November 1
1179: Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come as no surprise that two years later, in 1182 Phillip confiscated all of the property belonging to the Jews as he banished them from his kingdom. The Jews would seek refuge in Champagne which was not a part of France at this time.
1210: King John, brother of Richard the Lionhearted, began imprisoning the Jews of England. As the conditions worsened in England, many Jews sought to flee the kingdom. King John had no intention of losing this exploitable economic commodity. So he jailed his Jews rather than lose them. By the end of the century, the English monarchs would have stripped the Jews of their wealth and would send them packing.
1223: Louis VIII of France issued an ordinance that prohibited his officials from recording debts owed to Jews, thus reversing the policies set by his father Philip II Augustus. Usury (lending money with interest) was illegal for Christians to practice. According to Church law it was seen as a vice in which people profited from others' misfortune (like gambling), and was punishable by excommunication, a severe punishment. However since Jews were not Christian, they could not be excommunicated, and thus fell in to a legal grey area which secular rulers would sometimes exploit by allowing (or requesting) Jews to provide usury services, often for personal gain to the secular ruler, and to the discontent of the Church. Louis VIII's prohibition was one attempt at resolving this legal problem which was a constant source of friction in Church and State courts.Twenty-six barons accepted, but Theobald IV (1201–53), the powerful Count of Champagne, did not, since he had an agreement with the Jews that guaranteed him extra income through taxation. Theobald IV would become a major opposition force to Capetian dominance, and his hostility was manifest during the reign of Louis VIII. For example, during the siege of Avignon, he performed only the minimum service of 40 days, and left home amid charges of treachery.
1290: Final expulsion of the Jews from England. On July 18, 1290, Edward I (England)pressured by his barons, the Church, and possibly his mother, announced the expulsion of all the Jews. By November approximately 4000 had fled. The Jews had to pay their own passage, mostly to France. They were allowed to take movables (i.e. clothing). A number of Jews were robbed and cast overboard during the voyage by the ship captains. The Jews did not return to England until 1659. This was the first national expulsion of the Jews. England was one of the only centralized and national monarchies of that time.
1348: The Jews are caught in power struggle among contending Christian factions in Spain when the anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1349: Duke of Brabant ordered the execution of all Jews in Brussels. He accused them of poisoning the wells.
1478: The Holy See issued a Papal Bull empowering Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain “to appoint three bishops…with complete jurisdiction over heretics and their accomplices.” This simple statement marked the start of the infamous Spanish Inquisition.
1503: Start of the papacy of Julius II who in 1512 refused to sell a copy of the Hebrew Bible belonging to the Vatican for an amount valued in the 19th century at £20,784. Why Julius turned down the offer when he needed the money in his fight with King Louis XII of France is not known.
1504: The most important and unfortunate decree was that made by King Vladislav today: “ …and we grant to the citizens the favour that neither we nor future kings of Bohemia will bring more Jews into this city, as the Jews have been given to your city by our forefathers for your benefit. We therefore confirm in writing and with our royal powers in Bohemia that your city and its citizens have the right to expel the Jews from your city whenever you like without any hindrance from our side or from future kings of Bohemia.” In 1504, the citizens of Pilsen took this ‘glorious privilege’ literally and expelled all Jews from the city without taking account of the income they would lose from the Jewish taxes.
1512: “The ceiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” which according to Rabbi Benjamin Blech, an associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and the author of The Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo's Defiant Masterpiece is “actually a ‘bridge’ between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish faith” was “exhibited to the public for the first time” today.
1519: Leo X, one of the Medici popes, issued a bull “in which he remitted the Jewish hearth and banking taxes, granted amnesty for all offenses committed by Jews, confirmed all the privileges and advantages granted to them by his predecessors and prescribed that a Jewish offender should be arraigned before qualified judges and should condemned only on evidence given by trustworthy witnesses.”
1706(24th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Chaim ben Benjamin Asael of Salonika, author of Sam Hayyai, passed away
1768: Maksym Zaliznyak, the Ukrainian leader who was responsible for the Jews at Uman earlier in the year was deported to Bilhorod for leading a rebellion (not for killing Jews).
1780: Esther Mordecai because Esther Mordecai Russell today when she married Dr. Philip Moses Russell, a Jewish Surgeon's Mate, who received a special commendation from General George Washington for his services at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778 in a ceremony performed by her father Rabbi Mordecai Moses Mordecai.
1784: Birthdate of Rabbi Gotthold Salomon “the first Jew to translate the TaNaCh into High German.”
1793(26 of Cheshvan, 5554): Forty-two year old Lord George Gordon the Scottish noble and MP who converted to Judaism passed away today.
http://jewishmag.com/82mag/lordgordon/lordgordon.htm
1798: In Savannah, GA, Abraham de Lyon and his wife gave birth to their daughter Hannah Lyon.
1809: Twenty year old Zipporah Hart, the daughter of Jacob Naphtali Hart and Leah Nathan married Eleazar S. Lazaurs today.
1813: Benjamin D’Israeli, the grandfather of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, signed his last will and testament.
1817: Birthdate of Marseilles journalist Joseph Cohen who wrote about the Jews of Algeria and who was one of the editors of the first French Jewish weekly, "La Vérité Israélite," in which he published his famous work, "Les Déicides," an investigation into the life of Jesus, in which he attacks the originality of the moral teaching of the Gospels, and defends the Pharisees.”
1819: The Privy Council of Saxony ordered the expulsion of Joseph Friedlander.
1826: Joseph Abrahams married Ann Hannah at the Western Synagogue today.
1831: John Solomon Harris married Rosetta Phillips at the Western Synagogue today.
1832: Michael Alexander, the Prussian born Jew who moved to England and eventually became an Anglican was ordained today as a priest in the Church of England.
1835(9th of Cheshvan, 5596): Seventy-eight year old Marks Lazarus the Charleston, SC born son of Sarah Long and Michael Lazarus, the husband of Rachel Lazarus and a veteran of the Revolution who rose to the rank of sergeant .-major passed away today.
1836: In London, Jane and Isaac Salaman gave birth to Myer Salaman, the husband of Sarah Salaman
1839: In Soulzmatt, Rabbi Seligman Loeb and his wife gave birth to Isidore Loeb the French born scholar and historian who was the editor of Revue des Études Juives, the main literary product of Société des Etudes Juives
1840: Barnett Hyams married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.
1843: Future French general Bernard Abraham “entered the École Polytechnique at the age of nineteen.”
1844: In Brody, Josef Bodek and Henriette (Scheindel) Bodek gave birth to Dr. Arnold Heinrich Bodek
1851: Birthdate of Parisian composer Andre Alphonse Wormers who was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1875.
1853: Birthdate of Florence Salaman, the wife of Oscar Henry Behrens and mother of Hilda and Dora Behrens.
1855: In Ivančice (Eibenschütz), Moravia, Joachim Adler, “a physician who died of typhoid fever in 1857 and his wife Franciska gave birth to “musicologist and writer Guido Adler.
1857: In New York, Samuel Hillel Isaacs and Miriam Hadassah Philipowski gave birth to Jeannette Isaacs Davis, the wife of Benjamin Davis and public school teacher in Jersey City who moved to Chicago where she held a number of positions including principal of the Sabbath School of the Southside Hebrew Congregation and Director of the Jewish Home for the Aged while serving as editor of the Bazaar Bell and contributing to Bernheimer’s “The Russian Jew in America.”
1859: Birthdate of Lodz native Marcus Gale, who in 1882 came to the United States where he settled in Oregon where he was a farmer and store owner.
1860: In Philadelphia R.A.F. Penrose Sr. and Sarah Penrose gave birth to Senator Boise Penrose who in 1911 described “discrimination by the Russian Government against American Hebrews as an assault on American principles and traditions” and assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreed with their contention that the violation of their treaty rights as American citizens was not a proper subject for an arbitration tribunal but should result in the passing of a resolution by Congress denouncing the present treaty” with Russia.
1861: Ellis C. Strouss, who rose from the rank of Private to the rank of Captain began his three and half years of service with the 57th Regiment.
1861: General George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies. McClellan would actually serve two terms as commanding General of the Army of the Potomac. A great organizer, he seemed to have had an aversion to actually waging war. His failure to win victories and his over-inflated sense of self-worth brought him on a collision course with President Lincoln who fired him in 1862. Eventually, McClellan, who was a popular figure made his way to New York where he worked August Belmont, the Jewish financier. Belmont would provide the financial backing that led to McClellan’s nomination for President on the Democrat Party ticket in 1864.
1862: Philadelphian Benjamin B. Goodman began serving as First Lieutenant with Company G of the 174thRegiment.
1862: Philadelphians Jacob Loeb, Samuel Loeb, William Love, Isaac Long, Joel Straus, Solomon Staruse, William S. Strause, William T. Strause began serving with Company H of the 151st Regiment
1864: Birthdate of Hungarian mathematician Ludwig Schlesinger who served as an assistant professor at the University of Bonn before becoming a “professor of mathematics at the University of Klausenburg” in 1902/
1864: John Hay, President Lincoln’s private secretary wrote a letter to Myer Isaacs that was a response to his letter of October 26 in which he warned the President that a group of New York Jews with whom he met were not leaders of the Jewish community and could not deliver the Jewish vote. In his letter, Hay assured Isaacs that when Lincoln met with “certain gentlemen of the Hebrew faith” they did not promise to deliver the Jewish vote nor did the President offer them any inducement to do so. In other words, Isaacs was either misinformed or worrying without cause.
1870(7th of Cheshvan, 5631): Eighty-one year old German mathematician Ephraim Salomon Unger who was a Professor at the University of Erfut passed away today.
1870(7th of Cheshvan, 5631): Ninety-seven year old Naphtali Phillips the second child and first son of Jonas Phillips and Rebecca Mendz Machado who married Esther Siexas one year after the death of his first wife Rachel and became the publisher of the National Advocate passed away today.
1872:”A General Conference of the Jews” is taking place in Brussels. A delegation of Romanian Jews has described the conditions under which they are living. The delegation reported that the Romanian Jews had abandoned their idea of moving en masse to the United States and instead were planning on petitioning the Romanian government to grant them full civil and political rights.
1873: A report published today describing the changing state of affairs in the newly united Kingdom of Italy. The Jews have been among the most ardent supporters of the new government which has removed the onerous restrictions under which they been living. For example Jews can now own real estate in areas that were formally under Papal Control. This was a right the Catholic Church had denied them despite repeated petitions for change. Several of the editors of the leading publications are Jewish and they lend their support to the new government. According to some, “the Jews…have grown rich in Italy” because they have not hesitated to take advantage of their new opportunities.
1874: In Savanna, Harry Weiskopf of Jacksonville, Florida, married Marie Klauber of Amsterdam, NY.
1877: Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Sorcerer” in which soprano Giulia Warwick (born Julia Ehrenberg) would play “Aline” did not open today as originally planned.
1878: A lease was obtained for a building today and provisions were made to convert it into the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1879: Acting on behalf of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, Simon Wolf has presented the Secretary of State with a memorandum urging the United States to withhold recognition of Romania’s independence until that country grants the Jews full civil and religious and civil liberty as provided for by The Treat of Berlin.
1879: Birthdate of Oskar Barnack who invented the Leica 35 mm camera which was than mass produced by Ernst Leitz. Letiz would take advantage of the economic power and world-wide reach of his company that was based on Barnack’s invention to mount the rescue effort of German Jews known as the Leica Freedom Train.
http://archive.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4975_52.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxGbNXt_Is
1880: Birthdate of novelist and playwright Sholem Asch (pronounced shō'lum ăsh). Born in Poland Asch first wrote in Hebrew but switched to Yiddish. His writings were well received and he was quite popular. He moved to the United States before World War I and his popularity continued to grow. He became a citizen in the 1920’s. However, during the late 1930’s and 1940’s he wrote a trilogy of novels that dealt with Christianity. The works were well received by the general public, but the Yiddish world rejected the works because of the subject matter. The Forward refused to publish any more of his writings. In the 1950's, Asch settled in a suburb of Tel Aviv. After his death in 1957, his home in Israel was turned into a Sholem Asch museum. The following quotes are a sample of his wit and insights into the human condition.“To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.” “The lash may force men to physical labor; it cannot force them to spiritual creativity."“The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers forever!”
1880: It was reported today that in his most recent sermon Dr. J.P Newman of New York’s Central Methodist Church spoke on the “Impending Danger to Our Public Schools.” He praised the current public schools as places where “the children of the Christina, Jews and infidel meet…on an equal footing without undergoing sectarian instruction.” The teaching of religious doctrine should be left to parochial schools paid for by the churches. (The public school system, free from religious indoctrination would prove to be a boon to the waves of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe that would soon be washing up on America’s shores.)
1881: In Orwell, Ohio, Abram and Mollie (Bloch) Polsky gave birth to Bert A. Polsky the Akron businessman and community leader whose memory is honored annually by the presentation of “the Polsky Humanitarian Award to individuals who best exemplify Bert Polsky's dedication and contributions to humanitarian causes in the greater Akron area.”
1883: Birthdate of Minsk native Lesser Paley, the husband of Zelda Paley, who in 1898 came to Rochester, NY where became a successful businessman and leader of the Jewish community.
1884: In Philadelphia, Blanche and Isadore Langsdorf gave birth Jacob Loeb Langsdorf, “a travel agent and cigar maker” who was the husband of “Louise Silberman Langsdorf” with whom he had two children, Benjamin and Blanche.
1884(NS): In Berdychiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire, “Menakhem Mendl Kahanovich, a smoked-fish merchant at Astrakhan on the Volga River” and his wife Leah gave birth to Pinchus Kahanovich who wrote under the pseudonym “Der Nister” and who at the age of 65 in the Gulag after having been arrested during Stalin’s purge that was designed to wipe out Jewish authors and the culture that had produced them.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Der_Nister
1885: Birthdate of industrial chemist, the great-grandson of Solomon Bennet, the “Demonstrator in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Major in the Royal Engineers who co-authored Radium and other Radioactive Elements and Gas Recorders.
1885: “An English Hebrew Prayer Book” published today described the recent decision of the rabbis who had been meeting in Baltimore to create a prayer book that included a mixture of prayers in English and Hebrew, some of which are traditional and some of which are original. There are numerous text like this in German, but “only one or two in English.”
1886: “Caught in a Corner,” a play featuring a performance by “Mr. Curtis whose forte is to caricature” modern Germans, is scheduled to open an 8 week run at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in Manhattan.
1886: Birthdate of author Hermann Broch, writer and refugee from the Nazis. Born in Austria, Broch was imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Nazis in 1938. While in the camp he began writing one of his greatest works The Death of Virgil. The book would be published in 1945. Several prominent authors including James Joyce intervened on Broch’s behalf and he was released by the Nazis. He came to the United States where he continued writing until his death in 1951.
1887: It was reported today that of the 25,788 Jewish “immigrants who land at Castle Garden during the year, 18,197 remained” in New York and “16 were returned” to Europe “as paupers by the Commissioners of Emigration.
1887: It was reported today that the United Hebrew Charities, under the presidency of Henry Rice, had provided assistance to 17,385 Jews living in New York City
1888: It was reported today that Rabbi A.S. Isaacs and Joseph Arthur Levy addressed those who attended the consecration of new synagogue and school at 186 West 80th Street in NYC. The school will offer instruction for Hebrew for students of all ages at no charge.
1889(7th of Cheshvan, 5650): Sixty-five year old August Henry Edinger, the well-known wine merchant who came to United States in 1849 from his native Worms-on-the-Rhine and was a patron of Mount Sinai Hospital, the Montefiore Home and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, passed away today.
1889: The following notice appeared in the New York papers today: “Siegelstein – Bubis – At Mayor’s office, Oct. 13, 1888 and at the church, June 9, 188. Pierre Siegelstein to Mary Bubis. Pierre Siegelstein is now studying medicine.” (Read tomorrows TDIJ for details)
1890: Jacob H. Schiff expressed his support for the anti-Tammany forces in the upcoming municipal elections when he said that “he was heart and soul for Mr. Francis M. Scott and the rest of the Municipal League Ticket” because he thought that Scott was “just the kind of Mayor the people of New York needed.”
1890: Birthdate of Vienna native and Austrian director Otto Kreisler whose films included “The Jewess of Toledo.”
1890: As New Yorkers prepared to vote for Mayor, Jesse Seligman expressed his support for Francis M. Scott saying that “I consider the Tammany Hall organization rotten to the core and I see no reason why…Tammany Hall should not be overthrown.”
1890: As of this date another 1,982 Russian immigrants had arrived in Philadelphia, PA, which was an increase from 694 during the same period last year.
1890: “MR. FROUDE ON LORD BEACONSFIELD'S RELIGION” published today provided the view James Anthony Froude, the author of a biography on Disraeli, feels that the former British Prime Minister had on this subject.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/1st-november-1890/9/mr-froude-on-lord-beaconsfields-religion
1891: In Wilmington, NC, Leopold and Johanna Bluenthenthal gave birth to Arthur “Bluey” Bluethenthal the Princeton All-American football player who died during WW I while flying with the Lafayette Escadrille.
1891: As of today, 62,574 Jews came to New York this year in Steerage, 54,194 of whom were from Russia.
1891: “In Weld County, Colorado, Philip and Anna (Shames) Quiat” gave birth to Denver University Law School Graduate and Colorado State Senator Ira Louis Quiat the husband of Esther Greenblatt.
1891: It was reported today that of the 239,000 Jews who came to the United States in the last six years, 90% came to New York and 70% of them have remained in the city.
1894: Czar Alexander III who implemented the anti-Semitic May Laws of 1882 and sought to deal with the Jews through his one-third, one-third, one-third policy died today.
1894: Nicholas II becomes Czar after the death of Alexander III. Nicholas was the last Czar. He was an incompetent reactionary. He was also an anti-Semite.
1894: Having been finally given permission to speak out, Louise Dreyfus told her brother-in-law Mathieu about the charges leveled against her husband which led to Mathieu Dreyfus becoming the leading architect of the Dreyfus Defense.
1894: The French Army high command announced that it would proceed with a formal court-martial with Dreyfus as the defendant.
1895: According to a summary published today, the United Hebrew Charities collected $144,539.90 from all sources and spent $138,895.11 to provide services
1895: It was reported today that 27,065 Jewish immigrants had arrived in New York City this year as compared with 16, 381 who come in 1894.
1895: As of today there are 300,000 Jews living in New York City
1895: The City Magistrate of Essex Market Police Court “dismissed the charges of extortion brought against Max Sanftman, an agent for the Hebrew Branch of the Anti-Vice Society, Barney Silverman” a restaurant owner whose wife had been arrested based on information provided by Sanftman.
1895:Ludovic Trarieux, a Dreyfusard who was the founding president of the League of Human and Civil Rights completed his term as Minister of Justice.
1896: Joseph Jacobs, the editor of Macmillan’s Jewish Library is reported to be in the United States so that he can deliver a series of lectures during the upcoming meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women.
1897: The first of what would be a flood of 2,079 immigrants arrived in Philadelphia.
1898: Professor Richard Gotheil, a Professor of Oriental Languages at Columbia addressed a meeting of the West Side Zion Society where he spoke about events at the Zionist Conference which he attended at Basel last August.
1898: Based on reports published today, the heat has taken its toll on the Kaiser and his wife during their visit to Palestine. They have cancelled their trip to Jericho and will be returning to Germany sooner than expected. Since nearly 40 horses have died from the heat, the Kaiser has decided to return to Haifa from Jaffa by sea.
1898: Twenty-five year old Kate Hart, “a devout Roman Catholic” who fell in love Charles Mundag, “a devout Jew” and married him five years ago despite the opposition of her family burned herself to death after her family made overtures of reconciliation.
1898: According to a summary of the report of the United Hebrew Charities published today, the society raised $133,107.12 and spent $120,540 on providing services to the city’s needy Jews.
1898: Leopold Lederer is being held in the Tombs charged with having burned down his home in August, 1894 and Abraham Zucker is being held in the Tombs on charges of setting fire to his dry goods store on the Corner of 41stStreet and 9th Avenue.
1898: Today marked the end of a 12 month period during which 2,079 Jewish immigrants arrived in Philadelphia.
1899(28th of Cheshvan, 5660): Moses Bruhl, who has been in the jewelry business for 46 years, passed away today. He came to the United States in 1854 at the age of 18 and became a noted philanthropist as well as a successful businessman.
1899: J. Charles Wechsler and Dr. M.J. Burstain presented plans for the proposed Emanuel Hospital and Dispensary which will serve Jews from Galicia, Austria and Hungary living on the East Side to the State Board of Charities today.
1899: As of today, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society is providing direct care for “876 children ranging in age from three to sixteen years” of whom 534 are boys.
1899: Isaac Stern, Chairman of the Executive Board of Mount Sinai Hospital and President Isaac Wallach of Mount Sinai Hospital expressed their opposition to the construction of a new hospital for which, according to them, there is no real support.
1900: The Executive Committee of the sound money parade, which will be attended by Oscar S. Straus met tonight to make final arrangements for tomorrow’s event.
1900: Isidor Straus is scheduled to be one of the speakers at tonight’s meeting of “the independent voters and Gold Democrats of the Fourteenth District at the Cercle Music Hall.
1901: “The income of the” American Union of Hebrew Congregations “during the fiscal year ending” today “was $68, 463.79.”
1902(1st of Cheshvan, 5663): Parshat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1902: “The Jewish Year Book” published today provided a description of “the fourth issue of the American Jewish Year Book, edited by Cyrus Adler” which “is largely devoted to information concerning National Jewish organizations, lists of important events, dedications of synagogues and other public buildings together with certain special articles.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/11/01/118484539.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1903: Eighty-five year old Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Theodor Mommsen “who strongly opposed anti-Semitism” and wrote a pamphlet in which he opposed the views of Heinrich von Treitschke “who popularized the phrase "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" ("The Jews are our misfortune!"), which was adopted as a motto by the Nazi publication Der Stürmer several decades later passed away today.
1904:Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach, a Jewish gangster, met with Richie Fitzpatick in an attempt to decide which one of them would lead Monk Eastman Gang. During the meeting, Firzpatrick was shot to death by one of Kid Twist’s henchmen.
1905: This evening in Kiev, after the Cossacks had clashed with “the populace that had seized the Town Hall, “the Jewish quarter was sacked.”
1905: As revolutionary violence swept parts of Russia, “there were anti-Jewish demonstrations today at Kherson” in the Ukraine.
1905: “In fighting between toughs and Jews on Dalnitskaya Street” in Odessa, “thirty-seven persons were killed and eighty-one were wounded seriously enough to be taken to the hospital.
1905: “A dispatch sent from Odessa attributes today’s outbreaks there” including the attacks on the Jews “to the instigation of the disarmed and disbanded police.
1905: In New York City, Abraham and Bluma Postal gave birth to Bernard Postal, journalist, author and the co-author “with Jesse and Roy Silver of The Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports who was married to Bella Posta.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/BernardPostal.htm
1906: “For several minutes shouts for the "next Cabinet officer," the waving of American flags, and continued handclapping and cheering saluted Oscar S. Straus when he passed along the aisle to his place on the stage of Jacob Adler's Grand Street theatre” tonight at Republican mass meeting.
1907 Today, Franz “Kafka was hired at the Assicurazioni Generali, an insurance company, where he worked for nearly a year.”
1907: Birthdate of Elimelekh-Shimon Rimalt, the native of Galicia who served in the Knesset and as the Minister of Postal Services.
1908: “At the annual meeting of the contributors to the Montefiore Home for Incurables and Chronic Invalids, at 138th Street and Broadway,” this “morning. Jacob H. Schiff, its President, resented the suggestion made by Uriah Herrmann of the Beth Israel Hospital that Montefiore ought to give preference to incurable patients in other hospitals over patients on the waiting list of Montefiore Home itself.”
1909: It was reported today that the weeklong meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis will open on the evening of November 9 in New York City.
1909(17th of Cheshvan 5670): Abram Hirschberg passed away today.
1909: In New York, Morris Gintzler, the Hungarian born son of Emile and Saly Gintzler and his wife Rose Gintzler gave birth to Selma Ruth Gintzler who became Selma Ruth Klineberg when she married Otto Klineberg.
1910: Birthdate of Polish native John “Jack” Grossman, “a three-sports star” at Rutgers during the 1930’s after which he played professional football with the NFL Brooklyn Dodger and “move to Latin where her played professional baseball and soccer
1910: Archeologist Max von Oppenheim, “a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty” continued to work in Cairo as a diplomat until 1910 when he was dismissed from the diplomatic service with the rank of Ministerresident today
1911(10th of Cheshvan, 5672): Four month old Salomon Maurtis Hartog, the son of Daniel Joseph Hartogh and Estelle Celine Abrahams passed away today in Paramaribo, Suriname
1912: In Munster, Germany, Jonas and Selma Palut gave birth Wolf Gunther Plaut, “the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades.”
1913(1st of Cheshvan, 5674): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1913: Mendel Bellis fainted today during his trial today in Kiev where he is charged with murder of Andrew Yushinsky.
1913 At today’s trial of Mendel Bellis, “one of the principal medical experts, Dr. Bekhtereff, asserted on the witness stand that the murder “of Andrew Yushinsky ”was the work of alcoholics or epileptic and that it was impossible to attribute a religious character to the crime.”
1914(12th of Cheshvan, 5675): During WW I, 15 year old “Midshipman Vivian George Edward S. Schreiber, HMS Monmouth, RN, died today.”
1914: Birthdate of Rabbi Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum Chasidic Rebbe and the world leader of the Satmar Hasidim, which is believed to be the largest Chasidic community in the world, with some 100,000 followers.
1914: Birthdate of Sofia Cosma, the native of Latvia “who defied long odds to rebuild her career after seven years in Soviet prison camps.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/22/local/la-me-sofia-cosma-20110222
1914: “Immigration” published today provides the views of Edward A. Ross on how the World War will affect population movement including a prediction that “the possible alleviation of the status of the Jew in Russia” will lead to a decrease in their “outflow” from western Asia.
1914: Today’s “City Brevities” column includes a description of an upcoming meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1914: “Finds Russian Jews Aflame As Patriots” published today described the study by Charles H. Sherrill of the patriotism of Russian Jews who are rallying to the Russian flag in the present war” and its impact on Jews living in the United States.
1915: The list of the officers of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel published today included Grand Master – Emil Tusing; Grand Treasurer – Benjamin Blumenthal; Grand Secretary – Abraham Blumenthal; Grand Secretary – Abraham Hafer; Deputy Grand Masters – Solon J. Liebeskind, Henry Jacobs and Adolph Pike; Counsel Maurice B. Blumenthal, the former Deputy Attorney General who said that “The Jews of America are first, last and all the time Americans.”
1915: It was reported today that Joseph Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire has told his co-religionists in London that the Jewish leaders of Petrograd had expected a million pounds ($5,000,000) from the British Jews to help deal with the privations of the World War but had only received $300,000.
1915: In seeking to show his support for women getting the vote, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was quoted to as having asked the question, “In the face of this great calamity of war, how can men say that government would be made worse by the participation of women?”
1915: “A general congress of American Jews to consider methods of assisting their co-religionists in the war zones” called for by The American Jewish Committee and its President, Louis Marshall, was scheduled to begin today in Washington, DC.
1915: A contest sponsored by the Federation of American Zionists that will award a student “in any college or university in the United States or Canada” “for the best original essay on some phase of Jewish life and culture in Palestine” judged by Julian W. Mack, Felix Frankfurter and Richard Gottheil is scheduled to close out today
1916: In Baltimore, MD, John and Gladys Putzel gave birth to Lewis Putzel, the husband of Emily Frankel Putzel.
1916:Arnold Schönberg “completes the Four Songs for Voice and Orchestra, op. 22.”
1916: The Ottoman Jewish Union was founded with aim of fostering friendly relations between Jews of different countries and the Ottomans, as well as closer association of the Ottoman Jews with the other nationalities in Turkey.
1916: A letter which was triggered by the anti-Semitic writings that appeared in Psychology of Warby U.S. Army Captain LeRoy indicating the favorable attitude of the War Department as it pertains to the quality of Jewish soldiers “was given out at the White House executive offices today.”
1917: W.T. Massey, British correspondent with the British army fighting in Palestine transmitted a dispatch headlined “Beersheba Taken In Night Charge.” According to him Australasian Cavalrymen dismounted to storm defenses held by Germans and Turks. The infantry cleared the way, tearing down wire entanglements with their bare hands. At the same time, over four hundred Turkish soldiers were captured in fighting at Gaza.
1917: Today is the deadline for the American Jewish Relief Committee to raise enough money for the Jewish War Relief Fund to trigger a matching contribution by Julius Rosenwald of Chicago that could reach ten per cent of all the money raised up to ten million dollars.
1917: Oscar Straus told the “three hundred members of the Authors Club” attending a dinner “in their Carnegie Club Rooms” where they “heard denunciations of Kaiserism and Kultur” that “any candidate for Mayor of New York who was not heart and soul with the American Government in the conduct of the war was a traitor to the country” and “that he had recently been told by a prominent diplomat of an allied nation that if the present city administration were defeated on Election Day, the German people would take it as a sign that the war was unpopular here and would closer to the militarist German party.”
1917: Tonight “speaking before a large Jewish audience at Hunt’s Point Palace in the Bronx, Samuel Untermyer made a strong appeal to the patriotism of the Jewish voters and urged them as a duty to their adopted country to vote against the Socialist candidate for Mayor.” (Untermeyer was a prominent Jewish leader, Zionist and served as President of the Keren Hayesod)
1918: As of today “the total number of casualties in the American Expeditionary Force was 64,157” of which 3.9 per cent or 2,502 were Jewish
1918: Responding to demands for an end to the monarchy, the Kaiser tells an emissary from Prince Max, ‘I wouldn’t dream of abandoning the throne because of a few hundred Jews and a thousand workers.” The German monarch’s anti-Semitism trumped the reality of the thousands of Jews who had fought and died for the fatherland from 1914 until 1918.
1919(8thof Cheshvan, 5680): Parshat Lech-Lecha
1919(8thof Cheshvan, 5680): Seventy year old “editor and author” Gustave Pollak a native of Vienna whom came to the United States in 1866 and who was a contributor to the Evening Post, In New York, and the Nation, for 40 years” passed away today at the home of his daughter Mrs. Paul J. Sachs.
1919: In London, “Celebration of the 25th annual dinner of the Readers’ Pensions.”
1919: “The Federation of Hungarian Jews in America was organized” today.
1920: At Columbia University’s Teachers College, Mrs. Norvin Lindheim and Mrs. I.B. Berkson are scheduled to supervise “a course in household dietetics and kindred subjects” for women who want work in Social Work in Palestine
1920: Birthdate of London native and movie producer Michael Klinger, the “son of a Polish-born tailor who teamed with Tony Tenser, the son of another Jewish tailor to create “the Compton cinema chain.”
1921: Congregation Beth El located in Camden, NJ, was official incorporated by the state of New Jersey. 1921: Hadoar, the first Hebrew daily Hebrew paper published in the United States appeared for the first time.
1922: In Springfield, MA, Rebecca (née Sack) and Abraham Shelasky, a haberdasher, gave birth George Irving Shelasky better known as actor George S. Irving who made his debut in the original production of “Oklahoma” in 1943. (As reported by Richard Sanomir)
1922: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. The Sultan and the empire would be replaced by a secular Turkish Republic led by Attaturk Kemal. Large numbers of Jews fled Turkey during this period as a result of the Greco-Turkish war which was fought at this time. Jews of the new republic also suffered a loss international protection under the terms of the Treaty of Locarno under pressure from the new regime.
1923: Birthdate of Menachem Fetter, who made in Aliyah in 1935 and became the note Israeli jurist Menachem Elon who became Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
1923: In Warsaw, Rachel and Aryeh Turkeltabu, ‘a Zionist who ran a paper products business gave birth to Abba Tor “whose engineering prowess helped the landmark Trans World Flight Center take wing at Kennedy International Airport.” (As reported by David W. Dunlap)
1923: Paul Whiteman, asked Jewish composer George Gershwin “to contribute a concerto-like piece for an all-jazz concert he would give in Aeolian Hall in February 1924” that would eventually lead to the creation of “Rhapsody in Blue.”
1924(4th of Cheshvan, 5685): Parashat Noach
1924(4th of Cheshvan, 5685): Fifty-seven year old Jules Greenbaum “the founder of production and distribution companies Deutsche Bioscop and Vitascope” and “one of the pioneers of the German film industry” who “introduced such directors as Max Mack and Richard Oswald to the cinema and produced the groundbreaking drama “Der Andere” (The Other) passed away today in his native Berlin.
1924: It was reported today that the wife of Hart. O Berg, the man who was the business representative for the Wright Brothers and shepherded them through pre-War Europe so they can demonstrate and sell their newly invented airplanes has been granted a divorce by courts in Paris.
1924: U.S. premiere of “White Man” the silent film produced by B.P. Schulberg that marked the cinematic debut of Clark Gable. (Gable was not Jewish but it is still worth noting)
1924: Birthdate of Aharon Uzan, the Tunisian born Israeli political leader who held the positions Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Labor and Social Welfare after Abuhatzira resigned from both posts following his conviction for larceny, breach of trust and fraud from 1982 until 1984.
1928: The silent film version of “Noah’s Ark” directed by Michael Curitz was released today by Warner Brothers.
1928: In Washington, DC, the Rumanian Legation announced that “George Cretziano, Rumanian Minister to the United States has been decorated by the King with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crow or Rumania in recognition of the services rendered since his appointment” including improving relations with the American Jewish community which has led to “Jewish support for Rumania’s financial stabilization program.”
1928: “Attorney General Ottinger, the Republic candidate for Governor” whom City Court Judge Gustave Hartman said “had been brought up in a real Jewish home” spoke at five meetings in Manhattan tonight where he urged voters to support Herbert Hoover for President “as the best means of insuring a continuance of prosperity.”
1929: “The Trespasser” a film that had both a silent and talkie versions edited by Cyril Gardner was released in New York City today.
1929: “Call of the Blood” a Czech-German film directed by Victor Trivas was released today.
1930: A new cooperative housing project, spearheaded by Lieutenant Governor Herbert Lehman and Aaron Rabinowitz opened on the site of the old Hoe & Co Printing Plant on Delancey Street. An editorial writer for the New York Times referred to this effort as “the first step toward the rejuvenation of the Lower East Side.
1930(10th of Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1930: Northwestern University led by Guard Hyman “Hy” Crizevsky defeated the University of Minnesota in its fifth straight win of the season.
1930: A demonstration was held in Jerusalem to protest the White Paper on British Policy in Palestine.
1930: The British government is making preparations to prevent any demonstrations tomorrow (the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration) by Jews who have been protesting against the White Paper on the British Policy in Palestine.
1931: “His Highness Love,” a “Franco-German comedy” produced and co-directed by Joe May was released today.
1931: The New York Times reports the Yasha Heifitz will go to Palestine next Spring to present a series of five concerts. The Times reported approvingly of the growth of the appreciation in Palestine for “good Occidental music” in a land where until only recently “companies of wandering Egyptian musicians were the only artists heard.”
1933: The first issue of Ristow's anti-Semitic Blick in die Zeit (A Look at the Times)is published in Germany.
1933: “Only Yesterday” a film “based on the novel Briefe einer unbekannten (Letter from an Unknown Woman) by Stefan Zweig directed by John M. Stahl (Jacob Morris Strelitsky) and produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. was released today in the United States.
1934(23rd of Cheshvan, 5695): Sixty-eight year old Simon Oscar Pollock, the husband of Julia Moschowitz and Russian revolutionary who “was counsel to the Political Refugees Defense League of New York” succumbed to the injuries that resulted from being scalded in a shower and passed away today.
1934: “We Live Again” a cinematic adaptation of the novel Resurrection produced by Samuel Goldwyn who made the film to showcase his latest acting find and with music by Alfred Newman was released in the United States by United Artists.
1934: Birthdate of Lt. General Sidney T. Weinstein, the native of Camden, NJ and West Point Graduate whose expertise led to his being inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502231.html
1934: Italian nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, the son of Jewish textile manufacturer “was made a temporary assistant at the Royal Institute of Physics.
1935: “Members of the religious agricultural training in Telz, Lithuania” were photographed today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/02.asp
1935: The first edition of The American Hebrew, which was the successor to the American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune appeared today.
1935: Birthdate of Robert Andrzej Krauthammer the native of Warsaw, who, after he was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto was given the name of Andre Tchaikowskyunder which he became a famous composer whose extra claim to fame is the fact that Royal Shakespeare Company uses his skull as prop, per the terms of his will.
1935: An addition to the Reich Citizenship Law disqualifies Jews from German citizenship.
1936: An exhibition of water-color landscapes of Palestine opened this afternoon at the Jewish Club in New York City. The paintings “are the work of Elias Newman, an American artist who has lived in Palestine for eight year and is affiliated with the Tel Aviv Museum.”
1936: In an American Football game at Harry Newman of the Brooklyn Dodgers kicked a field goal which gave his team a temporary three to zero lead over the New York (football) Yankees.
1936: A parade organized by a group of Protestants, Catholic and Jews that “would be an affirmation of the faith of the people in God” was scheduled to be held today in New York City.
1936: It was reported today that “the most recent victims of the anti-Semitic campaign are the Jewish apothecaries” who effective October 1 were “all compelled to lease or sell their establishments and retire from the business” while Jews no longer are employed in drug stores because they were “discharged by the order of the Reich Druggist Leader.”
1936: “Literary agents for the late Edgar Wallace reported that his works have been banned in Germany because of rumors that the writer was of Jewish extraction” and they “have asked the aid of the writer’s family in proof of Mr. Wallace’s ‘Aryan’ ancestry.”
1936: This morning “in an address before the congregation of the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise vigorously denounced the political implication put for in the present campaign that there is such a thing as a ‘Jewish vote,’ and added that there never was a campaign in which it would have been easier and more natural to shut out every reference to the Jewish race than the present one.”
1936: Leo Perper, who has been working for R.H. Macy for the last twenty years is scheduled to “become president of the Roger Kent stores” today.
1936: “Government aid cannot supplant private philanthropy Government, Governor Lehman said tonight in an address in Madison Square Garden where stage and screen stars held benefit performances for the Hebrew National Orphan Home.”
1936: Governor Herbert Lehman was an unexpected speaker at a dinner at the Hotel Astor attended by more than 2,000 guests in honor of Benjamin J. Rabin, deputy commissioner and counsel general of the New York State Mortgage Commission which was a fund raiser of the American Jewish Distribution Committee.
1936: “Four hundred and forty pupils of Jewish religious schools of New York City received prizes for attendance and scholastic records during the 1935-36 school year at a festival held this afternoon by the Jewish Education Association at the Washington Irving High School.”
1936: "Palestine Arabs Turn to Boycott" published today reported that "As was expected immediately after the Arab general strike was called off through Palestine, an anti-Jewish boycott movement has taken root." If it continues, it can have a disastrous effect on all those living in Palestine - Arab and Jew alike
1937: Birthdate of Micha Shagrir, the native of Linz who moved to Palestine in 1938 and became one of Israel’s “leading filmmakers.”
1937: ThePalestine Post reports the death of Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York City. Born in Birmingham, England in 1852, he was one of the two founders in 1886 of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Mendes was rabbi emeritus of Shearith Israel since retiring after 43 years in 1920.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that Raphael Ben-Israel Namda was severely wounded and Ahmed Moussa el-Masri, a Persian, was killed by an Arab terrorist at the corner of Nahlat Shiva and Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem. A day earlier, Jacob Weiss, the manager of the German Bank, was stabbed by an Arab assailant, but was out of danger. Shots were fired at Palestine Quarries workers near Motza.
1937(27th of Cheshvan, 5698): Seventy-eight year Dr. Sigmund Pollitzer, the South Carolina born son of Morris and Anna Kuh Pollitzer and graduate of Columbia whose colorful career culminated in serving as President of the American Dermatological Association and who was the husband of “the former Alice Kohn of New York” passed away today in New York City.
http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=518874
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/11/02/94451130.pd
1938: A British Mandate police report noted that although the Arabs of Palestine had not yedclared 'a complete Jihad,' yet Jihad had been preached in many village mosques in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. If the British government were to announce a policy 'which is adverse to Arab interest,' the report warned, 'a complete Jihad will be declared by the more prominent religious leaders of Islam.'
1938: The “first solo exhibition of the work of Frida Kahlo” which was mounted by Julian Levy who had studied with Paul J. Sachs opened today at 15 East 57th Street in New York.
1938: Louis E. Kirstein, the Vice President of William Filene’s Sons of Boston met with President Roosevelt today.
1938: Today the Tucson, AZ, Star published a photograph of Tucson High School grad and University of Arizona alum Leonard Cahn who served in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.
http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/leonard-cahn
1938: Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, a Roman Catholic priest in Berlin, condemns the German assault on Jews. One of the few German Catholics to denounce the immoral behavior of the government, Father Lichtenberg sermonizes: "Outside the synagogue is burning, and that also is a house of God."
1939: Hans Frank, governor-general of Occupied Poland, sets up the first "self-governing" Jewish council (Judenrat) within Jewish ghettos. The council leaders must obey the demands of the Nazis.
1939: Birthdate of French politician and physician Bernard Kouchner whose father was Jewish and who is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde.
1940(30th of Tishrei, 5701): Manchester native and Cambridge graduate Joseph Lewis Cohen, the economist and Zionist who helped organize the Jewish Legion in WW I and “directed the political office of the World Union of Poale Zion in London” while serving as an “economic advisor to Marks and Spencer” was killed today during the Blitz.
1940: In Brooklyn “Seymour and Sarah (Rashall) Silvers” gave birth to college professor and disability rights advocated Anita Silvers. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1941: Isidore Newman who has been training to be a member with the SOE was promoted to the rank of 2ndLieutenant and given the code name “Athlete.”
1941: Today, “President Roosevelt announced that the U.S. Coast Guard” who most famous WW II Jewish member might have been comedian Sid Caesar “would now be under the direction of the U.S. Navy, a transition of authority usually reserved only for wartime”
1942: The Nazis completed the murder of the Jews of Pinsk, Russia, begun on October 29. As of this date there are reportedly no more Jews left alive in the city.
1942: More than 170,000 Jews are killed within one week at the Belzec, Auschwitz, and Treblinka death camps.
1942: Birthdate of Paul L. Dickstein, the Bronx native who was Mayor Koch’s third and longest serving Budget Director. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1943: In Algiers, Simon Attali, the owner of a perfume shop gave birth to twins Bernard Attali and Jacques Attali the French economist who was “first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
1943: Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill sign the Moscow Declaration. Because of British suspicions that the Jews and Poles are exaggerating German atrocities, the declaration omits references to gas chambers. Also, while promising postwar justice for murderers, the declaration does not mention Jews.
1943: When Francis Osborne D’Arcy, the British envoy to the Vatican, had an hour-long private audience with Pope Pious XII, the Pontiff insisted that he had no complaints about the Nazi occupation of Rome. This is a recurring theme that reinforces the view that Pious was either totally insensitive, at best, or really an anti-Semite.
1944: Since The Russian army had driven the Germans from eastern Poland and from most of Hungary Jews began to emerge from their hiding places.
1944: In Chicago, Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie (Samet) Friedman gave birth to Texas’ legendary Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman.
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/home
1945: Birthdate of Hartford, CT native John Lee Levitow, the United States Air Force Loadmaster awarded the Medal of Honor for his acts of heroism while serving on board a Douglas AC-47 Spooky gunship of the 3d Special Operations Squadron USAF on February 24, 1969.
https://amcmuseum.org/history/airman-first-class-john-l-levitow/
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/1957
1945: In response to the British decision to continue enforce the White Paper of 1939, units of the Palmach and the Irgun conducted a series of coordinated attacks on the British run railway system and sunk “three…guard boats” in Haifa and Jaffa.
1946: In the opening game of the fledgling Basketball Association of America (BAA), Ossie Schectman scored the opening basket for the New York Knickerbockers against the Toronto Huskies. Schectman and his teammates Sonny Hertzberg, Stan Stutz, Hank Rosenstein, Ralph Kaplowitz, Jake Weber, and Leo "Ace" Gottlieb went on to win the opening game 68 – 66 and finish the season with a 33 – 27 record. In 1949, the BAA became the National Basketball Association (NBA), and Schectman’s shot is considered the first basket in the NBA.
1946: “A Matter of Life and Death,” co-directed, co-produced and co-written by Emeric Pressburger premiered today in the United Kingdom
1946: Sonny Herzberg, a six foot guard who had played for City College “was on the court -- a floor covering the ice at Maple Leaf Gardens -- when the Knicks played the first game in their history, and the inaugural game of the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the N.B.A.”
1947: “Canada Confirms Ban” published today described the decision of the government at Ottawa to bar “Ben Hecht’s A Flag is Born” a pageant that is a plea for the establishments of a “free Palestine as a homeland for Jews” “has been barred from Canada under Tariff Act, clause 1201 banning ‘treasonable or seditious material.”
1947: At Lake Success, NY, “a Palestine subcommittee of the United Nations General Assembly today took up Zionist proposals for modifying the economic union between the proposed Arab and Jewish states” while the British officially reacted unfavorably to the “United States plan for carrying out the partition of Palestine.”
1947: “Irwin Rosen, director of emigration of the Joint Distribution Committee announced” today “that nearly 11,000 certified Jewish emigrants will have been brought Palestine this year at a cost of more than $1,000,000 by the committee,” which is a “major American agency aiding distressed Jews aboard.”
1948: “The exodus of Turkish Jews came to…a halt today” when new instructions were “issued to the Istanbul police that no further visas for Israel should be issued” and that “that the police were…to consider void all passports previously issued to Jews of Turkish nationality wanting to emigrate to Israel.”
1948: During a news conference at the national headquarters of Hadassah in New York, Dr. Eli Davis, the deputy director for the Hadassah organization” said typhoid has almost been completely wiped out in Israel.
1948: Today, at the port of Sivona, Italian “police halted the scheduled sailing of a 2,000-ton Italian ship after having discovered that it was carrying Jewish refugees, a number of whom were “clandestine” to Palestine.”
1949: “Ambassador Eliahu Elath…insisted that his government had ‘good information’ to the effect that 2,000 Iraqi Jews had been imprisoned” and in some cases “tortured and killed.”
1949: In Los Angeles“actress/comedian/screenwriter/playwright Elaine May (née Berlin) and inventor Marvin May gave birth to Jeannie Brette May who gained fame as actress and screenwriter Jeannie Berlin.
1950: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion formed his second government today with a political coalition that included the United Religious Front.
1950(21st of Cheshvan, 5711): Eighty-four year old Colonel Hebert Jessel passed away today. A member of the distinguished Jessel family, he was known as Sir Herbert. A graduate of Oxford, he served in the House of Commons before being elevated to a peerage.
1950: Private First Class Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian born survivor of the Holocaust, was taken captive in North Korea by the Chinese enemy. With an injured left hand and shrapnel lodged in his chest, he was forced to march the long distance to the Prisoner of War camp. There, for many long months, Rubin stood out among his comrades as a hero, stealing out of the camp each night to obtain food, just as he had done five years earlier, as a Hungarian child in a Nazi concentration camp. For over half a century, the United States Army failed to recognize Rubin’s valor, in part, as one of his fellow GI’s said, because of anit-Semitism. In 2005, President Bush announced that he was bestowing upon this great patriot our nation's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor."
1951(2nd of Cheshvan, 5712): Sixty year old Philip Salsburg, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born son of Rachel and Mendel Salsburg and husband of “the former Sadie Rubinow” who was employed by Du Pont before coming the executive secretary of the Community Chest of Scranton passed away today.
1951: “Top Banana” a musical starring Phil Silvers in his Tony Award winning performance “as Jerry Biffle”opened today on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre
1952: Seventy-four year old Horace Stern, the Philadelphia born son of Matilde and Morris Stern began serving as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
1952: The United States detonated the first Hydrogen bomb – a weapon whose development was championed by Edward Teller and opposed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the Atomic Bomb.”
1954: After dissolving the “Left Faction, Rostam Bastuni rejoined Mapam today.
1954: Eleanor (née Lebenthal) and Harry Gerard Bissinger II, a former president of the municipal bond firm Lebenthal & Company gave birth to Harry Gerard "H. G." Bissinger III, best the “American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, best known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights.
1955: Birthdate of Michael “Mike” David Mendoza, the controversial sports radio talk show host who is a cousin of Peter Sellers and a descendant of the legendary boxer Daniel Mendoza.
1956: During the Sinai Campaign, Israeli forces fought a bitter battle with Egyptians in order to take control of Rafa at the entrance to the Gaza Strip which was a base for fedayeen, the name given to the Arab terrorists of the period.
1956(27th of Cheshvan, 5717): A car in which members of Kibbutz Erez were travelling hit a mine laid by fedayeen killing three of the passengers.
1956: “Teenage Rebel” featuring Warren Berlinger, Milton Berle’s nephew, “as Dick Hewitt was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
1957: Starting today and continuing for almost three weeks, 486 Egyptian Jews were arrested under 'Military Proclamation No. 4.'
1958(18th of Cheshvan, 5719): Parashat Vayera
1958(18th of Cheshvan, 5719): Eighty-five year old Jennie Franklin Purvin the daughter of Henry Franklin and Hannah Mayer and wife of businessman of Moses L Purvin who was active in Jewish communal work passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/purvin-jennie-franklin
1959(30th of Tishrei, 5720): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1959(30th of Tishrei, 5720): Gershon Agron mayor of Jerusalem passed away at the age of 66. Born Gershon Agronksy in the Ukraine in 1894, Agron immigrated to the United States with his parents. During World War I he served with the Jewish Legion in Palestine. In 1932, he started an English language newspaper called the Palestine Post. In 1950, for obvious reasons, he changed the name of the paper to the Jerusalem Post. By publishing in English, Agron provided a voice that could be understood by the British occupiers and the nascent American Zionist movement. His brother was Martin Agronsky, a distinguished American broadcast journalist.
1960(11thof Cheshvan, 5721): Sixty-two year old Herbert R. Abeles, the husband of Etta Abeles with whom he had two children – Abby and Robert – and President of the Jewish Community Organizations of America passed away today in West Orange, NJ.
1961: Women Strike For Peace (WSP) was inaugurated with a day-long strike by an estimated 50,000 women in 60 cities, all pressing for nuclear disarmament. Bella Abzug helped form and run the group, and she became the chairperson of WSP's legislative committee. Abzug remained active in WSP until she was elected to Congress in 1970. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archive)
1961: “The Comancheros” an epic western directed by Michael Curtiz, co-starring Ina Balin and Nehemiah Persoff and with music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States today.
1961: Birthdate of Peggy Orenstein, the author of the New York Timesbest-selling memoir, “Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother.”
1962: It was reported today that Robert St. John has written two more books about Israel that are due to be published in the near future – “They Came From Everywhere: Twelve Who Helped Mold Modern Israel” and “The Man Who Played God.”
1962(4thof Cheshvan, 5723): Seventy-three year old Abraham Joseph Balaban (A.J.) the movie theatre mogul who was the “Balaban” in the team of Balaban and Katz passed away today.
http://archives.nypl.org/the/18638
1964: Birthdate of “Old Bethpage, Long Island,” native Erich Mendelsohn, the award winning director and screenwriter who also “teaches a Columbia University’s School of the Arts.”
1965: Over 85% of the Israeli electorate participated in today’s election to choose member for the 6th Knesset.
1966: Following a debate over the design of a new chapel at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, following a “motion by Joe Eliesen and seconded by Dr. George Strean, the Board of Trustees” rejected the concept of having the Bimah in the center “and decided to have the Bimah in front, in an arrangement similar to the Main Synagogue” but made no decision regarding creating a special ladies section which Rabbi Shuchat “felt discouraged ladies from attending services.”
1967: “Cool Hand Luke,” the cinema version of the book by the same name directed by Stuart Rosenberg, with music by Lalo Schifrin and starring Paul Newman was released in the United States today.
1967: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Ed Horowitz, the right handed hitting catcher, first baseman and third baseman who was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 15th round of the 1989 Major League Draft.
1968: The day after Operation Shock, IAF jets took photographs over Upper Egypt revealing “that seven of the nine transformers had been destroyed or severely damaged, that Cairo's southern suburbs were disconnected from the electrical system and that the Qena Bridge was irreparably damaged.”
1971: In “Messing with Max” published today the reviewer pans “The Incomparable Max” a play centering on the life of Max Beerbohm.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,905498,00.html
1971: “Cold Spring Harbor” “the debut studio album by American recording artist Billy Joel” was released today by Family Productions.
1972:“The Israeli ambassador to Bonn was called back to Jerusalem for consultations which many interpreted as the government’s ways of showing displeasure” with the German government’s “speedy” release of the surviving members of the terror squad that killed the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. (As reported by Yael Greenfeter and Matti Golan)
1976: Asher Yadlin was scheduled to succeed Moshe Sanbar as governor of the Bank of Israel.
1978: President Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. The purpose of the Commission was to make recommendations on establishing and funding an appropriate memorial to victims of the Holocaust. The Commission suggested the following:
- that a living memorial be established to honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and which would ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust be taught in perpetuity;
- that an educational foundation be established to stimulate and support research in the teaching of the Holocaust;
- that a Committee on Conscience be established that would collect information on and alert the national conscience regarding reports of actual or potential outbreaks of genocide throughout the world; and
- that a national Day of Remembrance of victims of the Holocaust be established in perpetuity and be held annually.
1978: Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued for Duren when the Supreme Court heard Duren v. Missouri in what would be her last appearance before the High Court as an attorney
1981: In entitled “Kvetching About the Human Condition” published today Wallace Markfield reviewed A Bintel Brief Volume II. Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward 1950-80. Compiled and Edited by Isaac Metzker. (Translated by Bella S. Metzker and Diana Shalet Levy, Under the Supervision of Isaac Metzker) For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes hilarious predicaments that result when Old World meets New. Issac Metzker, who began writing for the paper in the 1920’s created this compilation column
1984(6th of Cheshvan, 5745): Seventy-four year old Norman Krasna an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director passed away. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's Princess O'Rourke, a film he also directed. Later in his career, he also wrote plays, including Time for Elizabeth (1948) cowritten with Groucho Marx, and the popular Kind Sir which he adapted into the movie Indiscreet (1958). He married Al Jolson's widow Erle in 1951, and they remained married until Krasna's death.
1985(17th of Cheshvan, 5746): Seventy-three year old famed funny man Phil “Silvers passed away. Born Phillip Silversmith in 1911 in Brooklyn, Silvers was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He began his career at the age of 11. He would sing in “movie theatres” when the film would stop due to a broken projector – a common problem in the early days of film. His most famous role came in the 1950’s when he played Sergeant Ernie Bilko on the Phil Silvers Show. The fast talking Bilko was the comedic con artist par excellence always looking for a way to outsmart the military establishment and his dim witted Colonel.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/02/arts/phil-silvers-tv-s-sergeant-bilko-dead-at-73.html
1985: “To Live and Dies in L.A.” directed and written by William Friedkin and produced by Irving Levin was released in the United States today.
1987: Because Jonathan Pollard committed his crimes prior to this date “he is eligible for parole” possibly in November, 2015.
1987: After 2,209 performances the curtain came down “Little Shop of Horrors” a musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman.
1988:Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Geena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988: Over 79 per cent of the eligible Israelis (2.3 million voters) turned out to participate in the elections for the 12thKnesset.
1988: “Shaday,” “an album by Israeli singer Ofra Hazaz and produced by Izhar Ashot was released today.
1989: What turned out to be Vladimir Horowitz’s final recording session came to an end today.
1990(13th of Cheshvan, 5751): Eighty-three year old Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta passed away. A graduate of Oxford who served in WW II, he a leading English jurist and a leader of the British Sephardic community
1991(24th of Cheshvan, 5752): Eighty-eight year old civic leader Frank Binswanger passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/08/obituaries/frank-binswanger-88-a-philadelphia-broker.html
http://articles.philly.com/1991-11-03/news/25770640_1_real-estate-industrial-development-sites
1992(5th of Cheshvan, 5753): Ninety-four year old obstetrician Samuel W. Kalb, a graduate of Valparaiso University and the University of Cincinnati School Medicine and Marine Corps veteran who practiced in Newark for 35 years passed away today.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-11-05-9202270823-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/obituaries/samuel-w-kalb-obstetrician-94.html
1993: Yosef Harish left the post of Attorney General and was replaced by Michael Ben-Yair.
1995: After 13 months, Abner J. Mikva completed his services as White House Counsel under President Clinton.
1995: When he met with Yehuda Avner, his long-time English speechwriter and friend today Yitzhak Rabin provided some of the rationale for his negotiations with Yassir Arafat. He said that he considered the likelihood of reaching a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Yasser Arafat to be only “a long shot.” But he attempted it, reluctantly, via the Oslo process, because he recognized that Muslim fundamentalists were gradually winning over the hearts and minds of the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, and that their domination would mean “the certainty of no settlement at all.” “It is either the PLO or nothing,” Rabin said. [This conversation took place three days before Rabin was murdered on November 4.}
1995: “Assassins” produced and directed by Richard Donner was released in France today.
1996: Premiere in Israel of “Saint Clara” a film directed by Ari Folman and Ori Sivan based on the novel The Ideas of Saint Clara by Pavel Kohout.
1996: Publication of The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0815627122/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
1997: “Titanic” co-produced by Jon Landau was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom, Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller; Translated by Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber, Principles For A Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the Common Goodby Richard A. Epstein and Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen
2000: FOX broadcast the first episode of Season 12 of the Simpsons a cartoon sitcom developed by James Brooks and Sam Simon with them music composed by Danny Elfman.
2000(3rd of Cheshvan, 5761): Lt. David-Hen Cohen, 21, of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina, 20, of Kibbutz Ze'elim were killed in a shooting incident in the Al-Hader area, near Bethlehem.
2000(3rd of Cheshvan, 5761): Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, 34, of Jerusalem was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley while on active reserve duty
2001: Jamil Jadallah, a member of Hamas, the terrorist organization, was killed today “with a missile fired from an Israeli helicopter.
2001 “In a speech to the World Jewish Congress meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Sharon “said again today that he wanted peace” but added that for him “peace should peace for generations and it should be peace that will provide the Jewish people with security.”
2002: “The Santa Clause 2” a comedy that is part of the Santa Clause Trilogy directed by Michael Lembeck and filmed by Israeli cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released today in the United States.
2004: Before returning from injury, Matt Bloom was released from his WWE contract
2004(17thof Cheshvan, 5765): Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv, Shmuel Levy, 65, of Jaffa and Leah Levine, 64, of Givatayim were murdered and more than 30 people were injured when a 16 year old PFLP terrorist detonated a bomb this morning “at the Carmel Market located at the heart of Tel Aviv's business district.”
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-11-01-tel-aviv-blast_x.htm
2005: The U.S. Senate enters a rare closed session to discuss the Plame affair and intelligence in the Iraq disarmament crisis. The Plame in the Plame Affair is Valerie Plame an American
2005: In a resolution co-sponsored by 104 Member States, the General Assembly today designated 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day, drawing immediate praise from Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said the United Nations would do its part to keep the memory alive in a bid to prevent future acts of genocide.
2006 Yuli Tamire replaces Ophir Pines Paz as Science and Technology Minister
2006: Former Conservative Party MP Nigel “Lawson's lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, published today] criticizes the Stern Review and proposed what is described as a rational approach, advocating adaptation to changes in global climate, rather than attempting mitigation, i.e., reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
2006: At the United Nations Building in New York, Haaretz.comsenior editor Bradley Burston received an Eliav -Sartawi Award for Middle East Journalism, an annual prize for Arab, Israeli and international journalists.
2007: In Washington, D.C., Architect Allan Greenberg presents a lecture, "American Architecture and the Legacy of the Revolution," drawn from his book Architecture of Democracy (his illustrated musing on the link between America's political ideals and architectural traditions), at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
2007: An exhibition opens at Yad Vashem designed to showcase Muslims who saved Jews from Nazis during the Holocaust.
2007:Aaron Kintu Moses, director of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, visited Agudas Achim in Iowa City, IA. The Abayudaya is a group of native Ugandans who have been practicing Judaism since 1919 when their local leader studied the Hebrew Bible and adopted the observances of all of Moses’ commandments including circumcision.
2007: “Sub on Wheels”, the first glatt-kosher food truck which provides a variety of items including hamburger, hot dogs and a variety of other fleshig sandwiches offers its Williamsburg customers a unique item for Thursday – Cholent which can be set aside and served for Shabbat.
2007: The Ant-Defamation League released recent survey results which it says show 15 percent of American adults hold “unquestionably anti-Semitic” views.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Temple Judah offers a Saturday Double Header:
· In the Morning, Balfour Shabbat Shacharit Services
· In the Evening, Dinner, a Havdalah Service and Musical Concert with Doug Cotler
2009: Opening of the 31st Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival which claims to be the largest Jewish book festival in the United States.
2009: Elisa New discusses and signs her new memoir, "Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore," at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
2009: After only 9 performances, Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” closed today.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics special interest to Jewish readers including Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller, Look At the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut and Enemies of the People My Family’s Journey to America by Kati Marton
2009: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics special interest to Jewish readers including The Humbling by Phillip Roth.
2009(14thof Cheshvan, 5770): Seventy-nine year old author and survivor of life in Siberia Esther Hautzig passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/books/03hautzig.html
2009: “Lionel Perez was elected in the Darlington district of the Côte des Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in today’s election as a member of Mayor Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montréal team, taking the seat held by Saulie Zajdel.”
2009: Seventy-five year old George Hirsch, the founding published of New York Magazine and the man who helped Fred Lewbow plan the first five boorugh NYC Marathon in 1976 is scheduled to be at the starting line of the NYC Marathon today when the runners set off from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
2009: “A rare rift in George and Ira Gershwin's harmony” published today
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-gershwin1-2009nov01-story.html#page=1
2010: Beginning today, Tel Aviv born historian Israel Bartel, “one of the founders of the Cathedra,” began serving as a visiting scholar at the Simon Dubnow Institute.”
https://www.amazon.com/History-Jerusalem-Ottoman-Period-Hebrew/dp/9652173045
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim and Adam and Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund
2010: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Maros Borský who launched the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route. A network linking 24 prominent Jewish heritage sites around Slovakia, it includes synagogue buildings, branches of the Museum of Jewish Culture, and three historic Jewish cemeteries.
2010: “Polish wartime hero accused of being Nazi collaborator” published today
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/01/wladyslaw-szpilman-pianist-collaboration-claims
2010: In the Netherlands, Onno Hoes began serving as Mayor of Maastricht.
2010: Holocaust Education Week begins
http://www.holocausteducationweek.com/
2010: Beate Auguste Künzel Klarsfeldvisited the Shoah Memorial Mural installed inside the Evangelische Vaterunser Kirche in Berlin. Her host was Pastor Annemarie Werner, the head of the congregation.
2010: The Atlantic Monthly cited Diane Ravitch as a “Brave Thinker” for her changing views on the types of educational reform needed in the United States.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/diane-ravitch/8260/
2011: Today marks the return of Marc Chagall's America Windows to the Art Institute of Chicago. The popular exhibit underwent conservation and research treatment the past five years. The stained- glass windows commemorate the American Bicentennial and first debuted at the Art Institute in 1977. They also appeared in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off.: The windows are now the centerpiece for a presentation of public art in the Rubloff Auditorium.
2011: In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of first broadcast of Pee-wee’s Playhouse starring Paul Ruebens,, a book by Caseen Gaines called Inside “Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon,” is scheduled to be released by ECW Press
2011:The 31st Annual Holocaust Education Week begins
http://holocaustcentre.com/Programs/Holocaust-Education-Week-2011
2011:Professor Avner Cohen, author of “The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb,” and journalist Ron Rosenbaum, author of “How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III,” are scheduled to sit down with distinguished journalist and former network correspondent Marvin Kalb to discuss the history and risks of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity and worst-case-scenarios in an age of atomic anxiety at the Jewish Literary Festival in Washington, D.C.
2011:Judge Richard Goldstone, who led the UN investigative commission into Israel and Hamas’ conduct during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, defended Israel against charges of being an “apartheid state” in a New York Times op-ed published today
2011: Publication of The House of Silk, “a Sherlock Holmes novel written by Anthony Horowtiz.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/27/house-silk-anthony-horowitz-sherlock-holmes
2011:Israel delayed a military operation in the Gaza Strip to stem Palestinian rocket fire due to an Egyptian request to give an additional 24 hours to cease-fire efforts, The Jerusalem Post learned today.
2012: In Minneapolis, MN, The Sabes Jewish Community Center is scheduled to present “To the Ladies of the Cool,” a concert featuring Kathy Kosins.
2012: Unless disrupted by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the 7th Annual JCCNV Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to open in Fairfax. VA
2012: Despite the advent of Hurricane Sandy, Andras Schiff is still scheduled to perform Book 2 of “Well-Tempered Clavier” at the 92nd Street Y.
2012: “The Act of Killing an award winning documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer was released today in Indonesia.
2012: Indonesian premier of “The Act of Killing” directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
2012: The 16th UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2012: Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is charged in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case.
2012: Cartoons in major newspapers across the Arab world are portraying President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney as being in the pocket of Jews and Israel, the Anti-Defamation League said today
2012: Israel’s political arena was rife with rumors today that retiring Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon, arguably the most popular minister in the outgoing government, is considering launching a breakaway party to rival his own Likud, possibly because of disagreements with the prime minister.
2013: The ceremony dedicating the South Campus of the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital Kay and Robert Schattner Center is scheduled to take place this morning in Washington, DC.
2013: In Rockville, MD, Congregation Tikvat Israel is scheduled to host the opening session of “Chocolate & Jewish Values: A Fair Trade Experience.
2013: Chassida Shmella - Ethiopian Jewish Community Inc.is scheduled to host a Shabbat Dinner and Sigd Celebration this evening in New York City.
2013: In Iowa City, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of eastern Uganda is scheduled to present the unusual musical synthesis vital to the spiritual practice of this century old native African community
2013: Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of eastern Uganda is scheduled to lead a Kabbalat Shabbat service in Iowa City.
2013: One soldier was seriously wounded and another was in moderate condition today after an IDF operation last night to destroy part of a tunnel, east of Khan Younis just inside the Gaza Strip, was targeted by Hamas.(As reported by Yoel Goldman and Ricky Ben-David)
2013: Based on reports broadcast by Channel 2 and Channel 10 in Israel “Israel is fuming with the White House” for its announcement that the IAF “had struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia…hitting weaponry that was set to be transferred to Hezbollah.”
2014: Pierre Moscovici is scheduled to begin serving as European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
2014: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a piano recital by Tatyana Rubina.
2014: PuppetCinema with Zvi Sahar is scheduled to perform for the last time.
2014: In Oregon, “Portland Jewish Book Month” is scheduled to begin.
2014: “The Last Mensch” is scheduled to be shown in Sydney at Jewish International Film Festiva.
2014: “My German Friend” is scheduled to be shown at the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festvial.
2014(8thof Cheshvan, 5775) Lech Lecha
2014(8th of Cheshvan, 5775): Migdal Tzedek native and Haaretz reporter Shabati Teveth and author whose works included a biography of David Ben-Gurion passed away today
https://www.haaretz.com/shabtai-teveth-ben-gurion-s-biographer-dies-1.5323941
2014: Ronald lauder, the head of the World Jewish Congress “warned a Swiss museum against accepting a priceless set of art works including Nazi-looted paintings from the estate of Cornelius Gurlit.
2014: “Speaking at the 19th annual Rabin memorial rally tonight, former president Shimon Peres issued scathing criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the peace process with the Palestinians and of his government’s approach to the conflict.
2015: The New York Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors including The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
2015: The Foundation for Jewish Studies is scheduled to co-sponsor a walking tour of Jewish Old Town Alexandria which will trace the history of that Jewish community across the Potomac from Washington, DC from the 1850’s to the 21stcentury.
2015: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center hosted “Testimony and Tikkun Olam” as part of The Movement to End Gender-Related Violence.
2015: “Once in a Lifetime” is scheduled to be shown on the final night of the Jewish Arts & Film Festival of Fairfield County, CT.
2015: Trio Sefardi - Susan Gaeta, Tina Chancey, and Howard Bass – a group founded to share Sephardic music is scheduled to perform at the JCCNV
2015: At the Center for Jewish History Jeremy Dauber, Ken Frieden, Martin Peretz, and Michael Steinlauf are scheduled to discuss Y.L. Peretz’s contributions on the 100th anniversary of his death.
2015: E. Randol Schoenberg is among those scheduled to be honored at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust 2015 Gala Dinner.
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/3vcquDbMX8t0BV
2015: The JDC Archives and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host a program designed to help researches use the JDC Archives Names Database.
2015: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a talk by Deb Mrowka who will recount the experiences of her mother during the Holocaust.
2016: The Skirball Center is scheduled to present an evening with Bill Kristol as part of the two-day “Ask the Press” program.
2016: “Three Balconies and a Door” an exhibition featuring the work of Michal Nachmany is scheduled to close at the Manny Cantor Center.
2016: Nearly 14 million dollars was by the American Friends of Magen David Adom at the Red Star Ball in Los Angeles with “some five million dollars of the total coming from a single donor, Maurice Kanbar, creator of Skyy Vodka.” (As reported by Marcy Oster)
2016: In Cleveland, the Cubs led by President Theo Epstein are scheduled to take on the Cleveland Indians led by General Manager Mike Chernoff in the sixth game of the World Series.
2016(30th of Tishrei, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2016(30th of Tishrei, 5777): Eighty-nine year old Pulitzer Prize winning publisher Stanford Lipsey passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts.)
2017: Today, “Politico reported that David Corn's employer, Mother Jones magazine, had opened an investigation into allegations that Corn had engaged in inappropriate workplace behavior”
2017: Meir (Miro) Gal and Ortal Ben Dayan are scheulded to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Meir Gal’s widely acclaimed “9 Out of 400: the West and the Rest” at the Kovno Room of the Center for Jewish History.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to cost an “Interfaith Formal” at Trinity College.
2017: In New Orleans, the Jewish Federation is scheduled to present the Steeg-Grinspoon award to the educator of the year.
2017: “The School of Humanities and Languages, University of NSW, the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney and the Sydney Jewish Museum are scheduled to host “Why the Holocaust? Teaching the Next Generation.”
2017: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to London” this evening “to take part in centennial celebrations of the Balfour Declaration and to hold talks with Prime Minister Theresa May…” (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2018: “Google Walkout: Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment” published today described life in the high tech world during the Me Too Movement era.
2018: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Pittsburgh 65 year old Richard Gottfried, 86 year old Sylvan Simon and his 84 year old wife Bernice Simon.
2018: Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at part of the 15th Annual Holocaust Education Week.
2018: AJHS and HIAS are scheduled to host a “Book Talk” with Gary Shteyngart, author of the new novel Lake Success.
2018: In the wake of the Pittsburgh Massacre, the University of Iowa is scheduled to host a panel discussion on anti-Semitism withRabbi Esther Hugenholtz, Professor Robert Cargill, and Professor Elizabeth Heineman.
2018: In Los Angeles, Yiddishkayt is scheduled to host an evening with host Lithuanian author and journalist Rūta Vanagaitė to speak about her controversial best-seller Mūsiškiai (Our People: Journey with an Enemy), co-authored with world-famous Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
2018: The “12th Annual Other Israel Film Festival” is scheduled to open at the JCC Manhattan.
2018: In Chicago, Professor Lauren Stokes is scheduled to lecture on The Rise of Homosexual Persecution in Nazi Germany” at an event sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2019: In Palo Alto, The Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Pop-Up Shabbat: Ukrainian” featuring “Chef Anna Voloshyna’s dinner that will include hot veggie borscht, pampushki (garlic buns) and blinis filled with homemade cottage cheese and raisins.”
2019: After having premiered at Telluride in August, “Motherless Brooklyn” based on the Jonathan Lethem novel and co-produced by Gig Pritzker is scheduled to be released today.
2019: In a uniquely American culture mix, at Agudas Achim Kathy Jacobs is scheduled to host the Oneg Shabbat “in honor of Richard Jacobs’ Halloween Birthday.”
2019: In Berkley, CA, Urban Adamah and Wilderness Torah are scheduled to host a vegetarian potluck with music, dancing, poetry, meditation and Kabbalat Shabbat service.
2019: The 10th Annual Sigid Celebration presented by The American Sephardi Federation and Chassida Shmella Ethiopian Israeli-Jewish Community is scheduled to begin this evening.
2019: The Jewish International Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “From Cairo to the Cloud, The World of the Cairo Geniza” in Melbourne.
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum, Old Dominion University’s Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding, United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula, and Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA. are scheduled to co-sponsor “Virtual Sneak Peek & Film Discussion: The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna,” a program presented by the Vilna Shul.
2020: The 2020 Jewish Book Festival sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys is scheduled to open “virtually” this evening
2020: The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present via Zoom the first part of “Psalmody Through the Ages: Music and the Book of Psalms.”
2020: In Australia, SHALOM is scheduled to present “Sunday Session at Adamama.”
2020: The Jewish Baby Network is scheduled to present puppeteer-song leader Mimi Greisman in an event for families that includes music, dancing, bubbles, stories and puppets
2020: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Invisible Life of Addie Laure by V.E. Schwab and Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn.