This Day, September 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

September 15

 53: Birthdate of Trajan who was Roman emperor from 98 until his death of 117. In the last decade of his rule, Trajan began a campaign against the Parthians, a people living east of the Roman Empire.  Since this territory bordered Judea with its large Jewish population, Trajan sought to improve relations between Rome and his Jewish subjects.  There were even reports that Trajan would allow a rebuilding of the Temple.  However, as the Romans moved into Parthia, he met stiff military opposition, fueled, in part, by Jews living in Parthia who despised Rome for destroying the Temple.  At the same time, Jews in Egypt also rebelled against Rome.  The violence there forced Trajan to send legions to the land along the Nile which weakened his already doomed campaign as Parthia.

1199: Pope Innocent III published “Constitutio Pro Judeis: An Edict in Favor of the Jews”

1084: Rüdiger Huzmann, the Bishop of Speyer, signed and sealed a document explaining why he had invited the Jews to settle in his city and the terms and conditions under which this community was to live. Among other things, he stated that he “believed” it would “multiply” the “image” of Speyer “a thousand times by inviting the Jews” and “turn the village of Speyer into a city.”

1254:  Birthdate of explorer Marco Polo who told of meeting Chinese Jews in his 1286 journey to China.

1317: “The Jews of Berlin and Cöln (later incorporated with Berlin) are first mentioned in a law of Margrave Waldemar,” bearing today’s date “which provides that in criminal cases the Jews shall be amenable to the city court of Berlin

1348: On the Day of Atonement, three Jews and a Jewess in Chillon, a town near Lake Geneva were tortured in an attempt to get them to confess to charges of well poisoning that was the alleged cause of the Black Death.

1485: Pedro Arbues, Canon of the Cathedral of Saragossa was attacked while praying. He died two days later, and when the news went public, the Christian community gathered to swear revenge. The attack was planned by prominent Jews (Conversos) of Aragon including Sancho de Paternoy, Master of the Royal Household; Gabriel Sanches, the High Treasurer of the kingdom; and Francisco de Santa Fe, assessor to the Governor of Aragon. The results of this “were that nearly 200 people had revenge struck upon them, some were murdered outright and some were beheaded with their mutilated bodies put on display. Some were imprisoned, some committed suicide to alleviate their suffering, and some fled to France.” The Church later made Arbues into a Saint in 1867.

1497: Gershon Soncino published one of the first printed editions of “Selihot” in Braco, Italy.

1683: Germantown, Pennsylvania was founded by 13 immigrant families as a separate township outside of Philadelphia.  In 1793, Isaac Franks, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, opened his Germantown home to President George Washington, when a yellow fever epidemic gripped Philadelphia which was the capital of the United States of America at that time.

1697:Frederick Augustus I or Augustus II the Strong crowned King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth “with the backing of Imperial Russia and Austria, which financed him through the Jewish banker, Berend Lehmann.”  He was also the monarch whom Naphtali Cohen “went to see to secure reinstatement in his former rabbinate of Posen.”

1718(1^st of Tishrei, 5479): Sixty-eight year old, the Providence, RI born son of “Stephen and Sarah Arnold” and husband of Mary Arnold passed away today.

1730(4^th of Tishrei, 5491): Sir Solomon de Medina passed away. A native of Bordeaux Medina was a wealthy Amsterdam Jew who went to England with William III, when he and Queen Anne gained the throne of the United Kingdom.  According to Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne “The first Jewish knight, created by Queen Anne, was Sir Solomon de Medina. It was Sir Solomon who provided the supplies, including the food that enabled the British Army under the Duke of Marlborough to win the decisive Battle of Blenheim – a vital turning point in the War of Spanish Succession and a swift kick in the shins to Louis XIV’s aspirations.”

1735: Birthdate of Issachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly an Alsatian rabbi. At the age of 10, he was sufficiently advanced in his training for the rabbinate to follow the elaborate lectures of Jonathan Eybeschütz. Later, Carmoly studied successively at Frankfurt, under the direction of Jacob Joshua, author of Pene Yehoshu'a, and at Metz, under Samuel Helman, who conferred upon him the title of rabbi. On returning home, in compliance with the wish of his father, Carmoly began the study of medicine under the direction of Jacob Assur, a physician of Nancy, but had to give it up, being engrossed with his Talmudical studies. The only benefit he derived from his tutor was a fair knowledge of mathematics, of which he made use later. He passed away in May of 1781. Carmoly married the daughter of a rich banker named Joseph Raineau. The latter persuaded the bishop of Sulz to create a rabbinate in his see; and Carmoly was appointed rabbi of Sulz. Carmoly was the author of a commentary on the Tosefta to the treatise Betzah, published, together with the text, under the title Yam Yissakar (Sea of Issachar; Metz, 1769). The grandson of the author, Eliakim Carmoly, claimed to have had in his possession the following manuscripts of his grandfather

1752:  The Merchant of Venice was presented in Williamsburg, Virginia.  It was the first dramatic production by a professional troupe in the 13 Colonies.  There is irony that Shylock made such an early appearance in the one place in the world where the stereotype did not even begin to fit.

1755(10^thof Tishrei, 5516): Yom Kippur

1776: British troops occupied New York City disrupting Jewish life. Many Jewish supporters of the Revolution fled the city.  Several of them took refuge in Newport, Rhode Island.

1780: Birthdate of Jonas Daniel Meijer, the first Jew admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands.  As a lawyer, he worked to help the Dutch Jews gain full emancipation.

1780(15th of Elul, 5540): Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire an academic and the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France, passed away. Born Jacob Rodrigues Pereira in 1715 at Peniche, Portugal, “he was a descendant of a Marrano (Portuguese Crypto-Jews) family and was baptized with the name of Francisco António Rodrigues. He returned to Judaism together with his mother. His parents were Magalhães Rodrigues Pereira and Abigail Ribea Rodrigues. After his father's death his mother fled with her son from Portugal to escape the Portuguese Inquisition and the charge that she had relapsed into heresy, and about 1741 she settled at Bordeaux. Jacob Rodrigue Péreire formulated signs for numbers and punctuation and adapted Juan Pablo Bonet's manual alphabet by adding 30 handshapes each corresponding to a sound instead of to a letter. He is therefore seen as one of the inventors of manual language for the deaf and is credited with being the first person to teach a non-verbal deaf person to speak. In 1759, he was made a member of the Royal Society of London. A lifelong devotee to the well-being of the Jews of southern France, Portugal, and Spain, beginning in 1749 he was a volunteer agent for the Portuguese Jews at Paris. In 1777, his efforts led to Jews from Portugal receiving the right to settle in France. In 1876 Pereira's remains were transferred from the Cimetière de la Villette (where he had been buried the year in which that cemetery was opened) to that of the Cimetière de Montmartre. In Bordeaux the street "Rodrigues-Pereire" was named in his honor. His grandsons, the Péreire brothers, Emile Péreire (1800–75) and Isaac Péreire (1806–80), were well-known French financiers and bankers during the second empire who encouraged the construction of the first railway in France in 1835. In 1852, they founded the Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier.”

1793(9^thof Tishrei, 5554): Erev Yom Kippur; with France in the 10^th day of the “Reign of Terror” Jews chant Kol Nidre

1795(2^ndof Tishrei, 5556): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed on the day that the Dutch surrendered their colony at Cape Town to the British.

1798(5^thof Tishrei, 5559): Parashat Vayeilich; Shabbat Shuva

1798(5^thof Tishrei, 5559):  Twenty year old Walter Jonas Judah, the New York born son of Jessie Jonas and Samuel Judah, “the grandson of Baruch Judah” who was “the first American-born Jew to enroll in medical school” and passed away while “attending Columbia College.

1801: Coronation of Czar Alexander I who “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.

1812(9th of Tishrei, 5573): Erev Yom Kippur

1812: The only Jews who would have chanted Kol Nidre tonight in Moscow would have been members of the French Army which had entered the Russian capital to find it devoid of the local population.

1814(1^stof Tishrei, 5575): Rosh Hashanah

1814: Jews in Baltimore, Maryland, have a special reason to rejoice as they welcomed the New Year, since today marked the end of the “Battle of Baltimore” when the Americans withstood the British bombardment of Fort McHenry and thwarted their planned attack on the American port. 

1821: Birthdate of Victor Guérin a French explorer and archaeologist whose seven trips to the “holy land” resulted in the seven volume Geographical, Historical, and Archaeological Description of Palestine and who used such Jewish sources “as the Mishna and Talmud, as well as Jewish travelers such as Benjamin of Tudela and Isaac Chelo”

1821: Costa Rica declares independence from Spain. The first Jewish settlers in Costa Rica were Sephardim from Curacao, Jamaica, Panama and the Caribbean who arrived in the 19th century. Jewish life in Costa Rica today is very vibrant and caters to the 2,500 Jews in the country.

1821: El Salvador declares independence from Spain. Except for the occasional transit of Portuguese Conversos, there were no Jews in the country until the first half of the nineteenth century when Sephardim from France settled in the town of Chaluchuapa. As of 2000, the Jewish population in El Salvador was approximately 120.

1821: Guatemala declares independence from Spain. Documents in the archives of the Mexican Inquisition attest to the presence of Marranos in Guatemala during the colonial period. The origins of the present Jewish community, however, are from German immigrants who came to the country in the mid-19th-century. Approximately 1,200 Jews live in Guatemala today, and the majority of them reside in the capital Guatemala City.

1821: Honduras declares independence from Spain. Conversos, or New Christians, who converted to Christianity while secretly practicing Judaism, were believed to be among the Spaniards who succeeded in buying permits that allowed them to circumvent prohibitions against sailing to the New World during the period after the Jewish expulsion from Spain. Many of these conversos disembarked along the Gulf of Mexico, and the Honduran coast. It is possible that these were the first "Jews" to arrive in Honduras, but this is disputed by some historians.At the end of the 1800's Honduras experienced an influx of Jews. The majority emigrated from the Central European regions of Russia, Poland, Germany, Romania, and Hungary, while a few were of Sephardic origin, and came from Greece, Turkey and North Africa

1821: Nicaragua declares independence from Spain. The Jewish population of Nicaragua reaches its peak in the 1920’ when it numbered approximately 270.  During the Sandinista era, the population dwindled to ten.  Today, there are approximately fifty Jews in Managua that gathers for Shabbat services, at last report; the community lacked a Sefer torah and a rabbi.

1824: The first Jewish wedding took place in Cincinnati, Ohio today when Morris Symonds married Rebekah Hyams.

1824 Daniel Meyers married Hester Levy today at the New Synagogue.

1824: In Posen, Aaron Levin Lazarus and his wife gave birth to Moritz Lazarus, the professor of psychology at the University of Bern who was an outspoken opponent of ant-Semitism and who held several leadership roles in the German Jewish community including the presidency of Jewish Synod of Leipzig and the Berlin branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.

1825(3rd of Tishrei, 5586):Tzom Gedaliah

1825(3^rd of Tishrei, 5586): Mtailda de Symons the daughter of Arron de Symons and Matlida Israel passed away today after which she was buried in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.

1825: The foundation stone for Ararat was laid in Buffalo, New York. Ararat was to be a city of refuge for displaced Jews. It was to be on Grand Island in the Niagara River. Apparently Mordechai Noah, the self-appointed leader of the Jewish community was not bothered by the conflict with today’s fast.

1827(23^rdof Elul, 5587): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Leil Selichot observed

1829(17^thof Elul, 5589): Alsace, France, native Mayer Lippmann, the “on of Raphaël Isaac Lippmann and Jutelé Lippmann” and husband of Madeleine Lippmann passed away today at Verdun.

1830: George Novra married Rebecca Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.

1830: Sixty year old William Huskisson who presented “a petition signed by 2000 citizens of Liverpool” which was the first step toward gaining full citizenship for the Jews passed away today.

1834: Birthdate of Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke, one of the first prominent German leaders to take a leading role in the anti-Semitic attacks that began in Germany in the last three decades of the 19^th century.  His lament that “The Jews are our misfortune” would become the motto of Der Stürmer Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher the Nazi leader who was hung at Nuremberg after having been convicted of committing “crimes against humanity.”

1837: One day after they had died in a fire in the Strand Theatre, Harry Harris and his daughter Esther Harris were buried today at the Brady Jewish Cemetery.

1837: Benjamin and Rosa Vallentine gave birth to Nathan Vallentine.

1838(25^thof Elul, 5598): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed on the day that “Frederick Douglas married Anna Murray, “a free black woman from Baltimore’ after which they moved to New Bedford.

1838(25^thof Elul, 5598): Eighty year old London native Humphrey Mordecai Marks, the husband of Frances Marks and long-time resident of Charleston, SC passed away today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in Columbia, SC.

1839 Birthdate of Saint-Denis native Marie Clément Jules Alexis Ballot-Beaupré the president of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation and rapporteur to the Court's combined chambers of during the first quashing of the verdict that had condemned Dreyfus who was president of the Court for the second trial that ended in Dreyfus's rehabilitation.

1849: The first synagogue in South Africa, Tikvat Yisrael, was dedicated in Cape Town.

1850(9th of Tishrei, 5611): Erev Yom Kippur

1854: The second Jewish synagogue built in Boston was consecrated today.  The synagogue was erected by German Jews who had left the city’s other synagogue which was controlled by Polish Jews.

1855(3^rdof Tishrei, 5616): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva observed on the day when The Act to Punish Offences Against Slave Property which was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Kansas Territory on August 14, 1855, was to take effect.

1856: Mina (Halfin) and Abraham Levi gave birth to Levi Napoleon Levi in Victoria, Texas.  Young Levi went “north” for college (The University of Virginia) where he earned an undergraduate and law degree by the age of 20.  Levi returned to the Lone Star State where he practiced law in Galveston and became a leader of the civil and Jewish communities. Eventually he would become President of the National Order of B’nai Brith.  He passed away in 1904.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fle75

1857: James Finn of the British Council in Jerusalem wrote to the foreign ministry offering a plan to settle Jews in agriculture in Eretz-Israel to help the land prosper.

1857: Birthdate of William Howard Taft.  Taft is the only man to serve as President and then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  Taft served one term of President sandwiched between Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.  Taft was the first President to attend a Seder.  In 1912, when he visited Providence, RI, he participated in the family Seder of Colonel Harry Cutler, first president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Nineteen- twelve was an election year and possibly Taft’s attendance at Cutler’s Seder was an attempt to shore up his political support among Jewish voters.  In 1911, he had angered many Jewish leaders with his stand on the issue of passports for Jews wanting to go to Russia.  As part of a series of anti-Semitic actions, Russians were refusing to issue passports to American Jews who want to go to Russia for business reasons.  Taft basically told a meeting of American Jewish leaders to call off their pressure to get the Russians to stop this discrimination against American citizens.  To Taft’s credit he vetoed an immigration bill that contained a literacy requirement designed to keep Jews and others from Eastern Europe out of the United States.  The proposal came as Jews were seeking to flee the rising tide of pogroms that had swept Russia during the opening decade of the 20^thcentury.

1858: In Montreal Cantor Abraham de Sola and Esther de Sola gave birth to Clarence Isaac de Sola, the husband of Belle Maud de Sola.

1860: In Cleveland, OH, Benjamin and Hannah Straus Peixotto gave birth to France Corinne Peixotto who became Frances Corinne “Fannie” Peixotto Bloom when she married Louisville, KY native Isadore Nathan Bloom

1862: During the Civil War, Company D of Cameroon’s Dragoons, a Union Cavalry regiment founded and commanded by Max Friedman took part in an expedition the left for Indiantown, NC, today while Companies F and H moved toward Drummond Lake.

1864(14th of Elul, 5624): Joel Ellis, “the infant child of J.J. Ellis and his wife Marguerite” passed away today after which he was buried at the Brompton Jewish Cemetery (As reported by Cemetery Scribes)

1863(2nd of Tishrei, 5624): As Jews observe the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah “President Lincoln used the authority granted him under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act to suspend habeas corpus throughout the Union in any case involving prisoners of war, spies, traitors, or any member of the military.

1865: Zillah Simon and Samuel Henry Beddington gave birth to George Stuart Beddington.

1866: In Hungary, Tobias and Helen Sarah Burger gave birth American cigar maker and tobacco salesman Joseph Burger, the husband of Mary Prince who became a successful New York restaurant owner as President of the Burger Lunch Company while serving as board member for several organizations including the Denver Shelter Home for Jewish Children, the Beth Abraham Home for Incurables, the Guild for Jewish Blind and the Ohab Zedek Talmud Torah.

1869(10^thof Tishrei, 5630): Jews observe Yom Kippur for the first time under the Presidency of U.S. Grant.

1870: In Baltimore, Arianna née Handy and Otto Sutro gave birth to Rose Sutro, the niece of the first Jewish mayor of San Francisco, who with her younger sister Ottilie  would form on of the first, if not the first, duo-piano teams.

1870: Birthdate of Rachel Hirsch, the daughter Mendel Hirsch, the director of the girls’ school serving the Jewish religious community in Frankfurt am Main.  In a move that was unusual for her time, she became a doctor in German and a professor at Charité.

1870: Future Dreyfusard Clément Moras became the imperial prosecutor in Saint-Girons

1871(29th of Elul, 5631): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1872: It was reported today that presidential candidate Horace Greely had “indecently insulted the Hebrews” while speaking in Chappaqua, NY.  [Greely was running against U.S. Grant who would garner the majority of Jewish votes]

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E05E1DE1F38EF34BC4D52DFBF668389669FDE

1873: Birthdate of Max Abraham who was buried at the Landstuhl Jewish Cemetery in German when passed away fifty years later.

1873(23rd of Elul, 5633): Seventy two Samuel Jacobs, a native of the Isle of Sheppey who became a “dealer in works of art” passed away today in London.

1873: In Bellefonte, PA, Rosa Grauer and Adolph Loeb gave birth to Herbert Adolph Loeb.

1874: Birthdate of Gomel native Nicholas Dobkin, the Columbia University trained medical doctor.

1874: Birthdate of Sam Lefkowitz who shares a burial plot with Esther, Shimon and Anna Lefkowitz.

1876: Birthdate of German born American composer and conductor Bruno Walter

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/18/113414871.pdf

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Walter-Bruno.htm

1877: Birthdate of Jakob Ehrlich the Austrian lawyer and early Zionist leader whose service in the Austrian Army during WW I did not save him from being beaten to death at Dachau.

1878(3rd of Tishrei, 5548): Shabbat Shuvah (the fast is put off out respect for the Sabbath)

1878: “Lessing’s Dramas” published today reviews the three finest plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing which include “Nathan the Wise” which was written in 1779. In Nathan the Wise, Lessing succeeds in his “aim is to present a perfect ideal embodiment of the spirit of toleration” which this “a powerful drama.” “The Germans love this drama” which features “this wise and noble hearted Jew” “and place it beside Faust as one of their two finest classics.”

1878: Birthdate of Jennie Weiner who was buried in Waldheim Jewish Cemetery when she passed away in 1927.

1879: It was reported today that the population of Romania is 4,582,602 of which 270,000 are Jewish.

1879: In Anykščiai, which is now part of Lithuania Abel Komaiko and Rebecca Zelesnik, an aunt of movie producer David O. Selnick gave birth to Solomon Barcuh Komaiko (S.B. Komaiko) whose varied career made him “one of the 100 most influential Chicago Jews in the 20^th century, a champion of Lithuanian independence at the Versailles Peace Conference, an ardent Zionist and author whose style was compared to Shalom Aleichem.

1879: It was reported today that the Foreign Minister of Romania is continuing to offer arguments for not allowing Jews to become citizens of his country as was agreed to during the meeting of the European Powers in Berlin. He contends that they can be subjects without being citizen of the country.  He describes the Jews “by their customs, their traditions and their aspirations” as forming a “foreign colony, a species of German colony” in Romania.  (This charge comes at the same time that the growing anti-Semitic movement in Germany is attacking Jews as being aliens)

1880(10^thof Tishrei, 5641): Yom Kippur

1880: “The Church Question” published today described the condition of religion in the United States which “is not a Christian nation.”  This is “a Christian land inasmuch as that form of religion prevails among our people…but the government has only government political relations with its subjects and makes no discrimination between Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, believers of any kind and absolute unbelievers.

1881: It was reported today that leaders of several Jewish communities in the eastern provinces of Germany have appealed to their co-religionist in Berlin “to exert their influence” with the authorities to provide them protections during riots which they fear will come during the upcoming holiday season which begins on September 23, Erev Rosh Hashanah

1881: Reports published today described the passage of 400 Russian Jews who have gone through Lemberg on their way to the United States.

1882(2nd of Tishrei, 5643): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1882: In Maryland, Cantor Herman Glass and Rachel Glass gave birth to Rena (Rivka) Gass who became Rena Cohn when she married Jacob Cohn with whom she had four children.

1883: Birthdate of Kovno native, Israel Sack, a leading antique dealer, the founder and head of Israel Sack, Inc which is now being run by his sons “Albert, Harry and Robert” that he raised with his wife “Mrs. Ann Goodman Sacks.”

1885: Birthdate of Hanover native Leopold Philipp, a graduate of the Hebrew Technical Institute and Colonel in the National Guard who went to become consulting engineer in New York where he was active in various civic organization including the Red Cross.

1885: it was reported today that 4 year old John Franze and Abraham Schmidt caught smallpox from a fellow student with whom they attend Hebrew School at 127 Pitt Street in New York.1886: In Paris, Lucien Lévy, an examiner at the École Polytechnique and his wife gave birth to Paul Pierre Lévy a French mining engineer and mathematician who contributed to probability, functional analysis, partial differential equations and series.

1886: Birthdate of Louis Capaln the University of Pittsburgh trained lawyer and the “11th national President of the American Jewish Committee”

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/18/archives/louis-caplan-exhead-of-jewish-committee.html?searchResultPosition=1

1888(10^thof Tishrei, 5649): Yom Kippur

1888: Birthdate of Dickinson College and JTS graduate Louis Jacob Haas who served as a rabbi congregations in “Harrisburg and Reading, PA, Stamford, CT and Woodside, Queens” as well a chaplain at Bellevue Hospital and as “vice president of the National Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/05/20/90501336.pdf

1889: Six days after she had passed away, 27 year old Amy Judith Levy, the daughter of Lewis Levy and the former Isabella Levin, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1889: Judge Henry M. Goldfogle and Mr. Warley M. Patzek addressed the attendees at the ceremonies celebrating the dedication of the Temple to be used by Congregation of Mount Sinai which is located on 72^nd Street in Manhattan.

1889: Members of Shaar Hashomyim (Gates of Heaven) gathered today to celebrate the dedication of their new sanctuary on East 15^th Street near Third Avenue. The congregation was founded in 1839 and was moving from current facility on Rivington Street.  Built in 1865 with seating for 1,000, the congregation was forced to move again because it had outgrown this facility.

1890(1^stof Tishrei, 5651): Rosh Hashanah

1890(1^stof Tishrei, 5651): A fight broke out in a synagogue at Trenton, NJ, when Max Rodden, the congregation’s former rabbi and some of his followers tried “to take part in the prayers after they had been warned to keep away.

1890: “A September New Year’s Day” published today described the presentation of “a set of silver and gold ornaments” for the Torah by J.H. Schiff and Mrs. Theresa Schiff to Lewis May who accepted them on behalf of Temple Emanu-El

1890: It was reported today that as Rachel Greenberg and two of her children left the Barge House to begin their new lives in the United States she gave the fruit and candy which her two other sons had brought as welcoming gift to a group of Polish Jewish children who were still begin detained.

1891: The London Opera Company composed of six Polish Jewish men and 2 Polish Jewish women were stranded in Providence, R.I., tonight because the managers had fled and taken all of the money with them.

1892: The SS Nevada arrived in New York from Liverpool via Queenstown carrying 900 steerage passengers none of whom are Russian Jews which lessens the authorities that they will have deal with cholera.

1893: Seventeen year old Rebecca Feinberg who had been shot in the face by her frustrated boyfriend yesterday was a patient at Gouverneur Hospital where doctors say “she will be disfigured for life.

1893: Bernhard Weinberger, the banker who had offices in Essex, Grand and Huston Streets and who had suffered severe business losses checked into the Mount Vernon Hotel where he registered as “Fred Klein” in what may have been an attempt to avoid angry creditors.

1894: Birthdate of Oskar Klein.  The famed Swedish physicist was the son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein and Antonie (Toni) Levy.

1894: In Poland, Israel and Bluma Sendak gave birth to children’s author Philip Sendak “the father of Caldecott Medal winner Maurice Sendak and children's author Jack Sendak.”

http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/philip_sendak

1894: “The Jew Tenderly Handled” published today provides a review of Lesser’s Daughter by Mrs. Andrew Dean, the penname of Cecily Wilhelmine Sidgwick who also wrote Scenes of Jewish Life

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6997410.Cecily_Wilhelmine_Sidgwick

1894: Among those listed today to receive bequests from the late Dr. Bernard Grunhut are Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum of New York.

1895: Founding of the Jewish Literary and Social Club in Shelbyville, KY which holds “holiday services” and conducts a “religious school.”

1895: Theatrical agent Marcus Mayer returned to the United States from Paris today with production material that will be produced “under the exclusive management of Charles Frohman and Al Hayman.

1895:  In Russia, Wolf and Idessa Tarlowsky gave birth to Salomon Tarlowski who came to the United States in 1914 where as Solomon “Sol” Tarlow he worked as a tailor in Roswell, NM where he and his wife Audra Canatsey had three children.

1895: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil of Temple Emanu-El officiated at the funeral for 50 year old Bernhard Mainzer,at his home on East 65^th Street followed by burial in the Cypress Hill Cemetery.  Pall bearers included his partner Henry Budge, Ewald Blathasar, Morris Barr and Hans Sommerhof.

1895: In Louisiana, Rose and Sigmund Kahn gave birth to Florence Kahn who became Florence Kahn Strauss when she married Charles Leon Strauss.

1895: In Dresden, art historian Cornelius Gurlitt and his wife gave birth to Hildebrand Gurlitt, who was able to overcome the fact that his grandmother was Jewish to become one of those who helped the Nazis in the looting of art during WW II and continue to hide that stolen art until his death.

1896: It was reported today that the German ant-Semite, Dr. Hermann Ahlwardt who has been in the United States since last December has founded The Gentile News, a paper that he uses to express his support for William Jennings Bryan as President while devoting the rest of the space “to violent attack upon the” Jews.

1896: Colonel George Picquart met with General Charles-Arthur Gonse, deputy chief of the French general staff.  Picquart presented the general with evidence proving that Dreyfus was innocent.  The general did not dispute the proof but told Picquart that it really did not matter.  The case was closed.

1896: Relying on information that first appeared in The Chicago Israelite, it was noted today that “Max Nordau and Theodor Herzl, the leaders of the ‘Zionist Movement’ are avowed Agnostics” who totally indifferent to Judaism yet “they appeal for and followers only among the more than extremely orthodox members of their race.”

1896: When David Meyer, an unemployed locksmith applied for a job at butcher shop owned by John Dangels he was assaulted by the owner who said “You can’t work here for I hate sheenys.”

1898: Fifty-three year old William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart, the son-in-law of Jewish banker Henri Louis Bischoffsheim and the husband of Ellen Odette Cuffe “the most important Jewish woman in Irish history” passed away today.

1898: Birthdate of Novorodko, Russia, native Abraham Gribetz who came to the United States in 1902 who devoted his life to the Hebrew Free Loan Society.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/16/archives/abraham-gribetz-73-executive-of-hebrew-loan-society-dies.html

1898: Birthdate of Isador Gottlieb, the native of Kiev who gained fame as basketball maven Eddie Gottlieb, the first coach and manager of the Philadelphia Warriors in the National Basketball Association.

http://www.jta.org/2014/03/06/arts-entertainment/sports/philly-historian-scores-in-bid-to-have-nba-pioneer-eddie-gottlieb-honored

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20220522__Mr__Basketball___Eddie_Gottlieb__memorialized_at_his_South_Phila__alma_mater.html

1899: “The Ghetto” by Dutch dramatist Henrik Hyermann and with an English adaption by American author Chester Bailey Fernald is scheduled to open up tonight at the Broadway Theatre in New York under the direction of Jacob Litt.

1899: “Yom Kippur Fast Ended” published today described “the merrymaking” that took place on the lower east side “after the holiday ended” which found “the restaurants and dance hall…filled to overflowing.”

1899: In a letter published today, Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist MP said “English sympathy for” Dreyfus “is entirely due to the fact that he is a rich Jew instead of a poor one and to the desire to injure a rival nation.”

1900: In Cleveland, OH, “Solomon Gans and Esther Resnick” gave birth to Howard Gans, the husband of Dorothy Selman.

1900: Birthdate of Harvard and Oxford education David Wainhouse, “international lawyer, author and Deputy Assistant of State” who was the husband of the former Katherine Cohen.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/21/76383025.html?pageNumber=47

1901(2nd of Tishrei, 5662): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1902: The reorganized Jewish Theological Seminary of America which had been endowed by $500,000 and had been given a building by Jacob H. Schiff opened today “at 736 Lexington Avenue.”

1903: In Boston, installation of the officers of the Sons of Zion at Webster Hall.

1903: Birthdate of Izrael Icek Krysztal the native of the village of Malenie in what is now Poland who the world knows as Israel Kristals, the survivor of two world wars who lost his family in the Holocaust and who in 2016 at the age of 112 years and 178 days, he was declared the oldest man in the world. (As reported by Liam Stack)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/world/middleeast/oldest-living-man-a-confectioner-from-poland-survived-auschwitz.html?mabReward=R4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=1

1904: It was discovered today in Portland, ME that during the night the cornerstone of the new Jewish synagogue which had just been laid “had been pushed aside and that a copper box contain a history of the Jewish people in Portland, collections of coins, records” and other items “had been stolen.”

1905: It was reported today that Maurice Untermeyer, the brother of Samuel Untermeyer has returned to the United States aboard the Hamburg American Line Duetschand where his shipmates included Henry W. Taft, a brother of Secretary of War William Howard Taft called on “called on all parties” to support William Travis Jerome for New York County District Attorney.

1906: Birthdate of speed skater Irving Warren Jaffe, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who “won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics.”

1907: “Notes of Foreign Affairs” published today reported that “the Jewish Emigration Bureau published statistics showing that 500,000 Jews have emigrated from Russia to the United States since 1899, the number have increased from 24,275 in that year to 200,000 in 1906” and that many more Jews have “emigrated to England, Canada and South America.”

1908: In Russia, “The Ministry of the Interior is preparing the draft of a new law on the matter of Jewish restrictions” which “enlarges the One of Jewish settlement and removes the restrictions against Jews holding land” while “the Ministry of Commerce is engaged in a second project” that will allow “Jewish commercial travelers to move freely throughout the” Russian Empire.

1909(29^thof Elul, 5669): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1909: The Association for Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans of New Orleans made a $25 contribution today.

1909(29^thof Elul, 5669): Reuters reporter James Heckscher the native of Hamburg and resident of London since 1856 who was the first English journalist “to send back news of President Lincoln’s assassination” and headed Reuter’s parliamentary staff where he served as a verbatim reporter” passed away today.

1910: In New York City, Emily Rebecca Wolff Cardozo and attorney Ernest Abraham Cardozo gave birth to Yale Law School trained attorney Michael H. Carodoz4th, the first cousin of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who was the first executive director of the Association of American Law Schools, a and an associate professor and professor at Cornell University Law School, specializing in international law and admiralty while raising three children with his wife Alice.

191l: In New York, publication of the first issue of Dos Naye Land, a Yiddish weekly

1911: In New York City, Supreme Court Justice Goff refuses the incorporation of congregation “Agudath Achim Kahal Adath Jeshurun on the grounds that the title should be in English.

1911: The police at Munich expel a large number of Jewish families who had migrated from Russia and Galicia on charges of peddling without a license.

1911: Birthdate of New York native Joseph Pevney, the son of Russian-Jewish watchmaker and WW II veteran whose career spanned from vaudeville, to the silver screen to the small screen (television)>

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/31/television

1912(4^thof Tishrei, 5673): Tzom Gedaliah is observed for the last time during the Presidency of William Howard Taft.

1913(13^thof Elul, 5673): Eighty-one year old world traveler and author Ármin Vámbéry passed away today.

http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm

1913: The trial of Melvin Bellis began.  Called the “Russian Dreyfus Affair”, the trial is covered by hundreds of journalist from Russia, Europe and the United States.

1914(24^thof Elul, 5674): Wulf Hoffman passed away.

1914(24^thof Elul, 5674): Bene Kirschner passed away.

1915: As of today, in Patterson New Jersey, the Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Trhough the War has raised “more than $4,000 of which $2,500 was contributed by Congregation B’Nai Israel and the remainder by Congregation Ahavath Joseph.

1915: Colonel John Henry, the non-Jewish commander of the British Legion, a unit in his majesty’s service described the Zion Mule Corps in the following words to the Jewish Chronicle:

These brave lads who had never seen shellfire before most competently unloaded the boats and handled the mules whilst shells were bursting in close proximity to them … nor were they in any way discouraged when they had to plod their way to Seddul Bahr, walking over dead bodies while the bullets flew around them … for two days and two nights we marched … thanks to the ZMC the 29th Division did not meet with a sad fate, for the ZMC were the only Army Service Corps in that part of Gallipoli at that time.’

1916:: “Plans for a canvass of more than 100 trades and professional on behalf of the 100 or so Jewish charitable institutions in New York were completed” this “afternoon at a luncheon in the Bankers’ Club, held by the Organization Committee of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies” and it was also “announced that the federation would begin a campaign on September 18 to increase the yearly total of Jewish benefactions from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000.”

1916: “Abram I. Elkus, the newly appointed American Ambassador to Turkey” is expected “to take up his in the Turkish capital” today.

1916: It was reported today that 65 American women and children seeking to leave Palestine will board the U.S. Navy cruiser Des Moines at Jaffa and “will be taken by the cruiser to the nearest Italian port and transferred to ocean liners for the United States.”

1917: Felix Warburg, the Chairman of the Joint Distribution committee of the Funds for Jewish War Sufferers issued a statement today directed the Jewish population of the United States.  So far the committee has disbursed over $8,000,000 to alleviate the suffering their co-religionist trapped in war-torn Europe.  He reassured that representatives of the committee were directly, or indirectly, in contact with and providing aid to, Jewish communities in Russia, Palestine, Rumanian and various states in the Balkans.  He commended the American Jewish community for raising money for war relief while still meeting the demands of their local charities.  At the end of the statement he extended them “my most cordial good wishes for the New Year.”

1917: Birthdate of David Flusser, a professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who passed away in 2000.

1917: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Abraham Allen Weintraub, who served as hospital administrator for St. Vincent Infirmary, the Catholic hospital in Little, AR.

1918(9th of Tishrei, 5679): Erev Yom Kippur

1918: As Jews prepared to go to the synagogue for Kol Nidre, General John Pershing commander of the American Expeditionary Force fighting in Europe sent the following cablegram to Colonel Harry Cutler of Providence, Rhodes Island, Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board, “The stirring message of greetings from the Jewish Welfare Board is much appreciated…The constant support and cordial assistance of our brothers of the Jewish faith and the thought that all creeds are united one banner gives courage to our army and urges us on to victory.”  Colonel Cutler replied by saying, “This message coming on the eve of the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement will bring cheer to the hearts of millions of American citizens of the Jewish faith.”

1918: While serving with the 76^th Company of the 6^th Marines near Thiaucourt, France, H A (First Class) Bernard W. Herrman, USN displayed “conspicuous coolness” risking his life while under heavy artillery fire to evacuate an untold number of wounded men. (The Navy provided the Medical Corpsmen to serve with Marine combat units.

1919: Birthdate of Heda Bloch, the native of Prague who gained fame as “Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czech writer and translator whose memoir, “Under a Cruel Star,” described her imprisonment by the Nazis during World War II and her persecution by the Communists in the 1950s.”

1919: Today, Louis Lipsky chaired the second session of the 22^nd Annual Convention of the Zionist Organization of America.

1920(3^rdof Tishrei, 5681): Tzom Gedaliah

1920: Dr. Harry J. Moss, the former superintendent of the Baltimore Hospital is scheduled to begin serving as the superintendent of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital, “a new institution in East Brooklyn”

1920: Today is the deadline for sending requests to the Chief Cemeterial Division of the War Department asking that the bodies of soldiers, including Jewish soldiers, who are buried in France are brought back to the United States.

1921: Birthdate of prize winning author and MK Moshe Shamir.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moshe-shamirhttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/aug/27/guardianobituaries.israelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/world/moshe-shamir-83-prolific-novelist-and-right-wing-israeli-politician.html

1922: “Jurisdictional strikes in the building trades—strikes of one union against another – which have in the last few years help up millions of dollars’ worth of constrctuion work throughout the country, were condemned in a resolution adopted today the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor which Samuel Gompers was the long time president.

1923: In Brooklyn, Louis Mazlish and the former Lena Reuben gave birth to M.I.T. historian Bruce Mazlish. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/books/bruce-mazlish-richard-nixon.html?_r=0

                  1924: Birthdate of Mordechai Hankovich-Hendin who as Mordechai Tzipori served in the Knesset and as Minister of Communication.  Tzipori was born at Petak Tikva, served with the Irgun before pursuing a career with the IDF.

1924: “With the opening of its founders'"dream store" today, Saks Fifth Avenue, the brainchild of Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel, became the first large retail operation to locate in what was then primarily a residential district.”

1925: Today, Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer who pioneered the use of the “Follow the Bouncing Ball” device “released “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” which “was the first film to use the follow the bouncing ball gimmick.”

1926: Southpaw featherweight Harry Blitman fought his third bout which was also his third victory – this time by a knockout.

1927: “Wills $100 for Ice Cream Fete on Anniversary of Her Birth” published today described the terms of the will of Jennie Lewinsohn that included a stipulation that “one hundred dollars ‘to defray the costs of an ice cream festival to be given in her name on the first anniversary of her birth occurring after her death’ which is left to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.”

1927: It was reported today that “the Jewish Telegraphic sent out a report to the effect that H.D. Naumberg, the Jewish Polish publicist and one of the informants of Max D. Steuer on his recent trip abroad regarding the distribution of Jewish relief funds since the war, has denied by cable that ‘he told Mr. Steuer he suspects the Joint Distribution Committee of wasting relief funds.’”

1928(1^stof Tishrei, 5698): Rosh Hashanah observed as Al Smith, the first Roman Catholic to run for President campaigns against Herbert Hoover

1929:  In “Lower Manhattan, Arthur and Pauline (Rechstein) Gell-Mann gave birth to Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann who  studied and clarified the puzzling phenomenon of elementary subatomic particles; classifying them as “quarks” within an ordering system he called the Eightfold Way. The achievement earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969. He also served on the faculties of Chicago University, Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/obituaries/murray-gell-mann-died-.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1929: Pitcher Ed Wineapple made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.

1931: Filming of “The Trunks of Mr. O.F.” co-starring Peter Lore and Hedy Lamarr began today.

1932(14^thof Elul, 5692): Forty-nine year old Arkansas native Harry “Klondike” Kane (Harry Cohen) the southpaw who pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Brown and the Detroit Tigers in the first decade of the 20^th century passed away today.

1932: A week after being released in Austria, “Sehnsucht 202,” a German musical produced by Arnold Pressburger and written by Emeric Pressburger that marked the screen debut of Luise Rainer was released in Germany today.

1933 (24 Elul 5693): Israel Meir Hacohen, the Hafetz Hayim passed away.  Born in 1838, he was prominent Talmudic leader and author who among other accomplishments wrote commentaries on the Sifraand Musser. Earning his living as a teacher and later founding a yeshiva, he consistently refused a rabbinical position. This was partly based on his belief that "he who hates gifts shall live." Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen was one of the greatest figures in modern Jewish history. He was recognized as both an outstanding scholar and an extraordinarily righteous man. His impact on Judaism was phenomenal. It is interesting to note that, despite his great stature; he refused to accept any rabbinical position and supported himself from a small grocery run by his saintly wife in the town of Radin where they lived. Rabbi Yisroel Meir devoted himself to the study and teaching of Torah. “Rabbi Yisroel Meir is perhaps best known for his campaign to teach his fellow Jews about the laws of Lashon Hara (forbidden speech). His first book, Chofetz Chaim, was devoted to this topic. (The name comes from T’hilim (Psalms) 34, "Who is the man that desires life (chofetz chaim)… keep your tongue from evil…." He later published two more books on this subject. The Chofetz Chaim wrote on many subjects and ultimately published over 20 books. Some important ones are Ahavas Chesed (Love of Kindness) on the mitzvah of lending money, Machaneh Yisroel (The Jewish Camp) for Jews serving in non-Jewish armies, and Nidchei Yisroel (The Scattered of Israel) for Jews who moved to places where there were few religious Jews, particularly America. He wrote books about the importance of Torah study and many other important issues. Probably the most important book he wrote was the Mishna Berurah, a six volume commentary on Shulchon Aruch, Orach Chaim (which deals with the laws of daily life and holidays).”

1933: Anne Frank’s father flees Germany and moves to Amsterdam where he opens a firm that sells spices and pectin for jam.

1934: “The Scarlet Empress” a biopic about Catherine the Great directed by Josef von Sternberg who produced the film along with Emanuel Cohen and co-starring Sam Jaffe was released in the United States today

1935: The anti-Semitic Nuremberg racial laws were passed by the Nazis. The Nuremberg Laws defined Reich Citizenship. Citizens of Germany had to be of kindred blood.  All Jews were defined as not being of German blood as a matter of law.  This legalized the division between Aryans and non-Aryans.  Jews were defined as anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent. The Jews are returned to the legal position they had occupied in Germany before their emancipation in the 19th century. Jews can no longer exist as German citizens or marry non-Jews.  At this time, the swastika was adopted as the official symbol of Germany; a symbolic sign of the Nazification of Germany.

1935(17^thof Elul, 5695): Seventy-eight year old Chaim Hirschson, the  native of Safed and son of Yaakov Mordechai Hisrschson who was the editor of Jewish writings and Chief Rabbi of Hoboken, NJ passed away today.

1936: “President Roosevelt today extended New Year greetings to Jewish citizens, voicing the hope that the year would bring them prosperity and happiness.”

1936: “Julius Streicher again employed the opportunity provided by a Nazi party congress to further his plans for an international, not simply a German, campaign against Jews.”

1936: “The executive committee of the World Jewish Congress protested today to the League of Nations against ‘the campaign of threats and defamation organized methodically at the Nuremberg congress by the highest dignitaries of the German Government and the Nazi party’” declaring that “the German allegation that Judaism and bolshevism are identical is absurd.”

1936: U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hulll delivered a speech tonight at the dinner hosted by the Good Neighbor League in which he outlined the cornerstones and parameters of American foreign policy including that “in a democracy, even in the short run the policies of the government must rest upon the support of the people.”  (Editor’s Note – this view should be kept in mind by anyone trying to understand the actions of the Roosevelt administration when it comes to events leading up to and during the Holocaust.”

1936: Accompanied by officials and prominent members of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, the Maccabees of Tel Aviv, soccer champions of Palestine received an official welcome to New York from Mayor La Guardia at the City Hall.

1936: Birthdate of Toronto native Dr. Albert Stanley “Al” Bergman, the psychologist and McGill University professor best  known for having defined and conceptually organized the field of Auditory scene analysis (ASA) in his 1990 book, Auditory Scene Analysis: the perceptual Organization of Sound

http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/Group2/abregm1/web/

1937(10^thof Tishrei, 5698): Yom Kippur

1937: The Palestine Post reported that British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden addressed the League of Nations Council, meeting in Geneva. Eden said that in the search for a successful solution to the Palestine crisis Britain was not committed to any definite scheme. He urged sending a new, special League of Nations Commission to Palestine to seek the ways to implement the Royal (Peel) Commission's recommended partition and to negotiate with Jews and Arabs on the provisional boundaries of their proposed states.

1937:  Abdel Barkawi, one of the leaders of the opposition to the Husseini family, was killed by an Arab terrorist in Jenin.

1938: In “Arab Nations Lose Zeal on Palestine,” published today, Joseph M. Levy reports that based on reliable information provided by sources in Syria, which is the “headquarters of the Palestinian Arab rebellion,” German and Italian money is subsidizing Arab terrorism in Palestine.

1938: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany “where he meets with Hitler” at Berchtesgaden to discuss the crisis that the Nazi leader has manufactured over the Sudeten Land, a portion of Czechoslovakia populated by ethnic Germans.

1939: Charles Lindbergh delivers a speech where he calls for American neutrality that contains veiled implications that the Jews are behind any war effort when he asks “who owns and who influences newspaper, the news picture and the radio station.”

1940: Two massive waves of German attacks were decisively repulsed by the RAF. The German defeat caused Hitler to order, two days later, the postponement of preparations for the invasion of Britain. Although the Blitz would last until October, the decision to call of the invasion meant, among other things, that the Jews of the British Isles would not fall victim to the Shoah. Henceforth, in the face of mounting losses in men, aircraft and the lack of adequate replacements, the Luftwaffe switched from daylight to night-time bombing. There was a significant number of Jews (for the size of their population) serving with the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Among the Jews who flew for the RAF was Lt Michael Oser Weizmann, the son of Chaim Weizmann who was killed when his plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay in 1942.  The body was never recovered.

1940: Two days after he passed away erev Shabbat, funeral services are scheduled to be held for David Rosenthal at the Bethel Chapel of Temple Emanu-El

1940: “The unveiling of a monument to the memory of Mollie Greenberg is scheduled to take place this morning at Mount Zion Cemetery.”

1940: The unveiling of a monument to the memory of Sarah Kirsch, the wife of Hyman Hirsch and mother of May Shurock and Morris Kirsch is scheduled to take place this morning at the Montefiore Cemetery.

1940:  “At six in the morning, the police surrounded the house” where Leon Blum was staying and arrested him and incarcerated him “in a medieval castle at Chazeron in the Massif Central.”

1941(23rd of Elul, 5701): The Nazis killed 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania

1941(23rd of Elul, 5701): Eighteen thousand Jews are murdered at Berdichev, Ukraine.

1942: The Nazis begin deporting the Jewish community of Kalush, Ukraine, to the Belzec death camp. It will take 48 hours to complete this vile task.

1942: Mala Zimetbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish woman to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau was shipped to from Belgium to Auschwitz today aboard Transport 10.

1942(4th of Tishrei, 5703): The Nazis began the week long process of murdering the Jewish community from Kamenka, Ukraine, at the Belzec death camp.

1942: Fifty-seven year old George Abrahamsohn left Berlin on a transport for Terezin, the next stop on his way to Auschwitz where he was murdered a month later.

1942: Sixty-nine year old Olga Lehman left Berlin on a transport for Terezin.

1942: One thousand Jews were deported from Lille, France to Auschwitz.  Among the deportees were Mozes Hirschsprung, his wife Helene and their two little children.  Mozes had been born at Auschwitz in 1901 and Helene had been born there in 1909.  At that time, it was border town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  Between the world wars, the family had moved to Amsterdam.  They moved to Lille after the start of the war because it would be safer there.  In the end, they would be murdered two miles from the place of their birth. Forty-eight year old Fanny Yerkowski was also among the deportees.  A native of London, she had married a French man before WW II and had settled in Lille.  Twenty-one year old Bernice Winer was also a deportee. She was a citizen of neutral Switzerland.  To the Nazis, a Jew was a Jew was a Jew regardless of his or her nationality. [Source – Holocaust Journey by Martin Gilbert]

1943(15^thof Elul, 5703): Sixty-seven year old Richard Beuthner one of the Jews who had survived in Berlin under the Nazis died today in the German capital city.

1943: By the middle of September members of the corpse-burning detail at the Sobibór death camp, had built an escape tunnel intended to lead them into the camp minefield. Most of the 150 members of the detail are killed.

1943: Commandant Kappler, the SS attaché at the German embassy in Rome summoned Ugo Foa, President of the Rome-Jewish Community to his office and informed him that the Jews of Rome might avoid deportation if they could give him fifty kilograms of gold with the next thirty-six hours.

1944(27^thof Elul, 5704): Mala Zimetbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish woman to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau was sadistically murdered today.

http://www.isurvived.org/Frameset4References-2/-Mala-Ed.html

1944: One thousand, five hundred young boys were taken to the Children's Block at Birkenau. Three days later, on Rosh Hashanah Eve, they would be sent to the gas chambers.

1944: “Bride by Mistake,” a romantic comedy based on a story by Norman Krasna with a script by Phoebe and Henry Ephron was released today in the United States.

1945(8^thof Tishrei, 5706): Shabbat Shuva

1945: At the West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said, “On this Sabbath of Repentance let us decide to return to our God in prayer and thanksgiving.

1945: It was reported today that “Jewish men and women in the armed forces both at home and abroad will receive opportunity to attend religious services” marking the observance of the Day of Atonement which starts tomorrow evening.

1945: “Declaring that the peculiar role of Israel is to call the world to repentance, the Synagogue Council of America” issued a Yom Kippur message today that read, in part, “The ravaged world, the millions of displace people of broken families of destroyed lands and decimated nations and above all, the terrifying implications of the discovery of atomic energy, are proof that humanity needs a new tur, a return to its spiritual and moral source.”

1946(19^thof Elul, 5706): Eighty-five year old English author and manuscript collector Elkan Nathan Adler, the son of “Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire” passed away today.

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/adler-elkan-nathan

1947(1^stof Tishrei, 5708): David Levin celebrates his first Rosh Hashanah

1947: “O’Dwyer Urges Haven for 250,000 Jews” published today described a speech by the Mayor of New York in he “proposed the United States” serve “as a haven for 250,000 Jews currently seeking admission to Palestine” and declaring that “If anyone says there isn’t plenty of room, I’ll show him where it is within 100 miles of New York City.”

1948: Catcher Joe Ginsberg made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.

1949: ABC broadcast the first episode of “The Lone Ranger” featuring the Masked Man and his Indian companion Tonto for which Stanley Frazen served as “the supervising editor.”

1949: President Truman nominated Casper Platt “to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois”

1950: Today, Jordan’s King Abdullah said that if Israel did not remove its forces from the disputed land near the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan Rivers within four days, his government would take military action to dislodge the Israelis.

1950(4^thof Tishrei, 5711): Fifty-six year old jazz violinist and bandleader Dol Dauber, the father of pianist and cellist Robert Dauber who “was imprisoned at Theresienstadt” before being shipped to Dachau where he died in 1945, passed away today.

1951: On the eve of Hadassah’s 37^th annual convention, delegates received congratulatory telegrams expressing support for the organizations and its goals from Monnett B. David, United States Ambassador to Israel and President Chaim Weizmann.

1951: After 740 performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” a Jule Styne musical with a book co-authored by Joseph Fields.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the government decided to form a Reparations from Germany Purchasing Mission, attached to the Ministry of Finance. The mission undertook that it would purchase and use the received goods exclusively for the development in four fields: agriculture, industry, transportation and power.

1953(6th of Tishrei, 5714): 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 passed away.

1955: Forty nine year old Eduard Strauch, a Nazi officer who played a key role in the murder of the Jews of Riga in the Rumbula forest and who had been sentenced to death twice beat the hangman when he died in a Belgium hospital today.

1955: Betty Robbins, the world's first female cantor, led Rosh Hashanah evening services at Temple Avodah of Oceanside, New York. Her appointment as cantor marked the first time that a woman performed the traditional role of cantor in a synagogue anywhere in the world. It generated a tremendous amount of publicity, even making the front page of the New York Times. Robbins had been unanimously approved as the Reform congregation's cantor by its board of trustees the previous July, after the congregation found itself without a cantor for the High Holidays. Although Robbins did not have formal training as a cantor, she had spent her childhood in Germany singing with her synagogue's boys' choir, eventually becoming its soloist (once she adopted a boy's haircut to please the choir's director, who was reluctant to allow a girl to join). Robbins spent much of the rest of her career teaching religious school, and formed and directed several adult and children's choirs. In her retirement, Robbins has conducted religious services on many worldwide Jewish holiday cruises.

1956(10^thof Tishrei, 5717): As Ike and Adlai faced off in the Presidential election, Jews observed Yom Kippur and Shabbat.

1956: Washingtonian Fred S. Gichner, the Bielitz born founder of Fred S. Gichner Iron Works, Inc. a pillar of the Jewish community, father of Henry Gichner and grandfather of Judy Gichner passed away today.

https://www.doaks.org/library-archives/garden-archives/biographies/fred-s-gichner-iron-works

1958(1^stof Tishrei, 5719): For the tenth year in a row, the citizens of an independent Jewish state celebrate Rosh Hashanah

1958: CBS broadcast the final episode of the “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” for which Stanley Frazen served as the supervising editor was broadcast today.

1959: Birthdate of Bristol, CT native Mike Reiss the son of a local journalist and a physican who studied at Harvard before going on to work in television in the popular animated series “The Simpsons.”

1959: Final episode of “The Bob Cummings Show” a sitcom for which Stanley Frazen served as the supervising editor was broadcast today.

1960: “All the Fine Young Cannibals,” the film version of the novel produced by Pandro S. Berman and co-starring Susan Kohner, the daughter of producer Paul Kohner was released in the United States today.

1961(5^thof Tishrei, 5722): Seventy-seven year old philanthropist Julia Horn Hamburger, the husband of Gabriel Max Hamburger passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/16/98446051.html?pageNumber=19

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hamburger-julia-horn

1964(9^thof Tishrei, 5725): Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre was chanted for first time during the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.

1965: Birthdate of Los Angeles native and Brown University Nina Jacobson, the former president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company who went on to establish “her own production company Color Force” “and was the producer of the Hunger Games film series.

1966(1^stof Tishrei, 5727): Rosh Hashanah

1966(1^stof Tishrei, 5727): Eighty-one year old Illinois native Jacob H. “Jack” Brunwasser the son of Max and Sophia Reens Brunnwasser and the husband of Anna Detlefson Brunwasser passed away today after which he was buried at the Waldheim Jewish Cemetry.

1968: "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show appeared on CBS TV.

1969(3^rdof Tishrei, 5730): Tzom Gedaliah

1969: NBC broadcast the first episode of “My World… and Welcome to it” a sitcom created by Melville Shavelson, co-starring Harold J. Stone. 

1969: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for tax account and Jewish leader Herbert M. Mandell.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/09/14/302043622.pdf

1970: Funeral services are scheduled to held this afternoon for Dr. Max Loeb, the psychoanalyst and member of Park Avenue Synagogue.

1971: A new paperback version of Tillie Olsen's classic short story collection Tell Me a Riddle was issued

1975(10^thof Tishrei, 5736): Yom Kippur

1975: As proof of the continuing influence of the Communist Bloc in Arab-Israeli affair, the Rumanian News Agency reported that “over 1,500 young people from 17 Arab countries” are studying in Rumanian universities.

1976: The Auditorium Building which was designed by Dankmar Adler was designated as a Chicago Landmark today.

1977(3rd of Tishrei, 5738):Tzom Gedaliah

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Moshe Dayan, the new foreign minister, left for Washington with his draft of a proposed peace treaty with Arab states. He had also carried "an accompanying letter" explaining Israel's stance on the territorial question. In a special interview with this newspaper Dayan explained that there was some identity between his "functional ideas" and US thinking along the lines of a trusteeship for the West Bank.

1978: Meir Amit who had been appointed Minister of Transportation and Minister of Communications in Menachem Begin's government, resigned both posts today after the Democratic Movement for Change broke up. Before entering politics Amit had held the top post in military intelligence before serving as Director of Mossad.

1979(23^rdof Elul, 5739): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot

1979(23^rdof Elul, 5739): Sixty-seven year old author and blacklist victim Albert E. Kahn passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/19/archives/albert-e-kahn-a-writer-critical-of-government-in-mccarthy-era-an.html

1979: Premiere of “And Justice for All” a film that looks at the dark side of the judicial system with an Oscar nominated script co-authored by Barry Levinson, featuring Lee Strasberg, Darrell Zerwling and Sam Levene at the Toronto International Film Festival.

1981: Birthdate of “American actor, comedian and writer” Ben Schwartz.

1982: An Associated Press report published today stated, "Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, in a statement, tied the killing [of the Phalangist leader Bachir Gemayel] to the PLO, saying 'it symbolizes the terrorist murderousness of the PLO terrorist organizations and their supporters'."

1982: A memorial service is scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, to honor the memory of Louis Waldman, a former Socialist State Assemblyman who became one of the city's foremost labor lawyers,

1982: Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut.  This was part of an ill-fated attempt by the Begin government to pacify Lebanon and destroy the PLO.

1983(8^thof Tishrei, 5744): Seventy-seven year old William J. Fellner, the Budapest born Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University who raised his daughter Anna with the former Valerie Korek passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1983/09/16/168768.html?pageNumber=15

http://www.irwincollier.com/berkeley-and-yale-short-c-v-of-william-fellner-haberlers-remembrance-1983/

1983: Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.

1985 (29th of Elul, 5745): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1985: A DC-8 cargo plane returning from Iran and supposedly bound for Malaga, Spain, made an emergency landing in Tel Aviv. Investigation revealed that the plane— recently acquired from an obscure Miami firm by a shadowy Brussels-based "Nigerian" company—had been flying Hawk missiles from the US to Iran via Israel. A Boeing 707 registered to the company had been carrying loads of 1,250 TOW missiles from Israel to Iran via Malaga.

1988: “Let’s Get Lost,” a documentary written by Bruce Weber who also directed and produced the film was released in the United States today.

1989: U.S premiere of “Sea of Love” produced by Martin Bregman and co-starring Ellen Barkin.

1991: Birthdate of Israeli singer Roni Daloomi

1991(7th of Tishrei, 5752): Eighty-three year old Andre Baruch who teamed with his wife Bea Wain to form “a husband-and-wife disc jockey team in New York on WMCA, where they were billed as Mr. and Mrs. Music” passed away today.

1991: “Jewish History in Provence” published today provides a history of the Cavaillon synagogue which was still standing in the last decade of the 20^thcentury.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/travel/jewish-history-in-provence.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1993(29th of Elul, 5753): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1933: Two days after the Oslo Agreements were signed at the White House, at the 1,000-person Reconstructionist University Synagogue in Los Angeles, an American, an Israeli and an Arab were scheduled to read the speeches President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had given at Monday's signing ceremony. Rabbi Arnold Rachlis planned to retell the biblical stories of Abraham's banishment of his son Ishmael--said to be the father of the Arab nation--and Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac--the ancestor of the Jews--to show contemporary connections.

1994(10th of Tishrei, 5755): Yom Kippur as

1996(2^ndof Tishrei, 5757): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1999: After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “30 Days” starring Ben Shenkman and co-produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, the granddaughter of Philip and Janice H. Levin was released in the United States today.

2000: Four days after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “30 Days” starring Ben Shenkman was released in the United States today,

2000: “In the Penal Colony,” an opera composed by Philip Glass, based on a story by Franz Kafka, premiered today in Seattle, Washington.

2000: The 2000 Summer Olympic in which canoer Rami Zur competed for Israel opened today.

2001(27^thof Elul, 5761): Twenty-three year old Meir Weisshaus of Jerusalem “was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting today on the Ramot-French Hill Road.

2001(27^thof Elul, 5761: Ninety year old television producer Fred De Cordova who was best known for his work with Johnny Carson on Tonight passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/arts/fred-de-cordova-tv-producer-dies-at-90.html

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein, Middle Age A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates, An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War by Midge Decter and Venus In Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art by Wendy Steiner.

2002:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Tellerby Gregg Herken, Why Terrorism works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge by Alan M. Dershowitz and Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician by Anita Miller, Jordan Miller and Sigalit Zetouni.

2003: “Israel's vice prime minister said today that killing Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was one of several options now under government consideration” while a “beaming Mr. Arafat soaked up the cheers of supporters who descended on his compound for a fourth consecutive day.”

2003: Today’s decision by the Israeli government to consider the elimination of Yasir Arafat “followed two Hamas suicide bombings that killed 15 people…” (As reported by James Bennet)

2004:Gary Bettman, the Jewish commissioner of the National Hockey League, announced that the owners again locked the players out prior to the start of the 2004–05 season. Three months later, Bettman announced the cancellation of the entire season with the words "It is my sad duty to announce that because a solution has not yet been attained, it is no longer practical to conduct even an abbreviated season. Accordingly, I have no choice but to announce the formal cancellation of play." The NHL became the first North American league to cancel an entire season because of a labor stoppage.

2004:The Seventh Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, under the musical direction of pianist Elena Bashkirova comes to an end.

2004: Today Jose “Pékerman was named coach of the Argentine national team, which qualified for the 2006 World Cup.”

2004: In the evening, Jews around the world begin the observance of Rosh Hashanah.  This marks the start of the year 5765.

2005: Israel's two chief rabbis meet with Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a landmark Vatican document on relations with Jews, and urge him to support the fight against anti-Semitism and terrorism. The meeting follows the historic visit by Benedict to the central synagogue in Cologne, Germany last month, the second time a pope had entered a Jewish house of worship. It also follows a diplomatic altercation between the Vatican and Israel that erupted over the pope's omission of Israel in a list of countries hit by terrorism. Prior to the meeting Israeli said the dispute had been resolved.

2005(11th of Elul, 5765):Hundreds of mourners gathered at Jerusalem's Har Hamenuhot cemetery to bury Cyril Harris, the former chief rabbi of South Africa whose body was flown from Cape Town after he died of cancer Tuesday. Harris, credited by many with aiding the transition process in South Africa from apartheid to a free democracy, was a close friend of former South African president Nelson Mandela and one of the only people to speak at Mandela's inauguration in 1994.

2005: The Bergen County Democratic Organization caucused today, to select a candidate to fill the seat for District.  In balloting to fill the position on an interim basis, Loretta Weinberg lost by a 114-110 margin to Charles Zisa. In a separate vote, by a 112-111 margin, Zisa was selected over Weinberg to be the party's candidate on the November ballot. (Weinberg was Jewish; Zisa was not).

2005: The Chair of the SEC Board of Presidents announced that “the contract of Southeastern Conference Commissioner Michael L. Slive has been extended through July 31, 2009.

2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that China has lodged a strong protest with Israel following this week's trip to Taiwan by a Knesset delegation that its ambassador learned about in The Jerusalem Post.

2007: The winners of the 2007 Laskera Awards, widely considered to be one of the most prestigious medical prizes, were announced to the public.  The awards are funded by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.  Born in 1880, Lasker, a Jew who made his home in Chicago, is considered by many to be the father of modern advertising.  He passed away in 1952.

2007(3^rd of Tishrei, 5768(: Eighty-eight year old Sidney Davidson, the Chicago born son of Mendel and Eva Slosberg Davison and University of Michigan trained accountant and husband of Freda Joy Sendler passed away today.

https://aaahq.org/Accounting-Hall-of-Fame/members/1983/Sidney-Davidson

2007(3rd of Tishrei, 5768): Shabbat Shuva – Sabbath of Return

2008: Esther Jungreis, the Hungarian born founder of the international Hineni movement in the United States is photograph with the U.S. Ambassador of Hungary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esther_Jungreis_with_April_Foley.jpg

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

2008: On the second night of The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Adam Langer reads from his novel Ellington Boulevard.

2008: As part of the Annual Primo Levi Conference, Centro Primo Levi presents: Primo Levi: Historian and Public Figure. The event features the premiere screening of a documentary on Primo Levi from the archives of the Italian Broadcasting Company followed by a discussion of
Primo Levi's public profile vis-à-vis history and politics. For a full program see

www.primolevicenter.org.

2008: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection which marked the demise of a firm that traced its origins to three Jewish brothers from Bavaria – Henry, Emanuel and Mayer – who first settled in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1850’s before moving their operations to New York. The firm ceased to be a family company in the 1920’s.

2009: In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai presents "Singing Psalms" with the "Al Palgei Mayim" ensemble, which put Psalms to new tunes. For more than two thousand years, melodies have been hidden among the written words of the Psalms. The "Al Palgei Mayim" ensemble draws its lyrics from these ancient poems that so many of us know and find inspirational. This is a unique project based on new melodies for the Psalms from a contemporary perspective.

2009: Gabriel Oliver Koppell defeated his challenger for a seat on the New York City Council by winning 65% of the vote.

2009(26^th of Elul, 5769): Eighty-seven year old Dr. Leon Eisenberg who was a pioneer in the field of autism, attention deficit disorder and other learning disabilities passed away today. (As reported by Benedict Cary)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/health/research/24eisenberg.html

2009: Rabbi David Kalb leads a program entitled Controversy and Conversion at the 92^nd Street Y in which he acknowledges that “conversion is one of the most controversial issues in the Jewish community today and then delves into the different movements of Judaism as he explores each movement's separate approach to conversion and how these differences can create conflict.”

2009: Oliver Koppel won re-election to the New York City Council today

2009: Jerry Nadler was one of three Congressmen who introduced the Respect for Marriage Act today.

2010:  Israeli born pianist Shai Wosner is scheduled to perform tonight with the New York Philharmonic.

2010:U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem.

2010:Two mortar shells and two rockets were fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip in the early this morning in what would appear to be Hamas's attempts to fulfill threats made by the group on Tuesday promising a wave of violence meant to derail Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

2010:Israeli and Palestinian leaders are "getting down to business" and tackling the main issues of the Middle East conflict, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today in Jerusalem.

2010: Today Nevin Shapiro “pleaded guilty…to one count of securities fraud and one count of money laundering.

2010: At the Toronto International Film Festival, premiere of  “Peep World” a comedy co-starring Ron Rifkin, Sarah Silverman and Ben Schwartz with narration by Lewis Black.

2010: Janet Maslin reviews Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race written and edited by Jewish faux newsman Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum, Rory Albanese, Steve Bodow and Josh Lieb

2011: Elisheva Carlebach, Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, is scheduled to give an illustrated talk in honor of the coming New Year on Jewish conceptions of time and how these are interwoven with the Jewish sense of history and represented in Jewish imagery entitled. The Center for Jewish History is sponsoring “Genesis: Imagining the Beginning of Time.”

2011: Israeli pianist Matan Porat and Alis Weilerstein are scheduled to perform Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. 5 in D major, op. 102 at the 14^thJerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.

2011: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Grief of Other by Leah Hager Cohen and The Little Bride by Anna Solomon.

2011:British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould announced today that the Queen of England has signed an amendment to a bill that will prevent the issuing of arrest warrants against Israeli officials. 2011:Thousands of Turkish protesters gathered outside the soccer stadium in Istanbul where Maccabi Tel Aviv was playing against Turkish team Beşiktaş, waving Hezbollah flags and chanting anti-Israel slogans.

2011:Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood activists held a demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, demanding the cancellation of peace accords between the two countries and calling for the deportation of the Israeli ambassador.

2011(16^th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-two year Francis Bay, the Canadian born Jewish character actress passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/arts/television/frances-bay-actress-known-for-old-lady-roles-dies-at-92.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/17/local/la-me-frances-bay-20110917

2011(16^th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-year old Suzy Eban, the widow of Abba Eban, who charmed Americans into loving Israel while he served as Ambassador to the United States, passed away today.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=238138

2012: The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: As the attacks by murderous Muslim mobs spreads from North Africa, to India, Indonesia and Australia, the video that has supposedly enraged so many turns out to have been made by a expatriate Coptic Egyptian and not some mysterious Jew as originally reported.

2012: On the last Shabbat of 5722 and the second to the last day of that year, The Crescent City News published a summary of the events of the year “The year that was 5772.”

http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/the-year-that-was-5772/

2012:The Palestinian Authority today accused Hamas of exploiting peaceful protests against the high cost of living to spread chaos and anarchy in the West Bank.

2013: The exhibition, "Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait," is scheduled to come to an at the Jewish Museum in London

2013: JCRS (Jewish Children Regional Services) volunteers are scheduled to wrap thousands of small gifts that comprise 2013's JCRS Hanukkah Gift Program at the Goldring/Woldenberg Metairie Campus. 

2013: The Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal reported today that “20 trucks laden with equipment used in the manufacture of chemical weapons were driven across the border from Syria into Iraq” for the last two days.

2013: Lawrence H. Summers, one of President Obama’s closest economic confidants and a former Treasury secretary, withdrew his name from consideration for the position of chairman of the Federal Reserve opening up the way for possible confirmation of another Jewish candidate – Janet Yellen.

2014: “As part of the European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage, the Wiener Library is scheduled to host “a special tour exploring the experience of women with the archives.”

2014: “Stephen Mandel” began serving as the “21^st Minister Health in the Alberta Government.”

2014: Dr. Harvey E. Goldberg, Professor Emeritus, The Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem is scheduled to deliver a lecture on  "Ritual Mutuality in North Africa: Jews and Muslims listen to the Ten Commandments in the Synagogue” at the University of Connecticut.

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “The Fighting 69,” the first in a series of films to be shown about Jews and World War I.

2014(20 Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob  Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren.   To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good guys finish first.

2014: “Hundreds of members of UNDOF, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force stationed on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, crossed the border into Israel today, after recent clashes with al-Qaeda-linked militants.”

2014(20^th of Elul, 5774): Eighty-seven year old Yithak Hofit, the Mossad chief who played a key role” in the Raid on Entebbe passed away today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/yitzhak-hofi-israeli-spy-chief-who-helped-in-episodes-of-war-and-peace-dies-at-87/2014/09/17/3564f21e-3d0f-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.htmlhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4571243,00.html

2014: Viennese native and Kindertransport traveler Harry Baum who “co-founded Euromic, coined the phrase ‘Destination Management Company’” passed away today.

http://www.meetpie.com/AMI/news/newsdetails.aspx?t=Harry-Baum-MBE-dies-aged-86&newsid=19513http://www.meetpie.com/AMI/news/newsdetails.aspx?t=Harry-Baum-MBE-dies-aged-86&newsid=19513

https://www.iccaworld.org/newsarchives/archivedetails.cfm?id=4296

2015(2^ndof Tishrei, 5776): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah 

2015: “Rabbi Abby Jacobson of Conservative Emanuel Synagogue in Oklahoma City will not speak about Iran” because her congregants “are dwarfed by the surrounding culture and they tend to want to talk about something Jewish when they come” to services.

2015: “The Huffington Post Highline published Steven Brill's 15-part serial documentary, "America’s Most Admired Law Breaker,"[28] examining Johnson & Johnson's 20-year practice of illegally marketing a powerful drug, Risperdal, to children and the elderly, while concealing the side effects and earning billions of dollars in profit.

2015(2^ndof Tishrei, 5776): Ninety-seven year old Terry Rosenbaum, a victim of the Right Wing’s anti-Communist mania passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/nyregion/terry-rosenbaum-teacher-and-civic-leader-dies-at-97.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: “The Intern” a comedic look at the modern world of business directed and produced by Nancy Meyers who also wrote the script premiered in Belgium today.

2015: “Torrential rains and hail pelted southern Israel” this evening “forcing the closure of roads and flight delays just days after a severe sandstorm and high temperatures hit the region.” (Times of Israel)

2015. This evening Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and representatives of the security forces” “to discuss the ongoing violence on the Temple Mount” which has already claimed the life of one Israeli. (As reported by Times of Israel)

2016: The Jewish Historical Institute said today that the entire Ringelbaum Archive “will be available for free on the Internet.

2016: Today, “a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia upheld Barry Freundel’s sentence in a unanimous 20-page ruling.”

2016: The Pace Gallery is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of “Night” an “exhibition of a new body of work” by Israeli born artist Michael Rovner.

2017(24^thof Elul, 5778): Eighty-seven year old playwright Myrna Lamb passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/theater/myrna-lamb-feminist-playwright-dead-at-87.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

2017: “Dozens of rabbis and community leaders,” including “50 prominent rabbis activists including Rabbi Uri Regev, Mayim Bialik and Michael Douglas” “signed a statement calling for sweeping reforms to Israel’s official religious establishment and its policies” was published this morning. (As reported by JTA)

2017: “Victor and Abdul,” a biopic directed by Stephen Fears, with music by Thomas Newman and filmed by cinematographer Danny Cohen was released in the United Kingdom today.

2017: The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2017: The critically acclaimed theatre show “Simon and Garfunkel Story continues its tour for a third day.

2017: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community Day School is scheduled to host its Shabbat Dinner.

2017: In Manhattan, Shabbat at Chabad Loft is scheduled to being a pre-Shabbat Happy Hour, followed by “a user friendly explanatory Kabbalat Shabbat Service.

2017: In Atlanta, the Bremen Museum is scheduled to host a program on “How can art and artifacts preserve history and tell stories?”

2018: In Chapel Hill, NC, services are not held at Kehillah Synagogue due to Hurricane Florence.

2018: In Andover, MA, Temple Emanuel is closed today in response to a gas crisis that had led to several explosions in communities north of Boston which have resulted in at least one death.

https://www.jta.org/2018/09/14/top-headlines/groups-offer-help-synagogues-affected-boston-area-gas-explosions

2018(6^th of Tishrei, 5779): Shabbat Shuvah

2019: In Cedar Rapids, four days after she had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for 93 year old Irene Harriet Silber, the mother of Dr. Bob Silber and the mother-in-law of Laurie Silber the duo that has been a pillar of the Jewish community for several decades.

2019: In Carmichael, CA, Congregation Beth Shalom is scheduled to host 42nd annual Scaramento Jewish Food Faire, complete “with deli-style sandwiches, matzah ball soup, kugel, veggie options” as well as arts and crafts, used books and live music.

2019: The Jewish Genealogical Society is scheduled to present “Searching For Patterson Roots Remembered and Forgotten in Heritage Tourism Abroad.”

https://programs.cjh.org/event/paterson-roots-2019-09-15?utm_source=cjh.og&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=cjh-upcoming

2019: In Coralville, IA, Religious School is scheduled to being today at Agudas Achim.

2019: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellman, the daughter of Richard Ellman and The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg by Eleanor Randolph as well as Nora Krug’s Graphic Review “A German Finally Picks Up ‘Mein Kampf.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/books/a-german-finally-picks-up-mein-kampf.html?te=1&nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20190914

2020: Jewish Community Library and SFSU Jewish studies are scheduled to present “U. of Wisconsin professor Jordan Rosenblum talking about rabbinic debates over what, when, how and with whom one should drink beverages such as beer and wine.”

2020: In New Orleans, The Tulane University Hillel Board Meeting is scheduled to take place this evening.

2020: Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are scheduled to sign a “Declaration of Peace” today at the White House as the UAE and Bharian normalize their relations with Israel.

2020: Aviv Kempner is scheduled to participate in a ZOOM chat “part of the Jewish Federation of Sacramento’s Social Justice Film Series.

2020: Israel Bonds is host a virtual Selichot with greetings by Finance Minister Israel Katz and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Shuli Natan performing “Jerusalem of Gold” followed by an interview with Feut Ifat Uziel, daughter of Dr. Izik Ifat, famed paratrooper to be among the first to reach the Kotel during the Six-Day War

2020: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “JLive Music” with violinist Rachel Panitch whose music will create a virtual Tashlich experience.

2020: In collaboration with the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York, Salon de Virtuosi is scheduled to present a special Alumni Spotlight Concert, featuring world renowned cellist Amit Peled in an online concert with his pupil Ismael Guerrero.

2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Women on the Move” featuring novelist Jennifer Winer and Zibby Owens, “creator of the podcast Moms Don’t Have to Read Books.”

2020: As part of the Holocaust Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University is scheduled to host “Jewish Orphans after the Holocaust “the keynote lecture by Dr. Deborah Dwork.

2020: As Israelis continue to prepare for the second coronavirus lockdown set to begin on Friday, they also are preparing to deal with the consequences of Roee Cohen’s prediction that the lockdown “will have a disastrous effect on the country’s economy.”