September 25
275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the pleasure of the Army. In the case of Tacitus, that meant a mere six months. One of the Emperor’s greatest claims to fame was his relationship to the Tacitus, the famous first century Roman historian. When it came to writing about the Jews, Tacitus (the historian) was not bothered by the facts. He helped to propagate the claim that the ancient Israelites were a group of plague-infested Egyptians who were driven into the desert to die. In hisHistories sounded themes that would be the staple of anti-Semites for the next two thousand years. Jewish customs were vile and disgusting. The vileness of their customs were actually the source of their strength. Jews were compassionate and honest when dealing within their own community, but have nothing but contempt for the rest of mankind. He did not see them as a political threat, but saw them as a corrupting influence that would undermine the moral fiber of the empire. For this reason he advocated that they become as far from the imperial capital as possible.
1143: Celestine II, who was opposed by Petrus Leonis, the head of a “leading Roman family” that “had converted from Judaism to Christianity” was elected Pope today.
1253: Innocent IV re-confirms “Sicut Judaeis Non” a Papal Bull first issued by Calixtus II in 1120 “designed to provide protection for Jews from assaults by Crusaders” as they crossed Europe on their way to the Holy Land. (I cannot determine if the bull applied to the Jews in Jerusalem who slaughtered by the Christian Noble Knights)
1321(2nd of Tishrei, 5082): “French Talmudist” Eliezer ben Joseph of Chinon, the student and brother-in-law of Perez ben Elijah of Corbell “was martyred today.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5616-eliezer-ben-joseph-of-chinon
1354: The Jewish communities of Catalonia and Valencia adopted statutes today that made “extermination of informers a public duty” in which “everyone was required to participate to the fullest measure. A similar statute was adopted by the Jews of Majorca. The informer of “moser” was constituted to be the lowest form of life among Jews, which, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Talmud equated the serpent.
1396: Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis. The Battle of Nicopolis is referred to as the Last Crusade. The clash was between the Moslem Ottomans and a alliance of Hungarian and French knights. This French connection is ironic considering other events taking place at that time. In 1394, two years before this climatic fight, “Sultan Yildirim Bayezid invited the French Jews who were molested by King Charles VI, to the Ottoman Empire. They were settled in Edirne and the Balkans. The French Kings had the habit of inviting the Jews to establish commerce and borrowing money from them. However often, when payment was due, they expelled them; only to re-invite them when they needed further financing.”
1506: Charles V began his reign as Lord of the Netherlands. In 1522, Charles issued a proclamation against Christians who were suspected of being lax in the faith and against Jews who had not been baptized in Gelderland and Utrecht; and he repeated these edicts in 1545 and 1549.
1534: Pope Clement
1639(26thof Elul, 5399): Raizel Segal Kahana, the daughter of Yom Tov Lippman Helller and Rachell Heller and the wife of Yaakov Yosef Heller Kahana passed away today.
1669: Events began today that would result in another blood libel in Germany. In the village of Glatigny, near Metz, Whilhelmina, the wife of Giles Lemoine, lost track of her three year old son Didier while she was doing laundry at the fountain in the village square. A search by the villagers proved fruitless. Then Daniel Payer told the searchers he had seen “a Hebrew with a heavy bear mounted on a white horse hurrying toward Metz and carrying in his arms a child about three years old.” The searchers then headed to Metz where they were told by a man who lived near the city gate that he had seen a Hebrew enter the city but he did not have a child. It was finally deduced that the man in question was Raphael Levi, a Jew living in Boulai, a village near Metz. A warrant was then sworn out for his arrest. [see tomorrow’s blog for the next installment of this unfolding tragedy]
1675: After having realized the financial benefit he could gain from his new Jewish subjects Louis XIV decided not to ban the Jews from Alsace and Lorraine and “granted the Jews letters patent” which placed them “under his special protection” but did not protect them from the abuse they had suffered under the Austrians.
1694: Birthdate Henry Pelham who while serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom would oversee the passage of the Jew Act of 1753, which allowed Jews to become naturalized by application to Parliament.
1739(22ndof Elul, 5499): Marcus Mordechai Mozes Drukker passed away in Amsterdam.
1740: Nathan Levy who had applied for a plot of ground to be used as a place of burial for his family in 1738 obtained this grant today, and the plot was thenceforth known as the "Jews' burying-ground"; it was the first Jewish cemetery in the city, and was situated in Spruce street near Ninth street; it has been the property of the Congregation Mickvé Israel for more than a century. Levy, who was born in 1704 and died in 1753, was one of the first Jews to live in Philadelphia.
1752(17thof Tishrei 5513): Chaham Mehir A. Cohen Bellnfante passed way today.
1767(2ndof Tishrei, 5528): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1773(8thof Tishrei, 5534): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1775(1stof Tishrei, 5536): Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time after the start of the American Revolution
1779(15thof Tishrei, 5540): Sukkoth
1779: Birthdate of John Oxlee the English cleric and author whose knowledge of Semitic languages including Hebrew led to his study of Jewish law and the Talmud and who “in his Six Letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury, stated his reasons for declining to take any part in the society for the conversion of the Jews.”
1784(10thof Tishrei, 5545): Yom Kippur observed on the same day that Elizabeth Schuyler and “founding father” Alexander Hamilton, whom is reported to have been born Jewish although he never practice Judaism gave birth to Angelica Hamilton.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211152/the-jewish-world-of-alexander-hamilton
1786(3rdof Tishrei, 5547): Tzom Gedaliah observed ten days after the close of the Annapolis Convention which was a forerunner of the convention in Philadelphia that created the U.S. Constitution.
1789: The establishment of religion on a national level was expressly prohibited in the U.S. with the adoption of the First Amendment, the opening words of which read: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' This line from the Bill of Rights gave de jure recognition to a concept that has made the American experience different for the Jews than anything else that they had encountered during their centuries of living in the Diaspora. There would be examples of discrimination against Jews in the United States such as covenanted real estate, college quotas, and oaths invoking the Christian deity. But these proved to be minor compared to what had happened elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East where Jews were second class citizens because there was always a state religion be it Islam or Christian. Final ratification of the First Amendment would come in 1791.
1790(17th of Tishrei, 5551): Shabbat Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth observed on the first anniversary of the U.S. Congress adopting the amendments to the U.S. Constitution known commonly as The Bill of Rights.
1792(9th of Tishrei, 5553): Erev Yom Kippur is observed o the same day that former American Patriot Thomas Paine wrote to the National Assembly expressing his gratitude for having been made “a citizen of France” during the French Revolution.
1794(1st of Tishrei, 5555): As they observe Rosh Hashanah, French Jews can join their countrymen in a sense of a safety following the execution of Maximilien Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror
1798(15th of Tishrei, 5559): As Jews begin the observance of Sukkoth, the festival of thanksgiving, English Jews are thankful; for the victory that Lord Nelson has given them at the Battle of the Nile, while French Jews are thankful for Napoleon’s victories in Egypt
1805(2nd of Tishrei, 5566): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1805: In Philadelphia, PA, Abigail Seixas and Benjamin Jonas Phillips gave birth to Jonas Benjamin Phillips
1808(4th of Tishrei, 5560): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1812: Birthdate of Karl Biedermann, the liberal German politician who was an advocate for Jewish emancipation.
1813(1st of Tishrei, 5574): Rosh Hashanah observed for a second time during the War of 1812, also knowns as “the second American War for Independence.
1815: Ezriel ben Isaac married Reizecha bat Abraham at the Western Synagogue today.
1816(3rd of Tishrei, 5577): Tzom Gedaliah
1817(15th of Tishrei, 5578): Sukkoth
1820(17th of Tishrei, 5581): Sukkoth Chol Had Moed
1820(17th of Tishrei, 5581):Bezalel ben Joel Ronsburg who served as a rabbi, dayan and rosh yeshiva in Prague who counted Zacharias Frankel as one of his pupils passed away today.
1822(10th of Tishrei, 5583): Yom Kippur
1822: In Germany, Jacob Israel Greenbaum and Sarah Greenbaum gave birth to future Chicago resident Elias E. Greenbaum the husband of Rosine Greenbaum.
1821: In Charleston, SC, Elias Abrahams, the United Kingdom born son of Judith and Emanuel Abrahams gave birth to Cecilia Abrahams who became Cecilia Marks when she married Joseph Hart Marks.
1824(3rd of Tishrei, 5585): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.
1832(1st of Tishrei, 5593): As English Jews observe Rosh Hashanah most of them are pleased with the recent passage of the Reform Act which created a Parliament more reflective of the changes in British society but saddened because it did not deal with the issue of Jewish Disabilities.
1832:Jews living in Sydney, Australia gathered at Mr. Rowell's shop on George Street which had been fitted out as synagogue to hold Rosh Hashanah services.
1835(2nd of Tishrei, 5596): Rosh Hashanah II
1841(10th of Tishrei, 5602): Yom Kippur
1843(1st of Tishrei, 5604): Rosh Hashanah
1843: Birthdate of Herman W. Hellman, the Bavarian native who came to Los Angeles at the age of 15 and pursued a business career with his brother Isaiah while raising a family with the former Ida Heimann of Trevino, Italy and becoming a leading member of the Jewish community.
1845: In New York City, Edward Woolf and Sarah Michels gave birth to “electrician and inventor” Albert Edward Wollf, the graduate of CCNY and husband of Rosamund Wimpfheimer who “sterilized New York’s drinking water during the typhoid epidemic of 1893 and helped to eradicate yellow fever.”
1846: Birthdate of English archeologist Archibald Henry Sayce, the native of Southampton author of The Races of the Old Testament who established “that the Hittites, far from being a small Canaanite tribe who dealt with the kings of the northern Kingdom of Israel, were the people of a "lost Hittite empire," which Egyptian texts were then bringing to light.” (The Jewish Encyclopedia shows the year as 1846)
http://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/archibald-henry-sayce
https://archive.org/details/hittitesstoryoff00saycuoft
1847(15th of Tishrei, 5608): Sukkoth
1849(9th of Tishrei, 5610): Erev Yom Kippur
1850(19th of Tishrei, 5611): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1850(19th of Tishrei, 5611): Francis Edward Salamon the five year old son of Edward Salamon and Henrietta Levien and the brother of New South Wales native Montague Levien Salamon passed away today.
1854(3rd of Tishrei, 5615): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the first time during the Crimean War
1857: In Petersburg, VA, Fannie and Seligman Hutzler gave birth to Henry S. Hutzler, the President of the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Richmond and an officer of B’nai B’rith.
1859: In London, Caroline Lazarus and Mark George Simmons gave birth to Catherine Simmons.
1860(9th of Tishrei, 5621): Erev Yom Kippur
1860: Representatives of the Hebrew Benevolent were among those attending the meeting of the National Emigrant Benevolent Association which was held this afternoon at the rooms of the German Society.
1860: In Davenport, IA, Edward Russell, the abolitionist editor of the Davenport Gazette and his wife gave birth to Charles Edward Russell the author of Haym Salomon and the Revolution and a leading supporter of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
1861(21st of Tishrei, 5622): Hoshana Rabah
1861: Henry Heller, surgeon with the 27th Regiment which was originally called the “Washington Brigade” competed his term of service today.
1861: Philadelphian Jacob Herman who would be wounded at Cedar Creek in 1864 and rise to the rank of Sergeant began four years of service with Company C of the 98th Regiment.
1861:At their meeting this evening, the Board of Alderman in New York adopted the report of the Finance Committee which included a recommendation that $30,000 should be given to the Hebrew Benevolent Society for the erection of a hospital.
1862(1st of Tishrei, 5623): Rosh Hashanah
1862: As the Jews of Louisville, KY, including members of the Brandeis and Dembitz families, observed the Jewish New Year, Union forces led by General Don Carlos Buell began moving into the city. They were part of an army that was moving to stop the advance of Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg. Ultimately Bragg’s “invasion” of Kentucky and Ohio would fail driving another nail in the Confederate’s coffin.
1863: Birthdate of Dr. Moses Hyamson, Senior Dayan or Chief Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court of the United Synagogue of London who would become the rival candidate for the office of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain to which Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz would be chosen. After losing out to Hertz, Hyamson would be named Rabbi of Congregation Orach Chaim in New York, the position that Hertz vacated when he became Chief Rabbi of Great Britain.
1864:“The Jewish Synagogue erected for the congregation, Aderath Eb, was dedicated” this afternoon. “The edifice is situated in Twenty-ninth-street, between Lexington and Third-avenues, built of brick, and capable of accommodating about fire hundred people. The interior fittings are neat and handsome, without being gaudy. The services …were the customary dedication exercises, according to the Hebrew ritual. The sacred scrolls of the law were carried in procession three times around the Synagogue, and the perpetual lamp lighted in front of the arch while the Chazan and the choir chanted the Psalms of David.” Rabbi Morris Raphall and Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs addressed the congregation. Captain Burdick “and a squad of the Twenty-first Precinct Police, rendered efficient aid in preserving order at the door and keeping out unbidden guests.”
1864:According to “The Last Copperhead Plot and How it Miscarried” published today one of the plotters was a Jew named Rosenthal who had settled as a clothing dealer in Sandusky, Ohio about two years ago. He claimed to have been driven out of Richmond for Union sentiments but he is known to be an outspoken Copperhead.
1865(5th of Tishrei, 5626): Seventy year old Hayman Levy, the son of Solomon and Rebecca Eve Levy and the husband of Almeria Levy passed away today.
1866(16th of Tishrei, 5627): Second Day of Sukkoth
1868(9th of Tishrei, 5629): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last timed during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson
1869(20th of Tishrei, 5630): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth observed for the first time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant who attended services at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C.
1869(20th of Tishrei, 5630: Seventy-one year old German-Jewish poet Moses M. Haarbleicher passed away today.
1869: In Morocco, Hyam Solomon Levy-Yuly, the London born son of Mr. and Mrs. Judah Levy-Yuly and his wife Hanna Levy-Yuly gave birth to Florence and Alice Levy-Yuly.
1871(10th of Tishrei, 5632): Yom Kippur
1871: An advertisement in todays Seattle Intelligencer boasted that Schwabacher Brothers the store by Louise, Abe and Sig Schwabacher "sold everything from a needle to an anchor.”
1871: It was reported today that a bill has been introduced in the French Parliament to take away the rights of citizenship granted to the Jews born in Algeria. The proposal was made in response to Moslem uprising in Algeria. A Jewish delegation that included the Chief Rabbi, Albert Cohn and Joseph Cohen testified before the committee that is reviewing the proposal.
1872: Birthdate Hungary native and JTS trained rabbi and “biblical scholar” Joseph Herman Hertz, who served as Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth of Nations from 1913 until 1946. (This blog cannot do justice to this distinguished leader)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-joseph-hertz
1874: As the dispute over the management of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum escalated, Raphael Lewin, the editor of New Era wrote to the New York Times challenging the recently published resolution adopted by the Directors of that institution. The directors claimed that Lewin’s claims of mismanagement which were to appear in his magazine were false and brought with malicious intent. Lewin responded that he stood ready to prove his charges “and the purity of” his “motives” in publishing them.
1874(14th of Tishrei, 5635): Erev Sukkoth and Erev Shabbat are celebrated on the same evening.
1874: Rabbi Isaacs led Sukkoth eve festivals at the 44thStreet Synagogue in New York City.
1874: At Temple Emanuel the prominent Reform congregation on 5thAvenue, a larger than usual crowd attended services which were augmented by the singing of a Choir.
1875(25th of Elul, 5635): Leil Selichot
1876: Aaron Lazarus was “appointed Aide-de-Camp (with the rank of Camptain to the staff of Brigadier General R.M.Brinton
1879: Birthdate of Odessa native Joseph Malkin, the “first cellist” with the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic who “founded the Malkin Conservatory in 1933.”
1879: In Lithuania, Joseph and Celia L. (Sharkansky) Augustus gave birth to Morris Augustus, the husband of Rose Epstein whom he married in 1917 and director of the Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged in Chicago who was also a “delegate to numerous Zionist and B’nai B’rith conventions.”
1879: A fire destroyed the business on Main Street in Deadwood, SD including “the wooden huts and muddy streets where the first Jewish inhabitants conducted their business.” The Jewish population had grown to over a hundred during the gold rush that enveloped the area. Reportedly “about one-third of all the early buildings on Main Street were owned or occupied by Jewish merchants. These were mostly traditional Jewish enterprises such as dry goods or those related to clothing.” The fire was probably not a case of anti-Semitic arson. Although no report exists as to the origin of the fire, such outbreaks were a common occurrence in the United States (see Chicago Fire, San Francisco Fire) at a time when there were no building codes and most buildings were wooden.
1881(2nd of Tishrei, 5642): 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah
1881: Samuel Greenbaum presided over tonight’s memorials service hosted by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in honor of the late President Garfield.
1881: “Echoes From Beyond the Sea” published today described events in Europe and Asia Minor including renewed application by English and German Jews made to the Turkish government for the purchase of land in Syria. Jews would then “emigrate from European countries where life is intolerable” helped along by the construction of roads and railways financed by wealthy Jews living on the Continent and England.
1883: In Vienna, Max and Elsie (Kahn) Blum gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained dentist and physician Theodor Blum the husband of Bertha Roth whom he married at Newark in 1909 and director and chief of the oral surgery department at the N.Y. Throat, Nose and Lung Hospital who was the consulting oral surgeon at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1884: In Baltimore, MD, Leo and Annie Steiner Deutsch gave birth to the 1904 NYU Law School
graduate Bernard Deutsch, “the President of the Board of Alderman” in New York, “a leader in the American Jewish Community and the husband of “the former Francis Weinstein with whom he had two daughters – Elinor and Dorothy
https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/56611
http://judaism_enc.enacademic.com/5064
1884: In Philadelphia, David Longsdorf objected to the newspaper reports that treated the marriage of his friend Henry Friedman to Sarah Schuer in the same way as they did the elopement of Victoria Morsini. Friedman, whose father had helped form the Cameron Dragoons which fought with distinction during the Civil War and his bride had known each other for quite some time. The two Reform Jews did elope but were married under a Chupah by Dr. Silberman, an Orthodox rabbi in the presence of a minyan
1885: Congregation B’Nai Jehsurun brought suit today in District Court against the estate of the late Joseph Levy for the amount of $100 - $75 for the religious services including the cost of “watchers” and $25.00 for the grave. Marcus Cohen, president of the congregation, testified that normally the charge is $300 but due to the circumstances of the death, the charges were reduced.
1886: Vanity Fair published a “picture” of Sir John Simon, the Jamaican born Jewish Member of Parliament who spent the last twenty years of his life working to ameliorate the conditions of the Jews of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_John_Simon_Vanity_Fair_25_September_1886.jpg
1886: “Jew And Catholic” published today reported that the marriage of David Bretzfelder, a 28 year old Jewish letter carrier and Kittie Cannon, a young Roman Catholic has caused a great deal of discussion today in New Haven, Connecticut since it is “the first of its kind that ever took place in this city.”
1886: According to a summary of the annual report of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York published today, “four hundred and fifteen children are now cared for by the society, and its finances are in good condition, although further donations are need to meet the increasing demands of the institution.”
1887: Birthdate of Apolda, Germany native Amanda Wachtel who after being interned at Drancy was shipped to Auschwitz where she died.
1888: Birthdate of Leon Rene Yankwich, the native of Romania and graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who served on the federal bench for almost four decades.
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390201
1888: Birthdate of Bucharest born, NYU trained dentist J. William Maller, the orthodontist who wrote “Child Psychology As Applied to Orthodontia.”
https://www.ajodo.org/article/S0099-6963(29)90610-4/pdf
1889(29th of Elul, 5649): Erev Rosh Hashana
1889: In its appeal for funds published today, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York reported that since opening is doors it has cared for 1,428 children, 560 of whom are currently receiving services.
1889: The Jews of San Diego, California, gathered at Second and Beech Street to greet the Jewish New Year of 5650 and pray in their own house of worship.
1889: Birthdate of Julius Borentstein “a native of Rachov in Russian Poland, who fled Tsarist military service and came to the United States where went from working in the garment industry to becoming a builder in the Bronx and worked to ensure “the survival of Jewish cultural life by helping to bring the YIVO Institute to New York from Vilna at the outbreak of WW II while raising two daughters – Esther and Sonya – with “his wife, the former Sarah Saltzman.”
1890: It was reported today that “during the last fifteen years” Broadway has become “the principal highway of Jewish mercantile enterprise in America” as can be seen by the fact that business signs have given way to primarily “Hebrew names” and that in New York, Jewish merchants dominate “in the dry goods district” as well as the “retail streets in the popular sections of the city.”
1891: Having moved to Abilene, TX in 1884, Bertha Stenbock and Samuel Lapoweski, the parents of Clarence Lapowski who gained fame as Harvard trained financier Clarence Dillon, became naturalized citizens today.
1891: “Joseph Barondess, the ex-leader of the Cloak-makers’ Union disappeared today while out on bail during his appeal of a conviction for extorting money from the cloak manufacturers.
1891: “The issue of the American Hebrew published today contained a letter from Baron de Hirsch…which shows that he has by no means abandoned the plan of colonizing Russian Jewish refugees in the Argentine.”
1893(15TH of Tishrei, 5654): Sukkoth
1893 During the outbreak of Cholera in Italy, the Chief Rabbi of Leghorn ordered the grand synagogue be closed as a precautionary measure.
1893: It was reported today that “the anti-Semites represented by Dr. Forester and Rector Ahlwardt have developed a parliamentary program” which will put an end to Jews immigrating to Germany. They also seek to “prohibit Jews from owning land” and not to allow “Jews to enteral the medical, legal, editorial or military professions.
1894: “Jews Persecuted In Morocco” published today described the five pound tax they must pay “for passing along the principals highways” and the beatings and plundering to which they are regularly subjected.
1894: In Ireland, Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants Abraham William Briscoe and Ida Yoedicke gave birth to Robert "Bob" Briscoe who was a member of the IRA and Sinn Féin.
1894: In New York City, Simeon and Belle Lawson (Simeon Levy before he changed the name) gave birth to playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson who fell victim to the McCarthy era Red Scare.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAlawsonJH.htm
1895: It was reported today that the Hebrew Mutual Benevolent Society has paid $2,000 in foreclosure to acquire the property on the west side of Hoffman Street, south of 187th Street.
1895:In Lancaster, PA, Degel Israel an orthodox congregation was formed with about fifty members.
1896(18th of Tishrei, 5657): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1896(18th of Tishrei, 5657): Seventy-seven-year old Henry B. Phillips, the son of Abigail Seixas and Benjamin Jonas Phillips passed away today in Brooklyn.
1896: “Olympia Theater Opened” published today described the premiere of Oscar Hammerstein’s new operetta “Santa Maria” the performance of which the critic described as “excellent.”
1897: The Bombay correspondent for the Jewish World wrote to that “the forty-third annual report of the Bene Israel Benevolent Society” shows “that none of its members or its wards suffered from the plague” and “the income for the year was 1,048 rupees and the expenditures were 914 rupees.
1897: Birthdate of American author William Faulkner whose works were dotted with Jewish characters starting with a Jewish salesman in “Soldier’s Pay,” his first written novel published in 1926 to Barton Kohl, a Jewish pilot in “The Mansion,” published in 1959. Faulkner’s treatment of Jewish characters changed over time. Alfred J. Kutzik reportedly published one of the definitive articles on anti-Semitism in Faulkner’s early works. For more on this topic, consult “Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in 20th Century American Literature” by Louis Harap.
1897: Jacob Aaron Cantor, a successful lawyer and New York political leader, married Lydia Greenbaum. His first wife had passed away 8 years earlier. The couple had three children.
1897: “The Essenes Still Exist” published today described a revelation made by Halevy at the Oriental Congress in which told the attendees about the existence of Abyssinian Jews where part of the same sect of Essenes who had lived at the time of Jews. Numbering about 200,000 they are so strict in their observances that no water could be drawn on the Sabbath.
1897: It was reported today that Dr. Isidore Singer is preparing the Encyclopedia of the History and of the Intellectual Development of the Jewish Race “which will present in alphabetical order the most important publications which have appeared in all times relative to the Jews” and will follow :the format of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
1898(9th of Tishrei, 5659): Erev Yom Kippur
1898(9th of Tishrei, 5659): Felix Gross, a private in Company C in the 1st Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry passed away today.
1898(9th of Tishrei, 5659): Samuel Joseph, the native of London who, at the age of 18 emigrated to New Zealand where he served as an “an interpreter for explorer Sir George Grey” before moving to Australia where he went into “business with Jacob Levi Montefiore” and served in both houses of the legislature, passed away today.
1898: As Jews prepared to observe Yom Kippur beginning this evening, Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El said of fasting and attending worship services, “It is matter of individual feeling and conscience.”
1898: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler delivered a sermon to the congregants of Temple Beth El entitled “His Song Is With Me At Night” in which “he contended that religion was the song of God in the night of human selfishness and error.”
1898: On the lower east side a mob of angry Jews gathered in front of Herrick Brothers, the restaurant that advertised it would be open for Yom Kippur in the Forwards in an attempt to shut it down because it was a desecration of the holidy.
1898: “Primitive Christianity” published today provides W.S. Lilly’s view of the early Christians who “were not as yet manifested to world as a Church” but were “a Jewish sect, practicing all the requirements of the Jewish law and nourishing their religious life from the Jews sacred books.
1899:In order to continue "Die Welt", a syndicate in the form of a joint-stock company is founded by the Actions Committee.
1899: Birthdate of Russian born and University of Chicago undergraduate Harry Arnoff Gussin who in 1913 came to the United States where he pursued a career as a surgeon while raising a Vivian Gussin Paley the hold of a Ph.D in psychology from Tulane and early education expert with is wife Yetta Meisel.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/23/vivian-gussin-paley-obituary?CMP=gu_com
1899: “What Anti-Semitism Has Cost France” published today described the negative impact that the Jew-baiters Regis, Drumont and their supports have had on the economy of Algiers. In 1898 there were 83 bankruptcies which has risen to 105 so far this year while the wealthy English and Americans are no longer renting expensive villas.
1899: Birthdate of Budapest native Alexander Neufeld the “football player and coach.”
1900(2nd of Tishrei, 5661): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1900: In New York, members of Temple Beth El continued to be dismayed by the long simmering breach between Rabbis Kaufman Kohler and Samuel Schulman that bubbled to the service during Rosh Hashanah Services on the previous day. According to accounts in the press, the breach was a generational matter. Kaufman, who appealed to the older members, preached in German, a language incomprehensible to the younger generations. Schulman, who had been brought from the west preached in English and was the choice of younger members. “Both of the rabbis declined to discuss the matter. H.S. Herman, one of the Temple Trustees” publicly denied that there was any friction between the two rabbis. This episode is not the first, nor the last, in generational conflicts that will arise in American congregations.
1901: The funeral of Simon Sterne, the noted attorney and “authority on railroad and constitutional law” will take place this morning at 40 W. 59th Street followed by burial in the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1901: Today’s Specials at Bloomingdales include Woman’s tailored suit for $14 and “all the latest books” which are marked down from $1.50 to eighty-five cents.
1902(23rd of Elul, 5662): Eliyahu Menachem Goitein, the Hungarian born son of Zvi (Armin) Hirsch Goitein and Szali (Sara) Sarolta Goitein and husband of Amalia Mahala Goitein passed away today.
1902: “Germany has decided not to associate herself in a formal manner with the American and British protests against Romanians treatment of the Jews.”
1902: “The Vienna correspondent of The Daily Telegraph” said in a dispatch today “that the Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs is coming to Vienna to consult with the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, concerned the noted addressed by United States Secretary of State Hay to the signatories of the Berlin treaty with regard to the Jews in Romania.”
1903(4th of Tishrei, 5664): Sixty-nine year old Kilian von Steiner the German-Jewish banker, industrialist and patron of the arts who was ennobled by King William of Wurttenberg passed away today.
1903: Birthdate of Mark Rothko. Rothko was a painter who is often classified as an abstract expressionist, although he vociferously denied being an abstract painter. He was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Daugavpils (Dvinsk), Russia (now Latvia) and emigrated to the United States in 1916.His work concentrated on basic emotions, often filling the canvas with very few, but intense colors, using little immediately-apparent detail. In this respect, he can also be considered to presage the color field painters (see Helen Frankenthaler).Although respected by other artists, Rothko remained in relative obscurity until 1960, supporting himself by teaching art. In 1958, Rothko was commissioned by architect Philip Johnson to paint a series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York. This substantial project was completed in late 1959. Ultimately, Rothko was not happy having his paintings as the backdrop to gourmet dining so he gave a set of nine of the maroon and black works to the Tate Gallery, where they are on permanent display in an installation designed by Rothko. In 1967, Rothko again collaborated with Johnson on a church in Houston, Texas, contributing 14 related works in an installation setting. The church has subsequently become known as "The Rothko Chapel". Numerous other works are scattered in museums throughout the world. Rothko's work was secretly supported by the
1904(16th of Tishrei, 5665): Second Day of Sukkoth.
1904: Birthdate of New York City native Morris J. Kandel, the “founder and president of the Bonded Fil Storage Company of New York and the husband of Celia Kandel with whom he had two daughters – Phyllis and Joan.
1905: Birthdate of Professor Nahman Avigad Israeli archeologist famed for his work at Masada, on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and most important of all the excavation of the Old City starting in 1969. Among his discoveries were the great menorah from the Second Temple and the Broad Wall mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. He passed away in 1992.
https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Jerusalem-Nahman-Avigad/dp/0840752997
1905: Pitcher Moxie Manuel made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1905: Birthdate of Bohemian native Friedrich Kohner, the author and screenwriter who wrote the “Gidget” novels which inspired a whole “industry” of youth dominated films.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-13/entertainment/ca-11523_1_kathy-kohner
1905: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas officiated at the wedding of Sam Fink and Hattie Levy.
1905: Fifty-two year old Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac who while serving as Minister of War refused to join his colleagues in a move to overturn the conviction of Dreyfus even though he knew that the document used to convict him was a forgery, passed away today.
1906: It was reported today that in Philadelphia, a box containing an infernal machine addressed to Jacob H. Schiff, the New York financier, had been stolen from a Chestnut Hill mailbox
by a boy, who thereby unwittingly upset a plot against Mr. Schiff's life. The box, disguised as a Rosh Hashanah candy gift, contained enough explosives to blow up the entire house.
1906: Sixty-nine year old “Sarah Lukowsky” was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Island.”
1907(17thof Tishrei, 5668): Third Day of Sukkoth observed as Neiman Marcus opens for its 15th day of business.
1908(29thof Elul, 5668): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1908: Birthdate of Californian Stanley “Jiggs” Jaloff who led the University of Washington to back to back basketball championships in the 1920’s.
1908: Jacob Frank, Burlington, VT born son of Dora Shufro and Joseph Elihu Frank and University of Vermont trained engineer Jacob Frank was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lt. in the Coast Artillery Corps of the United States Army.
1909(10thof Tishrei, 5670): Yom Kippur
1909: Four new Jewish schools open in Turkey.
1909: “The Dollar Princess,” a musical written by Fritz Grunbaum and with a score by Leo Fall opened today in London today at Daly’s Theatre where it ran for 428 performances.
1910: In “Young Turk Party Has Revolutionized Sultan’s Land” published today, Richard Gotteheil who took a year’s leave of absence from Columbia to spend a year in the Orient, described the changes that have taken place in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt.
1911(3rd of Tishrei, 5672): Tzom Gadaliah
1911(3rd of Tishrei, 5672): After authorities had refused to spend time alone with a rabbi, “Dmitry Bogroff, the assassin of Premier Stolypin, who was condemned to death by court martial was hanged today.”
1912: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York. The school and the Pulitzer Prizes which it awards were possible because of an endowment by publish Joseph Pulitzer.
1913: Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract for $175. Within three years he would be making $10,000 a week at Amutual Studios. The Little Tramp was no bum.
1913: In Kiev, Menahem Mendel Bellis who was accused of a ritual murder in what was a modern version of the age-old blood libel began today.
1913: Thirty-year-old HUC trained rabbi Joseph Jasin, the Polish born son of Israel and Esther Jasin married Ada Rosenfield in New York today after having led congregations in Texas.
1914: “Appeal to Jews for Aid” published today described the suffering of the Jews of Austria and their belief that Austro-Hungarian Empire was fighting to protect the rights and improve the lot of the Russian Jews suffering under the rule of the Czar.
1915(17thof Tishrei, 5676): Shabbat Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
1915(17thof Tishrei, 5676): Sixty-nine year old Solomon Fox, the husband of Caroline Fox, passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1915(17thof Tishrei, 5676): 2Lt Bernard Russell Abinger, the cousin of Midshipman Vivian George Edward S. Schreiber who had been killed while serving aboard HMS Monmouth lost his life while serving with His Majesty’s forces on the Western Front.
1915: Opening of the Battle of Loos, the massive British assault on the Western Front.
1916: It was announced today by the publishers of The American Hebrew that “President Willson has written a letter for publication in the upcoming special New Year’s” issue of the paper that pays “a high tribute to the citizenship of the Jews and assuring them of his interest in his ‘fellow citizens of Hebrew extraction.’”
1917(9th of Tishrei, 5678): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1917: At noon today, U.S. soldiers and sailors begin furloughs granted so that they can observe Yom Kippur.
1917: Due to air raids, Kol Nidre was “curtailed” in London this evening.
1917: Today, 2,500 Jewish soldiers are scheduled to from Camp Upton to New York to attend Yom Kippur Services tomorrow after which they will return to camp. Many of them will be traveling aboard two special trains where they will be paying $1.20 instead of the usual $3.40 thanks to the efforts of General J. Franklin Bell.
1917: “As a result of negotiations between Isidore Hershfield, representing the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of American and the State Department, the Secretary of State instructed te American Ambassador to Japan and the American Consul at Yokohama to make an investigation as to the number and condition of the Jewish war refugees who have been stranded in Japan on their way from Russia to America.”
1917: Among the Jewish leaders “who made vigorous appeals” today the special campaign being conducted to raise an additional one million dollars for the American Jewish War Relief Committee were “Stephen s. Wise of the Free Synagogue, Dr. Samuel Schulman of Temple Beth-El, Dr. Joseph Silverman at Temple Emanu-El and Judge Otto Rosalsky of the Pinchus Elijah Synagogue.
1918: Newly promoted Sergeant Abraham Blaustein was among the troops from 165thRegiment who joined in the massive Allied offensive “from Rheims to Versailles” that would lead to the capture of thousands of prisoners and more importantly lead to the end of WW I.
1918(19thof Tishrei, 5679): Russian born Yiddish actress Keni Lipzin who shared the stage with Jacob Adler and came to the United States in 1889 where she was so successful that Abraham Cahan called a “Queen” and opened her own theatre passed away today in New York City.
1918: In WW I, “Australian and New Zealand cavalrymen crossed the Jordan River and entered Amman.” From the Mediterranean to the Jordan, Eretz Israel was now under the control of the British who had promised that this would be site of the Jewish home after the end of hostilities.
1919(1stof Tishrei, 5680): Rosh Hashanah
1919: President Wilson suffers a stroke and collapses after a giving a speech calling for the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson had returned from the Paris Peace Conference with a peace treaty designed not just to end the hostilities of World War I but to avoid future conflicts through the creation of the League of Nations. Republicans led by Senator Lodge opposed the treaty and had the votes to block passage. Wilson began a cross-country campaign of public appearances designed to bring the weight of public opinion into the battle for ratification. With the stroke, Wilson could no longer appear in public. Lodge and the isolationists triumphed. The treaty was rejected. The United States did not join the League of Nations which rendered the international body virtually powerless even before it held its first meeting. Wilson predicted that if the treaty and the League were rejected there would another world war within twenty years. He would not live to see his tragic prophecy come true. Would World War II have been avoided if the League had been the organization envisioned by Wilson? Would the Holocaust have not happened if Wilson’s health had not failed? We will never know.
1920 (13th of Tishrei, 5681): On Shabbat, Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist passed away.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70E15FD345511738DDDAF0A94D1405B808EF1D3
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsc53
1920(13thof Tishrei, 5681): Rabbi Raphael Melamed is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Gathering Our Harvest” at Congregation Petach Tikvah in Brooklyn.
1921: “$14,000,000 to Aid Jews” published today described a meeting at the Standard Club in Chicago hosted by Julius Rosenwald where 200 prominent Jews from various parts of the country pledged themselves to raise funds for the suffering, homeless Jews in Europe many of whom are suffering from the effects of famine.
1922: Radcliff College “opened today” with thirty five Jewish upper classman and “several more entering freshmen which is taken as a sign by some that “Radcliffe welcomes Jews.”
1923(15th of Tishrei, 5684): Sukkoth
1924: “Makes Plea to Jews” published today described Professor Einstein’s brief visit to Vienna where he hopes to interest Austrian Jews “in the work of up-building Palestine” in the same that has been shown by “their coreligionists in the United States and Germany.”
1925(3rd of Tishrei, 5683): Tzom Gedaliah
1925(3rdof Tishrei, 5683): Seventy-two-year old Russian-American archaeologist and linguist Immanuel M. Casanowicz, the holder of a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins who taught “Hebrew and Church History at the German Theological School of Newark in Bloomfield, NJ” before becoming the “assistant curator of the Division of Old World Archaeology at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C.” while writing several works including “Paranomasia in the Old Testament” passed away today.
1925: Samuel Gitlow, the Belarus born of Elke and Herschel Gitlow and his wife Esther Gitlow gave birth to Yvette Tekel today.
1926(17thof Tishrei, 5687) Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1926: In Örösveg, the son of Fani, a homemaker, and Herman-Bernad Mermelstein, a winemaker and his wife Fani a homemaker gave birth to Mel Mermelstein the sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz. Who defeated the Institute for Historical Reviews in an American court and had the occurrence of gassings in Auschwitz during the Holocaust declared a legally incontestable fact.
1926: The usual Sabbath service at Temple Isaac led by Rabbi Horace Glatt was delayed so that “Jewish neighbors of the late Borough President Joseph A Guider of Brooklyn” could attend a memorial service at the Temple where “assistant District Attorney, Alexander Geismar, a former rabbi,” delivered the eulogy in which “he praised Mr. Guider for his work in behalf of the Jews.”
1927: Stephen W. Wise is scheduled to officiate at the funeral services for Rabbi Rudolph Grossman being held at the West End Synagogue.
1928: In East St. Louis, Illinois, Hymie Gold, a longshoreman and a union shop foreman from Romania, and “the former Cissy Newmark from London, UK” gave birth to political operative Vic Gold who worked for Barry Goldwater and Spiro Agnew. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1928: Birthdate of Robert Zuckerkandle, who gained fame and fortune as Robert Chandler, the CBS executive who played a crucial role in creating the highly rated and critically acclaimed weekly newsmagazine “60 Minutes,”
1929: Birthdate of Irving Louis Horowitz, the Rutgers professor who was “an eminent sociologist and prolific author.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1929: “In Boston, Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis "Lou" Walters (born Louis Abraham Warmwater)” gave birth to broadcast personality Barbara Walters.
1929: Today, in Jerusalem, “two Arabs from Nablus who were arrested with hand grenades in their possession were each sentenced to one year in prison while Shalom Cohen, who was arrested on a charge of possessing firearms had his bail doubled when the magistrate charged with the additional crime of “unpremeditated murdrer.
1930: Birthdate of humorist and author Shel Silverstein. His works covered a broad range of topics and interests. They ranged from the children's book The Giving Tree to the country hit "A Boy Named Sue."
1931(14thof Tishrei, 5692): Erev Sukkoth
1931: It was reported today that Temple Emanu-El, Central Synagogue, West End Synagogue and Temple Israel are among the Manhattan congregations that will be taking part in drive to urge parents to register their children in religious school.
1932: The New York Times reported that foreign correspondent had been kicked out of Russia for being a “bourgeois troublemaker.”
1932: In Toronto, Russell Herbert Gold and Florence Emma Gold (née Greig) gave birth to Glen Herbert Gold, the Canadian musician who changed his name to “Gould” so that he would not be mistaken for being a Jewish – a reality that could have been damaging given the anti-Semitism of pre-war Canada.
1932: “The formation of a national committee against prepayment of the bonus was today by S. Stanwood Menken, the Memphis born convert to Christianity who is the organizer of the National Security League.
1933: Founding of The Revolutionary Mexicanist Action, known as the Gold Shirts a nationalist organization headed by Nicolas Rodriquez that announced in 1935 “that it will energetically seek all means to combat Jewish activities in Mexico” including withdrawal of citizenship for Jews living in Mexico, forbidding Jews to participate in politics and forcing Jews who own factories to turn them over to “Mexican Laborers.”
1933: Rabbi Simcha Solovetchick, who studied under Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan, the Chofetz Chaim, helped to lead the memorial services for his mentor which were held at Synagogue Tifereth Israel in Brooklyn.
1934(16thof Tishrei, 5695): Sukkoth II
1934: As the Nazis pursue their twin policies of anti-Semitism and being host for the 1936 Olympics, it was reported today that German authorities seemed considerably worried lest the ban on Jewish juvenile organizations in Berlin, Potsdam, Essen and other cities be interpreted by the American Olympic committee as interfering with Jewish sports.
1935: In Berlin, “a spokesman for the Foreign Office acknowledged today that Siegfried Hey, the deputy chief of the Eastern division had left government service because of his ‘non-Aryan’ status because his position, along with that of Richard Mayer and Robert Ulrich, two financial experts had become “untenable” under the “the decree of September 15 which separated Jews…from Aryan citizens…”
1936(9 of Tishrei, 5697): Erev Yom Kippur
1936: “Leading rabbis of twelve countries, headed by Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz of Great Britain joined in a solemn protest to civilized conscience against the vilification of the Jewish people, especially dealing with Chancellor Hitler’s ‘insatiable hatred of the Jews.’”
1936: At Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Samuel delivered a sermon entitled “A New Heart and a New Spirit.”
1936: At Temple Israel, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum delivered a sermon entitled “Taking Stock of Civilization.”
1936: At the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Dr. David de Sola Pool “urged his congregation ‘to rise to a level of living in which he normal consciousness will be dominant.’”
1936: At the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, Rabbi Phineas Israeli delivered a sermon entitled “Serving God With Joy.”
1936: At Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein delivered a sermon entitled “The State of Jewry.”
1936: At Congregation Ohab Zedek, Rabbi William Margolis “listed five nations that needed atonement including Italy which speaks “through the lips of her neo-Caesar,” Spain, Poland, Germany and England which needs “to keep open the gates of Palestine for Jewry.”
1936: At the Free Synagogue, Dr. Stephen S. Wise delivered a sermon entitled “ Atonement—With Whom?”
1936: Judge Louis Goldstein delivered the sermon at The Williamsburg Young Men’s and Young Women’s Association of Brooklyn.
1936: Dr. Wolf, the Grand Rabbi of Allied Synagogues delivered the sermon at the Times Square Temple on 7th Avenue.
1936: At Congregation B’nai Jershurun Dr. Israel Goldstein called on his congregants to “let the Jew continue to stand for human brotherhood.”
1936: At the Wall Street Synagogue, Rabbi Joseph Hager praised “Israel as nation of the earth” “assembled, stirred by the same sentiments and animated by the same feelings.”
1936: “Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein spoke at the Jewish Science Society” today.
1936: Rabbi Samuel Greenfield led the services for Isaiah Temple which held its services at the Pythian Temple.
1936: At the West End Synagogue, Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel delivered a sermon entitled “On Wings of the Spirit.”
1936: At Mount Neboh Temple, Rabbi A. L. Feinberg called on his congregants to “proclaim a world-wide day of fasting and prayer.”
1936: At the Montefiore Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi Jacob Katz delivered a sermon entitled “Truth and Patience.”
1936: Rabbi Sidney S. Tedesche led Kol Nidre services at the Union Temple which met at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
1936: At Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I Newman “said that reckless vows of vengeance must annulled.”
1936: At the Institutional Synagogue Annex, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered a sermon entitled “The Synagogue” in which he said “the safety of the Jew in America lies in his attachment to the synagogue.”
1936: The Maccabee soccer team of Palestine goes through its final drill this afternoon at Yankee Stadium in preparation for its Sunday match with the All Stars which will be played in the House that Ruth Built.
1936: “Fräulein Lilli or Miss Lilli is a German language comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and Hans Behrendt both of whom died in Nazi concentration camps and Robert Wohmulth who escaped to the United States after the Anschluss and with music by two Jewish composers – Artur Guttmann and Hans J. Salter – was released today in Austria.
1936: “Books of the Times” provided a review of Mainland by Jewish author Gilbert Seldes which “deals with music, fascism, drama, Jefferson, literature, communism, mass production, the movies, John Strachey, populism, Lawrence Dennis, the Oneida Community, wages, Amos ‘n’ Andy, the American dream, farm markets, Jews, the purpose and meaning of life, Christopher Columbus, Marx, the power age, the New Deal, philosophic pluralism, radio advertising” and a whole lot more.
1936: “An editorial by Robert Farinacci, the former Secretary-General of the Fascist party,” that appeared in today’s issue of the Regime Fascista charged “that Jews have caused recent European disturbances by an ‘essentially subversive’ international policy…”
1937(20thof Tishrei, 5698): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1937: When Vittorio Mussolini, the son of “Italian dictator Benito Mussolini” arrived in Los Angles to begin his study of film making, he was greeted by ads run in the newspapers by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League.
1937(20thof Tishrei, 5698): Eighty-year-old Albany, NY native Henry E. Stern, “a senior member of the law firm of Stern and Hirschfeld” and a “former City Court judge” passed away today.
1938(29thof Elul, 5698): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1938: In the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Abe Hoffman whose family lived behind their store at 2309 East Fourth Street was born at Lincoln Hospital
http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/a_boyle_heights_boyhood.htm
1938: At seven o’clock in the morning Levi Yitzchok Bender “out to Rebbe Nachman's gravesite for a few minutes to recite the Tikkun HaKlali (the "General Remedy" which is customarily recited at the gravesite). He was spotted by another Jewish man known to be a government informer. Bender pleaded with the man not to report him, but as he walked back to his friend's house, he noticed the informer following him. Since he was familiar with all the back roads of Uman, he managed to shake him off his trail.
1939(12th of Tishrei, 5700): Harold U. Hirsch who played football at the University of Georgia from 1900 to 1901, studied law at Columbia University and was the general counsel for The Coca-Cola Company for more than thirty years passed away today. According to some Hirsch was instrumental in the development of the unique shape of the Coca-Cola bottle and the logo in 1913. In 1932, a new building was completed for the University Of Georgia School Of Law, a building named Harold Hirsch Hall in honor of Hirsch.
1940(22ndof Elul, 5700): Forty-eight year old Walter Benjamin killed himself with “an overdose of morphine tablets” tonight as he awaited repatriation to France where he would be turned over to the Nazis.
http://www.haaretz.com/chronicling-walter-benjamin-s-final-hours-1.449897
1941: In Kovno, the Germans gave the Jewish Council 5,000 work passes, placing upon them the burden of choosing who shall work and live, and who shall die.
1942: While sailing from Newfoundland to the United Kingdom the SS President Warfield was attacked by a German submarine 800 miles west of Ireland. The ship evaded the torpedoes and made it safely to port. The SS SS President Warfield would gain fame in 1947 as the SS Exodus.
1942(14th of Tishrei, 5703): Erev Sukkoth
1942(14th of Tishrei, 5703): Four hundred eighty-one French Jews, including Rene' Blum, the brother of the former French Prime Minister were killed in Birkenau.
1942: Despite growing resistance, 2,000 Jews from Kaluszyn were sent to be killed at Treblinka. Kaluszyn was a predominantly Jewish town in Poland about thirty miles from Warsaw. The Jewish population grew as Jews from other areas sought refuge there. Unfortunately most of them ended up at Treblinka. The Sefer Kalushin or Book of Kaluszyn describes the fate of the community in grim detail.
1942: Two thousand more Jews were deported from the "show ghetto" at Theresienstadt.
1942: Learning about the impending liquidation of their ghetto, some Jews of Korets, Ukraine sought refuge in the woods while others resist by setting the ghetto ablaze. Resistance is led by Moshe Gildenman.
1942: Swiss police decree that race alone does not guarantee refugee status, thus preventing Jews from crossing the Swiss border to safety.
1942: Seven hundred Romanian Jews, interned at Drancy, are deported to Auschwitz.
1942(14th of Tishrei, 5703): Abraham Gamzu, chairman of the Jewish Council at Kaluszyn, Poland, is executed after refusing to deliver Jews for deportation. Six thousand of the town's residents are deported to the Treblinka death camp and later killed.
1942: Lian Berkowitz, a member of the anti-Nazi Red Orchestra was arrested and formally charged today in Berlin.
1942(14th of Tishrei, 5703): 475 French Jews are gassed at Auschwitz. One of the victims is ballet director René Blum, the brother of former French Prime Minister Léon Blum.
1942: The SS Warfield, an American coastal ship that had been “lent” to the British avoided being sunk during a U-boat torpedo attack as steamed towards the British Isles. The SS Warfield would enter history five years later as the SS Exodus.
1942: Catcher Harry Danning played the last game of his 9 year major league baseball career all of which was spent with the New York Giants.
1943: “Thank Your Lucky Stars” a musical comedy produced by Mark Hellinger, written by Melvin Cantor and starring Eddie Cantor and S.Z. Sakall which was really a fund raiser of the Hollywood Canteen founded by John Garfield was released in the United States today by Warner Brothers.
1943: The Foreign Economic Administration which Sidney Henry led as executive director was formed today.
1943: The Chief Rabbi of Athens, Ilia Barzilai, escaped from the city disguised as a peasant. He reached Thessaly where he promoted the Greek partisans, saving some 600 Jews by smuggling them across the Aegean to Turkey. The smuggled boats and money came from the Jewish Labor Federation in Palestine.
1943: After two days of selections, only 2,000 out of 10,000 Jews remained in the Vilna Ghetto. They were placed in local labor camps
1944: Birthdate of Cambridge, MA native Eugenia Rich who gained fame as the multitalented flutist, author, and journalist Eugenia Zukerman whose name change was the result of her marriage to Pinchas Zuckerman whom she divorced in 1985. She started to study English at Barnard, but later transferred to the Julliard School where she studied with flutist Julius Baker. Zukerman went on to win the Young Concert Artist Award in 1971, beginning her career with rave reviews and a warm welcome by the music world. During her career, Zukerman has performed with orchestras, in solo and duo recitals, and in chamber music ensembles in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1998, Zukerman has served as Artistic Director of the international Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Zukerman's talent and career cannot be condensed into one area, however. In addition to her musical achievements, Zukerman is an author of two novels and several screenplays, and is also a journalist, reporting as the arts correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning since 1980.
http://www.eugeniazukerman.com/artist.php?view=bio
1945: A parade was held at Bergen-Belsen in the British zone of occupied German marking the first Congress for Survivors.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/15.asp
1946(29thof Elul, 5706): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1946: “Justice for the wandering, destitute Jews of Europe and their embattled brethren in Palestine was urged today by Jewish religious and lay leaders and spokesmen for the other faiths in messages for Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year, 5707 which” begins tonight at Sundown.
1946: “Palestine continues to be the beckoning promised land of more than 200,000 displaced Jews of Europe and they would favor some political compromises to attain self-determination there, Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, the American adviser on Jewish affairs in Germany declared today in a statement issued by the War Department.”.
1947(11thof Tishrei, 5708): Dora Meyerhardt, the daughter of Max and Rosalie Julius and the wife of Max Meyerhardt passed away today in Jefferson City, MO.
1947: Birthdate of Dr. Yehuda Lancry, the native of Boujad, Morocco who made Aliyah in 1965 where he eventually served as Ambassador to France. Ambassador to the United Nations and MK before he had to endure the murder of his niece Noa Shlomo in a suicide bombing.
1948(14thof Elul, 5708): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1948(14thof Elul, 5708): Fifty nine year old Russian native Jacob J. Heller, “a vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and author of two volumes of poetry – My Union, My Life and Moments of Meditation who was the husband of Rose Heller and father of Mrs. Gertrude Adler passed away today.
1948: As Dmitri Shostakovich celebrates his birthday today while awaiting arrest by the Soviet secret police, he listens to a performance of “From Jewish Folk Poetry,” a medley of tunes which he had written as sign of solidarity with the Jewish artists being persecuted by Stalin.
1949(2ndof Tishrei, 5710): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1949: In “Whither Thou Goest” published today Gladys Schmitt provided an in depth review of Ruth by Irving Fineman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/25/93547997.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: New York’s Mayor Impellitteri left Rome today aboard an Israeli government plane which was flying him to Tel Aviv.
1951: In Los Angles, Endre Bohem and his wife gave birth to screen writer Leslie Bohem.
1952: “University of Maryland authorities denied today that anti-Semitism played any part in the denial of dormitory facilities to 30 girls who were graduated from a high school in a section of Baltimore which has a large Jewish population” even though “no other Maryland high school graduates had received such notices.”
1953: Ralph Lemkin, who had “coined the term genocide” and who had spoken out against Soviet genocide aimed at the Ukrainian people told a crowd of “10,000 Americans of Ukrainian descent gathered at Washington Square” that the Soviets had employed the “high crime of starvation” just as it “had been employed 100 years ago against the Irish.”
1953(16thof Tishrei, 5714): Sukkoth II
1953(16thof Tishrei, 5714): Ninety-one year old “gastroenterologist and inventor of surgical instruments” Dr. Max Einhorn, the Polish born son of “Abraham and Sara Hoffman Einhorn” who had come “to the United States as ship’s doctor in 1884 and served in the Army Medical Corps during WW I” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/26/84425674.pdf
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_735243
https://www.jta.org/1953/09/28/archive/dr-max-einhorn-noted-medical-authority-dies-in-new-york
1953(16thof Tishrei, 5714): Three days before his 85th birthday, Baruch Kahn the son of Leopold Kahn and Judith dite Louise Léa Kahn and the husband of Constance Kenendel Lang passed away today in Germany.
1954: CBS broadcast the last episode of the radio “anthology series” narrated by Paul Frees today.
1955(9thof Tishrei, 5716): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1955: “Dondi” a comic strip about a war orphan co-created by Irwin Hansen appeared for the first time in daily newspapers in the United States.
1955: The Los Angeles Rams, coached by Sid Gillman defeated the San Francisco 49ers today.
1956(20th of Tishrei,): A Jordanian patrol crossed the border into Israel and opened fire on a group of women picking olives near the village of Aminadav killing Zohara Umri, an immigrant from Yemen.
1956: The Israeli Cabinet discussed a reprisal mission for the terrorist attacks. Ben-Gurion called for a “vigorous” response in the upcoming night time attack.
1957(29thof Elul, 5717): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1958: ABC broadcast the final episode of “Navy Log” the anthology series that gave Don Devlin “his first acting role” and that featured theme music by Irving Bibo and Fred Steiner.
1958: “A Forceful Social Drama” published today provides as look at Sidney Kramer’s “The Defiant Ones” co-starring Tony Curtis and featuring Austrian born Jew Theodore Bikel as the quintessential Southern Sheriff.
1959: Shaaray Tefila dedicated its new sanctuary on the corner of East 79thStreet and Second Avenue.
1959(22ndof Elul, 5719): Eighty-two year old Baltimore native Ernest Wise Keyeser, who like his uncle Ephraim Keyser was a sculptor who was a member of the “National Sculpture Society” and whose work include a statute of Sir Galahad passed away today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Wise_Keyser#/media/File:Sir_Galahad_statue.jpg
1959: A summit meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev during which the treatment of Soviet Jews is to be one of the topics opened today at Camp David, MD.
1959: Funeral service are scheduled to be held at Levin’s in Philadelphia for “Mrs. Evelyn Aronson Margolis the civic, religious and education leader” who was the widow of Max. L. Margolis, the noted Biblical scholar and Professor of Biblical Philology at Dropsie College followed by “interment in Mt. Sinai Cemetery.”
1960(4th of Tishrei, 5721): Tzom Gedaliah
1960: Birthdate of Boston native and Cornell University graduate Jonathan Haskell Talamo, the Johns Hopkins University trained Ophthalmologist.
1961(15thof Tishrei, 5722) Sukkoth
1961: Premiere of “The Hustler,” the dark film starring Paul Newman, produced and directed by Robert Rossen for which Eugen Schüfftan won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
1962: “The Longest Day” an epic about D-Day with a screenplay co-authored by Romain Gary and featuring Red Buttons and George Segal was released today in France and the United States.
1962: Following tonight’s World Heavyweight Boxing Title Fight between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson, the Department of Justice assigned attorney Robert Arum “to confiscated the proceeds from the match.
1964(19thof Tishrei, 5725): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1964(19thof Tishrei, 5725): Eighty-three year old Johns Hopkins undergrad and U. of California Ph.D. Benjamin Abram Bernstein, the Lithuanian born son of Wolf and Chaija Esther (Shalowitz) Bernstein, the husband of Rose Davidson and brother-in-law of sculptor Jo Davidson who was longtime Professor of Mathematics at the Cal, Berkley passed away today.
https://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/hstc/search?author=&item=77
1964: Birthdate of San Francisco native Marc Russell Benioff, the “billionaire internet entrepreneur” who bought Time.
1965: After 220 performances “Do I Hear a Waltz?” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim closed its initial Broadway run at the 46thStreet Theatre.
1966: At the Hampshire House, Rabbi Theodore N. Lewis officiated at the wedding Lois Eidenoff, whose father Maxwell is a professor of chemistry at Queens College and Ira Weinstein.
1967: Following the Six Days War, Kfar Etzion was reestablished by the children of the original settlers. The Kibbutz was destroyed and its defenders (including women) massacred after surrendering in May 1948 during the War for Independence.
1967(20thof Elul, 5727): Fifty-nine-year old 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 passed away today.
1967: Birthdate of Noreena Hertz, the daughter of “feminist activist Leah Hertz” and the “great-granddaughter Rabbi Joseph Hertz who The Observer dubbed as “one of the world’s leading young thinkers” and Vogue described as “one of the most inspiring women in the world.”
1968(3rd of Tishrei, 5729): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
1970: The PLFP released the Jewish and Israeli hostages it had been holding since the so-called Dawson Field Hijackings. The PLFP had previously released the other hostages on September 11.
1970 (24th of Elul, 5730): Ninety year old Estelle Liebling famed soprano and a member of a prominent Jewish musical family passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/liebling-estelle
1970 (24th of Elul, 5730): Erich Paul Remarkpassed away at the age of 72. Using the pseudonym of Erich Maria Remarque he gained fame as the German author of “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Writing from his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Remarque wrote a novel about the folly of war. The novel was later turned into a Hollywood hit movie. The Nazis disapproved of the book and banned and burned copies of it. For the Nazis it was not enough to brand Remarque, a Catholic, as a pacifist. They created the myth that he was a Jew named Kramer and even worse, the Kramers had originally been French Jews. What is worse than being a Jew? Not being a Jew but being branded as one.
1971(6th of Tishrei, 5732): Shabbat Shuva; the term Sabbath of the Return takes on a special irony since Jews, like their fellow American citizens will have to “return” to living on the current salaries without promised increases due to Richard Nixon’s first-ever peace time wage and price controls.
1972:“A National Conference on Soviet Jewry National Assembly was convened at B’nai B’rith headquarters in Washington, DC.”
1973: King Hussein of Jordan secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Prime Minister of an impending attack by the Syrians. The king said he thought, but was not entirely sure, that the Syrians would not being contemplating this unless the Egyptians were going to attack as well. Mrs. Meir and her advisors including the defense minister ignored the warnings.
1974(9thof Tishrei, 5735): In the evening Kol Nidre
1974(9thof Tishrei 5735): Seventy-three year old Nicolai Poliakoff, the native of Dvinsk,”who was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown in the UK during the middle decades of the 20th century” passed away today in Northamptonshire, England.
1974: “The California Kid” a west coast car movie starring Vic Morrow and featuring Stuart Margolin was released today in the United States.
1974: “Judggernaut” a high seas thriller directed by Richard Lester was released in the United Kingdom today.
1975: “Funeral services were held today for Florence S. Perlman the daughter of Max and Dora Bierman and the widow of Judge Nathan D. Perlman, who was a member of the national board of Hadassah.
1976(1stof Tishrei, 5737): Last observance of Rosh Hashanah under President Ford.
1976: After only 16 performances the curtain came down on “Checking Out,” a Broadway play directed by Jerry Adler and starring Joan Copeland, Hy Anzell and Mason Adams opened at the Longacre Theatre tonight.
1977: At the Great Neck Synagogue, Rabbi Ephraim Wolf officiated at the marriage of Deborah Marilyn Wolf and Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Lawrence David Waxman.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the cabinet was expected to accept a new American plan for the reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference.
1979(4thof Tishrei, 5740): Eighty-six year old Ben Touster, the “former President of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society” (HIAS) passed away today.
1980(15thof Tishrei, 5741): Sukkoth is observed for the last time under President Carter.
1980(15thof Tishrei 5741): Eighty-four year old two-time Oscar winning director Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein) who created such classics as “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “The Front Page” passed away today.
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Pioneer-film-director-Lewis-Milestone-dies/5468338788800/
1980: Leonard Bernstein conducts the premiere performance of Divertimento for Orchestra.
1980(15thof Tishrei, 5741): Ninety-year old labor organizer and early champion for the rights of working women Rose Finkelstein Norwood passed away today.
http://jewishcurrents.org/september-10-rose-norwood-lifelong-organizer-20865
1981(26thof Elul, 5741: Sixty eight year old Aaron Cohen, the son of David and Eva Cohen passed away today after which he was buried at Ahavas Sholom Congregation Cemetery in Baltimore County, MD.
1981: “True Confession,” “a crime film directed Ulu Grosbard and produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler was released in the United States by United Artists.
1981: “So Fine,” a comedy written and directed by Andrew Bergman was released in the United States today.
1982(8thof Tishrei, 5743): Shabbat Shuvah
1982: “In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
1982: “Peace Now held a mass protest in Tel Aviv in order to pressure the government to establish a national inquiry commission to investigate the massacres, as well as calling for the resignation of the Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.”
1985(10th of Tishrei, 5746): Yom Kippur
1985: PLO terrorists from Force 17 “hijacked an Israeli yacht off the coast of Larnaca, Cyprus” and murdered the three Israelis on board in cold blood.
1986: Third season of “The Cosby Show” co-created by Ed Weinberger began tonight.
1986: NBC broadcast the first episode of season five of “Family Ties” a sitcom created by Gary David Goldberg.
1987: Randy Cohen and Katha Pollitt gave birth to “Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, author of the bestselling book, The Notebook Girls, written while Pollitt-Cohen was a student at Stuyvesant High School.”
1987: “The Princess Bride” a film based on William Goldman’s novel of the same name produced and directed by Rob Reiner and starring Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk and Billy Crystal was released in the United States today.
1988: “Heirs of Sol Goldman Battle Over Estate” published today described the court fight over hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate that began with the divorce proceedings instituted by Lillian Goldman and her now late husband Sol Goldman.
1992: “The Last of the Mohicans” directed and produced by Michael Mann who co-authored the script with music by Randy Edelman was release in the United States a month after having been released in France.
1993(10thof Tishrei, 5754): Yom Kippur is observed for the first time under President Clinton.
1995(1st of Tishrei, 5756): Rosh Hashanah
1995: In Atlanta, GA, Dr. Stan Fineman, his head and shoulders draped with a traditional prayer shawl, will raise a shofar to his lips and join with millions of other Jews around the world today in carrying out a tradition that has been used to usher in the Jewish New Year since biblical days.
1995: Barton Gellman reported today on an agreement that would “extend self-rule to more than 1 million Palestinians.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-853569.html
1997: José Joaquín Bautista Arias, the Dominican born right handed pitcher with the Israeli wife, pitched his final major league baseball game for the St. Louis Cardinals.
1997: NBC broadcast “Veronica’s Closet” a sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman for the first time.
1997: NBC broadcast the first episode of season 9, the final season, of “Seinfeld.”1998: “Tango” an Argentine-Spanish film with music by Lalo Schifrin was released in Spain today.
1998: NBC broadcast the first episode of season seven of “Homicide: Life on the Street” a gritty look at Baltimore inspired by David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.
1998: “Urban Legend” a slasher film co-starring Michael Rosenbaum was released in the United States today
1998: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sabrina and Todd Thalbum give birth to their daughter Gabriella Elizabeth (Gavriella Elisheva) Thalblum
1999(15thof Tishrei, 5760): Sukkoth is celebrated for the last time in the 20thcentury.
1999(15thof Tishrei, 5760: Ninety-one year old Italian-born geneticist Guido Pontecorvo who fled from his homeland to Great Britain in 1938 to avoid growing anti-Semitism passed away today.
1999: Heather deForest Crosby and Steven Terner Mnuchin, the future Secretary of the Treasury and Donald Trump loyalist, were married this “evening by Cantor Ronald Broden at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.”
2000: “Urbania” which had premiered at the Sundance Film Festival” starring Dan Futterman had a limited release in the United States as of today.
2001: Israeli and Palestinian officials said today that the oft postponed meeting between their leaders that President Bush has been calling for could take place tomorrow.
2002: NEEMO 4, whose NASA Aquanaut Crew included Jessica Meir, continued for a third day
2003(28th of Elul, 5763): Franco Modigliani, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Economics, passed away. In 1939, Modigliani was forced to flee from his native Italy because of his Jewish ancestry and anti-fascists views. Active until the end, Modigliani enlisted fellow Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson and Robert Solowin 2003 to write a letter published in The New York times chiding the Anti-Defamation League for honoring Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi had recently defended Mussolini’s conduct toward Jews during World War II.
2003: Singer and actress Ellen Greene married for a second time today.
2004(10thof Tishrei, 5765): Yom Kippur takes on a special solemnity as the thoughts of Jews turn to those fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingThe Marchby E. L. Doctorow and The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol.
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that a research grant of $5.6 million in the field of bio-defense has been awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher for the development of a broadly effective drug against a family of toxins called super antigens.
2005 (21st of Elul, 5765): Jewish psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, founder of Head Start, passes away.
2005: A truck, donated by Bruce Silverman, the husband of “Cantor Vikki” left Tampa filled with relief supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina donated by Congregation Beth Am
2006(3rd of Tishrei, 5767):Tzom Gedaliah
2006: “An Israeli newspaper reported today that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held a secret meeting about 10 days ago with a senior Saudi Arabian official to discuss issues that included Iran's nuclear program and prospects for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.”
2007: In Washington, D.C., Bloomingdale’s under the leadership of
2007: Yuval Baruch, an archaeologist with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, announced the discovery of a quarry compound which provided King Herod with the stones to renovate the second Temple.
2007: Jerome “McDonnell hosted John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to discuss their controversial book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy on Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ (91.5
2007: The Jewish Film Festival in Dallas, TX comes to a close.
2007: Eighty-year old Brigadier General Felix Sparks “an American military commander who led the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army, the first Allied force to enter Dachau concentration camp and liberate its prisoners” passed away today.
2008: Yehuda Amital officially announced his retirement in the yeshiva, to take effect on the last day of the Jewish month of Tishrei, in the year 5769 (October 28, 2008). He also announced that Mosheh Lichtenstein, the son of his co-Rosh Yeshiva Aharon Lichtenstein, would assume the position as the fourth Rosh Yeshiva on that same day.
2008: Ryan Braun hit his first grand slam home run.
2008: In Montreal, demolition began on Bens De Luxe Delicatessen and Restaurant, a culinary institution opened by Ben and Fanny Kravitz in 1908.
2008: Paul McCartney appears in concert in Tel Aviv “43 years after being banned by the Israeli government.” .
2008: At Columbia University’sInstitute for Israel and Jewish Studies, The Sylvia and Joseph Radov Lectures present Amos Oz the renowned Israeli author, Agnon Professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University whose topic for the evening is entitled “Between Israel and Palestine “
2008:Students and visitors at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be able to look at the stars through Albert Einstein's long lost telescope starting this evening.
2008: Natural population growth in Israel that was partially canceled out by negative growth in the Diaspora resulted in a net increase in the past year of 70,000 Jews, according to data released today by the Jewish Agency ahead of Rosh Hashana.
2009: In New Orleans, Touro Synagogue celebrates Shabbat Shuvah with services and a Friday night dinner.
2009: In Jerusalem, Boris and Friends and the Klezmerim appear at the Alrov Mamilla Avenue amphitheater.
2009: Mark Landler provides background about Michael Oren in “Israel Ambassador Draws on American Roots”
2009: The Guggenheim presents “It Came from Brooklyn” a multi-dimensional cultural event that features cellist Yoed Nir and readings from Rivka Galchen.
2009:An Israeli airstrike to night killed three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement who were on their way to fire rockets into Israel.
2009: Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, appeared in court today for the opening of his trial on charges of corruption, a spectacle that could mark a new low in the annals of Israeli public life
2010: Ed Miliband and David Miliband are two of the Laborite MP’s who are awaiting today’s announcement as to who would be the party’s new leader.
2010(17th of Tishrei, 5771): Shabbat Chol Ha-Moed Sukkoth.
2010: “The Glazer Children’s Museum opened in downtown Tampa” today.
2010: This evening the DC young professional Jewish community is scheduled to lead a tour of DC’s finest sukkahs where they will visit three locations with unique themes: Etrogs & Eggrolls, Lulavs & Leis, and Starlight & Sweets with each location featuring unique food and drinks.
2010: In a battle of the brothers for the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, the younger of the two, Ed Miliband, 40, was elected on Saturday, beating his brother David, the 45-year-old former foreign minister, by a margin of a little more than 1 percent of the votes in a runoff.
2010: Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s surprising words of support for Israel’s right to exist and empathy with the tragedies of Jewish history elicited warm words from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and a letter of thanks from President Shimon Peres.
2011(26thof Elul, 5771): One hundred-nine year old psychologist and broadcast personality Helen Faith Keane Reichert, passed away today.
http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/09/27/university%E2%80%99s-oldest-alumna-dies-109
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept11/HappyReichertObit.html
2011: Wolf “Blitzer was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the University of Hartford.”
2011: Israel Police confirmed today that the road accident that killed a man and his infant son near Kiryat Arba on Friday may have occurred after a rock was thrown at their vehicle.
2011: Ukrainian police detained dozens of people today protesting against what they called an uncontrolled influx of Jewish pilgrims to the town of Uman, police and the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda said.
2011: The Taba Border Crossing was closed today to Israelis trying to enter Egypt, while anyone carrying a foreign passport was allowed to cross the border as usual.
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Quest” by Daniel Yergin, “The Sibling Effect” by Jeffrey Kluger, “A Contest For Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia” by Aaron L. Friedberg and the recently released paperback issued of “Great House” by Nicole Krauss.
2011: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “American Dreamers” How the Left Changed a Nation” by Michael Kazin, the son of Alfred Kazin and “The Quest” by Daniel Yergin.
2011: An exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York entitled “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore” is scheduled to end today.
2012: As the family and friends of Gavi Thalublum prepare for Yom Kippur they share in the joy of her natal day.
2012: Security and rescue forces were on high alert and deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank for Yom Kippur, which begins this afternoon and ends tomorrow at dusk.
2012: Several mortar shells fired from Syrian territory fell inside the Golan Heights today, marking the first time the ongoing violence in Syria has spilled inside Israel's borders.
2012: The White Sox will play the Cleveland Indians in Chicago starting at 1:10 in instead of 7:10 p.m. thanks in part to calls from fans asking that the game be moved so as not to conflict with Yom Kippur. The change also means that White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis will be able to play the game and still keep his record of having never played on Yom Kippur intact.
2012(9thof Tishrei, 5773): Ninety year old Maurice S. Friedman, “Martin Buber’s biographer,” passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/books/maurice-s-friedman-martin-bubers-biographer-dies-at-90.html
2012(9thof Tishrei, 5773): In the evening, for the 90th year in a row, members of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa gather to begin their observance of Yom Kippur
G'mar Chatimah Tovah
2013: “Fill the Void” is scheduled to open in Tunkannock, PA
2013: “The Wiener Library is scheduled to host the UK launch of a new book co-edited by Anny Dayan Rosenman and Fransiska Louwagie. Un ciel de sang et de cendres: Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin (A sky of blood and ashes: Piotr Rawicz and the loneliness of the witness) is a study of Ukrainian-French Holocaust survivor Piotr Rawicz and his novel Le sang du ciel (translated as Blood from the Sky).
2013(21stof Tishrei, 5774): Hoshanah Rabbah
2013: “Larry Ellison's Oracle Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand to win the 34th America's Cup in San Francisco Bay, California.”
2013: A family from New York was the victim of a serious attack by rioting Arabs this afternoon, as they were making their way to pray on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem's Old City. (As reported by Uzi Baruch and Ernie Singer)
2013: “Iranian President Hasan Rouhani today condemned the Holocaust as a crime against humanity in a CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour”
2013: Israeli forensics experts are helping the Kenyan government comb the site of the terrorist takeover of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya’s cabinet secretary said on Twitter today. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014: Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, announced today that the Palestinian Authority government would soon manage all the border crossings in the Gaza Strip.
2014: Member states of the UN nuclear agency rejected an Arab resolution criticizing Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal, in a diplomatic victory for Western states that opposed the initiative.
2014: The FBI said today it has identified the man behind the beheading videos of 3 hostages including Steven Sotloff.
2014(1stof Tishrei, 5775): Eight-eight year old Professor Joseph Cohen who founded the Jewish Studies Program at Tulane University passed away today.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/newcomb-professor-joseph-cohen-succumbs-at-88/
2014(1stof Tishrei, 5775): Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2015: In Tel Aviv, The Alexander Boutique Hotel is scheduled to White City Shabbat eve dinner.
2015: Cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to perform J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites in Brooklyn, NY.
2015: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled host a walking tour of Jewish Downtown Washington today.
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform in Medford, OR.
2016: The Middle East Center for the Arts is scheduled to host the opening of “an exhibition presented by Umm El-Fahem Art Gallery in Israel.
2015: “Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz said today he was not more concerned about Israel’s security following the signing of the nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers, adding that he saw the benefits of the deal which he said had prevented war and that the deal was a case of the “cup half-full.” (As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
2015: After premiering in Belgium ten days ago, “The Intern” which was directed by Nancy Meyers who also wrote the script and co-produced the film was released in the United States.
2015: Cantor Sings for the Pope at Ground Zero and a Catholic Priest joins in the singing!
http://www.nbcchicago.com/multimedia/pope-ground-zero-jewish-cantor-329546691.html
2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraitsby Simon Schama, Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb and His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyvled
2016: The Jewish Children’s Regional Service, a worthy organization that lives up to its name is scheduled to host its Annual Gift Wrapathon at the Goldring/Woldenberg Jewish Community Campus in Metairie, LA.
2016: As part of the Agudas Achim Centennial—100 Days of Celebration, the congregation is scheduled to the Jewish Antiques Roadshow in Coralville, IA.
2016: At 1:00 AM, Chabad Lubavitch is scheduled to being Selichot in Little Rock, AR.
http://www.arjewishcenter.com/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/427556/jewish/Selichot-with-the-Rebbe.htm
2016: Thanks to a group of anonymous “angels “The Headstone Unveiling for Kevin Skinner is scheduled to take place in Eben Israel Cemetery
2016: “Every Minutes Counts” an exhibition featuring the photographs of Katherine Joseph who “documented the golden age of organized labor, when hundreds of thousands of primarily-immigrant men and women labored in garment factories and worked to turn them from sweatshops into union shops” is scheduled to come to a close at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
2016: “Legal expert Van Pearlburg” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Leo Frank Case” at the Marietta (GA) Museum of History.
2016: “A public concert scheduled to be held in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square days ahead of Yom Kippur was cancelled today after key sponsors pulled support over the lack of any women on the lineup.”
2016: “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” an exhibition inspired by Half the Sky is scheduled to open at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2016 (22nd of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, or Yosef Dov, the father of Avraham Elimelech and the son of Avraham Elimelch.
2016: Prime Minster Netanyahu who is in New York because of the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly is scheduled to meet with presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
2017: Manhattan Jewish Experience is scheduled to host a Monday night class for “young Jewish professionals in their 20s and 30s.”
2017: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the third session of “Proust in Time: Swann’s Way” in which Rebecca Ariel Porte examines the writing of In Search of Lost Time.
2017: Yeshiva University Museum and YU Center for Israel Studies is scheduled to host “a walking tour through YUM’s exhibition The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back, as he explores the image and legacy of the Arch of Titus from Imperial Rome to modern-day Israel” led by historian Steven Fine.
2017: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), has urged President Donald Trump and his administration to support an independent Kurdish state after an overwhelming majority of Iraqi Kurds voted for cutting ties with Baghdad in a referendum held today.
2018: This evening, the 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host Kate Atkins “who will discuss her new thriller, Transcription, about a British female spy under threat after World War II.”
2018: This evening “The Ciesla Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that produces documentaries that break stereotypical images of Jews in history and celebrates the untold stories of Jewish heroes” is scheduled to co-host a panel that includes Aviva Kempner which will discuss “The Rosenwald Legacy” and “its impact on the lives of its recipients.”
2018(16thof Tishrei, 5779): Second Day of Sukkoth
2018(16thof Tishrei, 5779): Seventy-three year old cultural “impresario” Sydney Goldstein, the San Francisco born daughter of “Edward and Dorian (Goldman) Goldstein” passed away today. (As reported by Katherine Q. Seelye)
2019: On the secular calendar one month anniversary of the death of Deb Levin.
2019: In Livermore, CA, the Vine Cinema and Alehouse is scheduled to host a screening of “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel,” a “documentary about the Israel baseball team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.”
2019: In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host Ilana Kaufman of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative leading “a conversation about the newly released 2019 demographic study on U.S. Jews of color.”
2019: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald,” followed by a discussion with “director Aviv Kempner, biographer Peter Ascoli and curator Daniel Schulman.”
2019: The Yeshiva University Museum and the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host “A Tribute to Oded Halahmy and the Music of Babylon.”
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the penultimate screening of “Safe Spaces.”
2019: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host author Michael Dobbs, Holocuast survivor Sonja Geismar and journalist Adam Kuperstein as they discuss The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz and a Village Caught in Between.”
2020: In Ohio, Rabbi Roland is scheduled to lead Kabbalat Shabbat services at Congregation Shaarey Tikvah.
2020: The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host an online memorial service of Justice Ginsburg this afternoon.
2020: Tehran, a new espionage thriller from Fauda writer Moshe Zonder, is scheduled to premiere globally today, exclusively on Apple TV+.
2020: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a virtual “Family ArtBash from Home.
2020: JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to present “Shabbat and New Year Circle Time, “a socially distanced circle time” where families and friends bring their own blankets and “enjoy Shabbat and New Year-themed stories and songs.”
2020: Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Z”L is scheduled to shatter one more ceiling today when she becomes the first woman to ever lie in repose at the U.S. Capitol.
2020: “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a film about voter suppression that “explores Stacey Arbams’ run for governor in Georgia in 2018” which was created by documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime.
2021: Temple Sinai of Brookline is scheduled to host in-person “Tot Shabbat”
2021(19th of Tishrei, 5782): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth – Read Ecclesiastes in the afternoon;
2022: In San Francisco,Popular Judaica artist Amiee Golant is scheduled to unveil the sign she created for Unity Spiritual Center and shares traditions, customs and foods related to Rosh Hashanah and High Holidays.
2022: “Bad Jews,” a play by Joshua Harmon is scheduled to be performed for the last time in London.
2022: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment by Brad Snyder
2022(29thof Elul, 5782): Erev Rosh Hashanah