synagogue today.

1851: David Levy Yulee completed his first terms as a United States Senator from Florida. He was the first Jew to sit in the Upper Chamber of the U.S. Congress. Yulee was also the last Jew in his family line since he married a gentile and raised the children in the faith of their mother. Yulee would not only turn his back on his religion, he would turn his back on his country and join the Confederacy during the Civil War.

1852: Birthdate of Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel British merchant banker and capitalist. Born in Cologne, Germany, the son of Jacob Cassel, who owned a small bank, Cassel arrived penniless in Liverpool, England in 1869 and found employment with a firm of grain merchants. With an enormous capacity for hard work and a natural business sense, Cassel was soon in Paris working for a bank. The Franco-Prussian War forced him to move to a position in a London bank, as he was born in Prussia. He prospered and was soon putting together his own financial deals. His areas of interest were in mining, infrastructure and heavy industry. Turkey was an early area of business ventures, but he soon had large interests in Sweden, the United States, South America, South Africa, and Egypt. One of the wealthiest men of his day, Cassel was a good friend of King Edward VII as well as of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and the young Winston Churchill. In 1878, he married Annette Mary M. Maxwell at Westminster He became a Roman Catholic at the behest of his wife, Annette, but was always thought of as a Jew. The establishment was shocked to find out on his death that he had converted many years before. A few months after his death in 1921, Cassel's estate was probated at £6,000,000

1852: Lionel Alman Myers married Julia Collins in the UK today.

1854: Birthdate of Moisei Yakelovich Ostrogorski, the native of Grodno who lived in France during the Dreyfus scandal and whose visits to the U.S. and the U.K. led to the publishing of his most famous work Democracy and the Organization of Political which did not keep him from returning to his native Russia where he dies “in 1919 during the chaos that followed the Bolshevik Revolution.”

1855: In London, Caroline Lazarus and Mark George Simmons gave birth to Arthur Abraham Simmons.

1855: Philip Phillips, the son of a prominent Charleston, SC Jewish family completed a term representing Alabama’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1859: Henry Myer Phillips completed his terms as member of the House of Representatives in the 35th Congress.

1860: In France, “Babette Kahn (née Bloch), an uneducated homebound mother: and cattle dealer Louis Kahn gave birth to Abraham Kahn who gained fame as Albert Kahn was a millionaire Parisian banker and philanthropist whose plan to use his fortune to document the world in photographs was thwarted by the Great Depression.

https://thebioscope.net/2007/05/21/searching-for-albert-kahn/

1861: Marcus Jastrow repeated the sermon he had delivered yesterday on Shabbat so that those who had heard and impressed by the sentiments expressed could write it down.

1861: Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing the serfs.

1862: At a meeting of the Jewish community in Davenport, Iowa, Rabbi Lowenthal was “elected to serve Congregation B’nai Israel” whose President was Isaac Bernist, “as Chazan, Schoket and M’lamed” for which he was paid an annual salary of $350.

1862: During the American Civil War, David Yulee, barely avoided capture by Union troops who were attacking Fernandina FL. Yulee was the first Jew to be elected to the United States. When Florida left the Union and joined the Confederacy, Yulee resigned from the U.S. Senate and took a seat in the southern Congress.

1862: In Chicago, “Oscar L. American and Amelia Smith gave birth to social activist, Sadie American, who moved to New York where she became “one of the founders of the council of Jewish Women,” “a vice president and director of the Illinois Consumers’ League,” “a leader in the formation of what later became the Jewish Women Workers in England and during the Spanish-American War “one of the founders of the Army and Navy League of Illinois.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/American-Sadie

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sadie-american

1863: During the American Civil War, Alfred Mordecai, Jr. was promoted to the rank of Captain in the Union Army.

1865: Ellen (Barnett) Elias, the wife of Hyman Elias and mother of Herbert, Alfred, Annette, Dora and Eleanor Elias was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1867: Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer and Democrat politician completed his second and final terms as a Congressman from Pennsylvania.

1869: In Widz, Russia Isaac Ginsburg and his wife gave birth to David Ginsburg the “Rabbi of Congregations Beth Israel and Beth Hakneses Hachodesh, Rochester, N. Y.”

1870: Arguments resumed this morning in the matter revolving around the will of the late Simeon Abraham, the New York physician and Jewish civic leader whose bequests exceeded the value of his estate. The executor is seeking a court order in how to resolve the shortfall while several of the beneficiaries are seeking to protect their interests.

1870: Two days after he had passed away, Hamburg, Germany native Adolphus Sallust was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1871: On his 49th birthday, while serving with the United States Navy, Dr. Phineas J. Horowitz was appointed medical inspector.

1871: Abraham Hoffnung married Esther Levey in Manchester, UK.

1871: In New York, the remodeled sanctuary of Shaarey Tzedek was dedicated today. The building, which is located on Henry Street, was bought by the Jewish congregation from Quakers in 1840. The remodeling was necessitated by the growth of the congregation.

1874(14th of Adar, 5634): Purim

1874: Theodore Minis Etting, the son of Philadelphia merchant Edward Etting was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the United States Navy.

1874: As a group of temperance crusaders marched through Columbus, Ohio looking for support it was rebuffed by various merchants and other locals including a group of German Jews who tautened them with offers of free beer. [Could the beer drinking Jews have been Purim revelers?]

1875: William Sprague completed his 12-year career as a United States Senator from Rhode Island.  During a debate in the United States Senate on the massacre of Jews of Romania, Sprague said “the facts would show that the Jews of Romania had possessed themselves of nearly all the land and of all of the trade of the that principality while a vast population of Christians there were deprived of their means of support.”  He said that this “would be found to be the cause of the recent outbreak” and that that this experience should provide “food for profound reflection…in regard to conditions…in our own country.

1876(7th of Adar, 5636: Seventy-eight-year-old Rebecca Cohen, the Charleston born daughter of Moses Cohen and wife of Abraham Isaacs passed away today in Nyack, NJ.

1877: It was reported today that a Reuter’s dispatch from Constantinople the said Greeks are upset with the outcome of the election held in that city to choose delegates for the Ottoman Parliament because the of the five non-Muslims chosen the Greeks got the same number as the Jews – one – with the other three going to Armenians

1877: In Philadelphia, Diana Newmayer and Levi Lowenstein gave birth to University of Cincinnati gradate and Hebrew Union College ordained Rabbi, Solomon Lowenstein, the husband of Linda Berger who was the Secretary of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States and a member of the Editorial Board of Jewish Charity.

1877: It was reported that a dispatch from the Daily News that one Jew was among the 10 delegates elected to serve in the Ottoman Parliament. Of the remaining delegates, 5 were Turks and 4 were Christians – a result that the Daily News said “caused no excitement.” [Editor’s Note – no matter which version you prefer, for the Jews the important item was that they were an accepted part of the electoral process as the Porte lurched toward a more open form of government.]

1878: Following the Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria regained its independence from Ottoman Empire. The rights of the Jews of Bulgaria, along with other religious minorities, were guaranteed by the Treaty of Berlin. The treaty guarantee did not protect from outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence, blamed in part on the erroneous notion that the Jews had supported the Ottomans. Bulgaria was never very hospitable to its Jewish population. On the other hand, Bulgaria managed to avoid shipping most of its Jewish population to concentration camps.

1878: In New York City, Meyer S. Isaacs presided over a meeting of prominent Jewish leaders including rabbis, synagogue presidents and representatives of Jewish benevolent societies. Those attending the meeting which was held at the 34th Street Synagogue discussed ways of raising funds to aid the suffering Jews of Turkey and the East during the current hostilities. A proposal to by the Ball Committee to hold a masked ball at the end of March as a fundraiser was rejected and a more direct approach for appealing for funds was adopted.

1878: Rabbi D.C. Lewin delivered a well-received lecture on “The Life and Character of Moses Mendelssohn” at the Young Men’s Hebrew Union in New York City this evening.

1878: Birthdate of German-born expressionist theatrical producer and director Leopold Jessner. Jessner left Germany in 1933. His life was saved but his career was over. He passed away in 1945.

1878: “Macklin in the Merchant of Venice” published today described the decision of great 18th century thespian Charles Macklin to play the role of Shylock in the manner of a serious character. Despite the doubts of others, Macklin was so successful that he reprised it hundreds of times. No other actor even came close to his portrayal of this Jewish figure until Edmund Kean took up the role in the 19th century. Of Macklin’s portrayal, Alexander Pope, the great English poet wrote, “This is the Jew, That Shakespeare Drew.”

1878: In Philadelphia, PA, “Hebrew School No. 2 opened today in a synagogue building” at “fifth and Catherine Streets. The school would later move to Wheatley Hall before finding its final home at Touro Hall. (As reported by Cyrus Adler and David Sulzberger)

1878: Charles Wessolowsky wrote to Rabbi Edward B.M. Browne today describing “the B’nai B’rith organization in Uniontown, Alabama and the value of B’nai B’rith to the survival of American Judaism” while praising “a Mrs. Ungar of Uniontown not only for her resistance to attempted conversions, but also for the raising of her family in Jewish lore.”

1879: Jewish financier and businessman Joseph Seligman was among the major stockholders of the St. Louis and San Francisco who arrived in St. Louis this morning prior to tomorrow’s meeting during which a new Board of Directors will be elected

1880: It was reported today that the first edition of the “Oriental and Biblical Journal” edited by Stephen D. Peet has been issued in Chicago, Illinois. [Peet served as a pastor to several Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in the Middle West. He had a passion for archeology which he used in his Biblical studies. He was one of a series of English and American clergyman who tied the study of Archeology with Biblical Scholarship; a connection that late would become a national pastime of the Zionists.]

1881: Edward Einstein completed his term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 7th Congressional District

1882(12thof Adar I, 5642): Sixty-seven-year-old Ludwig Kalishch, the German born author whose participation in the Revolutions of 1848 and 1849 forced him to move to France passed away today in Paris.

1883: Leopold Morse completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 4th district.

1884: On his 62nd birthday, Phineas Jonathan Horwitz retired from the U.S. Navy after 38 years of service.

1885: Leopold Morse completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 5th district.

1885: Fifty-year old Benjamin Franklin Jonas, a native of Williamstown, KY and 1855 graduate of the University of Louisiana (the future Tulane University) who served in several governmental and political positions after the Civil War completed his services a U.S. Senator from Louisiana today.

1886: It was reported today that banker Isidore Wormser had given his daughter, the former Miss Julia Wromser “$100,000 in Lake Shore 7 per cent sinking bond funds” as a wedding gift, while James Seligman had given Jefferson Seligman, his son and her new husband “a check for $50,000” which was supplemented by a check for $20,000 from the firm of J & W Seligman.

1887: Birthdate of Chasidic Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapiro “a descendant of Rabbi PInchas Shapiro of Korets, on the students of the Baal Shem Tov” and French tosafist Rabbi Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, who was “known as the Lubliner Rav”

1888(20thof Adar, 5648): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Paah

1888: Birthdate of František Langer Czech military physician and author who survived the Shoah because he was serving “as a member of the Czechoslovakian Army abroad (England) with the rank of brigadier general.

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

1889: Leopold Morse completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 3rd district.

1889: Twenty-six-year-old Moses G. Zalinski who had joined the U.S. Army as a private, completed his service with the First Artillery with the rank of Sergeant.

1889: The Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood was incorporated today by several leading Jewesses including Mrs. Theodora G. Levy, Mrs. Cordeilia Schnitzer and Mrs. Theresa Sidenberg.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0610F6395911738DDDAE0994DA405B8585F0D3

1890: The Trustees of Columbia College met today and “acknowledged and accepted “several gifts including “a valuable collection of Hebrew manuscripts from” Oscar S. Straus, the former American minister to Turkey.

1890(11th of Adar, 5650): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Julius Landsberger who helped found “the Liberal Synagogue at Darmstadt” passed away today in Berlin.

1891:Californian William W. Morrow, championed the cause of Adolph Kutner, formerly of Wierbchow, Russia who was afraid to return to his native land on business because of the Czar’s policies, completed his service as a member of the House of Representatives today.

1891: It was reported today that the New York Siberian Exile Petition Association will be forwarding a petition to the Czar in April “protesting against the present treatment of the Jews.”

1891: “Priests and Rabbis Barred” published today described an attempted Dr. T.T. Eaton, “a liberal Baptist preacher” to have the Louisville Ministerial Association admit Catholic and Jewish clergy as members.  His motion failed in 14 to 12 vote.

1891: Prominent St. Louis Jewish leader Nathan Frank completed his service as U.S Congressman.

1891: Charles Baker completed his service in the House of Representatives during which he had protested the treatment of the Jews by the government of Russia.

1892: President James H. Hoffman presided over tonight’s meeting of The Hebrew Technical Institute which was held at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.

1892(4th of Adar, 5652): Joseph Ratner, a Russian Jewish immigrant who has been married for two months shot himself this afternoon.  He was believed to have been despondent over health problems.

1893: Birthdate of Salvator Cicurel “an Egyptian Olympic fencer, who competed in the individual and team épée and team foil events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.”

1893: Forty-two-year-old Sigmund Hyman was taken from Mount Sinai Hospital and sent to North Brother Island because he was suffering from typhus fever.

1893: The New York Auxiliary to the Jewish Section of the Woman’s Branch of the Parliament of Religions is scheduled to resume its meeting today at the home of Mrs. Scholle where they will continue making plans for the papers they will be presenting at the upcoming World’s Fair. The members include Mrs. Oscar Straus, Mrs. Jacob Schiff, Mrs. Simon Borg, Mrs. Isidor Wormser, Mrs. Jesse Selgiman and Mrs. Alexander Kohut, the wife of Rabbi Alexander Kohut.

1894: Policemen Fay and Schultz came to Shearith Israel to investigate reports that “there was a crazy man in the synagogue.”

1895: “A Wedding Reception, 1471” published today described the wedding of the Duke Ferrara who hosted so many guests that he was ‘obliged to hire” “the mattresses and bolsters…from the Jews who kept a bank in Ferrara.

1895: “The Fate of a Financier” published today provided one version of the life and death of Joseph Suess Oppenheimer which is at odds with the facts as they are known today.

1895: Birthdate of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Born in Uzda, Belorussia "Reb Moshe" was the leading authority on Orthodox Jewish religious law (Halacha) during the last century. He served as a Rabbi of Luban, near Minsk starting in 1921 before coming to the United States in 1937. In 1938, he was named Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) of Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim, a New York yeshiva a position he held until 1986, the year he passed away. As his reputation grew, his rulings on religious law came to be accepted worldwide. A multi-volume collection of his letters, Igros Moshe, is considered authoritative among Orthodox Jews with regard to moral and ethical issues. He served President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, 1968-1986, Chairman, American Branch, Mo'ezet Gedolei ha-Torah of Agudat Yisrael, the Council of Torah Sages, and was acknowledged as the Gadol Ha-Dor, or preeminent individual of his generation of Jewish scholars.

1895: “Early Bible Printing in This Country” published today described the role of the city of Philadelphia has played “in this branch of bookmaking” including the fact that the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States was printed by Philadelphian William Fry in 1814. This was done five years after a Hebrew language copy of the Book of Psalms had been printed at Harvard.

1895: “B’nai B’rith Pioneers” published today traces the fifty year history of “the pioneer of all the existing Hebrew secret societies.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10715F73A5D15738DDDAA0894DB405B8585F0D3

1895: Isidor Straus completed his service as U.S. Congressman from New York’s 15thCongressional District.

1896: Professor Felix Adler will deliver a lecture entitled “Moral Aspects of the Question” at the opening session of a conference on Improved Housing being held at the United Charities Building.

1896: It was reported today the resolution Congress had adopted “which virtually denounced the attitude of the Russians toward the Jews” had caused “embarrassment” for the U.S. Minister to St Petersburg because he had to “present such expression from his own government to the nation to which he is sent.”

1897: Four lodges of B’nai B’rith hosted a party in honor of the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at the Tuxedo on Madison and 59thStreet.

1897: One day after she had passed away, 61-year-old Rebecca Doncaster, “the widow of Henry Doncaster” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1898: “The Jews For Arbitrators” published today described  Rabbi Pereira Mendes wish that the United States would consider submitting its claims against Spain following the blowing up of the battleship USS Maine to a court of international arbitration instead of resorting to war.

1899: Stanford Moses who had been serving aboard the USS Oregon, was promoted to the rank of Lt. Jr. Grade and transferred to serve on the U.S.S. Celtic, a “stores ship” that provided support for U.S. forces during the Philippine-American War.

1900(2ndof Adar II, 5660): Parashat Pekudi

1901: Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his services a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 13th district.

1901: New York Democrat Mitchell May completed his service as a member of the 56thUnited States Congress.

1902(24THof Adar, 5662): Isaac Conquy Abecassis, a native of the Azores born in 1840 passed away today at Var, France.

http://www.abecasis.info/genpt2_isaac.htm

1903: Congress passed legislation aimed at curbing immigration to the United States. The bill required immigrants to pay a two-dollar head tax (a considerable sum in those days for poor immigrants). It also gave immigration officers the right to exclude those whom they deem anarchists or as people who believe in or advocate the overthrow of the United States government. The legislation was obviously aimed at immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, including the large Jewish populations in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.

1903: In Naugatuck, CT, “Gilbert and Helena (Pollak) Greenberg gave birth to Adrian Adolph Greenburg the award-winning costume designer who gained fame as Gilbert Adrian or simply “Adrian.”

http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/adrian-hatmakers-son-dressed-america/

1903: Senator Joseph Simon, Oregon Republican, finishes his term in the U.S. Senate. Simon returned to Portland, Oregon where he resumed his law practice and would serve as may from 1909 to 1911.

1903: Lucius Nathan Littauer completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 22nd district which began in 1897.

1903: Despite “all the pressure that has been brought to bear to induce him to reconsider,” the leaders of Temple Beth-El reluctantly accepted the resignation of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler from his position as Rabbi of New York’s leading Reform congregation.

1904: Birthdate of award-winning sportswriter Jesse Abramson, “who was noted for his coverage of track and boxing.”

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JesseAbramson.htm

1904: In South Carolina, Rabbi J.J. Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of Jake l. Karesh and Minnie A. Ellison.

1905: Cala and Jacob Zetzer gave birth to Samuel Zetzer, the brother of Morris and Rose Zetzer.

1905: In the wake of the defeat by Japan and the Russian Revolution, Czar Nicholas II agreed to create an elected assembly, the Duma.

1906: M.S. Snow delivered a lecture on “The Habit of Reading” before the Jewish Educational alliance.

1907: Charles Grosvenor completed his 14-year career as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio’s 11th district.  He was an opponent of immigration bills that specifically barred Russian Jews from coming to the United States.

1907: Birthdate of London native Joyce Black, who as Joy Finzi gave birth to Christopher and Nigel Finzi and founded the Finzi Trust “a foundation named for deceased husband composer Gerald Finzi

1907(17thof Adar, 5667): Sixty-two-year-old Levi Adler, the husband of Theresa Wile and the father of Rochester, NY Mayor Isaac Adler passed away today.

1907: After 4 years, Lucius Nathan Littauer completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 25th district

1908(30thof Adar I, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1910: Dorothy Levitt “was booked to give a talk at the Criterion Restaurant today about her experiences learning to fly.

1910: Birthdate of Eddie “Kid” Wolfe, the welterweight from Memphis, TN, who fought his first bout in 1927.

1911(3rd of Adar, 5671): Rabbi Jacob de Botton leader of the Jewish community in Salonica passed away at the age 68.

1911: William S. Bennett, who would publicly support aid for the Jews Europe after the World War broke, completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 17th District.

1912(14thof Adar, 5672): Purim

1912(14thof Adar, 5672): Eighty-six-year-old philanthropist William Wolf passed away today in San Francisco.

1912: The New York Times publishes a review of Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (The Jews in Economic Life) recently published in Germany by Prof. Werner Sombart, Professor of Political Economy at the Commercial High School of Berlin that includes the insights of Dr. Solomon Shechter.

1913: Victor L. Berger completed his term representing the 5thCongressional District of Wisconsin

1913: Simon Guggenheim completed his term as U.S. Senator from Colorado.

1913: Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his services a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 13th district.

1913: Birthdate of Harold Hochstein who gained fame as Harold J. Stone, the American actor who traveled from Broadway, to Hollywood to Television.

1914:”The way was paved to-day for the resentencing of Leo M. Frank in Judge Hill's court, and for the next move of the defense when the remittitur was received from the Supreme Court by the Clerk of the Superior Court, Solicitor Dorsey, it is understood, will to-morrow move that Frank be brought into court and resentenced.”

1915: As the 63rd session of the United States Congress came to an end, Jacob Cantor completed his term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He had been elected on November 4, 1913 to fill the vacancy of Francis Harrison (who was not Jewish). He lost to Issac Siegel who was Jewish and returned to his New York law practice. Siegel in turn would be replaced by that most famous of all New Yorkers, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the son of a Jewish mother who was raised as a Yiddish speaking Italian Catholic.

1915: “Needs of Jews in Russia” published today described the request for aid from the Jewish Colonization Association of Petrograd to aid the “tens of thousands:” of “new refugees from Poland” that have arrived in the Russian capital.

1915: As the 63rd session of the United States Congress came to an end, Henry Mayer Goldfogle completed his term as a member of the U.S. House of Representative which had begun with the 57th session of Congress.

1915: Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his services a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 14th district.

1916: In Vienna, rabbis and communal leaders from Galicia met and formed a committee designed to find a “solution for the eastern Jewish problem.”

1916: Today, C.H. Rubenstein wrote to Simon Wolf, the Chairman of the Board of Delegates in Washington, DC, “I am glad to inform you that the bill before the Maryland Legislature, making the reading of the Bible compulsory in the public schools of the State…has been defeated” by a “constitutional majority.”

1916: After winning 15 straight bouts Benny Leonard (born Benjamin Leiner) fought today for the lightweight championship but lost when he failed to knockout the champ.

1917: Birthdate of Lou Labovitch, the native of Winnipeg who played right wing in six different hockey leagues from 1938 to 1948, none of which were the NHL.

1917: William H. King, 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 a U.S. Senator from Utah.

1917: William Stiles Bennet who in 1916 told 3,000 people attending a meeting at the McKinley Casino that it was “now necessary for the American Jew to assist his brethren in Europe” and “said that large sums of money would be needed in order to accomplish the desired relief” completed his services as a Member of the US. House of Representatives from New York’s 27th District today.

1917: Djemal Pasha offers to give the Jews free access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem to pray if they provide the sum of 80,000-100,000 Francs

1918: Birthdate of photographer Arnold Abner Newman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html

http://arnoldnewman.com/

1918: Germany and the new Communist government of Russia signed The Brest-Litovsk Treaty. This treat dismembered the Russian Empire and took Russia out of the war. This freed the German Army to shift all of its forces to the Western Front where the Kaiser’s forces tried for a knock-out blow that failed. The treaty helped bring on the Russian Civil War between the Whites and the Reds during which Jews were slaughtered by both sides. Also, the treaty resulted in western forces (U.S., English, etc.) sending troops to Russia. Once again, Jews were caught in the middle and suffered economic ruin and death.

1918: Today, after having reluctantly signed last week, Grigori Sokolnikov, a Jewish born Bolshevik, predicted that “Germany’s expansionism would be short lived.”

1918: In New York City, Joseph and Lena Kornberg who had married in 1904 and emigrated to New York from Austrian Galicia gave birth to Arthur Kornberg US biochemist who synthesized artificial DNA. He received the Nobel Prize in 1959. He died in 2007 at the age of 89.

1919: Emir Faisel writes a letter to Felix Frankfurter expressing his support for the Zionist cause. ”We Arabs...look with deepest sympathy on the Zionist Movement....We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome… The Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper." The boundaries of Palestine shall follow the general lines set out below: Starting on the North at a point on the Mediterranean Sea in the vicinity South of Sidon and following the watersheds of the foothills of the Lebanon as far as Jisr el Karaon, thence to El Bire following the dividing line between the two basins of the Wadi El Korn and the Wadi Et Teim thence in a southerly direction following the dividing line between the Eastern and Western slopes of the Hermon, to the vicinity West of Beit Jenn, thence Eastward following the northern watersheds of the Nahr Mughaniye close to and west of the Hedjaz Railway. In the East a line close to and West of the Hedjaz Railway terminating in the Gulf of Akaba [will serve as the boundary]; in the South a frontier to be agreed upon with the Egyptian Government; in the West the Mediterranean Sea. The details of the delimitations, or any necessary adjustments of detail, shall be settled by a Special Commission on which there shall be Jewish representation. Emir Faisel fought against the Turks alongside T.E. Lawrence. Faisal was expecting to be able to control a Caliphate based in Damascus. As we can see here, he had even worked out a plan with Chaim Weizmann that would have allowed for the creation of a Jewish home in Palestine. Unfortunately, the French, who controlled Syria after the war, drove Faisal from Damascus, ending his power and the dream of peace in the Middle East.

1919(1st of Adar II, 5679): Abraham (Albert) Antebi, head of the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Constantinople passed away. He was born at Damascus in 1899.

1919: Illinois Democrat J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis who as a Congressman had supported a “proviso in the Balfour Declaration that Jews going to Palestine to live could retain their original citizenship instead of automatically becoming British subjects” and who as U.S. Senator led “a protest against the possible transfer of American Jews from their present homes in Palestine to other parts of the country” completed almost six years of service as Senate Majority Whip today.

1919: Meyer London, one of only two members of the Socialist Party to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives completed his term representing the 12th District of New York. He had defeated Henry M. Goldfogle, a Jew, for the seat and Goldfogle returned the favor.

1920: Arabs attacked Kfar Giladi forcing the settlers to abandon their land and take refuge in “the Shia village of Taibe” before finding ultimate sanctuary at Ayelet Hashahar, a kibbutz settled in 1915 during the Second Aliyah.

1921: In Galveston, TX, “Russian Jewish immigrants Louis and Rose Paskowitz” gave birth to Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz the graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine who gave up his medical career to become “a professional surfer.

1921: Birthdate of Allen Ginsberg beat generation poet. In 1969 he received the Arts & Letters Award.

1922: Birthdate of Richard S. Lazarus who was ranked as one of the “one hundred most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.”

https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html

1922: An Arab delegation “held a meeting…at the Hyde Park Hotel in London to denounce Britain’s ‘Zionist policy.’” The Secretary of the delegation was reported to have declared “the necessity of killing Jews if the Arabs did not get their way.”

1922: The schedules in the estate of Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist, who died Sept. 25, 1920, prepared for submission to the State Tax Commission in the inheritance tax proceeding to begin shortly, fix the value of the property to be taxed in New York State at $35,257,008. The net estate on which the executors estimate a tax will be fixed is $34,426,282.

1923: Mayer Jacobstein began serving his first term a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 38th District.

1923: Meyer London completed his second, non-successive term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York’s 12th District. He was followed in office by another Jewish politician, Samuel Dickstein.

1923: TIME magazine was published for the first time by Henry Luce. Jews connected with America’s leading weekly news magazine have included managing editors Henry Grunwald (1968–1977) and Walter Isaacson (1996–2000) and contributors Lev Grossman, Joe Klein and Joel Stein.

1923: Fifty-six-year-old Republican Milton Kraus completed his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana’s 11th congressional district.

1924: “Why Men Leave Home” a silent film directed by John M. Stahl and produced by Louis B. Mayer was released today in the United States.

1924: Felix M. Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. arrived in Jerusalem today to begin a fact-finding mission as allowed under the terms of the British Mandate.

1924(27thof Adar I, 5684): Eighty year old “author and communal worker” Lady Katie Magnus, the Portland born wife of former MP Sir Phillip Magnus and the mother of “Laurie Magnus, the editor of the London Jewish Guardian” passed away today.

https://www.jta.org/1924/03/03/archive/lady-katie-magnus-dies-at-age-of-eighty-years

1925: “Salome of the Tenements” a silent film adapted to the screen by Sonya Levien from the Anzia Yezierska novel produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor and co-starring Jetta Goudal was released in the United States today.

1926(17thof Adar, 5686): Sixty-six-year-old Sir Sidney Lee, born Solomon Lazarus Lee, the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and author who specialized in the Elizabethan period and who was the brother of Elizabeth Lee passed away today.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1926/Obituary/Sidney_Lee

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Lee,_Sidney

https://archive.org/details/alifewilliamsha04leegoog

1926: The Lenox Quartette performed “String Quartette” by Leopold Mannes at the New York Public Library.

1926: Theatrical producer E. Ray Goetz returned to New York today on the line France and said that his brother-in-law Irving Berlin and his bride the former Ellin Mackay “are planning to make their home in London” at least until next fall.

1926: “Important Jewish manuscripts, relics, early printed books, antiquities, ceremonial objects and other items of Judaica” totaling 6,174 pieces “have been purchased in Germany for the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati and are now on their way to “the United States” according to an announcement made today by Dr. Adolph S. Oko, who has been in Europe for ten weeks working on the project.

1926: Dr. William Filderman of Bucharest, the President of the Union of Rumanian Jews was met at the pier when his ship docked in New York by “a large delegation from the American Branch Branch of the Union of Rumanian Jews headed by Leo Wolf who heard the visitor say that while the “King depalored any anti-Semitic feeling in Rumania…the situation of the Jews…was very bad” and that economic help might be a remedy for their troubles.

1927: After ten years, Senator William King who “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” completed his service as Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus today.

1927: “The wooden hut of the former tenants of the railway station in Tel Shamam” were brought to the hill of what became Kfar Yehoshua, a moshav in northern Israel named in honor of Yehoshua Hankin.

1927: Nathan David Perlman completed his service as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from New York’s 14th District.

1928: A statement published today marking the passing of Max issued by Joseph C. Hyman, Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee closed by say “The annals of the Joint Distribution Committee, as well as the record of American Jewry, united in this great humanitarian effort to save rebuilt the lives of our people across the sea, will for all time carry the name of his modest, simple, devoted leader who gave of his very best to the causes which he served”

1928: In New York City, “Abraham Hyman and Ivy (Ernst) Resnick” gave birth to their second daughter Bernice Resnick who gained fame as Bernice Sandler the holder of a D.Ed. from the University of Maryland who was the driving force behind the implementation of Title IX. (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/obituaries/bernice-sandler-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

19291923: Mayer Jacobstein completed his third and final term as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 38th District.

1929: In the Old City of Jerusalem, Rabbi Salman Eliyahu, a Jerusalem Kabbalist from an Iraqi Jewish family and his wife Mazal gave birth to Rabbi Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu

1929: “Discovery of written tablets and clay stoppers which bear the impression of the archaic seals and are the oldest written documents at Ur of the Chaldes” (the Biblical of home of Abraham) “was revealed” in Philadelphia “following receipt of a report from the joint archaeological field expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum.” (As reported by JTA)

1930: U.S. premiere of “Madame Satan,” a “musical romantic comedy” co-starry Lillian Roth (b. Lillian Rutstein)

1931: A special screening of “1914” directed and produced by Richard Oswald, co-starring Reinhold Schunzel and filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was held today at the Reichstag.

1932: Judge Cutherbert W. Pound addressed Benjamin Cardozo on his last as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals saying of the man who was about to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, “We shall miss not only the great Chief Judge whose wisdom and understanding have added glory to the judicial office but all the true man who has blessed us with the light of his friendship, the sunshine of his smile.”

1932: “In a unanimous opinion written by Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo as his final judicial act before taking his place on the United States Court bench, the court held” today “that the issuance of a subpoena to Senator Hastings was legal but that the efforts to penalize him were improperly conducted.”

1933: Birthdate of Harry Oscar Triguboff, the native of Dalian whose parents had fled from Russia to northeastern China after the Russian Revolution who became an Australian billionaire residential property developer known as “high-rise Harry.”

1933: About a month after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and about a week after the burring of the Reichstag 100 prisoners were taken to a school in the small town of Norha near the city of Weimar. They were interrogated and sent into three large rooms where they guarded by policemen and students from the school. This was the start of Germany's first Concentration camp.

1934: “Heat Ligthning,” the film version of the Broadway play by the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Samuel Bischoff was released today in the United States.

1934: At the 102nd Engineers Armory, the undefeated City College of New York basketball team led by Abe Weissbrodt lost to the undefeated NYU team led Willie Rubenstein.

1935: Birthdate of New York native, Brandeis Alum and Harvard Ph.D Michael Walzer, the Professor Emeritus for Advanced Study in Princeton who is the husband of Judith Borodovko Walzer with whom he had two daughters – Saran Esther and Rebecca Leah – and “older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1936: Birthdate of Eva Kleinova who was transported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow where she was murdered.

1936: Paul Bekker, the former director of the Wiesbaden opera whom “officials said ‘favored Jews and showed Bolshevik opposition” was among those deprived of their citizenship today by the German government.

1936: Funeral services are scheduled to take place at the family residence for Rabbi Isaac Brill which will be attended by his four children – Jacques, Ray, Nellie and Jessie Brill.

1936: Eighty-five Jewish refugees from Germany arrived in New York aboard the Cunard White Star Line Berenaria.

1936: “Twenty-five more German intellectuals, led by Arnold Zweig” who “was denounced as Jewish author” “were denationalized today by order of Dr. Frick in agreement with…the Foreign Minister on the ground that they had violated their duty of loyalty to the Reich…”

1936: It was announced today that “the United Palestine Appeal will be opened in New York City” on March 4” with a tea at the Hotel Astor.”

1936: A dispatch from Berlin “today reported that an agreement has been reached between the German and Netherlands Governments enabling Netherlands citizens of Jewish descent living in Germany to be repatriated with part of their capital in order to be in a position to start anew in the Netherlands.”

1937: Benjamin Winter announced today that “Professor Albert Einstein has accepted the honorary chairmanship of the American Appeal for the Jews in Poland” which is trying to raise one million dollars in the United States to provide relief for destitute Polish Jews. (Editor’s Note – Due to the Shoah we often lose sight of the fact that during the 1930’s many countries in Europe, including Poland, were in the grip of a virulent anti-Semitism that had nothing to do with Hitler)

1937: In an address at the annual luncheon of the Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress, Fiorello La Guardia suggested that Hitler’s effigy be placed in a chamber of horrors at the World’s Fair.

1938: Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. The connection with Jewish history should be self-evident.

1938(30th of Adar I, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1938: Sholem (Samuel) Schwarzbard a Bessarabian-born Jewish poet and anarchist, known primarily for the assassination of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura who wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes (English: The Dreamer) passed away today in Cape Town, South Africa.

http://forward.com/articles/14428/when-france-embraced-a-jewish-avenger-/

1938: The Palestine Post reported from London that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby Gore, assured the House of Commons that Palestinian police, assisted by British troops, were doing everything possible to contain the deeply seated and widespread Arab terror.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that Yacoub Marata, an Arab police corporal, and Alfred Koblenz, a Jewish constable, were shot and badly wounded by Arab terrorists at a Haifa market.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that the Haifa Port inaugurated a new, extensive cargo jetty.

1939: Cardinal Pace III, a long-time semi-supporter of the German government, became Pope Pius XII. He was later greatly criticized for his passive acceptance of the Final Solution.

1939: Thirty-three-year-old Jenny Marx who was caring for ailing parents wrote to her younger brother Max who had taken refuge in Palestine today that, “It makes little sense to you about the same subject over and over, yet there is nothing else to write about.  I am so sired of life that I have often wished it would end.  In your case it is quie different.  You are held in esteem and you have a fantastic position, for which I congratulate you.  You enjoy life.  In my case all is finished. The tragedy with our parents, the long separation from you, everybody loaded down with sorrows, so interest in life is not great.” (Editor’s Note – In a decision that we might not understand, men were thought to be a greater risk in the 3rdReich so women stayed behind when family matters forced them to make such a decision. Jenny’s engagement in April to Sigmund Mayer, “a plain workman, baker and confection” brought her renewed hope.”

1939: “The first contingent of about 500 Jews who had been expelled from Danzig left early this morning for an unknown destination. In a departure marked by “distressing farewell scenes” the contingent of men, women and children were taken to a German railway station by a convoy of buses and trucks. There are unconfirmed rumors that these homeless Jews will pass through Hungary to Constanta, Romania where a ship is waiting to take them to Tel Aviv. The Jews face the double whammy of the Nazis and the Arab inspired limits on Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel since no valid visas are available for this wretched contingent.

1940: When hundreds of Jewish women took to the streets of Tel Aviv today chanting “anti-land law slogans,” the British military commander issued an order imposing a total curfew that was scheduled to last for three days until.

1941: Ice cream parlor owner Ernst Cahn was executed by a Nazi firing squad today in the Netherlands.

1941(4th of Adar, 5701): Adolph Schwartz died from a heart attack today at the age of 74.

http://epcc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=309255&sid=2604789

1942(14thof Adar, 5702): Purim

1942: “Thousands of members of the ZOA” are scheduled to “give defense stamps and bonds” today “for Schalach Manos, in response to a plea made by Judge Louis E. Leventhal.”

1942: “An exhibition titled ‘Artists in Exile’” that included the works of Marc Chagall “opened at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.

1943(26thof Adar, 5703): Betty Diana Aarons passed away today after which she was interred in the Rainham Jewish Cemetery.

1943(26th of Adar I, 5703): Judikje Simons, later Judikje Themans- Simons, died today at Sobibor, together with her husband, Bernard, their five-year-old daughter Sonja, and their three-year-old son Leon. Simons was one of six Jewish members of the Dutch Ladies’ Gymnastic Team that won the Olympic title at Amsterdam in 1928, Simons, who ran an orphanage with her husband in the city of Utrecht that housed 83 children, had apparently been warned that the Nazis were heading her way, and was offered a hiding place by Dutch friends. However, Simons had no intention of forsaking her orphans, sealing her fate, and that of almost all of the children.

1944: “The Iraqi Government today announced through the Arab News Agency that its protest to Washington with regard to the Palestine resolution “has had satisfactory results.” (As reported by JTA)

1944: Birthdate of Yoram Jerrold Kessel, the South African born Israeli journalist and correspondent who gain fame with American audiences as the CNN correspondent reporting on the Middle East from Jerusalem.

1944: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine today announced that David Ben-Gurion, chairman of its executive, has withdrawn his resignation and resumed work in the Agency’s headquarters.” (As reported by JTA)

1944: Birthdate of Fred Goldsmith “the 1992 Sports Illustrated National NCAA Football Coach of the Year and the 1994 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.”

1944: Emir Abdullah Ibn Husseein, ruler of Transjordan…cabled a bitter protest to President Roosevelt against the pending Senate resolution reaffirming United States approval of Palestine as Jewish national homeland.”

1944: Jermie Adler, a Jewish father of three who was hiding in village outside of Liege, Belgium became so ill that he checked himself into a hospital today. “While he was in the hospital, the Gestapo arrested his wife, two daughters, and a nephew.” Only his oldest daughter survived the war.

1945: The Jewish Infantry Brigade was activated as part of the British Army. Jewish military groups fought with distinction during World War II. These soldiers were drawn from the Yishuv - the Jewish community in what was then called Palestine. At the end of the war, some of these soldiers participated in daring rescue activities that brought survivors of the Holocaust from central Europe, through Italy and eventually to ships bound for Palestine. Military training gained by the Jewish troops proved useful when the Israelis converted from the small military unit tactics of the pre-Independence period to the larger operations necessary to defeat the invading armies they faced in 1948 and 1949.

1945: Eri Jabotinsky, son of the late Zionist Revisionist leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, was released after two days in custody for interrogation concerning his “activities.”

1945: Over two thousand Jews from Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen were sent from Gross Rosen. Of them 49 died in the trains on the way and 182 more died upon arrival.

1946: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, parent body of Reform Judaism in the United States, was urged today by Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, executive director, "to disassociate itself from dogmatic anti-Zionism."

1946: In an article about the appropriate ways to rehabilitate disabled WW II GI’s published today, Dr. Howard Rusk reported that the number of “working-age males, who are either unemployable or marginally employable because of handicaps exceed, numerically, the Jewish population.” Such a comparison would indicate that the average American knows how many Jews live in the United States.

 

1947: Having left Poland for Paris in 1946 and Paris for the United States in February 1947, future novelist Louis Begley and his family arrived in New York City.

http://www.louisbegley.com/

1947: The four hundred ton “motor ship Susanna” left Italy carrying 800 Jewish refugees who hope to avoid the British blockade and find a home in Palestine.

1947: The Irgun gave proof to its announcement that open warfare exists between its forces and the British by attacking British military installations in Haifa with a barrage of 500 hand grenades.

1947: The Haganah accused the British of “deliberately destroying the Jewish economy” by imposing martial law on “thousands of people who have nothing whatsoever to do with terror or crime.”

1947: Lieutenant General G.H.A. MacMillan announced that the word “terrorist” would no longer be used to describe those Jews attacking the British in Palestine. The term had acquired a sense of “glamour” which should not be ascribed to people he said were no better than the gangsters from Al Capone’s Chicago.

1947: In New York City, Dr. Jacob and Maida (Seltzer) Bornstein gave birth to Tufts University trained physician Harold Nelson Bornstein “who for a time was President Donald J. Trump’s personal physician and who had attested that Mr. Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/nyregion/harold-bornstein-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1947: Lazar Kagnovich began serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

1948: “Black Bart,” a cowboy biopic filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released in the United States today.

1948: The executive board of the Parent-Teacher Association at DeWitt Clinton High School registered their protest “again the banning of Gentleman’s Agreementand Focus.

1948: “Pleading for a supreme for effort at conciliation, Canada today called on the five permanent members of the Security Council” – US, UK, USSR, France and China – “to make a last-minute attempt to find an agreed solution to the Palestine problem.”

1949: “At the Theatre” published today provided a review of “Two Blind Mice” starring Melvyn Douglas.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E3D9123DE03ABC4B53DFB5668382659EDE

1949: In Brooklyn, discount store owner and stock broker Israel Chernow and Ruth Chernow, a bookkeeper gave birth to Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer Ronald “Ron” Chernow whose subjects have included George Washington, J.P. Morgan and Warburg family.

1950(14th of Adar, 5710): Purim

1950: In the San Fernando Valley, California, Elaine Edelman, and Jay Ziskin gave birth to Laura Ziskin, the producer of “Spider Man” and “Pretty Woman.”

1950: In Jordan, the cabinet has reportedly resigned because it was opposed to the non-aggression pact which has been secretly negotiated with Israel. King Abdullah is said to be the major supporter of the agreement.

1952: In New York City, “real estate developer Richard Zirinsky” and “Cynthia (nee Finkelstein) Zirinsky, the founder of Gracie Square Hospital” gave birth to American University graduate and long-time CBS journalist and producer Susan Zirinsky who is now the President and Senior Executive Producer of CBS News

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/10/news-media-more-women-leaders-susan-zirinsky-cbs-news-president-column/2523913002/

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/new-cbs-news-chief-susan-zirinsky-1203102819/

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that seven infiltrators from Jordan were killed in two separate incidents on Israeli territory. The Soviet ambassador to Egypt, Semyon Kozirev, invited the former mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, to visit Moscow. The increased food rations for Pesach included an extra 100 grams of meat, a welcome addition to the monthly rate of 200 grams, and 290 grams of olive oil to every consumer. (As you can see from this entry, even without the attacks from Arab terrorists and the threat of attack from the surrounding Arab nations, the early settlers of Israel had a rough time of it.)

1954: “Rose Marie” an adaptation of the 1924 operetta with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II with a script by George Froeschel and directed by Mervyn LeRoy premiered in Chicago, Illinois today.

1954(29thof Adar I, 5714): Sixty-four-year-old Ethel Weiner, the “daughter of Samson and Mary (Miriam) Natleson and the husband of Meyer Weiner” who was active in Jewish organizations including Hadassah while working as a public-school teacher and principal passed away today in her native Brooklyn.

1956: Morocco gained its independence from France. "One of the first actions of the government was to order the Jewish agency to halt its emigration activities."

1956: After 461 performances, the curtain came on the original Broadway production of “Plain and Fancy” with a book co-authored by Joseph Stein and music by Albert Hague in which Bea Arthur understudied for the role of “Ruth.”

1957(30th of Adar I, 5717): Controversial Holocaust survivor Rudolf (Israel) Kastner, the man who negotiated with Eichmann to save Hungarian Jews was shot by by Zeev Eckstein, 24, a Holocaust survivor, and died of his injuries nine days later.

1958(11thof Adar, 5718): Eighty-six-year-old Joseph Emanuel, the son of Elizabeth and George Joseph Emanuel and the husband of Ethel Emanuel passed away today.

1959: Birthdate of Ira Glass, host of public radio’s “This American Life.”

1960: U.S. premiere of Home From the Hill with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch, the son of a rabbi and his wife Harriet Frank, Jr.

1961(15thof Adar, 5721): Shushan Purim

1961: Hassan II becomes King of Morocco. When he came to the throne, Hassan II had a reputation as a playboy. Nobody would have predicted the positive role he would play in relations with Israel. The following story written when the King died in 1999 describes the impact of the Moroccan Monarch. “Tens of thousands of Israelis are mourning the death of Morocco's King Hassan II, a man they considered "their" king, leaving them homesick for the land their families left. Young Israelis of Moroccan origin placed the Moroccan flag on top of their cars, while others displayed huge posters in their homes of the king, who died last Friday of a heart attack at the age of 70. The Moroccan Jewish community in Israel declared a seven-day period of mourning for the king. A delegation led by Israeli President Ezer Weizman, Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres joined 30 other world leaders, including President Clinton and Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, in remembering a man who played a vital role in bridging the gap between the Jewish state and the Arab world. In a condolence message, Weizman called Hassan a "true partner in the peace process.” Attending the funeral, Barak called Hassan a "great leader" and a "farsighted man, a friend to the governments of Israel in their voyage toward peace with the Arab people." In Israel, Moroccan Jews have traditionally supported parties, such as Likud or Shas that espouse hard-line policies toward the Arab countries. That is partly to compensate for the fact that they felt "Ashkenazi Jews regarded them as Jewish Arabs," according to Haim Shiran, director of Inbal, an ethnic center in Tel Aviv. He said anti-Arab political views were a kind of self-defense mechanism, a way to distinguish themselves from the Arabs. But when it came to the king's death, the reaction of Israel's estimated 300,000 Moroccan Jews appeared similar to Morocco's Arab residents, many of whom consider the king to be a direct descendent of the Muslim prophet Mohammad. "I know that it may sound ridiculous," said Shiran, "but when on Friday, I saw the Moroccan announcer on television announcing the death of the king, I broke out in tears." Hassan took power in 1961 after the death of his father, Mohammed V. When Hassan ascended to the throne, he was an unknown quantity with a reputation as a playboy. But ruling with a deft mixture of pro-Western democracy and traditional autocracy, he earned the respect of his people. He also survived several coup attempts. Mohammed V was widely credited with having saved Morocco's Jews from deportation during World War II, and Hassan continued the philo-Semitic policies of his father. Although there was an outbreak of anti-Jewish incidents following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the Jewish community was generally safe under the protection of both Mohammed and Hassan. When tens of thousands of Jews left Morocco in a massive aliyah that began after Morocco gained its independence in 1956 -- and accelerated after Hassan II gained power -- it was due as much to Zionism and a desire for economic opportunity as it was to a fear of anti-Semitism. Along with the recently deceased King Hussein of Jordan, Hassan was considered a moderate in the Middle East. During his 38-year reign, he discreetly, and later openly, promoted ties with Israel at a time when most of the Arab world rejected such contact. In the 1967 and 1973 Middle East wars, he contributed only a nominal number of troops to support Arab forces. His mediation efforts, including secret meetings with Israeli intelligence officials and political leaders, helped pave the way for the 1978 Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt. Hassan also played a role in preparing for the 1991 Madrid peace conference and welcomed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in September 1993, making Morocco the first Arab nation outside of Egypt to officially host an Israeli leader. In 1994, Hassan hosted the first Middle East regional economic conference, which included Israel, in Casablanca. After the euphoria of the 1993 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel was allowed to establish a consular office in Rabat, and an estimated 40,000 Israeli tourists visited Morocco in 1995 and 1996. Even in death Hassan provided an opportunity for Israeli and Arab officials to meet -- in this case, an unprecedented exchange among Barak, Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Speaking in French, Bouteflika asked Levy whether Israel was serious about peace, to which the Moroccan-born minister responded, "Yes." Levy added that it was in Israel's interest to do so and was ready to work hard to achieve it. Turning to Barak, Bouteflika said his country was willing to help in any way it could.

1962: Art Heyman led Duke to victory over South Carolina in the ACC tournament semi-finals. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)

1963(7thof Adar, 5723): Today, in Rishon LeZion the foundation stone for Kiryas Kaliv was laid on “the yahrtzeit of Grand Rabbi Yitzchak Isak Taub.”

1966: “The Lion in Winter” a play depicting the lives of Henry II and his wife Eleanor written by James Goldman opened on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre.

1967: Stan Lee was a special guest on WBAI’s broadcast of “Will Success Spoil Spiderman?”

1968: Birthdate of Scott David Radinsky, the native of Glendale, CA who spent eleven years in the majors as a pitcher and pursued a career as a “punk rocker.”

1968: Iraqi Prime Minister, Tahir Yahya, instituted a law that impoverished the Jews. "Jews couldn't sell their cars or furniture. All licenses given to Jewish pharmacists were canceled" and their pharmacies were ordered to close. "All commercial officers in Baghdad had to dismiss their Jewish employees. Muslim owned businesses were warned not to engage in commerce with Jews.

1969: In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. According to his diaries, he killed Kennedy because he was a supporter of Israel.

1970: Thirty-two “local, independent groups in the U.S. join together to create the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews…”

1970: Gabriel Oliver Koppell “was elected an Independent to the New York State Assembly.”

1971: After opening on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre, today “Man of La Mancha” a musical adaptation of Dale Wasserman’s “non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote” with music by Mitch Leigh moved to the Eden Theatre.

1972(17thof Adar, 5732): Seventy-seven-year-old Rabbi Morris Silverman, best known for the creation of the black book affectionately known as the “Silverman Prayer Book” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/03/04/79426170.pdf

1973(29thof Adar I, 5733): Parashat Vayakehl; Shabbat Shekalim

1973: Senator Guy Gillette passed away. While serving in the Senate during World War II, Gillette spoke out in favor of caring for the Jewish refugees in Europe and in favor of Jewish aspirations in Palestine. After he lost his bid for re-election he served as “president of the American League for a Free Palestine, serving until the Committee's work ended with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.” [Why a senator from Iowa, a state with a miniscule Jewish population, would adopt such views is a mystery awaiting further study.]

1973(17thof Adar, 5732): Eighty-nine-year-old Carrie Sanger Shaw, the Waco, TX born daughter of Samuel and Hannah Heller Sanger and the wife of Alfred Tennyson Godshaw whom she married in 1907 and with whom she had one child, Elva Sanger Godshaw Levy who was part of the family that founded Sanger Brother’s Department Store, passed away today after which she was buried in Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Waco.

1974(9thof Adar, 5734): Fifty-eight-year-old Bernard Phillips, the native of Minneapolis who earned PhD at Yale and became a Professor of Philosophy and Religion passed away today.

1976: In Jerusalem, the three day long annual meeting of the International –Catholic Jewish Liaison Committee is scheduled to come to an end today.

1977(13thof Adar, 5737): Fast of Esther; erev Purim

1977(13th of Adar, 5737): Fifty-six-year-old “Herman Ausubel, a Columbia University history professor and an authority on Victorian England” and who was associated with Columbia as a student and teacher for thirty-seven years” while raising two sons – Kenneth and Jesse -- with “his wife, the former Anne Weisinger” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/03/04/75043138.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

 

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported from Washington that US President Jimmy Carter warned that “the abandonment” of UN Resolution 242 by any of the parties in the Middle East “would put us back many months or years.” Observers, however, noted that on the eve of the expected Carter-Begin summit meetings, the American position on many issues was seen to be much more supportive of Egypt than of Israel. In Jerusalem, the 91-year-old Notre Dame Hospice, uninhabited for years, had quietly begun a new life as a modern hostel for pilgrims.

1978(24thof Adar I, 5738): Seventy-two-year-old “American industrial psychologist, executive, civil rights leader, and philanthropist” Alfred J. Marrow passed away.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/34/11/1109/

1980: In “Tens of Thousands of People Attend Funeral of Yigal Allon” Yitzhak Shargil described the final ceremony honoring the fallen Israeli leader.

http://archive.jta.org/article/1980/03/03/2986837/tens-of-thousands-of-people-attend-funeral-of-yigal-allon

1981: Israeli planes raided Palestinian positions northeast of Tyre today, according to the Lebanese radio. The raid came a day after rockets from Lebanese territory struck several homes in the Galilee town of Qiryat Shemona today, wounding three people.

1981(27thof Adar I, 5741): Eighty-three-year-old Hugh Harris the educator and journalist who was the brother of Leslie Julius Harris and the son Rabb John Solomon Harris passed away today.

1983(18thof Adar, 5743): Fifty-six-year-old psyhciatrist Victor Jerome Teichner, the New York born son of “William Isiah and Sonya Clare (Breitman) Teichner, husband of Gail W. Berry and member of the U.S. Naval Reserve who earned his MD at Temple and his certification in psychoanalytic medicine at Columbia passed away today.

1983(18th of Adar, 5743): Seventy-seven-year-old Hungarian born author Arthur Koestler, two of whose more famous works were Darkness at Noon and Thirteenth Tribe, which highlighted his view of the role the Khazars played in the life of European Jewry, and his wife died today in the United Kingdom, apparently having committed suicide in response to their declining health.

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

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

1985(10thof Adar I, 5745): Seventy-one-year-old Sándor Scheiber who served as director of the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest from 1950 until his death passed away today.

1985: After “767 performances and 37 previews” the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “My One and Only” a George and Ira Gershwin musical.

1986: The final performance of a revival of “Jubilee” a musical with a book by Moss Hart is scheduled take place at the Town Hall in New York.

1987(2nd of Adar, 5747): Multi-talented performer Danny Kaye passed away. Born David Kominsky in 1913, the red-headed comedian and vocalist enjoyed success in a variety of entertainment formats. His hit movies included The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Hans Christian Andersen. He also starred in his own television variety show. He used his fame for the betterment of mankind serving as a champion for UNICEF when that organization was dedicated to welfare of the world's children without consideration to politics. (As reported by Eric Pace)

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/04/obituaries/danny-kaye-limber-limbed-commedian-dies.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1987: Israeli Air Force Colonel Aviem Sella was indicted today for his alleged role in the Pollard spy operation.

1988(14thof Adar, 5748): Purim

1988(14thof Adar, 5748): Sixty-nine-year-old Polish-born Mexican violinist Henryk Szeryng who donated his Stradivarius “King David” violin to Jerusalem in 1972 in honor of 25 years of Israeli independence passed away today.

1988: Today the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee protested the designation of Dr. Inamullah Khan, secretary general of the Pakistan-based World Moslem Congress, as the winner of the $369,000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion because he has been associated with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel causes. The league said Dr. Khan and the congress were linked to anti-Semitic groups, including those that deny the Holocaust occurred, and that Dr. Khan had rejected Israel's right to exist. Dr. V. A. Hamdani, the congress's representative at the United Nations, where the Islamic group has observer status, called the league's complaint a ''rehash'' of old charges. He said his organization had not supported denials of the Holocaust. ''To my knowledge,'' he added, ''we have never denied Israel's right to exist.''

1991(17th of Adar, 5751): Arthur Murray passed away at the age of 95. Born Arthur Teichman, Murray became "America's dance instructor" through a string of dance studios and a hit television show featuring his wife and partner, Catherine. (As reported by Eric Pace)

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/04/obituaries/arthur-murray-dance-teacher-dies-at-95.html

1991: As the war with Iraq came to an end Air France is scheduled to resume service to Tel Aviv today.

1991: “THEATER; Music? Lyrics? He Can Get Them for You” published today described the career of Harold Rome

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/03/theater/theater-music-lyrics-he-can-get-them-for-you.html?pagewanted=print

1993(10th of Adar, 5753): Albert Sabin passed away at the age of 86. Born in 1903, Sabin developed an oral polio vaccine which supplanted the earlier Salk Vaccine. https://www.sabin.org/legacy-albert-b-sabin

http://www.polioplace.org/people/albert-b-sabin-md

1994(20thof Adar, 5754): Seventy-six-year-old actor, director and WW II veteran Ezra Stone, the New Bedford, MA born son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Feinstone and husband of Sara Seegar who was best known for his role as adolescent “Henry Aldridge” passed away today.

1995: “Roommates” a comedy based on a story by Max Apple who co-wrote the screenplay, with music by Elmer Bernstein and starring Peter Falk was released today in the United States.

1995: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb's She Who Dwells Within, which she describes as "a practical guide to nonsexist Judaism," was published. In 2004, Gottlieb left the pulpit to become director of a California organization dedicated to interfaith work.

1995: Steven T. Katz, “the man chosen to lead the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum resigned today “citing recent news reports over his misrepresentation of his scholarly accomplishments and a violation of leave policy while a faculty member at Cornell University.”

1996(12thof Adar, 5756): In Jerusalem a Palestinian terrorist boarded a No. 18 bus, detonated an explosive belt murdering 19 people and wounding another seven.

1996 (12th of Adar, 5756): Ninety-one-year-old Dr. Meyer Schapiro, university professor emeritus at Columbia University, multi-disciplinary critic and historian, galvanic teacher, lifelong radical and for more than 50 years a pre-eminent figure in the intellectual life of New York, died at the Greenwich Village house that had been his home for more than 60 years.

1997: In “Where We Stand,” Albert Shanker said "Public schools played a big role in holding our nation together. They brought together children of different races, languages, religions, and cultures and gave them a common language and a sense of common purpose. We have not outgrown our need for this; far from it.

1998(5thof Adar, 5758): Eighty-two-year-old Fred Friendly, the CBS broadcast executive who teamed with Edward R. Morrow to make television news a meaningful part of the 20th century passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/05/arts/fred-w-friendly-cbs-executive-and-pioneer-in-tv-news-coverage-dies-at-82.html

2001(8thof Adar, 5761): Parashat Terumah and Shabbat Zachor

2001(8thof Adar, 5761): Ninety-one-year-old Deborah (Pessin) Margolis, the widow of Dr. Benjamin D. Margolis passed away today.

2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin; translated by Roger Keys and Angela Keys and Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire by Michael T. Kaufman

2002(19thof Adar, 5762: Capt. Ariel Hovav (25), Lt.(res.) David Damelin (29), 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy (42), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra (38), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad (24), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat (26), Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss (24), Sergei Birmov (33), Vadim Balagula (32) and Didi Yithak (66) were murdered by Fatah terrorists at an IDF roadblock.

2003: Natan Sharansky began serving as Jerusalem Affairs Minister.

2004: “Arab governments, suspicious that the Bush administration plans to give priority to changing how the region is ruled rather than solving the Arab-Israeli conflict, began thrashing over a joint position today to counter any such American initiative.” (As reported by Neil MacFarquhar)

2005(22nd of Adar I, 5765): Max M. Fisher, the Detroit oil and real estate magnate known for his philanthropy and for the advice he gave Republican presidents on the Middle East and Jewish issues, passed away at his home in Franklin, a Detroit suburb at the age of 96. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/national/04fisher.html

2006(3rd of Adar, 5766): William Herskovic who was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian passed away at the age of 91. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps. Because of Herskovic's escape and testimony, hundreds of lives were saved. Herskovic is also the founder of Bel Air Camera, a veritable landmark in Los Angeles, which he established in 1957, and has received numerable awards for his philanthropy.

2006(3rdof Adar, 5766): Eighty-three-year-old “Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist Ivor Cutler (born Isadore Cutler) passed away today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4781980.stm

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1512258/Ivor-Cutler.html

http://www.ivorcutler.org/

2007: Shabbat Zachor

2007: In the evening, Jews fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the Megillah as Purim begins

2008: This evening, Israel pulled its troops out of the Gaza Strip marking the end of operation Hot Winter.

2008: Agudas Achim, the Shulman Hillel and Chabad Lubavitch of Iowa City sponsor “An Evening in Tribute to Michael Balch” (devoted member of the Iowa City Jewish Community and Professor Emirtus of Economics at Iowa University) featuring an address by Rabbi Dov Greenberg from Stanford University entitled “Death and Afterlife in Judaism.”

2008(26thof Adar I, 5768): Eighty-six-year-old artist William Brice the son of Fannie Brice and Nick Arnstein passed away today in California.

http://www.lalouver.com/resource/brice_bio/brice_obituary.pdf

2009: David Polonsky discusses “Waltz With Bashir” at the Society of Illustrators. David Polonsky is the art director and chief illustrator for Waltz With Bashir, written, produced and directed by Ari Folman.

2009: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a lecture by Dr. David Berger, author of The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, entitled “The Lubavitcher Rebbe as Messiah: Turning Point in Judaism?” in which he will examine whether the Lubavitch messianic movement represents a fundamental transformation of Judaism or is merely a passing development of little moment.

2009: The Believers, Zoë Heller’s latest novel appears in American bookstores.

2009: Hillary Clinton makes her first visit to Israel as Secretary of State meeting with a variety of Israeli leaders.

2009: A press release issued today confirmed that Julius Genachowski was President Obama’s choice to serve as Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission.

2010: The Jewish Women's Archive’s tour of Santa Fe is scheduled to begin today.

2010: Israeli musicians Asaf Avidan &cellist Hadas Kleinman of Asaf Avidan and the Mojos leading rock/folk band are scheduled to perform at the City Winery in New York City.

2010: In Columbus, Ohio, Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “Interfaith Study of Genesis” in conjunction with First Congregational Church and Noor Islamic Center.

2010: After years of drought-like conditions that saw the water level of the Dead Sea plummet by 15 meters, this winter the water level rose by 8 centimeters, the Water Authority said today.

 2010: Canadian businessman and Brandeis graduate Leonard Asper stepped down as Canwest CEO today.

2010: A documentary entitled “Harlan – In the Shadow of ‘Jew Suss’” opened today in Manhattan

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/movies/03harlan.html

2011: The Wiener Library, “the world’s oldest Holocaust memorial institution,” is scheduled to sponsor an exclusive gala fund-raising event that will feature a recital by Andras Schiff and a talk by Misha Aster about the Berlin Philharmonic under the Third Reich.

2011: Amit Peled and Dina Vainshtein are scheduled to perform at Symphony Space in New York City.

2011: Today Prime Minister Netanyahu met with White House senior advisor Dennis Ross, who is in the country with a team of Middle East experts – including Fred Hoff and Mara Rudman from US envoy George Mitchell's team – for talks.

2011: Today, Canadian Historian Catherine Chatterley, who has said that “the accusation that Zionism is racist and imperialist by nature is as old as Israel” wrote an editorial for the National Post outlining the history of Israel Apartheid Week and its relationship to the BDS movement

2011: The 7th Annual Charlotte, NC Jewish Film Festival opened today.

2011(28th of Adar I, 5771): Holocaust survivor Gina Borchardt Nencel passed away today in Israel at the age of 100.

2011: In “Yankees remember late baseball author Harvey Dorfman” Marc Carig described the impact that the Jewish sports psychologist had on the National Pastime.

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2011/03/yankees_remember_late_baseball.html

2012: A conference entitled "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the One-State Solution” hosted by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government is scheduled to open in Cambridge Mass.

2012: “Mahler on the Couch” is scheduled to be shown at the Denver Jewish Film Festival sponsored by the Mizel Arts and Culture Center

2012: “Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women” at Florida Atlantic University’s Jewish Kultur Festival in Boca Raton, Fl.

2012: “Camera Obsucra” is schedule to be shown at Temple Beth Israel’s Fresno Jewish Film Festival in Fresno, CA

2012: “Ahead of Time” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth Israel Judea in San Francisco, CA.

2012: “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Kerem Shalom in Concord, MA.

2013: “My Name is Asher Lev,” Aaron Posner’s dramatic adaptation of Chaim Potok’s novel of the same name is scheduled to have its final performance tonight at the Westside Theatre.

2013: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at West Side Institutional Synagogue

2013: An evening concert is scheduled tonight as part of the Preliminary Program for Jewish Music in New Orleans hosted by Tulane University.

2013: The AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to open in Washington, DC

2013: Rebekka Helford and Bruce Bierman are scheduled to lead the Klezmer Jam Session and Dance at The Talking Stick in Venice, CA.

2013: A young couple expecting their first child was on their way to a hospital early Sunday when the car they were riding in was hit, killing them both, but their baby boy was born prematurely and survived, authorities said.

2013: Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, opened the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference with an appeal for pro-Israel outreach to African Americans, Latinos and Muslims, and others.

2013: In “The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking.” Eric Lichtblau lets us know that the worst event in Jewish history was even worse than we had thought it was.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?hp

2013: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Hearing Builtby Mark Russ Federman the grandson of the founder who made each trip to his store a most memorable occasion for two Jews from Iowa.

2013: In New York City, the City Winery is scheduled to host a Kosher Wine Tasting

2013(21stof Adar, 5773): Ninety-one-year-old Abe Baum the leader of ill-fated Task Force Baum in WW II passed away today.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-abe-baum-20130324,0,4017206.story#axzz2ullGs3ON

2014(1stof Adar II, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

2014(1stof Adar II, 5774): Eighty-three-year-old physician and author Sherwin B Nuland passed away today. (As reported by Denise Gellene)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/us/sherwin-b-nuland-author-who-challenged-concept-of-dignified-death-dies-at-83.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0

2014: “Women of the Wall founder Bonna Devora Haberman attended a Women of the Wall prayer service today.

2014: The HEA All-Judaic & Israeli Art and Jewelry Festival is scheduled to take place in Denver, CO.

2014: David Broza is scheduled to appear in concert at the AIPAC Policy Conference.

2014: “Master of a Good Name” and “Nothing Old About This Testament” are scheduled to be shown at the 24th Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Shelter Studious is scheduled to host a reading of “Suddenly a Knock at the Door” by Robin Goldin based on stories by Etgar Keret

2014: In London, JW3 is scheduled to co-sponsor a showing of “Flash Faith.”

2014: Senator John McCain, US Secretary Jack Lew and Senator Chuck Shumer addressed the AIPAC Policy Confernece with each of them using the “Jewish issues” to promote their American domestic political agenda – a point that apparently was lost to the attendees who mistake pandering for policy.

2014: “Israeli aircraft fired at Gaza terrorists (mortally wounding one) as they were preparing to launch rockets at southern Israel.

2014: “France’s Jews demand the election of new chief rabbi (the post had been filled by two interim chief rabbis since April 2013), in a letter that cites the need of a leader “to express the voice of Judaism during the difficult period we are experiencing.”

2014: Some 20 Israelis who were making their way to India today found themselves for a short time in Tehran

2015: For two hours this morning, students at Oxford (UK) are scheduled to have a chance to make hamantaschen while raising money for The Gatehouse and Camp Simcha.

2015: In a display of cultural diversity the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to offer programs on “Jews in Sports” and “The Evolution of the Passover Seder.”

2015: Marc Caplan, 2014-15 Cahnman Senior Scholar at CJH, is scheduled to present his groundbreaking research on Jewish modernity in conjunction with a screening of Arnold Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron at the Center for Jewish History.

2015: Having created crisis atmosphere in relations between Israel and the United States Prime Minister delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress where he “argued that the proposed nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran will lead inexorably to a nuclear-armed Iran and war in the Middle East.” (JTA) 

2016: “Remember” directed by Atom Egoyan is scheduled to be shown for the last time at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2016: JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host “Shulamit, a new opera with music and libretto by Dina Pruzhansky”

2016: “Strong ties between Israel and US will be needed to confront the “instability in the region,” according to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., who met in Tel Aviv” today. (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)

2016: Screening of Three Episodes of the Israeli TV Show Fauda is scheduled to take place at the Ninth Annual Ring Family Wesleyan University Israeli Film Festival.

2017: Fifty-one-year-old author Amy Krouse Rosenthal “announced that she was terminally ill with ovarian cancer, by way of a New York Times"Modern Love" essay” which “was in the form of a dating profile for her husband Jason, to help him remarry after her death.”

2017: Today thirty-one-year-old Juan Thompson of St. Louis, “a reporter for a news website was charged on Friday with making more than a half-dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers, schools and a Jewish history museum, federal authorities said.”

 2017: “Hautey: Memory of Fire” “a new Yiddish opera composed by iconic Klexmatics trumpeter Frank London” “based on an epic poem written in 1931…by Oscar Pinis” is scheduled to have its inaugural performance in Havana, Cuba.

2017: Penultimate day for New Yorkers and out of town visitors to view “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” on view at the United Nations headquarters.

2017:  The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Shabbat evening dinner.

2018(16 of Adar, 5778): Parashat Ki Tissa;

2018: Tonight, as part of seventy-five-year-old Sixto Rodriguez’s “latest American tour played a solo concert for a full house of several hundred at Washington, DC’s historic 6th and I Synagoue”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/down-the-street-from-aipac-sugar-man-rodriguez-plays-a-shul-muses-over-trump/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=af8efb3183-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-af8efb3183-53921877

2018: Jack and Jennifer Benjamin, Jr.,John Haspel and Amy Gainsburgh-Haspel and Rob and Pamela Steeg are scheduled to be honored this evening in New Orleans at Temple Sinai’s Spring Gala.

2018: Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan is scheduled to perform this evening at the 92nd Street Y.

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society, the Center for Jewish History and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are scheduled to present a “a screening of the 1923 silent classic ‘East and West’” as part of the celebration of the “121st birthday of Molly Picon.”

2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.

 

2019: In suburban Chevy Chase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host the “First Maryland Jewish Choral Festival.”

2019: “The 24th East Bay International Jewish Film Festival” is scheduled to host screenings of “Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta,” “A Bag of Marbles” and “Almost Famous.”

2019: At the JCC of Northern Virginia, the ReelAbilities Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of Director Rachel Israel’s “Keep the Change.”

2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host author Shostak as he discusses his latest book Stealth Altruism.

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/stealth-altruism

2019: At today’s session of the Jewish Book Festival, Aureillia Young is scheduled to discuss Finding Nemon, her biography about her father, sculptor Oscar Nemon,  “with cultural historian Patrick Bade.”

2020: “At the concert celebrating the cultural melting pot of New York, Israeli composer/pianist Dina Pruzhansky is scheduled to present a segment from her Hebrew opera 'Shulamit', while perform her piano solo piece, dedicated to New York.

2020: The Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host Dan Abrams as he discusses his newest work, John Adams Under Fire

2020: The Taube Center for Jewish Students at Stanford University is scheduled to host Professor Ilana Pardes as she discusses her latest book, The Song of Songs: A Biography,

2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Last Supper,” that tells the story of a Jewish family in Germany gathered for dinner on the day Hitler came to power.

2020: At a time when we are seeing a spike in anti-Semitic outbreaks, Democratic voters are scheduled to go to the polls for Super Tuesday where the leading candidate is Senator Sanders and where former Mayor Bloomberg will actually be on the ballot for the first time which should tell us something about the impact of his ads, money and decision to skip the first four “small” electoral events.

2020: The JCC Sonoma Country is scheduled to host a screening of a “Flawless” on the opening night of the Israeli Film Festival.

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a shiru conducted by Rabbi Jeremy Gordon from New London Synagogue followed by dinner and “the Yachad talk.”

2020: Israelis find out today, if the exit poll information was accurate and that Prime Minister Netanyahu holds on to his job.

2021: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “The Jews of Iran and Rabbinic Literature: New Perspectives with Daniel Tsadik” as part of “New Works Wednesdays.”

2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host op-ed NYT columnist Charles Blow, author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones in a discussion about ending “white supremacy” moderated by Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson.

2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host Rav Avida Tabory who “will explore the Halachic issues with Cohanim serving in the army.”

2021: Cleveland Jewish News Arts and Entertainment Columnist Bob Abelman, author of All the World Is a Stage Fright, is scheduled to be “featured in an author talk plus question-and-answer session at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus bookfair

2021: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present  Eliyana R. Adler (Penn State University) in conversation with Debórah Dwork (The Graduate Center, CUNY) about her book, Survival on the Margins which tells the forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.

2021: In collaboration with Table Magazine, Asylum Arts and Meislin Projects are scheduled to have organized a “special Pre-Passover Art/Break exploring The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times illustrated by Shai Azoulay” who “will be in conversation with Tablet Editor-in-Chief Alana Newhouse.”

2021: In London, the Highgate Synagogue is scheduled to host via Zoom a meeting of the Book Club which will be discussing Golden Hill by Francis Spufford.

2021: The Consulate General of Israel in New York is scheduled to host “a conversation between Academy Award Winner Guy Nattiv (Skin) and Tomer Shushan, director of White Eye, shortlisted in the 93rd Academy Awards® Live Action Short category.”

2021: As part of Jewish Book Week, Aviva and Jacqueline Saphra, the author of Veritas: Poems After Artemisia are scheduled to explore, “with conversation and readings, what it means to be a Jewish woman poet.”

2021:Following study published yesterday by the military intelligence task force in the Health Ministry, people who had been ill should receive a coronavirus vaccine three months after they recovered, Israel is scheduled to continue vaccinating recovering patients against recurring illness today.

 


This Day, March 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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March 4 

457BCE (1st of Nisan, 3303): According to chapter 7, verse 9 of the Book of Ezra, Ezra and his followers left Babylonia for Jerusalem

1193: Saladin, the great Moslem leader, passed away.  Among Saladin’s many accomplishments was the re-taking of Jerusalem from the Crusaders and his subsequent defeat of Richard the Lionhearted.  Saladin had begun his leadership career in Egypt where Maimonides served as physician to his court.  There is some question as to whether Maimonides provided medical services to Saladin or to his brother-in-law and his entourage. 

1152: Frederick Barbarossa was elected Roman-German king.  Born in 1123, Barbarossa or Frederick I was Holy Roman Emperor for forty years.  He was slated to lead the Third Crusade along with Phillip of France and Richard the Lion-Hearted.  Unfortunately, Barbarossa drowned before he could help lead the Crusade.  From the Jewish point of view, unfortunately is the correct word to use in describing his death.  Unlike other Crusaders, Barbarossa sought to protect the Jews. He warned local priests and monks not to preach against the Jews.  He told the Diet (Parliament) that anybody who killed a Jew would forfeit his own life.  Thanks to Frederick's efforts, German bishops threatened those who attacked Jews with excommunication.  As a Jewish commentator of that time wrote, "Frederick defended us with all his might and enabled us to live among our enemies, so that no one harmed the Jews."

1215: King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.  While they may have been odds over many issues, the two leaders both held firm to the concept of allowing the Jews to exist, but in a state of humiliation.  In 1210, John imprisoned the Jews of Bristol and demanded 66,000 in ransom as the price of their freedom.  To move the process along, John reportedly had the teeth of the prisoners extracted one at a time until they agreed to the payment. Such was his treatment of the Jews, that Barons included special language about the treatment of the Jews in the Magna Carta. The Fourth Lateran Council over which Innocent actively presided adopted several cannons attacking Jews including the denying them the right to hold office and the requirement to wear distinctive dress. 

1277: “Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburg granted a charter of rights to the Jews of Prussia.” P 140

1349:  Birthdate of Prince Henry the Navigator.  The Portuguese prince earned his sobriquet and place in history for supporting ever more ambitious efforts to explore the uncharted waters of the Atlantic Ocean and beyond.  His efforts were financed and encouraged by the family of Don Judah Abarbanel a wealthy refugee from Spanish persecution who served as financer and confident to two generations of Portuguese monarchs.

1386: Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. The situation of the Jews in Poland had already begun to deteriorate prior to his kingship.  In the middle of the century, the Jews were blamed for the Black Plague and attacked by the countrymen.  Under Wladislaus II and his successors the first extensive persecutions of the Jews in Poland commenced, persecutions which the monarch did not act to stop.

1493: According to some records, today Columbus arrived in Lisbon from which he sent the letter that described the results of his first voyage. The letter was addressed to Luis de Santangel, the converso who, as finance minister, had convinced the Spanish monarchs to finance the voyage.

1524: In Cairo, Mohamed Bey freed the Jews who had been imprisoned by the viceroy Ahmed Schaitan on the day on which he planned to kill them.  Ahmed had rebelled against the Sultan and when a Jewish leader, Abraham de Castro, exposed the plot, Ahmed responded by demanding a ransom from the Jews of Cairo and then imprisoning them once they had brought him the money.  This day of deliverance is celebrated as the Purim of Cairo.

1648(8th of Adar): Rabbi Issachar Baer, author Arba’ah Hadashim passed away

1699: Jews of Lubeck, Germany, were expelled.

1743: Birthdate of Tuscan poet Solomon Fiorentino who wrote “Elegie” after the death of his wife Laura Gallico and was the father of Hebrew teacher Angiolo Fiortentino.

1761(OS- 9th of Adar II, 5521): London physician Meyer Low Schomberg, the German born son of Low Schomberg, the brother of “Salomon, Hertz and Gerson Schomberg” and the father of physicians Isaac Raphael and Joel Schomberg as well as Moses, Solomon, Rebecca, Alexander and Henry Schomberg passed away today after having alienated himself from the London Jewish community because of his feud with Jacob de Castro Sarmento

1770: In London,Haham Moses Cohen d’Azvedo, the London born son Daniel David Cohen d’Azvedo and Sara Cohen d”Azvedo, and his wife Sara de Abraham Cohen d’Azvedo gave birth to Samuel Cohen D’Azvedo

1770: Lancaster, PA native Shinah Solomon and Frankfurt, Germany native Elijah Etting gave birth to Hetty Etting.

1776(13thof Adar, 5536): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim

1781: In Philadelphia, PA Miriam Simon and Michael Gratz gave birth to Rebecca Gratz, one of the most important Jewish women of the 19th century who according to some was the role model for the character in the novel Ivanhoe.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gratz-rebecca

1789: James Madison, who championed religious liberty through the Bill of Rights began serving as a member of the U.S House of Representatives from Virginia.

1791: Vermont is the 14th state to join the Union.  It is the first state to join the original 13 states.  Today Vermont boasts a vibrant, if small, Jewish community.  This includes houses of worship in at least half a dozen cities, a Chabad in Burlington and Hillel chapters at two of the state’s universities. 

 1791: A Christian in Alsace was punished by the Church for lighting a fire for a Jew on Shabbat.

1791: Israel Jacobs of Pennsylvania took his seat as the first Jewish member of the United States House of Representatives.

1793: Philadelphia native “Catherine” Bush and London born Myer S. Solomon gave birth to Alexander Solomon.

1795(13th of Adar, 5555): Fast of Esther; erev Purim

1796: In Richmond, VA, Richea Myers and Joseph Marx gave birth to Samuel Marx.

1797: John Adams is sworn in as second President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.  This orderly transfer of power, including the acceptance of the outcome of elections, is a uniquely American gift to the world of political science.  At the national level, the U.S. failed to abide by this and the result was four violent years of Civil War.  There are those who would say that the Jewish people have been able to thrive in America because of the stability of the society and because of its respect for the rule of law as epitomized by this seemingly simple event.  Adams, like so many of his New England contemporaries was greatly influenced by his reading of what he called “the Old Testament.”  The images of George III as Pharaoh and the colonists as the modern day Israelites fighting tyranny provide a couple cover for what others might have called treason.  Adams was an early Zionist, writing to the Jewish leader Mordechai Manuel Noah, “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.”  For more about the views of our Second President on the Jewish people see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/adams.html

1798: Catholic women were forced to do penance for kindling fire for Jews on Shabbat. 
Either this is the same episode reported at two different times or being a "Shabbos Goy" was a big no-no among the Catholic hierarchy.

1798: Birthdate of Abigail Judah, the daughter of Baruch Juda, the wife of Moses Judah and the mother of Rachel Judah.

1799: Under cover of night, between the 3rd and the 4th of March, work commenced- the erecting of five batteries, four against the southern wall and one in support of the northern sector.13 The artillery park at Napoleon¹s command consisted only of field pieces, mostly of 12, 8, 6 and 3 "pouces" (=inches of 2.7 cm), of howitzers of 6 pouces and of 6-pouce mortars,14 since the heavy artillery had all been loaded for transfer to Acre bay onto the ships of the flotilla commanded by captain Standelet, and onto the freighters that had been collected for that purpose in the Egyptian harbors. Those ships were only just then commencing their journey north, without the means of contact with the land forces, and Napoleon was compelled to make do with the lighter ordnance at his command. However, he did not seem to have been unduly worried. Most probably, the outward appearance of these antiquated walls revived his confidence in the description of M. de Volney, who, in 1784, had called the ramparts of Jaffa "mere garden walls."

1809(16thAdar, 5569): Parashat Ki Tisa

1809: James Monroe, who had helped draft the Bill of Rights which included language intended to protect the religious liberty of all Americans, including its Jewish citizens, began serving as President of the United States.

1813: Baptism of Franz Delitzsch “a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist” who wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of Jewish poetry, and works of Christian apologetics” while also translating the New Testament into Hebrew and raising his son, “an influential Assyriologist and author of works on Assyrian language, literature, and history.

1817: On the day after Shushan Purim, James Madison, who had appointed Mordecai Noah to serve as Counsel to Tunis after the latter had turned down an appointment to serve as U.S. Consul to Riga completed his second and final term as President of the United States.

1820: Alexander I of Russia prohibited the employment of Christian servants by Jews.

1822(11th of Adar): Isaac Franks the American patriot from Philadelphia who served in the Continental Army passed away.

1826: In St. Thomas, Jacob and Leah Biaz gave birth to Sarah Henriquez Morón

1829(29th of Adar I, 5589): Forty-six-year-old attorney Judah Zuntz, the son of Alexander Zuntz who was a member of Shearith Israel and a supporter of Moses Elias Levy’s plan for educating Jewish youth passed away today after which he was buried in the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel.

1837(27th of Adar I, 5597): Parashat Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim

1837: Chicago receives its official charter by the state of Illinois. Jews first came to Chicago from Prussia, Austria, Bohemia and sections of modern-day Poland, fleeing oppression to settle in the Chicago area as early as 1832. Kehilat Anshe Mayriv (Congregation of the People of the West), Chicago's first Jewish congregation, was founded in 1847; in 1851 KAM built the city's first synagogue at Clark and Jackson streets, a site now occupied by the Kluczynski Federal Building. It was followed by B'nai Shalom, in 1852, and Chicago Sinai, the city's first Reform congregation, in 1861. The expansion of the Jewish community was slow but steady. In 1871, the Great Fire destroyed many residences near the downtown business district, forcing thousands of people to relocate. The more prosperous German Jews, who made up the majority, moved south along Michigan, Wabash and Indiana avenues, eventually settling in Washington Park, Kenwood, Hyde Park and South Shore; the Eastern European Jews moved west of the central business district in the vicinity of Maxwell Street. Between 1880 and 1900, a new wave of 55,000 Russian and Polish Jews crowded into the Maxwell Street market neighborhood. Yiddish was the language of choice. Dozens of Hebrew schools and Yiddish theaters were organized, and 40 Orthodox shuls were built within walking distance of Halsted and Maxwell streets. As successive waves of Jewish immigrants became settled and successful, the Jewish community began expanding. In addition to continued growth on the South Side, neighborhoods such as Lawndale and Douglas Park on the West Side and Albany Park, Humboldt Park, Lake View, Uptown and Edgewater on the North Side became vibrant Jewish communities. Many Chicago Jews today trace their roots in this city to one or more of these areas. 

1838: The first Sunday School for Jewish students, under the direction of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society, opened today in Philadelphia, PA.

1839: In Württemberg, Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Moses Levi Frankfurter and Mirjam Landauer, and his wife Esther Frank gave birth to Henriette Emma Frankfurter

1844(13thof Adar, 5604): Fast of Esther; erev Purim

1849: Austrian Jews were granted equal civil and political rights under the new constitution. The imperial government would renege on its promise and full rights would not be finally granted until 1867.

1850: In Winnsboro SC, Sailing and Sarah Cohen Wolfe gave birth to Isabel “Belle” Wolfe Baruch, the Winnsboro, SC, the wife of Dr. Simon Baruch and the mother of Hartwig, Bernard, Herman and Sailing Barcuh

http://www.gcdigital.org/digital/collection/p163901coll005/id/555/

1850: In Paris, “Prof. Hermann G. Ollendorff and Dorothea Ollendorff” gave birth to art critic and Franco-Prussian War veteran Gustave Ollendorff who along with is brother Paul “received his Jewish education from the chief rabbi Zado Kahn” and who was the was president of the Union Française de la Jeunesse, which he founded immediately after the close of the war” while also serving as at the head of the bureau of museums, expositions, and art in the department of the fine arts

1851: Fifty-year old businessman, militia colonel and Democrat Party member Emanuel Bernard Hart began serving his first and only term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, making him the first Jews to serve in Congress.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/emanuel-bernard-hart

1851: Alexander Samuel Joseph, the ten-month-old son of Simon and Eliza Joseph was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1853: Philip Phillips began serving as a U.S. Congressman representing Alabama’s 1stDistrict.

 

1855: After having been out of office for four years, David Yulee, the first Jew elected to the United States, began his second term in office today.

1857: Philadelphia Democrat Henry Myer Phillips began service as a member of the U.S. House Representatives

1857: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Solomon Jacobs officiated at the wedding of Mr. Magnus of Rome, GA and Rebecca Alexander the youngest daughter of the late Abraham Alexander.

1858: Mary Levy and John Fileman gave birth to Rachel Fileman

1858: Edmund Myer Tobias married Adeline Miriam Alexander today at “Bristol, (Avon), Somerset.”

1859(28thof Adar I, 5619): Sixty-six-year-old Frances Cohen, the daughter Hymen Cohen and the former Zipporah Isaacs passed away today in London.

1861: Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States.  Lincoln sensitivity to Jewish can be seen in the way he handled the law that allowed Jews to serve as Chaplains and the aftermath of General Grant’s infamous order banning Jews from the area under his command.  But Lincoln’s greatest contribution to the welfare of the Jewish people was his successful effort to save “the last best hope of man” which has provided Jews with unprecedented opportunity.

1862: “From the African Coast” published today described the travels of the USS Saratoga through the waters of the South Atlantic including a stop at the island of St. Helena where the ship took on provisions. According to the author, the Jews on the island exploited the plight of the American naval vessel, selling spoiled and overpriced supplies and even exchanging money at rate that exploited the Americans. “The Jews of St. Helena took money out of us and tucked sour flour and bad rice into us, sold us Spanish dollars at 4s. 2d., and took them at 3s. 9d., was a caution, never to come again if we can help it. Even the common necessaries of life were in price luxuries -- for instance, beef, 60c. per pound; mutton, do.; butter, 55c. per pound; eggs, 5c. each, &c., &c.” [It is difficult to know who these Jews were.  During the 1820’s, Nathanial Isaacs uncle served on St. Helena as the counsel for France and Holland. Saul Solomon who converted to Christianity was born in St. Helena in 1817 but left to find fame and fortune in South Africa. “The few other St. Helena Jews who settled” on St. Helena “during Napoleon's banishment, the Gideon, the Moss, and the Isaacs families, were all related to” Solomon, and, like him “most of them drifted from Judaism.”1863(13thof Adar, 5623): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1863: Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer and Democrat politician began the first of his two terms as a Congressman from Pennsylvania.

1863: A rumor from Jackson, Miss., says that a Jew has been arrested on the charge of offering to spike the guns at Port Hudson for $60,000.

1863: William Sprague completed his term as governor of Rhode Island and took his seat in the United States Senate representing his home state.  While in the Senate Sprague would explain away the suffering of the Jews of Romania as being the result of their taking away the lands and livelihood of the Christian, a pattern that he implied could be repeated in the United States.  Sprague’s words take on additional weight because he was not just an ordinary political hack. He was a successful businessman who supported Abraham Lincoln and was the son-in-law of Salmon Chase, the powerful Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1865: Birthdate of Lieutenant General Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh, that rarity among British officers, “a Zionist sympathizer” who was a close enough friend of Chaim Weizmann, that Jewish leader discussed the possibility of having Herbert Samuel removed as British High Commissioner following the issuance of the report issued by the Haycroft Commission of Inquiry.

1866: An article published today entitled “The Purim Ball: The Wonders or a Persian Temple-A Glimpse of the Glories of Babylon Fun, Frolic and Phantasmagoria” described the celebration of the Purim Ball in New York City which was “duly celebrated…with all the pomp, display an out-rivaling effectiveness which was promised for it by its promoters.

1869: William Seward who had served as Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson completed his service in this office following which he took a tour around the world which included a stop in Jerusalem and Palestine which he had first visited in 1859. Seward described in the Jews as “the builders and the founders of “ Jeruslaem.

1870: President U.S. Grant appointed Civil War hero Edward Selig Salomon governor of Washington Territory (the future state of Washington, not D.C.) 

1870: Six days after she had passed away in France, Octavia Dresden, the daughter of Edward Emanuel and Rosetta Mischolls, the wife of Ephraim Dresden and the mother of Mathilda, Ernest and Edmond Dresden was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1871: In France, Israël-Vita Lattès and Marie ép. Lattès gave birth to Eveline Bethsabée Lattès ép. Mayrargue the wife of Henri Daniel Mayrargue.

1871: Robert C. De Large, the son of black woman and Jewish man, began serving in the U.S. Representatives as a member from South Carolina’s 2nd district.  A Republican, he had served in the state legislature and as state land commissioner before being elected to Congress.

1872: In Tilsit, East Prussia, Abraham Weil, the son of Salomon Weil, and the former Berta Seligman gave birth to their son Karl Fischel.

1873: Two days after she had passed away Rosa (Joseph) Asher, the wife of Andrew Asher, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”1873: Two days after she had passed away, Ruth Ellen Hyam was buried today in the UK

1874(15th of Adar, 5634): Shushan Purim

1874: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Solomon and Caroline Fox gave birth to Lydia Mack

1874: “The Jews In Italy” published today contains a synopsys of an article by Dr. Berliner published in the Judische Presse. According to Dr. Berliner there are approximately 4,500 Jews living in Rome “most of who are destitute.”  There are 5 synagouges in Rome two of which follow the Sephardic (Spanish) rite and three of which follow the Italian rite. One of the synagogues dates backs to the time of Titus, the Roman who destroyed the Second Temple. 

1875: It was reported today that over 2,000 tickets have already been sold to the upcoming Hebrew Charity Ball sponsored by the Purim Association.

1875: William Sharon began serving as U.S. Senator from Nevada.  When he passed away ten years later, his recipients of his bequests included several California charities including those established by the Jewish community

1875(27th of Adar I, 5635): Rabbi Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lemberg, author of Ner Ma’aravi, a novaellae on the Jerusalem Talmud passed away

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14591.html

1876: Birthdate of Ferencz Dezso Weisz, the native of Budapest, who “went by the name of Theodore Weiss when the family was living in Appleton, Wisconsin” and who in 1893 as Theodore Hardeen Hardeen performed with Houdini at Coney Island as "The Brothers Houdini:

1876: In Girait, Hungary, Maurice and Rose (Baumgarten) Moschcowitz  gave birth to American portrait painter, the husband of Madeline Rabb and winner of the Silver Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition whose works included “Portrait of Young Woman in Opera Box with Classical Background.”

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/moschcowitz-paul-27ir28f7az/

https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Moschcowitz/24442/Paul_Moschcowitz.aspx

1877: “The Russian Army of the South” published today provides a detailed description of Kishinev, the city that is the headquarters of the major Russian unit under the Grand Duke that has been mobilized in the war against the Turks.  Kishinev has a population of 100,000, more than half of whom are Jews. [This is the same Kishinev that will be the site of future horrible Pogroms.]

1877:  Emile Berliner invented the microphone.  He would also invent the flat disc that replaced Edison’s cylinder and became the prototype for the record which would become the standard for the recording industry for the better part of a hundred years.

1877: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 4th district.

1878: Birthdate of Toronto, Canada native Murray Leonard Cohen, the Edinburgh University medical student who was buried in that city when he passed away at the age of 24.

1878: The Great Synagogue at 187a Elizabeth Street in Sydney, Australia was consecrated today.

1878: In New York City, Sonny and Hettie (Monsky) Simmons gave girth to NYU trained attorney and Commander of the Spanish War Veterans of New York Maurice Simmons who fought anti-Semitism in the National Guard, led protests during the Kiishineff Masscrest, opposed literacy requirements for immigrants and who got President Taft “to grant leaves of absence to al men of the Jewish faith in various branches of military and naval service.

1879: It was reported today that the Purim Association will be sponsoring a fancy-dress charity ball to be held later this week at the Academy of Music in New York City.

1879(9th of Adar, 5639): Leon Hyneman passed away. Born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1808, he “was the author of "The Fundamental Principles of Science" and of several works on masonic subjects, the chief among them being "The Origin of Freemasonry" and "Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813." Hyneman was one of the members of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Among his eight children were Leona Hyneman who “under the stage name of "Leona Moss," became a talented actress. Another daughter was Alice Hyneman, authoress; born in Philadelphia Jan. 31, 1840; contributor to "The North American Review"; "The Forum"; "The Popular Science Monthly"; and the author of "Woman in Industry," a treatise on the work of woman in America, and of "Niagara," a descriptive record of the great cataract and its vicinity.

1879: Edwin Jonas took his seat as a United States Senator from Louisiana making him the third Jew to serve in “the upper chamber.”

1879: Edwin Einstein, a native of Cincinnati, began to serve as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from New York’s 7thCongressional District.

1881: William Sharon, who would bestow a bequest of $5,000 on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, completed his term as service as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.

1881: James G. Fair who would bestow a bequest of $25,000 on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, began his term as service as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.

1882(13th of Adar, 5642: Triple Header – Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1883: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 5th district.

1883: Julius Houseman began serving as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from Michigan’s 5th district.

1884: Arthur Sebag-Montefiore and Harriett Beddington gave birth to Charles to English stock-broker Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore, the husband of Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass.

1885: Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and Harvard trained attorney Allan Davis, the president of the Menorah Society.

1885: Grover Cleveland who relied on Isidor Strauss the co-owner of R.H. Macy and member of Congress as a trusted advisor and whom he appointed as Ambassador to Turkey was inaugurated as 22ndPresident of the United States.

1885: Julius Houseman completed his service a member of the House of Representatives from Michigan’s 5th district.

1885: Charles Henry Grosvenor is elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio for the first time.  His career will last until 1907, but he will represent 3 different congressional districts.  During his career he will take part in several debates on immigration bills during which he said “he said he would not vote for a measure framed specially to restrict the entrance of the Russian Jews, for such a would be charged up to him as a vote against a man on account of his religion.”

1885: Californian William W. Morrow, who would champion the cause of Adolph Kutner, formerly of Wierbchow, Russia who was afraid to return to his native land on business because of the Czar’s policies, began serving a member of the House of Representatives today.

1885: Joseph Kemp Toole, who would lay the cornerstone when construction was begun on Temple Emanu-El in Helena, Montana began serving as the Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana Territory’s At-large district today;

1885: Edwin Jonas, who failed to win re-election, competed his term as a United States Senator following which he was appointed Collector of the Port of New Orleans.

1887: James G. Fair who would bestow a bequest of $25,000 on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, completed his term as service as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.

1887: William Stewart, who will defend the Jews of Romania against persecution, begins serving as the U.S. Senator from Nevada.

1887: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 3rd district.

1887: Isidor Rayner began serving as a Congressman from Maryland in the 50th U.S. House of Representatives.

1889: St. Louis newspaperman Nathan Frank began serving as a member of the House of Representatives in the 51stCongress. 

1889: Benjamin Harrison who appointed Solomon Hirsch of Portland, Oregon as Minister to Turkey was inaugurated as 23rdPresident of the United States.

1890: Seventy-seven-year-old Franz Delitzsch, the “Lutheran theologian and Hebraist” who “wrote many commentaries on the books of the Bible and Jewish antiquities” and who “defended the Jewish community against anti-Judaic attacks” passed away today.

1890: Isidor Gunsburg was among the spectators of the chess match played between Delmar and Lipschutz at the Manhattan Chess Club.

1890: The 29th annual ball sponsored by the Purim Association took place this evening at the Metropolitan Opera House. Money raised this year will go to the aid of the United Hebrew Charities.

1890: Thieves attempted to rob Solomon Barnett, a Jewish tailor, while he was working at this shop on Lexington Avenue, near 83rdStreet in New York City.1891(24th of Adar I, 5651: Two students at the Hebrew Union College, Isador H. Frauenthal and Ernst Sallinger, passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1891: James B. Eustis completed his last term as a United States Senator following which he would become U.S. Ambassador to France, a position from which he would study the Dreyfus Affair but die before he could deliver his report to the government in Washington.

1892: It was reported today that Abraham Herrman, Simon Borg and Solomon B. Solomon have been unanimously elected to serve three-year terms as Directors of the Hebrew Technical Institute.

1892: Max Marcus Zerner and Julie Zerner gave birth to Alice Zerner who became Alice Eister when she married Otto Eisler.

1893: Grover Cleveland who would lend his support to those who objecting to the treatment of the Jews of Russia and opposed legislation that would have kept Jews from immigrating to the United States was inaugurated as 24th President of the United States.

1893: Birthdate of Dr. Frank Tannenbaum, the New York born labor activist turned economics academic and U.S. Army veteran who taught at Columbia, his undergraduate training ground before his death.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.html?pageNumber=45

1893: It was reported today that the proceeds from the upcoming ball sponsored by the Purim Association will be donated to the United Hebrew Charities.

1893: “Scenes in the Azores” published today provides a picture of life on these Atlantic Islands including the fact that “native Azorean Jews” have gradually come to dominate the banking business, the importation of coal and the ownership of the mail boats to Lisbon.  The Jews now own homes in Tangiers and Lisbon.

1893: “Manifesto of Jewish Rabbis” published today described a document issued by 210 German Rabbis designed to counteract the increasing power of the country’s anti-Jewish movement.

1894: The Superintendent of the Bureau of Immigration, a section of the Treasury Department, “has received an official denial from the Russian Government that” it is aiding Russian Jews in their efforts to come to the United States.

1894(26th of Adar I, 5654): Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Joseph Perles passed away. Born in Baja, Hungary in 1835, he received his early instruction in the Talmud from his father, Baruch Asher Perles, he was educated successively at the gymnasium of his native city, was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of rabbinical seminary at Breslau, and the university of that city (Oriental philology and philosophy; Ph.D. 1859, presenting as his dissertation Meletemata Peschitthoniana). Perles was awarded his rabbinical diploma in 1862. He had already received a call, in the autumn of the previous year, as preacher to the community of Posen; and in that city he founded a religious school. In 1863 he married Rosalie, the eldest daughter of Simon Baruch Schefftel. In the same year he declined a call to Budapest; but in 1871 he accepted the rabbinate of Münich, being the first rabbi of modern training to fill that office. As the registration law which had restricted the expansion of the communities had not been abrogated until 1861, Perles found an undeveloped community; but under his management it soon began to flourish, and in 1887 he dedicated the new synagogue. He declined not only a call to succeed Abraham Geiger as rabbi in Berlin, but also a chair at the newly founded seminary in Budapest. Perles' most important essays were on folklore and custom. There is much that is striking and original in his history of marriage (Die Judische Hochzeit in nachbiblischer Zeit, 1860), and of mourning customs (Die Leichenfeierlichkeitcn ins nachbiblischen Judenthum, 1861), his contributions to the sources of the Arabian Nights (Zur rabbinischen Sprach-und Sagenkunde, 1873), and his notes on rabbinic antiquities (Beitrage zur rabbiniscizen Sprachund Altertumskunde, 1893). Perles' essays are rich in suggestiveness, and have been the starting-point of much fruitful research. He also wrote an essay on Nachmanides, and a biography and critical appreciation of Rashba (1863).

1894: As the United States grapples with the problem of unemployment brought by economic depression, the United Hebrew Charities is one of the organizations making daily requests to aid the needy.

1894: Among the donations made to the fund to help New York’s unemployed are R.H. Macy & Co ($100), Simon Borg ($100) and Emanuel Lehman ($100).

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1895: “The Pope May Interfere” published today described the Pope’s plans to issue an “encyclical letter denouncing the anti-Semitic agitation in Europe.  The Pope is reacting to the reports brought to him several weeks ago by Cardinal Schoenborn “concerning Jew-baiting in Austria.”

1895: A case was “called against the Adelphi Club” “among whose members are the wealthiest and most influential Jews of Albany, NY” which resulted in the Judge decreeing that private clubs were under the jurisdiction of the Excise Board and must be licensed accordingly.

1895: The 3-year-old “waif” found wandering the streets and known only as “John Doe, No.19” moved to the Hebrew Sheltering Society’s Home where Philip Goodhart, the President of the home gave him the name of Judah Touro.

1895: “Mrs. Ida Lieberman, the convicted fire-bug was taken to Auburn Prison” today to begin serving “her sentence of six years and eight months.

1895: The six-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son of prisoner Ida Lieberman, for whom no provision had been made, were provided with a home today at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1896: Among the facilities being visited by those attending the conference on “Improved Housing” is the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway, where they will be greeted Inspector

Isaac Spectorsky

1897: Joseph Simon, a native of Germany who settled in Portland, Oregon where he became a member of the bar and played an active role in Republican Party politics began serving in the U.S. Senate 

1897: Lucius Nathan Littauer, the first football coach at Harvard, began serving as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 22nd District.

1897: “Two Heroes Remembered” published today summarized a speech given by Hugo Hirsh in honor of the 1st and 16thpresidents of the United States in which he said that the “Hebrew race was typified by the institutions of the county in that the Hebrew was the most cosmopolitan among peoples and the United States the most cosmopolitan of nations.”  Furthermore, “the principles of educational, religious and political freedom fostered by these two leaders had been of incalculable benefit to the Hebrew race.”

1897: William McKinley was inaugurated as 25thPresident of the United States.

1897: William H. King, 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 in the House of Representatives today

1899: Jefferson Monroe Levy, the nephew of naval hero Uriah P. Levy, began serving as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 13th district.

1899: Mitchell May who was elected as a Democrat to the 56th United States Congress began serving as a member of the House of Representatives today.

1899: A group of “prominent” Jews met in Cincinnati to plan for the reception and entertainment of the rabbis who will be attending the upcoming annual Central Conference of American Rabbis.

1899: It was reported today that among the three new novels in Houghton, Mifflin & Co.’s spring list is A Tent of Grace, a story of a Jew and a gentile in Germany by Adelina C. Lust.

1900: Today marked the opening of the “Second Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women in Cleveland, OH.

1900: Birthdate of Slonim, Poland, native Jehoshua Alouf, the Polish gymnast and organizer of the “first five World Maccabiah Games who “served as director of the Israel department of physical education from 1953 to 1957.”

1900: In London, the “Jewish Study Society,” which had been “formed as a result of the visit of the delegates of the Council of Jewish Women in London” met for the first time today.

1900: In Philadelphia, PA Joseph and Eva Biberman gave birth to screenwriter and director Herbert J. Biberman who was one of the Hollywood Ten.

http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm

1901(13th of Adar, 5661: Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1901: Birthdate of Genevieve Brown the wife of Ralph Horween, the All-American Harvard and NFL football player and lawyer who founded the Horween Leather Company with his brother.”

1901: Birthdate of master bridge player, Charles Goren, the Philadelphia born lawyer who probably did more to popularize the game bridge than did any other single American.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/obituaries/charles-goren-90-bridge-expert-dies.html

1901: Henry Mayer Goldfogle began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 9thCongressional District.

1902: It was reported today that “Jefferson M. Levy” is the buyer of” of the property at “219 and 221 Wester 36thStreet” in New York.

1903: Edmund H. Hinshaw, who in 1906 attended a mass meeting at Belasco’s Theatre in Washington, D.C which was a protest against the atrocities begin committed against the Jews of Russia began his service as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska’s 4th District today.

1903: Having spent six years serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representative from New York’s 22nddistrict Lucius Littauer began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 25th district.

1903: Henry Thomas Rainey who in 1906 attended a mass meeting held to protest the “atrocities in Russia” and told the audience that the Romanoffs “are inflaming the populace against the helpless Jews – and already the blood of 100,000 Jews cries out for vengeance” began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s 20thdistrict today.

1903: Senator Joseph Simon, Oregon Republican, finishes his term in the U.S. Senate. Simon returned to Portland, Oregon where he resumed his law practice and would serve as mayor from 1909 to 1911.

1904: In Richmond, VA, Beth Ahabah, a Reform congregation that could trace its roots back to 1789, laid the cornerstone for a new house of worship popularly referred to as the Franklin Street Synagogue because of its address 1111 West Franklin Street.

1905 Isidor Rayner began serving as U.S. Senator from Maryland.

1905: “Barney and Fanny (Greenberg) Taber,” gave birth to Madeline Taber who became Madeline Talamo when she married Dr. Haskell Talamo with whom she had three children – Fern, Ronald and Alan.

1905: Frank Putnam Flint, who would be one of those supporting a new trial for Leo Frank, began serving as a U.S. Senator from California.

1905: William S. Bennett, who would publicly support aid for the Jews Europe after the World War broke, began his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 17thDistrict.

1905: William M. Stewart completed his services as U.S. Senator from Nevada.  During one debate on anti-Semitism in Romania, Stewart defended the Jews of charges from Senator Sprague that the Jews were the author of their own suffering because they had been so successful.

1906: Abraham E. Lubarsky, a wealthy tea merchant from Odessa arrived in New York today on the American liner St. Louis and in describing the desperate conditions of his coreligionists said that “A Jew’s Life in Russia is not worth as much as a bad cigarette.

1906: Only days after Martial Law had come to an end a police officer name Kulchitsky was killed in Bialystok.  This killing was one of the many acts of violence that would lead to the pogrom that took place in June of that year.

1907: John Simon Guggenheim, the son of Meyer and Barbara Guggenheim began serving as U.S. Senator from Colorado.

1907: Adolph Joachim Sabath began serving as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’ 5thdistrict today.

1908(1st of Adar, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1908: As the Jews of Cleveland celebrated Rosh Chodesh, disaster struck the city with the burning of The Lakeview School which claimed the lives of 172 students two teachers and one first responder.

1908: Three weeks before his 20thbirthday, Sam Hamburg, the Russian born son of Sam and Bella Hamburg who would become President of Hamburg Realty and Investment Company in St. Louis where he was an active member of the Jewish community married Dora Hamburg today.

1909: Birthdate of Millionaire Real Estate Mogul Harry B. Helmsley.

1909(11th of Adar, 5669): Fast of Esther observed since 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat

1909(11th of Adar, 5669): Maximillian “Max” Hirsch the Cologne born Australian economist and political leader who was a believer in the Single Tax theories of Henry George passed away today.

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hirsch-maximilian-6682

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5179721

1909: Ed “Cotton” Smith who as a member of the House of Representatives had opposed legislation that would have exempted Jewish immigrants from Russia from a literacy test began serving in the United States Senate.

1910: The first issue of Der Yiddisher Record, a Yiddish weekly, appeared in Chicago today.

1910: Birthdate of Mt. Pleasant, PA, native Henry Weinberg, the guard for the Duquense Dukes when they played Miami in the first game of what would become the Orange Bowl before going on to play as a lineman for the Pittsburgh (Football) Pirates who would become the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1910(23rd of Adar I, 5670): Romanian born Yiddish dramatist Moses Horowitz passed away in the Montefiore Home at the age of 76.  The Bucharest native came to the United States in 1882 and was hailed at his passing as being “the Pioneer Yiddish playwright in New York.”  Five years before his death he lost all of his money while trying to produce a unique Yiddish opera at the Windsor Theatre.

1911(4thof Adar, 5671): Parashat Terumah

1911: Victor Berger of Wisconsin became the first member of the Socialist Party to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1911: Edmund H. Hinshaw, the Congressman from Nebraska who in 1906 attended a mass meeting at Belasco’s Theatre in Washington, D.C which a protest against the atrocities begin committed against the Jews of Russia completed his service today as a representative for Nebraska’s 4th congressional district.

1911: Frank Flint, who in 1915 would offer Governor Slaton who had commuted Leo Frank’s sentence a place of refuge, completed his service as a U.S. Senator from California.

1911: James Edgar Martine, a member of the Democratic Party who would support Jewish fund raising efforts on behalf of their co-religionists in war torn Europe began serving as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

1911: Jefferson Monroe Levy, the nephew of Uriah P. Levy began serving as the U.S. Congressman from New York’s 13thDistrict.

1912(15th of Adar, 5672): Shushan Purim

1912:  Birthdate of the actor John Garfield in New York. Born Julius Garfinkle, Garfield rose to stardom in the 1930's and 1940's playing a variety of wisecracking, “lover boy” type roles.  One of his most famous roles was in the film hit, “The Postman Rings Twice.”  Garfield was caught up in the Anti-Communist Witch Hunts of the 1950's.

1913: In Mainz, Germany Maier and Selma (Hirschberger) Trepp gave birth to Leo Trepp, the German born American Rabbi who was freed from “Sachsenhausen Concentration on the condition that “he and his wife leave the countries within two weeks – a requirement that led him to England and then to California where he served as the “rabbi for Beth Ami in Santa Rosa and Beth El in Berkley

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=145071443

https://www.jweekly.com/2010/09/10/leo-trepp-holocausts-longest-surviving-rabbi-dies-at-97/

1913: Dr. Joseph Hertz sailed from New York on the SS Mauritania bound for the British Isles where he will become Chief Rabbi of England which will make him not only the leader of British Jewry but one of the most influential Jewish clerics in the world.

1913: “On Rivington Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Russian Jewish immigrants David and Hannah Garfinkle gave birth to Jacob Julius Garfinkle who gained fame as actor John Garfield whose marvelous talent did not keep him from being crushed by the Red Hunting House Committee on Un-American Activities.

1913: Jefferson Monroe Levy, the nephew of Uriah P. Levy began serving as the U.S. Congressman from New York’s 14th District.

1913: Maude Kohn is scheduled to play a piano solo this afternoon during the meeting of the Ladies’ society of B’nai Sholom Temple.

1914: The General Orders issued on this date provided the official citation awarding Louis C. Hoseher the Congressional Medal of Honor. “The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Second Lieutenant Louis C. Mosher, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 11 June 1913, while serving with the Philippine Scouts, in action at Gagsak Mountain, Jolo, Philippine Islands. Second Lieutenant Mosher voluntarily entered a cleared space within about 20 yards of the Moro trenches under a furious fire from them and carried a wounded soldier of his company to safety at the risk of his own life.”

1914: On his 21st birthday Frank Tannenbaum, a leader of the I.W.W. “led a group of unemployed workers from Rutgers Square to the Catholic St. Alphonsus Church on West Broadway where they were met by a phalanx of police and the parish rector, who refused their demands after which he was arrested and eventual fined a sent to jail on Blackwell’s Island.

1914: “Arthur Ruppin wrote in his diary, ‘Today I succeeded in buying from Sir John Gray Hill his large and magnificently situated property on Mount Scopus, thus acquiring the first piece of ground for the Jewish University in Jerusalem.’”

1915: The United States naval collier Vulcanis scheduled to set sail from the League Island Navy Yard at Philadelphia today carrying supplies paid for by the Jewish Relief Society for “distribution to the starving residents” of Palestine.

1915: William Stiles Bennet who in 1916 would tell 3,000 people attending a meeting at the McKinley Casino that it was “now necessary for the American Jew to assist his brethren in Europe” and “said that large sums of money would be needed in order to accomplish the desired relief” began his services as a Member of the US. House of Representatives from New York’s 27th District today.

1915: Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, ex-President of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists delivered a talk tonight at the Cornell Club on “Warfare as Natural History” in which he “advanced the theory that the Jewish people would be the next to dominate” the world because, among other thing, “they are gathering in the citing, thriving under urban life” and “increasing more rapidly than any others.”

1915: Jefferson Monroe Levy completed his second and final term as a U.S. Congressman.

1915: Meyer London, the Jewish Socialist, began serving his first term in the U.S House representing New York’s 12th Congressional District.

1915: Among those whose contributions to the Fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee were received today included L.M. Jacobs of Tucson, AZ and the Dallas, TX, YMHA,

1915: “Assurance that the Jewish people of Palestine ‘enjoy perfect safety’ was given in an official communication” that arrived in Washington, DC today from Constantinople.

1916(29thof Adar I, 5676): Parashat Pekudi and Shabbat Shekalim

1916: In King Williams Town, South Africa, Morris and Ethel Aronowitz gave birth to Cecil Aronowitz, the South African viola player who was appointed “head of the String Department at the royal Northern College of Music in Manchester” passed away today at Suffolk while “performing a piece by Motzart.”

https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/cecil-aronowitz-viola-competition/about-cecil-aronowitz

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cecil-aronowitz-mn0002172741

1916: At 8:00 p.m. in Chicago, the Sinai Swimming Team is scheduled to take part in a meet at the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A.

1916: It was reported today 30,000 shirtmakers are on strike with their union demanding “higher wages and more sanitary working conditions.”

1916: In Berlin, film start Helga Molander, a Lutheran, and nightclub entertainer Eduard Anton Eysenck, a Catholic, gave birth to psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck who was raised by his Lutheran maternal grandmother who died in a concentration camp where she had been interred because she came from a Jewish family.

1916: In Bologna, Dora Bassani and Dr. Enrico Bassani gave birth to Giorgio Bassani the author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis whose early career was stifled by Italian race laws and who was imprisoned for anti-fascist activates

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/14/arts/giorgio-bassani-novelist-of-italy-s-fascist-era-dies-at-84.html

1917: Among the contributions listed today by The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War were $1,167 from the Jewish Morning Newsand $1,097 from the Jewish Daily News.

1917: James Edgar Martine who in 1916 introduced a resolution in the Senate “asking the President to set aside a day as Jewish relief day for Jewish war sufferers” which led to Jewish Relief Day completed his terms as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

1917(10th of Adar, 5677): Moritz Kalisch passed away today in Manchester.

1917: Republican Milton Kraus began serving the first of three terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana’s 11th Congressional District.

1917: William H. King, 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 the U.S. Senator from Utah today.

1917: La Renacensia Guida, the Zionist paper that argued against the use of the Greek language in the 1920’s, was founded today in New York City.

1918: It was reported today that Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes told a gathering at the Masonic Temple “that she had just returned to the Socialist Party and that while she was not anti-Zionist, she feared a Jewsih State in Palestine could not be made socialistic at once” and she feared that Great Britain was playing a game designed to dampen “the fervor of the Jewish working people all over the world.

1919: After four years out of office, Henry Mayer Goldfogle began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 12th Congressional District.

1919: In Washington “acting on behalf of a committee of thirty-one prominent men, Congressman Kahn of California presented a petition to President Wilson on behalf of the Zionist organization for consideration at the Peace Conference” and in turn, President Wilson said that he would “have the matter put before the conference after his arrival in Paris.”

1919: Five days after he had passed away, 59-year-old John Robert Raps was buried today at the “East Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1920: Birthdate of Leo Greenland, the Bronx born adman whose accounts included Tanqueray Gin, Johnnie Walker (Red & Black) Scotch and Olvatine. Do you think he ever confused his liquids? (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1920: In Harlem, Robert and Mary Habib Yohai, Jewish immigrants from Turkey, gave birth to Morrie Robert Yohai, the man who invented Cheez Doodles one of America’s most popular junk snack foods. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1921: Having been out of office for two years, Meyer London again begins representing New York’s 12th Congressional District.

1921(24th of Adar I, 5681); Eighty-two year old Leopold Loeb passed away today after which he was buried at Morgan City, LA.

1921: “The Raft of the Dead” a silent drama filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released in Germany today.

1922: Birthdate of British cardiologist David Mendel.

1922: Release date of German silent horror film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” co-starring Wolfgang Heinz, the stage name of David Hrisch.

1923(16thof Adar, 5683): Shushan Purim, since the 15th of Adar fell on Shabbat

1923(16thof Adar, 5683): Edward Lauterbach, prominent New York attorney and leader of the Republican Party who devoted four decades of his life to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10916FB3D5416738DDDAC0894DB405B838EF1D3

1923: Birthdate of Kurt Schubert, the founder of Austria's first Jewish museum after World War II and the founder of the Jewish Institute at the University of Vienna.1923: Burton K. Wheeler, who in 1936 “said that anti-Semitism has not only gained a foothold in European countries like Germany, Poland, Rumania, Austria and Hungary, but has been imported in the Western Hemisphere by Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador” and that the “capacity for persecution” as embodied in anti-Semitism is not “foreign to American soil” began serving as a U.S. Senator from Montana.

1923: Emmanuel “Manny” Celler began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 10th Congressional District.

1923: Sol Bloom began as serving as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from New York’s 20th District.

1923: Royal Samuel Copeland begins serving as a U.S. Senator from New York. In June of 1933, when several Senators rose on the floor to condemn the treatment of the Jews of Germany, Copeland “paid tribute to the Jews as whole mentioning Nathan Straus as an example of Jews whose work set an example for the world.” He went on to say that the condemnation of Germany’s treatment of the Jews by Senator Pat Robinson of Arkansas, the Senate majority leader, “will bring hoe and cheer into the hearts of many persons…”

1924: In Manhattan, Isidor and Gussie Stein gave birth to their only son “Robert Stein who helped expand the scope of women’s magazines as editor in chief of McCall’s and Redbook in the early stages of the modern women’s movement, publishing articles about race and politics and introducing readers to the nascent writings of feminist leaders like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/business/media/robert-stein-who-led-mccalls-and-redbook-for-decades-dies-at-

1924: Iris Margaret Origo, an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save Jewish children through the kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach “married Antonio Origo, the illegitimate son of Marchese Clemente Origo.”

1925(8th of Adar, 5685): Polish born composer Moritz Moszkowskipassed away at the age of 70 while living in Paris.

1926: Plans are under way to raise five million dollars to build a new library at the Hebrew Union College to house the new collection of 6,174 items brought back from Europe by Dr. Adolph S. Oko.

1927(30th of Adar I, 5687): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1927: Birthdate of Richard “Dick” Savitt the Bayonne, NJ, who started out playing basketball for Cornell University and then switched to tennis – a sport at which he became so adept that he became the first Jewish player to “win both Wimbledon and the Australian Open.”

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Savitt.html

1927(30th of Adar I, 5687): Solomon Cicurel, 46, was fatally stabbed - eight times - shortly after midnight today. The only witness to the crime was Cicurel’s wife Elvire Toriel. She had little to say except that she had been chloroformed by her husband’s assailants. Four suspects were eventually tried. They had either murdered Cicurel during a robbery or as part of an act of revenge or both. The four were all tried, but due to the legal system under which existed, they were tried in the courts of their native countries. This reality caused as much anger among many Egyptians as did the murder of the Jewish merchant.  The murdered victim was the eldest of three brothers. Solomon, Salvator and Joseph were the sons of Moreno Cicurel, a Sephardic Jew who came to Egypt during the previous century from Smyrna (Izmir), then a thriving cosmopolitan trading port in Turkey. A self-made man, Moreno, started his career as an employee with a coreligionist who owned a textile shop in the Mousky district, Cairo’s main commercial hub. Moreno Cicurel was the founder of one of the largest department stores in the Middle East.

1928: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Max Pine, the Secretary of the United Trades, at The Jewish Daily Forward building at 175 East Broadway.

1928:  In Mannheim, Germany, cantor and composer Hugo Chaim Adler and Selma Adler gave birth to composer Samuel Adler who came to the United States in 1939 where he earned a B.M. from Boston University, and an M.A. from Harvard University. He has also received several honorary doctorates in recognition for his artistic accomplishments. During his tenure in the U.S. Army, he founded and conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, and because of the orchestra's great psychological and musical impact on the European cultural scene, he was awarded the Army's Medal of Honor.

http://www.samuelhadler.com/

1929: In New York, screenwriter Jo Swerling and Florence (née Manson) Swerling gave birth to mathematician Peter Swerling.

http://news.usc.edu/6473/Peter-Swerling-Radar-Expert-Dies-at-71/

1930: The “headquarters of the Allied Jewish Campaign announced” today that Lt. Gov. Lehman will be one of the speakers at its annual national conference” to be held this weekend in Washington.

1930: At least one member of Parliament complained that “new South African quota bill limiting the number of immigrants to 50 each yeaer from each of the East and South European countries” which passed its third reading was aimed at limiting Jewish immigration.

1930: ‘Masks” a crime film direct by Rudolf Meinert was released in the Weimar Republic today.

1931(15thof Adar, 5691): Shushan Purim

1931: William Henry Dieterich, the anti-Semitic and somewhat pro-German Republican began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s at-large district.

1931: “Two world records,” in the 500-yard back stroke and the half mile back stroke “were broken today by Joe Wohl, the captain of the Syracuse University swim team.

1932: “President Hoover signed he commission of Benjamin Cardozo as Justice of the Supreme Court” today.

1933: Illinois Democrat J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis who as a Congressman had supported a “proviso in the Balfour Declaration that Jews going to Palestine to live could retain their original citizenship instead of automatically becoming British subjects” and who as U.S. Senator led “a protest against the possible transfer of American Jews from their present homes in Palestine to other parts of the country” began serving as Senate Majority Leader today,

1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as 32nd President of the United States.  Regardless of what one may think of Roosevelt's record during the Holocaust, there is no denying the positive things he did for Jews during the days of the New Deal.  He had numerous Jewish advisors and appointed them to a variety of positions of power including Supreme Court Justice to Secretary of the Treasury.  A hitherto untapped cohort of well-educated first or second generation American Jews gained access to positions through the newly emerging federal agencies that were part of Roosevelt's program to reform American government, business and labor practices.

1933: Theodore Albert Peyeser began serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York’s 17th congressional district.

1933: Cordell Hull began serving as U.S. Secretary of State a post he would hold until 1944. Hull would win the Nobel Peace Prize but he earned low marks from the Jewish community for his moves to thwart attempts to aid Jewish refugees and his failure to curb the genteel anti-Semitism found in his department.

1933: Sixty-year-old Theodore Albert Peyser, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, began representing New York’s 17th congressional district today.

1933: Seventy more people are imprisoned at Nohra on the second day of the operation of Germany's first Concentration Camp.  This brings the total of prisoners to 170.

1934: As the Philadelphia SPHAS (South Philadelphia Hebrew Association) basketball team dressed into their uniforms prior to playing the Brooklyn Jews, “Coach Eddie Gottlieb introduced the team to its newest member, Moe Goldman, a Brooklyn native, who had just completed his senior year of basketball at the City College of New York (CCNY) where he had excelled as a center for the CCNY team, under the tutelage of coach Nat Holman, arguably the best Jewish basketball player in the 1920s.”

1935: The Jerusalem Shopkeepers Association plans to shutter its shops today in an attmpet to “force the Municipal Council to adopt a rent regulation ordinance” similar to the ones in force in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

1936: In Poland, “Warsaw University, scene of anti-Semitic riots, was closed today for an indefinite period.”

1936: Among those reported today to have been “denationalized” by the German government were ‘nine designated as Jews” including “Herbert Stahl who writes under the name of Steel who is denounced as ‘a Jewish editor who directed lying press attacks against American newspapers against Germany and in connection with the Jewish boycott movements surpassed all other machinations of that kind in meanness.’” (Editor’s Note:  What is worse than being a Jew in Germany?  Not being Jewish but being labeled as one.  Johannes Steel was an author who left Germany before WW II and was allegedly involved in wartime espionage for the Soviets.)

1936: Under the terms reported today, “Netherlands citizens of Jewish descent living in Germany” may be repatriated to Holland but every family can take no more than 20,000 marks (less than $10,000) with them regardless of how much wealth they may have accumulated or the size of the family.  (Editor’s note: Anti-Semitism almost always include theft making it a profitable business throughout the centuries)

1936: “Nearly 1,000 women representing various” philanthropic organizations attended a meeting today at the Hotel Astor where “Christians and Jewish leaders joined with officials of the women’s division of the United Palestine Appeal in the campaign for $1,500,000 to be raised for the benefit of Jewish settlements in Palestine.

1936: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, a national co-chairman of the United Palestine Appeal which is seeking to raise $3,500,000 to help settle German Jews in Palestine and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt are the featured speakers at a tea in the Hotel Astor which is the opening event of the campaign in New York City. (Editor’s note: Abba Hillel Silver was a Reform Rabbi and ardent Zionist who was instrumental in seeing to it that support for a Jewish state in Palestine was supported by both American political parties.  One can only wonder how he would have reacted to the state of Israel’s treatment of Reform Judaism including denying that Jews who were converted by Reform rabbis are not really Jewish.)

1937: The 9th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Jewish actor and Hollywood fixture, George Jessel, are held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

1937: In Warsaw, the Polish Government and the Jewish Emigration Agency signed an agreement designed “to facilitate the emigration of wealthy Polish Jews to Palestine.

1937(21stof Adar, 5697): Four-year-old Miriam Ruhama Pacifici the daughter of Rabbi Riccardo Reuven Pacifici passed away at Genoa.

1938(1st of Adar II, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1938: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Union Temple in Brooklyn for 57-year-old to NYU Law School graduate Joseph J. Baker, “a senior member of the law firm of Baker, Obermeir Rosenson and Rosner,” “President of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, the son of Adolph and Carrie Baker and the husband of the former “May Lautman” with whom he had two children – Ruth and Edward.”

1938: The Palestine Post reported that Sir Harold MacMichael had arrived in Palestine and described the ceremony in which he was sworn as the fifth High Commissioner.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that The Lydda-Jerusalem train was sabotaged when the railway line was damaged by an explosion. Another bomb was found on the railway tracks near Khan Yunis. Curfew was imposed on Arab villages situated close to the railway tracks.

1938: Birthdate of Allan Nathaniel Kornblum, the Brooklyn native who would help steer the F.B.I. into the post-J. Edgar Hoover era by drafting guidelines for its surveillance operations in the 1970s, and whose testimony would help convict the murderer of a black man in a celebrated civil rights case revived nearly 40 years after the event.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that there were 5,734,917 Palestine pounds in circulation and 15,641 registered vehicles in the country in 1937. There were also 95 credit cooperatives with 79,750 members.

1939: Twenty-three-year-old Bernard “Bernie” Opper, the Bronx native whose Kentucky Wildcats were upset by the Tulane Green Wave in the 1938 SEC Tournament redeemed himself today by leading his team to victory over the Tennessee Vols in the 1939 SEC Championship finals.

1940: “An appeal to the people of Great Britain ‘to stay the hand’ of their government from putting into effect the proposal to restrict the sale of land to Jews in Palestine was made” tonight by thousands of people “at a protest meeting in Carnegie Hall called by a group of Jewish organizations.

1940: Nineteen-year-old twin brothers Robert and David Goldwasser from Paris, NJ led Jewish students in a protest in front of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem after which they received “assurances from the consul general that Washington would be informed about the effect of the new land on the rights of Americans in Palestine

1941: A group of tailors who worked in shop supplying uniforms to the German Army were photographed in Nazi occupied Bendzin, Poland.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/06.asp

1941: "I. Segaloff" wrote “My best regards to my friend Tatsuo Osako," on the back of a photo. Segaloff was probably a Jewish refugee who had been helped by Osako who was a young employee of the Japan Tourist Bureau at the start of World War II. Osako probably worked with “Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania who granted transit visas to several thousand Jews in the early days of the war. In doing so, he defied strict stipulations from Tokyo that such recipients have proper funds and a clear final destination after Japan. He was one of a handful of diplomats such as Sweden's Raoul Wallenberg and Hiram Bingham IV of the U.S. who used their bureaucratic machinery, often without their government's knowledge, to issue the paperwork that would get Jews to safety. Dubbed the "Japanese Schindler," Sugihara was honored in 1985 by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, a high honor reserved for non-Jews who saved Jews at their own personal risk from the Holocaust, Hitler's destruction of 6 million Jews. A short movie about him, "Visas and Virtue," won an Academy Award in 1997. Museums at his hometown and in Lithuania are dedicated to his memory.”

1942: Algiers radio announced that all firms, property and legal titles owned in part or full by Jews have been put under "Aryan" administration. This came after the dismissal of 3,000 Jews from the French civil service just a couple months prior.

1942: Birthdate of Peabody award winner and “feminist” Lynn Sherr.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126383

1942(15thof Adar, 5702) Shushan Purim

1942(15thof Adar, 5702): Seventy-nine-year-old Tobias Schanfarber, the Cleveland born son of Aaron and Sarah (Newman) Schanfarber, the husband of Carrie Phillipson and graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College who led congregations in Toledo, Ft. Wayne and Baltimore before settling in as the rabbi at KAM in Chicago passed away today.

1942(15thof Adar, 5702): Shushan Purim
1942: Eichmann met with all his territorial representatives to discuss the organizational problems of the deportations to come. Actual plans commenced months earlier.

1943: Most of the Jews living in Cuomotini, Greece were arrested and transported in 20 open train cars to the notorious Dupnitsa transit camp, and then dispatched from Lom by boat via the Danube. The Jews from Cuomotini and Kavala on the Karageorge were shot by the Bulgarians and the Germans; while three other boats, of which one held Cuomotini Jews, arrived in Vienna and from there the Thracian Jews were sent to Treblinka, where they were gassed upon arrival. The Bulgarians confiscated all of the Jewish properties and possessions.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/08.asp

1943: The Jews of Drama, a town in Macedonia, were arrested by the Bulgarian police and army, held in tobacco warehouses in the Agia Barbara quarter for three days, and then sent to the Gorna Djumaya camp in Bulgaria, where they were kept in extremely harsh conditions. From there, young men in their teens and early twenties were sent to forced labor in Bulgaria and 113 families (589 people) were dispatched by train to Lom and from there put on a boat to Vienna, where they were reloaded on trains to Treblinka and gassed upon their arrival.

1943: Jews continued to be sent from Paris to Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.

1943: At the 15th Annual Oscar award ceremony, “Mrs. Miniver” directed by William Wyler wins for Best Picture of 1942.  Wyler, a refugee from Hitler’s Europe wins for Best Director.

1944(9th of Adar, 5704): In Warsaw, four Jewish women were shot in the ghetto along with 80 non-Jews. All their bodies, dead and wounded alike, were thrown into a building that was then lit on fire.

1944(9th of Adar, 5704):  In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc. was executed at Sing Sing.

1945: “In a move to eliminate duplication of activities among organizations supplying relief for refugees” the delegations attending the 60th annual convention of HIAS, led by President Abraham Herman, called today for the “creation of a council of Jewish voluntary agencies as the pivotal point of a plan for coordinating their work.

1945: Eric Jabotinsky, the son of the late Vladimir Jabotinsky, is scheduled to begin living in Haifa today as part of the terms under which he was released from the custody of British authorities in Jerusalem.

1946(1st of Adar II, 5706): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1946: In New York City doctors Ruth (Silboiwtz) Achs and Samuel Achs gave birth Naomi Achs, who gained fame as screenwriter and director Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.

1946: Birthdate of English impresario Harvey Goldsmith

1946: Felix Frankfurter was one of the Associate Justices who heard Girouard v. United States, a landmark citizenship case, when it was argued today before the Supreme Court.

1947: Birthdate of Douglas Peter “Doug” Beal, the Cleveland Ohio native who played volleyball at Ohio State and then continued his involvement with the sport as a college and  serving as USA Volleyball CEO.

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/DougBeal.htm

1947: As much of Palestine’s Jewish community endured the third day of martial law, Joseph Saphir, the mayor of Petach Tikva reported that 4,000 men were out of work due to the clampdown and the number was growing.  In Tel Aviv, the banks were closed due to a lack of coin and currency while the population worried about getting the necessities of life including fresh milk.

1948(23rd of Adar I, 5708): This morning “Arabs ambushed and killed seventeen Jewish members of the Haganah…seven miles northwest of Jerusalem.”

1948: U.S. premiere of “The Naked City,” a gritty, black and white film directed by Jules Dassin, produced by Mark Hellinger with a screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald.

1949: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Emanuel Philip Adler, the Times Publisher who was buried in the Mount Nebo Hebrew Cemetery in Davenport, IA.

1949: The Security Council of the United Nations recommended Israel for membership in the international body.

1950: “The Baron of Arizona” a western movie directed and written by Samuel Fuller and featuring Vladimir Sokoloff was released in the United States today.

1950: “Israel and Jordan Working for Peace,” an article about the proposed Israel-Jordan non-aggression pact entitled Gene Currivan declares that “Israel decided long ago that while external advice is always welcome, she must rely principally – as the Jews have over the centuries – on her own resourcefulness where the future is concerned.”

1950: The Revocation of Citizenship Bill, which made it possible for Iraq's Jews to flee the country, went into effect.   "By the end of May of 1950, at least ten thousand Iraqi Jews" many of whom were impoverished before leaving, "had crossed the border into Iran” as they made their way to Israel.

1953:The Jerusalem Post reported that the new, official US Middle Eastern policy was to “equalize the support for Israel and other countries in the area.” According to the explanation given to the Post by US Embassy officials in Tel Aviv, this new policy did not mean that the support hitherto given to Israel was to be lessened, but that the assistance offered to the Arab states was to be increased. [This new policy was a product of the newly elected Republican Administration of Dwight Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.  Eisenhower and Dulles would show their true feelings about Israel when they took the side of the Egyptians over the Israelis during the Suez Crisis of 1956.]

1953:The Jerusalem Post reported that following the recent Israeli offer, the Barclay and Ottoman banks in Cyprus started accepting claims from Arab Palestine refugees for the release of their frozen accounts held in Israeli banks.

1953:The Jerusalem Post reported that a new draft for the Punishment of Crimes against the State was tabled in the Knesset. It provided for a death sentence for the high treason in time of war.

1954: As attempts were being to remove his security clearance, J. Robert Openheimer, the “father of the Atomic Bomb,” sent a letter to Major General Kenneth D. Nicholas describing his relationship with Jean Tatlock.

1955: Following the rape and murder of his sister Shoshana and the murder of her boyfriend Oded Wegmeister by Bedouin Tribesmen, Meir Har-Zion  “and three ex-members of the 890 Battalion drove to the Armistice Line with Jordan where they captured six Bedouins.

1956(21st of Adar, 5716): Sixty-nine-year-old NYU alum, attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress Max Perlman passed away today leaving behind his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Hyams Pearlman and his son Franklin Perlman.

1957:  Israel, in compliance with the United Nations resolution, withdrew from the Gaza Strip and other territories.  These territories had been seized in the Sinai Campaign of 1956, sometimes referred to as “the One Hundred Hour War” because of its short duration.  The fighting in 1956 was an Israeli response to years of attacks by terrorists as well as the arming of the Egyptians by the Soviets with an arsenal of modern weapons.  The history of the war is too complicated to summarize here.  Suffice it to say that the Israelis withdrew with guarantees from the United Nations and the United States that the Sinai Peninsula would be a demilitarized zone and that Israel would enjoy unfettered access from Eilat, its southern port through the Straits of Tiran.  In 1967, Egypt would completely break the agreements of 1957 and the U.N. would fail to honor its commitments which brought about the Six Days War.

1957: The Importance of Overweight by childhood obesity researcher Hilda Bruch was published today.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/04/1957/hilde-bruch

1957: “Ill Met by Moonlight” on which Emeric Pressburger served as co-writer, co-director and co-producer was released today in the United Kingdom.

1959(24th of Adar I, 5719): Ninety-nine-year-old Adolphe Danziger de Castro the native of Poland and scholar, journalist, lawyer, author of poems, novels and short stories who was the first president of the La Comunidad Sefardi of Los Angeles passed away today.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38602/38602-h/38602-h.htm

1960(5thof Adar, 5720): Bronx born Leonard Warenoff, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who gained fame as Leonard Warren, a leading baritone with the Met died suddenly while singing with his Richard Tucker another of the Jewish immigrants who was a giant in the world of opera.

https://operawire.com/artist-profile-baritone-leonard-warren-legendary-verdi-interpreter/

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/leonard-warren-death-forza-del-destino/

1962: “The Boston Celtics beat the St. Louis Haws 123-120 giving Red Auerbach his 700th coaching victory in the NBA.” (As reported by Bob Wechsler)

1964: Birthdate of New York native and former New York City Council Member Eva Sarah Moskowitz whose mother “fled Europe during the Holocaust” avoiding the fate of other family members who died in the concentration camps.

1966: “The Group” directed by Sidney Lumet, produced and written by Sidney Buchman and filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman was released in the United States today.

1967: Birthdate of Manchester native Ivan Lewis, the Chief Executive of Jewish Social Services of Greater Manchester who was elected as the Labour MP for Bury South in 1997.

1969(14TH of Adar, 5729): The first Purim during the Nixon Presidency

1969(14th of Adar, 5729): Seventy-one-year-old “Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist who was professor at the University of Chicago passed away today.

1969(14th of Adar, 5729): Pioneering movie mogul, Nicholas M. Schenck passed away.

http://voices.yahoo.com/nicholas-schenck-motion-picture-production-pioneer-2133037.html

1970: “Loving” a comedy directed by Irvin Kershner, produced and written by Don Devlin and starring George Segal and with music by Bernardo Segall was released in the United States today.

1971(7th of Adar, 5731): Sixty-seven-year-old Wharton graduate James Felt, the son of real estate developer Abraham Felt, who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when he went into to the real estate business instead of becoming a Rabbi and went on to become the Chairman of the City Planning Commission passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/05/archives/james-felt-former-chairman-of-city-planning-agency-dies-wenlthy.html

1971: The second of two-part television production Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost co-starring Eli Wallach was broadcast on American Public Television.

1972(18th of 5732): Parashat Ki Tisa’ Shabbat Parah

1972(18th of 5732): Eighty-one-year-old NYU trained obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Isador W. Kahn the husband of Harriet Kahn, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/06/archives/dr-isador-w-kahn-an-obstetrician-81.html?searchResultPosition=1

1973(30th of Adar I, 5733): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1973(30th of Adar I, 5733): Eighty-six-year-old Lithuanian born, LSE trained, American labor leader Ossip Walinsky, the founder of the Women’s Trade Union and the “International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union who was the husband of Rose (Newman) Walinksy passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/06/archives/ossip-j-walinsky-union-head-and-jewish-leader-dies-at-86.html

1973: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors including The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom.

1973: Marcel Marceau appears at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City, IA.

1974(10th of Adar, 5734): Adolph Gottlieb, prominent Abstract Expressionist painter passed away at the age of 71.

http://gottliebfoundation.org/grants/individual-grants/

http://www.artnet.com/artists/adolph-gottlieb/

1974: After having been beaten by police outside the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Alexander Tsatskis and Saul Raslin were taken to Kiev where they were “arrested and interrogated.”

1974: "Five months after Israel's defeat of the Syrian forces on the Golan Heights, four young Syrian Jewish women were found raped, robbed and murdered in a cave on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Lebanese borders...The bodies were returned to their parents in sacks."

1975: Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England.

1975: Tonight, “at 11:00 p.m. eight Palestinians in two teams landed by boat on the Tel Aviv beach at the foot of Allenby Street.”

1978(25th of Adar I, 5738): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim

1978(25th of Adar I, 5738): Sixty-seven year old Samuel Phillip Mandell, Philadelphia born son of Morris and Rebecca Mandelm the President of Samuel P. Mandell and Company, the founder of the Samuel P. Mandel Foundation and the husband of Ida Slustsky with whom he had five children, including two sets of twins passed away today.

1980(16th of Adar, 5740): Sixty-three-year-old Charles Pannet, the Brooklyn native and Executive Director of Hillcrest Jewish Community Center who was an officer of the National Association of Synagogue Administrators passed away today in New York City.

1982: The “U.S. Senate adopted a resolution calling for the Soviet Union to stop the persecution, arrests, and trials of Jewish activists; to remove obstacles to emigration; and to respect the religious rights of its citizens.”

1984: The life of journalist and author Sidney Zion “was transformed” tonight “when his 18-year-old daughter, Libby, a Bennington College freshman with a history of depression and cocaine use, was admitted to New York Hospital with fever, chills and agitation. Her condition was not diagnosed, but two interns gave her a painkiller and sedative, a plan approved by phone by a senior clinician who had treated members of the family, and Ms. Zion was tied down to prevent injury. She died eight hours after admission.”  This tragedy resulted in Zion leading a crusade that resulted in national reforms in the training, workload and supervision of young doctors.

1986: Today, “The New York Times reported on Kurt Waldheim’s wartime service in the Balkans and his prewar Nazi associations.”

1987: Jonathan Pollard was sentenced today by a Washington, D.C. court to life imprisonment for spying for Israel.

1988: Sir John Templeton, sponsor of the $369,000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, has expressed surprise at charges that this year's prize winner was associated with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel causes. ''We'd heard absolutely nothing of that nature and I don't think any of the judges had either,'' Sir John said by telephone today from the Bahamas. ''We are completely surprised and will be trying to study the facts.'' The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee protested the designation of Dr. Inamullah Khan, secretary general of the Pakistan-based World Moslem Congress, as the winner because Dr. Khan and the congress have linked to anti-Semitic groups, including those that deny the Holocaust occurred, and that Dr. Khan had rejected Israel's right to exist. Dr. Khan is the first Moslem to be chosen for the Templeton Prize.

1988: In Ramat HaSharon, Alon and Arela Mekel gave birth to professional Gal Mekel. Who played for Wichita State University before turning professional.

1992(29th of Adar I, 5752): Eighty-four-year-old Hollywood animator and Walt Disney collaborator Arthur Babbitt passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-07/news/mn-3376_1_arthur-babbitt

1993(11th of Adar, 5753): Ta'anit Esther observed since the 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat

1993(11th of Adar, 5753): Izaak Maurits (Piet) Kolthoff “a highly influential chemist, widely considered the Father of Analytical Chemistry” passed away. https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Kolthoff

1994: The INS Hanit a corvette built by Northrop Gruman was launched today.

1994: “Greedy” produced by Brian Grazer, a screenplay co-authored by Lowell Ganz, with music by Randy Edelman and starring Kirk Douglas was released in the United States today.

1995: President Clinton appoint Martin S. Indyk as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1995(2nd of Adar II, 5755): Parashat Pekudi

1995(2nd of Adar II, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old Minnie Sweedler Eisman, the mother of Samuel and Fanny Belle Sweedler and the wife of Philip Carl Eisman whom she married in 1934 passed away today after which she was buried at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Cedar Knolls, NJ.

1996(13th of Adar, 5756): A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and and wounded at least 35 others. The Arab bomber, with explosives strapped to his body, blew himself up in the street near the indoor mall known as Dizengoff Center. 

1996(13th of Adar, 5756): This morning, owner Abe Lebewohl the 2nd Avenue Deli was in his delivery truck, going to make his habitual deposit at a nearby bank when he was shot and killed, a victim of a robbery that remains unsolved to this day. His baby brother, Jack Lebewohl, who, unlike Abe, realized their parents’ American dream by becoming a “professional,” a real estate lawyer, gave up his practice and took over the deli. He made a go of it for almost 10 years, despite the fact that delis in New York have been disappearing for almost 40 years.

1998: “The Fourteenth Knesset re-elected Ezer Weizman for a second term. For the first time, an acting president was faced by an opponent, (MK Shaul Amor of the Likud), in the re-election. 119 members participated in the election: 63 votes were in favor of Weizman, 49 were in favor of Amor, and 7 were empty ballots.

2000(27th of Adar I, 5760): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim

2000: “New Paths in Africa, Europe and Middle East” published today reported that in Africa and the Middle East, most of the attention regarding technology “has focused on Israel” and that “there is a wide range of Israeli technology stocks are listed in London and on Nasdaq.”

2000: Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz ended his visit to Lebanon today “which was aimed at a common Arab front” following “the breakdown in peace talks between Israel and Syria” and between Israel and the Palestinians.

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora by Ronald Segal

2001(9thof Adar, 5761):Naftali Dean, 85, of Tel Mond; Yevgenya Malchin, 70, of Netanya and Shlomit Ziv, 58, of Netanya were murdered today by a Palestinian suicide bomber “in the center of the business district of Netanya.

2001: Graveside services were held at Temple Emeth Memorial Park, Baker St., West Roxbury, MA for Deborah (Pessin) Margolis, the widow of Dr. Benjamin D. Margolis.

2002: As of today, “latest round of unrelenting violence -- more than 20 Israeli deaths in the last 24 hours -- has left the Bush administration stymied and efforts at meaningful diplomacy stalled.”

2002: “Syria seemed to register unease with the Saudi peace plan, which offers Israel normal relations with the Arab world in return for its withdrawal from land occupied in the 1967 war” but which “makes no explicit mention of resettling the millions of Palestinian refugees spread about the region nor does it mention any Israeli return of the Golan Heights area to Syria, two points Damascus has always insisted on.”

2003(30th of Adar I, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

2003: As the Israelis continue their war against terrorists who hide among the civilian population, the IAF killed three Palestinians in “separate shooting incidents and clashes.”

2004(11th of Adar, 5764): Ta’anit Esther

2004: “How Bush’s Advisers Confront the World” published today provides a review of The Rise of the Vulcans by James Mann who lists Paul Wolfowitz as one of the six people to whom the President looks to for guidance on foreign policy.

2005: A German court ruled that the heirs of a once prominent Jewish-owned department store chain were entitled to compensation for what has in recent years become one of Berlin's most valuable pieces of real estate. Deciding one of the biggest and most bitterly disputed claims for restitution of property seized by the Nazis, the German Administrative Court awarded $17 million to Barbara Principe and her nephew, Martin Wortham. They are the main surviving heirs of the family of German Jews that, until the war, owned and operated the Wertheim department store chain, which even today is to Berlin what Macy's or Bloomingdale's is to New York.  The Wertheim Company, founded in the 19th century, owned seven large stores in Berlin before the war, all of them appropriated by the Nazis in 1937 as part of the process by which Jews were squeezed out of German economic life and their holdings turned over to "Aryans." The Wertheim brothers arrived in the United States penniless in the 1940's. Gunther Wertheim, Mrs. Principe's father, ran a chicken farm in southern New Jersey.

2005:  The New York Times reviewed The Great Morality by John Kelly.  This book provided “an intimate history of the Black Death.  Included in this acclaimed volume are references to the treatment of the Jews including reports of “survivors pointing accusatory fingers at Jews and Muslims and outsiders” and the “pogroms instituted against the Jews, who were scapegoated for spreading the plague; the abdication of responsibility on the part of many officials and community leaders; and the exploitation of the needy and grief-stricken by con men and opportunists.”

2005: An exhibition styled “The Power of Conversation of Jewish Women and Their Salons” opens at the Jewish Museum.

2006: Dalia Itizk a native of Jerusalem born into a family of Iraqi Jews, began serving Speaker of the Knesset, making her the first women to hold this post.

2006:  In Cedar Rapids, celebration of the birthday of Ivy Hurwitz.  In the short time that Ivy has been in Cedar Rapids, she has demonstrated her culinary wizardry and made herself an integral part of the Jewish community

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of The Art of Aging:A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Beingby Jewish author Sherwin B. Nuland and a review of  Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artistby Gail Levin. “Judy Chicago, born Judith Sylvia Cohen in Chicago in 1939, is descended from a long line of rabbis, going back to the Vilna Gaon in eighteenth century Lithuania.” 

2007(14th of Adar, 5767): Purim.

2008: As part of “Hadassah on Tour,” Dr. Michael Wilschanski, the Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit of the Division of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, speaks in Duluth, MN

2008: In New York, the 92nd Street Y presents “Breaking News from Israel: Reports from the Front Lines” featuring NBC journalist Martin Fletcher and moderated by New York Times editor and author Joseph Berger.

2008:James L. Kugel and Rabbi Harold Kushner are among the 20 writers honored tonight at the 57th annual Jewish Book Awards, to be held at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. In January, the Jewish Book Council, which administers the awards, named Mr. Kugel's How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Nowthe Jewish Book of the Year for 2007, and chose Rabbi Kushner, the author of the 1981 best seller When Bad Things Happen to Good People, the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. The Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the only organization in America devoted exclusively to promoting books reflecting the Jewish experience. The annual awards honor achievement in biography and memoir, children's and young adult literature, fiction, poetry, and history.

2008: According to Palestinian sources, the Arabs suffered 110 casualties during Operation Hot Winter.  The Israelis launched Operation Hot Winter following a series of rocket attacks launched from Gaza that targeted Israeli towns, including Sderot. 

2008(27th of Adar I, 5768): Eighty-three-year-old Oscar winning composer Leonard Rosenman passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D91638F935A35750C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=Fox%2C+Margalit+Rosenman&st=nyt

2009: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hadassah Book Club met at the home of community leader Amy Barnum to discuss a novel by Anita Dimant entitled Good Harbor

2009: In New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Chinese Community Relations Council sponsor a presentation by Avrum Ehrlich, Professor at the University of Shandong, China, entitled China-Israel Relations: Geopolitical and Social Dimensions.

2009:  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Ramallah before flying out of Israel as she completes her first official peace mission to the Middle East.

2009: Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander in chief of the Iran’s Revolutionary Gurad announced that Iran now has missiles that can reach Israeli nuclear sites.  Iran’s Shahab-3 missles have a range of up to 1,250 miles, putting Israel within striking distance.

2009: According to the Proivdence Journal,the last two paid staff member of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., were let go and public tours were canceled because of financial difficulties.

2009(8th of Adar, 5769: Joseph Bloch, who was a professor of piano literature at the Juilliard School in New York passed away today at the age of 91. at his home in Larchmont, N.Y. For the better part of the past five decades, every Juilliard pianist passed through Mr. Bloch’s classroom. There was a brief interruption to this process in the 1980s when Mr. Bloch tried to retire but proved indispensable and was persuaded to return. His pupils included many of the best-known performers of the second half of the 20th century, among them Van Cliburn, Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, Misha Dichter, Jeffrey Siegel, Jeffrey Swann and Yoheved Kaplinsky, the current chairwoman of Julliard’s piano department. A pianist trained as a musicologist, Mr. Bloch did not teach his students prowess at the keyboard; that was done by the conservatory’s studio teachers, eminent pianists like Rosina Lhévinne and Adele Marcus. What he taught was not so much the how-to of pianism but the who, the why and the what-if. Mr. Bloch also leaves behind a world of pianists, each of them,. Emmanuel Ax said, “a cultured musician, someone who retains curiosity throughout one’s life of music.” “Maybe all of us would have found another road that would have led us to the same end,” Mr. Ax added. “But we were lucky enough not to have had to look beyond him.”

2010: YIVO is scheduled to present a program entitled Goebbels in Arabia during which Jeffrey Herf, eminent historian and a professor at the University of Maryland, discusses his new book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press), a detailed account of how Hitler's Germany planted the seeds of its own brand of virulent anti-Semitism in the Middle East

2010: The Twentieth Annual KOACH Kallah is scheduled to begin today at the Pearlston Conference and Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD.  KOACH is the is the college program Conservative Movement.

2010: In Washington, D.C., Norman Shore is scheduled to lead a “learn over lunch” that examines the reign of Solomon as described in Book of I Kings.

2010: Rabbi Joshua Maroof, the spiritual leader of the Magen David Sephardic Congregation in Rockville, Maryland is scheduled to conduct another class designed to discover the fascinating world of Sephardic Jewish thought in which attendees delve into the legacy of great philosophers such as Maimonides and Joseph Caro (author of the Shulchan Aruch) and discuss monotheism, free will and other ever-contemporary themes.

2010: The High Court today refused to throw out a lawsuit by Peace Now against construction in Kiryat Netafim, even though the government says it has evidence that shows that construction was approved before the lawsuit was undertaken, contradicting the contention of the suit that the building was illegal. The court, however, rejected a demand by Peace Now that the town and the Samaria Regional Council be held in contempt of court for allowing construction to continue, even though the court had ordered building frozen until the lawsuit was heard.

2010: Michigan Congressman Sandy Levin took over as chairman of the committee today when Charles B. Rangel of New York stepped aside in due to a number of ethics violations. (Levin is Jewish; Rangel is not.)

2011: Agudas Achim in Iowa City is scheduled to celebrate Shabbat Across America.

2011: In Rockville, MD, Tikvat Israel is scheduled to explore the world the Jews of Ethiopia in a program styled: “From Tesfa to Tikva: A Lens on Ethiopian Israelis.”

2011: Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to celebrate a Shabbat Service Honoring Military Families.

2011: Several hundred people gathered in central Tel Aviv today to protest government plans to deport hundreds of children of foreign workers and illegal residents of Israel

2011: Twenty-year-old Jessica Feibler, a U.C. student has brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, saying the university did not protect her from being attacked because she is Jewish. The case, filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., today against the university, the regents of the University of California and their ranking officials, is the first of its kind.

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/61116/former-u.c.-berkeley-student-files-suit-charges-endangerment-of-jewish-stud/

2011(29thof Adar I, 5771): Vivienne Harris, 89, who worked with her husband to found the Jewish Telegraph, now a regional publishing powerhouse in northern England with editions in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow, passed away. Harris received an Order of the British Empire -- MBE -- for her professional and charitable works, and was still active as the company's financial director until days before her death. Her son, Paul, the Telegraph's editor, said that "I always said that she had three children -- myself, my brother and the Jewish Telegraph. The paper was very much her baby, and she nurtured it like a child for 60 years. Even in her 90th year, she was devoted to the company." Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdon, Ron Prosor, said that Harris "embodied what we should all be proud of: Jewish values, Zionistic determination and motivation of someone who established the Jewish Telegraph with her late husband with just the 10 fingers that she had, against all the odds. A remarkable woman who I had the privilege of meeting and talking to. It's a great loss (As reported by the Eulogizer)

2012: The AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to begin in Washington, DC

2012: Jeremy Skidmore (director) and the Designers of “New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza” are scheduled to take part in a “Talk Back” which is part of “a month-long national conversation about Spinoza’s impact and legacy.”

2012: Rabbi Jeffery Saks is scheduled to lead the first in a three-part mini-series, “Aganon’s Eretz Yisrael” that examines the work of Nobel Prize Winner, S.Y. Agnon.

2012: Virginia’s Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader and the only Jewish Republican serving in the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed Mitt Romney for president and said that he is not interested in the vice-presidency.

2012(10thof Adar): Ninety-seven-year-old Shmuel Tankus, who commanded Israel’s navy from 1954 until 1960 passed away today.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4198215,00.html

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/64524/shmuel-tankus-97-former-israeli-navy-commander/

http://www.jta.org/2012/03/06/jewish-holidays/hanukkah/former-israeli-navy-commander-shmuel-tankus-dies-at-97

2012: President Barak Obama addressed the AIPAC Policy Conference.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/04/3091959/obama-policy-to-prevent-iran-from-obtaining-a-nuclear-weapon 

2013: Josh Sussman is scheduled to host a Montreal Aliyah Fair this evening.

2013: Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to be the first speaker at today’s session of the a day-long conference at Tulane University - “Jewish Music in New Orleans”

2013(22ndof Adar, 5773): Sixty-eight-year-old Rabbi Menachem Froman died tonight at his home in Tekoa in Gush Etzion, where 200 of his students and followers sang and prayed instead of learning with him a weekly lesson in the mystical Zohar.

2013: Pawel Frenkel, who fought alongside Mordecai Anielewicz is to be commemorated today at an event marking anniversary of the Jewish rebellion

2014: Sandy, Larry and Michael Levin, from suburban Chicago, are among those scheduled to attend the final day of the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

2014: Emily Casden, Coordinating Curator for “Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective” is scheduled to participate in a Q & A following a screening of “The Art of Spiegelman.”

2014: “Dancing in Jaffa” and “An Evening of Yiddish Song” are scheduled to be shown at the 24th Washington Jewish Film Festival.

2014: The Historic 6th& I Synagogue is scheduled to host “Judaism on Trial: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263”

2014: The Library of Congress is scheduled to host a screening of Regina, Diana Goo’s documentary about Regina Jonas the first female Rabbi ordained in Germany who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.

2014: Arab terrorists hurled a firebomb today at the community of Beit El, in the Binyamin region, north of Jerusalem. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. A similar attack took place on yesterday, too.

2014(2ndof Adar II, 5774): Fifty-nine Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the Chicago native who “has led Chabad in Illinois since 1977” died suddenly today.

2014(2ndof Adar II, 5774): Nine-two-year-old Frances Calisch Rothenberg, “the granddaughter of Edward N. Calisch of Temple Beth Ahabah passed away today.

http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/rothenberg-frances-calisch/article_4755d663-7fa6-5517-a445-d2c919b83ec7.html

2014: GW’s Rabin Chair Forum and Middle East Forum and the Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are scheduled to host a program about the making of “JERUSALEM” a “film that tells the…story of Jerusalem through the viewpoints of…Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

2014: YIVO is scheduled to host “Jacob Glatstein: A Yiddish Genius in Anglicizing America.”

2015: Britain’s advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism advertisement for suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem is part of Israel today.

2015: The Daily Mail reported today that “A hillside house dating back to the early first century CE in northern Israel may have been the Nazareth home where Jesus was raised, according to researchers.

2015(13thof Adar, 5775): Fast of Esther

2015: In the evening, Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids has a “Pizza” Purim complete with costumes and the traditional Megillah Reading

2016: Rabbi Kushner is scheduled to speaking about “Learning Life from Painting” as an exhibition of his paintings opens at Congregation Emanuel-El of San Francisco.

2016: Agudas Achim, in Coralville, IA, is scheduled to host the 20thAnnual Shabbat Across North America.

2017(6thof Adar, 5777): Parashat Terumah;

2017: “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” is scheduled to come to an end today in New York City.

2017: Assemblyman Dov Hikins tweeted photos tonight showing “headstones toppled in a Brooklyn Jewish cemetery.”

2017: National Day of Unplugging

http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug/

2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoirby Irvin D. Yalom and The Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem by Elisha Waldman

2018: Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced that Gil Shwed, the CEO of Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, has been awarded the Israel Prize in technology and innovation”

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gil-shwed

2018(17th of Adar, 5778): the San Francisco born son of Clayton Solomon, the founder of Tower Cut Rate Drugs and “the former Annette Sockolov” gave birth to Russell Malcom “Russ” Solomon, the founder of Tower Records.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/obituaries/russell-solomon-founder-of-tower-records-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: The American Sepahrdi Federation is scheduled to present “Queen Esther’s Dilemma,” “a musical by Samuel J. Bernstein inspired by the” Megillah Esther.

2018: In Ames, IA, home of the ISU Cyclones, the Ames Jewish Congregation is scheduled to host a Megiallah reading “and other fun activities” this morning.

2018: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, American Jewish Historical Society, Leo Baeck Institute & Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to present “March Mash-Up” a family festival featuring The Gefilteria’s Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, singer Eléonore Biezunski, storyteller Shane Baker, and the Yiddish puppet theater troupe Great Small Works.

2018: “Filmmaker and writer Aviva Kempner, who is responsible for The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” and “Rosenwald” is scheduled to wear a red, white and blue button at the Oscar ceremony reading “Let’s Love Our Kids More Than Our Guns!”

2018: The final performance of “A Walk With Mr. Heifetz” which is based on performance by the violinist Jashcah Heifitz at Ein Harold Kibbutz in 1926, is scheduled to take place at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

2019: The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present “The Land of Israel – In Song” featuring “Israeli singer Ariella Edvy” who “embarks on a musical journey through Israel’s diverse sites and environments – from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, from bustling cities to agricultural kibbutzim.”

2019: The 24th East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “The Last Supper” and “Promise at Dawn” (La promesse de l’aube)

2019: As part of the Jewish Book Festival, an evening with Robert Alter discussing his “translation of the Hebrew Bible” with Raphael Zarum, the “Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies.”

2019: At Book Passage Marin, Matti Friedman is scheduled to discuss Spies of No Country, which tells the story of “four Mizrachi Jewish spies under in Lebanon during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.”

2019: In Washington, DC, American University is scheduled to host “What’s Radical About Jewish Feminism” in which “Professor Joyce Antler as interviews civil rights icon Heather Booth and pioneering Jewish lesbian feminist Dr. Evelyn Torton Beck, who are featured in Antler's new book, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement.”

2019: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, Chabad of Ames, the ISU Department of History and the Philosophy and Religious Studies at ISU are scheduled to host “The Holocaust through the Eyes of a Child Survivor” an evening with Inge Auerbach where she “shares her story as a Holocaust survivor who spent 3 years as a young child in Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Auerbacher was born in Kippenheim, Germany, survived Kristallnacht, and was deported with her parents in 1942 to Terezin, where out of 15,000 children only about 1 percent survived.”

2020: Adas Israel and the Capital Jewish Museum are scheduled to host a dessert reception, film, and panel discussion on confronting the environment of hate American Jews face today with “Tom Gutherz, Senior Rabbi of Charlottesville’s Congregation Beth Israel, and Doron Ezickson, ADL Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic/Midwest Division.”

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Hammenashen Bake for Chairty” where students “bake Hamantashen to help raise money for the amazing work GIFT do all year round and on Purim.”

2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Anti-Semitism: The Hate That Sill Won’t Die in the US.”

2020: The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University is scheduled to host Elisheva Baumgarten, the Prof. Yitzchak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry and the Department of History as she lectures on “Learning from the Dead about the Living: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe.”

2020: In Brookline, MA, the Chai Center is scheduled to host a “Hamantashen Baking Workshop.”

2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to present “Beyond the Exodus: The Haggadah’s Lessons for Life” during which “Mark Gerson, author of The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life, will plumb the text with Senator Cory Booker.

2021: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Cantorial Soloist Abbie Strauss is scheduled to lead the morning minyan.

2021: The Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine is scheduled to present “The Passover Haggadah: A Biography – A Zoom talk with author Rabbi Vanessa Ochs.”

2021: The National JCC Literary Consortium and the Atlanta History Center are scheduled to present Tulane University history professor and award-winning author Walter Isaacson as he discusses his latest work The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, an “account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

2021: The UC Berkley Center of Jewish Studies is scheduled to present Arun Viswanath as he talks about his challenges in translating Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone into Yiddish with Hebrew Bible translator Robert Alter.

 

 

 

This Day, March 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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 363: Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring to his own death. Julian followed Constantine to the throne and turned back his predecessor’s pro-Christian promulgations.  Effectively, his decrees gave validity to other religions previously practiced in the Empire.  On his was to fight the Sassanids, Julian gave orders that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt.  His untimely death prevented this from happening.  The Sassanids were the Persians of their day.

1133: Birth of King Henry II of England during whose reign Jews would prosper as reported by visitors including Abraham ibn Ezra and Isaac of Chernigov as well as the money that flowed to his coffers through the estate of Aaron of Lincoln and “the Saladin tithe.”

1179:  The Third Lateran Council opens at Rome.  At the end of the meeting the council would adopt the following as matters of canon law: "Jews should be slaves to Christians and at the same time treated kindly due of humanitarian considerations."”The testimony of Christians against Jews is to be preferred in all causes where they use their own witnesses against Christians."

1245: As the Mongols continued their sweep across Christian Europe, Innocent IV issued “Dei patris immense,” a Papal bull urging them to be baptized.  These are the same Mongols who had destroyed the kingdom of the Khazars in 1239.  Apparently the Mongols were no more impressed with Christianity than the Khazars had been since the latter, in a legendary contest, had chosen Judaism over Islam and Christianity.

1291(3rd of Nisan): Sa’ad al-Da’ulah, Jewish grand vizier under the Mongol ruler of Persia Argun Kahn was assassinated today.

1326: Birthdate of King Louis I “who initially had shown toleration to the Jews” and then expelled them from Hungary after he failed to convert them to Catholicism

1328(15th of Adar, 5088): After the death of Charles the Fair, Pedro Olligoyen, a Franciscan friar, used the Jews as a scapegoat against French rule. Starting today, Shabbat, all the Jewish houses were pillaged and then destroyed. Approximately 6000 Jews were murdered with 20 survivors. Among the dead were parents and four younger brothers of Menachem ben Zerach, “then barely twenty years old who became a scholar of commanding influence.”  He was saved by “a compassionate knight” who was a friend of the young Jew’s father.

1563: Havazzelet ha-Shaon, a commentary on the Book of Daniel by Rabbi Moses Alshekh was published for the first time today.

1605: Sixty-nine year old Pope Clement VIII who “Implemented strict measures against Jewish residents of the Papal States” including the  1592 papal bull that forbade “the Jewish community of the Comtat Venaissin of Avignon, a papal enclave, to sell new goods, putting them at an economic disadvantage; the 1593, the bull Caeca et Obdurata that reiterated Pope Pius V's decree of 1569 which banned Jews from living in the Papal states outside the cities of Rome, Ancona, and Avignon and the bull Cum Hebraeorum malitia that also forbade the reading of the Talmud, passed away today.

1616: The Roman Catholic Church decreed that the Copernican theory was “false and erroneous” and that teaching or believing in the earth orbiting the sun was prohibited.  For one view of Copernicus and the Jews see

http://www.elijahnet.net/copernicusandthejews.html

1696: Birthdate of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.  His fresco, “The Sacrifice of Isaac” is an example of how European artists used the Hebrew Bible as an inspiration and resource. It also is an example of how deeply entrenched Judaism is in the fabric of Western Civilization  

1737: The Dragon, a fifteen ton sloop built in Lewes, Delaware was registered today by three individuals including Daniel Nunez who in 1743 registered the sloop Sally and the twenty ton sloop Molly of which he was part owner and Master. (Editor’s note- some show the date as 1738)

1767: In Boulay-Moselle, Jacob Bernard Fould, “a small-time wine dealer” and his wife gave birth to Beer Léon Fould, “the founder of the Fould banking dynasty.”

1779: In London, Lydia Cohen and Solomon Gompertz gave birth to Benjamin Gompertz, the husband of Abigail Montefiore and the father of Justina, Joseph and Juliana Gompertz.

1783: King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski granted rights to Jews of Kovno. 

1791: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany native Jantoff Lasse Oppenheim, the husband of Fanny Oppenheim and the father of Betty, Louis, Moritz and Helene Oppenheim.

1792(11th of Adar, 5552): Moses Alexander (Moshe ben Abraham) passed away today in London.

1795(14th of Adar, 5555): Purim

1798: Today French troops completely overran Switzerland, leading to the collapse of the Old Swiss Confederation where Jewish settlement had been limited to a couple of communities and creation a month later of the Helvetic Republic.

1814(13th of Adar, 5574): Seventy-four-year-old Solomon Pappenheim, the son of Rabbi Seligmann Pappenheim of Zulz, who was the associate rabbi at Breslau and the author of a three volume work on Hebrew synonyms passed away today.

1815: Birthdate of Austrian banker Friedrich Freiherr Schey von Koromla, the father of Charlotte Przibram and the maternal grandfather of biologist Hans Leo Przibram

1816: In Charleston, SC, Rachel and Nathan Hart who were married in 1807 gave birth to Hyman N. Hart, the husband of Hetty Maria Gomez.

1817: Birthdate of Sir Austen Henry Layard whose excavations at Ninveh helped to provided historical context for the events described in the Bible and whose discovery of the library of Ashurbanipal provided a copy of the “Epic of Gilgamesh” a flood story that in some respects parallels that of Noah and helped to establish the historicity of the event.

1820: Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbade Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays.

1828: Jacob ben Eliezer HaCohen married Keila bat Benjamin Zeev Wolf HaLevi today at the New Synagogue.

1829: Today, the London Tavern on Bishopgate Street is scheduled to host the anniversary celebration for the Jews’ Free School.

1832: In Frankfurt am Main, Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschild gave birth their second oldest daughter Hannah Mathilde Rothschild who was known for her musical skills and who married the banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, a cousin of her father with whom she had two daughters, Adelheid and Minna Caroline Rothschild.

1838: In Kent, England, Ann Crawcour and Reuben Alexander gave birth to Fanny Alexander.

1841: In Philadelphia, Abraham Hart and Rebecca Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaacks gave birth to Myrtilla Eduora Hart who became Myrtilla Eudora Mitchell when she married Lewis Allen Mitchell with whom she had four children – Estelle, Irving, Percival and Clarence Mitchell.

1844(14th of Adar, 5604): Purim

1851: In Beisegola, Russia, David Atlas and his wife gave birth Elazar Atlas, the bookkeeper turned literary critic.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2090-atlas-elazar-lazar

1856: In New York, Esther (Nathan) Lazarus and Moses Lazarus gave birth to Agnes Marx.

1856: Michael Heymanson married Adelaide Jewell today at the Great Synagogue.

1858: In Vienna, Simon and Marie Spitzer gave birth to Dr. Franz Spitzer

1860: In “Krakau, Austria, Israel and Amelia Anisfield gave birth to “philanthropist and financier” John Anisfeld who in 1876 came to the United States where he settled in Cleveland, OH, married Alice Straus in 1904 served as the President of Jewish Infants Home and Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and was a “member of Ansel Road Temple.”

https://case.edu/ech/articles/a/anisfield-john

1861: Dr. Fischer delivered a paper at tonight’s meeting of the New York Historical Society entitled “The History of the Inquisition in America” that included a description of the life and death by fire of the dramatist Antonio José da Silva.  Da Silva wrote most of his plays while imprisoned in a dudgeon and faced the auto de fe rather than betray the faith of his fathers.1861: William H. Seward began serving as Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln. Seward had visited Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine in 1859 and it is thought that his talk about that visit may have been the factor that prompted Lincoln’s comment that when his term was over he wanted to visit the “Holy Land” during his travels aboard with Mrs. Lincoln.1862(3rd of Adar II, 5622): During the Civil War, Philadelphian Henry Bamberger, a Corporal with Company E of the 79th Regiment who had been serving since September of 1861 died today “at Munfordsville, KY.”1863: The Zion Musical Society which was formed by Rabbi and Cantor Gustave M. Cohen and which “may have been the first public Jewish singing organization established in 19th Century America” gave it first performance today at Cleveland, Ohio’s Melodeon Hall.1863(14th of Adar, 5623) Purim

1863: In New York, more than three thousand Jews and their friends gathered tonight at the Academy of Music to for the second annual grand ball of the Purim Association. The first grand ball took place last year and it was great success. Many of the guest came in costumes including “one lady who was dressed … in garments made entirely of Frank Leslie's paper, and was decidedly a feature of the night, as were "Joan of Arc,""Old Aunt Dinah,""Mehitabel Ann,""Old Mother Goose,""Pocahontas,""Anne Boleyn" and the "Dame aux Camelias.” One lady was dressed in the height of fashion, in garments made entirely of Frank Leslie's paper, and was decidedly a feature of the night, as were "Joan of Arc,""Old Aunt Dinah,""Mehitabel Ann,""Old Mother Goose,""Pocahontas,""Anne Boleyn" and the "Dame aux Camelias.” Myer S. Isaacs and his committee are to be congratulated for putting on such a successful event which was orderly and entertaining.

1866: In London, Miriam Solomons and Abraham Bittan gave birth to Benjamin Bittan.

1869: Birthdate of Michael von Faulhaber who was Archbishop of Munich from 1917 until 1952 who opposed the Nazis on certain issues but demonstrated the anti-Semitism compatible with European Christianity as manifested by his work with Amici Israel among other things.

1869: The first edition of the Jewish Times appeared in New York City.  Mortiz Ellinger was the publisher.

1869: Two days after she had passed away, Jane Norden, “the daughter of the late Jacob Norden” and Catherine Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1870: In Cambridge City, Indiana, Michael H. and Rachel Levy Franklin gave birth to Leo Morris Franklin who served as Rabbi of Detroit’s Temple Beth El for over four decades.

1871: In Zamość, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg and Line Löwenstein gave birth to German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.

http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSluxemburg.htm

1871: The clause of the Constitution of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel “establishing an endowment fund for widows and orphans” “went into effect” today which meant that “the widow and orphans of a deceased member became entitled to receive $1,000 besides monthly benefits.”

1873: In Kovno, Lithuania (part of the Russian Empire), Fanny Sapira Morris and Jacob Samuel Samuels Morris gave birth to Hyman Morris who was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Leeds.

1873: In Russia, “Leib-Ber and Dinah Bernstein gave birth to NYU trained attorney, the husband of Celene J. Richtier and the President of H.I.A.S. from 1917 to 1926.

1874: “A Gang of Swindlers” published today J. Moritz Ehrenberg, a college educated middle class Hungarian born Jew as the leader of a group of con man who have preyed on members of the American financial community in many cities. Michael Mandel, an Austrian born Jew and Henry Hertz, a Russian born Jew are two of his comrades in these larcenous schemes for which they have been imprisoned in New York and Missouri.

1874: In Berlin, Ignatz (Isidore) Hantke and Johanne Hantke gave birth to Zionist leader Arthur Menachem “Max” Hantke, the husband of Edith Alice Hantke and the father of Tehila and Jonathan Theodor Hantke who made Aliyah in the 1920’s.

1876: It was reported today that a Purim reception will be held at Delmonico’s 4 days after the actual celebration of the holiday on the Jewish calendar.

1876: Birthdate of Francis Deak Pollak, the native of NYC and Columbia Law School Graduate who was a partner in the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell and served as a trustee of the Jewish Agricultural and

Industrial Aid Society.

1876: Karl Goldmark’s “Rustic Wedding Symphony premiered in Vienna today.

1878(30th of Adar I, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1879: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Isaac Levy of Thomasville, GA and “Rachel Elias, the daughter of the late Levy Elias.”

1879: In New York, Judge Gildersleve is scheduled to rule on an application compelling the 3 Salomon brothers to pay six dollars a week in support of Mrs. Fanny Solomon, their 70-year-old mother.  She had petitioned the court for a payment of support.  The sons had contested the matter claiming that their mother was financially capable of taking of herself.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9901E5D8123EE73BBC4A53DFB5668382669FDE

1880: In Russia, Max and Sima (Plotka) Silverman gave birth to Providence, RI Jewelry store and Jewish community leader, the husband of Ida Camelhor and the father of Irwin, Norman and Selma Silverman.

http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?iid=275

1880:  The would-be assassin of General Melilkoff, a leading figure in Russia, who was to be hanged today, said while be interrogated that he had converted from Judaism because it was impossible for a Jew to live in St. Petersburg.

1881(4th of Adar II, 5641): Parashat Pekudi

1881(4th of Adar II, 5641): Fifty-nine-year-old Baruch Rothschild the son of Simon Rothschild and Rosina Ullman passed away afer which he was buried at the Judischer Friedholf Wiesloch cemetery in Wurttemberg, Germany.

1882(14th of Adar, 5642): Purim

1882: In Vienna, Albert Salomon von Rothschild and Bettina Caroline de Rothschild gave birth to Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild who had to pay the Nazi twenty-one million dollars to gain his freedom.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E3D8173FE43ABC4E52DFB766838E649EDE

1884: Gustav Jacob Born and his first wife Gretchen Kauffmann gave birth to their daughter Kathe.

1884: In the wake of an order expelling all Jews holding foreign passports from Odessa and other Russian cities, The Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Internal Relations, St. Petersburg said that it could not provide Jewish citizens of America with Russian permits of residence.

1885: Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen completed his terms U.S. Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur during which he dealt with problems related to the persecution of Jews in Russia and Russian discrimination against American Jews trying to do business in the Czar’s empire.

1885: In Vienna, Dr. Alois Klemperer and Eugenie Jenny Klemperer gave birth to Gustav Klemperer

1887: In Great Britain Jewish novelist Benjamin Leopold Farjeon and Margaret Jefferson gave birth to Herbert Farjeon, a major force in “the British theatre from 1910 until 1945.”

1888(22nd of Adar, 5648): Hannah Rebecca Sheftall Cramer, the daughter of Emanuel and Jane L. Theiss Sheftall and the wife of Robert Godwin with whom she had two daughters – Carrie and Alice – passed away today.

1890: “Dancing For Charity” published today described the charity ball given by the Purim Association has raised between ten and twelve thousand dollars for the United Hebrew Charities.

1890: In Baltimore, MD, Benjamin and Rose Nathan Perlman gave birth to Philip B. Perlman who was appointed as U.S. Solicitor General by President Truman in 1947, making him the first Jew to hold that post.

1890: As Mr. and Mrs. Lazar Anezes and their four children are detained by the Commissioners of Emigration as paupers and the United Hebrew Charities work for their admission by offering “to go surety for them” Judge O’Brien granted a writ of habeas corpus.

1890: Birthdate of Latvia native Bernard Shulman, the John Marshall Law School trained Chicago attorney who was a “director of the Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged.”

1890: “Lipschutz Won Another Game” published today descried the third game of the  match between Jewish chess champions Eugene Delmar and Samuel Lipshcutz at the Manhattan Chess Club which Lipschutz  when Delmar “resigned” after the 49th move.

1891: In Boston, “Benjamin M. and Rena Etta (Jaffe) Feinberg gave birth to Abraham Selig, the holder of a bachelor’s degree from Bates College in Lewiston, ME and an LL.B. from Harvard.

1891 In one of the earliest manifestations of popular non-Jewish support for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Blackstone Memorial was sent to President Benjamin Harrison.  The petition was the creation of Reverend William Eugene Blackstone and called for U.S. government support in the endeavor. It was signed by 431 prominent Americans including John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and future President William McKinley and was supported by a myriad of newspapers including the New York Times,Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post.  Harrison’s lack of response may have been another sign of the ineptitude that would lead voters to deny him a second term a year later. 

1891: Birthdate of Boston native and Harvard train lawyer and state district court judge Abraham Selig Feinberg.

1892: Kansas Congressman Funston was brought to tears during his visit to Ellis Island today when he saw the conditions under which the immigrants were living.  A member of the House Committee on Immigration, Funston was so moved by what he saw that he took money from his own billfold and gave it to some of those whom he encountered.

1892(6th of Adar, 5652): James Solomon Moore who had suffered a stroke two years ago passed away this evening in New York City.  Born at Konigsberg, Germany in 1821, he moved to England at the age of 17 where he pursued his studies while living with his uncle, P.B. Moore.  He came to the United States during the 1840’s and in 1849 joined the California Gold Rush. After a successful business career, he became interested in economic theory and his advocacy of removing tarries earned him the title of “The Father of Free Trade.” He married Amelia Moore in 1854 and was a member of B’nai Jeshrun at Madison and 65th Street.

1892: Birthdate of New York native Mary E. Boretz, “the social work and child-care authority” who was the wife of Henry Friedman.

1892: In New York Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes was shot in the abdomen at his home by a beggar named Jose Mizrachee. Born in England, he had been the rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel of New York and an active member of the Jewish community, who, among other things, established the Jewish Theological Seminary and The American Hebrew. Misrachee followed the rabbi home from the synagogue and forced his way into the house and shot him during a botched robbery attempt.  The rabbi’s wife and baby were in the house at the town.  Emergency surgery spared Mendes and permanent harm.  Mizrachee is described as an “Arabian Jew” who came to the United States in 1890.  He was well known to the victim and other members of his congregation for his aggressive begging habits and his failure to be content with any “alms” that were given to him.

1893: R.H. Macey & Co. was advertising the sale of “Passover Goods for the Holiday” including “Matzoths, Matzoth Flour and Potato Flour” for nine cents a pound on the fifth floor of its new building.

1893: It was reported today that tickets for the upcoming Purim Ball will cost ten dollars and they may be purchased from M.H. Moses as well as several other Jewish businessmen.  Those wanting a box for the event must contact S.B. Solomon or Simon Schafter.

1893: In Lemberg, “Gershom and Etti (Joanna) Bader gave birth to Maximillian Bader, the husband of Ida Bader and father of Izzak, Helen and Benedict Bader, who in 1913 came to the United States where he practiced law and was “active in Democrat Party politics.”

1893: At today’s meeting of The Central Labor Federation, “the Hebrew printers said they had conferred with Typographical Union, No.6”

1894: “Russian Hebrew Immigrants published today described some of the controversy surrounding the admission Jews to the United States.  According to the Bureau of Immigration many of the Russian Jews are actually coming from South America where they have been living in agricultural communities financed by the Baron Hirsh Funds.  The colonies in Argentina have failed and the Jews have come to the United States where they have been allowed to settle as long as they meet the legal requirements regarding health and financial responsibility.  Despite criticism, the Bureau cannot turn people away because of their religion.

1894: In the New York, Assemblyman Danforth E Ainsworth, a Republican from Oswego County made use of the term “Jew pawnbrokers” while addressing the legislature.

1895: Birthdate of Joseph Allen, the NYU trained lawyer.

1895: “Fortunate Hebrew Foundling” published today described the work of Henry S. Allen who has secured a place for a homeless waif at the orphanage run by the Hebrew Guardian Sheltering society.

1896: In New Haven, Pennsylvania, Aaron and Jennie Marcus gave birth to Jacob Rader Marcus, the Reform Rabbi who founded the American Jewish Archives at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He passed away in 1995 at the age of 99.

1896: Birthdate of Dr. William Zev Malamud, the native of Kishinev and Canadian trained physician who became a “professor of Psychiatry at the State University in Iowa City” which is now known as the University of Iowa.

1897: In Ohio, Theresa and Henry William Mack gave birth to Rebecca Mack.

1898: “Notes of Forthcoming and Recent Publications” published today described an article by Israel Zangwill written by Israel Zangwill “for the Sunday School Times on the second Moses – Moses Maimonides – without a knowledge of whom the old Hebrew prover ‘From Moses to Moses there was non like Moses,’ is meaningless.”

1898: “Bargain Books” published today listed The Jew at Home by Joseph Pennell as costing $.10

1898: “Colonel Picquart, who was disciplined for giving testimony favorable to the case of Emile Zola,” the defender of Dreyfus, “at the recent trial of the author, fought a duel with swords today in the riding school of the Military School with Colonel Henry who testified against Zola.”

1898: “New Jewish Synagogue” published today described plans for the construction of a new synagogue being built by Congregation Hand-in-Hand, the first such building to take place in the Borough of the Bronx. The congregation, which received a gift of $1,000 from Baroness Hirsch for its building fund, has been meeting at the North Side Republican Club Hall

1899: Four days after she had passed away, Miriam (Joel) Leapman, the wife of Lewis Leapman was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1899: “Rabbis Will Meet in Cincinnati” published today described the decision of reform movement to hold its Annual Central in March instead of July because March  marks the birthday of Dr. I. M. Wise and the rabbis wish to honor the man who mentored so many of them.

1899: In the UK “Joseph and Etty Roth” gave birth to the youngest of their four sons, historian Cecil Roth.

http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-58153;jsessionid=7E8A4CA01C796CD0F3E3E03210D4B5BC

http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/resources/further-reading/170-cecil-roth-1899-1970

1900: “Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan,” “a play in one act by David Belasco premiered today at the Herald Square Theatre in New York.”

1900: Today Otto Jaffe, the German born Irish businessman who helped turn The Jaffe Brothers into the “largest linen exporter in Ireland before becoming Lord Mayor of Belfast was “knighted at Dublin Castle by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

1900: Birthdate of Lilli Schlüchterer who gained famed as the German Jewish doctor Lilli Jahn “who gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her letters to her five children which she wrote during her imprisonment in the labor camp Breitenau before being deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz where she was murdered.

http://www.amazon.com/My-Wounded-Heart-Lilli-1900-1944/dp/B008SMX8W4

1901(14th of Adar, 5661): Purim

1901: Birthdate of Yocheved Ba-Miriam the Russian born Israeli poet who made Aliyah in 1928 who “never wrote another poem” after her son Nahum (Zuzik) Haaz “died in the Israeli War of Independence.”

1901(NS): Birthdate of Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky who gained fame as Philadelphia architect Louis Isadore Kahn.

http://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/20/archives/louis-i-kahn-dies-architect-was-73-louis-i-kahn-architect-dead-at.html?_r=0

1902: Mizrachi (literally: "Eastern", but actually derived from the Hebrew acronym for "Spiritual Centre") was established by Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines as a religious Zionist organization based on the Basel Program and commitment to the Torah. Their slogan is "Eretz Israel for the people of Israel according to the Torah of Israel." Mizrachi is a worldwide religious Zionist movement. Its main ideal is that Torah should be the spiritual center of Zionism. In Israel, it initiated the Ministry of Religion and helped pass laws for "Kashrut" and Sabbath observance in public life and in the Israel Army. During WWII, it participated in the American Zionist Emergency Council.

1902: Leopold Greenberg, one of Herzl's most devoted followers and representative in London suggests that Herzl should appear before the Royal Commission in London.

1902:26th of Adar I, 5662: Fifty-four-year-old New York businessman Leonard Lewisohn passed awa at the London home of his son-in-law Charles S. Henry. A native of Hamburg, Mr. Lewisohn came to the United States when he was 16 years old. He was President of the United Metals Selling Company and a philanthropist who had mad generous contributions to numerous Jewish charities.

1902: Reports of the death of Leonard Lewisohn “caused some weakness in the stock market where Amalgamated Copper declined 1 and 3/8 points.

1902: In response to the death of Leonard Lewishon who was trying “make a bull market in coffee” the coffee market opened 10 to 20 points lower than the day before but regained its losses by the close of business

1902: Louis Seligisberg, who represented the business interests of Leonard Lewisohn announced that his death would not affect the coffee business of the firm

1903: Birthdate of Irving Kahal, the native of Houtzdale, PA, the songwriter who collaborated with composer Sammy Fain (Samuel E. Feinberg)>

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C49?exhibitId=49

1903: A committee was appointed to secure a site for a new building at Hebrew Union College.

1904(18thof Adar, 5664): Parashat Ki Tisa

1904: The Criminal Chamber of Cassation grants Dreyfus a re-investigation of his case.

1904: David Blaustein of the Educational Alliance is scheduled to be one of the speakers at this afternoon’s meeting of the University Settlement of New York.

1905: Birthdate of László Benedek the native of Budapest who “worked as a writer and editor in Hungarian cinema until World War II when Louis B. Mayer helped him escape and brought him to Hollywood where he directed his first film for MGM in 1944 as a stand-in.”

1906: Two days after he had passed away, 76-year-old Ernest Falck, the native of Holstein, Germany was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1906: A description of the Pogrom in Russia provided by Abraham E. Lubarsky, a wealthy tea merchant from Odessa who has escaped to safety in New York included praise for the “Soma Borona (Self Defense)” which “is composed of armed young Jews” that Cossacks “have learned to fear.”

1906: A Jewish Congress which has been authorized by the Government is scheduled to meet today in St. Petersburg.

1907: In Baltimore, MD, Anna Rosenbloom and Solomon Rosenbloom, “the owner of a successful work-clothing manufacturing company gave birth to Dale Carroll Rosenbloom, the halfback for the University of Pennsylvania football best known as Carroll Rosenbloom the man who brought the NFL to Baltimore as the owner of the Baltimore Colts and who latter traded his ownership to become the owner of the Los Angeles Rams.

1907: At its annual meeting today in Berlin, The German Jewish Relief Society “paid tribute to Jacob H. Schiff,” the “noble philanthropist” who was instrumental in inducing the United States Government to take the initiative at the Algeciras Conference” in raising the question of the treatment of the Jews in Morocco.

1909: Alianza Hispano-Israelita formed in Spain to bring about the return of Spanish Jews.

1909: Oscar Solomon Straus completed his terms as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Straus had been appointed by Theodore Roosevelt and left when William Howard Taft took office.  A year later Straus would return to a post he had held before, U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire.

1910(24h of Adar I, 5670): Parashat Vayakhel

1910: This afternoon, Oscar Hammerstein mounted a production of the opera Salome by Richard Strauss whose conduct during the Nazi period was motivated by his need to “to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice and his Jewish grandchildren from persecution” and being sent to a concentration camp.

1911: “As A Man Thinks Staged” published today described the opening performance in New Haven, CT of August Thomas’ latest play, “As A Man Thinks” which “deals with the American Jew” and stars John Mason in the role “Dr. Seelig, the Jewish physician” and Amelia Gardner as “Mrs.Selig.”

1912: In London, Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne gave birth to journalist David Astor who wrote “Two Wronged People” in 1967 that examined the Arab-Israel confrontation.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1967/jun/04/featuresreview.review

1913(26th of Adar I, 5673): One hundred five year old Abraham Isaac Trager, a rabbi from NYC, passed away today at Columbia, SC.

1913: Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, “the newly chosen English Chief Rabbi” is scheduled to set sail for London today aboard the Mauretania today, when it is rumored that Dr. Moses Hyamson, “his principal competitor for the position” is sailing from England to New York where he is expected to become the rabbi of Orach Chaim, replacing Rabbi Hertz who had held that position.

1913: Mrs. Philip Stein is scheduled to lecture on “To and From Jerusalem” at today’s meeting of the Isaiah Woman’s Club at the Isaiah Temple in Chicago.

1914: “Lied Against Frank, Newsboy Swears” published today reported that “the case of Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan,” developed a new twist “when attorneys for Frank gave an affidavit signed by George W. Epps, Jr., a 15 year old newsboy in which he repudiated parts of his testimony at the…murder trial” and in which “he admits he gave false testimony “because he was persuaded to do so by Detective John Black” and Solicitor Dorsey.

1915: Birthdate of French mathematician, Laurent Schwartz.  His considerable mathematical work, including the theory of distributions, won him the Fields Medal in 1950.  During World War II the Schwartz hid his Jewish identity by using numerous aliases including that of Laurent Sélimartin.  He passed away in 2002.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/07/guardianobituaries.obituaries

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1404336/Laurent-Schwartz.html

1915: It was reported today that Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris the former President of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that “Zangwill’s melting pot theory…is absurd biologically” because “the Jews are not going to cross with the Aryans” which means “they are not melting away” and they have “a sort of racial feeling that they must come again to rule the earth” which “keeps them together.” 

1915: As of today, the Fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $532,937.14.

1916: Pianist Lois Adler is scheduled to perform during ‘the 18th regular Sunday afternoon concert” at the Chicago Hebrew Institute today.

1916: Thanks to the efforts of Isidore Hershfield of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society who was sent to Poland by HIAS, the German authorities have granted the Jews of the Governmental District of Warsaw postal privileges which will enable them to send letters asking friends and relatives for financial assistance and informing of them of lifestyle events such as births and deaths.

1916: “The sixteenth concert of the fourth season of the Sinai Orchestra” conducted by Arthur Dunham is scheduled to take place this evening at Sinai Temple in Chicago.

1917: As of today, there are 200,000 Jews living in the province of Kalisch, “of whom 100,000 are destitute” and 500,000 Jews in the district of Warsaw “of whom half are in want…”

1918: Constantin C. Arion, who said that his “Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the peace treat” and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the Rumanian Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens, and that naturalization is only possible for them individually” began his service as the Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs today.

1918: President Wilson ordered the removal of the sentence “The foreign born and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger than the native born” which had inadvertently been included in the manual sent to medical advisory boards in February.

1918(21st of Adar, 5678): Sixty-two-year-old Johanna Haas Westheimer, the German born daughter of Levy and Helena Haas who in 1861 moved to Chicago and then after marry St. Joseph, MO, merchant Samuel Westheimer after which she served as the treasurer of the Jewish Ladies’ Benevolent Society of St. Joseph where she raised eight children, passed away today.

1919: Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow who served “as a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board, which went to France in July, 1918” wrote today that “I am in Paris for several days and busier than ever.  My last trip covered...a vast area all the way from Marseilles to Brest” where I opened up a number of centers for the Jewish War Board and delivered “a great many addresses.”

1919:  In a letter published in the New York Times Emir Feisal wished “the Jews a hearty welcome home” and asserted “our two movements complete one another.” “There is room in Syria for both of us” he concluded.

1919: Birthdate of Albert J. Rosenthal, who as dean of Columbia Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped increase the number of women on the school's faculty.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1921: Birthdate of Milton “Milt” Kaiman the native of Hurleyville, NY, who was a standup comedian appearing on numerous variety and talk shows as well as a frequent actor on television shows and movies whose sole Broadway credit in “The Passion of Josef D” – one of those “Jewish culture things” since it was written by Paddy Chayefsky and starred Luther Adler and Peter Falk.

1921: Rueben Mattus, “arrived at the Port of New York on the SS Vestris with his widowed mother Lea today several months before Rose Vesel, his future wife and co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream,

1923: In New York City, twenty-seven-year-old Kuhn, Loeb investment banker Lewis Lichtenstein Straus, the Charleston, W.Va. born son of Lewis and Rosa Straus married Alice Hanauer.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/lewis-strauss-dies-exhead-of-aec-lewis-l-strauss-former-chairman-of.html?searchResultPosition=1

1923: In Brooklyn, Russian immigrants Sadye Tisch and Al Tisch a “former All-American basketball player at the City University of New York who owned a garment factory as well as two summer camps” gave birth to businessman Laurence Tisch, CEOof CBS from 1986 through 1995.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/16/local/me-tisch16

1924: In Seattle, WA, Moe and Rose Minnie (Cohn) Bernhard gave birth to producer, writer and real estate executive Harvey Bernhard, the husband of Lillian Vera Kramer.

1924: Dr. Joseph Silverman, “Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El” who had gone to Palestine to study conditions there and his wife are scheduled to set sail for New York from South Hampton, England aboard the SS Aquitania.

1925: In Germany, “Jewish Mensevik refugees” “Lazar Michael Pistrak” and his wife Raissa gave birth to Senaida “Zena” Pistrak, the elder sister of Vera Katz, the future mayor of Portland, Oregon.

1925: Birthdate of Menahem Stern, the native of Bialystok and son of a mitnaged father and Chasidic mother (talk about mixed marriages) who made Aliyah in 1938 and who began his climb up the academic ladder as “Lecturer of the History of the Jewish people in the Second Temple period.”

1926: “The Bohemian Dancer” a silent film based on a 1907 operetta directed and produced by Frederic Zelnik was released today in Germany.

1926: William Fox, the chairman of the United Jewish Campaign in New York City announced today that national campaign which will begin in April will be trying to raise fifteen million dollars of which six million dollars will be raised locally.

1927: In response to a call by Bishop Manning “for a joint effort by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish churches to preserve marriage and the home” Rabbi David de Sola Pool said “he believed that such cooperation between these three religious groups was feasible and that headway could not be made against the divorce evil without it.”

1927(1st of Adar II, 5687): Rosh Chodesh Adar II and Shabbat Shekalim

1927: David Louis Podell and Sara (Cissie) Podell gave birth to Margaret A. Shulman the wife of Mark Shulman.

1928(13th of Adar, 5688): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim

1928: Herbert Samuel’s successor as High Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Plumer, a distinguished WW I commander, opened Jerusalem’s first Arts and Crafts Exhibition which was held in the Citadel at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

1929: John D. Rockefeller Jr. spent the day viewing ancient and historic sites in Jerusalem, including the Mosque of Omar and the Holy Sepulcher.

1929: “Dr. Nathan Kraus, the rabbi at Temple Emanu-El” is scheduled to officiate today at the “funeral services for the late Justice Louis D. Gibbs of the New York State Supreme Court” which will be followed by burial “in Mt. Hebron Cemetery” in Flushing, NY.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1929: In the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Halpern gave birth to Howard Marvin Halpern, “psychotherapist who wrote popular self-help books about severing or realigning burdensome relationships.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)

1930: In New York, Dr. Bernard Goodman and the former Alice Matz, the heir to a fortune created by “Ex-Lax” gave birth to Roy M. Goodman who was powerhouse among liberal Republicans when there really were such people.” (As reported by Richard Perez-Pena)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/nyregion/roy-m-goodman-new-york-state-senator-for-more-than-30-years-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0

1930(5th of Adar, 5690): Isaac Isaacs, the first husband of “Fannie Shubert Weissager” passed away today after which he was buried at the Ahavath Achim Cemetery in Syracuse, NY.

1930: Birthdate of David Lawrence Goldberg, the native of Crown Heights who gained fame as political consultant David Garth, the political guru behind the elections of Mayors John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg.  (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/nyregion/david-garth-pioneer-of-the-political-ad-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

http://nypost.com/2014/12/15/political-guru-david-garth-dies/

1931: “Jews Urge Right To Trade On Sunday” published today described attempts by “Jewish citizens” to get the New York state legislature to pass a bill that would permit them to engage in business on Sunday which according to Rabbi Bernard Drachman, the president of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America is not a matter of commercial concern but a matter of religious and spiritual needs.

1931: Following a farewell dinner last night at the Hotel Astor hosted by the American Palestine Campaign, Albert Einstein, who expressed his appreciation for his treatment while visiting the United States is on the Atlantic sailing aboard the Hamburg-American liner Deutschalnd which is bound for his home in Germany

1932: Three members of the team of athletes assembled by the Maccabee Association of the United States to participate in the Jewish Olympic Games in Palestine sailed on the SS Aquitania.  The three athletes included co-captains David White and Lesslie Flaskman representing the Maccabee Association of Boston and Harold Ginsburg representing the 92nd Stree Y.M.H.A. The other ten members of the team are to sail next week on the Majestic or the Conte Grande.

1932(27th of Adar I, 5692): Parashat Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim

1932(27th of Adar I, 5692): A week before her 85th birthday, rebbetzin Rosa Sonneschein passed away today.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa

1933: Last democratic election during Hitler's lifetime. Nationalists gain 52 seats, but not enough to establish a dictatorship by consent of Parliament. The Third Reich is born.

1933: When Jeanette Wolff, an outspoken critic of the Nazis, returned home from an election campaign today and was arrested by SA men.

1934: In Tel Aviv, while visiting relatives in Tel Aviv, Ruth Kahneman gave birth to Israeli economist and Nobel Laurette Daniel Kahneman, whose father “Efrayim “was picked up in the first major round-up of French Jews.

1935: A brothel run by Polly Adler was raided resulting in the only conviction for which the famed madam served jail time (24 days of a 30 day sentence). 

1934: “In New York “Sandor Harmati “conducted the American Ballet at the world premiere of Balanchine’s ballet Dreams.”

1936(11th of Adar, 5696): Observance of the Fast of Esther since the 13th of Adar fell on Shabbat

1936: The men’s division of the New York campaign of the United Palestine Appeal is scheduled to “hold a luncheon rally at the Hotel Astor” today.

1936: It was reported today that “in the House of Lords, the government’s intentions” “to establish a legislative council for Palestine” “were assailed by peers of all parties, notably by the Marquees Lothian who predicted that the proposed council ‘would exaggerate racial difficulties, not heal them’” and would lead to Chaim Weizmann using “all of his powers of persuasion at the Colonial Office…to postpone or scrap this project.”

1936: “Responding to the appeal from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, for funds to aide Jewish refugees in various parts of Europe, leaders of the United Palestine Appeal opened a campaign here today” with a luncheon at the Hotel Astor presided over by Nathan Straus, chairman of the campaign.

1936: Jewish leaders estimated that at least thirty people had been injured during the attacks by nationalist students in Warsaw who threw “firecrackers and stench bombs in several classrooms.”

1936: “The largest single group of Jewish refugees to reach” the United States “from Germany, 200 men, women and children arrived” today “on the United States liner Washing as quota immigrants” which meant “they were admitted as permanent residents on the basis, in most case, of avowals given by relatives here that none would become public charges.”

1936: “Sir John Simon, Minister of Home Affairs, admitted today in the House of Commons there was Jewish persecution going on in the East End of London which he a attributed to the Fascist movement” – a movement led by Sir Oswald Mosely – but “denied that police had shown any political bias in the matter” i.e. supporting the Fascists.

1936(11th of Adar, 5696): Rabbi Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogatchover Gaon (Prodigy/Genius), passed away in Vienna today. Born in 1858, and raised in the Belarusian city of Rogatchov, he served for decades as a rabbi in the Latvian city of Dvinsk (Daugavpils). He was an unparalleled genius, whose in- depth understanding of all Talmudic literature left the greatest of scholars awestruck. He habitually demonstrated that many of the famous debates between the Talmudic sages have a singular thread and theme. Rabbi Rosen authored tens of thousands of responsa on the Talmud and Jewish law. Many of them have been compiled in the set of volumes Tzafnat Paneach.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17112.html

1936: The Spitfire went through its first test-flights.  The famed fighter plane would play a key role in the defeat of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.  Thanks to the Spitfire and the spirited pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF), Hitler’s seemingly invincible legions were stopped for the first time; the British Isles remained free and would become the launching point for the Allied invasion of Europe which would save a remnant of European Jewry. Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, known as “Lucky Tuck” was one of the Jewish pilots in the RAF who flew the Spitfire.  In his case he flew it at the Battle of Dunkirk where he earned a DSO. The Spitfire was the favorite plane of Ezer Weizmann the father of Israel’s Air Force and later President of the Jewish state.  He had his own Spitfire which was featured in flyovers by IDF planes during various Israeli celebratory activities.

1937: U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull offered a public apology for New York Mayor LaGuardia’s suggestion that the “1939 New York World’s Fair would include a ‘chamber of horrors’ displaying that ‘brown-shirted fanatics who is menacing the peace of the world.’” (Hull’s comments came during the hey-day of Isolationism in the United States.  His apology came in the same year that the United States ignored a Japanese attack on an American gunboat in China.)

1937: Despite an apology issued by the State Department, Mayor La Guardia said he stood by his declaration that Hitler is a “brown-shirted fanatic who is menacing the peace of Europe.”

1937: British author Mary Frances Butts who had been the wife of Jewish poet and published John Rodker whose career she had worked to further and with whom she had one child passed away today.

1937: Birthdate of Czech native Theodore K. Rabb, the Oxford and Princeton trained historian who specialized in the Renaissance and was the husband of Tamar Rabb with whom he had three children – Susannah, Jonathan and Jeremy.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=theodore-rabb&pid=191228154

1937: The wave of Arab terror spread into southern Palestine when an Arab entered a Jewish orange grove near the colony of Less Tzionah and shot Vladislav Louga, a non-Jewish worker from Poland, in the stomach.  Louga was rushed to a hospital in Tel Aviv where he is in critical condition.

1938(2nd of Adar II, 5698): Parashat Pekudi

1938: During his sermon at the Mount Zion Congregation, Rabbi B.A. Tinter said “the non-sectarian Temple of Religion to be erected at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 was ‘one of the greatest contributions the fair will offer to posterity.”

1938: In his sermon at Mount Neboh Temple Abraham L. Feinberg warned that “dictatorship in the style of Hitler and Mussolini has become so alluring to many, even in America.”

1938: During his sermon at the West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said, “the present trial in Moscow is the greatest indictment against liberalism” because “liberalism brought about the breakdown of the autocracy of the Czar and ushered in through Communism the slavery of the body, mind and soul.”

1938: During a sermon at Temple Ansche Chesed, Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin said he “saw in the darkness of the California floods a ray of light in the thought that so many have rallied to the aid of those who have been so unfortunate as to have lived in communities swept away by rushing waters.”  (Editor’s note – Eighty years later, we are still dealing with these same California floods.)

1939: The New York Times reported that Palestine Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugen Szenkar has just completed four subscription concerts in a tour that included stops in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem where the symphony played before audiences totaling 30,000 music lovers.

1939(14th of Adar, 5699): Purim

1939(14th of Adar, 5699): Moses Gaster, the Romanian born Jewish scholar who served as Hakam of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in London passed away today at the age of 82. In addition to all of his other accomplishments he was the father of the renowned scholar, Thedore Herzl Gaster.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60E15FA3858127A93C4A91788D85F4D8385F9

1940: The Jewish Labor Committee, representing about 500,000 members of Jewish labor unions in the United States, sent a cable to the Labor Party in England requesting the Laborites oppose the recent British restriction of Jewish land purchases in Palestine.

1940: In the Bronx, attorney William Rosenthal and “the former Lillian Kellin” gave birth to photographer Melvyn “Mel” Rosenthal.  (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/obituaries/mel-rosenthal-photographer-who-captured-the-bronx-dies-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0

http://melrosenthal.com/

https://kenanmalik.com/2017/11/12/the-human-lens-of-mel-rosenthal/

1940: A delegation consisting of Henrietta Szold, Mrs. Isaac Herzog, wife of the Chief Rabbi of Palestine and “others representing the Council of Jewish Women of Palestine” met with the British High Commissioner and gave him a memorandum protesting the recent change in the land laws that was intended to be forwarded to his superiors in London.

1941: Birthdate of Alain Boublil a Tunisian musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer and co-religionist Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End including: La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen (2006), and Marguerite (2008).

1942: At the “Selection” of Jews at Baranowicze, Poland those sent to the left were beaten and placed in trucks where they sent away to their death in a pit just outside of town. Those on the right looked on. Of the 12,000 Jews living in the town at the start of the war, 3,500 were killed that Purim.

1942: “49th Parallel,” a British war movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger who wrote the screenplay and starring Leslie Howard premiered in New York as “The Invaders.”

1943: In the Ukraine, over 1,000 Jews were murdered outside the Khmeilnik ghetto.

1943: Office of Strategic Services interviews Dr. Eduard Bloch, a Jewish Austrian physician who had been doctor and confidant to Adolf Hitler and his family while the future Fuehrer was growing up, and who ministered to Hitler's mother Klara during her losing battle with breast cancer.

1944(10th of Adar, 5704): Max JacobFrench writer and painter, died at the Drancy, the French concentration camp at the age of 68.  Born in Brittany in 1876, Jacob converted to Roman Catholicism in 1914. He spent most of the war hiding from the Nazis and their French fascist allies. He died while awaiting transport from France to a concentration camp in Germany Apparently his conversion was not enough to get the Roman Catholic Church to intervene on his behalf. His friends, who included the renowned Pablo Picasso, saw to it that he had a fine burial after the war, but were unable to do anything so save him from the fate common to most of the Jews of Europe, great and small alike.

1944(10th of Adar, 5704):Ernst Julius Cohen, “a Dutch chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals,” was murdered today in a gas chamber in Auschwitz. Born in 1869, “Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in Stockholm, Henri Moissan at Paris, and Jacobus van't Hoff at Amsterdam. In 1893 he became Van't Hoff's assistant and in 1902 he became professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Utrecht, a position which he held until his retirement in 1939. Throughout his life, Cohen studied the allotropy of tin. Cohen’s areas of research included polymorphism of elements and compounds, photographic chemistry, electrochemistry, pizeochemistry, and the history of science. He published more than 400 papers and numerous books. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1926.

1945: While excavating the site near Crematorium II at Auschwitz, Soviet soldiers found a German canteen which contained the diaries of Salmen Gradowski. One of the entries read,“At almost each block, beside the men standing in line, bodies of three, four persons are lying. These are the victims of the night that have not lived to see the day. Even yesterday they were standing members of the roll-call and today they lie, lifeless, motionless. Life is not important at the roll-call. Numbers are important. Numbers tally…” Gradowski’s diary was published in a book entitled Amidst a Nightmare of Crime: Manuscripts of the Sonderkommando which describes life in the death camp through the eyewitness accounts of four Sonderommandos. For more about this work, Gardowski and the others who supplied the material see

 http://www.wce.wwu.edu/nwche/reviews/amidst.shtml

1946: Birthdate of Martin Levi van Creveld “an Israeli military historian and theorist. Van Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam and has lived in Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has been on the faculty since 1971. He is the author of seventeen books on military history and strategy, of which Command in War (1985), Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (1977, 2nd edition 2004), The Transformation of War (1991), The Sword and the Olive (1998) and The Rise and Decline of the State (1999) are among the best known. Van Creveld has lectured or taught at many strategic institutes in the Western world, including the U.S. Naval War College.”

1947: Birthdate of Dr. John Kitzhaber the Oregon physician who served as governor from 1995 to 2003.

1947: As the Jews of Palestine endure their fourth day of living under martial law, banks in Tel Aviv are scheduled to reopen thanks to a shipment of coins and currency in an amount equal to thirty-two million American dollars having arrived from Jeruslaem.  In an attempt to exercise greater control, the British suspended the press passes of correspondents which had enabled the journalists to enter and leave zones of military occupation.

1948: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver warned the U.N. Security Council today “that the Jews of Palestine would fight for survival even without the United Nations if the world organization is unable to carry out its own decisions” i.e. the Partition vote that created an Arab State, a Jewish state and a Jerusalem governed by an international body.

1948: Actor Eli Wallach married actress Anne Jackson in what marked the start of 66 year marriage that only ended with his death.

1948: Publication of a review of Mark Hellinger’s final film, “The Naked City.”

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E4DA143BE33BBC4D53DFB5668383659EDE

1949: Operation Uvda, the final Israeli campaign of the War of Independence which is intended to secure portions of the Negev began today.

1949: Negev Brigade forces set out from Beersheba to the Ramon Crater, through Bir 'Asluj. Golani forces simultaneously set out from Mamshit to Ein Husub on the first day of Operation Uvda, one of the final campaigns of the War for Independence.

1950: Jordanian political leader Samir Rifai Pasha has rejected King Abdullah’s request that he form a new government.  Pasha’s refusal is tied to opposition to the non-aggression pact with Israel which was first made public on February 28, 1950.  Despite Abdullah’s support, the pact seems doomed since Jordan’s political leaders do not.

1950: Iraq’s announcement that effectively, the Jewish population must leave the country within the next twelve months represents a reversal of its policy of not allowing Jews to move to Israel while completely dislocating “Israel’s immigration program for 1950.” The Jewish agency had budgeted for the absorption of 150,000 immigrants, including 50,000 from Arab countries and 50,000 from eastern Europe.  Since there are approximately 150,000 Jews living in Iraq, the Israelis will have to find some way to raise additional funds allowing for the in-gathering of twice as many as Jews as had been originally planned.

1950: Daniel Frisch, the President of the Zionist Organization of America, underwent surgery today at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center today after having named Benjamin G. Bowdy, on the ZOA’s vice president, as acting president.

1952(8th of Adar, 5712): Sixty-six-year-old Rachael “Rae” Landy the Cleveland born nurse who helped create the health system in pre-World War I Palestine and rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army passed away today.

http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=LRD

1953: Birthdate of Michael J. Sandel, the Minneapolis born Harvard Professor “best known for his course ‘Justice.’”

1953: Stalin died disrupting plans for mass deportations of Russian Jews.  The Soviet dictator was an anti-Semite.  Unlike Hitler, he could curb his anti-Semitism when it suited his purposes.  For example, he allowed the government of Czechoslovakia to sell modern arms to Israel at the moment of its birth.  He later switched his views and followed an anti-Zionist as well as anti-Semitic policy.

1953: Lazar Kaganovich began serving as the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers in the Soviet Union.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Lower House of the Bonn Parliament passed the first reading of the West German agreement to pay reparations to Israel and World Jewry for the Nazi persecution.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in the Knesset, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion defined the role of the army in national life. The Knesset extended for a year the provisional military law currently in force, providing for prison terms for any form of propaganda intended to undermine the authority of the state.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Abill to legalize the requisition of land or property for the development, security or settlement, from the establishment of the State in May 1948, to the end of April 1, 1952, was presented for the second and third reading.

1954(30th of Adar I, 5714): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1954(30th of Adar I, 5714): Forty-year-old Donald Bloomingdale the son of Rosalie and Irving Bloomingdale and the onetime husband of Bethsabée de Rothschild passed away today.

1954: “The Girl in Pink Tights, a musical comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

1955: In the United Kingdom, Phyllis April Jaffé, child Lithuanian Jewish refugees and Stephen Eric Seabag-Montefiore, the descendant of “a line of wealthy Sephardic that included “his great-great uncle Sir Moses Montefiore” and veterans of both World Wars,gave birth to Nicholas Hugh Sebag-Montefiore the barrister turned author who wrote Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, the ultimate “big book” about this moment in British history and who is the brother of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore who authored “the big book” on the history of Jerusalem. (Editor’s note – can you imagine what the dinner conversation was like in their home. Wow)

1955: Birthdate of Julien Dray, the native Oran which was then part of French Algeria, who became a leader of the French Socialist party.

1956(22nd of Adar, 5716): Fifty-year-old pianist and composer Erich Itor Kahn, the son mathematician and cantor Leopold Kahn and husband of Frida (nee Rabinowitch) Kahn, both of whom escaped to America when the Nazis came to power, passed away today.

1957: Jewish comedian Phil Silvers in the role of “Sergeant Ernie Bilko” satirizes rock star Elvis Presley.

1958(13th of Adar, 5718): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1958: The Uraga Dock Company, “a leading Japanese shipbuilding concern…announced today that it would export two oild tankers each of 46,000 deadweight tons to Israel.”

1962: “Rome Adventure,” a romantic comedy co-starring Suzanne Pleshette with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States today.

1962: In Washington, DC, “law professor and Kennedy administration member Abram Chayes and lawyer and former Undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force Antonia Handler Chayes” gave birth to Sarah Chayes “a former award winning reporter for NPR” and “a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.”

1966: In a move that would change the economic landscape for major league baseball in particular and all professional general sports in general, the “player representatives selected United Steel Workers executive Marvin Miller as executive director of the Major League Players Association” in what would prove to be an attack on the “plantation world of the owners.”

1967(23rd of Adar I, 5727): Sixty-one-year-old Mischa Auer the native of Russia who transitioned from the Yiddish theatre to movies, which included a 1936 Oscar nomination passed away today.

1967: Last minute replacement Rodney Dangerfeld was the surprise hit of tonight’s Ed Sullivan Show on CBS.

1970: U.S. premiere of blockbuster “Airport” directed by George Seaton who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and called himself a “Shabbos Goy” produced by Ross Hunter with music by Alfred Newman.

1970: Funeral services are scheduled to be held “today at Max Sugarman Funeral Parlor in Providence, R.I.” eighty-three-year-old Solomon A. Wald the President of S.A. and Wald, Co, the marine cargo salvage company he founded in 1916 which ironically got the “contract to dismantle the German dirigible Hindenbrug” the pride of the Nazi lighter than air fleet” when it crashed in Lakehurst.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/05/archives/solomon-a-wald-cargo-salvor-83-founder-of-marine-dealer-in-damaged.html

1973: Baritone Robert Merrill (Moshe Millstein) “celebrated his 500th performance” at the Metropolitan today.

1973: Marcel Marceau appears at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City, IA.

1973: Funeral services for eighty-six year old Lithuanian born, LSE trained, American labor leader Ossip Walinsky, the founder of the Women’s Trade Union and the “International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union who was the husband of Rose (Newman) Walinksy are scheduled to be held today “at the Park West” in Manhattan.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/06/archives/ossip-j-walinsky-union-head-and-jewish-leader-dies-at-86.html

1974: In the aftermath of the Yom Kippur Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal as step towards ending hostilities brought on by the Arab sneak attack.  Ariel Sharon was responsible for the audacious attack across the Suez Canal which gave the strategic advantage to the Jewish forces.

1974(11th of Adar, 5734): Solomon I "Sol" Hurok US impresario, passed away at the age of 85. Hurok was responsible for bringing a troupe of Yemenite Jews who had moved to Israel to perform in the United States.  Thanks to these efforts Yemenite culture was introduced to Americans (Jews and non-Jews alike).  Not only did this help to preserve an ancient part of the Jewish heritage, it helped create a positive image of Israel as a homeland for persecuted Jewry no matter where they lived.

1975(22nd of Adar, 5735): Thirty-eight-year-old Colonel Uzi Yairi who had become head of the Sayeret Matkal at the age of 31 was killed when rescuing hostages being held by Palestinian terrorists at the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv.

1975 After hearing gunfire from Tel Aviv’s Savoy Hotel, Private Moshe Deutschmann, a soldier from the Israeli army's Golani Brigade who was on home leave, grabbed his weapon, ran to the hotel after hearing gunfire and was mortally wounded during a firefight with terrorists who were trying to escape from the Saoy. Deutschmann was posthumously awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service.

1976(3rd of Adar II, 5736): Eighty-seven-year-old Warsaw born, American plastic surgeon Dr. Jacques W. Maliniac passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/06/archives/jacques-maliniac-a-plastic-surgeon.html

1977(15th of Adar, 5737): Parashat Tetzaveh

1977(15th of Adar, 5737): Just 16 days before his 71st birthday Avraham Margalit. The son of Taub and Moshe Dov Bear Margalit passed away today in his hometown of Petach Tikva.

1978: A revival of David Merrick’s “Hello Dolly” that would run for 147 performances began at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre.

1978:The Jerusalem Post reported that the US State Department was upset and angered that between the time that Prime Minister Menachem Begin presented his peace plan to US President Jimmy Carter in early December, and when the same plan was submitted at the end of the month to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, significant changes were made in the text. The draft added Israel’s right to maintain security and “public order” in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and stipulated that only those Palestinians who accepted Israeli citizenship could buy land in Israel, while any Israeli could purchase land in the administered areas. The Americans demanded complete reciprocity.

1979: Twelve people were injured in Jerusalem when a terrorist bomb exploded on a bus at the Plaza Hotel.

1979: In Tel Aviv, a bomb exploded on a bus but nobody was injured.

1981(29th of Adar I, 5741): Seventy-five-year-old “Bernard Postal, associate editor of The Jewish Week, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/07/obituaries/bernard-postal-associate-editor-of-the-jewish-week-and-a-writer.html

https://www.jta.org/1981/03/09/archive/bernard-postal-dead-at-75

1981(29th of Adar I, 5741): Ninety-two-year-old Rose (Popper) Zuckerman, the Istanbul born wife of Joseph Zuckerman and the mother of Paul Zuckerman, who thanks to Velvet Peanut Butter “became the Peanut Butter King of Detroit” passed away today in the “Motor City.”

https://myjewishdetroit.org/2014/12/fresh-pure-delicious/

1982: Gail Winston and journalist Frank Rich gave birth to novelist Nathaniel Rich, the brother of screenwriter Simon Rich.

1982: “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” produced by Scott Rudin and featuring David Margulies as “Walter Kress” and Ellen Greene as “Karen Mulligan” was released today in the United States.

1982: U.S. premiere of “Diner” with a script by Barry Levinson who also directed what would the first of four films set in post-war Baltimore, produced by Jerry Weintraub co-starring Steve Guttenberg and Ellen Barkin and featuring Paul Reiser.

1986: CBS broadcast the first episode of “Fast Time” produced by Amy Heckerling who directed the 1982 film on which the television series was based.

1987: Today, in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Yithak Rabin, read a statement in English apologizing to the American government and the American people for the Pollard sypinng operation, an operation that Foreign minister Shimon Peres had characterized as a mistake.

1987: Yossi Sarad, a member of the Knesett, called for the dismissal of Rafael Etian from his job as chairman of the state-owned Israel Chemicals since he was the Defense Ministry official who organized the Pollard spying operation.

1993: In the United Kingdom premiere of “Toys” a comedy directed and co-produced by Barry Levinson who also co-authered the script and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg.

1995: The New York Times features a review of The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

 by Anne Frank; edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler; translated by Susan Massotty

1996(14th of Adar, 5756): Purim

1997(26th of Adar I, 5757): Eighty-eighty-year-old Zalman Abramov the Israeli politician who had been born in Minsk, made Aliyah in 1920 and served as an MK from 1959 to 1977 passed away today.

1997: U.S. premier of “The Watermelon Woman” with music by Paul Shapiro whose specialties include Klezmer music.

1999: U.S. premiere of “Analyze This” directed by Harold Ramis, produced by Paula Weinstein and Jane Rosenthal with music by Howard Shore and co-starring Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow.

1999: The Times of London featured a review of Brother Against Brother: Violence and

 Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination by Ehud Sprinzak.

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography by Marion Meade, Law of Return: Short Stories by Maxine Rodburg and Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals by George Robinson.

2000: Today, “The Israeli cabinet voted to withdraw from southern Lebanon by July” of 2000.

2001: “Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon put the final elements of his unity government together today as police officers stood guard throughout the country in a state of high alert, braced for a repetition of the terror bombing that killed three Israelis and wounded scores more in a coastal city yesterday.”

2002(21stof Adar, 5762):Police officer FSM Salim Barakat (33), Yosef Habi (52), and Eli Dahan (53) were murdered today in Tel Aviv when a Fatah terrorist opened fire on diners at two restaurants.

2002: “The Vagina Monologues” with Idina Menzel opened at the West Side Theatre.

2003: Victor Brailovsky began serving as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

2003 (1 Adar II, 5763): Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 37 in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. The blast, which took place on the city's main Moriah Boulevard near the Carmel Center, turned the bus into a charred wreck and scattered bodies along the road. The bus driver, a Christian Arab from Shfaram, was moderately injured. Police said the bomb was laden with metal shrapnel in order to maximize the number of injuries and strapped to the bomber's body. This was the first suicide bombing in two months, following the bombing in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in Tel-Aviv on January 5, in which 23 people were killed. The Hamas spokesman praised the attack. The suicide bomber has been identified as a member of Hamas. A letter found on his body praised the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers.  The victims included the following all but two of whom died on the day of the attack:

·        Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel

·        Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa

·        Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa

·        Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa

·        Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa

·        Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed

·        Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father-

·        Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa

·        Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa

·        Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa

·        Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa

·        Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa

·        Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa

·        Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina

·        Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa

·        Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa

·        Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa

2003: Victor Brailovsky begins servicing as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

2004: “A demonstration planned for” tomorrow “to rally support for the release of Erich Priebke, a 90-year-old convicted Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence under house arrest in Rome, has angered Jewish groups and city officials, and his critics are also planning a demonstration, also for tomorrow. Mr. Priebke, a former SS captain, was convicted in 1997 for a 1944 massacre in which more than 300 Italian civilians were killed. Jason Horowitz

2005: "Dear Esther," an Arizona Jewish Theatre Company production had its last performance in Phoenix, Arizona.  The play is based on the life of Esther Rabb and her experiences as recorded in “Escape from Sobibor” about the 1943 uprising.

2006(5th of Adar, 5766): Eighty-four-year-old Haifa native Yael Alingham, the daughter of Yehiel Weitzman, wife of Conal Wolsey Allingham and the sister of Israeli pilot, politician and president Ezer Weizman passed away today.

2006:  A restoration of a 1942 freight car, the type used to carry Jews to death camps went on display at the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. The freight car is intended to symbolize the penultimate step in the industrialized mass murder of the Jews of Europe.

2006:  The Jerusalem Post reported that American Jewish leaders welcomed the decision by British architect Richard Rogers to resign his membership in a professional organization that has called for the boycott of Israel's construction industry.

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Absolute Convictions, a biography of Dr. Shalom Press by his son Eyal Press, The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century by Michael Mandelbaum and Intuitionby Allegra Goodman.

2007: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Class” a sitcom created and produced by David Crane and starring Lizzy Caplan and Jon Bernthal.

2007: Opening of an exhibition styled “Studio Man Ray: Photographs by Ira Nowinski” at the

 Judah L Magnes Museum.

2008: Sheldon Adelson ranked #12 on the list of The World’s Billionaires published today.

2008(28th of Adar I, 5768): Joseph Weizenbaum “a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT” passed away.

2008: As part of “Hadassah on Tour,” Dr. Michael Wilschanski, the Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit of the Division of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, speaks in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.

2008: A Yarhtzeit on the civil calendar - Five Year Anniversary of the bombing of Egged Bus 53 carried out by a Hamas suicide bomber who killed 17 innocent civilians.

2008: Following the completion of Operation Hot Winter, today “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office announced that Israel would maintain its pressure on Hamas.”

2008: In “A City That Was and Is No Longer” published today, Aharon Appelfeld examines the history of Czernowitz.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-city-that-was-and-is-no-longer-1.240681

2009: Israeli model Bar “Refaeli received the World Style Award presented by the Women's World Awards for her "natural elegance, sense of style and compassion/.”

2009: Sherman Oaks-based mortgage banker Bruce Friedman, whose Friedman Charitable Foundation committed $10 million to the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles and $1 million to Brandon’s Village, a special-needs park in Calabasas, was indicted on securities fraud charges today by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

2009:Professor Anat Helman of Hebrew University delivers a talk and visual presentation exporing the deeper meanings of Israeli styles of the 1950s at Rutgers University entitled "Fashion and Identity in Israel in the 1950s."

2009:An exhibition of paintings by Simon Black hosted by the Manchester Jewish Museum comes to an end. 

2009:An Arab terrorist attacked police officers and civilians in Jerusalem with his bulldozer today.

2010: The Washington DCJCC is scheduled to host Interfaith Couples Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Tamara Miller explaining the rituals while attendees enjoy a traditional Shabbat Dinner.

2010: A major security exercise is scheduled to take place today at the Sha'ar Ha'ir building in Ramat Gan, next to the Diamond Center.

2010:Clashes broke out between Israeli police officers and Muslim rock throwers at the end of Friday prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites.

2010: Vandals have defaced a former Nazi concentration camp with anti-Jewish and anti-Turkish graffiti, Austrian authorities said today. 

2010: Marc Trestman of the Montreal Alouettes Marc “won the Coach of the year award.”

2011:Ravid Kahalani, a veteran of Israel’s renowned Idan Raichel Project who uses his music to showcase his Yemenite-Jewish heritage is scheduled to appear in Berkeley, CA at opening night of the Jewish Music Festival.

2011: Israeli sculptor Ohad Meromi is scheduled to host a series of events as the culmination of his evolving New Commission project in New York City.

2011: Leonard I. Weinglass, filed brief on behalf Mumia Abu-Jamal that was part of “a post-conviction motion to vacate the conviction of his client,” (Weinglass was Jewish; Abul-Jamal was not)

2011(29 Adar I): Shabbat Shekalim

2011:A computer glitch which had been preventing the flow of natural gas at the Mari-B natural gas field operated by the Yam Tethys conglomerate off of Ashdod was fixed after several hours today. 

2012: “A Child of the Ghetto” is scheduled to be shown at Prague in the Czech Republic.

2012: The second of the annual AIPAC Policy Conference capped off by an gala evening event is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC

2012: Yeshiva University Museum with Fantagraphics Books is scheduled to present: “Diane Noomin’s Graphic Details: Glitz-2-Go Book Launch.”

2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Barak Obama at the White House.

2012: President Shimon Peres today praised US President Barack Obama's speech to the AIPAC annual policy conference, saying he had offered the maximum support for Israel that an American president could possibly offer.

2013: The field of candidates in today’s Mayoral election in Los Angeles includes Wendy Gurel a synagogue attending Christian married to a Jew whose 10-year-old son studies Hebrew and is being raised in the Jewish tradition, City Councilman Eric Garcetti whose mother is Jewish and City Councilwoman Jan Perry, an African-American who converted to Judaism while in college. (As reported by Bill Boyarsky)

2013: Iranian born Israel singer Rita Yahan-Faourz, known simply as Rita, sang in Persian, Hebrew and English at performance in the UN General Assembly Hall tonight.

2013: The London Sinfonietta, conducted by Brad Lubman, at the Royal Festival Hall in London gave the world premiere of Radio Rewrite for ensemble with 11 players, inspired by the music of Radiohead.

2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Zalmen Mlotek entitled “100 Years of Yiddish Theater Music.”

2013: Defense Minister Ehud Barak is scheduled to meet with newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today.  This will be Hagel’s first meeting with a foreign defense chief since his confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

2013: The AIPAC conference is scheduled to come to an end in Washington, DC

2013(23rd of Adar, 5773): Eighty-seven-year-old actor and director Arthur Storch passed away today.

(As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/theater/arthur-storch-theater-director-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0

2013: The daughters of a Yiddish writer persecuted under communism reclaimed copies of his works today, following a prolonged legal fight to establish their ownership.

2013: The first Hebrew language edition of Playboy magazine was launched in Tel Aviv.

2013: Thousands attended the funeral of Menachem Froman in the Judean Desert settlement of Tekoa today, remembering the mystic rabbi and activist as a unique figure in Israel’s religious and political landscape.

2014: The Library of Congress is scheduled to host “Dancing in Jaffa,” Diane Nabatoff’s documentary about ballroom dance Pierre Dulaine.

2014: “The Women Pioneers” and “Shtisel” are scheduled to be shown at the 24thWashington Jewish Film Festival.

2014: The Jewish Study Center is scheduled to present “Two 20th-Century Theologians:  Herberg and Soloveitchik”

2014: “If/Then” a musical featuring Idina Menzel is scheduled to open at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

2014: Today, IDF Special Forces intercepted a ship in the Red Sea carrying an Iranian arms shipment headed for the Gaza Strip in what was known as “Operation Full Disclosure.”

2014: The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the United States-Israel Strategic Alliance and Security Act, which is aimed at further enhancing the two countries’ already strong defense relationship

2015(14thof Adar, 5774): Purim

2015(14thof Adar, 5774): Eighty-eight year “award winning documentarian” Albert Maysles passed away today. (As reported by Anita Gates)

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

2015: The funeral for Chabad Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the husband of Esther Rochel Moscowitz and the father of nine children is scheduled to take placed today in Chicago.

2015: This evening the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “Purim Spiel.”

2015: “The elections for the 20th Knesset have officially begun for thousands of Israeli diplomats across the globe” today. (As reported by Raphael Ahren

2015: “Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan lambasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Channel 2 interview previewed today, calling his speech before Congress “bullshit,” and charging that his policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians endangered the Zionist dream. (As reported by Avi Lewis)

2016(25thof Adar I, 5776): Shabbat Shekalim

2016: The board of trustees of Oberlin College in Ohio “has denounced as ‘anti-Semitic and abhorrent’ social media post” by Joy Karega, a professor in the rhetoric and composition department that referred to ISIS as a “C.I.A. and Mossad organization.”

2016: The Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) which has been serving families since 1855 is scheduled to host its annual fund-raiser “The Jewish Roots of Celebration!”

2016: “Wedding Doll,” starring Moran Rosenblatt and Asi Levi is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.

2017: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman, The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky, Well Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie by Noah Isenberg and Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by Simon Ings.

2017: The Jewish Historical Society and Congregation B’nai Israel are scheduled to host “The Release of Natan Sharansky: The Back Story” during which “John Martin - former FBI agent and Director of the Department of Justice Internal Security Section - will discuss the behind-the-scenes negotiations leading to the release of former Soviet refusenik Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, and share never-before-seen film footage of Sharansky's 1986 historic crossing of the snow-covered Glienecke Bridge to freedom.”

2017: In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to continue it “Bearing Witness” program during which Hungarian native Murray Lynn will share his story of survival.

2017: WLIW is scheduled to broadcast the television concert “Dudu Fisher in Jerusalem.”

2017: In London, Sarah Kaminsky spoke about Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life, the biography she wrote about her father.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wwii-counterfeiter-who-forged-ahead-in-the-face-of-horror/

2017: “An NYPD spokesman said” today “that the department’s hate crimes division had been notified of the “headstones toppled in a Brooklyn Jewish cemetery” yesterday.

2017: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to sponsor an “all-day festival to launch the special issue of the journal East European Jewish Affairs featuring “opening remarks by guest editor Anna Katsnelson” and including “panels on current issues in the field of Russian Jewish American cultural production, writers and visual arts.”

2018: The annual AIPAC Conference is scheduled to continue for a second day.

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to co-sponsor a talk by Liliane Umubyeyi, a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda who “has been named Ultimate Campaigner of the Year for her work with Survivors Fund, of which she is a trustee.”

2018: President Trump is scheduled to meet in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with hopes of soon reaching a long-sought Mideast peace agreement, as both world leaders try to make international progress amid the strains of domestic investigations into each of their governments. (As reported by Joseph Weber)

2018: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.

2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of  “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz. 

2019: In Washington, DC, 2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of  “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.

2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of  “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.

2019: In Washington, DC, “Israel’s Rock troubadour, Ehua Banai” is scheduled to perform at the Howard Theatre which is near Howard University and has its own sets of stores to tell from when the Nation’s capital was a segregated city.

2019: “Perfectly Normal for Me is scheduled to shown at the “ReelAbilities Film Festival” which in a case of tikkun olam is being hosted by the JCC of Northern Virginia

2019: The JCC Sonoma County is scheduled to host the screening of Israeli films in Hebrew with English subtitles as part of the Israeli Film Festival.”

2019: Haifa-born fashion designer Ruti Zisser is scheduled to discuss what styles and trends in Israel reveal about its culture and society in Belmont, CA.

2019: The Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host a discussion of Churchill: Walking With Destiny with the author Andrew Roberts and moderator “David Horspool, the History Editor of the Times Literary Supplement” and a discussion of Jerusalem on the Amstel with the author Lipika Phelham and the moderator Keren David.

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a panel discussion with Barbara Dobkin, Jane Eisner and Pamela Nadell as they discuss issues raised in Nadell’s new work, America’s Jewish Women: A History From Colonial Times To Today.

 2019: The 68thAnnual National Jewish Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony is scheduled to take place this evening at Bohemian National Hall in New York City.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/68th-annual-national-jewish-book-awards-dinner-and-ceremony-tickets-53708921831

2020: In Berkley, “Hamaqom” is scheduled to host the first session of a “multi-part workshop on the story of Hebrew literature and its history as an amalgam of languages.”

2020: In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath is scheduled to host the first meeting of Yachad, “an organization devoted to creating an inclusive environment for Jewish individuals with disabilities.”

2020: In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host a fund raiser with a theme of “It’s Your to Play.”

2020: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screenings of “Waiting for Anya.”

2020: At the Museum of Modern Art, Amos Gitai is scheduled to introduce a screening of his film “Carmel.”

2020: TCM is scheduled to broadcast a series of Kirk Douglas movies in memory of the actor who recently passed away and who transcended the role of “movie star” when helped to break the “blacklist” with the making of “Spartacus.”

2021: Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present online screenings of “Menachem Begin: Peace and War” and “Sky Raiders.”

2021: “In a session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an exhibit that studies modern Jewish culture via lists and inventories.

2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “Adriana Katzew,” whose “work searches to unearth stories and memories of people, moments and places, with much of her photography-based work featuring images of her own Mexican Jewish family.”

 

 

 

This Day, March 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin "ZL"

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March 6

 19 BCE (12th of Adar II, 3741): The Temple “built” by King Herod was dedicated.  Technically, Herod had refurbished the Second Temple and not built a ‘third ‘Sanctuary

1239: With the Edict of Valencia, Spanish King James I validated privileges of the Jews of Aragon. The Jewish courts (Bet din) were authorized to try all cases except capital offenses.

1405: In Toro, Zamora, King Henry III and Catherine of Lancaster gave birth to John II, who as King of Castile and Leon overturned the Valladolid laws that restricted Jewish activities and adopted “a more tolerant attitude toward the already battered Jewish population of Castile following the mass wave of conversions” that had taken place from 1391 to 1415.

1447: The papacy of Nicholas V began today. According to Shlomo Simonsohn he “changed course several times in his policy the Jews just as his predecessors had done.” (For more on Nicholas V and the Jewish people see The Apostolic See and the Jews)

1475: Birthdate of famed Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.  Say Michelangelo to most people and they respond, Sistine Chapel ceiling.  Say his name to Jews and the response is “Moses.”  Moses” is a marble sculpture which depicts the greater Jewish leader. Originally intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II in St. Peter's Basilica it was placed in the minor church of San Pietro in Vincoli on the Esquiline in Rome after the pope's death. The statue depicts Moses with horns on his head. This is believed to be because of the mistranslation of Exodus 34:29-35 by St Jerome. Moses is actually described as having "rays of light" coming from his head, which Jerome in the Vulgate had translated as "horns." This horned Moses provided further proof that the Jews were, as the Gospel says, “the Devil’s spawn.”

1663: Alexander VII issued the Papal bull “Illius, qui illuminat.”

1754: Fifty-nine-year-old British statesman Henry Pelham who while serving as Prime Minister introduced the Jew Bill of 1753 “which allowed Jews to become naturalized citizens by application to Parliament” passed away today.

1758: Abraham de Mesquito was one of those witnessing the changes of the will made by Abraham Menedes Seixas also known as Miguel Pancheco Da Silva.

1760: New York native Abigail Seixas and Hillel Judah who were married in 1759 gave birth to Sarah Judah, the wife of Ralph de Pass, whom she married in 1798 at Newport, RI.

1762: In Germany, Dreile Schweizer and Philip Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Moses Faist Rosenheim who was the husband of Jentle Loeb and Rehle Jonathan.

1765(13th of Adar, 5525): Fast of Esther; erev Purim

1766(25th of Adar): “The Sefardim congregation of London passed a resolution that a Sefardi marrying an Ashkenazi has forfeited his claim on congressional charities.

1774: Birthdate of Stuttgart, Germany native Sarah Benedictus, the husband of Jacob Ottenheimer with whom she had six children.

1776: English born Lucius Levy Solomons and Rebecca Franks gave birth to Mary Solomons, the wife of Jacob Franks.

1777: In Norwalk, CT, Judith Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Sampson Mears Isaacks the husband of Catherine Cohen with whom he had five children.

1781: James Wright, the British Colonial Governor ordered the Jews of the Georgia to leave; accusing them of disloyalty to his majesty by supporting the revolution. The order was never carried out. For the most part, Wright had it right.  Most Jews did support the American Revolution.

1789(8th of Adar): Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Jacob Joshua Falk, author of Penei Aryeh, passed away

1791: Birthdate of David Paul Drach the native of Strasbourg who converted to Catholicism after moving to Paris and eventually became the librarian of the College of Propaganda in Rome

1792: Moses Alexander (Moshe ben Abraham) was buried today at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.

1801: Phillip Abraham, the husband of “Jane Vogg” and the father of Victor Abraham was buried today.

1815: With the defeat of Napoleon, new restrictions were imposed on the Jews all over Europe.

1816: The Jews were expelled from the Free City of Lubeck, Germany at the instance of the local guilds. This was part of the reactionary backlash that followed the defeat of Napoleon a year earlier. Many of these Jews finally found refuge in the German of city of Moisling.  After “a period of adjustment” where the citizens of Moisling determined how many Jews would live in their city and under what conditions, the government provided a house for a rabbi and constructed a building that the Jews were allowed to use as a synagogue if they paid “a moderate annual rent.”

1819: Birthdate of Fanny Neuda author of Studen de Anacht (Hours of Devotion) a prayer book for women.

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

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/neuda-fanny

1821: Start of the Greek War for independence. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Jewish populations in the Peloponnese had become in disfavour with the Greeks by apparently supporting the Ottomans, and during the Greek War of Independence thousands of Jews were massacred alongside the Ottoman Turks by the Greek rebels, with the Jewish communities of Mistras, Tripolis, Kalamata and Patras completely destroyed. At the same time, Jews throughout other parts of Europe, including the Rothschilds supported the revolt, which captured the popular imagination with its imagery of Greece the cradle of Democracy versus the Ottoman Sultan.

1821: In Paris Elie Furtado and Rose Fould gave birth to Cécile Charlotte Julie Fould-Furtado who was the wife of Charles Heine who unlike his cousin Heinrich did not convert to Christianity.

1822: In Liverpool, Sarah and Lyon Samson gave birth to Frances Samson.

1823: In Stuttgart, King William I and his third wife Pauline Therese gave birth to Charles I who during  his reign as the king of Württemberg bought one of the wooden models of the Temple Mount created by Conrad Schick, the “German architect, archaeologist and Protestant missionary who settled in Jerusalem in October of 1846.  Schick “designed the Mea Shearim neighborhood” and his home, Tabor House “is today considered one of Jerusalem’s most beautiful buildings.” (Moshe Gilad)

1825(16th of Adar, 5585): Hungarian Talmudist Shalom Charif Ullman passed away at Lackenbach where he, his son and grandson all served as Rabbis.

1830(11th of Adar, 5590): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor

1834: In Canada, York was incorporated as the city of Toronto. It was not until the 1840s that small numbers of Jewish immigrants from Western and Central Europe began to arrive in Ontario and settle in the cities of Hamilton, Kingston, and Toronto. In 1849, Abraham Nordheimer moved from Kingston to Toronto and purchased a plot of land for a cemetery on behalf of the Toronto Hebrew Congregation. The congregation was originally an Orthodox synagogue, made up of members from Germany, including Bavaria, Bohemia, and Alsace, Great Britain, the United States, Russia, Galicia, and Lithuania. It became known as the Daytshishe Shul because of its modernized services. In 1856, Lewis Samuel of York, England, immigrated to Toronto and helped organize the Sons of Israel Congregation. In 1858, the two congregations combined to form the Toronto Hebrew Congregation-Holy Blossom Temple. Holy Blossom was Orthodox, but in the 1920s joined the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and became Reform. It was the only Reform temple in Toronto until the 1950s, when it was joined by Temple Sinai and Temple Emanu-El. Today Holy Blossom is the largest Reform Congregation in Canada. In the 1880s, the arrival of large numbers of Eastern European Jews escaping the pogroms of czarist Russia, led to the creation of three new synagogues. Goel Tzedec and Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Chevra T'Hillim were founded in 1883, and were made up of mostly Russian members. They merged in the early 1950s to form Beth Tzedec, a Conservative congregation. The third synagogue, Shomrei Shabbos, was started in 1889 by Orthodox Galician Jews. Also in 1889, Beth Jacob, known as the Poylishe Shul and Rumanian Synagogue or Adath Israel came into existence. By the 1940s, Toronto had about 60 synagogues. These were mainly small Landsmannschaften, which were immigrant synagogues that represented the different hometowns of settlers from Russian Poland, the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belorussia. In the 1950s and 60s, the smaller shtiblekh merged into larger synagogues. Therefore, the number of synagogues decreased, but in their place were larger and more stable congregations. The Jewish population of Toronto started out small in the 18th and 19th centuries and grew slowly but steadily into the early 20th century. In 1871, 157 Jews lived in Toronto, in 1891, the number rose to 1,425, and, by 1901, the Jewish population had increased to 3,090. The size of the community always depended on waves of immigration from Europe, based on pogroms and persecution in various countries. In 1911, the Jewish population of Toronto had expanded to 18,237 and, by 1921, had almost doubled to 34,619. In 1931, 45,000 Jewish immigrants, made up of mostly Poles, settled in Canada after the United States tightened its immigration quota in 1924. Because of restrictions imposed by the Canadian government during the Depression, Immigration preceding and during World War II declined significantly. This was a huge blow to Eastern European Jews trying to escape persecution, and only small groups of Austrian and German Jews fleeing Hitler were able to immigrate to Toronto during this period. In 1941, the number of Jews in Toronto had only risen slightly to 49,046, despite the thousands who desperately sought refuge in Canada. After World War II, the Canadian government established anti-discrimination laws and eased immigration regulations. The Canadian Jewish Congress and needle traders helped refugees come to Toronto from displaced persons camps. In addition, an important development in the Toronto community was the growth of the Jewish day school system in the post-World War II era. Previously, the Montreal and Winnipeg Jewish communities had larger networks of congregational and day schools. The 1950s and 60s saw a tremendous growth of population and community life. In 1951, the Jewish population of greater Toronto reached 66,773. It was augmented further after the 1956 Hungarian uprising brought a new influx of Jewish refugees to the city. In the 1960s, the first Sephardic Jews came to Toronto from Morocco, and established the first Sephardic synagogues and organizations in the city. Toronto's economic developments of the 1960s, combined with the rise of Quebec's separatist movement in the 1970s, led to a mass migration from Montreal to Toronto in the late 70s and early 80s. In 1971, the Jewish population stood at 105,000, by 1981, it reached 128,650 and, by 1991, increased to 162,605. When the Parti Quebecois won the provincial election in 1976, 20,000 to 30,000 Jews fled to Toronto, fearing an independent Quebec would divide and weaken the national Jewish community. Toronto assumed Montreal's position as the center of Jewish activity. However, the economic recession of the 1990s had a deleterious impact on the Jewish community's finances and its ability to subsidize Jewish day schools. Despite this setback, Toronto maintains the largest Jewish population of any Canadian city. In recent years, Toronto has received Jewish immigrants from South Africa, the former Soviet Union, the United States, and Israel. Today, the Jewish community stands at approximately 150,000 out of Toronto's 3.5 million inhabitants. Most Jews living in Toronto have only been there for one or two generations. With such close ties to their homelands, Torontonian Jews are typically more traditional than those in the rest of Canada and the United States. Of the 50 percent or so of the Jewish population that associate themselves with the community, 20 percent are Orthodox, 40 percent Conservative, 35 percent Reform, and the remainder nondenominational. Toronto maintains around 50 synagogues, a growing network of Jewish day schools, and a number of Jewish organizations.

1835: In London, Sarah and Jacob Nunes Castello gave birth to Hannah Jacob Nunes Castello.

1836: The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege. Antony Wolfe, a young Englishman, was reportedly the only Jew who fought and died at the Alamo.

1838: Two days after he had passed away, Naphtali Cohen, the father of John Hart, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1841: Joseph and Nanny Rosenheim gave birth to Simon Rosenheim

1844: In Amsterdam, Ahasuerus Salomon van Nierop and Lady Rachel Salvador gave birth to Frederick Salomon van Nierop the Dutch lawyer who became a director of the Amsterdam Bank in 1871 and also served on the City Council.

1845: In Canterbury, Kent, Hannah Barnard and Nathan Jacobs gave birth to Jane Jacobs.

1845: John Samuels, the 26 year old “son of Alexander and Ann Samuels” was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1850: In Darmstadt, Germany, Moses Altheimer and Salome Loew gave birth to Benjamin Altheimer the math and language tutor in Germany and husband of Jennie Eisenstadt who settled in the United States where he “director of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum,” “Treasurer of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver” and a member of of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Charitable and Educational Union in St. Louis, MO.

1851(2nd of Adar II, 5611): Benjamin Wolf Löw passed away today.  Born at Loslau in 1775, this Polish-Hungarian rabbi was the son of Eleazar Low, the father of Eleazar Low and the grandfather of Abraham and Benjamin Singer.

1856: The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College. According to recent figures approximately 5,000 of the school’s 25,000 undergraduate students are Jewish while 1,500 of the 10,000 grad students are Jewish.  These figures do not include the other U of Md. Campuses.  The school offers 35 Jewish studies courses with a major and minor in Jewish Students. In 1949, Evelyn Levow Greenberg, the wife of the Hillel Rabbi at the University of Maryland published The Little Tractor who Traveled to Israel one of the first children’s books to celebrate the Kibbutz movement and the creation of the state of Israel.

1857(10th of Adar, 5617): Leopold Reiss, the husband of Caroline, the father of Emily and the Manchester woolen merchant who with his brother James owned Reiss Bros. passed away today in France “leaving £180,000 in England.”

1858: In Lynchburg, VA, Isadore Untermyer and Therese Laudauer, two Jews from Bavaria, gave birth to Columbia trained attorney Samuel a civic leader, successful businessman and pillar of the Jewish Community who had three children with his wife Minnie Carl.

https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/sociology/reform-bios/untermyer-samuel

1860: Forty-year-old Henry Cantor was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1863(15th of Adar, 5623): Shushan Purim

1863: Mr. Max Maretzek resumption of his old position at the Academy of Music this evening was greeted with the full approval of “all classes of the music-loving community in New York.

1865: Sara Kosman and Jacques Lang gave birth to Judith Lang.

1865: Birthdate of Vilna native Peter Wiernik who in 1885 came to the United States “where he wrote for the Yiddish Chicago Daily Courier” before becoming editor for New York's most important Yiddish daily, the Jewish Morning Journal.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/06/perets-vyernik-peter-wiernik.html

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wiernik-peter

1870:  Birthdate of Austrian-born composer Oscar Straus whose most famous work is an operetta called “Der tapfere Soldat” or “The Chocolate Soldier.”

1870: In Rochester, NY, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society whose members included Mrs. Levi Adler, and Mrs. Simon Guggenheimer.

1871: Birthdate of German native and London resident Wily Herzfelder, the husband of Anne Frances Strauss and father of Dorothy Herzfelder.

1871(13th of Adar, 5631): Fast of Esther

1871: In Blaydon, Newcastle on Tyne, Thomas and Hannah Oxberry gave birth to James Henry Oxberry, the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in Kowloon, China who was the founder of several lodges of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos, the fraternal organizations knowns as “the Buffalos” or “the Buffs.”

1871: Two days after she had passed away, “Ellen (nee Joseph) Jewell,” the wife of Moss Jewell with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1872(26th of Adar I, 5632): Fifty-one-year-old Theodor Goldstücker, the German born Sanskri school who was appointed professor of Sanskrit at University College London in 1852 passed away today in his adopted homeland.

1874: Birthdate of Hugo Dreschfeld who was bur at the Reform Jewish Cemetery in Bradford.

1875: In Kensington, London Leopold (Lippmann) Seligmann, the son of Fanny and David Isaac Seligmann and Julia Levi gave birth to Clara Schloss

1876: Birthdate of Chaim Aaron ben David the native of Berlin who gained fame as artist Hermann Struck an ardent Zionist who “helped establish the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

1876: “Ben Israel or Under the Curse” opened at the Grand Opera House in New York City this evening.  Described as “a Jewish drama” in five acts, the drama had previously been performed in Troy, New York.

1876: It was reported today that the Purim Association will host a full dress reception at Delmonico’s that will mark the end of five days of festivities celebrated the Jewish people who hold private masquerade parties as is their “usual custom.”

1877(21st of Adar, 5637): Seventy-one-year-old Johann Jacoby, the physician turned political activist passed away today in his native Konigsberg.

http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ip/jacoby.htm

1877(21st of Adar, 5637): Franklin J. Moses, Sr. an attorney, planter, politician and judge in South Carolina who both opposed secession, then supported the Confederacy and then was accused of being a scalawag during Reconstruction, passed away. His maternal grandfather was Jonas Phillips a founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, PA and the paternal grandfather Commodore Uriah P. Levy, the highest-ranking Jewish officer to serve in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.  Yes, you got it right.  These two Jewish grandees were on opposite sides during the Civil War, a fight that pitted brother against brother, father against son and in this case, grandson against grandson. For a contemporary view of Moses, written by a Northern newspaper see

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D1FF63E5A127B93C4AB1789D95F4C8784F9

1877: It was reported today that humorist Raphael J. de Cordova is scheduled to deliver a lecture at an upcoming fundraiser to be held at Steinway Hall sponsored by the Hebrew Lodge for those who suffered during the recent fire in Brooklyn.

1878: “Beaconsfield on the Jews” published today described Disraeli’s view of the Jews as described in Coningsby, a novel he wrote before he entered political life including the fanciful sentiment that “the Jews hold in their hands the destinies of Europe.”

1879 (11thof Adar, 5639): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar is Shabbat

1879: The Purim Association is sponsoring this evening’s fancy dress charity ball which is taking placed at the Academy of Music.

1880(23rd of Adar, 5640): Parasaht Vayakhel-Pekudi ending the reading of Exodus and Shabbat Parah.

1880: In Bavaria, Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Ida Rothschild, who became Ida Strauss when she married Siegmund Strauss. (She died at Auschwitz and he died at Theresienstadt.)

1883(27th of Adar): Jacob Barit (Yankele Kovner) passed away

1885: President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas Francis Bayard as Secretary of State in which capacity he wrote to the U.S. charge d’affairs in Vienna expressing his disgust with the government of Austria-Hungary’s refusal to accept Anthony M Keiley as the American minister “on the ground of his wife being a Jewess.”

1886 Nine thousand members of the Knights of Labor struck Jay Gould’s Southwestern Railroad System. The Knights were one of the earliest attempts at forming a national labor union in the United States.  The Cloak and Suit Maker’s Union which was made up largely of “westernized Jews from Austria, Galicia and Germany” was part of the Knights which made it one of the successful joining of Jewish laborers with this umbrella labor organization. Cultural and linguistic differences as well as plain old fashioned anti-Semitism trumped the supposed solidarity of labor.

1886: Birthdate of Shmuel “Samuel” Eisner, the native of Kolomyia, Austria-Hungary and father of “American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur” William Erwin “Will” Eisner.

1889: Today, two years after having been elected rabbi of Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Rabbi Maximilian H. Heller married Ida Annie Marks with whom he had four children.

1890(14th of Adar, 5650) Purim

1890: It was reported today that the United Hebrew Charities have offered to post a bond on behalf of Lazar Anezes, his wife and four children who have been detained by the Commissioners of Emigrations because they are “paupers.”

1890: It was reported today that the next event sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association will be held at the Vienna Hall on Lexington Avenue at 58th Street.

1890: Solomon Barnett, a Jewish tailor who had thwarted an attempt to rob him “is lying at his home in a badly demoralized condition” as a result of the injuries he received at the hand of the thieves.

1891: I.S. Isaacs of the United Hebrew Charities was among those who a attended a conference in the office of the President of the Sanitary Aid Soceity where plans were made to promote a municipal lodging house law in New York City.

1891: It was rumored today that United States Collector of Internal Revenue Ernst Nathan had retired.

1891: “They Ask For Palestine” published today described the efforts of William E. Blackstone, Chairman of the Conference of Christians and Jews to present “a memorial to President Harrison concerning the Russian Government’s treatment of the Jews.”

1892: In New Jersey, two Jewish grocers operated their business today for which they would be arrested because they were open on Sunday.

1892: The Superintendent of the orphan asylum operated by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society said that only of the youngsters was suffering from measles and that the twelve other youngsters who had been diagnosed with the disease have been sent to the Willard Parker Hospital.

1892: Henry Pereira Mendes, the rabbi at Shearith Israel is recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered at the hands of Jose Mizrachee who some describe as a “professional beggar”

1892: “To Establish ‘Special Alcoves’” published today described the efforts of the directors of the Aguilar Free Circulating Library to establish special alcoves at the various branches of the library” including the one in the Hebrew Institute at East Broadway and Jefferson Street “for the reception of works on particular lines of reading.”

1893: Charles W. Foster completed his service as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during which he dealt with issues surrounding the massive influx of Russian Jews as can be seen by his response to the letters of 1891 from Simon Wolf and Lewis Abraham of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in which he expressed his appreciation for their “expressions of confidence” that the department would act humanely “while executing the immigration laws efficiently.”

1893: “The Answers to Correspondence Column” published today included the information that “a fellow badge, round or square, was the mark of degradation a Jew was obliged to wear in certain parts of medieval Europe.”

1893: Four days before what would have been his 83rd birthday, “Henry Sigismund Straus” the husband of Henrietta Straus with whom he had had seven children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1895: In New York City, Richard and Eugenie Hahn gave birth to Columbia University trained attorney Paul M. Hahan, the husband of the “former Nannette Hogan Wells” who gave up the law for tobacco which led to his serving as “President and Chief Executive officer the American Tobacco Company.”

1895: In Germany, by a vote of 167 to 51, the Reichstag rejected the bill to restrict Jewish emigration.

1896(21st of Adar, 5565): Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor a leading Russian rabbi and Talmudist passed away. Born in 1817, Rav Spektor engaged in a wide variety of activities including visiting St. Petersburg to ameliorate the suffering that followed the Pogroms of 1881, the establishment of yeshivas and involvement with the Hovevei Zion movement.  His impact was so great that the Yeshiva University named it theologic seminary after him - Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), or Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan, 

1896: Rabbi M.H. Harris delivered the first in a series of lectures on the Inquisition tonight at Temple Israel in New York City.

1896: Thirty-four-year-old Behrendt Pick, who would eventually hang himself as a result of Nazi persecution began teaching “as an adjunct professor of ancient numismatics at the University of Jena” today.

1897: In City Court today, Justice McCarthy signed an order for the release of Oscar Altman from the Ludlow Street Jail where he has been held on a charge of “breach of promise of marriage.”

1897: In St. Louis, George Washington Milius, the son Eva and William Solomon Milius and his wife Pauline gave birth to Helen Dinah Milius who became Helen Dinah Baum when she married Isaac Albert Baum.

1897: It was reported today that Mrs. Esther Herrmann whose late husband was a partner in H. Herrmann, Sternbach & Co has given $10,000 to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. According Percival Menken, the President of the association, the money will make it possible to improve the facility at 861 Lexington Avenue which Jacob Schiff had donated to YMHA last January.

1897: Seymour Mork and Philip Harrison won the prizes at the debate hosted this evening by the Young Men’s Literary Society of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association which was held at Temple Ahawath Chesed.

1897(2nd of Adar II, 5657): Parashat Pekudi

1897: Cantor David Kahn led “the regular Sabbath” at Temple Rodloph Shalom at Lexington and 63rd.

1897: Rabbi Kaufman Kohler delivered the “charge” to Dr. Rudolph Grossman at services marking his installation as the new rabbi at Temple Roloph Sholom.

1897: A two-day conference begins in Vienna with members of the Zionist circles of Vienna, Berlin, Breslau and Galicia. Herzl's proposal of a general Zionist Congress is adopted with the reservation that the cooperation of the Russian Zionists will be obtained. München is chosen as the city for the congress.

1898: Congregants from Beth Elohim with a membership of 150 and Congregants from Temple Israel with a membership of 140 met in Brooklyn and voted unanimously to consolidate the two congregations and build a new building to serve as their synagogue.

1898: More than a thousand people attended the annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews hosted by the President Simon Borg and the Board of Trustees.

1898: It was reported today that the “heads of the army” refused to allow Commandant Esterhazy who played a key role in framing Dreyfus with Colonel Picquart because they were afraid of “the effect on popular sentiment if Esterhazy were defeated.”

1899: According to the Court Circular, today "The Emperor of Austria has given the title of Baron De Forest to M. Arnold [De] Forest and to his brother M. Raymond De Forest, both the adopted sons of Baroness de Hirsch de Gereuth, widow of the late Baron de Hirsch."

1899: Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. According to Diarmuid Jeffreys, the author of Aspirin: The Story of a Wonder Drug, a Jew named Arthur Eichengrün, was “the Bayer chemist who first found an aspirin formulation which was tolerable in the human stomach and did not have the unpleasant side effects of nausea and gastric pain. Eichengrün also invented the name aspirin and was the first person to use the new formulation to test its safety and efficacy. However, Eichengrün was excluded from the official version of Bayer's history in 1934 because of his Jewish origin. Instead, it was claimed by Bayer that aspirin was ‘discovered" by an Aryan scientist, Felix Hoffman, to alleviate the sufferings of his rheumatic father.”  Fritz ter Meer who “became chairman of Bayer's supervisory board” in 1956 had been “convicted at the Nuremberg trials for his part in carrying out experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz and was imprisoned for five years.”

1900(5th of Adar II, 5660): Samuel Joseph Gelman, the Warsaw born son of Abraham Gelman and the husband of Kate Gelman passed away today after which he was buried at Kingston upon Hull, England.

1900: Birthdate of Avraham Shlonsky, a Russian born Israeli poet.

1900: Birthdate of Viennese native Ludwig Donath whose European acting career was cut short by the Anschluss which led him to the United States where his film career included the portrayal of Al Jolson in two biopics about the Jewish performer.

1901: In Baltimore, MD, Isadore and Caroline Ester Blustein gave birth to Reba Golda Blustein Cohen, the wife of Charles Cohen who attended Syracuse University and was a member of the National Board of the Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.

1901: Birthdate of Russian born film director Mark Donskoy

1902: Herzl informs the Sultan that on March 15th three million francs will be deposited to his account in banks in Paris, Berlin and London.

1903: On this date it is announced that the King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Right Honorable Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, E.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., his Majesty's Royal license and authority that he may accept and wear the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Osmanieh, conferred upon him by his Highness the Khedive of Egypt, authorized by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey, in recognition of valuable services rendered by him to his Highness.

1904: It was reported today that “A Book of Hours, lent by Mr. Felix Warburg” that included a picture of King David “having doffed his turban and crown” and showing that he has “a Hebrew face and long white beard” was among the rare manuscripts of the 14thand 15th century now on display at the library of Columbia University

1905: It was reported today that “At the regular meeting of the Jewish Union Veterans held at their headquarters in the Yorkville Court building a letter was from President Roosevelt acknowledging his election to honorary membership and expressing his regrets that he could not find it convenient to attend the ninth annual campfire and installation of officers on March 14.”

1906: In Chicago, Hyman and Rebecca Bertha Goldstein gave birth to Bertha Rebecca Goldstein who became Bertha Rebecca Brownstein when she married Henry J. Brownstein.

1907: It was reported today that at its annual meeting, “the German Jewish Relief Society…paid a tribute to Jacob H. Schiff” the “noble philanthropist” who “rendered service of great importance in supporting the efforts on behalf of the Jews of Morocco.”

1908: Saks and Company advertised “Spring Apparel for Men with “suits and topcoats” selling for $15 to $45.

1909: Charles Nagel succeeded Oscar Straus as the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor and proved to be supportive of Jewish immigrants when in 1910 he “ruled that thirteen of the twenty Russian Jewish immigrants being held at Galveston, TX as likely to become public charges may be admitted to” the United States” and that “the other seven will receive further consideration.”

1910(25th of Adar I, 5670): Sixty-three-year-old Zygmunt Wartski, the husband of Eugenie Wartski passed away today in Vienna.

1910: In New York, Nathan Feinerman, the future President of the Workmen’s Circle and Ida Joffe Feinerman gave birth to Louis Edwin Feinerman, the brother of Berta and Mollie Feinerman.

1910: Fifteen hundred members of The Hebrew Actor’s Union honor the memory of Morris Horowitz with “an elaborate funeral” that remembered his contributions to the Yiddish Theatre yet belied the impoverished state to which he had fallen in his declining years.

1910: Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, began serving as Solicitor General for England.

1911: Tonight, a mass meeting organized by Drs. Solomon and William Neuman is scheduled to take place at Progress Hall where members of the Federation of Galician Jews will register their displeasure with the reports, already denied by Superintendent Abraham Spector, the Har Moriah Hospital which was built with funds from the federation places to “secede from the federation.

1911: Birthdate of Sodus, NY, native and Syracuse University graduate Louis Gassell the publisher of the Jewish Ledger who was an active member of the ZOA.

1912: It was reported today that” Mortimer L Schiff and Howard S. Gans, who so far have been unsuccessful in their efforts to tell their stories to the special Grand Jury investigating the case of Foulke E. Brandt, the former servant of Mr. Schiff who was sentenced to thirty years in prison for burglary, are now expected to appear as witnesses before that body early next week.”

1913: In a reminder of how determined Christians were to convert Jews, the will of Mrs. Martha W. Wardell, the widow of the Treasurer of the Standard Oil Company which was filed for probate today included a bequest of one thousand dollars for the Society for the Promulgation of the Gospel among the Jews.

1914: In Swampscott, MA, Russian-Jewish immigrants Simon and Rose Alfond gave birth to Harold Alfond, the founder of Dexter Shoes who was the husband of Dorothy Levine, the father of Ted, Susan Bill and Peter Alfond and the grandfather of Tulane graduate and Maine State Legislator Justin Alfond.

1915: As of today, “the Palestine Relief Ship Fund, which is being raised by the American Jewish Relief Committee and will used purchase supplies to be shipped on the naval collier Vulcan has reached a total of $34,413.86.

1915(20th of Adar, 5675): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1915: The list of contribution to the Palestine Relief Ship Fund published today includes the Lawrence, MA Jewish Relief Committee, the Zadek Lodge, International Order of B’nai Brith of Selma, Alabama and the Minneapolis American Jewish Relief Committee.

1916: Felix A. Levy is scheduled to present a paper on Egyptian Obelisks at this morning’s meeting of the Chicago Rabbinical Association at the Stratford Hotel.

1916: It was reported today from New York that Jacob H. Schiff has issued another statement expressing his continued opposition to “the negotiation of any loan by Russia in” the United States.

1916: It was reported today from New York that the custom tailors, many of whom are Jewish “are now on strike for higher wages.

1916: It was reported today from New York that Ambassador Henry Morgenthau has met with “two delegation of Oriental Jews” and after having discussed their problems with them “agreed to send them a Ladino-speaking chief rabbi to care for their spiritual needs” when he returns to his post in the Ottoman Empire.

1917: In Haifa Rachel Klimker and Zwi Scharz gave bir to  Ruth Schwartz who gained fame as Ruth Dyan, the first wife of Moshe Dyan, the mother of Yael, Ehud and Assi Dyan and the sister of Reuma Schwartz, the wife of Ezer Weizman

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/obituaries/ruth-dayan-dead.html

1917: In Brooklyn, the former Fannie Ingber and Shmuel “Samuel” Eisner gave birth to cartoonist Will Eisner who was a mentor for Jules Feiffer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/will-eisner-a-pioneer-of-comic-books-dies-at-87.html

https://www.economist.com/node/3555931

1917: Albert Lucas, the Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee on Jewish War Relief traveled from Washington to New York today where he announced that the committee had made new arrangements making it possible to send money from the United States to people living “in the territory occupied by Germany and her allies.”

1917: Birthdate of Irving Torgoff, the Brooklyn born basketball player who led Long Island University to “an undefeated record and National Invitation Tournament” in 1939 before going on to a career as a pro.

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

1918(22nd of Adar, 5678): Ludwig Dreyfus whose estate was valued at $1, 305, 318, passed away today.

1918: During a patriotic gathering at Congregation Ohab Zedek attended by an array of dignitaries including Dr. Isaac Alcalsy, the Grand Rabbi of Serbia, Rabbi Bernard Drachman and Rabbi Pereira Mendes a “service flag bearing eighty-seven stars was presented to the congregation and Albert Lucas, he Secretary of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of American expressed the loyalty of American Jews saying “We shall continue to support the Government even to the sacrifice of our lives where this sacrifice is ask asked of us and as this flag expresses.”

1919: It was learned today that “the resignation of Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to Turkey, as President of the Free Synagogue was due to his unwillingness to continue as lay leader of the congregation while its rabbi, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, champions the cause of Zionism.”

1919: Today, at the New York home of Henry Morgenthau Jacob Billikopf, the executive director of the American Jewish Relief Committee who was described as the “Marshal Foch of the army of solicitors of the Jewish Relief Committee” received “a check for $50,000 in recognition of his services as head of the Relief Committee since January, 1915.”

1920: “Harry Levine scored 25 points to lead” the University of Pittsburgh Panthers” to a 33-24 victory over “the University of West Virginia Mountaineers.”

1920(16th of Adar, 5680): Parashat Ki Tisa

1920(16th of Adar, 5680): Henry N. Wessel of Philadelphia, a long-time member of the American Jewish Committee passed away today.

1921: In Vienna, Max Bretholtz, a Polish born tailor and Yiddish actor and Dora Fischmann Bretholtz, a seamstress gave birth to Leo Bretholz a Holocaust survivor who played a key role in the class action lawsuit against the French railway system - the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, or S.N.C.F.

1921: Birthdate of Austrian born conductor Julius Rudel who fled to the United States at the age of 17after the Anschluss.

http://www.music.buffalo.edu/bpo/rudel.htm

1921: As the lockout aimed of members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers enters its 14thweek, Joseph Schlossberg told a meeting at New York’s Town Hall, that employers were trying to the old sweatshop environment.  Schlossberg was a Russian born Jewish was one of the founders the Amalgamated and served as its Secretary General.

1924(30th of Adar I, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1924(30th of Adar I, 5684): Seventy-one-year-old Thomas Jefferson Levy, the three-term Congressman from New York who followed in the footsteps of his uncle Uriah P. Levy by spending a great deal of his time and fortune on the preservation and restoration on Monticello, the home of President Thomas Jefferson.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000268

1924: The Jewish Transcript of the Pacific Northwest now known as JTNews was published for the first time today. (JTA and Times of Israel)

1926(20th of Adar, 5686): Parashat Ki Tisa

1926(20th of Adar, 5686): Eighty-year-old Isabella Prince Aloe, the Belfast born daughter of Isabella Hill Prince and Louis Morris Prince, the wife of Albert Sidney Aloe and the mother of four sons including Republican party leader and Washington University Louis P. Aloe who would served as acting mayor of St. Louis during World War and Vice President of the Federation of Jewish charities while being married to Edith Rosenblatt, passed away today.

1926: “Miss Henrietta Szold, President of Hadassah…sailed” today for Palestine “take charge of the construction of the Nathan and Lina Straus Health Center in Jerusalem made possible by a recent gift of $100,000 by Mr. Straus.”

1926: Russian born New Yorker David Alper married his second wife “Minnie ‘Manya’ Machle Isiomin” today

1926: In Washington Heights (NYC) stockbroker and market analyst Herbert Greenspan and Rose Goldsmith gave birth to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.

http://www.biography.com/people/alan-greenspan-9319769

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/alan_greenspan

1926: Birthdate of New Jersey resident Dr. Maurice Gerstein, Ph.D.

1927: In Jersey City, NJ, “Herman Firstenberg, a plumber and the former Elizabeth Loeb gave birth to Elaine Firstenberg who gained fame as graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/arts/design/elaine-lustig-cohen-designer-who-left-her-mark-everywhere-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1927: Fritz Lang's silent film epic “Metropolis” is released.  Lang’s murky ethnic heritage is typical of many Germans of his era.  Lang’s parents were practicing Roman Catholics.  But Lang’s mother was born Jewish, and she did not convert until Fritz was ten.  Sort of makes hash of those easy answers about “who is a Jew” although by Nazi standards Fritz and his brother would have been fodder for the Holocaust.

1928(14th of Adar, 5688): Purim

1928(14th of Adar, 5688): Mrs. Lewis M. Nelson who was a member of the Directors of the Beth El Sisterhood and Hadassah, passed away today in Camden, NJ.

1929: In Weymouth, Massachusetts, “Ruth (Sward and Hollis Judson Wyman gave birth historian and author David Sword Wyman, the grandson of Protestant ministers who “was chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.”

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516

1930: In Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Marion "Marie" Shulman Maazel, the founder of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orcestra and mult-talented actor and musician Lincoln Maazel gave birth to conductor and composer Lorin Maazel (As reported by Allan Kozinn)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/arts/music/lorin-maazel-brilliant-intense-and-enigmatic-conductor-dies-at-84.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1930: In the Bronx, David and Dora Rubin gave birth to “Ira Rubin, a champion bridge player and an innovative theorist who was nicknamed the Beast because of the emotional intensity of his play…”  (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1932(26th of Adar I, 5692): Seventy-two year old German author Alfred Bock from Giessen, the father of author Werner Beck passed away today.

1932: As the confirmation process comes to a close, it was reported today that “Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo who has been appointed to succeed Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court bench is the author of two books, The Growth of the Law and The Nature of the Judicial Process by published by the Yale University.

1932: It was reported today that the Song of Songs Publishing Company in Jerusalem has recently issued a new edition of the Solomon’s Song of Songs with the text printed in Hebrew and English and with illustrations by Zeeb Raban, one of the leading artists of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts School” which “is on sale in a number of bookshops and department stores in New York.”

1933: Premiere of “The Merry Heirs” a German comedy directed by Max Ophüls.

1934(19th of Adar, 5694): Fifty-nine-year-old Antopol, Russia native Isaac Kahanowitz, the resident of “Greensburg, Pennsylvania…who in the early twentieth century amassed the greatest private collection of Yiddish and Hebrew books and periodicals in western Pennsylvania, meaning that his library surpassed anything that could be found even in Pittsburgh, with a Jewish population of over 50,000” passed away today.

1936: As Jews prepared to observe Shabbat this evening and Purim tomorrow evening, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El sent a letter to all of his colleagues reminding them and their congregants of “the campaign of the American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee to raise $1,500,000 in” the New York metropolitan area “as a part of the nationwide effort to raise $3,500,000 for the benefit of Jews in Germany and in other European countries.”

1936: In Amsterdam, “Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic Stuermer was burned during a mass meeting” tonight “organized by the Liberal State party as a protest against the distribution of this paper in the Netherlands by an Amsterdam news store circulating propaganda for the Netherlands National Socialist movement.”

1936: “In a sharp message to the Legislature delivered today, New York Governor Herbert Lehman demanded that that the Republicans restore to the budget an item of $11,160,010 for the debt service” which he said was a clear violation of the state constitution.

1936 In Warsaw, “prohibition of Hebrew ritual slaughtering would unconstitutional, Monseigneur von Golowicz, State Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Education and former Professor of Canon Law at Vilna University declared today at a meeting of the Sejm committee appointed to deal with the bill for the abolition of ritual killing of cattle.”

1936: In Berlin, “it was confirmed today that the first mutually satisfactory agreement for the exodus of foreign Jews from Germany had been concluded between the Reich and the Netherlands” (Editor’s note – the term mutually satisfactory cannot have been applied to the Jews since the price of being effectively deported was that they had to give up most of their wealth.

1936: While “official records on the number of German Jewish refugees received visas for the United States were not available in Washington, DC, as of today it is know that “the annual quote for Germany is theoretically 25,957 but nothing near that number of German immigrants has been admitted” to the United States “in any recent year.

1936: “The Home Office has received a series of complaints from Jews in Jewish districts of London who have been subjected to abuse and in some cases assault” and “there can be no doubt…people have been molested because they are Jews in pursuance or as an outcome of a campaign that is being carried on to some extent by Fascist speakers at Fascist meetings” in Britain.

 

1937: And on the other side of the financial ledger, birthdate of Ivan Boesky the stockbroker convicted of insider trading.

1937: “Despite the official statement of regret made by the State Department yesterday for Mayor La Guardia’s attack on Adolf Hitler, the Mayor said he would stand by what he had said.”

1937: In the Old City section of Jerusalem, an Arab shot and wounded M. Schneerson as he walked to daven at the Western Wall. 

1938: Author Ludwig Lewisohn “declared in an address before the congregation of the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall” this morning that “the Greeks had their Homer and the Jewish people have their Torah which is their great historical novel” that “is the eternal expression of our character and our faith.”

1938: Birthdate of Bronx native and note photographer Joel Meyerowitz.

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-meyerowitz-joel.htm

https://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/

1938: The Palestine Postreported that an armed Arab gang was routed by troops in the Umm el-Fahm area. One British soldier was killed and three wounded in this operation, while numerous Arabs were killed, wounded or arrested. There was also unrest in the Acre northern district.

1938: The Palestine Postreported that the new High Commissioner, Sir Harold MacMichael, had outlined his immediate policy in a radio broadcast. He asked the rival parties in the area to reconcile their claims “upon an amended basis.”

1938: Today “Communist activity and propaganda were denounced at the closing session of the first national convention of the Jewish Labor Committee at the Capitol Hotel” where “delegates…representing more than 500,000 organized Jewish workers in this country, rejected suggested participation and cooperation with Communist groups” in the labor committee’s “fight against anti-Semitism and fascism)

1938: The Palestine Postreported that the first Palestinian “Who’s Who” was published by Masada in Tel Aviv.

1939(15th of Adar, 5699): Purim

1939: “Representative Sol Bloom of New York” is scheduled to “read President Roosevelt’s greeting from Washington today in a Purim festival program” being “broadcast by the National Broadcast Company that will include speeches by “Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein and Mrs. Moses L. Isaacs, the chariman of the women’s division of the Orthodox Union for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington.”

1939: “Plans for a ‘Jewish College of Exile’ at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and a program for a ten-year campaign of spiritual education by the college and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations were outlined” tonight “at a dinner at the Hotel Ambassador by Ralph W. Mack, hairman of the board of the college and Robert P. Goldman, president of the Union.”

1939: In Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Jack London, “a lapsed socialist who sold fabric, leather and vinyl for upholstery” and “Esta (Epstein) London gave birth to Herbert Ira London, the basketball playing Columbia graduate and husband of Vicki London, who made the transition from “New York Liberal” to self-proclaimed Conservative (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/herbert-london-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1940: The Nazis barred Jewish physicians from treating Aryans and vice-versa.

1940: Vladimir Jabotinsky, president of the New Zionist Organization of the World lectures on "The Fate of, Jewry" at Manhattan Center.

1940: “Three leaders of the Jewish Labor party were sentenced to three months in prison today on charges of organizing recent demonstrations against the British government that took place in Tel Aviv.

1940: Laborite M.P. Philip J. Noel introduced a motion to censure the British government in response to the newly enacted laws restricting the purchase of land in Palestine by Jews.   In defending the government’s action, Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, said, in effect, that the restrictions were put in place to placate the Arabs and avoid more Arab-led violence.  Baker contended that the enactment of the new laws was in violation of the rules of the League of Nations.  Furthermore he said that “if the Jews were not a weak and hunted race today, the British government would have repudiated the moral contract which we made with them while the last great was going on.”  Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader and Leopold S. Amery, the former Colonial Secretary spoke out against the government’s action, with Mr. Amery reminding the House that Winston Churchill also opposed the new rules.  All of the talk was useless since the Chamberlain government had the votes to thwart any vote of censure.

1941: In a move that does not bode well for Jews living in French North Africa, “Italian armistice commissioners have left French Morocco and their duties are being performed by German members of the commission.”

1941: As the Nazis tightened their control over Holland and its Jewish population  “Hollanders were warned today in a military court, which had heard a striking account of a secret organization for espionage and sabotage all over the Netherlands, that anyone who conspired, even in thought, against the German Army was playing with a death sentence.”

1942: Adolph Eichmann talked of deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Old Reich. He emphasized the importance of secrecy.

1943: In Swieciany, Ukraine, 20 youths armed with two revolvers escaped the ghetto and hid in the forest.

 1943: The Bulgarian army started to liquidate Jewish property. All confiscated gold and silver was deposited it in sealed packages in the Bulgarian National Bank. Many Bulgarian officials became rich by stealing from the Jews.

1944: An internal memo from the United States Government War Refugee Board states that the United States was negotiating the purchase of a ship for $400,000. The S.S. Necat would be donated to the Turkish Red Crescent after evacuating 5,000 Jewish refugee children from Romania to Palestine.  

1945: “The demands of Jews to be represented as a nation in the peace conference are growing in Middle East Zionist circles, and it was reported” in Cairo “today that David Ben Gurion of the Jewish Agency is soon to visit Britain and America to push the claims.

1946: “One person was killed and several others were injured in recent disturbances between Germans and displace persons at the Jewish displaced persons camp at Zeilsheim near Frankfort, United States authorities said today.”  (The Nazis got to keep their country while their Jewish victims got to languish in the hell of DP camps.)

1946: Today, “the Union of American Hebrew Congregations adopted a twelve point statement on ‘Judaism and the Moral Challenges of Today’ and elected officers and excusive board members” today in Cincinnati “in the closing hours of the biennial assembly.”

1947: Birthdate of John Stossel, the Chicago born journalist who was born to two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who raised him as a Protestant.

1947: In the Bronx, “Estelle Reiner (née Lebost), an actress, and Carl Reiner, a renowned comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director” gave birth to actor and director Rob Reiner best known for his role of “Meathead.” Archie Bunker’s son-in-law in the comedy hit “All in the Family.”

1947: In his second visit to Tel Aviv in two days, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the former President of the Zionist organization and world-class chemist, told a group of civic leaders that he is setting aside his research to do whatever he can to help the people on the coastal plain who are living under strict martial law.  

1947: “The Guilt of Janet Ames” a post-WWII movie directed by Henry Levin, produced by Helen Deutsch, with a screenplay co-authored by Devery Freeman and Allen Rifkin and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States today.

1947: In a demonstration of how successful their campaign has been, British authorities announced today that “25 known terrorists have been captured in Palestine in recent days.”  Authorities said that many of them are members of Irgun or the Stern Gang.

1948: It was announced today that the Joint Distribution Committee “has appropriated $50,400 for emergency aid and relief” for Jews in the British protectorate of Aden where “Arab violence…has totally paralyzed Jewish business” and led to “four synagogues and two schools” being “looted and ruined.”

1949: Birthdate of Norman Spector, the native of Montreal who after a career as a civil servant became publisher of the Jerusalem Post in 1997.

1948: In New York City, the former Sheila Lorna Siegel and businessman Stanley Leonard Schwartz gave birth to Carnegie Mellon University graduate Stephen Lawrence Schwartz, the Grammy award winning composer and lyricist who gave us “Godspell” and “Pippin.”

1949: In Los Angeles, novelist Blossom Elfman (aka “Clare Elfman”) and elementary school teacher Milton Elfaman gave birth to actor, director and author Richard “Rick” Elfman.

1949: On the second day of Operation Uvda “the Negev Brigade travelled to Sde Avraham and began to clear land for an airfield there” and that night the “7th Brigade reinforcements from the Gahal platoon arrived by air in the newly cleared airfield” carrying “supplies and fuel vital to continue the operation.”

 

1950(17th of Adar, 5710): Fifty-your year old Lew Lehr, the comedian, writer and editor who authored Lew Lehr's Cookbook for Men and Stop Me If You've Heard This One passed away toda

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19500307&id=M5EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oOUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6834,3478241

1951: Tonight, when his Unit's positions at Yangpyong were overrun by the enemy Pvt, Leonard M Kravitz voluntarily manned a machine-gun position, forcing the enemy to direct its efforts against him and helping his comrades to retreat.

1951: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg go on trial charged with espionage for providing secret information concerning the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union.  In this case the defendants, the prosecutor and the Judge will all be Jews.  But right-wing America fixated on the ethnicity of the defendants and used it to equate beings Jewish with being anti-American.

1953: U.S. premiere of “Battle Circus” a Korean War movie directed by Richard Brooks (b. Ruben Sax) and produced by Pandro S. Berman.

1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that Stalin¹s condition was very grave.

1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that The World Jewish Conference, scheduled to open in Zurich was postponed.

1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill had promised that the British sales of jet aircraft to Arab States would take care to preserve the balance of power in the area.

1954: “New Faces” a film adaptation of 1952 musical revue directed by Harry Horner and written by Mel Brooks was released today in the United States.

1956: CBS Television broadcast the last episode of “Meet Millie,” a sitcom that had featured Marvin Kaplan as Alfred Prinzmetal

1956(23rd of Adar, 5716): Seventy-five-year-old Russian born Englishman Abraham Joseph Hyman, the Titanic survivor and husband of Esther Levy with whom he had five children – Julius, Ann, Lilian, Morris and Ena – passed away today.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/abraham-hyman.html

1957: United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.  Israel and Ghana formed several joint ventures including a shipping company.  The leaders of Ghana and other emerging African countries saw Israel as a non-threatening source of Western technology and training.  The African leaders were afraid that accepting similar assistance from the major Western powers would lead to re-colonization, something they did fear from the tiny nation of Israel.  The Israelis provided aid to Ghana and other newly independent countries as a way of breaking out of the diplomatic and economic isolation that the Arabs and their allies were trying to use to destabilize and destroy the Jewish state.

1957: Israel withdrew its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.  The withdrawal followed the October, 1956 war with Egypt.  The Americans and the Soviets joined forces to make the Israelis leave.  They saved President Nasser of Egypt.  The Soviets quickly re-armed Nassar.  The American action had the effect of giving Nasser a free hand to follow his Pan-Arab dream which included the destruction of the state of Israel. 

1958(14th of Adar, 5718): Purim

1958: U.S. Premiere of “Star Struck” directed by Sidney Lumet and co-starring Susan Strasberg.

1959:  Birthdate of actor Tom Arnold.

1964: Allan Sherman sang “The Dropouts March” on tonight’s edition of “That Was The Week That Was.

1964: Jewish movie star Liz Taylor divorced Jewish “crooner” Eddie Fisher so that she could marry Richard Burton. Fisher and Taylor were Jewish – he by birth, she by choice.

1965: “Alain Calmat of France won the men’s world figure skating championship in Colorado Springs, CO today” (As reported by Bob Wechsler)

1965: On the day before her 17th birthday, Vivian Joseph joined her brother Ronald to “win a silver medal in pairs skating.”

1966(14th of Adar, 5726): Purim

1967: Today, “the architect, Saul Berkoiwtiz, gave an elaborate description” of the Chapel planned for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal which “will seat approximately 289 people, cover an area 50 feet by 70 feet” with “windows that will be fitted with solar bronze glass.”

1967: In New York City, Arlene and Daniel Greenwald gave birth to “lawyer, journalist and author” Glenn Greenwald.

http://glenngreenwald.net/

1969: Twenty-nine people, most of whom were students were injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in the cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

1969: One person was injured when a terrorist exploded a grenade at a bank in Al Bireh

1969: Yonatan Netanyahu wrote to his parents, "In another week I'll be 23. On me, on us, the young men of Israel, rests the duty of keeping our country safe. This is a heavy responsibility, which matures us early... I do not regret what I have done and what I'm about to do. I'm convinced that what I am doing is right. I believe in myself, in my country and in my future"

1971: Publication of “Diplomacy in the Living Room.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10810F83A55127B93C4A91788D85F458785F9

1972: Birthdate of Israeli Olympic swimmer Yoav Bruck

1973: Marcel Marceau appears at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA.

1974(12th of Adar, 5734): Forty-nine-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author and cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/further-intimations-of-immortality.html

1975(21st of Adar, 5735): Eleven people were killed and twelve more were injured during a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.

1975: “On the ABC late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera), two assassination researchers presented the first-ever network television showing of the Zapruder home movie.

1976(4th of Adar II, 5736): "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom light-heavyweight box champion from 1932 to 1934 passed away at the age of 71.  Rosenbloom boxed during a period when Jews dominated the ring.  In 1933, during Maxie's reign as light-heavyweight champion, Jewish boxers were the champions in four out of the eight weight classes.

1977(16th of Adar, 5737): Shushan Purim

1977(16th of Adar, 5737): Seventy-six-year-old Richard Jacob Mack, the son of Bertha and Jacob William Mack and the husband of Elizabeth Mack passed away today in his home town of Cincinnati.

1978: Birthdate of Sage Rosenfels, the native of Maqkoketa, Iowa, who as quarterback, led Iowa State University to its victory in a bowl game before going to a career in the NFL.

1978:The Jerusalem Postreported that Premier Menachem Begin, on the eve of his departure to the US, was adamant that Resolution 242 did not specify the withdrawal of the “territories occupied in the recent conflict” and that the war of 1967 was a war of national self-defense, while the West Bank was never under Jordanian sovereignty. Begin did not rule out any West Bank territorial compromise, but argued that 242 was unspecific, and Israel reserved its position until there was a practical prospect of negotiating the issue.

1981: Canadian attorney Samuel “Sam” Berger sold the Montreal Alouettes football team to a Vancouver businessman.

1981: The Mannes Orchestra performed under the baton of Yakov Kreizberg as part of his graduation ceremony from the Mannes College The New School for Music.

1981: U.S. premiere of “On the Right Track” featuring Herb Edelman and Norman Fell.

1982(11th of Adar, 5742): Russian born Ayn Rand, author and social commentator, passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/obituaries/07randobit.html

https://www.aynrand.org/

1984: Ninety-two-year-old “German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller passed away today. He is best known for his statement

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.

 

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

 

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.

 

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

1985(13th of Adar, 5745): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim

1986: “The West End production” of “Lend Me a Tenor” for which Jerry Zaks won a Tony Award as Best Director opened today at the Globe Theatre.

 

1986: In Santa Monica, CA, Penny Marienthal and Joseph Cross gave birth to actor Eli Marienthal whose two siblings Harley Cross and Flora Cross are also thespians.

1986: It was reported today that those who gathered at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to celebrate the wisdom of Maimonides whose work they have been studying for the past year  “were centuries removed from the life” of the sage “who was born 851 years ago in Cordoba, Spain.

1987(5th of Adar, 5747): Fifty-eight-year Edward Zorinsky, the Democrat who served as Mayor of Omaha and United States Senator from Nebraska while raising three children – Barry, Jeffrey and Susan – with his wife Cece.

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

1987: U.S. premiere of “Tin Men,” the second of Barry Levinson’s four “Baltimore films co-starring Richard Drefyus and Barbara Hershey, whose father was Jewish.

1989(29th of Adar I, 5749): Eighty-three-year-old Erwin Charles Ginsburg who earned All-Far Western Conference honors while playing for Fresno State College from 1925 thought 1929 passed away today.

1990: In Tel Aviv, architect Arik Ginzburg and his wife gave birth to fashion model Esti Ginzburg.

1991: Harry Heinz Schwarz began serving as the Ambassador of South Africa to the United States.

1991: “CBS Newsman Bob Smon Tells of Ordeal as Captured Jew” published today

http://www.jta.org/1991/03/06/archive/cbs-newsman-bob-simon-tells-of-ordeal-as-captured-jew

1992: U.S. premiere of “Once Upon A Crime” a comedy directed by Eugene Levy with a script co-authored by Nancy Meyers and co-starring Richard Lewis as “Julian Peters.”

1993: Having just completed a short run at the WPA, Paul Rudnick’s “Jeffrey” opened at the Off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre today.

1994: It was reported today that “The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles has installed stained-glass "Sephardic Heritage Windows" designed by Israeli artist Raphael Abecassis.”

1994: Twenty-six year old Rabbi David Keehn, who is legally blind, is one of 144 rabbis who is honored with formal ordination at the quadrennial Chag HaSemikhah (rabbinic convocation) of Yeshiva University's affiliated Rabbis Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in the Nathan Lamport Auditorium, Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Hall, New York City.

1995: FOX broadcast the final episode of “Models, Inc” directed by Paul Lazarus for which Aaron Spelling served as executive producer.

1997: Janet Rosenberg Jagan, the daughter of middle class Jewish parents from Chicago moved from being the first lady of Guyana to the role of Prime Minister.

1998: The Times of London featured a review of The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism and the Making of the Jewish State by Zeev Sternhell; translated by David Maisel.

2000: First showing of ''The Life of the Jews in Palestine'' at the Museum of Modern Art. The classic documentary was produced in 1913 by the Odessa-based Mizrakh Company and presumed to be lost for some 80 years -- has resurfaced in New York. This excellent new print with English inter-titles of Noah Sokolovsky's 78-minute silent film is quite likely the rarest of the rarities featured in the museum's 10-program tribute to France's national film archives, the Centre Nationale de la Cinematographie.

2001: As Israel braced for more terror attacks, Ariel Sharon finished creating “his unity government” as the Knesset prepared to pass legislation that would lead to “a fundamental restricting of Israel’s political system.

2002(22nd of Adar, 5762): Seventy-four-year-old “Walter Goodman, a former reporter and critic at The New York Times and the author of a widely read history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/walter-goodman-74-tv-critic-and-reporter-for-the-times.html

2002(22nd of Adar, 5762): Eighty-five-year-old Scottish economist and psychologist Ralph Glasser passed away today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389641/Ralph-Glasser.html

2003: Israel mourned the 15 people, at least 8 of whom were students under the age of 18, killed yesterday by a Palestinian terrorist in Haifa and prepared for their funerals tomorrow which, for many of the victims would take place “in the section of a Haifa cemetery reserved for victims of terrorism.

2004(11th of Adar, 5764): Ta’anit Esther

2004: Those opposed to the release of convicted Nazi war criminal who “was convicted in 1997 for a 1944 massacre in which more than 300 Italian civilians were killed” is scheduled to take place today.

 

 

2005: After 138 years, Rich's (as Rich's-Macy's) disappeared and became part of Macy’s-Central. Rich’s began as a dry goods store run by Morris Rich in 1876.

2005: The Washington Post book section features a review of Michael Medved’s autobiography, The Faith of a Critic.

2005: The Chicago Tribune reported that despite an anti-Semitic backlash, the renaissance of Jewish culture and religion continued its growth in Russia.  This “quiet cultural revolution” has been fueled, in part, by Jews who moved to Israel during starting in the 1970’s and have returned at the start of the 21st century. 

2005:  The New York Times reported that Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots made his thirtieth visit to Israel since 1963.  On this most recent visit he took the Lombardi Trophy which was proof of his teams’ Super Bowl Victory and showed it Prime Minister Sharon.  While Sharon is not known as a football fan, he posed for the obligatory photo with a major Jewish philanthropist.

2005: The New York Times reviewed Ester and Ruzya by Masha Gessen.  The title characters are Gessen’s grandmothers.  The biography tells how these two women maintained their Jewish identities while living through Stalin, Hitler and the Cold War.

2005: The cover story of The New York Times Magazine was “A Memory Loop” by Joseph Lelyveld featuring an account of life with his father Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld.

2006(6th of Adar, 5766): Ninety-seven-year-old Ruth F. Weiss, also known as Wèi Lùshī, an Austrian born Chinese “educator, journalist and lecturer” passed away today.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/06/2006/this-week-in-history-death-of-ruth-f-weiss-last-european-eyewitness-of-chinese

2007: The Colorado Jewish Artist’s Guild of the Mizel Museum hosts a workshop styled “Catapulting Your Visions to Achievements: Do You Want to Be A Working Artist or An Artist Who Works?”

2007: Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. was found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial. The one person convicted in the whole Plame Affair was a practicing Reform Jew. 

2008: As part of its Israel at 60 celebration, the 92nd Street Y presents “Lee Saar The Company & Netta Yerushalmy: Out of Israel” as two innovate Israeli dance companies join forces to present a compelling evening of duets.

2008(29th of Adar, 5768): Ninety-year-old screenwriter who was nominated for Best Story Oscar for “Naked City” passed away today.

2008(29th of Adar, 5768): Eight people were killed and nine others were wounded this evening when a terrorist infiltrated a Jerusalem yeshiva and opened fire. Three of the wounded in the attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood were serious condition and taken to Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Karem. The other six were lightly hurt and taken to Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center. One of the wounded is 15 years old. Magen David Adom emergency medical service declared the incident a "multiple casualty event."

2009: Agudas Achim hosts Shabbat Across Iowa City with an early Friday evening service followed by a Shabbat Dinner.

2009:Composer Samuel Adler lights up the marquee at Temple Emanuel’s Synaplex Shabbat service on Friday night. The German-born son of a cantor showcases a sampling of his music, performed by the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale.  In addition to putting his musical talents on display, Adler also exhibits his strong faith in a musical sermon.

2009: At the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, Kirk Douglas appears in “Before I Forget” a scripted one-Douglas show all about the 92-year-old Hollywood icon. . In this rare theatrical appearance, Douglas shares stories about his life and acting career — the stroke he suffered in 1996 that left him unable to speak, his numerous starring roles and his return to Judaism.

2009:  Today was a double-header for Jews and the criminal justice system.  The lawyers for Bernard Madoff, the goniff who ran the biggest Ponzi Scheme in history, has taken steps that could lead to him pleading guilty as early as next Tuesday. In Des Moines, a federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss illegal immigration and bank fraud charges against Agriprocessors Inc. and its former owner/manager, Sholom Rubashkin.  Rubashkin’s attorneys asked that the charges be dismissed claiming the grand jury proceedings were tainted by improper comments about religion, race and anti-Semitism.  In her rule, Chief Judge Linda Reade rejected the claims pointing out that the statements under discussion were made by witnesses by the members of the Grand Jury.  Additionally, she was highly critical of the defense’s expert witness saying that reasoning was “flawed” and that she had a “deep unfamiliarity with the federal grand jury process.”

2009: The Foreign Ministry said today it had closed its embassy after the government of Mauritania, an overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation asked the Israeli ambassador and his staff to leave.

2009: In Davis Cup competition, Thomas Johansson put Sweden ahead of Israel with a five-set win over Harel Levy Israel’s Duda Sela even the series with a five-set victory against Andreas Vinciquerra.

2010 (5770): Shabbat Parah

2010: The 40thAnnual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches” opened in Philadelphia, PA.

2010: Theater J in association with Jonathan Reinis Productions is scheduled to present the World Premiere of Andy Warhol - Good for the Jews?

2010: In London, UK, Jewish Book Week came to an end.

2010: U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell met with Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv today as he began a round of meetings aimed at relaunching peace negotiations.

2011: Today, Professor Geoffrey Alderman was named the recipient of the Chaim Bermant Prize for Journalism.

http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/

2011: Veretski Pass is scheduled to perform their new composition “Klezmer Shul” as well as their standard repertoire and some special surprises at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, CA as part of the Jewish Music Festival.

http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/veretski-pass

2011: Mlle. God” by playwright Nick Kazan is scheduled to have is final performance at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles.

2011: “Down Home,” a multi-media project that “celebrates Jewish contributions to North Carolina social, civic and commercial life” that has been appearing at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh is scheduled to come to a close today.

2011: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis — Suez and the Brink of War by David A. Nichols

2011: Most of the Israel’s welfare services will be suspended indefinitely starting today morning after negotiations between representatives of social workers and the Finance Ministry broke down two days ago.

2011: A sanitation worker of the Jerusalem Municipality was moderately injured today by an explosion apparently set off when he picked up a garbage bag in Jerusalem.

2011(30th of Adar I, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

2011(30th of Adar I, 5771) Ninety-two year old Dr. Sholom Omi Waife a noted writer and medical researcher who was the grandson of Sholom  Aleichem passed away today.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=sholom-omi-waife-md&pid=149526929

2012: The annual AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its annual Humanitiarian Awards Dinner.

2012: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a noontime screening of “Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics,”

2012: Jewish Women's Morning at the Capitol (JWMC) is scheduled to take place in St. Paul, MN.

2012: Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt is scheduled to deliver the annual Charles Grossman Lecture In Jewish Intellectual History entitled “History Written, History Re-Written: On American, The Holocaust and Playing the Blame Game” at The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El

2012: The organization Peace Now filed a complaint with police this morning after a death threat was made against director Yariv Oppenheimer the night before. (As reported by Ben Hartman)

2012: Following the death of Robert Sherman, the founder of Music World, “his son Robert J. Sherman succeeded him as CEO and President.”

2012(12th of Adar, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old “Albert Abramson, who became a principal force in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington by using the same pragmatic approach that had made him a successful developer of apartments, offices and malls” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/albert-abramson-94-holocaust-museum-advocate.html?hpw

 

 

2012: Israel Military Industries will be barred from submitting bids for Indian defense contracts for the next ten years, along with five other firms, The Times of India reported today.

2013: The Humanitarian Awards Dinner co-sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to take place this evening in Chicago, Illinois.

2013: To mark its acquisition of the defense archive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a public panel discussion on the subject of Anglo-Jewish responses to domestic fascism in the 1930s.

2013: “The Last White Knight: Is Reconciliation Possible?” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premier tonight at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.

2013: The Hebrew language edition of Playboy will be available on newsstands today in Israel.

2013: “Agriculture Ministry workers armed with pesticides went into action at first light today morning, distributing both aerial and ground sprays in the area where millions of locusts descended upon southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula the day before.” (As reported by Sharon Udasin)

2013: New York police today said they arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died.

2013: A global Shi’ite terrorism network made up of Iranian Quds Force operatives and Hezbollah continues to target Israelis overseas, the National Security Council’s counterterrorism bureau warned today, ahead of the Passover vacation season.

2013: The Los Angeles mayoral runoff opened today with Democrats Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greue, each of whom have Jewish connections, fighting over who can best craft an image of fiscal restraint in a cash-strapped city whose voters refuse to raise taxes to maintain public services.

2014: Shaul Magid, professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington is scheduled to deliver a lecture “After Multiculturalism: Postethnicity and Judaism in America” at the University of Colorado Boulder.

2014: Leslie Maitland is scheduled to discuss “Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile and Love Reclaimed.”

2014: “Dove’s Cry and “Sukkah City” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.

2014(4th of Adar II, 5774): Eighty-year-old theatre critic and author Martin Gottfried passed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)

http://www.faber.co.uk/author/martin-gottfried/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/theater/martin-gottfried-theater-critic-and-author-dies-at-80.html

2014: Dr. Rose Cohen is scheduled speak on “Facets of Holocaust Research: Victims and Survivors, Possessions and Plunder Search strategies and Integrating Resources” at the Center for Jewish History.

2014: A source at the Foreign Ministry confirmed today that the trip of Pope Francis scheduled for this May has been cancelled because Foreign Ministry workers “are currently on strike and are unable to make the necessary arrangements for the visit.”

2014: In Columbus, Ohio, Abbie and Feivel Straus have a new daughter; Joseph Straus has a new sister and Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber have a new granddaughter.

2014: Today’s decision “in Crimea’s parliament to hold a referendum on March 16 asking whether the semi-autonomous region should become part of Russia took some members of the peninsula’s 17,000-strong Jewish community by surprise.”

2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the “penultimate Friday night dinner.”

2015: Agudas Achim is scheduled to host “Shabbat Across Iowa City.”

2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Club Regent Event Center in Winnipeg, Canada.

2015: “In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases” published today Adam Nagrourney described the assault that Rachel Beyda endured from members of the Undergraduate Students Association because, as they said, she “a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community.”

2015: “Police in the northern town of Dokkum said in a statement today that they are investigating the attempted sale of the soap online dating back to WW II  that purportedly contains remains of Jews murdered in the Holocaust,

 

2015: “Five people were injured Friday morning in a car-ramming terror attack near a Jerusalem Light Rail station in the north of the city.”

2015: “Deli-Man” a documentary by Erik Greenberg Anjou opened in New York City.

2016: “A tribute to Ephraim Kishon’s work that includes

2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir by Joel Grey with Rebecca Paley and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan

2016: Hunter College is scheduled to host the Sixth Annual Diaspora-Israeli Russian Film Festival.

2016: In Iowa City Rabbi Avremel and Chaya Blesofsky are scheduled to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of their son Yehoshua.

2016: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “a very special one-time-only performance of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen."

2016: Evelyn “Evie” Banko, a native of Vienna whose family fled after the Anschluss, is scheduled to speak at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

2016: “A Torah scroll from the synagogue in the northern Italian town of Biella has been identified as probably the oldest in the world still owned and used by a Jewish community” is scheduled to “returned to the Biella synagogue at a ceremony” today.

2016: Temple Beth Ami is scheduled to Dr. Ramon Tasat speaking on the “Music of the Jews In Italy” – a lecture that includes musical selections.

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Hershey Felder in “George Gershwin Alone.”

2007: The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to host “Out of the Whirlwind: Hugh Mesibov and the Legacy of the Book of Job” during which Mordechai Cohen will “explore the character of the Book of Job and its legacy within the Jewish imagination.”

2017: The Times of Israel is scheduled to host a screening of “Norman” at Cinema City In Jerusalem

2018: In Washington, DC, the annual AIPAC Conference is scheduled to come to an end today.  (Editor’s note – you have to wonder how many of the attendees feel about the fact the state of Israel does not recognize them as Jews and/or does not regard their religious practices as being Jewish?)

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Hummus Off where teams compete to create the best form of this Oriental treat.

2018: The screening of “The Jews of Syria” is scheduled to be shown at the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival “followed by an After Party! Featuring Music by Maury and Josh Blanco, Mazza and a special performance by crooner Steven Chera and his quartet.”

2019: Tonight’s opening of the 22nd NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to include the New York Premiere of “El Hara.” 

2019: At the Jewish Book Festival, Anna Nyburg and Daniel Snowman are scheduled to examine Insiders/Outsiderswhich “examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom.”

2019: In Beverly Hills, CA, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled “to honor Sylvie and Mark Deutsch and Linda and Tony Rubin as they receive the National Leadership Award.

2019: In Washington, DC, Adas Israel is scheduled to host its annual Latke-Hamentasch Debate.

http://www.jewishstudycenter.org/

2020: The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the screening of the “Keeper” and “Golda’s Balcony.”

2020: “The Booksellers,” a documentary about rare book sellers co-produced by Judith Mizrachy and featuring Fran Leibowitz amongst others, was released today in the United States.

2020: In Louisiana, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to begin a weekend Shabbaton “featuring Scholar-in-Residence Tanya Farber, a student at Yeshivat Maharat.:

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to Friday night preceded by an orthodox minyan and a student-led egalitarian minyan

2020:” Chained” and “God of the Piano” are scheduled to be shown at the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival

2020: MoMA is scheduled to host a screening of “Berlin-Jerusalem” with a screenplay by Amos Gitai the film’s director.

2020: In Brookline, MA, the Chai Center is scheduled to host “First Fridays Shabbat Dinner” preceded by Kabbalat Shabbat services.

2021: The Boston Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to present online “a collection of some of Israel’s best new short cinema.”

2021: Temple Emunah is scheduled to present online a “Kiddush Schmooze and Q&A With Comedian and Activist Pamela Schuller.”

2021: In Columbus, OH, at Tefereth Israel Lola Lewin, the daughter of Stephanie and Adam Lewin is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.

2021: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Israeli author of “One Night Markovitch,” “Walking Lions” and “The Liar” is scheduled to give a talk exploring truth, lies and the truth that hides inside lies” sponsored by Congregation Beth Am.

2021(22nd of Adar, 7801): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

This Day, March 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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322 BCE:  Aristotle passed away. “Aristotle was almost universally held in esteem by the Jews; at one time for his intelligence and mental power, at another as a penitent sinner. The following is Maimonides' verdict concerning him: "The words of Plato, Aristotle's teacher, are obscure and figurative: they are superfluous to the man of intelligence, inasmuch as Aristotle supplanted all his predecessors. The thorough understanding of Aristotle is the highest achievement to which man can attain, with the sole exception of the understanding of the Prophets." Shem-Ṭob ben Isaac of Tortosa (1261) styles Aristotle "the master of all philosophers." Elijah b. Eliezer of Candia, who edited the "Logic" about the end of the fourteenth century, calls Aristotle "the divine," because, having been endowed by nature with a sacredly superior intellect, he could understand of himself what others could receive only from the instruction of their teachers.”

161: Roman emperor Antoninus Pius passed away.  He was the handpicked successor of Hadrian.  Antonious undid the anti-Jewish decrees of his predecessor and when he died the Jewish people lost one of the few friends they ever had sitting on the throne in Rome.

161: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus are named co-Emperors of the Roman Empire following the death of Antonious Pius.  Marcus Aurilius had little understanding or appreciation of the Jewish people.  He described them as “stinking and tumultuous” when he traveled through Judea. He reportedly said that he preferred the company of Germanic barbarians to that of Jews.

321: Constantine I, the first Christian Roman Emperor decreed that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.  Thus would begin the conflict between the Christian Sunday and the Jewish Saturday.  Of course, the commandment says to hallow the 7th day and Sunday is the first day of the week.

974: John of Gorze, the monk and diplomat also known as John of Lorraine, the representative of Otto I who so was so impressed with Hasdai ibn Shaprut when the latter was negotiating on behalf of Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III that he said that he had "never seen a man of such subtle intellect as the Jew Hasdeu" passed away today.[ML1] 

1190(20th of Adar, 4950): During the Lenten Fair, Crusaders filled “with passion for crusade” and jealousy over the supposed wealth of the Jews, slaughtered them at Stamford, England.

1236(21st of Adar, 4996): The Jews of Narbonne began celebrating the Purim of Narbonne after Don Aymeric, the governor, intervened to protect the Jews from marauding Christian  who had already carried off the library of Reb Meir ben Isaac as they made their riotous way through the Jewish quarter.

1274: Catholic theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas passed away.  While no friend of the Jews, Aquinas’ view of Jews was a little better than the average one held by ecclesiastical and temporal leaders of his time.  He opposed conversions at the point of the sword.  He opposed the murder of Jews.  He felt they should be allowed to live so they could serve as eternal witnesses to “the truth of Christianity.”  The views of this influential Catholic theologian are best summed up in a letter to a widow who had inherited a duchy that included what is now Belgium and the Netherlands.  “It is true, as the laws declare, that in consequence of their sin (rejecting Jesus) Jews were destined to perpetual servitude, so that sovereigns of state may treat Jewish goods as their own property, save for the sole proviso that they do not deprive them of that is necessary to sustain life.”  In other words, Jews could live, but they could only live a miserable life.  Aquinas also made it respectable for Catholic nobles to borrow from Jews and then not repay their debts.

1291: Arghun Khan aka Argon, a devote Buddhist and “the fourth ruler of Mongol empire’s Ilkhanate” who “was friendly with Jews and Christians” in this predominately Moslem part of the world and whose “chief counselor was a Jew, Sa'ad al-Daulah, a physician of Baghdad” passed away today touching off a violent attack by Moslems on the Jews of Baghdad.

1361(30th of Adar): Rabbi Simeon ben Zemah Duran, author of Sefer ha-Rashbaz passed away

1612 OS (13th of Adar II, 5372): Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe, the son of Abraham ben Joseph passed away at Prague.  Born in 1530, he was the Rosh Yeshiva in Prague and author of “Levush Malkhut, a ten-volume codification of Jewish law that particularly stressed the customs of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09950.html

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112323/jewish/Rabbi-Mordechai-Yoffe-The-Levush.htm

1693: Birthdate of Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, who as Pope Clement XIII would rule that there was no substance to the claim that Jews used blood in the preparation of their unleavened bread. Among other things he intervened with the Polish church and nobles and ordered the protection of Jacob Zelig, the Jewish spokesperson that the Polish Jews had sent to Rome to plead their case.

1738: Seckel and Levi Moses Ulf, the owner of a ribbon factory that in 1720 “was required by the Crown Prince Frederick to supply all the royal regiments with the necessary braid” were married today

1748: Birthdate of William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau who “donated a considerable sum for a new menorah” when he stayed with Benjamin Cohen in Amersfort and whose wife gave the same community a curtain for the congregation’s Holy Ark.

1754(13th of Adar, 5514): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim

1788: The Jews of the Netherlands celebrated the birthday of William V as holiday as a sign of the support for the Prince of Orange.

1789: Today, “the authorized Superintendents of the Poor for the synagogues of the Triple Congregation issued an appeal, in which they asked for “generous gifts” for the poor on the occasion of the Purim holiday.

1789: Birthdate of Michel Martin Drolling the French painter who counted among his student the Alsatian Jew, Benjamin Ulmann whose works include “Sylla and Manus” which hangs in the Luxembourg Palace.

1792(13th of Adar, 5551): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim

1793: In “Phalsbourg, France Lorraine, Barcuh Gougenheim, the “son of Jacob Wolff Guggenheim and Sara Guggenheim” and his wife Rosel Rosette Rosele Goughenheim gave birth to Isaac Gougenheim

1793: In Wallerstein, Germany, Regina Wassermann and Loew Isaac Weil gave birth to Gel Weil, the wife of Isaac Jacob Bamberger whom she married in 1816 and the mother of Sara, Elkan, David, Aaron and Moses Bamberger.

1794: Mrs. Emanuel Abrahams, the wife of Emanuel Abrahams, was buried in Charleston, SC today.

1799: (30th of Adar I, 5559): Rosh Chodesh Adar II.

1799: As Napoleon Bonaparte fought his way across Palestine, his army defeated “a 12,000-strong mixed force of Al Jazzar and the Mamluks” and captured the port city of Jaffa. In one of the first examples of what would become a recurring theme, westerners used modern technology to defeat a Muslim army.  In this case, Napoleon use of bombardments from his heavy artillery was the key to victory.  Following the victory, the French commander “set out to try and gain political advantages from his military achievements. Letters and proclamations were directed at the Sultan, the various communities of Palestine and Syria and their leaders, Akhmad Jasar, the pasha of Acre and commander-in-chief (seraskir) of the Ottoman forces at that time.  All these aimed at paving the way for the complete occupation of the Holy Land by negotiation or by making alliances and contacts to ease further military conquest. Among these was the contact with the Jewish communities in Palestine and Syria, the first de facto attention to the Jews as a potential factor in international policy in modern times.”

1799: The Royal Institution an organization devoted to scientific education and research is founded in London.  The Royal Institution today is led by director Baroness Susan Greenfield, renowned scientist and the daughter of Jewish parents.

1801: In Huerben, Germany, Rebeka Heimann and Chaim Guggenheimer

1802(3rd of Adar II): Rabbi Noah Chaim Zevi Berlin, author of Azei Arazim, passed away.

1803: Fifty-year-old Naphtali ben Benjamin was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1807: On the day before “the Great Sanhedrin presented its responses and formally ended its proceedings, Rabbi Sinzheim delivered a short summary of its conclusions and proclaimed them as nothing less than a ‘social pact’ between ‘the People of God and the People of France.’”

1809: Birthdate of Meïr Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Weiser the Russian rabbi known by the acronym Malbim the opponent of Reform whose literary works included a commentary on “Esther” published in 1845.

1815: Just south of Grenoble, Marshall Ney turned his back on King Louis XVIII and embraced Napoleon which was a major step on his attempt to return to power which might have nullified those reactionary forces that would re- impose the restrictions of the ancient on the Jews of Europe.

1815: In London, Alice and Joseph Cashmore gave birth to Michael Cashmore, the Sydney, Australia businessman who “was the first Jewish settler of Melbourne where he  owned a haberdashery business and raised a family with his wife “Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Solomon.”

1818: Birthdate of German born historian, author and Rabbi David Cassel, the brother of Selig Cassel.

1818: In Kassel, Germany Mayer Japhet and Deborah Weinberg gave birth to Israel Meyer Japhet who “was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt am Main under Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.”

1819: Today’s minutes of The Nidhe Israel Synagogue in Bridgetown, Barbados “record a request from Philadelphia for assistance in building a synagogue” for which “five hundred dollars was granted.”

1822(14th of Adar, 5582): Purim

1822: Turkish soldiers killed 60 Jews in Bucharest.

1824: Il crociato in Egitto (The Crusade in Egypt), an opera in two acts by Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, premiered at La Fenice theatre in Venice, Italy.

1825:  Birthdate of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Edersheim converted to Christianity before the age of 20. He was the author of The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiahwhich is considered by many Christians to be a classic study on this topic.

1826: In Stamford Hill, London, England, Ellen Levy and Abraham Solomon gave birth to Catherine Solomon.

1826: Birthday of Sara Adler who after her marriage became Sara Adler Wolf.

1828: One day after he had passed away 52-year-old Nathan Nathan was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1828(21stof Adar, 5588): Noted Talmudist Jacob Lazarus Riesser, the father of Gabriel Riesser and “the son-in-law by Raphael b. Jekuthiel Süsskind ha-Kohen, the incumbent of the rabbinate of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck” passed away today in Hamburg.

1828: In London, Ellen Alice Jacobs and Gabriel Simmons gave birth to Henry Simmons who married Hannah Harris in 1864 in Dublin, Ireland.

1829: One day after she had passed away, 30-year-old Betsey Micholls, “the youngest daughter of Simon and Rosey Hyam” and the wife of Meir Micholls was buried today at the “Colby Gate Jewish Burial Ground” a Great Yarmouth.

1830: The body of Mordecai Benet, the Moravian rabbi who had passed away in 1829 while “taking a cure in Carlsbad,” was exhumed from “the cemetery in Lichtenstadt, near Carlsbad and reburied in the Nikolsburg Cemetery” today.

1833(16thof Adar I, 5593): Sixty-one-year-old Rahel Antonie Friederike (née Levin) the German author and hostess to the leading intellectuals of her time who had an asteroid named in her honor and who was the subject of Hannah Arendt’s 1958 biography Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess passed away today.

1839: In Kassel, Meyer Bär (Moritz) Mond and Henrietta Levinsohn gave birth Dr. Ludwig Mond a German-born British chemist and industrialist.

1841(14thof Adar, 5601): Purim

1844: Birthdate of French historian Gabriel Monod who in 1897 stated in a letter published by Le Temps“his conviction that Dreyfus was innocent and demanded that his case be reviewed, denying that it would be an insult to the army: ‘There is no shame in an error that is consciously committed and consciously rectified.’”

1847: In Stuttgart, Germany, “Moriz Eichberg, Oberantor of Wurtemberg and Lenore Seligsberg gave birth to Julie Rosewald the wife of Jacob Rosewald who for “ten years was the solo soprano at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco” where she sang and recited “the parts of the service usually sung and recited by the Cantor and served as the Professor of Vocal Music at Mills College

1849: The Emperor Franz Joseph “promulgated his own constitution which granted equal civic and political rights to all citizens, regardless of religious confession” as a result of which “the Jews were emancipated by imperial fiat and not by the popularly elected Reichstag.”

1849: One day after he had passed away, Barnet Raphael, the husband of Leah Abraham and the father of Abraham Raphael was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1851: A poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia was discontinued.

1854: Michael Nathan married Sarah Mitchel today at the Great Synagogue.

1856: A letter from the Hahambashi discusses "reforms" to institute in the Jewish community. The Judeo-Spanish language is discussed, "As the language taught by the Jews of the Levant is not, properly speaking, a language, and cannot be useful to the youth, we order the creation of free schools for the poor where Turkish, Greek, French, and Italian will be taught."

1857: In Berlin, attorney Siegfried Borchardt and his wife Helen gave birth to painter Felix Richard Siegfried Borchardt.

1857: Birthdate of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, the Austrian born physician and Nobel Prize Winner.  Apparently, he saw no conflict between the fact that he had been a student of Salomon Stircker, the Jewish pathologist and his support of the Nazis.

 

1860: Birthdate of Austrian physicist Adler Gottlier who earned a doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1882 and developed an expertise in the fields of “electricity and magnetism.”

1860(13th of Adar, 5620): Ta’anit Esther

1860(13th of Adar, 5620): Fifty-eight-year-old Italian poet and book collector Joseph Almanzi passed away today in Trieste.

1863: “The Purim Ball. A Jewish Festival – A Great Success” published today reported that “No one of the ancient Hebraic celebrities holds a more absolute sway in the affections of the Jews of this day than Esther, the beautiful and pious spouse of Ahasuerus. In commemoration of the signal service rendered by that estimable lady to her nation, on the occasion of the timely elevation of Haman, the envious enemy of her uncle Mordecai, whose daily place of rest was in the neighborhood of the King's gate, the Jewish people yearly observe the Feast of Purim. In this City, the first grand ball of the Purim Association was given last year, with marked success, and the second was given on Thursday night, at the Academy of Music. The building was very elegantly and tastefully decorated and most brilliantly illuminated, the floor was laid for dancing, and the usual magnificence of the Academy incredibly enhanced.” [Please note, this article which showed a certain comprehension and approval for this minor Jewish holiday appeared in a United States newspaper at a time when Jews comprised approximately 1% of the Jewish population.]

1863: Philip Lang completed his service with Company I of the 37thRegiment which had begun on June 20, 1861,

1866(20th of Adar, 5626): Birthdate of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein who was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century.

1869: Birthdate of Ernst Julius Cohen “a Dutch chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals” who was gassed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.

1871(14th of Adar, 5631): Purim

1871: Receptions celebrating Purim were held at numerous New York Jewish institutions including the Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, the Orphans Home and the Industrial Home on west 17thStreet.

1871: Henry Cardoza and Mary Levi were married this morning by Justice Buckley in Brooklyn’s Second District Police Court.  Cardoza opted for a civil ceremony because he could not afford a rabbi.

1872(27th of Adar I, 5632): Jekuthiel Süsskind (Süssel) Rapoport, a leader of the Russian Jewish community passed away today.  Born in 1802, he was the son of Rabbi Chaim ha-Koen and the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim ha-Koen Rapoport. He and his brother Jacob, rabbi of Ostrog, published their father's work "Mayim Ḥayyim"

1974(13th of Adar, 5734): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim

1974(13th of Adar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Irma Shloss Mannheimer, the daughter of Max and Rose Sheuermann Sholss, the wife of Eugene Mannheimer whom she had marred in 1917 passed away today after which she was buried at the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.

1875(30th of Adar I, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1875: In Ciboure, France, Marie Delouart and Pierre-Joseph Ravel gave birth to composer Maurice Ravel, who most famous work may be “Bolero” and whom the JTA described as being a “Jewish composer” even though both of his parents were Roman Catholics.

1876: Attendance at tonight’s fancy dress ball sponsored by the Purim Association is expected to be greater than at such past events.  The Association has increased its membership which should me more revelers will be dining and dancing at Delmonico’s.

1876: “Ben Israel or Under the Curse,” a 4 hour long drama about the travails of a Jewish patriarch named Ben Israel, his granddaughter Rachel and her suitors was described in a review published today as being “destitute of originality, coherence and interest.”

1878: Joseph Seligman was elected as one of the vice presidents of the newly formed American Pig Lead Association at a meeting of the leading lead miners and dealers held at St. Louis, MO.

1878: Reverend George H. Hepworth, a Unitarian Minister is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Our American Homes” to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association who are meeting at Lyric Hall in New York City.

1879: In New York’s Court of General Session, Judge Henry A. Gildersleeve heard evidence before rendering a decision on the application of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to force Leopold, Felix and Alfred Salomon to pay six dollars a week in support of their 70 year old widowed mother, Fanny Salomon.  The brother’s contested the request saying that she had rejected their offers to live with them and that she had been able to pay for a trip to France which would indicate she was not destitute.

1879: Birthdate movie director and muralist Hugo Ballin.

http://thejewniverse.com/2014/the-great-jewish-muralist-of-los-angeles/

1879: In Cleveland, OH, Julius and Bertha (Federman) Benesch gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Alfred A. Benesch, a partner in the Cleveland law firm of Herrick, Hopkins, Stockwell and Benesch, the husband of Helen Newman and a leader in the Jewish community who served as the treasurer of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver and a member of Tifereth Israel while authoring several articles including “The Jew at Harvard.”

https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/benesch-alfred-abraham

1880: Nineteen-year-old Hedwig Goldschmidt married Herman Hirsch Cramer, the son of Jacob Cramer and Caroline Furth today.

1880: A service was held to this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El to honor the memory of the late Isaac Adophe Creimieux, the Frenchman who had served as President of the Universal Israelite Alliance. When word reached New York that the 84-year-old philanthropist and statesman had passed away, the Board of Delegates on Civil and Religious Rights of the Union of American Hebrew congregations recommended a city-wide service.  This afternoon’s service was a collaborative effort of 11 congregations under the leadership of Louis May.

1880: Former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu B. Washburne was the featured speaker at today’s memorial service in Chicago held at Temple Sinai to honor the memory of the late Adolphe Cremieux.

1883: Herzl withdraws from the Akademische Burschenschaft Albia. ("Ich sagte den edlen jungen Leuten Lebewohl und fing nun an, mich ernstlich an die Arbeit zu setzen." - "I said farewell to my noble young colleagues and sat down seriously to my work.")

1883: Birthdate of Chicago native Harry Salinger, the Jenner Medical College trained physician who pursued a career a banking which led him to be Vice President of the First National Bank of Chicago who married Ciel Gruneweald after the death of his first wife Rae Davis.

1884: Birthdate of Shlomo Kaplansky, the native of Bialystok who was a leader of the World Union of Poalei Zion and an advocate of a bi-national state for the Jewish homeland.

1887: North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly. According to recent figures there are approximately 250 Jewish students among an undergrad population of 20,000.  The campus is home to a Hillel Chapter. The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh contains a Judaic Art Collection that includes an array of historic and contemporary pulpit, life cycle and holiday objects.

1888: Twenty-three-year-old Leon Sobel, Galicia born son of Jacob and Lena (Malberg) Sobel who at the age of 21 came to New York where “he established his own furniture business” married Adeline Levinson before going to becoming a builder and realtor who was “one of the founders and organizers of Yeshivah Isaac Elchanan.”

1889: At a meeting of the Board of Trade, Jacob Schloss “agreed to support a scheme to drive an exploratory mining shaft to demonstrate the continuing viability of the mining district.

1890: Abraham Sudyham, a criminal defense attorney was sentenced to five years in New York State prison after having been convicted of grand larceny when he tried to sell the house belonging to his aunt.

1891: Birthdate of Meyer Streliskie, who gained gamed as European cabaret performer Marcel Barger, the name under which he met his death at Auschwitz in 1942.

1891(27th of Adar I, 5651): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim

1891(27th of Adar I, 5651): Moses Reines, “the author of Jewish historical materials in Russia” and the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, “the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement, passed away today.

1891: Professor Charles A.L. Totten “the well-known military instructor” at Yale University made a statement today in which he described his approval of the memorial presented to President Harrison by William E. Blackstone advocating a project for “restoring Palestine to the Jews.”

1891: “Collector Nathan To Retire” published today described Ernst Nathan’s repudiation of unfounded reports that he was retiring from his position or that he would seek the office of Mayor of Brooklyn.

1892: It was reported today that the 600 children living at the orphan asylum operated by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society will be returning to school next week.  They have been confined to the orphanage since January 1stdue to an outbreak of measles – a medical challenged that has been successfully dealt with.  (In an era of vaccinations, we do not appreciate the deadly challenges of childhood illnesses)

1892: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Bazar, sponsored by the Ladies’ Aid Society is scheduled to take place in Baltimore, MD.  Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the wife of the President is scheduled to be one of the guests.  Mrs. Harrison had told Mrs. Edward Pels and Mrs. J.B. Eiseman that she will be sending a donation of flowers from the White House for the event.

1893: It was reported today that Russian Jews who had formed at a colony in Chesterfield, Connecticut are returning to New York after a suffering through a winter of hardships.

1894: Assemblyman Ainsworth apologized to the Jews for using the term “Jew pawnbrokers” during the debate on a bill to incorporate the “Provident Loan Society.”  The bill passed by a vote of 86 to 6 with the Jewish members all voting no.

1894(29th of Adar): Fifty-nine Abraham Baer the German born cantor who was author Ba’al Tifillah, passed away today in Sweden.

1895: The Beth Israel Hospital on East Broadway received a substantial benefit this evening from the proceeds of the Purim charity ball an concert sponsored by the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League, the purpose of which is to support the hospital.

1895: The last “open meeting” of the Monte Relief, “one of the best known Hebrew charitable organizations in” New York City, “will take the form of a “Cake Walk and Colored Jubilee.”

1895: Three days after she had passed away, Annie Horatia Schloss, the daughter of Horatio Joseph Montefiore and Sarah Daniel Mocatta and the husband of Leopold Schloss was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1896: The New York Times reports on the preparations for the upcoming celebration of the 45th anniversary of Dr. Sabato Morais beginning his service as the Rabbi for Congregation Mikvah Israel in Philadelphia, PA.

1897: Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture “Religion of To-day” at Carnegie Music Hall this morning.

1897: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil spoke on “The Present Bible Controversy” today at Temple Emanu-El.

1897: It was reported today that August Belmont was one of the principal financial backers of plan to unite the manufacturers of bourbon whiskey into a national syndicate.

1897: It was reported that Seymour Mork and Phillip Harrison won the prizes at a debate sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1898(13th of Adar, 5658): Ta’anit Esther

1898: In the evening, the Purim “festival proper began” this evening, when the first star was visible, for in celebrating their holidays the Jews till adhere to the old Oriental custom of counting the day from evening to evening.”

1898: “Tatza Jews Killed by Arabs” published today describe the pillaging of the Moroccan city by Ghiatz Arabs who abducted the women after murdering the men.

1898: Senator Cantor introduced a bill today that would exempt the real estate of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association from taxation, assessment and water rates.

1898: “Congregations to Unite” published today traces the decision of members Temple Beth-Elhoim to consolidate with Temple Israel.  Both of the congregations are located in Brooklyn with Beth-Elhoim having 150 members and Temple Israel having 140 members.  The enlarged congregation will have to build a new sanctuary as neither of the currently occupied edifices are big enough to accommodate the increase in attendance.

1898: It was reported today that the oldest resident of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews is a 99-year-old man “whose only physical ailment is deafness.”

1900: Birthdate of Gerald Burton Windrod, the Kansas native whose virulent anti-Semitic views earned him the title of "the JayHawk Nazi.”

1900: Birthdate of Benn Wolfe Levy the British Playwright and Labour Party MP who clashed with his party’s Foreign Minister over the government’s pro-Arab and anti-Jewish policies in Palestine after WW II.

1901: Police captured the burglars who had broken into Rudolph Grossman’s fur store on Sixth Avenue in New York City.

1901: In New York, Justice Scott of the Supreme Court ruled that he rejected the applications for alimony filed by Mrs. Adolph Greenblatt, “pending trial of an action for separation.”

1902(28th of Adar I, 5662): Isidore Cahen, French scholar and journalist born at Paris in 1826 passed away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03822.html

1903: In Athens, Ohio, newspaper editor and publisher Charles Harvey Bryson, who owned the Athens Morning Journaland his wife gave birth to Bernarda Bryson who married Ben Shan and gained fame in her own rights as Bernarda Bryson Shan (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/arts/16shahn.html

1904: In Paris, Baron Louis de Koenigswarter and his wife gave birth to Lt.-Col. Baron Jules de Koenigswarter who married Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild in 1935 and fought with the Free French during WW II.

1905: In Canada, Rebecca (Freedberg) and Emmanuel Kenen gave birth to journalist turned American attorney Isaiah L. Kenen, the information director for the Jewish Agency and a member of Israel’s first delegation to the United Nations who was the father of economist Peter Kenen.

https://books.google.com/books?id=HcpZAAAAMAAJ&q=Bochner+Kenen&dq=Bochner+Kenen

https://www.amazon.com/Isaiah-L.-Kenen/e/B001KIZKTW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/387

1905: In Germany, Abraham Zvi Idelson, the Latvian born son of Azriel Fishel Idelson and Dvora Idelson and his wife Zilla Idelson gave birth to Susannah Idelson who became Susannah Bobrow when she married Abe Bobrow.

1905(30th of Adar I, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1905(30th of Adar I, 5665): Sixty-three-year-old Theresa Wile, the wife of Levi Adler and the mother of attorney Isaac Adler who served as Mayor of Rochester, NY from 1930 to 1932 passed away today.

1906: It was reported today that forty-year-old “Morris Rosenfeld, the Yiddish poet and author of “Songs of the Ghetto’ is ill with paralysis” which has “afflicted his right arm and leg” but “physicians that with a year’s rest he will recover.”

1907: “To Aid Kingston’s Destitute Jews” published today described the plans of Mr.s Samuel d. Levy, Mrs. Hugo A. Wallenstein, Mrs. Samuel Greenfield, Mrs. Joseph Cohen, Mrs. Alfred Pincus and Mrs. Albert Lucas to host a fund raiser at the Waldorf Astoria to provide financial assistance to “the aged and destitute Jewish poor and for the rebuilding of the alms houses destroyed in the Kingston earthquake.”

1908: In Des Moines Iowa, “community activist” and suffragette Rose Frankel Rosenfield and Meyer Rosenfield the owner of Younkers department store gave birth to Louise Frankel Rosenfield who became Louise Noun when she married dermatologist Maurice “Maurie” Noun.

1909(14th of Adar, 5669): Purim

1909: Birthdate of director, cinematographer and alleged WW II Soviet agent Irving Lerner who was the editor on for “Spartacus,” a movie that noted for redeeming more than one person who had been on the Hollywood Blacklist.

www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2013/03/25/irving-lerner-a-career-in-context/

https://fredrikonfilm.blogspot.com/2017/07/irving-lerner.html

1909: On Purim, in Paris, France Leopold and Lena Pilichowski gave birth to Thade Pilley

1910:  It was reported today that the widow of the recently deceased actor-playwright Moses Horowitz is now living at the Home of the Daughters of Jacobs on East Broadway.

1911: In a case of Jew versus Jew, it was reported today that Henry Siegel, the President of Simpson-Crawford Company and the Fourteenth Street Store said that he was “in favor of having Congress at the special session deal merely with the one matter for which it was called, the bill for the reciprocity with Canada” while Nathan Straus, of R. H. Macy said “that Congress should not stop with the passage of the reciprocity measure” but it should take action that would lead to a “downward revision of the tariff.”

1912: Hadassah was founded by Henrietta Szold.  “At a meeting at Temple Emanu-El in New York City, Henrietta Szold, a noted scholar, teacher, journalist, editor, social worker and pioneer Zionist, convinced the Daughters of Zion study circle to expand its purpose and embrace “practical Zionism,” proactive work to help meet the health needs of Palestine’s people. Because the meeting was held around the time of Purim, the women called themselves “The Hadassah chapter of the Daughters of Zion,” adopting the Hebrew name of Queen Esther. Hadassah also means “myrtle,” a hardy Levantine plant with agricultural and biblical significance. Henrietta Szold became the first president.

1912(18th of Adar, 5672): In St. Louis, Marcus Bernheimer, the native of Liberty, Mississippi and the son of Samuel and Henrietta Bernheimer passed away today.

1912(18th of Adar, 5672): Seventy-two-year-old St. Louis merchant Eugene Sterne passed away today.

1913(28th of Adar I, 5673): In Chicago, Samuel Weil, the brother of Carrie, Josephine and Esther Weil, passed away today.

1913(28th of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-five-year-old Rabbi Adolf Ehrlich passed away today at Tilsit.

1913(28th of Adar I, 5673): Forty-year-old theatre manager Maurice Baumfeld passed away today in New York.

1914: For the second time in five years, Jewish welterweight Joe Hirst fought Jack Britton to a draw, a year before Britton on the Welterweight title.

1914: Mrs. Simon Baruch had a surprise party for twenty-one Italian children from the Bronx at her home as part of her program to teach patriotism and American values to the children of immigrants newly arrived in the United States.

1914: Eighty-two-year-old “Polish born British Bible scholar and student of the Masoretic tradition of Judaism Christian David Ginsburg who had converted to Christianity at the age of 15 passed away today in Middlesex.

1914: Having exhausted all of his appeals at the state court level, today, the state set Leo Frank’s execution date for April 17, 1914.

1915: “Miss Jane Addams spoke of ‘War and Social Service’ at the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall” this “morning following the service conducted by Rabbi Stephen Wise.

1916: Mrs. Edward Goldbeck is scheduled to speak on “America at the Crossways” this after afternoon during the regular meeting of the Chicago Woman’s Aid at the Sinai Social Center.

1916: “Habits and preferences of members of the Yale senior class were disclosed today” including that of the 325 members of the senior class, 12 of them were Jewish.

1916: Mrs. Edward A Aaron and Mrs. Jules E. Furth arranged the program for the sixth regular meeting of the B’nai Sholom Temple Sisterhood on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

1917(13th of Adar, 5677): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim

1917: “The trial of a $50.000 libel suit brought by Maschulem F. Seidman, war correspondent for the Warheit and other Jewish news against The Day, another Jewish publication” which centered on whether or not it was in fact part of “German propaganda effort to win the sympathies of Jews in America for the Teuton cause” began today in New York.

1917: Birthdate of Herman Fishman, the Detroit native who letter in basketball, baseball and football and went on to play professional baseball until his career was cut short by WW II where he served in a U.S. Navy intelligence unit.

1917: The decision rendered in People ex rel. Mulderig v. Kaplan which held that “a theatrical performance give in the Neighborhood Playhouse by the Henry Street Settlement” on a Sunday “did not interrupt the repose and religious liberty of the community in any way” which means that “a prosecution of the treasurer of the settlement house for Sabbath-breaking should be dismissed” was reported in today issue of the New York Law Journal.

1917:  During World War I, on the Dialah River in Mesopotamia, Private Jack White, a signaler, during an attempt to cross the river, saw the two pontoons ahead of him come under very heavy fire with disastrous results. When his own pontoon had reached mid-stream, with every man except himself either dead or wounded, and not being able, by himself, to control the boat the private tied a telephone wire to the pontoon, jumped overboard and towed it to the shore, thereby saving an officer's life and bringing to land the wounded and also the rifles and equipment of all the men in the boat.

1918: The Palestine Fund Restoration Commission announced to today that “plans have been completed for the establishment of a great Jewish university in Jerusalem” and “that one of the first duties of the commission, which is going to Palestine under the auspices of the fund, would be the founding of this university” on the site which has already been chosen and acquired.

1918: In London, King George expressed his gratitude to Dr. Wiezmann for Zionists “useful work during the word” today.

1918(23rdof Adar, 5678): Fifty-seven-year-old “Schklov, Russia,” native Solomon Baroway who came to the United States in 1883 and went to Kansas with “25 other Jewish young men” to start an agricultural community at Lasker in Clark County before moving on eventually settling in Baltimore where he “was the Superintendent of the Hebrew Benevolent Society for twenty-five years passed away today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solomon-Baroway-1860-1918-Pioneer-Baltimore/dp/B0006WLT98

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/08/103454753.pdf

1919: The Jewish Press Bureau in Stockholm said that the Yiddishe Morgenpost of Vienna reported “400 families have been killed at Proskuroff in the Ukraine, east of Lemberg” where “Jews were being massacred in large numbers.”

1920: Birthdate of Harry Kuniansky, the native of Atlanta who played guard for the U. of Georgia football team from 1940 through 1942 when the Bulldogs were “declared national champion in six polls recognized by the NCAA.”

1921: Mischa Levitzki’s “farewell recital” took place this evening at Carnegie Hall.

1921: Red Army under Trotsky attacked sailors of Kronstadt in a move to put down “a counter-revolutionary” plot.  Soviet leaders were always putting down “counter-revolutionary plots” both real and imagined.  Stalin would later brand Trotsky as a counter-revolutionary and drive him from the party and the Soviet Union.

1922: Birthdate of Los Angeles native Arthur P. Jacobs, the press agent turned producer who played a key role in bringing the Planet of the Apes series to the screen as well as a musical version of Good-bye Mr. Chips featuring the singing voice of Peter O’Toole.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/06/28/103220952.html?pageNumber=50

1922: Birthdate of Hans Eduard Ephraimson-Abt, the Berlin born Jew who became an internationally known advocate for families of air-crash victims after the death of his daughter on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by Soviet fighter planes in 1983 (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1924(1st of Adar II, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1924: “Dr. William Armhold, Rabbi Emeritus of Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia, who passed away in Atlantic City at the age of 96 is scheduled to be interred today at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.

1925: Dr. Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to sail for England today aboard the SS Olympic so that he can accompany Lord Blafour to Palestine where they will take part in the dedication of the new Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus.

1926: Herbert H. Lehman sent a letter to William Fox, the chairman of the United Jewish Campaign of New York which will officially be launched in April that $300,000 has already been pledged by the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation which should help in meeting the goal of raising six million dollars.

1928(15th of Adar, 5688): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge.1929: Today in Iraq, "Jewish journalist, Anwar Shaul, published an open letter in weekly magazine al-Hasid, addressed to the British High Commissioner and commander-in-chief, Brigadier-General Sir Gilbert Clayton, demanding full independence for Iraq from Britain

1930: Birthdate of Alfred Gottschalk, the native of Germany who “as head of Reform Judaism’s major institution of higher learning ordained the first women as rabbis in the United States and Israel.”

1930: Chief Justice MacDonnell and Justices Baker and Kermak heard the appeal of Simcha Hinkis, a 22-year-old Jewish policeman accused of participating in the murder of an Arab family at Jaffa in the August riots. Hinkis had been “found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to death.”  “Mordecai Eliash, counsel for the defense, declared the conviction was based on insufficient evidence.”  The court is expected to render its judgment next week.  [It is ironic that a Jewish policeman is the one who was convicted of murder following the murderous Arab rampage of 1929.]

1930(7th of Adar, 5690): Sixty-nine-year-old Buffalo nativeA.L. (Abraham Lincoln) “Abe” Erlanger the part of Marc Klaw in Klaw and Erlanger that gave Broadway a slew of productions including the first Ziegfeld Follies and built several of the theatres on the Great White Way including the News Amsterdam passed away today.

1930: The blue liveried state luxury saloon carriage of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, which entered service today would gain an extra measure of fame when it became part of the 2009 Winton Train – “a private passenger train which travelled from the Czech Republic to England in September 2009, in tribute to the wartime efforts of Sir Nicholas Winton, described as the 'British Schindler' for his part in the saving refugee children from Czechoslovakia.”

1931(18th of Adar, 5691): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1931(18th of Adar, 5691): Fifty-year-old Romanian born German “actor director, producer and screenwriter Lupu Pick” passed away today in Berlin.

1932:  Benjamin Cardozo, the Chief Judge of the Court of appeals sent his formal resignation today to the Secretary of State as part of the process by which he assumed the position of the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1935(2nd of Adar II, 5675): Seventy-six-year-old Odessa native Michael Zametkin, who in 1877 “fled political persecution in his homeland” and came to the United where he worked in the needle trades, became a leader in “the Jewish labor and Socialist movements while becoming a contributor to several Yiddish and Socialist newswires” including “The Jewish Daily Forward which he helped to found” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/03/08/118647977.pdf

1936: In Poland, those supporting a bill introduced by Mrs. Blazej Pyster, the wife of the former Prime minister, that would prohibit kosher slaughtering practices on grounds that it is not humane and makes meat more expensive are faced with charges of violating the Constitution since it guarantees “to all of Poland’s citizens freedom of faith the free execution of religious rites” and this new law “would violate the rights of the Jewish population.”

1936(13th of Adar, 5696): Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1936: Today’s meeting of the Reichstag “will be the first since” that body “was convoked hurriedly in Nuremberg last September to sanction the new restrictions on the Jews and the ordinance establishing the Nazi flag as the Reich’s official emblem.”

1936: According to the current issue of the American Hebrew, “the 1935 American Hebrew Medal for outstanding service in promoting better understanding between Christians and Jews has been awarded to Roger Williams Straus…the son of the late Oscar Straus, United States Ambassador to Turkey” who is also co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a member of the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee and a vice president of the National Republican Club.

1936(13th of Adar, 5695): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1936(13th of Adar, 5696): As the celebration of Purim begins tonight, the Jews are in the words of Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson, painfully aware that “in Germany half a million Jews are groaning under the yoke of the Nuremberg laws and are threatened with economic and even physical annihilation.”

1936:  Hitler violated Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to the Rhineland. This was one of the early steps leading to World Word II and the Final Solution. Hitler was running a bluff.  He really lacked sufficient military force to have made the remilitarization stick.  If France and Great Britain had acted decisively, Hitler would have been forced to back down and he might even have been forced from power.

1937: Fifty-four-year-old Paul Bekker, “the former director of the Wiesbaden opera” who had been stripped of his German citizenship by the Nazis in 1936 because “favored Jews” passed away today in New York City.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that members of the Russian Zionist Center in Tel Aviv were worried by a new wave of purges and arrests in the Soviet Union. They reported that in Moscow, Odessa and many other Russian towns, charges of counter-revolutionary activities were trumped up against Jews and the youth was particularly affected. Although there were hardly any Jews in Japan, the Tokyo government launched Japan¹s first anti-Semitic campaign announcing a “worldwide Jewish plot.” The Japanese press presented a long list of the country’s Jewish enemies who included, among others, various international peace leagues, socialists and even Rotary International. The charges against Rotary were later withdrawn.

1938(4thof Adar II, 5698): Seventy-four-year-old Aaron the Cincinnati, OH, born son of Moses and Sarah Waldheim, the St. Louis furniture merchant and philanthropist who raised two children with his wife Hattie Sommers Waldheim passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/03/08/98108535.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=19

1938: In New York City Getrude Lipschitz and Richard Baltimore gave birth to David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1975/baltimore-bio.html

1939: “Two Czech Fascists named Stund and Kovarik were in Pilsen today by the explosion of an infernal machine that they were concealing in a ceremonial hall of a Jewish cemetery where a big funeral service was scheduled for tomorrow.”

1939(16thof Adar, 5699): Seventy-four-year-old Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda the poet and playwright who was the first President of PEN of Germany and whose career effectively came to an end when the Nazis came to power committed suicide in Berlin today when he was denied entry into the United States. (Editor’s Note – Germany wanted to put an end to him because he was a Jew and the United States had no room for him for the same reason.  Also there seems to be some confusion about the date of his death)

http://snbehrman.com/library/nytimes/43.2.7.htm

1940: As Jews continued to protest against the newly enacted British laws limiting purchase of land in Palestine by Jews, the Chief Rabbis and leaders of the Vaad Leumi led a protest demonstration through the streets of Jerusalem while other Jews took part in a work stoppage in Haifa.  In reaction to the protest in Jerusalem, the British imposed an over-night curfew on the Jewish quarter of the City of David.

1940: Birthdate of Arlene Hannah Butter, the New York born daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who gained fame as artist Hannah Wilke.

http://www.hannahwilke.com/id10.html

http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/07/1940/this-week-in-history-sculptor-and-performance-artist-hannah-wilke-is-born

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/30/arts/art-view-an-artist-s-chronicle-of-a-death-foretold.html

1941: It was announced today, that “Dr. Israel Goldstein has been elected for his eighth consecutive terms as president of the Jewish National fund, that Jacob Sincoff and I.M. Kowalsky were chosen co-treasures and Louis Segal was chosen secretary while Mendel N. Fisher will serve as Executive Direcotr.

1942: Birthdate of Michael Eisner President of The Walt Disney Company.

1942: Lucy Parsons the labor organizer and anarchist who addressed the striking members of the Chicago Tailors Union most of whose members were Jewish and who clashed with Emma Goldman passed away.

1943(30th of Adar I, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1943: “The third American enlisted men’s club in the Middle East” is scheduled to be open in Tel Aviv today.  The club has “sleeping quarters for 150 men and lounge, game reading and music rooms.  It is 300 yards from the beach.” In addition, hospitality committees of the Jewish Agency arrange sightseeing trips in the Holy Land and the Tel Aviv Hospital committee is operating three clubs for solidiers and nurses of the Allied armies serving in Palestine.

1944: In Kansas City, MO, “Hilde and Alfred Rosbash, Jewish refugees from pre-war Nazi Germany” gave birth to Nobel Prize winning “geneticist and chronobiologist” Michael Rosbash

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/02/nobel-prize-in-medicine-or-physiology-awarded-to-tktk/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_nobel-550am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3b93cfb99dbc

http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/rosbash.html

1944: The poet David Vogel was deported from Drancy the French concentration camp and sent to Birkenau along with another 1,500 Jews.

1944(12thof Adar): At Birkenau, 3,860 Jews who had been living in "family quarters", were sent to the gas chambers. Five days earlier, in their special "family quarters", they were shown off to Red Cross representatives (who were not allowed to see the rest of the camp.) The Jews were told to write postcards to their Czech relatives, but postdate them March 25, 26, and 27. The Jews would never live to see those days. Of this group, only 37 were spared, including eleven sets of twins. They would be sent to Dr. Mengele for medical experiments.

1944(12th of Adar): Today, the Nazis discovered “the hideout of Emanuel Ringelblum the historian of the Warsaw ghetto and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground” which would lead to the execution of him and his family a few days later.

1945: Brigadier General Ernest Frank Benjamin began serving with the British Eighth Army in the Faenza Area, Italy; a posting that would last until the end of World War II in Europe. Born in 1900, Benjamin “was a British officer from Canada of Jewish birth who commanded the Jewish Infantry Brigade during the Second World War. Benjamin was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and served with that service during 1941-42 before being transferred as a General Staff Officer 1 to the Middle East Command in 1943. He served as Assistant Quartermaster-General there until 1944 when he was appointed Deputy Director of Military Training Middle East Command and in the autumn of the same year as the Commanding Officer, Jewish Brigade Group. His last post with the Brigade group was in north-west Europe as part of the VIII Corps of the British Army of the Rhine. He passed away in 1969.

1945: The US 9th Armored Division seized the bridge at Remagen Germany, enabling them to cross the Rhine and enter the German heartland.  This is an amazing story of luck and unbelievable courage on the part of American soldiers which shortened the war and help end the nightmare for European Jewry. 

1946: Birthdate of Ronald Reider, the New Jersey native who settled in Cedar Rapids, after earning his M.D. at the University of Iowa and who continues to be a pillar to the Cedar Rapids Jewish community

1946: “An independent campaign to raise three million dollars for emergency relief for Jews in Poland was announced” today “by the American Federation for Polish Jews.”

1947: In Brooklyn, “voice actor Allen Swift” (Ira Stadlen) and his wife gave birth to Lewis J. Stadlen who “made his Broadway debut as Grouch Marx in the 1970 musical comedy ‘Minnie’s Boys’”

1947: Major Beneral R.N. Gale, the British commander of “Operation Elephant” expressed satisfaction with the results of having imposed martial law over a large area of Palestine and that it will be able to “cut out this canker of underground violence.”

1947: As the British continued their efforts to pacify Palestine, 5,000 troops and policemen surrounded Rehoveth, Nathanya and Hadera and began searching the communities for “terrorists” and weapons.  The raid netted thirty-two detainees and a small cache of arms.  Dr. Chaim Weizmann is a resident of Rehovoth. “After the searches ended” armed masked men attacked the police station at Rishon le Zion.  As the British looked for the attackers, they let be known that they were looking for members of the Irgun and the Stern gang and not members of Haganah.

1948: At a speech given tonight in Reading, MP Ian Mikardo said “Lt. Gen. G.H.A. MacMillian, commander of the British forces in Palestine ‘forgot’ to get evidence regarding Arabs who entered Palestine to fight Jews” which he described as “appeasing the Arabs.”

1948: While speaking at Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said that “relations between Christians and Jews” in the United States “will steadily deteriorate if both do not maintain stability and common sense in attitudes toward the great social issues of our time.”

1948: At the opening of the annual conference of the Poale Zion of Great Britain, Ian Mikardo revealed that a vote of "no-confidence" would be sought against the government by some members of the British Labour Party when the bill to terminate the Palestine Mandate had its second reading in the House of Commons.

1948: This afternoon speakers at a meeting of 2,000 delegates at the annual conference of the Council of Organizations, United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York said that “world peace and international security are dependent largely on United Nations support of the Palestine partition plan

1949: During Operation Uvda, “Golani forces conquered the village Ein Harouf.

1949(6thof Adar, 5709): Two days before his 79th birthday Sol Bloom the music publisher turned politician passed while serving his 14th term as a Member of the House of Representatives representing the 19thand then 20th Congressional District from New York.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000565

1949: During Operation Uvda, “the Alexandroni Brigade moved from Beersheba through Mamshit towards Sodom and then made an amphibious landing near Ein Gedi through the Dead Sea.”

1949: The IDF established a based Ayn Husb at the junction of the Beersheba-Sodom and Sodom-Eilat tracks

1950(18th of Adar, 5710): Daniel Frisch, the President of the Zionist Organization of America, passed away today at the age of 52 following a surgical procedure that had been performed yesterday.  Born in Palestine, Frisch was the son of Rabbi Eliezer and Haia Landau Frisch.  His family moved to Roumania when Frisch was one year old.  Frisch came to the United States in 1921 and settled in Indianapolis where he operated a successful salvage yard.  Frisch who had been active in the Zionist movement since childhood, founded the Indianapolis Zionist District, served as President of the Ohio Valley Zionist Region and was elected to the ZOA Administrative Council in 1934.  He retired from business five years ago and moved to New York so he could devote himself to the Zionist cause.  Frisch reportedly made at least 14 trips to Israel and worked tirelessly to raise funding for a projects for the infant Jewish state.

1950: In what has to be one of the all-time great whoppers of history, the Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy days after he had been found guilty by a British court.  Fuchs testified that Harry Gold was his courier for getting information to the Soviets.  Harry Gold led to David Greenglass that led to the Rosenbergs.

1950: “The Communist newspaper Kol Ha’am charged today that Israel has instituted an anti-Communist campaign and inquirty to similar to those that it said had been launched by President Truman in all countries under American protection.”  The paper charged that America was pulling the strings of anti-Communism in Israel just as it was in England. [This charge came at the same time when many right-wing Americans were warning of the Jewish Communist conspiracy.]

1951: Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden" premiered in New York City.

1951(29th of Adar I, 5711): Nineteen-year-old PFC Leonard M. Kravitz, the Brooklyn son of “Jean (Kaufman) and Joseph Kravitz was killed today during the Korean War while voluntarily manning a machine so that he Army comrades could escape even though he knew it would mean his death – action that would earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1951: In one of those incidents that undermine stability in the Middle East and thus prove worrisome to Israel, the Prime Minister of Iran was shot and killed by an Islamic fundamentalist.

 

1952: Dr. Alexander Marx, director of libraries and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at JTS is will leave for Israel today.  This is his first trip to the new Jewish state during which he plans to establish closer working relationships between JTS and libraries in Israel.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30B1FF7395E107A93C0A91788D85F468585F9

1953(20th of Adar, 5713): Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas passed away in Tel Aviv.  Born in 1883, he was a lawyer, Zionist and a politician in pre-war Poland who courageously escaped from Warsaw and finally settled in Jerusalem.

1954(2nd of Adar II, 5714): Jacob Isaac Segal the Canadian Jewish poet and husband of Elke Shtaiman who had been born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar in Slobkovitz who worked as a tailor in the garment industry and a teacher at the Jewish People’s School after immigrating to Montreal in 1911 whose 12 volumes of poetry including Sefer Idish (The Book of Yiddish) passed away today after which he was buried at the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery in Montreal.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1sq5vks

1954: Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati is scheduled to be “the guest of honor at the thirty-second annual dinner of Agudath Israel of America today at the Roosevelt Hotel” where “Michael J. Treis, the administrative president, will present” him with a bronze plaque “in tributed to his fifty years of work for Judaism.”

1955: NBC presented “Peter Pan,” a musical version of the 1904 play of the same time with music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green as part of its Producers Showcase anthology series.

1956(24th of Adar, 5716): Seventy-eight year old Cecile Meyer Pilpel (Mrs Emanuel Pilpel) a native of Wissembourg, France, “a leader in parent education for more than thirty years an executive of the Child Study Association of America” passed away today in Hartford, CT.

1958(15th of Adar, 5718): Shushan Purim

1959(27th of Adar I, 5719): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim

1960: “Volpone” co-starring Lou Jacobi as “Corvino” was broadcast today at the Play of the Week.

1961(19th of Adar, 5721): Seventy-two-year- Dr. Max Augustus Cohn D.D.S. the Texas born son,Josephine Walker and Frank Cohn and  the husband of Nina Edna Fleshman who served during WW I as a “1st Lt Dental Corps, 36th Division at the US Army Base Hospital, 84th Med Corps passed away today after which he was buried in Cleveland, TX.

1964: Seventy-year-old Sir Alexander Knox Helm, the United Kingdom’s first ambassador to Israel passed away today.

1965: On Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, group of 600 civil rights marchers are violently prevented from marching to the state capital in Montgomery.  Two weeks later a group of marchers would successfully begin the march from Selma to Montgomery.  Included among them would be Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel who said he was “voting with his feet.”

1965: Release date for “The Train” a film based on Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, which tells the story of a successful attempt to keep a train filled with looted French art from reaching Germany.  In reality, the boxcar doors were opened by Free French forces under the command of Lt. Alexandre Rosenberg who had no trouble identifying the masterpieces since man of have them had been hanging in the Paris home of his father Paul Rosenberg

1967: “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown” premiered off-Broadway today with Bob Balaban as Linus.

1967: Alice B. Tolkas passed away. Born Jewish in 1877, the San Francisco she gained fame as confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer for another famous Jewess, Gertrude Stein.  Before her death, Tolkas converted to Roman Catholicism. 

1969: The Central committee of the Labor Party voted to nominate Golda Meir as Prime Minister.

1970(29th of Adar I, 5730): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim

1970: In Westminster, London, George Weisz, an inventor from Hungary and Edith Ruth (née Teich), a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria Rachel Hannah Craig (née Weisz) who gained fame as British actress Rachel Weisz.

1971(10th of Adar, 5731): Eight-three year old movie mogul Barney Balaban, the long serving head of Paramount pictures passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/08/archives/barney-balaban-dead-at-83-headed-paramount-pictures-builder-of.html?_r=0

 

http://www.balabanandkatzfoundation.com/

http://www.thewaldorfconference.com/balaban.html

1971: Two days after he had passed away, “a funeral service” is scheduled to be held this afternoon for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism” for “sixty-seven year old Wharton graduate James Felt, the son of real estate developer Abraham Felt, who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when he went into to the real estate business instead of becoming a Rabbi and went on to become the Chairman of the City Planning Commission.”

1971: Birthdate of British-born Academy Award winning actress Rachel Weisz.  Her father was a Hungarian Jewish inventor who fled to England to escape the Nazis.  Her mother is described as Catholic with Jewish ancestry. Weisz has appeared in films with Keanu Reeves and Hugh Grant.

1971:  Egypt refused to renew the Suez ceasefire during an outbreak violence that presaged the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

1972(21st of Adar, 5732): Sixty-eight-year-old Aubrey Louis Goodman the tackle who led Baylor University and the University of Chicago to conference championships before turning professional and play for the Chicago Bulls and for the NFL Chicago Cardinals passed away today.

1973: “Slither” a crime move directed by Howard Zieff and starring James Caan, Louise Lasser and Allen Garfield was released today in the United States.

1973: U.S. premiere of “The Long Goodbye” starring Elliot Gould and featuring Mark Rydell and Warren Berlinger.

1974(13th of Adar, 5734): Ta’anit Esther and erev Purim

1974(13th of Adar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Irma Shloss Mannheimer, the daughter of Max and Rose Shloss and the wife of Eugene Mannheimer passed away today after which she was interred at the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.

1974: “Jewish activists Miron Dorfman, Mark Abramovich, Yacov Schwartzman (Kishinev), Leonid Bendersky (Tiraspol) and Sender Levinson (Bendery),” who were “serving 15 day sentences for staging a hunger strike outside the Central Post office in Kishinev, celebrated Purim by declaring a 48 hour hunger strike” today.

1974: “Yankel Kantas was released from prison today” a month before he would leave for Israel.

1974: “David Rockefeller, the Chairman of the Manhattan Bank criticized the Jackson Amendment” because, “concern for Jewish emigration and human rights must not jeopardize US – Soviet trade relations.” (Editor’s Note – really learned a lot from the Holocaust experience)

1975(24th of Adar, 5735): Canadian born comedian Ben Blue passed away at the age of 73.  Blue never achieved the fame of some his contemporaries like George Burns or Milton Berle.  But he was good enough to have his own life variety show in the early days of television.

1976(5thof Adar II, 5736): Sixty-seven year old Dr. Solomon Maranov, the husband of Belle Maranov and the father of John and David Maranov passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/08/archives/francine-larrimore-actress-on-broadway-stage-77-dies.html

1977:  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met President Carter.  Most people remember Rabin as the Prime Minister of Peace from the 1990's.  But Rabin was first Prime Minister back in the 1970's.  It was at this time that he and the Labor Party were rocked by a scandal dating from Rabin's days as Israel's Ambassador to the United States.  The scandal drove him from power.   It resulted in the rise to power of Likud and the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister.  In other words, Rabin's financial indiscretions ended Labor's control of the Israeli government which dated back to the founding of the state in 1948 and changed the political landscape of Israel.

 1977(17th of Adar, 5737): Almost exactly ten years after her husband Louis Gottlieb passed away, eighty-year Clara Gottlieb, the mother of Lillian, Florence and Harvey Gottlieb passed away today after which she was buried at Be Olam Cemetery, in Beachwood, OH.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Histadrut met to discuss the current wave of strikes which for more than seven weeks paralyzed the merchant marine, disrupted El Al flights and TV, radio and other communications.

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that In Iran the shah warned that he might impose an oil embargo on Israel to make it more flexible in negotiations with Egypt.

1979: Twelve people were injured when a bus was detonated on a bus at the Plaza hotel, while nobody was injured when a second bomb was detonated on another bus in Tel Aviv.

1980(19thof Adar, 5740): Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Tendler passed away today.

https://kevarim.com/rabbi-yitzchok-isaac-tendler/

 

1981: As Soviet authorities “put pressure on Hebrew teacher, “Yuli Kosharovsky and Pavel Abramovich were threatened with arrest.”

1982(12thof Adar, 5742): Fifty-six-year-old the movie director Konrad Wolf, the younger brother of Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf passed away in the German Democratic Republic (Communist East Germany) today.

https://eastgermancinema.com/category/konrad-wolf/

1985(14thof Purim, 5745): Purim

1986: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. The crew included Judith Resnik, the first Jewish American astronaut and the first Jewish woman to go into space.   

1986(26th of Adar I, 5746): Former Senator from New York, Jacob K Javits passed away in Palm Beach FL at the age of 81.  Javits was a political anomaly for his time.  At a time when most Jews were Democrats, he was a Republican.  True, he was part of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but he was a Republican nonetheless.  Javits was a champion of Civil Rights and stood against the right-wing tide that swept his party in the 1960's.  A lot of Jews were critical of Javits for supporting President Eisenhower in 1956.  Ike and his Republican Administration sided with Egypt during the Suez Crisis and threatened Israel with crippling economic sanctions unless she bowed to the will of the Americans.

1987: In his “Jerusalem Journal,’ Francis X. Clines described the newly Ophel Garden which is “a magnificent ascending honeycomb of history at the southern foot of the Temple Mount that allows passing mortals to meander across 3,000 years of history, from the First Temple time of Solomon in the 10th century B.C. to the Ottoman extravagances of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, 2,500 years later.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/07/world/jerusalem-journal-new-garden-cornucopia-of-the-past.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1990: Means of Ascent, the second book in Robert Caro’s trilogy on Lyndon Johnson was released today. (Caro was Jewish.  Johnson was not but he did have several interesting with the Jewish community beginning with his days in the Hill Country)

1992: NBC broadcast the first episode of “The Powers That Be” a sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, produced by Norman Lear and with music by Marvin Hamlisch.

1993(14thof Adar, 5753): Purim observed for the first time under President Bill Clinton.

1893: NBC broadcast the final episode of “Square Pegs” a sitcom starring Sarah Jessica Parker and created by Anne Beatts

1996: The Third Way was formed today “towards the end of the thirteenth Knesset's term when two MKs, Avigdor Kahalani and Emanuel Zisman, broke away from the Labour Party.”

1996: MK Efraim Gur left Likud.

1997: “Jungle 2 Jungle” a comedy featuring Leelee Sobieski was released today in the United States.

1997(28th of Adar I, 5757):  Rabbi Emanuel H. Bronner passed away.  Born in 1908, Emanuel H. Bronnerwas the eccentric maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap, a concentrated liquid notable for the vast amount of lather produced from a few drops and the vast amount of tiny text on its packaging. Although his parents were killed in the Holocaust, Rabbi Bronner believed in the goodness and unity of humanity. He was born in Heilbronn, Germany to the Heilbronner family of soap makers. He emigrated to the United States in 1929, dropping "Heil" from his name to protest the rise of Hitler. He pleaded with his parents to emigrate with him for fear of the Nazis, but they refused. His last contact with his parents was in the form of a postcard saying, "You were right. —Your loving father." He started his business making products by hand in his home. The product labels were crowded with statements of Bronner's philosophy, which he called "All-One-God-Faith" and the "Moral ABCs". Many of Bronner's references came from Jewish and Christian sources, such as the Shema and the Beatitudes; others from poets such as Rudyard Kipling. Sometimes they contained unusual product statements, for example suggesting a contraceptive use for the soap. They became famous for their idiosyncratic style, including hyphens to join long strings of words and the liberal use of exclamation marks. In 1947, while promoting his "Moral ABC's" at the University of Chicago, Bronner was arrested and committed to a mental hospital from which he escaped. Eventually his operation grew into a small factory in Escondido, California. At his death in 1997, it produced over a million bottles of soap and other products a year but was still not mechanized. The firm did no advertising but has been the subject of many published articles. It supported many charitable causes. After Bronner's death, his family continued the business. They have said the labels he wrote will not change except when required by government regulations.

 

1999(19th of Adar, 5759):  Sidney Gottlieb passed away.Born in 1918, Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist probably best-known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency mind control program (MKULTRA). Sidney was born in the Bronx under the name Joseph Schneider. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Despite the fact that he was a stutterer since childhood, Sidney got a master's degree in speech therapy. He also had a club foot, but this did not stop him from practicing folk dancing, a lifelong passion. In 1951, Sidney Gottlieb joined the Central Intelligence Agency. As a poison expert, he headed the chemical division of the Technical Services Staff (TSS). Sidney became known as the "Black Sorcerer" and the "Dirty Trickster". He supervised preparations of lethal poisons and experiments in mind control.

1999(19th of Adar, 5759): Movie director Stanley Kubrick passed away at the age of 70.  Some of his more memorable films included “Spartacus,” “2001-A Space Odyssey” and “Dr. Strangelove.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/08/movies/stanley-kubrick-film-director-with-a-bleak-vision-dies-at-70.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/11/12/how-about-a-little-game

https://www.theguardian.com/film/stanleykubrick

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including The Times of My Life: And My Life With The Times by Max Frankel

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtueby Wendy Shalit, Hirschfeld On Line by Al Hirschfeld and P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul Simonby Paul Simon

2000: Second showing of ‘The Life of the Jews in Palestine'' at the Museum of Modern Art. The classic documentary was produced in 1913 by the Odessa-based Mizrakh Company and presumed to be lost for some 80 years -- has resurfaced in New York. This excellent new print with English inter-titles of Noah Sokolovsky's 78-minute silent film is quite likely the rarest of the rarities featured in the museum’s 10-program tribute to France's national film archives, the Centre Nationale de la Cinematographie.

2001: Gesher pulled out of the coalition as a result of Ehud Barak’s participation in the Camp David Smmit.

2001: Ehud Barak completed his services as Israel’s tenth Prime Minister.

2001: Airel Sharon was sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel today.

2001: Shlomo Ben Ami completed his service as Israel’s Foreign Minister.

2001: Binyamin Be-Eliezer replaced Ehud Barak as Defense Minister.

2001: Dalia Rabin-Pelossof replaced Efraim Sneah as Deputy Minister of Defense.

2001: Shimon Peres begins serving as Israel’s Foreign Minister.

2001:  Reuven Rivlin replaced Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Communications Minister.

2001: Asher Ohana replaced Yossi Beilin as Minister of Religion

2001: Avigdor Lieberman replaced Avraham Shochat as the National Infrastructure Minister

2001: Natan Sharansky began serving as Minister of Housing and Construction.

2001: Uzi Landau replaced Shlomo Ben-Ami as Minister of Public Security.

2001: Gideon Ezra began serving as Deputy Minister of Public Security

2001: President Bush met with 25 leaders from the Jewish community in the White House Roosevelt Room.

2002: Fifteen people were injured in the hotel lobby bombing at Ariel for which the PFLP terrorists took credit.

2003(3rd of Adar II, 5763): Two Israelis were killed and five were wounded when armed terrorists infiltrated the community of Kiryat Arba and attacked during Shabbat. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

2003: “In an advertisement placed in” today’s edition of The Jewish Press, The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada declared that ...Agudas Horabonim cannot approve of a call to attend a Reform or Conservative temple on Friday night, or any time. As important as Kiruv - bringing Jews closer to the synagogue - is, it must be carried out in accordance with the Halacha. Since the "Shabbat Across America/Canada" does not state that the synagogue must be Orthodox, clearly implying that it can also be a Reform and Conservative temple, the Agudas Harabonim strongly disapproves, and warns all Jews not to take part in the "Shabbat Across America/Canada" program.”  (While this group sees itself as the true keeper of the flame, so to speak, there are those who find them “too lax”)

2003: A celebration of actress Ruth Kobart’s life is scheduled to be held this evening at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco.

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/12-2002/ruth-kobart-of-forum-and-how-to-suceed-fame-dies-i_2919.html

2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including The Prisoner of Vandam Street by Kinky Friedman and the recently released paperback edition of Trains of Thought: From Paris to Omaha Beach: Memories of a Wartime Youth, by Victor Brombert in which the renowned literary scholar recalls his bourgeois Jewish childhood in Europe and his stateless youth: his parents escaped from France to the United States in 1941, and after joining the Army he returned to Europe to fight in the Normandy campaign and the Battle of the Bulge.

2004(14th of Adar, 5764): Purim

2004 (14th of Adar, 5764): Ninety-two year old painter Elise Asher, the wife of poet laureate Stanley Kunitz passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/elise-asher-92-painter-poet-who-blended-images-and-words.html?_r=0

2005: After considering Hiram Bingham's deeds during the war years in Marseille for a number years, Israel's memorial Yad Vashem ("Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority") issued the Bingham family a letter of appreciation

2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that Saudi Arabia has continued to participate in the boycott against Israeli goods in violation of promises the Saudis had made to the United States and the international economic community.

2006: The Cedar Rapids Gazette announced that it would no longer carry the column by Mitch Albom because he was not reliable. 

2007: The Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee decided  to move the national archive of Israel from Jerusalem to Arad,

2007: At the Skirball Cultural Center, a screening of Black Book.  In the film “a beautiful chanteuse (Carice van Houten) joins the Dutch resistance in 1944 to track down the Nazis who killed her family and becomes embroiled in a web of seduction, betrayal, and revenge. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, Black Book premiered at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals to rave reviews.

2007: The Israel Air Force began incorporating the new "Shoval" drone, which according to the Israel Defense Forces has an improved ability to identify the launch of projectile rockets such as Katyushas and Qassams.The army said the drones will also be able to provide better assistance to troops on the ground. Shoval is the IAF nickname for the "Mahatz" drone manufactured by the Israel Aircraft Industries.

2007: An exhibition entitled “Superheroes and Schlemiels: Jewish Memory in Comic Strip Art” opens at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

2007(17thof Adar, 5767): Eighty-year-old journalist and novelist Charles Einstein, the author of The Bloody Spur passed away today in Michigan City, Indiana.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Charles-Einstein-S-F-sportswriter-and-2571360.php

2008(30 Adar I, 5768: Rosh Chodesh Adar II

2008: “College Road Trip,” a comedy featuring Molly Ephraim was released today in the United States.

2008 (30 Adar I, 5768): The eight victims of the attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem were buried this afternoon, each with Torah scrolls stained with their blood, in accordance with the Halakhic decision ruled by former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. The victims included American student Avraham David Moses, aged 16, Doron Maharata, 26 the oldest of those killed whose family immigrated to Israel as part of Operation Moses when he was eight years old, Yochai Lipschitz, 18, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzchak Eldar, 16, of Shiloh; Yonadav Chaim Hirschfeld, 19, of Kochav Hashahar; Neriah Cohen, 15, of Jerusalem; Roey Roth, 18, of Elkana; and Segev Pniel Avihayil, 15, of Neveh Daniel

2008: Roland E. Arnall completed his term as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.

2008: “The Other Boleyn Girl” starring Natalie Portman premiered in the United Kingdom

2008: Today a state historical marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, and Temple Kol Emeth, near the building at 1200 Roswell Road, Marietta where Leo Frank was lynched.  The memorial reads:

 

Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. A highly controversial trial fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism resulted in a guilty verdict in 1913. After Governor John M. Slaton commuted his sentence from death to life in prison, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison in Milledgeville and taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta where he was hanged before a local crowd. Without addressing guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to either protect Frank or bring his killers to justice, he was granted a posthumous pardon in 1986.

2009: In “The Perfect Hamantaschen” published today Deborah Gardner attempts to settle the dispute between those who prefer prune and those who munch on “mun.”

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-perfect-hamantaschen/

2009: Journalist David Plotz, the editor of Slate, discusses and signs Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

2009: Israeli illustrator and artist David Polonsky discusses and signs his new graphic novel, Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story (created with Ari Folman, whose animated film of the same name inspired the book), at Busboys and Poets (D.C.)

2009: Shabbat Zachor 5769

2009: With demonstrators clashing with the police outside a near-empty stadium, Sweden won a doubles match to take a 2-1 lead against Israel in the Davis Cup series in Malmo, Sweden

2009: In case involving Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, The Chicago Tribunereported that New York City authorities this week charged the son of University of Chicago professor Norman Golb with identity theft, criminal impersonation and harassment in connection with a campaign to smear opponents of his father's scholarly theories.

2010: The Jewish Women's Archive’s tour of Santa Fe is scheduled to come to an end today.

2010: “The Splendor of the House of Camondo: From Constatinople to Paris, 1806-1845” which opened at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris on November 6, 2009 is scheduled to close today.

2010: The 121st annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis opened in San Francisco.

2010: The Twentieth Annual KOACH Kallah is scheduled to come to an end. KOACH is the college program of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

2010: After a year-and-a-half of careful restoration work by the Egyptian authorities, the Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is scheduled to be rededicated today.

2010: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readings including The Ask by Michael Lipstye

2010(21 Adar, 5770):Arnold Forster, an American Jewish leader, lawyer and writer who was a longtime executive of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, passed away today in the Bronx at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale.  He was 97. Associated with the Anti-Defamation League for nearly six decades, Mr. Forster was its general counsel from 1946 to 2003. In that capacity he helped document, publicize and combat myriad forms of anti-Semitism in the United States and overseas. He was widely quoted in the news media over the years on a range of Jewish issues, including Zionism, a cause he defended ardently and about which he wrote frequently. His books, many of which began life as league reports, include “The Trouble-Makers” (Doubleday, 1952), “ ‘Some of My Best Friends ...’ ” (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962) and “The New Anti-Semitism” (McGraw-Hill, 1974), all written with Benjamin R. Epstein. Mr. Forster was also the author of a memoir, “Square One” (D. I. Fine, 1988), which has a foreword by Elie Wiesel. Mr. Forster began his work with the Anti-Defamation League in the 1930s. In 1938, he convened a group of lawyers to serve pro bono as the league’s legal arm. He formally joined the league in 1940 and later became its associate national director, presiding over an expansion of its law department and civil rights programs. In 1965 Mr. Forster hired a young law school graduate named Abraham H. Foxman as an assistant to the director of the league’s law department. Mr. Foxman is now the league’s national director.  After retiring from the league in 1979, Mr. Forster was associated with two New York law firms, Shea & Gould and Baer Marks & Upham. Besides writing books, Mr. Forster wrote the screenplays of several documentary films. Among them are “The Avenue of the Just” (1978), about Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, and “Zubin and the I.P.O.” (1983), about Zubin Mehta, the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Broadcast on NBC, “Zubin and the I.P.O.” won Daytime Emmy Awards for its director, Samuel Elfert, and for Mr. Mehta. In “Square One,” Mr. Forster recounted his decades-long campaign against bigotry. Reviewing the memoir in The New York Times Book Review, Marlene Sanders called it “an earnest chronicle of the useful life of a dedicated man.” Ms. Sanders continued: “The work of Mr. Forster and the league over the years has contributed to eliminating many institutionalized forms of prejudice.” She added, “We may not be back to ‘Square One’ in solving the problem, but this book is a reminder that there is still work to be done.”

 

2011: Israeli choreographer Michal Samama is scheduled to perform ‘Still Life with Seven Stones’ in New York City.

2011:Israeli violinist Misha Keylin, Seymour Lipkin and the Jupiter musicians are scheduled to perform at the Good Shepherd Church in New York City.

2011: On the day before Mardi Gras, Jews in the Crescent City have the opportunity to participate in Breakfast with Maimonides during which Rabbi Zelig Rivkin is scheduled to lead a study of the writings of the Rambam

2011: (1 Adar II 5771): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

2011: (1 Adar II 5771) Yahrzeit for the passengers killed on Egged Bus #53 8 years ago in Tel Aviv:

·        Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel

·        Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa

·        Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa

·        Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa

·        Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa

·        Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed

·        Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father-

·        Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa

·        Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa

·        Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa

·        Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa

·        Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa

·        Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa

·        Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina

·        Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa

·        Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa

·        Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa

2011:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has ordered the state to demolish all illegal West Bank outposts built on private Palestinian land by the end of 2011, Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser announced today.

2011: Publication of “Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/nyregion/08books.html?_r=2&hpwm

2012:Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good” is scheduled to be shown at the Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival in Pittsburgh, PA.

2012: The junior faculty at the University of Haifa is scheduled to go on strike as part of “an ongoing dispute with the Committee of University Presidents over work conditions”

2012: Friends and family of Dr. Ron Reider join together to celebrate his natal day.  Besides being a crack physician, Reider is an avid wrestling fan, a pillar of the Jewish community and a loyal supporter of the Traditional Minyan. In addition to which, he is one of only two people in Cedar Rapids who wraps his tefillin around his right arm.

2012(13th of Adar, 5772): Fast of Esther

2012: As part of their Fast of Esther observance, the 9thgraders at Temple Judah have agreed to take part in “Say No To Lashon Hara Day.”  Purim is a holiday that reminds of the evil consequences of the Evil Tongue.  Traditionally, on the day before Purim, we give up food and drink to show our solidarity with Esther. They are going to avoid Lashon Hara, both in its literal and figurative meaning, on the day before Purim to show that modern world would be better off without it just as the Jews of Shushan would have benefited from its absence.

  2012: Education Minister Gideon Saar announced today that Rabbi Chaim Druckman will receive the Israel Price for his contributions to society and education.

2012: Thirteen Israelis made this year’s list of billionaires which totaled 1,226 people. Idan Ofer, director of Ofer Group, leads the list of Israeli billionaires in the 161st spot, with an estimated fortune of $6.2 billion. Beny Steinmetz of Steinmetz Business Group ranked eight spots bellow Ofer, with a net worth of $5.9 billion. Another Ofer brother, Eyal, came in 173rd on the list, with $5.8 billion.  Iscar founder Stef Wertheimer and his family ranked 255th with some $4.2 billion, while Bank Hapoalim's Shari Arison was placed in the 288th spot with $3.9 billion. Other Israelis included on the list were film producer Arnon Milchan (290th, $3.8 billion); Kazakh-Israeli tycoon Alexander Machkevich (418th, $2.8 billion); Check Point founder Gil Shwed (683, $1.9 billion); Delek Group owner Yitzhak Tshuva (683, $1.9 billion);Lev Leviev (764, $1.7 billion); Marius Nacht (1015, $1.2 billion); Teddy Sagi (1015, $1.2 billion) and Moris Kahn (1153, $1 billion). (As reported by Y Net)

2013: Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to present a discussion of the soon-to-be published book FDR and the Jews.

2013: Helaine and Isaac Heller donated one million dollars as an unrestricted gift to Cooper Union’s Annual Fund.

2013: In Cedar Rapids, the family and friends of Dr. Ronald Reider, a pillar of the Jewish community and an ardent supporter of the Shabbat Minyan, celebrate his natal day.  Dr. Reider is one of two men in Cedar Rapids who uses “left-handed’ tefillin.

2013(25thof Adar, 5773): Ninety-eight-year-old Jacques Torczyner, the Belgian born former president of the ZOA passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/zionist-leader-jacques-torczyner-dies/

http://zoa.org/2013/03/10193626-zoa-mourns-passing-of-jacques-torczyner-zionist-leaderformer-zoa-president/

2013:” British Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Jewish Defence,” a one day conference co-sponsored by the Board of Deputies of British Jewish is scheduled to take place at the Wiener Library. 

2014: JW3 is scheduled to host a “100% Shabbat friendly” Friday Night Supper Club in London.

2014: Following funeral services this afternoon, Francis Calisch Rothenberg, the granddaughter of Edward N. Calisch the rabbi at Richmond’s Temple Beth Ahabah, is scheduled to be interred at the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond.

http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/rothenberg-frances-calisch/article_4755d663-7fa6-5517-a445-d2c919b83ec7.html

2014: The Library of Congress is scheduled to screen “Sukkah City,” Jason Hutt’s documentary that “explores the artistic process of architects and documents how an ancient building was reinvented for the 21st century.”

2014: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host Shabbat Across America.

2014: Following a congregation spaghetti dinner, the 9th grade class is scheduled to lead Friday night services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

2014: The third bi-annual LimmudFest New Orleans is scheduled to open this evening with registration at Temple Sinai on St. Charles Avenue.

2014: Nine Ukrainian Jews injured by gunfire during fighting in Kiev were flown to Israel today afternoon to receive crucial medical treatment. (As reported by Yoel Goldman)

2014: “Israeli jets scrambled to its Northern border with Syria today after Syrian aircraft were spotted in the area.  The Syrians, who were apparently attacking rebel positions, pulled back from the border when they spotted the IAF. (As reported by Times of Israel)

2014: “Closer to the Moon” a movie based on the Ioanid Gang (a group of Jewish Romanians who allegedly stole a huge amount of money from an armored car) was released in Romania today.

2015: As Jews in Cedar Rapids come together for the Traditional Shabbat minyan they are bathed in a veritable Upper Mid-West Heat Wave as temperatures go above freezing for the second day in a row.

2015: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a Paint Your Own Passover Pottery party this evening.

2015(16thof Adar, 5775): Eighty-eight-year-old businessman and philanthropist Isaac Heller passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/business/isaac-heller-co-founder-of-remco-and-toymaker-to-a-generation-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2015: Tom Morton-Smith’s “Oppenheimer” which takes him “from a left-wing academic in Berkeley, California, to a military scientist in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he headed the top-secret Manhattan Project” is scheduled to be performed for the last time at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon

 2015: At the New Orleans Hyatt Hotel, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS), the first and oldest Jewish children’s agency in the United States, will host a 160th anniversary, featuring some of New Orleans finest musical talent, and honoring families who have made programs on behalf of Jewish children a centerpiece of their philanthropy. (Editor’s Note – speaking from personal experience, this is an organization worthy of financial support)

 

2015: “Yoav Galant, a former IDF general running for Knesset with the centrist Kulanu party, charged today that the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu largely ignored the tunnel threat posed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip until Operation Protective Edge last summer.

2015: “An estimated 40,000 demonstrators filled Rabin Square this evening “to take part in a rally calling for a change in government” where they herard former Mossa chief Meir Dagan say that Netanyahu “is dragging us down to a bi-national state and to the end of the Zionist dream.”

2016: “Phoenix” and “Apples from the Desert” are scheduled to shown at the Houston (TX) Jewish Film Festival.

2017: “War Paint,” a musical based on the rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, the Jewish cosmetics entrepreneur, premiered on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre today.

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/231414/skin-deep-broadway-war-paint-patti-lupone-christine-ebersole?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=6087aac131-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-6087aac131-206644398

2017: It was announced today that “beginning in 2017, the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust studies and narratives will be named to honor the memory and legacy of the late Ernest W. Michel” who was “deported from his hometown of Manheim, Germany by the Gestapo at 16 years old, “Ernie” Michel escaped seven years later after the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald and dedicated the rest of his life to Jewish life and Holocaust remembrance.

2017: In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host its annual Purimspiel, “an original production…inspired by a collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock tunes.”

2017: In France, the court is scheduled to render a verdict after hearing evidence in a case where “French Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan is being sued by Muslim anti-racism groups for saying in a radio debate: ‘In French Arab families, babies suckle antisemitism with their mothers’ milk.’”

2017: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Jack Jacobs on the “Political Thinkers Of East European Jewry” where he “will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.”

2017: “As of midday today, threats had been reported at Jewish institutions in Wisconsin, Maryland, Oregon, Florida, Alabama and at least two community centers in New York, according to Secure Community Network, the security arm of the Jewish Federations of North America” while “two threats were directed toward Canadian JCCs, in Toronto and London, Ontario.”

2018: “Why Do They Hate Us?” a documentary that examines anti-Semitism in France is scheduled to be shown at the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2018: Zachary Truboff, the senior rabbi at Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Lyndhurst, OH announced today that he was resigning so he could pursue his dream of returning to Jerusalem.

2018: Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s 2018 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.

2018: Dr. Mark W. Weisstuch is scheduled to lead two sessions on “The Ten Commandments: Ambiguities and Misconceptions” at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.

2018: The National Jewish Book Award is scheduled to take place at the Lander College for Women – The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School in Manhattan.

2018: Rabbi Lawrence of the Kinloss United Synagogue and an Oxford alumnus, is scheduled to discuss issues of confidentiality and cover-ups in Halacha at the Old Law Library at the Magdalen College.

2019: At the Center for Jewish History, curator Ilona Moradof is scheduled to a lead a four of “Kindertransport—Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” which “illuminates  the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s”.

2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Library is scheduled to host a screening of “Shimon Returns,” about Holocaust survivor who returns to the lands of his childhood.

2019: In Palo Alto, CA the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host an evening with Dr. Nathan Szajnberg, the German born American author of Jacob and Joseph, Judaism's Architects and Birth of the Ego Ideal in a discussion of father and son relationships in the world of Judaism and the Bible.

2019: On the same day when Democrats in Congress can’t seem to get it together with an unambiguous condemnation of ant-Semitism, the San Jose Sharks of the NHL are scheduled to host Jewish Heritage Night.

2019: The Wandering Israeli Performance is scheduled to take place today in Tel Aviv

https://www.touristisrael.com/the-wandering-israeli-performance-tel-aviv-israel/25527/

2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of  “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.

2019: The Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host authors Jodie Ginsberg, Jane Haynes, Keith Kahn-Harris, Mark Levene and James Libson as they discuss “Is Humanity in Denial?”

http://jewishbookweek.com/event/is-humanity-in-denial/

2019(30thof Adar I, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

2020: The Philadelphia Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to open this evening with a screening of “Incitement.”

2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Mamboniks that tells the “story of how Jewish people fell in love with the music and dance of Cuba during the exciting 1950s mambo era.”

2020: The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “A Matter of Size” and “The Harmonists.”
2020: In Louisiana, “Scholar-in-Residence Tanya Farber” is scheduled to deliver a drosh on “Hidden and Revealed Light” during the Shabbaton hosted by Congregation Beth Israel..

2020: In San Francisco, Yeashore Community and Maggid Raja Anderson are scheduled to lead a Havdalah service, followed by a sing-along on historic ship.

2020: In Boston, SEIU 32BJ is scheduled to host “Gragger 5780, a “raucous and radical Party Party, “ featuring the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band..

2020: On this Shabbat when the world is dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus, Jews prayer for a refuah shelaymah (perfect healing) for all who are suffering from any affliction including Reuven Fink, the rabbi of Young Israel in New Rochelle, NY and the family of Lawrence Garbuz.

2020(11thof Adar, 5780): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor

2021: The Jewish Community Library and Mechanics’ Institute are scheduled to present co-editors Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan as they talk about Emma Wolf, the author of Heirs of Yesterday and their journey to resuscitate her work.

https://thejewishnews.com/2020/12/13/review-heirs-of-yesterday-by-emma-wolf/

2021: The JCC Literary Consortium and JCCs across the nation are scheduled to present “author and businessman Mark Gerson as he taks  about his nonfiction book “The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life” and the importance of haggadahs.

2021: The Contra Costa JCC is scheduled to present a program about Israel-UAE-Dubai relations and business ties as part of its Faces of Israel series” with UAE business leader Thani Al Shirawi, Knesset member Michal Cotler-Wunsh and international human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky.

2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at “60 Minutes” by Ira Rosen and Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris.

2021: Film director Nurith Aviv and UC Berkeley professor Chana Kronfeld are scheduled to lead a discussion about the 2020 documentary “Yiddish.”

2021: In Waltham, MA, Temple Beth Israel is scheduled to present online a “Yiddish/Klezmer Dance Workshop.”

 

 

 

This Day, March 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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1126: Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca. Under the reign of Alfonso Christian Spain “became a refuge for the persecuted Andalusian Jews.  The capital city of Toledo became a new center for Jewish learning.  The major reason for this positive turn of fortune for the Jews was the king’s positive relationship with Yehuda Ibn-Ezra.  After taking the fortress of Calatrava, the king appointed Ibn-Ezra as its commander as a reward for his bravery.  Ibn-Ezra used his influence to create a refuge for the Jews who were fleeing Almohades, a religiously fervent Berber Moslem dynasty that had crossed into Spain after successful conquests in parts of North Africa. Those who equate the Golden Age of Spain with Moslem rule would do well to remember that life for the Jews was much more varied than that.

1255: King Przemysl Ottocar II of Austria renewed the charter granting favorable rights to his Jewish subjects.

1607: A complaint was filed today by the Inquisition “against Jorge de Almeida, a Portuguese domiciled in the City of Mexico, husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada” who had been convicted of observing Mosaic law” which makes her a Jewess.

1688: On this night a large group of secret Jews planned to escape from the island of Majorca by booking passage on an English ship. They were looking for religious freedom. A storm delayed their departure, and their plan was betrayed. All those planning to leave were put in prison. In the spring of 1691 these prisoners were sentenced at an auto-de-fe, where 37 were burned at the stake.

1702: King William II of England passed away today. Antonio Lopez Suasso, later Baron Avernes de Gras had provided financing for William who had been Prince of Orange to take the English throne. In 1700 William knighted Solomon de Medina who had served as an army contractor making him the first Jew to be so honored.

1712: At Carr End in Yorkshire, England John Foterhgill and “his first wife Margaret Hough” gave birth to Dr. John Fothergill who sought solace in the suffering of the Friends or Quakers by comparing them to the Jews as can be seen when he wrote “John Pemberton during the American Revolution that he often reflects “on the history of the Jewish people with humbling admiration” and that their sufferings affords “instructive lessons.”

1731: In Mladá Boleslav, David Brandeis a Jewish shopkeeper who had been accused of poising a local Christian printer with plum jam was released today after the accusation was proven to be untrue.

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

1754(14thof Adar, 5514): Purim

1757: Jacob Pinto and Thankful Pinto gave birth to Abraham Pinto today.

1762: In Buchau, Franziska Levi and David Einstein gave birth to Jacob David Einstein.

1766: In the Netherlands, on the day when Prince William V reached his majority, Jews held services of Thanksgiving as sign of their on-going support for the monarch who was not universally popular.

1768:In the Netherlands, synagogues held services of thanks-giving on the day that “King William V entered the legislature on the day of his majority.” “Under the government of William V the country was troubled by internal dissensions; the Jews, however, remained loyal to him” and William did not forget the loyalty of his Jewish subjects.

1773(13thof Adar, 5533): Ta’anit Esther

1773: In the evening, Rabbi Raphael Hayyim Isaac Caregal attended Purim services at the synagogue in Newport, RI, with Ezra Stiles, the future President of Yale who described him as being "dressed in a red garment with the usual Phylacteries and habiliments, the white silk Surplice; he wore a high fur cap, had a long beard. He has the appearance of an ingenious and sensible man"

1777(29thof Adar I, 5537): Parashat Vahakhel; Shabbat Shekalim

1777: As the Jewish people observed their day of rest, “American troops under the command of Brigadier General William Maxwell defeated the British at Amboy, New Jersey.”

1792(14thof Adar, 5551): Purim

1792: Birthdate of Brumath,bas-rhin,France native Jacques Goudchaux who married Barbe Levi, with whom he had 9 children, in 1813 and then married Rosette Kahn with whom he had 11 children, in 1834  before finally marrying Marie Metger in 1852 with whom he had one child, Marie Goudchaux.

1794: Madel and Jakob Loew Feuchtwanger gave birth to Esther Feuchtwanger, the wife of Isaac Fraenkel with whom she had five children.

1798(20thof Adar, 5558): Thirty-four year old Hannah Isaacs, the daughter of Jacobs Isaacs and the wife of Jacob Philipps whom she married in 1785 passed away today in Martinique.

1799(1st of Adar II, 5559): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1799: In Maytown, PA, Charles Cameron and his wife gave birth to Simon Cameron who as Secretary of War at the outset of the Civil War complied with law by not allowing Michael Allen, a Jew, to serve as the chaplain for the unit known as Cameron’s Dragoons which had been named for Cameron and which had a large contingent of Jews from Philadelphia in its ranks and leadership.

1800(11thof Adar, 5560): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor observed for the first time in the 19th century.

1804: Birthdate of Bishopgate, London, native Sara Eliza Henriques, the wife of Kingston, Jamaica native Joseph Gutteres Henriques and the mother of Frederick and Alfred Henriques.

1807: In France, the Great Sanhedrin presented its conclusions at its final session.

1816: In Whitechapel, London, Hanna and Abraham Harris gave birth to Henry Harris

1817:  In New York, the Stockbrokers Guild formerly incorporates itself and becomes the New York Stock Exchange.  Among the founders were several prominent Jewish financiers including Benjamin Seixas, Isaac Gomez, Alexander Zuntz and Ephraim Hart.  Ephraim Hart’s son’ Bernhard, became Secretary of the NYSE.  Bernhard was also the grandfather of writer Bret Harte.

1817:Joseph Jonas the first Jew to settle in Cincinnati, Ohio arrived in the Queen City today.  He was an English-born peddler who had come from Philadelphia, PA. “He became a successful watchmaker and silversmith and lived on Broadway between Fifth Street and Harrison. Jonas, like most early Jews, settled in downtown Cincinnati. Jonas wrote letters describing the opportunities that existed in the Ohio River valley. This convinced other Jews to join him including two younger brothers. In 1821, when Benjamin Lieb was dying, he begged to be buried as a Jew. He was the first Jew to die in Cincinnati. In response to his request, Joseph Jonas and Morris Moses, two of Cincinnati's six Jews, purchased the lot for Cincinnati's first Jewish cemetery from Nicholas Longworth for $75.00, and then buried Lieb there. This cemetery known as the Old Jewish Community or the Chestnut Street Cemetery is the oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Alleghenies. By 1824 there were enough Jewish residents to fulfill the requirement of ten adult males so that regular religious services could be held, and the first Jewish congregation beyond the Allegheny Mountains was established. This congregation became the Rockdale Temple. Most of the early Jews were British.”

1825: Birthdate of Salomon Kohn, the son of Prague merchant who traded in his business career in 1873 for the world of literature.

1826: This evening, in Charleston, SC, Isaac Soria of New York married Hetty Cohen, “the daughter of Moses Cohen.

1830: Birthdate of German Jewish jurist Hermann Makower who was also a leader of the Berlin Jewish community.

1831: Birthdate of French photographer Félix Bonfils who created one of the first modern photographic records of the Middle East including Palestine and the Wall of the Second Temple.

1832: Nathan Solomons married Deborah Abrahams today in the UK.

1840(3rd of Adar II, 5600): Fifty-nine-year-old Leser Lazarus Ochsenhorn, the husband of Nanette Wexler with whom he had eight children passed away today in Bavaria.

1841:” A general thanksgiving service” was held today “in the Synagogue of Spanish Portuguese Jews (Bevis Marks) “to commemorate the success which attended Sir Moses Montefiore in his mission to the East.”

1842: One day after she had passed away, Ann (Levy) Simmons the wife of Joshua Simmons and mother of Simeon, Julia and Barnett Joshua Simmons was buried today “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1852: Caroline Davis and Levy Jacobs gave birth to Walter Jacobs.

1857:Today one of the first real organized actions of women's solidarity took place in New York City when hundreds of women staged a strike against the garment and textile factories in New York City, protesting low wages, long working hours and inhumane working conditions.  This strike, which undoubtedly included Jewish workers took place 54 years before the Triangle Shirt Factory Fire.

1857: Reverend Charles Harris, "a Christian Jew" is scheduled to preach twice today at the John Street First M.E. Church in New York City. [The Jews for Jesus concept obviously was not a 20th century phenomenon.]

1860(14thof Adar): As war clouds loom in the United States, celebration of Purim

1860: Sir Saul Samuel completed his term as 6th Treasurer of New South Wales

1863: In London “Julius L. Sterner, a German-born American citizen” pursuing business opportunities in the UK and Sarah Steiner gave birth to Albert Edward Sterner, a student at Julien’s Academy and Ecole des Beuaz Arts who came to the United States in 1881 where he pursued a career as an “artist, scene painter and lithographer.”

1864: In Lomza, Wolff Bernard and Goldie (Berant) Lasker gave birth to Hyman M. Lasker, the rabbi of Beth Israel in Troy, NY and the grandfather of Harold I Saperstein, the Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook, NY and the husband of Sarah Roberts.

https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-mordechai-lasker/

1866: Two days after he had passed away, 40-year-old Solomon Emanuel, the son of Uzziel Emanuel and Jane Solomonson, the husband of Phoebe Benjamin and the father of Jeanette, Elizabeth, Esther and Mark Emanuel was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1871(15thof Adar, 5631): Shushan Purim

1871: A review of The Recovery of Jerusalem: A Narrative of Exploration in the City and the Holy Land” by two legendary British officers, Captains Wilson and Warren, who, among other accomplishments, conducted the first modern mapping of the ancient Jewish capital was published today.

1871: “The Purim Festival” published today described the history of the holiday as well as local observances including the celebrations at the Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, the Orphans’ Home and the Industrial Home on West 17th Street.

1872: Four years after Abraham Oppenheim had been ennobled, German-Jewish banker Gerson von Bleichröder and his family were made Prussian nobles; making them the second Jewish family to have been so honored.

1874: In Münstereifel, Germany, Rabbi Joseph Kahn and his wife Rosalie who would raise their family in Detroit, gave birth to Julius Kahn, the University of Michigan trained engineer who invented “the Kahn System, a reinforced concrete engineering technique for building construction.

1874: “The Prince of Printers” published today traces the history of printing in Italy including the rise of the printers of Soncino who were the first to print texts using Hebrew letters. Although they would set up presses at other locations, they always used the name of their hometown which they adopted as their family name.

1875(1stof Adar II, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1875: It was reported that next week’s Hebrew Charity Ball will include music supplied by two bands and a supper catered by Delmonico’s served at the Academy of Music.

1876(12thof Adar, 5636): Fifty-eight-year-old Susan Freiberg, the Bavarian born wife of Lazarus Fels and the mother of Abraham Fels, passed away today.

1877: The Hebrew Lodge, Number 5 of the International order of B’nai Brit is sponsoring a fundraiser at the Steinway Hall tonight to aid those who suffered loss in the recent fire in Brooklyn.  Entertainment will included vocalists and violinists.

1877: In Eichstetten, Leopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Jeanette Bloch and Babette Bloch gave birth to Jakob Bloch

1879: Birthdate of Otto Hahn.In 1944, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the fission of heavy nuclei, which made the atomic bomb possible.

1879: It was reported today that the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem are sponsoring a Purim Calico Ball which will be held on the day that coincides with Shushan Purim.

1879: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Manhattan will host its fourth annual Purim celebration at the Lexington Avenue Opera House.

1881: The town of Seligman, MO, which was named for Joseph Seligman, was incorporated today.

1882: Abraham Aarons married Miriam Solomons today in London.

1883: Nissim and Mozelle Ezra gave birth Dinah Ezra who was buried in the Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong when she passed away two months after her sixth birthday.

1887: “In the history of the religious life of the Israelites of” the United States “there was never expressed in the midst of the Jewish people such deep-felt grief and sorrow over the death of a public man as over the death of Henry Ward Beecher” the 73-year-old social reformer and abolitionist clergyman who passed away today and was eulogized by Rabbi David Phillipson of Cincinnati.

1890: “The charity ball of the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Long Island City took place tonight at Ahler’s Astoria Assembly Rooms.

1891: “Palestine for the Jews” published today described the plan “advocated by prominent men of the leading cities” including such philo-Semites as Yale Professor Charles Toten “to obtain in a peaceable way” the “old homes in Palestine for Jews through… an international conference.”

1891: “Electric Light In The Holy Land” published today relied on information that first appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette to described the introduction of electric light at a new flour mill located near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

1891(28th of Adar I, 5651: Seventy-year-old Benjamin Feuerstein, a clothing cutter, passed away while riding the elevated on his way to a meeting of a Jewish charitable society.

1891: Birthdate of American film and television actor Sam Jaffee.  His film career included the role of Gunga Din in the movie of the same name and “Doc”, the criminal mastermind in the film noire classic “The Asphalt Jungle.”  His film career came to a halt as a result of the infamous blacklist.  He returned to acting as the wise old Dr.Zorba in the television medical melodrama “Ben Casey.”

1892: As public health workers in New York cope with the latest outbreak of typhus, 20-year-old Sarah Koslofsky who was living in a tenement occupied by 18 Jewish families was taken to the hospital after she was found to suffering with the fever.  Thirteen-year-old Baruch Stelson who was also found to be suffering from the disease was taken the facility at North Brother Island.

1892: Birthdate of New York native and Oregon resident Benjamin Cohen, the husband of Anna Klein Cohen and the father of Gerald Robert Cohen.

1894: “Benny” Weiss” saw Wardman Jeremiah Levy and Charles Krumm shake hands but do not exchange any money.

1894: Birthdate of Chicago native and WW I Navy veteran Salem N. Baskin, the advertising executive and one-time head of the Baskin Clothing Store who raised two daughters and one son, Mark, with his wife Bess Baskin.

1894: “Brooklyn Bridge Trustees” published today described Senator Cantor’s objection “to removing men from office upon charges of dishonesty unless the charges were shown to be true.”

1894: “Mr. Ainsworth Makes an Apology to the Hebrews” published today described New York Assemblyman Ainsworth’s public recantation of his use of the term “Jew pawnbrokers’ claiming that he spoke hastily during the debate on reforming pawn-brokering “and did not think of my Hebrew brethren on the floor of the house.”

1895: “Unparalleled” published today, relying on information first appearing in the Cincinnati Tribune described the United as “perfect in a religious way” because it is the only country on earth where “a Hebrew Mayor” could “call for the troops to keep the Catholics and Protestants from getting into a riot.”

1896: “Rabbi Morais’s Anniversary” published today described plans for the upcoming celebration of Dr. Sabato Morais’s 45thanniversary as the Rabbi of Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikve Israel.

1896: Birthdate of Otto Heller, the Prague born English cinematographer Otto Heller.

1896: Birthdate of Joseph Bernbaum, the native of Stopnica, Poland native who came to Canada in 1918, joined the Jewish Legion in 1918 and who “left Toronto with first group of volunteers and served in Palestine with the 39th Royal Fusiliers.

1897(4th of Adar II, 5657): Frederick C. Salomon passed away.  A native of Prussia where he trained as a surveyor, Salomon moved to Wisconsin where he worked as a surveyor, registrar of deed and chief engineer on a local railroad.  At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Union Army where he served with such distinction that he rose to the rank of Major General (Brevet) by the time he mustered out in 1865.  After the war he served as the Surveyor General of Utah Territory and settled in Salt Lake City where he passed away.

1897: Maurico Jacobs, a native of Peru who has been living in Cuba for the last 12 years has applied to the United Hebrew Charities for assistance for himself and his family.

1897: “Welcomes the Controversy” published today described Temple Emanu-El’s Rabbi Gottheil response to Reverend Lyman Abbot’s claims about the Bible including the charge that the Book of Psalms was not theological because it was written in poetry.

1898(14th of Adar, 5658): Purim

1898(14th of Adar, 5658): Sixty-eight-year-old Moses Bruckheimer, a pawnbroker living in Brooklyn passed away today. He was active in the Jewish community serving as trustee of Temple Beth Elohim and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1899: At the annual diplomatic dinner given by the Emperor of Germany Today, the Kaiser looked “robust,” having “fully recovered from the effects of his Palestine” trip where he sought to strengthen the German role in the Ottoman Empire.

1899: In Albany, State Senator Elsberg introduced a bill “authorizing the consolidation of the Education Alliance and the Hebrew Free School Association of New York City.

1899: At the Bloomingdale Church in Manhattan Dr. Madison C. Peters will deliver a lecture on “Justice to the Jew,” “which is intended to refute popular fallacies and prove that the movements of civilization have hung upon the Jew.”  “Dr. Peters claims that he will show that the Jew is in the front rank as patriot, lawyer, statesman, scientist, philosopher, artist, dramatist, poet, physician, musician, mathematician, astronomer, actor, discoverer, philologist, physiologist – in every department of human activity.”

1900: Ray Emanuel, the daughter of David and Amelia Emanuel married Joseph Jewell at the Central Synagogue.

1901: In Jackson, TN, Memphis merchant and philanthropist Jacob C. Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus Felsenthal and his wife Cecilia Felsenthal gave birth to Marcus Stanley Felsenthal

1902: Birthdate of Bernard Irvin “B.I,” Greenhut who served as Mayor of Pensacola, FL from 1965 through 1967.

1903: At Temple Beth-El in New York, Rabbi Schulman delivered the opening prayer and Leo N. Levi delivered the main address at the celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of District Grand Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of B'nai B'rith.

1904: It was reported that Tobias Abraham has purchased “a four-story flat” at 1458 Brooks Avenue, on the “northeast corner of St. Paul’s Place.

1905: In New York, Rebecca (née Green) and Dr. Isidore L. Marrow gave birth to psychologist Dr. Alfred J. Marrow, the husband of Monette Marrow and father of Paul Bennett Marrow and Marjorie Samberg.

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2005-09571-002

1906(11th of Adar, 5666): Fast of Easter observed since the 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat.

1906: In New York City, Rebecca (née Green) and Dr. Isidore L. Marrow gave birth to Alfred J. Marrow “American industrial psychologist, executive, civil rights leader, and philanthropist.”

1906: Po’alei Zion was organized underground in Poltava, Russia

1907: The independent Order of B’nai B’rith has joined the Jews of Cleveland in their campaign “to force the distasteful figure of Shakespeare’s Shylock out of the public schools.”

1908: The Federation of Rumanian Jews in America was founded

1908(5th of Adar II, 5668): Adolph Meyer, a native of Natchez, Mississippi, who served as a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana, passed away today.

1908: Miss Dora Brachman married Louis Ginsberg in Marietta, Ohio where they will make their home.

1909(15th of Adar, 5669): Shushan Purim

1910: Two days after he passed away, 63-year-old Zygmnunt Wartski, the native of Kalisch, Russia, was buried today in Vienna.

1910: Birthdate of Louis “Lulu” Bender, “an all-American basketball player at Columbia whose stellar play during the Depression helped popularize the game and make Madison Square Garden a magnet for college basketball…” (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/sports/basketball/13bender.html

1911: International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party. Born Clara Eissner, she married a Russian Jewish socialist leader named Ossip Zetkin.

1912(19th of Adar, 5672): Seventy-six year old Colonel Isaac Hirsch, he former Mayor of Chillicothe, MO, passed away today.

1912:  Birthdate of Seymour Louis Stark, the Brooklyn native who played college football at Syracuse before turning pro and playing for the Boston Redskins in 1935.

1912:  The Greek town of Zante was devastated by an earthquake. The Jewish quarter was destroyed, and more than 100 Jewish families are homeless

1912: Marco Besso of Trieste and Errea Cavalieri of Ferrara were both elected as Senators in Italy.

1913(29th of Adar I, 5673): Parashat Pekudi and Shabbat Shekalim

1913: Seventy-three-year-old Leon Israel, “the manager of the first Italian grand opera company to appear in Chicago passed away today at his home on Calumet Avenue.

1914: Birthdate of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons for the Soviet Union

1914: Mrs. Simon Baruch hosted a party at her home today for twenty-one Italian children from the Bronx as part of an attempt to combat anarchist propaganda and to the immigrant a children a sense of American history and patriotism.  Mrs. Baruch is the wife of Dr. Simon Baruch.  They are the parents of Bernard Baruch.

1915: In Washington, DC, “Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, issued a statement today declaring that tolerance toward all religious beliefs had been displayed by the Turkish Government and that the disturbances of which he Jews in Palestine were victims were caused by the overzealousness of local Turkish authorities.

1916: It was reported today that of the 325 seniors at Yale, twelve of them are Jewish.

1917: “The trial of a $50,000 libel suit brought by Maschulem F. Seidman, war correspondent for the Warheit and other Jewish news against The Day, another Jewish publication” which centered around whether or not was in fact part of “German propaganda effort to win the sympathies of Jews in America for the Teuton cause” continued for a second day in New York.

1918: The first issue of Di varhayt (The Truth), the first Yiddish communist paper in the world, was published today. Di varhayt was published in Petrograd, Russia by the People's Commissariat for Jewish Affairs. It was closed down after a brief existence, as the People's Commissariat was shifted to the new capital Moscow and the lack of Yiddish journalists in Petrograd. The paper was later re-started as Der Emes.

1918: A meeting of the Fatherland Union, the Elberfeld German People’s Party resolved “to request that in the future all professors and teachers of German, theatre managers and contributors to the press in all German states be of pure German lineage.”  (Editor’s note:  For all of the Holocaust apologists, please note that the war is still going on, there is no Versailles treaty and Hitler was a corporal in the Kaiser’s Army)

1918: Birthdate of Dresden native Irene H. Aronson, the English and American trained artist.

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/irene-aronson-147

1918: Ukrainian mobs massacred the Jews of Seredino Buda

1918: In Salonica, the government decided to exempt Jewish Ottoman subjects living in Greece from the regulation prohibiting commercial transactions with subjects of enemy states.”

1918: Jews of Gloucher were massacred by Ukrainians.  At this point in Russian history, the empire was in chaos.  The Czar had been deposed.  Kerensky and his Social Democrats were trying to rule the country.  The Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky were plotting to replace the Provisional Government.  In the meantime, the Ukrainians continued their tradition of anti-Semitism and killing Jews whenever they had the chance.

1918: The Government of Greece decides to exempt Jewish Ottoman subjects living in Greece from regulations prohibiting commercial transactions with subjects of enemy states.

1918: “As a result of steps taken by pro-Jewish labor leaders, the ban against using Jewish employees in the factories” was lifted in Bobruisk.

1919: Representative Julius Kahn, Republican congressman from California expressed his opposition to Zionism. He said “that the Zionist Congress which was recently held in Philadelphia had asserted that it represented 150,000 out of approximately 3,000,000 American Jews. These figures would seem to indicate that the so-called Zionist number only a small minority” of American Jewry. “The reason I am opposed to a Jewish state is that experience has shown that the Jew becomes a good patriotic citizen of any country giving him full citizenship and civil and religious liberty….I am afraid that many avowed Zionists are also internationalists.  I am not.  I believe that we in America should stand for this country and its institutions against all the world.  In fact, I believe that as nationalist we make of our religion a secondary matter.  Our country comes first.  Our Judaism is simply our religious faith.”   

1920: Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi who fought with Lawrence of Arabia and who signed an agreement with Chaim Weizmann that was blueprint for cooperation between Arabs and Jews began his short lived reign as Faisal I, King of Syria.

1920: During a series of Arab protest demonstrations “led to several Arab attacks on Jewish passers-by and shop owners.  The British authorities were alarmed at the violent tone of the Arab protests, in which calls to kill the Jews were heard alongside the popular slogan ‘Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs.’”

1921: In Paris, Marguerite and Paul Rosenberg, “a key figure in the Parisian art world in the first half of the century” gave birth to “Alexandre P. Rosenberg, founding president of the Art Dealers Association of America and for many years a prominent art dealer in New York.” (As reported by John Russell)

1921:Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquees of Reading, completed his service as Lord Chief Justice of England.

1922: Birthdate of New York native and NYU and MIT trains physicist Melvin Lax, winner in 1999 of “the Willis Lamb Medal for Science and Quantum Optics.

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5037

1923: “Excludes Alien Jewish Students” published today described the announcement of “a decision of he Board of Professors” at the Vienna Polytechnic” that henceforth numerous clauses will be applied against foreign Jewish students.”

1924: Ninety-two-year-old Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild, the daughter and wife of members of the famous members of this banking dynasty who was unique in her musical activities which included studying with Chopin, writing songs for popular vocalist of the day and publishing “a volume of 30 melodies” passed away today.

1925: Louis Marshall, the President of Temple Emanu-El addressed the members of the Emanu-El League, the congregations newest organization which is designed to attract younger congregants, calling on them “to study and spread Judaism and learn the History of the Jews and their contributions  to civilization” while participating in the philanthropic and communal pursuits that will prepare to lead the Temple in the future.

1926: “Denies Break in Jews’ Life” published today included a denial by Rabbi Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-El “that the blank page in the” Christian “Bible separating the Old and New Testaments was meant to mark a barren period in the history of Israel.”

1926: In Philadelphia, PA, “prominent basketball referee and baseball umpire Harry Rudolph” and his wife gave birth to Marvin “Mendy” Rudolph who was an NBA referee for 22 years from 1953 to 1957.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070714142048/http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-marvin-rudolph.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181653/http:/www.hoophall.com/ot/rudolph-induction-article.html

1927: In New York City, Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven, the sister of concert pianist Anton Rovinsky gave birth to composer and conductor Richard “Dick” Hyman

http://www.dickhyman.com/

1927: Birthdate of Joel Kaufman who played forward and center for New York University before choosing to play professional with the American Basketball League after having been drafted by the Warriors of the NBA.

1928: Bantamweight Herman “Kid” Silvers (born Herman Silverberg) was defeated in his 32nd bout.

1929: “Fräulein Else” the movie version of a novella by Arthur Schnitzler and directed by Paul Czinnner was released in Germany today.

1929: Financier Paul Warburg warned that the wild speculation gripping the stock market could lead to disaster. [Bernard Baruch was another Jewish financier who expressed the same concern.]

1930(8thof Adar, 5690):Parashat Teruman and Shabbat Zachor

1930: Der shtern, “a Yiddish language newspaper published in Kharkov” which “was an organization of the Central Committee of the Communist party” demanded today that OZET, “the public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land” in the Soviet Union, “liquidate all religious habits in the Jewish colonies” noting that many of “the Jews still observed the Sabbath” and Kashrut.

1932: Judge Pound, “another ‘liberal’” is scheduled to succeed “Benjamin N. Cardozo as chief judge of New York’s State Court of Appeals.”

1935: U.S. premiere of “Roberta” produced by Pandro S. Bermon with music by Jerome Kern and conducted by Max Steiner.

1936(14thof Adar, 5696): Purim

1936: “A festival of Purim play was given” this “afternoon at Temple Emanu-El on 5thAvenue.

1936: At Temple Ansche Chesed, “Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin said Purim offered consolation to all oppressed people” because “it teaches us that force will inevitable fail” and that “the more a people is persecuted for devotion to ideals the more attached and loyal they become.”

1936: “At Temple B’nai Jershurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein reviewed historical instances of persecution” saying that “the problem that confronted the Jews of Persia and Rome now confront the Jews of the twentieth century” who must “yield to the forces and lose their identity” or “resist those forces” and risk isolation.

1936: In the Bronx, “Dr. Jacob Katz rabbi of the Montefiore Congregation said the celebration of PUrimes was not to commemorate the defeat of the Persians, but to revive the spirit of endurance, patience and fortitude of the Jews ‘until the time comes when neither nations nor creeds shall ask conquest but shall rely for their survival and progress on the true human value and divine inspiration.’”

1936: “Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, preaching at the Institutional Synagogue, said anti-Semitism arose not only from the desire to abolish Judaism but also from political and economic jealousies.”

1936: “Three hundred chapters throughout the” United States are scheduled to “merge the celebration…with founders’ day programs” today on a “date that marks the 24thanniversary of the organization which was established by Miss Henriette Szold in 1912.”

1936: Dr. Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to arrive today in London where he will engage in “a series of consultations on the increasingly serious position of Jewish communities’ including Germany, Poland – where “anti-Semitism on the Nazi model” is growing and Rumania as well as actions being taken by the British government in Palestine which are inimical to Jewish interests and violate the Balfour Declaration.

1936: “Rabbi Joseph Rosen, an authority on Talmudic law…known to Jews as the Rogachever Gaon (sage of Rogachev, Russia)…was eulogized at services” in Vienna today where were attended by “a great number of his co-religionists.”

1936: The three winners of the Einstein Medals which are presented by the Jewish Forum “for distinguished services in the fields of peace, literature and philanthropy” tonight were awarded to “Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, executive director of World Peace ‘for outstanding service to the cause of world peace and goodwill; author Franz Werfel for distinction as a novelist and playwright and James G. McDonald, former high commissioner for German refugees for his services to the humanitarian cause.”

1937: Helmut Hirsch, a Jewish architectural student originally from Stuttgart was sentenced to death today for his role in the attempted murder of Julius Streicher.

1937: The New York Times reported on acts of human kindness and brotherhood during the ongoing wave of terrorism in Palestine.  “During recent disturbances a Jewish chauffeur took the son of an Arab who was killed to a hospital and an Arab driver rescued on the Jews hurt by stone-throwing.”

1938: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America observed the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Joseph H. Hertz as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire in a broadcast from Radio Station WHN. Dr. Hertz was the first graduate of the seminary.

1938: “The Girl of the Golden West” a musical based on a play by David Belasco and directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard was released in the United States today.

1939: “The British Government decided today to suspend all formal and informal meetings with the Jewish and Arab delegates to the Palestine Conference and to proceed with the formulation of its own plan, which will be submitted to both sides early next week. (As reported by Robert P. Post)

1939: Sixty-three-year-old Isaïe Schwartz, the Grand Rabbi of Strasbourg who during the World War had served as a stretcher bearer and as a chaplain at the American Army based at Bordeaux, was elected Grand Rabbi France, “replacing Israel Levy who had retired on account of his health.”

1940: A curfew which had gone into effect yesterday following protests over the “new restrictions on land transfers” which has been “led by the chief rabbis and members of the Vaad Leumi” was scheduled to fe lifted today.

1941: In a prelude to her famous diary, Esther "Etty" Hillesum wrote a letter addressed to Julius Spier in an exercise book. These would provide a picture of life in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.

1942: “Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, laid upon the British Government today responsibility for the death of 760 Jewish refugees from Rumania who perished when the steamer Struma sank in the Black Sea recently”

1942: The 2,500 delegates attending the annual conventions of H.I.A.S.at the Hotel Astor were told today that “n the eighteen months since the fall of France, "rescue through emigration" of 25,000 men, women and children from Europe has been aided by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society and its European affiliate.”

1943(1stof Adar, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1943: Greek Jews of Salonika were transported to Nazi extermination camps.

1943: The Sokolovo Czech battalion battled the Germans for three days. Of the 1,000 Czech soldiers, 600 are Jews.

1944: In the Warsaw Ghetto 37 Jews are given away in their hiding places.  Emanuel Ringelblum, noted historian and author of a detailed chronicle of the plight of the Warsaw Jews is one of the group that is captured.  Ringelblum was tortured for three days during which he revealed nothing about his fellow Jews in hiding. A few days later Ringelblum aged 43, his wife, and 13-year-old son Uri were executed. (Some sites show this as having happened on March 7.  The fog of war and change of time zones can play havoc with precision dating sometimes)

1944: In France, "in the morning there is a knock on the door at the apartment of Hélène Berr's family." Her parents Raymond and Antoinette will die later that year in Auschwitz.  Helene will survive until 1945 when she will die at Bergen Belsen where she was beaten to death five days before the camp was liberated by the British.

1945(23rd of Adar, 5705): Katherine Garfield the only daughter of actor John Garfield and Roberta Seiman who had been born in 1938 passed away today after contracting a case of strep throat while on a USO tour with her father.

1945: The Big Red One, whose members included Samuel Fuller captured Bonn today.

1946: “World Zionism officially proposed to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine today that 1,000,000 more Jews be brought to Palestine within the next decade.”

1947: The Committee organizing the second International Music Festival to be held in Prague has invited Leonard Bernstein to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra when it performs in May of this year.

1947: After having been sighted by RAF plane the refugee-filled SS Ben Hecht also called the Abril was intercepted by British ships- HMS Chieftain, HMS Chevron and HMS Chivalrous and HMS St. Bride’s Bay off the coast of Palestine and were boarded by two waves of British soldiers wearing red berets which earned them the sobriquet “red devils”

1947: Dr. Ludwig Fischer was executed for his role in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto

1947: Jewish terrorists defy British Martial law by launching a series of attacks in Tel Aviv tonight that injure 17 people, including 15 Jews, one British constable and one Arab constable.

1948: Birthdate of Yaakov Zvi, the London native we know as Jonathan Henry Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth and one of the most influential Jewish leaders of his time.

http://rabbisacks.org/

https://www.aish.com/authors/48865787.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/world/europe/jonathan-sacks-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1948: “It was learned tonight after the first meeting of the Great Powers” that “the Soviet Union is pressing for a prompt decision on steps to carry out the partition of Palestine while the United States still hopes that a settlement satisfactory to both Jews and Arabs can be worked out.” (As reported by Thomas J. Hamilton)

1948: Milton Sperling and Betty Warner gave birth to their third child, Cass Warner.

1948:The U.S.Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.

1949: During Operation Uvda, as the defending Jordanian forces withdrew, the Golani forces took Ein Ghamr.

1949: During the day the IDF moved towards Umm Rashrash through the Valley of the Fingers which in the evening the Alexandroni Brigade set sail from Sodom on the Dead Sea with the intent of seizing Ein Gedi.

1949: Following elections, David Ben-Gurion formed the first government of Israel.  In what would prove to be the curse of the Israeli political system, it was a coalition government led by Mapai but including two other smaller parties.  Ben-Gurion served both as Prime Minister and Defense Minister. Future Prime Minister Golda Meir served as the Minister of Labor and Social Security.

1949: "In a Knesset session in Tel Aviv...Eliahu Eliashar, a parliamentary representative of the Sephardi Jews, spoke on behalf of the Jews from Muslim lands."

1950(19th of Adar, 5710): Sixty-seven-year-old Hans Müller-Einigen, the son of Dr. Josef Müller and Johanna Müller, who is best “known for his screenplay for ‘The White Horse’” passed away today in Germany.

1950(19th of Adar, 5710): Fifty-eight-year-old “Oscar A.H. Danenberg, a former state representative and legal aid for the municipal department of public welfare passed away today in Stratford, Ct.

1950: An overflow crowd of one thousand mourners filled New York’s Park West Memorial Chapel and spilled out into the street at the funeral services for Daniel Frisch, the president of the Zionist Organization of America.  Rabbi Bernard Bergman officiated at the service and he was assisted by Cantor Robert Segal.  Numerous tributes were paid to Frisch for his support of Jewish causes and Zionism by several famous dignitaries include Eliahu Elath, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Louis Lips, chairman of the American Zionist council and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.  Following the service, Mr. Frisch’s body will be taken to Indianapolis for burial.

1950: Judge Morris Rothenberg, National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, issued a report today that funds raised by American Jews “had made possible” the establishment” of 3,000 small businesses for the rehabilitation and resettlement of invalid immigrants in Israel at a cost of five million dollars.”

1951: The International Table Tennis Federation banned Egypt for refusing to play Israel.  You have to give some points to the ping pong players.  They were one of the few international organizations that has not knuckled under to the Arabs and their supporters.

1951: In London, the original West End production of “Kiss Me, Kate” a musical with the book by Samuel and Bella Spewack opened today.

1951: “Royal Wedding” the Alan Jay Lerner musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen premiered today in New York City

1951: Release date for “Lemon Drop Kid,” a comedy directed by Sidney Lanfield, featuring Sid Melton as “Little Louie” and Ben Welden as “Singing Solly.”

1952: Birthdate of former U.S. Senator George Allen.  According to Jewish law, Allen is Jewish since his mother was Jewish. This information surfaced during Allen’s campaign for re-election in 2006. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until sometime after he became an adult.  His mother had lived in Tunisia during World War II and seen her father hauled off by the authorities.  She did not want her children to know about their Jewish heritage because she saw being Jewish as threat to their physical well-being.  If it could happen in Tunisia, she reasoned, it could happen again, even in the United States,

1955(14th of Adar, 5715): Purim

1957:  Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to minor shipping after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai Peninsula. This was the last chapter in the Suez Crisis of 1956.  Unfortunately the United Nations did not honor its guarantees to Israel and the result was the Six Days War of 1967

1957(5th of Adar II, 5717): A shepherd from kibbutz Beit Guvrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the kibbutz.

1959: “Too Many Crooks” a comedy co-starring Bernard Bresslaw and music by Stanley Black (Solomon Schwartz) was released in the United Kingdom today.

1959: George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party

1961(20th of Adar, 5721): Seventy-three-year-old Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh) the Portuguese army officer and crypto-Jew who affirmed his Judaism through conversion, helped hundreds escape the Shoah and worked to rebuild the Jewish community on the Iberian peninsula passed away today

http://www.the-jewish-story.org/basto.html

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/324119/portuguese-dreyfus-cause-taken-up-by-leading-candidate/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_BreakingNews_Position-3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202015-11-05&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29

1961:  Birthdate of actress Camryn Manheim.  She has appeared in such movies as “Bonfire of the Vanities” and television programs as “The Practice.”  In 1999 she published her autobiography entitled Wake Up, I'm Fat!

1963: A five-man syndicate led by Sonny Werblin bought the New York Titans which they would rebrand as the New York Jets, the first AFL team to win the Superbowl. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)

1964(24thof Adar, 5724): Seventy-three-year-old Budapest born American psychoanalyst Dr. Franz Gabriel Alexander, the husband of “artist Anita Venier with whom he had two daughters, Sylvia and Francesca, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/09/archives/dr-franz-alexander-73-dies-was-pioneer-in-psychosomatics-analyst.html

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.8.1305

1965:The Knesset passed the “Broadcasting Authority Law” which is the basis for the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s operations. The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was formed as an independent corporation responsible for all broadcasts in Israel and to the Diaspora. Until 1965, Kol Israel operated under the Office of the Prime Minister.

1969:During “The War of Attrition” a massive artillery barrage marked the start of the Egyptian campaign to destroy the Bar Lev Line.  The plan was under the direct supervision of General Abdul Munim Riad, the chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces.

1970: “Thirty-nine Soviet Jews from different cities protested against the” U.S.S.R.s’ “continuing anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Campaign.”

1970: Attorney Robert Shapiro, part of the O.J. Simpson “dream team” and a co-founder of LegalZoom married Linell Thomas today.

1971: Birthdate of David Aaron Greenberg, the native of New Haven, CT whose poetry was inspired by a meeting with Allen Ginsberg.

1971: William Davidon, a Jewish physics professor at Haverford College led “a group of anti-war activists” who “broke into a small FBI satellite office in the town of Media,” Pennsylvania.

1971: Dorothy Fields was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. She was the only woman in the first class of inductees.  Two of her songs that are still played today are"I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street."The song "The Way You Look Tonight" an Academy Award for "Best Song" in 1936.

1973: CBS broadcast the “Marcus-Nelson Murders” with a script by Abby Mann in what would prove to be the pilot for the police drama “Kojak” created by Mann.

1973(4thof Adar II, 5733): Seventy-two year old accountant Frank Abrams, “a close association of the late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise “and an “honorary vice president of the American Jewish Congress” who raised three sons – Sheldon, Douglas and Barry – with his wife Sylvia passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/09/archives/frank-abrams-dies-a-leader-in-aic.html

1974: “Henry Kissinger warned Congress of a presidential veto if the trade bill” was linked to the issue of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union.

1976(6thof Adar II, 5736): Eighty-six-year-old Edith Altschul Lehman, the widow of former New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman passed away today. (JWA shows her death date as 1974 while the Times uses 1976)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078517/index.html

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Lehman-Edith-Altschul

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/09/archives/edith-lehman-philanthropist-is-dead.html

1977: “Cross of Iron” a WW II move set on the Eastern Front with music by Ernest Gold was released in the UK today.

1977: First International Women’s Day as proclaimed by the United Nations.

1981: Foreign Minister Yithak Shamir “warned that the arms race already underway in the Middle East would be accelerated by the U.S. decision to sell additional sophisticated weaponry to Arab countries…”

1985(15thof Adar, 5745): Shushan Purim

1985:Two hundred and fifty Congressmen addressed a letter to President Reagan requesting the administration to set up talks with the Soviet Union, aimed solely at allowing freer emigration of Soviet Jews, in accordance with the Helsinki Accords.”

1988: Refuseniks meet today with U.S. Senators Sam Nunn, Alan Cranston and Carl Levin all of whom were Democrats.

1989: “Will You Marry Me?” a one act opera by composer Hugo David Weisgall was performed for the first time today by the Opera Ensemble of New York.

1990(11thof Adar, 5750): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat.

1993(15th of Adar, 5753): Uri Magidish was stabbed to death by two Palestinians while working in a hothouse at Gan Or.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including The Picasso Papers by Rosalind Krauss, Mahler by Jonathan Carr and Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poet's Journey Through the Twentieth Century
by Solomon Volkov.

1998(10thof Adar, 5758): Forty-four-year-old Broadway musical star Laurie Hope Beechman passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/arts/laurie-beechman-dies-at-44-played-grizabella-in-cats.html

2001(13thof Adar, 5761): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

2001(13thof Adar, 5761): Sixty-seven year old Plymouth, PA native Abraham ‘Abe Cohen who played college football at the University of Tennessee, Chattagnooga before turning pro with the CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the NFL Boston Patriots (the forerunner of the New England Patriots) passed away today.

2003(4thof Adar II, 5763): Parashat Pekudi

2003(4thof Adar II, 5763): Ninety-one year old Dr. Benjamin W. Pushkin, the husband of Ann Pushkin with whom he raised two children – Robert and Judy --  who practiced podiatry for sixty years in Chicago and Los Anglese and who had been President of the Howard Paul Wilson B’nai B’rith Lodge passed away today..

2004(15thof Adar, 5764): Shushan Purim

2004(15thof Adar, 5674): Ninety-two-year-old painter Elise Asher, the wife of poet Stanley Kunitz, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/elise-asher-92-painter-poet-who-blended-images-and-words.html?_r=0

2005: “A report on the Israeli government's support for illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank” which “describes widespread state complicity, fraud and cynicism, illegal diversion of government funds and illegal seizure of private Palestinian land” “was formally delivered to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon” today.

2006: The Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, VA “aka Hebrew Burying Ground” founded in 1816 was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register.

2006: French born, American-Jewish businessman Roland Arnall begins serving as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.

2006: Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, is honored as a Dan David Laureate the annual awards ceremony at the Opera Garnier in Paris.  The Dan David Prize annually awards 3 prizes of US$ 1 million each for achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world.

2006(8th of Adar, 5766): Sixty-nine-year-old George Sassoon, the multi-talented son of poet Siegfried Sassoon passed away today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1513183/George-Sassoon.html

2007: Haaretzreports the 2006 war in Lebanon triggered a baby boom. According to health maintenance organization statistics show that the number of women now in their fifth, sixth or seventh month of pregnancy was 35 percent higher than the figure a year ago.

2008: A scaled down London revival Jerry Herman’s and Harvey Fierstein’s “La Cage aux Folles” came to a close at the Menier Chocolate Factory

2008: Rosh Chodesh Adar II, 5768, First Day of Adar II

2008: Shabbat Shekalim, 5768

2008: (1 Adar II 5763) Yahrzeit for the passengers killed on Egged Bus #53 five years ago in Tel Aviv:

·        Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel

·        Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa

·        Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa

·        Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa

·        Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa

·        Daniel Harush, 16, from Safed

·        Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father-

·        Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa

·        Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa

·        Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa

·        Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa

·        Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa

·        Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa

·        Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina

·        Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa

·        Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa

·        Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa

2009: In Chicago final performances of two plays by Lillian Hellman – “The Little Foxes” and “Scoundrel Time.”

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling, The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, The Believers by Zoe Heller and the recently published paperback edition of The Forger by Cioma Schönhaus.

2009: In its on-line edition The Washington Postfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Believers by Zoe Heller and Hunting Eichmann:How a Band of Survivors And a Young Spy Agency Chased Down The World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb.

2009:Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said today at the weekly cabinet meeting that "Iran has crossed the technological threshold" in its quest for nuclear arms.

2009: In “They Lived in our midst: Area was haven for Nazi-era figures,” published today, Ron Grossman reports on Nazis who moved to Chicago after World War II. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-nazis-08-mar08,0,758025,print.story

2009: Israel advanced to the Davis Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 1987 after rallying to beat seven-time champion Sweden 3-2 today in a close series overshadowed by political protests

2009: In “Even Among Venerable Texts, a Torah Like No Other,” published today Sophia Hollander describes the discovery of an 800 year-old Torah and the unique career of Yitzchok Reisman who is both a rabbi and a sofer.

The weathered brown parchment with its frayed edges and inked Hebrew letters seemed beautiful but unremarkable. Itzhak Winer, a 34-year-old Torah scribe turned Judaica seller, considered the item a nice find, but just one of the 30 or more Torahs he buys and sells in a year. From his Jerusalem dealer, he learned that the Torah had been owned by a family in Morocco and was in excellent condition. “He knew that it’s old, but he didn’t really know — and neither did I — how special it was,” said Mr. Winer, who works out of his home in Willowbrook, Staten Island.  Curious about the item’s origins, Mr. Winer took it to a Lower East Side rabbi named Yitzchok Reisman, an expert in identifying antique Torahs, the scrolls containing the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures. Rabbi Reisman, born in 1938 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, found himself drawn as a teenager to the scribes who congregated on the Lower East Side. They shared their craft with him, passing down stories and lore of ancient scrolls. Rabbi Reisman also became attracted to the buying and selling of Torahs. “There were 400 congregations that were declining, closing up and selling off the Torahs and the assets,” he said. As Torahs from the Lower East Side migrated to the suburbs and across the continent, the sellers, he saw, “helped transfer the Torah scrolls on to the rest of America.” Today, Rabbi Reisman restores Torahs using handmade ink and carved turkey feathers at his workshop on Grand Street. Heaps of wooden rollers and antique furniture obscure treasures like the gleaming copper case of a 300-year-old Yemenite Torah and an elaborately woven Torah cover from Iraq. Rabbi Reisman quickly realized that Mr. Winer’s Torah was unique. The materials and calligraphic style identified it as Spanish, which meant that it was written before 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain. In addition, the strong swirls on the top of certain letters matched the style favored in Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical movement.  “There are very, very few manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts that are older than the 1400s,” Rabbi Reisman said on a recent day in his ramshackle office as Mr. Winer looked on. And the kabbalistic flourishes, the rabbi added, make it “the only Spanish Torah known done in that way.”

These special markings are “like thorns that appear in certain letters that only show up in a small window of time,” Rabbi Reisman said. “No!” Mr. Winer interrupted. “A few hundred years.” “That’s a small window,” Rabbi Reisman retorted. As they bickered gently over nearly every detail, the two men also said that their research suggested that the Torah was created between 1272 and 1302, and that it could be connected to a famous Spanish scribe, Shem-Tob ben Abraham ibn Gaon. But they did seem to agree on who should get the Torah. “We’re hoping to get somebody or some community or some organization that wants to preserve the Spanish kabalistic tradition,” Mr. Winer said, “and it’s important to them to give it the

2010:CJH, LBI and YIVO are scheduled to present “Czernowitz in Jewish Memory” during which a panel of historians and writers, including Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, the authors of a new volume entitled Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, will discuss and debate the reconciliation of the two different memories Czernowtiz within the broader history of Jewish emancipation, assimilation and resistance in Eastern Europe. Czernowitz-"Vienna of the East"-is the site of two different powerful memories. To some, it was home to an assimilationist Austro-German Jewish culture; to others, it was a hub for the creation of modern Yiddish language and culture.

2010(22ndof Adar, 5770):  Ninety-two-year-old microbiologist Benjamin Rubin, “the investor of the bifurcated vaccination needle” passed away today.

2010(22ndof Adar, 5770: David Kimche, reputed Israeli spymaster and diplomat passed away.  A native of London who made Aliyah in 1936 he fought in the War of Independence before attending  the Sorbonne and Hebrew University.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/middleeast/10kimche.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=David+Kimche%2C&st=nyt

2010: “The Addams Family” a musical comedy with a book co-authored by Marshall Brickman and lyrics by Andrew Lippa with Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia began previews on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

2010: Ronald Florence is scheduled to discuss Emissary Of The Doomed: Bargaining For Lives In The Holocaust his new book on the fate of Hungary’s Jews during World War II at noon today in the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress.

2010: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. began a five-day visit to the Middle East today, part of a concerted American effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and keep Israel focused on relying on sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program rather than on unilateral military action.

2010: George J. Mitchell, the administration’s Middle East envoy, announced today in Jerusalem that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to start indirect negotiations and that he would be back next week to continue structuring those talks.

2010: The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) hosted a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Opera House where it presented mock awards for what the nonprofit organization has termed the “most sexist advertisements” of the year..

2010: Today “it was announced that Rob Morrow has signed on to star in Jerry Bruckheimer's new series, The Whole Truth, on ABC

2011: At the Crowden Music Center, in Berkley, CA, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley is scheduled to perform the “rarely heard works from the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, a turn-of-the-century movement that brought Jewish folk music into European classical form” during the Jewish Music Festival.

2011: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion entitled “The Rebbe, Charismatic Leadership and the American Spiritual Landscape.”

2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

2011: A recent blast of cold air from Scandinavia coupled with warm Mediterranean Sea influence created torrential rain and thunderstorms today. Snow fell in the Hermon and other areas in the north. The morning hours saw between 10-30 mm of rainfall in the country's center, and between 5-15 mm in the North, with the Israeli Meteorological Service reporting up to 32 mm in the Tel Aviv area. Showers are expected to dissipate in the afternoon hours.

2011: In an interviewed published today by the Wall Street Journal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel was considering asking the United States for an additional $20 billion in aid due to the increased volatility in the Middle East.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=211231

2012(14thof Adar, 5772): Purim

2012: Under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, Chabad Lubavitch of Arkansas is scheduled to sponsor the Royal Purim Feast With The Stars in Little Rock, AR.

2012: “Grace Paley: Collected Shorts” is scheduled to be shown at the Farthest North Jewish Film Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska.

2012: Professors Jerome Copulsky and Alison Peterman are scheduled to lead “Scripture and Spinoza,” a backstage discussion following tonight’s performance of “New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza.

2012:A Palestinian stabbed an IDF soldier in the village of Yata in the southern Hebron Hills today. The soldier returned fire, injuring the attacker and killing another Palestinian with him. The two Palestinians that were shot were both teenagers. The soldier was moderately wounded and evacuated to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem.

2012: Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon was appointed head of the Central Command in place of Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi. Alon, who in the past served as commander of the Judea and Samaria Division will officially take up his post on the first day of next week at a ceremony at Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem. During the ceremony today, Mizrahi said that the position was the most "complicated and difficult" that he had performed throughout his career.

2012: As Israel struggles with how to keep Iran from going nuclear “Six world powers called on Iran today to let international inspectors visit a military site where the UN nuclear watchdog says development work relevant to nuclear weapons may have taken place.” 

2013:  Soloists and Ensembles of the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and Dance are scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music Center.

2013:Eva Erben who as a young girl “was forced by the Nazis to leave her home in Prague and join one of the transports to the Theresienstadt Ghetto” is scheduled to speak at the Wiener Library on “Escape Story: Surviving the Holocaust as a Young Girl.”
2013: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, CA.

2014: Nir Areli’s, “Inframan” in which he created a series of portraits using an infrared technique is scheduled to have its final showing at the Daniel Cooney Gallery.

2014: In London the Girls in Trouble duo (poet and multi-instrumentalist Alicia Jo Rabins, accompanied by bassist Aaron Hartman) are scheduled to perform songs from their two albums; Girls in Trouble and Half You Half Me.

2014: “Natan” and “When Jews Were Funny” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “The Jewish Cardinal” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “The Klos-C, which was captured with what the IDF says is a cargo of Iranian arms in its hold” and “its Israeli Navy escort entered the port of Eilat this afternoon after a voyage of three-and-a-half days following Israel’s interception of the ship off the coast of Sudan earlier this week.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)

2014: “A Little String Music” featuring performances of Israeli and klezmer music by Ruth Navarre is scheduled to take place this evening at “LIMMUD” New Orleans.\

2014(6th of Adar II, 5774): Ninety-three year old Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz passed away today.(As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/world/europe/leo-bretholz-93-dies-escaped-train-to-auschwitz.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

2015(17th of Adar, 5775): Fifty-nine-year-old Sam Simon, the creative of “The Simpsons” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/television/sam-simon-who-helped-shape-the-simpsons-dies-at-59.html?_r=0

2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg.

2015: The Jewish Museum of Florida is scheduled to mark the 30th anniversary of the screening of Shoah by showing Part 3 of the famed documentary.

2015: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Have We Overcome?” which will include a screening of a film depicting the famous 1960 Woolworth’s sit-in.

2015: In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel and Chaya Blesofsky are scheduled to host the Upsherin of their son Berel.

2015: IPTV presents “The Jewish Journey: America.”

2015: “Residents of the Bat Ayin settlement in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem accused the IDF and police of “provoking” a violent altercation with local youth today that ended with a soldier firing in the air to ward off the demonstrators” after police entered the settlement “to arrest two residents suspected of ‘nationalist crimes.’”

2015: “A composition from Estonian-born composer Jonas Tarm entitled ‘March to Oblivion’ which was set be performed today at Carnegie Hall was pulled at the last minute because it “contained a 45-second musical quotation from ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied’ – the Nazi anthem. (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2016: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Broward County is scheduled to host a “presentation from Jewish Records Indexing-Poland” that “will deal with Jewish records and research for two major areas of Poland.”

2016: The Pew Research published “Israel’s Religiously Divided Society” today.

http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/

2016: In “Deep Rifts Among Israeli Jews Are Found in Religion Survey” published today Isabel Kershner described a House of Israel that has many rooms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/middleeast/study-israel-jews-pew-research.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016: “A Nazi Legacy” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival in Houston, TX.

2016: Dr. Donneil Hartman, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute is scheduled to lead the final lecture of six session series at the Skirball Center that “focuses on the personal and social mores behind the passionate opinions surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

2016: In London, the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Sander Gilman of University on “Circumcision: An Index of Difference and/or the Health Exception?”

2017: Rabbi Yigal Levinstein “who works together with Rabbi Eli Sadan at the Bnei David pre-army program told several hundred graduates of another pre-army that IDF service had ‘driven our girls crazy’” because they are recruited into “the army where they enter as Jews but” are not “Jews by the time they leave.”

2017: In “Lunch with Lisa Jackson Pulver: Aboriginal health 80 years behind rest of Australia” published today, Mark Dapin described his interview with “Western Sydney University pro-vice-chancellor Lisa Jackson Pulver​ AM, a typical Aboriginal Jew who escaped a horrifically violent home life to achieve a PhD in medicine and go on to become a Group Captain in the Royal Australian Air Force and the first female president of an Orthodox synagogue in Australia.”

2017: In Chicago, Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz and E. Scott Santi are scheduled to be honored at tonight’s 2017 Humanitarian Awards Dinner sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Pizza and Movie Night”

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Streit’s Matzo Mania” - an evening with Streit scion, cookbook author Michele Heilbrun and chef/cookbook author David Kirschner who will provide a crash course on matzo history, complete with clips from a fascinating Streit’s documentary.

2018: “Nora’s Will” is scheduled to be shown at the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival today.

2018: In honor of International Women’s Day, the National Library of Israel is scheduled to host special “Women’s Day tours” today.

2018: Today, on International Women’s Day, Yad Vashem launched to on-line female focused exhibits. (As reported by Tracy Frydberg)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-international-womens-day-yad-vashem-launches-two-female-focused-exhibits/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=d7b33715ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-d7b33715ef-53921877

2018: “Israeli air defense commander Brigadier General Tzivka Haimovitch” and Lieutenant General Richard Clark said today that “thousands of America and Israeli soldiers are preparing for the real possibility that they will have to fight ‘shoulder to shoulder’ against a massive ballistic attack on the State of Israel.” (As reported Judah Ari Gross)

2018: Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the “Jewniversity Challenge.”

2018: “Itzhak” by Alison Chernick is scheduled to open in New York.

2019(1st of Adar II, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Adar II meaning that Purim is on its way and Pesach is getting just a little closer.

2019: Today, Women of the Wall celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special anniversary prayer service which several prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis sought to disrupt by calling for their student to demonstrate at the Kotel.

2019: In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim is scheduled to host its “2nd Friday Night Musical Shabbat.”

2019: In San Leandro, CA, Temple Beth Sholom is scheduled to host “Shanghai Angel” during which “Soprano Heather Klein sings the story of her grandmother fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria for China and then U.S. With pianist Joshua Horovitz.”

2019: The Fattal Rock Festival is scheduled to continue for a second day in Eilat.

2020: San Jose State University is scheduled to host “A Day to Honor and Study Jewish Military Service” which includes the opening of the exhibit “Uncommon Valor: Jewish-American Medal of Honor Heroes,” the “2020 Jewish Studies Levinson Memorial Lecture: “American Jews and Military Service” by Judge Quentin Kopp, the 2020 Burdick Military History Symposium: Jewish Military History, moderated by Dr. Jonathan Roth, Professor of History, San Jose State University, "Zionists in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War" by Ignat Ayzenberg, Coordinator of Jewish Studies, San Jose State University, “The Boys of Camp Ritchie: From refugees to instruments of justice” by Lieutenant-Colonel Erik Brun, California State Guard Military Museum Command" and Jewish Military Chaplains: An American Tale"

Dr. Ronit Stahl, Assistant Professor, Department of History, U.C. Berkeley

2020: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Strung Out:One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

A Memoir by Erin Khar of New York City, who is developing a spiritual practice, and for whom “ultimately converting to Judaism, has been pivotal to her recovery from heroin addiction.”

2020: In response to a coronavirus outbreak that has impacted the family of Lawrence Garbuz and Rabbi Reuven Fink Young members Israel of New Rochelle “who attended a bar mitzvah and funeral in late February have been asked to self-quarantine until at least” through today.

2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host the mid-west premiere of “Chichinette: How I Accidentally Became a Spy” which tells “the untold story of Marthe Cohn, a 98-year-old French-Jewish woman who was a spy in Nazi Germany in WWII.”

2020: The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Best of Enemies” and “Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America.”

2020: Two days after having cancelled flights to “San Francisco and a number of European cities amid a global drop in travel over fears about the new coronavirus,” today, El Al “was also expected to cancel flights to Munich, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest, Vienna and Marseille.”

2020: “Due to the current coronavirus outbreak and restrictions on travel, Isaac Herzog will not be traveling to Boston for today’s Birnbaum Lecture”

2020: “The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, NJ is scheduled to host a screening of “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.”

2020: The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia is scheduled to host a screening of “The Art of Waiting.”

2020: This evening, in New Orleans, Tulane University is scheduled to host a lecture organized under the leadership of Brian Horowitz, the Sizeler Family of the Jewish Studies Department on “The Frankist Movement in 18th Century Poland: What Happened to This Jewish Messianic Group?” by Professor Pawel Maciejko, of Johns Hopkins University.

2021: East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present a screening of “Six Minutes To Midnight,” a thriller about a murder at a finishing school for the daughters of high-ranking Nazis, starring Judi Dench as the headmistress.

2021: The Park Synagogue is scheduled to host Rediscovering the Music of the Italian Jewish Ghettos” during which Jeannette Sorrell, Artistic Director of Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland premier baroque orchestra, and Howard Bender, their Executive Director, in an interview will talk about Apollo’s Fire and their next concert, “Tapestry: The Jewish Ghettos of Baroque Italy.”

2021: YIVO is scheduled to present “Leaving Behind the Foyen-Vinkl or How Women Functioned in the Male World of Yiddish Theatre.”

https://programs.cjh.org/tags/livestreams

2021: Shalom Bayit and JCC East Bay are scheduled to “present a workshop for International Women’s Day about domestic abuse and the Jewish community.”

2021: Israel's economy is scheduled to reopen its doors for a second day as the country entered its final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, some of them in place since Septemberon the morning after it had been reported Israel’s contagion has risen to 4.5% -- “the highest such figure in days.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 590: Bahram Chobin is crowned as King Barham VI of Persia. The newly crowned king enjoyed support among Persian Jews since opposing forces under a general named Mahbad “killed the Jewish followers of the pretender to the throne, Bahram Chobin.”

1230: Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa. According to information in the Virtual Jewish Library Jacob b. Elijah wrote a letter in which he reported that two Jews were thrown from a mountaintop for refusing to obey the order of the Czar to put out the eyes of the defeated Greek ruler.

1244: The Pope ordered the burning of the Talmud.  Those who hate the Jews understand how critical studying and learning are to our survival.  Hence they have always burned our books and outlawed study.

1276: Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City in the Holy Roman Empire. The Jewish presence in Augsburg began during the days of the Romans. Existing records show that a Jewish cemetery and synagogue existed by 1276. The Augsburg Municipal Charter of 1276, determining the political and economic status of the Jewish residents, was adopted by several cities in South Germany. “Regulation of the legal status of Augsburg Jewry was complicated by the rivalry between the religious and municipal powers. Both contended with the emperor for jurisdiction over the Jews and enjoyment of the concomitant revenues.”  For more about this ancient Jewish community see

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5960/history.html .

1316: “Louis the Bavarian granted the city of Worms the privilege of levying on the Jewish community a yearly tax of 100 pounds heller in addition to the 300 pounds it had thitherto paid.”

1489: Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, the future Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew from Provence, as his personal physician and unofficial advisor, was named a Cardinal today.

1490: In Florence, Berahiel ben Hezekiah Trabot completed “a small machzor” today.

1496:  The Jews of Carinthia, Austria were expelled (and not readmitted until 1848).

1500: A huge fleet under the command of Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, accompanied by Gaspar da Gama, a Polish born Jew whose slave name had been Yusuf ‘Adil before being forcibly converted to Christianity, set sail from Portugal today sailing south and the east for India.

1513: Start of the papacy of Leo X who employed Immanuel ben Jacob “as a physician and translator and approved the printing of “the first edition of Mikraot Gdolot” by Daniel Bomberg which was edited under the directing of “the Jewish convert to Christianity Felix Pratensis.”

1666: Birthdate of George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, the English poet, playwright and political leader.  In 1701 Lord Lansdowne produced “a spurious version” the “Merchant of Venice” entitled “The Jew of Venice.”  In Lansdowne’s version the part of “Shylock was degraded to a kind of low comedy.”  The play would not be performed again for 40 years when Macklin would revive it and begin the hundreds of his sensitive portrayals of Shakespeare’s most famous Jewish character.

1739: In New York City, Rebecca Michaels and Judah Hays gave birth to Boston merchant Moses Michael Hays, the husband of Rachel Myers, the father of Catherine and Rebecca Hays and

one of the founding members of the famous Touro Synagogue.

1757: In Bardeau, France, Rachel and Abraham Benjamin Nones gave birth to “U.S. Patriot and soldier in the American Army during the Revoltuion Benjamin Abraham Nones, the husband of Miriam Marks with whom he had thirteen children and the Philadelphia abolitionist who freed his own slaves.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nones-benjamin

1760: In Philadelphia, PA, Prague born Mathias Bush and Tabitah Mears gave birth to Hannah Bush.

1773(14th of Adar, 5533): Purim

1773: On Purim at the Newport synagogue, the future President of Yale University at Ezra Stiles described Rabbi Raphael Chiam Isaac Carregal as being "dressed in a red garment with the usual Phylacteries and habiliments, the white silk Surplice; he wore a high fur cap, had a long beard. He has the appearance of an ingenious and sensible man"

1774: Birthdate of sugar merchant Louis-August Say the brother of Léon Say, who worked on the on the Northern Railway Company which was owned by his friend Alphonse de Rothschild and who had supported Rothschild’s fight to maintain bimetallism while serving as Minister of Finance.

1789: In Coswig, David Salomon Unger, the first Jew to settle in Erfurt with full “civil rights” and his wife gave birth to mathematician Ephraim Salomon Unger.

1792(15th of Adar, 5552): Shushan Purim

1799(2nd of Adar II, 5559): Parashat Pekudi

1799: Napoleon came to power as a result of a coup d’etat.

1800: Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Philadelphian Benjamin Hart, the husband of Delphine Hart.

1808: Seligman Löb (Siegmund Leopold) Beyfus married Babette Rothschild

1815: Friedrich von Gentz, the Secretary of the Congress of Vienna “had a conference” today “with Simon Elder von Lamel of Prague, the distinguished Jewish patriot and accepted a commission from him to urge Jewish emancipation” when the Congress met.

1816: Birthdate of Jane L. Theiss Sheftall, the wife of Emanuel Sheftall and the mother of Sarah, Mary, James, Edward, Jane, Louisa, Caroline, Josephine, Hannah and William Sheftall.

1820: The revolutionary military leader and de facto Spanish leader, Riego of Spain issued a decree ending the Inquisition. This decree was apparently not accepted by everybody since people continue to suffer under the Inquisition until 1826. The Spanish Inquisition was actually only brought to an end on July 15, 1834.

1821: In Philadelphia, Aaron Moses Dropsie and Angenette Dropsie gave birth to Moses Aaron Dropsie, the Jewish attorney, scholar and philanthropist best known for bequeathing the funds that created Dropsie College.

1825: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Noah J. Ellis and Esther Levin.

1827: In London, Rebecca Montefiore and Joesph Solomon gave birth to Henrietta Rachel Solomon, the wife of Lionel Benjamin Coheb and the mother of Florence Justina Cohen

1828: At Posen, Rabbi Levi Aron Pinner and Wilhelmine Goldbarth Pinner gave birth to Moritz Pinner who moving to the United States became active in the anti-Slavery movement and the creation of the Republican Party.

1836: Charles Millingen married Sarah Barnet at the Hambro Synagogue.

1839: In Bingen, German, Louis Loeb and his wife gave birth to Adolph Loeb and husband of Lucille Hart who lived in Memphis before moving to Chicago in 1873 where he served as a director and/or agent for several insurance companies while serving as a President of Sinai Congregation and the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.

1831: Frederick David Goldsmid, the fifth son of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and a member of parliament and his wife Caroline Samuel gave birth to Albert Abraham Goldsmid who passed away in 1864.

1841: In Nice, France, Rachel Goldsmid and Salomon Henri d’Avigdor, the son of Count Isaac Samuel d'Avigdor and Gabrielle Pauline Henriette Avigdor gave birth Elim Henry d’Avigdor

1843: Bavarian born Judah Abraham and Sara Sussman whom he married en route to the United States in 1837, gave birth to Abraham Abraham “the founder of Brooklyn department store Abraham and Straus.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/06/29/105030765.pdf

1846: Birthdate of Emil Gabriel Warbug a leading German Jewish physicist was part of the famous Warbug Family

1849: Birthdate of Vilna native and  German trained Reform Rabbi Herman Eliassof who led Congregation Beth-El in Chicago while editing The Occident and several history books including The Jews of Chicago and The Jews of Illinois.

1849: “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” an opera with a libretto by Hermann Salomon Mosenthal was performed for the first time in Berlin

1849: Today, just “a few weeks before his death” Hananeel de Castro “secured the repeal of the herem that had been promulgated against the Reform synagogue in London in 1841.

1851(5th of Adar II, 5611): Eighty-one-year-old Ruben Samuel Gumperz an advocate of Jewish emancipation passed away today in Berlin.

1852: The New York Times reported that “France has addressed three demands to the government of Switzerland” one of which concerned the treatment of the Jews of Basle Champagne.

1853: Ellis Harfield married Catherine Marks today at the Great Synagogue

1855: “Response to the Call for a Rabbinical Conference” published today.

http://www.jewish-history.com/Illoway/letter01.html

1857(13th of Adar, 5617): Fast of Esther observed for the first time during the Presidency of James Buchanan

1860(15th of Adar, 5620: Shushan Purim

 

1860(15th of Adar, 5620): David Romm, who became head of the family printing business in Wilna after the death of his father Joseph Reuben Romm, passed away today “while on his way to St. Petersburg.”

1861(27th of Adar, 5621): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat HaChodesh

1861: As the Jews observed the Sabbath, the Confederate Congress passed “the Coinage Bill” which authorized the printing of fifty million dollars of Confederate currency.

1861: Today, the Burlington Weekly Hawk-eye printed in full President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address in which the new president stressed the Union between the North and South and his constitutional duty to maintain and defend it – a view which was supported by a vast majority of the Jews in the United States.

1862: Birthdate of Algerian native and French physician Fernand Georges Widal, best known for his work in the fields of pathology and bacteriology. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fernand-Isidore-Widal

1862(7thof Adar II, 5622): On March 9, during the Civil War, William Durst, the Austrian born “coal heaver” was serving aboard the U.S.S Monitor when it scored a strategic victory over the C.S.S. Merrimack in one of the most important naval engagements in the 19th century.  This was the first clash between ironclads which meant that the days of “wooden sailing ships were numbered.  It also meant that the Union blockade, which was a key to the Union victory favored by most Jews, would succeed.   Durst was one of the eight to ten thousand Jews who served in the Union army and navy. When he passed away in 1916, he was reported to be the last surviving member of the crew of the Monitor and he was buried at the Mt. Carmel Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia.

1864: President Lincoln appointed General Grant who would be the first U.S. President to attend services dedicating a synagouge to command all of the armies of the United States while General William Tecumseh Sherman succeeded Grant as commander of the Union forces in the west which contained several Jewish officers and enlisted men.

1865(11th of Adar, 5625): Ta’anit Eshter is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

1865: Three days after he had passed away, Henry Jacobs, the son of Jane Jacobs, the husband of Kitty Moses and the father of Elizabeth, Moses and Amelia Jacobs was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1868(15th of Adar, 5628): Shushan Purim.

1868: The annual Purim Ball was held tonight at Pike’s Opera House in New York City. The ball marked the end of city’s “season of Carnival.”

1869: Joseph Aron married Maria Samuel today in Paris.

1870: In Pekin, Illinois, Garrison and Sarah Bloom gave birth to Sol Bloom, the husband of Sarah Bloom who went from “entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago to a legislative powerhouse while serving in the House of Representatives from two different New York congressional districts for more than two decades.

1870: Three days after he had passed away, David Quixano Henriques one of the original founders of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, the son of Abraham Quixano Henriques and Leah Rachel De Leon, the husband of Rebecca Micholls and the father of Arthur and Edward Henriques was buried at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

 1872: A reporter for The New York Times visited Temple Emanu El in this morning where he “at once noticed the extraordinary resemblance” that this Jewish house of worship had “to the Christian cathedral form.”

1875: In the UK, George Joseph Emanuel, “the son of Joseph and Jane Emanuel” and his wife Elizabeth Emanuel gave birth to Harry Emanuel today.

1876(13th of Adar, 5636): Fast of Esther.

1877: Birthdate of Russian born American businessman and musical impresario Max Rabinoff who also attended the Versailles Peace Conference.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/Rabinoff/

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20361

1879(14th of Adar, 5639): Purim

1879: It was reported today that there of the 849,870 people living in Australia’s Victoria Colony, 4,237 are Jews.

1879: Thomas Grady is scheduled to speak at meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association tonight where he will defend his proposal to abolish the Free College.

1880: Birthdate of Bernard “Barney” Samuel a leader of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania who served as May of Philadelphia from 1941 to 1952.  He passed away two years later.

1881: Birthdate of English labor leader and politician Ernest Bevin. Bevin was Foreign Minister in the Labor Government after World War II. He helped to enforce the White Paper and hewed to a pro-Arab line.  In responding to request for consideration for Jews after the Holocaust, Bevin
commented that Jews were always trying to push to the head of the line. Bevin died in 1951 at the age of 70.

1883: Thirty-year-old historian Arnold Toynbee, the uncle of historian Arnold J. Toynbee who despairingly referred to “the Jewish people as a “fossil of Syriac civilization” passed away today.

1884(12th of Adar, 5644): Moses Wilhelm Shapira “shot himself in the Hotel Bloemendaal in Rotterdam. Born in the Russian Empire in 1830 he followed his father to Palestine in 1856. He converted to Christianity and began a career selling artifacts.  Unfortunately, many of these were reported to be fakes. According to some reports he took his own life as the result of his involvement in the forging of supposedly biblical texts.

http://www.johnallegro.org/books/the-shapira-affair-1965/

http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1995articles/pdf/article8.pdf

1885(22nd of Adar, 5645): Seventy-one year old Breslau born merchant Simon Baruch Schefftel who after his retirement “prepared a large Hebrew commentary on the Targum Onḳelos, which was published posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph Perles” passed away today.

1889(6th of Adar II, 5649): Fifty-six-year-old Giacomo Alatri, the Italian banker whose warnings about the impending bankruptcy of Banca Romana and helped raise funds to support kindergartens for poor Jewish children passed away today, two months before his father Samuel Altari passed away.

1890: Several “Sabbath Schools of Jewish congregations” in New York City hosted special Purim celebrations. One congregation hosted a Purim Operetta performed by the female faculty for the benefit of the young children.

1890: In Paramaribo, Suriname, Salomon David Levy Hartogh and Rachel Fernandes gave birth to Daniel Joseph Hartogh the husband of Estelle Celine Abrahams.

1890: Almost 2,000 people attended the Purim celebration hosted by the Temple Beth El Sabbath School which was held at the Lexington Avenue Opera House.

1890: It was reported today that the money raised by the Hebrew Benevolent Society’s charity ball at Long Island City will go “to the erection of a house of worship, a school for children, the purchase of a burial plot” and for a fund to provide relief for widows and orphans.

1890: Rabbi Kohut recounted the Purim story to 350 children, their parents and friends at Temple Ahawath Chesed at 55thand Lexington Avenue.

1890: It was announced today that Dr. Charles Elliot who has been teaching Hebrew at Lafayette College for the past four years will not be teaching after this year.

1891: Today during the strike by Polish cloakmakers “a group of Polish Jews” broke into the tenement occupied by two cloak contractors – Hermann Greenbaum and Sam Billet – where they were reportedly having non-union workers make cloaks and broke up the work stations.

1891: Benjamin Fernstein, a seventy-year-old clothing cutter who died yesterday while riding the Second Avenue El was the victim of a heart attack according to his family.

1891: Birthdate of Georg “George” Froeschel, “the son of banker in Vienna” and lawyer turned author who came to the United States where he wrote several successful screenplays the most famous of which was the all-time classic “Mrs. Miniver.”

http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_froeschel

1892: Following the death of two more Jewish immigrants and two more Irish immigrants, it was reported that there have been 14 deaths since the outbreak of typhus with 70 known or suspected cases quarantined on North Brother Island.

1892: Mason Hirsh, a senior member of the umbrella manufacturing firm of Hirsh Brothers located in Philadelphia was knocked down by a car in front of 435 Broadway in New York City today.

1892(10th of Adar, 5652): The four-year-old “minor son” of Isaac and Esther Jacob passed away today after which he was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Natchitoches, LA.

1892: A. J. Rosenthal, a Jewish banker from Fayette County served as Chairman of the Credentials Committee when the Republican State Convention opened today in Austin, Texas.

1892: The New York State Senate passed the “so-called Freedom of Worship bill” this afternoon

1892: Birthdate of Mátyás Rosenfeld, the Hungarian communist leader who repudiated Judaism and changed his name to Mátyás Rákosi as he climbed the ladder of “party success.”

1893: A charity ball sponsored by the Purim Association will take place tonight at Madison Square Garden with the United Hebrew Charities serving as the beneficiaries of the event where the admission ticket costs $10 per attendee regardless of their sex.

1893: “Gift to the Aguilar Library published today described an anonymous gift given to this non-sectarian institution founded by several prominent Jews that is “open to any resident of New York over twelve years of age.  (In a day of “tablets” and “i-pads” it is hard to envision what the availability of this trove of free books meant to generations of immigrants and their families)

1893: Today, Lord Lyon Playfair explained to the House of Lords that “Messrs. Burnett and Schloss” had been sent to the United States “as part of a general inquiry in the subject of pauper alients to the United Kingdom” especially as it pertained to Russian and Polish Jews.

1895: On New York’s City Lower East Side, “Hannah Pepper, an Austrian native who had emigrated to the United States via Russia” and her husband gave birth to Bertha "Beatrice" Alexander Behrman who gained fame as dollmaker “Madame Alexander.”

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Alexander-Beatrice

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/05/obituaries/beatrice-behrman-95-doll-maker-known-as-madame-alexander.html

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/beatrice-alexander

1895: Fifty-nine-year-old Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch “who faithfully described the manners of Polish Jews but feared that his affection for them might give the impression that he was” Jewish passed away today. He was the author Jews and Russians and the editor of At the Pinnacle, “a progressive magazine” that championed “tolerance and integration for the Jews of Saxony.”

1895: Birthdate of Suffolk, VA, native Linwood Lehman, the holder of a BA, MA and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where he was a Professor of Latin and translator of the first English edition of “Un Jeune Homee Presse by Eugen Labiche.

https://virginiagleeclub.fandom.com/wiki/Linwood_Lehman

1895: Birthdate of Albert Günther Göring, the older brother of Hermann Göring, who worked to save Jews while his brothers were killing them.

http://www.auschwitz.dk/albert.htm

http://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-prize-for-top-nazis-brother/

1895: Purim will be celebrated this evening with an invitation only fancy-dress reception at Delmonico’ sponsored by the Purim Association.

1896: Today Baltimore native Sydney S. Weil enlisted as a machinist in the United States Navy after which he “served on the USS New York and USS Indiana and during the Spanish American War on the “Castine.”

1896: Judge Julian Mack married Jessie Fox.

1897: Maurico Jacobs and his family are scheduled to set sail from New York to Panama today aboard the SS Allianca thanks to funds provided by the United Hebrew Charities.  Jacobs is a native of Peru who owned a sugar plantation in Cuba with his brother.  He claims that they were forced to leave the island after his brother was killed and the plantation was seized.

1898(15th of Adar, 5658): Shushan Purim

1898(15th of Adar, 5658): Seventy-seven year old  “a Warsaw-born Polish composer and pianist, promoter of Chopin, son of Gabriel Bereksohn, grandson of Berek and Temerl Bergson,  great-grandson of Samuel Zbytkower,” husband of Katherine Levison and father of “influential French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson and Moina Mathers, wife of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers” passed away today in London.

1898: Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein has obtained a lease Olympia which was arranged by Andrew Freeman.

1898: It was reported today that the name of Esterhazy, one of the French officers responsible for the false imprisonment of Captain Dreyfus, was added to the name of villains who were booed during the reading of the Megillah during Purim Services.

1899: “Peters Praises The Jews” published today provides a summary of Reverend Madison C. Peters lecture on “Justice to the Jew” – a unique highly positive view of the Jewish people.

1900: Herzl had another meeting with Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber. The subscribers the Colonial Bank were permitted to complete their payments and receive their shares.

1900: In Buffalo, NY, Samuel and Rivka Halpern gave birth to Julius Halpern “the husband of Mary Claire Halpern.”1900(8th of Adar II): Sixty-three-year-old Hebrew poet and Yiddish author Isaac Rabinowitz (Ish Kovno) who lived in Telshi where he met his wife for 22 years before eventually settling in New York where he tried to continue his vocation of writing songs and translating novels into Yiddish passed away today.

1901: Prinzessin Victoria Luise “the first purposed built cruise ship” which part of the fleet of Albert Ballin’s Hamburg-American Line” began her second cruise sailing today from New York to the Mediterranean and Black seas.

1902: Birthdate of Paterson, NJ, native Judah Harry Barth, the Hackensack lawyer and leader of the YMHA.
1902: Composer Gustav Mahler married Alma Schindler in Vienna.

1902: Louis and Clara Asia Parnes gave birth to Rose Parnes who became Rose Parnes Petchesky when she married Joseph Petchesky in 1932

1902: Birthdate of Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, the member of a wealthy Catholic aristocratic family who became Élisabeth de Rothschild when she married famed vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild.

1902: Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines founded the Mizrachi Movement.

1903: “Duty of Jews in Politics” published today described a speech given by New York rabbi Dr. Adolf Guttmacher in Baltimore in which he called on Jews to exercise their franchise but denied that there was a “Jewish Vote” saying that “the Jew is found in all political camps” and the Jew “goes to the polls to perform the sacred duty of the citizen not as Jews but as a citizen of this great Republic.”

1904: Birthdate of Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, the native of the Isle of Wright who forsook a career in the Royal Navy to become one of Britain’s leading musicologists.

1905: It was reported today that Commissioner Abraham Stern had attacked the City of Superintendent of Schools at a meeting “called to consider” the State Commissioner’s “order to show cause why his approval of the Normal College course of study should not be revoked.

1906: The Wadsworth District Sunday bill (H.R 16483) which would make it effectively to operate a grocery store on Sunday in the District of Columbia – a bill that be at odds with the needs of Jewish businessman – was introduced in the House of Representatives.

1906: In Russia, “founding of the Jewish Socialist Workers Party” an offshoot of the Paole Zion that followed the teachings of Chaim Zhitlowsky. 

1906: In Skokie, Illinois, Hyman and Rebecca Bertha Goldstein gave birth to Bertha Rebecca Goldstein who became Bertha Rebecca Brownstein when she married Henry J. Brownstein.

1907(23rd of Adar, 5667): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah

1907: Pavel Krushevan, “an anti-Semitic member of the Duma from Kishinev” threatened those who had disqualified him from the Russian Parliament would “be followed by more anti-Jewish attacks in Southern Russia.”

1907: Birthdate of Moyshe Lenski.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/moyshe-lenski.html

1908: It was reported today that in Camden, NJ, “because of the excellent work she has done in behalf of the Jewish Ladies’ Aid Society, Mrs. Jacob Silver has been presented with a gold medal.”

1908: In Camden, NJ, “tonight Jacob Wietzman” is scheduled to “give a reception and dinner to his fellow members of the Seventh Ward Republican Club.

1909: As a result of meeting held yesterday at the home Mrs. I.M. Appel, Jews can now make plans for electing officers for the newly organized auxiliary for the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver.

1909: It was reported today that incoming Taft administration has offered former Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, the position of Ambassador to Japan.

1910: “Lee Shubert of Shubert Brothers admitted” today “that negotiations were pend for the leas of six old private dwellings…at 113 to 123 West Forty-third Street” which may become the site of a new Shubert theatre.

1911: After having been baptized as Roman Catholic in 1905 and having “taken” his doctorate in laws in 1906, Hans Kelsen took “his habilitation today.”

1911: In Detroit, Dr. Emil Amberg, the Santa Fe, NM born son of Minna and Jakab Amberg, and his wife Cecile Amberg gave birth to Robert Siegal Amberg.

1911: “Mr. Boris Hambourg, the excellent violoncellist, who appeared here earlier in the season, gave a second recital this afternoon in Mendelssohn Hall.”

1912(20th of Adar, 5672): Shabbat Parah

1912(20th of Adar, 5672): Fifty-seven-year-old Hiram Ullman, the Pennsylvania businessman who served on the Williamsport Common Council passed away today.

1913: The Independent Anshe Bessarabia Talmud Torah was founded in Philadelphia, Pa.

1913: The funeral for Pauline Phillips, wife of Herman Phillips and the mother of Arthur Phillips is scheduled to take place today followed by interment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1913: In Bangor, Maine, founding of Beth Israel Synagogue.

1914: In Cambridge, MA, Herman Bernstein, the Secretary of the American Jewish Committee told a meeting of the Menorah Society at Harvard said that since public opinion has forced the Russian government to abandon its policy of massacring Jews the Czar’s government was not seeking to consign the Jews to permanent illiteracy by “closing the schoolhouses” to Jewish students.

1915: “Bernstroff Defends Turks” published today contains the assertion by the German Ambassador, who is trying to keep the United States from joining the Allies, that his Turkish allies are tolerant of all religions and that the suffering of Jews of Palestine is the product of local zealots in the government in Jerusalem.

1916: Birthdate of Hyman H. “Bookie” Bookbinder a Washington lobbyist for Jewish causes who spent many years working for a variety of liberal causes including civil rights and the rights of labor.

https://forward.com/news/140356/hyman-bookbinder-passionate-moderate-dies-at-95/

https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/speakers-and-events/biography/hyman-bookbinder

1916: Kitty Kelly of the Chicago Tribune staff is among those scheduled to address the meeting this afternoon of The Deborah and Deborah at their meeting in the Sinai Social Center on Chicago’s south side.

1917(15th of Adar, 5677): Shushan Purim

1917: The Jewish Publication Society announced “that it has published the first edition of the news translation of the Bible, the first volume of The History of the Jews in Russia and Poland by Simon Dubnow and that it will be holding its annual meeting later this month at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, PA.

1917: Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to lead services today, Shabbat, at Temple Israel of Harlem.

1917: Dr. Enlow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on Apostasy and Judaism” this morning at Temple Emanu-El.

1917: Dr. Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the Sabbath morning sermon at Temple Beth-El.

1918:Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda

1918: The Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs made public the suggestions by the British Palestine Committee, “a non-Jewish organization” which spoke approvingly of the creation of a Hebrew university in Jerusalem which was being built “while military operations were still in progress.”

1918: In Bloomington, Illinois, vaudevillians Claire and George Rockwell gave birth to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party.

1919: In Manhattan, “Israel Edwin Goldwasser and the former Edith Goldstein,” gave birth to physicist Edwin Leo “Ned” Goldwassser

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/science/edwin-goldwasser-died-fermi-national-accelerator-laboratory.html?_r=0

1919: Jacob H. Schiff told 3,500 members of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America meeting in Carnegie Hall tonight he hoped “that the portals of America would never be entirely closed to the Jews” but he also “declared that the one aim of all Jews at the present time should be the restoration of Palestine.

1919: The 30th annual convention of the Federation of Roumanian Jews of America whose 20,000 members among other things “maintain the Jewish Home for Convalescents at Grand View on the Hudson, NY under the leadership of Samuel Goldstein, Rose Markowitz, Mrs. Clara Bereano and Michael Baumann took placed today at New York City.

1919(7th of Adar II, 5679): Forty-one-year-old Rangoon born barrister, Elisha Arkie Cohen, the first husband of the former Ruth Jacobs the author and poet whose works include the “Poem A Day Lady” passed away today in Manitoba, Canada.

https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-645/collie-ruth

1920: The tombstone for Emanuel Jacobs of Covent Garden is scheduled to be consecrated at Jersey today.

1921: Winston and Clementine Churchill arrive in Cairo in preparation for a conference to examine the workings of the mandates for Palestine and Iraq.

1922: Birthdate of Camden, NJ native Harvey Pollack, the “grandfather” of the NBA statistical records.  (As reported by Richard by Goldstein)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html

https://www.nba.com/2015/news/06/23/sixers-harvey-pollack-obit/

1922: Twenty-two-year-old Alexander Neufeld, the native of Budapest who in 1918 played his first game as a member of the Hungarian national team which defeated Switzerland today led his team Hakoah Vienna’s soccer team to victory. (As reported by Bob Wechsler)

1922: Winston Churchill delivered a speech in Parliament support the Balfour Declaration against its opponents.  He reiterated support for the establishment of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine while cautioning against letting Jews who were Bolsheviks settle in Palestine.

1922: The Shearith Israel League of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City is scheduled to present a performance of “The Mikado” today in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Plaza.

1923(21st of Adar, 5683): Charles Eisenman, the New York City born son of Isadore and Caroline (Rosenblatt) Eisenman, the cofounder in Cleveland of K and E Company, a manufacturer of shirts and blouses and president of the Federation of Jewish Charities who had married Bertha Hays in 1891 passed away today.

https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/eisenman-charles

1923: In Vienna, “Salomon Kohn, who ran a business selling artistic postcards, and the former Gittel Rappaport, whom her son described in an autobiographical sketch for the Nobel committee as “a highly educated woman with a good knowledge of German, Latin, Polish and French and some acquaintance with Greek, Hebrew and English” gave birth to Walter Kohn winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1998.

http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/science/walter-kohn-nobel-winning-scientist-dies-at-93.html

1924(2nd of Adar II, 5684): Abraham Caraco, who was named rabbi of the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel after 39 Turkish elders of the Sephardi community formed the Sephardic Community of Los Angeles ("La Communidad") in 1920 passed away today.

1925: In Lower Saxony, Jakob and Hanna Hanne Cohen gave birth to David Jacob Cohen, the husband of Dian Berger.

1926: William Fox, the Chairman of the $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of New York announced the appointment of Albert Goldman, Commissioner of Plant and Structures of New York City, as Chairman of the Bronx Division of the drive, which is part of the $15,000,000 ‘Overseas Chest of the United Jewish Campaign.”

1927: In London, Dr. Alex Tudor Hart and Dr. Alison Macbeth gave birth to Dr. Julian Tudor Hart the husband of British photographer and Soviet sympathizer Edith Suschitzky the daughter of Viennese Jewish social democrat Wilhelm Shuschitzky.

1927: Birthdate of Erfut, Germany native Leo Alexander Inselsbacher who gained famed as Hebrew musician Aryeh “Arik” Lavie,

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/07/01/arik_lavie_at_77_israeli_singer_actor/1928: In Vienna, Franzi Grossman and her husband, a chief bank accountant gave birth to Lore Groszmann, who gained fame as Lore Segal, the author of Shakespeare’s Kitchen, one of the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

1928: New York State Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthal was injured this morning when the taxicab in which he was riding skidded out of control and hit an elevated pillar. Israel Mora was the cab driver.

1928: In Manhattan, Maxwell Walzer, a furrier and the former Ruth Rosenthal, gave birth to Peggy Sandelle Walzer gave birth to Peggy Charren who gained fame as an advocate for improved children television programming. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/arts/peggy-charren-childrens-tv-crusader-is-dead-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1929(27th of Adar I, 5689): Shabbat Shekalim

1929(27th of Adar I, 5689): Thirty-four “English composer, arranger, music teach and pupil of Gustav Holst passed Jane Joseph away today.

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/jane-joseph-brief-discussion-of-her.html

 

1929: The Zionist Organization of America announced plans for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv.  The planned activities include a Jewish ‘world Congress for Propagation of Interest in Palestine Products and a Palestine and Newar East Exhibition and Fair.

1930: The two day “Washington Conference for the Allied Jewish Campaign” which was “hailed as the beginning of a new intensified activity by American Jews on behalf of their harassed brethren in Eastern Europe and Palestine” came to an end today. (JTA)

1930: Funeral services were held this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El for theatrical stage impresario Abraham L. Erlanger.

https://www.jta.org/1930/03/10/archive/funeral-services-for-a-l-erlanger-theatrical-magnate

1930: Twenty-nine-year old Bucharest native Leon Feldestein, the owner of Feldstein Furniture Company in Portland, OR married Esther Gumbert  today.

1931: Dr. Victor Rosewater, the former editor and publisher of The Omaha Bee and a leader of the Jewish community and Republican Party in Nebraska spoke at the school of politics of the Women’s National Republican Club.  He told the gathering that “the influence of the press in forming political opinion is no longer as directed as it once was…”

1932: The new turbines at the hydroelectric project created by Pinhas Rutenberg began to turn today.

1932: “Night Over Taos” a three-act play “staged by Lee Strasberg with a cast that included Luther Adler, Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner and Clifford Odets opened at the 48th Street Theatre today.

1933: The first of thousands of “critics” of The Third Reich were sent to Dachau.

1933: Henry Thomas Rainey who in 1906 attended a mass meeting held to protest the “atrocities in Russia” and told the audience that the Romanoffs “are inflaming the populace against the helpless Jews – and already the blood of 100,000 Jews cries out for vengeance” began servings today as 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

1934: “Coming Out Party” a comedy produced by Jesse L. Lasky and a script co-authored by Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. was released in the United States today.

1934: The Pesach Cruise, managed by Rosen Palestine Oriental Tours is scheduled to begin today abour the SS Vulcania.

1935: “New German Plea” published today described Dr. Julius Lippert’s call for American businessman to put an end to the Jewish Boycott of German goods.

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/American_Jewish_boycott_of_German_products

1936: The cover of Time magazine features the beaten, bandaged visage of Leon Blum who had been beaten Royalist (right wing) youths.

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19360309,00.html

1936: “Abominable Triumph” published today as the cover story for Time described the causes of the life-threatening beating given to Leon Blum by those who oppose him because he is a socialist, anti-fascist and Jewish. (The road from Drancy to Auschwitz began on the streets and chambers of Paris in the 1930’s)

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,770084,00.html

1936 :( 15th of Adar, 5696): Shushan Purim

1936 Birthdate of Martin Ingerman who gained fame as comic actor Marty Ingles. (A comedian born on Purim – talk about bashert)

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

1936(15th of Adar, 5696): “Two Jews were killed and four seriously injured today in rioting in the town of Prystytyk in the District of Radom, Poland while “scores” more “were beaten or wounded  and 700 Jewish families were thrown into panic.”

1936: “A government statement issued by the official news service” at Berlin which says “Jews do not enjoy the privilege of voting – that is to say, such persons as are descendants of at least three fully Jewish grandparents. Furthermore, persons are not privileged to vote who are descendants of two fully Jewish grandparents and who were members of Jewish religious bodies… or who joined a Jewish religious body after September 30, 1935 or who married a Jew after that date.”

1936: Birthdate of Juda Bar-Norwegian, Dutch born Israeli actor.

 

1936: The Przytyk, Pogrom, the worst of a series of pogroms that took place in Poland during the interwar decades, claimed the lives of three people.

1937: “The anti-Semitic ‘Prophecy’ attributed to Benjamin Franklin and distributed in Germany within the last few days by the government news service was identified on publication” in the United States today “as a document that made its appearance in 1934 and was investigated for several months by Professor Charles A. Beard” one of the leading historians in the United States who “pronounced it ‘a barefaced forgery’.”

1937: The American Labor Delegation to Palestine, whose members include Max Zaristk, Josephy Schossberg, Isidore Nagel, Samuel Perlmutter, Reuben Guskin, Jacob Breslaw and Jacob Blum is scheduled to deliver their report at the Hippodrome today.

1938: The Chancellor of Austria, Schuschnigg, announces a plebiscite on the question of Austrian independence. His policy was to try and keep Austria semi-independent and to limit the more overt anti-Semitic activities. Hitler furiously demanded his resignation, which arrived two days later. His resignation opened the way to the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Germany on March 13

1938: The Palestine Post reported that Arab terrorists sniped at various quarters of Jewish Jerusalem. The Sanhedria Quarter came under a direct Arab fire from Lifta.

1939: In what might be seen as double-header for the Jews, today President Roosevelt “discussed tax legislation with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau” and received “a report on the progress made in arranging for emigration of Jews from Germany” presented by George Rublee, the director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees. 

1940(29th of Adar I, 5700): Parashat Pekudi; Shabbat Shekalim

1940: Rabbi David de Sola Pool told congregants at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue that “the postulate of democracy that all men are created equal is based on the recognitions of the worth of the individual” and that “religion and democracy are at one in holding that there is qual worth to the soul of every human being whatever be his race and creed.”

1941: “An appeal to Protestants, Catholics and Jews to unite in the relief of war sufferers and reufees and to reintegrate the shatter spiritual life of the world was made” tonight “by four speakers” included Rabbi Jonah B. Wise “in a nation-wide broadcast opening campaigns in various communities of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs.”

1941: Esther "Etty" Hillesum began writing in her diary which would provide a description of life Amsterdam under the Nazis.

1941: After 8 months in office Petain and his Vichy Government adopted an ordinance requiring Jews to get “authorization to sell or rent property.”

1942: The Jews of the small Polish community of Mielec were driven out of their homes and rounded up in the marketplace; the old and feeble were shot on the equivalent of a death march. The survivors waited in a hangar in the aircraft factory without food or water and were herded into cattle cars a few days later.

1943: U.S. Army Colonel F.B. Yancy, Chief of the Special Services spoke at the opening club designed for the use of U.S. military personnel. The club is housed in former Tel Aviv luxury hotel.

1943: Today Rokhl Auerbakh, one of the few surviving members of Emanuel Ringelblum’s “Oyneg Shabes group” “escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and began working as Polish secretary which enabled her to continue her work of recording the fate of the Jews of Warsaw.

1943: The Nazis continued the transport of Greek Jews from Salonika to Auschwitz. Salonika was an ancient Jewish community.  It became a haven for Sephardic Jews when they fled Spain at the end of the fifteenth century.  It was renowned center for kabalistic studies.  In 1943, Elie Veissi, a journalist, formed an all-Jewish resistance group at Salonika.  Veissi supplied valuable information to the British about Nazi activities in Greece.  But he and his group failed in their main mission - saving the Jews of Salonika.  A few thousand escaped to Athens, but most of the rest perished in the camps. Some of you know about the Jews of Salonika because of their unique music. Some of it was captured in a recording called Kol Salonika.  You may have heard their haunting melody for verses five and six of the 118th Psalm – Min hameitzar karati Ya, anani vemerchav, Out of my distress I called upon the Lord and He set me free.  .  The other famous song is entitled Kol Ha-Olam Kulo - "The entire world is a narrow bridge; the main thing is not to fear." (I realize this has been a little lengthy, but one of the lessons of Jewish History is that Holocaust Memorial Day should be plural, not singular, event.)

1943: In a rare case of open police resistance to the arrest and murder of Jews of Europe during WWII, 12 Dutch military policemen including 23-year-old Henk Drogt refused orders to round up the remaining local Jews in Grootegast, Holland. The policemen were pressured and threatened by their commanders with incarceration at a concentration camp themselves, but steadfastly refused to carry out the orders. The group was subsequently arrested and taken to the Vught concentration camp in the Southern Netherlands.  Drogt would evade capture until his arrest in August of 1943.  He was executed in April of 1944.  In 2010, he received the State of Israel's highest honor for non-Jews on Monday at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

1943: An audience of 40,000 gathered in New York’s Madison Square Garden to watch “We Will Never Die” “a dramatic pageant” designed “to raise public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe's Jews. It was organized and written by screenwriter and author Ben Hecht and produced by Billy Rose and Ernst Lubitsch. The musical score was composed by Kurt Weill and staged by Moss Hart. The pageant starred Edward G. Robinson and Paul Muni and subsequently traveled to other cities nationwide.”

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007047

1944(14thof Adar, 5704): Purim

1944: The American Palestine Committee is scheduled to sponsor a national conference” in Washington today “to promote "American Christian" support for the opening of Jewish immigration into Palestine…”

1945: “Seeks Voice at Parley” published today described demands by the American Zionist Emergency Council to have Jewish representation “at the San Francisco conference” when “all matter affecting Palestine and the future of the Jewish people” are discussed.

1946(6thof Adar II, 5706): Parashat Pekudi

1946: “Establishment of a two million college in Brooklyn to train students for teaching Hebrew and promote the study of Hebrew Ideals and culture is proposed in a bill offered in the state legislature by Assemblyman Bernard Austin.”

1947: In Tunis, Hnuna and Shimon gave birth to Yedhuda Galili who made Aliyah in 1956 and died aboard the Dakar, a submarine lost with all hands-on board in 1968.

1947: The first unauthorized immigrant ship known to have been sent to Palestine by the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation was taken into government custody today. The ship which was known variously as the SS Ben Hecht and/or the SS Abril was filled with 599 Jewish refugees including 385 men, 194 women and 20 children.  All of the refugees were placed on two ferries by the British and sent immediately to displaced persons camps in Cyprus. 

1947: According to Jack Bernstein, who served as a Seaman aboard the SS Abril (Ben Hecht) “at 05:33 A.M. the HMS Octavia came along side, secured a line and towed the Ben Hecht to Haifa” where “the British took the American crew members to Akko Prison” and shipped the “passengers  to Detention Camp Number 66.”

1947: “Troops fired over the heads of a number of Jews in the marital-law area of Jerusalem” because officials said they were “’too slow in returning to their homes when the daily curfew was re-imposed at 5 P.M.’”

1947: British policed reported that 25 “suspected terrorists” have been arrested in Tel Aviv in the last 24 hours.

1948: In Los Angeles, Henry and Phoebe Ephron gave birth author to Hallie Ephron, the sister of Nora, Amy and Delia Ephron.

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/nora-ephrons-mother-hallie-ephron-essay

http://hallieephron.com/

1948: Jacob Joseph Kohn, the American-born clothing salesman” is still being held by the Paris police having been charged with complicity in the illegal collection of arms seized recently in Paris that were “allegedly collected for use by the Jews in Palestine.”  (Editor’s Note – this is an example of the double standard of the time. The arms embargo was enforced against the Jews but the Arabs, because they were part of nation states had unlimited access to modern military equipment.)

1948: Birthdate of American artist Eric Fischl.

http://www.ericfischl.com/

1949: During Operation Uvda, one unit from Alexandroni Brigade captured Ein Gedi while another unit captured Masada.

1949: In Chicago, “Nathan Hirsch, a businessman, and the former Mollie Shulman, who worked in a bank loan department” gave birth to Dr. Arnold Richard Hirsch, the University of Illinois trained historian best known for chronicling the story of housing segregation. (As reported Sewell Chan)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html

 

1949: During Operation Uvda, “Golani forces captured Gharandal and proceeded to Ein Ghadyan (now Yotvata).”

1949: During the War for Independence, two IDF units set off to take Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba

1950: A special meeting of the board of directors at the Astor Hotel is held to announce the formation of the Amun-Israeli House Corporation that “will finance $20,000,000 worth of housing construction” in Israel.  The lack of adequate housing is one of the Jewish state’s most pressing problems and this effort which enjoys support from a diverse group that includes Nelson Rockefeller and the leaders of the I.L.G.W.U. represents a major effort to provide both immediate and long term relief.

1950:  It was officially announced tonight that Turkey “has accorded full diplomatic recognition” to the state of Israel.

1950: The Swedish government issued a report today accusing the Israeli police of demonstrating grave negligence in investigating the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte which had taken place in September of 1948.

1950: AT&T announced today that it has created a new direct circuit between New York and Tel Aviv which will improve phone service between the major cities.  Calls can only be made between 7 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon at a cost of $12 for the first three minutes.

1951: Birthdate of Michael Kinsley, journalist and founder of Slate.

1951: The Pan American Games, during which Byron “Krieger won gold medals in team foil and team sabre and the team silver in épée” came to an end today in Buenos Aires.”

1951: Almost thirty thousand Iraqi Jews had signed up for immigration for Israel as of today.  Today was the deadline the Iraqi government had set for this registration.  Registration meant giving up their Iraqi citizenship which meant that as of this date these people were "stateless."

1952(12th of Adar, 5712): Israel Gerstein, the husband of Cecilia F. Gerstein and the father of Tillie and Maurice Gerstein passed away today after which he was buried in the Tifereth Anshai Sfard Cemetery in Lawrence, MA.

1952: Birthdate of Amir Petertz, the native of Morocco whose family made Aliyah in 1956. A Labor Party MK, he has served as Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in Moscow following the death of Stalin,Georgi Malenkov, 51, was appointed the head of the Soviet Union while Molotov, Beria, Bulganin and Kaganovitch had been named as his deputies. Israel was one of the few countries which were not invited to Stalin’s funeral.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel had been divided into six administrative districts: three urban: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, and three rural: the Northern, Central and South.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that fifteen marauders were killed and 11 captured during the past week.

1954: CBS broadcast the final episode of Clifton Fadiman’s “This Is Show Business.”

1954: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," that featured Ed Murrow at his finest. Fred Friendly, a Jewish television producer born in New York, joined forces with Murrow to produce all of the See It Now episodes. CBS was owned by William Paley who was also Jewish.  Their ethnic origins had nothing to do with this choice of programming.  In fact, Paley, like so many other Jews in the print and electronic media, bent over backwards to avoid any connection between being Jewish and the product they offered.

1955(15th of Adar, 5715): Shushan Purim

1955(15th of Adar, 5715): Sixty-four-year-old Columbia trained physician Dr. Ernst Phillip Boas, the Worcester, MA born son of “Franz Boas, regarded by many as the father of modern anthropology” and the former Marie Krackowizer,  who served as the Captain in Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during WW II before becoming the Director of the Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases starting in 1921 while raising three children – Barbara, Donald and Norman – with his wife “the former Helen Sisson” whom he married in 1917, passed away today.

1956: In Finland, premiere of “The Rose Tatoo” directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Hal B. Wallis with a script co-authored by Hal Kanter.

1959: Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, Over 800 million have been sold marking another Jewish business success brought to us, in this case, by Ruth Mosko Handler.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/09/1959/ruth-mosko-handler

1959: “Juno, a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein” “premiered on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre” today.

1959: In New York City, “Edie L. (Greene), a merchandise manager, and Murray A. Price, a car leasing company owner” gave birth to theatric actor, writer and director Lonny Price.

1960(10th of Adar, 5720): Forty-seven-year-old Richard L. Neuberger, the junior Senator from Oregon passed away unexpectedly today as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.

https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/neuberger_richard_1912_1960_/#.WqCTBFuot9A

1962: “Knife in the Water” a film nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film directed by Roman Polanski who co-authored the script along with Jakub Goldberg was released in Poland team.

1962: Egyptian President Nasser declared that Gaza belonged to Palestinians. Of course Gaza was occupied by Egypt from 1948 until 1967.  No attempt was made to turn the government over to the Palestinians at the time of this declaration.  In fact, the Palestinians were trapped in Gaza without meaningful economic assistance from their Arab brethren.

1963: The 1963 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament which would provide a showcase for the talents of Duke’s Art Heyman opened today.

1963: Allan Sherman’s “My Son The Celebrity” reached #1 on Billboard’s Top 150 Best Sell LP’s Chart.

1965(5th of Adar II, 5725): Just nine days before his 78th birthday, Abraham Abelson passed away after which he was buried at the Jewish Peoples Cemetery in East Haven, CT.

1968: Today, while serving with the U.S. Army in Viet Nam Jack S. Jacobs performed so heroically that earned the Medal of Honor for Valor. “Although seriously wounded and bleeding profusely, he assumed command and ordered a withdrawal. He then repeatedly returned through heavy fire, to rescue other wounded including the company commander and treated their wounds. On three occasions he repelled Viet Cong squads who were also searching for wounded American soldiers in the same area, killing three and wounding several others.”

1968: CBS broadcast the final episode of “Good Morning, World” a sitcom created by Sam Denoff, Carl Reiner and Sheldon and co-starring Goldie Hawn.

1968: Birthdate of Adam Carl Adamowicz, “concept artist whose paintings of exotic landscapes, monsters and elaborately costumed heroes and villains formed the visual foundation for two of the most popular single-player role-playing video games of all time” – Fallout3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)

1969: The chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces was killed today during the War of Attrition. Today marked the second day of Egypt’s attempt to destroy the Bar Lev using massive artillery bombardments.  While General Abdul Munim Riad was at the front to personally viewing the product of his handiwork, he was mortally wounded by Israeli artillery that had been fired in response to the Egyptian assault.

1970: A meeting of over 100 investors interested in financing tourist development projects in Israel will meet today in Jerusalem today.  The government will unveil its plans to provide support for these efforts.

1971: “When Eight Bells Toll” the film version of the novel of the same name produced by Elliot Kastner and Jerry Gershwin was released in the United Kingdom.

1972(23rd of Adar, 5732): Fifty-year-old Israeli diplomat and former intelligence officer Yaakov Herzog, the son of Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog and the brother of Chaim Herzog who was trained as a rabbi and a lawyer passed away today.

http://www.magalbooks.com/herzog.html

1977: About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later. The three buildings were the District Building (city hall), the Islamic Center and, surprise, surprise the national headquarters of B’nai B’rith. And you thought terrorism like this only started with Osama and company.

1978:The Jerusalem Post reported that the US refused to consider any new sale of arms to Israel, despite Defense Minister Ezer Weizmann’s pressing requests, until the conclusion of the current Carter-Begin summit meetings and negotiations.

1978:The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel has started the commercial exploitation of oil from the Alma II and III wells, situated near a-Tur in the Gulf of Suez.

1981: According to reports published today, 19,000 Iranian Jews have made Aliyah since the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Ayotollah and his fundamentalist forces.

1982(14th of Adar, 5742): Purim

1982: Pola Nirenska, a Polish-born dancer and choreographer who first came to the United States with Mary Wigman's company from Germany in 1932, presented ''An Evening of Choreography'' to night in George Washington University's Marvin Theater.

1984(5th of Adar II, 5744): Seventy-two-year-old movie producer Hannah Weinstein passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/obituaries/hannah-weinstein-producer-and-political-activist-is-dead.html

1984: “Splash” a romantic comedy produced by Brian Grazer, with a script by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman with a cast that included Eugene Levy and Howie Morris was released in the United States today.

1985: As part of its pre-Broadway run the curtain came down on a month long performance of Neil Simon’s “Biloxi Blues” at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco which was its last stop before opening in New York

1987(8th of Adar, 5747): Fifty-year-old Pottsville, PA native and musical preservationist Allen Jaffe the owner of Preservation Hall, that musical mecca that was always jam-packed even though it was the only venue in the French Quarter that did not sell alcohol passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/11/obituaries/allan-jaffe-new-orleans-jazz-revivalist-dies-by-frances-frank-marcus.html

1989: “The Heidi Chronicles” by Wendy Wasserstein opened on Broadway today.

1990: “Coup de Ville” a “comedy-drama” directed by Joe Roth and co-starring Alan Arkin was released in the United States today.

1991(25th of Shevat, 5751): Parashat Misphatim; Shabbat Shekalim

1992(4th of Adar II, 5752): Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin died in Tel Aviv at age 78. Regardless of your view of his politics, Begin was one of the central characters in the Zionist movement whom we will study in depth. Begin was the heir to Jabotinsky and the founder of what today is the Likud Party.  In other words, he was the leader of the Jewish opposition to the Labor Zionists personified by Ben Gurion.  Begin was the founder and leader of the Irgun.  He was the first right wing Prime Minister of Israel.  Most important of all, he negotiated the peace treaty with Sadat that ended the state of war that had existed with Egypt since 1948.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0816.html

1993: In “Philip Roth Sees Double. And Maybe Triple, Too” Esther B. Fein examines the author’s latest work, Operation Shylock.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/roth-double.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Shylock#/media/File:Shylock.jpg

1994(26th of Adar, 5754):  Lawrence E. Spivak, creator of Meet the Press passed away at the age of 93.  On radio and then on television, Meet the Press was billed as the live press conference of the air.  With Spivak sometimes serving as the moderator and sometimes as a member of the four person panel, American and foreign government officials took part in a thirty minute unrehearsed question and answer session.  While the programs were marked by an air of civility, the members of the print and electronic media asked real questions and the guests were expected to provide real answers.

1996(18th of Adar, 5756): Comedian George Burns passed away at the age 100.

https://www.biography.com/people/george-burns-9232145

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/10/nyregion/george-burns-straight-man-and-ageless-wit-dies-at-100.html

1996(18th of Adar, 5756): Fifty-one-year-old Imar Ambrose of Romania succumbed to the wounds he had suffered during the Jaffa Road bus bombing on March 3rd.

1997:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Blood and Water:Sabotaging Hitler's Bombby Dan Kurzman, Southernmost And Other Storiesby Michael Brodsky and The Stories of David Bergelson:Yiddish Short Fiction From Russiaby David Bergelson.

1999(21stof Adar, 5759): Hermann Merkin, the native of Leipzig who fled Nazi German and in 1940 arrived in the United States where, in turn, he served in the Army, founded the investment firm of Merkin and Company and became a philanthropist whose good works including the founding of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/11/arts/hermann-merkin-91-benefactor-of-judaism-and-a-concert-hall.html

2000: Barbra Streisand began her tour of Australia with a concert at the Sydney Football Stadium.2001(14th of Adar, 5761): Purim observed for the first time under President George W. Bush2001: “Get Over It,” a comedy featuring Mila Kunis was released today in the United States.2002(25th of Adar, 5762): Shabbat HaChodesh2002(25th of Adar, 5762):Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem; Nir Rahamim Borochov, 22, of Givat Ze'ev; Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel Aviv; Livnat Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem; Tali Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem;Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev; Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem; Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata; Baruch Lerner-Naor, 28, of Eli;Orit Ozarov, 28, of Jerusalem and Avraham Haim Rahamim, 29, of Jerusalem were murdered by an Arab terrorist and 54 more people were murdered  at the Café Moment in Jerusalem “about 100 meters from the home of the Prime Minister.

2003: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including Regions of the Great Heresay: Bruno Schulz: A Biographical Portrait by Jerzy Ficowski, Down and Out in the Magic by Cory Doctorow and the recently released paperback edition of Me Times Three, by Alex Witchel.

2004: “Abu Abbas, the Palestinian mastermind of a deadly 1985 cruise ship hijacking in which 69 year old Leon Klinghoffer, an American passenger in a wheelchair was shot and thrown into the sea, has died at a prison in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said today.”

2005: “The author of a damning report about the illegal financing of settlement outposts recommended today that Israel consider criminal investigations of some of those involved, in particular the settlements adviser to the Defense Ministry, Ron Shechner.”

2006:There was a palpable air of excitement at the Kraft Family Stadium, as two-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady of the New England Patriots made a special visit to see what American Football in Israel was all about.

2007: Robert Alan “Bob” Levinson “was taken hostage” today “when visiting Iran’s Kish Island

2007: John Zorn’s Masada Quartet is scheduled to perform on of its last concert at Lincoln Center.

2008: Novelist and former Roman Catholic priest James Carroll discusses his 2001 book Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

2008: The Sunday New York Times featured reviews of Beaufort, a novel by Israeli author Ron Lehsem, translated by Evan Fallenberg, The Life of the Skiesby Jonathan Rosen and a collection of  four short works of fiction by French novelist and Holocaust victim by by Irène Némirovsky including David Golder, The Ball, Snow In Autumn and The Courilof Affair.

2008: In “A Family Tree of Literary Fakers,” published today Motoko Rich traces famous literary frauds including Clifford Irving’s “biography of Howard Hughes,” Binjamin Wilkomirski’s 1996 phony memoir, Fragmentsdescribing how he survived as a Latvian Jewish orphan in a Nazi concentration camp and Misha Defonseca’s book, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Yearsabout a childhood spent running from the Nazis and searching for her deported parents; a childhood that did not happen.

2008: The Washington Post book section featured a review of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman.  Founding Faith takes up two central questions about religion in early America. First, what did such Founding Fathers as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison usually believe? And second, how did it come about that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"? The answers to these questions carry implications for Jewish Americans since the role of religion and religious freedom has allowed the American Jewish community to think of itself as a unique element that will transcend past Jewish experiences in other societies and countries.

2008(2 Adar II, 5768):Twenty-year-old Sergeant Liran Banay, who was critically wounded last Thursday when a bomb was detonated near an IDF vehicle patrolling the Gaza security fence, died of his wounds on Sunday morning. The Givati Brigade soldier, who lost both legs as a result of Thursday’s explosion, died in Soroka Hospital in Ashkelon.

2009: WebYeshiva started the WebYeshiva Blog today. “The WebYeshiva Blog presents a variety of posts daily in audio, video, and text format, and features regular columns such as the weekly Parsha, Haftora, Nach, Business Ethics, Aggada, and Jewish Philosophy. Both WebYeshiva students and teachers also make regular contributions, and WebYeshiva's Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim Brovender, posts a video Halacha Yomit every day.” “WebYeshiva, founded in 2007 by Rabbi Chaim Brovender, was the first online yeshiva and midrasha.

2009 (13 Adar 5769): Fast of Esther

2009: In the evening, Megillah Reading

2009: Economist Nouriel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who spent part of his youth living in Israel and who was the “man who predicted the current financial crisis said the US recession could drag on for years without drastic action…Roubini sees ‘no hope for the recession ending in 2009 and will more than likely last into 2010.’”

2009:Police arrested two Arab youths carrying a commando blade in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem today foiling a stabbing attack. During a preliminary investigation, the pair said they had planned on carrying out a terror attack.

2009: In “Bad Guy Inspires Goodies,’ published today in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, columnist Cecilia Hanley provides a brief account about Purim, the history of Hamantaschen and a recipe for a pastry that she likened to the Kolache, a pastry popular with the Czech population that settled Cedar Rapids and is still a unique local delicacy.

2009: In “The Perfect Hamantaschen” published today Deborah Gardner attempts to settle the dispute between those who prefer prune and those who munch on “mun.”

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-perfect-hamantaschen/

2010: The winners of the National Jewish Book Award are scheduled to be honored today in New York City. The names of the winners had been made public in January. Toronto author Joseph Kertes won the 59th annual National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for his novel, "Gratitude." Other National Jewish Book Award winners include Hasia Diner, author of "We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962" (New York University Press), the American Jewish Studies' Celebrate 350 Award; Melvin Urofsky, the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award for "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (Pantheon Books); Daniel Gordis, for "Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End" (John Wiley & Sons), the Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Award. Ellen Frankel and Avi Katz of the Jewish Publication Society won the Louis Posner Memorial Award in Illustrated Children’s Books for the JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible. Sir Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of England, won the Dorot Foundation Award in memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience for his "Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Beginnings" (Koren Publishers).

2010: David Nemeth is scheduled to be the instructor at this evening’s session of How to Give A D’var Torah at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C.

2011: Alan Joseph Shatter, Irish political leader, began serving as Minister for Justice and Eguality

2011(3rd of Adar II, 5771): Seventy-two-year-old “Owen Laster, one of the most powerful literary agents of his generation, who ran William Morris’s worldwide literary operations and had a long list of best-selling writers that included James A. Michener and Gore Vidal”, passed away today (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/media/10laster.html?_r=0

2011: Calvin Goldscheider (Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, Brown University), Max Ticktin (Professor of Judaic Studies, George Washington University), Susan K. Finston (CEO and Managing Director, Amrita Therapeutics Ltd.), Steve Rabinowitz (future emeritus president and CEO of Rabinowitz-something Communications), and a special mystery guest speaker are scheduled to appear at Washington DC's 20th Annual Latke-Hamantash Symposium at Adas Israel.

2011: The Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “From Shtetl to City: Travel in the Old Jewish Heartland” featuring author Ruth Ellen Gruber.

2011:As Jerusalem prepared for the possibility of a snowstorm, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat asked the public “to be responsible” “during an inspection of the city’s emergency snow plans at the Givat Shaul maintenance center.

2011: Today the Knesset approved the initial reading of a bill which proposes an end to allowing companies to discriminate against customers based on where they live, a law which could potentially benefit West bank cities and residents. "

2011: UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was honored by Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba today for his exceptional work as “a widely published theologian and philosopher, whose aspirations for truth and mutual respect of all peoples guide his actions.”

2011: According to an article entitled “50 Famous Travel Spots Every Literary Geek Should See” published today by the website “Online Courses must see spots include the following four spots of special interest to followers of Jewish history.

  1. The Secret Annex: Amsterdam has converted The Secret Annex into the Anne Frank Museum, preserving the memory of lives lost and destroyed when Nazis discovered their hiding place.

2.      Auschwitz-Birkenau:Holocaust literature frequently relates horrific tales of the Auschwitz concentration camp, most notably Night and Maus, and today it stands as a somber reminder of humanity’s capacity for senseless cruelty. Buchenwaldalso appears in many memoirs as well.

3.      Algonquin Hotel:This lush Midtown Manhattan locale used to host the Algonquin Round Table, consisting of New York’s finest wits. Their meetings resulted in a plethora of fictitious and non-fictitious works alike, most famously the bulk of Dorothy Parker’s oeuvre. Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild, the daughter of German-Jew who was not related to the famous banking house.

4.      Dublin, Ireland:Visit the Irish capital on June 16th for Bloomsday, a festival honoring James Joyce’s modernist magnum opus Ulysses. Readings and walks bring the brick of a novel to life, allowing celebrants to follow in the footsteps of iconic protagonist Leopold Bloom. Although fictious, Bloom may be Ireland’s most famous Jews.

 

2011(3rd of Adar II): Anniversary of the dedication of the Second Temple which took placed on the 3rd of Adar, 3412 (349 BCE)

2011(3rdof Adar II, 5771): Seventy-two-year-old Owen Laster, a literary agent for William Morris passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/media/10laster.html

2012: In Washington, DC, at Tifereth Israel,  Artist in Residence Alison Westermann is scheduled to kick off a weekend of “Translating Text Into Song” with a Carlebach Kabbalat Shabbat Service.

 2012: “Footnote” – the Oscar nominated tale of a rivalry between two Talmudic scholars who are father and son – is scheduled to pen Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinema.

2012: Two senior terrorists were killed in Gaza today after IDF aircraft targeted a vehicle in the Strip, the army confirmed. One of the fatalities is Zuhir al-Qaisi, the secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group, Palestinian sources said. The second terrorist killed in the strike is Ahmad al-Khanini, a senior PRC member freed in the Shalit prisoner swap, the Palestinians said. The senior terrorist killed in an IDF strike today was planning a major terror attack on Israeli targets near the Egypt border, army officials said. Zuhir al-Qaisi, also known as Abu Ibraim, was planning a mega-attack in recent days that could have resulted in numerous casualties, the army said. The planned multipronged terror strike was to originate from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, military officials said.

 (As reported by Yoav Zitun)

2012: More than 30 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel tonight, leaving at least eight people injured, one of them seriously.

2013: “No Place On Earth” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premiere this evening at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.

2013: AMIT is scheduled to host “A Night of Israeli Cinema” at Tribeca Cinemas.

2013: The Eden-Tamir Music is scheduled to host a concert “Loving Brahms” today in Jerusalem.

2014: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host its annual Purim Carnival under the leadership of Rabbi Jeff Portman.

2014: “The Sturgeon Queens,” a documentary about Russ & Daughters is scheduled to be shown in Boulder, CO.

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “The Whole Megillah: A Family Purim Program featuring a Puppet Show and Art Project”

2014: The Washington DC JCC is scheduled to host the 4th Annual Community Day of Education on Israeli Arab Issues.

2014: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a Pre-Purim Pajama Party.

2014: The 24th annual Washington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2014: David Brooks is scheduled to lecture on “Genius, God and Morality” at the 92ndStreet Y.

2014: The third bi-annual LimmudFest New Orleans is scheduled to come to an end.

2014: The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Genesis: Truman, American Jews and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflictby John Judis and The Double Life of Paul De Man by Evelyn Barish

2014: In “Eulogy for a Source” published today, Helen Epstein remembers Jiri Fiedler, who along with his wife was murdered at the end of January.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/eulogy-for-a-source.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

2014: In Eilat, this morning, Israeli troops unloaded some 150 containers, suspected of holding illicit Iranian arms, from a ship seized several days earlier in the Red Sea

2014: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews filled the streets in lower Manhattan today to protest Israel’s proposal to draft strictly religious citizens into its army.

2015: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a field trip to The National Museum of American Jewish History which is featuring a an exhibited “that examines the role that Jews have played in the American Military from 1654 to present.”

2015: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with the Meitar Ensemble which was “founded in 2004 in Tel Aviv by artistic director Amit Dolberg.

2015: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “Above and Beyond,” “the first major feature length-documentary about the foreign airman” who served in the War of Independence in 1948 produced by Nancy Spielberg.

2015: “A state attorney announced today that the Israel Prize for Literary Scholarship will not be awarded this year, after a month-long controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intervention in the composition of the judges’ panel.” (As reported by Tamar Pileggi)

2016: Today, Mitchell “Schwartz signed a 5-year, $33 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, making him one of the highest-paid right tackles in the NFL.”

2016: Steven Gimbel, a Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College and author Einstein: The Man is scheduled to speak at Stevens Tech in Hoboken, NJ.

2016(29th of Adar I, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old investment mogul John Gutfreund passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/business/dealbook/john-gutfreund-who-ran-salomon-brothers-at-its-apex-is-dead-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

2016: “Everything Is Illuminated” a favorite of festival chairman John Dreyfus is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: Today, “Dos Equis Beer announced that it would replace Jonathan Goldsmith in the role as the "Most Interesting Man in the World",

2016: “The Midnight Orchestra” is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte, NC Jewish Film Festival.

2017(11th of Adar, 5777): Ta’anit Esther

2017: Michael D. Cohen, the son of a Holocaust survivor the lawyer and confidant of Donald Trump who personally paid off “porn start Stormy Daniels” registered as a Republican today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

2017:  The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to co-host an evening with Tuvia Temebom” the author of The Lies They Tell Us who will talk about “What American Really Think About Jews And Israel.”

2018: “Israeli dance master Roy Assaf’s ‘Girls and Boys’” is scheduled to pend for a month-long run at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv today. (As reported by Stacey Menchel Kussell)

2018: Rabbi Eli Glaser is scheduled to run “the Jerusalem Marathon in memory of, and motivated by Rafael Shachar Weissberg” who succumbed to “a debilitating neurological illness” last year at the age of 37.

2018: In New York, the Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is “dark” this evening because of Shabbat but is scheduled to continue on March 10.

2018: In New York, the Landmark Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “Itzhak,” a film that “explores Perlman’s remarkable biography as an immigrant of humble origins and a childhood victim of polio who went from young violin prodigy (debuting at 13 on “The Ed Sullivan Show”) to established international star, balancing a demanding performance schedule with a robust family life.”

2018: “The Diary of Anne Frank,” featuring Serena Collins as “Margot Frank” is scheduled to premiere at Theatre Cedar Rapids in Cedar Rapids, IA.

2019: The Jewish Book Week Festival is scheduled to host a panel of Ruth Deech, Trudy Gold, Rod Liddle and David Triesman chaired by Gavin Esler discussing “Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred.”

http://jewishbookweek.com/event/antisemitism-the-longest-hatred/

2019: Final performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” starring Andy Nyman as Tevye is scheduled to take place this evening at The Menier Chocolate Factory.

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/a-new-tradition-the-revival-of-fiddler-on-the-roof/

2019: In Vallejo, CA, Congregation B’nai Israel is scheduled to host the Klezmer music concert with the Haimish Music Band.

2019: The Fattal Rock Festival is scheduled to come an end at Eilat.

2019: The New York Sephardi Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Mori-Shabazy’s Riddle” directed by Israela Sha’ar Meoded.

2019(2ndof Adar II, 5779): Parashat Pekuday;

2020: The Berkeley Center for Jewish studies is scheduled to host Jelena Subotic, assistant professor at Georgia State, talks about her new book, Yellow Star, Red Star that looks at “the suppression and obfuscation of Holocaust memories in Eastern Europe.”

2020: JSwipe, Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters, the ADL, the AJC, Apptopia, Lanky and the Fens and Urbanites Boston are scheduled to host “the most anticipated young professionals Purim event in Boston!”

2020: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Escape from Pretoria.”

2020: In Cedar Rapids, the Megillah reading is scheduled to be followed by a meal that include Pizza along with Hamantaschen

2020: This evening in Iowa City, Hillel and Congregation Agudas Achim will co-host a Hamantaschen Baking event followed by a reading of the Megillah.

2020(13thof Adar, 5780): Fast of Esther: Erev Purim

2021: The Lubavitch of Arkansas Center for Jewish Life, under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, is scheduled to host an “interactive live music concert featuring Tali Yess, “the son of the late Moshe Yess, a true music legend who created my popular Jewish songs like My Zaidy, Our Land and The Angel Song.”

2021: Congregation Beth Israel’s Rabbi Yonatan Cohen is scheduled to lead an online session about how to engage kids and adults at the Passover table

2021: SFSU’s Office of Diversity, Student Equity and Interfaith Programs, in association with S.F. Hillel, is scheduled to present a conversation with professor and Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University on “Antisemitism on College Campuses.”

2021: Members of Temple Judea are scheduled to participate in an act of tikkun olam as they contribute to sandwiches to the Help Feed the Hungry program sponsored by St. George’s Soup Kitchen.

2021: As part of the “celebration of Jewish Women’s History Month,” the Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present online a discussion of the new documentary “The One and Only Jewish Miss America.”

2021: In New Orleans, the Hadassah Reader’s Circle is scheduled to discuss Mortality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

2021: Based on reports published yesterday that Israel has administered its 5 millionth coronavirus vaccination, the country is able to contemplate relaxing some of the virus related restrictions.

 

 

 

This Day, March 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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March 10

 515 BCE (Adar 5): According to Ezra VI, 15, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius, the Second Temple was completed today. (15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.)

0037: Roman Emperor Tiberius passed away at age 78.  He followed Augustus to the throne and reigned from 14 through 37.  His record in dealing with the Jews was a mixed one.  On the one hand he over-ruled anti-Jewish edicts of Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea.  At the same, he temporarily expelled all of the Jews from Rome when a Jew was falsely accused of defrauding a Roman matron.

0298:The Roman Emperor Maximian concluded his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers and made a triumphal entry into Carthage.The city of Carthage appears repeatedly throughout Roman history.  According to some historians, when Carthage fell to the Romans after the Punic Wars, “many Carthaginians and Phoenicians converted to Judaism, because Jerusalem was the only remaining centre of West Semitic civilization.” They attribute the original Jewish settlements in Spain to the fact that Spain had been a Carthaginian colony and that these settlers were part of a group of these converts.  The Berbers would also figure in Jewish history. In the 7th century, they would convert to Islam.  In the 8th century, the Berbers were a major part of the Muslim force that drove the Christians out of Spain and created a comparatively hospitable for the Jewish people.

0418: Jews were excluded from holding public office in the Roman Empire

1126: Following the death of his mother Alfonso VII, the monarch who started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew and Arabic learning as well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe was crowned King of Leon and Castille.

1452:  Birthdate of Ferdinand II the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily who expelled the Jews from his realm.

1533: “Federico II Gonzaga, the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua at the time of the birth of Leone de' Sommi, the first “unapologetically Jewish playwright and poet” and a ruler who enjoyed Jewish comedians enough to hire “Solly and Jacob and his wife Margaret Paleologina gave birth to Francesco III Gonzaga.

1561: A document bearing today’s date “contains a complaint of Pan Andrei Okhrenskis, the representative of Prince Nikolai Radziwill and of the Jew Mikhel again Matvel Voitekhovich, an estate-owner in the district of Pinsk” claiming that he had sent “a number of his men to the potash works managed by the above-mentioned Jew” where the “damaged the premises,” drove off the workers and committed “many thefts.”

1616: Vincent Fettmilch was hanged.  Fettmilch lived at Frankfort on the Main (Germany).  During a period of economic downturn (1612-1616), the ruling class blamed the problems on the Jews.  They allowed anti-Semitic demagogues to attack the Jews.  Fettmilch was the ringleader of the action that resulted in the destruction of the Jewish property in the ghetto.  Jews fled for their lives.  Without the Jews to blame, the powers that be feared the mobs would turn on them.  So they hanged Fettmilch as a way of re-establishing law and order.

1735: Jochabed Michaels and London native Judah Mears gave birth to Catherine Mears, the wife of Asher Myers.

1743: Today, Nathan Ley and David Franks of Philadelphia are listed as two of the owners of the Philadelphia built schooner Drake two years before they “appear…as the owners of the sloop Sea Flower built in Connecticut” and five years before they appear as the owner of Myrtilla.

1749: In the Republic of Venice at Ceneda, Geronimo Coneglian who would later convert from Judaism to Catholicism so he could a woman who was a Roman Catholic, and his wife gave birth to Emanuele Conegliano who gained fame as Roman Catholic priest Lorenzo Da Ponte whose artistic accomplished included writing “the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte.”

1754(16thof Adar, 5514): Shushan Purim

1762: Birthdate of Prussian native Gittel Sachs, the wife of Levin Samson with whom she had seven children.

1794: In London, Leah Jacobs and Joseph Hart Myers gave birth to Maria Hart Myers, the wife of Loftus Longueville Tottenham Clarke.

1771: In New York, Uriah Hendricks and his first wife Eva Esther Henricks gave birth to Harmon Hendricks

 

1791(4th of Adar II): Rabbi Aryeh Leib Sarah, a disciple of Rabbi Dov Baer passed away.

1793: One day after he had passed away, 54-year-old Abraham Bowley Barrow was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.

1800(13thof Adar, 5560): Ta’anit Esther observed for the first time in the 19thcentury.

1800(13thof Adar, 5560): Erev Purim; the Megillah is read for the first time in the 19thcentury.

1802: Victor Abraham married Rebecca Levy at the Great Synagogue today.

1810: Birthdate of Frankfurt native Henry Sigismund Straus, the husband of Henrietta Straus with whom he had seven children.

1822(17thof Adar, 5582): The mother of Moses Sofer, Reizel the daughter of Elchanan passed away.

1823: In Prague, Abraham and Judith Eidlitz gave birth to New York architect whose commissions included the former Temple Emanu-El sanctuary built in New York between1866 and 1868 and which was destroyed in 1927

1827(11thof Adar, 5587): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor

1831: The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. A large number of Jews who fled Eastern Europe during the 1930’s found “a home” in the French Foreign Legion.  For more about the Legion and the Jewish people see Jews and the French Foreign Legion by Zosa Szajkowski

1841: One day after she had passed away, 67-year-old Martha Ralph, the wife of Henry Ralph was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1845: Birthdate of Czar Alexander III, the second to the last of the Romanov Czars.  In a line of rulers who made life hell on earth for the Jewish people, Alexander stands out as one of the worst, if not the worst of the lot. His policies were intended to give meaning to the one third, one third, one third rule. One third of the Jews would leave Russia, one third would convert. One third would perish.

1845: The Jewish Reform movement in Germany was publicly announced

1845: In Kovno, Rabbi Aaron Silberstein and Zibhya Sander gave birth to Rabbi Solomon (Sholem) Joseph Silberstein, the grandson of Kabbalist Naphtali and the author of numerous works including General Law of Nature and The Jewish Problem and Theology in General.

1847: Birthdate of “French deputy jurist Camille Sée, the native of Colmar, Alsace, who was the nephew of French physician Germain Sée and founder of “the École normale supérieure in Sèvres in 1881.

1854: Esther Braham and Joseph Benjamin gave birth to Ellen Benjamin, the wife of Berman Berliner and the mother of Blanche, Walter and Harold Berliner.

1855(20thof Adar, 5615): Parashat Ki Tisa and Shabbat Parah

1855(20thof Adar, 5615): Sixty-six-year-old Carol Mayer von Rothschild the Frankfurt am Main born son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gulte Schnapper and husband of Adelheid Herz with whom he had four children who was “the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples” passed away today.

1856: The News of the World reported that in Constantinople a Turkish woman who could not locate her child for several hours started to scream after local Greeks told her Jews had dragged her child by force into the house to drain its blood for use on Passover. A crowd gathered and started to smash the windows of the home, and was only held back by the French soldiers. The child later was found by the mother.

1857(14thof Adar, 5617): Purim celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of James Buchanan

1858(24thof Adar, 5618): Forty-eight-year-old London native and journalist Robert Lyon who in 1844 came to the United States where he founded and published The Asmonean starting in 1849 passed away today.

1859: In Budapest, Jeanette and Jacob Herzl gave birth to Pauline Herzl, the sister of Theodor Herzl

1860(16thof Adar, 5620): Parashat Ki Tisa

1860: Mortiz Pinner, the German-Jewish immigrant abolitionist who was a publishing a newspaper in Kansas City served as a delegate at the Republican State Convention in Missouri.  Pinner would be chosen as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as President of the United States.

1861: Birthdate of Meier Dizengoff.  A native of Bessarabia, he would make Aliyah in 1905, help found Tel Aviv in 1909 and then became its first mayor.

1862: During the Civil War, William Durst was on board the U.S.S. Monitor as it held its position waiting in vain for the CSS Virginia to return to the fray – a failure to engage which meant the Union blockade of the Confederacy, a key to Union victory would hold and grow.

1863: Guests at today’s wedding Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark heard a wedding march composed by Sir Julius Benedict the son of a German Jewish banker.

1864: During the American Civil War, beginning of the Red River Campaign which would claim the life of Colonel Newbold of the Fourteenth Iowa.

1866 (23 Adar 5626): Yitzchak Meir Alter passed away. Born in 1798, he is the first Rebbe of the Ger Chasidic dynasty. Some of his followers referred to him as Reb Itche Meir as the Chidushei HaRim.  

1867: Birthdate of Lillian Wald. Born into a successful merchant family in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Rochester, New York, Lillian Wald is remembered today as the founder of public health nursing and an influential pioneer in the settlement house movement of the early twentieth century.

http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/wald.html

http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/wald

1868: “The Purim Ball” published today reported that last night’s Purim Ball was so lavish that it was a fitting way to end New York’s gala winter social season. “The truly brilliant affair” reinforced the reputation of the Purim Society for providing a ball that “was unique in character” and “meriting the praise” that it has continued to receive. The ball not only is the epitome of refinement, it raises money for the disadvantaged – Jew and non-Jew alike.

1868(16thof Adar, 5628): Naphtali Hirsch Katzenellenbogen, the son of Simḥah Katzenellenbogen, “who was the editor of the baraita of thirty-two middot” and who delivered a funeral oration in memory of Saul Katzenellenbogen, passed away today.

1869: Abraham Belasco married Maria Davis at Bevis Marks Synagogue.

1870: Birthdate of Polish actress Ester Rachel Halpern, who after marrying her manager Avom Yishok Kaminksa gained fame as Ester Rachel Kaminksa, who was figuratively “known as the mother of modern Yiddish Theater” and who was actually the mother of actress and film start Ida Kaminksa.

https://yiddishkayt.org/view/esther-rachel-kaminska/

1870(7th of Adar, II 5630): Czech born composer Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles passed away at the age of 75.

1871: Seventy-eight-year-old German author August Lewald, the cousin of novelist Fanny Lewald, the Jewess who converted to Christianity, passed away today.

1872(30thof Adar I, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1872: In Luka (Czech Republic): Julie and Samuel Hirsch gave birth to Albert Hirsch, the husband of Irma Hirsch.

1873: Birthdate of Anna Allscoffova, who was transported from Prague to Terezin in 1942 and then to Auschwitz in 1944 where she murdered at the age of 71.

1873: Birthdate of Jakob Wassermann author of My Life As a German and a Jew.  Wasserman was a novelist who dealt with challenges of being both a German and a Jew.  His writings urged Jews to assimilate and "and thus destroy themselves as a group.  By the end of his life, he recognized that Jewish survival was inevitable and desirable."

1875: It was reported today that E.B. Hart, Joseph Seligman and Joseph Koch are among the prominent Jews heading the committee of the Purim Association that will be responsible for the upcoming Hebrew Charity Ball.

1875: Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba), an opera in four acts by Karl Goldmark was first performed today at the Hofoper (now the State Opera) in Vienna,

1876(14thof Adar, 5638) Purim

1876: The Anshe Bikur Cholim Society held a reception this evening at Irving Hall.  It was very well attended because it was the Purim celebration of its kind in New York held today.

1876: In Pittsburgh, PA, Moses Lehman, the brother of Isaac Lehman, and his wife Franny Frank Lehman gave birth to the first of their four children Irvin Frank Lehman, the husband of Fanny Klein Lehman, the son of David Lehman and “one of the original trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.”

1877: In what was then Galicia, Esther Verner and dairy farmer Jacob Taffel gave birth to Frank Taffel who founded the Fulton Auto Exchange in Atlanta, GA in 1924.

1878: Birthdate of Lamed Lev Shapiro, the Ukrainian born Yiddish author known as Lamed Shapiro.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_jewish_literature/v030/30.garrett.html

 http://forward.com/articles/10618/an-offering-to-the-priests-of-yiddish/?

1879(15thof Adar, 5639): Shushan Purim

1879: Ernest Falck married Matilda Samuel today.

1880: In Hungary, “a doctor in a small town” and his wife gave birth to Max Thorek, a graduate of Rush Medical College who “founded the International College of Surgeons.

https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5170/431.3

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/07/85131581.pdf

1880: In Vilnius, Bella and Israel Chaim Daiches gave birth to Rabbi Salis Daiches, the husband of Flora Daiches and holder of a PhD from Leipzig University who became the Rabbi of the Edinburgh (Scotland) Hebrew Congregation in 1918.

1884(13thof Adar, 5644): Fast of Esther

1886: In Cincinnati, OH, Leopold and Rosa (Simon) Adler gave birth to Cincinnati College of Music trained pianist Clarence Adler, the husband of Elsa Adrienne Richard, the founder of the of the New York Trio which at that time was a leading chamber music ensemble and one of the founders of the New Synagogue in New York City in 1915.

1886: At the Hasell Street Synagogue, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Belle Elias to Isadore Blank.

1887(14thof Adar, 5647): Purim

1887: “Three Hebrew clergymen” – Dr. L. Wintner, William Sparger, Leon Harrison – wrote a condolence letter to the widow of Henry Ward Beecher expressing their sorrow over his passing.

1887: In Galicia, Esther Verner and dairy farmer Jacob Taffel gave birth to Shrage Fyvel Taffe who as Frank Taffel became a pillar of the Georgia (USA) Jewish community.

1888(27th of Adar): Ferdinand Eberstadt, the first Jewish Mayor of Worms, passed away

1888(27th of Adar): Scholar and philanthropist Issachar Dov Ber Bampi passed away

1890: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will host its fifth “informal entertainment of the season this evening at Vienna Hall.

1890: The body of an unidentified Jews was found in a cellar at a house on Eldridge Street in New York City.

1890: The Downtown Religious and Sewing Schools and the Young Men’s Society will hold their Purim celebration tonight at Pythagoras Hall.

1891: Birthdate of Sam Jaffe who starred in movies and television.  He gained early fame playing an Indian water boy in the film “Gunga Din.”  Television viewers of the 1950's and 1960's saw him as wise old Dr. Zorba in the popular medical series called “Ben Casey.”

1892(11thof Adar, 5652): Ta’anit Esther

1892: In Grodno, Russia, “Rabbi Eliezer Lipman and Chaya Gitel (Berkowsky) Farber gave birth to Lester Lipman Farber, product of the El Paso, TX public schools and husband of Lillian D. Flaum who was the President of Congregation B’nai Zion and the founder of the Talmud Torah in El Paso.

1892: Friedman Silverstein, a Jewish immigrant from Russia who has been living in the United States for 2 years was diagnosed as having typhus fever today.

1892: Two day after she had passed away, Elizabeth Joseph, the “daughter of the late Abraham and Sarah (Falcke) Joseph was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1892: Ruben Lodge No. 3 of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel will host a masquerade ball this evening at the Lexington Opera House.

1893: Lillian Wald opened the Lower East Side settlement house that would become the Henry Street Settlement on her 26th birthday. The Nurses' Settlement opened on Jefferson Street. Two years later, in 1895, she moved her enterprise to Henry Street. In both locations, the settlement was dedicated to public health nursing, a term Wald coined to describe an organic relationship between health care and broader community needs. In the first year, the settlement cared for 4,500 patients. Recognizing the interconnectedness of illness and poverty, Wald expanded the activities of the settlement over time. The renamed Henry Street Settlement House offered boys' and girls' clubs; classes in arts, crafts, homemaking and English; and vocational training. Health care remained important, with over 26,000 patients cared for by 100 Henry Street nurses in 1915.

1893: In Philadelphia, Rabbi Dr. Henry Berkowitz delivers a speech to his congregation, Rodelph Shalom in which he suggests that a society be formed in the United States for "the dissemination of knowledge of the Jewish religion by fostering the study of its history and literature, giving popular courses of instruction, issuing publications, establishing reading-circles, holding general assemblies, and by such other means as may from time to time be found necessary and proper." In response to his suggestion, the Jewish literary societies of Philadelphia appointed a "committee on organization," which formulated plans. An agreement was entered into with the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for the use of the general methods of the popular education process known as the "Chautauqua System." A Jewish society, national in its scope, was then organized, with Dr. Berkowitz as chancellor. In the winter of 1893 the society began the publication of a series of "course books" or syllabi for general readers and members of reading-circles or study classes. These guide-books give syllabi of courses in Biblical and post-Biblical history and literature, in the Hebrew language (correspondence method), and on Jewish characters in fiction.

1893: “To Study Our Immigration” published today described the debate in the House of Lords led by Lord Lyon Playfair over the impact of Russian and Polish (Jewish) immigration in the United Kingdom and the treatment of these immigrants in the United States

1895(14th of Adar, 5655): Purim

1895: It was reported today that it will cost $80,000 to build a new facility for Beth Israel Hospital which now using a building on East Broadway owned by the Hebrew Free School

1895: Birthdate of Samuel Caplan, the native of Russia, who became and an American author and editor for the Congress Bi-Weekly

1895: In “Emanu-El’s Fifty Years,” published today described plans for the celebration of Temple Emanu-El’s fiftieth anniversary which will be held on April 12, 13 and 14th.  The article also provides a brief history of the Reform Movement and the milestones in the history of New York’s leading Reform congregation.

1896:Dr. Reuben Bierer, chief rabbi of Sofia, announces that he considers Herzl to be the Messiah. The newspaper "Ha-am" in Kolomea places itself at Herzl's disposal.

1896: In London, 2 years before he was murdered by a blackmailer, Woolf Joel and his wife gave birth to their only son, Geoffrey Joel.

1896: Theodore Herzl described his first meeting with Reverend William Hechler in today’s diary entry.  Herzl described Hechler as an enthusiastic Zionist who wants introduce him to the various German leaders who are friends of the Anglican minister.

1896: The world trademark for State Express 555 cigarettes, a creating of Sir Albert Levy, “was first registered” today “in Ireland

1896: In Pittsburgh, PA, Anselm and Sophie Irene Loeb, the noted child welfare worker, were married today.

1897: One day after he had passed away, 90 year old Samuel Honigbaum was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1897: The will of the late Simon Goldenberg, who left an estate valued at $200,000 in real property and $1,000,000 in personal property was filed for probate today.

1897: The Charity Ball for the benefit of the Montefiore Home which is being sponsored by the Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League will take place this evening at Carnegie Hall, under the leadership of Leon Hirsch, who is the group’s President. 

1898: Funeral services for Moses Bruckheimer will be held today at Beth Elohim in Brooklyn

1898: At today’s meeting of the House of Commons Committee “inquiring into the evils of money lending”

Sir George Lewis “condemned the business in the strongest terms saying it frequently cost the victims

2000 percent” and speaking as a Jew he could say that the Jewish community “loathed and despised those

who engage in such activity.

1898: Fifteen thousand people are expected to attend tonight’s annual Fête and Bal Champêtre at

Carnegie Hall sponsored by the Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home for

Consumptives

1889: In Manhattan Jewish immigrants “Josef Matlz and Taube Elzweig,” gave birth to Columbia trained surgeon Maxwell “Max” Maltz, the author of Pyscho-Cybernetics and the husband of Anne Maltz https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/dr-maxwell-maltz-dead-plastic-surgeon-and-author.html

1900(9thof Adar II, 5660): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

1900: English author Joseph Jacobs, the “editor of the Jewish Year Book and Literary Book” arrived in New York today aboard the St. Paul and then went to the home of his host Cyrus Sulzberger with whom he will stay while assisting “in the preparation of material for a Jewish encyclopedia” which will be issued “by a leading publisher.”

1901: “Jews in the Roumanian Army” published today reported that “no Jewish soldier in the Roumanian Army can be promoted to a commission, however brave and loyal he may be” and that “no Jews are admitted into the military schools…”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/03/10/118462256.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1902(1stof Adar II, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1902(1stof Adar II, 5662): Seventy-two-year-old author and social reformer Jenny Hirsch died today in Berlin.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hirsch-jenny

1903: Former President Grover Cleveland is staying at the home of Oscar Straus 5 West 76thStreet in New York.

1903: Solomon Alter has purchased the property at 350 Madison Street in New York City.

1904: According to today’s dispatch from St. Petersburg, the Minister of the Interior Pleheve has taken a hand in revising the list of reservists be called up so that of the 180 medical called to duty, 110 are Jewish which has displeased the Minister of War but has been with approval of “non-Jewish practitioners who were only too glad to get their Jewish rivals out of the way.

1905(3rdof Adar, 5665): Fifty-nine-year-old Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim (ADeReT), a Lithuanian born Rabbi who made Aliyah at the turn of the century passed away today and was buried on the Mount of Olives.

1905: Ernst Gräfenberg earned his doctorate after studying medicine in Göttingen and Munich. Another intellectual casualty of the Nazis, this doctor who had served in the German Army in World War and who developed the IUD, would flee to the United States in the 1930’s.

1906(13thof Adar, 5666): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1906: Purim services were held this evening at the West End Synagogue at the end of which every worshipper made “his contribution to charity.”

1906: Sixty-seven-year-old Eugene Richter, a German political leader who defended the Jews during the growing waves of German anti-Semitism that marked the last decades of the 19thcentury passed away.

1907: “To Petition Czar To Dissolve Duma” published today described the chaos centered a move to have the Russian parliament recess for “several days’ so that newly created Committee on Credentials could decide how treat those from “contested seats” which included avowed anti-Semites who threatened violence in the southern part of the Empire if they were not seated.

1908: Birthdate of Fevel Greenberg, the native of “the Russian occupied region of Galicia” who gained fame as Philip Rahv “the editor, author, reviewer for Partisan Review and The New York Review of Books and Brandeis University English Professor.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/01/24/philip-rahv-19081973/

http://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/24/archives/philip-rahv-critic-dead-at-64-english-professor-at-brandeis.html?_r=0

1909: Rabbi Eiseman of the Seventy-second Street Synagogue officiated at the wedding of Mary Bister and William Greenbaum, “both of whom are deaf-mutes” in an Orthodox ceremony which he first read in English and then communicated to the couple using “finger language.”

1910: Birthdate of Richmond, VA native Amelia Held Ullman the wife of Gilbert Victor.

1910: Karl Lueger, the sixty-five-year-old anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna passed away.

1911: Birthdate of New York native Harold “Hy” Lefft the NYU basketball player who was the older brother of NYU basketball player Joe Lefft.

1911: Birthdate of Odessa native Charles Robert “Buckets” Goldenberg the University of Wisconsin star who went on to play for 12 years with the Green Bay Packers. (Editor’s Note – according to some records he was born in April.)

http://www.packers.com/history/hall-of-famers/goldenberg-charles-buckets.html

1911: Jerome Kern’s “La Belle Paree” starring Al Jolson, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.

1912: “Interesting information concerning the growth of the movement back to the farms on the part of Jewish citizens, and especially immigrants, is contained in the twelfth annual report of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society” which “shows that the Jewish immigrant, contrary to the prevailing idea that he hugs the Atlantic seaboard, is inclined, if given a chance, to move more and more to the farmland.”

1913(1stof Adar II, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Adar

1913(1stof Adar II, 5673): Forty-two-year-old Chicagoan Victor B Strelitz, a member of the firm of Strelitz Brothers and the husband of Sarah Strelitz passed away “suddenly in New York City” today.

1913: Birthdate of Canadian composer John Jacob Weinzweig. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he received his first formal study of music in mandolin at the Workmen's Circle Peretz School.

1913: The funeral of Pauline Phillips, the wife of Herman Philips is scheduled to take place today followed by burial at Waldheim Cemetery.

1914: Architect and engineer Maurice Blumenthal, the Brooklyn born son of Jacob Hersh Blumenthal and Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal, and his wife Miriam Blumenthal gave birth to Pauline Blumenthal who died two days later.

1915: The American Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from the War” made its first detailed report public today sowing that it has collected approximately $550,000 of which $472,000 has been sent to various countries in Europe.

1915: The Frankfurter Zeitung published a letter that had first appeared in the Hambruger Israelitische Familienblatt written by a Jewish soldier, who with his brother had joined the German Army even though they had been denied German citizenship. According to the letter, one brother had been killed in battle and the surviving brother wanted his family to know that it was not a piece of paper that made them Germans. It was their “sentiments that made them Germans.”  Feeling this way, they could not let others fight while they remained spectators.  “The hero’s death is better than shame.”

1916: With the passing of the Military Service Act in 1916 the period of voluntary enlistment came to an end as did the publication of the list entitled “Our Honour Record of All Jews who are serving” the last one of which was published.

1916: In Rochford, Essex, Isidore and Helen Ostrer gave birth to Pamela Helen Ostrer, the English actress known as Pamela Mason after she married actor James Mason.

1916: “According to the ninth annual report of the American Jewish Committee issued” today “by President Louis Marshall” “nearly $4,000,000 was spent for charity last year by Jewish organizations in New York State”

1917: “The Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies issued…an appeal” which was supported by President Felix Warburg and Executive Director Edwin Golwaser “to Jews to do away with the long-established practice of sending elaborate floral tributes to the dead on the grounds that the money so spent could be used to greater advantage in caring for the poor.”

1918: Birthdate of Isaac Rosenfeld, the Chicago born author who wrote Passage from Home in 1946.

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/april29/zipperstein-steven-042909.html

1918 At today’s meeting of the Jewish Ministers’ Association of America being held at the Girls’ Hebrew Technical School Moses Hyamson called for “unified action on the part of the Orthodox congregation  to provide for the welfare of Jewish soldiers” at camps in the United States and at the Front and the rabbis demonstrated their support for the war effort by pledging “their support for a campaign which the Independ Order of B’rith Abraham is conducting to raise one million dollars in thrift and war savings stamps.”

1918:  Warner Brothers released its first major film “My Four Years in Germany." The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers, Jewish brothers who emigrated from Poland to London, Ontario, Canada, Harry Warner (1881–1958), Albert Warner (1883–1967), Sam Warner (1887–1927) and Jack L. Warner (1892–1978).

1919:  At the Strand Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island, Archibald Silverman presided over the memorial service honoring the memory of Colonel Harry Cutler who passed away last year in London which was attended by hundreds of Jewish and Gentile residents of the state including Rabbi Samuel Gup of Temple Beth-El who characterized Cutler as “a God intoxicated man.”

1919: Tonight, at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan, “the Executive Committee of the Isaac M. Wise Centenary launched a campaign to raise $300,000 for the support of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati” in response “to the appeals of Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff for a united effort to spread the ideals of Judaism.”

1920: In the wake of Arab attacks on Jewish citizens, Major-General Louis Bols, the Officer Administering the Government of Palestine, issued an order prohibiting further demonstrations in Jerusalem.

1920: In the House of Commons, when Major W. Ormsby-Gore asked he Prime Minister if “any special instructions had been sent to the commander-in-chief in Palestine in the wake of anti-Jewish “excesses+ in Metulah and the Galilee, “Secretary Williamson of the War Office” replied he had “no information of such excesses.

1921: Birthdate of Charlotte Zucker, the wife of Burton Charles Zucker, “the mother directors Jerry and David Zucker and actress Susan Breslau

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/08/local/me-passings8

 

1922: Three justices of the Supreme Court of New York – M. Warley Platzek, Edward Lazansky and Irving Lehman were among those who made contributions today to the “Wood Wilson Foundation fund of $1,000,000.”

1923: It was announced today in a meeting held in the home of Felix Warburg that “the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which has provided relief in more than forty war-stricken countries during the last eight years, will be finished Jan. 1, 1925.”

1924: In New York City, attorney Charles Bailey “and the former Phyllis Hedley gave birth to Judith Bailey who gained fame as Judith Jones, the literary editor whose accomplishments included rescuing “Anne Frank’s diary from a US publisher’s rejection pile.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-editor-who-rescued-anne-franks-diary-dies-at-93/

1925(14thof Adar, 5685): Purim

1925: In New York Charles and Elizabeth Kabrin Limmer gave birth to Abraham Louis Limmer who gained fame as Lou “Boomie” Limmer the major league first baseman who overcame the effects of having broken his neck and suffered temporary blindness “while sliding into third base in the Western League” to play for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1951 and 1954.

1925: “Wood Love” a silent comedy written by Hans Neumann was released today in Germany

1926: Today, at the Astor Hotel, during her address at the sixth annual convention of the Jewish Women’s Organizations, “Mrs. Leory S. Blatner, Field Secretary, New York State Federation of Temple Sisterhood, launched a spirited attack on the modern Jewish mother who prepared her daughter for a wedding and not for marriage…”

1927: The Committee on Civics and Communal Affairs of the Council of Jewish Women arranged for today’s visit to City Hall in Philadelphia which is part of “a series of trips through various places of interest in and hear Philadelphia with the idea of acquainting” members “with the many places of importance in” this historic city.

1927: Mrs. W.T. Andress presided over the opening meeting of the Dallas Section in Max J. Rosenfield Hall.

1927: Birthdate of Bronx native and Manhattan High School of Aviation graduate Louis “Lou” Limmer, the WW II Army Corps veteran who played first base for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League and was part of Jewish trifecta when he came to bat against Saul Rogovin, the Jewish pitcher for the Detroit Tigers whose battery-mate was Joe Ginsberg, the Jewish Catcher.

1928(18thof Adar 5688): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1928: “The arrival of Zionist leader Nachum Sokolov, at Belgrade today was the occasion for a feast between Jews and Serbs”

1929(28thof Adar I, 5689): Seventy-seven-year-old German Jurist Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg passed away.

1929: “Shakedown” directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn “was released in parallel silent and sound versions.”

1929: In New York, Lewis Steiger, the proprietor of men’s clothing business and his wife Rebecca gave birth to Samuel Steiger “a New Yorker who transformed himself into a Western rancher, served five terms in the House as a Republican from Arizona…” (As reported by William Yardley)

1929: Reports published today described the upcoming opening of “the Warner Brothers' ambitious Vitaphone production which will open at the Winter Garden, featuring Dolores Costello and George O'Brien” which is a cinematic treatment of the Biblical story.

1929: Birthdate of “Stephen Myron Schwebel is an American jurist and expert on international law.”

1930: It was reported today that Dr. Israel Goldstein has announced the formation of “a committee of one hundred leading Jews” to organize celebrations throughout the United States to mark 20th anniversary of the formation of Young Judaea, the Zionist youth group.

1932: In Great Britain, David and Eleanor Montague gave birth to businessman and Laborite Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lord-montague-of-oxford-1124327.html

1932: It was reported today that when Benjamin Cardozo is sworn in next week as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, there will finally be enough Justices to constitute a quorum so that the Court can hear the government’s appeal of a consent decree by the lower court in an anti-trust case involving the nation’s meatpackers.  The death of Justice Holmes and the recusal of Justices Hughes, Stone and Sutherland had meant that there were not enough Justices to hear the case.

1933: Michael Siegel, a Jewish lawyer who complained about the police “is forced to walk through Munich barefoot while carrying a sign reading ‘I will never complain to the police again.’”

1933: Victor Klemperer writes in his diary “Hitler elected as Chancellor. What I had called terror was only a mild prelude. . . . It is amazing how everything collapses . . . prohibitions and acts of violence. And with it, on streets and radio, unrestrained propaganda. On Saturday I heard a piece of Hitler's speech in Konsigsberg. I understood only a few words. But the tone! The unctuous roaring bark, the bark, really, of a clergyman. . . . How long will I be able to retain my professorship?”

1933: In Germany, premiere of Liebelei directed by Max Ophüls, based on a play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler.

1934: “Jail Birds of Paradise” a Three Stooges comedy and directed by Al Boasberg was released in the United States today.

1936: “Two Jewish students, one them cast as Shylock, withdrew from a classroom production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” at Hackensack (NJ) High School today as Rabbi Irving Silman of Hackensack Hebrew Institute continued a campaign to have the play stricken from the sophomore English course at the school because the character of Shylock ‘is the foulest slander ever penned by the hand of genius.’”

1936: A delegation from the Federation of Polish Jews in America met with Secretary of State Cordell Hall an asked him “to use the influence of the United States to stop the Polish Parliament from adopting a law “to prohibit Jewish ritual slaughter in” that country.

1936: In New York, the motion introduced by “Aldermen Morton Moses and Saul Frassler to grant holidays to Jewish employees during Passover” was sent to committee for consideration.

1937: “Chicken Heart” written by Arch Oboler was broadcast for the first time on the radio suspense show,

1937: Despite attempts by the Polish foreign minister to have Jews leave for Palestine, “the Council of Polish Organizations in the United States of America denied” today “that Poland as forcing Jews to emigrate” and “it declared the present emigration of about 80,000 Polish Jews annually wa normal.

1937: The Palestine Post reported from London that Viscount Cranborne, MP, the Foreign Under-Secretary told Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, MP, that the population of Transjordan was about 300,000 and that the Palestine Mandate still applied there, except for the provisions which included the establishment of the Jewish National Home. The policy in regard to the prospects of the Jewish settlement in Transjordan "remained unchanged". Thomas Williams, MP, asked the Colonial Secretary why the recent British military expenditures were charged to the Palestine government, while they might have been caused by the necessities of the international situation.

1937: “Franklin Forgery Exposed by Beard” published today described Professor Charles A. Beards’ conclusion that “the anti-Semitic ‘Prophecy’ attributed to Benjamin Franklin and distributed in Germany within the last few days by the government news service” was “a barefaced forgery.”

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Jerusalem Arabs welcomed Moslem pilgrims returning by train from the pilgrimage to Mecca.

1938: The day after the Germans marched into Austira, Fritz Grünbaum and Karl Farkas acted for the last time in Simplicissimus before trying to flee to Czechoslovakia.

1938: “Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels” visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.
1938: Birthdate of Ron Mix.  Mix was an oddity - a Jewish professional football player.  He was all-star offensive tackle with the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders.  He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979. Just to be on the safe side, Mix went to law school at night.

1939: “The Ice Follies of 1939,” a musical comedy directed by Reinhold Schünzel and produced by Harry Rapf was released in the United States today.

1939: “Striking a ‘Nazi persecution of Catholics as well as Jews in Germany,’ William Cardinal O’Connel, dean of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in” the United States “today set March 19 as ‘Catholic refugee Sunday’”

1940: Rabbi Wolf Gold, Chairman of the Mizrachi World Center said today in Jerusalem that “the recent British restriction of sales of land to Jews in Pales makes a scrap of paper of the Balfour Declaration…”

1941: Harpo and Chico Marx testified during the trial of Joseph Schenck, who along with Joseph H. Moskowitz has been charged with cheating the government out of $412,000 in income taxes.

1942(21st of Adar, 5702): Seventy-five-year-old San Francisco native and University of California graduate Julius Wangenheim, “a bridge engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad and San Diego wholesale grocer who was instrumental in developing Balboa Park and other civic endeavors in San Diego passed away today.

1943: Emanuel Zisman, his mother and his sister, along with the rest of the Jews living in Plovdiv, Bulgaria were rounded up for a planned deportation to the death camps.

1943: Bulgaria refused to release 48,000 of its Jews to the Germans. This became known to the Bulgarians as a "miracle of the Jewish people."

1943: More than 1,000 Jews in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Emanuel Zisman, the future Israeli ambassador to Bulgaria, his mother and his sister “were taken from their homes concentrated in the Jewish quarter, near to the school. But during the day the public pressure was so strong that the tsar of Bulgaria, Boris III, decided to cancel the deportation. It was a long day but a very, very happy night.”

1943: Last of two performances of “We Will Never Die” took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City

1944: Adolf Eichmann and his staff met at Mauthausen concentration camp to work out the deportation of over 750,000 Jews from Hungary.

1945: Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, “the son of Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Robert Balfour and May Eleanor Balfour (née Broadwood) of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England” a British officer serving with the “Monuments Men” died in a shell-burst, while operating beyond the Allied front line at Kleve (Cleves), seeking out artworks to be protected from war damage” after which he was buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/balfour-maj.-ronald-edmund

1945(25th of Tevet, 5705): Thirty-year-old Czech journalist Joseph Taussig, the son of Otto and Frederike (Federer) Tausig and younger brother of journalist František (Franta) Taussig died today at Flossenburg just five weeks before the camp was liberated by the United States Army.

1946: General Omar N. Bradley, the commander of U.S. ground forces in Europe during WW II and the current administrator of Veteran Affairs paid tribute” today “to the war record of men of the Jewish faith…”

1947: In what seems to be a public change in policy by Jewish leaders, 5 mayors in the martial law zone, including the Mayor of Tel Aviv issued a strongly worded statement warning against any new outbreak of terrorism.  “Acts of desperation do nothing but harm to the community and are calculated to bring about the disruption of our organized life.  We urgently warn the perpetrators and those who bear responsibility for them to cease all acts of terrorism, murder and violence against Jews and Britons.  Do not destroy the last possibility of maintain the wholeness of our organization.”

1947: “Twenty-one American citizens, including a woman named Hanna Herschkowitz, as well as two Norwegians with American…papers and two French nationals, all of whom arrived aboard the unauthorized immigrant ship Abril, were remanded by a magistrate in Haifa today. They will be held for a fortnight pending investigations into charges arising from the ship’s arrival in Palestine waters.”  Two American newspapermen – Wallace Litwin and Albert L. Hrschkoff are among those being detained.  Joseph Kaserman, an attorney from Haifa has been retained to defend the crew and protect the rights of the ship’s registered owner, the Tyre Shipping Company of New York City. The Abrilis also known as the SS Ben Hecht, a ship under Irgun control that had been carrying 599 Jewish refugees trying to land in Palestine.

1947: Daniel Frisch a leading member of the ZOA and the Zionist General Council said tonight, “I am persuaded by consultations and assurances obtained back by overwhelming Jewish as well as non-Jewish sentiment, that the United States Government will never give its consent to a solution of the Palestine problem which would tend to rob the Jewish people of its only path leading to rehabilitation and life.”

1948: Birthdate of retired government agent and private investigator Robert Levinson who has been held by the Iranians since 2007.

1948: A “company of the 1st Battalion commanded by Assaf Simchoni acted against an Arab gang which had settled in Kafr Kanna, on the Tiberias-Nazareth road. Information had been received that the village had become a center for gangs headed by a certain ‘Ibrahim’ that had carried out many attacks in the Lower Galilee and the Zevulun Valley. Among these was a gang that had previously been active in Shefaram, but had moved to Kafr Kanna. Born in 1922, Simchoni would rose to the rank of Major-General in the IDF. In 1956, he “commanded the Sinai Campaign and was killed in an airplane accident at the end of the war.”

1949: During Operation Uvda “an aerial photographer discovered that the police station guarding Ras al-Naqb was abandoned and the Negev Brigade set out towards Umm Rashrash through Ras al-Naqb

1949: At 15:00 the Negev Brigade reached the abandoned policed station at Umm Rashrash (the future site of Eilat) followed two hours later by the Golani Brigade.

1949: The conquest of the southern Negev and Um Rashrash (Eilat) in March 1949 ended the War of Independence.

1949: In Israel, the Provisional Government gave way to the first Cabinet of the new State.

1949: Moshe Sharett completed his term as Foreign Minister for the Provisional Government which had been in power since the creation of the state in May of 1948,

1949: Moshe Sharett begins serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s first elected government.

1949: Haim-Moshe Shapira replaced Yitzhak Gruenbaum as Internal Affairs Minister.

1949: Aharon Zisling completed his service as Israel’s first Minister of Agriculture.

1950: In Tel Aviv Dov Fruchtman, a teacher of literature and his wife gave birth to Nita Ben-Dov (nee Fruchtman a Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa

1950: “The Vicious Year” written by N. Richard Nash was released in the United States today.

1951: An estimated 200 million dollars’ worth of Jewish property was then taken over by the state.  "At a secret session of the Iraqi Parliament passed Law No. 5 of 1951 under which "the assets of all Jews who were leaving and had denounced Iraqi citizenship - 103,866 by that time - were frozen and put under Iraqi Government control."  This law actually was applied to the more than 123,000 Jews who had been forced to flee during the years 1948-1951. The Jews still trapped in Iran were not only stateless, they were now totally impoverished. 

1951: In Los Angeles, Albert and Ruth (Feldman) Zugsmith gave birth to real estate executive Michael Albert Zugsmith who was also a “member of real estate and construction cabinet Jewish Federation” amd a “guardian of the Jewish Home for the Aging.”

1951: After 48 performances, the curtain came down a second Broadway production of Frank Loesser’s “Where’s Charley?”

1952(13th of Adar, 5712): Fast of Esther

1952: Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president". This was Batista’s second time to serve as president.  It was during this second presidency that Meyer Lanksy negotiated the deal with Batista that gave “the mob” monopoly control over the island’s gambling operations in return for a down payment of 3 million dollars and a fifty percent cut of the profits.  (In those days, a million dollars was really worth a million dollars.)

.1952: The Jerusalem Post reported the cabinet’s decision that wages earned by Arabs in the employ of the state, municipalities and other public institutions, and the prices paid for Arab produce would be equal to those paid to the Jews. Mr. Palmon, the prime minister’s adviser on Arab affairs, stated that among Israeli Arabs the collection of income tax was practically nonexistent. They paid only a negligible property tax. The cabinet had also approved the Pensions and Rehabilitation of the Victims of the War of Independence bill.

1957(7thof Adar II, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old screenwriter and author Samuel Ornitz who was blacklisted as a member of the “Hollywood Ten” passed away today.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAornitz.htm

1959: Birthdate of Aital Selinger, the native of Haifa volleyball player who twice represented the Netherlands in the Summer Olympics.

1959: The original Broadway production of “Sweet Bird of Youth” starring Paul Newman opened today at the Martin Beck Theatre.

1960(11thof Adar, 5720): Ta’anit Esther observed for the last time during the Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower.

1961: “God Naked in the World” produced by Aaron Rosenberg was released in the United States today.

1963: Birthdate of Frederick Jay Rubin, known as Rick Rubin. Rick Rubin is one of the two guys behind legendary hip-hop label Def Jam.

1965: Neil Simon's play ''The Odd Couple'' opened on Broadway.

1966: Birthdate of actor Stephen Mailer, son of author Norman Mailer.

1967(28thof Adar I, 5727): Seventy-nine-year-old Charles Polakoff, the Russian born son of Louis and Annie Polakoff who with his father formed L. Polakoff and Company, the Buffalo based “wholesale and retail dealers in coal and ice” and raised three children – Gerson, Leah and Joseph – with his wife Rebecca Polakoff passed away today.

1970: Barbra Streisand recorded "The Singer"& "I Can Do It"

1970: The Knesset passed the "Who is a Jew?" bill which defined a Jew as one born to a Jewish mother or a convert to the Jewish religion.

1971: “Get Carter” a slick British crime film produced by Michael Klinger and photographed by Wolfgang Suschitzky.

1972: “Silent Running,” a sci-fi thriller featuring Ron Rifkin, produced by Michael Gruskoff

1973(6th of Adar II, 5733): Seventy-two year old movie director Robert Siodmak, another of those whose career in Europe was cut short by the Nazis but who managed to escape to the United States before the war, passed away today.http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/siodmak/

1974: Golda Meir formed a new government that included Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres.  The government was formed in response to a new threat from Syria and would prove to be the shortest lived government in the history of Israel.

1974: Abba Eban completed his term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s 15thgovernment and began serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s 16thgovernment.

1974: Aharon Uzan replaced Shimon Peres as Communications Ministers

1974: Yitzhak Rafael replaced Zerach Warhaftig as the head of the Ministry of Religious Services.

1974: Yehoshua Rabinovitz replaced Ze’ev Sherf as Minster of Housing and Construction.

 1974: Birthdate Keren Ann Zeidel the famous singer-song writer born at Caearea.

http://www.kerenann.com/

1977: This evening, the ambassadors of Egypt, Pakistan and Iran “along with a few D.C. officials, including the police commander Joseph O’Brien” met with the Hanifis who had seized the District Building, the headquarters of B’nai B’rith and the Islamic Center of Washington.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that US President Jimmy Carter suggested that the final Israeli borders should include only "some minor adjustments in the 1967 borders." He added, however, that it was important to recognize the difference between the "legal borders" and "defense lines" which would enable Israel to defend itself.

1978: “The Fury” a film version of the novel by the same name starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving was released in the United States today.

1979: Four terrorists were killed in Tel Aviv today.

1980: Yitzhak Shamir completed his term as 6thSpeaker of the Knesset today.

1980: Yitzhak Shamir began serving as Foreign Minister.

1980: Jean Harris murdered Doctor Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale diet doctor.

1985(17th of Adar, 5745): Forty-one-year-old David Carey, “a producer and actor in the Yiddish theatre” and “a co-founder with Raymond Ariel of the Shalom Yiddish Musical Theatre” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/david-carey-41-a-producer-and-actor-in-yiddish-theater.html

1986(29th of Adar I, 5746): Eighty-three-year-old Myron Cohen, the comedian noted for his use of dialect in his humor passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/11/obituaries/myron-cohen-dialect-comic-a-low-key-weaver-of-tales.html

1986(29th of Adar I, 5746): Ninety-five-year-old Rosh Yeshiva Yaako Kamenetsky, author of Emes leYaakov al HaShas ("Truth to Jacob") passed away.

1987: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Serge and The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, Survival by Susan Zucotti.

1987:Five authors of books with Jewish themes, published in 1986, were honored today at the Eighth Annual Present Tense/Joel H. Cavior Book Awards luncheon, sponsored by Present Tense magazine and the American Jewish Committee, and held at the committee's headquarters.  The winners were: Biography/Autobiography: Victor Perera, ''Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood'' (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Fiction: Art Spiegelman, ''Maus: A Survivor's Tale'' (Pantheon Books). History: Bernard Lewis, ''Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice'' (W. W. Norton & Company). Jewish Religious Thought: David Weiss Halivni, ''Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara: The Jewish Predilection for Justified Law'' (Harvard University Press). General Nonfiction: Lesley Hazleton, ''Jerusalem, Jerusalem'' (Atlantic Monthly Press).  Elie Wiesel was honored with a special lifetime achievement citation for his ''extraordinary efforts to rescue the Holocaust from historical and literary oblivion and to dramatize the plight of Soviet Jews and other oppressed people.

1989: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” a fantasy comedy with music by Michael Kamen was released in the United States today.

1990(13th of Adar, 5750): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1991:  Susanne J. Schwartz and Colin M. Davidson were married this evening.  The bride’s father is Richard A. Jacobs, the president of the Joseph Jacobs Organization, an advertising agency that was founded by his father the late Joseph Jacobs.

 

1992: In “Menachem Begin, Guerrilla Leader Who Became Peacemaker,” published the day after he had passed away James Feron described Menachem Begin as “the Israeli Prime Minister who made peace with Egypt” after  living much of his life in the opposition. A Jewish underground leader before Israel gained independence in 1948; he openly fought the established Zionist leadership of the struggle against British rule. Then for nearly three decades, he headed Israel's major opposition party. Ultimately and to many Israelis, surprisingly, his minority bloc ousted the Labor Party, which had governed continuously in the three decades since statehood, and Mr. Begin, as party leader, became Prime Minister. He was to govern an ever more divided and troubled nation. Mr. Begin, who led Israel from May 1977 until he resigned as Prime Minister in 1983, stretched the national mood from great pride to deep dismay. He guided the nation to a peace treaty with Egypt, the first such pact with an Arab country. But he also presided over a bitterly divisive war against Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon.” The treaty with Egypt, which brought Mr. Begin a shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with President Anwar el-Sadat, represented a high point in his political leadership while the war in Lebanon in 1982 and the stalemate that followed, with its steady toll of dead and wounded, were its low point.

1996: New York City Mayor Giuliani visited Israel.

1996(19thof Adar, 5656): Oscar nominated movie and television producer Ross Hunter passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/movies/ross-hunter-film-producer-is-dead-at-75.html

1996: Helène Aylon's “The Liberation of G-d” was shown for the first time in the New York Jewish Museum's exhibit “Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities.”  The work, which took six years to create, was made by covering every page of the five books of the Torah with transparent parchment, on which Aylon marked problematic passages with a pink pen. The marked passages were mostly those considered degrading to women, but also included negative references to homosexuality. This work was accompanied by commentary on the marked passages from a spectrum of Jewish scholars and rabbis. “Liberation” was typical of Aylon's work in combining Jewish and social justice themes.

1997: The New York Times reported that the ownership of The Chattanooga Times is being transferred from the four grandchildren of Adolph S. Ochs, who bought the paper in 1878 and remained its publisher until 1935, to his 13 great-grandchildren. The family said it did not anticipate any shift in the Tennessee newspaper's management or direction as a result of the change in ownership. ''It is part of an orderly transfer of responsibility to our children, and we make it with the utmost faith that they will sustain and enrich'' the family's commitment to the paper, said Ruth S. Holmberg, who remains the chairman of The Chattanooga Times and is one of the four current owners. In addition to Mrs. Holmberg, the other three owners are Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Marian S. Heiskell and Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger. All are in their 70's, while their children range in age from 32 to 53. The four grandchildren of Mr. Ochs are also the trustees of four trusts that own a controlling stake in The New York Times Company. Mr. Sulzberger is also the chairman of the Times Company. Although Mr. Ochs bought The New York Times in 1896, The Chattanooga Times remained separate from the Times Company.

1998(12thof Adar, 5758): Seventy-four-year Hayim David HaLevi, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi for Tel Aviv and Jaffa passed way today. A native of Jerusalem, he served in the IDF during the War for Independence before following a rabbinical career to which this blog cannot do justice.

1998: The new building of the Jewish Museum of Greece was inaugurated today.

1999: The first Australian production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” opened at the Sydney Theatre Company today.

2000: Barbra Streisand performed for the second and final time at the Sydney Football Stadium.

2001: It was reported today that Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton are “stonewalling” the FBI in its investigation into Bill’s pardon “of four convicted swindlers from an upstate Hasidic village in a scandal labeled “Pardongate” which is not to be confused with President Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich which came on the last day of his presidency following a sizable contribution to his library fund.

2002: Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence in Jerusalem.

2003: Yaakov Edri begins serving as Deputy Minister of Public Security.

2004: “A conference titled ‘Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethiopia’” which was organized by the Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem in collaboration with Ben-Zvi Institute and Tel-Aviv University “to mark the centennial day of Jacques Faitlovitch’s first trip to discover the Falashas” opened today.

2005: New York City officials today said that “President Bush is sending Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to represent the United States in Jerusalem next week for the opening of the new museum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial…”

2006: The Conservative movement decided to postpone until December 2006 making a final decision on recognizing gay marriage and allowing homosexuals to be ordained as rabbis, a move that is threatening to split the movement. The movement's Halakhic (Jewish law) committee discussed the initiative today but it was decided to delay making a final decision. One of the Conservative movement's leading rabbis in New York, who requested to remain anonymous, told Haaretz on Monday that the initiative's approval would cause broad resistance among the movement's rabbis and congregation members, and that many would leave the movement.

2007: Shabbat Parah

2007: The Tel Aviv Museum hosts a gala concert in honor of American composer Steve Reich.

2007: “John Zorn’s Masada Quartet performed one of their last concerts at Lincoln Center today.

2007: “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged Al Qaeda operative reported to be third in command under Osama bin Laden, claimed responsibility, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, for the murder of Daniel Pearl” whom he claimed to have beheaded.

2008: An exhibition styled “Lucien Freud: The Painter’s Etchings” at the Museum of Modern of Art comes to an end.

2008: A screening of a film based on Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History takes place at The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

2009: “Irena’s Vow,” starring Tovah Feldshuh opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City.

2009(14thAdar, 5769): Purim

2009(14thof Adar, 5769): One day before his 92nd birthday day New York real estate developer Aaron Gural, he NYU trained accountant and son of Meyer and Rose Guralnick passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14gural.html

2009: Sherwin B. Nuland, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and the author of The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine and the forthcoming The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, presents the inaugural Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, "Chinese Medicine, Western Science and Acupuncture," at the National Institutes of Health.

2009:Charles Zentai, an 87-year-old man accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary during World War II asked an Australian court today to prevent his extradition to Hungary and claimed the results of a lie detector test prove he had nothing to do with the death. Zentai, an Australian citizen, is listed by the U.S.-based Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center among its 10 most wanted Nazis as having participated in manhunts, persecution, and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944.

2010:The CJH, YUM, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Cardozo Law School is scheduled to present “Genocide and Responsibility to Protect" during which a panel of scholars and practitioners will discuss The Responsibility to Protect ("RtoP" or "R2P"), a new international security and human rights norm designed to address the international community's failure to prevent and stop genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

2010(24thof Adar): Thirty-eight-year-old Actor Corey Haim passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/arts/11haim.html

2010: The 121stannual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis came to a close today.

2010: “The Game Change” based on the book of the same name co-authored by Mark Halperin and featuring John Rothman had its public debut today on HBO.

2010: French premiere of “La Rafle” or “The Round Up a moved “based on the true story of a young Jewish boy living through “the mass arrest Jews by French (not German) police in Paris in 1942.

2011:The NJDC is scheduled to host a reception honoring Kenneth R. Feinberg an American attorney specializing in mediation who is currently overseeing the U.S. government’s response to claims arising from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

2011:The Israeli Opera is scheduled to host the premiere “of the tumultuous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Katerina Izmaylova), by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, directed by Yulia Pevzner, based on a version staged by Irina Molostova, a Ukrainian stage director who first directed it in a joint production of the Israeli Opera and the Kirov Opera House in 1997.”

 

2011: Ruth Ellen Gruber is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “From Persona Non Grata to the Present: An American Jewish Journalist's View of Poland's Transformation” in Washington, DC.

2011: Opening night of the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2011:The faces of four of Israel’s most celebrated poets and playwrights have been selected to appear on a new series of banknotes slated for release in the next three years, Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer announced today. Natan Alterman, Leah Goldberg, Shaul Tchernichovsky and Rachel Sela – better known as Rachel the Poetess – were selected for the list, which was finalized following more than a year of heated debate and which will now be submitted to the government for approval.

2011: In an agreement signed today, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate sold most of its leasing rights to large swaths of Jerusalem to a group of Jewish investors last week.

2011: “Today, Skopje, the capital of Macedonia — home to more than a quarter of the country’s population of 2 million — gained a new cultural artifact: the Holocaust Memorial Center of the Jews from Macedonia. A landmark in the middle of the city, the center remembers Jews lost in the Holocaust from Macedonia and from neighboring Southeast European nations.” (As reported by Katherine Clarke)

2011: Opening of the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

2012: “Camera Obscura” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth-El Jewish Film Festival in Fort Worth, TX.

2012: Alison Westermann is scheduled to make her Washington, DC debut with a perforamcne at Tifereth Israel

2012(16thof Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, anniversary of the commencement of the rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem by Agrippa I in 41 of the CE.

2012” HBO broadcast the film version of Game Change co-authored by Mark Halperin.

2012: United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the barrage of rockets fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Clinton said in a meeting with Opposition leader Tzipi Livni in New York that Israel has the right to defend itself. Livni in turn urged the international community to speak out against terrorism directed at Israel's southern communities.

2012: Due to the escalation in violence, the IDF Home Front command along with the heads of a number of local authorities in Israel’s south decided tonight to cancel school in all towns and cities located between 7km to 40km from the Gaza Strip.

2013: Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down Staircase;Rachel Cohen Gerrol, co-founder of the Nexus Global Youth Summit; and Rachel Sklar, founder of Change the Ratio are scheduled to be honored at JWA's Third Annual Making Trouble/Making History awards luncheon

2013: The Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital is scheduled to host a Purim Ball and Auction honoring Marsha Gentner and Joe Berman, Jacqueline Eyl and Leonard Chanin Mindy and Jeffrey Sosland featuring comedian Joel Chasnoff

2013: As part of Temple Judah’s 90th anniversary observance, Barb Feller will lead a trolley tour of historic Jewish cites in Cedar Rapids with Mark Hunter serving as “subject matter expert.” 

2013: “Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War” – an exhibition presented by Yeshiva University Museum and the American Jewish Historical Society opened today.

2013: In a ceremony joining together two of the nicest people in the world, Harvard grad Anna Michelle Resnick married Harvard grad Ilan Caplan who for years brought joy to the Cedar Rapids Jewish community as the High Holiday Chazan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/fashion/weddings/anna-resnick-ilan-caplan-weddings.html

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Exploring Esther: The Origins, Values and Power of Purim.”

2014: Jennifer George, Al Jaffee, Adam Gopnik and Brian Walker are scheduled to discuss “The Genius of Rube Goldberg” at the 92nd Street Y.

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Lost Souls: Retrieving Jewish War Orphans after the Holocaust.”

2014: An Israeli man was attacked with a stun gun in the Marais district” of Paris.

2014: Authorities in Stockholm reported today that The Vasa Real School which offers classes in Jewish studies and Hebrew was emblazoned with pink and blue swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, including “disgusting Jews” and the white supremacist insignia “1488” (As reported by Times of Israel)

2014: Muhammad Mafarji a Palestinain who was convicted last year of planting a bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense was sentenced to 25 years in prison today.

2014(8thof Adar II, 5774): Eighty three year old career diplomat Samuel Lewis who served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel for eight years passed away today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/03/12/839c039e-aa09-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html

2014(8thof Adar II, 5774): At the age of 111, Gisela Kohn Dollinger passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/

2014: “Dozens of rockets, boxes of hundreds thousands of bullets and nearly 200 mortar rounds will be opened for the world to see today as Israel puts weapons on show from a recently intercepted ship smuggling arms that it says exposes the “true face of Iran” which allegedly dispatched it (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)

2015: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia caters to diverse Jewish interest as it offers workshops on “Jews in Sports” and “the evolution of the Passover Seder over the last two thousand years.”

2015: Take a musical journey through Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro. Guests will listen – within the gallery, in the company of historic scale synagogue models -- to diverse musical selections inspired by the synagogues and their communities. Hosted by cellist Elad Kabilio of MusicTalks, and accompanied by clarinet and singerTake a musical journey through Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro. Guests will listen – within the gallery, in the company of historic scale synagogue models -- to diverse musical selections inspired by the synagogues and their communities. Hosted by cellist Elad Kabilio of MusicTalks, and accompanied by clarinet and singerEliad Kabilio is scheduled to take attendees on “A Musical Journey through Jewish Space” at the Center for Jewish History.

2015: Today the defense ministry released new photos from the IDF archives of the raising of the Ink Flag, a historic moment in which IDF soldiers raised a handmade Israeli flag painted with ink over the Umm Al-Rashrash police station in 1949 to mark the capture of Eilat.

2015: “An IDF officer was lightly wounded on the Golan Heights today by gunfire emanating from Syria.” (As reported by Yoav Zitun)

2015: “Herzog Emerging as Credible Challenge to Netanyahu in Israeli Race” published today provides a status report on the Israeli elections to be held in just one week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/world/middleeast/herzog-emerging-as-credible-challenge-to-netanyahu-in-israeli-race.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

2016: The19th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to start in New York City this evening.

2016: “Rosenwald” and “Fire Birds” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: Six days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held in Arlington Heights, Illinois for 66-year-old William “Bill” Farber the, VP and Senior Counsel at Fidelity Nat'l Title Co, a world-renowned energy facilitator and husband of the former Rona Rothenbaum with whom he had two children.

2016(30thof Adar I, 5776): Rosh Chodesh I, Adar II

2016(30thof Adar, I 5776): Eighty-seven-year-old Booker Prize winning author Anita Brookner passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/arts/international/anita-brookner-hotel-du-lac-obituary.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-3&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

2017: Today “twenty one people were lightly injured in Tel Aviv during the city’s annual festival for the Jewish holiday of Purim.”

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Friday night dinner during which all of those participating in “mystery matanot” reveal their identities.

2017: “A day after the Jewish Children’s Museum” in Brooklyn was evacuated due to a bomb threat, “the Jasa Senior Citizen Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn received the threat in the form of a text message at 8:45 a.m. local time.

2017: It was reported today that “a 1796 first edition of George Washington’s A Collection of the Speeches of the President of United States which includes “letters and speeches to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island” is scheduled to be sold at auction next week.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/unread-copy-of-16th-century-multilingual-psalms-loathed-by-columbuss-son-up-for-auction/

2017: In Paris, the symposium on “The Holocaust in Ukraine. New Perspectives on the Evils of the 20th Century” is scheduled to continue for a second day.

2018(23rdof Adar, 5778): Finish the book of Exodus with Vayakhel and Pekuday; Shabbat Parah;

2018: “Bar Bahar” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at Jackson Hole Jewish Community Center in the Centennial Building.

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its last Shabbat observance of the term.

2018: The 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “Classic Move Night: Greek Sephardim in the Holocaust.”

2019: In Atlanta, GA, as “part of the 2019 Molly Blank Concert Series Celebrating Jewish Contributions to Music,” the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “Salute to Hollywood: Jewish Contributions to Academy Awards Best Original Songs.”

2019: “Henry Goodman, Nicholas Hytner, Jason Isaacs, Brian Leveson, Emily Maitlis, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jay Rayner, Philippe Sands, Janet Suzman and Zoe Wanamaker, are scheduled to read poems, letters and speeches, stretching from the beginnings of Jewish history, right up to the present day” this evening as part of “Jewish Voices,” “the grand finale of Jewish Book Week 2019” co-sponsored by World Jewish Relief

2019: The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present “Al Naharot Bavel (By the Waters of Babylon): during which “NYC ensembles ARTEK and PARTHENIA offer a concert of music by Jewish composers of the Renaissance and early baroque, in Italy and England.”

2019: Norman Ornststein, the former CBS election analyst and “resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institue” is scheduled to present “One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet-Deported” at the JCC of Northern Virginia.

2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York premiere of “From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza” directed by Michelle Paymar.

2020(14thof Adar, 5780): Purim;

2020: This morning, The London School for Jewish Studies is scheduled to host a “the Women’s Megilla Reading which is going to be a real highlight of Purim day.

2020: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to co-host a screening of “Tales of Teleki Square,” “the award-winning film about the rejuvenation of the Jewish Community of Budapest.”
2020: In Brisbane, CA, the 7 Mile House is scheduled to host “Klezmer Jam” featuring the Five-piece band KlezNu performing a fusion of klezmer and modern jazz.”

2020: Chabad of Arkansas under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is scheduled to host a “Royyal Purim Feast and Masquerade Party” complete with a multimedia Megilla reading.

2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present Columbia U. professor Claudio Lomnitz as he talks about Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation his book about the history of Jews who fled Europe for South America, including his family.

2021: UCSF Center for BRCA research co-director Pamela Munster and John Muir Health genetic counselor Josh Barnhart are scheduled to lead a panel on the latest in genetic testing, the impact of inherited genes and cancer prevention.

2021: 18Doors Boston is scheduled to present online “Let’s Bayit: Home Buying & Building a Jew(ish) Home.

2021: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews,” part of the New Works Wednesdays program.

2021: “STANDWITHUS” is scheduled to present online “The Neo-Nazi Who Converted to Judaism: A Conversation With Yonatan Langer.”

2021: AJC and the Stephen Wise Temple are scheduled to present state Assembly member Sydney Kamlager-Dove, JFCS director Anita Friedman and an L.A. school district board member talking about why an inclusive curriculum model benefits everyone.

2021: The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to present “Building a More Just World Through Philanthropy” with philanthropy strategy pioneer Judith Rodin.

2021: The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies’ annual Robbins Collection Lecture is scheduled to be delivered by Berkeley Law professor Kenneth Bamberger and Stanford religious studies professor Ariel Evan Mayse who discuss surveillance, privacy and dignity in the tech age.

2021: Israelis may be getting their KP cookbooks today following yesterday’s statement by Dr. Sharon Elroy-Preis that Israelis may be able to have a "normal" Passover later this month if the public adheres to coronavirus restrictions…” (As reported by Adir Yanko)

 

 

 


This Day, March 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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 222: Severus Alexander began his reign as Roman Emperor during which a table in Intercisa (Hungary) was inscribed as follows: “To the Eternal God! For the salvation of our Lord; the pious, felicitous Emperor Severus Alexander and the Empress Julia Mamea, mother of the Emperor; Cosmius, chief of the Spondilla customhouse, head of the synagogue of the Jews, gladly fulfills his vow.” (Raphael Patai)

1344: In Speyer, a year after the Jews had been the victims of an Easter Time blood libel the citizens “requested the king's permission to confiscate the houses of these Jews for the benefit of the city” – a request which was granted

1415: Pope Benedict XIII banned the study of the Talmud in any form and tried to restrict Jewish life completely. The town of Tortosa, Spain, was the scene of a disputation between Christians and Jews from 1412 through 1414.  These disputations were always rigged so that the Christians would win.  The Pope (or as he described by some the anti-Pope) was enraged by the lack of conversions which was the cause of the ban.

1513:  Leo X elected Pope.  Leo X succeeded Julius II, the Pope who paid for the painting of the Sistine Chapel.  “To Martin Luther, Leo was the functioning head of a “kingdom of Antichrist.’”  Even his admirers might say that Leo was more a man of the Renaissance than a Vicar of Christ.  He respected learning, even when that learning was Jewish.  In a dispute concerning the Talmud, Leo took the side of Johann Reuchlin one of the Christian scholars who could read Hebrew.  He defended the Talmud, saying that it did blaspheme Jesus or Christianity.  Despite the pressure on him to burn the Talmud to the opposed tact and had a Christian printer produced the text in its entirety, without censorship.  Leo banned the requirement of the Jew Badge in his French possessions and refused to enforce it in his Italian holdings. 

1640: Today, after his brother had had his hand chopped before being burned at the stake and following “week of bands of Old Christians rioting against New Christians ( many of whom were Jews forced to converts, the Franciscan friar Henrique Solis left Portugal bound for Amsterdam where he “took the name Eleazar” and remained a leading member of Dutch Jewry until 1656.

1638(25th of Adar I, 5398): Simon Auerbach, the son of Rabbi Meshullam Solomon Fischhof-Auerbach and his wife Miriam Lucerna and the bother of Rabbi Menahem Mendel Auerbach, “who at the age of twenty-three wrote a penitential poem on the occasion of epidemic that broke out among children in Vienna in 1634,” passed away today at Eibenschütz

1670: Birthdate of John Toland, Anglo-Irish author and philosopher who in 1714, at a time when Jews were still considered to be outsiders by many Englishman, wrote “Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews” in which he advocated “full citizenship and equal rights for the Jewish people

1704: Clement XI issued “Propagandae Per Unicersum,” a Papal Bull that “confirmed all the benefits given to converts under Paul II and expanded them to include giving them the rights over properties owned by non-converted members of the their families.” (As reported by jewishhisotry.org)

1739: In Bordeaux, France, Sara and David Nones gave birth to Mardochee Nones.

1762: Although Rhode Island was considered more liberal than other states, and although a few Jews had been previously granted citizenship, the state refused to grant citizenship to Aaron Lopez and Isaac Eliezer. The court stated that “no person who is not of the Christian religion can be admitted free of this colony.” Lopez was granted citizenship by Massachusetts, and the sentence “upon the true faith of a Christian” was excluded from the oath. Lopez was probably the first Jew to be granted citizenship in Massachusetts.

1763: Birthdate of Baruch Schottlander who gained fame as Benedict Schott, the itinerant teacher who served as a “tutor in the house of Herz Beer, the father of composer Jacob Mayerbeer and as an author who petitioned Napoleon on the matter of improved education.

1770: In Birtsmorton Court, Malvern, Worcestershire, William and Elizabeth Huskisson, gave birth to one of four sons, MP William Huskisson who supported toward full emancipation of the Jews and in 1830 “presented a petition signed 2,000 merchants from Liverpool” calling for the removal of all civil disablilites.

1774: Birthdate of Laupheim, Germnay native Helene Essinger, the wife os Samuel Gronum Wallersteiner with whom she had six children.

1777: In Amsteram, Jonah Jones and his wife gave birth to Andrew Abner Jones, who first married New York native Miriam Marks with whom he had three children and then married Rebecca Jones, the mother of Sarah Rebecca Jones.

1778: Birthdate of “Yitlah” Hays, the daughter of David Hays.

1785: Spanishtown, Jamaica, native Abraham Rodrigues De Leon and his wife gave birth to Esther De Leon.

1787(21st of Adar): Rabbi Elimelekh of Lizhansk, author of Noam Elimelekh, a commentary on the Torah, passed away today. He was the brother of Rabbi Zušya, of Hanipol (one of my favorite Chassidim) and a student of the Maggid of Mezeritch the successor to the Baal Shem tov.

1794: In Mt. Pleasant, NY, Jochabed Isaacks and Michael Marks gave birth to Samson Marks.

1796: New York native Moses Myers and Eliza Judah gave birth to Frederick Myers.

1800(14th of Adar, 5560): First Purim of the 19th century

1801: Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne. Paul’s death was no loss to the Jews of Russia. At the time of his death, Paul was preparing to implement the recommendations contained in a report entitled, “An Opinion on How to Avert the Scarcity of Food in White Russia Through the Curbing of the Jews’ Avaricious Occupations, Their Reformation and Other Matters.”  Alexander began his reign by adopting a series of policies that were designed to further degrade and impoverish the Jews.  As the threat of Napoleon loomed on the horizon, Paul’s policies towards the Jews softened and improved.  The first Lubavitcher Rebbe urged Jews to support Alexander in the fight against Napoleon.  After the Napoleonic threat disappeared Alexander’s treatment of the Jews became increasingly less sympathetic.  By the time of his death, he had returned to the reactionary views that had marked the start of his reign. 

1807: Birthdate of Arnaud Aron, the German trained Talmudist who served as a rabbi in Hegenheim before becoming the Chief Rabbi of Strasburg in his native Alsace.

https://opensiddur.org/profile/arnaud-aron/

 1810: One day after she had passed away, 74-year-old Hannah Emdin, “the widow of Gumpel Emdin” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1812: Prussian Jews were granted civil rights. The price of citizenship included the adoption of family names in the Western style. Although later reaction revoked most of this freedom, the discrimination never returned to the level existing in the "Middle Ages." That is, until the rise of Hitler.

1816: One day after she had passed away, Frances Jacobs, the wife of Lieb Jacobs was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1824(11thof Adar II, 5584) Fast of Esther observed because 13th Adar fell on Shabbat.

1827: Birthdate of Moritz Ellstätter the native of Karlsruhe and “son of a Jewish furniture trader who served as minster in the government of Baden.

1827: Two days after he passed away, 20-year-old Solomon Marks, the son of Gedaliah and Catherine Marks was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1829: James Graham Lewis married Harriet Davis today at the Great Synagogue.

1831: Birthdate of Adolf Neubaur, the native of Hungary and student of rabbinical literature who worked in the Austrian Consulate at Jerusalem where he began publishing articles about the Jews of that city. Eventually he made his way to Oxford where he enjoyed a distinguished career as a reader in Rabbinic Hebrew and sub-librarian at Bodelian Library. Besides his extensive cataloguing work, this unsung intellectual hero edited the Aramic text of the Book of Tobit and discovered a Hebrew fragment of the wisdom text of “Ben Sira.”

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11456-neubauer-adolf

http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/notable-jews/modern-period/204-adolf-neubauer-1831-1901

1833: In Amsterdam, Aron Mendes Chumaceiro, who served as the “chakam of Curacao in the Dutch West Indies” and his wife gave birth to Jacob Mendes Chumaceiro who “was inspector of the Jewish schools of Amsterdam, head and librarian of the bet ha-midrash Ets Haim, and editor of Het Israelietisch Weekblad.”

1838: Birthdate of Leo Blumenstock von Halban, native of Cracow, the Austrian trained physician who became “chair of forensic medicine in 1881.”

1838: Abraham Marks married Phoebe Simmons at the Great Synagogue today.

1841: In Venice, birthdate of Luigi Luzzatti who “served as the 31st Prime Minister of Italy between 1910 1911; making him the second Jew to hold this position.

1843: Birthdate of Borsborn Germany native Karl Abraham.

1852: In “Benjamin Disraeli” published today described the various views, most of them negative, on the appointed of Disraeli to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer.  Much of the criticism was based on Disraeli’s career as the author of several novels.  Apparently being a man of letters should have disqualified him for such a post.  According to the author of the article, Disraeli’s literary background gives him unique qualifications for public life.  Besides which, he was the most capable member of his party serving in the House Commons where the Conservatives were in need of leaders.

1852: Joel ben Alexander married Ziporah bat Joseph at the Great Synagogue today.  

1853(1stof Adar II, 5613): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1853: The Jewish Disabilities Bill came up in the House of Commons for a second reading. Mr. Ernal Osborne argued “that religious liberty was violated in the exclusion of Jews from Parliament and thought the question not one of Jewish disabilities, but of the right of Christians to be represented by whom they pleased.”  Several Members of Parliament “totally opposed the bill on Christian grounds.”

1853(1stof Adar II, 5613): Sixty-eight-year-old Pinchas Selig Rubino passed away.

1853: Dr. Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore, the Brighton born son of Henriette and Sir Abraham Montefiore and his wife Emma gave birth to Charlotte Rosaline Montefiore who became Charlotte Rosalind McIver when she married Sir Lewis McIver, the “first and last baronet of Sarisbury.”

1855: In Kensington, Middlesex, England, Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore, the Sussex born son of Henriette and Sir Abraham Montefiore, and his wife Emma Montefiore gave birth to Charlotte Rosalind Montefiore who became Charlotte Rosalind McIver when she married Sir Lewis McIver, the Baronet of Sarisbury.

1857: Moritz Jacobi of Florence, SC married Charlotte Phillips at Timmonsville, SC.

1857: Moss Emanuel married Fanny Cohen today at the Great Synagogue.

1861: In Bakau, Romania, Leib Ehrlich and Sarah Kaufman gave birth to Joseph Ehrlich the multi-lingual fresco painter who “came to the United States in June of 1889, where he eventually became the United States Immigrant Inspector at the port of Philadelphia while serving as the secretary of the Hebrew Literature Society and as the director of a Chevra Kadisha in the City of Brotherly Love.

1861: Birthdate of S. Kutner, the native of Poland who became Director of the Jews’ Deaf and Dumb Home in 1894 where his wife served as a matron and who authored several books including Kutner’s Aid to Solid Geometry.

1865(13thof Adar, 5625): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim

1865: Corporal Jacob Kaufman began his service with Company A of the 101stRegiment.

1872(1stof Adar II, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1872: In Cornwell, England, Jemima Ridpath, and her husband George Cornwell gave birth to Kathleen Calrice Louise Cornwell, known as the author K.C. Groom who was the second wife of Herman Klein, the son of Anglo-Jewish Latvian immigrants with she had three children – Adrian, Daryl and Denise – two of whom followed in her literary footsteps.

1873: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Dr.Walter Edward Wyle, the University of Pennsylvania trained economist and author.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Weyl%2C%20Walter%20E.%20(Walter%20Edward)%2C%201873-1919

1873: In a letter written today, W. Archdall O’Doherty stated that it was a year ago to the day that he had delivered “control of the Erie Railway to a little London Jew of the name of Bischsoffsheim.” The letter continues with his explanation of the financial machinations that the new owners have engaged in since the sale. [Editor’s Note – The reference is to Bischoffsehim and Goldschmidt, British bankers, who were the leaders of a group of English shareholders seeking to oust Jay Gould from his controlling position of the railroad which he was ruining for his personal financial gain.  Gould was one of the villains of the Robber Baron Era.  The letter was written by a shadowy figure whose role was emerging during the multiple investigations that were being conducted.  His resort to an anti-Semitic smear was not unusual in certain circles at that time.

 1874(22nd of Adar, 5634): Sixty-nine-year-old James Bondi, a native of Dresden who came to the United States where he served as rabbi of “the Norfolk Street Synagogue” in New York and proprietor/editor of The Hebrew Leader.

1876: It was reported today that the Purim Ball which has been held for several years at the Academy of Music did not take place this year.  No reason was given for the change which came as a surprise because it was so popular with both Christian and Jewish citizens of New York.

1883: Hermann Ullman, the Czech born son of Rabbi Benjamin Ullman and Teresia Ester Ullmann and his wife, Bertha Ullman gave birth to Hugo Ullmann

1884(14thof Adar, 5644): Purim

1884(14thof Adar, 5644): Seventy-three-year-old Levi Herzfeld the historian and rabbi who, while personally strictly Orthodox, favored “moderate” reforms passed away at Brunswick, Germany

1886: In Chicago, Rabbis Lesser, Anexter and Oalperstein officiated at the appraisal of four casks of wine and liquor shipped from Jerusalem for using during the upcoming holiday of Passover.  According to the appraiser, the wine will carry a duty of three dollars a gallon.  The wine looks liked “ordinary Rhine wine and tastes like hard cider.”  After the Appraiser finished his work, the religious leaders sealed the casks and recited the appropriate prayers over them.

1887: In South Carolina, Rabbi Rubin officiated at the marriage of Harris Frank and Sarah C. Isear.

1889: U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine took up the case of Herman Kempinski a Russian born American citizen who had been imprisoned by the Czar’s government went he returned to his native land on a business trip.

1890: Birthdate Albert Lorch “Al” Loeb who played Center for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team in Atlanta, GA “where he was nicknamed ‘The Yiddish Wildcat’”

1890: “Found Dead In A Cellar” published today described the events surrounding the discovery of a female corpse in a building that is used as a dry goods store by Moses Levy on the ground floor and as a school by Aitz Chaim, a Talmud Torah occupying the second and third floors under the direction of Isaac Libermann and Hermann Rothstein.

1891: Ignatz Klein swore before Coroner Levy that a girl that he had seen the United States named Rose Kohlmeyer was in fact Esther Soloymis, the girl he was accused of murdering nine years ago in Hungary as part of an alleged blood libel.

1892: Authorities are investigating reports of patient neglect at North Brothers Island, the site where numerous typhus fever, many of whom are Russian Jewish immigrants, are supposed to be held until they regain their health or pass away.

1892(12th of Adar, 5652): Sixty-two-year-old Mason Hirsh, an umbrella manufacturer from Philadelphia, passed away today New York after being hit by a car two days ago.  He was the Treasurer of the United Hebrew Charities of Philadelphia.

1894: “The Treaty in the Reichstag” published today described the debate taking place in the German parliament over the adoption of a Russian-German Commercial Treaty; a debate filled with ant-Semitism. Baron von Hammerstein and Lieberman von Sonnenberg called the treaty “monstrous” because it would allow Russian Jews to enjoy all the privileges of Germans while avoiding military service.  They “warned the government that these Russian Jews would inevitably overrun and monopolize entire villages and absorbed the prosperity of the provinces.

1895: In Knoxville, TN, attorney Louis Alexander Gratz, the son of Salomon and Henrietta Gratz, who was a Major in the Union Army serving with the Army of the Cumberland and fighting at the Battle of Chickamauga with the 6th Kentucky Cavalry and the Mayor of North Knoxville and his wife Marion gave birth John Fisher Gratz who rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army

1896: Herzl meets Reverend William Hechler chaplain to the British Embassy in Vienna. Hechler was tutor in the household of the Grossherzog von Baden. He knows the German Kaiser and thinks he can get Herzl an audience.

1897: Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Benevolent Orphan Asylum, the Montefiore Home, the Home for Aged and Hebrews are each to receive bequests of three thousand dollars from the late Simon Goldenberg. The United Hebrew Charities and the Hebrew Technical Institute each will receive bequests of five thousand dollars.

1897(7th of Adar II, 5657): Seventy-seven-year-old lexicographer Daniel Sanders who “published a translation in verse of the Song of Songs in 1866” passed away today in Strelitz, Germany.

1899: “Africa” published today provides a review of The Redemption of Africa in which Frederic Perry Noble includes a description of the impact of Abraham’s journey to Egypt on the continent’s religious and social development.

1899: “The Best of Histories” published today listed 143 works that should be purchased by anybody forming a historical library including The Story of the Jews by J.K. Hosmer and The History of the Jews by Josephus Falvius translated by William Whiston

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Story_of_the_Jews_ancient_Mediaeval.html?id=rlxmnQEACAAJ

http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/

1900: In Konitz, West Prussia, 19-year-old Ermst Winter, the son of an architect from Prechlau who going to school in Konitz did not return to his boarding house.  It was assumed that he had fallen through the ice and a search was begun.  Unbeknownst to everybody, including the Jews of Konitz, this would mark the start of Konitz Affair, a 20thcentury blood libel.

1900: It was reported today that Australian born, English author Joseph Jacobs has come to the United States “to assist in the work of preparing the Jewish Encyclopedia which will be a complete collection of everything relating to the Jewish race, its religion, its customs and its history” which has the support of “almost every Jewish scholar of note in American, England and continental Europe.

1901: It was reported today that Reverend Robert S. MacArthur, the Christian evangilists plans on having two rabbis attend the upcoming meeting that will include Andrew Carnegie Wu Ting-Fang, “the Chinese minister.

1901: Bloomingdale’s advertised that its “Show Days of Spring Millinery” would being “informally today.

1902: Twenty-eight-year-old Israel Strauss, the Brown University undergraduate and Columbia University trained neurologist who was the Pawtucket, RI born son of Alexander and Hannah Strauss married Hilda Newborg today.

1903: Zionist leader Oskar Marmorek returns to Vienna.  While few may know his name today, the Austrian born architect was an early convert to Zionism joining Max Nordau and David Wolffsohn as one of Herzl’s key supporters.

1903: In New York, Mortimer Schiff and Adele (Neustadt) Schiff gave birth to Dorothy Schiff who “was an owner and publisher of the New York Post for nearly 40 years.”

1904: Birthdate of leading childhood obesity and anorexia researcher Hilde Bruch. Raised in a small German town, Bruch originally wanted to become a mathematician. An uncle convinced her that medicine was a more practical career for a Jewish woman, and she earned her doctorate in medicine at the University of Freiburg in 1929. After giving up her academic career for private practice in response to anti-Semitism within the university, Bruch fled Germany altogether in 1933, immigrating to England. After a year in London, she moved to the United States, where she began working at Babies Hospital in New York City. Bruch began researching obesity in children in 1937; her work in this area would prove to be groundbreaking. Yet she left this research in 1941 to study psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University. Returning to New York in 1943, she both established a private psychoanalytic practice and joined the faculty at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In New York, and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where she joined the faculty in 1964, Bruch's research increasingly focused on the underlying causes of anorexia nervosa. She published both scholarly and popular articles on eating disorders and continued to see patients until her eightieth birthday. Her collected work, published as Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa and the Person Within in 1973, is still considered a definitive work on the subject. Bruch died in Houston in December of 1984.

1904: It was reported today that in Russia, Jewish doctors, who represent a disproportionate number of the Physicians drafted to serve “in the East” receive nine hundred rubles for traveling expenses while their Christian counterparts receive 1,250 rubles for travel expenses.

1905: In Berlin, “a group of Jews here issued a statement this evening drawing attention to the inauguration of a new period of persecution of Jews in Russia and alleging that Russian anti-Semites, are making a systematic attempt to arrange a repetition of the Kishineff massacre.”

1906(14th of Adar, 5666): Purim

1906: In “Most Interesting Educational Experiment In New York” published today described efforts of Miss Olive M. Jones and Miss Julia Richman to educate the children of Russian Jewish immigrants.

1906: During a service held today in the Alexandrovsky Monastery sponsored by the League of the Russian People, “the orators openly summoned their followers, the ‘Black Hundreds’ to kill the Jews…”

1906: The West End Synagogue is scheduled to host “an entertainment for the Sunday School in the synagogue at Amsterdam and 82nd Street.

1906: This afternoon the Hebrew and Sunday School of Congregation Beth Israel Biku Cholim are scheduled to host a Purim celebration at Lexington Avenue and 72nd Street.

1906: The Jewish Endeavor Society is scheduled to host a Purim celebration this afternoon for 150 religious school students.

1906: “The Young Men’s and Young Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Consumptives’ Sanitarium in Denver, Colorado” is scheduled to host a bazaar and Purim Ball tonight at the Grand Central Palace.

1906: In a column entitled “Talk With Josef Lhevinne,” the Jewish pianist who is visiting the United States discussed a wide range of topics including the impact of Anton Rubinstein on his career, his love and admiration for America and his disappointment that he will not be able to go fishing while in this country.  “Fishing is favorite diversion, aside from tennis which he plays constantly to keep down his weight and to diversion to the muscles of his arms.”

1907(25th of Adar, 5667): Seventy-four-year-old Prussian born Kentucky attorney and uncle of Justice Louis Brandies, Lewis Naphtali Dembitz who was one of those who placed Lincoln’s nomination in at the Republican Convention in 1860 and was an early supporter of the Zionist movement passed away today in Louisville.

1908(8th of Adar II):  Hebrew novelist Isaiah Bersadsky passed away

1909: Birthdate of Jules Engel “a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher.”

1909: Birthdate of Sidney “Sid” Goldin the Georgia Tech basketball player who won a Bronze Star while serving in the United States Navy during WW II and worked for Shell Oil for 40 years.

1910: Birthdate of physicist Henry Solomon Lipson, the native of Liverpool who “was the co-inventor of the Beevers-Lipson Strip, a calculating device in crystallography.

1911(11th of Adar, 5671): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor

1911: Birthdate of Haim Cohen, the Lübeck, born Israeli legal scholar and jurist who wrote The Trial and Death of Jesusin 1968 in which he argued that it was the Romans, not the Sanhedrin, who tried and executed Jesus.

1912: “Seek Work for the Deaf” published today described the organization of “a new Jewish charitable society…to be known as ‘The New York Jewish Committee for Deaf” the purpose of which “is to furnish industrial education and obtain work for the unemployed Jewish deaf persons in New York” who, accored to Rabbi Barnett A. Elzas number between 1,800 and 2,000.”

1913(2nd of Adar II, 5673): Forty-two-year-old Chicagoan Victor B Strelitz, a member of the firm of Strelitz Brothers and the husband of Sarah Strelitz passed away “suddenly in New York City” today.

1913: The funeral of Pauline Phillips, the wife of Herman Philips is scheduled to take place today followed by burial at Waldheim Cemetery.

1914(13th of Adar, 5674): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1914: This afternoon fifty members of the I.W.W.’s Army of the Unemployed “gathered at the doors of the Stulz-Inzer Synagogue and demanded that they be provided with supper, shelter for the night, breakfast and a meeting with the Joseph Finkelstein, the president of the congregation who sent word that he would meet with them after he and his 300 co-religionist had finished with a service that was undoubtedly tied to the Fast of Esther and who would have gladly feed them if they had shown patience instead of acting in such an unruly fashion that the police had to be called to disperse the demonstration.

1915: The Red Cross Fund which Jacob Schiff serves as Treasurer now totals $467,779.75.

1915(25th of Adar, 5675): Eighty-four-year-old Leopold Caspari, a French-born businessman and politician from Natchitoches, Louisiana who in 1884 while serving as state representative pushed for the establishment of Northwestern State University.

1915: It was reported today that more than $200,000 has been sent to aid Jews in Russia suffering from the effects of the Great War while another $150,000 has been by American Jews to aid their co-religionists “to that part of Poland now held by the Germans.”

1916: Today, “in a telegram to the Russian and French ambassadors” Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Minister, “put forward a proposal that the Allies together issue a public declaration supporting Jewish aspirations in Palestine” which was one step along the path to issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917

1916: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Brill who moved to Chicago from Cincinnati to live with their daughter Mrs. Samuel Hoffman celebrated their golden wedding this evening at the Metropole Hotel.

1916: The New York Warheit published an interview city editor Isaac Gonickman conducted with Jacob H. Schiff where the leading member of the American Jewish Committee expressed concerns about the upcoming congress to be held in Philadelphia of the danger presented by Zionists who might attend and because of a “possible loss of the respect and good-will which have shown to so great an extent” to the Jewish people.

1916(6th Adar II, 5676): Parshat Vayikra

1916(6th Adar II, 5676): Samuel Dalkowitz a merchant, passed away today in San Antonio, TX.

1917: In Manhattan, services are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at Beth-El Temple where the sermon will be on “Priest, Prophet and Mystic.”

1917: In Manhattan, Mayer and Rose Guarlnick gave birth to Aaron Gurlanick, who gained fame as Aaron Gural, the NYU trained accountant who went from meter-reader to real estate tycoon, who married Marion Kat after his first wife Harriet Feil passed away and was the father of Jeffrey, Jane and Barbara Gural.

1917: At the Free Synagogue meeting in Carnegie Hall, Dr. Herbert S. Bigelow is scheduled to preach on “What Shall We Do With Our Millionaires!”

1917: In New York Dr. Silverman will deliver a sermon at Temple Emanu-El on “What the World Should Know About the Idealism of the Jews.”

1917: During World War I Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude. Those welcoming the British included, “red-fezzed oriental Jews in misfit European clothing…” Baghdad was part of the Ottoman Empire.  According to General Maud, Jews, not Moslems, made up the majority of the city’s population.  Maude probably overstated the actual number of Jews.  But he did not overstate the economic role the Jewish population played in an area that children of Israel had lived in since the days of the Babylonian exile. According to Martin Gilbert, for several years afterwards, their arrival was celebrated by the Jews of Baghdad as "a day of miracles."

1918: Mrs. Felix Warburg opened her home on New York’s Fifth Avenue, for a reading by Miss Jenny Mannheimer which was intended to be fundraiser for the War Relief Fund.

1919: Grigori Yakovlovich Sokolnikov began serving as a “full member of the ‘the 7th Bureau and the 7th Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party.’”

1920: Birthdate of Transylvania native and Harvard trained attorney Benjamin “Ben” Berell Ferencz, the WWII Army Veteran and husband of Gertrude Ferencz who was “the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 military trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany.”

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center/work/ferencz-international-justice-initiative/benjamin-ferencz

1921: The British C-I-C for Palestine quashed all military proceedings against Jabotinsky and 19 of his comrades for what came to be seen as self-defense measures taking during the Arab riots in Jerusalem.

1921: Birthdate of Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Meynard who gained famed as Elisabeth Maxwell, the wife of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell.

1922(11th of Adar, 5682): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor

1922(11th of Adar, 5682): Pauline Morpurgo, the wife of David Leopold passed away today in Vienna.

1922: Bernard Baruch and Henry Morgenthau were among those who pledged to raise $100,000 for the Woodrow Wilson fund of $1,000,000 which is to be used in the establishment of annual prizes for meritorious public service.

1923: Thirty-eight-year-old Columbia trained attorney and resident of Bayonne, NJ, Aaron Melniker, the Odessa born son of Julius and Henrietta (Katz) Melkiner who was a combat veteran of the A.E.F and Republican Party Leader married Gladys Witt today.

1923(23rd of Adar, 5683): Seventy-four-year-old Hungarian born and Viennese trained doctor Arpad G. Gerster a surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital as well as a Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia while writing such books as Recollections of a New York Surgeon while raising a son with his wife, the former “Anna Barnard Wynne of Cincinnati”, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/03/12/105988329.pdf

1924: Today, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the head of the Zionist World Organization, spoke at luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton arranged by Herman Bernstein, the editor of The Jewish Tribune, where he told “a group of New York journalists, “that in the future the might be of inestimable value in reclaiming the desert and the waste lands of the Near East in cooperation with the Arabs” and that the land was “capable of absorbing 2,000 immigrants a month” which is double the number now being allowed to settle there.

1925: It was announced today that Rabbi Alexander Basel will be in charge of the upcoming drive to liquidate “the funded debt” connect with the newly dedicated Jacob Schiff Center in the Bronx.

1926: The Jewish Agricultural Society issued a report today compiled by Gabriel Davidson, the general manager of the society that showed that during the last 25 years, “the Jewish farm population in the United Sates has grown from one thousand to seventy-thousand” with Jews farming “approximately one million acres.”

1926: “An announcement was made today by Felix M. Warburg, the honorary Chairman of the $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of New York, of a contribution of $30,000 from Louis D. Beaumont, the American banker and philanthropist.

1927: Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel opened the theatre that bears his name – Roxy Theater- in New York City.  Six years later he would open an even more famous venue – Radio City Music Hall – that feature the “Roxyettes” who were later known as the “Rocketts.”  (And you thought those leggy gals were named after a missile.)

1928: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and State Supreme Court Justice Louis E. Gibbs were the speakers at tonight’s dinner at the Concourse-Plaza Hotel which kicked the drive to raise $150,000 which is the amount the Bronx has been assessed by the United Palestine Appeal.

1929: Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Toole, who while Governor of Montana laid the cornerstone for Temple Emanu-El in Helena passed away today.

1929: After recording exclusively for Columbia since July of 1923, violinist and conductor Leo Reisman signed a contract to record with Victor (RCA Victor)

1929: As the world of movies entered the era of “the talkies” “Asphalt” – one of the last silent films directed by Joe May – was released in Germany.

1929: A year before moving up to the Light Heavyweight Division, twenty-two-year-old Abie Bain won his third straight lightweight bout each of which ended with knocking out his opponent in the first round.

1931: Birthdate of media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch’s mother was Jewish.

1931: A bridge party and Spring fashion show” is scheduled to”begvein aboard the liner Conte Grande this afternoon “ by the Women’s Division of the American Pro-Falasha Committee of which Mrs. David E. Goldfarb is chairman.

1932: In the UK, Joan Elisa Davis and commodity-trader Ralph Lawson, the son of Gustav Leibson, gave birth to Nigel Lawson, the Conservative Party leader and journalist who would become the Lord Lawson of Blaby

1932: At NYC City Hall, Mayor Jimmy Walker met with 10 of 13 of the athletes who will be participating in the Jewish Olympics before they set sail this evening on SS Majestic. The mayor praised the group saying that the co-ed cohort of athletes would bring honor and glory to the United States and New York City.

1933: In New Orleans, LA, Isadore Rosen, a dentist and Anna Rosen gave birth to Benjamin “Ben” M. Rosen the Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer of Compaq Computer Corporation and “co-founder of the Sevin Rosen Funds” who was the husband of Donna Perret Rosen.

http://ethw.org/Benjamin_M._Rosen

1933: Jewish-owned department stores in Braunsshweig were looted.

1933: Florence and Aaron Zacks gave birth to Gordon Zacks who became Chairman of the Board of R.G. Barry Corporation in 1979.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/03/gordon-zacks-obit-compassionate-businessman-friend-to-israel.html

1936(17th of Adar, 5696): Seventy-one year old Russian born New York realtor, Zionist and philanthropist Morris Polsky passed away today.

1936: “The Federation of Polish Jews in America made public tonight a telegram to the Polish Ambassador at Washington that charged local authorities of Przytyk, Poland, with collusion in anti-Semtic riots there and demanded that the officials involved be punished.”

1936: “The ant-Semitism in some countries of Europe is due to the efforts of the ruling groups to conceal from the masses their failure to cope with critical economic conditions, Soviet Ambassador Alexander A Troyanovsky.”  (Editor’s note – It would be interesting to hear his explanation for anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.)

1937: As Arab violence continued to mount, The Palestine Post reported that armed Arabs attacked Jews who plowing fields near Afula.  Two Kfar Tavor farmers, Jacob Kizler and Shlomo Rothenstein, were seriously injured during the attack by armed. Stanislav Sluga, the 46-year-old Pole who was shot in a Ness Ziona orange grove, died after being taken to the hospital. Dogs tracked his alleged Arab assailant.

1937: In Berlin, the Ministry of the Interior announced plans for “a further intensification of the anti-Jewish boycott in Germany”

1937(28thof Adar, 5697): Moscow born theatre director turn movie director Alexis Granowsky (Abraham Azarkh) who moved from the Soviet Union to the Weimar Republic after the Russian Revolution and whose works included “Jewish Happiness” and “Taras Bulba” passed away today.

https://letterboxd.com/director/alexis-granowsky/

https://cy.wn.com/alexis_granowsky

1938: Birthdate of Petr Klager who was deported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow where he was murdered.

1938: The German army entered Vienna. Austrian Jews were instantly deprived of all civil rights. Physical and mental oppression of Austrian Jews began and Austria ceased to exist as in independent state.

1938: Birthdate of Joseph Kaplan, the native New Yorker who gained fame as song and jingle writer Joseph Brooks whose works include “You’ve Got a Lot to Live” for Pepsi and “Good to the Last Drop Feeling” for Maxwell House coffee the producer of the famous Passover hagadah.

1938:  As the prowess of Szapsel Rotholc continued to grow, “the Idishe Bilder newspaper ran a front-page headline proclaiming "Our Szapsel, the boxing hero." The article went on to point out that Szapsel  the Yiddish version of the Hebrew name Shabtai, means sheep, but his army of fans saw him as a far more dangerous animal. "Who would ever have imagined," the correspondent waxed, "that the Jewish people, the People of the Book, would take the sport of boxing to their hearts? After all, Jews - who are, by their very nature, gentle souls - have never been thought capable of such things." The article went on to describe Rothholc as "our jewel, who made the Germans eat dirt."

1939(20th of Adar, 5699): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1939: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Seeing God in Retrospect” this morning at Temple Emanu-El.

1939: Rabbi Nathan Stern is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Living on the Heights” this morning at West End Synagogue.

1939: Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Our Affirmations as Jews Today” this morning at Temple Rodeph Sholom.

1939: Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel is scheduled to deliver a sermon “My Reasons for Hope” this morning at Temple Israel.

1939: Rabbi Alexander Zegel is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning on “A Foretaste of Paradise” at the Fort Washington Synagogue.

1939: The Fort Washington Synagogue is scheduled to its annual reception this evening at the American Woman’s Association in Manhattan.

1939: Rabbi Harold H. Mashioff is scheduled to deliver a sermon “No One Has a Monopoly on Brotherhood” this morning at the Temple of the Covenant.”

1939: Rabbi Asher Block is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Idle Worshippers at Temple Gates of Israel.

1940(1st of Adar II, 5700): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1940(1st of Adar II, 5700): Charles Polakoff, the former president of the Jewish Federation of Buffalo passed away today.

http://nyheritage.nnyln.org/digital/collection/p16694coll1/id/3699/

1941 The list of donors to the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, an organization opposed to the isolationist America First Committee, published in the newspapers today included H.Z. Szold and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman in the $500 to $1,000 category and Aaron Straus, Alvin Untermyer and Irwin Untermyer in the $250 to $500 categaory.

1941: Mrs. Isaac Herzog, the wife of the chief rabbi of Palestine is in the United States helping in the campaign to establish Palestine “as the Jewish national homeland.”

1942: “In Covington, GA, just east of Atlanta,” Harry Dietz, “an immigrant from Russia who owned a dry goods store” and his wife “Iola (Parker) Dietz” the local librarian gave birth to Elizabeth Camillla Dietz who gained fame as Camilla Dietz Bergeron, the stockbroker turned jewelry maven and wife of Jean Maurice Georges Bergeron. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/obituaries/camilla-dietz-bergeron-stockbroker-turned-jeweler-dies-at-76.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1942: Birthdate of Binghamton, NY native producer David Weisman whose works included “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and “Ciao! Manhattan” and who is the brother of director Sam Weisman.

1942:  The Gestapo used Jews for target practice at Janowska labor camp. Chief Dibauer and Lieutenant Bilhause would pick them off from their window as they carried loads of rocks.

1942: Fifty-year-old Rudolf Propper who had been transported from Pilsen to Terezin earlier in the year was transported from Terezin to Isbica today where he was later murdered.

1943: Birthdate of Robert Bryant “Bob” Plager the Ontario native and son of a hockey official who played in the NHL for the Rangers and the St. Louis Blues.

1943: “The Sephardic Jewish community of Monastir, historically the largest Jewish community in Macedonia was deported…In cooperation with the Germans, Bulgarian military and police officials rounded up 3,276 of Monastir's Jewish men, women, and children, deported them to German-controlled territory and turned them over to the custody of German officials. The Germans transported the Jewish population of Monastir and environs to their deaths in Treblinka as part of their plan to murder all European Jews.”

1943: “Bulgarian police monitored by SS rounded up the entire Jewish population of Skopje, Bitola and Štip.The population was sent to temporary detention center in the state tobacco warehouse known as "Monopol" in Skopje. Among 7,215 people who were detained in warehouses there were:[34]

 539 children less than 3 years old,

 602 children age 3 to 10 years

 1172 children age 10 to 16 years

 865 people over 60 years old

 250 seriously ill persons (tied to the bed)

 4 pregnant women who have given birth in the detention camp

 4 people died at the arrival in the camp.”

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/09.asp

1943: Birthdate of Mark R. Cohen, “a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam” with degrees from Brandeis, Princeton and Columbia who “won the National Jewish Book Award” for his tome Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/331.html

1944: The plan of Captain von Breitenbach to carry a pistol into a staff meeting and shoot Hitler today was thwarted by “a Führer directive excluding junior officers from Führer briefings.”

1945: Birthdate of Mark Steinvocalist/organist and founder of Vanilla Fudge.

1946: Birthdate of Antony Lerman, “a British writer who specializes in the study of anti-Semitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, multiculturalism, and the place of religion in society.”

1946: “I Am a Fugitive” a Spanish language comedy with a script co-authored by Hans Wilhelm was released today in Mexico.

1947: Levy Shklonik, the secretary of the Tel Aviv Labor organization told its members today “that the time would come when the labor movement would have to undertake a bloody anti-terrorist struggle.  His message echoed the words of Hashomer Hatzair (Young Guard Movement) which called on the Federation of Jewish Labor to join in the fight against terror and kidnapping.

1947: “The American League for a Free Palestine distributed an announcement in the name of the American Sea and Air Volunteers for Hebrew Repatriation which identified itself as the organization that had had recruited the volunteer crew of the Ben Hecht.

1947: Kibbutz Yakum (He Shall Rise) was established on the Plain of Sharon north of Tel Aviv.  The collective was founded by members of the Hashomer Hatzair (Young Guard Movement).

1947: A group of American, Rhodesian and South African Jewish war veterans who had served variously with the American military, the British Army and South Africa’s Sixth Armored Division have founded Maayan Baruch (Spring of Barch), a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee near the borders with Syria and Lebanon.  The kibbutz is named in honor of Bernard Gordon of blessed memory who had served as vice president of the South African Zionist Federation and who had left half of his large estate to the Jewish National Fund.

1948(30th of Adar I, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1948(30thof Adar I, 5708): Arabs bombed the headquarters of the Jewish Agency. The explosion of the car bomb in the courtyard of KH-UIA's building, tragically claiming the lives of Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal's Director, Leib Jaffe and 11 other Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal employees.

The Jewish Agency was the unofficial government of the Jewish Community (the Yishuv) in what was to become the state of Israel.  This attack was part of the unofficial war waged by the Arabs designed to "drive the Jews into the sea" prior to the British leaving Palestine in May, 1948.

1948: Today “President Truman declared that a story by a columnist whom he did not name writing in The New York Mirror, quoting him” as saying “that New York Jews were disloyal was ‘vicious’ and ‘a lie out of the whole cloth’” after which Drew Pearson issued a statement identifying himself as the columnist and standing by his story.

1948: “Forty-one Democratic members of the Senate and the House of Representatives” made public a letter to Secretary of State Marshall in which among other things they expressed their surprise at “the unilateral course adopted by” the United States “prohibiting the export of arms to the Middle East thus increasing ‘the odds against the Jewish defenders’  while Arab bands, supported by neighboring Arab states were being supplied with stocks of weapons, some of which were coming from current British shipments.”

1949: The first Israeli troops reached the Gulf of Aqaba where a white bedsheet with a hand drawn blue Star of David is hoisted as a sign of the Jewish state’s claim to the area around Eilat.

1950(22nd of Adar, 5710): Dr. Mordecai Elash, Israel’s Ambassador to Great Britain, passed away today.

1950: “Perfect Strangers” a comedy produced by Jerry Wald and featuring Thelma Ritter and Ned Glass was released in the United States today.

1950: “The visiting Istanbul Fenerbache soccer players were carried off the hield on the shoulders of Israeli fans today after they had whipped the Tel Aviv Hapoel 3 to 0 in the first mach of their Israel tourney.”  The enthusiastic demonstration was probably the result of Turkey’s announcement this week that it was recognizing the state of Israel, making Turkey the first Moslem country to do so.     

1950:  In Milwaukee, WI, “Charlotte A. (Lefstein) Zucker” and “real estate developer Burton C. Zucker” gave birth to director Jerry Zucker the brother of David Zucker and actress Susan Breslau, whose works included spoofs like “The Kentucky Fried Movie” and “romantic mysteries” like “Ghost..

1951: Birthdate of MK Aryeh Gamliel

1952(14th of Adar, 5712): Final Purim observed during the Presidency of Harry S Truman

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israel Medical Association warned that the "deteriorating nutrition situation was inherently dangerous." The Minister of Agriculture, Levi Eshkol, voiced full support for "Magen David Yarok"­ the planting of vegetables in home gardens. Urgent steps were taken to solve the problems of theft, pilferage and smuggling in the Haifa port which assumed dangerous proportions.

1953: “My Three Angels” “a comedy by Samuel and Bella Spewack…opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre” today.

1954: “The Golden Apple,” a Jerome Moros musical opened today at the Phoenix Theatre where it “was one of the first musicals produced “Off-Broadway.”

1955(17th of Adar, 5715): Anna Freud, a sister of Sigmund Freud, passed away.

1955(17thof Adar, 5715): Seventy-eight-year-old NYU and JTS alum Bernard Calonius Ehreneich, the Hungarian born son of Henry Reuben and Hannah Ehrenreich, the husband of Irma Bock and the father of Rosemarie and Louis Sigmund Ehrenreich who served as a rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Atlantic City, Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Philadelphia and Congregation Kahl Montgomery in Montgomery, AL passed away today.

1955: Archibald Maule Ramsay the former British military officer and Member of Parliament who was such a rabid anti-Semite and so sympathetic to the Nazis that he became the only member of the House of Commons “to be interned under Defense Regulation 18B which allowed the government to suspend habeas corpus to imprison Nazi sympathizers.

1957: The 1957 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament which would be dominated by Lennie Rosenbluth and the North Carolina Tarheels opened today in Kansas City.

1959: Premiere of “Raisin In The Sun” the controversial play produced by Philip Rose who personally raised the money to bring the drama to Broadway.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/television/doris-belack-judge-on-tvs-law-order-dies-at-85.html

1960(12thof Adar, 5720): Seventy year old Brooklyn native Samuel R. Gerber the  “industrial engineer and pioneer in the field of time management,” and “a graduate of Cooper Union and the Polytechnich Institute of Brooklyn” who was President of both the Kent Metal Manufacturing Company and the Ortho Chemical Corporation and who was married to Tyl Gerber with whom he had one son and one daughter passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/12/99483132.pdf

1962(5thof Adar II, 5722): Eighty-year-old Smolensk native and NYU trained lawyer Alexander Kahn, the general manager and publisher of The Jewish Daily Forward passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/03/12/90149510.html?pageNumber=31

1962: In New York City, Sally and Laurence “Larry Berg” gave birth to actor and director Peter Berg.

1963: Malcolm Cowley announced today that “twelve artists, including Leonard Baskin, the graphic arts and sculptor on the faculty of Smith College and Stanley Kuntiz, the author of three volumes of poetry, have been elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1964: Birthdate of actor Peter Berg,best known as Dr. Billy Kronk on TV's Chicago Hope whose father is Jewish and his mother was Catholic.

1964: Release date for “Becket” with a script by Edward Anhalt and music by Laurence Rosenthal.

1966(19th of Adar, 5726): Nineteen days before his 60th birthday, Morris Adler, the rabbi of Shaaray Zedek in Detroit who had been shot by mentally ill attacker during Shabbat services on February 12 succumbed to his wounds in Sinai Hospital in the presence of his “wife, the former Resnkick” and their daughter Shulameth.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/12/79971625.pdf

https://www.thejewishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rabbi-Adler.pdf

1966(19th of Adar, 5726): Seventy-five-year-old Riga born Harry Edison “one of five brothers who started with one shoe store in Atlanta in 1921 and built into the nationwide chain of Edison Brothers, Inc consisting of 535 stores and who raised two children, Edna and Sidney, with his wife “the former Mae Goodhart, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/12/79971628.pdf

1967(29thof Adar I, 5727): Parashat Pekudi; Shabbat Shekalim

1967: “Israel's "ruling circles" were accused today by Izvestia, the Soviet Government newspaper, of particiapting in an anti-Soviet cold war led by the United States.”

1968:  Birthdate of singer and songwriter Lisa Loeb.

1969(21stof Adar, 5729):

1969(21st of Adar, 5729): Robert “Bob” Briscoe the son of Lithuanian immigrants who served in the Irish Parliament for almost thirty years passed away today.

1971: “The Law Man,” a western directed and produced by Michael Winner, with music by Jerry Fielding and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United States today.

1971: “A New Leaf” a comedy written and directed by Elaine May (in her first directorial role) who co-starred alongside Walter Matheau was released in the United States today.

1972(25thof Adar, 5732): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat HaChodesh.

1972: Birthdate of Benjamin Cohen the French singer no known Benjamin Diamond.

1973: Today, the New York Times “reported on dwindling enrollments at Jewish day school” which “was somewhat odd” because this was “at a time when ‘a reordering of priorities seems to have been taking place in Jewish life as mounting concern about Jewish cultural survival was metropolitan areas Jews to place greater importance on Jewish education

1975(28th of Adar, 5735): Fifty-two-year-old former MK Meanchem Cohen passed away.

1975(28thof Adar, 5735): Sixty-year-old Ella Drori, the St. Petersburg born daughter of Alexander Govorkovski and Ester Goverkovsky and wife of Amnon Drori passed away today in Tel Aviv.

1975(28thof Adar, 5735): Victor Perlmutter, a native of Russia who came to the United States in 1920 and became a leader of the Jewish community in Washington, DC, passed away today in Miami Beach.

1976: “Robin and Marian” an off-beat look at aging Robin Hood and Maid Marian with a script by James Goldman was released today in the United States.

1977:The Jerusalem Postreported from Washington that Hanafi Moslem terrorists held more than 100 mostly Jewish hostages in three buildings and threatened to chop off their captives’ heads, unless their demands were met. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was pleased with US President Jimmy Carter¹s definition of peace and with his distinction between "defense lines" and "legal borders." But he forecast a tough clash with the US over Israel¹s final borders.

1977: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.  The B’Nai Brit building was one of the three buildings which the Muslims had seized.

1977(21st of Adar, 5737): Palestinians killed 34 Israelis on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway.

1978(1stof Adar II, 5738): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1978: The Palestine Liberation Organization carried out a massive terrorist attack in Israel. PLO terrorists from Lebanon first killed Gail Rubin, an American Jewish photographer. 

1978: Eleven Palestinian terrorists landed in Zodiac boats on a beach just outside Ma'agan Michael and from there ventured towards Tel Aviv in a hijacked bus in what has become known as the Coastal Road massacre where 39 Israelis were killed.

1978: Terrorists killed 45 Israelis during an attack on a mail truck at Tel Aviv.

1980(23rdof Adar, 5740): Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman, the native of pre-Revolution Bialystok who gained fame as a cinematographer and photographer passed away today in Moscow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/dziga-vertov-films-at-museum-of-modern-art.html?_r=0&login=email

1980: In the Moscow Igor Guberman was the defendant in the “anti-Zionist” trial that began today.

1982: In an article entitled “The Dance: By Pola Nirenska,” New York Times correspondent Anna Kisselgoff described the travailed filled life of this accomplished dancer and choreographer whose life took her from pre-war Poland, through the days of the Holocaust to a new life in America.

1983: “10 to Midnight” a crime-thriller filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released in the United States today.

1984: In the “The British and The Beginnings of The Jewish State” published today J. Robert Moskin provided a detailed review of The High Walls of Jerusalemby Ronald Sanders that examines the origins of the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate in Palestine.

1985: Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who promised “a policy of openness (glasnost) and restructuring (perestroika) was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party today.

1986: The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Leo Frank a pardon, citing the state's failure to protect him or prosecute his killers, though they stopped short of exonerating him.

1987: Secretary of State George P. Shultz today called the Israeli spy case ''very disheartening'' and said a decision by the Israeli Government to investigate would have ''a cleansing effect.'' 

1989: In Leningrad, “Irina (née Korina) and Viktor Yelchin, a pair of figure skaters who were celebrities as stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for 15 years” gave birth to Russian-born, American actor Anton Yelchin. 

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jun/20/anton-yelchin-obituary-film-actor

1989: “Eighteen years after Yuli Edelstein first applied for an exit visa to Israel, he and his family finally left the Soviet Union.” (As reported by Laura Bialis)

1990(14th of Adar, 5750): Purim

1992(6thof Adar II, 5752): Seventy-nine-year-old screenwriter and director Richard Brooks whose versatility enabled to create films about inner city teenage delinquents and decadent southerners passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/13/movies/richard-brooks-79-screenwriter-and-director-of-dramas-is-dead.html

1992(6thof Adar II, 5752): Eighty-seven-year-old “Laslo Benedek, a cameraman, screenwriter and director whose directing credits include "Death of a Salesman" (1951) and "The Wild One" (1953), passed away today at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/14/arts/laslo-benedek-87-film-director-known-for-wild-one-is-dead.html

1993: Silent Screen, “an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse” owned by Sonny and Leah Ray Werblin died today in Lexington, KY.

1994: U.S. premiere of “The Hudsucker Proxy” directed by Joel Coen, produced by Ethan Coen with a script by the Coen brothers and Sam Raimi and starring Paul Newman.

1995(9thof Adar II, 5755): Parsahat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

1995: Queen’s Holy Land” published today described the impact of those come to pay homage at the Rebbe’s burial site.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/11/nyregion/queens-holy-land-paying-homage-at-rebbe-s-grave.html?searchResultPosition=2

1997: A revival of “Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart” opened “on the West End at the Royal National Theatre” starring Maria Friedman.

1997(2nd of Adar II, 5757): Eighty-four-year-old composer Hugo Weisgall passed away today. (As reported by Paul Griffiths)

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/12/arts/hugo-weisgall-opera-composer-dies-at-84.html?scp=1&sq=%22The+Stronger%22+%22Hugo+Weisgall%22&st=nyt

1999: In ceremonies at New York City's 92nd Street Y, Rachel Adler was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. The award recognized “Engendering Judaism: A New Theology and Ethics,” which set forth a new model for integrating modern feminism with traditional Jewish theology.

2000(4thof Adar II, 5760): Parashat Pekudi

2001(16thof Adar, 5761): Shushan Purim

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including “Martyrs' Crossing” by Amy Wilentz and “Paradise Park” by Allegra Goodman.

2001:A Class Act, “a quasi-autobiographical musical loosely based on the life of composer-lyricist Edward Kleban, who died at the age of 48 in 1987” “ transferred to Broadway today at the Ambassador Theatre, where it ran for 30 previews and 105 regular performances.”

2001: In New York, premier performance of “I Will Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer” by Victor Klemperer; adapted by Karen Malpede and George Bartenieff; translated by Martin Chalmers.

2002: Israel lifted Yasser Arafat's three-month confinement in West Bank.

2003: Representative James P. Moran, a Democrat from Virginia apologized today for telling an Episcopal Church forum that “Jewish leaders were influential enough to push” the United States “toward war” because “if it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this” i.e. invading Iraq.

2004: Seventy-one year old “Gordon Zacks is stepping down as president and chief executive officer of R.G. Barry Corp. after 50 years with the company.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2004/03/08/daily22.html?page=all

2004 The Colloquium “Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethopia being held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv came to an end today.

2004: In “in the first modern Islamist attack on European soil 191 people were killed and another 1,857 were injured when a series of terrorist bombs were detonated today in Madrid.

2005: The United States government reached a $25.5 million settlement with the families of Jewish Hungarian Holocaust victims in the so-called Nazi "Gold Train" affair and will acknowledge the U.S. Army's role in commandeering a trainload of the families' treasures during World War II.

2006: A London revival production of “Once in a Lifetime” written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman came to an end today.

2006: Spain began a somber remembrance of the Madrid terror bombings on this, the second anniversary of the attacks - with plans for Christians, Muslims and Jews to join in prayers for peace, and for silence to descend at a memorial set up for victims. The normally festive atmosphere of a weekend in Spain will be replaced by heartbreaking memories of the morning of March 11, 2004, when 10 backpacks loaded with dynamite and shrapnel turned crowded commuter trains into a maelstrom of blood, twisted metal and wailing sirens. A total of 191 people died and more than 1,500 were wounded. It is a day etched so indelibly in Spaniards' minds that virtually everyone remembers where they were when they learned of the bombings, the frantic rescue efforts, and the anguished search for missing loved ones. Five centuries after the conquering Christians expelled the Moors and the Jews from Iberia, the three religions are joined together in expressing their grief for the victims of the terror that is the enemy of all civilized people.

2007 In Nagoya, Jewish professional wrestler Matt Bloom and Travis Tomko defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Ōmori to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

2007: After 117 performances the curtain came down on a revival of the “The Apple Tree with music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick which had been produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

2007: The Central Conference of American Rabbis, a 1,500-member group representing Reform Rabbis opened its annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

2007: An exhibition entitled “Biblical Art in a Secular Century: Selections, 1896-1993” featuring that includes the works of such Jewish artists as George Segal and Ben-Zion Weinman, as well as outstanding non-Jewish artists, at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art comes to an end.

2007: The Reconstructionist movement formally names Rabbi Toba Spitzer to head its Rabbinical Association. Rabbi Spitzer is the first avowed Lesbian to lead such a Jewish group.

2007: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Gospel of Food:Everything You Think You Know About Food Is

 Wrong”by Barry Glassner and “At the Same Time”by Susan Sontag 

2007: The Washington Post features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Waiting for Daisy” by Peggy Orenstein.

2008: The 92nd Street Y presents “Dennis Prager: The Case For Judaism,” featuring the popular radio talk show host and author.

2008: In Jerusalem famous Israeli singer Ronit Shahar performs in an acoustic concert at Beit Shmuel, singing many of her hit songs.

2008:The Belgian government and banks agreed to pay €110 million ($170 million) to Holocaust survivors, families of victims and the Jewish community for their material losses during Word War II.

2008: A Kuwaiti newspaper published unprecedentedly harsh criticism of the terror attack which killed eight students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva

 

2008: Jewish American playwright David Mamet announced a shift in political view and allegiance with an essay in The Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'.”

2009 (15 Adar, 5769): Shushan Purim

2009(15thof Adar, 5769): Physicist David Medved, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants whose “interest in science” stemmed from a chemistry set he received for his Bar Mitzvah and who almost made it as an astronaut going to Mars passed away today.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/David-Medved-scientist-and-entrepreneur-dies-at-83

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/michaelmedved/2009/03/12/the_legacy_of_david_medved_a_zest_for_life_guest_blog_by_diane_medved

2009: In Sterling, Virginia, Rabbi Bonny Grosz of the Community Rabbi Foundation leads the first of three study sessions on "Turning Torah: Studying the Weekly Torah Reading Using Different Approaches."

2009: This evening two Palestinian Authority Arab men attacked Jewish soldiers and civilians in the Binyamin region.

2010: Construction began on Barclay’s Center, the pride and joy of Bruce Ratner

2010: At the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, The Jewish Studies Centers is scheduled to present “Judaism and Islam: Mirrors and Echoes - Tales from the Koran and Torah” during which Afroze Mohammed and Stephanie Lowitt will trace the stories about Joseph, or Yusuf, through both scriptures, and you’ll learn how this always fascinating character is pivotal to both Jewish and Muslim traditions.

2010: United States Vice President Joe Biden warned Israelis in a direct address from Tel Aviv today that the status quo in the Middle East was not sustainable and vowed that the United States would do everything in its power to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

2010: The New York State Attorney General appointed Judith Kaye as an independent counsel to investigate allegation that the Governor had violated ethics laws.

2010: “The Sherman Brothers (Richard and Robert) were presented with a Window on Mainstreet Disneyland in Anaheim, California in honor of their contribution to Disney theme parks.

2011: Eleven Muslim students,who have been charged with disrupting a February 2010 speech by Israeli U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California, Irvine are scheduled to go on trial in Santa Ana, CA despite the fact that “thirty University of California Jewish studies faculty members asked the Orange County district attorney to drop criminal charges against 11 Muslim students.

2011: After snowing throughout the day yesterday, the snow was expected to taper off last night with rain in the north forecast for today.

2011: The “women building a bridge” festival at the Valley of Springs near Ashdot Ya’acov is scheduled to be held on the Jordan River banks near the border between Jordan and Israel today.

2011:  The Song of Songs minyan is scheduled to come together for a community Kabbalt Shabbat at the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay as part of The Jewish Music Festival.

2011(5th of Adar II: Anniversary of Moses’ last day as leadership of the Jewish people.  According to Chabad, this took place on 5thof Adar 1273, BCE.

2011: Hours after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami struck Japan today, Jewish and Israeli humanitarian groups pledged to help relief efforts in the island nation.

2011(5 Adar II, 5771): Five members of an Israeli family were killed tonight when a suspected terrorist broke into their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar and stabbed them all to death. According to police, the suspect broke into the house armed with a knife and stabbed the mother, father and three children, aged 11, three and an approximately one-month-old baby. Magen David Adom rescue services arrived at the scene and found them all dead. The victims of the brutal murders are Rabbi and IDF tank unit officer Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas.

2011(5 Adar II, 5771): Eighty-seven-year-old Danny Stiles a New York disc jockey who styled himself as the “King of Nostalgia and “The Vicar of Vintage Vinyl” passed away today. (As reported by the Eulogizer)

2011(5 Adar II, 5771): Eighty-two year old Stan Ross, the producer-engineer who co-founded Gold Star Studio passed away today in Burbank, CA.(As reported by Valerie Nelson)

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/17/local/la-me-stan-ross-20110316

2012: Major General Nitzan Alon is scheduled to officially take up his post as head of the Central Command at the headquarters in Jerusalem.

2012: Dan Shapiro and Julie Fisher are scheduled to be honored at tonight’s JPDS-NC Purim Ball, sponsored by the only Jewish Day School in Washington, D.C.

2012: “Ahead of Time” is scheduled to be shown at the Sacramento Jewish Festival in Sacramento, CA

2012: “Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades” is scheduled to be shown at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival in Vancouver, CA.

2012: Stephen Stern is scheduled to moderate “Modern Judaism Wrestles with Spinoza” featuring Rabbi Lyle Fishman and Joel Schwartz as part of the backstage events surrounding the performance of “New Jerusalem.”

2012: The Eliat Chamber Music Festival, which will include an appearance by violinist Valery Soklov, is scheduled to open tonight.

2012: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery” by Noam Scheiber and “Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times” by Eyal Press.  “Beautiful Souls” contains a vignette about Paul Grüninger, a Swiss police commander, who “broke the law to help Jewish refugees flee from Austria” after the Nazis annexed  the country.

2012: Residents of southern Israel suffered another day under siege today as Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired about 50 more rockets at the Negev. (As reported by Gili Cohen, Yanir Yagna, and Ave Issacharoff)

2013: Rabbi Sidney Kleiman’s 100th birthday on the Today Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfYsm95g9o

2013: In Brooklyn, Judge Eric Vitaliano “rejected a Jewish attorney’s request to exclude Jews from a jury involving a client facing charges of lying about joining the Taliban” ruling “that it would be unconstitutional to bar a prospective juror because of religion.” The attorney is Frederick Cohn who is representing Abdel Hameed Shehadeh.

2013: An 11-day mission to Israel sponsored by The Jewish Federation of North America’s

Network of Independent Communities is scheduled to being today.

2013: NASHIM Annual Women's Seder is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm

2013: Publication date for Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg 

2014: Historic 6th& I Synagogue is scheduled to host “Food for thought- Digesting Ethics, Mysticism, and Philosophy with Rabbi Yosef Edelstein of MesorahDC

2014: In Denver, CO, Temple Emanuel is scheduled to host “The Dishes of Our Lives: Jewish Cookbooks, Jewish Stories”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178388#.Ux-JoZuYapo

2014(9thof Adar II, 5774): Seventy-two-year-old Judge Edmond Levy, a retired member of the Israeli Supreme Court and author of the Levy Report, passed away today.

2014: Three terrorists from Islamic Jihad were killed by an IAF strike while an IDF UAV crashed over Gaza following “a technical malfunction.”

2014: Dutch political leader Onno Hoes began serving as Chairman of the Dutch Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI)

2014: The IDF insisted today that Raed Zeiter, a Jordanian citizen who was shot dead yesterday morning at the Allenby crossing into Israel, had attacked soldiers and tried to grab a weapon before he was shot dead. (As reported by Gil Ronen)

2014: The Knesset passed the amendment to the Basic Law on The Government known as the “Governance Law,” with 67 in favor, and none voting against or abstaining.(As reported by Gil Ronen)

2015: Mandolin star Avi Avital is scheduled to join the Venice Baroque Orchestra in an evening almost pure Vivaldi at Carnegie Hall.

2015: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Echoes of the Borscht Belt” with Marisa Scheinfeld.

2015: Professor Daniel J. Schroeter is scheduled to deliver a lecture on "There Are No Jews in Morocco, Only Moroccan Subjects Responding to Vichy's Anti-Jewish Laws in Colonial Morocco during World War. II.

2015: Bruce Guenther, recently retired Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum, and Susan Winkler, author of Portrait of a Woman in White are scheduled to discuss “Looted Art: The Unfinished Business” at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

2015: Annie Cohen-Solal and Met Curator Marla Prather are scheduled to discuss the works of Mark Rothko at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

2015: The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “an historic conference on the topic of the contemporary Jewish scene in Britain, with four distinguished speakers.”

2015: “Owners of the Leviathan field said that the Palestine Power Generation Company had canceled a $1.2 billion agreement, signed in 2014, to buy 4.75 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2015: “Speaking on HuffPost Live today, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, seemed open to the idea of a pot-infused ice cream after a viewer asked about it.” (As reported by Julie Wiener)

2015: Comedian Sarah Silverman posted a message on the internet today calling on supporters of Meretz to vote in Israeli elections scheduled to take place on March 17. (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2016(1stof Adar II, 5776): Rosh Chodesh 2, Adar II

2016: “The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon before the start of Shabbat at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: “Shari Redstone Prepares for Battle to Control a Media Empire” published today profiles the daughter of media mogul Sumner Redstone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/business/media/shari-redstone-prepares-for-battle-to-control-a-media-empire.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

2017(13thof Adar, 5777): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim. 

2017: Tonight, Ahmed Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier responsible for the 1997 killing of the Israeli schoolgirls” including “13-year-old Adi Malka” was released from jail today after serving a sentence of 20 years.

2017: In Paris, the symposium “The Holocaust in Ukraine. New Perspectives on the Evils of the 20th Century,” is scheduled to come to an end today.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its annual “Purim Extravaganza” complete with the traditional Megila reading followed a “Purim Partaaay!”

2017: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to host a preview party introducing its newest exhibition “Atlanta Collects Contemporary” featuring unique items that “normally reside in private Metro Atlanta homes.

2017: Today, “Seattle police were investigating a suspected hate crime after graffiti claiming the “Holocau$t i$ fake hi$tory” was spray-painted on the wall of a local synagogue.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/seattle-shul-vandalized-with-graffiti-saying-holocaust-is-fake-history/

2018: The Beth Chai-Jewish Humanist Congregation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald” at the Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda, MD.

2018: JW3 is schedule to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story.”  (Yes, in the list of the many things they did not tell us when were kids was the fact this femme fatal was as Jewish as Ruth or Esther)

2018: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman and the recently released paperback editions of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Filmsby Molly Haskell and The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story Darpa, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World by Sharon Weinberger

2018: In honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary, The Breman Museum and The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival are scheduled to partner with the Israeli Consulate to bring one of Israel’s hottest acts, Yemen Blues, with Ravid Kahalani to Atlanta.

2018: “Destination Unknown” is one of the films scheduled to shown at the 5thannual JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival.

2018: In “Never Again: Fighting Hate in a Changing Germany With Tours of Nazi Camps” Katrin Bennhold described attempts to change anti-Semitic mindsets with trips to concentration camps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/world/europe/germany-anti-semitism.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: The Goldring Family Foundation and Morton Katz are scheduled to be honored today in New Orleans Jewish Endowment Foundation “Annual Event” at the Westin Hotel. (As reported by Crescent City Jewish News, the source and resource for all things Jewish in Cajun Country)

2018: “The Ancestral Sin,” “The Rock in the Red Zone,” “Starting Over Again” and “The Band’s Visit” are scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Film Festival.

2018: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “A Celebration of Jewish Books” – “a day filled with Jewish storyteller” and more than fifty “Jewish storytellers.”

2019: In suburban Washington, DC, the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “a talk with Professor Pamela Nadell, Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History, American University” where she discusses what it means to be a Jewish woman in America.

2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Festival is schedule to host the U.S. premiere of “Stockholm” directed by Israeli Daniel Syrkin.

2020(15th of Adar, 5780): Shushan Purim

2020: In JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Escape from Pretoria.”

2020: Voting is scheduled to close for selecting the slate of delegates of attend the World Zionist Congress, or as some call it “the international parliament of the Jewish People.”

2020: In the wake of the coronavirus, the “S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council annual fundraiser scheduled for this evening has cancelled.

2020: Benjamin Ferencz, “the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg” is scheduled to turn one hundred today.

https://www.benferencz.org/tablet/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/07/nazi-death-squads-nuremberg-trials-benjamin-ferencz

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center/work/ferencz-international-justice-initiative/benjamin-ferencz

2021: Golden Globe-nominated actress Emmy Rossum is scheduled to serve as emcee at the Western Regional Virtual Event sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

2021: Israeli celebrity chef Ruthie Rousso is scheduled to talk, online, about putting an Israeli twist on Passover foods and upgrading socially distanced Passover celebrations.

2021: Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and current Knesset member Michael Oren, who is writing a book about Israel’s War of Independence, is scheduled to give the Mimi Epstein Memorial Lecture for Temple Isaiah in Lafayette.

2021: North Peninsula Jewish Community and JCRC are scheduled to present S.F. police oversight office director Paul Henderson talking about inequity in the criminal justice system.

2021: Oshman Family JCC and JCC Literary Consortium are scheduled to present actress, activist and author Annabelle Gurwitch talking about her memoir, subtitled “Adventures in Downward Mobility,” in conversation with author Dave Barr.

2021: Today’s virtual visit to the Jewish Museum is scheduled to include an exploration of the highlights of the Jewish museum’s galleries and discover the history of this museum’s collection including the oldest Hanukah lamp made in Britain to the inspiring story of our WWII Nurses’ Cape.”

2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “Kitchen Explorations” with “chef Michael Leviton as he cooks and discusses some of his favorite Passover recipes from the archives of the Jewish Heritage Center at the New England Historic Genealogical Society.”

2021: The APJCC is scheduled to present Soprano Anat Baird performing a tribute to Jewish Broadway composers from George Gershwin to Stephen Schwartz.

2021: The LBI is scheduled to present a discussion of Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Nazi Germany with author Douglas G. Morris and commentators David Abraham and Claudia Koonz.

2021: With less than 12 days until the elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled pay his first visit to the United Arab Emirates today. (YNET)

This Day, March 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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515 BCE: On the secular calendar the construction of the Second Temple was completed. (Book of Ezra, 6:15 “And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.”  Darius began his reign in 522 BCE.)

604: Pope Gregory I passed away. Born in 540, Gregory was Pope from 590 until 604. The great prelate was a vigorous foe of Judaism, a religion he believed was based on depravity.  In his eyes, “the Jewish understanding of scripture was perverse.” He sought to keep Jews and Christians apart.  He forbade Christians from using Jewish doctors and would not let the clergy employee Jews as clerks.  Jews were not to hold public office, build new synagogues, marry non-Jews or convert Christians to Judaism.  But Gregory was not an unmitigated anti-Semite.  On several occasions he protected the private property and synagogue of European Jews.  One of his writings summed up the view,

“Just as it is not befitting to permit Jews in their communities to go beyond the boundaries of what is permissible by law, so also the rights they already have should not be diminished.”

1088: Urban II began his papacy during which he initiated the First Crusade, which brought death and destruction to the Jews all the way from the Rhineland to Jerusalem.

1421: In Vienna, under the auspices of Archduke Albert of Austria, a combination of murder, libel and host-desecration charges brought about the destruction of the entire Jewish community. This was partly due to the revival of the crusader spirit of the Hussite Wars. Many Jews were forcibly baptized, others took their own lives. The rest were forced to leave. Later this became known as the Wiener Gezairah (The Vienna edict).

1496: Maximilian I expelled the Jews from Styria, Austria.

1604: Today, in Mexico, during the trial of Jorge de Almeida, by the Inquisition, the prosecuting attorney testified that “the accused was a native of the city of Almeida in the Kingdom of Portugal” and that just because “efforts to arrest him have failed” “it is proper and necessary that such grave crimes as those of which Jorge de Almeida is guilty should not remain unpunished” which means “that the present prosecution and trail of Jorge de Almeida should not be stopped but on the contrary be allowed to proceed in contumaciam.”

1664: New Jersey becomes a colony of England. A year later, New Jersey granted religious toleration to those living in the colony. While there were undoubtedly Jewish merchants operating in the colony in the 17thcentury, the honor of being the first Jews to live in the colony may go to “Aaron and Jacob Lozada, who owned a grocery and hardware store in Bound Brook as early as 1718.”

1619: Fifty-two-year-old Richard Burbage who played the starring role in “The Jew of Malta” each time it was performed by the Admiral’s Men passed away today.

1682:  Anti-Jewish riots beak out in Krakow.

1708: to De Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted much of his time to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and wrote Anglia Judaica (the History and Antiquities of the Jews in England) “matriculated from Queen’s College, Oxford” today.

1715: Elector Max Emanuel ordered the expulsion of the few Jews still living in Bavaria, Germany.

1734: After a ship of Slazburgers who did not speak English arrived in Savannah, Benjamin Sheftall, “speaking German fluently, took them in and treated them to a breakfast of good rice soup.”

1760: Birthdate of Heyum Hutzler, the son of Moses Hutzler.

1767(11thof Adar II, 5527): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat.

1776: In Chevening, UK, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope and Lady Hester Pitt gave birth to Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, the eccentric English noblewoman whose “archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology.”

1777: During the American Revolution, Captain Lewis Bush who had transferred from the Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion to Harley’s Additional Continental Regiment was promoted to the rank of Major.

1787: Birthdate of Ellerstadt, Germany native Eleanor Anschel, the wife of Abraham Wolf with whom she had eleven children.

1789: In Bonfeld, Germany, Schoenle Lazarus and Lazarus Ruben gave birth to Jendle Ottenheimer, the wife of Samuel Stiefel.

1792: In Tarrytown, NY, Jochabed Isaacks and Michael Marks gave birth to Abraham Marks.

1792: Wolf ben Meir was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.

1792: In Philadelphia, PA, Miriam Marks and Benjamin Abraham Nones gave birth to Bilha Nones, the husband of Abraham De Leon with whom she had nine children.

1797: Birthdate of Samuel Marum Mayer, the son of a Rabbi in Fruedental  a convert to Lutheran Christianity who marred a pastor’s daughter and became a lawyer and legal scholar.

1799: One day after he had passed away, Moshe ben Judah was buried today at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.

1800(15thof Adar, 5560): Shushan Purim was celebrated for the first time in the19th Century.

1804: Twenty-five-year-old Danish merchant Hartvig Philip Ree married “Thamar (Therese) today after which they had a number of children including Hertz Hartvig Rée, Anton Rée, Bernhard Philip Rée, Simon Philip Rée, Israel Philip Rée, Vilhelm Hartvig Rée and Frederikke Privche von Essen before Thamar passed away in 1850.

1811(16th of Adar): Judah Leib ben Ze’ev, the first Jewish grammarian of modern times passed away

1813: Joseph “Yosef” Friedlander, a native of Austria, was in Dresden when he was kidnapped by Russian troops who hired him as a translator when they discovered that he could speak Russian

1814: Birthdate of Louis Jean Königswarter the Amsterdam native who became a leading French economist

1817: Henry Davis married Ellen Lewis at the Western Synagogue.

1817: “Czar Alexander I of Russia declared the Blood Libel -- the infamous accusation that Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood in the baking of matzah for Passover, for which thousands of Jews were massacred through the centuries -- to be false.” (Editor’s Note – based on subsequent events, this was one time that Russians did not obey their Czar)

1822: L'esule di Granata (The exile of Granada) a melodrama (opera seria) in two acts by German Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, had its world premiere at the famed at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy.

1823(29th of Adar, 5583): Thirty-nine-year-old Anne Emilie Solar, the wife of Moise Solar and the daughter of Abraham Furtrado, the President of the Assemblee des Notables, passed aeway today.

1824: Birthdate of Darmstadt native Heinrich Blumenthal a successful manufacturer of farm equipment and the President of Jewish Community of Darmstadt for more than twenty years.

1827(13thof Adar, 5587): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim.

1834: Joseph David married Julia Jacobs today.

1837: Mordecai ben David married Leah bat Nathan today at the Western Synagogue.

1842: In Canterbury, Mary Lazarus and David Nathan gave birth to Samuel Nathan

1844: In Steele, Prussia, Israel Stein and Rosetta Kappel gave birth to Philip Stein, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he earned a B.A. and M.A. a member of the Milwaukee bar and the husband of Emma Stein who was elected Judge in the Superior Court of Cook Country, Illinois in 1892 and appointed to the Appellate Court in 1903.

http://www.amazon.com/In-memoriam-Judge-Philip-December/dp/B0008939FQ

1845: Burnett Nathan married Marian Collins today at “29 Orchard Street, Marylebone, London.”

1846(14thof Adar, 5606): Purim

1847: In Prossnitz, Moravia, Oberrabiner Hirsch B. Fassel “who had been decorated by three emperors for his literary works” and Fannie Sternfeld gave birth journalist Rosa Sonneschein who came to the United States in 1869 and was the “publisher and editor of The American Jewess.”

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa

1849: One day after she had passed away, “Yenta bat Hayim, the wife of Jacob ben Yehiel” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1852: The New York Times publishes an evaluation of the British government headed by Lord Derby which included Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer.  Disraeli’s appointment to this particular post came as a surprise and, given what the Times reporter considered his lack of aptitude for the job “his triumph will astonish the public and lead to his greater glory.”

1856: In Aldgate, London, Morocco born Isaac Benoliel and Rosetta Belasco gave birth to their daughter Perla Isaac Benoliel.

1856: In Liszka, Hungary, Wolfe Feuerlicht and Leah Cohen gave birth to Jacob Feurlicht the husband of Rose Buxbaum, who came to the United States in 1882 and served as the rabbi at Moses Montefiore Congregation in Chicago, Gates of Prayer in Boston, Ansche Chesed in Scranton, PA and B’nai Israel in Augusta, Ga before becoming the Superintendent of the Jewish Hospital and Asylum in Baltimore and finally the Superintended of the Jewish Home for the Aged in Chicago.

 

1856: The New York Times reported that the Greene Street Synagogue has replaced Anselm Leo with a new leader from Germany who has musical skills which he has used to introduce a choir to the congregation.  No musical instruments are allowed, but a pitch pipe is used to set the tone for the choir.

1858: In Cincinnati, OH, Julius and Betha Ochs gave birth to Adolph Simon Ochs.. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times.  Ochs was the engine behind the Times rise to being the "paper of record" in the United States. Ochs is one of many American Jews who have been involved in the media giving rise to the anti-Semites' false claim that Jews control the media.  Ochs was the son of German Jews whom immigrated to the United States before the Civil War.  His life story is a classic example of that groups rise to prominence from the end of the Civil War through the start of World War II. It is obvious from reading Ochs' obituary in the New York Times that he was active in the Jewish community and quite proud of his heritage.  He was a Classical Reform Jew.  He was a trustee of Temple Emanu-El. He donated a building to the Temple in Chattanooga named for his parents.  And he raised $4,000,000 (quite a sum in 1926) for the Hebrew Union College, which had been founded by his father-in-law.  In responding to an inquiry about the keys to his success, Ochs wrote, in part, "My Jewish home life and religion gave me a spiritual uplift and a sense of responsibility to my subconscious better self --which I think is the God within me, the Unknowable and the Inexplicable.”

1859: In Middlesex, Caroline Benjamin and Isaiah Joshua Simmons gave birth to Ephraim Simmons.

1862: “The Line of the Mississippi” published today described the fortifications on both the North and South sides of the city of New Orleans.  According to travelers who have recently arrived in St. Louis from the Crescent City, the Jews are the only people in the city not “regularly enlisted” in its defense.

1862: Second Lieutenant Samuel S. Bloom of Company H resigned from the 111thRegiment today.

1862(10th of Adar II, 5622: The U.S. Congress allowed Rabbis to serve as army chaplains.

1864: Sgt. William P. Levi began his service with Company C. of the 54thRegiment.

1865(14th of Adar, 5625): Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

1869: Four days after he had passed away, Benjamin Woolfe Franklin, the son of Eliezer Franklin, the husband of Maria Levy and the father of Louisa Franklin was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1873(13th of Adar, 5633): Fast of Esther

1873: “The Palestine Lodge of the I.O. of F.S.I. will host a masque ball at the Germania Assembly Rooms” tonight in New York as part of the celebration of Purim.

1873: A Purim masquerade will be held in Brooklyn tonight at the Assembly Rooms above the Post Office.

1874: Birthdate of Edmund Samuel Eysler, the son a Viennese merchant and husband of Polodi Allnoch who gave up a career as an engineer to become a musician, composer and Kapellmeister.

1876: The annual Purim reception held at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews located at Lexington and 63rd Street began at 11 in the morning and lasted until seven in the evening.

1876(16thof Adar, 5636): Shushan Purim observed since Shabbat was on the 15thday of Adar.

1879: In Lübeck, Rabbi Salomon Carlebach and his wife gave birth to Ephraim Carlebach, who like four of his seven brothers became a rabbi and who moved to Palestine in 1935 the year before he passed away in Ramat Gan.

1881: Birthdate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the modern secular state of Turkey who served as its first President. In 1923, during the early days of the newly created Turkish Republic Ataturk declared, “Our country has some elements who gave the proof of their fidelity to the motherland. Among them I have to quote the Jewish element; up to now the Jews have lived in happiness and from now they will rejoice and will be happy.” Ataturk came to the aid of the Jews in the early days of Hitler’s rise to power. “In 1933 Ataturk invited to Turkey many University Professors of Jewish origin that were threatened by Nazi cruelty. The list of names is long; approximately 600 distinguished scholars took refuge in Turkey.”

1882: Three days after he had passed away, Levi Alexander was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1883: Two days after he had passed away, Lewis Collins, the London born son Isaac Kollem and Maria Mozes and the husband of Julia Isaacs with whom he had had nine children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1884(15thof Adar, 5644): Shushan Purim

1887: Dr. Hugh L. Wintner, the rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim in Brooklyn delivered a eulogy in memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher “at the regular Saturday morning service” in which he said that Beecher “will be remembered by the Jewish people like Mordecai of old as being a great promoter of their good, advocating their welfare and speaking peace to all of them.”

1889: Birthdate of New York City native and Harvard trained attorney Jacob Kaplan, a special justice of the Dorchester Municipal Court, who for “nearly 50 years was a leader of the Greater Boston Jewish Community while raising three sons with his wife Anne.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/09/105452456.html?pageNumber=27

1889: Birthdate of Philip Guedalla, the Anglo-Jewish barrister and author whose quips include this one that frightens all historians or would-be historians - "History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."

1890: The Passover Relief Association held its 18th annual Purim Masquerade Ball this evening at the Lexington Avenue Opera House.

1891: Jesse Seligman received a draft for twelve million francs from Baron Hirsch today.

1891: Birthdate of Hungarian born American scientist turned philosopher, Michael Polanyi.

1892(13thof Adar, 5652) Parashat Tetzeveh; Shabbat Zachor and Erev Purim

1893: At the Stepney Synagogue on Jersey, David Lawton, “the youngest son of the late John and Jane Lawton” married Rebecca Michaels, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Michaels of Aldgate.

1893: Rabbi Adloph Radin of Shaari Tikvah was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd gathered at the hall of the Hebrew Institute where citizens were protesting the closing of the annex to Grammar School #7 on Hester Street.

1894(4thof Adar II, 5654): Ludwig August Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart passed away after leading a multi-faceted life.  Born in Boehmia in 1810, he studied Hebrew with Zecharias Frankel, earned an M.D. from the University of Pauda before moving to Vienna.  There he served as secretary and archivist of the Vienna Jewish congregation and became active in the Revolution of 1848.  He was a prolific author and philanthropist whose literary works include “Nach Jeruslem” which describe his travels to Asia, Greece and Jerusalem where he helped to found a school.  And this is only the tip of the iceberg. (As reported by Singer and Mannheimer)

1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. Coca-Cola was actually first introduced in 1886 at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. Ga. Jacob’s Pharmacy was owned by Dr. Joe Jacobs who is buried in the same section of Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery as other prominent Atlanta Jews including Morris Rich, founder of Rich’s Department Store. Coke was not certified as Kosher and Kosher for Passover until 1935 thanks to the efforts of an Atlanta orthodox rabbi named Tobias Geffen.

1895: Four days after he had passed away, 61 year old John Marsh was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1895: Dreyfus arrives in French Guyana.

1895: Three days after she had passed away, Maria Levy who had married John Goodman Levy after the death of her first husband, Jacob Myers. Was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1895: “The Rights of Clubmen” published today described the struggle between saloon owners and members of private clubs in New York.  Among the clubs that could be affected by a change in status would be the Adelphi Club, which is the leading private Jewish club in Albany.  Its members include “some of the wealthiest Jews” living in the state capital.

1896: Judge Charles P. Daly will deliver an address entitled “Songs and Song Writing” at tonight’s meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1896: Today’s special performance of “The Heart of Maryland” which was intended to raise funds for the Hebrew Infants’ Asylum has been postponed until the end of the month.

1896: It was reported today that “Charles Frohman has purchased a new melodrama” which he will not name but says will be produced in Boston before being brought to Broadway.

1897(8thof Adar II, 5657): Eighty-seven-year-old Daniel Sanders, who earned a doctorate in 1843 after studying at the universities of Berlin and Halle and who served as a school principle for ten years before pursuing a career as a German grammarian and lexicographer passed away today.

 1897: About 200 cloakmakers who are employed in the shops of contractors who work for Julius Stein & Co in Manhattan went out on strike today.

1897: The will of Elias Joseph which was filed with the Surrogate today left three bequests of $1,000 each to the Montefiore Home, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1898: Sir George Henry Lewis, the well-known Jewish lawyer testified before a committee of the House of Commons that was investigating “the evils of money lending.”

 

1898: “Boston Announcements” published today included a description of a book of Yiddish poetry with an English translation written by Maurice Rosenfeld which will be published Messrs. Copeland & Day.  The translation is being prepared by Professor Wiener of Harvard.  Jewish author Israel Zangwill and Abraham Cahan, editor of the Forwards have expressed their approval of the work.

1898: "Anti-Juif Bourguignon,” appeared today for the first time at Dijon.

1899(1st of Nisan, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1899(1st of Nisan, 5659): Sir Julius Vogel, the first Jewish Premier of New Zealand passed away.

1899: Seventy-five-year-old Hannah Jacobs, a native of Poland who was the wife of Nathan Jacobs was buried today at the Bath Jewish Burial Ground.

1900: In Logansport, Indiana, founding of Congregation Beth El which held its services in the Universalist Church and whose members, over time, included Rabbi Joseph Leiser  of Layfayette, Jorden Hecht, Ben Fisher, Henry Wiler and Henry L. Bregstone.

1902: Sophia Karp, Jacob Fischel and Joseph Lateiner foundedf the Grand Theatre in New York which was the first theatre in New York built to serve as venue for performing Yiddish theatricals.

1903: Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf arrived at his home in Philadelphia “to-day from Cincinnati and announced that he had accepted the Director Generalship of the Isaac M. Wise Endowment Fund Committee of the Hebrew Union College, which office was tendered him during a meeting of rabbis at Cincinnati.”

1904: Herzl authorizes Dr.Leopold Kahn to enter into negotiations with the Ottoman Empire for renting the administrative revenues of the Sanjak of Acre and for a loan to be obtained for the Imperial treasury.

1905: Birthdate of Myles S. Friedman the center on the Syracuse University football team from 1924-1926 and President of Benjamin and Johnes, the manufacturer of foundation garments who co-founded Camp Robin Hood for boys and raised a daughter, Judy with his wife Leona.

1906: “Startling reports of the condition and future of Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews were made” today “in Berlin to the annual meeting of the Central Jewish Relief League by Germany by Dr. Paul Nathan…who has returned from an extensive trip through Russia as the special emissary of Jewish philanthropists in England, America and Germany to arrange for distribution of the relief fund of $1,500,000 raised after the massacres last Autumn.”

1906: Solomon Schechter and Louis Marshall are among the speakers scheduled to speak at this evening’s dinner “for the faculty, students, directors and officers of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America on 123rd Street and Broadway.

1907: Abraham Goldsmith purchased the building at 99 Fifth Avenue toda.

1908: Birthdate of David Saul Marshall. Born in Singapore to an Orthodox family that had come from Iraq, Marshall was trained as a lawyer.  After World War II he became leader of the Labour Front political party and in 1955 became the first Chief Minister of Singapore.

1909: In Sophia, Bulgaria, The Medical Congress decided to print brochures in Ladino. The decision was in response to a request from a Christian Delegate who asked that this be done for the benefit of Jews unfamiliar with the Bulgarian language.

1910: At the first meeting of the sub-committee on laws of the Civic Federation’s Committee on Compensation for Industrial Accidents “letters were received from Louis Brandeis of Boston giving suggestions the establishment of an accident insurance system” designed to provide relief for workers injured on the job.

1911: Vera Cheberiak, leader of a group of thieves in Kiev, makes plans to have Andrei Yustschinski murdered.  His murder will touch off the infamous Mendel Bellis Case.

1912: “The application of Jewish citizens of New York City, who are engaged in organizing a battalion to become affiliated with the National Guard, was received by Adjt. Gen. Verbeck to-day.”

1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor, which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, AL attended as a delegate appointed by the Governor opened today in Jacksonville, FL.

1914(14thof Adar, 5674): Last Purim before the outbreak of WW I.

1914: Birthdate of Irwin “King Kong” Klein, the Younkers native who was an All American football player at New York University and who led the NYU basketball team to a 16-0 as a sophomore in 1934 and then to a 19 and 1 record the following season which led “to the Helms National Championship.”

1914(14thof Adar, 5674: Pauline Blumenthal the daughter of architect and engineer Maurice Blumenthal, the Brooklyn born son of Jacob Hersh Blumenthal and Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal, and his wife Miriam Blumenthal passed away two days after her birth.

1915: General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell met with a delegation headed by Jabotinsky to discuss the formation of a “Jewish fighting unit” in the British Army. “The General said he was unable, under the Army Act, to enlist foreign nationals as fighting troops, but that he could form them into a volunteer transport Mule Corps.”

1915: As of today, the fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from the War has collected $555, 3119.19

1916: According to a report tonight by H.E. Adelman, the Secretary of the Hebrew Free Burial Association at the annual meeting at the Uptown Talmud Torah, “in the last year 1,253 people were buried by the association” including “353 buried from their homes, 218 from Bellevue Hospital and the morgue, 651 from other institutions, 28 from outside” of New York City and 3 disinterments from Jewish cemeteries.

1916: The National Union for Jewish Rights held its first meeting this afternoon in London. The Anglo-Jewish community formed the organization to secure the rights of the Jews at the end of the World War. Lucien Wolf and Israel Zangwill addressed the group.  Zangwill said that “if England got Palestine” he “hoped a Jewish governor would be appointed.

1916: Pianist Vera Kaplun-Aronson and soprano Mrs. George Halperin are scheduled to perform this afternoon at “the 19th regular Sunday afternoon concert…at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.

1916: Rabbi Wolf Gold of the Third Street Synagogue opened the convention today in Sonia Hall where “more than 400 delegates from Jewish societies in Brooklyn” met “to consider plans for the proposed Jewish Congress and to elect delegates to the preliminary conference” to be held later this month in Philadelphia.

1916: This afternoon Rabbi Max Reichler and Cantor Morris Schrager officiated at the dedication ceremonies of “the new Temple of the Sinai Congregation of the Bronx a Stebbins Avenue and East 163rd Street” which “were attended by nearly 1,000 including the 125 members of the temple.”

1916: Today The Day, the Jewish daily newspaper edited by Herman Bernstein published the following cablegram from a special correspondent in Berne.  “I have learned from an absolutely reliable source that the Pope has prepared an important document of great interest to the Jewish people.  It is understood that this document will prove of the same importance and significance as the bull issued by Pope Innocent IV denouncing the ritual murder accusations against the Jews as false and based upon a cruel legend. The present statement by the Pope, who has interested himself so deeply in peace is devoted to the sorrows of the Jews in the belligerent lands and contains a plea for justice and fairness to the Jews.” [The article referred to Pope Benedict XV.]

1917: During the Russian Revolution, the Duma elected a “provisional committee” which was effectively a new executive branch for the Russian government that would replace the Czar.  The apparent triumph of these social democrats offered hope (ultimately false hope) for the Jews of Russia that revolution would lead to liberation.

1917: At 11:00 a.m. Dr. Enelow is scheduled to speak on “The Jewish Messiah Idea and Jesus” followed by the daily noon service.

1918: Following the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, today Erzurm returned to Turkish control which may have given the Ottomans hope that they would regain control of the rest of their Empire including Palestine.

1919: Louis Marshal, President of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee and Dr. Cyrus Adler, the chairman of the committee left today aboard Caronia as they began their voyage to the Peace Conference at Paris.

1920: Birthdate of Roland Lorent a member of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld Group who was hanged in 1944.

1921: The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) passed a resolution to establish the Haganah.  Haganah, (literally "defense") was established for the purpose stated in its name.  It was organized to protect the Jewish settlements from Arab attacks - something the British could not or would not do.

1921: Birthdate of Harry Hamilton Pollak, the Passaic, NJ native, graduate of Rutgers and the University of Chicago and husband of the former Suzette L. Aldon who was serving as “labor advisor to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie” at the time of his death in 1980.

1921: The Cairo Conference began during which Winston Churchill sought to examine the workings of the British Mandates for governing Iraq and Palestine.

1921: In New York City, Iphigene (née Ochs) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, “the publisher of the NYTimes from 1935 to 1961” gave birth the second of their four children Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg whose exciting life included working as a Red Cross Volunteer in Europe during WW II, to a career in journalism and the benefactor of wide variety of charities and institutions.

1922(12thof Adar, 5682): Samuel Hirsch Margulies passed away.  Born at Berezhany in 1858, he held several rabbinic posts before being appointed chief rabbi of Florence, Italy in 1890 where he also became head of the Collegio Rabbinco when it was transferred from Rome to Florce

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Florence.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20080623041000/http://www.bh.org.il/Communities/Synagogue/florence.asp

1922(12th of Adar, 5682): Eighty year old Minnie Dessau Louis passed away.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/louis-minnie-dessau

1922: According to reports published today Samuel Untermeyer and his son Irwin are among the members of a New York committee that has pledged to raise $100,000 for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation fund. 

1922: In Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA, Max and Jennie Gold gave birth to Sydney Gold who gained famed body-builder Joe Gold, founder of Gold’s Gym – one of the most ubiquitous fitness centers found in most major and not so major cities in the United States.

1923: It was reported today that Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation, who is being treated by Dr. G.G. Fish at Lenox Hill Hospital is “making good progress” in his fight with Pneumonia and should be able to go Florida at the end of the week so he can fully recuperate.

1924: In front of 1,000 men and women who were attending a reception in his honor in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor, Dr. Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El, for many years a non-Zionist, who has just returned from a six month trip that included spending time in Palestine declared in an address tonight that he intended to devote the remainder of his life to the cause of Palestine.

1925: “Decorated from stem to stern with flags of the international code and bearing the six-pointed star -- the shield of David -- on her funnels, the steamship President Arthur of the American-Palestine Line sailed today for the Holy Land with 400 passengers, beginning a new steamship service and linking Palestine directly with New York.”

1926: It was reported today that of the 32,000 Jews who left Poland in 1925, 15,000 went to Palestine, 8,616 went to Argentina and 3,840 went to the United States.

1926: It was reported today that Henry Ittlelson had been commissioned by William Fox “to solicit contributions for the United Jewish Campaign of New York from Jewish citizens of New York” who are in Europe.

1927: Paul and Fay Parnes gave birth today to William Irwin Parnes.

1927: Offices of Hias-Ica-Emig-directed, the organization formed by Hias “in cooperation with the Jewish Colonization Association and the United Jewish Immigration Committee” designed to help Jewish immigrants move to “Southern American countries eager for Jewish immigrants” “began to function today” in “the principal ports” so provide help immigrants learn the native language and places them “with some trade.”

1928: Birthdate of Mordechai Eliyahu, the Jerusalem native who would become a prominent rabbi, posek and who would serve as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993.

1929: One of the first “talkie Hollywood Biblical epics, “Noah’s Ark,” the Warner Brothers film written by Darryl Zanuck premiered to critical and popular acclaim in New York City.

1930: Birthdate of Los Angeles native Eugene Bleecher Selznick gold medal winning volleyball player and coach

1932: U.S. premiere of “The Lost Squadron” -- first RKO production to carry the screen credit "Executive Producer, David O. Selznick" with music by Max Steiner and additional dialogue written by Herman J. Mankiewicz.

1932: Supreme Court Benjamin Cardozo was among the judges for the National Oratorical Contest which announced its winners tonight.

1933: CBS broadcast the first episode of “Lazy Dan, The Minstrel Man” starring Irving Kaufman.

1933: During the Great Depression, newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first “fire-side” chat today.

1935:  After opening in New York in January, “The Good Fairy” a movie version of the Broadway play, directed by William Wyler and Carl Laemmle, Jr. opened today in Los Angeles.

1936: Warsaw’s Chief Rabbi, Moses Schorr, who is also a Senator, told that body about “a veritable pogrom in Prztyk, in central Poland” and then “appealed to the Interior Minister to put an end to the anti-Semitic rioting occurring all over the country.”

 

1936: Count Rostworowski, “a member of the government party…requested the government to combat the growing anti-Semitic movement, which he said was aimed at the government” adding that anti-Semitism “was the Nationalists’ strongest weapon with which to weaken the government and win over the population.

1936: In Chicago, Edward Reba and Suzanne Greenberg gave birth to Daniel Edward Reba who gained fame as children’s book author Daniel Cohen, who fought for justice for the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 one of whose passenger was he daughter Theodora. (As reported by Richard Sandomir.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/obituaries/daniel-cohen-82-dies-sought-justice-for-pan-am-bombing-victims.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1937: The Palestine Post reported that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, told the House of Commons that from 1922 to 1935 the population of Jerusalem rose from 63,000 to 110,000; of Tel Aviv from 15,000 to 110,000; of Jaffa from 33,000 to 74,000 and of Haifa from 25,000 to 85,000. He added that a committee had been set up by the High Commissioner in 1932 to consider compulsory health insurance, but it had decided that the introduction of such system in Palestine was premature, especially for the Arab section of the population.

1938: Hitler entered Austria to the greetings of the Church and Cardinal Innitzer. Seys-Inquert, who later achieved infamy as a mass murderer of Jews, was appointed Chancellor. The following day, Austria was annexed to Germany. Just a month before Hitler’s arrival, J.D. Salinger left Vienna to return to the United States.  He had been in the country since 1937 where he was learning about the meat-importing business.

1938: During the Spanish Civil War, the Botwin Company named after Jewish Polish radical Naftali Botwin were one of the units that went into action today when fighting began at Belchite.

1938: As part of its drive to raise $4,500,000, The United Palestine Appeal issued a report today focusing on the growth in Palestine over the last twenty years.  Among highlights of the report are figures showing that from 1931 to 1936, exports increased from eight million dollars to eighteen million dollars. At the same time, bank deposits more than doubled in the last five years and the numbers of factories and workshops more than doubled in period starting in 1921 and ending in 1937.

1939: Pope Pius XII was crowned Pope in Vatican ceremonies. While the Catholic Church may be considering Pious XII for canonization, the Jewish view of him is one who is “impious.”

1939: Mrs. Tehilla Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver an address on “A Time to Be Silent and a Time to Speak” this morning at the Jewish Science Society.

1939: Rabbi Hyman Judah Schactel is scheduled to deliver an address on “Palestine Today” at the West End Synagogue.

1939: Rabbi Israel Goldstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Religion of the Unintelligent” at Temple B’nai Jeshurun.

1939: Rabbi Nathan A Perlman is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning at Temple Emanu-El.

1939: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The London-Palestine Conference and Arab Appeasement” at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall.

1940: It was announced today at UJA headquarters in New York City that “Edward M.M. Warburg, son of the late Felix M. Warburg, has accepted the chairmanship for the New York metropolitan area of the 1940 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Need.”

1940: Tova Haber, a homemaker and Yehuda Haber, who worked for the local chamber of commerce, and was a supporter of the right-wing Herut movement, led by Menachem Begin gave birth to Eitan Haber, the trusted confidant of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who announced to the nation Mr. Rabin’s shocking death. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/middleeast/eitan-haber-dead.html

1941: Churchill met with Weizmann and reiterated his support for the eventual establishment of Jewish military units and a Jewish state in Palestine.

1941: A sentry shot and killed a 13-year-old in the Lodz ghetto.

1942(23rd of Adar): David Raziel was killed while serving for the British in Iraq

1942: The Nazis ordered 8,000 Jews from southern Polish town of Mielec to be at the train station. The next morning, as they gathered, 2,000 children and elderly were shot dead at the train station.

1943: In Chicago, Illinois, Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Finkel and his wife, Sara Rosenblum gave birth to Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Haredi Rabbi who became Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem

1943: Aaron Copland's ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' was performed for the first time, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1943(5thof Adar II, 5703): Ninety-two-year-old Mary Jane Phillips Greenawalt, the widow of Abraham Greenawalt passed away today

1943(5thof Adar II, 5703): Forty-eight-year-old Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer passed away in Tel Avi.

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer

1943: Tonight, is the night when Oskar Schindler changed his life, the life of his workers and history. Addressing his workers, he told them not to go home tonight. The Krakow ghetto, he said, would be liquidated the next day. Schindler had witnessed the killings and decided he must protect his laborers. He would build his own concentration camp as a satellite to Kraków-Plaszów, and his staff would compile the now famous list of workers he wanted transferred to his camp.

1944: “In a half hour lecture on Hebrew contributions to civilization, Mayor La Guardia tonight told 700 persons at a dinner meeting of the National Council of Fraternal and Landsmanshaften Organizations for the Yeshiva and Yeshiva College, that "a people that have such a tradition that has given so much has a lasting permanent place in this world, and nothing can destroy it."

1944: “Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who was born on St. Patrick's Day seventy years ago, was guest of honor at a dinner given tonight by the Jewish Institute of Religion in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, opening a week's ceremonies in celebration of his birthday and the completion of more than fifty years of activity in American life”

1945(27th of Adar, 5705): Bernard Drachman, who served as rabbi at the Park East Synagogue for 55 years starting in 1890, passed away today.

1945: According to some sources, this is the day Anne Frank died at Bergen Belsen two months before the liberation by British forces.

1946: While appearing today as a witness for Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials, “Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring, who ordered the bombing of Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry, appeared today before the International Military Tribunal and attempted to justify his acts.”

1946: Dr. Judah L. Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University is prepared to speak in favor of the “compromise proposal that Palestine be constituted a bi-national state with eventual numerical equality of Jews and Arabs which was presented to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry today.”

1947: In the U.K. premiere of “Nicholas Nickleby” a screen adaption of the novel by the same name produced by Michael Bolton, the son of Jewish immigrants

1947: Speaking as leader of the Loyal Opposition, Churchill attacks the Labor Party’s policy in Palestine attacking what he called “a senseless, squalid war with the Jews, in order to give Palestine to the Arab or God knows who.”

1947: A British corvette warned British troops that a large number of Jewish refugees on board the SS Susanna, were attempting to land on the southern coast of Palestine.  British troops assisted by the local Arab population worked to intercept and arrest the refugees.  The British reported that they had captured almost 900 people but 240 may have been Jewish citizens of Palestine.

1947: The Truman Doctrine was proclaimed today.  It was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.  Greece was in the throes of a civil war where one side was supported by the Soviets.  In February of 1947, the British government informed Washington, that it was too broke to continue its traditional role of protecting Greece which had been part of its “sphere of influence.”  While Britain did not have the money to halt Soviet imperial expansion, she apparently had enough funds to patrol the Mediterranean to stop Jews from getting to Palestine. And she had enough money to support what had become an army of occupation aimed at thwarting the creation of a Jewish homeland.  It should be remembered that when President Truman was being pressured to deal with the problems of the displaced Jews of Europe and the issue of Palestine, he was also dealing with an explosion of other problems including the Soviet drive to control Europe.  His decisions vis a vis the Jews must also be viewed against the backdrop of a much larger world stage which the United States was only reluctantly entering on to.

1947: During a session of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, Auni Bey Abdulhadi described the “wartime associations of the Mufti of Jerusalem…with Hitler and Mussolini.”

1948(1stof Adar II, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Adar II

1948: Orville Prescott provided a complete review of A Mask For Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America by Carey McWilliams.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/12/84616561.pdf

1948: “The representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, China and France heard leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine present a nine-point plan for implementation by the Security Council of the United Nations General Assembly for a partition of” Palestine.

1949: The raising of a hand-drawn flag, known as the “Ink Flag over the police station at Umm Rashrash, the future site of the city of Eilat, at 16:00 “is considered to mark the end of the War of Independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_Flag#/media/File:Raising_the_Ink_Flag_at_Umm_Rashrash_(Eilat).jpg

1949(11thof Adar): At the conclusion of Operation Uvada, the commander sent the following telegram “"On Hagana day, the 11th of Adar, the Palmach Negev brigade and the Golani brigade present the Gulf of Eilat to the State of Israel".

1949: Birthdate of producer, director and writer Rob Cohen. It may not be fair to include Cohen on this page given his view of being Jewish.  When asked about his feelings about being Jewish Cohen has said, “I'm totally in reaction to it. I've never been comfortable with the Jewish identity. It's been one of those crosses to bear that I had the surname 'Cohen' which is a label. You can't hide even if you wanted to, so I don't practice. It's not anything of interest to me. I don't want to rediscover it. I'm not interested.”

1950: The Foreign Ministry of Israel is scheduled to host a reception for members of the Istanbul Fenerache soccer team who played their first game in Tel Aviv yesterday.  The reception is in response to the fact that Turkey announced its decision earlier this week to recognize the state of Israel.

1950(23rdof Nisan, 5710): Eighty-three-year-old Dr. Armand Ahron Noach Kaminka, the son of Wolf and Sura Beile Kaminka and husband of Klara Kaminka, “the renowned rabbi, Hebrew scholar and secretary of Alliance Israelite Universelle in Vienna” who was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, passed away today.

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

1950(23rdof Nisan, 5710): Louis I. Jaffe who had been editor of The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot for thirty years” and who “was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial” opposing lynching passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/03/14/84813943.pdf

1950: As a reminder of the fact that the Jewish state is surrounded by enemies committed to its destruction “the Israeli Defense Ministry today ordered the registration for the Army Reserve of all physicians between the ages of 29 and 49.”  Reportedly the government will soon require all civilians between the ages of 18 and 49 who have not served in the military to register with the Ministry of Defense.

1950: The New York Times reported that the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture has appointed Mr. Frank Pelleg to serve as head of its music department.

1951(4thof Adar II, 5711: Sixty-five-year-old Samuel Plaut, the President of the Metropolitan Slaughters Association passed away today at Woodmere, Long Island.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175694.pdf

1951: In Hartford, CT, Jacob (Jack) Isserman and the former Flora Huffman gave birth to Maurice Isserman, a “long-time Professsor of History at Hamilton College” and the award winning biographer of Michael Harrington.

1951(4thof Adar II, 5711): Seventy-seven-year-old London born, internationally acclaimed concert pianist Harold Bauer who performed for the first time in the United States in 1900 and “gave his last formal concert in 1939” passed away today having been pre-deceased by his wife Marie Knapp who had passed away in 1940.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175687.pdf

1951: As of this date the Iraqis allowed planes filled with Jewish refugees to fly straight to Israel instead of having to go to Cyprus first.

1951: Eighty-five-year-old Alfred Hugenberg, the German “industrialist and monarchist” whose right wing party was jettisoned by Hitler after he had reached power passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175724.pdf

1952(15thof Adar, 5712): Shushan Purim

1952:The Jerusalem Postreported that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett met Sir Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, in London and told him that Israel was eager to reach a settlement with its neighbors and to stop to "perpetuate its loneliness" in the area.

1953: Birthdate of Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor

1954:The first performance of Arnold Schönberg's "Moses und Aaron.” This was not the only Jewish themed work by this great Jewish composer.

 

1954: Birthdate of British sculptor Anish Kapoor who was born in Bombay (Mumbai) to Jewish mother whose family emigrated from Baghdad and whose grandfather was the cantor in the Synagogue in Pune. Kapoor lived on a Kibbutz and after discovering that Engineering was not his forte decided to gain the skills that have made him a famous artist.

1954: Birthdate of Chicago native Larry Rothschild who was the first manager of the newly minted Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as a successful pitching coach for numerous teams including the New York Yankees.

1955: Opening of the 2nd Pan American Games during which Eugene Selznick’s led U.S. Volleyball team won a gold medal.

1955: Birthdate of Druze Israeli political leader and MK Ayoob Kara.

1956: The 1956 NCAA Basketball Tournament in which Temple coached by Harold “Chief” Litwak defeated Holy Cross, Connecticut and Temple in the East Region began today.

1957: Birthdate of actor Jerry Levine.

1958: “Desire Under the Elms” a cinema version of the novel by the same name with a script by Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff) and music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States today.

1960(13thof Adar, 5720): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1960: “Taffy Pergament won the Novice Ladies singles title at the Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships in Iceland.” (As reported by Bob Wechsler.)

http://s195.photobucket.com/user/TroyReunion/media/MaryLou/sc001638a1.jpg.html

1963: Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance.

1964: After premiering in London in January, “Summer Holiday” a musical with a score by Stanley Black was released in the rest of the United States today.

1964: S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman's "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in New York.

1965: Birthdate of American sports journalist, Steve Levy.

1967: Naqi Jahan, the daughter of the first Miss India, Esther Victoria Abraham, was chosen Miss India. (As reported by Dr. Navara Jaat Aafreedi)

1968: Mauritius achieves independence from Great Britain. Mauritius is located in the Indian Ocean. In 1940, the British created a prison there to hold Jews who had escaped from Hitler’s Europe and were trying to enter Palestine.  The Jewish cemetery on the island attests to the cost of the British policy.  Since gaining its independence, Mauritius has sent many of its citizens to Israel for professional training in several fields of study including that of agronomy.

1969; In New York City, Theodore S. “Ted” Tapper, “the president of South Philadelphia Pediatrics and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College” the former Helen Anne Palmatier gave birth to CNN newsman Jake Tapper who was raised in Philadelphia and “graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with an A.B. in History, modified by Visual Studies, in 1991.”

1969: Four months after premiering in the UK, “Where Eagles Dare” a WW II espionage film produced by Elliot Kastner was released in the United States today.

1969: Linda Eastman married Beatle Paul McCartney (A marriage that fits with Purim motif)

https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/12/1969/this-week-in-history-linda-eastman-marries-paul-mccartney

1972(26thof Adar, 5732): Eighty-four-year-old Louis Joel Mordell, the American born British mathematician “for pioneering research in number theory” passed away today.

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mordell.html

1972: “The Rabbinical Council of America” an Orthodox organization “appealed for Congressional legislation that would ‘grant tax deductions to parents who pay for their children in the all-day Jewish schools’ arguing that the hundreds of day schools ‘educate a substantial portion of the American children’ and that ‘our public schools are ill-equipped to absorb the youngsters who are currently in these schools.’”

1975: Birthdate of Dan Greenbaum, the native of Torrance, CA who played on the 1992 U.S. Olympic 

Volleyball team that won a bronze medal.

1976(10thof Adar II, 5736): Seventy-three-year-old Charley Phil Rosenberg, who was World Bantamweight Champion from 1925 to 1927 passed away today.

1977(22ndof Adar, 5737): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1977(22ndof Adar, 5737” Eighty-year-old NYU trained attorney Bernard Trencher, “the former chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Bronx County Bar Association and husband of “the former Bessie Gelula” with whom he had two daughters, Lenore and Phyllis, passed away today.

1977: Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledged to regain Arab territory from Israel.  Sadat would reach his goal, but with the pen of the peace treaty not the sword of war.

1979(13thof Adar, 5739): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim

1980: “A Small Circle of Friends” directed by Rob Cohen was released in the United States today.

1985(19th of Adar, 5745):  Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian born conductor, passed away.  Born in 1899, he came to United States in 1921.  He was the permanent conductor and music director for the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1938 until 1980.

1987: CBS broadcast the last episode of “The Wizard” starring David Stephen Rappaport.

1990(15thof Adar, 5750: Sixty-nine year old businessman and sport’s team owner, Gene Klein passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-13/sports/sp-260_1_san-diego-chargers

1990 (15th of Adar, 5750): Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg, a spiritual leader of Canada's Jews and an author, died of cancer today in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he had a winter home. He was 67 years old and also lived in Toronto.  For nine years, until he retired last August, Rabbi Rosenberg led the Beth Torah synagogue in Toronto. Earlier, he was senior rabbi for 17 years at BethTzedec in Toronto, the largest Conservative congregation in Canada. Rabbi Rosenberg was one of the first Western religious leaders to focus on the plight of Soviet Jews, traveling to Moscow in 1961 and writing a series of newspaper articles on their problems. He was also a pioneer in Christian-Jewish dialogue in Canada. He wrote 20 books, including ''Christians and Jews: The Eternal Bond,'' published in 1985, and a two-volume study, ''The Jewish Community in Canada'' (1971). His last book, ''Secrets of the Jews,'' is scheduled to appear in the fall. He also worked as an editor for the Encyclopedia Judaica with responsibility for Canadian matters. Born in Manhattan, Rabbi Rosenberg was a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

1993(19thof Adar, 5753): Eighty-three-year-old Michael Kanin passed away. The brother of Garson Kanin, he co-authored the Oscar winning script for “Woman of the Year” and shared an Oscar nomination with his wife Kay Mitchell for the script of “Teacher’s Pet.”

1993(19th of Adar, 5753): Yehoshua Freidberg, a 24-year-old immigrant from Canada was shot dead on the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem highway.

1997(3rdof Adar II, 5757): Eighty-four-year-old Philadelphia born, University of Pennsylvania graduate Bertram M. Gross, the English and philosophy student turned advocated for full employment who was a driving force behind the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/business/bertram-m-gross-84-author-of-full-employment-bills-of-1944-45.html?searchResultPosition=1

1998(14thof Adar, 5758): Purim

1998: Pope John Paul II wrote to Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy:

On numerous occasions during my Pontificate I have recalled with a sense of deep sorrow the sufferings of the Jewish people during the Second World War. The crime which has become known as the Shoah remains an indelible stain on the history of the century that is coming to a close.

As we prepare for the beginning of the Third Millennium of Christianity, the Church is aware that the joy of a Jubilee is above all the joy that is based on the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God and neighbour. Therefore she encourages her sons and daughters to purify their hearts, through repentance of past errors and infidelities. She calls them to place themselves humbly before the Lord and examine themselves on the responsibility which they too have for the evils of our time.

It is my fervent hope that the document: We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, which the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews has prepared under your direction, will indeed help to heal the wounds of past misunderstandings and injustices. May it enable memory to play its necessary part in the process of shaping a future in which the unspeakable iniquity of the Shoah will never again be possible. May the Lord of history guide the efforts of Catholics and Jews and all men and women of good will as they work together for a world of true respect for the life and dignity of every human being, for all have been created in the image and likeness of God.

 

1999: The Times of London features a review of From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of Israel by Idith Zertal. 

1999(24th of Adar, 5759): Sir Yehudi Menuhin famed violinist passed away at the age of 82.  Born in New York in 1916, Menuhin was raised in San Francisco.   He was a child prodigy who debuted at the age of eight.

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including In America by Susan Sontag, How We Got Here. The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)by David Frum and The Nazis by Piotr Uklanski.

2000: Pope John Paul II asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities. What a difference in the events from 61 years before on this date.

2001: The Israeli Army today sealed off Ramallah, the unofficial seat of government of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, blocking roads with trenches, mounds of earth and checkpoints backed by tanks and armored troop carriers.

2002: “The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, told Israel today that ''you must end the illegal occupation'' of Palestinian lands, as Israeli ground forces and helicopter gunships killed 31 Palestinians in their fiercest assault on the areas since Israel conquered them in 1967.”

2003: At the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition entitled Herblock’s Gift: Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection

2003: In an article entitled “A New Glasnost on War’s Looted Art,” Sophia Kishkovsky describes the efforts of Russia’s Ministry of Culture to return thousands of paintings, archives and rare books looted by Soviet forces in Germany and Eastern Europe during and after World War II and taken to Russia as so-called trophy art. Hitler's forces had previously pillaged many of the works from Jewish owners and other Nazi victims

2003(8th of Adar II, 5763):  Howard Fast passed away.  Born in 1914, some of the controversial authors more famous works include Spartacus, Citizen Tom Paine and The CrossingThe Crossing was adapted for a PBS mini-series depicting the battles surrounding Washington’s Crossing the Delaware which were critical to the colonists ultimate victory over the British.

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

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

2004: After having premiered in Bangkok, “Spartan” directed and written by David Mamet, co-produced by David Bergstein and featuring Moshe Igvy was released today in the United States.

2005:  “Roman Allegories” a solo exhibition of the works of Eleanor Antin came to a close at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, NY

2005: “Love Counts,” an opera in two acts by Michael Nyman “premiered today at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany.”

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Lipshitz Six or Two Angry by T Cooper and the recently released paperback edition of Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System by Sharon Waxman

2006: A two-hour event - "Jewish Unity Live 2006" - is held at a hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

2007: The Jerusalem Post reported that “the first Israeli Druse physician to become a professor is Dr. Jamal Zidan, head of the oncology department at Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He received his title from the Medical Faculty of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and he has worked at Ziv since 1979, when he was an intern.”

2007(22ndof Adar, 5767): Eleven days after turning eighty-three Arnold Druckman who gained fame as Arnold Drake “an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others” who was the brother of songwriters Ervin and Milton Drake passed away today.

http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=130

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dcs-arnold-drake-obit/

2007: In “Some Things You Never Forget” published today Theresa Vargas remembers the “1977 siege by Hanafi Muslims” that gripped Washington, DC thirty years ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101562.html

 

 

2008: In Washington, D.C.,Joseph Horowitz, a former New York Timesmusic critic and executive director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, discusses and signs Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts.

2008: The New Republic featured reviews of The Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America by Jacob Gordin, translated by Ruth Gay and Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia by Christopher Clark in which the author attributes the rise of Prussia during the 17thcentury to the “legendary religious tolerance of the Hohenzollerns” which enabled them to strengthen the state’s economy by opening its borders to Jews. The same magazine also profiled the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso a community of about 150 Ghanaians who claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel  

2008: “Masada, a musical group led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn” performed at Yoshi's San Francisco jazz club

2008: The Australian parliament commemorated Israel's 60 years of independence as its leaders pledged their commitment to the country's security and stated their "respect for the Israeli cause," Australia's The Age reported. The motion was put forward by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and seconded by Opposition leader Brendan Nelson.

2008: Israel's Holocaust memorial posthumously recognized a prominent Spanish diplomat, who was the grandfather of the Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter, for his role in saving hundreds of Jews during World War II.  Yad Vashem named Eduardo Propper de Callejon a "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest honor granted to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

2009: New York University’s Taub Center of Isreal Studies presents “Negotiating Peace With Syria,” a public dialogue subtitled “Lessons from the Past, Promises from the Future,” featuring Martin Indyk, former US Ambassador to Israel, and Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli Ambassador to the US.

2009: The Westchester Film Festival opens with a screening of “The Gift of Stalin,” the moving tale of a Jewish boy’s exile to the hinterlands of Kazakhstan in 1949 who is raised by the gruff Kasym, a Muslim, and Verka, a Christian.

2009:The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff was immediately handcuffed and led off to jail today after a hearing in which he pleaded guilty to running a vast Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars.

2009: The National Book Critics Circle awarded the autobiography prize to Ariel Sabar's "My Father's Paradise," which traces the author's Jewish roots in Kurdish Iraq. Sabar, who spoke of being an immigrant's son in 1980s Los Angeles, remembered growing up with a father who "looked funny,""talked funny" and "couldn't get his clothes to match." But Sabar became deeply curious about his family's history and was struck by Iraq's long history of people of different faiths "who pretty much got along."

2009(16thof Adar. 5769): Ninety-one-year-old Lenore Cohn “Lee” Annenberg, the widow Walter Annenberg, passed away.  (As reported by Robert McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/13annenberg.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Lee+Annenberg&st=nyt

2010: The Adas Israel Scholar-In-Residence Weekend is scheduled to begin with a Friday night service, dinner and a presentation by Professor David Kraemer on "Sacrificial Judaism, Vegetarianism, and the “Theology” of Food and Kashrut"

2010:The former mayor of Amsterdam, 62-year-old Marius Job Cohen became the new head of the Dutch Labor party today after Wouter Bos, his predecessor, resigned. Cohen reportedly could become Prime Minister after elections are held this June.

2011: Eighty-nine-year-old Tawfix Toubi, the last surviving member of the First Knesset (1949) passed away today in Haifa.  An Arab Christian, he was a member of the Communist Party who served in the Knesset until he retired in 1990.

2011: In Fairfax Station, VA, Jewish Rock Artists Rick Recht and Sheldon Low are scheduled to perform at a special concert celebrating Temple B’nai Shalom’s 25th anniversary.

2011: “Zion and his Brother” and “There Were Nights” are scheduled to be shown at the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2011: “Ajami,” an Israeli film that had been nominated for an Oscar is scheduled to be shown at Columbia Jewish Congregation’s (CJC) 2011 - Nineteenth Season of Movies

2011(6thof Adar II): According to tradition today marks the anniversary of Moses completion of the book of Deuteronomy, which took place on 6 Adar, 1273.

 

2011(6thof Adar II): Ninety-five-year-old Yiddish actress Shira Lerer passed away today in New York City. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/shifra-lerer-actress-in-yiddish-theater-dies-at-95.html

2011: Defense Minister Ehud Barak vowed today that Israel would use every means possible to track down those behind the fatal stabbing of a family of five in the West Bank settlement of Itamar .

 2011: In “A Local Life: Al Ungerleider, 89; old soldier recalled nightmare mission,” published today, Lauren Wiseman recounts the exploits of the Jewish general who as a young lieutenant fought his from Normandy across Europe where he saw the horror of Nordhausen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/a-local-life-al-ungerleider-89-old-soldier-recalled-nightmare-mission/2011/03/07/ABNdjBS_story.html

2012: The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open in Oakland, CA

2012: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, The American Jewish Committee, and The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists are scheduled to sponsor a “brown bag lunch” featuring Art Spitzer, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area who will provide a look at some of the civil liberties cases on the Supreme Court Docket.

2012(18thof Adar, 5772): Eighty-five year old “Mike Silverstein, a founder of Nina Footwear” passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/mike-silverstein-a-founder-of-nina-footwear-dies-at-85.html

2012(18thof Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, the 211th anniversary of David Emanuel being sworn in as Governor of the state of Georgia, making him the first Jew to serve as the chief executive of any state government in the United States.

2012: Offensive tackle Geoff Schwartz signed a one-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings.

2012: Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired more than 40 rockets at Israel today, as the heavy cross-border barrage continued into its fourth day.

 2012: Journalist turned politician Yair Lapid blamed the Palestinians for the failure to reach a breakthrough in the peace process in a speech on Monday at Tel Aviv University.

2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Private Films, Public Identities: Jewish Self-Representations in Hungarian and Polish Interwar Home Movies”

2013: ”The Other Son” is scheduled to be shown at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.

2013: Sameh "SAZ" Zakout a native of Ramle is one of the Israeli musicians scheduled to perform today at SXSW 2013

2013: In an op-ed column entitled “An Endelible Stain on FDR’s Legacy” Richard Cohen wrote “FDR supported programs that did. . . save 100,000 Jewish lives” while “condemning President Roosevelt for not doing more to help Europe’s Jews escape Hitler.”

2013(1stof Nissan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Nissan

2014: “A month after canceling a trip to Israel because of floods at home, British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to address the Knesset today.” (As reported by Spence Ho)

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble in a performance of Schubert’s Sonatina in D Major, Brahms’ Sonata No 2 in A Major and Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80,

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews.”

2014: In Washington, DC, as part of “Voices of the Vigil, graphic designer Avrum Ashery will showcase his unique role in creating posters, buttons, and cards of protest for the movement.

2014: The Washington Wizards basketball team is scheduled to host Jewish Heritage Night & a Pre-Purim Celebration.

2014: In Washington, the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to host the “Latke-Hamentashen Debate.”

2014: Ruth Goodman and Yossi Almani are scheduled to lead “Israeli Dancing” at the 92ndStreet Y.

2014: In Metairie, LA, Rabbi Mendel Ceitin is scheduled to begin teaching at six week course “To Be a Jew in the Free World: Jewish Identity Through the Lens of Modern History.”

2014: Islamic Jihad took credit for the barrage of rockets fired into Israel today.  The terrorist claim they fired 90 missiles but the IDF puts the number at 60. (As reported by Adiv Sterman)

 

2014: IDF jets hit 29 targets this evening in Gaza in response to to the most massive rocket barrage since 2012.  In addition, IDF tanks fired into Gaza eliminating at least two “terror targets.”(As reported by Marissa Newman and Tova Dvorin)

2014(10th of Adar II, 5774): Ninety-one year old David Sive, “founder of environmental law” passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/nyregion/david-sive-a-father-of-environmental-law-dies-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

2014: Geoff “Schwartz signed a four-year, $16.8 million deal with $6.2 million guaranteed with the New York Giants, after confirming the deal on Twitter.”

2014: “After years of heated public debate and political wrangling, Israel’s Parliament on today approved landmark legislation that will eventually eliminate exemptions from compulsory military service for many of the ultra-Orthodox students enrolled in seminaries.” (As reported by Isabel Kershner)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/world/middleeast/israel-restricts-exemptions-from-military-service.html?hp&_r=0

2015: The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present “A Read and Discussion of ‘I Pity the Poor Immigrant’” with Zachary Lazar.

2015: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to honor Renée and Lester Crown at the 2015 Humanitarian Awards Dinner in Chicago.

2015: “Zaytoun” directed by Eran Riklis is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Community of Northern Viriginia.

2015: The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne is scheduled to go on sale today at Montreal.

2015: In Atlanta, the 2015 Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series is scheduled to present “Kurt Weill: Berlin to Broadway.”

2015: Unless the labor court in Jerusalem intervenes, Histadrut is scheduled to begin a general strike that will hit cities and towns from Ashdod to Eilat.

2015: The American Sepharidi Federation’s Film Festival is scheduled to open today.

2015: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is scheduled to present “Voices of the Generations: Stories from the Holocaust” with Julie Kohner, whose mother Hanna was Holocaust survivor.

2015: “Former president and Prime Minister Shimon Peres today threw his support behind the Zionist Union’s Isaac Herzog for prime minister in the upcoming March 17 elections.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)

2016(2ndAdar II, 5776): Shabbat Pekuday; final Torah portion of Exodus

2016(2ndof Adar II, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old Elliot Gant, one of the creators of that ultimate in preppy-wear, the Gant buttoned-down shirt with the loop in the back passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/elliot-gant-marketer-of-the-button-down-shirt-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

2016: The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to celebrate its 78thseason by beginning a new tour under conductor Dmitry Yablonsky.

2016: In Texas, “Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: In North Carolina, “Once in a Lifetime” is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.

2016: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a third visit by the Richmond Ballet II.

2016: After Palestinian terrorists fired rockets from Gaza yesterday, Israeli aircraft “struck at Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip.”

2016: Philadelphia is scheduled to hold the opening event for the 20thAnnual Israeli Film Festival. 

2017: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police by Frank McDonough, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes and the recently released paperback edition of The Photographer’s Wifeby Susanne Joinson

2017: “Keep Quiet” a film that tells the story of vocal anti-Semite Holocaust denier Csanád Szegedi who discovers that he is Jewish and his grandmother survived Auschwitz is scheduled to be shown in Glasgow under the sponsorship of UKJF.

 2017(14th of Adar, 5777): Purim

2017: In responding to Congressman Steve King’s statement that “restoring Western civilization could not be done with somebody else’s babies, Chelsea Clinton, whose husband is Jewish said “Clearly the Congressman does not view all our children as, well, all our children which is something particularly ironic and painful to say on Purim.

2018: This evening in Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled “to host the third installment of MLK Moral Monday, the three-part clergy led servings and gatherings featuring distinguished speakers on the pressing social just issue of our times” that will music led by Abbie Strauss and readings by Rabbi Feivel Strauss

2018: Today, Goldman Sachs “announced that Harvey Schwartz, the company's co-chief operating officer and president would be resigning, leaving David Solomon as the second-in-command.”

2018: Publication of Joel Meyerowtiz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective by Joel Meyerowitz.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/07/photography-legend-joel-meyerowitz-phones-killed-sexiness-street-most-stunning-shots

2018: UCLA issued a statement today saying that Gabriel PIterberg who had been accused of sexual assault in 2013 “will no longer be teaching at the school.”

2018: “Brave Miss World” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2019: Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host an evening, Nikki Haley, the former US ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina who is often mentioned as a future candidate of the Presidency of the United States.

2019: A-WA, a trio of Yeminite sisters Tagel, Liron and Tal Hayim is scheduled to “perform a pre-Purim Yemenite Hafla concert in Tel Aviv today.

2019: The Center for Jewish History, the Leo Baeck Institute and the Oxford University Press are scheduled to host “First Person: Matti Friedman in Conversation with Lucette Lagnado” where the author Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel discusses his book with the author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit.”

2019: HIAS, the JCRC and ADL are scheduled to co-host “Seeking Asylum at Our Borders,” a discussion of “what legal rights and protections are afforded asylum seekers under US and international law, and what action steps you can take to ensure we continue to grant asylum” at the Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington D.C

2019: In the wake of reports that President Trump said “he’d win 98% of vote if he ran in Israeli elections”, his congressional ally Senator Lindsay Graham, after visiting the Golan is committed to having the United States officially “recognize” this territory “as belonging to Israel.”

2020: The nature of Things, an artist book by Keren Anavy & Tal Frank that celebrate eight years of artistic collaboration, will be displayed today on Times Square Billboards, on the corner of 41st Street and 7thAvenue.

2020: In San Francisco, “Zohar Studios, the Lost Years” an “exhibit of 30 images depicting Jewish life and the times by 19th-century Jewish immigrant photographer Shimmel Zohar, whose studio was on the Lower East Side” is scheduled to open at Contemporary Jewish Museum.

2020: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Center for Jewish History, American Jewish Historical Society, and the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host a discussion on “Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis:Whose Stories Will We Tell?” which celebrates the release of “Hunting Elephants.”

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach.

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Take Me Out,” the society’s contribution to “the Jewish dating scene at Oxford.”

2020: The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of

2020: In Oakland, CA, A Great Good Place for Books is scheduled to host Antoinette Constable as she talks about her new book, Natalie in the Shadow of the Swastika.

2021: Starting this evening,  Kerem Shalom of Concord and Congregation Beth David of Saratoga, California, are scheduled to host a special weekend of online Shabbat rituals as they mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021: The Riverway Project is scheduled to present online a “Virtual Riverway Shabbat” complete with singing, quiet, moments for gratitude, healing and remembrance.

2021: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “welcoming Shabbat mindful practice’ where attendees “explore and experience two new meditation techniques form a Jewish perspective.

2021: Pianist Orli Shaham is scheduled to “join the Grand Rapids Symphony for a live-streamed performance of Poulenc’s "Aubade." The “choreographed concerto” for piano and 18 instruments is a masterwork that was conceived in the exciting musical whirlwind of late 1920s Paris. Photo credit: Aleks Karjaka.

2021: Starting today, the Sonoma County JCC is scheduled to present five new Israeli films on demand over a 22-day period: “Asia” (drama), “Forgiveness” (comedy), “Kiss Me Kosher” (comedy), “Here We Are” (drama) and “Mrs. G” (documentary in a streaming mode that will last until April 22.

2021: Chapter Two Films is scheduled to host “a special virtual Q and A with Daniel Libeskind to celebrate the opening of Emmy Award winning director Slawomir Grunberg’s new documentary “Still Life in Lodz.”

2021: Congregation Shomrei Torah, Santa Rosa is scheduled to present Rachel Havrelock, author of “River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line,” as she addresses the water situation in Israel, its history, Israeli technologies and environmental peacebuilding through watershed restoration.

2021: Based on statements made yesterday by Health Ministry Director General Prof. Hezi Levi as of today Israel will be leaving in place its mask mandate in public spaces for the foreseeable future despite the success of the country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign and the consequent fall in coronavirus morbidity. (As reported by Nina Fuchs)

 


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624: Islamic forces under the command of Muhammad were victorious at the Battle of Badr which cemented the power of the Moslem leader with all that we would mean for civilization in general and the Jews in particular.

1202: Seventy-six-year-old Mieszko III, the Duke of Greater Poland who “employed Jews in his mint as engravers and technical supervisors, and the coins minted during that period even bear Hebraic markings” passed away today.

1245: As the Mongols sweep across Asia and Christian Europe, Innocent IV issued “Cum non solum,” a letter addressed to the Mongols asking them to desist from attacking Christian nations.  This is the same Innocent IV who had ordered the massive burning of Jewish books including many priceless copies of the Talmud. 

1366: During the Castilian Civil War, Peter of Castile, whose depiction by his enemies as being friendly Jews was used against was deposed as King of Castile and Leon.

1421 (10th of Nisan): After nearly a year’s imprisonment, the Jews of Austria were ordered to be burned.  “In Vienna alone, more than a hundred perished in one field near the Danube.” 

1421(10th of Nisan): Rabbi Aaron of Neustadt, author Hilkhot Niddah died the martyr’s death in Vienna

1524: Suleiman II issued a firman that brought closure to Abraham de Castro who had exposed the traitorous plans of Amad-Pasha to take control of Egypt and protection for the Jews of Egypt, an event memorialized by “Cairo Purim)

1601(19th of Adar II, 5361): Mordecai Marcus Meisel passed away. Born in in 1528, the son of Samuel Meisel, he was one of the wealthiest people in Bohemia. A noted philanthropist, he was a leader of the Jewish community in Prague. During his youth, the Jews of Prague were the victims of the fanatical persecutions instituted by Ferdinand I. “In 1542 and 1561 his family, with the other Jewish inhabitants, was forced to leave the city, though only for a time. The source of the great wealth which subsequently enabled him to become the benefactor of his coreligionists and to aid the Austrian imperial house, especially during the Turkish wars, is unknown. He is mentioned in documents for the first time in 1569, as having business relations with the communal director Isaac Rofe (Lékarz), subsequently his father-in-law. His first wife, Eva, who died before 1580, built with him the Jewish Town Hall in Prague, which is still standing, as well as the neighboring Hohe synagogue, where the Jewish court sat. With his second wife, Frummet, he built (1590-92) the Maisel Synagogue, which was much admired by the Jews of the time, being, next to the Altneusynagoge, the metropolitan synagogue of the city.”  After his death, despite the fact that “his widow had given presents of tens of thousands of florins to the king and city, soldiers would forcibly enter his house on the Sabbath and torture his nephews until they ‘confessed’ that there was still more money hidden away. All the money was declared property of the Bohemian Chamber with nothing left to the family.”

1615: Birthdate of Antonio Pignatelli who as Pope Innocent XII abolished Jewish loan-banks in Rome 1682. In the following year he extended the ban to Ferrara and other Jewish ghettos under his authority. He also prohibited the Jews under his control from serving as shopkeeper and banned them most trades and crafts, causing the Roman Jewish community to shrink.

 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/italytime.html

1639: Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. Eighty-three years later, Harvard would hire its first Jewish instructor, sort-of. In 1722,” the officers of Harvard Corporation vote that Judah Monis be approved as an instructor of the Hebrew language at the College, under the condition that he convert to Christianity. One month before assuming his post at Harvard, Monis converts before a large assembly in College Hall.” It would take Harvard another 221 years to hire a Jewish professor without the requirement that he convert. Harry Levin became the first Jewish full professor in the Harvard English department in 1943.

1656: The Jews were denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.

1682: Students in Cracow staged anti-Semitic riots

1741: Birthdate of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.  On the positive side, Joseph did away with numerous humiliating conditions for his Jewish subjects including the special badges and taxes. He wanted to liberate the Jews from “humiliating and oppressive laws and to assure that all Austrian subjects could contribute to the public welfare without any distinction with regard to nationality and religion.”  The thrust of his reforms were intended to make Germans out of his Jewish subjects.  This liberalization worried the empire’s anti-Semites.  But it also bothered Jewish leaders including Moses Mendelssohn.  They feared that the price of being free was a diluted Judaism. 

1745: Jews exiled from Prague

1805: In Bavaria, Fanny Reiling and Michael Lilienthal gave birth to Bernhard Lilienthal who married Wilhelmine Schmidt in 1869 after having been married to Julia Schwabacher, the mother of his son Ignatz Lilienthal

1808(14th of Adar, 5568): Purim

1808: Frederick VI, who had shown a great deal of interest in his Jewish subjects while regent and who would support full Jewish emancipation began his reign as King of Denmark.

1808: Levi Barent Cohen, who had three children with his first wife Fanny and seven children with his second wife Lydia, was buried today.

1809: Birthdate of Alexander Levi, a French born Sephardic Jew, who was one of the early settlers of Dubuque, Iowa. He would live there until he passed away in 1893.  Levi was a successful merchant and civic leader who was one of the first Jews to hold public office in the Hawkeye state.

http://iagenweb.org/dubuque/religious/Jewish.htm

1811: Rachel and Nathan Hart gave birth to Mary Hart the wife of David Hart.

1813: In South Carolina, Rachel Mordecai and Charleston, SC native Isaac Harby gave birth to Samuel Harby who married Frances Levy, the mother of Octavia, Julia, Isabel and Jeannette Harby after having been married to New York native Sarah Philips Levy.

1815: In Pressburg, Sarel, the daughter of Rabbi Akiva Eger and Rabbi Moses Sofer gave birth to Shmuel Binyomin Sofer a leading 19th century Hungarian Rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Pressburg Yeshiva.

1816(13th of Adar, 5576): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim

1816: One day after he had passed away, Isaac Eliezer Davis was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1819; Birthdate of Wilmington native Solomon Solis, one of the first Jewish residents of Delaware of whom we have definitive records.

1821: Rachel Cashmore and London born Moses Joseph Cashman gave birth to Rebecca Cashmore.

1825: Birthdate of Immanuel Heinrich Ritter who succeeded Samuel Holdheim as the rabbi at the Berlin Reform Temple in 1860.

1825: Birthdate of Grigori Asaacovich Bogrov, the native of Minsk, the Russian author whose first work was Memoirs of a Jew in which he “portrays the vicissitudes of his life and surroundings” and who left an unpublished Hebrew transcript on astronomy at the time of his death in 1885.

1827(14th of Adar, 5587): Purim

1827: In Odenbach, Germany, Beir Grunebaum and David Jacob Felsenthal gave birth to Johanna Felsenthal.

1833: David Nathan married Mary Lazarus at Canterbury, Kent, UK.

1836: In Bavaria, Aron Emunuel Scharff and Magdelanna Roos gave birth to Nicholas Scharff

1839: Two days after he had passed away today, Isaac Cowen was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1840: In Rotterdam, Salomon Isaac Bril and the former Mietje Maria Benedictus gave birth to Betje Bril

1843: Birthdate of Solomon Abedndana Belmonte, the Hamburg born jurist who was elected deputy to the Hamburg Bürgerschaft, in 1887.

1844: In Paris, twenty-one-year-old Emma Silberstein, “the daughter of Salomon Silberstein and Amilie Kempner married Louis Loewe with whom she had four daughters and five sons, “one of whom was James Lowe, Raphael Loewe’s grandfather.”

http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/LL/Louis-03.html

1845: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. Born in 1809 Felix Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn.  His Jewish parents had him baptized as a Lutheran in 1816.  The violinist Ferdinand David was Jewish.

1847: In Mitwitz, Bavaria Abraham H. Freund and Marie Hoenigsberger gave birth to Adolph Freund, the husband of Henrietta Newman and trustee of both the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver and the Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites of Cleveland who was he Diretor and Financial Representative of Cleveland, Ohio’s Jewish Orphan Asylum.

 

1848(8th of Adar II, 5608): During the Revolution of 1848, “as Viennese students thronged toward the Lower Austrian Diet to submit their revolutionary demands, imperial troops fired into the crowd” killing Carl Heinrich Spitzer, “a 17-year-old Moravian Jew” studying at the Vienna Polytechnic making him “the first martyr of the revolution.

1850: David Meyer Davidson married Henrietta Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.

1852: In Berlin, Louis and Pauline Blumenthal gave birth to Oskar (Oscar) Blumenthal who morphed from theatre critic to playwright and was the husband of Marie Blumenthal with whom he had one son – Ferdinand.

1852: "Austria" published today reported that "a Hungarian Jew has been arrested for trying to negotiate a number of Kossuth notes that he had brought with him from Hamburg."

1854(13th of Adar, 5614): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1861: Eleanore Mack, the Cincinnati born daughter of Abraham and Henrietta Wolf, and her husband Max J. Mack gave birth to Cincinnati native and Harvard trained lawyer Harry Wolf Mack who served as a “special assistant U.S. District Attorney.

1862(11th of Adar II, 5622): Fast of Esther. 

1862: Birthdate of Baltimore native Henriette Hennie van Leer.

1864: Four days after she had passed away, Eliza Anne (Baron) Jones the wife of John Alexander Jones was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1864: Edward Henirques, a native of Jamaica, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1865(15th of Adar, 5625): Shushan Purim

1865: After rejoining his regiment in December of 1864, today Edward S. Salomon “received a brevet promotion to brigadier general.”

1865: Frederick Knefler, who was serving under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman, was promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier general just before the end of the Civil War.  Born in Hungary in 1833, Knefler had the distinction of being one of the few people to rise from the rank of private to general during the course of a war.  In 1861 he volunteered for the Union Army and became a captain within one year.  He passed away in 1901.

1865: During the Civil War Major Alfred Mordecai, Jr was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army.  The newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel was the son of Alfred Mordecai, a southern born officer in the United States Army.  Mordecai Sr. resigned from the Army rather than fight against the South, marking the end to an illustrious career.  However, in a display of honor that was rare among other Southerners who left the U.S. Army, he refused to accept a commission in the Confederate Army or serve the South in any civilian capacity.

1865: Thirty-three-year-old Philadelphia native Myer Asch who had been serving with the Union Cavalry since 1861 and spent six months in Rebel prisons including the infamous Libby Prison, was breveted as a Colonel of United States Vounteers “for gallant and meritorious services during the war

1866(26th of Adar, 5626): Seventy-one-year-old Julius Rubo who despite his brilliance and ability found both a legal and academic career ultimately closed to him because of his religion from which he refused to convert, passed away today.

1870: At a meeting of the board of directors of the “B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society, the President, Mrs. Henry Leo, the founder of the Society, presented a report on the growing number of destitute Jews who were elderly and in poor health.  She urged the ladies to develop a practical way of dealing with this growing problem

1870:  A group of leaders of the Jewish community, including Thomas H. Keasing, E.S. Isaacs and T.J. Solomon, met today to make plans for establishing a society that would destitute Jewish immigrants when they came to United States.  A committee of seven was selected to draw up plans for such an organization that would be submitted to this group at its next meeting.  In the meantime, fifty dollars was donated to serve as “seed money” for the group’s work.

1871: One day after she had passed away, Kate Davis, the daughter of Pinchas Zelig Harris and the wife of Abraham Davis was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1871: The children of Aaron Adolphus, a wealthy New York Jew who passed away in January, contested the terms of their father’s will in Surrogate Court.

1873(14thof Adar, 5633): Purim

1873: Birthdate of Benzion ben Moses Eisenstadt, the native of Minsk whose literary output included poetry and biography of rabbis and scholars.

1873: In New York, the Sabbath School Fair Association of the 57th Street Congregation hosted a Purim reception and masked ball at the Terrace Garden.

1875: It was reported today that the police in Hartford, Connecticut, have arrested a swindler named W.F. Gerhardt.  Gerhardt is really is really Hungarian born Jew named Moritz who worked his larceny in his native land before being forced to flee to the United States. His confederates include Michael Mandl, an Austrian Jew and Henry Hertz.

1876: It was reported that the Jews in Washington, DC celebrated Purim with “a brilliant masked ball.”

1876: A police officer found the body of Leopold King in front the building housing Ahavat Chesed in New York City. The police found an empty blue vial in his hand that smelled of prussic acid. The 54 year old King was a native of Prussia who had retired from his successful cap making business and gone into real estate.  The family could offer no reason for a suicide and said they thought “that he died from a fit of apoplexy.”

1876: It was reported today that the managers of the Home for the Aged and Infirm Hebrews has leased the “Old Hildebrand Mansion “at the corner of 87thStreet and Avenue A in New York City.  The number of people seeking admission has grown to such a large number that the current facility on Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street is no longer large enough.

1877: Birthdate of Galician native “Sigmund Thau, the founder and president of the Mutual Lamp Manufacturing Company and leader of the Jewish community as can be seen by his service as “treasurer of the JNF” and founder and director of the Jewish Settlement House of the East Side who married Rose Thau after the death of his first wife Devorah and who was the father of Sophie and Morris Thau. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/05/27/94052727.pdf

1877: In Troy, NY, Charles J. and Anne (Blatt) Gilman gave birth to NYU trained attorney and vice president of the American Bar Association, Samuel P. Gilman, the official of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association and a member of the advisory board of the “Dormitory ad Vacation Camp for Jewish Blind.”

https://www.amazon.in/Handbook-Exchange-Affecting-Customers-Investors/dp/1362675733/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1615584460&refinements=p_27%3ASamuel+P+Gilman&s=books&sr=1-1

1880(1st of Nisan, 5640): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan’; Shabbat HaChodesh.

1880:Jorge Isaacs Ferrer, the son of “George Henry Isaacs, an English Jew originally from Jamaica” and whom Isaac Goldberg described as “a half-Jew” “who is “Spanish America’s most famous novelist” completed his service as the “President of the Sovereign State of Antioquia.”

1881: Alexander II of Russia is assassinated, which put an end to his half-hearted liberalism. He was succeeded by Alexander III who was devoted to medievalism and urged a return to “Russian civilization.”  The most influential person during his reign was Pobestonostov, his financier and procurator of the Holy Synod, who earned the title "the Second Torquemada." The newspapers in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa began a campaign against the Jews which would only lead to greater outbreaks of anti-Semitism as the Czarist regime swirled forward on its downward dance with destruction that ended in 1917.

1882: In Rochester, NH, “George Hobbs Sanborn and Lillian Knight Hodgdon” gave birth to Harvard trained archaeologist Ashton Sanborn the husband of Agnes Goldman and the brother-in-law of Hetty Goldman of the Goldman-Sachs banking family who was “executive secretary of the American Red Cross Commission with headquarters in Jerusalem after WW I.

1882: In the United Kingdom, Sir Marcus Samuel and his wife “Fanny Elizabeth, the oldest daughter of Benjamin Benjamin gave birth to their first child “Walter Horace” who was “educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.”

1884:  In Romania, Abraham and Hannah Feinstein Achtenberg gave birth to birth to University of Michigan trained attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the husband of Minnie R. Robinson Achtenberg and the father of Beatrice Achtenberg who practiced law in Kansas City, MO, while serving as the President of Congregation Keneseth Israel Beth Sholem starting in 1923.

1884(16th of Adar, 5644): Sixty-four-year-old Charlotte von Rothschild, the only daughter of Carl Mayer von Rothschild and the wife of Lionel de Rothschild with whom she had five children passed away today.

1887:  In Clinton, IA, a group of Protestants founded the American Protective Association which was anit-Catholic and anti-immigrant at the same time that an untold number of Jews were trying to escape from repressive regimes Russia and Romania.

1888: Justice Samuel Greenbaum married Selina Ulman today after which they had four children - Lawrence Samuel, Edward Samuel, Grace and Isabel – before she passed away at 25 years of age.

 

1890: It was reported today that the Passover Relief Association had raised nearly $250 at its annual Purim masquerade ball which would go toward the fund it raises yearly to provide the Hebrew poor of this city with the wherewithal to celebrate Passover.

1890: “Hebrew Charities” published today summarized the efforts of the United Hebrew Charities during the month of February which including providing 226 applicants with work and providing 216 pupils with free instruction in the industrial school. The charity provided over seven thousand dollars in direct aid.

1891: It was reported today that the funds Jesse Seligman has received from Baron Hirsh “will be kept in the vaults of various trust companies until the trustees of the fund decide” how it is to be invested.

1892(14th of Adar, 5652): Purim

1893: Felix Adler is among those scheduled to meet with President Cleveland today to urge him to veto the newly passed Treaty of Extradition with Russia.

1893: “Oriental Records Translated” published today provides a detailed review of Records of the Past edited by A.H. Sayce which includes the information that “in the soil of Palestine, for example, the spade has brought to light evidence of the existence of a Canaanitish library dating from a period earlier than the birth of Moses…” The material translated provided a comparison between Biblical texts and those of other, recently discovered civilizations in the East.

1894: “Want The School Reopened” published today describe a meeting held to protest the closure of grammar school on Hester Street which will impact 500 children, most of them who are Jewish.  The leaders of the protest contend that the Jewish “resident of the district were anxious to have their children the English language” and were afraid that the closure would impede this.  (Editor’s Note – Compare this view of the English language by Jewish immigrants with that which has evolved in the 21stcentury)

1894: The United Hebrew Charities is one of the organizations distributing the proceeds from a concert given by Musurgia to help aid those suffering during the current economic depression.

1895: Two days after he had passed away, 88 year old Abraham Marks, the son of Jacob Marks and Hannah Alexander was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1895: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s “The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith” was produced for the first time at the Garrick Theatre.

1896: In Chicago, Benvendia Solis Firth, the daughter of Moses Maness Ritterband and Esther Amada Ritterband and Emil Firth gave birth to Mildred Rosenkranz, the wife Elias Victor Rosenkranz.

1897:  San Diego State University founded. The first Jew connected with San Diego was a young adventurer named Louis Pollock who was temporarily imprisoned in San Diego along with other Americans by Mexican authorities.  By 1851, there were enough Jews in San Diego for Lewis Franklin to organize the first High Holiday services held in southern California.  Today SDSU has approximately 2,500 Jews among its 27,000 undergraduates and 500 Jews among more than 6,300 graduate students. The school offers 15 courses in Jewish studies and students can major or minor in Jewish Studies. The campus has an accredited Hillel with its own Hillel House. For more information about the SDSU Jewish community see http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jewish/

1897(9th of Adar II, 5657): Parashat Vayikra

1897: “Another Homer to be Identified” published today provides a critique of “The Unknown Homer of the Hebrews” by Amos Kidder Fiske the author of The Jewish Scriptures.  According to Fiske, just as Homer is the father of Greek literature, so is there one author un-named author who created much of the Biblical literature.  Based on “higher biblical criticism” Fiske contends that the author is the Prophet Elijah

1897: “The Austrian Election” published today described the outcome of the vote for Mayor in Vienna where “Dr. Lueger, the well-known Jew-baiter” has emerged victorious over Mayor Strohbach.  The Emperor had nullified an earlier victory by Lueger but the belief is that the he will not intervene for a second time.

1898: “Money Lenders Attacked” published today summarized the testimony of Sir George Lewis “the well-known lawyer” and leader of the Jewish community before the House of Commons in which he complained of the behavior of money lenders, “the bulk of them” who “were Jews whom “the Jewish community loathed and despised.”  The worst of the lot was one known as “Sam” who had played a key role in the scandal surrounding Lord Nevill-Spender Clay.

1898: Lemercier-Picard, author of the forged letter quoted by General de Pellieux a month earlier (the "faux Henry"), is found hanging from the window-catch of his hotel bedroom.  Circumstances of death remain unclear.

1899: While testifying before the Court of Inquiry investigating “the beef counsel” Edward Tilden, the treasurer of Libby, McNeill & Libby Packing Company testified that “the forequarter of the carcass is the only part eaten by an Orthodox Jew” but that that the price of the beef does not depend on “the number of Jews in the community.”

1899: Rabbi H.P. Mendez, Dr. Stephen Wise, Rabbi Gustav Gottheil and his son were among the prominent Jews attended Professor Thomas Davidson’s lecture entitled “Zionism from a Non-Jewish Standpoint” at Shearith Israel Synagogue.

1899: This evening Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi David Philippson is scheduled to deliver the “address of welcome” at the preliminary meeting prior to the official opening of the annual Conference of American Rabbis which will start tomorrow.  Dr. Joseph Silverman and Rabbi Isaac M. Wise are also scheduled to address the meeting to which the general public has been invited.

1900: Birthdate of Alfred Harding who was transported from Prague to Ujazdow to Majdanek in 1942 where he was murdered at the age of 42.

1900: Henri Didon Louis Remy, the Dominican Friar who wrote approvingly of the fifth and final volume of Renan’s History of the Jews passed away today.

1901: Sixty-seven year old Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States whose Secretary of State, James G. Blaine “instructed the American minister to Russia to exert his influence against” any new anti-Jewish measures being adopted by the Czar and whose administration received a memorial from William Blackstone and his supporters calling for “an international conference to consider the condition of the Israelites and their claims to Palestine as their ancient home” passed away today.

1902: The Sultan approves the Rouvier project (from the French government) for the consolidation of the public debt. This was part of a project that Herzl had worked on, the idea being that assisting the Ottomans with their financial needs would help smooth the way for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel which was part of the Sultan’s empire.

1902: In Cincinnati, OH, Abraham and Rachel (Friedman) Isaacs gave birth to Dr. Asher Isaacs ,the husband of Flora Meyers, the University of Cincinnati Undergrad who earned his MA and Ph.D from Harvard before pursuing an academic career in economics that led to his being name Chairman of the Department of Economics at Pittsburgh

1903(14th of Adar, 5663): Purim

1904(26th of Adar, 5664): Lieutenant Bendix, “a German Government engineer” and “an officer of the Bavarian Reserves” who “had been engaged on the construction of a railroad in German West Africa” was killed today “in the fight near Owikokorereo against the Herreros.”

1904: During the presidency of Isaac Wallach, the new buildings of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Madison Avenue (between 100th and 101st streets) for which $1,500,000 had been raised, were dedicated today.

1904: Ludovic Trarieux, the French political leader who served as Minister of Justice during the Dreyfus Affair where he should great courage in taking up the cause of the French military officer who was a victim of anti-Semitism and a conspiracy of right wing militarists passed away today.

1905: “Kid” Herman (Herman Landfield) knocked out former featherweight champion Dave Sullivan one month before he fought Harry Lewis.

1906: Eighty-six-year-old social reformer and suffragette Susan B. Anthony whose allies included Ernestine Rose, the Polish born American and English suffragette whose slogan of “Agitate, Agitate” she adopted, passed away today.

1906: It was reported today that the “anti-Jewish proclamation” issued in Russia included “a demand for the expulsion of the Jews from all the cities of European Russia and Siberia into the Pale,” “the levying” of a tax on the Jewish people “in lieu of military service,” forcing Jews to reassume their “Jewish names” if they have changed them, and the prohibition of Jews from certain professions and from higher education.

1906:  Birthdate of Oscar Nemon, the Slavonian born English sculptor, best known for his series of more than a dozen public statues of Sir Winston Churchill as well as sculptures of Harry Truman and Margaret Thatcher.  After World War II, he made sculptures of a spectacular list of high-profile figures including such war-time leaders as Dwight D. Eisenhower Earl Alexander of Tunis, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Lord Freyberg and Lord Beaverbrook.  He passed away in 1985.

1907: Montreal resident Clarence Isaac de Sola, the son of Cantor Abraham and Esther de Sola and Belle Maud de Sola gave birth to Gabriel (Oliviera) de Sola

1908: Birthdate of Walter Annenberg.  The famed philanthropist built a publishing empire around the Daily Racing Form, the Philadelphia Inquirer and that uniquely American cultural icon, TV Guide.

 

1908: A major fire in the Jewish quarter of Haskoy, Constantinople, Turkey destroys 500 houses. There were over 5,000 Jews left without shelter. A cablegram was sent from Constantinople to Oscar S. Straus, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor asking for assistance.

1909(20th of Adar, 5669): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1909: Alexander Lyons served as the rabbi of Temple Beth Elohim in Brooklyn

1910 It was reported today that Alma Gluck will perform at matinee performance on March 17 at The New Theatre in New York.

1911: Just a month after her 69thbirthday, Isabel Goldsmid, the daughter of Frederick David Goldsmid and Caroline Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1912: Birthdate of Columbia Law School graduate Charles Miller Metzner, the counsel to the General Jewish Council and U.S. District Court Judge.

1912: Birthdate of Lillian Fruendlich, the wife of Irwin Freundlich who had been born in 1908 and with whom she teamed to perform recitals “featuring pieces for one piano and 4 hands.

http://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/irwin-and-lillian-freundlich

1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama had been appointed as a delegate opened today in Jacksonville, Florida.

1913(4thof Adar II, 5673): Sixty-four-year-old Morris Moses Pfaelzer, the German born son of Karoline and Marx Mordechai Pfaelzer and Philadelphia jeweler who married Sophie Pfaelzer with whom he had two children – Frank Pfaelzer and Henrietta Stern.

1913: Birthdate of Harold Hochstein who would gain fame as Harold Stone, a character who played numerous roles on Broadway, in Hollywood films and television. Stone usually played ‘heavies” or bad guys.  He was the sort of actor who became the role.  You might not recognize the name but as you see the original version of Spartacus or re-runs of the television series, The Untouchables, you will remember who he was.

1914: Premiere of Die geheimnisvolle Villa“a short silent German film directed by Joe May” born Joseph Otto Mandel.

1915: Abraham Margulis, the Charkof born son of Chaim and Pessy (Lifushitz) Margulis and University of Pennsylvania graduate married Esther Andrussier today.

1915: Today, after further conversations with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Herbert Samuel “circulated a revised text of “The Future of Palestine” – a “Zionist memorandum” originally submitted by Chaim Weizmann

1915: Sixty-five-year-old Count Sergei Witte a leading progressive Russian minster, whose marriage to Matilda Ivanovna (Isaakovna) Lisanevich, to a converted Jew caused a scandal and limited his political effectiveness and who tried to reform the Empire while keeping Russia from entering WW I which he feared would doom his country passed away today

1915: Among those listed as contributors to the American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War were Beth Gimel, Ottumwa, IA; Beth Chayim Congregation, Cumberland, MD; Congregation Israel, Hot Springs, Arkansas and the Literary Society of Beaumont, TX.

1916: The delegation from Brooklyn chosen to attend the “proposed Jewish Congress” meeting Philadelphia later this month was reported to include Judge Strahl, Magistrate Geismar, Rabbi Gold, Dr. H.L. Melkin, Henry Eiser, Samuel Lippman, and Moe Wervelosky.

1916: It was reported today that the officers of Temple of the Sinai Congregation of the Bronx include William Daub, President; Emil Fleish, First Vice President; Samuel Grossman, Second Vice President and William Mitchell, Secreatary.

1916: “The Day, the Jewish daily newspaper edited by Herman Bernstein published…a cablegram from” its correspondent in Berne that read “I have learned from an absolutely reliable source that the Pope has prepared an important document of great interest to the Jewish people” which “will prove of the same importance and significance as he bull issued by Pope Innocent IV denouncing the ritual murder accusations against the Jews as false and based on a cruel legend.”

1917: In expressing their support for I. Edwin Goldwasser’s suggestion to do away with flowers at Jewish funeral and to use that money to support charities, Louis Marshall said, “I have long thought the practice wasteful, extravagant and in many instances vulgar” while Henry Morgenthau said that “as long as the living are destitute and in despair, it seems wise to direct those who wish to show regard for departed friends to do so by contributing, in memory of their names, to a fund to alleviate the misery of the poor.”

1918: The Joint Distribution Committee for Jewish War Sufferers expressed its displeasure that Dr. Israel Friedlander had resigned “from the commission which the American Red Cross is sending to take part in the reclamation of Palestine” because of unfounded rumors that he had been pro-German before the United States entered the World War.

1918: American Red Magen David, the Jewish Red Cross, was formed.

1918: During a gathering of Lithuanians tonight at Madison Square Garden, “Dr. Isaac Hourwich appealed for the cultural autonomy of the Jews of Lithuania” within a newly created Lithuanian Republic that will become a reality after the World War.

1919(11th of Adar II, 5679): Fast of Esther

1919: U.K. bantamweight Johnny Brown, who fought under the alias of Philip Hickman fought and lost his first professional fight.

1919: Today, Alexander H. Geismar told “a story of the suffering of Jews in war-stricken countries” to the workers in the $500,000 drive for war relief” at the Brooklyn Committee’s headquarters on Court Street.

1920(23rd of Adar, 5680): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah

1920: “Colonel Harry Cutler of the Jewish Welfare Board announced” today “that the War and Navy Departments have issued furloughs for the first two days of Passover for Jews in the Service.”

1921: U.S. premiere of “Know Your Men” filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg and produced by William Fox.

1921:  Birthdate of cartoonist and Mad Magazine illustrator Allan Jaffee.

1922: The campaign to raise five million dollars in New York to provide relief for the Jews in Europe “ends tonight with a rally at the Hotel Commodore.

1923: A dinner was held tonight at the Hotel Dinner honoring Dr. Chaim Weizmann and kicking off a drive to raise two million dollars for the Zionists during which Louis Marshall urged “unity in the work of reconstructing Palestine.

1924: Birthdate of “jazz pianist, arranger and producer” Dick Katz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/music/13katz.html?_r=0

1925: Tonight while speak at the Washington Heights Congregation, Julius Miller, the Borough President of Manhattan “urged Jews never forget to conduct themselves” in such a way “as to command the respect of the majority of the people of “the United States “who are not of the Jewish faith” and reminded his audience “that Jews were sometimes misjudged as a whole because of the objectionable characteristics of a few…”

1926: It was reported today that 10,392 Jews were admitted to the United States “for the last United States immigration year that ended on June 30, 1925 while 29,142 Jews settled in Palestine during the same period of time.

1926: “Native Art From Palestine” published today described the history of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts founded by Boris Schatz which is displaying some of its works at the Grand Central Palace in New York.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9806EED81339E633A25757C1A9659C946795D6CF

1926(27thof Adar, 5675): Eighty-five year old Shlomo Elyashiv passed away.  The grandson of Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, and the son of Chayim Chaikl Eliashiv or Eliashoff , he is best known author of Leshem Shevo V’Achlama

1926: In Rochester, NY, Rose (nee Shaywitz) Weinstein and Harris Weinstein, an immigrant tailor gave birth to Donald Weinstein, “an influential historian of the Italian Renaissance.”

http://history.arizona.edu/user/donald-weinstein

http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion

1927: “A Jewish Woman” published today provided a complete review of I Am A Woman – And A Jew by Leah Morton.

1927: “A Jewish project to establish immigrant aid station in South America for Russian and Polish Jews excluded by the American quota law, was officially welcomed today by the Consuls of Paraguay and Peru, and received the warm endorsement of Senator Royal S. Copeland.”

1928: Despite support from Lloyd George and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, the British Cabinet rejects a loan designed to support the “Zionist enterprise” in Palestine in a manner consistent with the Balfour Declaration.

1928: NYC native and Columbia trained Pharmacist, Miss Fanchon Hart, the bacteriologist and food and drug analyst attended a meeting of The Torrey Botanical Society “an organization of people interested in plant life…”

 

1929: Birthdate of wrestler Jack Laskin, the native of Hamilton, Ontario who fought under various aliases including Abe Levinsky who in the 1990’s “got a license to marry people and became a lay rabbi” when people in his California community had difficulty getting married by the local Orthodox rabbis.

1930(13thof Adar, 5690): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1930: “Because the Jewish deputies had to be present in parliament during “tonight’s “vote on the budget, “Purim was celebrated this evening in the club room of the Jewish members of Parliament” with a reading of the Book of Esther (As reported by JTA)

1930: Woolf Barnato, the youngest son of Barney Barnato, “set off from the bar at the Carlton Hotel” this evening in his 6½ Litre Bentley Speed Six as he tried to win a bet that he could reach London before the Blue Train reached Calais.

1931: Premiere of Sturm im Wasseglas (Storm in a Water Glass) a film based on a play by Bruno Frank with a script co-authored by Felix Salten, co-produced by Josef Somlo and starring Paul Otto who would hang himself when his Jewish origins were discovered during the Nazi period.

1932: On Sunday, Benjamin Cardozo was sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme.  A liberal nominated by the conservative President Herbert Hoover, he would join Louis Brandies as the second Jew to serve on the High Court.  Unlike Brandeis whose confirmation hearing had been contentious with more than a whiff of anti-Semitism, Cardozo’s nomination sailed through with near unanimous support. 

1933: Jewish lawyers and judges were expelled from court in Breslau

1933:  Birthdate of rock and roll composer Mike Stoller.

1934: Today,“Pro-Hitler pressmen printed and folded hate literature into an edition of the Los Angeles Times

1935: Birthdate of philosopher and political commentator Michael Walzer.

1936: It was reported today that in Prztyk, a town in central Poland where 80 per cent of the inhabitants are Jewish, the Jews endured a month’s long boycott where trade is so restricted that they cannot buy even such a basic necessity of milk for their children.

1936: In Poland, a mob raided the Jewish shops at Turka and order was restored only after the police finally intervened and “arrested twenty rioters.”

1936 In New York, “a good will Sabbath” was held at the Mount Neboh this evening (Friday night) “marking the opening of the congregation’s Silver Jubilee program” where members of the congregation and visitors, who include “representatives of the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic faiths” heard Rabb Abraham L. Feinberg “say that the class and labor struggles were no less destructive than the widespread anxiety caused by intense nationalism.”

1936(19th of Adar, 5696): Seventy-six-year-old “Henry Wollman, senior member of Wollman and Wollman, attorneys at law and a member of Tempe Emanu-El passed away today.

1936: Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, the first New Zealand-born Prime Minister of New Zealand, passed away. His Jewish mother had converted before he was born.

1937(1st of Nisan, 5697): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh

1937(1st of Nisan, 5697): Eighty-four-year-old former Fire Commissioner Jacob Solis Carvalho, a native of Charleston, West Virginia and the son of Sarah Solis and Solomon Carvalho passed away today in New York

1938: On Sunday, just after his native Austria had been annexed into the Reich, “Adolf Hitler placed a wreath on his parent’s grave in his adopted hometown of Linz, Austria.”

1938: While walking home from school in Hungary, Tom Lantos sse a newspaper with the headline: "Hitler Marches into Austria.” Years later, Lantos said that he sensed that this historic moment would have a tremendous impact on the lives of Hungarian Jews, my family, and myself."

1939:  Birthdate of musician Neil Sedaka, a product of Brooklyn’s Sephardic Community.

1939: Commissioner William B. Herlands is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Real Facts About Communists and Jews” at the West Side Institutional Synaogue.

1939: Churchill wrote to a leading Albanian diplomat stating that he had been authorized to negotiate ways to establish a refuge for Jews fleeing Germany in Albania.  The plan came to naught when Mussolini invaded the little Balkan country a month later. 

1939: Today, “a British Cabinet subcommittee started drafting British proposals for solution of the problem of the Holy Land.”

1940: The three-month war between Finland and the U.S.S.R which had begun with the Soviet invasion of its neighbor and in which 204 Finnish Jews had fought (with 37 dead) ended today with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty.

1941(14th of Adar, 5701): Russian author Isaac E Babel was executed during one of Stalin’s periodic purges. The Soviets exonerated him in 1954. 

1942: The first trainload of 1000 deportees arrived from Theresienstadt at the village of Izbica Lubelsak, just north of Belzec. Only six would survive the war.

1943(6th of Adar II, 5703): Parashat Pekudei

1943(6th of Adar II, 5703): Sixty-five-year-old Olga Ullman, the Czech born daughter of Bertha and Hermann Ullmann was murdered today at Terezin.

1943(6th of Adar II, 5703): Sixty-two-year-old Rachel Hellman the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Seckel Bamberger and Julie Judith Bamberger (Klein) and the wife of Moritz Hellman was murdered today at Sobibor.

1943(6th of Adar II, 5703):German forces liquidated the Jewish ghetto in Cracow. Two thousand Jews were rounded up for deportation at Cracow, Poland. Before the trains left hundreds of children were shot to death, hundreds of elderly were killed in the streets, and an untold number of patients were killed in the hospital wards.

1943: An attempt to assassinate Hitler masterminded by General Henning von Tresckow failed today when a bomb that had been smuggled aboard the Fuhrer’s plane failed to detonate.

1944: Twenty thousand people attended “The Show of Shows” which featured “stars of stage, screen and radio and raised $80,000 for the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe.”

1944: Today, in New Orleans, Senator James M. Mead “addressed an emergency war conference for Palestine” during which he praised “the contributions of the Palestine Jewish Community to the war effort of the United Nations and their achievements in reconstructing a home for more than half a million Jews…”

1945: Today, Mrs. Moses P. Epstein told a meeting at Carnegie Hall honoring Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah who passed away in February that a foundation was being formed “to perpetuate her memory thourgh service in keeping with principles of her life.”

1946(10th of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-one-year-old Russian native Mrs. Max Danzis the founder of the Volunteer League of Beth Israel Hospital where her husband was the “senior visiting surgeon” and chief of staff passed away today in East Orange, NJ.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/03/14/88347871.pdf

1946: Birthdate of Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu who was a commander in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israel Defense Forces. His younger brothers are Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel, who previously held that office from 1996-99, and Iddo Netanyahu, an Israeli author and playwright. Yoni was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service (Hebrew: עיטור המופת) for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. He was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport, by Ugandan soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft.

1946(10th of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-seven-year-old Swiss born and educated William Dreyfus, the “chief chemist of the West Disinfecting Company and chairman of the National Association of Insecticide and Disinfectant Manufacturers passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/03/14/88347882.pdf

1946: During Aliyah Bet, British police kill one female member of the Palmach as they fired on “the schooner Wingate which was attempting to land 248 refugees – an attempt that was thwarted by the HMS Chevron which took the captured vessel to Haifa.

1947: The Lerner and Lowe musical ''Brigadoon'' opened on Broadway.

1947: Tonight, the British government in Palestine announced that it had arrested 78 people including 15 members of the Stern gang and 12 members of the Irgun. The arrests of these “terrorists” had been made possible, in part, because of “assistance from the Jewish community.”

1947: “Some resistance was encountered by British troops today when 703 Jews who arrived in Palestine waters yesterday after running the naval blockade were taken aboard the steamer Empire Rival.”  The Jews are reportedly being shipped to camps in Cyprus.

1948(2nd of Adar II, 5708): Parashat Pekudi

1948: “Paying tribute to Jan Masaryk as a friend who ‘rescued Jews in distress and championed Jewish cause,’ Rabbi Louis I. Newman in Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third Street, said today that ‘Masaryk has died a martyr to the madness which is sweeping the world.’”

1948: As a reminder that the crisis in Palestine was only one issue with which the United States was wrestling, a Republican Senate voted to provide the funding that Democratic President Truman had proposed which would make the Marshall Plan possible.

1948: While speaking at the ceremony marking the induction of Dr. Nelson Glueck as head of Hebrew Union College Samuel I. Rosenmean, who has served as a special assistant to both Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, assails appeasement. He called for a "policy of resistance" rather than appeasement and said that the Russian dictatorship had started rolling westward in true Hitler manner.

1949: “The mystery enveloping the Aqaba area on the Red Sea was dispelled today when it was learned that Arab Legion troops had been driven out from strategic positions they had held in Israeli territory of the Negeb and also had been forced to withdraw from outposts along the highly contested area to the north of Aqaba.”

1949: “Samuel H. Telsey, president of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, announced today at its sixty-fourth annual meeting that HIAS had set a budget of $5,005,000, the largest in its history, as "the minimum sum to carry on the imperatively urgent work among the displaced and suffering Jews of the world."

1950: In Manhattan “Orthodox Jewish immigrants Shulim Krauthammer, a lawyer who spoke nine languages and the former Thea Horowitz gave birth to Charles Krautheimer, the graduate of McGill University and Harvard Medical School who turned from medicine to become a Pulitzer prize winner and television news personality who has shown a propensity for appearing on FOX.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/obituaries/charles-krauthammer-prominent-conservative-voice-dies-at-68.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1950: The body of Dr. Mordecai Eliash, Israel’s first ambassador to the United Kingdom, arrived at Lydda Airport today and was taken to Jerusalem where it will lie in state until tomorrow’s funeral.

1950: Dr. Walter Caly Lowdermilk, American expert on soil erosion, met today with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and Finance Minister Elizar Kaplan before leaving for London.

1951: Israel demanded DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that Eilat was bedecked and illuminated to mark the third anniversary of the town¹s liberation. A military parade was held and a message was read from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who said: "The military victory will be won only if pioneers make the land fertile."

1960(14th of Purim, 5720): Last Purim observance during the Presidency of Ike Eisenhower.

1960: ABC broadcast, “The Rattler,” an episode of “The Rebel” directed by Ivin Kershner.

1961: Monash University, the Australian school named in honor of Sir John Monash accepted its first 347 students today at Clayton.

1964: Two days after Rabbi Morris Adler had passed away, per the declaration of Governor George Romney, today was observed “as a day of mourning for Rabbi Adler throughout Michigan.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/12/79971625.pdf

 1965: In Los Angeles, CA, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, the Jewish stars of “Mission Impossible” gave birth to actress Juliet Rose Landau.

1966: Based on a declaration by Governor George Romney is a day of mourning for Morris Adler, the rabbi of Shaaray Zedek in Detroit who had been shot by mentally ill attacker during Shabbat services on February 12, throughout the state of Michigan.

1966: Two days after he had passed away funeral services were held at Temple Israel in St. Louis for 75-year-old Riga born Harry Edison “one of five brothers who started with one shoe store in Atlanta in 1921 and built into the nationwide chain of Edison Brothers, Inc consisting of 535 stores and who raised two children, Edna and Sidney, with his wife “the former Mae Goodhart.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/12/79971628.pdf

1967: Margaret Arnstein became dean of the Yale University School of Nursing. As dean, she brought Yale's nursing school into the forefront of nursing education. Arnstein's lifetime of work was well recognized in her later years. In 1966, she became the first woman to receive a Rockefeller Public Service Award. In 1971, she received the Sedgwick Memorial Medal, the American Public Health Association's highest honor.

1967: Broadway opening of “You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running” for which Martin Balsam won the Tony for best performance by a leading actor in a play.

1967: Larry Blyden began appearing as “George” “Chuck” and “Richard Pawling” in You Know I can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running.”

1969: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Newark, for 83-year-old Alexander Harris, the retired president of the Ronson Corporation, the husband of the former Hannah Lightenburg and father of Dr. Jonathan L. Harris followed by burial “B’nai Jeshurun Cemetery in Hillside, NJ.”

 

1969(23rd of Adar, 5729): Paul Burlin, famed abstract expressionist painter, passed away. Burlin joined such artists as Picasso, Manet, Monet, and Degas at the famous Armory Show in 1913 which was the turning point in public acceptance of expressionism in the United States.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/12/78331702.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1971: Jerry Wolman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, has agreed to sell historic Shibe Park which he had purchased in 1964 for $757,500.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uoUlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5103,4353002&dq=shibe+park&hl=en

1973: The New York Times reviewed the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Nine of the 12 women who first formed the collective that created this groundbreaking women's health reference were Jewish

1973: “After thirteen previews, the revival of” “Irene” a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and co-starring George Irving “opened at the Minskoff Theatre.

1974: One of David Wolper’s crews filming a National Geographic history of Australopithecus at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area was killed when the Corvair 440 Sierra Pacific Airlines plane exploded on takeoff from Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop, California killing all 35 on board including 31 Wolper crew members.

1976(11th of Adar II, 5736): Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time during the Presidency of  Gerald Ford.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported from Washington that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was surprised to find out that when the US State Department spoke about "minor adjustments" in the pre-1967 Israeli borders, it referred to border changes of only a few hundred meters, or "straightening out of the line" in such places as Latrun or Kalkilya. It was in order to correct such assumptions that Rabin repeated that under no circumstances would Israel go back to the 1967 lines. "We believe that we are entitled to decide, when it comes to our defense, where the boundaries will be which will defend Israel in the future," Rabin concluded.

1977(23rd of Adar, 5737): Sixty-eight-year-old Edward Leo Canter, the son of Joseph and Pauline Canter who was married to Adele Liebling and then to Jean Hyman Canter passed away today after he was buried at Beth El Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that In Washington Hanafi Moslem terrorist leaders freed their hostages in return for their release without bail, guaranteed by the authorities.

1978(4th of Adar II, 5738): Seventy-nine-year-old historian and biographer Matthew Josephson an acolyte of economic determinist Charles Beard who created and popularized the term “robber barons” to describe certain 19th century “captains of industry.” (Editor’s note – NYT shows March 13; his official papers show March 15)

http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=beinecke:joseph&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes

http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/14/archives/matthew-josephson-biographer-and-muckraker-dies.html?_r=0

1979(14th of Adar, 5736): Purim

1979(14th of Adar, 5736): Seventy-one-year-old Austin born Harvard trained attorney Bernard H Levinson, an associate justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court and the uncle University of Michigan Law School trained attorney Steven H. Levinson who served as an Associate Justice Supreme Court from 1992 to 2008.

1979(14th of Adar, 5736): Sixty-three-year-old New York City native and attorney Gilbert Kanter, an active member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away today in his hometown.

1981(7th of Adar II, 5741): Jacques Zucker, an artist whose paintings in post-Impressionist style were seen in many one-man shows in the United States and abroad, died today at Beth Israel Hospital after a long illness. Mr. Zucker, who lived in Manhattan, was 80 years old. His work, including landscapes, still lifes and portraits, is part of permanent collections in Paris, Tel Aviv and the collection of Joseph Hirschorn in Washington, D. C. He was born in Radom, Poland. As a youth studied art at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. He continued his art studies in Paris and maintained a home there.

1985(20th of Adar, 5745): Sixty-five-year-old record producer Bob Shad (Abraham Shadrinsky) passed away today.

http://blog.superflyrecords.com/storyboard/judd-apatow-bob-shad-was-a-true-innovator/

 

1985: In Topanga, California, Margaret Esther (née Davenport) and David M. Hirsch gave birth to actor Emile Davenport Hirsch

1986(2nd of Adar II, 5746): Ninety-three-year-old Leo Korbin “an owner of Kobrin Brothers” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/obituaries/leo-kobrin.html

1986(2nd of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-four-year-old archeologist George M.A. Hanfmann who led the expeditions to Sardis, the capital of ancient Lydia, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/15/obituaries/george-hanfmann-archeologist-at-harvard.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=V9J5PgAACAAJ

1987: A poll conducted by the Yediot Aharonot newspaper today indicated that two-thirds of Israelis believed their Government should help Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Pollard.

1987(12th of Adar, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old Trinidad, CO native David Lewis the movie producer responsible for the cinema classic “Dark Victory” passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-15/local/me-10964_1_david-lewis

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/16/obituaries/david-lewis-83-dies-produced-classic-films.html

1989: “Attorney and women’s rights activist” Harriet Pilpel who “was widowed in 1987…married New York Medical College administrator Irvin B. Schwartz” today.

1990(16th of Adar, 5750):  Bruno Bettelheim, noted child psychologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor committed suicide six years after his wife had died from cancer. (As reported by Daniel Coleman)

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/14/obituaries/bruno-bettelheim-dies-at-86-psychoanalyst-of-vast-impact.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1993(20th of Adar, 5753): Simha Levy, a woman who worked as driver taking Palestinians from Gaza to  their jobs inside the pre-1967 borders was axed to death in her van at Khan Yunis.

1994: The “stained-glass ‘Sephardic Heritage Windows’ designed by Israeli artist Raphael Abecassis” that had been “commissioned by the Maurice Amado Foundation” and that used “Jewish symbols and Sephardic motifs” to “depict the history of Sephardic Jews, beginning with their expulsion from Spain in the 15th Century” are scheduled to be dedicated this morning at The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles.

1997(4th of Adar II, 5757): Seven school girls aged twelve and thirteen, all from the same school at Beit Shemesh, were shot dead and Hila Levy was injured by a Jordanian soldier who went berserk on the Jordan Border after which King Hussein paid surprise and much appreciated condolence call on the grieving families.

1997: Virologist and immunologist, Hilary Koprowski who invented the world's first effective live polio vaccine received the Legion d'Honneur from the French government.

1997: “The Devil’s Own,” a film that pits two Irish institutions – the IRA and the Boston Police Department -- against themselves directed by Alan J. Pakula  premiered today in New York City.

1998: Former major league catcher and manager of the Detroit Tigers Brad “Ausmus and his wife Liz whom he married in 1995 gave birth to their first daughter, Sophie.

1999(25th of Adar, 5759): Director Garson Kanin passed away. From a Jewish point of view, Kanin’s claim to fame is that he direced the play Diary of Anne Frank.  The play premiered in 1955 and ran for 717 performances.  In 1964 he directed the Broadway hit Funny Girl, the story of Fannie Brice.  The musical ran for over a thousand shows.

http://www.garsonkanin.com/

1999: “A Professor in Nanjing Takes Up Jewish Studies” published today examines the rise of a Center for Judaic Studies in the central Chinese city of Nanjing.

1999(25th of Adar, 5769): Ninety-year-old multi-talented artist Lucienne Bloch, the youngest child of Ernst Bloch, passed away today. (As reported by Thomas Roberts, Jr.)

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/nyregion/lucienne-bloch-muralist-is-dead-at-90.html

2000: “''The Three Stages of Life'' (1898) a triptych by Count Leopold von Kalckreuth, “a painting that was left behind by a Jewish woman fleeing Vienna during World War II, taken by the Nazis and held for most of the intervening years in storage at a museum in Munich was returned today to the heirs of the original owner.”

2001: In “Year by Year, a Witness to the Nazis’ Affronts,” published today Bruce Weber reviews “I Will Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer” by Victor Klemperer; adapted by Karen Malpede and George Bartenieff; translated by Martin Chalmers a one-actor theatrical adaptation of the second volume of Klemperer’s diaries that had been published last year.

2003: “The highest-ranking diplomat at the Iranian Embassy” chargé d'affaires, Mohammad Ali Tabatabai, was recalled as a result of a growing dispute over responsibility for the bombing at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people.”

2003(9th of Adar II, 5673):” Israeli troops and a helicopter gunship, on high alert for a possible Palestinian attack, opened fire with automatic weapons today in the southern West Bank and mistakenly killed two Israeli security guards in civilian clothes, the army said.”

2004: Evelyn Franklin, the wife of photographer Richard Avedon, and mother of John Avedon, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html

2005: In a case of Jew follows Jew, Disney announced that Bob Eiger would succeed Michael Eisner as CEO

2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including recently released paperback editions of An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum a darkly comic novel, set in the 1970's that revolves around a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn who thinks she's the Virgin Mary and There Are Jews in My House  by Lara Vapnyar

2006: Cole Meyer announced that it was selling Myer, an Australian department store chain founded by Sidney Meyer (born Simcha Myer Baevski) ”to a consortium controlled by US private equity group Newbridge Capital, part of the Texas Pacific group:

2006(13th Adar): The Fast of Esther has been designated International Agunah Day by Yad L'Isha. An agunah is a woman who is unable to obtain a get(Jewish divorce).

2007: Under the direction of its founder Eylon Nuphar, Mayumana opens its production of “Be” at the Union Theatre Square. “Mayumana is a corruption of the Hebrew word for skill, and the players display a variety of them, in a show that combines mime, dance, gymnastics, music and percussion in a joyous celebration of life.”

2008: In Washington, D.C. veteran scriptwriter and television producer Gary David Goldberg, creator of the series "Family Ties" and "Spin City," discusses his new memoir, Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue formerly the site of Adas Israel which relocated to Connecticut Ave and Porter and is the only Conservative Synagogue still located in the District of Columbia.

2008: Israeli President Shimon Peres paid tribute to the French who saved Jews during the Holocaust in a somber ceremony at the Pantheon in the Latin Quarter and visited a French Foreign Ministry exhibition about the origins of the state of Israel.

2009: “The Saul Steinberg: Illuminations” travelling exhibition opened in Hamburg, Germany

2009(17th of Adar, 5769): Eighty-four-year-old David Jacob Cohen the German born son of Jakob and Hanna Cohen and the husband of Dina Berger passed away today in Israel.

2009: Award winning Israeli author Etgar Keret comes to Albany University for a screening of his film “Wristcutters: A Love Story” sponsored by the Albany Center for Jewish Studies and the Writers Institute.

2010: Israeli diva Rita is scheduled to begin her U.S. Tour today.

2010: As part of the Scholar-In-Residence program, Professor David Kraemer is scheduled to speak on “Laity in the Lead” following Shabbat morning services.

2010:Late today Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested a top Hamas official in Ramallah, suspected of leading military cells responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis over the course of the second Intifada. Mahar Udda, 47, has been wanted in Israel for over a decade for his alleged involvement in terror activity including the deadly double terror attack at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem and at the bus stop near the Tzrifin military base in central Israel on September 9, 2003.

2010:Around 1,000 demonstrators marched this evening outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem to protest Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's decision to allow the continuation of single-sex bus lines that serve the Haredi community.

2011(7th Adar II): Yahrzeit of Moshe Rabbeinu. According to tradition Moses passed on his 120thbirthday, Adar 7, 2488 (1273 BCE). This same tradition teaches that he  was born in Egypt on the 7th of Adar of the year 2368 from creation (1393 BCE).2011(7th of Adar II): Burial Society Day. “The Chevrah Kadisha (Jewish Burial Societies) hold their annual get-together and feast on Adar 7th. This is based on the tradition that God Himself buried Moses on this day.”

2011:The Palestinian leadership must be held accountable for continued incitement and failure to stop the glorification of murderers, a senior aide to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said today as the Fatah faction named a town square in El-Bireh after the leader of the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.

2011:Chabad Lubavitch of Northern Virginia is scheduled to present The Rabbi Samuel and Zehava Friedman Annual Yeshiva Day. 

2011:Jubanos: The Jews of Cuba” and “The Fig Tree” (La Higuera) are two of the films scheduled to be shown at the 15thNew York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2011: As part of its commemoration of the Triangle Waist Factory Fire and the changes that followed in its wake, the Jewish Women's Archive has organized a walking tour which is scheduled to take place today.

2011: The second wedding to take place at the Huvra Synagogue since its re-dedication is scheduled to take place today.

2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Executive Unbound : After the Madisonian Republic co-authored by Eric A. Posner and the recently released paperback editions of Wrestling With Moses:How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint and  Making a Toast:A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt.

2011:Former Knesset member Tawfik Toubi aged 89 a Haifa resident, who was the last remaining living member of the first Knesset was laid to rest in Haifa's Kfar Samir (Sde Yehoshua) cemetery.  Toubi, a Christian Arab Israeli, was a member of the Communist Party.

2011: An orthodox Jewish prayer observance by three passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight today

 alarmed flight attendants unfamiliar with the ritual, prompting them to lock down the cockpit and issue a security alert, officials said.

2011: Tens of thousands attended the funeral for five members of the Fogel family massacred at Itamar. The entrance to Jerusalem was blocked off by police and vehicles diverted to an alternative entrance after the huge attendance brought traffic to a standstill. Israel's major television channels provided live coverage of the eulogies for the victims.

2012: A Chabad rabbi who was serving the tiny ancient Jewish community in Cochin, India, and his wife were expelled today and sent back to Israel for allegedly engaging in illegal activities. Indian authorities accused Rabbi Zalman Bernstein of failing to declare on his visa application that he would be conducting religious activities and of trying to convert foreigners. A local daily accused him and his wife of spying for Israel.

2012:Gaza militants fired a Grad-type Katyusha rocket toward the western Negev today, despite a Egypt-mediated cease fire between Israel and militant groups that went into effect earlier in the day.  The rocket struck a residential area if the town of Netivot, with one person lightly wounded. Eleven people were treated for shock.

2012:Israel's Counter Terrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens today against travelling to Turkey, citing intelligence that terror groups were planning attacks against Israeli or Jewish institutions in the country.

According the warning, Israelis are asked to refrain from travel to Turkey over information of intent to go forward with the attack in next few days.

2012: Israeli composer and organist, Roman Krasnovsky is scheduled to perform a solo recital at the Central Synagogue in New York City.

2012:Shmuel Ashkenasi is scheduled to perform with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a private tour lead by Dr. Peggy Pearlstein of Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress,

1912-2012

2013: Seton Hall basketball player Tom Maayan informed his uncle David Fuchs that he could not postpone his service in the IDF any longer and packed his bags for the flight to Tel Avv.

2013: The Yeshiva University Museum is schedule to sponsor a curator’s tour “Passages Through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War.”

2013(2nd of Nisan, 5773): Eighty-four-year-old actor Malachi Throne passed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/arts/television/malachi-throne-actor-in-it-takes-a-thief-dies-at-84.html?hpw&_r=0

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/malachi-throne-dead-dies-batman-actor_n_2885549.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

2013: In another case of “Jew on Jew” Larry page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin “had moved from the Android division to take on new projects at Google.”

2013: “A new documentary, ‘Philip Roth: Unmasked’ opened at New York City’s Film Forum today.

2013: Bruce Ruben, director of the School of Sacred Music at HUC, is scheduled to a lecture entitled “Max Lillienthal and the Making of the American Rabbinate” at the Leo Baeck Institue.

2013: In Washington, DC, the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism is scheduled to host a community organizing training program for those participating in the Jewish Energy Network.

2013: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian cardinal who was elected pope late today and will take the name Francis I, is said to have a good relationship with Argentinian Jews.

2014: The 17th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open at the Center for Jewish History.

2014: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host “The Immigrant Experience in Movies.”

2014(11thof Adar II, 5774): Fast of Easter observed on Thursday

2014: Terrorists continued their rocket attack firing missiles at Ashdod and Ashkelon in the morning and at Sderot and surrounding communities this afternoon. (As reported by Maayana Miskin)

2014: “CBS announced the second season renewal of ‘Mom,’” the sit-com created by Chuck Lorre.

2014: There was no confirmation today by Israel of Islamic Jihad’s claim that an Egyptian brokered cease fire had gone into effect.  (As reported by Spencer Ho)

2015: Team Crossroads is scheduled to participate in today’s Jerusalem Marathon.

http://run4crossroads.com/

2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its last Friday Night of the academic term.

2015(22nd of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old MVP winning Cleveland Indians third baseman Al Rosen passed away today.

http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion

2015(22nd of Adar, 5775): Ninety-six-year-old cartoonist Irwin Hasen passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/arts/irwin-hasen-comic-book-artist-and-dondi-illustrator-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2015(22nd Adar, 5775): Lia van Leer, the cinema pioneer who founded “the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival” passed away today.

http://deadline.com/2015/03/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-pioneer-dies-aged-91-simon-west-crowdfunds-salty-more-global-briefs-1201393210/

http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/index_isro_arhiva_30.html

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/van-leer-lia

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-dead-at-90-1201452774/

2015: “Many Jewish bodies in Europe are being bankrupted by the growing need for security measures, the US State Department’s special envoy on anti-Semitism said today.”

2015: This morning, erev of Shabbat, over 25,000 people participated in the Jerusalem Marathon. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2015: “The Argentine government today declassified its files on an unsolved 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center that is at the center of a new political firestorm.”

2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savanah, GA.

2016: In North Carolina, “Serial (Bad) Weddings” and “A Tale of Love and Darkness” are scheduled to be shown on the last day of the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival

2016: The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to celebrate its 78th season by performing at the State Theatre where it performed in April of 1988 when the State Theatre “was officially reopened as a nonprofit performing arts center.

2016: In London, the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to host a screening of “The Last of the Unjust” followed by a panel discussion led by Director David Feldman and Professor Jacqueline Rose.

2016: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ – the music of Harold Arlen.

2016: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of “Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist” an exhibition that “celebrates the remarkable life, vision, and heroic tenacity of a twentieth-century pioneer and trailblazer” who is now in her 104th year.

2016: At London’s Tate Britain, an exhibition of 36 paintings by Frank Auerbach is scheduled to come to an end today.

2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Secret of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel, Is that Kafkfa?by Reiner Stach  and Anna and The Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit

2017: Tony Nominee Tovah Feldshuh is among the stars scheduled to appear the Streicker Center’s “Jewish Broadway.”

2017: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to open “Atlanta Collects” to the public today.

2017(15th of Adar, 5777): Shushan Purim

2017(15th of Adar, 5777): Fifty-one year old author and filmmaker tragically succumbed to ovarian cancer today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html?_r=0

2018: Claire Foy, the star of “The Crown” was paid less than her male co-star Matt Smith for the show’s first two seasons, producers of the Netflix period drama revealed at a panel during the INTV Conference in Jerusalem today.

2018: As Hamas and the Palestinian Authority continued their fight for control, “a roadside bomb blast damaged several vehicles in the convoy of PA PM Rami Hamdallah” today.

2018: In response to today’s allegations in the New York Times that he “had sexually or harassed” five women, Cornell University trained architect Richard Meier, the winner of the 1984 Pritzker Architecture Prize said he would take a six months leave of absence from his firm.

2018: “The Pirate Captain Toledano,” “Sara Levy Cohen,” “116 Cameras” and “Keep It Cool” are scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story” in London.

2018: “Dr. Stranglelove” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2019: The Illinois Holocaust and Education Center’s 2019 Humanitarian Awards 10th Anniversary Dinner is scheduled to take place this evening.

2019: JW3 is scheduled to host an evening with Bart van Es, the author of The Cut Out Girl that “tells the true story of the author’s grandparents and the young girl they fostered to hide her from the Nazis in occupied Holland.”

2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening of “Who We Are: The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm”

2019: The Jewish Study Center is scheduled to host Michael Rugel as he presents “Echoing the Maccabees: How Jewish Soldiers Restored Synagogues after WWII.”

2020: Friday the 13th is a lucky day for those preparing to celebrate the natal days of Sasha Anderson and JoyAnn Ruscha.

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the “8th Week Friday Night Dinner, the last Friday night dinner of this school term.

2020: The display of the works of Tali Margolin at the Noyes Museum of Art is scheduled to continue today.

2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host Abraham as he talks about “Battling Bigotry.”

2020: As of 3:00 pm today the Center for Jewish History in New York will be closed until the end of March.

2021: In Columbus, OH at Tifereth Israel, Michael Botkin is scheduled to be called the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.

2021: In Atlanta, GA, Ahavath Achim is scheduled to host SOJOURN Celebrates Purim Off Ponce At The Drive-in: The Rocky “Hora” Picture Show

2021: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present online, “Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom with Ariel Burger.

2021: The Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston is scheduled to begin today with them of “Ve’Shuv Itchem-Together Again!”

2021(29th of Adar, 5781): Parshat Vayaykel-Pekudi; Shabbat Ha Chodesh; Machar Chodesh; for more see

https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Day, March 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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 388: A law prohibiting mixed marriages between Jews and non-Jews which is defined as adultery, is promulgated as part of the Theodosian Code.

1181: King Philip Augustus of France ordered the seizure of all Jews of Paris attending synagogue and had them detained for ransom

1473(14th of Adar): Marranos massacred in Cordova, Spain

1489: The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Jews had been living on this Mediterranean island since Roman time.  At the time of the Venetian acquisition, a considerable number of Jews were leading merchants in the port of Famagusta. 

1492: Queen Isabella of Castile orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.

1535: David dei Rossi a Jewish merchant from Italy, who set out for the Orient in 1534, writes his wife Sarah the following observation of life in Ottoman Palestine, "Hatred of the Jew is, in contrast to our homeland, unknown here, and the Turks hold the Jews in esteem. In this country and in Egypt, Jews are the chief officers and administrators of the customs.

1543: During the Counter Reformation, Paul III issued entitled “Injunctum nobis,” a papal bull that affirmed certain Catholic teachings, including the authority of the Pope, in the face of Protestant challenges. This came a year after Paul III had launched an Inquisition that was designed to stamp the Protestant revolution begun by Luther.  “Judaizing” was one of the crimes that the Inquisition was empowered to investigated and punish. 

1630: In Przemysl, Poland, Moses the Braider, a Jewish merchant, was accused of conspiring to desecrate the host and was burned alive.

1647: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm during the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years War coincided with the great Cossack Uprising.  Jewish refugees from these two calamities reversed the eastward migration of Jews.  A trickle that would eventually became a comparative “torrent” began moving Westward settling in Holland and England. 

1682: Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael, the Dutch landscape painter whose works include “The Jewish Cemetery” passed away today.

http://www.oilpaintingfactory.com/english/oil-painting-106726.htm

1750: In New Amsterdam (New York City), Isaac Mendes Seixas, a native of Lisbon and Rachel Franks Levy, a native of London gave birth to Abraham Mendes Seixas, the husband of Richea Hart whom he married in Charleston in 1777 and with whom he had ten children.

1767(13th of Adar II, 5527): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1769: In Newport, RI, Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Hannah Isaacks.

1774(2nd of Nisan, 5534): The Jews of Basra, Persia celebrated a special Purim, Yom Ha Nes

1782: In Bedford, NY, Philadelphia native Esther Etting and Rye, NY, native David Barrack Hays gave birth to Charity Hays, the wife of Jacob Da Silva Solis whom she married in 1811 and with whom she had seven children.

1791: Sixty-five-year-old Johann Salomon Semler the Lutheran historian and biblical commentator who “was the first to take due note of and use for critical purposes the opposition between the Judaic and anti-Judaic parties of the early church” passed away today.

1794(12 of Adar II, 5554): Elias Issak Wetheim, who had moved to Frankfurt in 1769 and was the husband of Merle Cahn passed away today.

1799: The French Army under Napoleon leaves Jaffa after conquering the city and “continued its march northwards towards its goal, Acre.”

1805(13th of Adar II 5565): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1805(13th of Adar II, 5565): Solomon Harby, the London born son of Isaac Harby and the husband of Rebecca Moses Harby passed away today in Charleston, SC.

1808(15th of Adar, 5568): Shushan Purim

1816(14th of Adar, 5576): Purim

1820: Birthdate of Victor Emmanuel II, the first King of a unified Italian state.  He reigned from 1861 until 1878.  How big a difference did the emergence of the modern Italian nation make to the Jewish people?  “Historian Howard Morley Sacher puts it this way: ‘In 1848 there had been no European country save Spain where the restrictions placed upon Jews were more galling and more humiliating than in Italy.  After 1860, there was no country on the continent of Europe where conditions were better for Jews.’”

1821: Thirty-two-year-old Sarah Marks, the daughter of Michael Marks married Samuel Lyons today.

1827(15th of Adar, 5587): Shushan Purim

1831: Two days after she had passed away, 20-year-old Charlotte Rees, the daughter of Woolf and Hannah Rees was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemtery.

1832: In Edinburgh, Helen and Sir Charles Fergusson gave birth to Sir James Fergusson who during a Parliamentary debate in 1890 “said that the British Charge d’Affiares at St. Petersburg had telegraphed the Foreign Office that no fresh measures were under consideration by the Government aiming to deprive the Jews of any of the privileges they now enjoy.”

1841: Birthdate of Moritz Rosenhaupt, whose father was the rabbi at Offenbach on the Glan (Prussia) who served as a cantor at Speyer and Nuremberg.

1843: Birthdate of German native Gustave Strauss, the husband of Frances Strauss, and the father of Florence, Edwin and Lily Strauss, each of whom was born in London.

1845: The state of Massachusetts granted a charter of incorporation to Congregation Ohabei Shalom (Lovers of Peace) giving form anal possession of land to the Jewish Community. Organized by German Jews living in Boston, this large Reform congregation is now located in Brookline, MA. It is the only Jewish congregation in the Bay State and the second oldest in New England.

1851: While traveling from London to Philadelphia, Rabbi Sabato Morais arrived in New York

1853: British Parliament debates a Jewish Disabilities Bill. Lord John Russell said that “his object was to complete the edifice of religious toleration by permitting the Jewish subjects of Britain the same rights and privileges of British subjects as were a presented enjoyed by Protestants, Dissenters and Roman Catholics.” He could see no danger to Christian institutions to allow “a small number of believers in a different faith and who were otherwise good citizens and not given to proselytizing” to hold civil office. Among the opponents, the famed Robert Peel claimed that “it was incompatible with the dignity of Christians to admit Jews into almost every office.” One member of the House called for a definition of Parliamentary Christianity because “he could not understand what doctrine of the Christian religion was involved in Parliamentary Christianity. While another opponent said that Jews were as bad as atheist, Mr. O’Connell came to the defense of the Jews.  As a Roman Catholic he had suffered discrimination and felt it was his duty to speak up on behalf of another group suffering the same fate.  The Bill would be defeated.  Victory would not come until 1848.

1853: Sixty-six-year-old Julius Jacob von Haynau, the Austrian general who pardoned Judah Leib "Leopold" Löw after he had been arrested following the Revolutions of 1848.

1854(14th of Adar, 5614): Purim

1854: In the New York City, Frances Allen Levy and Jonas P. Levy gave birth to attorney Louis Napoleon Levy and the husband of Lillian Hendricks Levy with whom he had four children.

1854: Birthdate of Nobel Prize Winner and medical scientist, Paul Ehrlich who discovered a treatment for syphilis.  He died in 1915 at the age of 61. How does a Jew become a German scientist? - By winning the Nobel Prize.  Interestingly, the obituaries of both of these men (see Einstein below) identify them as Germans even though in the case of Einstein he was forced to flee by the Germans just before the Brown Shirts ransacked his home and office.

1855: Four years after protesting “against the ratification of a treaty between Switzerland and the United States on the ground that the former government discriminated against his co-religionists,” Jacob Ezekiel, a prominent Richmond, VA Jew and the brother-in-law of Jacob A. Levy wrote to Dr. Isaac M. Wise suggesting “the establishment of a Zion Collegiate Institute in Cincinnati and a Union of the Israelites in America in which all could co-operate in matters of religion.”

1855: In New Orleans, Foundingsof the Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans whose members came to included Gabe Kahn, Rabbi I.L. Leucht, F.J. Dreyfous and Joe Trautman.

1859: Birthdate of Adolf Cardinal Bertram the archbishop of Breslau and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who in 1933 refused the request of an inter-faith group to take part in the protest of the boycott of Jewish businesses organized by the Nazis and who “ordered Church celebrations upon Nazi Germany's victory over Poland and France, with order to ring bells all across Reich upon the news of Nazi capture of Warsaw in 1939.”

1860(20th of Adar, 5620): Lewis Charles Levin passed away.  Levin was the first Jew elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the American Party candidate from Pennsylvania in 1844. He was born in Charleston South Carolina, on November 10, 1808. 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.

1861: It was announced at today’s meeting of the Board of Charities and Corrections that the Hebrew Orphan and Half orphan Asylum was among the organizations that received a portion of the $645 dollars recently raised at benefit held to raise funds for the benefit of New York’s widows and orphans.

1865:The fourth annual masquerade ball of the Purim Association took place this evening at the Academy of Music. The society is composed exclusively of Jews, and the proceeds are to be devoted to charitable purposes.

1862: Aaron Katz, a native of Philadelphia, PA who had been working as a clerk in Mecklenburg County, NC, enlisted in the Confederate Army today

1865: “The Hebrew Purim Ball” one of the highlights of the New York social season was held this evening at the Academy of Music.

1866: Seventy-six-year-old American historian and former President of Harvard Jared Sparks who had taken an interest in the life of Haym Solomon passed away. When others were attempting to denigrate Solomon’s role, Professor Sparks “wrote to the effect that Solomon’s association with Robert Morris ‘were very close and intimate and that a great part of the success that Mr. Morris attained in his financial schemes was due to skill and ability of Hyam Solomon.”

1867, Birthdate of German native Isaak Reihneimer.

1868(20th of Adar, 5628): Shabbat Parah

1868(20th of Adar, 5628): Solomon Ben Baruch Salkind, the Lithuanian born poet who wrote in Hebrew passed away today.

1870: In Whitechapel, London, Mean Wingard and Polish born Louis Harris gave birth to Israel Harris.

1871: The group that would eventually become the Personal Rights Association in which “English author and economist’ Joseph Hiam Levy played a major role, met for the first time today in Manchester, UK.

1871: In a lecture delivered tonight at Rutgers Female College entitled “The Bible in the Rocks,” Professor Egleston said that the Bible was written for “Hebrew bondsman, so all of the illustrations are of a simple nature and can be comprehended by the most unenlightened.  Yet these illustrations are perfectly consistent with the latest discoveries of modern science.”

1873(15th of Adar, 5633): Shushan Purim

1874: “The History of Hats” published today traces the men’s headgear from ancient Tibet to modern day France.  According to the author, Jews have not made any contribution to what he calls “hatology” claiming that he cannot find a Hebrew word hat and that Jews have “entirely discarded that useful article of dress.”

1876: A full dress reception sponsored by the Purim Association will be held at Delmonico’s this evening in New York City. This event marks the fifth and final day of receptions, suppers and other festivities marking the celebration of Purim.

1879: In Ulm, Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch gave birth to Albert Einstein. Forced to flee Germany during the Nazi era, Einstein continued his career at Princeton where he died in 1955.  He published four scientific papers in his spare time while he worked as an examiner in the Swiss Patents Office. Each one had revolutionary implications for the field of physics. Among them was his special theory of relativity. Einstein said, "If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." It was Einstein who warned Roosevelt of the dangers of Nazi Germany building the Atomic Bomb - a warning headed by the United States.  Einstein's views on religion were not exactly Jewish, but he was Jewish enough to be offered the Presidency of the infant state of Israel - a position he reluctantly declined.

http://einstein.biz/

1881(13th of Adar II, 5641): Erev Purim

1881: According to Mrs. Berthold Riese, she was married to Berthold Riese, a Jewish clairvoyant on this date.  During a trial in 1887, in which he faced charges of having abandoned his wife, Riese would deny the validity of the document which said he, a Jew, was married to Catholic by a Lutheran minister.

1883: Karl Marx passed away.

http://historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html

1884: Birthdate of Maxwell Zwerbach the American gangster known as Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach who led the Eastman Gang.

1888: This morning, at Coosaw, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Maurice Emanuel of St. Augustine, FL and Mary E. Seixas at the home of A.M. Lopez.

1890: In Omaha, Nebraska, Harry and Anna (Bank) Marowitz gave birth to U. of Michigan trained attorney Arthur Marowitz, the husband of Esther Epstein who served as the Director of the Assoc. Jewish Charities, the Secretary of the Jewish War Victims Relief committee and the organizer and president of the El Dorado Lodge of B’nai B’rith

1892(15th of Adar, 5652): Shushan Purim

1892: Police Recorder dismissed the charges that had been lodged against two Jewish grocers who had been arrested last week for doing business on Sunday.

1893: Two members of a gang in Kansas City, MO that uses a Jewish fence named Morantz were captured this morning.

1894: In Vienna, burial of eighty-four-year Bohemian born medical doctor Ludwig August Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart, the student of Zecharias Frankel who served as secretary and archivist of the Vienna Jewish community where he practiced medicine and was active in the Revolution of 1848. (As reported by Singer and Mannheimer)

http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59809&local_base=GEN01-MCG02

1894: Among the charities that received money from the Mayor’s Committee of Five which was distributing funds that had been raised   to aid those who have lost their jobs during the current economic distribution was the United Hebrew Charities which was given $2,700.

1895: Three days after he had passed away, 89 year old Eleazer Myers was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1895: In Ekaterinoslav, Russia, Mark and Hannah Malifsoff gave birth Columbia and NYU trained biochemist William Marias Malisoff, the husband of Sally Juster and father of Marias, Eda and Vera Malifsoff.

1896: The Hovevei Zion in Vienna decides to call on Herzl to work for the fulfillment of the program of a Jewish state.

1896: The Jewish children whose families live on the upper east side of New York City gave a ball and carnival tonight at the Central Opera House.

1896: The Sutro Baths, the “largest indoor swimming pool establishment” which were built by Adolph Sutro, opened “on the western side of San Francisco” today.

1897: “The Old Dutch Records” published today described the impact of “the city of New York” to publish “the records of its municipal ancestor, Nieuw Amsterdam. Included in the documents is a report of the arrival of 23 Jews in 1654 who “were ordered to depart March 1, 1655.  The Patroons of the West India Company decide, however that as the Jews owned most of the stock in that organization, they would be let alone.”

1897: “Austria’s Extraordinary Politics” described the electoral climate in the polyglot empire where “the Clerical Party” which “style themselves as Christian Socialites but are better known as anti-Semites” “is led by the lower clergy in defiance” of the Bishops “but which has the benediction of the Vatican” has again won victory in Vienna.

1897: In Brooklyn, Father Sylvester Malone of the Church Saint Peter and Saint Paul spoke in praise of “Mrs. Nannette Marks, a Jewish lady who has become famous throughout Brooklyn for her benevolent acts” irrespective of the creed of those in need.

1897: Emma Frohman was in charge of the entertainment presented by the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway this evening.

1897: A service was held in memory of Morris Goodhart, the late President of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society who passed away in February.

1897: Seventieth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Philip J. Joachimsen, the native of Bristol, who fund the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1898: Felix Adler addresses the Mother’s Congress this afternoon.

1898: Birthdate of Henrietta L. Pitler, the wife of Jacob Albert Pitler, a coach on the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series champions

1899(3rd of Nisan, 5659): Seventy-five-year-old Ludwig Bamberger who was a revolutionary in 1848, a patriot during the Franco-Prussian War who was elected to the first German Reichstag that met in 1873

1899(3rd of Nisan, 5659): Seventy-five-year-old Hyman Steinthal, the brother-in-law of Moritz Lazarus, who was “a German philologist and philosopher” passed away today.

1899: In Albany, Edward Lauterbach appeared before the state Senate Cities Committee to voice his opposition to a bill that would establish St. Nicholas Park because the park would encompass grounds on Amsterdam Avenue that had been previously granted to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1899: “Certain Phases of Zionism” published today described the view of Professor Thomas Davidson that the Jewish return to Palestine because of selection by “a Supreme Being” is “illogical and unfair.”  “Jew must cast off the swaddling clothes of supernatural and superstition” for “the new Zion of religious freedom.”

1899(3rd of Nisan, 5659): Émile Erckmann, co-author of the 1869 play “Le Jeuf Polonais” (The Polish Jew) passed away today.

1899(3rd of Nisan, 5659): Seventy-five-year-old “German philologist and philosopher” Heymann Steinthal, the brother-in-law of Moritz Lazarus and “privat-dozent in critical history of the Old Testament and in religious philosophy at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, or Higher Institute for Jewish Studies” passed away today.

1899: “Topics of the Times” published today described the career of Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, “the oldest American rabbi now in active service and generally and cordially recognized as the most eminent of them” who will be honored at the upcoming session of the Central of American Rabbis.  According to the article he was born on March 14 while other sources show his birthdate as March 29, 1819.

1899: The member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis presented Dr. Isaac M. Wise with an ivory gavel mounted in gold as part of the celebrations honoring his 80th birthday which included a dinner at the Phoenix Club in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1899: Birthdate of Des Moines, IA native and Yale University graduate Elliot E. Cohen the founding editor of Commentary magazine.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/

1900(13th of Adar II, 5660): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1900: Morris and Rose Gershwin gave birth to future stockbroker and composer Arthur Gershwin

1900: In Philadelphia, Joseph and Eva Biberman gave birth to blacklisted screenwriter and director Herbert J. Biberman, the brother of Edward Biberman.

http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm

1901: “Want Sunday Law Changed” published today described a bill “offered by Representative Borofsky of Boston that would amend the present law on the statute books governing the Sabbath” that would provide “that whoever shall observe the seventh da of the as the Sabbath shall not be liable for penalties for performing work on the next” which was favored by “a number of Rabbis” and opposed by Reverend M.B Kneeland, the Secretary of the New England Sunday Protective League.”

1901: Brother Leontine “who is in charge of the male department of the Catholic Protectory in Westchester denied charges by “Morris Adler of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Disciplinary School for Boys that Protestant and Hebrews boys of the school who are being temporarily sheltered at the Protectory are be being  taught Catholicism.”

1902: George Steinman led a delegation of ten boys from PS No 83 who tried to present Mayor Low with a petition calling for the street in front of their school to be covered with asphalt which would minimize the noise of traffic which interferes with their classwork.

1902: It was reported today that Fay Templeton’s “take off of Mrs. Leslie Carter” performed at Weber and Field’s, the burlesque house owned by the Jewish comedy team, was “a work of real genius.”

1903: Birthdate of American painter Adolph Gottlieb an original member of “The Ten” a group of mostly expressionist and mostly Jewish avant garde artists.  Gottlieb abandoned figuration for a new style, “abstract expressionism.”

https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/chronology/

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/533

1904: Pope Pius X accepted the resignation of Theodor Kohn as Archbishop of Olomous who had been forced to resign according to some because his grandfather was Jewish.

1905: Birthdate of Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron, “a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known for his lifelong, often critical friendship with Jean-Paul Sartre, and for his skepticism of the post-war vogue in France for ideologies that largely took their inspiration from a Marxist tradition.” The son of a Jewish lawyer who witnessed Nazi book burnings, he passed away in 1983.

1905: “A number of prominent Jews have accepted inventions to attend” tonight’s “ninth annual camp fire” of the Jewish Union Veterans whose numbers have dwindled from 208 to 109 in the last nine years due to the death of some of its members.

1906: In St. Petersburg, “the government announced that it will take measures to stop the incitement to murder Jews” which has given rise to a rumor that the government plans to abolish all of the reactionary organizations.

1906: Flora Krichefski the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Krichefski of Jersey married Hyman Appleberg, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Appleberg at the Great Synagogue.

1906: In St. Petersburg, the Police Prefect to Premier Witte that he did not know how a “proclamation calling for the extermination of the Jews was printed in the official printing office attached to his department.”

1906: Beth Israel Hospital is scheduled to host its annual ball tonight at Madison Square Garden.

1907: Today, in New York, “telegrams reached the Sephardic community directly from the capital of the Turkish empire” saying “that the Hakam Bashi, Jacob Mair, had been deposed and that Rabbi Elihyahu Panizeel had been appointed to” replace him which meant that the Turkish government had stepped in and resolved the dispute that arisen following the death of the former Hakam Bashi.

1908(11th of Adar II, 5668): Parasaht Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

1909: In “Rabbi Lyons Urges Reform Judaism,” published today Rabbi Alexander Lyons of Temple Beth Elohim in State Street, Brooklyn expressed his opposition to the formation of a Jewish federation in New York City. His opposition is based, in part, on his strongly held belief that Reformed Judaism is “the religion of the Jewish future” and that Orthodox Judaism is doomed. Furthermore he believes that such a federation would be futile attempt to paper over the social, economic and ideological differences in the Jewish community and that such an organization would separate the Jewish people from their fellow Americans.

1910: Birthdate of Harry Blitman, the featherweight boxer from Philadelphia who began his boxing career at the age of 16.

1911(14th of Adar, 5671): Purim

1911: Birthdate of Barnard College graduate “Aleen Ginsberg Schacht, a national vice president of Hadassah and wife of steel construction executive Lawrence Schact with whom she raised two children – Michael and BarDara.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/10/archives/aleen-schacht-a-vice-president-of-hadassah-on-national-board.html

1912: In Dusseldorf, Germany, Gustave Cohn, the son of Levi and Eva Regina Cohn and his wife Paula Cohn gave birth to Lore Cohn

1913: According to Dr. Maurice H. Harris who spoke tonight at Congregation Temple Israel, “the Jewish citizens of America were caricatured unjustly by Burton J. Hendrick in his article ‘The Jewish Invasion of America” published in the March issue of McClure’s Magazine>.

1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama had been appointed as a delegate continued for a second day in Jacksonville, Florida.

1913: The funeral was held today in Chicago for Victor B. Strelitz, a member of the firm of Strelitz Brothers – David I., Isaac D., Maurice and Arthur V. – who had died suddenly in New York City at the age of forty-two.

1914: In Asbury Park, New Jersey, Ethel and Mores Hess, a kosher butcher, gave birth to Leon Hess, “the founder of the Hess Corporation and owner of the New York Jets professional football team.

1914: “While the extraordinary motion hearing was pending, the Journal called for a new trial, saying that to execute Frank based on the atmosphere both within and outside the courtroom would "amount to judicial murder". Other newspapers in the state followed suit and many ministers spoke from the pulpit supporting a new trial.

1915: Birthdate of L.B. Stein, the native of Chatham, Mississippi, the “first cousin once removed” of Greenville, MS, born and Tulane University educated Rabbi Fred Victor Davidow and “historian” who ministered to the spiritual needs of many members of the Jewish community in Philadelphia, PA.

1915: A benefit performance sponsored by the Krakauer Charity and Aid Society is scheduled to take place tonight at the Lyric Theatre. The money raised by this event will used to buy Matzoth which will be distributed among the city’s poor Jews for their use during the upcoming celebration of Passover.  The famous singer and actress, Lillian Russell has volunteered to serve as the announcer for the event. [The Krakauer Charity and Aid Society was one of the many organizations established by Jews from Cracow, Poland.  No reason is given for Lillian Russell’s having volunteered her services for the event.  However, she was married to Edward Solomon, the English composer whose family was Jewish.]

1915: “Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled” today at “the sixth annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aide Society” which “was held” this “afternoon in the auditorium of Public School 62” at the corner of Hester and Essex Streets.

1915: The United States collier Vulcan set sail today from Philadelphia bound for Jaffa carrying supplies for “the relief of the needy of the Holy Land” as well as supplies for the United States battleships North Carolina and Tennessee.

1915: “About 250 persons” attended “a rally of the Bronx Young Men’s Hebrew Association” that was held this afternoon at Morris High School chaired by Assemblyman M. M. Fertig.

1916: “An enthusiastic demonstrations for preparedness was made” in Philadelphia “tonight when the Maccabean Regiment, the first Jewish military corps in the United States was formed preparatory to any call that might arise for the nation’s defense.”

1916: “Representatives of the Union of Orthodox Congregations and of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers appeared at Albany” today to express “opposition to the pending bill providing for the compulsory reading from the Bible in the public schools” of New York.

1917: Fifty-six-year-old Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori, French attorney who defended Émile Zola in 1898 in the Dreyfus trial and Captain Alfred Dreyfus at the court martial in Rennes in 1899 passed away today.

1917: “Turn Flowers To Charity” published today described Henry Morgenthau and Louis Marshall’s support for the suggestion of I. Edwin Goldwasser, the Director of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies that people stop sending flowers for funerals and contribute the money in the name of the deceased to a charity of their choice.

1918: Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow who served “as a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board, which went to France in July, 1918” wrote today that it was his “good fortune” be in Paris after the signing of the Armistice and that “the People don’t seem to be able to find a way to express their joy” over the “marvelous victory of the Allies.”

1918: The first edition of the New York Weekly Jewish News edited by P.M. Raskin and Saul J. Cohen complete with “brief and authoritative articles, lively fiction, a woman’s page, children’s’ sections and cartoon” is scheduled to makes it appearance it today.

1918: In keeping with orders issued by the U.S. Army last week, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniel has instructed all naval commanders that it is within in their discretion “to give forty-two hours leave being with the evening of March 27 to men of the Jewish faith in the navy so that they may observe Passover.”

1918: A dinner hosted by Judges Otto A, Rosalsky and Moses H. Grossman was held tonight at New York’s Savoy Hotel in honor of Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago during which sixty thousand dollars was raised to go to a fund for establishing a Jewish State in Palestine.

1919: Birthdate of St. Paul, MN native Maximillian Shulman the humor writer who gave us loads of off-beat laughs in the tales of Dobie Gillies, “The Tender Trap” and Rally Round the Flag Boys and was married to Mary Goodman Shulman, the mother of Martha Rose Shulman.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/29/obituaries/max-shulman-humorist-is-dead-chronicler-of-postwar-life-was-69.html

1920: Hayyah and Zevi Kempner gave birth to Vitka Kempner the Jewish resistance fighter who married famed poet Abba Kovner.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kempner-kovner-vitka

1921: Two days after he had passed away, Abraham Genn, the husband of Fanny Genn with whom he had had six children, was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery” in Northern Ireland.

1921: In New York, Leah Rosenthal Landman and Dr. Michael Louis Landman gave birth to Ada Louise Landman who as “Ada Louise Huxtable, pioneered modern architectural criticism in the pages of The New York Times, celebrating buildings that respected human dignity and civic history — and memorably scalding those that did not…” (As reported by David Dunlap)

1921: Arthur Shelby Levinsohn who had been serving as lieutenant in Quartermaster Corps since January was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Alice Edith Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading (née Alice Edith Cohen) was appointed Companion of the Order of the Crown of India today.

1921: Lionel Leopold Meyer was promoted to the rank of Captain in the United States Army today.

1921: Eustace Maduro Piexotto who had been serving a lieutenant in the Infantry was promoted to the rank of Captain in the United States Army today.

1921: Ralph Hirsch was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Lester Abraham Harris was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Nathaniel L. Simmonds was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Joseph Philip Kohn was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Charles Wells Jacobson was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Milton Lowenberg was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army today.

1921: Eugene Meyer, Jr. was “appointed director of the War Finance Corporation” today.

1922(14th of Adar, 5682): Purim

1922: In London, Joe Pole “a refugee from the Ukraine who was Head of Publicity for the United Arts and Phoebe Louise Pole (nee Rickards) a suffragette, school-teach and Labor Party member of Finchley Council gave birth to historian Jack Richon Pole whose works included Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic and The Pursuit of Equality in American History.

1923: In New York, David Nemerov and Gertrude Russek Nemerov, the owners of Russek’s department store gave birth to Diane Nemerov who gained famed as photographer Diane Arbus.

http://diane-arbus-photography.com/

1923: Birthdate of Meyer Zarodinsky the Bessarabian native who made Aliyah in 1925 and gained fame Meir “Zarro” Zorea an IDF general and member of the Knesset

1924: “According to people who have recently been inmates of Soviet prisons “most of the big ‘Nepman’” the Bolshevik term for profiteers whom they describe as being “chiefly Jews” have been banished to Nijni Novogrod which has become the real financial center of Russia, because the “Nepman” are the only ones who understand how “private trading” really works.”  (The Jew as Shylock -  one of those unifying themes that transcend time, place or politics)

1925(18th of Adar, 5685): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1925(18th of Adar, 5685): Sixty-three year old Harvard and Columbia Law School trained corporate attorney Alfred Jaretzki, the New York born son of Gustave and Henrietta Jaretzki and the father of Maud, Alice, Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. who was a member of Sullivan and Cromwell, “trustee of the Mount Sinai Hospital, a director of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and a director of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/15/98818593.pdf

1925: One day after he had passed away, 84 year old David Jacob Cohen, the German born son of Jakob and Hannah Cohen and the husband of Dina Berger was buried at Yokneam, Israel today.

1926: At the Hotel Astor, Judge Otto Rosalsky was among the speakers during a dinner that raised $25,000 as the opening event for a fund to build the Jewish Center of University Heights which will require at least $150,000.

1926: During “an executive meeting of the American Jewish Congress held today at the Hotel Biltmore, William Filderman described the anti-Semitic conditions in his home country of Romania including a measure which “disenfranchise 15,000 Jews.

1927: Today, the Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress heard a report from Gershon Agronsky who had just returned from Rumania in which he described the government’s persecution of Jews and “other religious minorities” including “Baptists and Unitarians.”

1928: A delegation from the United Rumanian Jews of America met today with the Rumanian Minister to the United States and recommended “that the Rumanian Government give the fullest administrative protection to its Jewish population as well as to all other minorities.”

1928: According to the “second section of the Jewish Communal Survey” released today, “Jewish death rates in New York City are lower than those of the general population” both in New York City and the state of New York.

1929: Today as his admirers tried to find Albert Einstein so they could celebrate his 50th birthday, “the great physicist was found sitting bent over a small microscope – one his birthday presents –“ in a small outbuilding on the palatial estate of “Berlin’s shoe polish king, Franz Lemm.

1930(14th of Adar, 5690): First Purim of the Great Depression

1930: A four-day series of events tied to the dedication dediction of the new Temple Rodeph Sholom at 83rd Street and Central Park are scheduled to begin this evening with Shabbat services.

1930: Racecar driver Woolf Barnato, the son of Barney Barnato, “reached Dale Bourne's club (the Conservative) in St James's,” thus making good on his boast that he could reach London before the French “Blue Train” reached Calais

1930: In his editorial column “Today” published in the New York American Arthur Brisbane recommended “Judge Benjamin Cardozo of New York for the U. S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Sanford,” (Editor’s note – Cardozo would have to wait for two years to finally get to the High Court.)

1930: Premiere of Die letzte Kompagnie (The Last Company) a German War movie directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Joe May.

1932(6th of Adar II, 5692): Benjamin N. Cardozo joins his fellow Jew Louis Brandeis as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1933: During an interview held “at the office of the American Friends of the Hebrew University” in New York Dr. I.J.Klingler, head of the Department of Hygiene and Micro-Biology at Hebrew University said that “unless the Hebrew University at Jerusalem receives increased support, it is faced with the danger of suspending some of its scientific activities and perhaps of closing one of its faculties.”

1934: In what would turn out to be another example of “The Big Lie” “Hugh A O'Donnell, studying leisure time developments in Germany with a view to adaptation of similar ideas to the United States, was assured today by Theodor Lewald, honorary chairman of the International Olympic Committee, that all amateurs, Jew or Gentile, German or otherwise, who are qualified to compete in the coming Winter Games and Olympics to follow, will be welcomed in Germany.”

1934: “A petition signed by more than 250,000 American citizens of various faiths and all stations of life protesting the persecution of the Jews in Germany and requesting President Roosevelt to forward it to the Hitler government with a diplomatic note was left at the White House today by Alfred N. Cohen of Cincinnati, president of B'nai B'rith, and Representative Sabath of Illinois.”

1935: Birthdate of “Jack Keil Wolf, an engineer and computer theorist whose mathematical reasoning about how best to transmit and store information helped shape the digital innards of computers and other devices that power modern society.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1936: The campaign for contributions to an “Albert Einstein Fund for Palestine” that began today on Dr. Einstein’s birthday has the unique rule that “no one will be permitted to more than one dollar” which is designed to encourage a massive outpouring affection for the scientist.

1936: Members of Mount Neboh Temple, which last night heard speeches from “former Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Rabbi Israel Goldstein of B’nai Jershurun and Dr. Robert A. Ashworth, educational secretary of the National Conference of Jews and Christians continued celebrating the congregation’s Silver Jubilee today.

1936: According to reports published today, “an appeal to relatives in the United States and Canada for assistance in emigration from the district” where anti-Semitic riots are taking place “ was made by the 700 Jewish families of Przytyk where” the violence has left three dead and at least 22 people with serious injuries.

1936: Milton Brown, “a furniture salesman” and his wife gave birth to Herbert Brown, the University of Vermont alum and head coach of the NBA Detroit Pisons who was the older brother of Larry Brown

1937: Pope Pious XI issued an encyclical condemning racism. This was one of the few times the Vatican made a public statement against the Nazi regime. The next pope, Pious XII, did even less.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Shlomo Gafni, 28, and Hanoch Metz, 24, of Kfar Hahoresh were stabbed to death and their flock of 320 sheep and 70 goats stolen by Arab murderers. A bomb was thrown in Tiberias and there were various shooting incidents in Galilee. In Safed, a self-constituted Arab "National Committee" confined Jews to their quarter, subject to a rigid boycott. "We are like prisoners over whom hangs an indeterminate sentence," one Safed Jew complained. In London the Royal (Peel) Commission on Palestine heard further evidence from Sir Winston Churchill and other important British personalities.

1938: In its first response the “German conquest of Austria” Prime Minster Chamberlain today “foreshadowed a new kind of national service” which was voluntary for now but which later might become “compulsory” which “would make Britain a nation in arms for the first time since 1918.”

1938: “William Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for. Colonies, today announced another stop-gap quota for Jewish immigration into Palestine, which probably will maintain the flow at about the same reduced level as at present for another six months instead the approximate figure of 8,000 Jews permitted to enter Palestine during the eight months from August through the present month.”

1938: Time published “GERMANY: Vivid Satisfaction!”

http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,759284,00.html

1939: “Emil Hácha, the apolitical jurist who unluckily became president of Czechoslovakia shortly before the German occupation” “was placidly having lunch with a bishop when he was ordered to Berlin to meet with Adolf Hitler” to learn of Hitler’s decision send German troops to occupy the rest of his country in direct violation of the agreements reached at Munich.

1939: Sara Adler’s fifty years of work on the stage were celebrated in a gala event at the National Theater during which she performed the third act of Tolstoy's Resurrection.

1939: “Slovakia seceded from Czechoslovakia and became a separate pro-Nazi state”

1939: German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. This was a gross violation of the Munich Agreement that Chamberlain had negotiated.  This was the last step on the road to war in Europe and the Final Solution.

1939: “Hours before Hitler dismembered the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia as a German “Protectorate,” the first 20 children left Prague on a train” that had been arranged for by Nicholas Winton.

1939: As the Nazis advance on Prague, Martha and Waitstill Sharp decided to remain in the Czech capital and continue their work of rescuing refugees from Hitler’s murder machine.

1940: “The world's Jews are facing what may be their blackest period in history, and Europe threatens to become one of the greatest famine areas in modern times, in the opinion of Morris C. Troper, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who returned today from a long stay aboard to report on the conditions of the Jews in Europe.”

1940: It was reported that the British had suspended the permits “for three Hebrew newspapers” which had published “a statement of the Jewish National Council for Palestine which had been banned by the censor.”

1941: The Nazi occupiers of Holland forbade Jewish owned companies.

1942: Lehmann (Leo) Katzenberger, a Jewish businessman and leading member of the Nuremberg Jewish community who was accused of having an affair with a young "Aryan" woman was sentenced to death during a “notorious show trial” known as the Katzenberger Trial.

1943:  In Krakow the deportation of Jews continued. Children younger than three years were flung into baskets and emptied like trash into ditches. They were buried alive. One child, Shachne Hiller, who survived due to the efforts of a Polish couple, was taken by them to a Polish priest for baptism. The Priest refused, thinking that it would be unfair to the wishes of the child's parents. The child survived. The Priest went on to become Pope John Paul II.

1943: Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man” was played for the first time in New York City with George Szell conducting

1944: Australian Lt. Col. Paul Alfred Cullen arrived at Port Morseby today.

1944: Hanna Szenes Yoel Palgi and Peretz Goldstein were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group.

1945: Winston Churchill wrote to Laura Wingate, widow of Orde Wingate the British officer who had helped trained Jewish fighters during the 1930’s telling of her plans to build a memorial to her late husband on the grounds of Hebrew University.  Wingate had been killed while fighting the Japanese in Burma during the war.  At a time when the British officer corps ranged from pro-Arab to anti-Semitic Wingate stood out as a “chever” (friend) to the Jewish people in the truest sense of the term.

1945: Special services were held in many American synagogues today as Jews here and abroad marked the end of a week-long period of mourning for the millions of Jews who had been murdered by Hitler and his cohorts. 

1945(29th of Adar, 5705): Fifty-one-year-old German born actor Alexander Granach who fled from Hitler and then Stalin before settling in the United States where his first screen appearance was in the comedy “Ninotchka” passed away today.

https://libcom.org/history/granach-alexander-1890-1945

1945: Palestine’s 600,000 Jews ended their week of mourning for the millions of their co-religionist who have been murdered in what would come to be known as the Holocaust or the Shoah by observing a solemn day of fasting where they abstained from normal commercial and social activities.  Among other things, “factories, workshops, schools, restaurants and places of entertainment were closed for hours beginning at 9 o’clock this morning.”

1946(11th of Adar II, 5706): Ta’anit Esther

1946: “As part of the illegal immigration to Eretz Israel ("Aliya Bet"), the “Wingate” sailed from Italy with 238 maapilim ("illegal immigrants") on board, mostly from Eastern Europe.”

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/15.asp

1947: Birthdate of Judith Plaskow, “the first Jewish feminist to identify herself as a theologian.”

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/plaskow-judith

 1947:  At Doctor’s Hospital in Manhattan “Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, who owned and operated the Commodore Music Store, founded by Helen's father, Julius Gabler” gave birth to William Edward Crystal who gained fame as the multi-talented “Billy” Crystal who has made us smile and laugh in several different venues.

http://www.biography.com/people/billy-crystal-9262777

1947: According to reports received in Jerusalem, today’s attacks on oil pipelines at Haifa were the work of the Stern Gang and not the Irgun. 

1947: U.S. premiere of “The Lost Moment directed by Martin Gabel and produced by Walter Wagner

1947: Canadian actress Frances Bay and her husband Charles gave birth to their only so Josh (Eli Joshua) today.

1947: In an interview today, that expressed frustration with both terrorism and the British government, Moshe Shertok, a leader of the Jewish Agency said that “terrorist groups and White Paper government are vying with each other in ruining the Yishuv.”

1947: A photo the SS Ben Hecht appeared on the front page of today’s edition of the Bergson Group’s newspaper, The Answer.

1948: Today, “at Doctors Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,” “Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, who owned and operated the Commodore Music Store, founded by Helen's father, Julius Gable” gave birth to the William Edward Crystal who gained fame as the multi-talented funny man Billy Crystal.

http://stillfoolinem.com/

https://www.biography.com/people/billy-crystal-9262777

1948: “Jewish witnesses failed to identify three absentee British police constables at an identity parade at Jerusalem police headquarters today as being connected with the recent Ben Yehuda Street Bombing in Jerusalem.”

1948: In Cairo, the Foreign Ministers of the Arab countries said tonight that they would meet in Lebanon to “act on the Palestine question.”

1949: The IAF flight school graduated its first class. Among the graduates was Mordechai "Mottie" Hod, the commander of Israel’s Air Force during the Six Day War.

1950: It was announced today that “Dr. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, American expert on soil erosion and pioneer of the Tennessee Valley Authority,” has been appointed to serve as an adviser to the Israeli government.

1950: The burial of Dr. Mordecai Eliash, who was serving as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom when he passed away, is scheduled to take place today in Jerusalem.

1950: Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, the 75-year-old conduct emeritus conduct of the Boston Symphony who is currently on a sixteen concert tour in Israel has donated “his entire music library to Hebrew University.”

1950: “Am Able Southern Editor” published today described the life of the late Louis I.Jaffe, the editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for courageously writing and publishing an anti-lynching editorial.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/03/14/84813943.pdf

1951: “Bird of Paradise” starring Jeff Chandler and featuring Maurice Schwartz was released in the United States today.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from the US that President Harry Truman¹s $7,000m. Mutual Security Program listed $196m for the Middle East, $76m.for Jewish refugees in Israel and $65m for Palestine refugees. .

1952: U.S. premiere of “Deadline – U.S.A.” produced by Sol C. Siegel and directed by Richard Brooks who also wrote the script.

1953(27th of Adar): Essayist and journalist Chaim Greenberg passed away.

1954: “Salt of the Earth” directed by Herbert J. Biberman and produced by Paul Jarrico both of whom were blacklisted and with music by Sol Kaplan who was fired after his appeared before HUAC was released in the United States.

1957: Edgar D'Arcy McGreer began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.

1958(22nd of Adar, 5718): Sixty-six-year-old Dr. Samuel Kahn, the Columbia trained physician and WWI veteran of the Army Medical Corps who was “a member of the medical examining staff of the Workmen’s Compensation Board from 1925 until his retirement in 1956, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/03/15/82678038.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

 

1960(15th of Adar, 5720): Shushan Purim

1960: Walter Mathau appeared in the role of James Hyland and Jacob Ben-Ami appeared in the role of Dr. Jacobson in tonight’s Play of the Week – “The Rope Dances” – produced by David Susskind.

1960: Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met to discuss mutual problems. Adenauer was trying to build a "new Germany" and his work to establish a positive relationship with the state of Israel was part of an attempt to remove the Nazi Stain.  Ben-Gurion, ever the realist, saw West Germany as a source of financial support (war reparations and other aid) as well as political support in a world in which the new Jewish state had few friends.  Ben-Gurion was criticized by many Jews both in and out of Israel for his work with West German and Adenauer.

1961(26th of Adar, 5721): Akiba Rubinstein world famous chess player passed away at the age of 78.

1964: A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.  The man who shot JFK was not Jewish.  The man who shot the man who shot JFK was Jewish.

1968(14th of Adar, 5728): Last Purim celebration during the administration of Lyndon Johnson, a true friend of Israel and a supporter of Civil Rights.

1968(14th of Adar, 5728): Seventy-five-year-old art historian Erwin Panofsky who came to the U.S. from Germany in 1934 passed away today.

https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/panofskye.htm 
1969(24th of Adar, 5729): Painter Ben Shahn passed away at the age of 70.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/family_of_storied_nj_artist_be.html

1970(6th of Adar II, 5730): Parashat Pekudi

1970: Fifty-nine-year-old University of Kentucky graduate and WW II Army Air Forces veteran Ben Hale Golden the retired publisher Chattanooga Times and former husband Ruth Sulzberger passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/03/15/93879814.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1970: In Italy, premiere of I girasoli (Sunflower) co-produced by Arthur Cohn and Joseph Levine

1970: In Malibu, CA, Gary Salenger, DDS and his wife Dorothy, an interior designer gave birth to actress Meredith Dawn Salinger.

1971: Barbra Streisand appeared on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV

 1972: A small New York study group using the name "Ezrat Nashim", founded in 1971 to study the status of women in Judaism, presented Conservative rabbis with a manifesto for change at the Rabbinical Assembly convention.

1977: The New York Times reported that Ezrat Nashim (part of the Conservative movement) was about to publish a booklet entitled "Blessing the Birth of a Daughter: Jewish Naming Ceremonies for Girls."

1977:The Jerusalem Post reported that upon his return from the US, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that President Jimmy Carter said nothing to indicate a reversal of his pre-election stand, which said that Israel ought not withdraw from Jerusalem or Golan Heights. Israel made it clear to the US that it would never return to the 1967 lines and was sufficiently strong to accept Carter¹s opinion, or to disagree with him on this issue.

1977: Asher “Yadlin pleaded guilty to some of the charges, involving bribes totaling I£ 124,000, but claimed that he had handed over I£ 80,000 of the money to Labor party funds, adding that he had raised "millions" for the party” – a claim the judge did not accept so he “sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and a fine of I£ 250,000. “

1978:  The Israeli Defense Force, in retaliation for a terrorist attack three days earlier, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, under codename Operation Litani, resulting in the evacuation of at least 100,000 Lebanese, approximately 2,000 deaths, as well as the creation of United Nations Interim Forces In Lebanon (UNIFIL)

1979(15th of Adar, 5739): Shushan Purim

1979: Birthdate of actor Chris Klein

1980(26th of Adar, 5740):  Politician Allard Lowenstein passed away at the age of 51.  He was the Democratic Congressman from New York’s Fifth District.

1982: The New York premiere of ''Genocide,'' a film about the Holocaust narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater preceded by a cocktail party given by Samuel and Frances Belzberg in the Parker Meridien and followed by a wine and cheese reception at the theater honoring Simon Wiesenthal the guest of honor at this fundraising benefit for the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. (As reported by Ruth RobinsonP

1986: U.S. premiere of “Gung Ho!” based on a story by Edwin Blum and Lowell Ganz with a screenplay co-authored by Lowell Ganz.

1990: “Cry-Baby” produced by Rachel Talalay, the daughter of Paul Talalay, the Berlin born Jew raised in England and co-starring Polly Bergen premiered today in Baltimore, MD.

1991: In Boston, MA, “Elazer Edelman (a notable biomedical engineer, physician, professor, and inventor)” and attorney Cheryl Edelman gave birth to Adam (AJ) Edelman the MIT graduate and skeleton competitor who “competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics.”

http://www.israelskeleton.com/bio/

https://jewinthecity.com/2018/01/aj-edelman-the-first-orthodox-jewish-olympian-is-ready-for-gold/

1991(28th of Adar, 5751): Forty-year-old lyricist Howard Ashman passed away.  Born Howard Elliot German in 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ashman teamed with Alan Menken on several scores for Disney movies including Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.  He won two Grammies, and two Oscars for Best Song.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/15/obituaries/howard-ashman-is-dead-at-40-writer-of-little-shop-of-horrors.html?scp=1&sq=%22Howard+Ashman%22&st=nyt

1993: “After 402 performances and 30 previews” the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Conversations With My Father,” a play that “presents the saga of a first generation of American Jews who came of age in the Depression and were assimilated at a high price during and after World War II.”

1996(23rd of Adar, 5756): Seventy-seven-year-old philanthropist and successful businessman Alfred P. Slaner passed away today. (As reported by Robert Thomas, Jr)

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/15/nyregion/alfred-p-slaner-77-developer-of-supp-hose-hosiery-is-dead.html

1996: An exhibition, Synagogue for the Arts, featuring the works of Fritz Ascher, opened today.

1997(5th of Adar II, 5757): Eighty-nine-year-old Austrian-born director Fred Zinnemann, passed away

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-21/entertainment/ca-1509_1_fred-zinnemann/2

1997(5th of Adar II, 5757): Fifty-nine-year-old Jurek Becker, the survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and two concentration camps who was the author of Jakob the Liar which was the basis for a film of the same name that was one of the most improbable and yet “must-see” Holocaust movies.

http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/op/op23.pdf

1997: A decision was reached by the Israelis to begin work on a building project at Har Homa in southern Jerusalem.

1997: Sandy Berger completed his services United States Deputy National Security Advisor and began serving as the 19thUnited States National Security Advisor.

1999(26th of Adar, 5769): Eighty-five-year-old John Broome (born Irving Broome) the writer for DC Comics who created the Flash passed away today while swimming in Thailand.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-broome-1096133.html

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man by Howard Pollack and Sex and Social Justice by Martha Nussbaum.

2000: “Israel deployed the first battery of Arrow missiles.”

2000: “Susan’s Plan,” a dark comedy directed and written by John Landis who also co-produced the film co-starring Rob Schneider and featuring Lisa Edelstein “was released straight to video” today.

2001: President George Bush issued an Executive Order adding the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade to the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organization.

2002: The original Broadway production of Marvin Hamlisch’s “Sweet Smell of Success” the musical version of Sweet Smell of Success co-authored by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman that was based on Walter Winchell-like character opened today at the Martin Beck Theatre.

2002: Avigdor Lieberman completed his service as National Infrastructure Minister

2003(10th of Adar II, 5763): Jack Goldstein passed away at the age of 57. Born in 1945, he was one of the first graduates of the California School of Fine Arts; Jack Goldstein was known for his experiments in film, sound and performance art. In 1974, he moved to New York where he had his first show in 1981. He often made use of commercial production techniques or isolated bits of Hollywood films such as creating a continuous loop of the roaring MGMlion. In the late 1970s, he focused on painting and did works ranging from images of lightning storms, volcano eruptions and World War II battles to abstractions based on astronomy.

2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including A Sportswriter’s Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter
by Gerald Eskenazi.

2005: During the Cedar Revolution hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government. This entry serves as a reminder that there is a lot of violence in the Middle East that has nothing to do with Israel.  It also serves as a reminder that the late President Assad wanted to create “Greater Syria” which included territory now known as Lebanon, Jordan and much of Israel.

2006(14th of Adar 5766): Purim

2006(14th of Adar, 5766): Ninety-two-year-old Nathan “Nat” Frankel who played college basketball for Brooklyn College before turning pro with the Pittsburgh Ironman of the Basketball Association of America passed away today.

2006:  National Public Radio profiled Allan Sherman on “All Things Considered.”

2006: The IDF launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods to prevent Hamas from making good on their threats to release terrorists held in a Jericho prison.

2006: “People & Politics” published today described the switch of Mark Leibovich from the Washington Post to the New York Times.

2006: Eric Lichtblau was a co-winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for coverage of the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program.

2006:  Haaretzreported that Rome's chief rabbi paid a landmark visit to the capital's mosque yesterday, calling for greater dialogue between Jews and Muslims to promote peace. Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni's visit to the sprawling mosque on Rome's outskirts, one of the largest in Europe, was the first by a chief rabbi of Rome since it opened in 1995.

2007(24th of Adar, 5767): Lucie Samuel (Bernard) Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance passed away. In 1939, Lucie Bernard married a French Jew named Raymond Samuel. After WW II began, Samuel changed the family name to Aubrac in response to the anti-Semitism so prevalent at the time.  Lucie and Raymond were both active in the Free French Resistance and kept the name Aubrac even after hostilities came to an end in 1945.

2007: The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) ended its annual meeting which was held in Atlanta, Georgia.

2007: Eric Fingerhut began serving as Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.

2007: Israel Singer, one of the heads of the World Jewish Congress and a leading figure in the Jewish world for the past 30 years, was dismissed in an unexpected move from all his posts in the WJC.

2007: An exhibition styled “Notes from the Underground, Subway Portraits by Joseph Solman” opened at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA. Joseph Solman was, with Mark Rothko, a co-founder of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who worked in New York City in the 1930s.

2008: At the Newberry Library in Chicago, NextBook presents A Gateway to Jewish Literature, Culture, and Ideas featuring author Sara Paretsky.  Sara Paretsky published her first story in The American Girl at the age of 11, but didn't turn to detective fiction until her 30s. Troubled by the way women were traditionally portrayed in that genre, Paretsky created V. I. Warshawski, a tough, independent female private eye, now one of the best-known characters in crime fiction. Growing up in a small eastern Kansas town, where she and her brothers were the only Jewish kids in school, Paretsky discusses how her Jewish upbringing has informed her life and her writing. Sara Paretsky's papers are in the collections of the Newberry Library. Chicago Illinois,

2008 The Paris book fair, one of the major events on the European literary calendar opens with Israel as the ‘guest of honor.”Several Arab countries are boycotting the prestigious annual fair, because it honors Israeli writers.

2008: Austria honored the work of the kinder transport and those who helped with the rescue mission that took place in the months leading to the outbreak of World War II, with a special ceremony on at the Westbahnhoff, Vienna railway station.

 2008: The commemoration of the kinder transport and those who helped with the rescue mission continues at the Vienna Synagogue with special Friday evening services led by Austrian Chief Rabbi Chaim Eisenberg. The Vienna Synagogue was built in 1824 and was the only synagogue to survive the Nazis,

2009: Shabbat Parah

2009: In Little Rock, AR, a special Kiddush is given by Rabbi Pinchus and Estie Ciment in honor of the most recent addition to the family of these august Lamplighters who joined the Ciment Clan in the evening between Purim and Shushan Purim.

2009: Opening night of the Hartford Jewish Film Festival featuring the Connecticut premiere of “The Little Traitor, the beautiful story of an implausible 1947 friendship between amiable British Sergeant Dunlop and spirited 12-year-old Proffy Liebowitz, starring Alfred Molina, Ido Port and Theodore Bikel.

2010: HBO broadcast the first episode of the mini-series “The Pacific” featuring theme music by Hans Zimmer, over-seen by executive producer Steven Spielberg and featuring Ashley Zukerman and Jon Bernthal.

2010: Israeli forces caught Maher Udda, the Hamas terrorist who participated in several attacks “including the Café Hillel bombing”

2010: Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to host a Community Women’s Seder (age 13+) using a Haggadah honoring the role of women in the Passover tradition while giving the participants a chance to lead a reading, join in the singing and discussion and share favorite recipes at a pot-luck dairy dinner of Passover foods.

2010: Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled to host special afternoon of Israeli Art & Culture featuring the works of Ilan Hasson and Avi Biran. Ilan’s artistic themes are based on Jewish subjects from the Torah, Talmud, Passover Haggadah, Kabbalah, and landscapes of Israel. Avi has produced a large array of Judaica using a broad variety of materials.

2010(28th of Adar, 5770): Ninety-three-year-old Chimen Abramsky, the Professor of Jewish Studies at University College London passed away today.

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189017/chimen-abramsky?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=07ea56b36e-Wednesday_February_18_20152_18_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-07ea56b36e-206644398

2010: More than 70 years after its synagogue was destroyed by Nazi rioters, the German town of Herford dedicated a new Jewish house of worship.

2010: The LA Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power “by James McGrath Morris.

2011: Fallen Heroes – Remembering the Jewish casualties of Iraq and Afghanistan published today. 

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

2011: Zemer Chai (Living Song), “The Jewish Community of Chorus” is scheduled to perform at the National Theatre as part of the Washington Sings: Festival of Song.

2011:The Commonwealth Club's Middle Eastern Forum and JIMENA are scheduled to present “Last Jews of Yemen” with linguist, journalist and blogger, Josh Berer.

2011: Next Year in Bombay, a documentary about the Bene Israel, is one of the films scheduled to be shown today at the 15thNew York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2011: Eric Fingerhut completed his four year term as Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.

2011: Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist's archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives website.

2011:The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund announced over half a million dollars in grants today for nine digital media projects intended to engage people between the ages of 18 and 40 with Jewish life.

2011: Sixty-nine-year-old Neil Diamond was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight during a ceremony at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria.  The Jewish Diamond was introduced by another Jewish musical icon – Paul Simon.  Two other Jews were among the evening’s honorees –Art Rupe founder of Specialty Records and Jac Holtzman, founder of Elektra Records, the label that recorded numerous LP’s by Theodore Bikel.

2011(8th of Adar II): Seventy-six-year-old Canadian Larry Zolf, who was a popular CBC journalist, passed away. Zolf was a self-described product of the Jewish ghetto of North Winnipeg. He is the father of famous poet Rachel Zolf.

2012: In Washington, DC, Theatre J is scheduled to a Backstage Discussion entitled “A Spinozian Sense of Justice: Crime and Punishment in a World According to Spinoza.”

2012: “The Pioneer Jewish Film Festival” which is held in Amherst and Springfield, MA is scheduled to open today.

2012(20th of Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, Yahrzeit of Yoel Sirkes Rabbi of Krakow and author of the Bayit Chadash ("Bach"), a commentary on the great Halachic work, the Arba'ah Turim. (As reported by Chabad Lubavitch)

2012(20th of Adar, 5772): Ninety-five-year-old Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the leader of the Viznitz Hasidim pass away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/nyregion/rabbi-moshe-y-hager-hasidic-leader-dies-at-95.html?hpw&_r=0

2012: TIP's Alan Elsner is scheduled to host Dr. Emily Landau who will be speaking about "Iran's Nuclear Challenge and Israel's Possible Responses.”

2012: Marbin, an improvised music duo consisting of Israeli-American guitarist Dani Rabin and Israeli saxophonist Danny Markovitch.  is scheduled to perform at the Newton Theatre at Newton, NJ.

2012: Azerbaijan authorities have arrested 22 people suspected of plotting to attack the Israeli and American embassies in the capital Baku, AFP reported today.

2012: A Jerusalem Court acquitted an antiquities collector on most counts of forgery today eleven years after the case was first opened.

2013: The Wiener Library is scheduled to present “I'll Never See You Again: A Story of Survival and Reconciliation” featuring 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Barnard.

2013: “Melting Away, “an Israeli film that “follows the story of a Tel Aviv family drawn into crisis after the parents discover their son is secretly a cross-dresser and expel him from home” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premiere at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival..

2013: LABAlive is scheduled to present “Drunk,” an evening of learning, art and performances on the heavens and hells of intoxication in ancient Jewish tradition.

2013: Alast-minute glitch delayed final completion of coalition negotiations today, with the prime minister’s wife reportedly at its center.

2013:  The white smoke had barely dispersed from over the Vatican this morning when President Shimon Peres invited the new pope for a visit to Israel, asking him to contribute to peace as a spiritual, rather than a political, leader.

2013: Today the Israel-based Shem Olam Holocaust and Faith Institute showcased items that may have been used for Passover rituals at the Chelmno death camp in western Poland. The items were discovered during excavations of the site in pits containing prisoners’ belongings

2014: Rebecca Kushner is scheduled to lead Musical Shabbat at Augdas Achim in Coralville, Iowa.

2014: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host a Purim themed Shabbat Dinner complete with costumes.

2014: Rabbi Hillel Cohen, the head of Hatzallah emergency services in Ukraine was recovering from the wounds suffered yesterday when he was beaten and stabbed in Kiev by Russian speaking youths. (As reported by Times of Israel)

2014: The Israeli Air Force struck seven targets in the Gaza Strip early this morning in response to another day of rocket fire on southern Israel.

2014: Michael Hiltzik reviews The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC – 1492 AD by Simon Schama

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-simon-schama-20140313,0,7848250.story#axzz2vzMF7E66

2014(12thof Adar II, 5774): Eighty year old courageous and controversial Israeli war hero Meir Har-Zion, a man Moshe Dayan once called “the greatest Jewish warrior since Bar Kochba,”  passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/legendary-soldier-meir-har-zion-dies-at-80/

2014: After three days of rocket attacks in the region, Chief Askenazi Rabbi David Lau and Mayor Alon Davidi visited several centers in Sderot including the Sderot Yeshiva after which they distributed Purim baskets to the IDF soldiers manning the Iron Dome defense system. (As reported by Ari Yashar)

2014: Benjamin Schwarz review of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy by Shlomo Ben Ami published today.

2015: “Netanyahu and the Settlements” published today described the unique bond between the Prime Ministers and the residents of what some call the West Bank.

2015: Following services at Shaare Tefila, Laura Apelbaum is scheduled to deliver a lecture “Candlesticks, Charm Bracelets & Protest Signs.”

2015: “God’s Slave” is scheduled to be shown at the 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

2015: A peace ring created by Danish Muslims is scheduled tobe formed today “at the central Copenhagen shul, or Krystalgade Synagogue.” (As reported by JTA and Times of Israel)

2015: As negotiations designed to halt the Iranaina nuclear program appear to be reaching a climax, “Iran today formally inaugurated what it said was mass production of a long-range anti-ship missile.” (As reported by Justin Jalil)

2015(23rdof Adar, 5775): Ninety-year-old Lia Van Leer, “the founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival” passed away today.

2015: Seventy-one-year-old Robert Durst was arrested today in New Orleans by the FBI which claimed to have new evidence linking him to the murder of Susan Berman in 2000.

http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/susan-berman

2015: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Kirkwood Community College is scheduled to host “Voices of the Generations: Stories from the Holocaust” with Julie Kohner, whose mother Hanna was Holocaust survivor.

http://thegazette.com/keeping-hannas-story-from-being-forgotten-20150313?utm_source=feedburner

2016(4th of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-six-year-old “Geoffrey H. Hartman, a literary critic whose work took in the Romantic poets, Judaic sacred texts, Holocaust studies, deconstruction and the workings of memory” passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/books/geoffrey-h-hartman-literary-critic-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016: Migdalei haYam haTichon is scheduled to host “Around the World, At the Speed of Sound” with guitarist Jean-Robert Ben Danan and pianist Eliah Zabaly

2016: “Very Semi-Serious” and “To Life” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2017: The Lysander Piano Trio - Itamar Zorman, Violin; Michael Katz, Cello; Liza Stepanova, Piano – is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall.

2017: Catherine Hickley examined how German art collectors answer the question “Do I Own Nazi Loot?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/arts/design/german-art-collectors-face-a-painful-past-do-i-own-nazi-loot.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

2017: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball player Josh Pastner, the ACC coach of the year, led his Georgia Tech against Indiana in the first round of the NIT.

2017: “The La Hora newspaper reported” today that “the Guatemalan government partnered with the local Jewish community to launch an educational project to study the Holocaust” as part of a project design “to promote the values of tolerance and respect.” (As reported by TOI and JTA)

2017: The YIVO Institute, The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to sponsor a presentation by  András Koerner and Victor Karady on “How They Lived: The Everyday Lives of Hungarian Jews 1867-1940.

2018(27thof Adar, 5778): Eight days after his 89th birthday historian and author David Sword Wyman, the grandson of Protestant ministers who “was chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies passed away today.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168516

2018: Chef Alon Shaya is scheduled to “speak about his newly released memoir/cookbook” Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey back to Israelthis evening at the JCC in New Orleans

2018: “Bye, Bye Germany is scheduled to be shown today at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2018: “Two Zions: The Living Legacy of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon” is scheduled to be shown at the 21st New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Coco” “followed by a Moroccan Costumed After Party” as a celebrating for comedian and actor Gad Elmaleh, the star of the film.

2019(7thof Adar II, 5779): One-hundred-year-old civic leader and philanthropist Marian Sulzberger Heiskel, the granddaughter, daughter, wife, sister, aunt and great-aunt of six successive publishers of The Times, and the wife of Andrew Heiskell, the chairman of Time Inc.” passed away today. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/obituaries/marian-sulzberger-heiskell-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

 

2019: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host it’s “largest annual evening of relationship-building and inspiration will feature special guest, former U.S. Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright.”

2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Jews and the Anti-Renaissance: The Medici Archive Project” during which Dr. Alessio Assonitis and Dr. Gabriele Manusco “consider hows Jews and Jewish culture have been situated in both categories – as contributors to the construction of The Renaissance canon and as fostering ‘anti-Renaissance’ phenomena.”

2019: In Iowa City, Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz of Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to participate in a panel entitled “Resurgent Antisemitism and the Importance of Historical Remembering at the Iowa City Public Library and not at any facilities of the University of Iowa.

2020: “Based on current Government guidance, for the moment London School of Jewish Studies remains open for classes, lectures and events “ a policy that is subject to change based on further government advisories or alteration in the situation surrounding the current health crisis.

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host the final Shabbat service and luncheon of the term.

2020: In Philadelphia, the Israeli Film Festival will not be hosting the scheduled screening of “The Rabbi From Hezbollah” because of the Coronavirus Epidemic.

2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “After Munich.”

2020: The Peninsula Symphony’s performances using restored Holocaust-era violins that were used by Jews in concentration camps, which is part of the Violins of Hope program has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus Epidemic. 

2020: In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim will not be holding Shabbat Services because the leadership has wisely “made the very difficult decision to temporarily close the synagogue to physical presence” while paying the employees. 

2020 (18th of Adar, 5780): Parashat Ki Tissa; Shabbat Parah;

2021: Urban Adamah and Torah of Awakening are scheduled to present a seven-hour Passover-themed event with Hebrew chanting, contemplative learning, community connection and deep silence with Reb Brian Yosef.

2021: Zamir Chorale of Boston is scheduled to present online a “Musical Celebration of the 200th Birthday of Louis Lewandowski, arguably the greatest synagogue composer of the 19th century.”

2021: KlezCalifornia, Jewish Community Library and Chochmat HaLev are scheduled to present “Strange Yiddish Expressions” during Michael Wex, author of three books on Yiddish, talks about old sayings and their literal translations (such as “don’t knock me a tea kettle”), how they developed and why the Jews needed a language of their own like Yiddish.

2021: Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to present online “Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood.”

2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Sex With Strangers, a collection of stories by Michael Lowenthal and the recently released paperback edition of The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner.

2021: Contra Costa JCC, East Bay Int’l Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Book Council and local congregations are scheduled to hos a virtual tour of Bettae (My Home), the new Ethiopian Israeli Heritage Center in Israel.

2021: “Grammy Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham, whose playing the New York Times called “ravishing” and “rapturous,” is scheduled “to return LIVE - no audience - to the 92nd Street Y stage, joining friends from The Knights in a fresh and imaginative program.”

2021: Jewish Community Library and KlezCalifornia are scheduled to present online Wesleyan U. professor emeritus Mark Slobin as he talks about how Yiddish songs were vital in the early 1900s, declined during Jewish assimilation and recovered after World War II.

2021: In this special edition of our LAYKA Lens Film series in partnership with the Thomas Mann House, attendees are schedule to take a look at Ernst Lubitsch’s SUMURUN, originally released in the English-speaking world as One Arabian Night with a panel includes Nikolai Blaumer (Thomas Mann House) Deniz Gokturk (UC Berkeley German Department), Boris Dralyuk (Los Angeles Review of Books) and will be moderated by Rob Adler Peckerar (Yiddishkayt).

2021: As of today, while Israeli is implementing the third stage of it reopening plan, “the country’s borders continue to be closed to international visitors, and no date has been set for their opening.”

2021: Limmud NOLA is scheduled to host LimmudFest this year virtually today with opening ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. CST and sessions running from 12 – 4:30 p.m. CST.

https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/limmud-nola-announces-sun-march-14-virtual-event/

 

 

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457 BCE (12th of Nisan, 3303): Ezra and his followers departed from the River Ahava on their way to Jerusalem.

44 BCE: Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate. The Jews supported Caesar in his fight for power against Crassus and Pompey. Pompey had seized Jerusalem, violated the Holy of Holies and shipped thousands of Judeans off to the slave markets. Eight years later, Crassus came to Jerusalem and stole the Temple Treasury. As a reward for Jewish support, Caesar returned the port of Jaffa to Judean control. He instituted a more humane tax rate that took into account the Sabbatical Year. He allowed the walls of Jerusalem to be rebuilt and he allowed Jewish communities in the Italian peninsula, including Rome itself, to "organize and thrive."

351: Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. During his rule, Gallus had to deal with a Jewish rebellion in Judea/Palestine. The rebellion, possibly started before Gallus' elevation to Caesar, was crushed by Gallus' general, Ursicinus, who ordered all the rebels slain.

1317: Today Richard Swinefeld who had been named Archdeacon of London in 1280 and who in1286 “threatened to excommunicate several of his flock who wished to attend the wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford” passed away.

1391: “A Jew hating monk” is responsible for starting anti-Jewish riots in Seville, Spain. These riots marked the start of a wave of violence throughout Spain and Portugal which claimed 50,000 lives within less than a year. Many Jews escaped death by converting to Christianity. This marked the emergence of Marranos who were said to number 200,000.

1513: Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew from Provence, as his personal physician and unofficial advisor and whose leniency towards the Jews may have stemmed from an attitude summed up by his statement that “It is well known how useful this fable of Christ has been to us and ours!” was ordained today.

1545: Opening session of the Council of Trent. At the Council of Trent in the 16th century, the Roman Church stated as a theological principle that all men share the responsibility for the Passion—and that Christians bear a particular burden. "In this guilt [for the death of Jesus] are involved all those who fall frequently into sin..." read the catechism of the council.” This guilt seems more enormous in us than in the Jews since, if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory; while we, on the contrary, professing to know him, yet denying him by our actions, seem in some sort to lay violent hands on him."

1594: Spanish born Hebraist Casiodoro de Reina, the author of one of the first books that opposed the Inquisition and the translator of a Spanish language bible that was a source for the creators of the King James Bible passed away today.

1672: Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. This declaration was part of the jockeying for power between Roman Catholics, Anglicans and non-Anglican Protestants. Religious rights for Jews were not a part of this measure. Oliver Cromwell, the Protestant civil ruler who temporarily replaced the Stuarts allowed the Jews to re-enter England. Charles II continued his policy and actually expanded the rights and protection for the growing Jewish population. Charles II’s, his successor King James II and the last Catholic King of England further expanded the royal protection of the Jews. Both monarchs appreciated the financial support they received from Jewish bankers. By the time William and Mary had replaced James on the English throne, Jews were too well established in England to ever again be candidates for expulsion and exile.

1697: In New York City, Rachel Simpson and Isaac Rodrigues Marques gave birth to Jacob Rodriguez, the wife of Esther Maduro and father of Isaac and Rachel Marques.

1764(11thof Adar II, 5524): Ta’anit Esther observed because the 13th of Adar fell on Shabbat.

1767(14thof Adar II, 5527): Purim

1773: The South Carolina Gazette reported that Moses Lindo purchased a stone which he believed to be a topaz of immense size, and that he sent it to London by the Right Hon. Lord Charles Greville Montague to be presented to the Queen of England.” Lindo was a native of England who settled in South Carolina where he prospered in the trade of indigo.

1776: South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government. The Jews played an active role in the political affairs of South Carolina from its earliest days. As early as 1702 they were voting in the colony’s general elections. Francis Salvador began serving in the Provincial Congress in the year before the Palmetto State declared her independence.

1792: Birthdate of Jacob Barrett, the husband of Hetty J. Ottolengui whom he married in Charleston, SC in 1834 and with whom he had twelve children.

1795: Birthdate of Samuel Moses Marx, the son of a Jewish doctor in Halle who, when baptized in 1819, changed his name to Adolf Bernhard Marx who gained fame as a German composer and critic.

1800(18thof Adar, 5560): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1800: Birthdate of Joseph Wetheimer, who joined his father’s business in 1821 and who was “the founder of Jewish Alliance in Vienna.

1801: In Wurttemberg, Germany, Moses Levi Frankfurter and Mirjam Landauer gave birth to Bernhard Frankfurter, the husband of Esther Frank.

1801: Birthdate of Joseph Levin Saalschütz, the native of Konigsberg who was the first Jew to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Konigsberg.

1807: Easton, PA native Rachel Pettigrew and Jacob Phillips gave birth to Samuel Phillips.

1809: Philip Lazarus married Amelia Barnes today at the Great Synagogue.

1813: Birthdate of German native Augusta Straus Bachrach, wife of Aaron Bachrach and the mother of four children including Henry Bachrach, the founder of Bachrach’s a department store chain that got its start in Decatur, Il and survived for over 125 years.

1816(15thof Adar, 5576): Shushan Purim

1817: Birthdate of Samuel Naumbourg, the native of Bavaria who served as Chazzan at Besancon and choir director at a Strasburg synagogue before becoming the leader “of synagogue of the Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth at Paris, where he became professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite” in 1845.

 

1820: Just a year after Rebecca Gratz established the country's first Female Hebrew Benevolent Society in Philadelphia, Richa Levy led a group of women that established a Female Hebrew Benevolent Society at New York's Shearith Israel congregation. At that time, Shearith Israel was the only synagogue in New York City.

1820: The King of Saxony granted “Jewish tradesman” Joseph Friedländer permission to remain at Bautzen.

1820: Maine becomes the 23rd state to join the Union. Today Maine has a small but active Jewish population. There are ten congregations in the state. There are Hillel chapters at the University of Maine, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin. Statewide organizations include the Jewish Community Council of Bangor, Main, the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Main, The Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine and the Maine Jewish Film Festival. The mission of the Maine Jewish Film Festival is to “provide a forum for the presentation of films to enrich, educate and entertain a diverse community about the Jewish experience.” Since 1998, we have fulfilled this mission by presenting over 145 films about all facets of Jewish life and culture to nearly 17,500 people. Our annual Festival takes place over nine days in mid-March, and each year we bring a rich selection of films to Maine that otherwise wouldn’t get seen by audiences anywhere else in the state or even Northern New England. The Festival serves filmgoers of all ages and backgrounds, both Jews and non-Jews alike. Maine is one of the smallest cities in the United States to host an independent Jewish film festival and each successive year we attract increasing numbers of attendees (over 3,000 in 2006).

1827: The University of Toronto is chartered. The first Jewish community did not develop in Toronto until the 1840’s. Today the Toronto University has 3,000 Jewish students among its 40,000 undergraduates and 500 Jewish students among its 10,000 graduate students. The University offers approximately 35 courses in Jewish Studies and a minor in Jewish studies. The Hillel chapter is located at the Wolfond Center for Jewish Life.

1830: Birthdate of Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

1839: In Württemberg, Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Moses Levi Frankfurter and Mirjam Landauer, and his wife Esther Frank gave birth to Henriette Emma Frankfurter

1840: Ephraim Alex married Catherine Jones today the Great Synagogue.

1843(13thof Adar II, 5603): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1848(10thof Adar II, 5608): Seventy-four-year-old Frances Isaac, the New York City born daughter of Moses Isaacs and the wife of Joseph Simson passed away today in Yonkers, NY.

1848: Birthdate of Ignace Ephrussi, the native of Odessa, who was a member of a family of famous Jewish bankers that included his brother Charles.  The family moved their operations from Odessa to Paris and Vienna.

1848: Birthdate of Toby Edward Rosenthal, the native of New Have CT, whose family moved to San Francisco in 1855 where he began his art studies which led him to pursue a career as painter whose worked include “Morning Prayers In Bach’s Family” which was purchased by the government of Saxony and hung at the museum in Leipzig.

1849: Birthdate of Emanuel Rich, who with his brother Morris, founded Rich’s Department Store.

1851: Birthdate of Hungarian attorney and Diet Member, Arthur Jellinek.

1854(15thof Adar, 5614): Shushan Purim

1855: Birthdate of Bohemian native Eduard Glaser, a ground breaking Arabist and archeologist.

https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16771/

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_cajs_PUCJSARCMS36USUSUSPUCJS

 

 

1855: Pauline Koch and Hermann Einstein the parents of Albert Einstein gave birth to their youngest child Friederike, nicknamed “Rika.”

1855: Birthdate of Henry Wallenstein, the husband of Gisele Wallenstein, the father of Henry Wallenstein and a member of Temple Emanuel in Wichita, KS.

1856: Following the creation of the Company Ports of Marseille, Franco-Jewish financier Jules Mires formed a partnership with Talabot Paulin to rebuild the docks of this major French Mediterranean port.

 

1859: Abramo Volterra, a cloth merchant, and Angelica Almagià, the parents of Italian mathematician and physicist, Vito Volterra were married today.

 

1860: Birthdate of Count Moïse de Camondo, a native of Constantinople whose Sephardic family owned one of the largest banks in the Ottoman Empire and who became a leading French banker and art collector.

1860: In Germany, “Feist H. and Caroline (Cagle) Siegel gave birth to Benjamin Siegel who in 1876 came to the United States where he worked in “general merchandise stores” in Selma and Prairie Bluff, AL before moving to Detroit in 1881 where “he organized B. Siegel Co” dealers in women’s clothing and married Sophie Siegel.

1860: Birthdate of bacteriologist Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, the native of Odessa who refused to convert to further his career choosing instead to immigrate to France where he continued his work that led to vaccines against cholera and the bubonic plague.

 

1862: “Treason in Embryo: A Remarkable Document” published today contained excerpts from correspondence written by David Yulee in January of 1861. At the time, Yulee was a United States Senator representing Florida. The correspondence described the meetings of U.S. Senators from several southern states and the role they would be playing the secession movement and the establishment of the Confederate States of America.

 

1864(O.S.) Birthdate of Sergei Zubatov. “the head of the Czarist Secret Police in Moscow” who “convinced” the imprisoned Manya Shochat to form “tame” workers “organizations that would work for reform rather than the overthrow of the government” which would supposedly “help achieve rights for Jews” – a supposition which the policeman knew was false and which the Jewish leader came to see as a “pipe dream.”

 

1865: The activities surrounding “the fourth annual masquerade ball of the Purim Association” which was held last night was described in an article published today entitled “The Purim Ball--Grand Masquerade at the Academy of Music.” According to the article “The Purim Ball is held to commemorate one of the great epochs of Jewish history -- the deliverance of the chosen people from the machinations of Haman, Prime Minister to King Ahasuerus, of Persia. “The Purim Association raised approximately $9,000 for its charitable activities through the sale of 900 tickets at $10 each. The society also published the Purim Gazette, a paper which is printed at each recurrence of the Purim ball.1867: The Amusements Column, in an item styled "Last of Shylock" reported that this evening marked the next to the last performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at the Winter Garden Theatre. There would be one more Saturday matinee and then "farewell to the Jew for the Season. “The Merchant of Venice” featuring Shylock reportedly was the first Shakespearean play to have been performed in United States; a performance that took place in colonial Virginia.

1867: In Russia, Jacob Baruch Abramowitz and his wife gave birth to Odessa trained cantor Jacob Abramowitz who in 1919 came to the United States where he served congregations in Chicago and Buffalo, NY before accepting a position with Congregation Sons of Halberstamm in Philadelphia.

1869: Prussia does away with the Oath More Judaico or Jewish Oath

1869: Basheva Pearlman Lazarus gave birth to Sara Lazarus who became Sarah Mickelson when she married David Mickelson with whom she had two daughters – Anne and Lena.

1872: Birthdate of Riga native Max Maisel, the founder, in 1892 of a bookshop at 424 Grand Street on the Lower East Side which was a gathering place for intellectuals and the setting for Christopher Morley’s novel The Haunted Bookshop who also translated  the works of Shakespeare, and Darwin into Yiddish.

1873: Birthdate of Vitsebsk native Leon Korbrin the Philadelphia shirt maker, cigar maker and baker who became a New York journalist, author and playwright.

https://yiddishkayt.org/view/kobrin/

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/01/archives/leon-kobrin-dead-dramatist-author-writer-of-30-plays-for-yiddish.html

 

1875: In Vilna, Lithuanian, Leon and Elizabeth Gershonovitz gave birth to Moishe Gershnowitz who in 1890 came to Boston where he began the journey which would lead to him being the theatrical producer Morris Gest, the husband of the former Reina Belasco and the son-in-law of the famous producer David Belasco.

1876: It was reported today that the Earl of Aylesford was in such dire financial straits that if he paid all of the money he owed to various English Jews, “he would have scarcely had a income to support himself.”

1877: Birthdate of Vilna native, the Pittsfield, MA realtor and member of both the ZOA and the United Palestine Appeal who passed away in 1958 after which he was buried in the Knesset Israel Cemetery.

1877(1st of Nisan, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1877: In New York, Caroline and David L. Einstein gave birth to Columba educated American diplomate and author Lewis Einstein, the husband of Helen Ralli, a well-connected English lady who served in several posts in the Ottoman Empire as well as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

1877(1st of Nisan, 5637): Sixty-two-year-old Albert Cohn, the Hungarian born French philanthropist and scholar who enjoyed a “lifelong connection with the Rothschild” and worked to improve the condition of Algerian Jewry passed away in Paris.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4514-cohn-albert

 

1879: Birthdate of Warsaw native Yakov Ganetsky, “also known as Jakub Furstenberg” the Bolshevik Revolutionary who reportedly was one of those who negotiated with the German General Staff to send Lenin back to Russia so he could complete the revolution and take Russia out of the war so that the Kaiser would be able to defeat the Allies in the West and win World War I.

1879: In Kiev, Simon and Sarah (Rappaport) Spielberg gave birth to MY trained attorney Harold Spielberg, the husband of rebbeca fishman and a member of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism.

1880: It was reported today that Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen by Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner “bristles with attacks on Jews.”

 

1881(14thof Adar II, 5641): Purim

1881: Birthdate of Russian native Harry Handler, the NYU Law School graduate who morphed into a Jewish educator who was the husband of “the former Esther Liskowsky.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/18/101562176.pdf

 

1881: The Purim Masquerade Ball will be held today at the Academy of Music in New York City.

 

1882(24th of Adar): Rabbi Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann founder of Ha Maggid, the first weekly Hebrew newspaper, passed away today.

 

1884(18thof Adar, 5644): Shabbat Parah

 

1884(18thof Adar, 5644): Seventy-nine-year-old Mary Moss, the daughter of Solomon and Rebecca Eve Levy and wife of Eleazer (Eugene) Moss passed away today in Philadelphia.

 

1884: In Podolia, Hana and Boksir Dov Sharfshtein gave birth to author and linguist Zvi Scharfstein who came to the United States in WW I where he continued his work.

 

1886: In New York, formation of the Jewish Immigrants’ Protective Society

1886: Birthdate of Morris Schulman, the Russian native who gained famed as American actor Michael Mark who enjoyed a forty career in films

1886: Birthdate of Brest-Litovsk native Abraham Asen, the dentist who in 1903 came to the United States where he was member of the Executive Committee of the Farband-National Workers Alliance and pursued a career as Yiddish author and translator.

1886: Yeshiva Etz Chaim was founded in New York. It was the first American yeshiva to include the study of Talmud.

1887: Birthdate of Polish born “Yiddish scholar, novelist and poet J.J. Trunk, a protégé of I.L. Peretz who was in 1941 was brought to the United States where he joined the staff of The Jewish Day.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/07/09/118043979.pdf

 

1887: In Valozhyn, Samuel Eliezer and Hanna Rogosin gave birth to American textile manufacturer Israel Rogosin who opened a plant in Israel at the request of the Israeli government and who was the father of documentary filmmaker Lionel Rogosin.

1889: Birthdate of “Nivki” native Moshe Bassin, who in 1907 came to the United States where gained fame as Yiddish poet and anthologist Max Bassin the husband of Miriam Berman Bassin and the father of Milton and Eugene Bassin.

https://www.york.cuny.edu/library/about/bassin-collection

 

1889: Simon Cook was promoted from Ensign to Lt. Jr. Grade in the USN.

 

1889: Birthdate assigned to Melech Epstein by his parents. The native of Belarus moved to the United States where he wrote Labor in U.S.A. and The Jew and Communism 

1890: In Sutter, CA, Charles and Amanda Dannenberg gave birth to Otto Oscar Dannenberg, the husband of Iceophine Elsie Zimmerman.

1891: General H.B. Carrington delivered four lectures today a Syracuse University including one entitled “Hebrew History.”

 

1891: “New York University” published today described the upcoming free lectures that would be offered by The School of Pedagogy including Rabbi Leight on speaking on “Old Hebrew Education.”

 

1892: Birthdate of Jacob Bartfield, “an Austrian-born Jew nicknamed "Soldier" because he served in the American army after emigrating to the USA” who “boxed as a welterweight and middleweight in the 1910s and 1920s” and who passed away in September of 1970.

 

1892: “Sunday Not Recognized By Jews” published today described the grounds on which John Besher dismissed the charges that had been lodged against two Jewish grocers for doing business on Sunday. Bsher accepted their position that “Sunday being recognized by their race as an ordinary week day, they were entitled to keep their stores open for business” but only if they observe Saturdays as their Sabbath.

 

1892: As the business operations of J.E. Guenzburg crumbled today in St. Petersburg, it was announced that the Jewish bankers had liabilities totaling six million rubles. It had been thought that the assets of his firm which dates back to the Crimean War were closer to ten million rubles.

 

1892: In Paris, the Bourse closed down based on reports of the failure of J.E. Guenzburg’s banking interests in St. Petersburg.

1892: Birthdate of Lithuanian native Henrikas Rabinavicius, a graduate of the “Universities of Dorpat, Leningrad and London” who in 1927 was forced to resign as Counsel General of Lithuania in New York because Premier Waldemara wanted his country to be represented by “a Lithuanian, not a Jew.” (Editor’s note: this 1927 expression of anti-Semitism might help to explain the success of the Final Solution in the Baltic States.)

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/09/01/83515186.pdf

 

 

1892: Word of the failure of J.E. Guenzburg, a leading Russian banker had little effect on the financial markets in London

 

1892: In Berlin it is believed that the failure of Guenzburg was the result of governmental animosity. The Czar’s government objected to the power of a Jewish banker and his involvement with German bankers since Russia is now allying itself with France. Creditors have good reason to believe that Guenzburg will pay all of his creditors.

 

1893: Birthdate of Jules Salvador Moch, the French politician who was the grandson of Colonel Jules Moch and the son of Captain Gaston Moch who was born and died in the same year as Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose cause he supported.

 

1893: Arthur Reichow, a representative of the committee connected with the Baron Hirsch Fund, returned to New York City tonight after having spent the day investigating conditions at the Jewish colony at Chesterfield, eight miles from New London, CT. “Instead of starvation” Reichow said “he found a comparatively contented people with only six families of the thirty two” at the colony were “really in need of assistance” and two of the families refused to accept any help unless it was in the form of loan.

1893: In Manhattan Henry and Barbetter Lashanska gave birth to operatic soprano Hulda Lashanska, who was also known as Hulda Rosenblum after she married Harold Rosenblum with she “had two daughters – Lenore and Peggy.”

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20211

 

1893: It was reported today that a Jewish peddler named Morantz has been fencing stolen goods for several gangs in the Kansas City area.  Morantz has a daughter named Mollie who takes the goods from the thieves when her father leaves the city “to sell the plunder.”

 

1893: Citing information that has appeared in German newspapers, “Andrew D. White, the United States Minister to Russia” has written to the State Department warning “that it is the intention of the promoters of the Baron Hirsch fund…to renew the immigration of Russian” Jews “to the Argentine Republic.”  “Only the better class of” Jews “will be sent to the South American republic and that those of an undesirable class will be sifted out and sent to the United States.”  White did not comment on the credibility of the reports saying only that U.S. immigration officials should vigilant about the appearance of such undesirable immigrants.

 

1895: Alfred Dreyfus arrived at the Iles de Sault, “a small archipelago situated twenty-seven miles (43 km) off Cayenne, opposite the mouth of the River Kuru” best known for Devil’s Island where the disgraced officer was to be imprisoned.

1896: In Rochester, NY, founding of the Congregation of Tailors (Chevra Chayteem) whose members included Nathan Rubenstein and which held services three times a day, operated a daily religious school and used Mt. Hope Cemetery.

1896: Seventy-eight Jewish veterans of the Union Army met in New York City's Lexington Opera House to form the Hebrew Union Veterans, the precursor group to the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. The veterans gathered in an attempt to refute claims in Harper’s Weekly and the North American Review that Jews had not fought in the war. (As reported by Seymour “Sy” Brody) The same charge was also made by Mark Twain which would prove to be unusual on two counts. Twain’s brief flirtation with the war had come on the Rebel side and his daughter would end up marrying a Jews.

1896: In Knyszyn, Poland “Reb Eli Novodvorsky, a Jewish scholar, and Chaya Tserel Novodvorsky, a small goods store owner” gave birth to Shimeon Novodvorsky, better known as Jim Novy,  the Austin, TX businessman and leader of the Jewish community who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust and was close friend of Lyndon Johnson.

http://www.caa-austin.org/?q=historyofJimNovy

 

1896: “Children’s Carnival and Ball” published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20D1EF73B5A1A738DDDAC0994DB405B8685F0D3

 

 

1896:” Russia and Religious Liberty” published today described the treatment of non-Orthodox treatment in the Czar’s empire including his five or six million Jewish subjects who are subject to “Jew baiting” in which the government has “appealed to what is worst in human nature.  “The harrying of the Jews is generally admitted being one of the cause of the growth of poverty” among the Russian people.  “After the expulsion of the Jews from Moscow, the rate of interest in private pawnshops rose from 25 to 200 per cent per annum. (So much for the myth of the avaricious Jewish moneylender)

 

1897: It was reported today that a performance of “My Uncle’s Will” by the students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts was the main entertainment provided at an event hosted by the Hebrew Institute.

 

1897: Eighty-two-year-old English Mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, the son of Abraham Joseph who was awarded the Copley Award, the highest honor of the Royal Society passed away today.

 

1897: “Eulogies of Mr. Goodhart” published today described the speeches made by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. F. de Solo Mendes and Dr. Hermann Phillips the religious director at the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society all of which spoke movingly of the contribution of the late Morris Goodhart.

 

1897: The Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia, whose “annual report showed that it had an income of $9,114 last year” celebrated its 49thanniversary today.

 

1897: “Ephraim Lederer” has volunteered to continue giving “weekly lectures on the Constitution of the United States and the requirements for the proper performance of the duties of a citizen” in Philadelphia.

 

1897:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00816F8355911738DDDAC0994DB405B8785F0D3

 

1897: “Catholic Praises of Jewess” published today described the praise Reverend Sylvester Malone, State Regent and Pastor of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Brooklyn had for “Mrs. Nannette Marks, a Jewish lady who has become famous throughout Brooklyn for her benevolent acts, irrespective of creed and who walked to the altar rail and presented a bouquet of flowers” to Reverend Maurice Ryan, the Paulist missionary.

1898: Two days after he had passed away, 39 year old Abraham Rosenberg was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1899: Today the General Conference of American Rabbis discussed a paper entitled “The National Idea in Judaism with Especial Reference to the Zionistic Movement” presented by Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, Illinois.

1899: In Riga, “Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taub” gave birth Harry Taub, the Columbia University trained pharmacist and professor of pharmacology at his alma mater Harry Taub, the president of Bayside Jewish Center and brother of Abraham Taub, a fellow faculty member of the Columbia College of Pharmacy who was the husband of Mildred Taub with whom they raised two children – Robert and Sylvia.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/21/305196702.pdf

 

1899: Three hundred forty-five guests attended the celebration of the 80thbirthday of Rabbi Isaac M. Wise which included a dinner at the Phoenix Club in Cincinnati, Ohio hosted by the General Conference of American Rabbis.

 

1899: It was reported today that the next musicale and tea sponsored by the Woman’s Committee of the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place next month at Sherry’s

 

 

1899:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50915FA3E541B728DDDAC0994DB405B8985F0D3

 

 

1900: Parts of the body of Ernst Winter, a student who had disappeared in Konitz, West Prussia were discovered in a nearby lake and an arm was found in a cemetery.

1900: Following the death of a student in Konitz, Poland, local Jews are faced with another “blood libel” episode. While Count Plucker promoted riots against the Jews, Wolf Israelski was accused and arrested. After Israelski was proven innocent, two other Jews, Moritz Lewy and Rosenthal, were arrested on the same charge. Rosenthal and Lewy were acquitted, yet Lewy was sentenced to four years for denying he knew the victim. All the evidence was based on the testimony of a petty thief named Masloff who later received only one year for perjury.

1901: Benjamin and Rose Ratner gave birth to Samuel Augie Ratner, the resident of Minneapolis who was the husband of Betty Ratner and the father Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, IA) graduate Rochel Rachel Kingman

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141831742/samuel-augie-ratner

1901: Birthdate of Starobin, Belarus, native Nathan Chenitz the CCNY grad and U of Pennsylvania trained dentist who began practicing in Newark, NJ in 1926.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/07/08/83362873.pdf

1902(6thof Adar II, 5662): Parashat Pekudi

1902: Today Charles Scribner and Son published Letters from Egypt and Palestine by the late Maltbie D. Babcock, D.D.

1903(16thof Adar, 5663): Shushan Purim

1903(16thof Adar, 5663): Sixty-four-year-old Adolph Loeb the native Bechtheim, Germany, the son of Jakob and Ester Loeb and the husband of Johanna Loeb passed away today in Chicago.

1904: Rabbi Schulman of Temple Beth-El opened the exercises marking the dedication and opening of Mount Sinai Hospitals ten buildings” that were attended by Governor Odell, Isaac Wallach, Edward Lauterbach and Rabbi De Sola Mendes who “delivered the invocation.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/03/16/101388868.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

 

1905: Birthdate of Nat Perrin, the lawyer turned gag writer whose career spanned Marx Brothers Movies to “The Addams Family” – a 1960’s sitcom.

1904: Rabbi Jacob Sonderling, the German born son of Wilhelm and Johanna Sonderling, who served on the staff of Field Marshall Von Hindenbrug during WW I, married Emma Klemann

1905(8thof Adar II, 5665): Seventy-seven-year-old Meyer Guggenheim, the native of Switzerland, who came to the United States in 1847 where he made his fortune in mining and smelting and became the patriarch of the Guggenheim clan consisting of his wife Barbara and ten children, passed away today.

 

1906: While delivering a speech at Chesham on the question of the excluding aliens from settling in the British Isles, The Honorable Lionel Walter Rothschild, Member of Parliament for the Aylesbury Division of Buckinghamshire, “referred to the number of poor Russian refugees excluded from Great Britain in the last few months.” Based on what he considered to be “irrefutable evidence,” Mr. Rothschild, the son of Lord Rothschild, reported that those Russians who were forced to return to their native land were shot at the border without being given any kind of trial.

 

1907: The Jewish Chronicle reported that, a departure from Jewish burial customs, “at the cemetery of the United London Synagogue” a minister officiated at the burial of ashes.

1908: Countess Muravieff, one of Russia most prominent actresses is scheduled to begin her tour of America with a performance of Ibsen’s “Nora” which will be followed at a later date by a performance of “The God of Revenge,” “Sholom Ash’s Jewish Play.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/02/07/104796420.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

 

1908: With Passover a month away, the baking of Matzoth has become a full-time operation in New York with large moving vans having to be used to take the boxes of unleavened bread from the bakeries to the various distribution centers around town. A bakery on 33rd Street between Second and Third Avenues is actually having to work around the clock to keep up with the worldwide demand for Matzoth.

1909: It was reported today that while Dr. Charles A. Eaton, the pastor of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church was sermonizing on “the New American” that will grow out of the mingle of native Americans and immigrants he said, “The Jews have got your theatres and most of your banks.  They will soon hold you in the hollow of their hand.  Most have no religion at all.  What can we do with them? I say, let them come to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church.  There was one Jew would have received here – Jesus Christ.  There was another – Paul.”

1910: It was reported today that when he was in Europe Samuel Gompers “was styled as a socialist” but in the United States he is known as a “trade Unionist.”

1911(15thof Adar, 5671): Sushan Purim

1911: Following yesterday’s funeral for Albert J. Teller, a young man who rose from being a “ragged boy of the streets” to become a bookkeeper and an inspiration to his Jewish peers several “older men” in the community decided that he be remembered permanently by creating “a memorial prize for debating which will be offered by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.”

1912: The Turkish Ministry of the Interior to the Governor of Jerusalem issued a decree permitting the Jews to place benches and light candles in front of the Western Wall.

1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama had been appointed as a delegate continued for a third day Jacksonville, Florida.

1913: It was reported today that “the will of the late Moses Strauss, a Polk County, Iowa, pioneer and financier bequeathed $75,000 to charities in Des Moines, IA.

1914(17thof Adar, 5674): Eighty-year-old Prussian born Canadian artist, a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts passed away today in Montreal.

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7660

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raphael#/media/File:Behind_Bonsecours_Market.png

1914: Birthdate of New York native, high school drop-out and singing water Joseph Roszawikz the USAA Corps veteran who gained fame as Joe E. Ross best known for his role in the ridiculous sitcom “Car 54.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/15/obituaries/joe-e-ross-dies-at-67-actor-in-tv-s-car-54.html

1915: Birthdate of Joe E. Ross, borscht belt comedian and star of such television sitcoms as “Car 54 Where Are You?”

1915: Vilkovishky, Lithuania. Rabbi Simon Eisenstein Barzilay and Taube (Rosenthal) Barilay gave birth to American historian and educator, Isaac Eisenstein, the husband of and father of Sharonah and Joshua Barzilay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/classified/paid-notice-deaths-barzilay-isaac-eisenstein.html

1915: Birthdate of Bronx native Theodore Wilentz “who with his brother, Eli, owned the Eighth Street Bookshop, a bustling bibliophilic beehive in the 1950's and 60's.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/theodore-wilentz-86-dies-a-bookman-extraordinaire.html

1915: The Austrian Hungarian Consul General in New York issued a dispatch today that had originated in the foreign office in Vienna

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E02E5DF153EE033A25755C1A9659C946496D6CF

1915: Birthdate of broadcast journalist David Schoenbrun, the CBS broadcast bureau chief in Washington DC and Paris France who was one of the famous “Murrow boys.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/24/obituaries/david-schoenbrun-is-dead-at-73-veteran-journalist-for-cbs-news.html

1915: It was reported today that the “relief cargo” being carried by U.S. collier Vulcan, “represents an expenditure of $150,000 by the American Jewish Relief Committee” and the flour is the primary staple in the shipment.

1915: Birthdate of Dr. David Wilfred Abse, the native of Cardiff, Wales  and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia from 1962 until 2000 whose siblings included poet Dannie Abse and Welsh Labor Member of Parliament Leopold “Leo” Abse.

1915: It was reported today that L. H. Levine and E.W. L. Epstein of New York will direct the distribution of relief supplies once they arrive at Jaffa.

1915: It was reported today that the membership in the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society had grown from 15,357 in 1913 to 46,023 in 1914 and that the society had raised $112, 988 last year and spent $110,869.

1915: It was reported today that Jewish immigration had fallen form 130,237 in 1913 to 66,557 in 1914.

1915: “Justice For Jews One Peace Demand” published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0DE0DC153AE633A25756C1A9659C946496D6CF

1916: It was reported today that in Philadelphia, the newly formed Maccabean Regiment has “unanimously elected Jacob D. Lit, one the owners of Lit Brothers department store which had been founded as dress and millinery shop by his sister Rachel, as Colonel” and “Isidore Stern, a prominent attorney as Chairman.”

1916: An expeditionary force under the command of General Pershing crossed into Mexico in an attempt to capture Pancho Villa – a military action that would include enough Jews that Rabbis were sent to the Mexican border by the Army and Navy Committee and the Central Conference of American Rabbis to conduct services for the High Holidays and Sukkoth.

1916: As part of the ceremonies marking the dedication of “the new Temple of Sinai Congregation of the Bronx” the Sinai Auxiliary Societies are scheduled to host a reception tonight complete with music and speakers.

1917: “Herman Bernstein, the editor of the American Hebrew…predicted” tonight “that equal rights for the Jews would be one the important results of the Reactionary Party.”

1917: Czar Nicholas II abdicated bringing an end to the Romanov dynasty which had caused so much suffering for the Jewish people.

1917(NS): Sergei Zubatov. “the head of the Czarist Secret Police in Moscow” who “convinced” the imprisoned Manya Shochat to form “tame” workers “organizations that would work for reform rather than the overthrow of the government” which would supposedly “help achieve rights for Jews” – a supposition which the policeman knew was false and which the Jewish leader came to see as a “pipe dream” committed suicide today.

1918: In Lemberg, the police searched the “headquarters of the Paolie-Zionists and Union Jewish Workmen and arrested several leaders.”

1918: In Frankfort, a “conference of Orthodox Jewish organizations resolved that the support of a Jewish settlement in Palestine is the religious duty of all Jewry and pledged itself to work for the emancipation of Jews everywhere.”

1919(13thof Adar II, 5697): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1919(13th of Adar II, 5679): Albert, (Avraham) Harkavy passed away. Born in Belarus in 1835, Harkavy led an unusual life for a Russian Jew. After getting a Yeshiva education he received two degrees from the University of St. Petersburg before gaining a doctorate while studying abroad. In a country wracked by anti-Semitism, he was appointed head of the Oriental Division in the Imperial Public Library, a position he held until his death.

1919: This evening, Drs. David Philipson of Cincinnati, Samuel Schulman, Joseph Silverman and Ambassador Abram I. Elkus were among the speakers at Temple Emanu-El where the campaign to raise funds for organizations created by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise as a way of “commemorating the centenary of his birth” was formally begun.

1919: In Connecticut, Michael and Rose Abitz gave birth to Irving Abitz, who served with Patton’s Third Army during WW II and who was the husband of Ruth Abitz.

1919: “Ex-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau” sailed for Europe today where “he will assist in Red Cross work…and help to arrange the international convention” of the Red Cross” which will be held in Geneva after the peace treaty ending the World War has “been promulgated.”

1919: The New York office of the Jewish Correspondence Bureau opened today as a New York Corporation with a total capitalization of $26, 650.

1920: Birthdate of Minneapolis, MN, native and sportswriter and broadcaster Sid Hartman who took time off from his journalistic career to serve as the acting general manager of the NBA Minneapolis Lakers.

1921: Birthdate of John Patrick Kenneally, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, who won the Victoria Cross for his bravery on April 29 and April 30, 1943, while fighting in Tunisia.

 

1922: After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. This is the same King Faud I who declared in 1917, when he was the Guest of Honor at the opening of the Zionist Movement in Cairo and Alexandria that: "You Jews of Egypt, will always be protected by us, until you go back to your land, the Land of Israel"

 

1923: Birthdate of Rostam Bastuni, an Arab Christian who was the “the first Arab citizen of Israel to represent a Zionist party in the Knesset.”

 

1923: “Old Heidelberg” a silent film starring Eugen Burg and directed by Hans Behrendt who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.

 

1924: Birthdate of Michael Harsegor an Israeli historian and a professor for history at the Tel Aviv University who specialized in the history of Europe in the late Middle Ages.

 

1924: Birthdate of Richard Topus, who gained fame as pigeon trainer during World War II. Born in Brooklyn, Topus was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Growing up in Flatbush, he fell in love with the pigeons his neighbors kept on their rooftops in spacious coops known as lofts. His parents would not let him have a loft of his own — they feared it would interfere with schoolwork, Andrew Topus said — but he befriended several local men who taught him to handle their birds. Two of them had been pigeoneers in World War I, when the United States Army Pigeon Service was formally established.

“In January 1942, barely a month after Pearl Harbor, the United States War Department sounded a call to enlist. It wasn’t men they wanted — not this time. The Army was looking for pigeons. To the thousands of American men and boys who raced homing pigeons, a popular sport in the early 20th century and afterward, the government’s message was clear: Uncle Sam Wants Your Birds. Richard Topus was one of those boys. He had no birds of his own to give, but he had another, unassailable asset: he was from Brooklyn, where pigeon racing had long held the status of a secular religion. His already vast experience with pigeons — long, ardent hours spent tending and racing them after school and on weekends — qualified him, when he was still a teenager, to train American spies and other military personnel in the swift, silent use of the birds in wartime. World War II saw the last wide-scale use of pigeons as agents of combat intelligence. Mr. Topus, just 18 when he enlisted in the Army, was among the last of the several thousand pigeoneers, as military handlers of the birds were known, who served the United States in the war. Pigeons have been used as wartime messengers at least since antiquity. Before the advent of radio communications, the birds were routinely used as airborne couriers, carrying messages in tiny capsules strapped to their legs. A homing pigeon can find its way back to its loft from nearly a thousand miles away. Over short distances, it can fly a mile a minute. It can go where human couriers often cannot, flying over rough terrain and behind enemy lines. By the early 20th century, advances in communications technology seemed to herald the end of combat pigeoneering. In 1903, a headline in The New York Times confidently declared, “No Further Need of Army Pigeons: They Have Been Superseded by the Adoption of Wireless Telegraph Systems.” But technology, the Army discovered, has its drawbacks. Radio transmissions can be intercepted. Triangulated, they can reveal the sender’s location. In World War I, pigeons proved their continued usefulness in times of enforced radio silence. After the United States entered World War II, the Army put out the call for birds to racing clubs nationwide. Tens of thousands were donated. In all, more than 50,000 pigeons served the United States in the war. Many were shot down. Others were set upon by falcons released by the Nazis to intercept them. (The British countered by releasing their own falcons to pursue German messenger pigeons. But since falcons found Allied and Axis birds equally delicious, their deployment as defensive weapons was soon abandoned by both sides.) But many American pigeons did reach their destinations safely, relaying vital messages from soldiers in the field to Allied commanders. The information they carried — including reports on troop movements and tiny hand-sketched maps — has been widely credited with saving thousands of lives during the war. Mr. Topus enlisted in early 1942 and was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, which included the Pigeon Service. He was eventually stationed at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, one of several installations around the country at which Army pigeons were raised and trained. There, he joined a small group of pigeoneers, not much bigger than a dozen men. Camp Ritchie specialized in intelligence training, and Mr. Topus and his colleagues schooled men and birds in the art of war. They taught the men to feed and care for the birds; to fasten on the tiny capsules containing messages written on lightweight paper; to drop pigeons from airplanes; and to jump out of airplanes themselves, with pigeons tucked against their chests. The Army had the Maidenform Brassiere Company make paratroopers’ vests with special pigeon pockets. The birds, for their part, were trained to fly back to lofts whose locations were changed constantly. This skill was crucial: once the pigeons were released by troops in Europe, the Pacific or another theater, they would need to fly back to mobile combat lofts in those places rather than light out for the United States. Mr. Topus and his colleagues also bred pigeons, seeking optimal combinations of speed and endurance. After the war, Mr. Topus earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from Hofstra University. While he was a student, he earned money selling eggs — chicken eggs — door to door and afterward started a wholesale egg business. In the late 1950s, Mr. Topus became the first salesman at Friendship Food Products, a dairy company then based in Maspeth, Queens; he retired as executive vice president for sales and marketing. (The company, today based in Jericho, N.Y. and a subsidiary of Dean Foods, is now known as Friendship Dairies.) In the 1960s and early ’70s, Mr. Topus taught marketing at Hofstra; the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University; and the State University of New York, Farmingdale, where he started a management-training program for supermarket professionals. In later years, after retiring to Scottsdale, he taught at Arizona State University and was also a securities arbitrator, hearing disputes between stockbrokers and their clients. Though the Army phased out pigeons in the late 1950s, Mr. Topus raced them avidly till nearly the end of his life. He left a covert, enduring legacy of his hobby at Friendship, for which he oversaw the design of the highly recognizable company logo, a graceful bird in flight, in the early 1960s. From that day to this, the bird has adorned cartons of the company’s cottage cheese, sour cream, buttermilk and other products. To legions of unsuspecting consumers, Andrew Topus said last week, the bird looks like a dove. But to anyone who really knew his father, it is a pigeon, plain as day. Mr. Topus passed away in December of 2008.

1925(19th of Adar): Mordecai Spector passed away

1926: James N. Rosenberg of New York, the Vice Chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee conferred today in Washington with Secretary Herbert Hoover who “expressed great interest in the plans” of the committee to provide relief for the Jews in Russia and said “he would assist the committee as far as circumstances permitted.”

1926: David A. Brown, the national chairman of the national campaign to raise fifteen million dollars for the relief of Jews in “Russia, Poland, Palestine, Eastern and Southeastern Europe” is scheduled to address the first meeting of the Women’s Division of the New York campaign chaired by Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, the wife of the former ambassador and supported by Mrs. Jacob Schiff, the honorary chairman.

1927: In Vienna, violinist Max Rostal and his wife gave birth to psychologist Sybil Bianca Giuliett Eysenck the psychologist and editor of “Personality and Individual Differences” whose husband Hans was raised by a grandmother who, although a devout Lutheran, died in a concentration camp because “she ‘apparently’ was from a Jewish family.”

1927: “The Csarda Princess” a romance film directed by Hanns Schwarz and with music by Artur Guttman was released today in Germany and Hungary.

1926: Birthdate of Sheldon Jerome Segal, “who led the scientific team that developed Norplant, the first significant advance in birth control since the pill, and who also developed other long-acting contraceptives…”

1927: The libel suit that Aaron Sapiro brought against Henry Ford’s newspaper, the laughably named Dearborn Independent(it was published in Dearborn, but hardly independent since nothing was published in it that did not reflect the views of Ford) began today.

1928(23rdof Adar, 5688): Sixty-four year old Charles Alexander Loeser, the Harvard graduate and husband of pianist of Olga Lebert Kaufman who created one of the great collection of “early Renaissance art furniture” while living in Florence.

http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/palazzovecchio/donazione_loeser02.htm

https://izi.travel/en/ce5e-biography-of-charles-loeser/en

 

1929: Birthdate of Betty Asher, who as Betty (Mrs. Jacob) Levin would grow up to be a marvelous person, who raised four fine children, taught school, opened her heart and home to one and all and was a life-long partner to her husband of blessed memory.

1930(15thof Adar, 5690): Parashat Tetzaveh

1930: Dedicatory exercises for the Temple Rodeph Sholom’s new home in Manhattan continue for a second day.

1931: In what was “the first split in the US Troytskyist movement” Albert “Weisbord and his wife launched an independent Marxist group, the Communist League of Struggle, which existed until 1937.”  (Editor’s note – this intermural fight seemed so important at the time, but in the great scheme of things have proven meaningless like so much else.)

1932: In an article datelined London, the Associate Press describes “the Jewish Olympiad at Tel Aviv, Palestine” as one the “four great athletic competitions of 1932” putting it in the same category as the world’s Tenth Olympic Games to be held in Los Angeles. “More than mere physical contests, the Jewish games serve both body and soul. They recall the protest of ancient Maccabees against the Greek Olympiads which glorified Athenian physique.”

 

1933: In Brooklyn, Nathan and Celia (née Amster) Bader gave birth to their second daughter, Ruth Joan Bader who gained fame as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=865

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

 

 

1933: Three Jews were arrested by Storm troopers in Breslau were beaten and bloodied.

1934: “New Faces of 1934” with lyrics by Viola Brothers Shore opened on Broadway today at the Fulton Theatre on 46th Street.

1934: “Romance of Ida” a film based on a book by the same name directed by Steve Sekely was released in Hungary today.

1935: “The People’s Enemy,” co-starring Melvyn Douglas, featuring Sheldon Leonard, with a screenplay by Gordon Kahn and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States.

1935: Bernard S. Deutsch, New York’s President of the Board of Alderman, met with the team of Jewish athletes that will be representing the United States at the World Maccabiah Games

 

1935: According to a statement issued today by Dr. E.L. Sukenik, Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, twelve pieces of broken pottery found on the site of ancient Lachish destroy the very foundations of biblical "higher criticism."

 

1935: Birthdate of actor Judd Hirsch best known for his role in the hit sitcom, “Taxi.”

1936: The Joint Distribution held a memorial meeting at the Commodore Hotel where tribute was paid “to the memory of Paul Sandor, statesmen, member of the Hungarian Parliament and leader in the organization and legislation to preserve Hungarian Judaism.”

1936: In Tel Aviv, shops were closed “as a sign of grief for the plight of the Jews of Poland said to be the victims of renewed pogroms.” The economic protests “coincided with a mass meeting called by the Jewish National Council of Palestine.” According to published reports, Polish Jewry is facing a threatened prohibition of kosher slaughtering in the Polish republic.

1936: “The Ages-Old Battleground of Conflicting Faiths” published today provides a detailed review of The Battleground: Syria and Palestine by Hilaire Belloc. (Eighty years later to the day, sounds like this book was published to match today’s headlines.)

1936: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Temple Emanu-El for seventy-six year old attorney Henry Wollman which will be led by Rabbi Samuel H. Goldman and will be attended by Julian Mack and Albert Ottinger.

1936: In London, Doctor Chaim Weizmann is scheduled to address a meeting that will mark the start of an appeal “to British Jewry to raise one million English pounds for the expatriation of Jews from Germany.”

 

1936: “Mass Lesson In Charity” published today described plans for the upcoming pageant at the Roxy Theatre that “will portray historical episodes illustrating the evolution of the tradition of Jewish charity from Old Testament times to the present.”

 

1936: Birthdate of Howard “Howie” Greenfield, the Brooklyn native who formed a successful songwriting partnership with Neil Sedaka with whom he co-wrote four songs performed his Sephardic Jewish friend that reached first place on Billbaord.

 

1937: The Palestine Post reported that after Shlomo Gafni and Hanoch Metz were murdered and robbed near Nazareth, Gedaliah Geller, 36, Moshe Zalman Ben-Sasson, 33, and Yehuda Eliovitz, 28, of Yavne¹el were murdered nearby. Police dogs followed the tracks to Tiberias. Ammunition disappeared from a sealed government armory at Kfar Tavor and there was sporadic shooting all over Galilee. Dr. Chaim Weizmann accepted a donation of £5,000 for the Yishuv¹s security and development from the British Synagogues Federation.

1937: Dr. James Bryant Conant the President of Harvard is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “the ideals of scholarship and academic freedom” which is the third in a series of lectures sponsored by the Semi-Centennial Committee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

1937: Based on a cablegram from Gordon Loud, who was leading the Megiddo Expedition sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, to Dr. John A. Wilson, Director of the Institute, an announcement was made that gold, gems and vessels hidden at Megiddo dating back to 1400 BCE had been discovered. It is speculated that the treasure was hidden there by some hitherto unnamed “Prince of Megiddo.”

1938(12thof Adar II, 5698): Morris Tankus, a member of the Workmen’s Circle, passed away today in Chicago.

1938: As the Nazis took over Prague Martha and Waitstill Sharp who were running one of the most successful refugee rescue operations in Europe finished burning their notes to keep any information from failing into the hands of the SS.

1938: Today, “all over Austria,” as “excited crowds are cheering the union” with Germany, “the Jews of Austria” who have been “loyal citizens” “now find themselves disfranchised, barred from public office, deprived of their citizenship, harried and beaten in the streets.”

1939: Felix Weltsch left Prague with Max Brod and his family on the last train out of Czechoslovakia. In Palestine, Weltsch worked as a librarian in Jerusalem until his death in 1964.

1939: Following today’s occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Germans, Czech diplomate  Egon Hostovský left Brussels, “emigrated to Paris” then moved on to Portugal before finally arriving in New York in 1941.

1939: German troops marched into Prague in what was the last act of German aggression before the start of World War II. It also brought the Jews of Czechoslovakia under the control of the Nazis

1939: In Slovakia, Alexander Mach became commander of the Hlinka Guards, the Slovak Nazis who helped deport the Jews to Auschwitz.

1939: Today, one day after “Slovakia seceded from Czechoslovakia and became a separate pro-Nazi state” “Carpathian Ruthenia proclaimed its independence” three days before it would be swallowed up by Hungary.  (The unraveling of central Europe just before WW II was more than just a case of Hitler on the march.)

1939: The family of historian Dr. Yehuda Bauer left Czechoslovakia for Palestine. Bauer’s life reads like some character out of one of those historic fiction novels that Leon Uris would write. It spans everything from membership in the Palmach to a distinguished academic career.

1940: In the Bronx, Benjamin Faerstein, a dentist, and “the former Rose Rosenberg,” “Jewish immigrants from what is now the Ukraine” gave birth to Florence Ina Faestein who gained fame as poet and translator Chana Bloch. (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/books/chana-bloch-died-poet-and-translator.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

1940: “Young Tom Edison,” a biopic directed by Norman Taurog with a script co-authored by Dore Schary was released in the United States today.

1940: Birthdate of Judith Rose Fingeret, the Pittsburgh native, who, as Judith F. Krug, led the campaign by libraries against efforts to ban books, including helping found Banned Books Week, then fought laws and regulations to limit children’s access to the Internet.

1941: In Amsterdam, Etty Hillesum a young woman studying Slavic languages at Amsterdam University recorded her rage of the deportations (of the Jews) writing in her diary “The whole German nation must be destroyed root and branch. They are all scum.”

1942: The First Dünamünde Action, a murderous assault designed “to execute Jews who had recently been deported to Latvia from Germany, Austria, Bohemia and Moravia” conducted by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators began today in the Biķernieki forest, near Riga, Latvia.

 

1942: In Brooklyn, bookkeeper Eleanor Friedman and insurance salesman Alan Jacob Friedman gave birth to Alan Jacob Friedman “a physicist who specialized in communicating the tenets of science to nonscientists and as the director of the New York Hall of Science in Queens oversaw its growth from a moribund museum to one of the city’s formidable educational institutions.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/nyregion/alan-friedman-71-dies-revived-hall-of-science.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

 

1942(26thof Adar, 5702): Seventy year old Viennese born composer and conductor Alexander von Zemlinksy passed away today in the United States.

http://www.zemlinsky.at/en/

http://orelfoundation.org/composers/article/alexander_zemlinsky/

 

1943: In Toronto, Canada, “Esther (née Sumberg), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor’ gave birth to David Paul Cronenberg  a Canadian film director and occasional actor who is one of the principal originators of what is sometimes known as the "body horror" genre, which explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection.

http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/David-Cronenberg.html

 

http://thechronicleherald.ca/heraldmagazine/99409-canadian-icon-david-cronenberg

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/86249/David-Cronenberg/biography

 

1943: The deportation of the Jews from Thrace began. When Hitler was dismembering the Balkans, he gave Thrace to Bulgaria. The price was for the Nazis largesse was the extermination of the local Jewish population. The Jews of Thrace ended up at Treblinka. At the time of the deportation, Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Minister was meeting in Washington with the Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State. Hull raised the issue of rescuing the Balkan Jews. Eden cautioned against this. After all, Hitler might offer the Allies the Jews of Poland and Germany as well and there simply were not enough ships available for such an effort.

 

1943(8th of Adar II, 5703): At the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Trude Neumann died of starvation. She was the daughter of Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement.

1943: “The Silver Fleet,” a British war movie co-produced by Emeric Pressburger and filmed by cinematographer Erwin Hillier.

1943: In Cleveland, Ohio, “Helen (Smolen) Moss, a schoolteacher, and Nelson Nathan Moss, a lawyer and small-business owner: gave birth to Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tV3CKGuGoRkC&pg=PT25#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

1943: “In the aftermath of the Stalingrad disaster, Hitler informed Joseph Goebbbels that the liquidation program should not ‘cease or pause until no Jew is left anywhere in the Reich.’”

 

1944: Fort Ontario, an 80 acre federal reservation on Lake Ontario, was closed today, only to be re-opened later in the year as the European refugee center that would be known as “Safe Haven.”

 

1944: Birthdate of Josef Joffe, the native of Łódź, Poland who grew up in West Berlin and became editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper before moving onto a career in academia in the United States.

 

1944: Abba Berditchev parachuted into Yugoslavia. His “mission was to assist the Jews, gather intelligence and help rescue members of the air forces who were captured or had parachuted into Romania. He did not succeed in reaching Romania, instead returning to Bari, Italy. In August 1944 Berditchev traveled to Slovakia, where he participated in the Slovak National Uprising. After two months of fighting in the mountains, Berditchev was captured by the Germans and transferred in December 1944 to Mauthausen along with other captives, where he was brutally tortured and murdered by the Nazis.”

(As chronicled by Yad Vashem

 

1944:  Bowing to international criticism led by the British and Americas, Turkey abolished the “Varlik Vergisi” or “Wealth Tax” levied on that nation’s non-Muslim population including the Jews.

 

1944: Birthdate of Adèle Geras, the native of Jerusalem, wife of Norman Geras and author Sophie Hannah who gained fame as author specializing in works for “young children and teens and winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Golden Windows.

http://www.adelegeras.com/

1944: Today, the National Council of Resistance whose members including Stephane Hessel “urged the younger generations to live by and pass on the legacy of the Resistance and its ideals of economic, social and cultural democracy.”

1945: Birthdate of New York politician Mark J. Green

 

1945: The exact date of the death of Anne Frank has not been established. According to one source, on this date Anne Frank died in Bergen Belsen concentration camp from Typhus shortly before the liberation. Anne was born in Frankfurt but spent most of her life in Holland. Once the deportations began Anne and her family moved to a hiding place and stayed there from July 9, 1942 until August 4, 1944 when they were betrayed. Anne had hoped to become a writer and succeeded beyond anything she could have imagined when her diary was published after World War II

 

1946: British premier Attlee agreed to India's right to independence. This decision had a major, if under-reported effect on the future of the Jews in Palestine. Once the British decided to give up India, the need to protect the Suez Canal, the British lifeline to India, had greatly diminished. The British had wanted the Palestine Mandate primarily to protect this lifeline. Now that this would no longer be needed, the British were prepared to give up the Palestine Mandate which led to the creation of the state of Israel two years later.

 

1947: For the first time, British authorities have shipped “authorized immigrants” from Palestine to Cyprus on Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. The immigrants are Jews who had come to Palestine aboard the Susannah.

 

1948: Birthdate of Kate Bornstein, American transgender author.

1948: “The meeting of the United Nations Security Council scheduled today for consideration of the Palestine question was postponed until 2:30 P.M. tomorrow as a result of an eleventh-hour decision by the United States, China and France to ask Jews and Arabs whether they would agree to a truce in the Holy Land,”

1948: “A spokesman of the Jewish Agency protested today that the seven-day curfew on road traffic which imposed on Jewish settlements in the Upper Galilee was ‘inconsistent’ with the neutrality that British security forces had professed to maintain.”

1949(14thof Adar, 5709): Purim

 

1949(14thof Adar, 5709): Emma Menko, the wife of Jake Menko and the daughter of Charles Wessolowsky, an earlier supporter of B’nai B’rith in Alabama, passed away.

1950: “Tarzan and the Slave Girl,” another film about the Jungle man directed by Lee Sholem, produced by Sol Lesser and written by Hans Jacoby was released today in the United States.

 

1952: In Tangiers, a Muslim demonstration supporting union with Morocco turned violent and "many Jewish-owned shops were among those looted and burned."

 

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from Egypt that a political battle was shaping up in Cairo between Palestine hard-liners and moderates over the future of the Palestine Liberation Organization¹s role in the Middle East and its relations with Jordan and Syria.

 

1953(28th of Adar, 5713): Eighty year old Herman B. Baruch, the brother of financier and Presidential adviser Bernard Baruch who was both a doctor like his father and a former Ambassador to the Netherlands   and Portugal passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9403E5DB173EE53BBC4E52DFB5668388649EDE

 

1953(28thof Adar, 5713): Seventy-six year old Democratic Party leader and “chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University Samuel Levy, the St Patrick Day born NYU trained lawyer and husband of Sadie Vesell Levy with whom he raised two children – Bernice and Lawrence – passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/16/83714230.pdf

 

1956: "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway. The lyrics were written by Alan J. Lerner and the music was composed by Frederick Lowe. These are but two Jews connected with that unique American entertainment creation - the musical comedy. Some other names include the team of Rogers and Hammerstein, Moss Hart, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Loesser, Jerome Kern and the Gershwin Brothers, George and Ira.

 

1957(12th of Adar II, 5717): Twelve days after having been shot by Zeev Eckstein, Rudolf Israel Kastner succumbed to his wounds and died today in Tel Aviv.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/yom_hashoah/article/rudolph_kastner_gets_a_new_trial_20110426

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/kastner.html

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/movies/23killing.html

 

 

1957: Birthdate of David Silverman, American animator best known for his work on the television “The Simpsons.”

1959: In Irvine, CA, Austrian born Holocaust survivor and former resident of Israel Eric Teltscher and his wife, a native of pre-state Israel gave birth to American tennis pro Eliot Teltscher.

http://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/14107

 

1962(9th of Adar II): Seventy-four-year-old Minsk native Daniel Persky who “had been a columnist for the Hebrew weekly Hadoar” since 1921 and columnist for Haaretz as well as the winner of Louis LaMed Prize winner for the best Hebrew book of 1948 for writing Ivri Anokhi (I Am a Hebrew) passed away today in New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.

 

1965: President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to ensure everybody's right to vote regardless of any race, religion, sex, etc. This landmark legislation which was heavily supported by Jewish voters and politicians would be known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It would change the landscape of American politics forever. And it was a true act of political and physical courage for Johnson to make and support such a proposal.

 

1966(23rd of Adar, 5726): Abe Saperstein,  founder of the Harlem Globetrotters passed away at age 63.

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

http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-and-success/100400-350265-basketball-promoter-abe-saperstein-innovations-let-his-globetrotters-glitter.htm

1967: ABC broadcast the last episode of “The Monroes” created by Milt Rosen and co-starring Barbara Hershey.

1967: “In Like Flint,” a spy spoof produced by Saul David, co-starring Lee J. Cobb, featuring Herb Edelman and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.

1969: US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned under a cloud of scandal. Fortas was a close friend and advisor to Lyndon Johnson. According to some accounts, when Johnson told Fortas that he was going to appoint him the "Jewish seat" on the Supreme Court, Fortas, cautioned against this. He told Johnson that neither he, nor the Jewish community, would consider his appointment as fulfilling that role. Apparently, Fortas saw himself only nominally as a Jew and did not see this accident of birth as a steppingstone to power. Johnson ignored him and made the appointment later.

 

1970: “After 28 previews, the Broadway production” of Purlie directed by Phillip Rose who also wrote the book for this musical by Louis Johnson, opened at The Broadway Theatre.

1970(7thof Adar II, 5730): Eighty-three-year-old Sarah Grobstein, the Kaunas born daughter of Mera and Leizer Benjamin Ipp and the wife of Jacob Grobestien passed away today in Youngstown, OH.

1972: “Slaughterhouse-Five” a movie version of the novel by the same name co-starring Ron Leibman was released in the United States today.

 

1972: “The Godfather,” a movie version of the novel by the same name produced by Albert S. Ruddy and co-starring James Caan and Abe Vigoda opened at the Loew’s State Theatre.

1973(11thof Adar II, 5733): Ta’anit Esther

1973: An attack on the Israeli and Jordanian embassies in Paris” was “forestalled” today when “2 Arabs were arrested by French police at the French-Italian bordered, leading to the arrest of one Palestinian and one English doctor in Paris.”

1973: 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” began serving as French Foreign Minister.

1974: “President Nixon stated that the rise in the number of Jews permitted to leave the USSR is due to his personal contacts with Soviet leaders; passage of his trade bill necessary for continuing dialogue with Russians and further emigration.”

1974: “Senators Henry Jackson and Abraham Ribicoff told Dr. Kissinger that Soviet assurance of more than 35 thousand Jewish emigration permits annually are the condition for considering compromise on the Jackson Amendment.”

1974: Funeral services were held today in Brooklyn, for Judge Harold W. Cohn, the husband of Lillian Cohn and father of Steven and Michelle who was a long-time board member of the Williamsburg YM/YWHA.

1975: In a case of Jews playing Jews, U.S. premiere of “Funny Lady” with Barbara Streisand as Fanny Brice and James Caan as Billy Rose.

1976(13thof Adar II, 5736): Ta’anit Esther and Erev Purim

1976: Just days before his 75th birthday, Jewish born set designer Jo Mielziner who converted to Catholicism passed away today. (As reported by Albin Krebs)

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/16/archives/jo-mielziner-dead-at-74-pioneering-set-designer-dozens-of-hits-a.html?_r=0

1976: “In Beersheba, Meir and Esther Ohana, Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Morocco gave birth to their third son, Amir Ohanah, who has served as both the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Safety and who “ss the first openly gay right-wing member of the Knesset and the first openly gay man from Likud to serve in the Knesset.

 

 

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that at his press conference in Washington US President Jimmy Carter suggested how Israeli and international troops, assisted by listening stations, might possibly man Israel¹s "defense line" which would be outside of the sovereign border. He refused, however, to say where the "line" would be. He warned that further Israeli settlement in the administered territories hampered the peace effort.

 

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that The Knesset Law Committee discussed legislation which would introduce partial constituency elections in Israel.

 

1977: The Religious Torah Front, a political alliance in Israel composed of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael that held five seats in the Knesset split with Agudat Yisrael taking three seats and Poalei Agudat Yisrael two.

 

1977: The Hadash movement which included Rakah and Non-Partisans parliamentary group was formed in preparation for the 1977 elections.

1978(6thof Adar II, 5738): Fifty year old “Milton Perlmutter, president and chief executive officer of the Supermarkets General Corporation” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/16/archives/milton-perlmutter-head-of-store-group-president-of-supermarkets.html

1978: “House Calls,” a comedy based on a story by Julius J.Epstein and Max Shulman, directed by Howard Zeiff and co-starring Walter Matthau and Richard Benjamin was released today in the United States.

1979: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Carolyn and Mike Youkilis, a wholesale jeweler, gave birth to professional baseball player Kevin Youkilis.

1980: “The Union of Council for Soviet Jews convened an international consultation in London and in Israel, meeting with officials and local groups to coordinate efforts and discuss strategies and programs to defend Soviet Jews.”

1982: Paul Saginaw, Michael Monahan and Ari Weinzweig founded Zingerman's, a kosher-style delicatessen, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

1983: “Over 1,000 delegates from 30 countries attended the opening session of the Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry in Jerusalem.”

 

1984: Ninety-one year old Henning Linden, the Brigadier General who led a group of reporters including Marguerite Higgins and a detachment of the 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division as the soldiers liberated Dachau, generating international headlines by freeing more than 30,000 Jews and political prisoners, passed away today.

1985: “Lost In America” a comedy directed by, written by and co-starring Albert Brooks was released in the United States today.

1987: In an article entitled, “For Israel and U.S., A Growing Military Partnership,” David K. Shipler describes how the relationship between the two nations continues to thrive despite the Jonathan Pollard fiasco.

 

1987: Today an Israeli newspaper quoted Rafael Eitan, named as the spymaster in the Pollard case, as saying that his superiors had known of the operation, contradicting the Government's position. Mr. Eitan later denied having made such a statement.

 

1988: CBS brought the series “My Sister Sam” featuring Rebecca Schaeffer as “Patricia Russell” back to the air today due in part to letters from fans and the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike which affected the production of other television series for CBS and the other two major television networks. (Schaeffer would be murdered by an obsessive, stalker a year later)

1990: The first London production” of “Sunday in the Park with George, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim” “opened at the Royal National Theatre today, and ran for 117 performances, with Maria Friedman as Dot

 

1990: Haim Bar-Lev complete his terms as Minister of Public Security

 

1990: Yitzhak Rabin completed his term as Minister of Defense.

 

1990: Gad Yaacobi completed his term as Minister of Communications

 

1990: Ezer Weizman completed his term as Minister of Science and Technology.

 

1990: The Labor Alignment left the National Unity Government leading to the defeat of Likud’s Yitzchak Shamir.

 

1990: Yitzhak Moda'I and four other MKs (all of them former members of the Liberal Party) broke away from Likud to form the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea, later renamed the New Liberal Party.

 

1992: In “Separating the Men From the Apes” published today Frans B. M.de Waal reviewed The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animalby Jared Diamond.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/books/separating-the-men-from-the-apes.html

 

 

1994(3rd of Nisan, 5754): Arthur Taubman, a self-made businessman who built the Advance Stores auto parts chain into a multimillion-dollar business passed away at the age of 92. During World War II, Mr. Taubman also helped about 500 European Jews reach the United States by filing affidavits with the immigration authorities saying the Jews were relatives. When questioned by Federal officials, he said any Jew facing death in Nazi-occupied Europe was his first cousin. In addition, he was the founding chairman of Alliance Tire and Rubber Company Ltd., which he and Prime Minister David Ben Gurion of Israel established in 1953. The company, based in Hadera, Israel, became the largest such manufacturer in the Middle East. Mr. Taubman, who was born and reared in Astoria, Queens, went to work as a stock boy in a New York department store at the age of 13 after completing the sixth grade. He served in the Navy in World War I and later began an auto parts chain in Pittsburgh. When the business failed in the early 1930's, he moved to Roanoke, Va., and started over, making a down payment on three failing auto-parts shops. This time he achieved success. The chain, Advance Stores, a privately held family business based in Roanoke, now has 370 stores. Automotive Marketing magazine estimated its 1992 sales at $320 million. Mr. Taubman was president of the chain until 1969, when he became chairman. He retired in 1973 but was vice chairman until 1985.

1995(13thof Adar II, 5755): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1995: It was reported today that Secretary of State Christopher has gotten Syria to agree to direct talks with Israel during which they hope to find a forumula for peach.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including The Children by David Halberstam and Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan

2000: Barbra Streisand opened her concert at the Colonia Stadium in Melbourne.

2001 Thirty-seven year old Khalid Abu Elba, the Palestinian buse drive who ran over and killed eight Israelis last month, told reporters in Tel Aviv, while speaking in Hebrew that “I am not sorry.”

2002: Three Israelis made the Forbes list of 500 Billionaires - Cruise ship heiress Shari Arison Dorsman, shipping magnates Sammy and Yuli Ofer and software kingpin Gil Schwed are the world's richest Israelis. Jewish billionaires featured on the list include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a media mogul turned Republican politician, whose $4.4 billion fortune ranks him at No. 72. Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is No. 413 with $1.1 billion

2003: “President Bush's announcement in Washington today of plans to publish the long delayed plan for Middle East peace represented a gain for Prime Minister Tony Blair at a time when the British leader is getting little lift elsewhere.”

2004(21stof Adar, 5764): “Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up minutes apart at the industrial port here today, killing 10 others and prompting Israel's prime minister to cancel a first meeting with his Palestinian counterpart.” (As reported by James Bennet)

2005: Dignitaries from all over the world attended the opening of Yad Vashem's new History Museum in Jerusalem.

 

2006: Attorney David Etra stays overnight at the White House on the day after Purim When asked to explain the holiday’s meaning, Etra summed it by saying, “It was a about a crazy guy in Iran who wanted to kill all the Jews” which caused President Bush to remarked that “not much has changed.”

 

2006: 15th of Adar 5766 – Shushan Purim. This day points out one of the differences between the Jews and those who sought to conquer or destroy them. There are still Jews around to celebrate Purim and Shushan Purim. Where are the Romans who must “Beware of the Ides of March”?

 

2007(25th of Adar, 5767): Stuart Rosenberg an American film and television director whose notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke), Voyage of the Damned ,The Amityville Horror, and The Pope of Greenwich Village passed away at the age of 79.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/arts/19rosenberg.html

2007: As part of its program to republish out of print “classic works” Amazon published a paperback edition of Chronicle of An American Crusade by Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg.

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-American-Crusader-Samuel-Mayerberg/dp/1406758817

 

 

2007: “Stan Lee Media's new president, Jim Nesfield, filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming that the company is co-owner of the characters that Lee created for Marvel.”

 

2007: USA Today reported that Businessman Jimmy Delshad is set to become the first Iranian-American mayor in the USA. The sixty-sixty year old Delshad, who immigrated to America at the age of 19, will assume the top job in Beverly Hills, California. As the article points out, 8,000 of the city’s 35,000 residents are of Iranian descent. Just as America benefited from the German Jews who fled Hitler in 1933, so it would appear that America is benefiting from the Iranian Jews who fled the Ayatollah in 1979.

 

2007: The Canadian Jewish News reported that Zahal Square, the barren space just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, is to be rebuilt by Canadians, Jewish and non-Jewish, into an attractive public gathering place and site of national celebrations and cultural events, under a joint project of the Jerusalem Foundation, the municipality and leading Israeli businesspeople.

 

2008: Shabbat Zachor, 5768

 

2008: The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and The Iowa Arts Council present Israeli Pianist Ofra Yitzhaki at the Galvin Fine Arts Center, St. Ambrose University. Ms. Yitzhaki is a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship at Julliard and the winner of the Van Cliburn Institute Concerto Competition.

 

2008: In Washington, D.C. The National League of American Pen Women hosts author Cynthia Polansky presenting a lecture, "Why a Holocaust Novel? The Far Above Rubies Journey," delving into the real-life story that inspired her novel.

 

2009: Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist “Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman “performed Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the Houston Symphony Orchestra.”

 

2009: In an event that is part of the Chaim Kempner Author Series and is co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute Robert Zweig discusses and signs Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries at the D.C. Jewish Community Center.

 

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman

 

2009(19th of Adar, 5769): A Palestinian terrorist shot Israeli Senior Warrant Officer Yehezkel Ramzarkar, 50, and Warrant Officer David Rabinowitz, 42, as they patrolled near the northern Jordan Valley town of Massua. The so-called Imad Mughniyeh Group claimed responsibility for the murder, which occurred when a terrorist cell staged a vehicle breakdown and then shot at a police car that had stopped to assist, killing the two policemen inside.

 

2009: Over 600 Jewish professional from across North America who are attending the National Young Leadership Conference in New Orleans took a break from lectures and learning opportunities to work on restoring Archbishop Hannan High School in St. Bernard Parish which had been abandoned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

 

2009(19 Adar, 5769): Twenty-four year old Sgt. Robert Weinger was killed near Bati Kot, Afghanistan, when his vehicle struck an explosive device.

 

“Tiny Furniture” an “independent comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham” premiered today in Austin, TX at South by Southwest (SXSW)

 

2010: After a nearly 62-year hiatus, the renowned Hurva synagogue inside the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City has been rebuilt and is again an operational house of prayer.Hundreds of people, braving the wind and an unexpected Jerusalem chill, crowded into a courtyard opposite the outer walls of the synagogue tonight to take part in an official rededication ceremony for the newly-rebuilt shul – which stands in the exact spot it did before its destruction at the hands of the Jordanian Arab Legion during the War of Independence in 1948. Huvra’s first incarnation came in 1701, when it was constructed by disciples of Judah Hahasid. Its first destruction came some 20 years later, when those same disciples lacked the funds to repay local creditors, who in return burned the Hurva to the ground.It was nearly 150 years before the Hurva stood again, but in 1864, after a massive construction project was approved by the Ottoman Turks and funds were procured from Jewish communities the world over, a neo-Byzantine Hurva was soon towering over the rest of the Jewish Quarter. However, that Hurva, which hosted the likes of Theodor Herzl and Ze’ev Jabotinsky before the creation of the state, also met with ruin. The Jordanian army took Jerusalem’s Old City in May of 1948, loaded the building with explosives and set off a blast whose smoke cloud could be seen miles away.

 

2010: The New York Philharmonic is scheduled to present “Sondheim: The Birthday Concert” marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of Stephen Sondheim.

2010: Phillips-Van Heusen (the Phillips part of the name goes back to a Moses and Endel Phillips a 19th century that sewed shirts and sold them in a pushcart in Pennsylvania) was “acquired by Tommy Hilfiger today for three billion dollars.”

2010: Actress Isla Fisher who took the Hebrew name “Ayala” when she converted in 2007 married actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen”

 

2010: An Israeli lawmaker told a delegation of American Jewish leaders that he would consult with Diaspora Jewry on issues involving conversion.David Rotem, the author of a bill that will allow local rabbis in Israel to perform conversions to Judaism, made his comments today during a meeting in the Knesset with Diaspora Jewish leaders led by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Jewish Federations of North America Senior Vice President Rebecca Caspi. Overseas Jewry is concerned about a provision in the conversion bill which says that a convert to Judaism who visited Israel before converting either in Israel or overseas would be prohibited from becoming an Israeli citizen under the Law of Return.The Jewish Federations of North America has issued a statement strongly rejecting the proposal and has written directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the subject.Explaining that no law will be passed before the Knesset’s Passover break, Rotem assured the group that no future bill would affect the status of conversions outside of Israel. Rotem, of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, also stressed that Netanyahu is aware of the importance of these issues for Jews around the world."From my conversations with the prime minister and the government secretary, it is clear that the law that is viewed as problematic by Jews in the Diaspora will not be passed during the current Knesset session which goes into recess on March 21," Sharansky said. "We have received assurances that we will be consulted in this process, so that the views of world Jewry are taken into consideration."

 

2011(9thof Adar, 5771): Fifty-one year old “Yakov Kreizberg, an internationally known conductor praised for the depth and intensity of his interpretations” passed away today.  (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/music/yakov-kreizberg-orchestral-conductor-dies-at-51.html

2011: “Action Bronson's debut studio album Dr. Lecter was independently released under Fine Fabric Delegates” today.

 

2011(9th of Adar II): On the Jewish calendar anniversary of First Dispute Between Two Schools of Torah Thought (1st century CE). According to Chabad-Lubavitch, “The schools of Shammai and Hillel for the very first time disagreed regarding a case of Jewish law. This occurred around the turn of the 1st century. In the ensuing generations, the schools argued regarding many different laws, until the law was established according to the teachings of the "House of Hillel" -- with the exception of a few instances. According to tradition, following the arrival of the Moshiach the law will follow the rulings of the House of Shammai. All throughout, the members of the two schools maintained friendly relations with each other.”

 

2011: The five finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize in fiction for Jewish Literature are scheduled to meet with judges in New York City. The winner is expected to be announced shortly after these meetings.

 

2011: “Yolande: An Unsung Heroine” is one of the films scheduled to be shown today at the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. The movie tells “the heroic, riveting story of Yolande Gabai (de Botton), a beautiful, sophisticated Jewess from Alexandria, who became one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948, risking her son's life and her own collecting intelligence in Egypt, undercover as a reporter for the Palestine Post.”

 

2011: Samuel Heilman is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Lubavitchers: What Do They Want, and Who Sent Them?” at Ohev Shalom – The National Synagogue.

 

2011: Nissim Reuben, the American Jewish Committee’s Program Director for Indian-Jewish American Relations is scheduled to deliver a lecture about the Jewish community in India, Jewish Indian Americans, their relationship with Israel, and his personal story at Congregation Beth Emeth.

 

2011: The IDF seized a freighter ship with dozens of tons of weaponry from Iran headed for Hamas in the Gaza Strip today. The ship, known as Victoria, was flying a Liberian flag, and was seized by the navy in the Mediterranean Sea, 200 miles off of Israel's coast. The Victoria was boarded by commandos from the Israeli Navy's Flotilla 13, also known as the Shayetet, arrived in the Ashdod port this evening. An initial inspection of the cargo revealed the ship was carrying weapons. The exact amount is to be determined. The crew, questioned by the Navy Commando, was not aware that the cargo contained weaponry. The ship set sail last night from the port of Lattakai in Syria and from there it traveled to Turkey. There, it was supposed to unload the weapons, which would travel by land to Gaza. The IDF's assessment is that the weapons did not originate in Turkey, but that the containers were unloaded there and transferred onto the Victoria. The port of Lattakai is the same port where two Iranian war ships docked in February on their way to the Suez Canal. At the time, IDF officials raised concerns of the possibility that they were carrying weapons intended for terrorists’ organizations, but there was no confirmation.

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

 

 

2011: At 11:00 AM this morning, people throughout the country stopped, observing five minutes of silence in honor of Gilad Schalit. Rather than the customary one minute of silence, Ofer Ben Tal, one of the organizers for the campaign to free Gilad Schalit, asked the public to stop for five full minutes, one minute for the nearly five years Schalit has been held in captivity by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Traffic jams were observed throughout Tel Aviv, as cars stopped in the streets in Schalit's honor.

 

2011: The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the selection of painters Asaf Ben Zvi and Michael Halak as the winners of the 2011 Rappaport Prize. This is the sixth prize awarded since its establishment in 2006 in honor of Ruth and Baruch Rappaport.The prize is awarded annually to two painters, an established painter (Ben Zvi ) and a young painter (Halak ). Beyond the monetary sum given to the painters, the prize funds two solo exhibitions at the museum as well as the production of the catalogs accompanying the exhibitions. (As reported by Daniel Rauchwerger)

 

2011: Egyptian security officials said that Egypt's army captured five vehicles smuggling weapons into the country from Sudan, and apparently heading to Gaza, AP reported. They said the trucks, which were captured inside Egypt near the Sudanese border, carried large quantities of mortars, rocket propelled grenades, rifles and explosives, reported AP. The officials said the weapons were headed to Hamas in Gaza through smuggling tunnels. The IDF also seized a freighter ship with dozens of tons of weaponry from Iran headed for Hamas in the Gaza Strip today.

 

2012(21stof Adar, 5772): Seventy-four year old “Jerome Albert, who with his father, Dewey, created and operated Astroland, the space age-themed amusement park that breathed new life into the Coney Island Boardwalk in the 1960s” passed away today. (As reported by Denis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/nyregion/jerome-albert-who-helped-bring-space-age-to-coney-island-dies-at-74.html?_r=2&hpw&

 

 

2012: Noa (Achinoam Nini) and Mira Awad, two of Israel’s most beloved singing stars and coexistence advocates are scheduled to perform their concert “Two Voices, One Vision.”

 

2012: Political Stand-up Comedian Jeremy ‘Political’ Man is scheduled to appear at the Off The Wall Comedy Basement in Jerusalem.

 

2012: “Non-practicing” Jewish authoress Jodi Picoult is scheduled to discuss the moral dilemmas presented in her new novel “Lone Wolf” at the Historic Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC.

 

2012: New York Congressman Gary L. Ackerman a flamboyant Jewish Congressman from New York and a supporter of Israel announced today that he will not seek re-election.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/new-york-democrat-ackerman-wont-seek-re-election/?hp

 

 

2012: The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted a Grad-type Katyusha rocket fired by Gaza militants toward the southern city of Ashdod today, following hours of relative calm along Israel's border with the coastal enclave. Two more projectiles hit an open field in the Eshkol and Ashkelon regional Councils; no wounded reported.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iron-dome-intercepts-rocket-fired-by-gaza-militants-at-israeli-city-1.418928

 

2013: In Olney, MD, Shaare Tefila is scheduled to sponsor “Shabbat Alive!”

2013: “FDR: Anti-Semite or friend of the Jews?” published today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fdr-anti-semite-or-friend-of-the-jews/2013/03/15/7c5b58c6-8bee-11e2-af15-99809eaba6cb_story.html?utm_term=.40d75174b60d

 

2013: In Tel Aviv, the city’s annual marathon will not be run today because of the expectation of unseasonably high temperatures.  Other races, including the half marathon, are scheduled to be run as planned. (As reported by Adviv Sterman)

 

2013: Yotam Ben Horin and Sarai Givaty are scheduled to perform at SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas.

 

2013: Playwright Jonathan Garfinkel has probably gone where no Canadian Jewish writer has gone before — Pakistan and Afghanistan — to create his new play, “Dust.” Premiering  today at the Enbridge playRites Festival in Calgary, the drama centers on three women — Canadian, Pakistani and Afghan — and how their lives are affected by the War on Terror. It’s based on hundreds of pages of interviews conducted by Garfinkel and Christopher Morris, the play’s director, in each of those countries.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pakistan-didnt-scare-off-jewish-dramatist/

 

 

2013(4thof Nisan, 5773): A participant in the Tel Aviv half marathon collapsed and died Friday morning, and more than 20 others were hospitalized due to extremely hot conditions.The deceased runner, Michael Michaelovitch, was a 29-year-old IDF sergeant from the settlement of Tene, south of Hebron

http://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-half-marathon-underway-despite-heat-wave/

 

 

2013: The Jewish Home and Yesh Atid parties signed a coalition agreement with Likud-Beytenu this afternoon, paving the way for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to swear in his new government early next week

http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-no-time-to-spare-a-government-is-formed/

 

2014: The Desert Film Society is scheduled to show “The Sturgeon Queens.”

 

2014(13thof Adar II, 5774): Shabbat Zachor

 

2014: “My Best Holiday” is scheduled to have its New York Premiere at the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

 

2014: Today, Masha “Gessen wrote in the Washington Post that Putin's popularity had been restored thanks to the Sochi Olympics and invasion of Ukraine, which had played on the longstanding notion "that Russia is a country under siege, surrounded by enemies and constantly on the brink of catastrophe" and added that "the only way to continue shoring up his popularity is to escalate war rhetoric and the war effort," to paint "the Western/fascist/Ukrainian enemy as ever more dangerous and the Russian invasion of Ukraine as ever more important

 

2014: In Springfield, VA, Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to host a Purim Pasta Party.

 

2014: In the evening, Ilan Caplan is scheduled to chant the Megalith Esther at Shir Chadish in Metairie, LA.

 

2014: Four Border Police soldiers were hit by a car, driven by a Palestinian, at a roadblock near Beit Ummar in Gush Etzion in what the driver claimed was an accident. (As reporterd by Yoav Zitun)

 

2014(13thof Adar II, 5774): Seventy-eight year old comedian David Brenner passed away.

http://www.davidbrennersite.com/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-comedian-david-brenner-dies-at-78/

 

2014: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4499060,00.html

 

2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday and Frank: A Life in Politics From the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank.

 

2015: “The kosher supermarket in Paris attacked by a jihadist gunman linked to the shootings at Charlie Hebdo magazine in January re-opened today.” (Times of Israel)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/paris-hyper-cacher-market-re-opens-after-devastating-attack/

 

2015: World premiere of “Khoya: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive” is scheduled to take place at the 18th Annual NY Sephardic Film Festival.

 

2015: In Chicago the Lyric Opera is scheduled to perform “The Passenger” which tells the story of a former SS officer who thinks she sees one of her former prisoners on an ocean liner.

 

2015: “Two days ahead of the general election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog today continued to vie for the premiership, with the former addressing a right-wing rally in Tel Aviv in the evening and Herzog saying he was willing to form a national unity government under his own leadership.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)

 

2015:  “Breaking Silence, Survivor Sets Out to Meet Holocaust Past” published today

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/world/breaking-silence-survivor-sets-out-to-meet-holocaust-past.html?ref=world&_r=0

2016: In Washington, DC Dr. “Pamela Nadell -- the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History, Chair of the Department of History, and  Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University – is scheduled explore the lives of Jewish women who immigrated to the United States as she lectures on “Tevye’s Daughters in America.”

 

2016: “The Man in the Wall” and “Baba Joon” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival

2016: “Hiker finds rare gold coin in Israel” published today described Laurie Rimon’s discovery in the eastern Galilee of “a 2,000 year old coin with the face of Emperor Augustus…who ruled from” 27 BCE to 14 CE.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/14/middleeast/israel-gold-coin-found/index.html

 

2016: Mosh Ben Aris, an Israeli from a Yemenite Iraqi family, is scheduled to perform at B.B. King Blues Club in New York.

 

2016: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host an  “Educators' Open House  which is open to teachers and educators from around the region and is a chance to learn directly from OJMCHE staff about renowned photojournalist Ruth Gruber's importance to the topics of 20th century history.

2017: “Henryk Ross’s Grim Photos Document Life in the Lodz Ghetto” published today provides a description of an exhibition entitled “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross” scheduled to open at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/arts/design/henryk-rosss-grim-photos-document-life-in-the-lodz-ghetto.html

2017: The Jerusalem Unity Prize, which was “launched in 2015 in memory of three slain Israeli teenagers” -- Eyal Yifrach, 19; Naftali Fraenkel, 16; and Gil-ad Shaar, 16 – included Limmud, “the international network of Jewish learning communities” among the winners announced today.

2017: The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present fabric artist Ita Aber and curator Bonni-Dara Michaels leading a tour of Yeshiva University Museum’s Uncommon Threads exhibition, featuring garments, textiles and jewelry from the Museum’s collection, including Aber’s 1970s customized Israeli flag.

2017: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “The Jewish Response to Racism” presented by April N. Baskin the Union for Reform Judaism’s Vice President of Audacious Hospitality, Stosh Cotler the CEO of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice and longtime U.S. civil rights strategist Eric Ward.

2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “If Not Now, When – Impact and Response to the Rohingya Genocide.”

2018(28thof Adar, 5778): Seventy-eight year old Robert Samuel Grossman, the son of silk-screen printing shop owner who gained fame as a leading illustrator passed away today.  (As reported by Neil Genlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/obituaries/robert-grossman-illustrator-with-a-brash-touch-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

https://www.robertgrossman.com/

 

2018: “Journey from Tunisia” and “Remember Baghdad” are scheduled to make their premiere showing on the final night of the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2018: “Saving Neta” and “Winter Hunt” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2018: The Chabad Rosh Chodesh Society is scheduled to meet in Metairie, LA.

2018: Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz—cofounders of Gefilteria and coauthors of The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods -- are scheduled to host “All About Gefilte Fish” at the Streicker Center.

2019: In Metairie, LA (suburban New Orleans), Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to host Community Dinner featuring a talk by Jessie Wilson, author of Under Water.

2019: Despite yesterday’s rocket attacks, Balkan Beat Box, fronted by Tomer Yosef, is scheduled to perform at the Barby in Tel Aviv.

2019: Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC is scheduled to co-host a production of “The Jewish Queen Lear,” an “1898 Yiddish play be Jacob Grodin” officially titled “Mirele Efros”

2019: Washington Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host “District Shabbat” at the Southwest Waterfront featuring “internationally celebrated musicians Dan Nichols and Alan Goodis.”

2019: Following yesterday’s rocket attack aimed at Tel Aviv, “a rocket fired at the Eshkol Regional Council from the Gaza Strip overnight landed in the coastal enclave, failing to reach Israeli territory.” (YNET)

2020: As the world wrestles with pandemic, one bright spot is the opportunity to celebrate the birthday of Betty Asher whose virtues are too numerous to list and who is the embodiment of the term Ashish Chayel. (I would have written this even if she weren’t my aunt)

2020: “Out of concern for the welfare of our community and in accordance with the recommendations of Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot, Illinois Holocaust Museum is canceling “Jump For Justice” which was scheduled to take place today.

2020” In Belmont, MA, Beth El Temple Center is scheduled to host “Purim Drag Story Time and Purim Carnival.

 

2020: In Berkley, Urban Adamah has cancelled “Preparing for Passover through Meditation which had been scheduled to take place today.

2020: The Breman Museum is canceling Bearing Witness featuring Dr. Alfred Schneider which was scheduled to take place today in Atlanta.

2020: The gala honoring Rabbi Peretz sponsored by HaMaqom scheduled for today has been canceled in response to “the public concerns over COVID-19.

2020: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman, The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World by Rahm Emanuel, Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy and The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America by Charlotte Alter.

2020: Yiddishkayt is scheduled to host “Virtual Passover Around the World” this evening online.

2021: KlezCalifornia is scheduled to host “Klezmer by Ear,” during which Klezmatics violinist and composer Lisa Gutkin teaches a workshop on how to play music by ear, including classic klezmer tunes.

2021: The National Museum of American Jewish History, for which Mitchell Levin is “an official content provider” is scheduled to present, online “For the Love of Opera,” Celebrating RBG’s 88th Birthday.”

2021: While the world is worrying about vaccinations, masks and social distancing, Betty Levin, the matriarch of the Levin Clan is spending her birthday worrying about how she will get enough fish to make her famous gefilte fish while her family and friends get to bask in her warmth for another year.

2021: Based on an announcement made yesterday by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Israelis have only to wait another six days for the reopening of nightclubs and bars which is scheduled to take place on

2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to present American Jewish Matriarchs during which Pamela Nadell discusses the lives of Abigail Franks, Rebecca Gratz and Rose Sonneschein among others.

2021: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Ayala Fader as she talked with Michal Kravel-Tovi about her book Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age.

2021: Suburban Temple-Kol Ami is scheduled to “host its “Cook-Along: A Muffin can be Filling: Potato Kugel Muffins Easy and Perfect for Your Seder!” event featuring Rabbi Shana Nyer.”

2021: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present “Mosaics With Mia,” during which Israel-based mosaic muralist Mia Schon leads a one-hour collage workshop via Zoom during which “participants will learn how to creatively repurpose old magazines and paper to create Spring and Passover themed cards.

2021: As part of the Part of Faces of Israel Series this time marking “A Celebration of Ethiopian Jewish Heritage” Contra Costa JCC, East Bay Int’l Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Book Council and local congregations are scheduled to host a screening of “The Passengers,” a “2019 documentary about two young Ethiopian Jewish men advocating for expanded immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.”

2021: Based on an announcement made yesterday, Israelis may feel a little safer today because “Iron Sting, the new guided mortar system, is now ready for deployment.

 

This Day, March 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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597BCE (2ndAdar): On the secular calendar, according to certain archaeological calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar occurred. In the Bible, the event is recorded in 2 Kings 24:1ff. and in 2 Chronicles 36:5-8. It is also implied in the early chapters of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

37: Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.  Caligula was a challenge to all those he ruled, including the Jews, because he was “crazy.” Among other things, he appointed his favorite horse to the position of Consul.  He did present a special problem for Jews because he believed he was a god and expected to be worshipped by his subjects.  Fortunately, he never succeeded in having his golden image installed in the Temple of Jerusalem.  After a bizarre meeting with a delegation of Jews from Alexander that included the famous Philo, Caligula said of the Jews, “They’re not so bad after all.  They’re just a poor, stupid people unable to believe in my divinity”

455: Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor passed away. During his reign, the position of Jews continued to worsen. Under one imperial decree, Jews were excluded from government service and were prohibited from practicing law. Another decree made it possible for the children of Jews who converted to Christianity to inherit the property of their Jewish parents. 

1021: The first documentary reference to Jews living in Cologne after 331 occurs during the time of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne who passed away today.

1190: On the Sabbath eve before Passover ("Shabbat Hagadol") in York, England, a group made up of clergy, barons indebted to the Jews, and crusaders waiting to follow Richard, set Jewish houses on fire and stole all their valuables. The Jews under Josce, a prominent Jew of York, and their Rabbi, Yom Tov of Joigny (a contemporary of Rabbenu Tam and author of the Yom Kippur Hymn "Omnam Ken"), fled to the castle. Richard Malebys (a noble who owed large sums to Jewish moneylenders) commanded the attackers. For 6 days the Jews held out. A monk who came each morning to celebrate mass and inflame the crowd was killed by a stone thrown from the tower. Facing the choice of baptism or death, most chose death. (Josce killed his wife and two children, and was in turn killed by the Rabbi). The vast majority killed themselves after destroying their belongings. Josce was the last to die. The few who remained opened the gate and requested baptism. They were massacred anyway. Over 150 Jews died.

1421: Chomutov, a Czech city which was declared “Judenrein” a week before the occupation by Germany in 1938 and was the home to the Seligman family “was sack and burned” today by the Taborites, a sect of Catholic heretics.

1523: Birthdate of Antoine Rodolphe Chevaillier, the French born English Hebraist who learned the language from Francis Vatablus and who tutored Elizabeth I in the Biblical tongue while producing translations of several books in both the New and Old Testaments.

1547: François Vatable who got the chair of Hebrew at what “became known as the Collège de France” where “he procured Hebrew editions of the Bible for scholarly use” and whose lectures were attended by Parisian Jews passed away today.

1711(25thof Adar, 5471): Isaac Spira, the son of Eliezer Spira and the father of Nathan Spria, passed away leaving behind a text entitled Elef ha-Magen.

1716: Birthdate of Pehr Kalm, the Swedish-Finnish explorer who visited North America in 1740’s and described “the Jews of New York” as having “formed a considerable portion of the population”  having “stores and fine houses and ships and flourishing synagogue” while enjoying “all the privileges of the other citizens.”

1722: The new "Aeltesten-reglement" (Constitution of the Jewish Community) was issued today in Prussia. It was intended to do away with the evils that had become apparent in the administration of the community, and which, in order to be brought home more thoroughly, was to be read every year in the synagogue. Under this constitution the administration consisted of two permanent chief elders, five elders, four treasurers, and four superintendents of the poor, and assistants; new officers were to be elected every three years by seven men chosen by lot from among the community. The committee was to meet every week in the room of the elders, and to keep the minutes of their proceedings; resolutions, passed by them, becoming law by a majority vote. The exclusion of a member of the community from the Passover was made dependent on the unanimous vote of the committee; the ban could be pronounced only with the consent of the rabbi; and both of these measures were to be subject to ratification by the Jews' commission. The elders were held responsible with their own money for the proper collection of the taxes but could proceed against delinquent payers. Every year the entire board had to report to a committee of five chosen by the community. The college of rabbis was to consist of a chief rabbi, a vice rabbi and two or three assessors. Other taxes were soon added to the existing ones; e.g., on pawnshops, and calendar money for the Royal Society of Science, and marriage licenses. The income from the last was paid into the treasury from which enlisted men received their pay, and its amount (4,800 thalers a year) soon became a permanent tax upon the whole community.

1743: The New-York Weekly Journal reported that a Jewish funeral procession in New York was attacked by a mob. According to "one learned Christian" witness to it, the mob had, "insulted the dead in such a vile manner that to mention all would shock a human ear."

1751: Birthdate of James Madison author of the Federalist Papers and 4th President of the United States.  Madison was also the President during the War of 1812.  He was the first President to appoint a Jew to a diplomatic post.  “In 1813, President Madison appointed Mordecai Manuel Noah as Consul to Tunis in the Barbary States, where he obtained the release of Americans who had been captured and sold into slavery by the Barbary pirates. It was a difficult task requiring considerable adroitness, but he spent more than his allotment for the purposes and his commission was revoked, the letter of recall affirming that his religion was deemed to disqualify him for the post…In time, however, he got a clean bill of health in the conduct of his mission and the sums he advanced in performing it were reimbursed.”  While Noah’s name is known but a handful today, he was considered to be “the most conspicuous figure in the American Jewish community in the period between the War of 1812 and the Mexican War (1846).” When he returned from Tunis, Noah became a power in New York politics.  At one point he was elected High Sheriff of New York.  One angry citizen complained about Noah saying, “What a pity that Christians are to be hung by a Jew.”  Noah replied, “What a pity that Christians should have to be hung.” 

1758: In Buchau, Franziska Levi and David Einstein gave birth to their son Heinrich Einstein.

1767(15th of Adar II, 5527): Shushan Purim

1771: Birthdate of Benjamin De Leon, the son of Spanishtown, Jamaica resident Abraham Rodrigues De Leon.

1778: Amsterdam native Solomon da silva Solis and benvenida de Isaac Henriques Valentine gave birth to David Solis.

1782: In Bavaria, Marion and Joseph Muhlhause gave birth to future New Haven CT resident Moses Muhlhauser, the husband of Frederika Fretel with whom he had seven children.

1789: Benvenida de Isaac Solis, the daughter of Isaac Henriques Henriques Valentine and Simha Mandil and Solomon da Solis gave birth to David Solis.

1794: In Mayence, “R’Jonas Moshe Bondi” and “Bella Bondi” gave birth to “Rabbi Samuel Bondi one of the founders of the orthodox congregation of Mayence and the progenitor of the largest branch of the Bondi family.”

1794: English born Esther Cohen and future Easton, PA resident Michael Hart gave birth to Isaac Hart.

1795: Birthdate of Cynthia Gomez, the wife of Curacao native Mordecai Frois and mother of Rachel, Morris and Abigail Frois.

1796: Robert Reuben married Esther Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.

1797: Rebecca and Samuel Suhami gave birth to Jacob Samuel Suhami, the husband of Esther Gabriel Nunes Da Costs with whom she had six children.

1799(9th of Adar, 5559): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time in the 18thCentury.

1802: The United States Military Academy West Point is established.  According to recent figures, there are 85 Jewish Cadets among the 4.200 members of the Corps of Cadets.  There is an accredited Hillel Chapter at West Point and a Jewish Chaplain.  “The West Point Jewish community provides a warm, supportive, nondenominational family to all West Point Jewish cadets and cadet friends. Family night services are very popular. The choir practices once per week and travels several times per semester to other university Hillel Houses and community functions for relaxed overnight trips. The community celebrates nearly all Jewish holidays and the West Point Hillel sponsors parties, retreats and service field trips.” The completion of the Jewish Chapel in 1984 culminated a twenty year undertaking. The organization responsible for the project was the West Point Jewish Chapel Fund a private, non-profit civilian organization. This group raised more than 7.5 million dollars to erect and furnish the facility. In 1986 the Jewish Chapel was deeded to the Academy. Led by a military chaplain, the congregation serves the needs of various branches of Judaism represented in the Armed Forces. In close connection with the Jewish Welfare Board worship resources are designed to meet the broad spectrum of our faith. The Chapel contains an extensive Judaica collection, a fine library, and special exhibits. Sabbath services are held every Friday evening during the academic year at 7:00 p.m.” 

1806: Israel Jacobs married Elizabeth Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.

1807: Birthdate of London native Hannah Cohen the wife of Joseph Lewis Isaacs whom she married at the Birmingham Synagogue in 1854.

1813(14th of Adar II, 5573): As Americans fight the British and the Canadians fight what is known in the United States as the War of 1812, Jews on both sides observe Purim.

1817: Four days after he had pass away, 58-year-old Levy Nathan was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1817: Two days after he had passed away, was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1818: Birthdate of Germain Sée the native of Ribeauvillé who graduated from the Sorbonne in 1846 after which he became a leading Parisian physician.

1828: In Grebenstein, Germany Meyer (Meier) Goldschmidt and Lea Goldschmidt (Katzenstein) gave birth to Selig Meier Goldschmidt.

1831: Three days after he had passed away, Israel Isaacs, the husband of Breina Isaacs, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1832(14th of Adar II, 5592): Purim

1836: After having arrived in Texas in 1835, today, Abraham Lewis began serving in the Army as “a member of Captain James C. Winn’s Company” today.

1843(14th of Adar II, 5603): Purim

1843: In Moravia, Jakob Brüll and his wife gave birth to “rabbi and scholar” Nehemiah Brüll

1847: Birthdate of Ephrim Henry Addleman, the husband of Maria Jane Johnson Addleman, and the father of Martha, Alice, Henry and Samuel Addleman.

1851: In London, Judith Lazarus and Abraham Daniel de Pass gave birth to Eliot Arthur de Pass, the husband of Beatrice “Trixie” de Mercaco and father of Chibbie (Charles) de Pass.

1852: Two days after she had passed away, 7 week old Mina Braham, “the infant daughter” of Sophia and Lewis Henry Braham was buried today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1855: Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded. According to recent figures, this small liberal arts college has 150 Jewish students among its 1,700 student body.  The school has a Hillel Chapter.  The environment on campus is described as follows. “Bates is very supportive of the Jewish Community. Jewish students gather weekly for Shabbat services and dinner at the Multicultural Center. Films, lectures, holidays, and parties are frequent. Highlights include Sukkah Building and campout, Tu B`Shvat Seder, and Parent's Weekend Bagel Brunch. Bates has a Klezmer Band, Gefilte Dog, and speakers are brought to campus for forums and discussions often. Hillel also presents a visiting Rabbi retreat. Programs are also held with students at Colby and Bowdoin. Bates students volunteer at the local synagogue, Temple Shalom.”

1859: Emperor Alexander II granted Jewish scholars, wholesale merchants and manufacturers the right to live outside of the Pale

1860: Based on reports from the Halifax Sun, “an extraordinary event in the history of the German Jews has just taken place. In the free City of Hamburg, where a Jew, ten years ago, was not even eligible for a night constable, a Jew, by the free suffrages of the citizens, has lately been chosen a chief magistrate, next in station to the highest dignity in that Republic. The gentleman elected is a distinguished juris-consult and writer, Dr. Gabriel Reisser who was Vice-President of the German Parliament that sat at Frankfort in 1848.” Born in 1806, Gabriel Riesser “was the first Jewish judge in Germany and an advocate of the emancipation of the Jews in Germany.”

1861(5th Nisan, 5621): Parashat Vayikra

1862: Birthdate of Ruben ben Mordecai Brainin the native of Belarus who gained fame as Reuben Brainin (Some sources show March 15, 1862 as his birthdate)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A02E7DF153EE432A25752C0A9649D946894D6CF

1864: In Baltimore, MD, ”Elkan Bamberger, who had emigrated from Bavaria in 1840, and Theresa (Hutzler) Bamberger, who was heir to a large Baltimore department store” gave birth to Caroline “Carrie” Bamberger, the fifth of their six children who became Caroline Frank when she married Louis Frank and Caroline Frank Fuld when she married Felix Fuld the name under which became a noted philanthropist  who provide the initial endowment of five million dollars for “what became the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.”

https://www.jta.org/1929/01/23/archive/funeral-rites-for-felix-fuld-marked-by-simplicity

1866(29th of Adar): Rabbi Solomon Ha-Kohen of Radomsko, author of Tiferet Shelomo passed away.

1866: Philipp Salzer, “the son of Maier Salzer and Silah Malzer gave birth to Sofie Salzer.

1868: “Affairs In England” published today described the reaction to Benjamin Disraeli who was a member of the Conservative or Tory Party, to being selected to serve as Prime Minister.  Generally speaking, the “Radical press” has congratulated Disraeli on the appointment and wish him well in his new position. The “Conservative press” has responded coldly, showing distinct dissatisfaction with Disraeli’s appointment.  For them, Disraeli’s appointment is not a triumph for the Tories but “a blow to their prejudices and principles.”  Instead of being led by Duke or an Earl, the party is now being led by a commoner who “is not an Englishman by descent” but rather by a man “whose grandfather was a Jew of Venice, whose father was a man of letters” and who himself was the editor of a newspaper.

1872: Birthdate of Philip King, the native of Washington, DC, who played quarterback for Princeton before going on a coaching career at the University of Wisconsin and Georgetown University.

1872: Emily Catherine and Josiah Wedgwood gave birth to Josiah Clement Wedgwood the British political leader.  During the 1930’s Wedgwood took the politically unpopular positions of opposing the appeasement of Hitler and the limitations on Jewish settlement in Palestine that climaxed with the White Paper of 1939. Although he passed away in 1943, the Jewish people honored his memory by naming several things in his honor including Moshav, an INS destroyer and streets in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.

1873: Two days after he had passed away, 64 year old Abraham Marks, the husband of Louisa Aarons with whom he had had ten children was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1873(18th of Adar, 5633): Seventy-seven year old Joseph Salvador a member of a distinguished French Sephardi family whose mother was Roman Catholic, the author of Paris, Rome, Jerusalem ou la Question religieuse au XIX siècle  who was angered by the anti-Jewish riots in German and was considered a ‘proto-Zionist” passed away today.

1874: It was reported today that the Germania Theatre Company will be performing at the Terrace Garden Theatre in two days for the benefit of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society

1875(9thof Adar II, 5635): Eight-five-year-old Zipporah Hart, the daughter of Jacob Hart and Leah Nathan and the wife Eleazar Lazarus passed away today in New York City.

1875: Mayor Wickham Chamberlain Tappan was among the dignitaries who attended tonight’s charity ball organized by the Purim Association. The event raised $13,000 for the various Hebrew charities in New York City.

1876” Birthdate Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet official Solomon Lozovsky, who would like many others, find out that Russian anti-Semitism was stronger the Communist brotherhood when he was executed by Stalin in 1952 along with other members of the Jewish Ant-Fascist Committee.

1878: On Shabbat Zachor, rabbis at several synagogues addressed the appeal that has been issued by the Board of Delegates of American Israelites to raise funds to aid their suffering co-religionists trapped in war torn Eastern Europe and parts of the Ottoman Empire.  They did not make a direct appeal for funds. Instead, he urged them to respond to the appeal that has been sent to all congregations by the Executive committee of the Central Relief Committee whose members include Meyer S. Isaacs, Moritz Ellinger, Jacob H. Schiff, Leonard Lewisohn and Hyman Blum

1879: “Mendelssohn and Lessing” traced the improvement in the situation of the Jews of Germany reminding readers that when these two met, “the country where the Hebrew race has since attained the highest honors – where a galaxy of Jewish names, Heine, Borne, Rahel figure among the glories of national distinction – the Jew was then looked on like a spotted leper, against whom were shut the doors not merely of the aristocracy and of fashion, but actually of all public schools and public office” and were excluded “from social position and civic right” in a manner worse than now found in Romania.

1881(15th of Adar II, 5641): Shushan Purim

1882: The Tenth Assembly District Republican Association met tonight to decide if Civil Justice Alfred Steckler, Charles Steckler, and Julius Harburger should be expelled because they had supported Steckler over the association’s chosen candidate. (In the 19thcentury the majority of Jews voted Republican)

1883: Sir George Jessel, who was fighting a variety of chronic illnesses, sat as the Master of Rolls for the last time.  He was the first Jew to hold this important judicial position.

1883: In Russia, Samuel and Rachel (Bernstein) Weinberg gave birth to University of Pittsburgh trained physician and neurologist Max H. Weinberg, a WWI Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps who was the husband of Bessie E. Sakon and who translated “server books into English,” including Iron Heel by Jack London.

1885: Birthdate of Sydney Chaplin, half-brother of Charlie Chaplin

1887(20th of Adar, 5647): Eighty-seven-year-old Joseph Ritter Von Wertheimer whose good works included the founding of the first kindergarten in Vienna, the founding of a Jewish children’s school in the same city in 1834 and the establishment of the Society for the Education of Jewish Orphans in 1860 while fighting for the full emancipation of the Jews, passed away today.

https://books.google.com/books?id=1NVRfl4gCw0C&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=zacharias+wertheim,+jewish&source=bl&ots=JjpPWBZ1Nd&sig=4Ipqb-4ht8GouFLr4L3vvlQ2KXI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I1CjVPmeC5CyyATdgoCYAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=zacharias%20wertheim%2C%20jewish&f=false

1889(13th of Adar II, 5649): Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim

1889: In Austria, Dr. Gotthard Ezekiel Deutsch and Hermine Deutsch gave birth to Hermann Bacher Deutsch, the holder of a Ph.D. in Biology turned journalist and author who wrote for both daily newspapers in New Orleans and was an authority on Huey Long.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/27/archives/hermann-b-deutsch-dies-at-81-new-orleans-columnistauthor.html?searchResultPosition=1

1889(13th of Adar II, 5649): Sixty-four year old Dr. Alfred Edersheim the Austrian born Jew who would later convert to Christianity passed away today. He was made an A.M. at Oxford in 1881 where he lectured on Biblical topics and wrote Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.

1890: The Mageburg Israelitishes Wochenblat reported “that a petition is in circulation among the rabbis of Europe and America begging the Pope to end the calumny that the Jews use human blood in religious sacrifice by ordering a formal denial throughout the Catholic churches.”

1890: Two days after he had passed, Ferdinand May, the son of Isaak Withelm Mayer and Jentle Del Banco Hamburg and the husband of Kettchen Landauer was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1890: Birthdate of Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.Solomon Mikhoels was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Born Shlioma Vovsi in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils), Latvia, Mikhoels studied law in Saint Petersburg, but left school in 1918 to join Alexander Granovsky,s Jewish Theater Workshop, which was attempting to create a national Jewish theater in Russia based on the Yiddish language. Two years later, in 1920, the workshop moved to Moscow, where it established the Moscow State Jewish Theater. This was in keeping with Lenin's policy on nationalities, which encouraged them to pursue and develop their own cultures under the aegis of the Soviet state. Mikhoels, who showed outstanding talent, was the company's leading actor and, as of 1928, its director. He played in several memorable roles, including Tevye in an adaptation of Sholom Aleichem's comic short stories about Tevye the Milkman (which were adapted for an American audience as Fiddler on the Roof) as well as in many original works, such as Bar Kochba, and translations. Perhaps his most noted role was as King Lear in a Yiddish translation of the play by William Shakespeare. These plays were ostensibly supportive of the Soviet state, however, closer readings suggest that they actually contained veiled critiques of Stalin's regime. It is noteworthy that two of the Shakespearean plays put on by the theater company were King Lear and Richard III, both studies in tyranny. It is now believed that the Ukrainian director Les Kurbas contributed to the original King Lear production after he was ousted from his Berezil theater in 1934. He seems to have had a lasting influence on Mikhoel's directing style. By the mid-1930s, Mikhoels' career was threatened because of his association with other leading intelligentsia, who were victims of Stalin's purges, notably author Isaac Babel. Mikhoels actively supported Stalin against Hitler, and in 1942, he was made chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In this capacity, he travelled around the world, meeting with Jewish communities to encourage them to support the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany. While this was useful to Stalin during World War II, after the war, Stalin opposed contacts between Soviet Jews and Jewish communities in non-Communist countries, which he deemed as "bourgeoisie." The Jewish State Theater was closed and the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were arrested - all except for two were eventually executed in the purges shortly before Stalin's death. Mikhoels was the most visible of the intellectual Jewish leadership, and a show trial would have cast aspersions on Stalin's rule. Such claims lead most people to a suggestion that Stalin had him assassinated in Minsk in January of 1948 masking his death as a car crash, and Mikhoels received a state funeral. According to documents unearthed by the historian Gennady Kostyrchenko, the organizers of the assassination were L.M. Tsanava and S. Ogoltsov, and the "direct" murderers were Lebedev, Kruglov and Shubnikov. Mikhoels' brother Miron Vovsi was Stalin's personal physician. He was arrested during the Doctors' plot affair but released after Stalin's death in 1953, as was his son-in-law, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

1892: Based on information that first appeared in the Hartford Courant and the New Haven Evening Post it was reported today that when he is not lecturing on military topics Professor Charles Totten of Yale, devotes his time to Biblical work including study of the Hebrew Prophets. Furthermore, this early supporter of Jewish settlement in Palestine says in the preface to the published copy of his Yale Military Lectures that “the whole series was written in the spirit of Anglo-Saxon identity with the ten lost tribes of Israel.”

1892: In Albany, GA, Julia and Morris Weslosky gave birth to their daughter Blanche who became Blanche Adler when she married Ben Adler

1892: “A Russian Banker Fails” published described the impact of the failure of the Russian-Jewish banker J.E. Guenzburg. The firm dates back to the Crimean War when Guenzburg’s father supplied “vast quantities of spirits to the Russian Army.  While Guzenburg currently has extensive holdings in lands and mines, his financial setbacks are due in no small part to “the expulsion of the Jews who were employed in the firm’s immense sugar factories” and the hostility of the current government towards its Jewish citizens.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F0061EFC3C5F1B738DDDAF0994DB405B8285F0D3

1893: In Cincinnati, OH, “Aleck and Aggie (Salaway) Vigransky gave birth to attorney and A.E.F veteran Nathan Vigran the husband of Bertha Cohn who was “elected to the 87th Ohio General Assembly and was a member of Congregation Keneseth Israel in Cincinnati.

1893: Two days after he had passed away, 48 year old Edward Joseph, the son of Abraham Joseph and Sarah Falcke and the husband of Elizabeth Jonas was buried today at the “Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”

1893: “A Contented Colony” published today described conditions “in the Jewish colony at Chesterfield” which is eight miles from New London, CN. Contrary to previously published reports the colonists are not destitute and that most of the 32 families are “comparatively contended people” The colony already has 180 cows which will provide milk for the new creamery; something that will produce “considerable revenue.” The colony is supported by the Baron Hirsch Fund.

1895: Lt. Moses G. Zalinski who had been serving with U.S. Army artillery units since 1885 transferred from the 4th Artillery to the 2nd Artillery

1897: It was reported today that “a recent and clever English novel represents the rector of a struggling parish as having a written a book assailing the moral character of the Hebrew patriarchs.” The purpose of the novel is to acquaint the reader with “higher Biblical criticism” and demonstrate “that Moses did not write the Pentateuch.”

1898: One day after he had passed away, 25 year old Harris Liberman was buried at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1898: Oscar S. Straus said today that the “a large sum of money that had recently” been received by the Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch funds “was not a new gift “but the second installment of $1,000,000 which the Baroness had promised him last year” to help “the Jews in the crowded districts of New York.”

1898: The recital of Aristide Franceschetti in the Carbon Studio on West Sixteenth Street began “with an evening prayer,’Vegna reba’ in the Hebrew text, which preserved by tradition in the synagogue of Leghorn.”

1898: At today’s meeting of the School Board for the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, the commissioners voted 11 to 5 to set aside “the full week in which Good Friday” and “some of the Passover days occur” as Spring Vacation.

1899: Those attending the meeting of Rabbis belonging to the Reform Movement in Cincinnati will have to decide if this conference “will supersede the conference which” had been scheduled to be held in Boston this year. While the current conference has included several general reports, its primary purpose was to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Rabbi Wise, who favors holding the Boston conference.

1899: “Credit Men Meet At Dinner” published today described the event sponsored by the New York Credit Men’s Association which included the statement by one of the speakers declared that “No man in business life respects” Jewish merchants “more than I do.  I have lost less money by them than by Gentiles, at the ratio of 4 to 1.  They often pay 100 cents on the dollar when they fail.

1899: Simon Wolf of Washington, DC delivered a lecture at Temple Israel in New York at a meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association entitled “American Jewish Philanthropy.”

1899: Ant-Jewish riots begin in Nikolayev, Russia

1900: Herzl, in his never-ending quest to have the rich and powerful support the creation of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel, had a luncheon with Eulenburg-Hertefeld, the German ambassador in Vienna.

1901(25thof Adar, 5661): Parashat Vayakhel – Pekudi: Shabbat HaChodesh observed for the last time during the presidency of William McKinley

1902: Road drivers and horsemen from far and near including Nathan Straus who was driving Cobwebs “throng the Harlem River Speedway from early morning until the rain began to fall this afternoon.

1903: It was reported today that in his comments on the Czar’s latest edict Cardinal Gibbons said it was the most “unexpected as well as the most important and beneficent movement that has occurred in the twentieth century” and that he hopes “the Jews will have a share in the proposed radical changes.

1904: Birthdate of Mississippi native Buddy Myer, the infielder for the Washington Senators from 1925 through 1941 except for two years spent with the Boston Red Sox.
1905: “Word was received” in New York today, “that Meyer Guggenheim, the found of the great smelting business controlled by M. Guggenheim’s Sons” had passed away in Palm Beach, FL where he had gone two weeks ago because he was “suffering a severe cold.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/03/17/102133209.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1906: Birthdate of Henny Youngman.  Born in London, England, this comedian was known for his signature line, 'Take my wife, please. Youngman was had to drop out of school as a youngster and was not Bar Mitzvahed at age 13.  When he was well past the age of seventy, Youngman studied and proudly participated in the rites that he had missed out on as a youngster.

1906: The Jews of Vladivostok were ordered to leave the city within the next three days.

1907: Brooklyn, “George Wiener, an attorney who had emigrated from Russia in 1903, and Mollie (Zuckerman) Wiener” gave birth to Dr. Alexander Solomon Wiener whose many accomplished included the discovery of the Rhesus factor and who was the 1946 recipient of the Lasker Awaard.

http://scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=195

1908: The New York Times reported that the Passover Relief Association has arranged to buy 10,000 pounds of matzoth, 3,000 pounds of coffee, 5,000 pounds of sugar and 500 pounds of tea which will be distributed among the city’s poor Jews at a distribution center at the Continental Hall during the week prior to the celebration of Passover which begins on the evening of April 15.

1908: In Haifa, "bitterness against the Jews led to a clash between Jews, Ottoman soldiers and local Arabs in which thirteen Jews were injured, some of them severely."

1909: In Finland, “the Senate to-day passed a measure prohibiting the slaughtering of cattle in accordance with Jewish ritual.”

1910:Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus, who will “remain abroad until August” are scheduled to set sail on the Celtic to-day for the Mediterranean.

1910: It was reported today that the Trustees of the of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum are planning to a special anniversary at the Hippodrome to mark the 50th anniversary of opening of the first building of the asylum on April 10.

1911: Election for Grand Council of the Jewish Community of Constantinople takes place. Ashkenazim boycott the elections. Five Ashkenazim who were elected by the votes of Sephardim do not accept office.

1911: The American Jewish Committee which had organized in 1906 was incorporated in New today.

1911: Birthdate of Josef Mengele.  This is was a dark day in history, marking the birth of the German Nazi doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp.  To make matters worse, Mengele escaped justice and lived out his days in South America.  He died in 1979.

1911: In Pittsburgh, PA, Oscar William Oppenheimer, the President of the Steel Drum Company and Claude Seisel gave birth to Louise (Oppenheimer) Levin

1912: In New York City, “Drs. Pauline (a psychiatrist) and Maurice (an ear, nose and throat specialist) Rosenthal” gave birth to Jean Rosenthal “one of the pioneers of theatrical lighting design.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20020824231526/http://www.northern.edu/wild/jr.htm

1913: Birthdate of Natalie Goldstein the native of Chicago’s south side who gained fame as Natalie Goldstein Heinmen, “a pioneering national champion for children’s welfare and respected community and national leader, changed the lives of thousands of children through her innovative and thoughtful leadership.” (As reported by Pastora San Juan Cafferty)

1913(7th of Adar II, 5673): Sixty-two year old Abraham H. Fisher, the Maryland Judge who was a founder of what is now Nusiinov Smith LLP, attorneys at law, passed away today in Baltimore, MD.

1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor to which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama had been appointed as a delegate came to a closed today  in Jacksonville, Florida.

1914: Dr. Franz Opphenheimer, a lecturer on political economy at the University of Berlin told a mass-meeting in Cooper Union about agricultural cooperation in Palestine, saying that “the colony which I have founded in Palestine is on the plain of Jezreel, with fifty people working 1,000 acres and is “of the pure co-operative kind.”

1915: “Tried to Drive Jews Out” published today described an attempt by the Russians to force the Austrians soldiers to accept the 1,500 Jewish families being expelled from territory in and around Namiona and Tysmieniczany into their lines and to not shoot them as they made their way forward.

1915: “The American Jewish Committee announced today that it had decided to contribute $5,000 to the International Pro-Falasha Committee which has been endeavoring to spread knowledge of Judaism among the Falashas, or Black Jews, of Abyssinia.”

1916: Felix M. Warburg, Dr. Morris D. Waldman of the United Hebrew Charities and Judge William M. Cohen are scheduled to address today’s meeting at Temple Emanu-El where plans will be discussed “to federate” the Jewish charitable organizations in New York City.

1916(11th of Adar II, 5676): Rabbi Moses Guedalia passed away at the age of 76.  Born in Gibraltar, Guedalia lived in Brazil before coming to New York City when he was nine years old.  This “prominent Jewish scholar” was the founder of the Moses Montefiore Congregation and during “the last few years of his life served as the lay-reader for the Free Synagogue established by the Spanish-Portuguese congregation.

1917: At Temple Israel of Harlem, Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Cleanliness and Godliness” at services this evening erev Shabbat,

1917: It was reported today that Herman Bernstein, the editor of The American Hebrew, believes the condition of the Jews would improve under the revolutionary government that has taken control of Russia. He also believes that the new government will seek a separate peace with Germany while seeking to sign a treaty with the United States that guarantee the Russian government would allow all Americans to visit and do business in Russia.

1917: Provisional government of Russia voided many anti-Jewish laws and restrictions.  This was the so-called Kerensky Government which replaced the Czar.  Unfortunately, Kerensky and the forces of democracy were overthrown by Lenin and his Bolsheviks.

1918:  Birthdate of Frederick Reines winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995.

1918: Dr. Joseph Silverman, the rabbi of Temple Emanuel is scheduled to be one of the speakers when “leaders in the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities take their place side by side tonight at the Hippodrome to start the campaign in New York state to raise funds for the kings of Columbus Camps and Over-Seas Service Program.”

1919(14th of Adar II, 5679): Purim

1919(14th of Adar II, 5679): Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic(SFSR) passed away at the age of 33. 

1919: The Isaac M. Wise Centenary Meeting at Temple Emanu-El where attendees paid tribute “to the Americanism of Dr. Isaac M. Wise” marked the inauguration of “the campaign which will last all this week for the” purpose of raising $300,000 for the support of the institutions founded Dr. Wise.”

1920: Birthdate of Avron Zalmon Fleischman, the native of Brooklyn who gained game as author Albert Sidney “Sid” Fleischman.

1921: Birthdate of welterweight Daniel Kapilow, the founder of Ring 8 “which was founded to offer health coverage and aid to retired aging boxer and President of Teamsters Local 966 who was the husband of Natalie Kapilow.

1922: A medical bulletin issued from Government House in Jersualem today said that “the condition of Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner for Palestine has greatly improved” and that “he is out of danger.”

1923: “The Covered Wagon” a film version of the novel of the same name produced by Jesse Lasky with music by Hugo Riesenfeld and Josiah Zuro was released today in the United States.

1924: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said he “views the Oil Scandal as one of many signs of a great moral wakening. (This would be reference to Teapot Dome)

1925(20th of Adar, 5685): Fifty-nine-year-old August Paul von Wassermann, the Bamberg native, who developed the Wassermann test that remains “a staple of syphilis detection” passed away today.

 

1925: Seventy-five-year-old “French sculptor Charles-Henri Cordier who in 1862 created a bust called “Jewess from Algiers,” which portrays a striking woman cloaked in Eastern garb; a striped headdress covers her hair, and her shoulders are draped in a voluminous and intricately detailed white cloth,” passed away today.

1926: Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, wife of the former United States Minister to Turkey, was appointed chairman of the Women's Division of the New York drive in the United Jewish Campaign. Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff heads the Division as its honorary chairman, according to an announcement made by William Fox, chairman of the New York drive. An organization meeting will be held today at the Hotel Biltmore, where headquarters of the New York drive are located. Fifty women, leaders in women's clubs, professional groups, synagogue organizations, and others making up a representation of all varied women's interests in the Jewish life of the city, will be present. They will be addressed by David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign. Each of these fifty will head a unit of workers in the active drive, which opens April 11th. Mrs. Elkus served in the great Jewish War Relief Campaign of 1918, and led a group of 1,000 women workers in the Red Cross Drive of that year. Her life abroad in the years immediately after the war in Eastern Europe brought her into personal contact with the tragedy precipitated by the war upon European Jewry. (As reported by JTA)

1926:  In Newark, NJ, Daniel Levitch and Rachel ("Rae") Levitch (née Brodsky) gave birth to Joseph Levitch who gained fame as Jerry Lewis who teamed with Dean Martin to form one of the most popular comedy duos of the post-war period.  After the team broke up, Lewis honed his comedic craft and is especially loved by French audiences.  He is best known for his Labor Day MDA Telethons which have raised untold millions for research and care of those suffering from this disease.

http://variety.com/2017/film/people-news/jerry-lewis-dies-dead-nutty-professor-1202533899/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html?mcubz=0

1927: It was reported today that “three farm training camps for girls which have started operation Palestine are already self-sustaing.”

1927: “Resuming his opening statement at the trial of the $1,000,000 libel suit brought by Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney, against Henry Ford, the chief of counsel for Sapiro, Milton H. Gallagher, today took up point by point the allegations concerning a "Jewish combination" to exploit farmers published in The Dearborn Independent and branding each as false as he went along.”

1928: It was reported today that Senator James E. Watson of Indiana will be “the principal speaker” at the 19thannual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society of American which will be held at Cooper Union on March 18th.

1929(4th of Adar II. 5689): Parashat Pekudi

1929: During an interview given today in Philadelphia, Professor C. Leonard Woolley said that based on recent archaeological discoveries at Ur of the Chaldes, “it was necessary for the world to completely revise its estimate of Abraham.”

1929: New York Hakoah of the Eastern Soccer League defeated a touring team from Budapest today thanks to two goals scored by Moritz Haeusler. (Bob Wechsler)

1930: Ceremonies marking the dedication of the new sanctuary of Temple Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan continued for a third day.

1930(16th of Adar, 5690): Shushan Purim

1930: It was reported today that “the main difficulty in connection with the report of the Palestine Inquiry Commission centers around the land question…” (As reported by JTA)

1933: Birthdate of Sandy Weil financer and CEO of Citigroup until 2003.  The son of Polish immigrants, Weil became one of the wealthiest individuals in America.  Recent revelations have shown that while Weil made a lot of money, some his methods were of a questionable nature.

1933: “A Love Story” based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler and directed by Max Opuls was released in France today.

1934(29th of Adar, 5694): Sixty-eight year old Gertrude Aronson, the “daughter of Joseph and Theresa Deutsch” and the first wife of Louis Vincent Aronson, the inventor of the Ronson lighter passed away today.

1934: In its first international football (soccer) match the team from Mandatory Palestine (the future Israel) lost to Egypt 7 to 1.

 

1935: After 237 performances the curtain comes down on the original Broadway production of “Life Begins at 8:40,” “a musical revue with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg.”

1935: Fourteen Jewish American athletes and their manager David White set sail on the SSConte di Savola.  The athletes will participate in the Maccabiah, the Jewish Olympics, scheduled to open in April in Tel Aviv.  Due to unexpected financial difficulties, it was not known until the last minute if the team would be able to go.  Thirty teams are expected to compete in the games up from the twenty-five teams that competed in the inaugural games held in 1932.  

1935(11th of Adar II, 5695): Aron Nimzowitsch passed away.  Nimzovichor Niemzowitsch was born in Latvia in 1886 when it was part of the Russian Empire. He was a chess grandmaster and was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns. Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy Jewish family and learned chess from his father. He travelled to Germany in 1904 to study philosophy, but began a career as a professional chess player that same year. After tumultuous years during and after World War I, Nimzowitsch moved to Copenhagen in 1922 and lived there until his death. He is buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1936: Jews in Palestine protested the worsening conditions under which the Jews of Poland were living.  Polish Jews were dealing with everything from a government threat to end Kosher slaughtering to actual Pogroms.  The Jewish National Council of Palestine conducted a mass protest meeting and the Jews of Tel Aviv shuttered their shops for one day.

1936: The U.S. Secretary of the Interior “spoke at a joint banquet” held tonight by the United Synagogue of America and its women’s auxiliary where he told the attendees “Like those forefather of yours, we of America today are wandering the desert even though it is a social and not a physical desert.”

1936: Magistrate Anna Moskowitz Kross and Mrs. David E. Goldfarb are scheduled to speak a tea being held today that has been organized by Mrs. Benjamin Antin and Mrs. Edna Crane which will mark the opening event of the Bronx Women’s Division of the United Palestine Appeal.

1937: In New York, “Catholic, Protestant and Jewish speakers” including Rabbi Elias L. Soloon and Rabbi Morris M. Goldberg joined in tonight’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of Congregation Shaare Zedek which was also marked by President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman who “sent letters of feciliation…”

1937: Birthdate of cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky.  Born in Haifa, Amos Tversky, a Stanford psychology professor and his longtime colleague, Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, jointly won the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. The $200,000 prize, awarded for the third time by the University of Louisville in Kentucky, recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of psychology. Working as a team for nearly three decades, Kahneman and Tversky revolutionized the scientific approach to decision making, ultimately affecting all social sciences and many related disciplines. Tversky died of cancer in 1996.  His untimely death prevented him from sharing in a Nobel Prize with his longtime colleague, Daniel Kahneman. 

1937: Police fired on a crowd in Clichy which provoked a crisis that the opponents of Leon Blum used in an attempt to gain a vote of no confidence in his Popular Front government.

1937: Thanks to intervention by United States consular representatives, Boris Smolar, a correspondent for JTA who was ordered to leave Germany on March 12, “has received permission for an indefinite stay I Berlin.”

1938(13th of Adar II, 5698): Fast of Esther

1938: Tonight, Harold Jacobi, the chairman of the New York United Palestine Appeal, joined with leaders of Hadassah in using a Purim theme to call upon American Jews to support the drive to provide aid for the “more than 200,000 Jews in Austria who have come under the rule of the Nazis” on the eve of the holiday when Persian Jews were faced with possible destruction.

1938: Jewish professors were kicked out of Austrian universities

1938: In his review of Goodbye Wester Country by Henry Williamson, Ralph Thompson described the author’s interpretation of the Nazi revolution as being “the most naïve interpretation of the Nazi revolution ever put to paper.

1938: During the Spanish Civil War the four day battle at Belichite in which the Botwins, a company of Polish volunteers named after political radical Naftali Bortain, had almost been wiped out.

1938: Adolf Eichmann went to Austria to begin the removal of Jews

1939: Emil Hacha, who had been the last President of an “independent” Czechoslovakia bowed to personal pressure from Hitler and became the “State President of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” where, regardless of what else he did to help or combat the Nazis, he did sign “into law legislation modeled after the Nuremberg Laws that meant the Jews were no longer Czech citizens in any sense of that term.

1939: As Arab violence continues unabated, 3 Arabs were killed today and another 250 were arrested by British forces who also seized a large quantity of rifles, ammunition and explosives.

1939: “Myron C. Taylor, the United States representative on the Evian inter-governmental refugee committee, who is en route home, arrived in London and spend the day discussing with the leaders in the City problems connected with the mass emigration of Jews from Germany if the recent Nazi proposals are carried out.”

1940(6th of Adar II, 5700): Parashat Vayikra

1940(6th of Adar II, 5700): Sixty-eight-year-old Samuel Mundheim, the Washington D.C. born son of Lewis and Fanny Foster Mundheim and the husband of Stella Kaufmann Mundheimr who was chairman of the board of the American Safety Razor Corporation and former president of Stern Brothers department store passed away today in New York after which he was buried at the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery in the District of Columbia.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/03/17/92911350.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1940(6th of Adar II, 5700): Samuel Untermyer passed away. It is difficult to do justice to the life and career of this lawyer, self-made millionaire and leader of the Jewish community born in Virginia who found success in New York City. The following lengthy obituary in the New York Times provides a picture of his life and accomplishments Untermyer was the grandfather of Samuel Untermyer II. Born in 1912, he was “a United States nuclear engineer who theorized that steam bubble formation in a nuclear reactor core would not produce unstable reactions but would instead result in an inherently stable and self-controlling reactor design. He was responsible for the BORAX Experiments and in recognition of his fundamental development work on safe, water-cooled reactors the American Nuclear Society now has an award named after him for work in this field.” He won the Newcomen Medal in 1980 and passed away in 2001.

1941: In Vichy, France, “the government published a fourth list of nearly 500 business firms in Paris” including Andre Seligman and Seligman Freres, “the internationally known antique dealers” that have been “provided with Aryan administrators because anti-Jewish laws prevent their owners and directors from functioning. (Anti-Semitism is a profitable business)

1942: L.F. Rothschild and Company and Goldman Sachs and Company were among those institutions which purchased “the $100,000,000 of short-term notes sold today by allotment by State Controller O'Leary” and which “will be delivered tomorrow to the Bank of the Manhattan Company in New York City for conveyance to the buyers. Proceeds of the sale will be used for general governmental purposes.”

1942: The first 1,600 Jews were deported from Lublin to Belzec. Another 10,000 would follow the next week.

1942: “The American Federation for Lithuanian Jews, of which Sidney Hillman is honorary president, today issued an appeal to all Jews from the Baltic countries now in the United States to come to the aid of Lithuanian Jews who succeeded in escaping from the Nazis into Soviet territory.” (As reported by JTA)

1943: Birthdate of actress Susan Linda Bay who is the widow Leonard Nimoy.

1943: In Manhattan, attorney Jacob Goldberg and “the former Etta Herman, a department store coat model and homemaker” gave birth to Michael Harris Goldberg “the general counsel of the upstart American Basketball Association during its final years in the 1970s and the head of the N.B.A. coaches’ union for nearly four decades…” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/sports/basketball/michael-goldberg-death-nba-general-counsel.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1943(9th of Adar II, 5703):  An SS officer was killed by a Jew named Kotnowski at Lvov. In reprisal, the Germans hung 11 Jewish policemen from the balconies overlooking the main street of the Ghetto. Also over 1,000 Jews were taken away and shot.

1944: Following reports that Prime Minister Miklós Kállay was putting out feelers to the Allies about a possible capitulation, “Hitler summoned Admiral Miklos Horthy to a meeting” where he pressured him to stay in the work and “to assist in the kill of more of Hungary’s Jews.”

1945: Approximately 90% of Wurzburg, a city that had shipped its Jewish population to concentration camps from 1941 through 1943, was destroyed today when 225 British heavy bombers attacked the city in a 17-minute period.

1946(13th of Adar II, 5706): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim

1946: Today, The Acheson-Lilienthal Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy was published.  Lilienthal is David Lilienthal who had gained fame as the creator of TVA. His involvement in how the United States should deal with Atomic Energy in the post-war world is another example of Jewish involvement in a whole raft of issues dealing with the creation and use of both the Atomic and Hydrogen bombs.

1947: “The Red House,” the film version of the book by the same name, starring Edward G. Robinson was released today in the United States.

1947: The British announce plans to end Martial Law in Tel Aviv and adjacent areas effective tomorrow. 

1947(24th of Adar, 5707): Sixty-three-year-old Copenhagen born Waldemar Holberg, the world welterweight champion in 1914 who boxed for in the 1908 Olympics for Denmark passed away today.

1947: An explosion ripped through press room and tourist information center in the Jerusalem offices of the Jewish agency.  While some said the attack was the work of “Jewish terrorists” and highlighted the split between Yishuv and militant extremists, the Irgun denied responsibility and said the attack may have been the work of the British.

1948: “In a day of comparatively little violence in Palestine, a spokesman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine said today that the Jews ‘would welcome any truce under any conditions.’”

1948: As Arab forces waged a war of terror designed to undo the UN Partition Resolution, the Palmach attacked al-Husayniyaa in response to the explosion of land mine.

1949:  In London, Ontario, Joe Garber and Hope Wolf gave birth to Canadian actor Victor Garber

1951(8th of Adar II, 5711): Eighty-three-year-old Laura Bearden Leigh, the wife of John Marion Leigh and the daughter of Louis Alexander Gratz, the Mayor of North Knoxville, TN and a Major in the Union Army and Elisabeth “Lizzie” Trigg Gratz passed away today in San Antonio, TX.

1952:  Birthdate of French American businessman, Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland Software Corporation

1954(11th of Adar II, 5714): Tonight, unknown assailants attacked an Egged bus traveling between Eilat and Tel Aviv killing the driver Efraim Firstenberg, eight male passengers and two female passengers following which the killers spat on and abused the bodies of the dead before leaving with loot they had collected.

1957: “Robert Briscoe, the Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, carrying his Talis bag from Dublin visited and prayed at the Park East Synagouge on Shabbas morning.

1958: In Croatia Slavko Goldstein and his wife gave birth to Ivo Goldstein, the historian who is ‘the former president of Bet Israel, a Jewish community in Zagreb, which he founded with his father” with whom he also worked on “the reconstruction of the Zagreb Synagogue.”

1959: Birthdate of Scott L. Schwartz, the native of Philadelphia who used “his size and agility at 6"10 and 303 pounds (137 kg)” to carve out careers in law enforcement, acting and wrestling.

1962: It was reported today that Daniel Persky, the brother of Eliah Persky, had the motto “Eved L’Ivrith Anokhi” (A slave unto Hebrew am I) on his business cards.

1962: The “Golani Brigade raided Syrian outposts to the north of the Sea of Galilee in order to stop Syrian shelling of Israeli Villages.  Seven Israeli soldiers and thirty Syrian soldiers were killed during the battle.”  The raid did not end the shelling.  It would continue sporadically until 1967 when the IDF heroically took the Golan Heights. 

1963: “Personality: Boom is Loud for Lesser” published today provides a profile of Louis Lesser and his real estate empire.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C06E7DF173FE03BBC4E52DFB5668388679EDE

1964: Premiere of “Nothing But the Best,” a British comedy with a script co-authored by future Oscar winner Frederic Raphael.

1965: Israel Votes to Have Diplomatic Relations with West Germany

1965: As bagel bakers clashed over how to deal with the changing world of Bagel Baking, Morris Skolnick was defeated in his bid to be elected business agent for famed local 388.

1966: When David Dubinsky announced his retirement today from the International Ladies Garment Workers he told fellow union officers, ''I didn't have a life, I had a union life. You know my nature. If I'm president I can't only be president from morning till night. It has to be from morning until the next morning.''

1968(16th of Adar, 5728): Italian Jewish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescopassed away. Born in Florence in 1895, he was descended from a prominent banking family that had lived in the city since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Like many artists who fled fascism, Castelnuovo-Tedesco ended up in Hollywood, where, with the help of Yasha Heifetz, he landed a contract with MGM as a film composer. Over the next fifteen years, he worked on scores for some 200 films there and at the other major film studios. He was a significant influence on other major film composers, including Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Nelson Riddle, John Williams, and André Previn. His relationship to Hollywood was ambiguous: later in life he attempted to deny the influence that it had on his own work, but he also believed that it was an essentially American art form, much as opera was European. In the United States, Castelnuovo-Tedesco also composed new operas and works based on American poetry, Jewish liturgy, and the Bible.

1972(1st of Nisan, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1972(1st of Nisan, 5732): Sixty-eight-year-old Swiss born physicist and Cornell University Professor Henri S. Sack passed away today.

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/18071/Sack_Henri_S_1972.pdf;sequence=2

1973(12th of Adar II, 5733): Seventy-seven year old Samuel L. Calman, the Russian born husband of Fannie Calechman who in 1897 moved to New Haven, CT where he was active in business and the Jewish community passed away today after which he was buried at the B’nai Jacob Memorial Park in his adopted home town.

1975(4th of Nisan, 5735): Eight-three-year-old Galicia native Jacob Kalich, “the Yiddish theatrical producer, playwright and actor” who was the husband of Molly Picon passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/17/archives/jacob-kalich-of-yiddish-stage-molly-picons-husband-83-dies.html

1976(14th of Adar II, 5736): Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency of Jerry Ford.

1978(7th of Adar II, 5738): Eighty-year-old Keene, NH native “Dr. Samuel L. Saltzman, an ophthalmologist and medical historian” who served as a volunteer with the Israeli Army in 1948 and was married to Rose Saltzman with whom he raised two children – Suzanne and Jonathan – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/18/archives/dr-samuel-saltzman-eye-surgeon-historian.html

1979(24th of Adar, 5739): Sixty-six-year-old University of Minnesota trained attorney and WW II U.S. Army veteran Julius E. Davis, the “son of Isadore and Molly (Edelman) Davis, the husband of Lillian Stacia Kropman and father of Lawrence and Stephen Davis passed away today

1980(28th of Adar, 5740): Eighty-two-year-old Harvard trained New Orleans, LA, businessman Edward Bernard Benjamin, Sr. the Little Rock, AR born son of “Emanuel V. Benjamin and Rachel Goldsmith and WW I U.S. Army veteran who was the husband of Blanche Sternberger of Greensboro, NC with whom he had three children passed away today in New Orleans after which he was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Greensboro.

1981: Birthdate of Phillip Ruch “, a German artist built a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial and placed it outside the house of a far-right politician who had called the original “a monument of shame.”

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/germany-investigating-artist-who-built-holocaust-memorial-replica-outside-far-right-leaders-house

1982: In case of Jew on Jew, in “Rudnick’s Poor Little Lambs’ of Yale” Frank Rich reviewed Paul Rudnick’s ''‘Poor Little Lambs,’ a no-holds-barred account of a year in the life of the Whiffenpoofs singing group.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/16/theater/theater-rudnick-s-poor-little-lambs-of-yale.html

1983: The Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry continued to a second day in Jerusalem.

1984: William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.

1985:  Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.

1985(23rd of Adar, 5745): Shabbat Parah

1985(23rd of Adar, 5745): Olga Ginsburg (nee Bessman) who had been born in 1894 and was the wife of Joseph Binsburg and the mother of the multi-talented Serge Gainsbourg passed away today.

http://forward.com/articles/14621/the-man-with-the-yellow-star-/

1987: Israel radio reported today that the Israeli Government has helped to pay the legal bills of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the American intelligence analyst sentenced to life in prison last month for spying for Israel. The radio said ''state elements in Israel'' transferred $80,000 by unspecified indirect means to the defense of Mr. Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard. Mrs. Henderson-Pollard was sentenced to five years for helping her husband to pass hundreds of top-secret American documents to the Israeli Government. The couple's total legal expenses were reported to be somewhere between $120,000 to $200,000. The radio report did not say when the transfer took place or whether the Israeli Government planned to make additional payments to the Pollards. Israel radio said the funds were provided to James Hibey, a Washington lawyer, whom it described as the lawyer for Mr. Pollard and his wife.

1987(15th of Adar, 5747): Shushan Purim

1987(15th of Adar, 5747): Eighty-seven-year-old Estonia native Samuel H. Shapiro, the second Jew to serve as Governor of Illinois passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/17/obituaries/samuel-h-shapiro-79-ex-governor-of-illinois.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-17/news/8701210345_1_mr-shapiro-kankakee-county-election-reform

1987: Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin today denied reports that Israel may still be spying on the United States. Mr. Rabin was responding to a story in The Washington Post which said American investigators became suspicious during their questioning of Mr. Pollard that Israel had another agent working in an American intelligence operation.

1987: Doctors discovered and removed a tumor from the brain of Jazz Drummer Buddy Rich. (As reported by James Barron)

1988(27th of Adar, 5748): Eighty-five year old Austro-Hungarian Empire native Paul Kohner, a dominating talent agent, the brother of novelist Frederick Kohner and father of actress of Susan Kohner passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-18/news/mn-1515_1_paul-kohner

1991: "Underground," a new work by the Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol, directed by Adrian Hall, is scheduled to have its last performance today at the Yale Repertory Theater.

1991: “Trabbi Goes to Hollywood” a comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and featuring Milton Berle was released in Germany today.

1992: Loretta Weinberg began serving as a Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 37th Legislative District,

1995(14thof Adar II, 5755): Purim

1997(9th of Adar I, 5757): Eighty-two-year-old Thomas C. Fichandler, the co-founder of the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. who was the husband of producer, director Zelda Fichandler and the son-in-law of scientist and inventor Harry Diamond passed away today.

1997: In “Cabaret That Shocked, Shocked the Nazis” published today David Mermelstein Ute Lemper’s plans to “perform relatively obscure cabaret songs banned by the Nazis.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/16/arts/cabaret-that-shocked-shocked-the-nazis.html

1998: The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Heydecker&prev=search

1998: At a press conference today Cardinal Cassidy, President of the Holy See's Commission For Religious Relations With the Jews, presented for publication the document, We Remember: A Reflection On The Shoah. Joining him in the presentation were Bishop Pierre Duprey, Vice President of the Commission, and Father Remi Hoeckmann, O.P., its Secretary.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_16031998_shoah_en.html

1999(28th of Adar, 5759): Rhoda Mendelson Faffer passed away today at the age of 87.  The deceased was the wife of the late Samuel Faffer and the late, well-known Chazan, Cantor Nathan Mendelson of Montreal Canada. 

2000(9th of Adar II, 5760): Eighty-one-year-old Georgia born, University of Chicago trained attorney Morris B. Abram the fighter for human rights and President of Brandeis University passed away today. (As reported by William Honan)

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/17/us/morris-abram-is-dead-at-81-rights-advocate-led-brandeis.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/17/news/mn-9914

2001: More than 30 Jewish student journalists from across the United States studied with Pulitzer Prize-winners Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Frankel, the editor of The Washington Post Magazine, as well as editors of leading American Jewish publications as part of the Journalism Track of the 2001 Charlotte and Jack J. Spitzer B'nai B'rith Hillel Forum on Public Policy.
2002: “The Last Days of Pompeii,” a solo exhibition of the works of Eleanor Antin came to a close.

2003: On the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx." This "fierce" gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy."

2003: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the Newsby Eric Alterman

2004: “Israel's security cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, approved military action in response to recent Palestinian attacks emanating from Gaza, including a double suicide bombing on” March 14, 2004 “that left 10 Israelis dead.”

2005: After having been screening at the Germany-Berlin Film Festival and the Israel-Jerusalem Festival “Avanim,” “Raphael Nadjari’s fourth feature film was released in France today.

2005:  In yet another exchange of land for a promise of peace, Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control

2006: Excavations at Tel Arad in the Negev were photographed today

2006: In an interview at the time, repeated on BBC2's Newsnight today Michael Levy stated that "Over the years I have paid many millions of tax and, if you average it, each year it comes to many hundreds of thousands of pounds. In that particular year, I was giving my time to the Labour Party and the voluntary sector, and I just lived off capital.

2007: While serving as Chief Rabbi of France, Joseph Haim Sitruk “was selected as Commander of the Legion of Honor.”

2007: The Jewish Post reported that “Hadarom, the Rabbinical Council of America’s annual Torah journal, is now available on the Internet. The 50-year-old journal, which deals principally with matters of Jewish law and biblical and Talmudic exegesis, is accessible at www.rabbis.org.”

2008: The New York Times book section features reviews of Why We’re Liberals:A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America by liberal Jewish columnist Eric Alterman and The Best American Erotic Poems From 1800 to the Presentedited by David Lehman.

2008: Within a week of the near collapse of Bear Stearns led by President and COO Bear Stearns and merger withJP Morgan today, “the shares were trading at $5.33 per share which eventually prompted a reportedly angry confrontation between Schwartz and senior trader Alan Mintz in the company gym 

2008: “Black Rabbi Reaches out to Mainstream of His Faith” published today described the life and work of Rabbi Capers C. Funnye, Jr. (prounced fun-AY) the spiritual leader of Chicago’s Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/16rabbi.html

2008:About two dozen Holocaust survivors, including some saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler mark the 65th anniversary of the Nazi's liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.

2008:A bomb alert today at the Paris Book Fair, which this year honors Israeli writers, prompted the evacuation of thousands of people but appeared to be a false alarm, Paris police officials said.

2009: In Albany, NY, a screening of Etgar Keret’s film “Jellyfish” followed by Q&A with the famed Israeli author.

2009: After The New Republic published ‘Wasting Away in Hooverville” today, Jonathan “Chait appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to counter conservative arguments that the New Deal was a failure.”

2009:As part of Lillian Goldman Literary Seriesthe American Jewish Historical Society, the Center for Jewish History and Jewish Heritage present: “The Lifecycles of New York Jews: Love and Loss,” the second in an already widely praised series of staged readings that explores the experiences of love, well-being and loss through the eyes of New York Jewish authors.

2009: A 29-year-old Israeli man connected with Jerusalem’s haredi “modesty squad” was sentenced to four years in prison today for the brutal gang assault of a woman in her apartment last year. The Justice Minister announced that the group’s ringleader and other alleged cell members were never charged in the case due to a lack of evidence.

2009: Ninety-six-year-old song writer Jack Lawrence passed away today.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-lawrence18-2009mar18-story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/music/18lawrence.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703363.html

2010: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski “released a National Broadband Plan, titled “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan”.

2010: Rosh Chodesh Nisan, 5770

2010: According to the Vilna Gaon, construction of the third temple is scheduled to begin on this day.

2010: As part of its series “Far Flung Jews: Jewish Cultures Around the World,” the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to offer a program describing “The Resurgent Jewish Community of Berlin” at Adas Israel in Washington, DC.

2010:A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said today that despite the violence that erupted across Jerusalem in response to Hamas' declaration of a "day of rage" , neither the Palestinian Authority nor Israel was interested in seeing a renewal of conflict.

2010:Avner Netanyahu, 15, son of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Sarah Netanyahu, received the top honor in Israel's national Bible Quiz championship for youth today. The girls' champion was Or Ashual of the Bnei Akiva Amana Academy in Kfar Saba.

2010: David Sofer, “the Jewish Israeli businessman living in London” whose property would be part of a dispute in 2018 between Israel and the Greek Orthodox Church, and his wife Cindy attended the “opening reception of the Jewish Museum in London” today.

2010: “Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson…helped” to “re-launch the London Jewish Museum” today “after a two-year closure

2011: The 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2011(6th of Adar II, 5871): Seventy-five-year-old actor Al Israel who was best known for his role in two Al Pacino gangster films – Scarface and Carlito’s Way—passed away today.

2011: Final screening of Human Resource Manager, a film based on a novel by A.B. Yehoushua, is scheduled to take place at the Cinema Village in New York.

2011: Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi are scheduled to appear “in concert for the opening of the exhibit on Ketuvot at The Jewish Museum.

 

2011: The Israel Air Force fired two missiles at a security compound in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today, killing two Palestinians, Palestinian medical officials said

2011: Jewish youth held an artistic and educational ceremony to memorialize the victims of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Israeli pop star Ivri Lider, who was invited to Argentina by the "Autumn Festival” of music, performed at the event. Youth media professionals specializing in video and film prepared a video called “Justice will not stay buried under the rubble” about the attack memorials.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-AhWWL4nc

2011: The northern California home of Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive Tikkun magazine, was vandalized for the third time in less than a year. The attack came a day after Lerner presented the Tikkun Award for ethics to South African Justice Richard Goldstone at a celebration of Tikkun’s 25th anniversary attended by more than 600 people at the University of California, Berkeley. (As reported by JTA)

2011: The Chief Rabbinate, Interior Ministry and State Attorney’s Office are currently drawing up new procedures to determine the validity of Orthodox conversions for the purpose of aliya, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar said today.

2012: Benjamin Berell Ferencz, the last surviving Chief Prosecutor from the Nuremberg War Crime trials, “in another letter to the editor of the New York Times, hailed the International Criminal Court's conviction of Thomas Lubanga as "a milestone in the evolution of international criminal law."

2012: “Nina Menkes Retrospective: Cinema as Sorcery” featuring personal appearances by the famed filmmaker whose parents are Holocaust survivors is scheduled to come to an in New York City.

2012: The Friars Club is scheduled to present a tribute to Jerry Lewis at the 92ndStreet Y. The program will include a “screening of a new documentary, Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis, followed by a talk/tribute with Jerry Lewis on the occasion of his 86th birthday.”

2012: Jerusalem hosted its second annual marathon today.

2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform in Rockville, MD. 

2013: “The Day I Saw Your Heart” is scheduled to have its Minnesota Premiere at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.

2013(5thof Nisan, 5773): Sixty-year-old former MK Marina Solodkin suffered a stroke and passed away while attending a conference in Riga, Latvia.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mk-marina-solodkin-dies-of-stroke-in-latvia/

 

2013: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to a the Virginia Virtuosi performing an evening of Jewish classical music celebrating Freedom.

2013: The Philomusica Quartet – Nadia Weintraub, Yelena Tishin, Avraham Leventhal, Dmitri Golderman – is scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music Center

 2013: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presented the new government to President Shimon Peres tonight.

2013: MK Tzipi Livni, Israel’s newest Justice Minister, stressed today that she would not support the basic law bill “Israel is the national state of the Jewish people,” whose promotion is part of the new coalition agreements with the Jewish Home party.

2014(14thof Adar II, 5774): Purim

2014(14thof Adar II, 5774): Eighty-six year old Tony award winning composer Mitch Leigh whose work also included the “Nobody Doesn’t Like Sara Lee “jingle  passed away today. (As reported by Anita Gates)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/theater/mitch-leigh-man-of-la-mancha-composer-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=arts

2014: Eden Rose Strauss, daughter of Rabbi Feivel and Abbie Strauss and granddaughter of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber is scheduled to be the youngest person in Bexley, Ohio “celebrating” what for will be her first Purim

2014: The Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a family concert by The Dirty Sock Funtime Band.

2014: “The Jewish Cardinal” and “Suskind” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2014: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Joann Sfar Draws From Memory” which “tracks his odyssey through the Algerian and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the wellspring of his work.”

2014: Ilan Caplan, the Chazan for the Traditional High Holiday Services in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to chant Megalith Esther at Shird Chadesh In Metairie, LA which when it was the Conservative Congregation of New Orleans gave Mitchell Levin who davens in Cedar Rapids, his first teaching job. (Don’t you just love Jewish Geography?)

2014: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Temple Judah is scheduled to host a Religious School Purim Carnival followed later in the day by a Megillah Reading with attendees including adults in costumes.

2014: In Israel, Channel 2 reported that Israel has tightened security in its airspace following the the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. (As reported by Times of Israel)

2014: “Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Israel’s top negotiator in talks with the Palestinian Authority, chastised Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Sunday evening over comments he’d made the previous day dismissing the viability of peace talks, saying “grumbling and despairing is easy…our responsibility is to change reality.”  (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2014: “Hundreds of east Jerusalem residents held a demonstration in Jerusalem’s Old City near the Damascus Gate this evening, with several demonstrators throwing rocks at a police car, breaking its windshield.” (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2014: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and or of special interest to Jewish readers including  Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1940s and 50s: "The Natural,""The Assistant,""Twenty Stories,""Posthumously Published Stories edited by Philip Davis, Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1940s and 50s: "The Natural,""The Assistant,""Twenty Stories,""Posthumously Published Stories edited by Phillip Davis and The Wherewithal, A Novel in Verse by Philip Schultz as well as the publication of an interview with Philip Roth.

2015: “Solomon Schechter Symposium” with Dara Horn is scheduled to be presented by the Herbert D. Katz Center Advanced Judaic Studies.

2015: Rabbi Denise Eger read the Torah today during installation as CCAR president.

2015: Jack Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Middle East Chaos: From Civil Wars to Disintegration of States” in San Diego.

2015: Orient Stier is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Hidden and the Revealed: A God’s-Eye View of the Landscape of Holocaust Postmemory” at the Jewish Museum of Florida.

 

2015: “Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a murder charge today against real estate scion Robert Durst in the December 2000 killing of his longtime friend Susan Berman, who was found shot execution-style in her Benedict Canyon home on Christmas Eve.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hbo-durst-extradition-hbo-finale-20150316-story.html#page=1

2015: “Under pressure on the eve of a surprisingly close election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel today doubled down on his appeal to right-wing voters, declaring definitively that if he was returned to office he would never establish a Palestinian state.”

2015: “The Allied Powers’ Response to the Holocaust Conference” is scheduled open today.

http://www.alliedpowersholocaust.org/

2016: “Shore of Love” and “Arabic Movie” are scheduled to be shown at the 19thNew York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2016: “Women’s Night Dinner” and “A La Vie” are scheduled to shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: Today, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court” (As reported by Julia Edwards)

2016: Today, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2016: During a speech in the Rose Garden this morning “new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland credited his Jewish grandparents, who he said fled to the United States from anti-Semitism in Russia, for putting him in position to be nominated”

2016: The YIVO Institute for Jewish research is scheduled to present a lecture on “Yiddish Culture and Interwar Paris: The 1937 World's Fair & the Modern Jewish Culture Pavilion.”

2017: Mobster Myron Sugerman, the son “Barney Sugerman, a man who partnered in the gambling business with such notorious mob figures as Meyer Lansky and fellow Jerseyan Abner “Longie” Zwillman” and who “followed his father into the world of illegal gambling and wound up serving 19 months at the Federal Correctional Complex in Allenwood, Pa., after being convicted on gambling charges” “regaled the crowd at Congregation Beth Israel with his own take on the Jewish involvement in famous crime syndicates. (As reported by Alan Smason) Editor’s Note – wonder when the congregation will yuck it up with tales of the Purple Gang.

2017(18thof Adar, 5777): Ninety-one year old neurologist, Dr. Lewis Rowland passed away way today. (As reported by Denise Grady)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/science/lewis-rowland-dead-columbia-university-neurologist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2017: The Princeton Tigers (23-6) led by senior forward Spencer Weisz, “a Maccabiah Games gold medalist” and “the Ivy League’s Player of the Year are scheduled to face off against Notre Dame in the opening round of the NACC Basketball Tournament.

2017: JW3 is scheduled to host the last screening of “Denial,” a film based on the libel trial in which professor Deborah E. Lipstadt squared again Holocaust denier David Irving.

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Hidden Mysteries and Magic: Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism in Renaissance Florence.”

2018(29thof Adar, 5778): Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, left, and Cpt. Ziv Daos, have been identified as the soldiers killed in an apparent car-ramming terror attack that took place today.

2018(29thof Adar, 5778): Ninety-five-year-old rabbi Mordechai Hager passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/rabbi-mordechai-hager-dead-led-large-hasidic-sect.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: The New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present a screening of “The Children of Chance,” the story of a Jewish boy surviving the Holocaust in Paris.

2018: The Fifth Edition of the Socially Relevant Film “featuring Israeli films The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Shira Gabay, The Girl by Lihi Sabag, Jerusalem In Line by Amir Har-Gil and Hotel Everest by Claudia Sobral.” Is scheduled to open in New York City.

2018: Following a service at the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel and a Shabbat dinner, scholar-in-residence Rabbi Marc D. Angel is scheduled to deliver his first lecture.

2018: Limmudfest is scheduled to begin this evening in New Orleans, LA.

2018: “Collecting for the Nation: The 75th Anniversary of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gift of Prints and Drawings to the National Gallery of Art” is scheduled to begin at noon at The National Gallery of Art.

2018: Following its release in Berlin and the United Kingdom, “Seven Days in Entebbe” is scheduled to be released in the United States today.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-7-days-entebbe-questions-benjamin-netanyahus-version-history-1085838

2019(9th of Adar II, 5779): Shabbat Zachor; begin reading from the Book of Vayikra

2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Lost Crown” a documentary about the Aleppo Codex created by “Avi Dabach, the filmmaker and great-grandson of the Crown Keeper who navigates the dark corridors of hidden history, archival documents and rare testimonies reveal an astonishing story involving an Israeli president, Mossad agents, passionate rabbis, and antique dealers.”

2019: In the wake of massacre of Muslims in Christchurch on March 15, “Synagogues across New Zealand are to remain closed over Shabbat” because, as “the Auckland Hebrew Congregation told members of ‘concern about the security’ of the community.” (As reported by Mathilde Frot)

2019: In New Orleans, Temple Sinai, the oldest reform congregation in the Crescent City is scheduled to host its annual Spring Gala.

2019: Joshua Nelson, “the Prince of Kosher Gospel” and The Kosher Gospel Singers ae scheduled to perform this evening at the Osher Marin JCC.

2020: Deadline for those in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to express their desire to involved in a rejuvenated “Jewish Federation of the Corriodr.”

2020: Israelis experience the second day of having all educational institutions, including preschools, kindergartens that previously had remained open, closed.

2020: Due to the pandemic, the Center for Jewish History is postponing “a screening of Cinema and Sanctuary followed by a panel discussion with award-winning director and CUNY Professor Dave Davidson, documentary filmmaker (We Were So Beloved) and film school alumnus Manny Kirchheimer (CCNY ’52), CUNY Professor Jerry Carlson, and current CCNY film school students.”

2020: Unless canceled due to the pandemic, the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host the first session of Dr. Aviva Dautch’s “Seder Night with my Ancestors.”

2020(20th of Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi Joel Sirkes, Rabbi Moses Meir Perles of Prague, Rabbi Yom Tov Algazi, and Yiddish poet Joseph Jaffe.

2021: “The Bay Area and other Federation communities are scheduled to host an evening with Michael Solomonov, executive chef and co-owner of Zahav in Philadelphia who “will share three favorite Passover recipes during a virtual cooking event.”

2021: The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies is scheduled to present online “The Nature of A.D. Gordon: Environment, Nationalism and Jewish Culture.”

2021: The Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco is scheduled to host “The 25th Annual Multicultural Passover Freedom Seder.”

2021: The Jewish Community of the North Shore is scheduled to present online “Nafshi Yeshovev: What Lifts My Spirit – An Exploration of Text, Poetry, Music and More.”

2021: The New Israel Fund and the Other Israel Film Festival are scheduled to present online “Israeli Leaders on Film.”

2021: Sephardi Federation of the Palm Beach County is scheduled to present “Dr. Albert Menache & The Holocaust in Salonika With Dr. Joe Halio.”

2021: Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple’s clergy is scheduled to “lead a special virtual healing service at 6:15 p.m. today designed to comfort and support those facing illness or pain of any kind and their caregivers, and to mark the first year period since COVID-19 shut down Ohio and much of the United States.”

2021: Moment and the Rewind film project from the Stanford Jewish Studies Department are scheduled to present online “Adapting Jewish Literature” during which “movies based on I.B. Singer’s “Yentl” and Amos Oz’s “A Tale of Love and Darkness” are discussed by historian Fania Oz-Salzberger, author Ruby Namdar and culture critic Rokhl Kafrissen.”

 

This Day, March 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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796 BCE (1stof Nisan, 2956): Based on computations using the Bible and archaeology, possible date for the death of Jehoash, King of Judah.

45 BCE:  Julius Caesar defeated the forces of Pompey at the Battle of Munda.  Caesar’s victory put an end to the Pompeian attempt to rule Rome. Considering the way Pompey treated the Jews, Caesar’s victory was the preferable outcome.

180: Antonius Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome passed away at the age of 58.  The author of Meditations was known as a wise philosopher-king.  However, he had little use for the Jews.  While traveling in Judea, he described the Jews as "Stinking and tumultuous."  He reportedly expressed a preference for the Teutonic barbarians whom he was fighting on the border between Gaul and Germania.

455: Petronius Maximus becomes emperor of the Western Roman Empire after murdering Valentinian III and forcing the Empress Eudoxia to marry him.  The Empress wrote to Genseric the Vandal asking him to come to Rome to avenge her. According to Theophanes he came and sacked the city and reportedly carried off the treasures from the Second Temple that had been seized by Titus in 70.

763: Birthdate of Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasid caliph who sent Jewish teachers to France at the request of Charlemagne.

1190: The Crusaders completed the massacre of Jews of York England slaughtering 500 Jews on this particular day.

1398: Today “The city council of Worms enacted an ordinance that every Jew or Jewess over twelve should pay one old tournois in Leibzoll, but not one farthing more.”

1406: Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian born Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun whose writing about the history of the Berbers described the conversion of Kahina, the 7th century “warrior queen” to Judaism.

1513: Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew from Provence, as his personal physician and unofficial advisor and whose leniency towards the Jews may have stemmed from an attitude summed up by his statement that “It is well known how useful this fable of Christ has been to us and ours!” was consecrated today.

1526: After making “major concessions to Charles V” Francis I who had no Jewish subjects but had a strange interest in the Hebrew language as can be seen by his unsuccessful attempt get the Hebrew grammarian Elias Levita to move to his realm, was freed today.

1616: In Holland, under the rule of Prince Maurice of Orange, it is decided that each city could decide for itself whether or not to admit Jews. In those towns where they were admitted they would not be required to wear a badge of any sort identifying them as Jews.

1636: Urban VIII issued “Cum allias piae” a Papal Bull that ordered the “Synagogues of the Duchies of Ferarri and Urban, to pay a tax of 10 ecus.”

1654: Alexis Mikhailovich, the second Romanov Czar, issued an edict today instructing “a party of Lithuanian Jews to proceed from Kaluga to Nijni-Novgorod” under the protection of an “escort of twenty sharpshooters.”

Read more: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1178&letter=A&search=Czar%20Alexis%20I#ixzz1GhwP8x13 

1733: “Deborah,” an oratorio by Handel based on Chapters 4 and 5 of the Book of Judges premiered at the King’s Theatre in London.

1749: “Solomon,” an oratorio by Handel based on the Biblical account of the Israelite King had its first performance at the Theatre Royal in London.

1757: Following a dispute with other members of the Bet Din in London, Isaac Nieto wrote a letter today resigning as ab bet din.  Nieto was the son David Nieto and he had served as the Haham of Bevis Marks and as the first Rabbi of the Great Synagogue in Gibraltar. He had been serving as the ab bet din since 1751

1762: The first St. Patrick’s Day Parade is held in New York City.  The parade was organized by Irish soldiers serving in the British Navy.  “Corned beef and cabbage is the traditional meal enjoyed by many on St. Patrick's Day, but only half of it is truly Irish. Cabbage has long been a staple of the Irish diet, but it was traditionally served with Irish bacon, not corned beef. The corned beef was substituted for bacon by Irish immigrants who came to America and who could not afford the real thing i.e. bacon. According to one version of this tale, the Irish immigrants learned about the cheaper alternative, corned beef, from their Jewish neighbors.” Are we to believe that traif bacon gave way to kosher Corned Beef?  Only in America!

1764(13th of Adar II, 5524): Parahsat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1777: Birthdate of Baden native Bina Leone, the wife of Elias Isaak Cahn with whom she had seven children.

1780: Rosine Wambacher and Abraham Hutzler gave birth to David Hutzler.

1786: In German, Dreile Schweizer and Philip Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Samuel Faist Rosenheim, the husband of Madel Rebensburger with whom he had six children.

1787: In Germany, Jentle Loeb and Moses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Samuel Moses Faist Rosenheim, the husband of Sarah Bernheimer with whom he had seven children.

1795: Birthdate of Mary Harris, the wife London native Zadoc Aaron Jessel whom she married in London’s Great Synagogue in 1819 and the mother of Henry, Edward, George and Amelia Jessel

1798: Birthdate of Jacob Ettlinger, the native of Baden who became a leader of Orthodox Judaism and served as Chief Rabbi in Altona from 1836 until his death in 1871

1789: Birthdate of Edmund Kean, the great 19thcentury Shakespearian actor who first gained fame for his portrayal of Shylock.  The portrayal of the Jew from Venice was a difficult role and a career-maker for those few who did it successfully.

1801: In Galicia, Rabbi Shebah ha-Levi and his wife gave birth to Orientalist Simchah Pinksker, the father of Leon Pinsker.

1805: The Italian Republic, a creation of Napoleon, was transformed in the Kingdom of Italy with the French emperor serving as King.  The Jews of Italy benefited from the appearance of the French revolutionary armies. Between 1796 and 1798, they had liberated several ghettos, most notably the Rome Ghetto in 1798.  The Jews will be forced to return to their ghettos with the return of Italian reactionaries, but Napoleon would have one last success when he freed the Jews of Florence from their Ghetto in 1808.

1807: Birthdate of Mendel Hess the Chief Rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Weimar (Germany).

1808: Birthdate of Adolfo Eisenstadter who is buried at the Marjan Hill Cemetery in Split, Croatia.

1808: Today an imperial edict was issued that “divided the Jews living in French countries into consistories. Brussels (Belgium) was included in the consistory of Crefeld. Since 1794, the French had controlled Belgium.  By the time of the issuance of that edit, this meant Napoleon was the one issuing the orders. On the overthrow of Napoleon, Belgium was united with Holland; and the Jewish community of Brussels became the head of the fourteenth religious district of Holland. After the revolution of 1830 Brussels became the head of the Belgian consistories, and a chief rabbi was nominated.”

1808: The Infamous Decree (decret infame) of Napoleon canceled all debts owed to Jews by those serving in the military or by women if it was signed without the approval of their husbands or parents. It also abolished freedom of trade of the Jews by forcing them to acquire permits (which were almost never given) from the local prefects, and it prevented Jews from settling in the area of the Upper and Lower Rhine.

1808: Establishment of the Central Consistory of French Jews.

1811: Birthdate of Karl Gutzkow, the author “Uriel Acosta” which was first performed in Yiddish in 1882 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Odessa starring Abba Schoengold whom Jacob Adler described as "the god of the Yiddish public, the god, indeed, of all who saw him on stage... the handsomest man in the world. Tall. Blue eyes. Golden hair. An Apollo."

1811: The Austrian Emperor denied Simon Edler von Lämel permission to purchase a house in Vienna but “in the same year elevated him to the hereditary nobility” as a reward for his assistance in supplying the Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

1814: In Amsterdam, Alexander (Elkan) Rimini and Juedith Abraham Messias gave birth to Sara Rimini, the wife of Abraham Delmonte who was living in Whitechapel at the time of her death in 1884/

1815: In Darmstadt, Reina (Rachel) Oppenheimer and Abraham Oppenheimer gave birth to Myer Oppenheimer.

1818: “A restrict measure, which Napoleon had enacted in 1808, -- to continue in force for ten years only, on his assumption that such a ten years’ term was necessary to enable the Jews to conform to the conclusions of his Sanhedrin to become good citizens of the country of their domicile and to be an alien nation expired” today “by its own limitation.”

1819: Abraham Solomon married Ellen Levy at the New Synagogue today.

1826(8th of Adar II, 5586): Hetty Grace Levy, the daughter of Solomon Levy passed away toay.

1832: Birthdate of Moncure Daniel Conway the Unitarian clergyman and author whose works include The Wandering Jew and Solomon and Solomonic Literature

1833(26th of Adar, 5593): Judith Levy, the daughter of Chaim Levy passed away today.

1836: In Charleston, South Carolina, Isaac and Babetta Dittenhoefer, gave birth to Abram Jess Dittenhoefer. His parents were immigrants from Germany who lived in Baltimore and Charleston before settling in New York where his father became a successful merchant.  A graduate of Columbia Law, young Dittenhoefer would become a practicing attorney and successful judge. Oddly enough, this Jew who was born in the Cradle of the Confederacy would be one of the electors from New York who would cast a vote for Abraham Lincoln in the Electoral College.

1840: Henry Benjamin married Marian Alexander at the Great Synagogue today.

1840: Birthdate of Henri Didon Louis Remy, the Dominican friar who spoke “approvingly of Renan’s closing work, History of the Jews which depicts “Christianity as the flower, masterpiece and glory of Judaism.”

1841: Harris Barnett married Leah Levy at the Great Synagogue today

1842: Birthdate of Dublin native Julie Calisher, the husband of Birmingham, England native Julius Calisher.

1843(15th of Adar II, 5603): Shushan Purim

1846: Mary Ann Talbot and Abdallah Ben Cassan gave birth to Ali Adolphus Ben Cassan

1848: Eight years before the death of his father Jacob Steinschenider, Moritz Steinschneider “after many difficulties succeeded in becoming a Prussian citizen” in “the same year” that “he was charged with preparation of the catalogue of Hebrew books in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.”

1848: By the time the time that Carl Heinrich Spitzer, a 17 year old Moravian Jew studying at the Vienna Polytechnic who had been the first one shot down by imperial troops two days ago was laid to rest today, Emperor Ferdinand had “had acceded to the students’ demands for a national guard, a freed press and the promise of a constitution.”

1849: 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” began is reign today.

1851: Rabbi Sabato Morais arrives in Philadelphia with the expectation of becoming the spiritual leader of Congregation Mikveh Israel.

1852: In Copenhagen, Amalia Monies and Charles Kann gave birth to Albert Kann.

1852: In Germany, Lazarus Siegel and Zerlin Koch gave birth to Henry Siegel, who married Marie Vaugh Wilde after his first wife Julia Rosenbaum passed away and came to the United States in 1867 and opened a series of progressively more successful department stores starting in Parkersburg, West Virginia and climaxing with purchases of emporiums in Chicago and New York.

1852: In Eubigheim, Lazarus Siegel and Zerlina Koch gave birth to Henry Seigel, the German immigrant who came to United States in 1852 where he established and/or acquired a series of increasingly successful department store including Siegel, Hartsfield & Co., the Siegel Cooper Company, Simpson Crawford Company in New York, and the Schlesinger and Mayer Company in Chicago.

1854: Mr. and Mrs. Moses Ley Maduro Peixotta gave birth to Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto, a leader in the New York State Militia who died because of fever contracted during the Spanish-American War.

1857: Paul Reuter, a Jew by birth who would become one of the first of the modern Press Lords as the founder of Reuters legally became a British subject.  Reuter had already shed the Jewish part of his origins when he converted in November of 1845, a month after he had moved to London.

1858(2ndof Nisan, 5618): Seventy-six-year-old Samuel Lyons, the Baltimore born son of Eleazar Lyons passed away today in Philadelphia.

1858: In Chicago, Elias and Rosine (Straus) Greenbaum gave birth to banker Moses E. Greenbaum, the husband of Julia Friedman who was president of Greenbaum Sons Bank and Trust Company and Greenbaum Sons Investment Company as well as President of Chicago Sinai Congregation and a trustee of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the National Jewish hospital for Consumpitves in Denver and the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City.

1859: In Frankfurt, Selig and Clementine Goldschmidt gave birth to their second child Flora.

1860(23rdof Adar, 5620): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah

1861: In Wilmington, Delaware, Josiah and Lisette (Frankel) Bochroch gave birth to Jefferson Medical College graduate Max H. Bochroch, a Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at Temple University and a member of Rodeph Sholom Congregation in Philadelphia who married Jennie M. Wolfe in 1887.

1861: The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. The ghetto walls came tumbling down and the Jews were fully emancipated.  Jews played an active part in the creation of the modern Italian state and they enjoyed a level of social and legal acceptance that was second only to that enjoyed by the Jews of Great Britain.

1862(15th of Adar II, 5622): Shushan Purim

1862: A group of wealthy young men who formed what would be known as the Purim Association held the first Purim Ball in New York City.

1862(15th of Adar II, 5622): Composer Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy passed away.  Born in 1799, Halévy composed the tragic opera La Juive and the comic opera L'Éclair. These works are his major claim to artistic fame.

1864: In New York City, Yetta Hackes and Louis Stix who had been married since 1852 gave birth to Otto Louis Stix

1864(9th of Adar II, 5624): Abraham David Meijer, the brother of Jonas Daniel Meijer (the first Jewish lawyer in the Netherlands) passed away today.

1865(19th of Adar, 5625): Seventy-one-year-old Rabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer, the native of Copenhagen passed away today in Vienna.

http://jewish_bio.enacademic.com/2097/Mannheimer,_Isaac_Noah

1869: Louis and Bluma Joseph were married today at Cavendish Square.

1870(14th of Adar II, 5630): Purim

1870(14th of Adar): Rabbi Dov Ber ben Isaac Meisels of Cracow, author of Hiddushei Mahardam passed away

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

1870: Since the Purim balls in New York appear to have lost their popularity, tonight’s Purim celebrations will not consist of any “grand demonstration” but will be limited to some unpretentious entertainments.

1873(18th of Adar, 5633): Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Salvador a member of a distinguished French Sephardi family whose mother was Roman Catholic, the author of Paris, Rome, Jerusalem ou la Question religieuse au XIX siècle who was angered by the anti-Jewish riots in German and was considered a ‘proto-Zionist” passed away today,

1873: Three days after she had passed away, 66 year old Catherine “Kate” Collins (nee Isaacs) the wife of Solomon Collins and the mother of Adelaide and William Collins was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1874:  In Budapest, Dr. Aaron Wise, the future rabbi of Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn, New York and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, the grandson of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Weiss and Móric Fischer de Farkasházy, the founder of the Herend Porcelain Company.

Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise declined to accept the pulpit of New York's largest Reform Congregation if it meant he could not speak out in favor of Zionism and he became the President of the Zionist Organization of America.  Wise was one of several Jews who attended the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I.  In 1922, Wise founded the Jewish Institute of Religion "in an attempt at sectarian non-partisanship, so that its graduates might serve any one of the [Jewish] religious groupings" in the United States.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007309

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stephen-samuel-wise

1876: Birthdate of New York City native Samuel Levy, the lawyer, the New York Board of Education and Manhattan Borough President who married Sadie Vesell with whom he had one daughter, Bernice and one son Lawrence, the husband of Betha Rothafel, “the daughter of theatrical impresario and entrepreneur Samuel Roxy Rothafel.

1877: According to a report published today in The Times of London the “Jews’ Deaf and Dumb Home” “was founded in 1863 by Baroness Mayer de Rothschild as a school where resident Jewish children could learn to speak.”

1878: “Ethical Culture” which was published today describes the growth of The Society for Ethical Culture which was founded only two years before by Felix Adler.  The author gives due consideration to Adler’s Jewish origins and the effect that has had in creating the increasingly popular movement.

1878: The Jewish owner of the coffee and cake saloon at number 7 Fulton Street failed in his effort to get Justice Murray to find that his employee was not guilty of violating the city’s ordinance against throwing oyster shells, after shucking them, into the street. 

1878: The annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews began this morning at 11 o’clock.  Due to the inclement weather, the turnout was smaller than normal.  The reception ended at 6 in the evening.

1878: Cohen Davis, an elderly glazier, was tried for perjury today in the General Sessions Court.  The prosecutor charged that he had lied under oath during the trial of Abraham Freeman and Charles Freeman who have been convicted of arson in the first degree. 

1879: In Paris, Noémie and Adolphe Bloch gave birth to Jules André Albert Bloch

1880 In New York City, “Isaac Jacobs and Rachel Strauss gave birth to boxing Promoter Michael “Uncle Mike” Jacobs whose career spanned an era the ran from Jack Dempsey’s reign to the retirement of Joe Louis, two of the greatest heavyweight champions of the world during boxing’s so-called golden age.

1880: It was reported today that the annual ball sponsored by the Purim Association had raised $18,585.80 for the New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.

1880: It was reported today that George Kessler is among those selling tickets the Concord Society’s first grand annual charity ball which is a benefit for the Young Ladies’ Charitable which is an adjunct of the United Hebrew Charities.

1881: Twenty-one-year-old Aizik Aronchic, the son of “Jewish traders from Gomel” was arrested today for his role in the 1879 “attempt by Narodnaya Volya to kill the Tsar by exploding a mine under the Moscow - Kursk railway as his train passed.”

1882: In Chicago, “Abraham and Anna (Hinde) Shemerinsky” gave birth to Gertrude Shemerinsky who married Jacob Kaplan and as Gertrude Kaplan gave birth to five children.

1882: “Justice Steckler Expelled” published today described the decision to expel Alfred Steckler and some of his associates from the Tenth Assembly District Republican Association.  Steckler and his associates were not expelled because they were Jewish but because they had failed to support the Republican candidate.

1882: Birthdate of Polish native Max Cline, who in 1885 came to the United States where graduated from MIT and became “the chief chemist of the International Paper Company’s research division.

1884: Birthdate of Dr. Nahum Nir, the native of Warsaw who made Aliyah in 1925 and was one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

1884(20th of Adar, 5644): Benjamin Gratz passed away in Lexington, KY.  Part of the famous Gratz family, he was born in Philadelphia in 1792.  After serving in the Army during the War of 1812 he moved to Kentucky where he practiced law and served as trustee of Transylvania University.

1885: Three days after she had passed away, 24 year old Constance Baumann, the daughter of “David and Sarah Baumann” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1884: After moving to Kansas City, MO and working “at the law firm of Lathrop, Smith and Marrow in 1884, today William J. Berkowitz “and his brother founded Berkowitz and Company Printers the forerunner if what is now called the Tension Corporation.

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/americasmailingindustry/Tension-Corporation.html

 1886(10th of Adar II, 5646): Ninety-one-year-old Leopold Zunz also known—"Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz" passed away. Born in 1794, “he was a German Reform rabbi and writer, the founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.”

1888: In Bloomfield, NJ, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Harris gave birth to WW I veteran and President of the Young Men’s Building and Loan Association Harvey E. Harris, the Postmaster of Bloomfield who was the brother of Jerome, Irving and Hazel Harris.

1888: In Yemen, Bohemian born linguist Eduard Glaser began his third journey from Sanaa to Ma’rib

1889(14th of Adar II, 5649): Purim

1890: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and Jefferson Medical College trained dermatologist  Sigmund Samuel Greenbaum, the husband of Rae Shirley Refowich whom he married in 1922 and author of Diseases of the Mouth and Their Treatment who was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of B’nai Brith and Keneseth Israel Congregation.

1890: Birthdate of Russia native and Kiev University graduate Solomon Cutler who in 1913 came to the United States where he raised two daughters with his wife while serving as the “director of the budget department of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York.”

1891: Birthdate of New York native and CCNY graduate Max Gewirtz, the holder of a Masters Degree from Teachers College at Columbia and Doctorate from NYU who retired as an assistant superintended “of a district in Queens in 1961 and became “head of a religious school at Temple Israel in Lawrence, L.I.

1892(18th of Adar, 5652): Fifty-seven-year-old Moravian native Max Srakosch, “an impresario and agent” who was the brother of Maurice Strakosch passed away today in New York.

1892: It was reported today that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will be addressing the congregants at Temple Israel in Harlem.

1892: In Seattle, WA, founding of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society which met on the first Wednesday of each month and whose members included Ida Davis who served as the society’s secretary.

1893: “Russia’s Securities May Suffer” published today described an appeal made by the London Russo-Jewish Committee that has been “sent to every Jewish banker, bank director, bank manager, stockbroker, and “agent de change” in Europe calling on them” to boycott Russian loans and Russian financial transactions in general. “The appeal is in retaliation” for the continued severe treatment of the Russian Jews by the Czar

1894: Moritz Kepes, a Jewish saloon owner, was beaten up today by John Fuchs and his son who owned a nearby saloon.

1894: A fire broke out today in a tenement house on Jefferson Street this morning that is owned by Abraham Doworsky and is occupied by Russian Jews.  Some of the tenants told Doworsky that they would be starting a newspaper in the building’s basement, but the fire exposed the fact that they were operating an illegal still.

1894: “The Germans and their Fatherland” published today provides a detailed review Germany and the Germans by William Harbutt in which the author devotes one chapter to the anti-Semitic party and another chapter the criminal activities in which Jews engage.  The author does raise and does not answer the question “What do the anti-Semites propose to do with the Jews and what would do without them

1894: The United Hebrew Charities reported today that between October 1, 1893 to March 1, 1894 that they had over 18,000 applicants for assistance.  During those five months, the charity had spent over $103,000 for clothing, medicine burials, coal and operating the industrial schools.  For the same period a year ago, they had spent a little more than $46,000 which is indicative of the losses caused by the depression that began in 1893.

1895: Three days after she had passed away, 58 year old Esther Nyman, the wife of Abraham Nyman was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1895: Contrary to what is listed in Wikipedia, today, in Brooklyn Solomon and Jennie Horwitz gave birth to Samuel Horwitz who gained fame as Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges.

http://www.shemphoward.com/biography.html

1897(13thof Adar II, 5657): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim

1897: Birthdate of Charles Levine, the son of Massachusetts scrap metal dealer, who was a pioneer in the field of aviation.  A contemporary of Lindbergh, he was on the second plane that flew from America across the Atlantic.  Unlike Lindbergh who was heading for Paris, Levine was trying to make Berlin.  Although he had to land one hundred miles short of his distance, he had actually out-distanced the Lone Eagle.

1897: Samuel Simon Leibowitz arrived in America with his parents from Romania.  Born in 1893, he would become a famous defense attorney and New York Judge.  He is best known as attorney who took the lead in defending the Scottsboro Boys.

1898: “The Baron De Hirsch Fund” published today described the efforts to build “model tenements” and erect “suburban homes” to relieve the overcrowding on the Lower East Side.  Some of the money had already been used to purchase 12 lots across the Harlem River where “model tenements” will be constructed. These efforts are not to be confused with other efforts financed by the late Baron Hirsch and his widow to develop “agricultural colonies” including the one at Woodbine, NJ.

1899: “Jewish Philanthropy” published today described Simon Wolf’s view of Jewish generosity.  According to him, “We take care of our people and we help others.”  “In the largest cities in the United States” Jews have collected $64,000,000 for philanthropic purposes, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of such mean as Oscar Nathan, Isidor Straus and Adolphus S. Solomon.

1899: On Chicago’s South Side, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise dedicated the sanctuary of The Reform Congregation of Isaiah Temple which had been designed by Dankmar Adler.

1900: Birthdate of American film composer Alfred Newman, a major Jewish-American composer of music for films. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. He also composed the familiar fanfare which accompanies the studio logo for 20th Century Fox, where he headed the music department. He was active until the end of his life, scoring Airport shortly before his death. Between 1930 and 1970, he wrote music for over 200 films of every imaginable type, including a score for the newsreel made from the World War II footage of the Battle of Midway

1901: In Philadelphia, PA, a federation of Jewish charities including the Jewish Hospital Association, Jewish Foster Home, Society of United Hebrew Charities, Hebrew Education Society, Orphans' Guardians, Jewish Maternity Association, Jewish Immigration Society, Young Women's Union, and Hebrew Sunday-School Society was formed today with Jacob Gimbel as President

1902: Two days after she had passed away, 76-year-old Louisa Levy, the husband of Charles Levy with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1902: Herzl is authorized to obtain three letters of credit, each for a million francs, from banks in Paris, Berlin and London. The funds are to be deposited in Turkish banks.  Several members of the Actions Committee including Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin are opposed to the plan. Ussishkin and Herzl were both fervent Zionists, but they had different views as to the goal of establishing a Jewish home in Eretz Israel could be accomplished. Born in 1863 in Russia, Ussishkin would become an early Zionist leader and first President of the Jewish Nation Fund or JNF.In his youth,he became an enthusiastic reader of the works of contemporary Hebrew writers in his teens, and from then on the revival of the Hebrew language was one of the main goals of his life work. Like many other early Hibbat Zion members, he was shocked by the Russian pogroms of 1881, which emphasized to him the necessity for Jewish emigration. Ussishkin then began working actively for several Zionist groups. After graduating as a technical engineer from the Technological Institute in Moscow, he became active in Hebrew educational work as well as in Zionist propaganda and fund-raising in Russia. Ussishkin was a "practical" Zionist who viewed agricultural settlement in Eretz Israel as the first and most important step toward attaining a Jewish state. He was thus active in recruiting youth for pioneer work and for agricultural settlement of the land. He was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress held in Basle in 1893, and was appointed Hebrew secretary of the Congress. At the Seventh Zionist Congress (1905), he was among the leaders of those who forced the abandonment of the Uganda Scheme, and he then proposed a program of Zionism which was later adopted by the Zionist movement. Under his influence the Zionist movement actively supported the establishment of agricultural settlements, educational and cultural institutions, and a Hebrew university. In 1919 Ussishkin himself settled in Eretz Israel, and in 1923 he was chosen to head the Jewish National Fund, a position he held for nearly twenty years.

1902: It was reported today that “during the month of February, 2,512 families and individuals applied at the relief bureau of the United Hebrew Charities for assistance” including 681 who were applying for aid for the first time.

1903: Based on reports from their co-religionists in Russia, today, it is evident to the leading Jews in New York “that the exceptional laws to which the Russian Jews are subjected – the so-called ‘May Laws’ --- will not be abolished by the Czar’s recent decree “granting reforms throughout Russia.”

1904: Birthdate of Alfred Henry “Truck” Miller the native of Boston who played who played for Harvard before spending one year as a profession with the Boston Bulldogs.

1904: Birthdate of Chaim Gross an Austrian born American sculptor. Gross began exhibiting both his sculpture and graphic art in 1935 and was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. Gross was a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as a member of Artists Equity, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He served as President of the Sculptors Guild of America.  He passed away in 1991 at the age of 84. (As reported by John T. McQuiston)

1905: In Chelsea, MA, Joseph A Strauss and Ida (Chayah) Kasriels of Russia gave birth to Harry Strauss who married Cecile G Pofcher in 1931.

1906: Adolf Kraus of Chicago, the President of the Executive Committee of B’nai B’rith received a cablegram from the Russian Premier, Count Witte in response to his letter inquiring what measures had been put in place to protect the lives and property of Jews during a planned Easter massacre in which Witte said his government does not approve of violence and that all measures will be taken to protect “peaceable inhabitants without regard to nationality.”

1906: It was reported today that “two high officials of the Ministry of the Interior, one of whom has been arrested” were “the authors of the pamphlet inciting the people to murder the Jews”

1907(2nd of Nisan, 5667): Gotlieb Schmelkes the husband of Henriette Schmelkes and the father of Markus and Rachel Schmelkes passed away today

1907: Birthdate of Smith College graduate Elizabeth Zetel Rosenberg, the New York born daughter of jurist James N. Rosenburg and University of London trained physician and pyschoanallyst.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/zetzel-rosenberg-elizabeth-1907-1970

1908(14thof Adar II, 5668): Purim

1908: The Council of Jewish Women held “their regular meeting” today in the West End Synagogue during which they heard a lecture on the “Physical Welfare of Children” given by Charles C. Burlingham, the ex-president of the Board of Education who “urged that action be taken to prevent school children” many of whose mothers are cleaning offices early in the morning from going to school without eating breakfast. (The more things change, the more they stay the same)

1909: Welterweight Joe Hirst fought “his first big fight today in Philadelphia which was a six round bout that was a draw.

1909: Sixty-four-year-old Mariam Myers was buried today at the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.

1909: It was reported today that the Jews said the decision of the Senate in Finland to ban the “slaughter of cattle in accordance with Jewish ritual” was “evidence of the anti-Jewish sentiment in that body” while members of the Senate claimed the decision “was based purely on sanitary and humane grounds.”

1910: Alma Gluck is scheduled to appear in a matinee performance of the opera “Werther” at The New Theatre in New York.

1910: Birthdate of David Abraham "Sonny" Werblin the Flatbush native who gained national fame for his purchase of the New York Jets and the signing of Joe Namath – an act which helped to force the NFL to merge with the AFL.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/23/sports/sonny-werblin-an-impresario-of-new-york-s-sports-extravaganza-is-dead-at-81.html

1911: In Vienna “artisan Jakob Goldsand and his wife Helene” gave birth to American classical pianist Robert Goldsand.

https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/robert-goldsand

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/obituaries/robert-goldsand-80-pianist-and-teacher.html

1911: Birthdate of Moshe Baram the native of Zdolbuniv who made Aliyah in 1931 and after Independence served as an MK and cabinet minister.

1912: This evening Rabbi Israel Odes presided over a meeting of the “many synagogues on the east side” held “under the auspices of the sons and Daughters of Israel which heard speeches by Justice Samuel Greenbaum and Congressman Henry Goldfogle who urged the attendees “to keep alive the religious spirit of the Jewish race.”

1913(8thof Adar II, 5673): Forty-four-year-old glass manufacturer Jacob H. Werbelowsky passed away today in in Brooklyn, NY.

1914: It was reported today that the colony based on the cooperative model desiged by Dr. Franz Oppenheimer which now employees fifty workman has been more successful than other settlement ventures and it is hoped will begin to “show a decent profit” in the next two years.

1915: Birthdate of Wolfgang Doblin the son of German author Bruno Alfred Döblin

1915: The Russian official press bureau tonight issued a statement tonight denying claims by the Austrians that Russian soldiers have “committed outrages on the Jewish populations in Galicia, Bukowina and Russian Poland.”

1915: “The American Jewish Relief Committee announced” today “that letters to person in Russia should be written in either Russian, English or French” since owing to the strict censorship in force in Russia…letters written in Yiddish or any other language than those named had little or no chance of being delivered.”

1915: As of today, the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $573,267.00.

1915: Today, Professor A.T. Fowler of the Biblical Department of” Brown “University and a member of the Advisory Board of the” Menorah “Society spoke on ‘The Bible as a Literary Document.’”

1915: As of today, it was reported that there are an estimated 50,000 Falsahas (Black Jews) living in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and that Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch, a French Jew is working on developing an educational program for them.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_06241.html

 

 

1915: Tonight, in Washington, DC, “the Austro-Hungarian Embassy…made public a dispatch from the Foreign Office in Vienna” that the “Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army under the pretext that populating sympathizing with Austrians and Germans…has ordered that Jews are forbidden to remain in districts occupied by the army and are forbidden to enter the country east of Jaroslau.” (Editor’s Note – Jaroslau is a town in southeast Poland on the border with Russia where Jews had lived since the 15th century and whose pre-WW I population was 25% Jewish.  On the Eastern Front all warring parties accused the Jews of being spies or worse and used this as an excuse for indiscriminate killing and expulsion.)

1916(12thof Adar II, 5676): Julia Frankau, the Dublin born Jewish daughter of photographer Hyman Davis and wife of Arthur Frankau who used the penname Frank Danby during her writing career which began with the publication of a novel that was a “social satire” of Anglo-Jewry passed away today.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2774960.Julia_Frankau

1916: Birthdate of Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a dermatologist who invented the widely used acne medication Retin-A but whose experiments involving prisoners raised ethical questions that dogged his career.

1916: During the expedition to capture Pancho Villa, a military action that involved so many Jewish soldiers that Jewish chaplains were dispatched to the theatre of operation and High Holiday services were held at several locations, General Pershing established his main base at Colonia Dublan.

1917: One hundred and ninety Jews from Palestine migrate to Cyprus on an Ottoman mail steamer.

1917: Birthdate of Karel Švenk, the native of Prague and multi-talented entertainer – “cabaret artist, comedian, songwriter and writer” – who was shipped to Terezin and then to Auschwitz before weeks before the war ended on a transport to Mauthausen.

1917: Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman, Ida Bienstock Landau, Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, and Sylvia Steierman founded Delta Phi Epsilon (ΔΦΕ or DPhiE) is an international sorority at New York University Law School.

1918: It was reported today that “as a result of their on Washington’s Birthday the 62,000 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union have contributed $140,000 to the American Jewish Relief Committee.

1918: The British Army including the Jewish battalion captured Amman.

1918(4th of Nisan, 5678): Forty-eight year old San Francisco native Tessie (Goslinsky) Fleischner,  the wife of Newton Fleishner, the Albany, Oregon, born son Bohemian natives Jacob Fleischner and Fanny who was an 1878 graduate of St. Augustine’s College, a partner in Fleischner, Mayer & Company, “the largest wholesale dry goods house on the Pacific coast” and President of the local B’nai B’rith Lodge with whom she had two daughters, passed away today after which she was buried in the Beth El Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

1918: It was reported today that the American Jewish Relief Committee chaired by Louis Marshall continues to receive contributions from committees across the country including $1,000 from Nashville, TN and $174 from Richmond, Indiana.

1919: In Paris “President Wilson conferred today with Bernard Baruch and others who are serving as economic experts with the American mission and approved their proposals of no trade discrimination against enemy countries after the war.”

1919: Today, “leaders of the Isaac M. Wise Centenary Fund Campaign expressed themselves as highly pleased with the result of the first day’s work in the campaign…which will endeavor to raise $100,000 among the Jews of New York for the furtherance of the work of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.”

1920: St. Louis Rabbi, Goodman “George” Lipkind wrote a one act comedy, “Wanted a Housekeeper.”

1921: Birthdate of Meir Slutzki who as Meir Amit gained fame as an Israeli politician, general, and Director of the Mossad.

1921: The Constituent Assembly ratified the constitution of the Polish Republic which granted equal rights to the Jews.

1921: Thirty-year-old Barney Sedran led the Trenton Bengals to victory over the Wilkes-Barre Barons.

1921: At the Cairo Conference attended by Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence (better known as “Lawrence of Arabia”) it was agreed that Transjordan (an Arab State) should be separated from Palestine “thus enabling Britain to fulfill its wartime pledges to both the Arabs and the Jews.”  The decision reinforced the right for Jews to “be able to settle the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan, from the Galilee to the Negev.” (“This comprised the area of both Israel and the West Bank today.”)

 1925: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be held this morning at the Ethical Culture Meeting House in Manhattan for sixty-three year old Harvard and Columbia Law School trained corporate attorney Alfred Jaretzki, the New York born son of Gustave and Henrietta Jaretzki and the father of Maud, Alice, Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. who was a member of Sullivan and Cromwell, “trustee of the Mount Sinai Hospital, a director of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and a director of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society”  followed by burial at Mt. Pleasant, NY.

1926: Rodgers and Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premiered in New York.  This is but one example of a Jewish team providing a hit musical comedy for Broadway.

1926: Seventy-two-year-old Alexsei Brusilov, the Chief of Staff who approved the appointment of Jewish Chaplains to serve in the Russian Army in 1917 passed away today.

1926: As of today, members the Women’s Division of the Harmonie Club which is helping to raise six million dollars for the United Jewish Campaign include Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Mrs. Ira Hill Bamberger and Mrs. Charles J. Liebman.

1927(13thof Adar II, 5687): Fast of Esther

1927: A man identified as “Prince Michel Obolensky, scion of a noble but impoverished Russian family celebrated by St. Patrick’s Day by” delivering “an oration” attacking the Jews on the corner of 14th Street and Avenue which touched off neighborhood brawl.

1927: In New Rochelle, NY, Irma Ruskin and Jacob Ruskin, “a lawyer and Civil Court Judge gave birth to New York Law School trained attorney Robert Kenneth Ruskin “who as New York City’s investigation commissioner in the early 1970s probed corruption among building inspectors, construction unions, police officers, parking ticket officials and peep-show operators…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/nyregion/robert-k-ruskin-who-targeted-new-york-corruption-dies-at-93.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1928: In Manhattan “Benjamin Kaufman, the chairman of Kaufman Management, and the former Stella Cohen, a fashion designer known as Brownie” gave birth to George Stewart Kaufman, “the real estate magnate” who helped to make the Queens a place for movie and television production. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/obituaries/george-s-kaufman-who-revived-astoria-studios-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1929: In Brooklyn, taxi driver Samuel Rosenfeld and bookkeeper Frances Rosenfeld gave birth to Florence Rosenfeld who gained fame as “Florence Howe, a key architect of the women’s studies movement and a founder of the Feminist Press, a literary nonprofit dedicated to promoting social justice and amplifying overlooked voices…” As reported by Bonnie Wertheim)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/florence-howe-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1929: The Flonzaley Quartet which had played the String Quartet No. 1 by Erin Schulhoff performed for the last time in a public concert at The Town Hall in New York City.

1929: On St. Patrick’s Day, flyweight Moe Mizler fought his 29th bought in London.

1930: The four-day dedication exercises “of the new Temple Rodeph” in Manhattan were scheduled to come to an end today.

1930: It was reported today that “King Alexander has accepted patronage over the Jewish National Fund bazaar which the Jews of Zagreb are organizing” and that “he is also making a personal donation to the King Peter Forest which the Jewish National Fund is to plant in Palestine.”

1931: According to an interview given today in Vienna by Charlie Chaplin, his “parents on both sides were Jewish” with his mother being described “as a ghetto beauty” and his father being “a fine jargon (Yiddish) comedian.” (JTA)

1933: Victor Klemperer writes in his diary, “on Friday, unfortunately, Thiemes was here. It was frightful . . . such enthusiastic conviction and support. The phraseology of unity. Progress piously repeated. Grete (his wife) said, "Everything else failed, now we have to blow this horn." He corrected her vehemently. "We didn't have to." In really free elections he has voted for the right cause. This I can't forgive him. The poor dog may be frightened for his job. He must howl with the wolves. But why in front of me? . . . Naked violence, breach of law, terrible hypocrisy, unmitigated barbarism poses as law.

 

1933: The Chevrolet Program starring Jack Benny is broadcast for the first time on NBC Radio

1935(12thof Adar II 5695): Mary Goldsmith Prag, the mother of “Florence Prag Khan, the first Jewish congresswoman” passed away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mary-goldsmith-prag

https://www.geni.com/people/Florence-Prag-Kahn-US-Congress/6000000025154791974

1935: The Palestine Maccabee Association announced that it would not participate in the 1936 Olympics to be held in Germany because of that country’s treatment of its Jewish citizens.

1936: “Louis Lipsky, vice president of the American Jewish Congress and honorary president of the Zionist Organization of America returned” today “on the Cunard White Star line Berengaria from Paris and London where he attended several conferences with Jewish leaders and foreign statesmen on the situation of the Jews in many countries including Germany and Poland.”

1936: “Resolutions condemning war as a means of settling international disputes and calling upon the United States Government to ‘reiterate its renouncement of war’ made in the Kellogg-Briand pact were adopted at the closing session today of the biennial convention of the United Synagogue of America.”

1936: “Wolf’s Clothing,” a British comeday co-starring Lilli Palmer, the daughter “Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon” and his wife Rose, “an Austrian Jewish stage actress” was released today the United Kingdom.

1936: In response to the receipt of a copy of Victor Gallancz’s The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of the Jews in Germany from Harold Laski, Churchill wrote Laksi urging the Laborite to find a way to gain support from the Labor Party for the re-armament program designed to thwart the threat of the Nazis.

1936: Following a series of Pogrom-like attack on Jews in central Poland, a mass demonstration of Polish Jews, left-wingers, and liberals was held to protest anti-Semitism in Poland.

1937: Three days after his 18th birthday, Brooklynite Bernard Abramofsky arrived in Spain today and served with Abraham Lincoln Brigade until “he was executed behind the lines in May, 1938.

1937: “One Jewish policeman was seriously injured and sixteen other Jews were slightly hurt tonight when a bomb was thrown in to a bus on Jaffa Road, Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare.”

1937: The Palestine Post reported that in addition to five young Jews who were murdered by Arabs during the past few days, there were two more victims: Samuel Gottfried, 26, of Rosh Pina and an Arab villager who defended his flock from robbers.

1937: “At about 10:30 P.M.,” Meyer Levin discovered two large swastikas painted in black enamel on the door of Ahavath Chesed in Brooklyn and four smaller ones in chalk on the side doors of the synagogue and then notified Abraham Beier, the president of the synagogue “who then asked the police to place a guard on the building.”

1937: The Palestine Post reported that The Jewish Agency Executive in London submitted a memorandum to the British government which claimed that the Arab disturbances which began on April 19, 1936, did not end on October 12, 1936, as claimed by the government and the Arab Higher Committee, but continued uninterruptedly, claiming many Jewish lives.

1938(14thof Adar II, 5698); Purim

1938: “In a message read during the Purim Festival program sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee” the national radio audience heard the words of President Roosevelt who said “enteral vigilance is the price of liberty” and “the defeat of Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews…is one of the milestones in mankind’s long and bloody struggle to achieve freedom.”

1938: Among the “Books Published Today” were An Open Letter to Jews and Christians: A discussion of Jesus in relation to Jews today by John Cournos and the Selected Works of Israel Zangwill including “Children of the Ghetto,” “Ghetto Comedies” and “Ghetto Tragedies.

1939: At a meeting in Tel Aviv today, “the National Council of Palestine Jews…decided to a call a 24 hour strike” to start on Monday, March 20th “  “as the first step in its program of ‘drastic political action’ against Great Britain’s plan” for Palestine.  “The Council condemned the plan as ‘the liquidation of the Jewish national home and strangulation of the Jewish settlement.’”

1939: Erich Otto Sonnheim arrived in the United States from Germany.

http://tabletmag.com/scroll/166071/why-st-patricks-day-is-my-jewish-familys-favorite-holiday

1940: Fritz Todt, who escaped being tried at Nuremberg because he died during WW II was named Riech Minister for Armaments and Ammunition today.

1941: According to a death certificate issued by the Soviet government and made public in 1954 this is date of the death of Isaac Babel. It would not be until the 1990’s that this would be exposed as a lie. Babel had actually been executed by the Soviets on January 27, 1940.

 

1941: Hans Frank, General Governor of Occupied Poland, had a meeting with Adolf Hitler about the fate of Jews in Europe. Afterwards, Frank informs the General Government's undersecretaries of state, police and SS chiefs, district governors, and department directors that the Jews are to be eliminated.

 1942: The 60,000 Jews in Tunisia are restricted to publishing only one newspaper.

1942: It was reported today that “despite the fact that Jews constitute about three percent of the population in the United States, they total eight percent of the 75 recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross so far in this war, among American forces.” (JTA)
1942: In eastern Poland, the Belzec Concentration Camp opened as 1,500 Jews arrive from the Lviv Ghetto in the western Ukraine.  At that time 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews were transported to this death camp.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp

1942: The deportations which began in Lublin would not until 30,000 had been shipped to Belzec by April where most of them were murdered.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp

1942: Birthdate of South African born educator Meyer Feldberg the Dean of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and the Dean of the Columbia School of Business

1942(28th of Adar, 5702): In Pochep, Russia, 1,816 Jewish villagers were massacred in an anti-tank ditch.

1943(10th of Adar II, 5703): More than 1200 Jews from Lvov, Ukraine, were killed at Piaski, Poland, as retribution for the March 16 murder of an SS trooper by a Jewish man. Eleven Jewish policemen were hanged in the ghetto, 1000 Jewish slave laborers were executed, and an additional 200 Jews were murdered.

1943: Today,”the National Gallery of Art marked its second anniversary with the announcement of an extraordinary gift from print collector and former Sears, Roebuck and Company chairman Lessing J. Rosenwald: Rosenwald's print and drawing collection, which ultimately numbered more than 22,000 works at the time of his death.

1943: Dimitur Peshev and 40 other members of the Sobranje, the Bulgarian parliament, sign a petition demanding that deportations of Jews from Bulgaria to Occupied Poland end. Archbishop Kiril of Plovdiv sends a telegram to Tsar Boris III informing him of his intention to lie down on the tracks in front of any trains transporting Bulgarian Jews.

1944: Al Bummy Davis (Abraham Davidoff) lost a bout to the former lightweight chamption today.

1945(3rdof Nisan, 5705): After enduring six months of imprisonment at Buchenwald sixty-one-year-old Henri Paul Gaston Maspero, the French sinologist died today just weeks before the camp was liberated by Patton’s Third Army.

http://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/profiles/maspero.html

1945: Birthdate of mathematician Valery Senderov, the native of Moscow who risked his life and career “in the struggle against state sponsored anti-Semitism.”

1946(14thof Adar II, 5706): Purim

1946: Some of the members of “Kibbutz Buchenwald” set sail for Palestine from France today on the Maapilim boat the “Tel-Chai”.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/14.asp

1947: The Palestine police issued a “broadsheet” today “offering an unspecified reward for information leading to the arrest of 18 wanted men” described as “terrorist chiefs.”  The list which includes photos and physical descriptions is in alphabetical order beginning with Menachem Begin of the Irgun.  The penultimate spot on the list goes to Nathan Friedman Yellin, Abrahm Stern’s successor as head of the Stern Gang.  The last name on the list is Itshak Yexernitsky who has been captured by the British but has escaped their custody.

1947: Leaders of the Arab League are scheduled to meet in Cairo today where they will map out their propaganda program to oppose the creation of a Jewish state  and how best to present their case at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations.

1947: “Just before noon today an Army officer blew his whistle” in Jerusalem marking the end of martial law in several areas including Mea Shearim.

1948: In Jerusalem, the British abandoned their compound on the grounds of Schneller Orphanage which the Etzioni Brigade would “use at its base of operations during the Israeli War of Independence.

1948: While speaking at a news conference of the American Fund for Palestinian Institutions, Moshe Pomorok of the Palestine Maritime League said that “90 per cnet of Palestine’s export and import trade went to foreign shipping companies” which led him to call for the “establishment of Palestine’s sea power.”

1948: Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld of the Hebrew World Union described “an underground movement to teach Hebrew in Syria and Iraq where the language has been banned.”

1948: The Naval Service, which became the Israeli Sea Corps, was formed today and the members for the Plugat HaYam (the naval arm of the Palmach) were ordered to join.

1949: “Secretary General Trygve Lie said today that final Congressional approval of an $8,000,000 advance fund for aid to Palestine refugees had gone a "long way" to assure the success of the whole United Nations relief program.”

1949: Eddie Jacobson, the former business partner of President Truman and his wife Bluma left New York for Paris on what is the first leg of a trip that will take to Israel where they plan to met with President Chaim Weizman.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/03/18/84200916.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1949: “Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish groups have petitioned American and British occupation authroities for permission to transport relief parcels over the Berlin airlift” “because Russian and Polish officials have banned” these shipments through the territories they occupy as part of what became known as the Berlin Blockade, the failed Russian attempt to drive the Anglo-American forces from Europe and extend Russian control to the banks of the Atlantic.

1950: The Jewish Agency for Palestine announced tonight that it was prepared to receive 20,000 refugees from Iraq.  This issue has taken on a great deal of urgency for Iraq’s 150,000 Jews, since the Baghdad government has given them a year to leave the country for Israel.  As part of the price of departure, the Jews must basically leave behind most of their possessions and wealth for use by the Iraqi’s. 

1950(28th of Adar, 5710): Eighty-four-year-old Ellis Gimbel, Sr. the last surviving of the Gimbel brothers who has served as Chairman of the Board of Gimbel Brothers, Inc since 1936 passed away today

1951: Birthdate of New York City native and Northwestern University trained journalist David Israel who went from writing about sports the Washington Star, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner to producing television shows such as ABC’s Monday Night Football in 2000 and “A Comedy Salute to Baseball” starring Billy Crystal while also playing a major role in organizing the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.

1953(1stof Nisan, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1953: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Columbia trained physician and former American Ambassador to the Netherlands and Portugal Dr. Herman B. Baruch, the Camden, SC born son of Dr. Simeon B. and Belle Wolfe Baruch, the brother of famous financier Bernard Baruch and the husband of “the former Anna Maria, Baroness Mackay of the Hague.”

1953: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Kehilath Jeshurun Temple for seventy-six-year-old Democratic Party leader and “chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University Samuel Levy, the St Patrick Day born NYU trained lawyer and husband of Sadie Vesell Levy with whom he raised two children – Bernice and Lawrence Levy.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/16/83714230.pdf

1953: The “Life Saver’s” luncheon of the Combined Jewish Appeal chaired by Mrs. Saul Herman is scheduled to be held at the Saxony Hotel with Mme. Helene Benator, a “heroine of the French underground, a lawyer and an authority on the Jews of the Moslem world” delivering the featured talk.

1953: With the help of Anna Sokolow, “Camino Real” starring Eli Wallach opened on Broadway today.

1954(12thof Adar II, 5714): Sixty-six year old Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein, the Baltimore born son of Solomon and Rose Zuckerman Goldstein and University of Pennsylvania and Vienna trained physician who discovered “Goldstein’s Toe Sign,” served in the Medical Corps, USA, during WW II and was part of a family of doctors – Dr. Leopold Z. Goldstein, Dr. Henry Z. Goldstein and David E. Cooper, the husband of his sister who earned his DD.S from the University of Pennsylvania and who was pre-deceased by his wife Joan and children – Joan, Alice and Louis – passed away today in Philadelphia after which he was buried at the New Camden Cemetery in Camden, NJ.

http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1348.html

 

1954: Following last night attack in the Negev, where an Israeli bus was ambushed by “a group of Palestinian Arabs who had infiltrated into Israel from Jordan in which the driver and ten passengers were killed “Israeli trackers assisted by police dogs and accompanied by UN observers followed the attackers' tracks to a point 6 miles west of the Jordanian border, where the tracks were lost”

1957(14thof Adar II, 5717): Purim

1957: “Great Philosophy in Small Packets” included a review of The Age of Enlightenment: The Eighteenth Century Philosophers, Selected with introduction and commentary by Isaiah Berlin.

1962(11thof Adar II, 5722): Shabbat Zachor

1962(11thof Adar II, 5722): Ninety-four-year-old “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest past president of the New York Board of Rabbis and a leader of the Reform rabbinate” passed away today. “Together with the late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi Levy was a founder in 1922 of the Association of Reform Rabbis of New York City and Vicinity. Born in New Orleans, LA, Rabbi Levy received his ordination from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He was the author of a book, Judaism Applied to Life, and of pamphlets and articles on Biblical archaeology and art.” (As reported by JTA)

1967: “Mourning Becomes Electra” a three-act opera composed by Marvin David Levy premiered at the Met in New York City.

1968: Israel defeated Ceylon today in the Olympic Games soccer qualifier thanks to the play of Mordechai Spiegler.

1969: Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel. A dedicated Zionist and Socialist, Mrs. Meir devoted her entire life to creating a national homeland for the Jewish people where we could flourish in peace and safety.  Her life reads more like a novel with all of its twists and turns ranging from the gritty determination of the 1920's when she was a pioneer in primitive Palestine, to the clandestine trips she made to meet the King of Jordan in an attempt to avert war in 1948, to her fund raising in the United States so the unborn state would have some weapons with which to face the invading Arab Armies, to...well I think you get the idea.  She certainly is worthy successor to the memory of Miriam and Deborah and Moses and David as well.

1971: The Barefoot Executive” with a screenplay co-authored by Bernie Kahn was released today in the United States.

1972: “The Time of Your Life” a revival of which in 1969 was directed by John Hirsch was revived again today in Los Angeles co-starring Richard Dreyfus, Lewis J. Stadlin

1973(13thof Adar II, 5733): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim

1973: “Lost Horizon” a musical version of the pre-war movie and novel of the same name produced by Ross Hunter, with a script by Larry Kramer and music by Burt Bacharach and Hal David was released in the United States today.

1974(23rd of Adar, 5734): Seventy-three-year-old architect Louis Kahn passed away.

http://en.nai.nl/content/1286439/biography

https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829

1974: “The Ford Foundation allocated $250,000 to help resettle Soviet émigré scholars and writers in America.”

1974: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Albert H. Godwin, the husband of Gertrude Godwin at the Riverside Chapel in the Bronx.

1977:The Jerusalem Postreported that Leah Rabin, wife of the prime minister, admitted that she had closed her dollar account in Washington and transferred the money totaling $2,000, as a donation to a charity for autistic children which she headed. Events surrounding this bank account would lead to Prime Minster Rabin’s political downfall, end the Labor Party’s domination of Israeli politics and bring Menachem Begin and Likud to power for the first time since the founding of the state in 1948.

1977: “The Cadaver in the Clutter” the second episode of “Lanigan’s Rabbi” starring Bruce Solomon as Rabbi David Small was broadcast tonight.

1978: Reuven Schmeltzer, who had been orphaned at the age of 13 and was “one of the 1684 Jews who escaped Nazi-controlled Hungary on the Kastner train and spent time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before being released in Switzerland” and his wife gave back to their 11th child Lipa Schmeltzer, the “singer, entertainer, and composer” who is popular among Hasdic and “modern Jewish communities.”

1978: Jack Klugman was roasted on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast on NBC

1983: In Jerusalem, the Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry came to an end.

1983: Actor Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman give birth to their daughter Rebecca Lillian Hoffman

1983: The Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry which had been attended by over 1,000 delegates from 30 countries came to an end today in Jerusalem.

1984: Billy Crystal hosted SNL for the first time tonight.

1984: “Entertaining God” published today provided a complete review The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Pulitzer prize-winning historian Kenneth Silverman

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/17/books/books-of-the-times-entertaining-god.html

1985: Abraham Sutzkever, who “wrote poems as underground fighter crawling through the sewers un the Vilna ghetto to elude the Nazis,” “while fighting the partisans in the forest of Lithuania outside Vilna” and even “while hiding inside a coffin” is scheduled to “read some of his poems at a YIVO gathering at the Society for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism” this afternoon in Manhattan.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/17/nyregion/yiddish-poet-celebrates-life-with-his-language.html

1989: The Broadway production of “Chu Chem,” a musical inspired by “a trip to Kaifeng Fu (prefecture), China, the site of a major Jewish migration in the 10th century” with music by Mitch Leigh opened at the Ritz Theatre.

1989: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” a fantasy comedy with music by Michael Kamen was released in the United States today.

1991: “The Substance of Fire” written by Jon Robin Baitz opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons with a cast that included Ron Rifkin and Sarah Jessica Parker

1992 (12th of Adar II, 5752): The Islamic Jihad used a truck bomb to attack the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29.

1994(5thof Nisan, 5754): Ninety-five-year-old Keyport, NJ native and Syracuse University trained attorney

“Sayra Fischer Lebenthal, a Wall Street legend who was a co-founder in 1925 of the investment-banking firm of Lebenthal & Company and remained active in it for 67 years” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/19/obituaries/sayra-fischer-lebenthal-95-dies-a-founder-of-bond-trading-firm.html

1994(5th of Nisan, 5754): Ninety-four-year-old German born English zoologist and geneticist Charlotte Auerbach, the daughter of Friedrich Auerbach and the granddaughter of Leopold Auerbach passed away today.

http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1860.html

1995(15thof Adar II, 5755): Shushan Purim

1995: Premiere of “Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh” a horror film with music composed by Philip Glass.

1995: “Bye Bye, Love” directed by Brandeis grad Sam Weisman, co-authored and co-produced by Gary David Goldberg and co-starring Paul Reiser and Rob Reiner was released in the United States today.

1997: Janet Rosenberg Jagan, the Chicago born Jewess, began serving as Prime Minster of Guyana.

1997: Eighty-one-year-old Joe J. Heydecker who as a German soldier created a secret photographic record of the Warsaw Ghetto, which, after being published in 1981 provided “evidence of Nazi atrocities and inhumane living conditions in the Ghetto passed away today.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/february/05.asp

1999: HBO released the final episode of “Tracey Takes On…” starring Tracey Ullman

1999(29th of Adar, 5759): Seventy-seven-year-old Ernest Gold the Austrian-born Jewish-American Academy Award winning composer of the theme from the movie Exodus, the creator of 100 film/television scores between 1945 and 1992, including the Hawaii Five-O theme and the composer of a 1968 Broadway musical "I'm Solomon" passed away today.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ernest-gold-1083951.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/nyregion/ernest-gold-77-oscar-winning-composer.html

2000: “Lebanon granted political asylum today to Kozo Okamoto, a 52-year-old Japanese man who helped carry out a massacre in which 26 people died at an airport in Israel in 1972.”

2000: Sixty-nine year old Dr. Marcel Hellman-Mordechai, the father of Hadar Lily passed away today.

2001(22ndof Adar, 5761): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah observed for the first time under President Bush.

2002: In “Poles and the Jews: How Deep the Guilt?” published today Adam Michnik examines the groups differing view of the Holocaust following the published of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne by Jan T. Gross.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/17/arts/poles-and-the-jews-how-deep-the-guilt.html?searchResultPosition=1

2002: Barbra Streisand continued her Timeless tour with a concert at Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium.

2002: At the Jewish Museum in New York an exhibition entitled ''The Emergence of Jewish Artists in 19th-Century Europe'' comes to a close.

2002: Twenty-five people were injured in a terrorist bombing of Egged Bus 22 in Jerusalem.

2003(13thof Adar II, 5763): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

2003(13thof Adar II, 5763): Eight-seven-year-old historian Herbert Aptheker passed away. (As reported by Christopher Lehman-Haupt)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/us/herbert-aptheker-87-dies-prolific-marxist-historian.html

2004: As continues to respond to the murderous terrorist attacks on March 14, today, for a second day in a row attack helicopters fired on targets in Gaza while “Israeli soldiers in armored vehicles waged gun battles throughout the day with Palestinian terrorist in Rafah, on the border with Egypt.”

2005(6th of Adar II, 5765): Seventy-eight-year-old college and professional basketball player Norman Clifford "Norm" Mager who was involved in a point shaving scandal passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/sports/ncaabasketball/norman-mager-78-player-tarnished-by-gambling-scandal.html

2005: “The Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces issued a military order prohibiting Israeli citizens not living in the Gaza Strip settlements from taking up residence there.”

2006: The Forwards reported that the Aleph Institute, an organization linked to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was approved by the Department of Defense to endorse chaplains. 

2006: Premiere of “Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan” a documentary directed and produced by Manfred Kirchheimer.

2006(17thof Adar, 5766): Eighty-year-old Henry Thalsheimer, a relative of Nicaragua native Maria T. Thalsheimer and Achille Thalsheimer passed away today after which he was buried at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in New Orleans.

2007: Shabbat Ha-Chodesh

2007: At the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, an exhibition styled “Adi Nes: Bible Stories” opens to the general public.

2008: In “How Hamas Is Playing the Spoiler,” published today, U.S. News & World Reportdescribes how the latest Hamas rocket attacks on Ashkelon pose a new strategic threat to Israel and the limited options available to the Israelis in responding to this latest downward spiral in the Middle East.

2008: Today, David Gregory began hosting “a show on MSNBC weekday evenings.”

2008(10 Adar II, 5768): Ronald E. Arnall, French born American businessman who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and was a “friend” of Chabad-Lubavitch passed away.

2008: Sports Illustrated describes the pending confrontation over allegations that Patriots coach Bill Bilichick illegally videotaped his opponents.  This could turn into a Jew versus Jew situation since the probe into the matter is being spearheaded by Arlen Specter, the Jewish Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and the Patriots are owned by Jewish businessman and philanthropist Robert Kraft.

2008: Israel and Germany upgraded their ties approving a host of joint projects and agreeing to hold annual government consultations, in one of the highlights of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's three-day visit.

2008: Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar announced that Ethiopian immigrants should be able to convert to Judaism in their native land and make Aliyah under the Law of Return.

2008:  Haaretz reported that Elie Wiesel has told the Prime Minister’s office that he will not take part in the torch-lighting ceremony marking the 60thanniversary of Israel’s Independence due to prior commitments. 

2008: Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute.

2009: “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism” a 2009 documentary co-starring Stanley Kaufman and featuring appearances by Manny Farber, Harland Jacobson, Leonard Matlin, Pauline Kael and Gene Siskel.

2009: At The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Dr. Ellen Kellman of Brandeis University delivers a lecture entitled “Educating ‘Moyshe’ or Corrupting Him? Polemics around the Novel Saninin the American Yiddish Press ca. 1908” in which she discusses the role of serialized fiction in the American Yiddish press which was the subject of rancorous debate from its beginnings. Critics lambasted socialist-oriented papers for printing romance novels instead of serious fiction in translation. Yet some works, such as the Russian novel Sanin, proved to be even more controversial than those originally written in Yiddish.

 

2009: Services are held at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield for Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson, a noted philanthropist who was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame last year and passed away on March 13, 2009 at the age of 86.Among the causes he funded were Hadassah University Medical Center, the Israel Antiquities Authority,the Jerusalem Archaeological Park,the Wexner Foundation and the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

2009: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said today that her surgery for pancreatic cancer was successful and that she is scheduled to undergo a precautionary round of chemotherapy starting later this month.

2010(2nd of Nisan, 5770):  Ninety-one-year-old Albert J. Rosenthal who had served as Dean of the Columbia Law School passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/education/21rosenthal.html

2010(2nd of Nisan, 5770): One the day after his 90th birthday, award winning author Albert Sidney “Sid” Fleischman passed away today in Santa Monica. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html?_r=0

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/local/la-me-sid-fleischman21-2010mar21

2010: In Jerusalem, Hama'abada is scheduled to present "Janana," by Yiftach Klein.

2010: Cookbook author Judy Zeidler is scheduled to offer tips on prepping for your Seder and mastering your grocery list, along with recipes for new and traditional Seder dishes in a program entitled “Passover: Cooking with Judy” sponsored by the American Jewish University.

2010:Some 3,000 officers were put on high alert on today after Hamas called for anti-Israel protests.

2010: “Sin,” a play by Mark Altman opened at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.

2010:Veteran IPO subscribers enjoy a memorable evening as Itzhak Perlman performs with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

2011:Tamar Hirschl is scheduled to show a suite of paintings and recent resin works “in the inaugural Artist Project in New York City, a fair for independent artists.”

2011: The Hadassah Mahj Tournament, sponsored by Hadassah of Greater Detroit, is scheduled to take place at Hadassah House in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

2011(11th of Adar II): Ninety-year-old Betty Sarah Wouk, “the wife and literary agent of bestselling writer Herman Wouk” passed away.

http://www.hermanwouk.net/in-memoriam-sarah-wouk.html

2011(11th of Adar II): Ta’anit Esther

2011(11th of Adar II): Eighty-one-year-old Gabrial Laderman, a painter of figurative art, passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/design/gabriel-laderman-painter-of-figurative-art-dies-at-81.html

2011: President Shimon Peres said today that the Navy's seizure of the cargo ship Victoria earlier this week proves that Syria is providing weapons to Hamas in Gaza and to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

2011: Sacramento Kings and Israel National Basketball Team forward Omri Casspi may temporarily sign to play with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the event of an NBA work stoppage, he said in an interview with Army Radio today.

2011: Alaska Airlines apologized today for the misunderstanding that occurred earlier this week on board one of their flights, in which flight attendants issued a security alert when three Mexican Jews began praying with Tefillin.

2011: “Suzie’s Grill keeps Houston Jews Kosher, Connected” published today described and the culinary and business skills of Susan Goldstein who operates “one of the only kosher-drive throughs in the country.”

https://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Suzie-s-Grill-keeps-Houston-Jews-kosher-connected-1605717.php

2012: Twentieth Anniversary of the Iranian bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina.

2012(23rd of Adar, 5772): Yahrzeit of Yitzchak Meir Alter the first Rebbe of the Ger Chasidic Dynasty who was born in 1799 and passed away on March 10, 1866.

2012: “Grace Paley: Collected Shorts” is scheduled to be shown at the Schenectady JCC Jewish Film Festival at Niskayuna, NY

2012(23rd of Adar, 5772): Anniversary of the first assembling of the Mishkan on Adar 23 (1321 BCE)

2012: The Eilat Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2013: The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to present “Deconstructing Woody Allen: Humor, Identity, Judaism” with Dr. Daniel Fainstein

2013: The Theatre at the 14thStreet Y is scheduled to present a puppet show “Lost & Found In Israel” written and performed by Zvi Sahar and Leat Klingman.

2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Yellow Sneaker and "The Matzah Time Crunch"

2013:“Samson and Delilah,” sung in French (with English supertitles) will be presented today at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans featuring Cantor Joel Coleman “as the Old Hebrew.”

2013: The Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2013: Today, “Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki’s Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.” (As reported by JTA)

2013: Minutes released today by the Israel State Archive revealed details of tense and nearly failed meetings between then-prime minister Menachem Begin and former US president Jimmy Carter during the latter’s visit to the country in 1979, as the two leaders tried to hammer out the last details of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty.

2013: Likud MKs met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem -today receive their marching orders for the next Cabinet and other government roles.

2014: Film critic Shlomo Schwartberg is scheduled to present the final lecture in the series “Defining Greatness – Director Steven Speilberg at the Miles Nadal JCC.

2004: Professor Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute of Science is scheduled to be recognized for his work in bone marrow transplant therapy when he receives his Rapport Prize today. (As reported by David Shamah)

2014: Dr. Yaakov Nahmias of Hebrew University is scheduled to receive the Rapport Prize today for identifying a grapefruit molecule that can block viruses. (As reported by David Shamah)

2014: “Brave Miss World” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “Once Upon a Time at 55th and Hoover,” a documentary about the 300 Sephardic families from Rhodes who emigrated to Los Angeles (USA) and established a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language neighborhood in the area around 55th St and Hoover, in South Central Los Angeles” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Grammy-award winning performer Ron Levine is scheduled to share stories from his fantastic career, including touring with nationally renowned recording artists and his award-winning work on the motion picture Urban Cowboy, at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this evening.

http://www.raemaemusic.com/

2014: During his visit to the White House today “US President Barack Obama urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks for peace with Israel, saying he hoped to see progress in US-brokered negotiations in coming weeks.”

2014: Today New York State Senator Lee “Zeldin voted against the New York Dream Act.

2014: Today, Jordan condemned what is call Israeli ‘escalation’ in the flashpoint Temple Mount in Jerusalem after Housing Minster Uri Ariel “deputy leader of the hardline national-rligious Bayit Yehudi party visited the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday.

2015: The Jewish Community Relations Council and The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington are scheduled to host “a real time analysis of the results of the Israeli elections as they unfold” in North Bethesda, MD.

2015: “The Iranian Americans” and “Before the Revolution” are scheduled to be shown at the 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2015: In San Diego, Jack Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on American Dilemmas in the "New" Middle East: The Elusive search for Coherent Strategies;”

2015: A Vanderbilt University official said that the spray painting of three swastiskis on fraternity house belong to the Tau Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi is being investigated as a hate crime.

2015: For those looking for a Jewish connection to St. Patrick’s Day consider “St. Patrick’s Day, Kosher Style.”

http://tabletmag.com/scroll/189612/st-patricks-day-kosher-style?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=4d54b3d1f6-Sunday_March_15_20153_13_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-4d54b3d1f6-206644398

 

2016: “How to Win Enemies” and “Sabena Hijacking” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016(7thof Adar II, 5776): Seventy-one-year-old Meir Dagan, the Director of Mossad from 2002 to 2011 passed away today, (As reported by Isabel Kershner)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/world/middleeast/meir-dagan-former-mossad-director-dies-at-71.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its 2016 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.

2016: Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court visited Capitol Hill today where he was warmly greeted by Democrats while facing the opposition of Republicans who said they would not hold any hearings in a move which was unprecedented in American history, calling into question the claims of the GOP being the party of Conservatives i.e. those who protect the values of the past.

2016: New York premiere of “Iraqi Night” at the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2016: Thirteen month after disclosed “that he had treatable prostate cancer” today Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder of The Home Depot and the owner of the NFL Atlanta Falcons  “announced that he was cancer-free following treatment.”

2017: Thousands of runners took part in the 2017 Jerusalem Marathon today.

2017: The “Ma’agan Michael II”, “a replica of a 2,500 year old trading ship found off the coast of Israel was christened this morning ahead of its first voyage…”

2017: Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/charlemagne-palestine-bear-mitzvah-in-meshugahland

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to Kabbalat Shabbat followed an hour later with a Shabbat Friday night dinner and hour later.

2017(19thof Adar, 5777): Eighty-two-year-old Gershon Kekst, the founder of Kekst and Company passed away.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/business/dealbook/gershon-kekst-dead-public-relations-executive.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

http://www.jtsa.edu/the-gershon-kekst-graduate-school

2017: “Rima Khalaf, a Jordanian who served as executive secretary of the Beirut-based Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia” resigned today “after the body she led was ordered by the UN secretary-general to remove from its website a controversial report that charged Israel has established an “apartheid regime” guilty of “racial domination” over the Palestinians.

2017: In honor of St. Patrick's Day, one national bagel chain has advertised "green bagels" while supplies last. 

2018(1stof Nisan, 5778): Triple header Shabbat – Shabbat HaChodesh, Rosh Chodesh Nisan, start reading the book of Vayikra. 

2018: As many Irish people and people who wish they were Irish celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Jews can contemplate their Irish connection including Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland and the second Ashekanzi Chief Rabbi of Palestine and his sons Chaim Herzog, the sixth President of Israel and Yaakov Herzog, the Haganah member and Israeli diplomat as well as the father and son team of Robert and Ben Briscoe, both of whom were Lord Mayor Dublin, author Julia Frankau who died on St. Patrick’s Day, 1916  and of course “Leopold Bloom,” the protagonist in Ulysses by James Joyce.

2018: “Humor Me” and “Love is Thicker Than Water” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2018: Temple Rodef Shalom's Rabbi Amy Schwartzman is scheduled to ashare her experiences as a woman rabbi as part of “To the Bimah: Women's Activism Enters the Synagogue.”

2018: The “Cake Maker” is scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.

2018: Distant Cousins is scheduled to perform as part of LimmudFest Saturday Night in New Orleans.

2019: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish readers and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including I.M.: A Memoir by Isaac Mizrahi, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson and the recently released paperback edition of To End A Presidency: The Power of Impeachment by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz.

2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York premiere of “Pepe’s Last Battle” and the international premiere of “Labor, Rebellion, Upheaval from the Ancestral Sin Series.”

2019: “From salt beef sandwiches and Rachel Riley, to making one’s own Jewish News front page” there are plenty of reasons to visit The Big Family scheduled to open this morning in Hendon.

2019: In New Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to host the annual Community Purim Carnival.

2019: As the Irish and all those people who want to be Irish (which is just about everybody) prepare to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, examine the connection between Jewish and Irish cuisine. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-secret-jewish-history-of-corned-beef-and-cabbage/

2020(21stof Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhansk; Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor; Sir Moses Montefiore; Adolf Cremieux

2020: In Palo Alto, today’s scheduled performance of “Beyond The Pale,” a one-person show written and performed by Sherri Rose has been canceled.

2020: In San Rafael, CA, today’s scheduled appearance by Yossi Beilin, the former Knesset member and Oslo Accords architect speaking on “American Jews and Israel: What’s Next?” has been canceled.

2020: Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial in which faces charges related to “bribery, fraud and breach of trust” is scheduled to begin today. (As reported by AFP)

2020: The 69th National Jewish Book Awards gathering sponsored by the Jewish Book Council which was scheduled to take place this evening has been postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

2020: As the Irish and everybody who wishes they were Irish are going to have celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without the traditional parades and festivities, patrons of Russ and Daughters Kosher Café at the Jewish Museum are having to learn how to cope without access to some of their favorite delights as the Museum enters into its second day of being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020: Based on yesterday’s announcement by President Reuvin Rivlin, today marks the first day of the twenty-eight-day cycle that Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz has to form a government.

2020: Effective today,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines will be operating remotely.”

2021: The Open Circle Jewish Learning 20s and 30s is scheduled to present online “Mensch Reimagined: How Masculine People Build a Culture of Nurturance.”

2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host online “Jewish Contribution to English-Language Versions of the Bible,” during which “Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton U. Jewish civilization professor, talks about the history of Jews translating the Hebrew Bible and their influences on non-Jewish versions.

2021: Temple Emmanuel (Wakefield) is scheduled to present “Making Prayer Meaningful” online with Rabbi Greg Hersh during which he “offers many new modalities for understand and engaging in prayer and other Jewish traditions.”

2021: Based on reports published yesterday, Israelis today may feel they are beginning to win the health battle since “For the first time since the end of December, the number of serious COVID-19 patients in Israel dropped under 600…” (As reported by Yaron Druckman)

2021: As of today, “57% of the adult population” in Israel “has received at least one dose of vaccine while 47% have received both doses.” (As reported by Gad Lior

2021: Geographer Benny Furst, Ph.D. is scheduled to lead a virtual tour “Seeing Yourself as if You Left Egypt.”

2021: The Friends of Rabin Medical Center is scheduled to present “White Supremacy: How Big a Threat and How to Counter It.”

https://globalconnections.splashthat.com/

 

 

 


This Day, March 18, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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37: The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor. Caligula ruled from 37 until his death in 41. From the Jewish perspective he was not so much an anti-Semite as a lunatic whose crazy behavior affected the Jews. The biggest problems rose from his belief that he was a god and his insistence that the Jews, along with the rest of the Empire worship him. The Jews did not which led to a major confrontation. Additionally, Caligula wanted to place a huge statue of himself in Jerusalem. Fortunately, he died before this travesty could take place.

1123: Opening of the First Lateran Council.  Unlike later councils, this meeting did not deal directly with issues related to the Jews. However, Canon Eleven did give renewed impetus for the Crusades. “For effectively crushing the tyranny of the infidels, we grant to those who go to Jerusalem and also to those who give aid toward the defense of the Christians, the remission of their sins and we take under the protection of St. Peter and the Roman Church their homes, their families, and all their belongings, as was already ordained by Pope Urban II.”  Canon Eleven also equates going to fight in Spain with going to Jerusalem because Spain was under control of the Moors and the Church sought bring an end to this.

1160: Hamza ibn Asad abu Ya'la ibn al-Qalanisi an Arab politician and chronicler passed away in Damascus. His writings provide one of the few contemporary accounts of the First Crusade from the Moslem point of view including a description of the sacking of Jerusalem. The Jews had fought alongside the Muslims to defend the city against the attackers.  At the end, according Ibn al-Qalnisi, "The Jews assembled in their synagogue, and the Franks burned it over their heads.’ (The Franks was the terms easterners used to describe the Crusaders)

1190: Crusaders killed 750 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England. The logic of the Crusaders was why wait to kill infidels in the Holy Land when you can kill them right here at home. Just because these infidels were Jews and the infidels holding the Holy Land were Moslems did not seem to bother these noble Christian knights and their supporters.

1229: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declared himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade. In what be lesson for modern times, Frederick’s use of diplomacy succeeded where the use of force by others had failed. His sixth crusade was not a military venture; a fact which drew the ire of the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, after landing in Palestine, he negotiated with the Moslems and gained control of Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem for a period of ten years.

1389: A priest living in Prague, Czechoslovakia was hit with a few grains of sand by small Jewish boys playing in the street. He became insulted and insisted that the Jewish community purposely plotted against him. Thousands were slaughtered, the synagogue and the cemetery were destroyed, and homes were pillaged. King Wenceslaus insisted that the responsibility rested with the Jews for venturing outside during Holy Week.

1478: In Spain, a group of Jews and conversos gathered for a Seder on the first night of Passover. “A young cavalier” discovered the group and reported the matter to the authorities. Since it was holy week, the Spanish decided that the Jews had gathered to “to blaspheme the Chrisitian religion.” When Alonso de Hojeda, the prior of the Convent of San Pablo in Seville and enemy of the Jews and New Christians heard of the event he took the news to Ferdinand and Isabella. Supposedly this was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and the two monarchs petitioned the Holy See to issue a Bull authorizing an Inquisition. The Bull would be granted and the road to the expulsion of 1492 opened up like a superhighway.

1540: Today “R. Isaac Porto ha-Kohen obtained from the Duke of Mantua permission to build an Ashkenazic synagogue.”

1580 (2nd of Nisan): Rabbi Benjamin ben Moses of Lemberg, author Tavnit ha-Bayt passed away

1584: Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible passed away. Ivan was terrible for the Jews as well as for everybody else. He did all that he could to bar them from Russia, spreading the calumnies of the day, and, when he had the chance, giving them the choice between conversion or a cruel death.

1607: As the Inquisition prepared to take action against “Jorge de Almedia, a Portuguese residing in Mexico, the husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada who was convicted by the Holy Office having kept observed the dead Law of Moses, document were posted on the door of the Cathedral in the next step to bringing him to “justice.”

1609: At Haderslev in Denmark, Christian IV and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg gave birth to 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” passed away today. [Editors’ note: A few years later, however, the tables were turned. 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.”

1655: Dutch Minister Johannes Megapolensis wrote a letter to the Amsterdam Classis, a ruling body in the Reform Church attacking the Jews who had recently arrived in New Amsterdam.

1669: In Halberstadt which had been annexed Brandenburg as part of the Peace of Westphalia, a mob aided by the military demolished a synagogue in the Joeddenstrasse. The people claimed that the Jews had built the synagogue without permission from the government. For some time after, the hammer that was used to break the door of the synagogue was “preserved in the parish house.”

1723: Birthdate of Daniel Itzig, the native of Berlin, who became the “Court Jew” of Kings Frederick II the Great and Frederick William II of Prussia.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1723-first-jewish-citizen-of-prussia-is-born-1.5338300

http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=475550

1733: Today, the Prattenbeg, on which Jacob de Beer had been serving as ship gunner left the Cap bound for Batavia.

1762(23rd of Adar): Rabbi Judah ben Eliezer passed away

1764(14th of Adar II, 5524): Purim

1767: Myer Myers married Joyce Mears, a cousin of his first wife, Elkalah Myers Cohen of blessed memory. Myers first wife bore him five children and his second wife bore him eight children.

1769: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Abraham Levy, the son of Ben Dan Levy and husband of Rachel Cornelia Bernard whom he married in 1799 before they moved to Richmond, VA.

1772(13th of Adar II, 5532): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1772: In New York City Abigail and Michael Solomon Hays gave birth to Gitlah Hays.

1772: Birthdate of German native Isaiah Moses, the husband of Savannah, GA native Rebecca Phillips whom he married in Charleston and with whom he had twelve children all of whom were born in South Carolina.

1785: In Port au Prince, Haiti, Sarah and Moise Arbrahm who were married in 1779 gave birth to Hyam Moise who lived in Charleston, SC with his parents.

1788: In Bavaria, Eve Edelmuth and Abraham Wolf gave birth to their daughter Philippine Wolf.

1792: One day after he had passed away, Gabriel Samuel was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”

1795: Pennsylvanians Maria and Moses Nathans gave birth to Isaiah Nathans.

1796: In Frankfurt, Germany, “R' Jonas Moshe (Mozes Jonah) Bondi, A.B.D. Mayence (Mainz) and Bella Bondi” gave birth to R’ David Tebele Bondi, the husband of Matele Bondi.

1796: Birthdate of Joshua Lazarus, the son of Marks Lazarus who “lived in Cheraw, SC after his marriage to Phebe Yates in Liverpool in 1835.

1797: In Nancy (France), Gerson-Jacob Goudchaux and his wife gave birth to Michel Goudchaux, “a French banker and politician who was twice Minister of Finance during the French Second Republic and who as a “firm Republican refused to accept the government of Napoleon III.”

1799: Haifa was captured by Napoleon. This marked “high-water mark” in Napoleon’s conquest of Palestine. The next day French forces reached Acre. It was defended both by British warships and local townspeople including the Jewish inhabitants. By June, Napoleon would give up and return to Egypt.

1806: Birthdate of Cornwall native Henry Joseph, the pawnbroker who was the husband of Amelia Jacob with whom he had ten children.

1811: In Cornwall, Sarah Kate Sinons and John Jacob gave birth to Amelia Jacob on what was the third birthday of her husband Henry Joseph with whom she had ten children.

1812: Three days after he had passed away, Jacob Phillips was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1817(1st of Nisan, 5577): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1819: Daniel Joel and Elizabeth Cohen were married today at the New Synagogue.

1824: Two days after he had passed away, 68-year-old Joseph Benjamin was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1822(25th of Adar, 5582): Jacob Lopez, the son of Moses Lopez, who should not be confused with Jacob Lopez, the son of Aaron Lopez who died in infancy and Jacob Lopez the son of Moses Lopez who passed away in 1764, passed away today in Newport, RI.

1826: London natives Matilda Israel and Aaron De Symons gave birth to Matilda Maria De Symons the husband of Eleazar M. Merton.

1828

1831: Birthdate of Joshua Glaser, the Postelburg native who trained as a lawyer before converting to Christianity to advance his career.  At that time, he changed his name to Jules Glaser, the name by which he gained renowned as a jurist and statesman.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00B1FF9395B10738DDDA00A94DA415B8584F0D3

1836: Forty-one-year-old Mary (Harris) Jessel, the wife of Zadok Jessel and the mother of Henry, Edward, George and Amelia Jesse was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1837: Birthdate of Grover Cleveland, the only man to be elected President of the United States, defeated in his bid for re-election and then to be victorious over the man who had beaten him. In 1887, during his first term, Cleveland appointed Oscar Solomon Straus, “the ranking Jew in America,” envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey. In 1897, during his second term, Cleveland vetoed a bill that contained a literacy test for immigrants. The bill was an attempt to halt immigration from southern and Eastern Europe. If it had passed it would have a detrimental impact on the Jews of Russia, Romania and the Austro-Hungarian Empire seeking to come to America. Cleveland spoke out against the treatment of the Jews at Kishinev and work to raise money for them after the Pogrom in 1903.

1843(16th of Adar II, 5603): Parashat Tzav chanted as the Great Comet began moving away from the planet earth.

1844: One day after she had passed away, Phoebe Isaacs, the wife of Isaac Isaacs and the mother of Abraham and Henry Isaacs was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemtery.”

1847: Arnold Blum, Jr., the New York City born son of Jeanette and Abraham Levi Blum and his wife Rosina Blum gave birth to Ludwig Blum

1852: In Paris, Augustus Glossop Harris and his wife gave birth to Sir August Harris British theatrical impresario whom “all of London” called “Gus” and who “was of Hebrew family and properly proud of his race.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40914F6385C17738DDDAA0A94DE405B8685F0D3

1857: In Pittsburgh, PA, Louis and Henrietta Berkowitz gave birth to Rabbi Henry Berkowitz the

graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and Hebrew Union College who served a number of congregations including Temple Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia where he helped to found the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the Philadelphia Rabbinical Association but who may be best known for his role in founding the Jewish Chautauqua Society, Emily Nepon, his great-great-great-granddaughter described him in the following words. “Born in 1857, Rabbi Henry Berkowitz was the “Beloved Rabbi” of Mobile, Kansas City, Missouri and Philadelphia. He is best known for being the founder of the Jewish Chautauqua Society in 1893 and was one of four members of the first graduating class of Reform rabbis in the United States.  Rabbi Henry Berkowitz was an activist, philanthropist, counselor, community leader, voracious learner, teacher, prolific writer and speaker. And, in keeping with mainstream Reform Judaism of his day, Berkowitz was also anti-Zionist.”

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0025/ms0025.html

1858: In Schenectady, NY, David and Leontine Marks gave birth to CCNY graduate Marcus Marks, the head of the family-owned clothing manufacturing firm David Marks and Son, advocate for Daylight Savings Time and President of the Borough of Manhattan who was the husband of the “former Esther Friedman” and father of Bernice, Doris, Warren and Eric Marks.

1858: Two days after he has passed away, 86 year old Isaiah Jones, the husband of Esther Jones and the mother of Edward A. Jones was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road ) Jewish Cemetery.

1858: Birthdate of Marcus M. Marks, the New York businessman and politician who “was President of the Daylight Savings Association,” the brother of illumination engineer Louis B. Marks and the uncle of Johnny Marks “who wrote ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.’”

http://www.jta.org/1934/08/28/archive/m-m-marks-once-borough-president-dies

1859: In Philadelphia, Henry Cohen and Matilda Samuel Cohen gave birth to sculptor Katherine M. Cohen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_M._Cohen#/media/File:Smith_arch_Beaver.jpg

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Cohen-Katherine-M

1861: The New York Times reported today that the “story floating around the Northern papers” about a rich Jew named Mordecai “declaring himself insolvent, after paying a small per centum to his New-York, Boston and Philadelphia creditors, is a falsehood, cut out of the whole cloth.”

1862: In Vysocina, Marie and Bernhard Baruch Mahler gave birth to Ernst Mahler, the younger brother of Gustav Mahler, whose premature death was one of the tragedies in the great composer’s personal life.

1862: Judah P. Benjamin began serving as Secretary of State for the Confederacy; a position he would hold until the end of the war.

1863: In Opava, Czech Republic, Charlotte and Samuel David Klauber gave birth to Mathilde Bock

1864: Birthdate of Aberdeen, Scotland native “Major Frank Lang Collie, M.D. the second husband of The “Poem A Day Lady,” Ruth Jacob, the “granddaughter of the Rabbi of the Great Synagogue in London.”

1866(2nd of Nisan, 5626): Fifty-four-year-old Frederick Goldsmid, the husband of Caroline Samuel, the MP for Honiton and father of Julie, Walter-Henry, Albert-Abraham, Helen, Mary-Ada and Isabel Goldsmid passed away today.

1869: Birthdate of Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who signed the infamous Munich Agreement with Hitler. He returned to England with the words, “I bring you peace in our times.” Instead there was war within the year. At the same time Chamberlain’s government followed a pro-Arab policy in Eretz Israel which resulted in the infamous White Paper that effectively ended Jewish immigration at the time when the Jews needed a homeland more than ever in their entire history.

1870(15th of Adar II, 5630): Shushan Purim

1874: The Germania Theatre Company will perform tonight at New York’s Terrace Garden Theatre for the benefit of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society.

1875(11th of Adar II, 5635): Fast of Esther observed since the 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat.

1877: It was reported today that during 1876, the strength of the British Army averaged 184,669 officers and enlisted men of whom 131 were Moslems, Hindus or Jews. 

1878(13th of Adar, II, 5638): Fast of Esther

1879: “The New Exodus” published today described how the Biblical motif was used in events was used in events leading up to the emancipation of the slaves and how there is the need for “a New Moses” to liberate the former slaves now living under the oppression of what came to be known as Jim Crow.

1879: The defense was scheduled to present its case in attempt to prove that Cohen Davis, an elderly Hebrew glazier, had not committed perjury in the recent trial of Abraham Freeman and Charles Bernstein, two convicted arsonists.

1880: In New York, Dr. J. P. Newman will deliver a lecture at Chickering Hall sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1881: In St. Francisville, Illinois, Samuel and Hannah Morgenstern gave birth to Julian Morgenstern the biblical scholar who was the President of Hebrew Union College.

1881: German born French Orientalist Jules Oppert “was made a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres, succeeding the Egyptologist Mariette.”

1882: Birthdate of Russian native Rabbi Eliezer Poupko, the chief rabbi of Veliz who was sentenced to Siberia for “defying the religious policy of the Soviet Union,” and who in 1931 came to the United States where “he was the spiritual lead of Aitz Chaim Congregation” in Philadelphia while two daughters and five sons all of whom are rabbis with his wife “Pesha Chaya.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/24/97247374.pdf

1884: Birthdate of Odessa native Dr. Nahum Enoch Katz, the “consulting chemist of Meridian, Mississippi.

1884(21st of Adar, 5644): Basha Ruchama Twersky, the wife of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach and the mother of Aharon Rokeach, the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty passed away today.

1886(11th of Adar II, 5646): Ta’anit Esther

1886(11th of Adar II, 5646): Leopold Zunz, also known as Yom Tov Lippman, a German-born Jewish intellectual passed away at the age of 91. Born in 1794, Zunz came of age in post-Napoleonic Germany when Reform Judaism was gaining power and many Jews were converting to Christianity to gain acceptance in the New Europe. Zunz was a scholar with a strong Jewish education. He became "the principal of a teacher's seminary established by the Jews of Berlin.” As can be seen from his teaching and writings including The Religious Discourses of the Jews Zunz emphasized the importance of prayer and instruction while contending that Judaism was a religion that had constantly been reforming itself. Zunz also believed that for the most part, Judaism and Jewish culture had been at a higher level than the societies that surrounded it.

1886: In Radin, Lithuania, Chaim Yehoshua Heshel Poupko and Bluma Abramowitz gave birth to Eliezer Poupko, the Rabbi sentenced to two years in Siberia for “defying the religious policies of the Soviet Union and husband of Pesha Chaya who, thanks to the intervention of American rabbis came to the United States in 1931 where he led to congregations and raised a family that played a prominent role in the world of American Orthodox Judaism.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/24/97247374.html?pageNumber=86

1886: Birthdate of German-born Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka who moved to the United States

in the 1920’s where he taught at several colleges and universities including Wisconsin and Smith.

1887: Birthdate of Abraham Abelson who was buried at the Jewish People’s Cemetery in East Haven, CT, when he passed away in 1965

1887: Two days after he had passed away, John Coleman Isaac, the husband of Sarah Isaac, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1890: Louis Levene represented the Shirtmakers’ Union at the arbitration hearing being held today in an attempt to end the strike.  Most of the workers are Jewish as are many of the contractors on the other side.

1890: In Rochester, NY, Louis and Rose (Neuberger) Wasserman gave birth to Cornell University Medical College trained urologist Dr. Julius Waterman, the WWI veteran of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps and “battalion surgeon of the 3rd Battalion of the Naval Militia of the State of New York who began serving as the “consulting urologist for the Jewish Home for the Aged in 1924.

1891: A five-story tenement building at the corners of Hester and Allen Streets which is located in a neighborhood crowded with Polish Jewish immigrants burned today.  At the time of the fire eleven Jewish families composed of forty-nine persons were asleep in the building.

1891: The Trustees managing the funds sent to the United States by Baron Hirsch for the aid of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania are scheduled to meet today in New York.

1892: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will deliver a lecture entitled “The Jew, Past, Present and Future” this evening at Temple Israel of Harlem.

1892: Jose S.K. Mitrachee, the Syrian Jewish beggar who shot Rabbi Mendes on March 5th, returned to New York from Philadelphia today in the custody of Detective Sergeants Jacobs and Heidelberg.  The prisoner was immediately taken to the rabbi’s home where Dr. and Mrs. Mendes and their 3 servants positively identified as the attacker.

1893(1st of Nisan. 5653: Rosh Chodesh Nisan and Shabbat HaChodesh

1893(1st of Nisan, 5653): Two Russian Jewish immigrant peddlers – Isaac Rosnewig and Harris Blank murdered 18-year-old Jacobs marks on Dutch Mountain in Wyoming County, PA. (At the time of their execution for the crime the two were described as “the only people of the Jewish faith ever executed for murder in this country.”)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20E13FB3F5515738DDDAA0A94DD405B8385F0D3

1894: In Berline, Sidonie and Salomon Salinger gave birth to Los Angeles doctor Harry David Salinger, the husband of Irene Salinger.

1894: In San Francisco, founding of the Temple Emanu El Sisterhod whose members included Mrs. P.N. Lilienthal, Mrs. Lewis Gerstle, Mrs.J.M. Rothchild and Miss Victoria Lilienthal.

1895: New York Mayor Strong appointed Jacob W. Mack, the secretary and treasurer of Nathan Manufacturing Company, to serve as a School Commissioner.

1897(14th of Adar, 5657): Purim

1897: Two days after he had passed away, 38-year-old Charles Mark Simmons, the son Mark George Simmons and Caroline Lazarus was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

 

1897(14th of Adar, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old Ignatz Grossman, the native of Trencsen, Hungary who arrived at Brooklyn in 1873 where he officiated at Temple Beth Elohim and Congregation B’nai Abraham passed away today.

1897: A.S. Solomons, the manager of the Baron de Hirsch Fund oversaw today’s Purim Celebration for the students which was held in the auditorium of the Educational Alliance Building.

1897: The feast of Purim was celebrated today with “the formal opening of the new wing of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews” which was attended by 200 visitors.

1898: In Queens, Joseph Meltsner and Sarah Bach gave birth to Adele Meltsner, the wife of Charles Pores.

1898: In Albuquerque, NM, Dr. William H. Greenburg of London who had responded to an advertisement “for a rabbi in The American Israelite,” held the first service for fifty members of Congregation Albert today.

1899: In a letter to the editor published today “A.C.” takes issue with the statement that Henry Irving plays the part of the Polish Jew in “The Bells.”  Irving actually plays the part of Mathias, the murder of the Polish Jew which “is not quite the same thing.”

1899: It was reported today that “some of the French journals intimate that anti-Semitism is at the bottom of the new movement, which is that no Jew is to be permitted either to adopt a career in art, or, having painted a picture, to exhibit it.”

1899: Birthdate of Max Alpert, the decorated Soviet WW II photographer, the brother of Mihail Alperin with whom he had studied photography at Odessa.

1899: “The Colored Race and Illiteracy” published today provides a summary of an article by Wallace C. Hamm in The North American Review that includes the notation that “The Russian and Polish Jews are never illiterates.” (This stands in stark contrast of the portrait painted of the Jews of eastern Europe being semi-literate disease laden parasites)

1899: In Minsk, Samuel and Bessy (Miller) Berman gave birth to painter Saul Berman who attended the Cooper Union School of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design and the Beaux Arts Institute of Sculpture.

https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+berman+artist&ei=N4JSYNyVEsSqtQaPsoK4CA&start=10&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwicjcHbr7jvAhVEVc0KHQ-ZAIcQ8NMDegQIDhBH&biw=1219&bih=706

1899: Edward Breck, who was not Jewish, expressed his displeasure with the way that United States was complying with Russian laws that discriminated against American Jews and praised Julius Goldschdmidt, the U.S Counsel General in Berlin for his protest over the American government’s behavior in this matter.

1900: It was reported today that “the Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry has submitted to the French Senate an amendment to the Dreyfus Amnesty bill which is said to be most satisfactory to a large body of the more rational Dreyfusards, for its enactment would neither prohibit the rehabilitation of Captain Dreyfus in the regular legal way, nor would it make impossible the prosecution of ex-Minister of War Mercier before a Senatorial High Court of Justice.”

1901(27th of Adar): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit of “Rabbi Leone Modena (Aryeh Leib): the author of Ari Nohem who had passed away in 5444

1902: In New York City, Julius L. Lubell and the former Kayla Ginsberg” gave birth to Dorothy Lubell who after she married Dr. Solomon S. Feign was known Dorothy D. Feigin, “the painter, etcher and lithographer” whose “works are in collection of the Metropolitan Muses of Art, the Library of Congress, the Tel Aviv Museum of Israel and the Boston Library” and who was the mother of the psychiatrist, Dr. Simeon Feigin.

1902: In Nordhausen, Germany, Oskar Michael Blumenthal, the son of Selig and Juliane Bluementhal gave birth to Margot Blumenthal, the who became Margot Kasper when she married David Kasper and whose parents died at Theresienstadt during the Holocaust.

1903: Herzl begins a trip to Egypt that lasts until April 9.

1903: Birthdate of Louis Gross, the Chicago native who was an outstanding scholar/athlete when he played tackle for the University of Minnesota “Golden Gophers” from 1922 to 1924.

1904: In Edinburgh, Samuel and Rachel Blackman gave birth to Dora Blackman who became Dora Caplan when she married Ephraim Caplan.

1905: Birthdate of Mollie Parnis. Although she never had any formal education in design, Mollie Parnis became an influential women's fashion designer whose prestigious Seventh Avenue firm provided dresses for first ladies Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, and Patricia Nixon. Parnis was raised on New York's Lower East Side. She started working in fashion at age eighteen, when she was hired as an assistant saleswoman for a wholesale blouse manufacturer. Her ability to tailor and add distinctive finishing touches to blouses for retail customers earned Parnis her first recognition. She moved from the blouse business to a dress house, but in 1933, she opened an independent designer dress firm with her husband, Leon Livingston. Although she could not cut and sew fabric or draw, Parnis's acute eye for detail and perceptive knowledge of what women wanted allowed her to provide the creative vision for the company. Even in the midst of the Great Depression, the Parnis Livingston label was successful. Parnis's designs were said to combine elegance and beauty with form and function, and they were frequently featured in the style pages of magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Life. After Livingston's death in 1962, Parnis reshaped her company to cater to a new demand for more informal clothes. New labels targeted working-class women and young professionals. She closed the doors of her business in 1984.Throughout her life, Parnis was as dedicated to humanitarian work as she was to fashion. In 1971, she funded a program to clean up New York neighborhoods and establish small parks throughout the city. A similar program for Jerusalem followed two years later. She also contributed scholarships to fashion schools, and created the Livingston Awards, which honor young journalists in memory of Parnis's son. Mollie Parnis died in 1992.

1904: Two days after she had passed away, Frances (Salomons) Bergel, the wife of Samuel Bergel and the mother of Charles, William and Herbert Bergel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1905: Birthdate of Benny Friedman the native of Cleveland, Ohio known as “the Jewish Johnny Unitas” who played quarterback for the University of Michigan before going to a career as a head coach.

1906: As conditions worsened in Bialystok, two policeman named Rubansky and Syrolevich were killed, probably by anarchists. This was part of the unraveling situation that would lead to a pogrom in June of that year.

1906: Birthdate of Isadore Polier, the native of Aiken, SC who gained fame as civil rights lawyer Shad Polier, the husband of Justine Wise Polier, the daughter of Rabbi Stephen Wise.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/01/archives/shad-polier-lawyer-dead-active-in-civil-rights-cases.html

http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=616748

1906: A dark day in history since it marked the birth of Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo officer who contributed so much to the Final Solution. Eichmann is the only person to ever be executed by the state of Israel.

1907: As the peasants of Romania rose up against the landed gentry, the government declared a state of emergency and began a general mobilization of the army.  The revolt was tainted by anti-Semitism because in some parts of the country the Jews collected the rents from the Christian peasants for the Christian landlords.  The Jews, of course, could not own the land.

1907: As the investigation into the graft and corruption surrounding the rebuilding of San Francisco following the earthquake, “all of the Supervisors confessed before a grand jury to "receiving money from Abe Ruef in connection with the Home Telephone, overhead trolley, prize fight monopoly, and gas rates deals.  In exchange, "they were promised complete immunity and would not be forced to resign their offices. The grand jury then returned 65 indictments against Abraham “Abe” Ruef for bribery of the supervisors.

1908: Dr. Paul S. Kaplan, a representative of the Russian Jewish Radicals received word today in New York that Gregory Gershunin, the “organizer and leader of the ‘Fighting Group’ of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party” had passed away.

1908: According to a report published in the Times, Miss Julia Richman was one of the “outspoken advocates of uniting the City and Normal Colleges under one head.”

1909: “The home coming of ex-Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, whose official duties in Washington ended coincidently with those of ex-President Roosevelt, was the occasion of a large banquet tendered to the former Secretary last evening by his friends of the Freundschaft Society of New York, in their clubhouse, Seventy-second Street and Park Avenue.”

1910(7th of Adar II, 5670): Adolphus Simeon Solomons passed away in Washington, D.C. Born in 1826 John Solomons, a native of London who emigrated to the United States in 1810, Julia, daughter of Simeon Levy, “Solomons was educated in the University of the City of New York, and entered the employ of a firm of wholesale importers of stationery and fancy goods, becoming within two years its head book-keeper and confidential man. At the age of fourteen he had enlisted as a color-guide in the Third Regiment Washington Greys (New York State National Guard); he was promoted sergeant five years later” “In 1851 Daniel Webster, then secretary of state, appointed him "Special Bearer of Despatches to Berlin." On his journey he visited for the first time a Jewish ward in a hospital, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and determined to establish a similar institution in New York. Upon his return home he became a member of a committee of young men who arranged a ball for charity in Niblo's Garden. The sum of $1,034 realized therefrom was, upon Solomons' motion, placed in the hands of Simpson Simson of Yonkers, who, with others, had recently taken out a charter for a Jewish hospital in New York, the present Mt. Sinai Hospital. In 1859 Solomons established the publishing-house of Philp & Solomons in Washington, D. C., which held for a number of years the government contracts for printing. Solomons was in 1871 elected a member of the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia, serving as chairman of the committee on ways and means. As a representative of the central committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Solomons at a public meeting held in New York advocated the establishment of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of Sir Moses Montefiore's birth. As trustee and, subsequently, as acting president of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association of New York, he was influential in bringing about a successful reorganization of the society's finances. In 1891 he became general agent of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and director of its many activities in America; and in 1903, when relieved of active work, he was made honorary general agent. Solomons was an incorporator and for seventeen years an active member of the National Association of the Red Cross and was also one of its two vice-presidents. President Arthur appointed him and Clara Barton as representatives of the United States government in the International Congress of the Red Cross, held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1881; and Solomons was elected vice-president of that congress. He was one of the five original members of the New York executive board of the Red Cross Relief Committee, which board was in session during the Spanish-American war and consisted of twenty-five members presided over by Bishop Potter. Solomons has been a member of the central committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and its treasurer for the United States. He has been for twenty years a director, and for some time treasurer, of the Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum in Washington, D. C.; he is also a charter member of the Garfield Memorial Hospital, acting president of the Provident Aid Society and Associated Charities, founder and president of the Night Lodging-House Association, and trustee of the first training-school for nurses in the District of Columbia; he has been identified also with nearly all the prominent charities in the United States capital. Solomons has taken active part in all inauguration ceremonies” starting with Abraham Lincoln.

1911: Irving Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” “the multimillion-selling smash hit that helped turn American popular music into a major international phenomenon, both culturally and economically” was copyrighted today.

1912: “Appeals to Young Jews” published described a meeting at the Kalverier Synagogue at 15 Pike Street organized by the Sons and Daughters of Israel where plans were discussed to design a movement that would “bring together the younger generation of Jews and stimulate them with a stronger religious feeling.

1913(9th of Adar II, 5673): Eighty-nine-year-old merchant Aaron Goodman passed away today in Baltimore, MD.

1913(9th of Adar II, 5673): Bahr Sheideman, a merchant who had resided in Santa Rosa with his wife Sophie and was the Treasurer of the Jewish Alliance of California passed away today in San Francisco.

1913: The King of Greece was assassinated at Salonica. False charges ran in the Greek newspapers that the killer was Jewish. The killer would turn out to be a Greek who was not Jewish but who was reported to be mentally ill.

1913(9th of Adar II, 5673): Seventy-eight-year-old merchant Bahr Scheideman, the husband of Sophie Scheidman who replaced George Aronson as superintendent of the religious school at Congregation Sherith Israel, passed away today in San Francisco.

1915: Among these listed today as contributors to the American Jewish Relief Committee were Zadok Lodge, I.O.B.B., Selma, Alabama; Ohev Sholem Sisterhood, Harrisburg, PA; Agudath Jacob Ladies Aide Society, Waco, TX; Akron (Ohio) Hebrew Relief Association and the Women’s Aid Society, Fargo, ND. (Editor’s Note – These contributors give an idea of how many different places that Jews were living and that these places all had active Jewish communities.)

1914: Mrs. Cyrus S. Sulzberger, Mrs. Albert Seligman, Mrs. Solomon Schechter and Mrs. Israel Friedland were among the patrons of the Jewish Women’s Relief Association’s benefit perform of “1,000 Years Ago” at the Shubert Theatre.

1915: The text of ‘what purports to be the text of a Russian military order on the strength of which wholesale massacres of the Jews in Poland were carried out ‘under Government auspices’ which was sent by the Foreign Committee of the General Union of Jewish Workers of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, commonly as the ‘Bund’” was received in New York today.

1915: As the Allies attempted to use their navies to force their way through Dardanelles, three ships were sunk and three more were disabled meaning that troops, including the fabled Zion Mule Corps, would have to be used to accomplish the strategic goals first framed by Winston Churchill.

1915: According to reports published today “the Commander-in-Chief” of the Russian Army has given “orders for the taking of hostages” which provides for their hanging – which will be used as pretext for hanging Jews on the eastern front.

1916(13th of Adar II, 5676): Shabbat and Erev Purim

1916(13th of Adar, II, 5676): Fifty-eight-year-old Adolph Goldberg, the husband of the former Theresa Pollack passed away today at his home on Iowa Street in Chicago.

1916: A dance is scheduled” to be held at Burland Casino which is a fundraiser for Sinai Congregation of the Bronx which has just dedicated a new Temple.

1917: “Hailing the Russian upheaval as the greatest world event since the French Revolution, Louis Marshall said in an interview tonight that the revolt again autocracy might be expected to Germany and asserted that the emancipation of the Russian Jews would be as great a boon to their country as to themselves.”

1917: A meeting of Jews held today at the Manhattan Opera House “under the auspices of the People’s Relief Committee” adopted resolution calling for a “self-imposed income tax” to raise funds that will be distributed “among the Jews in the war-stricken countries.

1917: Today, in churches and synagogue throughout New York City leaders hailed the Russian revolution “as great blow for the freedom of a race” including Rabbi Stephen S. Wise who said “he regretted that the American people had not done more to help the cause of liberty in Russia.”

1918: Isaac Nachman Steinberg completed his term as People’s Commissar for Justice.

1918: It was reported today that Jacob H. Schiff was one of those who supported the drive to raise $2,500,000 for the war activities fund of the Knights of Columbus, along with Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El who publicly pledged the support of the Jews in help the Catholics reach their goal.

1918: In London, the Jewish community celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Chevra Kadisha.

1919: It was reported today that the provision in the League of Nations covenant dealing with religious discrimination that “was intended to benefit the Jews” may be a casualty of the Japanese proposal for “an amendment guaranteeing racial equality.”

1919: Birthdate of Hempstead, NY, native Milton “Mickey” Rutner the third baseman who played in 12 games for the 1947 Philadelphia Athletics

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml

1920(28th of Adar, 5680): Seventy-year-old Moriz Benedikt, the “long time editor of Neue Freie Presse” passed away today.

1922: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Aaron Shikler, the renowned portrait artist whose works included the official portrait of JFK, Senator Mike Mansfield and Lady Bird Johnson in what looks a hymn to the Hill Country, (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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:Mike_mansfield.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler#/media/File:Portrait_of_Mrs._Lyndon_B._Johnson_-_NARA_-_192427.tif

1922: In Cairo, the first meeting was held between a Zionist Delegation and representatives of the “Executive Committee of the Congress of Parties of the Confederation of Arab Countries.

1922: Judith Kaplan, age 12, became the first American to celebrate a bat mitzvah. Judith was the oldest daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Believing that girls should have the same religious opportunities as their brothers, Rabbi Kaplan arranged for his daughter to read Torah on a Shabbat morning at his synagogue, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. The Kaplan bat mitzvah marked a turning point for Conservative Judaism in America. Always torn between tradition and modernity, the movement struggled for many decades with women's roles in the synagogue. Judith Kaplan herself was not allowed to read from the Torah scroll, as modern bat mitzvah celebrants do; instead, she read a passage in Hebrew and English from a printed Chumash (first five books of the Bible) after the regular Torah service. Still, Rabbi Kaplan's innovation gained followers, and about a third of Conservative congregations held bat mitzvah ceremonies by 1948. By the 1960s, bat mitzvah was a regular feature of Conservative congregational life; today it is a mainstay in synagogues from Reform to Modern Orthodox. After her ground-breaking bat mitzvah, Kaplan Eisenstein (she married Ira Eisenstein who became Kaplan's successor in leading the Reconstructionist movement) went on to a successful career in Jewish music. After studying at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Julliard School) in New York, she attended the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) Teachers Institute and Columbia University's Teachers College, where she earned an M.A. in music education in 1932. She later earned a Ph.D. in the School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). Kaplan Eisenstein taught music pedagogy and the history of Jewish music at JTS, HUC-JIR, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College for many years. She also created the first Jewish songbook for children, Gateway to Jewish Song (1937). Her other published works include Festival Songs (1943) and Heritage of Music: The Music of the Jewish People (1972). In 1987, she created and broadcast a thirteen-hour radio series on the history of Jewish music. In 1992, at age 82, Kaplan Eisenstein celebrated a second bat mitzvah, surrounded by leaders of the modern Jewish feminist movement. This time, she read from a Torah scroll. Kaplan Eisenstein died on February 14, 1996.

1922: Birthdate of sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, the co-author of Jews and the New American Scene in 1995.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/obituaries/04lipset.html

1924: Birthdate of Irmgard Neumann, the native of Kleinsteinach, who was among the last nine members of the town be shipped to the death camps in 1942.

1925: “Athletes” a silent film with a script by Hans Behrendt was released today in Germany.

1926: Chairman William Fox announced today that cotton goods merchant Samuel C. Lamport and clothing manufacture Joseph Frankel have each contributed $25,00 the United Jewish Campaign of New York.

1927(14th of Adar II, 5686): Purim

1927: Thanks to the effort of New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Purim was celebrated by “Jewish patients in all the city hospitals on Welfare Island.”

1927: In Leipzig, German, Herman Menasche, a lingerie merchant and the former Erna Feiner gave birth to Lilli Menasch who gained fame as Lillian Vernon. Vernon fled with her family first to Amsterdam and then to New York to escape Hitler. In the U.S., her father manufactured leather goods, which would become the base of Vernon's first foray into mail-order commerce. Married and pregnant, Vernon began the business that would become Lillian Vernon, Inc., in 1951. She took $495 out of her wedding gifts to place an advertisement for personalized belts and handbags in Seventeen magazine. Her father's company manufactured the belts and bags, and Vernon embossed, packaged, and shipped them. The ad brought in over $32,000 worth of sales, and Vernon's company was born. She mailed her first catalogue two years later. Taking monogramming as its trademark, and catering mainly to women, Lillian Vernon mail-order grew rapidly, generating $200,000 in sales in 1956, the year Vernon opened her first manufacturing plant. By 1990, sales had risen to $238 million, and the mailing list had grown to 17 million names. After pioneering her successful mail-order business, Vernon continued to keep the company at the forefront of commercial changes. She began opening retail outlets in 1985, and went online a decade later. Hers was also the first woman-owned business to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. The company continues to introduce new catalogs regularly, and now produces special lines of items for children, teens, and gardening, as well as its traditional products for the home. Vernon has used her wealth to support over 500 charities, and has been recognized by, among others, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, which awarded her its National Hero Award. She has also received the NAACP Medal of Honor and has been inducted into the Direct Marketing Association Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was named one of 50 leading women entrepreneurs by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners. Though she no longer embosses items herself, Vernon is still active as the CEO of her company and as its main spokesperson.

1927: “Praises Palestine Idea” published today described a plea made today “to the Christian world” by Colonel Sir Wyndham Deedes, the former Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government “to banish all prejudices against the Jew, to wipe the slates clean and start with clean slates, as Jewish history is being re-written in Palestine.”

1927: In Kansas City, MO, Harold S. Kander and his wife gave birth to Broadway composer and dance arranger John Kander whose credits include “Chicago” and “Cabaret.”

1927: The Synagogue on Welfare Island which was built under the auspices of the New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women hosted a Megillah reading on Purim after which committee representatives “distributed gifts and delicacies to 305 Jewish patients on the wards of the hospitals.”

1928: Senator James E. Watson of Indiana is scheduled to be “the principal speaker” at the 19thannual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society of American which will be held at today Cooper Union 1928: The New York Times described the controversy surrounding the decision of a court in Jaffa to fine a storekeeper for violating local ordinances concerning the observance of the Jewish Sabbath.

1929: In Białystok, Poland, to David and Helaina (née Suchowolski) Pisar gave birth Samuel Pisar American lawyer who survived seven different concentration camps.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/world/europe/samuel-pisar-dies-at-86-lawyer-and-adviser-survived-nazi-camps.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1930: In New Orleans, Rabbi Louis Binkstock officiated at the wedding this evening “Miss Lenore Lebach, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart J. Lebach of New York” and Tulane alum  Edmond Nathanial Cahn, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cahn

1930: Eight one year old Arthur James Balfour, a prominent British politician who served as Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905 passed away today. During World War I, Balfour served as Foreign Minister. It was while serving in this position that he gained his place in Jewish History by giving his name to the Balfour Declaration, which read in part, "His Majesty's Government view with the favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object..." The Balfour Declaration came to be one of the basic documents in the Jewish diplomatic efforts to establish what would become the modern state of Israel.

1931: “Is Charlie Chaplin Jew?” published today reported that that both of Charlie Chaplain’s parents were Jewish.

https://www.jta.org/1931/03/18/archive/is-charlie-chaplin-jew

1932: Birthdate of Alan Rosenthal the native of Manhattan and Harvard graduate who was director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University from 1974 to 1993. (As reported by Kate Zenike)

1935(13th of Adar II, 5695): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1936: “These Three” a drama directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with music by Alfred Newman and “a screenplay by Lillian Hellman based on her 1934 play ‘The Children’s Hour.’”

1936: The basic plans for the upcoming meeting of the World Council for German Jewry “which plans to supervise the emirgration of 100,000 Jews from Germany in the next four years” which “will be attended by 300 delegates” including 70 from the United States were published today.

1937: As “the Arab attacks on the Jews in Palestine continued to increase,” “a bomb exploded early this morning in the hands of an Arab near the Jewish quarter in Kerem seriously injuring him and three Arab workmen”

1937: “Pledges Protection to Jews” published today described a visit of Benito Mussolini to Tripoli, Libya where he “openly rejected the policy of anti-Semitism” and assuring the Jews “of his protection.”

1937: The Palestine Post reported that 17 Jews, two policemen and one British soldier were injured by a bomb thrown at the Egged bus terminal on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road. Two Arabs were detained on suspicion. Later four Arabs were injured when bombs were thrown into Arab-frequented cafes on Mamilla Road and in Romema. Police dogs picked an Arab farmer, Mohammed Kamel, as the murderer of Samuel Gottfried, 26, of Rosh Pina.

1938: “Notes of the Advertising World” published today described the appointment of Julien J. Proskauer, the president of William C. Popper and Co. to serve as chairman of the printing and allies trades division of the Joint Distribution Committee which is “raising funds to aid Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland.

1938: “An order issued by Hitler’s representative in Austria “that no changes shall be carried out in the personnel of private businesses” essentially “prohibits reduction of staffs by Jews whose property rights curtailed and whose customers are being frightened away by propaganda and the badge ‘Jewish shop.’”

1939: Just after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, in Brno, Syme Rysavy “invited her parents and younger brothers, Ned and Michael, over to her house for a special family dinner” during which she told her brothers they must flee immediately – a decision that saved their lives – and she would stay with their aged parents.

1939(27th of Adar, 5699): Parsahat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat HaChodesh

1939(27th of Adar, 5699): Forty-eight-year-old Bert Adler, the secretary of the Department of Public Works who “served in the motion picture section of many Red Cross drives and was Chairman of the Stars Committee of the Hoover Central Europe Relief Drive passed away today at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.

1939: Rabbi Harold Mashioff is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler” at the Temple of the Covenant.

1939: Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Willing Heart” at West End Synagogue.

1939: Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Static Versus Dynamic Religion” at Temple Emanu-El.

1940: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. [Editor’s Note – For some strange reason, Italy was never held accountable for its role as Hitler’s willing ally and all that that meant.]

1940 This morning, a funeral service is scheduled to be held at Temple Emanu-El in New York for sixty-eight-year-old Samuel Mundheim, the Washington D.C. born son of Lewis and Fanny Foster Mundheim and the husband of Stella Kaufmann Mundheimr who was chairman of the board of the American Safety Razor Corporation and former president of Stern Brothers which he is to be buried at the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery in the District of Columbia.

1941: This week, 200 Jews would die from hunger in Warsaw ghetto. The prior week, 400 died of hunger.

1941: In a move that would to a notorious show trial and the execution of the defendant, Leo Katzenberger was arrested today under the so-called Rassenschutzgesetz, or Racial Protection Law, one of the Nuremberg Laws, which made it a criminal offence as Rassenschande ("racial defilement") which prohibited Aryans from having sexual relations with Jew

1942: Forty-five-year-old Charles A. Levine who was “the first trans-Atlantic plane passenger” was in front of a federal judge in Los Angeles over a $500 fine that had been levied against him over a violation of immigration law.

1943(11th of Adar II, 5703): Fast of Esther observed since the 13th of Adar is on Shabbat.

1943(11th of Adar II, 5703): The hiding place of Dr. Julian Charin, age 30, of Lapy, Ukraine, was betrayed to the Nazis, and Charin was shot.

1943(11th of Adar II, 5703): At Auschwitz, 26-year-old underground fighter Lonka Kozibrodska died of typhus.

1943: “After Midnight with Boston Blackie,” part of the series of crime movies produced by Sam White was released in the United States today.

1943: “Keeper of the Flame” a movie version of the novel with the same named directed by George Cukor was released today in the United States.

1944(23rd of Adar, 5704): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei and Shabbat Parah

1944(23rd of Adar, 5704): H.J. Freedman passed away in the service of his country after which he was bured in the Willesden Jewish Cemetery.

1944: Birthdate of Amnon Lipkin-Shahak the 15th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Member of the Knesset and Minister of Transportation and Tourism.

1944: Hitler summons the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy for talks. Horthy guaranteed the delivery of 100,000 Jewish workers for the German war effort. Yet he was still hesitant about a general deportation of the rest of the country's 750,000 Jews. At 9:30 that evening, German troops begin to enter Hungary.

1945: Birthdate of Eric Norman Woolfson, the native of Glasgow where his family owned a furniture, who became “a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project.”

1946(15th of Adar II, 5706): Purim

1946(15th of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-nine-year-old Maurice Falk, he Greensberg, PA born son of Charles and Sara Falk and the founder, with his brothers of Weirton Steel who married Selma Wertheimer after his first wife Laura Klinordlinger passed away and who, with his brother “established the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies at Pittsburg in 1912 passed away today.

http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/falk-family/

https://www.jta.org/1946/03/21/archive/maurice-falk-noted-jewish-philanthropist-and-steel-executive-dies-at-miami-beach

1946: Birthdate of award-winning Dutch filmmaker Wolf “Willy” Lindwer.

http://www.willylindwer.com/

1946: Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill was “the guest of honor at a dinner given by” Jewish financier and unofficial advisor to numerous Presidents, Bernard Baruch.

1946: Birthdate of Wolf “Willy” Lindwer the native of Amsterdam “best known for his films on the Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East and Judaism.”

http://www.willylindwer.com/

1946: In Sweden, premiere of “Deadline at Dawn” directed by Howard Cluman with a script by Clifford Odets.

1947: Birthdate of Steve Schiff the Chicago native who became a Congressman from New Mexico’s First District.

1947: Birthdate of Deborah Esther Lipstadt , the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in an English court.

1947: Efforts to overturn the death sentences of Dov Rosenbaum, Eliezer Kashani and Mordecai Kashani suffered a setback today when the “Palestine High Court rejected an application for an order for the commissioner of prisons, the British commanding general, the attorney general and the chief secretary to show cause” for why the sentence should not be set aside.

1948(7th of Adar II, 5708): Seventy-three-year-old Gedaliah Bublick, the Grodno born son of Aaron Bublick “the writer and Zionist who drifted from Paris to Argentina to New York where he became editor-in-chief of the Yiddishe Tageblatt passed away suddenly tonight.

Hempstead, NY, native Milton “Mickey” Rutner the third baseman who played in 12 games for the 1947 Philadelphia Athletics passed away today in Georgetown, TX.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rutnemi01.shtml

1948(7th of Adar II, 5708): Rabbi Chaim Isaac Block, author of Divrei Hibbah passed away.

1948(7th of Adar II, 5708): Sixty-four-year-old Hungarian native Louis J. Moss, the son of Michael and Jennie Moss, “a lawyer specializing in real estate and trust law” and the President of the United Synagoes of American from 1931 to 1941 who was the husband of the former Bryna Finegold with whom he had three children passed away today.

1948: Today in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion said “that the Jews and Arabs would make peace in the Holy Land if the United Nations implemented the decision on partition.”

1948 President Truman met with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and assured him of the United States' support for Jewish statehood. 

1949: After having been released in Germany and the United States in 1948, “Long Is he Road” – “the first German-made film to directly portray the Holocaust.”

1949: James Grover McDonald was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel by President Harry Truman.

1949: Moshe Dayan, Abdullah el-Tell and King Abdullah of Jordan began “a series of meetings today” which would lead to an armistice agreement.

1950: “Dr. George Josephthanal, director of the Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency” announced “that a sea and air operation aimed at moving 90,000 Jews out of Iraq into Israel would be initiated next month at a cost of sixty million dollars.”

1951: Birthdate of Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Empire.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that Agriculture Minister Levi Eshkol promised self-sufficiency in animal fodder, increased tobacco production, and intensification of cattle raising for meat, as the immediate policy goals of his ministry. He noted a general improvement in fruit production, although he warned that it could take a couple of years until the full impact of last year¹s planting was felt on the market.

1956(6th of Nisan, 5716): Sixty-eight-year-old Benjamin Glazer, the Irish born director and Oscar winning writer who “was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences passed away today.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10680141.html

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4z09n74z/

1961: The New York Times reports that the French government awarded Rabbi Simon Langer the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his "...extraordinary contributions to the advancement of better French-American relations before and after the Second World War. He is credited with rescuing many French children from the Nazis." His tireless work with Bikur Cholim continues.

1962: The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954. The end of the Algerian War marked the beginning of a change in French policy towards the Arabs, and therefore, towards Israel. While fighting the Arab nationalist in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, the French saw the Israelis as allies. This accounts for French willingness to supply the IDF with military equipment including jet fighter planes and to join in the Suez War of 1956. Once De Gaulle decided to end French fighting with Arab nationalist, he sought to create a French sphere of influence among its former colonies. Supporting Israel was now a detriment to French policy aims. In 1967, De Gaulle would oppose Israel’s right to defend itself in what would become the Six Days War going so far as to deny delivery of naval vessels to the Israelis for which the Jewish state had already paid.

1963(22nd of Adar, 5723): Eighty-two-year-old Harry Schwartz, the maternal grandfather of Rabbi Fred Davidow and native of Ukraine who settled in Mississippi where he and his wife Fannie Stein ran a dry-goods store and meat market and raised a family that included Fred’s mother Thelma Leah, passed away today.

1964(5th of Nisan, 5724): Sixty-nine-year-old American mathematician Norbert Wiener passed away. Born in 1894, he was known as the founder of cybernetics. He created the term in his book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (MIT Press, 1948), widely recognized as one of the most important books of contemporary scientific thinking

1965(14th of Adar II, 5725) Purim

1965: “Do I Hear a Waltz?” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim opened on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre.

1965: Death of King Farouk, former ruler of Egypt. While King of Egypt, Farouk led his country to war against Israel in 1948. The defeat of Egyptian forces along with his total corruption, led to Farouk’s overthrow in 1952 in a coup masterminded by Nasser.

1967: Thirteen-year-old Alan Smason became a Bar Mitzvah at New Orleans Congregation Beth Israel. He celebrated the event with a major party at the newly-opened Jewish Community Center that night

1968(18th of Adar, 5728): Sixty-year-old Harry Kurnitz who wrote over forty movie scripts as well as detective stories and plays passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9904EEDF1E39E134BC4152DFB5668383679EDE

1968(18th of Adar, 5728): “Two people were killed and 28 children were in landmine attack on a school bus in the Negev north of Eilat.”

1969(28th of Adar, 5729): Sixty-two-year-old Zena Maisel Pollack, the administrative director of the Jewish Guild for the Blind for the last 35 years, “known to her associates as Sis” and wife of “retired toy manufacturer Sidney E. Pollack” passed away today at University Hospital.

1969(28th of Adar, 5729: Seventy-two-year Harvard alum and Navy Veteran from WW I and WW II Kassel Lewis, the founder of Crown Fabrics and husband of “the former Syliva Surut who is the director the YMHA/YWHA nursery” with whom he raised a daughter and a son – Anthony Lewis of the New York Times.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071781.pdf

1972(3rd of Nisan, 5732): Parashat Vayikra

1973(14th of Adar II, 5733): Purim

1973: “Two People” a dramatic film with music by David Shire was released today in the United States.

1973: The Cy Coleman musical “Seesaw” opened today on Broadway at the Uris Theatre.

1974: In Tucker, GA, “Leslie (Diamond) and Charles Lowenstein gave birth to twin brothers Evan Mitchell Lowenstein and Jaron David Lowenstein, the musical duo who perform as “Evan and Jaron.”

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported from Cairo that Yasser Arafat made it clear that the PLO had no intention of giving up its aim of creating a "secular state" in Palestine ¬ its roundabout expression for the destruction of Israel. In Washington, despite Israeli repeated requests, the State Department declined to say what President Jimmy Carter had in mind when he called for a Palestinian "homeland." Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was reportedly worried by Carter¹s statement that there had to be a homeland provided for Palestinian refugees who have suffered for many, many years.

1978: “Straight Time,” “a crime drama directed by Ulu Grosbard,” produced by Tim Zinnemann and starring Dustin Hoffman was released in the United States today.

1978: “Two London Jewish tourists, who visited Leningrad, reported that after meeting with refuseniks, they were attacked and beaten up by a gang of hooligans.”

1979(19th of Adar, 5739): Seventy year old Sylvan N. Friedman who served in the Louisiana State Legislature from 1944 until 1972, a long-time member of Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim and the father of Sam Friedman, the attorney who reopened the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, passed away today.

http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=23

 

 

1979: In Los Angeles, “Fredric Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy (née Noah) Levine, an admissions counselor” gave birth to Adam Noah Levine an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who is the frontman for the pop rock band Maroon 5.

1979: “Fast Company” a racing movie directed by David Cronenberg who co-authored the script was released today in Canada.

1980(1st of Nisan, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1980(1st of Nisan, 5740): Seventy-nine-year-old Eric Fromm passed away.

http://www.erichfromm.net/

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

1980(1st of Nisan, 5740): Eighty-year-old German born “British neurologist” and founder of the Paralympics in the UK Sir Ludwig Guttman passed away today

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-Guttmann

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/LudwigPoppaGuttmann.htm

1982: In Livingston, NJ, Caryn and Steven Pally gave birth to actor and comedian Adam Saul Pally.

1983(4th of Nisan, 5743): Eighty-nine-year-old New York Republican Party leader Samuel Greenwald, the Hungarian born son of Judah and Marjem Greenwald and husband of Szeri Greenwald pass way today.

1984(14th of Adar II, 5744): Purim

1986(7th of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-one-year-old author Bernard Malmud passed away. The prolific author may be best known for The Fixer for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and The Natural which was made into a movie starring Robert Redford. The movie and the book have different endings. The film version makes Hollywood happy. The book ends in a manner consistent with Malmud’s view of life. (As reported by Mervyn Rothstein)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/reviews/malamud-obit.html

1987: Two days after he had passed away funeral services were held today for eighty-seven year old Estonia native Samuel H. Shapiro, the second Jew to serve as Governor of Illinois. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/17/obituaries/samuel-h-shapiro-79-ex-governor-of-illinois.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-17/news/8701210345_1_mr-shapiro-kankakee-county-election-reform

1988: “The Milagro Beanfield War” featuring Daniel Stern and with music by Dave Grusin who won an Oscar for Best Original Score was released today in the United States.

1988(29th of Adar, 5748): Eighty-four-year-old Gerald Abraham, the President of the Royal Musical Association passed away today.

1989(11th of Adar II, 5749): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

1989(11th of Adar II, 5749): Albert Bassuk passed today after which he was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, NY.

1990(21st of Adar, 5750): Ninety-four-year-old Manhattan born, Harvard Grad and WW I U.S. Navy Ensign Walter S. Mack who made Pepsi the nation’s number 2 cola, behind number 1, Coke, passed away today. (As reported by Peter B. Flint)

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-19/news/mn-579_1_pepsi-syrup

1991: In “Resisting the Vortex By Living a Life of Books and Anger” published today Frank Rich reviewed a new Holocaust play – “The Substance of Fire” by Jon Robin Baitz.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/18/theater/review-theater-resisting-the-vortex-by-living-a-life-of-books-and-anger.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted&pagewanted=print

1992: Leona Helmsley was sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion.

1993(25th of Adar, 5753): Ninety-seven year old Sara R. Ehrman the Bowling Green KY born “daughter of Helen Emelie Rosenfeld and businessman Abe Rosenfeld” and wife of Herbert B Ehrman, an attorney for Sacco and Venzetti and “founder of the Greater Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee who was a long-time and successful opponent of the death penalty and the mother of H. Bruce and Robert Ehrman passed away today after which she was buried in the Temple Israel Cemetery in Wakefield, MA.

1993: The Sisters Rosensweig a play written by Wendy Wasserstein opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

1994: In Canada, CTV broadcast the first episode of “RoboCop” a series produced by Jay Firestone based on the movie of the same name

 

1995: “Opening the Fed’s Door From Inside” published today provides an insight to the fiscal and monetary philosophy of Alan S. Binder, the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

1997: It was reported today that President, Chancellor, Boards of Governors and Overseers, faculty, administration and students of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion record with profound sorrow the death in Jerusalem of Dr. S. Zalman Abramov, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of our Jerusalem School.

1997: The Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as a Landmark of the Pike Street Synagogue (Congregation Sons of IsraelKalwarie), and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site

1998: Rachel Schulder Abrams and Ian Daniel Pear, “a graduate of Georgetown University, is a law student at New York University and a rabbinical student at Yeshiva University” were married today “at the Puck Building in Manhattan in a ceremony full of ancient Hebrew folk songs and traditions.”

1999: Marcel Marceau day is established in New York City.

2000(11th of Adar II, 5760): Parsashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time during the Presidency of Bill Clinton.

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black and The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1987 by Primo Levi; edited by Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon.

2002: “Israeli ground forces began withdrawing early today from Palestinian-controlled territory in Bethlehem and two other West Bank towns, the Israeli Army said, as Israel moved under American pressure toward meeting Palestinian conditions for formal cease-fire talks.”

2003(14th of Adar II, 5763): Purim

2004: In Israel premiere of “Walk on Water” directed by Eytan Fox.

2004(2nd of Nisan, 5764): Seventy-two-year-old Tony Award winning Broadway producer Joan Cullman passed away today. (As reported by Ben Sisario)

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/joan-cullman-72-a-producer-and-lincoln-center-board-member.html

2005: “The military announced that Israeli citizens are now barred from moving to Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, a move aimed at preventing an influx of activists in advance of a planned withdrawal this summer” during which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intends to evacuate all 8,500 settlers from Gaza, over four weeks beginning in July.”

2006(18th of Adar 5766):  Parshat Ki TisaShabbat Parah

2006: Founding of “Jewdas” “a Jewish diaspora group based in London” that describes itself as "radical" and is described by The Jewish Chronicle as a "Jewish diaspora group, known for its far-left anti-Zionism.”

2006: The family and multitude of friends of Betty Levin gather in Chicago for a belated birthday celecbration. Wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, teacher, pillar of the Jewish community and so much more – she is the complete package. She redefines the term Ashesh Chayil giving the term a meaning far beyond anything that Solomon could have possibly imagined.

2007: The Jerusalem Circus performs at the Gerard Behar Center as part of the Jerusalem Arts Festival.

2007: At Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y, Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers present the last performance of “Gertrud,” a tribute to Gotheiner’s late teacher, Gertrud Kraus.

2007: The Sunday New York Times features a review of Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein.

2008: Eric Alterman, a professor of English and journalism at the City University of New York, discusses and signs Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America at Borders Book Store in Washington, D.C.

2008: German Chancellor Angela Merkel becomes the first foreign head of government to address the Knesset. In the past, the honor has been reserved only for heads of state and monarchs.

2008: A special meeting of the Committee for the Advancement of Women will be convened to mark International Agunah Day, led by the new chairperson of the committee - Knesset member Lia Shemtov.

2008(11th of Adar II, 5768): Henry A. Fischel, a “professor emeritus of Near Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University,” passed away. “Fischel was an influential figure in founding the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. Under his direction, the Lilly Endowment gave the university a grant in 1972-73 to develop a Jewish Studies Program.”

 

2008(11th of Adar II, 5678): Seventy-eight-year-old the heavyweight literary editor who was a “noted for his distinguished list of authors, tweedy attire and accomplished renditions of Bach preludes and fugues on the piano” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/arts/22asher.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/02/culture.obituaries

2008: “Yael Naim, the self-titled second studio album by Yael Naïm” that features the single "New Soul" was released today in the United States in Canada today.

2008: A 49-year-old Israeli rabbi identified as Rabbi Yechezkel Greenwald was stabbed and wounded by an Arab assailant near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.

2009: The Leo Baeck Institute hosts “Regina Resnik Presents: Covert or Convert” a film that pays “homage to composers who converted to Christianity but who wrote on Jewish themes, and to composers who did not convert, but wrote on Jewish themes in secret, often at the risk of their lives. Presented and narrated by the legendary mezzo-soprano Regina Resnik, the film shares the proud and often difficult history of such composers as Anton Rubinstein, Otto Klemperer, and Felix Mendelssohn, whose statue outside the Gewandhaus in Leipzig was destroyed by the Nazis.

2009: Book World columnist Michael Dirda discusses and signs his most recent book, Classics for Pleasure, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md.

2009: The Orange Prize, given annually to a female fiction writer, announced its list of 20 contenders, including Allegra Goodman the author of “Intuition.” The finalists for the Man Booker International Prize, a lifetime achievement award given every other year, have been announced including E. L. Doctorow and Joyce Carol Oates.

2009: "The North American United Jewish Communities, in cooperation with the State Department...set funds aside to absorb 110 Yemenite Jews in to the United - more than a third of all the Jews remaining in Yemen."

2009(22nd of Adar, 5769): Terry Schwarzfeld died of brain injuries today, two weeks after being airlifted to a hospital in Ottawa from Barbados where she had been brutally by Curtis Joel Foster while on vacation with her daughter-in-law.  At the time of the attack she had just started her term as president of Canadian Hadassah WIZO and was executive director of Ottawa's largest synagogue, Agudath Israel.

2010: Jacques Pépin, author of more than a dozen cookbooks and host of a trio of celebrated cooking shows, is scheduled to serve as a celebrity judge today during the finals of the Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off, hosted in New York City by the kosher food giant. The kosher recipe contest will award prizes worth $25,000. Open to contestants from across the country, the competition is limited to original recipes that are kosher, can be prepared in less than an hour and contain no more than 8 ingredients including one of the three varieties of Manischewitz’s new, kosher, all-natural broths. The winner of the fourth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off will get a trip to New York, a kitchen’s worth of new appliances — at a value of roughly $25,000 — as well as a check for $5,000 and a gift card for groceries.

2010: An auction of several rare early American Jewish books is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. in New York. Among the offerings at the sale being conducted by Swann Auction Galleries is an early Jewish-American cookbook and the first Hebrew Bible printed on American soil. A first edition of Esther Levy's 1871 Jewish Cookery Book is expected bring bids ranging from $10,000 to 15,000. “This first Jewish cookbook published in North America offers a glimpse into late-19th-century Jewish life and food trends, when mutton was popular and husbands expected special Sunday dinners. Also for sale is an extremely rare Liber Psalmorum Hebraice from 1809, the first Hebrew version of the Bible printed in the Americas. No other complete copy has been seen at auction since 1998, according to the auction catalogue. The book is valued at $9,000 to $12,000. Other items of interest include 200 books, manuscripts and other papers from the family archives of Abraham Moses Hershman, who became rabbi of Detroit's Shaarey Zedek synagogue in 1907, and an early edition of Isaac Leeser's The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, dating from about 1852.

2010: Itzhak Perlman joins the IPO for a performance in Concert in Jeans Series in Tel Avi.

2010: As part of The Levin/Rosenstein Lecture Series held in Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Levin, Dr. Jacob L. Levin, and Larry and Judy (Levin) Rosenstein, The Jewish Studies Program at Tulane University is scheduled to present “From Berlin to New York: Jewish Culture in Pre-Nazi Germany and Jewish Culture in Post-War America.”

2010: A migrant worker in the northern Negev was killed by a rocket fired by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. The rocket struck Moshav Nativ Ha'asara this morning, killing a 30-year-old Thai man working in a hothouse. It was third rocket fired from Gaza in 24 hours.Five rockets have struck southern Israel in the past two days, according to the Israel Defense Forces. No injuries or damages were reported from the attacks. Today's attack came an hour after Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, crossed into Gaza from Israel. Ashton condemned the rocket firing during her visit to Gaza, according to reports. A Gaza group affiliated with al-Qaida, the Ansar al- Suna Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as one that hit southern Israel last week, according to reports.

2010: Israeli actor and television host Eyal Kitzis and his wife Tali gave birth to their first son.

2011: In Buenos Aires, Argentina Jewish leaders, “Jewish school groups, local and federal government officials met in the square where the embassy once stood, to remember the attack on the Israeli Embassy which took place on March 17, 1992, killing 29 people, and injuring 242. The attack was the work of Iran.

2011: The Five finalists on the Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off who have won an all-expense paid trip to Manhattan are scheduled to compete today at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan. A panel consisting of food media and other culinary experts will judge the contestants. Chef Jacques Pepin, the celebrity guest of honor, will act as emcee, head judge, and prize awarder. The cooking contest has a $25,000 grand prize package including a GE Profile kitchen appliances and cash.

2011: Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan are scheduled to present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions in Bielefeld, Germany.

2011(12 Adar II, 5771): Sixty-seven-year-old Knesset Member and educator Ze'ev Boim passed away today.

2011(12 Adar II): On the Hebrew calendar, anniversary the “Dedication of Herod’s Renovated Temple” in 11 BCE. For those who know how Herod lived his life the Talmud’s declaration that "He who has not seen Herod's edifice has not seen a magnificent edifice!" is difficult to understand.

2011: Projectiles land in open areas with no injuries, damaged reported; shots fired at IDF soldiers near southern Gaza border.   Four mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the western Negev early this afternoon. The projectiles landed in open areas, causing no casualties or damage. Earlier on today, shots were fired at IDF soldiers near the southern border of the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported and no damage was caused as a result.

2011: In “In Novels, an Ex-Spy Returns to the Fold,” Jules Bosman describes the upcoming literary efforts of Valery Palme Wilson, the CIA employee who happened to Jewish and who was identity was scandalously exposed by those upset with her husband.

2012: The annual Jewish Women’s Archive Luncheon is scheduled to take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

2012: The final in a three-part lecture series “Agnon’s Eretz Israel” presented by Rabbi Jeffrey Saks is scheduled to take place today.

2012: “The Last Jews of Libya” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Film Festival.

2012: The NoVA International Film Festival is scheduled to begin today in Fairfax, VA.

2012(24th of Adar, 5772): Eighty-seven-year-old real estate developer Melvyn Kaufman passed away today.  (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/melvyn-kaufman-developer-who-shaped-manhattans-streetscape-dies-at-87.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all&_r=0

2013: At Shaaray Tefila, Rabbi Dagan is scheduled to present a “special program where he will share gorgeous melodies that track his personal musical journey from an Israeli Sephardi synagogue to a Reform rabbinate in Haifa.

2013: After almost six years of service, Ehud Barak stepped down as Minister of Defense.

2013: Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present “Beer, Art and Revolution: Jewish Life in Munich, 1806-present”

2013: Gideon Sa’ar replaced Eli Yishai as Minster of the Interior.

2013: Moshe Ya’alon replaced Ehud Barak as Minister of Defense.

2013: Ayoob Kara completed his term as Deputy Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee

2013: The ministers of Israel’s 33rd government were sworn in this evening in the Knesset in Jerusalem.

2013: Israel and a European human rights official criticized Hungary today for presenting an award to a television journalist they accuse of anti-Semitism.

2013: An Israeli was lightly injured in a drive-by attack near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim this morning. A Palestinian shooter opened fire on the man, 71, who was on foot, at the Kedumim Junction, slightly injuring him in the leg. 

2014(16th of Adar II, 5774): Ninety-five-year-old Doris Kanter, “the widow of comedy writer-produceer-director Hal Kanter passed away today.

http://variety.com/2014/tv/obituaries-people-news/writer-doris-kanter-widow-of-comedy-scribe-hal-kanter-dies-at-95-1201159272/

2014: The New York Premiere of “Shadow in Baghdad” is scheduled to take place at New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “Dancing in Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Twenty-four Medals of Honor were awarded by President Obama to Army veterans who were denied their honor due to prejudice including Private First Class Leonard Kravitz and Sargent Jack Weinstein who were killed during the Korean War. (As reported by Jim Kunhenn)

2014: The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD by Simon Schama is scheduled to go on sale today. This is the first volume of a two volume study of Jewish history which is the source for the PBS series, “The Story of the Jews which is scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, March 25

2014: Four IDF soldiers wer wouned when an explosive device detonated along Israel’s border fence with Syria this afternoon in the area south of the Druze village of Majdal Shams. (As reported by Yoav Zitun)

2014: Hezbollah sources said today that an explosion on the Golan Heights that injured three IDF soldiers had been an attempt to kidnap soldiers. (As reported by Uzi Baruch)

2014: IAF planes fired on the sites in Syria that terrorists used to attack and wound IDF soldiers earlier in the day.

2014: “Tales From Tel Aviv and Upper West Side” published today provided a review of The Unamericans by Molly Antopol

2015: The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne is scheduled to go sale in Toronto.

2015: Today, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “released a feminist reading of the Passover story” “which focuses on five women at the center of the Exodus narrative” and was put together by…the American Jewish World Service.

2015: World premiere of “God’s Honest Truth” is scheduled to take place this evening as part of Theatre J sponsored by the Washington, DCJCC.

2015: In San Diego, Jacob Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Israeli-Palestinian Stalemate: Status Quo, Intifada, or Interim Agreements?”

2015: “Los Angeles Police Department detectives say several handwriting experts link Robert Durst to an anonymous letter tipping authorities to the slaying of writer Susan Berman in 2000, according a search warrant made public today.”

2015: “With some 99 percent of the votes counted by early Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party appeared set to win a resounding victory in the general election, with 30 seats, compared to the Zionist Union’s 24”.

2015: “Jews & Money” and “24 Days” are scheduled to be shown at the 18th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2016: Approximately 25,000 runners from 61 countries took part in today’s Jerusalem Marathon.

2016: LimmudFest is scheduled to begin in New Orleans, LA.

2016: Seventeen-year-old “Israeli ice skater Daniel Samohin won first placed in the World Skating Championship held in Hungary today.

2016: “Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum.

2016: The Television Project: Some of My Best Friends is scheduled to open today.

http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/isaac-mizrahi-an-unruly-history

2016: Masterpieces and Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait is scheduled to open today.

http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/masterpieces-curiosities-the-fictional-portrait

2017(20th of Adar, 5777):  Shabbat Parah;

2017: In London, the South Social Film Festival is scheduled to host a tribute to women and Jewish culture as attendees “dive into Jewish culture” in “an immersive experience showcasing indie film, with live Klezmer music with TANTZ trio, and food celebrating Jewish culture.

2017: On the secular calendar, 50th anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of Renaissance man Alan Smason, the founder of the Crescent City Jewish News. http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/

2018: “Jewish Blind Date,” “Kosher Love” and “The Setup” are scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.

2018(2nd of Nisan, 5778): Ninety-one-year-old English born, University of London trained physician Dr. Samuel Epstein who articulated the need to deal with the political, economic and social aspects of cancer passed away today.  (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/obituaries/dr-samuel-epstein-91-cassandra-of-cancer-prevention-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: “House of Z” and “Keep the Change” are scheduled to be shown on the final day of the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2018: LimmudFest is scheduled to come to an end today in New Orleans.

2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein, Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein and the recently released paperback edition of Why?: Explaining the Holocaustby Peter Hayes

2018: The Society for the Advancement of Judaism is scheduled to sponsor “Too Good To Passover” which includes a “cookbook talk, book signing and charoset tasting.

2018: “The Israeli military today announced that it destroyed two attack tunnels, one that entered Israeli territory and another inside the central Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of underground structures have been demolished by Israel in recent months.”

2018: Congregation Shearith Israel is scheduled to host “Passover and the American Imagination.”

http://shearithisrael.org/gala2018?utm_source=Jewish+Review+of+Books&utm_campaign=375e9c5dea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_538f7810ff-375e9c5dea-184100029

2018: Twenty-year-old Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, 20, from Elyakim in northern Israel, the victim of a terroirst car ramming attack was buried early on today in the cemetery in his hometown, with thousands in attendance, according to Hebrew reports.

2018: Twenty-one year old Captain Ziv Daos, a platton commander from Azor who was killed in a terrorist car ramming attack is scheduled to be buried today at noon today at the military cemetery at Holon.(As reported by TOI)

2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening “The Best of Enemies” followed by a discussion moderated by Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson.

https://www.emanuelnyc.org/event/the-best-of-enemies-screening-discussion/

2019: Shir Gal Kochavi, the “Magnes museum curator” is scheduled to discuss “the impact of ritual Jewish objects on Polis artist Arthur Szyk’s work.”

2019: After having been “granted an 11th hour reprieve from the auction block, Marc Chagall’s La Tour Eiffel which has been on display at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa” is scheduled to be returned to storage today.

https://www.cjnews.com/culture/entertainment/the-world-according-to-chagall

2020: On the Gregorian calendar, 53rd anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of New Orleans renaissance man Alan Smason.

2020(22nd of Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi Elijah b. Solomon of Smyrna, Turkey; Rabbi Jehiel Michal Epstein of Novogrudok; Rabbi Abraham Duber Shapiro, “the last rabbi of the Jewish community of Kovno.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch)

2020: “Babies and Bagels” which was scheduled to take place at Congregation B’nai Shalom in Walnut, CA has been canceled due to the Pandemic.

2020: ViacomCBS canceled a “Women’s History Month” scheduled to be held today reportedly because of the involvement of “Linda Sarsour, who is known for her support of the anti-Israel BDS movement and has been accused of spreading anti-Semitism.” (As reported by Jackson Richman)

2020: The luncheon at Touro College in connection with the National Jewish Book Award sponsored by the Jewish Book Council scheduled for today has been postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2020: In London, “age-less job search workshop” sponsored by JW3 scheduled to be held today has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021: As part of its series on “Jewish Women, Race and Ethnicity in America” the Jewish Women’s Archive is scheduled to present online “Sephardic Women in America” with Devi Mays, assistant professor of Judaic studies at the University of Michigan.

2021: The Open Circle Jewish Learnings is scheduled to present online “Creating Each Day: An Omer Maker Space for All Ages” with Rabbi Laura Bellows.

2021: Contra Costa JCC, East Bay Jewish film fest and others are scheduled to present Raffi Berg talks about Red Spies, his 2020 book about a coastal resort in Africa that was actually an Israeli undercover operation that smuggled thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

2021: The Boston Women’s Film Festival, Boston Jewish Film and the Consulate General of Israel to New England are scheduled to host an online screening of “Hope I’m in the Frame,” a documentary about Michal Bat-Adam, the first Israeli movie director.

2021: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston and the Massachusetts

Association of Jewish Federations are scheduled to host “a virtual legislative reception with co-chairs Dale Okonow and Leah Robins to honor outstanding public officials who have demonstrated their commitment to our community’s priorities.”

2021:UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies is scheduled to present “Homeland, Exile and Diaspora: Contemporary Jewish Reflections” a conversation among UC Berkeley professor Daniel Boyarin, Academy for Jewish Religion’s Rabbi Jill Hammer, and Dartmouth professor Susannah Heschel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Day, March 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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235: End of the reign of Severus Alexander, the 26th Emperor of the Roman Empire

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1153-alexander-severus

1191: Eighty Jews were burned at Bray, France for trying to execute a vassal who had killed a Jew. The Jews were not a lynch-mob. They had the permission of the local ruler which is more than one can say for those who killed the Jews.

1227: Election of Pope Gregory IX “a prominent opponent of Judaism during his life, condemning it as "containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy". In the 1234 Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political servitude until Judgment Day. The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine of servitus camerae imperialis, or servitude immediately subject to the Emperor's authority, promulgated by Frederick II. The Jews were thus suppressed from having direct influence over the political process and the life of Christian states into the 19th century with the rise of liberalism” (Dietmar Preissler, Frühantisemitismus in der Freien Stadt Frankfurt und im Großherzogtum Hessen (1810 bis 1860), p.30, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-533-04129-8 (German).

1406: Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian born “Arab historiographer and historian” Ibn Khaldun who described the Jarawa or Jrāwa, a Berber Zenata tribal confederacy that flourished in northwest Africa during the 7th century were Jews.

1497: In an effort to prevent the Jews from fleeing Christian persecutions, King Emanuel, secretly ordered the baptism of all children between the ages of four and fourteen.

1590: Birthdate of William Bradford who served as governor of Plymouth Colony for over 30 years. Bradford was typical of so many of his ilk who saw a connection with their lives and what they called “The Old Testament.”  Bradford studies the Hebrew language because, as he put it, “Though I am growne aged, yet I have had a longing desire to see with my owne eyes, something of that most ancient langue and holy tongue, in which the Law, the oracles of God were write; in which God, and angels spake to the holy patriarchs, of time; and what names were given to things, from the creation…for my owne contente.” (William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful Pilgrim by Gary D. Schmidt)

1604 Birthdate of : King John IV of Portugal who was erroneously reported to have employed the Jewish doctor Fernando Menes as his physician.

1640(24th of Adar): Rabbi Chaim Algazi of Constantinople, author of Nesivot ha-Mishpat passed away today. A native of Ismir, Turkey, Chaim Algazai served as the rabbi of Rhodes before returning to his home town to serve as Chief Rabbi.  B’nei Chayay, his commentary on the Four Turim, was edited by Rabbi Araron Alfandri, his granddaughter’s husband and the author of Yad Aaron (As reported by Aryeh Kaplan)

1684: Birthdate of Jean Astruc, the French Catholic doctor and descendant from a medieval Jewish family “who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases” and one of the founders of “modern Pentateuch criticism” who contended that Moses and the copyists created a book that was based on two separate sets of documents – one that used Elhiom for the name of the divinity and the other that used YHWH for the name of the divinity.

1721: The Papacy of Clement XI, who issued a bull extending the rights of converts over their Jewish families, ended today.

1740: Birthdate of Esther de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon who was 37 at the time of her birth.

1764(15thof Adar II, 5524): Shushan Purim

1772(14th of Adar II, 5532): Purim

1772: “The Royal College of Physicians admitted” Meyer Low Schomberg” as a licentiate” today.

1792: While “at sea” Hannah Isaacks and Jacob Phillips who were married at Newport, RI in 1785 gave birth to Rebecca Phillips the wife of Isaiah Moses whom she married at Charleston in 1807 and with whom she had twelve children.

1796(9thof Adar II, 5556): Parashat Vaykira; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time during the Presidency of George Washington.

1800: Montague Levoi married Catherine Chapman today at the Great Synagogue.

1803 :( 25th of Adar): Rabbi Moses ben Abraham, author of Meliz Yosher passed away today.  

1804: Birthdate of Dublin native Sir Alexander Schomberg, the son of Meyer Löw Schomberg a German-Jewish doctor who settled in England, and who began his distinguished naval career in 1743 after becoming an Anglican passed away today

1806: Jacob Hirsch Kann, the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kann and his wife Jetta Kann gave birth to Theresie Wetheim, the wife of Bernhard Wertheimer

1807: Birthdate of Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy the French archaeologist who made several trips to Palestine and Syria from 1850 to 1869 where among other things he “sketched the first map of Masada,” “identified Tell es-Sultan as the site of ancient Jericho” and “conducted the first archaeological dig” at “the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.”

1813: Today German born Isaac Jacob Bamberger married his second wife Bella Jacobs who died two years later at the age of twenty-two.

1817: Birthdate of Bavaria native Fanny Heilbronner, the wife of Isaac Samuel whom she married in Paris in 1840

1817: Aaron Goldsmid married Sophia Salomons, the eldest daughter of Levy Salomons at the Great Synagogue today.

1821: In Devon, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton and Martha Baker gave birth to Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton one of those eccentric 19thEnglishman who dabbled in the military, exploration and writing. Among his many works was The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam

http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1898-The%20Jew,%20The%20Gypsy%20and%20El%20Islam/index.htm

1822: Seventy-four-year-old Johann Ludwig Ewald an advocate for Jewish emancipation “who wrote two pamphlets in defense of the Jews” and who “argued that the Jews were not worse than others, that their shortcomings were the result of persecution, and that no one had a right to expect them to improve until they had been given equal rights with other citizens” passed away in Carlsruhe.

1822: Boston, Massachusetts, incorporated as a city. “The earliest mention of a Jew in Massachusetts bears the date May 3, 1649, and there are references to Jews among the inhabitants of Boston in 1695 and 1702; but they can be regarded only as stragglers, as no settlers made their homes in Massachusetts until the Revolutionary war drove the Jews from Newport. In 1777 Aaron Lopez and Jacob Rivera, with fifty-nine others, went from Newport to Leicester, and established themselves there; but this settlement

did not survive the close of the war. A number of Jews, including the Hays family, settled at Boston before 1800. Of these Moses Michael Hays was the most important. In 1830 a number of Algerian Jews went to Boston, but they soon disappeared. The history of the present community begins with the year 1840, when the first congregation was established.”

1831: Birthdate of Joshua Glaser, who gained fame as Julius Anton Glaser who converted to Christianity and became a leading Austrian jurist “and liberal politician.”

1832: “Baltimorean Mendes I. Cohen,” who while on his six year tour of Europe and the Middle East become “one of the first American citizens to visit to Palestine” wrote a letter to his mother Judith while in Jerusalem.

1832: Birthdate of Hungarian Hermann Wamberger who gained famed Ármin Vámbéry whose son Rusztem “briefly served as Hungary’s ambassador to the United States after WW II.”

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

http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm

1839: A “pogrom, known as the Allahdad, broke out in the Iranian city of Mashhad. At the time of the pogrom, the city of Mashhad was home to about 2,500 Jews. The event devastated the Jews of Mashhad, who were violently forced into converting to Islam. The ruler of Mashhad ordered the authorities to attack the Jews. A large mob went on to the Jewish quarter and proceeded to burn down the synagogue, destroy Jewish homes and businesses, abduct Jewish girls, kill about 40 Jews and injure many more. The Jews had knives held to their throat and were forced to renounce Judaism and accept Islam. While some of the Jews left Mashhad following the incident, others stayed and would go on to lead a secret Jewish life. While adopting Muslim customs in public, most would maintain Jewish tradition in the privacy of their homes. There are no Jews left in Mashhad today. Most of the descendants of Mashhad's Jews live in Israel.”

1843: Three days after she had passed away, 79-year-old Jane (Mordecai) Friedeberg, the widow of Benjamin Friedeberg was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1848(14thof Adar II, 5608) Purim

1848: Founding of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia whose “Honorary Life Members” included Moses A Dropsie, Isaace Rosskam, Mayer Sulzberger, Louis E. Levy and Levi Mayer.

1848: Birthdate of Wyatt Earp. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, this fabled lawman gained fame as the Marshall of Deadwood, Dodge City and Tombstone, Arizona. Much of Earp's life was spent as a gambler, prospector and failed businessman. He was not Jewish, but his third wife was. While living in Tombstone, Earp took up with Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, daughter of practicing Jewish family living in San Francisco. Despite her claims that they married, no written record existed. However, they remained together, if nothing else in common law marriage until Earp's death in 1929. Earp's ashes were buried in the Marcus Family Plot at Jewish Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, California, south of San Francisco. While Ms. Earp did not live among Jews for most of her adult life, she too chose to rejoin her people in death and is buried alongside her famous husband. For more about this interesting marriage, you can read I Married Wyatt Earp, Mrs. Earp's book about their life together.

1848: One day after she had passed away, 42-year-old Mary (Emanuel) Drukker, the wife of Simon Drukker was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1849: Joseph Ansell Spier married Catherine Hyam today.

1853: Things turned violent in Jerusalem today, Palm Sunday. Greeks and Armenians fought in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and 24 Protestant missionaries from London scuffling with a group of Jews in the streets of the City of David.

1860: The "Wealth, Power and Enterprise of the Hebrew People, as evidenced by the Building of King Solomon's Temple," was the subject of a lecture delivered this evening in Temple Hall by Rabbi Raphall.

1862: The New York Timespublished a letter today in which took issue with that paper’s characterization of Senator David Levy Yulee as being Jewish. “In your well-merited rebuke of the traitor Yulee … you were led into an error which I am sure you will correct, as it reflects unjustly upon the loyalty of a large religious body of the community. You speak of Yulee, (the Ex-Senator) and Finegan (the ex-contractor) as "Jew and Irishman," thus placing the supposed religious belief of Yulee in juxtaposition with the nationality of his co-traitor. The facts are. Levy is an American, and foreswore the religion of his father’s many years ago, married a Christian lady of wealth, was baptized a Christian and had his name changed by the Legislature of his State to ‘Yulee’ thus adding to the many proofs, that a bad Jew will never make it good Christian.”

1864: In Jerusalem, “Yehoshua Yellin, one of the founders of the founders of the Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood in Jerusalem and his wife Serah, the daughter of Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda, an educator from Iraq” gave birth to David Yellin, the brother of Shlomo Yellin, the husband of the former Ita Pines whose son Avinoam “was murdered during the Arab Revolt” and whose Zionism found expression in his work to advance the Hebrew Language as can be seen by his founding of “the first Hebrew College for Teachers” and co-founding “the Hebrew Language Committee.”

1867: In Detroit, members of Congregation Beth El gave the trustees of Tabernacle Baptist Church $17,000 for their property which would be home to Beth El for the next 36 years.  D.J. Workum, President of the congregation and Martin Butzel were leaders of in the negotiations on behalf of Beth El.

1867: The Ashkenazim of living in Palestine sought permission to slaughter their own meat. The Ashkenazim appealed to the British to intervene on their behalf. In the formal letter of request to the Consul, it stated that both the Muslims (and the Sephardim) “understood that the Ashkenazim were not true Israelites." This concerned the Ashkenazim because they made money selling certain cuts of meat to the Muslims, and if the Muslims did not consider them Jews, they would not buy their meat.

1868: In Butrimonys, Albert and Judith Valvrojenski gave birth to Senda Valvrojenski who gained fame as Senda Berenson Abbot, a pioneer in the game of women’s basketball.  She was also the “sister of the art historian Bernard Berenson and a great-great-aunt of the photographer Berry Berenson and the actress and model Marisa Berenson.”

http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/senda-berenson-abbott

1868: Birthdate of Josef Schlussselberg, who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Terezin where he was murdered at the age of seventy-four.

1872: In Lithuania, David and Gittel Schubert gave birth to Fannie Shubert, a sister of the famous “Shubert brothers” who was the wife of Isaac Isaacs and William H. Weissager.

1873(20thof Adar, 5633): Sixty-year-old economist Wilhelm Stahl who was elected to the Frankfort Parliament in 1848 and became a professor at the University of Giessen 3 years later passed away today.

http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tje/view.cgi?n=13960

 

 

1874(1st of Nisan, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1875: In New York’s Part II of the Marine Court Chief Just Shea presided over breach of contract brought by Jennie Jonas, a Polish Jewess against Victor Goldstein for his failure to marry him. Jonas was represented by famed litigator Samuel Hirsh. In the end, the jury found for the plaintiff and awarded her $75 in damages.

1875: Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Hedwig Rothschild who became Hedwig Gutman when she married Bernhard Gutmann

1876: Sam and Sarah Nelken gave birth to their son William.

1877: It was reported today that the Marquis de Compiegne, the famous French explorer had died in the interior of Africa after having been mortally wounded during a duel he fought “with a German Jews named Mayer.” The duel was brought on by a dispute over geographic matters and insults to Mayer’s girlfriend.

1878(14th of Adar II, 5638): Purim

1878: In Mohileff, Russia, Tobias Weinshenker and Elka Markman gave birth to Esther T. Weinshenker who came to the Unied States in 1886 where she organized the Clara de Hirsch Society in Chicago and became the national chairman of the Ladies’ Organization of the Federation of American Zionists whose sixth and seventh conventions she attended as a delegate.

1880: It was reported today from Madrid, the Jews of Morocco are planning to honor the United States Minister who interceded on their behalf so that they would be protected by the Sultan.

1880: According to a review of “Sunshine and Storm in the East” published today, Lady Brassy reported that one of the differences between the Jews and Moslems of Morocco was that the Moslem women “were muffed up to the eyes and waddled along like animated bundles of dirty clothes” the Jewish women were “gorgeously draped” and their faces were uncovered.

1880: In New York the Board of Estimate and Apportionment allocated funds to be paid to charities taking care of youngster committed to their care by the Police magistrates including $1,691.43 for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1884: Birthdate of Galicia native Sholom Joseph Perlmutter, the vice president of the Hebrew Actors Union, co-founder of the Society of Jewish Composers and the Jewish Playwrights League as well as a “historian of the Jewish theatre” who wrote Jewish Dramatists and Jewish Composers http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/P/perlmutter-sholem.htm

1887: Seventy-four-year-old Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, the author of The Jew a romantic novel in which, “the Jews are made to stand as a kind of buffer between the Russians and the Poles and when the collision comes” between these two “it is generally the Jews who suffer” passed away today.

1888: Birthdate of Peretz Naftali, the native of Berlin who made Aliyah in 1933 and served in Israel’s first Knesset

1888(7th of Nisan, 5648): Forty-five-year-old Salomon Abendana Belmonte, the Hamburg born attorney who was editor of the Hamburger Reform and sever as a member of the Hamburg starting in 1877 passed away today.

1889: In San Francisco, Eva Korper Voorsanger and Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger gave birth to University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained Rabbi Elkan Cohen Voorsanger, “the senior Jewish Chaplain with AEF in France during WW I” and spiritual leader of Temple Shaare Emeth Israel who was the husband of the former Henrietta Moscowitz and father of Esther, Alice and Edith Voorsanger.

https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/03/archives/rabbi-elkan-voorsanger-dead-noted-chaplain-in-world-war-i.html

1890: “Slaves of the Sweater” published today summarized the arbitration hearings between the striking members of the Shirtmakers’ Union and the contractors for whom they work. The workers claim they work fourteen hours a day for as little a four dollars a week.  The contractors claimed that the workers only labor from 7:30 am to 6 pm with half an hour for dinner and that “a good female operative could make $9 a week and man $13.”  The work used to be done by “German, American and Irish girls” but they have been driven out by the Jews who are now on strike.  The manufacturers, most of whom are Jewish, claim they know nothing about working conditions because they deal only with the contractors.

1891: In New York City, Aaron and Rosa (Roth) Stern gave birth NYU trained attorney Emanuel A. Stern, the husband of Charlotte Taussig.

1891: It was reported today that Solomon Goldstein and his three sons were among those fortunate enough to have survived the fire at the tenement building at the corner of Hester and Allen Streets but one of them, Abraham, was injured and had to be taken to Gouvernor Hospitals. 

1892: In Leeds, UK, Ada and Maurice Raisman gave birth to Pembroke College, Oxford, graduate Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, the Indian civil servant and banker.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raisman-sir-abraham-jeremy

1892: Jose S.K. Mizrachee, the Syrian born Jew charged with shooting Rabbi Mendes in New York City, is being held at Police Headquarter and is scheduled to make his first appearance in Part I of the Court of General Sessions this morning.

1893: An altercation broke out in New Haven, CT today after carpenters came to work on a house on Rose Street which was being converted to a synagogue.  The current occupants of the house claimed that the workers would disturb their Sabbath peace, this being Sunday and began attacking the workers and the Jews who accompanied them. 

1893: Following regular services at Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Silverman delivered a lecture on “Popular Errors About Intermarriage” which is part of series of lectures he is delivering “on popular errors concerning the Jews.”

1894: Mrs. Charles Krumm took $20 out of the safe and saw her husband give it to Policman Charles Levy $20 (in what was either a bribe or payoff)

1894: Birthdate of Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer

1895: Twenty-four-year-old Felix M. Warburg, the Hamburg born son of Moritz and Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg married Theresa Loeb Schiff today in New York after which they had four sons – Frederick, Gerald, Paul and Edward – and one daughter, Carola.

1896: “Polish Jews Going to Cripple Creek” published today described the passage of 80 families, numbering 260 Polish Jewish immigrants who passed through Fort Worth Texas on their way to Cripple Creek where they going to begin life as farmers.

1896: In Albany, the State Board of Regents held its regular quarterly meeting during which it granted an “unregistered provisional charter to the Hebrew Free School” in Syracuse, NY.

1896: “The auction sale of seats and boxes for the performance of ‘The Heart of Maryland’ for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum was held at the Herald Square Theatre this afternoon.”

1897: It was reported today that new wing of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which was completed six weeks ago cost $75,000 and allows the institution to care for as many as 300 people.

1897: The ladies of the Sewing Society of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum hosted an afternoon of entertainment for children at the facility on Amsterdam Avenue.

1897(15thof Adar II, 5657): Shushan Purim

1897(15thof Adar II, 5657): Seventy-one-year-old Ignaz “Ignatz” Grossman, the Hungarian born rabbi and husband of Anna Rosenbaum Grossbaum who came to Brooklyn in 1873 to lead Congregation Beth Elohim and later Congregation B’nai Abraham passed away today.

1897: Two days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Levi, the daughter of John Fileman and Mary Levy and the first wife of Henry Levi was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery

1897: It was reported today that the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia had raised $9,114 last year to support its programs that include weekly lectures by Ephraim Lederer on the U.S. Constitution.

1897: Four days after he had passed away, 82 year old James Sylvester was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1898: Benjamin "Ben" Schlesinger the native of Lithuania who would become the nine-time President of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union became a United States citizen in Chicago today.

1898: Three Jewish children, Celia Bogin (11), Louis Begin (9) and Kate Bogin (4) whose mother had died two weeks ago in Denver were taken to headquarters of the United Hebrew Charities in New York by a cabman who found them on the street.

1899: Florence Prag a teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco married Julius Kahn, a former Broadway actor, state legislator, and, at the time, a first-term U.S. Representative from San Francisco. The couple had two sons, Julius, Jr., and Conrad. She would later serve five terms in the U.S. House of Representative as a Republican after succeeding her husband in office following his death.

1900: Herzl has another meeting with Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber.

1901: In Paris, Leo Mielziner, an artist and the son of a Rabbi and the former Ella Friend gave birth to “American theatrical scenic and lighting designer” and convert to Catholicism Joseph “Jo” Mielziner, the “brother of actor-director Kenneth MacKenna.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/16/archives/jo-mielziner-dead-at-74-pioneering-set-designer-dozens-of-hits-a.html?_r=0

1901: Gladys Helen Rachel Goldsmid and Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling gave birth to Captain (Hon) The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, RNR, the man who played a key role in the creating the subterfuge that helped make the landings for Operation Husky a success. After the war, Montague filled vital leadership roles for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom.

1902: In “Restricting Immigration” published today, the New York Times stated that it “did not favor arbitrary exclusion” but also said, “the problems which so sternly confront us today are serious enough, with being complicated and aggravated by the addition of some millions of Hungarian, Bohemians, Poles, south Italians and Russian Jews.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1902/03/19/archives/restricting-immigration.html?searchResultPosition=1

1903: In Lviv, Isaac Gruss, “a Talmudic scholar and a banker” and his wife gave birth to American financier and philanthropist Joseph Saul Gross, the husband of attorney Caroline Zelaznik, the father of Martin David Gross and Dr. Evelyn Gruss Lipper and the father-in-law of producer Kenneth Lipper.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/05/obituaries/joseph-gruss-91-philanthropist-who-supported-jewish-schools.html

1904(3rdof Nisan, 5664): Parashat Vayikra

1905(12th of Adar II): Yiddish novelist Isaac Moses Bader, the husband of Helen Bader and the father of playwright and journalist Gershon Bader passed away today.

1905: Governor N.C. Blanchard and Charles F. Buck, Grand Master of the Masons were among those delivering addresses of welcome at the opening of the meeting in New Orleans of “The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.”

1905: In Mannheim Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer gave birth to “Hitler’s architect” Albert Speer the member of the Nazi inner circle who beat the hangman by convincing people that he did not know about the fate of the Jews.

1906: A brief note had been received from French journalist Francis de Pressensé describing the demise of the six year old French weeklyL’European which provided Europeans with, among other things, an accurate account of events in Russia including “the Jewish massacres” and which included the prediction that following the Russian defeat by the Japanese, “one does not have be a prophet…to predict that it will be the Jews who will be called to account” and that the “Russian dupes” will release “the fury of revenge on the Jews.”

1906: “The Beauty of Bath” a musical comedy produced by Charles Frohman opened at the Aldwych Theatre.

1906: Cyrus L. Sulzberger told a group of Jewish women meeting at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Stern that “there a 700,000 Jews” living in this city but that only “only 4,000 contribute to Hebrew Charities”

1907: The Council of Jewish Women sponsored a concert at Temple Beth-El where one hundred and fifty members of the Musical Cantors’ Association of American filled the sanctuary with “an impressive exhibition of traditional Hebrew music.”

1908: It was reported today that Julia Richman, the Jewish and public school educator and member of the New York Superintendent’s staff was one of the “most outspoken advoctes of uniting the City and Normal College under one head.”

1909: The Sultan ratifies election of the Hahambashi Haim Nahoum who had had an audience with the Turkish ruler.

1910(8thof Adar II, 5670): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

1910: “Am Imposing Work of Reference” published today Joseph Jacobs provides a lengthy, positive review of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics which contains sections by Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr. the noted orientalist and Professor Sylvain Levi, the leading expert on Sanskrit.

1911(19thof Adar, 5671): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the son of Rabbi Joseph Gabriel Adler and the husband of Judith Adler passed away today in Bavaria

1911: International Women’s Day was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the Ringstrasse and carried banners honoring the martyrs of the Paris Commune. Women demanded that women be given the right to vote and to hold public office. They also protested against employment sex discrimination.

1912: Birthdate of New York native Joseph Walker, the Columbia trained attorney and executive vice president. with S. Klein Department Stores.

https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/

1913(10thof Adar II, 5673):  Twenty-year-old Louis Bachrach, the Decatur, GA, born son of Henry and Mathilda Hamburger Bachrach passed away today while working at a “large department store” after which he was buried at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, GA.

1913: Lucille Lefurgey is scheduled to deliver a lecture this evening on “Hamlet” at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.

1914: Twenty-one-year-old Tulane University trained mechanical engineer Moses Walter B Moses, the New Orleans born son of Elkin and Ida Moses and member of ZBT married Josephine Harpman Noar today.

1914: In Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, which is the home to The Dr. Fred Weinberg and Joy Cherry Weinberg Judaica Collection opened to the public today.

1915: “The Jewish Weekly, edited by Herman Bernstein published a statement by the famous Danish author, Georg Brandes” describing the pogrom-like environment facing the Jews in Russian Poland.

1915: Reports published today estimate that there are between 250,000 and 400,000 Jews fighting in the Russian Army.

1915: As attempts were being made to form a Jewish fighting force in the British Army, Joseph Trumpeldor held a meeting of all the volunteers that was attended by senior British military leaders including Major-General Alexander Godly during which “they heard how it would be the first time in British history that non-Britons or non-colonials were to be admitted as a unit into the British forces. Patterson explained that the soldier who carries ammunition and supplies to the trenches requires no less courage than the man who fires a rifle and Godley declared that ‘Today the English People have entered into a covenant with the Jewish People’ (As described by Martin Sugarman)

1915: The Young Men’s Hebrew Army and Navy Association announced today that it has obtained leave of absence for all Jewish sailors and soldiers attached to army and navy posts in and around New York for three days during Passover. Fifteen hundred sailors and soldiers will be able to celebrate the holiday with leaves of absence effective March 29, 30 and 31.

1916(14thof Adar II, 5676): Purim

1916(14thof Adar II, 5676): In Chicago, Henrietta Baach, he wife of Sigmund Baach passed away today.

1916: Birthdate of novelist Irving Wallace. His first best seller was the Chapman Report which caused a minor scandal for its time since it focused on a group of that was conducting a survey of sex habits. Other novels included The Man about the first African-American to become President and The Fan Club. Wallace passed away in 1990.

1916: At the Orpheum Theatre, the Jews of Baltimore responded to an appeal by Herman Bernstein on behalf of the “war sufferers in Poland” with “a shower of gold, banknotes and jewels” the proceeds of which will be turned over to the American Jewish Relief Committee.

1916: In New York City, the funeral for Rabbi Moses Guedalia was held followed by interment at Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cyprus Hills.

1916: This morning Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Felix M. Warburg, Judge Julian W. Mack and Abraham Shiman addressed those attending a celebration at Temple Beth-El marking the second anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan League of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations.

1916: “One hundred and ten delegates from twenty cities in Pennsylvania met at the Arch Street Theater” in Philadelphia today” and chose delegates to represent the state at a conference to arrange for the “inaugural meeting of the American Jewish Congress” which will be held later this summer.”

1917: The new government ins Russia has accepted in principle reforms that will lead to
the re-enactment of the commercial treaty with the United States” which had not been possible under the Romanov dynasty because of “the insistence of Russia in applying to naturalized American Jews the same rules as to those Jews who are Russian subjects.”

1917: It was announced today that 8,000 tickets have been sold for a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden where “for the first time in the history of” New York City “thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russian government.

1917: With Associate Justice Louis Brandeis voting with the majority, the US Supreme Court upheld the Adamson act which provided an 8-hour work day for railroad employees.

1918: Birthdate of Irving Schlossenberg, the native of Baltimore who was a photographer for the Washington Post and served with distinction as a combat photographer with the Marine Corps during five different Pacific landings.

1918: The Jewish Welfare Board announced today “that Jewish families in the vicinity of army cantonments would act as host to Jewish soldiers and sailors on March 27 and March 28 when most of them will have leaves of absence for Passover.”

1918: Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau, the semi-official voice of the German government sent out an account of the discussion held in the Main Committee of the Reichstag concerning the Lichnowsky memorandum written by the former German ambassador to Great Britain which was denounced as indiscreet and treasonable. Wolffs was founded by Bernhard Wolff, the son of a German Jewish banker. It was ironic that the British and German press services were both founded by German Jews. But Reuters, unlike Wolff, left his native home and his native religion.

1919(17thof Adar II, 5679): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of Rabbi Reuben Hoeshke of Prague and Rabbi Gedaliah Lipshutz

1920: The United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. This rejection helped paved the way for World War II and therefore for the Holocaust. At one level, the rejection signaled a turn to Isolationism which meant the United States would not do anything to curb the rise of fascism during the 1930’s. Rejection of the treaty also meant that the United States would not be joining the League of Nation which would render that international body d.o.a.

1922: Birthdate of Camden, NJ native Herbert Harvey Pollack, the graduate of Philadelphia’s Simon Gratz High and Temple University and NBA statistician who created the “Harvey Pollack NBA Statistical Yearbook.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1923: In Lodz, Poland, Jewish socialists Josef and Golda Morgentaler gave birth to Henryk Morgentaler who survived and gained fame as Canadian Doctor Henry Morgentaler.

1924(13thof Adar II, 5684): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim

1924: Birthdate of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, a nationally prominent Reform rabbi known for his progressive, sometimes provocative public stances, including opposition to the Vietnam War, a speech at Yale accusing the University of a history of anti-Semitism and early political support for his neighbor Barack Obama

1925: Sixty-five-old year old Hermann Volrath Hilprecht, the Assyriologist who was “in charge of the University of Pennsylvania Babylonian expedition to Nippur which provided a great deal of information about the civilization that produced Abraham.

1926: Birthdate of Jerold Rosenberg, who as Jerry Ross would gain fame as “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."

1926: Birthdate of Avrom Isaacovitch, who as Avrom Isaacs became a leading Canadian art dealer.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/av-isaacs-leading-art-dealer-in-contemporary-canadian-art-dies-at-89/article28231438/

1926: The Möller Organ Company of Hagerstown, MD signed a contract in which it “agreed to build a three-manual organ with 64 registers” for Temple Israel of Washington Heights.

1927: “According to Palestine correspondence printed” today “in the Jewish Day” “nearly 271 years afer Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish community in Amsterdam, the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at a meeting of the university faculty” in February.

1928: In Epinal, France, two refugees from Poland, gave birth to Marceline Loridan-Ivens, the survivor of Drancy and Auschwitz who make them the subject of cinematic work. (As reported by Alissa J. Rubin)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/obituaries/marceline-loridan-ivens-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1929: In Kharkov, Lev Kramarevsky, “the head ballet master in Minsk” and ballerina Ludmilla Melchemko gave birth to Andrei Kramerevsky, “a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet” and “a much admired teacher at the School of Ballet in New York” who was the step-father of dance Alexander Tressor whose “parents decided to join the mass emigration of Soviet Jews when the Soviet Union lifted bans on emigration.”

1930: Birthdate of Eugene Bleecher Selznick, the native of Los Angeles who was captain of the United States men's national volleyball team for 17 consecutive years (1953–67 during which time he team won two Volleyball World Championships.

1930: The former Lenore Lebach and Edmond Nathaniel Cahn the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Kahn, who were married yesterday by Rabbi Louis Binstock are scheduled to set sail today from New Orleans for a Havana honeymoon after which the couple will reside in New York.

1930: Harry Warner and his wife the former Rea Levinson “became the legal guardian of Lita”, the daughter of his late brother Sam “through a $300,000 settlement in Lita’s trust fund.”

1933: In Newark, NJ, Herman Roth, a frustrated life insurance agent and “the former Bess Frankel” gave birth to award winning novelist Philip Milton Roth, author of Portnoy’s Complaint. His writings can be loaded with sex, guilt, humor and plenty of pathos. Two of his more famous novels were Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye Columbus. He won the National Book Award for Goodbye Columbus in 1955 and Sabbath's Theatre in 1995. As somebody once, Roth is funny until you realize that Portnoy and you have the same mother. (As reported by Charles McGrath)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/obituaries/philip-roth-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1933(21st of Adar, 5693): Phillip Jaffe, the father of Hyman Jaffe and Pulitzer Prize winning editor Louis Jaffe passed away today.

1933: Estee Lauder gave birth to her son Leonard who became Chairman Emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

1933: The state of Nevada legalized gambling. One of the results of this would be Bugsy Siegel’s building of the Flamingo which led to the creation of Las Vegas, the gaming capital of the United States.

1934: The New York Times features John Chamberlain’s excellently written review of "The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger. He describes the text as being “that rare thing, a novel…that is both good propaganda and first-rate dramatic writing.” The novel paints a picture of a well-to-do German Jewish family confronting the rise of Hitler. In his concluding lines, Chamberlain writes, “You won’t discover the reasons for Hitler in the Oppermanns, but you will discover Nazism’s ghoulish incidence in the wreckage of many human lives and hopes.”

1935(14thof Adar II, 5695): Purim

1935: Birthdate of actress of Phyllis Newman

1936: Hitler placed an American citizen, Fritz Julius Kuhn, as the head of the Nazi organization that became known as party the German American Bund.

1936: In Warsaw, “a government amendment to the proposed bill on ritual slaughtering permitting this method of killing for the consumption of members of religious denominations requiring was approved the Sjem Committee on Adminstration.”

1936: “A group of 115 Jewish exiles from Germany, the second large group to reach” the United States as quota immigrants with the last two weeks arrived” today on the United States liner Manhattan.

1936: Approximately 5,300 children from the Jewish religious schools in New York are scheduled to attend a pageant portraying “historical episodes illustrating the evolution of the tradition of Jewish charity from Old Testament times to the present” at the Roxy Theatre sponsored by “the young men’s and women’s division of the federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the Jewish Education Association.”

1937: The Jerusalem Post reported on widespread violence and that a curfew was imposed in Jerusalem. Four Arab building workers were injured when an Arab, who was caught later by police, threw a bomb at them on their construction site in the Mea She’arim quarter. There were many other shooting and stabbing incidents. The Arab Higher Committee issued a statement calling for calm in a period in which "enemies of the nation were striving to incite Arabs by provocations."

1937: After spending six weeks in the United States where he worked to help the Palestine Appeal “raise $4,500,000 for the settlement of Jews of Poland, German and other lands” it was reported today that Eliezer Kaplan, the treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine has set sail on the Normandie on the first league of his return trip to Jerusalem.

1938(16thof Adar II, 5698): Parashat Tzav

1938(16thof Adar II, 5698): Sixty-one-year-old A. Ray Katz, the Baltimore, MD born son Henrietta and the husband of Ethel Epstein with whom he had three children who was a member of Oheb Shalom Congregation, vice president of the American General Corporation “and the first president of the Associated Jewish Charities” passed away today in Rio de Jemerrio.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/03/20/96807186.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1938: In his sermon today Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said President Roosevelt “should voice his disapproval of the oppression of monitories and summon freemen throughout the the world to hold together for the preservation of civil rights.”

1938: Rabbi William Margolis the “spiritual leader of the United Jewish Community in Ottawa delivered a sermon at the Jewish Center of New York in which he said, “America, paragon of democracy must in the current human crisis take the lead and set the example for other civilized nations.”

1938: Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein delivered a sermon at Congregation Kehilath Jeshrun warned of the danger that Russia was the only nation calling for “a world conference against dictatorships’ and called on the United States to take the lead in the endeavor.

1939: Dr. Armin a Holzer of Seattle, the founder of the Palestine Prayer Fellowship is scheduled to deliver a speech on “The Resurrection of Biblical Ant-Semitism and the Solution of the Jewish Problem” at a rally at the Hotel Sharon in New York.

1939: “Signs forbidding Jews to enter plastered man restaurant and shop doors” as celebrations took place today in Nazi controlled Danzig marking the German conquest of Czechoslovakia.

1939: Birthdate of Judy Rae Glassman, the native of Cambridge, MA, who gained fame as Judith Daniel, the founding editor-in-chief of Savvy magazine.

1940: In what must have seemed to have been a miraculous rescue, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe arrives in New York. The Friediker Rebbe was a man of great physical and spiritual courage. He battled the Bolsheviks on their home ground and then stayed with his Chassidim when the Nazis invaded Poland. When he arrived in the United States, he immediately opened the first Lubavitch Yeshiva in the United States despite warnings that he would fail because America was so different from Europe. The Rebbe preserved against great odds. The small community that he had the fortitude to start in Crown Heights became the Chabad Lubavitch movement that today circles the globe.

1940: Vladimir Jabotinsky addressed a crowd of more than 5,000 supporters in New York demanding the “restoration of a Jewish state” in the area under British Mandate.

1941(20th of Adar, 5701): Rafal Krzepicki, aged 34, was shot dead by a sentry at the Lodz ghetto

1942 Former Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin and NFL quarterback Robert Sherman “Bob” Halperin, the Chicago born son of Jewish immigrants Aaron and Julia Halpern, enlisted in the United States Navy where he rose to the rank of Lt. Commander and served as a member of the Navy Scouts and Raiders” whose job was “to mark beaches for the assault, infantry, a daring, intricate job, calling for as much brain as courage, and barrels of both."

1942: “Levine Asks for Tine Payment” published in the Los Angeles Times described Charles Levine’s last brush with the law.

http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/jewish-aviators/jewish-aviators.htm

1943: Haj Amin al-Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast from Rome to the “Arab World.” It was the birthday of the Prophet and Haj Amin used the occasion to try to stir up anti-Jewish hatred. His speech included the reading of a pledge from German Foreign Minister Jachim von Ribbentropt that “the obliteration of what is called the Jewish National Home was a basic tenet of German policy.”

1943: Dimitar Peshev, who would be honored as a “Righteous Among the Nations” introduced a parliamentary resolution to halt the deportation of the Jews.

1944: Martha Nierenberg and her entire family go into hiding with a friend in Budapest when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

1944: During World War II, the Wehrmacht occupies Hungary. Hungary had been a willing ally of the Germans. By 1944, the Hungarians saw the signs of impending defeat and attempted to surrender. The Nazis realized what was happening, occupied the country and made sure that a sympathetic Hungarian government stayed in power. This shift marked the beginning of the end of the Hungarian Jewish community. Thanks to the Hungarian government, the Jews of Hungary had been spared the Final Solution. Now Eichmann and his henchmen were on their way and “The Night” would become reality.

1944: The Germans arrested 200 Hungarian Jewish doctors and lawyers. This was Germany's first independent action in that Country. The Gestapo then set up activities in hundreds of Hungarian towns. They threatened thousands of prosperous Jews with death if they did not pay “a homage” of valuable belongings and money to the Gestapo.

1945: Mrs. Z. H. Rubinstein President of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah announced today that the group had met its goal of raising $200,000 which will be used to fund five projects underway in Palestine.

1945: As World War II was coming to an end “Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.”

1946: Economist Elisha Friedman writes to Winston Churchill telling him how deeply he had been moved to hear the British leader refer to himself as a Zionist.

1947(27thof Adar, 5707): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham L. Saltzstein, who in 1884 came from his native Poland to the United States, finally settling in Milwaukee where he became a “general agent for the New Mutual Life Insurance Company of Wisconsin” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/03/22/87514642.pdf

1947: At a meeting of editors held in Tel Aviv today, journalists discussed the warnings of terrorist groups not to publish an offer of a reward by police that was designed to lead to the capture of 18 wanted terrorists. Names on the list include Menachem Begin head of the Irgun and Nathan Friedman head of the Stern Gang. In a letter delivered to 12 Jewish newspapers, the terrorists said that publication would be treated as collaboration and dealt with accordingly. Because they were afraid for the safety of their staffs, the editors agreed no to voluntary publish the list but said they would have no choice but to comply under the law if requested to do so by the government.

1948(8thof Adar II, 5708): Eighty-nine-year-old Helen Goldmark Adler, the widow and “helpmate” of Dr. Felix Adler whose “book An Outline for Child Study, Intelligently Directed Observation for Mothers was one of the first manuals of its kind” and who was the mother of Waldo, Laurence, Eleanor and Margaret Adler passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/21/96588695.pdf

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark

1948: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin told the Security Council “that the United States no longer viewed the partition plan as viable.”  (The only problem was that nobody had told President Truman who would express his anger over what he considered an end-run around the White House by the State Department.

1948: “British military authorities urgently strengthened patrols late tonight as both Arabs and Jews agreed that the United States proposal to abandon partition would bring a blood bath to the Holy Land.”

1949: Today “a new hitch in the Israeli-Lebanese armistice talks… has caused a postponement of the signing: which was supposed to have been signed tomorrow at Ran En Naqura

1949(18thof Adar, 5709): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1949: At Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman gave a sermon in which he said, “Together we must devise ways and means to save” the President’s “program for a successful implementing of the economic pledges which have been made to the people.”

1949: At the West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein congratulated Dr. Ralph Bunche for “his courage in declaring Great Britain’s’ decision to send troops to the Transjordan port of Aqaba a violation of the Security Council’s resolution.

1950: Leah and Yitzhak Rabin gave birth to Israeli attorney and MK Dalia Rabin-Pelossof

1951: Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny was published. The popular Jewish author has two great loves – the U.S. Navy and Judaism. This affection shows in his literary efforts.

1952: Birthdate of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax

1952: The Jewish Agency announced that Jews emigrating from East European countries would be admitted to the country without any restrictions imposed by the new, selective immigration policy.

1954(14thof Adar II, 5714): Purim

1954: The Jewish Chronicle reported on plans for an exhibition entitled “Manchester and Israel – a city’s contribution to the birth a State” which coincided with the 50th anniversary of Chaim Weizmann’s arrival in the English industrial city.

1954: Birthdate of Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as executive editor of The New York Times.

1955: U.S. premiere of “Blackboard Jungle” a movie that gave suburban America one of its first cinematic looks at inner city schools directed by Richard Brooks who also wrote the script, produced by Pandro S. Berman and featuring the film debut of Vic Morrow.

1957: Producer David O. Selznick sent a memo to John Huston expressing his concerns with the filming of “A Farewell To Arms” – concerns that would lead to Huston resigning and being replaced by Charles Vidor. (Vidor and Selznick were Jewish.  Huston was not.  But this had nothing to do with the dispute)

1959: “First Impressions, a musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss and Bo Goldman and a book by Abe Burrows, who also directed the musical” opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre.

1960: After 452 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Redhead,” a musical with music by Albert Hauge, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who along with Herbert Fields and Sidney Sheldon also wrote the book.

1959: “Shaggy Dog,” a Disney comedy based on a novel by Felix Salten, featuring Jack Albertson and featuring an opening narrative by Paul Frees was released today in the United States.

1960(20thof Adar, 5720): Shabbat Parah

1960(20thof Adar, 5720): Seventy-one year old Russian-born American screenwriter Sonya Levien passed away today.

https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-sonya-levien/

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levien-sonya

1961: In Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, “Clair (née Sims), a concert pianist, and Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra” gave birth to three time Olivier Award winning actress Maria Friedman.

1962(13thof Adar II, 5722): Fast of Esther.

1962: Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was released. The five time Grammy winner was born Robert Zimmerman.

1962: Funeral services were held to in New York for “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest past president of the New York Board of Rabbis.” (As reported by JTA)

1962: The Broadway production of “All American,” “a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and music by Charles Strouse opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.

1964: U.S. premiere of “The World of Henry Orient” co-starring Peter Sellers and Tom Bosley, with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman.

1965: Two days before the Selma march was scheduled to begin, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel received a telegram from Reverend Martin Luther King, inviting him to join the marchers in Selma, Alabama who are seeking the right to vote for all Americans regardless of race, religion or creed. Heschel will go, “praying with his feet.” These demonstrations will help Lyndon Johnson to secure passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most sweeping and far-reaching pieces of legislation passed in the history of the United States.

1967: It was reported today that Lester Avent, chairman and president of Avnet, Incorporated, the electronic components firm started by Charles Avent “a 33-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, has announced that election of new financial vice-president.

1968: CBS broadcast the last episode of “Good Morning World,” a sitcom whose creators included Carl Reiner and Sheldon with some of the episodes written by James L. Brooks and Saul Turtletaub and co-starring Goldie Hawn.

1969: One day after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held in NYC for seventy-two-year Harvard alum and Navy Veteran from WW I and WW II Kassel Lewis, the founder of Crown Fabrics and husband of “the former Syliva Surut who is the director the YMHA/YWHA nursery” with whom he raised a daughter and a son – Anthony Lewis of the New York Times

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071781.pdf

1970(11th of Adar II, 5730): Ta'anit Esther

1970(11thof Adar II, 5730): Sixty-four-year-old motion picture attorney Isadore H. Prinzmetal, the son of Harry and Anna Stein Prinzmetal and the brother of Myron Prinzmetal who “was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara and had served on the Citizens” and “the national vice president of the American Jewish Council as well as the President of the Los Angeles Hillel Council passed away today.

1970: Writer and activist Grace Paley was among 182 people arrested in New York City for protesting the Vietnam War draft

1970: In Canada, Bora Laskin began serving as Pusine Justice of the Supreme Court.

1973(15thof Adar II, 5733): Shusahn Purim

1975: U.S. premiere of “The Yakuza” directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, featuring Herb Edelman

1976(17thof Adar II, 5736): Seventy-five-year-old Harvard and Oxford education David Wainhouse, “international lawyer, author and Deputy Assistant of State” who was the husband of the former Katherine Cohen” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/21/archives/david-wainhouse-a-lawyer-diplomat.html

 

1977: "Side by Side by Sondheim" closes in New York City after 390 performances

1978: UN Security Council Resolutions adopted resolutions 425 and 426. They called upon Israel to immediately cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory while establishing the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Like so many UN resolution, this one failed to address the reasons that forced the Israelis to take action in the first place.

1981(13thof Adar II, 5741): T’anit Esther and erev Purim occur for the first time during the Presidency of Ronald Regan.

1983: In German, TN, at Temple Israel, Rabbi Harry Danziger officiated at the Miriam Gerber and Dr. David Bertram Kaplan.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/style/miriam-gerber-marries-dr-bertram-david-kaplan.html

1985(26th of Adar, 5745): Eighty-seven-year-old Dr. Philip Reichert, M.D, who had married Helen Reichert in 1939, passed away.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/23/nyregion/dr-aaron-feder-dies-internist-and-professor.html

1985(26thof Adar, 5745): Sixty-nine-year-old NYU Alum and University of Maryland Medical School trained physician Aaron Feder the internist and Cornell Medical School professor who was the husband of “the former of Beatrice Wallance” with whom he raised two daughters – Carol and Jane – passed away today.

1986: Jack Mathieu Émile Lang completed his first term as Culture Minister of France.

1987(18th of Adar, 5747): Arch Oboler, “an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in radio, films, theater and television, passed away.

1989: “Marvin Hamlisch to Marry Ms. Blair, Producer in May” published today reported on the plans of independent television producer Terre Blair the daughter of Marie and Dr. William B. Blair to marry Oscar winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, “the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Max Hamlisch of New York” to wed in two months.

1993: Arnold Resnicoff “delivered the prayer for the commissioning of the first of a series of new Israeli missile boats (Sa'ar 5), jointly built by the U.S. and Israel, in Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi.”

1997: In today’s issue of the “Manhattan based weekly,” The New York Observer, Rhodes Scholar and investigative reporter Katherine Eban Finkelstein wrote about what JTA described as the “furor…over the use of pigskin in the treatment of Orthodox Jewish children with serious burns in New York’s pre- eminent pediatric burn center.”

1998: As Ronald Perelman worked to finalize his purchase of Sunbeam a press release was issued that Sunbeam would not meet sales expectations.

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including recently released paperback editions of Max Frankel’s "The Times of My Life: And My Life With The Times" and Thane Rosenbaum's "Second Hand Smoke", a “novel about the son of Holocaust survivors who grows up in a home dominated by his tormented mother and later becomes a Nazi-hunting lawyer.”

2001: Patrick Balkany began serving as Mayor of Levallois-Perret

2002: 1st Lt. Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

2003: A West End revival of “Ragtime,” a musical based on the book by E.L. Doctorow produced, by Sonia Friedman opened at the Piccadilly Theatre today.

2003: David Tepper announced that he would make a single donation of $55 million to Carnegie Mellon University's business school

2003: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors sends a letter to the Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Canada addressing the next steps to be taken in the distribution and use of funds from the Claims Conference that has worked to gain additional restitution for the victims of the Holocaust.

2003: Mahmoud Abbas became the new Palestinian Prime Minister. His appointment was supposed to mark a new phase in peace negations. Without Arafat's support, he, like the peace process at that time, was doomed to failure. He finally resigned.

2003: Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004: “George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.” (Jewish Virtual Library)

2005(8thof Adar II, 5765): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

2005: As Israel unilaterally withdraws from Gaza with no pre-conditions, “the Palestine economy minister” said “that representatives of Arab countries” have “also said they would make good on an outstanding pledge…to provide $523 million to the Palestinians.”

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including "The Doctor’s Daughter" by Hilma Wolitzer and "Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova" by Elaine Feinstein

2006: The Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace began in Seville, Spain.

2007: While the world's cricketing powers are engaged in the World Cup, history is being made today when for the first time an Israeli team steps out onto the cricket fields of India.

2007: The lawyers for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged with murdering Daniel Pearl, “cited the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who said he had “decapitated…the American Jew Daniel Pearl” as proof that while their client had been involved he had not done the actually killing and therefore should not be executed.

2008: "Regina Waldman, an executive committee member of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she testified about her family' flight from Libya after the Second World War."

2008: Eric Alterman, a professor of English and journalism at the City University of New York, discusses and signs Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America at Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.

2008: In New York, the 92nd Street Y features a presentation by Edward Kaplan entitled “Spiritual Radical: On Abraham Joshua Heschel.”

2009: As part of the Blavatnik Chamber Concert Series, The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute present: “Women in Song: From Baroque to the Present” performed by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky. The evening features songs by Felix's sister Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel along with other women composers from Germany, France and America.

2009: Elena Kagan completed her service as the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School.

2009: By a vote of 61 to 31, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Elena as Solicitor General of the United States, making her the first woman to hold this position.

2009: A revival of the 1950’s musical “West Side Story” opens on Broadway directed by Arthur Laurents, the 92-year-old Brooklyn born Jew whose views about the world of American theatre are readily available in his recently published book, Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals”

2009: An anonymous American Jewish investor celebrated his eldest son’s Bar Mitzvah which took place this morning at the Western Wall by contributing a Torah scroll to the Samarian outpost community of El Matan, next to Ma’aleh Shomron and Ginot Shomron. The name of the community means “G-d’s Gift” in Hebrew, and the donor, a man of Moroccan descent, said that the mitzvah of giving the holy scroll is all the recognition he needs.

http://www.capeverdejewishheritage.org/old_site/uploads/Cape_Verde_Jewish_Heritage_Project_Launched_-_JTA_-_Jewish___Israel_News.pdf

http://capeverdejewishheritage.org/

2009: “Cape Verde Heritage Project Launched” published today described “an effort to preserve the Jewish heritage in Cape Verde” that “was formally launched in Washington.”

2010: Itzhak Perlman, the IPO and Emmanuel Halperin perform together this morning in Tel Aviv.

2010: Previews of “Sondheim on Sondheim” are scheduled to begin Studio 54.

2010: Elephant Parade, one of an unprecedented eight bands imported from Israel for the sole purpose of taking part in this year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) festival is scheduled to play at Stephen F’s Bar.

2010: The opening reception for "My Father's Microcosm, Tel Aviv", a photographic installation by Israeli photographer Yossi Guttmann and curated by Eva Grudin is scheduled to take place this evening at The Williams Club of New York.

2010: The Air Force hit six targets in Gaza early this morning in response to recent rocket attacks on southern Israel.

2010: David Adelman was confirmed as United States Ambassador to Singapore

2010(4thof Nisan, 5770): Ninety-five-year-old George Lane, the husband of Miriam Rothschild, who earned the rank of Colonel while serving as a commando with SOE in WW II passed away today.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-colonel-george-lane-1-798235

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/7528727/Colonel-George-Lane.html

2011: Civilian areas in southern Israel were heavily shelled by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza this morning, when more than 50 mortars were fired at the regional councils of Sha'ar Hanegev, Eshkol and Sdot Hanegev.

2011: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed Israel's United Nations envoy to lodge a formal complaint with the organization after Israel was hit by over 50 mortars fired from Gaza this morning.

2011: “Yiddush Cup” is scheduled to play tonight at Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

2011(13th of Adar II, 5771): Shabbat Zachor

2011: In the evening, the Megillah is read as Purim celebrations begin.

2011(13th of Adar II, 5771): Sixty-three year old Larry Friedlander who founded Reason Magazine passed away today.(As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07friedlander.html

2012: The Women’s Conference sponsored by Temple Torah is scheduled to open at West Boyton Beach, Florida.

2012: “Mabul” and “Little Simco’s Big Fantasy” are scheduled to be shown at the 16th New York Sephardic Film Festival.

2012(25thof Adar, 5222): Eighty-three year old Belgian born American director and producer Ulu Grosbard passed away today in New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

2012: In Jerusalem, The Off The Wall Comedy Club is scheduled to host “Jerusalem Blend,” featuring Elazar ‘Dr. Jazz’ Brandt & Benny Firszt ‘Jerusalem’s Poet’

2012(25thof Adar, 5222): In Toulouse, Mohamed Merah opened fire on two Jewish pupils, their father and the headmaster’s daughter at Otzar Hatorah which is now called Ohr Torah School.

2012(25th Adar, 5772): Yahrtzeit for those who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

2013: The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers series is scheduled to present “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” featuring Walter Stahr and Louis P. Masur

2013(8thof Nisan, 5773): Eighty-nine year old ” the matriarch of the last of the grand Catskill resorts, who greeted guests with a “Welcome home,” made sure the regulars got rooms facing the lake, entertained them with comedians and filled them with blintzes and stuffed cabbage” passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/helen-kutsher-matriarch-of-a-catskills-resort-dies-at-89.html?_r=1&

http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-tour-of-a-little-catskills-resort-with-a-large-heart/

2013: The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, newly installed as Pope Francis I, opened his speech at today’s Papal inauguration with a nod to the Jewish community, saying say he was speaking “with the permission of the diplomatic corps, the Jews who are with us and all the rest,” according to Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. A delegation of leaders of Jewish communities from around the world, including Rabbinate Director General Oded Weiner, was on hand at the Vatican today when Bergoglio officially took office as the leader of the world’s more than 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. (As reported by Sam Sokol)

2013: The remains of 17 bodies, discovered at the bottom of a well in the city of Norwich in 2004, were given a Jewish burial in Earlham Cemetery in Norwich today.

2013: A day after being sworn into office, Israel’s incoming ministers today celebrated a series of changing-of-the-guard ceremonies at their respective ministries, ushering in Israel’s 33rd government. The first ceremony took place at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where incoming minister Moshe Ya’alon replaced Ehud Barak at the helm.

2013: The Jerusalem Art Festival is scheduled to present “Cairo Circus”

2013: In New York, the Anastasia Photo Gallery is scheduled to host its first show featuring the works of Israeli photographer Natan Dvir

http://www.natandvir.com/

2014: In a sign of the changing times for Jewish institutions, in Olney, MD. Jewish Social Service Agency is scheduled to host an evening on “The Secrets to a Successful Job Search” at Shaare Tefila Congregation.

2014: “La Verite si Je Mens #3” (“Would I Like to You #3”) is scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.

2014: “Aftermath” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston (TX) Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Ninety-five-year-old Robert S. Strauss, the Texas born Washington insider and diplomat passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/us/robert-s-strauss-presidential-confidant-and-deal-maker-dies-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

2014: Seventieth Anniversary of the German Occupation of Budapest.

http://forward.com/articles/194601/how-hungarian-sisters-outwitted-the-nazis-to-creat/?p=all

2014: The IAF attacked serval sites on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights overnight that “had aided and abetted the attack against IDF soldiers and included artillery batteries and a training camp belonging to the Syrian army.” (As reported by Elad Benari)

2014: “A bill that would allow local rabbis to oversee conversions to Judaism in Israel passed the Kneseet’s Constituion, Law and Justice Committee today.”

2014: “Two former senior IDF officers were held by police for questioning today on suspicion of deliberately destroying evidence connected with the Harpaz affair, a corruption scandal involving Israel’s political and military leaderships during 2009 to 2011.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-spokesman-top-aide-held-in-succession-scandal/

2014: Russell Crowe, the star of “Noah” who had been pushing for a meeting with the Pope got his wish granted, sort of, today when he, producer Darren Aronofsky and Paramount Pictures Vice President Rob Moore were “on hand for the pope’s general audience” today followed by a “short meet-and-greet with the Pope.”  The trio hopes that the visit with the Pope will still some of the controversy created by a call for a boycott of the film by Muslims and Evangelicals.

2015(28th of Adar, 5775): Seventy-two-year-old Boston radio “gadfly” Danny Schechter passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/arts/television/danny-schechter-news-dissector-and-human-rights-activist-dies-at-72.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a talk “featuring Steven Fenves, who survived internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald before being liberated by American soldiers.”

2015: “A new documentary ‘Philip Roth: Unmasked’” is scheduled to be performed for the last time at New York City’s Film Forum.

2015: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host “an eveing of live music and feminist Torah celebrating the release of Girls in Trouble’s new album, ‘Open Ground.’”

2015: The 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end in NYC.

2015: The Jewish Theological Seminary is scheduled to host a lecture on "Race, Bias and Equal Justice in America"

2015: The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne is scheduled to go on sale in Ottawa.

2016(9thof Adar II, 5776: Parahsat Vayikra and Shabbat Zachor;

2016(9thof Adar II, 5776): Three Israelis – Yonathan Shuer, 40; Simha Dimir, 60; Avraham Goldman, 69 – were killed and another 11 Israelis were wound in a terror attack today in Istanbul.

2016(9thof Adar II, 5776): Eighty-five-year-old Bob Adelman, the photographer best known for the images he captured of the Civil Rights struggle passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

http://www.bobadelman.net/

2016: The tour “Jews in the American South” is scheduled to begin today in Charleston, SC.

2016: “Rock in the Red Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.

2016: “Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: In New Orleans, the second day of Limmudfest is scheduled to begin with services at Gates of Prayer.  For more information see the Crescent City Jewish News, the leading source for news about the Jewish Community from Lake Pontchartrain to the Gulf Coast. http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/category/limmud-nola/

2016: As Jews observe the first Shabbat after Merrick Garland has been nominated to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the sense of communal pride is enhanced by the memory that it was just 100 years ago, in the winter of 1916 that President Wilson nominated the first Jew – Louis Brandeis – to serve on the Supreme Court.  At the same time this may be considered a case of third time is the charm.  Benjamin Cardozo was nominated by President Hoover to serve on the High Court during an election year (1932) making Garland the third Jew to be chosen in such a manner.  George Washington, who made the Jews feel like welcomed members of the American community, was the first President to nominate a Justice to the High Court during an election year and he actually did it twice in 1796 when he was a “lame duck.”

2017: The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel the recently released paperback editions of Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein and Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Bucky by Adam Cohen

2017: Am Kolel in partnership with the Jewish Folk Arts Festival, Yiddish of Greater Washington, The Foundation of Jewish Studies, and the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to sponsor “The Great Yiddish Writers Festival” at B’nai Israel in Rockville, MD.

2017: A surprise drill began today in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to simulate war in the Gaza Strip.”

 2017: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball player Josh Pastner, the ACC coach of the year, led his Georgia Tech to victory against Belmont in the NIT.

2017: The Breman Museum / Theatrical Outfit / Atlanta Jewish Music Festival are scheduled to present “Baby That Is Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Leiber/Stoller Era.”

2017: The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) is scheduled to mark half a century of service to the Greater New Orleans Jewish community with its Annual Event today in the Grand Ballroom) of the Westin Canal Place.

2018: “Beneath the Silence” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.

2018: The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players which was founded by Jens Nygaard who directed the Washington Heights YW-YMHA concerts for 25 years is scheduled to perform “Rooted in Russia today

2018(3rdof Nissan, 5778): Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Arnold Richard Hirsch, the Chicago born son of Nathan Hirsch and Mollie Shulman and the University of Illinois trained historian best known for chronicling the story of housing segregation passed away today. (As reported Sewell Chan)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html

2018: “Romain Franck, a French employee of France’s Consulate in Jerusalem” “was indicted today for using a diplomatic vehicle to smuggle dozens of guns from Gaza to the West Bank.”

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” in London

2018: Mayim Bialik, the holder of a doctorate in neuroscience who gained fame a “Amy Fowler-Farrah” on “The Big Bang Theory” is scheduled to address The Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism which is scheduled to begin today in Jerusalem.

http://gfca2018.org/

2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Education Fund is scheduled to host “From India to America: Routes of the Roma“presentation at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library during which Ian Hancock (professor emeritus at UT, Austin) “one of the world’s foremost scholars on Romani history will discuss the history of the little known but often persecuted people.

2019: In Des Moines IA, at Temple B’nai Jeshurun,Grinnell Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach is scheduled to speak about “The Challenge of Addressing Anti-Semitism Today” and Rabbi Yossi Jacobson is scheduled to speak about “Encountering Antisemitism in London” and “The Current Series of Attacks on Chassidim in Brooklyn” as part of the JCRC Antisemitism Forum.

2019(12th of Adar II, 5779): Seventy-nine-year-old photographer, the Manhattan born son of

Lillian (Block) Kaplan and Dr. William Kaplan, “a founder of what is now North Shore University Hospital on Long Island” who married Sharon Rosenbush after his divorce from Harriet Avramescu passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/obituaries/peter-kaplan-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “Searching For Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers” during which “Scott Miller, former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss his decades-long search to uncover the fate of every passenger from this tragic journey and JDC’s historic role in striving to rescue them.”

2019” The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever” which tells the story of the Yiddish poet and his impact on Jewish history and literature.

2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the “Palm Beach Country” premiere of “From Cairo to the Cloud” The World of the Cairo Geniza.

2019: In London, the exhibition of “Jews Money Myth” is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum.

https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/jews-money-myth/

2020: In London, the scheduled screening of “Those Who Remained” hosted by JW3 will not take place due to the pandemic.

2020: The scheduled screenings of “Final Transports” and “Childhood Lost” hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum will not take place “in accordance with the recommendations of Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot.”

2020: In Cedar Rapids, the final session of “Israel’s Milestones and Their Meanings” scheduled for today will not take place due to the pandemic.

2020: In San Francisco, The “Future of Jewish Food” during which SFSU professor Rachel Gross and “Meat Planet” author Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft were to discuss kashrut, lab-grown meat and technology” which scheduled to be held today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum has been canceled due to the pandemic.

2020(23rd of Adar, 5780): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of “Portuguese poet and Hebrew grammarian” Moses Gideon Abudiente. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)

2021: This Shabbat ONETABLE is scheduled to present “a service with Kat Morgan from Urban Adamah and Rabbi Paul Shleffar from San Quentin’s Jewish Congregation, where we will ask “what do gatherings, like that of Shabbat, gift us?,” “how can our Judaism connect to our service?,” and explore resources for us to deepen our engagement and support of those individuals who are living this COVID-19 reality, incarcerated.

2021: Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury is scheduled to host online “a Kick-Back-and-Relax Shabbat service” which will include music “by composers such as Simon and Garfunkel, Carly Simon, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, The Indigo Girls, Shanai Twain, The Carpenters, Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac and more.”

2021: JCC Contra Costa is scheduled to start hosting a screening “Live and Become” the 2005 French-Israeli drama about an Ethiopian boy who passes himself off as a Jew, gets rescued from a refugee camp and grows up in Israel.

2021: The Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland is scheduled to host “Rescue Your Photos” with Lisa Griffis, the former photo editor and graphics designer at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

2021: Challah for Hunger is scheduled to present “Let My People Dough” that includes a demonstration of “how to make the perfect loaf of challah” followed by “some fun musical and advocacy activities.”

2021: In a virtual session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an exhibit that considered sounds emitted during synagogue services, mainly by ritual objects but also by acts such as removing the Torah from the ark.

2021: Based on yesterday’s approval of March 19

 

235: End of the reign of Severus Alexander, the 26th Emperor of the Roman Empire

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1153-alexander-severus

 

 

1191: Eighty Jews were burned at Bray, France for trying to execute a vassal who had killed a Jew. The Jews were not a lynch-mob. They had the permission of the local ruler which is more than one can say for those who killed the Jews.

1227: Election of Pope Gregory IX “a prominent opponent of Judaism during his life, condemning it as "containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy". In the 1234 Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political servitude until Judgment Day. The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine of servitus camerae imperialis, or servitude immediately subject to the Emperor's authority, promulgated by Frederick II. The Jews were thus suppressed from having direct influence over the political process and the life of Christian states into the 19th century with the rise of liberalism” (Dietmar Preissler, Frühantisemitismus in der Freien Stadt Frankfurt und im Großherzogtum Hessen (1810 bis 1860), p.30, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-533-04129-8 (German).

1406: Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian born “Arab historiographer and historian” Ibn Khaldun who described the Jarawa or Jrāwa, a Berber Zenata tribal confederacy that flourished in northwest Africa during the 7th century were Jews.

1497: In an effort to prevent the Jews from fleeing Christian persecutions, King Emanuel, secretly ordered the baptism of all children between the ages of four and fourteen.

1590: Birthdate of William Bradford who served as governor of Plymouth Colony for over 30 years. Bradford was typical of so many of his ilk who saw a connection with their lives and what they called “The Old Testament.”  Bradford studies the Hebrew language because, as he put it, “Though I am growne aged, yet I have had a longing desire to see with my owne eyes, something of that most ancient langue and holy tongue, in which the Law, the oracles of God were write; in which God, and angels spake to the holy patriarchs, of time; and what names were given to things, from the creation…for my owne contente.” (William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful Pilgrim by Gary D. Schmidt)

1604 Birthdate of : King John IV of Portugal who was erroneously reported to have employed the Jewish doctor Fernando Menes as his physician.

1640(24th of Adar): Rabbi Chaim Algazi of Constantinople, author of Nesivot ha-Mishpat passed away today. A native of Ismir, Turkey, Chaim Algazai served as the rabbi of Rhodes before returning to his home town to serve as Chief Rabbi.  B’nei Chayay, his commentary on the Four Turim, was edited by Rabbi Araron Alfandri, his granddaughter’s husband and the author of Yad Aaron (As reported by Aryeh Kaplan)

1684: Birthdate of Jean Astruc, the French Catholic doctor and descendant from a medieval Jewish family “who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases” and one of the founders of “modern Pentateuch criticism” who contended that Moses and the copyists created a book that was based on two separate sets of documents – one that used Elhiom for the name of the divinity and the other that used YHWH for the name of the divinity.

1721: The Papacy of Clement XI, who issued a bull extending the rights of converts over their Jewish families, ended today.

1740: Birthdate of Esther de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon who was 37 at the time of her birth.

1764(15thof Adar II, 5524): Shushan Purim

1772(14th of Adar II, 5532): Purim

1772: “The Royal College of Physicians admitted” Meyer Low Schomberg” as a licentiate” today.

1792: While “at sea” Hannah Isaacks and Jacob Phillips who were married at Newport, RI in 1785 gave birth to Rebecca Phillips the wife of Isaiah Moses whom she married at Charleston in 1807 and with whom she had twelve children.

1796(9thof Adar II, 5556): Parashat Vaykira; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time during the Presidency of George Washington.

1800: Montague Levoi married Catherine Chapman today at the Great Synagogue.

1803 :( 25th of Adar): Rabbi Moses ben Abraham, author of Meliz Yosher passed away today.  

1804: Birthdate of Dublin native Sir Alexander Schomberg, the son of Meyer Löw Schomberg a German-Jewish doctor who settled in England, and who began his distinguished naval career in 1743 after becoming an Anglican passed away today

1806: Jacob Hirsch Kann, the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kann and his wife Jetta Kann gave birth to Theresie Wetheim, the wife of Bernhard Wertheimer

1807: Birthdate of Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy the French archaeologist who made several trips to Palestine and Syria from 1850 to 1869 where among other things he “sketched the first map of Masada,” “identified Tell es-Sultan as the site of ancient Jericho” and “conducted the first archaeological dig” at “the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.”

 

https://archive.org/details/narrativeajourn00saulgoog

 

1813: Today German born Isaac Jacob Bamberger married his second wife Bella Jacobs who died two years later at the age of twenty-two.

1817: Birthdate of Bavaria native Fanny Heilbronner, the wife of Isaac Samuel whom she married in Paris in 1840

1817: Aaron Goldsmid married Sophia Salomons, the eldest daughter of Levy Salomons at the Great Synagogue today.

1821: In Devon, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton and Martha Baker gave birth to Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton one of those eccentric 19thEnglishman who dabbled in the military, exploration and writing. Among his many works was The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam

http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1898-The%20Jew,%20The%20Gypsy%20and%20El%20Islam/index.htm

 

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50C1EF83F5A1A738DDDA90B94DF405B8385F0D3

 

 

1822: Seventy-four-year-old Johann Ludwig Ewald an advocate for Jewish emancipation “who wrote two pamphlets in defense of the Jews” and who “argued that the Jews were not worse than others, that their shortcomings were the result of persecution, and that no one had a right to expect them to improve until they had been given equal rights with other citizens” passed away in Carlsruhe.

1822: Boston, Massachusetts, incorporated as a city. “The earliest mention of a Jew in Massachusetts bears the date May 3, 1649, and there are references to Jews among the inhabitants of Boston in 1695 and 1702; but they can be regarded only as stragglers, as no settlers made their homes in Massachusetts until the Revolutionary war drove the Jews from Newport. In 1777 Aaron Lopez and Jacob Rivera, with fifty-nine others, went from Newport to Leicester, and established themselves there; but this settlement

did not survive the close of the war. A number of Jews, including the Hays family, settled at Boston before 1800. Of these Moses Michael Hays was the most important. In 1830 a number of Algerian Jews went to Boston, but they soon disappeared. The history of the present community begins with the year 1840, when the first congregation was established.”

1831: Birthdate of Joshua Glaser, who gained fame as Julius Anton Glaser who converted to Christianity and became a leading Austrian jurist “and liberal politician.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00B1FF9395B10738DDDA00A94DA415B8584F0D3

 

1832: “Baltimorean Mendes I. Cohen,” who while on his six year tour of Europe and the Middle East become “one of the first American citizens to visit to Palestine” wrote a letter to his mother Judith while in Jerusalem.

http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/mendes-i-cohen/

 

1832: Birthdate of Hungarian Hermann Wamberger who gained famed Ármin Vámbéry whose son Rusztem “briefly served as Hungary’s ambassador to the United States after WW II.”

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

http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm

 

1839: A “pogrom, known as the Allahdad, broke out in the Iranian city of Mashhad. At the time of the pogrom, the city of Mashhad was home to about 2,500 Jews. The event devastated the Jews of Mashhad, who were violently forced into converting to Islam. The ruler of Mashhad ordered the authorities to attack the Jews. A large mob went on to the Jewish quarter and proceeded to burn down the synagogue, destroy Jewish homes and businesses, abduct Jewish girls, kill about 40 Jews and injure many more. The Jews had knives held to their throat and were forced to renounce Judaism and accept Islam. While some of the Jews left Mashhad following the incident, others stayed and would go on to lead a secret Jewish life. While adopting Muslim customs in public, most would maintain Jewish tradition in the privacy of their homes. There are no Jews left in Mashhad today. Most of the descendants of Mashhad's Jews live in Israel.”

1843: Three days after she had passed away, 79-year-old Jane (Mordecai) Friedeberg, the widow of Benjamin Friedeberg was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1848(14thof Adar II, 5608) Purim

1848: Founding of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia whose “Honorary Life Members” included Moses A Dropsie, Isaace Rosskam, Mayer Sulzberger, Louis E. Levy and Levi Mayer.

1848: Birthdate of Wyatt Earp. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, this fabled lawman gained fame as the Marshall of Deadwood, Dodge City and Tombstone, Arizona. Much of Earp's life was spent as a gambler, prospector and failed businessman. He was not Jewish, but his third wife was. While living in Tombstone, Earp took up with Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, daughter of practicing Jewish family living in San Francisco. Despite her claims that they married, no written record existed. However, they remained together, if nothing else in common law marriage until Earp's death in 1929. Earp's ashes were buried in the Marcus Family Plot at Jewish Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, California, south of San Francisco. While Ms. Earp did not live among Jews for most of her adult life, she too chose to rejoin her people in death and is buried alongside her famous husband. For more about this interesting marriage, you can read I Married Wyatt Earp, Mrs. Earp's book about their life together.

1848: One day after she had passed away, 42-year-old Mary (Emanuel) Drukker, the wife of Simon Drukker was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1849: Joseph Ansell Spier married Catherine Hyam today.

 

1853: Things turned violent in Jerusalem today, Palm Sunday. Greeks and Armenians fought in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and 24 Protestant missionaries from London scuffling with a group of Jews in the streets of the City of David.

1860: The "Wealth, Power and Enterprise of the Hebrew People, as evidenced by the Building of King Solomon's Temple," was the subject of a lecture delivered this evening in Temple Hall by Rabbi Raphall.

1862: The New York Timespublished a letter today in which took issue with that paper’s characterization of Senator David Levy Yulee as being Jewish. “In your well-merited rebuke of the traitor Yulee … you were led into an error which I am sure you will correct, as it reflects unjustly upon the loyalty of a large religious body of the community. You speak of Yulee, (the Ex-Senator) and Finegan (the ex-contractor) as "Jew and Irishman," thus placing the supposed religious belief of Yulee in juxtaposition with the nationality of his co-traitor. The facts are. Levy is an American, and foreswore the religion of his father’s many years ago, married a Christian lady of wealth, was baptized a Christian and had his name changed by the Legislature of his State to ‘Yulee’ thus adding to the many proofs, that a bad Jew will never make it good Christian.”

1864: In Jerusalem, “Yehoshua Yellin, one of the founders of the founders of the Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood in Jerusalem and his wife Serah, the daughter of Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda, an educator from Iraq” gave birth to David Yellin, the brother of Shlomo Yellin, the husband of the former Ita Pines whose son Avinoam “was murdered during the Arab Revolt” and whose Zionism found expression in his work to advance the Hebrew Language as can be seen by his founding of “the first Hebrew College for Teachers” and co-founding “the Hebrew Language Committee.”

1867: In Detroit, members of Congregation Beth El gave the trustees of Tabernacle Baptist Church $17,000 for their property which would be home to Beth El for the next 36 years.  D.J. Workum, President of the congregation and Martin Butzel were leaders of in the negotiations on behalf of Beth El.

1867: The Ashkenazim of living in Palestine sought permission to slaughter their own meat. The Ashkenazim appealed to the British to intervene on their behalf. In the formal letter of request to the Consul, it stated that both the Muslims (and the Sephardim) “understood that the Ashkenazim were not true Israelites." This concerned the Ashkenazim because they made money selling certain cuts of meat to the Muslims, and if the Muslims did not consider them Jews, they would not buy their meat.

1868: In Butrimonys, Albert and Judith Valvrojenski gave birth to Senda Valvrojenski who gained fame as Senda Berenson Abbot, a pioneer in the game of women’s basketball.  She was also the “sister of the art historian Bernard Berenson and a great-great-aunt of the photographer Berry Berenson and the actress and model Marisa Berenson.”

http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/senda-berenson-abbott

1868: Birthdate of Josef Schlussselberg, who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Terezin where he was murdered at the age of seventy-four.

1872: In Lithuania, David and Gittel Schubert gave birth to Fannie Shubert, a sister of the famous “Shubert brothers” who was the wife of Isaac Isaacs and William H. Weissager.

1873(20thof Adar, 5633): Sixty-year-old economist Wilhelm Stahl who was elected to the Frankfort Parliament in 1848 and became a professor at the University of Giessen 3 years later passed away today.

http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tje/view.cgi?n=13960

 

 

1874(1st of Nisan, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1875: In New York’s Part II of the Marine Court Chief Just Shea presided over breach of contract brought by Jennie Jonas, a Polish Jewess against Victor Goldstein for his failure to marry him. Jonas was represented by famed litigator Samuel Hirsh. In the end, the jury found for the plaintiff and awarded her $75 in damages.

1875: Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Hedwig Rothschild who became Hedwig Gutman when she married Bernhard Gutmann

1876: Sam and Sarah Nelken gave birth to their son William.

1877: It was reported today that the Marquis de Compiegne, the famous French explorer had died in the interior of Africa after having been mortally wounded during a duel he fought “with a German Jews named Mayer.” The duel was brought on by a dispute over geographic matters and insults to Mayer’s girlfriend.

1878(14th of Adar II, 5638): Purim

1878: In Mohileff, Russia, Tobias Weinshenker and Elka Markman gave birth to Esther T. Weinshenker who came to the Unied States in 1886 where she organized the Clara de Hirsch Society in Chicago and became the national chairman of the Ladies’ Organization of the Federation of American Zionists whose sixth and seventh conventions she attended as a delegate.

1880: It was reported today from Madrid, the Jews of Morocco are planning to honor the United States Minister who interceded on their behalf so that they would be protected by the Sultan.

1880: According to a review of “Sunshine and Storm in the East” published today, Lady Brassy reported that one of the difference between the Jews and Moslems of Morocco was that the Moslem women “were muffed up to the eyes and waddled along like animated bundles of dirty clothes” the Jewish women were “gorgeously draped” and their faces were uncovered.

 

1880: In New York the Board of Estimate and Apportionment allocated funds to be paid to charities taking care of youngster committed to their care by the Police magistrates including $1,691.43 for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1884: Birthdate of Galicia native Sholom Joseph Perlmutter, the vice president of the Hebrew Actors Union, co-founder of the Society of Jewish Composers and the Jewish Playwrights League as well as a “historian of the Jewish theatre” who wrote Jewish Dramatists and Jewish Composers http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/P/perlmutter-sholem.htm

 

1887: Seventy four year old Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, the author of The Jew a romantic novel in which, “the Jews are made to stand as a kind of buffer between the Russians and the Poles and when the collision comes” between these two “it is generally the Jews who suffer” passed away today.

 

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D06E7DA1239E033A25750C2A9679D94619ED7CF

 

1888: Birthdate of Peretz Naftali, the native of Berlin who made Aliyah in 1933 and served in Israel’s first Knesset

 

1888(7th of Nisan, 5648): Forty-five year old Salomon Abendana Belmonte, the Hamburg born attorney who was editor of the Hamburger Reform and sever as a member of the Hamburg starting in 1877 passed away today.

1889: In San Francisco, Eva Korper Voorsanger and Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger gave birth to University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained Rabbi Elkan Cohen Voorsanger, “the senior Jewish Chaplain with AEF in France during WW I” and spiritual leader of Temple Shaare Emeth Israel who was the husband of the former Henrietta Moscowitz and father of Esther, Alice and Edith Voorsanger.

https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/03/archives/rabbi-elkan-voorsanger-dead-noted-chaplain-in-world-war-i.html

 

1890: “Slaves of the Sweater” published today summarized the arbitration hearings between the striking members of the Shirtmakers’ Union and the contractors for whom they work. The workers claim they work fourteen hours a day for as little a four dollars a week.  The contractors claimed that the workers only labor from 7:30 am to 6 pm with half an hour for dinner and that “a good female operative could make $9 a week and man $13.”  The work used to be done by “German, American and Irish girls” but they have been driven out by the Jews who are now on strike.  The manufacturers, most of whom are Jewish, claim they know nothing about working conditions because they deal only with the contractors.

1891: In New York City, Aaron and Rosa (Roth) Stern gave birth NYU trained attorney Emanuel A. Stern, the husband of Charlotte Taussig.

1891: It was reported today that Solomon Goldstein and his three sons were among those fortunate enough to have survived the fire at the tenement building at the corner of Hester and Allen Streets but one of them, Abraham, was injured and had to be taken to Gouvernor Hospitals. 

1892: In Leeds, UK, Ada and Maurice Raisman gave birth to Pembroke College, Oxford, graduate Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, the Indian civil servant and banker.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raisman-sir-abraham-jeremy

 

1892: Jose S.K. Mizrachee, the Syrian born Jew charged with shooting Rabbi Mendes in New York City, is being held at Police Headquarter and is scheduled to make his first appearance in Part I of the Court of General Sessions this morning.

 

1892:

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1892:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40716FF3F5C17738DDDA00994DB405B8285F0D3

 

 

1893: An altercation broke out in New Haven, CT today after carpenters came to work on a house on Rose Street which was being converted to a synagogue.  The current occupants of the house claimed that the workers would disturb their Sabbath peace, this being Sunday and began attacking the workers and the Jews who accompanied them. 

 

1893: Following regular services at Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Silverman delivered a lecture on “Popular Errors About Intermarriage” which is part of series of lectures he is delivering “on popular errors concerning the Jews.”

 

1894: Mrs. Charles Krumm took $20 out of the safe and saw her husband give it to Policman Charles Levy $20 (in what was either a bribe or payoff)

 

1894: Birthdate of Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer

 

1895: Twenty-four-year-old Felix M. Warburg, the Hamburg born son of Moritz and Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg married Theresa Loeb Schiff today in New York after which they had four sons – Frederick, Gerald, Paul and Edward – and one daughter, Carola.

1896: “Polish Jews Going to Cripple Creek” published today described the passage of 80 families, numbering 260 Polish Jewish immigrants who passed through Fort Worth Texas on their way to Cripple Creek where they going to begin life as farmers.

 

1896: In Albany, the State Board of Regents held its regular quarterly meeting during which it granted an “unregistered provisional charter to the Hebrew Free School” in Syracuse, NY.

 

 

1896: “The auction sale of seats and boxes for the performance of ‘The Heart of Maryland’ for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum was held at the Herald Square Theatre this afternoon.”

 

1897: It was reported today that new wing of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which was completed six weeks ago cost $75,000 and allows the institution to care for as many as 300 people.

 

1897: The ladies of the Sewing Society of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum hosted an afternoon of entertainment for children at the facility on Amsterdam Avenue.

 

1897(15thof Adar II, 5657): Shushan Purim

 

1897(15thof Adar II, 5657): Seventy-one year old Ignaz “Ignatz” Grossman, the Hungarian born rabbi and husband of Anna Rosenbaum Grossbaum who came to Brooklyn in 1873 to lead Congregation Beth Elohim and later Congregation B’nai Abraham passed away today.

1897: Two days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Levi, the daughter of John Fileman and Mary Levy and the first wife of Henry Levi was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery

1897: It was reported today that the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia had raised $9,114 last year to support its programs that include weekly lectures by Ephraim Lederer on the U.S. Constitution.

1897: Four days after he had passed away, 82 year old James Sylvester was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1898: Benjamin "Ben" Schlesinger the native of Lithuania who would become the nine-time President of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union became a United States citizen in Chicago today.

 

1898: Three Jewish children, Celia Bogin (11), Louis Begin (9) and Kate Bogin (4) whose mother had died two weeks ago in Denver were taken to headquarters of the United Hebrew Charities in New York by a cabman who found them on the street.

 

1898:”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00E14FE3A5D11738DDDA00994DB405B8885F0D3

 

 

1899: Florence Prag a teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco married Julius Kahn, a former Broadway actor, state legislator, and, at the time, a first-term U.S. Representative from San Francisco. The couple had two sons, Julius, Jr., and Conrad. She would later serve five terms in the U.S. House of Representative as a Republican after succeeding her husband in office following his death.

 

1900: Herzl has another meeting with Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber.

1901: In Paris, Leo Mielziner, an artist and the son of a Rabbi and the former Ella Friend gave birth to “American theatrical scenic and lighting designer” and convert to Catholicism Joseph “Jo” Mielziner, the “brother of actor-director Kenneth MacKenna.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/16/archives/jo-mielziner-dead-at-74-pioneering-set-designer-dozens-of-hits-a.html?_r=0

 

1901: Gladys Helen Rachel Goldsmid and Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling gave birth to Captain (Hon) The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, RNR, the man who played a key role in the creating the subterfuge that helped make the landings for Operation Husky a success. After the war, Montague filled vital leadership roles for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom.

1902: In “Restricting Immigration” published today, the New York Times stated that it “did not favor arbitrary exclusion” but also said, “the problems which so sternly confront us today are serious enough, with being complicated and aggravated by the addition of some millions of Hungarian, Bohemians, Poles, south Italians and Russian Jews.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1902/03/19/archives/restricting-immigration.html?searchResultPosition=1

 

1903: In Lviv, Isaac Gruss, “a Talmudic scholar and a banker” and his wife gave birth to American financier and philanthropist Joseph Saul Gross, the husband of attorney Caroline Zelaznik, the father of Martin David Gross and Dr. Evelyn Gruss Lipper and the father-in-law of producer Kenneth Lipper.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/05/obituaries/joseph-gruss-91-philanthropist-who-supported-jewish-schools.html

1904(3rdof Nisan, 5664): Parashat Vayikra

1905(12th of Adar II): Yiddish novelist Isaac Moses Bader, the husband of Helen Bader and the father of playwright and journalist Gershon Bader passed away today.

1905: Governor N.C. Blanchard and Charles F. Buck, Grand Master of the Masons were among those delivering addresses of welcome at the opening of the meeting in New Orleans of “The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.”

1905: In Mannheim Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer gave birth to “Hitler’s architect” Albert Speer the member of the Nazi inner circle who beat the hangman by convincing people that he did not know about the fate of the Jews.

1906: A brief note had been received from French journalist Francis de Pressensé describing the demise of the six year old French weeklyL’European which provided Europeans with, among other things, an accurate account of events in Russia including “the Jewish massacres” and which included the prediction that following the Russian defeat by the Japanese, “one does not have be a prophet…to predict that it will be the Jews who will be called to account” and that the “Russian dupes” will release “the fury of revenge on the Jews.”

1906: “The Beauty of Bath” a musical comedy produced by Charles Frohman opened at the Aldwych Theatre.

1906: Cyrus L. Sulzberger told a group of Jewish women meeting at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Stern that “there a 700,000 Jews” living in this city but that only “only 4,000 contribute to Hebrew Charities”

1907: The Council of Jewish Women sponsored a concert at Temple Beth-El where one hundred and fifty members of the Musical Cantors’ Association of American filled the sanctuary with “an impressive exhibition of traditional Hebrew music.”

1908: It was reported today that Julia Richman, the Jewish and public school educator and member of the New York Superintendent’s staff was one of the “most outspoken advoctes of uniting the City and Normal College under one head.”

1909: The Sultan ratifies election of the Hahambashi Haim Nahoum who had had an audience with the Turkish ruler.

1910(8thof Adar II, 5670): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

1910: “Am Imposing Work of Reference” published today Joseph Jacobs provides a lengthy, positive review of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics which contains sections by Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr. the noted orientalist and Professor Sylvain Levi, the leading expert on Sanskrit.

1911(19thof Adar, 5671): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the son of Rabbi Joseph Gabriel Adler and the husband of Judith Adler passed away today in Bavaria

1911: International Women’s Day was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the Ringstrasse and carried banners honoring the martyrs of the Paris Commune. Women demanded that women be given the right to vote and to hold public office. They also protested against employment sex discrimination.

1912: Birthdate of New York native Joseph Walker, the Columbia trained attorney and executive vice president. with S. Klein Department Stores.

https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/

1913(10thof Adar II, 5673):  Twenty-year-old Louis Bachrach, the Decatur, GA, born son of Henry and Mathilda Hamburger Bachrach passed away today while working at a “large department store” after which he was buried at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, GA.

1913: Lucille Lefurgey is scheduled to deliver a lecture this evening on “Hamlet” at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.

1914: Twenty-one-year-old Tulane University trained mechanical engineer Moses Walter B Moses, the New Orleans born son of Elkin and Ida Moses and member of ZBT married Josephine Harpman Noar today.

1914: In Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, which is the home to The Dr. Fred Weinberg and Joy Cherry Weinberg Judaica Collection opened to the public today.

1915: “The Jewish Weekly, edited by Herman Bernstein published a statement by the famous Danish author, Georg Brandes” describing the pogrom-like environment facing the Jews in Russian Poland.

 

1915: Reports published today estimate that there are between 250,000 and 400,000 Jews fighting in the Russian Army.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06EFDD123FE233A2575AC1A9659C946496D6CF

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1915: As attempts were being made to form a Jewish fighting force in the British Army, Joseph Trumpeldor held a meeting of all the volunteers that was attended by senior British military leaders including Major-General Alexander Godly during which “they heard how it would be the first time in British history that non-Britons or non-colonials were to be admitted as a unit into the British forces. Patterson explained that the soldier who carries ammunition and supplies to the trenches requires no less courage than the man who fires a rifle and Godley declared that ‘Today the English People have entered into a covenant with the Jewish People’ (As described by Martin Sugarman)

 

1915: The Young Men’s Hebrew Army and Navy Association announced today that it has obtained leave of absence for all Jewish sailors and soldiers attached to army and navy posts in and around New York for three days during Passover. Fifteen hundred sailors and soldiers will be able to celebrate the holiday with leaves of absence effective March 29, 30 and 31.

 

1915: Accuses Jews of Spying”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407EFDD123FE233A2575AC1A9659C946496D6CF

 

 

1915: “Jews Persecuted In Russian Poland”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06EFDD123FE233A2575AC1A9659C946496D6CF

 

 

 

1916(14thof Adar II, 5676): Purim

1916(14thof Adar II, 5676): In Chicago, Henrietta Baach, he wife of Sigmund Baach passed away today.

1916: Birthdate of novelist Irving Wallace. His first best seller was the Chapman Report which caused a minor scandal for its time since it focused on a group of that was conducting a survey of sex habits. Other novels included The Man about the first African-American to become President and The Fan Club. Wallace passed away in 1990.

 

1916: At the Orpheum Theatre, the Jews of Baltimore responded to an appeal by Herman Bernstein on behalf of the “war sufferers in Poland” with “a shower of gold, banknotes and jewels” the proceeds of which will be turned over to the American Jewish Relief Committee.

 

1916: In New York City, the funeral for Rabbi Moses Guedalia was held followed by interment at Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cyprus Hills.

 

1916: This morning Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Felix M. Warburg, Judge Julian W. Mack and Abraham Shiman addressed those attending a celebration at Temple Beth-El marking the second anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan League of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations.

 

1916: “One hundred and ten delegates from twenty cities in Pennsylvania met at the Arch Street Theater” in Philadelphia today” and chose delegates to represent the state at a conference to arrange for the “inaugural meeting of the American Jewish Congress” which will be held later this summer.”

 

1917: The new government ins Russia has accepted in principle reforms that will lead to
the re-enactment of the commercial treaty with the United States” which had not been possible under the Romanov dynasty because of “the insistence of Russia in applying to naturalized American Jews the same rules as to those Jews who are Russian subjects.”

1917: It was announced today that 8,000 tickets have been sold for a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden where “for the first time in the history of” New York City “thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russian government.

1917: With Associate Justice Louis Brandeis voting with the majority, the US Supreme Court upheld the Adamson act which provided an 8-hour work day for railroad employees.

1918: Birthdate of Irving Schlossenberg, the native of Baltimore who was a photographer for the Washington Post and served with distinction as a combat photographer with the Marine Corps during five different Pacific landings.

1918: The Jewish Welfare Board announced today “that Jewish families in the vicinity of army cantonments would act as host to Jewish soldiers and sailors on March 27 and March 28 when most of them will have leaves of absence for Passover.”

1918: Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau, the semi-official voice of the German government sent out an account of the discussion held in the Main Committee of the Reichstag concerning the Lichnowsky memorandum written by the former German ambassador to Great Britain which was denounced as indiscreet and treasonable. Wolffs was founded by Bernhard Wolff, the son of a German Jewish banker. It was ironic that the British and German press services were both founded by German Jews. But Reuters, unlike Wolff, left his native home and his native religion.

1919(17thof Adar II, 5679): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of Rabbi Reuben Hoeshke of Prague and Rabbi Gedaliah Lipshutz

1920: The United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. This rejection helped paved the way for World War II and therefore for the Holocaust. At one level, the rejection signaled a turn to Isolationism which meant the United States would not do anything to curb the rise of fascism during the 1930’s. Rejection of the treaty also meant that the United States would not be joining the League of Nation which would render that international body d.o.a.

1922: Birthdate of Camden, NJ native Herbert Harvey Pollack, the graduate of Philadelphia’s Simon Gratz High and Temple University and NBA statistician who created the “Harvey Pollack NBA Statistical Yearbook.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/sports/basketball/harvey-pollack-a-statistician-in-nba-from-day-1-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

 

1923: In Lodz, Poland, Jewish socialists Josef and Golda Morgentaler gave birth to Henryk Morgentaler who survived and gained fame as Canadian Doctor Henry Morgentaler.

1924(13thof Adar II, 5684): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim

1924: Birthdate of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, a nationally prominent Reform rabbi known for his progressive, sometimes provocative public stances, including opposition to the Vietnam War, a speech at Yale accusing the University of a history of anti-Semitism and early political support for his neighbor Barack Obama. His mother was a social worker; his father, a tailor, died when Arnold was 7. For several years, starting when he was about 10, Arnold acted in national radio dramas broadcast from Chicago on the Mutual Broadcasting System. After receiving an associate’s degree from the University of Chicago, Arnold Wolf earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati in 1945. He received his ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1948 and later served as a Navy chaplain with United States occupation forces in Japan. In choosing his vocation, Rabbi Wolf had been greatly influenced by an uncle and a great-uncle, both Reform rabbis. (The great-uncle was the leader of the KAM congregation, a precursor of KAM Isaiah Israel. Founded in 1847, KAM took its name — an acronym for the Hebrew phrase “Kehilath Anshe Ma’arav,” “Congregation of the People of the West” — in tribute to its frontier origins.) In 1957, Rabbi Wolf became the first full-time rabbi of Congregation Solel, a Reform synagogue in Chicago. Guest speakers there over the years included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chicago Seven, the seven defendants charged with inciting to riot and other offenses stemming from protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1965, the rabbi marched in Alabama with the civil rights leader John Lewis. Two years later, he led a group of congregants to Washington to lobby against the Vietnam War. Starting in the early 1960s, Congregation Solel conducted an annual weekend of Holocaust remembrance, among the first synagogues in the country to do so. In 1973, Rabbi Wolf helped found Breira, an organization of progressive American Jews that advocated a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The organization, whose name means “alternative” in Hebrew, was a target of frequent, bitter public attacks by American Zionists. It disbanded in 1977. Beginning in 1972, Rabbi Wolf spent eight years at Yale as a chaplain and the director of the university’s chapter of the Hillel Foundation, the Jewish student organization. In 1980, when he was preparing to leave Yale and return to Chicago, he delivered a blistering Yom Kippur sermon in which he charged the university with a “long and dishonorable history of anti-Semitism” and accused its administration of “callousness” toward the needs of Jewish students and faculty members. The sermon, and the university’s subsequent denial of Rabbi Wolf’s accusations, attracted wide public attention. At his death in 2009 at the age of 84, Rabbi Wolf was rabbi emeritus of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in Chicago, where he had served as rabbi from 1980 until his retirement in 2000.

1925: Sixty-five year old Hermann Volrath Hilprecht, the Assyriologist who was “in charge of the University of Pennsylvania Babylonian expedition to Nippur which provided a great deal of information about the civilization that produced Abraham.

1926: Birthdate of Jerold Rosenberg, who as Jerry Ross would gain fame as “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."

1926: Birthdate of Avrom Isaacovitch, who as Avrom Isaacs became a leading Canadian art dealer.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/av-isaacs-leading-art-dealer-in-contemporary-canadian-art-dies-at-89/article28231438/

1926: The Möller Organ Company of Hagerstown, MD signed a contract in which it “agreed to build a three-manual organ with 64 registers” for Temple Israel of Washington Heights.

1927: “According to Palestine correspondence printed” today “in the Jewish Day” “nearly 271 years afer Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish community in Amsterdam, the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at a meeting of the university faculty” in February.

1928: In Epinal, France, two refugees from Poland, gave birth to Marceline Loridan-Ivens, the survivor of Drancy and Auschwitz who make them the subject of cinematic work. (As reported by Alissa J. Rubin)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/obituaries/marceline-loridan-ivens-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1929: In Kharkov, Lev Kramarevsky, “the head ballet master in Minsk” and ballerina Ludmilla Melchemko gave birth to Andrei Kramerevsky, “a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet” and “a much admired teacher at the School of Ballet in New York” who was the step-father of dance Alexander Tressor whose “parents decided to join the mass emigration of Soviet Jews when the Soviet Union lifted bans on emigration.”

1930: Birthdate of Eugene Bleecher Selznick, the native of Los Angeles who was captain of the United States men's national volleyball team for 17 consecutive years (1953–67 during which time he team won two Volleyball World Championships.

1930: The former Lenore Lebach and Edmond Nathaniel Cahn the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Kahn, who were married yesterday by Rabbi Louis Binstock are scheduled to set sail today from New Orleans for a Havana honeymoon after which the couple will reside in New York.

1930: Harry Warner and his wife the former Rea Levinson “became the legal guardian of Lita”, the daughter of his late brother Sam “through a $300,000 settlement in Lita’s trust fund.”

1933: In Newark, NJ, Herman Roth, a frustrated life insurance agent and “the former Bess Frankel” gave birth to award winning novelist Philip Milton Roth, author of Portnoy’s Complaint. His writings can be loaded with sex, guilt, humor and plenty of pathos. Two of his more famous novels were Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye Columbus. He won the National Book Award for Goodbye Columbus in 1955 and Sabbath's Theatre in 1995. As somebody once, Roth is funny until you realize that Portnoy and you have the same mother. (As reported by Charles McGrath)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/obituaries/philip-roth-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

 

1933(21st of Adar, 5693): Phillip Jaffe, the father of Hyman Jaffe and Pulitzer Prize winning editor Louis Jaffe passed away today.

1933: Estee Lauder gave birth to her son Leonard who became Chairman Emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

1933: The state of Nevada legalized gambling. One of the results of this would be Bugsy Siegel’s building of the Flamingo which led to the creation of Las Vegas, the gaming capital of the United States.

1934: The New York Times features John Chamberlain’s excellently written review of "The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger. He describes the text as being “that rare thing, a novel…that is both good propaganda and first-rate dramatic writing.” The novel paints a picture of a well-to-do German Jewish family confronting the rise of Hitler. In his concluding lines, Chamberlain writes, “You won’t discover the reasons for Hitler in the Oppermanns, but you will discover Nazism’s ghoulish incidence in the wreckage of many human lives and hopes.”

1935(14thof Adar II, 5695): Purim

1935: Birthdate of actress of Phyllis Newman

1936: Hitler placed an American citizen, Fritz Julius Kuhn, as the head of the Nazi organization that became known as party the German American Bund.

1936: In Warsaw, “a government amendment to the proposed bill on ritual slaughtering permitting this method of killing for the consumption of members of religious denominations requiring was approved the Sjem Committee on Adminstration.”

1936: “A group of 115 Jewish exiles from Germany, the second large group to reach” the United States as quota immigrants with the last two weeks arrived” today on the United States liner Manhattan.

1936: Approximately 5,300 children from the Jewish religious schools in New York are scheduled to attend a pageant portraying “historical episodes illustrating the evolution of the tradition of Jewish charity from Old Testament times to the present” at the Roxy Theatre sponsored by “the young men’s and women’s division of the federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the Jewish Education Association.”

1937: The Jerusalem Post reported on widespread violence and that a curfew was imposed in Jerusalem. Four Arab building workers were injured when an Arab, who was caught later by police, threw a bomb at them on their construction site in the Mea She’arim quarter. There were many other shooting and stabbing incidents. The Arab Higher Committee issued a statement calling for calm in a period in which "enemies of the nation were striving to incite Arabs by provocations."

1937: After spending six weeks in the United States where he worked to help the Palestine Appeal “raise $4,500,000 for the settlement of Jews of Poland, German and other lands” it was reported today that Eliezer Kaplan, the treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine has set sail on the Normandie on the first league of his return trip to Jerusalem.

1938(16thof Adar II, 5698): Parashat Tzav

1938(16thof Adar II, 5698): Sixty-one-year-old A. Ray Katz, the Baltimore, MD born son Henrietta and the husband of Ethel Epstein with whom he had three children who was a member of Oheb Shalom Congregation, vice president of the American General Corporation “and the first president of the Associated Jewish Charities” passed away today in Rio de Jemerrio.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/03/20/96807186.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

 

1938: In his sermon today Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said President Roosevelt “should voice his disapproval of the oppression of monitories and summon freemen throughout the the world to hold together for the preservation of civil rights.”

1938: Rabbi William Margolis the “spiritual leader of the United Jewish Community in Ottawa delivered a sermon at the Jewish Center of New York in which he said, “America, paragon of democracy must in the current human crisis take the lead and set the example for other civilized nations.”

1938: Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein delivered a sermon at Congregation Kehilath Jeshrun warned of the danger that Russia was the only nation calling for “a world conference against dictatorships’ and called on the United States to take the lead in the endeavor.

1939: Dr. Armin a Holzer of Seattle, the founder of the Palestine Prayer Fellowship is scheduled to deliver a speech on “The Resurrection of Biblical Ant-Semitism and the Solution of the Jewish Problem” at a rally at the Hotel Sharon in New York.

1939: “Signs forbidding Jews to enter plastered man restaurant and shop doors” as celebrations took place today in Nazi controlled Danzig marking the German conquest of Czechoslovakia.

1939: Birthdate of Judy Rae Glassman, the native of Cambridge, MA, who gained fame as Judith Daniel, the founding editor-in-chief of Savvy magazine.

1940: In what must have seemed to have been a miraculous rescue, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe arrives in New York. The Friediker Rebbe was a man of great physical and spiritual courage. He battled the Bolsheviks on their home ground and then stayed with his Chassidim when the Nazis invaded Poland. When he arrived in the United States, he immediately opened the first Lubavitch Yeshiva in the United States despite warnings that he would fail because America was so different from Europe. The Rebbe preserved against great odds. The small community that he had the fortitude to start in Crown Heights became the Chabad Lubavitch movement that today circles the globe.

1940: Vladimir Jabotinsky addressed a crowd of more than 5,000 supporters in New York demanding the “restoration of a Jewish state” in the area under British Mandate.

1941(20th of Adar, 5701): Rafal Krzepicki, aged 34, was shot dead by a sentry at the Lodz ghetto

1942 Former Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin and NFL quarterback Robert Sherman “Bob” Halperin, the Chicago born son of Jewish immigrants Aaron and Julia Halpern, enlisted in the United States Navy where he rose to the rank of Lt. Commander and served as a member of the Navy Scouts and Raiders” whose job was “to mark beaches for the assault, infantry, a daring, intricate job, calling for as much brain as courage, and barrels of both."

1942: “Levine Asks for Tine Payment” published in the Los Angeles Times described Charles Levine’s last brush with the law.

http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/jewish-aviators/jewish-aviators.htm

1943: Haj Amin al-Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast from Rome to the “Arab World.” It was the birthday of the Prophet and Haj Amin used the occasion to try to stir up anti-Jewish hatred. His speech included the reading of a pledge from German Foreign Minister Jachim von Ribbentropt that “the obliteration of what is called the Jewish National Home was a basic tenet of German policy.”

1943: Dimitar Peshev, who would be honored as a “Righteous Among the Nations” introduced a parliamentary resolution to halt the deportation of the Jews.

1944: Martha Nierenberg and her entire family go into hiding with a friend in Budapest when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

 

1944: During World War II, the Wehrmacht occupies Hungary. Hungary had been a willing ally of the Germans. By 1944, the Hungarians saw the signs of impending defeat and attempted to surrender. The Nazis realized what was happening, occupied the country and made sure that a sympathetic Hungarian government stayed in power. This shift marked the beginning of the end of the Hungarian Jewish community. Thanks to the Hungarian government, the Jews of Hungary had been spared the Final Solution. Now Eichmann and his henchmen were on their way and “The Night” would become reality.

 

1944: The Germans arrested 200 Hungarian Jewish doctors and lawyers. This was Germany's first independent action in that Country. The Gestapo then set up activities in hundreds of Hungarian towns. They threatened thousands of prosperous Jews with death if they did not pay “a homage” of valuable belongings and money to the Gestapo.

 

1945: Mrs. Z. H. Rubinstein President of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah announced today that the group had met its goal of raising $200,000 which will be used to fund five projects underway in Palestine.

 

1945: As World War II was coming to an end “Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.”

 

1946: Economist Elisha Friedman writes to Winston Churchill telling him how deeply he had been moved to hear the British leader refer to himself as a Zionist.

1947(27thof Adar, 5707): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham L. Saltzstein, who in 1884 came from his native Poland to the United States, finally settling in Milwaukee where he became a “general agent for the New Mutual Life Insurance Company of Wisconsin” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/03/22/87514642.pdf

 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43282320/a-l-saltzstein#view-photo=123766840

 

1947: At a meeting of editors held in Tel Aviv today, journalists discussed the warnings of terrorist groups not to publish an offer of a reward by police that was designed to lead to the capture of 18 wanted terrorists. Names on the list include Menachem Begin head of the Irgun and Nathan Friedman head of the Stern Gang. In a letter delivered to 12 Jewish newspapers, the terrorists said that publication would be treated as collaboration and dealt with accordingly. Because they were afraid for the safety of their staffs, the editors agreed no to voluntary publish the list but said they would have no choice but to comply under the law if requested to do so by the government.

1948(8thof Adar II, 5708): Eighty-nine year old Helen Goldmark Adler, the widow and “helpmate” of Dr. Felix Adler whose “book An Outline for Child Study, Intelligently Directed Observation for Mothers was one of the first manuals of its kind” and who was the mother of Waldo, Laurence, Eleanor and Margaret Adler passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/21/96588695.pdf

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark

 

1948: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin told the Security Council “that the United States no longer viewed the partition plan as viable.”  (The only problem was that nobody had told President Truman who would express his anger over what he considered an end-run around the White House by the State Department.

1948: “British military authorities urgently strengthened patrols late tonight as both Arabs and Jews agreed that the United States proposal to abandon partition would bring a blood bath to the Holy Land.”

1949: Today “a new hitch in the Israeli-Lebanese armistice talks… has caused a postponement of the signing: which was supposed to have been signed tomorrow at Ran En Naqura

1949(18thof Adar, 5709): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1949: At Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman gave a sermon in which he said, “Together we must devise ways and means to save” the President’s “program for a successful implementing of the economic pledges which have been made to the people.”

1949: At the West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein congratulated Dr. Ralph Bunche for “his courage in declaring Great Britain’s’ decision to send troops to the Transjordan port of Aqaba a violation of the Security Council’s resolution.

1950: Leah and Yitzhak Rabin gave birth to Israeli attorney and MK Dalia Rabin-Pelossof

 

1951: Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny was published. The popular Jewish author has two great loves – the U.S. Navy and Judaism. This affection shows in his literary efforts.

 

1952: Birthdate of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax

 

1952: The Jewish Agency announced that Jews emigrating from East European countries would be admitted to the country without any restrictions imposed by the new, selective immigration policy.

1954(14thof Adar II, 5714): Purim

1954: The Jewish Chronicle reported on plans for an exhibition entitled “Manchester and Israel – a city’s contribution to the birth a State” which coincided with the 50th anniversary of Chaim Weizmann’s arrival in the English industrial city.

1954: Birthdate of Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as executive editor of The New York Times.

1955: U.S. premiere of “Blackboard Jungle” a movie that gave suburban America one of its first cinematic looks at inner city schools directed by Richard Brooks who also wrote the script, produced by Pandro S. Berman and featuring the film debut of Vic Morrow.

1957: Producer David O. Selznick sent a memo to John Huston expressing his concerns with the filming of “A Farewell To Arms” – concerns that would lead to Huston resigning and being replaced by Charles Vidor. (Vidor and Selznick were Jewish.  Huston was not.  But this had nothing to do with the dispute)

1959: “First Impressions, a musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss and Bo Goldman and a book by Abe Burrows, who also directed the musical” opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre.

1960: After 452 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Redhead,” a musical with music by Albert Hauge, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who along with Herbert Fields and Sidney Sheldon also wrote the book.

1959: “Shaggy Dog,” a Disney comedy based on a novel by Felix Salten, featuring Jack Albertson and featuring an opening narrative by Paul Frees was released today in the United States.

1960(20thof Adar, 5720): Shabbat Parah

1960(20thof Adar, 5720): Seventy-one year old Russian-born American screenwriter Sonya Levien passed away today.

https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-sonya-levien/

 

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levien-sonya

 

1961: In Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, “Clair (née Sims), a concert pianist, and Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra” gave birth to three time Olivier Award winning actress Maria Friedman.

1962(13thof Adar II, 5722): Fast of Esther.

1962: Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was released. The five time Grammy winner was born Robert Zimmerman.

1962: Funeral services were held to in New York for “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest past president of the New York Board of Rabbis.” (As reported by JTA)

 

1962: The Broadway production of “All American,” “a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and music by Charles Strouse opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.

 

1964: U.S. premiere of “The World of Henry Orient” co-starring Peter Sellers and Tom Bosley, with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman.

 

1965: Two days before the Selma march was scheduled to begin, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel received a telegram from Reverend Martin Luther King, inviting him to join the marchers in Selma, Alabama who are seeking the right to vote for all Americans regardless of race, religion or creed. Heschel will go, “praying with his feet.” These demonstrations will help Lyndon Johnson to secure passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most sweeping and far-reaching pieces of legislation passed in the history of the United States.

1967: It was reported today that Lester Avent, chairman and president of Avnet, Incorporated, the electronic components firm started by Charles Avent “a 33-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, has announced that election of new financial vice-president.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/03/19/107185619.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

 

1968: CBS broadcast the last episode of “Good Morning World,” a sitcom whose creators included Carl Reiner and Sheldon with some of the episodes written by James L. Brooks and Saul Turtletaub and co-starring Goldie Hawn.

1969: One day after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held in NYC for seventy-two-year Harvard alum and Navy Veteran from WW I and WW II Kassel Lewis, the founder of Crown Fabrics and husband of “the former Syliva Surut who is the director the YMHA/YWHA nursery” with whom he raised a daughter and a son – Anthony Lewis of the New York Times

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071781.pdf

 

 

1970(11th of Adar II, 5730): Ta'anit Esther

1970(11thof Adar II, 5730): Sixty-four year old motion picture attorney Isadore H. Prinzmetal, the son of Harry and Anna Stein Prinzmetal and the brother of Myron Prinzmetal who “was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara and had served on the Citizens” and “the national vice president of the American Jewish Council as well as the President of the Los Angeles Hillel Council passed away today.

1970: Writer and activist Grace Paley was among 182 people arrested in New York City for protesting the Vietnam War draft

 

1970: In Canada, Bora Laskin began serving as Pusine Justice of the Supreme Court.

1973(15thof Adar II, 5733): Shusahn Purim

1975: U.S. premiere of “The Yakuza” directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, featuring Herb Edelman

1976(17thof Adar II, 5736): Seventy-five year old Harvard and Oxford education David Wainhouse, “international lawyer, author and Deputy Assistant of State” who was the husband of the former Katherine Cohen” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/21/archives/david-wainhouse-a-lawyer-diplomat.html

 

1977: "Side by Side by Sondheim" closes in New York City after 390 performances

 

1978: UN Security Council Resolutions adopted resolutions 425 and 426. They called upon Israel to immediately cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory while establishing the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Like so many UN resolution, this one failed to address the reasons that forced the Israelis to take action in the first place.

1981(13thof Adar II, 5741): T’anit Esther and erev Purim occur for the first time during the Presidency of Ronald Regan.

1983: In German, TN, at Temple Israel, Rabbi Harry Danziger officiated at the Miriam Gerber and Dr. David Bertram Kaplan.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/style/miriam-gerber-marries-dr-bertram-david-kaplan.html

 

1985(26th of Adar, 5745): Eighty-seven year old Dr. Philip Reichert, M.D, who had married Helen Reichert in 1939, passed away.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/23/nyregion/dr-aaron-feder-dies-internist-and-professor.html

 

1985(26thof Adar, 5745): Sixty-nine year old NYU Alum and University of Maryland Medical School trained physician Aaron Feder the internist and Cornell Medical School professor who was the husband of “the former of Beatrice Wallance” with whom he raised two daughters – Carol and Jane – passed away today.

1986: Jack Mathieu Émile Lang completed his first term as Culture Minister of France.

 

1987(18th of Adar, 5747): Arch Oboler, “an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in radio, films, theater and television, passed away. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particularly the horror series Lights Out, and his work in radio remains the outstanding period of his career. Praised as one of broadcasting's top talents, he is regarded today as a key innovator of radio drama. Radio historian John Dunning wrote, "Few people were ambivalent when it came to Arch Oboler. He was one of those intense personalities who are liked and disliked with equal fire." A native of Chicago, Oboler was the son of Leon Oboler and Clara Oboler, Jewish immigrants from Riga, Latvia.”

1989: “Marvin Hamlisch to Marry Ms. Blair, Producer in May” published today reported on the plans of independent television producer Terre Blair the daughter of Marie and Dr. William B. Blair to marry Oscar winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, “the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Max Hamlisch of New York” to wed in two months.

1993: Arnold Resnicoff “delivered the prayer for the commissioning of the first of a series of new Israeli missile boats (Sa'ar 5), jointly built by the U.S. and Israel, in Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi.”

1997: In today’s issue of the “Manhattan based weekly,” The New York Observer, Rhodes Scholar and investigative reporter Katherine Eban Finkelstein wrote about what JTA described as the “furor…over the use of pigskin in the treatment of Orthodox Jewish children with serious burns in New York’s pre- eminent pediatric burn center.”

1998: As Ronald Perelman worked to finalize his purchase of Sunbeam a press release was issued that Sunbeam would not meet sales expectations.

 

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including recently released paperback editions of Max Frankel’s "The Times of My Life: And My Life With The Times" and Thane Rosenbaum's "Second Hand Smoke", a “novel about the son of Holocaust survivors who grows up in a home dominated by his tormented mother and later becomes a Nazi-hunting lawyer.”

 

2001: Patrick Balkany began serving as Mayor of Levallois-Perret

 

2002: 1st Lt. Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

2003: A West End revival of “Ragtime,” a musical based on the book by E.L. Doctorow produced, by Sonia Friedman opened at the Piccadilly Theatre today.

2003: David Tepper announced that he would make a single donation of $55 million to Carnegie Mellon University's business school

2003: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors sends a letter to the Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Canada addressing the next steps to be taken in the distribution and use of funds from the Claims Conference that has worked to gain additional restitution for the victims of the Holocaust.

 

 

2003: Mahmoud Abbas became the new Palestinian Prime Minister. His appointment was supposed to mark a new phase in peace negations. Without Arafat's support, he, like the peace process at that time, was doomed to failure. He finally resigned.

2003: Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004: “George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.” (Jewish Virtual Library)

2005(8thof Adar II, 5765): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor

2005: As Israel unilaterally withdraws from Gaza with no pre-conditions, “the Palestine economy minister” said “that representatives of Arab countries” have “also said they would make good on an outstanding pledge…to provide $523 million to the Palestinians.”

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including "The Doctor’s Daughter" by Hilma Wolitzer and "Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova" by Elaine Feinstein

2006: The Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace began in Seville, Spain.

2007: While the world's cricketing powers are engaged in the World Cup, history is being made today when for the first time an Israeli team steps out onto the cricket fields of India.

2007: The lawyers for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged with murdering Daniel Pearl, “cited the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who said he had “decapitated…the American Jew Daniel Pearl” as proof that while their client had been involved he had not done the actually killing and therefore should not be executed.

 

2008: "Regina Waldman, an executive committee member of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she testified about her family' flight from Libya after the Second World War."

 

2008: Eric Alterman, a professor of English and journalism at the City University of New York, discusses and signs Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America at Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.

 

2008: In New York, the 92nd Street Y features a presentation by Edward Kaplan entitled “Spiritual Radical: On Abraham Joshua Heschel.” Edward K. Kaplan is the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University. He has been writing on Heschel for many years. His works include Holiness in Words: A. J. Heschel’s Poetics of Piety. Spiritual Radical is the second volume of his Heschel biography. “In the turbulent 1960s, scholar, thinker and literary stylist Abraham Joshua Heschel took controversial positions on civil rights, interfaith dialogue and the Vietnam War, and on Jewish education, religious observance and the State of Israel.” In his biography of Heschel, Kaplan depicts his subject as a spiritual radical who demanded absolute integrity in prayer and in politics during three crucial post-World War II decades in the United States.”

 

2009: As part of the Blavatnik Chamber Concert Series, The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute present: “Women in Song: From Baroque to the Present” performed by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky. The evening features songs by Felix's sister Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel along with other women composers from Germany, France and America.

2009: Elena Kagan completed her service as the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School.

2009: By a vote of 61 to 31, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Elena as Solicitor General of the United States, making her the first woman to hold this position.

2009: A revival of the 1950’s musical “West Side Story” opens on Broadway directed by Arthur Laurents, the 92 year old Brooklyn born Jew whose views about the world of American theatre are readily available in his recently published book, Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals”

2009: An anonymous American Jewish investor celebrated his eldest son’s Bar Mitzvah which took place this morning at the Western Wall by contributing a Torah scroll to the Samarian outpost community of El Matan, next to Ma’aleh Shomron and Ginot Shomron. The name of the community means “G-d’s Gift” in Hebrew, and the donor, a man of Moroccan descent, said that the mitzvah of giving the holy scroll is all the recognition he needs.

http://www.capeverdejewishheritage.org/old_site/uploads/Cape_Verde_Jewish_Heritage_Project_Launched_-_JTA_-_Jewish___Israel_News.pdf

http://capeverdejewishheritage.org/

 

 

2009:  “Cape Verde Heritage Project Launched” published today described “an effort to preserve the Jewish heritage in Cape Verde” that “was formally launched in Washington.”

2010: Itzhak Perlman, the IPO and Emmanuel Halperin perform together this morning in Tel Aviv.

2010: Previews of “Sondheim on Sondheim” are scheduled to begin Studio 54.

2010: Elephant Parade, one of an unprecedented eight bands imported from Israel for the sole purpose of taking part in this year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) festival is scheduled to play at Stephen F’s Bar.

2010: The opening reception for "My Father's Microcosm, Tel Aviv", a photographic installation by Israeli photographer Yossi Guttmann and curated by Eva Grudin is scheduled to take place this evening at The Williams Club of New York. “Yossi Guttmann and Eva Grudin are at work on a book about the social, cultural and architectural history of once one of the grandest and oldest apartment buildings in Tel Aviv. Though it's now condemned, Yossi Gutmann's father, Kalman Gutmann, 96 years old, still lives there, the sole tenant. He refuses to leave his third floor (walk-up) apartment. He has a fixed-rent contract from 1934 and no one can pry him loose. The photographs in the exhibition record Kalman's world - scenes from the (Shuk Ha'Carmel) Carmel market next door, where he shops after-hours, pictures of the apartment itself and the building, in ruins, but still noble in its skeleton and detail, and the eccentric watchmaker's shop Kalman worked in for 70 years. The apartment and the shop are crammed full by a man who refuses to throughout anything. Even the tape on the apartment windows dates back to 1940, when the Italians bombed the British in Tel Aviv.”

2010: The Air Force hit six targets in Gaza early this morning in response to recent rocket attacks on southern Israel. The targets were demolished. Gaza authorities reported that nobody was injured in the strikes. One of the targets was a weapons factory in northern Gaza. Also destroyed were three weapons smuggling tunnels between Egypt and southern Gaza. Strikes also took out two tunnels that were begun approximately one kilometer from the Gaza security barrier. The tunnels were to be used by terrorists to infiltrate Israel and attack soldiers or civilians, IDF intelligence sources said. The strikes followed several rocket attacks in recent days, including an attack yesterday that killed a 33-year-old Thai worker. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's administration has promised a response to every rocket attack from Gaza.

2010: Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has succeeded in acquiring German generic drug maker Ratiopharm for $4.9 billion, beating out U.S. drug firms Pfizer and Actavis of Iceland in the bidding that ended today. Ratiopharm, owned by the Merckle family, posts an average $8.6 billion in sales annually and is tied with Stada for second place as Germany’s generic medication manufacturer. It is the second major acquisition for Teva in the past two years; in July 2008, the Israeli pharmaceuticals firm acquired its U.S. rival, Barr.

 

2010: David Adelman was confirmed as United States Ambassador to Singapore. Adelman holds a B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1986, a JD from Emory University in 1989 and an MPA from Georgia State University in 1995. He is a former Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate, representing the 42nd District from 2002 to 2010. He was Minority Whip.

 

2010(4thof Nisan, 5770): Ninety-five year old George Lane, the husband of Miriam Rothschild, who earned the rank of Colonel while serving as a commando with SOE in WW II passed away today.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-colonel-george-lane-1-798235

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/7528727/Colonel-George-Lane.html

 

 

2011: Civilian areas in southern Israel were heavily shelled by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza this morning, when more than 50 mortars were fired at the regional councils of Sha'ar Hanegev, Eshkol and Sdot Hanegev. Two Israelis sustained light injuries by shrapnel and were transferred to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Hamas's armed wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for a dozen of the mortars fired. The IDF responded to the barrage of mortars with tank shells and helicopter attacks. Six Palestinians were reportedly injured in the strikes. Following the attacks, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed diplomats in New York to lodge a complaint with the United Nations over the mortar barrage. One building sustained extensive damage in the Eshkol Regional Council although a majority of the projectiles landed in open areas, local officials reported. The regional council is inhabited predominantly by farmers, and has been the target of Palestinian shelling for several years. Eyal Brandeis, a kibbutz secretary in the Eshkol Regional Council, and the head of a local emergency response team, told The Jerusalem Post that the injured were a married couple who had been attempting to seek cover in a safe zone - a room reinforced with concrete to protect from projectiles. "It happened just as they entered the room. The couple were responding to instructions we sent out on cell phone text messages calling on all residents to seek shelter. They ran to the room, and shrapnel went through the window just before they could close it," Brandeis said. The man suffered shrapnel injuries to his back, while the woman was injured in her hand, Brandeis added. The couple received medical attention on the spot before being evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva for further treatment. "We are used to sporadic rocket and mortar fire, but this was not the daily show we are used to," Brandais said, referring to the high number of mortars fired at his community on Saturday. "Luckily, we escaped with few injuries. We'll have to get through this," he added. Southern communities cannot be alerted to mortars by the Color Red rocket alert system and have developed their own cell phone text messaging alert system. "When we heard the high number of explosions across the area, we knew this was not an ordinary attack," he said. Ronit Minaker, a spokeswoman for the Eshkol Regional Council, said residents had been ordered to stay indoors for the duration of the morning. "People were compliant with the safety instructions," she said. "We're not used to this kind of massive fire. But we have experienced it before, and we know how to respond," Minaker added. "Our residents expect the government to do everything it can to end this. They also expect the government to construct safe rooms in the many communities that still lack them," she said. Local authorities said today that they were in the midst of a legal campaign aimed at forcing the government to deploy the Iron Dome anti-rocket and anti-mortar shield. Officials are petitioning the Supreme Court to order the state to deploy the shield to protect communities situated at least 4.5 kilometers away from the border and beyond. The system is unable to neutralize projectiles fired at communities up to 4.5 kilometers from the border. The Supreme Court has ordered the state to reply to the petition within 30 days.

 

2011: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed Israel's United Nations envoy to lodge a formal complaint with the organization after Israel was hit by over 50 mortars fired from Gaza this morning. Two people were lightly wounded and a home was damaged by the mortars. Hamas has claimed responsibility for 10 of the mortars. Lieberman, in a message to the UN, warned that a future Palestinian state would be a "terrorist state who's first and foremost goal is the destruction of Israel." The offensive from Gaza took place while "Hamas and the Palestinian Authority were talking about reunification," Lieberman's message said. In the past week, there have been rallies in Hamas-ruled Gaza and Fatah-ruled West Bank calling for Palestinian reunification. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced two days ago that he intends to go to Gaza to end the more than three years of internal division between his Fatah party and Hamas. Liberman wrote that the talk of reunification during the barrage of rockets shows that "the international support that the Palestinians are trying to garner would be support for the creation of a terrorist state." The Palestinians have been pressing leaders worldwide to recognize an independent Palestinian state, an issue they plan on bringing to a vote at September's United Nations General Assembly. Other Israeli officials also responded harshly to today's bombardment, with Kadima head Tzipi Livni saying that "the right way to contend with Hamas is with force."Likud MK Danny Danon said it was up to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to respond harshly to the morning's offensive.

 

2011: “Yiddush Cup” is scheduled to play tonight at Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

2011(13th of Adar II, 5771): Shabbat Zachor

 

2011: In the evening, the Megillah is read as Purim celebrations begin.

 

2011(13th of Adar II, 5771): Sixty-three year old Larry Friedlander who founded Reason Magazine passed away today.(As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07friedlander.html

 

2012: The Women’s Conference sponsored by Temple Torah is scheduled to open at West Boyton Beach, Florida.

 

2012: “Mabul” and “Little Simco’s Big Fantasy” are scheduled to be shown at the 16th New York Sephardic Film Festival.

2012(25thof Adar, 5222): Eighty-three year old Belgian born American director and producer Ulu Grosbard passed away today in New York,.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

2012: In Jerusalem, The Off The Wall Comedy Club is scheduled to host “Jerusalem Blend,” featuring Elazar ‘Dr. Jazz’ Brandt & Benny Firszt ‘Jerusalem’s Poet’

2012(25thof Adar, 5222): In Toulouse, Mohamed Merah opened fire on two Jewish pupils, their father and the headmaster’s daughter at Otzar Hatorah which is now called Ohr Torah School.

2012(25th Adar, 5772): Yahrtzeit for those who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

2013: The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers series is scheduled to present “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” featuring Walter Stahr and Louis P. Masur

2013(8thof Nisan, 5773): Eighty-nine year old ” the matriarch of the last of the grand Catskill resorts, who greeted guests with a “Welcome home,” made sure the regulars got rooms facing the lake, entertained them with comedians and filled them with blintzes and stuffed cabbage” passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/helen-kutsher-matriarch-of-a-catskills-resort-dies-at-89.html?_r=1&

http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-tour-of-a-little-catskills-resort-with-a-large-heart/

2013: The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, newly installed as Pope Francis I, opened his speech at today’s Papal inauguration with a nod to the Jewish community, saying say he was speaking “with the permission of the diplomatic corps, the Jews who are with us and all the rest,” according to Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. A delegation of leaders of Jewish communities from around the world, including Rabbinate Director General Oded Weiner, was on hand at the Vatican today when Bergoglio officially took office as the leader of the world’s more than 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. (As reported by Sam Sokol)

 

2013: The remains of 17 bodies, discovered at the bottom of a well in the city of Norwich in 2004, were given a Jewish burial in Earlham Cemetery in Norwich today.

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/British-Jews-to-bury-medieval-massacre-victims-306943

 

 

2013: A day after being sworn into office, Israel’s incoming ministers today celebrated a series of changing-of-the-guard ceremonies at their respective ministries, ushering in Israel’s 33rd government. The first ceremony took place at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where incoming minister Moshe Ya’alon replaced Ehud Barak at the helm.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ministries-celebrate-changing-of-the-guard/

 

 

2013: The Jerusalem Art Festival is scheduled to present “Cairo Circus”

http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/ArtCenter/ArtFestival/alle.htm

 

2013: In New York, the Anastasia Photo Gallery is scheduled to host its first show featuring the works of Israeli photographer Natan Dvir

http://www.natandvir.com/

 

2014: In a sign of the changing times for Jewish institutions, in Olney, MD. Jewish Social Service Agency is scheduled to host an evening on “The Secrets to a Successful Job Search” at Shaare Tefila Congregation.

 

2014: “La Verite si Je Mens #3” (“Would I Like to You #3”) is scheduled to be shown at the New York Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.

 

2014: “”Aftermath” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston (TX) Jewish Film Festival.

 

2014: Ninety-five year old Robert S. Strauss, the Texas born Washington insider and diplomat passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/us/robert-s-strauss-presidential-confidant-and-deal-maker-dies-at-95.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

 

 

2014: Seventieth Anniversary of the German Occupation of Budapest.

http://forward.com/articles/194601/how-hungarian-sisters-outwitted-the-nazis-to-creat/?p=all

 

2014: The IAF attacked serval sites on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights overnight that “had aided and abetted the attack against IDF soldiers and included artillery batteries and a training camp belonging to the Syrian army.” (As reported by Elad Benari)

 

2014: “A bill that would allow local rabbis to oversee conversions to Judaism in Israel passed the Kneseet’s Constituion, Law and Justice Committee today.”

 

2014: “Two former senior IDF officers were held by police for questioning today on suspicion of deliberately destroying evidence connected with the Harpaz affair, a corruption scandal involving Israel’s political and military leaderships during 2009 to 2011.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-spokesman-top-aide-held-in-succession-scandal/

 

2014: Russell Crowe, the star of “Noah” who had been pushing for a meeting with the Pope got his wish granted, sort of, today when he, producer Darren Aronofsky and Paramount Pictures Vice President Rob Moore were “on hand for the pope’s general audience” today followed by a “short meet-and-greet with the Pope.”  The trio hopes that the visit with the Pope will still some of the controversy created by a call for a boycott of the film by Muslims and Evangelicals.

2015(28th of Adar, 5775): Seventy-two year old Boston radio “gadfly” Danny Schechter passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/arts/television/danny-schechter-news-dissector-and-human-rights-activist-dies-at-72.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a talk “featuring Steven Fenves, who survived internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald before being liberated by American soldiers.”

2015: “A new documentary ‘Philip Roth: Unmasked’” is scheduled to be performed for the last time at New York City’s Film Forum.

2015: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host “an eveing of live music and feminist Torah celebrating the release of Girls in Trouble’s new album, ‘Open Ground.’”

2015: The 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end in NYC.

2015: The Jewish Theological Seminary is scheduled to host a lecture on "Race, Bias and Equal Justice in America"

2015: The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne is scheduled to go on sale in Ottawa.

2016(9thof Adar II, 5776: Parahsat Vayikra and Shabbat Zachor;

2016(9thof Adar II, 5776): Three Israelis – Yonathan Shuer, 40; Simha Dimir, 60; Avraham Goldman, 69 – were killed and another 11 Israelis were wound in a terror attack today in Istanbul.

2016(9thof Adar II, 5776): Eighty-five year old Bob Adelman, the photographer best known for the images he captured of the Civil Rights struggle passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

http://www.bobadelman.net/

 

2016: The tour “Jews in the American South” is scheduled to begin today in Charleston, SC.

2016: “Rock in the Red Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.

2016: “Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2016: In New Orleans, the second day of Limmudfest is scheduled to begin with services at Gates of Prayer.  For more information see the Crescent City Jewish News, the leading source for news about the Jewish Community from Lake Pontchartrain to the Gulf Coast. http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/category/limmud-nola/

2016: As Jews observe the first Shabbat after Merrick Garland has been nominated to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the sense of communal pride is enhanced by the memory that it was just 100 years ago, in the winter of 1916 that President Wilson nominated the first Jew – Louis Brandeis – to serve on the Supreme Court.  At the same time this may be considered a case of third –time is the charm.  Benjamin Cardozo was nominated by President Hoover to serve on the High Court during an election year (1932) making Garland the third Jew to be chosen in such a manner.  George Washington, who made the Jews feel like welcomed members of the American community, was the first President to nominate a Justice to the High Court during an election year and he actually did it twice in 1796 when he was a “lame duck.”

2017: The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel the recently released paperback editions of Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein and Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Bucky by Adam Cohen

2017: Am Kolel in partnership with the Jewish Folk Arts Festival, Yiddish of Greater Washington, The Foundation of Jewish Studies, and the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to sponsor “The Great Yiddish Writers Festival” at B’nai Israel in Rockville, MD.

2017: A surprise drill began today in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to simulate war in the Gaza Strip.”

 2017: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball player Josh Pastner, the ACC coach of the year, led his Georgia Tech to victory against Belmont in the NIT.

 

2017: The Breman Museum / Theatrical Outfit / Atlanta Jewish Music Festival are scheduled to present “Baby That Is Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Leiber/Stoller Era.”

2017: The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) is scheduled to mark half a century of service to the Greater New Orleans Jewish community with its Annual Event today in the Grand Ballroom) of the Westin Canal Place.

2018: “Beneath the Silence” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.

2018: The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players which was founded by Jens Nygaard who directed the Washington Heights YW-YMHA concerts for 25 years is scheduled to perform “Rooted in Russia today

2018(3rdof Nissan, 5778): Sixty-nine year old Dr. Arnold Richard Hirsch, the Chicago born son of Nathan Hirsch and Mollie Shulman and the University of Illinois trained historian best known for chronicling the story of housing segregation passed away today. (As reported Sewell Chan)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html

2018: “Romain Franck, a French employee of France’s Consulate in Jerusalem” “was indicted today for using a diplomatic vehicle to smuggle dozens of guns from Gaza to the West Bank.”

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” in London

2018: Mayim Bialik, the holder of a doctorate in neuroscience who gained fame a “Amy Fowler-Farrah” on “The Big Bang Theory” is scheduled to address The Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism which is scheduled to begin today in Jerusalem.

http://gfca2018.org/

2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Education Fund is scheduled to host “From India to America: Routes of the Roma“presentation at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library during which Ian Hancock (professor emeritus at UT, Austin) “one of the world’s foremost scholars on Romani history will discuss the history of the little known but often persecuted people.

2019: In Des Moines IA, at Temple B’nai Jeshurun,Grinnell Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach is scheduled to speak about “The Challenge of Addressing Anti-Semitism Today” and Rabbi Yossi Jacobson is scheduled to speak about “Encountering Antisemitism in London” and “The Current Series of Attacks on Chassidim in Brooklyn” as part of the JCRC Antisemitism Forum.

2019(12th of Adar II, 5779): Seventy-nine-year-old photographer, the Manhattan born son of

Lillian (Block) Kaplan and Dr. William Kaplan, “a founder of what is now North Shore University Hospital on Long Island” who married Sharon Rosenbush after his divorce from Harriet Avramescu passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/obituaries/peter-kaplan-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

 

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “Searching For Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers” during which “Scott Miller, former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss his decades-long search to uncover the fate of every passenger from this tragic journey and JDC’s historic role in striving to rescue them.”

2019” The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever” which tells the story of the Yiddish poet and his impact on Jewish history and literature.

2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the “Palm Beach Country” premiere of “From Cairo to the Cloud” The World of the Cairo Geniza.

2019: In London, the exhibition of “Jews Money Myth” is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum.

https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/jews-money-myth/

2020: In London, the scheduled screening of “Those Who Remained” hosted by JW3 will not take place due to the pandemic.

2020: The scheduled screenings of “Final Transports” and “Childhood Lost” hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum will not take place “in accordance with the recommendations of Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot.”

2020: In Cedar Rapids, the final session of “Israel’s Milestones and Their Meanings” scheduled for today will not take place due to the pandemic.

2020: In San Francisco, The “Future of Jewish Food” during which SFSU professor Rachel Gross and “Meat Planet” author Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft were to discuss kashrut, lab-grown meat and technology” which scheduled to be held today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum has been canceled due to the pandemic.

2020(23rd of Adar, 5780): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of “Portuguese poet and Hebrew grammarian” Moses Gideon Abudiente. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)

2021: This Shabbat ONETABLE is scheduled to present “a service with Kat Morgan from Urban Adamah and Rabbi Paul Shleffar from San Quentin’s Jewish Congregation, where we will ask “what do gatherings, like that of Shabbat, gift us?,” “how can our Judaism connect to our service?,” and explore resources for us to deepen our engagement and support of those individuals who are living this COVID-19 reality, incarcerated.

2021: Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury is scheduled to host online “a Kick-Back-and-Relax Shabbat service” which will include music  “by composers such as Simon and Garfunkel, Carly Simon, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, The Indigo Girls, Shanai Twain, The Carpenters, Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac and more.”

2021: JCC Contra Costa is scheduled to start hosting a screening “Live and Become” the 2005 French-Israeli drama about an Ethiopian boy who passes himself off as a Jew, gets rescued from a refugee camp and grows up in Israel.

2021: The Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland is scheduled to host “Rescue Your Photos” with Lisa Griffis, the former photo editor and graphics designer at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

2021: Challah for Hunger is scheduled to present “Let My People Dough” that includes a demonstration of “how to make the perfect loaf of challah” followed by “some fun musical and advocacy activities.”

2021: In a virtual session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an exhibit that considered sounds emitted during synagogue services, mainly by ritual objects but also by acts such as removing the Torah from the ark.

2021: Today Israelis can look forward to great social freedom thanks to yesterday’s approval of a fourth stage of Israel’s coronavirus lockdown exit, which includes the increase in the number of people allowed at social gatherings, with up to 5,000 visitors permitted at stadiums. (As reported by Moran Azulay and Adir Yanko)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Day, March 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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43BCE: Birthdate of the Roman poet, Ovid. In “The Art of Love, Part One” Ovid wrote "And do not miss the festival of Adonis, mourned of Venus, and the rites celebrated every seventh day by the Syrian Jews." Apparently, Ovid knew about Jewish customs and, at least when it came to love, thought well of them (the Jews and the customs)

1191: The papacy of Clement III “who reissued the bull Sicut Judaeis, protecting the Jews at the time of the Third Crusade” came to an end today.

1488(28thof Adar, 5248): Celebration of the first “Cairo Purim”

1602: The Dutch East India Company is established. “By the middle of the seventeenth century, Jewish diamond merchants helped finance the Dutch East India Company, which organized its own trade route to India. So, Amsterdam then replaced Lisbon as the port of entry in Europe for India's diamonds.”

1619: Sixty-two-year-old Matthias, the Holy Roman Emperor who as Archduke had acceded to the wishes of the Dutch and “established religious peace” in their provinces which helped to turn the Netherlands into a place of refuge for the Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal, passed away today.

1693: Talmudist Gerhson Ashkenazi, whose many followers including David Oppenheimer passed away today in Metz.
1705: In Great Britain, Hambro Synagogue founded (there are other claims that this now defunct synagogue was found variously in 1702 or 1707)

1725: Birthdate of Abdul Hamid I, the Ottoman Sultan who employed two Jews from Salonica, Doctor Joseph and Doctor Cohen.

1764(16thAdar II, 5524): Salomon Nathan Maas, the husband of Hewle Meise and the father of Nathan and Salomon Maas passed away today and was buried in Frankfurt am Main.

1768: In Whitechapel, London, Abraham Lumbroso de Mattos and Esther Isaac Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta gave birth to Moses de Mattos Mocatta, the husband of Abigail Mocatta and a co-founder of the West London Synagogue.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mocatta

1772(15thof Adar II, 5532): Shushan Purim

1773: Dutch natives Zipporah da Veiga Mendes Penha and Samuel Van Isaac Lopes Salzedo gave birth to Jacob Van Samuel Lopes Salzedo, the husband of Ester Spinossa Catteel  with whom he had three children.

1780: In Wilton, CT, Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to Esther Isaacks the wife of Isaac Moses.

1785: Reyna Levy and Isaac Moses who were married in 1770 gave birth to Israel Moses.

1790: In Virginia, Esther Marache and Joseph Mordecai who were married in 1786, gave birth to Solomon Joseph Mordecai the husband of Isabella Jane Kincaid whom he married in 1817 at Franklin, MO.
1791: In Aldingen, Germany, Elkele Kahn and Samuel Isaac Wormser gave birth to Zerla Wormser, the wife of Salomon Pappenheimer with whom she had six children.

1792: Prague native Israel De Lieben signed a patent for Abraham Jacobs at Savannah, GA

1793” Richea Har and Abraham Mendes Seixas who were married in 1777 at Charleston, SC, gave birth to Moses Mendes Seixas.

1799(13th of Adar II, 5559): Ta’anit Esther

1799: French forces under the command of Napoleon began the siege of Acre. This was part of Napoleon’s campaign that stretched from Egypt through Palestine. Napoleon’s campaign in the eastern Mediterranean marked the start of serious Western involvement in the land that would eventually become the modern state of Israel.
1800: Birthdate of Gottfried Bernhardy, who was “professor and director the philological seminary at Halle.

1800: Birthdate of SingSing, NY native Anna Marks, who was an active member of the Philadelphia Jewish community.
1806(1st of Nisan): Rabbi Joseph Harif of Zamosc, author of Mishnat Hakhamim passed away today
1810(14th of Adar II, 5570): Purim

1812: Birthdate of Danzig native Charles S.J. Semon, the Bradford, England, textile merchant and the “first foreign born” and Jewish Mayor of Bradford who was the husband Agnes Semon.

1815: After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. In a 1930’s movie about the Rothschilds, Nathan Rothschild agrees to pledge his entire fortune to defeat Napoleon. In exchange for his generosity, he demands that the Austrians and Prussian remove their restrictions against the Jews. “There is a legend told that on the day of the Battle of Waterloo, Nathan Mayer Rothschild came to the floor of the London Stock Exchange, leaned against a pillar, and started selling. It was well known that the Rothschilds had their own independent sources of information and intelligence, and nobody knew the results of the battle, so when he began to sell, everyone thought that England had lost, and they began selling, too. That forced a panic in the market. As much as 15%-20% of the value of the stocks fell in about three hours. And after they had fallen so low, Rothschild turned around and began buying. It is said that he knew all along that the Duke of Wellington had defeated Napoleon and that the British market would go up. And when the official news came the next day that the British had won, the market went up 1000 points, making Rothschild even wealthier. It is reputed that on that coup alone, a substantial amount of the Rothschild fortune was made.”

1816: Miriam Marks, a native of Sing Sing, NY and the daughter of Michael Marks married her first husband Jonas Barnett today.
1816:  Montague Marks married Hannah Moses at the Great Synagogue.
1825(1st of Nisan, 5585): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1826: Jacob Tenachem ben Yedediah Shmuel married Beila bat Asher at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1833(29th of Adar, 5593): Fifty-four year old Myer Moses II, the Charleston, SC born son of Myer and Rachel Moses and the husband of Esther Moses with whom he had five children – Franklin, Jr, Rebecca, Montgomery, Rachel and Hortensia – passed away today in New York City.

1835(19thof Adar, 5595): Attorney Lyon Levy, the Woolwich, England native South Carlina state treasurer who was married twice – first to Leah Joseph and then to Sarah N. Cardoza – and who was the father of Abraham, Elias, Leah, David, Frances, Olivia, Phillpa and S.L. Levy passed away today in Charleston he was buried at the Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC.

1836: Birthdate of Sir Edward John Poynter, the English painter who drew on the Bible as topics for his works as can be seen by his paintings “King Solomon,” King Solomon’s Temple,”  “The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon” and “Israel in Egypt.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1867_Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg
1837(13th of Adar II, 5597): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim

1837: “Mr. Isaac Abisdid was appointed Chazan today” but would not please the congregation and he would lose the job in September of the same year.
1842: In Sulzburg, Hirschel Naphtali Dukas and Helena Hendle Dukas gave birth to Barcuh Berthold Dukas the husband of Sara Dukas
1848(15th of Adar II, 5608): Shushan Purim
1848(15th of Adar II, 5608): Twenty Jews were killed in riots and street fighting that took place in Berlin. Anti-Jewish riots also spread to Bavaria, Baden, Hamburg and many other cities. This marked the start of the Revolution of 1848 that swept the states of Germany. In the end the liberals would lose, sparking a large migration of Germans including many German Jews to the United States. These freedom loving liberals would arrive in the United States just in time to support the infant Republican Party and provide a major element in the coalition that saved the Union during the Civil War.
1857: The New York Times reported today that "Jews are always scrupulously careful about the solemnization of marriages. Two witnesses, two men of character and unconnected with the parties by relationship have to sign the marriage document and ten adult males must be present to participate in the" ceremonies.

1854(20thof Adar, 5614): Sixty-three-year Moses Montefiore Ancona, the London born of Moses Ancona and the former Hannah Montefiore, who lived in Barbados and Jamaica before settling in Pennsylvania where he used the first name of Moses, married Mary Ann Knapp, and practiced medicine passed away today after contracting pneumonia.

1859(14thof Adar II, 5619): Purim

1860: In Kalvarija,Lithuania, Chaim and Golda Chaya Bluestone gave birth to NYU trained physician Dr. Joseph Isaac Bluestone affiliated with Beth Israel Hospital and an American delegate to the 1903 Zionist Congress in Basel who wrote poetry while raising nine children with his wife Sara Rachel Bluestone.

https://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364804

1863: Nathan and Regina Ullman Stern brought their fourteen year old son Leopold Stern, who would become “known as the dean of diamond importers in American” and “three time Republican Presidential elector in New York” to the United States today.
1863:After have transferred to the 120th Volunteer Ohio infantry in 1862 and “promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, today Marcus M. Speigel “was officially commissioned as a Colonel” while taking “formal command of the regiment which would serve under General Grant during the campaign to take Vicksburg.
1865: Birthdate of Charlottenbrug, Prussia native Hermann Picha, the German-Jewish actor whose career spanned two decades starting in 1914 and ending in 1935.
1870: “The Board of Directresses” of "B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society," met today in the 34th Street Synagogue. Mrs. Leo Henry, the President and one of the founders of the society, “presented a report calling attention to the number of destitute aged and infirm Hebrews in the city, who were constantly making application for relief which the society was unable to confer; also urging the ladies to devise some practical measure which, when adopted, might furnish permanent relief to these distressed and suffering co-religionists, without interfering with the original objects of the organization.” The society had been formed in 1848 to provide relief for “indigent females.”
1871: In The Hague, Johanna and Maurice Kann gave birth to Emma Louise Kann1872: Birthdate of Vilna native and Berlin ordained Rabbi Aryeh Lev Zagur who in 1898 came to the United States where he served congretations in North Adams, MA; Evansville, IN; Poughkeepsie, NY and Houston, TX.
1873: In London, Marcus and Cahia Kohen gave birth to
Annie Edith Landau, who settled in Palestine where she played a key role in the development of education and culture for which she was twice honored by King George V.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/landau-annie-edith


1878(15th of Adar II, 5638): Shushan Purim
1878:  Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli “gave away the bride” when Hannah Rothschild married Philip Archibald Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery.  The Prince of Wales attended the ceremony that made her the Countess of Rosebery.
1879: It was reported today that Dr. Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecture this weekend at the Norfolk Street Synagogue sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Union.
1880: J W Seligman & Company are parties to a suit to be heard this morning by Judge Thayer concerning creating a receivership for financially troubled Memphis, Carthage and Northwestern Railroad Company. Jesse Seligman is one the trustees for the railroad’s bond holder
1880: Tonight, the Concord Society is sponsoring a charity for the benefit of the Young Ladies’ Charitable Union which is part of the United Hebrew Charities. This first annual event is being held at New York’s Lexington Avenue Opera House.

1881: Birthdate of Parisian Eugene Paul Louis Schueller, the founder of the cosmetic and beauty company L’Oreal and employer of Efrayim Khahneman, whom he rescued from the Nazis which meant that Efrayim and his wife Rachel could give birth to Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman.
1882: Calcutta, India native Emanuel Raphael Belilos and Simha Ezra gave birth to David Belilos who was buried in China after he died at the age of 16 from the plague in Hong Kong.
1883: In Warsaw, Siegmund Simon Epstein and Sarah Sophia (Lurie) Epstein gave birth to Russian-American mathematical physicist Paul Sophus Epstein.
http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/pepstein.pdf
1885: The Yiddish theater season opened in New York with an operetta by Abraham Goldfaden
1886(13th of Adar II, 5646): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1886: Birthdate of Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, the native of Galicia and husband or Rose Lipschultz Gusik whose life of crime included time with Al Capone on the south side of Chicago.
1886: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Jefferson Medical College trained physician who in 1917 was named an “assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Jefferson Medical College.
1886: In Philadelphia, Emily Grace Solis and Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen gave birth to “prize-winning poet, author, translator, historian, and communal leader Emily Solis-Cohen.” (As reported by Arthur Kiron)
1887: Birthdate of Hartog Hamburger the Amsterdam diamond polisher and baseball who died after being hit in the head with a line drive.
1890(28th of Adar, 5650): A Hebrew school teacher named Nathan Wisskerz “committed suicide” this evening “by turning on the gas in his room” at 51 Henry Street.
1890: in Gelsenkirchen, Julius Hess, an attorney and his wife Elisabeth gave birth to Ernst Mortiz Hess, “ the baptized German Jew who “commanded the company of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 in which Adolf Hitler served during WW I.”
1890: Leo von Caprivi began who was an opponent of the anti-Semitic parties, began serving as Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Prussia

1891: Fifty-two-year-old American actor Lawrence Barrett who portrayed the character of Shylock “with force, sincerity and at times splendid effect” but was still not on the level of Edwin “Eddy” Booth whose portrayal of Shakespeare’s Jew was considered to be the best of them all.

1892: Birthdate of Newcastle-on-Tyne native Irving J. Caplan who came to the United States in 1902 at the age of ten, became a successful businessman in Troy, NY, married Marie Caplan and served as a director of the United Jewish Services.
1892: “Ivory in the Past” discussed the two sources of this item in ancient times.  While the exploits of Hannibal and others points to an African source the fact that the ancient Hebrews and those living on the Indian coast and in Ceylon use the same word for Elephant (habba) and the similarity between the Hebrew word for Monkey (koph) and Sanskrit word for monkey (kapi) are two of the indications that India which was home to elephants was the other source for ivory along with the proven fact that Solomon conducted trade with the orient.

1893: “Errors About Intermarriage” published today provided the views of Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu El on this subject.  According to Silverman, the Bible only prohibits marriage to seven Canaanite tribes and as can be seen from the examples of Moses and Solomon allows for marriage to non-Jews.
1893: William F. Wharton completed his services Assistant Secretary of State during which he had asserted “that the Department of State is without an information respecting the alleged suspension of the Russian edict against the Jews.”

1894: Birthdate of New York native and holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia Dr. Herman Feldman, the author of Stabilizing Jobs and Wages and Racial Factors in American Industry who served as dean of School of Business at CCNY before becoming a Professor of Industrial Relations at Tuck School, Dartmouth College.
1894: As the Board of Health struggles to combat the dangers of tuberculosis, it is having 15,000 copies of instructions on how to deal with consumptives printed in a variety of languages including Hebrew. (Apparently, the city officials did not know that Yiddish would have been a better choice for the immigrants from Eastern Europe)
1894: The Ladies’ Bikur Cholim Society hosted a Purim celebration for youngsters at their industrial school.
1895: In Brooklyn, Louis Grunhurt and his sister Mrs. Mary Ballowa appeared in surrogate court to contest the will of the their brother, the late Dr. Bernhard Grunhurt who was reportedly lost at sea last August.
1895: The German Societies in New York asked that the fountain in memory of the poet Heinrich Heine be placed at 59th street and 5thAvenue entrance to Central Park.1896: Birthdate of Lithuanian native and JTS graduate Rabbi
Abraham Mayer Heller, the spiritual director of the Flatbush Jewish Center since 1924 and author who raised a son, Rabbi Zachary Heller with his wife the former Frances Lesser, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/01/archives/abraham-heller-rabbi-dies-at-76-conservative-led-flatbush-jewish.html?searchResultPosition=3

1896: The list published today of those institutions that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment has given money to from the theatrical and concert license fund includes Beth Israel ($100); United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York ($1,000) and Montefiore Home ($500)
1896: “The Hebrew Infant Asylum Benefit” published today described the successful auction conducted by Maurice Barrymore and Cyril Scott for boxes and seats at the upcoming performance of The Heart of Maryland, the proceeds of which will go to the Jewish charity.
1896: Speaking of the Jubilee Celebration being held to mark the 50thanniversary of the founding of Shaaray Tefila, Rabbi De Sola Menes who has led the congregation for 18 years, said today. “The congregation Shaaray Tefila in the half century of its existence has occupied a unique position among the Jewish congregations of this city” because “it has held the mean between the radical reform and the ultra-orthodox” making “haste slowly” while moving “sedately with the times.”
1896: Dr. M.H. Harris delivered his second and final lecture today on the Inquisition at Temple Israel in Brooklyn, NY tonight.  During the lecture he defended himself against charges of “ignorance, prejudice and falsifying history” made by Revered Brann of St. Agnes’s Roman Catholic Church made after the first lecture. “The Catholic Church would like to rid itself of this blog upon its annals.  The fact is the Inquistion was a religious institution but was mixed up with civil affairs…The fact that the Inquisition was instituted to investigate heresy is the best proof of its religious character.”  (Holocaust deniers were preceded by Inquisition deniers)
1897: Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elhanan opened in New York as an Orthodox rabbinical seminary. It later expanded into Yeshiva University, with both Jewish and secular studies, a medical (Einstein) and a graduate school (Ferkauf).
1897: Oscar S. Straus, formerly the United States Minister to Turkey, returned to New York from Europe today.
1897: It was reported today that Mrs. Joseph B. Bloomingdale and Mrs. Edward Fridenberg had been responsible for the recent party given for those staying at the Amsterdam Street facility of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Mrs. Bloomingdale is the wife of the founder of Bloomingdales Department Store.
1897(16th of Adar II, 5657): Seventy-four year old Dr. Ignatz Grossman the native of Hungary who was ordained as a rabbi forty years ago passed away today in New York City.
1897: Birthdate of Polish born and Columbia and JTS trained rabbi, Max Artz, the Vice Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and husband the former Esther Podolsky with whom he raised three children – Miriam, Raphael and David Artz.
1898: Two days after he had passed away, Lewis Hart, the son of Joseph and Rosetta Hart, the husband of Elizabeth Hart and father of Mary and Hannah Hart, who then married Adelaide Levy with whom he had had seven children was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1898: Yetta Firber took the three children of David Bogin, who were her grandchildren home from the police station after it appeared they had been abandoned their father. It turned out that they their mother had died in Denver and they had gotten lost on their way to join their father in East Hartford where he had gone for work.  (Such was the chaotic life of the children of the “immigrant generations.”)
1898: Three days after she had passed away, Jane Abrahams, the daughter of Phillip Levy and Elizabeth Davis and the wife of Isaac Abrahams with whom she had had six children was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899: Herzl established the Jewish Colonial Trust as the financial arm of the World Zionist Organization. Its goal was to encourage Jewish settlement and projects which would “advance the Zionist cause.” One of its subsidiaries, the Anglo-Palestine Company, later became Bank Leumi. Other investment helped create the Israel Electric Cooperation and Bank Hapoalim.
1899: Private Joseph Weinstein, Joseph Polskey, George C. Hahn, Phillip Isaacs, Julius C. Meyer and Harry Newburg were among those who completed their military service with the Third Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was mustered out of the U.S. Army at Savannah, GA.
1900: Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, a play in one act by David Belasco premiered today at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City.
1901: Russian bank director Levontin presents his plan to buy up the shares of the Jaffa-Jerusalem railroad. Levontin will become the assistant manager of the Bank in London.
1902: Birthdate of Baltimore native David Lasser, the science fiction writer and social activist. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/07/us/david-lasser-94-a-space-and-a-social-visionary.html


1903: Lady Sybil Grant the daughter of the 5th Earl of Rosebery and Hannah de Rothschild, the only child of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild and a granddaughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild married Charles John Cecil Grant.
1903: Birthdate of
South African explorer, stockbroker and chess champion Albert Sidney Pinkus passed away today in New York City.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/06/obituaries/albert-s-pinkus-80-40-s-chess-champion.html

 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39243


1903: American author and humorist Charles Godfrey Leland passed way.  In his memoir, Leland recounted the following exchange with George Eliot concerning her one novel about Jews.  “One day she told me that, in order to write Daniel Deronda she had read through 200 b00s.  I longed to tell her she had better have learned Yiddish and talked with 200 Jews and been taught as I was by my friend Solomon the Sadducee the art of distinguishing Fraulein Lowenthal of the Ashkenazim from Senorita Arguado of the Sephardim by the corners of their eyes.

1904: “The American Jewish Historical Society whose object is to collect and publish data relative to the achievements of Jews in” the United States, “held the first session of the its twelfth annual meeting” tonight in the vestry room of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation.
1905: The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith continued to meet for a second day New Orleans.
1906: Almost two years after the death of Herzl, Sir Edward Gray wrote to Leopold Greenberg rejecting the proposal for a Jewish settlement in Sinai for the third and last time.

1906: Birthdate of Rockford (Illinois) High School star basketball player Luis Beher, the first Jew to win Kenneth Sterling Day Award while playing for the University of Wisconsin where his young brother Sammy was “a star football player.”

1906(23rd of Adar, 5666): Fifty-five year old Isaac Gellis the successful businessman and Jewish community leader who came to the United States thirty-five years ago who has served as a trustee of the Hebrew Sheltering Arms Society and the Montefiore Home passed away today at his residence on Henry Street.

1906: In London, “Esther (née Goldfarb) and Philip Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants from Poland who fled Warsaw” gave birth to Abraham David Birnbaum who at the age of three months came to New York where, as Abraham “Abe” Beame became the city’s first Jewish mayor. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/nyregion/abraham-beame-is-dead-at-94-mayor-during-70-s-fiscal-crisis.html


1907: Southern African financier Solomon Barnato Joel, the son of Joel and Catherine Joel, Ellen (Nellie) Ridley, gave birth to their daughter Eileen who married John Rogerson and became Eileen Daphne Solvia Rogerson.
1907 (6th of Adar, 5667): Birthdate of Moshe Aharon, the sixth child of Shoshe and Rabbi Avraham Halevi Shapiro, whom the sainted Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, zt"l, pronounced to be an ilui (child prodigy)

1908: “A decision ended down by Supreme Court Justice McCail, by which he held that the marriage of Louis and Sadie Kresh, which took place in Richeletz, Austria, was not valid, it is asserted by Lawyer Benjamin Reass of 132 Nassau Street, will have the effect of invalidating hundreds of similar marriages among the Austrian Jews on the east side, besides affecting several thousand children.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/20/archives/many-marriages-illegal-court-decision-may-invalidate-hundreds.html?searchResultPosition=1

1909: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and San Francisco physiatrist Meyer Aaron Zeli

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~law00092
1909: In Rotterdam, Moses and Bertha (Haas) Geleerd gave birth to University of Leyden trained physician Elisabeth Rozetta Gelreed the psychiatrist who fled Nazi Europe to work at the Menninginer Clinic in Topeka, Kansas who raised one son, Richard with her husband Rudolph Lowentstein.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Geleerd-Elisabeth-Rozetta

https://www.loc.gov/item/mm83060566/

1910: “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who returned last week from a visit to the leaders in England of the liberal Jewish movement” delivered a sermon in the Free Synagogue this morning on “Is There to be a Schism in English Jewry?” in which “he declared that the Orthodox English Jews had no understanding of what the liberal Jewish movement means in America” and have “the mistaken impression that it was an attempt to escape from Judaism.”

1911: In Berlin, “Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt manager of the Deutsches Theater, and his first wife Else Heims” gave birth to Gottfried Goldman, who gained fame as producer-director Gottfried Reihnardt.
1911: Birthdate of Milo Sperber, the “Polish born English actor, director and writer” who was the brother of Manès Sperber.
1911: “The body of a thirteen year old boy, Andrei Yustschinksi was discovered near a brick factory on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.” This simple statement describes the first event in what will eventually become The Case of Mendel Bellis, one of the most infamous episodes of anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia.

1912: “Gerson Sirota, the Russian cantor who sailed on the Lusitania for home at 1 o’clock this moring was examined in the City Court yesterday in a suit which is being brought against him by Herman Herzog,” the plaintiff seeking “to obtain $764 for expenses which he asserts were incurred by him in certain business relations which he had with the singer in Europe.”
1913(11th of Adar II, 5673): Ta’anit Esther

1913: “In Berlin, Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt (until 1904: Max Goldmann), manager of the Deutsches Theater, and his first wife Else Heims gave birth movie director and producer who in 1932 came to the United States where he remained after the Nazis came to power where he made such moves as “The Great Waltz,” served in the U.S. Army during WW II and served as the stepfather of “US federal judge Stephen Reinhardt.”

1913(11thof Adar II, 5673): Sixty-nine-year-old Confederate Army veteran Henry Lazarus passed away today in Camden, Arkansas.

1914: It was reported today that the Educational Alliance on East Broadway and Jefferson Street will host the ninth concert of the Educational Chamber Music Society on March 22nd.

1915: American Jewish Relief Committee apportions $30,000 for Jews in Palestine, $1000 per month (for 6 months) for Palestinian soup kitchens, and $3000 per month (for 10 months) to Turkish Jews outside of Palestine.

1916(15th of Adar II, 5676): Shushan Purim

1916: Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity in a journal called Annalen der Physik. (And that is much as I know about it except to refer you to Dr. Joe Rosen, the only person I know who understands it.)

1916: As of today, “gifts valued at close to $100,000 and ranging all the way from a sticks of candy, to a grand piano, a seven passenger touring car and even building sites in the Bronx and Staten Islands have been received by the People’s Relief Committee which is organizing the bazaar and fair for Jewish suffers to be held at the Grand Central Palace” starting in the last week of March and continuing into April.

1916: Today, it is estimated that the gold and jewels given by the Jews of Baltimore at a mass meeting held “under the auspices of the American Jewish Relief Committee” are worth at least $3,500.00.

1917: In what must have seemed like a momentous occasion at the time for all Russians, including her Jewish citizens a manifesto issued by the new Russian Provisional Government published today began “Citizens: The great work has been accomplished.  By a powerful stroke the Russian people have overthrown the old regime.  A new Russia is born.  This coup d’etat has set the keystone upon long years of struggle.” (In less than a year, the Bolsheviks would sweep the forces of democratic reform aside and create a dictatorship every bit as vile as the Czars.)

1917: In Jerusalem,” noted archeologist Eleazar Sukenik and educationalist and women's rights activist Hasya Sukenik-Feinsod” gave birth to Yigal Sukenik who as Yigael Yadin gained fame fighting in the War for Independence, serving as the second Chief of Staff for the IDF and becoming a first-rate archeologist. If you did not know he was a real person, you would swear that some novelist had invented this fascinating person.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/obituaries/yigael-yadin-famed-israeli-dies-was-archeologist-and-war-hero.html

1917: Tonight’s mass meeting in Madison Square Garden which “has been arranged with the co-operation of the Forward Association, the Bund, the Russian Social Democrats, the Jewish Socialist Federation of America, the Workingmen’s Circle, the United Hebrew Trades and the New York local of the Socialist Party” and for which 8,000 tickets have been sold, will mark “the first time in the history of” the city of New York that “thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russian government.”

1917: In an exclusive interview given to the Associate Press today the new Foreign Minister of Russia said that “there now appear to be no obstacles” to “a new commercial treaty between Russia and the United States” since “all the disabilities governing Jews” from America coming to Russia “have been removed.”

1917: Following the sinking of several U.S. ships by German submarines, President Wilson met with his cabinet who voted unanimously in favor of going to war four days before Rosh Chodesh Nisan.
1917: Two days after she had passed away, 63 year old Fanny Levy was buried today at “the Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1918(7th of Nisan, 5678): Fifty year old Richmond, VA native Mitchell H. Mark who moved to Buffalo where he opened a hat store and then with his brother Moe “founded the Vitascope Theatre…one of the first permanent movie theatres” built anywhere in the world.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5D6113FE433A25752C2A9659C946996D6CF

http://buffaloah.com/h/mark/Obit.pdf

1918: Birthdate of comedian and television game show host, Jack Berry. Jack Barry met and teamed up with Dan Enright in Borscht Belt clubs. They started Winky Dink and You, a children's show known for the special transparent covers children had to put over the TV screen so they could draw the "hidden pictures" during Winky's adventures. Barry and Enright were also instrumental in producing and hosting early game shows, such as Concentration and Tic Tac Dough. Barry is best remembered as the host on the game show “21” which went from sensational television hit to be the symbol for corruption in the communications industry.

1918: It was reported today that based on information supplied by the Jewish Welfare Board, “Jewish families in the vicinity of army and navy cantonments” are scheduled to act as hosts for Jewish soldiers and sailors” who will have leaves so they may observe Passover.

1919: As of today, “more than $36,000 has been contributed toward New York City’s quota of $100,000 in the Isaac M. Wise Centenary Campaign being held this week in the United States” to raise fundes for HUC and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

1920(1stof Nisan, 5680): Triple Header – Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat Hachodesh
1921; In Vienna, Béla Schwimmer and Marie Karp gave birth to Vilma Mitzi Schimmer who came to the United States in 1935 and married Edward James in 1944 in Brooklyn.

 

1921: In New York City, two hundred delegates at a preliminary meeting of the Provisional Committee for an American Jewish Congress adopted resolutions that were intended to make this a permanent organization.
1922: Birthdate of actor Werner Klemper. The German born refugee from Hitler’s Germany was the son of Otto Klemper. Ironically, Werner gained his greatest fame as the bumbling Colonel Klink on “Hogan’s Hero” the sitcom set in a German POW Camp.

1922: In the Bronx, Jewish immigrants Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reiner gave birth to comedian and writer Carl Reiner who first gained fame as “the second banana” on the Sid Caesar comedy show “Your Show of Shows” and is also remembered for his work with the 2000 Year Old man and the Dick Van Dyke Show.

1923: In Cleveland, OH, the will of Charles Eizenman, who for twenty years was the President of the Federation of Jewish Charities, which was probated today called for $50,000 to be given to the Federation of Jewish Charities, $12,000 to be given to JPS and $2,000 to HUC.
1924(14th of Adar II, 5648) Purim
1924: Birthdate of British Jewish scholar Hyam Maccoby, the grandson of Rabbi Chaim Maccoby and the librarian of Leo Baeck College whose area of expertise was the relationship between early Christianity and first century Judaism including the contention that the last two thousand years of western anti-Semitism had its origins in the drive of early Christian leaders to separate their religion and followers from the Jews.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/31/guardianobituaries.religion

1925: The new Hebrew University is scheduled to be dedicated on Mt. Scopus with Lord Balfour and Dr. Chaim Weizmann in attendance.

1925: Charley Phil Rosenberg (Charles Green) won the World Bantamweight Championship today.

1926: In New Orleans, the former Anna Leibof gave birth to Tulane University engineering graduate Harold Allen Rosen, “a driving force in the invention of modern communication satellite technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/harold-rosen-dead-engineer-satellite.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

 

1926: “The Fiddler of Florence” a comedy written and directed by Paul Czinner and co-starring Grete Moseheim was released today in Germany.
1927(16th of Adar II, 5687): Shushan Purim observed because the 15th falls on Shabbat

1927(16thof Adar II, 5687): Eighty-three year old Harold Solomon Gerstner, the Polish born son of Hyman and Fannie Gerstner and first husband of Sarah Blumberg Parnes passed away today after which he was buried at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island.

1927: “More than 3,000 children attended the first rally of the New York Jewish Religious Schools which had been organized by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of the Central Synagogue.”

1927: Birthdate of Manhattan native Lawrence Seymour “Larry” Phillips the Princeton University History major who became a top executive in the family owned Phillips-Van Heusen clothing business and a leading Jewish philanthropist.

1928: Birthdate of Anthony Bernard Blond “a British publisher and author” who was a cousin of Harold Laski. He passed away in 2008. You can learn more about Blond by reading his autobiography Jew Made in England, which was published in 2004
1929: New York Mayor Jimmy Walker “spent more than three hours” this “afternoon on a tour of the new Beth Israel Hospital,” a five bed facility facing Stuyvesant Square.
1930: Birthdate of Arthur Schneir, the native of Austria who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest who has been Senior Rabbi at Park East Synagogue since 1962 and who founded the Appeal of Conscience in 1965.
1931(2nd of Nisan, 5691): Sixty-seven-year-old Mathilde Saphir, the Austrian born daughter of Aurelia and David Schwarz and the wife of Josef Saphir passed away today in Vienna.
1931: In the Bronx, Charles Lipshitz and the former Frances Rosen gave birth to CCNY graduate Harold Lipshitz, who gained fame as actor Hal Lidnen who gainedhis greatest fame in the title role of the police comedy “Barney Miller.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-17-ca-5428-story.html

1933: “German Fugitives Tell of Atrocities at Hands of Nazis” published today provided readers of the New York Times with accounts from Americans arriving in Paris from Germany of “outrages and cruelties in racial purging” and “Jews fleeing persecution.”

1933: At the initiative of the Jews of Vilna, an anti-Nazi boycott began. It eventually spread all over Poland and to many countries in Europe. Yet within 6 months Poland itself signed a non-aggression treaty with Hitler which called for the cessation of all boycott activities.
1933: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that “the hoisting of Nazi swastika banners over the German consulates at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has greatly disturbed the feelings of the Jewish public.” Fearing hostile demonstrations, British police and detectives are guarding the German buildings.
1933: The Nazis completed building Dachau, the first of the infamous concentration camps.
1933: Darius Paul Dassault born Darius Paul Bloch reached the rank of Brigade General in the French Army today.

1935(15thof Adar II, 5695): Shushan Purim

1935(15thof Adar II, 5695): University of Minnesota trained attorney Benjamin Mandel Goldman, the Waukesha, WI born son of Anna and Jacob Goldman and the husband of Clara Goldman who was an active member of B’nai B’rith passed away today in Los Angeles.

1935(15thof Adar II, 5695): Newark, NJ businessman and manufacturer Max Eisman, a member of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York passed away today.
1936: Founding of Kol Israel (Voice of Israel).

1936: “Chancellor Adolf Hitler has assumed himself a 100 per cent majority of all the valid votes cast in the” upcoming “Reichstag election” in which Jews will not be allowed to vote “by creating a ballot that leaves the voter only choice of voting for him or invalidating the ballot.”

1936: “In Palestine, establishment of a legislative council continued to occupy the minds of both Arab and Jewish leaders” with the “latter being adamant in their refusal to participate in the council on the basis of representation in proportion to population which would make the Jews a permanent minority.”

1936: “Polish Jews have strongly criticized” a government bill to ban ritual slaughtering “which they said would eliminate their method of kosher slaughtering.”

1936: The daughter of a Viennese rabbi who was employed in Berlin “as a religious instructor by a Jewish community center” has been released after six months of imprisonment and “ordered to leave Germany as an undesirable alien.”

1937(1stof Nisan, 5697): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh

1937: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Religion of the Psalms” at Temple Emanu-El this morning.

1937: Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Eternal Road” today.

1937: Rabbi Louis I. Newman is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Benjamin Franklin and the Jews” this morning at Rodeph Sholom.

1937: The Luncheon of the Women’s Division of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan (Soviet Union) is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the Hotel Astor.

1937: In Honolulu, Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg gave birth to Lois Ann Hammersberg, who as Lois Lowry “received the National Jewish Book Award in 1990, in the Children's Literature category.”

1938: In his sermon today at the North Baptist Church in New York, Rev. Francis K. Shepherd said “God will save the Jews from Hitler as He saved them from Haman.”

1938(17thof Adar II, 5698): Fifty-seven year old Rebecca Schweitzer, the Russian born daughter of Hirsch and Hannah (Levine) Garbovitsky and the wife of Peter J. Schwietzer, “the largest importer and exporter of cigarette paper in the United States who used their fortune for philanthropy and support of the embryonic Zionist movement passed away today.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schweitzer-rebecca

https://www.vera.org/blog/vera-schweitzer-the-vera-institutes-worthy-namesake

 

1939: Seven thousand Jews fled German occupied Memel, Lithuania.
1939: A 24 hour strike was scheduled to begin a 5 A.M. in Palestine to protest Great Britain’s latest plan that would, according to The National Council Of Palestine Jews, would lead to the “liquidation of the Newish national home” and strangle Jewish settlement in Palestine.
1939: Rabbi Milton of Steinberg of the Park Avenue Synagogue spoke to the Brooklyn Chapter of Hadassah at the Waldorf-Astoria where 2,000 women heard chapter president Mrs. Joseph L. Horowitz announced that “$60,000 has been raised since last October” to help to support projects in Palestine.
1939: Approximately 5000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including many done by Jewish artists, deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis were burned on an enormous pyre in Berlin.

1940: Birthdate of Mary Ellen Mark, the Philadelphia native who became “one of the premier documentary photographers of her generation.”

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13306.html

http://www.maryellenmark.com/bio_resume/bio_resume.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/arts/design/mary-ellen-mark-photographer-who-documented-difficult-subjects-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0


1941: At Baumann and Berson Children's Hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto, nurse D. Wagman writes that she is helpless to prevent death.
1942: After having been turned over to the Nazis today George Politzer, the Marxist philosopher was tortured – treatment that would last until his execution in May
1943(13th of Adar II, 5703): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1943: On Purim Eve in Czestochowa, Poland, over 100 Jewish doctors and their families were taken away and shot. The meaning behind the factor-of-ten chosen was revenge for the ten sons of the Jew hater Haman who were hanged in Biblical times. Victims include 56-year-old gynecologist Dr. Kruza Gruenwald, 30-year-old general practitioner Dr. Irena Horowicz, and 44-year-old neurologist Dr. Bernard Epstein. Czestochowa is the home of the “Black Madonna.”
1943: “Bulgarian military police, assisted by German soldiers, took Jews from Komotini and Kavala off the passenger steamship Karageorge, massacred them, and sunk the vessel.”

1943(13th of Adar II, 5703): Eighty give year old Jeanette Isaac Davis who wrote the “foreword to the second edition The True Boundaries of the Holy by her father Samuel Hillel Isaacs and husband of Benjamin Davis passed away today in Chicago.
1944: One day after the Nazis took control of the Hungarian capital, the SS seized control of The Budapest University of Jewish Studies and turned it into a prison
1944: “Cover Girl” a musical directed by Charles Vidor with songs by Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg was released today in the United States.
1945: Erhard Auer, the Socialist political leader who was physically attacked by the Nazis in the 1930’s and who was imprisoned at Dachau for his alleged role to kill Hitler in 1944 died today.
1945(6th of Nisan, 5705): An Allied air raid killed Jewish women in a camp at Tiefstack, Germany, near Hamburg.

1946: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, the President of the ZOA, today told members of the national executive committee that while in England he had met with former Prime Minister Winston Churchill who assured him that “he has always been a Zionist and still is a Zionist.”  (Editor’s note – too bad he did not act that way when he was enforcing the White Paper during WW II)

1947: “The World Jewish Congress announced” today that “it has received assurances that a law recently enacted by Ecuador was no bar to the admission of immigrants on the basis of race, creed or religion.”
1948: “David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, speaking in Tel Aviv today, stigmatized United States abandonment of partition as "surrender" and rejected a United Nations Palestine trusteeship "even for the shortest time."
1948: Laura Z. Hobson’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” wins the Oscar
http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/1978/laura-z-hobson-s-gentleman-s-agreement-wins-oscar

1949: Israeli forces took control of Ein Gedi on the western shore of the Dead Sea. This move helped to secure the western border of the newly created Jewish state and to protect Israeli interests in an area that would be beneficial to the chemical and tourist industries.
1950: Moshe Sharett, Israel’s Foregin Minister, “called upon the seven member nationas of the Arab League today to make peace with Israel by direct negations.” He said that Israel only wished “to consolidate its present position…There will be no further war if the Arab world does not will it.”
1951: After opening in New York,“Royal Wedding” the Alan Jay Lerner musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen premiered today in Los Angeles

1952(23rd of Adar, 5712): Rabbi Armand Bloch passed away.

1952(23rd of Adar, 5712): Seventy-nine year old Racie Adler passed away.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-racie

1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that the Executive Branch of the US government made it known that experience in Israel suggested that technical cooperation could succeed there in specific objectives: "Namely to aid in reducing the present economic crisis, to contribute significantly to the development and to increase productivity." The Presidium of the Conference of Jewish Claims Against Germany announced that Moses A. Levitt, executive of the American Joint Distribution Committee, would lead the delegation to The Hague Conference on Jewish Claims and Reparations. In the House of Commons Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State, announced that Britain was contributing £4,452,440 for the first year of the three-year international program (the Blandford Plan) to resettle 800,000 Arab refugees from Palestine in various parts of the Middle East. In addition Britain announced that it was proposing an interest-free loan of £1,500,000 to Jordan to contribute indirectly to the same purpose.

1953: “Destination Gobi” an off-beat WW II movie produced by Stanley Rubin with music by Sol Kaplan was released in the United States today.

1954(15th of Adar II, 5714): Joe Levin, a founder of B’nai Abraham in Brenham, Texas and the father of Jewish Texan historian, Rosa Levin Toubin passed away
1954: In Madison, Wisconsin, Morton Wagner and Bernice Maletz gave birth to author and screenplay writer Bruce Alan Wagner whose work includes “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.”
1956: Under the leadership of Habib Bourghiba, Tunisia gained its independence from France. Bourghiba was well disposed to the 100,000 strong Jewish community, appointing a Jew to his first cabinet. But he was not able to stem the tide of "Islamic extremism" that would take hold in subsequent years.
1956: In Lambeth, South London Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes and her husband gave birth to Phillip Oppenheim, who when he became an MP became part of what have been the only Parliamentary Mother-Son duo in English history
1958(28th of Adar, 5718): Seventy-eight-year old Anna Warner Robins, the Polish born daughter of Benjamin and Pearl Leach Eichelbaum Warner and the wife of David M. Robbins passed away today after which she was buried at the Home of Peace Memorial Park.
1958: “Merry Andrew,” a musical starring Danny Kaye, directed by Michael Kidd, produced by Sol C. Siegel and written by Isobel Lennart and I.A.L. Diamond, was released for showing to the movie going public.
1960: William Schueller and Eleanor Neyens Schueller of Zwingle, Iowa gave birth to Elizabeth Mary “Liz” Schueller, the younger sister of Deb Levin, Z”L.

1960: ABC broadcast “You Still My Eyes,” an episode of “The Rebel,” directed by Irvin Kershner.
1962(14th of Adar II, 5722): Purim

1964: Ernest Lehman completed his final draft of the script for “The Sound of Music” today.

1965: Rabbi Heschel flew to Selma from New York tonight as civil rights leaders planned to try another march from Selma to Montgomery. Previous attempts had been stopped by violence so the aged sage was literally risking his physical well-being to help "the widow, the orphan and the stranger in our midst." The march was part of the fight to gain passage of what became known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the second most important piece of Civil Rights legislation ever adopted in the United States.

1967(8thof Adar II, 5727): Seventy-two year old Breslau native Kurt Peiser, who in 1907 came to the United States where after earning his college degrees “served as executive director of Jewish federation and welfare funds successively in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Detroit and Philadelphia” and who helped to “set up relief programs in North Africa” during WW II after the Allies had driven the Italians and Nazis back across the Mediterranean Sea” passed a way today.
1968: In New York City, Attorney Arnold Jacobs Sr. and Ellen Kheel gave birth to journalist and author Arnold Stephen “A.J.” Jacobs, Jr. the husband of Julie Schoenberg with whom he had three sons – Jasper, Zane and Lucas – and cousin of legal scholar and fellow author Cass Sunstein.
1970: The funeral services for Isadore H. Prinzmetal, the motion picture industry attorney and a leader in Jewish community service, were conducted today at Hillside Memorial Park.
1970: In New York, June Brody and David Rapaport gave birth to “actor, director and comedian” Michael David Rapaport.

1973(16thof Adar, II, 5733): Seventy-year Martin Codel, the “biological son of Samuel Braverman” who was raised by his mother Sarah Codel and adopted father Morris Codel and the father of Ella Codel who was the author of Radio and Its Future and who along with Sol Taishoff and Harry Shaw founded Broadcasting which is now published as Broadcasting and Cable passed away today

1974: “The Super Cops” based on a book of the same name starring Ron Leibman was released in the United States today.

1975: Aharon Uzan replaced Yitzhak Rabin as Communications Minister

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the French Foreign Minister, Louis de Guiringaud, said that Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist was a prerequisite of any Middle Eastern settlement. Israel, he continued, would have to withdraw from occupied areas, but this did not mean a complete withdrawal from all territories captured in 1967. In Cairo the mainstream and hard-liners of the members of the Palestine National Council struggled over the wording of a declaration of a political stance of the PLO. In Haifa the president of the Technion, Amos Horev, deplored the lack of a long-term industrial planning in Israel.
1978(11th of Adar II, 5738): Dr. Meyer Aaron Zeligs, whose defense of Alger Hiss, Friendship and Fratricide, stirred controversy when it was published in 1967 with the conclusion that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality died today on his 69th birthday at his home in Sari Francisco.”
1980: “Nijinsky,” a biopic directed by Herbert Ross and co-produced by Herbert Ross was released today in the United States.
1981: In California, Actor Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman gave birth to Jacob Edward "Jake" Hoffman who has gone on to develop an acting career of his own.

1981(14thof Adar II, 5741): Purim

1981(14thof Adar II, 5741: Seventy-four year old Olympic Gold Medal winning speed skater Irving Jaffee passed away today.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/21/Irving-Jaffee-who-went-from-a-roller-skating-paper/9065353998800/

1981: “Omen III: The Final Conflict” based on characters created by David Seltzer with music by Jerry Goldsmith and featuring Mason Adams was released today in the United States.

1981(14thof Adar II, 5741): Seventy-three year old businessman, Morris Abrams, the holder of patents for the Arrows brand staple gun the husband of Flo Abrams and the father of Allan, Louise and Isabel Abrams passed away today in Englewood, NJ.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/obituaries/morris-abrams.html

1989(13thof Adar II, 5749): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1993: 27th of Adar, 5753): Shabbat HaChodesh
1993: 27th of Adar, 5753): In separate incidents, two Israeli soldiers – Sergeant Gitai Avisor and Sergeant Yossi Shabtai – were killed.
1993: “Barbarians at the Gate” a movie version of the book by the same name that described Henry Kravis’ efforts to buy RJR Nabisco with a script by Larry Gelbart was broadcast today by HBO
1993: A third meeting between Arabs and Israelis began in Oslo, Norway.
1996: UPN broadcast the first episode of “The Sentinel” a Canadian television series created and written by Danny Bilson.
1997: A “special edition” of “Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold,” a movie version of the novel produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan was released today
1998(22nd of Adar, 5758): Yemina Avidar-Tchernovitz, the native of Vilna who arrived in Palestine as a twelve year old in 1921 and went on to become an author of children’s books written in modern Hebrew passed away today.
http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13612
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/tchernovitz-avidar-yemima
2000: It was reported today that “The discovery in downtown Prague of the remnants of a medieval Jewish cemetery has turned into a political and moral quandary for the Czech government and an embarrassment for the small Czech Jewish minority.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/world/prague-journal-a-city-in-a-hurry-stumbling-on-its-medieval-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1


2000(13th of Adar II, 5760): Ta’anit Esther observed for the last time during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

2001: President Bush welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.

2002(7th of Nisan, 5762): Seven Israelis died when an Islamic terrorist blew himself up in a packed bus.

2002: Seven people were killed and about 30 injured, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The victims: Sgt. Michael Altfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWO Meir Fahima, 40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon Revivo, 19, of Afula; Alon Goldenberg, 28, of Tel Aviv; Mogus Mahento, 75, of Holon; and Bella Schneider, 53, of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

2003: “Six decades after his parents were arrested and deported from German-occupied France, Kurt Werner Schaechter, an Austrian-born French Jeew went to court here today to demand that France's national railroad company accept its responsibility and express remorse for transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/world/nazis-human-cargo-now-haunts-french-railway.html?searchResultPosition=2

2004: The treasure hunt, David Blaine's $100,000 Challenge, devised by game designer Cliff Johnson, creator of The Fool's Errand, was solved today.

2005: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of topics of special interest to Jewish readers including "Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics" by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, "Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System" by Sharon Waxman and "The Angel of Forgetfulness" by Steve Stern.
2005(9th of Adar II, 5765): Eighty-four year old “businessman and philanthropist Sir Leslie Porter passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-leslie-porter-6149848.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486217/Sir-Leslie-Porter.html
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/24/guardianobituaries.rogercowe
2006: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jonathan Pollard’s appeal “to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that denied his attorneys access to classified information used in his trial” that they claim “are needed to make Pollard’s case for clemency.”
2006: “The Valet” starring Gad Elmaleh and directed by Francis Verber, whose father Pierre-Gilles Verber and grand-uncle Tristan were Jewish but who was baptized at birth was released in France today.
2006: The WB broadcast the final episode of “Related” created by Marta Kauffman and starring Lizzy Caplan.
2006(20th of Adar, 5766): Ninety-six-year-old “Sophie Gerson, a legendary figure in the history of textile union organizing in the South and a lifelong fighter for peace, justice and socialism” passed away today. (As reported by Deborah Gerson and Tim Wheeler)
2006: Haaretzreported that Archaeologists have uncovered underground chambers and tunnels constructed in northern Israel by Jews for hiding from the Romans during their revolt in 66-70 CE.
2007: An exhibition featuring documents from the Otto Frank as well as other material from the YIVO archives pertaining to the Holocaust in the Netherlands, which has been on display on the Batkin Mezzanine level, at the Center for Jewish History comes to an end.
2007: The Association for Jewish Theatre in conjunction with the Jewish Theatre of Austria hosts a three-day international conference for Jewish theater professionals, artists, and aficionados.

2007: Avraham “Hirchson was investigated for seven hours by Israeli police regarding an alleged embezzlement at a non-profit organization while serving as the chairman of the National Workers Labor Federation.”
2007(1st of Nisan, 5667): Rosh Chodesh Nissan2007(1st of Nisan, 5667): Eighty-four-year-old music executive Hyman Y. “Hy” Weiss passed away today. (As reported by Ben Sisario)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/obituaries/31weiss.html

2008 (II Adar 13 5768): Feast of Nicanor – “Judah Maccabee’s defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor was originally celebrated as a minor festival on 13 Adar (I Macc.7:49), this ‘Day of Nicanor’ being specifically mentioned in the Apocrypha as occurring immediately before Purim, ‘the day of Mordecai (II Macc. 15:36). In time, the Feast of Nicanor gave way to the Fast of Esther.” [Editor’s note: In another of the many oddities connected with the Purim celebration, a joyful celebration of a real historic event gave way to a fast connected to what is at best a piece of historic fiction.]
2008 (II Adar 13 5768): Fast of Esther
2008: In Washington, veteran broadcast journalist Daniel Schorr discusses his new book, "Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium."
2008: The state of Iowa issued Agriprocessors Inc. of Postville 39 citations with proposed penalties of $182,000 for allegedly violating state workplace safety and health standards
2009: On Friday night, members of Mount Kisco’s Jewish community gather at Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation in an unparalleled display of Jewish revitalization and Jewish unity as they take part in the 13th Shabbat Across America Program.
2009: Today “an appellate court denied Bernie Madoff’s request to be released from jail and returned to home confinement until he is sentenced to prison in June. (Talk about Chutzpah)
2009: “I Love You Man,” a comedy directed by John Hamburg and starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segal and Andy Samberg was released today in the United States.
2009: Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu met with President Shimon Peres at 10:30 this morning to ask for more time in which to form a coalition. Peres agreed to the request, and gave Netanyahu an additional two weeks.
2010: The Washington Postfeatures a review of "The Irresistible Henry House" by Lisa Grunwald, the daughter of the late Henry Grunwald.
2010: Meeskeit and A Matter of Size are scheduled to be shown at 14th Annual Mandell JC Hartford Jewish Film Festival.
2010: Today two rockets were launched at the Ashkelon district, north of Gaza, another landed in Shaar HaNegev, northeast of Gaza and fourth rocket was fired at Shaar HaNegev.
2010: A weak earthquake was felt in northern Israel tonight; no injuries or damage was reported.
2010: The color version of “Forbidden Zone” which had marked Danny Elfman’s debut as a director when it was released in black and white in 1980 was shown for the first time today at the Museum of Modern Art.
2010: For the first time in 62 years, hundreds gathered for emotional Sabbath prayers at the renewed, majestic Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem.
2011: Ilana Cravitz is scheduled to appear at Klezmer Workshop in Cambridge, UK.
2011: Israeli vocalist Yasmin Levy is scheduled to appear at the SF Jazz Spring Session where this daughter of “a revered Turkish cantor” will explore a forgotten treasure trove of songs dating back to 16th century Spain.”
2011(14th of Adar II): Purim]
2011(14th of Adar II): Fifty-four year old Robert Spiegelman, who accompanied the high school band he directed to the 2011 Rose Bowl Parade despite a serious illness, passed away today. Speigelman grew up and lived in the St. Louis area. The school’s jazz ensemble, under his direction, traveled to Paris in 1997 to play in the 50th anniversary of the school's namesake’s renowned flight from New York to Paris. (As reported by the Eulogizer)
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Modigliani: A Life” by Meryle Secrest and "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" by James Carroll.
2011: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “New and Selected Stories” by E.L. Doctorow and “Lee Krasner: A Biography” by Gail Levin. In describing herself, Krasner said, "I happen to be Mrs. Jackson Pollock, and that's a mouthful. The only thing I haven't had against me was being black. I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent."
2011: 22-year-old IDF Armored Corps officer was stabbed during an attempt to steal his weapon in Jaffa this morning. An unknown masked assailant stabbed the soldier in his chest and made off with his weapon.
2012: “Underdogs: A War Movie” is scheduled to be shown at the Gainesville Jewish Film Festival in Gainesville, FL.
2012(28th of Adar, 5772): One-hundred-one year Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg passed away today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/9161424/Rabbi-Chaim-Pinchas-Scheinberg.html
2012: In Philadelphia, PA, Congregation Mikveh Israel's 3rd Annual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: “400 Miles to Freedom” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the 16th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. 
2013(9th of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-nine-year-old mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens who Jewish mother, “the former Sadie Mechanic, recognized Risë’s vocal talent early and was an enthusiastic steward of her youthful career” passed away today.  (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/arts/music/rise-stevens-opera-singer-dies-at-99.html?hpw&_r=0
2013: Ruth Thomson, author of Terezín, A Story of the Holocaust is scheduled to deliver a lecture at The Wiener Library in London. 
2013: “Jailed Unjust in the Death of a Rabbi, Man Nears Freedom” published today described events the events surrounding the two decades old murder of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberg
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/nyregion/brooklyn-prosecutor-to-seek-freedom-of-man-convicted-in-1990-killing-of-rabbi.html
2013: Israeli soldiers provided medical care to four wounded Syrians on the Golan Heights border
2013: A special screening of “The Flat” is scheduled to be hosted UKJF
2013: President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conveyed broad consensus on Israel’s top security priorities in a statements following a meeting in Jerusalem.
2013: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to presents “Louis Marshall and the Founding of Modern American Judaism”
2013: Barak Obama is scheduled to begin his first trip to Israel as U.S. President.  He had previously visited while serving as a U.S. Senator.

2014: Violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth are scheduled to join the IPO conducted by Zubin Mehta in a Benefit Concert held in honor of the late Marvin Hamlisch.
2014: The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host its 2014 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.
2014: “Wagner’s Jews” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The 17th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2014: The Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open with a screening of “When Comedy Went to School.”
2014: A Jewish teacher is attacked leaving a kosher restaurant in Paris. After breaking his nose, the assailants drew a swastika on his chest
2014: “The Israel Air Force showed off its new cutting-edge training aircraft, the M-346” today. (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014: Meir Kin, who has refused to give his wife Lonna Kin a get married Daniela Barbosa tonight in Las Vegas in what was a very public reminder of the inequity in Jewish divorce law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/us/a-wedding-amid-cries-of-unfinished-business-from-a-marriage.html?hp

2014: Eight of 11 families of Iranian Jews missing since the 90s were told this evening at the Center for Intelligence Heritage that their relatives were murdered on their way to Israel. (As reported by Orli Harari)
2014: “A German panel ruled against the heirs of four Jewish art dealers today in a complicated case of a monumental collection of medieval religious art known as the Welfenschatz, or Geulph Treasure.” (As reported by Amanda Borschel-Dan)
2015: The exhibition “Lincoln and the Jews” which was inspired by the publication of Lincoln and the Jews by Jonathan Sarna sponsored by the New York Historical Society is scheduled to open today.
2015: “The Green Prince” directed by Nadav Schirman is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2015: Today “Empty Mirrors Press published Howard Epstein's political memoir Rise Again: Nova Scotia's NDP on the Rocks an account of his 15 years in provincial politics, the history of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia, and his analysis of the successes and failures of the Dexter NDP government during its term in office.
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Music Box in Atlantic, City.
2016: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to host Henry Birnbery, the German born American G.I. who will describe his experiences as one of the “first American eyewitnesses to the devastation of the Nazi concentration camps.”
2016: “Wedding Doll” and “A Night at the Opera” are scheduled to be shown on the final day of the Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2016: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” which marked the directorial debut of Natalie Portman “in this adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Amos” is scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.
2016: LimmudFest New Orleans 2016 is scheduled to come to an end today.
http://limmudnola.org/schedule/
2016: Hadassah of Greater Washington is scheduled to host High Tea and Harmony, a fundraiser offering attendees a multi-dimensional musical experience along with a traditional “High Tea.”
2016: As part of “Jews in the American South” Rhetta Mendelsohn is scheduled to lead a walking tour of Old Charleston “with special emphasis on significant architecture, garden culture and sites of Jewish interest” followed by dinner with Eli Hyman, the “great-grandson of W.M. Karesh, a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe who started a wholesale dry-goods business in the city in 1890.”
Read more:
http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSZOcOI
Read more:
http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSHRXoX]
2016: The annual AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to open in Washington, DC.

2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen, Carry Me by Peter

2017: “Israel’s David’s Sling anti-missile battery will go operational within the next two weeks, providing the finishing touch of the Jewish state’s multi-tiered missile defense array, a senior Israeli Air Force officer said today.” (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)

2017(22ndof Adar, 5777): Eighty-seven years old Robert B. Silvers, the son of James J. Silvers a salesman, sometime farmer and small business owner, and Rose Roden Silvers a music critic for The New York Globe and one of the first female radio hosts for RCA, who founded The New York Review of Books passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/books/robert-silvers-dead-founding-editor-new-york-review-of-books-nyrb.html

http://www.nybooks.com/robert-silvers/

2017: A surprise drill began today in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to simulate war in the Gaza Strip.”

2017(22ndof Adar, 5777): Eighty-seven-year-old psychotherapist George Weinberg passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/us/george-weinberg-dead-coined-homophobia.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2017: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of The Second Time Around, an improbable tale of love involving Isaac Shapiro, “a grumpy Polish tailor

2018: “The 6thGlobal Forum for Combating Antisemitism” is scheduled to continue for a second day in Jerusalem.

2018: The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston is scheduled to host “Get Cultured: Short Film Night” at the Axelrad Beer Garden.

2018: “End Game” and “Keep the Change” are scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.

2018: Publication of the paperback edition Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character by Marty Appel, the Brooklyn born son of Irving and Celia Appel and graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta

2018: In Jerusalem, Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host concert pianist Eliahou Zabaly.

2018:Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “The Unlikely Nazi Hunters: A Rare Conversation with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld

https://vimeo.com/254724503

2019(13thof Adar II, 5779): Fast of Esther; at night read the Megillah; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2019: The New York Sephardic Jewish Festival is scheduled to come to an end with the New York premiere of the documentary Photo Farag and presentation of the Pomegranate Award to “director Lisa Azuelos.”

2019: In Florida, the Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Working Woman,” “Joseph Pulitzer” and “A Fortunate Man.”

2019: In Metairie, LA (suburban New Orleans) Congregation Beth Israel, JNOLA and the Jewish Community are scheduled to host “a very Lego Purim Party” that will include services and a Megillah reading for the whole family.

2020: The Jerusalem Marathon which was scheduled to take place today has been postponed “until after the Jewish holidays in the fall” per the order of Mayor Moshe Leon.

2020: In New Orleans, Limmudfest, which was scheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the pandemic.

2020: Safety Jordan Dangerfield, a member of the Ethiopian Jewish Community signed a new contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers today.

2020: “Shabbat Live or Later: Coronavirus Edition,” a livestream organized by Ahava is scheduled for this evening.

2020(24thof Adar, 5780: On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeits of “Rabbi Isaack Eizik Margolit, author of Seder Gittin ve-Halizah,” and “Rabbi Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann, founder of Ha-Maggid, the first Hebrew weekly newspaper” (As reported by Abraham Bloch)

2021: Contra Costa JCC is schedule to present an in-person Passover scavenger hunt for ages 3 to 13 and their families.

2021: KlezCalifornia is scheduled to offer the first screening on of line of “an artful video adaptation of Sholem Asch’s ground-breaking 1906 play ‘God of Vengeance’” performed by the Yiddish Theatre Ensemble under the direction of Bruce Bierman.

2021: the Beth Am Oneg Israel and Shabbat Jewish Film Series Committees are scheduled present a screening of “Dolphin Boy.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyWHhta5LQ

2021(7thof Nisan, 7801): Parashat Vayikra; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Day, March 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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March 21

 456 BCE: The convocation summoned by Ezra on intermarriage came to an end

629: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius marched into Jerusalem at the head of his army with the support of Jewish inhabitants. The Jews who had previously fought with the Persians against Byzantine rule decided to support him in return for a promise of amnesty. Upon his entry into Jerusalem the local priests convinced him that killing Jews was a positive commandment and that his promise was therefore invalid. Hundreds of Jews were massacred and thousands of others fled to Egypt. Thus, much of the rich Jewish life in the Galilee and Judea came to an end.

1349(1stof Nisan): Three thousand Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany.

This was one of only a series of wholesale murders of Jews that took place in Germany in 1349. The Jews provided a convenient scapegoat for the Black Death. In some places they were accused of poisoning the wells which supposedly caused the plague. Since The Black Death provided an interesting excuse of murdering Jews, the following few summary will prove useful when we get to it our study of Jewish History during the Middle Ages. "A Genoese trading post in the Crimea was besieged by an army of Kipchaks from Hungary and Mongols from the East. The latter brought with them a new form of plague. Infected dead bodies were catapulted into the Genoese town. One Genoese ship managed to escape and brought the disease to Messina, in Sicily. From this time forth the disease became an epidemic. It moved over the next few years to northern Italy, North Africa, France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, the Low Countries, England, Scandinavia and the Baltic. There were lesser outbreaks in many cities for the next twenty years. An estimated 25 million died in Europe and economic depression followed."

 

                                                      or there is this version

 

1349: After a mob marched into the Jewish quarter in Erfurt, Germany, carrying a flag with a cross the Jews tried to defend themselves without success resulting in the murder of one hundred Jews including Talmudic sage Alexander Suslin HaKohen and the burning of most of the ghetto.

 

1475: Simon of Trent disappeared from Trento, Italy. The disappearance led to a blood libel that led to 8 Jews being hung by local authorities for their part in a plot use the blood of this Christian child in the making of Matzah.

1497: On the evening of the Seder, all Jewish children in Portugal between the ages of four and fourteen were actually baptized.

1542: Paul III issued “Cupientes Judaeos” the Papal Bull dealing with the treatment of Jews who converted to Christianity including the strictures that the assets of converted Jews could no longer be confiscated, converted Jews could no longer live with Jews, and that converted Jews must be treated the same as other free citizens.

1548: The Vatican found a house used to convert Jews to Catholicism which the Jews were compelled to support with their taxes.

1672: Birthdate of Lutheran theologian Johann Georg Abicht, best known for his works “about oriental languages and Hebrew archaeology.”

1648(8th of Nisan, 5408) OS: Seventy-six-year-old, the Venice born rabbi Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena who was a scholar and a gambler passed away today.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/modena-leon

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691008240/the-autobiography-of-a-seventeenth-century-venetian-rabbi

1694: “According to the reported of Jesuit John Edler Simon Abeles was killed today by his father Lazarus Abeles, because he persisted in his desire to embrace the Christian religion. The father, who was thrown into prison, strangled himself with his tefillin.  Söbl, or Levy Kurtzhandl, was imprisoned as an alleged accomplice, and put to death with horrible tortures. The body of Simon was buried in the Teyn Church of Prague with great pomp and with the honors due a martyr. The report of the Jesuit is naturally one-sided, full of miracles and many improbabilities. An impartial investigation of the sources is still lacking.

1697(28th of Adar, 5457): Amsterdam Rabbi Abraham Cohen Pimentel passed away. A student of Saul Levi Morteira, he served as hakham of the synagogue in Hamburg and was initially a signator to a letter of approbation for Sabbatai Zevi. He was the author of the “Minchat Kohen,” published in 1668.

1758: The councilor of the Holy Office, Lorenzo Ganganelli , the future Pope Clement XIV, who had been charged with investigating the blood libel against the Jews of Yanopol, Poland, presented "Non solis accusatoribus credendum," to the congregation of the Inquisition  which showed that not only were these charges groundless but demonstrated that “all the principal cases of blood accusation since the 13thcentury were groundless.

1759: A letter was received in New York at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue from Newport, Rhode Island. It was a request from the congregation at Newport asking for funds to help build a synagogue. New York sent financial assistance, and on May 28 the congregation at Newport sent a letter of thanks, signed by 10 of its members, back to New York.

1761: in Gemmingen, Germany, Bessie Seligmann and Manasse Maier Lindauer gave birth to David Hirsch Lindauer, the husband of Frommet Weil and the father of Jakob, Bessie and Mayer Hirsch Lindauer.

1767(20thof Adar II, 5527) Parshat Shimini; Shabbat Parah

1767: In London, Aaron Gomes Da Costa, the Portuguese born son of Abigail and Abraham Gomes Da Costa and his wife Miriam De Solomon Gomes Da Costa gave birth to Salomon Gomes Da Costa

1770: In New York City, Abigail and Michael Solomon Hays gave birth to Solomon Hays.

1771(5thof Nissan, 5531): Aaron Hendricks, the London born son of Chaim Hendricks passed away today in New York City. (He is not to be confused with the son Uriah Hendricks who was born a year later in New York City.

1772(16thof Adar II, 5532): Parashat Tzav

1772: John Johnson, a doctor from Frederick, Maryland, wrote a letter advising Martha Washington “on treatments for the “apparent epilepsy” of her daughter Martha “Pasty” Parke Custis who was treated by Dr. John de Sequeyra, the London born, University of Leiden trained physician

1776: The President of Congress, John Hancock, arranged to send George Washington $250,000 cash to be used to maintain the siege of Boston. Hancock wrote in the letter that accompanied the funds sent that he had selected three "gentlemen of character whom I am confident will meet your notice." One of these men was the Jewish patriot, Moses Franks of Philadelphia.

1791: In Inowraclaw, Prussia, Rabbi Levin Isaac Auerbach and his wife gave birth to Isaac Levin Auerbach a supporter of making reforms in Judaism who served as the “preacher at the Jacobsen Temple where sermons were delivered in German, teaching at the Jewish girl’s school in Berlin and finally officiating at the temple in Leipzig for more than 25 years.”

1799(14th of Adar II, 5559): As the British, French and Turks fight it out for control of Egypt and Eretz Israel and Syria, the Jews celebrate Purim

1803: Jacob Hays who “was born in May, 1772 in a Jewish home in Bedford, NY and whose father was a soldier in Washington’s Army” and began his career as law enforcement as a New York Marshall in 1798 was appointed today as a “Captain of the Third Watch District” in New York’s “fledgling police force.”

1804: In Germany, Adelheid and Jakob Nathan Michelbacher gave birth to Abraham Michelbacher, the husband of sophie Michlbacher and the father of Gabriel Michelbacher.

1807(11th of Adar II, 5567): Shabbat Zachor

1807(11th of Adar II, 5567): Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai passed away. Born in 1724, he was “known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name, חיד"א) and was a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history of Jewish religious writings.”

1809: Ralph Harris married Rachel Shannon at the Great Synagogue today.

1811: Birthdate of East Prussian novelist Fanny Lewald who converted to Christianity at the age of 17.

1821: In Leigh, Essex, Catherine Phillips and Laurence Lazarus gave birth Maurice Lazarus.

1822: In Venjle, Joseph Joel Ballin and Hanne Behrend, born Peiser gave birth to Danish engraver Joel Ballin.

1825: Birthdate of Bavarian native Max Friedman who “in the spring of 1848 at the age of 23” came to the United States, became a businessman in Philadelphia, married “Adeline J. Comelien, the daughter of Rowland And Ameilia (nee Judah) Cromelian in 1849 and at the outset of the Civil War organized the th65thRegiment as a cavalry unit which fought at Bull Run and which he served as a Major and then a Colonel.

 

 

1827: Birthdate of Anglo-Jewish communal worker Manuel Castello.

1831(19th of Adar II): Chaim ben Naphtali Coslin, author of Maslul, passed away

1833(1stof Nisan, 5993): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1833: As the Jews observed the New Moon, current President Andrew Jackson wrote to future President James Buchanan

1837(14thof Adar II, 5597): Purim

1837: Birthdate of Gustave-Hippolyte Worms, the Parisian born actor who made his debut as Achille in “Duc Job” in 1850. He retired from the stage in 1901.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15018-worms-gustave-hippolyte

1838: In London, Grace and Judah Aloof gave birth to Abraham Judah Aloof, the husband of London native Meshoda Sequerra whom he married in 1860 and the father of Grace and Semeta Aloof.

1841: Aaron Lazarus married Maria Myers today at the Great Synagogue.

1841: John Fileman married Mary Levy today at the New Synagogue.

1844: The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. “The Bahá'í Faith has its administrative centre in Haifa on land it has owned since Bahá'u'lláh's imprisonment in Acre in the early 1870s by the Ottoman Empire. Pilgrims from all over the world visit for short periods of time. Apart from the circa six hundred volunteer staff, Bahá'ís do not live or preach in Israel”

1847: “The Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel,” the largest congregation in Philadelphia, was organized” today. “Its first rabbi was B. H. Gotthelf, who held services in a hall at No. 528 N. Second Street.”

1848: The ghetto pillars of Ferrara were destroyed by the professors and students of the Athenaeum.

1850: Birthdate of Gittel “Catherine” Helvich Shubert, the German born American wife of David Shubert with whom she had six children, including the famous Shubert brothers of theatrical fame.

1854(21stof Adar, 5614): Eighty-one-year-old Abigail Seixas, the Newport, RI of Joachabed Levy and Moses Mendes Seixas passed away today in New York City.

1860: Birthdate of Sigmund Freud’s sister Regina Debora

1861: A Jew by the name of Guranda who is the Editor of the Ost Deutsche Post was among those whom the city of Vienna has chosen to serve in the Provincial Diet.

1864(13th of Adar II, 5624): Fast of Esther

1864: In Baltimore, MD, George Hexter and Amanda Kann gave birth to Victor Henry Hexter, the graduate of University of Virginia and husband of Minnie May Wertheimer who began practicing law in Dallas in 1887 and has served on the Dallas Board of Education for six years.

1867(14thof Adar II, 5627): Purim

1867: Five days after she had passed away, Jeanette Salomons, the daughter of Solomon Cohen and Hannah Samuel and the wife of David Salomons was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1869: Birthdate of Florenz Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld was born in Chicago. His father was a successful doctor and patron of the arts. He encouraged Ziegfeld's flair for showmanship. Eventually, young Florenz moved to New York where he gained fame for lavish productions "celebrating" the physical aspects of the American female. The Ziegfeld Follies launched the careers of many showgirls and comedians including Will Rogers and Eddie Cantor. Ziegeld was one of the first in a long line of Jews who were connected with the musical theatre. Ziegfeld married the famed Billie Burke and later moved to Hollywood. He passed away in 1932.

1869: In Rhaunen, Prussia, Rabbi Joseph Kahn and his wife Rosalie gave birth to Albert Kahn, one of the foremost industrial architect of his times who created several of the signature buildings in Detroit, Michigan, including the General Motors Building, the Detroit News Building, the Willow Run Bomber building, the foremost production site of B-24 bombers during WW II and Temple Emanuel.

1869: Today San Francisco attorney and Democratic politician Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian born son of Samuel and Julia Naphthaly married Sarah Schmitt, the daughter of “Blaize L. and Pauline Schmitt with whom he had two children – Samuel and Leon.

1870(18th of Adar II, 5630: Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander passed away. Born in 1798, “he served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim during the "interregnum" between the Chidushei HaRim of Ger and the Sfas Emes. Heynekh was one of the leading students of the Rebbe Reb Simcha Bunim of Pshischa. After the latter's death he became one of the most prominent followers of Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Kotzk and the senior disciple of Chidushei hoRim. Following the death of the Chidushei hoRim in 1866, the bulk of his numerous chasidim chose Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh as the next rebbe. Chanokh Heynekh served as the Rabbi in the Jewish communities of Aleksander from 1837 (or earlier) till 1853, Nowy Dwór from 1853 to 1859 and Przasnysz from 1859 to 1864 (or 1866). After his tenure In Przasnysz he retired from the rabbinate and settled in Aleksander[7], where he lived during his period of leadership as rebbe. His teachings are collected in Chashovoh leToivo (first published in 1929[, and are quoted widely. While few may know his name today, his successor was the renowned Yehudah Aryeh Leib which means he must have been quite a personage in his own right.

1871: Twenty-six-year-old Max Landsberg, the Berlin born son of a rabbi and graduate of the Breslau Jewish Theologicial Seminary began serving as the Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh Temple in Rochester, NY – a position he held for forty-four years.

1871: Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. In the 1840’s, when Bismarck began his political career, he held the views of a reactionary Junker “who could not accept Jews serving in the name of his ‘holy majesty’” and who opposed legislation offering Jews full emancipation. By 1869, Bismarck was the leader of a government that passed an emancipation law stating, “All still existing limitations of the…civil rights which are rooted in differences of relgious faith are hereby annulled.” Bismarck explained the change in views by stating, “Man grows with his goals.” In Bismarck’s case the goal was elimination of Austria as Prussia’s rival for leadership of a modern unified Germany. Bismarck turned to his personal banker, a Jews named Gerson Bleichroeder, to supply the financing for the war which drove Austria from the German equation and allowed him to modernize the German Army. Bismarck realized that Jewish support was necessary for his nationalistic goals. But in working with Jews, he came to see them as human beings, and as human begins capable of making a major contribution to the new Germany. All of these elements helped to make the new chancellor a more enlightened leader when it came to matters concerning the Jews. Evidence of this new enlightenment would be seen in 1878 when he took the side of the Jews at the Congress of Berlin when dealing with Czar Alexander II over the question of the horrible treatment of the Jews of Romania.

1872: It was reported today that the Jews of Cahul in Romania have endured three days of attacks by the local citizens. There are 1,000 Jews living in this town of 7,000. Two of the synagogues have been desecrated and property losses are valued are 49,000 ducats

1872(11th of Adar II, 5632): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar II falls on Shabbat

1872(11th of Adar II, 5632): Russian Talmudist Samuel ben Joseph Strashun, also known as Rashash (רש"ש) passed away today in Vilna. As we shall see, he embodied the concept of not making a profit from the crown of the Torah. Born in 1794, he was educated by his father, married at an early age, and settled with his wife's parents in the village of Streszyn, commonly called Strashun (near Wilna), where he assumed his last name. The distillery owned by his father-in-law was wrecked by the invading French army in 1812, and the family removed to Wilna, where Samuel established another distillery and became one of the most prominent members of the community. His wife conducted the business, as was usual in Wilna, and he devoted the greater part of his time to studying the Talmud and to teaching, gratuitously, the disciples who gathered about him. The Talmud lectures which for many years he delivered daily at the synagogue on Poplaves street were well attended, and from the discussions held there resulted his annotations, which are now incorporated in every recent edition of the Babylonian Talmud (Hagahot v'Chiddushei HaRashash). His fame as a rabbinical scholar spread throughout Russia, and he conducted a correspondence with several well-known rabbis. Strashun was offered the rabbinate of Suwałki, but he refused it, preferring to retain his independence. His piety did not prevent him from sympathizing with the progressive element in Russian Jewry, and he was one of the few Orthodox leaders who accepted in good faith the decree of the government that only graduates of the rabbinical schools of Wilna and Jitomir should be elected as rabbis. He wrote good modern Hebrew, spoke the Polish language fluently, was conspicuously kind and benevolent, and was highly esteemed even among the Christian inhabitants of Wilna. Besides the above-mentioned annotations, he wrote others to the Midrash Rabbot, which first appeared in the Wilna editions of 1843-45 and 1855. Some of his novellæ, emendations, etc., were incorporated in the works of other authorities.

1873: In Hessen, Germany, Simon and Lina Plaut gave birth to Isaac Plaut, the “husband of Sophie Plaut” with whom he had eight children.

1875: The Anshe Bikur Cholim Society hosted a Purim Ball tonight at Irving Hall in New York City.

1875’ Three days after he had passed away, 67 year old Morris Jewell, the husband of Sophia Jewell and the father of Julian, Nathaniel and Caroline Jewell was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road Jewish Cemetery.

1875: Over 200 contributors signed the “Silver Book of Life” at this evening’s Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York City.

1875: Rachel and Moses Isaac Binion gave birth to Martha Esther Binion who became Martha Esther Cahn when she married Edward Cahn.

1877(7thof Nisan, 5637): Fifty-eight-year-old Moritz Kohner who in 1869 founded the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebundpassed away today in Leipzig.

1879: A Jewish peddler from New York was beaten and robbed by 3 men while walking along the railroad tracks between Norton and Stamford, Conn.

1880(9th of Nisan, 5640): Just six days short of his 60th birthday, Indian businessman Elias David Sasson passed away in Ceylon.

1882: Birthdate of Friederike Massarik, the native of Vienna who gained fame opera singer Fritzi Massary.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/massary-fritzi

1882: Birthdate of Max Aronson, the Little Rock AR native who gained fame as Gilbert M. Anderson

 an early silent screen actor, appearing as Bronco Billy in that famed 1903 hit, “The Great Train Robbery. “Anderson also was a promoter of the new industry and was one of the first to move his operation to California where he made at least one film featuring the famous Ben Turpin.

1883(12th of Adar II, 5643): Sir George Jessel, the son of a Jewish coral merchant who became on the U.K.’s most influential jurists passed away.

1886(14thof Adar II, 5646): Purim

1884: In Budapest, Morris and Fanny (Reiner) Buchler, gave birth University of Bern Ph.D. rabbi Samuel Buchler, the husband of Ida Frost and chaplain at Sing Sing Priso who served as deputy attorney general for the State of New York who was disbarred after having been charged with grand larceny for taking money from clients and then not performing the promised services,

1887: Birthdate of Erich Mendelsohn “a German Jewish architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.”

1888(9thof Nisan, 5648): Zebi Hirsch Ornstein the son of Mordecai Zeeb Ornstein, and grandson of Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, who served as the rabbi at Rzeszow and Lemberg, passed away today.

1890: A law was issued today which defines Austrian Jewish communities and “regulated the conditions of Jewish congregations.”

1890: In Sokolow, Austria, Henry Pomeranz and Anna Kivowitz gave birth to Max Pomeranz the Brooklyn dentist who came to the United States in 1900 and is the grandfather of singer/songwriter David Pomeranz.

1890: Based on information that first appeared in the London Daily News“Sobriety Among Jews” which was published today espouses the theory that the Jews have survived despite having been oppressed “by cruel laws” and forced to live “in abodes where others must have died” because “they lead, as a rule, simple lives and are mindful of the expressive maxim in Proverbs, ‘wine is a mocker.’” In other words, while Jews do not refrain from drinking, they drink in moderation and condemn intemperance.

1891: “The members of the Baron de Hirsch Club opened their clubhouse at 208 East Broadway” in New York City today.

1893: Hermann Ahlwardt delivered “a rabidly anti-Semitic speech” in the Reichstag in which “he declared that he had eleven documents which showed that while Prince Bismarck was Chancellor, fraudulent contracts had been made repeatedly with Jewish financers…”

1893: “For Jewish Working Girls” published today provided the efforts of the Jewish Working Girls’ Vacation Society to provide a summertime respite by renting a house in the country where they can spend a few restful days at no charge.  The environment will be moral and all dietary laws will be observed. The society led by Mrs. A.L. Freudenthal rented a house in Westchester County last year and provided two-week vacations for 125 young women.

1894: It was reported today that the Don Quixote Club will host a fundraiser for the United Hebrew Charities at the Manhattan Athletic Club.

1884: In Lithuania, Isiah and Esther Fruma (Shapiro) Rabinowitz

1894: It was reported today that the industrial school in New York is only one of the institutions supported by the Bikur Cholim which is currently under the leadership of Mrs. Emma L. Toplitz.

1895: Birthdate of Jack Arons, the native of Balia, Roumania who was a “member of the first group of” members of the Jewish Legon” from Toronto who “served as an instructor in the 40th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers” who, after WW I, “returned to Toronto and enter the catering business.” (As reported by Leon Cheifitz who as an 18-year-old living in Montreal, joined the Legion.)

1895: “Contest of the Grunhut Will” published today described the attempts by Louis Grunhut and Mrs. Mary Ballowa, the son and daughter of the late Dr. Bernhard Grunhut, who are trying to break the will of the descendant.  They are contending that the Doctor had not married Eva L. Jacobs who claims to be his widow and that the couple had not had a baby which died after only 15 deaths. As matters stand now she will inherit his entire estate less $50,000 that has been left to Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Benevolent Society.

1896: For the first time Shaaray Tefila will use the Union Prayer Book which was recently adopted by the Union of American Congregations.

1896: The celebration Shaaray Tefila’s Jubilee will continue this morning with an address delivered after Shabbat morning services by “Henry Morrison, a veteran lawyer who as a youth delivered an address at the dedication of the first synagogue.

1896: “Inquisition and the Jews” published today summarized the views expressed by Dr. M. H. Harris. In speaking of the long-term consequences suffered by the perpetrators of the Inquisition, he concluded that “Spain brought upon itself its own punishment.  In driving out the Moors and Jews it drove out its best citizens. ..Spain is the most insignificant of nations.  It is no longer a first-rate power.  In driving out the Moors and Jews it wrote its own epitaph.”

1897: A Purim Reception today marked “the formal opening of the new building and the improved hospital wards of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews at West 106thStreet.

1897: Cantor David Cahn will officiate at today’s funeral for Rabbi Ignatz Grossman which will be held at Rodef Sholom.  Rabbis Kaufman Kohler and Joseph Silverman will deliver eulogies.

1897: The Superintendent of the Montefiore Home For Chronic Invalids hosted its annual Purim Masquerade Ball tonight.

1898: In Mulhouse, Alsace, France, Constance Kenendel Lang and Baruch Kahn gave birth to Samuel Kahn

1898: Birthdate of Russian native and University of Pennsylvania educated psychologist Dr. Morris Simon Viteles, the “founder of the first vocational guidance center,” the author of Industrial Psychology and the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/psych/history/vitelestext.htm

1898(27thof Adar, 5658: Sixty-two-year-old Babbette Frankfurt, the wife of Moses Frankfurt passed away today following which she was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Norfolk, Va.

1898: In Albany, Governor Black signed into law a bill introduced by Senator Cantor incorporating the Hebrew Charities Building in New York City.

1898: When the Austrian Reichsrath reconvenes today legislation will be introduced to exclude “from the privilege of suffrage all Jews and those remotely connected with that race either by marriage or remote ancestry.

1899: Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor delivered an address on “The Working Day” tonight at the People’s Home in New York City.

1899: The first plenary session of the Supreme Court of Appeals, with all three Chambers sitting jointly and Charles Mazeau presideing.

1901: During the Boxer Rebellion, as a force of British marines at Tien-Tsin it was reported today that the only Russian civilians still in the city are members of the Consulate staff and two Jewish store owners “who left Russia in to save their lives” and who are now being called upon “to move to the Russian concession.”

1902: Birthdate of Hamburg native and actor Carl Jaffe who used the stage name Frank Alwar while performing in his native Germany which he left in 1936 with the rise of the Nazis and settled in London where he pursued a long running career in films and television.

1902(12th of Adar II): Sixty-three year old Abraham Shalom Friedberg (Har Shalom) who went from watchmaker’s apprentice to tutor, author and editor whose works included Emek ha-Zasim , a Hebrew language “adaptation of  Grace Aguilar's Vale of Cedars" passed away today in Warsaw.

1902: Four days after she had passed away, Henriette De Jongh, the wife of Nathan Jacob De Jongh and the mother of James and Benjamin De Johngh was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery

1902: Birthdate of Holocaust survivor Jermie Adler. A poor Jew born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he and his wife moved to Liege, Belgium during the 1930’s where he ran a tailor shop that provided a living for him, his wife and their three children. The family hid successful for four years during the brutal German occupation. Tragically, while Adler was sick in the hospital, the Gestapo came and arrested his family including his nephew. They all perished except for one daughter, who, along with Adler survived the war.

1903: Birthdate of journalist and movie producer Mark Hellinger.

http://alankrode.com/public/vigorish/Mark%20Hellinger.pdf

1904: The second and concluding session of the American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue where attendees had already heard papers on “The History of the Jews of Mobile” Rabbi Alfred G. Moses of Mobile, “Edward Woolf, Musisan and Author” by I.S. Isaacs of New York and “Isaac de Pinto” by Leon Huhner of New York..

1905(14thof Adar II, 5665): Purim (see item below for a moment or irony)

1905: Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity.

1906: This morning, the funeral for Isaac Gellis is scheduled to take place at Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun the synagogue which he served as President.

1906: Birthdate of Benjamin Samberg, the New York native who gained fame as singer-songwriter Benny Bell.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/165717

1906: Abraham Frankel, a cousin of Israel Levin who had come to St. Thomas in 1897, became part of the Sephardic merchant community today when he married Rebecca Sasso, the daughter of Abraham Sasso, who soon after they were married moved on to Colon, Panama.

1907: Before “donning their uniforms” those in the army reserves who had been called up for duty “plundered several Jewish shops” in Berlad, Moldavia.

1907: “Large numbers of Jews from Jassy and other Moldavian towns which have been terrorized by the excesses of the peasantry have arrived “in Bucharest” seeking refuge and assistance.”

1908(28thof Adar II, 5668): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah observed for the last time during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.

1909: In Austria, David (Aubie) Kinsbruner and Nettie Kinsbruner gave birth to Max Kinsbrunner who as Mac Kinsbrunner,  the New York City High School graduate who began his college basketball career at Syracuse before transferring to St. Johns where he “was a member of the famed ‘Wonder Five basketball team that won 68 of 72 games from 1929 through 1931.

1910(10thof Adar II, 5670): Seventy-one-year-old retired dry goods merchant and philanthropist Abraham Lippmann, the long-time president of Temple Rodeph Shalom and the Pittsburgh United Hebrew Relief Society passed away at 4 o’clock this morning in Pittsburgh.”

1911: It was reported today that V.N. Kokovsoff, the newly appointed Russian Premier maintains “an enlightened and moderate attitude” on “the Jewish question.”

1912: It was reported today that “the campaign which the Young Women’s Hebrew Assoication will undertake from April 11 to April 25 to raise the $200,000 still needed for the erection of a new dormitory and head headquarters building has attracted a great deal of attention.”

1913: Birthdate of Max E. Youngstein the New York born lawyer turned movie producer

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/11/business/max-youngstein-84-helped-run-united-artists.html

1913(12thof Adar II, 5673: Fifty-six-year-old philanthropist Louis Feist passed away today in Frankfort, Germany.

1913(12thof Adar II, 5673): Chicago merchant Victor Strelitz, a member of Chicago’s Sinai Congregation passed away today.

1913(12thof Adar II, 5673): Eighty-year old journalist Charles A.D. Meyerhoff passed away today in New York City.

1913(12thof Adar II, 5673): Samuel A. Lass who “became rabbi of the Ohel Congregation twenty-six years ago and three years later accepted the pulpit of the Keneseth Israel Congregation passed away today in Minneapolis, MN.

1914(23rdof Adar, 5674): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudey: Shabbat Parah

1914(23rdof Adar, 5674): Fifty-seven-year-old Isidor Langsdorf, of Antonio

Roig and Lansdorf, the manufacturer of the Roig cigars and leading member of Rodeph Shalom passed away today in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA.

1914: London native Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, the son of Myer and Sarah Salaman and Nina Ruth Salaman gave birth to Esther Salaman who became Esther Sarah Hamburger when she married Paul Hamburger

1915: “The American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War, the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War and the Provisional Committee for General Zionist Affairs issued a joint appeal today to Jews in American to make special contributions for relief of Jewish war sufferers.”

1915: “Plans to raise $100,000 with which to build a home for Jewish orphans in the Bronx were discussed today by the Federation of Bessarabian Organization today” at the meeting in Public School 62.”

1915: “A protest against the violation by Rumania of the political and civil rights provided for the Jews of Rumania by the Treaty of Berlin in 1877 after the close of the Russo-Turkish War was made by the Federation of Rumanian Jews of America tonight at its dinner at Trotzky’s Kosher Restaurant in the Broadway Central Hotel at Bond Street and Broadway.”

1915: “Supreme Court Justice Samuel Greenbaum, President of the Education Alliance delivered an address tonight at celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the found of the alliance in which he “reviewed the history of the organization and outlined its purposes.”

1915: State Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo and several former directors of the Educational Alliance and members of the Women’s Auxiliary were among those who attended a reception given in honor of Mayor John P. Mitchell by the Education Alliance.

, 1916: Birthdate of Novelist Harold Robbins. There seems to be some dispute about this since May 5, 1916 is also given as his birthdate. An orphan, Robbins was also known as Francis Kane and Harold Rubin. Some of his more famous works included The Carpetbaggers and The Betsy. While not critically acclaimed, Robbins was a hit with the public. According to one source, his books have sold more than fifty million copies and some of them have been turned into popular Hollywood films. Robbins died in 1997.

1917: The President of the American Jewish Committee sent a cablegram to Professor Paul Miliukov the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government established by the Revolution in which he said, “Every Jew hails free Russia’s advent with prayer thanksgiving, and pledges for co-operation.”

1917: Henry Morgenthau, of the American Jewish Relief Committee, announced” today “that $10,000 must be raised in the United States by June 1” if the millions of “Jews in the eastern war zone were to be saved from starvation.”

1917: In Jerusalem, ”noted archeologist Eleazar Sukenik and educationalist and women's rights activist Hasya Sukenik-Feinsod” gave birth to Yigal Sukenik who as Yigael Yadin gained fame fighting in the War for Independence, serving as the second Chief of Staff for the IDF and becoming a first-rate archeologist. If you did not know he was a real person, you would swear that some novelist had invented this fascinating person.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin

1918: After calling on Jews to support “the Catholic war drive” Jacob H. Schiff led by example when he made a one-thousand-dollar contribution to the charitable activity.

1918: Today, on Delancey Street, Rabbi M.Z. Margolies blessed “the members of the second contingent of the Jewish Battalion before its departure for Canada.”

1919: The National Jewish Council in Constantinople asked the British High Commander for the discharge of all Jewish soldiers from the Ottoman army. They stated that the Jewish soldiers endured terrible suffering, as they were used to build roads across Anatolia. Thousands died due to lack of food, illness, insufficient equipment and cruel treatment.

1919: In Budapest, Zsigmond Kunfi, minister of education in the newly formed Hungarian Social Democratic government met with Bela Kun chairman of Hungary’s Communist party at the Marko Street Jail. Kunfi was seeking Kun’s support in the formation of coalition government. The irony is that Kun and Kunfi whose name was Kohn, were both Jewish.

1920: In a move that would end up keeping Jews from getting to the United States during the Holocaust, President Harding pushed Congress to limit immigration.

1920: In Vienna, the police and municipal guards dispersed a parade of several hundred young men that had been formed in front of city hall despite a ban on anti-Jewish mass meetings.

1920(2nd of Nisan, 5680): Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe passed away. There is no way that this simple blog can do justice to this leader of Chabad and we urge to check elsewhere for more about his life and contributions to the Jewish people.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/110470/jewish/A-Brief-Biography.htm

 

1921: In Dublin, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was serving as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and his wife gave birth to Yaakov Herzog who made Aliyah when his father became the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi and who, after being ordained earned a law degree and became a member of the Israeli diplomatic corps.

http://www.magalbooks.com/herzog.html

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/this-is-how-we-ruined-toynbee-s-theory-1.210993

1921: Karl and Helene Neubauer gave birth to Kurt Neubauer who was murdered at Treblinka in late 1942.

1922: Winston Churchill cautions Zionist Pinhas Ruttenberg against ordering machinery for the newly approved power project for Palestine from Germany when unemployment is still a major problem in Britain. Ruttenberg took the hint and re-channeled his purchases of heavy equipment accordingly.

1924: Birthdate of Dov Shilansky an Israeli politician and who served as Speaker of the Knesset from 1988 to 1992.

1924(15th of Adar II, 5684): Shushan Purim

1924(15thof Adar II, 5684): Less than a month before his 40th birthday, Lithuanian born, University of London trained “Hebraist and Arabist” passed away today in Philadelphia where he was a Professor at Dropsie College and an editor for the Jewish Publication Society.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/halper-benzion

1924(15th of Adar II, 5684): Eighty-three year old Samuel Ullman the native of German who settled in Birmingham, Alabama where he became a successful businessman, poet and humanitarian passed away today.

https://www.uab.edu/ullmanmuseum/

1925: Viking Press was founded by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. “The firm's name and logo—a Viking ship drawn by Rockwell Kent—were meant to evoke the ideas of exploration and enterprise implied by the word ‘Viking’".

1925: In the Poconos mountain town of Stroudsburg, PA, Benjamin Wilkins, a Russian immigrant tailor and the former Rose Katz gave birth to hotel-man Morris Benjamin Wilkins who “installed the Poconos’ first heart-shaped bathtub.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/morris-wilkins-dies-at-90-lured-lovers-to-poconos.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1926: In New York, William Fox announced today that realtor Benjamin Winter had contributed $50,000 to the United Jewish campaign which is working to five fifteen million dollars to help Jews living abroad.

1926: In Brooklyn Bernard Gantmacher and the former Rebecca Rose gave birth to Elliot Bernard Gantmacher who as Elliot Gant, along with his brother Elliot, gave us that epitome of collegiate fashion – the” button-down” shirt and created their brand – the famous Gant shirt. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/elliot-gant-marketer-of-the-button-down-shirt-dies-at-89.html

1926(6thof Nisan, 5686): Seventy-seven-year-old Dr. Philip Klein who served for thirty-five years as the rabbi “of the First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek passed away today.

https://www.jta.org/1926/03/23/archive/dr-philip-klein-aged-new-york-rabbi-dies1927(17th of Adar II, 5687): Seventy year old Anglo-American archaeologist Sir Charles Walston, the son of Henry and Sophie Waldstein who changed his name to Walston married Florence Einstein Walson with whom he had one side – Henry David Leonard George Walston -- and  whose works included The Jewish Question and the Mission of the Jews passed away today

https://www.jta.org/1927/03/25/archive/sir-charles-walston-noted-anglo-jewish-scholar-dies-at-71

1927: As the Ford-Sapiro Libel case continues to be heard in Detroit, letters are arriving from all over the country including one sent by an unnamed correspondent  to Senator Reed, Mr. Ford’s attorney in which he state “every Jew is sworn to knock out three teeth of a Christian when kissing him.””

1929: Birthdate of Jules Bergman, ABC television’s news space and science reporter. When the world of space flight was considered the province of the geeks, Bergman took on the beat and made it intelligible to the average American.

1929: A West End production of the Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar musical “The Five O’clock Girl opened at the London Hippodrome.

1932(13thof Adar II, 5692): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim

1932: Birthdate of Walter Gilbert winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980.

1932: “Dumb Dicks,” a comedy starring Benny Rubin was released today in the United States.

1932: Birthdate of violinist and conductor Joseph Silverstein the Detroit native who has enjoyed a distinguished career that has included both the concert hall and the world of academia.

1932: The American athletes who will compete in the upcoming Jewish Olympics are re-united in Trieste where they begin the last leg of their trip to Tel Aviv.

1933: The German government opens its first concentration camp at Dachau.

1933: The New York Times reported on the increased number of German immigrants arriving in Palestine. “Oscar Kahn, who was a (German) State Secretary in 1918 and who had been threatened by the Nazis” was among the many German families who reached Eretz Israel this week.

1934(5th of Nisan, 5694): Just two days before his 56th birthday Austrian composer passed away in Berlin after having suffered a stroke in December of 1933.

http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/franz_schreker/

1935: “The Man Who Knew Too Much” produced by Michael Balcon and co-starring Peter Lorre was released in the United States three months after being released in England.

1936: According to reports published today, “both the police and the Storm Troopers are under instructions to see it that every registered voter goes to the polls” in the upcoming elections “except for the Jews.”

1936: In Marlborough, CT, Sam Boardman and his wife gave birth lightweight boxer Larry Boardman.

1936: Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the High Commissioner of Palestine is reported today to be persisting in pressing forward with establishment of a legislative council even though the Jews are adamant in their refusal to participate because it would them a permanent minority subject to Arab and British control

1937: As the wave of terror continues, Dov Zemel, the chauffeur of the Meshek Haotzar, is in critical condition in Tel Aviv hospital after having been shot by an assailant firing from an Arab owned orange grove.

1937: As of today no arrests have been in Jersey City “where two large signs derisive of Jews were painted across the façade of Ahavas Achim” an orthodox synagogue on Myrtle Avenue.

1937(9th of Nisan, 5679) Sixty-four-year-old British born historian and Zionist leader Jacob De Haas the secretary of the First Zionist Congress, a close confidant of Theodore Herzel and after moving to the United States in 1902, the first secretary of the Federation of American Zionists from which position he recruited Louis Brandeis to the Zionist cause passed away today at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.

http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf

1937: The Palestine Post reported that "unfettered discretion" had been conferred upon the High Commissioner to make the Defense Regulations under a new Palestine (Defense) Order-in-Council effective. The proclamation, published in Gazette Extraordinary, had also empowered the High Commissioner to delegate his powers to the General Officer, Commander of all Forces in Palestine. It was reported from London that the Palestine (Peel) Commission was drafting its final report.

1937: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson is scheduled to speak on “Jews Under Protest and Jews by Faith” at Temple Emanu-El’

1937: At this morning’s Jewish Youth Service, Rabbi I.B. Hoffman of B’nai Jershurun is scheduled to speak on “Jewish Youth – Awake and Live.”

1937: At the Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to speak on “Gains or Losses in Religion: Have We Lost or Found Faith?”

1937: Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Healing Through Religion” at the Jewish Science Society.

1938: “The proposal that Jews in America adopt a ten-year plan of giving, in order to safeguard Palestine against partition, was made today by Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago at the tenth annual luncheon of the Brooklyn Chapter of Hadassah, held in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.”

1939(1st of Nisan, 5699): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1939: Birthdate of Joseph Raz the Israeli philosopher whose works include The Concept of a Legal System and The Morality of Freedom.

1939: A 24-hour strike protesting Great Britain’s latest plan to deal with the situation in Palestine was scheduled to come to and at 5 A.M. today. According to The National Council Of Palestine Jews, the plan would lead to the “liquidation of the Newish national home” and strangle Jewish settlement in Palestine

1940: “To Honor Julius Dukas” published today described plans of the United Yehsivos Foundation to honor “Julius Dukas, the president of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School at a dinner celebrating his 80th birthday to be held at the Hotel Astor.

1940: Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France. Reynaud would be the Prime Minister when the Germans would end the Phony War and come crashing through the Ardennes in May of 1940. Within six weeks, France would suffer a crushing military defeat. Reynaud was one of the leaders who wanted to continue the fight against the Nazis from France’s overseas colonies. He was overruled. To his credit, Reynaud refused to sign an Armistice with the Germans, a role that fell to the willing hands of Marshall Petain. Petain’s shameful behavior led to the active betrayal of the Jews of France by their non-Jewish countrymen.

1941: “Sea Wolf” co-produced by Jack L. Warner co-starring Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle) and featuring Howard Da Silva as he leading mutineer was released in the United States today.

1942(3rdof Nisan, 5702): Parashat Vayikra

1942(3rdof Nisan, 5702): Sixty-nine-year-old Galician born, Berlin trained rabbi Jacob Lauterbach who in 1903 came to the United States where he became a professor at Hebrew Union College and a prolific contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia passed away today.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0186/ms0186.html

1942: Bernhard Lichtenberg “the single most well-known Catholic cleric who openly disagreed not only with the persecution of baptized Jews, but of Jews in general” today “was found guilty of a treacherous attack on state and party and sentenced to a two-year imprisonment.”

1943(14th of Adar II, 5703): Purim

1943: At Radom, Poland, Jewish physicians were removed from the ghetto and executed at nearby Szydlowiec.

1943: Eight members of the Jewish intelligentsia were taken from Piotrków, Poland, to a Jewish cemetery and shot, along with the cemetery's caretaker and his wife. The Germans engineer these killings to total ten, in a macabre reference to the biblical story of the hanged ten sons of the Jew-hating Haman--a crucial character in the Purim story.

1943: During the Jewish festival of Purim, 2300 Jews from Skopje, Yugoslavia, were deported to Auschwitz.

1943: An attempt to assassinate Hitler when visited a display of captured Soviet weapons at a military museum in Berlin failed because Hitler’s schedule was changed and Colonel Gersdorff did not have time to detonate the bomb.

1944: Eichmann went to Hungary to oversee German interests in a country that was still hesitant about deporting its Jews. The Hungarians would soon capitulate to German demands. The Hungarian Arrow Cross would be an enthusiastic participant in the Nazis roundups.

1945: At the end of the “Flossenberg March,” the remaining survivors of the march were crammed into cattle cars over a three-day period and awaited further transport. Many died of thirst. They were sent to Belsen. Only 200 of the original 1000 women survived the entire trip.

1945: Red Army troops entered the Pruszcz, Poland, camp near Stutthof. Only about 200 women prisoners, out of an original 1100, remained alive.

1945: Dozens of small concentration camps in Germany were liberated by the Red Army.

1946: “The Kid From Brooklyn” a musical comedy produced by Samuel Goldwyn and starring Danny Kaye was released in the United States today.

1946: It was reported today that “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, President of the American Jewish Congress and Walter White, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” had “sent a joint appeal to /Governor Thomas E. Dewey urging him to publicly endorse the Falk-Andrews Bill which would outlaw restrictive covenants on real estate.”

1947: According to reports published in Tel Aviv today, a combination of loans and the Jewish Agency has been able to obtain a direct allocation of $500,000 have made it possible to reopen five diamond plants. The plants had been closed for the past ten weeks. Seven more plants are scheduled to reopen next week. The money will be used primarily to purchase rough-cut diamonds which the Palestinians can cut, polish and sell or be used to create jewelry. About five hundred polishers will be employed in these efforts.

1947(29th of Adar, 5707): Philip Lehman an American investment banker passed away. Born in New York City to Emanuel and Pauline (nee Sondheim), his father, was a co-founder of investment bank, Lehman Brothers. Philip became a partner in the family-owned firm in 1887 and was the firm's managing partner from 1901 to 1925. He was also the first chairman of the board of the Lehman Corporation. [1] Lehman was notable as one of the first financiers to recognize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise capital. Lehman began collecting major artworks in 1911, the bulk of which he willed to his son Robert. His collection today forms part of the exhibition in the Robert Lehman Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9406E1DB173CE13BBC4A51DFB566838C659EDE

1947(29thof Adar, 5707): Fifty-one-year-old Solomon “Sol” Tarlow, the Russian born son of Wolf and Odessa Tarlowski who emigrated to the United States in 1914 under the sponsorship of his brother-in-law Sam Stolaroff the owner of the dry goods store in Roswell, NM where Sol was employed as a tailor while raising three children with his wife Audra, passed away today after which he was buried at South Park Cemetery in Roswell.

1947: In Parliament, Churchill mocks the Labor government’s willing to “scuttle everywhere” surrendering Egypt, India and Burma but continuing to waste treasure on a barren Palestine policy.

1948: “Peace in Europe depends largely on the solution there of the displaced persons problem, Lieut. Col. Dayton H. Frost, former deputy director of the Civil Affairs Division of the United States Army in Germany, told 1,500 delegates at the sixty-third annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society today in the Astor Hotel.”

1948: Two days after Ambassador Warren Austin to the UN Security Council said that the U.S. no longer viewed the partition as viable, an exasperated and angry President Harry Truman wrote "The striped pants conspirators in the State Department had completely balled up the Palestine situation."  President Truman overruled the Arabists, oil industry and self-described foreign policy pragmatist and continued his support of the creation of a Jewish state.

1949: “The Undercover Man,” a film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Robert Rossen was released today in the United States.

1950: In New York City, Jackson T. Holtz of Boston, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) presented a 32-passenger bus to Adolf Robison, board chairman of Material for Israel, Inc. The bus will be used to take disabled veterans from “Tel Hashomir Hospital in Israel to” their worksites in Tel Aviv which is seven miles away.

1951(13thof Adar Ii, 5711): Fast of Esther; erev Purim

1951: During the Cold War Red Scare, actor Larry Parks testified before the strangely named House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) saying "I don't think this is American justice to make me...crawl through the mud...this is what I beg you not to do.""Despite his confessions and informing, Parks was blacklisted."

1952: Jewish born DJ and producer Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that Egypt had joined the Islamic Union.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that preliminary secret reparations talks between the Israeli-Jewish and German delegations had begun at The Hague.

1952: The Jerusalem Post was happy to announce, that together with all other Israeli newspapers, it would no longer appear as a two-page issue but would be able to return to four pages daily and eight pages on Friday.

1953: Edward H. Weiss, president of Weiss & Geller spoke at Emory University’s advertising clinic in Atlanta, GA.

1954(16thof Adar II, 5714): Shushan Purim

1956(9thof Nisan, 5716): Ninety-year-old Edwin Thanhouser, the Baltimore born son of Samuel and Julia Thanhouser and actor who went on to start the Thanhouser Film Coporation in New Rochelle, NY while raise his son Lloyd with his wife the former Gertrude Homan passed away today after which he was buried at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, NY.

1957: Before filming of “A Fairwell to Arms” began John Huston (who was not Jewish) quit the project in a dispute with producer David O. Selznick who replaced him as director with Charles Vidor.

1958: Seventy-four-year-old Hans Ehrenberg, who converted to Christianity in 1911 and founded the Confessing Church passed away.  He was forced to flee to England by the Nazis because under their laws he was Jewish. ” Hans Ehrenberg was one of the few German Protestant theologians, even within the Confessing Church, to publicly express his vehement opposition to the anti-Semitism of the Nazis and publicly declare his support of the Jewish people. He strongly urged the Protestant church to take the same stand. He criticized Christian anti-Semitism and emphasized the similarities between Judaism and Christianity.”

1960: David Susskind was the Executive Producer for tonight’s broadcast of “The Master Builder,” this week’s “Play of the Week.”

1961: "A law was passed that sequestered for the Government 'all goods and property in Libya, belonging to organizations or persons resident in Israel or connected to them by professional affiliation”

1961: Sixty-year-old featherweight 5’ 7” David Frush Jr., a native of London who fought his first fight in 1917 passed away today in Cleveland, Ohio.

1961: Art Modell “bought the old Cleveland Browns” which became the Baltimore Ravens.

1962: U.S. premiere of “Sweet Bird of Youth” produced by Pandro Berman, directed by Richard Brooks who also wrote the screenplay, starring Paul Newman.

1963: “The Balcony,” a film version of the Broadway play starring Shelly Winters, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, and Lee Grant was released in the United States today.

1964: Mayor Wagner was among those who spoke at the celebration marking the 30thanniversary of Aufbau which was held at the Hunter College Assembly Hall and to which “President Lyndon Johnson sent greetings.”

1964: In Philadelphia, the pre-Broadway run of “Anyone Can Whistle,” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim came to an end.

1964: Birthdate of Bruce M. Mesner, the New York City native who anchored the defense for the University of Maryland Terrapins before spending one season playing pro-ball with Marv Levy’s Buffalo Bills.

1965: Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Among those in the front rank is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel who prays with his feet as he joined King and other civil rights leader on the march which is part of the campaign to pass the Voting Rights Act.1966(29th of Adar, 5726): Sixty-nine-year-old professional boxer Danny Frust, he husband of Binnie (Cohen) Frust passed away today.

1967: “A sharp exchange involving charges of anti-Semitism against a Soviet representative took place today” at Geneva” between Morris B. Abram, chief United States delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and Yakub A. Osrovski, head of the Soviet delegation, during debate on the question of the establishment of an office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.” (JTA)

1967: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” produced by Ross Hunter with music by Elmer Bernstein was released today in the United States.

1967: “The Honey Pot, a crime comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz” was released in the United Kingdom today.

1968: Israeli forces crossed the Jordan River to attack PLO bases. The organizational names may change but the war against the terrorists has been going on for decades.

1968: Seventy-one-year-old German born Gerhart Eisler whose father was Jewish and mother was Lutheran and was a Communist Party operative who worked in several countries passed away today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhart_Eisler

http://spartacus-educational.com/Gerhart_Eisler.htm

1969: Funeral services for Mrs. Zena Maisel Pollack, a graduate of the University of Nebraska and the administrative director of the Jewish Guild for the Blind are scheduled to be held this morning in Manhattan.

1969(2ndof Nisan, 5729): Seventy-seven-year-old Cornell University trained Mechanical Engineer Ralph Pappenheimer, the Cincinnati, OH, born son of Pauline and Alexander Pappenheimer, the husband of Claire and Louise Rauh Pappenheimer and the father tennis player Ralph Pappenheimer passed away today.

1969(2ndof Nisan, 5729): Seventy-three-year-old Joseph Varbalow, the Russian born son of Hyman and Sadie Stillman Varbalow and University of Pennsylvania trained attorney who went on to serve as District Court Judge in Camden, NJ where he raised a family with his wife Dorothy passed away today after which he was buried at the Crescent Memorial Park in Pennsauken, NJ.

1969: On the Upper West Side Lucianne Cummings, the Episcopalian literary agent whose involvement with Monica Lewinsky helped launch her son’s career and Sydney Goldberg gave birth to right-wing pundit Jonah Goldberg who was raised in the faith of his father.

1970(13thof Adar II, 5730): Start reading Vayikra on Shabbat Zachor which will be followed by the reading of the Megillah in the evening.

1970: Eighty-nine-year-old Somerset native George Eric Rowe Gedye who had served as a foreign correspondent for a dozen years in the 1920’s and 1930” and was the author the 1939 tome Betrayal in Central Europe which was highly critical of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement and who provided an eyewitness of the “brutalities and persecutions” of Jews in Austria

1971(24thof Adar, 5731): Eighty year old Peretz Bernstein, “of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence” and MK passed away today.

1971: “making it” produced by Albert S. Ruddy, written by Peter Bart, starring Kristoffer Tabori and Bob Balaban and with music by Charles Fox was released today in the United States.

1973: U.S. premiere of “Godspell” with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz starring Victor Garber.

1974: “Naum Olshansky renounced Soviet citizenship and turns in his medals to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.”

1974: “Jewish activist Valery Kukui who in June of 1971 had been sentenced “three years in a labor camp was released today which will enable him to leave for Israel in April.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the 293 members of the Palestine Council ended their 13th session in Cairo with an endorsement which called for the eventual dismantling of the State of Israel.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had told the nation that there were major differences with Washington on two key issues: Israel¹s final borders and the Palestine question.

1978: Operation Litani, which was designed to dislodge the PLO from its bases in southern Lebanon came to a successful conclusion.

1979(22ndof Adar, 5739): Sixty-one-year-old Wharton School of Business graduate and WW II veteran Merrill Lloyd Hassenfeld, the Providence, RI, born son of Henry Hassenfeld, a pencil and toy manufacturer, and Marion Frank and CEO of Hasbro, Inc. the toy manufacturing company resonsponsible for selling boys “dolls” by creating the G.I. Joe “action figure” while raising his family with his wife Sylvia Kay Hassenfeld, passed away today.

1980: “Forbidden Zone,” a musical comedy directed and produced by Richard Elfman who also wrote the story was released in the United States today.

1981(15th of Adar II, 5741): On Shabbat, Soviet film director Mark Semyonovich Donskoy passed away.

1981: Jewish journalist Jessica Savitch married Donald Payne.

1982: “Forbidden Zone is an American musical fantasy comedy film directed and produced by Richard Elfman” was released today in the United States.

1983: After almost nine years, NBC broadcast the final episode of the popular series “Little House on the Prairie” starring Michael Landon, who along with Leo Penn directed serval episodes, Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert.

1984: In New York City, author Marion Hess Pomeranc and stockbroker Abe Pomerance gave birth to “child actor” and chess champion Max Pomerance.

1987(20thof Adar, 5747): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah

1987(20thof Adar, 5747): Sixty-four-year-old Viennese native Jacob Tabues, the husband of Susan Tabues and instructor on Jewish studies at “Harvard, Columbia and Princeton” passed away today in Berlin.

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2672/i-am-impossible-an-exchange-between-jacob-taubes-and-arthur-a-cohen/

1989(14thof Adar II, 5749): First Purim during the Presidency of George Bush.

1994(9th of Nisan, 5754): Estelle Sommers passed away. Sommers got her start in the dance world when she transformed her husband's Cincinnati piece-goods retail store into a dancewear specialty shop. Passionate about dance since taking ballet and tap lessons in childhood, Sommers remained committed to the dance world both professionally and personally until her death. After a divorce and a move to New York, Sommers married "Mr. Capezio," Ben Sommers, and her career was thereafter linked to his. As owner-manager of Capezio Fashion Shop, designer-owner of Estar, Ltd., and as vice president and head administrator for six Capezio Dance-Theatre Shops nationwide, she achieved success in various branches of retail dancewear. Along the way, she introduced Antron-Lycra/Spandex, then a new fabric, into Capezio's dancewear, revolutionizing the industry. Due to the nature of her business, Sommers could not support or publicly promote any one dance company over others, but she was deeply involved in general dance causes. She served on the boards of the Joffrey School of Ballet, the International Dance Alliance, the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, and the Center for Dance Medicine. She was also committed to projects in Israel, serving on the boards of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Israeli Dance Institute. Her greatest impact may have been made as the U.S. Chairwoman of the International Committee for the Dance Library of Israel. In this position, which she held from 1979 until 1994, Sommers helped to establish the Tel Aviv library as the second most important dance collection worldwide.

1995(19thof Adar II, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old “biochemist and immunologist” Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr. passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/24/obituaries/alwin-m-pappenheimer-jr-86-shed-light-on-bacterial-toxins.html

1996(1stof Nisan, 5756): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1996(1stof Nisan, 5756): Ninety-year old Dorothy Regina Fantasia, the Chicago born daughter of Henry and Anna Gattman and wife of Peter Albert Fantasia passed away today in Orange, CA.

1997: After premiering in Canada six months ago, “Crash” a film based on a novel of the same name directed, produced and written by David Cronenberg was released in the United States today.

1997(12thof Adar II, 5757): On the eve of Purim, a Palestinian suicide bomber murdered Michael Avrahimi, 32; Yael Gilad, 32 and Anat Winter-Rosen, 37 when he set off a bomb at a Tel Aviv coffee shop.

1998(23rdof Adar, 5758): Parashat  Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah

1998: It was reported today that Rashid Baz, a 31-year-old Lebanese immigrant who was sentenced to 141 years in prison for the murdering 16 year old Aaron Halberstam and gravely wounding 22 year old Nachum Soskin, has refused to answer most questions after having been called to testify in the civil suit brought by the parents of the victims against ‘the seven Tennessee companies that made the parts of the principal gun that was used in the attack.”

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including “Years of Renewal” by Henry Kissinger, “The Jewish Lover” by Edward Topol and “Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land” by Victor K. McElheny.

2000(14thof Adar II, 5760): Purim

2000: “Pope John Paul II arrived in Israel, for a historic five-day visit, during which he visited the holy sites of the three major religions and met with Israel’s political leaders and Chief Rabbis.”(As reported by Mitchell Bard)

2001: “Yitzhak Mordechai, a former defense minister and transportation minister, was convicted today of committing ''indecent acts'' against two women subordinates.”

2002: In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2002(8thof Nisan, 5762): Yitzhak Cohen, 48, of Modi'in, Tsipi Shemesh, 29 (who was 5 months pregnant with twins) and Gadi Shemesh, 34 were murdered and 47 people were injured when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a clothing store and toy shop on King George Street in Jerusalem

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/21/israel2

2003: U.S. premiere of “Dreamcatcher” directed and co-produced by Lawrence Kasdan with a screenplay by William Goldman and Lawrence Kasdan.

2003:  Six months after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Evelyn” co-starring Julianna Margulies was released today in the United Kingdom.

2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including “Codex” by Lev Grossman and the recently released paperback edition of “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror” by Bernard Lewis.

2005: “Israel today confirmed plans to build 3,500 new housing units in the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, Maale Adumim” which “already resembles a well-ordered suburb in the hills a few miles east of Jerusalem.”

2006: The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu probably entered Israel from Egypt, sources at the Agriculture Ministry said.

2007(2ndof Nisan, 5676): Eighty-one-year-old “L. Leonard Ruben, one of Montgomery County's best-known judges and the husband of former Maryland state senator Ida G. Ruben,” died passed away today after he collapsed outside the district courthouse in downtown Silver Spring.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102169.html

2007: “Hungarian Folk,” an exploration of the Jewish-Hungarian musical traditions featuring Magyar Khasene with Jacob Shulman-Ment and Joshua Cohen reading from his novel A Cadenza for the Schneiderman Violin Concerto, takes place at the Eldridge Street Synagogue.

2007: At the Shankar School of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gat, an exhibition styled “There’s No button without a Buttonhole” came to a close.

2007: Raleb  Majadele replaced Yuli Tamir as Minister for Science and Technology

2008: Purim, 5768

2008: In New York, the 92nd Street Y presents an evening with David Grossman one of Israel’s best known authors.

2008: Three Kassam rockets fired from Gaza landed in open areas in the Sdot Negev region as Purim festivities were underway in the area.

2008: “The Band’s Visit,” the Israeli film about an Egyptian band stranded in a village in the Israeli film opens in a most unusual venue, the Fleur Cinema & Café in Des Moines, Iowa.

2009: Shabbath Hahodesh - The Sabbath of the Month; Completion of Shemot, the Book of Exodus.

2009: The 92nd Street Y presents Erev Shira, tuneful evening where members of the audience sing along to their favorite Israeli hits and classics of the past 60+ years, accompanied by a singer and live band! Erev Shira is part of the Merchav Ivri Hebrew programming initiative.

2009: Police foiled a terror attack at a Haifa mall on tonight

2009: Idina Mentzel “was an Honorary Chair of the Imperial Court of New York's Annual Charity Coronation Ball, Night of A Thousand Gowns

2009: An air disaster was narrowly averted this afternoon when an Iberia passenger plane came dangerously close to a Cargo Air Lines jet as the two aircraft were preparing to land at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History” by David Aaronovitch, “Backing Into Forward: A Memoir” by Jules Feiffer, and “Blooms of Darkness” by Aharon Appelfeld

2010: Keshet is scheduled to host its 22nd Annual Rainbow Banquet.

2011: Gina Waldman is scheduled to speak at Congregation Edmond J. Safra where she will discuss “how her experience of anti-Semitism growing up in Libya, and her family’s expulsion from their ancestral home there, led her to become a human rights activist.”

2011(15th of Adar II, 5771): Shushan Purim

2011(15th of Adar II, 5771): Seventy-six year old movie executive Joe Wizan passed away.(As reported by Dennis McLellan)

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/25/local/la-me-joe-wizan-20110325

2011: The field hospital Israel is establishing in Japan is the first to be set up by any nation offering outside assistance, Israel’s Ambassador to Japan Nissim Ben Shitrit said today, and the Japanese are extremely appreciative

2011: An Israel Air Force fighter jet struck a Gaza tunnel running along the border with Israel, as well as Hamas militants in the northern Gaza strip today, an IDF statement confirmed.

2012: The Sy Kushner Klezmer Ensemble is scheduled to perform as part of the East Village Klezmer Series

2012: Yael Shahar - Director at Israel’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism is scheduled to present "Cyber-Terrorism: Threats and Counters" sponsored by The Israel Project.

2012: “Obsession” is scheduled to be shown tonight at the 16th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

2012: After signing a one year contract with the Minnesota Vikings, Geoff Schwartz played right guard for 13 games.

2012: Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present 5th Annual Writers on View featuring artist Sebastian Mendes and writers and poets Terese Svoboda, Willie Perdomo, Ken Chen, Janet Kaplan, Aldina Vazão Kennedy, Matthew Thorburn, Rachel Zucker, Tracy K. Smith and Sima Rabinowitz

2013: Dr. Elliot Lefkovitz, Loyola University and Spertus Institute faculty member is scheduled to review and discuss Bernard Wasserstein’s On the Eve:  The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War, a 2012 National Jewish Book Award finalist. 

2013: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Professor Melissa Klapper author of Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940

2013: Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon’s “The Sounds of Silence” was named as one 25 recordings selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.

 

2013(10thof Nisan, 5773): Ninety-five year old Rabbi Hershel Schacter, who was serving with the U.S. Army’s VIII Corps when it liberated Buchenwald making him the first U.S. Army chaplain to enter the camp where he would later conduct services passed away today.  Among those whom he personally rescued was 7-year-old Yisrael Meir Lau, the future chief rabbi of Israel.

2013: The Kubbeh Project hosted by Zucker Bakery on East 9thStreet is scheduled to come to an end.2013: President Obama visited the Israel Museum seeing the Dead Scrolls at first hand and delivered an address to young Israelis in Jerusalem.

2013: The Memphis State University “Tigers defeated Saint Mary's 54–52, giving Mark Pastner his first NCAA tournament victory as a head coach.”

2013: Four rockets were fired at Israel out of Gaza this morning, as red alert sirens rang out in south, breaking a tense several month calm in the area.

2013: “Dominican Ambassador Aníbal de Castro will joinedLatino and Jewish communal leaders in Washington DC today for a special screening of the film Sosúa: Make a Better World as part of an effort by the American Jewish Committee to promote inter-communal dialogue.”

2014: “The Real Inglorious Bastards” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2014 In Jerusalem, traffic is scheduled to come “to a standstill from 5:30 am through 1:30 pm as runners race through the streets in a marathon with “a finish line on Haim Hazaz Boulevard alongside Sacher Park.” (As reported by Jessica Steinberg and Rebecca McKinsey)

2014: Coe College is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Waitman Beorn, the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University of Nebraska – Omaha entitled “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocuast in Belarus.”

2014: The Tulane Jewish Studies Department under the Chair of Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to host the annual Strug Lecture delivered this year by Dr. Robert Abzug on "'Not in Our Town': Christians, Jews, and Skinheads in Billings, Montana, 1993-94"

http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/jewish-studies/

http://www.robertabzug.com/

2014: “The Israeli military announced today that it had uncovered a tunnel from Gaza into Israel meant for carrying out a terror attack and rejected a Hamas claim that the find was an old tunnel.”

2014: “Kenyan Ronald Kimeli Kurgat became the fastest ever person to run the Jerusalem Marathon.”

2015: “Arlo and Julie” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.

2015: Captain Jerry Yellin, who “flew the final combat mission of WW II” visited Iowa Jima today at which time he paid homage to his wingman a nineteen year old Jewish pilot 2nd Lt. Philip Schlamberger who was the last airman killed in combat during WW II.

2015(29th of Adar, 5775): Ninety-two-year-old Miriam Bienstock of Atlantic Records fame passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/business/miriam-bienstock-co-founder-of-atlantic-records-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host Angela Schluter speaking about “The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust”

2015: The 5th J Street National Conference is scheduled to begin today.

2016: Donald Trump is scheduled to address the AIPAC conference this evening because “It is of paramount importance that our community develops a constructive relationship with whomever wins their respective party nomination and thus could be elected president,” according to an AIPAC official.

2016(11th of Adar II, 5776): Seventy-nine-year-old Hungarian native Andy Grove who survived the Nazis and the Communists to become the CEO of Intel passed away today.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/21/11280004/andy-grove-intel-ceo-dies

2016(11th of Adar II, 5776): Seventy-seven year old entertainment lawyer and television host Leon H. Charney passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/nyregion/leon-h-charney-investor-cable-tv-host-and-peace-broker-is-dead-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

2016: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host “Bridge to Beethoven III” with violinist Jennifer Kohn and pianist Shai Wosner.

2016: As part of the Jews in the American South tour Rhetta Mendelsohn will lead a “Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the country’s fourth oldest congregation (founded 1749) and the birthplace of Reform Judaism in the United States, at its 1840 Greek revival temple” followed by a meeting with “Dr. Dale Rosengarten, curator of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston to learn more of the story of 300 years of Charleston Jewish life and a visit to the Coming Street Cemetery, resting place of the largest and wealthiest Jewish community in colonial America.”  (Editor’s note: Hopefully including these items will help people see the broad sweep of the American Jewish experience and not think of it as something confined to New York and its environs.”

2017: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Jack Jacobs on the “Political Thinkers Of East European Jewry” where he “will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.”

2017: “As part of the the Home Front Command exercise, the incoming missile alert system in southern Israel was tested this morning” (As reported Judah Ari Gross)

2017(23rd of Adar, 5777): Seventy-seven-year-old Chicago Bulls’ general manager passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/sports/basketball/jerry-krause-dead-bulls-general-manager.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2018: Due to the fourth major snow storm to hit the northeast in the last several weeks, the Streicker Center canceled all events and classes today including “Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump.”

2018: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Professor Eric H. Cline, author of Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction and Kristin Romey, the archaeology editor of National Geographic Magazine discussing “Mysteries of the Bible: Biblical Archaeology.”

2018: The 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism is scheduled to come to an end today in Jerusalem.

2018: Despite “a Federal Government shutdown due to a snow emergency,” Morris “Moe” Berg and Eugene Polinsky were among the 13,000 men and woman of the OSS who “finally received the Congressional Gold Medal today during a ceremony at the U.S. Capital building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34O_OzoTcFY

 

2018: The Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan host a live recording of “Unorthodox, Tablet’s flagship podcast featuring guest appearances by Bart Campolo and former Senator Joe Lieberman.

2018: In Cedar Rapids, IA the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain.

2019: Forbidden Music, “an exploration of forgotten masterworks written by composers living under the shadow of oppressive regimes and perished in the Holocaust” is scheduled to open tonight in the San Francisco Bay area.

2019: “For the second time in its 165 year history, Levi’s, “the maker of denim and Cockers which traces its roots to the Calfiornia Gold Rush,” is scheduled to start trading on the public markets today. (As reported by Sapna Maheshwari)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/levis-jeans-ipo.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

2019: The Federation-Goldring-Woldenberg Major Donor Dinner is scheduled to take place this evening in New Orleans

2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Interpreter,” “The Jewish Underground” and “A Rose in Winter.”

2019: In Little Rock, AR, Chabad, under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, Shaliach par excellence, is scheduled to host a “Royal Purim Feast and Masquerade Party complete with a multimedial megilla reading.

2019(14th of Adar II, 5779): Purim; read the megillah;

2020: In Los Gatos, Ca, “The Duomo and the Great Synagogue,” “a talk about two great structures in Florence, Italy, by Magnes curator Francesco Spagnolo and author Ross King, an expert on Brunelleschi’s Duomo (dome)” scheduled for today has been cancelled due to the Pandemic.

2020: In New Orleans, the Limmudfest Meeting scheduled for today was cancelled due to the Pandemic.

2020: Chabad of Novato’s Rabbi Landa, Cantor Ari and guitarist Jonathan Kersonky are scheduled to host a “virtual community Havdalah.

2020(25th of Adar II, 5779): In response to the Pandemic, Agudas Achim Congregation in Coralville, IA is scheduled to conduct its first live streaming service on Zoom starting at 9:30.

2020(25th of Adar, 5780): Parashat Vayakhel- Pekuday; Shabbat HaChodesh

2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, Last Call by Elon Green and the recently released paperback edition of Bubblegum by Adam Levin.

2021: Sommelier David Glancy is scheduled to host an S.F. Wine School tasting during which he will talk about the evolution and diversity of Israeli wines, especially kosher and for Passover.

2021: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present the 8th episode of Sephardic Culinary History with Chef Helene Jawhara Piner, Ph. D which this time will be featuring “a Mexican Crypto-Jewish Passover Dish.”

2021: Jewish Gateways is scheduled to present chef Andrea Quinn demonstrating how to make haroset with dried apricots and pistachios and flourless almond cookies filled with chocolate ganache.

2021: The “B’nai Jershurun Sisterhood is scheduled to Host “Art Through the Lens of Marjorie Falk.”

2021: Temple Tiferet Shalom of the North Shore is scheduled to present “filmmaker, playwright, klezmer musician and cultural interpreter Ruti Lachs  who will present a celebration of an Irish Jewish community via Zoom.”

2021: Jews and Cabo Verdeans around the world are scheduled join together online for an international event whose theme is “A Celebration of Resilience” which will the “15th Cape Verdean-Jewish Passover Seder.”

2021: Michelle Greenebaum of Together in the Kitchen is scheduled to teach kids online how to mix, roll and bake matzah, with parental supervision.

2021: Filmmaker, playwright, klezmer musician and cultural interpreter Ruti Lachs will present a celebration of an Irish Jewish community via Zoom.

 

 

This Day, March 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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1144: This date marks the first ritual murder libel which took place in in Norwich, England. It set the pattern for subsequent accusations that would be made into the 20th century all across Europe. A 12-year-old boy, William, was found dead on Easter Eve, and the Jews were accused of killing him in a mock crucifixion. They were not, however, accused of using his blood for the making of matzos, although this would become a standard feature of later libels. It was later presumed by scholars that the boy died during a cataleptic fit or else he was killed by a sexual pervert. After Easter, a synod convened and summoned the Jews to the Church court. The Jews refused on the grounds that only the king had jurisdiction over them and they feared that they would be subjected to "trial by ordeal." William was regarded as a martyred saint and a shrine was erected in his memory. In spite of this episode, there was no immediate violence against the Jews. Over the years, despite denunciations by various popes, ritual murder libels continued. Possession of a saint's shrine bestowed great economic benefits on a town because sacred relics drew pilgrims who spent money on offerings, board, and lodging. For bones to be considered sacred relics they had to be killed by a heretic (i.e. a Jew). Such charges were used as an excuse to murder Jews as late as 1900.

1190: In England, King Richard angered by the riots and the loss of crown property (since the Jews belonged to the crown) renewed a general charter in favor of the Jews first issued by Henry II. His Chancellor Longchamp instituted heavy fines against the Pudsey and Percy families thus at the same time enriching the treasury and hurting his political opponents. Only three people who were also accused of destroying Christian property were executed

1349: The townspeople of Fulda Germany massacred the Jews because they blamed them for the Black Death.

1369: In France, Charles V sought to force Jews to attend church services by issuing an order that included a penalty for defiance. Unless they complied "the Jews might suffer great bodily harm".

1457: The Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book. The printing revolution would soon reach the world of Jewish literature. Thanks to Gutenberg's remarkable invention, books would soon be much more readily available to the People of the Book.

1500: A huge fleet under the command of Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, accompanied by Gaspar da Gama, a Polish born Jew whose slave name had been Yusuf ‘Adil before being forcibly converted to Christianity reached Cape Verde, a Portuguese colony on Africa’s West Coast as it made its way towards India.

1503: After 8 years of exile, Jews are allowed to return to Lithuania

1510: The Jews were expelled from Colmar Germany. Jews had been living in this town in Upper Alsac for at least three centuries prior to their expulsion for which no reason is given.

1564: In Mantua, Italy, David Provensalo and his son Abraham asked the Jewish notables to help him create a Jewish College. The idea was to allow Jews to learn languages and science while also receiving a “Jewish education.” Although they did establish a Talmudic academy they were opposed by the local Church and did not succeed in opening the College.

1599: Birthdate of Antwerp native and “English court painter” Anthony van Dyck whose “Portrait of Adriaen Moens” was stolen from the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker by the Nazis.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dr-oetker-restitutes-van-dyck-831605

1609: In Mexico, “a bailiff of the Holy Office carried a statue of Jorge de Almeida in a procession and the bailiff tied the effigy to a stake” and publicly burned it.  Almeda was the wife of Donna Lenor “a Jewess” and escaped the Inquisition when he was charged with Judaizing so he was tried in absentia which meant that his effigy could not suffer auto de fe.

1749: “Solomon,” an oratorio by George Handel based on the biblical stories about King Solomon had its final performance at the Theatre Royal in London.

1753(16thof Adar II, 5513): David Israel Athias, who had served as “Hakam of the Portuguese community at Amsterdam” since 1728, passed away today.

1769(13thof Adar II, 5529): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim

1770: In Buchau, Germany, Judith Mayer Hill and Samuel Obernauer gave birth to Rebecka Obernauer, the wife of Ruppert Einstein and the mother of Hirsch, Judith, Samuel, Raphael, Abraham and David Einstein.

1773: In Amsterdam, Branca Levie Duijts and Simon Isaac Frankfort gave birth to Levie Frankfort.

1781(25thof Adar, 5541): Fifty-eight-year-old Samson Levy, the son of Moses Raphael Levy and Grace Mears passed away today in Philadelphia.

1787: London born, and Montreal raised Eliza Chapman, the widow of “frontiersman” and trader Abraham Chapman married Moses Myers after which in July she sail on the Sincerity for Norfolk where gave birth to 12 children and became a hostess of note.

1797: Birthdate of German-Jewish jurist Eduard Gans.

1798(5thof Nisan, 5558): Isaac Jacob Gans , the Lower Saxony born son of Jacob and Ferude Katz Gans and husband of Pesse Pauline Leah Gans who became a wealthy tobacco merchant and note philanthropist passed away today.

1797: Birthdate of Kaiser Wilhelm I German whose reign lasted from 1871 1888. The Prussian monarch became the first ruler over a united Germany. In 1869, the emancipation process for the Jews of Germany was completed. “All still existing limitations of the…civil rights which are rooted in differences of religious faith are hereby annulled.” Jews rose rapidly during his reign. Guided by Chancellor Bismarck, the German government actually became champion of the less fortunate Jews living to the East.

1798 Aarau, the city in which Albert Einstein “attended the Argovian cantonal school (gymnasium) in 1895 and 1896 to complete his secondary schooling” was declared the capital of the Helvetic Republic making it “the first capital of a unified Switzerland” and another site for a failed attempt to effect the emancipation of the Jews in that country.

1799(15th of Adar II, 5559): Shushan Purim observed for the last time in the 18thcentury.

1800(25thof Adar, 5560): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat HaChodesh observed for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams, the last Federalist President.

1805: Birthdate of Kassel native and convert to Christianity Franz Ferdinand Benary, the orientalist and University Berlin associate professor of Old Testament exegis who “was the older brother of classical philologist Agathon Benary.”

1809: Georgetown, SC native Divinah Cohen and Isaac Minis who were married in 1803 gave birth to Eliza Minis.

1814: In Dresden, Naftali and Bertha Nachod gave birth to “German banker and philanthropist Jacob Nachod.

1815: Napoleon reached Paris. Soon King Louis has fled, and all Europe has become mobilized. In June, after a number of victories by Napoleon, the stock exchange in London goes through a panic, and rumors circulate that it may close. To prevent the closing, which would mean the collapse of English credit, Nathan stubbornly continues to buy amid rumors of Wellington's defeat, until the war ends with Wellington's victory at Waterloo. Sometime later, Julie and Fitzroy are reunited, and Nathan is made a baron by the King of England, who expresses the country's gratitude to this "adopted" son whose generosity and courage brought victory and peace to England

1817: In Charleston, SC, David Nunes Carvalho and Sarah Carvalho gave birth to Emanuel Nunes Carvalho

1818(14thof Adar II, 5578): Purim

1822: In Vejle, Joseph Joel Ballin and Hanne Behrend gave birth to Danish engraver John Ballin.

1827: Birthdate of William Lafayette Strong, the last Mayor of New York City elected prior to its modern consolidation. As befitted a Mayor of New York, Strong spoke positively of his Jewish constituents of whom he said, “The Jews take care their own.  They are taught to be self-supporting.” He expressed the view that while he had seen many applications for public assistance, he did not “one single application came from a Hebrew.”

1832: German writer J W Goethe passed away at the age of 82. The creator of Fuast admitted to being ant-Semite from his earliest days. His attitude towards Jews changed when he came to realize that they were the same people who had authored the Bible, especially the Songs of Songs, a book for which he had a special affection. While Goethe could admire the Jews from an historic point of view he was an opponent of Jewish emancipation in the Fatherland. Goethe was not the first or the last intellectual who loved Jews, so long as they were dead Jews.

1833(2ndof Nisan, 5593): Thirty-two-year-old poet Michael Beer, the brother of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and astronomer Wilhelm Beer, passed away today.

1834: In New York City, Henry Benjamin Nones, the Philadelphia born son of Abraham Benjamin Nones and Miriam Marks de Nones, and his wife Anna M. Nones gave birth to John McInnis Nones

1834: In London, Esther and John Nathan gave birth to Charlotte Nathan.

1835

1837(15thof Adar II, 5597): Shushan Purim

1837: Phillip Levy married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1838: Joseph “Perl wrote a letter suggesting that the government censor Jewish libraries, prohibit meetings in Jewish ritual baths and close traditional Jewish schools, which he called "a place of refuge for vagabonds, thieves . . . a nest of demoralization and of . . . nefarious, scandalous deeds."

1842: Isaac Sanguinetti married Harriet Nathan today at the Great Synagogue.

1840: In St. Martin in the Fields, London, Anne Solomons and Alexander Davis gave birth to Montague Davis

1845: Birthdate of Father Theodor Kohn whose appointment as Archbishop of Olomouc drew a great deal of opposition because his grandfather was born Jewish.

1845: In Liverpool, “John R. Isaac, one of the Liverpool Commissioners of the 1851 and the engraver to” to Prince Albert and his wife gave birth to Benjamin Yates’ great-grandson Percy Lewis Isaac, the “naval architect marine engineer” who in 1867 was “appointed to supervise work in connection with the ‘Great Eastern’ steamship” and was the “author of Historical Notes on Shipping which contains references to early Anglo-Jewish history.”

1848: Birthdate of German historian Harry Breslau under whose chairmanship “the Historical Commission for the History of the Jews in Germany was founded by the Union of German-Jewish Congregations.”

1853: James (Jacob) Seligman and Rosa Seligman gave birth to De Witt J. (David) Seligman

1853: Birthdate of Isidor Kaufman, the Hungarian born painter whose works include “Portrait of a Yeshiva Boy” and “Day of Atonement”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaufmann_Day_of_Atonement.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isidor_Kaufmann_Portrait_of_a_Yeshiva_Boy.jpg

1854: In London, Elizabeth Waley and Spanish Town, Jamaica native Jacob Zuixano Henriques,  gave birth to their Daughter Alice Rache Henriques

1861: Jacob and Amalia Freud gave birth to Maria “Mitzi” Freud

1862: During the American Civil War, as Union forces under the command of General McClellan moved up the peninsula in an attempt to take the Rebel capital of Richmond, an articled entitled "Clippings From Rebel Papers” Conditions of Richmond” published today reported that only soldiers returning to their regiments were being issued permits to leave the city. At the same time “The Jews have packed up their goods, and gold and silver ornaments, and are in great tribulation and ferment that their flight has been stopped.”

1864: In Albany, NY, the Assembly passed a bill “authorizing the New-York City authorities to convey to the Hebrew Benevolent Society certain real estate.”

1864(14th of Adar II, 5624): Purim

1864: “The Jewish festival of Purim will be celebrated this evening, by a grand, fancy dress ball, at the Academy of Music. It is recognized as one of the most important of Jewish festivals, as it commemorates the deliverance of the Jews from the tyranny of Haman, who was prime minister to King Ahasuerus. The arrangements for the ball are very extensive, and the ornaments appropriate and beautiful. But one thousand tickets have been issued, and these only to be obtained by personal introduction to a member of the committee, the party introducing being held strictly accountable for the character and conduct of the persons introduced. With such strict rules and such liberal preparations, the ball cannot fail to be one of the best of the season.”

1865: Joseph Magnus married Louisa Eve Finsterer today.

1865: In Natchez, Mississippi, the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Association was founded today

1866: Three days after he had passed away, fifty-four-year-old Frederick David Goldsmid, the son Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and Isabel Goldsmid, the husband of the former Caroline Samuel with whom he had had nine children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1868: Birthdate of Vilmos Vázsonyi the Hungarian political leader who served as Minister of Justice and was beaten to death by “a notorious anti-Semite.”

1868: Elizabeth and George Joseph Emanuel gave birth to Blanche Emanuel who became Blanche Abrahams when she married Samuel Abrahams.

1873: It was reported today that of 11,859 people committed to New York’s public lunatic asylums since 1847, 402 of them were Jews.

1874; The Young Men's Hebrew Association was founded in New York City. It was the first of several such organizations found in cities across the United States intended to provide for the “mental, moral, social, and physical improvement of Jewish young men.” In part the YMHA was a Jewish response to the YMCA.

1875: Sixty-two-year-old Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman, the American theatrical manager known as H.L. Bateman passed away. Bateman was responsible for bringing Henry Irving so that he could star in The Bells, the play based on “Le Juif Polonias” (The Polish Jew)

1875: Samuel Alexander, the famed Australian-born British philosopher who was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college “matriculated at the University of Melbourne where he entered an arts course.

1875: It was reported today that the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York had raised $17,455.08 in the past year, spent $13,345.96 leaving a balance of $4,109.12.

1877: Albert von Rothschild and Baroness Bettina Caroline de Rothschild gave birth to their first child, Georg Anselm Alphonse.

1878: In Frankfurt Flora Goldschmidt married Emil Schwarzschild the son of Emanuel Schwarzschild and Rahel Fraenkel

1883(13th of Adar II, 5643): Fast of Esther

1883: Seligman, MO, a town which had been named in honor of financier Joseph Seligman shortly after his death, suffered its second major fire of the year when “the stables of the Seligman and Eureka Springs Stagecoach Company burned down” today.

1883: In New York City, Rudolph and Virginia (Kohlberg) Sampter gave birth to Jessie Ethel Sampter “poet, Zionist thinker and educator, social reformer, and pacifist” who “was a member of the inner circle of Henrietta Szold’s female friends in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s.” (As reported by Baila R. Shargel)

1885: In London, Meyer Adam Spielman, the son of Adam and Marian Spielman and his wife Gertrude gave birth to Edgar Raphael Meyer Spielman

1885: In Orla, near Bialystok, Binyamin Benish and Ethel Levin gave birth to Reb Aryeh Levin, the husband of Tzipora Hannah who was the daughter Rabbi Shapira, ahd who was known as the Tzadik of Jerusalem for his many humane acts including visiting Jewish prisoners held at the Central Prison during the days of hte Mandate.

1886(15thof Adar II, 5646): Shushan Purim

1887: In Manhatten, Same and Minnie Schoenberg Marx gave birth to Leonard Joseph Marx, knowns as Chico Marx, one of the famous Marx Brothers.

1889: The former Anna Finestone and Israel  Saidel gave birth to Harvard educated attorney, Myer Saidel, the WW I Army veteran who in 1916 had begun practicing law in Manchester, NH where he was active in civic affairs.

1890: The will of Solomon Adler was filed for probate today.

1890: Harold Nathan will deliver a lecture tonight on “The Use of a Library” at the downtown branch of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. (The public libraries of the United States were “the poor man’s university, especially for the immigrant population that came to the United States at the turn of the century.)

1890: Colonel Jacob E. Bloom, a New York attorney “is suing James M. Seymour and Francis J. Patton to establish an interest in Patten’s electrical inventions and to recover $200,000. (Bloom would serve as Superintendent of the Baron de Hirsch Industrial School)

1891: It was reported today that the Jews were the first to feel the effects of the resurgence of “semi-savage orthodoxy throughout the Muscovite Empire” although they no longer have a monopoly “on the pains of persecution” since the Protestants are now under government surveillance.

1891: In Lithuania, Abraham Jacob Sanditen and Dina Glike Sanditen gave birth to Maurice Sanditen the husband of Myrtle I. Sanditen  and father of Stanley Leon Sanditen

1891: It was reported today that “the proposal of Baron Hirsch to” settle 300,000 Russian Jews in Argentina, “which was at first very favorably received by the government” has now been rejected as a result of objections “stirred up in the press.”  The government of Uruguay has also rejected the proposal.

1892: The creditors of the Jewish banker J.E. Guenzburg met in St. Petersburg today.

1892: In London, The Times reported that “after the death of his father Samson Wertheimer, Ashe Wertheimer took over his Bond-street premises” and operated his business “from this address until his death in 1918.”

1892: The New York City Health Department received information today that the SS Massilia, the ship that had brought a large number of Jewish immigrants infected with typhus on its last trip to New York was on its way back to the city with another load of immigrants.

 

 

 

1893: Thousands of people gathered outside of the Reichstag waiting to hear the details of Hermann Ahlwardt’s proof that while Bismarck was Chancellor “fraudulent contracts” had been entered to with Jewish financiers resulting in “the loss of vast sums of money belonging to the State” Ahlwardt was a high school president, who ironically, had been extricated from his financial problems by Jewish friends before turning on them to pursue a career as an anti-Semitic agitator.

1893: Dr. Louis Fischer will deliver a lecture “Cholera – What It Is and How To Cure It” at the Hebrew Institute.

1893: Banker, philanthropist and leader of the Jewish community Maurice J.Mandelbaum, the Cleveland born son of “Jacob and Amelia (Lehman) Mandelbaum took the first of his three trips to the alter today when he married Amanda Mayer today.

1893: Arabs attack Jews at Rehovot

1893: Senda Berenson, the "Mother of Women's Basketball", officiated at the first women's basketball game at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Born in Lithuania and raised in Boston, Berenson was weak and delicate as a child. An athletic career would have seemed unlikely for the woman whose poor health rendered her unable to complete her training at the Boston Conservatory of Music. But in 1890, she entered the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, in a bid to improve her strength and health. There, she trained in anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, and was hired by Smith College upon her graduation in 1892. Berenson, the director of the physical education department at Smith, first heard about a new game called "Basket Ball" soon after her arrival in Northampton. Invented as a class exercise for boys, the game — like most team sports — was considered too strenuous for girls, who were instead encouraged to participate in individual sports like swimming, archery, and horseback riding. Berenson observed the game being played in Springfield, and met its inventor, Dr. James Naismith, who encouraged her to adopt the game as exercise for her female students. At the first basketball game on March 22, 1893 (some sources cite March 21), Smith freshmen were pitted against Smith sophomores, with no male spectators allowed. With rules intended to avoid the roughness of the men's game, the new game became a hit, and soon swept the country. By 1895, there were hundreds of women's basketball teams, and these teams helped open the door to other team sports programs for women. Berenson wrote the first official rulebook for women's college basketball, as well as a number of articles on the new sport. She continued to edit the rules until the 1916-17 season, and many of the rules she developed remained standard until the 1980s. Berenson died in 1954. Over thirty years later, in 1985, she was the first woman to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.

1894(14thof Adar II, 5654): Purim celebrated on the day “the first championship series Lord Stanley’s Cup (the Stanley Cup) was played in Montreal.

1895: The will of the late Dr. Bernard Grunhut was filed for probate following the end of the challenge brought by the two children of the descendant. The judge’s ruling that enough evidence had been presented that their father’s marriage was valid, “even if he was not of sound mind” at the time of the ceremony.  This means that the Hebrew Benevolent Society and Mount Sinai Hospital will each receive bequests of $25,000 with the widow receiving the residual of the estate with the exception of $25,000 that had been bequeathed to a baby that reportedly died fifteen days after it was born.

1895: Operatic soprano Selma Kurz was first heard in Vienna at a student concert of Ress pupils

1896: “Easter Cookery” published today included a description of Chad Gad Ya, “The Kid of Passover,” which it compared to “The House That Jack Built.”

1896: Dr. Gustav Gottheil delivered the second in a series of sermons on “What Is a Christian Nation” at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.

1896: In Vienna, Erna (née Weinstein) and stage (and later motion picture) actor Rudolph Schildkraut to American actor Joseph Schildkraut.

1897: Four day after she had died, 32-year-old Julia Fisher was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1897: Rabbi Ignatz Grossman, who passed away two days ago in New York, will be buried in Detroit, Michigan where his son Dr. Louis Grossman serves as a rabbi.  Two of his other sons, Julius and Rudolph, are also rabbis while his fourth son Adolph is a businessman in Chicago.

1897: Two days after he had passed away, 20-year-old Moses Levy, the son of Aaron and Miriam Levy was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1897: “The Austrian Elections” published today described the various factions competing for seats in the Reichsrath that meets in Vienna including “the anti-Semites, the Jews baiters of Vienna and Lower Austria” who are “closely connected with the Clericals.”

1897: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schiff were unable to attend the Purim Ball at the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids because they were in Frankfort-on-the-Main.  Schiff is President of the Montefiore Home and he sent a telegram from Germany expressing his regrets.

1897: “Home For Aged Hebrews” published today included a history of the organization which “is an outgrowth of the B’nai Jeshurun Ladies’ Benevolent Society.” In 1870, a young men’s organization, the Benevolent, Dramatic and Musical Association, gave the women $3,500 as seed money and the home was incorporated in 1872. The home was designed to serve those over the age of sixty who are “entirely dependent on themselves for support and unable to support themselves.

1897: Dr. S.N. Leo is the director of the pharmacy at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York.

1898: It was reported today that 300 children from the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society and the New York Orphan Asylum are going to attend the upcoming show at the Harlem Music Hall.

1899: Seventy-eight-year-old Beila Geitel Felber was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1899: Rabbi Gottheil is among the speakers scheduled to address a meeting of workers at the Hebrew

Institute

1899: The “liberal synagogue” was dedicated in Cologne.

1900: It was reported today that the Dreyfus brothers, the New York tobacco wholesalers facing charges of defrauding their customers out of $50,000 have been arrested in Chicago are planning on fighting extradition back to New York.

1901: While it was stated today that General Louis Botha, the leader of the Boers, was “generally in favor of the terms of the settlement” he was “greatly concerned about the position Jewish capitalist would occupy in the country and” he “was told that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights,” with “no distinction being made in the matter of concessions.

1901: In Camden, NJ, Rabbi David Shane, with the assistance of Rabbi Banet Leventhal of Philadelphia officiated at the wedding of Annie Pauline Alberts, the daughter of Isaac Alberts to Philip Sihisky at the Sons of Israel synagogue.

1902: Birthdate of French actress Madeleine Milhaud.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/madeleine-milhaud-actress-wife-of-the-composer-776120.html

1903: In Brooklyn “Louis and Lena (Betz) Pomerantz gave birth to Brooklyn Law School trained attorney

Abraham Louis Pomerantz,, the husband of Phyllis Cohen and father of Dan and Charlotte Cohen who served as deputy chief counsel at the Nuremburg Trials.

1903: In Cherkassy, Russia, Max and Bessie (Leshinsky) Olanovsky gave birth to Lemel Olanovsky who gained fame as Levi Arthur Olan whose accomplishments including serving as the Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, Texas from 1949 to 1970.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0181/ms0181.html

1904: Birthdate of Isaac Goldberg, the native of Poland, who gained fame as “Itche Goldberg, a champion of Yiddish who wrote and edited and taught his beloved language in the face of all those who said keeping Yiddish alive was a lost cause.” (As reported by Ari L. Goodman)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/obituaries/03goldberg.html

1905(15thof Adar II, 5665): Shushan Purim

1905: In Hoboken, NJ, two Austrian immigrants gave birth Columbia trained attorney Burton A Zorn, a labor lawyer, partner in the prestigious law firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz and Mendelsohn and “chairman of the American Jewish Committee’s civil rights section who raised two children – Stephen and Karen – with his wife Fay.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/23/77172613.pdf

1905: Birthdate of Nathaniel “Nate” Weinstock who “played tackle at Western Maryland College from 1925 to 1927” and whose breakout game came against Holy Cross in 1926 when he was a junior.

1905: In New Orleans, during an executive session of the Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, Jacob Singer of Philadelphia “maintained that time was not ripe for taking the step” of “abolishing the secrecy of the Order.”

1906: It was reported today that “Jewish merchants and their families are leaving” Moscow “in haste owing to fears of a massacre at Easter time.

1906: It was reported today that “the first appearance of anti-Jewish disorders” have been “reported from Theodosia, in the Crimea, where a crowd broke into a synagogue and destroyed the altar, religious emblems and pictures.

1906: In Petach Tikva, Moshe Dov Bear Margalit and Taube (Yona) Margalit, the Bialystok born daughter of Elijah and Sarah Golda Bloch gave birth to Avraham Margalit.

1906: It was reported today that Nicolas Notovitch, a Jewish newspaper editor has been imprisoned “for one year in a fortress for the publication of articles against the” Czar and the army.

1907: As the violent attacks continue in Northern Moldavia, as of today there at least “10,000 Jews without homes,” most of whom were not able to save anything, “escaping only with their lives.”

1907: “Authorities are now making every effort to assist” the four thousand Jews who have fled to Bucharest” but the reality is that most of them are forced “to sleep in the open air.

1908: In London, “Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg, businessman and later chairman of the London County Council, and his wife, Catherine née Byrne” gave birth to “English botanist Edmund Frederick (E.F) Warburg. The husand of Primrose Barrett.  (Great first name for the wife of a botanist)

1909: Birthdate of Brooklynite Nathan Rosen, the MIT graduate who gained fame as an American-Israeli physicist working with Albert Einstein.  Among other things he is known for the “The Einstein–Rosen Bridge, later named the wormhole, which was a theory of Nathan Rosen.”  The only person I know who understands any of this is Dr. Joe Rosen, the son of Nathan Rosen, a prominent physicist in his own right and a son of which his father would be proud.

1910: Eugene Foss who would be one of the leaders in the fight to save the life of Leo Frank, began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 14th Congressional District.

1910: “Impresario” Max Rabinoff married his first wife, singer Marie La Salle, today.

1912: Birthdate of Eliyanu Kitov the native of Poland who made Aliyah in 1936 and in 1954 established Aleph Institute Publications. His works include Is U’Veito which was translated into English as A Jew and his Home by Rabbi Nachman Bulman the New York born son of Rabbi Meir and Etil Bulman

1912(4thof Nisan, 5672): Sixty-three-year-old Mark Arnheim, a “clothing merchant” in New York passed away today.

1912: In Dusseldorf, Gustav Cohn, the German born son of Sophie and Seligman Lazarus Cohn, and his wife Henriette Cohn gave birth to Karlo Alfons Cohn.

1912: Dedication ceremonies for Anshe Chesed’s new temple on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio began.

1913(13thof Adar II, 5673): Parsashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim

1913: Rabbi Julius Rappaport led services at Beth El Temple in Chicago.

1913: Rabbi Felix A. Levy led services at Temple Emanuel today.

1913: Louis-Lucien Klotz completed his service as Minister of Finance.

1913: In Cleveland Ohio, Isaac Wasserman and Minnie Chernick gave birth to Lewis Robert “Lew Wasserman, the MCA chairman who was a true “tinsel town” mogul.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/business/lew-wasserman-89-is-dead-last-of-hollywood-s-moguls.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1913: Louis-Lucien Klotz began serving as Minster of the Interior.

1913: “Under the leadership of Mrs. Minna Solomon and Mrs. Grete Hirsch” the women of Emanuel Congregation enjoyed an afternoon of entertainment at the Kaiser Garten in Chicago.

1914: The United Synagogues of America, an organization of Conservative Congregations, held its second annual convention in New York City. During his address to the convention, Professor Solomon Schechter, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary, called for worship services to be conducted in Hebrew with English replacing Yiddish as the language in which the sermons were to be given. Schechter also refused to serve another term as President of the organization and Dr. Cyrus Adler of Dropsie College was elected to serve in his place. Among the other highlights of the convention was a presentation by Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, Chairman of the Education Committee in which he outline an aggressive program to upgrade and modern the Jewish educational opportunities in a manner consistent with the challenges of modern day America.

 

 

1915: It was reported today that Just Gustave Hartman of the Municipal Court, President of the Israel Orphan Asylum has expressed “some objections” to plans for building a second home for Jewish orphans in the Bronx sponsored by the Hebrew National Orphan Asylum.

1915: It was reported today that “more than 7,000 persons come to the building housing the Educational Alliance daily” most of whom come to study and that the Alliance spends “upward of $110,000 annually” to support its educational work.

 1915(7th of Nisan, 5675): Fifty-five-year-old “Professor H.L. Sabsovich, General Agent of the Baron De Hirsh Fund and the first mayor of the Jewish Agricultural Colony at Woodbine, NJ” who was well known for his social work among the Jews passed away tonight in New York. A native of Russia, where he gained famed as a chemists and “manager of estates,” he organized the Committee of Safety during the Pogrom of 1881 and help found the Society of Am Olam. He came to the United States in 1888 and worked as an agricultural chemist for Colorado State before joining the Woodbine Colony and joining the Baron de Hirsch Fund.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F16F9395C13738DDDAD0A94DB405B858DF1D3

 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sabsovich-h-l

1915: The Army and Navy Young Men’s Hebrew Association issued an appeal to the New York Jewish community asking that its members open their homes to serviceman for the first Seder on March 29 and the second Seder on March 30. According to the Association, “there are 300” Jewish serviceman in the New York area “who have no friends or relatives here.” The Association will provide lodgings at a local hotel and the servicemen will attend services at the synagogue or temple of their choice. Those who cannot offer hospitality are urged to send a contribution to support the group’s efforts to Joseph S. Marcus, the association’s treasurer.

1915: British Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson backed by Major-General Alexander Godley was appointed commander of the force he was to recruit, with Captain Trumpeldor as Second-in-Command after which they left Cairo for Alexandria where there was a large Jewish refugee community.

1915: The majority of the Palestine Refugees' Committee under the encouragement of Joseph Trompledor and Vladimir Jabotinsky endorsed a resolution calling for the formation of a “Jewish Legion" and propose to England its utilization in Palestine. Within a few days about 500 enlisted.

1916: During on World War I, on the Western Front, the first British tree observation post was put up today.  The camouflages for these posts was developed and produced by a unit under the command of Lt. Col. Solomon Joseph Solomon, the artist who had been hand-picked by the British General Staff to fill this role.

1917: Today, “Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck and Co. of Chicago” sent a telegraph “to the American Jewish Relief Committee” in New York City saying “that he would contribute $100,000 for each $1,000,000 collected by the committee in its campaign to raise $10,000,000 by June 1 for the benefit of Jews suffering from the war.”

1917: “It was announced that the State Department had given assurance that in the event of war between” the United States and “the Central powers, American diplomats in neutral countries would carry on interruptedly the work of feeding Jewish noncombatants” using fund raised by the American Jewish Relief Committee which is expecting a fresh impetus to its activities that’s to the Russian Revolution.”

1918: In Lodz, the “municipality” has agreed “to maintain a college for Jewish teachers” where Hebrew will “be the language of instruction for Jewish subjects” and Polish will be the language of instruction for all other subjects.

1918(9thof Nisan, 5678): Second Lieutenant Crispian Asabel de Pass who was Wellington College before the war died today while serving with the Tank Corps.

1919(20thof Adar II, 5769): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah

1919: It was reported today, that Israel Cohen, the secretary of the World Zionist Organization, currently serving as its special commissioner in Eastern Europe has said that “The Jewish situation in Poland and Lithuania is so tragic that thousands are starving and tens of thousands are clamoring for permission to join their relatives in the United States.”

1919: It was reported today that General Allenby, “the commander of allied forces in Palestine” and the liberator of Jerusalem during the World War is now also serving as the High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan due to the outbreaks of violence that “have spread through the whole Nile Valley.”

1920: In Cologne, German, conductor Otto Klemperer and soprano Johanna Geisler gave birth to actor Werner Klemperer who played Colonel Klink on Hogan’s Heroes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/arts/werner-klemperer-klink-in-hogan-s-heroes-dies-at-80.html

1920: Birthdate of Dame Fanny Waterman, DBE, the daughter Myer Waterman, a Russian Jew who had emigrated to England to work as a jeweler who gained fame as “a piano teacher, and the founder, Chairman and Artistic Director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.”

1921: In, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, “Erwin Schwenk, an organic chemist and the former Rascha Shapiro, a pediatrician” gave birth to Lili Schwenk who gained fame as Lili Horning, the holder of a Ph.D. from Harvard who played a significant role in the Manhattan project and was the wife of fellow scientist Donald Hornig.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/lilli-hornig-96-dies-a-bomb-researcher-lobbied-for-women-in-science.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0

1922:  Birthdate of screenwriter Stewart Henry Stern, the New York native and nephew Adolph Zukor whose most famous script was the one he wrote for cult classic “Rebel Without a Cause.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/movies/stewart-stern-92-screenwriter-of-rebel-without-a-cause-dies.html?_r=1

1922: “Ludwig II” a biopic about the Bavarian king directed by Otto Kreisler and written by Alfred Deutsch-German was released today in Austria.

1922: In Manhattan, “Morris Neuman and the former Ida Mitnistky gave birth to Charlotte Sandra Neuman who gained fame as “Charlotte Spiegel, a civic leader and Democratic politician from the Lower East Side who created New York’s pioneering and lifesaving window guard program in the 1970s.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/nyregion/charlotte-spiegel-politician-who-safeguarded-new-yorks-windows-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1923: Birthdate of Eva Kleinova who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where she was murdered.

1923(5th of Nisan, 5683): Max Nordau, early Zionist leader, passed away at the age of 73. Born in 1849 in the city that would later be known as Budapest, Hungary (then part of the Austrian Empire), Nordau’s life followed a conventional pattern for many Jews of his time and social class. Raised with a traditional Jewish background, he drifted away from Judaism finding fame and fortune as a writer and physician. As the 19th century came to a close, Nordau was alarmed by the rise of anti-Semitism and became an early supporter of another Austrian Jew, Theodore Herzl. When Herzl died, Nordau was asked to take his place. He declined offering to serve as an advisor to David Wolffsohn. Nordau drifted away from the formal organization as Zionism changed from Herzl's grand political approach to a more practical approach. After World War I, Nordau advocated the immediate immigration of half a million Jews to Palestine. Nobody heeded his advice. He died in Paris, far from the limelight, an almost forgotten figure who had believed in the cause of the Jewish state when most said it was an impractical dream or the scheme of lunatics.

1923: In Strasbourg, France “Ann Werzberg and Charles Mangel, a kosher butcher” gave birth to Marcel Mangel, who gained fame as mime Marcel Marceau. After having seen Charlie Chaplin, he became interested in acting. At 15, his Jewish family was forced to flee their home as France entered the Second World War. He later joined Charles De Gaulle’s Free French Forces and, because of his excellent English, worked as a liaison officer with General Patton's army. He began studying acting at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris in 1946.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/24/local/me-marceau24

1924: Birthdate of Solomon “Solly” Cornbleet “missing presumed killed 3rd Aug 1944 whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Quorn as a telegraph operator.

1924: Birthdate of Michael Hamburger, the Berlin native who moved with his family to Great Britain in 1933 where he became a “translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic.”

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

1925: “The government is said to have warned troops,” include the Ninth (Queen’s) Royal Lancers “to be ready to come to Jerusalem” because as today “both the Arab Executive and the National Party” are continuing “to publish strike publications in the local press” just days before the visit of Lord Balfour.

1925: “By unanimous vote the New York branch of the United Synagogue of America at its fifth annual meeting at the Hotel Astor today went on record as opposed to any move which in any way might link religious education with the public schools.”

1926: The funeral for 77-year-old Dr. Philip Klein who has been the rabbi of the First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek for the past 35 years is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the family home.

1926: Chairman William Fox announced that the United Jewish Campaign had received a $30,000 contribution from Paul Baerwald and a $50,000 contribution from Louis Marshall who attached a letter “in which he described the misery now” being endured by Jews in Europe and urging “the Jews of New York City to give unstinted support” to the fund raising drive.

1927: Approximately nine hundred people, including Zionists and non-Zionists attended a dinner at the Hotel Biltmore this evening that had been arranged by Judge Irving Lehman to celebrate “the accord which now exists” among most Jewish factions regarding “the up-building of Palestine.”

1927: In Detroit, the libel case brought by Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford, Stewart Handley, a member of the Ford legal staff testified that stories published in Ford’s Dearborn Independent from 1920 to 1922 “cast aspersions on the whole Jewish race.”

1928(1st of Nisan, 5688): Rosh Chodesh

1928: “Spione” (Spies in English) directed and written by Fritz Lang was released today in Germany

1929: The month-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv began with a Purim Carnival.

1929: “Diary of a Coquette” silent drama directed by Constantin J. David and produced by Seymour Nebenzal was released in Germany today.

1930: In New York City, the former Etta Janet “Foxy” Fox, a dress designer and Herbert Sondheim, who “manufactured dresses designed by his wife” gave birth to composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim who, at the age of ten began studying lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein a family friend and went on to compose his own music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Follies (1971), Sweeney Todd (1979) and Sunday in the Park with George (1984) to name just a few of his accomplishments.

https://www.biography.com/musician/stephen-sondheim

http://www.sondheim.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/theater/stephen-sondheim-composer.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

1931: “In the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montréal, Québec, Canada Ann (née Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacture” gave birth to William Shatner best known as Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. (Editor’s note – Kirk and Spock never talked about their bar mitzvahs in any of the episodes I ever saw)

1931: In Brooklyn “Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker” gave birth Nobel Prize winner in Physics and the “director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/obituaries/burton-richter-a-nobel-winner-for-plumbing-matter-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1931: Moghannam Elias Moghannam, a member of the Palestine Arab Executive declared that “it was totally untrue that certain Arab politicians had met Jewish representatives I Palestine into to establish the preliminary basis of a peace parley.” The Arab leader was especially critical of any Arab who was willing to meet with Dr. Chaim Weizmann who had arrived in Tel Aviv in an attempt to reach a modus Vivendi that would restore peace to Palestine.

1931: “Marshall Letter Won $500,000 Gift” tells the hitherto unknown story of how a letter from Louis Marshall to Julius Rosenwald resulted in the latter’s decision to make a major donation to the Jewish Theological Seminary.

1932(14thof Adar, II, 5692): Purim

1932: In Germany, premiere of “Peter Voss, Thief of Millions” with a script co-authored by Bruno Frank and directed by Ewald André Dupont for whom this would be  his penultimate film in Germany before being forced to flee due to the rise of the Nazis even though he was not Jewish.

1932: “One Hour With You” a musical comedy directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch who also produced the film which was written by Samson Raphaelson and with music by Oscar Straus was released in the United States today.

1933: “The Concentration Camp at Dachau was opened today with the arrival of about 200 prisoners from Stadelheim Prison in Munich and the Landsberg fortress.”  According to the official press statement (yes the Nazis issued a press release for this) on March 22, “Wednesday the first concentration camp is to be opened in Dachau with an accommodation for 5000 people. 'All Communists and—where necessary—Reichsbanner and Social Democratic functionaries who endanger state security are to be concentrated here, as in the long run it is not possible to keep individual functionaries in the state prisons without overburdening these prisons, and on the other hand these people cannot be released because attempts have shown that they persist in their efforts to agitate and organize as soon as they are released.”

1934: Today, Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld married Louis Mundheim, the daughter of the former Stella Kaufman, and Samuel Mundheim, the “president of the Stern Brothers Department store on West 42nd Street in Manhattan.

1935: In Camden, NJ, Rabbi Philip Lipis addressed Congregation Beth El during its search for a new spiritual leader.  In April, the congregation offered him the position which he accepted.

1936: It was reported today. that a spring fair in Tel Aviv will attract large crowds “from overseas and Near Eastern cities.”

1936: “The Polish Government was charged with ‘deliberate violations of its pledges made in the treaty of June, 191 in which the Jews, together with other minority groups, were assured full equality of rights and status’ by an emergency conference at the Hotel Edison today attended by delegates from nearly 500 Jewish organizations.”

1936: At the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Lewis Browne is scheduled to speak on “What Makes A Jew?”

1936: Professor Louis Finkelstein is scheduled to deliver an address on “The Jewish Problem in the Perspective of History.”

1936: At Temple Rodeph Shalom, Rabbi Louis I Newman is scheduled to deliver a message on “Women’s Grievances Against Men and Men’s Grievances Against Women.”

1936: Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “When the Heart is Hungry” at the Jewish Science Society.

1936: A letter from President Roosevelt in which he commended Rabbi B. Leon Hurwitz as a leader in Brooklyn interfaith activities was read this afternoon at the Ninth Street Temple during the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Congregation B’nai Shalom.

1936: Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain’s leading fascist delivered a speech to a packed house at Albert Hall where he delivered a speech calling for peace between Germany and Britain while deliver “one of the most violent denunciations of the Jews” that he has made to date.

1936: In Manhattan, William and Rose Rosenweig gave birth to Aaron Rosenweig who gained fame as photographer Aaron Rose “that rarest of artists” one who doesn’t chase after gallery shows or sales to deep-pocketed collectors.” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1937(10th of Nisan, 5697): Dr. Henry J. Wolfe, a general practitioner who “had also done extensive work in neurology and psychiatry” passed away today at the age of 75. A graduate of City College, Wolf earned his M.D. at Heidelberg University in 1884. One of his daughter, Mrs. Prsscilla Litavsky has made Aliyah and lives in Tel Aviv.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Dov Zemel, a lorry driver, was shot at an ambush near Kfar Saba and was in critical condition.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that British troops captured two terrorists in a battle with an Arab gang near Acre. There were sporadic shooting accidents in Jerusalem and Safed.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Six Arab prisoners sentenced to death had their sentences commuted to penal servitude for life by the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Two cooperative groups settled on the Jewish National Fund land, allocated by the Arlosoroff Memorial Fund in the Jordan Valley. Important archaeological finds were discovered near Afula.

1938: “Following the annexation of Austria, journalist and author Heinrich Eduard Jacob was arrested today and eventually shipped to Dachau.

1939: The German army occupied Memel and the region around the Lithuanian town. By that time about 21,000 people had left the city, most of them Lithuanians as well as a small number of Jews, the majority of the latter having left beforehand. The Nazis confiscated private and public Jewish property valued at tens of millions Litas. Jews had lived in Memel since the 14th century.

1940: “In a Good Friday interlude to his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination, Senator Robert of Ohio lashed out at religion intolerance and assailed those who deliberately try to spread that kind of prejudice in the United States” while telling a cheering crowd of more than a thousand people that “any man born in the United States can be elected to any office whether he be Protestant, Catholic or Jew provided only that his political views meet the approval of a majority of the electorate.

1941(23rdof Adar, 5701): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Pareah

1941: It was “disclosed” today that Colonel Morris J. Mendelsohn, chairman of the National Council of the New Zionist Organization of America had telegraphed “an appeal to President Roosevelt to ask the French Government for guarantees that will abolished anti-Semitic laws and practices before” he gives “consent to food shipments” being sent to France.

1942: The National Jewish Welfare board announced to that “preparations for the observance of Passover by Jewish soldiers and sailors at twenty-one oversea based have been completed and approved by the War and Navy Departents.”

1942 “The National Council of Young Israel celebrated its 30th anniversary” tonight” at the Hotel Commodore.

1943: The first group of Macedonian Jews were shipped from Skopje to Treblinka.

1943:  While flying with a group of six Yak fighters, Lydia Litvyak shot down a Junker 88 bomber and a Messerschmitt fighter and then, after having been wounded, managed to land safely despite being in severe pain and suffering significant loss of blood.

1943: The first of four new crematoriums at Auschwitz was ready for use and began operation.

1943(15thof Adar II, 5703): Shushan Purim

1943(15thof Adar II, 5703): Seventy-seven year old Dr. Lucian Mayer Langbank died today at Theresienstadt Ghetto.

1943: Time magazine reported on speech by Henri Honoré Giraud in which the High Commissioner of North Africa disavowed the conditions of the German armistice and the subsequent decrees of Vichy ("promulgated without the participation of the French people, and directed against them"). He said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "no longer exist," promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. He also revoked the Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship en bloc to Jews in Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, Moslems and Jews must complement each other economically, "the latter working in his shop, the former in the desert, without either having advantage over the other, France assuring both security and tranquility."

1944: The Washington Post reported "Poles Report Nazis Slay 10,000 Daily." (Jewish Virtual Library)

1944: Shlomo Venezia and his family who were living in Thessaloniki were deported to Athens, the first leg of a trip that would take them Auschwitz.

1944: In Poland, at the Koldzyczewo Work Camp Shlomo Kushnir succeeded in leading almost all the Jewish inmates who were still alive out of the camp after killing ten Nazi guards. Kushnir committed suicide when he was caught with twenty-five others. The others joined the partisans in the forests.

1945: In New York City, “Miriam "Mimi", a teacher, studio executive, and radio writer, and Leon Roth, a university teacher and film producer” gave birth to Eric Roth who “won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump” in 1994.

1945: The Arab League was formed today in Cairo. "The League's first resolutions included a restriction on Egyptian Muslim contact with those who were call 'supporters of Zionism,' that is, all Egyptian Jews."

1946: Gotthil Wagner was killed by as yet unidentified gunmen today outside of Tel Aviv. Wagner was a German national who had been detained by the British as an enemy alien. The British were permitting Wagner to engage in his various business interests. Reportedly several younger Jews were not happy with Wagner and other Germans to return to a normal life in Palestine because they had openly sympathized with Nazi policies before the war “and openly voice anti-Jewish sentiments.”

1946: “Gotthilf Wagner, former mayor of the German colony of Sarona, near Tel Aviv,” a pre-war S.S. Group Leader “and one of the leading Palestine Nazis, was today shot to death as he journeyed from Sarona to Wilhelma, another German community.”

https://www.jta.org/1946/03/24/archive/sarona-mayor-prominent-palestine-nazi-and-s-s-leader-shot-to-death-near-tel-aviv

1946: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Rivka Golani, the daughter of Holocaust survivors who became a world class viola player.

https://www.naxos.com/person/Rivka_Golani/249.htm

1947: For the first time in eight days, all 12 members of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine were at the hearing in Jerusalem where a variety of Christian leaders described their view (and needs) of the current conflict between Arabs and Jews. The Anglican Bishop in Jersualem described the conflict as one of “differing civilizations and different tempos of progress.”

1947: “Mr. and Mrs. Bert Adler” of Woodmere, LI, “announced the engagement of their daughter Joan,” a graduate of Goucher College “to Norman A. Lish the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lish” who is studying at Hobart College.

1947: Sigmund Menkes was award the Corcoran Gold Medal and the first W.A. Clark Prize for his entry “Day’s End, 1946” in the Twentieth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painitings sponsored by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Thirty-two year old Jack Levine of Boston won the Bronze Medal for his entry “Apteka” making him the youngest of the winners.

1947: “Hagannah posted pamphlets in Tel Avi” today “accusing the Irgun…of being deserters from the Zionist struggle and of wasting their efforts in murder while Haganah strove to rescue Jews from Europe. As the principal organizer of illegal immigration Haganah charged the Irgun with neglecting that primary function.”

1947: Dr. Nahum Goldman addressed the Tel Aviv Journalists Associate today telling them that “the historical alliance between Britian and Jewry is nearing its end. That alliance has existed since 1917 when the Balfour Declaration gave Zionists their first legal claim on Palestine as a national home. Its virtual dissolution obviously brings the Zionist movement to an hour of decision. It must ovtain a new international guarantee, another protector among the great powers.

1948: “Twenty Jews…were reported killed today in two battles at Nitzanim, near the Mediterranian coast in the land of the ancient Philistines.”

1948: “Referring to the new American proposal for an international trusteeship,” “the Moscow radio charged today that ‘neither Britain nor America ever intended that the U.N. partition decision on Palestine should be carried out.’” (JTA)

1948: Today, while introducing “a joint resolution to authorize the shipment of arms and munitions to Jews in Palestine,” Representative Jacob K. Javits “argued that failure to ship arms would leave 700,000 Jews in Palestine defenseless and ripe for slaughter by the thousands of Arab fanatics who are being armed and supplied, as all the world knows, by the surrounding Arab States.”

1948: In Augusburg, Germany, Holocaust survivors Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder gave birth to Wolf Blitzer the graduate of the University of Buffalo (NY) who is best known for his work on CNN.

1948: Birthdate of Australian author Dr. Stephen Skinner.

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/240084/was-the-author-of-the-voynich-manuscript-the-literary-worlds-greatest-mystery-a-jew?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=0050ff72bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-0050ff72bf-206644398

1949: Holocaust survivors Moryc Brajtbart (later Morris Breitbart) and Lucy Gliklich “married in the Rosenheim displaced persons camp today and immigrated to the United States the following December.”

1950: According to New York Times correspondent C.L. Sulzberger, the future of Israel depends on its ability to make peace with the surrounding Arab nations and developing normal commercial relations with them while receiving continued political support from the the United Kingdom and the United States and getting additional American aid so that it can meet is “grandiose economic development plans.

1951(14thof Adar II, 5711): Purim

1951: Celebration of Purim assumes “a carnival air today” in New York, “particularly ths afternoon when children in Jewish religious enact principal roles of the Purim story in pageants, plays and dances.”

1951: “The Government of Israel asked the United States today for $150,000,000 in grant-in-aid for the period of July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1952, Abba S. Eban, Israel's Ambassador to Washington announced

1952(25thof Adar, 5712): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi

1952: “The World Jewish Congress estimated today that the Jewish population of the Americas had risen from 1,200,000 in 1900 to 6,000,000 in 1951, while that of Europe had fallen from 8,900,000 to 2,700,000 in the same period

1952: “Scores of limbless or blind persons took part in a demonstration” in Tel Aviv tonight where “survivors of the Nazi persecution” protested “against the reparations talks with West Germany” that started in the Hague yesterday.

1953: Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premiered in New York City.

1955: “Yellowneck,” a film set in the Everglades of 1863 with music by Laurence Rosenthal was released today in the United States.

1955: Twenty-nine year old Max “Slats” Zaslofsky playing in his second to the  last season with the Fort Wayne Pistons providing the winning margin in the playoff game with the Lakers.

1956: In London, Royal World Premiere of “Alexander the Great” a Hollywood “epic” directed, produced and written by Robert Rossen and co-starring Claire Bloom.

1956: The Broadway production of “Mr. Wonderful” a musical starring Sammy Davis, Jr with music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and George David Weiss and a book co-authored by Joseph Stein opened today at The Broadway Theatre today.

1957: Israeli forces withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula as part of the peace process following the Suez Crisis of 1956. Failure of the international community and United Nations to honor its guarantees will lead to further crisis that will boil over into the Six Day War of 1967.

1957(19thof Adar II, 5717): Sixty-one-year-old Geoffrey Joel, the son of Woolf Joel, and husband of Edith Joel passed away in Johannesburg

1958(1st of Nisan, 5718): Rosh Chodesh Nisan;Shabbat HaChodesh

1958(1stof Nisan, 5718): Forty-eight-year-old Art Cohn, the husband of Marta Cohn and the Oakland Tribune sports journalist who wrote the column “The Cohn-ing Tower” died today in the same plane crash that claimed the life of Mike Todd.

http://tribunegogetters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_26.html

1958(1st of Nisan, 5718): Movie producer Michael Todd died in an airplane crash in New Mexico. Born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in 1909, Todd won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1956 for producing Around the World in Eighty Days. At the time of his death he was married to Elizabeth Taylor who would later marry Jewish crooner, Eddie Fisher. Along the way, Ms. Taylor would convert to Judaism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoJFUT6m28#aid=P7JYwcjLtNA

http://documents.latimes.com/mike-todd-plane-crash/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865239/bio

1959: In New York, Yaakov Moshe Friedman, “an administrator at the United Lubavitcher Yishiva in Crown Heights” and his wife gave birth to Avraham Shabsi Hakohen Friedman “better known by his stage name Avraham Fried.”

1960: Arthur Leonard Schawlow whose father was a Jewish immigrant from Latvia and Charles Hard Townes receives the first patent for a laser.

1961(5thof Nisan 5721): Eighty-eight-year-old Frederick Z. “Fred” Salomon, the Greeley, CO, born son of Adolph and Mathilde Salomon, the husband of Helen Salomon and the father of Fred, Jr who helped to create what is now the Famous Barr Co. passed away today in St. Louis.

1962: In another reminder of the depth of Jewish involvement in the world of the Broadway Musical “ I Can Get It For You Wholesale” premiered at the Schubert Theatre. It was based on the novel by Jerome Weidman who wrote the script, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome, directed by Arthur Laurens, starring Elliot Gould and introducing Barbra Streisand as “Miss Marmelstein.”

1963(26thof Adar, 5723): Fifty-five-year-old composer Abraham “Abe” Ellstein passed away.

http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/511/Abraham+Ellstein

1965(18thof Adar II, 5725): Eighty-four-year-old University of West Virginia tackle who “during several games away from home heard he cry of ‘Kill the Jew’” and who went on to a career in law and politics which took him to U.S. House of Representatives passed away today in Cleveland.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-louis-rosenbloom

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000441

1965: Yitzhak Rafael completed his service as Deputy Minister of Health.

1965: More than 400 persons paid tribute tonight to Dr. David de Sola Pool, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel–the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue–in honor of the rabbi’s 80th birthday. (JTA)

1965: Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.

1966(1stof Nisan, 5726): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1966(1stof Nisan, 5726): Sixty-one-year-old Austrian born and Prague trained award winning biochemist Heinrich B. Waelsach, a professor at Columbia’s Collee of Physicians and Surgeon and the husband of Dr. Salome G. Waelsch, a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine with whom he raised two children – Peter and Naomi – passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/23/79985075.pdf

 

1967: “Thunder Alley” produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and co-starring Jan Murray was released in the United States today.

1968: In Paris, the so-called “Movement of 22 March” during which George “Wolinski co-founded the satirical magazine L'Enragé”began today.

1969(3rdof Nisan, 5729): Begin the Book of Vayikra

1969: Three days after he had passed away, memorial services are scheduled to be held at the Princeton University Chapel for 31-year-old Sociology Professor Dr. Ian Weinberg, the son of Mrs. Golda Weinberg.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071779.pdf

1969(3rdof Nisan, 5729): Seventy-eight-year-old Ernst Deutsch, the Austrian actor, who spent the war in the United States ironically playing “Nazi and German officers” and who is best known for his role in the classic spy film “The Third Man” passed away today in Berlin after which he was interred in that city’s Jewish Cemetery.

1970(14thof Adar II, 5730): Purim

1970(14thof Adar II, 5730): Forty-six Robert Ludwig Kahn, the Nuremberg born son of Jewish businessman Gustav Kahn and the former Beatrice Freudenthal (both of whom were murdered in the Holocaust) who survived because of he Kindertransport and went on to became a Professor of German at Rice University in Houston while raised two children, Peter and Beatrice, with his wife, poet Lieselotte Maragrete Kupfer passed away today.

1972: In an aritcle in the Jerusalem Post, Walter Eytan, who has served as Amabassador to France and Chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, wrote that he was sure Israelis would vote overwhelmingly in a favor of a move to leave the West Bank if that departure would guarantee peace. He was equally sure that Israelis would reject a call for withdrawal just for the sake of withdrawal that was not part of a guaranteed peace.

1973: Lyndon B Johnson President died at his Texas Ranch at the age of 64. As a young member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1930’s, Johnson intervened to help bring Jews from Hitler’s Europe to the United. In 1945, he visited concentration camps in Germany where he was visibility moved by the suffering inflicted on the Jewish people. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis, As a U.S. Senator in 1956 and 1957, Johnson opposed the Eisenhower Administration's pressure on Israel and supported her position. During the crisis that led to the Six Day War in 1967, President Johnson urged the Israelis to act with caution. Pre-occupied with the Vietnam War, Johnson attempted to organize an International Flotilla that would enter the Straits of Tiran and break the Egyptian Blockade of Elath. His attempts failed. Based on his intelligence reports, Johnson assured the Israelis that he knew they would emerge victorious. As the war came to a close, the Soviets attempted to repeat their 1956 diplomatic rescue of their Arab allies. The Soviets threatened military action unless the Israelis immediately withdrew. Unlike Eisenhower, Johnson did not cave into the threat. Instead he mobilized the Sixth Fleet and sent into the eastern Mediterranean. The Soviets got the message. After the war, Johnson saw to it that America filled the void left by France's new anti-Israel policy and the United States became the main arms supplier for the IDF. Thanks to Johnson’s efforts, the 1964 Civil Rights Act became law which, among other things, banned discrimination against religion. Last but not least, one of Johnson’s favorite lines was from Isaiah, “Come let us reason together;” a line when uttered was a sure sign that an opponent was about to get “The Treatment” intended to turn foe into political friend.

1977: The second season of “One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin comes to an end.

1977(3rdof Nisan, 5737): Seventy-six-year-old Henry Calechman, the “son of Joseph Calechman” and the husband of Gertrude Calechman passed away today after which he was buried at B’nai Jacob Memorial Park in New Haven, CT.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the 4,500 employees of the country's three ports went on a general strike to back up their demands for an increase of IL 600 per month. Only passenger ships were exempted.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Supreme Court set a precedent in declaring an Israeli citizen extraditable. An Israeli businessman who was wanted by the Swiss government on charges of defrauding a bank was declared extraditable in a precedent-setting ruling.

1978: Harold Herman Greene, the refugee from Hitler’s Germany and WW II Army veteran who graduated from George Washington University Law School was nominated to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

1979: The West End production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” a musical with a “book” co-authored by Murray Horwitz opened today at Her Majesty’s Theatre

1979: The Israeli Parliament approved the peace treaty with Egypt.

1981(16th of Adar II, 5741): Shusan Purim

1983: Chaim Herzog was elected President of Israel today by the Knesset defeating Menachem Elon.

1984(18thof Adar II, 5744): Fifty-six-year-old Harvard and Princeton trained economist Otto Eckstein, the German born son of Hugo and Hedwig Eckstein, best known as the co-founder of Data Resources Inc. passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/23/obituaries/otto-ecktein-educator-who-led-in-economic-forecasting.html

http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/eckstein.htm

1987: The New York Times reviews "The Messiah of Stockholm" by Cynthia Ozick, a novel that is dedicated to Philip Roth.

1989(15thof Adar II, 5749): Shushan Purim

1990: “Ambulance,” an off-beat comedy written by Larry Cohn who also produced and directed the film co-starring Red Buttons was released in the United States today.

1991: “Delta Force 3: The Killing Game” directed by Sam Firstenberg with a script co-authored by Boaz Davidson was released in the United States today.

1992: The original Broadway production of “Conversations With My Father,” a play that “presents the saga of a first generation of American Jews who came of age in the Depression and were assimilated at a high price during and after World War II” opened at the Royale Theatre.

1993: The third round of talks comes to an end at Oslo, Norway.

1995: Hilary Koprowski was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the President of the Republic of Finland. 1995: Hillary Koprowski was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the President of the Republic of Finland. A native of Poland, Koprowski is an American virologist and immunologist, and inventor of the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He was one of three Jews – the other two being Salk and Sabin – who played a leading role in developing a Polio Vaccine.

1998: “Escape: Human Cargo,” co-starring Sasson Gabai was broadcast for the first time in the U.S. on Showtime television network.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including Laughing Matters: On Writing ''M*A*S*H,''''Tootsie,''''Oh, God!,'' and a Few Other Funny Things by Larry Gelbart, A March to Madness: The View From the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference by John Feinstein and Spin Cyle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine by Howard Kurtz.

1999: Eliezer Sandberg left the Israel in the Centre party to establish HaTzeirim

1999(5th of Nisan, 5759): Eighty-five-year-old British historian Max Beloff, passed away. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Beloff served as governor of the University of Haifa and as Baron Beloff served as an active member of the House of Lords. According to the Unbroken Chain, the Beloff’s family lineage traces back “to the House of David as descendants of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, the Maharam of Padua.” For about Beloff see his autobiography An Historian in the Twentieth Century.

2000: In “A Victim's Sang-Froid in Very Coldblooded Times,” published today Richard Bernstein not only reviews I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer; translated and with a preface by Martin Chalmers but provides a valuable picture of the privation faced by this hidden Jew.

2001: It was reported today that An Internet photo contest that included a picture of Muhammad al-Durrah, who was shot to death in September in a battle between Israeli and Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip and that had become a test of wills over the Middle East was pulled from the Web because its sponsor, MSNBC.com, said it had determined that a sizable number of votes had been rigged.

2002(9thof Nisan, 5762): Seventy-nine-year-old Josef von Stroheim, the son of director Erich von Stroheim passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/30/local/me-vonstroheim30

2003: “Leaders of the Palestinian group Hamas urged Iraqis to use suicide as a weapon against invading troops.”

2003: “French Jews Tell of a New and Threatening Wave of Anti-Semitism” published today.

2004: Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of Hamas, and his bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

2005: The New-York Historical Society opened an exhibit entitled "First Ladies of New York and the Nation." Among the unusual items on display in the exhibit were four handbags created by Judith Lieber.”

http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/22/2005/judith-leiber

2006: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin delivers a speech on "A Code of Jewish Ethics", followed by a book signing at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in New York City.

2006: A new production of “Shenandoah,” a musical with a book co-authored by Philip Rose opened at Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C.

2006: In Seville, Spain, the Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for peace came to a close.

2006: Haaretz reported that a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the aftermath of the torture and murder of a young Jewish vendor is fueling concerns that anti-Jewish feelings are spreading in France's black community.

2007: Ira Glass and company began airing a television version of This American Life as half-hour episodes on the Showtime network.

2007: In a move opposed by the family of Bess Houdini, Harry “Houdini's grand-nephew (the grandson of his brother Theo), George Hardeen, announced that the courts would be asked to allow exhumation of Houdini's body, to investigate the possibility of Houdini being murdered by spiritualists, as suggested in the biography The Secret Life of Houdini.

2008: Shushan Purim, 5768

2008: As part of the Israel at 60, the 92nd Street Y presents Danny Sanderson, Israeli lyricist and pop icon. Sanderson, a singer-songwriter legend whose album, Kongo Blues, was voted January 06 album of the month in Israel, performs some of Israel's best known and most beloved songs.

2008: Publication of selected writings of Pfc. Daniel Agami, of blessed memory.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/us/4000agami.web.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

2009: An exhibition featuring the works of Israeli born photographer Shai Kremer at the Metropolitan Museum comes to a close.

2009: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a speech by Dr. David Fishman of the Jewish Theological Seminary on the topic "The Problem of Religion and Secularism among Secular Yiddishists in Eastern Europe.

2009: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently published paperback edition of “Now You See Him” by Eli Gotlieb.

2009: At Temple Sinai in Los Angeles, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen “faced off against some 400 Iranian Jews and Bahais” who took exception to his recent columns describing the plight of Jews living in Iran.

2010: The 14th Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “Tribute: Observations on Survival and Spirit - Lessons from the Holocaust” featuring eight short films including “Holding Leah,” “Pigeon,” “Sarah and Hayah,” “The Next Harvest,” “The Wall,” “Torte Bluma,” “Toyland” and “Waiting for Dachau.”

2010: Shots were fired at an Israeli army patrol this evening next to Aduraim in the southern Hevron Hills. No injuries or damage were reported. Additional troops were sent to search the scene.

2010(7th of Nisan, 5760): Rabbi Zachary Heller, past president of the World Council of Masorti Synagogues and a congregational rabbi for nearly 30 years died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 71. He served as senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, a Conservative congregation in Bayonne, N.J., for 29 years, and was considered "a rabbi's rabbi," according to a death notice in The New York Times. Heller worked as the associate director of the National Center for Jewish Policy Studies for 12 years from 1997. As president of the World Council of Masorti Synagogues from 1989 to 1994, he lectured and taught in 22 countries and mentored rabbis in many communities. The Masorti movement in Israel is affiliated with Conservative Judaism.

2011: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Covina, CA for actor Al Israel, Jr. who was survived by his children Kathleen and John and his grandchildren Johnny and Lizzy

2011: Tony Kushner’s latest play, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures,” is scheduled to open today.

2011: Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years’ probation for rape, indecent acts, sexual harassment and obstruction of justice, becoming the first former President of Israel to be sentenced to prison. In addition, he was ordered to pay one of the women compensation totaling 100,000 NIS and another a sum of 25,000 NIS

 

2011: “James’ Journey to Jerusalem” is scheduled to be shown in Iowa City as part of the Hillel Film Series.

2011(16h of Adar II): On this date on the Hebrew Calendar the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem began under King Agrippa I.

2011: The three major film schools in Manhattan-- Columbia University School of Arts, The School of Visual Arts Film School and NYU Tisch School of the Arts--,are scheduled to host the opening night of a three day salute to the achievements of the Sam Spiegel Film School. “Over the last decade The Sam Spiegel Film School played a pivotal role in the film renaissance of Israeli cinema by virtue of its distinctive focus on a personal and sensitive dialogue with the audience.”

2011: Thirty-five congregations including shuls from cities as large as Phoenix and Las Vegas, and as small as Chesterfield, Mo. and Norfolk, VA have registered for the 3rd annual Emerging Communities Conference sponsored by the Orthodox Union which is scheduled to begin today.

2011: Today, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced former president Moshe Katsav to seven years in prison and two years’ probation for rape and sexual harassment, which he was convicted of in December. Judges George Karra, Judith Shevach and Miriam Sokolov also ruled that Katsav pay NIS 100,000 to victim "Aleph" from the Tourism Ministry.

2011: The IDF Spokesman Unit overnight confirmed that IAF aircraft attacked two terror tunnels, two sites used for the manufacturing and storage of weapons and two further terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. "Direct targets were identified and all planes returned safely to their base," a statement by the IDF read. "The attack was in response to recently conducted attacks on southern communities," the statement continued. "The IDF will not tolerate the continued attack of settlements close to Gaza," the IDF statement said.

2011: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin slammed the “dangerous” military conversion bill, while calling on the rabbinate to increase and enhance its conversion efforts as a countermeasure to the massive assimilation taking place in Israel. Speaking at a Knesset event marking 90 years to the Chief Rabbinate’s inception, Rivlin noted the wealth of religious bodies that supplement the religious services provided by the rabbinate but warned of one service that can never be in the hands of a body that is not an official arm of the state. (As reported by Isaac Harari)

2011: A Grad rocket fired from Gaza exploded south of Ashdod today after a day of escalation along the border.

2011: The opening of the exhibition by artist Sharon Poliakine and painter Oren Eliav, takes place at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2011: In “New edition out for Maxwell House Haggadah, part of Passover tradition for many American Jews” that “From the White House to the Schein house, Passover is good to the last drop thanks to the Maxwell House Haggadah, lovingly passed down through generations, red wine splotches and gravy smears marking nearly 80 years of service at American Seder tables.

http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=118438959

2012: Spokane Jewish Cultural Cultural Film Festival is scheduled to open in Spokane, Washington

2012: The 16th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to a close.

2012: The Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to present the Bustan Quartet in Berkley, CA.

2013: Julius Genachowski announced that he would be leaving the FCC which he had been chairing since June of 2009.

2013: “The Gang’s All Here” which features Benny Goodman playing himself is scheduled to be shown as part of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series.

2013: Portugal’s national soccer team is scheduled to square off against its Israeli rivals at the national stadium in Ramat Gan this afternoon.

2013: Political leaders flocked this morning to the bedside of Acre Mayor Shimon Lankri, who survived an assassination attempt in what doctors describe as a lucky escape.

2013: Barack Obama ended his first presidential visit to Israel and headed off to Jordan today

2013: President Barack Obama scored a diplomatic coup just before leaving Israel when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey for a 2010 commando raid that killed nine activists on a Turkish vessel in a Gaza-bound flotilla.

2014: The Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) which has done an outstanding job of serving Jewish families and youth since 1855, is scheduled to host a gala fundraiser “The Jewish Roots of Broadway.”

2014: “The German Doctor” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “A Palestinian militants sent threatening text messages to a large number of Israelis this evening, calling on them to leave the country and warning them they would be “the next Gilad Shalit.”

2014: “Hunting Elephants” and “The Attack” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “A joint IDF, Shin Bet and Border Police raid early today killed a wanted Hamas operative in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank who was reportedly plotting a major terrorist attack.”

2014: Flexibility Key to Survival” published today described the way that Lebo’s the 91 year old family owned footwear business founded by Sidney Levin has changed to meet the needs and challenges of its customers.

2014: In Rockville, MD, The Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled host its fundraiser “Casino Night”

2015: “Disobedience - The Sousa Mendes Story” (Desobeir) is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.

2015: “Letter to Afar, “ an exhibition “based on films taken by Jewish immigrants who traveled from New York back to Poland during the 1920’s and 1930’s came to a close today at the Museum of the City of New York.

2015: Ron Arons, author of "Jews of Sing Sing" and of "Mind Maps for Genealogy," is scheduled to introduce basic concepts of "family systems theory" at the Center for Jewish History.

2015; In Cedar Rapids, Dan Bern, the son of Marianne Bern, is scheduled to perform as CSPC.

2015: “Letters to Afar: Installation by Péter Forgács and The Klezmatics,” a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York is scheduled to closed today. (As reported by Cathryn J. Prince)

2016: The annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC is scheduled to come to an end.

2016: The “Jews in the American South” is scheduled to visit Hobcaw Barony, the on-time hunting retreat of Wall Street Investment Maven and Presidential advisor Bernard Baruch, who contrary to the popular caricature was a native of Camden, South Caroline where his father practiced medicine.

2016: “Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC Manhattan

2017: Today “Yahya Sinwar said Hamas would not allow the State of Israel to exist on even a “morsel” of land.”

2017: Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: "Israel expresses its deep shock at the terror attack in London today and its solidarity with the victims and with the people and government of Great Britain. Terror is terror wherever it occurs, and we will fight it relentlessly."

2017: Producer, keyboardist, lyricist, composer and performer Idan Raichel, a global music icon and “leader of The Idan Raichel Project is scheduled to perform this evening at City Winery in New York.

2017: In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host an Israeli Wine Tasting and a discussion led by Rabbi Feivel Strauss on “The Role of Wine in Judaism – From the Bible Through Prohibition.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening in London of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.”

2018: Weather permitting, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Across the Line” and “Operation Wedding.”

2018(6thof Nisan, 5778): Ninety-four-year-old Charles P. Lazarus, the Washington, DC born son of bike shop owners Frank and Phoebe Lazarus who found Toys “R” US passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/charles-p-lazarus-toys-r-us-founder-dies-at-94.html/

2018: "Bal Ej: the hidden Jews of Ethiopia" is scheduled to be shown at Beit Oleh America Netanya AACI, Israel followed by a Q and A with filmmaker Irene Orleansky.

2019: The Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host “Shabbat Shabbang” featuring a world premiere concert by Joanie Leeds and Matthew Check.

2018: Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge.”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich

2019: As Jews prepare for Shabbat, one question they may be asking is if President Trump’s twitter about the Golan Heights is venting, like his recent attacks on Senator McCain who has been dead for seven months or if they represent an official change in U.S. policy.

2019 The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Fractures” and “Waldheim Waltz.”

2019: In San Jose, the 3Below Theaters and Lounge is scheduled to host “An Evening with Groucho” as in Groucho Marx.

2019: Forbidden Music, “an exploration of forgotten masterworks written by composers living under the shadow of oppressive regimes and perished in the Holocaust” is scheduled to continue for a second night in the San Francisco Bay area.

2020: It was reported that Lizabeth Cohen’s Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban American in the Suburban Age has won this year’s Bancroft Prize, “one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.

2020: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker by Barry Sonnenfeld and The Power Notebooks by Katie Roiphe.

2020: “In Search of Jewish Homelands” during which “local writer and teacher Dan Schifrin was to have expanded on his January 2020 J. cover story about his heritage visit to Spain with his family, and the country’s Jewish history and communities” which was scheduled to take place today at the Jewish Community Library in San Francisco has been postponed due to the pandemic.

2020: The “Beth Ami Spring Concert” featuring a three-person string circle including violin master Joseph Edelberg plus flutiest Stacey Pelinka which was scheduled to take place this evening at Congregation Ner Shalom in Cotati, CA has been postponed due to the pandemic.

2020: The final Limmudfest-Meeting scheduled to take place today in New Orleans has been canceled due to the pandemic

2020: The concert by HaZamir, the International Jewish Teen Choir, honoring Rabbi Daniel Freelander scheduled to take place this afternoon at Lincoln Center has been canceled.

2020: “A special online concert by Ian Raichel organized by the Jewish Agency” is scheduled to take place today at 4 pm EDT.

2021:The British Library, in association with The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present “Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word- Roly Keating (Chief Executive, British Library)

- Oren Weinberg (Director General, National Library of Israel) - Ilana Tahan (Lead Curator, Hebrew & Christian Orient Collections, British Library) and Yoel Finkelman (Curator Judaica Collection, National Library of Israel)

2021: In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore is schedule to present a panel discussion featuring authors Janice Kaplan (“The Genius of Women”); Maureen Trestman (“Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin”); and Jill Wine-Banks (“The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President”

2021: The London School of Jewish studies is scheduled to present the final session in Part 1 of 'The Torah of Rabbi Sacks zt"l', with Rabbi Joe Wolfson, who will lead a discussion into ideas of Pesach and freedom.

2021: Sha’ar Zahav is scheduled to present Tulane professor Golan Moskowitz who will talk about the Maurice Sendak’s perspective as a gay, Jewish, son of Yiddish-speaking Polish immigrants, and how his monsters changed children’s literature.

2021: The Boston College Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life is scheduled to “host a screening of the film “Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story” and a panel discussion with filmmaker Martin Doblemeier and Professor Susannah Heschel.”

2021: American Technion Society is scheduled to present “a talk about a new device for fast, accurate Covid-19 testing by Technion grad and entrepreneur Adam de la Zerda.”

2021: Israelis “endure” one final day of campaigning before tomorrow’s election which will be the last one for President Rivlin who has already “served through six election campaigns.”

 

 

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