December 9
1437: Sigismund of Luxemburg, who “drained the Jews of their wealth whenever he could, he protected them from some of the worst excesses,” passed away today. (History of the Jewish People)
1491: Following the burning at the stake of six conversos and two Jews in conclusion of an inquisition that was part of the blood libel that gave rise to the “Holy Child of La Guardia,” the Jews of Avila were granted “a document of protection” which they had requested.
1565: Pope Pius IV who issued a bull that improved the conditions of the Jews passed away today. It allowed them to stop wearing their yellow cap, buy land up to the value of 1,500 ducats and to trade in things other than old clothes. While they could speak with Christians, they could not have Christian servants. He also allowed the Jews to publish the Talmud as long as they did not use that word in the publication.
1657 (Kislev 5418): Manasseh ben Israel passed away. Manasseh ben Israel was born in 1604 in Holland, A Marrano at birth; he became an outstanding man of letters. He was mystically inclined and believed that Jews should dwell in every country before the Messiah could come. It is from this platform that he approached the religiously-minded Cromwell with a petition for the resettlement of Jews in England. He was assisted by Antonio Carvajal, the first "denizenized" (foreigner granted residence and some other rights) Jew in England under Charles I. Although Manasseh was later offered a job in Brazil, he remained in Amsterdam. Cromwell eventually had his way despite the fact that England and the Dutch states were at odds, and in spite of the opposition of English clergy and merchants.
1641: Forty-two year old Sir Anthony van Dyck, who painted “The Portrait of Adriaen Moens” which had been returned to “Marei von Saher, the sole heir of Jacques Goudstikker, a Dutch dealer who fled the Nazis in 1940” passed away today.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dr-oetker-restitutes-van-dyck-831605
1612: One day after he had passed away, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, the native of Prostejov who was sent to Venice by his father to learn the printing trade passed away today after retiring from his crdaft.
1666(12thof Kislev,5427): Three months after Shabbati Z’vi cast off his Jewish garb and converted to Islam, the Rabbinical Council of Constantinople acted to stamp our this heresy that threatened their peaceful place in the Ottoman Empire by excommunicating Nathan of Gaza, one of his foremost "prophets
1669: Pope Clement IX passed away. The year before his death, the Pope modified the custom of having the Jews run through the streets of Rome as part of the carnival festivities by allowing them to pay heavy fines to avoid the race. This ended two hundred years of humiliation that had been introduced by Pope Paul II in the 15th century.
1677: Birthdate of William Whiston “an English theologian and historian” who “is now probably best known for his translation of the Antiquities of the Jewsand other works by Josephus.
http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/
1712(Kislev, 5473): Simon Moses Ben Israel, the Dutch rabbinical scholar who was the father of Moses Frankfurter the Dutch printer who lived from 1672 to 1762, passed away today.
1738: The Jews were expelled from Breslau Silesia.
1765(26thof Kislev, 5526): Second Day of Chanukah observed as the American colonists protest against the Stamp Act.
1773(24thof Kislev, 5534): Kindle for the first Chanukah Candle
1779(30th of Kislev, 5540): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Sixth Day of Chanukah
1783: After the British were driven from New York and General George Washington entered the city late in 1783, exiled New Yorkers including the Jewish exiles began to return home. Today Myer Myers joined two other leaders of Shearith Israel as a delegation that was to convey the loyal greetings of the Jewish community of New York to Governor Clinton.
1784(26thof Kislev, 5545): Second Day of Chanukah
1792(24thof Kislev, 5553): Kindle the first Chanukah Candle
1792: Birthdate of Max-Théodore Cerfberr, the native of Nancy who may have been one of the first Jewish career officers in the French Army and who also served as “president of the Consistoire Central Israelite de France.”
1793: In Germany, Fromet and Nathan Baldauf gave birth to Leopold Loeb Baldauf, the husband of Ella Kahn and the father of Henry, Morris, Regina and Nathan Baldauf.
1795(27thof Kislev, 5556): Third Day of Chanukah observed for the first time during the Directorate wjem a five member governed France.
1797: In Philadelphia, PA, Rebecca Lyons and John Moss gave birth to Sarah Moss, the wife of Isaac Phillips and the mother of Barnet Phillips.
1798(1stof Tevet, 5559): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Seventh Day of Chanukah
1799: Birthdate of Baden, Germany native Heinrich Moses Moos, the husband of Fanny Mayer and the father of Jeannette Moos.
1804” A Ukase (Czarist proclamation) issued today “allowed Jews for the time to purchase land in Russia for farming settlements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_agricultural_colonies_in_the_Russian_Empire
1807: In Charleston, SC, “David Lopez and the former Priscilla Moses” gave birth to Priscilla Lopez who became Priscilla Lopez Moïse when she married Dr. Edwin Warren Moïse in 1835 and then moved to Woodville, Mississippi where he practiced medicine and she gave birth to three children – Cecilia, Sallie and Theodore.
1809(2ndof Tevet, 5570): Parsashat Miketz; Seventh Day of Chanukah
1809: Birthdate of Jules Isaac Mires, the son of Sephardic watchmaker from Bordeaux who became a successful banker, Managing Director of the Gas Company of Aries and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor by Napoleon III in 1860.
1813: Birthdate of John Addison Gurley the Congressman from Cincinnati, Ohio who arranged for Cesar Kaskel to meet with President Lincoln so that Jewish Kentuckian could protest the issuance of General Order 11.
1818: In Montego Bay, Jamaica, Isaac Simon and his wife gave birth to Sir John Simon, the English barrister and member of the Liberal Party.
1818: Alfred Phillips married Rebecca Moses Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1819: In Frankfurt am Main Malchen and David Philipp (Feist) Schloss gave birth to Sophie Schloss
1821: In Bavaria, Ella and Wolf Goldmann, “a former schoolteacher and cattle dealer” gave birth to Marcus Goldman, the German-born American businessman and entrepreneur who immigrated to the United States in 1848 and was the founder of Goldman Sachs, which became one of the world's largest global investment banks.
1822(25thof Kislev, 5583): Chanukah
1825(29thof Kislev, 5586): Fifth Day of Chanukah
1831: Birthdate of Maurice de Hirsch who would gain fame as Baron Hirsch one of the greatest philanthropists of his time.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Baronhirsch.html
1833: Jacob ben Naphtali HaCohen married Beila bat Judah at the Western Synagogue today.
1835: In Gedern, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, Lob and Bina Oppenheimer gave birth to David Oppenheimer.
1840: Twenty-five year old haberdasher Michael Cashmore, “the first Jewish settler in Melbourne” and business partner of Samuel Emmanuel,married Elizabeth “Betsy” Solomon before board the PS Clonmel which would sink, causing him considerable business losses.
1840: David Benjamin married Esther Solomon in Hobart, Australia today.
1843: Birthdate of Corporal Isaac Gause who won the Medal of Honor during the U.S. Civil War.
1847: In Natchitoches, LA, Samuel Myers Hymas donated the land for the cemetery “to the Society of Israelites.”
1855(29thof Kislev, 5616) Fifth Day of Chanukah
1856: In “Temesvár (then Hungary, now Timisoara in Romania) Rosalia Engel Katscher and Ignaz Katscher, who had married in 1852 in Makó, Hungary gave birth to Bertha Katscher (or Berta Kácser) the sister of “Leopold Katscher, noted pacifist, lawyer and journalist, and Helen Kohlbach.”
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17921
1857(22ndof Kislev, 5618): Seventy-eight year old Jacob de Samuel Baïz y Frois, the Bayonne, France born son of Samuel Baiz and Hanna Frois and the husband of Leah Oliveira Isidro passed away today in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
1858: Three days after she had passed away, Charlotte Styer nee Levy, the wife of Abraham Styer and mother of Mathew Styer was buried today at the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1860(25th of Kislev, 5621): First Day of Chanukah observed as leaders in South Carolina, who were displeased with the outcome of the Presidential election prepare their ordinance of secession.
1861: Rabbi Arnold Fischel arrived in Philadelphia and met with Jewish leaders working to make it possible for Jews to serve as chaplains with the Union Army. Fischel was on his way from New York to Washington, D.C.
1861: Philadelphia native Myer Asch was promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant of Company H, First Cavalry, New Jersey Volunteers.
1861: Today’s edition of the Louisville-Nashville Courier gave the following details concerning the burning of a bridge at Whippoorwill on the Memphis Branch Railroad. A detachment of fifty or sixty federal soldiers “under the under command of a Dutch Jew peddler named Netter” fired “a volley of over one hundred rounds from Sharp’s revolving rifles” at the Confederates who guarding the bridge. Two were killed and the rest surrendered. The Federals then burn the railroad bridge. “Netter” was probably Gabriel Netter, a French-born Jew living in Kentucky who within a year would rise to the rank of Lt. Colonel before being killed in fighting near Owensboro.
1864: Louis Rosenberg, who would rise to the rank of Corporal, began serving with Company K of the 82nd Regiment.
1868(25thof Kislev, 5629): Chanukah is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson.
1868: Birthdate of German-born Chemist Fritz Haber who synthesized ammonia and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918.
1868: Austen Henry Layard, the archeologist who excavated Nimrud and Niniveh as described in Discoveries at Nineveh began serving as the First Commissioner of Works during the reign of Queen Victoria.
1869: In London, Mordecai Abrahams, secretary to the Initiation Society and his wife gave birth to economist and civil servant Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams, the husband of Lucy Joseph and the father of Arthur Charles Lionel Abrahams.
1870: The Society of Biblical Archaeology was founded in London "for the investigation of the archaeology, history, arts, and chronology of ancient and modern...biblical lands...."
1872: Birthdate of Edward Lazansky the native of Brooklyn who “was a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1917 to 1926, and a Justice of the Appellate Division from 1926 to 1943” and who “was a founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital.”
1874: In Chicago, Isaac and Hannah (Bachrach Weil gave birth to University of Minnesota trained attorney Jonas Weil and husband of Caroline Weil who was president of Temple Israel in Minneapolis, Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Family Welfare Association of Minneapolis and a member of the board of directors of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis.
1875: Birthdate of Louisville native and architect Samuel Edward Gideon who studied “architecture at M.I.T. and Harvard, as well as a degree from the School of Fine Arts (Fontainebleau, France)” after which he taught at Texas A&M and M.I.T. before becoming a professor at the University of Texas in 1913.
1875: Today’s session of the Hebrew Charity Fair raised over $7,000 for the benefit of Mount Sinai Hospital.
1878: In Falmouth, Jamaica, “two parents were of Afro-Jewish descent” gave birth to journalist and author Herman George de Lisser who wrote for the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, of which his father was editor, as a proofreader” and who “was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours.”
1878: A fair for the benefit of Shaare Rachmim is scheduled to open tonight at Tammany Hall.
1878: Joseph Pulitzer bought the St Louis Dispatch for $2,500.
1879(24th of Kislev): In the evening the first light of Chanukah was kindled.
1879: It was reported today in New Jersey, that Chancellor Runyon has decided not to grant Rachel Blumenthal, young Jewess from Canada, a divorce from Moses Tannenholz an older Jew living in New Jersey. In 1875, when she was only 17 she participated in what she thought was a betrothal ceremony with Tannenholz Much to her amazement she discovered that the ceremony was a marriage ceremony. According to testimony offered during the divorce hearing, Blumenthal’s parents had declined Tannenholz’s offers to end the marriage for a cash payment. The Chancellor sensed that Tannenholz had been perpetrating a fraud in the matter of the marriage. But he declined to grant the divorce because Miss Blumenthal was a minor when she moved to New Jersey from Canada so that she could establish residence (a requirement for filing for divorce) and since she was a minor she could not file for divorce under New Jersey state law
1880(7thof Tevet, 5641) Seventy-three year old Isabella Cowen, the daughter of Isaac Tobias, the daughter-in-law of Rachel Aarons and Joseph Tobias and the mother of six children – Augustus, Brginius, Colleton, Sara, Marion and Sophie – passed away today.
1881: It was reported today that at least one Russian newspaper has taken issue with President Chester A. Arthur’s criticism of the Czarist Empire’s treatment of its Jewish citizens.
1881: Samuel Shrimski began serving as a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Oamaru.
1882: It was reported today that the Hebrew Free School Associations is planning on holding its annual meeting this month.
1882: Some Jewish businessmen who had obtained a temporary injunction were able to keep their stores open today. The Jews, who observe the Sabbath on Saturday, have taken the matter to court.
1883: In Eichstetten, Leopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Jeanette Bloch and his second wife Klara Bloch gave birth to Leonie Bloch
1883: R. Heber Newton delivered a lecture on “The Book of Genesis” during when he said the book “purported to be a Jewish work, giving the traditions of Jewish antecedents in prehistoric times…”
1885(1stof Tevet, 5646): Rosh Chodesh Tevet
1885: Thirty thousand people, including the adjutant of the Crown Prince who been sent as a representative of the royal family attended the funeral of Herr Strassmann, the President of the Berlin Municipal Council
1886: Birthdate of Irma Levy, the daughter of a New York assimilated anti-Zionist German Jewish family who gained fame as Irma Lindheim, a member of Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek. (As reported by Jewish Women’s Archives)
1888: In Bialystok, Mordecai Perlman “a Jewish merchant who supplied yarn and thread to home weavers and was a friend of Maxim Litvinov's father” and his wife gave birth labor economist Selig Perlman who taught at the University of Wisconsin for over four decades and was also “a visiting Professor at the” highly prestigious Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
1888:”Old New York Churches” published today featured a history of the houses of worship on Manhattan’s Norfolk Street including one building on the corner of Broome Street that housed a Baptist Church, followed by a Methodist church and is currently being used as a synagogue and another one on Stanton Street that had been a Presbyterian Church but is now a synagogue.
1888: In Brooklyn, a caucus of Republicans met today and decided that Ernst Nathan, a Twenty-third Ward politician must be stopped “at all cost” from gaining any power in their party.
1889: The Hebrew Education Fair opened this evening at the American Institute Building. This two long fund raiser officially began at 8:45 this evening when Eben’s Band began playing the grand march as New York City Mayor Grant and A.W. Lilienthal took their places on the stage.
1889: In Chicago, President Benjamin Harrison dedicated the Auditorium Building which had been designed the architect Dankmar Adler.
1891: In what may have been one of the most important events in this year’s social season for the Jewish community in New Orleans, at Temple Sinai, Rabbi Max Heller officiated at the marriage of Cincinnati native Julia Seeman, the daughter of George and Caroline (Carrie) Goodhart Seeman, to Felix J. Dreyfous which was attended by Isidore Schooler, Harry Hyman, Leon J. Schwartz, Henry Friedman, Leon Kaufman, Charles Godchaux, Morriss Levy, E.I. Johns, the bride’s sister, Mary Seeman and the groom’s sister Blanch Dreyfous
1891: In London, Polish Jewish immigrants, Louis Gertler and Kate "Golda" Berenbaum gave birth to British painter Mark Gertler.
1891: In the wake of the passage of the May Laws and increased persecution of the Jews of Russia during a speech delivered to Congress today, President Benjamin Harrison said: This government had found occasion to express in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the government of the tsar its serious concern because of harsh measures being enforced against the Hebrews."
1891(8thof Kislev, 5652): Sixty-nine year old Russian physician Leon Pinsker, an early Zionist and the author of “Auto-Emancipation” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/pinsker.html
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_leon_pinsker.htm
1892: One day after she had passed away, 70 year old Hannah Levy, “the widow of the late Moses Levy” with whom she had had six children was buried today in the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1892: Reports published today describe the spread of anti-Semitism among Germany’s political parties as can be seen by “a violent anti-Jewish article” in “the Catholic organ Germania” that the parties “desirous of annulling the emancipation of the Jews are growing daily.”
1892: Reports published today describe efforts to “invalidate Hermann Ahlwardt’s election to the Reichstag on grounds of corruptions and intimidation of opponents” including the beating of a member of the Radicals who is “suspected of being a Jew.”
1893(30thof Kislev, 5654): Parashat Miketz; Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Sixth Day of Chanukah
1893: Birthdate of Chicago native and Tufts Medical School graduate Dr. Benjamin, the ophthalmologist and member of the faculty of Tufts and Harvard who was the husband of Bessie Cushing Sachs and father of Baruch J. Sachs and Tikvah Sachs Portnoi.
1894: “Finances and Russian Alliance” published today described changes in British policy toward the new Czar’s government including the arrangement of loans by London’s financiers along with the expectation of “decent treatment of the Jews.
1894: As the former Belle Glazier and her new husband Jacob S. Bernheimer left on their wedding trip the bride’s father gave a dinner for the children of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1895: N.S. Rosenau of the United Hebrew Charities was among those who attended today’s conference where ways were discussed “promote prosperity among the farmers” during the current agricultural depression.
1895: “The great Hebrew fair…one of the most extensive enterprises” that the Jews of New York have undertaken is scheduled to open tonight at Madison Square Garden. This fundraiser which has booths sponsored by every Jewish congregation and organization in the city is expected to raise $250,000 for Educational Alliance and the Hebrew Technical Alliance.
1895: “When the doors of the Madison Square Garden opened this evening for the great Hebrew fair the visitors saw much that in splendor will rival what has been depicted by the authors of ‘The Arabian Nights’ and like fiction, in which spectacular wonders abound.”
1895: Birthdate of Vivian de Sola Pinto the British poet and literary critic who was a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon with whom he served in WW I and who became one of the great authorities on D.H. Lawrence.
1897: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Edwin Israel “Hughie” Black, the first capital of the Philadelphia Sphas basketball team.
http://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/hughie-black/
1897: One day after she had passed away, 75 year old Rachel Fishman was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1897: Birthdate of Hermione Gingold. Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, she was the daughter of a high-class Austrian-born Jewish financier. The British actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove. She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. Gingold passed away in 1997.
1897: Two days after she had passed away, 22 year old Leah Lipman, the daughter of John and Rose Lipman was buried at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.
1898(25thof Kislev, 5659): First Day of Chanukay
1898: The Jewish Messengerreported Meyer Dannenberg a member of Or Chaim in New York City passed away. He "...was an Israelite of the olden school...he was truly pious and he leaves to his descendants and friends the priceless legacy of a good name."
1899: “The Children of the Ghetto” is scheduled to open at the Adelphi Theatre in London.
1900: Birthdate of New York City native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY Albert Weisbord who joined with his wife Vera to becoming Communist activists.
1901(28thof Kislev, 5662): Fourth Day of Chanukah
1901: In the Bronx, Moritz and Fannie Kahn gave birth to Irene Kahn who became Irene Jonas when she married Dr. Joseph Quincy Jonas.
1902: When Oscar Straus escorted ex-President Grover Cleveland into the meeting of the National Civic Federation, the attendees erupted with a round of applause.
1903: It was reported today that the divorce of Solomon Cohen, the managing director of Cohen and Co. Ltd, of Cootamundra and Stockinbingal and Mabel Lillian Cohen has been finalized.
1904(1stof Tevet, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Seventh Day of Chanukah
1904: In Richmond, VA, members of Congregation Beth Ahavah (House of Love) dedicated their new home what is popularly known as the Franklin Street Synagogue, probably because it is located on West Franklin Street. The congregation is one of the oldest in the United States tracing its origins back to 1789. The building which is still in use is on the National Historic Registry.
1904: Birthdate of University of Cincinnati alum and drama critic Louis Kronenberg who worked at the New York Times and Time magazine before become a professor at Brandeis.
1905: “Salome” an opera based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé which was dedicated to Sir Edgar Speyer “was first performed at the Hofoper in Dresden.”
1905: The French law on the Separation of the Churches and State (Loi du 9 décembre 1905 concernant la séparation des Églises et de l'État) was passed by the Chamber of Deputies today. From now on, the functionaries of all religions in France - Catholic, Protestant and Jewish - ceased to receive state funding and no longer conducted their affairs under state supervision. France had become a secular nation thanks to the backlash from the Dreyfus Affair.
1905: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that in New Jersey, “the Camden Hebrew Relief Fund has reached $694.38. (Ed. Note – the money was being raised for the victims of the Pogroms that had taken place in Russia earlier in the year.)
1905: Birthdate of New York native Leo S. Palitz the CCNY basketball player and physician who was married to “Lillian Nassau, the doyenne of New York antique dealers”
1905: It was reported today that at a time when the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the Jews in what is now the United States is being celebrated, “the account given in the Jewish Encyclopedia, the twelfth and last volume of which is about to be published by Funk & Wagnalls” makes for interesting reading.
1906: “Zionism,” “an argument against the ambition for separate national existence, a plea for devotion to the idea of common humanity” by Count Leo Tolstoy was published today.
1906: “Peculiar Trade That Dates from the Days of Moses” published today described the origins of Kosher slaughtering which has its origins in the Torah.
1906: It was reported today that “there are nearly 4,000 kosher butchers in New York” which “is bought exclusively by at least 75 per cent of” New York City’s “Hebrew population.”
1906: It was reported today Switzerland is the only country in which cattle are not slaughtered in the kosher manner because “the government has forbidden the killing of cattle with a knife on the theory that the latter is an inhuman instructed and that by employing it the Hebrew shochat is guilty of cruelty to animals.”
1907: Birthdate of Philadelphia native, Jules Cohen, the attorney who was President of the Association of Jewish Community Relations Workers and a member of The Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia which was founded in 1939
1908: Three days after she had passed away, “Louisa Sophia Goldsmid,” the widow of “Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid and the daughter of Eliza Solomon and Moses Ashe Goldsmid, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1909(26thof Kislev, 5670): Second Day of Chanukah
1909: In New York City, Philip and Bessie Borwick Halprin gave birth to Portsmouth, NH grocery store owner Harry Halprin the husband of Betty Weiner whom he married 1934 and the father of Arthur Halprin.
1909: Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Chicago trained Social Worker Harry Barron
1910: Congressman-elect Jefferson M. Levy, the nephew of Uriah P. Levy, was reported today to have joined publisher William Randolph Hearst and Admiral Dewey in resigning “from the American Boy Scout organization” because they “did not approve of the (organization’s) management” and they “think a great deal of the funds have been raised through false representation and in other manner” of which they heartily disapprove.
1910: Birthdate of Troy, NY native and Cornell undergrad Harold I. Saperstein, the Jewish Institute trained rabbi and spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook, NY for “nearly half a century” while raising to sons – Rabbis March and David Saperstein – with his wife Marcia.
1911(18th of Kislev, 5672): Rabbi Haim Covo of Salonica passed away at age the age of 68.
1912(29thof Kislev, 5673): Fifth Day of Chanukah
1912: Max Schulman is scheduled to address adult attendees at Chanukah celebration hosted by the Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1912: Funeral services are scheduled to held at noon today at the Waldheim Cemetery for seventy year old Augusta (Meyers) Sultain, the wife of Bernet Sultan with whom she had six children.
1913(10th of Kislev, 5674): Seventy-four year old “French pianist and composer” Élie-Miriam Delaborde who was reputed “to be the illegitimate son of the composer and pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan” the Franco-Jewish “composer and pianist” passed away today.
1914: Birthdate of Samuel Katz, who was a close adviser to Menachem Begin, Israel’s prime minister in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but who later became a vociferous opponent of Begin’s peace efforts with Egypt and the Palestinians. The son of Alexander and Luba Katz, Katz was born in Johannesburg and moved to Palestine in 1936 He changed his first name to Shmuel and soon joined the Irgun. For several years, he was secretary to Ze’ev Jabotinsky, one of the founders of the Irgun. Mr. Katz and Menachem Begin became comrades in arms in the 1940s when both rose to leadership positions in the Irgun, the right-wing underground militia that battled the British Mandatory government of Palestine and later Arab forces in Israel’s 1948 war for independence. In June 1948, Mr. Katz helped organize the voyage of the cargo ship Altalena, which was carrying weapons and Irgun fighters to Israel when it was sunk off Tel Aviv by the newly formed Israel Defense Forces. In May 1977, Begin, the longtime leader of the Herut Party, was elected prime minister of Israel’s first right-wing government in 29 years; Herut later merged with the Likud bloc. Begin chose Mr. Katz as his adviser for information abroad and sent him to several countries, including to the United States for meetings with President Carter, to counter perceptions that Begin was a wild-eyed terrorist and reactionary. But Mr. Katz had resigned to protest Israeli concessions by the time Mr. Carter brought Begin and Sadat together at Camp David in September 1978; at the White House the next year, they signed a treaty returning Sinai to Egypt and calling for Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. In June 1979, Begin was re-elected to a 13th term as chairman of Herut, by a vote of 1,340 to 8. The 8 votes went to Mr. Katz. In Mr. Katz’s view, peace with the Arabs was illusory; in his view, Judea and Samaria, the biblical names for much of the West Bank, should be annexed as part of the “land of Israel,” and pressure from Washington could be ignored. It was a position Mr. Katz took in many books and opinion articles that he wrote in the years after he left the government. Among Mr. Katz’s books are Jabo, a biography of Mr. Jabotinsky; Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, about the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict and what Mr. Katz considered the deep connections between his nation and the biblical land of Israel; and The Aaronsohn Saga, an account of a Jewish spy ring that worked for the British against the Ottoman Turks. He passed away in May of 2008 at the age of 93 in Tel Aviv.
1915: It was reported today that the one million dollars already raised to aid the Jews suffering in war-torn Europe, the American Jewish Relief Committee knows now that it “was only a small part of what was needed” and that a new campaign must be waged to raise additional funds – a campaign that will benefit from the expertise of “Manny Strause of Cincinnati, an efficiency expert” who will devote sixty days of his time to this endeavor.
1915(2ndof Tevet, 5676): Eighth Day of Chanukah
1915: Tisa Hanna Maltinsky, “the beloved daughter” of the former Gertrude Kunst and Samuel Maltinsky “chief proprietor, President and Treasurer of the Crescent City Jewelry Company” in Pittsburgh, PA and granddaughter of Hyman and Sarah Maltinsky, passed away today.
1915: It was reported today Irving I. Lipsitch of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society delivered an address on “How Can Jewish Farmers Be Assisted in Getting Their Naturalization Papers?” at the last meeting of the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America which has gone “on record as opposing legislation using a literacy test to restrict immigration.”
1916: “The Women’s Proclamation Committee, the national women’s organization for Jewish war relief of which Mrs. Samuel Elkeles is Chairman, announced” today “that it had established new branches in Baltimore, MD and Memphis, TN” and that steps were being taken to establish branches in Milwaukee, Dayton and Kansas City, MO.
1916: In London, a Polish born English watchmaker and jeweler who wrote in Yiddish under the “pen name of Moseh Oved” and his wife gave birth to Isadore Jacob Gudak who gained fame as Cambridge trained mathematician Irving John Good, also known as I.J. or Jack Good, the Bletchley Park cryptologist.
1916: In Amsterdam, New York Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch gave birth to Issur Danielovitch who gained fame as Kirk Douglas, who has played everything from Doc Holiday in Gunfight at the OK Corral, to deranged Naval officer in In Harm’s Way to Colonel Mickey Marcus in Cast a Giant Shadow.
1916: “A wireless statement from Alfred Zimmermann, Germany Secretary for Foreign Affairs” sent “in reply to an inquiry made through the German Embassy by Dr. S. M. Melamed, the editor of the Amerian Jewish Chronicle” received today in New York declared “that the new constitution granted to the Jews of Poland gave them far-reaching self-government and a chance to develop their own educational system.” (Editor’s note – A scant thirty years later the Jewish population of Poland would be almost non-existent thanks to another German regime.)
1917: In New York, Frederick Margareten, who was a graduate of CCNY and a kosher food manufacturer and the Manhattan born so of Regina (Horowitz) Margareten and Ignatz Margareten and his wife Mary Magareten gave birth to Cecilia Margareten.
1917(24th of Kislev, 5678): In the evening, kindle the first light of Chanukah
1917: According to reports published today, “this evening the celebration of Chanukah, the Feast of Dedication, will begin among Jewish people and continue for eight days. Although rated in the traditional calendar as a minor festival, compared with the Biblical festivals and holy days, it is known also as the Feast of Lights, and is of great significance, as it commemorates one of the most heroic struggles and final victory for the Jewish fatherland and faith.”
1917: Just after midnight, Turkish troops began the final evacuation Jerusalem. According to one report, it was fitting that the Turks should be leaving Jerusalem for the last time on the same day that the Seleucids left the city since this day coincided with the celebration of the holiday of Chanukah.
1917: The Turkish mayor of Jerusalem surrenders the city to 2 British soldiers - Sergeants Sedgwick and Hawcombe.
1917: “O.A. Glazebrook, the United States Consul, who recently returned from Jerusalem, predicted in an address” at the Institutional Synagogue today predicted that “starvation and untold suffering” awaited “the Jews in Palestine unless very active steps were taken by” Jews in the United States to send money to the region and “that Germany had begun a complete reorganization of the Turkish Army and to that end was commandeering all resources of the Turkish Empire regardless of the needs of the civilian population” which only made the position of the Jews all the more perilous.
1917: A delegation of notables including the mayor of Jerusalem, the chief of police and several imams, rabbis and Christian clergy met with British forces just north of the city and surrendered the “keys of the city.”
1917: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered a sermon to members of the Institutional Synagogue who met at Mount Morris Theatre urging “liberal support” for the drive to raise funds for Jewish war relief.
1917: Among the contributions reported today to have been made to The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering Through the War were $222 from the American Graphaphone Company, “one of the earliest names in recorded sound” which was founded in 1887 and $222 from the Cannonsburg, PA, Hebrew Association.
1917: It was reported today that the upcoming issue of The Menorah Journal will carry a story about the invitation to Israel Zangwill to come to the United and address the Menorah Quintennial Convention, including “Zangwill’s eloquent, if regretful replay to the invitation.”
1917: Today, “the Provisional Zionist Committee announced that Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the United States Supreme court has received letter of congratulation from the Armenian United Association of London on the British declaration in favor of the establishment of a national Jewish home in Palestine to which the Cabinets promises that ‘his Majesty’s Government will exert its best endeavors.’”
1917: Forty seven year old Shreveport, LA native and playwright Arthur Lee Kahn, some of whose plays “show the influence of his southern heritage and indicate something of the nature of the struggle of the southern-born playwright” passed away today.
1917: At the Rockford Hall, in Rockford, Illinois, the Young Peoples’ Jewish Congress is scheduled to host an “entertainment and dance” in honor of the Jewish soldiers at Camp Grant who are being granted a furlough so they can attend the event.
1918: In the Bronx, Austrian immigrants Asher and Ida Tannenbaum gave birth to Gertrude Tannenbaum who gained fame as Gertrude Schimmel whose police career was all the more challenging because of her gender – a challenge she repeatedly overcame rising to become the first female chief in the NYPD. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
1918: Victor Berger went on trial today on charges that he had violated the Espionage Act of 1917 by publicly opposing America’s entry into WW I. Berger was a Socialist who opposed all war.
1919: Mrs. Henry Hershkovitz is scheduled to deliver a report at today’s regular meeting of the Hungarian Charity Society Women’s Auxiliary in Chicago.
1920(28thof Kislev, 5681): Fourth Day of Chanukah
1920: Thirty days after the death of Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport whose pen name was S. Ansky, passed away, “The Dybbuk” was performed at the Elyseum Theatre in Warsaw.
1921: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning at Sam Rothschild’s Funeral Chapel for 53 year old Alfred Loeb, the husband of the former Edith Marx and the father of Richard Loeb.
1922: The North West Young Women’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host “their third informal dance” this “evening at the Cameo Room in Chicago’s Morrison Hotel.
1922: Mrs. Andrew Roth is the chairperson for the Beth Israel Sisterhood’s charity bazaar which is scheduled to open tonight.
1922: Cleveland banker and philanthropist Maurice J. “Moses” Mandelbaum, the son of Jacob and Amelia (Lehman) Mandelbaum married his third wife, Florence Burnet today.
1923(1st of Tevet, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Tevet
1923: Sigmund Israel, the rabbi leading the Temple at Poughkeepsie, NY passed away today.
1923(1st of Tevet, 5684): Seventh day of Chanukah; in the evening Kindled the 8th candle
1923: Hadoar resumes publication
1923: The Jewish Welfare Board sponsored a special Army and Navy Chanukah Service that was held at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Manhattan. During his address to the attendees, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, commander of the Third Naval District and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said that “There are more kinds of hatreds both religious and social in the world today than ever existed. This country has been open to the world, a haven of safety, but we have no room here for those who cannot be assimilated. They cannot bring their hatreds here..”
1923: In address to the first meeting of the National Council of the Keren Hayesod at the Hotel Astor, Dr. Arthur Ruppin said that “the housing shorate in Palestine has been relieved to a considerable estnet by the establishment of the General Mortgage Bank of Palestine which has invested more than $300,000 in mortgages enabling the construction of 300 house in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa and Tiberias.
1924: In the presence of in the presence of Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Ronald Storrs, Governor of the Jaffa district in Jerusalem, and Raghib al-Nashashibi, the Arab mayor of Jerusalem a street in Jerusalem that crosses Ben Yehuda Street and Hillel Street was named King George Street or Rechov HaMelech in dedication ceremonies held today. The street was named in honor of King George V in honor of the seventh anniversary of Lord Allenby’s conquest of Jerusalem during World War I.
1926: Birthdate of Newcastle upon Tyne native Lionel Kopelowitz, the University College Hospital trained physician and RAF veteran who “was President of the European Jewish Congress from 1989 and 1991.
1925: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, “Morris and Gussie (Levy) Facher gave birth Penn State journalism graduate and Harvard trained lawyer Jerome Facher who gained famed from his depiction in A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr.
1926: It was reported today that The American Christian Fund for Jewish Relief has announced that the Protestant-Catholic-Jewish mass meeting at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine last Sunday night had been followed by many contributions and offers to cooperate in raising the $25,000,000 sought by the United Jewish Campaign, of which $19,000,000 has already been subscribed, to relieve the suffering of 5,000,000 Jews in Eastern Europe.”
1927: “The Private Life of Helen Troy” a silent film about the famous beauty directed by Alexandra Korda and starring his wife Maria in the title role premiered in New York City today.
1927(15thof Kislev, 5688): Eight-two year old Max Landsberg, the Berlin born son of Rabbi Meyer Landsberg, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Bresalau who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at Rochester in 1871 where he served for 44 years passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/12/10/98425024.pdf
1928: A Chanukah celebration is scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Bronx Jewish Center under the supervision of Talmud Torah’s principal, Rabbi J.J. Charlot
1928: It was reported today that “in the hope of putting an end to anti-Semitic rioting in Rumanian universities, the Minister of Education has notified the rectors…that students guilty of participating in anti-Jewish demonstrations to such an extent as to break the peace will be drafted into the army at once…”
1929: During an interview today Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Jewish son-in-law of Mark Twain, commended the music program started last week at Hebrew University. Based on first-hand knowledge gained by his visit to Palestine last Sring, Maestro Gabrilowitsch spoke highly of the accomplishments of the Jewish musical community and identified the areas in most need of growth.
1930: Birthdate of Buck Henry. Born Henry Zuckerman, Henry is known as an actor, writer and the satirical wit who helped to make SNL into a hit show.
1930: “In the presence of over 200 representatives of many faiths from various points in the country gathered at a dinner concluding the Seminar on Human Relations between Protestants, Catholics and Jews, held at the Hotel McAlpin, Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, was presented tonight with the American Hebrew Medal for the Promotion of Better Understanding between Christian and Jew in America.”
1931(29th of Kislev, 5692): Fifth Day of Chanukah
1931: Jews throughout the world celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Birth of Baron Hirsch
1931: Supporters of the Grand Mufti distributed “fake photographs” to delegates to the World Islamic Conference showing Jews armed with machine guns attacking the Dome of the Rock. This was part of the mufti’s plan to inflame relations between Jews and Arabs while cementing his role as leader of the Arabs in Palestine.
1932: “The Jews of this country, in a new era of Jewry, must become the bene-factors of America, it was declared tonight by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, speaking before more than 1,200 members of the Congregation Rodeph Sholom, in the synagogue at 7 West Eighty-Third Street.”
1933: Seventy-three year old Eugenie Wottitz Wartski, the daughter of Marie and Dr. Simon Spitzer who was married to Moritz Wottitz and then Zygmunt Wartski passed away in her home town of Vienna.
1933(21stof Kislev, 5694): Fifty-four year old German silent screen actor Julius Falkenstein passed away today in Berlin.
1934: In a response to a request from Churchill, Leonard Montifore, a member of the Central British Fund, sent the British statesman a translation of the recently promulgated Nuremberg Laws, commentary from The Times on these anti-Jewish laws and a pamphlet describing the conditions in Germany just before the laws were passed.
1935: “Paradise Lost” a drama written by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman and starring Stella Adler and Morris Carnovsky opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre.
1935: Walter Liggett, Minnesota newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder. After writing newspaper articles connecting between the mobster Kidd Cann and Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson, Ligett was gunned down, reportedly by Kid Cann. Kid Cann was Isadore Blumenfeld a leading Jewish mobster living in the Twin Cities. He was tried for the murder but “beat the rap.”
1936: “Dr. Arthur Ruppin, an agricultural and colonization expert for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Maurice B. Hexter testified before the Royal Commission in Jerusalem, where among other things, they worked to refute the criticism of the Jewish National Fund’s land-purchasing policy made by commission member Sir Laurie Hammond.
1936: In Chur Switzerland, 27 year old Yugoslav Jewish medical student who has admitted killing Wilhelm Gustloff, the Swiss Nazi leader testified “that he had decided not to assassinate Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, ‘because it would cause too great suffering among the Jews in Germany.’”
1936: “The New York Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society of Denver, Colorado announced” today ‘that it had begun a drive for $45,000” which will “be used to provide a new dining hall and kitchen for the 300 patients at the society’s sanitarium in Denver.
1937: The Palestine Postreported that in Jerusalem two bombs were thrown by Arab terrorists at the houses of Arabs known to oppose the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, who was hiding from the authorities in Lebanon.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that in London the Colonial Office refused to accede to Colonel J.C. Wedgwood’s request to circulate the names of 137 officials of the Palestine government and judiciary who, on June 30, 1936, sent a memo critical of the establishments’ activities and policy.
1938: “Undaunted by efforts to intimidate them, fifty-six of Hollywood’s most prominent stars, directors, writers and studio heads gathered at HANL activist Eddie Robinson’s Beverly Hills home” today “to discuss the worsening situation in Germany and western Europe” which led to a sign “The Declaration of Democratic Independence” a petition “which they sent to the President and Congress calling for a boycott of all German products until Hitler stopped persecuting Jews and other minorities.
1938: As the level of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany increases and Hitler pursues a more aggressive foreign policy, Churchill gave a speech reminding his constituents that four years earlier he had called for a four-fold increase in spending for the RAF and that if those who are criticizing him now would have heeded his advice then Britain would not be dealing with the Germans from a position of weakness.
1938: “Dramatic School” a “romantic drama” produced by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Luise Rainer and Paulette Goddard (Marion Levy) was released today in the United States today.
1938: Bessie (Basha) Riff, the wife of Rabbi Naftali Riff, who had arrived at Ellis Island in 1923 “became a naturalized citizen in the Common Pleas court of Camden, NJ today.
1939: Dr. Henryk Szoskies, vice president of the Jewish community in Warsaw, who escaped last month and is now in Paris has provided first-hand information on the desperate situation of the Jews living in the German-occupied zone of Poland. “Jews all over the German part of Poland live in constant fear of new persecutions and new orders making life even harder.” He reported that the Gestapo had ordered the establishment of a ghetto in the middle of November allowing only three days to transfer an additional 160,000 Jews into the Nalewiki district increasing the population in this small area to 366,000. “Jews all over Poland face an extremely hard winter…since merchants are not allowed to trade and all their property has been confiscated. Dr. Szoskies has “presented a detailed report to Premier Wladislas Sikorski and other members” of the Polish government in exile in Paris.
1940: The British deported illegal Jewish immigrants from Haifa to Mauritius. This was part of the British enforcement of the White Paper that effectively ended Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel. When you consider how strapped the British were for resources in fighting Hitler, it is amazing that the government in London could find the resources to intercept vessels sailing to Palestine.
1940: Jewish immigrants who had entered Eretz Israel illegally protested their deportation by lying nude in their bunks, refusing to dress in an act of spontaneous, and ultimately futile, civil disobedience,
1940: A German soldier leaps from a car in the Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto and strikes a Jewish boy in the head with an iron bar, killing him.
1941(19thof Kislev, 5702): “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism”
1941(19thof Kislev, 5702): Seventy-six Hart O.Berg “a pioneer in the manufacture of machine guns, guns automobiles and submarines” whose most notable accomplishment was helping the Wright Brothers promote their flying machines during their first European tours passed away today.
1941(19thof Kislev, 5702): Following two days of killing known as the Rumbula Massacre, an additional 500 Jews were murdered in the “small ghetto” at Riga. The Nazis used buses supplied by the Riga municipal authorities to transport the Jews to the Bikernieki forest where “they were murdered and buried in mass graves.
1942: “Winter Soldiers,” a play “about saboteurs in Nazi-occupied countries” directed by Shephard Traube is scheduled to have its final performance tonight at the Studio Theatre of the New School for Social Research.”
1942: Seventy-six year old Maximillian Pick was transported from Pardubice to Terezin where he was murdered in January.
1942: German troops in Tunis, Tunisia, seize 128 Jews and march them to a labor camp. One young Jew who drops from exhaustion is shot and killed.
1942: Hannah Karminski was brought to the extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10774.html
1942: Christian Century, an American Protestant journal, attacks Rabbi Stephen Wise, claiming he has lied about the Holocaust in his recent press conference. Christian Century further argues that even if what Wise has to say is true, to make the facts of the Holocaust public serves no purpose.
1943: “Setback For Hitler” published today includes the views of the President of the National Conference of Christians and Jews that while there have been race riots in several U.S. cities, that despite the murmurings against Catholics and Jews, “there has arisen a general conviction that we must labor together if or national life is to be maintained.”
1944(23rdof Kislev, 5705): Parashat Vayeshev
1944: According to a survey completed today, the fate of at least 2,091 Roman Jews “deported to the north by the Germans is still unknown.
1945: “Yeshiva…always has endeavored to blaze a new trail in the field of higher learning, and now that it has become a university will continue to do pioneering work in the field of divine and human knowledge, Dr. Samuel Belkin President of Yeshiva University declared tonight at the 17th annual Yeshiva College dinner.”
1946: “The Doctors' Trial,” the trial for crimes committed in Nazi human experimentation during World War II, began in Nuremberg, Germany.
1946: Chaim Weizmann calls for a Jewish state in Palestine.
1947: The Security Council tables a debate on partition after Syria reports that Arabs will question legality of such a partition.
1948: In Tel Aviv, “Israel Friedman, who was executive vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, and the former Rivka Hershman” gave birth to Bracha Friedman who gained fame as “whistle-blower Bracha Graber.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/nyregion/bracha-graber-dead-whistle-blower-in-foster-care-fraud-case.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
1948: Iraq is asked by Britain, U.S., and France to reopen oil pipeline from Iraq to Haifa The promise made that oil refined in Haifa will not be furnished to Israel.
1948: In British ruled Aden eighty-two Jews were killed during a savage attack on the Jewish citizens and their property. Other such riots took place in Beirut, Cairo, Alexandria and Aleppo.
1949: The UN General Assembly voted to put Jerusalem under permanent UN rule. This a repeat of what was in the resolution adopted on November 29, 1947.
1949: Arab states support the adoption of the motion to put Jerusalem under permanent UN rule because they are suspicious of King of Abdullah of Jordan who has annexed the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem.
1949: Britain opposes the UN plan to put Jerusalem under permanent UN rule.
1949: The United States opposes the UN plant to put Jerusalem under permanent UN rule. It favors a compromise put forward by Sweden and the Netherlands under which only the city’s religious shrines would be under UN Control instead of the whole city
1949: Chile abstained from voting on the UN resolution in favor to the internationalization of Jerusalem
1950: Harry Gold was sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union. Gold’s testimony led to David Greenglass which in turn led to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed after being convicted of espionage. Gold only served about half of his sentence.
1951: “Dr. Earl James McGrath, United States Commissioner of Education, said today that Jewish culture had become "increasingly a part of the whole American pattern," and that if anti-Semitism "is again to become a threat it will menace the whole of the American people, the whole of American democracy."
1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that the Knesset elected Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the 68-year-old Labor Zionist leader, as the second President of Israel. He was elected on the third ballot when he won 62 votes. The other candidates were Rabbi M. Nurock, who received 40 votes, and Mr. Y. Gruenbaum who won five. There were five blanks and eight abstentions.
1954: “Deep In My Heart” biopic about Jewish composer Sigmund Romberg directed by Stanley Donen, was released today in the United States by MGM.
1956(5thof Tevet, 5717): Sixty-two year old painter and poet Uriel Birnbaum passed away.
http://www.jhm.nl/cultuur-en-geschiedenis/personen/b/birnbaum,+uriel
http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-Gate-of-Death/36C13293CEA88220
1957: The first Japanese ambassador to Israel arrived in the Jewish state.
1958: Robert Welch, Jr. founded the John Birch Society.
1959: Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, the lawyer who “was a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine in 1945 that advised President Harry Truman to support the opening of the British Mandate of Palestine to unrestricted Jewish immigration and to ease restrictions on Jewish land purchases” and authored Behind the Silken Curtain a Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East published by Simon & Schuster in 1947.
1961: An Israeli court found Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes.
1961: Ferenc Molnar, a Hungarian author who escaped to the United States to avoid the persecution of Hungarian Jews and passed away in 1952 was retroactively granted the status of “returning resident.”
1962: Premiere of “Station Six-Sahara” a British-German film produced by Holocaust survivor Gene Gutowski and co-starring Carroll Baker who converted to Judaism when she married Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein.
1965: In Tokyo, world premiere of “Thunderball,” the fourth film in the James Bond series featuring Leonard Sachs
1966: Birthdate of Gideon Moses Serchanski, the Tel Aviv native who gained fame as Gideon Sa'arl, a Likud MK and Minister of Education.
1966: Seventy-one year old poet Lazarus Leonard Aarronson, a native of London’s East End who converted to Christianity and published Christ in the Synagoguein 1930, passed away today.
1968: In the U.K. premiere of “The Birthday Party” directed by William Friedkin, produced by Max Rosenburg and Milton Subotsky with a script by Harold Pinter.
1969: Thanks to newly supplied Soviet radar, the IAF suffers a “bad day” when Egyptian aircraft shoot down two Mirages and one F-4 Phantom Jet.
1969: The Nixon Administration publicizes the “Rogers Plan” named for the U.S. Secretary of State that “calls for Egyptian ‘commitment to peace’ in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai.” (This plan follows a pattern all too common to these negotiations over the decades – Israel gives up something tangible for an Arab promise)
1969: Birthdate of musician Jakob Dylan, son of Bob Dylan.
1970: The 6th Asian Games in which Esther Roth-Shachamorov won golds in 100m hurdles and pentathlon and a silver in long jump opened in Bangkok.
1970(11th of Kislev, 5731): Eighty-two year old London born, Columbia University trained Professor of Chemistry, Benjamin Harrow, Ph.D. passed away today.
1971: Dr. Ralph J Bunche passed away. Bunche won the Nobel Peace Prize for his successful role in negotiating an end to the fighting between the Israelis and the Arab states in 1949.
1972: Ninety-two year old gossip columnist Louella Parsons , the daughter of Joshua Oettinger, a German Jew, who was raised as an Episcopalian passed away today in Santa Monica, CA.
1972: Helen Reddy’s "I Am Woman" tops the charts
http://jwa.org/thisweek/dec/09/1972/helen-reddy
1973: A revival of “The Pajama Game,” the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross musical starring Hal Linden opened at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre.
1973: “After only 37 performances and 16 previews,” “In the Boom Boom Room” directed by Joseph Papp and co-starring Madeline Kahn who “won the Drama Desk Award” for her performance closed on Broadway today.
1974(25thof Kislev, 5735): First Day of Chanukah
1974: Howard Cossell (who was Jewish) interviewed John Lennon as part of a breakaway segment during tonight’s Washington Redskins football game.
1976(17thof Kislev, 5737): Sixty-five year old Barnard College graduate “Aleen Ginsberg Schacht, a national vice president of Hadassah and wife of steel construction executive Lawrence Schact with whom she raised two children – Michael and BarDara – passed away today.
1976: Funeral services for Dr. Julian Morgenstern, President Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, are scheduled to be held at the college this afternoon.
1977(29thof Kislev, 5738): One day before her 57th birthday Brazilian author Clarice Lispector passed away today.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Egypt had returned to Israel the bodies of three unidentified Israeli soldiers who were killed during the Yom Kippur war.
1977: In Cairo tens of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated, carrying placards and chanting slogans of support for President Anwar Sadat's drive for peace. While Egypt severed relations with Arab states, King Hussein of Jordan arrived in Cairo for a visit. Hussein seemed to be ready to agree to the Jordanian participation in the joint Israeli-Arab meeting in Cairo, suggested by Sadat, preparatory to the reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference.
1980: In Los Angeles, actor Sandy Helberg and casting director Harriet Helberg Simon Maxwell Helberg, American actor and comedian best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in “The Big Bang.”
1981: The Moscow Municipal Court sentenced refusnik Boris Chernobylskii “to twelve months of general regime imprisonment “for resisting the police while performing their official duties.”
1981: “Lady in the Dark” a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart had its premiere UK performance at the Nottingham Palace.
1982(23rd of Kislev, 5743): Polish born Dutch violist Paul Godwin [Goldfein] passes away at the age of 80.
1982(23rd of Kislev, 5743): Activist Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
1983: U.S premiere of “Scarface” produced by Martin Bregman.
1983: After premiering in November, “Terms of Endearment” a comedy directed, produced and written byJames L. Brooks and co-starring Debra Winger was released U.S. wide today by Paramount Pictures.
1983: “The Dresser” the movie version of the play written by Ronald Harwood who also wrote the script for the film was released today in the United Kingdom.
1985: The funeral for 83 year old “Abraham M. Adler, “co-founder of the Hirschl and Adler art gallery are scheduled to be held today
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/09/arts/abraham-adler-83-is-dead-co-founder-of-an-art-gallery.html
1987: The First Intifada began in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. (Editor’s note – such catchy names for the various waves of Arab violence. This event falls at a time when we are tracing events of 50 years ago when there was another wave of Arab violence that resulted in the infamous White Paper that closed Palestine to Jews fleeing the Holocaust.)
1988: “My Stepmother Is an Alien” a sci-fi comedy directed by Richard Benjamin and featuring Jon Lovitz was released today in the United States.
1988: “Mississippi Burning” a film based on the investigation of the murder of three civil rights workers, two of whom – Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner – were Jewish featuring Stephen Tobolowsky as “Clayton Townley” was released in the United States today.
1988: Today the major daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot published a survey indicating that 80 percent of Israelis now want President Chaim Herzog to continue urging Labor and Likud to form a new coalition. And 76 percent want that coalition to include no other partners - especially not the religious parties.
1990: In New York, Congregation Ansche Chesed sponsors a concert by folk singer Richie Havens. The concert is a fund raiser for the building fund and is part of the synagogue's 10th annual Hanukkah Arts Festival, which also offers a bazaar of gift items and refreshments.
1991: In a case of a Jewish critic evaluating the work of a Jewish authors and a Jewish composer, Frank,Rich reviewed “Nick & Nora.”
http://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D0CE6D91539F93AA35751C1A967958260&_r=2&
1993: A revival of Lerner and Loewe’s "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for the first of 165 performances
1996(28thof Kislev, 5757): Fourth Day of Chanukah
1996(28thof Kislev, 5757): Sixty-one year old Raphael Elkan Samuel, the Marxist and Professor of History at the University of East London who left the Communist Party when the Soviets crushed the Hungarians in 1956 passed away today.
https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-raphael-samuel-5588939.html
1998: “For the first time in more than half a century, the United Nations General Assembly decided today to list anti-Semitism as a form of racism.”
1999(30thof Kislev, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; Sixth Day of Chanukah
1999: It was reported today that “With negotiations at an impasse over a German fund to compensate Nazi-era slave laborers, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has dismissed demands to improve Germany's latest offer.”
2000: “Ten people were killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in one of the deadliest days of violence since the current Palestinian uprising began more than two months ago.”
2001: In “Music’s Dangers and the Case For Control” published today Richard Taruskin examined “The Death of Klinghoffer” an opera which its critics, including the family of the murdered Leon Klinghoffer, distorts a brutal act of murder in which an old Jew is thrown from his wheelchair into the Mediterranian.
2001(24th of Kislev, 5762): In the evening, kindle the first Chanukah light.
200I: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced he would resign and call a special election.
2001: The New York Times book section featured books by Jewish authors and/or about subjects of Jewish interest including Collected Stories by Saul Bellow, Letters To A Young Lawyer by Alan Dershowitz and Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger.
2001: A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed.
2002: Yale undergrad and Harvard trained lawyer Ellen L. Weintraub began serving as Member of the Federal Election Commission.
2002: An International Symposium entitled "Jewish identity and anti-Semitism in Central and South Eastern Europe sponsored by the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities, the "Goldstein-Goren" Hebrew Studies Center, Bucharest University and Bucharest History Museum opened in Bucharest.
2002: Susan “Sontag continued to theorize about the role of photography in real life in her essay "Looking at War: Photography's View of Devastation and Death", which appeared in today’s issue of The New Yorker in which she concludes that the problem of our reliance on images and especially photographic images is not that "people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs ... that the photographic image eclipses other forms of understanding – and remembering. ... To remember is, more and more, not to recall a story but to be able to call up a picture"
2003: The Shin Bet captured Mahmud Amru, the sniper who murdered ten-month-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass and wounded her father as he blazed away at a busy playground.
2003: For the second night in a row, The Empire State Building offered a special tribute to the 110th anniversary of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), when it was illuminated by the organization’s colors of blue and green..
2004: The first Broadway revival of “La Cage Aux Folles a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman opened at the Marquis Theatre.
2004: Birthdate of Mile High resident Judah Ruscha.
2005: “Chrisie Watts” played by Tracy-Ann Oberman made her final appearance today in the “BBC soap opera ‘EastEnders.’”
2005: Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, the military policeman who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian attacker at the Kalandia checkpoint, was buried in the Kiryat Tivon military cemetery.
2006: Haaretzreported that Germany condemned a planned Iranian conference on the Holocaust. The German Foreign Ministry told a top Iranian official that attempts to question the Nazis' murder of Jews were "shocking and unacceptable." Foreign Ministry spokesman Jens Ploetner said "We condemn all past and future attempts of anyone who gives a platform to those who relativize or question the Holocaust. Ploetner stressed that "the German government finds all statements that question the right of Israel to exist or the Holocaust shocking and unacceptable."
2006: The Chicago Tribunepublished an “edited” version of a “letter to the editors” describing one Jew’s view of the annual office Christmas Party, and if you read between the lines, a whole lot more.
2006: Shuttle Discovery launches on the STS-116 mission at 8:45 P.M. Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Mark Polansky took a replica of "Refugee" with him on the shuttle's mission. Each astronaut is invited to take a few items into space. Polansky took the replica of "Refugee" and an image of a Darfurian child in a refugee camp in Chad taken by Museum staff member Jerry Fowler. “Refugee” is the name of the stuffed bear that comforted Holocaust survivor Sophie Turner-Zaretsky when she is a refugee following World War II.
2007: The Center for Jewish History, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America present “A Legacy for the Future: Celebrating the Life and Teachings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on the Centennial of His Birth 1907-2007
2007: The Sunday New York Times book section reviews of books by Jewish authors or on topics related to Judaism or Jewish culture including The Rowing Lesson by the South African Jewish author Ann Landsman, Touch and Go: A Memoir by Studs Terkel and Bernard Malamud: A Writers Life by Philip Davis.
2007: The Washington Post list of Best Books for Young People included Leaves by David Ezra Stein.
2007(29th of Kislev, 5768): In Little Rock, AR, Harvey Luber, a man whose talents, gifts and accomplishments are too numerous to mention is laid to rest. To say he was a pillar of the Jewish community, a teacher, a photographer, a first class raconteur and lifelong learner as well as a proud father and great Zeda does not even begin to capture the essence of the man. To say that he was a friend to all both great and small regardless of rank or status says much about the basic decency of the man. If one were to write more in this vein, it would cause Harvey to laugh all the more. Suffice it to say that God apparently was in need of a great photographer, a memorable laugh and sage if slightly twisted discussion on matters of Judaica and only Harvey could give Him all that and more in one soul. He will me be missed and never forgotten.
2007: “Bagels & Barbeque: The Jewish Experience” opens at The Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. Bagels & Barbeque:
2007: Funeral services for Harvey David Luber, of blessed memory were held in Little Rock, AR this afternoon.
2008: Police provided the name of the 10 Pakistani terrorists who attacked various targets in Mubain last month including the Chabad House.
2008: At Adas Israel, a three day conference entitled "Zionism, Israel and Human Rights" with Avram Burg, author and former Speaker of the Knesset and Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al Quds University moderated by Kathleen Peratis, Board Member Emeriti of Human Rights Watch comes to an end.
2008 (12 Kislev): Yahrzeit of Solomon Schechter.
2009: Rabbi Addin Steinsaltz is scheduled to produce tractate Niddah, which deals with the laws that a married woman must adhere to during menstruation.
2009: The 20th Washington Jewish Film Festival includes a screening of “Divided We Fall,” which tells the story of a childless couple living in a small Czech village during World War II who hide their former neighbor, a young Jewish man who has managed to escape from the death camps after losing his entire family.
2009: Funeral services are scheduled to held at the First Hebrew Congregation of Peekskill today for 97 year old Fordham trained attorney, WW II Army combat veteran and State Supreme Court Justice Leonard Rubenfeld, the husband of the former Amelia Kooperstein.
2009: The 24th Annual New York Israeli Film Festival includes a screening of “Legends in the Dunes,” Ya’akov Gross’ new documentary prepared in honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv that follows the development of the building of the new city across from the ancient city of Yaffo.
2009(22nd of Kislev, 5770): Gene Barry passed away. Born Eugene Klass in 1919, he enjoyed successful career performing on the stage, in films and on several successful television series. His marriage to Betty Kalb lasted 58 years, making him a success in his personal as well as professional life.
2010: “Tango, A Story With Jews” is scheduled to make its Mid-Atlantic Premiere at the 21st Washington Jewish Film Festival. The film highlights the role played by Russian musicians who fled to Buenos Aires in the 19th century in creating this icon of Argentine culture.
2010: Funeral services for Dr. Samuel I Mintz, the husband of the former Eleanor Streichler, English Professor and WW II veteran are scheduled to take place in Hackensack, NJ.
2010: The YIVO is scheduled to present a program entitled "This Theatre is a Battlefield: How Antifascist and Zionist Performance Forged a New Jewish- American Identity, 1939-1948.”
2010(2nd of Tevet, 5711): Eighth Day of Chanukah
2010(2ndof Tevet, 5711): Ninety-nine year old Brooklyn born violin prodigy and Syracuse University basketball player who co-founded the Famous Artists Broadway Theater Series passed away today.
http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2010/12/murray_bernthal_dies_at_99_col.html
2010(2nd of Tevet, 5711): Dov Shilansky, Holocaust survivor and former speaker of the Knesset passed away at the age of 86.
2011: “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is one of three films being screened today at the 22nd Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2011: Craig Breslow was part of a multi-player trade that sent him from the Athletics to the Diamonbacks.
2011: As part of the Scholars in Residence Weekend at Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, Dr. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, a professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago is scheduled to address the issues of terrorism, counter-terrorism and religion.
2011: Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is scheduled to host one of its ever-popular Musical Shabbats.
2011: Gaza militants launched several rockets toward Israel's south today, hours after an Israeli air strike in central Gaza killed a Palestinian militant planning a terrorist attack on the Egypt border.
2011: Thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv today to mark International Human Rights Day.
2012(25th of Kislev, 5773): Chanukah
2012(25th of Kislev, 5773): Eighty-five year old “Charles Rosen, the pianist, polymath and author whose National Book Award-winning volume The Classical Style illuminated the enduring language of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven” passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman by Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich
2012:Bein Hashmashot (Between the Suns), the official youth choir of Beit Shemesh, is scheduled to perform the JCC of Northern Virginia.
2012: The Sephardic Musical Festival is scheduled to continue tonight with “Sephardic Story Slam” at Lolita Bar in NYC.
2012: Chabad of North Dakota led by Rabbi Yonah Grossman is scheduled to host a public menorah lighting complete with Latkes and Sufganyot (Is there any place where the lamplighters of Lubavitch are not to be found?)
2012: In Cedar Rapids, Brian Cohen, champion Shofar Blower, shows that he is a “man for all festivals” as he leads his latke flipping team in preparing the potato delights for Temple Judah’s annual Chanukah Dinner.
2012: Israel should define its borders, even if this means doing so unilaterally, and separate from the Palestinians, former IDF chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said today.
2012: “The Gatekeepers,” a film by Israeli director Dror Moreh, was named best documentary today by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a flurry of year-end honors that help sort out the Academy Awards race. The French-language drama “Amour” was chosen as the year’s best film.
2012: Agovernment proposal to allow 1,300 haredi yeshiva students to enlist in the civilian service program instead of serving in the military was approved today but was greeted with widespread outrage from IDF draft reform advocates.
2012: The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open tonight in Israel’s capital city.
2012:Yoram Marciano re-entered the Knesset.
2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a roundtable discussion “French and Jewish: Defining a Modern Jewish Identity in the 19th Century.”
2013: “Trembling Before G-d” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2013: On the advice of his doctor “nonagenarian President Shimon Peres” will not be traveling to South Africa to attend Nelson Mendela’s funeral which Israel will be represented by Knesset Speark Yuli Edelstein.
2013: The trial of five former employees of the great goniff Bernie Madoff resumes today.
2013: In a rare instances of unanimous agreement “Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and senior Palestinian spokesmen doused any optimism today that the US-led Israeli- Palestinian talks were on the verge of a breakthrough. (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2013: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority were set today to ink an agreement to build a long-anticipated pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, part of an initiative that would produce millions of cubic meters of drinking water for the parched region and slake the critically dwindling Dead Sea (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2013: Anat Hoffman, Executive Director of the Israeli Religious Action Center is scheduled to deliver a talk entitled Between the Stones and a Hard Place: The Challenge to Gender Equity & Pluralism in Israel at the Lawrence Family JCC.
2103: Peter Shurman announced that he would resign as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Thornhill effective at the end of the year.
2014: LBI is scheduled to present “Fighting for Kaiser and Fatherland” German-Jewish Soldiers and the Quest for Integration, 1914-1935”
2014(17th of Kislev, 5775): Ninety year old landscape painter Jane Freilicher passed away today.
2014(17th of Kislev, 5775): Seventy year old Russian violinist Lydia Mordkovitch passed away today in London.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11290327/Lydia-Mordkovitch-obituary.html
2014: Kirk Douglas, “the son of an immigrant Russian Jewish ragman marked his birthday today by celebrating the launch of his 11th book.
2014: A group calling itself "Guardians of Peace" hacked into Sony's computer system – a hack which would eventually lead to the dismissal of Amy Pascal as the Chairperson of the Motion Pictures Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Co-Chairperson of SPE, including Sony Pictures Television.
2014: “Zero Motivation, a zany, dark comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli soldiers” is scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival
2014: “French police arrested five men suspected of making threats online to attack a synagogue.”
2014: While praying at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn 2wenty-two year old Levi Rosenviat, an Israeli man studying for the rabbinate in New York was stabbed by Calvin Peters who entered the Chabad building shouting “I will kill the Jew! I want to kill the Jew!” (JTA)
2014; “Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said today that there appeared to be a lull in the recent wave of terror attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem, but added that it was far from certain that the calm would continue.
2015: The American Jewish Historical Society in collaboration with Moscow Museum is scheduled to present the documentary film "Alyad" about the Refusenik Movement.
2015: In his criticism of Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Chief Rabbi David Lau said that the Conservative of Masorti movement “distances Jews from the path of the Jewish people” – a distancing that does not include avoiding soliciting funds from Conservative Jews.
2016: In Haifa, the a-Sham Arab Food Festival “in which 45 leading chefs from the Arab (Muslim, Christian and Druze) and Jewish sectors have showcased the culinary treasures of the region passed down through generations, but with modern twists” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2016: “Jackie” with Natalie Portman starring in the title role is scheduled to be released in the United States today.
2016: “On the Map” a film that “tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Championship, which took place at a time when the Middle East was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, and the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv” is scheduled to open at the Cinema Village.
2016: In Memphis, TN, a Ruach Preneg Concert is scheduled to kick-off the observance of Shabbat.
2016: Actor, director, producer, author, philanthropist and most surprising of all Torah Student, Kirk Douglas is scheduled to celebrate his 100th birthday today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/kirk-douglas-to-celebrate-100th-birthday-in-star-studded-bash/
2017(21stof Kislev, 5778): Parashat Va-yeishev;
2017: Eighty-eight year old Marshall Loeb, the Chicago born son of Monroe Harriman Loeb and “the former Henrietta Benjamin and University of Missouri trained journalist who “was managing editor of Forbes and Money magazines” passed away today.
2017: Kirk Douglas is scheduled to observe his 101st birthday.
2017: One hundredth anniversary of the British capture of Jerusalem during WW I.
2017: Attendees at the URK Biennial are preparing to deal with the first major winter snow storm scheduled to strike Boston as they observe Shabbat.
2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Rabbi Eugene Borowitz whose works included The Mask Jews Wear and Liberal Judaism continues today.
2018(1stof Tevet, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Tevet; 7th day of Chanukah
2018: The Lior Milliger Quartet led by saxophone player Lior Milliger whose “music is influenced by traditional jazz as well as ancient Jewish music and Israeli folklore” is scheduled to appear at the Cornelia Street Café.
2018: “The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, the Iowa Jewish Historical Society, and the United Nations Association of Iowa” are scheduled to host Dr. Emile Schrijver, the Director of the Amsterdam Jewish Museum as he lectures on “Amsterdam’s Jewish Golden Age.”
2018: In Amherst, MA, the Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to host a screening of a newly restored prinf of “Der Dibuk” (The Dybbuk)
2018: In Washington, DC, Adas Isreal is scheduled to host the annual meeting of the “Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum.”
2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education is scheduled to a performance of “Everyday Things” – “a play weaving Survivor testimonies and treasured objects from Stories of Survival.
2018: In Chevy Chase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host “The 5th Annual Dreidels and Drink” featuring everything from latkes to “dreidel drinking games.”
2018: The New York Times published reviews by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 by Zachary Leader and The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity by Alan Wolfe
2019: In Boston, the Convention of USCJ and the Rabbinical Assembly is scheduled to host a Monday Night Concert with Josey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble.
2019: The National Council of Jewish Women of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host its board meeting this evening.
2019: The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host “a conversation moderated by Rabbi Joseph Black of Temple Emanuel in Denver, in which Amanda Kinsey speaks with Annie Polland, Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society and Ann Kirschner, author of Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp about the soon to be made “feature length documentary ‘Jews of the Wild West.’”
2019: In San Francisco, the Chase Center is scheduled to host the 15thannual Warriors Jewish Heritage Night as Golden State takes on the Memphis Grizzlies in an NBA matchup.
2019: In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host a “discussion with Professor Rivka Carmi, the first and only female to serve as president of a public university in Israel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.”
2019: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Rabbi David Wolpe as he lectures on “Isaac Luria, the Mystics of Safed and the Beginning of Creation.”
2019: In Washington, Dr. Jean-March Dreyfus is scheduled to deliver the 2019 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture on “At the Margin of the Holocaust? Writing the Biography of Mischling in the German Foreign Office: Vollrath von Maltzan.”
2019: In the wake of the killing of three people at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, by a Royal Saudi Air Force on a training assignment who accused the United States of being anti-Muslim and complained about U.S. support for Israel, U.S. government officials are scheduled to continue a review of the security component of a program that trains thousands of foreign airman in the use of American aircraft purchased by their countries.
2020: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to host the last session of “Learn Arabic with Professor Daniel Tsadik”
2020: The ASF Institute is scheduled to host Aviva Ben-Ur discussing her new book, “Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825.”
2020: In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to meet over Zoom to discuss The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks.
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a “Coffee with a Survivor” session with Sharrel Titelbaum.
2020: In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to “an object talk about the Jews Free School.”
2020: In Manhattan, the Other Israel Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “One More Jump” followed by a Question and Answer session.
2020: Havurah on the Hill is scheduled to present online “Sabbath Breads From Around the Jewish World,” an “interactive workshop” which explores “the diversity of the global Jewish experience through bread.”
2020: The Great YNY Clothing & Computer Drive is scheduled to come to an end today.
2020: The Jewish Family Services of Columbus is scheduled to host a virtual program featuring Julie Remer and Paula Weinstein where attendees will learn how to make oven fried latkes and easy microwave applesauce for Chanukah.”
2020: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host the Joe Alterman Trio performing live via Zoom, Jazz Standards “inspired by photographs from “A Jazz Memoir: Photography” by Herb Snitzer
2020: MK Gideon Sa'ar, long seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival within Likud who had announced yesterday evening that he was leaving the ruling party to launch a new right-wing political movement and run for prime minister against Netanyahu” is scheduled to “resign from his post as a member of parliament” today. (As reported by Moran Azulay)